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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938 . Weekly News Review Hitler Woos Central Europe With Overtures to Hungary By Joseph W. LaBine Foreign At Nickelsdorf, Austria, an impos ing triumphal arch was raised. Vi enna’s railway station was decorat ed. At Kiel a 10,000-ton battleship awaited launching. Thus, feeling like a girl with several ardent suit ors, Hungary’s Regent Nicholas Horthy sped in glory last week from Budapest to Berlin. Not since Benito Mussolini visited Adolf Hitler last spring had Berlin made such plans. Indeed the same trappings that greeted 11 Duce now HUNGARY’S HORTHY Like a sought-after maiden. ' greeted Admiral Horthy. But Adolf Hitler had more than benign friend ship in mind. Hungary lies directly in the path of Germany’s “drive to the east” in which she would swallow Czecho slovakia, Rumania and Jugo-Slavia, thereby unifying all central Europe. As Nicholas Horthy closeted himself with Hitler, rumors of proposals be gan flying. Rumors: (1) Joint pro posal by Italy and Germany to in corporate Hungary in the Rome- Berlin axis; (2) proposal that Hun gary leave the League of Nations, declaring the Trianon treaty of 1920 void; (3) offer by Italy and Ger many for extended Hungarian mi nority rights in Czechoslovakia, Ru mania, Jugo-Slavia; (4) German- Hungarian economic unity. What made Regent Horthy feel like a sought-after maiden was an other offer, this one from foreign ministers of Czechoslovakia, Jugo slavia and Rumania, whose Little Entente met at Bled, Jugo-Slavia. Their offers included a nonaggres sion pact and military equality. War In Paris, Premier Edouard Dala- dier jolted France from its vacation sluggishness to demand abolition of the 40-hour week “in the interests of military and economic defense.” In Germany, Adolf Hitler’s giant war maneuvers entered their second week. In both Rome and London, eyes focused from distant China to nearby Spain, theaters of 1938’s two wars. The war picture: • Having set Britain’s Neville Chamberlain back on his ear by re fusing a proposal for evacuating for eign soldiers. Insurgent Generalis simo Francisco Franco opened his drive to end Spain’s civil war before a third winter sets in. Aimed at loyalist Barcelona were crack Nav- arese and Italian troops, while over head rebel planes rained death. Along the Ebro river front, 5,000 government militiamen were cap tured. But biggest news of the Span ish war came not from Spain, but from Switzerland. At Zurich, Premier Juan Negrin arrived for conferences with the duke of Alba, Franco envoy. After three days of hide-and-seek in which neither Negrin nor Alba could be found, observers wondered whether Spain’s two emissaries were hid ing from each other or had agreed on terms. • While China’s Chiang Kai-Shek led his troops in defense of Hankow last week. Former Premier Wang- Ching-Wei threatened to supplant him as leader of what little govern ment now remains in that battle- pocked country. Tired of war, Ja pan mobilized 1,000,000 men and looked to Italy for help. Britain has already refused negoti ations with Japan unless her rights in China are safeguarded. But after two months of secret mediation, It aly came out in the open with a plan to establish Wang Ching-Wei as head of a revised Chinese central govern ment. That Germany belonged in this picture was apparent; one of Wang’s chief aims would be adher ence to the German-J ap-Italian pact against communism. Labor President William Green of the American Federation of Labor had two reasons to be happy last week. Smallest reason was that Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Wagner labor act must be amended. Biggest rea son was that John Lewis’ Commit tee for Industrial Organization was embroiled in several family quar rels. Several weeks ago, Homer Mar tin, president of C. I. O.’s United Automobile Workers, expelled five vice presidents for alleged commu nistic leanings. Last week these vice presidents called a convention of U. A. W.’s insurgent bloc in To ledo, asking Boss Lewis to end the fight. Specific requests were (1) ap pointment of a “dictator” for U. A. W., and (2) an election to let mem bers themselves decide the issue. Meanwhile, in western Kentucky, President Joseph Ozanic of the Pro gressive Mine Workers of America gave John Lewis another headache. Four thousand miners, who left C. I. O.’s United Mine Workers three years ago, took out membership in A. F. of L.’s Progressive body. Final quarrel was that between Francis Gorman, United Textile Workers president, and Sidney Hill man, head of Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers of America. Last week Gorman asked his followers to de sert C. I. O. because of “dictator ship and communism.” Canada Fortnight ago, the economic ties linking Canada and the U. S. were forged tighter at Kingston, Ontario. There, Franklin Roosevelt promised U. S. aid should Canada ever find herself at war. There, too, he spoke bravely for the long-argued Si. Law rence waterway project. Last week, as Franklin Roosevelt settled back at Hyde Park, these bits of Cana- dian-American news made head lines: (1) Ontario’s Premier Mitchell Hepburn bluntly told Prime Minis ter MacKenzie King he would op pose the St. Lawrence project until Canada’s railroad losses stop. (2) Observers predicted Ameri ca’s neutrality act would be revised to insert Canada among Western Hemisphere nations excepted from the act’s applications. (3) Washington continued negotia tions for an international highway to Alaska, passing through Cana dian soil, which would probably be built with $14,000,000 PWA funds. Domestic New York rushed to work one morning last week. All subway sta tions were crowded; at one the crowd was too great. Pulling away from this station a train stopped momentarily to free a woman caught in the door. Behind, un able to stop, rushed a second train piloted by Motorman Salvatore Cota. His train crashed into the rear of the first, telescoping. Then came explosion, darkness, panic. Half- hour later authorities were able to report two dead, 40 injured. As Mayor Fiorella H. LaGuardia looked on, Motorman Cota had his leg amputated before he could be released from the wreckage. Politics “Purge” crept into John Public’s vocabulary last week with devastat ing speed. More than ever before, U. S. voters looked at New York, Maryland and Georgia where reside Franklin Roosevelt’s three favorite “purgees,” Democratic legislators he wants ousted in next month’s pri maries because they oppose certain New Deal measures. Last week these senators caused this news: • In Georgia, Purgee Walter F. George drew support from James W. Arnold, Republican national committeeman who asked G. O. P. partisans to vote for George against his Roosevelt opponent, Lawrence S. Camp. Two days earlier, RFC Attorney Edgar B. Dunlap was asked to resign because he was stumping for George’s re-election. • In Maryland, Purgee Millard E. Tydings thundered into a micro phone that his commonwealth “wall The purgee refused to be purged. not permit her star in the flag to be purged from the constellation of the states.” • In New York, Purgee John J. O’Connor picked up “the gage which the President has thrown down,” promised to fight Franklin Roose velt’s “invitation to a dictatorship.” Three days later Franklin Roose velt and WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins found themselves embar rassed when New York’s Worker’s alliance, a WPA union, announced plans to raise a $50,000 war chest to use against Representative O’Con nor. Said Harry Hopkins: “I don’t like it ... I don’t know what can be done about it.” Crime At stake in a Manhattan court room last week was an Owosso, Mich., boy’s chance to be Repub lican candidate for governor of New York. The boy was District Attor ney Thomas E. Dewey. His chance lay in conviction of James J. Hines, Tammany leader, for alleged con spiracy in the flourishing 100 mil- lion-dollar-a-year “numbers” rack et, once conducted by the late Ar thur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer. Fortnight ago, the trial opened as witness after witness added to the pile of evidence that made New York bookies bet 5 to 1 on Hines’ conviction. One-time associate of Flegenheimer, George Weinberg told of attending a meeting where Hines was placed on the payroll at $500 to $1,000 a week as ‘fixer.” Julius (“Red”) Williams, Negro, repudiated grand jury testimony linking Hines and Weinberg, was promptly slapped back in jail. “Big Joe" Ison, another Harlemite, told how $125 was deducted from his weekly racket salary for “Jimmy Hines’ club.” But the expose Tom Dewey waited for did not begin until one Alexander Pompez took the stand. Shortly before the trial opened, Dewey filed a.bill of particulars ac cusing his predecessor, William E. Dodge, and Magistrate Hulon Cap- shaw of connection with the num bers racket. When Alexander Pom pez told last week how Magistrate Capshaw’s court had dismissed 12 of his workers who had been caught red-handed, it seemed Dewey’s chance had come. But solemn Judge Ferdinand Pecora ruled there was improper foundation for bringing Capshaw’s name into the case. Still