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Evening star., 1946-01-27


the Green Foundation lecture
and President Truman 10iU be
there to introduce him. Both
a0iU receive honorary doctor of
la10s degrees.
Wide World Photo.
know-he once sang bass with Teddy
Roosevelt on Mississippi River steam
boat.
Of course, there was special feeling
for Davis as the symbol of the Con-
federacy, for which sympathizers had
stolen the lead plumbing from the
State hospital and used it to make bull
let's for Confederate militia. Later the
hospital was taken over for Union
troop barracks.
In fact, the man who piloted the
British Empire through its dark war
days should feel right at home in the
Kingdom of Galloway. The county has
had men in every war for the last
120 years and Westminster College had
,961 former students in the service
this time. Fifty-four of them were
killed in action.
The Main Business
Between wars, agriculture is the king
doms principal business, especially rails
ing fine horses and mules. Galloway
once was known widely as the mule
center of the world, and some of the
famed Missouri mules raised here were
shipped to far outposts of the British
Empire.
At one time the kingdom rivaled
Bourbon County KY, as horse-breed-
ing center Rex Mcdonald, the great
saddle horse, and Nala, the harness
champion, both were foaled in the
county, along with many other famous
animals.
And how does it happen that little
Westminster bagged such celebrities as
Mr.. Churchill and Mr.. Truman?
That goes back to a conversation
President McCluer had one day last fall
with Thomas H. Van SAINT, Fulton banker
and member of the college Board of
Trustees.
They were talking about reviving the
Green Foundation lecture, endowed by
Mrs. John Finley Green of st. Louis,
Canadian by birth, in memory of her
husband, an attorney who was one of
Evening star., 1946-01-27
Bv John L. CoOntZ.

The Army men who wrote the weather
chapters of the late World War wrote
a weather saga that will endure for
all time.
From the icebound wastes of the
Arctic to the burning sands of the
Sahara and the pestilential jungles of
the South Seas now unfolds their story,
one Of bitter hardship, of death and
disease.
There is the story OF Capt. Waldo
Moncado of Newburgh, N. Y. Capt.
Moncado was assigned the Anzio beach,
head when the Germans were packing
it with bombs and shells. His duty was
with a truckborne weather station. Too
hot for him on the beach the captain
retired to an abandoned wine cellar 25
feet below the ground. There he set up
his dismounted truck station, putting
in first one caskniche and then another
his desk, map table, instrument shelf
and cot. And there he lived "Hamlets
mole" for three grueling months in
order that the boys on top" might have
up-to-the minute weather information.
Had to Tie Themselves Down
But after all the captain had it easy"
compared with the seven-man weather
detachment atop Greenland's ice cap.
For these fellows found it necessary to
tie themselves down to keep from being
blown away in winds that ragged as high
as ITO miles per hour When they
weren't "fittin'" the winds, as they say
down in the mountains of North Caro-
lima, they were buster than a Yankee
rat terrier shoveling snow away from
their tents so that they wouldn't be
buried alive.
All but seven of the 80 Arctic huskies
these weathermen had with them were
lost in the blizzards, or froze to death
in the cold that ate into the marrow
day and night But they carried on
their vital weather observations in be-
half of European bombing missions.
On "India's coral strand, as the words
of the old hymn run, weather observa-
tion tower doubled in brass" First
Evening star., 1946-01-27
Missouri Plans Royal Welcome for Churc
By Larry Hall,

