The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, August 09, 1933, Image 2
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
Death for Kidnaping
The President's Address
Sloan's Good News
Great Gondwanaland
The big news comes from Kansas
City, Mo., where Walter McGee, who
kidnaped Mary McKlroy and collected
$30,000 ransom, Is sentenced to death,
to make sure thnt he will never kid
nap another woman.
This first Infliction of the death
penalty In connection with kldhaplng
in the United States, Is believed by a
Kansas City Jury, and the prosecuting
attorney and others, a step toward
discouraging kidnaping.
The population of the United States,
and a great part of the civilized world
outside discusses President Roosevelt's
admirable radio address. Its deep sin
cerity and lofty purpose.
"Omens" do not bother the Presi
dent, who speaks with pride of the
crowded events of "the hundred days"
since his Inauguration, that have been
devoted to "starting the wheels of the
new deal."
The expression, the "hundred days,"
was tlrst used to describe the period
between Napoleon's return from Elba,
Mnrch 15, 1815, and June 28. 1815, ;
when Louis XVIII becaim- king, and
the prefect of Paris, welcoming him,
spoke of the cent Jours.
These "hundred ( 1 s" to President
Roosevelt mean da.,, that "will start
the wheels turning now, and not six
months from now."
President Roosevelt is not Interest
ed In anything around the corner.
One encouraging "straw" showing
which way the prosperity wind is
blowing comes from the General Mo
tors company. Mr. Alfred P. Sloan,
Jr., General Motors president, Informs
you that earnings on the 43,500,000
shares of his company for the first
three months of this year were seven
times greater than In the same period
last year. The General Motors com
pany earned for Its stockholders In
three months, after paying all charges
and taxes, more than $41,000,000.
Did you ever hear of Gondwana
land? It is not only real, but the big
gest thing on earth bnrrlng the Pacific
ocean. Geologists In Washington want
you to know about Gondwanaland, gi
gantic continent that disappeared be
low the ocean 150,000,000 years ago.
That huge continent, as big as Eu
rope and Asia together, named for
Gondwana, district of Central Asia,
may Interest us when we begin explor
ing and exploiting treasures that lie
below the water.
There are under sea in Gondwana
land great beds of coal, much Iron,
and heaven knows what else in the
way of gold and other precious stuff.
Two strange deaths In Now York.
A man, very poor Henry Jellnek, fifty
years old, bought a roll In a restau
rant, put poison on It, ate some, went
to the washroom ahd died.
A woman, Lillian Rosenfeld, who
left $45,000 In one bank, and had been
Bleeping In a cellar on a broken bed
with no mattress, seized the bread
that the man had left, swallowed It,
and she, too, died.
If you want to do It, as President
Roosevelt said, you can do It, and Mr.
Farley, new postmaster general, Is en
gaged In demonstrating the soundnoss
of that observation. According to his
assistant, Ambrose O'Connell, Mr. Far
ley has practically wiped out the pos
tal deficit of $153,000,000 In a few
months and without hurting the mall
service. If that can he done, many
other things probably could be done.
Germany's new government contin
ues to pass laws that It thinks may he
necessary or useful. The penalty for
"spreading lies," Including stories of
"atrocities" against Jews or others, la
to bo death.
An attempt ?n the life of a member
of the Nazi army will be punished by
death.
Captain Goerlng, for Chancellor Hit
ler, announces that he Is about to
"take hold with the mailed fist" and
"whoever lays hands on the National
Roelailst (Nazi) movement shall know
that he will pay with his life In the
shortest time, simple establishment of
Intention being sufficient for convic
tion."
Geologists gathered In Washington
give all sorts of Interesting Informa
tion, and Incidentally reassure you, If
you are worried by gentlemen occa
sionally announcing the end of the
?world.
The sun. according to Doctor Lane,
while using up Its mass at the rato
of 3,700.000 tons per second. Is so big
thnt "only two-thousandths of the to
tal will ho used up In ten million
years." Many things should be ac
complished In thnt length of time,
considering thnt all human history,
about which we really know anything,
goes back less than 10, 000 years, or
a one-millionth part of the rime that
lies Immediately nhtad of us.
