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Thg parnwell People-Seniinel, Barnwell. S. C, Thursday, July 2, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK lightweight Lives Long Eyes, Also, Work Japan Will Oblige * ^ The Russian Letdown Gilbert K. Chesterton, dead at sixty- two, weighed more than two hundred and fifty pounds. As every doctor will surmise, he died of heart dis ease. His weight explains the unnec- essarily early death. A pump breaks down If you overwork It; a six ty-two - year - old heart breaks down if you compel It to supply with blood —food, drink, oxy gen—too many bil- • Hons of cells, v Every cell in the body must have, from a laboring heart, Its supply of food and oxygen, pumped every second. The brain, alone, cohtains thirty thousand million separate cells, ac cording to Doctor Carrel. In his 100 surplus pounds, Chesterton carried scores of billions of useless cells, each making an unnecesary demand on the heart Do not let yourself remain fat after forty if you would live to be old. To become thin and stay thin requires some effort of the will, often more disagreeable than dying. Arthur Brtabai At one of the ultra-radical workers' meetings In France, the red flag dis played and the communist “interna tional” hymn sung, there was radical and determined talk. Monsieur Tho- rez told the meeting the factories of France would soon belong to the work ers. If the ]^lan Is sent through some workers would discover that it takes more than a red flag and a hymn to run a factory and make It pay; if factories did not pay there would be no pay rolls. Brains count as well as hands. The eyes carry no load, but they di rect the feet and hands. South China thought she wanted a war with Japan, and will probably have It. Troops from a Japanese naval aquadron land at Amoy, Fukien prov ince, accompanied by the usual con vincing flock of airplanes. War with Japan Is the easiest thing to hate, if you reaUy want it In Canton, South China's big city, parades and mass meetings were or- fanized to Increase and express hat red of Japan. The outpouring recalls Voltaire’s de- acriptlon of a glass of English beer— ••froth at the top, dregs at the bot tom.” Russian sovietism came quickly, and might go quickly; signs of a break down are seen already. Those that do more and better work get special re wards ; engineers, chemists, scientists occupy fine apartments compared with those of ordinary workmen. That is hardly “straight communism." Now Russia will have a constitution and house of parliament. Important steps In the direction of conservatism. Tell your little boy and girl to in clude in their prayers the following: “And please, Ix>rd, do not send us any mere wars." Uncle Sam recently began deliver ing hundreds of millions of bonus bond dollars to 3,518,000 veterans of the war —many veterans and a big bonus, for a war in which we were not concerned until foolishness pushed us in. The French Premier Blum, first Jew ish prime minister lu French history, Is a man of unusual ability, combining common sense with the radicaKom of his Socialist ^arty. Mr. Birchall writes to the New York Times that there is fear of anti-Semitic outbreaks In France; observers “see a ground-swell cf an anti-Semitic movement in the vicious attacks of tha right against the new Jewish premier." French an- tl-Sfemltism, according to Mr. Birchall, has survived the Dreyfus case, which should have ended It Our railroads find it hard to make money, but at least they are safe rail roads. W. Averell Harriman presented a gold safety medal from the fund es tablished in memory of his father, E. H. Harriman, to F. E. Williamson, president of the New York Central, which has not lost one life in 12 years. Washington Digest j National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART It Is interesting to learn from Mr. Ripley that the first Cunard steamship did not carry as many passengers as could be carried by one of the Ufeboats on the Queen Mary. What is mere im portant, each lifeboat has wireless ap paratus. Spain proves that l£ is possible for a country to be too radical for Its own good. Labor troubles and discussions have put one million Spanish workers oat of their jobs, a good many for Spain; and Spanish radicalism goes beyond other kinds, many having been killed by “terrorists.” The last chapter in tttfe Lindbergh marder and kidnaping tragedy is writ ten with the return to Colonel Und- bergh of $14,665 held by New Jersey as evidence against Hauptmann. • Kiac Featuraa Syndic*t*. la^, WNUBarvloa. N M 1 C N ' WASHINGTON.—Dr. Francis E. Townsend’s fanciful dream for pay ment of pensiona of 7*ownsend $200 per month for Plan Flops everyone over sixty years of age seems to have gone up in smoke, but there are developments in connection with the California doctor’s unworkable scheme that merit comment. The good doctor and his half-baked idea have been skidding rapidly since the House Investigating committee showed up the plan as a befuddled Idea and as I once predicted, the bubble burst in a big way. While I am Inclined to believe that Dr. Townsend was honest and sincere In proposing the $200 per month pen sion, it was the sort of thing that serves as an Inducement for racket eers to gather. It was the old mo lasses barrel for the flies In the world of racketeers. It never had a chance to go anywhere and never will, be cause It was fundamentally unsound. We can dismiss it then except for the two phases which i>ught to be vigor ously condemned by right-thinking people everywhere. The two circumstances which I hear discussed most frequently are: The tragedy, the heartaches, that obviously follow in the wake of “movements” such as the Townsend plan that can not succeed and that draw to them selves thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of persons who believe