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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. FRIDAY. AUGUST 18. 1939 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH FT. LaBINE Anti-Administration Congress Hangs Up Paradoxical Record With Unprecedented Spending (EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these colam ns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) by Western Newspaper Union. I CONGRESS: ‘Res Ipse Loquitur* “It speaks for itself,” said Frank lin Roosevelt in Latin after the house refused on roll call to pass his $800,000,000 bill expanding FHA’s lending power. To both house and senate he forwarded “my good wishes for a pleasant vacation.” Then he bundled up some 350 last- minute bills and left for Hyde Park while his loyal friend from Florida, Sen. Claude Pepper, was holding up adjournment by denouncing the “un righteous partnership (Democratic- G. O. P. coalition) of those who have been willing to scuttle the American government . . . and jeopardize the peace of the world because they hate Roosevelt and what Roosevelt stands for.” But when the first session of the Seventy-sixth congress was safely FLORIDA’S PEPPER .. Killing to scuttle ... jeopardize ..." packed away, observers meditated on its record: A rebellious, anti- White House gang had nevertheless appropriated the record-shattering peacetime total of $13,344,077,162 (tee chart), including a last-minute $119,000,000 farm loan fund for the sake of quick adjournment. Appro priations tabulated: Relief, WPA $ 725,000,000 Relief (supplemental) 100,000,000 Relief (19401 1,755,600,000 First deficiency 23,765,041 Independent offices 1,668,218,340 Legislative establishments.... 21.851,779 •Treasury-post office 1,700,615,054 Military establishment: War department 508,789,824 Supplemental war depart ment 223,398,047 NonmiliUry 305,188,514 Navy department 773,049,151 Second deficiency 157,619,059 Agriculture and Farm Credit. 1,194.498,633 Interior Department 172,679,765 District of Columbia 47,002,347 Department of Labor 30,536,170 State-justice-commerce depart ments 122,177,220 Urgent deficiency 3,099,377 Third deficiency 185,176.066 Permanents and indefinites .. 3,624,812,77t> Total $13,344,077,162 Observers also examined the piece-by-piece record of legislation and found Franklin Roosevelt’s early-session victories almost offset his late-session defeats, though they knew no switch back to the senti ment of last January is in prospect when a permanently anti-admin istration congress meets again next winter. The record: White House Victories. Congress was not all bad to the President. The senate confirmed all but 10 of his 10,988 appointees (including New Dealish Supreme Court Justices Frankfurter and Douglas, equally New Dealish Commerce Secretary Hopkins and Attorney General Mur phy). Passed were his unprecedent ed peace-time defense program (in tact except for Guam fortification); modified governmental reorganiza tion (which will save about $30,000,- 000 a year), and his 1940 relief pro gram, laden with restrictions. Con tinued were his gold content devalu- CO I ro. ro n o j cr> — <2' o p29 '30 31 '32 ~n 34 '35 '36 ’37 '38 '391 APPROPRIATION RECORD Up in an anti-New Deal year. ation power and his $2,000,000,000 currency stabilization fund. White House Defeats. Vivid in retrospect, they include: (1) his $3,- 200,000,000 spend-lend plan, emascu lated by the senate, killed by the house; (2) his $800,000,000 housing expansion bill; (3) neutrality revi sion, on which much of the nation agreed with him; (4) a 1939 relief deficiency appropriation of $50,000,- 000; (5) rejection by the senate of two appointees (Virginia’s Floyd Roberts, as federal judge, and Ne vada’s William Boyle, as U. S. at- PAtTL McNUTT Going up? torney for Nevada), and withdrawal of two more whose rejection ./as imminent (Wisconsin’s Thomas Am- lie, ICC appointee, and Donald Wakefield Smith, NLRB appointee); (6) refusal to hike debt limit above $45,000,000,000 (but long-term bond ceiling was raised). Other legislative moves, some mi nor New Deal victories, other minor defeats, but only one (Hatch bill) carrying important political imphca- tions: «. House approval (over White House ob jection) of $50,000 to probe NLRB. «. Abolition (with apparent White House ap proval) of undistributed profits tax in "business appeasement” tax revision bill. Bill also provided reciprocal taxation of federal and state employees. C Postponement to next term of badly need ed railroad-aid legislation, one of the ses sion’s greatest failures. Only move in this direction: Approval of voluntary rail debt adjustment without necessitating bank ruptcy. C. Postponement of much-debated revision of (1) farm program, (2) Wagner labor re