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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C-. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK New Italian Babjr . By Permission of Unions Some Things We Do Well Throwing Out Kings Italy expects a new heir to the throne in January. If it is a boy, and lives, and noth ing happens to prevent, it will succeed in time its grandfather, the present King. What rate Lloyds would charge to guar antee the succes sion is uncertain. Mussolini’s rise from extreme socialism, the trenches and the hospital main tained the House of Savoy in nom inal power. “After Mussolini what?’* is one of many European questions. ▲rtkar Brisbane Mr. Hull, Secretary of State, sailed for South America six hours late, to help bring peace to the world, or at least help set a good example on these two continents. He left a pier “double-picketed”; the strike tied up his ship, which had to bring six non-striking sea men out to the secretary’s boat, waiting patiently near the Statue of Liberty. After peace is brought to the world, the next step will be to bring peace to United States in dustry. You may read some day: '“The House, Senate and Supreme Court could not meet; the Presi dent has moved over to the New IWillard; the Amalgamated Order of Furnace Tenders let all the fires go out, while, in sympathy, the Electric union turned off all lights and the elevator men said sympathetically, ‘No elevators.’ ” There must be, for public ne cessities, including shipping that carries passengers and mails, some better plan than the strike plan, and one that would be just to work ers. This country makes some things better than any other country—auto mobiles, and moving pictures, for instance—and Englishmen know it. The late Irving Thalberg, vice pres ident of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, left 35,000 shares of Loew moving pic ture stock. As soon as the large block was offered for sale, English men bought it all, by trahs-At- lantic telephone, for about $2,200,000. Nicholas Schenck, head of Loew’s and its biggest stockholder, missed an opportunity, and knows it. Every body across the ocean knows that this country is one NOT to be sold short, regardless of passing troubles. It is said the royal tombs re served for Spanish kings have been violated, some or all of the bodies thrown out. It would be a pity to offer insult to what remains of the truly great King, afraid of mice and spiders, but not of any man— Charles the Fifth—if he also was entombed in the Escurial Pantheon. Of the others, many would be more useful as fertilizer on some Spanish field than they ever were on the Spanish throne, and it is ‘not necessary to weep over them. London, with the biggest floating •fleet on earth, is striving to “human- lee submarine warfare.” That is like trying to humanize rat poison. Look at Spain and you see what will happen in the next war; everybody will kill as many as he can, as brutally as possible; you remember the Lusitania? The biggest crowd seen ki Wash ington greeted the President on his triumphant return to Washington, the White House and his job. For eleven days he will see only execu tive assistants and rewind the big machine. Those willing to serve their country for a consideration, or tell the President, free of charge, how it could be run better, must wait, probably until his return from the trip to South America. Voltaire’s learned Dr. Pangloss was wrong; it is not true that “all is for the best in the best possible of worlds.” In spite of all our wealth and pros perity, more mothers die in child birth, in this country, than in any other “civilized” country in the world. You know that better conditions are needed in America when you j&fce photographs of the wretched two-room log cabin in the swamp bottomlands where Mrs. James Bridges gave birth to quadruplets. According to Science Service, if whisky is subjected for seven hours to “intense sound vibrations,” which means “a loud noise,” the seven noisy hours will age the whisky as much as “four years in the wood.” Think what noise can do to the delicate nervous system of the hu man being if in seven hours it can add four years to the age of raw whisky. Mussolini’s order forbidding au tomobile drivers to blow their horns in Rome, “Use your eyes and your intelligence instead of your horns,” should be copied widely. • King Feature* Syndioata. I a a, WNU Service. News Review of Current Events the World Over Secretary Roper Plans National Census of Unemployed—» Armistice Day Duly Observed—Opening of the Huge San Francisco-Oakland Bridge. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. Sec. Roper N OW that the election is over. Secretary of Commerce Roper is laying plans for the complete census of the unemployed in the United States which has so long been called for. He said he would ask con gress to appropriate between 13 and 15 million dollars for this count and that it would require the services of about 25,000 persons who would be given spe cial training for several months. “The census would not only take up an enumeration of those classified as unemployed,” said Roper, “but we want to find out which trades or industries the un employed would fall into. We would also like to help the states in clas sifying the unemployed from the un employable. “There are many economic ques tions involved. Some families have enough income to support them, but one or more members may be out of work. We