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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1936 BRISBANE i THIS WEEK To Store Food in Mine* President's Good Idea t No Criticism for Germany Japan's Many Babies While the President talks peace for all the Americas, England, locked in her small island, • separated by nar row water from European hatred, realizes that it would be hard to keep out of a big war. She might, some day, move her imperial headquarters from London to Montreal or Que- bec, as the French govern ment once moved from Paris to Bordeaux, and the Spanish govern ment recently from Madrid to Val encia. England wonders what her peo ple would eat if war should be forced upon her, with enemy sub marines and airplanes sinking her food ships. She is not self-support ing, and her newly organized “food plans department” will try to store away enough food to last at least a year. As a “cache” for the food, England is using worked-out coal 'mines, of which many, going down thousands of feet, should be safe from bombardment. ^ Arthur Brisbane t The President’s trip to South Am erica proves to have been a most useful idea. Great crowds welcomed him in his brief stop at Rio de Janeiro, as he drove through the streets with the Brazilian President Getulio Vargas, bands playing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The President will talk peace and ’business, at least as much busi ness as peace, and he will make friends for us all in South America. You may count that day rare on which Chancellor Hitler’s govern ment does nothing new and queer. Dramatic criticism and literary crit icisms are now forbidden in Ger- . many. Constructive criticism is of greatest value to actors and writers; the intelligent among them are grateful for it. The Ruler of the universe was his own critic, “and God saw every thing that He had made, and, be hold, it was very good.” All need criticism, the powerful need it more than others, and Hitler will have it when history is written. His min ister of propaganda cannot control that. Tokyo reports for Japan the world’s highest birth rate; 2,180,- 703 new Japanese babies arrived in 1935, more than in 1934 by 148,931. Japanese marriages are increas ing, divorces decreasing; the latter down to less than one in 1,000 mar riages. Japanese husbands and wives get along better than Ameri cans do. The great contract bridge com petition ends and the Harold Van derbilt cup goes to four players called the Kaplan team; Phil Abram- sohn, Fred Kaplan, Harry Fishbein and Irving Epstein. Mr. Vanderbilt, on hand to present his cup, might telephone Chancellor Hitler that you do not have to be an “Aryan” to understand bridge. Business is picking, up and that includes marriage, most important. Chicago university says 750,000 few er weddings have taken place dur ing the six depression years than would have occurred in normal times. Hence the loss of about one million new American babies that would have been bom. Seven hun dred and fifty thousand young couples have missed, among them, more than three million years of marriage bliss. The tide turned in 1935 with 1,327,- 000 marriages, highest total in our history. Mr. Green’s and Mr. Lewis’ union labor organizations indicate that their differences may be settled, which is good news. Organized labor should present a united front against too-short pay and long hours. The prosperity of the nation de pends on how much the workers have to spend. China says she will risk war with Japan rather than let Japan take more of her territory. If that war comes it will illustrate the differ ence between a country prepared, Japan, and one unprepared and dia organized, China. Japan’s unspoken answer to Chi na’s war threat is her birth rate Those millions of new babies must go somewhere. Sir Basil Zaharoff, called “mys tery man” and “ricnest on earth,” of hoart disease at eighty six had for his motto, “Every man ha; his price.” He dealt in munitions and he may have bought, as wel as helping to kill, many. Begin ning poor, in Constantinople, Za haroff climbed to the top in mone\ and intrigue. It matters little where you start, what matters is insidf the head. O Kins Features Syndicate, Inc. WNU Service. News Review of Current Events the World Over King Edward Defies Cabinet, Clinging to Mrs. Simpson—> Garner Mixes in House Leadership Battle— President’s Buenos Aires Address. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. Edward VIII C ONFRONTED with the opposi tion of his cabinet, the high clergy, the leaders of both the Con servative and the Labor parties and goodness knows how many of the ordi nary people of his empire. King Ed ward VIII insists on continuing his inti macy with Mrs. Wally Simpson, pre sumably with the in tention of marrying her. And he does not intend to abdi cate in order to cling to the American di vorcee. Defying the disapproval of his advisers, the bachelor monarch proposes to test his constitutional right to wed the woman of his choice —^provided she consents. Such, at this writing, is the status of what has become a genuine crisis for the British empire, highly in teresting to all the world. The cab inet discussed the affair