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r. THE SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1939 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE European Money and Industry Seek Haven in North America; World Economy Upset Feared (EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions sre expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. INTERNATIONAL: W estward Foreign investment was wel comed by the expanding America of 100 years ago. Today, with domestic money and industry idle, both Canada and the U. S. have enough trouble without inviting more. But one almost impercepti ble result of Europe’s dictator mad ness has been a knocking on Amer ica’s gates by gold, men and indus try from abroad: German Jews have brought their worldly goods; Czecho-Slovakia’s industrious man ufacturers have sought refuge for the plants that once supplied low- priced import goods for the Amer ican market. Results: United States. Hit by industrial lethargy more severely than agri cultural Canada, the U. S. has of fered no refuge to foreign factories, largely because domestic manufac turers are sufficiently vocal to pro test successfully. But money in flux is something else. Secretary of , JAN BATA Workert are not invited. Commerce Harry Hopkins recently found foreign investments here rose from $7,036,000,000 at the end of 1937 to $7,883,000,000 at the end of 1938. Though much increase came from rising common stock prices last year, $49,000,000 represented net purchases of U. S. securities. Canada. 'Several million pairs of Czech-made Bata shoes have been sold annually in the U. S. and Can ada. Jan Bata, whose plant is the largest industry of its kind in the world, escaped with his money and technicians just before Adolf Hit ler invaded Czecho-Slovakia. Pop ping up in Canada, he proposed to re-establish his plant at Prescott, Ont., supplying British dominions, the U. S. and Canadian markets from a factory manned by skilled Czech workers. Confidently expect ed is a compromise, but Czech worknjen will not be imported. Oth er signs-of-the-times: fl. One thousand farm families from Sudetenland are, being settled in western Canada, the first 250 fam ilies having already arrived. Re garding Jewish refugees, Canada’s immigration department makes no issue of race or religion, but de mands; that applicants either pos sess skill and money, or relations in Canada to support them. C. foreign currency deposits in Canadian banks rose from $47,000,- Headliners NICHOLAS HORTHY Not since the World war has he commmanded a ship, but Ad miral Nicholas Horthy has com manded a navy-less, kingless kingdom since he was elected re gent of Hungary in 1920. Just turned 71, he is credited not only with averting Nazi German domi nation of Hungary’s domestic af fairs, but is also hailed as “the liberator of more than 1,000,000 Magyars from Czech oppres sion.” The latter refers to Hun gary’s grab when Czecho - Slovakia was broken up last spring. Though he has often visited Ber lin and been flat teringly entertained by the Nazis, Admiral Horthy has followed a course of friendship with reserva tions. On his birthday he told parliament that, a'though advo cating continued co-operation with Germany in foreign affairs, Hungary must not lapse into eco nomic dependence by neglecting her own industrial development. Still a fighter, Admiral Horthy flattened with his own fists six Nazi demonstrators who began shouting in the Budapest opera house last winter. Then he brushed a spot of dust from his blue naval uniform and stalked back to his seat. 000 in 1938’s first two months to $71,000,000 this year. In addition, refugee money is pouring into Cana dian mining and industrial stocks. Significance. Most observers agree that a huge transfer of wealth from Europe to America helps no one and hurts both continents, Eu rope because it reduces that indus trial continent’s already meager in dustrial resources; America, be cause it gluts still more an already money-and-industry glutted hemi sphere. ASIA: Crossroads No mystery to white men in the Orient is Japan’s purpose in get ting obstreperous over foreign con cessions in Tientsin and other Chi nese cities. With the rest of coastal China conquered, Japan finds Euro pean settlements its principal ob stacle to consummation of the “new order” program^ Thus observers expect continually expanding pres sure unless Britain protects its rights in the Tientsin concession which Japan blockaded recently. Should Britain capitulate, as she has done repeatedly the past few years, Shanghai, Hankow, Amoy, and Can ton concessions will be wiped out immediately to end a fascinating chapter in modern Chinese history: Concessions and settlements date back almost 100 years, constituting a special position for occidental powers which thereby gain impor tance far out of proportion to the individual settlement’s size. Exam ple: Though all foreign areas in China total about 17 square