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[ICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
War Financing
France Pays Piper
Lottery Millions
Ability to Endure
One hundred and fifty-three lead
ing British economists, mapping out
a new plan to
preserve peace,
say “the impor
tance of Ameri
can co-operation
in the work of
peace- making
cannot be over
estimated.”
It is to be
hoped that the
part that Ameri
ca will play in
future European
affairs, such as
w i. r financing,
may be very eas
ily overestimated.
If those gentlemen cannot abstain
from cutting each other’s throats
without the assistance and money of
the United States, why, then let
them cut each other’s throats.
Arthur Brisbane
France is learning that the peo
ple always pay the piper, whoever
the piper may be—a great conquer
or leading them to war, or a clever
politician loading them with taxes.
In France, sugar hag gone up in
price; bread and veal have both
gone up; two sous a kilogram for
bread, two sous a pound, for veal,
and the government is held directly
responsible by the housewife as re
gards the bread, for the French gov
ernment fixes the price of bread
as ours fixes the price of postage
stamps.
Trailing behind England and the
United States the French, with less
than 20 per ceht of American unem
ployment, are discussing great pub
lic works to absorb the idle.
Billions are spoken of, but the
“millard,” French word for “bil
lion,” means only one billion four-
cent pieces, the franc having been
reduced by government fiat to that
price. If a billion meant here 25,-
000 francs, equivalent to the Ameri
can billion when the dollar was
good, the French might well faint
away, although they are fundamen
tally a rich people.
When Bismarck laid on France an
indemnity equivalent to $1,000,000,-
000, after 1870, he thought he had
asked for about all France could
raise after a hard war. The French
government offered bonds to pay
Bismarck, and the French people
subscribed to the loan 14 times
over. Bismarck had guessed bad
ly. France is far richer now than
it was then.
French labor demands the 40-
hour week and the government
agrees; it also demands wage in
creases from 12 to 17 per cent, and
that makes the country a ; litUe
thoughtful.
With a shorter week, diminished
production and higher wages,
bread, sugar, veal and many other
things must go up in price. Possi
bly the French worker, who really
works, while he is at it, will man
age to produce as much in 40 hours
as he has done hitherto in 48 or
more; even then incredsed wages
will be added to the price of living
and even the worker, who must pay,
will growl.
How long will America continue
pouring thousands of millions of dol
lars into gambling, ’ lottery sweep-
stakes and other foreign - enter
prises? ... ...
It is interesting to .reqd that in
the banks of Dublin there are 25
millions of dollars undistributed
from the so-called “Hospitals
Sweepstakes.” Hospitals did not
get it—^et.
It might also enlight.cn this gov-^..
ernment to know .hat under the law
no mention can be made of thC‘
sweepstakes gambling in Englahd.'
The English are too wise to let their
money be drained off in any kind of
gambling enterprise, if it is not
ENGLISH.
You cannot even send a telegram
about sweepstakes over, the English
telegraph wires, to be published in
countries outside of England. All
telegraphing about the sweepstakes
gambling game must go aVound
England, her government-owhed
wire system will not handle it; ■
Under its Constitution, the United
States cannot forbid newspapers to
print lottery news that breed^ .more.,
gambling and heavier losses. 'But
the government might forbid trktis-
mission of such information throvgh
the postoffice. That would cut down,
the “graft.” I; . ...
School teachers,' business heads,
chambers of commerce, even cler
gymen, might find a good text in
Mr. Son, the young Japanese with
the determined face who won the
long marathon race at the recent
Olympic games in Berlin.
Not only could that marvelous
Japanese runner go, and keep go
ing, but there seemed no end to hjs
endurance.
Everybody can run, more o r leSs,
but that by itself never wins a
marathon.
The race for success in life is a
marathon race, and real success de
pends more than anything else or
your ability to KEEP GOING.
A Kins F«atur«*» 8yndic*i«.
