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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938
Weekly News Review
France, Britain Turn to U. S.
In Search for War Support
By Joseph W. LaBine
Domestic
Chief U. S. interest in the current
European squabble free FOREIGN)
has been America’s chance of stay
ing neutral. If they once felt secure
under the state department’s isola
tion policy, under the neutrality act
•r under the Johnson act forbidding
loans to debtor nations, that cozy
/eeling was dissipated last fall. In
hi* famed Chicago speech, Franklin
Roosevelt pointed to the hopeless
ness of isolation, favored aggressive
U. S. action to preserve world
peace.
Last month, Franklin Roosevelt
spoke again at Kingston, Ont.,
promised American aid against in
vasion of Canada. Though any U.
S. President would favor such a
AMBASSADOR BULLITT
m No human being could say . . ."
policy, the Canadian speech came
at a time when anxious British and
French were seeking allies in their
bluff game against Adolf Hitler.
Thus, into the international spot
light were thrown U. S. Ambassa
dors Joseph P. Kennedy to Great
Britain, William C. Bullitt to
France. To each fell the job of ex
plaining U. S. policy in European
foreign offices.
Last week, each spoke, cutting
through diplomatic red tape in a
blunt manner that made touchy
British statesmen quake, that made
the folks back home shudder over
the realities of Europe’s current
crisis.
At Bordeaux, Ambassador Bullitt
uncorked a bombshell, flavoring an
informal talk on French wines with
bouquets about U. S.-French friend
ship. Said he: “France and the
United States are indefectively unit
ed in war as in peace ... by our
devotion to liberty and democracy
... by our old friendship, by the
aid we brought each other in our
hour of distress.”
"" Next day, dedicating a monument
to American World war dead, he
spoke again: “If war should break
out in Europe no human being could
say whether the United States would
become involved.”
But in the very next breath he
gave proud France and Great Brit
ain another thought to mull over,
hinting that Germany’s present eco
nomic plight might be their respon
sibility: “If our effort for peace
is to achieve anything, it must be
based on the ability to put ourselves
in other men’s shoes, recognizing
the truth of this saying: ’There,
but for the grace of God, go I.* ”
In London, Ambassador Kennedy
emerged from a conference with
Prime Minister Neville Chamber-
lain 1 ' blurting to newsmen that Brit
ain wanted to know whether she
could expect U. S. aid. No sooner
had he spoken than the London Eve
ning News criticized Joe Kennedy’s
outspokenness. Obviously proud
England was piqued that the world
should know she was actively seek
ing U. S. aid. But that did not
stop him from rushing to Aberdeen,
Scotland, where he demanded that
the world’s youth be given a better
deal than “a short life carrying a
gun.”
Foreign'
Italy’s Benito Mussolini, who could
do no better than create mild furore
with an anti-Jewish drive, must
have envied the headlines being
made by his fellow dictator, Adolf
Hitler. Since early August, the one
time Austrian housepainter has kept
all Europe in a “crisis,” until last
week the word “crisis” began losing
its significance.
To Berchtesgaden, der fuehrer’s
Alpine chalet, sped Konrad Henlein,
Czechoslovakian Sudeten leader
whose followers want autonomy and
eventual annexation by Germany.
While Fuehrer Henlein talked with
Fuehrer Hitler, German Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
closeted himself in Berlin with
Great Britain’s Ambassador Nevile
Henderson, emerged after assuring
the nervous Englishman that Ger
many plans no hasty step in the
Czech squabble.
But Europe had a hopeless case
of war fever. If Adolf Hitler’s 1,000,-
000 war-gaming soldiers had gone
home, tension might have been re
lieved. Instead, several hundred
thousand Nazi warriors massed on
the Rhine frontier, visiting new for
tifications they would use in a war
on France. Paris bristled immedi
ately. Almost overnight, 300,000 re
servists were rushed to the Maginot
line.
