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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1939
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE
Hitler, Duce Lay Groundwork
For Five-Power Conference
To Escape War Over Danzig
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions sre expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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EUROPE:
Another Munich?
One fear long entertained but lit
tle discussed by France and Britain
is that Danzig might simply and
peacefully declare its union with
Germany. If Poland then went to
war, she would be labeled as an
aggressor. This crafty scheme has
been brewing in Adolf Hitler’s mind
ever since it became apparent that
I German force in Danzig would be
i met by Polish-French-British force.
But originally it was Benito Mus-
1 solini’s idea, for a conflict over Dan-
, zig would enmesh Italy just as a
►; war over Sudetenland would have
|(brought similar consequences last
f, autumn. Already tired of aiding
I Germany’s aggrandizement at the
IS risk of their own necks, rank-and-
Hfile Italians were about ready to
rijunk the Rome-Berlin axis.
A more exalted statesman than
fiDer Fuehrer, II Duce sent his son-
RIBBENTROP AND CIANO
Danzig isn’t worth Italian blood.
in-law foreign minister, Count Ga-
leazzo Ciano, to confer near Salz
burg with German Foreign Minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop. The ap
parent decision, pressed by Count
Ciano and ultimately accepted by
Hitler, was that Danzig was not
worth a war. Having thus coun
seled moderation, Mussolini had
again pressed his pants and entered
once more the good graces of
France and Britain. He was now
set to repeat the history that led to
last year’s notorious Munich con
ference.
Rumors leaked out that II Duce
was loud in acclaim of the Vatican’s
sincere efforts for peace via nego
tiation. But II Duce was not so high-
minded. Laying the groundwork for
a five-power conference (Germany,
Italy, Poland, Britain, France) he
intended to settle not only the Dan
zig issue but a few others as well,
attaining his own end by winning
colonial concessions from France.
(London heard that Danzig’s League-
appointed commissioner,Dr. Karl J. Burch-
hardt, had visited Hitler in Berchtesgaden
with British authorization to transmit a
“compromise” proposal. Hitler’s counter
offer was reportedly taken back to Poland
by Dr. Burckhardt.)
While all Europe awaited an of
ficial invitation, the controlled Ber
lin press laid down a preparatory
barrage by thundering that the “Eu
ropean powder barrel may explode”
unless the Danzig issue is settled
speedily. Significant in this picture
was Russia’s position. Should Brit
ish-French military authorities drop
their Moscow conversations like a
hot biscuit when Mussolini makes
his bid, observers apeed Paris and
London would be guilty of a heinous
crime. But both democracies as
sured no such thing would happen.
AGRICULTURE:
Paper Money
Script first made news in farm
circles this summer when orange
) and blue stamps were adopted to
help dispose of surplus commodities
J ; to relief families. Successful, the
plan was next tried with non-relief-
i ers. Latest development is Secre
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace’s announcement that food script
, will soon be used on a nation-wide
basis.
• • •
AT WASHINGTON—Round-the-
world Flyer Howard Hughes ap
plied for a right to make a sub
stratosphere flight from New
York to Paris.
AT KNOXVILLE — A federal
court upheld President Roose
velt’s right to oust Dr. A. E. Mor
gan as chairman of TVA.
AT CAMPOBELLO, N. S.—
President Roosevelt announced
he would shove this year’s
Thanksgiving ahead from Novem
ber 30 to 23. Reason: To space
holidays more evenly.
AT LANGLEY FIELD, VA.—
Nine army fliers were killed in a
bombing plane crash. Same day,
at San Diego, two navy fliers
were killed.
Coming up soon is even bigger
script news. In Washington, Geor
gia’s Sen. Richard B. Russell Jr.
made known a “certificate plan” he
will introduce at the next session of
congress to solve the farm problem.
Its gist:
The secretary of agriculture would
give growers certificates covering
their allotted portion of a normal
domestic crop. For example, a cot
ton grower who got 200 pounds from
each of his 10 acres over the pre
vious five-year average, would get
certificates for that part of his 2,000
pounds which is ordinarily sold do
mestically. To purchase this cotton,
domestic buyers must also buy the
certificates, paying for them the dif
ferential between the market price
and parity price. If the parity price
were 15 cents and cotton sold at 10
cents, certificates would cost five
cents a pound.
