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THE RUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. AUGUST 11, 1939 i i I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH IT. LaBINE Big Cuts in Lend-Spend Bill Traceable to Lewis Barrage Against Garner, Wage Shifts (EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions sre expressed in these columns, they nre those o! the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) by Western Newspaper Union. CONGRESS: Drifting Time was when C. I. O.’s John L. Lewis and President Roosevelt were close friends. If this was an ex cuse for anti-Roosevelt sentiment in the rural U. S., such sentiment might have been dispelled the day John Lewis appeared before a hos tile house labor committee. In a few choice words he denounced proposed amendments to the 1938 fair labor standards act. In a few more he called Vice President Garner a "la bor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey drinking, evil old man . . While this denunciation at least won Jack Gamer the poker-playing JOHN LEWIS The effect teas stupendous. and whiskey-drinking vote if he runs for President next year, its actual effect was much greater—indeed, it was stupendous. By denouncing wage-hour amendments Mr. Lewis stepped on rural toes (especially in the South) which wanted processors of agricultural products eliminated from minimum wage requirements. Thus he fanned into a blaze the growing coalition between Republi cans and rural Democrats who are coolish toward the New Deal. Cheer ing Jack Garner in house and sen ate, this group proceeded to raise havoc with President Roosevelt’s pet multi-billion lend-spend program, aimed to hasten recovery. In the senate a $2,490,000,000 orig inal proposal lost a $500,000,000 item for toll highways, bridges and tun nels, another $350,000,000 for leasing equipment to railroads. In the house the bill was tied in committee. While adjournment hinged on this bill and no other, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley had to bite his finger nails and listen to an irrelevant two- hour neutrality harangue by North Dakota’s Sen. Gerald P. Nye. Fi nally, after remarking quietly that "there seems to be some sort of an undercurrent that’s causing this bill to drift,” he dashed from the cham ber and yelled at waiting reporters: "I don’t know anything about any thing!” Finally passed and sent to the house, the emasculated measure looked something like this: (000,000 omitted) Original Senate House) Bill Bill Committeu Road $750.. Omitted.$500 Farm Tenancy .... 600....$600 400 Public Works 350 350 350 Electrification 500 500 350 Exports 100.... 75 100 Rail Equipment .... 500.. Omitted. 250 Reclamation Omitted.. 90.. Omitted The price Senator Barkley had to pay for his measure: (1) adoption of the amendment of Virginia’s Harry Byrd removing tax exemption on government securities financing the project; (2) offering his own com promise amendment reducing Ex port-Import bank loans to $75,000,- 000 and providing all loans should be spent in the U. S. AGRICULTURE: Subsidies Last year the U. S. agriculture de partment placed 118,000,000 bushels of wheat on the world market, los ing an average of 27 cents a bushel in subsidies because U. S. prices were above world levels. This year world proauction will hit a new high and Liverpool prices have reached their lowest levels since 1592. Thus, to compete on the world market jand still give farmers a fair price 1 jfor exported wheat, the U. S. would dsuffer a subsidy loss of between 45 jand 50 cents a bushel, j Offsetting bigger subsidies, how ever, is smaller domestic produc tion. As Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace began estimating production, domestic consumption, required carryover and export sur pluses, the picture looked brighter. Although a 100,000,000 export would cost the treasury between $45,000,- 000 and $50,000,000, the U. S. prob ably will not ask so great a share of the world market when the interna tional wheat conference meets in London. To maintain a carryover of 175,000,000 to 200,000,000 bushels, an export of only 70,000,000 is need ed. Thus, compared with the $31,- 860,000 spent on subsidies last year, a 50-cent subsidy th.s year would cost only $4,000,000 more. Referendum Only as a last resort does the ag riculture department want to hold a referendum on com marketing quo tas for next year. With production estimates running high and flirting with the mandatory referendum fig ure, President Roosevelt signed an amendment to the AAA act allow ing Secretary Wallace to delay the election, basing his