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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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