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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1938
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
N EW YORK.—The Nazis haven’t
bothered Frau ' Katherina
Schratt. Unlike the Pompadours
and Montespans, usually among the
. first victims of po-
Frau Katie litical upheavals.
Immune to Austria’s “Gnae-
Naz?a Ban di & e Fra ^” as
Emperor Francis
Joseph called her, has ridden the
surf-board of dynastic and political
change for nearly 60 years. She is
now eighty-two, doing crossword
puzzles, disclaiming knowledge of
the current cataclysm, but longing
for the “good bid days.”
In those days, she was pretty
Katie Schratt, a dancer in the Burg
theater, which was under the pat
ronage of the emperor. After a hit
performance, with the emperor' at
tending, she obtained an audience.
“Sire,” she said, with a low
cnrtsey, “we cannot maintain
ourselves on the salaries yon
pay. I owe $50,000 for my cos
tumes.”
The emperor promised a new ben
efice for the theater and said he
would help her take care of her
debts. She was backing gracefully
to the door when the emperor said:
“Gnaedige Frau, why do you
leave us?”
She stayed 40 years, in a snug little
villa by the palace gates. The
emperor, after a hard day swinging
the scepter, used to drop in at Frau
Katie’s, split a bottle of Pilsener
and sing a few songs. She knew all
the mellow old tunes which he par
ticularly liked. She used to darn his
socks and tell him when he needed
a hair cut.
She refused to accept gowns or
jewels, always remaining the
“Gnaedige Frau,” but the emperor,
by an amusing artifice, induced her
to accept a fortune in gems. He
was a famous huntsman. He told
her he was sending her a wild boar
he had killed.
She saw no harm in that. When
it arrived, it had diamond earrings,
a diamond neck-
Slam Boar i ace an( j bracelets
Is Studded and a diamond
With Jewels breast pin, and its
back was studded
with precious Hapsburg jewels. The
money lenders got them, after the
emperor’s death.
She was supposed to know more
of the secrets of the realm than any
other person. She guarded them
carefully, but did reluctantly reveal
a few details of the Mayerling trag
edy of 1889.
She said Archduke Rudolf
shot himself, after killing Bar
oness Vetsera. That’s the ver
sion of the film now running. It
would make a good story if
somebody could take Frau
Schratt to see “Mayerling” and
have her write a critical review.
• • •
V/f ARK ETHRIDGE becomes
“czar” of the radio industry.
It is hard to think of Mr. Ethridge
as a czar, or even a third assistant
Simon Legree, but he clicks neatly
as an able, deft, diligent and re
sourceful executive.
While Mr. Ethridge is only forty-
four years-old, he is of the type of
. old-line, leg-man
naaio i+zar newspaper man,
Begem Career with an insatiable
ae a Leg Man appetite for news.
A native of Meri
dian, Miss., with soft southern
speech and instinctive courtesy, he
ought to be an excellent trouble
shooter for the radio, rather than a
czar. He was a reporter on the
Meridian Dispatch, studied at the
University of Mississippi and
romped on up through grades to the
managing editorship of the Macon
(Ga.) Telegraph. He was with the
New York Sun in 1926 and his old
friends there have been nominating
him today for a loud cheer in this
"corner.
He was lured back to Macon,
went thence to the Richmond
(Va.) Times, of which be was
publisher, and later became gen
eral manager of the Louisville
Courier-Journal and Louisville
Times. He spent the year 1933
in central Europe, on an Ober-
lander Trust fellowship, study
ing politics and economies and
—the only touch of anti-climax
in his career—the Versailles
treaty.
The radio has picked a man who
knows the social and ' educational
box-score as well as good enter
tainment. He is still general man
ager of the Courier-Journal, up and
coming in the new enlightened lead
ership of the South. His “czar” job
is unsalaried.
C Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Talks Too Fast
A certain doctor had the habit of
interjecting the phrase “of course”
every little while as he spoke, just
as others say “D’you see” or “don’t
you know.” But he said "of course”
once too often. For, once, when a
patient was very ill, “I hurried to
him, and, of course, he died.”
News Review at Current Events
ANGLO-ITALIAN PACT
Treaty for Friendship in Which France May Join s • s
Roosevelt's Spending Plan Starts Big Battle
Emergency rationing of troops by airplane and parachute was suc
cessfully accomplished in Texas by the army air corps during maneuvers.