Meanwhile, Great Britain enjoyed
another spell of worrying, notifying
Ambassador Henderson that he
might warn Germany of England’s
inability to remain out of any con
flict der fuehrer might start. . Inas
much as Ambassador Henderson
has been alternately warning and
pleading with Germany since early
August, his ultimatum probably fell
on deaf ears.
At Prague, observers watched the
result of Konrad Henlein’s conversa
tion. England’s mediator, Viscount
Runciman, scurried around. The
Czech cabinet met secretly, finally
emerged to offer Sudetens (1) terri
torial autonomy; (2) recognition of
their full equality in the Czechoslo
vak state; (3) recognition of full
equality of the German language in
Sudeten areas.
This, amounting to complete sur
render, might have created a sensa
tion had Adolf Hitler not been steal
ing the show again. At Nuremberg,
before 1,000,000 Nazis attending the
annual party congress, der fuehrer
defied the world, boasted of Ger
many’s power and praised his two
lukewarm allies, Japan and Italy.
• At Takaoka, fire leveled 2,000
buildings, caused 100 deaths. At
Osaka, 15,000 homes were flooded.
At Kobe, 31 ships sank. Such was
the aftermath of Japan’s second
typhoon in five days.
Politics
Behind Franklin Roosevelt lay
two smarting political defeats. South
Carolina’s Democrats had elected
Ellison D. (“Cotton Ed”) Smith
over his objection. California’s
Democrats had licked his favorite.
Sen. William Gibbs McAdoo. These
defeats, plus 'earlier primary shel
lackings, plus the prospect of more
losses in Maryland and Georgia,
made Franklin Roosevelt realize
that next winter’s congress will be
stubborn as an army mule and com
pletely devoid of party lines.
Mulling these thoughts, the Pres
ident soon offered a solution. At
his semi-weekly press conference he
announced his support of liberal
candidates regardless of their polit
ical ancestry. Boasted he: “If
there is a good liberal running on
the Republican ticket, I would not
have the slightest objection to his
election. Good of country rises
above party.”
In effect, Mr. Roosevelt said he
could no longer be regarded as an
organization Democrat, that he is a
liberal—whatever that means—in
this fall’s primaries, in November’s
election, and in 1940.
The President’s apparent hope
was that enough liberals, both Re
publican and Democratic, will be
elected next November to give
Roosevelt liberalism a clear ma
jority over conservatives of both
parties. If that was his idea. Re
publican Chairman John D. M.
Hamilton found the statement a con
venient signal for another of his
fanatical tirades against New Deal-
ism.
Explained he: “The true Repub
licans running for congress this year
are liberals. Most of the Demo
crats seeking re-election are not.
Tnie liberals are those making a
determined fight against centraliza
tion of powers in one man. True
liberals would never vote for . . .
New Deal schemes to restrict pro
duction . . . for irresponsible fiscal
measures.”
Soundest comment came from Il
linois’ Sen. James Hamilton Lewis,
vacationing in California where
CHAIRMAN HAMILTON
"True Republicans ... are liberals. 1 *
Sheridan Downey had just won sen
atorial nomination on a state pen
sion platform. “There are no na
tional political parties left in the
nation,” he said. “The California
election ... is an expression of
what may now come in every state
... of gentlemen running for fed
eral office upon wholly state issues
and local remedies.”
Three days later, Franklin Roose
velt spoke at Denton, Md., seeking
the scalp of Sen. Millard E. Tydings.
Again hitting the liberalism tack, he
answered “Ham” Lewis’ comment:
“The Democratic party will live and
continue to receive the support of
the majority of Americans just so
long as it remains a liberal party.
If it reverts, it will fail.”
.3.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Only Doc
Mullican
Stayed Put
Lola Leads
Trek to
Hollywood
N EW YORK.—In Indianola, Iowa,
the only member of the Mulli
can family who stayed that way was
Doc Mullican, the
town dentist. One
of his daughters
married, and the
four others be
came the Lane sisters of Hollywood.
