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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 4, 1937 IN REVIEW by 6cUvuAxL ID. Pi © Western Newspaper Union. Senate Committee Studies Supreme Court Scheme p.IAIRMAtt HENKY F. ASHUKST ^ of Arizona gathered together the members of his judiciary com mittee and began formal consider ation of President Roosevelt’s proposi tion for federal ju diciary reform, i n - eluding the packing of the Supreme court. It was under stood the committee would arrange for public hearings at which opponents and proponents of the plan would b e Sen. Ashurst privileged to speak their minds. Not long befoffe, Mr. Ashurst and sevferal other senators were called to the White House to discuss the strategy of the fight the administration faces. The Arizona senator and Majority Leader Joe Robinson of Arkansas, who was among the conferees, only recently were vociferous 1 fn declaring a con stitutional amendment was the only proper way to accomplish the Pres ident’s purpose. But now they are obediently supporting the admini- istration measure. Senators Frazier of North Dakota, Bone of Washington, and Nye of North Dakota also were summoned to the White House, but what they heard there did not changd their stand against the President’s plan. Mr. Nye, indeed, soon after de livered a radio address against it. He did not especially defend the Supreme court, but said he thought there are better ways of ’ attaining the objective in conformity to the Constitution than the way of packing the court proposed by Mr. Roose velt. He could not see “wherein an 8-7 decision is any more desirable than a 4-5 decision, which has served to agitate us against the alleged course of permitting the Su preme court *to s declare acts of con gress unconstitutional. “However foreign to the Presi dent the thought of dictatorship may be, in connection with his pres ent request it is good "warning to look out—not for him necessarily, but for those who would in other days have opgqrtunity to use the power which he would have us now extend.” '* Ex-President Herbert Hoover in an address before the Union League club of Chicago uttered solemn warning that the President’s plan was a serious threat against the ultirhate safeguard of liberty, and condemned Atiy such “quick and revolutionary change in the Con stitution.”^,, .!> . jj . : * At this .writing 32 senators have declared ^publicly against the. bill; 30 are on record for it, and 34 have not committed themselves. The ad ministration leaders expected to pick up at least 12 from the non committal , group, and claimed more. cold President Aitchison of the com pany ordered it turned on again, be lieving a majority of the men in the buildings were held there against their, will. Governor Hoffman of New Jersey ;is one executive who has taken a firm stand against the sit-down strike. He announced that he would use all the resources of the state to prevent such seizures of proper ty. The C. I. O. organizers de nounced him as an enemy and “the strike-breakers’ candidate for Pres ident,” and went ahead with their unionization activities in the steel, wire and rubber companies of New Jersey. Their field director said: “When C. I. O. workers decide to use sit-down strikes, they will use them. We pay no attention to Governor Hoffman. We know our legal rights.” John L. Lewis’ threat, during the General Motors strike, that “Ford and Chrysler are next,” is being carried out. The United Automobile Workers union sent to Walter P. Chrysler demands that the U. A. W. be recognized by his corporation as the sole collective bargaining agency. Union Labor Takes Hand in Navy Steel Affair D' 3TH the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization accuse steel manufacturers of collusion in re fraining from bid ding on navy steel contracts and have instructed their chiefs to ask the De partment of Justice to investigate the reasons for a short age of armor plate needed by the navy. President William Green of the A. F. of L. said he be- _ lieved- the absence Wm. Green of bids was caused by desire on the part of steel makers to avoid labor restrictions of the Walsh- Healy act. “The federation council took a very definite position,” Green said. “We could not sponsor or favor any modification of the Walsh-Healy act as it applies to those steel corpora tions refraining from bidding. “The American Federation of La bor sponsored that bill and it is a reasonable and fair measure pro viding work standards that are rea sonable and fair. We gain the im pression that there is collusion on the part of the steel corporations because no single steel company has submitted a bid.” Winant Quits as Head of Social Security Board J JHN G. WINANT, who as chair man of the social security board had a lot of trouble with certain senators over patronage and whose reappointment to membership on the board had not been confirmed by the senate, sent his res- ignation to the President. Mr. Roos evelt said Mr. Win ant was retiring to attend to .pressing private business and would be back in the federal service be fore very long. The former governor of New Hampshire has been considered a logical candidate for the post of secretary of social welfare if that department is created by congress. Succeeding Mr. Winant as chair man is Arthur J. Altmeyer,..already a member