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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1937 JVews Review of Current Events JAPS TAKE OVER PEIPING May Return Manchu Emperor . . . Amendments Limit Housing Bill . . • Green Dictates Wage-Hour Measure “^LcJcaiLi v'^ "^SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Peiping Gets "Protection" «« A LTHOUGH Nanking is pre- paring to wage a destructive war, do not be afraid. “The Japanese army will protect you/’ Leaflets contain ing these words flut tered from the skies to come to rest in the hands of resi dents of the ancient Chinese capital, Peiping. As the air planes which spread the news hummed overhead, a brigade „ of 3,000 Japanese Emperor to com . Kang Ten mand of Maj. Gen. Torashimo Kawabe marched through the city, taking possession of it in the name of Tokyo. What would be the result of the new Japanese domination apparent ly begun by Maj. Gen. Kawabe was a matter for speculation. Chinese residents, long since convinced that the inevitable would happen, took it calmly enough. Some of them 'voiced their belief that the former boy emperor of China, Tsuan Tung (Henry Pu-Yi), since 1934 Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, would re turn to his throne in Peiping. He would then rule over North China as well as Manchukuo, as a puppet for whom Japan would pull the strings. Japanese control was extended in Tientsin when the Japanese co commissioner of the Chinese salt administration announced he had taken over the administration’s Tientsin district. This includes the Ghanglu salt fields, with production valued at more than $3,000,000 a year and formerly a government monopoly. New York's Share Cut CENATOR ROBERT F. WAG- NER’S (Dem., N. Y.) $726,000,- 000 housing bill was passed by the senate, 64 to 16, but the senator scarcely recognized it when his fel lows were done with it. Senator Wagner and other admin istration leaders struggled frantical ly to defeat an amendment by Har ry F. Byrd (Dem., Va.) limiting the cost of housing projects to $1,000 a room or $4,000 a family unit. Result of the struggle: The upper house, which originally passed the amend ment 40 to 39, defeated a motion to reconsider by 44 to 39. The bill originally called for ex penditures up to $1,500 a room or $7,000 a family unit. Opponents conceded that the Byrd amendment would prohibit the building of the type of houses Senator Wagner had in mind in New York City, but con tended that $4,000 was enough to spend for housing one family. Per sons of extremely low income could not pay the rent anyway, they ar gued. Some senators charged that the Wagner bill was designed to afford the bulk of the housing appropria tion to New York. This was pre vented by the adoption of an amend ment by Millard E. Tydings (Dem., Md.) which limited the share of any one state to 20 per cent. This would permit New York no more than $140,000,000 of the $700,000,000 in loans, and no more than $4,000,000 a year of the proposed $20,000,000 in rent subsidies. Senator Tydings al so obtained adoption of an amend ment which would require local housing project ^sponsors to pay 5 per cent of the total cost and 5 per cent of the rental subsidies. Where Was John L. Lewis? TlT’ILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, emerged as the administra tion’s favorite son in matters affect ing labor as he was permitted vir tually to write his own amendments to the house version of the wages and hours bill. The senate had passed the bill, 56 to 23, only after President Roosevelt had called Green to the White House and per suaded him to give lukewarm ap proval to the measure, with the un derstanding that the house would amend it. Southern Democrats in the senate, led by Pat Harrison of Mississippi, bitterly opposed the bill, but their motion to recommit it to committee was defeated, 48 to 36. The same vigorous opposition was expected from Dixie’s representatives in the house labor committee, but the “Green amendments’’ (so called be cause of the federation president’s complete domination of the commit tee meeting) patched up the essen tial differences. The bill, as passed by the senate, would create a labor standards board empowered to set minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour and maximum work weeks down to 40 hours. The house committee had intended to extend the limits to per mit the board to set wages at 70 cents and hours as low as 35. Un der Green’s influence the house com mittee decided to accept the senate provisions on this part of the meas ure, but the scope of the board was greatly curtailed by an amendment A. F. of L’s WILLIAM GREEN ... leaves White House with a smile. which would permit it to deal only with employers who maintain •’sweatshops” and “starvation wages” through fake collective bar gaining agencies. The “Green amendments” in brief are: 1. Board jurisdiction over wages and hours in any industry only if it finds that collective bargaining agreements do not cover a sufficient number of employees or facilities for collective bargaining are inef fective. 2. Acceptance of wage-hour stand ards established by collective bar gaining in any occupation as prima facie evidence of appropriate stand ards in that occupation. 