McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, March 18, 1937, Image 2
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937
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Lewis and His C. I. O. Are
Moving Forward
Y OU’VE got to hand it to John L.
Lewis. The beetle-browed leader
ot the C. I. O. is going places and
doing things, despite several set
backs in his plans
to unionize all in
dustry. The steel
magnates are yield
ing to a great ex
tent, and the threat
of a general strike
in that industry is
fading out. With the
Carnegie - Illinois
corporation, largest
subsidiary of United
States Steel, leading
the way, the biggest
concerns in that industry are grant
ing increases in wages and the 40
hour week, and agreeing to deal
with the unions affiliated with the
C. I. O. This is the first time in
45 years that “Big Steel” has recog
nized union labor as a bargaining
agency for its employees.
Lewis and Philip Murray, chair
man of the steel workers’ organiz
ing committee, were jubilant, but
the Camegie-IUinois corporation is
sued an official statement that toned
them down a bit.
“The company will recognize any
individual, group, or organization as
the spokesmen for those employees
it represents,” the statement said,
“but it will not recognize any single
organization or group as the exclu
sive bargaining agency for all em
ployees.
“Under this policy the status of
the employee representation plan is
likewise unchanged. It will continue
as the spokesman for those of the
employees who prefer that method
of collective bargaining, which has
proved so mutually satisfactory
throughout its existence.”
The General Electric company
declared its willingness to discuss
a national collective bargaining
agreement with the United Electric
al Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate; and
the indications were that Lewis and
the Appalachian coal operators
would be able to negotiate a new
wage and hour agreement in time
to avert a coal miners’ strike.
The C. I. O. announced the forma
tion of the United Shoe Workers of
America with a nucleus of 20,000
members and went after New Eng
land’s shoe industry. Still more im
portant, Lewis and his aids let it
be known that the next target of the
C. I. O drive would be the textile
industry.
General Electric and some of the
other big concerns that yielded to a
certain extent to the demands of
the C. I. O. followed the example
of the steel companies in asserting
that they still reserved the right to
deal also with other unions or
groups of employees, and in some
cases company unions undertook to
maintain their independent posi
tions. Furthermore, President
Green and other leaders of the
American Federation of Labor en
tered wholeheartedly into the fight
against Lewis and his C. I. O. The
latter gained strength by the deci
sion of aluminum workers at the
New Kensington, Pa., plant of the
Aluminum Company of America to
renounce the federation in favor of
the C. I. O.
In Chicago there was a strike of
taxicab drivers who formed a union
and sought the support of the Lewis
organization. They demanded high
er pay.
Eight thousand employees of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu
facturing company’s Pittsburgh
plant demanded a 20 per cent raise
in wages and it was feared they
would start a strike if the demand
were rejected.
Because the Chrysler motor com
pany refused to recognize the United
Automobile Workers of America as
the sole bargaining agency for all
its employees, a strike was called
in all its major units in Detroit, and
other plants of the company were
closed because of dependence on
Detroit production. More than 50,000
workers were thus thrown into idle
ness. Vice President B. E. Hutchin
son of the corporation said it ap
peared that “the conferences into
which we entered with good faith
had only one purpose, namely, to
put this union in complete control
over all our employees, regardless
of individual wishes.”
The union also called a strike at
the Hudson Motor Car company be
cause, they asserted, officials of the
concern were stalling in negotia
tions on working conditions.
United States Gets Meats
From Foreign Nations
C'lGURES supplied by the Depart-
^ ment of Commerce show that the
live stock producers who predicted
the United States would be forced
to depend on foreign meat imports
this year were right. During Jan
uary the arrivals of foreign pork
at domestic ports set an all time
record for any month, and the im
ports of meat were far in excess of
those a year ago. This condition
is blamed on the drouth and the
four-year federal crop control pro
gram.
Meat imports in January aggre
gated 30,387,000 pounds, compared
with 19,922,000 in January of 1936
and only 7,14,000 pounds in 1935.
Dressed pork imports alone reached
the record figure of 5,580,033 pounds
compared with 2,250,389 in January,
1936, and only 265,000 in 1935.
Heavy imports of pork continued
during the first three weeks of Feb
ruary, government figures for re
ceipts at New York indicated. Dur
ing this period foreign nations
shipped 2,988,500 pounds of pork to
New York which exceeded imports
for any February.
Canada proved to be the largest
source of supply for the American
market. Imports of all kinds of
meat from Canada during the first
month of this year were approx
imately 17,102,000 pounds, an in
crease of 190 per cent over the 5,-
884,000 pounds imported in January
of last year.
