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r s, McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937 nfL'- nn Jbb 3lrdnkd about Belief for Aliens. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—If an American were depend ent on public charity in any continental country, he’d be out of luck and out of that country, too, as quickly as they could him out. If, in addition, he openly attacked the government of that country, he’d still be out of luck because he’d be in jail. Hundreds of thou- mmm sands of aliens are on relief here. Many of them slipped across ttye borders through leaks in our immigration laws— and brought their folks with them, al so to be cared for at the taxpayers’ jrvin S. Cobb expense. Some are avowed enemies of our form of government. Steps to oust such parasites are balked on the ground that to do so would work hardships on their fam ilies. You could say the same thing for bedbugs. We’re starting to register these non-residents. But it’s to be a “vol untary” registration, not compul sory. Any person in the audience, besides Madame Perkins, who be lieves the undesirables will come a-running to list themselves, and risk deportation thereby, kindly raise the right hand. • • • Champion Crooks. T RUST California to turn up with a world’s champion of some thing. They arrested a man on sus picion of burglary and forgery and organizing a training school for ju venile criminals and first one little thing and then another. Surely that would seem to be ca reer enough, but this party had ad ditional claims to recognition. He admitted he had been sentenced to forty-nine terms ill various jails and penitentiaries, which in itself would seem to constitute an inter national record, and said that in forty-three of these cases he had been paroled. He didn’t explain how the big hearted parole boards failed to turn him loose before he finished those remaining six sen tences. It must be profound regret to the boys in Alcatraz and other bide-a- wee homes conducted by the feder al government that, owing to the cruel refusal of Uncle Sam to go into the paroling business on a wholesale basis, none of them, how ever ambitious, has a chance to equal this splendid showing. The honor remains where prop erly it belongs, constituting a mag nificent tribute to the beautiful mush-headed theory that a state’s prison should be a clearing house and not a strong-box with a time- lock on it. • • • Nasi Influence. I ’VE been talking with a friend just back from Germany. In old days, I liked Germany as a land flowing with gemuetlich and good beer and a superior line of liverwurst. I won der whether I’d like it so well now. Because this fellow says every minute everybody must give the Nazi salute and say, “Heil, Hitler!” If a citizen wants his eggs fried, he says first to the wuiter, “Heil, Hitler!” If he wants ’em turned over, he says it twice—once for each egg. There’s a swastika flag flying over practically every house. Absence of a swastika flag signifies that the folks who used to live there are now in the hoosegow for failing to fly same. My friend may have exaggerated somewhat, but, I think, not much, because while talking we came abreast of a Leiderkranz cheese in a delicatessen store window and involuntarily he said, “Heil, Hit ler!” • * • Nominating Barkley. /CANVASSES show Senate Leader ^ Alben Barkley gaining as a pos sible Democratic nominee in 1940. It’s high time we had somebody from Paducah for President. For a hundred and fifty-odd years this republic has fooled along without one of our local boys sitting up there in the White House, writing messages to congress condemning the use of sugar in cornbread and proclaiming that, if any traitor dares to pull down fried catfish, shoot him on the spot. With Alben on the job, we’ll not only have homegrown statesmanship in job lots, but silver-throated ora- tory, which, by comparison, would make Patrick Henry seem like a tongue-tied man suffering from chapped lips. For A1 can talk an hour and never use the same word twice or the letter “r” once. Nominate Barkley and that night there won’t be a dry throat in Mc Cracken county. Elect Barkley and—well, I always did think I’d make a middling fair Secretary of the Interior; certainly nobody could botch up the Indian bureau worse than it is. IRVIN S. COBB. e—WNU Service. Xew* Review of Current Events FAR EAST CONFERENCE Davis Heads American Delegation to Brussels • • • Trying for Labor Peace a a s • Special Session iio Secretary of the Navy Swanson pinning a special congressional medal on Admiral Richard E. Byrd for the contribution he, with other members of the second Byrd antarctic expedition, which ended in 1935, made to sci ence. The other members of the expedition received similar awards. Looking on are Admiral William Leahy, center, and William C. Haines, meteorologist. * ~^£MurrjJul US. fticJcaJul SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK G Western Newspaper Union. Norman H. Davis ambassador. Davis Sent to Brussels XT ORMAN H. DAVIS is on his way to Brussels, Belgium, as head of the American delegation to a con ference of the signatories of the nine - power treaty Which, the optimists iiope, will put an end to the warfare be tween Japan and China. More realis tic observers of the course of events have no such expec tation, for the pact has no “teeth” and j the conferees can do