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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Yes, a Queer World
Supply and Demand
*lf All Worked Hard
The Biggest Brain
f How Queer is our world!
Fascists, led by Sir Oswald Mos
ley of the English Blackshirts, who
think they ought
Bto change the
British govern
ment, learned
from a mob that
fascism does, not
suit England—
yet. The Black
shirts were driv
en home.
Next day,
bands of the Fas
cists invaded the
London Jewish
quarter, smash
ing windows. In
. the first d a y’ s
noting between
Fascists and the crowd that does
not want fascism, hundreds were
hurt.
England is becoming modernized.
One of her race track gambling
gangsters, murdered “American
fashion” in the course of gangster
business, was honored with a funer
al that would make Chicago or New
York stare.
-
Mussolini does not believe that
old “supply and demand” is neces
sarily omnipotent. While cutting
four per cent from the value of Ital
ian money, he forbids any increase
in prices, any rent increase for two
years. That experiment will be
watched with interest. The word
“money,” most important in the
world to many, has less real mean
ing than any other word in the dic
tionary, nobody knowing anything
about it.
A new law in Paraguay compels
every able-bodied man to work,
whether he wants to or not. Here
men that want jobs can’t get them.
There men can get jobs, but don’t
want them.
The general idea is good, but if
all able-bodied men had been com
pelled to work always the human
race would still be far back in the
dark ages. One of the greatest
Greeks said truly that bodily slav
ery was necessary, because it gave
leisure to a few, leisure made
thought possible and thought cre
ated progress.
If all men had worked hard, by
compulson, there would have been
no deliberate thinking. Slavery
would be necessary now for tne
world’s progress had not machines
taken the place of slaves.
Scientists of the Smithsonian In
stitution announce discovery by Dr.
Hrdlicka in the Aleutian islands, off
the coast of Alaska, of a skull that
once held the biggest brain on rec
ord, excepting that of the Russian
novelist Turgenieff, who had a brain
cavity of 2,030 cubic centimeters.
The biggest American brain be
longed to Daniel Webster, 2,000 cu
bic- centimeters.
But brain size and weight are
not everything. Beethoven, with a
1,750 cubic centimeter skull, will
outlive in importance Webster, the
French naturalist Cuvier, and other
“big brains.”
Adaptation to usefulness is the im
portant thing. It is said that the
eye of the eagle is twice as heavy
as the eagle’s brain.
Wine bottled in Germany here
after will have, instead of a cork,
a plug of German wood.
To help make Germany indepen
dent of the outside world, the use of
cork, that does not grow in Ger
many, is forbidden. This will save
10,000,000 marks a year, spent
abroad for cork.
German wood, according to au
thorities, is cheaper, better, resists
breakage, acid, alkali, and elimi
nates cork taste.
One question is, will the wooden
cork swell up at the lower end suf
ficiently to overcome the pressure
of gas in a champagne bottle?
At Jonesville, Va., Rev. T. Ander
son, in a demonstration of faith, al
lowed poisonous serpents to bite him
three times, assuring his congrega
tion that they could not harm him.
A copperhead moccasin snake bit
him twice on the right hand; a
rattlesnake once on the left.
Unfortunately Rev. Mr. Anderson,
member of the Holiness persuasion,
died soon afterward.
We go up and down quickly in the
United States, particularly in new
enterprises. Willian* Fox, once one
of the most energetic, successful of
moving picture men, now a bank
rupt, tells the court that in 1930 he
was worth one hundred million dol
lars; now he has only “odds and
ends,” meaning only a few hundred
thousands, here and there.
Our South American neighbor,
Nicaragua, forbids all slot ma
chines and other gambling devices
in that country. All must be de
stroyed.
Nicaragua’s government says
such machines teach children to
gamble, and their owners are para
sites of the worst kind, making a
profit of 68 cents on every dollar
© King Features Syndicate. Inc.
