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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1937
IVetrs Review of Current Events
U. S.-BRITISH TRADE-PACT
Treaty Planned ^That May Affect International Relations
, • • Insistent Demand for Modification of Tax Laws
Representative J. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), and Representative
Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the house agriculture committee,
discussing farm problems at a meeting of the committee to draft the new
farm bill.
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4'^* SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
C Western Newspaper Union.
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Trade Treaty with Britain
I N WASHINGTON and London it
was officially announced that the
United States and Great Britain had
agreed to negotiate a reciprocal
trade treaty, which
has been sought by
Secretary of State
Hull ever since he
started his recipro
cal program in 1934.
The negotiations are
expected to begin
before the close of
the year.
American admin-
istration officials be-
„ . _ „ lieve such a pact
Secretary Hull ma y i ea d to a com
mercial union of all English-speak
ing peoples and will be a powerful
influence in preserving world peace.
London looks upon it as an in
strument to form a front which all
nations may enter later on condi
tions of most-favored-nations reci
procity, and therefore as an indi
rect reply to the new German-
Italian-Japanese alliance.
Principles said to be already
agreed upon provide that Great
Britain would receive reduced
American tariffs on textiles and
coal.
In return she would grant the
United States lower tariffs on food
stuffs, certain raw materials, iron
and steel and other essentials of a
rearmament program.
Immediate opposition to the pro
posed pact developed among the
statesmen in Washington. Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois,
Democratic whip, protested against
any British accord until the Eng
lish pay off their defaulted war
debt to the United States. He called
the proposed pact “trade treason.’*
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Massachusetts Republican, served
notice he would sponsor a resolu
tion halting negotiation of all new
trade treaties until congress can
determine whether they are respon
sible for the current business re
cession.
Representative Allen Treadway,
Massachusetts Republican, de
nounced the proposed treaty as cer
tain to prove disastrous to Amer
ican business. He warned it would
throw “more Americans out of their
jobs.’’
Governors Ask Tax Repeal
G overnors of the six New
England states, in conference
in Boston, adopted resolutions se
verely criticizing the tax and tariff
policies of the administration. They
demanded repeal of the capital
gains tax and the tax on undistrib
uted corporate profits, and de
nounced the pending reciprocal
trade agrgavnent with Czechoslo
vakia as imperiling the jobs of
thousands of American citizens.
The governors who took this ac
tion were Lewis O. Barrows, Re
publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Re
publican, New Hampshire; George
D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont;
Charles F. Hurley, Democrat,
Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross,
Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert
E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island.
Plotters Alarm France
C'RANCE was in a great dither
" over an alleged plot of the Cagou-
lards or “hooded ones,’’ and other
rightist groups to overthrow the re
publican government. The secret po
lice have been making many ar
rests and have uncovered secret
arsenals and depots of the conspira
tors. Among the men they seized
was Jean de la Meuse, wealthy tex
tile manufacturer of Paris. In their
pursuit of the plotters the police
went as far as Switzerland, per
suading the government of that
country to oust the count of Paris,
who would be heir apparent of the
throne of France if there were any
longer such an institution. He had
been holding conferences with roy
alists.
After Labor Racketeers
C'OR four months Eliot Ness, the
1 young safety director of Cleve
land, Ohio, has been investigating
labor racketeering in Cleveland, es
pecially in the build
ing trades, and-then
he made a report of
his findings that re
sulted in a special
session of the Cuya
hoga county grand
jury to hear the
stories of scores of
business men who
allegedly have been
terrorized by labor
mu . union officials. Ness
Eliot Ness 8aid men were
prompted to volunteer their infor
mation because of the security of
fered them and the knowledge that
many others were prepared to tes
tify.
In addition to protests from busi
ness men that they were being shak
en down, Ness also had numerous
complaints from rank and file union
men that their leaders had obtained
dictatorial control of the unions and
had used it for racketeering pur
poses.
This resulted in hundreds of men
being thrown out of work, impeded
legitimate business, and kept hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in new
industries out of the city, the Ness
report was said to have stated.
At a meeting of the Cleveland
Federation of Labor, Don A. Camp
bell, president of the Painters’ Dis
trict council, who had been men
tioned in connection with the inves
tigation, called the entire case “a
lot of newspaper propaganda which
has been passed around since the
labor movement began,’’ and added
that “it’s high time this stuff was
stopped.’’