of the board. To fill the vacancy in the membership the President nominated Murray W. Latimer of New York, who has been chairman of the railroad retirement board. , L . • .. Arthur J. Altmeyer . I * Sit-Down StjiJce Worries r-'vernor of Illinois DV. HENRY HORNER of Illi- " T nois apd Martin Durkin, his* state director of labor, were making earnest efforts to bring about a peaceful settlement of a sit-down strike in the plants of the Fansteel Metallurgical corporation ai North Chicago. I’heir problem was much like that faced by Governor Murphy of Michigan in' the General" Motors, strike. The .sheriff of Lake county, armed with contempt citations, had tried to evict the strikers but he and his force of deputies were re pulsed and it was reported he would not take the sole responsibility of clearing out the plants by force. The corporation had refused to treat with outsiders who sought to represent the employees who belong to a union allied with the C. I. O. The heat had been turned off in the plants, but when the weather turned Death of Congressman T-mes P. Buchanan ' INGRESS lost one of its really ^ J useful members when James P. Buchahan of Texas died of heart disease at the age of seventy-three. He was chairman of the powerful house appropriations committee and personally was an advocate of rigid economy. The chairmanship now goes to Representative E. T. Taylor of Colorado. Nanking Offers Peace to Chinese Communists FFERING to make peace with the Chinese communists against whom it has waged war for ten years, the National government at Nanking announced the terms on which those reds would be allowed participation in national affairs. The Kuomintang’s demands are: Aboli tion of the communist army and its incorporation in the National gov ernment forces; dissolution of the Chinese communist state and its unification with the central govern ment; cessation of red propaganda opposed to Kuomintang principles, and stoppage of the class struggle which divides society into antagonis tic classes and invites mutual de struction. That the Nanking government is steadily growing stronger is made evident in the more conciliatory at titude adopted lately by Japan. A • spokesman for Hayashi’s new cab inet in Tokio indicated Japan was willing to abate its demands for simultaneous settlement of all pend ing Sino-Japanese incidents and negotiate separate settlements for each. , j Irvin S. Cobb Viceroy’s Life Attempted by. Ethiopian Bombers fTMAT Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia 4 does not yet embrace all Ethio pians was demonstrated when a khower of hand grenades was hurled at Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani in Ad dis Ababa by natives. The viceroy was only slightly injured but sev eral in his suite, including Air Gen. Aurelio Liotta and the Abuna Cyril, Coptic bishop of Ethiopia, were se verely wounded. The attack took place just before the close of cel ebrations for the birth of a son to the crown prince of Italy. The assassins escaped in the con fusion, but the army and police started on a relentless manhunt and soon had more than 2,000 natives under arrest. in k>M> 'Jklmkd about Streamlined Grandmothers. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— All along I’ve .been wonder ing what has vanished from the city landscape. I’d grown reconciled to service stations where blacksmith shops used to be and a beauty parlor where once the livery sta ble spread its fasci nating perfumes. So it couldn’t be that. All of a sudden it dawned on me. Since coming here I’ve seen mighty few 1912 - model grandmothers b a r- ring in the movies, and then, with the exception of dear May Robson, they had to wear makeup. We don’t so much mind the young girl who has gone prematurely old —we’re accustomed to her—but the old woman who has gone prema turely young, so young that she seems to be advertising the ap proach of second childhood by dressing to match it—well, that’s different. So now I know what I miss. It’s the old-fashioned lady who was neither streamlined nor a four-col or process. • • • Penalties of Old Age. I F, MENTALLY or physically, or both, a man of seventy has so slowed down he no longer can func tion usefully, what are we going to do about Secretary of State Hull and Secretary Roper, and Senator Glass and Senator Norris, and both Cal ifornia’s senators, and a sizable pro portion of the outstanding member ship of either branch of congress? And, to avoid cluttering up the words, so to speak, what disposition should have been made, at seventy, of Thomas A. Edison and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Henry Ford and Queen Victoria and Cardinal Gibbons and Von Hindenburg and Clemenceau and Professor Eliot and Carrie Chapman Catt and Mark Twain and Elihu Root and Melville W. Fuller, just to mention a few names that come to mind? Going still further back, one gets to thinking, among others of Henry Clay and Ben Franklin and Glad stone and Bismarck and Victor Hugo and Alexander Humboldt. • • • Open Season on Bears. "^■EW Brunswick is granting free licenses for sportsmen to kill bears this spring. I regard this as an error. It reduces bears, which are picturesque features of forest life, and increases amateur gunners barging through the wilderness plug ging away at every living object they see, including guides. A green horn