The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, October 25, 1933, Image 6
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
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New Bonds for Old
Too Many Strikes
Suppose They Earn It?
10,000 Octillions
The United States calls In old
bonds, puts out new ones. It will sell
for cash $500,000,000 worth of the
new bonds. The result will be load
ing on the backs of taxpayers an an
nual Interest charge that would soon
pay off the bonds.
The government could have paid off
those bondB and could pay off all
other bonds now outstanding, with
new money signed by the government,
that woijld -have tyeen exactly as good
as the bonds themselves. If that
were done $20,000,000,000 would be
put Into circulation and prosperity
would return.
Genera) Johnson, boss of NRA, eays >
strikes may doom labor and the NRA,
that they are not "needed under the j
President's mediation machinery. NRA i
may have to veto even the decisions !
of labor unions when Industry and
"40.000.000 workers are organized."
Mr. Grady, assistant secretary of la- (
bor, threatens to ask congress for
power to settle all strikes Involving ,
federal work, thus opening the way i
to government control of unions.
If, as General Johnson suggests, I
40.000,000 workers In the United
States are to be unionized, this ques
tion will have to be settled, which Is
the most powerful union In the United
States, the labor union or the Union
of 48 states?
NRA thinks child movie stars are
paid "more than they should be paid,"
and Is distressed about "directors re
ceiving five or six times the salary of t
the President." The directors will
quote Johnson : "Comparisons are
odious," and suggest, reasonably, that
the question Is not h^v much they
get, but whether they earn whnt they j
get.
If one mining engineer can tell you '
where to find gold, and another only ,
tells you where you can find nothing, j
you would rather have the former,
even at a higher salary. You might
even divide the gold with him "50-50." j
That's all there Is to the "too big
salary" question.
Professor John N. Cameron, mathe
matician at the Northwestern State
Teachers' college, offers this : If
Judas had taken one dollar from his
pieces of silver and Invested It at
4 per cent, compounded semi-annual
ly. the total would amount now to
ten thousand octillions of dollnrs.
You write that figure by putting a
dollar mark and a figure 1, followed
by 28 zeros.
That Is Interesting, not important
On the other hand, and most Im
portant, General Johnson tells you
that If you take one dollar now, spend
It, and put It In circulation, you are
helping a recovery that may not
amount to ten thousand octillions,
but will surely amount to many bil
lions of Amerlcnn dollars every year.
The doctors, gathered In Chicago,
mention 15,008 recent new cures of
cancer, making a total of 24,448 cases
known to have been cured.
What Is more Important, Doctor
Mnyo tells us our lives would be
longer If we would take care of our
selves.
Most Important, proper care will
make the brain last ten years longer,
In good condition.
He suggests that It Is useless to
keep a man alive until ninety and let
his brain die at seventy.
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Gen. R. K. Wood, president of Sears
Roebuck. who proved, working for the
government on the Panama canal aft
er he came from West Point, that he
knows about business and Industry,
snys there Is no doubt that conditions
are improving and "pointing upwnrd."
His report, coming from Innumerable
cities and from the world's biggest
mall order enterprise, shows steady
gains.
General Wood, llko everybody else,
thinks that "something must be don?
about money."
Miss Perkins, secretary of labor,
Informs government "conciliators"
that "you have no right to tell any
editor whnt ho may or may not print
In his news or edltorlnl column." Miss
Perkins seems to have read the Con
stitution. She ought to read it to
some of the others.
In the news comes gruesome items
from Shanghai shedding light on our
"civilization."
Generalissimo Chlnng Kal Mhek hur
riedly Is rushing to Klangsi Province
10.000 hospltnl beds to be rendy to ,
handle the wounded.
Women spend 85 per cent of the j
household money, according to Gen- !
eral Johnson, and he appeals espe
dally to them to support the "Buy
Now" campaign, and thus "help to
keep the waftfp earner on a payroll."
It Is a good Idea to add "Buy Amer
ican" to your "Buy Now" program.
