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■ , , ■■■i , - , .. The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, 8. C. Thursday, Jane 18, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK 160,000 Horses A New Democracy Thin Men Live Longer Most We Have War? The well advertised Queen Mary, looking very big moving up to her New York dock, repre sented In reality the quintessence of compressed power. On the way over she developed one hundred and sixty thousand horse power. That number of horses hitched In pairs, one ahead of the mother, would make a "ten m” more than two hun dred and fifty miles long. Still more re- markable power compression is that of the flying en gine, which compresses the power of a 1,000-pound horse Into less than three pounds of metal. Arlhnr Brlabnn* The government offered for sale six hundred millions of '2\ per cent bonds, four hundred millions of 1% per cent notes. The whole Issue Is oversub- •cribed. It Is a comfort for those that have money and want no risk to Invest even at low interest rates, free of Income tax payments. Such an investment Is much simpler than running the risk of a business enterprise with pay roils and Jobs at tached. To tax heavily the man who uses his money and brains to give work to oth ers, and free from taxation those that buy bonds and take their ease, Is a brand-new kind of democracy. Men of middle age and older may learn from Civil war veterans In the Memorial day parade, some ninety and some ninety-three; one, who led New York city’s G. A. It. procession, past ninety-six years of age. All the old soldiers are very thin men, averaging In weight less than 140 pounds. Had they been fat they would be In the grave, not In any parade. General Pershing cut a big birthday cake with a general’s sword, Mrs. Itoosevelt looking on, and on Memorial day he warned America against anoth er war. To believe that this country can be dragged Into a war without a repeti tion of our big war folly Is not compli mentary to those in charge. No for eign nation would force war on the United States, and thus put United States resources, and any fighting qual ities that Americans may possess, on the side of that foreign nation’s en emies. The unfortunate congressman, Zlon- check, from the Northwest, is locked up In Washington, his sanity to be In vestigated, after lie visited the White House with a present of empty beer bottles for the President. The unfortunate congressman’s an tics are not important in themselves, but you wonder what qualities were seen in him by the voters. The United States Supreme court declared unconstitutional a New York state law that would permit New York to fix a minimum wage for women and children. Chief Justice Hughes, who did not agree with the majority opinion, wrote: "I find nothing in the federal Constitu tion which denies to the state the power to protect women from being ex ploited by over-reaching employers.” Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., who ought to know about American industry, says enormous building operations are need ed in the United States to replace out- of-date equipment, and that the door is wide o|>en for “plenty of Jobs and then more jobs.” American cotton growers fighting the boll weevil will sympathize w ith Argen tine growers, attacked by vast swarms of devouring locusts, fat worse than any weevil. The Argentine ministry of agriculture announces 10,000 tons of cotton devoured, 00,000 acres invaded. Farmers tight the locusts by erecting walls of sheet iron or digging ditches, into which the locusts swarm, to he sprayed with gasoline and burned. Tons of the pests are thus destroyed. Mayors of Arab cities In Palestine warn the Kiillsh that they must stop Jewish immigration and the sale of land to Jews in Palestine. The Hrltlsh answer to the warning will probably not be satisfactory to the Arabs. It Is reported also that the central com mittee ifor Palestine of the "Com munist party” is distributing litera ture urging Hritlsh soldiers in Pales tine to mutiny. The national Socialist convention In Cleveland, (ormulating "Immediate de mands,” denounces the New Deal, de mands a revision of the Constitution and an end of what is called the "usurped power” of the Supreme court. In all these matters, others were ahead of the Socialists. President Lewis, of Lafayette col- *ge, thinks wars would end if mon- rchs who voted for it were put In •ont line trenches. That might pre- eitf some wars, not all. C King Krai urea Syndlcata, lac. iV.N'U Scrviec. News Review of Current Events the World Over Sudden Death of Speaker Byrpa—Rome Hails Badoglio While London Cheers Haile Selassie—Rural Housewives of World Convene. By EDWARD W. PICKARD • W.ateru Newspaper Union. r\EATH, sudden sod unexpected, came to Joseph Wellington Byrns, speaker of the house of representa tives, and put an end to a notable ca reer. The veteran Ten- n e s s e e congressman suffered a