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Show SECTION - TWO PRO VP TUTAHT " 5UNITAY" HERALDV SUNDAY,- -ftPIHE 7, "lg"4tt- PAGE FIVE V ashington Merry-Go-Round (Continued From Page One) suaded Charles Edison, son of the famed inventor, to take the post of Assistant Secretary, the first man to ', congratulate him, in his office -in East . Orange, was . Lewis Compton. - - , - -Thanks,: Luke," Bald" Edison, "but I have no business taking this job. I don't know the bow of a ship from the stern." ' "You don't need to;" said Compton. Comp-ton. "In the Navy there are plenty plen-ty of .men who do. All you- need is, a good assistant. Count me in" ..... V "Do 'you mean it?" said Edi son. "Sure." was the reply. ' "What are you doing Monday?" 'said Edison. "Come down to Washington with me and we'll fix things up." WON EDISON'S ADMIRA-.; ADMIRA-.; v TION t The two men toad become ac qualnted only , the year before, . when : Compton was ? State DIrec tor of Relief in New Jersey. Edi son, president, of Thomas A. Edison Edi-son industries, -Inc.,?' was also starting a laboratory experiment in federal housing in New Jersey, and needed some white-collar re lief workers to staff the project. He asked for an appointment with Compton, and when he en- tered the office. Compton was dictating into a machine. "I flee," said Edison,; "you are an executive execu-tive who values his time." He smiled and pointed to . the machine. It ' was an Ediphone, product of Edison, Industries. Compton assigned relief workers work-ers to the housing -project in a way that evoked Edison's admiration. admir-ation. Instead of handing him a ' lot of butchers and bakers, he allowed Edison free range to select se-lect skilled men, regardless of politics, with the result that the New Jersey FHA had the most efficient record in the country. This was ' the beginning of a mutual ' admiration between the two men. They are entirely unlike, un-like, however. Compton, is a tall ( six-feet-three ) , rugged, two-f ist-ed ist-ed type of executive, with the picturesque profanity of a Mase-field Mase-field sailor. He supplements the He's New Boss Of the Big Guns I1ILC0 CHIEF tfp., FLCOH FOR RENT i ; CALL 56 ; Coclirell u Jones 13G West Center 1 i i i . .A - ' 1 l New head man in one of the most important departments of U. S. national defense is Major Gen. Joseph Green. He is pictured pic-tured in Washington after his installation in-stallation as the U. S. Army's new Chief of Coast Artillery. Prb-Ochcol Ago ' Clinics Planned SPANISH FORK The local P. T. A. is sponsoring a preschool pre-school roundup clinic for children who enter scohool in the fall. Children? Chil-dren? who; attend the Thurber school will be given their examinations examina-tions Monday, April 8; those at the Reese school Monday, April 15, and those attending the Central will be cared for on Wednesday, April 17. Appointments are being sent to the mothers whose children are registered ' at the school off ice. If those who . do not receive an appointment have a child ' entering enter-ing school this fall will consult the president of the P.-T. A. the health nurse or the principal of the school will see that their child is registered , for appointment. . Immunization for small pox and diphtheria . will be given at this time for the unprotected child, A small fee will be charged. quiet, ' whimsical, music-loving Secretary- of the Navy. Edison has boundless patience ; Compton, until his riding accident last sum mer, . had none. But lying four months on his back, after a se verely crippling fall from a horse gave him & measure of - calmness he never had' known before. ; .; -Compton is not a brilliant man, His teachers despaired of him at Exeter Academy, in New Hamp shire, where he and . his- two brothers were each in. turn, known as i "Buck"- Compton. When the youngest.,' Biny, - entered the Jis. ademy, Lewis . led him on' '"the opening day to the registrar, famed James A. ("Tuffy") Tufts, the "Mr. Chips of America." As the line moved past "Tuf fy's" desk, that oldster, without looking up, said, "Name please?" Billy replied, "Compton, W. A., Perth Amboy," New Jersey." "Tuffy" raised his pen, but not his. eyes.. "Compton, . ; . Comp ton . . . Perth Amboy? Brother