North Carolina Newspapers

BRISBANE THIS WEEK One Big Catch War Comes Closer More Houses Needed Would Not Eat Ladies President Roosevelt, interrupting bis Journey to attend to official business, did a lit Arthur Brisbane ue nsmng rrom a whale boat oft Port-of Spain. It wai poor Ashing, but the President did not complain; he caught some* thing worth while on election day— to catch forty-six out of a possible forty-eight Ash ia good Ashing. Europe and Asia seem to be getting a little closer to war, al though many wise ones think it still tar' oil. Germany admits willingness .to side with Japan in a fight against bolshevism. Practical Stalin, man of few words, tells Japan what he thinks of her pact with Germany by refusing to renew a treaty that per mits Japan to fish in Russian water off the coast of eastern Siberia. ■ftiat Ashing privilege is vitally important to the feeding of Japan’s surplus millions, increasing at the rate of one million new Japanese every year. Langdon Post, New York’s com missioner of housing, tells the Amer ican Federation of Labor that a great national shortage of houses exists, because there has been no building. New York City, especially, is in a bad way, according to Mr. Post; there the shortage in housing “may have tragic consequences.” That is good ne'ws for the build ing trades, and temporarily good news for landlords; they will not overbuild. As usual, politicians will seize the opportunity to raise taxes, and presently money lenders will be once more selling real estate un der foreclosures. Life is a brief game of seesaw —now up, that is prosperity; then down, that is depression. The bud get is not the only thing that needs balancing. Our neighbor, Nicaragua, well ad vanced in modern intelligence, es tablishes a military flying school, orders fighting planes from the Unit ed States, hires a first-class instruc tor. There is progress everywhere, and you realize it when you read in chapter 38 of Westermarck’s “The Origin and Development of the Mo ral Ideas": In ancient Nicaragua women were held unworthy to perform any duty in connection with the temples, and were immolated outside the temple ground of the large sanctuaries, and even their flesh was unclean food for the high priest, who accordingly ate only the flesh of males. What a Jump from a civilization in which the high priest would not eat ladies that had been slaughtered to a modern air school in which young Nicaraguan women, once ex cluded from the temples, will be al lowed to fly planes and learn how to release bombs! Schumann • He ink. a (list of die operatic etage, and a fine example to all women, is dead at seventy five. Young ladies who say “I can't have children because I must havi a career," and sometimes have neither, please observe that Mme. Schumann - Heink had a magnifi cent artistic career and many chil dren also, including two boys killed in the big war, and one on a sub marine, who survived. Winston Churchill, able English man, thinks Great Britain, France and the United States should remain "one in support of democracy," and calls die United States “a ctjlld of our blood and ideals.” This coun try is die child of many different kinds of blood and ideals. Greater New York includes the biggest Italian dty in the world, bigger than Rome or Milan; more than a million of Italian birth or descent The same New York contains two million Jews, many more than ever were in Palestine. Colombia has written a new con stitution, authorizing its govern ment, among other things, to con fiscate private property without paying the owners. Conservative citizens of Colombia call that “com munistic," which seems hardly an exaggeration.. 'i,- . _ pay increases, more bo nuses, more distribution of accu mulated surplus by big corporations. Sixty - five thousand workers in textile and shoe industries team that they are to have Christmas bonuses and better wages. female geniuses, Hurst and Agnes Rep about book writing, lys it is “peril Hurst says no. »«y an depends on the you write and the WmJwvub Trade Leaders Ask That Work Relief Be Ended TpHAT work relief as admlnis * tered by the federal gover* ment be gradually discontinued the recommendation of the board RSf ? J. W. O’Leary United States Chamber of Com merce. The board adopted a report of a committee headed by John W. O’Leary of Chicago which held that the work relief “proves in op eration to fall far short of its purposes and to create new problems.” “The committee.” saia me report, "does not propose sudden and instantaneous stoppage. Those gradual steps should be taken which are always essential when ad justments have to be made upon a considerable scale. “There is at present danger that, ceasing to have work for unem ployed persons as its function, this activity will undertake to replace some of the functions of private en terprise in advancing recovery. There can be no substitute for pri vate enterprise in the development of improved economic conditions.” These five general conclusions from its study were set forth by the committee: Experience has demonstrated the difficulty of attempting to