Unless you buy goods made In Amer
ica you nre spending money to keep
some foreigner on a payroll.
The government finds that when
prohibition goes-? and "It will not be
long now"? -this country will have
40,000,000 gallons of whisky ready for
Immediate sale. That ought to last ?
little while.
161111. by King Fc?lur?? Syn<lic?t*. In?
WNU Snrvloo
FARM GIRL CHAMP,
Helen Goodhart, seventeen, milked,
husked, churned and raked her way
to fame when she won the American
farm girl championship at the Los
Angeles county fair in Pomona, Calif.
Her dexterity in the hay raking, milk
ing, butter churning, corn husking,
tractor driving and other events of
the championship contests gave her a
high score of points that outstripped
a large Held of contenders for the title. ,
Non-Bobbing Barber
Quits After 50 Years
Boston. ? Concord, capital of New
Hampshire, has a barber whose
resolution Is as hard and enduring
as the rock for which the Granite
state Is named. Retiring at the
age of seventy-nine after a half
century of work, he proudly boasts
that never has he cut a woman's
hair. Women have begged, threat
ened, argued and laughed, but no
one could move his Immutable de
termination.
Ills reply, with numerous varia
tions, has been, "What was good
enough for God Almighty ought to
be good enough for them. He put
the hair on their heads as a crown
ing glory. No hohs or shingles ever
will be executed lrt 'thls shop."
$15,000,000 Atlantic
'Phone Cable Is Planned
London. ? Plans are ready for the
laying of a new Atlantic cable, which
would cost $15,000,000, for the estab
lishment of an untappable "on-de
mand" telephone service between Brit
ain and America,
Everything Is ready to tackle the
Job ? one of the biggest In the history
of ocean cables ? and the only dlftl
culty Is that of finance. It is under
stood that American financiers are pre
pared to collaborate with British in
terests- once certain difficulties are re
moved.
Road Roller Used by
Ancient Mayas Found
Five-Ton Cylinder Employed
in Surfacing Work.
Washington. ? Recent discovery In
the Jungle-covered region of northeast
ern Yucatan, 40 miles out of Coba,
of a segment of solid stone 13 feet
long, 2 V4. foot In diameter and weigh
ing about 5 tons, nicely fashioned In
to cylindrical form, draws attention
once again to the fact that the an
cient occupants of an area long unin
habited were skilled in the building
of raised roail^ of paved stone.
It seems probable that this great
stone cylinder was designed to be
used In packing down Into solid mass
successive courses of material, par
ticularly surfacing material, as these
were added In the process of rond con
Btruction.
Presumably gangs of laborers on
the road, possibly slaves working un
der threat of the lash, possibly cap
tives taken in combat, pushed such
cylinders about as the work proceeded
and in so doing anticipated bv many
centuries the advent of the steam or
gaaollne-drlven metal roller, so essen
tial to the roadmaking of today.
Network of Roads.
Coba, a Maya city of consequence
during pre-Columbian days, as shown
by abundant archeologlcal evidence,
but now long abandoned, lies about 05
miles east of south of Chlchen Itza,
the headquarters of the archeologlcal
field staff of Carnegie institution of
Washington.
Study of Coba and the region there
abouts has revealed the fact that it
is at the center of a network of raised,
constructed roads which run oft north,
east, south and west and connect vari
ous groups of ruins located about the
chain of smnll, fresh-water lakes that
Is such a distinguishing feature of the
district.
One great road which takes to the
westward from Coba had been thought
to end at the ruins of Yaxuna, about
12 miles southwest of Chinchen Itza,
but no one had ever traced its course
from end to end.
For many years, Dr. Sylvanus G.
Morley, In charge of /vUie Cnrnegle In
stitution field staff, ha^ hoped for op
portunity to determine the facts about
this the greatest of ail the causeways
running out of Coba. Finally, tills
year seemed propitious and he set
about organizing an expedition.
