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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936 m BRISBANE THIS WEEK He Used His Other Chance Two Big Birthdays t England, Rich, Worries The Elephant's Pulse New York's Titterton murder mys tery turns out not to be “the perfect • crime.” The murderer, an upholsterer, care fully took away the cord used in his trade, with which he had bound the unfortunate woman, but forgot that he had left some strands of twine un der the body, and those pieces of cord, thanks to excellent police work, trapped him. The senti mental who say, Arthur Brisbane “Give the poor criminal another chance,” will note that the murderer was a convict on parole when he killed the woman. He bad “another chance” and made use of it. Benin reports a great Hitler forty- sevenvh birthday celebration including a fine display of military power—air planes, war tanks, fighting men, ap- parentlj eager for a fight. They were young a«id could not remember the last war. Particularly Interesting were two lines in the song sung by storm troop ers : “Today we own Germany, And tomorrow the whole world." The day after Hitler celebrated his forty-seventh birthday old Rome cele brated her two thousand six hundred and eighty-ninth anniversary. Mus solini celebrates by launching tw’o new Italian cruisers and speeding up air plane production. He tells Italian fa thers and mothers he must have 60,- 000,000 population for Italy not later than 1950. In 1921, when Mussolini took charge, Italy’s population was 38,000,000. There will soon be room and food to raise more Italians in Ethiopia. Easy for all but the mother. England, doing well In a business way, with more than $2,000,000,000 worth of Bank of England notes cir culating among tradesmen, is collecting gold and depleting the French reserves. While England tries to keep down the price of her “no-gold” pound, France is afraid she will not be able to keep up the value of her gold franc, al ready devalued by 80 per cent of Its 1914 value. What becomes of the “magic in gold?” Our dear old dollai Is worth only 59 cents, and only deal ers in exchange know it. Doctor Benedict, of Carnegie labora lories, finds that the adult elephant’s heart beats from 22 to 36 times a minute, less than half the human heartbeat, and the elephant heartbeat is nine strokes faster when the ani mal Is lying down. Man’s heart beats more rapidly while he stands—be cause then it must raise blood the full height of the body. Old poets, with tired hearts, should do their writ ing lying down—the bloods flows hori zontally with little heart-effort. England is pleased; Sir Robert Had field, who makes tough steel, an nounces a shell for British naval guns that can pass unhurt through armoi plate twelve inches thick and explode on the other side. “One shell of this kind fired in the region of the maga zine would probably cause destruction of a modern battleship.” England is manufacturing the shells rapidly; others are manufacturing airplane bombs that might make old-fashioned naval guns and shells useless. In Miami a lady, first name Lois, nd married, has Imsky triplet babies, 'wo gentlemen, the official husband nd one other, demand custody of thf riplets. each calling himself the real Hther. The alleged “father" who i? ot the husband would submit to any flood test, his lawyer says. How would Cing Solomon decide that? Clarence Harrow, one of the conn- *y’s most convincing lawyers, says n his seventy-ninth birthday: “I say that religion Is the belief in ■iture life and In God. I don’t believe i either.” The hoptoad beside the track, watch- )g the express Jruin go by, might ay, reasonably enough: “I do not believe in such a tiling as locomotive engineer.” Moscow has returned to the Jup- icse government* in Manchukuo, with ill military honors, the bodies of iree Japanese killed In a fight with uvlet guards. The military honor* ill not console the widows, and, re- sutet' often enough, such incidents ad to war. Europe envies our fortunate country hich gives only paper dollars and In- ition paper bonds to Its citizens but is. hurled in the ground, the biggest nip of gold on earth. A wonderful tiling is nilcio ehemis- y. It tells scientists tiiat off the »ast of Greenland sea water contains ore gold than In New York harbor; at one village in Switzerland has s»- goitre Ilian another because Id e first the dewdrops contain more dine. f King Feature* SyndU-ate, luc. WNU Service. Jtou 'jeAneur By Edward W. Pickard © Western Newspaper Union Sen. Barkley Plans Completed for the Democratic Convention S ENATOR ALBEN W. BARKLEY of Kentucky, w h° was temporary chair man of the Democratic national con vention In 1932 and as such delivered the keynote speech, will serve in the same capacity at the Phil adelphia convention in June, outlining the is sues of this year’s campaign as his party views them. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas will be the permanent chairman again. Yet another re peater will be Former Judge John E. Mack of New York. Four years ago he placed Franklin D. Roosevelt In nomi nation, and he will do it again in June. These selections were made by the committee on arrangements. Other of ficers of the convention chosen, are: Lee Barnes of Alabama, chief door keeper; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, na tional committeewoman of the District of Columbia, hostess of the convention, with Mrs. Agnes Collins Dunn of New Hampshire as assistant; Col. Edward C. Halsey, secretary of the senate, sergeant at arms; Representative Clar ence Cannon of Missouri, parliamen tarian, assisted by Representative John J. O’Connor of New York; W. Forbes Morgan, secretary of the convention. National Chairman Farley said that the two-thirds rule, which has pre vailed In Democratic conventions for a century, wdll not be abolished. The rules committee will be headed by Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri and it will report for abrogation of the two-thirds rule as well as elimination of the unit rule. The latter binds the state delegations to abide by the de cision of a majority of the delegation. According to Mr. Farley, these changes will not prevent the practically unan imous nomination of President Roose velt. Present plans are to have Mr. Roose velt go to Philadelphia on Saturday, June 27, to close the convention by ac cepting the nomination in a speech de livered either in the Municipal stadium or in the University of Pennsylvania stadium close to the convention hall. \ Roosevelt Addresses National Democratic Club P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT made what might be considered the first of his campaign speeches before the National Democratic club In New York city. Tammany was there in full force, but such disgruntled Democrats as AJ Smith and John J. Raskob were con spicuous by their absence. Mr. Roose velt declared his purpose to bring more food, higher prices and better homes for the people. “If you increase buying pewer," he said, “prices will go up; more goods will be sold. Wages ought to and must go up with prices. This does tot mean unsound inflation or skyrocketing prices; this should be avoided Just as we seek to avoid bankruptcy sale values." Turning to his critics with sarcasm, the President said “some individuals are never satisfied.” Referring to charges of extravagance and mounting deficits, he said people complain to him about “the current costs of re building America, about the burden on future America.” He Insisted that the measure should not be the three-billion- dollar deficit of tills year but the asser tion that the nationuNncome^has risen thirty-five billions in 1932 to sixty-five billions In 1936. New Tax Bill Battle Started in House T HE administration’s bill to levy about 800 million dollars in new taxes yearly was introduced in the house by the ways and means commit tee. and a fierce battle started imme diately. The Republican minority of the committee issued a report which stated tiiat the proposed tax law was “unsound in principle, will undermine business stability, is another step to ward regimentation of all business, and is not designed to raise revenue but admittedly is another New Deal experi ment.” Conservative Democrats Joined with the Itepuhlicans in this attack against tlie bill, hut the administration leaders were confident the measure would puss before May 1. Green Urges Unions to Remain Nonpartisan W ILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, has sent a letter to all affiliated unions urging that they adhere to the feder at ion’s “traditional nonpartisan politi cal pulley." He says: •‘For obvious reasons, labo* should avoid division even in the pursuit of its political |Ndlcle*. Such division can be avoided il working men and women, loyal to tiie American Federation of Labor, will refrain from identifying themsel\es with any political move meiit designed to serve as a substitute for the i.oii|»arti>an political policy ot the American Federation of Labor.” Some time ago George L. Berry asked all unions to join “Labor’s Nonpartisan league,” the object of which, he said, was “to put American Federation of Labor unions on the record for Presi dent Roosevelt” Navy in Six-Week Drill on the Pacific O NE hundred and fifty vessels of the United States fleet, with 450 airplanes, are now engaged in the year’s grand maneuvers in the Pacific. War conditions prevail and the ves sels and their crews are being given a severe test of their fitness that will last for six weeks. The Panama canal region was the first objective of the fleet. The units