THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1938
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News Review of f»iren£?t
BRITAIN TO CURB JAPAN
Chamberlain Roused by Arrogance at Shanghai . . .
Jackson Day Celebrated by the Democrats
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, shakes hands with the speaker
•f the house, William B. Bankhead of Alabama, left, as Vise President
John Nanee Garner looks on, at the Jaekson Day dinner in Washington.
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r ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
G Western Newspaper Union.
Neville
Chamberlain
Japanese Too Arrogant
G reat Britain’s government,
according to dispatches from
London, has finally been driven by
Japanese arrogance at Shanghai to
the point of resist
ance. The invaders
have been demand
ing full control of
the captured city, to
the virtual exclusion
of other foreign in
terests, and their
troops there have
treated British po
licemen in the inter
national settlement
very roughly.
Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain
has taken personal command of a
British program designed to curb
the Japanese expansion of power,
and is keeping Washington and
Paris fully informed of his plans
and actions. Also he has been in
frequent telephonic conversation
with Foreign Minister Eden, vaca
tioning at Cannes.
A high government official in Lon
don said Chamberlain had resolved
“not to stand for Japanese use of
military superiority in the present
emergency to force concessions in
Shanghai.” It was made plain that
Britain would act only in harmony
with the United States and France.
That the Japanese are not afraid
of Great Britain was indicated by a
statement by Rear Admiral Tanet-
suga Sosa, retired, maintaining that
it would be easy for the Japanese
navy to reduce the British strong
holds at Hongkong and Singapore
before the British main fleet could
get there. Sosa said the only thing
that could save Britain was to
draw the United States into the war.
Jackson Day Feasts
T~\ EMOCRATS who partook of
Jackson day banquets in vari
ous large cities paid about $250,000
into the purse of the party’s na
tional committee. At the dinner in
Washington President Roosevelt
pleaded with the nation to under
stand that his administration be
lieves it is helping and not hurting
business by the drive against mo
nopolistic practices. His talk was
rather conciliatory. He promised a
fight, but he called it a cheerful
fight on his part, against a mere
handful of the total business men
and bankers and industrialists who
can be expected to “fight to the
last ditch to retain such autocratic
control over the industry and the
finances of the country as they now
possess.”
At the New York banquet Jim
Farley staged the debut of Robert
H. Jackson, assistant attorney gen
eral, as a candidate for the governor
ship of the Empire state. The young
lawyer, who has attracted public at
tention recently by attacks on big
business, was the principal speaker.
At a luncheon party he admitted he
would be the Democratic nominee
for governor “if the party wants
me.”
Jackson is believed by many to
be the President’s choice for the
1940 presidential nomination.
Budget Message Summary
AAORE vitally important than his
annual message on the state of
the nation was President Roose
velt’s budget message to congress.
In it he forecast a deficit of $1,088,-
129,600 for the current fiscal year
which ends on June 30, and a deficit
of $949,606,000 for the 1939 fiscal
year.
There was no promise that the
budget would be balanced in the
near future, the national revenue es
timates being reduced because of
the depression.
Nearly a billion dollars was asked
by the President for national de
fense because of “world conditions
over which his nation has no con
trol,” and more may be called for
soon for the same purpose.
Summarized, the President’s
budget statement said:
Revenues for the next fiscal year
will total $5,919,400,000, a decrease
Senator
Vandenberg
of $401,076,000 from the present fis
cal year.
Expenditures, exclusive of debt
retirements, will total $6,896,000,000,
a decrease of $539,600,000 from the
present fiscal year.
National defense appropriations
will total $991,300,000, an increase of
$34,300,000. Later the President may
ask for additional funds to construct
several extra naval vessels.
Relief expenditures for the next
fiscal year will total roughly $1,138,-
304,000, a decrease of $841,356,000
from the present fiscal year.
The deficit will be financed
through Social Security and other
trust funds and not through public
borrowing.
