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• WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934
BIBLE THOUGHT
* THE ANGEL S SONG
"And suddenly there was with the angel a mul
titude of the heavenly host praising God. and
saying.
Giory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men. (Luke 2:1-).14).
* * *
"I wonder why it cannot last.
Sweet Christmas day;
Must all its splendor .-oon be past.
Bright Christmas day?
Oh! if we'd love each other more
Than ever we have done before. I
I'm sure the kindliness and cheer
Would linger with us all the year."
—Christian Observer. J
RESTORE CONFIDENCE TO ALL AND
RECOVERY IS ASSURED
(By BRUCE CATTOX)
Once more the doctors have gathered
by the bedside, and this time their pre
scription seems to be that nature must be
allowed to take its course.
Specialist Leonard P. Ayres, the Cleve
land Trust Co.'s famous statistician, re
ports bluntly;
"We have Enormous shortages of goods
and buildings needing to be made up. mil
lions of idle workers eager for jobs, and
billions of unused credit seeking employ
ment.
"Always heretofore that combination
has produced, prosperity. This time the
barriers blocking the way are of our own
making. They are not natural economic
barriers, but artificial political ones. The
question is whether we as a nation have
the stamina of character to remove them."
Simultaneously, President Alfred P.
Sloan. Jr., of General Motors, remarks that
the XRA is nothing but a scheme of "pov
erty for all," and that the country is turn
ing away trom a berlief in regimentation
to a new confidence in the old pioneer vir
tues: and he continues:
"Men are becoming increasingly aware
that the strongest Instrumentality of re
vival and reconstruction is the existing
system of free enterprise."
These remarks by Messrs. Ayres and
Sloan do not stand alone. They are made
against a background of similar statements
by other industrialists and economists in
recent weeks; and they indicate pretty
clearly a widespread conviction, on the
part of business and industry that now is
the psychological moment to begin a great
revival, if only people will keep their
hands off the machinery. -
NATURE'S WAYS ARE MOST
IMPRESSIVE
(BY BRUCE CATTOX)
Dr. Allan R. Dafoe, the Ontario doctor
who brought the famous Dionne quintup
lets into the world, seems to have had an
excellent time on his vacation trip to New
York, but the marvels of the nation's
greatest city do not seem to have impressed
him overmuch.
Newspaper reporters discovered that,
while he was duly shown all the great
sights, he found it ever so much more ex
citing to talk about the five little girls who
have been his especial care for the last
few months. The miracles of Manhattan,
in fact, seem to have left him more or less
cold; he has a miracle of his own to talk
about, infinitely more impressive.
And this, after all, is quite natural. In
vention and wealth may combine to rear
some surprsiing wonders—but the mira
cles Mother Nature can achieve, when she
sets her mind to it, make these look small.
What is an Empire State building or a
skyscraper sky-line compared with five ba
bies who all arrived at once?
A clerk in a British arsenal was arrest
ed for revealing military secrets. The poor
fellow must have considered himself a mu
nitions manufacturer.
Elephants have become so numerous ii
India that they are cheaper than ever. Jr
the United States, they feel cheap because
of their Scarcity..
|° NEWSPAPERS' OPINION |
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QUESTIONS FOR THE TV A
To The Christian Science Monitor:
In your issue of November 20, the statement
is made that in the TVA "the government is sim
ply trying to utilize its yardstick, which is anothei
way of introducing old-fashioned competition
along n<-w-fashk>ned lines." The Magazine of Wal
Street in its issue of November 24, states that it
"has made persistent efforts to induce TVA t(
refute or confirm" certain statements which sure
ly have a bearing on the accuracy of the yardstick
" A representative to the TVA has replied that
no comment would be made."
These statements are to the effect that the PW.A
will give 30 per cent of the cost of distribution
»to municipalities wishing to go into the powei
business, and lend 70 per cent for longs terms a1
low interest; that the $60,000,000 which the Mus
cle Shoals plant cost the taxpayers will probably
be written down on its books to $20,000,000; that
the taxes paid by the TVA will be about one-tenth
those paid by a private company; that all who
work on the TVA can travel on the railroads at
reduced rates; that freight hauled by the railroac
pays not more than two-thirds the rate charge'!
to private companies; that all letters, bills and
advertising matter are franked out, and that the
TVA enjoys still other advantages.
If these statements are true, how is "competi
tion" to be defined, and why have not the tax
payers who will pay these subsidies a right to know
what their money is being used for? And, if false,
why should not the TVA be anxious to refute
them?—Grace H. DeFremery, Piedmont, Calif.
STILL A SORRY DEMOCRAT
Of the proposal of Thomas N. McCarter, presi
dent of the Edison Electric company, that the gov
ernment co-operate with the power industry in a
prompt testing of the constitutionality of the TWA
authority. Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the fed
eral power commission says:
"In all the history of the American government
no parallel for such a proposal can be found."
