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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939
Weekly News Analysis
Europe Faces Final Showdown
In Democracy-Dwtator Battle
^ Joseph W. La Bine—
EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are
expressed in these columns, they are those
of the news analyst, and not necessarily
of the newspaper.
Europe
“There are in Europe two madmen
. . . Hitler and Mussolini. There are
in Europe two damn fools who sleep—
Chamberlain and Daladier.“
Such was the parting shot ot Al
bania’s King Zog as he fled Italian
invasion. Symbolic of British-
French lethargy were Mr. Cham
berlain’s warships, which lay at an
chor off Greek Corfu, within can
non range of the invader. One shot,
said Zog, would have stopped the
Italians. But one shot might also
have been the sendoff for a conflict
more frightful than the one which
started from a pistol shot at nearby
Sarajevo 25 years ago.
When II Duce captured Albania,
a month had passed since Britain
and France dropped their futile ap
peasement policy for a Stop Hitler
—Stop Mussolini program. Poland,
Rumania and Turkey were fairly
well lined up with the democracies
but such Balkan states as Jugo
slavia, Bulgaria and Hungary knew
when they were well off. Align
ment with Britain would invite in
vasion from Italy or Germany.
Meanwhile Berlin’s covetous eyes
began looking at Switzerland and
the Netherlands, while Herr Doktor
Paul Joseph Goebbels shouted from
his propaganda office a German an
swer to the key question facing Eu
rope today: Will Britain really fight
to defend any lesser European na
tion’s independence?
Herr Goebbels said no, and many
an alert Britisher said the same
thing, wondering if aggressive Ger
many and Italy were not right in
maintaining that Great Britain ha?
passed her empirical peak and is
falling into decadence. Under the
appeasement policy it was only
passingly embarrassing for Mr.
Chamberlain to make repeated con
cessions for peace’s sake. But under
the new policy Britain at last faces
reality; Europe’s dictators are ob
viously forcing a showdown to dem
onstrate that Mr. Chamberlain will
never fight to protect them, there
fore the little nations had best beg
for mercy from Hitler and Mussolini.
Hence observers agree the worst
of Europe’s recurrent crises—and
England’s, too—may come within
the present month. Neither Britain
nor France have backed up their
new umbrella-waving policy in the
case of Albania, whose occupation
was a direct violation of the Anglo-
Italian pact of 1938. A swift Ger
man jab at Poland or an Italian
march into Greece would provide
the ultimate test; if Britain fails to
march in such a situation, then Eu
ropean democracies are indeed de
cadent and the Old World has new
undisputed masters in Hitler and
Mussolini. At the same time Mr.
Chamberlain’s government would
undoubtedly collapse.
On the other hand, if Britain and
France act to block the next dictator
aggression, there is a pathetically
good likelihood of general European
warfare. |
Trade
State trade barriers are usually
brainchildren of panicky, depres
sion-ridden legislatures. Though sec
tional barriers (like North-sponsored
high freight rates in alleged dis
crimination against poorer Southern
states) are also to blame, most of
them spring from a forlorn hope
that the individual commonwealth
can protect its own prosperity by
discriminating against tradesmen
from neighboring states. Sampio
barriers are: (1) preference to
home-state industries, often result
ing in monopolies and exorbitant
prices; (2) excessively high license
rates for out-of-state truckers; (3)
unreasonable sanitary laws which
bar dairy imports.
Most such regulations tread on
questionable ground, assuming
round-about jurisdiction over inter
state commerce which is really a
federal power. Early this year
Washington became so alarmed that
several officials like Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
threatened to use a federal mallet
to knock down the barriers. The
most important result came fcom
intervention by the Council of State
Governments which called a “na
tional conference on interstate trade
barriers” in Chicago. Surprisingly,
though most of the 44 states repre
sented were themselves guilty, they
condemned barriers to a man. A
clear-cut prophecy, actually key-
MISSOURI’S GOV. STARK
Temporary advantage, eventual chaos.
noting the session, came from Mis
souri’s Gov. Lloyd C. Stark:
“The point is this: If the states ■
try to get these additional revenues
at the expense of their neighbors
they are gaining only a temporary
advantage. They are laying the
groundwork for an unprecedented
economic breakdown and eventually
nationwide financial chaos which
will affect their own citizens along
with citizens of all other states.”
Assents Came from U. S. Solicitor
Gen. Robert H. Jackson and Fred I.
