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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1938
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
N EW YORK.—Many years ago,
in South America, this writer
was always hearing somebody mut
ter “Perros!” (dogs), as he passed
_ by. It expressed
Propaganda dislike of all North
Trick Hurt Americans. Upton
U. S. Trade Sinclair’s book,
“The Jungle,
about the Chicago packing houses,
had been carefully mistranslated, in
a widely circulated version, which
made multitudes of South Ameri
cans believe all North Americans
ate dogs. Even in remote jungle
towns, I found European trade
scouts and salesmen making dili
gent use of the book. It was the
neatest trade propaganda trick of
the century.
The one-sided battle has contin
ued through the decades. Late re
ports are that South American ra
dio stations are belting Uncle Sam
with everything at hand, and, to
the same degree, apostrophizing It
aly, Germany and Japan.
For this reason, there appears
to be more than meets the eye
in the printed story of our new
airwave rearmament, and the
assignment of a new short-wave
channel for broadcasts to South
America.
With Secretary Hull, Dr. L. S.
Rowe, director general of the Pan-
American union, pleads for “strong
er cultural ties” in the first broad
cast. Spanish translations follow
the English version.
While all this is in the name of
“peace and good-will,” and official
announcements carry no hint of a
_ .. . defensive propa-
Radio Aide ganda war, it ap-
in Fighting pears to be the an-
C/. S. Smear swer—perhaps the
only possible re
ply—to the widespread smearing
campaign against the U. S. A. in
Latin American countries.
The sixty-six-year-old Dr. Rowe
is a happy choice to head Ameri
ca’s “cultural,” if not propaganda,
outreach in this direction. He has
become widely known and decidedly
persona grata in South America in
his 32 years of pleading and prose
lyting for solidarity, friendship and
understanding in the Americas.
He has fraternized with South
Americans more than any other
northerner, lecturing, writing,
evangelizing and expounding his
doctrines of friendly co-opera
tion—always on the high plane
of cultural and intellectual inter
course. He has been head of the
Pan-American union since 1920,
succeeding John Barrett.
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L IFE begins at forty for Gracie
Fields, English Music Hall ac
tress, who curtsies to the king and
becomes a commander of the Order
of the British Em-
■Jane Alger pire. It is another
Career of Jane Alger story,
Stare Star this tale °* the
Lancashire mill
girl who became the highest-paid
entertainer in the world.
Her earnings from her 5,000,000
gramophone records, and from the
stage and cinema have reached
$750,000 a year. Her film, “Mr.
Tower of London,” ran seven years.
She lives simply with her
mother, who manages her af
fairs, and never has anything
more than pocket money. Ev
ery so often she visits Rochdale,
the mill town where she sang
for pennies at the age of seven,
and has a rollicking time, sing
ing for her old friends.
She was a “half-timer” in the
cotton mills, half the day in school
and half at work.
In 1930, she made a brief appear
ance at the Palace theater in New
e , York. It wasn’t
Act Spoiled much of a suc-
by Fear of cess. She ex-
Cum-Chewere plained afterward
that she had been
warned in England that entire audi
ences in America chewed gum to
gether and in time, with dreadful
facial contortions. This frightened
her and spoiled her act, although,
she admitted, there was only one
observable gum-chewer.
She was glad to land safely in
England, where she is widely be
loved and known as “Good Old Gra
cie.”
Just a few days before her forti
eth birthday, she returned home
from a party at four o’clock in the
morning. The milkman, the police
man on the beat and a street-
sweeper ceremoniously handed her
a morning paper with her name in
the king’s honor list. She is tall,
blonde and merry.