3. Board cannot alter wage-hour standards already prevailing in oc cupation in community considered, or establish classification in any community which affects adverse ly the prevailing standards in the same or other communities. 4. Industries are protected against prison-made goods. 5. “Label provision” of original act is eliminated to protect indus try from what is considered a nui sance. 6. Government work is removed from the board’s control and placed under the Walsh-Healey act. Chairman Mary T. Norton (D., N. J.) of the labor committee indicat ed the bill would be brought up in the house under a special rule and speedily passed. —+— Senate O. K.'s Court Reform A LL that was left of the admin- ** istration’s sweeping court re form proposals passed the senate in an hour without a record vote. This was the procedural reform bill for the lower federal courts. It was in the nature of a substitute for the Sumners bill in the house of repre sentatives, and went back to the house for what was expected to be a peaceable conference. Vice President Garner whipped the measure through, even though Senators McDuffey (Dem., Pa.) and Lewis (pern.. 111.) loudly protested that they wanted to go on record as opposed to it. The bill, as summarized by Sen. Warren R. Austin (Rep., Vt.), who wrote most of it, included: Provision making it the duty of the District court, in any constitu tional suit between private citizens, to notify the Department of Justice that upon a showing by the attorney general that the United States had a probable interest the government would be made a party to the suit. Permission for the senior circuit judge to reassign district judges within that circuit for the purpose of clearing congested dockets. (If necessary, a judge may be trans ferred from one circuit to another.) Permission for direct appeal to the Supreme court, if 30-day notice is given, from any decision of a District court against the constitu tionality of an act. Requirement that all suits for in junction against the operation of federal statutes to be heard by a three-judge court, including at least one circuit court of appeals judge. —-K— Memorial for Will Rogers npHE memory of Will Rogers, A America’s lately beloved gum- chewing philosopher, will be en shrined in fitting manner near his Claremore, Okla., home after the President signs a bill which has now been passed by both houses of con gress. It appropriates $500,000 for a memorial to Will; the state of Ok lahoma also will be required to fur nish $500,000. Mrs. Rogers will donate the site for the building. Architects will compete for the right to design it. While nothing has been definitely de cided as yet, it is held probable the memorial will be a museum of In dian life. Rogers was part Indian. Advertising’s Value. ERNALIS, CALIF.—On the train a charming young woman said: “I always read the advertisements whether I want to buy anything or not. Do you think I’m crazy?” I told her she was the smartest young woman I knew. If I were asked to describe the race in any by gone period since printer’s ink came into common use, I’d turn to the ad vertising in the pa pers and periodicals of that particular age. For then I’d know what people wore and what they ate and what their sports were and their follies and their tastes and their, habits; know what they did when they were healthy and what they took when they were sick and of what they died and how they were buried and where they expected to go after they left here—in short, I’d get a pic ture of humanity as it was and not as some prejudiced historian, writ ing then or later, would have me believe it conceivably might have been. I’d rather be able to decipher the want ad on the back side of a Chal dean brick than the king’s edict on the front—that is, if I craved to get an authentic glimpse at ancient Chaldea. • • * Irvin S. Cobb Running a Hotel. T ’VE just been a guest at one of the best small-town hotels in Amer ica. I should know about good ho-' tels because, in bygone days, I : stopped at all the bad ones. j The worst was one back East- built over a jungle of side tracks. I wrote a piece about that hotel. It had hot and cold running cock roaches on every floor and all-night switch-engine service; the room towels only needed buttons on them to be peekaboo waists, but the roller towel in the public washroom had, through the years, so solidified that if the house burned down it surely would have been left standing. The cook labored under the delusion that a fly was something to cook with. Everybody who’d ever registered there recognized the establishment. So the citizens raised funds and tore down their old hotel, thereby making homeless wanderers of half a million resident bedbugs; and they put up a fine new hotel which paid a profit, whereas the old one had been losing money ever since the fall of Richmond. A good hotel is the best adver tisement any town can have, but a bad one is just the same as an extra pesthouse where the patients have to pay. Poor Lo’s Knowledge. COMETIMES I wonder whether ^ we, the perfected flower of civ ilization—and if you don’t believe we are, just ask us—can really be as smart as we let on. Lately, out on the high seas, I met an educated Hopi, who said to me: “White people get wrong and stay wrong when right before their eyes is proof to show how wrong they are. For instance, take your de