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Tke Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell. S. C- Thursday. August 27. 1936
EUROPE WATCHES SPANISH WARII a Smartly Simple Frock
Anxiously Await Outcome of Struggle Between Right and Left
Factions; May Change World History.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
O RDINARILY you can take a Spanish revolution as a GreeWe'vo-
lution, or you can let it alone. The general custom among the
lait^ of observers in America in the past has been to let ’em alone.
In Greek revolutions the government changes hands between mat
inee and evening performances and, although whole navies are cap
tured, no one ever gets hurt. The ordinary Spanish revolution is
much the same, the one distinguishing factor being that murder and
mayhem are present, but nobody gets hurt except Spaniards.
Ever since Spain lost her last^
American colonies some 30-odd
years ago, riot, revolution and re
bellion have been rife in the sunny
land. But because, in the past, these
revolutions have been of little con
sequence outside the borders of
Spain itself, other nations, even
those on the European continent,
have been justified in merely re
maining aloof and letting matters
take their course until once more
a Spanish government of one kind
or another is answering the ’phones.
Aloofness often is only official as it
is possible to do a neat little busi
ness in arms with both warring
sides, unofficially.
But with this newest and most
serious of Spanish revolutions the
customary policy of laissez - faire
among her neighbors is one diffi
cult, if not impossible, to maintain.
>For here in Spain is now the ulti
mate expression of a struggle that
is now going on among the peoples
of nearly every nation in Europe.
See Death Struggle
This is not a civil war to deter
mine whether republic or monarchy
shall be the form of government.
Actually it docs not involve the
question of how the nation shall be
governed so much as who shall gov
ern it.
There is a death battle between
what have come to be called in
Europe, and are more and more
frequently mentioned here in the
United States, the Right and the
tion of Spain. It was less than a
decade after that when she lost her
last American colony. Four years
later came the first of a series of
uprisings among the people; it was
quelled. That was in 1909; in 1917
there was another unsuccessful re
volt.
When the crisis after the World
war came, the Spanish monarchy
found itself unable to look after the
welfare of its 23,000,000 subjects,
who were finding it next to im
possible to make a living. An at
tempt was made to right conditions
in 1921 when Prime de Rivera was
set'up by the Rightist factions as
dictator. It didn’t work.
New Regime Fails
Ten years later the republic was
voted in and King Alfonso XIII was
on his sudden way out. Spanish citi
zens were free men. All the ills of
the old times were to be forgotten.
Their troubles were over.
But, alas, it didn’t work out that
way. Actually, the new government
had been heralded a few months be
fore its inception by a serious gene
ral strike and an uprising among
the military forces. There was the
world-wide depression to be reck
oned with, and the fact that in Spain
the currency was deflated, industry
frozen and foreign markets for
Spanish farmers hopelessly lost.
Primo de Rivera had been driven
into exile by rising governmental
debts and deficits. Political liberty
was supposed to rectify all of these
things. Of course it didn't.
When the republic was bom 75
per cent of the population was de- i
pendent, directly or indirectly, up
on agriculture, yet so evilly was it
distributed that only one-tenth of
the farm population could make a
fair living from it. Immense
estates, relics of feudal days, held ;
the really fertile land; the poor ,
peasant was doomed to watch thou- '
sands upon thousnds of acres of
nch land carelessly, waste fully cul
tivated, or even thrown open to
pasture, while he. burdened with
heavy debts, had to work a tiny
patch of poor land. The great hordes
of landless farm • hands, working
only half the year, and then I
at meager wages, were steadily
growing.
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result of hopeless conflict'of policy.
The Right, bewildered by conflict
ing policy, between socialism one
minuted and Fascism the next, froze
credits, paralyzed industry and agri
culture, and hired armed bands of
men to annoy the Leftists and thus
provoke the government. In the
summer of 1932 it all came to a boil
and the Right provoked a military
revolt, but intervention of civilian
troops on the part of the govern
ment quelled it.
Economic conditions failed to im
prove. There were strikes, riots and
demonstrations. The Left was still
in a bad way. The peasants led an
uprising in 1933. So severely was it
put down, the government began to
lose the loyalty of the peasants and
kindred classes. When later that
year the Socialists were driven
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from the cabinet and the Right as
sumed what amounted to almost all
the power, there were political
scandals and months of continued
unrest followed. In 1934 the Left re
volted upon the calling of Gil Robles
into the cabinet. This was nearly a
successful revolution and was only
quieted by the employment of the
Spanish Foreign Legion and paid
Moorish troops. Never before i n
Spanish history had such measures
been necessary to protect the gov
ernment. It was sufficient to instill
more confidence and courage into
the Left, and to incite the proleta
riat further against the government
of the Right.
