The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-10
Who's News
This Week
Delos Wheeler Lovelace

IIlOuSy. AL Tie Oeutfdl DTuS StOxC
boy from Cass high in short pants,
Stephen Foster of ,,u sa.5 o'' =
This Era Sticks week just
To His Alexander io ,, !, oe nva-
scriptions-4 p. m. to 9 and every
other Sunday off. Out of that he
had to repair his bike, but usually
he could manage dime or a nickle,
for the Empire theater. Marvellous
movies, and fat little singer named
Brownl Brown sat on a piano long
before Helen Morgan, and in 1911
he was forever singing Alexander's
Ragtime Band. "Come on and hearl
Come on and hear!"
Irving Berlin, himself only %
then, marked ~ whole high y
school generation with that en-
during song. Other songs of his
marked other generations, and
two wars. And now "My Brit
ish Buddy" is melodic quick sill
yer in London where Berlin's
"This Is the Army" repeats its
American success.
Ever since he rose above the job
Of singing waiter, Berlin has COM
posed in F sharp. That is a toughie,
six black keys hard to pick out, and
only two easy white fellows. But it
hasn't lowered output Of quality. And
at SIS, more nearly than. any rival,
he is the Stephen Foster Of this day.
Luckier than Foster, he is rich.
Instead of the 80 cents his first
song earned, each one now nets
baskets full Of bills. His first
wife died after his first success,
but for II pleasant years he has
been married to Ellin, daughter
Of the late, rocco Clarence III.
Mackay. They have three girls.
He is a gloomy self-critic and his
own list of his best II leaves out
'Oh, How Hate to Get Up in the
Morning." and "God Bless Amer
ica." Cass high students Of 1911
will be glad, however, to learn that
it includes alexander.
IF Hubert Scott-Paine had been q
1 little quicker at blocking upper
cuts, maybe the Nazis would be do
ing better these days on the Eng
Turned Face Away T The;r ~.
From Uppercuts to boats find
Build Speedy Boats rougn gong
British MTBs and MGBs, all Scott
Paine-designed. And he turned to
such work only after boxing tour
with French circus convinced him
he was in a business in which q
man rose only to fall again.
The turn, lucky for Britain,
was made before the last war.
First off ScOtt-Paine designed
aircraft and through the war
years he layed the foundation Of
q fortune so Sizeable that Is
years ago he could plan to loaf
Z the rest Of his born days. He
had a wife, SON, three daugh-
tiers to enjoy them.
About then, however, he came
upon a derelict Southampton ship
yard, irresistible to a man who had
always wanted to build a better ma
rine engine. He set to work with the
help of various men, including one
long-jawed fellow called Shaw. This
was really the incredible Lawrence
Of Arabia.
The Southampton yard after
time produced the fastest single
engined speedbOat in the world.
And in this war it sets the pat
tern for those terrific little motor
torpedo and gun boats flying the
Union Jack under Nazi noses.
There will be mo- second retire.
ment for Scott-P aine for while.
He isn't, of course, at retirement
age even now. He is only So.
CIR HERBERT EMERSON, a near
- ly perfect product Of the British
civil service, lays plans these days
for cleaning up the polyglot mess
With Peace, His s nanny iitief rs y
Task Is to Return leave in the
3OMillions Home Germany hnns ne
to make pure Nordic. That hope
must be thin today, with 1900, 600
drafted alien 1aborers in the country
and Germany's own sons dying in
far-away battle.
Sir Herbert heads up the In
terg0vernmental Committee ON
Refugees. When peace comes
he will direct and attempt to
shift as nearly as possible back
to their own homes $4,000, 600
men, women and children up
rooted by the wax the Naxis
forced upon Europe.
This isn't bureaucratic Job, but
It is probably one for a man who
knows all the ways Of shipping bu-
reaucracy's red tape and on that
count Emerson qualities.
He triumphed over the maze Of
civil service to become one Of In
dia's chief administrators. He was