lations act, and (3) wage-hour act. C Defeat of Townsend $200-a-month pension bill and passage of far-reaching social se curity amendments which freeze old age an nuity pay roll taxes at 1 per cent for next three years, extend coverage to 1,300,000 more people and liberalize benefit payments. «. Passage of Hatch "clean politics" bill (received coldly by White House because it eliminates much of the administration ma chine from 1940’s campaign) which pro scribes political activities of all except top- bracket federal jobholders. C Refusal to revive Florida ship canal (a White House proposal). C Continuation (over White House objection) of Dies committee on un-Americanism, which was called a "forum of disgruntled politicians.” POLITICS: Truths Open for public inspection this month are two great, pertinent po litical truths: (1) That the right kind of publicity can turn a third rater into a first-rate presidential candi date almost overnight; (2) that to day as always, public sentiment is sufficiently pliable to make room for any new face that may pop up. The con- clusions: First, that presidential campaigns are largely a matter of smart public relations work; sec ond, that 1940’s elec tion is not in the bag for any man. Cause of this excitement is Paul V. McNutt, who popped back from the Philippines two months ago, got his handsome picture in the papers, was called a “charming young man” by President Roosevelt, tl;en ended up by getting himself named federal security administrator. 'From here he may develop into the President’s crown prince. In June Candidate McNutt ranked fifth among Democratic hopefuls as tabulated by highly accurate Gallup polls. In order: Garner, 47 per cent; Farley, 16; Hull, 12; Hopkins, 5; McNutt, 3. Six weeks after his fed eral appointment, Paul McNutt had jumped to second place. Jack Gar ner, still well in the lead, suffered a mite. The standings: Garner, 46 per cent; McNutt, 13; Hull, 12, Far ley, 12; Hopkins, 3. Other political news: Ohio’s Sen. Robert Alphonso Taft, bad trailer in G. O. P. Gallup polls, became the first to toss his hat in the ring. While finding his senatorial office “interesting,” Candidate Taft mag nanimously agreed not to “run away from a harder job.” RACES: One Way Out Since last March thousands of Czecho-Slovakian Jews have fled to the U. S. on visitors’ permits, their property confiscated, their only hope lying in refuge on some distant land. Sometimes even this hope is futile. Within two days the U. S. had this problem brought shockingly to mind twice: C. In Chicago, 43-year-old Mrs. Adele Danger (wife of a Czech Jew whose $1,500,000 textile mills had been con fiscated), took quarters in a Loop hotel with her two sons, six and four. Late that night she threw her sons from the thirteenth floor window, slashed her wrists and jumped. C. In New York, German Refugee Albert Aaron, whose wife died two weeks earlier from an overdose of sleeping tablets, hung himself from his apartment door. LOUISIANA: Hot Oil Heaped atop several score other indictments facing prominent Louis- ianans was a federal charge against former Gov. Richard Leche, whose feet had heretofore been kept clear of the muck surrounding state offi cialdom. The indictment: Charging Leche, Politician Seymour Weiss and Freeman Burford, Texas oil man, with stepping up production of Rodessa oil wells and running the contraband or “hot” oil over into Texas, violating the Connally act. INTERNATIONAL: Chess Game For two months Jittery France and Britain have forecast another “cri sis” in August or September. As August was born, it indeed looked like a crisis in which Japan had be come of great nuisance value to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. What bothered Americans was that their own nation seemed being drawn into this chess game as a re sult of justified U. S. retaliation against insults in the Far East. At Italy’s Lake Como was played the key move in this game. There met Toshio Shiratori, Japanese am bassador to Rome, and Lieut. Gen. Matahiko Oshima, ambassador to Berlin. Their purpose: To perfect a military alliance binding Japan AMBASSADOR SHIRATORI He vowed hara-kiri. With Italy and Germany. If it failed, said their friends, the ambassadors had vowed to commit hara-kiri (sui cide by disembowelment). Simulta neously, at Tokyo, youngish army leaders began a drive to purge foes of the military alliance. Meanwhile there was every indi cation these three powers were do ing their best to confuse and fright en not only France, Britain and Rus sia (who opened joint military con ferences in Moscow) but also the U. S. Sharp on the heels of U. S. abrogation of the Jap .trade treaty had come anti-American and anti- British demonstrations in China. Jap airships destroyed