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i McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938 New* Review of Current Events REED FOR SUPREME CpURT Solicitor General 1$ Nominated by the President • • • Roosevelt Would Wipe Out All Holding Companies m m Drafs Wolf and Foolish Bear, aged members of the ancient water- iter elan ef North Dakota's Gros Ventre Indians, are shown being greeted by “The Great White Father," President Roosevelt, whom they visited cm a trip whieh they hope will bring a merciful rain to end the long drouth in their parched country. The Indians were on their way to the Heye foundation of the Museum of the American Indian where George G. Heye was to return to them a sacred bundle, a “medicine" they believe will make their lands fertile again. Since the loss of the bundle in 1907, their country is slowly turning into desert due to lack of rain. WrPuJcja^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK O Western Newspaper Union. Stanley F. ■w' ss IS*® • Choice of Reed Liked XJOMINATION of Stanley Formen ^ Reed of Kentucky, solicitor general, as associate justice of the Supreme court met with general ap proval and it was predicted in Wash ington that he would be speedily con firmed by the sen ate with little or no opposition. Republicans and Democrats alike were quick to praise the Kentuckian, who, while a de fender of many New Deal measures, has Kec<t acquired a reputa tion for being realistic and a liberal with “moderate" tendencies. Senator Ashurst, chairman of the judiciary committee, named a sub committee which "planned quick hearings on the nomination. „ 'Reed, who will fill the va cancy caused by the retirement of Justice George Sutherland, is fifty- three years' old and has never be fore been on the bench. In 1929 Herbert Hoover, then President, made him general counsel of the farm board. Later he was to the same capacity in the Reconstruction Finance corporation. He retained his post at the outset of the present administration. Then President Roosevelt picked Mm for solicitor general to defend the New Deal cases before the Su preme court. Of these he won 11 and lost 2. In the opinion of lawyers Mr. Reed's legal philosophy is orthodox. liberalism is not that which would do away with legal proce dure in establishment of untried schemes, yet he feels that congress and the President would shirk their duty if they did not venture into legislative fields of untried constitu tionality. Hits Holding Companies PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in a * press conference, declared he was determined to wipe out all hold ing companies. The method to be used in eliminating them, he said, was still under discussion; he in dicated it might be done through legislation and the exercise of the taxing power. The “death sentence" imposed on holding companies in the utility in dustry in the 1935 act is a step to ward the new purge. The Presi dent revealed that Wendell L. Will- kie, head of the Commonwealth and Southern corporation, recently had urged him to relax this restriction and that his plea had been rejected. Senator Norris, who has proposed that most holding companies be taxed out of existence, holds that it might be desirable to retain first de gree companies, or those which hold securities in operating companies only. -*r- Tax Changes Planned /CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON and his v- 1 house ways and means commit tee began hearings on proposals for 63 changes in the revenue laws which would exempt small corpora tions, constituting 90 per cent of American business, under the undi vided profits levy and grant large enterprises only part of the relief demanded from harsh rates. These changes were formulated by Fred Vinson’s subcommittee, which in a long report defended them as fair and predicted they would stimulate business without re ducing the aggregate federal reve nue. In addition to changes in the tax structure the sub-committee urged recodification of the complex maze of internal revenue statutes to clar ify their meaning, speed tax collec tions, and simplify enforcement. The most important individual change recommended was the pro posed exemption of small corpora tions—those earning $25,000 or less annually and comprising about 90 per cent of the nation’s 200,000 busi ness concerns—from the undistrib uted surplus tax. The report proposed as a “general rule" a tentative tax of 20 per cent on corporations’ earnings more them $25,000 per year, but allowing a credit of four-tenths of 1 per cent for each 10 per cent of earnings de clared as dividends. Kidnaped Ross Was Slain CCORE another for J. Edgar ^ Hoover emd his “G-men". They have solved the mysterious case of the kidnaping of Charles Ross, elder ly retired manufacturer, in Chicago last September, arrested the kidnap er smd obtained his confession that he killed both Ross #nd his own con federate after getting $50,000 rsm- som money from Mrs. Ross. The murderer, Peter Anders, was taken at Santa Anita race track, near Los Angeles, where he had been passing some of the ransom money through the pari mutuel ma chines. Full details of his confession were not at once made public. Dodd Angers the Nazis VX/ILLIAM E. DODD, until re- cently American ambassador to Berlin, has put himself in a class with Mayor La Guardia so far as the Nazis are con cerned, by a speech in New York. It was violently anti-Hitler, and German Am bassador Hans Dieckhoff immedi ately made a bitter protest to Secretary of State Hull, saying Dodd had insulted the Reichsfuehrer. In particular the ambassador was an gered by Dodd’s statements that un der Hitler “almost as many person al opponents were killed in five years as Charles II (king of Eng land) executed in 20 years of the Seventeenth century,” and that Hit ler is “now more absolute than any medieval emperor of Germany.’’ Mr. Hull informed Dieckhoff that Dodd was now a private citizen and that our government does not have control over the utterances of individuals; also that Dodd’s utter ances do not represent the views of this government. No Peace with Chiang JAPAN is determined to bring to pass the complete downfall of Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government of China. Following a meeting of the imperial council in Tokyo in the presence of the em peror, it was announced that Japan would withdraw its recognition of the Chiang regime and would en courage the J apanese-dominated government set up in Peking. The official statement continued: “Needless to say, this involves no change in the policy adopted by the Japanese government of respecting the territorial integrity and sover eignty of China, as well as the rights and interests of the other powers in China. “Japan’s responsibilities for peace in East Asia are now even heavier than ever before. It is the fervent hope of the government that the people will put forth still greater effort toward the accomplishment of this important task incumbent on the nation." Shanghai was informed that Chi ang had ordered his troops “not to retreat a single inch." biiii W. E. Dodd lAAAAA WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton ppfmfrnm? N EW YORK.—It seems possible that Rockefeller Center was trying for a delicate cultural bal ance in getting three alien artists to do its murals. Right, Left Right, left and and Center center, in the or- Represented der named, Jose Maria Sert, Diego Rivera and Frank Brangwyn, were the muralists. There was an inevitable clash, and now, after five years, a compro mise. Lenin’s head, by the hard- boiled, hard-bitten Mexican Rivera, blocked out in 1934, has been re placed by a conventional mural by the Spanish Sr. Sort, with the ortho dox theme of America’s continuing development along the old lines. The compromise appears in Sr. Serfs restrained sepia monochrome, in stead of his usual lavish outpouring of gold and scarlet, verdant green and ecstatic blue. Sr. Sert is the most millionairish of all living painters. Here he pipes down. If we didn’t go left with Len in, our new era isn’t going to be as gaudy as the last one. It will be a sober, industrious, thrifty, monochrome age, with no 1 more high kicking and low think ing. That seems to be what Sr. Sert and the Rockefeller Center people are saying. When the big, booming, sixty-one- year-old Spanish painter is going strong, he makes Vemonese just a wet wash with a touch of bluing. He was a regular stand-by and emergency painter for his friend. King Alfonso. “Con mucho gusto," he can swing the whole spectrum, with bold, regal effects which are the delight of kings. He has done many magnificent rooms in Europe, including the Ma drid chapel of the duke of Alba, now Franco’s commercial envoy to England, and Sir Phillip Sassoon’s resplendent ballrooms. His first exhibition in this country was in 1924, when he received prolonged critical salvos. He was born in Barcelona of the ancient Spanish gentry, and studied , in Paris in his ear- Sert Swinge i y youth. Spectrum From the first. With Gusto he developed bold ness and exuber- ance, both in color and technique. Briffaulfs pre-war Europe—which was to have gone on forever, but didn’t—knew him for its very own. His new monochrome fits an age “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought." In the current argument between government and business, it is in teresting to note that the temple of business gets back to the Muses and the classical symbols of work Emd labor, after its brief leftward deviation in 1933. In Washington, such bold innovators as Henry Var- num Poor and George Biddle still state tortuous new themes in the government murals. But there’s not so much splash in those Rockefeller Center murals as there might have been in, say, 1928. • • • YOUNG BURGESS MEREDITH, * at the age of twenty-eight, is picked to run Actors Equity associa tion, for a time at least. A star on Broadway, a coun- Meredith try squire, a Hol- Wus Tossed lywood success, on Uourude he has had more tossing around than a roller-coaster addict, with the up-grade all in the depression years. In Lakewood, a suburb of Cleve land, his father was a doctor and his grandfather an evangelist. His Uncle Joe, whom he greatly ad mired, was in vaudeville. He washed dishes and tended fur naces during one sad and lonely year at Amherst, ran a haberdash ery shop with his brother in Cleve land, went bankrupt, was a reporter on the Stamford Advocate, until they caught him at it, sold roofing, vacuum cleaners and cosmetics, worked in Macy’s department store, sang in church choirs for $4 a Sun day, lived a week on breakfast food samples, and was for a time one