WNU MatvIc*.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Bullitt Is Made Ambassador to France—Hitler Stirs Stalin
to Talk of War—Secretary Dern
Dies in Washington.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
W. C. Bullitt.
'Transfer of wmiam c. Bullitt
-*■ from the' embassy in Moscow to
that in Paris is not surprising. He it
was who was chief
ly responsible for
the recognition of
the Soviet govern
ment by the United
States, and when he
was rewarded with
the ambassadorship
it Was expected he
would be able to
swing a lot of Rus
sian business to
American concerns.
Also it was hoped
he could persuade his Russian
friends to keep their promises not
to disturb this country with com
munist propaganda. In these re
spects at least Mr. Bullitt has been
a disappointment. But he retains
the confidence of President Roose
velt and will not be out of place as
ambassador to the leftist French
government.
Some observers think Mr. Bullitt
is sent to Paris for the purpose of
secretly sounding out the major Eu
ropean powers on the possibility
of reconvening the world economic
conference in 1937.
Jesse Isador Straus resigned as
ambassador to France on the ad
vice of his physicians. The Presi
dent wrote him that “if this ad
ministration shall be continued for
another four years, I shall count on
your returning as a part of it.”
R EICHSFUEHRER HITLER has
injected a little more ginger
into the international armament
race by suddenly announcing that
the term for compulsory military
service for Germans was doubled—
two years instead of one. As mat
ters are just now in Europe, this
appeared to . be aimed directly
against soviet Russia, and if the
London newspapers are to be be
lieved, Dictator Stalin recognizes
this and reacts as might be expect
ed. The London Evening News
and Daily Mail both assert that
Stalin, in a secret radio address to
the red army, said:
“Comrades of the red forces: We
are on the very eve of momentous
events. At any moment now you
may be called upon to lay down
your lives for the defense of the
proletarian birthland.
“This is the moment you have
been anticipating, and now your
birthland is expecting you to do
the duty you have so eagerly await
ed.
“Our enemies are gettini, into po
sition. So be ready. The enemies
are on the frontiers of our great
land. Keep watch.
“Everything money could buy,
everything the genius of man could
invent and everything the loving
labor of the workers could make
have been given into your hands for
the defense and glory of the Soviet
land.”
The London papers say other So
viet leaders followed Stalin with
similar talks. The foreign office
in Moscow flatly denied that the
dictator had delivered any such ad
dress as was reported.
German economists, worried over
the mounting costs of re-arming
their country, were told the dou
bling of the term of military serv
ice would not be quite so expensive
as it appeared, for more men in
barracks means fewer on dole.
However, the national debt contin
ued to grow and ways of meeting
payments are becoming fewer and
more scanty.
SECRETARY OF WAR GEORGE
^ H. DERN died in Walter Reed
hospital, Washington, of heart dis
ease and other complications re
sulting from influenza. He had been
ill since last spring but part of the
time had insisted on attending to
his official duties, keeping this up
even from his sick bed. Mr. Dern,
who was sixty-four years old, was
formerly a brilliant mining engineer
and was the second non-Mormon to
be elected governor of Utah, serv
ing two terms.
A nnouncement was made by
WPA officials in Washington
that more than 110,000 farmers are
now at work on Works Progress ad
ministration projects in the drouth
areas of the West and Central West.
About half of the farmers on the
WPA rolls are in North and South
Dakota. North Dakota reported
32,762 at work on federal projects
and South Dakota 22,927. Relief and
agricultural authorities have esti
mated that 110,000 to 120,000 farm
ers will need help through the win
ter in the Dakotas.
P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S spe
cial train made a quick run to
Bismarck, N. D., and the special
committee on the drouth, headed
by Morris L. Cooke, reported to
him on its inspection of the afflicted
area. The President then took an
automobile tour through the coun
tryside to see for himself some of
the effects of the long dry spell. He
conferred with Acting Governor
Welford and Senators Nye and Fra
zier of North Dakota and Acting
Governor Holt and Senators Wheel
er and Murray of Montana. Next
day Mr. Roosevelt’s train carried
him down to Pierre, S. D., and
thence into other drouth stricken
states.
