The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, July 26, 1933, Image 2
This Week
h Arthur Brisbane
Praise Roosevelt
Mr. Hitler Copy Cats
Uncle Sam in Business
Turks and Americans
President Roosevelt will be remem
bered for mail; things, heaven only
knows how many, at the rate he Is
traveling In unexplored fields, but
praised by no one more gratefully
than by 16,000 American postmasters
whose jobs and future he seeks to
make Secure, planning to put them
under civil service rules, no longer to
be the plaything of polltjcs. This Is
all the more praiseworthy since these
postmasters are, generally, Republican
appointees.
Chancellor Hitler, borrowing from
President Rooseve't,- , or perhaps he
thought df It himself, puts all Ger
man business under government super,
vision. Business and labor will be un
der police control, with strikes, lock
outs, and other labor disputes "sup
pressed." Later there Is to come a
definite arrangement of all these
tilings.
Mere, various "codes" poverning In
dustry and businesses are expected to
end much wastefulness of strikes and
lockouts.
* Unless certain that you have pro
vided for everything, old ape Included,
keep going. It Is very hard to be sure,
and dangerous to stop. In New York
Dr. E. M. Well thought he had enough,
retired, found at the age of sixty that
he must work again and tried to re
build his abandoned practice. The
attempt failed and n frier.d found Doc
tor Well and his little dot? both dead.
The doctor knew the dop could not
make a living and gave It strychnine
before taking the poison himself.
The moral Is: Keep on working.
Idleness Is dull ; and It Is dangerous
since the bottom can drop out of any
thing.
Government tells farmers to reduce
wheat acreage 20 per cent, tells the
cotton men to reduce. Suddenly, It
discovers that this year's wheat crop
will be the smallest In 40 years; the
oat crop smallest on record. That
may explain the sudden rise In grain
prices. Speculators knew what was
going to happen before the govern
ment knew.
The government will Investigate,
regulate, and, if necessary, direct
every kind of business. That Is the
biggest news since the war started.
A minimum wage an^ a maximum
"hours of work" schedule will apply
to every business and Industry.
Under the rule of the sultan and
his pashas In Turkey, citizens were
careful to hide their wealth arid look
poor. What the pashas saw they
took. Americans know how these
Turks felt. Whatever government ?
national, state or local ? sees It takes
In part
New York needs money and pro
poses, through the board of alder
men, to tax hairdressers, hat check
ladles, soda water salesmen, motion
picture machine operators, candymak
ers and "cosmetolof^sts" who work
In beauty parlors.
Thus far nobody has suggested tax
ing the baby's rattle, but that may
come.
The United States govemiment pro
poses a kidnaping law to cover the
whole country. That would Interfere
seriously with kidnaping enterprises,
In which local officials sometimes co
operate, hs in a recent cnse when a
pollcemnn arrested the kidnaped man
nnd turned him over to the profes
sional kidnapers. If the government's
secret Bervlce takes kldnnping ns seri
ously as It does counterfeiting, it will
be bad for kidnapers.
News from Washington plenses big
oil companies nnd those that own their
oil stocks. The President, under the
Industrial recovery net, prohibits ship
ment In Interstate commerce, of oil
distributed In violation of state con
servation laws.
Secretary fakes, who knows the Im
portance of government regulations to
protect the country's oil supply, saya
this will stop the Illegal shipment of
500,000 barrels a day.
r .
Money Is not plentiful In Japan.
One state In this Union Is richer than
the Japanese empire. But where self
defense Is concerned Japnn does not
hesitate, and she will spend $160,000,
000 to build up her, navy to equal
Britain's or the United States'.
The Japanese keep up to date. They
will spend $48,000,000 on eight new
air fleets, build six new submarines,
eight torpedo boats, fast cruisers, air
craft carriers of high speed and not
one battleship.
The arrest In New York of Joseph
Tohllnsky and his Son, Henry, shows
that racketeering Is not new. Thirty
years ago Mr. Tobllnsky was convicted
as a horse poisoning racketeer. He
put arsenlo In the feed hags of truck
horses when the owner of the truck
would not pay "for protecting." This
time he I* arrested for kidnaping Mr.
Bornsteln and taking his truckload of
woolens, Now Mr. Bornsteln admits
that he made & denl to be kidnaped
and lose the truck, and he Is In JaU
also. ' ?' *
?, till, by Kin* Feature* Syndicate. In*.
WNIJ Sftrvlfl*.
Rod-Riding Family
- Gets Diet of Worms
Toronto. ? Officials of the Cana
dian National take care of "guests"
who ride the rods.