at length and sent Prime Minister Baldwin to remonstrate with the king, but the statesman got nowhere with the self-willed ruler, and next day told the house of commons he was not yet ready to make a statement. Edward called together his close friends, including his brother the duke of York who would succeed him if he abdicated, and considered the next move in the serious situa tion. This might be the resigna tion of the cabinet and the refusal of party leaders to form another government. Some of the English statesmen, like Sir Archibald Sin clair, Liberal, or David Lloyd George or Winston Churchill, might undertake the task at the request of the king, but probably none of them could command the necessary majority in the house. It is sug gested that Edward might attempt to follow the example of Charles I, who set up a government without a parliament. The British press at last has aban doned the self-imposed silence con cerning the king’s course but most of them declared their opposition or their regret. Public opinion will probably have a great deal to do with solving the problem. The Church of England will not have Mrs. Simpson as King Ed ward’s wife at any price, the Church Times, its organ, declared, lining up militantly behind Baldwin and the cabinet. Mrs. Simpson and her two previous husbands have bjeen divorced and upon that the church takes its stand, was the Church Times’ position. It is reported on good authority that King Edward is negotiating the sale of his Canadian “EP” ranch to Lincoln Ellsworth, the American explorer. B RITAIN’S house of lords killed Lord Ponsonby’s “mercy death” bill by a vote of 35 to 14. It would have allowed a doctor to end the life of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease. The measure fell before the attack of churchmen, who opposed it on reli gious and moral grounds, and of doc tors, who felt that tne responsibil ity was. too great to be assumed by their profession. The archbishop of Canterbury made no objection to the bill on re ligious grounds, but said: “It is bet ter to leave this difficult and deli cate matter in the hands of the med ical profession rather than drag it into the open and regulate it by le gal procedure.” mere ‘rubber stamps’ of the Presi dent. That accusation hurt the mem bers’ feelings sufficiently without rubbing it in by having the country get the notion that the duly elected Democratic members of the house are going to become the ‘rubber stamps’ of the vice president, so that the Lone Star state may run both ends of the capitol to the ex clusion of any participation by any of the other 47 states.” A CCORDING to the New York Daily News, Former President Herbert Hoover may become an ex patriate. The newspaper quoted Mr. Hoover “intimates here and in Washington” that he had virtually decided to take up indefinite resi dence in England as did Col. Charles Lindbergh more than a year ago. Recalling that Mr. Hoover had sel dom lived in the United States after his graduation from Stanford uni versity until the war years, the Daily News said that some of the happiest years of his life had been spent in London, which was head quarters for his mining enterprises in all parts of the world. A S THE cruiser Indianapolis and its convoy, the Chester, entered the harbor of Buenos Aires, a salute to President Roosevelt boomed from the guns of eleven warships, ten squad rons of airplanes wheeled overhead, and thousands of cheering citizens crowded the water front. Argentinians generally approve of Mr. Roosevelt’s policies and he was welcomed to their capital as “a great benevolent dicta tor.” They had planned to give him an elaborate reception, but it was toned down somewhat at his request. President Justo, who already had greeted the distinguished guest by wireless, met him at the dock and accompanied him to the American embassy. Then Mr. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull and members of the American delegation to the peace conference made a formal call at the govern ment house. Next day, after a ride about the city. President Roosevelt attended the extraordinary session in the leg islative palace to open the Pan- American peace conference which he initiated.^ A formal dinner for him at the government house and a reception for all conference del egates followed. The event of the third day was a luncheon at the American embassy in honor of President and Mrs. Justo. Then Mr. Roosevelt embarked and started on the return trip, with a brief stop • at Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. In his eloquent address before the peace conference Mr. Roosevelt set forth his program for banishing war from the Americas and erecting economic barriers against war else where in the world. The first task in achieving this, he said, is “making war in our midst im possible,” and the second step is to insure the continuance of de mocracy in the western hemisphere as the best guarantee of peace. He warned the “war mad” nations bent on conquest that the American re publics “stand shoulder to shoulder” in readiness to “consult togethei for our mutual safety and our mu tual good.” President Roosevelt C ALLED back to Washington be