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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937 } £Aneur JM! By Edward W. Pickard © Western Newspaper Union Secretary Morgenthaa Reserve Board Supports Government Issues D RICES of government bonds * have been declining in a disturb ing manner, and the administration decided to do something to check the slump. The open market committee of the federal re serve system dis cussed the matter all one day, and next day President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Chairman Eccles of the reserve board held a long confer ence. The result was this announcement: “With a view (1) to exerting its influence toward orderly conditions in the money market and (2) to facilitating the orderly adjustment of member banks to the increased reserve requirements effective May 1, 1937, the open market committee of the federal reserve system is pre pared to make open market pur chases of government securities for the account of federal reserve banks in such amounts and at such times as may be desirable.” Purchase of government securi ties in the open market by the fed eral reserve banks—they now own $2,430,000,000 of government bills, notes and bonds—will create re serves for the member banks, and thus make it easier for them to meet the May 1 banking reserve in crease, without reducing their hold ing of government securities. This should make money easier. The security and commodity markets were given a rather severe jolt by the President when he told the correspondents that prices of durable goods, especially steel and copper, were too high and that it was time for a shift in federal ex penditure from them so as to spread the national income more evenly. He said that instead of spending fed eral funds on steel bridges, huge cement dams and similar perma nent projects, government rel’ef spending should be diverted as far as possible to dredging, construc tion of earth dams, and other proj ects which do not draw on durable goods. chairman of the operators’ delega tion at the conference, said the cost of bituminous coal at the mine would go up at least 25 cents a ton. The miners won a raise of 50 cents a day, but lost their demand for a 30-hour week. The 35-hour week, or 7 hours a day and 5 days a week, which was in effect under the old contract, will remain. Also the men failed to get two weeks’ vacation with pay and a guaranty of 200 days of work a year. The strike in the Ford plant in Kansas City came to an end and the members of the United Auto mobile Workers were boasting of gaining a victory over the imper turbable Henry. But the advantage they won was slight and temporary, and the battle with Ford is yet to be fought. Three Cornered Contest Coming in Oil Fields 'T' HERE is going to be a lively -*• three-cornered struggle in the southwestern oil fields. The C. I. O., whose plans in that direction were mentioned in this column not long ago, has begun the campaign to or ganize the workers in the Texas field. Harvey C. Fremming of Washington, president of the Inter national Assocyation olf Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers and close friend of John Lewis, is in charge of the operations. A rival movement for members and pres tige will be started in a few days by the A. F. of L. Gov. James V. Allred of Texas has given notice that he will use ‘every resource” against sit-down strikes, which he declares are un lawful and un-American. He added: “My investigation convinces me that sit-down strike organizers have invaded Texas. Sit-down methods do not represent the desires of an overwhelming majority of organized labor in this state.” Irvin S. Cobb Florida Ship Canal Bobs Up Again 'T'HAT Florida ship canal project, which would cut the state in two, has come to the fore again and probably will have to be fought out once more in congress. Two re ports on the matter have just been filed. One, from Maj. Gen. Edward M. Mark ham, chief of engi neers of the army, says the federal government would be justified in com pleting the project at a cost of $197,- 921,000. The other, from the river and harbor board, says the canal is eco nomically unsound. Neither report was made public at once, but the War department said General Markham recommend ed an Atlantic-Gulf waterway 33 feet deep and 400 feet wide. The canal was started once by President Roosevelt, but in 1936 con gress failed to appropriate addi tional money and work was stopped. The fight in congress against the funds was led by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg who contended the gi ant seaway was unjustified econom ically. Radicals Stage Sit-Down in Minnesota Senate EARLY 1,000 Farmer-Labor zealots, apparently inspired by pointed remarks of Gov. Elmer A. Benson, began a sit-down siege in the Minnesota state house in an effort to force the state legislators to enact Gov. Benson’s program to soak the rich and petition congress to pack the Supreme court of the United States. They chose the senate chamber for their legislative demonstration. They chose this chamber because the senate, conservative in its eco nomic and political makeup, suc cessfully has balked the governor’s radical