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(JVggrg Review of Current Events
/AUSTRIA IS WIPED OUT
Made a State in German Reich After Armed invasion
By Hitler . . . The Fuehrer Enters Vienna in Triumph
This picture, made in an Austrian border town and transmitted by
radio photo, shows a contingent of Hitler’s troops marching toward Vienna
after being landed from airplanes in the country that has now been made
a state of the German reich.
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* ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
Arthur Seyss-
Inquart
Austria a German State
A USTRIA, as a sovereign state,
is no more. In the twinkling of
an eye its independent identity was
wiped out and it became merely an
other state in the
German reich.
“Anschluss” was
made a fact and the
treaty of St. Ger
main, by which this
union of Germany
with Austria was
forbidden, is just an
other torn scrap of
paper.
The German reich
has acquired 32,369
square miles of ter
ritory and 6,732,000
more inhabitants.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart rules the
Austrian state alter the enforced
resignation of President Miklas and
Chancellor Schuschnigg.
Such is the concrete result of Hit
ler’s startlingly sudden invasion of
Austria and seizure of power there.
His coup was well planned and it
was carried out with a swiftness
that demonstrated the speed with
which motorized troops can act.
When Schuschnigg announced a
plebiscite on Austrian independence,
the Fuehrer rushed his soldiers
across the border by motor and air
plane and within a few hours they
were in possession of all govern
ment buildings and strategic points.
Schuschnigg, helpless, broadcast to
the Austrian people the word that he
and President Miklas Were yielding
to “brute force” in order to avoid
bloodshed. Then both of them re
signed at the demand of Seyss-In-
quart.
Great Britain and France filed
strong protests against the German
coup, but their notes were scorn
fully rejected by the Berlin foreign
office. The British showed no in
clination to go further in defense
of Austria, and France, just then
without a government, could do
noth'ng because Premier-designate
Blum could not be assured of the
support of both the Socialists and
the Communists in the chamber of
deputies.
Italy, taken by surprise like the
rest of the world, was supposed to
be in a tight place; but after Hitler,
in a personal letter to Mussolini,
promised that German expansion
would stop at the Italian frontier,
the Fascist grand council gave its
approval to the Fuehrer’s coup
d’etat.
Hitler Goes to Vienna
T> ET 'JRNING in triumph to the
land of his birth, Hitler first
visited the graves of his parents and
then, standing bareheaded before a
cheering throng in
Linz he proclaimed
the union of Ger
many and Austria,
declaring this had
been his divine mis
sion. He announced
a plebiscite on Ap
ril 10 to seek the ap
proval of Austrians
for all the acts of
their new govern-
m e n t. Moving
through many towns
and cities, the Fuehrer’s motor car
avan finally reached Vienna, and
that once proud city, now just a
provincial capital of a German state,
went wild with joy in greeting its
master. Swastikas and troops were
everywhere, and not a single anti-
Nazi dared to show his head.
Already a “purge” had been
started, directed especially against
the Jews, and all people of that race
who could get out of the city were
leaving. New laws were passed
excluding some 75,000 Jewish law
yers and 60,000 Jewish doctors
from practice. The Evangelical
church of Austria was united with
that of Germany.
Hitler took supreme command of
the Austrian army and all officers
and men took the oath of allegiance
to him. On his progress to Vienna
Hitler was accompanied or followed
by numerous units of his motorized
armies so that when he arrived the
city was swarming with German
troops.
Nazi economists in Berlin were
busy planning in detail the econom
ic future of the annexed territory.
Minister of Economy Walther Funk
said that Austria would henceforth
participate in the German four-year
plan for recovery and independence
of foreign markets.
It was assumed that Seyss-
Inquart would be “minister and
president” of the Austrian state,
having the same status as the chief
executives of Prussia and Bavaria.
David
Lilienthal
Adolf Hitler
Insist on TVA Inquiry
TT DOES not seem likely, at this
writing, that the administration
can prevent the congressional in
vestigation of the TVA which Chair
man A. E. Morgan
and others have de
manded. Senators
Bridges and King,
Representatives Ma
verick and Snell and
various other con
gressmen insist that
there be a thorough
inquiry into the situ
ation. However, a
showdown was post
poned for a week
when President
Roosevelt gave that
much time to Chairman Morgan,
David Lilienthal and Harcourt Mor
gan, the directors, to settle their
differences. He told them plainly
that if they could not do this they
should resign from the board.
