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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C-. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936 News Review of Current Events the World Over {Italy and Germany Recognize Insurgent Regime in Spain —Anti-Communist Pact Angers Russia—Tugwell Resigns—^President on Unemployment. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. V/fUSSOLINI and Hitter ‘.*V1 Europe into spasms of Gen. Franco threw Europe into spasms of alarm by suddenly calling into session the ministerial councils of Italy and Germany and causing them to rec ognize formally the Fascist government of Gen. Francisco Franco as the legal government of war- torn Spain. It was taken for granted that Austria and Hungary would fol low suit. Maj. Ra mon Franco, broth er of the Spanish in surgent chieftain, had been in Rome and probably informed H Duce that the general, whose attacks on Madrid were meet ing with unexpected resistance, might lose the war unless he were given active support by the nations that sympathized with his cause. Mussolini and Hitler did not immedi ately announce that they would quit the international agreement for in tervention in Spain, but it was be lieved they would soon be shipping munitions to Franco’s armies. They withdrew their diplomatic represen tatives from Madrid and arranged to send others to the rebel gov ernment. Great Britain and Russia were stunned by the action of the two dictators and cabinet meetings were hurriedly called. The British are determined not to be drawn into the Communist-Fascist conflict but they believe that Italy and Ger many, especially the former, have designs in the Mediterranean that would fteril Britain’s seaway to the Orient and are preparing to meet any such threat. Russia's reaction was awaited breathlessly, and the soviet government was being pro voked still further by the fact that General Franco declared a block ade of the port of Barcelona, cap ital of the almost independent prov ince of Catalonia. This move cer tainly was made to stop the landing of munitions and food from Russia destined for the Spanish loyalist forces. England, France and other nations were greatly concerned over the blockade, for the port is largely used by their shipping. The Spanish rebels have created a strongly forti fied port at Palma on the island of Mallorca that can be used as a base for bombardment of Barce lona from the sea. Blockading ves sels may be supplied by Portugal, which warned neutral shipping to avoid the Barcelona port, though Lisbon had not yet formally rec ognized Franco’s government. An almost humorous note came from Geneva where League of Na tions observers asserted that \ the Italo - German recognition of the Spanish insurgents violated Article 10 of the covenant which demands that league members respect “ter ritorial integrity and the existing political independence of all mem bers of the league.’* They seem to have forgotten how the league abandoned Manchuria to Japan and Ethiopia to Italy not so long ago. The Italian grand council, with Mussolini presiding, voted to sup port the Duce’s policies by giving him more airplanes, more guns, more warships and more men. It was frankly stated that the reason for this was the threatening inter national situation. Italian opinion was that if France joined Russia in aiding the formation of a radical Spanish government with its capital at Barcelona—in event that Mad- •rid fell to the Fascists—there would be great danger of general war. /COMPLICATING ihe already com- ^ plex European situation and di rectly threatening war is the alleged fact that Germany and Japan have united to fight the spread of com munism, and that their pact is ex pected to be adhered to by Italy and perhaps various central Eu ropean nations. This is of course directed mainly against soviet Rus sia, and Moscow is actively aware of the menace. It is understood that the agreement provides that Germany and Japan shall keep strong military forces in East Prus sia a^d Manchukuo respectively; that the two nations shall exchange military information, and orders, and that in certain contingencies Germany shall supply Japan with war materials. An immediate source of friction between Germany and Russia is the arrest of 23 Gei mans in Moscow and Leningrad under charges of plotting to steal secret military in formation, t o wreck industrial plants and to kill government lead ers. Berlin protested the arrests but the soviet officials replied that all formalities governing such cases . "had been observed and that several .'of the prisoners had confessed their , guilt. The German propaganda, min istry said the story of the German* Japanese agreement,. which came from-Moscow, was a “periodic lie’’ .which this time was. intended to sidetrack German protests against the arrests. 