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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938 / News Review at Current Events BRITISH MEXICAN ROW Diplomatic Relations Ruptured • • • John W. Hanes Named Assistant Secretary of the Treasury . V On the eve of National Air Mail week the first air mail and passenger service between Junean and Fairbanks, Alaska, was established by the Fan American Airways as the first link in its route connecting southeast ern Alaska with the interior. This photograph shows the scene at Junean as the plane, a twin motored Lockheed Electra, was about to depart foi Fairbanks. 1/ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Ministers Are Recalled F) IPLOMATIC relations between Great Britain and Mexico were broken because of the dispute over Mexico’s action in expropriating for eign oil properties. President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico took the initiative by recalling Primo Vil la Michel, Mexico minister at London, and ordering the closing of the lega tion indefinitely. The British government promptly directed Minister Owen St. Clair O’Malley to leave Mexico to gether with his staff, the legation being put in charge of Consul Gen. J. Dalton Murray. While the suspension of relations is a direct outgrowth of the oil sei zure, the immediate cause of Carde nas’ action was what he considered Britain’s “insolent” methods in de manding a claims annuity of $85,- 000, due since January 1 for dam ages to British interests in a revo lution years ago. Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay handed a check for the amount to Minister O’Malley, told him of the recall of Minister Michel, and said: “May I be al lowed, however, to call your excel lency’s attention to the fact that not even powerful states with ample re sources at their disposal can boast of having fulfilled their monetary obligations.” This, of course, was an allusion to Britain’s repudiation of her war debt to the United States. Labor and political organizations in Mexico lined up solidly in sup port of Cardenas in the dispute. The majority bloc in the chamber of deputies described the diplomatic break as “absolutely justified.” Viscount Halifax, British foreign secretary, took up the Mexican af fair on his return from Geneva. An important factor in the situation is consideration of Britain’s oil supply if war should come in Europe. When Mexico seized the oil prop erties both Great Britain and the United States protested, but later Secretary of State Hull formally ac knowledged Mexico’s right to take the step. Britain, however, twice demanded prompt return of the properties. Mexico rejected the British contention. *— President Cardenas Air Mail Week /CELEBRATION of National Air ^ Mail week, marking the twenti eth year of the service, opened when Mrs. Roosevelt accepted, for her husband, a sheet of the new air mail stamps from the Washington post master. The anniversary was ob served in many parts of the coun try, a notable event being the first use, in Chicago, of an autogiro to carry mail from the airport to the post office. *— Hanes in Treasury Post PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT nomi- * nated John W. Hanes, who has been a member of the securities and exchange commission less than five months, to be assistant secretary of the treasury. It is likely that, before the end of 1938, Mr. Hanes will succeed Roswell Ma- gill as under-secre tary of the treasury. Mr. Magill, who is on leave from Co lumbia university, is anxious to return to his old position, it is W* Hanes reported. Mr. Hanes may not assume his new duties until the reorganization of the New York Stock exchange is completed. He will be the first New Deal assistant secretary of the treasury who has been identified with Wall Street investment bank ing. When selected for the SEC he was a partner in the firm of C. D. Barney & Co. During his recent activities as liaison man between the administration and business he was looked on as the “trouble shoot er” for the New Deal. With his wide knowledge of the securities business, the new ap pointee will be of value to the treas ury, which faces important refinanc ing operations in the near future. ^ Fall of Suchow Near TA ISPATCHES received in Shang- hai said the Japanese forces were closing in on Suchow, great Central China rail junction city, and that its capture was momentarily expected. Thousands of Chinese troops were believed to be trapped in that area with little chance to escape. Encirclement of Suchow followed the cutting by Japanese columns of the Lunghai railway at which opera tions of the invaders had been di rected for five months. The Jap anese then pushed rapidly toward Suchow, taking the cities of Pihsien and Siaohsien which were desper ately defended. Gen. Count Juichi Terauchi, com mander of Japanese forces in North China, moved his headquarters to an undisclosed point “somewhere south of Peiping,” assuming per sonal command of the “final drive” to crush Chinese resistance in the Suchow railway zone. Japanese naval forces occupied the important port city of Amoy, South China. They also landed at the mouth of the Min river 130 miles north of Amoy, but were driven back to their ships. % Woman Ambassador? HERE is a good chance that the United States will be