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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK Spenders of Yesteryear Gone With Their Billions Paris Hotels Empty England Learns Also Europe learns that political ex periments cost money. England de cided to prevent Mussolini taking Ethiopia, camp ing along the im perial British highway, and controlling Lake Tana, source of Nile water. The attempt failed. England backed out of that situa tion, hastily, alt er her war de partment had as sured our so- called war de- partment in Washington that Mussolini could not possibly conquer Ethiopia in less than three years, probably not at all. When the dust had settled and England, with her chicken-feed as- sortmoit of 51 league nations, had apologized to Mussolini and tossed Haile Selassie into the waste-bas ket, England found her foreign commerce much damaged. She had missed Mussolini, and shot herself in the pocketbook. For a little while 'she will copy Job: “I will lay; mine..hand upon my mouth. * Once I have spoken . . . yea twice, but I will proceed no further.’/ Arthur Britibnne Paris, which is France, decided to sing and dance a new car magnole with Russian dressing; clenched fists raised in air a la Rasse; red flag waving; the dole ful strains of the Communist hymn, 1’Internationale, and its Communist injunction, “Arise, ye prisoners of' starvation,” excellently sung*from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Bastille. , „ You can hardly imagine what fire, fury and enthusiasm thousands of young and old French gentlemen put into that hymn,' although many of them showed few outward signs of starvation. A- ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cunsuyvub REVIEW OuzynM by tiUmful ID. Pi jess tyt am* AnroTta rvi Western Newspaper Union. President Roosevelt There were, and are, manifesta tions everywhere. Now in the chamber of deputies. Monsieur Gaston Gerard, practical French statesman, asks, ' “What has be come of our foreign' tourists an^ t their spending money?” . " >• • M. Gerard tells, the deputies something must be done. In 1927, 2,125,000 foreigners from all over the world visited France, spending much money. Visitors now.number only 700,000; as a rule with little money to spend—oysters containing no pearl; many that come to help sing ITnternationale bring no mon ey. + Foreign visitors, says- M. Ger ard, used to give highly paid em ployment to half a million French men and women; speiit*'500,000,000 francs for Fre-ich railroad and steamship tickets; scattered throughout France from 12 to 15 thousand millions of francs. • Fifteen billions, even in francs, are “real money” here. M. Ger ard tells the chamber French prices are too high. There is something in that, with the four-cent franc costing six to seven cents in the United Stdtes—a comic-opera situa tion, considering the relative wealth of the two nations. ' M. Gerard thinks there should be some, cabinet official to look after foreigners, with better propaganda and fewer vexatious taxes on for eigners; there is nothing in that. * Foreigners do not voluntarily travel and spend money where they feel they are not wanted. The cos mopolitan, educated Frenchman is as polite and hospitable as ever, but ask' him what sort of reception the crowd gives to the foreigner, British especially. It offends the British ear to hear A bas les Angr lis!—‘‘Down with the British!” An innocent American, in an in nocent average American automo bile, sallied forth on July 14 to help France celebrate the destruction of the Bastille, and perhaps give a few feeble cheers for Lafayette, or Woodrow Wilson, or somebody,.., Great crowd in the Champs Elysees, especially around the in nocent American car, with new paint, shiny chromium and several cylinders. A polite policeman says monsieur should know better /-than to appear in a car of “grand luxury/ on such a day. Such luxury cars you may see by the thousands and millions oh American roads. President Denounces War in Chautauqua Speech PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was at * his best as a radio orator when he addressed the summer camp at Chautauqua, N. Y., on foreign rela tions. He expressed his deep concern about tendencies in other parts of the world and spoke bit terly about the vio lation of both the letter and the spirit of 'inter national agreements “with out regard to the simple principles of honor.” “Our closest neighbors are good neighbors,” the President said. “If there are remoter nations that wish us not good but ill, they know that we are strong; they know that we can and will defend ourself and de fend our neighborhood.” Mr. Roosevelt said he had seen war on land and sea. “I have seen blood running