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f * McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938 'W WH0 9 S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Perten iTiififiifmm TV TTT TTTP N EW YORK.—There is hope for world peace and solvency Some day a little band of diplomats and financiers will meet in the Paris catacombs or a Diplomat* London fog, heav- Prey to ily disguised, and Pertinax P u * something over, and Pertinax won’t catch them at it. To date, the watchful French journalist has anticipated and cried down every effort, warning all and sundry that, whatever it is, won’t work. Thus, the studious proposals of Paul van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium, were blasted several weeks in advance of their publica tion, as just so much eye-wash. Pertinax is one of the most bril liant and influential journalists of Europe and anything he touches up in advance goes in with two strikes against it. As does the Van Zeeland plan for economic reconstruction. Walt Disney is readying “Snow White’’ for France. That probably means that Pertinax is preparing to swing on it, just before it lands there. One American commen tator made the film his sole excep tion in many years of dissent. Noth ing like that may be expected from Pertinax. He is the only full-time dissenter who bats 1.000. He has picked fights with Senator Borah, former Presi dent Hoover (being the only man ever to assail an American Presi dent with that dignitary present), with all the Germans, before, dur ing and after the war, and with all ambassadors of good will. In 1933, the French government announced it would spend $1,320,000 _ _ to build good will Wise Cracks in America. Per- Soared U. S. tinax, fielding that Good Will one, pegged over to this country some sour cracks about American materialism. And, just in passing, any French journalist ought to know a lot about materialists. For a few days it looked as if he might over look the recent Brussels conference, but he was on the job and smeared it in plenty of time to get it a bad press. He is at, his best in discov ering and exposing Geneva’s good will conspiracies. He is a Parisian sophisticate, dap per, dressy, monocled, getting about a great deal and nosing in various diplomatic feed-boxes—a first-class reporter; but never satisfied. One of the depressing things about him is that he is so often right as he pans this or that hopeful endeavor before anybody else knows what it A PROPOS of recent flare-ups of the behaviorist argument among the psychologists, here’s Eugene Ormandy in the news as a timely exhibit of the effect of early conditioning. Long before he was married, Eugene Ormandy’s father, a Hungarian dentist, used to say, “Some day I’m going to get mar ried and have a son-and I’m going to make him a gteat violinist.” Years later, he pressed a tiny violin into his new baby’s hand and had him coached in rhythm before he was out of the cradle. At the age of three, the boy was working hard at his violin lessons. d \a/ j His only toys were Boy Wonder music boxes. And Now Great now, Eugene Or- Conductor mandy, conductor of the Philadel phia orchestra, gets the Gustav Mahler medal, following the per formance of his composition, “Das Lied Von Der Erde.” At the age of five, he was a stu dent in the Budapest academy of music, through at fourteen, but not allowed to go on tour as a violinist until he was seventeen. In 1921, he was in New York, hoping to bridge the break in his career with his last five-cent piece. He did, as a violin ist at the Capitol theater, then as sistant conductor, later with Roxy’s gang and then six years as conduc tor of the Minneapolis symphony or chestra. He is perhaps the first conductor to be upped to fame by radio. His father in Hungary isn’t alto gether pleased. “Just think what a great violinist you might have been,” he wrote to his son. ' e Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Constitution-Maker Pelatiah Webster was a Philadel phia business man, remembered for his advocacy of a revision of the Articles of Confederation by creat ing a new Constitution in his “Dis sertation of the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North America (1783).” He is, therefore, sometimes consid ered as the originator of the Consti tution, though his plan was unlike the product of the federal conven tion. Eat Fish in Norway In Bergen, Norway, fish is served three times a day in nearly all families, and as a result, the life of the community revolves about its fish market. The Bergen housewife is a somewhat fastidious shopper, insofar as fish is concerned, and prefers to have her fish scooped up alive from salt water pools with in the market. The serving of- fish amounts to a fine art in Bergen. Farm Topics POULTRY HYBRIDS MAY BE VALUABLE U. S. Investigators Report Two Kinds for Farms. Supplied by the United States Department of Agriculture—WNU Service. In testing the hybrids produced from thirteen crosses of standard breeds of chickens in various parts of the country, poultry investigators in the United States Department of Agriculture have found that at least two of the hybrids may be valuable on many farms. One hybrid came from a cross of Rhode Island Red males with White Wyandotte fe males. The other. Barred Plymouth Rock males with Rhode Island Red females, is the one commonly used now for broiler production. Knox and Olsen, of the depart ment, say that if a poultry breeder wants to get high quality hybrid chickens, he