Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON VIEW YORK.—Gen. Satumio Ce- dillo, the feudal chieftain of the province of San Luis Potosi y is mov ing out of the ruck as the No. 1 menace to the Cen. Cedilla Cardenas adminis- No. 1 Menace tration, according to Cardenas aU °? e f an glean at this crossroads.. A friend of this writer, an oil op erator who has reasons for remain ing anonymous, brings news from Mexico that the big, swarthy Mesti zo, the most conspicuous hold-out on the state agrarian program, is gain- ling a following in a long sweep of Mexican provinces, and, in this view, dissident factions will swarm !in behind him, if there is a further drift toward civil war. He has the friendship and hacking of various foreign inter ests, according to my informant, and around his huge, stolid, grim person there is gathering powerful opposition to the gov ernment. He is a self-made fighting man •who served his apprenticeship in va rious minor work-outs, before the big upheaval of 1910, when old Por- firio Diaz was overthrown. He joined this revolt, but called him- f%elf a “conservative revolutionist.’' He never liquidated his personal 'army, now numbering about 10,000, ; M and his autocratic [He Keeps Up state is firmly en- Own Army of cysted in the con- 10,000 Men stitutional com- i monwealth. When he resigned as secretary of agri culture on August 16, of last year, it was reported that he had made a 'truce with President Cardenas, but that talk seems to have been pre mature. He was a member of the Na tional Revolutionary party com mittee of 1934, which drafted Mexico’s six-year agrarian and economic plan, bat has been a determined and effective oppo nent of such fixings, particularly the Cardenas agrarian plan. My friend picks Senors Cardenas and Cedillo as the two strong men of Mexico, one being driven left and the other right by the present social tension. • • • npHE Swiss bell-ringers, the one- armed trap-drummer, the circus ring-master and all such supposedly busy and preoccupied people are _ _ just snoozing along Tap-Drummer compared to Dr. Has Nothing Morris Fishbein, on Fishhein goal-keeper against medical quacks, heresies, panaceas, innova tions, utopias and unsanctioned ex periments. When Dr. James H. Means, retir ing president of the American Col lege of Physicians, drops a few pro vocative words about self-imposed medical reform, they scarcely hit a press wire before Dr. Fishbein swings a devastating counter-asser tion. Dr. Fishbein is elaborately equipped and organized for timely blasts against any en croachment of subsidized or so cialized medicine. As editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, with head quarters in Chicago, he com mands a large staff of secre taries and assistant secretaries, trained like a fast ball club to field any challenge or dissent. He is undoubtedly the most highly publicized medical man in America. Through the journal, he reaches the nation’s 125,000 doctors; through Hy- geia, the more popularized medical publication, he carries his message to many more thousands and is a prolific writer for national maga zines. He wolfs hundreds of exchanges and eight or ten medical books ev- ery week, lec- r mas Time tures, speaks on for Fights the radio, reviews on Quacks books, writes books and, always enjoying a fight, keeps up a fast running fight against the quacks. When he finished Rush Medical school, at the age of twenty-three, he had the choice of becoming a pathologist for the state of Indiana, or an assistant editor of the Jour nal of Medicine. He chose the latter. Mrs. Fish bein, who was Anna Mantel, serves through the war with him, traveling with him and as sisting him in the biggest and busiest job of medical journal ism ever attempted. They have three children. Dr. Fishbein, plump, affable, bald, and forty-eight years old, also is deep in art, music, literature, the drama, bridge, golf and public af fairs, exercising a sharp critical judgment in all these fields. He is a magnificent demonstration of how a knowing doctor can build up his basal metabolisms. • Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. News Review of Current Event* WPA WASTE ASSAILED Senators Lodge and Davis Make Vigorous Minority Report on Unemployment Relief V<WA.V.SW&i ... . . Loan contracts totaling $36,657,000 for four cities, covering not more ♦itsn 90 per cent of the cost of proposed slum-clearance and low-rent housing, were approved by President Roosevelt upon the recommenda- tion of Nathan Straus, administrator of the housing authority. These will provide approximately 6,667 family dwelling units for over 26,000 slum dwellers. Hie photograph shows Senator Robert Wagner of New York watching Mr. Straus sign the loan contracts. ^0tLurtt/od W, J^udcaJui ^ fiTTMMAPTZES THE WORT.r SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK -O Western Newspaper Union. Senator Lodge Lodge and Davis Strike H enrycabotlodge, jr., of Massachusetts and James J. Davis of Pennsylvania made a mi nority report of the senate commit tee on unemploy ment and relief in which they vigorous ly attacked adminis tration business and relief policies and condemned the ma jority report for fail ure to investigate al leged waste in the WPA administra tion. The two Republi can senators de manded that administration leaders stop making “extravagant utter ances, in which whole classes of people are insulted and nameless in dividuals are lambasted over the ra dio instead of being prosecuted in the courts.” They then offered these further suggestions for immediate action: 1. Repeal of the undistributed profits tax and modification of the capital gains tax as proposed in the senate tax bill and general tax re duction wherever possible. 2. Encourage that which is good in business. 3. Stop congress from “wasting its time” over consideration of “such schemes” as the Supreme court en largement bill and the govern ment reorganization bill and allow the legislators to concentrate on the relief and unemployment prob lem. 4. Eliminate tax exempt securities and reduce unnecessary and bur densome social security taxes. 5. A true unemployment census should be taken to serve as a basis for scientific treatment of the ques tion of wages and hours on a na tional scale. 6. End executive discretion in tar iff matters and return to congress the control of the currency. 7. Reorganization of the agencies of unemployment and relief. / 8. Initiation of a new inquiry into the relief problem during which all persons who have constructive crit icism of the operations of the pres ent unemployment relief system would be heard. —* Wallace Is Rebuked C EGRET ARY OF AGRICULTURE ^ WALLACE was rebuked for star chamber methods by the Supreme court in a decision reversing his order of June 14, 1933, fixing maxi mum rates to be charged by mar keting agencies at the Kansas City stockyards. The court’s opinion, written by Chief Justice Hughes, reverses a decree of a three judge district court in Kansas City, upholding the order, on the ground that the com mission men were denied a fair and open hearing and that Secre tary Wallace accepted the “find ings” of the government prosecu tors without even reading the evidence. In other decisions the Supreme court upheld the municipal bank ruptcy act of 1937, and the 1923 filled milk act which bars inter state shipment of milk to which other oils or fats have been added. * "End Tax Exemptions" DROMPT legislation was asked of 1 congress by President Roosevelt to remove tax exemptions on in come from all future government bonds, federal, state and local, and on all government salaries. In his special message the Presi dent said existing exemptions re sulted from judicial decisions and could be eliminated by a “short and simple statute” which he felt the courts would uphold. Mr. Roosevelt said: “Tax exemp tions through the ownership of gov ernment securities have operated against the fair or effective collec tion of progressive surtaxes. In deed, I think it is fair to say that these exemptions have violated the spirit of the tax law itself by actual ly giving a greater advantage to those with large incomes than to those with small incomes. . . . “The same principles of just tax ation apply to tax exemptions of of ficial salaries. The federal govern ment does not now levy income taxes on the hundreds of thousands of state, county and. municipal em ployees. Nor do the states, under existing decisions, levy income taxes on the salaries of the hun dreds of thousands of federal em ployees. Justice in a great democ racy should treat those who earn their livelihood from government in the same way as it treats those who earn their livelihood in private em ploy.” Won't Deal With Hitler FRENCH PREMIER DALADIER 1 let it be known that his govern ment will not enter into any four power European treaty that in cludes Nazi Germany. In conse quence, it was understood in Paris, Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain had given up that plan for the present. Daladier and Foreign Minister Bonnet went to London and discussed Anglo-British relations and other matters relating to the peace of Europe. * Henlein Warns Czechs T/'ONRAD HENLEIN, leader of Czechoslovakia’s 3,500,000 Sude ten Germans, warned the govern ment of “war internally or from the outside” in a militant speech which quarters close to the govern ment believed bore the approval of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Henlein openly proclaimed that German Naziism is the “guiding principle” of his Sudetens and de manded that Czechoslovakia’s for eign policies be revised immediate ly as regards Germany. He warned the Prague govern ment against