J. F. Prlngta* general superin
tendent of transportation, received
the following message from the sta
tion agent at Peterborough :
"Car No. 403,102- has Robins' nest
on rods stop Please arrange for
supply of worms at termlnnls stop
The mother Is in charge."
Yardmasters at the various ter
minals had a supply of worms ready (
to feed the robins.
Wailing Room It Popular
in This Movie Theater
Detroit ? The Hollywood theater
here reported a record crowd In Its
"walling room" during the Bhowlng of
a war film recently.
Sixteen mothers repaired to the
room to quiet 10 walling babies. Hut
they were not deprived the pleasure
of listening to and watching the pic
ture.
The walling room, referred to In
more dignified terms *as the "sound
proof nursery," is located in the rear
of the theater. A glass panel allows
the mother to watch the film being
shown out front. Although the room
Is soundproof, a loud speaker brings
the screen voices Inside.
The management of the theater re
ports the room is always occupied
during picture presentation hours.
China at the Chicago World's Fair
"Accomplishment Shines Like the Sun and the Moon" rends an inscrip
tion on this ancient gateway, carved of teakwood, which now stands in front
of the cafe at the Chinese exhibition at A Century of Progress In Chicago.
ACCIDENTAL DEATHS
SHOW DROP IN 1932
Motor Vehicles Still Lead as
Mortality Cause.
Chicago. ? Accidental deaths num
bered 88,000 In the Unlt?d States dur
ing 1932, thus registering a decline for
the second euccessive yoar, according
to "Accident Facts," Just Issued by
the National Safety council. The total
for 1980 was 99,300 and for 1931, 97,
415. Last year's total, therefore, was
10 per cent under 1931 and 11.5 per
cent under 1930, the all-time maxi
mum. The 1932 total Is also smaller
than In any year since 1924, when 85,
684 persons were killed In accidents.
I Motor vehicles still lead as a cause
of accidental death. Automobile ac
cidents took 29,500 lives last year,
home accidents claimed 28,000. public
fatalities (not involving motor ve
hicles) 18,000, and occupational acci
dents 15,000. About 2,.r>00 occupational
deaths also Involved a motor vehicle
and this duplication must be eliminat
ed to urrlte at the 88,000 total.
There were approximately 8,400,000
accidental injuries last year and the
wage loss, medical expense and over
head insurance cost Involved In in
juries and deaths totaled $2,000,000,000.
Fewer Motor Accidents.
Last year witnessed the first drop
ever recorded in motor vehicle acci
dents. The total of 29,.r>00 deaths may
be contrasted with 33,075 In 1931,32-929
In 1930, 31,215 in 1929 and 27,990 in
1928. The percentage decrease last
year vyas about double the decrease In
motor vehicle travel as reflected In
gasoline consumption.
About 44 per cent of all traffic acci
dent fatalities Involved pedestrians.
In addition to the 29,500 motor
vehicle deaths last year there were
approximately 1,035,000 non-fatal In
juries of which about 85,000 were per
manent in character. The cost of
these accidents, not including prop
erty damage, Is estimated at $020,
000,000.
Speed Not Always Factor.
In about 4% per cent of the fatal
accidents reported, the driver had been
drinking. In less than 1 per cent were
poor eyesight or other physical de
I fects noted. Thus 95 per cent of tlie
victims had no apparent physical or
I mental defect which should have pre
vented the efficient operation of the
WAY ABOVE HIGH C
Miss Kathleen I-awler, twenty-one
year-old graduate of the tlnlverslty of
Washington music depnrhnent, can
ulng nn octave and five tones above
high C, which Is nn accomplishment
rtot oven the greatest of modern so
prano* has been able to equal, Accord
ing to Prof. August Werner, her
tftfloher.
vehicle which they were piloting.
Although the importance of speed la
an accident fact which cannot be ig
nored, most of the fatal accidents In
cities occurred when the vehicle was
traveling at a rate of between 'JO and
29 miles per hour.
Occupational accidents took 15.CHX)
lives last year. This compares with
17,500 In 1931, 19,000 In 1930 and 20,
000 in 1929. In addition, there were
approximately 1,200,000 non-fatal in
juries.
Tobacco, laundry, cement, and the
printing and publishing Industries are
the "safest" industries as far as the
relative frequency of accidents per
man-hours worked Is concerned. The
lumbering, mining and construction In
dustries have the worst records, both
in frequency and severity.
Fatalities In Home.
Home accidents claimed 28.000 lives
last year, only l,.r>00 less than motor
vehicles. They nlso caused about
4,195,000 non-fatal injuries.