of the migrant army of jobless youth. The depression brought him luck. In 1929, he got a letter of introduc tion to Eva le Gallienne and a pay less job as an apprentice actor. His . climb was slow. Depression He first attained Was Really high visibility in Lady Luck “ she Loves Me “Not," in 1933. He clinched his gains in his three Max well Anderson plays, “Winterset,” “High Tor," and “Star Wagon." His estate is near that of Mr. An derson in Rockland county. New York, where he is very busy with house-building, dogs, and books. He has an eager, avid mind, buzzing with new ideas. He is a faithful intellectual under study of the older Mr. Anderson and his genius chimes in perfectly with Mr. Anderson’s exalted blank verse dramaturgy. He is five feet, seven inches tall, weighs 135 pounds and is no matinee idol—listed briefly at booking agency as “blond and homely’’ when he first went after a job in the theater. His wife is the distin. guished actress, Margaret Perry. & Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. BUTTERFLIES THAT MIGRATE 1 wmmm Veins wm. <T . , J} ••• ;••••• • o i Wimm Closed cell Abdomen ■;:l| Scent pois . .S '..i , ill .......... Anatomy of the Monarch Butterfly. Monarch and the Painted Lady Are Best Known of These Travelers Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. M ANY people believe that all butterflies live but a few days, and that they keep quite close to the locality where they hatch. This is true of most species, but there are others which live for weeks, sometimes for months, and in stead of fluttering around they may set off in a definite direc tion and fly some hundreds, or even thousands of miles from their birthplace before settling down to Iry their eggs. This habit of changing location, or migration, has been known to occur in birds and locusts since ancient times, and has been sus pected for about a century in the butterflies and moths. The cotton worm moth of the southern United States was one of the first in North America to come under suspicion. Today the habit is also known among some dragonflies and beetles, particularly the ladybirds, and more rarely in other groups of insects. The butterflies may migrate singly or in large numbers. Flights estimated to contain more than a thousand million individuals have been recorded. The sight of one of these butterfly movements, the in sects passing for hours and even days, steadily pressing on in one direction, is an event in the life of EUiy naturalist. * By piecing together scattered and incomplete information, much as one might try to fit together a jig saw puzzle of which most of the pieces have been lost, we begin in a few cases to have some idea of the extent of the movements; of where the butterflies start, what route they tEike, and where they come to rest. Monarch Has Journeyed Far. By far the best known of the mi grants is the Monarch or Milkweed butterfly. This magnificent insect has its headquarters in North Amer ica and has spread, chiefly in his toric times, to the Cape Verde is lands and Madeira in the Atlantic, and to most of the islands of the Pacific. It is said to have reached New Zealand about 1840 and ap peared in Australia about 1870. In both of those countries it is now established. In the past sixty years nearly a hundred individuals have been seen in Great Britain and a much small er number in France and Portugal. Nearly all these were observed in the autumn. The food plant, milk weed, does not exist wild in Eu rope, so the butterfly has never become established there. It is not yet known for certain whether the European specimens have flown across the Atlantic, assisted by the prevailing westerly winds, or have been carried across in ships. In North America this butterfly is found during the summer through out the United States and Canada as far north as Hudson bay and, in the west, occasionally as far as Alaska. In the early autumn, the butterflies congregate into bands and fly southward, starting from Canada about the end of August and reaching the Gulf states about the beginning of November. On the west coast they do not go so far south and may winter in the neigh borhood of San Francisco. Having reached the end of their southward flight, the butterflies set tle on trees, still keeping to their large bands, and spend the winter in a state of semi-hibernation. They flutter around a little on fine warm days and in cold weather creep clos er to the shelter of the trees. The same group of trees may be used year after year by hibernating Monarchs, although the same indi viduals never return south a second time. One of the localities on Point Pinos on Monterey bay, Calif., is a show place for visitors. Return South in Great Swarms. In the spring the bands begin to break up, and the butterflies fly northward individually, pausing here and there to lay eggs as they go. They start about March, reach the level of West Virginia about April, and Canada at the end of May or early June. The return flight starts after about three generations in the middle states, two in the north, and after a single generation in Canada. So far as it is known, no Mon archs are normally found in Can ada and the northern United States during the winter, although individ uals have been seen in Toronto as late as the beginning of November. The southward-flying