Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TftKSE'.— McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937 Irvin Cobb. 'Jkumhd about S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Out here the new Authors* dub is functioning nicely and abounds in surprises. For in stance, at one of our luncheons, the following types were ob served: ■ An Armenian, he being the only Armenian I ever met that didn’t try to sell me a rug. A visitor from Aberdeen who not only bought for him self but wanted to buy copiously for others. A native writer who declined to talk about his own works. t A British writer in the same admirable fix. A radio comedian who did not discuss his nationally im portant feud with some other radio comedian—prob ably saving that stuff for his regular broadcasts. A house committee chairman who neither bragged nor apologized. If we can only maintain this av erage, the Authors’ club will be come the most unusual organization on earth. • • • * “Made in Japan.** 'A HIGHLY patriotic function there was a tiny American flag at each place, and on mine I found, in very small print, “Made in Japan.’* And it is officially stated that at least three out of four of the totem poles sold to tourists in Alaska as authentic relics of the aborigines come also from the orient. If, as and when we get to heaven, I wonder how many of the angels we’re going to find Tunning around wearing the label, “Made in Ja pan?** • • • Collegiate Cosmeticians. T HE students’ newspaper of the University of Wisconsin has made a scientific study of the subject and announces that the average coed <female type) uses enough lipstick in one year to paint four bams. That sounds like an exaggeration, or may be mouths are running longer and. barns are running smaller. Bu£ the bams do look better for being painted. ' • • • Movie Family Parties. ONTHS after a moving picture •*•▼1 studio has changed hands or undergone an upheaval—such earth quakes being quite frequent — the new. bosses sometimes are still finding, tucked snugly away in the payroll, relatives by blood or mar riage of the ousted bosses. To you, reader, a new production may be either an epic or a flop, but out here it’s often just a pleasant family party, extending even unto the third generation. In other words, Hollywood has added a new line to the old spiritual, as follows: “All Gawd’s chillen got kinfolks I** • * • An Anti-War Prescription. IF SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON 1 of California had never done any other statesmanlike thing—and he’s done many a one during his long service in Washington—this country would owe him a debt of gratitude for that act which he put through congress providing that America can lend no more moneys to any foreign government still in default for sums previously borrowed from us. Can any sane man doubt that cer tain European powers, now heav ily in debt to us, would now be at one another’s throats if they were assured of financial backing by Un cle Sam for their fighting. In other words, they’d love to enjoy another world war so long as they didn’t have to pay for it. But once in awhile, even a born sucker takes the cure, provided there’s a Hiram Johnson to write the prescriptioa IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright.—WNU Service. Teacher’s Treat As schools all over the world break up on St. Thomas’ day, it is a great occasion for children. In Denmark it is customary to allow children to do almost as they like, and near Antwerp they rise early, run to school, and lock the master out till he promises to treat them. In other parts of Belgium, parents, servants, and schoolmasters are locked out, the teacher being chaired to the nearest inn where he is forced to pay for cakes and punch. In Germany, St. Thomas' day is a great day for forecasting the future. Thousands of young wom en visit astrologers, palmists, and clairvoyants, to learn what the com ing year has in store. In West phalia they eat and drink to capac ity as a sign that they hope to escape scarcity within the next twelve months.—Tit-Bits Magazine. Not All Have Mouths Not all animals have mouths, for certain parasitiq forms, notably the tapeworm, lack a system for digest ing food. In such cases, the food is absorbed through the surface of tb« animal. News Review of Current Events the World Over Bru Plana Settlement of Cuban Debts to Americans—' Roosevelt Says Federal Government Should End Child Labor and Starvation Wages. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 6 Western Newspaper Union. President ' Laredo Bru F ederico laredo bru, the new president of Cuba, proposes to settle all Cuban obligations in the United States and is expected soon to in vite the bankers and bondholders con cerned to enter negotiations to that end. Credit for in ducing Bru to do this is given to Col. Fulgencio Batista, who appears to be largely in control of affairs in the island. The obligations include about $75,- 000,000 owed to many Americans who invested in public work gold bonds which were issued during the administration of President Gerar do Machado. The new constitution which the Cuban congress recently voted orig inally prohibited any such negotia tions as those contemplated before 1940, but when it appeared in the of ficial gazette that article had been radically altered. It now orders the government to find a satisfactory way to settle all debts to the United States before 1940 and authorizes the president to open negotiations immediately. This “‘error** in the gazette’s com posing room is supposed to have been ordered by Colonel Batista, and though congress has the power to correct it, a majority of con gressmen, after reading the arti cle in the gazette, gave it their approval. So President Bru, it seems, is free to go ahead with