are divided into at tacking and defending forces and some thing is doing all the time, day and night. The naval officers are trying to solve the seventeenth of a series of strategic problems, each based upon some possible international situation, mapped out by naval strategists. Von Starhemberg of Austria Voices His Defiance OIVIL war In Austria became a pos- ^ sibility as the quarrel between the Fascists led by Prince Ernst von Star hemberg and the clerical and mon archist elements be came acute. Govern ment officials, hovv- ever, were trying des perately to patch up the trouble. Prince Von Star hemberg, who is vice chancellor, in a de fiant speech at Horn warned his political opponents tiiat his ^ heimwehr, or home j; nn u ce ^ on guard, would be dis- S ar emberg go i ve( j “only over my dead body.” Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, speak ing at Baden, retorted that “Austria is not Italy and Austrians are not Fascists.” Von Starhemberg asserted that if in ternal foes press too hard there will be a “repetition of 1934”—when the helra- wehr triumphed in a short but bloody civil war against Socialists. False friends surround Schuschnigg, von Starhemberg said, and the heimwehr plans to protect him from them. For Austria, said Starhemberg, there are three possibilities—a continuation of the authority of the state, Naziism, or co/nmunism. He asserted the heim wehr is determined to preserve the Fascist system and would continue as a separate organization but tiiat other private armies would be absorbed by the regular army. Advance of the Italians in Ethiopia Continues I TALY’S victorious troops in north ern Ethiopia continued their ad vance on Addis Ababa, though it was somewhat retarded by the efforts of the natives to blow up the roadways and otherwise harass the invaders. The Italian motorized column in this movement is the most formidable yet formed in this war and is notable for the large number of white troops in cluded. General Graziana’s southern army, meanwhile, was driving toward Harar, second city of the empire, in three col umns. The Ethiopians were putting up stiff resistance at various points but everywhere were driven back, ac cording to Italian dispatches. Contreras Is Elected President of Venezuela E LEAZAR LOPEZ CONTRERAS, an army officer who rose to the rank of general under the late dictator. Juan Vincente Gomez, is now president of Venezuela. The national congress elected him to that office by a vote of 132 to 1 and directed tiiat he assume the office on May 29. As president of the chamber, Contreras became tem porary president on the death of Gomez. Supreme Court Decision in Stock Yards Case U PHOLDING a reduction of rates and charges at the St..Joseph, Mo., stockyards, the Supreme court held tiiat the findings made by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace justified tlie rates lie set and that the stock- yards operators had failed to show con fiscation. Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Harlan F. Stone and Benjamin Cordozo agreed that tiie rates should he upheld but In an opinion by Justice Brandeis ex pressed belief that the court went too fur In passing on the fairness of rates. Two Well-Known Writers Taken by Death D EATH came to two of America's well known writers. One was Fin ley Peter Dunne, creator of “*\Ir. Doo ley," Gie genial satirist of modern life whose witty sayings delighted two gen eral ions. Tiie second was Percy llaiu- inond, veteran dramatic critic of the New York Herald Tribune, one of the foremost of tlie country's commenta tors on matters theatrical. Both passed away in New York city. Secret Panama Treaty Is Cause of Concern A RMY and navy officials were re ported to be concerned over a new treaty with Panama which is being secret ly considered by the government. It was said an uncorrected text of the pact showed it provides for “joint conver sations” rather than for defense of the Canal Zone In event of aggression. The grant by Panama for the “use, oc cupation, and control of lands and wa ters outside the Jurisdiction of the United States,” If necessary, is re nounced by this country in the treaty. Chairman Pittman of the senate for eign relations committee said closed hearings on the treaty soon would be completed, after which the senate might consider the document in secret ses sion in order to avoid international complications. Senator Hiram John son has said he will try to have the text of the pact made public before It is taken up by the senate. Steiwer to Be Key-Noter for the Republicans W HEN the Republicans gather in national convention at Cleveland next June their keynote for their Presidential campaign will be sounded by Frederick Steiwer, the eloquent and hand some United States senator from Oregon. He was selected to be temporary