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Show 0i 1 SM H Little Known Stories About Well Known People Inept military censorship has appalled ap-palled many newspaper men However How-ever we believe there would be less quibbling between reporters and brass hat blue-pencilers 11 they would use the following yarn as their guide: Some years ago, an army ammunition depot exploded on the outskirts of Baltimore. But the colonel colo-nel in charge of the depot refused to give reporters any Information. They promptly appealed to the general gen-eral commanding the corps area, who picked them up in his car and convoyed the newsboys to the scene of the disaster. . . . They were greeted greet-ed at the gate by the colonel, who stated: "General, I have just thrown some reporters out of here." . . . The general replied: "Colonel, let me present these gentlemen to you. They represent the local newspapers. newspa-pers. I've discovered that it Is better bet-ter to give them the news right away. They'll probably dig up the information, anyhow, but a little co-operation saves them time and helps the army." ... The general'! name? Douglas MacArthur. When heavyweight champ Joe Louis was a youngster his mother took him to Detroit's child guidance bureau. The psychologist there studied his case. His amazing counsel coun-sel is still a part of the bureau's flies: "Teach him to do something with his hands." Anyone who has waded through the labyrinth of Bretton Woods or studied the intricacies of reconversion is aware economics eco-nomics is a complex subject. . . . Will Rogers once listened to a discussion by a group of expert economists. One of them asked Rogers: "What is your opinion about rigid economy?" . . . Will intoned: "The only thing I know about rigid economy is that it Is a dead Scotchman." Lowell Thomas tells this: One evening in May, 1919. when Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife were driving driv-ing home, a concussion followed by a terrific explosion tore the air. Turning into their own street, they found themselves in total darkness, driving over broken glass. Every street lamp was blown away, the trees stripped of their leaves. At home they found the front door blown open, and every window shattered. shat-tered. The lower floor was chaos. . . . FDR dashed upstairs shouting, shout-ing, "Johnny, Johnny." Johnny was sleepy and confused by the uproar. He wanted to know what the trouble was. "Turn over and go to sleep," Mrs. Roosevelt said firmly and calmly. calm-ly. "It's just a little bomb!" . . . Ever since then, at moments of extreme ex-treme excitement or uproar in the Roosevelt household, when a measure meas-ure of sang-froid is called for, somebody some-body quotes that priceless remark: "It's just a little bomb!" Teddy Roosevelt informed a biographer biog-rapher that he learned a great lesson les-son in the art of diplomacy from an Indian chief, . . . While touring the west, Teddy met an Indian who had six wives. . . . Roosevelt suggested that he choose one and discard the other five. . . . After thoughtful consideration, con-sideration, the chieftain agreed on one condition. "You choose the one for me to keep," he replied, "and then you tell the other five." France's great statesman, Clem- enceau, demanded drastic punishment punish-ment for Germany's war criminals after the last war, but he was overruled over-ruled by his diplomatic colleagues. One diplomat informed Clemen-ceau: Clemen-ceau: "Your demand to kill so many Germans is murder." . . . The French statesman looked him straight in the eye and snapped: Killing microbes is also a form of murder. But they must be killed In order to cure a disease!" The OWI continues to be jabbed by flapjaws who deprecate the importance im-portance of propaganda in the current cur-rent struggle. But the use of propaganda propa-ganda as a weapon of war isn't new Napieon was as wily a propagan dist as he was a militarist. During Dur-ing the war in Spain, Bonaparte's of- oul 't0r PL'nned this ernrnuni- infrrin?,6 T PCr0r With f0rces m"ch inferior to the enemy inflicted a decisive de-cisive defeat on him." tn T. margm Napoleon wrote: "Idiot' I need no glory. I have more than I want already. But I need the enemy c - think I h ave so.diers when I hTve not sxnklng out the ref to his nferior forces, he wrote: "At the head of fore-, fir ., those of the enernv th Pe"0r " Wined . Ss7mDHm Yon could fill a library with G B known habits'" Y?Z my we" WifU, w.red her hZChTia tiers" b8d as our man- |