To head the expedition, lie chose
Alfonso Villa, a young schoolmaster
of the Yucatecan race.
It was while cutting ' his way
through the thick bush, 22 miles out
of Qaxuna, that Villa came upon -the
stone-roller.
In construction of their roads, the
ancient engineers began by digging
down to hardpan, which is near the
surface, and erecting retaining walls
on each side to the height to which
they desired to bring the road.
Road Walls Built.
These walls were built of large,
roughly faced limestone set in mortar.
Into the space between the walls a
layer of heavy boulders, some of them
two or three feet In length and weigh
ing many hundreds of pounds, were
carefully laid and the spaces between
chinked with smaller stones, fitted and
hammered Into position.
Other courses followed, each of suc
cessively smaller boulders and stones,
quite as carefully placed, until the
road had been brought to requisite
height, whereupon a layer of rock
broken Into much finer pieces was
added. After this was hammered or
rolled Into a hard, level surface, a
final coating of mortar cement was
applied.
This cement was maJe of lime mixed
with finely sifted white earth, called
sascab. which, originally, under the
tropical sun, must have given the
roads a dazzling appenrance, quite as
dazzling, perhaps, as the great "white
ways" of our own cities.
Yellowstone Park Has
Greatest Animal Show
Yellowstone Park, VVyo. ? The "great
est wild animal show In a natural set
ting" Is the claim made by Yellowstone J
Park officials for the nightly parade
of 50 Rocky mountain grizzly bears
In Yellowstone canon.
The giant silver tips, bringing wives,
cubs and yearlings, make a prompt '
appearance each evening soon after j
food remnants from the canon hotel '
and lodge have been placed on a con
crete feeding platform.
Visitors, protected by a high steel
wire fence and an alert ranger armed
with a high powered rifle, may watch
the grizzlies from the time they start j
down from surrounding hills until they
leave for their homes once more.
Mothers with one, two or three cubs
meander In. keeping close watch over
the youngsters. Yearlings hungrily
snatch morsels overlooked by the male
rulers of the tribe, who in turn eat
warily ns they watch rivals. The '
sight is without parallel anywhere
else In the world, park officials say.
Canadians Are Strong
for Yankee "Hot Dogs"
Montreal. ? Canada's Imports of "hot
dog" skins are not to be "barked" at.
According to the dominion bureau of
statistics, the dominion imported $00,
1)23 worth of "weiner" wrappers from
the United States during June of this
year, an lncrense of $54,008 over June,
1932. During the twelve months end
ing June the total was $421,000, com- ^
pared with $375,000 in the previous '
twelve months.
Azusa Dam Nearing Completion
A general view of the huge dam at Azusa, Calif., which is nearlng com
pletion and which, when finished, will provide nn additional supply of stored
water to the city of Pasadena. It will be one of the largest dams In the coun
try, of modern design and earthquake proof. The new dam Is 329 feet high
from foundation to crest. Its length nt the crest is 800 feet, and Its thickness
at the foundation, 270 feet.
Smallest Power Plant Buil(
Klamath Fnlls, Ore. ? The world's
smallest hydro electric plant has been
constructed by two Klamath Falls boys
out of scraps and batteries at a cost
of $4. -r>0. The channel of Elk creek wns
diverted over n water-wheel geared to
an automobile generator and the
"plant" manufactures enough current
to light five electric bulbs.
Arizona Ha* Big Roie Buih
Tombstone, Ariz. ? The world's larg
est rose bush Is growing In the patio
of a hotel here, residents claim. It Is
large enough that tables for thirty-five
guests may he placed under it.
France and Japan Claim Islands
Entirely Uninhabited and of
No Real Value.
I'arls. ? "Button button, who's got
the Islands?"
Six Utile coral (Jots In the South
Clilnn Ren nre causing much ado In
dlplomntlc circles and the question Is:
nre they French or are they Japanese?
About midway between the Islnnd of
Ilorneo ifnd French Indo China this
little group of Islands stick their noses
up out of the sea. According to both
sides, they are entirely uninhabited
nnd have been for more than ten
years.