Associated Press staff Writer.
FULTON, Galloway County, Mo-
There hasn't been such stir in the
kingdom of Galloway since jeff Davis
spoke here back in 1875.
That was an historic day. This "de-
seeded from the Union during the war
between the States. 1t got the name of
kingdom" for that bold act. And after
the war was over, Fulton went wild in
greeting the deposed Confederate Pres
ident.
Next March it's going to go wild
again, for Winston Churchill and Presi-
dent Truman will be here-Churchill to
deliver the Green Foundation lecture at
tiny Westminster College and the Pres
ident to introduce the former British
Prime Minister.
Both will receive honorary doctor of
laws degrees, detail generally over
looked in the rest of the excitement.
It's Little Town
Picture it like this:
Two of the worlds most famous men
will put their affairs of state aside for
day to come to little town in interior
America-so deep in the interior that its
only rail connection Is freight spur to
Mexico, Mo, Is miles north
When they reach the shaded, sloping
campus of Westminster College where
102 men are enrolled this semester, they
will find their auditorium is the bare
college gymnasium-steel girders over
head, brick walls athletic trophies in
the vestibule. Normally the gym seats
1000 persons around the basket ball
court but President Franc L. McCluer
figures extra bleachers can be squeezed
in to accommodate $500 for the great
day.
A public address system will be in
stalled to carry Churchills words to the
throngs outside.
It's English Name
Westminster is an old school, reputed-
ly the Oldest liberal arts college for
men west of the Mississippi River. 1t
was founded in l849 as Fulton College
anu Clldl VtlcO DIS westminster III 1000
Supported by the Presbyterian Synod
of Missouri, it's name should have
familiar ring for a Londoner. 1t is
named for the Westminster Assembly,
the foundation of Presbyterianism.
Churchill may see other English names
in the Kingdom of Galloway. Fulton's
Main street is Court street. The prin-
cipal hotel, vintage of 1879, is the Palace
SO rooms and all of them long since
taken for March 5, thank you.
Where Will They All Stay?
To help house guests of the college,
DR.. McCluer has reserved about 200
additional rooms in neighboring towns
of Jefferson City, Mexico and Columbia,
each about 25 miles away.
He doesn't know where the rest of
the expected thousands will go. Neither
does Mayor j. Frank Hensley, who
estimates Fulton might be able to house
as many as a thousand extra persons
if citizens opened their homes and
turned everything upside down"
Hensley says the churches will be
asked to help feed the crowds expected
Evening star., 1946-01-27
Army'sWeather Story Is Packed With Thrills

issued daily while radio operators were
sending out an average of $4,000 code
groups each "a hours, or million every
20 days.
Field and antiaircraft artillery bat
teries received four complete ballistic
messages daily from the Weather Serv-
ice and found the accuracy of their fire
particularly their long-range, high
altitude fre-appreciably improved as a
result.
Sound-range techniQues-an intricate
method devised for locating enemy ar
tillery batteries by triangulation-profit
ed from special weather forecasts, and
close liasion work between air and
ground forces was assured by having
weather personnel attached to advance
units.
One.of the most important and, at the
same time newest, but difficult Weather
Services to ground forces was that of
forecasting soil traficability of unpaved
roads and open terrain for armored and
motorized battle operations.
Win Eisenhower Praise
The value of the Weather Service in
the European theater was recently at
tested to by Gen. Eisenhower who
awarded to the entire weather and COM
munications squadrons serving there the
Meritorious Service Unit Plaque for "su-
peror performance" of extremely diff
cult tasks"
In the Pacific area the Weather Serv-
ice was in the thick of things from the
start. Beginning with Pearl Harbor,
when five weathermen were killed by
the japanese attack, weather task
teams followed hard on the heels of the
assault forces in virtually every am
phlbious operation. They landed on
Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Two
Jima and Okinawa to provide spot FORE
casts for air and ground operations
So much for positive weather FORE
casting. Now here's bit of negative!
Bad weather as we'll as good sometimes
serves airmen. And this is a case in
point. The Army wanted a protective
screen of inky blackness, heavy clouds,
mist and rain for the invasion of Rem
Weather Service forecast it for them on
certain day. So on that day the in
vading forces began their movements up
Blanche Channel. And the blackness,
the clouds, the mist and the rain we're
there! The Japanese were taken COM
pletely by surprise; beachheads were
established that led to the capture of
Rendova and the operations against
Munda. But if the forecast had been
muffed! Well, it is doubtful if the as
sault would have succeeded-at least
not without great loss of life.
AS in the European theater the Army
Air Force Weather Service in the Pa
cific has received high commendation
for tasks performed. Said Maj. Gen.
Curtis LIE May, commanding general of
the 21st Bomber Command, at the close
of hostilities with Japan:
ut is recognized that large measure
of the success of the recent operations
of the 21st Bomber Command can be at
tributed to the accuracy with which
weather, particularly at the target, was
predicted" He concluded by commend-
ing officers and men of the Weather
Service for the efficiency, attention to
duty and determination with which they
solved the problem of providing tho
2lst Bomber Command with accurate
weather information"
Evening star., 1946-01-27
What's Wrong With the French?

