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' J McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937 ■n Credit System Praised PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, speak- * ing at the opening of the new Federal Reserve building In Wash ington, gave full praise to the fed eral reserve system as a most im portant part of the government’s 1 ahout Intriguing Construction. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Downtown I saw some sort of siege-wall going up. At first I thought it must be a part of the proposed plaza leading from' our new terminal. Our new terminal has been under construction almost as long as New York’s unfinished Cathedral of St. John. Inch by inch it progresses, giving creeping defiance to those critics who say that what Los Angeles needs is not any additional en trances, but more exits. On second glance I decided the owner of the business prop- Irvin S. Cobb erty behind this strange rampart probably made the same mistake I did. I saw a pic ture in the paper and I said, “Pret ty late to be printing a photograph of Fifth avenue showing how it ap peared when the World’s war heroes got through pranking last month.” I looked again and saw it was only a scene in Shanghai after the Jap anese finished bombing. So I figure this forehanded Los Angeleno is just getting ready for next year’s convention of the vets out here. When his wall is abso lutely impregnable against assault, he’ll no doubt paint a big sign on it reading: “Welcome, American Legion.” mm Kindness for Reptiles. »i • IT IF THE necessity arises, France ^ reptiles,” the National Park I - 4^ • a t • service discourages people from de- Aews Review of Current Events THREAT BY CHAUTEMPS Tells Italy France Is Prepared to Use Force . . • Japs L J x CL L • n lx C *D I P oriani pan oi me government s Checked a* onancjhai • • • Kooseveli on I arm irocjram | plans for economic stability and se curity. He said disastrous depres sions and booms could be avoided only by the development of the credit and monetary machinery of the nation. That machinery, he continued, “must be steadily perfected and co ordinated with all other instruments of government to promote the most productive utilization of our human and material resources. Only in that way can we hope to achieve and maintain an enduring prosper ity, free from the disastrous ex tremes of booms and depressions. Only in that way can our economic system and our democratic institu tions endure.” Mr. Roosevelt avoided mention of the jittery condition of the stock markets, but before delivering his address he had seen Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and learned that the market was recov ering, due to heavy buying by bar gain hunters and perhaps to recov ery of confidence by investors. Among the many notable persons on the platform with the President was Senator Carter Glass of Vir ginia, who fathered the federal re serve system during the Wilson ad ministration. The veteran senator was loudly cheered. John Roosevelt to Wed \/[ RS. FRANCES HAVEN CLARK of Boston announced that her daughter, Anne Lindsay Clark, and John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, will be married in Na- hant, Mass., next June, shortly after Mr. Roosevelt is graduated from Harvard. Mrs. Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, former wife of Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, and Curtin Winsor of Ardmore, Pa., were married in Philadelphia. Mrs. Winsor and Elliott Roosevelt were divorced in July, 1933. The news camera man took his life in his hands to secure this ex cellent photograph of Japanese “mopping up” operations in the Chapel district of Shanghai. “Mopping up” is the military euphemistic term for stamping out whatever life is left after the artillery bombardment has done its work. ^^jurtUud. W. J^hcJca/cd. fiTTh/nvram^F-ci twf wnm.r Chautemps Gives Warning stroying every creature they en counter, merely because it wriggles or crawls. I’m what you might call an oc casional snakist, indulging in snakes only in moderation. In other words, I can take my snakes or I can leave them be. But realizing that prac tically all snakes destroy noxious vermin, I refrain from murdering every passing snake, regardless of his private habits and personal dis position, just for being a snake. I was raised in a locality where moccasin snakes were so numerous the Republicans used to accuse us* of voting them at county elections. Yet I recall only one instance of a moccasin snake biting anybody, and it must have been tempted beyond all power of self-control, for the fellow bitten was a pious party who didn’t think little children should be suffered to believe in Santa Claus. I regret to state that he recovered. It was the snake that died. • • • Movie Preferences. T DON’T like movies about hospi- ■4 tals where an impossible young surgeon performs impossible opera tions, in four strokes under par, us ing his irons all the way 'round; and then, while replacing the divots, makes love to an impossible al though beauteous nurse. But between operations he washes his hands. Dadgum him, he’s always washing his hands! Who does he think he is, Pontius Pilate? I don’t like movies about news paper offices where the hero is a drunken reporter who behaves in a manner peculiar to newspaper re porters (in the movies); which is so darned peculiar that, in a real newspaper office, somebody’d beat out his