obtain ac curate figures on unemployment through census methods. Estimates of unemployment on a national basis are necessarily inac curate and lend themselves to exag geration. Projects of work relief should not be allowed to take the place in any degree of established agencies for performance of government func tions. Projects of work relief should not ’>e permitted to compete in any de gree with private enterprise for workers, skilled or unskilled, and should be so conducted as to en courage workers to seek private employment It is evident that further advance in business activities will require the services in private enterprise of persons now on work relief at pub lic expense. Divided Court Upholds Work Insurance Law N1W YORK’S state’s unemploy ment insurance law was up held by an equally divided United States Supreme court Justice Har lan Fiske Stone being absent on account of illness and taking no part in consideration of the case. There was no formal opinion and no announcement of the lineup of the court. In the opinion of legal experts the court’s action has wide implications affecting not only state employment insurance and other social legisla tion, but also the administraUon’s social security program. C. I. O. Unions to Remain Suspended by A. F. of L. By A vote of 21,679 to 2,043 the convention of the American Federation of Labor approved the action of the executive council in suspending the ten unions that are with John L. Lewis in his Com mittee for Industrial Organization movement. However the convention accepted the advice of President Green and voted to renew the coun cil’s offer to talk peace with the rebel unions and to give the council power to caU a special federation convention and expel the rebels if peace negotiations fail. Labor Wants More Money for La Follette Inquiry WHILE it was figuring what to do in the matter of the sus pended C. I. O. unions, the Ameri can Federation of Labor in conven tion at Tampa dealt with a number of other topics. Among these was the adoption of a report a? the com mittee on legislation demanding of congress additional appropriations for the special senatorial sub-com mittee investigating violations of civil liberties. This group, headed by La Follette of Wisconsin, has confined its Investigations almost wholly to activities of employers in combating unions or in protecting their plant* against mob violence during strikes. A large part of the testimony taken haa concerned agencies which furnish professional strikebreakers or which sell arms and tear gas to industrial corpora tions. The report said: “Millions of dol lars will be available to defeat the La Follette investigation. If our re ports are as accurate as we believe them to be, then the greatest and most adroit lobby that has ever op erated in Washington is being or ganized to kill this astounding ex pose of the raising, financing and directing of private armies.” Officials of detective agencies thgt supply guards for industrial plants assert the real purpose of the La Follette investigation is to make con among easier lor John !•. Lewis' committee on industrial organiza tion to promote unionization of steel, coal, and textile workers accord ing to the industrial union plan. They said Lewis delivered several million votes to Franklin D. Roose velt last November 3 and is in a position to seek a pay off. In Washington, John J. Abt, coun sel for the La Follette subcommit tee, announced the dispatch of ques tionnaires to 700 detective agencies in all parts of the country. J. E. Davies Appointed Ambassador to Russia JOSEPH E. DAVIES, wealthy lawyer of Washington, has served the Democratic party in va rious ways for many years and has contributed liberally to its campaign funds, and now he' has been rewarded. President Roosevelt has appointed him American ambassa dor to Soviet Russia,. to succeed William C. Bullitt, who was transferred to the Paris embassy. Mr. Davies, whose wife is the former Mrs. Marjorie rost Hutton, heiress of the big Post cere al fortune, is a native of Wisconsin and practiced law in that state un til 1913, when he went to Washing ton. He was chairman of the fed eral trade commission under Presi dent Wilson in 1915-’ 16, and was taken along by Wilson as an eco nomic adviser to the Versailles con ference. Before that he had served as western manager of Wilson’s campaign and as secretary of the Democratic national committee, and he was offered in 1918 the am bassadorship to Russia, to Italy and the governorship of the Philippines. He declined, however, so he could run for the United States senate from Wisconsin. He was defeated. He was active during the recent campaign, serving on the advisory committee at Democratic headquar ters in New York. President Roosevelt signed the Davies commission before he left on Us South American cruise, but the announcement was withheld until word was received from the soviet government that Davies was per sona grata at Moscow. Spanish Rebels Recognized by Italy and Germany MUSSOLINI and Hitler threw Europe into spasms of alarm by suddenly calling into session the ministerial