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I A McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936 BRISBANE t' * t - ■ 1 * THIS WEEK More Years, More Cares Monkeys and Yellow Fever The King Sees Poverty Ancient Koran Found The French have a saying, referring to a man’s age, “One year more, one care more”—Un an de plus, un soin de plus. European nations might take for their motto, ‘‘One treaty more, one more dan ger of war.” Italy, Austria, Hungary have a three-power treaty under which Italy guarantees Aus trian independence, against any attempt by Germany to ab sorb Austria, for Arthur Briabane instance. There is possible cause for war if any cause were lacking. Sao Paulo, Brazil, worries about re ports brought by health officers from the forests of the upper Sorocabana area. In that region, where mosqui toes are thick, explorers frequently aaw ‘‘monkeys with high fevers” drop out of trees and die, dozens of them, yictims of yellow fever. Fortunately for Brazil cities, the Jungle mosquito that bites monkeys and gives them yellow fever keeps away from cities. The fight against disease bearing mosquitoes and rats would keep men busy, if they were not busy already killing each other in war. Edward VIII, new king of England, visited the magnificently luxurious ocean steamer Queen Mary in Glasgow, then went from house to house, knock ing on doors, visiting some of the worst alum dwellings in all his kingdom. Later, talking to Lord Melchett, the king put the problem of England, this country and the whole world In these few words: “How do you reconcile a world that has produced this mighty ship with the slums we have just visited?” A marvelously illustrated ancient manuscript of the Koran, found in a shop of an antiquity dealer of Cairo, Egypt, was bought for fifty pounds. Heaven knows how many thousands of pounds it is actually worth. The Koran is said to have been writ ten by a highly educated Jew, who suggested ideas to Mohammed, the lat ter being unable to write. It is possible, however, that angels, supposed to have revealed divine truth to Mohammed, also taught him to write. „ Good news for tree growers, fruit trees or others. You may get rid of Insect pests by hammering the trunks of trees wilh a riveting machine, such as is used in drfVing rivets in city skyscrapers. * A California inventor patented the process. This writer proposes to try it In a New Jersey orchard at the earliest possible moment The rivet ing is said to loosen insect pests, after which It is easy to wash them off with a strong spray of water, no chem icals needed. To save the tree from injury, it Is probably desirable to put several thicknesses of old automobile tires or tubes between the bark and che riveting machine. There is plenty of money In this country, billions of it, Jesse Jones will tell you, but it is not circulating, as unhealthy for money In a country as for blood in your veins. You know the strange, perhaps true, story of a man who unwittingly passed • counterfeit $10 bill. It went through the hands of ten Individuals, paid for $100 worth of goods, and came back to the man who originally passed it He Identified and destroyed it One hundred dollars’ worth of debts bad been paid, nobody was any the worse. Money is a queer thing. Do not give “living toys” to your chil dren for Easter presents. Many par ents and friends thoughtlessly give children helpless living creatures, eas ily hurt—live chicks, or newly hatched ducklings. The helpless creatures are roughly treated, mutilated, fortunate if they happen to be promptly killed, by chil dren that know no better. Doctor Townsend promises $200 a month to everybody past sixty. That would cost twenty-four thousand mil lion dollars a year, Congressmen know it can’t be done, but do not dare •ay so Individually. • •fowrsend clubs have organized mil lions of votes. The $200-a-month prpjmlse made that easy. Congress- do not want those votes cast sunst them as individuals. jiftie hard working. Intelligent Swigs Bajt)on is said to be disturbed by the prbSpect of another war as by none ©tier. Every Swiss under fifty Mg armed, trained and ready. Even in the big wair notMMly tried to invade Switzer land—too much hard climbing, and the conqueror would not know how to run the hotels, even if he acquired, them. The Immediate business of this coun try is to find some way of controlling flood waters—probably not impossible 9 Ktn* Feature* Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service. MM By Edwstrd W. Pickard © Western Newspaper Union M. Flandin Flandin Calls on Germany for a Showdown P IEK RE-ETIENNE FLANDIN, French foreign minister, speaking at Vezelay, demanded in the name of his government that Adolf Hitler lay his cards on the table, and intimated that un- less Germany gives concrete proof of no aggressive intentions in central or western Europe, France will decline to negotiate further with the reich and will prepare for war. Flandin made it clear that France will stand firmly with her allies, the little en tente and Russia. Said he: “The Fuehrer says Germany does not want to take anything from any body, but he already had said that af ter the Saar plebiscite. He then also reaffirmed the Locarno treaty, which since has been repudiated. In the name of the integral sovereignty of the Ger man people, does the Fuehrer intend, when he thinks the moment favorable, to bring up the Danzig question? “When he proposes a nonaggression pact with Lithuania does he accept definitely the status of Memel or is he just stalling for time to prepare new deeds of force in violation of treaties? “If Germany Intends to