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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Old Men Still Useful
Fists and Razor Blades
■ Youngest Grandfather
Science Works Two Ways
| Even in this day of flaming youth,
mature age still has its usefulness.
The average age
Hos our Supreme
Court justices is
seventy - one
years. Twenty
six years ago
Chief Justice
Hughes took his
seat on the Su
preme Court
bench. President
Taft rendered
public service by
appointing him to
succeed Justice
Brewer.
He left the
Arthur Brisbane , _ .
bench to run for
President against Woodrow Wilson,
and would doubtless have been
elected had he not got e to California.
Had he been elected he would have
remained in the United States and
probably would have saved the coun
try ten thousand million dollars that
Woodrow Wilson shoveled out in his
ecstasy of self-approval.
Rioting in London’s “Mile End
Road,” in which the faces of men
and women were slashed with razor
blades and one man was thrown
through a shop window, etc., seems
rather “un-English,” to put it mild
ly. Fist fighting has been en
couraged by distinguished English
men, including judges, on the
ground that it is “better than using
knives.”
It is better, doubtless, but what
about the razor blades?
Germany honors its youngest
grandfather, Herman Jahnke, farm
laborer, thirty-six years old. Mar
ried at seventeen, his eldest
daughter became a mother at seven
teen.
If all you w.ant is children, that
record is satisfactory, although any
mouse family could beat it by 25,000
per cent, and almost any microbe by
a billion per cent.
If good children were desired, it
would have been better for Mr.
Jahnke to have his first child at
36, and his first grandchild at 60
or 70; at least that was Plato’s
opinion.
Justice uses science—the electric
chair, the lethal chamber—to punish
criminals. The criminal uses science
to carry on his trade. An SOS signal,
purporting to come from a yacht
in distress, drew the coast guard
away from the coast of Hawaii,
making it convenient for smugglers
of narcotics to bring in their cargo.
Tear gas, comparatively modern,
was used to empty a New York
theater where there was labor
trouble.
Japan, until recently convinced,
mistakenly, that this country is her
enemy, and for excellent reasons
keeping close watch on Russia and
her anti-Japanese Vladivostok air
plane and submarine base, now
turns suspicious attention on dear
old John Bull.
Britain is supposed to have asked
nine nations to protest against Ja
pan’s demands on China. That
should not worry Japan too much.
The same old John Bull got fifty
one nations to protest Mussolini’s
attack on Ethiopia; but, paying no
attention, the able Italian went
ahead swallowing Ethiopia; sending
the little Haile Selassie 'o live in
Switzerland.
In his villa at San Remo, the
Duke of Borea D’Olmo celebrates
his one hundred and sixth birthday
in excellent health. He has been ac
tive in Italian court circles since
1841, before the beginning of the
United States -Mexican war.
Mussolini tells 200 farmers and
industrialists to prepare for a “de
cisive conflict” that will be neces
sary “to preserve order against an
archy.”
Those that favor the “present
civilization,” he said, will have to
preserve it. “We are at the dawn
of a decisive conflict between the
representatives of older and an
archy.”
Dr. Irving Langmuir, brilliant
Nobel prize winner, announced a
“counterpartof life,” produced chem
ically; interesting, probably not im
portant. Until some professor can
produce “some counterpart of life”
able to think, manufacture tel
escopes, explore the universe and
run for office, man’s domination
will not be threatened. A cigar store
Indian is a “counterpart,” but not
an Indian.
European nations are preparing
to recognize the Spanish rebels
when they take Madrid and set up
a national government.
The idea is to take prompt action
and forestall the victorious insur
gents’ giving Spanish territory to
Italy or Germany; the Balearic is
lands to Italy for instance, to use as
naval and air bases, with Ceuta for
Germany. This would upset the bal
ance of power in the western Medit
eranean and disturb old England,
with Egypt and the Suez Canal on
her mind.
King Feature* Syndicate, Ina.
WNU Berrica.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
New “ Temporary ” Gold Standard Adopted Russia
Accused of Using Spanish War to Rouse Interna
tional Discord —Belgium Abandons Alliances.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
**T T IS a new gold standard, a
way of doing business which
has never been tried before,” was
Secretary Morgenthau’s character
ization of the agree
ment just entered
ar Wb into by the United
♦ States, Great Brit
g *Ww a * n France,
* whereby, subject to
J 24 - hours’ cancel
pfc- y; fl lation, they will ex
it . |l change gold for each
1 other’s currencies.