Edward and Wally May
Lease Maryland Home
A CCORDING to a copyrighted ar
ticle in the Philadelphia Rec
ord, Edward, duke of Windsor, and
Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson may
live in the United
States after their
marriage early in
May. The duke,
says the Record, is
“considering most
favorably” for their
home the Cloisters,
the castle-like coun
try residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Sumner A.
Parker near Brook-
landville, Md., just
outside of Balti
more. The article
says he had options also on an es
tate in Carroll county, Maryland,
and on one on Long Island, but will
take up neither.
“The option on the Cloisters pro
vides for a year’s lease,” the news
paper says. “It gives the right to
the duke to renew the lease for two
additional years if the place proves
satisfactory. Apparently feeling
certain Edward will lease his es
tate, Parker has ordered improve
ments to meet the duke’s specifica
tions.”
Duke of
Windsor
Death of Dr. W. T. Hornaday,
American Zoologist
y\R. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY,
one of America’s foremost nat
uralists, died at his home in Stam
ford, Conn., at the age of eighty-
two. He was the first director of
the New York Zoological park, re
tiring in 1926. Doctor Hornaday was
a devoted advocate of the conserva
tion of wild life and steadily worked
for the protection of migratory fowl
and for federal game refuges.
One of the leaders of the Repub
lican party passed with the death
of Mark L. Requa in Los Angeles.
Ke was national committeeman
from California from 1932 to 1936,
was a close friend of Herbert Hoov
er and for years a dominant figure
in politics on the West Coast. During
the World war Mr. Requa was di
rector of the oil division of the Unit
ed States fuel administration and
the “motorless week-ends” he es
tablished are still remembered.
More Prominent Russians
May Be Put on Trial
ICTATOR STALIN hasn’t yet
cleaned up the Russian Com
munist party to his own satisfac
tion, and it seems probable that
more men once
prominent among
the bolshevists will
go to trial as trai
tors. Foremost
among these unfor
tunates are Alexis
Rykov, former pres
ident of the council
of people’s commis
sars, or premier,
and Nikolai Buk
harin, former editor
of the government
organ Izvestia.
These two were expelled from the
Communist party the other day on
charges of anti-party activity, and
it is believed in Moscow they and
a score of others will soon be tried
for conspiring to overthrow the
Stalin regime.
For ten years Rykov was pre
mier of the soviet union, and before
that, during the civil war, he had
the job of provisioning the Red
army. Though succeeding to Len
in’s position, he did not have his
power, for Stalin reserved that for
himself.
Alexis Rykov
President Contemplates
Another Fishing Trip
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT told
* the press correspondents that he
was planning another fishing trip
and hoped to get away late in April.
This time he is going after tarpon
in the Gulf of Mexico, and he in
tends to go to New Orleans and
there board the Presidential yacht
Potomac for a cruise along the
Texas coast.
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about
Twilight of Knee Pants.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. —
Since our diplomatic group
must shed the half-portion
breeches they’ve been wearing
at official functions abroad,
that means others present will
quit mistaking them for foot
men and start in again mistak
ing them for waiters, as for
merly.
But the under-rigging doesn’t
make so much difference anyhow.
In the best plenipo-
tentiarying circles,
it’s the top dressing
that counts — the
gold - plated cocked
hat; the dress coat
loaded with bullion;
the bosom crossed
with broad ribbons;
the lapels and the
throat latch so deco
rated with medals
that, alongside one
thus costumed, Sol
omon in all his glory
would look absolutely nude.
Irvin S. Cobb
End of the Holdout Season.
T HE baseball season couldn’t
start off properly unless a cer
tain catastrophe impended before
hand. Every self-respecting player
who made a hit last year insists
on more salary for this year, else
he’ll never spit in the palm of an
other glove. This makes him a hold
out. The manager declares the play
er will take what’s offered him and
not a cent more. This makes him
a manager.
But fear not, little one. They’ll
all be in there when the governor
or the mayor or somebody winds up
to launch the first game and tosses
the ball nearly eighteen feet in the
general direction of the continent of
North America.
• • •
Changing Style Capitals.
H OLLYWOOD and not Paris is
now the world center for fash
ions, if you can believe Hollywood—
and not Paris.
At any rate, both for men and
women, we do originate many style
creations which, in the best movie
circles, frequently make the women
look mannish and the men look ef
feminate, maybe that’s the desired
effect; an oldtimer wouldn’t know
about that.
However, there’s a new hat out
here for masculine wear which fas
cinates me. It is a very woolly hat
—a nap on it like an old family
album — and the crown peaks up
in a most winsome way, and there’s
a rakish bunch of tail-feathers at
the back which makes it look as
though it might settle down any
minute and start laying. I think
they got the idea for it from the
duck-billed platypus.