Ergo, contends the chairman, the "call is not
for the government to halt, but for the industry
to catch step and move forward in progressive
lines."
We think if President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a
reasonable man if a masterful, will look this state
ment over and reflect a bit, he may be able tc
discover why former Senator Cameron Morrison
when he was sealing his own political death war
iant said of Elder McNinch: "He is a good neigh
bor. but a mighty sorry Democrat."
Whose business could it be to co-operate in the
testing of the constitutionality of a piece of emer
gency legislation if not the government's? The
American union, if it stays p;!t for any consider
able length of time, depression or no depression,
must have something more of purpose than tht
whims of a Presbyterian elder become a power
commissioner or a hurriedly-established authority,
whether it be of valley, mountain or plain.—Th«
Greensboro News. -
LABORERS' HIRE
A table showing average salaries paid to North
Carolina's 34,000 employees for the years 1933
1935 proves most interesting—and delicate.
Compiled from figures given by W. J. Sadler i:i
a weekly magazine, "The State," the table divide?
lstate employees into 17 occupational groups, giv
ing the average salary for each group. Superior
court judges are the best paid state officials, re
ceiving an average of $8,050 a year. Closely be
hind are the justices of the state supreme court
! with $8,000 a year.
| The average college professor in the three units
| of the Greater University of North Carolina is
j paid $1,440 a year. Some 23,000 public school
teachers and administrative officers receive an av
erage of $570 each. Janitors, gardeners, and othe:
laborers receivu $012 each.
We are not attempting to point odious compari
sorts. Probably most readers can hold their noses
j without any direction or assistance.—High Poinl
Enterprise.
I •
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j "HONEST," BUT THEY GOT HIS TROUbtKS
Refusing to permit floaters at the Transien
Bureau to be fingerprinted because its patrons an
j "honest working people," Harry L. Hopkins, di
: rector of federal relief, declines through his sub
I ordinate here to co-operate with Safety Directo
! Wakefield and the Louisville police in their driv<
against crime. The Louisville subordinate maybi
didn't notice what happened to her chief, as note<
i in the following dispatch:
| Washington, Dec. 12. (UP).—Harry L. Hopkins
relief administrator, went to the Transient Bureai
today, took off bio trousers, put on overalls an<
started 011 an inspection tour. When he returnet
his trousers had disappeared.—Louisville Courier
Journal.
WHERE WILL IT STOP?
Just where, do you suppose, once that it get:
started in earnest in that direction, will the gov
ernment be satisfied to stop in its invasions int<
private enterprise?
If it is justifiable in its solicitous concern as i'
i what the folks are paying for any single com
modity, why should such concern not be felt as t<
prices they are being charged for all other good;
and commodities?
And if it goes into an entesprise itself, in orde
} to afford the same necessities at a lower price, wha
would estop it from going into all enterprises fo
the same high motif?
In that event, what do you have in the form «v
democracy.—Julian S. Miller in Charlotte Ob
f server.
We're going back to deeper snows and colde
winters, say weather experts, but we'll brag jus
the same of the good old days when we went with
out our overcoats in winter.
Huey Long may be a great grandstand quarter
back for the Louisiana State University team, bu
you'll notice he never offered to buck the lin<
1 himself.
| Japan's renunciation of the Washington nav£
treaty shouldn't worry ui if Japan builds wai
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Very Heavy During The Past Year
By LEO BARON
United Press Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2<5. (UP).
To the red anil green wreathes
that heralded the Vuletide season
along: Hollywood boulevard there
should have been added a somber
touch of black.
The symbolical color of mourn
j ing would have been appropriate
homage to Marie Dressier, Lew
Cody and the other favorites who
I died during the year.
I Death removed more than its
usual quota from the motion pic
ture world in 193!. Its toll was
exacted thrjugh accident, natural
causes and suicide. In the colony
where frayed nerves provoke fre
quent outbursts there was, albeit,
j not a single murder. Violence was
I held to an occasional one-punch
i fight, each scrupulously recorded
j as '"The Battle of the Century."
| DRESSLER'S DEATH
Greatest blow to the industry
rnd its millions of fans was th?
death of Marie Dressier. The he
loved comedienne who topped
them all as a box office attraction
succumbed to cancer but only
I after a courageous fight which as
tounded her physicians for weeks.
With her demise, Will Rogers be
came the industry's best drawing
card.
A voice that had thrillod mil
lions of radio listeners was silenc
ed by the bullet that ended the
life of Russ Colombo. T) e croon
ing troubadour, who was just get
. tin? a start in the movies, had
called at a friend's home. They
were inspecting some old firearms
when his friend tripped the trig
i ger of a supposedly empty gun.