Financiers, econo-
H mists and business
■f men were taken by
Secretary surprise by the
Morgenthau move an d immedi
ately gave it close study. Some were
disposed to label the maneuver “po
litical expediency,” but experts gen
erally said it was a logical step in
the sequence of monetary events but
not positively in the direction of
stabilization.
The new plan, Mr. Morgenthau
said, differs from the old gold stand
ard in that it will permit the export
or earmarking of gold only to and
between governments instead of
private business institutions and
traders.
“The door is wide open,” said
Mr. Morgenthau. “We’re not going
out drumming up business, but we’ll
welcome all other countries which
want to participate.”
According to the Treasury depart
ment, the United States alone will
announce a selling price for gold.
France and England will keep their
selling prices secret, though there
wiH be a free flow of gold between
the stabilization funds of the three
nations.
It was believed that Great Britain
was the prime mover in this new
pact. As one commentator put it:
“The agreement was made neces
sary when France debased her cur
rency and placed an embargo on
gold exports, because Great Britain
suddenly discovered that nowhere in
the world was there left a fixed yard
stick against which to measure in
ternational commitments and handle
international exchange.”
SOVIET RUSSIA made a second
determined effort to aid the be
leagured government of Spain,
and sustained a second rebuff. Ivan
Maisky, Russian ambassador to
England, handed to Lord Plymouth,
British chairman of the non-inter
vention committee, a virtual ulti
matum demanding immediate con
vocation of the committee to con
sider blockading the coast of Por
tugal against arms shipments des
tined for the Spanish insurgents. It
was understood in London that Lord
Plymouth replied that if the propo
sition were seriously made, it should
be presented through diplomatic
channels to the governments con
cerned. The Russian plan was for a
blockade by English or French war
ships.
Observers in Europe are con
vinced that the Soviet government
does not expect the powers to agree
to any such blockade as is sug
gested, but is chiefly interested in
stirring up discord among the na
tions.
British Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden, after hearing of Lord Ply
mouth’s reply, made a speech at
Sheffield in which he pledged Great
Britain’s unwavering support to the
policy of nonintervention in Spain.
He declared the government was
determined to “confine that tragedy
within the boundaries of that coun
try.”
Leaders of the Fascists were re
ported to have planned a steady,
steam - roller advance on Madrid,
and this offensive was already under
way. The defenders of the capital
were hastily building fortifications
in the suburbs and surrounding the
city with trenches. In Oviedo the
dynamite - armed force of loyalist
miners was still battling with the
garrison and rebel troops sent to
the rescue were about to enter the
city.
AURICE THOREZ, French
Communist leader, made a
speech in Strasbourg that is causing
a lot of trouble. He was charged
with deliberately insulting Adolf Hit
ler, and the Berlin government en
tered formal protest. The official
Nazi organ, Der Angriff, says the
speech was an attempt to precipi
tate war between France and Ger
many, and also that it was an at
tempt “to overthrow the German
reich and to achieve the definite
bolshevization of France for the
benefit of the Soviet Communist in
ternationale.”
The French rightist newspapers
declare the Thorez incident was part
of the Russian Communist scheme
to throw France against Germany so
that Russia will not be left alone to
face “any eventual German attack.”
The rightists were even more vig
orous in their accusations when it
was learned that Maxim Litvinov,
Soviet foreign commissar, was sec
retly in Paris.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936
p IGURES made public by the
1 American Navy Department show
that since July 1 last every great
naval power except the United
States has increased the number and
tonnage of its war vessels.
In the 2Vz months from July 1 to
September 15, the United States re
duced the number of its ships from
324 vessels totaling 1,080,715 tons to
306 vessels, totaling 1,062,875 tons.
Great Britain increased ships
from 37 to 309 and tonnage from
1,224,329, to 1,232,854.
Japan increased ships from 213
to 217 and tonnage from 772,797 to
776,397.
France increased ships from 178
to 187 and tonnage from 558,452 to
571,734.
Italy increased ships from 191 to
195 and tonnage from 403,865 to 406,-
333.
Germany increased ships from
forty-nine to fifty-three and tonnage
from 113,708 to 125,458.
The British foreign office an
nounced that France and Italy had
agreed to sign that protocol of the
London naval treaty forbidding the
use of submarines except under
strict limitations.
D ELGIUM, which since the close
of the World war has been tied
tight to France by a military al
liance, has decided to drop that and
all similar alliances
ar >d t° rely for her
safety on strict neu-
F trality and a larger
i M army. King Leopold
so informed the cab-
L ' inet, tellin £ the m i n "
k ■; J| JI i sters that Ger
i ’-jwF many’s reoccupation
ft'- the Rhineland
“practically puts us
back where we were
before the great
King Leopold war >» Belgium’s
geographical position, he said
“makes it imperative for us to
maintain a military machine of such
size as to dissuade any neighbor
from using our territory to attack
another state.” The period of mili
tary service was extended from
twelve to eighteen months.