cenary Frenchman" The French think
that the American soldier who sells
cigarettes soap or candy on the black
market. at fantastic prices is mercenary
Some Americans will "do anything for
a couple of hundred francs"
"Why isn't there decent plumbing in
French houses? The toilet facilities
are diSgracetul"
They are. What should the French
do about it? 1t takes money to have
decent plumbing. That's why so many
people in our own United States don't
have decent plumbing either. Incl
dentally, about 3,6O7, ,724 homes in the
Evening star., 1946-01-27

"The French are mercenary."
killed, wounded and disabled, Ills 900;
1,785,000 buildings destroyed, 5000
bridges blown up, three-ffths of all rail-
road stock either destroyed or taken to
Germany, half of all livestock lost or
stolen, three-fourths of all agricultural
equipment lost, national debt increased
$4,000, 900 900.
They Take Their Time
"The French are lazy"
Some are, some are not. No one
works longer hours, works harder or is
more thrifty than the French farmer.
The French take life and work at a
more leisurely pace than we do. The
output of the French worker is less than
that of an average American worker.
France has far less industrialization
mechanization and labor saving devices
than we do.
The French claim they get more out
of life than we do. They say they have
better music, art, poetry, philosophy,
literature. They say they take time to
enjoy living and they do not kill them
selves in the endless pursuit of money.
"The French don't haze decent po-
litical system. They're got too many
parties. They neuer get together"
The French political system is
democracy. The French have a political
party for al2lost every conceivable po-
litical position. They don't believe that
there are two ways of looking at
things; the French think there are
dozens of ways and that if enough
people hold to any one way they have
right to be represented in the gov
ernment. French electoral practice has
not encouraged party organizations such
as ours.
The French multiple-party system has
this advantage: 1t gives every group
of any size voice in government,
chance to get its program considered, a
chance to get certain laws passed. 1t
has this grave disadvantage-no one
party controls majority of the votes
in the Chamber of Deputies. Cabinets
are always combination or coalition cab
inets. The Premier has to rely on per-
suasion 1t is easy for such cabinets
to be overthrown. 1t is relatively hard
for cabinets to work together on COM
mon program for many years.
The French are very much aware of
the dangers and disadvantages of
multiple party system. They are trying
to solve it democratically.
Evening star., 1946-01-27

good reason for so remaining it. For
here two men perished in subfreezing
weather while attempting to rescue the
crew of boat which had crashed off,
shore. And then few months later
volcano on the island blew its top off
drowning man in sea OF molten
lava! Perhaps the most unusual tenn
perature range of any spot in the world.
And speaking of heat, there was that
covered-over shell crater that did duty
as a weather observation post during
the Battle of Tunisia. For chairs and
tables this crew used empty bomb crates
And the little Buddha temples of
China! Certainly the little god did not
object. Up in the foothills of the Hym-
alayas one such little temple was used
as q weather station. An observation
tower was erected on top of the temple
roof from empty packing cases. Down
below, by cutting a gasoline drum in
half, the luxury of bathtub was main
tanned in the crews living quarters.
Forecasts to Victory
From China to Europe, is a long hop.
But it is easily made on paper. And
there perhaps, where the ebb and flow
of Great War was more intense than
anywhere else on the globe, weather
officers ceaslessly ground out their FORE
casts to victory.
Using a cab-drawn weather van, a
radio truck, personnel carrier, a weap-
on carrier, a half-ton jeep and two
mobile power units, 20-to- 30-man de-
tachments of weather and communica-
tions experts began landing in Nor
mandy "a hours after D day and pressed
ahead with the assault forces in this
spectacular smash across France, Bel
gium and Germany, moving forward on
an average of once every three days
without single interruption in service.
One detachment moved II times in
30-day period, covering a distance of
$40 miles and setting up for business
again within two hours after reaching
each new stopping point. In the face
OF heavy artillery fire and savage air
attacks, more than 1000 observations
were taken and more than $50 forecasts
Evening star., 1946-01-27