they are going to benefit; and secondly, it seems to me that the House commit- tee fc headed by Representative Bell, of Missouri, overplayed Its hand with the result that It has brought upon House committees the same public dis gust and distrust as characterizes 90 per cent of the Senate investigations. Each of these conditions is to be de plored. Each is definitely destructive. There can be no more excuse for some of the methods employed by the House committee in crucifying Dr, Townsend than for Dr. Townsend him self to wreck hearts and hopes and homA by pushing forward such s mis erably impossible proposition as bis $200 per month pension program. The House committee had within Us power opportunity to’ do a magnificent 'job in exposing the racketeering that become part and parcel of the Town send plan. It had within Its hands the capacity to educate mllUous within the United States against following such an Illusion, such a mirage, as the Townsend plan. If it had confined It self to that work. Representative Bell and his committee should receive the plaudits of the nation. But the sad story Is that the committee under Mr. Bell's guidance allowed Itself to be come an agency of prosecution, even persecution, rather than an unbiased Investigating unit, determined only to obtain the truth. • • e Since there never was any question that the Townsend nostrum would fall of its own weight Committee eventually, it is dlf- Errs flcult to understand why the committee resorted to the tactics it used. I watched some of those hearings. As the committe« delved deeper into the activities of Dr. Townsend and his as sociates, it became infuriated. That was where it made its big mistake and it is going to be quite a long time before House committees again can have a reputation throughout the coun try of conducting unbiased and rea sonable investigations. Dr. Townsend was sufficiently “hard boiled” to Justify the committee in making a vigorous Investigation. He was sufficiently Indifferent to their of fers or hints of cc-operatlon to war rant a feeling on the committee’s part that they had to “bear down.” Yet, It must be said the committee went beyond all reason and I Imagine that in the end it will flare back on the individuals. Now, Dr. Townsend surely cannot blame anyone other than himself for the fact that he is faced with proceed ings by the United Sttftes attorney. It will be remembered, of course, that Dr. Townsend deliberately walked out of the committee and refused to tes tify. That has always been held as contempt and Congress has the right to punish for contempt. In this in stance, the House of Representatives elected to turn Dr. Townsend’s case over to the United States attorney for punishment in court rather than to employ a House vote which might send the elderly dreamer to Jail. Further, the whole Townsend Inves tigation has turned out to be some thing of a mess like the Townsend plan itself. • » • Thus, there is every evidence of a second type of politics in this investi gation. . The evl- Seeond Type dence of politics lay of Politico in the fact that the House voted the in quiry largely because many of the Individual House members were afraid, they were too cowardly, to take a definite stand In their home dis tricts against the Towasendltes. True, they did not know how strong the Townsend movement was. So, as poli ticians aiwaya do, they dodged the is- III TALL TALES £8 As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON sue and moved to expose it through the medium of a House investigation rather than fight individually to show how ridiculous, how unsound, the plan was. Having set up the picture showing an utterly Impossible program on the part of Dr. Townsend and his asso ciates and followers, the House poli ticians were confronted suddenly by Dr. Townsend’s arrogance In his re fusal to testify. That presented a sud den change In the scenery. To ex plain the dangers In this new prob lem, lt v l9 only necessary to say that If the House had acted promptly by voting that Dr. Townsend was In con tempt and must spend some time In jail, I expect the result would have been martyrdom for Dr. Townsend. Martyrdom is always bad from a po litical standpoint If the opposition has the martyr. The house, . therefore, has turned over the affair to the courts and the courts, being slow moving as they al ways are, will not get around to prose cution of the case until It Is too late to have any Influence on the election. So we can see readily that Dr. Town send Is left out In the cold. He can neither use the Influence that Is char acteristic of martyrdom nor can he say that his skirts are clear. The house has left him hanging conveniently In mid-air and It was done solely for political reasons. There may be some more hearings on the Townsend plan during the sum mer but the chances are that Repre sentative Bell will not call the com mittee together again for some months. Practically, the case Is closed. It has undoubtedly stopped to a large meas ure the drain that the Townsend or ganization was making on the un thinking, the aged and the destitute whose quarters, dimes and nickels have financed the thing thus far. While the committee did a good job by exposing the character of the scheme, I still am doubtful that It has brought to Itself or to the house of represen tatives any fresh confidence in our governmental structure. The national capital, along with many other sections of the country, has been listening to 17-Year the purring of Locuete hordes of “locusts." I use the word lo custs In quotation marks because they are not really locusts. They are ci cadas but to the most of us they are and will remain the seventeen-year locusts. It is said that the first colonists in America, never before having met with the Insects and believing that every thing of