The deficit estimate for the fiscal
year which ends June 30 has been
raised from $695,000,000 to $1,088,-
100,000, because of the business re
cession.
Expenditures for new highways,
new rivers and harbors projects,
new public buildings, new recla
mation projects and other new pub
lic works will be reduced sharply.
The public debt will reach a rec
ord high of $38,528,200,000 on June
30, 1939.
VandenbergStand
S ENATOR ARTHUR H. VAN-
DENBERG of Michigan is not
going to seek the Republican nom
ination for President in 1940, but if
it is offered him he
will not refuse the
honor. He so stated
in a letter to Joseph
Leib, organizer of a
movement against a
third term for Mr.
Roosevelt.
The senator,
whose term expires
in 1941, asserted he
would not work for
or countenance any
organized effort to
obtain the presiden
tial nomination for him, but added:
“I hope I shall never run away
from any public duty or obligation
which confronts me.”
In his letter he hinted he expects
that a new form of opposition will
develop against Roosevelt as a re
sult of the split in the Democratic
party and Republican activities in
seeking to form a new program
through a committee of 150 repre
sentatives of all groups within the
Republican party.
Wheeler Hits I.C.C.
CENATOR BURTON K. WHEEL-
^ ER of Montana, chairman of the
senate railroad finance investigat
ing committee, charged in a state
ment that the interstate commerce
commission is using "trick rabbits”
in solving carrier problems.
He accused the finance division of
the I. C. C., which must approve
government loans to railroads be
fore they are granted by the Recon
struction Finance corporation, of de
liberately violating the law and
“calmly gambling” on a stock mar
ket increase to “protect the taxpay
ers’ money.”
Wheeler’s ire was aroused by con
ditions surrounding a loan of
$6,000,000 by the RFC to the Erie
railroad and an $8,000,000 RFC loan
to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Civil Service Lags
pONGRESS was told by the civil
service commission that its fail
ure to place employees of newly cre
ated government agencies was be
coming “a matter of grave public
concern.”
“Wholesale exemptions such as
have been permitted in the last year
must cease if the merit system is to
prevail,” the commission said.
It made these recommendations:
Place first, second and third class
postmasters under civil service.
Authorize the President to draft
all nonpolicy forming employees in
to the classified service.
Make retirement compulsory for
government employees at the age
of seventy and optional at sixty
years, after 30 years’ service, or at
sixty-two after 15 years’ service.
Irvin S. Cobb
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Butchery by Air.
S AN ANTONIO, TEXAS.—
Following the example of 11
Duce and that air-minded son
of his, who wrote a brave book
describing the joy of bombing
undefended mud villages full of
women and children, one of the
leading statesmen of Italy has
delivered a speech declaring
war is the most glorious, most
inspiring, most beautiful thing
on earth. Inquiry discloses that
this cheery patriot is a hero in
his own right. As an officer, he
enthusiastically participated in
the retreat from Caporetta.
Caporetta was the place where
all ranks of an entire army, with vic
tory against the en
emy right around
the corner, sudden
ly remembered they
had sworn to die in
the last ditch and
started for the ex
treme rear to look
for it. Or it may
have been that ev
erybody just simul
taneously felt home
sick. Anyhow, it was
months before some
of them caught up
with their panting.
So it’s possible this blood-thirsty
orator has confused the science of
warfare with the sport of foot
racing.
• • •
The Meaning of Words.
A DISTINGUISHED gentleman,
who never admitted the Eight
eenth amendment was a failure, is
said to be comforting the drys with
words of wisdom, his attitude—in
effect—being this:
The causes of sanity and safety
suffer because certain distillers and
many local retailers indiscriminate
ly sell an unnecessarily high-pow
ered product, the results being law
breaking, property damage; danger
and personal injury and untold suf
fering for innocent parties; homi
cides, mutilations, often a horrid
death for the purchaser of the arti
cle in question.
To extend the argument further,
let us change just three words: “ . . .
