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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938 Weekly News Review Latest Nazi Anti-Jewish Drive Gives Restless Reich a ‘Cause’ By Joseph W. La Bine- Religion In times of stress men are known to seek solace in religion. But even religion’s solace becomes difficult when men are persecuted for their faith and race. That is the plight now facing all German opponents fltf Nazidom’s socialistic ideology, rvhich dictates that the state must come first, that religion must take what is left. Thus, in less than a week’s time, German Jews were persecuted unmercifully apd driven back to medieval ghetto style of liv ing, while German Catholics also found themselves on the defensive. Though the Vatican has long been outspoken against Germany’s five- year persecution of Jews, outright hostility did not come until last month’s Nazi storming of Theodore CARDINAL VON FAULHABER Terrorism arrived from Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer’s palace in Vien na. Now this battle has spread to Munich, where Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber’s palace was stoned. At Salzburg the Catholic university society has disbanded. The immediate excuse for a 36- hour anti-Jewish hysteria was the assassination in Paris of Ernest von Rath, a German diplomatic attache, by a 17-year-old Polish Jew. Right eously proclaiming that German Jews are answerable for the anti- Nazi acts of world Jewry, Germany has resorted to medieval terrorism and forced her Jewish citizens into i an economically impossible sit uation that self-extermination ap pears to be the eventual result. This seemingly ill-reasoned solu tion of the Jewish problem appar ently typifies the Nazi method of dealing with enemies, real or imagi nary. Observers are certainly not inclined to accept the Von Rath murder as a reason for the latest wave of persecution. Probably a better answer is that totalitarian rulers must have a constant “cause celehre” and that Nazidom, having won its Czechoslovakian cause, has found a new wave of Jewish perse cution the most satisfactory method of keeping national enthusiasm whipped up. However, since world opinion has rebelled against such a gruesome policy, it may prove a boomerang. Foreign To ward off Germany’s aggres sion on southeastern Europe, Tur key’s late President Kemal Ataturk led formation of a Balkan entente. Its members: Greece, Turkey, Ru mania and Jugoslavia. In the cen ter lies independent Bulgaria, still sulking over World war territorial losses to Greece, Jugoslavia and Rumania, waiting for the highest bidder to buy her favor. Since dynamic President Ataturk died, since Germany’s economic drive has borne fruit this year in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslo vakia, the Balkan entente is now looking for every possible means of solidifying itself. Observers predict that Jugoslavia will return her war- won territory to Bulgaria before January 1, also that Greece and Ru mania will do likewise. In return, Bulgaria will join the Balkan en tente. Meanwhile, although the entente will be strengthened by this shift of frontiers, Turkey’s anti-Nazi posi tion is not nearly so strong under her new president, Ismet Inonu, as under Ataturk. Although Turkey has long been pro-British, England’s vacillating policy of recent months has forced the Turks to seek other alliances. While an admirer of the United States and Great Britain, Inonu caanot forget the obligations his nation assumed when it recently received a huge loan from the Reich. Thus he must co-operate •with southeastward-bound Adolf Hitler. • Desperately seeking to avert na tional bankruptcy, France has is sued 32 decree laws imposing every restriction possible without violating the traditional principles of French government. The gold reserve has been revaluated at the rate of 170 francs to the pound sterling, giving the government a paper profit of 22 billion francs. All taxes have been raised and the controversial five-day work week has been modified with out discarding its principle. Forced to make sacrifices usually imposed only during a war, Frenchmen have only one alternative—financial and economic collapse. Although the success of France’s rehabilitation effort rests solely on co-operation, Premier Edouard Daladier has one strong right arm in the support of 7,000,000 World war veterans. Domestic After 23 years of bickering, the U. S. and Mexico have reached a settlement over Mexican expropria tion of American-owned farm lands. On December 1 a two-man commit tee will meet in Mexcio City to de termine