must cross high quality parent stock in the first place. The investigators find that whenever the parents come from the flocks of good poultry breeders, the hybrids are better than those from flocks where no particular breeding work is under way. Compared with those from poor breeding flocks, hybrid progeny from the stock of the better poultry breeders lay an average of from twenty-five to fifty-five more eggs in a year, the eggs weigh more, and the layers show less broodiness. Both hybrids are superior to Rhode Island Reds for broiler pro duction. At the broiler age of ten weeks, the Rhode Island Red and White Wyandotte hybrids average about a third of a pound more, and the Barred Plymouth Rock and Rhole Island Red hybrids about two-fifths o£ a pound more than the pure Reds. For the poultryman who likes to sex his chicks at hatching time, the Red-Wyandotte hybrid offers an op portunity for a good job of sexing, simply on the basis of color. The females are predominantly red and the males predominantly white. Mastitis Hits Two Rear Quarters of Dairy Cows Which of the udder quarters in milk cows are most frequently in volved in mastitis or garget infec tion? On the basis of observations made at the Wisconsin experiment station, and reported in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Asso ciation, F. B. Hadley, station veter inarian, has concluded that the two rear quarters are more often af fected than the two front quarters, but that there is no significant dif ference in occurrence of the disease between the right and left halves of the udder. Furthermore, when the two front quarters were compared with each other, and the two rear quarters were similarly compared, little difference also was noticed. It is Doctor Hadley’s opinion that the rear quarters are more subject to contamination on account of be ing in closer proximity to the filth of the barn gutter and usually more pendulant, thus likely to become in jured when the cow steps over high door sills or passes over rough ground. The location of the rear quarters between the thighs sub jects them to greater pressure when the cow walks or lies down, which results in more disturbance to the circulation of the blood. Moreover, they produce 60 per cent of the milk, so are more active functionally, thus rendering them more suscept ible to infection. Depleted by Overgrazing Of the 728,000,000 acres of range land in the United States, support ing about 55,000,000 head of cattle, sheep, and other live stock, large areas have been depleted by over grazing, and must be restored by better methods of range manage ment, W. R. Chapline, chief of the division of range research, United States forest service, told the Inter national Grasslands conference at Aberystwith, Wales. Program^ of restoration of depleted ranges will require years of determined co-op erative effort, Chapline said. Where to Keep Eggs On the average farm it is difficult to have a satisfactory place in which to hold eggs, since they should be hefd at a temperature of about 55 degrees. Such a tempera ture will prevent germ development and retain, to a great extent, the interior quality of eggs, yet it is not cool enough to cause the eggs to sweat when they are removed from these quarters. A well ventilated basement usually affords the most desirable place to liold eggs. Flushing Sows Beginning about ten days or more before breeding, advises a writer in Wallaces’ Farmer, keep the sows in a rapidly rising state of nutrition by a liberal use of corn or similar feed, supplemented with tankage, skimnulk, buttermilk, or a combina tion of these feeds. A flushing mix ture may be made of 50 pounds of tankage, 25 pounds of linseed oil meal and 25 pounds of alfalfa meal. Feed liberally up to as much as three-fourths of a pound daily. News Review of Current Events NAVAL RACE IS PROBABLE Japan's Refusal to Tell Plans Is Starting Gun • . • Great Battle in Central China. • New Regime Set Up in Roumania ••• Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina is here pictured as he ex pounded his views on the farm bill. “Cotton Ed,” who is chairman of the senate agricultural committee, said congress should provide a billion and a half to finance the farm program, instead of the half billion to which the cost is now limited. IV. J^uJccJui * "A sttmmapt7.es the wnPT.r SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Jap Refusal Starts Race T APAN having flatly refused to re- veal her naval building plans, it is believed that the greatest navy construction race ever seen is about to start, and the United States may feel called upon to take the lead, with England, France and Japan in the competition. Our government told Japan that a refusal to divulge her intentions would be regarded as confirmation of reports that she was constructing or planning super-war ships, so now, according to some of ficials in Washington, we will have to invoke the “escalator clause” of the London treaty and build larger and more powerfully armed battle ships. The President may be expected to order increase of the three battle ships now planned from 35,000 tons each to 43,000 or 45,000 tons, and such dreadnaughts probably would carry 18-inch guns. In order to obviate the restric tions on the size of battleships that inhere in the width of the Panama canal locks and to minimize the con tingency of interruption of coast-to- coast communication through de struction of a Panama lock by an enemy, the administration is pre