General Balho's flight with twenty
four pianos from Italy to Chicago anrt
New York shows thnt ftaly under
stands flying machines.
And now Nlcaragnn has made a con
tract with an Italian company to pro
vide fttr mall and air passenger service
to every Nlcnraguan flying fleld.
Roma American company xeeins to
have missed nn opportunity.
ItM, by Kin* feature* Syndicate, In*
WNU S?rvto?.
"I Love Hubby" Club
Cheers Up Spouses
Puente, Calif. ? Long suffering
husbands here were walking prim
rose paths following formation of
"I Love My Husband club."
The club, sponsored by the La
Puente Valley Journal, was estab
lished for the promotion of a more
humane treatment of husbands.
The club never meets, and has no
dues. The sole requirement for
members Is the practice of devo
tion to husbands.
Husbands are behind the club.
"It's a great Idea," said one hus
band. "We have a Mother's day,
and a Father's day, but the poor
hard working husbands appear to
be forgotten altogether."
WARS ON GANGSTERS
Joseph H. Keenan, Cleveland attor
ney, at his desk In the Department of
Justice where he directs the co-ordi
nated federal-state-niunlclpal crusade
against gangsters and racketeers.
Keenan, who gained valuable experi
ence In his drive on Cleveland gang
sters In 1910, has begun by compil
ing a comprehensive list of gangland
personnel. Politicians with criminal
affiliations will come In for special
attention, he said.
1932 Decreases U. S.
Weddings, Diverges
Census Officials Cite Job
Scarcity as Reason.
Washington. ? Cupid has been hit by
the depression, but his bitterest enemy,
divorce, has suffered even more.
The bureau of the census has dis
closed that the third year of the de
pression, 1932, saw a sharp decrease
both In marriages and divorces.
The bureau gave no reasons, but of
ficials express their belief that unem
ployment, reduced earning power, and
lack of confidence In the Immediate
future were responsible.
Marriages in 1932 totaled PSl,7f>n,
the bureau reported, compared with
1,000,791 In 1031, a decrease of 7.5 per
cent. The decline began In 1930 with
a drop of 5.9 per cent.
Divorces were 100,329 In 1932, com
pared with 183,004 In the previous
year ; the decrease was 12.7 per cent,
while the 1930-'31 decline was 4.1 per
cent.
There were In 1932, the bureau
stated, 7.9 marriages lor every 1,000
persons In the country's total popu
lation of 124,822,000, as compared with
8.5 In 1931 when the population was
124,070,000. At the same time, there
were 1.28 divorces for every 1.000 of
population in 1932, as against 1.48
in 1931.
Viewing Figures by States.
In arriving at the national percent
age decrease in the number of wed
dings, the bureau found the declines
in various states ranging from a drop
of 43.5 per cent in Iowa to only 0.8
per cent In Texas.
In ten states the bureau found In
creases In the number of marriages.
These gains were attributed Infer
ential))' by the statistical census of
ficials to eluding stringent marriage
laws by skipping across a state to
the nearest parson in a more liberal
neighboring state.
"All ten states," the bureau said,
"adjoin those In which recent changes
made in the marriage laws require
Lumber Mills Are Busy as Prices Mount
<S
Payrolls Increase and Produc
tion Shows Gain.
Now Orleans. ? Long faces In the
southern pine lumber Industry, which
ranks second to King Cotton as the
big shot of Dixie pny rolls, are bright
ening.
Employment has Increased, prices
have gone up, and the plies of lumber
weathering In the mill yards have di
minished.
After the stock market crash the
Industry, under urglngs from the
White House not to create unemploy
ment by reducing manufacturing out
put, and assured that prosperity was
Just around the corner, carried on.
During 1931 the price of lumber, un
der the weight of piled up, unsold, un
wanted lumber In mill yards, slumped
rapidly. Operators offered their wares
at lower and lower prLes In an effort
to move the product and cnsh to
meet pay rolls, bank obligations and
taxes.