While domestic fatalities dropped
slightly from the preceding year, the
decline Is smaller than in any of the
other principal classes.
Approximately 43 per cent of all
home fatalities are the Result of falls
and another 19 per cent are charge
able to hurnH, scalds and explosions.
The kitchen seems to be the most dan
gerous spot In the house, for 34 per
cent of the fatalities occur there. An
other 23 per cent occur on stairs and
In halls.
Deaths caused by public accidents
(not motor vehicle) dropped to 18.000
In 1932 and non-fntal injuries are esti
mated at 2,160,000.
Drownings and firearms played the
largest part In this toll.
General 10% Reduction
Made in '32 State Costs
Chicago. ? Costs of the majority of
state governments were reduced by ap
proximately 10 per cent in 1932, ac
cording to a survey by the national
organization to reduce public expendi
tures.
In seventeen scattered states, whose
total operating expense was $907,324,
880 In 1932, the organization now says
there is reason to believe the com
bined expenditures will be $81G,r>89,530,
or a drop of almost $100,000 000.
Three of the seventeen states con
sidered, however, show their expenses
had risen in the last six months. They
are Delaware, Pennsylvania and New
Hampshire. Both Delaware and Penn
sylvania expect tremendous cuts In ex
penses for the coming year, members
of the reduction body said. Delaware
will reduce expenditures by $5,000,000,
while Vensylvania's costs are expected
to drop more than $27,000,000.
States included In the survey are
Arizona. Connecticut, Delaware, Flor
ida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas,
Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Mexico, New York,
North Dakota. Ohio and Pennsylvania
W omen Are Instructed
in Mechanics of Auto
Hartford, Conn. ? Believing that
women should contribute their share
In keeping up the family automobile,
the Hartford Automobile club has In
stituted a course In tire changing,
lubrication, wheel alignment, brake ad
justment, valve grinding and gwneraJ
repair work, for women only.
Dog Adopts Kitten
Ogden, Utah. ? Queenie, pet dog at
the Volunteers of America headquar
ters here, Is fond of children, so when
the stork didn't bring her enough ? ?
only three ? she went out and returned
with a baby kitten in her mouth, which
she is nursing along with her puppies.
Fight for Estate of Murdered Man
Three Wives to Stage Jieated
Contest for Wealth.
Philadelphia. ? The throe women
who at one time or another were wives
of John It. Fell, not<*.l sportsman, will
stage a heated contest for the $'5,(KK),
000 estate he left when he died of a
mysterious knife thrust In Java last
February.
The latest to Join In the battle Is
his second wife, Mrs. Mildred Hantry
Fell, who claims to have documents
proving her entitled to the hulk of the
estate.
The third wife, Martha Kderton Fell,
formerly of the Follies, f.eeks more
than an Income of $1.*>,000 a year from
I
Tells Odd Fish Story;
Shows Fish to Prove It
Tillamook, Ore. ? -Here's a Paul Bun
yan yarn told by Jack Moors, who
swears It In true. Using clam neck
for halt, Moors hooked a 12- Inch kel
pie. As he hauled It near the surface,
a 2-foot ling cod snapped at the kel
pie, swallowing It. Refore he could
land his double catch, a 4-foot-long
cod swallowed about half the length
of his smaller brother. A bystander
helped him gaff the triple header. The
largest flsh weighed r?r> pounds and
was put on display In a downtown
window nfl proof of his fish story.
Woman Clerk May Sign
for President Roosevelt
Washington. ? The only person who
may sign the name of President Roose
velt to state documents, besides him
self, Is Mrs. I,eafie F/. Dletr,, a clerk
In the United States land ofllco, who
affixes the (Executive's signature to the
patents of homesteaders on United
States land. The law prescribes ^iAt
this substitute signer must he A wom
an. of whom six have Jiold the honor
since President Andrew Jackson's ad
ministration.
? trust fund, while Mrs. Ogden R.
.Mills, who was Fell's first wife, seeks
to keep the hulk of the estate for her
three children.
Fell's will, filed April 2.r) In Norrls
town, loft Mrs. Fell only the Income
from a trust fund estimated at npprox
Inuitel.v $110,000, while the rest of his
S3, 000, 0(H) estate went to three chil
dren by his first marriage.
Apparently bent on fighting for a
larger share of the estate, the former
Martha Kderton has engaged Attor
ney Joseph Kharfsln to represent her.
The widow, In striving for a more
o<|ual division, will lay claim to the
$.10,000 worth of Jewelry and the lav
ish household furnishings of her hus
band. It Is understood.
