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BRISBANE
- THIS WEEK
One Human Shipload
A Floating Microcosm
‘ Intelligent Mrs. Widener
Mrs. Astor and Dr. Carrel
l On Board the Normandie. —The
ancient writer made this admission:
There be three
things which are
too wonderful for
me, yea, four
which I know
not:
The way of an
eagle in the air;
the way of a ser
pent upon a
rock; the way of
a ship in the
midst of the sea;
and the way of a
man with a
maid.
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. . What would
that inspired
writer say of this modern ship in
the midst of the sea? The biggest
ship he ever saw could be hung
from the ceiling of the dining salon
on this boat or tucked away in a
corner of the sun deck, disturbing
no one.
A modern ocean liner, Queen
Mary, Normandie, Rex or Europa,
as it crosses the ocean indifferent
to waves and winds, is a small
world in itself, a microcosm, with
this little earth playing the role of
"Cosmos.” If this ship should sail
to some new, uninhabited island of
Utopia, it might supply everything
necessary to start a new civiliza
tion better than the one invented
by Sir Thomas More, who has been
made a saint since he wrote
“Utopia” to amuse himself and had
his head cut off for his Catholic
faith.
On board, with his friend,
George Bacon, is Myron Taylor,
head of the United States Steel com
pany, biggest industrial unit on
earth. He would supply the ma
terial for skyscrapers, ships, rail
roads and machinery, plus organ
ization.
Simon Guggenheim would tell
them how to make corporations
profitable, by “holding on.”
Various newspaper workers on
the boat would be ready to start
"the New Utopia Gazette”; Floyd
Gibbons for war correspondent, plus
members of the Edward H. Butler
family, that own the Buffalo News,
and the able Abraham Cahan,
known to more New Yorkers than
any editor in America, with one
exception. And, most important to
newspaper prosperity, the ship car
ries Mrs. George D. Widener of
Philadelphia, who has traveled up
and down in every corner of the
earth and says to your narrator:
"Mr. Brisbane, I have always
wanted to meet you, because I read
your articles every day.”
There spoke the nucleus of a high
ly intelligent reading public,
Mrs. Vincent Astor, on her way
back from a grouse moor in Scot
land, would resume her real job
of promoting deep music, finding
co-operators in the passenger list
—Madame Flagstadt, the admirable
Norwegian singer, a deep soprano
able to make Isolde more impres
sive than Wagner ever imagined
her. On board also is Arthur Bo
danzky, ready to conduct the “New
Utopia orchestra.” Mayor La-
Guardia of New York will tell you
how earnestly Mrs. Astor talks to
him about her plans for a great
musical center. But Mr. LaGuardia
will never know what shudders
would sweep from Ward Mc-
Allister’s pineal gland to his
Achilles tendon if he could hear
Mayor LaGuardia say of the young
lady in question, “That Mrs. Astor
is a nice, serious girl, thoroughly in
earnest.”
To make this list complete, P.
G. Wodehouse is on board, one
who could and should describe this
shipload of “important humanity”
going nowhere in particular, for no
reason in particular, some in the
steerage, some “tourist” and some,
with cabins on the sundeck, whose
names break up passenger list con
tinuity to make room for the magic
words “maid, valet and chauf
feur.”
The contest between modern ships
for the “Atlantic blue ribbon,” or
ocean championship, held at this
moment by the British Queen Mary,
supplies most amazing proof of mod
ern engineering efficiency. Consider
that, in a race icross 3 000 miles of
water, the Queen Mary, after being
beaten several times by the French
liner N. rmandie, beat the latter
and took the Atlantic blue ribbon
by a margin of less than half a
mile, across 3,000 miles of ocean.
The oftener you cross, the more
clearly you realize that the ocean
is a great deal too big for our
small planet. It is all one ocean—
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic,
all touching—water covering three
quarters of the earth’s surface.
Consider the Pacific; take your
world map, Mercator’s projection,
fold it over from Asia toward New
York and beyond. It will cover
the United States, the Atlantic ocean
and ail Europe to the Bosporus.
© King Features Syndicate, lac.
