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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938
■Weekly News Review
Failure of Democratic Purge
Gives Republicans New Fear
Politics
lx Franklin Roosevelt ever
planned to ‘‘purge” his Democratic
party at undesirables, he now knows
the purge has failed. On the presi
dential black list may have been
Iowa’s Gillette, Nevada’s McCarran,
Colorado’s Adams, and, Missouri’s
Clark. By last week these New Deal
haters were either renominated or
assured of winning their state pri
maries at the expense of administra
tion favorites.
News of purge failure has recent
ly sent the most dour conservative
into ecstasies. For once, it appears,
Franklin Roosevelt’s 'domination
over the party is at ebb tide. But
last week a few foes began thinking
instead of effervescing:
Is purge failure helping untangle
badly twisted United States political
lines? Decidedly the contrary. Is
purge failure eliminating Franklin
Roosevelt as a third termer? Prob-
ably not.
Originally the purge idea sought
to transform the Democrat party
into an instrument of coherent lib
eralism, implying formation of an
equally coherent conservative party
on the other side. But when con
gress convenes next winter the Unit
ed States will see instead a hodge
podge . of multi-colored political
thought from which little but bicker
ing can be expected.
Deeply tanned from his 20-day
fishing trip to tropical Pacific wa
ters, Franklin Roosevelt was back
in his 48 states last week, still mum
About third term rumors that have
kept newsmen busy since he left.
Of all rumors, most thought-provok
ing was that purge failure robs the
President of party control, robs him
also of the right to name a succes
sor in 1940. Not willing to be robbed,
enthusiastic New Dealer Roosevelt
would rather run himself than pass
the mantle to a less ardent New
Dealer. . . ‘ ;
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Kentucky
. Blue Grass politics was red hot
as Kentucky prepared to choose a
Democratic, senator. . At Jackson,
Former Sheriff Lee Combs and his
brother attended a rally for their
own faction, then walked. brazenly
into a rally of opposition forces.
When the smoke cleared, Lee Combs
was shot dead. A few, minytes later
his father organized kinfolk to
search for William Combs', who was
no relative but the alleged slayer.
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KENTUCKY’S ALBEN BARKLEY
It wa» tartly a fine day.
Said Police Chief A. S. Sizmore:
“I’m a Republican so I’m not on
either side. They were all het up
from politicin’.”
Two days later Kentucky went to
the polls. At Versailles, Gov. A. B.
“Happy” Chandler muttered, “Down
the hatch”, as he chivalrously voted
for his opponent. Majority Leader
Alben W. Barkley. At Paducah, Al-
ben Barkley deposited his ballot,
glanced at the skies and predicted a
. record vote..
By midnight it appeared that
Happy Chandler should have, voted
for himself. “Dear Alben,” with
presidential blessing, was renomi
nated and. political theorists tried to
figure out what it meant.
Foreign
Since 1931, when Japan marched
• into Manchuria, Tokyo and Moscow
have been “on the.brink of war.”
Last week they appeared-to be fight-
ipg two wars: . In one, at the iso
lated Russian-Manchukuafi-Korean
frontier nobody knew who was win
ning. - In the other, being waged in
the Moscow office of<,Soviet Foreign
Maxim Litvinoff, it appeared that
Russia had the qpper hand.
Amidst a', barrage of incidents,
communiques and curt' tibtes, Asia’s
two powers were attempting to set
tle ownership of a shell-pocked hill
near the village of Changkufeng..
Russia-Jap hostilities in this sec
tor date back to 1931 when Japan
marched into Manchuria and looked
longingly at land patrolled by Rus
sia’s autonomous 'Siberian army.
But not until mid-July this year did
the five-year “secret war” break
into the open. 'Since then both pow
ers have attacked and counter at
tacked for days on end, moving
troops, artillery and planes, to little
Changkufeng. * v
Already tired of one war (see be
low), Japan was anxious to avoid
another. Finally Ambassador Ma-
moru Shigemitsu at Moscow re
ceived word to open peace negotia
tions. Last week it appeared proud,
stubborn Japan would have to eat
crow if she wanted peace with
prouder, more stubborn Russia.
Muttering that “the time has come
MAXIM LITVINOFF
"The time has come ..."
to terminate these endless inci
dents,” Foreign Minister Litvinoff
matched Tokyo’s proposals with an
even better set:
(1) Immediate cessation of hos
tilities, with mutual withdrawal
behind a fixed line.
(2) That line to be determined by
the Russ-China treaty of June 26,
1886.
(3) Appointment of a bilateral
commission, two Russians, one
Manchukuan, one Jap, to negotiate
for redemarcation of the line on
basis of the 1886 treaty.
