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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK From Old China She Wore Boy’s Clothes , The Long Farewell Dangerous Gold, in Russia A roar comes from the great Chinese dragon, the 400,000,000 that live, labor, die and are ex ploited. The Chi nese Generalissi mo Chiang Kai- Shek, attached to the ancient Chi nese belief that right is so power ful that it does not “require to be supported or en- forced by might,” is arrest ed by his muti nous troops de manding “an im mediate declara tion of war against Japan; recov ery of all Chinese territory, includ ing Manchuria.” This outbreak worries Tokyo, and tt might, if China had a few fight ing leaders, with enough airplanes and good pilots. China now is like Niagara Falls before the turbines were put in, much power going to waste. What could military genius and modern weapons accomplish, backed by a nation of 400,000,000? I " Helen Coberly said she “never liked girl’s clothes, wanted to be a boy.” Millions of other girls have said that. Helen lived up to it, put on boy’s clothes, went through the boys’ high school to the senior class, earning her way “digging ditches, mending fences.” Known to be a girl, expelled from the class, she weeps. Some intelli gent young man with blue eyes and a kind heart, marrying Helen Co berly, might some day be the fa ther of a great American. i The former King Edward has bid farewell to England, and England and the rest of the world bid fare well to the young man, who told his people: “I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of re sponsibility without the help and support of the woman I love.” A good many men might say that who do not realize it. • Whoever wrote, or helped to write that broadcast, it was a sincere, touching farewell to the world’s highest position, and well done. There is no doubt that the young King inspired it. Russia’s production of gold in creases rapidly, with 144 gold fields active; the total production not less than $200,000,000 a year, and ac cording to some estimates nearly $500,000,000. Russia already surpasses Canada and the United States in gold pro duction, and expects soon to sur pass the British South African gold fields, and all the gold goes to the government. Prospectors and min ers get “praise.” ^his gold production does not mean greater power for bolshevism. Quite the other way, it may be the worst thing that could happen to the Karl Marx-Lenin-Stalin theory. As nations and individuals be come rich they become conserva tive. There is still reverence for Eng lish kings in “democratic Amer ica.” In New York clubs of “aris tocratic” membership all rose when the broadcast began, and not one sat down while the King was speaking. In England they sat down, they are used to kings there. Mrs. C. H. Wilson of Columbia, S. C., went farther; her house was on fire, she told firemen, let me know if you think the roof will fall, and went on listening to Prince Ed ward, while the house burned. It takes a long time to breed out of human beings that which is in- bred into them through ages; hence the persistence of our various su perstitions. Intelligent Dr. Craster, health of ficer of Newark, N. J., starts a needed campaign against kissing babies, suggesting the use of bibs embroidered with these words: “I don’t want to be sick—do not kiss me.” He says: “A kiss can be more dangerous than a bomb.” Consumption begins in infancy; babies usually get it from tubercu lar mothers who kiss them on the mouth. Congress resumes work soon; what will it do, and try to do? How will it interpret the 46 to 2 vote, “all present” except Maine and Ver mont; how will the unwieldy Demp- cratic majority deal with Its prob lems? It will probably try to do what ever President Roosevelt tells it to do; that last election seemed to intimate that the President has the public’s permission to do as he pleases. And that makes the situation ex tremely difficult for the President. There is such a thing as TOO MUCH approval, too much POWER. • Kins F««turea Syndicate, l«o. WNU Service. Arthur Brisbane News Review of Current Events the World Over President Back in Washington Preparing for Inauguration —Hopkins May Get New Cabinet Post—Wallace Urges Permanent Crop Control. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. President Roosevelt R ETURNING to Washington in fine health and spirits after his trip to Buenos Aires, President Roosevelt plunged into a great mass of work that had accumulated on his desk. There were numerous re- ports on govern ment activities to be read, plans for the inaugural on Janu- ary 20 to be made, outlining of his inau gural address, and consultation with the full cabinet con cerning the pro gram for his second term. Still more immediate was the task of writing his annual message on the state of the nation and his budget message for the coming fis cal year. Then, too, he is expected to devote considerable time to con sideration of the revamping of the cabinet and to plans for reorganiz ing the government machinery in various departments. The inaugural ceremonies will be simple in accordance with Mr. Roosevelt’s wishes, and the tradi tional ball will be omitted. After consultation with Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the inaugural committee and Vice President Garner, it was decided that the parade should be limited to units from the army, navy and marine corps and from the West Point and Annapolis academies. Governors of all the states will be invited but they will be limited to three motor cars apiece. There will be no civilian organizations in the parade. Grand stands are being constructed on both sides of Penn sylvania avenue at the White House, and on the steps of the Capitol. One of Mr. Roosevelt’s first duties was a sad one—that of attending the funeral services for August Gen- nerich, his close friend and body guard who died suddenly in Buenos Aires. The services were held in the White House and with the Presi dent were Mrs. Roosevelt, Vice President and Mrs. Garner and cab inet members. A delegation of New York City policemen was pres ent to pay the respects of the “fin est” to one who had served with distinction on the force for twenty- five years. The President and his household were cheered by news from Boston that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., ill in a hospital with a streptococcus infection and sinusitis, was recover ing rapidly, that an operation prob ably would not be necessary and that the young Harvard senior has a good chance of spending Christ mas in the White House. JOHN HAMILTON is still chair- man of the Republican national committee. A t a meeting in Chi cago 74 of the 76 members in at tendance rejected his resignation, and he responded: “I’m gratified, and I’ll keep right on working.” The opposition to Hamilton was led by Hamilton Fish of New York, but it dwindled rapidly during the de bate. Before adjournment Hamilton was empowered to appoint -a group of Republicans soon to formulate a plan to bring the party funds out of the red. Treasurer C. B. Goodspeed reported that the campaign expendi tures were $6,546,776, and that the deficit was $901,501. << S ECRETARY OF PUBLIC WEL- ' FARE” may be the title of a new member of the President’s cabinet, and it may be held by Harry L. Hopkins, WPA administrator. The creation of this department has been under consid eration for some time and becomes probable with the plans for consolida tion of several gov ernmental agencies and activities per taining to public welfare, from the social security program and the in dependent office of education to the children’s bureau now in the Department of Labor. There has been talk that the new department might be given to Miss Perkins, who is slated to retire from the labor secretaryship, but general opinion is that Hopkins, favorite money dispenser of the adminis tration, will get the job. m H. L. Hopkins W ITH five men and two women aboard, a big liner of the Western Air Express disappeared in fog and storm south of Salt Lake City and it was believed it had crashed and that all seven persons were killed either in its fall or by exposure. Searching parties found possible traces of the accident in a broken tree and “tracks” in the snow, but the weather was so severe and the region so isolated that the hunt was badly hampered. Those aboard the plane which start ed from Los Angeles were Mr. and Mrs. John Wolfe of Chicago, just married; Henry W. Edwards of Min neapolis; Carl Christopher of Dwight, 111.; Stewardess Gladys Witt, and Pilots S. J. Samson and William Bogan. U* XTENSION of the glass workers’ strike to plants in Toledo, Charleston, W. Va., and Shreveport, La., brought the flat glass industry almost to a standstill. The clos ing of these factories is directed against the automobile industry, but the Ford company is equipped to produce its own glass and the other automobile makers are said to have enough glass in stock for a n*onth. It was estimated that 14,- 300 men were idle at the plants of the Libby - Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass companies. The new strikes were called after leaders of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers failed to reach an agreement with representatives of the two companies concerning strikes already in progress. Libbey- Owens also was negotiating for a new union contract, their old one having expired. Employers said the impasse was reached as a result of the union’s determined demands for a closed shop, a checkoff system of union dues, and