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f -' #- \ \ McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937 BI MM $ i«:h Jfcr News Review of Current Events the World Over President Roosevelt’s Message Rebukes Supreme Court and Asks Increased Federal Powers—Wisconsin Uni versity Regents Oust President Frank. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 6 Western Newspaper Union. President Roosevelt T HINLY veiled but unmistak able was President Roosevelt’s rebuke to the Supreme court in his annual message on the state of the Union. Standing tri umphant before the lopsidedly Demo cratic senate and house in joint ses sion, the chief exec utive said: *‘The United States of America, within itself, must continue the task of making democracy succeed. “In that task the legislative branch of our government will, I am con fident, continue to meet the de mands of democracy whether they relate to the curbing of abuses, the extension of help to those who need help, or the better balancing of our interdependent economies. “So, too, the executive branch of the government must move forward in this task and, at the same time, provide better management for ad ministrative action of all kinds. “The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do its part in mak ing democracy successful. We do not ask the courts to call non-ex istent powers into being, but we have a right to expect that conced ed powers or those legitimately im plied shall be made effective instru ments for the common good. “The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free govern ment.” * Sketching the program for his sec ond term, the President said legisla tion he desired at this time includ ed extension of the RFC, of his power to devalue the dollar and of other New Deal authorizations about to expire, deficiency appro- priations, and extension of the neu trality law to apply to the Spanish civil war. Conceding that NRA had “tried to do too much”, he con tinued: “The statute of NRA has been outlawed. The problems have not. They are still with us.” The President proposed federal and state supplementary laws to help solve the social and economic problems of a modern industrial democracy and challenged specula tion, recldess over-production and monopolistic under-production as creating wasteful, net losses to so ciety. It was indicated that later on he would seek enlargement of federal powers over industry, agri culture and commerce. No members of the Supreme court were present to hear the re buke by the President, but the house chamber was filled to its ca pacity and there was a spirit of jubilation that broke out in fre quent demonstrations. The loudest of these was accorded to Jim Far ley, the genial national chairman being fairly smothered with con gratulations for the November "Dem ocratic victory. T HE Senate and house met the day before the President ad dressed them and organized, with Mr. Garner of course as president of the former and Speaker Bankhead again ruling over the lower chamber. The one matter of interest in this pro ceeding was the se lection of Sam Ray burn of Texas as majority leader of the house. He had beaten John J. O’ Connor of New York in the caucus, hav ing the potent back ing of Vice President Garner and presumably of Mr. Roosevelt. Of the total of 16 new senators only two were absent, Clyde L. Herring of Iowa and William H. Smathers of New Jersey, both Democrats. Two new Republican senators were sworn in, H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. Immediately after the President’s address had been delivered on Wed- aesday, both house and senate hur tled with the neutrality resolution Applying specifically to the civil war fh Spain. The senate adopted it Quickly by unanimous vote, but there were parliamentary delays in the house, and meanwhile the freighter Mar Cantabrico managed to get away from New York with Robert Cuse’s cargo of airplanes and munitions for the Spanish loy alists, valued at $2,000,000. Sam Rayburn G LENN FRANK, president of the University of Wisconsin, was re moved from office by the board of regents of that great institution, by a vote of 8 to 7, on charges that his administration has not been capable and that he has been ex travagant in personal expenditures for which the state paid. Allegedly, Dr. Frank was ousted because Gov. Philip La Follete demanded it. As one regent said: “He has not been very Progressive.” Accused of play ing politics in this affair, the La Follete group replied that there is no politics in their attitude in the sense of political party affiliations or convictions, but that they have been extremely patient with Dr. Frank over a period of years, and that he has shown himself incom petent in many ways. The “trial” of President Frank occupied two days and aroused in tense interest throughout the coun try, especially among educators. Chairman of the Board H. M. Wilkie and Regent Clough Gates were the prosecutors. Dr. Frank made vigor ous reply to the charges against him, declaring most of them to be “false statements.” He explained that he had spent university money for his household furnishings be cause there were none in the big mansion provided for the president, and he forced Gates to retract some accusations. As far as neglect of his duties for outside writing and lectures Dr. Frank noted that most of them were in Wisconsin, for which