the amount of Mexico’s li ability, after which a $1,000,000 ini tial payment will be made. Subse quent payments will not be less than $1,000,000 a year. Mexico insists, how ever, that the farm land settlement establishes no precedent requiring her to pay for $400,000*000 in foreign- owned oil lands seized during the past few years. Why she should pay for land which contains no oil, meanwhile refusing to pay for land that does, is a perplexing bit of reasoning. The most likely answer is that farm land is cheaper than oil land, and that Mexico hopes her larger sin will be forgiven if she atones for the smaller sin. Agriculture The U. S. department of agricul ture’s efforts to export surplus wheat have never enjoyed the state department’s sympathy, since for eign wheat-growing nations would be angry if their domestic prices were depressed by U. S. dumping of surplus grain. Although Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace now admits the export subsidy plan is not efficient, his department is committed to disposing of part of the U. S. surplus in this manner. Meanwhile Secretary of State Cor dell Hull has held his breath, hop ing these exports will not injure in ternational relations, especially with South American nations. This was the situation when Frank A. Theis, Kansas City grain broker, appeared at Rio de Janeiro to sell 15,000,000 bushels of U. S. wheat in Brazil. That nation was not imme diately hostile but a strong protest came from Argentina, which now supplies all of Brazil’s wheat. Al though Brazilians could use cheap wheat to make cheap bread, Argen tina is a good customer of the U. S. Upshot was a protest jo the state department, delivered in Washing ton by Argentina’s Ambassador Don Felipe EspeL The. problem’s crux: ARGENTINA’S FELIPE ESPEL Wheat provoked a crisis. If Argentina could prove the agri culture department was assisting Mr. Theis in selling his wheat to Brazil, Buenos Aires would consider it equivalent to an “international in cident.” Mr. Hull issued an immedi ate denial of official U. S. implica tion in the scheme. So did Mr. Wallace, but he could not refrain from worrying publicly about the U. S. agricultural prob lem. Since future “international in cidents” will almost inevitably re sult if the U. S. tries to sell any more wheat abroad, Mr. Wallace must now concentrate on solving the problem domestically. The recent elections rebuffed his 1938 farm bill but he promises to defend it before the next congress. He has even in vited newly-elected congressmen to offer their suggestions. Meanwhile, little more is heard of the two-price plan for domestic dumping, under which low-income families would buy surplus commodities at special rates. People Great Britain is badly in need of salesmen to keep her far-flung em pire intact, and no better salesman could be found than the duke of Windsor. Now exiled in Paris with his wife, the former Wallis Warfield, England’s abdicated king may soon return to England’s good graces. That conciliatory gestures are in the air has been shown by the visit to Paris of the duke and duchess of Gloucester, Windsor’s brother. It is considered likely that Edward and his wife will spend Christmas day in London, probably returning later to take up permanent residence at Fort Belvidere. Politics Like all natural phenomena and many not bo natural, U. S. political fortunes run in cycles of liberalism and conservatism. Thus every lengthy Republican administration has been succeeded by a shorter Democratic one, attesting to the American people’s inherent conserv atism. Since the Republican party reached its latest low ebb under Candidate Alfred Landon in 1936, none but the most optimistic expect ed anything but a minor gain so early as 1938. But it has proved otherwise, thanks to (1) a growing belief that the Roosevelt administra tion’s expensive recovery efforts have been unsuccessful, and (2) a fear that New Deal policies were en couraging the growth of radicalism. Moreover, it has been apparent that the public must eventually pro test against the political corruption which unavoidably gathers around so large a financial project as. WPA. Though the Roosevelt administration may be blameless in this respect, such political machines as that of Pennsylvania’s Gov. George H. Earle have unsavory reputations. Another consideration, one that re ceived less attention than eventually proved justified, was dissatisfaction among America’s numerically im portant farmers. Since the agricul tural vote can control congress, it looked bad for the administration when this year’s highly touted farm program