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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C-, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1938 New* Review of Current Events NAVAL RACE IS PROBABLE Japan's Refusal to Tell Plans Is Starting Gun . . . Great Battle in Central China.. New Regime Set Up in Roumania ■ : ' V : ^ mm . .. ' % Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina is here pictured as he ex pounded his views on the farm bill. “Cotton Ed," who is chairman of the senate agricultural committee, said congress should provide a billion and a half to finance the farm program, instead of the half billion to which the cost is now limited. UCTP&AoaJ Is SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK - C Western Newspaper Union. Jap Refusal Starts Race JAPAN having flatly refused to re- *■* zeal her naval building plans, it is believed that the greatest navy construction race ever seen is about to start, and the United States may feel called upon to take the lead, vdth England, France and Japan in the competition. Our government told Japan that a refusal to divulge her intentions would be regarded as confirmation of reports that she was constructing or planning super-war ships, so now, according to some of ficials in Washington, we will have to invoke the “escalator clause” of the London treaty and build larger and more powerfully armed battle ships. The President may be expected to order increase of the three battle ships now planned from 35,000 tons each to 43,000 or 45,000 tons, and such dreadnaughts probably would carry 18-inch guns. In order to obviate the restric tions on the size of battleships that inhere in the width of the Panama canal locks and to minimize the con tingency of interruption of ccast-to- coast communication through de struction of a Panama lock by an enemy, the administration is pre paring to push the project of a canal through Nicaragua. Congressmen who fear the Presi dent is piloting the nation into war with Japan made probably futile moves to prevent our government from joining in the rearmament race. Senator King of Utah and Representative Maverick of Texas introduced resolutions authorizing Mr. Roosevelt to -call a world naval limitation conference, which Japan has said she would be willing to attend. Though Secretary Hull had de nied that there was any understand ing with Great Britain and France concerning Japan, opponents of the administration were still suspicious that it was planning joint action. Representative George Tinkham of Massachusetts voiced their senti ments when he uttered a warning that “every day brings the United States nearer to a war with Japan as planned by Great Britain to fur ther British interests.” This view was shared by the Tokyo press, which charged that the controversy was brought on by a secret naval understanding among America, Britain and France, and that the demand made on Japan was engineered by the British to involve the United States in diffi culties with Japan. Hearings by the house naval af fairs committee on the President’s big navy program went into the third week, with opposition dwin dling as a result of Japan’s unfa vorable reply to the request for her intentions. Singapore Base Opened \\T ITH impressive ceremonies Great Britain formally opened her powerful naval base at Singa pore. Sir Shenton Thomas, gover nor of the Straits Settlements, dedi cated the great new $55,000,000 dry- dock, declaring the naval base was not a challenge to war, but insur ance against war. Prominent among the carefully selected guests were Rear Admiral Julius Townsend and his officers of the American battle cruisers Tren ton, Memphis and Milwaukee. The American squadron arrived at Sing apore from Australia where it had been participating in ceremonies marking the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the commonwealth. Great Battle in China JYNE of the greatest battles ever fought was reported to be tak ing place in central China, where the Japanese invaders smashed a Chinese army of 15,000 and forced , it to retreat across the Yellow river | o , t/i ■' a! r. Miron Cristea under fire and without bridges, which had been destroyed by the defend ers. Five Japanese armies were driving southward through the rich central China agricultural region and were seriously threatening Kai- feng, capital of Honan province. From the south, three Japanese armies were advancing from the Hwai river. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had 400,000 troops along the north and south fronts fighting to prevent the Jap anese from gobbling up the huge Lunghai “coiridor.” China’s revitalized air force, with Russian and other foreign fliers re ported among its personnel, was said to have bombed the Yellow river bridge at Lokow, north of Tsin an, which the Japanese only recent ly repaired. This cut the Japanese line of communication along the northern section of the Tientsin-Pu- kow railway. —*— Another Dictator State J> UMANIA is now added to the ^ European states under dicta torship. Octavian Goga’s govern ment was so anti-Semitic and pro- Fascist that it was forced out, and King Carol took charge of affairs by naming Dr. Miron Cristea as premier and dis solving the parlia ment. Cristea, patri arch of the Ru manian Orthodox church, was given virtual dictator pow er, but it was ex pected George Tar- tarescu would very soon succeed him as premier and that Carol would create a crown council over which Dr. Cristea would preside. Much of the new government’s au thority was concentrated in the army, and a