In January, 1933, the Southern Pine
Association reported that for one week
17,974,000 feet of lumber were rannu
Dramatic Fights to Save
Wild Fowl Are Reported
Washington. ? Dramatic utorles of
men battling frigid blasts and treach
erous terrain to save thousands of wa
terfowl from starvation last winter
are told In a report of the biological
survey.
Fighting through Icy weather, 20 to
40 degrees below zero, United States
Came Protector Kenneth F. Itoahen
and helpers on foot and sled carried
corn and wheat donated by farmers
and sportsmen to selected feeding sta
tions In southern Montann during n
severe February freeze. There the
grain was gobbled by thousands of
half-famlshed wild ducks, most of
them iiiHllards.
Earlier In the winter Reservation
Protector Hugh M. Worcester at the
Upper Klamath Wild Life refuge, Ore
gon, led a score of volunteers on a
two day trip which resulted In the
saving of 1,200 Ice-bound ducks and
100 horned and eared grebes. The
birds were transported to pens at ref
uge headquarters for recovery.
Woman Battles 20 Hours
and Lands 400-Pound Fish
New York. ? Mrs. Oliver O. flrlnnell.
of New York and Hay Shore, with the
help of Wally Itaker, cnptain of her
boat, the Ollgrln. landed on rod and
reel In the gray dawn off Fire Island,
n 400-pound broadtail swordflsh. after
a battle lasting 20 hours. In making
this catch Mrs. Orlnnell. who Is the
holder of the women's Atlantic broad
hill swordflfch record, experienced her
greatest offshore adventure and at the
same time Inaugurated the 1933 North
Atlantic big game fishing season.
Antftlopn Hat 119-Inch Horns
Cambridge, Mass.? Horns r>9 Inches
long ? within 5 Inches of the world rec
ord ? grace a mounted giant sable an
telope which haR been added to the
rare anlnml collection at. the Harvard
museum of comparative zoology. The
antelope was bagged by Prentles Cray,
of New York, In Portuguese Angola
and presented by him.
factured but only l.i, 000, 000 feet
shipped. Unfilled orders totaled only
10,013,000 feet.
Then the nation went off the gold
standard and by May 27 the tile of
unfilled orders had risen to 40,0.r;6,000
feet, a clear pain of 30,043,000 feet, or
almost twice the shipments of the first
week of the year.
Shipments for the year to date, 512,
022,000 feet, have surpassed produc
tion by 71,009,000 feet, reducing piled
up stocks by that amount.
The stock decrease, combined with
the Increase In unfilled orders, shows
a total gain in business of over 100,
000,000 feet.
During the week of May 27, the
mills reported they shipped 38,1)41,000 J
feet, or more than the totals of the
first two weeks of the year. During
that same week, production was 20.
803,000 feet, an Increase which
brought more employment and bigger
pay rolls to be spent with tne mer
chants.
South American Indians
First Mathematicians
Kansas City, Mo. ? Indians In Cen
tral America used anaesthetics long he
fore Columbus made his voyage of dis
covery, and were acquainted with the
fundamentals of mathematics long be
fore white men learned thein, according
to Gregory Mason, explorer and arch
eologlst.
"How many Americans realize," Ma
son r d, "that the Toltecs built a
pyramid three times as great in hulk
as the biggest In Kgypt, that the
Peruvians made tapestries finer titan
any of Europe, and that the Mayan.<
Invented zero 0(K) years before the
Hindus ? which means that the Mayans
were able to multiply and divide 1,(KK)
years before Europeans could.
"The red skinned natives of Yuca
tan, whom Cortez callod 'Harbarlans,'
were better astronomers than the Eu
ropeans, am' had a cnlendar far more
from three to five days to elapse be
tween the application for a marriage
license and the Issuance of the same.*
The ten states with the rate of
their Increased wedding activity were
Missouri, 3.5 per cent ; South Dakota
2.7 per cent ; Nebraska, 0.0 per cent ;
West Virginia, 1.7 per cent; Missis
sippi, 5.1 per cent ; Arkansas, 5.2 per
cent; Oklahoma, less than one-tenth
of 1 per cent ; New Mexico, 0 per
cent; Arizona, 1 per cent, and Utah
one-half of 1 per cent.