Had he lived a few months longer,
the father would have witnessed the
grand slam success of three of the
girls, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola,
in the new film “Four Daughters.”
The home background of the Lane
girls is such that it suggests Meg,
Beth, Jo and Amy, these antece
dents somehow easing into the pic
ture, to the delight of the audience
and the quite unrestrained enthusi
asm of the critics. It is too bad
that Leota couldn’t have been the
fourth daughter—this without dis
paragement of Gale Page, who gets
a full share of honors. Leota is
aiming at the Metropolitan and is
now studying at the Juilliard School
of Music.
The only sources of excitement in
Indianola, 21 miles south of Des
Moines on the Rock Island, were
the 3:15 tfrain and the Methodist col
lege. The Mullican girls, all musi
cally gifted and all good looking,
became locally famous for their
home musicales and their party
stunts.
Lola, eldest of the four, met Gus
Edwards, away out on the kerosene
circuit, 18 miles
from Indianola.
She persuaded
him to give her a
tryout. That led to
a vaudeville engagement, and later
to Hollywood. It was Edwards who
tagged her Lola Lane. Leota moved
out next, also in vaudeville, while
Priscilla and Rosemary were still
in school. But, at the ages of 14
and 16, respectively, the two latter
rounded out the quartette in Holly
wood, in “Varsity Show.”
They have a grand house, showy
cars, silks and sables and what-not—
in the Hollywood routine—but their
public doesn’t begrudge them their
slice of the American dream, hs
long as they so faithfully portray its
“Little Women” of poignant mem
ory.
“Four Daughters,” of modest pro
duction cost, was quietly unveiled
without any fuss whatsoever. Crit
ics headline it as a “sensational
success.” The lesson seems to be
that the picture moguls, downheart
ed about the business and ready to
spend until it hurts, are overlooking
the pulling power of not necessarily
expensive taste, simplicity, and
sound dramatic craftsmanship, in
lieu of a million dollars.
• • •
IF IT hasn’t already happened, it
1 is pretty nearly a certainty that
someone will give Commodore Rob
ert B. Irving, master of the Queen
Mary, a pipe for
breaking the At
lantic speed rec
ord. He collects
pipes and smokes
them almost constantly, and impor
tant occasions in his life are usually
signalized by the ceremonious pre
sentation of a B.B.B.—Best British
Briar—which type of pipes features
his collection of several hundred.
The tall, smiling, wind-and-sun-
tanned skipper is a border Scots
man of Kirtlebridge, Dunfreeshire,
61 years old, a sailing man for 47
years, 35 years with the Cunard line,
barring time out for war service.
He is deliberate, friendly, chatty
and easy-going, the last man in the
world to pose for the portrait of a
speed demon. Next to pipes, his
hobby is collecting carvings of min
iature elephants.
The son of a retired army colonel,
with no seafaring folk anywhere in
his line, he went to sea at 12 on the
school ship Conway, and, at 14,
shipped on a four-master around the
horn to San Francisco. He joined
the Cunard line as fourth officer.
His first command was the Venno-
nia, and later he was master of
many of the crack ships of the line,
including the Lusitania, in 1914, and
the Aquitania.
In his native Kirtlebridge, he lives
in a house built in 1770, tramps
through his 1,500 acres of copse and
moors, works in his garden and
raises spaniels. As one who has
ranged the world through nearly
half a century, he. is happiest when
headed homeward, for there he is
the kilted chief of the ancient Irv
ing clan, and there his heart is.
C Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Master of
Queen Mary
Likes Pipes
’We Must Hang Together’
“We must hang together” is one
of the famous puns in history and
is attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
When the Declaration of Independ
ence was signed, John Hancock,
president of the continental con
gress, put his name to the docu
ment first. “Now we must all hang
together,” he remarked as he wrote
his name. “Yes, indeed,” retorted
Doctor Franklin, “we must all hang
together or assuredly we shall all
hang separately.”