in high spirits, Dewey pol ished up his star witness who was expected to blow the case wide open. The witness: J. Richard (“Dixie”) Davis, legal adviser and successor to Schultz, who was in dicted with Hines but pleaded guilty and turned state’s evidence. He was one of the few persons likely to know where Dutch Sch.ultz got his tremendous political influence. Aviation Fliers have long known that saf est, fastest air travel is in the stratosphere where “bumpy” weath er disappears and storms never oc cur. Already perfected is mechan ism to keep motors and passengers supplied with oxygen in such a rarified atmosphere, but it weighs HOWARD HUGHES Breathed across the nation. so much that commercial travel »»t these heights is not practicable. Last month, Mayo Foundation’s Dr. Richard Lovelace flew non-stop from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in substratosphere, his crew equipped with light-weight masks that per mitted free action. Last week, Globe Girdler Howard Hughes pulled even a better stunt. One evening his round-the-world plane took off from Glendale airport with a crew of four, rose imme diately to 25,000 feet. A few hours later he radioed Kansas City air port while passing overhead. Next morning, 10 hours and 34 minutes out of Glendale, his ship landed in New York. Average altitude for the trip: 20,000 feet. Though not phenomenal, the over night hop demonstrated what may be expected of substratosphere flights. All four fliers breathed through oxygen masks attached to a single cylinder. Miscellany At Pittsburgh, the corpse of Rev. Joseph A. Frey lay in a funeral parlor, surrounded by members of his congregation. For hours on end a weary photographer kept his camera focused on the dead man’s face. Reason for this eerie affair was that Reverend Frey told his flock he would “come back,” first with a spiritual manifestation, later with a physical one. The photog rapher’s duty: to catch “spiritual emanations.” Said he: “It is pos sible there will be half a dozen faces of the Reverend Frey’s dead friends in the picture when it. is developed.” • At Monticello, N. Y., Mayor Luis de Hoyos banned shorts as feminine attire except to “old women, moth ers and ladies of mature age.” His reasoning: “If I know anything about women, it won’t aver coma to that.” WHO’S NEWS THIS ;WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON ■VJ EW YORK.—Many years ago, this writer, quite unintentional ly, aided in making Dr. Ben Reit- mann of Chicago the first king of the hoboes, by some Binale Pete newspaper stories Seeks Hobo written with no King's Head Partisan dr politi cal intent. For some reason' or other, my name got Oh the hobo mailing list as a “jungle judge” Or “shack” or something and, from time to time, there comes fraternal greetings, campaign liter ature or news of the order. The latest, from one “Bindle Pete,” is quite violently prejudiced against Jeff Davis, the present king, and says he is to be deposed because he rode to Europe on the Queen Mary and because he has been working at Hollywood, helping coach the di rectors in studies of hobo still-life. This department has been quite indifferent to the hard luck of kings in recent decades, but it would seem too bad if King Jeff Davis were de throned. He has been a likeable monarch, bald and genial and dili gent (perhaps that’s the trouble) in the interests of his kingdom, and not making any trouble for anybody. His father, James Davis, was a journeyman of newspaper mechani cal trades in Cincinnati, and young Jeff took to the road at the age of 13, covering more than 1,000,000 miles in his subsequent 40 years of ram bling. He assails radicalism in the hobo brotherhood and says he will keep it 100 per cent American. He made more than 2,000 speeches on Americanism during the World war. How could a hobo ride these slick new chromium trains with the cat fish faces? King Jeff probably is working on that. • • W HEN she was bad, she was very, very good, and when she was good she was horrid. Not ex actly, but, in a rough general way, . that was the story Bette in of Bette Davis. Scarlett Hence, while other Marathon ? tars away • i . > from the hell-cat Scarlett O’Hara, as not their type, Bette Davis may take her on. Early in her career, Miss Davis played charming hellions with great effec tiveness and didn’t seem to mind. She was Ruth Elizabeth Davis, a Massachusetts school girl, changing her name to “Bette” at the age of 12 in preparation for her stage ca reer. She later changed her hair— it is brown—and her general make up. Entrance to the theater came easily, after a