Biggest advantage of the plan is
that it lifts the burden of parity
payments from government shoul
ders. Disadvantages: (1) It is
merely a disguise for unpopular
processing taxes, and would ulti
mately raise costs to consumers; (2)
it still leaves the export problem
unsolved.
Other farming news:
C. Revised and extended to July 31,
1940, was the wheat export subsidy
program. Under the old plan, gov
ernment-purchased wheat was sold
to exporters. New plan: Export
ers will buy wheat direct from mills
and elevators, seek a foreign mar
ket and advise the agricultural de
partment how much subsidy they
need to finance the export.
<L Corn crop estimates were placed
at 2,450,888,000 bushels, or 111,000,-
000 bushels under the previous
month’s estimate. Reason: Hot
and dry weather. Meanwhile win
ter wheat estimates rose from 547,*
767,000 bushels to 550,710,000.
BUSINESS:
What Challenge?
What congress did or did not do
to help or hurt business and labor
offers a meaty conversational me
lange this month. Reason: Con
gress’ refusal to try more pump
priming left the burden of recovery
proof on the shoulders of private
enterprise. But at the same time
congress did little (in business’
eyes) to alleviate business’ tax and
labor woes. Therefore both busi
ness and labor jumped into the na
tional political arena soon after ad
journment, one anxious to encourage
a trend, the other willing to hop the
bandwagon for whatever it was
worth.
First word came from President
Howard Coonley of the National
Association of Manufacturers, who
wrote his membership that business
should be encouraged by the “con
servative” trend in congress, but
that “further positive action” was
C. I. O.’S PHILLIP MURRAY
Had something on his mind.
needed. One positive action.
Amendment of the Wagner labor
act.
(In Washington, the LaFollette civil lib
erties committee opened its hearings by
accusing Mr. Coonley’s N. A. M. with "de
liberate" attempts to promote “organized
disregard” for the Wagner act. N. A. M.
called the report a “gross misrepresenta
tion of jaU.’’J
Next day C. I. O.’s Vice Presi
dent Phillip Murray, whose Boss
John Lewis has beer, in the public
dog house ever since he called Vice
President John Gamer an “evil old
man,” appeared on a radio network
to urge that President Roosevelt
summon business, government and
labor leaders to a national unem
ployment conference. The Murray
position: “Unemployment is Amer
ica’s No. 1 social, economic, and
political problem . . . Failure to
solve it constructively might very
well rock the foundations of our gov
ernment.”
Hesitant to tack political implica
tions on what appeared to be an
honest, labor-sponsored move
against unemployment, many busi
ness leaders nevertheless held their
tongues-in-cheek wondering what
Phillip Murray had in mind. Should
C. I. O. emerge from such a con
ference as a Great Peacemaker,
business’ drive to modify John Lew
is’ pet Wagner act would be serious
ly hamstrung.
NEWS QUIZ
How well do you read the paper?
Deduct 20 from a 100 score for every
question you miss. Anything above 60
is good.
IDAHO
OREGON
Elko
NEVADA
CALIF.
.‘ARIZ.
1. Arrow points to Carlin, Nev.
Why was it in the news?
2. Rio de Janiero was similarly
in the news the same day. Why?
3. What wealthy newspaper
publisher has been indicted for
evading income taxes?
4. What was wrong with the
heart of a baby recently born in
Manila, P. L?
5. True or false: Congress ap
propriated 513,000,000,000 for the
fiscal year 1939-40.
(Answers at bottom of column.)
POLITICS:
New Forecasts
When wallop-trading between
legislative and executive branches
characterizes a session of congress,
there is every reason to expect that
each side shall take its version of
the story to that final judge—the
People. In themselves such post
session rebuttals are merely re
hashed opinions, yet President
Roosevelt’s peculiar interest in the
1940 election will continue to make
bigger and better headlines until he
decides to seek a third term or re
tire to Hyde Park.
