The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-29
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NEW YORK.-Big shots galore
: ' are headquartering in Washing
ton now, but of all the gathering
Eric A. Johnson is probably the
Comes Long Way was was act actually
To Beat Drum for born there.
U. S. Leadership ne; ne Is ST. ,nq g1nl}-
ed States world-leadership when
peace is won. He is from the other
side Of the continent where he heads
the biggest electrical manufacturing
company in the Northwest. He
speaks, however, as president Of the
United States Chamber Of Com
merce, and with Bryanesque elo-
quence.
President Johnson quit WASH
ington when he was nipper, be-
cause his family quit it. By the
time he was six he was selling
papers ON Spokane's streets. BY
the time he had got to high
school he was reporting the
school news. He yielded then,
however, to Grass love Of mon
ey and through his four years in
college he cleaned up as long
sh0reman. His notion was to
study law and cash in ON his
Oratorical gift, but the first
World war shunted him off to
the marines.
When the war was over he turned
salesman. That led onward and up
ward to electrical manufacturing
Forty-ive now, he Is, as they used
to say when Cluett and Peabody
set the standard of manly beauty,
handsome enough for a collar-ad.
He is friendly, too. He hasn't yet
been listed among the country's IL
best-dressed men, but when he gets
into q modestly striped suit he
doesn't need to keep to the side
streets.
HE pretty matron decided that
= the photograph suggested Charles
Boyer quite a lot. Not Valentino?
Well, Yes! Around the mouth there
A. was a def
-" "a" " No".o"ce mite sugges-
About Our Chief of ton of VAL
Chemical Warfare entino, his
tender, SEN
sitive Whoa-a-a-a!
The photograph was an old, old
one Of Maj. Gen. William N. Porter,
chief of chemical warfare service.
But even though it wouldn't have
been cricket to spread that tender
and sensitive salve any thicker the
pretty matron was on the beam
when she perceived an aura of ro-
nance around the generals phiz.
The general is a romantic man.
Commissioned as ensign at
Annapolis 1909, married 1910,
transferred to the army as
second lieutenant the same
year, the general was no Ulys-
ses to go rowing off while his
Penelope sat alone ashore. OF
course the generals wife rates
an assist, a couple. She was
the apple of the generals eye,
but she was also a naval Off
GERS daughter. She knew, as
well as the general knew from
his one year at sea, what sort of
lives navy couples lived. She
knows now the sort of life an
army couple can live. Very
nIeaSanti
The general hustled along the pro-
motion files past enough more sta
tionary officers to staff a corps and
by 1941 he had his two stars. Now
he has the tired face of man who
works too hard, but the benevolent
face of man who wishes others as
much good in this world as he has
had. The only ones who lack his
good wishes are the Nazis and the,
Nips. Alert against the thinnest hint
Of gas attacks, the general says his
service is primed to give back
double dose. 81
HE surge of women into all sorts
4 Of positions of authority in this
wartime economy adds pepper to
the challenge which Mrs. Alfred
Legion Aux. Head hat nation
Challenges Women al presi-
To Stop Hoarding dent OF the
Legion Auxiliary, throws out to her
sex. She says the women are the
only ones who can put an end to
boarding; there will be none if they
do not tolerate it.
Auxiliary presidents used to
be just presidents Of the Le-
gion's tag-alongs. But nowadays,
when any Of the tag-alongs may
turn up in congress or better,
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