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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1937 Xeir» Review of Current Events VANDENBERG'S PROGRAM Michigan Senator's Plan to Give Honest Business a Chance . . . President Talks Peace with Utility Chiefs Representative I. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left;, and Representative Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the house agriculture committee, discussing farm problems at a meeting of the committee to draft the new farm bill. IV. PLcLutA SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Senator Vandenberg Vandenberg's Program CENATOR VANDENBERG of Michigan didn’t wait for the leaders of the Republican party to formulate a program on which to battle the Demo crats. He broke out with a ten-point pro gram designed to “give honest busi ness a chance to create stable pros perity.” His ten points were: 1. An end to gov ernmental “hymns of hate” and bitter attacks on business men. 2. Progress as rapidly as possible toward a balanced budget. 3. Amendment or repeal of the surplus and capital gains taxes and substitution of “incentive taxation” for “punitive taxation.” 4. Amendment of the social secur ity act to eliminate the “needless drain upon the resources of com merce and labor.” 5. Revision of the Wagner labor law to make for greater certainty in “long range industrial planning.” 6. Abandonment of the so-called wage-hour bill and substitution of legislation to protect states from the importation of goods produced by substandard labor. 7. Repeal of many of the Presi dent’s emergency powers in order to free business from “executive despotism which is at war with ev ery tenet of the American system.” 8. Reasonable and practical farm relief, without bureaucratic controls, processing taxes, or price pegging, but with benefits for soil conserva tion practices, financing of export able surpluses, and return of the domestic market to the producer. 9. Foreign policies that will keep America out of war through pur suing “an insulating neutrality” rather than sanctions. 10. “Frank abandonment of all anti-constitutional activities and in trigues which shatter democratic faith.” —■ Peace Talk with Utilities O ESTRICTION of the construc- tion and expansion activities of the privately owned public utilities being recognized as an important factor in the current business re cession, President Roosevelt began a series of conferences with the heads of these concerns. He seemed to be in a conciliatory frame of mind and sought to lessen the utili ties’ fear of the effect of govern ment policies, but without making any concessions. His first caller was Wendell Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern corpora tion, and next day he talked with Floyd Carlisle of the Niagara Hud son Power corporation. Though he appeared amiable, the President at the same time was sending to various congressional committees and federal agencies a report by the New York state power authority, whacking friends and agents of the private utilities for 'propaganda” against public power development. It presented figures to show the government could pro duce water power at a much lower cost than private utilities could pro duce power by steam plants. It was understood Mr. Wilkie sub mitted these points: That there is a general fear throughout the country of govern ment competition and interference with private utilities which can be subdued only by concrete reassur ance from the administration. That money for private expan sion purposes and refinancing to ob tain lower interest rates, which in turn would be reflected in lower power rates, is hard to obtain. That the government had a right to sell power from its dams, but a basis for marketing it could be found without frightening the whole industry. That the prudent investment method of determining the rate base might well be used for determining values to be added hereafter and that it could be studied as a means of finding present value, that in any case no system of valuation does or should bring about the highly watered capitalization which the President condemned in a number of examples which he cited at a recent press conference. Chino-Japanese War JAPAN’S armies were slowed up by rain and mud in their ad vance up the Yangtse valley, but as there seemed no likelihood that the Chinese line of defense would hold, the Nationalist government moved out of Nanking, scattering its departments among a number of cities. American Ambassador John son and his staff moved to Hankow. The Japanese commanders in Shanghai took over full control of most of the city and its customs of fice. They demanded that the in ternational settlement and French concessions officials hand over the city’s four leading citizens as hos tages. Most prominent of these was T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of Dic tator Chiang Kai-Shek. The Far East conference in Brus sels, unable to accomplish anything to end the Chino-Japanese conflict, was on the point of final adjourn ment. Aftar French Throne A LARM of the French govem- ment