wage increases. Glen W. McCabe, president of the Glass Workers’ federation, denied the union was demanding a closed shop or that the checkoff system had to be granted. C ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ^WALLACE in his annual report to the President, recommends that, instead of “emergency crop adjust ments,” the government establish a permanent production control. In this Mr. Wallace ignores the opin ion of the Supreme court in the Hoosac Mills case holding that congress has no power to regulate agriculture. The secretary said that shortage caused by drouth could only be temporary and that the natural reaction will be production that will glut the market and pile up surpluses. Soil conservation alone, he said, is not a sufficient preventive of overproduction. In another section of his report, Wallace cited figures showing that imports of agricultural products ex ceeded exports by 418 million dol lars in> the fiscal year 1936. He blamed this, however, on the drouth, rather than the scarcity pol icies of the old AAA and the admin istration’s trade agreements. The report asserted that a per manent agricultural policy should achieve “soil conservation, consum er protection, and crop control al together,” but outlined no specific plan for attaining all those objec tives. Joachim von Ribbentrop JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, German ambassador to England, addressing an English audience in London, told the world plainly that Germany intends to scrap “the discrimi nating part of the Versailles treaty” and that Adolf Hit ler is determined to regain colonies for his country. “One thing is cer tain,” he said, “and this I cannot help stating: Germany has made up her mind to get rid of that discriminating part of the Versailles treaty which no great nation could have tolerated forever. “To attain this aim by agree ment, der fuehrer and chancellor made his offer to the world, but the world, still blind and wrapped up in the mentality which is generally known today as ‘the spirit of Ver sailles,’ did not respond. “But der fuehrer sees now, as before, in the possession of col onies desired for supply of raw ma terials only, on one side, and in world trade on the other, two most essential means of raising the standard of life of his people from the present subsistence level. “A reasonable solution to the colonial question, therefore, is most desirable and to my mind to the interest of all in the long run.” JT WAS announced in London that Great Britain and Italy had al most agreed on the terms for a mu tual declaration of interests in the Mediterranean. At the same time Foreign Secretary Eden told the house of commons that on Septem ber 12 the British government warned Mussolini that he must keep his hands off the Spanish Balearic islands. He said there was now reason to believe Italy would not enter into negotiations with Gen eral Franco, the Spanish Fascist leader, for a change in the Medi terranean status quo. Eden added that Great Britain had not recog nized Italy’s annexation of Ethiopia and did not intend to do so. in k>M> 'Uhlmhd about Defenders of Communism. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Every time I write a squib against communism, there follows a flood of letters from persons who begin by saying they’re not com munists—perish the thought. But either I’m attacking free speech — as though free speech meant free license to undermine our government; or, by indirection, I’m trying to undermine trade unionism, al though what trade unionism has i n common with com munism is some thing which I don’t quite see. One camouflaged red — or anyhow he must be reddish— states there are on ly 100,000 known communists among Irvin S. Cobb 120,000,000 of us, so why worry? But wouldn’t you worry if 100,000 lepers were suffered to go at large among us, or 100,000 stinging lizards to run wild? A very passionate lady has been writing in, calling hard names. But I shan’t argue with her, because I’m a victim of aelurophobia. On look ing in the dictionary, you’ll find that aelurophobia means one who has an intense aversion for cats. * • • “Smitty’s” Travels. O EADING about a police sergeant ^ who retired after forty years’ service and never set foot off of his native Manhattan island made me think of a gentleman known a s “Smitty” who, in my reportorial days on Park Row, was general roustabout at Andy Horn’s saloon. Smitty was born in the shadow of Brooklyn bridge and grew up there. He had traveled the various boroughs, but no matter where he went was always within the greater city. Finally he took a tour to for eign parts. He went to visit his sister, who’d married a truck gard ener back of Newark, and the broth er-in-law, who owned a car, toured Smitty about the landscape. I was one who greeted Smitty on his return. “Fur me,” he said, “never again! 