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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.
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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.
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'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.
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