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BRISBANE
t THIS WEEK.
One Big Catch
War Comes Closer
More Houses Needed
Would Not Eat Ladies
President Roosevelt, interrupting
his journey to attend to official
business, did a lit-
Btle fishing from a
whale boat off
Port-of-Spain. It
was poor fishing,
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 fish is
good fishing.
Europe and
Asia seem to be
.. getting a little
closer to war, al
though many wise ones think it still
far off.
Germany admits willingness t o
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 waters
off the coast of eastern Siberia.
That fishing 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 news 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 progresss everywhere,
and you realize it when you read in
chapter 26 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 - Heink, artist of the
■operatic stage, and a fine example
to all women, is dead at seventy
five.
Young ladies who say “I can’t
have children because I must have
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 the United States “a child
of our blood and ideals.” This coun
try is the child of many different
kinds of blood and ideals. Greater
New York includes the biggest
Italian city 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.
More pay increases, more bo
nuses, more distribution of accu
mulated surplus by big corporations.
Sixty - five thousand workers in
textile and shoe industries learn
that they are to have (Christmas
nonuses and better wages.
Two young female geriuses.
Misses Fanny Hurst and Agnes Rep
plier, disagree about book writing
Agnes Repplier says it is “peril
ously easy”; Fanny Hurst says no,
it is hard.
Publishers say all depends on the
rind of books you write and the
brain you have.
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WNU Service.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Drouth Commission Gets Data for Program—Britain
Moves to Protect Her Shipping From Spanish
Fascists —German-Russian Break Threatened.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
CHAIRMAN MORRIS L. COOKE
and other members of the fed
eral great plains drouth commis
sion are holding a series of meet
_. ings in the drouth
blighted states for
the purpose of for
mulating a relief
PwSßh an< t control pro
k V H S ram an d are
I f • ing in the farmers
£ to consult with
I MMjp them. At the first
of these sessions, in
Bismarck, N. D., of
ficials and agricul
n turists of Montana,
M. L. vooke Wyoming, Nebraska
and North and South Dakota heard
O. W. Roberts, federal meteorolo
gist, give the encouraging promise
that “greater than normal precipi
tation is anticipated in those states
next spring on the basis of light
precipitation this fall.”
Reports of existing conditions,
however, showed that the situation
is serious. Gov. Walter Welford, of
North Dakota, told the conference
that water levels throughout his
state are seriously diminished, con
stituting a major problem for the
state and federal governments.
Another official declared that
North Dakota’s live stock situation
is “most deplorable,” that virtually
no live stock is left on ranges in
western sections of the state and
that feed is seriously scarce in all
sections.
“There is no magic wand at the
disposal of the government to make
drouth areas bloom,” Mr. Cooke
said. “We came here to hear your
suggestions and we hope to gain
from this and similar meetings data
which will guide future, helpful leg
islation.
“The reports so far received indi
cate that much can be done through
government assistance and expert
advice.”
THE Mississippi Valley associ
ation, meeting in St. Louis, adopt
ed a resolution calling for rejection
of the St. Lawrence seaway treaty
unless the crown colony of New
foundland and Anticosta island are
ceded to the United States by Great
Britain. Os course no one thinks
for a minute that Britain ever would
do that.
“The position of Newfoundland,
astride the mouth of the St. Law
rence, is an insuperable obstacle to
the treaty in its present form,” the
resolution said, “inasmuch as New
foundland is a crown colony of
Great Britain and is entirely sep
arate from Canada.
“This crown colony as well as the
St. Lawrence plug of Anticosta
Island should both be ceded to the
United States to guarantee our safe
ty in case of war.”
The new president of the associa
tion is Arthur J. Weaver, former
governor of Nebraska and now
president of the Missouri River Nav
igation association.
f"\NE thousand banqueters in
Washington celebrated the
hundredth anniversary of the
American patent system and an an
nouncer from a transport air liner
gave them the names of America’s
“twelve greatest inventors” as se
lected by a secret committee of
prominent men. These are the in
ventors and their inventions:
Robert Fulton, steamboat; Eli
Whitney, cotton gin; Samuel F. B.