The SALLY
SMILE
— By—
D. J. Walsh
Copyrisht
WNU Service
\/IRS. FINNEY had called to
see Miss Bowman, and the
two women were in close conver
sation in Miss Bowman’s private
office. Miss Bowman was chief
executive of the governing board
of the hospital, and Mrs. Finney
was a director.
“Well, it simply has come to
this,” Miss Bowman said, wiping
her eyeglasses nervously, “we’ll
have to close the hospital, if we
can’t get something to run it on.
The citizens have done nobly—
nobly, but they can’t do every
thing. It remains for some mon
eyed person to come to the front
now.”
“Like Mrs. Chichester?” sug
gested Mrs. Finney. Mrs. Finney
was a small, eager woman, who
looked rather worn from the long-
continued struggle of keeping the
precious little hospital going on
next to nothing a year.
“Yes! Mrs. Chichester. She is
our richest citizen. She could give
$50,000 and never feel it.”
“But would she?”
“There’s the question. I’m
afraid she wouldn’t. I’ve ap
proached her unsuccessfully—”
“So have I,” moaned Mrs. Fin
ney. “Well, you can’t force a per
son to give up her money, that’s
certain. I suppose it’s hopeless.”
“I don’t know about that. I’ve
been thinking I’d send Sally Drew
to her and see what good that
would do.”
“Sally Drew!” Mrs. Finney
jumped. “She’s the very one. I’ll
see her this afternoon.”
Sally Drew was a tiny woman
with hair like snowy wool and a
pale pointed little face. Her eyes
were wonderful, so bright, so
black, so alive. They danced in
her face. But her smile was more
wonderful than her eyes.
The smile came now at sight of
Mrs. Finney.
“Julia!” she cried. “Come right,
in.”
In Sally’s small living room, so
old-fashioned, so cozy, and withal
so well suited to Sally herself,
Julia Finney told her story.
“Well, what do you want me to
do?” Sally asked.
“I want you to go to Helen Chi
chester and get her to give us
$5,000. That will keep the hos
pital running for one year. After
that—but we’ll hope.”
Sally’s smile vanished. She was
silent an instant.
“I’ll go, of course,” she said
quietly.
Mrs. Finney arose.
“Sally, you’re a dear. If any
one can do it you can. You are
our last resort.”
At 9, just as Mrs. Finney was
ready to fly to pieces with sus
pense, Sally walked in. The Sally
smile was bright indeed.
“I couldn’t get away sooner.
Helen wouldn’t let me come. You
A Costly Road
The Pulaski skyway is probably
the most expensive road in the
world for its length. The part of
it that is raised is three miles
long and cost $21,000,000. The ap
proaches cost an additional $19,-
000,000. This roadway is 50 feet
in width and can easily accommo
date five lanes of traffic. It is
estimated that 20,000,000 motor
vehicles use it annually. It passes
over both the Hackensack and the
Passaic rivers and the New Jer
sey Meadows.
see, we haven’t spoken before in
thirty years—”
“What?” gasped Mrs. Finney.
“Thirty years,” nodded Sally. "I
did hate to go. But after I got
there it was all right. Here’s your
money.” She drew a check from
her handbag and gave it to Julia.
“Fifty thousand dollars!” Mrs.
Finney could just articulate. “But
we hoped your smile would do
it.”
“It did.” Sally grew grave. “Thir
ty years ago Helen got the man I
wanted. But no one ever knew it
except her and me, for the day
she was married I pinned on my
smile and I’ve worn it ever since.”
She paused reflectively. “She says
she was puzzled for thirty years
over my smile. We made a fair
exchange. I told her how I got it
and she gave me $50,000 for my
secret.”
Herbert Chichester had only
lived five years, but he had lived
long enough to spoil the lives at
two women. His wife had grown
selfish and sore, but the woman
she had won him from had
“pinned on a smile” that had
brightened a whole community.
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