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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.”
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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. This led to
my discovery
that smoke could
be condensed,
and simply
“brushed on” the
meat What un
told hours of
backbreaking labor FIGARO Con
densed Smoke has saved since then I
Years of research, since, have re
vealed what really causes meat to
spoil. Note photograph “A.” This is
what the eye of the microscope
sees when focused on that old
enemy, green mold. Mold Is a
S. S. COLGIN, who
discovered FIGARO
“fungus”; technically not a bacteria/
but its action is similar. This para
site attacks the surface of the meat.
Photo “B” shows the cause of ran
cidness, usually near the bone. It is
a bacteria, shown here through the
microscope’s eye. And photo “C”
shows that pest called the “skipper,”
which is in reality the larva of a
fly. It lays its eggs on the meat, and
at the first warm spell, they hatch.
There is only one known way to
prevent all these troubles. That is
thorough smoking. Of course every
one knows how uncertain the old
smokehouse is. Other so-called smok
ing methods, or substitutes for smok
ing; are likewise risky. How can
you tell whether or not the meat Is
thoroughly
smoked? But
if you want to
be SURE your
meatwillcome
through the
hot summer
months sweet
and whole-
some and eat-
able* brush ev
ery square
inch with FIG
ARO Condensed
Smoke. It pene
trates. It posi
tively prevents
skippers, mold,
rancidness, or drying out of the
meat. And it costs only one-third of
a cent per pound! Your dealer has
it, or can get It, in two sizes—32-oz.
(enough for 500 lbs.), $1.50; and 16-
oz. (enough for 250 lbs.),$1.00.—Adv.
THE
FIGARO Co.
DALLAS,TEX.
Manufacturers of Smoke Products
FIGARO Condensed Smoke-Barbecue Smoke Sauce-Sausage Seasoning
Wisdom of Age
Most of the “wisdom of age” is
caution.
Different Goals
Ambition keeps some men go
ing, and revenge others.
BUB YOUR CHEST with PENETRO
BEFORE YOU GO TO BED
literally “lift*
THERE’S a let down at the
end of the day; your chest
tightens up; your cold feels
worse.
Stir up circulation, open the
pores, ease the tightness with
the positive congestion-reliev
ing action of Penetro. *Made
with mutton suet, and con
taining plenty of concentrated
medication, stainless, snow-
white Penetro helps nature to
that cold pressure off your chest.
mi m m m j a A A v A V-A a m « a j ■ m — —»
New size 35c, contains twice as much as the 25c
size. Larger sizes 60c and $1.00 Trial size 10c.
At all druggists. For free sample of Penetro.
write Dept. SI, Memphis, Tenn.
Relieve watery head cold* with Penetro Nose Drop*.
Just two drops in each nostril and then B-R-E-A-T-H-E.
Dm ITTDn C0NTfllNS / 1 >3% TO 2 2 7% MORE MEDICjUION
I L. U L I If V THAN ANY OTHER NATIONALLY SOLD COLD SALVE
/^UR readers should always remember that our
community merchants cannot afford to adver
tise a bargain unless it is a real bargaiii. They do
advertise bargains and such advertising means
money saving to the people of the community.
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