two Yangtze riv er steamers. At Tientsin a mob de stroyed offices of the British Inter national Export corporation. With democracies’ attention shifted away from Europe for the moment, the axis exerted pressure on Spain and the Balkan states, dragging them into line should Europe become em broiled in war. While Washington tried desperate ly to remain aloof. Prime Minister Chamberlain told the house of com mons he might have to send a pow erful fleet to Asia. More interesting to Americans, however, was the pro posal of Laborite John Morgan that British and American Asiatic fleets be combined under a U. S. admiral to keep order in the Orient. Said he: “I would regard it as a first- class move.” AGRICULTURE: Barter Forgotten by surplus-ridden U. S. lard producers is the humorous situ ation several years ago when they bartered lard for German machin ery, finding themselves holding sev eral thousand musical but useless harmonicas. Today Germany still needs lard, for which she will pay 60 per cent above the present do mestic price of 5 to 5V4 cents a pound. Contrary to the state department’s reciprocal trade program is the bar ter plan producers would now insti tute. Rebuffed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, producers and German barter emissaries turned to the treasury department where Under secretary John W. Hanes agreed to a hearing. The plan, which obvious ly seeks legal circumvention of very definite foreign trade regulations, is something like this: U. S. packers, having arranged a transaction in Germany, would sell lard to an American importing firm, which would trade it to private Ger man buyers for “askimarks,” usa ble only in that country. The im porter would then purchase German products now on the U. S. free list, paying in Germany money about one-fourth what he would pay else where. Products, turned over to lard producers here, would be largely of farm nature: Machinery, cream separators and fertilizer. BRIEFLY .. . SIGNED—One-year continua tion of Russia-U. S. trade treaty under which Soviet will buy mini mum of $40,000,000 in American goods. SETTLED—(But tentatively), C. I. O.’s United Automobile Workers strike against General Motors at Detroit. FORECAST—By Chicago stat isticians, an aggregate U. S. wheat crop of 710,000,000 bushels (527,000,000 winter, and 183,000,- 000 spring), or just about enough for domestic requirements. FLOWN — By trail-blazing, ocean spanning Pan-American airways, about 3,500,000 Atlantic and Pacific miles in three months ending June 30, with 57,000 pas sengers. ORDERED—By SEC, hearing on Germany’s effort to float a $73,000,000 bond issue in the U. S. HousehoIdNeuis 15j /^amor- Care Needed In Exercising Weak Hearts ONE-PIECE MEALS WITH MACARONI (See Recipe Below) One-Piece Meals Lucky is the homemaker who has in her recipe file a series of sugges tions for “one-piece meals.” After a long, lazy afternoon at the beach, or perhaps a busy day with sugar 'nd spice, and the pre serving kettle, the meal that can be prepared and served all in one course is a life-saver. And what food can you find that lends itself as aptly to this type of meal as macaro ni and its closest of kin? These foods, including spaghetti and noo dles, as well as macaroni, are high in food en ergy and contain some building foods as well. Yet they’re light and appetizing—the kind of food that’s needed to meet the requirements of summer. Served with a green sal ad or a fruit dessert, any of these “one-piece” macaroni dishes make highly satisfactory meals. Macaroni Creole Loaf. (Serves 4-5) 2 cups codked macaroni 1 cup soft bread crumbs 2 eggs Vz teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons green pepper (chopped) % cup cheese (grated) 1% cups tomatoes % cup melted butter \Vz tablespoons prepared mustard Dash celery salt, onion salt, and white pepper Mix all ingredients in order listed. Pour into a greased baking casse role. Bake 35 minutes in a mod erate oven (350 degrees). Unmold carefully and serve. Spaghetti Ring With Asparagus and Eggs. (Serves 6) 1 Bounce package spaghetti 1 cup cooked ham (ground) Vi clove garlic (chopped) 2 tablespoons pimiento (chopped) % teaspoon salt V* teaspoon pepper 2 eggs (beaten) % cup coffee cream Filling. 