For six hours the President tried
in vain to induce A. E. Morgan to
substantiate if he could the charges
he had made against his colleagues,
these including the making of eva
sive and misleading reports and
“dishonesty of malfeasance” in
handling the claims of Berry and
others. The chairman steadily re
fused to offer any evidence in sup
port of these accusations on the
ground that the conference in the
White House was not and could not
be an “effective or fact-finding occa
sion.”
He noted in a statement put into
the record that he had “repeatedly
but unsuccessfully” sought Mr.
Roosevelt’s co-operation in correct
ing “grave conditions” within TVA.
Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan
offered evidence in support of their
complaint that the chairman had
pursued “obstructionist” tactics.
No one of the directors indicated,
after the conference, that he would
resign. It was generally believed
in Washington that the President
desired to get A. E. Morgan off the
board and that in that case he
would make Lilienthal chairman.
Mutiny in Russian Army?
T JNCONFIRMED reports were re-
^ ceived in Riga, Latvia, that mu
tiny had broken out in some of the
largest garrisons of the Soviet army
and that fighting was going on. The
troops demanded that the depart
ment of the interior surrender con
trol of the arsenals.
The Red army is the only armed
force in the world which does not
control its supplies of munitions. A
special GPU army of 350,000 heavily
armed troops guards the military
supplies.
TWF. STTN. NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1938
"Must Boost Income Tax"
* I 'HE senate finance committee be-
gan consideration of the revenue
act passed by the house. At the
same time Chairman Pat Harrison
of that committee gave out a warn
ing that if the administration con
tinues its high spending policy the
income tax base must be widened,
the present exemptions being low
ered.
Harrison came out flatly against
the undistributed profits tax which
is retained in modified form in the
house version of the bill. He also
said that the graduated capital gains
tax should be replaced by a flat
rate of approximately 15 per cent
on all capital gains from sales of
property held for more than one or
two years.
Crop Control Penalties
OTTON and tobacco growers
throughout the South and in
several western states voted by
overwhelming margins for the levy
ing of stiff penalty taxes on pro
ducers who do not conform to the
regulations of the new crop control
program. The Agriculture depart
ment officials in Washington there
fore began preparations to put
into effect this system:
1. Each farmer will be told how
much cotton or tobacco he can sell.
2. Any farmer who sells more than
his quota will pay a penalty tax of
2 cents a pound on excess cotton, or
one-half the market price on excess
tobacco.
Franco’s New Offensive
CPANISH insurgent forces were
^ moving rapidly in the great Ara
gon offensive, penetrating deep into
the Catalonian border in the effort
to reach the east coast and split the
government territory. General
Franco was personally directing the
movements of his armies there and
it seemed likely the decisive battle
of the civil war was about to be
fought. English, Canadian and
American units in the government
forces were said to have been
trapped in a salient pear Blechite.
—*—
Soviet "Traitors" Condemned
U'lGHTEEN of the former Soviet
leaders tried < in Moscow for
treason were found guilty and con
demned to death, and probably al
ready have faced the firing squads.
Three others were sentenced to long
prison terms, one of these being
Christian Rakovsky, former ambas
sador to France. Most prominent
among those who drew the death
penalty were Nikolai ' Bukharin,
chronicler of the Red revolution;
Genrikh Yagoda, former chief of
the GUP, or secret police; ex-Pre-
mier Rykov and N. N. Krestinsky.
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NEWS
THIS
WEEK
Lady Pull*
Strings in
Dace Deal
Navy War Game On
LIGHTING ships of the American
*■ fleet, 105 in number, left the Pa
cific coast bases to take part in the
six-weeks war maneuvers. They
were headed for widely scattered
points in the Alaska-Hawaii areas
and are due to arrive at Honolulu
about April 1.
Altogether more than 160 surface
craft, 500 airplanes and seaplanes,
3,600 officers and 55,000 men will
participate in the war games,
*
Wheeler in Action
CENATOR WHEELER of Montana
^ took the lead in opposing the bill
for a reorganization of the executive
branch of the government, and the
debate took on many
of the features of
the senate battle
over the Supreme
court enlargement
measure last year.
Supporting the re
organization bill
warmly were Sena
tor Byrnes of South
Carolina and others
who backed the ill-
fated court scheme. _ . ..
Wheeler said that Sen ' Whee,er
if congress approves the measure
it ought to close up shop and go
home. He was assailing the pro
vision of the bill authorizing the
President to transfer, regroup, con
solidate, or abolish any government
bureau or agency or the functions
thereof.
“We have got to recognize the
fact,” said Wheeler, “that under
democratic institutions there is
sometimes inefficiency in govern
ment. Certainly there can be more
inefficiency, although it is not al
ways obtained, under dictatorships.
