Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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This Week b Arthur Brisbane \ __ $1 and Board A Boomerang Boycott Bankruptcy for Cities 17,000,000 New Babies Without a roll call, the bouse ol representatives passed a bill authoris ing President Roosevelt to send 250.000 idle men to work in national forests for $1 a day and board. , It Isn't much, and as Mr. Green of the Federation of Labor said, it may es tablish a bad precedent in low wages. But one dollar a day and board is bet ter than nothing a day and no board, and good workmen used to be hired In this country for $100 a year. Some congressmen tried to defeat President Roosevelt's will, but de cided that the time has not come for that yet The Hitler party starts a nation wide boycott against Jews in Germany, calling the boycott "a reprisal for the atrocity campaign" <i*tteged to hav^ been made by Jews. If carried out, without interference by the German government, the boy cott will be harmful to German Jews, In the beginning, infinitely more harm ful to German business and prosperity in the end. Action that would deprive Germany of the Jewish commercial and Indus trial ability that has done so much to build up German prosperity, will probably not last long. The Germans are intelligent. A bill to be Introduced by Con gressman Wilcox of Miami will In terest holders of municipal bonds. Mr. Wilcox' bill would allow cities over burdened with debt to go Into bank ruptcy as Individuals do, settle with their creditors on a basis of their ability to pay. and have a clean bill of health following the bankruptcy. This will startle those taught to look on municipal bonds as first mort gages on the city. They are nothing of the kind, because nobody would have power to sell a city to meet the mortgage, or would exercise the pow er if he had It Mussolini, constructive dictator, tells mothers and fathers of Italy, also young men and women not yet mar ried, that he wants Italy's population increased In the next 10 years by 17, 000,000. In other words, a country much smaller than California, far be hind California In fertility, and wealth of every kind, already possessing near ly ten times the population of Cali fornia, proposes to add in 10 years four times California's population to what Italy has already. As usual, Italians co-operated with Mussolini In his plans. They have come to believe that what he says ought to be dona Some Italian cities offer cash re wards for marriages, others re wards for babies. Houses, cribs, bed dl'ng, sums in cash, many inducements attract "the first ten brides and grooms, the first 50 babies," etc. Wise Mussolini knows thnt the real wealth of the world Is intelligent popu lation, and that he will find room and useful work for the seventeen million new Italians when they come. The most energetic will go to Italy's pos sessions In Africa, and elsewhere out side Italy. Mr. Wyatt, lawyer of the Federal Reserve bank, snys congress has pow er to abolish state banks and put all the banking under the national govern ment Apart from that President Roosevelt has convinced you of his own ability to do things, anyhow, and mnke congress say "Amen." It is important, ns Frederick H. Prince of Boston snys. not to deprive small communities of services thnt only the little local banks can render No gentleman Rent from Washington could possess Intimate acquaintance with a community's financial needs and its citizens' responsibility. nowever, banks controlled to pre vent their bursting at the rate of thou sands a year, with an occasional mora torium. would be desirable. Our Amer ican system that brooks down, stalls and breaks up, like an automobile eighteen years old. Isn't much of a credit to the country. It Is proposed that government regu late the quantity and character o$ stocks sold to the gullible public. The other assorted thievery that has been practiced on the American people Is nothing compared to n fraudulent 1s aue f>f watered stock. One concern Is sued more than .sixty million Rbares of stocks agnlnst one unimportant light and power company, selling the stock at a price, that for the whole lot, would amount to more than fifteen hundred million dollars, enough to build f|ve Panama canals. With such "basins" yon need not be surprised at any depression, any series of bank explosions or private bankruptcies, Spain deckles that Spanish women may vote beginning April 251 In munic ipal' elections. That Is a start. Tbo Latin races oppose "votes for women,'* perhaps becauae Latin women play so large a part In their hiiRhand'a affairs and have already plerity to do. Where you flrtd a tnah of Latin racfc running a business, you are apt to find his wife, dressed In plain black, behind the cashier's desk, or otherwise carrying one-half the bnrdon. 