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THE TIMES-NEWS
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> TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1938
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BIBLE THOUGHT
NAME EMMANUEL" Matt. 1:23 (Isa. 7:14)
* * *
The angels went away into heaven, the star with
drew its shining, and our own Christmas wreaths
must wither; but our Lord's name is called Em
manuel—God-With-Us:
"0 holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us we pray;
Cast out our sin and enter in.
He born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
O come to te, abide with us,
Our Lord Emmanuel!"
LOST FRENCH COLONY IS A
REMINDER
(By BRUCE CATtON)
We talk so much about rapid communi
cations in our modern world that we often
forget about the lonely, isolated spots
where men live completely cut off from
their fellows and where human survival is
a precarious thing.
So this little story about the lost French
colony on St. Paul's Island, which sounds
like something from the old sailing-ship
days, is a good reminder that we have not
yet either conquered nature nor annihilat
ed space.
Some 40 or 50 French fishermen went toi
St. Paul's to catch lobsters. St. Paul's is
about as remote a place as there is on the
globe; an utterly barren, rocky little island
far down in the south Pacific on the rim of
the Antarctic ice shelf, it has no resources
whatever except the lobsters which inhabit
its foreshore. A worse place for people to
run short of food and fuel could hardly be
imagined.
That seems to be what happened to
these French fishermen. They did have
one of the modern world's space-killing
gadgets—a radio; so they were able to
send back word of their plight, and a ship
sailed to their rescue at once. But some
how the thought of this little band of peo-,
pie, marooned on the bleak rocks down in
the region of eternal storm, ice and lone-1
liness, stays with you and sends a bit of a
shfver down your spine.
For this world is not quite as safely regi-'
mented and controlled a place as we usual
ly assume. In our urban society we may
never come in contact with the elemental
perils of danger, hunger and cold; but we
are just lucky, and it is dangerous for usj
to forget that human life exists on this
planet on the same terms it always did—as;
a constant struggle against an environment
th^fc is forever hostile.
This earth would go spinning on through
spate quite as serenely if it had no freight
of human life at all. It spun that way for
sorrje scores of millions of years, if the sci
entists are to be believed, and it may do so
again. Our tenure here is not so solid or so
permanent that we can afford to take any:
chances.
J -
4na inai is wny ine present tendency
towtard war, destruction and general con
flict between races, nations and groups is
such an ominous thing. This tendency may
vety easily destroy the great fabric of oar
civilization; and we do that only at our
difre peril.
Vor the machinery by which we hold
of^ these natural, elemental threats to our
earthly existence is extremely complicated,
add like most complicated things it is very
delicate. We could smash it beyond repair
if iwe got too brash and flip with our bomb
ing planes, our blockades and our all-round
talent for destruction; and if we do, all of
I '
usj may find ourselves up against precisely
thkjsort Qf thing the colonists on St. Paul's
Island are up against—only we would not
hrfve any place to send radio messages.
^The mere job of making the earth habit
b<*le, and of ensuring man's continued ten
uis upon it, demands the best effort the
rafce can give it. If we drop that effort and
g<^ in for a generation of blood-letting, the
result may be more completely disastrous
than we ordinarily dream.
t ;
JXazi chemists announce a new treatment
that prevents fraying of shirts around the
edge3. Might apply a little of that to
AAolX's bellowings. ' - |
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
• iV v . h • t M i > • j
* FAIRY STORY STILL
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Revenue developments in Washington offer new
evidence that fairy stories are no more likely to
materialize these days, for all the short-cuts to
i Utopia that have been devised, than ever before.
When the huge program of armaments was first
mentioned by tty; White House some weeks ago,
there was corollary assurance that no additional
taxes would be required. Rather there would be
transfer of funds from existing1 Rurpqses arid a
general paring of expenses to the end that money
might be provided for this necessary Expenditure
without burdening the taxpayer further/-The Daily
News made bold to say at the time that it didn't
see how such financing, without assumption of any
additional burdens, could be done. Mind you, the
armaments program, army, navv and air corps, is
expected to involve sufficient millions to bulge over
into the billions and the construction program nec
essarily means the appropriations must be forth
coming for operations and upkeep.
