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Tilt Brawl! People-8e«tineU BaniwclU S. C- Thursday, December 3, 1936 **+++**+*****++1***+ if it it ★ * ★ ★ * ★ STAR DUST ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Clark Gable 5 Aiovie • Radio $ it if ***By VIRGINIA VALE*** I T’S said that Fred Astaire has been much upset over the fact that his radio programs haven’t come up to expectations. In fact, it’s reported that he wanted to drop the whole thing—but just try to get out of a contract to broadcast, once you’re in it! He’s continuing—and if they’ll just give him the right scripts to work with there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be tremendously suc cessful. You may recall that Maurice Chevalier felt that same way about his broadcasts—but they were pop ularly considered flops right to tha last, if the opinion of the great American public that stayed home and listened to them counts for any thing. A1 Jolson was pretty unhappy about his first programs, but he gritted his teeth and went right on. Clark Gable abandoned his New York vacation after three days of being almost torn apart by autograph seekers and enthu siastic fans, and Ca role Lombard didn't even start for the East after hearing what had happened to him. Incidentally, dur ing his brief stay in New YoVk a girl who’s part of the movie business there noticed a man on the street who looked very much like the famous Clark — face, figure, even clothes bore a strong resemblance. The only difficulty was that he was blacked up—she insists that the man was « white man who’d used burnt cork. . There’s a new radio program on a eoast-to-eoast hookup that ought to interest everybody who has ideas for such programs. It was origi nated by Octavos Roy Cohen, the fa moos story writer, and H's called “Agooy Column.” It is based oa letters from people who write in giving problems they want solved. For Instance, here’s an example. A hoy wrote in, saying that for years he had been searching for the per fect girl. He met her on a cruise. They didn’t even tell their name; just used silly nicknames. But—the ship was the Mono Castle, which caught Ire at sea two years ago, causing the loss of so many lives. He doesn’t know whether she was saved or not. They were to tell their real names when they landed. So he doesn’t even know her name. And he wants to find her. If you hadn’t realized how rapid ly Robert Taylor has climbed the rungs of the ladder leading to movie popularity, just consider the fact that he has signed a new seven- year contract which will bring him $2,000 a week at first, and during the last two years will add $5,000 to his bank account each week. All this as the result of a year’s work— for until a year or so ago he was just a minor player. Small wonder that ambitious youngsters want to go into the movies I Ruth Chatterton’s buying a new plane; she just can’t get enough of flying when she pilots her own. In cidentally, doesn’t she do a grand piece of work In “Dodsworth”? Nev er has she given a better perform ance. And of course it’s an excep tionally good picture—the kind that makes audiences applaud when it turns out the way they want it to. —*— It’s reported that James Cagney has had so muct^flifficulty with his first picture made under his new affil iations that he'd be glad to bury the hatchet and go back to working for War ner Brothers. Which brings u p the fact that Bette Davis has shown that she can tak£ it. After losing her le gal fightwith Warner Brothers and being forbidden to m a k e pictures in England, announced that she’d come Washington! Digest jig, National lopics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART ThiltlanlUiioO’di i(fj Tales tmJ Traditions /fmi i k oikia m PRANK I. MAOIN scon WATSON James Cagne she home and go back to work as if there had never been any trouble. —*— ODDS AND ENDS: . . .Greta Garbo eertainly has changed; she goes to parties occasionally nowadays . . . She may do ■ modern picture to follow “Camille* before she gels into costume for “Bo- loved" which is laid in the time of Na poleon ... If you think Colonel Stoop- nagle and Budd sound « bit breathless when they begin their broadcasts, remem ber that they’ve probably been practic ing jig steps to Don Voorhets’ music by MMty of warming up .. . Paramount plans to have Bing Crosby make pictures with plots, and sing just incidentally, from now on ... At least one of the big mo tion picture companies has been signing up young actors and actresses on 30-day contracts—but paying them no money: jut keeping them from signing with smyona else, while the company decides whether to use them or not. B Western Newspaper Ui Washington.—There is an “era of good feeling” going the rounds that r . is quite different Eta or than anything we Good Fogling have had since early in 1929. It is being promoted with a great deal of enthusiasm and present results as well as indications justify the promotion work that is going on in the New Deal press agent circles. This era of good feeling is quite an interesting thing from another angle, namely, politics. It is being used by the politicians again to es tablish President Roosevelt in the same situation as he found himself at the beginning of his first term in the White House. I am afraid he is being built up again as a super man and, in politics, a superman or his position is hard to maintain in the public mind. Business also is indulging in this era of good feeling. Business al ways puts its best foot forward, just as