heart at tack, followed by a cerebral hemorrhage, and passed away with in a few hours In his apartment in the May flower hotel. Washing ton. For 27 years Mr. Byrns had represented the “Hermitage dis trict” of Tennessee In the house, and he was elected«speaker when the Seventy- fourth congress convened In January, 1935. He was a master of parliamen tary strategy and so fair-minded a presiding officer that all, even his po litical opponents, praised and admired him. Before becoming speaker he served long years on the appropria tions committee, as member and chair man, and he also was leader of the Democratic majority and chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. Grief for Mr. Byrns’ death was gen eral and sincere In Washington official dom. “I am shocked beyond all Imagi nation," said Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, the minority leader, “it Is a terrible thing. It Is an almost Irreparable loss.” Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Ar kansas, the majority leader, after ex pressing his own sense of loss, added: “His work during the session has been very difficult and trying. He was a great speaker.” President Roosevelt In a statement from the White House expressed well the high esteem In which Mr. Byrns was held. Said he: “Fearless, Incorruptible, unselfish with a high sense of Justice, wise In counsel, broad of vision, cairn in ad versity, and modest In victory, he served his state and the nation with fidelity, honor, and great usefulness. I personally mourn the passing of a steadfast friend of many years.” Impressive funeral services were held In the chamber of the house, the Presi dent, members Uf the cabinet and nu merous diplomats being present In ad dition to ail members of congress. The body was then taken to Nashville. Tenn., for burial, and Mr. Roosevelt ac companied the special congressional committee there. The house elected William B. Bank head of Alabama 8|>eaker for the re mainder of the session. The death of Speaker Byrns followed closely that of another well known congressman, A. Piatt Andrew of Mas- sachuseUs, a Republican. He died of Influenza at his home in Gloucester at the age of sixty-three. Mr. Andrew, who taught economics at Harvard more than thirty years ago, was director of the mint for a few months under Pres ident Taft and then was assistant sec retary of tiie treasury. He was elected to congress In 1921. and supported much of President Roosevelt’s early legislation. M ISS CLARA DUTTON NOYES, sixty six, director of the Ameri can Red Cross nursing service, died In Washington a few minutes after she was stricken while driving to work In her car. Miss Noyes was assistant di rector of the American Red Cross nursing service during the World war. She also had been superintendent of nurses at the Bellevue and allied hos pitals in New York. Cyrus Hall McCormick, whose father developed the farm reaper and who himself helped organize the Interna tional Harvester company and was Its president for 33 years, died at his home In Lake Forest, III., at the age of sev enty-seven years. He was noted as a progressive business man, liberal with his employees and always interested actively in public welfare movements. He was rated as one of the wealthiest men \i America and gave millions of dollars to educational and charitable organizations. M arshal pietro badoglio. conqueror of Ethiopia and now viceroy of that part of the reconstitut ed “Roman empire,” returned to the Eternal City Id tri umph and was vocif erously welcomed as a hero. Sixty thou sand Romans wel comed bln. as he stepped from his train, and Premier Mussolini modestly waited In the back ground until they had shouted their greet ings to the veteran warrior. Then II Duce came f o r w a r d and Viceroy Badoglio kissed the viceroy on both cheeks and lh^ high ranking Fascist military lerfd era paid homage. With the premier and the picked troops forming the es cort of honor were the entire cabinet. Several days later a great military re view wa* held. Tba other aide of the picture was seen In London, where Halle Selassie, the deposed emperor of Ethiopia, ar rived In tears and sadness, though he was given an ovation by the cheering thousands that bad seldom been ac corded to visitors to England. Many of the Londoners carried Ethiopian flags or scarlet banners reading “Wel come to the Emperor.” With the white sympathizers were many African chiefs In native robes, Somalis, ne groes, Hindus, Chinese, and colored people from all parts of the world. There was an outburst of wild cheer ing when Selassie, bareheaded and wearing a long black cape, stepped from his private sleeping car and was greeted by many notables, Including O. C. Harvey, private secretary of An thony Eden, British foreign secretary. Harvey was the lone representative of the British government. J UST as the “popular front” In France was taking over the government the country was distracted by strikes that spread rapidly to almost all Industrial centers- and Involved all manner of trades. The workers demanded higher wages, a 40-hour week and a closed shop, and they went out by the hun dred thousand though they knew they were causing great embarrassment to their own leaders. In many cases the strikers took possession of the closed plants. In Spain the syndicalists tied np various Industries by strikes that In volved about 250,000 workers and that were marked by several murders and other outrages. August© Barela, mih- Ister of state, said the government planned to outlaw the syndicalists If they persisted in disobeying orders from the ministries of labor and the Interior. 