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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938 — News Review of Current Events F. D. R. IN PRIMARIES President Boosts Favorites in Kentucky, Oklahoma and Elsewhere in His Trip to the West Coast President Roosevelt addressing Louisville citizens from the platform of his special train, urging them to support Senator Barkley for renomina- tktn. The senator is at the President’s left and Mayor Scholtz of Louisville at his right. U/. JQtcLttJui •S ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORT.E SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK • Western newspaper Union. President en Tour A/fARIETTA, Ohio, was the first stop in President Roosevelt’s transcontinental tour. There he ded icated a memorial to “the start westward of the na tion,” in his address paying tribute to the pioneers and, rather incidentally, to Sen ator Robert J. Bulk- ley, who seeks re nomination and is opposed by George White. With this off his mind, the President _ _ ., assumed his other Sen. Barkley role of head of ^ Democratic party and jumped into the primary campaign with both feet. His avowed purpose was to further the election of members of congress, especially senators, whom he terms liberals. Beyond this he was undertaking to maintain his control of the party up to and through the presidential campaign of 1940. Crossing from Ohio into Kentucky, where Senator Barkley, staunch New Deal supporter, is engaged in a hot fight with Gov. A. B. Chandler for his senate seat, Mr. Roosevelt found it advisable not to utterly squelch the ambition of “Happj *' as the governor is known. In a speech at the Latonia race track in Covington he said he had no doubt Chandler would make a good sena tor, but added: “But I think he would be the first to acknowledge that as a very junior member of the senate, it would take him many, many years to match the national knowledge, the experience, and the acknowledged leadership in the af fairs of your nation of that son of Kentucky, of whom the whole Ra tion is proud, Alben Barkley.” At Bowling Green and at Louis ville Mr. Roosevelt made platform speeches in which he urged the renomination of Barkley. The special train raced through Tennessee in the night without a stop and this was .taken as inferential disapproval of Senator George Ber ry, whose marble claims caused the TVA so much trouble. Oklahoma City came next, and there Mr. Roosevelt told an enor mous crowd what a help Senator Elmer Thomas had been to him and how much the senator had done for the state. His commendation of Thomas was called lukewarm, how ever, and much of his speech was devoted to criticizing the senator’s rivals. Representative Gomer Smith and Gov. E. W. Marland. Smith had the support of the Townsendites and many conservatives. Marland has at times been too conservative to please the White House. McAlester and Wister heard the President from the back platform, and then at Booneville, Ark., he found time to speak kind words about Senator Hattie Caraway, who seeks another term. The Chief Executive spent the week-end resting at the ranch of his son Elliot 17 miles from Fort Worth, Texas. Then his special rolled northward to Amarillo, where he stopped long enough to make an auto trip about the city. Next day he arrived in Pueblo, Colo., on his way to San Francisco, San Diego and the cruiser Houston which was to carry him through the Panama canaL During a brief stop at Wichita Falls, Texas, the President an nounced that he was appointing Gov. James V. Allred to a vacancy in the federal court for the southern district of Texas. This was a com plete surprise to Senators Tom Con- nally and Morris Sheppard. —*— TVA Inquiry Opens INVESTIGATION of the activities * of the TVA by a congressional joint committee was opened in Knoxville, Tenn., with Chairman Vic Donahey presiding. After an executive session the investigators started on an inspection tour of the projects involved. Public hearings ia Knoxville were next on the pro Howard Hughes gram, and Donahey said these would continue “until we run out of money.” It was indicated that former Chairman A. E. Morgan would be the first witness called. He was granted permission to go into TVA files to prepare his testimony. Shortly before the inquiry began. Dr. Morgan filed a mandamus suit in a Knoxville court asking that he be reinstated as member and chair man of the TVA and be paid back salary. He never has recognized the President’s right to remove him from the chairmanship. * Hughes Flies the Atlantic LJ OWARD HUGHES, wealthy A - 1, young sportsman and aviator, with four companions made success fully the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris since Lindbergh’s epochal feat in 1927. His time was 16 hours and 38 min utes, less than half the time made by Lindbergh. The big plane, named “New York World’s Fair 1939,” appeared over Le Bourget field long before it was expect ed but Ambassador Bullitt and a big crowd were wait ing to greet the daring aviators. As the twin-motored machine rolled to a stop, Bullitt ran forward, opened the door and shouted: “Congratula tions; did you have a good trip?” Hughes and his fellow adventur ers, Ed Lund, Harry Connor, T. L. Thurlow and Richard Stoddart, weary and cramped, climbed out of the cockpit and were eagerly taken in hand by the enthusiastic French. After resting and refueling their plane, the fliers took off on the sec ond leg of their projected flight around the world, reaching Moscow