swarms are often very conspicuous, as they may consist of tens of thousands of but terflies flying up to three hundred feet or more in the air, and when they settle for the night they may actually seem to change the color of the vegetation by their numbers. Hamilton, writing of a swarm in New Jersey in 1885, said: “The mul titudes of this butterfly that assem bled here in September are past be lief. ‘Millions’ is but feebly expres sive. ‘Miles of them’ is no exag geration." Ellzey, in 1888, describing a flight that he saw in Maryland, wrote: “The whole heaven was swarming with butterflies. There were an in numerable multitude of them at all heights, from say 100 feet to a height beyond the range of vision except by the aid of a glass. They were flying due southwest in the face of a stiff breeze.’’ Shannon, in 1916, suggested that this butterfly used definite flight routes on its way south, but the small number of records still avail able makes it doubtful if his con clusion is justified. Painted Lady Also Travels. Another of the world’s great migrant butterflies, more widely distributed but less completely un derstood than the Monarch, is the Painted Lady. In North America this butterfly is practically never seen in the winter in any stage (although actually one was recorded in Colorado on Janu ary 1, 1935!). In the spring in some years countless millions of Painted Ladies pour into southern Califor nia (and probably also into Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) from some unknown source in Mexico or be yond. One such flight, seen by a scien tist in April, 1924, was at least 40 miles wide and was passing for three days at a speed of about six miles an hour. The scientist esti mated about 300 butterflies per acre, or a total of about three thou sand million in the whole flight. There are records of similar great invasions in 1901, 1914, 1920, 1924, 1926, and 1931, but in other years scarcely any butterflies are seen. The Painted Ladies spread north ward and eastward over the United States and southern Canada, and in 1931 they were so abundant in some of the North Central and Northeast ern state^ that farmers rejoiced at the wholesale destruction of their thistles and asked the Department of Agriculture if these valuable in sects could not be encouraged! They are not everywhere so popular, how ever. We have to admit that nothing is yet known about what happens to the offspring of these immigrants, except that they disappear. The most natural explanation would be that they return to the South in the autumn, as do the Monarchs, but there is little evidence to support this belief. Originate in North Africa. The Painted Lady makes even more definite flights in Europe and North Africa. Swarms appear to originate somewhere just south or north of the North African desert- belt in the early spring. They come into the coastal areas of North Africa from the south about April, cross the Mediterranean (soAie- times in hundreds of thousands), and pass more or less northward through Europe. They reach Eng land about the end of May or the beginning of June, and occasionally carry on as far as Iceland, where they have been recorded about six times in the last sixty years. Farther east they spread north ward through the Caucasus and on into Russia, whero they have been recorded almost as far north as the Arctic circle. Except in the extreme north, the immigrants lay eggs which hatch and grow to be adults, and there are some records of autumn flights which are evidently composed of the offspring of the spring migrants; but, as in North America, the evi dence is insufficient at present to prove a return to the south. If such a return flight does take place, it is probable that the insects move in dividually (as in the spring flight of the Monarch) and not gregariously. The only known record of the start of a flight is an observation made many years ago in the Sudan, when a naturalist in March, 1869, saw thousands of chrysalides of the Painted Lady hatch simultaneously and the resulting butterflies fly off in a mass. Flower Cutwork For Buffet Set This striking cutwork design is equally smart for buffet set or as separate doilies; it is done mainly Jn simple buttonhole stitch, and is equally lovely in thread to match the linen or in a variety of colors. The beginner need feel no hesita tion in tackling cutwork when she has so simple a pattern to work on as this one without bars. In' pattern 5961 you will find a trans fer pattern of a doily 11 by 17% inches and one and one reverse doily 6 by 8% inches; material requirements; illustrations of all stitches used; color suggestions. To obtain this pattern send 15; cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th Street, New York, N. Y. “WARMING” ACTION EASES CONGESTION OF COLDS IN UPPER CHEST Tonight—rub your chest with Penetro at bedtime. Its concen trated medication creates thorough counter-irritant action to increase blood flow, stimulate body heat. The mutton suet base of Penetro! helps to “hold in’’ this heat so that tightness Emd pressure of your chest cold are eased. The aromatic! vapors of Penetro breathed into! nasal passages help to relieve “stuffy nose," make breathing ests- ier. Ask for stainless, snow-white Penetro, 35c a jar. 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