Mr. Roosevelt’s original schedule
was changed to permit him to make
a quick run to Salt Lake City for
the burial services of Secretary of
War Dern.
J OHN L. LEWIS’ Committee for
Industrial Organization in one of
its initial efforts to organize the
steel workers seems to have suc
ceeded only in leading one big plant
to go out of business, throwing 750
men out of employment. Such is
the result of a strike in the plant
of the Standard Steel Spring com
pany at Coraopolis, Pa., the strike
being directed by the CIO. The em
ployees who didn’t strike later re
fused to work because, they said,
their families had been threatened
by phone with bombing if the men
returned to the plant. So the com
pany closed down and began remov
ing the machinery. It was alleged
the strikers were assured in ad
vance that they would be given re
lief money if the plant were closed,
and that the state authorities did
nothing to protect the plant or the
non-strikers from violence.
I7EDERAL JUDGE JOHN P.
F BARNES of Chicago upheld the
constitutionality of the Commodity
Exchange act and denied an injunc
tion to restrain its enforcement
asked by members of the Chicago
Mercantile exchange. Judge Barnes
agreed with the contention of Spe
cial Assistant Attorney General
Wendell Berge that the act is
“merely an extension of the pro
visions of the grain futures act,”
which has been held constitutional
by the United States Supreme
Court.
Sec. Roper.
FIGURES given out by the De-
" partment of Commerce revealed
that July merchandise exports from
the United States declined to $178,-
324,000, the lowest
level of the year,
while imports in
creased to $193,409,-
000, leaving an un
favorable balance of
trade of $15,085,000
for the month. It
was the second suc
cessive month an
unfavorable balance
was reported. How
ever, compared with
the 1935 month, ex-*
ports were up 3 per cent and im
ports up 9 per cent.
The unfavorable balance was re
garded by Secretary of Commerce
Roper as convincing proof of eco
nomic recovery in the United States
because nearly half the increase in
imports over last year in dollax
volume was accounted for by lux
ury items such as furs and whisky
and commodities not extensively
produced in this country, such as
wood-pulp, paper, nickel and tin.
The increase in exports over July,
1935, consisted chiefly of finished
and semi-manufactured articles, in
cluding machinery, electrical appa
ratus, aircraft, iron and steel man
ufactures and inedible vegetable
products.
AFTER more than five weeks of
desperate fighting, neither the
Spanish loyalists nor the rebels
were able to claim a decided ad
vantage, and it became evident that
the conflict would be long drawn
out if the other European nations
could keep aloof. This latter even
tuality was made more probable
by Adolf Hitler’s announcement
that the German government had
ordered an embargo on arms to
Spain. He thus lined his country
up with Great Britain and France,
and Italy had acceptea the French
proposal for neutrality, though with
some reservations.
These “neutral” nations, how
ever, do not intend to be imposed
upon and both the British and'the
German governments made strong
protests to the Madrid government
against alleged violation of the free
dom of the seas. Five British war
ships set sail from Gibraltar and
Hitler sent seven from the Baltic
to enforce the demands that inter
ference with shipping cease. The
crews of these vessels were ready
for immediate action.
The United States does not con
sider the attempted blockade of reb
el-held ports any more valid than
do the European nations. Secre
tary Hull told the Madrid foreign
office: “My government directs me
to inform you that, with the friend
liest feelings toward the Spanish
government, it cannot admit the le
gality of any action on the part of
the Spanish government in declar
ing such ports closed unless that
government declares and maintains
an effective blockade of such
ports.”
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Fishermen of Helgoland.
Prepared by the National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
ELGOLAND is falling
down” may be sung
sadly to the tune of
“London Bridge” if there
is truth in reports that Germany is
fortifying this pinhead stronghold
in the North sea. Firing great guns
menaces the island more than any*
enemy, for at every big shot sec
tions of its vertical sandstone sides
plunk into the surrounding sea.