miles and house only 50,000 white men, Japan has been forced to divert her attack around them. The white man’s star begem de scending in the East 40 years ago when Japan ousted British conces sions from her own insular terri tory. At Tientsin, eight settlements that began in 1860 have dwindled to three (British, Italian and Jap anese). Only in Canton have Eu ropean settlements missed trouble. Minus concessions, the U. S. nev ertheless helps rule Shanghai and Amoy, also protecting American residents who live in other large Chinese cities. American garrisons, stationed to help maintain order at Shanghai, Tientsin, and Peking, may yet be called upon to take their choice: Resist or bow out of China with other white men. UKRAINE: Incentive Russia’s rich Ukraine ranges from the Carpathian mountains of central Europe almost to the Cas pian sea, embracing 360,000 square miles and populated by 53,500,000 Russians, Slavs and Germans. Through its oast and central part run rich valleys of the Dneiper and Dneister rivers, which for years have fed vast Russia. To the east, in the Donetz river basin, lie vast deposits of coal, iron ore and man- PROMISED LAND The temptation it understandable. ganese, ace cards in the deck of any military nation. If Adolf Hitler’s fascination for the Ukraine was once a puzzle, pub lic interest has zoomed to such height^, since he captured Czecho slovakia and thus made a path to the east, that the Ukraine’s re sources are now public knowledge. Even “Mein Kampf,” which outlines Der Fuehrer’s plans for wresting the Ukraine from Russia, revealed far less than a new U. S. bureau of mines study. Data: The Ukraine’s coal reserves are 72,300,000,000 tons; iron, 4,066,000,000 tons; ferruginous quartzite contain ing large iron percentage, 40,800,- 000,000 tons; manganese, 441,000,00(7 tons; lignite, 510,000,000 tons. TREASURY: Currency 4 Ten years ago U. S. citizens bought smaller wallets and billfolds when size of paper money was re duced. Since then 9,339,917,777 bills have been printed, denominations running from $1 to $100,000. (Latter are solely for museum use; nothing higher than $10,000 circulates.) Summing up a decade’s experience, the treasury figured it had saved almost $2 per thousand miniature bills on paper, ink, labor and storage, a total saving of $18,000,000. Still lost, meanwhile, are 10,775,173 over sized bills, many of which met their fate in fires or drain pipes. SPORTS: Finis In 1919 and 1920 Man O’War won 20 out of 21 starts, amassing $249,- 465 before his owner sent him to Faraway farm as a stud. Genera tion after generation of Faraway foals succeeded Man O’War in mak ing turf history. His eighth son was foaled in 1934, was named War Ad miral and made his debut as a two- year-old in 1936. Though he won three of his six starts that year. War Admiral reached his greatest heights in 1937 when he took the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Bel mont stakes and five other starts. Last year began War Admiral’s decline. Turfdom’s throne was captured by Seabiscuit, who never- WAR ADMIRAL Better than his old man. theless had a hard time beating Man O’War’s son in a much ad vertised two-way race. Suffering a slight injury to the joint just above the ankle on his near foreleg, he was retired when Owner Samuel D. Riddle decided the damage could not be repaired. Thus War Ad miral has become the fifth genera tion in direct male line that has gone to the stud. Munching oats with his old man at Faraway farm, War Admiral can mull over his record as the eighth greatest money-winning thorough bred on the American list. Win ning 21 of his 26 starts, he beat Man O’War in total earnings—$273,’ 240 against $249,465. TAXATION: Profit Sharing Last autumn a special senate committee inspired by Michigan’s presidency-aspiring Sen. Arthur Vandenberg began studying profit sharing as a means of curing capi tal-labor trouble. The basic idea: Industrialists would get tax credits for sharing their profits or (if re garded in another light) would Ise penalized if they did not share prof its). Though pointedly socialistic, the idea caught fire when one wit ness after another told how profit sharing had worked successfully. Soon Republican Vandenberg’s idea began looking good to his Demo cratic colleagues, Iowa’s Sen. Clyde Herring and Colorado’s Edwin C. Johnson, both of whom knew the administration needed a clever card trick to soothe tax-irritated busi ness. By mid-June Mr. Vandenberg had lost the ball entirely, for Senators Herring and Johnson issued the committee’s cautiously worded re port. Its gist was that some “pru dent experiments” in incentive tax ation could be tried “in the spirit of exploration.” Points (with crit ics’ concensus in italics): 1. Exemption from all income taxes of the payments industrialists make to employees from accumulat ed profit-sharing retirement funds or annuities. (Good idea. Although it would temporarily make social security a duplication, that agency would eventually grow smaller as provision for old age re turned to private hands.) 