in less than eight hours. Their hope was to beat the record made in 1933 by Wiley Post. Hughes’ big plane, specially re built and equipped with a multitude of gadgets, carried a gross weight of 25,000 pounds. It had three radios and was in communication with the ground practically all the time. The only worry the fliers had was the danger of running out of fuel before Paris was reached. * Justice Cardozo Dies D ENJAMIN N. CARDOZO, asso- ■*-' ciate justice of the United States Supreme court, died at Port Ches ter, .N. Y., of a chronic heart ail ment that had kept him from work on the bench since last December. He was sixty - eight years old. Descended from Spanish Jews who came to America in 1750, he was born in New York city and educated at Colum bia university. He was appointed to the _ Supreme court by Sen-Wagner President Hoover in 1932 and lined up with the liberal minority. His scholarship and hard work won the highest respect. Chief Justice Hughes, informed of Cardozo’s death in Italy said: “It is an irre parable loss to the court and the nation. He was a jurist of the high est rank and noble spirit.” Probably President Roosevelt will not appoint Cardozo’s successor be fore fall, for the court is in recess until October. But speculation as to his choice began immediately. The name most frequently heard in the discussions in Washington was that of Sen. Robert Wagner of New York, one of the President’s chief lieutenants in the field of social leg islation. Other New Yorkers men tioned are Ferdinand Pecora and Samuel Rosenman, state Supreme court justices, and Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson. The Far West ia not now represented on the court. I R 1 Huge Wheat Crop N ITS first general crop estimate of the year the department of ag riculture predicted the second larg est wheat crop in American history. The forecast was for 967,412,000 bushels. A sharp slash in acreage to be planted to wheat must be called for by the Agricultural Ad justment administration as a result. Acreage cuts, plus wheat loans, are now automatic and mandatory un der the new farm act. The department predicted a corn crop of 2,482,102,000 bushels, an oats production of 1,093,829,000 bushels, a barley crop of 239,375,000 bushels, and a rye crop of 51,327,000 bushels. Tobacco production was forecast at 1,496,000,000 pounds and rice produc tion at 53,330,000 bushels. * Japan Warns of Bombings EPRESENTATIVES of the Unit ed otates and other foreign powers at Shanghai were handed notes by the Japanese urging them to evacuate their citizens from half a dozen Yangtze valley cities listed as probable targets for further wide spread bombings. Two previous notes urged that all foreign vessels and foreigners along the Yangtze river in the path of the Japanese advance on Hankow be removed. The United States gunboat Mon- ocacy and the British gunboat Cock chafer were reported to have moved three miles up the Yangtze from Kiukiang as Japanese warships sheUed Chinese defenses of the city. —*— Disorders in Palestine PALESTINE was in turmoil over * a recrudescence of the anti-Jew- ish riots, and the police and British troops were having a hard time sup pressing the bloody-minded Arabs. Fights, bombings and fires resulted in numerous deaths. Near Mount Tabor a patrol of British soldiers and Jewish constables was am bushed and suffered heavy casual ties. * Chaco Arbitration t) OLIVIA ad Paraguay have flnal- ly agreed to let their dispute over the Chaco territory be settled by arbitration. Spruille Braden, young American business man, is given most of the credit for this settlement of the long and bloody quarrel, and it is said in Washington that he will be re warded by appointment as minister to Colombia. % 'Purge' Is Hard Hit 'T'WO long distance messages came from Manila, from Paul V. McNutt, governor general of the Philippines and reputed boss of the Democrats of Indi ana. Thereupon the New Dealers of the Hoosier state decid ed they could not win in November unless they renomi- n a t e d Frederick Van Nuys for the senate. That gentle- man had been marked for elimi nation by Tommy Corcoran and his fellow managers of the proposed “purge” of those who had opposed any major New Deal policies and Governor Townsend had publicly announced Van Nuys could not be renominated. The sen ator was planning to run as an in dependent. After hearing from McNutt, the governor invited the senator to present his candidacy to the state convention, and Van Nuys accepted in the interests of party harmony. Corcoran’s purge appears to have bogged down elsewhere, too. Sena tor George of Georgia and Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina seem likely to win renomination. In New York city Tammany decided to sup port Congressman John J. O’Con nor, who led the fight against the re organization bill, and several other New York members of the lower house whom Corcoran had listed for defeat. * Problem of the South O E-ESTABLISHING a balanced economic system in the south ern states is considered by Presi dent Roosevelt the No. 1 problem of the nation and he says it must and can be done. He appealed to 25 southern leaders, assembled in Washington at his request, to draft plans for the economic restoration of their section of the country. Lew is Mellett, director of the National Emergency council, presided over the conference and read Mr. Roose velt’s letter. Though he did not comment on the effect that the new wages and hours law may have on southern industry, he did