Kent of the American Bankers’ as
sociation. Principal dissent was
frofti Arkansas’ Gov. Carl Bailey,
whose complaint about sectionally
discriminating freight rates was
finally included in the conference’s
resolutions. Other condemnations:
(1) discriminatory state alcoholic
beverage laws; (2) sales taxes and
“use” taxes, in states where no
“offset” provision is made for goods
produced in another state having
sales tax; (3) discriminatory out-of-
state truck permits.
Homeward bound delegates were
admonished to work generally for
uniform regulations among the, va
rious states. If they must discrimi
nate, it was decided to do it "di
rectly, and not by masquerading un
der the taxing power.” But every
delegate knew ii would be a tough
job—even political suicide—to de
stroy the invisible barriers which
folks back home consider a justi
fiable protection for their state’s in,
dus tries.
People
Invited, Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, back home to help the house
foreign affairs subcommittee in an
urgent task, shaping an “ideal” neu
trality policy in the event of war.
• Needed, a successor for Illinois’
late Sen. James Hamilton Lewis,
age-concealing, sartorially elegant
Democratic statesman since the
1890s.
• Facing trial, Kansas City’s Dem
ocratic boss, Thomas J. Pendergast,
on grand jury indictment charging
income tax evasion.
Aviation
Some 4,100 miles southwest of San
Francisco and 3,250 miles northeast
of Australia, just south of the equa
tor, are Canton and Enderbury is
lands, the former named for a Mas
sachusetts whaler wrecked there in
1854. Both islands went officially
unclaimed until March, 1938, when
President Roosevelt saw them as a
vital link in U. S. defense and a log
ical base for trans-Pacific aviation.
When Great Britain disputed the
claim it was announced last August
that both countries would use the is
lands for commercial aviation, but
not until recently was a formal
treaty signed. Its 50-year provisions:
U. S. and British administrators will
reside there, exercising powers to
be determined by consultation;
American interests will build an air
port, to be used by British aircraft
in return for a fee.
Pacific aviation is boomed by the
pact, for Canton and Enderbury lie
only 1,850 miles from Hawaii, direct
ly on the route a ship would take
to Sydney, Australia. Canton boasts
a quiet lagoon nine miles long and
three miles wide, ideal for planes.
But aviation to the contrary, many
a congressman was dubious when
asked to ratify the treaty. Reason:
If Britain were involved in war, an
attack on British property in the Pa
cific might force the U. S. to defend
the islands, thereby getting its own
feet in the international puddle.
Agriculture
While congress wrestles with a
huge U. S. cotton surplus which
threatens to engulf southern plant
ers unless it can be dumped abroad,
department of agriculture officials
begin to see a faint sunrise over the
huge mountain of wheat which con
stitutes the other major part of
America’s farm problem. With win
ter wheat well under way and spring
planting estimates taking definite
form, the situation might be sum
marized as follows:
In 1938 the total U. S. wheat pro
duction was 931,000,000 bushels (687,-
000,000 in whiter wheat, 244,164,000
in spring wheat). But 1939’s winter
planting is cut to 46,173,000 acres
compared with 56,355,000 last year,
and spring planting is dropping
about 17 per pent under 1938. Thus
1939 prospects are for slightly more
than 700,000,000 bushels, only a mite
above normal domestic require
ments. This means the July 1 sur
plus of 275,000,000 bushels (com
pared with 154,000,000 bushels a year
previous) will be reduced if export
volume is maintained during the
coming season.
The “if” remains a big fac
tor, however. U. S. delegates to the
forthcoming world wheat conference
can boast that America leads the
way in trying to slash surpluses,
that accomplishment holds lit
tle satisfaction because pace-setting
U. S. farmers can find no nation fall
ing in line behind them. With most
European plantings bigger than last
year, with Argentina just harvesting
its second largest crop on record,
and with Canada almost certain to
offer a price guarantee, there re
mains slight hope that America’s
carry-over from last year will be
reduced materially by sale abroad.
Miscellany
Total U. S. expenditures for the
fiscal year’s first nine months ($6,-
764,353,436) exceeded income ($4,-
390,177,312) by $2,374,176,124.
• Ninety-five per cent of the voters
in Europe’s tiny Liechtenstein (pop
ulation, 12,000) have signed a pri
vately circulated declaration re
jecting union with Germany.
• The U. S. Steel corporation will
soon begin marketing completely
prefabricated steel buildings, includ
ing residences for small towns.
Taxation
Time was when the ambitious U.
S. mother wanted her son to be a
banker. But nowadays the hand that
counts money keeps far less of it.