Japan's claims lie In the fact that
one of their nationals had established
phosphate works on the Islands sev
eral years ago and bad spent more
than n million yen In the construction
of warehouses and claim that 120 men
died there due to the "Impossible cli
mate," but they still want the place.
Franco'R nnswer trt the Japs Is sim
ple :
"If the Jnpnnese wanted the Is
lands, why didn't they stay there?
These Insignificant little coral forma
tions have been a serious menaco to
traffic for years. French commercial
lines to Indo-Chlna are endangered by
them. There should and must he Hot
houses erected thorp. We are going
to build them.
"We see no reason why we should
not take over those Islands, which are
admittedly uninhabited and of little
or no value, and take the ^necessary
measures to protect our shipping In
terests."
Recently Charge d'AfTaires Sawada,
of the Japanese embassy, called at the
French foreign office and, according to
Hawada himself, protested French sov
ereignty over tho group, stating that
Japan was nbout to proclaim them as
Nipponese possessions.
The foreign office presented an en
tlrely different version of the Kawada
visit, claiming that Hawada merely
dropped in to Inquire as to whether
Japanese commercial Interests would
he carefully safeguarded by the
French. The Qual d'Orsay spokesman
stated that Mr. Saw ad a was assured
|
that France would make It Its duty ,
to see that Japanese property on tho j
Islands would he respected and that
: Mr. Snwndn left evidently quite satls
| fled. i
In the meantime, who owns the Is
lands?
i
Pharmacologist Finds
Drug That Will Reduce
Palo Alto, Calif. ? A drug which will
make persons thin without the neces- '
slty of exercise has b0*k found by r <v
search pharmacologlsts/ln the Stan
ford medical lahoratorlni here.
It operates by producing a high
fever In the patient, thereby rormum- '
I UK energy and tissue beyond the nor
mal rate.
A preliminary report on this new |
drug has been published In the Jour- >
nal of the American Medical Assocla- |
tlon by Dr. \V. C. Cutting and M. L. \
Thayer. ,
Small doses administered dally have
reduced the weight of fat persons two
pounds a week over n period of sev
eral months without diet changes or
unnormnl exercise.
School in Pennsylvania
Serves Four Counties j
Hnrrlsburg, Ph.- Pennsylvania has h
high school that serves four cc unties.
'Hie school, located In ifannett town
ship, In the northern part of Franklin
county, has an enrollment of nbout 70 j
pupils, one of whom last year drove i
the family car 20 miles one way over '
mountain roads to attend classes dnlly. j
Other counties served by tho school
are Huntingdon, Juniata, and Perry.
The department of public Instrnc
tlon reported that there wero at least
40 additional boys and girls living
within a radius of 20 miles of tho
school, who wanted to attend, but
could not because their parents were
" unable to provide transportation.
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY f
chool Lesson
(By REV. P. B FITZ WATER. D. D.. Mem
ber of Faculty. Moody Blbl?
/ Inntttute of Chicago.)
*^C>. 19JS. Western Newspaper Union.
IMPROVED'
Lesson for October 29
WORLD'S TEMPERANCE SUNDAY
LESSON TEXT ? Romans 13:11-14;
14:7-9, 15-21.
GOLDEN TEXT ? L.ovc worketh no 111
to his neighbor: therefore lovo Is the
(ulfllllnK of the law. Romans 13:lu.
PRIMARY TOPIC ? Why Laws Are
Made.
JUNIOR TOPIC ? How to Be a Good
Citizen.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC ? Why Obey the Law?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND A DUET
TOPIC ? The Christian Use of Personal
Liberty.
I. Supreme Motive Governing the
Life of a Christian.