decision on the crop board’s September 1 report in stead of the August I estimate. Oth er amendments, placing marketing quotas for wheat, com and cotton all on a similar basis: C. Permit corn and wheat growers who plant within their acreage al lotment their entire crop without penalty when a quota is in effect. <L Extend indefinitely the 55,000,000- acre minimum allotment for wheat. C Extend indefinitely the 10,000,000- bale minimum in establishing cotton acreage. WHITE HOUSE: Hatch Bill Passed by both senate and house, the bill of New Mexico’s Sen. Carl A. Hatch to “clean up” politics found its way to the President’s desk for signing or veto. Its purpose: To remove influence or interference of all federal administrative officials from elections or nominating efforts for President. Its result: Incumbent federal administrations will find their personal payroller machines of little help at nomination or election time. But state machines will wield great power. Whether he liked it or not, Presi dent Roosevelt told his press con ference he favored the bill’s “ob jectives,” yet he feared it was uncon stitutional because vaguely drawn. For example, what can people legiti mately do under its very broad lan guage? Can officeholders attend po litical rallies or voluntarily contrib ute to a friend’s campaign expendi tures? Pending a decision from At torney General Frank Murphy, the bill awaited presidential action. If not signed or vetoed by August 3, Mr. Hatch’s bill would become law. The White House also: C. Nominated James Lawrence Fly, TVA solicitor, to succeed much-per secuted Frank R. McNinch as a member of the federal communica tions commission. C Ordered Secretary of State Cor dell Hull to move from the second to the fourth floor of the old State, War and Navy building, making room for the six “assistant presi dents” appointed under the reorgani zation bill, men with “a passion for anonymity.” RUSSIA: Purge In the U. S. an incompetent pub lic official is demoted, or fired at the end of his term. In Soviet Rus sia, where Foreign Commissar Max im Litvinov disappeared mysteri ously last May 3, public officials may expect a fate ranging from impris onment or execution to exile in Si beria’s wastelands. Strangely coincidental as July neared its end were two bits of Rus sian news. In Moscow, Dictator Jo sef Stalin and his right-hand man, CONSTANTIN OUMANSKY Purgee? Premier and Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov announced in the Official Gazette the names of 79 high military and diplomatic offi cials who had been “stripped of their decorations,” i.e., placed un der arrest, for “actions unworthy of order bearers.” Biggest shakeup was in the Japanese-pestered Far East, where Gen. Grigorio Shtern (successor to the vanished Marshal Vassily Bluecher) was succeeded by General Popov. The other bit of news was gath ered from such widely separated points as Berlin, Rome, Washington, and Tokyo. In each case Soviet embassies reported their ambassa dors missing. Washington’s Constan tin Oumansky, who sailed from New York July 5 for a “vacation” back home, had not been heard from since he watched Moscow's annual physical culture parade two weeks later. Best guesses held that Pre mier Molotov, who has been shak ing up the Soviet’s diplomatic serv ice ever since he replaced Comrade Litvinov, is doing some more shak ing up—possibly via the custom- tested purge route. Short, Short Story OR 1-2.3 SEQUENCE 1—SURRENDER. Quick on the heels of Jap-Chinese anti-British protests and Jap army barricade of British concessions in north China, Prime Minister Chamberlain or dered Ambassador Craigie to recog nize the “new order in China” and to promise not to obstruct the Jap army in its undeclared war. Britain hoped thus to free her hands in Asia, meanwhile “detaching” Tokyo from the Rome-Berlin axis. But he was wrong. TODAY'S HEALTH COLUMN 2—PROTEST. In Washington, the state department tabulated more than 600 attacks on U. S. citizens in China the past two years. Gallup polls showed 72 per cent favoring an arms embargo against Japan. Petitions (above) rolled into Sen. Key Pittman of the foreign rela tions committee. Suddenly, as Brit ain surrendered, tin U. S. abrogat ed its trade pact with Japan, pav ing the way for an arms embargo six months hence. Britain’s foreign office called it “co-operation” but it was far from that. It was a U. S. protest against Britain’s weakness. 