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McCORMTCK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C-. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
24,720 Miles in 18 Days
Some Ladies* Hats
Gen. Butler's Peace Plan
| 12 Ladies Good and True
H. R. Ekins, first - class news
paper man, has gone around the
globe by air
plane, covering
24,720 miles in 18
days, 14 hours,
S6 minutes. Such
a trip seems
wonderfully fast
now. Soon it will
seem wonderful
ly slow. Air prog
ress is rapid. Be
cause it was done
scientifically, by
machinery, the
eighteen -day
trip seems less
romantic than
the Nelly B1 y
seventy-odd day trip that beat Jules
Verne’s “Around the World in
Eighty Days.’* Nelly Bly, clever
newspaper woman, knew how to
make it interesting, going out of
her way to travel by elephant,
camel, jinrickshas, etc. Flying
around the world costs about $5,000.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
▲rthar Brisbane
Some day some woman, let us
hope, will balance her fashion
budget, decide just what she wants
to wear, and then wear it, as men
have done, but the day is far away.
These are some of the hats from
which your wife, daughter, sister
will choose this season:
Hats shaped like East Indian war
shields; hats heavy in gold em
broidery; flat pillbox turbans, gold
braided; Russian style hats off the
face, with tall tiara fronts; hats of
Persian lamb and embroidered felt;
small toques, dipped down front and
back, covered with soft feathers,
“the military touch predominat
ing."
Why, do you suppose, do women
take so much trouble to spoil faces
and heads naturally beautiful? It
cannot all be the fault of hat-
makers.
Dictator Stalin Foresees Another European War—Spanish
Rebels Nearing Madrid—Simpson Affair May;
Lead to King Edward’s Abdication.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
Before the recent primary he an
nounced that, though a candidate
for renomination as a Republican,
he intended to support Mr. Roose
velt for re-election. This was an
act of political suicide, and he was
defeated by Wilber M. Brucker.
Senator Couzens was noted for his
great contributions to charity. The
chief of these was the gift of prob
ably $20,000,000 for the help of un
fortunate children. He established
the Children’s Fund of Michigan
with an endowment of $10,000,000.
Josef Stalin
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired
fighting major general of the United
States marines, asks the Women’s
Christian Temperance union to
start a campaign against drunken
automobile drivers, and also help
peace by working for a constitu
tional amendment forbidding the
President or congress to send troops '
out of the country-
You cannot change men by leg
islation, as was discovered in our
prohibition ifiistake; 1 you must
change the men from the inside.
For the first time m history, New
Jersey, selecting a jury all women,
has surprised some, annoyed others.
Why? For ages women have been
judged and sentenced by individual
men or groups of men. They have
been ducked, branded with hot
irons, put in the stocks, beheaded,
hanged, burned alive.
Is there injustice in turning the
thing around for a change; at least
no twelve women would burn or
duck anybody.
Lloyd’s, British insurance con
cern, will insure you against any
thing happening, if it “guesses"
that it will not happen; it usually
guesses correctly. It refuses to in
sure against war striking England,
although until lately the charge for
that insurance was only one-fifth of
one per cent; 200 pounds for 100,600
pounds insurance.
Somebody in Lloyd’s possesses in
telligence. That big organization
does not like to think of war with
airplanes added.
News from the East interests Amer
icans: they might have to pay the
bill. Japan and Russia, supposed
recently to be on the verge of war,
are said to have an understanding
about things in the east that would
involve depriving, the British of prof
itable locations and rights. This does
not please Britain, but that is the
business of Japan, Russia and Eng
land.
Interesting flying item: Russia or
ders in Baltimore a passenger "clip
per" plane, to cost $1,000,000 and
carry forty-four passengers, besides
a crew of six.
The plane, very fast, can go 4,000
miles without taking on fuel, a
range that would bring it across the
Atlantic nicely, if it ever wanted
to come back with a load of
ftcplosives instead of passengers.
The Irish Catholic hierarchy, sit
ting at Maynooth College, Cardinal
Macrofy presiding, denounces com
munism and persecution of the
Catholic church in Spain, “mindful
of Spain’s kindness to our ances
tors." On October 25 all Catholic
churches in Ireland will take up
collections “for the relief of Spanish
Catholics." Mexico, once as “Catho
lic" as Ireland or any nation, sends,
Irom its Chamber of Deputies, a
message of sympathy to the Spanish
government at Madrid.