• * •
Civilizing Ethiopia.
C ONQUERED Ethiopians attempt
to assassinate their new over-
lord, Viceroy Graziani. Nobody is
killed, but several individuals get
bunged up.
So the conquerors arrest all na
tives of Addis Ababa in whose huts
weapons are found. They round up
2,000 “suspects” out of a total popu
lation of 90,000.
So promptly 1,800 of these black
prisoners are put to death in
batches. In former days the fir
ing squads would have worn them
selves to a frazzle in a rush job
of this sort, but no — well, who
would deny that the machine gun
is the crowning achievement of
white culture? Poison gas is also
much favored for pacifying rebel
lious savages, and plane-bombing
likewise has its advocates.
* • *
The Public’s Short Memory.
A FINANCIER, whose exposed de-
vices are as a bad smell in
people’s nostrils, summarily is oust
ed from his high place and the
shadows swallow up his diminished
shape. A little time passes, and, lo,
in a new setting, he bobs up, an
envied if not an exalted personage.
So-called exclusive groups welcome
him in; newspapers quote him on
this and that; he basks again, like
some sleek and overfed lizard, in
the sunshine of folks’ tolerance—
yes, the admiration of some.
No evidence that he has repented
of his former practices; no sign of
intent to repay any broken victim
of those fiduciary operations. The
private fortune which he took with
him when he quit is still all his.
And maybe there’s the secret of
this magical restoration to the fa
vor of the multitude.
IRVIN S. COBB.
©—WNU Service.
Budapest Catacombs
The Budapest catacombs date
back to the days when the Fort of
Buda was held by the Turks, mark
ing the farthest fortified advance of
the forces of Islam into Christen
dom. They were probably intended
as avenues of escape for a belea
guered garrison, but they also have
fresh water wells in them, and some
of the chambers were used os re
positories for great numbers of hu
man skulls and bones, as in the
case of the catacombs at Rome.
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“Death’s Hopper”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
T ODAY’S yarn, boys and girls, is the story of a bird who
thought fast—and acted fast. And a doggone good thing for
him, too. For if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t be here telling us the
story today. He is Frank J. Zick of Centralia, 111., and if ever a
man owes his life to the fact that he was able to keep his wits
about him, Frank is that guy.
I suppose there are plenty of folks who can keep their heads in times
of stress. I’ve written quite a bunch of adventure yarns about lads and
lassies who could still use the old noodle at a time when Old Lady Ad
venture was swinging haymakers right and left at them.
But the bird who can think in the middle of an avalanche is
a very darned good thinker, indeed.
And that is exactly what Frank did.
His Job Over the Dump Chute.
Frank is an electrician, and an electrician is the last man in the
world you’d ever expect to see in an avalanche. But then, it is always
the unexpected thing that Old Lady Adventure deals out of her thrill bag.
Frank’s job was with the Illinois Central railroad, and he worked in the
company’s shops at Centralia.
It was December 23, 1917, when, along about three o’clock in the
afternoon, Frank’s foreman, W. C. Kelley, gave him the job of repairing
a light located over the coal dump chute where the engines took on fuel
before going out on their runs.
And since this is the spot where Frank was to have his adventure,
maybe we’d better describe it in detail.
That dump chute was a long one that opened into a hole in the
floor. Cars loaded with coal were run in over that hole and the coal was
dumped into the pit to the bottom of the thirty-foot concrete shaft. Down
there a system of moving blades crushed that coal—cut it up into lumps
small enough to go into the engine fireboxes.
Incidentally, those blades would cut up anything else that fell
into that chute—like a man, for instance.
There was a grating of iron bars in the floor at the top of that chute—
just to keep men from falling through when there was no coal car stand
ing on the track over the opening. But the holes in that grating were
pretty big. The bars had to be far enough apart to let the big hunks of
coal go through, and some of those hunks were as big as a man. Those
iron bars were a big help in keeping fellows from falling through, but at
the same time it was quite possible that some time, somebody MIGHT
fall through them.
Someone Threw the Levers.
Well, sir, Frank went to the dump chute to fix that light. The fore
man had told him he wouldn’t need a ladder, and sure enough, he didn’t.
A full car of coal was standing over the chute and right under the light.
And by standing on top of the piled-up coal in that car, Frank could
reach the broken wires with ease.
The car was one of forty-ton capacity—which meant, of course, that
with the car full, there were at least forty tons of coal in it. The coal
was unloaded through a hopper in the bottom, which opened whenever
the unloading levers were thrown.
Frank was reaching up to repair the defective light when all
of a sudden SOMEBODY THREW THOSE LEVERS.