6. MIS, br K'tyr p?fttur?t SyMlcatc, Im "\ ? WNU S?r vlo* An Easter study in the beautiful netting offered by the old Mission Inn which is located at Riverside, Calif., showing the Cloister music room of the Inn beneath one of the Saint Cecilia windows. Easter Relic of Old Pagan Celebration ASTEIl is largely a relic of the old pagan celebrntlon of the be ginning of spring, niul this ex plains why some of those old customs nnd traditions are still linked up with It ? such as the use of the egg and the rabbit as symbols. But in the religious senses Easter commemorates the res urrection of Christ. The crucifixion took place at the time of the Jewish Passover, and this fixed the time so far as the Jews were concerned. But the Jews counted time by the lunar year of 334 days, while most other nations went by the solar year. Thus a confusion as to the ac tual date to be observed as Christ's resurrection at once arose. That con fusion caused bitter controversies dur ing the early history of Christianity and It remains with us today. While at first Easter was observed by the Christians at the same time as the Jewish Passover, gradually they were weaned away from that practice and another date was proclaimed. Elaborate rules were adopted known In Latin as the "computus paschalls." by which to ascertain the date for lOaster. These were based largely on the Jewish "paschal moon" but there were complications to the process and so the date does not necessarily coln cldc with that of the real or astronom lcal moon. As the time of the actual full moon is different for different points on the earth, It Is plain thnt some arbitrary rule would have to be adopted. It was the purpose of the church fathers not to have Easter ever fall on the same date as the Jewish Passover. However, In 192,3, this did come to pass. Easter Is the first Sunday that fol lows this ecclesiastical or pascal full moon coming In or next after the nom inal vernal equinox, March 21 ; If the pascal full moon falls on Sunday, then Eastof skips to the following Sunday. The date of Easter Is specially Impor tant because It fixes the times of the other movable feasts for the whole year. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and Is the period of forty days (not In cluding Sundays) preceding Easter. Shrove Tuesday Is the last day before Lent nnd thus marks the end of the gay winter season, known In Europe as the "carnival'* or "meat-farewell" season. The French term for Shrove Tuesday Is "Mardl Ciras" ? meaning lit erally "fat Tuesday." This date Is ob served by feasting and revelry ? hence the "fat." ? Pathfinder Magazine. EASTER By LEILA E. BRACY (In Detroit Free Press.) STjt SI* RING day in the morning; The de w is icarm and sweet, Gray mists run from the rising sun ? I'ale phantoms in retreat. A young breeze, perfume-laden, Soft quiet promise filled, Swift shattered by a golden shower From quivering bird throat spilled. I So Easter's gift, renewing The light that cannot cease To be, though world forgotten, brings The healing touch of peace. Though souls travail in darkness, Yet does the earth endure; The glory of the morn shall be Of night's dim torture cure. % The world's way is a good way Earth seems to Heaven drawn When Hope to weary hearts is born In the hushed Easter dawn. Resurrection Keynote Christendom, at Kaster, will resound with the resurrection message of the angel to Mary Magdalene. For more than 1,900 years the resurrection has been the keynote of Christianity. Preachers of faith In Christ as the hope of humanity have from the days of the Apostles based their messages upon this foundation and without the resurrection have regarded preaching as vain. Thought Rabbits Laid Err* In the old days In Germany, the chil dren built nests In the brush and thicket, even as they do in the United States today. When they ran to the nests on Raster morning, rabbits usu ally scurried from the hushes. And when the children found the bright eggs In the nests, they jumped to. the conclusion the rabbits had laid them. I Their parents did not disillusion them. The Stone Was Rolled Away NI) when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the Mother of James, and Salome, had brought sweet Rpiecs, that they might come nnd anoint Him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rifling of the Run. "And they said among themselves, 'Who nhtil 1 roll away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?' "And when they looked, they saw that the stone wan rolled nway, for it wan very great. "And entering the sepulchre, they Raw a young man flitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment, and they were affrighted. "And he Raid unto them: 4He not affrighted. Vc seek Jesus of Nazareth, which wan crucified; He in risen; He if. not here; be hold the place where they laid Him. " 'But go your way, tell His disciplen and I'cter that He goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye seek Him, as He said unto you.