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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S UARY 28, 1937 .about: Irvin S. Cobb Making 1937 A Safe Tear. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— This time last year we were all dedicating ourselves to a crusading campaign to make 1936 a safer year for motorists. We were going to cut down the volume of traffic disastersr, going to reduce the appalling mortality toll which had marked the pre ceding year. So what? Well, here’s what. The end of 1936 showed an all - time top for deaths on the public highways— roughly 37,450, or approximately 450 more than In 1935. . So now we’ll pious ly resolve, all over again, to do something about this hideous destroyer which kills by the thousands and maims by the hun dreds of thousands and makes our fatalities and casualties in the world war seem, by comparison, puny. And what will come of the re newed agitation? The National Safety Council will wage a gallant, hopeless fight, various local organi zations and civic bodies will do what they can, newspapers will rail and statesmen will deplore—and the ghastly record of slaughter will keep right on mounting. • • • The Value of “Experts” I HEARD a supposed expert ad vising a director, bound for Africa to shoot a big game picture, that practically everything about his kit was wrong except possibly his rear collar bufiton. It reminded me of the pampered millionaire’s son who was heading for the arctic circle. He called in a veteran of polar expeditions and told about his outfit. All went well until he started describing his parka. “It’s fine,” he said, “made of seal skin and the hood all fringed with wolverine and—” “One moment,” said the profes sional, “is the hairy surface of the pelt worn next to your body?” “No,” said the youth. “The fur is outside, of course.” “All wrong,” pronounced the crit ic. “Thewnal demonstration has proved that to conserve the bodily heat the hide should be turned so the fur is used as a lining and the smooth or naked side is exposed, thus cutting the wind.” The youngster burst out laughing. “Have I said something to excite your mirth?” demanded the special ist. ‘*Oh, not at all,” said the amateur, “I was just thinking what a darned fool a buffalo is.” * • • Americans in England R ENEWED excitement has been aroused in the British isles by the discovery that yet another mem ber of the royal family—this time it’s the young duke of Kent—not only shows a regrettable tendency t o enjoy himself as any normal nat ural, healthy youngster might, but, what is even more distressing, has lately been seen in the company of an American woman. Oh, these pestiferous Yankee women! In spite of all that can be done, it’s almost certain some of them will witness the coronation, and several thousands of them will break their girlish necks trying to do so. • • • Militarizing the C. C. C. R epresentative nichols of Oklahoma is trying to accom plish something which should have been done long ago. He’s preparing a bill to make military reserve units of the C. C. C. boys, which would mean discipline and morale for thousands of young Americans and, if needed, would provide the nucleus of a trained citizen-army. Seems to me there is every reason why congress should enact the leg islation, not as a warlike gesture, but as a peace-time move for na tional defense and national protec tion. But watch the professional pacifists fight it—professional paci fists being well-meaning folks who believe in Santa Claus, turning the other cheek, and the beautiful, if slightly impractical theory, that a white rabbit will be perfectly safe among a pack of greedy coyotes. • • • Actors Trading Careers. H ALF-WAY across the continent, actors who have succeeded in Hollywood and are headed east, hop ing to break into the legitimate stage on Broadway, pass actors who, having succeeded on Broad way, are heading west, hoping to break into the movies in Hollywood. It is a two-way traffic which grows heavier all the time. Thus we see how human hopes are uplifted and how curious a thing is human nature, not to mention human ambition. Also it’s good for railroad travel. But if the jaybirds suddenly de cided to trade their nests for wood pecker holes and the woodpeckers fell in heartily with the idea, we superior creatures could laugh at feathered friends for being such idiots. IRVTN S. 9t>RB. WNV Service. Mi/ } j2Aneur By Edward W. Pickard © Western Newspaper Union A. E. Morgan Morgan May Resign as Chairman of TVA "D UMORS were current in Wash- ington that Dr Arthur E. Mor gan would soon resign as chairman of the Tennessee Valley authority as the result of his long and bitter dis agreement with Di rector David Lilien- thal over TVA poli cies. Both the gen tlemen were in the capital and it ap peared they had laid their cases be- fore President Roosevelt for his decision as to which should be the lead er. Lilienthal, who was formerly Wisconsin utilities commissioner under Gov. Phil La Follette, favors unrelenting war fare on private utility interests. Doctor Morgan, on the other hand, doesn’t want a “fight to a finish” but, rather, a co-operative effort to pool public and private electric ity in the Southeast in order to end TVA’s legal war with the private interests. The chairman, however, stood almost alone among those who are shaping the administration’s power policy. He issued a state ment to the press setting forth his views but it didn’t arouse much sympathy in high circles. Decision in the controversy is nec essary soon for the first big con tract between TVA and private util ity interests expires February 3 and the question of renewal must be set tled before then. Drafting of a national power pol icy was asked by the President of a committee headed by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. He said that this policy, once established, would apply to all existing projects and to new power developments as they are completed. Curb for Supreme Court to Be Considered E'MERGING from a White House conference. Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana announced that President Roosevelt would soon call together congressional leaders and administration officials to consider legislation designed to curb the Supreme court. The senator said he himself was contemplating the introduction of a bill that would require the concur rence of seven of the nine justices, or more than two-thirds, to invali date an act of congress. He did not say whether the President indicated approval or disapproval of this plan. Deadlock Is Renewed in General Motors Strike W HEN negotiations were about to open for settlement of the strike of General Motors workers, the truce declared by persuasion of Governor Murphy of Michigan was called off, both sides charging bad faith. Homer Martin, head of the United Automobile Workers, said the corporation violated the truce by attempting to reopen the Cadil lac plant in Detroit; by agreeing to bargain collectively with nonunion employes, and by denying the right of picketing at the Guide Lamp plant in Anderson, Ind. General Motors accused the union of violating the truce by refusing to remove sit-down strikers from all the plants. Vice President Knud- sen had wired G. E. Boysen, head of the Flint Alliance which acts for the nonunion men, that the com pany would protect the rights of all its employes and would discuss any question with the alliance or any group of the workers. This so en raged Martin, who now claims for his union a majority of the em ployes, that he directed the strikers not to evacuate the Flint plants. Martin sent a telegram to Sena tor La Follette, chairman of the senate committee on civil liber ties, asking him to subpoena Boy- sen and the records of the Flint Alliance. He charged that Boysen was working with General Motors to break the strike. Governor Murphy said he was still trying to “work out the situation”. By his direction the National Guard detachments in Flint were kept in the background. Wallace Will Buy Eggs to Aid Producers S ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE says the federal gov ernment is going to buy eggs in or der to remedy what he describes as a sharp drop in recent weeks in the wholesale and farm prices of eggs. The surplus eggs taken from the market, he says, will be distributed among persons on relief. Agriculture department reports, however, show there is no surplus, and one department spokesman said the government would buy few, if any eggs, providing farm and re tail prices moved toward each oth er. Mr. Wallace says the purchases will be financed under a unique provision inserted in the agricultur al adjustment act by congress in August, 1935. This hands Wallace 30 per cent of all customs receipts “for agricultural purposes,” or about $100,000,000 each year. The fund has already been used this season to keep up prices of grape* fruit, pears and onions. Russia Refuses to Keep Volunteers Out of Spain BRITAIN’S plan to bar from Spain volunteers from other na tions met with a big setback when Russia refused to adopt prohibitive measures. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov handed to Ambas sador Chilston a note saying: “The Soviet government, although it presently does not practice the dispatch of volunteer detachments, does not consider it expedient to adopt unilateral prohibitive meas ures.” Explaining the refusal, Litvinov continued: “I consider it necessary to point out that in the Soviet gov ernment’s opinion unilateral, pro hibitive measures on the part of some participants in the London committee (on non-intervention) while other participants not only are free from obligations, but con tinue sending military divisions to Spain, will not only fail to accom plish the desired aim but will result in intervention.” Definite replies from Germany, Italy and Portugal were still await ed by the British government. Fighting between the Spanish loy alists and Fascists was fierce in the University City section of Ma drid and along the Mediterranean coast east of Gibraltar. In the Madrid suburb the loyalists trapped a large number of insurgents in a hospital where the latter had set up machine guns to withstand a siege. On the coast the Fascists had effected a landing at Estepona and were advancing on Malaga which the government has held since the civil war started. imi fM WM Walter Roneiman Report That War Debts May Be Discussed W ALTER RUNCIMAN, chair man of the British Board of Trade, arrived in New York and was due to spend a week-end in the White House at the invitation of Pres ident Roosevelt. Georges Bonnet, a financial expert and former cabinet member, was ap pointed ambassador from France to Washington and plans to come over early in February supplanting Andre de Laboulaye. These two facts gave rise to reports that the subject of the war debts would be reopened. Mr. Roosevelt denied published stories that he had invited Great Britain and France to begin pre liminary discussions for the adop tion of a peace program based on financial and trade factors. He specifically denied he had invited Mr. Runchnan to participate in dis cussions bearing on trade relations of the United States and Great Bri tain which may pave the way for important moves later but it was understood, nevertheless, that such conversations were to take place. The President said Mr. Runciman was coming here on a holiday and as