The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, December 30, 1937, Image 2

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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C- Thursday, December 30, 1937 \ Nemm Review mt Cmrremt Events JAPS SINK U. S. SHIP American Gunboat Panay Bombed by Japanese on the Yangtse .. • Stern Protest by Roosevelt S&tmuJ M PieUJ < SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK • Wtaurn Latest Jap Outrages J APANESE aviators, strafing flee ing Chinese, bombed and sank the United States gunboat Panay on the Yangtse river above Nanking. Th« boat’s storekeeper and an Ital ian Journalist were killed. At the same time and place the Japanese attacked and sank three Standard Oil steamers. Several British gunboats speeding to the aid of the Panay ware sheUed, one enlisted man being killed and a number wounded. Washington and London lodged stern protests in Tokyo. Tokyo apologized with expressions at deep regret In America and Britain there was Intense indignation over the latest outrages. No responsible person hinted that the United States or Great Britain should go to war with Japan on their account; but the man In the street felt there should be some way, short of war, by which the Japanese could be forced to cease their murderous attacks. Apologies may saUsfy the diplomats but they do not restore lives. President Roosevelt’s protest was directed through Secretary Hull to Ambassador Hirosi Saito with the request that it be sent to the Em peror Hirohito of Japan. It de manded apologies, full compensa tion and guaranties against repeti tion of similar attacks. The Brit ish foreign office was in touch with Washington by cable but Foreign Minister Eden denied that the Brit ish would take the lead in inter national action. Even Tokyo was stunned by the attacks on American vessels, and the planned celebration over the capture of Nanking was called off. Before the American protest reached Tokyo the Japanese of ficials and commanders began apol ogizing and explaining. To prove its sincerity the government promptly recalled Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, in charge of naval aviation and re lieved him of his post He imme diately resigned. Survivors of the bombing, most of them wounded, told how the Panay went down with colors flyingiand its gunners firing to the lastjaf the Japanese airplanes. They agreed that the attacking planes were fly ing so low that it was impossible for their pilots not to know they were bombing foreign ships. They said the Japanese excuse that via bility was poor over the Yangtse that day was false. Early Tax Revision S UMMONING house ways and means committee members and treasury economists to a confer ence in the White House, President Roosevelt directed that revision of the taxes that oppress business be carried through as soon as possible. Those called were Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the house committee; Fred Vinson of Ken- _ _ _ _ tucky, chairman of a R. L. Doughton gu bcommittee on taxes; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Undersecretary Roswell MagilL On leaving the White House Mr. Doughton gave out the cheering as surance that the best possible tax bill would be formulated quickly and that the taxpayer would be given every consideration. If the contemplated measure can be rushed through congress it may be made effective on January I, starting out what business and in dustry hope will be a Happy New Year for them and for all the na tion. In his press conference the same day the President gave business ad ditional encouragement, asserting that the Interstate commerce com mission should take action to pre serve the solvency of the railroads. He declared himself in favor of pri vate ownership and operation of the railroads, but said receiverships of the lines cannot continue without financial adjustment Shortly after this the commerce commission put in a sour note by overruling the carriers' petition for 15 per cent immediate increase in freight rates. First Flight Celebrated ipRIDAY, December 17, was the * thirty-fourth anniversary of the epochal air flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N. C.. and the day was fittingly observed by all aviation interests in the country. Under orders from the army gener al staff every military flying post sent up all its available aircraft at the exact hour when the two inven tors first made their plane fly. About one thousand fighting planes were in the air at the same time. Steel Workers Meet CMBSR8 of the Steel Workers 1V1 Orcanizir Organizing committee, affiliat ed with the C. L O., opened their a Pittsburgh and Hugh B. Wilson (pictured above), a veteran of the American diplo matic service and n rotary ef state, Is to be baasador to Berlin, succeeding Wil liam E. Dodd, whose resignation was submitted to the President. were asked by Chairman Philip Murray to give their officials full powers to negotiate wage agree ments to replace those expiring February 28 with 445 firms. Murray said he had “every rea son’’ to believe 100,000 steel workers out of 125,000 now working in sheet, bar, plate, sheets and black plate mills will be displaced by machin ery. Sloan's Great Gift A LFRED P. SLOAN, JR . chair man of General Motors corpora tion, announced he was donating se curities worth approximately flO,- 000,000 to the Alfred P. Sloan foundation with the hope of pro moting a wider knowledge of “basic economic truths.” In his announce ment Mr. Sloan said he deemed it proper to turn back part of the proceeds of his Industrial activity to aid in bringing about “a