1 don’t like that Joisey. Why, all them towns over there is got dif ferent names.” • * • Dolling Up Lobbyists. W HAT ever became of the bill introduced into the Louisiana legislature requiring lobbyists to wear special uniforms while follow ing their trade? As I recall the original act, it provided that lob byists of less than three years’ ex perience should wear green skull caps and rainbow-hued plaid trous ers; veterans were to wear the green caps and all-white suits, which latter seemed especially ap propriate, white being the color for purity. It’s just too bad if the notion has been allowed to languish. And if an amendment were tacked on requir ing that a certain type of legislator must wear garments with no pock ets in them and buttoning up the back, princesse style, so the wear er couldn’t slip anything inside his bosom—well, there you'd have an idea that any state in the Union could profitably adopt, or, anyhow, almost any state. • • • Styles in Women’s Hats. JLTAVE you noticed those sub-divi- sional hats women are wearing this season? If not, kindly do so. It’ll distract your attention from the part-time frocks some of them are wearing. The average woman is wearing what looks like part of a hat—say one-half to two-thirds. I’ve heard the more of the original hat the milliner chopped off, the higher went the price for what was left. I suppose with hats, as in the case of a good clean appendix opera-, tion, if they’d cut the entire thing away, only very wealthy women could afford to go bare-headed. Even so, the wearer has some thing to do with the effect. I ran into the lovely Mrs. Clark Gable and she had on one of the new fractional hats and it was power fully becoming to her. But I’ll bet it would look like the very dickens on me or Jimmy Durante. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright.—WNU Service. Wroth Silver Ever since the year ^170 the pai> ishes surrounding Knightlow, Stret- ton - on - Dunsmore, Warwickshire, have paid Wroth Silver to the Lord of the Manor on St. Martin’s day. Shortly before sunrise the money is placed in a niche in the remains of an old stone cross, and then is collected by the Steward of the Manor, according to Tit-Bits Mag azine. The fees are purely nominal, ranging from one penny to two shill ings and threepence-halfpenny. De faulters, however, are dealt with severely, and have to pay a fine of twenty shillings for every penny, as well as a white bull with red ears and a red nose. But there has been no necessity within living me mory to enforce this fine. ’Twas This Way By LYLE SPENCER <g> Western Newspaper Union. The Metal That Talks JJ ISTORY is full of cases where 1 ■* smart men have made fortunes out of ideas that have bee., lying around unnoticed for years. Take the case of the German steel chemist who made t name for him self through an old Japanese duel ling sword he picked up in a muse um. That sword had a long history. It had been made way back in 1330 A. D., by the famous Nipponese art ist, Masume. It was exquisitely shaped and fashioned, as were all Oriental swords of that period. But unlike all other weapons, its blade was tougher and harder than any other iron implement made in the Middle ages. Hundreds of people had previous ly noted this peculiarity in the sword, out the steel chemist was the first one to do anything about it. He took it back to his laboratory, where analysis showed that it con tained traces of a rare and curious element known as molybdenum. He kept his discovery a secret and continued his experiments. Nothing more was heard about the chemist or molybdenum until the World war broke out. Then the Allies learned to their sorrow all about the superiority of the German artillery. The Teuton guns shot straighter and farther than those of the Allies because they were made of a molybdenum alloy! The re search of the obscure German ex pert and his Japanese sword had borne fruit. Today molybdenum alloys are very important metals in industry. One of their many uses is in the radio industry. Thus its name, “the met al that talks.” First Modern Hotel O ONE spent a night in a hotel a century ago if he could pos sibly avoid it. The fact was, no real hotel in the modern sense of the word then existed. The guest who retired for the night in the ordinary “inn” never knew whom he might find beside him when he awoke in the morning. / hotel keeper thought nothing of telling one lodger to “move over’ and share his bed with a late ar rival. Three or four people fre quently slept in one bed spoon fash ion, and women were sometimes “roomed’’ with men in rush seasons. The first inn definitely recognized as a modern first-class hotel was the Tremont house in Boston, Mass., opened in' October, 