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It Used to Be ‘Sissy" There was a time when the man who played badminton was re garded as something less than a he-man. But those days are gone. In these action photos made by the Speedray technique, two stars, Ken Davidson and Hugh Forgie, shoiv you some of the strokes. Top: The shuttlecock, or "Bird," is in flight across the net here, and Ken Davidson (left) also looks as if he is soaring, after smashing it over to his opponent, Hugh For gie, who is recovering aft er going off balance. Right: Zowie! Hugh Forgie completing an around • the • head smash. This shot is used by the better players rather than a back-hand stroke. Below: Ken goes up into the air to meet the bird. He is about to execute a high, back hand lob, or drop shot. Above: Ken Davidson, one of the greatest trick shot artists the game has ever produced, shows one of his tricks. Hugh Forgie is caught by the Speedray here in a graceful leap. Forgie playing a defensive shot back to his opponent's baseline. Women, too, are enthusiastic badminton players. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) NEW YORK.—Back In the calm, untroubled days of February, 1939, with one more spring not far behind, a famous economist, return They AUo S„ve Who Only Stand, the ship „ . , news men Peering Skyward thatthis war scare was all paper talk. Re sponsible statesmen of Europe had things well in hand. On this same day, there was a little item, back in the dustbin of the newspaper, reporting that, in certain minor changes in the army, the President was putting the "ac cent on youth." One Brig. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, a youth of 51, was upped to the post of chief of the army's mobile general head quarters air force. Five or six other youngsters were similarly elevated. The other day, the quietly ef fective General Emmons was given direction of a new organi sation of possibly 500,000 or 600,000 civilian air raid spotters. Four brigadier generals will as sist him in recruiting and train ing his volunteer observers. Back in 1916, we thought of air planes as primarily useful for ob servation, and it was the signal corps, our only flying service, that the then Captain Emmons entered. He adapted himself quickly to the fighting as well as observing uses of planes, became a keen technician in the art of plane development and flying, and, in 1920 and 1921 taught flying at Harvard university. He is a native of Huntington, W. Va., and graduated from West Point in 1909. MISS MABEL BOARDMAN, tall. regal, tireless and alert, is a born co-operator and commander. Her 40 years with the Red Cross is An Accident Gave f ,timely ci‘ tation, not Disaster Victims only in the n . D . . aftermath of Cause to Rejoice the tragedy of London, but in her current Wash ington announcement that the Red Cross is”geared for swift emergency action. In this connection, she men tions the fact that it sent more than $23,000,000 to Europe last year, and gives other details of its expanding and intensifying organization. Mias Boardman la secretary of the American Red Cross. During her service, its member ship has grown from 300 to 15,000,000, with much of the credit for this increase assigned to her. Born and reared in Cleveland, with abundant means and distinguished family ante cedents, she was a Washington society bud. In 1900, a friend made an unauthorized use of her name as one of the incorpora tors of the new RecNCross. Miss Boardman accepted the call and has helped guide and build the vast organization with unflagging energy and administrative and or ganizing ability. She is straight as a ramrod, serene and at ease, but with a touch of military alertness, —an ever watchful evangel against all the plagues of the litany. -^ I AST October, Major Edward Bowes, of radio fame, gave his Westchester estate to the Lutheran church. Then, in November, he Maj. Bowei Givei *ave his 62; ton yacht With Freedom of and his 29 One From Friico ?oott ,spefd* boat to the navy. Previously he had given to St. Patrick's cathedral four huge English elms and eight Schwedleri maples. And now he is giving to St. Patrick’s an Andrea del Sarto painting, masterpiece of the Floren tine painter, done in 1515. It is “The Holy Family With St. John and Ste. Elizabeth.” The major started on a grand garrison finish, along in his fif ties. This writer remembers him as a genial evangel of real estate, and a crusader against crime in San Francisco, many years ago. Even in that day. he had imposed on a grammar school education the smoothest diction in those parts. It was in San Francisco, a most theatrical town, that he moved into the theater. It was in 1917 that he built the Capitol theater in New York and thereafter his career was a pleasant upbound ride on a gold i plated escalator. Off and on, he has been radio’s best magnet for fan-mail and his "take" has been put down at around $25,000 a week. He started his amateur hour in 1934 and it quickly blazed into a four-eleven conflagra tion. He lives abstemiously, as to food and drink, but sports a $38,000 car, with Venetian blinds, a refrig erator and gold-rimmed dishes, and he provides plenty of Lucullan trim mings for the entertainment of his guests. He gives things away on the slightest provocation and couldn’t possibly have come from anywhere but San Francisco. i I NATIONAL AFFAIRS Revitwtd by CARTER FIELD Bombers in Singapore, Manila, hold threat to Japan s vital oil stores .. . Hopkins good choice as head of Office of Emergency Management. (Bell Syndicate—WNtl Service.) WASHINGTON.