“The American people have got
to recognize that it is necessary
for them to pay the price in order
to maintain' their liberties. I say
to the senate that it is far better
that we maintain the bureaus we
now have than it is to turn over
dictatorial powers to the President
of the United States and admit to
the world that the congress of the
United States, overwhelmingly
Democratic in the house and in the
senate, is incompetent to function.”
Clarence Darrow Dies
pLARENCE DARROW of Chicago,
one of the most famous defense
lawyers in the country, died at the
age of eighty after a long illness.
He was always the friend of the
“under dog” and a bitter oppo
nent of capital punishment. Among
those in whose defense he appeared
during his long career were Eugene
I Debs, Socialist leader; Leopold and
Loeb, young Chicago murderers of
a friend, and John T. Scopes, ac-
I cused school teacher in the Tennes
see “monkey trial” in which he de
fended evolution against William
Jennings Bryan.
*
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
N EW YORK.—The absence of sa
lon diplomacy or petticoat poli
tics in the European struggle for
a new power balance would be an
oversight by the
muse of history,
readying the
drama of the
century, and at
last it seems To
have been attended to.
Enter Lady Chamberlain, the
cleverest woman politician in Eng
land, widow of Sir Austen, obscurely
noted in the news as mysteriously
busy for the last few months in
the British-Italian rapprochement.
Several weeks ago, a saga
cious traveler of this writer’s
acquaintance, back from Rome,
reported Lady Chamberlain as
adroitly fostering an understand
ing with Britain which would
bring recognition of Ethiopia
and a two-way split on Spain
and the Mediterranean. She has
been in Rome since November,
in intimate social intercourse
with the more important Fascist
moguls.
For many Vears, she has been
known as the “most perfect political
hostess” in London and has been
subtly influential in many big deals
in continental diplomacy. It was
she who cooked up the ifocarno
conference, at Lake Maggiore, in
Switzerland, in 1925.
When the delegates were haggling,
she packed some hampers and invit
ed Sir Austen,
How Picnic
at Locarno
Made Peace
G-Men On
Front Page
in Spy Hunt
Temple of Diana a Wonder
The Temple of Diana was begun
about 356 B. C. and its construction
work took more than 100 years. Its
size and grandeur made it one of
the Seven Wonders of the World.
Dr. Barton
Briand and
Streseman to the
most important
picnic in all his
tory. In her
handsome little yacht, they disap
peared around a bend in the lake,
landed in a secluded spot, and, with
the aid of three jurists, re-rigged
Europe.
Whatever came out of the confer
ence, for good or ill, is traced to
tnat picnic. When she returned to
England, she was made Dame of
the Grand Cross of the British Em
pire.
She is a eomely matron of six
ty-two, married to Sir Austen in
1906. He was fourteen years old
er. She was Ivy Dundas of one
of the leading political families
of England.
In the earlier years of their mar
riage, she was credited with hav
ing coached her husband in the ul
tra-English mannerisms which all of
the great Birmingham family found
it expedient to master when they
moved to London. She is said to
have been his political as well as his
social mentor, and frequently elec
tioneered in his campaigns.
Lady Chamberlain is an extreme
conservative and is believed to have
nurtured plans for a British alli
ance with the Absolutist powers. She
has an extraordinary flair for dra
matic political stage-settings and
delicate sensitivity to political cur
rents. Italy conferred on her the
Gold Medal of Merit.
• • •
'T'HE New York spy round-up by
the federal bureau of investiga
tion marks the first front-page work
out of the G-men
as an ally of the
secret service*.
An attache of
the latter told
me in Washing
ton last summer that J. Edgar Hoo
ver’s organization, developed
post-war years, would be an inval
uable aid to this country’s defenses
against foreign espionage, and that,
in the event of trouble, actual or
impending, no foreign country could
hope to duplicate Germany’s exploit
in sabotage, propaganda and spy
ing before our entry into the World
war.
Reed Vetterli, in short pants
when the World war started,
heads the New York office of
the F. B. I. and deploys his 75
agents in^ red-hot spy scenario,
in which they score as usual,
with indications today that this
is just the overture.
Six feet tall, blond, reticent, Mr
Vetterli is a veteran of the F. B. I
war against thugs and kidnapers, in
the bureau since 1926, in charge of
18 offices in his 11 years of service.
He was bom in Salt Lake City in
1903, and took his law degree at
the University of Washington in
1925. In 1933, he was wounded in
the Kansas City massacre, trading
shots with Pretty Boy Floyd’s gang
sters.
