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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937
News Review of Current Events
LION'S TAIL TWISTED
British Soldiers Are Killed by Japanese . . .
English Ship Is Sunk by an Italian Bombing Plane
Friends of the duke of Windsor when he was prince of Wales and
Edward Yin, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sims will be hosts of the duke and
his duchess during their forthcoming visit to Washington. Mr. Sims is
an attache of the British embassy.
^u^lunsJui US.
t r ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLE
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
• Western Newspaper Union.
British Are Enraged
JAPAN and Italy have been vig-
orously twisting the tail of the
British lion, and if they keep it up,
that mighty beast may be stirred to
action. Within a few days five Brit
ish soldiers were killed and a num
ber wounded by Japanese shells in
the fighting at Shanghai. The Eng
lish there charged the killings were
deliberate, in retaliation for the aid
the British gave a “suicide battal
ion” of Chinese in escaping from a
warehouse in Chapei, the native
quarter, to the international settle
ment. The British and Japanese
admirals had a hot dispute over the
right of the former to prevent the
passage of Japanese launches up
Soochow creek.
Soon after the Japanese began
shelling the residential area of the
settlement and an outpost where
English soldiers were quartered was
destroyed. Continuous shelling of
Shanghai by the invaders endan
gered the British and American
lines on the border of the interna
tional settlement and shells fell
• close to the American warship Au
gusta, Admiral YarnelTs flagship.
Japan is angry over the alleged
help Britain is giving China in the
warfare and there is a movement
in Tokio to break diplomatic rela
tions with London. This is urged
by the “council on the current situa
tion,” an unofficial body composed
of high army officers, political
leaders and other influential per
sons. The council adopted a reso
lution warning that unless Britain
“reconsiders its improper attitude”
Japan may be forced to take cer
tain steps of “grave determination”
against Britain, despite the “deep
friendship existing between the two
countries for the last sixty years.
Japanese troops invaded a part
of the international settlement
guarded by American marines and
seized a Chinese junk loaded with
rice. General Beaumont, comman
dant of marines, immediately en
tered a protest and the Japanese
apologized but the marines did not
consider the incident closed because
the Japs didn't return the junk.
The British government was not
expected to take any action that
would further anger Japan lest it
should endanger the success of the
parley in Brussels. But wise ob
servers do not believe the nine-
power treaty conference will have
any definite results.
—*—
Morocco Uprisings
RATIONALIST uprisings in
French Morocco, which have
been giving the French government
a lot of trouble, are blamed on agents
of “a foreign totalitarian power,”
meaning Italy. The disorders, main
ly in Casablanca, Fez and Medina,
were quelled by troops, mostly Sen
egalese legionnaires, and hundreds
of arrests were made.
Authorities said investigation
showed many of the natives had
been paid from 10 to 20 francs to
take part in the demonstrations.
The nationalists plotted to set up
an independent Arab state with
Moulay Allal El Fassi as king.
—■¥—
More "Piracy"
JTALY’S latest twist of the lion’s
* tail came in the form of the
bombing and sinking of the British
steamer Jean Weems in the Medi
terranean by a “pirate” airplane.
The London Daily Herald’s Barce
lona correspondent reported that
the Spanish loyalist government as
serted that the plane bore markings
M. S. Eccles
showing that it was piloted by Bruno
Mussolini, son of the Italian premier.
The pilot gave the freighter’s crew
only five minutes to take to life
boats and then sank the Weems with
bombs.
The British battle cruiser Hood
was sent at full speed from Palma,
Majorca, to Barcelona to' investi
gate the attack.
In parliament the critics of the
government, led by David Lloyd
George, demanded a stronger Brit
ish Mediterranean policy. Lloyd
George flayed the government for
bolstering up the international com
mittee on nonintervention in Spain,
whose history after 14 months he de
nounced as “discreditable and dis
honorable.”
—*—
Budget Conference
W HILE members of congress
were beginning to move to
ward Washington for the extraordi
nary session, President Roosevelt
in his Hyde Park
home was busy
planning means of
carrying on the gov
ernment program.
Especially was he
interested in the
budget, and related
financial matters,
and to advise on this
he called in Marri-
ner S. Eccles, head
of the federal reserve
system. Treasury
Secretary Morgenthau and Budget
Director Bell already were there,
and all listened closely to Mr. Ec
cles' talk concerning current busi
ness conditions and the stock mar
ket situation.
An immediate problem before the
President and his budget advisers
was financing a proposed loan on
corn, to help farmers hold their
com past the present period of low
prices. Morgenthau and Agricul
ture Secretary Wallace have been
studying possible means of financ
ing that government aid program,
without increasing the treasury def
icit beyond the last estimate of
$695,000,000.
It was decided by the President
that the Commodity Credit corpora
tion should provide $85,000,000 for
the corn loans, obtaining the money
from the RFC and repaying the
latter agency when congress makes
the necessary appropriations. Sec
retary Wallace said the com loans
would be about 46 cents a bushel.
Wallace Plan Attacked
S ECRETARY WALLACE’S “ever
normal granary” plan is “politi
cally inexpedient, economically un
sound, and fundamentally unwork
able,” according to the Cash Grain
association of Chicago which sub
mitted a brief to a senate sub
committee at a hearing in Spring-
field, 111.