assert her right to possess and exploit colonies, what colonies is she going to claim? “Is it not significant that at the mo ment Hitler launches his peace appeal, Nazi propaganda is redoubling in Aus tria, Danish Schleswig, Polish Silesia, among the German minority in Czecho slovakia, and even in German Switzer land? “Yes or no, does Hitler renounce annexation and even full absorption of the populations of these territories into the reich, or does he proclaim that these are Internal affairs of the Ger man people in which he does not in tend to let other nations meddle? “If the latter case be the truth, then we understand why Germany is rearm ing at a record pace.” Germany Almost Solidly Supports Hitler G ERMANY’S men and women to the number of 44,389,140 declared by their votes in the reichstag elections that they supported the policies of Hit ler. Only 542,898 had the nerve to vote against the reichsfuebrer, and a still smaller fraction refused to go to the polls. Among the latter were the for mer Crown Prince Ruprecbt of Bavaria and his wife.* Hitler’s victory was thus extraor dinarily complete, and the Nazis cele brated it with wild rejoicings In Berlin and other cities. It was the culmina tion of a three years’ campaign in which the leaders sought to persuade the population of the reich that only Hitler could save the country from great danger. According to Berlin cor respondents, there was a difference of opinion there as to the influence the triumph would have on the fuehrer. Some said It would stiffen his back and induce him to ride roughshod over the powers which objected to his scrapping of the Locarno pact. Others said the election would make him feel so strong he would be willing to make a conces sion to his neighbors in an effort to help establish “the new order In Eu rope” to which he referred so frequent ly in his election speeches. The new reichstag will be the largest in history, having about 740 members. Most of them will be officials of the Nazi party. For the first time in the history of aviation a polling booth was estab lished in the air. It was aboard the new dirigible Von Hindenburg, whose 104 passengers and crew voted solidly for Hitler. The Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin cruised over the Saar and the Rhineland all day long. Japan Expects Trouble With Soviet Russia T HOUGH Koki llirota, the new Jap anese premier, said a few days ago that while he was In office there would be no war, it is evident his government really is looking for serious trouble with Russia. This feeling is expressed by E i J i Amau. spokesman for the Tokyo foreign of fice. Who'said: “Japan must prefHire for Sov iet aggression." Recent activities 1 In dicate the Reds are availing themselves of the critical situation which developed after ti.e recent military revolt in Tokyo and are increasing the strength of their troops along the Munchukuan border.’’ Amau said the “recent Soviet policy lias been to fire on any persons near tbe border.” He said he regards this a rather strange behavior on the part of a “friendly neighbor" He said I’re nder llirota had protested the alleged action to K. K. Vurenev, Russian am hnssador to Japan. Almost every day there are reports of clashes on the Mongolian border. Eiji Amau each side blaming the other as aggres sors. The Outer Mongolian government, reinforced by conclusion of its mutual assistance pjyt with Soviet Russia, dis patched a note to the Japanese-spon sored state of Manchukuo, declaring its readiness to resist any invasion. Italian Bombers Wreck Second Ethiopian City M USSOLINI’S air bombers were busy again in Ethiopia, virtually ruining Harar, second city of that country, with a downpour of explosives. Most of the populace had fled when scouting planes gave a warning of what was to come, so the casualties were few. An official telephone mes sage from Harar to Addis Ababa said fifteen incendiary bombs struck the Egyptian Red Cross hospital and oth ers hit the Ethiopian Red Cross hos pital. A French mission, the French con sulate, the Ethiopian radio station and prison all were reported officially to have been ruined. The attack on Harar, coupled with a heavy bombardment of Jijiga, fifty miles east of Harar and a center of Ethiopia’s southern defenses, raised native fears in Addis Ababa that the capital itself might be the next target Government in Business Decried by Committee A CCORDING to the committee on government competition with private enterprise, whose report has been made to the President, that prac tice is wholly destructive except in situations where the public welfare can only thus be served. “The govern ment’s function,” the report said, “is to protect economic activities of its citizens and not to supplant them.” The committee unanimously agreed that only under the following condi tions Is the government Justified in entering into competition with private enterprise: 1. When required to assure adequate preparation for. and creation of, the facilities for national defense. 2. For the conservation of natural resources. 3. When private enterprise fails to conduct needed scientific research and exploratory activities to advance in dustrial development, or in the inter est of public health and safety. 