councils of Italy and Gen. Franco uermany and causing them to rec ognize formally the Fascist government of Gen. Francisco Franco as the legal government of war torn Spain. It was taken for granted that Austria and Hungary would fol low suit. Maj. Ra mon Fraiico, broth er of the Spanish in surgent chieftain. had been in Rome and probably informed II Duce that the general, whose attacks on Madrid were meet ing with unexpected resistance, might lose the war unless he were given active support by the nations that sympathized with his cause. Mussolini and Hitler did not immedi ately announce that they would quit the international agreement for in tervention in Spain, Great Britain and Russia were stunned by the action of the two dictators and cabinet meetings were hurriedly called. The British are determined not to be drawn into the Communist-Fascist conflict btft they believe that Italy and Ger many, especially the former, have designs in the Mediterranean that would peril Britain's seaway to the Orient and are preparing to meet any such threat. Russia’s reaction was awaited breathlessly, and the soviet government was being pro voked still further by the fact that General Franco declared a block ade of the port of Barcelona, cap ital of the almost independent prov ince of Catalonia. This move cer tainly was made to stop the landing of munitions and food from Russia destined for the Spanish loyalist forces. England, France and other nations were greatly concerned over the blockade, for the port is largely used by their shipping. The Spanish rebels have created a strongly forti fied port at Palma on the island of Mallorca that can be used as a base for bombardment of Barce lona from the sea. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons that Brit ish ships on the high seas would be protected against interference by either side in the Spanish,war. According to the loyalist govern ment, submarines, "either Italian or German." attacked Spanish gov ernment warships at the entrance to the Cartagena harbor and torpe doed the cruiser Miguel ds Cervan tes. President Warns Business to Aid Employment SAILING from Charleston aboard the e r u i a e r Indianapolis for Buenos Aires and the Pan-American peace conference. President Roose velt directed the release of a state ment in which he announced that the government will continue to spend money on a work relief pro gram until July 1, 1938 gt least It is estimated that congress will be asked to appropriate as mach as $1,900,000,000 for relief in the next session. Although he professed himself gratified at the Inroads upon unem ployment by industry, fee President commented upon the fact that pri vate business has not yet absorbed vast masses of the unemployed and that millions of persons remain on the Works Progress administration pay roll and other governmental agencies. Mr. Roosevelt declared it w a s “widely known” that many of the largest industries will not hire work ers over forty years of age. To a large extent, he charged, this policy is responsible for the relatively large number of older workers on relief. And industry must expand opportunities for the hiring of un skilled workers, he said. The mayors of the United States, in annual conference in Washington, were gratified by assurances from both Harold Ickes, head of the PWA, and Harry Hopkins, head of flie WPA, that the administration wiH not- cease its spending efforts to keep alive the emergency or ganizations intended to deal with the unemployment problem. Rex Tugwell Resigns to Join Molasses Concern REXFORD GUY TUGWELL, known as the No. 1 braintrust er, has resigned from his posts as undersecretary of agriculture and icBcvucuicui auumi* istrator and eccept e d the executive vice presidency of the American Mo lasses company, of which another brain truster, Charles W. Taussig, is presi dent, and a third, A. A. Berle, Jr., is a director. In accept ing the resignation the President wrote R. G. Tugwell to Mr. Tugwell: "Later on I fully expect to ask you to come back to render additional service.” Mr. Tugwell will serve on a special committee of 38 just appointed by the President to study the farm tenancy problem. The new reset tlement administrator is W. W, Al exander, who has been first assist John G. Winaritftvho resigned as head of the social security board to take part in the Presidential elec tion campaign, has resumed that position at the urgent request of Mr. Roosevelt and is directing the big task of enrolling the future old age pensioners. Germany and Japan Unite to Combat Communism COMPLICATING the already com plex European situation and di rectly threatening war is the alleged fact that Germany and Japan have united to fight the spread of com munism, and that their pact is ex pected to be adhered to by Italy and perhaps various central Eu ropean nations. This is of course directed mainly against soviet Rus sia, and Moscow is actively aware of the menace. It is understood that the agreement provides that Germany and Japan shall keep strong military forces in East Prus sia and Manchukuo respectively: that the two