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't W:' ; -t , \ \ ' f ] l > ■ . McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1938 - r • r Newt* Review of Current Events NAVY EXPANSION IS PUSHED Congress Gets Busy with President's Defense Program •. • Complaints of "Little Business" Are Heard ~^durtjul U/. )^LcJcaJu£ SUMMARIZES THE WORLI • Western Newspaper Union. Rush Defense Plan Bill T EADERS in congress lost no J-' time in carrying forward the national defense program which President Roosevelt had offered in a special message. Legislation to au thorize the expendi ture of $800,000,000 in naval construc tion was introduced immediately in both the house and sen ate, and steps were taken to provide the additional require ments of the army/ It was predicted the Carl Vinson house would pass the expansion bill by the middle of February. Chairman Carl Vinson of Georgia called together his house naval af fairs committee and began hearings on the measure, certain that it would be reported favorably with little delay. The President in his message rec ommended: That the present naval building program be increased 20 per cent. That congress authorize two ad ditional battleships and two cruisers during 1938. That congress authorize $8,800,000 for additional anti-aircraft equip ment. • That congress provide for better establishment of an enlisted reserve for the army. That congress legislate to prevent profiteering in war-time and to equalize the burdens of possible war. Among his recommendations the President also included appropria tions for experimental smaller ves sels; for army ammunition "and for the manufacture of army equip ment. Opposition to the bill in the house was expected to come from certain members from the middle western states. Tinkham of Massachusetts also didn’t like the program, saying it was one of cfeense, not defense, and that the President was prepar ing to get the United States into the League of Nations. Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Frazier of North Dakota de manded that Mr. Roosevelt make public the foreign policy he expects to follow behind increased arma ments. New Fleet Commander A dmiral claude Charles BLOCH, new commander of the United States fleet, assumed his duties at San Pedro, Calif., replac ing Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn. In the colorful ceremonies Admiral Bloch made a brief address, saying: “I wish to emphasize to the of ficers and men of the fleet that our only justification for being is to be ready to fight. “We have fine ships and, knowing you men as I do, I know that you will continue your hard work and unselfish devotion to duty so that our navy always will be ready and second to none." U.S. Avoids Entanglement p EPRESENTATIVES of Great Britain, .France and Russia in the League of Nations council meet ing in Geneva were ready to adopt a resolution to aid China by send ing her war munitions, but awaited the co-operation of the United States. The scheme was proposed to Washington informally, and was as informally rejected after Presi dent Roosevelt had conferred with Secretary Hull and others. Mr. Hull indicated our policy would not be changed and that America would take no leadership in aiding China. Turn of LIHle Business CALLED to Washington from all parts of the country by Secre tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, some 500 representatives of “little business” undertook to formulate a re covery program for submission to Pres ident Roosevelt. Mr. Roper and his as sistant, Ernest Draper, took part in the preliminary dis cussions, and since the President could not ' receive all of them a small com mittee was named to take their pro posals to thq White House. According to reports from the capital, the President desires legis lation for federal .financing of small industries to stimulate business. This would require the creation of a new government agency unless the power were granted to the Re construction Finance corporation. Three chief complaints of the small business men are: The undivided profits tax has pre vented them from accumulating a *‘rainy day” surplus. The capital gains and losses tax has frozen capital and prevented the encouragement of new enter prises. Monopolistic practices arff pre- Secretary Roper ’S WEEK IPt ItfP" MM Admiral Claude Charles Bloch, shown above, has assumed com mand of the United States fleet, succeeding Admiral Hepburn. The transfer was made at San Pedro, Calif. senting increasing hazards to their successful operations. Congress and the administration already are busy with steps to cor rect these alleged abuses. Big Business Scared Again M EANWHILE big business—and the country generally—was discussing with considerable appre hension the declaration by the Pres ident that industry must reduce prices and at the same time keep wages up. An immediate result was the crash of prices on the stock exchanges, the decline reaching as high as< 7% points. Commodities declined in sympathy with stocks. “If industries reduce wages this winter and spring,” the President said at his press conference, “they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying—they will be fostering a downward spiral and they will make it necessary for their government to consider other means of creating purchasing pow er.” Many congressmen. Democrats as well as Republicans, took issue with