Harrison Backs Water
DREVENTED from considering
the pending government reorgan
ization measure by a filibuster
against the anti-lynching bill, the
senate engaged in a
lot of talk about tax
revision. Pat Har
rison, chairman of
the senate finance
committee, after
conferring with Sec
retary Morgenthau,
declared that addi
tional revenue to
compensate for
modification of the
undistributed profits
tax could be raised
only by broadening
the income tax base or by a gen
eral manufacturers’ sales tax.
Mention of a sales tax aroused
Senator Borah and others, and the
Idahoan prodded Harrison until he
backed down and said he did not
quite mean what he had said.
“If, in the revision of the tax
laws, we should lose some revenue,
I do not believe, with the spending
program that is now going on, that
we would help business,” Harrison
told the senate. “I think the goal
should be to try to balance the
budget at the first opportunity. I
believe the wise way to do it is to
curtail some of the emergency ex
penditures.”
Harrison proposed a return to the
old normal income tax on corpora
tions and, if necessary, to increase
the rate to 18 or 20 per cent instead
of the former maximum of 15V4 per
cent.
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Bullet Kills Howard Coffin
OWARD E. COFFIN, who was
chairman of the World war air
craft production board and spon
sored the development of the Lib
erty airplane efaginc, was found shot
to death at his winter home in Sea
Island, Ga. Beside his body was a
hunting xifle from which one shot
had been fired. It was assumed
his death was accidental.
Senator
Harrison
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^Jklnkd about
Sports Broadcasters.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
Somebody said that there
were always two big sporting
events—the one Graham Mc-
Namee saw and the one that
actually took place.
But, alongside the present sports
broadcasters, Graham’s wildest
^flight would sound
"like the dulcet twit
ters of a timid love
bird as compared
with the last rav
ings of John McCul
lough.
Coaches brag of
the lowered percent
age of serious foot
ball accidents this
fall. But oh, think of
the radio descrip-
tionists who’ll wind Irvin S. Cobb
up the season suf
fering from nervous exhaustion,
Wrecked vocal chords, violent rush
of loud words to the mouth, com
plete collapse, even madness.
You’ll be passing the rest cure
sanitarium, and, as the windows
burst outward, you’ll hear pouring
forth something like this:
“Oh boy, boy! with one tremen
dous burst, Irish Goldberg is jam
ming his w T ay from the red back
line right through the black inter
ference! Nothing can stop him!”
But don’t get worked up. What
you hear is merely a convalescent
microphone orator mentioning a
checker game between two fellow-
inmates and reverting to form.
• * *
Virtues in Snakes.
COMETHING I said recently about
^ the folly of killing every snake
on sight, without investigating the
snake’s character, brought a flock
of letters from readers who don’t
like snakes.
Even a so-called venomous snake
may have his better side. In Kan
sas, in the old local option days,
you could get a drink only on a doc
tor’s prescription, excepting in case
of dire emergency, such as a snake
bite. So every properly run drug
store kept a rattlesnake on the
premises to serve the citizenry. And
the only time a drug store rattler
ever refused to bite a thirsty stran
ger was when he was all worn out
from accommodating the regular
local trade.
And what though it was a snake
that led Eve astray in the garden of
Eden? He may have brought sin
into the world, but wouldn’t we have
missed a lot of spicy reading mat
ter in newspapers if he hadn’t?
Yep, I plead guilty to thinking an
occasional charitable thought for
any decimated and vanishing group.
I feel that way about old line Re
publicans and mustache cups and
red woolen pulse-warmers.
• • *
Political Predictions.
W E TAKE the opportunity to an
nounce that the Literary Di
gest, or rather its journalistic suc
cessor, will not conduct a poll on
next year’s congressional and state
elections. The burnt child dreads
the poll.
Let others go around taking straw
votes, but, the way the Digest folks
feel now and, in fact, have felt ever
since last November, they wouldn’t
start a canvass to prove that two
and two make four. Because, look
here—what if it should turn out that
two and two merely make some
more Marx brothers or a double
set of Siamese twins?
Anyhow, the business of basing
cocksure predictions on half-cocked
estimates doesn’t seem to be flour
ishing these days. Figures don’t
lie, but the citizens who furnish the
figures may do so, either uninten
tionally or just for the sake of a
laugh. The rise of candid camerasa-
tionalizing—say, we just thought up
that word—proves that a photo
graph of things as they are is
mightier than a lot of loose sta
tistics predicated on what the vot
ers may or may not do—and prob
ably won’t, when the time comes.
* • *
Forgotten Stars.
O NCE interviewers clamored for
a hearing and her face was on
half the magazine covers and her
name in letters of flaming light
above all the marquees. Once im
pressive tycoons catered to her tem
peramental whims; press agents
waited upon her, courtiers attend
ing a queen. Autograph seekers
besieged her then, while now only
bill collectors desire her signature
—and they’d like to have it on a
check. Speak of her to the newer
generation, and somebody will say,
“Who? Spell it, please.”