nations shall exchange military information and orders, and that in certain contingencies Germany shall supply Japan with war materials. Russia sent word to Tokio that it would not co-operate further in granting Japanese fishing conces sions until the reported Japanese German military pact was canceled. An immediate source of friction between Russia and Germany was the conviction at Novosibirsk of E. Strickling, German engineer, on charges of sabotage and plotting against the soviet regime. He- and eight other defendants were sen tenced to death and were said fu have confessed their guilt The Ger man ambassador to Moscow asked that Strickling’s execution be post poned until the embassy had time to study the evidence and file formal protest Two More Unions Join the Maritime Strike Edward f. mcgrady, assist ant secretary of labor, waS still trying to bring about a settlement of the great strike of maritime workers, but didn’t seem to be get ting along very well. Indeed, the situation was made worse by na tionwide strike caUs to the Mas ters, Mates and Pilots association and the Marine Engineers union. Federal operation of emergency ships to Alaska and Hawaii was discussed but not decided. Mme. Schumann-Heink, Great Contralto, Is Dead \yf ME. ERNESTINE SCHUMANN IVIjfUONK, one of the greatest operatic and concert contraltos of the period, died in Hollywood, to the sorrow of the nation generally and especially of the men of the A. E. F. for whom she sang through out the war. A German by birth she loved her adoDted country. This Chancing World. NEW YORK.—They say poker is dying out, its place being taken by bridge, a game played with 52 cards and frequently, as between partners, with .fully 52 times that many harsh words. I look for a revival of tit-tat toe. You can quarrel over that, too. And out on the dude-ranches, old cowhands, who once were almost rough with heifers ana caives, are Be ing schooled in dis creet love - making and other romantic exercises to qualify them for celebrating Be Good to Debu tantes week next summer. And it no longer excites national in terest when the plaintiff in a breach of promise suit, or Irvin S. Cobb even a suit lor alimony, is a man. Or at least such Is the impression which his lawyer, in addressing the, jury, would create. . • • • Soot-Laden Cities. LOS ANGELES may have its drawbacks (loud cries of “no!” from all native sons, including the foreign-bom ones), but she certain ly spoils a fellow for the clinker laden, smut-freighted atmosphere of many other cities. Take Chicago, where the weather bureau, if so inclined, frequently might report a two-inch fall of soot. Or Pittsburgh, where a chap comes home for a week looking as though he’d been cleaning out a soft-coal stove. New York is nothing to brag on, either. Leave a snow-white pup out over night and he could pass tor a Dalmatian. Yet heating engineers say that proper smoke consumers would pro duce such saving in fuel cost as to pay for themselves ip about one year. Can it be these big city folks would rather not save money, or just naturally don’t care a dern? Or possibly the citizens fear they might collapse their lungs and choke to death did they start breath ing something remotely resembling fresh air? Cruelty to Wives. * MAYBE you’ll remember — It was in all the papers — the lady who got a divorce in Chicago some time back by alleging that on the Fourth at July her husband as sailed her with firecrackers; on Thanksgiving day he threw a turkey at her, and on Christmas morning he beat her up with a Christmas tree. But assume the union had lasted until now. You can imagine the poor woman’s anguish if, through the last political campaign, her hus band had made her read all the polls taken on the election by the inspired outfits that did take polls and through that period had com pelled her to listen on the radio to the average professional broad caster on football games, especially the rapid - fire descriptionist who talks all at once and gets so excited himself that the game, in compari son, seems but a tame and com monplace affair! That would indeed be cruel sea sonal suffering for any wife. • • • Outwitting the Laundry Man. SEEING a Pullman porter pry open a car window with one of those burglars’ tools which Pullman porters carry for that purpose gave me an idea. I’m going to buy one to use on dress shirts when they come back from the laundry with the little flaps on the collar band cemented down over the back button hole. The laundries may claim it’s starch, but I know better—it’s concrete and high-grade concrete at that It acts like it and tastes like it as you may have noticed on licking same. With the aid of this happy device, I shall save my nervous system, my salivary juices, my fingernails and —if profanity be a grievous sin— probably my immortal soul as welt But I don’t suppose anything can be done about the eighteen or twenty pins with which every effi cient laundry hand pins up a dress shirt before delivering. And per haps we’d better not try—it would reduce the consumption of pins in this country by from one-half to two-thirds, and