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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
N EW YORK—Several years be
fore Romain Rolland finished
“Jean Christophe,” Leo Tolstoi
called him the warden of the con-
science of Europe.
Rolland i n his quarter-
Comes Home century exile in
To Die Switzerland, he
has remained
“above the battle,” warning of war,
decrying hatred, pleading for peace
and understanding. His has been a
voice crying in the wilderness. His
exile ended, he returns to France,
“an old man, broken and despair
ing,” as the news dispatches report.
The world seems to have little heed
ed his impassioned appeals. He
wants to die in Clamecy, the vil
lage where he was bom.
The greatest -novel of a cen
tury, possibly of many cen
turies, “Jean Christophe” has
been caUed by great critics
and multitudes of lesser lights.
It was published in 1913. This
writer has found few young per-
r sons, even those majoring in
literature, who have read it.
He has found others who have nev
er heard of Romain Rolland, the
Nobel peace- prize winner exiled
from his country, while Carl von
Ossietsky, German Nobel peace
prize winner, was impoverished.
Jailed and harried to his death in
the same “years between.” There
is in this age swift obsolescence in
the spiritual heritage as well as in
machines.
But another, even greater teach
er, looking sadly down on the multir
tude from a hill in
Teachings Jerusalem, was
WUl Be also unheeded:
Remembered ‘‘How often would
I have gathered
thy children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and ye would not!” But
neither He nor His teaching was al
together forgotten. There will also
be those who will remember Ro
main Rolland.
When he was exiled from
France, vast sums of money
were offered him if he would go
to America, to write and lecture.
Publicity, or any form of self-ex
ploitation, is to him profoundly
i distasteful. He withdrew to a se
cluded villa near Zurich, Switz
erland.
There is one definite attitude in
all these post-war writings. He had
no faith in “move-
He Knew ments,” in “idolo-
Righteous gies,” right or left.
Con Be Cruel He repulsed Henri
Barbusse, his
clarte group and the various “united
fronts,” as he did the emissaries of
bloody reaction from the right. He
knew that the righteous can be as
cruel as the wicked, once they find
reliance on force.
Like the great German Fich
te, whom he esteemed, he be
lieved only in the “inner light”
—never in organization or force.
But he was not a “political ag
nostic.” He fought, and suf-
, fered, to arouse the world con
science, as the dying Tolstoi
had enjoined him.
He is a tall, spare, pallid old man,
with thinning hair and sad, deep-
set eyes as he returns to France at
the age of seventy-two. Educated
in music, at the Ecole Normale, he
became a devotee of Wagner,
whose genius inspirited his life—
then of Tolstoi and Shakespeare. He
has written many times in the last
few years that he sees little hope
that the world will escape a last
devastating war.
• • •
IT WAS reported that Sir John
*• Reith, director general of the
British Broadcasting corporation,
was badly licked in that interna-
f _ tional Arabic
Sir John crooning contest a
Beaten in while back. Virtu-
Radio Duel all y a11 observers
gave the decision
to Italy. If so, it probably was the
only time he ever lost a contest.
The tall, bald, grim Scotsman
is upped to the job of running
the Imperial Airways, as a civil
arm of rearmament, with a
sizeable hike in salary. It is
now $50,000 a year, instead of
$35,000.
He is an engineer, and in 1916 was
here 'with 600 technicians checking
on war material contracts. He
didn’t like America or Americans
but eased up on us later on. Run
ning British radio, he has been ex
ecrated as a tyrant, but he has
held to his line and confounded all
his adversaries. His views on radio
programs were outlined by him as
follows: “To set out to give the
public what it wants, as the saying
is, is a dangerous and fallacious
policy.”
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fifth starch, an excellent source of
phosphorus and iron, and a fair
source of vitamin C.