Accordingly the Left forced elec
tions and swept the existing govern
ment from power. That was early
this year. The same old struggle
has been going on ever since—the
power has not yet definitely come
to one side or the other to permit
a continuity of action.
But the new revolution, openly and
unmistakably a civil war to the bit-
I ter end. will leave Spain at last com-
Gea. Emilio Mela. Rebel Leader.
Left On the Right is Fascism; on
the left is Socialism. On the one
side are the monopolies, the bureau
crats and the big land owners; on
the other are the peasant farmers,
the small business men, union labor
and the proletariat.
It may be truthfully said that
practically all Europe today is di-
valed into Rightest and Leftist fac
tions. The sharp line of demarcation
becomes more apparent with each
new heated political debate, with
each new spirited election. For that
reason every European eye is di
rectly focused upon Spain. Deeply
concemol are France, whose new
Leftist government has not yet
proved the panacea it was heralded
to be; Germany, which will find
new cause to arm against "the
Reds” if the Left wins and a new
victory over communism if the
Right wins; Italy would welcome a
strong Fascist neighbor, and ex
clusive of her subtler political in
terests, Great Britain must protect
Gibraltar.
While former revolutions in Spain
have resulted in only qualified vic
tories or defeats, it is generally con
ceded that this one will be decisive.
It may string along for many
months, even years, but it will be
a fight to a finish.
Europe Watches Struggle
Yet what is important about this
civil war is not which government,
Right or Left, emerges victorious,
the choice of the majority of people.
It is the fact that there is a serious
fight. This is a bloody and cruel
war. Homes, theaters, hospitals
have become ammunition centers
and barracks. Snipers spit death
out of store windows, cannon wheels
scar the surfaces of plains, the
drone of bombers disturbs the calm
of fabled Spanish skies.
Right and Left have taken arms
against each other. All Europe
watches. F«i~years the continent
has been a tinder box, awaiting a
match to set it off. Crisis after
crisis has been passed and another
great war has been averted or post
poned, sometimes ever so narrowly.
May not this develop into the next
of these great crises? What will
France do if Italy sends aid to the
Fascists? What will Germany do if
Red Russia interferes on the other
side?
The Spanish-American war may
be arbitrarily taken as the real be
ginning of the political diaintegra-
govemment that when there were 1
losses, the taxpayers made them |
good, but when there were profits !
the stockholders got them all.
When the republic came into be
ing there were countless and need
less bureaus eating the substance of
the treasury. A costly and over
large army, with many needlessly
high-salaried officers noted for blun
dering and extravagant "colonial**
adventures, was being kept. Unem
ployment, starvation wages and
continued repression from the Right
had concentrated the mass of poor
industrial workers into a few large
cities and had greatly increased
their numbers.
Eipeeted Drastic Changes
The people, rightly enough, ex
pected drastic changes from the
Men of the Republic. The economic
theory of the Rightists, nominally
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No. 1933-B designed for sizes 12,
14, 16, 18 and 20—bust 32 to 38.
Size 14 requires 4 yards of 39-
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coins.
Send for the Fall Pattern Book
containing Barbara Bell well-
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Exclusive fashions for children,
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Foreign Words
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1933 B
Swingin’ down the lane with a
bit of a zip and a full quota of
what it takes, this smartly simple
frock goes places without effort—
an engagingly youthful and chic
affair which can be made in a
trice (first cousin to a jiffy) and
make you the belle of the
campus.
Its simplicity is totally disarm-
ing, yet it has all the aplomb of
a professor in English — just one
of those frocks which can’t miss.
Delightfully cool and as chipper
as a breeze, it requires just seven
simple pieces in the making, in
any fabric from the A’s to the
Z’a. The yoke and sleeves cut in
Minced ham and chopped green
pepper makes a tasty filling for
deviled eggs.
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A large piece of blotting paper
placed on the closet floor will ab
sorb moisture from wet'Rubbers
that may be placed in closet.
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A mixture of one part vinegar
and two parts linseed oil, applied
with a soft cloth to suitcases and
bagsywill clean and polish them.
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you wish to boil a cracked
egg’place a little vinegar in the
water in which it is boiled. This
will keep the egg from seeping
through the crack in the shell.
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Scorch on cotton or linen may
be removed with soap and water.