Worthy of note, therefore, was his
comment on signing the Ashurst bill
TEXAS’ RAYBURN
“I am for . . . John Garner.”
creating a federal court budget of
ficer. At that time he boasted that
all objectives of the 1937 court re
organization plan had been accom
plished despite the plan’s defeat as
an entity. Next day he charged con
gress’ defeat of his neutrality and
lend-spend legislation was leading
business over a precipice. On the
third day he created a sensation
by warning he would bolt the Demo
cratic party in 1940 if the conven
tion decided on “conservative . . .
or lip-service candidates” and a
“straddlebug platform.”
This served to produce 1940 fore
casts from previously silent sources.
Nebraska’s Sen. Edward R. Burke
predicted the President would or
ganize and lead a new “liberal” par
ty. He also thanked Mr. Roosevelt
for bringing about such a realign
ment, terming the present labels
“Democrat” and “Republican” as
“an offense to the intelligence of the
electorate.”
Most sensational development,
however, came from the President’s
own house leader, Texas’ Rep. Sam
Rayburn. Probably smelling a par
ty rift, he wired this reply to a
query by the Fort Worth Star-Tele
gram: “I am for that outstanding
Texan and liberal Democrat, John
N. Gamer, for the presidential nom
ination in 1940, believing that if
elected he will make ... a great
President.”
Meanwhile, North Dakota’s Re
publican Sen. Gerald Nye saw that
a Roosevelt drift toward super-lib
eralism meant that all parties must
follow suit in modified fashion. Said
he: “If the Republican party is go
ing to get anywhere in 1940 it has
got to make up its mind that its
candidate and platform are going to
have to be forward-looking and pro
gressive. Both will have to . . .
maintain and improve some of the
advances . . . established under
the New Deal.”
Another voice, that of Minnesota’s
Farmer-Laborite Sen. Ernest Lun-
deen: “If the A. F. of L. and
C. I. O. would get together they
would hold the 1940 election in the
palm of their hand. The farm vote
would swing in and they could
march right into the White House.”
News Quiz Answers
1. Twenty were killed, 60 injured when
passenger train was derailed in appar*
enl sabotage plot.
1. A Miami-Rio de Janeiro plane ex
ploded while landing in Rio harbor, kill
ing 14.
3. Moses Annenberg of Philadelphia.
4. Heart was exposed on top of chest.
5. Argumentative. Budget bureau
places actual outlay for fiscal year at
$10,472,354,914; Kentucky’s Sen. Alben
Barkley places it at less; New York’s
Rep. John Taber calls it $14,061,596,619.
Household Neurs
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HOME-CANNED FOODS ALWAYS WELCOME
(See Recipes Below)
Sugar and Spice
I’ve long believed that one reason
the art of canning and preserving
has been neglected is that many of
us have forgotten just how good
some of the home canned foods can
be. We’ve forgotten the teasing tang
of pickling spices, the mellow aroma
of rich fruit butters that used to
make the air fragrant at canning
time. Maybe we need only to-be
reminded of all this,to restore a lost
art to favor!
What pride of accomplishment
row upon row of jewel-colored jams,
jellies and mar-
l l malades can cre-
ate! And how
simple it is to
make them in toe
modern manner!
You’ll find these
tested recipes
from my own
kitchen as practical as they are de
licious. Detailed instructions are in
cluded in each recipe; you’ll find
these general suggestions helpful,
too.
For Success in Canning and
Preserving.
1. Make only a small amount of
the product at one time.
2. Follow the recipe exactly.
3. Be sure that jelly glasses, jars,
and covers are sterilized.
4. When they are to be filled with
hot food, place the hot glasses or
jars on a clean towel wrung out of
hot water.
5. Use a small, inexpensive teapot
for melting paraffin and pouring it.
It eliminates dripping wax aU over
the glasses and your work table.
6. Store jams, jellies and pre
serves in a cool, dry place.
Apple Chutney.
2 pounds sour apples
Vz pound onions (chopped)
1 pound tomatoes (chopped)
Juice 1 lemon (strained)
1 teaspoon salt
Vz teaspoon garlic salt
\Vz tablespoons ginger
Vs teaspoon red pepper
2 pounds raisins
2 cups vinegar
1 cup brown sugar
Pare, core and chop the apples.