represented at Moscow by a woman, for Mrs. Charles C. Broy is under considera tion for the post of American ambassa dor to Soviet Russia, which Joseph E. Davies recently re linquished to be come ambassador to Belgium. Mrs. Broy, who is a Texan by birth, is the wife of an Amer ican foreign service officer and the wid ow of Representa tive Thomas U. Sis son of Mississippi. She was recom mended for the ambassadorship by the chairmen of the foreign rela tions and foreign affairs committees of congress, and has the backing of many prominent members of con gress. If appointed and confirmed, she will be the first American wom an to be an ambassador. Mrs. Broy was officially present ed to Secretary of State Hull by Senator Key Pittman, but the secre tary has known her personally foi 16 years. N.LR.B. Wins Point HE United States Supreme court ordered the Circuit Court of Ap peals at Philadelphia to show cause why its orders against the national labor relations board in the Repub lic Steel company case should not be vacated. The circuit court re fused to permit the labor board to withdraw its case against the steel company for the purpose of insti tuting further proceedings and thus averting judicial scrutiny of its con duct. The lower court also re strained the board from taking any further proceedings in the Republic case pending the certification of the transcript of the record. In another case involving the la bor board the Supreme court ruled that strikers do not lose their em ployee relationship. Mrs.C.C. Broy WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—Meeting Francesco Malipiero at a party in the Roy al Danielli in Venice, soon after the World war, I thought he was one of . . the most charm- Mahpiero i n g and brilliant, Was Person and, at the same to Remember time, most cryptic men I had ever seen. There was in the company another Italian musician, a famous conductor, who was the lion of the evening. I have forgotten his ap pearance and his name, but every thing about Signor Malipiero is viv idly remembered. On the way home in a gondola, I asked the conductor for an apprais al of Signor Malipiero as a musi cian. There was considerable con descension in the reply. Malipiero was gifted but er ratic, it was even hinted that he was “unsound,” in some deeply subversive sense. But my Virgil eagerly agreed that the signor was a most extraordinary hu man personality. As recently as four years ago, a Malipiero opera threw the Royal opera house of Rome into a tumult of howling and cat-calls. Mussolini banned it as “inimical to the faith and sound teachings of the new It aly.” But, by this time, Malipiero had become a world-famous musi cian, and he was soon restored to favor. This status is unquestioned as his symphony, “Elegiaca,” was given its tt* . - first performance “Outlaw of in New York, with Music Now John • Barbirolli Is Lionized conducting. For many years, criti cal opinion discounted him as some what of an outlaw and disturber. Now it has caught up with him, as it did with Stravinsky and Richard Strauss. Both the “Fire Bird” and “Salome” were met with cat-calls when they were first produced. Critics note some mj'sterious “en ervating influence” in Malipiero’s new symphony. It may be an after thought, but the explanation seems clear as I recall my conversation with him. His face saddened and he seemed ten years older when I mentioned the war. For bis ballet, “Pantea,” he had written of “the struggle of a soul hurling itself into the struggle for liberty, only to find oblivion and death.” The war had been to him a tragic and devastating experience. He said it had profoundly shaken both his art and his life. Never again would the suave flu encies or banalities of music have meaning for him. He was impelled to a deeper search. This disillusionment was subli mated in irony. He was suspected j / °* sabotaging Suspected of the grandiose new Sabotage in Italian state. It New Opera was in March, 1934, that his op era, “The Fable of the Exchanged Sons,” with the text by Luigi Piran dello, all but caused a riot in the Royal opera house. Wash Weaves Gain in Style Prestige By CHERIE NICHOLAS 'T'HERE is greater hig. -*■ style appeal in wash ma terials this season than ever The acceptance of glamorous, gorgeous lines (plain or print ed) and spun rayons (new star shin ing bright in the fabric firmament) as “dress-up” materials is one of the outstanding milestones that marks the progress of fashion. If you would see piques and cotton voiles and rippled or varied-type cloque cottons, organdies, seersuck ers (sheer or sturdy) and gay stripes or plaid ginghams or the new corded cottons, likewise cotton nets and laces “show off” in all their glory, tuning to every phase of fashion from simplest housedress, housecoat or swim suit, to most exquisite wedding ensembles, eve ning formals or party frocks, get yourself invited to the spectacular event presented each year in vari ous style centers—the Cotton ball that pays homage to “King Cotton.” However, sans the Cotton ball, you will not lose out in seeing this sea son such pageantry of cotton ma terials and other smart washables as you’ve never seen before, for all the stores are these days making a countrywide display of the love liest wash weaves fancy might pic ture. It is really a very intriguing