—It isn’t the Unit ed States fleet, hovering around Pearl Harbor, that is staying the hands of the Japanese war lords, keeping them from striking at Singapore and seizing the Dutch East Indies while Britain is fighting with her back to the wall. It’s bombers. British bombers at Singa pore, yes, but chiefly American bombers, both at Singapore and Manila. It is known that most of the Brit ish air strength at Singapore has come from the U. S. A. but. and per haps more important, Uncle Sam has been sending heavy bombers to Manila, building up his own air arm In that remote part of the world. But why should that worry Japan, it might be asked. Japan has a strong aviation force, a big navy, and a magnificent army. So why should Japan worry about Ameri can—or British—bombers? The answer is simple. It is dem onstrated twice a week or more in the aerial war between Britain and Germany. It is a fact beyond doubt that the British air force is not as strong as the German—yet the Brit ish can and do bomb any particular spot on the occupied coast or in Germany they like. The point is that superiority in the air, even when it is very great, is not enough to prevent bombing, even bombing of particular small targets at particular times. OIL SUPPLY VULNERABLE Which brings us to the real heart of the Japanese fear of exciting Uncle Sam too much in this Far Eastern business. It so happens that Japan is very shy on oil. But she must have oil for her ships, her planes, her tanks, and her supply trains. Japan has plenty of storage oil, plenty for an emergency—BUT— Japan’s secret service knows that the U. S. and British navies know precisely where every gallon of it is stored! It is the considered optnion of mili tary experts that the Japanese army and navy would be immobilized within a few days of any hostile move by the demolition of Nippon’s entire oil supply. • • • Hopkins Good Choice As O. E. M. Head There are two sides to this busi ness of putting Harry Hopkins in charge of the Office of Emergency Man agement, one of the most important in war effort. There is such criticism, of course, as has been made on the floor of the house of repre sentatives by John Taber of New York. I Taber thinks the 'Hopkins appoint Harry Hopkins meru is me worsi thing President Roosevelt has done in the whole na tional defense setup. But there is another angle, and one which will appeal tremendously to any of the people who will now work under Hopkins. At least they will know, always, that their chief is just about supreme—tnat nobody is going to get in between their chief and the President. Therefore, if they can satisfy their own chief, they are all right. Everyone who has ever worked in any big organization, whether it be government or a corporation, knows the tremendous value of this, and knows that it makes for good feeling and for efficiency. DISCOURAGES FACTIONALISM The point may well be raised tfaat perhaps, if he blunders enough, he ought to be destroyed. That is the othei side of the picture, and it fits with the Taber criticism. But at least it has the virtue of pretty near ly eliminating the sort of factional ism which is so rampant in many government branches and in many corporations, where certain individ uals inside, hoping to advance their own status by a change, play with certain figures outside their imme diate group with the hope of ulti mately throwing their chief out the window. That sort of thing is rife in gov ernment offices. For some reason connected with the frailties of hu man nature, being on the govern ment payroll seems to breed it. But it is also true in many private en terprises, particularly those not run by a "czar.'’ "Office politics” is just as blighting in private employ ment as in the government. No one has any doubt of the hold Harry Hopkins has on the President. He has taken the place so long occu pied in FDR’s heart by Louis Howe. Actually he is much bigger, men tally. and in his breadth of vision than Howe. Also he has more friends, outside the Roosevelt circle. It is questionable whether he has anything like the political shrewd ness of his predecessor. TIPS to (jrardeners GARDENS OF QUALITY 'T'HERE have been changes in recent years in garden prac tices that are worth reporting. Gardeners formerly allowed vege tables to grow as large as possible. This procedure gave a higher yield in pounds, but very often it lowered the quality of vegetables. Some vegetables, of course, like tomato, must be mature to be pal atable; but carrots, cucumbers, beets, summer squash, turnips, radishes, and others are more ten der and tasty when not much more than half grown. Gardeners are finding that it is wise to plant oftener than once or twice a year, to maintain a regu lar supply of proper-sized vege tables. Gardens prove more en joyable, and more profitable when successive plantings of favorite crops are made every two or three weeks, providing garden-fresh vegetables for the table over a long season. It is also true that few garden ers today save flower seeds. 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