England and France no longer
guarantee any protection for Bel
gium in case of war, so the new
King, Leopold, says all alliances are
off, with France, England aiW
everybody else.
© KiR* Features Syndicate Iuq,
WHU Sarrtaa
fP UROPE’S siiuitSsa,. According to
seasoned observers, is settling
down to a fight to the finish be
tween Communism and Fascism,
and the several na
tions are lining up
accordingly. Josef
Stalin, Soviet dicta
tor, is said to be
convinced that an
other great war is
at hand and that
Russia must act
promptly to take
what he considers
her proper part in
the conflict. The
civil war in Spain
and the developments therefrom
are providing the fuel for starting
the fire. Russia repeats her accusa
tions against Germany and Italy
of giving aid to the Spanish rebels;
the Fascist governments deny the
charges and make countercharges
against Moscow; the Soviet govern
ment appears to be on the point of
quitting the committee for noninter
vention in Spain and sending war
munitions to the hard pressed radi
cal government at Madrid.
Dispatches from Moscow said
Stalin had been informed by his
military advisers that as few as 100
planes could settle the Spanish war
in favor of the government and
that Russia could send them almost
immediately. The Russians already
have sent five shiploads of food and
clothing to Spain, these supplies
having been bought by subscriptions
from Russian workers.
Should Stalin decide to come out
openly in aid of the leftist govern
ment of Spain, the Nazis and Fas
cists may be counted on to , re
double their already existing cam
paign against Communism — and
many nations would soon be in
volved in the quarrel, with possi
bilities that terrify thinking persons
the world over.
Klementi Voroshilov, Soviet com
missar for defense, didn’t allay the
alarm any when he said in a formal
statement:
“The Soviet Union is prepared to
meet the enemy anywhere he
chooses to taste the force of our
arms.
“We are ready with man-power,
equipment, training and resources.”
A Russian language paper print
ed in New York said the Soviet
press bureau in London had an
nounced that Stalin would come to
America after the November elec
tion, for medical treatment; that
he would visit President Roose
velt, and later would go to Mexico.
All of this was promptly denied of
ficially in Moscow and by the soviet
embassy in Washington.
f' 1 LOSER co-operation between
^ Germany and Italy in the fight
on Communism was assured by an
arrangement for “institutes" in Ber
lin and Rome for Italo-German
youth leadership, in which the Hit
ler Youth organization and Mussoli
ni’s Balilla, a Fascist youth body,
are to unite. Baldur von Schirach,
Nazi youth leader, so announced to
a great gathering in Berlin.
In the Berlin institute Italian
youth leaders will be educated in
conditions and achievements under
the Nazi state. In Rome, Nazi
youth leaders will learn what II
Duce’s Fascists have done for their
country. ' Neither institute will at
tempt to imitate the other, Schi
rach said.
G eneral franco, head of the
Spanish insurgents, ordered the
immediate taking of Madrid and
each day the state of the defenders
of the capital became more desper
ate. The rebels closed in relent
lessly, making effective use of
bombing planes and armored tanks.
^-'President Manuel Azana and
some of his cabinet ministers
slipped out of Madrid and appeared
in Barcelona. Ostensibly they were
making a tour of the loyalist fronts,
but the general opinion was that
they had fled from the capital to
make a “last stand" in Catalonia,
which province always is radical
Anyhow, Azana took over an office
in the Catalan parliament building
for himself and his secretarial staff.
Senora Azana has quit Spain. She
appeared in Toulouse, France, and
departed for an unannounced des
tination.
J AMES COUZENS, independent
Republican senator from Mich
igan, died in a Detroit hospital after
a long illness and immediately
following an operation to relieve
uremic poisoning. He was sixty-four
years old.