'T'HAT sea level ship canal across Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf, condemned by the army en gineers’ board as not justified, start ed by the New Deal and stopped when congress refused to appro priate more funds, probably will now be pushed on to completion. The'army engineers, having been asked by the President for a re visory report, have submitted one holding that the project would be justified “in the public interest”— an absolute reversal of opinion. The board also found that the canal would cost only $162,985,000, instead of $223,440,000, as estimated on De cember 30, 1933, when material costs were substantially lower than they now are. So far the sum of $5,400,000 has been spent on the project. R EXFORD GUY TUGWELL, known as the No. 1 braintrust- er, has resigned from his post as undersecretary of agriculture and resettlement admin istrator and accept- e d the executive vice presidency of the American Mo lasses company, of which another brain- truster, Charles W. Taussig, is presi dent, and a third, A. A. Berle, Jr., is a director. In accept ing the resignation _ ^ the President wrote Tu £ vve to Mr. Tugwell: “Later on I fully expect to ask you to come back to render additional service.” Mr. Tugwell will serve on a special committee of 38 just appointed by the President to study the farm tenancy problem. The new reset tlement administrator is W. W. Al exander, who has been first assist ant. John G. Winant, who resigned as head of the social security board to take part in the Presidential elec tion campaign, has resumed that position at the urgent request ol Mr. Roosevelt and is directing the big task of enrolling the future old age pensioners. CATLING from Charleston aboard ^ the cruiser Indianapolis for Buenos Aires and the Pan-American peace conference, President Roose velt directed the release of a state ment in which he announced that the government will continue to spend money on a work relief pro gram until July 1, 1938 at least. It is estimated that congress will be asked to appropriate as much as $1,500,000,000 for relief in the next session. Although he professed himself gratified at the inroads upon unem ployment by industry, the President commented upon the fact that pri vate business has not yet absorbed vast masses of the unemployed and that millions of persons remain on the Works Progress administration pay roll and other governmental agencies. Mr. Roosevelt declared it was “widely known” that many of the largest industries will not hire work ers over forty years of age. To a large extent, he charged, this policy is responsible for the relatively large number of older workers on relief. And industry must expand opportunities for the hiring of un skilled workers, he said. The mayors of the United States, in annual conference in Washington, were gratified by assurances from both Harold Ickes, head of the PWA, and Harry Hopkins, head of the WPA, that the administration will not cease its spending efforts to keep alive the emergency or ganizations intended to deal with the unemployment problem. “I am convinced,’* Ickes said, “that the PWA should be pnade a permanent agency of government. It will expire June 30 next. On that date, many projects will not be completed. Necessarily, a law should be passed giving time within which to complete the tasks al ready undertaken.” Hopkins predicted the 1929 level of production would be reached next year. “Yet the end of our troubles seems a long way off,” he remarked. “There were about 1,800,000 un employed even at the 1929 peak, but next year, with the same vol ume of production, carefully pre pared estimates indicate that there will still be some 6Vfe to 7 millions unemployed.” ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ if STAR DUST jMlovie • Radi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ I T’S said that Fred Astaire has been much upset over the fact that his radio programs haven’t come up to expectations. In fact, it’s reported that he wanted to drop the whole thing—but just try to get out of a contract to broadcast, once you’re in it! He’s continuing—and if they’ll just give him the right scripts to work with there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be tremendously suc cessful. You may recall that Maurice Chevalier felt that same way about his broadcasts—but they were pop ularly considered flops right to the last, if the opinion of the great American public that stayed home and listened to them counts for any thing. A1 Jolson was pretty unhappy about his first programs, but he gritted his teeth and went right on. - —*— Clark Gable abandoned his New York vacation after three days of being almost torn apart by autograph seekers and enthu siastic fans, and Ca role Lombard didn’t even start for the East after hearing what had happened to him. Incidentally, dur ing his brief stay in New York a girl who’s part of the movie business there noticed a man on the street who looked very much like the famous Clark — face, figure, even clothes bore a strong resemblance. The only difficulty was that he was blacked dp—she insists that the man was a white man who’d used burnt cork. There’s a