News Review of Current Events
F. D. R. IN PRIMARIES
Pre$ident Boosts Favorites in Kentucky, Oklahoma and
Elsewhere in His Trip to the West Coast
President Roosevelt addressing Louisville citizens from the platform
of his special train, urging them to support Senator Barkley for renomina
tion. The senator is at the President’s left and Mayor Scholtz of Louisville
at his right.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
C Western Newspaper Union.
Sen. Barkley
President en Tour
A/fARIETTA, Ohio, was the first
stop in President Roosevelt’s
transcontinental tour. There he ded
icated a memorial to “the start
westward of the na
tion,” in his address
paying tribute to the
pioneers and, rather
incidentally, to Sen
ator Robert J. Bulk-
ley, who seeks re-
nomination and is
opposed by George
White.
With this off his
mind, the President
assumed his other
role bf head of the
Democratic party and jumped into
the primary campaign with both
feet. His avowed purpose was to
further the election of members of
congress, especially senators, whom
he terms liberals. Beyond this he
was undertaking to maintain his
control of the party up to and
through the presidential campaign
of 1940.
Crossing from Ohio into Kentucky,
where Senator Barkley, staunch
New Deal supporter, is engaged in
a hot fight with Gov. A. B. Chandler
for his senate seat, Mr. Roosevelt
found it advisable not to utterly
squelch the ambition of “Happy”
as the governor is known. In a
speech at the Latonia race track in
Covington he said he had no doubt
Chandler would make a good sena
tor, but added: “But I think he
would be the first to acknowledge
that as a very junior member of
the senate, it would take him many,
many years to match the national
knowledge, the experience, and the
acknowledged leadership in the af
fairs of your nation of that son
of Kentucky, of whom the whole na
tion is proud, Alben Barkley.”
At Bowling Green and at Louis
ville Mr. Roosevelt made platform
speeches in which he urged the
renomination of Barkley.
The special train raced through
Tennessee in the night without a stop
and this was taken as inferential
disapproval of Senator George Ber
ry, whose marble claims caused
the TVA so much trouble.
Oklahoma City came next, and
there Mr. Roosevelt told an enor
mous crowd what a help Senator
Elmer Thomas had been to him
and how much the senator had done
for the state. His commendation of
Thomas was called lukewarm, how
ever, and much of his speech was
devoted to criticizing the senator’s
rivals. Representative Corner Smith
and Gov. E. W. Marland. Smith
had the support of the Townsendites
and many conservatives. Marland
has at times been too conservative
to please the White House.
McAlester and Wister heard the
President from the back platform,
and then at Booneville, Ark., he
found time to speak kind words
about Senator Hattie Caraway, who
seeks another term.
The Chief Executive spent the
week-end resting at the ranch of
hia son Elliot 17 miles from Fort
Worth, Texas. Then his special
rolled northward to Amarillo, where
he stopped long enough to make an
auto trip about the city. Next day
he arrived in Pueblo, Colo., on his
way to San Francisco, San Diego
and the cruiser Houston. which was
to carry him through the Panama
canal.
During a brief stop, at Wichita
Falls, Texas, the President an
nounced that he was appointing
Gov. James V. Allred to a vacancy
in the federal court for the southern
district of Texas. This was a com
plete surprise to Senators Tom Con-
nally and Morris Sheppard.
*
TVA Inquiry Opens
INVESTIGATION of the activities
* of the TVA by a congressional
joint committee was opened in
Knoxville, Term., with Chairman
Vic Donahey presiding. After an
executive session the investigators
started on an inspection tour of the
projects involved. Public hearings
in Knoxville were next on the pro
gram, and Donahey said these
would continue “until we run out of
money.”
It was indicated that former
Chairman A. E. Morgan would be
the first witness called. He was
granted permission to go into TVA
files to prepare his testimony.
Shortly before the inquiry began,
Dr. Morgan filed a mandamus suit
in a Knoxville court asking that he
be reinstated as member and chair
man of the TVA and be paid back
salary. He never has recognized
the President’s right to remove him
from the chairmanship.