1 & T HE senats by • vote of 62 to 14 passed the deficiency bill carrying $2^75,000,000, of which sum $1,425,000,- 0001s banded to the President to spend as be pleasee for “relief and work relief.” passed by the boose, the measure rned the entire amount of relief money over to WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins. Three Democratic senators voted against the bill—Tydings of Maryland. Bulkley of Ohio and Byrd of Virginia. By a aenate amendment, the bill aotborizes the President to order a re- study of reports on the $200,000,000 Florida ship canal and allocate an other $10,000,000 to carry on work upon It during the coming fiscal year. Efforts to do anything for tha Pan aamaquoddy tidal project In Maine proved unavailing. N EW YORK state’s law providing minimum wages for women and minora was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme court on the ground that It conflicts with the fourteenth amendment by violat ing freedom of contract The decision, written by Justice Butler, was con curred in by Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Roberta. Chief Justice Hughes and Justices Stone, Brandels and Cardozo dissented. A number of other states have statutes similar to the one thus held Invalid. J H. THOMAS, until recently Brit- • ish colonial secretary, was found responsible by a special government tribunal for the leak In budget se crets which enabled some of his friends to profit largely through insurance against tax raises. Final disposition of the case was left to the house of commons. Thomas, once an engine wiper and later a powerful figure in organized labor’ and 1 politics, termed the tribune’s verdict “cruel." He said: “My own conscience Is clear. I repeat what 1 previously stated upon oath: that I made no disclosures of budget, secrets to anybody.” R URAL housewives from many conn- tries began their third triennial conference In Washington with Mrs. Alfred Watt of Canada presiding. Their first meeting was held in 1930 In Vienna,and the second In Stockholm three years later. Secre- taries Hull and Wal- * lace and Mrs. Frank tin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, ex tended greetings to the visitors, but be yond that there were no set speeches and little formality. In stead, the farm wives held "exchange of experience" ses sions, viewed elaborate exhibits of rural need.ework and crafts of organ ized countrywomen of the participat ing nations, and attended “open houses" held by all branches of the federal government In which coun trywomen are particularly Interested In exchanging experiences the women learned, among other things, that: English groups have stimulated a remunerative revival of. quilting to supplement the family Income. Australian countrywomen maintain seaside homes for convalescents. Canada’s Federated Woman’s Insti tute promotes clubs for rural youth and combats maternal and Infant mortality. By conducting evening classes for young girls Danish countrywomen have helped to check their migration to town to seek factory work. I N A report Just made public the bust ness advisory council proposes a simplified basis for industrial self regulation through the medium of vol untary joint agreements on unfair trade p/actlces enforceable by the fed eral trade commission. The report was prepared by the council’s committee on unfair trade practices of which Lin coln Filene of Boston is chairman. Outstanding auiong the committee’s proposals were suggestions that each brunch of an Industry, such as whole sale, retail, and manufacturing, police the activities of each other througo confidential reports to the federal trade commission and that no attempt be made to include trade practice and labor provisions In the same agree ments. T HE so-called Industrial meblllza tlon plan of the War department, providing for a military dictatorship over labor, capital and industry, as well as censorship of the press in war lime, was severely condemned in a re port to the scn«o • > munitions com nil t tee. C ATHOLICS the world over cele- , brated the aeventy-nlnth birth day of Pope Pius XI, and the pontiff himself marked the day by attend ing a solemn mass in 8L Peter’s to the presence of 40,000 pilgrims who went to Rome especially