Morse, telegraph; Charles Good
year, vulcanized rubber; Cyrus Hall
McCormick, grain reaper; Elias
Howe, sewing machine; George
Westinghouse, airbrake; Alexander
Graham Bell, telephone; Thomas
Alva Edison, electric lamp, phono
graph, motion pictures, and many
other devices; Ottmar Mergenthal
er, linotype; Charles Martin Hall,
process for making cheap alumin
um; Wilbur Wright, co-inventor
with his brother, Orville, of the air
plane.
SEATTLE has a habit of recall
ing its mayors when they are
not satisfactory. One was thus oust
ed in 1911 and another in 1931. Now
a movement has •• •
been started for the
recall of Mayor ifT < I
John F. Dore, who |
is accused of incit- A;
ing acts of violence fct. j
in a labor dispute. : ? f
Formal charges of : . " ?
misfeasance, mal
feasance and viola
tion of the oath of
office were con- If sLoSHa
tained in a petition Mavor
signed by fifteen /
women and eleven
men. It asked the corporation coun
sel to draft the charges in con
densed form so that an effort could
be made to obtain the 24,000 signa
tures necessary for a special recall
election.
Dore, fifty-four, was elected in
March over Arthur B. Langlie, can
didate of the New Order of Cincin
natus, an independent organization
of young voters seeking better mu
nicipal government
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1936
The charges against the mayor
largely have to do with his Ac
tions in connection with the strike
of employees of the Seattle Post-
Intelligencer.
Great Britain asked Gen.
Francisco Franco, leader of
the Spanish rebels, to establish a
safety zone for neutral ships in Bar
celona harbor which the Fascist
chieftain had declared blockaded.
Franco’s reply was not satisfactory,
and besides, one of his vessels sank
an unidentified ship off the capital
of Catalonia. Therefore the British
government promptly started a con
siderable number of warships
toward the Mediterranean, cruisers
and submarines being included.
Foreign Minister Eden already had
assured parliament that British
shipping would be protected on the
high seas with all the might of the
British navy—which is something
to give the Spanish Fascists pause.
France took the same stand, but
warned its merchantmen to conduct
themselves “with extreme caution.”
Excitement over the torpedo at
tack on a loyal Spanish cruiser by a
submarine which the Madrid gov
ernment more than hinted was a
German vessel was allayed by the
report that the undersea boat was
a Spanish submarine that had gone
over to the rebel side.
Madrid was being continually
hammered by rebel shells and
bombs, and there was intense fight-*
ing daily in University City, the
northwest section of the capital,
where the insurgents had penetrat
ed. The American embassy was
closed on orders from Washington
and Eric C. Wendelin, charge d’af
faires, gave protection to those
Americans who wished to go to Va
lencia to board a United States war
ship. The German and Italian em
bassies, abandoned by their staffs,
were seized and sealed by the de
fense junta and a number of Fas
cist refugees were arrested in the
former. Berlin scoffed at this ac
tion but Rome called it banditry.
P I. STICKLING, a German en
gineer, was sentenced to death
in Russia for sabotage which he was
said to have confessed. Hitler had
his ambassador in Moscow make
earnest demands for postponement
of the execution, and then suddenly
announced that if the sentence were
carried out Germany would sever
diplomatic relations with the soviet
government. Great Britain feared
such action would seriously aggra
vate the European war situation
and so Prime Minister Baldwin in
terceded. He asked German Am
bassador Von Ribbentrop to urgfl
Hitler not to bring about the open
break with Russia, and he instruct
ed the British ambassador at Mos
cow to appeal for mercy for Strick
ling. Thereafter the Soviet govern
ment commuted the German’s sen
tence to ten years in prison. Sev
eral of his fellow plotters were shot.
The agreement directed against
the communist internationale,
which angered Russia, was signed
by Japan and Germany in the Ber
lin foreign office. Under it the two
nations are to co-operate in a cam
paign against communism, and they
invite other nations to join them.
T OSEPH E. DAVIES, wealthy
•J 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 Br
has been rewarded. F
President Roosevelt |,
has appointed him |‘A. ?
American ambassa
dor to Soviet Russia, H
to succeed William jgk
C. Bullitt, who was Iga,.
transferred to the
Paris embassy.
Mr. Davies, whose
wife is the former j. E. Davies
Mrs. Marjorie Post
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-’l6, 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
his South American cruise, but the
announcement was withheld until
word was received from the soviet
government that Davies was per
l sona grata at Moscow.