course in a dramatic school. She went to Hollywood in 1932. Her first play, “Broken Dishes,” brought few cheers, but, with coaching by George Arliss and better casting, she hit the up-grade. Trying a break-away from War ners in London in 1936, a ruthless British court condemned her to con tinued servitude at a top salary. She is one of the few actresses who like unsympathetic roles and she plays them well. • • T TNTIL recently Franz Lehar was living in Vienna. The news that he is rewriting “The Merry Widow” makes one wonder whether he finds Vienna still merry Lehar^ Now —whether young Rewriting writers still write Merry Widow their P la y s ™ the cafes along the Kurftenstrasse, as he did in 1905. The world has waltzed along quite a way in the interval between the original and rewritten versions. Herr Lehar got $300,000 from his overwhelming New York success in 1907. He waltzed it all right into the stock market and bade it good-by. He returned to his native Buda pest, lost another lump sum of $75,- 000 and then became a good busi ness man. His thirty or more operet tas, five of which have been pro duced here, have made him rich. He is, or was a member of the Vienna Rotary club, attending luncheons faithfully, singing club adaptations of old tunes, wearing a two-inch button with his name on it and engaging in friendly back-slap ping—big and gregarious, 68 years old, with his lush mustache touched with gray. He was a “knapsack child,” as he put it, the son of a wandering musician. He was a child violinist. Dvorak persuaded him to hang up his fiddle and take to com posing. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. The Grave of Confucius The grave of Confucius is in a large rectangle separated from the rest of the K’ung cemetery, outside the city of Q’iuh-fow, in China. A magnificent gate gives admission to a fine avenue, lined with cypress trees and conducting to the tomb, a large and lofty moond, with a mar ble statue in front, bearing the in scription of the title given to Con fucius under the Sung dynasty: “The most sagely ancient teacher; the all - accomplished, all - informed king.” HUB OF PEACE • International conferences never ruffle dignity of Switzerland’s famous Lake Geneva, one of the world’s most beauti ful inland vacation spots. mmmsaamsmmmmmmsmmmammmaaasaammmmammi^SS 11 TiBRai IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson of Chicago. • Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for September 4 Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. T HE Lake Geneva coun try, self-styled “peace hub of the world,” has learned to take international Most waterfront towns on Switzer land’s Lake Geneva look the same from the shore. Here is a side- wheeled pleasure boat heading out over the deep blue waters. SAMUEL: SPIRITUAL REVIVAL LESSON TEXT—X Ssmuel 1:3-13. GOLDEN TEXT—Prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only. 1 Samuel 7:3. ^ . PRIMARY TOPIC—When Samuel Waa Old JUNIOR TOPIC—When Samuel Grew Old. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— Putting God First. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— What Price Spiritual Revivalt • ■ “Revivals are costly. The spir itual awakening which our country so much needs must begin with a spiritual deepening which the churcn so much needs. There is a price to be paid . . . Strange gods must be put away, gods of worldly pleasure, worldly ambition, love of ease and self-gratification. It is the unwillingness to pay the price that keeps us from the richness and pow- ter of the full spiritual life” (Prof. L. M. Lowell). Israel had come to the place where the people recognized that they were on the brink of national disaster. They knew they had come to the end of the trail, and were ready to do ^something about it L Return Unto the Lord (v 3.). Samuel appears in his first public ministry to call on his people to return to the Lord. Back of that public act is the history of a godly life and devoted service to the Lord * crises in its stride. Here, for 2,000 years, Caesars, Napole ons, bishops and barons have fought and ruled, come and gone, but Lake Geneva stays, and the ancient Fiver Rhone “keeps right on rollin’ ” into one end of the lake and out the other. Lake Geneva lies in a sort of peninsula that juts out from Switzerland’s southwest corner into France. In fact, most of its southern shore is French territory, and two-fifths of the lake itself belongs to France. Geneva people, if they want to go for a Sunday automobile ride, haves but one main road on which they can drive more than a few miles without having to cross