nation-wide state of siege was proclaimed. A commis sion was set to work formulating a new constitution. Cristea, the key man of the gov ernment, was expected to take steps to regain the friendship of France and Great Britain, traditional allies of Rumania, without offending Italy and Germany. Franco Masses Huge Army ISPATCHES from Salamanca, ^ headquarters of the Spanish rebels, said General Franco was getting together an army of a million men and planned a spring of fensive that would end the bloody civil war. Military ob servers believed his main effort would be directed toward a drive to the Medi terranean coast from the south Ara gon front above Te- ruel. This would ef fectually divide the territory now held by the govern ment. It may be that Franco will lose his Italian “volunteers,” for Lon don had a rumor that the British cabinet was considering a secret agreement with Mussolini by which Britain would recognize the Duce’s conquest of Ethiopia if he would withdraw his troops from Spain. More for Dole Asked PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in a special message asked congress to appropriate $250,000,000 more for relief to supplement the billion and a half relief fund. He said this was necessary to care for three million persons thrown out of work during the last three months. A bill to carry out the President’s suggestions was introduced in the house immediately and speeded to ward passage. i Gen. Franco Sen. Bulkley Admiral Grayson Dies t) EAR ADMIRAL CARY T. GRAY- SON, chairman of the American Red Cross, died in Washington at the age of 59. The eminent naval physician, born in Virginia, was the close friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Taft, and also of Franklin Roose velt. It was the last named who persuaded him to accept the post at the head of the Red Cross in which he was especially success ful. Many thousands of Americans will mourn the death of O. O. Mc Intyre, writer of a column of New York chatter. He passed away in his Park avenue residence after a brief illness. * Farm Bill Now Law J IMITING debate by a gag rule, the house adopted the confer ence report on the administration’s crop control bill by a vote of 263 to 135 and sent it on to the senate, which approved it by a vote of 56 to 31. As it came out of conference, the measure continues, in an extended and revised form, the existing soil conservation program, providing benefit payments to co-operating farmers. It would control production through acreage allotments on the five principal commodities on the basis of domestic and export needs. In bumper years, marketing quotas would be applied with penalty taxes to enforce them if approved by two- thirds of the affected farmers in na tional referenda. It would set up an “ever normal" granary system by storing in bump er years surpluses on which loans would be made to the producers. Through this medium the adminis tration aims to stabilize the flow of commodities during lean years to prevent consumers from being “highjacked” into exorbitant prices because of shortages. Bulkley’s Toll Road Plan Wf ITH the approval of the Presi dent, Senator Bulkley of Ohio offered to the senate the great toll highway plan that he has been working on for some time. It is designed to be a long range medium of work re lief for the jobless and to stimulate business. The measure pro vides for the con struction, by the federal government of ten superhigh ways across the country, three run ning east and west and .three north and south. The cost is put at eight billion dollars. This, according to the terms of the bill, would be liq uidated from “reasonable toll charges” and from the sale or lease of tracts of a strip of land not over 530 feet wide on each side of each highway. ^ This Is a "Drouth Year" r» ECAUSE of early dust storms in Kansas, Oklahoma and parts of the Texas Panhandle, 1938 already is called a “drouth year” by grain men. The weather in those regions is being closely watched by traders in the United States, Liverpool, Win nipeg and Buenos Aires. Grain experts of Chicago reported that present conditions of soil in much of the territory from west Texas to Nebraska is such that light rains quickly would break it down into powder, easily blown by high winds. Only extremely heavy rains could prevent such blowing. Oklahoma wheat is much below that of last year at this time. The western half of the state was re ported in serious need of moisture. Dust storms have seriously dam aged wheat and done further dam age to the state’s topsoil. The cen tral section, too, was reported in need of moisture In all these states producers, grain traders and elevator men agreed that orJy part of the winter plant in each state would come to harvest should the much-needed rains fail to materialize. Links C.I.O. with Reds JOSEPH RYAN, president of the International Longshoremen’s association, an A. F. of L. affiliate, told the senate commerce commit tee that the C. I. O. is tied up with the Communist party of America, and gave facts to support the charge. After hearing Ryan’s testimony the committee adopted Chairman Copeland’s resolution calling for an appropriation of $50,000 for an in vestigation by a special senate com mittee of subversive influences in the merchant marine. —*— Steel Price Cut; Wages Stay VJ AYBE President Roosevelt was iv - 1 right when he said recently that steel and other mass produc tion industries could and should re duce prices to buyers’ levels and at the same time maintain the gen eral wage level. Anyhow, United States Steel is doing just that. This huge corporation extended indefinitely its working agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization in which present rates of wages and the eight-hour day are maintained. At the same time the price of cold rolled sheets—used in large amounts by the automobile industry—was reduced $4 a ton, the first break in the steel ind.istry’s price structure. A A A AAA A A A A A 1 AAAUAi WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton yvmmffftfftffffiyvtttir N EW YORK.