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TWK SUN. NFWRFRRV S. C.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1937 News Review of Current Events ROPER HITS TAX SETUP Say* Profit* Levy Has Not Fulfilled Expectations . . . Building Boom Plan Is Offered Congress by President Japan is pushing: her conquest of China not only in the Yangtze valley but also, and especially, in the northern provinces. Here is seen a Japanese tank unit rumbling along the road to Taiyuan. US. J^icJcs/ul SUMMARIZES THE WORLD SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK • Western Newspaper Union. Sec. Roper Tax Setup Needs Revision Uk ANIEL C. ROPER, secretary of U commerce, says the entire tax structure of the United States should be revised. He was speaking at a banquet of the Busi ness Advisory coun cil in Chicago, and his statements ap peared to meet with general approval. “A general revi sion is necessary to simplify determina tion of tax liability, to distribute the bur den of taxation more equitably, and to broaden the base of taxation to include a larger per centage of our earning population,” Secretary Roper said. He asserted that the undistributed profits tax had not entirely fulfilled its proponents’ expectations that it would “bring about a higher veloc ity of money through larger and more widespread distribution of cor porate earnings.” Mr. Roper expressed confidence that a “constructive approach will be found to the solution of the utili ties dilemma and that significant results will be forthcoming.” That this confidence has a sound basis was indicated by two an nouncements made the same day by prominent utility executives. Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of the Consolidated Edison company, told the New York state public service commission that his company plans a |25,000,000 expansion program. The development came during hear ings concerning a proposed $30,000,- 000 bond issue. Back from submitting to the Pres ident a formula for better under standing between utilities and the administration, Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth and Southern corporation, proposed a general truce between business and the Roosevelt administration. Will kie’s company has been involved in some of the bitterest controver sies with Washington. Building Boom Wanted O EVISION of the existing housing •T'- law in order to facilitate a building boom was asked by Presi dent Roosevelt in a special message to congress. He said such legisla tion would ease the flow of credit and open great reservoirs of idle capital to fight the business slump. The responsibility for the success of such a program he placed squarely on labor and industry. Specifically, the President recom mended changes in the housing act which would: 1. Reduce from 5% per cent to 5 per cent the interest and service charges permitted by the Federal Housing administration on loans made by private institutions. 2. Authorize the housing admin istrator to fix the mortgage insur ance premium charge as low as Vx of 1 per cent on the diminishing balance of the insured mortgage in stead of on the original face amount, and to V* of 1 per cent on the diminishing balance of an' in sured mortgage where the estimat ed value of the property does not exceed $6,000 and where the mort gage is insured prior to July 1, 1939. 3. Increase the insurable limit from 80 to 90 per cent in cases where the appraised value of the property does net exceed $6,000. 4. Facilitate the construction and financing of groups of houses for rent, or for rent with options to pur chase, through blanket mortgages. 5. Clarify and simplify profusions for the construction of large scale rental properties through facilitat ing their financing. 6. Grant national mortgage asso ciations “explicit authority to make loans on large-scale properties that are subject to special regulation by the federal housing administrator.” 7. Remove the July 1, 1939, limita tion on the $2,000,000,000 permitted to be outstanding in mortgages, with congress eventually limiting the in surance of mortgages prior to the beginning of construction of individ ual projects. 8. Permit insurance for repair and modernization loans as provided previous to April 1 of this year when this provision of the housing act expired. Civil Service Plan Hit PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S pro- 1 posal that a single administrator be substituted for the three-man civ il service executive board was se verely criticized by the Brookings institution as tending to “invite en croachment of politics rather than to repel it.” The institution report, drafted by Lewis Meriam, questioned the feas ibility of the plan and doubted whether it would achieve the Presi dent’s purpose of taking the civil service commission out of politics. Religious and political affiliations would present difficulties in selec tion of a single administrator, the report pointed out, adding that the proposed