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Show Newstri irr Mnn Stuff: when a ni:i'oiri:i crusades against dirty einnmnis in a cninmunity or country tlivrtt is vi'ry liltlti fflory con-nrc.lrd con-nrc.lrd willt it, hut lie puis liimxfill in yrt'tit fcrsttnut datifirr . . . Ijnnutd H. Mcllcll nl tin; Cunlon (Ohio) Unity AV'tJ5 was killrd hy gangsters bucuuse he i-xiosed thrir uciictiii's . . . In l'J22, Cenrni! Dale of the Muncie I'ostDemo-crnl I'ostDemo-crnl jouuhl the K. K. K. One night a few of lliem utlnrked him und utmost bent him to death. He shot one of his iittmliiTS with a gun he wrenched from his liund. Kluxers in high ntaces railroaded rail-roaded him to jail. And it wasn't until I'l'ld that the State Suireine Court ruled in Dale's avor . . . Eor many years the llulle (Montana) Daily Ilutletin slugged courageously against the no-goods, regardless re-gardless of how powerful they were, tiecause of that, they had to keep loaded load-ed rifles in the city room and every reporter had a gun laying beside his tyiicwriter . . . 77ii.s reporter tins also never slopped firing liis typewriter guns against tlie stimey members of our community and country, in spile of all hinds of ttireals. Yet some people wonder why we tote a .311. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: See how the Axis whimpers when you get tough. Churchill slapped a couple of chips off Adolf's shoulder, and Berlin cried its eyes out. "You ask for gas," taunted Winston, "and gas you'll get." The Berlin press whined next day, "Please, mister, you got us wrong" . . . The overseas exchange between Oliver Littleton and Donald Nelson, with Quentin Reynolds chairmaning, was no encouragement encourage-ment to Nazzy eavesdroppers. They talked great big production figures that won't make it an easy summer for the Fritzies . . . Another exciting ex-citing bulletin was the item from Burma how the Chinese tricked the chesty Japs into over-running second sec-ond base. And putting the ball on them with a thump that just about laid the skull open . . . Byron Price is a sensible censor. Too tight a clamp down on radio news, he said, would make the public suspicious suspi-cious of the war effort . . . The March of Time flubbed on the Malta episode. Bad timing more than anything any-thing since the show went on the air oefore it really got going in Mata. The Story Tellers: Gen. de Gaulle was in the doghouse with the brass hats before the war started. Elliot Paul, in his book, "The Last Time I Saw Paris," mentions that de Gaulle , pooh-poohed the, Maginot Line,, the darling of the army clique. He foresaw that Hitler would skip around the end . . . Scott Feldman surprises you in The Woman with a tip that the best way to get a stage job is to troupe for a little theater. There's always a Shubert or two lurking there, he says, to hire you for a hit. Imagine Lee Shubert going go-ing TOWARD an actor! . . . Film-ster Film-ster Joan Davis, according to Lup-ton Lup-ton Wilkinson in This Week, "lives in a purple house with yellow knobs at the corners, sleeps in a Du Barry bed with mauve and lilac streamers. The glass in her boudoir bou-doir mirror is tinted peachbloom." What's she looking for? Nightmares in technicolor? Nazi propagandists keep repeating repeat-ing that they love peace. Every time Hitler or another Nazi makes a speech, they insist that they are peaceful. And the tragic part of this is that this propaganda bullet aimed at America was manufactured manufac-tured by an American press agent! .'i -. When the Nazis first came to power they never stopped boasting to the outside world about their warlike war-like attitude . . . But when this press agent was in Germany, he told the Nazis to base their propaganda propa-ganda on disarmament and peace . . . You've probably guessed his name Ivy Lee . . . And so it was this tip by a press agent that made many Americans and people in other oth-er democracies believe Nazis really wanted peace. Strange as it seems, we might not have had a war if democracies weren't lulled to sleep by Nazi peace talk. The Front Pages: The Herald-Tribune Herald-Tribune editorially declared war on Laval & Co., and advised the State Dep't that Vichy has ratted on the USA from the start. It okayed Jap bases for attacks on China, the paper pa-per reminded, and cautioned Hull that Laval's word wasn't any better bet-ter than a police court package thief s ... If Vichy wants to be chummy, how come those uniformed brats demonstrated in front of the U. S. embassy Monday? Barry Faris of INS once pointed out why reporters should never pigeonhole pi-geonhole their stories ... He said: "Stories are like vegetables. Use them quickly or they spoil." He was blind . . . But every day he had his secretary read every item in a newspaper. He wanted to know what page an item was printed print-ed on, how much space did it fill, how much was devoted to headlines, what were the pross-heads, were any boxes used, what about the illustrations il-lustrations . . . And that's the way one of America's greatest publishers guided one of the country's greatest newspapers for many years . . . His name: Joseph Pulitzer. The newspaper: news-paper: The N. Y. World. |