lusion that there are only four direction points—an error which you’ve persisted in ever since you invented the compass, a thing our people never needed. Every Indian knows better than that.” “Well then,” I said, “how many are there, since you know so much?” “Seven,” he said, “seven in all.” “Name ’em,” I demanded. “With pleasure,” he said. “Here they are: north, east, south, west, up, down and here.” Of course, there’s a catch in it somewhere, but, to date, I haven’t figured it out. The Russian Puzzle. T T NDER the present beneficent ^ regime, no prominent figure in Russia’s government, whether mil itary or civil, is pestered by the cankering fear which besets an offi cial in some less favored land, namely, that he’ll wear out in har ness and wither in obscurity. All General So-and-Soski or Com missar Whatyoumaycallovitch has to do is let suspicion get about that he’s not in entire accord with ad ministration policies and promptly he commits suicide—by request; or is invited out to be shot at sunrise. To be sure, the notion isn’t new. The late Emperor Nero had numer ous well-wishers, including family relatives, that he felt he could spare and he just up and spared them. And, in our own time, A1 Capone built quite an organization for tak ing care of such associates * as seemed lacking in the faith. ’Twas a great boon to the floral design business, too, while it lasted. But in Russia where they really do things—there no job-holder need ever worry about old age. Brer Stalin’s boys will attend to all nec essary details, except the one, for merly so popular in Chicago, of sending flowers to the funeral. IRVIN S. COBB. «►—WNU Service. Crochet Her a Chic Little Dress By CHERIE NICHOLAS O NE, two, three!—here they are, a trio of pretty little crocheted frocks worn by a trio of pretty little girls as pictured. And do little folk of feminine gender love the dresses that doting mothers and big sisters crochet for them! Well, just show this picture to wee daughter or sis ter or niece or little girl neighbor and we wager that their opinion on the subject will make elders seek crochet hooks, yarns and books of instructions instanter, forthwith and without delay. These cunning frocks are sup posed to be party dresses—that’s the way the designers thereof listed them on fashion’s program, but for our part charming as any one of them would be to wear to a party, we believe your little girl will be wanting to wear her crochet dress every day. Why not? The idea of general wear will be found perfectly practical, workable and demonstra ble for it is crocheted of fast dye mercerized cotton yarn that washes like new and is so much easier to launder than a dress that has to be ironed-each time. Serviceable, too —almost no wear-out to it! Speaking of smart styling in cro chet fashions for little folks, never have professionals paid so much at tention to this angle as during re cent years. The result speaks for itself in the three models pictured. There is the charmingly styled prin cess worn by little Miss Six-Year- Old (possibly she may be seven); anyway the dress shown to the left reaches a new high in swank so far as children’s fashions are con cerned. It is crocheted of mercer ized cotton, and we leave it to you to visualize it in the color your little girl happens to like best. It has puff sleeves as stylish as can be and is buttoned all the way down the front with crocheted buttons a la smartest mode. It really does not take long to crochet this dress and it is delightful pick-up work to inspire you to “improve each shin ing hour.” Little Two-Year-Old, who stands centered in the foreground, has on a fluffy-ruffle type of dress with bows on the shoulders and a ribbon run through the waistline of the very full skirt. It is just the sort of be-ribboned dress that makes an adorable child look more so. Why not make two of ’em, one for Sun- day-go-to-meetin’ dress and one for everyday service? Party days for a small girl mean ribbons and lace, cambric tea and ice cream and cake. What could be nicer to wear at such festive times than the lacy dress which the cunning youngster to the right is wearing? It is crocheted of deli cate mercerized cotton quite to this miniature queen’s taste, you may rest assured. It will also prove a boon to mother for it is dependably serviceable for all its fragile ap pearance, will wash, of course, and all that has to be done is to pull the lacy crochet into shape here and there caressingly with your fingers —doesn’t require the least mite of ironing. Here’s a suggestion or two to mothers who are making over dresses for little daughter’s play and school wear. Leading Paris couturiers are combining crochet and various materials. The idea would work out admirably in “fix ing over” children’s clothes. A cloth or sturdy linen dress that needed lengthening could be made attrac tive by adding desired inches of plain crochet done either in the iden tical shade of the fabric it is to trim or contrasting it. Make a matching crochet belt of the mer cerized cotton and carry out the idea further with crochet buttons and perhaps decorative pockets of the crochet. & Western Newspaper Union. NEW SLEEK BLACKS By CHERIE NICHOLAS To all appearances much is “go ing black before the eyes” of fash ion. At any rate there is nothing in the way of a