—There is hope for world peace and solvency. Some day a little band of diplomats and financiers will meet in the Paris catacombs or a Diplomat* London fog, heav- Prey to ily disguised, and Pertinax put something over, and Pertinax won’t catch them at it. To date, the watchful French journalist has anticipated and cried down every effort, warning all and sundry that, whatever it is, it won’t work. Thus, the studious proposals of Paul van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium, were blasted several weeks in advance of their publica tion, as just so much eye-wash. Pertinax is one of the most bril liant and influential journalists of Europe and anything he touches up in advance goes in with two strikes against it. As does the Van Zeeland plan for economic reconstruction. Walt Disney is readying "Snow White” for France. That probably means that Pertinax is preparing to swing on it, just before it lands there. One American commen tator made the film his sole excep tion in many years of dissent. Noth ing like that may be expected from Pertinax. He is the only full-time dissenter who bats 1.000. He has picked fights with Senator Borah, former Presi dent Hoover (being the only man ever to assail an American Presi dent with that dignitary present), ‘with all the Germans, before, dur ing and after the war, and with all ambassadors of good will. In 1933, the French government announced it. would spend $1,320,000 .... _ , to build good will Wue Crack* i n America. Per- Soured U. S. tinax, fielding that Good Will one . Pegged over to this country some sour cracks about American materialism. And, just in passing, any French journalist ought to know a lot about materialists. For a few days it looked as if he might over look the recent Brussels co<iference, but he was on the job and smeared it in plenty of time to get it a bad press. He is at his best in discov ering and exposing Geneva’s good will conspiracies. He is a Parisian sophisticate, dap per, dressy, monocled, getting about a great deal and nosing in various diplomatic feed-boxes—a first-class reporter; but never satisfied. One of the depressing things about him is that he is so qften right as he pans this or that Hopeful endeavor before anybody else knows what it is. • • • A PROPOS of recent flare-ups of the behaviorist argument among the psychologists, here’s Eugene Ormandy in the news as a timely exhibit of the effect of early conditioning. Long before he was married, Eugene Ormandy’s father, a Hungarian dentist, used to say, “Some day I’m going to get mar ried and have a son and I’m going to make him a great violinist.” Years later, he pressed a tiny violin into his new baby’s? hand and had him coached in rhythm before he was out of the cradle. At the age of three, the boy was working hard at his violin lessons. _ ... , His only toys were Boy Wonder music boxes. And Now Great now, Eugene Or- Condactor mandy, conductor of the Philadel phia orchestra, gets the Gustav Mahler medal, following the per formance of his composition, “Das Lied Von Der Erde.” At the age of five, he was a stu dent in the Budapest academy of music, through at fourteen, but not allowed to go on tour as a violinist until he was seventeen. In 1921, he was in New York, hoping to bridge the break in his career with his last five-cent piece. He did, as a violin ist at the Capitol theater, then as sistant conductor, later with Roxy’s gang and then six years as conduc tor of the Minneapolis symphony or chestra. He is perhaps the first conductor to be upped to fame by radio. His father in Hungary isn’t alto gether pleased. “Just think what a great violinist you might have been,” he wrote to his son. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. 1 Constitution-Maker Pelatiah Webster was a Philadel phia business man, remembered for his advocacy of a revision of the Articles of Confederation by creat ing a new Constitution in his “Dis sertation of the Political Unjon and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North America (1783).” He is, therefore, sometimes consid ered as the originator of the Consti tution, though his plan was unlike the product of the federal conven tion. DORIS DEDE S [OLumn I Daughter’* Sacrifice Won’t Make Devoted Parents Happy. 1 JAEAR DORIS DENE: I am nine- ^ teen and tor two years have tried to help my parents who are in financial need. I have not been successful as my job just about sup ports me. Now I am offered mar riage by a much older man. He seems to love me. I have nothing for him but respect and some af fection. He can give me every thing I need and also make life different for my father and mother. They are my chief worry in life. We are a very devoted family.