Mr. Roosevelt’s logic and eco nomics, pointing out that industries lack the resources to keep wages up on a falling market because their funds have been depleted by the un» distributed profits tsuc. —•¥■— Row Over Coal Prices V/TINIMUM prices for % coal ari marketing regulations fixed by the national bituminous coal com mission have aroused a storm of complaints. Resentment was espe cially strong in Illinois, which, though ranking third among soft coal producing states, is not repre sented on the commission. Six coal companies started court action in Chicago to restrain en forcement of the price schedule, and Chicago itself contemplated similar action. The cities of Rochester, N. Y.; Cleveland, Ohio; and St. Louis, Mo., complained of high and unfair coal rates and appealed to the courts to suspend the commission’s orders. Democrat In Stiewer's Seat G OV. CHARLES MARTIN of Ore gon appointed Alfred Even Reames of Salem to serve out the unexpired 11 months of the term of Sen. Frederick Stiewer, who re signed to enter private law prac tice. Mr. Reames, a lawyer sixty- seven years old, thus becomes the first Democratic senator from Ore gon since 1921. He is chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic state central commit tee. He will not seek to succeed himself in the senate. —*— John Roosevelt Wedding Plan JOHN ROOSEVELT, youngest son J of the President, and Anne Lind say Clark are to be married in Nahant, Mass., on June 18. The groom’s brother Franklin will be his best man. Rev. Endicott Pea body, headmaster of Groton school, who has officiated at the weddings of all the President’s sons as well as that of the bride’s parents, and Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Epis copal bishop of Massachusetts, will officiate. Following a six weeks’ honeymoon the couple will live in a Brookline apartment, as young Roosevelt ex pects to work in a Boston advertis ing agency. 1 Hon Controls Canned Music T HE American Federation of Mu sicians will control the output of canned music (music recorded by mechanical means for broadcast) in nearly 589 radio stations in the country in a new contract between the musicians and the principal re cording companies, the chain radio broadcasting companies, and the in dependent affiliates. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton tffffff fyffT? VVfVfflMMir t N EW YORK.—If a prisoner hadn’t jumped out of a two- story window and escaped, 123 years ago, newspapers today wouldn’t be front- Biggest Star paging the de- Traced to scription of the 2-Story Leap biggest star in the universe, 3,000 times larger than the sun. They should have named the star Napo leon, instead of Epsilon Aurigae. His was the touch-off of events ter- restial which finally ranged out 3,000 light years and brought news of the giant star. Chronologically, as the astronomers would put it, it was like this: Freiderich Georg Wilhelm Struve was a studious German youth who wanted to be an astronomer, but lacked opportunity for study. For no apparent reason, a ranging band of Napoleon’s scouts seized him and locked him in a prison on the banks of the River Elbe. He timed his high window-dive to the passing of a queer-looking ship, made a long, hazardous swim and was pulled aboard. The ship was homeward bound to Russia. The czar was a patron of astronomy. The young man was encouraged and became not only director of the observatory of the University of Dorpat, but one of the founders of modern astronomy, with Herschel and Bissel. His sons and grandsons became famous astronomers and it is his great-grandson. Dr. Otto Struve, who, with his assistants at Yerkes observatory of the University of Chi cago at Williams Bay, Wis., discov ers the facts about Epsilon Aurigae. He is director of the observatory. He arrived here in 1921, after fight ing with the white armies in Russia and fleeing to Turkey with their col lapse. - He became director of Yerkes observatory five years ago at the age of thirty-four. • • • I N THE new movie, “Hollywood Hotel,” Bennie Goodman, trump eter and swingster, again demon strates that he gets all the college trade. The boys ‘Grunt-Iron whinny with ex- Muric Makes citement at Mr. Kids Whinny Goodman’s most off-hand toot. Ex peditions sent by this department into the far domain of youth say it’s that way all over the country, particularly among the collegians. The Dossier says he does it with his “gut-bucket, barrel-house, screw-ball and grunt-iron music.” Be that as it may, it nets him $100,000 a year. At the age of ten, he was a semi- pro vaudeville musician, earning around $2 a week in Chicago’s Ghetto. He was the eighth of eleven children of a tailor who earned $20 a week. He bought a mail order clarinet on the installment plan, and, by the time he was thirteen, was a full-fledged journeyman mu sician, but still in short pants. He first got out in front in Cali fornia, running his first band in 1931. He slumped down to $40 a week in 1934, moved in with Billy Rose, hit his stride again, and, via radio, is a recent arrival in the top-money brackets. He is twenty-seven, tall, dark, ath letic, good-looking, with rimless oc tagonal glasses, and, the more sav age his music, the more money he makes. • * • F ranklin mott gunther, American minister to Rumania, decorously, and quite unofficially, he says, challenges the new anti- Semitism in Ru- Mr. Gunther mania. He is a Created