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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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. That’s
why the ultra-smart dress at the
left is so handy to have; Note
the clever detail all the way
through even to the inverted skirt
pleat. See how beautifully the
sleeves set-in—you just know at a
glance how simple it is to put to
gether. Cotton, of course, is the
material.
Typical of Youth.
The surest way to be a big little-
body is to wear dresses that are
as expertly planned as the grown
ups’. The little number above,
center, has the smart styling of a
sub-deb’s frock. It is typical of
youth’s freshness and activity,
and is one model that gets little
girls’ complete endorsement. It
is the number one dress for the
number one sweetheart in any
body’s family.
An Orchid to You.
Do you think of a charming
sorority tea with lots of atmos
phere and plenty of style when
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material, or, perhaps with a top
per in gold lame or satin com
bined with a skirt of a rich dull
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glamour crowded with fans and
fun and festivity?
Pattern 1401 is designed for
sizes 36 to 52. Size 38 requires
4% yards of 35-inch material.
Pattern 1366 is designed for
sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 years.
Size 8 requires 2% yards of 39-
inch material, plus 1% yards of
machine-made pleating to trim, as
pictured.
Pattern 1396 is designed for
sizes 32 to 44. Size 34 requires 1%
yards of 39-inch material for the
blouse, 1% yards of 54-inch mate
rial for the skirt.
Send your order to The Sewing
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Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
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Make yourself attractive, practi
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’Tis Said Arithmetic
Is a Science of Truth
“Figures can’t lie,’
professor earnestly.
said the
“For in
stance, if one can build a house in
twelve days, twelve men can build
it in one.”
“Yes,” interrupted a quick
brained student. “Then 288 will
build it in one hour, 17,280 in
one minute, and 1,036,800 in one
second. And I don’t believe they
could lay one brick in that time.”
While the professor was still
gasping, the smart one went on:
“Again, if one ship can cross
the Atlantic in six days, six ships
can cross it in one day. I don’t
believe that either; so where’s
the truth in arithmetic?”
RELIEF
Jlsk Me .Another
4| A General Quiz
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1. What is the origin of the
acre?
2. What is the difference be
tween a Zeppehn and a dirigible?
3. What queen of a foreign coun
try married an American citizen?
4. What is the length of the
Great Wall of China?
5. What is the shortest verse in
the Bible?
6. Have ships ever sailed
through a northwest passage
above Canada?
7. How large a navy has the
Irish Free State?
8. Who is the best-known wom
an inventor?
Answers
1. Originally it was the area a
yoke of oxen could plow in a day.
2. A dirigible is any aircraft lift
ed by gas which may be guided
and propelled by mechanical
means. A Zeppelin is a rigid
dirigible of the type invented by
Count von Zeppelin.
3. Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
married John O. Dominis, a na
tive of Boston.
4. The length of the Great Wall
of China, including all spurs and
loops, is estimated at 2,500 miles.
5. “Jesus wept,” John 11:35.
6. Two ships recently met in
Bellot strait, one from the east
and one from the west, thus ef
fecting intercommunication, which
has been the object of navigators
for four hundred years.
7. It has no navy. The name of
this country has lately been
changed by act of parliament to
Eire, pronounced Air uh.
8. Miss Beulah Louise Henry of
North Carolina is the most prolific
inventor, with 52 patents regis
tered.
PENETRO
CONTAIN EPHEPRINE
Hold Secrets
The truly wise man should have
no keeper of his secret but him
self.—Guizot.
Lazy, bored, grouchy
You may feel this way
as a result of constipation
Constipation is an enemy of pleas
ure. It dulls your enjoyment of the
best entertainment and the best
friends.
To neglect constipation is to in
vite serious trouble. For your health’s
sake, take Black-Draught at the first
sign of constipation. You’ll soon feel
better. Here's a laxative that is
purely vegetable, prompt, reliable.
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The love of fame is the last
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