The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, September 16, 1937, Image 2
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SHANGHAI FEARS PLAGUE
Cholf Addi to Doofti Tol. •. CKintit PUn«t Bomb
Amoncon Linor . .. Britain Prototh Attack on Envoy
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WORLD'S WEEK
'Black Daath 1 in Shanghai
A S IF there were not horror
enough in Shanghai, the ill-
fated city found itself face to face
with a new peril—bubonic plague.
The Outbreak of the disease, first
discovered in the French conces
sion. where most of the American
population lives, was traced in large
part to the sanitary difficulties in
removing the bodies of Hongkew ci
vilians killed by bombings, artillery
shelling and machine-gun fire.
Sanitary officers in the conces
sion and the international settle
ment fought frantically to check the
spread of the dread cholera. They
. were hampered by Japanese mili
tary forces which insisted upon
keeping closed areas where there
still remained bodies to be buried.
Admiral Harry Yamell, com
mander of the United States Asi
atic fleet, creeled all shore leaves
for sailors and ordered Chinese
hands off American ships. With the
port of Shanghai closed to Ameri
can shipping other than warships,
because of the ever-increasing dan
ger of bombs and artillery fire. 500
Americans who had intended to
leave oa the next liners out of port
were stranded, making a total of
1N0 American inhabitants who re
mained exposed to the double dan
gers of warfare and cholera.
Annoimccmcnt by the Japanese
feat feey bed perterted a
Wounded by Japanese airmsa. Sir
Hag be Moatgomery RnatchboU-Ha-
ts center of a trained
a) law no less than the conscience
of mankind has always enjoined.
"His majesty's government must
therefore request:
"FIIIST—A formal apology to be
conveyed by the Japanese govern
ment to his majesty's government;
-S ECO HD—Suitable punishment
or the attack:
Uhinkd about
S ANTA MONICA. CALIF.—
A certain rich man out
here — rich but indulgent —
got a letter from hia heir, a
sophomore at one of the big
eastern colleges.
The lad announced he had been
converted to communism and was
contributing to the
cause. So what
about it?
The old man
wrote back:
"Son, you have a
perfect right to fol
low the dictates of
your conscience.
But as a consistent
communist you nat
urally would not
continue to live on
the Ul-gotten gains
of a wicked money-
grabber. Today I am cutting off
your aomewhat generous allowance.
You will also vacate the luxurious
apartment you now occupy because
I’m not paying the rent at same any
longer. So go ahead, my boy, and
commune freely—with my bless
ings! But from date that’ll be about
all from this end of the line."
Exactly four hours after the ar
rival by air mail of this ultimatum,
the hard-hearted parent got back a
telegram stating that the
Irvtn 8. Cobb
had decided not to take up
Washington
Digest '
Ndtiondl Topics Interpreted
By WILLIAM BRUCKART^HH^^
H09'Em
Guessing
Washington. — Political students
and observers in Washington find
themselves in a
quandary concern
ing the objectives
of the New Deal
administration because of a series
of late developments. Frankly, most
students of politics have to confess
their inability to fathom the various
developments of recent weeks or to
measure their significance.
I have written, heretofore, about
the wide open split in the Demo
cratic party and about the presiden
tial moves to heal that split but,
instead of the new developments be
ing of a kind designed to heal
wounds, they appear superficially at
least to be doing directly the oppo
site thing. Confessing my own in
ability to understand the political
strategy, if there be strategy, let
me merely call attention to such
things as:
The recent radio speech by Sena
tor Guffey. Pennsylvania, Demo
crat. which thoroughly read out of
the party such able men as Sena
tors Wheeler of Montana. Burke of
Nebraska and O'Mahoney of Wyo
ming.
The speech of Postmaster Gen
eral Parley before the Young Demo
crats at their Indiana meeting, stat
ing that that* win ha na reprisal*
have
•l or new see fit to abject to
which he controls, any and all Dem
ocrats whi^are unwilling to be one
hundred per cent for the theories
of economics and jocial reform
which the New Dealers counte
nance. If that be true, and I re
peat it is only an assumption, then
the President evidently is hoping to
create a class party, a radical party
which can be made to include such
outfits as the John L. Lewis follow
ing, the communists and half-baked
nitwits who are opposed to the prin
ciple of individual employment, the
accumulation of personal belongings
and even the idea of owning homes
by individuals, free from debt.
On the other hand I cannot con
vince myself that Mr. Roosevelt
would make a political mistake of
this gravity. For it would be a mis
take in two ways, namely, virtual
destruction of the Democratic party
and the blighting of any hope the
President may have for being elect
ed a third time. It is these com
binations that make the whole situa
tion so difficult to understand.
