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" >■ — THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938 3 Matriarchy’s Approach. ’COME inspired philosopher—and not a woman either—-declares (that within a century women will idominate every imaginable field of human endeavor. What do you mean, within a cen- ‘tury? If the prophet will leave out ihe ancient science of growing chin- (whiskers and the knack of making a sleeping car washroom look like a (hurrah’s nest I’m saying that wom- jen are already away out in front (everywhere. Since Henry the Eighth, the two jgreatest kings England had were both queens—Elizabeth and Victo- 'ria. Men thought up war and im- ived the art of war and now are ping to perfect it to the point of exterminating the species, but ’twas in the midst of bloody warfares that Florence Nightingale laid the foundations and Clara Barton built the structure of mercy by method and life-saving by skill and tender ness anu sanitation. Take this country at the present moment: for energy, for readiness of speech, for range of interest, for versatility in making publicity and, incidentally, acquiring it, for endur ance under strain, what man amongst us is to be compared with the first lady of the language, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? • • • Banishing Sectionalism. O N ONE stretch of road down here—and it is not a main-trav eled highway and this not exactly the tourist season—I saw cars bear ing license tags of nine separate states, ranging from New Hamp shire and Florida to Utah and Ore gon, besides one from Hawaii and one from Puerto Rico. And next summer Texas cars will be boring into every corner of this Union and the folks riding in them will be getting acquainted with their fellow- countrymen and finding out that, when you know the other fellow, he’s not so different, after all. Like most evil things, sectional ism and parochial prejudices and with Vermont neighbor to Virginia and the Dakotas talking it over with the Carolinas, there’s seed being sown which inevitably must sprout a finer yield of Americanism than any our land ever produced—if only we keep the tares of communism and the chaff of snobbery out of the crop, only make patriotic service a thing of elbow-grease and not of lip-movements. What price, then, the wearers of the {tlack shirts and the white sheets; the parlor pinks, the yellow internationalists and the red flag wavers? • • • Freedom of the Press. D ICTATORS invariably cancel freedom of the press and curb freedom of education. Otherwise, they fail. Although he uttered the words over 250 years ago, Governor Berke ley of Virginia spoke for all the breed of political tyrants when he said: “I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, for learn ing has brought disobedience and heresy into the world, and printing has divulged them.” Foulness in drama or literature, like a skunk penned under a barrel, eventually destroys itself by just naturally choking to death on its own smell. Control of the newest medium of publicity, the radio, is easy. But information put in type keeps on traveling. No people ever stayed free once the press—and the school* teacher— had been muzzled. IRVIN S. COBB. Copjrrish*.—WNU Service. Netts Review of Current Events "SAVE THE COMPTROLLER" Byrd Opens Fight on the Reorganization Bill . • . Panay Incident Closed by Japan's Pledges Magazine Solicitors. H ouston, Texas.—what has become of all the strug gling collegians, ranging in age up to fifty-five, who used to so licit magazine subscriptions so they could spend another se mester at dear old Bushwah? We counted that day lost whose low descending sun didn’t find us signing on the dot ted line. And some times we got the wrong magazines and sometimes we didn’t get any mag azines at all and once in awhile we got the magazines we’d ordered and then didn’t like them. But our consola tion was that we’d aided all those ear nest undergraduates to complete the education for which they panted as the hart panteth after the water- brook. Can it be that the gallant army packed the campuses until vast numbers got crushed in the jam? Or is it that many of them are getting too old to travel around? ^Lately there has been an unaccount able falling-off in the business. We are bearing up bravely, since now we have more time in which to lead our own lives. P. S.—I have on hand a complete file for 1935 of the Northwestern Bee Raiser which I would like to trade for a ukulele. Irvin S. Cobb - This is the Japanese liner Tatsnta Mara which was raided by custom agents just before she sailed from San Francisco for the Far East. The agents garnered a sheaf of letters, supposedly connected with operations at the Bremerton navy yard on Puget Sound. 