While Japan boasted after two
weeks that 1,500 Russ soldiers had
been killed and wounded against 180
on her own side, two tattered Soviet
deserters walked into her Siberian
camp to air their grievances against
Moscow.
They deserted because their fe
tters, well-to-do Kulak farmers, had
been heavily taxed, heavily op
pressed in the Soviet drive for col
lective agriculture. “Our slogan is
defend the fatherland of liberty,”
one said, “but how can we soldiers
defend such a system when the cows,
horses and even their barns are
taken qway.”
To Japan it looked like Russia’s
poor Siberian administration was
her ally. ~ >
# Last week weary Japanese troops
were still more than 100 miles down
the flooded Yangtze river from their
goal, Nanking, long since deserted
by the Chinese government. While
defending troops claimed the invad
ers had been repelled in battle after
battle, crafty Japs were evidently
resorting to brains instead of brawn
to capture another part of China.
In the past Manchuria and Peking
governments were undermined by
palm-rubbing Tokyo agents and dis
gruntled Chinese officials. Result
in each case has been a puppet
state, completely divorced from Chi
na. Last week at peaceful Canton,
only a few miles from Britain’s
Hongkong, came reports of secret
negotiations to sway South China
from the central government.
Promieung to prevent recurrence
of disastrous bombings which left
Canton a bloody shambles last
month, Jap agents would set up an
independent government closely al
lied to Tokyo.
Meanwhile Japan refused to stop
her bombing attacks on Canton. For
two successive days last week war
planes swooped down with their car
goes of death, finally striking within
400 yards of the foreign settlement
where thousands had taken refuge:
Next dey Canton’s Catholic cathe
dral was struck while hundreds cow
ered in terror within.
Miscellany
Back to London last week from
darkest Africa x came Missionary
John Harris with a strange tale. His
story: . ,In .Bechuanaland lives Ra-
monolwana Senan, believed to be
140 years old yet still in good health
and boasting all but one tooth. He
has a son more than 100 years old,
and a daughter 16.
• Twenty thousand bathers at New
York’s Rockaway beach sought re
lief from sticky weather last week.
In the distance were unimportant
rumblings of thunder. Suddenly the
air was splintered by a bolt of
lightning that zig-zagged 300 feet
down thfe beach, killing three, felling
hundreds. • Next day investigators
wondered , if a huge steel bridge,
passing almost immediately ov$r
the "beach, might have drawn the
freak bolt.
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O When she was first launched, Eng
land’s proud Queen Mary was also
queen of the Atlantic. Then came
the French Normandie to set a west
ward passage record of 3 days, .22
hours, .52 minutes. Last week her
powerful* engines churned the Queen
Mary to a hew record, clipping 1
hour, 14 minutes off the Norman
die’s mark.;•
© Fondled like the museum piece
it is, Dou^as (Wrong Way) Corri
gan’s $900 transatlantic airplane was
unloaded in Manhattan last week.
People
At Callander, Ont., Olivia Dionne’s
famous five children failed to ap
pear before their daily tourist audi
ence. Dr. Roy Dafoe, who has guid
ed the four-year-old quintuplets
since birth, reported they suffered
from upset stomachs. Next day
Pappa Dionne worried publicly over
Emilie, who had taken no nourish
ment for 24 hours.
© Two days after former cinema
actress Pearl White died in Paris,
Warner Oland of “Charlie Chan”
fame succumbed in his native Swe
den of bronchial pneumonia.
© At Hammond, La., Governor
Richard W. Leche poured coffee,
served sandwiches to pickets sur
rounding a box factory.
Religion
On the next day ... when they heard
that Jesus urns coming . . . took branches
of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him,
and cried. Hosanna: Blessed is the king
of Israel that cometh in the name of the
Lord.
Thus wrote St. John in Biblical
days. . Since then his yords have
been unchanged, but last week
American clergymen began study
ing the Bible as rewritten under
Adolph Hitler’s direction to conform
with Germany’s Nazi ideology. Said
the Nazified St. John:
“Then they took green branches,
went to meet him and cried: HEIL
to him that comes in the name of
God. HEIL to thee, thou shalt be
our king.”
Eliminated are all references to
sin, heaven and the Hebrew proph
ets, for the Nazi heaven is now to
be found in Germany alone.
Domestic
That Pennsylvania’s Sen. James
J. Davis has been more successful
with U. S. Moose than his Tennessee
Valley authority investigating com
mittee, was admitted last week.
From Washington to Knoxville, in
the heart of TVA’s far-flung power
empire, the committee has dug for
facts, rumors and figures to estab
lish why ousted TV A Administrator
Arthur Morgan raised such a hulla
baloo last winter.
The committee’s aim, said Davis,
was to find the “real, true ‘yard
stick* cost of power and the total
amount of money going into TV A
development.”
Last week, after spending more
than half the $50,000 appropriation.