from the wounded,” he said. “P have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the surviv ors of a regiment of 1,000 who went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agonies of mothers and wives. I hate war!” Germans felt that Mr. Roosevelt’s speech was aimed at them and re sented his criticism. A Mexico City newspaper saw in it evidence that the Monroe doctrine was to be re vived. The press of Buenos Aires warmly applauded the address, one journal saying: “Without the intention of making a parallel between discourses re cently heard from Rome or from .Berlin and which proclaimed vio lence and expansion as the two ,sole aims of the modem states, we ’ recommend reading this dignified and sincere Roosevelt speech, en nobled by the spontaneity of hu man content and with which Roose velt raised his figure above the stature of all dictators.” Nothing happens to the car of grand luxury; it crosses the Ave nue of the Champs Elysees, about 300 feet, in less than twenty min- lites The French, newly self-iden tified as “prisoners of starvation,” are interested in the auto Ameri can, which is careful not to bump anybody. The bourgeois, the "rich,” an ex tinct species, although it does not yet know it, are nervous. In a vague way they feel that they are held responsible for all those “pris oners of starvation,” with their strong voices, deep chests, power ful fi sts and pink complexions. A Kinii Ffatorra Synriioat*, Inst WNU Berviuk. Wheat Supply Adequate, Says Federal Report ' I 'HERE is enough wheat in the United States for the usual do mestic requirements of the season of 1936-37, according to the mid summer report of the bureau of ag ricultural economics, but the supply of red spring wheat and durum is short and consequently importation of those varieties will be continued. The amount, however, will not be large, Secretary Wallace stated. “It is probable the spring wheat mills in the 1936-’37 season will use a larger percentage of hard red winter and Pacific northwest wheat than last year,” said the report. “A larger than usual quantity of soft red winter wheat is also likely to be used in bread flour. As a re sult, imports of milling wheat may be less than in 1935.” Wheat prices in the United States may be expected to average about as high relative to world price lev els as during the 1935-’36 season, when the price of No. 2 hard winter at Kansas City was 15 cents over Liverpool, the bureau said. During the last three years short crops to gether with other influences result ed in wheat prices in the United States being maintained unusually high relative to the world market price. “Farm prices probably have been 20 cents to 30 cents higher than might have been expected with more nearly normal yields in the United States,” the report contin ued. “A return of average or great er than average yields in the United States would result in an export sur plus and prices would adjust to ward an export basis. “The acreage seeded for the 1936 crop, 74,000,000 acres, was the sec ond largest in history, and seedings as large for the 1937 crop would produce fully enough wheat for to tal domestic utilization even if yields should turn out to be one- fourth below average.” San Sebastian Shelled, Hostages Are Slain rySPATCHES from the French border said Spanish rebel war ships finally had begun the long threatened bombardment of San Sebastian and Irun, p and that the loyal ists were carrying out the threatened execution of the 1,900 Fascist hos tages they were holding there. The battleship Fspana fired a lot of heavy shells toward Fort Guadalupe but for a time at least was apparently not try ing to hit that stronghold because many of their sympathizers were held prisoners in the fort. The Guadalupe garri son was hesitant in returning the fire for fear that shells would fall Virgilio Cabanellas on French territory. Already the French government wais angered by the dropping of bombs on French border towns, though it was disput ed whether they came from loyalist or rebel planes. The Fascists captured the impor tant town of Badajoz, near the Por tuguese border, at the point of the bayonet, and were reported to have executed 1,500 government adher ents taken there. The rebels also reported a victory near Zaragoza after a bloody battle. General Franco met General Mola and “President” Virgilio Cabanellas at the northern rebel headquarters in Burgos and planned for further ad vances of their southern and north ern columns on Madrid. These will be supplemented by 4,000 Moors and foreign legion veterans march ing eastward from Badajoz. ia Wm. Phillips United States Will Not Interfere in Spain U'FFORTS of European nations, notably France, to persuade the