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1 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 16. 1938 J% r eiws Review of Current Events OTHA WEARIN BEATEN Iowa Democrats Nominate Guy Gillette for Senate, De spite Efforts of New Dealers to Eliminate Him Scene near the French-Spanish border where bombing planes, sup posedly from Franco's forces, invaded France to attack the railroad that carries supplies from Toulouse to the Loyalists in Barcelona. ^f&LunxJcd US. J^lcJcaJtA SUMMARIZES THE WORLI SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK e Western Newspaper Union. Otha Wearin Wearin Loses in Iowa O THA WEARIN, Iowa representa tive favored by the Roosevelt administration for the Democratic senatorial nomination, was defeated in the primaries. Running far ahead of him was Senator Guy M. Gillette, who had been marked for elimination because he voted against the court packing bill. Gillette supporters said President Roosevelt main tained neutrality in the contest, but Wearin had received the approval of Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, and of James Roosevelt, the President’s son and secretary. Also, Thomas G. Cor coran, the President’s political ad viser, was known to have worked for Wearin’s cause, or perhaps it should be put, against Gillette. Gillette sought renomination for the senate on a platform of loyalty to President Roosevelt, but said he would retain the right to judge each New Deal proposal on its individual merits if he is re-elected. He was one of the foes of the President’s court reform plan, but supported the reorganization bill and other admin istration measures. Labor split as usual in this con test. President Green of the A. F. of L. favored the renomination of Gillette on his labor record. The C. I. O. groups, especially in the counties along the Mississippi river, were strong for Wearin. In the Republican side of the primary Former Senator L. J. Dick inson, uncompromising foe of the New Deal, defeated Representative Lloyd Thurston. * Canton Made a Shambles T J TTERLY ignoring emphatic pro- ^ tests by the United States and Great Britain against the bombing of civilians, the Japanese continued their daily raids on the great city of Canton, southern China port. Their squadrons of planes rained death on the city ruthlessly, until it was a veritable shambles. Probably as many as 5,000 persons were killed and the wounded were much more nu merous. The attacks were directed main ly at government buildings, railway stations and power plants, the pur pose being to destroy Canton’s use fulness as a gateway for Chinese war supplies. In Spain, also, there was no ces sation of the air attacks by Franco’s forces on loyalist cities and towns. America’s condemnation of the bombing of civilians was contained in a statement by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles which was is sued with the approval of President Roosevelt. It asserted that the American public considers such warfare barbarous and appealed for an immediate end of the practice in China and Spain. Britain officially protested against the bombings and asked the United States to co-oper ate in the formation of a neutral commission to decide whether the objectives of Spanish rebel air raids on loyalist territory have any mili tary character. About the same time Secretary of State Hull in a speech at Nashville, Tenn., expressed the hope of the United States for disarmament and the humanizing of war. Summaries of this address were ’ broadcast throughout Europe by radio. — — ■ Planes from Spain Raid France INE war planes flew across the Pyrenees frontier into France two successive days and scattered bombs near towns about 15 miles within the French border, creating a panic flight of the inhabitants and calling for stern protests by Sumner Welles the government. Electric power lines were blasted and the tracks of the trans-Pyrenees railroad from Toulouse to Barcelona were dam aged. The second raid was stopped by an anti-aircraft battery at Ur. The government spoke of the planes as of “unknown nationality,” but it was publicly presumed they came from Franco’s “Condor Le gion” of planes manned by Ger mans. Premier Edouard Daladier or dered French aviators to begin a systematic patrol of the French bor der and bring down any foreign planes cnbssing the Spanish frontier into France. France’s military forces along the frontier were immediately rein forced. Franco’s general staff at Burgos issued a statement that no rebel planes had been in the air near the French border, adding that all their activity had been confined to the south Barcelona parallel. In Paris it was believed Franco was opposed to the bombing of ci vilians but could not control the ac tions of his German and Italian helpers. * Senate Passes Priming Bill II) Y A vote of 60 to 10 the senate passed the President’s $3,617,- 905,000 pump-priming bill and sent it back to the house, after which it went to conference. Seven Republicans and three Demo crats were recorded against the meas ure. The opponents of