failed. Despite Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace’s sincere efforts. New Deal farm leg islation has left producers in north ern states without permanent relief. fSee Agriculture.) Almost without exception the No vember general election has there fore made the U. S. return to its most normal politicai alignment in approximately 15 years. Always Democratic, the “solid South” has clung tenaciously to tradition. But this tradition does not mean the South will line up 100 per cent behind President Roosevelt,.for South Car olina, Georgia and Maryland elect ed senators partially unsympathetic with the New Deal. Several other southern senators and congressmen, not up for re-election this year, are also unsympathetic. Though in many cases the Repub lican trend is not so great as first appearances might indicate, practi cally all northern states have shown a surge back to conservatism. This was especially marked in Minnesota and Wisconsin, where Farmer-Labor and Progressive partisans were ousted after long inctunbencies. Michigan swung away from Demo cratic Gov. Frank Murphy largely because he sympathized with the radically tinged Committee for In dustrial Organization. In all north western states the swing to Repub licanism was due partly to agricul tural dissatisfaction. New England’s industrial population rebelled against allegedly oppressive taxa tion and the C. I. O., while this ter ritory’s traditional conservatism also played an important role. Sub stantially the same explanation can be made for votes in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The only important New Deal gains have come in California, where a rock-ribbed Republican governor was ousted; in North Da kota, whose notoriously unsettled political situation has freakishly placed a Democrat in the governor’s chair, and in Maryland. But such a resume does not tell the entire story, for even those states which remained Democratic have shown an amazingly strong Re publican upsurge. New York’s Gov. Herbert H. Lehman won by only 70,000 votes over his Republican op ponent, youthful Thomas E. Dewey, whereas two years ago Mr. Leh man had a 500,000 margin. Illinois, which remains predominantly New Deal, increased its Republican house representation and returned a much larger conservative vote than in 1936. Having gained at least 8 senators, 81 house members and 11 governors, the Republican party once more has a vocal minority in congress. More over its 1940 presidential hopes are better, despite the defeat in New York of Tom Dewey, once consid ered a likely candidate. If the 1938 election has created any new presi dential possibilities, they are Ohio’s Reniblican Sen. Robert Taft and Missouri’s Democratic Sen. Bennett Champ Clark. What the Republican upsurge will do for the U. S. remains conjectural, but post-election stock market activ ity has been encouraging. To help industry, the American Federation of Labor is already banking on G. O. P. congressional aid in amend ing the Wagner labor relations act. The outstanding fact is that 1938’s Republican party has emerged a liberalized entity, well-spanked for its former ultra-conservatism. Defense When Financier Bernard Baruch first proposed a huge United States rearmament program after the Eu ropean war scare, one of his talking points was that private enterprise would be revitalized. Official Wash ington agrees, as shown by rumors that the 1917 war industries board may be re-established to co-ordinate a “rearmament spending program” by private industry. The govern ment expects $5,000,000,000 to be spent for rehabilitation and expan sion of railroads, public utilities, chemicals, automotive and aircraft industries. It also expects “mobil ization” of America’s raw mate rials, solving such problems as that of manganese, an essential element in steel production which now comes largely from Cuba because United States deposits are not developed. ADVENTURERS* CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF1 The Beast at the Door H ello everybody: Here’s Oskar Baradinsky of Yonkers, N. Y., come to join the Adventurers’ Club and to furnish us with still another illus tration of how truth can be stranger than fiction. If you were reading a story in a magazine and came on a passage that described how wolves killed a calf on a Pennsyl vania farm, not more than sixty miles west of Philadelphia, and in the year 1926—well—what would you think of that story? If you are like me, you’d probably say the author was crazy and turn to another story that counded more true to life. A fiction writer just couldn’t put an incident