the negotiations. E LIMINATION of child labor, long working hours and starva tion wages is a necessity, and must be carried out by the federal gov- omment since it cannot be done by state action. So declared President Roosevelt in his press conference. He warned the cortespondents not to say he was planning to revive the NRA and insisted all he could say at present was that something should be done to fix maximum hours and minimum wages. Since the day of the NRA, said Mr. Roosevelt, there has been a steady decline in child labor, gruel ing hours and starvation wages by 90 per cent of American business. As for the other 10 per cent, he said, they were still failing to live up to the best standards since the death of the NRA. Attorneys for the American Fed eration of Labor were reported to be about ready to submit to the President a bill designed to restore labor protective features lost in the death of NRA. It provides that congress catalogue unfair “con duct’* which would be forbidden to employers and assure workers adequate protection. Violations would be punishable by a fine. The federation is expected also to back federal licensing of interstate cor porations as provided by the O’Ma honey bill. OM BERRY, before retiring from the governorship of South Dakota, appointed Herbert Hitch cock of Mitchell, S. D., to fill out the term of the late Senator Peter Norbeck. The new senator is Demo cratic state chairman and his ap pointment brings the Democratic membership in the senate to 76, the highest party total in history. The Republicans now number 16. Mr. Hitchcock was born in Ma- quoketa, la., in 1867 and was edu cated at Anamosa, Davenport and Chicago. He went to Mitchell in 1894 and was admitted to the bar two years later. He was presi dent of the school board in his home town for ten years and state's at torney four years. He served as state senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929. A S NEBRASKA’S unicameral legislature, unique in the Unit ed States, was about to begin its first session, Gov. R. L. Cochran de clared politics was out. He dis couraged party caucuses among the members and said he would have no spokesman in the legislature. The governor pointed out that the constitution provides that the one- house chamber shall be non-parti san and that the voters had done their part by electing, on a nonpoli tical ticket, 22 Democrats and 21 Republicans. He said he would con tinue personally and as governor, all measures for new forms of tax ation. F INANCIAL status of American farmers may be much improved, as reports of governmental agen cies say, but some of them still ap pear to need a lot of help. Sena tor F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin asked federal officials to allot $10,- 000,000 to aid the Wisconsin farm ers who are suffering from the ef fects of the drouth. “This would be $200 per farm,’* he said, “and considering the high prioe of hay and other items of feed, it would be difficult to make a smaller sum cover the needs which would develop during the winter season.** Duffy estimated 40,000 to 50,000 Wisconsin farmers would need as sistance in purchasing live stock this winter. He said at least 35,000 farmers in the drouth area and from 10,000 to 15,000 outside the drouth districts were in need of aid. In addition, he said, between 30,000 and 40,000 farmers would need gov ernment aid in purchasing seed for the 1937 crop. rj OVERNMENT officials, from the President down, were anx ious to prevent the export of Amer ican airplanes to Spain, license for which was given perforce by the State department to Robert Cuse, a Jersey City airplane broker. Cuse proposes to send $2,777,000 worth of planes to the Spanish loyalists, and his action was criticized in Washington as “legal but unpatri otic.’* Senator Key Pittman of Ne vada, chairman of the foreign rela tions committee, assailed the Cuse deal as improper and dangerous and said it might embarrass not only the United States but also other nations in their efforts to enforce the hands off policy toward the Spanish war. Congress may be able to rush through prohibitive legislation before the planes are shipped. Meantime pressure was being brought to bear on Cuse to cancel the deal. W HEN the German steamer Palos was captured by Span ish loyalists at Bilbao because it carried war munitions supposedly destined for the Franco forces, the Berlin government demanded its release under threat of reprisal. The Basque authorities, when the German cruiser, Koenigsberg, ar rived at Bilbao, let the Palos go, but held on to the cargo and to one Spanish citizen who was a passen ger. This did not satisfy the com mander of the cruiser who insisted the cargo and the Spaniard must be released. The authorities defi antly refused this, and several more German warships were ordered to the Bilbao sector. There was a report in Berlin that Hitler had been advised by Mus solini to withdraw as gracefully as possible from the Spanish embrog- lio, and that II Duce himself had decided to cease supporting Franco and the insurgents. It was believed Hitler would avoid war measures in this crisis, and both Great Britain and France were hopeful that he would preserve peace because they have offered to help his economic and colonial needs in return for nonintervention in the Spanish conflict. However, informed German sources said the Anglo-French note sent Christmas, urging a cessation of German vol unteer enlistments for Spain had come too late, and that Germany will permit and even encourage a continuance of such enlistments. T. V. Soong C HIANG KAI-SHEK, generalis simo of China and its dictator, is back in Nanking. Marshal Chang, who held him prisoner in Sianfu for two weeks, also is in the Nationalist capital, avowedly repentant and ready to submit