Mr. Couzens was one of the
wealthiest men in congress, h i s
riches being a result of early as
sociation with Henry Ford in the
automobile business. He was twice
elected mayor of Detroit and was
appointed to the senate in 1922 to
fill out the unexpired term of Sen
ator Truman H. Newberry. As a
senator he frequently disregarded
party lines, and since the election
of Preside.nt Roosevelt he had sup
ported many New Deal measures.
p> EACE within the ranks of the
A American Federation of Labor
has not yet been achieved, for the
executive council of that body ad
journed without settling the dispute
between the Green and Lewis fac
tions. The council will meet again
November 14 in Tampa, and two
days later the federation will open
its annual convention in that Florida
city.-- If there are developments
meanwhile, the council or federa
tion may discuss the quarrel, ac
cording to President Green. He
said: “The matter is temporarily
closed," and added that so far as
he knew, no peace overtures had
been made by the CIO leaders. Mr.
Green declared the ten suspended
unions could not be admitted to the
convention.
ly/f ERE scandal and gossip have
no proper place in this de
partment, but the “affaire Simp
son," as the French would term it,
has progressed until
it assumes world
importance. As ar
rangements are be
ing made for the
quiet and uncontest
ed divorce of Mrs.
“Wally" Simpson,
American friend of
King Edward VIII of
England, it is ru
mored in London so
ciety circles that the
bachelor monarch
King Edward
l< r
will abdicate in fa^or of his brother,-
the Duke of York, and marry the
attractive woman who has shared
so much of his time in recent
months. In support of this rumor
is the reported fact that plans are
being made for renting the farms
of the Sandringham estate in Nor
folk, which is the king’s private
property. Also, there is a story
that this estate may be sold to the
Aga Khan, the immensely wealthy
spiritual head of the Ismaili sect
of Mohammedanism.
Should Edward give up the throne,
it would eventually be occupied by
Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of the Duke of York, and this suc
cession would be decidedly popular
with the people of England. The
abdicating king might revert to the
dukedom of Cornwall, which pro
vides a net income of about $350,000.
There is nothing in British law to
prevent the king from marrying
whomsoever he pleases, but no ruler
of the country since Henry VIII has
wedded a commoner. Court gossip
in London says that Prime Minister
Baldwin and the archbishop of Can
terbury recently appealed to Ed
ward for greater discretion in his
relations with Mrs. Simpson and
were hotly rebuffed by the king.
English newspapers imposed on
themselves a voluntary censorship
in this affair, but it has been broken
by the Sunday Referee which prints
an article declaring the king “may
marry by spring," that this would
result in postponement of the coro
nation, and that tradesmen have
been insuring themselves against
such a delay.
p ERSONAL reports of Presiden*
T tial and vice presidential candi
dates, made public by the senate
campaign expenditqres committee,
show that President Roosfcfrelt gav{i
a $500 contribution to the Demo
cratic county committee'Of l^utchesis
county, New- York, hi^- hcfttie, and
had spent $10 for postage. Vice
President John N. Garner xeported
that he had received nd cbntribu-
tions and made no expenditures.
The Republican candidates, Gov.
Alf M. Landon and Col. Frank Knox,
reported they had had no personal
receipts nor expenditures since
nomination, their campaigns being
financed by the Republican national
committee.
In getting the nomination Landon
received $163,480 and spent $164,572.
Knox reported personally receiving
$35,754 and spending $35,557 before
nomination, and the Knox for Presi
dent committee received $133,818
and spent $143,259.
Norman Thomas, Socialist can
didate, reported his party had col
lected $5,614 and spent $6,504 to
date.
John Zahn, National Greenback
party candidate, reported he had
received $1 and spent $2.50 toward
his election. *
At the same time the American
Liberty league, nonpartisan, volun
tarily submitted a financial report.
The report showed that the organ
ization had received $419,282 since
January 1, and spent $461,851.
D ROF. JEROME DAVIS of the
* Yale divinity school, nationally
known liberal, is being dropped
from the Yale university faculty,
and charges that this is because of
his “economic opinions." President
Angell denies this, asserting that
the budgetary situation was the sole
reason for allowing Davis’ contract
to lapse. “No abridgement of aca
demic freedom or liberty of speech
is involved in this case." said An
gell.
Davis is president of the Ameri
can Federation of Teachers, chair
man of the National Religion and
Labor foundation and president of
the Eastern Sociological conference.
He said he thought it likely that
the teachers’ federation would take
some action in his case.