brains with a wet towel. I like movies showing Myma Loy, force in defense of her vital inter' ests. At the same time she offers peace to all nations “that will prove by their acts their de sire to keep their en gagements loyally.” Such was the warning, evidently directed especially to Italy and Ger many, which Pre mier Camille Chau temps uttered be- fore a congress of M.Chautemps the central federa tion of his Radical Socialist party. “I hope especially in the grievous affair of Spain this pacific, prudent, and courageous action will succeed in cutting short the violations of jus tice which cannot be renewed with out constraining France and Britain to renew their liberty of action,” Chautemps said. The premier’s declaration recalled French insistence that unless the nonintervention committee soon pulled foreign troops out of Spain France would open her frontier to aid the Spanish government. Mussolini insists there are only 40,000 Italian volunteers in Spain and Fascist organs in Italy said these figures must be accepted by the nonintervention committee with out argument. Dispatches from Paris say that Mussolini and Hitler at their recent meeting in Germany reached an agreement by which Italy was giv en the right to order some long range guns from the Krupp works and armor plate for a new war ship. In return Hitler was promised a free hand in southeastern Europe to obtain the foodstuffs and trade Germany needs. Italy is plainly menacing France’s African posses sions, but the danger of an ad vance by Germany through Czecho- SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK © Western Newspaper Union. “slowed down.” The Chinese had blown up bridges, mined highways and erected barbed wire entangle ments, and all the time had bat tled* the invaders desperately. Bullets from a Japanese plane killed one British soldier and en- Landon Calls on G. O. P. dangered Americans and other for- I \ LANDON came to the eigners on the edge of the inter- surface m a radio address to when not playing nurse; and Spenc- Slovakia and Austria has delayed er Tracy, when not playing re- a showdown in the Mediterranean, porter. Chautemps’ declaration of policy Anyhow, nothing could be an ab- I ma y £ive II Duce pause, solute failure that has a Walt Dis ney short separating the ultra-1 Franco's Progress colossal or regular feature from I ^ vMTrr? at the extra-special four-star absolute- | (j ENERALISSIMO ly unparalleled super-stupendous preview feature. • • • Gossip About Cobb. J UST a little effort to trace down gossip now going around: FRANCO, having completed his conquest of Gijon and the rest of the loyalist territory in northwest Spain, began moving his insurgent forces east ward to the Aragon front, where his officers said the “decisive offensive m Th/Xirn tW T otti crnino ° f the War ” WOUld be begun. (I) The claim that I am going to ’ play Scarlett in “Gone With the Wind” is absolutely unfounded. Lat est word is that the coveted role will go to Fannie Brice, although the Ritz brothers are being men tioned. If they should be chosen, Scarlett will be played as a three- handed quartette. (II) Dame Rumor hath it that the Atlantic sperm whale will be re- Government dispatches announced the Madrid-Valencia loyalist regime was prepared to block the insurg ents on all sectors of the 300-mile line from the French frontier south to Teruel, east of Madrid. —*— Ecuador Coup de'Etat Q EN. ALBERTO ENRIQUEZ, war minister of Ecuador, and named the Justice Black sperm officers oi the army executed a coup nrVtoiA xrot I d'etat which forced Provisional President Federico Paez to resign whale. Not yet confirmed, but sounds sort of plausible. The At lantic sperm whale has a hide al most two feet thick. (Ill) The statement that Charley McCarthy may join the reorganized brain trust at Washington remain* unsettled. Probably without foun dation. For while Charley is trained to sit upon his master’s knee, he cannot be depended on to keep si lent and has too many brains to be trusted. and leave the country. Enriquez at once assumed power as “supreme chief” with a cabinet composed largely of army officers. He de creed the establishment of a popu lar tribunal to deal with persons accused of tampering with public funds and announced “a national po litical purge.” The people accepted the change of government quietly. <IV> Stories to the effect that Rep- J a p ane se Drive Checked resentative Ham Fish will be Re- 1 r publican nominee for President in an< * of * ntens *fl e d . , . _ .... I fifvhfmcr nrminn Shanohoi 1940 may be regarded as absolutely authentic so far as Representative Ham Fish is concerned. IRVIN S. COBS. • Western Newspaper Union. fighting around Shanghai brought from the spokesman of the Japa nese army the admission that its general advance of more than 100,- 000 men with tanks and planes was national settlement in Shanghai. Of ficial protests were lodged immedi ately and the matter was so serious that it was referred to London and Tokyo. Reports indicate that Japan has lost a part of North China which she had occupied. It was said Mon gols and Chinese of Suiyuan had declared the independence of that province and set up a new regime at Kweisui. —-K— F. D. R. on Farm Bill PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, re- 4 turning to his Hyde Park home, was giving especial attention to the farm legislation which he wishes passed by congress in the extraordi nary session. He sent, duplicate