to any punishment. The danger of civil war has passed for the time. The terms on which Chang re leased Chiang have not been made pub lic. The dictator is sued a statement, directed to his kidnaper, commend ing his change of heart and promis ing to use his influence to obtain leniency for him; and Chang also gave out a statement admitting his grievous fault. These developments would seem to have quieted down the Oriental situation, but there is another mat ter that threatens continued trouble. This is the prospect that Chiang may decide to confine his attention largely to military affairs and to make Dr. T. V. Soong, his brother- in-law, premier. Soong, who used to be minister of finance, stands high among those who favor a strong foreign policy, including re sistance to further encroachments by Japan. Therefore it is easy to see that his elevation to the pre miership would greatly annoy To- kio and might easily bring about an open break between the two na tions. Since Marshal Chang is one of those demanding war with Japan, it is rumored that the appointment of Soong was the specified reward for his release of Chiang and sub mission to discipline. ’C'RANGE took a census in 1936, r and the figures, just given out, show the population of the republic on August 3 was 41,905,988. This was an increase of 71,045 over the last previous census, taken in 1931. Of the total, 2,453,507 are foreigners, their number having decreased by 437,416. S ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE has just apportioned $200,000,000 to the states for road improvement. Of this sum $125,- 800,000 will go toward improvement of the federal-aid highway system, $25,000,000 for improving secondary or farm-to-market roads, and $50,- 000,000 for grade crossing elimina tion. The fund is for use during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937, and funds for improvement of roads must be matched by the states. Grade crossing elimination funds need not be matched. Highway projects selected, contracts and specifications are subject to federal approval after designation by state commissions. A RTHUR BRISBANE, one of the foremost newspaper editors and writers of the time, and the highest paid, died in his New York residence of coronary thrombosis at the age of seventy-two. The mil lions of Americans who have read faithfully his columns, “Today” and “This Week,” mourn his passing. An indefatigable, able and often brilliant worker, he continued his journalistic labors almost to the hour of his death. Born in Buffalo, N. Y, Mr. Bris bane at eighteen joined the staff of the New York Sun as a reporter. Shortly after he went to Europe for five years to complete his educa tion and became the London corre spondent of the Sun. From that time he advanced steadily in the profession. For the last 39 years he was employed by William R. Hearst. He had been ill for some time but characteristically con cealed his condition from all but members of his family and died in the harness, as he would have wished to do. S ILENT for two years, Mahatma Gandhi once more comes into public notice with a speech tending to increase the opposition to British rule in India. He spoke at an indus trial exposition held in connection with the annual session of the All-India Na tional congress, the members of which were already agitat ing in favor of inde pendence. Said the “holy man”: “Show me the way. I am prepared to go back to jail again. I am prepared to be hanged. “If you do all I want you to do, Lord Linlithgow (British high com missioner for India) will say, ‘I am wrong. I thought you people were terrorists, and, if you like, we Britishers will go back on the next steamer.* We would then say to Linlithgow and the British, ‘India is big enough to hold you and more like you.’ “That is my swaraj (self-govern ment under native influence).” Jawaharlal Nehru, in his presi dential address to the congress, warned the British his countrymen would not be “parties to an imperi alist war.” Mahatma Gandhi A NOTHER big air liner, the third to meet disaster in a month, crashed against the top of Oak mountain, twenty miles from Bur bank, Calif., and hurtled down into a ravine, a mass of tangled wreck age. The twelve persons aboard were all killed. Three of the nine passengers were women. The plane, a twin motored Boeing, was oper ated by the United Air Lines and was on its way from San Francisco to Burbank. D ROGRESS of the illness of Pope * Pius was followed with great anxiety, for it was admitted at the Vatican that he was steadily grow ing worse and was suffering intense pain. The paralysis was spreading along the left side and arm, and one report said his physicians de clared science could do nothing further for him. G EN. HANS VON SEECKT, who died in Berlin at the age of seventy, was one of the really capa ble commanders in the World war. While acting as chief of staff to Field Marshall Von Mackensen he was responsible for the great defeat of the Russians at Gorlice, and he planned the campaigns that resulted in the collapse of Serbia and Ru mania. After the Von Kapp putsch of 1920 Van Seeckt was made com mander - in - chief of the German army which he built into an effi cient force. Later he helped to train the Chinese National army. A MONG the numerous govern mental reports at the year’s close that of M. I. Myers, head of the farm credit administration, is interesting and encouraging, show ing that the outlook for the finan cial status of farmers for 1937 is bright. During 1936 the total loans to farmers by the various FCA agencies were $670,000,000 com pared to $1,060,000,000 in 1935. The decline reflected a decrease in the “emergency demand” by farmers for assistance from federal agencies, because they “had no other source of credit after the de pression,” Myers said. “In the country as a whole, farm ers apparently had more money for equipment, machinery, farm build ings and repairs in 1936 than in any year since the depression,” Myers said. He added that this should con tinue next year because of in creased purchasing power and the opportunity to get short term cash leans at the present reasonable r “tes. 