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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937 'mneur IVV By Edward W. Pickard © Western Newspaper Uniot. fUmm Sen. Johnson Supreme Court Packing Controversy Increases \AZITH only four votes in the W negative, the senate passed the Sumners house bill for voluntary retirement of Supreme court justices at the age of seventy on full pay. The four who opposed the meas ure to the last were Bridges of New Hampshire, Bulow of South Dakota, Johnson of Cal ifornia and Moore of New Jersey. During the debate Senator Johnson declared that “a Supreme court justice who would retire at this particular time, by virtue of the bait that was held out to him, would not be the sort of individual for whom I would have the greatest respect.” The retirement bill was favored by the President but, as Senator Pat McCarren said, was not a part of Mr. Roosevelt’s bill for enlarge ment of the court. The controversy over the latter measure grew more bitter day by day and to the sur prise of the administration, it was found that it was likely to be de feated in the house. Therefore the majority leaders decided to let the senate act first. In that body the decision rested with some twenty- five senators who had not yet an nounced their position. Mr. Roosevelt stood firm in his determination to force the bill through congress, and announced he would deliver a radio speech in its defense on March 9, the day before the one set for the start of senate judiciary committee hear ings on the bill. The President de nied a report that he would make a tour of the country in behalf of his plan. Senator George of Georgia, Dem ocrat, stepped into the fight with an assertion that the Supreme court enlargement proposal is a repudia tion of the party’s 1936 platform pledge that it would seek a clarify ing constitutional amendment if it could not attain its social-economic welfare program by legislation. In defense of the measure various members of the cabinet and heads of federal agencies began a speak ing campaign. • Vidal Quits as Head of Air Commerce Bureau 'E' UGENE VIDAL has resigned as ■*-' director of the federal air com merce bureau and says he will re enter private aviation. His conduct of the bureau has been subjected to much criticism at times and a committee headed by Senator Cope land of New York has recom mended the reorganization of the bureau. Recently the bureau and representatives of the air transport industry have differed sharply over causes of the series of major air crashes. Vidal’s successor is Prof. Fred D. Fagg of Northwestern university law school. He became associated with aviation during the war when he served as a second Meutenant with the ninety-second aero squadron in France. After the war he returned to the United States and specialized in air law. His assistant in the bu reau will be Maj. R. W. Schroeder, also of Chicago. Hughes and Jean Batten Get Harmon Awards 'X'HE International League of Avi- ators announced in Paris that Howard Hughes, the wealthy Amer ican speed flier, and Miss Jean Batten of New Zealand had been awarded the Harmon trophies as the outstanding man and woman in aviation for 1936. Hughes’ land- plane records in flights across the United States won the honor for him, and Miss Batten was rewarded for her spectacular solo flight across the south Atlantic. The league awarded the special Harmon hero medal to Jean Mer- moz, French airmail pilot who dis appeared with his crew after mak ing twenty-four crossings of the south Atlantic, carrying mail t o South America. Ernst Lehmann, chief pilot of Germany’s ocean-flying Zeppelins, was voted the world champion dir igible pilot, and Ernst Demuyter, Belgian, world champion for spher ical aircraft. Louise Thaden was voted the out standing woman flier in the United States, and it was announced that President Roosevelt would present trophies to her and Hughes. Farm Experts Approve AAA as Co-ordinator 'T'HREE specialists in agricultural * economics have been studying the modified Agricultural Adjust ment administration as it has op erated in relation to such important products as wheat, cotton, hogs and tobacco and their report, published by the Brookings institute, says it is a desirable addition to the na tion’s economic institutions. The report concludes that a per manent adjustment agency should prove useful as a central co-ordinat ing body, or board of strategy, for an occupational group composed of small and loosely organized operat ing units such as in agriculture. It recommends the continuance of the federal agency in order to assist farmers in adjusting their industry to changing technical and commer cial conditions and to cushion the shock of disasters such as drouth and flood. As for crop insurance, the belief is expressed that a system of all- risk insurance under government sponsorship would prove financially sound and beneficial to farmers if premiums and indemnities could be kept on a true actuarial basis. It insists, however, that crop insur ance should not be mixed up with the ever normal granary proposal. To the whole ever normal granary idea in general the Brookings report is unfavorable. "Peace Before Colonies,** Eden Tells Ribbentrop fOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, German ambassador to London, had a heart-to-heart talk with For eign Secretary Anthony Eden about