Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated featured Servi service ceJ NEW EW YORK we heard that wendell L willkie had invitations to make public addresses across his big desk which in its mountain n j 11 WIL wendell willkie ous dl disarray array has pep aplenty in makes a k a s a and plenty to D 0 newspaper s man feel at home we asked mr willkie about if it the report was all wrong the n number amber Is something over 2000 also in the ruck were enough pleas for or magazine and syndicate articles to give mr willkie writers cram cramp p for the rest of his life if he took 0 on n even one tenth of them mr willkie Will kle built like a guard works like an end or a halfback the range and agility of his mind is such that he might be a swing man either in the line ae or the backfield on his desk was a new book the life of the elder pitt about which lie he is writing a review also a utter litter of papers having to do with pretty nearly everything from kant to kilowatts an hours hour Is conversation covered a similar range he ha talked rapidly and vehemently sawing and hammering with his extended palm when he told how the commonwealth so southern forced down rates or challenged what he terms the unfair TVA bookkeeping making hesitant or groping gestures when he touched on the in intangibles tangi bles of social origins and inducements he is like that assured and vehement m ent on what he knows and thoughtful and explorative on what he merely thinks he want to kill the securities curi ties and exchange commission he would merely put it under sound democratic controls mr willkie has tremendous gusto and live eve intellectual curiosity he says all this talk of nominating him tor for president is incidental to the tact fact that th at he made a rock and sock battle on something he knew about something which happened to be important and which perhaps help helped ed to clarify certain basic issues he says he never spent a dime on a personal buildup build up and never will almost his strongest emphasis was reserved for his observation that the run of the mill citizen is a lot brighter than hes supposed to be and that therein lies the hope for our continuing democracy mo cracy out of its context that might sound like the old homespun indiana political hokum but the last thing you could tag mr willkie with N 1914 franklin D roosevelt assistant IN sa s1 secretary of the navy was riding the venerable destroyer paterson up the coast ol of maine he said to young navy commander stark has talked back the helm may I 1 reto T r oni chief t his big lieve y you for a while I 1 am an experienced navigator and I 1 know this coast the young lieutenant replied I 1 am in command here and responsible for the ship I 1 doubt your authority to supersede me it if you can offer any helpful suggestions I 1 should be glad to hear them it was said that mr roosevelt liked that kind of sea talk at any rate last august he jumped A adm dm harold R stark over 54 others who outranked out ranked him to ma make ke him chief ol of naval operations no I 1 post in the navy white haired and professorial admiral stark continues before the senate committee on naval affairs his advocacy of an a adequate navy this time pointing up his argument with a reference to ja japans 1 eight new dread suppo supposedly s edly under way admiral stark commands a force of men officers 1800 18 0 marines ships and 2000 2 fliers two of his outstanding policies are a belief that the navy should control and operate its own air fleets fleet and disbelief in attrition warfare in other words he thinks the navy should be always in instant readiness f for or quick hard hitting his technical attainments advanced him in his earlier years and in later years his frank and outspoken formulations of broad navy policy he ts is regarded by close observers of nav naval al affairs as a fortunate combination of the tradition and studious and informed knowledge in the overlapping zone of naval and foreign policy this becomes important in the latter day urgency an and d delicacy of international affairs he is an inlander born and reared in wilkes walkes barre pa when the world war started he was herd herding ng five destroyers in the philippines so old they supposed to go out after dark however he got them half way around the world and entered them in the main event he is primarily a big gwi gun e expert in spite of all modern improve improvements ments on the big battle wagons wagon s he thinks the decision is apt to go to the nation whose ships are able to display the finest assort assortment men t of the biggest and best guns hes out for all he can get |