The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, May 08, 1935, Image 2
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Watch Your Eye-Lena
Frightened to Death
All P 088C88 Language
Eating Bark and Earth
Important news for life insurance
companies. A tendency to old a^e or
Arthur llrtabnne
really are.
early death Is In
herited. according
to Dr. Felix Bern
stein of Columbia
n il l v e r s 1 t y, who
talked to the
National Academy
of Sclertce In Chi
cago. A scientist
can tell how old you
are, physically, by
examining the lens
of your eye. It al
ways shows signs
of hardening before
fifty ; the extent of
the hardening de
ckles how old you
The rest of your body ? brain,
heart and all the rest ? -grows old
about as rapidly as the eye-lens does.
Leaving out accidents and attacks
by disease t-'crms, there Is a sort of
"predestination" in the length of
life.
Two brothers, fifteen and ten years
of age, with a young friend, were go
ing to an entertainment last Christ
mas night. George Bond and Carl
McMurty of Poplar BlutT, Mo.,
thought it would be amusing to
frighten the children by running
after thorn, telling them, "You will
never live to get there."
The two older boys "got there."
The litt'e ten-year-old boy, James
Ainley, dropped dead of fright as the
men pursued him. A sensible Jury
decides that the two men shall spend
tlx months in Jail and pay $100 fine
for their "Joke." The jury might
well have made it ten years, for It
was stupid manslaughter. There is
iothlug more brutal, cruel or more
completely worthy of a genuine "ya
hoo" than frightening children.
Secretary of Interior Ickes. who
also possesses the gift of forcible
speech, calls Senator Long "a rant
ing demagogue," describes, more
gently, one other well known broad
caster, and rebukes, without men
tioning his name. Doctor Townsend,
whom he accuses of arousing false
hopes In the "underprivileged."
Senator Huey Long, his language
never failing him, able to speak his
mind freely In the senate, addressing
that august body, describes the secre
tary of Interior as "Lord High Ch'im
berlriin Ickes, the chinch-bug of Chi
cago."
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
he called the "Lord Destroyer, the
ignoramus of Iowa."
We complain of our depression
with good cause. We might find
qi r consolation in reading about
r ise*able inhabitants of Formosa,
i,,erty of Japan, inhabited chiefly
by Chinese, who made up SO per cent
of the sufferers and victims in the
recent earthquake.
In Formosa, metjv women and chii
dren have been stripping the bark
from elm trees and eating it and they
may be seen on barren fields, pulling
up wild grass by the roots, washing
and eating the roots, as well as the
grass itself. Many have died from
eating bran mixed with earth and
water, the earth causing death by In
testlnal stoppage.
Those poor creatures have a real
depression, with no rich govern
ment to pour out billions for Jobs,
relief, dole, etc.
The American Philosophical society,
fathered In Philadelphia learns from
Doctor Slipher, director of the Lowell
observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., that to
people on the planet Mars, if any are
there, our earth Is a blue planet.
If those Martians will continue
watching us. until some European or
Asiatic country sends a few thousand
planes In our direction, they will see
this corner of the earth a deeper and
darker blue than ever. What a lesson
we shall learn some day if we continu'.
with our eyes shut!
Newspaper editors, that ought to
know something about prosperity, gafh
ered in New York from all over the
country, tell you they see a "business
pickup," better times are coming. That
Is a cheerful predict lou.
Some boys In high schools, and big
ger boys in Colleges, recently organ
I red a "strike" to express their horror
of war.
War is horrible; it should be, and
eventually will he, unnecessary. Hut
there Is some good In all evil, and
young students and others should re
fleet on luist wars and what modern
civilization owes to them.
Germany wants colonies, and Is em
barrassed by the fact that this would
mean taking in a great many black
ladles and gentlemen thnt by no stretch
of the Imagination could be called
"Aryans." The German government
announces that, while It could not ad
mit negroes to German citizenship, ma
Britain does in her colonies, black co
lonial negroes would be "KchuUbcfoh
lene," with every right except the right
to adopt Aryan atrut.
? KIm? FtitturM Syndloat*. In?.
VVNtJ d?rvto?.
Chinese War Minister Honors Our Marines
Unique Sea-Ferrv Seen in England
Visitors to Devon, England, who wish to go from Illghury to the hotel on |
Burgh Island ? n distance of one-quarter of a mile? are transported on this I
strange sea-ferry. It has a caterpillar drive with a 24 horse power engine.