Germany’s desire to get back some o f her lost colonies, and was told plainly that at present British public opinion was against such restor ation. Moreover, Eden said, the ques tion was not one for Britain and Ger many to settle alone but could only b e dealt with by the League of Nations. According to informed sources, the foreign secretary then went on to declare that before Great Britain even could consider returning the reich’s colonies or yielding League of Nations mandates over former German overseas possessions, the security of Europe must be estab lished by a general accord. Eden said the question of raw materials for Germany was one in which all the great powers who had control of principal raw ma terials were interested. In this con nection, he said that while the league should settle the colonial matter, he could envisage an al ternative method o f approach through diplomatic channels. President Asks State Soil Conservation Laws IN IDENTICAL letters to the gov- ' ernors of the 48 states Presi dent Roosevelt called on the state legislatures to enact soil conserva tion laws which would supplement the federal measures designed to lessen the ravages of floods and dust storms. Along with his letter the President sent the governors a copy of a model soil conservation bill pre pared by the Department of Agricul ture. This provides for the organiza tion of soil conservation districts to carry on erosion control projects with federal aid and regulations for use of land. According to the plan the sug gested state laws would have no bearing on federal soil conservation benefits, but enactment of state laws would be necessary before a state could receive any federal con servation funds. Panama Canal Tolls Rate Revision Is Proposed BOLITION of the dual system of measurement of vessels pass ing through the Panama canal was asked by the President in a special message to congress, in accord with a report of an advisory committee. Nothing definite was said about rais ing the revenue of the canal. The War department recently as sailed the present dual system of collecting tolls as permitting in equalities, manipulations, and end less reductions in charges, resulting in losses to the United States and unfair advantages to shipping in terests. At present the canal, a 54616 million dollar investment, is losing almost a million dollars a year. Manufacturers and other shippers of the Middle West have long main tained that the Panama canal toll charges are so low that the effect is to subsidize shippers of the East and West because it is cheaper to ship by water from either coast than by rail from the Middle West. The middle westerners have urged that the rates be raised to give them equal footing with seaboard competitors and also to give promise of amortiz ing the canal investment. Ex-Navy Officer Sentenced to Prison as a Spy I OHN S. FARNSWORTH, former •J lieutenant commander in the United States navy, who had plead ed guilty to charges of conspiring to sell naval secrets to Japan, was sentenced by Justice Proctor in the District of Columbia court to serve from four to twelve years in prison. Joachim von Ribbentrop Privacy for the Windsors. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— 4 Tn order to live quietly and escape as much public attention as possible—’* I’m quoting the dispatch—“the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson, following their marriage, will seek a se cluded residence in the United States.’* The idea is not new. Hoping to kill Stanford White in some very remote secret nook, Harry Thaw picked out a N e w York roof garden on the first night of a big musical comedy. And only lately one of our movie queens, striving to get away from it all, put on all her portable jew elry and went to the Broadway preview of one of those colos sal, titanic, gigantic, mastodonic superscreen epics, only to come forth complaining that one could never flee to the most private of hiding places without being an noyed by crowds. So America is certainly the right place for the newlyweds’ honey moon—where nobody will stare at them, or follow them, or yell at them or ask for autographs or pho tographs or interviews or try to tear their clothes off for souvenirs. Why, just off-hand, I can think of fully three spots where famous folks may enjoy such immunity— Mount McKinley in the winter. Death Valley in the summer and Alcatraz island all the year round. • * • Irvin S. Cobb Giving Up Earl Browder. P OR years it has been my regular 4 custom to give up something during Lent. Last year I gave up boiled turnips—I never eat boiled turnips, anyhow—and jokes about Mae West. The year before, I gave up “An thony Adverse” (at page 2,749) and nearly all Little Theater move ments. The year before I gave up Upton Sinclair as my spiritual guide in matters political. For this year I decided to give up Mr. Earl Browder. I don’t quarrel with his sincerity. He happens, though, to be the outstanding expo nent in America of the communist movement, which has done so much for human happiness and human progress in the countries that tried it, such as Russia. • • • Victory Dinners. \\T HO says New Dealers aren’t W smart business men? That $100 victory dinner means a clear profit of $94.70, figuring the food at $5 a head and the combined speeches at 30 cents, which, even if they average up to most after-din ner speeches, is