plan would represent too much centralization of power in an individual. For Corporation Control CENATORS O’Mahoney of Wyo- ^ ming and Borah of Idaho intro duced a new federal licensing bill for all corporations engaged in in terstate commerce. It is designed by its authors, and other senate “liberals” as an answer to the ad ministration’s de mand for revision of the anti-trust laws to curb monopolies. The Borah-O’Ma- honey scheme is de signed not only to eliminate monop olistic practices but to abolish child la bor, prohibit discrimination against women employees, guarantee collec tive bargaining, virve as a basis for further legislation dictating the wages and hours of labor, and reg ulate the financial policies of cor porations. The measure would require the immediate licensing of all corpora tions doing business in interstate commerce and would direct the fed eral trade commission to submit rec ommendations for a federal incor poration law. Under existing stat utes corporations are created only by the states. —■¥— Farmers’ Grain Corp. Quits A RESOLUTION calling for di»- solution of the far-flung farm marketing agency — the Farmers’ National Grain corporation—will be put up to stockholders at a special meeting next January 24, J. O. Mc- Clintock, vice president, announced. According to the proposal, mar keting operations now conducted by the national group would become the independent functions of the in dividual state groups, probably cen tered around the 11 regional offices of the association. The federal government has fur nished most of the money to finance the corporation activities over the last eight years and will be the prin cipal loser through the dissolution of the corporation. —*— Helps Anti-Red Pact ITALY formally recognized the * government of Manchukuo, pup pet state set up by Japan, and To kyo was delighted. It was expected that Manchukuo would now join in the Italian-German-Japanese pact against communism, and its geo graphical location would make such action of considerable importance. Senator O’Mahoney Bus Strike Settled INCREASED pay for drivers but * no closed shop were main fea tures of the agreement by which the six-day strike of 1,300 drivers of the Greyhound Bus line was brought to an end. The strike had disrupted transportation in the northeastern section of the country and was ac companied by numerous incidents of violence. The wage increase, effective next July 1, will be one- fourth of a cent a mile, and no minimum milage is guaranteed. The union had demanded a flat rate of 5.5 cents a mile with a 200-mile-a- day guarantee. Snaring Uncle Sam TpHAT Great Britain is seeking po- litical as well as economical ad vantages from the proposed trade > pact with the United States was in dicated in an address by the earl of Derby before the Liverpool Cham ber of Commerce, of which he is president. He told the Chamber that America cannot keep out of Euro pean entanglements and predicted that the trade pact would tighten the links between the United States and Great Britain. Derby’s speech followed one given by Herschel V. Johnson, American charge d’affaires in London, during which Johnson warned indirectly that the Americans would not per mit the pact to have political strings. Farm Bill Reported \/I ARVIN JONES of Texas, chair- iv - 1 man of the house agricultural committee, submitted the house’s farm bill, together with a majority report defending the measure and calling for speedy enactment so that the rise of mounting crop surpluses which are depressing market prices may be offset. The house bill is less drastic than the senate version, but it was de nounced vigorously in a minority report which declared it was “un constitutional, unsound, un-Ameri can,” likely to “work to the detri ment of American agriculture,” and threatening to “dislocate” foreign and domestic markets. Both house and senate bills, it was predicted, would be modified be cause of the President’s implied threat to veto the legislation un less it was put on a “pay-as-you- go” basis. He insisted the farm bill must not interfere with his plans to balance the budget. —+— No Time for Tax Revision “ , T"'HERE is no use kidding the -*■ country,” said Senator Bark ley, majority leader of the senate, as he gave out the sad news that it would be impossi ble to formulate and pass a tax revision bill in the brief time remaining to the ex traordinary session of congress. The senator had just been conferring with the President, and his statement dashed the hopes of those o „ ., who believe ailing Sen. Barkley business is in dire need of such assistance as revision or repeal of the tax on undivided corporate surpluses and capital gajns. Mr. Roosevelt had said he was in favor of tax revision as soon as congress was ready for it. But such legislation must originate in the house, and the subcommittee of the ways and means committee that has been studying the subject had not yet reported. So it appeared almost certain