lovers do. It wants to develop a spirit of good will on the part of the public and it wants to show its finan cial backers how things are coming along all hunky-dory. There is noth ing wrong in the attitude. It is per fectly logical and human—and it is very interesting to see this wave of healthy feeling grow. The important, as well as the in teresting, thing about this era of good feeling is that to the expert students it shows a gradual, if not conclusive, decline in depression conditions. It proves that things are on the up grade—not that they are at the top yet, but that a mo mentum is being established which may carry the economic recovery to the top if the federal govern ment settles down and treats busi ness with fairness. As I said above, New Deal press agents are promoting this business recovery for all that it is worth. Naturally, they are attributing it to the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt aa tha basic -factor in this upward surge of business. They ara cap italizing it to tha fullest because by *o capitalizing it, tha political party in power gets its due share of credit. Thera is no doubt that they will continue on this course because everyone likes to read or hear about improved business conditions, resto ration of dividend payments, in creasing volume of traffic, any and all things that show the nation ii slowly but surely getting back on its economic feet. While the New Dealers are shout ing from the housetops how Presi dent Roosevelt has accomplished all of these things, there comes a dis cordant note from business itself. Business leaders, just like politi cians, want credit for whatever is accomplished, whether they are re sponsible or someone else. The/ do not cars any more than politicians whether the credit properly is theirs. It is simply an exposition of the vain, glorious trait that seems to exist in nearly everyone. • • • Business is seeking to show that it is pulling itself together, open- ing new factories. Whose . raising wages, in tho Credit spite of New Deal policies with the handicaps that some of those poli cies include. So, business is seek ing to counterbalance the politicians and the politicians, speaking through New Deal press statements, are trying to fortify their own posi tion as saviors of the country. Nei ther one is correct. Without doing too much debunking, I believe it ought to be said that President Roosevelt vid his associates have executed some government policies that have been helpful to the busi ness structure. With equal frank ness, it ought to be said that busi ness leaders have taken the bull by the horns and have proceeded to help materially in putting commerce and industry back on the right track again. Neither one ought to take too much credit. Some credit is due each but neither one nor both together is entitled to claim all of the credit for the recovery of busi ness that is now underway. The answer to the upward swing of business lies chiefly in the fact that the depression has worn itself out. It would have worn itself out just the same whether the admin istration was New Deal or Repub lican. It would have accomplished just as much in the waV'-of ex panded buying power and increased production whether Mr. Roosevelt was re-elected or whether he had been defeated and Governor Landon of Kansas had been elected at the end of the recent national cam paign. I am reminded by this discussion of a remark that the late Eugene Black made while he was governor of the Federal Reserve board. On that occasion I asked him whether there were signs of the efid of the depression. His reply was, “not yet.” He added, however, that the depression would destroy itself as every other depression in history had done and that when this point of exhaustion had been reached t commerce and industry would take an upwitrd swing. Then, he added with reference to some of the eco nomic students of the administra tion in power: “It will wear itself out and good times will come back again—and every doggone professor and economic theorist in the world will try to claim credit for it.” So, I think it can be said without equivocation that if anybody or any thing is entitled to credit for tha indicated recovery movement, wa had better be fair and admit it was a combination of circumstances, not the least of which was the natural law of supply and demand. It seems utterly silly to me for any individu als or groups of individuals to at tempt to corral all of the praise. * • • Those who have access to the mar ket pages of the great metropolitan daily newspapers Wage must have been Increases impressed by the rapid fire an nouncements coming from big in dustrial corporations of wage in creases, bonuses for employees and melon cutting in the form of divi dends for the shareholders. They must have been impressed, like wise, with the sharp rise in secur ity prices that obviously, has re flected the expanded business and increased earnings. A prosperous nation may not al ways be a happy one but there is a certain psychology about a prosper ous nation that makes it carefree. It is a psychology that makes the average man and woman forget to a large extent about the recent pinch of economic displacements and, as well, those same people are inclined to disregard and give no consideration to the morrow. Let us look into those circum stances. When corporations or other forms of business have reasonable years in their particular lines, early in the winter they begin to see what the year’s total will