a personal friend. M. Bonnet said in Paris that he was coming here simply as an am bassador and with no special mis sion concerning war debts, but it was considered possible he might seek to re-open the debt question in informal discussions. v - J liiiifilfl “Germans in Morocco” Tale Seems to Be False T HE latest general European war scare has subsided. It was caused by France’s announced de termination to stop, by force if necessary, the al leged infiltration of German troops into Spanish Morocco, and Great Britain was ready to sup port the French with its fleet. But Hitler and his am bassador to France were able to con vince the nations that the stories Gen. Goering were false and that Germany has no in tention of trying to grab any Span ish territory. Paris cooled down at once, and to add to the peace atmosphere, negotiations were started for a trade treaty between France and Germany. Then, too, Col. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, resplendent first minister of the German reich, went on an official visit to Rome and was informed by Mussolini that the recently signed Italo-British Mediterranean agreement does not change Italy’s friendship for Ger many or its collaboration with the reich on the major problems of Europe. UNCOWTON AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson G Western Newspaper Union “Garrison Finish” < ‘'T'HAT was a garrison finish!” you exclaim when the home team, which has been trailing for most of the game, comes f rom be hind to win in the last minute of play. And when you say that you are perpetuating the fame—not of a baseball or a football player, but of a jockeyI Edward H. Garrison was his name and he started life as a black smith’s helper in New Haven, Conn. Then he began hanging around the racetracks and occasionally was given the job of exercising one of the thoroughbreds. It wasn’t long until he was a full-fledged jockey, who made it a practice to hold his mounts in during the greater part of a race because he mistrusted the staying power of a “front run ner.” Then he began to boot and whip as they came down into the stretch where, as he said, “the mon ey is.” In 1886 one of these “come-from- behind-to-win” drives carried an outsider, Dutch Roller, owned by James R. Keene, to victory in the Great Eastern handicap at Sheeps- bead Bay, N. Y., and after that a “Garrison finish” became a by word on the turf. But more famous than that was Garrison’s victory on Boundless in the $60,000 World Fair derby in Chicago in 1893. When the entries in this race went to the post, Garrison began to stall. On one pretext or another, such as fixing his straps and his saddle, he managed to delay the start of the race for an hour and 42 minutes! He spent most of this time on the ground, thus taking the weight off his horse, while the other horses were fidgeting and wearing them selves out under the weight of their riders. When at last they were sent away tc the excited cheers of 100,000 spectators. Boundless’ jockey trailed the field for almost the en tire race. Then there was another “Garrison finish” and Boundless, a 15 to 1 shot, came home the win ner of $60,000—or rather $59,000 for the judges fined Garrison $1,000 for his part in the delay at the post. “Snapper” won, lost and partly regained a fortune in racing. He quit as a jockey in 1897 and later served as an official at numerous tracks in the South. His last days were spent in Florida where he died a few years ago at the age of sixty-two. John Smith T. H IS name was John T. Smitn But that was too common. So, in order to make people ren ember his name he began signing it “John Smith T.” As such it has come down in history, albeit the figure of the man who bore it is a shadowy one. We know that he was famous in the early days of Missouri as a duelist and land speculator and that he caused considerable trouble for Moses Austin before that worthy went to the Southwest to play an important role in the history of the Republic of Texas. Historians are beginning to sus pect that John Smith T. was deeply involved in the Burr conspiracy, as was another John Smith—a United States senator from Ohio who missed being expelled from the sen ate by just one vote. But how prom inent John Smith T. was in that mis guided adventure is still unknown and he is remembered chiefly be cause he was uniquely successful in escaping oblivion when “Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith!” At least four others who at tempted to thwart Fate thus are re corded in the rolls of the United States army. J. Allen Smith of Pennsylvania changed his name to J. A. S. Izard when he entered the United States Military academy at West Point but when he was gradu ated in 1825 he resumed his real name. One of his classmates was Joseph Brice Smith, who was graduated as Joseph S. Bryce, be came a second lieutenant and re signed from the army in 1832. At the outbreak of the Civil war he be came a captain of volunteers and in 1865 was brevetted a major for gallantry during the war. In 1830 a William Smith entered West Point as “William D. Fraser” but he was graduated under his right name. Ha rose to a captaincy and was brevet ted a major in 1848 for “merito rious serviee” during the Mexican wav. The fourth Smith who changed his name rose the highest in military life. He was Morgan Lewis Smith, who for some unknown reason en listed in the army in 1845 under the name of Martin L. Sanford and served as private, corporal and ser geant during the next five years. The outbreak of the Civil war found him using his real name again. He became colonel of the Eighth Missouri infantry in 1861 and was made a brigadier-general of volun teers in 1862, holding that rank unti* he resigned in 1865. & * IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, Beam of the Moody Bible In»thu*o of ChicaKO. C Western Newspaper Unioa. Lesson for January 31 FINANCIAL COST OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES LESSON TEXT—Proverbs 21:17: 23:20, 21; Matthew 24:45-51; John 6:26, 27. 