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Lewis Doesn’t See Peace in Federation of Labor—Russia
Resents Fascist Aid Given Spanish Rebels —•
Mormons All Off Dole.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
\I7ILLIAM GREEN, president
’’of the A, F. of L., who had just
been calling on President Roosevelt
at Hyde Park, N. ¥., told the news
papermen that the
1 prospects for peace
between the warring
factions in the fed
eration were better
? and that those par
.x • | ticipating in the con-
• V' ? troversy were be-
. V x coming “more tem-
j- 'v,......,-/ perate.” However,
JrW®’ that same evening
S A John L. Lewis, the
T * dynamic leader of
J. L. Lewis the Committee
for Industrial Organization, rather
dashed the aforesaid prospects for
peace. In Washington he laid down,
as the only basis for restoration of
peace in the ranks of organized
labor, a program consisting of these
two propositions:
1. Revocation by the executive
council of the American Federa
tion of Labor of the order sus
pending ten C. I. O. unions on
charges of insurrection.
2. Isolation of certain mass pro
duction industries which would be
organized strictly on Lewis’ “one
big union” theory.
It had been stated that David
Dubinsky, head of one of the sus
pended unions, had submitted a
compromise peace proposal, but
Lewis told the correspondents that
he knew of no change in feeling be
between the battling factions; that
he had made no move for peace and
contemplated none; that the C. I. O.
drive to unionize the steel industry
was “proceeding satisfactorily” and
that the Dubinsky proposal was
similar to the one previously offered
to and rejected by the A. F. of L.
council.
POLITICAL expediency brought
* about a strange state of affairs in
Minnesota. Fred Curtis and Patrick
J. Delaney, respectively Demo
cratic gubernatorial and senatorial
nominees, withdrew from the race
in favor of the Farmer-Labor can
didates in return for Farmer-Labor
support for the re-election of Presi
dent Roosevelt. The members of the
Democratic party throughout the
state were rather dismayed by this
action and some of the leaders pro
tested vigorously.
John E. Regan, the party’s 1934
gubernatorial candidate, issued a
statement asserting that Minnesota
Democrats had traded votes and
engineered “coalition of parties” be
fore, but “never has there been an
absolute sellout.”
Alric Anderson, St. Paul attor
ney who was the Democratic candi
date for attorney-general two years
ago, marshaled his followers into
the “Democrats-for-Nelson Club.”
Martin A. Nelson is the Republican
gubernatorial candidate.
Joseph Wolf, former national
committeeman, and Judge J. D. F.
L2eighen, state central committee
chairman, led that group of Demo
crats supporting both Farmer-Labor
candidates and President Roosevelt.
A TTACKING abuse of the frank
** ing privilege, which has been
practiced by followers of any and
all parties when they got the chance,
Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg of Mich
igan proposes that
congress pass leg- @
islation that will put j|L &
a stop to this evil,
“for the sake upon A
the one hand of the |
postal revenue and
for the sake, on the I
other, of political
fair play.” mi 1
When John G. ,
Win an t resigned Wman *
from the social security board, his
letter to the President was a strong
pro - New Deal document. It was
printed by the press bureau of the
social security board and franked
to a large mailing list, and Senator
Vandenberg asked Mr. Winant
whether he thought that was a legit
imate use of the franking privilege.
Mr. Winant replied promptly that,
lest there be any question of the
propriety of the matter, he had
paid the mailing costs. This atti
tude was warmly commended by
Senator Vandenberg, as it must be
by all good citizens.
LT ELP given the Spanish insur
“ gents by Fascist countries so
enraged soviet Russia that she gave
notice that, unless it ceased she
would free herself from any obli
gations to the agreement for neu
trality. The representatives of the 27
nations on the international com
mittee of non - intervention in the
Spanish war were about to meet in
London, and Moscow’s challenge
caused a real sensation. Moiseyvich
Kagan, soviet delegate on the com
mittee, specifically named Portugal,
Italy and Germany as the offenders
and called for an investigation. It
is believed that if Russia is not
satisfied in this matter she will send
airplanes and other war material to
the Spanish government.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936
Kagan’s communication made the
direct charges that German air
planes reached the Spanish rebels
from Germany, that poison gas
reached the rebels from Italy, and
that Portugal permitted its frontier
to be used by the rebels.
Spanish Fascists pushed their
lines so closely around Madrid that
they called on the government to
surrender the capital immediately
and thus save it from a destructive
bombardment. An airplane fleet
showered the city with circulars tell
ing the citizens that further resist
ance was useless. One of the most
threatening of General Franco’s
advances was directed at Aran
juez, whose capture would cut off
Madrid’s food supply from the Med
iterranean.