he never took any pay at all. He has been out of the state 137 times in ten years, he said, and eighty-eight of those trips were specifically with educational groups, alumni bodies or other university business. The remaining engagements, he said, were with groups whose prob lems were related to the problems arising in the various schools. A. P. Sloan G eneral motors corpora tion flatly refused to consider collective bargaining in its 69 plants except through local management. Whereupon 300 dele gates from those plants in ten cities met in Flint, Mich., and granted to a “board of strategy” power to order a general strike. The board is headed by Homer Martin, in ternational president of the United Auto mobile Workers of America, one of the Lewis C. I. O. un ions. Eighteen of the corporation's plants already were closed by sit- down strikes and walkouts, and 50,- 000 of its employees were idle. The auto workers in their Flint meeting, besides creating the board of strategy with power to call a strike, approved of eight demands on the corporation ranging from rec ognition of their union to higher wages and shorter hours. They also appointed a committee to negotiate with the corporation. Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen eral Motors, is on record as in sisting that no one union shall be the bargaining agency for the cor poration’s employees. As he left New York for Detroit he said: “Let them pull workers out. That’s the only way I know to find out how strong the union is.” Homer Martin has declared that “the question of recognition of the union is not negotiable.” William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, declared the company never would agree to collective bargaining on a Rational basis and, despite strikes, would continue to produce automo biles as long as possible. Still there was hope of a peaceful settlement for the G. M. officials seemed likely, at this writing, to agree to a conference with the board of strategy. James F. Dew ey, conciliator for the Department of Labor, and Governor Murphy of Michigan were active in the effort to further negotiations. One stum bling block was the insistence of General Motors that the sit-down strikers must get out of the Fisher Body plants in Flint before any conference could be held. Judge E. D. Black of Flint, who issued an injunction against the Flint strikers, was bitterly attacked by the union men. Martin petitioned the Michigan legislature to impeach the jurist because he admittedly owned General Motors stock and so allegedly had violated Michigan law by taking jurisdiction in the matter. The prime object of the C. I. O. is organization of the steel industry, and the crisis in the automotive in dustry was not expected by Lewis and his associates or wanted at this time. However, they are giving the auto workers their full support, mor ally and financially. IT WAS announced at the White House that President Roosevelt’s eldest son, James, will become a full fledged White House secretary and draw a salary of $10,000 a year after June 1. Until the beginning of the new fiscal year, James will act as secretary but will be on the public pay roll as administrative officer drawing $7,500. At the elevation of James to the secretaryship. Assistant White House Secretaries Stephen T. Early and Marvin M. McIntyre will also become full secretaries. sx. about: Glory Vs. Undernourishment. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Because their dictators are piling up armaments and build ing up armies at a rate un precedented, the German peo ple must, it appears, go on ra tions, cutting down their daily consumption of breadstuffs and fats, with the prospect of still more stringent restrictions. But their overlords—a reasonably well-nourished lot, to judge by their photographs —keep right on preaching that such compul sory undernourish ment is all for the greater glory of the vaterland. I know of but one historic parallel to match this. It is to be found in Mother Goose, where it is poetically set forth: There was a piper Irvin S. Cobb had a cow And he had naught to give her So he pulled out his pipes and played her a tune And bade the cow consider. • • • Signs of DisapprovaL NCE, in Montana, I heard two cowboys talking about the fath er of the sweetheart of one of them. “I’ve got a kind of a sneaking Idea that Millie’s paw don’t care deeply for me,” said the lover. “What makes you think so—some thing he said?” “No, because he don’t never say nothing to me, just sniffs. But the Mher night I snuck over there to see Millie, and, as I was coming away, I happened to look back and the old man was shoveling my tracks out of the front yard.” The archbishop of Canterbury is likely to wake up any morning and find the British public shoveling his tracks out of the front yards. • • • International “Messiflcations.” TUST about the time the contest- ^ ing groups in Spain lose the twenty or thirty confusing names the correspondents have hung on them and resolve themselves into tiie army that’s going to take Ma drid not later than 3 o’clock tomor row afternoon and the army that’s going to keep Madrid until the cows come home, a fresh complication breaks out in China. General Chang gets into a mixup with General Chi- ang, possibly on the ground that he’s a typographical error, and the red forces of the north get all twist ed up with the white army of