that action must be postponed until the regular session which starts in January. Vinson to Be Judge P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to the senate the nomination of Rep resentative Fred M. Vinson of Ken tucky to fill a vacancy in the United States court of appeals for the Dis trict of Columbia. The post carries a salary of $10,000 a year, the same as paid a representative, but the ap pointment is for life and carries re tirement privileges. Mr. Vinson, who has been an outstanding tax expert of the house, is forty-seven years old and serving his seventh term. His home is Ashland, Ky. The President also nominated As sociate Justice D. Lawrence Groner of Virginia to be chief justice of the court, creating another vacancy. Croner will be succeeded by Henry White Edgerton of New York, whose nomination also went to the senate. Small Town Spending A utomobiles, more food and better clothing are the most urgent desires of small-town fami lies. That was the implication pre sented in a matter-of-fact analysis of surveys of the spending habits of families in 46 villages in Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. The study, made by the bureau of home economics, showed that when income increased among these cross-section village families, it was usually followed by a rapid rise in expenditures for food and clothes and even more marked jumps in the proportion of income spent on automobiles. In income ranges from $250 im $2,499, food expense for wage-earn ers’ families jumped from an aver age of $180 to an average of $539; clothes from an average of $25 to an average of $186; expense for the fam'ly car from an average of (14 to an average of $315. what thinks .about: How to Be Fair. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Every time the heirs to an undivided estate start litigat ing, I think of a decision which had in it more wisdom, more common sense and more fair ness than even King Solomon’s inspired justice. I can’t remember whether ’twas a ruler upon the throne or a judge upon the bench who handed down this ruling. But two brothers fell out over a proper divi sion of their father’s possessions. Accord ingly, they carried the dispute to a higher court of the land. So his majesty, or his worship, or his honor, as the case Irvin S. Cobb, may have been, said: “Let the older brother apportion the property into what he regards as two equal shares—and then let the younger brother have first choice of the shares.” But, of course, the lawyers couldn’t have favored the plan. It was too beautifully simple to suit any lawyer in any age. The Ameri can Bar assoc't tion would just nat urally despise it. • • • Cemetery Salesmen. T RECEIVED a letter from one of our plushiest cemeteries. We have some of the plushiest ceme teries on earth; it’s a positive pleas ure to be dead out here. I was urged to invest in a highly desirable lot, for only a few thou sand smackers; or buy a perfectly lovely crypt—slightly more ^expen sive, but most luxurious. Through some private whim or pique, I failed to answer this tempt ing communication. Today I re ceived an appealing follow-up let ter. I gather that, if I neglect this splendid opportunity, I’ll live to re gret it. Or maybe I won’t. Such thoughtful attention merits response. I’m replying as follows: “Dear gents: Space in a grave yard is the last thing I shall require. When that time comes, somebody else will do the shopping. Trusting these few lines may find you the same, yours gratefully.” But if a representative calls in per son—as he will—rl’m a gone gosling. Those slum talkers always do get me. You ’just ought to see my col lection of oil stocks. Now, there’s something that does need burying. • • • Making Juleps. COME disputatious soul seeks to ^ reopen the ancient debate over the proper recipe for mint julep. I decline the invitation. Since the Dred Scot decision nothing has stirred up as much bitter contro versy south of the Ohio river. North of the Ohio river doesn’t count. The Yankee conception of a julep is calculated to make a host of sleeping Kentucky brigadiers rise up from their respective Bourbon casks and start giving the rebel hiss. , Naturally, the only perfect julep is the Paducah julep. Just drop in next summer and sample the real product on its native heath—not at a saloon, where the bartender is likely to have heretical ideas, such as using preserved fruits and even putting the sugar syrup in first, which amounts to downright crime —but in the private home. • • • Western Superiority. I N BORNEO, tigers slay such an incredible host of natives that the yearly mortality is proportionately almost one-tenth as great as the average number of persons who will be wiped out in traffic fatalities on American highways during any giv en 12 months. In India, owing to the refusal of those benighted Hindus to destroy any living creature, 20,000 inhabi tants annually are killed by venom ous serpents, whereas, in this coun try, in 1936, we spent only 15 billions for crime, or 18 times as much as we spent on national defense, yet managed to let many poisonous hu man snakes go free to build up mur der statistics. In Japan, geisha girls are govem- mentally licensed and protected, which is indeed an affront to the principles of an enlightened people who patronize so-called world’s fairs that are dependent on unabashed nudity for popular favor, and shows dependent on foul lines and nasty situations. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright.—WNU Strvict. 500 Women at Science Meet Not a single man among the 500 scientists at a conference in Mos cow, Russia. All the speakers as well as all the members of asso ciation were women. One was V. P. Lebedeva, a professor of medi cine. Another, Professor M. L. Rokhlina, stated that the number of women students in the univer sities had grown from 16,700 in 1914 to 183,000. Half the total num ber of doctors in Russia are wom en. Most of the women “scientists” are found in medicine, chemistry and biology. Ttotfd (jifib&tfL ADVENTURERS’ CLUB ■ HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI “Undress Parade in the Navy* By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: All aboard! boys and girls. Clamber right up that gang plank there and make it speedy. We’re bound for the Panama Canal on the United States destroyer Satterlee. See those big numbers on the side? You can read ’em a mile away. That’s our number, 190. But for the love of Mike be careful of those depth bomb racks on the stern. The World war is just over and those things are loaded with T. N. T.! All of which brings us to Frank Edward Hanke, who is taking a bath in the destroyer’s washroom as our story opens. Frank resides in New York now. But don’t forget that bath. You see Frank was taking that bath when he had the most exciting adventure of his entire career! Here goes the story gang-plank. Frank has been through many narrow squeaks. But his clos est shave took place during the joint ^maneuvers of the Atlantic and the Pacific fleets in 1920. Destroyers then still carried full war loads of explosives in the depth eharge “submarine killers,” that hung in racks on the stern of the ship. The fleets were passing through the Panama canal. At the Gatun locks, Frank’s -destroyer—the Satterlee—had already entered the locks and was waiting for the U. S. S. Mason to follow her in. The docks were lined with beauteous damsels come from far and near to get a glimpse of Uncle Sam’s natty sailors and Frank was primping up in the wash room with three or four other gobs, getting ready to give the girls a treat. What If They Should Collide? Frank glanced through the washroom window at the Mason, which was flying through the water at a fast clip. He stopped soaping him self for a second and pondered absently as to what would happen if the Mason accidentally collided with the depth bombs in the stem. As he oondered and watched, the commander of the Mason shot his ship into The Soapy Nudists Rushed for the Stern. reverse. But Frank, to his horror, saw that the reverse lever or some thing had gone wrong and the ship was still coming on. A COLLISION WAS CERTAIN! In those depth bombs, Frank knew, was enough T. N. T. to blow up the locks and everything in them. He let out a yell and pointed. His shipmates in the washroom saw the danger, too, and with one common accord they shot out on deck. Well, sir, Frank says he doesn’t think the explosion itself would have caused half the commotion his little sailor nudist colony did when they appeared on deck. The locks are very narrow at that place and it was just as though they had strolled naked on a ballroom floor in the middle of a dance. He and his pals, though, weren’t thinking of that. They had no idea the sensation they were causing the lad’es of the Canal zone. Their idea and the idea of any self respecting sailor was to avert by any means possible a catastrophe. The soapy nudists rushed for the stern of the ship, ready if necessary to place their gleaming bodies in between the oncom ing ship and the T. N. T. Scolded the Girls for Laughing. On came the Mason while the crews of two ships groaned and the spectators ashore laughed at the unexpected parade on the Satterlee. Frank thinks they thought it all part of the show. He never gave it a thought in the moment before the collision but as the prow of the Mason swerved at the last moment and instead of hitting the depth charges smashed into the heavy four gun mount to one side, he turned and gave them a piece of his mind for laughing at a tense moment like that! Then he and his pals went to work at a barked command from an officer. And they worked hard. On the docks the laughing went on. Frank looked around for the cause of it. He couldn't see anything to laugh at in a collision that might have taken the lives of hundreds of people and he went right on working and growling at the strange sense of humor of these Panama