cause he is acting President during the absence of Mr. Roose velt, Vice President Garner prompt ly involved himself in the battle for the house leadership that is being waged by the supporters of John J. O’Connor of New York, chair man of the rules c o m m i 11 ee, and Sam Rayburn of Texas, chairman of the interstate com merce committee. Mr. Garner put him self behind his fel low Texan, declaring: “I am for Rayburn 200 per cent. He is the best equipped man for the job and I will do all I can to further his can didacy.” O’Connor’s friends and other rep resentatives who had been neutral were astounded and angered by what they considered an unwarrant ed intrusion by the vice president into a house contest. John D. Din- gell of Michigan voiced this senti ment when he said: “The distin guished vice president has a big enough job on his hands as pre siding officer of the senate without interfering with the organization of the house with which he has no con nection whatsoever. “The Democratic members of the house in the last congress were com pelled to go through a campaign un der the untrue accusations from the Republican enemy that they were G ERMANY’S cabinet, with Hitler presiding, promulgated a num ber of startling edicts for the fur therance of the Goering four-year plan of rehabilitation of the reich. Most important of these is the “eco nomic sabotage” law, decreeing death for Germans who “unscrup ulously” hoard wealth abroad and “damage the German economy.” This is directed against violators of recent injunctions which put with in reach of the government between 1,500,000,000 and 2,000,000,000 marks ($600,000,000 to $800,000,000) which could be converted into foreign cur rencies should the necessity arise. Another law orders the incorpora tion of every German boy and girl, without exception, in the Hitler youth movement, for physical, spir itual and moral training. The “youth leader of the German reich,” Baldur von Schirach, was made responsible directly to Hitler and given the rank of a supreme Nazi authority. R EPORTS to the senate cam paign funds committee show that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave $70,000 to Republican campaign funds, while Democratic organiza tions received $50,000 from Mrs. James R. H. Cromwell, formerly Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress. The committee said it hoped to trace the source of most of the $13,- 000,000 spent by scores of political organizations in the last campaign, as a basis for legislative recommen dations to the President and con gress. VicePresident Garner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ $ ★ * * STAR DUST jMLovie • Radio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ***Bj VIRGINIA VALE T O COSTUME Designer Royer went all of the research information on wardrobes for the 20th Century-Fox production “Lloyds of London,” which em braced four distinct fashion peri ods between the years 1771 and 1806. The overflow work for the ward robe department caused an annex to be appropriated to house the day and night shifts of seam stresses, numbering eighty to each shift, and other wardrobe workers required to create the costumes. —*— The newest and one of the love liest celebrities of the air is Deanna Durbin, the thirteen year old girl whom Eddie Cantor re cently added to his Sunday night broad casts over CBS. Little Miss Durbin is really young — quite unlike some of the girls fresh from Hollywood who have conveniently forgot ten half a dozen years. If you have Eddie Cantor heard her on the air you know that she sings beauti- fully. Leslie Howard has refused, once and for all, to allow his daughter, Leslie Ruth, to make “National Vel vet” for Paramount. If you heard her on the air with her father you’ll recall what an excellent actress she was on the air. The story calls for a young girl—and Leslie Ruth How ard is just thirteen, which seems to be the lucky age for motion picture and radio debutantes this year. But papa says no. They're still searching for the right girl to play the heroine of “Gone with the Wind,” whereby hangs a story. In New York there is a young actress who has proved her ability on the stage, but has never made a picture. The question is—would the public go in greater numbers to see the picture if a well known actress played the lead, or is the story big enough so that, if the unknown girl gave a grand per formance, the crowds would go any way? , —*— Monte Blue, a favorite with film fans for many years, plays the lead in a picture that rekindles the pioneer agricultural west of a cen tury ago. He has the role of John Deere, in “The Blacksmith’s Gift,” a story which recounts the life and times of the man who gave to the world the steel plow. The action takes place in 1837 in the Illinois of Abraham Lincoln’s day. —*— Mary Rogers, daughter of the be loved Will, has gone to work at the Twentieth Century - Fox studios where her father made pictures, and has the bungalow dressingroom which he used, and which no one else has had since his death. The beautiful Mary deserves a lot of credit. Her father’s influence would have helped with a movie career, but she went out and got theatrical experience