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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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miles an hour for the 500 miles on
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