4. When private enterprise fails to render a service necessary for the gen eral welfare. Secretary Perkins Alien Deportation Bill Reported to Senate D ESPITE vigorous opposition, which will reappear on the floor of the senate, the senate committee on immi gration and naturalization reported fa vorably the Kerr-Cool- Idge alien deportation bill, which Secretary Perkins has been try ing -to get through congress for three years. It will give her and two other mem bers of an interde partmental board dis cretionary power to harbor radical and even criminal aliens, otherwise deportable, in this country. The* same bill recently was reported favor ably by the bouse committee. Pending action by congress on the measure. Secretary Perkins has been bolding up the deportation of some 2,800 aliens mandatorily deportable un der existing law, contending that they are “hardship cases." Some are radi cals. some have criminal records, and others entered the country illegally. By “hardship cases” Secretary Perkins means that they would be separated from family ties or put to some other inconvenience. Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina. Democrat, not long ago at tacked the action of Secretary Perkins in holding up the deportations and de nounced the pending bill as a “sham and a mockery” and a subterfuge to shield all kinds of radicals, criminals, and dependents unlawfully in this country. Secretary Perkins refused to pro duce information respecting the 2,800 “hardship” cases until Reynolds intro duced a senate resolution, whereupon she permitted him to examine the records. Third Party Is Favored by Farmer-Laborites C'ORMATION of a third national F party was suggested in a resolution adopted by 'the Farmer Labor party convention at St Paul, Minn., and the delegates noisily welcomed the hint that Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota might be its Presidential candidate in 1940. Just now Mr. Olson Is after a seat in the senate. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 3U8V& to 250% al though several leaders pleaded that the move be put off for four years. Governor Olson said privately that in his opinion the resolution could do no harm since it does not commit the liberals to putting a national ticket in the field tills year. Neither does It authorize formation such a ticket unless a second convention convenes and ratifies any action a proposed “ex ploratory conference" may take. what thinks .about: Irvin S. Cobb Racial Hatred. B everly hills, calif. —It may be old to you, but it’s new out here: Small Prussian town turns out for traveling circus. Ferocious lion escapes; villagers flee madly. Sinewy stranger grapples, single- handed, with ravening brute; twists its jaws, hammers Its nose, boots it back Into cage. Entire community starts jubilation —flags flying, bands playing, burgo master puts on his high hat, special train arranged for rushing the hero to Berlin to be decorated by Herr Hitler as reincarna tion of ancient Nor dic demigods, typifying spirit of old German stocks—all that sort of thing. Suddenly hideous discovery is made that stranger's background is not Teutonic, the family name being Ginsberg. Celebra tion called off; flags furled, bands sneak home, special train canceled, burgomaster has apoplexy. And next day the local paper comes out with scathing article under the headline, “Jew Attacks Defenseless Lion.” • • * Criminal Lawyers. W E’RE a funny people. Did we read where, in some far-off country, men who had access to zoos picked the locks on the cages and freed the man-eating tigers and the blood- thirstiest wolves and the deadliest poison snakes to go forth and kill again, we’d marvel at a land which endured such a thing. But when in our own land criminal lawyers truthfully boast that, of all the individuals charged with delib erate murder whom they have defend ed, no single one ever went to noose or chair, and that ever so many more were, by their skill, saved from the prisons where we are supposed to pen our human tigers and wolves and snakes, we give these geniuses our ad miration and much free advertising, and young lawyers crave to follow in their Illustrious footprints. We are indeed a funny people—so funny It’s hard' to decide whether we should laugh at ourselves—or weep. • * * Husbands and Wives. L OTS of matrimony in the news, now that marriage, instead of be ing a contract, is a ninety-day option. A Pittsburgh gentleman gets fined for dunking his lady’s face in a sim mering beef stew. That’s no way to treat a lady. Or a beef stew. Take the average lady, and would you care for a beef stew flavored with lipstick, eyebrow pencil, mascara, cold cream, hair dye and three kinds of paint? A gentleman who’s president of the —take a deep breath—American Crea tive League of Harmony and Music Students, declares if ill-suited couples learn the guitar happiness would re turn, the guitar, he states, being the most romantic instrument there is. But once, in vaudeville. I saw a peevish helpmate crown friend hus band with an inlaid guitar, and it didn’t seem to do him any real good. * * * Slowing Up Youth. O BVIOUSLY it’s too late to save Ihe confirmed speed-maniacs, among the adult population. They won’t be with us long, anyhow, and will be missed by but few, if any. Every time one of these madmen whizzes past, I find myself saying to the back of his neck, “Well, brother, glad to have this glimpse at you. Probably I’ll not he seeing you again unless I should*drop in at the morgue the day you airive.” But maybe we might help to insure the oncoming generations by inaugu rating a definite course of juvenile ed ucation. Let’s start with the babies; let’s make it a fixed and required ritual in every kindergarten, every public or private parochial school—yes, every Sunday senool, every Boy Scout camp and at every girl's campfire; every place where youngsters are gathered. Over and over again, let’s pound it into them that reckless driving'Is neither gallant nor smart nor sporting, but