* "And they went out quickly and fled from the sepulclirc; for they trembled nnd were amused; neither said they anything to* any man, for they were afraid." Only Six Imports Are Vital to U. S. All Other Needed Articles . Are Produced Here. Washington. ? America's billion-dol lar import trade could be cut to just six vitally necessary articles. ?f ?ie myriad types' of goods which flow into this country each year on y a half dozen are absolute neces sities which have no substitute pro duced at home, which could not be produced here or which are not al ready produced in this country. These six articles, listed by the United States Department of Corn mere^ are platinum, tin, manila, sisal, kapok and rubber. In 1031, the lutest jear for which detailed llgures are available, they made up only 0 per cent of Uncle Sam's to*tal bill for im ports. If America's importations were suddenly reduced to those six com modities, cotton, the most Important export, could pay for them all twice over. Coffee, Tea on List. Another ten articles which cannot be produced here or for which no sub stitute can be produced are listed by the Commerce department as only semi-necessities. '?iey are coffee, tea. cocoa, camphor, cinchona bark, cork, opium, cloves and pepper. Cataclysmic upheavals would trans form American economic and social life if imports came to include only the unproduclble necessities or even the semi-necessities listed by the de partment. But It could be done. Commerce experts have sorted out not only the products which America must have, but also those now being Imported which could be produced do mestically under favorable price con I ditlons, which could be replaced by i American substitutes and which are partly produced at home already.. Together these categories, which embrace only go articles in all, are half of the skeleton of American for elgn trade. Altogether their cost in 1931 did not make up more than 50 | per cent of what the United States ac tually spent on Imports. The other half of the skeleton Is the ten leading American exports, cotton, petroleum, automobiles and other ve hides, Industrial machinery, tobacco, fruits and nuts, grains, nonferrous and nonprecious metals, and coal and related fuels. They are the goods bringing the most money, in the order named, into this country. ! If foreign trade were suddenly cut to the skeleton, if America bought Only Diamond Mines in U. S. Are in Arkansas Murfreesboro, Ark.? Arkansas is the only state that can boast of a dia mond mine or diamond deposits ? yet little Is known of this industry even by residents. There arc diamonds in Pike county. Arkansas, that blind the eye with their brilliance and beauty and are ns fine as those mined from the Klmberlys in Africa. The largest stone to be taken from Arkansas soil weighed 8 carets. Thou sands of the finest qunllty have been sold. As early as 18S9 the geological sur vey of Arkansas published an article on the peridotlte ,pf Pike county It was not taken seriously. In fact, the matter was laughed at. However, In 1900 when John Iludles ton picked up two glittering pebbles from his farm near here and took them to Little Rock, where they were examined by Jewelers who pronounced them genuine diamonds, the doubting | Thomases began to dig, too. Later these stones were sent to New York, where they were cut and pol ished. They weighed approximately three carats. One company alone has marketed over r>,000 diamonds. They range as large In size ns 20 % carats only the 00 commodities oo the Com merce department list and sold only the ten types of goods now most large ly sold abroad, she would still have had a $280,000,000 favorable balance of trade on the basis of 1931 figures. Economic maturity stealing upon Uncle Sam Is revealed in the two lists, the one of Important exports and the other of vital imports. America is no longer a young country pouring out bounteous raw materials In exchange for manufactures. Two of the lead ing exports, automobiles and Industrial machinery, are manufactures. All Are Raw Materials. Imports tell the same story. All of them are raw materials and most of them, not being native, would have to be bought regardless of the coun try's economic age. Others of the es sential Imports, however, disclose the exhaustion or outstripping of natural resources known as economic middle age. For Instance, America, the land of lush forests, must Import pulp wood. None of the six absolutely Irreplace able Imports? platinum, tin, manila, sisal, kapok and rubber ? ever have been produced In this country, how ever. They play a very small part in America's actual Import business. Most costly Import on the depart ment's whole list Is sugar. It Is clas sified as a necessity which we Import but which we also produce In some measure at home. Silk, a semi-necessity for which American products could be substi tuted, commands the second largest Import business among the articles listed. China, Japan, and Italy ship It Into this country. Coffee, an Irre placeable semi-necessity Is third In Im portance, and newsprint, a necessity HELLO! WHITE HOUSE Miss Louise Hachmelster of New York has the distinction of being the first woman to hold the post of tele phone operator nt the White Llousa Miss Hachmelster won the esteem of President Roosevelt during the busy A days of his recent campaign, serving ^ as telephone operutor at Democratic headquarters In New York. produced In part at home, Is fourth. Taken together these four Imports made up exactly a third of the money spent abroad for imports during 1031. They composed 59 per cent of the cost of goods listed by the department as necessities and semi-neeessltles. Aft er them In Importance comes rubber and wood pulp. Between these six commodities and the other necessary and semi necessary imports is a great gap. Will Forecast Weather Month in Advance ?.?