let ters to Chairman Ellison D. Smith of the senate agriculture committee and Chairman Marvin Jones of the house committee urging them to speed up the legislation, but warn ing that it must be kept within budgetary limits unless congress was prepared to impose new taxes. “The new national farm act should safeguard farmers’ income as well as their soil fertility,” the President wrote. “It should pro vide for storage of reserve food sup plies in an ever normal granary, so that if severe and widespread drouth recurs consumers will be as sured of more adequate supplies with less drastic increases in price than otherwise would be the case. “It should provide for control of surpluses when and if necessary but at the same time it should pre serve the export markets that still are open to our farmers. AlfMXandon 17,000,000 Americans who voted for him in the last election, and es pecially to the Re publican party as a whole. He said he * had called this “ra dio meeting” to sug gest ways and means by which “we, the minority party,” can be of outstanding service to the country. The Kansan de- clared President Roosevelt had failed as an administrator, had failed to follow the Constitution, and now was demanding increased power. “What he really needs is less pow er,” Mr. Landon asserted, “a posi tion that will force him to take the advice and counsel of other men of both parties—men whose hearts also are in the right place, but men who have had more experience and who know more about the practical ap plication of government than he does.” It is up to the Republicans, he said, to curb Mr. Roosevelt in his demands. He also discussed the war talk prevalent after the Presi dent’s Chicago speech and said: “We are faced with a situation where he may make a mistake that would indeed be tragic, that might lead to war. Close observers have increasing doubt if he thought his recent declaration through to its logical conclusion.” In conclusion Mr. Landon said: “We have had a New Deal. Now what we most need in America is a new yardstick—a yardstick to meas ure the ability and the accomplish- Tt should protect both farmers _ ^ and consumers against extreme ups I ments, as well as the good inten- and downs in prices of farm prod- tions, of public officials. ucts. It should be financed by sound fiscal methods. Local administra tion should be kept in the farmers,’ hands.” Urging sound fiscal relations, Mr. Roosevelt said that it is important not to interfere with the expected balancing of the budget in the fiscal rt It is time to put a solid founda tion of workable legislation under the air castles which the President forever is blowing. “It is time to realize that we must apply the resources of the mind if we are to make the wishes of the heart come true.” year 1938-’39. Experts in Washington figure the I \A/«rv»*„ ci:~Lx new farm program may cost as ^ oman m Record Flight much as $1,000,000,000 in the first JEAN BATTEN of New Zealand, year. | ^ twenty-six years old, set a new record for a flight from Australia Farmers Warned on Loans PDWARD A. O’NEAL, president ^ of the American Farm Bureau federation, headed a group of farm leaders who called on the Presi dent for the purpose of asking loans I CJ;x^^ J of 60 cents a bushel on corn to im- ,NoTec, editor Uead It was understood D EATH chose a shining crop to England. She made the 8,615 miles from Port Darwin to Croy- den airport in 5 days, 18 hours and 15 minutes, reducing the record by more than 14 hours. prove prices. It was understood I I 1 n;Ain cnose a shining mark Mr. Roosevelt warned that crop when it removed George Hor- loans should not be pushed so high ace Lorimer, retired editor of the that the drain on federal revenues would become too heavy; and that he intimated that the budget would not permit great extension of loans at this time. However, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace subsequently told a press conference a government loan on this year’s large corn crop “should be exceedingly desirable.” —-K—. Saturday Evening Post. He suc cumbed to pneumonia at his home in Wyncote, Pa. Honorary pall bearers at his funeral included for mer President Herbert Hoover and other men distinguished in public life. Mr. Lorimer became editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post in 1899 and developed it from an obscure weekly to its high posi tion in its field. Steiwer to Retire 'T'WENTY years of public service ^ e '' x Warburg Dies A is enough for Senator Frederick pELIX M. WARBURG of New Steiwer of Oregon, Republican. He * York, one of the country’s fore- has announced that he will not seek most financiers and philanthropists, re-election next year, but will re- died at his home at the age of sixty- turn to the practice of law. Steiwer seven. He was senior partner of was the keynoter of the Republican Kuhn, Loeb & Co., internaVroal national convention of 1936. | bankers. Interpreters of the Mode 1366 CO LONG as you Sew- ^ Your-Own, Milady, just so long will Yours Truly strive to interpret the mode for you. Today the trio brings you frocks for every size (from ibur years to size 52) for almost any occasion. Each has been designed to bring you the ultimate in style in its par ticular class and all claim a new high in simplicity and comfort. Ultra-Smart Dress. It’s nice to know you’re easy to look at even if the occasion is only another breakfast session. 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