Such joy as the White House assurance brought,
however, was shortlived, for as soon as Mr. Roose
velt and his advisers abandoned generalities for!
cases the need for funds was borne in upon them.'
A second statement declared that arming was to1
be entirely divorced from pump-priming. More
funds would be required, but the demands would
be kept in hand. Posterity would not ^e loaded
down under greater debt; the citizens of the pres
ent should be willing to pay for their own national j
safety and security. Thus a program of pay-as-;
you-go was advanced as the financial course to be j
pursued.
Now that extra cost which at the outset was de
clared not to exist has moved so far towards ma
ter ializsition that the treasury experts are reported
at work on a new tax bill, although some of this'
group, including Undersecretary John W. Hanes,
who has heretofore come in for such warm admin
istration praise, and various congression leaders,
are opposed to a relaunching of the tax fight at the
next session. Apparently, the "go" sign is on full
from the White House with every indication ihat
Mr. Roosevelt will utilize the opportunity to press
again for those tax features which business op
posed at the last session and which the Congress,
despite executive pressure, rejected.
Thus another fairy story continues but as a
myth; an abiding myth, however, which in time
should at least teach the American public that
every additional governmental service or activity
has to be paid for and that no money-trees have
yet been developed as a substitute for the taxpay
er's pocket.—Greensboro News.
THE WAY GOOD TIMES WILL COME BACK
What the Duke Power company proposes soon
to do is illustrative of the wjy by which good times
will come back to this country.- v
That company is going: to take $ J, 500,000 of its
own earnings and plow them back into capital in
vestments out of which is expects to gather other
earnings, enlarge the volume of its commodity,
namely electric power, increase its customers and
otherwise to expand its business.
And in that process, machinery will be bought
for the eqoipmenf of the new plant which will
speed up operations in the industries from which,
such materials arepought, locally unemployed com
mon and skilled labor will be hired for the con
struction of this vast enterprise and all down the
line this private expenditure will be enriching the
markets and in the end providing new markets.
This is the way that sound and durable prosper
ity comes to a people.
It can never come any other way.
What the government spends, whether it is a
dime or billions, is blood-sucking rather than blood
building.
Federal money comes out of the pockets of those
who have earned it and into the pockets of others
who, in all to many cases, fail to put the equivalent
of what they receive in money back into the hands
of the government in terms of labor or services.
More than that, governmental spending for pur- (
stimulation and, therefore, is reflected to large de-,
gree only in the temporary markets.
But when private capital releases its wealth '
which it has earned by legitimate and honest and
honorable operation of its business to the end of
enlarging its production and building new markets,
adding new emplpoyes and developing new custo
mers for a necessary commodity, such an invest
ment has an impact upon the economic structure
far more lasting than the passing day.
That's the way America came to be the financial
and Industrial giant into which it has grown.
This country was not made by Federal spending, j
Federal bonuses, Federal subsidies, Federal busi
ness, Federal industry and Federal taxation. These i
have always interfered with instead of assisted in
the recovery of any people from an economic de
bacle.—Charlotte Observer.
COINCIDENCE
On page 35 of the edition of Time magazine for
December 19th one-third of the space is devoted to i
the death by suicide, of Paul Anderson, a man who I
was fired from a $16,000 a year job as Washington
correspondent for the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
On the mantlepiece of the room where Anderson
was found dead, from self destruction, in his easy'
chair was a picture of Senator George Norris who !
had written across the nicture the words: "To my
friend, Paul Y. Anderson, the best newspaper re
porter in the nation."
The maid who attended Paul Anderson heard him '
say just before he died: "I'm going to do a good1
job of this. My usefulness is at an end."
Commenting on the untimely death of 45-year-!
old Paul Anderson, Time magazine said: "There
was only one real enemy to Paul Anderson's use
fulness, and, he well knew its name, alcohol."