REAT BRITAIN is determined
to keep out of the Communist-
Fascist conflict if possible. Sir Os
wald Mosley and his black-shirted
Fascist followers
have been trying to
stir up trouble in
England and in con
sequence the cabinet
decided to put a ban
on all political uni
forms. It was ex
pected that when
parliament reassem
bled the government
would announce
drastic action to 0 . .
suppress the Mosley j
organization or at Mosley
least to put a stop to its demon
strations and parades in Leeds,
Manchester and the east end of Lon
don, where these Fascists like to
create ugly feeling against Jews.
The public demand in England
for action against the Fascists has
been strengthened by the revelation
that Mosley takes his advice from
Berlin and Rome. It is reported,
and widely believed, that Mosley’s
tactics of deliberately leading his
Blackshirts into Jewish communi
ties are based on advice given him
by Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s
propaganda minister.
A N AFTERMATH of the Lind-
bergh kidnaping case is the
indictment of Ellis H. Parker, chief
of detectives of Burlington county,
N. J.; his son and three other men
by a federal grand jury at Newark,
N. J. The indictment charges the
defendants took possession of Paul
H. Wendel in New York, forced him
to confess that he kidnaped Charles
A. Lindbergh, Jr., and held him in
New Jersey while revisions were
made in the confessions as the older
Parker ordered.
The government charges the de
fendants hoped to reap “large re
wards and sums of money" by pub
lishing the “true story" of the faked
solution of the celebrated case.
TT WAS announced at the White
House that President Roosevelt
had written to heads of 100 schools
and colleges throughout the country
asking the educators to determine
whether courses at engineering
schools are so “balanced" as to
give students the necessary “vision
and flexibile technical capacity."
The “impact" of science on hu
man life produces social disloca
tions as well as advances in pro
ductive power, he held. He men
tioned “unemployment, bankrupt
cies and relief." The engineer, he
said, has a responsibility to help
design “mechanisms to absorb the
shocks of the impact of science."
C'OR some time there have ap-
" peared in print stories about
how Japan was establishing air and
submarine bases in the former Ger
man islands of the South Pacific
over which she holds a Leaguqf of
Nations mandate. It has been ex
pected that the league’s mandate
commission would investigate these
reports, and now Japan seeks to
forestall such action by a formal
report to the league in which she
asserts she has “no fortifications,
military or naval bases" in those
islands. The Tokio government says
it is scrupulously observing that
part of the mandate which forbids
the use of the islands for military
purposes.
Following establishment of a
south seas bureau in April, 1932, all
Japanese armed forces and men of
war have been withdrawn gradually
from the islands, the report says,
adding that the natives bf the is
lands never have been subjected
to military training.
/’CHARGES filed in Washington by
^ the federal tra<£e commission
accuse five trade associations of at
tempting to corner the automobile
parts and accessories business. The
groups, which were ordered to show
cause why they should not be com
pelled to cease their alleged com
bine, are the National Standard
Parts association, Detroit; the Mo
tor and Equipment Wholesale as
sociation, Chicago; the Automotive
Trade associations of Greater Kan
sas City, Mo.; Mississippi Valley
Automotive Jobbers association and
the Southwestern Jobbers associa
tion. Their officials also are de
mandants in the suit.
EIGHTEEN men and one woman
perished in the waters of Lake
Erie when the Canadian ship Sand
Merchant foundered off Cleveland
during a gale. Seven men, includ
ing the captain, were picked up
after clinging to life boats for eleven
houis. ~
Northern Italy was shaken by
earthquake shocks that were felt
as far away as Jugoslavia and Aus
tria. Twenty persons were killed
by tumbling walls, and thirty others
were injured.
Irvin S. Cobb
what LL
Campaign’s Home Stretch.
B everly hills, calif.
—Here the campaign is prac
tically on its last legs, when it
isn’t standing on its head and
spinning around—but yet not a
peep out of the three fairest-
haired young hopes of the New
Deal.
They’re still putting on an act—
what’s known in vaudeville as a
dumb act—entitled “The Bollo Boys
in a Sub-Cellar."
Horrid tales abound. ’Tis rumored
that the gurgling sound coming
from the White
House dungeon is
caused by Tugwell
trying to get the
gag out of his mouth
with both hands tied
behind his back.
