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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. FRIDAY. JANUARY 21, 1938 — News Review of f»iren£?t BRITAIN TO CURB JAPAN Chamberlain Roused by Arrogance at Shanghai . . . Jackson Day Celebrated by the Democrats President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, shakes hands with the speaker •f the house, William B. Bankhead of Alabama, left, as Vise President John Nanee Garner looks on, at the Jaekson Day dinner in Washington. U/. J^icJctf/udC r ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK G Western Newspaper Union. Neville Chamberlain Japanese Too Arrogant G reat Britain’s government, according to dispatches from London, has finally been driven by Japanese arrogance at Shanghai to the point of resist ance. The invaders have been demand ing full control of the captured city, to the virtual exclusion of other foreign in terests, and their troops there have treated British po licemen in the inter national settlement very roughly. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has taken personal command of a British program designed to curb the Japanese expansion of power, and is keeping Washington and Paris fully informed of his plans and actions. Also he has been in frequent telephonic conversation with Foreign Minister Eden, vaca tioning at Cannes. A high government official in Lon don said Chamberlain had resolved “not to stand for Japanese use of military superiority in the present emergency to force concessions in Shanghai.” It was made plain that Britain would act only in harmony with the United States and France. That the Japanese are not afraid of Great Britain was indicated by a statement by Rear Admiral Tanet- suga Sosa, retired, maintaining that it would be easy for the Japanese navy to reduce the British strong holds at Hongkong and Singapore before the British main fleet could get there. Sosa said the only thing that could save Britain was to draw the United States into the war. Jackson Day Feasts T~\ EMOCRATS who partook of Jackson day banquets in vari ous large cities paid about $250,000 into the purse of the party’s na tional committee. At the dinner in Washington President Roosevelt pleaded with the nation to under stand that his administration be lieves it is helping and not hurting business by the drive against mo nopolistic practices. His talk was rather conciliatory. He promised a fight, but he called it a cheerful fight on his part, against a mere handful of the total business men and bankers and industrialists who can be expected to “fight to the last ditch to retain such autocratic control over the industry and the finances of the country as they now possess.” At the New York banquet Jim Farley staged the debut of Robert H. Jackson, assistant attorney gen eral, as a candidate for the governor ship of the Empire state. The young lawyer, who has attracted public at tention recently by attacks on big business, was the principal speaker. At a luncheon party he admitted he would be the Democratic nominee for governor “if the party wants me.” Jackson is believed by many to be the President’s choice for the 1940 presidential nomination. Budget Message Summary AAORE vitally important than his annual message on the state of the nation was President Roose velt’s budget message to congress. In it he forecast a deficit of $1,088,- 129,600 for the current fiscal year which ends on June 30, and a deficit of $949,606,000 for the 1939 fiscal year. There was no promise that the budget would be balanced in the near future, the national revenue es timates being reduced because of the depression. Nearly a billion dollars was asked by the President for national de fense because of “world conditions over which his nation has no con trol,” and more may be called for soon for the same purpose. Summarized, the President’s budget statement said: Revenues for the next fiscal year will total $5,919,400,000, a decrease Senator Vandenberg of $401,076,000 from the present fis cal year. Expenditures, exclusive of debt retirements, will total $6,896,000,000, a decrease of $539,600,000 from the present fiscal year. National defense appropriations will total $991,300,000, an increase of $34,300,000. Later the President may ask for additional funds to construct several extra naval vessels. Relief expenditures for the next fiscal year will total roughly $1,138,- 304,000, a decrease of $841,356,000 from the present fiscal year. The deficit will be financed through Social Security and other trust funds and not through public borrowing. The deficit estimate for the fiscal year which ends June 30 has been raised from $695,000,000 to $1,088,- 100,000, because of the business re cession. Expenditures for new highways, new rivers and harbors projects, new public buildings, new recla mation projects and other new pub lic works will be reduced sharply. The public debt will reach a rec ord high of $38,528,200,000 on June 30, 1939. VandenbergStand S ENATOR ARTHUR H. VAN- DENBERG of Michigan is not going to seek the Republican nom ination for President in 1940, but if it is offered him he will not refuse the honor. He so stated in a letter to Joseph Leib, organizer of a movement against a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. The senator, whose term expires in 1941, asserted he would not work for or countenance any organized effort to obtain the presiden tial nomination for him, but added: “I hope I shall never run away from any public duty or obligation which confronts me.” In