little except talk. Associated with Mr. Davis, the ad ministration’s roving are Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck and Pierrepont Moffat as advisers. Rob ert T. Pell is the press officer and C. E. Bohlen is secretary of the delegation. Before sailing for Europe the dele gates received instructions from President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, but these were not revealed to the public. The invitation to the conference was issued by the Belgian govern ment “at the request of the British government and with the approval of the government of the United States.” China and Japan are both signatories to the treaty. The for mer accepted the invitation to the Brussels meeting, but it was be lieved Japan would not be repre sented there. Tokyo has maintained the policy that the Sino-Japanese troubles must be settled without the intervention of other nations. Labor Peace Parley • T EADERS in the American Fed- L-* eration of Labor and the C. I. O. gathered in Washington for a con ference designed to end the warfare between those divi sions of organized labor in America. Some of them thought the negotia tions might result in an early settlement of their disputes or at least a truce. Neither President Green nor John L. Lewis ventured any „ « . - prediction as to the Secy.Perkins outcome of the de . liberations. Some students of labor politics were inclined to think peace was not yet in sight and could not be brought about without the remov al of Green from the A. F. of L. presidency and the elimination of Lewis from consideration for th%t post. Their suggestion was that peace might be negotiated eventual ly by replacing Green with some such labor figure as Charles P. How ard, president of the International Typographical union, or Edward F. McGrady, former assistant secre tary of labor and now Radio Cor poration labor relations chief, and by giving industrial union groups stronger representation in shaping the federation’s .policies. President Roosevelt displayed ac tive interest in the labor controversy and received Secretary of Labor Perkins at his Hyde Park home, where for three hours they dis cussed the subject. The restoration of harmony in labor’s ranks is con sidered of great importance to the administration for both economic and political reasons. * Secretary Perkins announced in Washington that she had named a federal committee on apprentice training to become a permanent agency in the Labor department. Its purpose, she said, is “to provide a sufficient number of highly skilled !$i in ex workers to supply the country’s growing needs and to guarantee a thorough trade preparation for ap prentices.” —4*— Straus Heads Housing XJATHAN STRAUS of New York city was named administrator of the $526,000,000 federal housing program by President Roosevelt. He is the son of the late Nathan Straus, philanthropist, and has been connected with the housing work in New York. His appointment was considered a victory for Senator Wagner over Secretary Ickes who wanted Howard Gray of the PWA named. Arkansas Picks Miller J OE ROBINSON’S successor as senator from Arkansas will be Congressman John E. Miller, Demo crat, for he defeated Gov. Carl G. Bailey in the special election by an impressive majority. The Republi cans had no candidate. Miller has been a rather lukewarm supporter of the New Deal in congress. Airliner Wrecked; 19 Dead S MASHING against Hayden peak, in the Uinta mountains of Utah, a big transcontinental airliner of the United Air Lines was totally wrecked and its passengers and crew, numbering 19 persons, were killed. The debris was sighted by scout planes some 10,000 feet up the mountainside, but efforts of rescue parties to reach the scene were hampered by heavy snow. Special Session Called pONGRESS was called 1 traordinary session to start No vember 15, and immediately after ward President Roosevelt explained in a “fireside chat” over the radio the necessity for this as he sees it. Report ing cheerfully on his western trip, he out lined the legislative program which he declared the Amer ican people need to promote prosperity. These are the five measures he said should be passed without delay: Crop production control to “build an all-weather farm program so that in the long run prices will be more stable.” Wage and hour standards to “make millions of our lowest paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm prod ucts.” Regional planning to conserve nat ural resources, prevent floods and produce electric power for general use. Government reorganization to pro vide “Twentieth century machin ery” to make the “democratic proc ess work more efficiently.” Stronger antitrust laws in further ance of “p low price policy which encourages the widest possible con sumption.” Chairman O’Connor of the house rules committee predicted the house would pass a farm bill in the first week of the session and then take up the wage and hour measure. Some Democratic leaders said the labor bill, which was passed by the senate in the last session but held up in the house rules committee, would probably be the only one of the five measures to get through congress in the special session. Even that is strongly opposed by southern Democrats and has been condemned by the American Fed eration of Labor. President Roosevelt ******************* ! STAR ! ! DUST I ovie • Rad to ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ S OMETIMES a bad break in Hollywood leads to a good one, which is just another way of saying that motion-picture producers are slow to make up their minds. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer is going to star Willie Howard, the veteran comic of the stage, in a big musical ex travaganza, because he was so funny in a skit in “Broadway Melody of 1938.” You never saw the skit, no mat ter how carefully you watched the picture, because it was cut out. When they first saw it, the officials of the studio didn’t think it was so funny, and having to take some thing out to shorten the picture, they sacrificed what Howard was sure was the most hilarious skit of his career. Taking another look at the discarded film, officials have decided that it was very funny— so funny that they won’t waste How ard’s talents in the future. With the season of big motion pic tures only a few weeks old, four of the thirty or so pic tures released have made outstanding hits. These are “Prisoner of Zenda” with Ronald Colman and Madeline Car- roll, “100 Men and a Girl” with Deanna Durbin, “Thin Ice” with Sonja Henie, and Grand Nation al’s “Something to Sing About” with James Cagney. This last is a grand bit of nonsense in which the pugnacious Jimmy sings, dances, and fights his way through a delightful story, aid ed and abetted by Mona Barrie. Deanna Durbin Victor McLaglen roared into New York recently on his way to London to make a picture, and when Victor roars anyone would think the whole, boisterous good-humored American Legion was back in town. His high spirits are infectious and his mag netism so overpowering that when he introduced his friend Brian Don- levy as the greatest actor in the world, everyone agreed—for the mo ment. Paramount goes right on apnounc- Ing one picture after another for Frances Farmer, but Miss Farmer says that she is coming to New York to do a stage play called “The Manly Art” written by Luise Rain er’s husband. Out at the Universal studios where Henry McRae turns out thrilling se rials faster than you can say “To be continued next week,” they don’t have much time to humor tempera mental actors, but recently they had to give in and waste an hour or so while an actor had a tantrum. The actor was a lion. McRae thought he would save the lion from the ex hausting period of posing while hot lights were adjusted, and brought in a stuffed lion as double. Jealous of this interloper, the lion broke loose from his cage, rushed on the set and tore the stuffed animal to bits. Theater owners all over the coun try are begging Republic and Grand National officials to speed up pro duction on Westerns starring Gene Autry and Tex Ritter, so that the warbling cowboys will have time to make personal appearance tours. The ever-growing popularity of these two lads is the sensation of the bookkeeping departments. Ever since Claudette Colbert broke out in “She Met Him in Par is,” as an accom plished figure - skat er, all the other girls have wanted to shoyr off their profi ciency at winter sports. Ruby Keeler, recuperating from her recent illness, is planning for her first starring picture at R. K. O. The story is called “LoveBe- low Freezing” and Claudette the big surprise is Colbert that skiing is the main feature of the picture. —*— ODDS AND ENDS—Marlene Deitrich's eyebrows that used to extend way out like streamers return to normal in her new picture “Angel” and will probably start a new fashion ... Jean Parker’ made herself a hat, copied from ones Gary Cooper wore in “The Plainsman and now she is very busy helping friends mates copies of it •• • Ronald Sinclair has proven entirely satisfactory in roles intended for Freddie Bartholomew, so it is doubtful that Freddie will get any* where with his strike for more money . . . Simone Simon is going to sing a difficult coloratura aria in her next pic ture. The studio just found out that »he used to make records in France ... Bing Crosby wants his friend. Babe Hardy, to play a dramatic role in his new picture, now that the team of Laurel and Hardy have split. C Western Newspaper Union. PH Historic Hoaxes By ELMO SCOTT WATSOf © Western Newspaper Union. s°„ “Flying Dutchman” . AMAZING have been the de velopments in aviation in r^c®*” years that it is a brave man indeed who will venture to say “Why, they can’t do that!” when told of |ome new feat in the air by man. There fore, it is not especially remark able, perhaps, that the whole world accepted as authentic a photograph which came out of Germany a year or so ago. It showed a man flying thfougn the air just above and a little ahead of four others who were running after him. It might have been mistaken for a skier in action except for the fact that he was holding two bell like objects and apparently blowing into them through a tube. The de scription on this photograph read: “For the first time in history a man has succeeded in flying under his own power. This picture shows Erich Kocher of Berlin performing that feat, followed by his excited friends. He blew into the bell-like arrangement, causing to revolve two rotors which also served as wings. On his feet was a ski landing gear* and attached to his hips was a ‘tail skid.’ ” So cleverly had the photograph been “doctored” that it passed for an authentic representation of an epoch-marking incident in aviation and was accepted as such—yes, even by American newspapers which printed the picture with the headline, “Man’s First Flight Under His Own Power.” It was not until some time later that the hoax was revealed. Considering the ne^s that has been coming out of Germany about Hitler’s treatment of some of its citizens, one wonders if the “fly ing Dutchman’s” name has some significance. “Kocher” could easily be mistaken for “kosher,” you know! • • • Washing the White Lions IT’S only once or twice in a cen- ■ tury that Easter Sunday falls on April 1 but on one of those occasions the coincidence made it easy for some April Fool prankster to per petrate a classic hoax. In March, 1860, several thousand citizens of London were greatly flattered when they received a neatly-printed and official-looking card which bore the following inscription: “TOWER OF LONDON! Admit the bearer and friend to view the annual ceremony of washing the white lions on Sunday, April 1, 1860. Admitted at the White Gate. It is particularly requested that no gratu ities be given to the wardens and their assistants.” No one had ever before heard of either the White Gate or the white lions so everyone who received one of these invitations was curious to know whether the latter were real or just statues. Children especially were thrilled at the prospect of see ing them—it was just like going to the zoo. A few staid citizens were dubious about the propriety of attending such a function on Easter Sunday but that didn’t bother several thou sand others who entirely overlooked the fact that it was also April 1. So they swarmed to Tower hill in han som cabs and on foot and began inquiring eagerly of the gatekeepers where the White Gate was. As soon as the gatekeepers saw the invitations they immediately recognized the hoax and they greatly enjoyed the opportunity of answering “April Fool!’’ to the ea ger inquirers. In fact, it has been suspected, although never proved, that some of these gatekeepers were the perpetrators of the hoax which has become historic in England. • • • Long Distance Taxi Ride CEVERAL years ago newspapers ^ all over the country printed an amusing story, furnished to them by one of the press associations, which told how a bibulous visitor to New York hailed a taxicab and, in response to the driver’s ouerv' “Where to?”, replied, “Losh Ang- lesh—and pleash don’ drive too fas’.” Whereupon the taxi driver took him to Los Angeles and, ar riving there, looked at his meter and announced that the fare was $900, which the bibulous one cheer fully paid. Then, so the story ran the driver sold his taxi and re^ turned to New York by bus It was a good story uMil—the cab driver mentioned was located in New York and denied the whole yarn. He did adrnit that, during the depression, he had loaded his moth erless children in his taxi and head ed west, hoping to find work some where en route. But he found that jobs were just as scarce in other parts of the country as they were in New York, so. when he reached California he sold his taxicab and returned home with his children by bus. So that much of the varn ot least, was true. * yarn ’ at As for the tipsy passenger and the $900 taxi fare which he% a id-that part of the story was invented by the press agent for the junk vard to which the taxi man had sold his car. That, m itself, is^ such a bad story. For who ever before heard of a junk yard hiring a press agent! a^lsk Me Jlnother • & Gnerai Quiz 1. How much thread is woven ^ f of silk stockings? 2. Why were the Pillars of Her cules so called? 3. What percentage of the mem- ( bers of congress attended college? ■ 4 :v. H< ! W many C0| nets are there in the known solar system’ 5* Where did the school origi nate? b 6 Why do we have summer and winter seasons? , 7* j s t* 16 largest office building in the world? 8. Are any of the old Roman aqueducts still in use? 9. How great a sway can the Empire State building in New York safely stand? 10. Does the United States have more strikes and lockouts than other countries? Answers 1. In 4-thread women’s hose, 19,- 700 feet; 8-thread women’s hose, 9,900 feet; 10-thread women’s hose, 6,500 feet. 2. From the myth that they had been torn asunder by Hercules to admit the flow of the ocean into the Mediterranean. 3. Eighty-one per cent of the 441 members of congress whose edu cation is recorded in the current Congressional Directory attended college. 4. Approximately 120,000. 5. In ancient Greece. Plato was first to give regular educational courses extending over three or four years and in a fixed place, the Academy. 6. Because the axis of the earth in its revolution around the sun is not perpendicular to the sun’s rays, thus the different parts of the earth’s surface receive the di rect rays of the sun at different periods. 7. The R. C. A. building in New York city is the largest office structure in the world, with a gross area of 2,924,036 square feet. It has a ground area of 99,770 square feet. 8. Of the nine aqueducts which brought water to ancient Rome, three are still in use. One ot them, constructed in 149 B. C. f is 56 miles long. 9. Engineers have stated that the Empire State building was built to stand a sway of 24 inches. 10. The number’ of persons in volved in proportion to the popu lation is less here than elsewhere, with the exception of Canada 1-md the Irish Free State. 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