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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1937
J%'ews Review of Current Event*
BOOSTS FOR BUSINESS
Morgenthau's Encouraging Speech . . . President Has
Building Plan ... Japs Take Shanghai
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France has bought S10,250,000 of our store of gold, and part of the big
shipment sent from New Fork on the Normandie is here seen being un
loaded from a track at a North river pier.
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^SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
A Western Mewepaper Union.
Secretary
Morgenthau
Balance Budget: Morgenthau
B USINESS men of America re
ceived a cheering message, pre
sumably direct from the adminis
tration, delivered by Secretary of
the Treasury Mor
genthau. Addressing
the Academy of Po
litical Sciences in
New York, Mr. Mor
genthau declared
the time had come
for balancing the
budget, but said this
.should be accom
plished without addi
tional taxation.
Encouragement for
industry and busi
ness was stated thus:
“The laws should be so written
and administered that the taxpayer
can continue to make a reasonable
profit with a minimum of inter
ference from his federal govern
ment.”
Moreover, the treasury head went
on record as opposed to a continu
ance of the era of unlimited govern
ment spending. Said he: “The basic
need today is to foster the full ap
plication of the driving force of
private capital. We want to see
capital go into the productive chan
nels of private industry. We want
to see private business expand.”
The plan advanced by Mr. Mor
genthau for balancing the budget
was to bring next year’s expendi
tures, under the 1939 budget which
takes effect next July 1, within this
year’s revenues. To achieve a bal
ance, exclusive of debt retirement
payments, the present scale of ex
penditures would have to he sliced
$700,000,000, he added.
While he urged against tax in
creases, Mr. Morgenthau suggested
that a broader base for income
taxes, increasing the number of tax
payers above the present 3,000,000,
would be a more equitable substi
tute for the present federal taxes
on consumers—the so-called nui
sance taxes.
President’s Building Plan
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in a
*■ conference with several business
leaders, told of his new plan for
checking the threatening depression
by stimulating private home build
ing by private capital. He re
vealed no details, but Chairman Ec-
cles of the reserve board said the
President was confident such a pro
gram would reach full scope next
year. Eccles was unprepared to say
whether the undertaking would be
directed through a new government
agency, but thought legislation of
some sort probably would be neces
sary.
One suggestion is that the social
security reserve be used for loans
for home construction. At present
it is being used to pay current gov
ernment expenses.
The recent decline in residential
building is generally held responsi
ble to a large extent for the slump
in steel pi ill activity from 90 per
cent of fcapacity to 40 per cent.
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Shanghai Falls to Japs
C TUB BORN defense of Shanghai
by the Chinese came to an end
when the Japanese troops made
their way across Soochow creek and
occupied the entire city. The de
fenders retired westward and pre
pared to block the way of the in
vaders toward Nanking.
The victorious Japanese spread
death and destruction through
Shanghai; and mercilessly shot
down the Chinese groups which were
trapped in various quarters. They
tmmed machine guns on a •‘platform
inside the international concession
from which a number of foreigners
were watching the lighting, and
Pembroke Stephens, correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph, was
-killed.
In Brussels the Far East peace
conference was considering a plan
for giving direct aid to China if
Japan should reject mediation. Co
ercive action against Japan was not
thought advisable, but the idea was
that China should be permitted to
obtain munitions and arms to keep
up her fight. The chief difficulty
would lie in American neutrality
legislation.
Corn Crop Estimates
PRODUCTION of corn in the Unit-
* ed States this year will total
2,651,393,000 bushels, the Depart
ment of Agriculture estimated on
the basis of November 1 conditions.
The estimate was 89,457,000 bushels
larger than the forecast of 2,561,-
936,000 bushels a month ago. In
1936 1,529,327,000 bushels were har
vested.
Private estimates of the current
crop ranged batween 2,613,000,000
and 2,710,000,000 bushels, with the
average about 2,636,000,000 bushels.
gold
France Buys Our Gold
T WO big shipments of
abroad were made by the gov
ernment within the week. The first
was $10,250,000 sent to France on
the Normandie. Then $5,000,000 was
started to England on the Aquitania.
It was believed other shipments
would follow before long.
The gold shipments were handled
by the stabilization fund and were
regarded as an operation under the
tri-partite agreement, which binds
Great Britain, France and the Unit
ed States in a “gentleman’s pact”
to maintain currency stability.