be. They can figure rather accurately what the returns will be in the last two months, say, after they have made their totals for the first ten months of the year. So, whenever they reach that stage in a reasonably successful year they can make their plans for distribution of the profits. Now, we have a tremendously high tax rate on corporation sur pluses and we have rather high tax rates on incomes of individu als. Corporations end other busi nesses, therefore, start figuring how to do the best they can with the earnings of the year. Some of them determine that their employees should share substantially in the profits of their labors; others want to distribute as much of these earn ings as they may to their stock holders because such a showing creates a demand in the market for their shares and such a demand is influential in establishment of the corporation's credit for borrowing money if it needs to borrow from the banks. In either event, corpora tion managements obviously give considerations to the tax the corpo ration would have to pay and I think it is not a matter of condem nation for them to turn over as much of their profit as they can to those interested in the business instead of to a government which wastes so much. To be perfectly fair, it must be said that the money now being dis tributed either in dividends or in bonuses to workers or in wage in creases was earned before the re cent election. Its distribution, , how ever, is motivated largely on fkos- pects for the future. In other words, those responsible for these distribu tions of earnings feel that they can let that money out of their hands. They may not be distributing all of the sums available but the “elra of good feeling” is accepted by all of them as indicating the chances for continued earnings are bright. * • • I have merely touched on the ef fect of distribution of earnings among the holders of' capital. It is just as important to consider the effect of distribution of these earn ings on the laboring classes. Labor has been convinced under the Amer ican system for many years that it is entitled to some share of the prof its from its products. Employers are taking that same view to a greater extent than anywhere else in the world. When labor gets bo nuses ot gets increases in its pay, there is a reaction among those workers who have sound judgment that prompts them to do the best they can on their jobs. That is to say, they become contented work ers and they are less susceptible to the propaganda of radicals who seek to promote strikes and lal»or disturbances to further the ends of communism. That is a part of the era of good feeling as much as the added earnings of corporstions or the enthusiasm of politicians over victory. a 0 WtaUra WwriMiM Ualaa. DEMONSTRATIONS C ONVENTION “demonstrations” —those amazing exhibitions of hysterical enthusiasm, usually manufactured rather than sponta neous—had their origin in the Re publican convention of 1860 in Chi cago. The Jwo leading candidates were William H. Seward of New York and Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. The New York delegation brought along a prize fighter named Tom Hyer and a band which marched about the streets playing martial music. To match these noise-makers, supporters of “Old Abe” hired a Chicagoan “whose shout could be heard above the most violent tem pest on Lake Michigan” and a leather-lunged < Dr. Ames, who, though a Democrat, also consented to whoop it up for Lincoln. But the real “blow-off” came when Lin coln was nominated on the fourth ballot. An' eye-witness has de scribed the scene as follows: **The immense multitude rose, and gave round after round of ap plause; ten thousand voices swelled into a roar so deafening that, for several minutes, every attempt to restore, order was hopelessly vain ... A man appeared in the hall bringing a large painting of Mr. Lincoln. The cannon sent forth roar after roar in quick succession. Del egates tore up the sticks and boards bearing the names of sev eral states, and waved them aloft over their heads, and the vast mul titude before the platform were waving hats and handkerchiefs.” Another chapter in convention "demonstrations” was added by the Republican convention, also in Chi cago, in 1880. Rpscoe Conkling of New York led the forces that had determined to nominate Grant for a third term. At the first mention of Grant’s nsme, a demonstration began which lasted nesrly half an hour. Conkling, ^oted for his “sris- tocratic coldness,” unbent enough to stimulate enthusiasm in the gal leries and among the delegates by waving his handkerchief. Then Robert G. Ingersoll started wave after wave of frantic cheering when he grabbed a woman's red shawl and waved it aloft. Men tore off their coats and used them for flags. Then the Grant delegates seized the standards of their states and started a parade around the hall—thus starting a custom which has been perpetuated to this day. How It Work* Out KEYNOTERS LJOW many of us recall the key- * * note speech of Senator Sterner at the Republican national conven tion in Cleveland this year? Or that of Senator Barkley at the Phil adelphia gathering of Democrats? The answers to that one fortify the fact that keyitote speeches fade rapidly, then die as completely aa an ancient mackerel. The only one which persevered through a cam paign was delivered at the Demo cratic convention of 1916 and later events made a farce out of it. That keynote was delivered in favor of Woodrow Wilson; the man trho voiced it was