broader as well Slaan ’ * r * as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years, and as a result of which its truly marvelous development has been made possible.” Once the proper understanding is achieved, he said, the people may promote “the objectives that all have so much in mind.” These he listed as: More things for more people, everywhere. An opportunity for achievement Greater security and stability. Mr. Sloan established the founda tion on July 6, 1936, incorporating it in Delaware as a non-profit mem bership corporation. Hungary Pay* A Little O NLY eleven nations defaulted on their war debt payments to the United States due on December 15. Hungary lined up with Finland in the honest list and sent to the treas ury a check for $9,828 as partial payment The installment due from Hungary was *51,240; her total debt is more than 33 millions. Finland made its customary semi annual payment to the treasury. A check for *232,142 was turned over to this government by the Baltic republic. Pope Pius Anxious A T A secret consistory in which he created five new cardinals. Pope Pius read an allocution ex pressing his “grave anxieties’* be cause of the wars in Spain and Chi na, and his fears for the future “be cause of the upheavals which are the natural concomitants of armed conflicts.” The new cardinals are: Arch bishop Guiseppe Pizzardo, Vatican undersecretary of state; Archbishop Ermengildo Pellegrinetti, papal nuncio to Jugoslavia; Archbishop Giovanni Piazzi, patriarch of Ven ice; Archbishop Pierre Gerlier of Lyons, France, and Archbishop Ar thur Hinsley, Catholic primate of England. —*— Italy Leaves League ITALY finally made up its mind to I quit the League of Nations. No one was surprised when Mussolini announced this decision of his Fas cist council, and no other nation ex pressed any regret over the action. The Duce in a characteristically bombastic speech told the people about it, and delighted cheers greet ed his defiance of the opponents of fascism. For some time Italy has taken no part in the doings of the league, and her resignation really Is not of much immediate impor- Silver Policy Standi R epresentative murdock of Utah stated In Washington that he had assurances from Presi dent Roosevelt that the present sil ver policy would be continued as long as it was deemed necessary. Murdock asked the chief executive’s views when he transmitted a reso lution drafted by western congress men urging no change be made in the silver programA Government Win* T HE Supreme court decided that the government need not pay in terest on gold bonds that were called for redemption in advance of the maturity date. Hie decision, written by Justice Cardozo, was unanimous, although Justices Stone and Black had sep arate concurring opinions. Cardozo is ill and his opinion was read by Chief Justice Hughes. The litigation was started by Rob ert A. Taft of Cincinnati, son of the late President and Chief Justice Wil liam Howard Taft; the estate of James J. Ransom of Des Moines, and Arthur Machen of Baltimore. N«w Men for SEC T WO vacancies on the securities and exchange commission were filled by the President by the ap pointment of John Wesley Hanes, partner of a New York stock brok erage firm, find Jerome N. Frank, radical New York attorney, now serving as an attorney for the Re construction Finance corporation r and formerly chief counsel of the idefunct AAA. ( Frank fills the position vacated by James M. Landis, who retired last September to become dean of the Harvard law school Hanes fills the post of J. D. Ross of Seattle, recent ly named administrator of the Bonneville dam. House Passes Farm Bill N ARROWLY escaping return to committee, the administration farm bill was passed by the house by a vote of 168 to 129. It was be lieved the senate measure also would be put through successfully stance. Then it would be up to con ferees from both bouses to iron out the differences. There was doubt that final enactment could be ob tained before adjournment of the ex traordinary session. More WPA Spendin H Spending ARRY HOPKINS, WPA admin istrator, announced that in creased unemployment was com pelling the WPA to increase its ex penditures by $23,000,000 a month. He said its employment rolls, now totaling 1,575,000 persons, would be enlarged to provide work tor an ad ditional 350,000 persons. The ex pansion, he said, could be handled within his budget, at least for some time. —+— Landon Won't Run Again A LFRED M. LANDON definitely removed himself from the pres idential campaign picture of 1940 by announcing in Washington that he would not be a candidate for nom ination by the Republican party and would not accept the honor If it were offered him. He added that he was not retiring from politics, but would continue active in his party. While in the capital Mr. Landon was invited to the White House and had a pleasant chat with the Pres ident, politics and business not be ing discussed. —*— Atlantic Planes Wanted E VIDENCE that passenger plane service across the Atlantic would be started within two years was seen in the request of Pan American Airways for bids on 12 planes capable of carrying 100 pas sengers each. Performance demands call for a speed of 274 miles an hour at 20,000 feet and indicate the type of craft required would cost one million dol lars each. Brave Scouts Honored E IGHT Boy Scouts who risked their lives to save others were cited for heroism by Daniel Carter Beard, national scout commissioner and chairman of the national court of honor. Three scouts who received gold honor medals are J. P. Fraley of Hitchins, Ky.; Guy Groff, Jr., of Marengo, Iowa, and