'Twas This Way By LYLE SPENCER C Western Newspaper Union. Jazz Music << T HE music goes down around whoa - ho - ho - ho .** That tune swept America from coast to coast recently until its very sound made radio listeners grind their teeth. It also marked the return to popularity of “swing” music. “Swing” or real jazz reached its first peak during the 1920’s along with short skirts and flappers. Whether it originated among the natives along the gold coast of Af rica, or in colored orchestras along the gold coast of our larger cities, is still a matter of dispute. At any rate, the first olack hero of jazz was Louis Armstrong, who created a sensation in Chicago with his wild trumpet solos of such pieces as “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue,” “Gully Low Bh.es,” and “A Monday Date.” His early records are stili as highly prized by jazz lovers as a Beethoven symphony. After Armstrong came many other famous swing bands like Jean Goldkette’s and F i j n k Trum- baaer’s. But the popularity of jazz began to crumble about 1929 with the stock market. Maybe it is as sociate! with business prosperity. The beginning of its comeback dates from the winter of 1935, when “The Music Goes Round and Round” ran riot through the nation. In spite of the fact that jazz has become an American byword, no one seems to know exactly what the word means. Greater Than Napoleon N apoleon bonaparte was probably responsible for the de struction of more human lives than any other man. During the Napole onic wars and thosa that foliov/ed it, five or six million people were killed. Napoleon is well known to every school boy. Yet a man */ho saved many more lives than Napoleon lost is known only to the small group of people who have read the history of medicine. That man is Edward Jenner, the discoverer of smallpox vaccination. As a young country doctor, Jenner noticed that dairymaids who con tracted cowpox from the cows they milked seldom fell ill with small pox. Cowpox produces sores on the skin much like those of smallpox, except that the disease is very mild. From this, Jenner got the idea of vaccinating people with cowpox serum to prevent them from having smallpox. He tried it out on his country practice, and found that none of his patients contracted smallpox after wards, even when they were in oculated with smallpox germs. When he finally announced hiS great dis covery to the world in 1798, a few people received it with great ac claim. But many more -‘pposed it violently, saying that smallpox was a visitation from God as a retri bution for the sins of man. Napoleon used the vaccine on hjs soldiers, as did a few other far- seeing people, but it has taken well over a hundred years for the prin ciple of vaccination to become gen erally accepted. The Social Register T HE most exclusive group in New York’s high society suppos edly contains only 400 members. That is a tradition which has come down to us from the days when Mrs. William Astor was the reigning so ciety matron of the city. She lim ited her inner circle to 400 because that was all her ballroom would comfortably hold! The golden age of conspicuous display in American society was during the gay nineties. Those were the days when hostesses tried to outdo each other in the lavishness of the parties they gave. Stories are still told of how guests some times smoked cigarettes rolled in $100 bills and ate oyster? on the half-shell, each containing a mag nificent black pearl. At one fancy-dress ball, Mr. Bel mont is said to have worn a suit of gold-inlaid armor made specially for the occasion that cost $10,000. A daughter of one Croesus was sup posed to own a dressing table worth $65,000 and a pair of bejewelled opera glasses valued at $75,000. The nouveau-riche of America tried to ape all the mannerisms of foreign millionaires, even to such things as fox-hunting. The golden age was extravagant and wasteful, but it was one of the most colorful in our nation’s history. The Bull Frog A large, warty body with a broad head, large prominent eyes and ears, and long, fully-webbed toes are some of the characteristics by which the bullfrog may be distin guished. In color it is greenish brown above, sometimes marbled with black, and yellowish white be neath, usually marbled with brown. This is a decidedly aquatic species, being found during the summer in large ponds or lakes witn muddy bottoms. It is the loudest of all of our frogs in vocal achievements, its croaking having sometimes been likened to the bellowing of a bull, according to Helen Loomis in the Detroit News. Household Questions Should soup, vegetables or gravy have been made too salt, simply add a small quantity of coarse, brown sugar to them, stir well, and the dish will become pal atable again. * • • In removing basting threads cut them every few inches and do not pull a very long thread out at one time, as you are very apt to leave holes in the goods. • * « Have you ever thought of using oiled silk for bathroom curtains. It comes in a wide range of suit able colors as well as a lovely silvery tone. • • • Chamois leather gloves should be mended with fine wool instead of cotton. This does not tear the leather so easily. * • • To clean windows and mirrors rub them with cold starch, let it dry and then wipe off with a soft cloth. This will clean as well as give a brilliant polish. © Associated Newspapers.—WNU Service. 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