indeed a high valu ation. Back in Andy Jackson’s day you you could pay off a campaign deficit with hoop poles and coon pelts. And in Thomas Jefferson’s time the strongest pack mule in Virginia couldn’t tote $100 worth of vittles. So, naturally Jeffersonian simplic ity and Jacksonian thrift will be extolled. Presumably the Republicans will follow suit with a nonvictory din ner or donation shower for John Hamilton’s hope chest. Needy guests will wear Liberty Leaguers’ old clothes, while the idea of hav ing Canada annex Maine and Ver mont will be strongly opposed. Congressman Ham Fish will speak—such being his habit—un less, for economy’s sake, they switch his name around hind part before and serve him as two courses. • • • Signs of Spring. O UT here the first sign of spring is not the birds coming back. Mainly, our birds don’t flit away. They go mute awhile, being practi cally the only residents that even temporarily refrain from bragging about the climate, or, in case of a cold snap, explaining that this is very unusual. With us the herald of spring is the surf-bather—that hardy adven turer who plunges in and comes forth as blue as an Easter egg and as deflated-looking as a toy balloon on the morning after circus day. Be cause the Pacific is never what you’d call a real cozy ocean and especially it isn’t following a chill- some winter. We make fun of the bathing suits our mothers wore. But middle-aged persons of both sexes disporting on the beach in the modern skimpies present a morbid, not to say grue some, spectacle, except to students of the adult human leg, including the slabby-shanked, the full-calfed, the bowed, the double-jointed, the buckled, the knock-kneed, the spav ined, the ankle-sprung, the heavy- hocked, the varicose-veined, the fur-bearing, etc., etc. Sometimes a fellow gets to think ing that right young babies and raw oysters are almost the only things that should ever be exhibited on the half-shell. IRVIN S. COBB ©—WNU Service. “City of Death" By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter ALL during the World war, Anita Johnson of Lynn expected to be blown up by a bomb. In those days she lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia. That, of course, is up Canada way, and from 1914 right through to the Armistice, the folks up there took precautions against air raids and attacks by the Germans. At night, no lights were allowed to face the harbor. The harbor was patrolled by boats day and night. Anita was just a kid then. She didn’t know what all those precau tions were for, exactly. But she sort of understood that one day the German airplanes would come flying over the Atlantic and start show ering bombs on the city. But nothing even remotely resembling an air raid happened in Halifax until December 6, 1917. Then something happened that was worse than a hundred air raids. The Great Halifax Explosion. You remember what happened then. You remember how two ships collided in the harbor—how one of them was loaded to the gunnels with ammunition that exploded and almost wrecked the whole town. The great Halifax explosion was one of the notable disasters of the century. And Anita was right where the big blast did some of its worst damage. Anita was ten years old when it happened, and she was in school when the big French munitions ship let go with a roar that was heard round the world. “We had just been in our class rooms for five minutes,” she says, “when suddenly we heard a series of noises. I remember looking toward a window and thinking that a car must have backfired outside; But it didn’t take long to find out that it was no car.” What Anita had heard was just a couple of little explosions that set off the big one. The real blast didn’t sound like an explosion to her at all. Teacher Knew What Was Coming. Anita may have thought those sounds were the backfiring of a car, but her teacher wasn’t fooled. She seemed to sense what was coming and told the children, “Quick! Put your heads down on your desks!” Those kids did as they were told. Then it came! Not a loud report. Those kids were too near it to hear the blast, for the schoolhouse was on a hill, not five minutes’ walk from the harbor. But all of a sudden it seemed as if the whole world were crashing down on them. AND ANITA? Well, suppose we let her tell you herself how she felt. “At that age,” she says, “my mind was, of course, full of war. ' I had my own ideas about air raids, so, as my head lay on the desk, my eyes tightly closed I felt myself traveling skyward as I expected a bomb should send me. “I kept traveling up and up until it seemed there must be some thing wrong with my means of transportation. “After all, a bomb could only send me so far, and I should be com ing back by now. I was positive I would be killed when I landed, and I could see no reason to prolong the agony, so I decided to investigate. “I opened my eyes and saw the floor. Now that floor wasn’t sup posed to have followed me, so I realized that I wasn’t up in the air at all “I hadn’t even moved, AND I COULDN’T MOVE. There were so many things on top of me. I heard some yelling and I yelled too. But that didn’t help any, so I waited.” « Most of Them Were Dead or Disabled. Anita doesn’t know how long she waited. Time didn’t mean a thing to her. She was so dazed by the shock that she didn’t feel any pain. It wasn’t until later that she even realized