Today’s ambitious mother should tu
tor her son (or daughter) to enter
the motion picture industry. At
Washington, the house ways and
means committee received its an
nual list of top flight U. S. wage
earners and their salaries for 1937,
disclosing that Movie Magnate Louis
B. Mayer led the pack with $1,296,-
503 ($1,161,753 as production execu
tive for Loew’s, Inc., $134,750 as vice
president of Metro-
Goldwyn - Mayer).
Second place went to
Loew President J.
Robert Rubin, $651,-
123; third, Publisher
William , Randolph
H e a r s t, $500,000;
fourth, Loew’s N. M.
Schenck, $489,602.
Of 63 salaries top
ping $200,000, an
even 40 were report
ed by movie work-
ers. Highest paid Mayer
cinema star: Greta Garbo, $472,499.
Highest paid radio star: Maj. Ed
ward Bowes, $427,817. Highest paid
industrialist: International Business
Machines’ Pres. Thomas J. Watson,
$419,398.
One consolation for bread-and-but
ter workers is that the more a man
makes, the more he pays the gov
ernment. Sample: More than $800,-
000 of Louis Mayer’s $1,296,503 prob
ably went out in federal taxes. On
net incomes of $50,000, the govern
ment gets 17.7 per cent, or $8,869;
on $1,000,000 it gets 67.9 per cent, or
$679,044. Often heaped atop this
levy is a state income tax, like
New York’s, which ranges from 2
per cent of the first $1,000 taxable
income to 7 per cent of all taxable
income over $9,000.
Migraine Held
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
“Rails of Death"
H ello, everybody:
Well, sir, for a long time I’ve been warning young fellows
to stay off of side door pullmans. I’ve seen so many adventure
yams about lads who have come to grief beating their way qn
freight trains that I’m pretty well convinced it’s a dangerous
pastime. But here’s a lad I can’t very well warn to stop riding
freight trains. In the first place, that was his job. In the sec
ond place, he’s reformed and isn’t working on the railroad any
more. And in the third place, he knows all about the hazards
of railroading. He probably knows a doggone sight more about
it than I do.
If those aren’t enough reasons, I could probably think up
some more. But here comes today’s distinguished adventurer,
Edwin F. Eckdahl of Young, Saskatchewan, Canada—another
fellow who has come a long, long way to join our club. And
here’s the story:
Ed started railroad work in the early part of the century,
braking on the Pennsylvania. His run was, out of Logans-
port, Ind., and those were the days when the men had to
contend with the old style link-and-pin drawbar and when
air brakes were few and far between. There might be a few air-braked
cars on every train, but most freights consisted principally of “jacks”
or hand-braked cars.
Ed says every brakeman tried to get a few air-braked. cars
up at the head of Hie train, where they’d help a lot in holding
back the other ears, bat some of the old die hard conductors
wouldn’t allow that. “There are brakes on top,” they used to
say, “and the brakeman is getting paid for braking them. Let
him work for his money.” It was one of those conductors that
Ed was working for—and it came near costing; him his life.
Tops of Cars Covered With Thin Ice.
It was one day early in 1906 that that happened. Ed’s train pulled
out of Chicago about 10:30 on a cold winter night with a light train of
He lost his balance and was forced to step off the flat running board.
meat and merchandise, “We had a nice string of air-braked cars,” he
says, “but there were behind about ten or twelve ‘jacks’ and the con
ductor said ‘nothing doing* when the rear-end man and 1 wanted to
switch them. It had rained in Chicago and the tops of the cars were
covered with a coating of thin ice, and my first job was to go over the
tops and chip that ice from the running boards on the ten or twelve cars
I was to use for braking.”
Ed had ice clips on his shoes to keep him from slipping.
They were pretty dull, but he thought they’d last him one more
trip. He worked his way along until he was about ten cars back
of the engine and then, near the I. C. crossing at Riverdale, the
train hit a slight curve. Ed was unprepared for it. He lost his
balance and was forced to step off the flat running board onto
the sloping, ice-covered top of the car.
The instant he did his feet shot out from under him. He started slid
ing off the top. “I was on my back,” he says, “but when my legs were
over the side I managed to turn over on my stomach—and, as luck would
have it, a nail that had worked up from a board in the car top caught
in my coat. I was so far over the side that there was more of me in
the open than on the roof. I was just able to keep part of my chest
and arms on the car. And there I hung.
“I knew if I slid off I wouldn't have much of a chance. All I could
do was hang on—and get back on top if that was possible. It was /cold
weather and the position I was in was tiring me out. The longer I
stayed there the worse it would be.”