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News Review of Current Events
LID OF TVA BLOWN OFF
Chairman Morgan Demands Congressional Inquiry
. . Refuses to Resign . . Spanish Cruiser Torpedoed
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Evidently these three leaders in the fight about the administration-
backed “Third Basket” tax bill did not get enough pro and con on the
house floor. They continue their argument in the corridor, with the bill’s
author. Representative Fred Vinson of Kentucky, right, rebuking Repre
sentative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, left, for his opposition
to the measure. Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina,
center, who introduced the bill to the house, backs Vinson.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLE
IMPROVED^
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 20
KEEPING THE BODY STRONG
LESSON TEXT—Mark 6:53-56; Judg. 13:
12-14; I Cor. 3:16, 17; Rom. 12:1, 2.
GOLDEN TEXT—Now therefore beware,
I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong
drink, and eat not any unclean thing.—Judg.
13r4.
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Body God Gave
Us.
JUNIOR TOPIC—For Jesus* Sake.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
What Liquor, Drugs, and Tobacco Do to
Health.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
How Intemperance Affects Health.
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
A. E. Morgan
Berry Claim Cause of Row
T ONG existing warfare between
■ L/ Dr. A. E. Morgan, chairman of
the Tennessee Valley Authority, and
his fellow directors, David Lilien-
thal and Harcourt
Morgan, has come
to a climax, due to
the claims of Sen.
George L. Berry
for $5,000,000 be
cause his alleged
marble quarries
were flooded in the
Norris dam area.
Doctor Morgan has
demanded a show
down in the form of
a congressional in
vestigation of the whole TVA setup
and its activities.
A commission appointed by a fed
eral court in Tennessee reported the
claims of Berry and his associates
were worthless because their prop
erties could not be profitably operat
ed commercially.
Chairman Morgan then issued a
long statement revealing that the
quarrel in the authority was due not
to differences between himself and
his colleagues over policy, but to his
efforts to obtain “honesty, openness,
decency and fairness in govern
ment.”
Dr. Morgan intimated that the
Berry deal was only a part of the
issue of honesty and decency which
he had to face and that there was a
lot more he would like to tell a con
gressional committee.
Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan
retaliated with a long defense state
ment, severely criticizing the chair
man and suggesting that he retire
from the commission. President
Roosevelt made public this state
ment, leading observers to believe
he rather sided with them. But
Chairman Morgan replied that he
would not resign under fire and in
a letter to Representative Maverick
of Texas reiterated his demand for
an investigation by congress. Reso
lutions for such an inquiry were in
troduced, and Senator Norris, pa
tron saint of TVA and similar proj
ects, sought either to smother the
proposed probe or to see that it
was carried on by friendly hands.
In the midst of the rumpus Lilien
thal announced that the government
is willing to buy the properties of
private electric power companies in
the TVA area provided the owners
will sell them at sacrifice prices.
The utility officials interested were
invited to meet him and Harcourt
Morgan for a discussion. Lilienthal
said that if the proposed purchases
were carried out, private power en
terprises would be eliminated in
northern Alabama, northeastern
Mississippi and nearly all of Ten
nessee. He also announced that the
TVA would be ready to advance cit
ies in the area, otherwise unable
financially to purchase local power
plants, funds from an appropriation
of $50,000,000 voted by congress in
the recently amended TVA act.
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Franco Warship Sunk
CPANISH insurgents sustained a se-
^ vere loss when their cruiser Ba-
leares was torpedoed and sunk in
a big naval battle off Cartegena.
The 10,000-ton cruiser went down
in flames and probably about 300 of
her crew were drowned. Some 400
others were rescued by two Brit
ish destroyers.
The loyalist attack by warships
and planes was carefully planned to
break the rebel blockade of govern
ment ports on the Mediterranean
coast. The loyalist authorities were
highly elated by this victory in what
they called the first real naval bat
tle of the civil war, and War Minis
ter Prieto said they were now pre
pared to fight the conflict to a finish
on the seas.
The British admiralty announced
that two British destroyers were at
tacked by five airplanes off the
Spanish coast while on "anti-pira
cy”. patrol duty. There were no
casualties.
General Franco was reported to
be reorganizing all his troops from
Africa so that he can carry on if
Mussolini withdraws the Italian con
tingents in accordance with the ex
pected agreement with Great Brit
ain. Conversations to lead to that
agreement were started by British
and Italian diplomats.