the spending lending program lost every attempt ' to earmark the funds or impose other re strictions. By very close votes the senate re jected two proposals to forbid politi cal activities by employees in emer gency agencies. One of these was offered by Sen. Carl M. Hatch of New Mexico. It would have insulat ed WPA officials and administrative employees from politics, either in connection with primaries, general elections, or national conventions. It would have prohibited public utter ances such as the one recently made by WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins indorsing the candidacy of Rep. Otha D. Wearin of Iowa against Sen. Guy M. Gillette. Smart Republican politicians were not sorry this was defeated for it left in their hands a potent weapon for the fall campaign. Senator Hatch Lewis Bans Labor Survey PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is go- * ing to send a commission to Eng land to study the British trade un ion act. At a press conference he said any suggestions that he had in view the modification of our labor relations law were “cockeyed.” But John Lewis was suspicious and wrote to Secretary of Labor Per kins that he would permit no mem bers of the C. I. O. to serve on the mission. The British trades union act, en acted after the British general strike of 1926, prohibits general strikes. Collective bargaining is le galized, but some forms of sympa thetic strikes and strikes which in flict undue hardship on the public are banned. Labor Riot in Moscow pROM Riga, that rather unrelia- 1 ble source of news concerning Russia, comes the information that there was a bloody riot at the Josef Stalin automobile works in Moscow. Workers barricaded the streets, de molished machinery and set fire to thie factory and then fought with troops. The Soviet secret police and the city fire department were called out and crushed the revolt with ma chine guns and hand grenades. The number of dead and injured was kept a secret by Moscow authori ties. More than 3,000 persons were arrested. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON CZECHOSLOVAKIA and all that ^ may hang on its destiny is just an added starter in the up-and- coming cosmos of A. W. Robertson, chairman of the Robertson board of the West- Has Remedy inghouse Electric for Gloom & Manufacturing company. It is the always assured and hope ful Mr. Robertson who announces his company will spend $12,000,000 on additions and betterments this year, and, from where Mr. Robertson sits, that’s just a couple of white chips compared to spendings to come. Mr. Robertson is the H. G. Wells of industry. His “shape of things to come,” which he has been outlin ing for the last year or two, includes the following specifications: Migratory humans, shifting north and south like the birds. “Just whether the children will be born in the North or the South,” he said, “is not quite clear to me, but I expect we will follow the policy of the birds and have the children in the North.” Windowless houses, pasteur ized air, and artificial sunlight. One-man planes, with folding wings, kept in the hall rack, with the umbrellas. Pocket radios for two-way talk with anybody, anywhere. Noiseless cities with double deck streets. Flat houses, with a push-but ton crane which will park the the auto on the roof. He was a farm and village boy at Panama, New York, chore boy and rustler in his youth and hence not through grammar school until he was seventeen. Then he studied law in a country office, entered prac tice, got corporations for clients and then began owning and operating them. At forty-six he was president of the Philadelphia company and now heads a $200,000,000 company. He pays liberal wage bonuses and urges friendly, co-operative rela tionship between capital and labor. • * • IT WAS only a year ago that Rob- A ert R. Young, thirty-nine-year- old Texan, quite unknown to Wall Street, rode herd on the straying v Van Sweringen Young Texan system and cor- Rode Herd on railed it. It was Rail System a11 bewilderingly complicated, but, finally sifted down, it appeared that Mr. Young had picked up a $3,000,- 000,000 rail “empire” with an orig inal investment of $225,000. He is a quiet, inconspicuous, un assuming man, and now the feature writers are just getting around to calling him a “Titan.” He won a rock-and-sock proxy battle for the control of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail way. Within the last few years, he has infiltrated gently into high finance, which is just now becoming acutely conscious of his presence. His family was in and around Canadian, Texas, before the battle of the Alamo. They started the First National Bank of Canadian, which is now in the hands of the fourth generation. At Culver Military academy, Rob ert R. Young was graduated at the head of his class. Career at it s youngest grad- Culver Was uate, and later he Prophetic attended the Uni versity of Virginia. With the Du Fonts in 1916, he got his preliminary work-out in finance and joined General Motors in 1922. In 1932, he founded his own Wall Street firm, with Frank F. Kolbe, his later associate in the Van Sweringen putsch. Mrs. Young is the former Anita Ten Eyck O’Keefe, of Williamsburg, Va., sister of Georgia O’Keefe, the painter. In 1935, they leased Beech- wood, the Astor estate, in Newport. Mr. Young, a Democrat, like his father, paid $15,000 for a consign ment of those famous Democratic convention books, which congress men, badgering him at a senate hearing, insisted wasn’t nearly so much of a bargain as the Van Sweringen deal. “You are a big ger sucker than I thought you were,” said Senator Wheeler. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Languages of Nations Switzerland is not the only nation having more than one official lan guage. Palestine has three recog nized tongues, English, Hebrew and Arabic. Actually more than one language is spoke in every country in Europe but one. Portugal is the only nation having a single lan guage. In Asia, India has 220 dis tinct vernacular languages. But even with four languages Swit zerland is not finished, says the Washington Post. There is still one more obscure dialect called Ladin, spoken by a small group of oeopla Secrets of Ancients Survive Attacks of Modern Science With television soon to become a Serious rival to the movies, and giant airplanes and “press-the- button” warships things which raise little comment from the av erage man, it is surprising that there are many secrets known to the ancients which have survived the attacks of modern science, says a writer in London Answers. The Greeks could not weave lin en or wool on anything like the scale we weave them today. But they wove them into the pilema, a form of cuirass which could not be penetrated by the sharpest dart or arrow. The secret has been lost—perhaps forever. The Romans sank wells for wa ter to great depths. Exactly how they did the boring we do not know. They also made glass which would bend yet not break. This would be quite useful today. The beautiful purple dye, known of old, has eluded the dye-makers of today. And modern builders can make nothing of the strong and durable cement used by the Greeks and the Romans in their walls. This cement was stronger and harder than the stone itself. The knowledge possessed by the ancient Egyptians was very ex tensive. They had a method of dressing stone to withstand the ravages of time and weather. They also perfected the art of embalm ing. Probes, forceps, and other surgical instruments have been found in Egypt. For what pur pose they were used we will nev er know. That secret, along with many others, passed away with the de struction of the famous library at Alexandria in the Fifth century. The loss of the knowledge con tained in that library was a blow to civilization. Reading and Thinking Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. So far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours; without that it is so much loose matter floating in our brain.—Locke. Must Books Be Read ? The collector of books need not fear the challenge that is sure to be made, sooner or later, by his skeptical acquaintances: “Have you read them all?” The first idea he ought to get out of his head is that he must only buy books for immediate reading. “The charm of a library,” said that devout book lover, the late Arnold Bennett, “is seriously im paired when one has read the whole or nearly the whole of itt contents.” Bennett confessed that he had hundreds of books he had never opened, and which, perhaps, he never would open. But he would not part with them. He knew they were good, and as he gazed on them, he said to them, “Some day, if chance favors, your turn will come. Be patient!”—Liver pool Post. Best Thoughts Try to care about something in this vast world besides the gratifi cation of small selfish desires. Try to care for what is best in thought and action—something that is good apart from the accidents of your own lot. Look on other lives besides your own. See what their troubles are, and how they are borne.—George Eliot. whenltF£ PCPSMDS on TIM SAFETY wmmm sSlBi i JWIL On May 30, Floyd Roberts shattered all track records for the 500-mile Indianapolis Race, averaging 117.2 miles an hour using Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires. m * iTS ALWAYS Ttrcsfon* ■r FOR 19 CONSECUTIVE YEARS THE WINNERS OF THE INDIANAPOLIS 500-MILE RACE HAVE PROTECTED THEIR LIVES WITH FIRESTONE GUM-DIPPED TIRES Firestone HIGH SPEED 4.50-21 . . . $10.55 4.75-19 . ... 10.85 5.25-17. ... 12.35 5.50-16 . . .. 13.90 6.00-16 . ... 15-70 6.50-16 . . .. 19.35 7.00-16 . . . . 21.00 Heavy Duty 6.00-16 . .. $18.60 6.50-16 . ... 21.35 7.00-16 . . .. 24.70 TRUCK TIRES AND OTHER PASSENGER CAR SIZES PRICED PRO PORT ION ATELV LOW They 1 said it couldn’t be done — that tires could not withstand the torture of the new high speeds. Yet Floyd Roberts set a new record, at this year’s Indianapolis Race, averaging 117.2 miles an hour for the 500 miles on Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires. 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