—*—
Hughes Flies the Atlantic
LI OWARD HUGHES, wealthy
young sportsman and aviator,
with four companions made success
fully the first non-stop flight from
New York to Paris
since Lindbergh’s
epochal feat in 1927.
His time was 16
hours and 38 min
utes, less than half
the time made by
Lindbergh.
The big plane,
named “New York
World’s Fair 1939,”
appeared over Le
Bourget field long
before it was expect
ed but Ambassador
Bullitt and a big crowd were wait
ing to greet the daring aviators.
As the twin-motored machine rolled
to a stop, Bullitt ran forward, opened
the door and shouted: “Congratula
tions; did you have a good trip?”
Hughes and his fellow adventur
ers, Ed Lund, Harry Connor, T.
L. Thurlow and Richard Stoddart,
weary and cramped, climbed out
of the cockpit and were eagerly
taken in hand by the enthusiastic
French.
After resting and refueling their
plane, the fliers took off on the sec
ond leg of their projected flight
around the world, reaching Moscow
in less than eight hours. Their hope
was to beat the record made in 1933
by Wiley Post.
Hughes’ big plane, specially re
built and equipped with a multitude
of gadgets, carried a gross weight
of 25,000 pounds. It had three radios
and was in communication with
the ground practically all the time.
The only worry the fliers had was
the danger of running out of fuel
before Paris was reached.
Howard
Hughes
Sen. Wagner
Justice Cardozo Dies
DENJAMIN N. CARDOZO, asso-
ciate justice of the United States
Supreme court, died at Port Ches
ter, N. Y., of a chronic heart ail
ment that had kept
him from work on
the bench since last
December. He was
sixty - eight years
old. Descended from
Spanish Jews who
came to America in
1750, he was bom in
New York city, and
educated at Colum
bia university. He
was appointed to the
Supreme court by
President Hoover in 1932 and lined
up with the liberal minority. His
scholarship and hard work won the
highest respect. Chief Justice
Hughes, informed of Cardozo’s
death in Italy said; “It is an irre
parable loss to the court and the
nation. He was a jurist of the high
est rank and noble spirit.”
Probably President Roosevelt will
not appoint Cardozo’s successor be
fore fall, for the court is in recess
until October. But speculation as
to his choice began immediately.
The name most frequently heard in
the discussions in Washington was
that of Sen. Robert Wagner of New
York, one of the President’s chief
lieutenants in the field of social leg
islation. Other New Yorkers men
tioned are Ferdinand Pecora and
Samuel Rosenman, state Supreme
court justices, and Solicitor General
Robert H. Jackson. The Far West
is not now represented on the court
Star Dust
★ ‘Scarlett 9 at Last
★ Daddy of Sound
★ Delayed Honeymoon
By Virginia Vale
T HE announcement that
Norma Shearer will play
“Scarlett O’Hara" in “Gone
With the Wind” stirred up a
tempest in a teapot that is still
raging.
Certainly, on the face of things,
it does not seem to be the type of
role that she does best. “She has
no southern accent naturally, so
whatever she says will sound pho
ney,” declare the Miriam Hopkins
supporters; “She’s too sweet and
mild,” wail the people who wanted
Bette Davis to have the part.
But nobody’s complaining because
Clark Gable is to play “Rhett But
ler”; that role was made for him
from the beginning.
*
Robert Taylor’s New York fans
were numerous but not unruly when
he spent a short vacation in the city
recently. This time he managed to
arrive and leave places without hav-
ROBERT TAYLOR
ing his shirt or his shoes tom off.
No strange girls were discovered
hidden in his suite at the hotel,
waiting for autographs. Fans just
gathered in crowds outside his ho
tel and waited for him to appear.
And he endeared himself to them
by refusing to duck in and out by
the freight entrance, and so disap
point them. Furthermore, he did
what few movie stars do: came
out and said quite frankly that, if
the fans didn’t gather to see him,
he’d know that he was slipping.