thought to know you can go to the most “highbrow” affair and be classed among the best dressed, gowned in a simple wash voile or a pin-tucked batiste laden with val lace edgings, or a tailored gingham that is fashioned decollete, with a full skirt and bolero. Not that we are losing sight of the style element and the practicality that wash materials ever maintain for sportswear and general utility wear. That side of the question is a subject so exhaustless we will not attempt to touch upon it in these few paragraphs. There is, however, this conclu sive argument in favor of modern wash fabrics whether they be for mal or utilitarian to the effect that if you are careful to buy the right sort of washables they carry with them the guarantee of being both non-shrinkable and non-crushable. It is indeed a comfort to the woman who is her own seamstress to know that from now on with these latest improvements in tub fabrics she can buy her patterns exactly the right size without having to allow for pos sible shrinkage. In the picture we are showing three “reasons why” dresses of handsome wash materials are out standing in the spring and summer style scene—charming enough to wear most anywhere in the day’s social swirl, you’ll agree. Fine hand- blocked linen glowing with colorful naturalistic rose and bud motif (a glorious fabric for the more dressy type of “onlooker” dress) fashions the center model. Miracle of mir acles, such a “dressy” sport frock is exactly as practical as its more mundane sisters, for being pre shrunk, its “lines” and its colors ara permanent, regardless of numerous tubbings. And the same may be said for the gowns that complete th* group. For the dress to the right soft tailoring brings out the beauty of a most likable spun rayon fabric that you can rely upon to go through tubbings victoriously and that will capture your heart with its color ings and striking patternings. A Mexican motif on the print pattern ing, gay buttons, a bright raffia belt, carry out the blithe mood of the gay caballero linen print that tailors to perfection in the youthful dress to the left. Any young woman would do well to tuck such a frock away in her vacation trunk. It will insure conquests for her. ® Western Newspaper Union. So far as I could learn at the rime, there was no brash heresy in the work, but, as elaborated by the text, a subtle hint that ultimate truth is forever elusive and supreme power dead sea fruit. That, of course, is dangerous doctrine in a totalitarian state, and it was quick ly and savagely resented. The next day, II Duce forbade another pre sentation. Malipiero is a poet and a mys tic. Of dominant presence, with sharply cut Roman features and hair brushed back in a thick pompadour, he is at the same time extraordinarily gracious, friendly and unassuming. He lives in a quaint stone villa, forty or fifty miles from Venice, centuries old, rambling and tumble- down. Cut in the stone door lintel there is a Latin text, “To the ob scene, all things are obscene.” That was his answer to the critics of one of his operas. The art of living engrosses him as much as the art of music and he studiously main- Has Gift for tains a relation- Friendship ship of courtesy. With Animals dignity and friend ly intimacy with the wteatures in his retreat—he has a gift for friendship with animals and thinks that much of the trouble of mankind is due to its insensi tiveness to the subhuman and su perhuman. His music is apt to range into those zones. He was born in Venice in 1882, beginning his violin studies in his sixth year. His father was a politi cal exile and the family was in Germany for many years. Wagner was a crashing strain of modernity which profoundly affected his work. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Quarrel or Fight “Many a man seems to enjoy a quarrel,” said Uncle Eben, “on de theory dat it’s better dan a fight.” CHOOSE POLKA DOT By CHERIE NICHOLAS Dots, dots, dots are repeating and repeating in the newer silks. Here pictured is a very up-to-the-moment young fashionable wearing a direc- toire double breasted daytime dress styled of smart polka dotted silk. You have the Paris angle of a lead ing summer style trend when you choose dotted patternings. Note the oval-shape bib of gathered white net and a tie of white pique. The white pique directoire bonnet she wears is the “last word” in milli nery showings SOME HIGH POINTS IN LATE FASHIONS Dresses and coats alike have a tendency to pull fullness to the rear or the side with draping, plaits and panels. Long sleeves are by no means out, but many designers, like Lucile Paray, show elbow sleeves fer everything, including coats. Equally as popular as the skirt- and-jacket ensemble for sport and daytime wear is the dress with its own jacket or full-length coat. Jack ets are moulded to the waist and unbelted; generally single-breasted, simple in line, but feminine in ap pearance. Down to the hips is the usual length, but Mainbocher shows them tunic length, and Chanel likes waist-length jackets and boleros, many with little bustle-like peplums. Smartest Spring Dresses Are Seen Featuring Lace Some of the smartest street and tailored dresses seen this spring are of lace. And not only the solid, fabric-like laces which have been and still are so popular, but the sheerer types