Kenneth Simon son of Redridge, Mich., each of whom rescued a drowning person. Five others who received certifi cates for heroism are John Mentha, New York; John Ruggi, Yonkers. N. Y.; Philip Beaney, Bath, Me.; William Benham, Napoleon, Ohio, and Eldon Shaffer. Berrien Center, Mick. Liner Aground; All Saved T HE Dollar liner President Hoo ver ran aground on a small is land off Formosa when en route from Kobe to Manila. Her passen gers, about 600 in number, were put ashore on two rocky islets, and there were picked up by the President Mc Kinley of the same line and taken to Manila. —♦— Wally Lowest Duchess T HE new edition of Burke’s Peer age, authoritative book on Brit ish nobility, reveals that the duchess ef Windsor has been placed In the twenty-ninth or last place among duchesses. Her husband, the duke of Windsor, former King Edward VHL is placed as No. 4 man In the empire, behind his brothers. King George VI and the dukes of Glou- and Kent. ULHftt 'UfumhA about Vanishing Wild Life. „ V ARNER PLANTATION, Tex.—Thanks to wise leg islation, the wild fowl are coming back to this gulf coun try. True, the flocks may never again be what they were; yet, with continued conservation, there’ll again be gunning for one and all. But when I think back on the ducks I saw down here 10 years ago—in countless hosts—I’m reminded of what Charley Russell, the cowboy artist said to the lady tourist who asked him whether the old-tim- e r s exaggerated when they described the size of the van ished buffalo herds. “Wellum," said Charley, ”1 didn’t get up to this Mon- ( Irrin g tana country until after the buffaloes started thinning out But I remember once I was night-herding when the fall drift got between me and camp and I sat by and watched ’em pass. Not having anything else to do, I started count ing ’em. Including calves, I count ed up to 3,009.065,294, and right then was when I got discouraged and quit Because I happened to look over the ridge and here came the main drove.” • • • Becoming a Head Man. L ETT an unshorn dandruff fancier claim he's divine and, if nobody else agrees with his diagnosis, the police will jug him as a common nuisance and the Jail warden will forcibly trim his whiskers tot him or anyhow have them searched. But if enough folks, who’ve tried all the old religions and are looking for a new one, decide he is the genuine article, then pretty soon we have a multitude testifying to the omnipo tence of their idol Let another man think he is a reincarnation of Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great, and if few or none feel the same way about it he’s headed for the insane asylum. But If a majority, which is a large body of persons entirely surrounded by delusions, agrees with him that he Is what he says he is he becomes a dictator and rules over the land un til common sense is restored, if at all Let the writer of a dally column begin to think bis judgmeflts are perfect and his utterances are in fallible—but, hold on, what’s the use of getting personal? • • • Grandma’s Togs. W E LAUGH at our grandmoth ers who believed that, for a lady to be properly dressed, she should have a little something on anyway. Maybe those mid-Victorian ladies sort of overdid the thing—bustles that made them look like half-sis ters to the dromedary, skirts so tight they hobbled like refugees from a chain gang, corsets laced in until breathing was almost a lost art, boned collars so high they seemed to be peeping over an alley fence. Still, wearing five or six starched petticoats, the little wom an was safe from Jack the Pincher unless he borrowed some steamflt- ter’s pliers. And later when, for a season, blessed simplicity ruled the styles, her figure expressed the queenly grace that comes from long, chaste lines. Probably the dears never fig ured it out Just the natural cun ning of their sex told them ’twas the flowing robes wfiich gave majes ty and dignity to kings on the throne and judges on the bench and prel ates at the altar—and shapely wom- en-folk. How old-fashioned those times seem today when every dancing floor is a strip-tease exhibit and ev ery bathing beach a nudist show; and a debutante, posing for snap shots, feels she’s cheating her pub lic unless she proves both knees still are there. • • • Reading Dickens. I’VE been reading Dickens again. A This means again and again. I take "Pickwick Papers” once a year just as some folks take hay fever. Only I enjoy my attack. Dickens may have done carica tures, but he had human models to go by. He drew grotesques, but his grotesques had less highly-col ored duplicates in real life. And readers recognized them and reas- ured them as symbols of authentic types. The list is almost endless— Sam Weller, Sairy Gamp, Daniel Quilp, Uriah Heap, Mrs. Nickleby, Mr. Micawber. Mr. Pecksniff—oh, a dozen more. What writer since Dickens has been able to perpetuate one-tenth so many characters? There la Tark- ington with his Penrod and his Alice Adams; there was Mark Twain with his Huck Finn and Colonel Mulberry Sellers. There lately has been Sin clair Lewis with two picturesque creations to wit: Babbitt—and Sin* dair Lewis. IRVIN S. COBB fwmrOhft.—WNU awnrlce. Natidnal Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Prasa Bulldinsr Waablnaton. D. C Washington.