For every divorce in this country
during 1032, the bureau disclosed,
there were 0.1 marriages. This repre
sented a distinct gain for the mar
riages. Last year there were 5.8 wed
dings for every divorce.
Nevada Leads List.
Nevada, with its Reno, continued to
lead the list of states In the ratio
of divorces to marriages. Nevada re
ported nearly as many endings as be
ginnings of married life. There were
only 1.8 weddings for every divorce
in the state. New York and the Dis
trict of Columbia, on the other hand,
reported 21.4 and 35.3 weddings for
every divorce during the year.
In Illinois during the year, the na
tional slump In both marriages nrul
divorces was reflected, although, the
decline In divorces was by far the
heavier. Weddings in the state num
bered 05,088. the bureau revealed, for
a decrease of 9.1 per cent. Divorces
totaled 11,745, declining by 15.5 per
cent from the preceding year. There
were 5.5 marriages for every divorce,
and 8.4 weddings for every 1,000 of
population in the state, as compared
with 1.51 divorces.
Wisconsin reported 14.035 marriages
during the year, for a decrease of 5.1
per cent from 1031. Divorces totaled
2,358 In the state, declining by 10.0
per cent. There were 0 marriages for
every divorce and 4.7 weddings and
0.70 divorces, for every 1,000 of popu
lation.
In Indiana, marriages numbered 3G,
105, dropping by 5.0 per cent, while
divorces totaled 0,322 for a decrease of
13.1 per cent. For every divorce
there were 5.7 weddings, while for
every 1,000 inhabitants of the state
there were 11 marriage and 1.93
divorces.
accurate than the one Columbus was
using and in some ways even superior
to the one we use today."
Mason's most recent expedition was
financed Jointly by the Nelson art gal
lery of Kansas City and the Museum
of the American Indlnn, Heye founda
tion, New York.
Drilling for "Dry Ice"
Booms Fields in Texas
Midland, Tex. ? A new type of drill
ing activity Is booming In this sec
tion of Texas. The search now Is for
carbon dioxide gas wells which pro
duce "dry Ice."
Derricks are nelng erected In Mora,
Harding, and Torrnnce counties. The
northeastern part of the state already
has severnl "dry Ice" wells, which
are proving to be better commercial
assets than oil wells.
Nine-Year-Old Writes
and Reads 5 Languages
Dalhart, Tex. ? Bobby Ryan, nine
years old, can speak and read five
languages. He was born of American
parents In Mnnila, Philippine Islands,
where he had n Chinese nurse. He
acquired a Japanese nurse when his
family moved to Yokohama and
Tokyo. He learned the French and
Spanish languages from books and
conversation.
White Men Forbidden to
Fish on Reservation
I'ocatello, Idaho. ? There was weep
ing and walling among sportsmen here
when the Indian council at the Fort
Hall Indian reservation ruled tlint
white men could not fish there under
any circumstances. As the re""rvn
tlon Includes choice fishing spo> s whlto
sportsmen are pleading with dln.ig
for a reversnl of the order.
Cathedral Work Halts ? No Funds
Air slow of the magnificent new national cathedral now in ,>roooHH of
ronat ruction nt Mt. St. Albans near Washington. The *reat atrueturo la but
one-third completed and construction has heen temporally halted duo to lack
of funds. Ten million dollars In needed to complete tbe Job.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington. ? Reminiscent of the
stirring days of 1017, leaders In the
. nation are calling for
Rallying patriotic s n p p ?, r t.
for New War 8l)eake?? '?re abroad
,, , ln the land with u
call for united effort, posters dap from
the walls of public places, all In a
new war. Hut this war being conduct
ed by our government and Its people Is
a war to release the country from the
bondage of an economic enemy, a
final gigantic drive to restore a people
to the plane where happiness can re
P ace destitution, where steady em
ployment can replace idle time and
^here profits will appear Instead of
bankruptcy.
