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) McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938 Newa Review of Current Event* ASK BUSINESS' HELP Five 'Spending' Chiefs Tell Their Recovery Hopes • • • Government Agencies Warned to Avoid Politics John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, and his bride, the former Anne Lindsay Clark, leaving the old church in Nahant, Mass., where they were married.' U/, J&ickansdC fiTTMMARTZTC •PHT! WOTJT.r SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK e Western Newspaper .Union. Ask Business to Help C^IVE of the officials who will have * most to do with carrying out the President's spending-lending drive went on the air in a nation-wide broadcast and urged that business co operate with the ad ministration in re storing permanent recovery. These speakers were Sec retary of Agricul ture Henry A. Wal lace, WPA Adminis trator Harry L. Hop kins, acting PWA Administrator How ard A. Gray, United States Housing Administrator Na than Straus and Brig. Gen. John J. Kingman, .acting chief of United States army engineers. Outlining his plans for use of fed eral funds allocated his agency, Hopkins said that the purchase of materials alone for WPA projects will give indirect, full-time private jobs to 250,000 workers, in addition to relief jobs for the unemployed. “And so the WPA money flows, like the blood in the human body, giving life and strength to the eco nomic system all the way from its toes to the top of its head,” he said. Secretary Wallace said that under the new agricultural legislation the farmer is in good shape to do his part in the recovery drive. “If business would only start pro ducing as it knows how to produce, the market for agricultural products would expand during the next year to a point which would help amaz ingly in bringing about a solution of the farm problem,” he said. Gray, who has been administering PWA affairs in the absence of In terior Secretary Ickes, said that the spending of money set aside for public works under the recovery program should result in industry's deceiving $1,000,000,000 in orders in the next two years. Straus outlined his agency’s pro gram of Islum-clearance and low- cost housing and said that it will result in increased employment and the “creation of that finest and most needed of all commodities—better homes for Americans.” The administration’s flood control program. General Kingman said, will produce “equally beneficial re sults not alone in the reduction of human suffering,” but in keeping open business channels and provid ing additional employment. Terrible Train Wreck LYMPIAN, crack passenger train of the Milwaukee road bound from Chicago to Tacoma, Wash., crashed through a flood- weakened trestle over Custer creek, near Saugus, Mont., and at least 40 persons perished, most of them be ing drowned in a submerged tour ist sleeper. About 65 others were injured. This was the worst railroad wreck in America in recent years, and it sadly marred the safety record of the Milwaukee road which had not lost a paying passenger in accidents in the previous 20 years. The eleven-car train ran into a cloudburst near Saugus but the crew had no warning of the trestle’s condition until the engine plunged through the span, dragging sev eral cars after it. * Wage Law Effects CrRAIN of the new wage and hour ^ law on industry, say labor ex perts in Washington, will be eased by the existing unsettled economic conditions. They size up the situ ation thus: At industry’s present pace not more than 200,000 wage earners in manufacturing industries would get more pay. Thu big high speed industrial ma chines, such as automobile plants, hardly will be touched by the law. It will affect certain garment fac tories and a very small number of textile mills. It will affect the fertilizer industry of the South and southern sawmills. Even when business is as good as it was last summer, unofficial es timates indicate that only about 260,000 factory workers would be affected by the 25 cent wage mini mum of the law, and somewhat more than 1,000,000 workers would find their hours shortened by a 44 hour weekly limit, effective next October. At the outset the law’s effect will be to improve “the worst condi tions” in certain industries engaged in interstate commerce, the econ omists believe. Child labor provisions will affect mainly scattered minors working at odd jobs in various mills and fao tories. Senator Sheppard 'Keep Out of Politics' OENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARE ^ of Texas and the senate cam paign expenditures investigating committee of which he is chairmai has directed all gov ernment agencies tc take no part in pri mary and election campaigns. And i1 has issued warning that persons sus pected of impropei political conduct will be exposed and cited for criminal prosecution. The committee ai its first meeting adopted a resolution pledging that its investigations will be conducted with “vigor and vigil ance” without fear or favor anc without partisanship. The warning against use of improper tactics was directed first to all candidates foi senatorial offices, their friends anc aids. It was then extended to al government agencies. Besides Sheppard on the commit tee are Senators Harrison, David I Walsh, Joseph O’Mahoney and Wal lace White. * German Spies Indicfed A FTER five months of investiga- tion by government agents, IE persons were indicted as spies by a federal grand jury in New York. Moreover, no secret was made ol the fact that they are charged with being spies for the German govern ment, engaged in obtaining informa tion concerning our national de fense. Four of the defendants are in this country and will be tried here. The others, including three German offi cers, are abroad. * John Roosevelt Weds IN A little old stone church at Na- hant, Mass., John Roosevelt, youngest son of President and Mrs Roosevelt, and Anne Lindsay Clarl were made man and wife. After the ceremony there was a reception ir the old Nahant club, and the young couple then started on a honeymoor trip to Campobello Island, N. B., the location of the President’s summei home. Calls Germany Welsher ERMANY insists she is not ^ able under international h for the foreign debts of the form government of Austria. In rep Secretary of State Hull says, polite language, that Germany is welsher. His note on the subjec delivered by Ambassador Hugh W son, contends that Germany, whi it absorbed Austria, assumed fi responsibility for Austria’s post-w debts to America and other liabi ties totaling about $50,000,000. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON '^'EW YORK.—It is perhaps just as well that Crosby Gaige is a bachelor. • He drags home 200,000 patent models, including a corpse d v t u preserver, hog- tSacnelor Has catcher, burglar 200,000 Odd alarm, an early Gadgets Hoe printing press, a dentist’s chair, a machine gun, an egg-beat er, an engine, a steamboat, a pret zel-bending machine—and so on— and on. The patent office models had been gathered by the late Sir Henry Well come and kept at his estate in 3,251 packing cases. Mr. Gaige bought them. A friend of this writer, remem bering with remorse he hadn’t bought a birthday present for his wife, stepped into an auction room. He became confused and bought ten barrels of tin cookie cutters. It almost broke up his home. Mr. Gaige will have no such trouble. Mr. Gaige was born the son of the postmaster at Skunk Hol low, N. Y., and became a Broadway theatrical producer, with a 300-acre estate at Peeks- kill on the Hudson, where he in dulges his taste for knickknacks such as the above, but with more discrimination than this ^-.ensemble suggests. He is a gourmet, with 300 cook books in his kitchen, has a de luxe machine shop where he makes art objects, is a master of viticulture and a maker and connoisseur of beautiful wines. He has cattle folds and breeds blooded cattle, a printing plant where he prints typographical knock-outs in limited editions, a huge library with 5,000 reference books, and is distinguished both as a bibliophile and a cook—one of the best cooks in the world, his friends say. All these concerns are merely extra-curricular. In his 29 years on Broadway, he has Theaters hit off his full Out af Red share of successes, for 29 Years built three thea ters and kept steadily out of the red. In Colum bia university, he wrote the 1903 varsity show, “Hlusia.” He got a job with the late Elisa beth Marbury, famous play broker, reading plays at ten cents an act. He saved his money and headed into the show business with a fast running start. His life is the fulfillment of every commuter’s dream. He is of clerical, almost monkish mien, of somewhat austere countenance, with octagonal pince-nez and, like all epicures, abstemious in all things—saving such things as patent models. He wears red, white and blue sus penders and is very fussy about his handkerchief pocket. He always has the tailor sew a button on it. * • * A N ATTACK of laryngitis gave Margaret Sullavan her big start. 'Lee Shubert saw her in “Three Artists and a Lady” at Princeton, and Sore Throat rushed back-stage Gave Start with a contract. to Screen Ace “You have a voice just like Ethel Barrymore,” he said. She explained that it was mere ly laryngitis, but the excited Mr. Shubert wouldn’t listen. There was nothing to be done about it, so the helpless girl was signed for five years. That was a bit of luck which, in Miss Sullavan’s career, off sets embarrassing entangle ments in some of the most elab orate flops in current stage history. Today, she is at the peak of her career as critics turn cartwheels and back flips over the new film, “Three Com rades,” and Miss Sullavan’s performance therein. Her story has none of the up- from-poverty success routine. She is the daughter of a prideful family of Norfolk, Va., a descendant of Robert E. Lee. Her journey to Boston to study dancing was in dulged as a passing whim, but there was considerable family eye-rolling when she switched to the theater and began adventuring in summer stock, on Cape Cod and way points. Her father got her home once, but only for a short time. It is to be hoped that her story won’t be widely circulated around Hollywood. It would start all the extra girls sleeping in a draft. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. The Average Month We are apt to think of our pres ent months as having four weeks apiece, but that is not true. The average month contains just about four and one-third weeks. The only month witn four weeks in it is Feb ruary, and in leap year even Febru ary has one day over four weeks. Farm Champions on the Air A MONG the Champion Farmers of America who are being fea tured on Firestone’s series of 26 “Voice of the Farm” programs, is this representative group of leading crop growers and stock raisers. Each program in the se ries presents a farm champion in an interview with Everett Mitch ell, popular farm commentator who has been heard on the Na tional Farm and Home Hour for the last eight years. Each cham pion tells the fact story of his climb to championship rating in his particular branch of farm op eration. Top from left—Albert Schroe- der, pioneer user of rubber trac tor tires; Sarah-Ann and John To- lan, champion Aberdeen-Angus breeders; Darwin Neal, champion poultry raiser; Paul Fisher, champion hog producer. Lower row—L. E. Mathers, champion Shorthorn breeder; Harry L. Chadwick, potato champion; Adolph Pirani, champion cotton grower; Ralph L. Heilman, cham pion corn grower; Paul Stiefboldt, plowing champion, <. Distinguish by Purity Distinguish between baseness and merit, not by descent, but by purity of life and heart.—Horace. Wise and Otherwise —A— ’^’O DOUBT the tailor who ^ asked for cash in advance had taken his customer’s meas ure. Quite small things may keep you from sleeping at night, says a doctor. Never mind— they’ll grow up presently. Little Buddy wants to know how far it is ’tween to and fro. Girls who play with fire don’t always strike a match. Many a man has the wolf at his door because his wife will have a silver-fox round her neck! When you’re in a jam, it’s soon spread all over the place. Paradox: It’s only when a man comes clean that he spills the dirt. Buckingham Fountain The Buckingham Memorial foun tain is the gift of the late Miss Kate Buckingham of Chicago, art patron, in memory of her brother, Clarence, a former trustee and benefactor of the Art Institute of Chicago. The fountain cost $1,000,- 000 and is set in a garden 600 feet square with three basins rising in a central pool surrounded by four minor pools. When in full play the fountain flows about 5,500 gal lons of water a minute, one col- umh rising to a height of 75 feet. It is beautifully illuminated at night in five different colors. HE name Firestone on a truck or passenger car tire is your assurance of longer mileage — greater blowout protection — greater non-skid protection! Gum-Dipped cord body — two extra layers of Gum-Dipped cords under the tread — new non-skid tread — all these Firestone patented and exclusive construction features at remarkably low prices! 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