his letter he hinted he expects that a new form of opposition will develop against Roosevelt as a re sult of the split in the Democratic party and Republican activities in seeking to form a new program through a committee of 150 repre sentatives of all groups within the Republican party. Wheeler Hits I.C.C. CENATOR BURTON K. WHEEL- ^ ER of Montana, chairman of the senate railroad finance investigat ing committee, charged in a state ment that the interstate commerce commission is using "trick rabbits” in solving carrier problems. He accused the finance division of the I. C. C., which must approve government loans to railroads be fore they are granted by the Recon struction Finance corporation, of de liberately violating the law and “calmly gambling” on a stock mar ket increase to “protect the taxpay ers’ money.” Wheeler’s ire was aroused by con ditions surrounding a loan of $6,000,000 by the RFC to the Erie railroad and an $8,000,000 RFC loan to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Civil Service Lags pONGRESS was told by the civil service commission that its fail ure to place employees of newly cre ated government agencies was be coming “a matter of grave public concern.” “Wholesale exemptions such as have been permitted in the last year must cease if the merit system is to prevail,” the commission said. It made these recommendations: Place first, second and third class postmasters under civil service. Authorize the President to draft all nonpolicy forming employees in to the classified service. Make retirement compulsory for government employees at the age of seventy and optional at sixty years, after 30 years’ service, or at sixty-two after 15 years’ service. Irvin S. Cobb UMdt fKjwin ^ZhJ/vikd about Butchery by Air. S AN ANTONIO, TEXAS.— Following the example of 11 Duce and that air-minded son of his, who wrote a brave book describing the joy of bombing undefended mud villages full of women and children, one of the leading statesmen of Italy has delivered a speech declaring war is the most glorious, most inspiring, most beautiful thing on earth. Inquiry discloses that this cheery patriot is a hero in his own right. As an officer, he enthusiastically participated in the retreat from Caporetta. Caporetta was the place where all ranks of an entire army, with vic tory against the en emy right around the corner, sudden ly remembered they had sworn to die in the last ditch and started for the ex treme rear to look for it. Or it may have been that ev erybody just simul taneously felt home sick. Anyhow, it was months before some of them caught up with their panting. So it’s possible this blood-thirsty orator has confused the science of warfare with the sport of foot racing. • • • The Meaning of Words. A DISTINGUISHED gentleman, who never admitted the Eight eenth amendment was a failure, is said to be comforting the drys with words of wisdom, his attitude—in effect—being this: The causes of sanity and safety suffer because certain distillers and many local retailers indiscriminate ly sell an unnecessarily high-pow ered product, the results being law breaking, property damage; danger and personal injury and untold suf fering for innocent parties; homi cides, mutilations, often a horrid death for the purchaser of the arti cle in question. To extend the argument further, let us change just three words: “ . . . Certain automobile manufacturers and many local agents indiscrim inately sell an unnecessarily high- powered product, the results being law-breaking, property damage; danger and personal injury and un told suffering for innocent parties; homicides, mutilations, often a hor rid death for the purchaser of the article in question.” Now then, when the aforesaid gen tleman kindly proves that, in sell ing cars capable of traveling 130 miles an hour or even faster, for use on highways having a speed limit of 60 miles an hour, or less, he is promoting the causes of sanity and safety. I’ll turn prohibitionist with him. • • • Fractical Jokes. T HREE city sportsmen drove into the Kerrville country in Texas. Everywhere the lands were posted. But one of the party knew an old rancher whose acres bordered the highway. Leaving his mates at the road, he went to ask permission to hunt deer on the property. “Sure,” iaid the owner. , “Bust right in—my place is full of bucks; I never gun ’em myself. Now do me a favor. As you turn into the lot, you’ll see an old, crippled, sick white mare. She oughter be dead, but I ain’t got the heart to kill any living creature. Put her out of her misery, will you?” ' The gratified huntsman had a waggish idea. As he opened the pasture gate, he let out a terrific yell. “I feel so good I’ve got to shoot something!” he whooped. “Believe I’ll shoot a horse to start with.” With that, he hauled off and blast ed down the feeble old nag where she leaned against the fence. “And now,” as he turned on his horrified companions, “I believe I’ll shoot me a couple of so-and-soes.” He waved his rifle in their direc tion. The next instant one had vaulted out of the car and had him down, choking him until his tongue stuck out like a pink plush necktie. They were halfway back to town, with a large man sitting on his head and another driving like mad to find a lunatic asylum or a stout jail, be fore the humorist succeeded in con vincing them it was all just deem, boyish fun. % Now the rest of Texas is wonder ing w^om the joke’s on. IRVIN S. COBB. Copyright.