He has participated in most of the
bureau’s famous kidnaping, vice
and bank robbery cases. He suc
ceeded Rhea Whitley as head of the
New York office on September 11,
1937. He has a reputation in the bu
reau for always having an airtight
case against anyone he arrests.'
<£> Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Taking Vaccine
for Colds
By
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
T HERE has been much writ
ten the last few years about
“colds” because colds not only
cause many absences from
school or from work but are the
starting point for more serious
conditions such as bronchitis,
asthma, broncho - pneumonia
and pneumonia.
That colds are due to the entrance
into the body of a tiny organism
and its products is
the belief of many
physicians, but
there are many
“head colds” that
can be traced to
foods, pollen of
plants, lack of vita-
m i n s, tiredness,
moisture in the at
mosphere and infec
tions (teeth and ton
sils) which so drain
the patient’s vitality
that a cold has no
difficulty in starting up in the nose
and throat.
That the use of a vaccine—cold
vaccine—has been helpful in pre
venting or lessening the number of
colds cannot be denied, but the re
sults vary, from 10 per cent preven
tion with some physicians to 40 to 50
per cent with others. Also, most
of these cases have been treated by
injecting the cold vaccine under the
skin. It is interesting therefore to
learn of results of taking these cold
vaccines by mouth instead of by
hypodermic injection.
Cold Vaccine by, Mouth.
Dr. George E. Rockwell and Her
man C. Van Kirk, M. Sc., Cincin
nati, in the Journal of Laboratory
and Clinical Medicine, tell of their
studies of 191 patients afflicted with
colds, treated by cold vaccine taken
by mouth.
“The patients came from various
walks of life—boys in an institution,
office workers, medical students,
factory workers and school children.
In each of these groups half the
persons took the vaccine and the
same number acted as controls (did
not take the vaccine). The patients
using the vaccine took one capsule
with a half glass of water at least
one hour before breakfast every
morning for seven mornings, after
which one capsule per week was
taken throughout the season* One
hundred persons took vaccine and
100 did not (controls). All had suf
fered with about the same number
of colds each year in the past.
“Results: During the experimen
tal year the controls (ones who
didn’t use the vaccine) had 375
colds, whereas the ones who took
the vaccine had a total of 94 colds—
a decrease of about 75 per cent.
There was also a very marked de
crease in days of illness from all
causes among the vaccinated group
as compared with the controls.”
For those who suffer with fre
quent colds the cause of which can
not be found, the cold vaccine by
mouth treatment should be worth
trying.
• • •
Dementia Praecox.
When it is realized that practi
cally two of every three cases of
dementia praecox—schrzophrenia—
or persistent dream state as it is
usually described, have their begin
ning before the boy or girl has
emerged into manhood or woman
hood it certainly gives us all food
for thought. That an apparently
average everyday normal boy and
girl can develop into “day dream
ers,” is hard to understand. Some
times, however, as parents or
friends think back a little, they will
remember that the individual was
just a little “odd,” had peculiar no
tions about some things, seemed al
ways satisfied in his or her mind
that the way they did things in
school or in the home was the right
way even if it was different from
the way it was usually done by Oth
ers. Thus today We find parents,
teachers and physicians watching
more closely for any of these signs
in their children, pupils, or young
patients.
Just how the youngster or some
times the adult got started along
this line of conduct can often be
traced to certain circumstances of
early life—even before the school
age—whereby the youngster, by
withdrawing into himself instead of
mixing, perhaps fighting with, or
studying with, others, could satisfy
himself or be contented in his own
mind, instead of going out among
others and being not the hero he
pictures himself in his dream state,
but just one of the crowd and per
haps not even up to the average in
mental or physical ability.
Dr. Benjamin Pollack in the Psy
chiatric Quarterly says that the
main point is that to this patient his
dream world is the real world, not
the world others live in. In his own
world (the dream world) success or
gratification is easy to attain and so
he is satisfied, and he doesn’t want
this idea disturbed.
Hi Ho on Hypocrisy
“Hypocrisy,” said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, “is exercised for the
benefit of those who find courtesy
so scarce that they are willing to
pay for it.”
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 March 27
CORRECTING WRONG IDEAS
<>F RELIGION
LESSON TEXT—Mark 7:1-13.
GOLDEN TEXT—This people honoreth me
with their Ups, out their heart Is far from
me. Mark 7:6.
PRIMARY TOPIC—At Dinner-Time.
JUNIOR TOPIC—What Is Real Religion?
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
What Counts with God?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Sidestepping ResponsiblUties.