program. The house has been more pliant. In their sitdown siege the lobby ists had the apparent blessing, if not the indirect encouragement, of Governor Benson. Maj. Gen. Markham Trial Without Jury Upheld by High Court I N A decision denying the right of trial by jury in criminal cases where the maximum punishment is not more than three months in pris on, the Supreme court divided 7 to 2, with two justices whom the New Dealers most frequently denounce by name coming to the defense of human liberties. Justice James Clark McReynolds, who has held against the New Deal in all except tWo important cases, wrote the dissenting 'opinion in the jury trial case, and. Justice Pierce Butler, author of fhe opinion in validating New York ,state’s mini mum wage act last year, concurred with him. The dissenting opinion de clared that ‘.‘constitutional guaran tees ought not to be subordinated to convenience,; hdr* denied j upon questionable precedents or uncer tain reasoning.” b; ; * Miners’ Strike Endp and ( Wage Scale Is Signed . B ITUMINOUS co^l miners were on strike only one day, for the new wage scale, providing an $35,- 000,000 increase of pay for the 400,- 000 men, was signed by representa tives of the operators and the United Mine Workers of America. Of course the consumer will have to pay for this wage boost. Charles O’Neill, president bf the United Eastern Coal Sales corporation and Army Day Marks America’s Entry Into the War D ROCLAIMED by the President, * congress and all governors, Army day was celebrated through out the nation on April 6, the twen tieth anniversary of America’s en trance into the World war. The keynote of Army day, ac cording to Rear Admiral Reginald R. Belknap, U. S. N. retired, gen eral c> , '- : rman of the day, is “Peace through preparedness.” “We who have seen the terrible destruction wrought by war want to do all in our power to avoid another war,” he said. “The best way to do this, we believe, is by having a strong, well-trained, well-equipped army and navy. So strengthened, an aggressor nation will think twice before trying to draw us into war.” The best way to achieve this pre paredness, he added, is by carry ing out the provisions of the Nation al Defense act of 1920, in appropri ations, personnel, material and training. He also urged continuing the navy at full treaty strength, fully manned, actively trained and with an adequate trained reserve. Norris Still Plans for National Power Authority CENATOR GEORGE NORRIS of v ^. Nebraska is intent on his plan for the creation of a national power authority similar to the Tennessee V a 11 e y authority, and he intends to in troduce a bill for this during the pres ent session of con gress. This he pn-. noun^ed after con- ferrjjig with the President, and he intimated the idea was approved by Mr. Roosevelt. He has experts at work investigating its fea sibility and mapping out the details. “All rivers of the United States should be controlled by the natior if their nature is Subject to it by na tional flood control policy,” the sen ator said. “Whenever the river will develop power, we should take ad vantage of it. I’ve always regarded power ns a subsidiary or by-product of flood control.” Sen. Norris on M 3kwvkd ahoiW The Origin of Sitdowns. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. — With the Barnum show there once was an elderly lady ele phant named Helen. Now, Helen had wearied of traipsing to and fro in the land. Probably she figured she’d seen everything anyhow. So each fall, when the season ended, she went rejoicing back home to Bridgeport, Conn. Nobody ever knew the date of depar ture the next spring. There was no more bustle about winter- quarters on that morning than for weeks past. But always, when the handlers en tered the “bull barn” to lead forth the herd, they found Helen hun kered down on her voluminous haunches, which, under that vast weight, spread out like cake batter on a hot griddle. She would be uttering shrill sobs of defiance. And neither prodding nor honeyed words could budge her. So they’d wrap chains around her and two of her mates would hitch on and drag her bodily, she still on her rubbery flanks, aboard a wait ing car. She’d quit weeping then and wipe her snout and accept what fate sent her. So please don’t come telling me that the sit-down strike is a new notion or that somebody in Europe first thought it up. Thirty years ago I saw my lady elephant friend, Hel en, putting on one, all by her four- ton self. ♦ • * Taxes and More Taxes. J UST when everybody is taking comfort from the yodelled prom ises of that happy optimist. Chair man Harrison of the senate finance committee, that the government will be able to get by for 1937 with out asking this congress to boost taxes, what happens? Why, in a most annoying way, Governor Eccles of the federal re serve board keeps proclaiming that, to make treasury receipts come anywhere near meeting treasury disbursements throughout the year, he’s afraid it’s going to be neces sary to raise the rates on incomes and profits higher than ever. And meanwhile state governors and civic authorities scream with agony at the bare prospect of any reductions in Uncle Sam’s allot ments