—Anne H. F. ANSWER—You can’t make a de voted family happy and comfortable through your own unhappy mar riage. And no girl of nineteen can marry an older man she does not love and escape much disillusion ment and heart-ache before she is through. Other girls have tried the experi ment you propose to make. It’s gone well for a while. The devoted daughter in a glow of gratitude to the man who is helping to give her family the comforts they need be lieves herself to be happy. For a few months she is contented merely to know that her people are being taken care of. Relief from an ever present worry makes her spirits soar and causes her to believe that she has found life’s truest happi ness. But in another few months some of her exultation dies down. Even the most self-sacrificing girl in the world begins to want a happiness more personal than that offered by the spectacle of her parents’ well being. As she learns to accept the fact that the wolf is now established permanently at a respectful dis tance from the door of the ancestral mansion so her joy in this fact di minishes and her demand for an other kind of happiness begins. It is then that she begins to criticise the man she has married; to realize that she can never love him—said that but for her first blind Might in sheer material comforts, she would never have been able to stand him. All his faults are magnified in her eyes. Even gratitude cannot keep her from expressing her unfavorable opinions bluntly. Because she is not in love she cannot make her benefactor happy. And he shortly comes to know the bitterness of being unwanted except for his money—while his young inexperienced wife struggles desperately to conceal her distaste for an unloved spouse. The result is sordid domestic mis ery. And it is inconceivable that the parents of the self-sacrificing daughter can find pleasure or happi ness in the comforts which have been given at the cost of their child’s happiness. D EAR MISS DENE: I am eight een and am in love with a boy of whom my parents do not approve because of bis nationality and re ligion. He is wealthy and gives me a very good time. Should I break off with him to please my parents? I now see him every day. I enjoy reading your column every day. —D. G. ANSWER — No good running around with the boy if you have to do it on the sly. That kind of ro mance never made for permanent happiness. The sly date may give you a romantic thrill but it doesn’t give you the faintest chance to know and understand the boy you’re going with. On the other hand it would be a pity if you broke up a nice friend ship simply because your hero hap pened to be of a different race and creed from yourself. > Why not compromise with father and mother? Ask them for a square deal. Ask that you be allowed to entertain the unwelcome guest in your own home, under the parental eye. Perhaps if your fond parents had an opportunity to know your beau ideal they might appreciate some of his good points. Eat Fish in Norway In Bergen, Norway, fish is served three times a day in nearly all families, and as a result, the life of the community revolves about its fish market. The Bergen housewife is a somewhat fastidious shopper, insof-’*’ as fish is concerned, and prefers to have her fish scooped up alive from salt water pools with in the market. The serving of fish amounts to-a fine art in Bergen. Dancing M.: It’s not a question of ethics, my girl, just a case of plain bad manners. Nobody has invented any laws yet to cover the conduct of a young lady who has been escorted to a dance by a beau she doesn’t care a hang about. The whole question is just a matter of personal opinion —and personally I think you be haved very badly. If you use a man as an entrance ticket to a dance, you might accord him the same courtesy you would show to the keeper of the zoo when he gives you the special privilege of going inside the monkey-house for a few minutes. That’s all I claim. It is simply good taste to show, occasionally during an evening, that you recognize the boy who brought you to the dance, and who paid for the taxi and who will probably have to take you home. It is definitely not unreasonable of the lad to de mand on’ dance with the fair lady whom he mistakenly supposed want ed him to be her escort for the eve ning. If you persist in your rather casu al treatment of swains, Dancing M., you’ll find that your popularity with the stag-line will be of no use to you, since no practical minded man will bear the expense of escorting you to the dance where the stags are at play. e Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service Body Needs Plenty of Water By DR. JAMES W. BARTON « BeU Syndicate.—WNU Service. Dr. Barton G enerally speaking most of us should drink four to six glasses of water daily, in ad dition to the water in foods and in beverages such as tea and coffee. Some idea of the great need of water in the body can be gathered if we remember that every cell is really like a tiny fish and must have water to nourish it, and to receive and carry away its wastes. Fortunately Na ture had this in mind because every foodstuff, mo matter how dry in appear ance or taste, con tains some water— peanuts as low as 8 per cent and lettuce as high as 90 per cent. Thus even if one drank no water whatever he could get suf ficient in foods such as tomatoes, string beans, cabbage, carrots, ap ples, oranges and other fruits. Lean beef contains almost 80 per cent of water. Why It Is Necessary. “Water is necessary to life for two main reasons—(1) because the chemical changes required to sus tain life can take place only when the reacting substances are dis solved in water, and (2) because wa ter is needed for flushing away the waste products formed from the va rious processes going on in the body.” Thus the cells from a chick which Dr. Alexis Carrel has kept alive for nearly 20 years are en abled to grow and multiply only be cause they are kept in a tank of wa ter containing a