Certain automobile manufacturers
and many local agents indiscrim
inately sell an unnecessarily high-
powered product, the results being
law-breaking, property damage;
danger and personal injury and un
told suffering for innocent parties;
homicides, mutilations, often a hor
rid death for the purchaser of the
article in question.”
Now then, when the aforesaid gen
tleman kindly proves that, in sell
ing cars capable of traveling 130
miles an hour or even faster, for
use on highways having a speed
limit of 60 miles an hour, or less,
he is promoting the causes of sanity
and safety. I’ll turn prohibitionist
with him.
• • •
Fractical Jokes.
T HREE city sportsmen drove into
the Kerrville country in Texas.
Everywhere the lands were posted.
But one of the party knew an old
rancher whose acres bordered the
highway. Leaving his mates at the
road, he went to ask permission to
hunt deer on the property.
“Sure,” iaid the owner. , “Bust
right in—my place is full of bucks;
I never gun ’em myself. Now do
me a favor. As you turn into the
lot, you’ll see an old, crippled, sick
white mare. She oughter be dead,
but I ain’t got the heart to kill any
living creature. Put her out of her
misery, will you?” '
The gratified huntsman had a
waggish idea. As he opened the
pasture gate, he let out a terrific
yell.
“I feel so good I’ve got to shoot
something!” he whooped. “Believe
I’ll shoot a horse to start with.”
With that, he hauled off and blast
ed down the feeble old nag where
she leaned against the fence.
“And now,” as he turned on his
horrified companions, “I believe I’ll
shoot me a couple of so-and-soes.”
He waved his rifle in their direc
tion. The next instant one had
vaulted out of the car and had him
down, choking him until his tongue
stuck out like a pink plush necktie.
They were halfway back to town,
with a large man sitting on his head
and another driving like mad to find
a lunatic asylum or a stout jail, be
fore the humorist succeeded in con
vincing them it was all just deem,
boyish fun. %
Now the rest of Texas is wonder
ing w^om the joke’s on.
IRVIN S. COBB.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Closed Doors to World
Aboi^t 500 years ago a Tokugawa
shogun (dictator) closed Japan'4
doors to the world and her foreign
shipping stopped. But for centuries
before that, Japanese fishermen and
delegates of the Daimyo (Feudal
lords) sailed extensively along the
China coast. They even voyaged to
Siam, Sumatra and Java. In the
earlier open-door days, the shogun-
ate designated certain vessels
called “go-shu-in-sen” as trading
ships
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ADVENTURERS' CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Fiend in the Night”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello, everybody:
It would be bad enough for a man to have an adventure
like this one I’m going to tell you now. But for a woman—well—
it must have been at least ten times worse.
Geraldine Gorman, R. N., of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the woman who
sent the story in to me—and also the woman who went through the ter
rible ordeal it relates. But I’m up a tree to tell you who the hero of the yam
is. I don’t know whether to say it’s Geraldine, or Brownie, the dog.
Both of them did a pretty good piece of work when the pinch came
So I guess I’ll have to hang a medal on both of them.
To begin with, Geraldine Gorman is a registered nurse. Back
in 1932, when she graduated from her course of training, she went
to work in a local sanitarium as night supervisor. And it was in
this sanitarium, in the quiet hours of the winter night that Adven
ture caught up with her and gave her the shock of her life.
Drug Addict Broke In.
There were three other nurses and a watchman on night duty at the
sanitarium, but they were in another building. It was about half-past
eleven, and Geraldine was sitting at her desk writing up charts. It was
quiet—deathly quiet in that room. Not a sound was audible except the
loud, metallic ticking of the clock. But suddenly, Geraldine was startled
out of her chair by a crash of broken f lass at the other end of the long
hall.
Geraldine ran down the hall to investigate, and stopped suddenly at
the sight of a hulking figure climbing through the broken window. She
almost screamed in sheer terror when, in the moonlight that filtered
through the shattered pane, she recognized the man as Karloff, a Rus
sian drug addict, whom the sanitarium had discharged as a hopeless
case only a few weeks before.