WNU Service.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Bleakley and Lehman to Fight for New York Governorship
—Communist Candidate Browder Jailed in Terre
Haute —France Devalues the Franc.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
O EPUBLICANS and Democrats
of New York state met in con
vention at Albany and Syracuse re
spectively, selected their state tick-
ets and started on a
hot campaign. The
Republicans entered
the fight under a
new leader for they
named William F.
Bleakley of
Yonkers, supreme
court justice, for
the governorship.
The fifty-two-year
old jurist prepared
to resign from the
bench and take
command at once.
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William F.
Bleakley
Col. Ralph K. Robertson of Buf
falo was nominated for lieutenant
governor, Nathan D. Perlman of
New York city for attorney general
and John A. May, Gloversville, for
comptroller..
The convention at its evening ses
sion heard Col. Frank Knox, Re
publican vice presidential candi
date, in a strong attack or. the New
Deal.
The Democrats re-nominated Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman, and his can
didacy was warmly espoused by
President Roosevelt, who went to
Syracuse to deliver his first speech
as an avowed candidate. The Pres
ident took occasion to deny again
that he seeks Communist support
and alleged that issue was a “red
herring” dragged across the trail
by his opponents.
FRANK KNOX, President Roose
velt and Al Smith, all on the
air the same evening, provided a
political feast for radio listeners.
Colonel Knox, speaking at Pitts
burgh, reiterated and substantiated
his former assertion that New Deal
financial policies were imperilling
savings accounts and insurance pol
icies. Mr. Roosevelt, not so elo
quent as usual, defended the spend
ing policies of his administration.
He, too, spoke at Pittsburgh. The
high spot of the evening came at
the close of Al Smith’s address to
a women’s organization in New
York city. He had been treating of
the New Deal and its leaders with
biting sarcasm and wound up with
the dramatic declaration:
"I firmly believe that the remedy
for all the ills that we are suffer
ing from today is the election of
Alfred M. Landon.”
Whereupon arose a shout that lit
erally echoed throughout the land.
EARL BROWDER, Communist
party nominee for the Presi
dency, achieved the distinction of
being the first Presidential candi
date to be jailed since Eugene V.
Debs was incarcerated during the
World war. Browder was scheduled
to make a campaign address over
the radio from Terre Haute, Ind.,
but when he arrived in that city
he was nabbed by Chief of Police
James C. Yates and put in the
hoosegow on charges of vagrancy
and “for investigation.” Held with
him were Seymour Walden and Wal
do Frank, both of New York City;
Charles Stadtfeldt, secretary of the
Indiana Communist party, and An
drew Remes of Indianapolis. All
were released the next day.
Chief Yates, who had the back
ing of Mayor Samuel O. Beecher
and the Terre Haute Merchants’ as
sociation, said neither Browder “nor
any other Communist” would be
permitted to air their party doc
trines over the local radio station;
but David J. Bentall of Chicago,
Browder’s attorney, slipped into the
broadcasting booth and delivered
the speech his principal had pre
pared while Yates fumed outside
the locked door.
TUST as the maritime unions on
Pacific coast were about to
gw on a strike that would have tied
up the great shipping industry, the
trouble was averted by the signing
of a nfteen-day truce between the
employers and the workers and the
nominal extension for sixty cays of
working contracts negotiated after
the strike of 1934.
The truce provides that maritime
unions at the expiration of the pe
riod, October 15, would either agree
to arbitration of issues involving
wages and hours which are not set
tled, or relations with employers
would be broken completely.
The negotiations, handled princi
pally by the Department of Labor’s
ace trouble-shooter, Edward F. Mc-
Grady, will continue during the fif
teen-day period of peace.
TN WHAT was said by court at
* taches to be the first important
ruling anywhere on numerous suits
filed by packing companies and
others against government collec
tion of the “windfall” tax, Judge
Robert C. Baltzell of the United
States district court at Indianapolis,
overruled the government's motion
to dismiss a suit for an injunction
filed by Kingan and Company, meat
packers.
The c ompany seeks to enjoin fed
eral government officials from col-
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936
lecting a $2,500,000 “windfall” tax,
levied in the revenue act of 1936, to
recover processing taxes previously
assessed under the AAA but later
ruled invalid by the supreme court.