Ramsay MacDonald's Death
R amsay mac donald, who
rose from poverty and obscur
ity to become three times the prime
minister of the great British em
pire, died suddenly of heart disease
on a steamship bound for South
America where he was to take a
long vacation with his daughter. He
was seventy-one years old and had
been practically out of politics since
1935, when Stanley Baldwin succeed
ed him as prime minister. Mac
Donald at th?t time was offered a
peerage but declined the honor.
Even his political foes admit that
he was one of the outstanding states
men of the time.
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Italy Joins Anti-Reds
M USSOLINI has given the dem
ocratic governments of Europe
something else to worry about, for
Italy has joined Germany and Japan
in their agreement
to combat commu
nism, and no one
knows how far this
alliance will go or
just what are its in
tentions. The three
“charter members”
of the pact—that
status was given
Italy—hope that all
other fascist minded
nations, including
Poland, Portugal,
Hungary and some
of the South American republics,
will adhere to the agreement.
Political observers saw the pros
pect cf a world divided into three
camps — fascist, communist and
democratic.
Emerging as one of the probable
chief leaders of this united front is
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German
ambassador to Great Britain. Hitler
sent him to Rome to sign the new
pact, and it is expected that the
headquarters of the alliance will be
in Berlin.
Officials in Rome stated the pact
was not directed against any coun
try and said Russia might have all
the communism it wants so long as
she keeps it at home. But they in
timated the military forces of the
signatories were ready to back up
the agreement.
Joachim
VonRibbentrop
Brazil Has a Dictator
G ETULIO VARGAS, president of
Brazil, is now dictator of that
country. In a coup that was unop
posed he dissolved all legislative
bodies and put into effect a new
constitution with corporative fea
tures. He issued a manifesto de
claring the suspension of payment
on all government debts abroad.
The foreign relations ministry in
Rio de Janeiro said Vargas’ coup
was not connected with European
political ideologies and denied re
ports Brazil planned to join the
German - Japanese - Italian pact
against communism.
Reasons for Thanks
A MERICA can be thankful for the
** blessing of peace. President
Roosevelt asserted in a proclama
tion designating November 25 as
Thanksgiving day.
“A period unhappily marked in
many parts of the world by strife
and threats of war finds our people
enjoying the blessing of peace,” he
said. “We have no selfish designs
against other nations.”
At the outset of the proclamation
the President said, “the harvests of
our fields have been abundant and
many men and women have been
given the blessing of stable employ
ment.”
Bloch to Head Navy
A BOUT the first of next February
the American navy will have a
new commander-in-chief in the per
son of Admiral Claude Charles
Bloch, nominated by Secretary
Swanson to succeed Admiral Hep
burn. The son of a Czechoslovaki
an immigrant and a native of Wood
bury, Ky., he is now fifty-nine years
old.
After his graduation from the na
val academy Bloch served under
“Fighting Bob” Evans on the U. S.
S. Iowa in the Spanish-American
war and was cited for “meritorious”
service in rescuing Spaniards from
burning ships of Cervera’s squad
ron. During the World war, as com
mander of the transport Plattsburg,
Bloch won the navy cross for “dis
tinguished service.”
Judge Graham Passes
W ILLIAM J. GRAHAM, presid
ing judge of the United States
Court of Customs and Patent Ap
peals and for nine years a Repub
lican congressman from Illinois,
died of heart disease at his home in
Washington. He was sixty-five years
old.
Our Navy Grows Rapidly
CECRETARY OF THE NAVY
CLAUDE A. SWANSON re
ported to the President that the navy
is stronger than at any time since
war days and is
moving steadily up
to the full strength
permitted by the
treaties abrogated
by Japan. It will not
go beyond the limi
tations in those
pacts unless other
nations do so.
Under its big re
placement program
the department has
Sec. Swanson under construction
two new battleships and has appro
priations for 85 other warships.
These include three aircraft car
riers, one heavy cruiser, nine light
cruisers, fifty-five destroyers and
seventeen submarines.
Five years ago the total num
ber of under age vessels was 101 of
728,050 tons, with twenty-three ves
sels of 122,500 tons under construc
tion. Today the navy has 113 ves
sels of 869,230 tons under age, and
eighty-seven vessels of 335,565 tons
under construction.
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Farm Measure Ready
\TOLUNTARY crop control for
» wheat, corn, rice and cotton;
and compulsory limitation of tobac
co production, are provided for in
the new farm measure drafted by
the house committee on agriculture
for action in the extraordinary ses
sion of congress.