want to obtain information on this phase.” The secretary intimated that the census machinery might be made permanent so that a close check be kept on persons out of work, as is done in England. According to the American Fed eration of Labor 2,900,000 workers have been re - employed since last January. “Employment has been gaining steadily since January, without set back,” the federation said. “This unusual development points to the strong upward trend of business, which was of such force as to offset the usual summer layoffs. “Comparing September this year with September, 1935, we find 2,250,- 000 more persons employed in American industry, indicating that while a portion of this year’s gains merely restored winter losses, by far the major part represents last ing gain in employment recovery. “This year’s gains (comparing September, 1935 and 1936) have been largest in manufacturing in dustries where about 675,000 wage and salaried workers were re-em ployed; about 300,000 more farm laborers are at work, 285,000 more in trade, 200,000 more in building and 100,000 have been added in railroads. Most of the other gains were in service industries.” IN A joint report by the federal bureaus of agricultural and home economics the prediction is made that farm cash income available for spending in 1937 will continue the upward trend shown in 1936. As a basis for this expectancy the bureaus cite increases in net in come from agricultural and non- agricultural sources, lower inter est rates and long term financing of debts. Record production of truck crops also was forecast. All sections of the country will share and all im portant truck crops will be included except celery, onions and spinach, it was stated, with the likelihood that in spite of indicated larger sup plies, improvement in consumer buying power would help maintain the higher prices of 1936, which were about 10 per cent over 1935. CECRETARY of Agriculture Wal- ^ lace in an interview intimates that for a year there may be no new legislation for crop control along the lines of the outlawed AAA, for farmers would like to have one really good crop without forced cur tailment. But he added: “We will need some legisla tion eventually un less the weather changes or the world demand for our products great ly improves.” Wallace was asked whether the lack of a control plan might not result in another surplus, leaving the administration up in the air without any machinery to cope with it. He said he could not estimate a surplus ahead of time and that he would rather wait to see what would happen. “It may be possible to find a solu tion that will prove better than the AAA or the soil conservation act,” he said. Sec. Wallace P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT led the nation in observance of Armistice day by going to Arling ton National cemetery and laying a wreath of chrysanthemums be side the tomb of the Unknown Sol dier. The ceremony was quiet and simple. General Pershing,, com mander of the American expedition ary forces, and Secretary of the Navy Swanson stood by the Presi dent’s side and a small detach ment of soldiers, sailors and ma rines was oresent. General Pershing also placed a wreath at the tomb, and all stood bare headed as “taps” was sounded precisely at 11 o’clock eighteen years after the guns ceased firing on the western front in France. Everywhere in the United States and in all the allied countries tha anniverasry was suitably observed, and in Poland the day was one of especial rejoicing for it is regarded as the birthday of that re-born na tion. An ironical note came from Gen eva where the League of Nations announced that 8,200,000 men are now permanently under arms throughout the world. Of this total 545,000 are attached to world navies. The league calculations show that men under arms throughout the world just before the outbreak of the World war numbered 5,900,000, not counting naval units. The figures released show that since 1931-’32 world armies have increased 1,700,- 000 men. In Europe total armed forces are now 4,800,000, compared with 3,600,000 in 1931-’32. CAN FRANCISCO’S dream of 30 ^ years was realized when the great bridge across the bay of Oak land was formally opened with elab orate ceremony. This longest vehic ular bridge in the world has been under construction since July 19, 1933, at. a cost of $77,000,000, the funds being largely supplied by the Reconstruction Finance corporation. It is eight and a quarter miles long and, except for a tunnel passage through Yerba Buena island, is en tirely over water. It is divided roughly into two parts, mechanically speaking. The west side, from San Francisco to Yerba Buena, is of the suspension type. The cables are the largest ever spun for a bridge—nearly two feet in diameter. The east crossing, from Yerba Buena to Oakland, is of the cantilever type. As the climax of a four-day cele bration, President Roosevelt pushed a button in his White House office lighting two green lamps on the bridge and officially throwing it open for traffic. /^■OL. JOSEF BECK, foreign min- ^ ister of Poland, concluded his visit to London and departed with assurances of Great Britain’s friendliness and de sire to co-operate with Poland in its contest against Nazi intrigues, especially in relation to the Free City of Dan zig. Foreign Minis ter Eden talked with Colonel Beck for three days and was told by him that Poland would reject the overtures of both Moscow and Berlin and