The government, through President
Roosevelt, Is calling upon nil and
sundry to stand together again Just
as firmly as they did Just about this
time of the summer of 1917. Instead
or t lie draft of men, however, the gov
ernment Is asking only that etnplovers
of labor, those who manufacture
things to sell, those who engage in
business of any kind, conform to cer
tain rules. Those who buy the things
that are produced by labor are asked
to help In the cause by refusing to
deal with the Individuals who do not
co-operate and agree to the rules from
which the President expects so much
good to come.
And so we have n national code a
national agreement, rt set of rules of
conduct. While the farm relief legis
lation Is getting under wav, and it Is
well under way. that farm 'prices mav
be Incrensed, the government has at
tacked the other phase of the prob
I JPni, namely, relief for the millions
" hose lot it Is to live and work in
the cities. For them he is promising
s lorter hours of work, a retention, if
not an actual Increase, in pa v.' Of
the manufacturers and the wholesalers
and the retailers, the government Is
asking that prices be n<?t raised he
.vond the necessities resulting from
Increased cost of raw materials and
wages, in other words, the govern
ment has asked that there he no
profiteering, Just as It demanded dur
ng the World war that some consid
eration be given the consumer.
No one can predict with what suc
cess this new drive will be attended.
It Is new In character. It Is described
bv (len. Hugh S. Johnson, the na
tional recovery administrator, as an
appeal to the conscience and opinion
of the people and to their good In
stincts. I quote the general further:
"After four years of hopeless and
seemingly helpless suffering and Inac
tion it would be unforglveable not to
open to the country the chance It now
has under this law to unite once more
find overcome and maybe to defeat
the depression. This Is a test of pa
triotism. It is the time to demonstrate
the faith of our fathers and our be
lief In ourselves.
"We are a people disciplined bv
democracy to a self-control ? sufficient
to unite our purchasing power? our
labor power ? our management power
to cnrry out this great national cov
enant with vigor, with determination,
but with the calm composure and fair
play which always mark the American
way."
j And true to the thought, the philos
j ophy, of that last sentence, the govern
J ment Is seeking to obtain the co-opera
, tion of nil of the people who must
I make concessions by having them
I make agreements with the President
j voluntarily. The President said when
, he signed the historical document that
there would be no coercion It i? thr?
American way.
? ? ?
Tn brief, the government Is propos
Ing that actual agreements will tie
signed by the thou
* sands who are being
NationalCode nsk<>(' to make con
cessions. The mill
carriers have delivered blanks to all
of them. FCach blank carries a state
merit of fourteen points t.. which the
employer of labor, the manufacturer
of commodities for trade, the retailer
or other dealer, is being asked In sub
scribe They constitute the national
code, ft is to be effective from August
to December 31. Uy that time, it |?
hoped that Individual industries of all
kinds will have had nr. opportunity to
work out codes, acceptable to fjeneral
Johnson, that will serve as rules of
principles and practice for that par
ticular Industry, whether If he Tor the
makers of g|?e. rnolders of pottery or
the manufacturer In (be heavy' in I
dustry such as steel. The national I
code Is a stop-gnp, ? bridge for the
recovery machinery to use while n
permanent passage way to prosperity
Is being erected on a firm foundation
Industry must pledge its,. if nr,t fo
circumvent the agreement |? ?f)V ,vnv
bor must pledge Itself m ??mi dls
tnrbances resulting from Its ?se of
the strike as n weapon. .xiflf0 hoards
"re being set up-they have been
named In most sta;,s~fo help out the
national admlnlst ration. Child labor
h barred. A week of thirty five hours
of work Is prescribed and if the estnb
llshment must sfa.y open longer, more
people can have Jobs, nil ,,t the old
rate of pay. 1 '
While the recovery administrator's
explanation of the code snld f|?.ro
would be no coercion, it does seem
pressure will be used if the basic
agreements do not come in. signed at
?? rapid rate, ft may not be coercion
but certainly there Is a tremendous
economic force to be used, for the con
sumers are asked to deal only with
those who have signed agreements to
conform.