General
Reviews Guard
at Peiping
Presents Award
to Graduate
of School
For the first time in history a Chinese
minister of war held a review and in
spection of American troops on Chinese
soil, when flen. IIo Ying Ching. China's
war minister, reviewed the United
States Marines of the American lega
tion guard at I'eiping.
General Ying-T.ing, center, is shown
presenting the tirst certificate for pro
ficiency in the Chinese language t?> a
i marine graduate of the school which
Col. P. M. Rixey, commandant of the
legation, founded. At the i ieht ts
Colonel llixey, and at General Ching's
right hand is Major Erwin.
Only Marine Post Office Is Operating Again
^Krith the opening of trafllc on the Gront Lakes the only floating post ofllce In the world started Its season. Licensed
by the Post OMice department to pick up and deliver mull as the lake boats travel through the Detroit river, the boat
has for years taken care of the sailors' tnall. A mail sorter Is seen at work on this vessel, the George I'.ecker.
Blind Golfer
Shoots a 75
<>'. F. Russell of Dulutli can't keep
IiIh eyes on the ball because he Is blind.
Bospite this handicap, he plays a par
G3 course In from 75 to SO strokes. He
poRReRROft n nmooth nnd powerful
Hwlnfc, perfect touch nnd n fine RonRe
of direction. A Rpoolnlly trnlned end
dy In neeosRnry. lie tnkoR KurrpII In
tow About the courRP, Judges the dlR
tnnee, polntR out the trnpR. kIvoh hint
the proper club nnd plncen rhe club
hend behind the hnll. HiirroII enjoy*
the g?nio, JoRheR with hln pnrtnerR,
and pl^ya hi* ptroken In turn, necmlnjr
ly obllvlov* U abe dnrkneRR nil nround
him.
Tamara Is Engineer of a Freighter
Russian Girl
Takes Mans Job
on Vessel
When the Soviet freighter Kalinin
recently nrr. ?d In the United Ht'ate*
from Russia, one of the crew wnn
Tamara Cheenlchtenko who holdfl a
certificate a* an engineer, first, elans.
The Soviet government his Instated
that women enter nil lines of activity,
and take up work usually done by men
only.
Evidently It upstart* nre not supemtl- I
(Ions. Thoro tiro f<-w womon manning
American ships nnd mk n mnttor of
fact, b woman on a freight whip Ih
considered unlucky. according to hii
old Vankee trnditlon.
W oodfn Indian RfftirM
Onllon, Ohio.? Minnehaha no longer
greets Onllon pedestrians. One of the
In Ht of clear store Indiana on display
In tVilR part of the state, ahe rat I re I
from servlc* when Louis Idlh-r, who
haa operated n cigar store hero frtr 4fl
years, closed Hip doors nnd retired
Minnehaha ha* been stored nwny.
SEEN-' HEARD
around the
National Capital
By CARTER FIELD
Washington. ? Gra'* . crossing elimi
nation Is one phase of work relief
that can be started 15 days after the
President says "CJo !" despite Mr.
Roosevelt's own recent warning that j
this was one type of project that would |
be the slowest in petting under way. j
The only reason foi the l.Vday delay
Is that this length of time is required
for advertisement fur bids.
Despite the I're-idt nt's expressed J
concern about dela on grade cross- |
lngs incidental to the acquiring of the ,
land, approval of the projects, and
selection of only important highways I
crossing mainline railroads, the fact
Is that all difficulties have been solved
by the public roads bureau of the De
partment of Agriculture. Slightly more j
than one thousand projects are ready
for olds. 7"0 more will be ready Inside (
a year, and 2.302 additional will he
ready within two years.
So officials of the bureau are champ
ing at the hit. and wondering why the j
President takes such a pessimistic atti
tude.
The President's point about acquir
ing the land Is not involved, for in the
first thousand projects, now ready, op
tions on the land needed have been ac
quired by the states in which the pro.i
ects arc located, and the states under
stand thoroughly that the state treas
uries must pay for the land, with the
federal government pay'ng for the
work, materials and overhead.
The total number of projects for the
first year is 1 . for over a thou
sand of whichNhe land options are in
hand. The total cost would be S1^4.
:U4.0(X>. Tne total number of additional
projects to be ready within a year Is
2. .'{02. at a total cost of S277.riil7.riOO.
