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. Fine
flowers growing in the home gar
den often are cross-pollinated by
others of the same species, mak
ing flowers grown from their seed
inferior, and untrue. /
Lovely Rugs Crocheted
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• • •
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RUGS.
Costly Toys
The yacht Rainbow, built at a
cost of $400,000 only six years ago
to defend the America’s cup
against Mr. Sopwith’s Endeavour,
has been sold as scrap for one
third of her original cost. These
modem racing yachts are nothing
but speed machines. They can
not be turned to any other use
when their racing days are over.
Of Lipton’s four first Shamrocks
the only relic is a mast now used
as a flagstaff at an American uni
versity. Every one of the modern
cup racers has gone to the scrap
yard. These ships were not fit
for anything but racing, and their
average life is three years.
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