During all of this drive to get things
going again ? the code calls It the
"President's drive for re-employment"
? there are apt to be many unfair and
unjust acts by the overzealous. There
are certain to be recalcitrants who aro
unwilling to make concessions for til's
common good. But the most im
portant class of all of those who may
not comply will be those who are un
able to comply because, to do so, they
would be bankrupt.
? ? ?
I have heard it suggested In conver- (
sations here that the sudden move to
.blanket the nation
Answering with a voluntary
the Skeptics nproement on busi
ness conduct might
cause many persons In the country to
become skeptical that things wore not
going so well. It was feared thati
those without complete Information aaJ
to the plans and purposes of the goifl
eminent might look upon the t'a^|
reaching action as meaning that a nevN
crisis was impending. The suggestions
were not altogether without support
ing reason. In the deluge of visitors
who have come here to draft new
codes in conference with (Jeneral
Johnson, many have come with doubt
In their mind as to the value or the
Justice of the whole scheme. They
were honest in their Judgment and
simply viewed the program as unwork
able and as forcing them into unnec
essary hardships. It seems, therefore
that an analysis of some of the rea
sons for the national code should he
made after it has been stated with
some emphasis that there Is no new
crisis, nothing more serious than he
fore, to be seen on the horizon of the
Immediate future.
It will be remembered that the an
nounced program of the President
when h(? started the recovery plan w:?s
fo boost commodity prices. He wanted
to see t lie farmers get more for their
products as a means of saving agri
culture from the Inevitable bow-wows
and he wanted the other sources of In
dustrial life to profit. As long as
prices were so low, Uiere could be no
restoration of normal business activity,-.
In the President's view.
Carrying out this line of reasoning,
there came the farm aid laws, the in
flation authority, the farm and city
home refinancing bills and other pow
ers. The President withdrew govern
ment support of the dollar in foreign
exchange by saying there could be no
gold exported. Obviously, prices went
up. They moved In a hurry. Specu
lation crept into the picture in a big
way. The net result of this was that
the cost of living moved rapidly high
er but wages and salaries lagged be
hind.
The recovery administration thought
the problem could be met by the Indus
trial codes, but the codes were slow
In getting started and numerous con
troversies have arisen between units
of particular Industries and between
whole Industries and the recovery ad
ministration. Delays were serving
only to widen the margin between the
two basic factors of wages and prices,
and so (Jeneral Johnson and the Presi
dent put their bends together on the
code which we have been discussing.
? ? ?
The recent nose dive In grain prices
occasioned quite a bit of talk in Wash
ington officialdom.
Break in especially around tho
Grain Prices 'Wtmont of Agri
culture. Secretary
Wallace, however, was the calmest
man of the lot. He did riot let the fact
disturb him that wheat dropped off 2.r?
cents a bushel in one day for the rea
son, he said, that Mr. John Q. Public
was gambling In the market. Sooner
or later, the secretary said. John Q.
had to take a licking.
Mr. Wul lace said, however, that pub
lic participation In the grain market
was not the sole reason for the sudden
decline. He thought the rise In price
bad hoert too rapid ami that a reac
tion had set In. Another man In the
Department of Agriculture likened the
price rise to the growth of bean stalks
In over-rich soil. It went all to top.
Put the secretary said the members
of t fie Board of Trade In Chicago saw
the break coming and they sought to
protect themselves hy en Ming for more
collateral or cash from those who
were trading on margins. That nat
urally had the effect of frightening
many speculators, according to Mr.
Wallace, but be did not blame the
Board of Trade members. ff was
something of a combination of circum
stances, then, that broke 'he grain
markets.
Nevertheless, the Department of At,
rlculture Is watching the grain trading
through numerous pairs of eves. One
of the things It already has done Is to
Invoke the provisions of the grain fu
tures law which requires the Board of
Trade at Chicago to make dally re
ports of Individual trading where the
amounts are bushels or more.
The purpose of that Is to keep the de
partment Informed as to who the big
speculators are, since It Is conceived
that a speculator can Influence the
market seriously with lots of about
r>00,000 bushels.
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