The dollar is North at least 10O-20G
francs"
The rate was established in 1941 at
the Casablanca Conference. France
didn't set the rate; 1t was agreed upon
by the governments of France and the
United States. 1t was kept at such a
disadvantage to keep American soldiers
from buying up many of the articles
which the French desperately needed
The American soldier gets his lodging
food and clothes free-and his PIX
rations at extremely low prices. The
French people did not get theirs free,
and the prices they pay for the things
we get at Pxs, even if they can get
those things, are very high.
at burns me up to see Frenchnan
using American uniforms"
1t would burn you up more if they
were in German uniforms. Before we
invaded North Africa in 1912 our
Government arranged to equip II
French divisions. Why? Because every
French soldier took place that might
have had to be filled by an American.
Why didn't we or the French provide
more easily recognized French insignia?
That was a mistake.
Who Won the War
"The French act as ii they won the
1Dar Single-handed."
Those who do are damned fools. The
French did not win the war single
handed. Neither did we. Neither did
the Russians or the British or the Chi
nese.
"The French soldiers stole everything
they could get their hands on. They
stole our gas, jeeps, trucks, rations. We
had to post guards over euery pehicle."
Some French soldiers certainly did
steal. We didn't like it, So did some
Americans The French didn't like
that. The French had no monopoly on
moonlight requisitions," as any GI
knows.
"The French got of pretty easy in the
Uar"
Here is the war cost for France:
Total military and civilians killed
$4,000; total military and civilians
Evening star., 1946-01-27

and foremost, when japanese airmen
came over on bombing mission, it was
an antiaircraft emplacement. When
they were not nosing around it was
weather observation tower. The change
to an antiaircraft emplacement was ac-
complished by an ingenious system of
ropes and pulleys. BY manipulating
them machine guns could be hoisted
quickly to the platform. Otherwise
wind vanes and barometers ruled the
scene. Sandbags piled around the plat
form afforded it some protection from
strafing attacks.
Have you ever heard of a tiny little
island in the Bering Sea by the name
of Chuginadak? 1t is shaped like a
dumbbell and lies 1856 miles west of
Dutch Harbor. But to six weathermen
it is no longer Chuginadak 1t is Jinx
Island. And they have an extremely
Evening star., 1946-01-27

to pile in on this town of about $500
(the last census put the population
at 8,297, but Hensley explains that
included inmates at the Fulton State
HospitaD.
The Mayor shakes his head when
he recalls the last time Fulton was
jan1med with people. That was in 1886
when it was estimated 10000 persons
lined the streets for a parade welcoming
Helen Stephens, a hometown girl who
came back an Olympic champion.
Takes a Lot of Planning
For the Churchill Truman doings,
Fulton's nine-man police force with
American Legion auxiliary police, State
highway patrolmen and officers from
neighboring towns.
Complicating the situation is the fact
that buses provide the only passenger
service into Fulton. They come on u S.
54, the only main highway here. 1t
connects miles north of Kingdom
City with U. S. 40, principal East-West
artery between metropolitan st. Louis
and Kansas City. Passenger trains dis
appeared from here some years ago.
Back in September, 1875, when JEFF
ferson Davis came, the traffic problem
was simpler. Even SO, thousands of
wagons and buggies jammed the roacs
and great throngs greeted the former
Confederate President along the rail
route from St Louis.
In their enthusiasm several ladies
embraced and kissed him with gen.
uine heartfelt reverence, akin to adora-
tion," according to an old newspap per
accoIlOt
Evening star., 1946-01-27

the schools most distinguished alumni.
This is how Van SAINT recalls his talk
with his friend, Bullet" McCluer:
Bullet and were discussing various
people we might ask to come and deliver
the lecture. said, If you want to shoot
at the moon, why don't you get some
one like Winston Churchill? You
couldn't find any one anywhere whose
words would be heard farther Bullet
laughed and we went on talking about
others.
Next day he came back and said, Say,
yof know if I thought we could get an
invitation to him, Ed be willing to try
to get Churchill And that's the way
the idea was born"
On Truman's Invitation
Van SAINT put the proposition up to his
old friend, Harry Truman. Twice the
banker had managed Truman's sena-
torial campaigns in Galloway County
and twice he had carried the county for
him. The President said sure, he would
be glad to forward the invitation. And
he did.
What the former Prime Minister will
discuss will be up to him. BY custom,
the Green lecturers choose their own
subjects.
Ordinarily the lectures are three one
hour addresses, but the timing of this
one will be left to Churchill.
BY the terms of the endowment, the
lectures are designed to promote UNDER
standing of political, economic or social
problems of international significance.
One, by John Langdon Davies, the Brit
ish diplomat, concerned democracy and
fascism in Spain. Others have been
about international trade and various
aspects of foreign affairs.
That is why DR.. McCluer and Van SAINT
feel that Westminster College will pro-
vide an ideal backdrop for major state
ment of policy by the leader of the op-
position in the current British Parlia-
ment. You couldn't get much closer to
the heart of America.
Evening star., 1946-01-27
By Robert BruSkin.