little salt which nourishes the tissues and allows the waste products to escape into it. The water is of course changed pe riodically. Water also regulates the body temperature, retaining heat in cold weather and carrying the heat out of the body in the form of perspira tion during hot weather. There is no hard and fast rule as to how much water or liquid an individual should drink daily. If there is a tendency to cold, a rise in temperature, an attack of diar rhoea or vomiting, severe bleeding or other condition causing a loss of water from the body, more water should be taken to replace it. Wa ter is also very helpful at the be ginning and during an illness in carrying wastes from the body more rapidly. A little salt added to the water enables the tissues to hold more water. Overweight individuals do not need as much water as those of average weight as fat tissue holds more water within it than do other tissues. • • • Leave the Normal Fat. One of the leading heavyweight wrestlers has a beautiful physique and is a fast, strong, intelligent, good-looking fellow. Although his weight is announced as 202 to 205, it is likely that his real weight is 10 to 15 pounds less. His muscles stand out on all parts of the body—the abdomen like a “washboard,” the upper back like a rectangle, and the arms and legs like whipcord. And he knows how to wrestle. However as his wrestling engage ments take him to all parts of the country, with a great amount of fast traveling—motor, train, and airplane—it is just a question how long his “nerves” will stand up un der the strain. Why? Simply because he may not have enough fat on and in his body. If he were a boxer, getting ready for an important bout, to be down as “fine” as he is at present would be wise because the boxer has to make a certain weight at a definite time. Also a boxer allows himself to accumulate a little fat between bouts. Practically all the heavyweight wrestlers keep themselves comfort ably overweight—a little layer of fat covering their muscles. They lose 5 to 10 pounds during a 30 to 60 minute bout, but have that 5 to 10 pounds back on the body for their bout the following night. Of course much of this 5 to 10 pounds that comes and goes is made up of liq uids as wrestlers drink a great deal of water and sometimes beer; very few if any indulge in hard liquor. But to enable them to get rid of this weight, perspire properly dur ing the bout, and have the weight back the next evening, there must be a comfortable layer of fat under the skin and throughout the body to hold this water. Every pound of fat can hold three pounds of water. Another benefit to the athlete of a little fat on and in the body and also the use of a little fat daily in the diet, Is that fat “spares” to some extent the muscle tissue which is burned up during the exercise. That is, fat on or in the body sup plies the heat and energy during work or exercise and thus preserves the muscle tissue—the strength giv ing or strength part of the body. Of course when all the fat is used up and work continues then the muscles of the body have to supply the fuel for energy. Applique Swans Lend Fresh Note to Linens Pattern 1581 What more delightful needle work could there be than luring these graceful swans across the ends of your towels, scarfs and pillow cases! The patches are sim- pillow cases! And mighty little coaxing they need for you cut them out and apply them in a twinkling (the patches are so sim ple). Finish them in outline stitch with a bit of single stitch for the reeds. You can do the entire de sign in plain embroidery instead of applique, if you wish. Pattern 1581 contains a transfer pattern of two motifs 5% by 15 inches, two motifs 4 by 15 inches, and the ap plique pattern pieces; directions for doing applique; illustrations of all stitches used; material re quirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. WHEN COLDS BRING SORE THROAT Relieves THROAT PAIN RAWNESS Eaters Body tbreagh Stomach aad Intestines to Ease Pain The speed with which Bayer tab lets act in relieving the distressing symptoms of colds and accompany ing sore throat is utterly amazing . . . and the treatment is simple and pleasant. This is all you do. Crush and dissolve three genuine Bayer Aspirin tablets in one-third glass of water. Then gargle with this mixture twice, holding your head well back. This medicinal gargle win act almost like a local anesthetic on the sore, irritated membrane of your throat. Pain eases promptly; rawness is relieved. You wiU say it is remarkable. And the few cents it costs effects a big saving over expensive "throat lies” and strong medicines, when you buy, see that you get genuine BAYER ASPIRIN. ' TABLETS « FULL DOZEN 2SC Virtually l«ent a tablet Recreation in Its Place Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreatic".—Quarles. ■ Personal Bardens Life’s heaviest burdens aro those our own hands bind upon our backs.—Grace Arundel. YOU LACK STRENGTH? Birmingham, Ala. — J. M. Bennett, 818 N. 38th St., says: “Some years ago I lacked strength, my appetite was poor — I aeemed to feel tired all the while and didn’t nat well at night. Dr. Pierce'' Golden Medical Diaeor- ery gem me a good eppe- more pep and energy.” Bor it bleta Iron your drnggut today. tkaand I had in liquid or tal •Your Town •Yawvr Stares Our community includes the farm homes surrounding the town. The town stores are there for the accommodation and to serve the people of our farm homes. The merchants who advertise “specials” ate merchants who are sure they can meet all competition in both quality and prices.