This picture shows metal food container for personnel rations, bale of hay
awH a 130-pound sack of oats, with parachutes attached, ready to be loaded
on the bomb racks of the Martin bomber seen in background.
U/. J^uJceUvd
V SUMMARIZES THE WORIiE
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
• Western Newspaper Union.
Move Toward Peace
N eville chamberlain’s
dream of security for peace in
Europe through amicable arrange
ments of the democratic govern
ments with the dictators may yet
be realized. Anyhow, consumma
tion of the ideal was brought nearer
when Lord Perth, British ambassa
dor to Rome, and Italian Foreign
Minister Ciano signed the treaty of
friendship which had been under
negotiation for weeks. The pact is
designed to end the long feud be
tween the two nations, and it is
probable France will join in after
negotiations with Mussolini already
suggested by Foreign Minister Bon
net. The British prime minister,
of course, hopes that later Hitler
can be brought into the group and
that there will be formed a London-
Paris-Rome-Berlin quadrangle in
place of the Berlin-Rome axis.
Temporarily, the treaty provides
for friendly relations between
Britain and Italy in the Mediter
ranean and the Near East, but it
does not go into full effect until
“such date as the two governments
together shall determine.” In other
words, Italy must first have with
drawn its troops from Spain and
Britain must have recognized Italy’s
conquest of Ethiopia. The former
may be delayed until France has
won final victory. The latter de
pends upon permission from the
League of Nations council, which
has been asked by Chamberlain.
In essence, the treaty is a prom
ise by each side not to attempt to
change the status quo in the Medi
terranean or Red sea areas nor to
injure each other’s interests there
in any. way..
Italy is to reduce her forces in
Libya to peace time strength, and
will adhei£ to the London naval
treaty limiting the size of warships.
The Suez canal is to be open to all
natiohs equally in war or peace.
Italy will abide by the international
nonintervention committee’s ruling
on volunteers in the Spanish war
and in case to withdraw from Spain
entirely when the war is ended.
Italy declares it has no territorial
or political aims and seeks no
privileged economic position in
Spain, the Balearic islands, Spanish
Morocco or Spanish possession
overseas.
Political leaders in Berlin did not
minimize the importance of the
Anglo-Italian pact, but insisted that
the Berlin-Rome axis was not weak
ened. They were awaiting some
what anxiously the visit of Premier
Daladier and Foreign Minister Bon
net to London, scheduled for late in
April. There were no indications
in London or Paris that Britain
and France were ready yet to deal
with Hitler. But it was rumored
that Poland might join them and
Italy in a four-power pact.
—*—
Ready for Baffle
DIG spenders and little spenders
lined up rapidly for the congres
sional fight over President Roose
velt’s program for pump-priming
and relief, for which
he asked congress
to provide nearly
seven billion dol
lars. Of the total
sum, 4% billions
would be used for
spending and lend
ing to speed recov
ery from the pres
ent business depres
sion. The house ap
propriations com
mittee began hear
ings on the Presi
dent’s proposals, and administra
tion leaders in both branches of
congress laid plans to expedite the
passage of the necessary legisla
tion, still hoping for adjournment
by May 14. Sam Rayburn said all
were agreed on handling the legis
lation as an omnibus bill. He was
confident it would go through the
house quickly, and also confident of
the defeat of attempts to earmark
Senator
Vandenberg
the recovery funds to assure con
gressional control over them.
Opponents of the pump-priming
led off with vigorous radio ad
dresses by Chairman John Hamilton
of the Republican national commit
tee and Senator Vandenberg of
Michigan. Hamilton came to the
conclusion that “the President and
the New Deal are far more interest
ed in priming the polls than in prim
ing the pumps of industry.” Vanden
berg said the plan, whatever its
temporary benefit, would work a
“long run disaster.”
The priming plan, Vandenberg
said, means trying to spend the
country into better times on bor
rowed money, trying to buy pros
perity.
In his message to congress and in
a radio talk to the nation, the Presi
dent proposed three groups of meas
ures. The first involves mainly ad
ditional appropriations for the com
ing fiscal year, as follows:
One billion two hundred and fifty
million dollars for the Works Prog
ress administration; $175,000,000 for
the Farm Security administration;
$75,000,000 for the National Youth
administration; $50,000,000 for the
Civilian Conservation corps, and the
$1,500,000,000 already made avail
able to the Reconstruction Corpora
tion for lending to business enter
prises.