say that one of the great problems in the South is that of labor and employment. He spoke also of problems “growing out of the new industrial era and, again, of absentee ownership of the new industries.” “It is my conviction,” the Presi dent wrote to Mellett, “that the South presents right now the na tion’s number one economic prob lem—the nation’s problem, not merely the South’s. For we have an economic unbalance in the nation as a whole, due to this very condi tion of the South. “The purpose of your conference is to produce a restatement of the economic conditions of the South and their relation to the rest of the country that we may do something about it.” Senator Van Nnys m WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON EW YORK—Several years be- ' fore Romain Rolland finished “Jean Christophe,” Leo Tolstoi called him the warden of the con- science of Europe. Rolland i n his quarter- Comea Home century exile in To Die Switzerland, he has remained “above the battle,” warning of war, decrying hatred, pleading for peace and understanding. His has been a voice crying in the wilderness. His exile ended, he returns to France, "an old man, broken and despair ing,” as the news dispatches report. The world seems to have little heed ed his impassioned appeals. He wants to die in Clamecy, the vil lage where he was born. The greatest novel of a cen tury, possibly of many cen turies, “Jean Christophe” has been called by great criUcs and multitudes of lesser lights. It was published in 1913. This writer has found few young per sons, even those majoring in literature, who have read it. He has found others who have nev er heard of Romain Rolland, the Nobel peace prize winner exiled from his country, while Carl von Ossietsky, German Nobel peace prize winner, was impoverished, jailed and harried to his death in the same “years between.” There is in this age swift obsolescence in the spiritual heritage as well as in machines. But another, even greater teach er, looking sadly down on the multi- tude from a hill in T eachtnga Jerusalem, was Will Be also unheeded: Remembered “How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” But neither He nor His teaching was al together forgotten. There will also be those who will remember Ro main Rolland. When he was exiled from France, vast sums of money were offered him if he would go to America, to write and lecture. Publicity, or yny form of self-ex ploitation, is to him profoundly distasteful. He withdrew to a se cluded villa near Zurich, Switz erland. There is one definite attitude in all these post-war writings. He had no faith in “move- He Knew ments,” in “idolo- Righteoua gies,” right or left. Can Be Cruel He repulsed Henri Barbusse, his clarte group and the various “united fronts,” as he did the emissaries of bloody reaction from the right. He knew that the righteous can be as cruel as the wicked, once they find reliance on force. Like the great German Fich te, whom he esteemed, he be lieved only in the “inner light” —never in organization or force. But he was not a “political ag nostic.” He fought, and suf fered, to arouse the world con science, as the dying Tolstoi had enjoined him. He is a tall, spare, pallid old man, with thinning hair and sad, deep- set eyes as he returns to France at the age of seventy-two. Educated in music, at the Ecole Normale, he became a devotee of Wagner, whose genius inspirited his life— then of Tolstoi and Shakespeare. He has written many times in the last few years that he sees little hope that the World will escape a last devastating war. • • • IT WAS reported that Sir John Reith, director general of the British Broadcasting corporation, was badly licked in that interna- . , tional Arabic Sir John crooning contest a Beaten in while back. Virtu- Radio Duel all y aU observers gave the decision to Italy. If so, it probably was the only time he ever lost a contest. The tall, bafd, grim Scotsman is upped to the job of running the Imperial Airways, as a civil arm of rearmament, with a sizeable hike in salary. It is now $50,000 a year, instead of $35,000. He is an engineer, and in 1916 was here with 600 technicians checking on war material contracts. He didn’t like America or Americans but eased up on us later on. Run ning British radio, he has been ex ecrated as a tyrant, but he has held to his line and confounded all his adversaries. His views on radio programs were outlined by him as follows: “To set out to give the public what it wants, as the saying is, is a dangerous and fallacious policy.” © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Contents of the Potato A potato is more than three fourths water, only one-tenth to one- fifth starch, an excellent source of phosphorus and iron, and a fair source of vitamin C. ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSEIFI “We Wanted to Live” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Today, I’ve got a swell yarn for you. It’s the story of one of the greatest disasters in the history of the Virgin Islands —yes, and it’s a lot more than that, too. It’s the story of a heroic deed and a darned swell illustration of what the will to live will do for a man—or a boy. Fellow Adventurers, let me introduce to you Harry Zielian of Brooklyn, the man who wanted to stay alive. And now let’s get on with his story. It starts in St. Thomas on the Virgin islands in the year 1907, 10 years before the United States acquired that territory from Denmark. Harry’s father was a judge under the Danish government. He lived in St. John, but Harry and his brother Ed had gone with the local cricket team to play a match with the team of the St. Thomas high school and were returning on the sloop Sea Gull. There were 21 people on the Sea Gull including the entire St. John cricket team and a woman with four young children. They set out from St. Thomas about six-thirty in the evening on July 13—sailed out of the harbor close-hauled in p freshening breeze. Their Sloop Capsized in the Gale, in three-quarters of an hour that breeze had become a gale. A few moments later a “spinner” struck the sloop broadside and knocked it completely over. In less time than it takes to tell it the sloop capsized and sank. Harry was sitting at the stern, and he dived into the water as she went over. He called to his brother who had gone below a few minutes before the spinner struck but he got no answer’. For a while he treaded water. As he did so he felt a small body rub against his and raised it to the surface. It was a little boy—the four-year-old son of the woman who had been aboard the Sea Gull with him. He was dead, and Harry let his body go again. It was four miles to shore, and it would be a miracle if Harry got there himself. Three Began the Long Swim. Four miles to shore in a raging gale. Yes, it would be a miracle if thirteen-year-old Harry Zielian made it. But Harry wanted to live. He turned toward land and began to swim. He had barely started when he saw his brother Ed and his pal, Jim my, passing him. He called to them and told them not to swim so fast— to save their energy if they ever expected to get ashore alive. Guided by the lighthouse at the entrance to the harbor of St. Thomas, they swam on. "For a while,” he says, “we could hear yells and cries from people who were still afloat, but after an hour all was still except for the break of the waves as the wind continued to lash the sea to fury. We swam for another hour, thqp Jimmy began to tire. Soon he was in a bad way. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I >CHOOL L. %] esson HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. ian of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union, Wf. ia Lesson (or July 24 GIDEON: FOLLOWING GOD’S PLAN LESSON TEXT—Judge* 7:4-7. 15-23. GOLDEN TEXT—Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage. Joshua 1:9. PRIMARY TOPIC—Why Gideon Won. JUNIOR TOPIC—Gideon's Band. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— The Lord's Three Hundred. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— A Wise General. Harry dived as the sloop went over. I swam to the windward side of him, the better to protect him from the waves and put my right hand under his left armpit. When I got tired, Ed would relieve me. This went on for quite a while but eventually Jimmy became so tired he couldn’t raise his hand. He sank for the first time and grabbed my shirt as he came back to the surface. I went under and would undoubtedly have drowned if Ed had not come to my assistance.” Ed kept Harry’s head above water, but poor Jimmy went down. He clung to Harry a few seconds and then sank. There was nothing Harry and Ed could do about it. They were lucky to get out alive themselves. Both boys were tired now—dog tired. BUT THEY WANTED TO LIVE. They kept on swimming. “We had been swimming for at least three hours,” Harry says, “and the shore seemed no nearer than be fore. Suddenly we heard a voice calling tuid for a time we did not answer for fear it might be a drowning man who would pull us down with him as Jimmy had almost done. But at length we swam in that direction and found Louis, Jimmy’s brother, captain of the Sea GulL” How the Two Lads Saved Louis. By this time all three of them were all in—so far gone that they agreed to swim apart so that if one went down he wouldn’t try to drag the others with him. They swam for another hour. Then, suddenly they heard Louis calling. "I’m going down,” he shouted. “Ive got a cramp in my leg!” Ed and Harry swam to him. One on each side, they held him up until the cramp had passed. Louis kept his head. If he had lost it and fought them, all three would have gone down together. After that they swam on again. They were swimming in a daze, almost dead with fatigue, BUT THEY WANTED TO LIVE! More hours passed. They kept on swimming. At last they felt bottom under their feet and half-stumbled, half-crawled up on a sandy beach. It was then between two and three o’clock in the morning and they had been swimming tor seven or eight hours. Exhausted, they dropped on the beach with the waves lapping their feet, and fell into a dead sleep. It was morning and the sun was shining brightly when Louis awakened the other two. They walked up the beach in search of other survivors, but there were none. Then they walked to the cabin of a na tive woman who fed them and got a boat to take them home. There’s a sequel to that story. A month later the H. M. S. Ingolf of the Danish navy steamed into the harbor, and shortly after that the officers of the ship were drawn up before Harry’s home while Governor C. M. T. Cold presented Harry and Ed with life saving medals awarded them by the king of Denmark for their rescue of Louis. They wanted to live, those two kids—but they weren’t too busy at it to help the other fellow. Copyright.