So that within a year work could be
started on a total of 4,0."iS projects, at
a total estimated cost of Slfil.Ssi.r,00.
lit addition there Is much oilier pro
jected work which Is ready to cro Just
waiting for White House approval now
that the work relief bill is a law.
The bureau of roads is also ready to
start at the flash from the White
House on road contracts. These are
parceled out on the time honored for
mula laid down by law, as between the
states, so the tlgnres are not so Inter
estlng.
Takes to Mining
The government Is about to engage
In the mining business! It will cer
tainly go In for some other minerals.
Outside the precious metals, the gov
ernment proposes to mine only metals
which would not complicate the ex
isting mining situation, or ?ompete
with products already in the surplus
class. For example, there would he no
mining of copper, had or zinc.
Most Important of the metals under
consideration, besides gold and silver.
| are tin. quicksilver, chromium, nickel,
tungsten, antimony, and manganese.
Incidentally, there "s plenty of politi
cal dynamite in the last, perhaps
j enough to eliminate It. Not directly
I hut Indirectly. The idea Is. if man
| ganese mining were deve'oped on a
big scnie in this country, there might
be a move later on to put a sharp
tarifT on it. whereupon the steel com
panies would have to pay higher prices
than at present, which in turn would
make iclr competition with P.elgian
steel ? Its cost lowered in the 1'nited
States by the recently approved recip
rocal trade treaty ? more difficult.
In addition to these metals, two
other minerals are under consideration
These are special grades of mica and
graphite.
1 There Is a hill pending In the sen
ate, introduce J by Senator .Tames P.
| I 'ope of Idaho, which would allocate
a hundred million dollars from the
work relief fund for mining. This bill
Is not expected to pass. Put while
this is down the same street, the bill
i Is not necessary If the administration
wants to act. It has plenty of authority
i under exlstln, law. The projects could
be gotten under way as pure work re
lief on force account, as operations
not arranged by contracts are called
Experts Approve
The gold and silver mining, decision
to enter which has practically been
made, are almost ideal from the gov
ernment standpoint. The experts advis
Ing President Roosevelt Insist there Is
no doubt whatever that mines could
be worker! by the government ? for
gold and silver ? which would produce
enough not only to pay the wages of
the men employed, and the total cost
of operation, hut actually to yield a
small profit besides. And the heauty
of the plan, they point out i<t that
there would be no element whatever
of competition witn private business.
The government would Just take the
gold and sliver arid put It In the treas
ury. If there were no profit nt nil. no
harm would he done. If there were a
profit It would he turned hack to the
work relief fund for employment In
other directions
Some of the other metals mentioned,
especially tin and nickel, are regarded
as vital from a national defense stnnd
point. This country Is deficient In
them. Mining experts are most ant
lou* fo undertake development In this
direction.
The main problem of course is that
there Is n very large stranded mining
population, located for the most part
near at hand to the points proposed
for these government operations. The
men are skilled miners, so that no
training would he necessary. They
would he far hnpplef, earrylng on their
accustomed work, It Is argned, than In
working on grade crossings or on pub
lie roads, for example. Anyway, the#*
Is not a lack, but a surplus, of men
deeding Jobs who could be put to work
on grade crossings and roads.
So far the mine experts insist proj
ects are In ns good shape as any for
putting men to work Immediately. All
that would t>o needed would be the
Presidential O. K. And they expect
that very shortly.
Cotton a Problem
With the AAA under fire from so
many quarters, Kim; Cotton remains
one of the most important world prob
lems, threatening to save or wreck the
I administration's plans tc> lift the farm
er tip to that "parity" of purchasing
power which President Roosevelt is so
fond of discussing.
Most southern statesmen wave
aside so-called threats to American
supremacy in cotton. They contend
that nowhere else in the world can
| cotton he produced successfully to
: compete with the United States.
| Either the cost Is too high per pound,
i or the quality is too low, they insist.
The threat involved In Brazilian ex
pansion In cotton growing has been
discussed at length in these dispatches,
Including the confidential view of the
present Brazilian administration
which is that the Cnlted States efforts
to hold the price of cotton up will
crash, as did their own with respect
to enlT"o. and therefore they are not
too optimistic. 1 i n r they hasten on to
add that they can produce good cot
j ton at a pr >fit at <> cents a pound.
