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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.
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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-
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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. He wasn’t disil
lusioned even when she confessed she
slept in s bed strewn with cinders to
prevent her rolling off.
Bruce was a persistent cuss, he ad
mitted. In attempting to express his
true feelings be would place an arm
part way around the fat girl. When
he had reached as far as possible he
would mark his position with a pink
crayon. Then he would move around
to the mark, resume a posture of affec
tion, and so gradually encircle the
waist of the girl he worshiped.
The romance progressed swimming
ly, according to Milan records, until
the day Bruce shifted position, crayon
in fingers, and bumped Into an utter
stranger who was chalking his own
way around the waist from the op
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Viendehip FanQuilt
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“Come to a quilting bee!"—this
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C5MILES :
Yath, Myth
• Teacher—Now, can anyone teU me
what a myth la?
Susie—I can, teacher—it’s s female
mothl
Low That FaiU<I
“If yeu love work, why don’t you
find itr
“Alas, teacher, love is blind.*
What Caa I Da Far Yaa? *
Bride—Dear, what la the true defl
alt Ion of a groom?
Hubby—Why, a groom la a man
who takes care of dumb aolmala.
Guide Peat
Heavy Stranger (returning to his
seat after the Interval)—Did I tread
on your toes as I went out?
Seated Man (grimly)—You did, sir.
Heavy Stranger (to wife)—That’s
right, Matlla, this Is our place.
Ho Who Dances
“How Is Jack?”
“Pretty bad."
"Why, I saw him danciog with
blond last night.”
“Yes—so did his wife.*
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—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.
The second hat was of fine texture,
In good condition, and fitted perfectly,
all these details having been carefully
attended to by the second errant
breeze, which fortunately had decided
to befriend the visitor.
As he related the experience that
night in a Michigan avenue tavern
he was approaohed by an entire stran
ger who smiliugly returned the lost
hat, and retrieved his own.
The second man. It seems, had
brought three carloads of cattle to the
stock yards. As he was marketing
them, he, too, was selected by a play
ful breeze. The hat of each man had
been whisked away to the bead of the
other, even though they were nine
tnUes apart at the time.
6 WMtern Nawjpa.pv Dnlas.
Frozen Wells
Frozen wells are wells in which Ice
s found either with or without water,
they occasionally occur both here and
In Europe. A famous one In Brandon,
VL, was sunk through a mass of frozen
ground 15 feet thick and fomerly
showed Ice at 14 feet below the sur
face In the summer time. In most
frozen wells the ice lasts until late
summer and the temperature la abev«
the freezing point