> ? | Scientist Says It Will Come J in Our Lifetime. Chicago. ? Cold waves such as the nation recently recovered from will be accurately forecast by science more than a month in advance in the not distant future, according to I)r. Oliver Justin Ix?e, head of the Dearborn As tronomical observatory. He declared this would undoubtedly be accomplished by science within our lifetime as a result of a world-wide study of solar radiation now being made under the direction of the lead ing scientific minds. Completion of this gigantic task will mean the fulfillment of a dream long cherished by science to make possible "long distance" weather forecasting. Ifc1 will mean the saving of untold millions of dollars from crop losses throughout the world, and a tremendous advance to avlntlon. "Since solar radiation is the basis of all life, science has been concen trating on It to give us the answers, to many problems that now confront Squatters Use Home in Owner's Absence Loveland, Colo. ? When Carl Oooch and his wife went to Cali fornia, "squatters" moved into- the Gooch residence and made them selves at home. Upon his return to Loveland Oooch discovered that the unin vited guests had moved out with some of the furniture, linen, towels and clothing. They had used a quantity of coal and wood and had depleted the pantry shelves. The only satisfaction Oooch was able to get out of the visit whs the knowledge that the "squatters" were clean. They had taken a bath and left the wnter in the bathtub I as evidence. Getting Oil From the Back Yards Oklahoma has another <SI1 hoom, this time a serlofl of backynrd oil wells flrlltod on city lot* on tho edge of the residential flection of IllackweU. Two of tho oil "miners" aro shown working their well, which Is the smallest In the world. Tho wells come In at an avorajce depth of only 28 feet from an oil sand 18 Inches deep. They are being drilled with post augers and pumped by hand with common farm pitcher pumps, and each hns a yield of flvo or six barrels a day. us," Doctor I/ee said. "Many observations have been estab lished throughout the world, particu larly for the purpose of studying solar radiation, until now virtually a world-wide network exists in which sci entists for many nations are repre sented. "Specillc instruments have been de vised especially for this study of the changing intensity of the sun's radia tion, and recordings are taken each day all over the world where the sun shines." While sun spots have "a tremendous connection" with the earth's weather. Doctor I>ee said they cannot yet be held responsible for such rapid changes in temperature as noted during the re cent cold wave, because "nobody has yet found any direct connection." The sun is now going into the mini mum stage of its eleven-year-sun spot cycle, Doctor Lee explained, and this leads to the belief sometimes that in tense cold weather is d\ie In such a period. This does not hold true, he said, despite the fact that at times solar heat varies from 2 to 3 per cent at the minimum sun spot stage. Paris Plans Organizing Felines to Combat Rats Paris. ? The city Of Paris may raise an nrmy of municipal cats to combat the growing menace of rnts. The people of the Folie-Merlcourt quarter, one of the oldest in Paris, some of them on the verge of aban doning their apartments to the rodents, are clamoring for cats. Their alder man, M. Rene Piquet, at their demand has Just made a complaint to Prefect Edouard Renard of the Seine depart ment. Paris has before It the examples set by Lyons and Havre, In Lyons, Kdouard Herrlot, mayor and former j premier of France, has Instituted "chatteries" ? French for cat raising | centers ? to combat rats. In Havre, Mayor Leon Meyer, now minister of merchant marine, has done the same thing. Heretofore, Paris has contented It self with providing free rat poison, j Hut poison has not proved adequate to counterbalance the high birth rate of French rats. "It must he kept In mind," declared M. Flqnet to M. Renard, "that a pair of rats produce from 50 to 08 off spring a year, in throe lifters." Indian Dances Menace Farms, Canada Dccides Ottawa, Ont. ? After grnve argument the Canadian house of commons has | decided that Canadian Indians may not don aboriginal costume and attend pageants or dances without special permission from the nearest Indian agent. The amusement and enter tainment with which they hnve pro vided t lie white mnn lias been tho ruination of many nn Indian farm, wrecked through neglect, it was stated by the government. Book "Lost" 17 Years Is Returned to Library Hlrmlngham, Ala.-^A campaign for the return of overdue books at tho Hlrmlngham public library recently brought back a volumo that had beo?i missing since 1017, The campaign lasted three wcks, during which pe riod no overdue lines were assosHod. There were 0,207 books returned dur ing the drive. Odd Divorce Suit I* W on Kan Francisco. ? -Recause her hus band, Herman Herger, New York Hty subway motormnn, had his hair mar celled and then permanently waved, his wife Hannah Obtained an Interloc utory decree of divorce. She termed her husband's actions "mental cruelty,' "