Like a triangular block of rasp
berry ice on a vast blue-green plat
ter, Helgoland is melting away into
the North sea. The island is liter
ally crumbling away around its pop
ulation of 2,500 — mainly pilots,
fisherfolk, or boarding-house-keep
ers. Here the Helgolanders try to
hold together their island, their
flourishing summer resort business,
and their traditions on a small bare
rock upon which would fit the Fed
eral Triangle buildings along Penn
sylvania avenue in Washington,
without too much margin.
This sea-bitten morsel is the re
motest of the Frisian islands, which
water has gouged out from the
northern coastline of Europe, and,
within historic times, scrubbed
down until reduced in size, or in
some cases washed away altogether.
Brbad submarine rocky ledges in
the shoal area around Helgoland
are submerged souvenirs of its for
mer extent, estimated to be five
times its present size, which is
about one-fifth of a square mile.
The island lost ground to the extent
of about 250 square yards a year
until 1892. Then the wave-worn
western side was ringed around
with a girdle of granite brought
from the Danish island of Born
holm. Even thus protected, it is
doomed within eight centuries, say
the pessimists. More generous geol
ogists give it about forty to go, but
go they all agree it will.
After ages of erosion, what re
mains of Helgoland? A slice-of-pie-
shaped wedge of red sandstone
streaked with layers of chalk, swept
by chill salt winds and incessantly
gnawed by the North sea. Its di
mensions are notable for their
smallness, except the height; the
sides rise sheer and dripping from
the water to a flat top of 200 feet
above sea level. Its importance lies
in its position; as Germany’s “Eye
of the Empire”, it watches over the
equidistant mouths of the Weser,
Jade, Elbe, and Eider rivers, com
manding the harbors of Hamburg,
Bremen, and Cuxhaven from a van
tage point 28 miles from the near
est point of mainland.
Shattered by the World War.
Yet Helgoland, with history prac
tically in its hands, had been re
ported by astute observers as re
luctant to make history and more
concerned about making a living.
Its experience during the World
war proved that history is easy to
make but hard 1o survive. Its scant
pasture land was confiscated to
build forts. Its rocky cliffs, of which
there was already precious little,
crumbled off and plunged seaward
during artillery fire. The entire pop
ulation was forced into four years
of exile to make room for the mili
tary in 1914. When the livin'T rem
nants returned in 1918, their peace
was shattered by three years of
blasting down fortifications in ac
cordance with the Versailles treaty,
and the further trimming down of
the island’s slim sides. In 1922 and
in desperation, Helgoland petitioned
the League of Nations for neutral
ity. Scheduled for a perpetual bout
with the sea, it finds any other
country’s fight just one too many./
Green, Red and White
Within its diminishing boundaries,
it has three parts: the massive rock
table of Oberland with its cornered
tuft of town, the shoreline shelf
projecting below like cap’s visor
with a second edition of town called
Unterland, and the wisp of sandy
Dune in tow a mile to the east. A
thin green felt of pasturage across
the island’s top completes the
color triad which inspired the flag:
“Green the land, red the rock,
white the sand:
These colors make the flag of
Helgoland.”
Like a toy village on the corner
of a table, at Oberland’s southeast
point huddle blocklike houses,
square and solid against the recur
rent 80-mile gales. The flat skyline
is broken by nothing more wind-
catching than the pretentious little
German postoffice of glazed brick
and the spire added during Queen
Victoria’s reign to the Church of
St. Nicholas, already centuries old.
Around the cliff’s edge stands a
row of boarding houses and hotels,
offering to resorters the first sniff
of salt breeze before it reaches na
tives on back streets. Through the
town runs Kartoffalallee, or Potato
Lane, bisecting the island through
garden patches of potatoes and cab
bage, through pasture spots where
graze a few sheep and goats, past
the red and white cone of the light
house, to the little cafe on the north
ern point where the “Fog Cow”
bellows warning every two minutes
when the mists swirl low.