she was hurt. But she sat at her desk until some soldiers came into the room and pulled her out of it. “Luckily I was able to walk,” she says. “There were only five or six of us who could.” Then Anita started making her way out of the school building. “We managed to climb and crawl over things that blocked the halls,” she says. “The stairs were all gone but there was enough debris piled up where they had been to take their place. We slid and crawled down those piles and finally got outside. “I stayed there at the school for quite a while, too dazed to do any thing else. All I could see around me was fire. The soldiers kept bring ing other girls out of the school building. “Some of them were dead. Others so injured that they couldn’t be recognized. Other buildings were down all around us. “It didn’t take us long to find out what had happened. After I had been there for ten or fifteen minutes I saw my sister coming out.” Anita waited for her sister to come up. But sister walked right up to her—walked right on past her and didn’t even notice her. ^ Anita Was Covered With Blood. Anita called to her and she came back. And only then did Anita learn that she was just as unrecognizable as some of those other in jured kids she had been pitying. HER FACE—HER CLOTHING—HER WHOLE BODY—ALL OF THEM WERE COVERED WITH BLOOD. Together, she and sister started for home. They walked around wreckage, dodged live electric wires and stepped over dead bodies by the score. And when they arrived at their home they found it just another wreck like the schoolhouse and all the other buildings in the neighborhood. Anita’s head was full of bits of glass, but she managed to have it all taken out except for one piece which she says she thinks the doctor left there for a souvenir. She has a few fancy scars, too, but they’re nothing to what she might have had. “And,” she says, “I have still to find out what it feels like to be blown up in the air by a bomb.” ©—WNU Service. Sad-Eyed Saint Bernard Most Romantic Large Dog Probably the most romantic por trayed dog of all the large canine family is the sad-eyed Saint Ber nard. This dog gained its reputation down through the years as a res cuer of man in the dangerous moun tain passes of the Swiss Alps. However, the Saint Bernard did not originate amid the lofty peaks, where later it was destined to be come a hero on countless occasions. In short, this dog did not first come to light in Switzerland, asserts a writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Folks have become quite familiar with the Saint Bernard because it has frequently been pictured in a setting of snow and ice, with brandy cask suspending from a huge col lar. The eyes of the dog express sor row, probably because of the “haw” or third eyelid. These dogs are one of the giants of dogdom. When full grown, the aver age Saint Bernard weighs from 170 to 210 pounds. Ancestor of the Hen May Have Been a Jungle Fowl The ancestor of the hen is be lieved to be the jungle fowl, known as Gallas bankiva, which is found in the jungles of North India, Brah ma and Siam, states a writer in the Boston Globe. They were first men tioned in history by the Chinese em peror, Fu Hsi, who lived about 3341 B. C. One writer has stated: “From the evidence that has come to us it would appear that the sport of cock-fighting has as much responsibility for the domes tication of the fowl as the demand for food and that when once it was brought into the service of man, sport was chiefly instrumental in making the species popular.” It is not certain whether all the breeds of poultry that we know date back to this common ancestry or not. Some believe that the lighter breeds such as the Leghorns origi nated from this bankiva jungle fowl, and that the heavier breeds probab ly originated from the Malay fowl H Of IM5T TO I S IMEWIft Using Beef Fat — Pour off the fat from the pan in which the roast of beef has been cooked. Ptit it in a bowl and let cool until it starts to harden. Then beat well with a fork. Afterwards it may ba used in place of lard. • • • When cream will not whip, add the white of one egg and thorougb- • ly chill before whipping. • • • One gallon of coffee will serve 25 medium sized cups. The size ’that would accompany a dessert after a dinner. • • • Rayons should be pressed with a warm, but not hot iron. A hot iron will melt some synthetic ma terials. • • • Dishes that have contained sug ar or greasy articles should ba soaked in hot water before washing. * • • A couple tablespoons o f mo lasses will make beans brown nicely. • • • To make lace look new, squeeze in hot, soapy water, then in sold water, and then in milk to stiffen it. Press on the wrong side with a fairly hot iron. O AMOctaUd Newapapera.—WNU Sarvtea. TO EASE RHEUMATIC PAINS 15c FOR a 2 FULL DOZEN FOR 25a Demand and Get Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN He’s Always So One thing which the pessimist has on the optimist is that he isn’t nearly so apt to be disap pointed. Don't Sleep on Left Side, Crowds Heart GAS PRESSURE MAY CAUSE DISCOMFORT. RIGHT SIDE BEST. If you toes in bed and can’t sloop on right side, try Adlerika. Just ONB dose relieves stomach GAS pressing on heart so you sleep soundly. Adlerika acts on BOTH upper and lower bowels and brings out foul matter you would never believe was in your system. 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