—WNU Service. Closed Doors to World Aboi^t 500 years ago a Tokugawa shogun (dictator) closed Japan'4 doors to the world and her foreign shipping stopped. But for centuries before that, Japanese fishermen and delegates of the Daimyo (Feudal lords) sailed extensively along the China coast. They even voyaged to Siam, Sumatra and Java. In the earlier open-door days, the shogun- ate designated certain vessels called “go-shu-in-sen” as trading ships Ttoffd (jifthottSf ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Fiend in the Night” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: It would be bad enough for a man to have an adventure like this one I’m going to tell you now. But for a woman—well— it must have been at least ten times worse. Geraldine Gorman, R. N., of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the woman who sent the story in to me—and also the woman who went through the ter rible ordeal it relates. But I’m up a tree to tell you who the hero of the yam is. I don’t know whether to say it’s Geraldine, or Brownie, the dog. Both of them did a pretty good piece of work when the pinch came So I guess I’ll have to hang a medal on both of them. To begin with, Geraldine Gorman is a registered nurse. Back in 1932, when she graduated from her course of training, she went to work in a local sanitarium as night supervisor. And it was in this sanitarium, in the quiet hours of the winter night that Adven ture caught up with her and gave her the shock of her life. Drug Addict Broke In. There were three other nurses and a watchman on night duty at the sanitarium, but they were in another building. It was about half-past eleven, and Geraldine was sitting at her desk writing up charts. It was quiet—deathly quiet in that room. Not a sound was audible except the loud, metallic ticking of the clock. But suddenly, Geraldine was startled out of her chair by a crash of broken f lass at the other end of the long hall. Geraldine ran down the hall to investigate, and stopped suddenly at the sight of a hulking figure climbing through the broken window. She almost screamed in sheer terror when, in the moonlight that filtered through the shattered pane, she recognized the man as Karloff, a Rus sian drug addict, whom the sanitarium had discharged as a hopeless case only a few weeks before. “I stood rooted to the spot,” says Geraldine, “and the first thing my eyes encountered was a heavy steel cast cutter with a knife-like edge and sharp teeth. Karloff’s hand was closing over it. ‘Open up medici^e room, or I kill,’ he growled, shaking the thing at me.” Geraldine knew what he wanted in the medicine room. Narcotics! Dope! He was insane with the craving for it. But instead of opening the room, she turned and ran down the hall. If she could beat that “Now I Kill, Sure!” He Cried. maniac to the cellar, there was an underground passage to the next building, where the other three nurses and the watchman were con gregated over a midnight snack. Chased Her Into the Morgue. But before she was half way down the stairs, Geraldine knew she would never make it. Karloff, with his long legs, was gaining on her with every step, and as she reached the basement hallway he brandished the heavy cast cutter and cried: “Now I kill, sure!” Geraldine was frantic. She spied the door of the sanitarium morgue swinging partly open, darted inside, closed and bolte^, the door. But at the same time she heard the outside lock snap and knew that the Rus sian had made her a prisoner. She was safe there, herself—but how to warn the rest of the staff. If she didn’t get word to them somehow, big, drug-crazed Karloff could steal up on them when they weren’t looking, and slaughter them one by one with that big, saw-toothed weapon he carried. Geraldine looked around the room she was trapped in. There was no chance of getting out. Both doors were securely locked from the outside. In the center of the room was an autopsy table, and over at one side, near the ceiling, was a small, tiny window, set at the ground level. She dragged the table over to the wall, stood on it and, breaking the window, looked out on the cold freshness of the winter night. She could get her arms through that window and no more. It was no use. She was in that morgue room to stay. Brownie to the Rescue. Suddenly, Geraldine saw something frisking about in the snow and got an idea. The frisking object was Brownie, the watchman’s dog—a big, shaggy animal with a lot of good dog sense. She whistled to him and he came scampering over to the window. Then Geraldine got busy. She drew a fountain pen from her pocket, tore one of the starched cuffs from her uniform and began to write. “KARLOFF BROKE IN,” she wrote. “DANGEROUS. HIDING IN CELLAR. I’M LOCKED IN THE MORGUE.” Then she thrust the cuff in the dog’s mouth and told him to take it to his master. The dog seized the cuff in his teeth and trotted off. Time dragged on, and Geraldine lived in an agony of suspense. So much depended on Brownie. Would he carry the note as he had been told to do? It seemed hours that the dog had been gone, and still there was no indication from the others that they had received her message and were safe. Then, at last, she heard a sound outside the door. The outer lock was snapped back and the voice of the watchman assured her that Karloff was in a strait-jacket and all was right with the world. Brownie had come through. Copyright.