Yes, one-third of page 35 was devoted to the sui
' cide'of a brilliart newspaper man, a man who died
[ because of the one enemy, alcohol.
What was found on the other two-thirds of the
space on page 35? An advertisement from-Teach
er's Scotch Whiskey with these words: "Wish a
mellow Merry Christmas with a gift of Teacher's
Scotch." ••
Strange coincidence, was it not?
But Paul Anderson will not enjoy a mellow,
Merry Christmas. Time said that alcohol was his
only one real enemy.—Rock Hill (S. C.) Herald.
Great Britain leads the world in the possession
of aircraft carriers with six built and four project
ed. The United States comes next with six built |
and three projected
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMROLDT
GETTING FUNNY
The other day when a young
man and his wife came up to a
group of their acquaintances
standing on the sidewalk, the
young: man step
ped to the side
of a pretty wo
man and said
mischievously to
his wife, "You
may go now."
There w <1 s
some laughter,
which was joined
in by the wife.
But did she like
it? Of course
not! If the situ
ation had been
rever s e d, and
the wife had sid
1 _ J i -
Wamboldt handsome young j
man in a knot of persons on tho [
sidewalk, and told her husband
she could do without him, would
he have liked it? You can bet he
wouldn't!
These cute, waspish remarks
may raise laughs, but they don't
make for happy relationships.
There is, of course, the, type of
person who asks in surprise, "If
you can't insult the one you are
married to, whom can you in
sult?" Yes, but why insult any
body?—and particularly someone
you must live with?
As I think of my friends and
relatives, I am impressed that the
ones I care the most for are those
who never took cracks at me, but
whose affection for me was too
real and deep for that sort of
thing.
A rift has been started in many
h relationship by some useless re
mark made by its maker because
he thought it too clever to pass
up. •
RUINING SANTA
If the Santa Claus legend is
not already a joke anions: the
children of this era, it is going
to be.
What with the commercializa
tion of Santa, and with one of
him in almost every department
store, and with others sprinkled
around on street corners during
pre-Christmas trade, it will not be
Ions: before the youngsters wil
regard Santa as an advertisin;
emblem instead of a romantic
mysterious giver of gifts.
It would be interesting to knov
what the original Santa Clau
(St. Nicholas. Bishop of Myra
would think of what h«s happenet
to his beautiful interpretation o
the spirit of Christmas!
ACTS CONTRADICT WORDS -
'"We watch what you do am
would hear what you say; bu
what you do makes so much nois<
we cannot hear what you say."
Thus spoke a heathen to a pro
fessed Christian. If the Christian:
wotfld so live that their live:
would reflect the religion thej
profess, they would win the whoh
world to their way of life. It i:
the talking one thing and doinj
another that nullifies the petitioi
"Thy kingdom come, Thy will b<
done on earth as it is in Heaven.'
ROOSEVELT'S SON
FLAYS MEXICO IN
EXPROPRIATIONS
FOKT WORTH, Tex., Doc. 27
(UP)—Elliott Kooscvelt, son o
the president, in a radio .speed
last night sharply criticized Mex
ico for expropriating property o
United States citizens.
"It is obvious something mus
lie done," young Kooscvelt said
"Mexico has acted, but as yet th<
United States government ha
not begun to act. Our good neigh
bor policy apparently is no
enough.
"... . Until Mexico makes ai
overture for friendship, I for om
must subscribe to the theory tha
actions speak louder than words.'
Roosevelt, making his weekh
talk over his Texas state networl
of radio stations, charged tha
the Mexican government hat
benefitted from the good neigh
bor policy but. then had turned or
the United States.
"Now the United States is fac
ed not only with the lo?s of valu
uble property holdings in Mexicc
but with the loss of $17,000,00C
worth of business annually that
• JOHN T. FLYNN
BY JOHN T. FLYNN
IS'EA Service Staff Corre»|>«ndent |
DEHIND the resignation of Rob
" ert H. Hutchins, president of
Chicago University, from the
Board of Governors of the New
Stork Stock Exchange, lies an in
cident which may perhaps mark
the end of the brief period of
good relations between the Stock
Exchange and the Securities Ex
change Commission.
