The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-21
YOUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT
w alter Winchel

More than 500, 900 in jewels (square cut
diamonds, emeralds and rubies) are owned by
a former Ziegteld Follies beauty. Her name il
Georgia Frederick. . The widow Of Capt. Fred.
erick Clay USN. . The grandson Of Henry
Clay, who would Rather Be Right Than Presi
dent. . The gems Cncludlng a six-karat ca.
nary diamond) were given to Clay in 1917 and
handed down to the lovely widow who inherit.
ed the Clay estate. . 'rn bet you are proud
to own those gems someone said. . mo,
she replied. A that matters is the $3.50 J. j.
Shubert promised to me as soon as l fix the
second act of my new play. The title is You,
You and You.
Incidentally, no direct descendant of Henry
Clay was ever named sfter him. =. There Is
a General Lucius D.. Clay and there are La
Frederick's three sons, Donald, Everett and
Herbert. SO the former Follies dolly Ia
Northerner) is insisting the next boy born be
named Henry Clay or else. Or else no dough
-. Donald Clay, the oldest lad (now in Macon.
Ga.). ard his wife expect an heir in Sept.
We had completely forgotten about Senator
Wheeler honestly what with being 10000 busy
lately. . Forgotten him, we mean, until a
wire C1Hle 1IOIl IMO-ltcId SldllHS Wu6elGr S
campaign speeches there included s'Winchell
is behind these attacks on me! His cash con-
tributions are aimed to defeat me-. Well,
the Helena you say! . Il never had the
pie of meeting his opponent, left Erick-
son The only thing l am financing, along
with millions Of other taxpayers, is the U. S.
Treasury, which pays Wheeler his salary.
~BroadWayites know the bigger the heart the
easier the target. The same cynical philosophy
seems TO apply to the international jungle. .
The British came hat-in-hand for a loan. And
America gave Britain the largest credit ever
granted one nation. . 50 what happens? Some
British g~azettes are attacking the loan, and
others accepted the NICOLA grudgingly, saying
the United States made a business deal in
stead of helping out a deserving friend. .
Uncle Sam can't win. If he had refused to
grant the loan, he would hace been called a
Scrooge. And after he gives the money, he is
called a Shylock. 1T recalls an old political
maxim: Every favor makes a dozen enemies
and one migrate"
Sudden thawt: We hope the British loan in
cluded thirty pieces OF silver for Bevin.
Bernard Baruch, on his Central Park bench,
evolved the plan for atomic power that he
believes may make the entire world safe.
Now if only Mr.. Ba,uch can evolve some
thing to make Central Park safe.
W.. C.. Bullitt's book contains an amazing
statement. He writes: Let us reject with alb
solute firality the idea that we should attack
the Soviet Union And then he adds: This
does not mean that We should hesitate to use
the atomic bomb to stop new crimes Of Soviet
Imperialism"
Imagine dropping an atomic bomb On the
Russians just to remind them that we don't
wish to attack them.
The record proves Gerald J.. K. Smiths
support is a kiss of death. After a candidate
for Congress in Wis. Lawrence H. Smith
was "enoorsed'' by Gerald, he informed re-
porters: I'm in the position of the fellow who
got smallpox. I didn't want it but / got it."
The Sovvy propaganda f~alsifiers are now
using the technique perfected by Goebbels.
When an American newspaperman tells the
truth about ~them-they reply with an orgy OF
lies and name-calling sprees. 1t reminds
US of a Goebbels tale that was popular during
the war: Goebbels, after all. did get to Heaven.
One daJ while walking around up there he
came to a huge telescope pointing downwards
through ? rift in the clouds. The sign said:
See He'll. Only five cents" When Goebbels
looked through the telescope he saw luxurles,
wine, women and song-all that he had been
craving for in the Responsibility Of Heaven. :.
So Joe get a transfer ard descended. On his
arrival below he was tortured with fire and
pitchforks. When he asked his torturers about
what he had seen through the telescope all
He'll roared with laughter. on" they
ha-ha'd, that's just propaganda for foreign
consumption"
Frank L. K%luckhohn, the Times Buenos Aires
bow. reports our namby-pamby attitude toward
Peron hasn't changed his pro-Nazi policies. 1t
seems that appeasement is taking another lac
ing-whi shouldn't surprise any sane person.
An umbrella is good protection against rain
not rats.
A newsmag reports that a Mississippi paper
(Which fought Bilbo en- its editorial page)
stated: Those individuals who won with Bnbo
are happy. Those who lest are happy, too,
for thew have the satisfaction OF knowing that
Walter Wiachell and a lot Of his ik meanlng,
we presume, nearly a dozen national magsD
failed 10 impress Mi~ssissippians."
All of which sums up what's wrong with
that Missisippian: He would rather keep fight
ing the Civil War than fight to protect civil
liberties. He would isolate Mississippi from the
other AZ states wren Bilbo and Rankin
should be isolated from all 40.
Scrambled Eggs: Countess Cassini, mater
in-law of Gene Tier1oey, is writing a book
about her grandfather, the original Count Cas-
SIM. Advance boosters say it will t-Anber
Forever. Joe Louis autobiog (due June.