The Army would like American SOL
diers to know that the French are as
eager to get them out of the country
as GIs are to come home.
" AS for French morals, the Army
thinks it important that GIs know that
we have higher divorce and crime rate
than they do; that the French are less
puritanical.
1t gravely assures soldiers that the
custom of kissing on the streets is
traditional greeting of old friends, but
for their love-making, the French
prefer privacy, if available-just as we
do :"
Evening star., 1946-01-27
they got Of pref u
easy IN this u'n, :

Not When you read the
figures.
United States do not have private flush
ing toilets.
Evening star., 1946-01-27
He Might Get Kissed

Thus far the Churchill Truman pro-
gram has no place for kissing, although
Col Nathaniel Townsend reckons
some Of the girls might give Winnie
a buss" Townsend was 10 when Davis
spoke here and recalls it as one of the
greatest days in his life. He ought to
Arizona sun., 1946-11-01
HANDBOOK
OF
PRACTICAL ENGLISH

@. l anl residing in house which
| plan to have refnished with new
siding. l will still be residing in
the house, but in the refnishing will
I be residing the hon"e or re
sideiag' it?-W. K. S.
A. You have brought up a very
interesting point of usage which, l
feel sure, has puzzled many per-
sor. There are several words like
your residing" Let us list a few:
refuse remark
resign resort
retire recover
recOil reclte
redress relent
Now, suppose an inspector in an
ammunition. factory should write:
These shells must be refused.
Does he mean that they are to
be thrown out as worthless, or that
they are to be equipped again with
fuses? Here are other ambiguous
sentences:
I must retire my car.
She will recover the chair.
He must remark the goods.
To make it clear that the shells
must have new fuses, the car is to
have new tires, the chair is to have
a new cover, and the goods are to
Arizona sun., 1946-11-01

THIS pinwheel medallion will
L whirl new beauty into your
home! Easy to crochet, it makes
elegant doilies; when joined, larg-
er pieces.
For cobwebby effect, do this in fine cot
ton; for a sturdier result, use string.
Pattern 662 has directions for two medal
lions: stitches.
crrent conditions siyohtIg roorn ti,o an ;s
required in filling orders for a few of the
most popular patterns.
Arizona sun., 1946-11-01

GOOD FOR A GIGGLE
Are you the goose that lays the
golden gags? Then, you're respOn-
sible for some of this new silly stuff
we've been hearing around the soda
fountains lately.
You're like a Garden in the des-
ert.
Oh, Really?
No, Oasis!
Why does the Bee Buzz?
Because somebody took his Hon
ey and Nectar.
Arizona sun., 1946-11-01

leather jobs and then wear it with
everything.
eve Can't Afford Eveni1 Coats
SO What?"-That's no problem,
chicks. You just wear your fleece
boy coat or Chesterfield over your
formals Brighten 'em up with
white wool mitts and scarf, sprin-
kled with sequins. You are your
own sprinkling system:
els 1t Right for Teens to Wear
Black Date Dresses?"-Not only
right for you, but bright OF you.
junior. We just took a poll on date
dresses among our 1000 hi-style
scouts and, Wrap Us Up and Call
Us Mummy, if black didn't, come
out first. Of course, you spike it
with color.
Arizona sun., 1946-11-01
SOUNDED LIKE 1T
By C.. Kessler

The rookie from Brooklyn was ou
on hike. Suddenly he cried out
Look, Sarge, a boid!"
The sergeant replied: That's 4
bird, SoiGier-not a boiG!"
Well" said the roOkle, lit clioips
like a bold"
Arizona sun., 1946-11-01
NOT so RARE

i've got freak over on my
farm" reported Farmer Brown.
Its a tWo-legged calf.
Don't need to tell me that,
snapped Farmer Jones' He came
over to call on my daughter last
night"
Arizona sun., 1946-11-01
Atomic Joke

Mildred-Did that girl call you ;
bum?
Alice-No, she called me bomb
said she didn't know me from atom