Fell, a grandson of the late Anthony
Drexol, was married secretly to Mar
tha Kderton, show-girl and dress-shop '
owner, In January, 1032. She was
touring the F>ast Indies with him when
he met death, which authorities
termed accidental.
Mule Deer Become Tame
Under Care of Ranchman
Lindsay, Cflllf.? J. W. Stlner, Oe
darvllle rancher, claims credit for do
ing what old-time livestock men said
was impossible.
He has a herd of domesticated, I
ranch-reared mule deer, apparently j
contented on his place.
He started the herd, which now '
numbers nine, several years ago, when
one of his cowboys found ? deserted
and starving fawn.
Grocer Pay* Taxi Fare
With Good? From Store
Monroe, La. ? In the splr? of barter
and exchange, a local grocer and a
taxi driver 4m ve reached an agreement
whereby the grocer rides to work ev
ery morning and pays his fare with ft
can of tomatofs4, a can of corn,
two griipefrult.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington. ? One of the most de
pressing factors In the three-year-old
economic crisis has
LeiMon for . been and still is the
Shylocka discouragement ex
perienced by vast
numbers of solid, substantial citizens
as a result of Inability to continue
payments on their farms or homes in
towns and cities. They have strug
gled, worked and saved to apply the
sums so accumulated on a home or
farm that they can call their own. in
the last* three years, thousands upon
thousands of them have seen these
savings swept away, the homes or
forma taken by the holders of mort
gages.
It has taken an extraordinarily long
time, observers here are agreed, for
mortgage holders to learn the lesson
that they gain very little by the shy
lock practice of exacting the pound of
flesh In the shape of foreclosure of
the mortgage. A good many mort
gage holders, such as life insurance
companies, began more than two
years ago to "go easy" In foreclos
ing on property, but unfortunately the
number who pursued that policy were
entirely too few for the good p f the
country or the good of the mortgage
holders as a class, according to the
concensus L gather around the Na
tional Capital.
The result of the failure, or refusal,
of mortgage holders to realize the
conditions confronting them ? I speak
of them as a class ? Is such legislation
as the home loan act. One of these
laws was passed at the request of
President Hoover, but that was re
vamped and a new set-up made at the
request of President Roosevelt. If
the present law works, as it appears
it may, without too much of an ex
pense upon the federal government,
lenders ?f money on farm mortgages
and on homes In towns and cities will
find themselves paying something of a
penalty in the end.
In any analysis of the mortgage sit
uation one cannot overlook the dan
gers Inherent In any governmentally
managed Institution that functions in
a half-way private fashion. The home
loan act and its purposes are subject
to entirely the same influences and
face the same possibilities as the farm
loan act that was Initiated by the
late President Wilson. That enact
ment has cost the government (which
means the taxpayers) many millions
of dollars, yet It has done some good.
Of that there Is no doubt. But It
never does any good to deny weak
nesses. The results will be revealed
eventually, and they will be disclosed
In the home loan act .lust as they
have been shown in the farm loan
law.
But the point of this consideration
Is that extraordinary measures have
been and are necessary. One of the
things that must be accomplished Is
a revival of confidence. It Is agreed
among students of the situation that
If the home loan act and the re
vamped farm loan structure develop
any appreciable amount of new con
fidence or restore old confidence, It
will have been worth the price. If the
combined help extended by those two
laws can enable individual owners of
property to have a feeling of self
reliance, a feeling of security and In
dependence, they will have done much
to lead the country out onto solid
ground of economic prosperity again.
? ? ?
The home loan administration Is ex
ceedingly slow In getting into motion.
Aidrnlttlng that time
Frown on always Is required in
Forocloaurea the i^i-lopnient of
any organi z a t I o n
that is predicated on a new law. It
does appear that the home loan board
has been guilty of too much delay.
It may be said to the board's credit,
however, that It Ih trying to encour
age holders of mortgages to postpone
mortgage foreclosures and to await
the time when the new structure has
been completely formed. The argu
ment being used Is to the effect that
If mortgage holders forego their
rights, as denominated In their mort
gages, for a short while, they have
a chance to emerge from the situa
tion with new bonds on which the
fjov eminent guarantees the interest
payments.
Let us examine that privilege and
see how mortgage owners as well as
home owners may benefit. This must
necesshrlly be considered In conjunc
tion with what the law offers to the
home owner, and which will lend him
to utilize Its privileges.