' *
When August Baron died a little
while ago the public, in general,
paid little attention to the fact. Few
people bad ever heard of him. Yet
he was the first man to take out
patents on talking pictures. He did
it in 1896 and 1900, bqt the patents
expired before he could get back
ing. He died, penniless and blind,
at the age of eighty-three, without
ever having seen a talking picture.
—&—
Richard Cromwell has learned to
expect practical jokes in the movie
studios where he’s worked, but he
wasn’t prepared—until recently—to
encounter them in the radio world
as well. He plays “Kit Marshall”
in “Those We Love,” and takes it
pretty seriously, so when he re
ceived a phone call one day recent
ly, telling him that the rehearsal
would be held an hour earlier than
usual, he saw to it that he got there
in plenty of time.
And then he sat there for one
solid hour, waiting for the rest of the
cast to show up. Donald Woods,
who’s also in the serial, was re
sponsible.
*
The Don Ameches were married
six years ago, and at the time Don
promised his wife
a honeymoon in
Europe. They
started on it just
after Don fin
ished his last
broadcast of the
current season,
July 3—flew from
Hollywood t o
New York and
set sail on the
Queen Mary. And
they’ve planned
a honeymoon
worth waiting six
years for.
Don Ameche
Radio, like every other industry,
lias its slang—here’s a bit of it, as
submitted by Mark Wamow, musi
cal director at Columbia Broadcast
ing studios. Cliff-hanger—an adven
ture seriaL Clientitis—sponsor trou
ble. Fairy godfather—easy-going
sponsor. Dawn patrol—early morn
ing broadcasting. Putty blower-
trombone. Wood pile—xylophone.
Lockjaw—singCr with a tired voice.
Spieler—announcer.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Walter Wanger
has announced that he's through with
"difficult" actresses; he's let Sylvia Sidney
and Madeleine Carroll go, and is groom-
ing Louise Platt for stardom . . . In “The
Lady and the Cowboy” David Niven will
play opposite Merle Oberon, to whom his
engagement was reported a year or so ago
—maybe just for publicity purposes . . .
Miss Oberon, incidentally, has a grand
scheme for dressing simply and well;
sweaters and skirts for daytime, white eve
ning gowns at night; she buys them by the
dozens . . . Dickie Moore's baby sister is
acting with Bette Davis in "The Sisters."
Q Western Newspaper Union.
Wide Brim Hat With Chic Silk Print
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
W INSOME frock of chic silk
print that makes you look your
prettiest, hat big of brim that brings
romance into the picture, it’s the
twosome that “does something for
you” and it’s exactly the type cos
tume that is holding the spotlight in
the midsummer fashion scene.
* Special emphasis is being placed
on the vogue of picturesque hats
that have a sentimental air that
tunes in charmingly with the witch
ery of a brightly colorful, flattering
print gown. Which goes to show
that there is a trend to dress in
lovely-lady fashion. You will find
more and more as the summer
comes on that the “be pretty” mood
prevails throughout the mode.
The trio of charming summer cos-
tumes illustrated is convincing as
to the “prettiness” of current fash
ions. The dress to the right in
terprets a new version of the
dirndle in black and pink print silk
crepe. It is shirred at each side
to give moderate skirt fullness in
front with a slim back line. The
box shoulders emphasize smallness
of waistline, a feature especially
indicated in the newer dresses.
Wear black accents with this gown
for town and change to touches of
pink when you go to your country
club. The black hair hat posed far
back on the head and flaring far
up in front is a foremost millinery
fashion. Even the new white felt
tailored shapes have this upward
off-face movement.
A word about black and pink. As
the season advances costume after
costume favors this combination. It
gives a pretty effect indeed, when
the dress of pink and black print
is enhanced with pink costume jew
elry, perhaps adding a girdle sash
of soft pink suede with possibly a
pink suede bolero.