Judge Baltzell saidjthat he found
various “unusual circumstances”
creating a doubt as to the possibility
of the packing company’s having
adequate remedy at law in some
other court. Because of this, he
said, it is imperative for his court
to g’-ant the packing company the
right to sue in federal court. The
decision is said to be directing but
not controlling in other similar
cases in the district.
Dismissal of the injunction suit
was sought by the government on
the ground there is no authority in
law for restraining collection of a
tax.
A PPEALS filed by the national
labor relations board offer the
Supreme court five new opportuni
ties to pass on the constitutionality
of the Wagner labor relations court.
The board asked the high tribunal
to review rulings ini a case involv
ing the Jones & Laughlin Steel cor
poration of Pittsburgh, two involv
ing the Freuhauf Trailer company
of Canton, Ohio, and two affecting
the Friedman-Harry Marks Cloth
ing company, New York. The labor
relations board lost all five cases
in lower courts.
E'RANCE at last came to the con
-1 elusion that it could no longer
support the franc and Premier Leon
Blum’s government decided to
abandon the gold
standard and de
valuate the franc to
between 4Vz and 5
cents. The Nether
lands, Latvia and
Switzerland immedi
ately determined to
follow suit. To save
the world from a
currency war, the
United States, Great
Britain and France
entered into a “gen-
tlemen's agreement." The exact
nature of this agreement was not
revealed, but the United States
promised to employ its $2,000,000,-
000 stabilization fund to head off
the feared struggle. Certain it is
that each of the three nations re
serves the right to depart from the
pact if and when its own interests
require such a course. An expected
outcome of tne now general drop
ping of the gold standard may be an
international conference for stabili
zation of world currencies. This
might be held in Washington.
Blum called a special session
of the French parliament to pass
the necessary legislation, and his
plan was given grudging approval
by the finance committee of the
chamber of deputies. Its adoption
by the chamber, where the “pop
ular front” has a big majority, was
easy, but a fight developed in the
senate.
The dangerous political situation
ended when the senate passed a
substitute measure to revalue the
French currency but denied the gov
ernment’s original request for full
power to control price rises. The
government approved the substitute
bill, withdrawing its opposition to
senate objections to particular
clauses in the original measure.
The price - fixing problem was
solved in this way: After devalua
tion, the government may be given
the right to control prices for six
months by issuing decrees. These
decrees, however, must be sub
mitted to the national economic
council for ratification.
From the Chicago Journal of
Commerce is taken this plain state
ment as to what France’s action
means to the ordinary American
citizen:
“Reducing the amount of gold
represented by one franc will mean
that the average American will be
able to travel cheaper in France
than for the last two years. French
wines should be cheaper in this
country and* women should be able
to buy French perfume for less.
That should be true of nearly every
thing else that France exports to
the United States—unless this coun
try hikes the tariff on French ex
ports or French prices boom out of
proportion to devaluation. Indirect
ly, franc devaluation may keep
Americans from war as the act may
be a wedge for currency stabiliza
tion the world over and more broth
erly relations between all nations.
But don’t lose any sleep over if un
less you are getting an income from
someone in France. In that case,
since it will take more francs to buy
dollars, your income will be cut. Ev
eryone should have an interest
in developing sound foreign trade
and if franc devaluation starts the
ball rolling in the right direction
the eventual hope for development
is free foreign exchange move
ments. It’s necessary for one coun
try’s money to be negotiable in all
capitals of the world if trade is to
flow freely. That’s the big goal.”
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★**By VIRGINIA VALE***
CAROLE LOMBARD is a
happy girl these days. When
Alice Marble defeated Helen
Jacobs at Forest Hilß, N. Y., and
became our national tennis cham
pion, everybody wanted the racket
with which she won. She was del
uged with telegrams asking for it.
But Carole’s telegram arrived
first, and Carole is an old friend—
so she got the racket. And as all
Hollywood is tennis-mad, (as well
as polo-mad and football-mad) that
was something to cheer about.
Incidentally Alice Marble, who is
very pretty, was asked if she’d like
to go into pictures. She said she
wouldn’t.
