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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Perton mffffttfffffffiifMmw N EW YORK.—In 1929, at the age of seventy-one, Frederick H. Prince, the Boston banker, was still playing polo. He has great faith in the durability of Time Better men, institutions Than Reform and governments, for Bonne" as long as they be have themselves. He left for Europe to forget about business for a while and intimates that it would be a good thing if the government would be similarly neg lectful. “Washington should stop trying to reform business and leave the situation to time/' he says. Time has treated him nicely and he may well give it a testimonial. At seventy-nine, he is the grand seigneur of American business. Only four years / ago, he engaged in a hard-hitting slugfest over the con trol of Armour & Co. He got what he was after—the chairmanship of the board. He has many such trophies, having con trolled 46 railroads, and, in general, one of the biggest cuts in the Amer ican dream of any man of his day. His (mainly liquid) fortune is esti mated at around $250,000,000. But, for many years. Make* Point he says, he has of Being in made it a point to % Debt Always ^e about $20,000,- ' 000 in debt. That is revealing in connection with his ideas about money and success. He emphasizes the dynamics of money. It isn't money unless it is working. Stagnant money just dries up and blows away. Hence you draw cards even if you do have to drag a few chips for markers. He’s a little too heavy for polo, with a massive gray head, deep sunken, pondering eyes, and heavy, gray moustache; a bit grim, per haps, but not formidable. When, early in October, 1929, a small black cloud appeared on the horizon, he viewed it with a telescopic eye, saw it for what it was, and got out of the market. The cyclone never touched him. Until a few years ago, he was still riding to the hounds at Pau, in southern France, master of the hunt. He has marble palaces fiere and there, one of them the former man sion of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Newport. Remarking that he has been in business 55 years, he says this little squall will blow over ir two or three months. * • • 'T'HE reason isn’t quite clear, but, these days, the colleges compete for tuba players as well as athletes. Dr. Walter Albert Tuba Ace* Jessup deplores Prized Same this and other as Athletes phases of the scramble for stu dents in the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad vancement of Teaching, of which he is president. The fight seems to be entirely in the field of extra-curricu lar activities. No mere scholar gets competing bids from rival faculties. Since he became head of the Car negie foundation, in 1933, Dr. Jessup has been a consistent deflationist, so far as education is concerned. He wants fewer and better students in the colleges. He assails the col leges which would “teach anybody anything.” He is against education al trimmings, excrescences and gadgets, as the little Scotch iron master doubtless would be if he were looking over the current scene. Other leading educators join him in this, but the big mill has to have d • mm'll P lent y of raw ma- tSrain Mill terial, to keep on Needs Raw grinding, or else Material become just a crossroad plant. So they go after even the tuba play ers. At any rate, each can blow its own horn. Dr. Jessup was president of the University of Iowa from 1916 to 1933. A native of Richmond, Ind., he was educated at Earlham college and Columbia and gathered several honorary degrees in later years. He was superintendent of schools in In diana and dean of the college of education of Indiana university. He has won high distinction in the edu cational field and is the author of a book on arithmetic. One gathers that he would not recommend Benny Goodman for a college faculty and that quite prob ably the next Carnegie report may find adversely on the shag, the eep- er and the susy-q. He is for low kicking and high thinking, as against the prevailing reversal of this formula. ® Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Giants Short Lived The circus giant, the man with abnormally long legs or other ab normalities of frame, is a short lived human. Tall men fall into two classes, those who attain their extraordinary growth because of in herited tendencies and those who become freaks because of some up set in the glandular functions. The man who “comes by his height nat urally” usually lives a normal life span, but the freak seldom attains middle age. An insurance compa ny, given to research in such mat ters, found that a number of men ranging from 7 feet 6 inches tall to 8 feet 7 inches had an average life of thirty-four years. The oldest died at forty-five, the youngest af twen ty-seven. News Review of Current Events FUEHRER STIRS EUROPE Demands Colonies, Threatens Czechs and Says Ger many Doesn't Fear War • . • Anthony Eden Resigns IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Chancellor Hitler delivering the sensational speech in which he defied the world, declaring Germany was not afraid of war. Above him is seen General Goering. This is a radiophoto from Berlin. U/- J&uJculL/l ^SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S © Western Newspaper Union. S WEEK Hitler Defies the World P OLITICAL turmoil spread over Europe after Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in an address to the reichs- tag, declared his intention to make Germany one of the most powerful na tions in the world, gave warning that it was re-arming and did not fear war though it desired peace, and demand ed the return of Germany’s lost col onies. Furthermore, Hitler upheld the ag gressive actions of Italy and Japan, ind asserted that Germany would lot tolerate ultimate victory of the ovalist faction in Spain over Fran- Adolf Hitler co’s rebel forces. The Fuehrer told with gratifica tion of his success in compelling Chancellor Schuschnigg to give the Austrian Nazis representation in