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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.
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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. Where is Faneuil Hall?
5. What is the Nibelungenlied?
6. Where are the Society Is
lands?
7. What relation was Napoleon
III to Napoleon I?
8. Who was William Harvey?
9. Who was the first president of
the German Republic?
10. What is “turbid” water?
Answers
1. Not in public court; privately.
2. Lincoln was shot April 14; the
surrender took place April 9, 1865.
3. Nitrogen and oxygen.
4. In Boston.
5. A medieval German poem,
telling of the Nibelungs, a super
natural race.
6. In the South Pacific.
7. Nephew.
8. An English physician who dis
covered the circulation of the
blood
9. Frederich Ebert.
10. Water cloudy or muddy.
How Many
Pennies Your
Child’s Life?
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Don*t Try to “Save” on Home
Remedies—Ask Your Doctor
There is one point, on which prac
tically all doctors agree. That is:
Don't give your child unknown remedies
without asking your doctor first.
All mothers know this. But some
times the instinct to save a few
pennies by buying “something just
as good” overcomes caution.
When it comes to the widely used
children’s remedy —- “milk of mag
nesia” — many doctors for over half
a century have said “PHILLIPS.”
For Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia is the
standard of the world. Safe for chil
dren.
Keep this in mind, and say “PHIL
LIPS’ MILK OF MAGNESIA”
when you buy. Comes now, also in
tablet form. Get the form you prefer.
But see that what you get is labeled
“Genuine Phillips’ Milk of Mag
nesia.” 25*! for a big box of the tablets
at drug stores.
ALSO IN TABLET FORM:
Each tiny tablet
if< the equivalent
of a teaspoon
ful of genuine
Phillips" Milk
of Magnesia.
Phillips’
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MAGNESIA
Omitted Duty
Every duty we omit obscuref
some truth we should have
known.—Ruskin.
CHECK THAT COUGH
BEFORE IT GETS
WORSE
Check it before it gets you down. Cheek it
before others, maybe the children, catch it.
Check it with FOLEY’8 HONEY & TAR.
This double-actin'- compound gives quick relief
and speeds recovery. Soothes raw, irritated
tissues; quickly allays tickling, hacking. Spoon
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for children, too. Don’t let that cough due to a
cold hang on! For quick relief and speeded
recovery insist on FOLEY'S HONEY & TAR.
MORNING DISTRESS
is due to acid, upset stomach.
Milnesia wafers (the orig
inal) quickly relieve acid
stomach and give necessary
elimination. Each wafer
equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk
of magnesia. 20c, 35c & f Oc,
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D O you suffer burning, scanty or
too frequent urination; backache,
headache, dizziness, loss of energy,
leg pains, swellings and puffiness
under the eyes? Are you tired, nerv
ous—feel all unstrung and don't
know what is wrong?
Then give some thought to your
kidneys. Be sure they function proper
ly for functional kidney disorder per
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and to poison and upset the whol*
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Use Doan's Pills. Doan's are for the
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