for local projects. A balanced budget would seem to be like Santa Claus, something everybody talks about but nobody ever expects to see. * * • Self-Determination. tpORMERLY the states jealously * guarded their sovereign per quisites. Once—but that was so long ago many have almost forgot ten it—they fought among them selves one of the bloodiest civil wars in history over the issue of states’ rights. Now we see them complacently surrendering to federal bureaus those ancient privileges—and may be, after all, that’s the proper thing to do, if in centralized authority lies the hope of preserving a republican form of government. Still, one wonders what English men would do under like circum stances, since Englishmen are fussy about their inheritance of self-de termination. Perhaps the distinc tion is this: In democracies there exists the false theory that all men are born free and equal. So the Englishman insists on having his freedom, which is a concrete thing, and laughs at the idea cf equality. Whereas, the American abandons his individual freedom provided he may cling to the fetish of equality. Yankee tweedledee and British tweedledum may be brothers under the skin, but they have different skin diseases. The Parole Racket. I T IS astonishing but seemingly true that, of five young gang sters recently caught red-handed in a criminal operation, not a single one was a convict out on parole. Is there no way to bar rank amateurs from a profession calling for prior experience and proper background? And can it be that the various pa role boards over the union are not turning loose qualified practitioners fast enough to keep up with the de mand? Maybe we nCed self-open ing jails. Those sentimentalists who abhor the idea that a chronic offender be required to serve out his latest sen tence should take steps right away to correct this thing before it goes too far. Our parole system must be vindicated if it costs the lives and property of ten times as many innocent citizens a? at present. IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. Festival Bills Elephant Fight Elephant tug-of-wars, in which the beasts locked tusks and some times struggled for hours, were a feature of a festival recently held near Calcutta, India. “Man With the Knife" 9 By FLOYD GIBBONS TTERE is a story sent to me by Eva Halm of Chicago—the A story of a little girl whose impulsive act saved her from one danger, only to throw her into another one. Eva has grown up in the meantime, but back in 1907, when she was just a kid, her dad was superintendent of the trolley car lines over a large area in Chicago. He spent the day going from one station or car barn to another, and at night, after dinner, he usually drove down to the biggest station and checked over the others by telephone. Those were the horse and buggy days. Eva’s dad drove a spirited horse hitched to a light rubber-tired runabout, and usually when he went to the main station in the evening someone in the family rode with him. On this particular night it was Eva who was to go driving with him. There had been some labor trouble on the line and /some of the men were out to “get” the superintendent. As a result, he carried a loaded ’38 revolver in a leather holster in his hip pocket. Dad Took His Gun Along. He slipped the gun in his pocket that night as he was starting out— and then buttoned his coat and overcoat over it.’ Eva noticed that. She knew, too, that there were a couple of pretty tough customers among the men who were “after” her dad, and she asked him why he didn’t keep that gun in his over coat pocket where he could get at it more easily. But dad just laughed at her. They got into the carriage and drove along. The station he was heading for was quite a distance away and about three miles from home Eva Used the Whip and the Horse Plunged. they had to cross the Belmont avenue bridge over the north branch of the Chicago river. The bridge was darkest in the middle, for only the arc lamps at either end gave it light. They had just about reached that darkest point when a roughly dressed man stepped out from behind one of the bridge uprights. Eva’s dad had to pull up the horse. Often, when he couldn’t be reached by phone, a pitman was sent from a nearby station to give him a message at this point. Tot's Party Frock Is Easy to Crochet Pattern 1338 She’ll be proud of this dainty, crocheted frock, in a clover leaf pattern. In one piece, gathered to a contrasting yoke, it’s effective in string or mercerized cotton. Pattern 1388 contains directions for making the dress in sizes 4 to 8 (all given in one pattern); an illustration of it and of all stitches used; material requirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Foreign Words ^ and Phrases , ^ % Polisson. (F.) A rascal. Au grand serieux. (F.) Ir dead ly earnest. Latet.anguis in herba. (L.) A snake lurks in the grass. Maladie du pays. (F.) Home sickness. Ut supra.