The attitude of n Christian Is thnt
of rnge r exi?eetuncy. The time of sal
vo don Is drawing near. The salva
tion here mentioned is not that which
w? obtain in justification and sane
tirtcation, hut Is that which we Ret
when our redemption Is completed in
glorification at the second coming of
Christ. The reasons for. this attitude
of expectancy are that the night of
Christ's nhsence Is far spent and the
day of. his glorious appearing Is at
hand. The proper conduct In view of
this Is ?
1. To put ofT the works of darK
ness (v. 12). These are reveling,
drunkenness, chambering, wantonness,
strife, and jealousy.
2. Put on the armor of light (v. 12).
The figure here is of the Koman sol
dier who arose from sleep and cast
aside his slumber robes and put on
his gleaming armor.
3. Wnlk honestly as In the day (v.
1H). The Christian, therefore, will so
order his life that his conduct will
conform to his high calling.
4. ['lit on the Lord .Testis Christ (v.
14). This means to enthrone Jesus
Chrl.-t ns the Lord of the life, to
bring the life under his control. No*
provision Is to be made for the flesh :
no forethought Is to be given to that
which tlie carnal nature desires.
II. No Man Llveth unto Himself
(Ilom. 14:7-9). ^
The supreme purpose of Christ's
death and resurrection was thnt he
might be the Christian's Lord In life
"^ffrTd In death. Fly virtue of Christ be
coming one with the race, there can
be no Indifference of attitude toward
him.
1. All must stand before the Judg
ment seat of Christ. It Is not to be
a class Judgment, but Individual.
2. Account must be rendered unto
God. Nothing can be concealed from
him. Nothing can escape his Judg
ment, for he Is omniscient.
III. A Stumbling Block Should Not
Be Placed In the Way of Another
(Horn. 14 :lf>-2l ).
A properly enlightened Christian
may have perfect liberty concerning
a matter so far as he himself Is con
cerned, but this very liberty may be
come an occasion of stumbling to oth
ers. Two urgent reasons are set forth
for the abridgment of our liberties in
such cases ?
1. We may destroy the weak brother
for whom Christ died (v. IB). If it
was worth while for Christ to die for
a mnn, surely It Is worth while that
we should deny ourselves some priv
ileges for his snke. Nor should this
be deemed a hardship. Self-denial and
cross-bearing attest the sincerity of the
believer (Luke 9:2.T), who thus follows
his Mnster.
2. We should not allow our good to
be evil spoken of (v. 10). Liberty In
Christ Is a precious thing, which only
love knows how to use. The proof
thnt one Is In the Kingdom of Cod and
therefore ruled by the Holy Spirit Is
not by eating nnd drinking, but by
living dally the love-life which is char
acterized as follows ?
, n.'Ttlghteousness (v. 17). This
means honesty nnd integrity In nil
things.
b. Pence (v. 17). This means living
at penre with ench other. I'enee
among Christians is a powerful testi
mony for Christ thnt bis Holy Spirit
Is In them,
e. Joy In the Holy Ghost (v. 17).
Snved men will mnnlfest this Joy, for
"He thnt in these things serveth Christ
Is ncceptable to God nnd approved of
men" (v. 1H).
3. We should follow after things
thnt make for pence, nnd edify one
another (v. 19). He that cnuseth n
wenk brother to stumble, through exer
cise of his liberty, thus destroys the
work of God.
4. We should nbstaln from ments
nod wines which offend the wenk
brother (vv. 21. 22). This Is made pos
sible by the exercise of fnlth In God.
IV. Th? Christian Should Please
His Neighbor and Not Himself (Rom.
ir?:M,1).
This Is not merely n privilege, but
n solemn obllgntlon, bemuse,
Of Christ's example (vv. 1 .1).
2. Of Scripture testimony (vv. 4 1.1).
A Pilgrim)*?*
All faith reeognlzQS thnt life Is n pll I
grlmnge whose course nnd duration
ennnot be foresdtm, therefore It !
tnkes these lives of ours out of our I
own wenk. trembling nnd uncertain '
control, and puts them in the hand of j
i Sod.
WK?t Ar? You Doing?