—WNU Service. Prairie Chicken Hard to Shoot The prairie chicken, owing to its wariness and choice of open range as habitat, is one of the most dif ficult of game birds for hunters tp bag. It usually rises far ahead of the hunter and out of the range of shot. Name Murray Means “Seaman” The name Murray is of Celtic origin and means “seaman.” We consider it a different name from Murphy, Murtagh or Murtough, but it is only a little different, says an authority, as these last three all mean “sea warrior." Young Spiders Take Flight In autumn each year young spi ders take flight like the birds. They spin a thread and allow it to fly in the wind. The insect cuts this loose and clings to the end, and if con ditions are favorable it goes cn a long voyage. World’s Robust Health The world’s robust health shows itself in the way it gets through times of transition, floundering al- vays with each new ledge it reaches, out climbing ever upward. Earliest Battle of Armageddon The earliest battle at Armaged don so far known, was fought in May, 1479 B. C., when Thutmose the Third of Egypt defeated the Asiatic allies. This feat was dupli cated in September, 1918, A. D., when General Allenby led a British division against Turks near the site.- Identification of Handwriting Identification of handwriting is s matter of great importance in law cases which involve questioned doc uments. Who is he? What are his connec tions? How large an organization does he represent? These are the measures of the greatness of a man which are common in the world. Even in religious circles there is a seeking for the men with “big names” when something is to be done. Our lesson for today reit erates the principle which we all know but which we practice so little, namely, that whatever is accom plished that is really worth while is done by God and that He uses only humble instruments—the “foolish things,” the “weak things,” the “base things,” and “things which are despised” (I Cor. 1:26-29). No flesh is to have any opportunity to glory in His presence. If men who are accounted great by this world are useful to God it is only because they are themselves humble in spir it and service. Gideon came from an obscure family in a small tribe in Israel— and was astonished when God called him (Judges 6:15). He asked God for several signs to assure him that he was the chosen instrument of the Lord (read Judges 6), but once he was certain he went forward, noth ing doubting. I. An Insignificant Army (w. 4-7). At first thought it seems almost foolish to comment on this story of repeated reductions in the size of Gideon’s army in these hectic days when the nations of the earth are living for but one objective—to cre ate a fighting machine bigger and more fully manned than that of any other nation. But on second thought it is just the time for such comment, be-' cause what the nations are doing is a perfect example of the hopeless philosophy of men, while what Gide on did is a presentation of God’s way. These notes are being pre pared in a city distant from the writer’s home, where he is attend ing a conference of national leaders in a field of great and international importance. A long session just con cluded was addressed by a number of brilliant and capable men and women—and the conclusion they reached was that America was a badly befuddled nation, lost without a sense of direction in a wilderness of incoherent and inherently con tradictory theories and about to lose its dearly bought freedom, unless someone points the way out. The only solutions offered were bigger and better human programs, and when a suggestion was made that our need might be spiritual the dis cussion was promptly directed in another direction. We need the lesson today that it is by the seemingly insignificant Gideon’s band that victory is to be obtained. Take courage, ye 300, rid yourselves of the 22,000 fearful ones, let God sift out the 9,700 who are not alert to the danger of the enemy, and then, under some Gideon who is obedient to the command of God, go forward to victory. You are the hope, and the only hope of our nation. Do not fad God in thin crucial hour. II. Obedience to God’s Command (w. 15-23). After the Lord had encouraged the heart of Gideon by the account of the dream of the Midiarite (w. 8- 14), he and his band are sent for ward with strange weapons and even stranger instructions. It is not ours to question “Why?” when God tells us to move forward. When will we learn that He knows more than we do, and that obedience is all we need to render unto Him? “Behold, to obey is better than to sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams” (I Sam. 15:22). IH. The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon (w. 48, 20). While some folk err in counting the Lord out and making everything depend on man, there are a few who make the opposite error and become fatalistic in spirit and rela tively useless to both God and man —because they hold an improper view of the manner in which the Lord worsts through human agen cies. A man who objected to soul winning efforts, and especially per sonal work, said that he believed “God could save a man if he were alone on the top of the Alpe.” Of course He could, but God does not ordinarily work that way. It is the “sword of the Lord”—yes, but do not forget that it is “the sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” God has graciously condescended to dc His work on earth through human agen cies. Let us be ready and subservi ent instruments for His use, but let us at the same time be alert and active in His service. The two are not at all inconsistent, in fact the one whom God chooses to use is usually the one who is already busy about His work. i :