And a note believed
to have been written
by Harry Hopkins
has been slipped
through the bars
begging somebody
to smuggle in a file
in a loaf of bread.
Richberg, once the merriest of the
administration’s songsters, doesn’t
chirp any more, having been in
duced to take on the role of the man
in the iron mask.
Remote-Control Patriotism.
D ID you ever notice that these
impassioned European states
men, who so boldly defy tyrants in
the homeland, generally put two or
three national boundaries between
themselves and the objects of their
hate before cutting loose? One fiery
anti-fascist waited until he got to
Hoboken to tell Mussolini right to
his face—the face being only 5,000
miles distant — exactly what he
thought of him.
Not that I’d blame any patriot for
playing safety first, dictators being
so sensitive to criticism. In fact, I
like the idea so much, I’m think
ing of taking a correspondence
course in lion-taming, myself.
* • •
Debunking Politics.
C AN nothing be done to stop the
destructive utterances of this
man, A1 Smith? Think of him, as he
did in that Philadelphia speech of
his, „ urging the voters to sift the
bunk out of the campaign and study
the facts. Does he want to deflate
the whole system of American poli
tics? Would you hire a cook who
squeezed all the meat out of the
sausage and fried the sausage skin
for breakfast?
Even so, maybe a little debunk
ing would be gratifying to quite a
lot of us who wish to start concen
trating on football as soon as possi
ble. I’m especially interested in
how Yale comes out on its clever
little idea of selling to a commer
cial broadcast the radio rights for
all games played on the home
grounds. But the fellow who gets
the empty-bottles concession is the
one who’ll really clean up.
H
“Lead Dollar’s" Immortality.
OW some old friends do hang
on!
Twenty-five years ago or there
abouts, it appeared as a short story
in Everybody’s magazine under the
title, “The Lead Dollar."
Twenty years ago, believing I
was using an actual occurrence
which never before had been Ac
tionized, I wrote it, too, and called
it “Heart of Lead,” and, barely in
time, was saved by Bob Davis and
Charlie Van Loan from the unin
tentional but nonetheless serious lit
erary crime of plagiarism.
Fifteen years ago, Octavus Roy
Cohen and I just did head off ^
young girl writer who already hadf
sold the same tale to a pleased edi
tor. I forget now what she called
her version.
Today, practically complete Li all
its sequences—poker game, bogus
money, practical jokes, good Sa
maritan, homeless girl, skeptical
hotel clerk, pitiable suicide and all
—I find this dear old familiar stand
by in the current issue of a popular
monthly with yet another author
sponsoring it.
* • *
Jack Garner’s Activities.
M ONTH after jqpnth,.Uncle Jack
Garner n0ver said anything
but “Ouch!” and then not for pub
lication. It seemed that, if defeat
ed, he would go back from the com
parative obscurity of Washington to
the blazing prominence of Uvalde
county, Texas, as the most finished
specimen of sound-proof nominee
American politics ever produced.
But he’s no longer a perfect exam
ple to all innocent bystanders—he’s
just a candidate.
Having read his first speech, I’m
reminded of the English gentlewom
an who fell on hard times but did
have a few layin’ hens left and was
driven by necessity to peddle their
product in the open street.
So she picked out a back alley
for her debut into vulgar trade, and,
as she crept stealthily along, whis
pered in a stricken undertone:
“Fresh eggs, tuppence. I hope
no one sc*es me. Fresh eggs, tup
pence. I hope no one hears me."
IRVIN S. COBB.
WN U S^rvii-e.
What LuJc the Lady j
Did Not Have Quinsy
It was the evening of an inter
esting family event, and the mas
ter of the house, who hoped it
would be a son, had been pacing
the floor, anxiously awaiting the
doctor. When the physician en
tered the room the father seized
him by the arm and demanded:
“IS it a boy or a girl?"
“Tr-tr-tr ’* gasped the doc
tor, who stuttered rather badly.
“Triplets!"
“Qu-qu-qu " stammered the
doctor.
“Quadruplets! Man alive! What
is it you say!"
“No-n-no. Tr-tr-try to take it
qu-qu-quietly. It’s a girl."
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