—Authorities general ly agree that good ^administration can make even a Workable good law better in Labor Law Us results and bad administration can definitely ruin it. The same is true, of course, of any law. A bad law’s effect can be doubled or trebled by irresponsible administration of its provisions. Of this, I believe there can be no doubt. Certainly, we have fresh evidence on the^ point over which we can ponder and the truth of the above statements seems inescapable. I have been among those who have criticized the national labor re lations act, and the national labor relations board created by it It has always impressed me as being a half-baked statute. That it has many weaknesses, there is no doubt. That it has worked out in biased form and that it has done grave damage to the feeling of the gen eral public toward labor organiza tion, there certainly can be no doubt Or, to summarize the situa tion, it has been made painfully evident that Senator Wagner. New York Democrat who sponsored the law,(took prejudiced advice when he drafted the measure. He was given only one side of the picture. But I suspect the law can be made workable and I entertain no thought at all that it should be abandoned entirely. We need a national labor policy expressed in statute form. Changes in its provisions ought to be made, but to my way of thinking there is a more urgent circum stance. The urgent need is im provement in administration of the law in order that the benefits of even a weak and biased law will not be denied to the country’s eco nomic life. It is the recent administrative acts under the law that have brought it into the spotlight again. These acts should be reviewed to bring the whole situation into prop er focus for examination, and I shall refer to two of them in this connection. They will substantiate my earlier criticisms. Early in December, we learned of how the national labor relations board subpoenaed the editor of a magazine. It called for the editor to supply all of the background of information upon which he based an article that was critical of the board. Since the article was criti cal of the board and its methods, officials of the board regarded the background information as "essen tial.” The article in question had been reprinted and circulated among workers in several mills, ac cording to the board, and this fact was used by the board as a basis for bringing the editor under the board’s jurisdiction. Ten days after the first unusual exercise of power by the board, it took another unprecedented step. Rather, one of its attorneys took the unprecedented step, but since the attorney was an employee of the board, it seems clear the action is chargeable to the board because it is the responsible, policy-making head of the. agency. • • • The second case resulted from the refusal of an editor of a small daily newspaper to tell Editor g trial examiner Stands Pat toT tile board who wrote an editorial in his newspaper, the St. Mary’s (Pa.) Daily Press. Harry T. O’Bri en, the editor, declined to answer the question put to him by a board attorney in a public hearing. He stood pat and the trial examiner, Charles H. Bayly, and the attorney, Jerome I. Macht, called his atten tion to provisions of the Wagner act requiring him to answer. The question of freedom of the press as guaranteed by the Constitution was mentioned, but according to the stenographic record of the hearing, the trial examiner and the attorney each held to the provision of the law as being superior to the other guarantee. Or at least, that is my impression of the proceedings. As far as I am informed, the board has taken no further action in the O’Brien case. It has moved, however, to enforce its subpoena in the case of Hartley W. Barclay, the magazine editor. A federal court has been asked by the board to enforce the subpoena which Mr. Barclay ignored. He probably will be compelled to appear. At least, he should be compelled to appear in response to the subpoena. No one can ignore a subpoena. As for sup plying the information—that is a different matter. His refusal to sup ply confidential information and im peril the freedom of the press is, indeed, quite a different matter. Ar one writer, 1 hope Mr. Bar- cla3 and Mr. O’Brien stick by their guns. I hope, too, that the board will not imperil its existence and the good points in the law by at tempting to assert power which I do not believe it possesses. There Is no excuse, legally or morally, for a crew of officious individuals to undertake the sort of things dis closed in these two instances. They abuse confidence and besmirch the titles which they bear. Further, they have forced an is sue that ought never to be raised It is a sad day In our countrj when government officials, great oi minor, try to break through tht guarantees which the Constitution gives you and me. It portends more evil things. Consider, for example, my own personal situation. If the board’s attorneys get away with the sort of thing represented in these two in stances, how long, I ask, will I be permitted to write as I am now doing, freely, frankly? And if they get away with it, how long will it be until you, who do me the honor to read my reports, will find your selves without any honest expres sions in anything you read? It is not blackjacking the press yet, but if it goes further, that will be the proper term to apply. Returning, now, to the original premise, namely, that a good law may be destroyed or the effects of a bad law may be made worse by bad administration, it appears to me the conditions related demonstrate the theory as a fact. I have noted some comment on the floors of con gress that the board was not aware of what was happening in these two cases; that it had issued no such orders, etc. Such observations re quire, no answer. Anything that is done by any employee of a govern ment agency is done by that agency because it is to that agency, not to any particular person who majf be