Whnt nr*? you doing to make life n
little brighter nnd better for some
body? Mostly we nre complnlnlng
becnuse of the gloom w?f ourselves
hnve done nothing to disslpnte.
Unwise to Break
Faith With Child
Promises and rewnrds ""are two
closely allied measures made use of
by parents to stimulate and encour
age their children In good conduct
and In their schooling or chosen work
during undergraduate days. Used
wisely, they are potent factors In
securing the desired ends and reac
tions. It sometimes happens, how
ever, that promises are forgotten.
The child either may not get what
he has worked to attain because the
promise may have been given so long
before its object was attained, that
It has slipped the memory of the
parent although It has remnlned a
vivid factor In the child's applica
tion and endeavors. Not (Thly Is a
child discouraged by such forgetful
ness. but worse than this, he loses
faith In his parent. He (or shc> does
not keep his word.
The child may rr.ake a fuss about
It. If so the parent often gets an
noyed and states that now. anyway,
the child cannot get the reward ?
whatever It was, for It Is forfeit by
the behavior. In reality the child
has Justice on his side, for a for
gotten promise Is none the less bind
ing when once It has been made, even
though memory has grown dim. If
the child Is silent, the lasting effect
of loss of faith In a parent's word
Is even worse. The child can be
promised anything thereafter nnd It
will fall on unheeding and disbeliev
ing ears. Not only Is the parent's
word discounted, hut the word of all
persons, since parents typify the
best, to their offspring.
Attaining an unearned reward is
another danger to he shifnned. When
parents make promises dependent
upon some special action or attain
ments nnd then give the award with
out regard so success of the child In
whatever li is offered for, the parents
lose their grip on the child.
Reciprocity Is absolutely essential
when there are promises of awards.
The child must be kept faith with.
The promise must he remembered.
It cannot be so lightly given or re
garded that It becomes Inconsequen
tial to the person making It. Parents
must beware of how they make prom
ises. but having made them, they
must stand. So essential is tills that
no reward should be given unless It
has been earned. The success of a
child In later years may rest on his
ability to fullfll conditions In his
youth, fie gets to be a spoiled child,
otherwise, nnd one who has little re
spect for laws when he Is an adult."
?. 1933. Bell 8ynd1cnle. ? W.N'U Service.
Old Timer* Showed 'Em
An eight-oared shell of Harvard
oarsmen, who rowed for their alma
mater 50 years ago, recently made its
way down the Charles river, we learn
from the Winged Foot. As one old
timer in the boat put it, "We showed
the undergraduates how we used to
win back in the early '80s, when
technique was Just as Important as
It Is now."
City Streets Rented
Paris now ropes off nnd rents Its
streets to motion picture companies
with a definite charge for every actor,
animal and vehicle on the location.
Prices nre doubled after dark be
cause blocking of night trnrTic i& seri
ous. ? Collier's Weekly.
Decreato in Gaela
The Gaels now Inhabit only the ex
treme northwestern districts of Hrlt
nln and p.?rt of Ireland, but accord
ing to many historians at one time
the whole of the Rrltish Isles was
occupied by them. ? Kansas City
Times.
Too Much "P^rty"
Last Night
Too Much Food/i
Late Hours, '
Smoky
Atmosphere
YEY~This Morning No "Add
Headache**? No Upset Stomach
Scientists say this is the QUICK
EST, SUREST and EASIEST wny
to combat FEELING THE
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to sciencc. Just do this:
TAKE ? 2 tablespoon fuls of Phil
lips' Milk of Magnesia jn n glass of
?water BEFORE bed. In the mornintf
take 2 more tablespoonfuls with the
juice of n WHOLE ORANGE. That'*
nil! Tomorrow you'll feel great!
Or take the equivalent amount of
Phillips' Milk of Magnesia tablets.
Each tablet is equal to a teaspoonful
of the liquid.
Get genuine Phillips'
Milk 01 Magnesia in the
familiar liquid form, or
the new, marvelously
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