new radio program on a coast-to-coast hookup that ought to interest everybody who has ideas for such programs. It was origi nated by Octavus Roy Cohen, the famous story writer, and it’s called “Agony Column.” It' is based on letters from people who write in giving problems they want solved. For instance, here’s an example. A boy wrote in, saying that for years he had been searching for the per fect girl. He met her on a cruise. They didn’t even tell their names— just used silly nicknames. But—the ship was the Morro Castle, which caught fire at sea two years ago, causing the loss of so many lives, He doesn’t know whether she was saved or not. They were to tell their real names when they landed. So he doesn’t even know her name. And he wants to find her. Clark Gable If you hadn’t realized how rapid ly Robert Taylor has climbed the rungs of the ladder leading to movie popularity, just consider the fact that he has signed a new seven- year contract which will bring him $2,000 a week at first, and during the last two years will add $5,000 to his bank account each week. All this as the result of a year’s work— for until a year or so ago he was just a minor player. Small wonder that ambitious youngsters want to go into tne movies I —*— C'OR more than ten years the r American government has been building monuments of the World war on French and Belgian battle fields and memorial chapels in the^ eight American military cemeteries in France, Belgium and England. This work is now completed and the American Battle Monuments commission, of which General Per shing is chairman, recommends that the structures be dedicated next July, twenty^years after America’s entry intb the 'rwarv The approval of the-Pfesidenit and congress is ire ^LUired^ . , . Ruth Chatterton’s buying a new plane; she just can’t get enough of flying when she pilots her own. In cidentally, doesn’t she do a grand piece of work in “Dodsworth”? Nev er has she given a better perform ance. And of course it’s an excep tionally good picture—the kind that makes audiences applaud when it turns out the way they want it to. —*— It’s reported that James Cagney has had so nyxch difficulty with his first picture made under his new affil iations that he’d be glad to bury the hatchet and go back to working for War ner Brothers. Which brings u p the fact that Bette Davis has shown that she can take it. After losing her le gal fightwithWarner Brothers and being forbidden to m a k e pictures in England, she announced that she’d come home and go back to work as if there had never been any trouble. ODDS AND ENDS: . . .Greta Garbo oertainly has changed: she goes to parties occasionally novcadays . . . She may do a modern picture to follow "Camille^ before she gets into costume for ’‘lie- loved'’ which is laid in the time of Na poleon . . . If you think Colonel Stoop- nagle and Budd sound a bit breathless when they begin their broadcasts, remem ber that they’ve probibly been practic ing jig steps to Don Voorhees’ music by way of warming up .. . Paramount plans to have Bing Crosby make pictures with plots, and sing just incidentally, from now on ... At least one of the big mo tion picture companies has been signing up young actors and actresses on 30-das contracts—but paying them no money. just keeping them from signing with anyone ‘else, while 'the - company decides whether.io use thefts-or hot.' * Western Newspaper Union, . V . James Cagne ThefHanV/hoO'O Tales and Traditions from American Political History FRANK E. HAGEN . *N° ELMO SCOTT WATSON DEMONSTRATIONS /CONVENTION “demonstrations’* ^ —those amazing exhibitions of hysterical enthusiasm, usually manufactured rather than sponta neous—had their origin in the Re publican convention of 1860 in Chi cago. The two leading candidates were William H. Seward of New York and Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. The New York delegation brought along a prize fighter named Tom Hyer and a band which marched about the streets playing martial music. To match these noise-makers, supporters of “Old Abe” hired a Chicagoan “whose shout could be heard above the most violent tem pest on Lake Michigan” and a leather-lunged Dr. Ames, who, though a Democrat, also consented to whoop it up for Lincoln. But the real “blow-off” came when Lin coln was nominated on the fourth ballot. An eye-witness has de scribed the scene as follows: “The immense multitude rose, and gave round after round of ap- olause; ten thousand voices swelled into a roar so deafening that, for several minutes, every attempt to restore order was hopelessly vain ... A man appeared in the hall bringing a large painting of Mr. Lincoln. The cannon sent forth roar after roar in quick succession. Del egates tore up the sticks and boards bearing the names of sev eral states, and waved them aloft over their heads, and the vast mul titude before the platform were waving hats and handkerchiefs.” Another chapter in convention “demonstrations” was added by the Republican convention, also in Chi