of -' the Buck Comptons,. I sup pose?" . . ' v. -:: j With pride, Billy replied, "Yes; sir,' and the old man, with" his most ., cutting sarcasm, satyi, "Well, sUll they come, jin spite of the difficulties they encounter!" - BUSINESSMEN RULE , SHIPYARDS 'I It may ' not be brilliance,' but it is ' a clear-sighted perseverance which lies behind Compton's work todays in-feorganIzing the "Navy Department. He and Edison, both with the background of business men, insist that the Shore establishments estab-lishments of the Navy, which employ em-ploy 100,000 civilian workmen riveters, steam-fitters, - electricians,' electrici-ans,' designers cannot be well directed di-rected byan officer- trained only in commanding .la ' ship. In other words, you can't luild submarines by throwing a steam-fitter steam-fitter into the brig If he doesn't salute and say, -"Aye, aye, sir!" The ' Navy's shore establishments constitute one of the largest industrial in-dustrial enterprises in the country, coun-try, and . Campton and Edison hold that they should be directed by men' trained- in industrial management. These and other administrative - PLEASANT GROVE A ' free clinic for all children' who will enter en-ter school next f alf will be held at the ? Pleasant Grove Central school Wednesday and Thursday, April 10-11, from 9 a. m. until 12 noon, reported Mrs. Myrtle Green, one of the presidents of the P.-T.A. organization. A local, doctor, the school nurse, Mrs. Loy Doss, Mrs. Laura Robertson, Rob-ertson, Mrs. Sylvia Peterson and Mrs. Green will be in attendance Watchmen of the Air .. If 71 If f ; i i ; i ; reforms liof Edison and . Compton are regarded as. heresy by the brasshats, but they have the sup-porf sup-porf of : Roosevelt and h they -.are being put t through. . . Compton has held his new job only as;few weeks, but he has handled ttie ropes '.ton months. When Edison was laid "up with intestinal influenza last spring, and the late . Secretary I Swanson was ' inactive at the same - time, Compton pinch-hit for both, j.. Once, after' he had ,made a series of important " decisions, he wrote a "letter of confession" to Edison, , saying he hoped he ".. had done right and was . not fired. Charles .Edison scribbled a cryptic cryp-tic answer in these words: "L.C. Thanks,' and you are not fired. MERRY-GO-ROUND . . . ' - - A veteran newsman v covering the State Department likens Secretary Sec-retary Hull's press conferences to a strip-tease act. "He takes off one thing . after another, and then, - Just . as you think you're going to ".'get . something," bang, out go the lights." , For several sev-eral years in the block between H and I streets on Seventeenth a wind manrhaarsaroiT the side walk ; hawking pencils and calling call-ing softly, "Here you are, girls and . boys, have a fine pencil." The other , day, s for a reason known only to him, he suddenly changed his refrain and now calls out. "Jim Farley is the most masterful mas-terful man in the world - today." Wavy-haired : Repres entatlve Ralph E. ; Church of 111.,' isn't letting his ambitions for. the GOP senatorial nomination ; this - year spoil the unique attendance record rec-ord he has chalked up. Church, whd hasn't missed a single roll-call roll-call or .vote in his six years in Congress, is remaining in Washington Wash-ington .and conducting his primary pri-mary campaign-by ; radio.. (Copyright, 1940, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) : V- i ' r. v . ! i - ' j ' I, J i Although armies today tre immeasurably better equipped with scouting and observation planes than in World War days, the captive cap-tive sausage balloon is still of great value in spotting enemy activity activ-ity from the air: The French army uses many like the one above, which was photographed near, the Western Front. War Spreads to Waters of Far East Troni-Sibrran railroad sold to bring U-boars to Pacific from Germany I uTs. sr. MONGOLIA T lf . ' " j R.por H,xi ,NCHWg? base htra in area 1 t yf ' " J Germany by Ruio f- Vx" S' A rJ r1 j I From ScoWUI Shanghai S I Tmr J V J-r Brttiih xttnd blockade " if mi Far East by catting m X X. Nafl supply lintt; shipt . L 2 'jr ' ' ijV ' rfy,,,9 German-bound . 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