; As this is written. Colombo'^, aged
mother believes him living. In
frail health, she was told he went
to England for picture work.
CODY'S PASSING
Cody died in his sleep. A fatal
i heart, attack seized him a few
I hours after he returned from a
! »-av party. Cody wa< one of the
' last members of that fast-disap
| pearing pro up which found life
I less conventional in Hollywood's
! "Colonial" days.
Another bon vivant of the same
! stampt was Lou Tellengen. Once
'the toast of feminine hearts. Tel
) legen was broken in health and
i spirit when he killed himself.
Dramatic to the end, he plunged
i a scissors in his breast seven
(times, inflicting a mortal wound.
DOROTHY DELL
Xo youner actress in Hollywood
1 hnd;a brighter future than Doro
| thy Dell, a New Orleans girl who
f stepped to fame by winning a
["Miss Universe" beauty contest a
| few years ago. She was headed
j toward stardom in motion pictures
when she was crushed to death
! under an automobile.
The theater has few "triple
I threat'' men. Tt lost one when
i Willard Mack, actor-playright-di
| rector died of heart attack. Bet
ter known on Broadway than to
movie audiences, Mack neverthe
less was one of Hollywood's most
gifted contributors in all three
! linas of endeavor.
I 111 health goaded George Hill,
| veteran director, to suicide. He
j w«s the former husband of Fran
• ccs Marion, well-known scenario
i writer. At the time of his death
i he was reported engaged to Lila
i I.ee. Miss Lee early this month
j was married to John R. Pine,
voting- New York polo player.
JARNEGIN'S SUICIDE
While a party war- in progress
at his home, Jerry Jarneein, soncf
| •writer, stepped into another room
: and shot himself to death. His
'actress wife, Irene Franklin, sus
1 pected foul play but police and a
coroner's jury ruled it was sui
BY RODNEY DITCHER
' SKA Sefrlft Staff ('orrwiumdcnt
I rPTASHINGTON-—Did a fair
" Nazi agent worm her way in
o White House favor under the
;tiise of an uplift worker?
There isn't any Hat answer to
I ye given to that one, but it's in
I spired by an interesting sequent-:■
>f circumstances.
A bright, attractive young
«kV0inan, brimming with sex ap
peal, did arrive here a few weeks
igo. She did interest the Mrs.
Roosevelt circle in a certain
novemont of the type which al
vays appeals to the First Lady's
» varm, enthusiastic heart.
She was sent to certain govern
, lient officials with whom she tried
: ;o promote her program.
' i Then a certain radical group
) sot onto the young woman's trail
5 ind began to ask a lot of em
)arrasstng questions about a visit
to Germany and her friendship
.vith high Nazi officials and pro
- \'azis in the United States.
• Recent reports say the ques
tions are now being asked out
f oud at public meetings at which
she sppaks.
So there's some quiet chuckling
here and the program, if it ever
had a chance of official support,
has gone blooey. Mrs. Roosevelt
' and her friends, obviously, would
L as soon sit on a red hot stove as
sponsor anyone who was working
for Herr Hitler.
« * ♦
1 I D. Whiteside wearing white spat*
} and cracking pecans to eat at a
conference. . . . Henry Doherty,
utilities magnate, in evening cape,
stepping out of his magnificent
1 automobile trailer to attend the
Gridiron 4innC1'* (Hitched ontc
a chauffeured auioir.obile, Dohertj
, has a virtual apartment <>ii whop;.
| in which ho- travels around tho
country.) "I didn't exppct that!"
he exclaimed as photographs
popped pictures of him. ''We
( didn't expect tliat, either!" yelled
. a camera man, pointing to the
trailer.
Ferdinand Pecora, securities ox*
change commissioner, her?, -there
and always surrounded by his ad
miring staff—some of whom worked
on the stock market investigation
with him. Also entering back
stage at the crime conference ant?
objecting to checking his coat
with—"After all, this is a pofico
convention, so nothing is safe."
. . . (When Attorney General
: Cnmmings entertained crime ccv.
ference delegates at tea in tl.r>
Justice Department, special
guards were assigned to watch
the silver.)
* « *
PENING day of the Senate
Office Building restaurant: A
backslapping party as Democrats,
Republicans, and Progressives met
after many months. A table of
wiry Jimmy ^yrnes . of South
Carolina, white-naired, spectacled,
stocky Couzens of Michigan, little
Adams of Colorado, and big,
curly-haired Walcott of Connecti
cut, recently defeated. ... A table
of young Nye of North Dakota—
looking tired from munitions in
vestigating—the veteran Norris
i of Nebraska, Borah—who looks
more than ever '.ike Something
between a lion and a bulldog—
and lantern-jawed O'Mahoney of
Wyoming. . . . Another table of
pudgy, red-fac°d Harry Byrd of
| Virginia, tall, massive Steiwer of
Oregon, sad-eyed "White of Maine,
aud big, lumbering Dickinson of
Iowa. . . . liven the Republicans
were sometimes caught laughing.