frock so outstanding in early fall style showings as sleek black gowns of either gleaming sat in or of slinky, slenderizing, flatter- ing-to-the-figure jersey which may be either a pure silk weave or of synthetic texture. The vogue for this type of frock is pronounced. Deft drape effects predominate in the fashioning of these stylish all black gowns somewhat after the manner pictured. Top them with a tall draped toque or one as shown. NEW FABRIC TRENDS FOR AUTUMN SEASON Trends in the silks and rayons which Paris fabric houses have pre pared for the fall costume collec tions: New plain silks have a softer, more velvety touch, a duller surface than before. Rayons of intricate weaving are dull, pebbled, “crushed,” have fine matelasse patternings, Ottoman ribs, plain or fancy, and many nov elty surfaces obtained by uneven yarns. Serge or twill weaves appear in delicate silks or rich metals. Neon lights have inspired a whole group of lames made with colored metal yam, also new changeable, mosaic, cashmere and jewel effects using the same colored metal. Novelty velvets are made with pile that is completely dull or has only a medium luster. Also with printed gold backs or satin backs. Metals and lames are finely pat terned or quite plain, elaborate in texture and often have small Pais ley, Persian, Byzantine, Oriental and Eighteenth century designs. Capes Replace Jackets in Early Ensembles for Fall First autumn ensembles often re place coats or jackets by capes, and are trimmed with sleek, flat furs. One such is Martial and Armand’s three-piece costume of brown wool, already ordered by several smart women. The skirt features front fullness and is topped by a leopard gilet which shows beneath a hip- length circular case of the brown wool finished with a tiny flat collar of leopard skin that is knotted un der the chin. Pleats for Autumn Autumn will be a season to wear box-pleated numbers with built-up waistlines, and the newest manner of raising a waistline is to build the skirt up at the sides only. "Way Back When By JEANNE FARLEY WAS ONCE A BX)K- ' KEEPER ■^OT everyone can be an individ- ualist ana blaze his own trail to fame. Some of us are better fit ted for falling into line as part of an organization. James A. Farley’s rise in politics is an example of the rewards which may come to the good lieutenant. Farley was born in 1889 in Grassy Point, N. Y., a small village on the Hudson river. There were five chil dren, and the father was a saloon keeper. When Jim Farley was ten years old, his father died and his mother started a combination sa loon and grocery store. The boy often tended bar or worked as gro cery clerk on the other side of the store. Through these jobs he learned to meet the public, be friendly with strangers and s.xow sympathy for their problems. He attended the Stony Point high school and the Packard commercial school in New York. Graduating in 1906, he was employed as a bookkeeper. Jim was always interested in poli tics; and, before he was old enough to vote, he called house-to-house, getting out the Democratic vote in Stony Point. His first political job was as town clerk of Stony Point. He was epur- teous to all, jolly, a hale-fellow-well- met sort of man who had a pat on the back for everyone. Through Al fred E. Smith, whom he helped elect governor of New York, and Frank- Un D. Roosevelt, for whom e was faithful lieutenant in the President- tial campaign, Farley forge© stead ily ahead. He won the top political plum in the United States, post master general. • • • POET WAS ONCE A LAWYER R EAD this story of the conven tional lawyer who became one of our most famous poets. Not a dreaming, unsuccessful lawyer, but a man with a profitable and impor tant law practice, important enough to associate with Clarence Darrow at one time A busy man of com merce who became a writer of songs and poems, sonnets, essays and drama! Edgar Lee Masters was born in the little town of Garnett, Kan., in 1868. His father was a descendant of old Virginia stock; his mother, the daughter of a Methodist minister and descendant o. Israel Putnam o! American Revolutionary fame. The family moved to Petersburg, 111., and later to Lewistown, where Ed gar was raised in the typically re spectable atmosphere of small town America. He did newspaper work for the local weekly, learned the printing trade, md studied law under his father, who wr.s one of the leading lawyers in the state. In 1891 Ed gar Lee Masters was admitted t* the bar and practiced in partnership with his father. The following year ht opened his own office ir Chicago where he was a highly successful lawyer until 1920. But even in high school, Edgar Lee Masters was interested in writ ing and he never forgot his am bitions. He contributed to the Wa- verly Magazine of Boston and the Saturday Evening Call of Peoria; he wrote poems for a Chicago news paper. His first oook, published in 1898, while he was struggling to es tablish a practice in Chicago, was called simply “A Book of Verses.” “Songs and Sonnets” followed, but none of them attracted much at tention until his “Spoon River An thology” was published in 1915. Those of you who lament your unexciting lives and yearn for op portunity, look at his dual person ality, the poet who has won such high awards in the realms of lit erature. ©—WNU Service.