of that sort down on paper and get away with it. But Old Man Fact doesn’t go by the rules that govern fiction writers. It’s actually true that wolves have killed calves in eastern Pennsylvania—and that isn’t the half of it, either, as Oskar Bradinsky is here to tell you. In the fall of 1926, Oskar was taking a motor trip from Boston to Louisville, Ky., and stopped overnight at his uncle’s farmhouse on the Lincoln highway, 10 miles northeast of Coate&ville, Pa. It was Oskar’s first visit to the farm in several years, and his aunt, who came to the door, was surprised to see him. And when, presently, his uncle came in from feeding the chickens he seemed to be not only surprised but wor ried about something as well. Worried About Wolves. They all sat down to supper, and during the course of the meal Oskar found out what was worrying his uncle. He told Oskar that the night before a young calf had been killed by wolves that came from the surrounding woods. It wasn’t the first time that sort of thing had happened, either, he said. Time and again he had set traps for the beasts, but never had he been able to eatch any of them. Now he was at his wits’ end, for one by one the animals were killing off all his most valuable live stock. After supper they went into the parlor. Oskar’s uncle continued talking about the wolves. He had just about decided to sit up in the bam all night and see if he couldn’t get some of them with a rifle. “Wa Leprosy Regarded Most Dangerous Leprosy was regarded between the Sixth and Fifteenth centuries as by far the most dangerous disease then known. Propelling Power of Whale The propelling power of a whale is enormous, and no accurate esti mate can be made of it. One in stance is recorded of a blue whale that towed a steamer, by the har poon rope, for 24 hours, in spite of the fact that the ship’s engines were in reverse. Buried Coder Powder Magazine According to Compton’s Encyclo pedia, Cleopatra is buried under a powder magazine in the harbor ot Alexandria. Lambeth Palace Long in Dse Lambeth palace has been the resi dence of the archbishops of Canter bury for six and one-half centuries. HEALTH Dr. Barton He fired as one of the wolves sprang at the horses. were all sittmg around the stove,” Oskar says, "for it had been cold all day and after dark the wind started to blow ominously. We could hear it whistling about the house and the warmth of the fire was comforting.’’ About nine o’clock there was a knock at the door. Oskar’s uncle got up to see who it was and Oskar could hear him say “Hello Donald,” to someone and invite him to come in. The visitor was, one of the local Dutch-American farmers, and he said, “I , ain’t got much time. Just thought I’d drop in and find out if you were going into town tomorrow.” “Why, yes,” Oskar’s uncle answered. “I’m going over first thing in the morning. Are the missus and the kids with you?” “They’re outside in the wagon,” the farmer replied. And scarcely were the words out of his mouth when they heard a woman’s scream accompanied by the terrified whining of the horses I Farmer Feared for His Children. In an instant the little farmhouse parlor was a bedlam. Oskar’s aunt started up from her chair. The visitor, rooted to his own chair, cried, “Good Lord, what’s that?” Oskar’s uncle was on his feet running across the room. “That’s wolves!” he shouted over his shoulder as he reached behind a bureau for his rifle. “Wolves!” In the light of the small electric bulb, Oskar could see the color leave the farmer’s face. Outside the wind howled. The horses were still screaming, and now the cattle and the chickens joined in the terrible din. “Wolves,” the farm er repeated. “Oh my God. My kids are out there!” He was out of his chair and across the floor like a shot. He jerked open the door. “He and my uncle,” says Oskar, “went through the doorway at the same time. But my uncle carried a rifle and the farmer was unarmed. Over the din of the animals and the howling of the wind I could hear their footsteps crossing the porch—clumping down the four wooden steps. Then I got up and followed.” The horses were still screaming dreadfully, but after that first wom an’s shriek, no sound had come from the occupants of the wagon. A lithe, dark form sprang at one of the horses and the horse reared. Oskar’s uncle knelt down on the ground, raised his rifle and fired. Wolves Scared Away by Shots. The sky was almost pitch black, and the road was so far away from the house that it was impossible for the men to tell if the shot had been effective. Oskar’s uncle fired again—then all three of them ran toward the wagon. As they