3—REVENGE. At first stunned, then angry, Japan announced the price for a new trade treaty would be recognition of the “new order” in China. Then Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita (above), an ardent admirer of Hitler, suddenly initialed the long-pending trade pact with Germany, bringing Japan into the anti-Soviet axis with Italy and the Reich. Next she threatened abro gation of the dead nine-power pact guaranteeing China’s integrity. Net result of all incidents: U. S., Brit ain, France and Russia inadvertent ly found themselves aligned against Japan, Germany and Italy. ASTRONOMY: Silence At New York’s World fair the management ordered a “blackout” and anti-aircraft defense against Martian invaders, but concession aires wouldn’t co-operate. At Men- doz, Argentina, an earthquake was blamed on Mars’ proximity. At Bloemfontein, South Africa, scien tists thought they found millions of square miles of snow on Mars’ sur face, but it melted in two days. Cause of all this concern was the planet’s approach to within a mere 36,000,000 miles of the earth, clos est in 15 years. At Baldwin, N. Y., home of Press Wireless, Inc., Dr. Clyde Fisher of the American Mu seum of Natural History led an at tempt to contact Mars. Figuring it would take 6% minutes for a radio message to bounce back to earth if it hit Mars square on the nose, scientists Morse coded the letter “N,” waited the allotted time and got nothing but cat-like squeals. As a last effort they tried swing music. That, too, failed to pene trate and Mars began fading into the distance, still an enigma. BRIEFLY . . . C. In Washington, a U. S. anti trust suit against the American Medical association was thrown out. Reason: Medicine is a pro fession, not a business. C. In Rochester, Minn., 78-year- old Dr. William Mayo was buried near his brother. Dr. Charles, who died earlier this year. C. In New York, cotton interests claimed a victory when A. & P. food stores adopted cotton casings instead of jute for its flour. C. In New York, Anthony Drexel Duke became 21, and inherited about $6,000,000 with an ^SO-a-day allowance while attending Prince ton. Comment: “Gosh! I’d like to know what anybody does with $80 a day.” C. In Washington, survivors of the submarine Squalus, still off underseas duty until their boat is raised, got a pay cut. SANDWICHES MAINSTAYS OF SUMMER MENUS (See Recipe Below) ‘Make Mine a Ham on Rye* Sandwiches in all their delightful variety are the mainstays of sum mer menus. Grilled sandwiches make a “one-dish meal” for lunch or supper; substantial sandwiches with hearty fillings make a satisfy ing picnic lunch; and dainty “tea sandwiches,” served with a frosted beverage, are perfect for a party. But it keeps a woman’s wits working overtime to provide sand wiches that are new and different! And new and dif ferent they must be, if they’re to retain the ippetite appeal which makes them popular. Success With Sandwiches. 1. Use bread that is a day old. 2. Cream the butter—don’t melt it. 3. Whatever the filling, use plenty of it. 4. Keep sandwiches moist for sev eral hours by wrapping them in wax paper or in a clean cloth wrung out of hot water. 5. Remember to use a variety in breads, as well as fillings—whole wheat, rye, graham, oatmeal, brown bread, raisin bread, nut bread and orange bread all make delicious sandwiches. 6. Use left-over sandwiches for next day’s lunch or supper by “french toasting” them—merely dip the sandwiches in beaten egg, pan fry them on both sides, and serve hot with a garnish of watercress or sweet pickle. Raisin Orange Filling for Sandwiches. (Makes 8-10 sandwiches) 2 cups raisins 2 teaspoons grated orange rind 4 tablespoons orange juice Grind the raisins, add orange rind and juice and blend well. Use with white or whole wheat bread. Banana Butter Filling. (Makes 1 cup filling) 1 ripe banana % cup peanut butter Ye cup dates (cut fine) 1 teaspoon lemon juice Mash banana with a fork and thor oughly blend in remaining ingredi ents. Mayonnaise Sandwich Loaf. 1 loaf bread 1 head lettuce % cup boned chicken Yt cup mayonnaise dressing 3 slices broiled bacon 1 medium sized tomato % package cream cheese 1 tablespoon prepared mustard Ripe olives Celery Remove crusts and slice a me dium sized loaf of bread lengthwise in three long slices. Place crisp lettuce leaves on the slice and add a layer of boned chicken. Spread a second slice of bread with may onnaise and place dressing side down, on the chicken. Add crisp broiled bacon and thin sliced toma toes as the sandwich filling on this second layer. Spread tomatoes with mayonnaise dressing and top with third long slice of bread. Mix 3 to 4 packages softened cream cheese with one tablespoon prepared mus tard and frost the loaf. Garnish with ripe olives and parsley. Slice as for any ordinary loaf of bread. Serve on individual plates. Hot Peanut Butter Sandwiches. Toast 5 slices of bread on one side only. Then spread untoasted side with Yt cup peanut butter, and then with Ye cup chili sauce. Top with slices of bacon and broil slowly until bacon is slightly browned and crisp. Serve with gherkin pickle fans. Sandwich Spread. 