1829. It con tained 170 rooms, and its rate was $2 a day, including four meals. Traveling men considered it a rare privilege to be permitted to rent a single room instead of doub ling up with strangers. Some of the innovations made by the Tre mont house were an individual key for each room, a wash bowl and a pitcher filled with fresh water daily. Gas lights were another attrac tion. A mild sensation was created when they offered to give a free cake of soap to each and every guest. And the biggest sensation of all was “a fine supply of running water in the eight bathing rooms in the basement.” A Monument to a Beetle I T’S hard to believe, but the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, have erected a fine-looking monu ment in their town to a beetle. The beetle is the boll weevil, about the most destructive insect there is. On the monument is engraved these words: “In profound appreci ation of the boll weevil and what it has done as the herald of pros perity.” What happened in Enter prise was the boll weevils got so they ate up so much of the local cotton crop the farmers in despair finally began to grow other crops the weevil didn’t eat. Much to their surprise, their total income from crop sales soon jumped to triple the amounts they had received in the best cotton years. So the boll weevil had done them a left-handed good favor. The boll weevil was imported into the United States from Central America. It was first noted near Brownsville, Texas, about 1892. Be cause it is immune to most ordinary insecticides, it has run rampant throughout the cotton fields of the South, eating up millions of dollars worth of (ffrops every year. Literally thousands of small farm ers have been ruined through its ravages. In addition to the boll weevil, the price of cotton has been so low in recent years as to render its growing unprofitable for many farmers. Thus they have been forced to diversify their crops. Pelicans Fish in Flocks One of the strangest things about pelicans is the way they fish. They always do this in large flocks. If on a bay, they form a wide half-circle and paddle toward shore, catching all the fish that happer to be in closed within the circle. On narrow tivers and canals they divide into two bands. Each band forms a half-circle stretching across the riv er and the two flocks swim toward each other, scooping up fish with their huge bills in the same manner men do with nets Ask Me Another 0 A General Quiz e Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. WBHBWIMM—■■■■■■ 1. By what country were doub loons coined? 2. In politics, what is a refra- endum? 3. Who was father of Mary Queen of Scots? 4. What was a corvette? 5. What are the two chief i»» lands of New Zealand called? 6. What is the atlas bone? 7. What is an Eurasian? 8. Who was Pluto’s wife? 9. What president of the U. S. had Rutherford for his first name? 10. What is a collect? 11. What is a foot pound? 12. Who won the Battle of the Pyramids? Answers 1. Spain. 2. The reference of some ques tion to a vote of the people. 3. James V of Scotland. 4. A wooden war vesseL 5. North Island and South Is land. 6. The top-most bone of the spine. 7. One of mixed European and Asiatic blood. 8. Persephone (or Prosperpine). 9. Hayes. i 10. A short prayer. a pound-weight one foot. 11. The work required to raise a pound-weight one foot. 12. The French under Napoleon. HouseJioM % Qm/ionr Add chopped pickles, pimientoes and olives to regular cabbage salad and you will concoct a tasty relish suitable to serve with fish, fowl or meat. ' • • • Parchment shades, if they are shellacked and varnished, may be washed with white soap and water. A little furniture polish applied after washing helps to brighten them. • • • Moisten the pastry bag with cold water before adding cake or frost ing mixture and the bag will be more easily cleaned and there will be less waste of the product. • » • A cracked egg can be boiled if the shell is first rubbed with lemon juice. The acid coagulates the al bumin and prevents it from cook ing out of the crack. * * * When a roast is in the oven, don’t stick your fork again, and again, into the meat, and so let out the juices and flavor. Don’t flour the roast at all. Sprinkle with salt only. * • • To remove ink from linen, dip the article in milk and let it soak for about two hours; then take out and wash with soap while the milk still remains on the spot. • • • Try cleaning denim chairs with moist bread one day old. The end pieces will hold together best. Win dow shades and rugs can also be cleaned by rubbing with bread. © Associated Newspapers.—WNU ^ervlee. A Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomul sion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. 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