God's creation was accounted for in the Bible, concluded they were locusts and the name has stuck. In any event, they appear in greatest numbers at seventeen-year Intervals and 1930 seems to be a banner year. Back in 1919, trees In many sections of the country were pierced by tiny saw-llke Instruments which the De partment of Agriculture says are part of the equipment of the female ci cadas. Billions of eggs were deposited under the soft bark. A month or two later, grubs emerged on the branches and dropped unnoticed to the earth. Then, the chronology of the life of these cicadas becomes a matter of darknees for seventeen long years. The Insect in grub form burrowed itself in the soli and subsisted on the juices of roots. As far as anyone knows they did little or no harm but after sixteen years and a few months of this life, the grubs awoke this spring and out they came. They acted on instinct, of course. Through the last several weeks these great beetle-like bugs with wings like isinglass have been humming and thrumming and leaving their empty shells attached to trees and grasses. During that period, the males have spent their daylight hours singing. The Department of Agriculture Is not quite sure why this singing has gone on be cause It has ascertained that all of the lady cicadas are quite deaf. Perhaps I have devoted too much space to the story of the seventeen- year locust. Perhaps the seventeen* year locust Is not Important at all ex cept to the robins and the starlings and the sparrows and the other birds which have had a feast In 1936 that almost no other bird now living has known. But I have a thought about these seventeen-year locusts, a train of thoughts. In fact They lead to this: What will condlt.ons be In 1963, or seventeen years hence when those humans on earth will hear again the mating song of the locusts? Will the policies and the principles Initiated by Franklin D. Roosevelt and called “the New Deal" be firmly Im bedded as American traditions or will they be cast out as impractical and forgotten? Will the changes In civil ization be such that people will be willing to submit to regimentation, to have their government tell them what to do and how to do It, or will this na tion be a nation of individuals who Insist upon the rights and the privi leges which the founders of oar coun try believed to be Just and right? • Western Newepnper OntM. The Artistic Goat G EORGIA’S delightful climate gave continuous employment to the goats owned by that eminent' Atlantan, Pat Candler Dinkins. The goats were Sandy and Man<^r. Mandy was tied in the barn most of the time. Pat noticed casually that she amused herself by plaiting straw Into various shapes and sizes. Sandy went out at night to attack trespassers. There was the pecan grove In the fall and luscious Georgia water melons to be guarded every summer. And not a night passed but Sandy re turned with scraps of clothing his horns had speared from the hind quar ters of some pickaninny whose Judg ment had surrendered to his appetite. Pat says Sandy was invaluable as watchman and that the materials he brought In Invariably were scraped from Sandy’s horns Into the goat stall. Size and color of samples depended, of course, on what white folks of the neighborhood had worn the year before, “I was proud of Sandy," Pat con fesses, “but I didn’t appreciate Mandy until I sneaked into the stall with a flashlight one night and learned how she used her spare time. “There she was, calm and contented as can be, weaving a beautiful rag rug from the materials that Sandy’d brought In. “Whenever we need carpets up at the house now I simply drop a Sup ply of rags into Mandy’s stall when it’s real dark and make a scraping noise like Sandy’s horns. That goat can weave four 3 by 6 rugs In one week and take a day off besides.” New Version of Shirtwaist Frock That’s Attractive and Serviceable Ring ’Round Rosy I N MILAN, TENN., where a special ty is claimed for watermelons, fins baseball clubs and tomato crops, they brag about their fat girl. This lady, according to Bruce Oliver, was the most enormous gal Inhabiting West Tennessee. Nobody knew her name, said Bruce, because no one ever got that close to her. Just In fuu he called her Rosy. She came over to Milan from the nearby town of McKenzie and almost Immediately was besieged with suitors. The most persistent of these was Bruce himself. He used to visit the damsel, sit out on the porch with her and feed her Ice cream from a double freezer. When the bottom of the freezer was reached, Bruce, sorely smitten by the fat girl’s charms, was Inclined to grow serious In his lore making. 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Second-rate painting pleasea one person much, and dis pleases another, but first-rate painting pleases all a little, and intensely pleases those who can recognize Its unostentatious skill. —Ruskln. Time Is a cobweb; men are the spiders and the files. The Erratic Gale S OMETIMES In Chicago It Isn’t even necessary to go Into a restaurant If you insist upon changing headgear. This will be understood, as well as the reason Chicago Is called the Windy City when It Is known what happened during the second Century of Progress to the visitor from Kalispell, Mont This gentleman strolled blithely through the fair when a gust of Lake Michigan wind lifted the wide- brimmed stetson from bis head, slapped It twice against a flagpole aod disap peared with It lu the dusk. The dismayed fair-goer almost swal lowed his toothpick In his vexation. He had turned toward a nearby hat store to buy a new headpiece when there came a sudden swirl, another stetson Cropped from out the sky and settled on his brow. 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In most frozen wells the ice lasts until late summer and the temperature la abev« the freezing point