The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1937, Page 7

FINLAND WAR HERO CTL HOLDS PLACE IN NATION'S HEART Baron Carl Mannerheim Strong Man of Nation 19 Years After Conflict Sept world that is anxiously fearing a sec- ond world war, Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim of Finland stands out with General Pershing as about the only considerable figure of the last ‘World War who is not dead physically, cor politically or in men’s esteem. America’ turned down Woodrow ‘Wilson, its president, when he wanted the United States to enter the League of Nations—his own creation—and he died a disappointed man. ‘The French National Assembly re- fused to elect to the presidency its great premier, its “Father Victory,” Georges Clemenceau, and he died an embittered man The Tory majority in a khaki House of Commons turfed Lloyd George out of the premiership and the great wartime prime minister of Britain is today a sort of uneasy ghost in the parliament which he once dominated. Mannerheim in Comeback Mannerheim was licked when he ‘wanted to be president of Finland in 1919, but he has made a great come- back. At 70 he is still president of the National Council of Defense. He is still the man his country sends on special missions like attendance upon the funeral of the late King George V of England. He is still the man the majority of| his fellow citizens consider as their own kind of George Washington, founder of their modern state and their complete independence. So much 50 that last June, when he at- tained three score and ten, they made his birthday a national holiday and issued special postage stamps com- memorating the occasion. And, oddly enough, although he has always Wyoming ‘Colyumnist’ Outlines Tells Gotham Newsmen ‘! Re- port What ! See an’ Mostly What | Listen to’ New York, Sept: — (7) — ‘Fin” Petrie sat on @ a purple couch in a fifteenth-floor suite at the Waldorf- Astoria, held a cigarette in his left hand and told the metropolitan press how he had won the third annual award of $200 and a trip to New York for being the nation’s “best country correspondent.” “My rules are just to report what I see an’ mostly what I listen to,” he said, “News is anything that comes into the store—any one who comes in an’ drops a remark.” He referred to the Opal Mercantile rompany of Opal, Wyo., a town whose population is “about forty people— sometimes fifty.” The store sells everything, but Mr. Petrie, judging from a self-written biography in con- nection with the announcement of his Prize, specializes in beans. Besides his salary he draws $6 a month for a “colyum” in The Kemmerer Gazette, published weekly fifteen miles away. When another paper in the region, ‘The Laramie Boomerang, heard of the ward, it ran a piece headed “You Cen Have Winchell, We'll Keep ‘Fin’ That apparently expressed the sentiment all over the area. The winner had the additional distinction of being the first man to be so hon- . His predecessors were Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey of Oasis, Mo, and Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele 2 Born in At the hotel, the center of interest seid he was born in Bankfoot, Scot- land, on July 3, fifty-three years ago; in and reached had forgotten it years ago. About 1912 or 1913 he noticed that “hang so much around the some of ‘em whispered a bit that I thought it might make news; I wrote it on a piece of paper.” He sent his jottings to The Kem- Camers, succeeded by the Ga- zette in 1914. He has been doing it ever since, letting his conscience be when things he overheard He never be- in. But with regard to the effusions of aun tHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 denied eae Goering and Von Blomberg, Nazi brass hats, sent him figeind grams of congratulations. Served in Russian Army Mannerheim comes from an old Nobility family of Finland, his an- cestors, like so many Partly Swedish. His nat swallowed up by Czarist Russis, still Tetained a semblance of semi-inde- Pendence and autonomy as a duchy. A young noble, Mannerheim to the correct Russian military schools, and naturally went into the Russien sian revolution under Kerensky broke Pete ee eae ean: when Lening and Trotsky overthrew Kerensky and set up the F Bolshevik. government, Pinlant be.| PSECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS came a battlefield. Russian troops and French Reds dominated the country. Gathered Own Army Mannerheim went to the north of Finland, where he gathered together ® small, but sturdy band of Finnish peasants and timber hewers. Start- ing in this small way, in January, 1918, he and his soldiers gradually fought their way south, gaining adherents as they went. In the meantime, a provisions! White cabinet had asked the Ger- mans to send troops to fight the Reds. ald Babes not only sent men un- ler General von der Gols, but toyed with the ane of mi 3 ie 1, king. Mannerheim bitterly resented bs ~ asking Germany for help and also Lb aN hated the idea of a puppet German kingdom. 5 Wore in Election in y, 1918, at the head of his victorious troops, he marched into| MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE Helsingfors, the capital. He got the = : allied nations to acknowledge Fin-|. I BELIEVE 1 SEE WHAT land’s independence and also induced TE COCIOe > a, them to help feed the war-torn coun- NOW--- IF THE BABIES ARE try. For a time he acted as regent, NOT REALLY but retired when M. Stahiberg beat Oe We him in the first presidential contest. The country whose national entity he dif so much to re-establish has two peculiar claims upon American interest: 1. In 1919, like the United States, Finland became a prohibition coun- try. Again, like the United States, it repealed prohibition. 2. Alone of all countries which dipped into the United States treas- ury during and right after the war, Finland is the only one which has honorably and fully paid back every installment of its debt when and as it became due. The North Dakota potato this year is expected to total 10,370,000 bushels, or 5,200,000 bushels more than the 1936 crop and 1,563,000 bushels above the average production for the years 1928 to 1932 inclusive, Asia’s non-Christian Confucianist- Taoist sect had 350,600,000 believers, the lather. religious following in the worl The main ship channels of New York harbor are kept free of mud and silt through the use of dredges. TM PRACT CERTAK) MARK AND ARE NOT EVEN RELATED: BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES L. RATHER THOUGHT Nov'o KNOW ABOLT TWAT! WE ASKEO ME] AWFOL IT's ALL MY FAULT! FE T WAON'T SMO WHAT TF News Rules’ OBO, DID I THINK I WAS IN THE BUCKS! I QUIT Be 08 Oe ee ee AND BOUGHT A Lake Tribune—is that what you call big stuff?” ‘i Pursled by ‘Filing Copy’ It developed that Mr. Petrie had gone out on a rescue party that night and got a story good enough to be reprinted in city papers throughout the region. He was asked if he “filed” the copy, and the verb, indicating use of telegraph, him. “I just put it on @ like you're doin’ now,” & justice of the pea know. “Just bootleggin’,” AUDIENCE THAT CAN'T WALK OUT ON YOU, AND YOUIRE SAFE FROM CREDITORS AND MARTHAS MoPs REFUSING TO ADMIT THAT 1 AM HER if HUSBAND ~UMFE Haw! WAIT TILL 1 GET OUT OF HERES 1 KNOW MY LAW tT!S DESERTION ! MILITARY PRISON WHEN TM FREED, I'LL CONCRETE THEY USE IN THEIR MATTRESSES, SO UFE WILL BEA UTTLE BF apeitely ¥ local publicity hounds, the clarion- bearers for card parties and tea parties, he was firm. “I just leave it | regular out an’ make ‘em sore,” he explained. As for his biggest story, he wasn't certain. “Oh, I don’t know,” he said. “Two years ago we had ae blizzard; it was a front-page story in The Salt g56. first floor, though, because all the second floors in Wyoming had been blown off by winds long ago. q