To them add the remaining ingredi
ents. Simmer gently until tender,
then rub through a fine sieve. Seal
in sterilized jars.
Peach Conserve.
3 pounds of peaches (peeled)
2 oranges (cut in small pieces)
1 pound seedless raisins
3 pounds sugar
1 pound chopped walnuts
Scald peaches, remove skins, cut
into small pieces; discard pits.
Place in a sauce
pan with small
pieces of orange
pulp and peel,
raisins and sug
ar. Stir until sug
ar is dissolved.
Set over a slow flame and cook un
til thick, stirring occasionally. Add
the chopped walnut meats, pour con
serve at once into hot sterilized
glass jars or glasses.
Amber Jam.
(Makes 8 glasses).
3 oranges
2 lemons
4 apples
2 cups crushed pineapple
Sugar
Grate rind of one orange and one
lemon. Then peel the remaining 2
oranges and the lemon, being care
ful to remove all of the white par*
of the skin. Peel and core the ap
ples. Put all of these fruits through
the food chopper and then add the
grated orange and lemon rind, and
the pineapple.
Measure this fruit and to it add
an equal amount of sugar.
Bring slowly to the bpiling point
and cook, stirring frequently, for Vz
hour. Pour into sterilized jelly
glasses and top with paraffin.
Note: Amber J'm is delicious
when used as a cake filling or as a
topping for ice cream.
Lindbergh Relish.
2 medium heads cabbage
8 large carrots
U green peppers (or 4 red and
4 green)
12 medium sized onions
1 bunch celery
1 cup grated horseradish
Put all through food chopper. Add
Vz cup salt and let stand two hours.
Drain and mix 3 pints viiegar, 6
cups sugar, 1 tablespoon mustard
seed, 1 tablespoon celery seed. Do
not cook. Pour into sterilized jars.
Whether your cookie jar is an
old-fashioned earthen crock, or a
brightly painted tin on the pantry
shelf, it needs to be kept filled
to satisfy a hungry family. In
this column, next week, Eleanor
Howe will give you some of her fa
vorite cookie recipes—“Grand
mother’s Sugar Cookies,” and
“Butterscotch Brownies” are just
two of the delightful recipes
you’ll find here.
Blackberry Jam.
Wash and drain berries; then pick
over and remove the hulls. Take
4 cups of berries
and 2 cups of
sugar; let come
to a boil, and boil
5 minutes. Add 1
more cup sugar
and boil 5 min
utes longer. Then
add 1 more cup
sugar and boil
approximately 5
minutes more, or until the jelly
stage is reached. Then place in ster
ilized jelly glasses and seal when
cold. Makes 4 small or 3 large
tumblers.
Pickled Peaches.
1 peck small peaches
4 tablespoons whole cloves
2 quarts vinegar
6 pounds brown sugar
4 teaspoons mace
1 tablespoon stick cinnamon
(broken in small pieces)
Peel the peaches and stud with
whole cloves. Make _ syrup of vin
egar, sugar, mace and cinnamon.
Add the peaches and boil until ten
der. Pack in hot sterilized jars; cov
er with syrup and seal.
Easy to Find Answers in This Book.
How to fry fish without spattering
of fat, how to cut grapefruit or or
anges into skinless sections, a quick
method of peeling tomatoes, how to
restore over-whipped cream—sug
gestions for all of these are found in
Eleanor Howe's book “Household
Hints.” To get your copy now, send
10 cents in coin to “Household
Hints,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919
North Michigan Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois.
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Cold Shower
May Do Harm
To Individual
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
I T IS hard to understand
how the idea started that
a cold tub or shower bath
the first thing in the morning
was good for the
health, hardened
up the body and
warded off dis
ease.
As a matter
of fact, the morning cold bath
does much harm to a great
many, not because there is
anything wrong with a cold
shower and a brisk rub first thing
in the morning for a strong, hardy
individual, but because the average
individual is not strong and hardy.
