Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON EW YORK When When we went Into Inlo NEW N the World war Sen Smith W W. Brookhart of Iowa said uld our crack riflemen would win for us u. if U he be were allowed to re- re Rifle Rille Virtuoso Made Gun Our Oar them Amert- Amert he said cans A Army rm M. M Mainstay alna were born marksmen and the rifle ride would be suited to our native genius lie He was soundly patriotic and moving as he worked in Daniel Boone Doone and individual ual initiative but his plea went unheeded un un- heeded heeded In In fact the senators senator's suggestion sug lug seemed amusing to most commentators But Bat at that time there was a ayoung ayoung young fellow popping off the c cen- cen n- n belt ducks docks at Cone Coney Island Is Is- land with such accuracy that he be became a virtuoso of rifle Ore fire fire and In between war years year made the rifle the mainstay of f oar army firing power Just jost as Senator Brookhart said It ought to be The Garand self loading semi automatic rifle tested by National Guardsmen at Camp CampSmith CampSmith Smith has for several yean years been put down by military mill mili tary men meD as the worlds world's most mod sensational achievement In light lI ht arms anna The army took It over ever in hi 1937 It Ii i Is the creation Sf ef f John C. C Garand the young toolmaker whose earlier laboratory was a Coney Island shooting gallery It II weighs only nine pounds and t tUrea Urea fires 60 shots to the minute one minute one shot with one trigger Young Garand made several models mod mod- els cia embodying his hi basic Idea and sent ent one to the navy department at Washington They planted him with the bureau of standards to continue his experiments Later they sent him to te the e United States armory at Spring- Spring Springfield Held field where In 1923 he brought through the deadliest small weapon ever made It has been steadily Improved since then and according to the most authoritative au an- military judgment has more than trebled our army's firing power Automatic In all aU but the trigger pull muzzle ale de gas Iras Is used to power It John C. C Garand was born in a French-Canadian French village 20 miles from Montreal and was brought to Putnam Conn by his father when he was seven leven after aUer the death of his mother He was the seventh of 14 children He lIe was a textile mill machinist machinist machinist ma ma- at 18 In 1930 he married a Canadian girl They They have a boy and a girl He lIe Is 52 years old still stilla a gunsmith at the Springfield ar ar- ar- ar mory THERE pHERE was once a hillbilly girl I who went to a neighbors neighbor's cabin to borrow a hammer She said IBid Pappy fixin to build a house next fall Over In Europe Borrows Borrow Europe they fixin Our World of 01 are oJ to build bd a Tomorrow Id ea federated Europe Europe Eu Eu Europe rope forehanded about it it as above with the building apparently dependent depend depend- ent eat on a preliminary wrecking Job Within the last few rew days day plans for to the grand remodeling have gone one forward with two sets lets of or i blueprints on Sn each side of the west wall Frans Pram von Ton thinks the tho new commonwealth of Europe will be devised by Germany Ger Ger- many maDY while Paul Reynaud French minister of finance and his confreres In London are making makinI other ther arrangements The wide range of or planners swings from Intellectuals such Inch as Julian Huxley Baxley the British scientist to the man of or action General pr pro of at the Polish government which I. I just now camping latIn out lat In France General the latest matriculate matriculate ma ma- In the peace seminar visions vi vI- vI alons a consolidated Europe bulone but bul butone one OlIe In which a reconstituted Poland will somehow be happily encysted He lie Is I. a soldier who became a writing as well as a fighting man also abo with his gift Ut of ready speech an orator and politician He lie was an effective leader of or the war of fir 1920 when the French general Maxime Wey and helped the Poles stop top the tho Bolsheviks Bol Bol- and he became premier In 19 1922 when be he was wu replaced by Marshal as chief stan staff He De was wa forced out In Ins and In 1924 1124 became minister of or orwar war One of his first official acts was to forbid women workers In ID the department to wear silk Uk stockings He lie decreed dark dart hl high collared h dresses dresse high shoes and cotton stockings DeIs HO lie HOIs lieLI Is LI a strict disciplinarian A handsome and romantic figure lIUre of the old feudal Polish aristocracy he took full account of modern conditions conditions conditions con con- as he tried desperately to tool his country Into modem modern stats state hood Now It appears he would wO Just skip it and take a chance on the world of tomorrow Consolidated Feature FeatUres Service J |