ran they could see black forms scurrying away across the fields. The shots had frightened the wolves away. When they arrived at the wagon they found the farmer’s wife slumped unconscious in the seat. The children, in the back of the wagon, were awake and crying. The horse, his skin torn and bleeding and his neck bitten in several places, war rearing and kicking and trying to break away. It took Oskar’s uncle a long time to quiet the frantic animal. Meanwhile the farmer carried his wife into the house and gave her a few drops of whisky. When she came to she told a harrowing story of seeing three enormous wolves appear suddenly out of the darkness and jump at the horse’s neck and flanks. At the sight of them she had screamed and fainted. “My uncle loaned his friend another horse and a rifle to get home with,” says Oskar, “and after the children were calmed and the mother felt better they started off again. They got home safely, and several weeks later my uncle wrote me that he’d shot one of the marauders—a little fellow weighing 145 pounds.” And all I want to know is: Why do guys like Frank Buck travel all the way to Africa? Copyright—WNU Service. Six-Hour Day Held Ideal In “Utopia,” published by Sir Thomas More about 1516, a six-hour day is described as the ideal work ing day. , Invented the Linotype The linotype, a type-casting de vice, which is in common use in newspaper offices throughout the United States, was not invented un til 1885. Its creator was the Ger man-born citizen of Baltimore, Ott- mar Mergenthaler. It was first put into use in a newspaper office in 1886. • Cancer, in early stages, now almost certainly cured by operation, radium, or X-rays. L ~By Dr. James W. Barton' AS YOU think of the research -f*. workers all over the world patiently trying to discover the cause of cancer, some working with elaborate equipment and others with nothing but a microscope, you may feel that until the cause has been dis covered all cancer patients must die within a short time after the cancer has been dis covered. As a matter of fact, because the cause has not been dis covered after the many years of search, other research workers— physicians, surgeons and X-ray special ists, roentgenolo gists — have been trying just as hard to find methods of curing cancer. That they have succeeded is one of the bright pages of medical history. In many hospitals now, when a case is found to be cancer, there is a discussion by the staff as to- which method of cure is best suited for this particular case. The London letter from the regu lar correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical Association records the annual meeting of the Royal Cancer hospital, London, in which Dr. Cecil Rowntree, senior surgeon, stated that the hospital was now supplied with the latest and most efficient apparatus that it was possible to wish for. Best Methods of Treatment. “We have now learned the best ways of dealing with the widely dif ferent types of cancer. We now know which are the types of cancer best treated by surgical operation. We know that in other forms, such as cancer of the tongue, mouth and throat, we can confidently expect such results from radium treatment as have never been equaled or even approached by any other form of treatment, and with a certain type of X-ray machine we are constantly and consistently curing such dis eases as cancer of the lip and face and cancer of the skin with such certainty, simplicity and safety as has never been experienced before. In fact, give us a case of cancer in any of these situations in a reason ably early stage and we will now guarantee its complete and speedy disappearance.” The thought then is that in a rea sonably early stage any type of can cer can be cured by operation, ra dium or X-rays. • • • Difference in Common and Allergic Colds Perhaps you are afflicted with fre quent colds but you notice that while some of these colds seem to last only two or three days and remain up in the head, others last for a week or more, and you cough and get up much mucus. If such be the case it is possible that the light cold or “head” cold is not really a genuine cold, or cold due to infec tion, the symptom being due to some substance—pollen of plants, house dust, or some chemical irritant. Dr. Louis Tuft in bis book “Clini cal Allergy” states: “Colds are not acute infective colds—coryza or the) common cold—unless they begin with an irritation in the nose—gen erally malaise — prostration; dis charge from the nose, at first a thin mucus, the later becoming like pus; and fever. “Colds beginning with sneezing, followed by a ‘watery’ discharge from the nose, obstruction of the nose, perhaps a cough, with no fever, are more likely to be allergic rhinitis—due to allergy or sensitive ness to various substances—possibly associated with asthma.” Allergic Symptoms. A description of this allergic run ning nose, asthmatic type of cold due to sensitiveness to substances should help us to distinguish be tween it and the true or genuine common cold. “If sneezing is followed by nasal obstruction (nose blocked), watery discharge from the nose, shortness of breath, wheezing and cough, the condition is more likely to be a specific allergic type of asthma, than if there is cough, expectora tion from the throat and bronchial tubes, followed by wheezing which is more likely to be due to organs isms causing the common cold. “The type of the attack of this allergic or sensitiveness type of asthmatic cold is important. If it occurs at night there may be some thing in the bedroom causing the symptoms; whereas, if the attack occurs shortly after a meal, food allergy or sensitiveness to foods should be suspected.” The thought then is that the gen uine common cold may begin with nose irritation, just as with the “al lergic” cold, but the common cold “puts you down,” prostrates you, the discharge from the nose is thick, there is cough and expectoration; there is a rise in the temperature • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. ^ AROUND W THE HOUSE Keeping Apples Whole.—Core apples before paring. They are less likely to break. A broad par ing causes much waste because apples. • • • Cleaning Strainers. — Never wash a tea strainer or a fine sieve in soapy water. Rinse in clear water always, then there can be no unpleasant flavor when next used. • • • Economy Note.—Save all celery tops, wash and dry them and place in the oven, turning them now and then. Store the leaves in an airtight tin. Use them for fla voring soups, salads, etc. \* * • r Cleaning Behind Stove. — To clean the painted wall behind the refrigerator or stove tightly at tach a soft cloth to a yardstick, broom handle or fishing pole, dip it in warm water and soap suds and poke around at will. To clean linoleum under refrigerators or stoves, dip the cloth in floor wax. This polishes as it cleans. • • • Handy Clothespin. — Use a clothespin to untangle a fringe mop. It takes little time and mop will be as fluffy as when new. . • * • Toast Animals. — Cut animal shapes out of bread with animal cookie cutters. Spread with but ter and toast a light golden brown tinder the broiler. Serve these to the children to eat with their soup. • • • Germless Brashes. — Once a week pour a little peroxide of hy drogen over the toothbrushes to sterilize them. Rinse with cold water and hang up in their places. We pay so much attention to the teeth and so little to the brush these days. • • • A Scrap Book.—A large loose- leaf note book is inexpensive and handy to use if you are saving the newspaper clippings of the do ings of anyone in the family. More pages can be added when need ed and any added data may be written on the note book paper alongside of the articles. * Our Presidents —A— Grant was christened Hiram Ulysses, but through an error on the muster roll at West Point it was changed to Ulys ses Simpson. John Tyler was a member Martin Van Buren was shrewd in political intrigue and campaign manipulation, and gained many nicknames. He was variously known as the “Little Magician,” “Little Van,” and “King Martin the First.” Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were awarded the Nobel peace prize. How Women in Their 40’s Can Attract Men Bara’a good mdvica (or a woman during bar change (usually from 88 to 62), who nan •hall loss bar appeal to men, who worriaa •boot hot fiaahee, loan of pap, dizzy apalla. Get more fresh air, 81 , need a good general system tonic take 1 K. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, > sspseiaUp /or woman. It helps Nature build up physical resistance, thus helps five mors vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming — ‘ wand disturbing symptoms that Jittary sompany change of Ufa. WELL WORTH TRYING 1 Death Bearers A fit of anger is as fatal to dig nity as a dose of arsenic is to life.—Holland. FOR HEAD COLDS Relieve the discomfort—put I 2 drops Penetro Nose Drops in each nostril—the astring- ent-like action of the ephe* drine and essential oils re lieves the congestion, permits freer nasal breathing. Sooth- J ing, cooling, quick-acting, i You feel relief with every J breath you take. Always demand Penetro Note Drops. 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