The mortgage holder may surren
der his existing mortgage to the home
owners loan corporation, the official
name of the agepcy which will han
dle the funds under the supervision
of the home loan board. He will get
In exchange new bonds, hearing 4 per
cent Interest. The payment of the
Interest hn guaranteed by the govern
ment, but the principal of those bonds
remains In the same category no does
the principal of the existing mort
gage. The bonds nre exempt from all
taxation and I think It Is generally
agreed they will constitute a high
class Investment.
It Is to be remembered that the law
limits the amount of the mortgage
that may be Issued against any prop
erty to $14,000. The total loan may
not ho more than 80 per cent of the
appraised value of the home, so that
It may he said the security behind
the bonds Is somewhat better than
average when It Is remembered the
Interest will be paid by the govern
ment If not otherwise. The mortgage
holder obtains a long term bond, be
Is freed from the necessity of making
advances to keep the property In
shape or pay taxes, etc.. and be takes
only the usual chance on the princi
pal.
Now, from the stand|K>lnt of the
home owner, there Is the probability
that the home owners' loan corpora
tion will be more lenient In the matter
of enforcing the terms of Its mort
gage by foreclosure, which It would
have the right to do. That ought to
make home owners feel more secure.
The mortgage holder has another
alternative. Me may borrow up to 40
per cent of the value of the property
and give the home owners' loan cor
poration his mortgage as security.
? ? ?
When the home owner seeks to
use the home loan act prlvlllges. he
gets a benefit In the
May Run shape of a postpone
*c y ment of the matur
10 i ears J(y (,Qte t)f hlg debL
That 1 8, there Is a new mortgage writ
ten and It may run as long as fifteen
years. In addition, If the home own
ers' loan corporation agrees, the home
owner may be allowed what amountH
to a moratorium 1n the payment
either the Interest or any installment
on the principal. That gives the home
owner a breathing spell so that If. for
example, he Is out of a Job but his
reputation for paying his debts la
good, It Is not necessary for him to
lose his home.
Then, the home owner can obtain
funds from the corporation without
the necessity of paying a commission
to anybody, and say what you will,
these commissions for obtaining a
loan are a burden. The law trmkea
sure there will he no commissions
charged by making such an act a
crime.
Another available benefit is pro
vided for the home owner In the pro
vision allowing him to pay off a part
or all of his mortgage with bonds
of the home owners' loan corporation.
It may be readily seen that if by
any chance the bonds of the corpora
tion should sell below par, a borrower
might be able to buy the bonds, say,
at 85 per cent of their value and turn
them in at 100 per cent. Of course,
everybody here connected with ad
ministration of the act Insists that
the bond price will never fall below
pnr, yet there are some who think
that condition may eventuate.
? ? ?
I hope In a few weeks to be able
to discuss the set-up arranged by the
home owners' loan corj>oration by
which home owners can take advan
tage of the legislation's terms. The
machinery Is helng created slowly
and It Is obvious why that is so l>e
cause there will he two agents of the
home loan board In virtually every
county of the nation. They will be
the point of contact for the Individual
home owner and It will be from those
agents that all necessary details ran
be ascertained and with them that
Individual problems may be solved.
? ? ?
The farm loan structure Is soine
what further advanced. There was
some machinery already In existence
for use under the terms of that law
and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the farm
credit administrator, Is getting things
In shape so that his organization soon
will be ' making loans on farm 'ands.
? ? ?
We have Just witnessed the United
States treasury adopt a new system
of reporting Its con
NewTreasury <iltlon. It Is required
o. . . by the Constitution
Statements ^ hy (aw tn (n|lko
public a statement of Its receipts and
expenditures, and a daily statement
of these Items has been Issued con
sistently for many years. Now. how
ever, the statement has appeared In
n new suit of clothes, and an explana
tion of why fids has been done ap
pears to be Important.
For the first time In the history of
this government the treasury actually
Is running a double budget system.
That Is, it Is segregating In one set
of accounts all of the regular ex
penditures such as salaries and ordl I
nary running expenses. In another
set of accounts. It Is listing the so
called extraordinary expenditures. In
these items are the long list of relief
payments, the emergency construction
expenditures, the payments to farm
ers for crops destroyed, nnd olher
outgo of a similar character.
I have heard both criticism and
commendation of the new policy. Pres
ident Roosevelt has maintained that
the emergency expenditures should
not be Included In the regular budget
because they are extraordinary In
character and will not recur, or at
least none of us hopes they will re
cur. 'Die emergency expenditures are
being financed through borrowings by
the government and will be repaid
later so that the President snys they
should not be considered when plans
are being worked out for balancing
the regular budget.
On the other hand. It Is contended
that this Is a dishonest budget, that
It does not properly represent tho
financial standing of our government
<0, 1?JS. Wft?t?f n tinlon.