“I stood rooted to the spot,” says Geraldine, “and the first
thing my eyes encountered was a heavy steel cast cutter with a
knife-like edge and sharp teeth. Karloff’s hand was closing over it.
‘Open up medici^e room, or I kill,’ he growled, shaking the thing
at me.”
Geraldine knew what he wanted in the medicine room. Narcotics!
Dope! He was insane with the craving for it. But instead of opening
the room, she turned and ran down the hall. If she could beat that
“Now I Kill, Sure!” He Cried.
maniac to the cellar, there was an underground passage to the next
building, where the other three nurses and the watchman were con
gregated over a midnight snack.
Chased Her Into the Morgue.
But before she was half way down the stairs, Geraldine knew she
would never make it. Karloff, with his long legs, was gaining on her
with every step, and as she reached the basement hallway he brandished
the heavy cast cutter and cried: “Now I kill, sure!”
Geraldine was frantic. She spied the door of the sanitarium morgue
swinging partly open, darted inside, closed and bolte^, the door. But
at the same time she heard the outside lock snap and knew that the Rus
sian had made her a prisoner. She was safe there, herself—but how to
warn the rest of the staff. If she didn’t get word to them somehow, big,
drug-crazed Karloff could steal up on them when they weren’t looking,
and slaughter them one by one with that big, saw-toothed weapon he
carried.
Geraldine looked around the room she was trapped in. There
was no chance of getting out. Both doors were securely locked
from the outside. In the center of the room was an autopsy
table, and over at one side, near the ceiling, was a small, tiny
window, set at the ground level. She dragged the table over to
the wall, stood on it and, breaking the window, looked out on
the cold freshness of the winter night. She could get her arms
through that window and no more. It was no use. She was in
that morgue room to stay.
Brownie to the Rescue.
Suddenly, Geraldine saw something frisking about in the snow and
got an idea. The frisking object was Brownie, the watchman’s dog—a
big, shaggy animal with a lot of good dog sense. She whistled to him
and he came scampering over to the window. Then Geraldine got busy.
She drew a fountain pen from her pocket, tore one of the starched
cuffs from her uniform and began to write. “KARLOFF BROKE IN,”
she wrote. “DANGEROUS. HIDING IN CELLAR. I’M LOCKED IN
THE MORGUE.” Then she thrust the cuff in the dog’s mouth and told
him to take it to his master. The dog seized the cuff in his teeth and
trotted off.
Time dragged on, and Geraldine lived in an agony of suspense. So
much depended on Brownie. Would he carry the note as he had been
told to do? It seemed hours that the dog had been gone, and still there
was no indication from the others that they had received her message and
were safe. Then, at last, she heard a sound outside the door. The outer
lock was snapped back and the voice of the watchman assured her
that Karloff was in a strait-jacket and all was right with the world.
Brownie had come through.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Handwriting Experts Clever
A handwriting expert’s first test of
a suspected signature is to com
pare it with several genuine sam
ples. If it duplicates any of them,
it is a forgery. No man signs his
name twice exactly the same way.
Easiest job for an expert is to de
tect a forgery written in public, says
the Washington Post. Even the best
forgers need hours to turn out a
clever duplicate. For centuries law
courts have assumed no two persons
have the same handwiting. Yet an
Englishman has proven that about
5 per cent of identical twins have
identical handwriting.
Snakes Do Not “Dance”
When a snake sways to the trills
ot an Indian snake charmer’s flute
it isn’t “dancing”; it is in deadly
earnest. The snake has no respect
whatsoever for music, sways only
to aim a blow at the charmer, who,
too, is swaying. The only reason
India’s snake charmers, indeed,
most charmers, don’t succumb to
the attacks of their “pets” is be
cause the snakes' fangs have been
removed. It’s a rare snake “tam
er” who plays around with a crea
ture capable of doing much harm.