This season the I'l Ited States ex
i ported to (Jreat Britain ?"><>:>. 000 bales,
I as against l,o:i(i.ooo hist season, and
i 1.0 |...?WH> the season before.
i This Is partly explained by two
things. .Tapan has finally passed
< Jreat Britain as a producer of cotton
j textiles, and so has become the chief
consumer of the raw staple.
But the disturbing fact about the
I two previous paragraphs Is that the
i 1 nited States exported to the entire
, Orient this season 1..'MS<tO0 bales, as
| against i.<V\f>.ooo last reason and
OOO i1h> season before.
In fact, the total exports of cotton
I this season from the 1'nited States
| were hales, as against 0.0,'W.
Ofwi bales last season, and (5,0-U>.000
1 bales the previous season.
| Not an encouraging picture!
Disturbing Facts
j Two seasons ago the United States
j produced 12.P01.000 bales of cotton.
| Last season 12.T12.000 bales. This sea
I son 0.010.000 bales. AAA restrictions.
I What happened meanwhile in the
j rest of the world? Indja's record for
the last three seasons was -1.100.000,
?l.fiOO.tMKi and .TSOO.O<H) hales. China
produced 2.2<H>.00() this season, 2.000,
000 hist, and 1, ST 1,000 two years ago.
Russia, in fourth place, Is crawling
up. The increase there is from 1.778.
(WW) to 1 ,SR{t,(H)0 to 1.0.TT.fM>0 this spa
Son. Egypt increased nmri than half
a million hales over two years ago.
Then comes Brazil, generally re
garded as the real menace. Two years
ago she produced only MTK.OOO hales.
East year SOT. f >00 bales. This year
I.L'.'m.imki bales. Next season?
Peru increased in the three crops
from 20."i.0lii> .ales to ,T_\~.0(>0 bales;
Argentina from l.'O.OOO to 22.".0<i0;
Mexico from P.Mtiin to 200.0tM>; '| he
Sudan from IL'I.imki to ITO.OOO; Koren
from 1 mo to l.'tO.OfiO; Manchuria
from to iiiM.ouO; Belgian Congo
from .'SS.Mun to oo.imo ; Turkey from Om..
ikmi to '.tn.niMi, mil] Cretee from 22, (KK)
t > r,<i.0(Mi.
I he really disturbing fact comes in
adding these and othei foreign in
creases in cotton production together.
America has decreased her production
K.OOO.Otxi bales in the three seasons.
The rest of the world this season pro
dured iLVIMMWin hales, as against 10,
010. Olio two years ago.
I '('fenders of the AAA program In
sist that the world this year has used
np a large quantity of surplus cotton,
and that prospects for nevf y0;,r JirP
therefore bright despite tl.ii increas
ing foreign production. Meanwhile the
dust storms in Texas and Oklahoma,
the two biggest cotton producing
states, seen to promise further cur
tailment this year even than had been
planned, and correspondingly increased
Incentive to foreign cotton producers
to expand, the short American crop
promising a continued high price, even
if t Ik re were nn A A A
Planning Now Taxe*
A one per ent tax on all life In
surance premiums and a lax on all
movie admissions above 10 rents In
stead of the present limit of Jf> cents -
are among the levies that the treasury
will recommend to congress sr. me time
before this session adjourns. Some of
the treasu experts who were or
dered to the |..|i r.f figuring out fhe
new taxes, liked the Idea of (he sale*
tax. But President 1,'ooscvclt was con
sulted about this, a lid at on re tiiTierl
thumbs flow ii.
One ihim.' I he treasury experts do
not know the motives for theh he
lm; ordered to get up this list of i-,xes.
They are not sure whether this Is a
bona fide list, which the adminisira
lion will push through If possible any
how, or whether t hi . |? n "bluff" llsf.
Intended hy the President to he used
as a club in his expected veto message
on the soldier bonus.
The reason for I heir doubt Is the
suggestions they have received. Includ
ing the two named ahove. Because
their own thought seems to he that
fhe taxes fhe administration seems to
favor are calculated to si|r up more
resentment than Aonld be Justified by
fhe n mount of money they would raise.
Especially fhe movie fnx
This line of reasoning drives th?
experts to figure thnf the President I*
merely sreffing up a highly objection
able line of faTes RO as to get th?
country excited against the soldier
bonus.
OopyHsM? Mrvlo*