It may be that one result will
be that Senator Wheeler or Senator
Burke may find himself in a politi
cal situation where one or the other
will be forced to seek the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination in
IPSO It la quite apparent now that
the split to the party Is going to
cause a violent explosion in the nest
Democratic national convention
There ts no way to nvntd Ik It may
ho sddod to the same breath U»»t
Mr KanaevsW con pa into that con
eoattao nntf tarce toe own r
anuaa hecaaaa snrety fen Partoy
political ametoaa cannot ho dm
Corttonat d-ipoto
and km of Dom
•«a tenmpbnto casootop Thao
la aoy feok Sn« *4 aanarof «f fea
maatoaa. Mr Partoy eon
too atoefean af
had had to run o gauaiiet of ortU-
tery ftro to get IP) American refu-
geea on their way to Manila.
i's ambassador in Washing-
T. Wang, lost no Uma
complete apology for hia
at to the Dollar liner Inci-
dent to Secretary of Slate Cordell
Hull He said the President Hoover
had bean mistaken for a Japanese
transport by a Chinese aviator. Ha
to make full financial re-
immediately. It was indicat-
ad that a court martial was in stort
lor ttm erring airman.
Mora spectacular, but only be
cause of the Importance of the per
son It Involved, was the shooting
of Sir Hughs Montgomery Knatch-
buD-Hugessen. British ambassador
to China.
Britain's note to Tokyo was
vouched in stringent terms. It said,
tat part:
"The plea, should it bo advanced.
Pint the flags carried on the cars
were too small to be visible is ir
relevant. There would have been
no justification for the attack even
had the can carried no flags at
_ foreign and even the diplo-
status of the occupants is also
Tbs real Issue is that
year
U February eaperts figured the
coat of armaments at fT MX) 000 SOS
ever a five year period New It is
apparent that many more million*
will be required The cost of anti
mony has increased from S3fi3 to
M63 a ton. copper from |2fi5 to W7S.
heavy scrap steel from flS.7S to
12150. tin from $1,135 to H.2P5. snd
line from $105 to $115. Steel ship
plates a year ago cost $46 75 s too;
now they are $57.
Jersey Kids Picket Mayor
T HE next thing you know babies
will be picketing their cradles
for more milk. Spurred on by fre
quent accounts of industrial strike
picketing—or by the encouragement
of disgruntled politicians—several
hundred boys between the ages of
seven and thirteen years rose in re
volt against the city fathers of Jer
sey City, N. J.
Shouting their war cry, "We want
playgrounds!”, the youngsters tied
up traffic with their parade. They
dug up cobblestones from the
street*, sprinkled the pavements
with broken glass, built barricades
of boxes and stones which made
driving hazardous for autoraobiliste.
The boys directed their campaign
against Mayor Frank Hague and
United States Senator A Harry
Moore, upbraiding them with plac
ard mottoes condemning their al
leged failure to provide
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to AlStoo tosi qeto feOfeatoffM
to eoeoowerd posxfise eed
to fereudP to ' cyfewe*. * e
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i preeeeeUvo." sad II
awl to be a peel
e rwuad jwst toed tog for a ebaare to
work ' provocative
sal.on. The only way to heft 'am
was to pretend to be deaf end dumb.
And now the reigning favorite is
"allergic ** Folks spout It every
where. whether they know what II
mean* or not. 1 don't mind saying
I'm getting awfully allergic to "al
lergic." There must be many others
like me
Campaign
L ET us not cavil too much be
cause high pressure salesmen,
working on commission, have been
unloading upon the faithful, at
fancy prices, the gift book put out
by Washington headquarters to pay
off campaign debts. In fact, 15
cents’ worth would cover practical
ly all the cavil I personally hava
used up in this connection.
The result tends to prove the grat
ifying fact that, while more Demo
crats may not necessarily have
learned how to read and write, ob
viously more of us have got money
than formerly was the case when
the Republicans were in power.
Besides, think of what the strain
would have been upon the poor post*
man if the national committee had
been stuck with all this bulk litera
ture and congressmen had started
franking copies out to their constitu
ents with Unci* Sam paying the
freight To give you a further Idee
about this franking privilege. I may
hat It
ite; Sena ter O
devastating report by
ite judiciary commit
tee advised the senate to kill the
court packing bill.
Senator Guffey's speech was
mad* at night When the senate
convened at noon the following day.
Senator Wheeler took the floor and
delivered one of the most vicious
speeches of which be is known to
be capable. It was excelled in bit
terness only by the attack which
came from Senator Burke. Senator
O’Mahoney likewise made sure that
the senate record revealed the feel
ing of those who were convinced
the President had made a vital mis
take in proposing the court reor
ganization.