Martin H. Glynn of New York. Like the “Three Long Years” which Republicans emphasized in 1936, Glynn’s keynote beat the tom toms for Wilson’s achievements in avoiding war in 1914, 1915 and 1916, ending each recital with the as sertion: “But we didn't go to war.” Seizing upon the then catchy phrase, which set convention dele gates on their ears, the Democrat ic national ccmmittee made the race on the slogan of: “He ? _pt us out of war.” It barely lasted to re-elect Wilson, for two months aft er beginning his second term the United States was in the war. Success of a keynote in this par ticular instance was made at least partially possible by the pussyfoot ing tactics of the rival party. They didn’t want to discuss the war. But the American voters were talking about nothing else! One other keynote has found a place in our permanent political history. It was delivered by im posing Albert J. Beveridge o* Indi ana at the Bull Moose convention of 1912 which brought Theodore Roosevelt back into the spotlight. Said Beveridge: “The people’s government has been usurped by the invisible government, and the people’s government must be given back to the people again.” Even today, with history record ing a Bull Moose defeat, there is something about this well-turned phrase which accounts for the per petuity which has fallen to it. • We»tern Newspaper Union. ' • , ATRON, maid, or tiny mis*— your attention please. For as sembled here are three lovely frocks to brighten your ward robes. All are designed to be made at home, quickly and inex pensively, and each is accom panied by a step-by-step instruc tion chart which makes sewing a real pleasure and recreation. The lovely and graceful day time or afternoon frock, Pattern 1949, features a novel yet simple yoke and collar treatment, a clev er swing skirt, and youthful sleeves, long or short. Chic and stylish, yet as simple as can be, it will make up beautifully in sizes 12, 14. 16. 18, and 20 ( 30 to M bust measure), and size 14, with short sleeves, requires just 3% yards of 39 inch material. The comely morning frock which steals the center, Patterp 1973, is available in a wide range of sizes and takes top honors for comfort and versatility. Requiring just five simple pieces including the belt, it goes together like a charm, to fit perfectly and make your morning chores so much lighter. The pointed yoke is slim ming, the set-in sleeves are free and open, and the skirt is dart fitted at the waist. As easy to make as to wear, this pattern is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 43, 44, 46, 48. 90, and 52. Send for it today. Size 38 requires just 3% yards of 35 inch fabric, dimity or percale or gingham or seer sucker. The tempting model for tiny tots, Pattern 1944, is likewise utterly simple to make, yet as cunning as can be. Good for party or for play, it is a pattern you can cut twice and save for future use ia any of a wide range of fabrics. The tiny puff sleeves are cut in one with the shoulder with just two simple pieces for the front and back of the drees. The else range—six months, one, two and three years. The one yeer size requires 1% yards of 36 inch material, and if you wish you can make the pockets, cuffs and fao- ings in contrast. Send for the Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book contain ing 100 well • planned, easy-to rn ake patterns. Exclusive fash ions for children, young women, and matrons. Send fifteen cents n coins for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 387 w, Adams St., Chicago, XU. Patterns 19 cents (in coins) aach. • B*U SyadtctM.—WNU 1 Destroyed Indian Population The prehistoric Indian population of northern Arizona was destroyed by “tenement” conditions nearly 1,000 years ago. Tracing the hab its of the Indian population, an au thority said that from the time they moved from single family pit houses to multi-family apartment houses, or pueblos, similar to mod ern tenements, the population of these tribes dropped from 23,000 to 2000. l/nc/a Phi/&L That Is Perfection Perfection does not consist in doing singular things; but it does consist in doing common things singularly well. The sophisticated person finds little to enjoy. Everything is old him. A man who knows that his hard ships made the best part of his character may not want his son to have hardships. We always feel great admiration for those clever people who can mend something when we break it. Those That Tried Failures are facts that prove a man has at least actually tried to be successful. If you want to make your friend happy instead of seeking to have him make you happy, that’s the true gold. Always be sure your friends can grant the favor before you ask it; then there won’t be the pain and embarrassment of. refusal. Admitting our faults is half way to correcting them; but the lazies half. Everyone remembers what i great man says. So much the worse’ for his reputation for con sistency. Don't Live for Less Never allow yourself to live for anything less than your highest ideal. If you do, you will deterio rate. All friendships between men are based on the fact that the twe are somehow' happy in each other’s company. Poise is something that keeps one from speaking too suddenly No two men are exactly alike and universal democracy can’ overcome it. Reward for RdalHy The talents, ours today, may be demanded by the owner tomor row . , . Fidelity, not success, regulates the final reward.—J. R. Macduff. Still Coughing? 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