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,***By VIRGINIA VALE***
IF YOU failed to see “One Way
Passage” when it was origi
nally released (and apparently
practically everybody failed to
see it then), you may have an
other chance, if one of your local
theaters follows the example of
one of the New York ones and
shows it again.
Hailed as one of the best pictures
of its time, it ran into bad luck
because it came along when the
depression was at its height. Peo
ple just weren’t going to the movies
then.
,It’s still a grand picture. William
Powell is as expert in it as he is
now—but he looks a lot younger.
Kay Francis is very lovely, and
Frank McHugh proves that then,
as now, he is one of our best
comedians.
—-K
Incidentally, that same McHugh
is coming right along. He is to have
.....a perfect role i n
“Three Men on a
Horse” in fact,
'' ’ ■ he’s be starred
H in it. Among others
F Wilßa who are said to have
wanted that same
ro,e are Eddie Can
tor. Well, it’s Mc-
IjL Hugh whom you’ll
0 X' see p,ay * n £ on the
'll screen. And his ex
cellent performance
Prank * s the result °f the
McHugh fact that a lonff ca "
reer on the stage
(he started as a child, appearing
in melodramas with the rest of his
family) taught him practically ev
erything there is to know about
acting.
Margaret Sullavan’s marriage to
Leland Hayward came as a decided
shock to a lot of people. As you’ll
recall, rumors have been flying
around for a long time to the effect
that it was Katherine Hepburn
whom Mr. Hayward eithec would
marry or had already married. And
now the man who leads the field
when it comes to getting jobs for
motion-picture actors, selling sto
ries and doing all the various
things that an agent has to do, has
proved that everybody was all
wrong. The husky-voiced Margaret
came first, apparently.
Whether you like football or not,
you’ll be amused at “Pigskin Pa
rade”—it’s hilariously funny. And
the Yacht Club Boys do plenty to
make it amusing.
Lily Pons is turning that Con
necticut farm of hers into a wild
animal shelter; she’ll cater to deer
especially. And as one who has
lived in those parts and had deer
drop in to breakfast, your corre
spondent would like to advise her
that she’ll have plenty of them.
Helen Hayes does a good deal
of rehearsing for her “Bambi”
broadcasts, and during the off mo
ments that occur at all rehearsals
she knits. Does it fast, too—she can
turn out mittens and socks in no
time at all, and the results are
turned over to a charitable organ
ization for distribution.
Sonja Henie, the championship
skater who’s now in the movies,
doesn’t care now who knows how
terrified she was when she made
her first screen tests, or how hope
less she felt when she saw them.
—*—
One of the reasons given by Paul
ette Goddard Chaplin for keeping
her marriage a sec- r
ret was that she
wanted to make
good under her own
name. But the spec
ulation that has
been going on so r ■
ever so long as to K / IL
whether she and the
famous comedian y
were engaged, were ; .
married, or were
just friends has kept
her name in the Paulette
papers, coupled with* Goddard
his always. She ap
peared in a picture with him, it
was announced that he would direct
her in two more. Can’t see why it
would make any difference if the
marriage had been announced when
it took place. Except, perhaps, in
the amount of publicity.
ODDS AND ENDS ... If you have
missed Al and Lee Reiser, the clever
piano team, be advised that they’ve
dropped their Thursday broadcasts and
are now heard Tuesdays and Fridays . . .
They say that Rosalind Russell may win
this year's Acadamy Award for the best
performance for her acting in “Craig’s
Wife” . . . “The Good Earth” has been
cut at last —now they’ll start on the pre
views . . . And some day we'll all be able
to see it .. . Robert Taylor may have to
postpone vacationing in Honoluu if the
ship strike-isn't setted soon . . . But mo
tion picture people are accustomed to
postponing a vacation again and again
before they finally take it .. . Spencer
Tracy, just through with “Captains
Courageous,” will start soon on another
all-masculine picture.
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SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for December 13
JOHN’S VISION ON PATMOS
LESSON TEXT—Revelation 1:4-18.
GOLDEN TEXT—Fear not; I am the first
and the last:....behold. I am alive for ever
more. Revelation 1:17, 18.
PRIMARY TOPIC—When John Saw Jesus
Again.
JUNIOR TOPlC—Jerusalem, the Golden.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Listening to the Ever-Living Christ.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
The Living Christ Among the Churches.