In a second group of measures
Mr. Roosevelt asked:
Three hundred million dollars for
immediate expansion of the housing
and slum-clearance work of the
United States Housing authority;
$1,450,000,000 for public works loans
and grants; an additional $100,000-
000 for public roads; an additional
$37,000,000 for flood control and re
clamation projects already autho
rized and an additional $25,000,000
for federal buildings.
A third group listed by the Chief
Executive referred to private cred
it. It involved desterilization of
$1,400,000,000 of gold and a reduc
tion by the Federal Reserve board
of member bank reserve require
ments which would add another
$750,000,000 to the credit resources
of the nation’s banks. With these
actions Mr. Roosevelt coupled a
simplification of Security commis
sion regulations.
*
Barcelona in Peril
CPANISH insurgents, having
^ reached the Mediterranean at
the port of Vinaroz, spread north
and south along the coast and ef
fectively cut off Cat
alonia from the rest
of loyalist Spain.
Veteran Spanish and
Italian troops, led
by Gen. Garcia Va-
lino and Gen. Migu
el Aranda, blasted
their way into Vina
roz in a single day
of severe combat,
and Valino then
started a northward
drive on Tortosa,
where important coastal highways
converge.
Franco’s next great objective was
Barcelona. His forces were begin
ning a new movement against that
city from the west, and his naval
and air fleets left their bases to co
operate. After Barcelona falls, as
it seems likely to do, Valencia will
be attacked; and then Franco plans
a final effort to take Madrid.
*
Gen. Valino
Dr. Townsend Pardoned
F)R. FRANCES E. TOWNSEND,
carrying a pair of socks and a
typewriter, arrived at the jail in
Washington, ready to serve his thir
ty day term for contempt of con
gress and become a martyr. But
the old age pension planner was in
formed that President Roosevelt
had pardoned him. The pardon
was issued upon the urgent request
of Representative C. Jasper Bell,
chairman of the investigating com
mittee before which Dr. Townsend
refused to testify.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
UNDAYI
chool Lesson
cj
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
C Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for May 1
FOLLOWING VISION
WITH SERVICE
LESSON TEXT—Mark 9:14-29.
GOLDEN TEXT—All things are possible
to him that believeth.—Mark 9:23.
PRIMARY TOPIC—When Only Jesus
Could Help.
JUNIOR TOPIC—At the Foot of the Moun
tain.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Living Up to Our Knowledge of Christ.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Following Vision with Service.
One of the lessons that seems
hard to learn and to keep constantly
effective in the life of a Christian
is that mountain-top experiences of
spiritual uplift are not an end in
themselves but a preparation for
service. All too often we come to
regard such times of peculiar bless
ing, whether in the privacy of our
own room, or in the great confer
ence of Christian workers, as some
thing which should glow warmly in
our own hearts, making us glad in
the Lord, and not as a background
and preparation for ministry to
others. One might just as well hope
to feed the physical body constantly
without any work or exercise and
keep in good health, as to feed the
soul on good things, do nothing for
God or fellow-man, and still avoid
what someone has called “spiritual
dyspepsia.”
The writer has just attended a
most unusual and blessed Bible con
ference, the leaders of which right
ly apprehended this truth. Evan
gelism was the matter chiefly in
mind, but instead of announcing the
theme of the week’s meetings as
“Evangelism” the program present
ed it as “Preparation for Evangel
ism.” That is sound spiritual sense.
We came not to discuss evangelism
itself so much as to prepare our
selves to go out and evangelize.
God help us to do it!
Jesus rightly characterized the
time in which he lived as
I. A Faithless Generation (vv. 14-
19).
“Jesus found in the valley disput
ing scribes, a distracted father, a
demon-possessed boy, and defeated
disciples.” The unbelief which
called forth the rebuke of Jesus “is
revealed in different phases. There
were the scribes, willful and per
sistent unbelief; there was the
father, unwilling unbelief; there
was the boy, irresponsible unbelief;
and there were the disciples, un
conscious unbelief. The whole at
mosphere was an unbelieving at
mosphere” (Morgan).
As we look at that depressing pic
ture of long ago, let us consider our
selves lest we also be tempted to
“limit God” by our faithlessness.
The most casual reader of Scripture
cannot help but see that God seeks
out and honors faith, Eind as we be
gin to study God’s Word with care
we realize that the fundamental of
all fundamentals is really to believe
God. Some Christian men and wom
en are living out a tremendous testi
mony for God by fully believing Him
and His Word, but many of those
who profess to follow Him actually
make Him appear ridiculous be
fore the world because their unbe
lief makes Him out to be a “small”
God instead of the infinite, eternal,
omnipotent God.