2. Issuance and sale of govern ment profit-sharing bonds which would be available only to profit- sharing funds and would be issued for the purpose of protecting invest ments by employees. (Good and bad. Would discourage small private invest ment and small bankir^, meanwhile pro viding new source of money for govern ment spending. May be discriminatory. But would also loosen large private capital for private investment.) 3. Specific tax credits for increased employment by companies following other than capital-expenditure work; similarly, reasonable exemp tion on such expenditures as plant expansion. (Good and bad. Would lower business taxes, but places capital in the position of a child who will be praised by a paternalistic government if he does right and punished if he does wrong. Pre supposes that profit sharing, thus far un tried on a national basis, would be sub stantially a cure-all that would permit drastic reduction in “extraordinary” gov ernment expenditures.) Essentially a successful idea in private application, profit sharing will probably be boosted by both Democrats and Republicans in the next campaign. Chief issue (and no one yet knows which party will take which side) will be on the applica tion of government incentive taxa tion. Said the report: “One school of thought insists that the taxing power should never be used for either incentive or puni tive purposes, and that one is the complement of the other. The other school of thought insists that we al ready have ffie punitive tax and that —confronting a condition rather than a theory—we should also have the incentive tax, either as an offset or a substitute.” IMPROVED UNIFQRM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. I.UNDOUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute Of OliC3£0. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for July 2 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permissione SOLOMON: A RULER WHO BEGAN WELL LESSON TEXT—I Kings 3:5-15. GOLDEN TEXT—Give therefore thy serv- ant an understanding heart . . that I may discern between good and bad.—I K'ngs 3:9. Success or failure in life is de termined by the measure of a man’s devotion to God and obedience to the will of God. We speak now of real success, not according to the ideas of the world. We are con cerned with what a man is and what he does for God, not with what he may happen to possess. An excellent outline taken from Points for Emphasis, by Dr. Hight C. Moors, most effectively presents the lesson. L Wisdom Offered (v. 5). Solomon had properly opened his reign by going to Gibeon to offer a thousand burnt offerings because he “loved the Lord” (v. 3). Having re turned from his day of worship, he had fallen into a deep sleep when God spoke to him saying, "Ask what I shall give thee.” It was an unusual offer, a kind of blank check that God gives only to those whom He can trust to fill it out right, as Mac- laren suggests. Sometimes we wish God would give us such an opportunity. “That is just what He has done. He has appeared to you not in dreams, but in broad daylight and by His Son Jesus Christ has said as plainly as He could. Ask and it shall be given you.” He has repeated it three times, saying, ask, seek, find. And then He has returned to say, “Ev eryone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be’ opened.” We have no right “to say that Solomon was more favored than sre. We are more favored than he. If we have not, it is because we ask not. If we lose peace and joy, happiness and heaven, it is all for want of ask ing” (Joseph Hammond). H. Wisdom Chosen (w. 6-9). The noble and intelligent choice of Solomon has been much admired and rightly so, for he chose the greatest gift that could come to any man, “an understanding heart.” He might have asked for money or pow er, but with the lack of wisdom to use them properly they would have been a curse to him and to others. Long life is but a continued blight to a foolish man because it only ex tends the time of his folly. All things in the way of p-tsses"ions must be outside of a man. there fore they may be lost or misused. But what he is and what he has in his heart, these are what make a man worth while. Solomon showed the beginning of wisdom when he chose, above all things, an under standing heart. III. Wisdom Granted (w. 10-14). There can be no higher word of commendation than to say that a man’s choice “pleased the Lord” (v. 10). To have that attitude of mind and heart which expresses it self in words and actions so exactly in conformity to the will of God that the Almighty Himself is pleased, is to be ready for God’s unlimited blessing. Solomon asked for wisdom, and because he re ceived that gift from God, he was ready to receive riches, honor, and power. We may by God’s grace go the same way and take from His blessed hand numberless gifts. Note