Hutchins' resignation came as a
bolt from the blue. But behind it
is a good deal more than the dis
satisfaction of one member of the
board.
The incident was precipitated
by the S. E. C. Itself. In the in
vestigations following the default
of Richard Whitney, former pres
ident of the Exchange, testimony
revealed other members of the
Exchange knew of Whitney's
plight before it became public.
These were men who stand high
in the councils of Wall Street and
in power in the Stock Exchange
itself.
Among them were E. H. Sim
mons, another former presi
dent of the TTxchange, and mem
bers of the Morgan firm, which is
a partnership firm on the Ex
change.
Since no one notified the proper
authorities^ Whitney was per
mitted to continue operating as a
broker and also was permitted to
continue to make efforts and in
some cases successful efforts to
get further Joans, to the great loss
of those who were victimized.
Whitney himself was expelled
from the Exchange. Later he was
convictcd and jailed. His firm was
broken up. The Exchange itself
underwent a revolution. But the
S. E. C. ha* contended thv job had
not been finished and would not
be finished until the higher-ups
who failed to report Whitney's de
falcations were also dealt with
under tlje rules of the Exchange.
The action considered therefore
at the meeting to which Hutch
ins refers in his letter of resigna
tion was whether Thomas Lamont,
Morgan partner, and E. H. Sim
mons, a member of the Boord and
Business Conduct Committee,
should have been censured or
penalized in some way, under the
rules of the Exchange, for not re
porting the facts.
The- commission apparently
looked upon the incident as a test
of whether or not the Exchange
can enforce its rules against its
most powerful members. The
board of governors voted to do
nothing, taking the position that
no rule was broken by Mr. La
mont and Mr. Simmons. The S. E.
C., it is said, feels the test has
proven conclusively that the rules
are made for the small fry and not
for the big shots. The big ques
tion in Wall Street now is, will
the S. -E. C. begin to turn the
screws harder and stronger on the
Exchange?
fOonvriirht 1938. NEA Service. Inc.)
Wait a Minute
| E, NOAH HOLLOWELL
FAVORITE C H R I S T M A 5
\ SONGS: The beautiful Christmas
I ' songs so prevalent everywhere foi
' j the past two weeks will now grow
j into disuse for a season. Did yoi
. i hear enough of the carols to make
»j your choice from such favorites
' [ as:
r I "Oh Little Town of Bethlc'
1 hem."
1 "Joy to The World."
• "Silent Night, Holy Night."
1 "Hark! The Herald Angels
I Sing."
FAVORITE HYMNS: Do you
have a favorite hymn? If so, dc
you sing or hum it often, or dc
you content yourself with hearing
| others sing it?
The missionary society of n
great denomination voted on the
• seven most popular hymns. Doen
this society's list include yours?
1 The list follows:
; "Sweet Hour of Prayer."
"Abide With Me."
"The Old Rugged Cross."
"What a Friend We Have in
Jesus."
"0 Master, Let Me Walk With
Thee."
"Jesus, Lover of my soul."
"I Love to Tell the Story."
| TIMES-NEWS FEATURES:
Speaking of favorites, have you
■ voted for your favorite feature as
, requested in Saturday's Times
News? It's easy to pass up such
requests hut no better method of
determining the choice of readers
has been found than 1 hat of hav
ing an expression from them. You
might say, "that's the newspaper's
business; it ought to know what I
prefer of a dozen or more fea
tures."
A FEATURE PARABLE: A
staff member of one of ,, our
state's foremost dailies recently
gave me this parable. A feature
was discontinued as a test of its
popularity. Another feature was
substituted. A howl went up. The
paper not wanting to assume the
responsibility of making the
choice asked its readers to vote
for their choice. Friends of the
old feature kept silent, in a meas
ure. Friends of the new feature
put on a big ballyhoo and got out
the largest vote and their feature
was continued. Not liking the re
sults, the old writer's friends
woke up and expressed them
selves but it was too late. They
neglected their opportunity.