Secretary Wallace’s “ever normal
granary” plan is included in the
bilL The measure also provides
for “tariff equalizing taxes” which
would be actually a revival of the
processing taxes which the Supreme
court declared unconstitutional.
These taxes would be applied only
to wheat, cotton and rice—3 cents
a pound on cotton, 20 cents a bushel
on wheat and % cent a pound on
rice.
For the protection of consumers
the bill provides that when prices of
the respective commodities exceed
parity by 10 per cent the secretary
of agriculture shall call outstanding
commodity loans, thus releasing
stored commodities and in this way
preventing excessive prices.
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President's Birthday
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
I authorized the use of his fifty-fifth
birthday, January 30, for the promo
tion of the nation-wide fight on in
fantile paralysis. As in previous
years, the day will be celebrated
in many cities with balls. This time
the funds raised thus will not be
handed over to local agencies but
will all go to the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis which
was created recently by Mr. Roose
velt. The President has approved
the appointment of a committee
headed by Keith Morgan of New
York to arrange for the celebra-
tjnny r
Irvin S. Cobb
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Growing Cannon Fodder.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
To produce this crop takes
time and planning.
First your veterans must grow
past fighting age because those who
survive the horrors
of one war never
willingly enlist for
another. Meanwhile
be sure the women
have been bearing
children, since chil
dren are the seed
com of your future
sowing.
As the newer gen
eration grows up
dose it on the old
reliable P. P. P.
formula — parades,
pomp, propaganda. Bands and guns
and flag - wavings, murderous
preachments and manufactured pa
triotism ; they all help to fertilize
against the ultimate harvesting.
Befuddle the first-bom on dreams
of drunken glory. Teach him the
neighbor over the way is an enemy
who must some day be crushed
without mercy. Make him believe
his country’s destiny demands re
venge for old hurts, reprisals for old
losses, widened boundaries writ in
blobd.
And then, in about 20 years, you
have a natioa ripened for min, a
race of mothers ready to offer their
sons to the slaughter. It’s a slow
crop, but a sure one, and highly
gratifying to professional sword-rat
tlers and power-mad dictators, to
profiteers and financial hijackers.
Let’s see, come 19T8, it’ll be just
about 20 years since the last time
the world cut its own throat.
• • •
Two-Faced Politicians.
COMEBODY says the type of poU-
tician who swaps worthless
promises before election for the
public’s confidence—and its votes—
reminds him of Janus. Janus was
a god with two faces, and the an
cients finally got so they couldn’t
trust either one of them. But it took
them a long time to catch on.
Might I be pardoned for thinking
of a homelier simile? I’m thinking
of the pack-rat of this western coun
try. The thrifty pack-rat slips with
stealthy tread into your camp whilst
you slumber and carries off some
thing of value. But he doesn’t steal
it—nothing like thaf. He merely ex
changes with you, you being asleep
at the time. He leaves a dry twig
behind and totes off a side of meat.
He confiscates one of your boots,
but, in return, confers on you a
couple of dead cactus stalks. His
intentions may be honest, but there
is no record showing where a pack-
rat ever got the worst of a trade.
I figure he’s part Scotch.
And the profits resulting from his
professional dealings certainly may
be likened to the career of many a
chronic officeholder now flourishing
in our midst.
• • •
This Man Dewey.
W HEN the Republicans get out
the hound-dawgs to run down
their 1940 nominee, they might
search in the tall timbers of Man
hattan island.
There’s a young fellow there, the
name being Dewey, and he being
kin to the great admiral whose
deeds crackled at Manila one May
day morning like the lightnings on
Mount Sinai. He comes of old
Yankee stock. He hails from a de
batable state, Michigan; lives in a
pivotal state, New York. Still in
his mid-thirties, he smashed the
foulest, securest nests of labor rack
eteers and vice racketeers in Amer
ica.
He married a sweet Texas girl,
as southern as they make ’em. Her
grand-uncle was Jeff Davis. My
daddy was Jeff Davis’ relative, too.
And this young Dewey trained for
grand opera. Speaking of this charm
thing, think of a President who’d
wind up his fireside radio chats sing
ing “Home on the Range.”
Yes, sir, the G. O. P. might go
farther and fare worse.
• • •
Nordic Supremacy.