for the occasion. These were mainly members of the Catholic Ac tion organisation which Pint XI found ed, and to them he spoke for nearly an hour. He denounced Pope Pius XI comnannlsm, as he has done on other occasions, and de clared the Catholic press was one of the best forces In combating the com munists. It was evident to all observers tba pope’s age Is beginning to tell on him and that he found the long ceremony very much of a strain. * TALL TALES N INE of the richest unions In the American Federation of Labor, having more than a million members, probably will be suspended soon by the federation's executive council, and at the next convention they will be expelled If the council can com mand the necessary two-thirds ma jority. Thus will come to a crisis the Internecine contest between the craft unionists led by President Wil liam Green and the Industrial union ists who follow John L. Lewis, bead of the United Mine Workers. Green wants to continue to organ ize industry by skilled groups while Lewis would seek to unite all work ers, skilled and unskilled, by Indus tries Into one big union. The craft unionists. It was learned. Intend to suspend the charters of the nine industrial unions at the July executive council session, a power granted the council under the A. F. of L. constitution. lewis' group of onions Includes 400,009 miners, Sidney Hillman’s Amalgamated Clothing Workers, David Dubinsky’a International La dles’ Garment union, the oil work ers, typographers, flat glass workers, hat, cap, and millinery workers, mine, mill, and smelter workers, and textile workers. T HERE was every reason to believe that Japan had found, or manuiac- tured, excuses^ for further encroach ments in northern China, and that se rious conflict between the two nations would ensue unless China were sub missive. The Japanese alleged that a bridge on the railway line between Tangku and Tientsin was destroyed and that there was an attempt to wreck a troop train. The highest Jap anese ofiicers In North China were summoned to a conference in Tientsin. Yakichlro Sutna, Japanese consul general in Nanking, declared publicly that China must choose either “mutual interdependence with Japan or war with Japan,’’ and be said he bad in formed Generalissimo Kai-shek, Chi nese dictator, of this viewpoint “Ja pan has gone too far to retreat now and must advance straight ahead with immutable convictions,” Suma said. The Japanese military command, meanwhile, disclosed frankly some of their demands upon China. These in cluded : 1. Privilege' of building railroada, military and civilian air bases and army barracks. 2. Establishment of regular air serv ice between China and Japan. 8. An economic, political and mili tary position for Japan in China. $ As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON California, Here I Come S OMEONE besides the movie press ought to get busy and sing the praises of California. For California always does things on the grand scale. A couple of visitors from Connecti cut went out there one summer. One of them was so overawed by the size of California mountains that he turned back home, but the other remained. This fellow stayed one night at the house of a native Californian. He con fessed, at breakfast, he liked an egg and he liked It soft boiled. What did they do but wheel In an.egg the size of a flour barrel, place it beside the lady of the house and chisel into it with a billiard cue. When questioned, the host confessed that the egg wasn’t the work of a single hen but had been laid co-opera tively by his entire flock. After breakfast the visitor left. He reached a river before noon and was ferried across by a strange-ap- pearlng craft. “Ls this business a paying one?” he asked the ferryman. “Hardly enough to pay for raising the boat, stranger,” was the reply. “This boat was grown as a pumpkin, mister. Cut from a pumpkin shell, raised in that patch over thar." “Over by that barn?” asked the vis itor from Connecticut. “Barn?” replied the native. “Say, that was a pumpkin, too. But I blast ed a hole In It and now 1 let the stock inside whenever there’s wet weather ahead.” Dog Tale T HE year Paul Banyan established his lumber camp on the Big Onion river he had a great deal of trouble with rats and mice. They ate up the scraps of buffalo milk pancakes that Big Joe, Ids camp cook, made and grew to be as big as two-year-old bears. So Paul sent over to Michigan and got a pup that was part wolf and part elephant hound and began feeding him on bear milk. In a little while this pup, whom Paul named Sport, was big enough to clean up all the rats and mice around the camp, so Paul decided to send him after bigger game. He trained Sport to become a moose ter rier and all Big Joe had to say was “Sport, go out and get me a mess of moose," and Sport would do It. One night Sport was playing around the horSe barn when Paul mistook him for a mouse. Quick as a flash he hurled an