Chairman Davis decided 85 per cent
of his rummaging was concerned
with uninteresting auditing and ac
counting. Named to investigate for
the investigating committee was a
private investigator, M. C. Conick,
whose personal headache TVA now
becomes.
Labor
The nasty word “Communism”
hung Jike a spectre last week before
the eyes of C. I. O. Mogul John L.
Lewis. At Detroit and Los Angeles
his henchmen were having trouble.
Ex-Preacher Homer Martin, who
heads 375,000 members of the C. I.
O. United Automobile Workers,
found himself marked for liquida
tion by the four vice presidents he
recently found guilty of consorting
with fcommunists. Their charge:
That Martin himself has been con
sorting with President Jay Love-
stone of the Independent Communist
Labor league.
To bewildered C. I. O. workers it
appeared that U. A. W.’s trouble was
simply a fight betweeh Stalinist
Communists and Lovestone Commu
nists, each willing to fight for their
own beliefs no matter how many
unions are destroyed. Standing pn
the sidelines at Detroit awaiting the
opportune moment was A. F. of L.’s
Francis Dillon who headed the U; A.
W. when it was a respectable Labor
Federation affiliate.
Meanwhile at Los Angeles, four
C. I. O. unions voted to withdraw
from Radical Harry Bridges’ Indus
trial Union council, charging he had
brought the body under Communist
control.
Aviation
Since its birth shortly after the
World war, U. S. commercial avia
tion has been bounced back and
forth by a dozen government agen
cies, has suffered from repudiated
agreements and constantly chang
ing administration. Worst low was
the government’s repudiation of air
mail contracts five years ago, an
experiment that ended in headaches
for all.
Last winter congress established
a Civil Aeronautics authority to
manage commercial aviation per
manently and sensibly. Its job: To
administer air mail contracts, su
pervise commercial air lines and
private fliers and study aviation
safety.
Last week the new authority took
over its job, two weeks before the
act goes into effect. As Chairman
Elmer J. Noble of Greenwich, Conn.,
walked into his office for the first
time he hoped to regulate avia
tion as successfully as another pol
icy-forming board, the Interstate
Commerce commission, has super
vised railroading.
’ norts
Several weeks ago a young Chi
cago broker, Fred Tuerk, bet his
partner half a $30,000 plantation he
couldn’t play 144 holes of golf from
dawn to dusk without going over
95 on any 18 holes. Partner J.'
Smith Ferebee took him up, start
ing out one morning last week. By
nightfall all 144 holes were played
at an average of 86 strokes per 18
holes. Next day Broker Ferebee,
still golf hungry, played again to
"unlimber” after his ordeal.
Pretty Frocks Easy to Sew
IF YOU’RE one of those women
* who so often say “Dear me,
I wish I could sew!”, then by all
means try your hand on these
smart designs, and like many,
many others, just as inexperi
enced as you are, you’ll find that
you can sew, and enjoy it! Our
patterns include detailed sew
charts that show you just what
to do, step by step, and you’ll get
a real thrill out of seeing how easy
it is.
The Woman’s Dress.
Here we have a diagram de
sign, which means you can finish
it successfully in a few hours. And
you’ll find it one of the most be
coming and comfortable you ever
wore round the house. It’s made
on easy, unhampering lines, with
darts that make it slim, but not
tight, at the waistline. The short
sleeves are slashed, which makes
them easier to work in, and
prettier to look at. Sleeves, neck
line and pointed closing are
trimmed with ricrac. Make this
dress of gingham, seersucker, per
cale or calico.
The Little Girl’s Dress.
This dress will make your small
daughter look even more ador
able, with its high, snug waist,
square neck, puff sleeves and full
skirt. You’ll probably want to
make her half a dozen dresses
just like this! And she’ll certainly
beg for at least one little sweet
heart apron, to wear when she is
helping you—or thinking she is!
For the dress, choose dimity, -dot
ted Swiss, > gingham or percale.
For the apron, organdy, dimity or
lawn.
The Patterns.
No. 1559 is designed for sizes 34,
36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size
36 requires 4% yards of 35-inch
material; 2% yards of ricrac to
trim as pictured.
No. 1463 is designed for sizes 2,
4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires
1% yards of 35-inch material for
the dress; % yard for the apron.
Six yards of ribbon or braid to
trim dress; 1 yard for belt. Two
and one-half yards of ruffling to
trim apron.
Success In Sewing.