his cabinet and to permit them to act as a political party. He gave no assurance that the independence of Austria would be preserved. He openly threatened similar action against Czechoslovakia unless the Germans in that country were granted “political liberty.” Hitler’s speech might be summar ized as a declaration that Germany will ignore Great Britain, France and other western powers in carry ing out her international policies, will continue her efforts to destroy the last vestiges of the general set tlements which followed the World war; will insist that the “have not” nations must be restored to a basis of equality with the “have” pow ers, and is prepared to defy any combination of powers which may be formed against her. Here are some of the other things Hitler told the reichstag: Germany refuses to accept “cred its or other promises” in substitu tion for the colonies taken from her by the treaty of Versailles. Reports of dissension between the Nazi hierarchy and the Reichswehr are “nonsense” and in his new role as supreme commander of the Reich’s armed forces he has decid ed to “strengthen the army to pre vent the menace of war.” Germany’s relations with Great Britain can not be improved so long as British statesmen and newspa pers attempt to meddle with what the Reich regards as its own in ternal affairs. Germany has no intention of re turning to the League of Nations. R Lord Halifax Halifax Succeeds Eden EFUSING to go along with Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain in his plans to “buy” a friendly settlement with Germany and Italy, Capt. An thony Eden, British foreign secretary who has fought the ambitions of Euro pean dictators for two years, resigned from the cabinet. With him went Vis count Cranborn, the principal foreign un dersecretary. V i s- count Halifax was appointed to suc ceed Eden temporarily. This change was in effect another triumph for Hitler, was especially regretted by France, and threatened to precipi tate a serious crisis for the British government. Viscount Halifax, lord president of the council and former viceroy of India, is a personal friend of Hitler and an insistent advocate of imme diate friendship with Germany and Italy, even at the cost of great con cessions by Britain. He was sent to Berlin not long ago to talk over matters with the Nazi leaders. Eden told the house of commons that he had resigned rather than deal with Italy in the face of Pre mier Mussolini’s “rife, hostile prop aganda” against Britain and II Du- ce’s “glorification” of victories in Spain. Chamberlain boldly told the house of commons that his government would begin negotiations with^taly at once in hopes of obtaining a friendly settlement. He put forward a four-power peace plan designed to eliminate the dangers of war in Eu rope. As members of the pact, he ad vocated Germany, Italy, France, and Britain. Chamberlain went to Buckingham palace and gave King George his account of the events leading up to Eden’s resignation, and then sum moned Dino Grandi, Italian ambas sador, to a conference. With them were Halifax and Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent undersecre tary for foreign affairs. It was learned that the break between Chamberlain and Eden came to a climax a few days before when Grandi and the prime minister had a conference concerning the basis on which negotiations might be opened for a general understand ing between London and Rome. Some British leaders feel that agreement with Mussolini for Medi terranean security would give Brit ain a stronger hand in dealing with Germany on the question of col onies. French Worried, DREMIER CHAUTEMPS and oth- * er high French officials saw, in Hitler’s words concerning German minorities in other lands a definite threat against Czechoslovakia, a military ally of France, whose se curity the French are bound to de fend. There are about 3,000,000 Ger mans in that country. From Prague, the Czech capital, came word that Czechoslovakia would not even negotiate with Ger many regarding autonomy for those Germans and would not yield to co ercion as did Austria. Officials said that if negotiations are Hitler’s aim, they would be regarded as “in fringement of Czechoslovakia’s sov ereignty, and therefore not accept able.” As for the prospective British- Italian agreement, the French gov ernment was fearful that Chamber lain’s overtures to Mussolini would take a course that France could not follow without risk of alienating its own Socialist and Communist ele ments. The government, however, was determined to keep unbroken its close relations with Britain. For Price Increases DEFORE going to Hyde Park for a short vacation, President Roosevelt announced two moves de signed to restore prosperity. He declared the administration’s eco nomic policies are being directed toward a limited increase in prices, to be achieved without inflation or any substantial increase in the cost of living. He ordered the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation to renew its lend ing to industry and the railways. The President specifically men tioned farm prices as needing to be increased. On the other hand, he said certain other prices, such as those in the building industry, have remained at a high level for the last few years. No specific monetary action is contemplated to increase those con sidered too low, he added. Earle Wants Toga rjOV. GEORGE H. EARLE of Pennsylvania announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomi nation for United States senator, standing on his record as governor and continued support of the Roose velt administration. “If elected a member of the sen ate, I shall continue my Services on behalf of the principles which have marked the Roosevelt administra tion and my own administration iz Harrisburg,” Earle said. Lesson for March 6 SERVING WITH WHAT WE HAVE LESSON TEXT—Mark 6:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT—Such as I have give I thee.—Acts 3:6. PRIMARY TOPIC—When Jesus Went Home to Nazareth. JUNIOR TOPIC—On tt Journey for Jesus. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Serving With What We Have. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Serving With What We Have. One of the difficulties we mortals face in dealing with spiritual things is that we interpret things in the realm of the spirit according to the principles and measurements of the physical world. We are quick to say “We cannot” on the basis of logical human reasoning, when an appreciation of the power of God operative on our behalf would en able us to say “We can,” and hav ing left God out of our thinking we find that indeed we cannot. The lesson before us presents two pictures from our Lord’s second vis it to his home country, Nazareth. On His first visit they had tried to thrust Him over the precipice, and He in all the glory and poise of the Son of God had walked through their midst and gone His way. Now He comes again with His disciples. We then see how His home folk virtual ly made the power of the omnipo tent God impotent because of their unbelief. On the other hand we see the weakness of men made mighty because of obedience to the com mand of God. I. The Paralysis of Unbelief (w. 1-6). The world, the flesh, and the devil have brought forth a dark list of wicked things, but perhaps the most destructive and distressing of all is the foundation sin of unbelief. When we think back to the'"underlying reason for any sin or weakness in man it will be found that there is a failure to believe God. Men do not believe what He says about sin and its penalty, nor do they believe Him when He offers them grace and strength for victory. At Nazareth the unbelief which limited the Son of God revealed it self in two questions— 1. “Whence hath this man these things?” (v. 2). They could not deny His mighty works so they turn their attack on His person. “Is not this the car penter?” (v. 3). Essentially this was envy, “the difficulty of ac knowledging the superiority over themselves of one of their own num ber” . . . (Morgan). We are ashamed of the attitude of the men of Nazareth, but we follow in their footsteps. Heavy among the burdens a Christian worker must bear is the unbelief and ridicule of his own people. Be cause a man has sold us groceries, or painted our house or driven a taxi in our town we cannot see how he could ever be a preacher or a missionary. Well, he can, and it is such folk that God often calls. 2. “What is this wisdom?” (v. 2). The wisdom of Jesus was the wis dom of God (John 7:16). But how could they know that? How can \ve know? In John 7:17 Jesus gave the answer: “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” We see then that the reason for their unbelief was really an unwillingness to do the will of God. The controlling motive of their life was wrong. Had they been moved by a desire to do God’s will, and a purpose to live in accordance therewith (even though there might have been failure in that earnest effort), they would have known that Jesus had His wis dom from God. II. The Power of Divine Commis sion (vv. 7-13). Just a» unbelief hinders even the Son of God, so faith in God and obedience to His command makes of weak and poorly equipped men the mighty servants of God. In fact, their very dependence on Him for all things sets them free to devote themselves fully to the ministry of preaching and healing. Note that they went “two by two.” We have forgotten that di vine plan, and often send men into remote and dangerous pioneer work —alone. Man needs fellowship; he needs counsel and control. Consider also how they were to learn to trust God for their daily sustenance (vv. 8,9). They suffered no lack (see Luke 22:35). These rules for the life of religious work ers were modified later (Luke 22: 36), but the principle remains the same—the man or woman who is not ready to depend on God for everything had better not set out to follow Him. It is a blessed and delightful life! Resisting Interference It is someljmes pretty hard to do something you feel is right against the interference of all the world and her little brother. Sometimes it’s a good thing to say “right or wrong, that’s my story, and I’m going to stick to it,” no matter how many well-meaning friends may advise otherwise.—Guise Vapel. Mother’s Work “The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.” —Nepoleon. For Your Spring Wardrobe T^RESSES that not only satisfy ^ your present craving for something new and spring-like, but also look ahead to a later sea son, too. Make them yourself at home, for very much less than you usually spend on clothes. Corselette Waistline. If you have a slim figure, this is the afternoon dress for you! The fullness over the bust, the sleeves cut in one with the shoulders, and the lifted waistline, are just as flattering as they can be! It’s the kind of dress you can wear to bridges, luncheons, meetings, and for every afternoon occasion. Slenderizing House Frock. Especially designed for full fig ures, this house frock follows straight, tailored lines,* and fits beautifully. You can get into it in nothing flat, and it doesn’t take long to make either, thanks to the complete and detailed sew chart that comes with your pattern. Make it up in a pretty, small- figured printed percale, and trim it with rows of old-fashioned rick- rack. A Frilly Home Cotton. This is perfectly charming, made up in dotted Swiss, voile or dimity, in some flower-like color like delicate blue or pink or sun shiny, clear yellow, with sheer white collar and cuffs. It’s ideal for slim figures. The Patterns. 1442 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20, 40 and 42. Size 14 requires 3% yards of 39-inch ma terial. 1389 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 35 or 39- inch material, 3% yards of braid. 1453 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 requires 4 yards of 39-inch material, plus % yard contrasting, 2% yards edging. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. 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