Show 1 NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK the finns are gon 1 1 ing ahead bravely with their plans for this years olympic games and urho kekkonen minis ter of the in olympic flame tenor crowd still burning ing 50 de 1 in n helsinki feats another statesman in in the meter race com coming ng under the wire in seconds his tune time in a race against the same opponent 15 years ago was recently in the Tris athlon 10 members of the finnish parliament some of them with a touch of frost over the ears engaged in the meter sprint the broad jump and shot putting events mr air kekkonen a leader in in finnish politics since finland gained her independence in 1917 is president of the finnish athletic federation and a fervent advocate and exemplar of physical fitness when in 1932 the swedes disqualified paavo nurmi the finnish distance runner as an amateur the finns slapped a boycott on the swedes and for years thereafter there was bickering in the baltic with hir air kekkonen out in front as a peace advocate in 1935 the finns refused to lift the boycott but under the shadow of foreign a aggression gres sion this was more or less forgotten and the sprinting statesman was in the lead for scandinavian solidarity in war and an sports he helped suppress the communist party in 1930 and with equal vigor drove against the fascists in later years in november of last year the diet sustained him in his move to restrain the fascist and nazi organizations in finland and their 18 newspapers but a month later a helsinki magistrate sustained his totalitarian opponents he followed with a devastating expose of their subversive activities and had the nub of the argument when germany made its deal with red russia Fin lands old bete noir the russians rusian sl S are now complaining bitterly that the finnish sprinters in the cabinet and out insist on running in their direction they seem to think it sporting ng I 1 ONG before the civil war girls AJ A i J like scarlett ohara were learning to curtsy and how to enter a ballroom in athens college at athens ala fine i stockings c along with education from news of at athens college lantas llan tas grand swirl of crinoline and old lace comes word that athens college 0 of prunes and prisms tradition is putting in a big hosiery mill to be operated by the college girls it will employ s students I 1 at 25 cents an hour dr eugene rudolph naylor president of the college thought up the mill plan and gathered funds for it he says this is a liberal arts college steeped in the traditions of the old south and the main purpose of this experiment is to give the students means to obtain at a liberal arts education and he might have added silk stockings to match the education cactus colleges have been getting their turn in the spotlight for turning out lethal football dr naylor an alumnus of several of them has been working small college innovations novat ions of possibly greater interest and importance he has been president of columbia col college lege of milton ore womans comans colle college ge of jackson tenn logan and athens colleges dean of logan college and professor at wesleyan and emory and henry colleges he is a resourceful educator who thinks its a good idea tor for girls to learn how much material and work goes into a pall pair of silk silk stockings PRESIDENT P RESIDENT ROOSEVEL TS first dollar a year man becomes president of the associated gas and electric company he is R 0 g e r J chalk up one whiteford more for little washington Schoolhouse Red lawyer and former gen eral counsel for the federal housing administration it is a score for the little red schoolhouse in his home borne town of 0 whiteford bid ald named after his ancestors a schoolhouse in which two signers of the declaration of independence were tau tausha ht after his graduation arz from west nottingham academy lie he was a high school principal for or five years at sandy springs and rockville Koc kville aid studied law and began practice at washington his career has been advanced ir his profession and in finance h holds several important industria industrial indu directorates direct orates and his dollar a yea job was his one side turn to public life consolidated features feature service lc |