—WNU Service. Handwriting Experts Clever A handwriting expert’s first test of a suspected signature is to com pare it with several genuine sam ples. If it duplicates any of them, it is a forgery. No man signs his name twice exactly the same way. Easiest job for an expert is to de tect a forgery written in public, says the Washington Post. Even the best forgers need hours to turn out a clever duplicate. For centuries law courts have assumed no two persons have the same handwiting. Yet an Englishman has proven that about 5 per cent of identical twins have identical handwriting. Snakes Do Not “Dance” When a snake sways to the trills ot an Indian snake charmer’s flute it isn’t “dancing”; it is in deadly earnest. The snake has no respect whatsoever for music, sways only to aim a blow at the charmer, who, too, is swaying. The only reason India’s snake charmers, indeed, most charmers, don’t succumb to the attacks of their “pets” is be cause the snakes' fangs have been removed. It’s a rare snake “tam er” who plays around with a crea ture capable of doing much harm. Pumpkins, Squashes, Old Pumpkins and squashes were grown in America long before the white man came on the scene. Re mains of both have been found in ruins of the Basket Makers, earliest agricultural people on this con tinent. Both probably came from Mexico. Pumpkin pie was a deli cacy before the Revolution. The Hubbard squash, most popular va riety, came to light in Marblehead, Mass., in 1855. It had already been growing there for more than 60 years. Another popular winter squash came from seeds furnished by the Iroquois Indians. Once Called Acadia New Brunswick was discovered in 1604 by Pierre de Guast and Sam uel Champlain and until 1783 was an insignificant settlement and part of Nova Scotia or Acadia, as the combined land was called. That year, however, thousands of Ameri cans who remained loyal to the crown despite the success of the Revolution, sailed from the colonies and settled along the St. John river. A year later they declared their in dependence and set up their own provincial government. OP# 4^ Ruth 'Wyeth Spears A Bandanna Doll Has Old Time Charm IF YOU want to make a very big 1 doll, use two hanks of yam and the biggest red bandanna hand kerchief you can find. Smaller dolls made from one hank and a medium size handkerchief are al so attractive. Tie the hank at the top as at A, then cut it across the bottom. Make the head by tying the yam in as at B, then separate part of the strands at the sides and bind them together to make the arms as at C and D. Cut these strands off as at E to make the hands. Bind the rest of the yam around as at F to define the waistline. Thread a large needle with white darning cotton and make the mouth and eyes with several stitches made as shown here. Sew small black buttons or beads in the middle of the eyes. Cut a square out of the center of the handkerchief. The square piece you cut out should be big enough so it may be cut through the center from comer to comer to make two triangles—one to be used for the head kerchief for the doll and one for the three cornered shoulder kerchief. When this is Information Not to Be Found in Encyclopedia Answers to a general knowledge test such as these help turn the teacher’s hair gray: Period costumes are dresses all covered with dots. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, comedies and errors. The people of India are divided into casts and outcasts. Norway’s capital is called Christianity. Lipton is the capital of Ceylon. A republic is a country where no one can do anything in pri vate. A sheep is mutton covered with wool. A fakir is a Hindu twister. done, gather around the square hole in the center of the bandanna and draw up the gathering thread to make the full top of the skirt. Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; restoring and upholstering chairs, couches; making curtains for ev ery type of room and purpose. Making lampshades, mgs, otto mans and other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a copy should send name and address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. KEEP YOUNG and Happy WITH A r Coleman SELF-HEAUNff IRON Treble From Excess In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble.—Plautus. IIIWIIII st.Josepti GENUINE PURE AS.PIRIN COLD CATCHERS LISTEN YES, BUT YOU MUST THIS EARUER NEXT TIME- IT HELPS PRKVINT COLDS READ THIS USE rptos specialized medication— X Vicks Va-tro-nol—is expressly designed for the nose and upper throat, where most colds begin —end grow. Used in time—at the first sneeze or sniffle or irritation in the nose—it helps to pnamt many colds, or to throw off heed colds in their early st when your head is all from a cold, Va-tro-nol comforting relief—lets you again! Vicks'^ Va-tro-nol See All of It There is only one way of see ing things rightly, and that is ing the whole of them.—Ruskin. Aiding Others No one is useless in this world ... who lightens the burden of it 1 for anyone else.—Dickens. Calotabs Help Nature To Throw Off a Cold Millions have found in Calotabs a most valuable aid in the treat ment of colds. They take one ot two tablets the first night and re peat the third or fourth night if needed. How do Calotabs help nature throw off a cold? First, Calotabs are one of the most thorough and dependable of all intestinal elirai- nants, thus cleansing the intestinal tract of the virus-laden mucus and toxins. Second, Calotabs are diuretic to the kidneys, promoting the elimination of cold poisons from the blood. Thus Calotabs serve the double purpose of a purgative and diuretic, both of which are needed in the treatment of colds. Calotabs are quite economical; only twenty-five cents for the family package, ten cents for the trial package.—(adv.)