1/ A SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C> Western Newspaper Union. Byrd in Battle Early O NE of the big fights scheduled for the regular session of con gress is to be over the Presient’s reorganization bill, which aims, among other things, at abolishing the office of comptroller general, popularly known as the “watch dog” on federal spending. This officer is the agent of congress in seeing that expenditures are made only in accordance with law. Senator Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia, one of the Democrats who in sist on economy, projected himself into the battle over this measure early by issuing a public statement in which he pointed out that the new auditor established in the measure would report to congress only after money had been spent. This would be like locking the stable after the horse is stolen, Sen ator Byrd declared. “This proposal to give the spend ing branch of the government a free hand with upwards of $8,000,000,000 a year strikes viciously at the vital elements of good government, good business and the general welfare,” said the senator. “In the committee hearings,” he continued, “the only complaint of consequence against the comptroller general was that this official at times delayed the quick spending of public money and compelled the de partment heads to show that the funds were to be disbursed in ac cordance with the laws enacted by congress. No proof, however, was given that any expenditure was prevented when authorized by con gress and made legally.” Tax Load Is Heavy /'YUT of every national income dol- lar in 1938, the tax collector will take 20 cents. This is the ratio which has been regarded as the danger sig nal. This is the declaration of a spe cial committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce which has been studying taxation. The report estimates that the nation’s tax load, federal, state and local, this year will reach a new all-time high of 13% billion dollars. The national in come, it is figured by the govern ment, will be slightly less than the 69 billion dollar estimate for 1937. Tax collections for 1938 on the basis of tentative estimates made by the committee, include 6 billion 400 million dollars for the federal government and 7 billions 100 mil lion dollars for state and local gov ernments. Although the revenues for the fed eral government are estimated to reach an all-time high in 1938, there is doubt in congress that the budget can or will be balanced for the fiscal year beginning next July 1, the latest goal set by President Roosevelt. Boomlet for lekes PROM Chicago comes the interest- *• ing news that friends of Secre tary of the Interior Ickes have start ed a small boom for him as the favorite son candi date of Illinois for the presidential nomination in 1940. It is said Democrat ic leaders in Illinois have been ap- proached with the plan to enter Mr. Ickes in the presi dential primaries. So far there has n u y i been no enthusiastic Harold ickes response to the pr(> . posal for the leaders would prefer to wait for the development of other candidacies. Besides that, the sec retary has been notably independent of party organization control. Naturally, the proposal would car ry no weight unless President Roosevelt makes it plain that he will follow tradition and refuse a third term. The Ickes adherents be- J. C. Grew lieve their man would stand a fair chance in a wide open race for the nomination, and they assert his independence would add to his strength and attract many Repub licans. Newton D. Baker Is Dead ISJEWTON D. BAKER, one of the World war men who did a tre mendous job well, died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, of coronary thrombosis at the age of sixty-three years. Called to Washington in 1916 to be secretary of war in President Wilson’s cabinet, Mr. Baker accom plished the great feat of mobilizing the huge American army and get ting it across the Atlantic in time to be the decisive factor in winning the conflict. It was he who selected General Pershing to command the A. E. F., and counseled him to keep the American army intact. Mr. Baker was eminent as a law yer and a close student of interna tional affairs. Though always a Democrat, he turned against the present administration mainly be cause of the Tennessee Valley au thority projects and the usurpation of state rights. —-X— Jap Pledges Accepted JAPAN has promised that there *■* shall be no recurrence of the Panay outrage, and if her pledges are kept the incident may be con sidered closed. But Uncle Sam is going to keep close watch to see that there are no further attacks on American life and property in the war zone in China. Ambassador Jo seph C. Grew hand ed to Foreign Minis ter Koki Hirota a note from Secretary of State Hull accept ing in the main Japan’s amends for the destruction of the Panay and three American merchant vessels. The American note, however, re fused to accept Tokyo’s explanation that the bombing of the Panay was the result of a “mistake,” prefer ring to rely on the findings of the naval board of inquiry. The report of the board said the identity of the Panay and the three American oil tankers was unmistakable; that the attack was deliberate; that the weather was clear and the visibility perfect; that the Japanese naval planes swooped down and released their death charges on the ships flying the American flags and then fired on them with machine guns; and that Japanese river craft di rected machine