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I have heard these questions
asked many times: What can the
President gain by
Whart the making Senator
Ansteer? Guffey or any
man of his type a
spokesman for the administration?
Further, can the President afford
politically to strike at the very heart
of the Democratic party by permit
ting even secretly the political de
struction of such brilliant men as
Wheeler. Burke and O’Mabooey?
The answer to those questions, as
far as I can see it. or as far as I
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WWW By VIRGINIA VALEWWW
N O ONE could blame Rob
ert Taylor if he decided
to avoid New York City on
his return from Europe. The
reception his fans gave him
was so frenzied a demonstra
tion that several stalwart
policemen are still nursing
bruises.
It was bad enough at the railroad
station, where screeching women
broke through poliqe lines and
shoved each other around in an ef
fort to shake his hand. But that was
nothing to what occurred on the
Berengaria just as the ship was
about to sail with him on board.
Girls in their teens simply swarmed
all over the boat, climbing over rail
ings, breaking through guard ropes,
hiding themselves under life boats.
Sailing was delayed half an hour
because a steward found two young-
stets hiding under the bed in Tay
lor’s stateroom, and it was thought
wise to search the rest of the ship.
Taylor was wearing a three-year
old battered brown felt hat. a brown
■ports coat, gray slacks and shirt,
and sturdy brown sports shoes snd
looked as wholesome and modest
as a powerful farmhand.
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mode By Senator O Mahoney to an
swer to the Guffey radio tirade In
that statement of position. Senator
O'Mahoney stated, to quote a single
paragraph:
*T would rather walk out of the
door of this chamber and never re
turn. than to surrender any honest
convictions I havs. I say to you.
•cnatora of the United States, so
long as I am In this body I shall
raise my voice and cast my vote aa
my conscience dictates and nobody,
whether he comes from Pennsyl
vania or from New York or any
other state, can tell me or the peo
ple of my state what I should or
should not do."
Contrast that statement with the
following declavrtion by Senator
Guffey in his radio speech:
"I was elected to the United
States senate in 1934 because I as
sured the voters of Pennsylvania
that it was my intention to support
loyally and without wavering the
program of the Chief Ezecutive."
And in calling attention to that
statement of subservience. Senator
Burke of Nebraska declared:
"Pennsylvania may want that
kind of representation in the senate,
and. if they do, God bless them, let
them have it; but to me it would
seem that if the senate is to have
that kind of representation, it might
•a well have a parrot to a cage to
the secretary’s office and bring It
to senator s name is called
him say. Tea. Mr
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"Remember, my boy," Mid the
elderly relative, "that wealth does
not bring happiness.”
"I don't expect it to," answered
the young man. "I merely want
it so that I may be able to choose
the kind of misery that is most
agreeable to me.”
"Dear, dear, you mustn’t play
with daddy’s razor, baby! Moth
er’s got a tin of peaches to open."
Faulty Deduction
A suburbanite once christened v
his ba^by "Homer” and on the
clergyman asking him whether he
had done so because Homer was
his favorite poet, he replied:
"Poet? Why, no, sift I
keep
pigeons.
THE ANSWER
"What's the secret of your wife’s
hair not turning gray?”
"Can't say—she keeps it dark.**
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graph office to send a wire, aad
waa told that he had to pay lor hia
meenage. but that Bm name went
free. He thowghl M over far a
white. But then said to a Brand
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Ed McCae—B. rad
aioger. toon nrl
Phi
turoJto to the air far
his s-xth consecutive
year as dispenser of
good cheer — Sun-
day afternoons.
With the new aeries
of thirty-tune weeks
comes a change of
outlet to N. B. C.'a
Blue Network, giv
ing the Acme sing
er-sage a coast-to-
Ed McConnell coast hookup. Ge
nial and corpulent
Ed returned from "the little place
in the North woods” after a sum
mer of fishing, swimming and “jes’
loafin’ around." He is being sup
ported in his half-hour broadcast by
a distinguished group of musicians.
ODDS AND ENDS—Ida Lupino it
going to be pretty cautious after this
when she incites guests to dinner. W.
C. Fields liked the cooking so well that
he persuaded the cook to come to work
for him .. . Hollace Shaw, the C. B. S.
soprano, has been in New York for six
months and has never been inside a
night club. Says she likes symphony
concerts better, but how does she
know? . . Marlene Deitrich is having
m lot of peasant blouses made up in
Budapest to bring home to her Holly
wood friends . . . The most widely-
quoted joke in motion-picture circles
concerns the wild leopard which is be
ing tamed to act with Katherine Hep
burn in “Bringing Up Bebr.“ Every-
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