cago, in 1880. Roscoe Conkling of New York led the forces that had determined to-mominate Grant for a third term. At the first mention of Grant’s name, a demonstration began which lasted nearly half an hour. Conkling, noted for his “aris tocratic coldness,” unbent enough to stimulate enthusiasm in the gal leries and among the delegates by waving bis handkerchief. Then Robert G. Ingersoll started wave after wave of frantic cheering when he grabbed a woman’s red shawl and waved it aloft. Men tore off their coats and used them for flags. Then the,. Grant delegates seized the standards of their states and started a parade around the hall—thus starting a custom which has been perpetuated to this day. KEYNOTERS L_T OW many of us recall the key- * note speech of Senator Steiwer at the Republican national conven tion in Cleveland this year? Or that of Senator Barkley at the Phil adelphia gathering of Democrats? The answers to that one fortify the fact that keynote speeches fade rapidly, then die as completely as an ancient mackerel. The only one which persevered through a cam paign 1 was delivered at the Demo cratic convention of 1916 and later events made a farce out of it. That keynote was delivered in lavor of Woodrow Wilson; the man who voiced it was Martin H. Glynn of New York. Like the “Three Long Years’* which Republicans emphasized in 1936, Glynn’s keynote beat the tom toms for Wilson’s achievements in avoiding war in 1914, 1915 and 1916, ending each recital with the as sertion: “But we^ didn’t go to war.” Seizing upon the then catchy phrase, which set convention dele gates on their ears, the Democrat ic national committee made the race on the slogan of: “He - _pt us out of war.” It barely lasted to re-elect Wilson, for two months aft er beginning his second term the United States was in the war. Success of a keynote in this par ticular instance was made at least partially possible by the pussyfoot ing tactics of the rival party. They didn’t want to discuss the war. But the American voters were talking about nothing else! One other keynote has found a place in our permanent political history. It was delivered by im posing Albert J. Beveridge of Indi ana at the Bull Moose convention of 1912 which brought Theodore Roosevelt back into the spotlight. Said Beveridge: “The people’s government has been usurped by the invisible government, and the people’s government must be given back to the people again.” Even today, with history record ing a Bull Moose defeat, there is something about this well-turned phrase which accounts for the per petuity which has fallen to it. © Western Newspaper Union. Destroyed Indian Population The prehistoric Indian population of northern Arizona was destroyed by “tenement” conditions nearly 1,000 years ago. Tracing the hab its of the Indian population, an au thority said that from the time they moved from single-family pit houses to multi-family apartment houses, or pueblos, similar to mod ern tenements, the population of these tribes dropped from 23,000 to 2 ooo. : * • ' * : '- A bedspread, indeed, to call forth “Oh’s” and “Ah’s” is this one, crocheted from humble string. See not one, but two charming patterns, one a basket, the other floral, are included in Pattern 5658 pattern 5658. One is as easy to learn as the other; when com bined they make any number of useful linens—tea cloth, scarf, buffet set or pillow. In pattern 5658 you will find complete in- Record-Breakrng Tornado The tornado is the shortest and most violent of all storms. One record-breaker, which lasted only five minutes, killed 250 persons and destroyed more than $15,000,- 000 worth of property. Moreover, they occur frequently. In 1894 the United States had more than 60 of them within 24 hours.—Col lier’s Weekly. structions for making the square shown; an illustration of it, of the stitches needed; material require ments. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 West Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your name, address and pattern number. ■SMILES False Alarm “I hear you barely escaped from the fire last night.” “That’s not true: I had py jamas on.” Till Next Week Hap—The geologist thinks noth ing of a thousand years. Sap—Gosh! I lent one ten dol lars last night. , Light Conversation “Mauser is’ a man who always weighs his words, isn’t he?” “Yes, but it takes a deuce of © lot of ’em to weigh anything.’* S-S-S-Simplified “What’s your name?” “S-S-S-Sam.” “Mind if I call you ‘Sam’ for sho^t?” Stand Aside Judge—The next person who in terrupts will be removed from the court. • Prisoner—Hooray I Bacteria Attacks Unprotected Areas of Meat-Expert Explains Way to be Sure Meats Will Keep Thru Summer By S. Eugene Colgin I have smoked more than two bil lion pounds of meat. On my father’s farm 30 years ago I discovered what happened to meat during smoking in the old smokehouse. Fine drops of moisture ap peared on the hams and sides. The smoke was “condensing” on them. 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