2 teaspoons dry mustard Ye cup sugar % teaspoon salt Ye cup milk 2 eggs (slightly beaten) Ye cup vinegar 2 teaspoons lem on juice 6 tablespoons soft butter 1 3-ounce package cream cheese Ye cup pimiento (chopped) Ye cup olives (chopped) 2 tablespoons pickle (chopped) I tablespoon gre6n pepper (chopped) In a double boiler place the mus tard, sugar, salt and milk. Blend in eggs and vinegar, and cook, stir ring constantly, until thickened. Re move from flame, and add remain ing ingredients. Store in refrigera* tor until using. Savory Sandwich Filling. 1 pound American cheese. Ye pound dried beef 1 cup condensed tomato soup Run cheese and beef through food chopper, then moisten with the to mato soup. You will find that this filling will keep indefinitely if stored in the refrigerator. Dr. Barton If you’re looking for sugges tions for easy, inexpensive meals be sure to read this column next week. In it Eleanor Howe will give you practical tested recipes for one dish “macaroni meals”— recipes that are suitable for fam ily menus, for camp cookery, and even for an informal buffet sup per. Get This New Cook Book. Of course the man in your family has very special recipe likes and dislikes. So has every other he- man. And, of course, they all like a big, juicy steak, apple pie a la mode, potatoes au gratin, etc. This new cook book contains over 125 recipes that men like. Send 10 cents in coin to "Feeding Father,” Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chica go, 111., and get a postage prepaid copy now. WORTH REMEMBERING Brown paper moistened in vine gar will polish tins until they shine like silver. Save all paraffin as you remove it from your preserves and jelly. A man’s pipe cleaner makes an excellent device for cleaning the spout of the coffee or tea pot. Emptying a cream whipper and bowl is wasteful unless one takes time to scrape them carefully. To prevent sugar from forming in preserves or jam, add a teaspoon of com sirup to the contents of each pint. When the faucets in your bath room need polishing take a soft cloth wet in kerosene and it will brighten them instantly without in jury. Instead of peeling whole apples, first cut them in half, then in quar ters, cut out the core and then peel. This is a great time saver. Instead of peeling potatoes or scraping carrots, scrub same with a chore ball, and skins will come off easily without waste. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) For a Higher Effect Interior decorators have now de cided that the use of a deep color on ceilings raises them, instead of lowers, as has been usually thought. A new trick is to carry the side wall paper up onto the ceiling about 10 inches, instead of dropping the ceiling color down on the sides. This creates an optical illusion of greater height. Pain in Front Of Ear Often Boil Symptom By DR. JAMES W. BARTON A PATIENT may feel a little pain or soreness in the ear, which later becomes so severe that when he telephones his physician the lat ter has almost made up his mind that he will find a severe ear infec tion and that the very severe pain is likely due to the formation of pus in the mastoid—the spongy bone be hind the ear. He finds the patient in great pain, but is relieved to find that the pain is not behind the ear, and the mastoid is not painful when pressed. The pain is really in or in front of the ear and is increased when he moves the ear about. What is usually the trouble when the pain is in front of the ear, and moving the ear increases the pain? These are symptoms of a furuncle or boil in the canal going in to the outer side of the drum of the ear—not in the ear proper at all. The pressure of the boil and the inflam mation in this small round canal causes intense pain. In speaking of these boils or furun cles in the outer ear canal. Dr. F. S. Wrigley, Manches ter, in The Practitioner, says that the majority of cases do not call for operation and a soothing and “wait ing” or palliative treatment often gives the better result. The canal should be packed with half-inch rib bon gauze moistened with some antiseptic preparation such as 2 per cent carbolic in glycerin, and fomentations (warm and moist med icated liquids) over the whole ear give greater relief than dry heat in any form. When the boil comes to a “head” and it can be seen* to contain pus, opening should not be delayed. As opening a boil in this region is often very painful, Dr. Wrigley states that a general anaesthetic should always be given. Some physicians clean out the canal with equal parts of peroxide and warm water, dry the canal with absorbent cotton, and then insert a few drops of Keith’s dressing (one part carbolic to 16 parts glycerin). If boil is small and “ready,” it is opened with a wooden toothpick that has been dipped in carbolic. It is important to remember that when pain is in and in front of the ear and is increased when ear is moved, the trouble is likely due to a boil in the canal. Nerves Cause Many ‘Symptoms’ It is only natural that a patient who is consulting his physician for all manner of small ailments causes the physician to feel that the patient is just nervous and “imagines” many of the symptoms of which he complains. And even when there is some slight organic condition pres ent, such as a slight heart murmur, the physician knows from exercise or other tests that this condition is really causing no symptoms. The symptoms are due to nervousness. Similarly with symptoms occur ring in the stomach and intestines. “The digestive tract is so exceed ingly sensitive to nervousness, wor ry, anger, and fatigue that the physician must learn something of the patient’s temperament, of his sorrows and his problems of life in home; office, and shop. Actually, even when an organic disease is found, such as an ulcer in the duo denum (the first part of the small intestine into which the stomach empties) it still may be necessary for the physician to delve into the patient’s private life to learn such things as financial reverses, domes tic unhappiness, or bad nervous habits which commonly give rise to an ulcer of stomach or duodenum and later help to keep it active.” Tell Doctor Your Troubles. In other words, it is the home, office, or shop life that is causing the symptoms whether or not the ulcer or other condition is present, and if present, is causing the symp toms to continue day after day and week after week. No medical or even surgical treatment can cure this condition as long as his nerv ousness and upsetments continue. The thought then for patients is to tell their physician about the things that are worrying or upset ting them. The physician may be able to help the patient to overcome these conditions. Of course, it is not hard for the physician to recognize the ordinary neurotic or fussy individual who is described by Dr. Walter Alvarez, Mayo clinic, thus: “We physicians all dread meeting the woman with so many complaints that she comes to the first interview with a written list of them; we know immediately that she hasn’t much seriously wrong with her and we know that our treatment is not like ly to be of much help to her.” lRelea“«i by Western Newspaper Union.) Uncle That Get» the Crowds A steam shovel always seems to do its work so amply. It was Ed Howe who said that “every man should be arrested about two times in his life for what he thinks.” Real love seldom makes beauti ful speeches. More often it is dumb. Then They Sober Up People always laugh at the fool things you try to do until they dis cover that you are making money at it. There would be but few myster ies in this world if people looked into everything as closely as a woman looks into a mirror. We Average Humana We sadly contemplate our bad habits, and then reconcile our selves to them. Tradition should be treated with respect. It is often worth follow ing. Life First Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.—Phillips Brooks. By burning 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested—slower than any of them—CAMELS give smok ers the equivalent of blend of finer, more expensive tobaccos, mean luxury smoking and a lot more of it in every pack. Recent impartial laboratory comparisons of 1 CAMELS were found to contain MORE TOBACCO BY WEIGHT than the average for the 15 other ol die largest-selling brands. 2 CAMELS BURNED SLOWER THAN ANY OTHER BRAND TESTED — 25% SLOWER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME OF THE 15 OTHER OF THE LARGEST-SELL ING BRANDSI By homing 25% slower, on the average. Camels give smokers the equivalent of 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! 3 In die same tests, CAMELS HELD THEIR ASH FAR LONGER than the average time for all die other brands. Try Camels. Enjoy die cooler, milder smoking of long-burning Camels.•• America’s No. 1 cigarette for Plea sure and Economy. CAMELS COSTLIER TOBACCOS More Pleasure per ftiff— More faffs per Rack!