work for the same neu trality in eastern Europe that Bel gium intends to maintain in the west. One feature of Poland’s celebra tion of its independence day was the bestowal of a baton on Gen. Edward Rydz-Smigley, making him the fourth marshal in the revived nation’s history. He thus succeeds the late Marshal Josef Pilsudsky and is regarded by many as the new military dictator of Poland. President Moscicki presented the baton during an imposing ceremony in the courtyard of Warsaw castle. Col. Beck. YyHEN Admiral William H. W Standley retires on January 1 from the post of chief of naval operations, it will be filled by Ad miral William D. Leahy, now com mander of the navy battle force. This selection by the President was announced in Washington. Half a dozen other high officers of the navy will be advanced when the change occurs. It was also announced that Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, commandant of the marine corps, would be suc ceeded in that post when he retires from active service December 1 by Brig. Gen. Thomas Holcombe. The latter will be elevated to the rank of major general of marines. TZ" ING Victor of Italy had a birth- day, and President Roosevelt, in his cabled message of congratu lations, was careful to follow the American policy of not recognizing territory acquired by force, ad dressing him only as “king” and not as ‘ omperor.” However, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia was formally recognized by both Aus tria and Hungary, following Ger many’s example. CORNELL university at Ithaca, N. ^ Y., is to have a new president in the person of Dr. Edmund E. Day, an internationally known social scientist and economist. He will as sume office June 30 next on the re tirement of Dr. Livingston Farrand. Doctor Day, who is 53 years old. is a graduate of Dartmouth and has taught there and at Harvard and the University of Michigan. what thinks about: Irvin S. Cobb Saluting the President S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Top of the morning to you, Mr. President Elect! Many hap py returns! But you’ve already seen the happy returns, haven’t you? We’ve ,heen behind you right along. At times, some of us may have been so far behind you we couldn’t seem to see you, at all. But why bring that up now? As for those who voted the opposition ticket—well, Ameri cans may be greedy to win, but they’re sporty losers. Be sides, it’ll soon b e hard to find anybody who was against you. Among the multitude, the patri ot who actually op posed you — except maybe in a whimsical spirit — will be as lonesome as an honest bone in the average beauty-contest pro moter’s body. * • • Synthetic Napoleon Brandy T WILL now tell about Napoleon brandy. Napoleon brandy is any brandy more than four years old, if poured from a dark bottle with an “N” on it and decorated with cobwebs applied by an expert cob web - twiner before being served; price $1.50 to $3 per slug at your favorite robbers’ cave. More genuine guaranteed Napo leon brandy is sold every month in New York night clubs alone than all of the regular Naooleons, num bered, respectively, I, II and III, ever saw. What brought these- interesting statistics to mind was running into a collector of Napoleon brandies. Why, some of his specimens must date back as far as 1914. But my aim is to collect the pis tols carried by Jesse James and the handcuffs worn by Billy the Kid. It’s a great ambition, but may run into money because it will take a large hall to contain all the Jesse James six-shooters and all the Billy the Kid handcuffs I’ve seen. • • • Hurrying to Get Nowhere W HEN I see a motormaniac burning up the road and feel confident that, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, there’s no earthly need for his hurry, I think of a Japanese gentleman who visited a typical New York go-getter. They started downtown. The guide hurried his guest aboard a subway local, yanked him off at Times Square, jammed him on a packed express, pulled him out of the ex press further down and violently inserted him into another overflow ing local. When they emerged at a way-station, the Japanese was badly bruised, rumpled and tram pled. He limped to his host’s office, where they sat down with practi cally nothing to do except relax. So he asked why they’d changed cars so often when the original train would have brought them along. “Oh,” said the New Yorker, “do ing that, we save six minutes.” The oriental sucked in his breath politely and did some pondering. “And what,” he murmured then, —“what were you going to do with the six minutes?” • * • Cobb’s Pet Annoyances S OMEBODY writes in, demand ing to know what my pet loath ings are. Well, let’s see: Is it the fellow who, having heard every blamed word you said, waits until you’re all through and then says, “What?” Or the barber who, having fin ished the job, grabs up a towel and dabbles you with ninety hundred and seventy-four separate and distinct dabs? Or the clerk who, when you go in for a pair of socks, tries to sell you everything in the store, includ ing some pajamas that you wouldn’t be caught dead in? Or the orator who says “one last word” and buries that \ast word under about five thousand other words? Or the solicitor who begins by asking for just a minute and hangs on until you begin to figure the present Christian era must be ap proaching its close? * * • Stage and Stock Market IT’S curious that two of the most fascinating and envied professions —financiering