His Hands Slipped on the Smooth Ice.
Ed knew he couldn’t look for any help. The engineer would think
he was in the caboose and the conductor would think he was in the
engine. His lantern had shattered and gone over the side when he fell
and he couldn’t signal with that. He tried pulling himself forward with
the flat of his hands against the car top, but they slipped on the smooth
ice.
“I tell you it kept me busy,” he says. “I didn’t know how long that
nail would hold me, or how long the cloth of my coat would stand the
strain. But believe me, I stuck tight with all the strength I had.”
But now Ed noticed something that was working in his favor. The
heat of his palms as they pressed against the top of the car was melting
the thin coating of ice. In one spot his hands were beginning to take
hold. He began to move his palms forward to melt the ice up ahead.
It was a long, slow process. “By wriggling my body as a snake
would,” he says, “I was-able to bring it forward a little. I had to melt
quite a bit of ice to get myself in a fairly safe position and even then
the wind and the swaying of the car threatened to throw me off at any
minute. And then I ran into another obstruction.”
The Nail Holds Him Back From Safety.
It was that nail which had caught in his clothing. In the beginning
ft had saved his life. Now it was holding him back, keeping him from
moving any farther forward. Ed didn’t dare move a hand to free it.
And there he was, fastened to the car, unable to move any farther and
not knowing when a low spot or a curve in the track would shake
him off.
He began to get a bit panic-stricken then. He clawed at the top of
the car with futile hands. And suddenly his groping palms struck on
another nail worked up out of the boards like the first one.
“I caught hold of it by a thumb and finger,” Ed says, “and only
then did I dare to move the other hand down and loosen the nail that
was caught in my coat. I wriggled back on the top and when I reached
the running board I was covered with sweat and my hands and face
were full of slivers. All I did was lie flat on my face and pant.”
The train was pulling into a station and the engineer whistled for
brakes, but Ed didn’t move. “Of course the train ran past the station,”
Ed says, “and I was in line for a bawling out. But when I told the engi
neer what had happened he had to make his excuses for not seeing my
lantern disappear. I’ve had lots of close calls in railroading, but that
was my closest one.”
Copyright.—WNU Service.
First U. S. Post Office Was Located in Boston in 1641
The first postal establishment on
the North American continent was
located in Boston in 1641 in the tav
ern of Richard Fairbanks who was
given authority to charge one penny
for each letter delivered, Prof.
R. Del French of McGill university
told members of the Rotary club
of Montreal, says the Christian Sci
ence Monitor. In Canada, the first
record of postal service was during
the French regime when a road was
opened between Quebec and Mon
treal more than 200 years ago.
Private dispatches by mail in Can
ada were delivered on schedule only
after the fall of Quebec into British
hands. This marked the final real
attempt to organize a postal service
on a regular basis, and Benjamin
Franklin was instrumental in devel
oping this work between Montreal
and New York by way of the Cham
plain and Hudson route. Postal serv
ice was instituted between Halifax
and Liverpool in 1755.
Direct Result
Of Tenseness
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
1 WRITE frequently about
migraine — one-sided head
ache — because thousands suf
fer with it and the only relief
usually obtained
is by going to bed
for two or three
days to a week,
by which time the
attack passes. As
the cause has been believed to
he due to overwork — mental
and physical—rest would thus
seem to be the logical treat
ment.
Perhaps the most efficient
treatment that has been dis
covered is that of ergotamine tar
trate, full details of which were giv
en by Dr. Mary
O’Sullivan some
months ago in the
Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Associ
ation. The t gota-
mine tartrate is giv
en by injection into
the muscles by a
physician or may be
taken in tablet form
by mouth. Even
when taken by
mouth, however, the
size of the dose
should be as ordered by the physi
cian, the dose usually depending
upon the severity of the attacks.
This drug is given different names
by the different drug manufacturers,
but druggists know these names.
Physicians have found that mi
graine occurs in families and in in
dividuals who work hard or do
things in the hard or “tense” way.
Migraine Causes.
Some further information on mi
graine is given by Dr. W. H. Riley,
Battle Creek, in the Michigan State
Medical Society Journal, who,
among other points, mentions the’
following:
1. Among the exciting causes of
migraine are depressive emotions
such as those associated with worry,
anxiety, fear, ange., fatigue, ex
haustion, loss of sleep, eyestrain,
excessive use of eyes, using the
eyes in a bright light.