Big suave career dip- News in 1914 lomat who once pulled headlines as big as a Rumania war would get today. That was in 1914, when there was less news. He was a guest on a yacht an chored in Christiania harbor. The harbor master told him that spot had been saved for Kaiser Wil helm’s yacht. There was an argument and the harbor master said Mr. Gunther had clipped the cap off his head and wouldn’t pick it up. It boiled up in to a big international story, but Mr. Gunther came through it nicely to continue representing his country in many foreign ports. President Coolidge made him min ister to Egypt in 1928. He is a na tive of New York, fifty-two years old, an alumnus of Harvard. <£) Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Author of “God Save the King” The origin of “God Save the King” has been wrapped in mystery for centuries. It was first sung by Harry Carey at a dinner to cele brate the capture of Portobello by Admiral Vernon in 1740, according to Pearson’s London Weekly. Carey admitted authorship of the words, but refused to commit himself about the music. The song achieved in stant success on the wave of patri otism that followed the declaration of Bonnie Prince Charlie as king. English citizens sang it everywhere as a retort in favor of the legitimate monarch, and it was first sung in the presence of the monarch, at Drury Lane in September, 1745. DORIS DEDFS column Boy Deserves Credit for Clinging to Aim Despite Objections. D EAR MISS DENE: I am twenty- one years old and have planned to marry a boy of twenty-two who has just started working. His father objects to me and has refused to let the boy see me any more. My fiance has consented to his father’s wishes. He came to me, told me the truth and said that until he could support me without his fa ther’s help, he would not see me any more. So long as he is relying on his father, he will not go back on his word not to see me. I don’t know what to think or what to do.— Nancy Y. In the same mail comes a letter from the sister of Nancy who says she knows her little sister is seeking my advice—and wishes to tell me the true facts of the case. “I know,” writes the sister, “that this boy doesn’t care for N. as he should or he would have stuck to her through thick and thin. She is making a fool of herself and break ing her heart over a worthless man. I only want to help her but I want you to tell her that this boy isn't the man for her and that he has shown clearly that he doesn’t love her.—Sarah.” ANSWER—Sorry, Sarah, but I can’t condemn the boy out of hand. He must have a fair trial before be ing dismissed as an utter cad and a lukewarm lover. And Nancy must be given an honest answer, not an outburst of angry oratory at the expense of men in general and Nan cy’s true love in particular. Don’t forgjet the boy is only twen ty-two—and not yet able to make his own living apparently. That makes it necessary for him to live with father and mother for a while. True, if he w#re constructed of heroic ma terial he’d go out into the cruel cold world to starve in the cause of true love—but heroes aren’t pop ular in these modern times. And with so much unemployment and depression in the world just now, I for one could not praise a boy who added to the sum total of the world’s human misery by voluntarily join ing the bread line. This lad has had to compromise with his fate. He must live with his father who has exacted from him a promise never to see his fair lady again. Having promised the hero shows a commendably honor able spirit in refusing to break his word on the sly. There is certainly something to be said for him in holding strongly to his purpose. No one can blame Nancy for feel ing hurt and miserable over the sit uation. No one can blame her for seeking to mend her broken heart as best she may. But she need not feel that her erstwhile fiance is ei ther a cad or a coward. D EAR DORIS DENE: I am a high school girl and very un popular. Even the girls don’t seem to like me. I am never invited to anything and as it is very hard for me to make new friends, my chance never improves. I am usually at home alone. Can you give me any help?—T. A. S. ANSWER—Again and again I beg of the girls who come to me with a problem like this, to give me some thing constructive in the way of a personal analysis. There are dozens of reasons for unpopularity. It is easy to say that in general a girl will get over her self-consciousness by taking up in terests which distract her mind from thoughts of herself but so often this rule doesn’t work because the victim of unpopularity is a special case and needs special instructions. There are many girls who are un popular simply and solely because of their lack of vitality. They may seem colorless and uninteresting, dull and stupid because of ill-health —or some lack of energy which could be remedied if they found out the truth about themselves. There are girls whose inability to make friends rests solely on the fact that they have forbidding manners that are aloof and frigid. These girls will tell you con fidently that they have friendliest feelings in the world toward everyone and want to be liked—yet if they write a long intimate account of themselves it will very often be revealed that they are super critical and extremely sure of their own opinions. They are humble about their lack of pop ularity yet amazingly arrogant in connec tion