“Belgium must pursue a policy
exclusively and wholly Belgian,”
Leopold said. “In any case our en
gagements should not go beyond
keeping off war from our own ter
ritory. Belgium must remain out
side of its neighbors’ conflicts.”
“Any policy of alliance with a
single country would weaken our
position abroad. A purely defensive
alliance would not meet the case
because, however prompt the in
tervention of our ally, it would only
come after the invader’s blow,
which would be crushing.”
A UTHORITY of the national
4* maritime commission to de
clare a permanent truce in current
contract controversies is challenged
by the negotiating committee for
the Pacific coast maritime unions,
and members of those unions are
instructed to vote on a proposal for
a coast-wide waterfront strike.
The maritime commission had
peremptorily demanded that the
Pacific coast ports be kept open
while it sent an investigator to San
Francisco to discuss the conditions
which have long threatened to bring
on industrial warfare.
In telegrams to President Frank
lin Roosevelt and the commission,
the committee said the commission
had caused “great unrest” amopg
the workers through its participa
tion in negotiations between ship
owners and dock and shipboard em
ployees.
The seven unions, claiming a
membership of nearly 37,000 work
ers, are the International Long
shoremen’s association, the Ameri
can Radio Telegraphists’ associa
tion, the Marine Engineers’ Benefi
cial association, the Masters, Mates
and Pilots of America, the Sailors’
Union of the Pacific, Marine Cooks
and Stewards, and the Marine Fire
men. Oilers, Watertenders and Wip
ers’ association.
CENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH
of Idaho, whose attitude in the
Presidential campaign is a matter
of great interest to all parties, has
declared he would
confine his attention
to state matters; but J"
then, being irked by f PWH
.some criticism from |
Republicans he went
further and said he I Jk Mm
was “going after the B WMt
Republican party.”
The veteran said he
had been accused of
not being regular. jgy 7?.. Jxj
“Well, what is a ' N nZ—h
regular?” he asked. ena r
“A regular is a man with no ideas,
who waits for someone to tell him
what to do. My idea of being regular
is in doing what you believe to 1 be
right in the interests of the people
you represent.
“Let this be understood —I’m tell
ing all parties, Republican, Demo
cratic, Union—l’m going to advo
cate the things I believe in whether
they cross party lines or not.”
PESSIMISM and discontent
marked the final session of the
League of Nations assembly, the
leaders admitting that little had
been accomplished. Carlos Saave
dra Lamas of Argentina, president
of the assembly, even asked if he
might not raise the question wheth
er “civilization is on the verge of a
final breakup.”
The question of reforming the
league covenant provoked a bitter
controversy on whether nonmember
states should be consulted. Russia
was understood to be anxious par
ticularly to bar German influence
and achieved a minor triumph since
m definite action to solicit nonmem
ber co-operation was taken. A com
mittee of twenty-eight was named
to study reform proposals.
The assembly approved reports of
its economic and disarmament com
mittees. The economic report
carried a British proposal to create
a commission to study accessibility
of raw materials. The United States
and other nonmembers would be in
vited to participate. The report of
the disarmament committee ap
proved the reconvening of the world
disarmament conference an early
date.
KURT SCHUSCHNIGG, chancel
lor of Austria, is taking his place
among the European dictators. In
order to consolidate military power
in his own hands, he
decreed the dissolu
ir .•: tion of all private
1 ® armies, this being
B ' a," ■ 3B aimed especially at
F the Fascist Heim-
18 we^r headed by
I xJ v P f i nce Ernst von
i ■—Starhemberg. The
L\ Prince directed his
|k followers to obey
||k SR the edict, and Major
gm. a MB Fey, Starhemberg’s
Prince von r i V al for control of
Starhemberg. the Heimwehr,
called on the elements recogniz
ing his leadership to preserve or
der.
The chancellor’s order also affect
ed his own Catholic storm troops.
All the private troops were ordered
consolidated with the Austrian state
militia. This would increase Aus
tria’s official armed forces to about
158,000 men. The dissolution decree
met strong opposition within the
cabinet, and was voted after three
ministers had walked out.
Schuschnigg’s task now is to ao
tually disarm the private armies. If
he succeeds in doing this, his com
plete control over Austria may be
conceded. It is recalled that the
Heimwehr was ordered to disarm
in 1931, that the government seized
many weapons, and that a year
later some 40,000 Heimwehr men
appeared fully armed and uni
formed. Von Starhemberg may not
be really squelched this time, either.