35. GOLDEN TEXT—Wherefore do ye spend money for that which Is not bread? and your labor for that which satlsfieth not? Isaiah 55:2. PRIMARY TOPIC—Why a Servant Lost His Job. JUNIOR TOPIC—Why a Servant Lost His Job. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— What Drink Really Costs in Dollars and Cents. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Alcoholic Beverages—a Financial Asset or Liability? Temperance Sunday brings a greatly needed opportunity to con sider the entire question of intoxi cating liquors. When the prohibi tion amendment was under fire the proponents of repeal contended that it would reduce taxes, cut down im- employment, eliminate bootleg liq uor, return men and women to tem perate and decent habits. It is worthwhile noting that not a single one of these expected benefits has materialized. Taxes on liquor have not reduced general taxes. After all, what de cent American would want his taxes cut with “blood-money”? Bootleg ging thrives more flagrantly than ever. Evasion of liquor taxes in dicates that about half of America’s liquor is “bootleg.” The specter of unemployment still stalks the land. And are our people temperate? One could laugh if it were not so tragic! The consumption of liquor is fast becoming a national disgrace. And the tragedy is that Christians have for the most part supinely said “What can I do?” and have done nothing. The repeal of prohibition was brought about by the indifference of American voters. The issue was finally settled by the votes of less than 23 per cent of the registered voters. Where were the other 77 per cent ? Where are they now? But our lesson goes deeper than the matter of intoxicating liquor. It deals with two contrasted modes of living. What a man is deter mines what he does. If he lives for the flesh he will pander to its tastes. If he lives in the Spirit be will not only be right in his atti tude toward liquor but toward every phase of life, yes, even toward eat ing. Let us consider these two ways of life—and weigh carefully our own life decision. In which way do .1 walk? Remember that one may live to the flesh even though he is not a wihebibber. It is a matter of heart interest and relationship to God. L Living in the Flesh. The word flesh in Scripture does not refer to our physical flesh and blood, except as it is dominated by self-will. But when self-will rules the body, and God’s will is ruled out, a man lives in the flesh. Our lesson gives a terrifying pic ture of such a life. It makes a man a senseless lover of pleasure for pleasure’s sake (Prov. 21:17). He is a lover of wine, a glutton (Prov. 23:20, 21), careless (Matt. 24:48), disorderly and unfaithful (v. 49), and a professed follower of Christ because of what it brings him (John 6:26). His end even in this world is disgrace and poverty, and in the world to come, eternal judg ment (Matt. 24:51). II. Living in the Spirit. “They that are Christ’s have cru cified the flesh with the affections and lusts” (Gal. 5:24). They are therefore admonished to “walk in the Spirit,” that is, to submit their lives to the control and guidance of the Spirit of God. In other words seek God’s will, not self-will. What kind of men and women are those who live in “the spirit”? A re-reading of our lesson texts re veals them as, wise, faithful, dili gent, temperate, not following the Lord because of any gain to them selves. What is their reward? In this lifs they are entrusted with more work for their Master (Matt. 24:47). The reward for Christian work well done is more work. So if you are lazy, don’t begin. But if the fires of holy ambition to serve him burn within your soul, go on, and he will lead you further on until at last in the world to come you will have the all-sufficient reward of his “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Brave Men All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle ef life or in physical contests.—Hawthorne. Truth in Little Things I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles, that could be trusted in matters of importance. —Paley. Pinnacle ef Knowledge The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate him.—Milton. Acts of Charity One act of charity will teach ns more ef the love of God than a thou sand serznens. Lacy Squares Form a Spread or Scarf Pattern 5695 In this pattern filet crochet, that favorite of the modern needle woman, is adapted to two lovely squares—handsome used together —effective each used alone in cloth, bedspread or scarf. The lace stitch sets off the design in each square. String is the ma terial used and you’ll be delight ed with the result. You can also use mercerized cotton to make the squares a smaller size. In pattern 5695 you will find instructions and charts for making the squares shown; an illustration of them and of the stitches needed; ma terial requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y« ' Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets made of May Apple are effective in removing accumulated body waste.—Adv. Resolute Mind Be thou of resolute mind, that your moderation and dignity may confute their attack.—Cicero. ar COLD Time for Courtesy Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. —Emerson. When You Feel Sluggish (Constipated) Take a dose or two of Black- Draught Feel fresh for a good day’s work. 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