goodness knows file industrial balance is already upset IRVIN 8. COBB. WNU Service. Dye Causes Mafic Growth Dr. Joseph Sellei. chief medical director of the Hungarian State Railways, has grown plants five times their ordinary size and says that he has done it with a fertilizer he invented. It is a form of dye, diluted in water and poured over the seed, every species of plant having a different dose. Several years of experimenting have shown that not only do the plants grow to gigantic size when nourished with the fertilizer, but mature much more Quickly than mna|, -T On to Success— With It Comes Boldness in New Ideas; Our v Sphere of Friends and Activities Expands A POOR salesman may be a ** genius at gardening; an In different stenographer sometimes never suspects her own gift for cookery, for dress design, for abil ity to pick up foreign languages, By thinking candidly about your self, by being as friendly to your self as you would be to another, you can often draw up a picture of your tastes, abilities, desires and hopes which will astonish you. Take an inventory of yourself, paying special attention to the things you like but which you have little of in your daily life. Then start putting them into it. From Interest to a Specialty Often we have to begin slowly —reading, or finding courses of in struction within our means, or working out a program for our selves in solitude; but every day something can be done toward the new way of living. It can grow Foreign Words and Phrases Ab uno disce omnes. (L.) From one learn all; from a single case infer the whole. Blague. (F.) Boastful talk; an incredible story. Damnum absque injuria. (L.) Loss without legal injury. Locum tenens. (L.) One holding another’s place; a deputy, a proxy. Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. (L.) Perhaps sometime it will be pleasant to remember even these things. Enfonts perdus. (F.) A forlorn hope. Haud passibus aequis. (L.) With unequal steps. In propria persona. (L.) In one’s own person; in person. Quot homines, tot sententiae. (L.) Opinions as many as the men. "Snow" in Hollywood Snow never falls on Hollywood, yet “siow,” of a sort, bothers cameramen on outdoor sets whenever the breezes blow in gusts. This meteorological freak is due to millions of tiny wisps »f silver foil which blow off the portable deflectors. Edges of the sheets of foil are purposely not glued down, for their waving in the breeze gives a “soft ’ light on the camera subjects. from an interest into a hobby, from a hobby into a side line, from a side line into a specialty. Then comes the day when the un satisfactory work can be given up (to someone who will And it as satisfying and as absorbing as we And our own new Aeld) and suc cess is at last really and notice ably on its way to us—or we are on our way to it. Vitalizes Character Then living begins to be fun. We meet people with the same tastes, not just the chance acquaintances who come our way in an uncon genial profession. Having suc ceeded once, we begin to show a little daring; we try new ideas more boldly, and our world of friends and activities expands even more. Chances we couldn’t even imagine until we got inside our real work turn up on every hand. Best of all, even a small success has a vitalizing effect on character. That is the most interesting dis covery that success brings in its train: those who are living suc cessfully make the best friends. They are free from malice and spitefulness. They are not petty. They are full of good talk and hu mor.—Dorothea Brande in Cosmo politan. Ttakinq Powder Bacteria Attacks Unprotected Areas of Meat-Expert Explains Way to be Sure Meats Will Keep Thru Summer By S. Eugene Origin I have smoked more than two bil lion pounds of meat. On my father’s farm 30 years ago I discovered what happened to meat during S.S. COLGIN, who disco**rtd FIGARO BUiUHiUg XU LUC old smokehouse. Fine drops of moisture ap peared on the hams and sides. The smoke was “condensing” on them. This led to my discovery that smoke could be condensed, and simply “brushed on” the meat What un told hours of nacKDreamng iaDor diuaku con densed Smoke baa saved since then! Years of research, since, have re vealed what really causes meat to spoil. Note photograph “A.” This is what the eye of the microscope sees when focused on that old I enemy, green mold. Mold is t I “fungus"; technically not a bacteria, but Its action la similar. This para* site attacks the surface of the meat Photo “B” shows the cause of ran ». cldness, usually near the bone. It la a bacteria, shown here throngh the microscope’s eye. And photo “C” shows that pest called the “skipper,” which is in reality the larva of a fly. It lays its eggs on the meat, and at the first warm spell, they hatch. There is only one known way to prevent all these troubles. That is thorough smoking. Of course every one knows how uncertain the old smokehouse is. Other so-called smok ing methods, or substitutes for smok ing, are likewise risky. How can you tell whether or not the meat la luuruuguiy smoked? 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