United States to join in a neutrality pact concerning the civil war in Spain are not likely to succeed. Howev er it is the intention of our government not to interfere in the situation in any way whatsoever. In structions to this ef fect were sent to all American repre sentatives in Spain by William Phillips, acting secretary of state. While assert ing that the American neutrality law prohibiting assistance to war ring nations does not apply to the Spanish civil war, Mr. Phillips said that the United States intended to conform with its “well established policy of noninterference with in ternal affairs in other countries, ei ther in time of peace or civil strife.” Most of the nations invited to participate in the non-intervention agreement were willing, but Ger many temporarily blocked the plan, by announcing that its answer would be delayed until Madrid gave a satisfactory reply to German pro tests regarding the execution of four German nationals in Barcelona. American Ambassador Bowers abandoned his “floating embassy” aboard the coast guard cutter Cayuga and went ashore at St. Jean de Luz, France, by advice of the Department of State in Washington. According to the Army and Navy Journal, Mr. Bowers had tried to assume the role of commander of the American fleet in Spanish wa ters, and when the officers politely told him they took orders only from the Navy and Treasury depart ments or the President, he protest ed hotly to Washington, with the result recorded above. Father Coughlin’s Group Indorses Lemke E'OLLOWING the recommendation " of Father Charles E. Coughlin, the National Union for Social Jus tice, in convention in Cleveland, in dorsed the candidacy of Represent atives Lemke and O’Brien, heads of the Union party ticket. But, .Iso on the advice of the priest, the Lemke platform was not indorsed. The 25,000 members of the N. U. S. J. present enthusiastically and unanimously elected Father Cough lin president of the organization. Lemke and O’Brien both appeared before the convention, delivered speeches and were given a rousing reception. The final episode of the meeting of the Coughlinites was sensational. The militant priest was delivering a dramatic address before a vast throng in the Cleveland municipal stadium when suddenly he faltered, begged pardon and announced weakly that he co.uld not finish be cause of illness. He was half car ried to a car that hurried him to his hotel. There it was said his indisposition, due to the heat and overwork, was not serious, and next day he returned to Detroit. No New Taxes Promise for Coming Year F OLLOWING a conference of President Roosevelt, Chairman Harrison of the senate finance com mittee, Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee and Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau, the administration’s fiscal program for the coming year was thus outlined: 1. Assurance that no request will be made to the next congress for the levying of additional taxes or in crease of present tax rates. 2. Launching of an immediate study by treasury and-congressional tax consultants of present revenue laws as a basis for recommenda tions to the next congress for elimi nation of inequitable taxes, 1 espe cially those unfair “to consumers or to trade.” 3. Treasury assurance that “with continued recovery” the revenue yield is approaching the point where it will cover government costs and provide a surplus for reduction of the public debt. Commodity Exchange Act Attacked in Court AN EQUITY suit attacking the constitutionality of the com modity exchange act, chiefly on the ground that it seeks to regulate in trastate rather than interstate com merce in violation to the Constitu tion, was filed in the federal dis trict court in Chicago. The suit was instituted by Wil- ilam S. Moore, a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and names the exchange, its board of directors, and the following as de fendants: Henry A. Wallace, secre tary of agriculture; Leslie A. Fitz, supervisor of the commodity ex change administration in Chicago; Daniel C. Roper, secretary of com merce; Homer S. Cummings, Unit ed States attorney general; Michael L. Igoe, United States district attor ney of the northern Illinois district; and Ernest J. Kruetgen, Chicago postmaster. In his petition Mr. Moore asked that the commodity exchange act be declared unconstitutional, void, and unenforceable. Solving Midseason Dress Problem) Bv CHERIE NICHOLAS Reds Waging War to Win America, Says Hobson ADMIRAL RICHMOND P. HOB- SON, now head of the Public Welfare association of New York, told the National Conference of Clergymen, and Laymen at Ashe ville that Comintern, the interna tional Communist propaganda agen cy, is waging “scientific warfare” to gain control of the United States. He said the board of strategy of his association, after exhaustive studies, has collected evidence that a competent Communist general staff has been at work and has suc ceeded to the extent of casting widespread doubt on the Constitu tion and bringing discredit on the Supreme court. John A. Lyon, New York attor ney and a leading Methodist lay man, supported Admiral Hobson by citing the success of pacifism throughout Methodist youth organi zations. Migration From Drouth States Is Urged TAR. C. W. THORNTHWAITE, for- mer climatologist of the Uni versity of Oklahoma, has made a study, of the drouth area of the Great Plains, and his interesting conclusions are published by the University of Pennsylvania. Brief ly, Thornthwaite recommends that 59,000 migrate from the farms of the damaged region. He contends that wind erosion has damaged 65 per cent of the plains region, ex tending from the Canadian border into the Texas panhandle. A long range government program for the return of millions of acres of wheat land to its native sod, he says, might be the only means of check ing the devastating dust storms. Observing that long dry spells have been frequent in the history of the plains, Thornthwaite predicts that “the present drouth might be prolonged for 20 or more years.” The weather expert estimates that a minimum of 12,610 families should move out of Montana, the state in which he reports the greatest “surplus population.” He urges a migration of 12,200 fami lies from Texas and 7,360 from North Dakota. Heavy removals al so are suggested for South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wy oming, and Colorado. Borah and Robinson Are Renominated for Senate T WO veterans of the senate, Wil liam E. Borah of Idaho, Republi can, and Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democrat and majority leader, won their fights for re nomination without much difficulty,. Borah defeated Byron Defenbach, who was backed by the Townsend- ites. His Democratic opponent at the noils in November will be Gov. C. Ben Ross. In the Presidential contest the American Federation of Labor, as an organization, will maintain its traditional non-partisan policy, ac cording to the firm declaration of President William Green. The fed eration, said he, is not in the Non- Partisan Labor league, which is backing President Roosevelt. AAA May Abandon Control ' of Grain Crops ^AFFICIALS of the agricultural adjustment administration dis cussed in Washington the advisa bility of drastically reducing or re moving altogether the planting re strictions on corn and wheat next year. No decision was made and farmers will be consulted before any changes are ordered. It was, however, definitely stated that wheat acreage will be expanded. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, passing through Chicago on his way back from Iowa, said he believed government-controlled crop insur ance would prevent wild price fluc tuations in farm produce. The plan, he said, has not progressed be yond the embryo stage, but probab ly would entail storage of crops in government granaries. Each farm er, depending on the percentage of his normal crop he wished to in sure, would make his “insurance” payments in the form of bushels to be stored in a common pool. The plan, preventing “lean years and fat years,” would tend to stabi lize market prices because it would assure a continual adequate sup ply of whatever commodity was to be insured. Gradually, he said, it might be worked out to include all major farm produce. TY/ - HEN summer clothes begin to v y take on a jaded and some what worse-for-wear “has been” air, and you are loath to force the season by donning advance fall fashions before the psychological moment arrives, then what? Aye, that’s the problem that has de stroyed perfectly good dispositions and peace of mind, of the fair sex throughout decades and decades of time. However, we are not going to be tantalized and tormented with such momentous worries this midsea son, for good news concerning this question is winging its way fash- ionward at this very moment. Tid ings of great cheer, they are told in terms of dresses and suits tai lored of the black or dark-toned silk sheers, nets and laces which have come into favor of late as they never came before. These cool and comfortable dark sheers are a perfect blend from summer to fall. In such you are sure to hold poise and serenity in the as surance that you will be smartly and appropriately costumed all through the prologue which nature and the weatherman play to autumn. In fact, no wardrobe may be said to be complete these days without at least one tailored black or dark