McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 27, 1936, Image 2
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.
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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?” .
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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.
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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.
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