The government claimed that an
army of loyalist miners had fought
its way to the center of Oviedo
against the desperate resistance of
the rebel defenders.
Gen. Francisco Franco, chief of
the insurgents, decreed a Fascist
dictatorship and created a “junta
of state” which will govern subject
to his will. In his first statement of
policy, Franco assured workers they
would be “protected against the ills
of capitalism and that steps
would be taken to regulate favor
able working hours.”
SIX months ago the Latter
Day Saints church—otherwise
the Mormons—inaugurated a pro
gram to make every able bodied
„ me mber self-sup-
r porting by October
1| 1. In the great tab-
J| ernacle at Salt Lake
City Heber J. Grant,
president of the
\ church, told an au-
I dience of thousands
L ? a that the plan had
succeeded and that
the drive had taken
R ah the needy mem-
“T , bers off public re-
Heber J. lief The c hurch has
Grant consistently opposed
“pay without work.” In reading his
report President Grant took occa
sion to criticize the Townsend pen
sion plan and government control
of crops, and he warned the mem
bers to avoid “political entangle
ments.”
Under the church relief drive, land
was leased and the needy provided
with implements for tilling. Wom
ens groups have made clothes and
bedding. Members have contributed
the financial equivalent of two meals
monthly to a special fund.
In scattered storehouses, Mr.
Grant reported, supplies have been
laid up in generous quantities for
distribution among the needy who
helped produce them.
Under the program, the speaker
declares, “the curse of idleness
would be done away with, the evils
of a dole abolished, and independ
ence, thrift, and self-respect will be
once more established amongst our
people.”
A S THE time for the expiration of
**the Washington naval treaty
draws nearer, the utterances of Sec
retary of the Navy Swanson take on
more and more the nature of sharp
warnings to Japan not to get too
gay in the Pacific. In a press con
ference the other day he said:
“Fortifications are intended to an
swer fortifications. One menace
must be met by another menace.”
And he gave notice that the navy
should be ready to do the necessary
meeting.
About the same time the State
department was studying a proposi
tion, made to it and to Japan by
Great Britain, for an extension of
the treaty pledge of the three nations
not to build new fortifications or
naval bases in certain of their Paci
fic pbssessions. In Tokio it was
said the government might agree
to this provided certain changes
were made giving Japan “fairer”
treatment in the light of an altered
international situation.
A CCUSED of complicity in the
** plot against Dictator Stalin for
which 16 prominent Russians were
executed in August, Karl Radek,
brilliant journalist, is under arrest
and in danger of losing his life. He
disappeared just after the execu
tions of the others, but was caught
a few days ago.
In his last article, published in
the official newspaper Izvestia, Ra
dek confessed his unfaithfulness to
the Communist party, but defended
himself with a vitriolic attack on
Trotzky and claimed he had “ex
piated” his sins by foiling Trotzky’s
attempted sabotage of the Stalin re
gime.
]Z URT BJORKVALL, Swedish
aviator, made an attempt to fly
alone from New York to Stockholm.
Thirty-two hours after the start he
was picked up from the ocean about
one hundred miles off the coast of
Ireland. Supposedly he had run short
of fuel. The rescue was made by a
French trawler. The plane was bad
ly damaged and was abandoned.
T TNITED STATES DISTRICT
U JUDGE C. B. KENNEMER of
Montgomery, Ala., issued an order
halting collection in Alabama of a
one per cent payroll tax to finance
the unemployment program. The
result, it is expected, will be a clear
cut test of the validity of the New
Deal’s social security act, for law
yers had no doubt the case would
be carried to the United States Su
preme court. The order was granted
the Gulf States Steel corporation of
Gadsden, Ala., on a plea that the
unemployment insurance program,
operated in co-operation with the
federal government, violates both
state and federal constitutions.
TESSE ISADOR STRAUS, mer
chant prince and, until his resig
nation last August, American ambas
sador to France, passed away in
H. his New York home
at the age of sixty
> four. The immedi-
( ate cause of death
| was pneumonia, but
———— J Mr. Straus had been
W in ill health for some
• ti me > th i s being the
' reason for his re-
tirement from the
k ? ambassadorship.
|L W I Graduating from
, Harvard in 1893, Mr.