placing reliance in its military alliances with France and Soviet Russia, and frankly asserted that Czechoslovakia must cease re sisting Germany’s ambitions toward the east. An emergency meeting of the cab inet council was called to consider the grave situation created by Hen- lein’s demands. In Budapest 20,000 Hungarians de manded the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia at a rally of th* Hungarian Revision league. * Anglo-Irish Agreement DRIME MINISTER EAMON DE 1 VALERA of Ireland and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain met again in London and signed an agreement that brings to a close the six-year tariff and trade war between the two coun tries. The quarrel began when Ire land refused to pay England land tithes amounting to $25,000,000. The agreement leaves for later settlement the question of incorpora tion of North Ireland, or Ulster, into the Irish republic. This now seems possible of accomplishment for both parties in Ireland have nominated for first president of the state un der the new constitution Dr. Doug las Hyde, a Protestant. Hyde is the country’s most distinguished Gaelic scholar. He is the son of a former Protestant rector in County Ros common and is seventy-eight years old. Star Dust ★ The Practical Pig ★ She’d Fly to Mars ★ Back to the Land By Virginia Vala W ALT DISNEY has learned that “The Three Little Pigs’' have never lost their pop ularity; that picture is the most popular short that he’s ever made. So he very sensibly has decided to make a sequel. It will be “The Practical Pig’’ and not only will the three original pigs appear in it, but there will be three new characters, the three little wolves. The success of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” has encouraged him in his plan to continue with a fairy tale series; before long we’ll be seeing “The Brave Little Tailor, or Seven at One Blow,” in which he will star Mickey and Minnie Mouse. It begins to look as if Disney is superstitious about the numbers three and seven, doesn’t it? —*— Merle Oberon was awfully glad to get home—and home, to her, means the United States. After spending more than a year in England, mak- Merle Oberon ing pictures, she went to the Rivi era for a vacation, and the sunshine and swimming made her homesick for Malibu beach; that’s how she found out that neither Tasmania, where she was born, nor England, where she grew up, any longer mean home to her. You’ll see her next in “Graustark,” with Gary Cooper and Sigurd Gurie. She’s awfully glad that Samuel Goldwyn did something about changing her from an exotic looking siren to a normal girl; seems she didn’t care for the type of beauty that was wished on her when she first came to this country to make pictures, any more than Myrna Loy cared about playing Oriental vamps just because her eyes were set on the bias. * If Joan Crawford decided that she wanted to fly to Mars she’d prob ably succeed. Time after time she has set her heart on doing a thing, and then worked determinedly until she accomplished it. Now it’s sing ing that keeps her busy when she is not acting before the screen; she wants to sing in opera, so probably she will. Never has anyone had more determination than that girl possesses! She went to New York recently, and her admirers prompt ly gathered about the carriage en trance of her hotel. They proved, when she last visited New York, that they were as determined as she. Morning, noon and night some of them were there, and she, unlike some movie stars, admitted that she was delighted. Furthermore, she let them know it. Columbia university undergradu ates have acquired the habit of vot ing for Madeleine Carroll in a poll that is held each spring. The stu dents vote for the girl who would be “the most desirable companion on a desert island,” and she is the winner for 1937 and 1938. Their reasons — her ability to speak French, her blue eyes, blonde hair, classic profile and attractive figure. * Paul Whiteman and his wife, Mar garet Livingston, have been looking for a country home for what seems to them an endless time. They final ly found what they wanted—147 acres in New Jersey, on the Dela ware river, not far from the farm that Sylvia Sidney recently bought. Somehow they escaped the screen and radio stars’ invasion of Bucks County, Pa., which has reached such proportions that most people think Bucks is the only county in Penn sylvania. * ODDS and ENDS ... At last "Ivan- hoe* is about to reach the stage where the cameras will begin to turn—with Clark Gable. Robert Taylor. Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer scheduled for the lead ing roles . . . Got a good idea for a story for Joe E. Brown? . . . He's looking for one . . . Paramount has taken Little Or phan Annie out of the comic strip and will screen "Little Orphan Annie, Detective" ... The Revelers, the most famous of radio quartettes, now takes to the air regu larly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days at 6:15 . . . James Melton, once the Revelers tenor, then a movie actor, now a concert singer, yearns to sing in opera. <g) Western Newspaper Union. r-SREAT BOOKS- Rash Remark Cost Soldier Country Elizabeth James By ELIZABETH C. JAMES L IEUT. PHILLIP NOLAN, main character of Edward Everett Hale’s “A Man Without a Country,” was stationed in Louisiana about the time that Aaron Burr made his first trip down there. Nolan was young and lonely and was flattered by the attentions of Burr. Soon Nolan’s name was linked with that of Burr, and the result was, that without any purpose of disloyalty to his country, Lieutenant Nolan , was standing ready for trial by court martial. In the progress of the trial, the judge asked Nolan if he had any thing to say about his loyalty to the United States. Exas perated at the com bination of events, Nolan cried out, “Damn the United States! I hope that I never hear the name again.” The judge and the court turned white. Withdrawing for dis cussion, they re turned in 15 min utes. The judge read the verdict. “Mr. Nolan, you shall have your wish. The verdict of this court is that you will never again hear the name of your country.” The prisoner was taken aboard an American ship that sailed at once. When that ship had completed its voyage and was again nearing American waters, Mr. Nolan was transferred to another American ship, outward bound. The prisoner was treated kindly at all times and was given the best that each ship had to offer. At each meal he was invited to dine with an officer who was responsi ble that no one mention the United States or anything pertaining to it. Known as “Plain Buttons.” When the imprisonment first be gan, Nolan treated it with levity, but when it settled down into a routine of ships and voyages that showed no end he became sober, then remorse, then timid as a child. He lived for 5Q years on the ships of the American naVy, knowing per sonally more officers and men than any other, individual man. From time to time during all the years of this strange punishment, thepe occurred several crises in the life' of Nolan. He possessed a beau tiful speaking voice and was often invited to read to the assembled of ficers. One day Nolan was asked to read from the new book by Sir Wal- HALE’S VARIED CAREER Edward Everett Hale, whose life was from 1822 to 1909, was one of the most voluminous writ ers of America; his works would fill ten large volumes. Although he used every type of writing except poetry, his permanent reputation rests on the two short stories, “My Double and How He Undid Me,” and “The Man With out a Country.” Hale followed many kinds of work; he was a preacher, a writ er, a lecturer, and an active par ticipant in public affairs. Toward the end of his life, he was chap lain to the United States senate. ter Scott which someone had picked up in port. Everyone was com fortably listening when Nolan reached the passage, “Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, ‘This is my own, my native land.” Nolan threw the book into the sea and rushed to his stateroom. He did not reappear for two months. Acts as Interpreter. During the long years of inactivi ty, Nolan mapped out a daily rou tine for himself. He followed a pro gram of regular study and became proficient in many subjects, includ ing foreign languages. One day the American ship came across a slave ship that had mutinied and was drifting. The slaves were freed of their chains, but they could not talk with the Americans to com municate their desires. Nolan was asked to interpret. The slaves spoke a dialect of Portuguese and they went wild with joy when they heard intelligible words. When the Ameri can officer stated that he would take them to a specific point of land and leave them, they set up a wail. No. No. Take us home! And they began to cry out the names of the mem bers of their families that they wanted to see. Nolan was inter preting each side to the other. His voice became huskier and huskier. In desperation to end the painful scene, the American officer cried out, “All right, tell them that I will take them home!” Nolan was more than 70 years old when he died. One night he sent for one of his friends to come to his stateroom. When the friend entered the stateroom and looked around, he saw what appeared to be a shrine to America. The American eagle had been drawn on the ceil ing. On the wall was a picture of Washington, draped in an American flag. On the foot of the bed was a map of America. All of which Nolan had drawn from memory, e Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AGENTS AGENTS SELL 39 TONIC. Priced *1.00, Cost* 8c each in dozen lots. 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