gun fire on life boats carrying the wounded from the Panay and other vessels. Under a Japanese decree estab lishing strict regulations for the con quered areas in China, Americans and other foreigners were made sub ject to the death penalty for crimes against the armed forces of Japan. This seems to raise the question of treaty rights of foreign powers in China, The spokesman for the Japanese embassy in Shanghai announced the complete occupation of Tsinan, cap ital of Shantung province. Unemployment Grows A CCORDING to the Works Prog ress administration, 2,000,000 persons have lost their jobs since September 1 and 1,000,000 more may be out of work by the end of February. The estimate was made by Leon Henderson, consulting economist, while a staff of federal employees was speeding compilation of the mailman census of the unemployed made more than a month ago. It was conceded that if the unemployed are increasing at the rate indicated in the Henderson estimate the post card census will be worthless as a basis for attacking the unemploy ment problem. Monopolists Blamed OLAME for the business slump was placed at the door of mon opolists by Assistant Attorney Gen eral Robert H. Jackson, and ha al tered a warning that government spending would be increased unless prices are brought more in line with consumers’ income. Jackson, head of the Justice de partment's anti-trust division, said that the impression that steep price increases are traceable to wage boosts resulting from the growth of labor unions is “not accurate—or at the most, only half accurate." As an example he cited the steel in dustry, where wages, he said, were increased 10 per cent and prices were tilted 21 per cent from De cember 1, 1936, to March 1, 1937. —*— Wheeler'* Rail Plans CEN. BURTON K. WHEELER of ^ Montana said in Washington that he would soon lay before President Roosevelt a plan to “stabilize” the railroads. Wheeler, who is chairman of the senate interstate commerce com mittee which has been investigating the railroads, said his proposals will be based on the committee’s find ings. He did not indicate what would be proposed, but said he would call on the President to “see if we can’t work out some construc tive legislation.” Recently Wheeler said it might be necessary to broad en the powers of the interstate com merce commission so that it could force co-ordination and consolida tion of railroads. Mme. Perkin* "Not Biased" I N HER annual report to congress Mme. Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, denied the frequently heard charge that she is prejudiced in favor of John Lewis and his Com mittee for Industrial Organization. She said her department had followed a strict rule of impartiality. Mme. Perkins also told congress the na tion wants Lewis and Green, presi dent of the Ameri can Federation of Mme.Perkins Labor, to stop bick ering and permit labor to present a united front. The secretary defended the na tional labor relations board and urged employers to get rid of their misconceptions of the Wagner act. The Ford Motor company, ordered by the labor relations board to re instate 29 discharged employees and to cease anti-union activities, pre pared a legal campaign of resist ance, and it also spumed overtures from the United Automobile Work ers of America. From Kansas City, Homer Mar tin, international president of the U. A. W. A., telegraphed a request to Harry H. Bennett, Ford personnel director, for a conference to pro mote industrial peace and proper labor relations. “If I answered Martin’s telegram —which I have no intention of doing —my reply would be phooey,” Ben nett commented. Convention Book O.K. A TTORNEY GENERAL HOMER S. CUMMINGS said that crim inal prosecutions against the Demo cratic national committee for sell ing souvenir convention books to corporations “would not be war ranted.” He made this decision in reply to Representative B. H. Snell who complained that the committee had violated the corrupt practices act when it sold such books, auto graphed by President Roosevelt, for as high as $250 each and obtained more than $400,000 for the party’s coffers. Cummings said, however, in his letter to Snell, that the act was too lax and that shortly he would rec ommend to congress amendatory legislation to make it more effective in important particulars. By Air to New Zealand DAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS’ big flying boat, the Samoan Clip per, landed at Auckland, New Zea land, completing the last phase of its flight from Honolulu to the southern terminus of the new ocean air line. Capt. Edwin C. Musick and the crew of seven logged 1,180 miles in 12 hours 7 minutes. The clipper remained in Auckland only a few days and then started on its return trip to Honolulu with mail and express. Spanish Loyalist Victory CPANISH government forces won ^ a decided victory by capturing Teruel, the key point of the rebel salient into loyalist territory 135 miles east of Madrid. The place had been besieged for seven days and losses were heavy on both sides. Madrid hailed this as the greatest loyalist victory of the whole