which have hereto fore been associated only with eve ning wear. These are seen in the simple one and two-piece versions of the classic day dresses. Some times they are all lace, and as often you see them in combinations of lace and fabric. Popular Trimming Pique for sports and informal wear; lace for dress-up occasions; organdie good the clock around— that’s the way the fashion world di vides the honors in trimming this season. Evening Mode Both the wide skirt and the straight line are popular for ere* ning gowns IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, Dean of the Moody Bible InsUtute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for May 29 MAINTAINING PERSONAL EFFICIENCY LESSON TEXT—Dan. 1:8-16, 19, 20; I Cor. 9:24-27. GOLDEN TEXT—Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. I Cor. 9:25. PRIMARY TOPIC—How Daniel Pleased God. JUNIOR TOPIC—Ten Times Strong. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— In Training for the Game of Life. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Liquor’s Effect Upon Working Efficiency. Personal efficiency is a subject which is receiving much attention in our day. There has never been so much accurate and usable infor mation as we now have regarding diet, exercise, and medical care. The mind as well as the body has come in for attention and scores of books are available on the de velopment and full use of the pow ers of personality. Some of these are trash, but others are helpful. Business is co-operating with the school and the home in giving boys and girls the opportunity to grow up to be useful and happy members of society. The church adds its im portant contribution, although we must confess that it is far from what it might be by the grace and power of God. I. A Sound Mind in a Sound Body (Dan. 1:8-16, 19, 20). Daniel and his three Hebrew com panions had been brought to Baby lon as captives, and were there chosen to enter the royal school for future service at the court. Every provision was made for the students chosen for that school. Their diet, however, included not only meat which was unclean to the Jew but wine, which Daniel knew to be un desirable. It took holy boldness to ask to be excused from that which the king had prescribed, but Daniel was blessed not only with courage, but with tact and courtesy. A ten- day test of a simple diet and water proved so successful that the plan was continued. At the end of the three-year course the Hebrews were not only physically stronger but mentally and spiritually superior. The experience of Daniel and his brethren is not just an incident eagerly grasped at by “blue-nosed re formers” to prevent their neighbors from “enjoying” intoxicating liquor. The testimony of science, of business, of experience in all ages, proves that the use of even an amount of alcohol so small that the user doef not feel its presence materially “reduces endurance, accuracy, and rapidity of muscular action of all kinds” (Emerson). It so cuts down the ability to think clearly and to react promptly to danger that it is absolutely taboo with such respon sible workers as railroad engineers. It is not a stimulant, but a narcotic, which dulls the nerve centers. Dr. Edward Rosenow says, “The use of alcohol as a beverage is never justified. There is no such thing as the right use of beverage alcohol.” Such information as the above is available in publications of temper ance organizations, books by vari ous writers, and even in publica tions by state liquor commissions. It is published in newspapers and magazines and circulated by safety organizations and insurance com panies. Yet, unbelievable as it may seem, the use of liquor is on the increase. II. Success in Life Calls for Self- Control (I Cor. 9:24-27). Paul delighted in illustrations taken from the athletic field. He talked of running a race, of fighting a good fight. He knew the athlete’s need of keeping his body under. The one who serves his school or athletic association in physical com petition gladly surrenders his per sonal liberty to the guidance of the coach. He eats carefully, sleeps full nights, exercises consistently, and above all does not use alcohol in any form. Listen to the words of great athletic coaches—Yost: “I would not waste my time trying to train or develop one who uses al cohol.” Stagg: “Coaches and train ers are dead against the use of al coholic liquors, even beer.” j Paul rightly points out that all these sacrifices are made by men for what is but a transient earthly crown. How much more should we do for the sake of our souls. Tem perance instruction may well stress the physical and mental degrada,- tion that follows the use of alcohol, but above all let us teach boys ana girls that its use has sent countless souls to eternal punishment and sep^ aration from God. We should be deeply moved by the loss of person al efficiency, but what shall we sky about the loss of a soul? Faculty of Reason Reason is a faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, and good from evil, and which enables the possessor to de duce inferences from facts, or from propositions.—Locke. Sharing Our Joy For there is no Man that im- parteth his Joys to his Friend, but he joyeth the more; and no Man, that imj:arteth his Griefs to his Friend, i-ut he grieveth the less.— Bacon.