Newspapers change their fea
tures occasionally, endeavoring to
find something that appeals
strongly to the interests of their
readers.
Which is your favorite feature?
Vote now, or hereafter hold
your peace.
will go to Nazi Germany under j
the new barter agreements," I
Koosevelt said.
The president's son suggested |
that it "would be to the friend
ship and good of Mexico" to in-!
vite representations of the na
tions affected by the expropria- j
tion of oil properties and land to !
sit with Mexican officials in dis-!
cussions of the subject. Until ar- j
rangements are made to pay for '
the land, he said, these nations;
and citizens affected will feel!
they still own the property, he!
said.
Tf proper settlement arrange-1
ments were made, all Mexican oil 1
could be used in the United i
States, young Roosevelt asserted.
Take Corpse And
Beaten Girl From
Flaming House
CLIFTON SPRINGS, N. Y.,
j Dec. 27. (UP)—A 13-year-old
jrirl nearly dead from a beating
' and the body of her grandfather,
found hanging in another room,
were taken from a burning farm
house yesterday by 'two motor
ists.
The victims were identified as
Virginia Debaeker and Joseph
Debacker, s70. who lived on the
hitter's farm near Phelps on the
Ontario-Wayne county, line. Phy
sicians said the girl was in a crit
ical condition from wounds on
her head apparently inflicted with
| a blunt weapon.
Fred De.voe of Waterloo and
Addison Johnson of Geneva told
Sheriff Walter A. Filing that
they saw the farmhouse ablaze as
they drove by and stopped to
warn the residents.
They said they saw the girl ly
ing on a couch, and unable to'
arouse her, forced their way in. I
The elderly man's body was in a !
bedroom hanging by a rope from
a fixture on the ceiling.
The motorists were unable to
make a further search of the
house because of the fire, Sheriff
Filing said, but they reported no
ticing the odor of kerosene. The
flames destroyed the house.
Salt was considered so vital in J
j the ancient world that one of th;-1
I oldest roads in Italy was calle.i
i Via Salaria. Over this road, the j
| important commodity was carried .
I from Ostia into the Sabine coun-,
i try.
MAN WHITTLES
OFF HAND TO
SAVE HIS LIFi
Becomes Jammed in Stok
er; Physicians Say Re.
covery Likely
MJNNEAPOI IS. Mil.,, j
27. (UP)— Thy >ifians t«m.Ijjy
licvccl there was a
recovery lor Ilcnr; 1) ^
high school jar.i'.iM • , v tul,^
off his rijjht lis-.ml n . n n
jammed in the >t i-iunv. "
a coal stoker.
After coinp! •
eration Donnett a| .
quet of rags, t» 1<
and walked three : 1 i,i< 0( aa,t
to admit them t->
Before heing tak. T" the hos
pital he asked oil u u.', aE.
other janitor t" la:.- ^
ties.
Donnett was al«,n, a t>.,.
ing last night wlu u a thur.k«(
coal clogged one ut la,. fUiagft!
stokers. Pie reached • ••• ;ht hop.
per to release the i! and ^
steam plunger shot ''.ward. in.
prisoning his hand '<> trie
He told physici;,; in
from pain, but rev;, i the
to fear he would !>• to ^4
"So 1 reached in: .1 mv
for a small jacknifi he ^
"and !>egan whittling : uvobbj
wrist." It must have t;;k, r: uie or«
an hour to do it. 1 r 'i-ciotu.
ness several timer-.
Doctors described thy 1
tion as a ''remarkaid' . ,
The average sua •, f; n, j
100 acres. The average in therci
•..I the U. S. i> 20." ....
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AMERICAN
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ON WHAT
ISLAND ARE THESE
1 STATUES FOUND?
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miles west of South America. The present inhabitants of ^
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