ax at the animal and to his horror found that he had cut Sport in two. Quickly realizing his mistake. Paul picked up the two halves', stuck them together, gave the dog first all and bandaged him up with strips torn trom 87 horse blankets. The next morning Paul discovered that In his haste he had twisted Sport’s two halves so that the hind legs pointed' straight up. But this proved to be an advantage after all, for the dog learned to run on two legs a while, then flop over without loss of speed and run on the other two. Sport was a good trailer, too. Once when he was out in the woods with Paul they discovered the skeleton of a moose that had died of old age. Just out of curiosity Paul picked up the hack tracks of the moose and showed them to Sport. So the dog started hack over the moose’s trail, and be fore sunset he had led Paul clear back to the place where the moose was born. S TEWART MCDONALD, federal housing administrator, outlined to newspai>er men a new program wbtcti provides for the construction of “gar« den homes” outside of large cities that will aid in the gradual movo- ment of .ndustrial workers from ur ban and auburban areas to small plots several miles out In the coun try. He said President Roosevelt was enthusiastic over the plan. Emphasizing that “this la not any thing in the way of a benevolent proposition” and that no grants of federal funds were Involved, Mr. Mc Donald said It would be accomplished hrough a broadening of FHA regu- atlons to permit government-Insar- mce of mortgages on such property. I’hla will enable bankers and other cHders to advance funds for the de> elopment of these “In * between” ireas for realdeutial purposes, The Grateful Rattlesnake C M. TATHAM, editor of the Sa • bine County Reporter at Hemp hill, Texas, doesn’t agree with most people that the rattlesnake is always cold-hearted. That’s because of an ex perience of a farmer in his community. This farmer found a rattlesnake caught In a steel-trap. Taking pity on the snake, he released it and it quick ly slid away in the chaparral. But Imagine his surprise, upon re turning home, to find that the ra •le- snake had followed him. The refflle acted so friendly that the farmer didn't have the heart to drive It away and It soon became one of his favorite pets. That winter the farmer moved from his ranch into town. The snake again followed him and made its home ui:- der the house. One cold night It colled up on the doorstep and looked so pathetic that the farmer allowed it to sleep under the stove in the kitchen. The next morning the farmer heard a commotion downstairs. Rush ing into the kitchen he saw a strange sight. A burglar was trying desper ately to release himself from the grip of the snake which was colled tightly around his neck with Its tall stuck out the opened window and rattling fran tically. A moment later a squad of police burst Into the kitchen door, They bad, heard the snake’s httylar alarm and had come to capture the culprit and lead him away to Jail. C Western Newspaper Union. The King* of Satura The rings of Saturn spin around the planet rapidly. It Is believed that they consist of a swarm of separate parti cles, each following Its own Independ ent orbit. By means of a spectroscope the velocity of any point of the ring has been determined and It has been found that particles on the Inner edge of the ring revolve about the planet In approximately five hours, while those on the outer edge require a hoof 14 boors for aae revolntton. \\ Being a Bridesman Is No Sinecure by a Long Shot Mate Halasz, an Inhabitant of Sseged, holds the world’s record as “bridesman”—as distinct from best man—which function he has per formed at 1,574 weddings. The position of “bridesman’* at Hungarian peasant weddings is no easy one. Wearing a beribboned hat and carrying a stick decorated with streamers, he goes round delivering the invitations by word of mouth. 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It must be good to have such a strong following. "We have used Mack-Draught fr..- twen ty yean,” writes Mr. Fred Richardson, of Hartshome, Okla. "My mother has used it for fifty years. It is the best medicine I know anything about. I take it for sour stomach and constipation, or when I feel sluggish and had. Black-Draught is splen did to regulate the bowels, cleansing them of waste matter, ridding them of constipa tion. I expect to use it twenty-five years more if I live and it gives satisfaction as it has always given.” Small but Mighty A small present may he the testi mony of a great love.—Petrarch. The Crying and Restlessness of children is frequentiy on indica tion of Worms or Tapeworm in the system. The cheapest, safest, and quickest, medicine for ridding chil dren or adults of these parasites is Dr.PMiys ‘DEAD SHOT Vsrmtfoga Me • bottle at d suggists or Wright’s FU1 Co., 1M GoU N.Y. City. WNU—7 25—36 Wintersmith’s Tonic MALARIA Good General Tonic USED FOR 65 YEARS * 1