Jesse I. btraus gtraus began work
as a bank clerk. In 1896 he ob
tained employment with R. H. Macy
& Co., big New York department
store, and by 1919 was its presi
dent, holding that position until he
was given the Paris post by Presi
dent Roosevelt in 1933. He was a
Democrat and was a member of
the board of overseers of Harvard
and of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science. He
maintained a country estate at
Mount Kisco, N. Y., as well as a city
apartment.
FOLLOWING the example set by
" France and other countries, the
Italian cabinet voted to devalue the
lira, setting its value at approxi
mately 5.2 cents, as compared with
the latest previous figure of 7.6
cents. The cabinet also let it be
known that it would take action to
prevent rent and price increases;
and it voted a new 5 per cent capital
levy to which property owners are
obliged to subscribe to the extent
of 5 per cent of their wealth.
The gold value of the lira was
placed at 4.677 grams of gold for
each 100 lire. Gold reserves of the
Bank of Italy will be revalued on the
basis of the new lira with the surplus
to be placed at the disposition of the
treasury.
may be on the verge of
*■ a civil war between Communists
and Fascists comparable to the ter
rible conflict in Spain. In Paris
desperate fighting already has be
gun. The Reds, numbering many
thousands, and the nationalists, un
der orders from Col. Francois de la
Rocque whose Croix de Feux or
ganization was disbanded by the
government, undertook rival dem
onstrations; and the result was a
day-long series of street battles in
which hundreds were wounded. Or
der was finally restored for the
time being by a force of 12,000 re
publican guards and police.
In London, also, there wa: a big
riot in which a hundred persons
were injured. Sir Oswald Mosley’s
Black Shirts, a Fascist organiza
tion, planned a parade but Com
munists and Socialists numbering
100,000 vzere determined to prevent
it and battled with a big force of
east end police to get at their ene
mies. The authorities forbade the
parade as scheduled but the oppos
ing mobs got together in various
localities and fought desperately.
RESIDENTS of Frankfort, Ky.,
dropped work and politics for
three days and, with thousands of
guests, celebrated the sesquicenten
nial of their pretty city. A pioneer
touch was given the affair by the
arrival of many families from other
parts of Kentucky in horse-drawn
vehicles and on horseback. There
were historical parades and serv
ices, an old-fashioned burgoo feast,
and a formal banquet at which ad
dresses were delivered by Admiral
Hugh Rodman of the navy and Gov
ernor Chandler of Kentucky.
DRINCE ERNST VON STARHEM
* BERG of Austria ousted from
the Fascist Heimwehr or home
guard Maj. Emil Fey, once his
trusted lieutenant, and thereby
stirred up quite a muss in Vienna.
It was reported that Premier Mus
solini of Italy had taken a hand in
the quarrel by demanding that
Chancellor Schuschnigg give com
plete control of the heimwehr to
Von Starhemberg.
The prince declared in a public
document that Fey’s conduct at the
time of the assassination of Chancel
lor Dollfuss never was satisfactorily
explained. The major, enraged,
challenged the prince to a duel,
but dueling is illegal in Austria.
THREE complaints were filed by
the federal trade commission un
der the Robinson-Patman act, nam
ing five concerns, launching the first
move to test its powers under this
far-reaching legislation which for
bids the granting or receiving by
merchandisers of discriminatory
price discounts in interstate com
merce.
The complaints named Montgom
ery Ward and Company, Inc.;
Kraft - Phenix Cheese corpo
ration, Chicago; Shefford Cheese
company, Inc., Syracuse, N. Y.;
Bird and Son, Inc., and Bird Floor
Covering Sales corporation. East
Walpole, Mass.
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 25
CHRISTIANITY AS LOVE
LESSON TEXT—Acts 18:1-4; I Corinth
ians 13. ...
GOLDEN TEXT—And now abideth faitn.
hope, charity (love), these three; but the
greatest of these is charity (love). I cor.
13:13. „ ,
PRIMARY TOPIC—Why Paul Was Not
Afraid. . ,
JUNIOR TOPlC—Courage in the Nignt.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—What Christian Love Is and Does.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Love, the Law of Life.