Pumpkins, Squashes, Old
Pumpkins and squashes were
grown in America long before the
white man came on the scene. Re
mains of both have been found in
ruins of the Basket Makers, earliest
agricultural people on this con
tinent. Both probably came from
Mexico. Pumpkin pie was a deli
cacy before the Revolution. The
Hubbard squash, most popular va
riety, came to light in Marblehead,
Mass., in 1855. It had already been
growing there for more than 60
years. Another popular winter
squash came from seeds furnished
by the Iroquois Indians.
Once Called Acadia
New Brunswick was discovered
in 1604 by Pierre de Guast and Sam
uel Champlain and until 1783 was
an insignificant settlement and part
of Nova Scotia or Acadia, as the
combined land was called. That
year, however, thousands of Ameri
cans who remained loyal to the
crown despite the success of the
Revolution, sailed from the colonies
and settled along the St. John river.
A year later they declared their in
dependence and set up their own
provincial government.
OP#
4^ Ruth 'Wyeth Spears
A Bandanna Doll Has Old Time Charm
IF YOU want to make a very big
1 doll, use two hanks of yam and
the biggest red bandanna hand
kerchief you can find. Smaller
dolls made from one hank and a
medium size handkerchief are al
so attractive.
Tie the hank at the top as at A,
then cut it across the bottom.
Make the head by tying the yam
in as at B, then separate part of
the strands at the sides and bind
them together to make the arms
as at C and D. Cut these strands
off as at E to make the hands.
Bind the rest of the yam around
as at F to define the waistline.
Thread a large needle with white
darning cotton and make the
mouth and eyes with several
stitches made as shown here. Sew
small black buttons or beads in
the middle of the eyes.
Cut a square out of the center
of the handkerchief. The square
piece you cut out should be big
enough so it may be cut through
the center from comer to comer
to make two triangles—one to be
used for the head kerchief for the
doll and one for the three cornered
shoulder kerchief. When this is
Information Not to Be
Found in Encyclopedia
Answers to a general knowledge
test such as these help turn the
teacher’s hair gray:
Period costumes are dresses all
covered with dots.
Shakespeare wrote tragedies,
comedies and errors.
The people of India are divided
into casts and outcasts.
Norway’s capital is called
Christianity.
Lipton is the capital of Ceylon.
A republic is a country where
no one can do anything in pri
vate.
A sheep is mutton covered with
wool.
A fakir is a Hindu twister.
done, gather around the square
hole in the center of the bandanna
and draw up the gathering thread
to make the full top of the skirt.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book,
SEWING. Forty-eight pages of
step-by-step directions for making
slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
couches; making curtains for ev
ery type of room and purpose.
Making lampshades, mgs, otto
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a copy
should send name and address,
enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears,
210 South Desplaines St., Chicago,
Illinois.
KEEP YOUNG
and Happy
WITH A
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SELF-HEAUNff
IRON
Treble From Excess
In everything the middle course
is best: all things in excess bring
trouble.—Plautus.
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See All of It
There is only one way of see
ing things rightly, and that is
ing the whole of them.—Ruskin.
Aiding Others
No one is useless in this world
... who lightens the burden of it
1 for anyone else.—Dickens.
Calotabs Help Nature
To Throw Off a Cold
Millions have found in Calotabs
a most valuable aid in the treat
ment of colds. They take one ot
two tablets the first night and re
peat the third or fourth night if
needed.
How do Calotabs help nature
throw off a cold? First, Calotabs
are one of the most thorough and
dependable of all intestinal elirai-
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tract of the virus-laden mucus and
toxins. Second, Calotabs are
diuretic to the kidneys, promoting
the elimination of cold poisons
from the blood. Thus Calotabs
serve the double purpose of a
purgative and diuretic, both of
which are needed in the treatment
of colds.
Calotabs are quite economical;
only twenty-five cents for the
family package, ten cents for the
trial package.—(adv.)