The never-ending struggle of
Christianity is to keep the simple
gospel of the grace of God in Christ
Jesus free to operate in all its glory
and power; unencumbered by the
traditions and formulas of men. It
has been my privilege to read a
recent book by a brilliant young
man who, while serving as a profes
sor of philosophy in a large univer
sity, is also versed in the related
fields of theology, psychology, psy
chiatry, and psychotherapy. He has
had first-hand experience in dealing
with the problems of men and
women. With this background of
both study and experience he gives
it as his absolute conviction that
we must get “back to the original
simplicity of the Christian gospel.”
He suggests that we need to “dust
off the additions and superstruc
tures” that have been added since
Christ came to seek and to save the
lost.
Our lesson for today finds Jesus
meeting that very issue with the
traditionalists of His day. \
I. Washed Hands and Unwashed
Hearts (w. 1-6).
In the process of interpreting the
law of Moses and applying it to the
affairs of daily life the religious
authorities of Israel had developed
a mass of intricate and onerous
rules which had literally buried
the law itself and had substituted
ritualistic formalism for spiritual
life. So fond had the scribes and
the Pharisees become of these tradi
tions that they became bold enough
to declare that they were far su
perior to the law itself.
Their attack on Jesus because His
disciples ate with unwashed hands
did not refer to the proper cleans
ing of one’s hands before eating,
but to the ceremonial washings
which were said to be necessary if
one had accidentally touched a
Gentile, or something that a Gen
tile had touched in the market place.,
Jesus skillfully and finally dis
poses of that question by reminding
the objectors that they were serving
God with their lips only, but their
hearts were far from Him. Washed
hands are not a thing to be con
demned, and Jesus says nothing
about that point. When the wash
ing of hands becomes of more im
portance than the cleansing of the
heart, however, the soul is in real
danger.
II. Traditions of Man Versos the
Commandment of God (w. 7-13).
Here is the heart of the entire mat
ter, for while we may not always
be aware of it the fact is that
our anxiety to maintain human
tradition which is contrary to the
law and Spirit of God is fundament
ally for the purpose of evading our
full and true responsibility.
The Jew who was so avaricious
that he did not wish to support his
aged and needy parents could en
tirely evade that God-given respon
sibility by declaring that his prop
erty was “Corban,” dedicated to
God. Thereafter no matter how
great was the need of his parents
they could receive nothing. The
execution of this oath was carried
out to such a fine point that a son
who had declared his property
to be “Corban” could visit a sick
father or mother for only a brief
period lest he might stay long
enough to perform some duties of a
nurse and so contribute to his par
ents by saving them some expense.
Thus do men even in our day
make “the word of God of none ef
fect” (v. 13), through their tradi
tions. No right minded person ob
jects to the worthy traditions of
worship and service which are such
a precious heritage of the Christian
church. Rightfully apprehended and
properly used they are both desir
able and helpful. But we must never-
permit the grace and power of
God in Jesus Christ “to be brought
under the trammels of human teach
ers or the arrangements of human
office-bearers. The first movement
toward the mastery of the soul by
tradition is the movement of that
soul away from immediate, direct,
first-hand fellowship with God”
(Morgan).
The crying need of our day, as it
was of the time when Jesus was on
earth, is that we should clear away
hindering encumbrances.
:
Goodness
The general goodness which is
nourished in noble hearts, makes
every one think that strength oft vir
tue to be in another whereof they
find assured foundation in them
selves.—Sir P. Sidney.
Simplicity of Religion
Pure religion and undefiled before
God and the Father is this, To visit
the fatherless and widows in their
affliction, and to keep himself un
spotted from the world.—James
1:27.
AROUND
THE HOUSE
When Cooking Cheese.—In cook
ing anything with cheese use a
low temperature, because intense
heat makes cheese tough and
stringy.
• • •
Washing Blankets. — Do not
crowd the washing machine full of
blankets or other woolens. Allow
plenty of space for the articles to
soak. There will then be less
strain on them.
• • •
Setting Gelatine.—Gelatine sal
ads and desserts will jell faster
in metal molds than in enamel,
earthenware or glass molds.
• • •
Measuring Flour.—Wheat flour
is one of the easiest ingredients
in baking to mismeasure. For
best results always sift flour and
measure by spoonfuls into a cup,
being careful not to shake the filled
cup.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets made of
May Apple are effective in removing
accumulated body waste.—Adv.
Without Law
In the midst of arms the law
is silent.
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ably known. Uaa Doom's Pitt*. A multi
tude of gruUful people lermaraoaa
Docs’*. Aik mar ntitkbori
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