Byway of Athens the apostle Paul
and his co-workers came to Cor
inth, one of the great commercial
and social centers of Greece It
was a city known for its magnifi
cent architecture and its patronage
of the fine arts, but even more
Widely known for its abandonment
to vice and wickedness. Here Paul,
the apostle of faith, demonstrated
that his faith was rooted in love,
and it was to the Christians who
were dwelling in this infamous spot
of corruption that he addressed his
supremely pure and beautiful dis
course on love.
The first portion of our lesson
finds Paul at Corinth, and provides
an introduction to the study of the
love chapter from I Corinthians by
showing from his experience that
I. Love Is a Fact, Not a Theory
(Acts 18:1-4).
The man whom we now recognize
as perhaps the greatest preacher
and teacher -of Christian truth who
ever followed the Lord Jesus Christ
‘came to Corinth.” That great and
busy city in all probability knew
nothing of his arrival and cared
nothing for his message. No one
met the distinguished messenger of
God and received him into a home
of comfort and honor.
But God had not forgotten him.
For we read that Paul “found a
certain Jew” —a convert to Christ,
and his noble wife, and “abode with
them.” Persecution had sent Aquila
to Corinth, and he was there for
Paul to find.
And the humility of loving service
expresses itself further in the fact
that the one who was to bring
Corinth the glorious message of the
gospel did so at his own cost. He
labored with his hands at the trade
which he, as every Jewish boy,
had been taught by his father.
Christianity does not ask, “What
will ye give me?” but “Hov much
can I give?”
In his first letter to the church
which grew up at Corinth we find
the enexhaustibly rich chapter in
which Paul so fittingly describes
true Christian love. It is impossible
in any short discussion of this pas
sage to make a complete study of it,
but we note
11. Four Truths About Love (I
Cor. 13:1-13).
1. Love is superior to the other
graces (vv. 1-3).
Life has many excellent gifts and
teen seek after them. How do they
compare with love? Glowing elo
quence, the far-seeing eye of the
prophet, mountain - moving faith,
Self-sacrifice —without love they all
lose their worth; in fact they are
nothing. All the attainments of men
apart from Christ are vain and
empty.
2. Love is necessary to the other
graces (vv. 4-7).
There is a sense in which love
is not so much a grace in itself
as the underlying and motivating
power, which shows in every fine
and noble expression of Christian
character. Study these verses to
see how patiently and unselfishly
love works.
3. Love is permanent; other
graces fail (vv. 8-12).
Some gifts will cease, for there
will no longer be any need for
them. They are temporary in their
value or simply a means to an
end. But love—it began with God
in eternity and will go on with
him through eternity. Why then do
we labor and seek after these other
graces so diligently and neglect the
one grace which is above them all,
for
4. Love is supreme (v. 13).
Even over those other graces
which with love will abide, namely,
faith and hope, love stands su
preme. It is the fundamental of
all fundamentals. Without it all else
is empty and futile. And let us
remember, this is not pious theory;
it is fact and to be translated into
daily life.
Hardships
Wounds and hardships provoke
our courage, and when our fortunes
are at the lowest, our wits and
minds are commonly at the best.
—Charron.
Common Sense
Common sense in one view is the
most uncommon sense. While it is
extremely rare in possession, the
recognition of it is universal. All
men feel it, though few men have
it.—H. N. Hudson.
An Odious Quality
Conceit is the most contemptible
and one of the most odious qualities
in the world. It is vanity driven
from all other shifts, and forced to
appeal to itself for admiration.—
Hazlitt.
Foreign Words
and Phrases
Bis dat qui cito dat. (L.) He
gives twice who gives quickly.
Con amore. (It.) With love;
heartily; zealously.
Dernier ressort. (F.) The last
resort.
Ein mann, ein wort. (G.) An
honest man’s word is his bond.
Festina lente. (L.) Make haste
slowly.
Ici on parle francais. (F.)
French is spoken here.
Jubilate Deo. (L.) Rejoice in
God.
Le beau mande. (F.) The
fashionable world.
Ma foi! (F.) On my faith!
Bless me!
N’importe. (F.) It does not
matter; no significance.
Ad finem. (L.) To the end.
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Dignity in Argument
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ness makes error a fault, and
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