the north and the pink army of the north by northeast and so on and so forth, until the special writers run out of colors. Just one clear point stands out of the messification. When the "dust clears away some small brown brothers wearing the Japanese uni form will be found sitting on top of the heap. China’s poison is Nip pon’s meat, every pop. * * • Rationalizing the Calendar. T HE plan to adopt a rational cal endar is finding favor in admin istration circles at Washington, as in European countries. Every time this proposition — which is so sensible and seemingly unattainable—bobs up, I think of the little story of the venerable Ala bama pessimist who dropped into the general store just in time to hear the proprietor reading aloud from the newspaper that the proj ect for thirteen months of twenty- eight days each had been laid for consideration before the League of Nations. “I’m ag’in’ it,” declared the aged one. “It’d be jest my luck for that extry month to come in the win ter time and ketch me short oi fodder.” • * • Stunts in the Films. rpOR ordinary film stunts, current " prices are: Tree fall, $25; stair fall, $50 (each additional flight, $35); head-on auto crash, $200; parachute jump, $150; mid-air plane change, $200; high dive, $75; being knocked down by auto, $75 being knocked down by locomotive, $100; trick horse rid«- ing, $125; crashing a plane, $1,500. It doesn’t cost a cent, though, for practically every slightly shopworn leading man, on or off the screen, to crave to play “Hamlet” on the stage. But it is almost invariably expensive for the producers who occasionally satisfy these morbid cravings. IRVIN S. COBB. C Western Newspaper Union. Shampooed Policeman (to woman driver)— Hey, you, what’s the matter with you, anyway? Lady (in traffic jam) — Well, officer, you see I just had my car washed and I can’t do a tiling with itl Well-Expressed “What a long letter you have there.” “Yes, sixteen pages from Aileen.” 4 *What does she say?” “That she will tell me the news when she sees me.” — Pearson’s Weekly. Barbara Stanwyck I STAR | I DUST * $ jMLovie • Radio ★ ★ ★ VIRGINIA VALE*r^* T HERE was a rather funny reaction to an interview that Edward G. Robinson gave a reporter for an Italian news paper some time ago. He praised the work of Frank Cap ra, the director, who is Italian by birth, saying that Capra re fused to direct gangster films. He remarked that he thought it was because Capra did not want to make pictures which showed his own people in a bad light. When the storm burst it hit, not Capra, but Robinson. Seems the Italians thought gangsters were something like senators—an American institu tion of which Americans were proud1 —*— The long discussion over which actress would play the mother role in “Stella DaUas” has been settled at last. It goes to Bar bara Stanwyck, who seems a bit young for it, but of course there's always make-up. And any way, the part is to be rewritten to fit her. At the moment the “Gone With the Wind” pursuit of a heroine is still rag ing, but no doubt that will be settled in the same way—some attractive, dependable actress whose screen work is known to the public everywhere will get it. —*— Phil Baker, who has long been one of radio’s favorite comedians, has learned a lot from what has hap pened to other men like him when they conseqted to m^ke a picture. And he is profiting by what he has learned. He knows that, when the picture is released, the comedian’s part may have been cat and cut until there is practically nothing left of it. Both Samuel Goldwyn and Para mount want him to do his specialty in pictures, bat he had held off, even to the extent of refusing $12,060 to do his stuff. The very funny Ritz Brothers, who can be relied upon to send movie audiences into gales of laugh ter, encountered something that was not so very funny, to them, when they had to learn to skate for “One in a Million,” the Sonja Henie picture that’s all about skating, with Miss Henie doing five big numbers. The brothers simply could not learn to skate. They couldn’t even stand up on skates. Finally the difficulty was solved by having spe cial skates made for them. —*— Speaking of romantic stories, even the movies can’t beat the one of Wallace Ford’s long search for his mother and his finding her just before Christmas. It’s about 38 years since she had to pnt him in an English orphanage, and Ford found her living in an automobile trailer, and the wife of a blind match seller. Now he is going to do all tiie things for her that he has planned during the long years when he was trying to find her. —*— Probably nobody will ever be able to explain why certain radio pro grams succeed, any more than mo tion picture producers can tell why some pictures smash box-office rec ords and others that seem just as good flop terribly. There is a delightful radio pro gram that has been going well for considerably more than a year. It’s called “Dot and Will.” And so far no sponsor has bought it. Yet the company has actual proof that thou sands of people listen to it. —■¥■— Apparently a lot of old stories are to be re-made during 1937. “Ben Hur” is up for dis cussion—maybe with both Clark Gable and Robert Taylor in it. There was a time wHlen, if three featured players were in a picture, it was advertised as having an all-star cast. Now the pro ducing companies put several of their biggest stars into one picture and