chairman of the convention b y unanimous vote of the arrangements commit tee of the national committee after due Ik cons5tieration been given the names of several other promi nent Republicans. Observers held that the motive in picking Steiwer was a desire of the party leaders to give the convention a western atmosphere at the start, wdth an especial eye to agriculture. The sen ator has been actively identified with wheat growing and his home town, Port land, is a center of the northwestern battleground of the November elections. Congressman Bertrand Snell of New York, minority leader in the house, was selected to be permanent chair man of the convention, a position he held in the convention of 1932. Senator Steiwer Leftists Are Winners in French Elections C OMMUNISTS and various brands of Socialists appear to have won a considerable victory In the French elections for the chamber of deputies, though the large number of run-off elections necessary may tone down the results. The greatest gain is show-n by the Communists, who are likely to have 50 seats; but this does not please the Radical Socialists for they cannot count on the Communists in forming a government and fear that without them the chamber will be ungovern able. Senate Passes Emergency Flood Control Bill D ISREGARDING warnings by Sen ator Vandenberg of Michigan against too hasty action, the senate passed a bill introduced by Senator Overton of Louisiana authorizing the expenditure of $272,000,000 for flood control work on the lower Mississippi river and its tributaries. There was no record vote. The bill has no rela tion to the omnibus flood control meas ure now pending, which may reach a billion. The sum named in the senate bill is authorized merely to be appro priated and will have to be put in a deficiency appropriation bill. Senator Overton declared it was justified by emergency conditions. In addition to the 272 million dollars there is authorized an appropriation of 15 millions to be allocated by the sec retary of war and used in rescue work or repair and maintenance of flood control works. Rescue of Entombed Men T s Epic of Heroism T HAT old gold mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia, provided an epic tale of unselfish and heroic human endeavor that will be told for many a year. For ten days more than a hundred* experienced miners' strove unceasingly to rescue three men who had been trapped by the fall of dirt and rooks in tiie 140-foot level of the abandoned mine they were inspecting. Machinery and other equipment were brought from far away. A diamond drill was driven through and through this small opening, communication was established and food was dropped down hut already one of the three was dead of hunger and exhaustion. Finally the desperate efforts of the rescuers were successful and the two survivors werp brought safely to the surface, together with tlie body of the dead man. Those saved were Dr. D. E. Robertson, famous and beloved surgeon of Toronto, and C. A. Scad ding. The one who did not live was Herman Magill, also of Toronto. Black Committee Scored by Publishers W HAT American newspaper pub lishers think of the actions of Hie Black lobby committee was ex- Itressed forcibly and unequivocally in resolutions adopted by their national association at its annual meeting in New York The committee was ac- -Mised of having violated the first, 'ourtli mid tiftli amendments to the <’onstiiiition by its seizures of private 'omiiiiiuicatioiis, and, tlie publishers eeoiiimeiided tiiat all victims of the •oiiiinittee's acts seek civil damages .ml demand tlie "proseeution of all in- olved in tlie odious affair under tlie l iminal statutes of Ike United States.' Irvin S. Cobb S__about: Styles In Hair Tints. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— There’s more news concern ing the mummified remains of that lovely Egyptian princess they found the other day—that daughter of some early Pharaoh, she who died nearly 5,000 years ago and yet was still so beautifully preserved. Too bad that old recipe of the Pharaoh family was lost. They did make such good preserves. The latest w’ord is that the little lady’s hair was dyed a henna color. Either that’s news or something has stimu lated a sudden change in Hollywood fashions. Just a little while ago, about every other po tential movie queen you saw was going in for the platinuul ef fect ; and only too fre quently, alas, the ef fect was ' that of a new tin roof on a va cant attic. Now, by the great gross, the stylish ones are going red, reddish or redder. Today, within half a mile, I counted ten redheads, and not a white horse in sight, to prove the ancient saying, * * * Waning Presidential Booms. TIT HAT with cyclones and floods YV down south, the daily press some how failed to record among our