II. The All-Powerful Saviour (w.
23-27).
The keynote of our first division
might well have been the sad words
“they could not” in verse 18. But
now the Son of God has come and
the new keynote is the inspiring
words of verse 23, “all things are
possible to him that believeth.”
There is no problem too difficult for
our Lord; there is no sorrow too
deep for His comfort; there is no
challenging opportunity too great
for His enabling power.
III. Prayer the Connecting Link
(w. 28, 29).
The disciples in chagrin at their
inability to deal with the difficulty
of the demon-possessed boy, having
witnessed the power of Christ in
delivering him, begin now to realize
that evidently even though uncon
scious of it, they had come into the
powerless position of unbelief.
What a solemn warning there is
for us in the experience of these
followers of the Lord. Like the
termites who destroy the very life
and strength of wood—and yet leave
it apparently whole, only to crum
ble in dust when it is put under
the pressure of daily use—there are
spiritually destructive influences
which all but unconsciously destroy
the virile strength of the Christian.
Prayerlessness is the most effective
weapon of Satan at this point. With
out prayer there is no power. Real
problems are not successfully met
nor are opportunities grasped “but
by prayer.”
Happiness
Happiness grows at our own fire
sides and is not to be picked in
strangers’ gardens.—Douglas Jer-
rold.
Our Business
It is to you, who are grown men,
noble and honorable, that the whole
world calls for rtew work and noble
ness.
Silence Helps
The soul needs silence more than
speech.
Italian Hemstitching for a Chair Set
T HE chair set shown here is
made of an even meshed
cream linen, marked off in
squares of Italian hemstitching.
Tiny scrolls in outline stitch with
two diamonds in satin stitch are
embroidered in all the outside cor
ners. The scroll motif is shown at
lower left. The tassels are made
by raveling strips of the material
and then rolling them.
The chair back piece measures
15 by 10 inches finished, and the
chair arm pieces 7% by 7% inches.
Allow %-inch at all edges for
the rolled hems. The hemstitched
squares measure 2% inches. Mark
them in pencil. The method of
hemstitching the rolled edges is
shown here at A and B. Remem
ber that a moist thumb always
helps in rolling. an edge evenly.
Italian hemstitching is really just
two rows worked together as
shown at C and D. To prepare
the rows, draw two threads, skip
four and then draw two more.
Readers who have received
their copy of Mrs. Spears’ book
on Sewing, for the Home Decora
tor, will be pleased to know that
Jlsk Me .Another
0 A General Quiz
The Questions
1. How is the date of Easter
determined?
2. By what name is the Chinese
philosopher K’ung Fu Tze usual
ly known to the Western world?
3. What were the “Three Es
tates” in France prior to the Rev
olution?
4. Who makes the laws for the
District of Columbia?
5. How many lawyers are there
in the United States congress?
6. How much raw silk does the
United States import?
7. What is the greatest depth
to which a diver has descended?
8. How can Anna May Wong be
a citizen of the United States when
she is a Chinese?
9. How much steel was used in
the United States during 1937?
The Answers
1. It is the first Sunday after
the full moon on or next after
March 21.
2. Confucius.
3. Nobles, clergy and common
people.
4. Congress.
5. Seventy-one out of the ninety-
six senators and 249 out of 435 rep
resentatives are lawyers. -
6. During the calendar year
1937, 57,815,573 pounds of raw silk
was imported, with an import val
ue of $106,594,358.
7. The greatest depth reached
by any diver was attained by Dr.
William Beebe in his bathysphere,
in which he reached 3,028 feet
below the surface, August 15, 1934.
8. Anna May Wong was born
in Los Angeles, Calif., and is
therefore a citizen of the United
States. The only Chinese who can
be citizens of this country are
those who are born here.
9. One billion tons of steel in all
forms was in use in the United
States during the past year, ac
cording to the Scientific Ameri
can. This total represents an av
erage of 17,800 pounds in use for
every man, woman and child.
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Fingerprints Faked
French police are baffled over a
demonstration in Paris of a meth
od of faking fingerprints. The
demonstrator said that one must
have a genuine fingerprint to start
with, and this can be obtained by
shaking hands with the “victim.”
The faker wears a glove having
a plastic substance attached to
the back. This takes and keeps
the impression, which may be
transferred anywhere the faker de
sires to put it.
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