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We Take Two Islands
T JNDER orders from the Presi«
^ dent, Secretary of thfe Interior
Ickes added to the island posses
sions of the United States which he
supervises two little bits of land in
the Pacific—Canton and Enderby is
lands, in the Phoenix archipelago.
Their value is as stopping places
for transoceanic air flights to Aus
tralia.
Great Britain has held a disputed
claim to the two islands, as well as
to others of the Phoenix group. The
President’s order for control of the
islands is based on settlements
made three years ago by American
citizens. The government now is in
a position to discuss the conflicting
claims with Britain.
Included in the President’s order
are lands in the Antarctic first visit
ed by Admiral Byrd and other
Americans.
New French Ambassador
C OUNT RENE DOYNEL DE
SAINT-QUENTIN, who replaces
Georges Bonnet as ambassador
from France, arrived in Washing
ton and proceeded
to the White House
in full regalia, to
present his creden
tials to President
Roosevelt. The count
is fifty-four years
old and a bachelor.
He is a distinguished
citizen of France
and the scion of a
long famous family.
Other callers at
the White House
much interest were
the three unmarried sisters of King
Zog of Albania. The princesses
are on a pleasure tour of the United
States and it is officially denied
that they are seeking suitable hus
bands over here.
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Saint-Quentin
who aroused
Borah Hits Navy Bill
JUST before the house began con-
^ sideration of the administration’s
billion-dollar naval construction bill.
Senator Borah virtually gave notice
that the measure would not get
through the senate without a lively
fight. He gave out a statement at
tacking the naval building program
as an unjustified step toward “the
beginning of another World war—
an armaments war.”
“Such a program is not in the
interest of peace,” he said. “It is
not for the welfare of our people
These vast sums are being drained
off from the people at a time when
they are in sore distress to find
means to carry on.”
Borah is the senior member of the
senate foreign relations committee.
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Widens Tax Field
JN A 5 to 2 decision of far reach-
* ing implications, sweeping aside
more than a century of precedents,
the United States Supreme court
held that income from leases of
state school lands is not immune
from federal taxation.
Justice Pierce Butler, dissenting
with Justice James Clark McRey-
nolds, said it was impossible to
foresee the extent to which the
court’s opinion upsets the long set
tled principle of reciprocal tax im
munity in our dual system of gov
ernment.
The decision was the latest of a
series in which the Supreme court
has greatly narrowed the field of
reciprocal tax immunity.
The universe of God is perfectly
organized in every respect. Beings
that function in the spirit realm are
spirit beings, not subject to the lim
itations of the physical world. We
wlu> dwell and serve in the phys
ical world are equipped with phys
ical bodies which are ideal instru
ments for our present existence.
With all their shortcomings and
ffailties, our bodies are indeed mar
velous machines, intricate and deli
cate, yet unbelievably hardy and
durable. They are a gift from God,
and it is our express responsibility
to glorify God in our bodies (I Cor.
6:20).
I. How to Have a Strong Body.
It is obvious that not every one
has equal physical strength and
health. In some measure this is by
divine providence or at least by
God’s permissive will, and those of
us who find ourselves thus limited
do well to count on His grace for
patience to use what we have for
His glory. But not one of us wants
to yield hopelessly to our inability.
Rather we will do our best to over
come it. We want to know
1. How to cure weakness (Mark
6:53-56).
God alone can heal the sick. Even
in our day when science has made
such strides in the healing art, we
note that the most successful rem
edy or system of treatment is the
one that clears the way for what
men call nature, but we know to be
God, to work. Jesus healed the
multitudes in the land of Gennes-
firet; He heals in America.
2. How to prevent weakness
(Judg. 13:12-14).
The mother of Samson, who was
to be a Nazarite, was to drink no
wine and to observe careful dietary
regulations before he was born.