T> ECENT events bring to mind a
little story of some years back
when night-riding patriots in an
Arkansas county felt called on, as a
sacred duty imposed upon all true
Caucasians, to put the Black broth
er in his place; said place, in at
least one instance, being a colored
cemetery.
Also, there had been a flood of
notices to vacate sent through the
mail to members of the African
race, followed by unpleasant sur
prise parties did the recipients fail
to heed the gentle warning.
So the community was getting
more Nordic by the hour and the
sound of the Anglo-saxophone was
heard oft in the stilly night. That!s
the scene and the plot. Now for
the sketch:
Pelagria Perkins meets Hook
worm Hostetler on Main street:
“Hooky," says Pelagria, “effen
you wuz to git a letter frum dese
here w’ite shirts, whut would you
do?”
“Mel" says Hookworm. “Boy,
Fd finish readin’ it on the train.”
IRVIN g. COBB.
OowriSbt—WMV SwIm.
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
“Worse Than Drowning”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Deadline Hunter
H ello, everybody:
Charles Quinones of Bronx, N. Y., sends in a yarn that sets
a new high for horror. Charley Quinones had a mighty queer
adventure. It was one that gave him a choice between two
deaths. One of them was drowning—and that’s no fun. But hor
rible as drowning was, it wasn’t half as bad as that other horror
—the one that was waiting for him up above.
Charley is a Porto Rican who has come to the States to finish his edu
cation. It’s a tale about his native land that he’s going to tell us today.
A good many years ago—on April 9, 1927, to be exact—Charley and a
bunch of other lads about his own age, started out to do some dynamite
fishing.
They all lived in the town of Jaj&rdo, on the northeast tip of
Porto Rico, and the sea was not far away. They chose a spot called
El Faro because of a lighthouse that stood on the hill above it. El
Faro was on the shores of a tidewater lagoon where the fish, at
high tide, were large and numerous. Charley and his friends
took along food, t pan to fry fish in—and several sticks of dyna
mite to catch the fish.
Fishing With Dynamite.
The tide came through the lagoon at El Faro at a pretty rapid clip.
It was at the time when that tide was just turning that dynamite fishing
was best, for if they waited while the tide ebbed, the fish would go out
with it. They attached fuses to their dynamite and one of the boys threw
it into the water. There was a momentary hush, followed by an explo
sion. The water heaved and trembled. A great wave shot up from
below the surface, and with it came fish—hundreds of them—of all sizes,
species and colors.
They had to act quickly after that. If they didn’t get those
fish immediately the swift-moving tide would carry them away.
Half a dozen of them dived into the water and began gathering
up the ones on the surface.
Charley Quinones followed them—but instead of going after the fish
on the surface he took a long, deep dive toward the bottom of the lagoon,
Between the Devil and the Deep.
The little fish came to the top after an explosion, but the bigger ones sank
to the bottom—and it was the big ones that Charley was after.
Charley had made a good dive, but thet^vas no time to lose. The
current was even swifter down near the bottom than it had been on the
surface. He saw a big fish—and another—and half a dozen more. “I
tried to take two,” he says, “but they were too slippery. I took the
largest one within reach and turned my head toward the surface. But at
that moment I saw something that made me change my mind.”
It was a ghastly sight that Charley saw up there above him.
Up near the surface, directly over his bead, he saw something
white swimming back and forth. A second look told him what it
was—and his whole body began fairly crawling with horror.
That white thing up there was a SLARK!
Huge Shark Was Terrifying.
Says Charley: “The sight of it almost made me faint, and there
aren’t enough words in any language to describe how terrified I felt.
The monster was swimming close to the surface and he seemed to be
eating the dead fish that our explosion had brought up to the top of the
lagoon. He was huge—one of the biggest sharks I had ever seen, and
from where I was I could see his great mouth with its rows of horrible
sharp teeth.”
Charley saw and thought all those things in a fraction of a second.
He knew he couldn’t swim upward. That shark would have eaten him
alive in less than a minute. But he couldn’t stay down there under the
water long, either. He had to have air. Already his lungs were be
ginning to ache from the strain of holding his breath—already his head
was spinning around giddily for want of oxygen in his lungs.
Never in his life had Charley been in a worse spot. “What I suffered
in those moments of cruel apprehension,” he says, “seems incredible
now. I never thought the human body and the human mind were capable
of standing so much torture. My ears were ringing madly. My
lungs felt as though they were about to burst. My heart was beating
violently. I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t.
“The water down there at the bottom was dark and gloomy.