with other matters. And there are always girls who simply need to attend to their ap pearance in order to attract some of the attention they crave so. Un tidiness and slovenliness have more effect on the high school audience, than the average girl in her teens suspects. The very young genera tion is critical of the dowdy, down- at-the-heel girl whose hair is al ways a mess and whose general ap pearance is frumpy. Even a lim ited income can be made to pro duce at least one trim costume for school use. * But as I say, one can’t lay down hard and fast rules. One must hear about the patient’s symptoms first. Will the girls who write me on this absorbing topic, give me some ink ling as to what manner of human beings they are. The more they write, the more they reveal in some way or other what their drawbacks and their virtues may be. I shall be glad to answer all questions on this subject if I am given some thing to go on. © Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. Stitches In Time 1323 ms A STITCH in time goes a long way toward making your days brighter and your burdens lighter when the bustling, busy days of Spring roll ’round. No time then for leisure hours with your sewing kit, and fortunate in deed are the early birds who have got on with their Spring wardrobe. The moral?—make your selec tions now and be off to the races when the season starts! Practical House Coat. There is a versatility to this clever pattern which makes it a prime favorite for the style con scious and the thrifty. Designed in two lengths, it lends itself per fectly to either of two needs—as an apron frock in gingham or seersucker for busy days around the house, or as a full length beach or sports coat in chintz or linen crash. The princess lines are smooth and flattering and there are just seven pieces to the pat tern—a cinch to make and a joy to wear. Slimming Silhouette. This handsome frock in linen or crepe does wonders for the full figure, sloughing off pounds here and bulges there with the utmost ease. Streamlined from the shoul ders and buttoned at the waist with two graceful scallops, this is the sort of frock which answers your need perfectly for almost any social or shopping excursion, a standby to see you through the Summer. There is a choice of long or short sleeves and the sim plicity of the design—just eight pieces in all—insures success even for the inexperienced in home sewing. Attractive Apron. “Swell” isn’t a word the teach er recommends but it is highly appropriate in describing this handy apron frock which goes about the business of being an honest-to-goodness apron, not just a postage stamp model to wear for effect. Appealing in design, easy to wear, extremely service able, with two convenient pockets, this perfectly swell qpron was de signed by a busy housewife who kneV her oats! Six pieces to the pattern. The Patterns * Pattern 1323 is designed for sizes 14 to 46 (32 to 46 bust). Size 16 requires 5% yards of 35 or 39 inch material for short length without nap. Five yards of braid required for trimming. House coat length 7% yards. Pattern 1448 is designed for sizes 36 to 52. Size 38 requires 5 yards of 35 or 39 inch material, plus % yard contrast. Pattern 1439 is designed for sizes 34 to 48. Size 36 requires 2% yards of 35 inch material. Five and one-half yards of bias strips required for finishing. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. It Has the Goods If there is any justification for vanity, the peacock is one vain animal that is entitled to be so. A smart housewife leaves the cookie jar unhidden so as to save the jelly-cake. True love is a gift to the young; and sometimes they can make it “last over” to old age. What Education Is For No man regrets going to college, even if it doesn’t enable him to make money. It gives him the un derstanding to comprehend so many things. One of the gifts to man which is just as good as it ever was is the multiplication table. CATCH COLD EASILY? VICKS Va-tro-nol helps prevent many colds COLDS HAN6 ON AND ON ? V ICKS VapoRub helps end a cold quicker FOLLOW VICKS PLAN FOR BETTER CONTROL OF COLDS Pul/ details oj the Plan in each Vicks Packag Tail Still a Tail Abraham Lincoln once asked a deputation: “How many legs would a sheep have if you called his tail a leg?” The deputation answered promptly: “Five." “No,” said Lincoln, “it would not; it would have only four, for call ing a tail a leg does not make it one. CHEW LONG.BILL NAVY TOBACCO Elysian Fields I verse, and into these fields a mor- Books are the true Elysian fields tal may venture unappalled.—Al- where the spirits of the dead con- J exander Smith. Calotabs Help Nature To Throw Off a Cold Millions have found in Calotabs a most valuable aid in the treat ment of colds. They take one or two tablets the first night and re peat the third or fourth night if needed. How do Calotabs help nature throw off a cold? First, Calotabs are one of the most thorough and dependable of all intestinal elimi- nants, thus cleansing the intestinal tract of the virus-laden mucus and toxins. Second, Calotabs are diuretic to the kidneys, promoting the elimination of cold poisons from the blood. Thus Calotabs serve the double purpose of a purgative and diuretic, both of which are needed in the treatment of colds. Calotabs are quite economical; only twenty-five cents for the family package, ten cents for the trial package.—(adv.)