The coal started downward with a roar. And Frank was on
top of it, and right over the hopper. “Before I could jump,”
he says, “I felt myself falling, being palled through the bottom
with the coal. I tried desperately to clutch at the side of the car,
but the falling coal pulled me away again. Down I went, into
the hopper, with forty tons of coal crashing down on top of me!”
And as Frank shot into that hopper he had a terrible thought. Right
below him were the iron bars of that wide-open grating. When he got
to that, forty tons of coal, bearing down on his body, was going to force
it straight through that grating. And below that grating was a fall of
thirty feet down a concrete chute, and then those knives would be work
ing on him, cutting his body to pieces.
Frank Did Some Fast Thinking.
And that’s where Frank thought—and thought fast! It doesn’t take
you long to fall through a hopper, particularly with tons of coal on top
of you, helping you along. In fact, it took less than a second, but
Frank thought—AND ACTED—faster than that.
His only chance, he knew, was to keep from being pushed through
that grating. And the only way to escape was to spread himself out
and make himself as big as possible.
In the smallest fraction of a second, he acted. He threw his
legs as far apart as he could, stretched out one arm and covered
his face with the other. Then he hit the grating!
“Fortunately,” he says, “I landed face downward, with a big lump of
coal over my arm protecting my head. Coal by the ton came rolling
down on top of me, with a roar that drowned out every other sound in the
shop. How long I lay there before the coal finished piling up, I don’t
know. When it became quiet again I began to realize how lucky I was
to fall face downward. With my face turned toward the open chute I
could still get air.”
Under Tons of Coal.
But when Frank tried to breath he found that getting air wasn’t
going to be so easy after all. Those tons of coal pressing down on him,
flattened out his lungs so that it was all he could do to get a bit of air into
them. He couldn’t get a full breath.
For the first second or two he couldn’t get enough wind in his lungs
even to speak. But, on the second or third trial, he managed to let
out one loud cry for help. And luckily there was a workman out there
who heard him.
Inside of two minutes a dozen men were on the spot, working
frantically to get him out. Men from every department in the
shop were down under that car on their hands and knees, scoop
ing off the coal.
Frank doesn’t know how long it took to rescue him. All he remem
bers is that he collapsed as they dragged him out. But the total extent
of his injuries was a bruised body and a severe cut on the back of
his head, and in a day or two Frank was back on the job again, as
fit as ever.
©—WNU Service.
Signature Changes
Handwriting experts state that no
body has a uniform signature which
is followed all the time, and that it
is impossible to write his name
twice and have the two signa
tures the same. Most people are
gradually changing their writing
from day to day. If you don’t be
lieve that you are changing, com
pare your signature with one you
made five years ago. Handwriting
experts identify signatures by cer
tain characteristics which them-
se'.ves change in the signatures, yet
ai » always there in some form or
other.
Early Singing Schools
Singing schools were not uncom
mon in the early days. The average
rate was $1 for thirteen nights of
lessons, but of course each
pupil had to bring his share of wood
for fuel and candles for light. Crude
—these shools—says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, but they were the
forerunners of the conservatories of
our day.
Uncle Sam; Brother Jonathan
Brother Jonathan is the older ap
pellation. It was applied first by
American Loyalists from 1776 to
1783, as a term of derision, to the
Patriots; later the term was used
generally to indicate any country
bumpkin, states Literary Digest.
Jonathan Trumbull (1710-85), gover
nor of Connecticut from 1796 to 1783,
was a close friend of General Wash
ington, frequently consulted by him,
and often addressed by him as
Brother Jonathan. The term Uncle
Sam appears to have arisen about
1813, and was presumably a jocular
extension of the initials U. S.
Black Sheep in a Flock
In the range states, where sheep
are under the constant care of herd
ers, black sheep are placed in the
flocks about one to every hundred
sheep. When a herder has a thou
sand or more to watch it is compar-
ativelj’ easy for him to count quick
ly over the black sheep. If he finds
all the black ones accounted for it
is unlikely that many have strayed.
Riches of Contentment
There are those who are rich
in their poverty, because they are
content, and use generously what
they have; there are others, who
in the midst of their riches, are
really poor, from their insatiable
covetousness or profusion.—Cal-
met.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are au
effective laxative. Sugar coated.
Children like them. Buy now!—Adv.
Brought to Light
A man’s character seldom
changes—it is merely revealed.
FEEL A COLD COMING?
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Keep your head clear
Protect your throat
Build up your alkaline
reserve
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Adversity Our Teacher
We become wiser by adversity;
prosperity destroys our apprecia
tion of the right.—Seneca.
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Constancy is the complement of
all other human virtues.—Mazzini.
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