paring to push the project of a canal through Nicaragua. Congressmen who fear the Presi dent is piloting the nation into war with Japan made probably futile moves to prevent our government from joining in the rearmament race. Senator King of Utah and Representative Maverick of Texas introduced resolutions authorizing Mr. Roosevelt to call a world naval limitation conference, which Japan has said she would be willing to attend. Though Secretary Hull had de nied that there was any understand ing with Great Britain and France concerning Japan, opponents of the administration were still suspicious that it was planning joint action. Representative George Tinkham of Massachusetts voiced their senti ments when he uttered a warning that “every day brings the United States nearer to a war with Japan as planned by Great Britain to fur ther British interests.” This view was shared by the Tokyo press, which charged that the controversy was brought on by a secret naval understanding among America, Britain and France, and that the demand made on Japan was engineered by the British to involve the United States in diffi culties with Japan. Hearings by the house naval af fairs committee on the President’s big navy program went into the third week, with opposition dwin dling as a result of Japan’s unfa vorable reply to the request for her intentions. Singapore Base Opened ITH impressive ceremonies v y Great Britain formally opened her powerful naval base at Singa pore. Sir Shenton Thomas, gover nor of the Straits Settlements, dedi cated the great new $55,000,000 dry- dock, declaring the naval base was not a challenge to war, but insur ance against war. Prominent among the carefully selected guests were Rear Admiral Julius Townsend and his officers of the American battle cruisers Tren ton, Memphis and Milwaukee. The American squadron arrived at Sing apore from Australia where it had been participating in ceremonies marking the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the commonwealth. —*— Great Battle in China NE of the greatest battles ever ^ fought was reported to be tak ing place in central China, where the Japanese invaders smashed a Chinese army of 15,000 and forced it to retreat across the Yellow river Miron Cristea under fire and without bridges, which had been destroyed by the defend ers. Five Japanese armies were driving southward through the rich central China agricultural region and were seriously threatening Kai- feng, capital of Honan province. From the south, three Japanese armies were advancing from the Hwai river. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had 400,000 troops along the north and south fronts fighting to prevent the Jap anese from gobbling up the huge Lunghai “corridor.” China’s revitalized air force, with Russian and other foreign'fliers re ported among its personnel, was said to have bombed the Yellow river bridge at Lokow, north of Tsin an, which the Japanese only recent ly repaired. This cut the Japanese line of communication along the northern section of the Tientsin-Pu- kow railway. —• Another Dictator State I> UMANIA is now added to the European states under dicta torship. Octavian Goga’s govern ment was so anti-Semitic and pro- Fascist that it was forced out, and King Carol took charge of affairs by naming Dr. Miron Cristea as premier and dis solving the parlia ment. Cristea, patri arch of the Ru manian Orthodox church, was given virtual dictator pow- + er, but it was ex pected George Tar- tarescu would very soon succeed him as premier and that Ca^pl would create a crown council over which Dr. Cristea would preside. Much of the new government’s au thority was concentrated in the army, and a nation-wide state of siege was proclaimed. A commis sion was set to work formulating a new constitution. Cristea, the key man of the gov ernment, was expected to take steps to regain the friendship of France and Great Britain, traditional allies of Rumania, without offending Italy and Germany. Franco Masses Huge Army T""\ ISPATCHES from Salamanca, ^ headquarters of the Spanish rebels, said General Franco was getting together an army of a million men and planned a spring of fensive that would end the bloody civil war. Military ob servers believed his main effort would be directed toward a drive to the Medi terranean coast from the south Ara gon front above Te- ruel. This would ef fectually divide the territory ndw held by the govern ment. It may be that Franco will lose his Italian “volunteers,” for Lon don had a rumor that the British cabinet was considering a secret agreement with Mussolini by which Britain would recognize the Duce’s conquest of Ethiopia if he would withdraw his troops from Spain. More for Dole Asked PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in a * special message asked congress to appropriate $250,000,000 more for relief to supplement the billion and a half relief fund. He said this was necessary to care for three million persons thrown out of work during the last three months. A bill to carry out the President’s suggestions was introduced in the house immediately and speeded to ward passage. Gen. Franco Historic Hoaxes By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ® Western Newspaper Union. The Gold Machine A LCHEMY, the professed art of transmuting baser metals imto gold, has been one of man’s dreams for ages. But it remained for a Connecticut Yankee to give it a practical application which, meta phorically speaking, lined his pock ets with $200,000 worth of gold ob tained from credulous investors in his “gold accumulator.” This was the invention of Pres cott Ford Jernegan, once a minis ter of Middletown, Conn., who in terested Arthur W. Ryan, a jeweler, in his plan for extracting gold from sea water. In February, 1897, Jer negan lowered into Narraganset bay in Rhode Island, his “gold accumu lator,” a flat box containing a small battery, quicksilver and other chemicals and constructed so that the sea water flowed over the quick silver. When the box was raised'24 hours later what appeared to be gold was discovered in place of the quicksilver and the jeweler’s tests proved to his satisfaction that it was real gold—$2 worth. So he joined with Jernegan in forming a company and selling $500,000 in stock. A plant was built at Lubec, Maine, and the two “ac cumulators” began bringing up increasing amounts of gold This went on for more than a year. Then in July, 1898, Jernegan went to Eu rope and at the same time an em ployee named Charles E. Fisher disappeared. The “accumulators” ceased to produce gold, for the very good reason that Fisher, who was a professional diver, had been placing the precious metal ^in them before they were brought to the surface. When the fraud was exposed, the directors of the company who had been made victims of the fake, gave back the profits they had made and eventually the stock holders recovered about 36 per cent of their investment. There was some talk of trying to extra dite Jernegan from Europe, where he was living off the $200,000 he had obtained from investors, but nothing ever came of it. • • • Nature Faker Par Excellence *“pHE modern champion of all writ- ■■■ ers of nature fakes was un doubtedly “Lester Green,” of Pros pect, Conn. No matter how pre posterous his yarns, which several metropolitan newspapers pointed for the amusement of their readers, there have always been some peo ple who have believed them. When he told how a setting of hen’s eggs, which he had found , in a block of ice taken from a flooded meadow, hatched out chickens cov ered with fur instead of feathers, a Canadian farmer wrote to him and wanted to buy some. When he declared he had dis covered the fluid responsible for the curl in pigs’ tails and his wife had obtained beautiful permanent waves by rubbing it on her hair, “Mrs. Green” was flooded with requests from women for samples of this magic fluid. When he told of spraying his apple trees with glue, which not only pre vented the apples from falling but also preserved them in a fresh con dition on the trees throughout the winter, both American and Canadi an glue manufacturers wrote to ask what kind of glue he used, hoping to get a good “testimonial.” One Boston firm even sent a repre sentative to Prospect tp investigate his stunt. And these are only a very few of the marvelous achievements of “Lester Green” who was, by the way, the brain child of C. Louis Mortison, Prospect correspondent for the Waterbury (Conn.) Repub lican-American. • • • Spectrist Poetry r\URING the second decade of ^ the present century there was a sudden growth of new “schools” of poetry and art, among them such cults as Futurism, Vorticism, Cub ism, Dadaism and Polyphonic Prose. So in 1916 when the publication of “Spectra: a Book of Poetic Ex periments” was announced, it was hailed with delight by the “eman cipated souls” who were struggling for new methods of self-expression. The authors of this volume were “Anne Knish” and “Emanuel Mor gan” and immediately they had a host of imitators who wrote the new Spectrist poetry. Nobody could un derstand it. of course, but that made it seem all the more impor tant. Then the whole movement was re vealed as a hoax which had been fathered by two authentic poets. Witter Bynner and Arthur Davisson Ficke, who used this method to sat irize the current fad in new poetic cults. But, in a sense, the joke was on them. For those who had been duped and had become dev otees of “Spectrism” insisted upon continuing to write their verses in that form and to perpetuate the new “movement,” which still flour ished among some of America’s intelligentsia. Applique Swans Lend Fresh Note to Linens Borax From Chile From Lake' Ascotan, in 000 feet above s« half the work Pattern 1581 What more delightful needle work could there be than luring these graceful swans across the ends of your towels, scarfs and pillow cases! The patches are sim- pillow cases! And mighty little coaxing they need for you cut them out and apply them in a twinkling (the patches are so sim ple). Finish them in outline stitch with a bit of single stitch for the reeds. You can do the entire de sign in plain embroidery instead of applique, if you wish. Pattern 1581 contains a transfer pattern of two motifs 5% by 15 inches, two motifs 4 by 15 inches, and the ap plique pattern pieces; directions for doing applique; illustrations of all stitches used; material re quirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. WHEN COLDS BRING SORE THROAT Relieves THROAT PAIN RAWNESS Enters Body through Stomach and Intestines to Ease Pain * '39 Y The speed with which Bayer tab lets act in relieving the distressing symptoms of colds and accompany ing sore throat is utterly amazing . . . and the treatment is simple and pleasant. This is all you do. Crush and dissolve three genuine Bayer Aspirin tablets in one-third . glass of water. Then gargle with this mixture twice, holding your head well back. 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