that it is stupid and criminal and vicious and murderous. * • • Desolation of Floods. T HE first time we went to Venice my Wife looked across the Grand canal and said: “Did you ever see any tiling like it?" And, trying to be funny, I said: “Ab solutely. looks just like South Third street did during the big rise of 1913. ff right now a fellow in a skiff should come rowing up to tills window to col lect the water-rent. I’d swear I was back home." That seemed a sorry joke as I read of a monstrous yellow torrent sweep ing down on the beleaguered lowlands where my people have lived for nearly a century and a half, bringing ruin on its crest and desolation in its wake. Surely nature has been pitiless this last year—drouths and dust-storms; forest fires and smnkepalls; blizzards and icepacks; and now these cruel floods. Still, amid the afflictions, one consoling thought gleams like a star: congress will adjourn pretty soon. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright.—W NU Service. TALL TALES PlJ As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON The Double Tragedy A FEW years ago a group of forty Chicago and Milwaukee newspa per men were guests of the Milwau kee railroad and Rocky Wolfe, now a widely known radio sport commenta tor, on a week-end outing in Mani- towish, Wis. Among the extraordinary sights of the resort town were live porcupines strolling about a nine-hole golf course played by the scribes and a mothei hawk, whose broad back and spreai wings were used by three baby hawk: as a landing stage, high above ground? A dormant appreciation of Nature having been awakened in the minds of the visiting city folks, they were treated by Wolfe to the prize story of the vicinity. A Manitowish hunter, according to Rocky, reported that he had shot a fox which had a dead porcupine in its mouth. The fox was already dead when shot* for the spines of the porcupine had killed it. It was learned later. Rocky averred, that the porcupine had been a pet which earned a living by carrying fruit on its back from its owner’s orchard to the cider mill. “And I am ashamed to report, gen tlemen,” Wolfe concluded, “that both animals were intoxicated when the double tragedy occurred.” The Colorado Cinder Beetle W HEN the Santa Fe railroad was built into Colorado, its coming brought rejoicing to the residents of the rich Arkansas River valley. It meant an outlet for their crops and prosperity. But that lasted only a little while. Then disaster swept down upon tlhem. Every night a large section of the roadbed disappeared. Something was taking away the cinder ballast. Train schedules were disrupted and there were endless delays until the damage could be repaired. In several cases freight trains were wrecked or de railed. Santa Fe officials were frantic, for no one could discover what was car rying away the ballast. Finally a newspaper man, Charley Blakesley of the Kansas City Star, suggested that possibly the Colorado cinder beetle was eating up the ballast and his sur mise proved correct. How to check the ravages of the in sects was the next problem. That wus solved when it was discovered that the cinders used for ballast were from soft coal. So hard coal cinders were substituted and the cinder beetles broke their jaws trying to eat them. For some time, it is said, passengers on the Santa Fe were kept awake at nights by the cinder beetles scream ing with the pain of their broken jaws. So the railroad speeded up the sched ules of their passenger trains. They now went so fast that the passengers heard the moaning of the broken- jawed cinder beetles merged into a symphony of sound, like the rustle of wind through pine trees, that quickly lulled them to sleep. When a hardier race of cinder beetles developed with jaws capable of eating hard coal cinders, the Santa Fe was ready for them. They began using crushed rock and since that tim-i have had no trouble with the little pests. if JTl, tirerl, Jed Black-Draught Lghbors. I know they hav£ 11 did, for they hare said so.” ITCHING SCALP DANDRUFF For annoying itching and un* sightly Dan* druflf, use Glov er’s. Start today with Glovers Mange Medi> cine and follow with Glover’s Medicated Soap for the shampoo. Sold by all Drug gists. Massachusetts Melons T HE visitor from Georgia motoring through the Berkshires of Massachu setts looked rather scornfully at the crops in the fields along the road. “Why, I don't see any melons up here,” he said to the farmer leaning on the fence. “Can't you raise them?” “No, we don't seem to have any luck with melons," replied the Yankee. “I tried to raise some a while back- tried it year after year, but I couldn’t ever get a good crop somehow. The trouble was that the soil was Just too rich for ’em. “I’d plant my seeds, the vines would start growing, the blossoms would come out, and then they’d set and the melons would begin to form. Then the sun would get hotter and the nights would sprinkle our Berkshire dew on ’em. And that dew, I tell you, acts like magic, it makes things grow so. But I never could get any melons, though.” “Is that so?” exclaimed the South erner, “Why couldn’t you?” “Well, I tell you,” answered the son of the Berkshires. “Those vines just naturally grew so fast they dragged the melons all over the field. They just plumb wore ’em out before they had a chance to get ripe. So I just had to give up tryin’ to raise melons.” © Western Newspaper Union. “Marine Store Dealer” When a sailing ship came into port in the old days a man used to go aboard and bid for the old sails that had been torn by rr^ical storms. 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