Success in sewing, like in any
other field, depends upon how you
approach the task in hand. To
help you turn out clothes profes
sional looking in every detail, we
have a book which plainly sets
forth the simple rules of home
dressmaking. The beginner will
find every step in making a dress
clearly outlined and illustrated
within its covers. ' For the ex
perienced sewer there are many
helpful hints and suggestions for
sewing short cuts. Send 15 cents
(in coins) today for your copy of
SUCCESS IN SEWING, a book
every home dressmaker will find
of value.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, ID.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
G Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
AROUND
the HOUSE
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Items of Interest
to the Housewife
Beautifying Wash Stand.—Rub
berized cretonne if pasted around
an unsightly wash stand will cov
er ugly plumbing and make a
bathroom attractive.
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Don’t Soak Brushes.—If clothes
and hair brushes become very
dirty wash with water in which a
little borax has been mixed. Dip
brushes into water and wash with
another brush covered with a light
coating of soap. Never soak in
water.
* * *
Onion Absorbs Paint Odor.—If
an onion is cut in halves and
placed in a room that has been
newly painted it will absorb the
odor of paint in a few hours.
* • •
Fruit Juice Ice Cubes.—If you
have* a gas or electric refrigera
tor, try using fruit juices for ice
cubes instead of water. They are
very pretty in fruit beverages.
Lemon cubes are lovely in iced
tea. ■
* * *
Shoe Health.—If your brown
shoes are looking a bit scuffed,
give them a dose of castor oil,
rubbing it well into the leather and
then polishing in the usual way
with shoe polish. Castor oil gives
brown shoes their color back
again, and preserves the leather,
too.
• * •
When Cooking Rice.—Try add
ing a few drops of lemon juice to
rice the next time you are cooking
it. It makes it beautifully white
and keeps the grains whole.
For Privacy.—If you live so
close to the, highway that passers-
by can look into your home, try
painting the screen doors with a
very thin coat of white paint and
you can look out, but people pass
ing cannot see into . your living
room.
• • *
Napkins From Tablecloths.—
When tablecloths wear thin in the
center, cut up the outside into 12
or 16-inch squares and hemstitch
them. These make napkins which
will wear for some time.
Unc/e PM
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Stumps the Best of 'Em
There are enough unanswerable
queries in any intelligence test to
induce a man to say all intelli
gence tests are silly.
Most of the wild daring things
are done by a humanity distrait
from ennni.
Why the classics are famous,
and deservedly so, is because the
chaps who wrote them said the
smart things first.
Except Conditionally
Free and democratic people
cannot be forced to obey. There’s
too much wildcat in thein.
There is no self-confidence like
that of the man who thinks he
can tell a toadstool in the woods
from a mushroom.
Jlsk Me Another
0 A General Quiz
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The Questions
1. Is there an active volcano in
the United States?
2. Which of our Presidents
coined the phrase “benevolent as
similation”?
3. What does the term neologism
mean?
4. In what year did our govern
ment . under the Constitution be
gin?
5. What is considered a perfect
game in baseball?
6. What is the significance of
the state name of Delaware? *
7. Are all shooting stars entirely
hot when they strike the earth?
8. How do Australia, Canada,
Brazil and continental United
States compare in area?
The Answers
1. Yes, Mount Lassen in Cali
fornia.
2. President McKinley.
3. A new word* or phrase which
has not yet been accepted as good
usage. „
4. In 1789.
5. One in which there are no
runs, no hits and none reaching
first base.
6. It was named for Lord de la
Warr (or Ware), a governor of
Virginia. A friend of his explored
the river and bay.
7. In some cases they are very
cold. The Colby (Wis.) meteorite
was covered with frost when
found shortly after its fall, al
though this occurred on July 4.
The interior of the meteorite was
freezing cold. .,
8. Australia, 2,974,581 square
miles; Canada, 3,694,863 square
miles; Brazil, 3,285,319 square
miles; United States, 3,026,789
square miles.
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OLD POINT COMFORT
UNA and INA on the Hottest Day of the Year...
GOINS TO BE A
REAL SCORCHER.
ISN'T IT MRS.
GRAY?
TERRIBLE!... AND I HAVE MV
CARP CLUB TODAY. I'M JUST
5. , i GOING TO ORDER ICB CREAM,
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WHY DON’T YOU
MAKE ICE CREAM,
MRS. GRAY? WITH
THAT GRAND
REFRIGERATOR
OF YOURS. ITS A
SNAP- AND LOADS
CHEAPER!
WELL, lVE TRIED IT- BUT I
DIDN’T HAVE MUCH LUCK.
YOU OUGHT TOTRY IT WITH
JELL-O ICE CREAM POWDER
— SHOULDN'T SHE, UNA? ^
LOOK HOW MUCH
ONE PACKAGE
MAKES, MRS. GRAY
-A WHOLE QUART
AND A HALF/
AND
JELL-O
ICE CREAM
POWDER
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COSTS A
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ME YOU
MADE THIS
GRAND
SMOOTH ICE
CREAM IN THE
REFRIGERATOR/
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