the qualifying word “if’ in verse 14. Solomon failed God in his later years as king. The tragic results are written for all to read. That way none of us should ever go. The lesson is plain—faith takes blessing from God; unbelief brings failure and sorrow. Let everyone that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. IV. Wisdom Exercised (v. 15). When Solomon awoke from his dream he showed his faith in God’s promise and in fact demonstrated the wisdom which was now his pos session, by returning to his capital city, Jerusalem, to stand before the ark of the covenant in reverent wor ship, then to lead his people in a public service of confession and con secration, which was followed by a great religious feast which drew the king and “all his servants,” the people of Israel, into a blessed unity before the Lord. One could wish and pray that all the rulers of the earth whether in democracies or under dictatorships might have the wisdom and humility of Solomon. The world is in utter confusion and really confesses that it does not know the way out of its difficulty. It has not yet turned to God. If rulers and people would fall upon their faces before Him in contrition and supplication, it would not be long before we would see both spiritual and material peace and prosperity. Make It Positive Scripture seems to make it posi tive that every soul has everlasting ness, but Scripture also seems to make it positive that for Jesus’ kind of everlastingness every soul has got to qualify. CRAB SALAD See Recipe Below. Salads for Summer Meals When the mercury soars skyward and appetites are on the wane, noth ing tastes quite so good as a crisp, cool mixture of fresh greens, or fruits, or vegetables with a tart, taste-teasing dressing. Salads are summer favorites. There’s hardly a dish that’s so sim ple yet so satisfying to make, and there’s such a pleasant way of mak ing sure that we get the minerals and vitamins we need! Suggestions on Salads. Salad ingredients must be clean and cold and crisp. Contrast is im portant, too—con trast in textures, in flavors, and in colors. Combine crisp foods with soft; sharp, pun gent-tasting foods with mild - fla vored ones; and pale, uninteresting looking foods with foods that are vividly colored. Make your summer salads as light or as substantial as you please. Find a few good basic recipes, and vary them to suit yourself. Here are some of my own favorites— practical, everyday recipes that are easy to prepare and serve, yet deli cious enough for almost any social occasion. Summer Tossed Salad. Dip edges of lettuce leaves in paprika and arrange in salad bowl. Add green pepper rings, cucumber slices, radish roses and tomatoes, cut lengthwise in eighths. Toss to gether with french dressing made as follows: grate Vt clove garlic on two tablespoons granulated sugar. Add one tablespoon salt, one tablespoon paprika, one cup salad oil and cup lemon juice. Shake vigorously, chill, and shake again, before mix ing with salad. Festive Potato Salad. (Serves 5) 3 eggs (hard cooked) 4 cups cooked potatoes (cut fine) % cup green pepper (cut fine) 1 bunch green onions (cut fine) % cup celery (cut fine) % cup sweet pickles (cut fine) 1 cup mayonnaise-type salad dressing Salt to taste Cut hard cooked eggs in slices. Combine ingredients in order given, reserving a few of the egg slices for garnishing. Chill. Serve in large bowl lined with lettuce. Gar nish with radish roses and hard cooked egg. Crab Salad. (Serves 5) 1 13-ounce tin crabmeat % cup celery (cut fine) Vi cup sweet pickles (cut fine) 2 hard cooked eggs—riced egg yolk % cup mayonnaise dressing 1 head lettuce i tablespoon capers Flake crabmeat and remove membrane. Add celery, sweet pickle and egg white (finely cut). Mix with mayon naise dressing. Arrange on bed of crisp lettuce __ leaves and garnish with egg yolk (riced) and capers. Frozen Tomato Salad. 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin Vi cup cold water 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 1 cup celery and celery leaves (chopped) 2 tablespoons diced onion 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 6 whole cloves 6 peppercorns Sprig thyme 1 bay. leaf 1 cup whipping cream (whipped) Vi teaspoon paprika Soak gelatin in cold water. Heat tomatoes, celery, onion and all sea- sonings in a saucepan and simmer gently for about 10 minutes. Strain and add at once to the softened gel atin. Mix thoroughly and chill. When mixture begins to thicken, fold in the whipped cream. Pour into freezing tray and place in freezing compartment until thick. When fro zen, unmold and serve on lettuce with mayonnaise dressing. Marshmallow Mint Salad. (Serves 6) 1 package (*4 pound) marshmaV lows 1 tablespoon fruit juice Peppermint extract Green vegetable coloring Vi cup mayonnaise Vi cup mixed fruits (cut in small pieces) 1 cup whipping cream (whipped) Place marshmallows and fruit juice in saucepan and heat over low heat. Fold over and