It is a certainty that he has a power
ful friend in Premier Mussolini of
Italy.
A RABS of Palestine, who had
•4* been on “strike” for 175 days
in protest against unrestricted im
migration of Jews, were persuaded
by the British to call off the strike,
which had been accompanied by
great disorders and the killing of
several hundred persons. The Arab
high committee issued an appeal to
Arabs throughout the country to re
turn to work quietly, and this com
mand was obeyed generally. Sir
Arthur Wauchope, British high com
missioner, was said to have in
formed the British government that
it was now safe for the royal com
mission of investigation to begin its
work of inquiring into the grievances
of the Arabs.
According to a Hebrew newspaper
of Jerusalem, the Arabs have ar
ranged for backing by Italian Fas
cists for their aspirations. Also, the
Moslem authority administering Is
lamic church property is reported to
be prepared to sell Catholics a
Christian holy place on Mount Zion.
D ASING its conclusions on a study
•*-* covering the period from 1900
to 1935, the National Industrial Con
ference board finds that there is no
evidence to support the theory that
the burden of private debt upon
business is excessive. Statements
that private debt is “absorbing
wealth” or is showing a changed
and unfavorable relationship to
wealth, or that the depression was
precipitated by an excessive debt
burden are without factual basis, the
board reported.
Interest charges have not outrun
the capacity to pay them, according
to the board’s study, which showed
that the rates of growth of private
long - term debt and of interest
charges from 1900 to 1935 were simi
lar to those of national wealth and
national income.
Since 1930 private long term debt
has tended to decline. Only the pub
lic utilities have increased the
amount of their outstanding debt.
But the board points out that no
debt problem exists in the public
utility field as a whole and that ex
pansion of the electric light and
power utilities has been on a sound
basis, with the industry in a safe
position to meet interest charges.
The steam railroads, taken as a
whole, are neither overcapitalized
nor overburdened with debt, the
board concludes.
/~\NE of the worst typhoons in the
history of the. Philippines swept
across Luzon island, killing scores
of persons and destroying villages.
At least 310 perished and the au
thorities feared the death list would
be much larger for four hundred
were reported missing. Eighty-two
bodies were recovered from the city
of Cabanatuan alone.
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 November 1
LAW, LOVE, AND TEMPERANCE
(International Temperance Sunday)
LESSON TEXT—Romans 13:1-14.
GOLDEN TEXT—It is good neither to
eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any
thing whereby thy brother stumbleth.
Rom. 14:21.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Why We Keep Rules.
JUNIOR TOPlC—Junior Citizens.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—What Shall We Do About Drinking?
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
—Law, Love, and Temperance.
Revolution, political disorder, an
archy—these are words which char
acterize much of the world’s news
of our day. What should be our
attitude toward government? Should
a Christian participate in revolts
against government? These are
questions that stir the hearts of
men.
The Bible has an answer, and it
Is found in our lesson for today.
Let us study it with care and seek
God’s message for us and for our
nation in these utterly confusing
days.
We consider together a portion
of Paul’s epistle to the Romans in
which, having laid his superb doc
trinal foundation, he turns to a
practical application. Let us ever
remember that while right doctrine
is necessary to right living, it is
never sufficient to hold the doctrine
and fail to permit it to control our
daily walk.
Good citizenship of the true type
is the result of staunch Christian
character. Much of the weakness
in our political and social life can
be traced to the neglect of the
things of God in the home, the
school, and the church.
Paul presents the Christian as
one who has the right attitude to
ward his neighbors, and toward his
own daily walk. The Christian is
I. Politically-Intelligent and Loy
al (vv. 1-7).
Lectures on political economy are
well worth while. School children
should learn to love and honor their
country. But for real intelligent
citizenship we must have a study
of God’s Word. For all govern
mental authority is dependent on
a God-given power. No man has
any right to rule over any other
man except as God delegates that
right to him.
No “divine right of kings” is justi
fied by this passage, but clearly it
does teach that government is or
dained of God and functions by his
providence. To resist such author
ity is to resist God.
Must we always obey the govern
ment? Yes; until it commands us
to do that which is clearly contrary
to the laws of God. We do not
resist or question the authority of
any properly appointed govern
mental agency, no matter how
weak, or even wicked the agent
may be, as long as he acts as
“a minister of God . . . for good.”
Any government is better than an
archy. But no government has the
right to command any man to dis
obey God.
In our land we have a powerful
agency for the correction o( govern
mental weakness and error the
ballot box. Let every Christina use
it discreetly and in the fear of
God.