2. Being sensitive to certain foods
—eggs, fat rich foods, milk, cream,
ice .cream, wheat and others.
8. Increased alkalinity of the
blood. These individuals often work
so hard they starve themselves and
often do not eat enough meat and
fish.
4. Spasm in the blood vessels in
the brain. In the opinion of Dr.
Riley the spasm of the arteries of
the brain, which of course prevents
a proper supply of blood from reach
ing the brain and removing wastes,
is responsible for many other symp
toms besides the headaches, such
as temporary loss of sight and
speech and also dizziness.
Those individuals who have this
tendency to migraine should learn
then that it is tenseness that causes
the spasm of the blood vessels, and
thus the migraine.
• • •
Dr. Barton
Gland Changes Cause
Many Skin Eruptions
I find myself writing very often
about acne—pimples, not because
the condition is painful or danger
ous, but because it is spoiling the
lives of many boys and girls just
when manhood and womanhood is
opening up to them. They avoid
playing games, going to parties or
enjoying other forms of amuse
ment.
Physicians now agree that as acne
appears about the time of puberty,
gland changes in the body cause the
skin eruption. Just how gland
changes cause the trouble is un
known, but in some manner the body
processes find it difficult to handle
various foods, and this improper
burning or handling of foods re
sults in the change in the skin.
For years the results of X-ray
treatment of acne have been excel
lent; in fact, the X-ray treatment
has been considered “the best single
treatment of acne.” It would seem,
however, that this top position or
standing of the X-ray treatment is
to be challenged by the treatment
of which I have written many times,
that is, the treatment by viosteroL
The viosterol treatment of acne was
first given to the profession by two
members of the staff of the Univer
sity of Chicago, who cured them
selves and many of their students
by this method.
255 Acne Cases Reviewed.
Dr. M. T. R. Maynard, San Jose,
Calif., in California and Western
Medicine reviews 255 cases of acne
treated since 1930. Of these, 123 pa
tients were treated by other means
than the use of viosterol and 132
with viosterol; 86 were treated by
X-ray. The diet and application of
lotions or ointments were the same
in the two groups.
Of the 86 patients treated by X-ray
the acne was better in 30 at the end
of three months; in 13 it was much
better and in 26 the condition was
healed, and of the 132 cases treated
with viosterol, eight were better, 20
were much better and 32 cured. Of
those cured or helped by the X-ray
there were 26 in whom the acne
returned, whereas the acne re
turned in only one case where vios
terol was used.
Copyright.—WNU S«rvlc*.
Small Waists and
Becoming Necklines
'T'HE neckline is a very impor
tant detail in making your
dress becoming. Thus No. 1719,
designed for Jarge figures, has a
plain, deep v-neckline which is
especially slenderizing. Darts at
the waistline tend to make you
look inches slimmer. This is a
particularly comfortable dress to
work in, with its deep armholes,
slashed sleeves, and easy waist.
It’s easy to put on and to iron,
too, thanks to the button-front. A
diagram design, it may be all fin
ished in a few hours. Calico, ging
ham, percale or seersucker are
nice for this.
For slender, youthful figures,
the heart-shaped, frill-trimmed
neckline of No. 1726 is perfectly
charming and as flattering as can
bel The pointed basque bodice di
minishes your waistline to prac
tically nothing, and the wide
shouldered sleeves and flaring
skirt accent the slender youth of
the silhouette. Make this pretty
dress of silk crepe, taffeta or
prints, and see if it doesn’t win
you many compliments 1
Nc. 1 719 is designed for sizes 36,
38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size
38 requires 4% yards of 35-inch
material; 4% yards of braid.
No. 1726 is designed for sizes 12,
14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 takes 414
yards of 39-inch materi^; 114
yards of pleating or ruffling.
Spring-Summer Pattern Book.
Send 15 cents for tb; Barbara
Bell Spring and Sumner Pattern
Book, which is now'rtady. Make
yourself attractive, practical and
becoming clothes, selecting de
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planned, easy-to-make patterns.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1324,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, HI.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each. *
How Women
in Their 40’s
Can Attract Men
Here's good advice for a woman du
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■he'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air. 8 hr*, sleep and if yom
need a good general system tonic take Lydia
E. Pinkham a Vegetable Compound, made
sapociaUp for women. It helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change of life. WEL&
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Beyond Help
The gods cannot help a man
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Nose
.Stuffy,
Just 2 drops Penetro
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nostril relieves irri-
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discomfort in head
colds. Brings relief.
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Seareity of Voices
There are many echoes in the
world, but few voices.
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