war. Labor Peace Parley Ends T HERE will be no early peace be tween the American Federation of Labor and the C. I. O. The ne gotiations in Washington came to a sudden end when the federation’s representatives refused to consider anything but unconditional surren der of the Lewis forces, which the C. I. O. men scornfully rejected. The strategy of Green and his lieutenants was dictated by infor mation that the C. I. O. was on the verge W bankruptcy, that its ranks were fB^n by dissension over the commurusi element IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV, HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for January 9 PREPARING FOR A LIFE OF SERVICE LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:1-13. GOLDEN TEXT—Prepare ye the way of the Lord.—Mark 1:3. PRIMARY TOPIC—When Jesua Wa» Bap tized. JUNIOR TOPIC—Wnen Jesus Was Bap tized. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Getting Ready to Serve. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Dedicating Our Lives to Service. “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ”—what an interesting expression! Did it not begin back before the foundation of the world? Yes, for the death of Christ was no mere afterthought in God’s plan. But now we have the coming into the world of the One who was the Lamb slain from before the world's founding. Jesus Christ is about to appear to begin his ministry which was to culminate at Calvary’s cross. Before Jesus, comes the one sent to proclaim his appearing, to her ald the coming of the Servant of God. Mark begins his account with the ministry of John the Baptist and makes no reference to the birth and genealogy of Jesus. How appropri ate that is, for after all the impor tant thing about a servant is not that he came from a certain family, or was born in a particular place. The point is that he is here now and able and ready to do his work. I. The Herald of Christ (w. 1-8). The prophets had pointed forward to the coming of Christ. John the Baptist, of whom our Lord said that there was not a greater among the prophets, now appears to proclaim his presence and prepare the way for him. Of him Joseph Parker beautifully says that he “was all but a transparent veil: they could almost see the coming God through him ... If he stood aside for a mo ment there was the One who was to come.” John was a unique personality, admirably fitted to proclaim a stern message of repentance to a deca dent age. Let us not put aside or ridicule strangely clad and unusual folk who have a word for us from God. “Repent”—that was his message from the Lord. America needs that message today. The Christian doctrine of repentance has been set aside by some because they dis like its convicting power, and by others through theological readjust ment. It needs re-affirmation. John’s greatest message, howev er, was the coming of the One who was to baptize not with water but with the Holy Ghost. Like every true witness he humbles himself and points to the Saviour. We need the message, “repent,” but we need even more to recall tc our preaching and our churches the Holy Ghost power of the Son of God. II. The Baptism of Christ (w. 9-11). The account in Mark is brief but it brings before us the fact that the sinless Son of God thus identified his holy self with sinful humanity which he had come to save. Let us learn the lesson that obedience to the divine will, a will ingness to humble ourselves to do the work whereunto God has sent us, are prerequisites to the filling of the Holy Spirit with power and grace for life and service. III. The Temptation of Christ (w. 12, 13). We recall as we consider the temptation of Jesus, that he was without sin, that there was no fallen nature in him to which Satan could appeal. The temptation or testing of Jesus was therefore along Mes sianic lines, but the principles both of temptation and victory are sim ilar to those of our own experience. Consider the parallel passages in Matthew 4 and Luke 4. The Devil has only three real temptations to present, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (I John 2:16). These he used with Jesus as he tempted him to make food for his hungry body, to look at the king doms of this earth and attain them by a wrong method, and to pre sume on God’s grace by throwing himself from the pinnacle of the temple. Victory came through the use of God’s Word. We need to learn that lesson and not attempt to defeat Satan with any man-made weapons of will-power, logic, or culture. Jesus was certain of victory. He is our victory. Learn to know him as Saviour and Lord. Study God’s Word and learn how to use it in spir itual conflict. Yield to the. Holy Spirit. Victory lies that way, and nowhere else. The Countenance The countenance may be defined as the title-page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title-pages, it sometimes puzzles, often mi«!eads, and often says nothing to the purpose -W. Matthews. Men of Faith The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize. — Bruce Barton. l DORIS DERE S loiumn Fete Husbands Prove the Don Juans Their Wives Fear. r\EAR DORIS DENE: I