the French frontier. Most motorists like to drive in Switzerland, so the single high way along the lake’s north shore is often jammed with traffic on pleas ant Sunday afternoons. Far up in the Alps, 6,000 feet above the sea and 75 miles from the actual lake basin, you see where Lake Geneva is bom. The massive Rhone glacier, glistening greenish- white in the sun, lies on a moun tainside surrounded by towering precipices and snow-clad peaks. Lake Geneva fills a deep moun tain abyss in which the Eiffel tower (984 feet high) would sink out of sight. The lake’s surface is 1,230 feet above the sea, but the deep est hole in ifs bottom goes down 1,015 feet, almost sea level. Moun tains 6,000 feet high tower close around its eastern end, but gradual ly give way to rolling green hills. Lake Fronts Like Follies Chorus The lake fronts of all the towns around Lake Geneva are as uni formly lovely as the girls in a fol lies chorus and as much alike as their costumes. Always there is a sturdy sea wall, against which waves dash high when storm winds blow; a neat stone balustrade; for mal rows of green plane trees, their tops pruned to equal height and flat umbrella shape as carefully as any hedge; flower beds; grass plots; park benches; gravel walks paral leling the shore; and a neat wharf. Nyon’s lake front is like them all, and, like most Lake Geneva towns, too, it has its castle, high on the hill, the roofs of its five towers as sharp as pencil points. But this castle seems to smile instead of frown, perhaps because there are flower boxes in its windows, a little park with more bright flowers around it, and homely terraced veg etable gardens sloping up to its very foot. Entering the ghost-gray walls through a gate dated 1572, you find on the first floor a musty museum that preserves a few bits of Nyon’s past: Roman tiles and carvings; ancient cannon; wax figures in the bright costumes of other days. A spiral stair in one of the round cor ner towers leads to neat court rooms and offices for the judges. T^HE prisoners, on the top floor, if A they have an eye for beauty, must spend much time gazing out the windows. Across the lake, be yond the green hills of the French shore to the south, Mont Blanc, highest of Europe’s peaks, looms like a white cloud on clear days. Back of the town rise the peaks of the Jura range along the Swiss- French border on the north. To the east Grand Lac broadens to a width of more than eight miles and looks like the sea. The weatherworn houses of Nyon’s 5,000 citizens cluster their white and gray walls and red-brown roofs closely around and beneath the cas tle. Narrow cobbled streets with sidewalks “one man wide” or none at all thread between them up the hill. But as you explore them the medieval peace is shattered by the blast of an auto horn, and you jump aside just in time as a modem sedan rushes down over the cobbles. Pottery, Politics Brought Fame Pottery, long before politics, brought fame to Nyon. You may visit the old pottery factory, its an cient wooden stairs worn hollow. Its walls and floor gray with the accu mulated clay of 150 years. In this same building pottery has been manufactured continuously since the days of the American Revolu tion. Once it produced the finest ware, all hand-made, decorated with great artistry. Those pieces now are rare, much sought after by collectors who pay high prices, for they are produced no more. Along the lake’s north shore, east ward from Nyon, vineyards crowd every inch of space on the hillsides that rise steeper and steeper from the water’s edge. They are planted so close to the edge of the road that in some places you can reach out from your car seats to pick fat bunches of grapes right off the vines. ' A P THE hillsides grow steeper, ** innumerable terraces rise in steps from the water’s edge. Each te -race, held in place by its stone retaining wall, supports a few square yards of soil that in some places slopes at almost a 45-degree angle. The soil washes down when it rains on such steep slopes, even with the stone walls to hold it back. But every winter the farmers dig up the soil that has washed to the bot tom of the terraces, carry it back up in baskets on their backs, and spread it again evenly over the slopes. Up and down the hillsides you notice innumerable tiny flashes of light twinkling against the back ground of green leaves. They are scarecrows. They are bits of polished metal, hung among the vines to be swung by the wind, reflect the sunlight, and scare the birds. Bustling center of this rich farm ing region of the lake’s north shore is Lausanne, sprawled