Janes. The collision had been a serious one. It took the combined crews hours to clear up the wreckage. I’ve got a photograph of it and it must of been pretty bad. Frank isn’t in the picture or perhaps he might get a laugh now himself. Then He Saw the Joke. Finally when things had quieted down a bit and Frank felt he had done his duty he reached for a cigarette. Holy Moses! Where was his pocket? He glanced down at his legs. Where were his pants? He looked now with seeing eyes at his pals of the wash room. They didn’t have a stitch on them! They looked at him! And were their faces red! Frank says his nudist detail made one jump for a companion way. They hit the entrance all at once and jammed. Hysterical feminine laughter rang in their ears once more and then they tumbled .head over heels below. , Well, sir, Frank and his pals came in for a lot of kidding after that, but he says he didn't notice any gobs kidding him at the time of the acci dent. Officers and men were all so excited at what they knew might happen that they didn’t even notice any sailors working without benefit of clothes. And, come to think of it, I guess most of us would forget all about clothes if we saw tons of steel speeding toward enough T. N. T. to un dress the whole navy in one blast! Copyright.—WNU Service. “Grapevine Telegraph” The “grapevine telegraph” is, in origin, a picturesque brother of the “underground railway.” According to the dictionary the phrase was coined during the Civil war. As the underground railway was a secret and guarded means of sending slaves from the South to freedom, so the grapevine telegraph was any devious or covered means by which news or rumor traveled—by private letter, by word of mouth, and so on. Communication was not well organ ized, and there were many false war reports afloat, reports not to be easily and speedily silenced. Tales and canards of mysterious origin were said to have come “by grapevine telegraph.” The diction ary still seeks to limit the use of the term to mysterious rumors and fabricated reports. But by exten sion “the grapevine route” is any means of communication which is not easily detected or which is able to smuggle its messages past bar riers intended to keep them out. Gorge Sess Only Noon Sun Only at midday does the sun ever peep into the bottom of Indian pass, that narrow, mile-long gorge cut deep through solid rock between MacIntyre and Wallface mountains in the heart of the Adirondack wil derness a few miles southeast of Lake Placid. Called by the Indians “Henodoawda,” the Path of the Thunderer, Indian pass is one of the scenic marvels of the Adiron- dacks. Its walls rise straight up over a thousand feet. On the western (Wallface) side the perpendicular rock face rears itself 1,300 feet into the air. Near the middle of the pass, high up on MacIntyre, are two small springs, so close together that their waters almost intermingle. Separating a few feet farther down, they flow on to the bottom of the pass in two little rivulets. One rivu let finds its way south to the head waters of the Hudson river, while the other heads north where even tually its sparkling content mingles with the mighty St. Lawrence. Lacy Cartwheels Make This Cloth There’s magic in this two col ored crocheted square—when it’s joined into a cloth or spread, it looks like two medallions! Begin right away on the first 8 inch square. Its “repeats” will follow in quick succession for it is sim ple to do in economical string and makes delightful pick-up work. You may use the same color throughout, if you prefer. Pat tern 1570 contains chart and di rections for making the square; material requirements; illustra tions of the square and of aO stitches used; a photograph of the square; color suggestions. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York. Unjde JQhiL^ Sajf6: See What It Led To Adam and Eve had but one fault —curiosity; a small one to lose Eden for. A statistician in listing the com mon causes of fatigue in men, overlooked a waistline of 46 inches. The “man of few words” doesn’t realize how tiresome they be come. There are some admirable peo ple who never let it be known that they are unhappy because they are too proud to. Alone They're Insufficient Memories are all right to live on provided you have something else. A sharp tongue has a bitter mind behind it. Never bestow real criticism of the faults of your friends when they ask it. Sidestep it, somehow. In youth, we follow the fads for the fun of being in the crowd; but they really take no hold on any one. A few men in the audience who laugh uproariously in the right place are a great asset to the speaker. .RELIEF^ (FROM THE DISCOMFORT OF> \ HEADACHE—TOOTHACHE / st.Joseph GENUINE PURE ASPIRIN GET RID OF PIMPLES dew Remedy Uses Magnesia to Ctar Skin. Firms and Smooths Complexioo —Makes Skin Look Years Younger. Get rid of ugly, pimply akin with this extraordinary new remedy. 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