The first chapter of the Revela
tion, while it is an introduction to
the entire book, is worthy of study
by itself as a glorious revealing of
Jesus Christ, his person and work.
Some will wish to use the chapter
as a preface to the study of the
solemn and instructive messages to
the seven churches of Asia which
are found in chapters 2 and 3; but
for most schools it will be better to
concentrate on the messages of the
chapter itself.
I. His Person.
While many of the characteristics
of the Son of God are here presented,
two are particularly emphasized.
1. His eternity (vv. 8, 11, 17).
In a world which understands but
little of the meaning of its past,
which lives in a badly befuddled
present, and admittedly knows noth
ing of the future, it is a source of
the deepest satisfaction and peace
of heart to know and serve the One
who “is and was and which is to
come, the Almighty.” He already
“was in the beginning,” and is to
be through all eternity.
2. His glory (vv. 5, 13-16).
Jesus Christ is presented in verse
5 as “the faithful witness and first
begotten of the dead,” who is the
ruler “over all the kings of the
earth.” The followers of Christ have
a glorious captain and leader. The
kingdoms of all the earth are his
by right. Some day he will rule
in fact and in person.
The infinitely beautiful description
of our Lord in verses 13 to 16 is
almost beyond interpretation. Have
you seen him in his majesty and
glory? The one who is “in the Spirit
on the Lord’s Day” can still see
“him who is invisible” (Heb. 11:27).
11. His Work.
1. His victory (v. 18).
He died for our sins but “was
raised again for our justification”
(Rom. 4;25). We have not a dead,
but a living Saviour. He has “the
keys of death and hell.” The one
who follows a human leader parts
with him at the grave. But he who
follows Christ does not lose him
when he passes over into the next
world, for he is there, and he has
the keys of all authority, not only
in this world but also in that which
is to come.
2. His love (v. 5).
How deep and rich was his love
toward us. It sent him to the cross.
3. His redemption (v. 5).
He “washed us from our sins in
his own blood.” We read in
Hebrews 9:22 that “without the
shedding of blood there is no remis
sion.” The cults and creeds which
deny or ignore the need of cleans
ing in the blood of Jesus Christ
may be religious but they are not
Christian.
4. His fellowship (v. 13).
The candlesticks are churches
and the stars are God’s messen
gers. They are not alone in the
world; he is “in the midst.” Do
we recognize his presence?
5. His return (v. 7).
“Behold, he cometh with clouds.”
How can anyone read the New Test
ament and fail to see, and to teach
and to preach the Lord’s return?
He is coming again. What is our
duty in the light of his coming?
a. To live lives of purity and
Christian nobility. (Read I John 3:3,
and compare vv. 1 and 2.)
b. To be diligent in sacrificial
service. “Occupy till I come”
(Luke 19:13) is the command of the
one who “went into a far country
to receive for himself a kingdom
and to return” (Luke 19:11).
Love of Nature
The presence of the love of Nature
is an invariable sign of goodness of
heart and justness of moral per
ception, though by no means of
moral practice. When it is original
ly absent from any mind, that mind
is in many respects hard, worldly,
and degraded.—Ruskin.
A Wife
There is one name which I can
never utter without a reverence due
to the religion which binds earth
to heaven —a name cheered, beau
tiful, exalted and hallowed—and that
is the name of wife.—Bulwer.
Pride and Humility
Pride is not the heritage of man;
humility should dwell with frailty,
and atone for ignorance, error, and
imperfection.—Sydney Smith.
Great Duties
Great trials-seem to be a neces
sary preparation for great duties.—
E. Thomson.
Ability and Opportunity
Where there exists honest ability
there exists also real opportunity.—
G. C. Golden.
The Cop Had a
Test for the Cowboy
A hard-driving taxi driver, 1A
a mid-west city ignored a red
crossing signal, threatened the
traffic policeman’s knees, missed
a street island by a hair, and just
grazed a loaded bus, all in one
mad dash.
The policeman hailed him with
a shrill blast from his whistle,
then strolled over to the taxi, pull
ing a big handkerchief from his
hip pocket en route.
“Listen, cowboy!” he growled,
“on the way back I’ll drop this
and see if you can pick it up with
your teeth while in full tilt. If
you’re the real thing, O.K. Else
you get a ticket!”—Montreal Star.
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