“The application of artificial
means to solve this national prob
lem cannot but prove disastrous to
the producer, consumer, and to all
lines of commerce and industry,”
the brief said.
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Miss Roche Quits Treasury
X/IISS JOSEPHINE ROCHE, first
woman to be an assistant sec
retary of the treasury, has resigned
that post and returns to the pres
idency of the Rocky Mountain Fuel
company of Denver. The position
will be left unfilled, for the adminis
tration hopes she will resume it lat
er. She was appointed by President
Roosevelt three years ago.
Irvin S. Cobb
S^_about:
Species of Candidates.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—It
takes all kinds of candidates
to make up this world. Maybe
that's why the world seems so
overcrowded.
There’s the candidate who belongs
to all the secret orders; if he left
off his emblems,
he’d catch cold;
knows every grand
hailing sign there is;
hasn’t missed a
lodge brother’s fu
neral in years; can
hardly wait for the
next one to die. No
campaign complete
without him.
Candidate special
izing in the hearty
handshake, the neck-
embrace, the shoul
der-slap, the bear-hug, the gift of
remembering every voter by his first
name, and the affectionate inquiry
regarding the wife and kiddies.
When he kisses a baby, it sounds
like somebody taking off a pair of
wet overshoes. Usually has a weath
erbeaten wife needing a new hat.
Strutty candidate who’s constantly
leading an imaginary parade of
50,000 faithful followers. Loves to
poke his chest away out and then
follows it majestically down the
street. A common or standardized
species.
• • •
Biblical Wisdom.
JN THE Book of Nahum, Chapter
II, I came upon this verse:
“The chariots shall rage in the
streets, they shall jostle one against
another in the broad ways; they
shall seem like torches, they shall
run like the lightnings.”
Those Old Testament prophets
certainly peered a long way into the
future. Because I traveled by night
through a main thoroughfare leading
from Los Angeles to the sea and
vice versa, and I knew what Nahum
was describing.
But not even an inspired seer of
the Bible could imagine a record of
traffic mortality so ghastly as the
one we’ve already compiled in this
year of grace 1937 A. D. (automo
bile destruction)—or a people so
speed-mad.
• • •
How to Fight Japs.
W HENEVER we have a Jap
anese war scare, I think of
Uncle Lum Whittemore, back in
west Kentucky, who loved to dis
pense wisdom as he hitched one
practiced instep on a brass rail and
with his free hand fought the resi
dent flies for the tidbit of free lunch
which he held in his grip.
One day a fellow asked Uncle
Lum, who had served gallantly in
the Southern Confederacy until a
very hard rainstorm came up, what
he’d do if the yellow peril boys in
vaded America.
“I’d hunt me a hollow tree in the
deep woods,” he said. “Yes, son,
the owls would have to fetch me my
mail. I been readin’ up on them
Japs. They’re fatalists.”
“What’s a fatalist?” demanded
someone.
“Near ez I kin make out,” stated
the veteran, “a fatalist is a party
that thinks you’re doin’ him a deep
pussonal favor when you kill him.”
• • •
Hollywood Fashions.
^ OME envious style 'expert says
Hollywood fashions are too gar
ish. If he’s talking about Hollywood
males, I say they’re just garish
enough. If they were any more
garish than they are, visitors would
have to wear blinders, and if they
were any less garish, Italian sunsets
would stand a chance in the com
petition. And I want the champion
ship to stay in America.
Billy Gaxton picks out something
suitable for a vest to be worn to a
fancy dress party and then has a
whole suit made out of it. Bob
Montgomery’s ties are the kind that
I buy in moments of weakness and
then keep in a bureau drawer be
cause I’m not so brave as Bob is;
and also I keep the drawer closed
because I can’t stand those sudden
dazzling glares. And Bing Crosby
is either color-blind or thinks every
body else is. But his crooning is
mighty soothing. And so it goes—
red, pink, green, purple, orange,
sky-blue and here and there a dash
of lavender.
Our local boys gladden the land
scape with the sort of clothes I’d
wear, too—only my wife won’t let
me. Stop, look, listen! That’s our
sartorial motto, and these jealous
designers back east can kindly go
jump in a dye-pot.
IRVIN S. COBB.
C—WNU Service.
Home of the Celt
Little reference is made to Brit
tany in the ancient classics, save
that Pliny speaks of it as the “Look
ing-on Peninsula,” with its eye and
vision set upon the Atlantic, and
Caesar tells something of the fight
ing qualities of the Veneti who in
habited the southwestern seacoast.
As is well known, it is the home of
the Celt, and neither the highlands
of Scotland nor the west of Ireland,
nor Wales can produce a finer type
of that ancient race that dowered
Europe with a civilization long be
fore Homer sang of the Greek gods.
ILTERE’S something new in the
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Sorority chic begins and ends
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This highly tasteful smock (above
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Use percale, gingham or silk print.
Classroom Coquetry.
What if your knowledge of bugs
or battles, or what have you, is
limited? You can count on a cer
tain coquettish smile and a cer
tain smooth-lined frock (above
center) to take you through any
inquisition. Try your version in
dull crepe or sheer wool.
Stadium Style.
Big moments come fast and
furious when you’re rooting for
dear old Alma Mater, but you
have to look the part to be one
Charm of Difficulties
Providence has hidden a charm
in difficult undertakings which is
appreciated only by those who
dare to grapple with them.—
Madame Swetchine.
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© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service
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