over the plotting of the Cagoulards or "hooded ones” that led to the arrest of many rightists and the raiding of hidden stores of weapons and ammu nition was far from baseless. Evidently there was a real conspiracy to over throw the republic and set up a dicta torship and eventu ally a restored mon archy. The govern ment announced, however, that the plot had been wrecked. From his place of exile in Bel gium the Due de Guise, pretender to the throne of France, issued a manifesto announcing he had de cided to try to regain the throne. "Have the moral courage not to abdicate before present difficulties,” the manifesto appealed to French men. “Do not permit, in a moment of abandon, dictatorship of any kind to impose itself. “Certain of my ability to assure your happiness, I have decided to reconquer the throne of my fathers. France then again will reassume her mission in the world and again will find peace, unity and prosperity through a union of the people with a titular defender-king.” —-k— Windsor Wins Libel Suit 'T'HE duke of Windsor won his A libel suit against the author and publisher of the book “Coronation Comments,” and in a settlement out of court received a substan tial sum, said to be $50,000, from them, which money he gave to char ity. Lord Chief Justice Hewart commented that the libels “ap peared almost to invite a thorough and efficient horsewhipping.” Green Opposes Labor Bill W ILLIAM GREEN president of the A. F. of L., practically broke with the administration by denouncing the pending wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and demanding that it be sent back to committee for revision. Green assailed the national labor relations board and declared it no longer is safe to permit a govern ment board of that kind to admin ister laws governing labor relations with employers. Due de Guise Eliot Ness After Labor Racketeers E'OR four months Eliot Ness, the ‘ young safety director of Cleve land, Ohio, has been investigating labor racketeering in Cleveland, es pecially in the build ing trudes, and then he made a report of his findings that re sulted in a special session of the Cuya hoga county grand jury to hear the stories of scores of business men who allegedly have been terrorized by labor union officials. Ness said these men were prompted to volunteer their infor mation because of the security of fered them and the knowledge that many others were prepared to tes tify. In addition to protests from busi ness men that they were being shak en down, Ness also had numerous complaints from rank and file union men that their leaders had obtained dictatorial control of the unions and had used it for racketeering pur poses. This resulted in hundreds of men being thrown out of work, impeded legitimate business, and kept hun dreds of thousands of dollars in new industries out of the city, the Ness report was said to have stated. —*■— Governors Ask Tax Repeal G overnors of the six New England states, in conference in Boston, adopted resolutions se verely criticizing the tax and tariff policies of the administration. They demanded repeal of the capital gains tax and the tax on undistrib uted corporate profits, and de nounced the pending reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslo vakia as imperiling the jobs of thousands of American citizens. The governors who took this ac tion were Lewis O. Barrows, Re publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Re publican, New Hampshire; George D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont; Charles F. Hurley, Democrat, Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross, Democrat, Connecticut, Robert E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island. •* Trade Treaty with Britain JN WASHINGTON and London it * was officially announced that the United States and Great Britain had agreed to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty, which has been sought by Secretary of State Hull ever since he started his recipro cal program in 1934. The negotiations are expected to begin before die close of the year. American admin istration officials be- ^-„ r . ta rv Hnll UeVe SUCh * PaCt secretary Hull may lead a com _ mercial union of all English-speak ing peoples and will be a powerful influence in preserving world peace. London looks upon it as an in strument to form a front which all nations may enter later on condi tions of most-favored-nations reci procity, and therefore as an indi rect reply to the new German- Italian-Japanese alliance. Principles said to be already agreed upon provide that Great Britain would receive reduced American tariffs on textiles and coal. In return she would grant the United States lower tariffs on food stuffs, certain raw materials, iron and steel and other essentials of a rearmament program. Immediate opposition to the pro posed pact developed among the statesmen in Washington. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, protested against any British accord until the Eng lish pay off their defaulted war debt to the United States. He called the proposed pact “trade treason.” Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts Republican, served notice he would sponsor a resolu tion halting negotiation of all new I trade treaties until congress can determine whether they are respon sible for the current business re- | cession. Representative Allen Treadway, Massachusetts Republican, de nounced the proposed treaty as cer tain to prove disastrous to Amer ican business. He warned it would throw “more Americans out of their jobs.” Rand Is Acquitted JAMES H. RAND, JR., president *“* of Remington Rand, Inc., and Pearl L. Bergoff of New York were found not guilty of violation of the Byrnes act by a jury in the United States District court in New Haven, Conn. The verdict was a blow at Jhe government’s first attempt to en force the act, which forbids the transportation of strikebreakers across state lines with the intent of interfering with peaceful picketing. —— Another Judge Wanted CENATOR MINTURN of Indiana ^ introduced a bill authorizing the President to appoint an additional judge to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. That court has jurisdiction over the sev enth circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, and has had one vacancy since the retirement of Judge Sam uel Alschuler last year. Both Senators Lewis and Dieterich of Illinois said the:' had no candi date for the place. ,U> 3hJi/v\hd oheut Sports Broadcasters. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Somebody said that there were always two big sporting events—the one Graham Mc- Namee saw and the one that actually took place. But, alongside the present sports broadcasters, Graham’s wildest flight would sound like the dulcet twit ters of a timid love bird as compared with the last rav ings of John McCul lough. Coaches brag of the lowered percent age of serious foot ball accidents this fall. But oh, think of the radio descrip- tionists who’ll wind Irvin S. Cobb up the season suf fering from nervous exhaustion, wrecked vocal chords, violent rush of loud words to the mouth, com plete collapse, even madness. You’ll be passing the rest cure sanitarium, and, as the windows burst outward, you’ll hear pouring forth something like this: “Oh boy, boy! with one tremen dous burst, Irish Goldberg is jam ming his way from the red back line right through the black inter ference! Nothing can stop him!” But don’t get v/orked up. What you hear is merely a convalescent microphone orator mentioning a checker game between two fellow- inmates and reverting to form. • • • Virtues in Snakes. COMETHING I said recently about ^ the folly of killing every snake on sight, without investigating the snake’s character, brought a flock of letters from readers who don’t like snakes. Even a so-called venomous snake may have his better side. In Kan sas, in the old local option days, you could get a drink only on a doc tor’s prescription, excepting in case of dire emergency, such as a snake bite. So every properly run drug store kept a rattlesnake on the premises to serve the citizenry. And the only time a drug store rattler ever refused to bite a thirsty stran ger was when he was all worn out from accommodating the regular local trade. And what though it was a snake that led Eve astray in the garden of Eden? He may have brought sin into the world, but wouldn’t we have missed a lot of spicy reading mat ter in newspapers if he hadn’t? Yep, I plead guilty to thinking an occasional charitable thought for any decimated and vanishing group. I feel that way about old line Re publicans and mustache cups and red woolen pulse-warmers. • • • Political Predictions. W E TAKE the opportunity to an nounce that the Literary Di gest, or rather its journalistic suc cessor, will not conduct a poll on next year’s congressional and state elections. The burnt child dreads the poll. Let others go around taking straw votes, but, the way the Digest folks feel now and, in fact, have felt ever since last November, they whuldn’t start a canvass to prove that two and two make four. Because, look here—what if it should turn out that two and two merely make some more Marx brothers or a double set of Siamese twins? Anyhow, the business of basing cocksure predictions on half-cocked estimates doesn’t seem to be flour ishing these days. Figures don’t lie, but the citizens who furnish the figures may do so, either uninten tionally or just for the sake of a laugh. The rise of candid camerasa- tionalizing—say, we just thought up that word—proves that a photo graph of things as they are is mightier than a lot of loose sta tistics predicated on what the vot ers may or may not do—and prob ably won’t, when the time comes. • • • Forgotten Stars. O NCE interviewers clamored for a hearing and her face was on half the magazine covers and her name in letters of flaming light above all the marquees. Once im pressive tycoons catered to her tem peramental whims; press agents waited upon her, courtiers attend ing a queen. Autograph seekers besieged her then, while now only bill collectors desire her signature —and they’d like to have it on a check. Speak of her to the newer generation, and somebody will say, “Who? Spell it, please.” She is all through, all washed up. But, like the deaf husband whose wife has slipped, will be the last person in town to hear the news. Having traveled a road which is sues mighty few round-trip tickets, she still dreams of a come-back. She is the most tragic and the most pitiable figure—and one of the commonest—to be found in this place called Hollywood. She is any one of the host, men and women, who, ten years ago, or even five, were glittering stars in mcvieland. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright.—WNU Scrvte*. Ttoyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “The Babe in the Blazing House” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: These adventures provide a cross-section of life, and if they didn’t show its grimmer side occasionally, they wouldn’t show a faithful picture. That’s why I chose for today a story I found unusually gripping because it demonstrates so clearly how close we may be at any time to tragedy. Mary Ann Grob of New York City, who tells today’s adventure, was only a child of nine when it happened, and this, for me, added particular poignancy to the tale. Imagine running back into a blazing house to rescue your eight months old baby brother only to find the smoke so dense you couldn’t see what you were doing. That’s what happened to Mary. The time was the fall of 1921, around September, and at that time Mary’s father and mother and Mary’s three brothers lived in Thayer, a small mining town in the lower part of West Virginia. Left in Care of the Children. Thayer is a valley, situated between two large hills. To get out of the valley, Mary tells us, you had to ride on a sort of incline. It was a box-shaped affair, the car, let up and down the side of a hill by means of a cable. On this fateful morning Mary’s mother and dad had to go to town, where mother was going to have her teeth fixed. Before she left she called Mary, who was the eldest child, aside and warned her to watch the three younger children, her brothers, while her parents were away. Mary had occasion later, as you will see, to recall that warning. Of the three John was the oldest brother, then came six-year-old Pete, and last of all little Eddie, who could show only a scant eight months. Mary had her hands full keeping them all out of mischief, and when night began to fall she began to glance nervously out the window, wondering why mother and dad didn’t come. The younger children grew Groped Her Way Through Smoke-Filled Halts. frightened with the approach of darkness, and, at their urging, not to mention her own uneasiness, Mary finally bolted all the doors and win dows. To set the scene for this story it is necessary to explain that next to the house they had a little wash-house, where Mary’s dad used to wash when he came home from work. This afternoon the stove was lighted, but with the children locked inside the house there was no one to tend it or check the dampers. And so it came to pass that as the children sat huddled in the darkness, queer red shadows, ghostly and lengthening, began to dance on the walls of the children’s room. Alarmed, the children began to whimper, and at length, unable to stand the strain any longer, Mary went to the window and looked out to see what was causing the strange play of lights on the wall. Then she understood—the wash-house was on fire! Eddie, the Baby, Was Missing. Remember, this was no grown-up. This was a nine-year-old child with the care and responsibility of three younger brothers on her little shoulders. And now, as the fire spread to the main house, igniting the old, dry wood like tinder, the children fled from the blazing wall into the open air, Mary as scared as any. This will explain, perhaps, how it happened that on looking around, they discovered that eight-months-old Eddie was missing. Mary, who was frantic by this time, berated John for leaving the baby behind, as she had understood he had taken Eddie from his crib while she was looking af, “r getting Pete out. But John protested that he had thought Mary was taking Eddie, and so hadn’t bothered to go after him. • Meanwhile, inside the burning house, little Eddie lay asleep in his crib. The thought of her beloved little brother in that blazing inferno was too much for Mary. With no sager heads to dissuade her, she rushed back inside the burning house, groped her way through dark, smoke- filled halls to the room where the baby lay asleep. By this time, Mary says, the smoke was getting so thick that she could hardly see. Reaching the bedroom she found herself in the center of a dense, rolling fog, choking her, blinding her so that she could not see her hand before her face. Heat seared her eyeballs, tore at her air-famished lungs. But the nine-year-old girl had made a promise—a promise to a mother who trusted her to care for the younger ones. Mary could hear her mother’s last words echoing in her ears as she groped her way to where she thought the- crib should be. “Look after them while I’m gone, Mary. I’m trusting you.” Heroic Rescue by Mary. The flames were searing hot now, but Mary