over until marshmallows are about half melt ed. Remove from heat and continue folding until mixture is smooth and fluffy. Cool. Then add peppermint extract and green food coloring (these can be omitted, if desired). Blend in mayonnaise and fruits and fold in whipped cream. Turn into individual molds and chill in refrig erator until firm. Unmold on lacy endive ring and garnish with a sprig of mint and halved maraschino cherry. Cinderella Salad. (Serves 6) 2 cups cooked lamb (cut in small cubes) % cup french dressing 2 tablespoons fresh mint (chopped) % cup cooked pear Vt cup cooked carrots 2 cups shredded cabbage Salt and pepper to taste Place lamb in salad bowl, add french dressing and (.hopped mint. Chill in re frigerator for one hour. Then add remaining ingre dients and toss to- gether lightly, adding additional french dressing, if desired. Gar nish with strips of green pepper and wedges of to matoes. Smiles Breath of Air Friend—Hello, George. Out for a stroll this fine evening? Farmer—Yep! I need a mouth ful of fresh air after being cooped up on a hunert-sixty acres all day. Silver Silence Youth (to fair companion)— Have you ever tried listening to a movie with your eyes shut? Voice (from row behind)—Have you ever tried listening to one with your mouth shut? A REMINDER “How the tide comes in with its long, green roll!* “Simply a delicate intimation that we will have to come in with one, too, if we expect to stay here more than one week.” Ultra Mrs. Skjold—I wish to buy a fashionable dress. Qerk—Yes, madam, will you have it too tight, too long or both? You’ve really got insomnia if yon ean’t sleep when it’s time to get np. Silver Silence Youth (to fair companion)— Have you ever tried listening to a movie with your eyes shut? Voice (from row behind)—Have you ever tried listening to one with your mouth shut? TAKE FOR MALARIA Get Relief From Chills and Fever! Don’t put up with terrible Malaria. Don't endure the wracking chills and fever. . , Jlf At first sign of the dread disease^ take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tome. A real Malaria medicine. Made especially for the purpose. Contains tasteless quinidine and iron. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ac tually combats Malaria infection in the blood. ReUeves the awful chills and fever. Helps you feel better fast. Thousands take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic for Malaria and swear iign, U Tasteless Chill Tonic. At all drug stores. Buy the large size as it gives you much more for your money. Manner of Doing That which makes one man dif fer from another is not so much what things he does, as his man ner of doing them.—H. E. Man ning. Relieve the discomfort with 'SJmplA th, » •«<’■**** aspirin. “ sySt.Joseph GENUINE PURE ASPIRIN Likes and Dislikes Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.—Burke. Get This New Cook Book. Who said that Father doesn’t like salads? Of course he does! To be sure it’s a sheer waste of energy to make a fancy creation in the hope of pleasing him, but there are plenty of iflain, substantial salads that he likes. In her new cook book, “Feed ing Father,” Eleanor Howe tells just how to please him with salads and other of his favorite foods. Send 10 cents in coin to Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan avenue, Chicago^ 111., and get your copy. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) French Provincial Style Of Furniture Is Revived French provincial furniture, now that it is being revived, is sure to be with us for a long time for it is beautiful in itself, it is moderately priced, and it can be combined so well with early American styles. Many women, who like a little vari ety in their rooms, will delight to find that the simple, graceful chairs of beechwood and of cherry in this French vein mix perfectly with ma ple tables and chairs. There are charming upholstered armchairs, too, from which to choose, and many handsome little occasional tables, some of the tiered variety, others with sunken recep tacles for plants, and still others for bedside use and for -service for afternoon tea or after dinner coffee. Whether you are doing an entire room or are merely investing in a piece or two you’11 have no difficulty in finding charming furniture in French provincial style. N.T. WOHLirS FAIR at “Fail Prices" 125,900 inspected raoms from 31.25 pw per- *on in quiet dweldfa near Fair groonds. Radio City and stopping districts — tote! service — kitchen facilities. Central advi- aory bureau for New York housing. Sand for FREE Utustrestea booklet asset 171 Law «f Failure Whoever yields to temptation subjects himself to the law of fall ing bodies.—Horace Mann. V . iReCiei. RHEUM ATISMlum bag c yes! You find them announced in the columns of this paper by merchants of our community who do not feel they must keep the quality of their merchan dise or their prices under cover. It is safe to buy of the mer chant who ADVERTISES*