- (L.) As above. Nuit blanche. (F.) A sleepless night. Constipated 30 Years “For thirty years I had stubborn constipation. Sometimes I did not go for four or five days. I also had awful gas bloating, headaches and pains in the back. Adlerika helped right away. Now I eat sausage, bananas, pie, any thing I want and never felt better. I sleep soundly all night and enjoy life." -—Mrs. Mabel Schott. If you are suffering from constipation, sleeplessness, sour stomach, and gas bloating, there is quick relief for you in Adlerika. Many report action in thirty minutes after taking Just one dose. Adlerika gives complete action, cleaning your bowel tract where ordi nary laxatives do not even reach. Dr. H. L. Shoub, A'etr York, rc ports i “In addition to intestinal cleansing, Adlerika checks the groseth of intestinal bacteria and colon bacilli." Give your bowels a real cleansing with Adlerika and see how good you feel. Just one spoonful relieves GAS and stubborn constipation. At all Leading Druggists. There Were Two of Them. He brought the horse to a stop as he approached the man and said. “Well, what is it?” But at that same moment another roughly dressed figure stepped from the other side of the bridge and caught hold of the horse’s head. For a minute no one spoke. Then, suddenly it dawned on Eva that these couldn’t be men from the station. If they were, why didn’t they answer? And if they weren’t—well—then they must be a couple of those fellows who were trying to “get” her dad. And then Eva saw something else. The fellow up front by the horse’s head had something in his hand which gleamed dully in the dim light. Eva Had an Inspiration. A knife! Right then was when Eva acted on impulse. She jumped to her feet, reached over the reins in her dad’s hands and snatched the whip from its socket. As she grabbed that whip she thought of the gun in her dad’s pocket, buried under those buttoned-up coats where he couldn’t get at it. Then she raised the whip and brought it down on the horse’s back with all her strength. The horse reared and plunged. The man at his head jumped aside, cursing. The carriage moved back and forth, and Eva fell sideways. Just in time her dad reached out and caught her. “But for his quick action,” she says, “I would have been thrown to the bridge and probably knifed to death.” But that move of her dad’s was disastrous. In reaching out for her he had slacked up on the reins and lost control of the horse. The horse got the bit in its teeth and away it went. But at last dad pulled the horse up and turned it into the street lead ing to the station. When it was all over he turned to her and said: “You must never do that again. You might have been killed.” But Eva still wonders what would have happened if she hadn’t done it ©—WNU Service. Love of Card Games Is Noted in Briton’s Talk The Briton’s love of card games is reflected in his speech, says a writer in London Tit-Bits Magazine. “That’s the card,” we say when a person does the correct thing, i. e., he has played the right card. We call a sharp fellow “a knowing card”; a man of personality “a great card.” “A queer ca’-d” de scribes someone we don’t quite un derstand, or don’t quite trust. “When in doubt play trumps” is advice to play the bold game in life—to go all out for a win. We say of a successful man ihat he “played his cards well.” T o “throw up the cards” is to cease to struggle. When the other fellow ap pears to hold every advantage, we complain that he “holds all the cards.” A queer thing about u pack of cards is that it is like a calendar. There are 52 cards in a pack, and 52 weeks in a year. There are four suits in a pack and four seasons in a year. There are thirteen cards in each suit, and thirteen weeks in each quarter. Counting the Aces as 1, the Knaves as 11, the Queens as 12, and the Kings as 13, the pips in a pack total 364. Add 1 for the Joker and we get 365 pips in a pack. Different countries use different symbols to represent the four suits. Germany used to use Leaves, Hearts, Bells and Acorns. In Spain, Columbine, Roses, Pinks and Rab bits have now changed to Espados (swords), Copas (chalices), Dineros (money), Bastos (cudgels or clubs). French cards have a Pique (pike- man), Choeur ( choir-man), Car- riaux (tiles or artisans), Trefle (clover or farmer). Our English “Spades” are a mix ture of the French symbol, a pike, and the Spanish name, espados; “Clubs” picture the French trefoil, but adopt the Spanish name; “Hearts” is a corruption of the French Choeur into Coeur. Unique Islamic Custom For about 1,200 years, & unique Islamic custom has been practiced in Muna, Arabia. As enjoined in the Koran, every Mohammedan passing through the town on his way to Mecca, has stopped at the rock pile and thrown 49 stones at Satan. “Satan’s Abode,” indicated by a sign, says Collier’s Weekly, is the official target and gentlemen who playfully hurl rocks in other direc tions are arrested. Ale-Wives in England Centuries ago, we read of Alreck, of Hordoland, choosing Geirhild as his wife on account of her skill in brewing “noppy” ale. Ale-wives held a monopoly in the Peer trade in England 509 ypars ago, says Pearson’s London Weekly Magazine, and so brisk was their trade that they were forbidden to sell ale on London bridge because they ob structed the traffic. \ Duty and Contentment Be sure no man was ever dis- : contented with the world who did I his duty in it.—Southey. 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