—k—
Well, Joan Blondell and Dick
Powell finally got married; had
A. 1
Joan Blondell
Joan and Dick are among the most
popular stars of Hollywood.
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That first broadcast of Major
Bowes’ for his new sponsors was
very much a society affair, with
men in formal evening attire and
women in low-cut gowns crowding
in to hear and see it, and police
men holding back the uninvited.
—k—
“ Hollywood Boulevard” is a pic
ture that all you old-timers certain
ly ought to see. John Halliday,
Betty Compson, Esther Ralston,
Mae Marsh, Charles Ray, Francis
X. Bushman—they’re all in it, and
so are others who made movie his
tory in the silent days.
The picture is interesting, too, be
cause of the very good plot, in
volving pretty Marsha Hunt, who
looks very much like the Gish girls
in their early days.
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If you have listened to the “Myrt
and Marge” programs on the air
you’ve heard a chap named Vinton
Haworth, who’s about to burst into
fame and glory on the motion pic
ture screen.
Some booking agents heard him
on the air and got him a screen
test. Then, as frequently happens,
nothing happened for months. Final
ly Cliff Reid, who is producing “The
Plough and the Stars” for RKO saw
the test. He was casting “Without
Orders”, an aviation story, and took
a terrific chance by casting Ha
worth as the second male lead.
Bob Armstrong was playing the
first lead; the girl was Sally Eilers.
And—-Mr. Haworth stole the pic
ture!
—k—
Mary Carlisle has come along fast
since she was just one more of the
pretty, blonde girls of whom Holly
wood was so full two years ago.
They had pretty figures, they were
cute—but it was hard, sometimes,
to tell them apart.
But see Mary in “Lady, Be Care
ful” with Lew Ayres, Buster Crabbe,
ind some other awfully good young
ictors, and you’ll realize that she
das developed into a fine young
leading woman. It’s a riotously fun
ny picture, made from the success
ful play, “Sailor Beware.”
—k—
Leslie Howard has made no secret
of the fact that he didn’t want to
go on making pic-
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Leon Blum
Leslie Howard
Hollywood, and Hugh Walpole, the
novelist, are associated with him in
the company, which has been
formed in London.
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ODDS AND ENDS . . . Hollywood is
still shocked by Irving Thalberg's death
. . . George Brent is planning now to go
to London for the coronation next spring
. . . There’s a dearth of young leading
men in Hollywood . . . “Give Me Your
Heart,” Kay Francis’ newest picture, is
one of her best, and once again she
proves her ability to wear lovely clothes
better than most of the girls in Holly
wood do . . . Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson
celebrated their eighth wedding anni
versary the other day . . . Paramount
pays George Raft as much money as
Metro pays Clark Gable . . . Frank Mor
gan’s mother, one of the country’s most
successful business women, died recently
at the age of eighty-four . . . “Sing, Baby,
Sing” is breaking records and making a
reputation as one of the year’s funnies
pictures.
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the ceremony per
formed on the ship
on which they were
sailing through the
Panama canal and
on to New York for
a very gay honey
moon. They were
lucky to have three
whole weeks be
tween pictures; as
it was, Dick had to
plan for a broadcast
the minute they
landed tn New York.
tures in Hollywood.
About to do “Ham
let” on the stage in
New York, at last,
he has also let it be
announced that he
is one of the organ
izers of a new mo
tion picture compa
ny, called Associat
ed Artists. Dudley
Murphy, who has
had some experi
ence as a director in
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for October 18
THE SPOKEN AND THE
WRITTEN WORD
LESSON TEXT—Acts 17:1, 5-11: I Thes
salonians 2:7-12.
GOLDEN TEXT—The Word of God is
quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword. Heb. 4:12.
PRIMARY TOPIC—When People Read
the Bible.
JUNIOR TOPIC—The Power of Jesus’
Name.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—How May I Win Others to Christ?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Evangelism and the Bible.
The persecution at Philippi served
not to discourage Paul and Silas,
but rather to send them forward
into new territory with the gospel
message. Passing through two
cities they came to Thessalonica,
then as now a city of considerable
importance. After a successful
though stormy ministry there they
journeyed forty miles to Berea,
where the Word was gladly received.