Note also that if it is bad for a
man to have such poisons in his
veins before he is born, surely it is
poor judgment to put them in after
he comes to the age where he con
trols his own life. We need to
watch our diets, and we have much
valuable help on that point. We
also need to give serious attention
to the use of narcotics. It may
surprise some to know that the
term narcotics includes not only
drugs and alcoholic beverages, but
also tobacco, and such common
things as tea and coffee.
Other abuse of the body, such as
overwork, neglect of rest, etc., may
well be mentioned. The besetting
sin of some Christian workers is the
destruction of their bodies, the very
temple of the Holy Ghost, by over
work.
II. How to Use a Strong Body.
Unfortunate as it is to observe
that some who would serve the Lord
have to struggle with the weakness
of the body, it is far sadder to
note that all too often those who
have strong bodies forget to use
that strength for God. Our Scrip
ture portions give us two excellent
guiding principles. Our bodies
should be
1. Kept for God (I Cor. 3:16, 17).
These verses refer to the body of
the Christian, for only of him can it
be said that his body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Spirit is a person, the
third person of the blessed Trinity.
He comes to dwell within the soul
of the Christian immediately upon
his being regenerated, thus making
his body the temple of the Holy
Ghost. A clear grasp of that truth
solves the problem of what we
should do with and for our bodies.
We must keep them well and clean.
We dare not defile them in any way.
The body of the Christian is kept
for God.
2. Yielded to God (Rom. 12:1, 2).
It is a high and noble sacrifice to
die for Christ.
But our call just now is to be a
“living sacrifice.” There are times
when that may seem harder than to
be a martyr. We do know that
it is not always easy to live through
the drab, difficult, and sometimes
dreadful days, with a clear and
shining testimony for Christ. But
it can be done and is always to
His glory. It is by the transform
ing grace of God that we are en
abled to live such a life.
Meditation
It is the mark of a superior man
that, left to himself, he is able
endlessly to amuse, interest and en
tertain himself out of his personal
stock of meditations, ideas, criti
cisms, memories, philosophy, hu
mor and what not.—George Nathan.
Like Unto Him
“There should be no greater com
fort to Christian persons than to be
made like unto Christ by suffering
patiently adversities, troubles, and
sickness.
Pretty Things for Easter
/ TPHESE three dresses are up
high on the list of fashion’s fa
vorites, and you can easily make
them at home by using our simple,
easy-to-follow patterns, each ac
companied by a complete and de
tailed sew chart. Start right now,
for even if there’s a shiver in the
air at this moment, Easter is not
very far off! And you’ll want to
be ready!
Dress With Lifted Waistline.
This is a very, very popular
fashion because it makes you look
so slim and graceful, what with
the waistline high in front, and
soft gathers above it, the gently
flaring skirt. Made up in a pretty
print or silk crepe, it will be lovely
for Easter and for all Spring.
A Jumper Frock for Girls.
This is one of the sweetest and
most becoming styles ever invent
ed for girls of school age, just
about the time they begin to shoot
up so fast that you can almost see
them grow! Make the jumper of
linen, gingham or percale, and
why not make several blouses?
Everybody Likes Dirndl Frock.
The square neckline, the full
rippling skirt and tight little waist,
are so flattering to slim figures!
Here’s a charming dirndl with just
the right air of quaintness and
freshness about it. Choose a gay
flowered print, or a cheerful plain
color, pale or bright, of crisp fabric.
The Patterns.
1481 is designed for sizes 14 to
42 (32 to 42 bust.) Size 16 (34) re
quires 3% yards of 39-inch mate
rial. •
1996 is designed for 6 to 14 years.
Size 8 requires 1% yards of 39-inch
material for the jumper; 1% yards
for the blouse. Also 2% yards of
bias facing for neck and armholes
of jumper.
1480 is designed for sizes 12 to
20 (30 to 38 bust). Size 14 (32) re
quires 3% yards of 39-inch mate
rial, plus 1% yards of ribbon for
belt and 3% yards of braid or rib
bon for trimming.
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.
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