She is all through, all washed up.
But, like the deaf husband whose
wife has slipped, will be the last
person in town to hear the news.
Having traveled a road which is
sues mighty few round-trip tickets,
she still dreams of a come-back.
She is the most tragic and the
most pitiable figure—and one of the
commonest—to be found in this
place called Hollywood. She is any
one of the host, men and women,
who, ten years ago, or even five,
were glittering stars in movieland.
IRVIN S. COBB.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
PrepanS bjr National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
Australia is almost as big
as the United States, but
^ its vast face presents a
striking contrast to the Ameri
can landscape. This ancient
eroded land mass has no exten
sive mountain ranges, no great
river systems. The granite
ridge of Mount Kosciusko, 7,330
feet above sea level, in the
southeastern corner of New
South Wales, is the highest point
on the continent.
For 900 miles along the southern
coast there flows not a single river.
Many other miles are little better
served, as existing stream beds are
often dry for many months.
The Murray-Darling is the one
large river system of the continent.
From its source in the Queensland
highlands, less than a hundred
miles from the coast, to its mouth
at the sand reef of the Coorong,
southeast of Adelaide, the stream
travels 2,310 miles. Except for
length, however, it is no Mississippi.
Its drainage area is much smaller,
and much of the water is lost be
fore it reaches the main channel.
Where American pioneers in their
westward march from the Alle
ghenies progressively found well-
watered fertile lands awaiting their
plows, Australian pioneers were baf
fled by sterile inland areas where
they could find not even water to
drink.
Lakes that were only colossal salt
pans; rivers that were dry or stag
nant with brine; and vast rocky
and sandy wastes—such were the
reports that Sturt, Eyre, Stuart,
and other Australian explorers
brought back from the interior
where their parties had suffered un
told privations and harrowing hard
ships. Leichhardt marched inland
and vanished. Burke and Wills
perished of starvation on Cooper’s
creek.
Coastal Belts Are Fertile.
But Australia is by no means en
tirely desiccated. Indeed, along the
coastal belts and extending for sev
eral hundred miles inland the land
is flushed with fertility. A broad
band of vegetation extends along
the north, east, and southeast edges
of the continent, covers a wide tri
angle in the southwest corner of
Western Australia, and blankets
most of Tasmania.
Its development is a fascinating
story. Here, within the short span
of a century, resourceful Australian
settlers have carved out farms and
pasture lands so big and productive
that they help to fix the price of the
world’s bread and meat and cloth
ing. Here they have reared bustling
commercial marts with world-wide
interests and growing population—
Sydney and Melbourne claim more
than a million people each.
Frontiers move farther inland, but
even the most conservative authori
ties estimate that, in already de
veloped lands, the present popula
tion could be quadrupled without
congestion.
A striking feature of Australia
today is the concentration of more
than 62 per cent of her entire popu
lation in the six capital cities and
the urban centers. Yet, paradox
ically, beyond the cities and extend
ing to the far horizons of “way out
back” are found the common
wealth’s chief resources.
Mobs of sheep *are grazing across
endless plains; cattle are bawling
beside water holes and kicking up
long banners of dust as they move
on muster; seas of golden wheat
ripple beneath sunny skies; in eu-
calypt forests axes ring; and from
molelike borrowings in the earth
men are bringing up minerals to
feed factories and gold to be
stacked in the world’s treasure
vaults.
“An improbable dream of a
visionary enthusiast”—such was the
libel that Australia’s first settlers
attached to the idea that the country
might become a prosperous sheep
land. Some were positive that the
flocks could not thrive on Australian
grasses, which are dry during the
summer months, and, even if they
did. the wool would deteriorate to
scraggly hair in the hotter climate
of the continent.
How It Became a Sheep Land.
But Capt. John MacArthur, one
time of the New South Wales Corps
and somewhat of a political fire
brand in the infant period of Aus
tralia’s settlement, thought other
wise. Therein lies the romance of
an industry that has few parallels
in commercial history.
Wool has been to Australia what
cotton has been to the American
South. Today a fifth of the coun
try’s productive wealth is earned
on the backs of her sheep. From
the meager flocks with which Mac
Arthur and other pioneers began
their systematic breeding, there has
grown the amazing total of more
than 114 million animals, which sup
ply between a fourth afnd a third
of the world’s wool requirements.