on its payroll, that congress ^ave authority to act. I am beginning to doubt that the American farmer is going to have his problem F arm solved, or even Problem partially bettered. by the present tac tics,. The word “tactics’^ is used advisedly. Congress has not acted with the full freedom that ought to obtain insofar as the current crop control legislation is concerned. It is suffering from an overdose of some strange medicine, currently called “Wallace’s formula.” There is real doubt whether the ailment from which agriculture suffers is as bad as the Wallace prescription of medicine for its cure. Use of the word "tactics” can be further justified if the legislation is considered from the angle at which the problem is approached. I re fer in this to the projected limita tion on production. That is to say, I believe in processes that will al low all of the production that is possible and that there are ways for handling the surplus without turn ing over a great industry, like agri culture, to have its fate decided by one man or group of men. The tact is that while Secretary Wallace and his advisers are learned men, they are still human beings. I hold to the old-fashioned belief that even those learned men are not equipped to tell farmers how much they ought to plant and what they ought to plant. It stretches my credulity too far for someone to ask me to be lieve any government official or anybody else can forecast next month what the demand is going to be next year. And that is almost an accurate statement of what is pro posed by the current model of farm relief. The reason I called the influence “Wallace’s formula” goes back sev eral months. It is my recollection without checking up the dates that I reported some goings-on by Mr. Wallace last summer. At that time, I said the agriculture secretary and numerous of his subordinates were traipsing about the country, telling the farmers what was good for them. It was quite evident then, as facts have since proved, the Depart ment of Agriculture was staging a gigantic propaganda for Mr. Wal lace’s type of farm legislation. He persuaded a couple of senators to go into the interior and hold hear ings and it was from these hear ings that Senators McGill of Kan sas, and Pope of Idaho, both Demo crats, obtained their ideas for the bill that the senate considered. Unless the usual signs at the Cap itol fail me. the vast majority of the farmers of this country do not want to have their production lim ited. Probably, the best general statement that can be made on that phase of the legislation was made by Senator Borah of Idaho, who attacked the theory of compulsion vehemently in a speech. Aroused to v use of his full oratorical powers. Senator Borah declared to the sen ate: “This bill, if enacted, will ac complish two things. First, it will place the farmer under complete bureaucratic control. Second, it will bring about a reduction of crops when millions are hungry and in need.” That thought will be echoed more after the cipntry has tasted of the fruits of the tfill than now according to my way of thinking. Therefore, it seems to me jthat rather than face economic suicide as Senator Borah predicted, congress could very well lay plans to permit un restricted growth of crops and cou ple with that the means of taking the surplus off the hands of ttu farmer. # Western Newspaper Uw «. Sure to Delight • in Colors Bright Add an old-fashioned bouquet of dainty roses, cornflowers, daisies, fern, and forget-me-nots to your bedspread and preserve the glory of Summertime throughout the year! A lace frill—actual lace, gathered a bit—trims your color ful bouquet and contributes to the gaiety and individuality of your spread. 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There is as much difference in strength, elasticity, and hardness between a mild steel and a nickel chrome steel as there is between deal wood and teak. In the aver age car about eighty kinds of steel contain alloys, ten are nickel steels and twenty-five nickel- chromium steels. Still Coughing? No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial Irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulslon. Setious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulslon, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na ture to soothe and heal the Inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phlegm. Even If other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, try Creomul- sion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money If you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene fits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulslon is one word—not two, and It has no hyphen in It Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle Is Creomulslon, and you’ll get the genuine product and the relief you want. (Adv.) SMALL SI2E 60c LARGE SIZE S1.S0 Brings from aches and pains ef RHEUMATISM NEURITIS and LUMBAGO Tm « . . Wky Mf«r? AT ALL GOOD DRUG STORES WNU-7 52—37 Were you ever alone in a strange city? • II you wero you know tho fruo valut of (his ntwspapor Alone in a strange city. It is pretty doll. Even the newspapers don’t seem to print many of the things that interest you. Headline stories are all right, but there is something lacking. That something is local news. For—all good newspapers are edited especially for their local readers. News of your friends and neighbors is needed along with that of far off placet. That ia why • newspaper in a strange city is so uninteresting. And that ia why this newspaper is so important to you. NOW ia a good time to get to... KNOW YOUR NEWSPAPER