over three high hills above its lake port, Ouchy, which, incidentally, claims the only natural bathing, beach in Switzer land. Lausanne is another of the “con ference cities.” In 1912 a treaty signed here ended the war between Turkey and Italy, and a conference in 1922-23 resulted in the signing of 17 different treaties |uid agree ments. When Lausanne Moved to the Hills Looking down your neighbor’s chimney is no novelty here. Lean ing over the balustrade on one high bridge, you can see straight down into the chimney pots of houses in the ravine below, while their smoke drifts up into your nostrils. Many a narrow street winds upward steep as a mountain path, and in some places long flights of steps take you from one level to another. History says the Lausannians took to the hills after a disastrous defeat in the Fourth century, and there they stayed. On a cliff on the Cite, chief of the three hills, Lausanne’s cathedral towers dominate the skyline. Its beautiful rose window was in place more than 200 years before Colum bus came to America. The cathe dral has been Protestant for 400 years, since the day of the “Great Disputation,” in 1536, when John Calvin and other leaders of the Reformation wrested control from the Catholic clergy. to God. The response of the people was wholehearted. They were thorough ly sick of their sin and separation from the favor of God. The earnest of their sincerity was their obedi ence to the admonition of Samuel that they turn from idolatry. H. Put Away False Gods (w. 3,4). Israel had learned from their heathen neighbors to worship their false gods. These they must put away if God was to be able to bless them. The same prerequisite to spiritual revival exists today. But some may say, we do not worship heathen gods. Perhaps not, and yet one is astonished at the close similarity between the ritual and worship of some secret cults and orders and the ancient religions of heathendom. The fact is that we have set up many new gods—money, fashion, social position, and what not. The command needs to go out r through God s messengers, away the foreign gods.” HI. Gather Together and Pray (w. 5, 6). Spiritual life thrives on the gath ering together of God’s people. The crisis in Israel was met by a great convocation of the people. We need to revive the great soul-stirring religious gatherings of a generation ago. “I will pray,” said Samuel. He was a great intercessor. (See I Sam. 15:11; Ps. 99:6; Jer. 15:1.) Revival never comes without a his tory of faithful intercession on the part of those whose hearts are really burdened. Ask yourself. How much have I really prayed for a. revival in my church, my commu nity, and my nation? If I should begin to pray in earnest, would not God hear me and answer? IV. God Will Save Us (v. 8). “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neith er his ear heavy that it cannot hear” (Isa.TW:!). “Thus saith the Lord . . . have I no power to de liver?” (Isa. 50:1,2). God saved Israel and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies. The Phil istines, seeing them gathered to gether to pray, assumed that they were preparing to fight and at tacked. In the previous battle at that very spot (I Sam. 4:1-10) Israel had fought with the weapons of men and been disgracefully defeated. Now they fought with the weapon of prayer and faitji in God, and great was the victory. America is valiantly Jjattling against the social and economic problems of these distressing days, but one fears that all too often the weapons are those of the arm of flesh which will fail us. Let us look up instead of to one another, “God will save us” (v. 8). V. Ebeneser (v. 12). Our forefathers, familiar with the truth of Scripture, used biblical words in naming their children. The present generation all too often know the names simply as the strange signatures on old letters. The word “Ebenezer” might well merit a bit of a revival itself. Here Israel had met a disastrous defeat. They were" broken by it and had become an almost hopeless people. Now God had given them victory in the very same spot and they raised a stone of remembrance of God’s help. The word “Ebenezer” means “stone of help,” but also car ries with it the meaning of Samuel’s word, "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (v. 12). There is an inspiring word of hope here for every troubled soul. You may, like Israel, have fallen into sin. Your life may be defeated. You may be utterly discouraged. Re turn to the Lord, put away sin, gather with God’s people, pray, and God will give you victory, even at the very joint of former defeat.