might miss a sitting union depot—probably wolild—but he gar ners him a guide nearly every time. On all counts., the black bear should have game protection. For every shoat he steals, he eats thrice his weight in grubs and ants and bugs; and he’s a fine scavenger, for he likes his dead meat high. If he were a veteran member of a Maryland Duck club, he couldn’t like it any higher. Even so, he has been preyed on until, in parts of our north woods, he’s practically extinct. Yet, next to J a Vermont Democrat, he’s prob ably the most inoffensive mammal found in New England. * * • Tyranny of the Soviets. CEEPING through the Soviet em- ^ bargo on free speech and free press and even free thought, stories came out that the five-year plan shows signs of utter collapse and also that, in their striving for ab solute despotism, Stalin and his— for the moment—intimate lieuten ants are preparing to “liquidate” by execution or remove by a wholesale campaign of exile all such of their recent ruthless associates as might, through private ambitions, stand in the way of this latest desperate tyranny. Of course, we hear all sorts of tales about the real inside of the Russian situation, some inspired by hostile prejudice and some by sym pathetic partisans. • • • Women’s New Freedom. C'VEN in olden days, before they broke loose, women envied us every masculine perquisite we had, except the moustache cup and pos sibly chewing tobacco. Since eman cipation, seems like they've taken aver practically everything we over had. \*e bars are crowded with wom en, and the smoking rooms and the barber shops and the gambling clubs and the prize-fights and the wrestling matches and the political caucuses. If it weren’t for them, the racotracks and the night spots would languish and the cocktail mixers might get an occasional rest. Maybe, as a dist nguished scientist now arises to proclaim, they could have excelled us in our then ex clusive fields, only before this they didn’t get a chance to prove it. IRVIN S. COBB © Western Newspaper Union. FAMOUS HEADLINE HUNTER t ueet/’ CLUB << When the Cable Snapped 99 By FLOYD GIBBONS can have your wild rides on bucking bronchos, on run- -l away trains, and on automobiles gone haywire, but Warren Roop of Orange, N. J., will back an ordinary coal barge against any of them. Maybe you never thought of a coal barge ride as either fast or exciting. Neither did I. But listen to Warren’s tale. There are times, it seems, when those slow, easy-going barges can cut up and act nasty. In 1913, Warren was captain of the barge, Victor, owned by the Pea cock Coal company of Philadelphia. The Victor was a 10,000-ton ves sel, practically new, and Warren.was mighty proud of her. And maybe that’s the reason he stuck to her when many another man would have quit the job the minute those November gales began whipping the river into an inferno of water and foam. The November blow was particularly bad in 1913. A three- day northeaster had turned the water around Philadelphia into a boiling torrent. There were three barges tied up together and the Victor was on the outside. The other two barges were moored with steel cables, but the Victor’s lines were of rope, and they were wearing thin. The Rope Cables Snapped Quickly. Warren called the office and told them he’d have to have a steel cable. “We’ve got none,” they told him. Warren went back to the Victor and looked at the swollen river. Those rope cables wouldn’t last long. The thought had hardly entered his mind when the head lines parted. The Victor’s head swung away from the wharf. “The stern lines snapped like so much macaroni,” says Warren, “and the Victor started on a perilous trip down the river, hog wild on the rushing tide, and with four bridges ahead of her. There was ab solutely nothing that could be done, for the barge was not power-driven. I stood there helpless, while the driving rain, beat into my face and the storm seemed to increase in fury. “I made my way to the bow, and clung desperately to the capstan. Carried by the tide, the Victor was tearing along at a twenty-mile-an- hour clip. She was loaded with ten thousand tons of soft coal, pnd I wondered what would happen if she struck one of those bridge abut ments broadside.” Warren wasn’t long in finding out. There came a sudden shock—a thunderous, grinding roar, and the Victor shook from stem to stern. She had struck the Pennsylvania Bridge. She veered around and shot through the draw stern first. Warren yelled to the bridge tender—^thought he heard a faint reply. Then he was off, whirling down the stream again. The second bridge was only four city blocks away. Again the crash —and again the Victor shivered as if she had been torpedoed. She heeled over at a ten-degree angle and went racing through the second draw, twisting round and round like an egg shell. And on she sped—sweep ing under the third bridge—missing fen abutment by a hair—heading for the fourth and last bridge. \ Barge Went Tearing Down the River. “We swirled into the last bridge with a sickening shudder that I thought would split the barge in two,” says Warren. “Then suddenly I saw a red and green light looming up ahead of me. The police boat!” She took the Victor in tow and hauled her ashore. Warren threw a line out. But the police boat hadn’t gone ten minutes when the lines snapped again—and again the