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour \Vz cups milk % teaspoon salt ?4 teaspoon pepper 1 cup cooked asparagus (cut) 2 hard cooked eggs (sliced) Break spaghetti and cook until tender in 2 quarts boiling water to which 1 table spoon salt has been added. Drain and add to it the ground ham, gar lic, pimiento, salt, pepper, eggs and cream. Pour into buttered ring mold, place in shallow pan of hot water, and bake at moderate temperature (350 de grees) for about one hour. To make the filling, melt the but ter in a saucepan and add flour. Blend thoroughly and then add milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until mix ture thickens. Add seasonings and lightly stir in the asparagus. Fill center of spaghetti mold with the creamed asparagus and garnish with slices of hard cooked eggs. Baked Macaroni—Creole Style. (Serves 4-5) Vz package elbow macaroni 2 tablespoons onion (minced) 2 tablespoons butter 1 green pepper (minced) 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt % pound country style sausage V* cup soft bread crumbs (but tered) Cook macaroni in boiling, salted water until tender. Drain. Brown the onion in the butter; add green pepper and tomatoes. Add sugar and salt, and cook until the green pepper is tender. Make the sausage into small flat cakes. In a buttered casserole, place a layer of macaro ni, then a layer of sausage, and an other layer of macaroni. Pour the tomato mixture over this. Sprinkle 1 with buttered crumbs. Bake in a . moderate oven (350 degrees) for about 45 minutes. Macaroni Supreme. Cook Vi pound macaroni (broken in 3-inch lengths) in boiling salted water until tender; drain. Cut 2 thin slices smoked ham in two cross wise. Arrange strips of macaroni i on ham. Put V4 teaspoon horse- : radish on each portion and sprinkle ! with Ms cup grated cheese. Roll and tie in position. Place close to gether in shallow baking dish. Cov er with % cup milk and bake in a slow oven (325 degrees) for 25 min utes. Uncover and continue baking until ham is lightly browned. Serves 4. Scow. (Serves 6) % pound bacon (sliced) 2 onions (medium size) 1 pound round steak (ground) 1 No. 2 can tomatoes 1 8-ounce package spaghetti 1 No. 2 can whole kernel corn 3 A teaspoon salt Vt teaspoon pepper Cut bacon into small pieces and cook until crisp in a large skillet. Remove bacon bits, brown the sliced onion in the hot fat, and finally take out the onion slices and use the re maining fat for .browning the ground meat, breaking it into small bits as it cooks. Then pour in the tomatoes, and allow the mixture to simmer un til it is fairly thick. Next add the spaghetti, which has been broken into 2-inch lengths and cooked until tender in boiling salted water. Then add the can of corn, the browned onions, and crisp bacon bits, and the seasoning. Allow this mixture to simmer slowly for another half hour, covered. Hasty Noodlefest. Cook half a pound of noodles in salted water and drain. While they are cooking, heat a can of cream of mushroom soup, adding a cup of milk to it if it is the condensed kind. Add also a tablespoon of chopped onion, Vz teaspoon salt and two hard-cooked eggs, sliced. Add the drained noodles, mix well and put into a buttered casserole. Cov er the top with buttered crumbs and bake 35 minutes in a moderate ly hot oven (375 degrees). This year’s crop of peaches, pears, plums, and berries is wait ing to be transformed into rows of sparkling jellies, spicy relishes and rich marmalades. In this column next week Eleanor Howe will give you some of her favorite recipes for easy-to-make and de- licious-to-eat jams, marmalades and pickles. By DR. JAMES W. BARTON O NE of the points that was taught us as medical students was the use of exer cise in weak or failing hearts. Today the first thought in treat ing an acute heart ailment — angina, coro nary thrombo sis, high blood pressure — is absolute rest in order to give the heart a chance to re gain some of its strength or “reserve.” And because rest is the proper treatment at this time, pa tients, and sometimes physicians, are likely to indulge in or prescribe rest when what the heart really needs to gain new strength is exer cise. A popular treatment in former years was what was known as the Nauheim baths and the Schott method of “resist ive” exercise in which the patient exercises his mus cles against the re sistance of the phy sician’s or attend ant’s hands. In speaking of ex ercise in the treat- ment of chronic (not ^ recent) heart or x t,i 00( j vessel disease, Dr. Barton Dr. Louis Faugeres Bishop Jr., New York, in Archives of Physical Ther apy, X-ray, Radium, states that with bed patients, massage, breath ing exercises, and “resistive” exer cises are beneficial in that they help to force the used blood in the veins back to the heart. Gradual Exercise Increase. What is known as the Oertel meth od of exercise consists of graded walks carried out until the patient begins to feel the effects of the exer cise by very rapid breathing. Be ginning on the level, the walks are increased gradually with regard to distance and incline or steepness. For less severe cases, where the patient is up and about most of the time, Dr. Bishop suggests that as it is difficult to know exactly how much exercise the patient can take safely, he should be allowed to tell how his everyday manner of life affects him. The stair test or exercise has been much used. Some heart patients live entirely on the ground floor, but Dr. Bishop points out that if they climbed the stairs one step at a time, it might become a heart strengthening and safe exercise. The thought then is that after the heart has been rested in bed and by sitting around for some time, some form of exercise, as directed by the physician, strengthens the heart muscle and prevents patient from becoming an invalid. • • • Protection Jlsk Me Jlnother O A General Quiz 1. What is polyandry? 