spring casualties the untimely end of the Governor Talmadge boom. Poor little thing, it passed away at its home in Atlanta, -Ga., just as It was learning, in prattling accents, to lisp “pa-pa.” Still the shock did not catch some of us unawares. We had a feeling it wasn’t going to live. Tiie second sum mer is so frequently fatal to those incubator babies. For instance, you take the Ham Fish boom. Or of you didn’t take it, somebody certainly did, because it hasn’t been seen, or even heard of for months and months. * * * Gridiron Club Dinners. E XCEPT the obituary column, noth ing could be sadder than the news paper account of a gridiron club din ner. Yet gridion club dinners aim to be satirically amusing and frequently are. Turning them out must he a tre mendously hard job, because they deal with the national political scene, and any producer of farces will tell you you can’t burlesque a burlesque. In other words, you can’t be very funny on a subject w’hich already is so much funnier than anything you can think of—and that’s what the fellows at Wasiiington are up against. This business of trying to be comic is a serious business anyway, especial ly since all comedy is predicated on distress. A fat man falling down makes us laugh because he suffers both in spirit and flesh. But if lie is a pallbearer, say, at a funeral and falls down on his own high hat and maybe breaks up the services—well, now then, you’ve got something that’s really funny. A definition of comedy could he: Tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. • # • Self-Chosen Landon Aids. G overnor landon must feel awfully fractional, not to say badly scattered, what with being levied on by so many comparative strangers all at once. Every day or two, with an altruism rare in this selfish age, some gallant volunteer elects himself by ac clamation as the governor’s eastern manager or ids western manager, or his northwestern-by-southwestern man ager or something. It makes no dif ference tiiat he may never have heard of these parties before; up to six months ago, tliey’d never heard of him either. He’s like a previously neglected or phan child who suddenly comes into prospects and finds everybody in town trying to adopt him. Maybe a better simile would he tiiat of a lone Thanks giving turkey at a tableful of hungry boarders, with this one snatching tlie drumstick and tiiat one grabbing the second joint—and Mr. W. R. Hearst clinging, with a grip of iron, to tlie wishbone. • • • Folly of Parole System. T IE perpetrators of tiie kidnapjng case of a few months ago up in tlie state of Washington were both chronic ofl’enders who, despite their records, had been paroled. The fiend who recently committed tlie most hideous child murder that California lias known in years was a convict out on parole. The degenerate who has Just confessed to murdering that poor defenseless gentlewoman in New York the other day was—yes, you’ve guessed it—he was a convict on parole. And all over the Union the work of turning loose criminals who have not completed their terms of punishment,, indeed, in some cases hardly have be gun them, goes merrily on. IRVIN S. COBB Copyright.—WNU Service. For«tt of Arden Englishmen say tiiat Shakespeare’s romantic forest in "As You I.ike It” is tlie Forest of Arden in Warwickshire, which fits Ids description. Belgians claim it is tlie Forest of Hie Ardennes Either may lie right, for both forests are romantic and lovely. Foreign Words and Phrases • A bon marche. (F.) At a good bar gain; cheap. A outrance. (F.) To the bitter end. Obit, (ob.) (L.) He (she) died. Carpe diem. (L.) Enjoy the pres ent moment. De gustibus non est disputandum. (L.) There is "no disputing about tastes. Eau-de-vie. (F.) Water of life; brandy. Pour prendre conge (P. P. C.) (F.) To take leave. Buona mano (It.) Small gratuity. Raison d’etre. (F.) Reason for being. Seeking Noah’s Ark Not long ago Illinois granted a charter to tlie Noah’sArt Exploration association for the purpose of send ing expeditions to search for this vessel, and the British Post Office department dispatched a wireless message to Mars for an optimistic scientist over the Rugby station.— Collier’s. A Laxative That Thousands Prefer Black-Draught has helped so many men and women that others, needing a purely vegetable laxative, should have no hesitancy in trying it. Black- Draught relieves constipation in an easy, natural way. “We have found Black-Draught so satis factory, I do not see any need to change,” writes Mr. Ralph Burch, of Black, Ala. “I take Black-Draught for biliousness and constipation which make me feel sluggish, tired and no account. Black-Draught surely will relieve me.” Proper use of this old reliable laxative tends to leave the bowels acting regularly. 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