Victor was tearing away down the Schuylkill. By now the wind was blowing a veritable hurricane." Warren had to crawl along the deck to keep from "being blown overboard. He was making for the little cabin in the stern for he was numb with the cold, and he thought a jigger of rum would warm him up. But Warren never got to the cabin and the bottle he had stowed away there in a closet. At that moment there came a terrific jar. The Victor shook as it had never shaken before. Suddenly it keeled over on one side, and Warren was hurled clear off the deck. “I felt myself flying through the air,” he says. “Then I landed and my body struck the port scupper railing. Instinc tively I grabbed for it. My hand missed it, but my hand closed upon a two-inch line fastened to the midships cleat. I bounced from the railing, shot over the side, and there I swayed, now in mid-air, now hurled into the angry water.” And for a full fifteen minutes Warren hung there, dashed re peatedly against the side of the barge. He tried to climb back up that rope, but it was a slow, painful job. The barge was heading for the mouth of the Schuylkill now—heading out into the Delaware. The storm would be worse out there. Warren redoubled his efforts to climb that rope. Terrific Climb for Life. Hand over hand—one arm’s length at a time—fighting every inch of the way! It was the toughest work Warren had ever done in his life. But it was work or drown, so he kept on. “I was fully three-quarters of the way up it,” he says, “but I knew my bruised body could stand little more of that sort of punishment. I was breathless and worn. I think there was a moment in there when I lost consciousness com pletely. But if I did, I must have clung to the rope instinctively, for I didn’t fall off. “How I ever negotiated those few remaining feet to safety I will never know. What I accomplished after that must have been purely automatic. But the next thing I knew I found myself on the deck, looking over the side of the still lurching vessel.” To this day, Warren doesn’t know what gave the Victor that last wallop. He says he can only guess that some other vessel rammed her. It was quite a while later that the Victor was hurled against a dock on the New Jersey side of the Delaware river and a patrolling tug came up and stood by her all night to see that she didn’t break away again. The Victor was leaking badly by that time, and would have gone to the bottom if she’d been in mid-stream much longer. And Warren agrees that you can have your bucking bronchos. For sheer excitement, give him one of those big, sluggish coal barges in a storm. ©—WNU Service. Posed for His Statue; Sure to Be Remembered The life-size statue of a modern Elijah who had it placed beside his grave so future generations could see what he looked like is to be seen in a rural cemetery near Maple Rapids, writes a Maple Ra pids, Mich., correspondent in the Detroit Free Press. The statue is that of Elijah Els- worth, who died in 1906 at the age of seventy-seven. Ha was the last of his family and, according to local legend, conceived, the idea of the status so that his friends ancT those who came after them would not forget I ’s appearance. The name of the sculptor has been forgotten but it is said that Els- worth either sold his forty-acre farm or willed it to the artist to pay for the monument. Elsworth sat for the designing of the strange figure, which depicts him clothed in flowing robes like those which his Biblical namesake might have worn. His feet are bare and in his left hand he holds a palm branch, adding a final touch to the Biblical allusion. Romans Loved Cinnamon; Used It in Their Balms The strong fragrance of cinna mon greeting our nostrils, gives us pleasure even before we eat the food that it flavors. The human nose has always re sponded to this odor and the, ancient, Romans held it in particular es-' teem. They used it liberally in their ointments and balms as well as in their cooking, and as the ul timate mark of their aopreciation of this spice they set it apart as the incense for sacrificial and ceremo nial fires. When a god was to be appeased, or the si.ade of a departed spiHt was to be honored, it was the per fume of cinnamon wafted heaven ward on uprising clouds of smoke that carried the message. No Ro man doubted that an odor so pleas ing to man could fail to placate the Olympian dieties. The Roman media of atonement was not buns but bonfires, and their theory was that the more cin* namon consumed, the greater the incense and therefore the greater the pleasure of the diety or th« spirit who was being honored Difficult Speaking Among man’s greatest triumphs over physical disability are the “addresses” made by deaf, dumb and blind individuals to audiences of deaf, dumb or blind persons. On such occasions the “speaker” transmits his message by the pressure of his hand to an inter preter who, using the sign lan guage, conveys it to the deaf- mutes in the audience and they in turn slate it through hand pressure to their blind neighbors beside them.—Collier’s Weekly. Keep your body free of accumulat ed waste, take Dr. Pierce’s Pleas ant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Adv. Keep Health One wovild rather lose wealth than health. It requires as much wisdom to keep one as the other. 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