Wet the spot with water and ex
pose to the sun for a day or
longer if necessary. The scorch
disappears more rapidly if the
material is moistened first.
If your garden peas get too
hard for serving in the regular
way, cook them until tender,
press through a sieve and use the
pulp in soup.
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To make white curtains ecru
dip in a solution made by boiling
one tablespoon of black tea in one
quart of water. Strain solution
before using. t
9 Aaaoclftl*4 Naw*p*p*r«. — WNU Sarvlc*
A posteriori. '(L.) From that
which follows, from effect to
cause. ,
Au jour le jour. (F.) From
hand to mouth.
Battre la campagne. (F.) To
scour the country; to go on q
fool’s errand.
Ca m’est egal. (F.) It is al)
the same to me.
De profundis. (L.) Out of the
depths.
En grande tenue. (F.) In full
dress.
Faire la noce. (F.) To have a
gay time; to make a night of it.
Gluckliche Reise. (Ger.) A
pleasant voyage; bon voyage.
J’y suis, j’y reste. (F.) Here
I am, here I stay.—Attributed to
Marshall McMahon in the
Crimean Redan.
Hie jacet. (L.) Here lies; said
of a deceased person.
Ipse dixit. (L.) He himseU
said it; a dogmatic assertion.
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Americans Leave Spain
The efficiency of the State depart
ment and the foreign service has
been strikingly demonstrated in the
emergency precipitated by the rev
olution In Spam, which required the
government to conduct the first
evacuation of Americans from a
European country since the World
war.
When the revolution broke. Am
bassador Bowers was at his sum
mer house at Fuenterrabia, on the
coast, five miles from San Sebas
tian. the Summer capital, where
were stationed Messrs. Johnson and
Schoellkopf. Cut off from commu
nication by telephone with his Sum
mer embassy and prevented by bar
ricades and fighting from going to
San Sebastian, Mr. Bowers was tak
en off by the cutter Cayuga and
subsequently established his em-
• DC UNITED THIBUTK TO REAM-
ADMIRAL RICHARD EVELYN BYRD.
U. S. N. (Ret ), six hundred mem
bers of American industrial and
scientific groups met at a dinner
on June 5th. They presented to
Admiral Byrd a gold medal in
scribed "American Industry’s
Tribute.”
On the reverse side, this medal
commemorates the silent courage
of an heroic leader who kept alone
"a six months vigil for meteoro
logical observation at the world’s
southernmost outpost. Before the
middle of the long Antarctic night
he was stricken desperately ill
from the poisonous fumes of a
faulty oil stove. Survival seemed
impossible. He deliberately chose
to die rather than tap out an
S. O. S. on his radio. In fact, he
squandered his strength and les
sened his chance for survival by
painfully hand-cranking his radio
to keep his schedule and report—
‘AH's Well’—to Little America,
lest his silence cause hie com
rades to risk their lives coming
to his rescue in the darkness.
For months of the bitterest aver
age cold ever endured, he hung
precariously on the edge of the
abyss. Untold suffering did not
compel him to alter his decision.
By a miracle he was spared.**
In 22 branches of scientiflo
knowledge the world is richer be
cause Byrd and his comrades ad
ventured into the Antarctic. But
far beyond this the world is en
riched by the character of these
courageous men ... led by e
men who silently challenged
death in one of the great deeds
of ell time ... It is in enduring
recognition of such rare leader
ship that the medal presented to
him is inscribed "Dick Byrd—
Gallant Gentleman.”
second in power in the republic and
today represented by the rebelling
Fascist generals, was that of re
pression, wage-reduction breaking-
up of labor unions, and concentra
tion camps for forced labor—all the
principles of Fascism. The republic
was to substitute higher wages, new
and fairer distribution of land, gov
ernment control of industry, reset
tlement and rehabilitation projects
and a security program.
- But the early republican govern
ment found itself torn between two
loyalties. It attempted to steer a
middle course, providing legislation
only upon pressure from Right or
Left sod, naturally, leaving only a
bassy on the vessel to cruise in
Spanish waters so as to be of aid
to Americans.
At the outset the situation in the
Spanish capital was serious, with
firing in the streets. The United
States embassy stocked all the food
it could get and stored water in
large reservoirs for a siege. Then
American nationals were directed
to go to the embassy. A total of 160
went there, including Filipinos and
Puerto Ricans. The embassy also
received official requests to harbor
nationals of Belgium, Sweden, Fin
land, Turkey, Chile, Panama. Cube
and Austria, and did so.
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