The generations of sheep breeders
that followed Macarthur’s footsteps
have taken their flocks over wide
areas of the continent. Through in
creased watering facilities, by
means of artesian bores, millions of
animals now are ranging in regions
once considered useless.
As the world’s wool-hungry mills
have increased their demands, so
station (ranch) owners also have
increased the weight and quality of
the fleeces.
Today the average clip (including
lambs) has risen to eight-and-a-half
pounds, twice that of pioneer days;
but you see some wrinkle-necked
old merino rams that are carrying
the equivalent of seven suits of
men’s clothing on their bodies. In
length, fineness, and strength of its
fiber Australian wool is unsur
passed.
Life on the Sheep Ranch
A sheep ranch is a complete com
munity in itself. It usually has its
own post office, telegraph station,
and power plant. Although not on
the sumptuous scale of some of the
palatial residences of the Argentine
pampa, many of these commodious
station hordes, surrounded by flow
ering gardens, are perfect in every
appointment and convenience. In
some respects they are the Austra
lian equivalent of old English
manors.
Beyond each central residence is
clustered a full complement of bar
racks and houses for the station
hands and families; also stables,
blacksmith and machine shops;
laundry, butchery, and bakery. And
out-lying those are the long cor
rugated-iron woolsheds and stock
pens.
Life is unhurried in these nerve
centers of the country’s chief indus
try. The manager seldom assigns
more than one task a day to his
men. Some days they do little, but
they are always ready to work long
fatiguing hours when the occasion
demands.
By the sweat of their own brows
most owners have built and man
aged their own estates. While there
are some absentee owners, by far
the majority know the meaning of
work. Sons, too, grow up in the
business. On many stations one
finds these young “jackaroos” work
ing to fit themselves to become sta
tion managers.
With perhaps forty men under his
direction, a manager’s life is a busy
one. There are always inspec
tion trips to see the condition of wa
ter and grass on the runs, repairs to
be maintained, and a multitude of
other tasks to keep the station go
ing.
Here in the saddle most of Aus
tralia’s polo players gain their train
ing. The men also find recreation
in hunting or tennis.
Culture Is Not Lacking.
The wives of the managers are
cultured and many have traveled
widely. In the outback it is rather
surprising to find people so con
versant with the latest books, music,
and, of course, the races.
Before telephones and radios
came, station life was more isolat
ed. Motorcars an<^ even airplanes
in many places have brought dis
tant towns next door.
One of the most remarkable
things, as you travel through the
sheep districts, is the comparative
absence of sheep on the landscape.
When you comment on it up in
Queensland, a station man explains
that he has traveled a thousand
miles through one region where
there were a million sheep being
pastured, yet on the whole trip he
has not seen a single sheep!
At Boonoke, where there are
about a hundred thousand animals,
the plains seem empty. The flocks
are broken up into smaller groups
and have their own separate runs,
but even on the fertile grasslands
of that station there is less than one
sheep to the acre. In more arid
regions the acreage is considerably
greater.
As you speed across the rolling
plains of one station in an Amer-
can truck, you see dozens of kan
garoos rise up like posts above the
grass and then take to their heels
as you approach.
Propelling themselves with only
their powerful hind legs, with their
tiny undeveloped front legs held
high, their running seems uncanny.
But as your speedometer touches
45 miles an hour, some old kan
garoos keep pace beside the car.
Foxy Little Terrier
For Tea Towels
Terry, the Terrier,, will dry yout
dishes with the same “punch” he
displays when rolling glasses and
hurdling silver. It will make your
dish-drying a joy just to see his
jolly self on the towels you use.
These motifs require so few
stitches, so little floss, they’re eco
nomical and ideal pick-up work.
Single, outline and cross stitch
make this splendid embroidery for
a gift. In pattern 5746 you will
find a transfer pattern of six mo
tifs averaging 5 by 8% inches;
material requirements; color sug
gestions; illustrations of all
stitches used.
To obtain this pattern, send 15
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to the Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. 1
YOU CAN THROW CARDS
IN HIS FACE
ONCE TOO OFTEN
TIT’HEN you have those awful
YY cramps; when your nerves
are all on edge—don’t taka It oat
on the man you love.
Your husband can't possibly
know how you feel for the simple
reason that he is a man.
▲ three-quarter wife may be
no wife at an if she na^ her bus-
band seven days out of every
month. >
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go “smil
ing through” with Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure In the three
ordeals of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre
paring for motherhood. 3. Ap
proaching “middle age.”
Don’t be a three-quarter wife;
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go “Smiling Through.”
Mastery Over Self
Man who man would be must
rule the empire of himself.—Shel
ley.
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