had bnt one thought: She must get Eddie out. In the black pall she stum bled against something—“the crib”—she thought. Hurriedly she reached down, grabbed what she thought to be Eddie and al most delirious now with the desire to escape from those hungry flames she rushed out of the house into the open air. Outside, safe under the open sky again, she thought of the bundle in her arms. In the smoke-suffused house, Mary says herself, “I did not know for sure whetiier I had him or not.” Now, obsessed by a horrible premonition of possible disaster she dared not put into words, she forced herself to look down. . When you contemplate how easy it would be for a nearly hysterical child of Mary’s age to mistake her precious burden in a fog of rolling smoke, you will understand how close is the line between happiness and tragedy. For had Mary’s eyes met, not what they did see, but some thing else, this story would not have the happy ending it now has. Yes, it was Eddie, crying for all he was worth. And was Mary glad? You answer that one. I’ll just go on to add that when Mary’s mother and dad got home all that was ’ - r of the house was the standing chimney. ( -WNU Service. , Saba, Strange Isle Rugged, volcanic and with an area of less than five square miles, Saba might be called the strangest isle of the Caribbean. Her first fam ilies long ago regarded a son who left the island to seek work and a wife as disloyal to the homeland. Sabanites are suspicious of stran gers from the outside world. Set tled first by the English, who were later supplanted by the Dutch, Saba remains English-speaking. Its men folk raise sheep, coffee and sugar. Its women make some of the finest lace and drawn-work in the area. The principal town, The Bottom, is paradoxically not at the bottom of the island but at the ton How Lightning Affects Trees Although lightning frequently strikes trees, there is usually no damage to the trees or else the in jury is limited to the path of the electrical discharge, occasionally stripping off a narrow piece of bark or splitting the trunk or limb. How ever, in rare cases the lightning may be accompanied by St. Elmo’s fire which gives a flaming or brush discharge from every twig and leaf. In such cases the tree usually dies within a few days or, if the St. Elmo’s fire should miss part of the tree, it may kill the greater part and several years may elapse be fore the remainder of tfc,- tree suc cumbs. AROUND THE HOUSE Brighter Glass.—All glass bowls and tumblers should be washed in warm soapy water and then in clear water to which a little vine gar has been added. • • • Removing Tar Stains. — Tar stains can be removed from car pets by spreading a thick paste of turpentine and fullers’ earth over the affected spot. Leave on for several hours, then brush off. • • • Convenient Table.—A knee-high small kitchen working table, pref erably one that washes off easily is a treasure to the housewife. Such a table encourages her to sit down to peel potatoes, scrape car rots or do any of the little things that she usually does standing by the kitchen table. • • • Hot Luncheon Sandwiches.— Spread bread lightly with butter, add a slice of cheese, a slice of tomato and one or two half slices of bacon. Place on a pan in a hot oven, three to four inches be neath the broiler heat and cook until the bacon is done to taste and the cheese melted. WOMEH WHO HOLD THEIR MEN NEVER UT THEM KN01 N‘ fO nutter how much your bade aches and your ■awn. your husband, because be Is only a man, can never under stand why you are so hard to Uve with one week In every month. Too often the honeymoon ex press la wrecked by the nagging tongue of a three^iuarter wife. The wise woman never lets her husband know by outward sign that she is a victim of periodic pain. For three generations one woman has told another how to go “smil ing through” with Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure In the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre paring for motherhood. 3. Ap proaching “middle age.” Don’t be a three-quarter wife, take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go "Smiling Through.” The Best Day Write it on your heart that ev ery day is the best day in the year.—R. W. Emerson. when you here (old. CO 1 Self-Love In jealousy there is more self- love than love. — La Rochefou cauld. Vgl»js| INSIST ON 6ENNINE NMOL SMALL 60c LARGE SIZE .20 Brings Blesset fram aches and Mies ef RHEUMATISM ■ AT AtL GOOD DRUG STORES — Watch Your Kidneys/ Help Them Cleanse the Bleed of Harmful Body Waste Your kidneys are constantly altering Uttar from the Wood stream. Bn kidseye sometimes leg In their work—do act act as Nature Intended—fsB to r*- tnove Impurities that, if retained, mey poteen the system and upset the whole body machinery. getting up nights, swelling, pnfflnem under the eyes—s feeling of frequent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than neglect. Urn Don’t PiUt. Don’s hero bon winning now Moods lor more than forty yewa. They have a nation-wide repatatkm. Are recommended by grateful people tbs country over. Ash soar aefphiorl DOANSPILLS