The lower town, lacking horses
and vehicles of any sort, is not
without its own method of rapid
transit — namely, sliding down
banisters. Men of Helgoland have
been known to scorn the elevator
operating between the clifftop and
the “down-town” level of the two-
story town; they mount the iron
hand railing of the stairway along
the cliff’s face and nonchalantly
skid down to the foot of the prec
ipice. Here in the shelter of the
cliff, houses and shops cluster about
a knot of six-foot-wide concrete
streets.
Sun tan is the money crop of
Helgoland. This is raised chiefly at
the expense of summer visitors
basking on the frail half-moon of
barren beach of the Dune or Sand
island, apparently melting into the
North sea a mile southeast of the
main rock. Here has been located a
tiny graveyard for nameless bodies
washed up by the waves. Am
putated by a seaquake in 1720, the
Dune was previously joined to its
rocky home base by the tall White
Cliff of fine quality chalk, now visi
ble as a reef at low tide. Chalk
export, which occasionally attracted
as many as a hundred ships to Hel
goland’s harbor at one time, grew
so great that it killed the chalk that
laid the golden egg; the White Cliff
caved in during a storm and tum
bled into the sea.
Its People Are Frisians.
Inhabited by Frisians, a rugged
race whom the Romans were proud
to call allies, Helgoland remained
independent of Europe’s great
kingdoms for centuries, resisting in
vasions even of Christianity. In fact,
its lasting consecration to old Norse
god, especially Forseti, god of jus
tice, may mean that its name
developed from Helige-Land, of
Holy Land. Natives, however, call
their island simply det Lunn, The
Land. Although German is the offi
cial language, they speak a dialect
of Frisian, which resembles ancient
Anglo-Saxon.
During the Middle Ages it was
itheoretically controlled from the
duchy of Schleswig, the duke even
pawning it to a Hamburg merchant,
but actually it was the irrespressi-
ble stronghold of those medieval
maritime racketeers — pirates,
brigands, and beachcombers. The
Danes once got possession by
threatening to hang all the men,
whom they had kidnaped while out
fishing, so that the women over
threw the small Schleswig garrison
and proclaimed Danish allegiance.
Thereafter, when improved water
transportation gave it greater con
venience, it has been constantly in
demand and in use as a stepping
stone for larger countries.
It was a valuable smuggling head
quarters during the blockades of the
Napoleonic wars. Then England
sent seven ships to capture it, in
September, 1807, like “plucking an
apple hanging over a neighbor’s
wall”; Denmark finally relinquished
claims to it after seven years.
Helgoland was traded in 1890 to
Germany for Zanzibar, 3,000 times
as large, and the exchange was
compared to an entire suit of
clothes swapped for a trouser but
ton. But the trouser button demon
strated that it could serve a purpose
of vital importance when it became
one of the world’s strongest fort
resses during the World war. Not
far away, on a misty morning in
August, 1914, occurred the first
serious naval clash of the war,
when British victory littered the
glassy smooth sea with wreckage.
Helgolanders acquired the habit
of considering themselves fishermen
at the start of the Fifteenth century,
when a strange migration of her
ring brought them great harvests
of fish for 200 years. An equally
strange emigration of their source
of income left them catching only a
few lobsters.
Since the island’s popularity as a
summer resort began in 1828 with
only a hundred resorters, the Helgo
landers derive their year’s income
from renting themselves out as
pilots and their homes as loarding
houses for the season of two weeks
Household
Queslms
Do not uncover a steamed pud
ding for the first half hour of
cooking.
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Tarnish can be removed from
brass articles with a mixture of
lemon juice and wood ashes.
* * •
Green bananas may be ripened
by placing in a paper bag and
keeping in a dark closet for a
few days.
• * *
To prevent the juice in fruit tart
boiling over, mix a little corn
starch with the sugar before add
ing it to tart filling.
• * *
Aluminum pots and pans that
have become discolored may be
brightened by rubbing with a
cloth moistened with lemon juice.
© Associated Newspapers.—WNU Service.
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