2. How does a whale feed it« young? ' 3. What shapes the destinies oi [ a people? 4. How does a patriotic Ameri can woman salute the flag? 5. What political figure wa» known as the “Plumed Knight”? 6. What is the most abundant metal contained in the earth? 7. What is meant by referring to a diamond as being so many carats? 8. Which is the country of origin of the word (A) candy, (B) mus lin, (C) millinery? The Answers 1. The possession by a woman of more than one husband at a time. 2. The whale, a viviparous mam mal, suckles its young. 3. Their modes of thought. 4. By placing her right hand over her heart. 5. James G. Blaine was known as th,e “Plumed Knight.” 6. Aluminum. 7. When we refer to a diamond as being so many carats, we refer to its weight. | 8. (A) Candia, old name for Crete, (B) Mosul (Iraq), (C) Mi lan ; milliners being originally sell ers of Milan goods. To the Body Easy Entertaining. In this new cook book by Eleanor Howe you’ll find over 125 practical suggestions and recipes for parties of every description. Birthday par ties, picnics, buffet suppers, and parties for the bride—for all these and many more social occasions, you’ll find unusual menus, new reci pes and practical hints for the host ess. Send 10 cents in coin to “Easy Entertaining,” Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111., and get your copy of “Easy Entertaining” now. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.! TIPS FOR HOUSEWIFE Wet knife with cold water when cutting a meringue pie. Oil of lavender sprinkled spar ingly through a bookcase will save a library from mold. Use the blower attachment of your vacuum cleaner to remove dust from your radiators. A good floor wax rubbed on win dow sills after they have been re- finished will keep them in perfect condition. Sirup left over from spiced fruits makes an excellent basting for ham. pork and veal roasts. During the flu epidemic a consult ing physician examinating the chart of a young medical officer, sick with pneumonia (following the flu) shook his head as he pointed to the num ber of white corpuscles (the disease fighters) present in the blood. As the patient was very ill it was to be expected that the number of these white corpuscles would greatly in crease from the normal number of 6,000 to 8,000 per cubic millimeter to perhaps 20,000 or 30,000, whereas there was only about 7,000. The explanation of the consul tant’s feeling that there was no hope is that while a rise to 30,000 or 40,000 would show that the illness was very serious, it would show also that the resisting ability of the body was very great in being able to provide this large number of white corpuscles. Similarly, when there is rapid but strong pulse, increased blood pres sure, and a rise in temperature, it is direct evidence that there is in fection or other trouble in the body, but just as direct evidence that the body is putting up a fight against the infection or other trouble. How Body Fights Disease. Thus Dr. F. M. Pottenger in En docrinology (science of the ductless glands—thyroid, pituitary, and oth ers) states: “It would seem to me that the conception or idea that the combination of symptoms—pain, in creased heart rate, increased blood pressure, increased number of white blood corpuscles, rise in body tem perature—which we call disease represents really the condition which the body must assume in or der to protect itself against the disease elements which are causing trouble in the body, is most reason able. With this idea—that the symp toms really show that the body is fighting the disease—we can recog nize inflammation and other re actions in the body to toxic or poison products as really a ‘pro tective’ process.” You can readily understand then why your physician is more con cerned about the strength of the henri and the general condition of the body than he is about the tem- ppvature being high or the blood pressure increased. iRrltased by Western Newspaper Union.) 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Camel is the quality ciga rette every smoker can afford. CAMELS COSTLIER TOBACCOS Rsnny for fenny your best cigarette buy!