A lovely midsummer sheer cen
ters the group. This printed blue
and white silk chiffon day dress has
the new square neckline. Watch
necklines! Designers are giving a
lot of attention to them, introducing
novelty in lowcut fanciful outlines
that impart an entirely new char
acter to the styling of blouses and
gowns. Note also the horizontal
tucked bodice and the skirt pleats
released below the hips. And the
big flower-trimmed leghorn hat.
Wide brims and colorfully patterned
prints play a charming duet in the
fashion picture.
For an afternoon ensemble select
a bayadere silk chiffon dress in
rainbow colors, together with a
navy wool full-length unlined coat,*
such as pictured to the left. Take
note of the hatpin on the merry
widow black straw hat with its
crown of taffeta bows and horse
hair brim.
Speaking of wide brim hats to
wear with print silks the latest
models are taking on tremendously
high crowns that taper toward the
top in early Pilgrim fashion. The
leghorns of this type are especially
attractive. For the most part their
trimming is confined to ribbon
bands with streamers down the
back.
C Western Newspaper Union.
ACCENTS OF SUEDE
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Now that designers have sensed
the vast possibilities suede offers to
the fashion field and now that suede
has been so scientifically treated
that it is rendered thoroughly fab
riclike, there’s just no end to the
exciting things being done with it.
For instance, this lovely silk print
summer costume, posed by Lucille
Ball, radio player, is greatly en
hanced with a girdle sash of grape
colored suede with streamers of
matching suede on the attractive
wide-brim hat.
Milliners Are Featuring
Button Bonnets Just Now
t *
Milliners are featuring “button
bonnets” this season. They are as
fashionable for “big sisters” to
wear as they are for the tiny mem
bers of the family. They are made
of pique, sharkskin, printed linens
and such. While the new button
bonnets are as pretty as a picture
and as chic as can be, they are
something more than mere eye teas
ers for they are practical to the
nth degree, in that they are made
to unbutton at will so as to lay out
perfectly flat. Which means you
can launder them easily and when
buttoned back into shape they look
like brand new millinery. Flatten
them out by unbuttoning and they
pack without taking up room—ideal
for week-siid trips.
STRAPLESS BRA IS
GOOD STYLE NEWS
, By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Here is good news, it’s about
the strapless brassiere designed to
wear with the very fashionable
strapless evening gown. It is made
of net or lace with drawstring at
the top and is boned just enough to
keep it up without the aid of straps
over the shoulders. Solves the prob
lem of what to wear under that
transparent blouse or dress in the
daytime where one must do away
with unsightly straps to look well
groomed. Try the new strapless
bra under your costume slip in
the daytime and you will be delight
ed at the nicety and neatness it af
fords.
White for “Undies” Latest
On Calendar of Fashions
If you are casting about for “un
dies” that express the ultimate in
chic, be style-alert by asking to
see the latest creations in white
“nighties” and slips or foundation
garments and corsetry. A vogue for
pure white is down on the calendar
of new fashions.
Also there is a sentiment gaining
to use fine wash materials, such as
choicest of nainsooks and batistes
and handkerchief linens, dimities
and a whole list of the quaint, beau
tiful wash fabrics that again have
come into their own.
You will have joyous surprises,
too, in the styling of the variena
garments. For instance a dainty
bed-jacket is made of white batiste
with vertical rows of embroidery
beading with the traditional “baby
ribbon” run through and val lace
edgings for trim.
White rayon satin corsets and
foundations that slenderize one to
a finish are also in promise.
Terry Cloth Retains Its
Popularity on the Bead
The introduction of many new cot
ton fabrics fails to check the popu
larity of terry cloth when it come
to beach attire. Coatk and cape
of the toweling continue to be fea
tured, the most striking version be
ing a two-toned striped pattern. Bol<
contrasts such as bright navy o
black with white present the them
to best advantage. Jack'et-lik
blouses that have been dubbe*
“night shirts,” are made of whit
terry cloth and take the place o
longer coats for beach wear.