am ^ afraid I am the type of wife known as unreasonably jealous. Perhaps I have always been sus picious because I was attractive when I was young and I knew how many men were willing to cheat on their wives for my sake. I can’t get into the habit of trusting my husband. I want him to be with me all the time. I resent any outside interests he has. I know this is wrong but how can I build up any faith in men in general? I cannot say I am a happy wife although I love my husband and believe that he really loves me. Any help you can give me will be of great value. —G. E. M. ANSWER—As a matter of fact I doubt very much whether you were quite so besieged with attentions from married men as you imagined you were. Perhaps two husbands out of all these you knew showed signs of being ready to make love to you but that wasn’t a staggering proportion of the harried male pop ulation. Because you happened on two weak members of the married crowd, you jumped to conclusions about man’s inability to be faithful, which.aren’t fair to the masculine sex. Actually men on the whole don’t run to infidelity as much as they’re supposed to. Given an average happy home and a nice wife and a promising job and a fair amount of interests, no man really wants to bother getting himself tangled up in some unfortunate relationship. The average man wants peace, and his wifi, if she’s wise, sees that he gets it. But when a possessive woman in sists that her man shall make her his chief interest in life, she’s on the way to trouble. When she won’t let him have his game of golf and his evenings of bridge and-his busi ness dinners then she’s cutting him away from all the normal out lets which make him appreciate his home and his spouse. She’s rely ing too much on herself ar d on her personality. Also she’s surrounding him with an atmosphere of possessive love which would be enough to turn any man’s head. Most normal everyday men don’t go about all day thinking up ways of being unfaith ful. They don’t brood darkly on thoughts of illicit love. They are not given to con stant self-analyses as to the depth of their affection for their wives. Most of them, in their simple uncomplicated way, just accept the fact of their love and their marriage quite calmly and let it go at that. And it takes quite a severe wrench to tear a man from this ordinary every day acceptance of love and marriage— and to plunge him into an amorous en tanglement which spoils his peace. But when the poor male is con stantly remind'd of how likely it is that he will be unfaithful—when he’s accused of misdeeds which haven’t occurred to him—when he is kept busy persuading his wife that he loves her and her alone—isn’t it only natural that infidelities should come to seem a more normal part of life to him than they otherwise would have? Get over all your notions about your husband, G. E. M. He is prob ably not attractive enough to do all the heart-breaking you accuse him of. I~\EAR DORIS DENE: We are two girls in love with the same boy. We are both willing to give him up for each other’s sake. We are such devoted friends that no man could ever come between us—but of course we would each like to marry him if it were the right thing to do. —T. and B. ANSWER—And all the time appar ently the poor man hasn’t a word to say about the arrangements. Surely by this time he must have formed an opinion of his own as to which of you two charmers would do. Wouldn’t it be better to let him make his confession of love to one of you—before casting lots as to which girl gets the prize? If T. gives up the boy in order to be loyal to B. she may be doing herself and the man she loves an in calculable wrong. B. may never have suited the hero of the piece. He may never have dreamed of her in connection with marriage. What right, therefore, has T. to consign romance to oblivion, in favor of friendship. Her gesture of self-sac rifice will not help B.’s cause, if Romeo hasn’t already chosen her. Let the hero choose his own bride. It may take a good deal of charac ter for you two girls to remain friends under the circumstances but. if your standard of friendship is so high, you should be able to weather this storm. A CHRISTIAN BACHELOR: Thanks for your letter. Sorry I can’t reprint it but I am afraid it might hurt the feelings of some of those who need help desperately— and who cannot altogether be blamed if their interests seem to be selfish. Some time when we’ve been looking at a problem for days and weeks and months we do slip into a rut and become so self-cen tered we alienate the sympathy of those around us. That’s why it is a good thing to write to an out sider when the difficulty seems al most insuperable. C Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT CHINA MATCHING CHINA MATCHING IS OUR BUSINESS. We can supply missing pieces or add to your set, whether old or new. Write GALE P. O. Bex 1495 .... New Orleans. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS For That Nutty Flavor.— To give a nutty flavor to your salad dress ing, whip in a little soft peanut butter. 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