The reason so many feel that
despite the discomfort and shock
the morning cold tub or shov/er bath
is helpful is that after the bath and
rub there is a “bracing” reaction
for a short time. However, one or
two hours after
wards there is a
feeling of tiredness
and depression
which they do not
know is due to the
cold bath.
Why is the morn
ing cold shower a
mistake for so
many?
When we awake
the body is really at
its lowest point of
resistance due for
the most part to the need of food or
fuel. The temperature is low, the
blood pressure low, the heart beat
slow and not as strong as at any
other time. To make the body, in
this low condition, undergo the
“shock” of a cold bath is like lick-
ing a person when he is down.
One in Four Have Resistance.
However, there is the individual
(about one in four) who, because of
inborn or acquired resistance, can
take this cold bath, have a brisk
rub, feel a good reaction without
any “let down” during the day.
An idea used by many who wish
to get the refreshing reaction to the
cold water without too much shock
to the system is to run a few inches
of hot water into the bathtub, stand
in it for a minute to let the heat
of the water strike the large blood
vessels of the ankles and then step
into the cold water shower. The
heat of the water, by adding
warmth to the blood and a little
more speed to the circulation, pre
vents the severe shock of the cold
water. A brisk rubdown stimulates
the circulation and the benefit of the
morning cold shower is felt all day.
Those who are thin, have thin
blood, or a poor circulation would
do well to avoid cold showers or tub
baths unless prescribed by their
physician.
• • •
Exercise and
Dr. Barton
The Kidneys
It has been thought and taught
that exercise was harmful to the
kidneys owing to the great amount
of wastes resulting from exercise
which the kidneys would have to
remove from the blood. Evidences
of too much work being put on the
kidneys are (a) too many red blood
corpuscles and (b) too many
“casts” (little casts or molds of sol
id matter in the shape of kidney
tubes) in the urine.
Dr. A. Naeraa in the Scandina
vian Medical Journal, Stockholm,
states that as a certain number of
red blood corpuscles and hyaline
casts (little plugs of proteid mate
rial) are found in the urine of nor
mal individuals, there is great inter
est in the various amounts of these
cells and casts. The question arises
whether physical exertion produces
an increase in the number of red
blood corpuscles and casts normal
ly present in the urine and whether
other kinds of casts besides the hya
line may appear under the same
conditions. In order to learn exact
ly what happens when exercise is
taken, Dr. Naeraa made sediment
counts on 35 specimens of urine
from 12 men who took part in a six-
day bicycle race in 1934.
Sediment Study Made.
Dr. Naeraa states that his studies
on the sediment of the urine of these
men who had indulged in this se
vere exercise for six days showed
no signs of any failure or breaking
down of the kidneys, as there was
no increase in the blood corpuscles
or hyaline casts.
The belief that exercise, by creat
ing wastes, would swamp the kid
neys with work as they removed
these wastes from the blood is un
founded, according to Dr. Naeraa’s
findings.
It is of course true that when the
heart begins to fail there is consid
erable congestion of the kidneys. It
is likewise true that severe exercise
will put too much work on a failing
heart. Thus exercise in one with a
failing heart, because of congestion
and damage already present in the
kidneys, might readily cause further
damage.
However, the average individual
need not fear that exercise is gc jig
to damage his kidneys because of
extra wastes manufactured by the
exercise.
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Jlsk Me Another
A General Quiz
The Questions
1. Here is the first line of a well-
known poem: “I could not love
thee, dear, so much.” Can you
give the second line?
2. What country is known as
“The Land of the White Ele
phant”?
3. What is the greatest depth in
the Atlantic?
The Answers
1. “Loved I not honor more.”
2. Siam is known as “The Land
of the White Elephant.”
3. Nearly 5Vi miles (28,680 feet),
north of Puerto Rico and Hispan
iola.
4. Spain.
5. An electron is smaller than
an atom.
Analgesic (paln-easlng)
action brings quick re-
Simple
I Neuralgia) ralgla and headache.
PEMETRO
Knew the Answer
“Now, who has behaved best
this week,” asked father, “and
done all that mummy said?”
“You, dad,” replied the angel
child.
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