sheer in its col lection. Acquire a two - piece gown of black, silk marquisette as shown to the left in the illustration and your between-season dress trials will vanish like dew on a sunny morn. In regard to selecting a sheer for dependable wear, per haps a few words of advice will not come amiss. When you buy, insist on a weave of guaranteed quality. In order to get maximum service and real joy and satisfac tion in the costume you rely upon to carry you through the between- season valiantly, the sheer of which it is made should be nothing less than pure silk and fast dye. Perish the thought of a shoddy black that is apt to take on a greenish bilious cast as cheaper blacks in cheaper weaves are wont to do. Buy pure silk and your, dress will wear dependably. As to' the smart styling of the model pic tured, note that it is a tunic cos tume. Newly arriving fashions verify previous reports that the tunic will continue to be the big idea for fall. The large black but tons that fasten this tunic, also- the modish short sleeve and the white jabot, register important fashion details. Advance fashions tell of the em phasis placed on the princess sil houette for both dresses and coats as the print costume with full- length princess coat of the print in this group demonstrates. The print is black and wine on a cream ground. There is increasing inter est shown for wine and red shades and they are regarded as color “firsts” for fall and winter. Anj innovation is the use of velvet re vers On coats and jackets after the manner noted in this costume. This coat-dress qualifies admirably ns an ideal midsummer costume. Its sheer print guarantees comfort while its modish velvet revers tune to the march of time that leads to fall days. ; In the redingote made of fine black lace as portrayed to the right, answer to the midserson dress problem is given in no un certain terms. A lace redingote such as this may be worn over different dresses converting the simplest frock into a costume of style distinction. For forms? wear pose it over a black satin slip. What could make a more charm ing hostess or dinner gown than the redingote of black lace top ping a white cotton pique founda-' tion as here illustrated. The soft pique collar and perky bow lend fetching, accents to this costume. You’ll love a black lace redingote or jacket over your summer pastel silk crepe frocks. Try out the idea. You will find it well worth while. Separate lace jackets are smart, too, in either black or white. © Western Newspaper Union. TYROLEAN JACKET By CHERIK NICHOLAS Here is a little indispensable jacket you will want to wear with your culottes or shorts. It is made of white linen bound in bright col ors like copen, red, navy or black with silver buttons. It is colorful and has the decorative buttons be cause it is of Tyrolean inspiration. Much of the fashionable sports wear this season reflects influence of Austrian peasant dress. The outstanding fashion note of this at tractive jacket is the hand-quilted Trapunto design at the neck and on the pockets and sleeves. The vogue for hand-quilting is growing into a most outstanding style movement. Why It Is Castile Soap Castile soap took its nam-: from Castile, Spain. GLACE KID IS NEW FALL GLOVE STYLE The smartest gloves this fall will be “smooth.” There is a definite revival, to quote Vogue, “of the firm, moulded hand,” possibly fol lowing the moulded silhouette, the moulded bust and moulded hips, which will be featured for fall. As the high style leather of the com ing season, Paris is consequently sponsoring thin, supple glace kid. It has always been a standby and favorite, but now it is coming up rapidly in the fashion world. Since three out of the four gloves Molyneux will show with his col lection are glace kid, it goes with out saying that the smartest women in Paris and this country will adopt the fashion. Fashions, as a whole, are becoming more and more feminine and the glace glove is but a natural result of that trend. Thin, smooth leather is the most flattering a woman can wear. It outlines the shape of her hand and makes her finger* appear long and slender. Color is again a dominant note. Colored gloves are not going out of style. On the contrary, the fash ion will be harnessed to practical, sensible shades, of Which some will become almost staples. Prints and Big Hats Colorful prints, broad - brimmed hats, and strap pumps with high built-up heels are favorites among outdoor diners at Manhattan’s fashionable terrace cafes during the noon hour. Choosing Corsages A good principle to follow in se lecting a corsage or shoulder bou quet is that the large flowers look best on the tall woman, small ones or. a short woman. s . , *1 ~ A T .a-—