and acting—do not necessarily call for int3lligence. Not that there aren’t brilliant per sons a-plenty engaged in both lines. But the mimetic quality, the knack of rendering other people’s lines, perhaps without ever under standing them, may be but a sub limated emotional instinct, just as sometimes the ability to make great gobs of money has nothing to do with brains, or rather brains have nothing to do with it. A certain man can smell out a hidden dollar exactly as a rat terrier sniffs be hind the wainscoting the rat which another dog would pass unnoticed. There are young ladie; capably interpreting classic roles who prob ably think Salome is the name of an Italian sausage. IRVIN S. COBB. WNU Scrvic* *★★★★★★ ★t*** jc * ir xxxior ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ STAR DUST ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ flBWfl m Mary Pickford i jMLovie • Radio J ★ * ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ N EVER was a girl more excit ed over her first trip to New York than Olivia de Haviland was. For years she had dreamt of taking the trip from her home town (Saratoga, Calif.), but she had always supposed that she and her mother and sister would make it in a car, stopping everywhere, seeing everything. Naturally, she had no idea that some day she would take it by plane because, as a motion picture ac tress, she couldn’t be spared from the studio long enough to drive! But that’s the way she finally did it. And the thing she liked most was the view of Tennessee from the air in the very early morning. She had a grand time in New York. Her latest picture, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” had just been re leased, and the critics had raved about her beauty, as they always do. —■*— Of course, Mary Pickford’s plans aren’t really exciting news any more, but all this autumn newspaper editors in the East have been spurred into action by the rumor that Miss I Pickford and Buddy Rogers were being married that night. And when it was learned that she was on her way to New York, supposedly to dispose of her Unit ed Artists holdings, marry Mr. Rogers and sail for Eu rope, a lot of people sighed with re lief. If only she’d get married and end that story once and forever, they exclaimed, it would be a bless ing. Clark Gable is to have the coveted role of the hero of “Idiots’ Delight,” when the play is transferred to the screen. Alfred Lunt, the very tal ented actor, has been doing it on the stage for some time, with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, playing opposite him, and the play is so successful that a staggering price was paid for the screen rights. Greta Garbo may have new com petition in the person of Tamara Desni, a foreign importation who ar rived in this country recently. Kor da, who is responsible for so many of the good English films, hails her as a great discovery. You’ll be able to judge her possibilities for yourself if you see “Fire Over Eng land.” There has been a lot of specula tion about whether Randolph Scott’s bride would live in Hollywood or not. Most of her interests, (except her husband) center in her country place in Virginia; it’s said that she tried to persuade him to abandon Hollywood and live there, but he re fused. Now she’s consented to try Holly wood, but if she doesn’t like it she’ll return to Virginia, and the mar riage will develop into one of those long-distance ones. If yon find that sports events are being broadcast much better than they ever have been before, you can thank Red Barber for the improve ment. He went to New York from the Middle West to help announce the World Series; and after his first appearance on the air the inner circles of the broadcasting business were running around in circles ap plauding his performance. Without any doubt he was the tops, so far as that type of broadcasting was con cerned. Time has proved that he’s just as good when it’s football that he is talking about. Poor William Powell is still hav ing trouble with that left eye—and still reigning as a box-office favorite— “Libelled Lady” is his latest, with Myr- na Loy, Jean Har low and Spenc°r Tracy, and a swell picture it is. One of the best things about it is Jean Har low’s return to a comedy role. When ever she goes dra matic, as she did in “Suzy,” most of her admirers implore her never to do it again. Wm. Powell ODDS AND ENDS . . . Dorw Dudley (first picture, “A Woman Rebels," vnith Katherine Hepburn) is through with RKO, because they wouldn't let her have a voice in selecting her roles ... /nci- denlally, she wasn't very good in her first picture . . . Ferdinand Gravel, French mo tion picture star who'll work over here (and is expected to bowl us all over), brought his wife with him . . . She's worth millions . . . Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon have been chosen as the first tele vision stars of the regular television serv ice in England, where they are making pictures . . . Baramount may make a se ries of shorts with Cornelia Otis Skinner (whom you've heard on the air, no doubt) based on sketches written by /»er. © Western Newspaper L nion. Ask Me Another # A General Quiz © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. ■■nBniniiinMiniMiiMi 1. In court procedure, what does “in camera” mean? 2. Did Lincoln’s assassination precede or follow Lee’s surren der? 3. What elements make up tho dentist’s laughing gas? 4. 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