Up on the surface, a dim figure, now, in my blurring eyes, the
monster still hovered. It seemed that he was waiting patiently
(or me to come up. Many times I had heard the expression,
‘Between the Devil and the Deep,’ and there I was in literally that
same predicament.
Desperate Push to the Surface.
“And what made matters worse was the fact that no one could help
me out of it. I was alone—more alone than anyone has ever been be
fore, I believe. I couldn’t hold my breath any longer, and I took a last
desperate chance. Pushing madly with my feet, swimming with all the
strength that was left in me, I shot toward the surface. It was hardly
possible that I could get out of the water before the shark got me. But I
had no other choice.
“Up I went. Then, suddenly I heard a splash—felt a violent blow
from a huge body—and lost consciousness.” •
When Charley came to he was lying on the beach, his friends all
grouped around him. They had seen the shark swimming around on the
surface, and they knew Charley was at the bottom. They thought sure
Charley was a goner, but they did what they could. One of the boys got
a huge piece of driftwood from the beach, floated it out on the water and
struck at the shark—just as Charley was coming to the surface. The
shark turned to swim away, and in doing so had run smack into Charley
—and nobody has figured out yet who was the most frightened by that
collision—the shark or Charley.
The other young fellows had dragged Charley, half drowned, to the
beach, and Charley says that’s the last time he’s been swimming in
anything bigger than a bathtub.
C—WNU Service.
International Boundary Markings
The land part of the international
boundary between the United States
and Canada, which is about 1,749
miles in length, is marked variously
with monuments of iron, aluminum-
bronze set on concrete, stone cairns
and concrete, placed at points rang
ing from two and a half to four miles
apart. A vista has been cut through
the trees where the line runs over
wooded areas. The water part of
the boundary is defined by courses
and distances between turning
points that are referred tc as light
houses or markers of metal or con
crete on the shores of lakes and
banks of streams.
Softening Water
The water is so hard in some
parts of the country that softening
forms a part of the purification
processes. Often, the saving in de
preciation of water pipes and in the
purchase of soap counter-balances
the cost of softening. Usually lime
water is mixed with the water in a
settling basin and after 12 or 14
hours subsidence, the water is
drawn off from the precipitated
salts. When the hardness is the re
sult of sulphates of lime or magne
sia, which cause the water to be
“permanently" hard, sodium car
bonate, or washing soda is used to
soften the water.
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.Ask Me ^Another
A A General Quiz
1. Is gasoline a stronger explo
sive than dynamite?
2. How many acres of floor
space are there in the Capitol in
Washington, D. C.?
3. Is it true that the Golden Gate
bridge would sink instantly if it
should be destroyed by enemy
bombardment?
4. How does a nautical mile
compare with a land mile?
5. Why is Wall street so called?
6. What kind of a government
has Italy now?
7. 'What is the record length oi
time that any one has ever at
tended college?
8. Has the Netherlands two cap
itals and if so why?
Answers
1. According to Dr. George
Granger Brown of the University
of Michigan, gasoline as an ex
plosive has 10 times the explosive
power of dynamite.
2. The building has a floor area
of 14 acres. The structure stands
in a park of nearly 50 acres. The
dome is 387 feet in height.
3. It is designed so that it would
immediately sink to the bottom of
the channel and not congest the
harbor.
4. It is almost 800 feet longer
than a land mile.
5. A wall, the northerly defense
of the city, once ran along it.
6. Italy is now referred to as a
corporative state. The legislative 'n •
powers of parliament were sur
rendered to the council of corpor
ations, set up January 18, 1934.
Mussolini is the head of this.
7. It is said to be that of the
late William Cullen Bryant Kemp.
Returning to college at approxi
mately forty years of age, he took
courses in almost every school
and department of Columbia uni
versity up to the age of seventy.
His degrees included A. B., A. M.,
Ph. D., LL. B., LL. M., M. E.,
E. E., C. E. and Phar. G.
8. In reality, it has not. Am
sterdam is the capital and The
Hague is the seat of government.
The term, capital, does not carry
the same meaning associated with
it in the American mind. It con
notes merely a chief city or me
tropolis.
Advertising Reduced Cost
A third of a century ago the
price of the cheapest automobile
was about $5,000. Today a much
better car can be bought for
around $700. Advertising created
demand, demand created mass
production, with many times the
number of jobs, and mass pro
duction improved the quality and
reduced the price.
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