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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
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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.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
O Western Newspaper Union.
Stanley F.
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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.
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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."
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W. E. Dodd
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WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK...
By Lemuel F. Parton
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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.
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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. Sold everywhere.
Command of Self
No man is free who cEinnot com
mand himself.—Pythagoras.
Beware Coughs 1
from common colds
That Hang On
No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold, or bronchhil irritation, you can
get relief now with Creomulsion.
Serious trouble may be brewing smd
you cannot afford to take a chance
with any remedy less potent than
Creomulsion, which goes right to
the seat of the trouble and aids na
ture to soothe smd heal the inflamed
mucous membranes and to loosen
and expel the germ-laden phlegm.
Even if other remedies have failed,
don’t be discouraged, try Creomul
sion. Your druggist is authorized to
refund your money if you Eire not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene
fits obtained from the very first
bottle. Creomulsion is one word—not
two, and it has no hyphen in it.
Ask for it plainly, see that the name
on the bottle is Creomulsion, smd
you’ll get the genuine product and
the relief you want. (AdvJ
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