The portion of our lesson from
the Book of Acts relates how the
Word was preached and received
in these two cities, and the excerpt
from the letter which Paul later
wrote to the Thessalonian church
shows what manner of life the
preacher sought to live among
them.
I. Preaching the Word (Acts 17; 1,
5-8).
Paul’s experience at Thessalonica
presents an excellent illustration of
1. How the Word should be
preached (vv. 1, 5-8).
This section is incomplete with
out verses 2-4, which are omitted
from the printed portion but should
be included in the study of the
lesson. Notice four things concern
ing his preaching.
a. The place (v. 1). Paul went
to the synagogue, not by chance
or because it was a great religious
holiday, but because it was his
"custom.” The synagogue was the
center of Jewish worship, and there
Paul met those who were ready to
receive the Word of God.
Some Christians are content to
remain comfortably in church and
forget to go out into the highways
and hedges, but there are others
who have become so accustomed
to going elsewhere that they neglect
the opportunity for spiritual min
istry in the church.
b. The method (vv. 2-3). “Rea
soning from the Scriptures.” No
better method has ever been de
vised. It is God’s method. Let
us get back to exposition of the
Scriptures—“opening” them to men
and women, “alleging,” or setting
out in order the truth.
c. The subject (v. 3). He
preached three fundamental doc
trines—the atonement, the resurrec
tion, and the deity of Christ. Scrip
ture preaching will be doctrinal.
d. The result (vv. 4-8). Faithful
preaching of God’s Word brings one
of two results in the hearts of men
—they are either “persuaded” and
converted, or they become angry
and persecute. Those who rightly
received the truth were glad to join
with Paul; the others raised a hue
and cry because Paul and Silas
were turning “the world upside
down.” As a matter of fact the
world was already wrongside up,
and Paul sought to set it right.
It is still upside down in our day.
Coming to Berea, we find Paul’s
experience there an illustration of
2. How the Word should be re
ceived (vv. 9-11).
Good hearers are as important
as good preachers. How should the
Word be received?
a. With readiness of mind (v.
11). This is a mark of nobility.
The world regards the sophisticated
doubter as the learned man, but
he is not. Noble is the mind and
heart that receives God’s truth.
b. Carefully and thoughtfully (v.
11). There would be less error and
folly in the pulpit if there were
more intelligent Bible study in the
pew. Do not assume that what
some learned professor, or distin
guished radio preacher says is true.
Check his message by the Word.
In the final portion of our lesson
Paul tells the Thessalonians that
when he was with them he was
concerned not only about preaching
the Word, but also about
11. Living the Life (I Thess. 2:7-12).
Paul did not contradict his
preaching by his living. His was a
1. Sacrificial service (vv. 7-9).
The man who preaches for his
own glory—or gain—is not a true
preacher of the gospel.
2. Consistent example (w.
10-12).
The minister of Christ must be
have “holily, righteously, and un
blamably” if his people are to “walk
worthy of God.”
Our Place in the World
Whatever the place allotted to us
by Providence, that for us is the
post of honor and duty. God esti
mates us not by the position we
are in, but by the way in which we
fill it.—Tyron Edwards.
Getting Rid of Misery
Half the misery of human life
might be extinguished, would men
aleviate the general curse they lie
under, by mutual offices of com
passion, benevolence, and human
ity.—Addison.
Greeley Wished to
Share With Others
When Horace Greeley was in
Greencastle, Pa., to deliver a lec
ture, F. M. Ritezel, a Warren,
Ohio., editor, went over to ask
him if he would also address a
gathering in Warren while he
was in this region.
The two men were walking
along the street in Greencastle,
Ritezel urging him to come to
Warren and Greeley eating a
peach. When the immortal editor
finished the peach he threw the
stone carefully into a field so that
it might take root and develop
into a tree. As he did he said:
“There, somebody may have the
good of it.”
Reason Enough
Man is the only animal that
blushes. The other animals don’t
need to.
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Kith and kin meant country
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ances or friends and (or) kindred;
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