just take it as a matter of course, as do the audiences. —*— Odds and Ends . . . Hollywood is tM regretting the death of Irene Fenwick, Lionel Barrymore’s wife; theirs was an exceptionally happy marriage, nrul Miss Fenwick was very popular ... Now that Bette Davis is back at work they are working her so hard that she barely has a chance to breathe, to make, up for the time lost when she was battling with jhe company . . . “After the Thin Man is just as funny as “The 7 hin Man was, so don't miss it . .. And you ll^surely uvint to see “Beloved Enemy," with Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne . . . And “lhat Girl From Far is’ . . . Tilly Losch, who did a bit as a dancer in “Garden of Allah,'’ may appear in re-makes of torn* yf Greta Garbo’s old pictures. • Western Newspaper Union. Clark Gable Offers New Opportunities T HE modern woman who sews is really an enviable person. She has at her finger-tips an end less array of fashions from which to choose for her own and her daughters’ wardrobes. Today’s trio affords her new opportunities in several size ranges; in fact, there’s something here for the mature figure, size 42, right on down to the tiny tot who just manages to fill an “age 4.” Pattern 1987— This diminutive frock is for Miss Four - To- Twelve. Its easy lines, flaring skirt, and pretty sleeves are per haps second only to its thru’-the- machine-aptness, so far as the woman who sews is concerned. But this is all too obvious to mention. Better cut this pattern twice for all ’round practical rea sons. It’s intriguing in taffeta—a winner in gingham and linen. It comes in sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 years. Size 6 requires lYs yards of 39 inch material plus % yard contrasting. Pattern 1211— It is a smart frock like this that will turn the most immune young lady into an ardent seamstress almost over night. And rightly so, for it’s plain to see how becoming are its prin cess lines, how flattering the wide shoulders and slim waist, yes, and how spicy the swing skirt. A pretty and colorful motif can be had in the use of velvet for the buttons and belt. Mono tone broadcloth, black or royal blue, ^ith the collar and cuffs of white linen, is a startlingly chic material for this model. It is available in sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 40 bust). Size 14 requires 2% yard of 39 inch contrasting. Pattern 1210— Which would you have. Madam, an artistic smock or a glamorous house coat? This pattern allows you to make this interesting choice and it has what you’ll need to make either of the models illustrated here. The house coat has become woman kind’s most desired “at home” attire; so rather than be among the mmority, why not turn your talents to this princess model— you’ll have it complete in a mere few hours and think of the cotint less days it will stand you in good stead as a really good look ing wardrobe asset. It is designed in sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 (in full length) requires 5% yards of 39 inch material plus 3% yards of bias piping and % yard contrasting material for pocket. Send your order to The Sew ing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. AT LAST A COUGH RELIEF—THAT ALSO SPEEDS RECOVERY Remember the n&mel It’s FOLEY'S HONEY & TAR I Double-acting. One set of ingredient* quickly eoothea,relieves tickling,hacking.pough- ing . . . coats irritated throat linings to bep> you from coughing. Another set reaches the bronchial tubes, loosens phlegm, helpa-break uj> a cough due to a cold and speeds recovery. For quir k relief and speeded-up recovery, ask your urus'iist for double-acting FOLE\ S HQNBY &TAR. Ideal for children, too. Get a bottle today; Calotabs Help Nature To Throw Off a Gold Millions have found in Calotabs a most valuable aid in the treatment of colds. They take one or two tab lets the first night and repeat the third or fourth night if needed. How do Calotabs help Nature throw off a cold? First, Calotabs are one of the most thorough and dependable of all intestinal elimi- nants, thus cleansing the intestinal tract of the germ-laden mucus and toxines. Second, Calotabs are ditfc- retie to the kidneys, promoting th& elimination of cold poisons from the blood. Thus Calotabs serve the double purpose of a purgative and diuretic, both of which are needed in tHe treatment of colds. Calotabs are quite economical; only twenty-five cents for the fam ily package, ten cents for the trial package. (Adv.) Nobleness Refines Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any mean ness or sensuality to imbrute themThoreau. Great Men The greater men are, the hum bler they are, because they con ceive of a greatness beyond attain ment.—Gibson. 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 Pcnetro. Made with mutton suet, and con- RUB YOUR CHEST with PENETRO taining plenty of concentrated BEFORE YOU GO TO BED medication, stainless, snow- white Penetro helps nature to literally “lift” that cold pressure off your chest. New size 35c, contains twice as much as the 25c . _. _ size. Larger sizes 60c and $1. Trial size 10c. FFNrrR0 At druggists. For free sample of Penetro, lit I write Penetro, Dept. S-l, Memphis, Tenn. Relieve watery head'colds with Penetro Nose Drops. Just two drops in each nostril and then B-R-E-A-T-H-E. 0 X0llTAINS 11 3^ TO 22V% MORE MEOICA . (ON THAN ANT OTHER NA1 lONAlirSOLO COLD SAL; :