Before leaving the passage, note
that the Christian does not dodge,
“fix,” or leave unpaid the taxes
which support the government un
der whose benefits he lives and
works. There is too much dishon
esty at this point, and we need to
correct it.
11. Socially - Honest and Loving
(vv. 8-10).
“Love thy neighbor as thyself”
and there will be no social dis
honesty, strife, and ill-will. Re
member the lesson of last week on
love —I Corintians 13.
111. Personally-Clean and Spirit
ual (vv. 11-14).
The time when our redemption is
to be fully completed—that is, when
the Lord himself returns is at
hand. We therefore will not live
as those who walk in darkness, but
as children of the light, clean in
life and thought. We will “put on
the Lord Jesus Christ.”
In these days when almost every
wayside store and hundreds of thou
sands of city buildings have been
converted into drinking places far
worse than the old-time saloon,
when men’ and women are mak
ing drunken sots of themselves,
it is indeed time for Christians to
raise their voices in protest and to
act to protect the boys and girls
of America.
But above all —let us win them
to Christ, for if they “put on Christ”
they will “make no provision fc>r
the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.”
Respect for Parents
Honor your parents in your
hearts; bear them not only awe
and respect, but kindness and af
fection; love their persons, and
fear to do anything that may just
ly provoke them.—Rev. W. Crad
ock.
Good Neighbors
It is a small thing to a man
whether or not his neighbor be
merciful to him; it is life or death
to him whether or not'he be merci
ful to his neighbor.
The Mind By
Anu irijuu. LOWELL
Meter • henderson
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
The Famous Men Test
In the following test ttiere are
ten problems. In each one a
man’s name is given, followed by
the names of four professions, vo
cations or avocations. Cross out
the particular occupation or pur
suit in which the man is or was
most famous.
1. Arthur Brisbane—capitalist,
artist, editor, composer.
2. Vernon Gomez explorer,
baseball player, physician, pi
anist.
3. Benjamin N. Cardozo —reli-
gious teacher, artist, jurist,
financier.
4. Sinclair Lewis composer,
socialist, author, lawyer.
5. Nellie Melba—society leader,
circus performer, soprano, news
paper woman.
6. Franchot Tone composer,
actor, artist, lawyer.
7. Fritz Kreisler —brewer, foot
ball coach, violinist, pianist.
8. Walter Hampden—financier,
poet, inventor, actor.
9. Macdonald Smith—diplomat,
golfer, football coach, banker.
10. James Whitcomb Riley
statesman, railroad builder, poet,
pianist.
Answers
1. Editor. 6. Actor.
2. Baseball player. 7. Violinist.
3. Jurist. 8. Actor.
4. Author. 9. Golfer.
5. Soprano. 10. Poet.
Origin of Whist
The origin of whist is very ob
scure and no date is recorded on
which it was introduced into Eng
land. However, it was known to be
played in England as early as 1529.
Wrought Iron Carbonfree
Wrought iron is practically car
bonfree containing about .05 per
cent carbon, is tough, can be bent
and twisted, and is easily welded
by any process.
Factories Have Nurseries
Chinese factories employing more
than 100 married women workers
are required by law to provide nur
series where mothers may feed their
offspring.
Weight of Sand
Frye’s Civil Engineers’ handbook
gives the weight of a cubic yard of
dry sand as 2,700 pounds and that of
wet sand as 3,348 pounds.
Ball and Socket Joint
The hip joint is a ball and socket
joint between the head of the femur
and a depression in the bones which
comprise the pelvis.
Had Long Vacation
Ancient Hawaiians observed a
festival known as “makaniki” which
lasted five months, during which
nobody worked.
One of Oldest Rivers
Geologists believe the Hudson
river is one of the most ancient
rivers of the North American con
tinent.
Fluent Speakers of French
John Adams and Jefferson were
the two most fluent speakers of
French in the presidency.
Oldest Home in U. S.
The Fairbanks homestead, built, in
1636, at Dedham, Mass., is said to
be the oldest.
A Pleached Walk
Pleached walk is a walk over
which interwined branches form an
arbor.
fi
A Genuine Smile
Smile if you mean it. Otherwise
look sincere. It is more becoming.
AT LAST
A COUGH RELIEF—THAT
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druggist for double-acting FOLEY’S HONEY
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and Neuritis sufferers. A perfect Blood
Purifier. Makes thin Blood Rich and
Healthy. Builds Strength and Vigor.
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lack wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls milk of
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'leasant elimination. 20c, 35c & bOc sizes.