instead. —*— When you see “White Hunter,” sympathize with Warner Baxter and June Lang in the scenes where they battle against a tropical hurricane. The hurricane was made right in the studio, of course, but was none the less violent because of that. Baxter and Miss Lang spent a whole day with that storm, what with re hearsals and re takes and one thing and another, and were black and blue when it was over, where they had been bruised by objects blown against them by the wind. ODDS AND ENDS ... It cost Claire Trevor $20,000 to visit her parents re cently; she'd have received that sum for making a picture for an outside studio, when she finished "Career H oman ' . . . The color in “The Garden of Allah" is beautiful, and Charles Boyer's perform ance is excellent, but Marlene Dietrich s makes you wish she hadn't been able to get the role away from Merle Oberon . . . When Eleanor Rowell arrived in New York some time ago she gave an exhibition of tap dancing in the rai/tvay station, to the delight of the crowds. © Western Newspaper Union. Where Speech Comes From Actual speech, so far as is known, is an exclusive accomplishment of human beings. It requires not only the ability to make finely differen tiated sounds, but also the ability to associate them in the memory with objects, ideas and emotions, accord ing to a scientist. A part of the cortex known as Broca’s area is believed by most neurologists to be the brain center of this associative process. It is found in both right and left frontal lobes of the brain, in regions marked off from the rest of the cortex by depressions known to anatomists as the “inferior front al sulci.” June Lang * Decorating for Christmas Some Handsome Window and Room Ornaments That Are Inexpensive TA/THILE windows may have ’ ' been decorated for Christmas before now, the arrangements in doors seldom are made until the day before the holiday. The fresh ness of the beauty is wanted with out any diminution. If the novelty has worn off, some of the zest of Christmas is lost. This is so true that many homemakers refuse to have windows trimmed more than a day or so prior to Christmas. If you happen to be among this latter group, let me suggest that you take sprays of a tree that is misshapen and so very cheap and make a splashing bow of red crepe paper for each and hang one in every front window downstairs. Or have one in each downstairs win dow that is discernible from the street. Ornamenting the Spray. You can dot the spray with holly berries, or whatever you have in addition to the green. Or you can dip popped corn in red stain or dye, and touch the kernels with glue and secure them to the sprays. These notes of red, with their irregular shapes, are intrigu ing, sometimes being mistaken for berries and sometimes for flow erets. Bank the Mantelpiece. Bank the mantelpiece over the fireplace where the stockings are hung, using sprays of the green intermingled with holly, mistletoe, pine cones, bayberries, or silvered or other metal painted motifs such as acorns, fine twigs with many fronds, etc. When everything is fixed to your fancy twine a string of wee colored Christmas tree Good Deeds So shines a good deeH in a naughty world. v Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike As if we had them not. —William Shakespeare. Gentle Ways OUT curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best. —Homer. electric lights through the greens. These will look ornamental by day and have a glamor when lighted during the evening. Christmas Greens Fill Baskets. Baskets filled with greens and dotted with the novelty units lend notes of appropriate Christmas decoration. Any ;mar baskets will do for this purpose. There gen erally are some about a house, but if not, metal paint or green stain some of the little market baskets such as strawberries, brussels sprouts or tomatoes come in. Make a rope or lengths of paper braid for the handles, painted or stained to match the basket. If a length of picture wire has been wound with the strands of paper rope and braid, these handles will keep their shape when ends have been thrust inside the baskets close to their opposite sides. The handles can be wired or glued to the baskets. Bouquets. Bouquets 3f Christmas greens in vases can be put in rooms other than the living room and dining room, and give then beauty of Christmas about the house. Be sure to use vases and bowls that have broad standards, lest the un even weight of the greens tips them over. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. / Motor Fuel Experts say that sufficient mo tor fuel can be extracted from the world's supply of oil shale by the cracking process to operate all the motor vehicles now registered for more than 400 years. The world’s potential shale oil produc tion is estimated at 300,000,000,000 barrels. MANGE Mange in dogs is a ser ious skin disease and calls for prompt use of GLOVER’S MANGE MEDICINE It relieves itching and irritation; kills the mange mites causing Sarcoptic Mange; checks spread of the disease; stimulates hair growth on bare patches, destroys ticks and chiggers. Insist on GLOVBR’S. At all druggists. 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