' M'nuvi iKlitj 1031. NIC A Service. Int.)
Weather Over
World Brings
Havoc, Death
Hundreds of Lives Snuffed
Out, Damage Incalcul
able During 1934
By JOSEPH H. GRIGG, JR.
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1934, by U. P.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—(LP).—
Torrential rains, fierce j-'ales,
fogs worse than usual and the
greatest drouth this country has
known s-ince before the American
revolution struck the British Isles
in 1934. The upheavals were
typical of world weather in the(
year just closing.
These freaks of nature turned
the people into sun worshippeis,
water savers and a nation seek
ing shelter from storms which
ripped through the islands, as
though to tear them to pieces
and throw them against the
I shores of Europe.
i The ere at est. drouth Englanl
ha< known since 1743 was re
sponsible for dried-up rivers and
reservoirs, damaged crops, parch
ed lawns and tennis courts, and
S unwashed automobiles. Between
! June and September, the rainfall
in the south of England was 40
per cent below normal, while the
mean temperature for these four
months. 63.2 degrees fnhrenheit,
has only been exceeded seven
times since 1841.
As a result of tne prolonged
hot weather, the summer of 1934
I will go down in history as the
I season when staid traffic cops
were allowed* to open their col
lars on duty, and even judges on
the bench removed their wigs. It
■ was the greatest sun-bathing sum
| mer in living memory.
Also, there was an almost un
precedented winter drouth la:>t
' ins from January 11 to Febiuaij
i 25. Another drouth set in on
! Mav 17 and lasted until June 7,
while a third followed in July.
By the middle of July, the (low
, of the River Thames near Lon
don was reduced from its normal
1000 million gallons a day to
only 270 million gallons, or less
than a third.
Drastic restrictions were placed
on the use of water throughout
Great Britain and prayers for
• rain were offered in the churches.
! The three burning, almost borte
! dry months of May, June and
July were followed by torrential
rainstorms which deluged the
country, flooding houses, rail
roads and highways iust at the
time when water restrictions were
1 imposed. August was damp and
shivery in most parts of Britain.!
much to the dis'rrunt.lement of
millions on vacation—through
the rain, even so, was not suffi
cient to ease the water shortage
: noticeably.
Desnite heavy rainfall in'Octo
ber, the flow of water in the
i Thames at the beginning of No
i vemher still was only 270 million
gallons a day, and experts pre
dicted even more drastic water
. rationing for the coming year un
less tfie present winter is one of
i the wettest on record. The re
strictions on washing automobiles
and hosing lawns were not re
moved until the beginning of Oc
tober.
The rainfall for the year was
cide.
Among the others who died
I here during the year there ware
Douglas Fairbank's sister-in-law,
Mrs. Margaret Fairbanks; Harry
A. Pollard, veteran director; Sam
Allen who spent 51 years on stage
jand screen: Isidore Bragriotti,
singing master, who pave seven
children to the entertainment
world; Suzanno Wood, veteran
British actress; and Andrew J.
Callaghan who deserted his Chi
cago law practice to fteeomc~vice
president and general manager of i
Technicolor Motion 'Pictures cor
nnration 1
Long Imprisoned
Girl Again Happi
Indianapols, in<i„ j)e<-. •>
(UP).—Helen Mack, J';, who m
til five weeks ago was hold a v:i
tual prisoner in a darkened inm
by her parents, observer! her m< i
liest Christmas yesterday a) i i
home of her grandf>arents, .Mi
and Mrs. John Miller.
Gaily wrapped gifts and a in
seled' Christmas tree* contra to
with her holiday last year wh'„
she awaited Santa vainly in
dimlv-lighted bedroom.
Helen has been living in an o
j)hanage since police released he
Judge John F. Gcckler will deeirl
January 3 on a permanent honi
for her. * -
Her father, Harry Mack,
serving a 180-dav sentence o
the state penal farm for chii
neglect. The step-mother. Mi
Ora Mack, was released with
suspended sentence.
approximately .'30 per cent bdo
normal, despite torrential ran
storms and gales experienced
tempestuous contrast to the dr
hot spells.
Only Juiy IS, one-third of a
inch of rain fell in London an
three people were killed by ligh
ning. On July 22, the caniti
was deluged with 1 1-2 inches <
rain in an hour and a quarter,
cloudburst seldom seen in Loi
don.
A gale whipping across the i
lands at 82 miles an hour o
January ](» forced shipping t
scuttle for safety. Another read
ing a velocity of 77 miles a
hour "n August 20 was the wor.
in that month for 14 years.
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