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THE HOWE MESSENGER
Friday, May 28, 1937
Irvtn S. Cobb
.1^1*1
^Jhwthd about
The Gabble of Tourists.
RAND CANYON, ARIZ.
VJT —It gets cm your nerves
to stand on the rim of this
scenic wonder and hear each
successive tourist say, “Well,
if any artist painted it just as
it is nobody would believe it! ”
After I heard 174 separate and
distinct tourists repeat the above it
got on my nerves
and I sought sur-
cease far from the
maddening round-
tripper, hoping to
escape the common-
place babbling of
eastern sight-seers
and revel in the
salty humor of the
unspoiled West. And
I ran into a native
who said, with the
cute air of having
just thought it up,
“Yes, sir, I never felt better or
had less.”
And I encountered a gentleman
who in parting called out, “Say, kid,
don’t take in any wooden nickels.”
And then, speaking of someone else,
remarked, “If I never see thaf
guy again it’ll be too soon.”
+ • *
Renaming Hors d’Oeuvres.
*TpHE controversy over giving a
more American name to hors
d’oeuvres—which some cannot pro-
nounce and none can digest—
rages up and down the land. What
Sam Blythe, that sterling eater,
calls these alleged appetizers you
couldn’t print in a family new»v
paper, Sam’s idea of a before-din-
ner nicknack being a baked ham.
A sturdy Texas congressman calls
them doo-dabs.
But if I were living abroad again,
I know what I’d call them. When
you behold the array of this and
that, as served at the beginning of
luncheon in the average table d’hote
restaurant over there, and especial-
ly in France, you are gazing upon
what discriminating customers left
on their plates at supper the night
before.
* * *
Scrambled Cooking.
"p^OWN below Flagstaff, Ariz., but
somewhat to the eastward, in a
picturesque city which saddles the
international boundary, I found a
unique condition.
The best American food available
is across the Mexican line at a
restaurant owned by a Greek gen-
tleman with a Chinese cook in the
kitchen. But the best Mexican cook-
ery is done well over on the Ameri-
can side by a German woman
whose husband is an Italian.
So our own native-born citizens,
when hungry for the typical dishes
of New England or Dixie, journey
beyond the border patrols, passing
on their way many of their Span-
ish-speaking neighbors bound four
miles northward for a bit of su-
perior tamales and the more uv
flammatory brands of chili.
• * •
Dueling a la Europe
T TNTIL Dr. Franz Sarga, the duel-
ing husband of Budapest, really
serves one of his enemies en bro-
chette, as it were, instead of just
trimming off hangnails and side
whiskers, I decline to get worked
up. You remember the Doc? He
set out to carve everybody in Hun-
gary who’d snooted his lady wife
and found himself booked to take on
quite a large club membership. But
so far he hasn’t done much more
damage than a careless chiropodist
could.
Once, in Paris, I was invited to
a duel. I couldn’t go, having a prior
engagement to attend the World
war, which was going on at that
time, so I sent a substitute.
He reported that after the prin-
cipals exchanged shots without per-
il, except to some sparrows passing
overhead, all hands rushed togeth-
er, entwining in a sort of true-love
knot. -
it it
it it
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The Forgotten Man.
HOSE whose memories stretch
that far back into political an-
tiquity may recall the ancient days
that seem so whimsically old-fash-
ioned now, when our present Presi-
dent was running the first time on
a platform which, by general con-
sent, was laughed off immediately
following election. He promised
then to do something for the forgot-
ten man. Remarks were also
passed about balancing the budget
right away. We needn’t go into
that.
But the forgotten man figured ex-
tensively in the campaign. Then,
for awhile, popular interest in him
seemed to languish. So many new
issues came up suddenly, some, like
dyspepsia symptoms, being but tem-
porary annoyances, and some which
lingered on and abide with us yet,
including Mr. John L. Lewis, the
well-known settee.
And now, after these five change-
ful, crowded years, we have solved
the mystery—we know who the for-
gotten man is. The name is Tug-
well, spelled as spoken, but you
can pronounce it “Landon” and get
practically the same general re-
sults.
IRVIN S. COBB.
©—WNU Service.
IN REVIEW
by bbuJofuL UJ. Pi
© Western Newspaper Union.
Justice
Cardozo
Social Security Act
Is Declared Valid
*TpHE social security act, which
J- President Roosevelt considers
the soul of the New Deal, is consti-
tutional, in the opinion of a major-
ity of the Supreme
court. The unem-
ployment insurance
provisions of the law
were upheld by five
of the justices, Van
Devanter, Butler,
McReynolds and
Sutherland dissent-
ing. The old age
pension provisions
were declared con-
stitutional by all the
justices except Suth-
erland and Van De-
vanter.
Justice Cardozo wrote the two ma-
jority opinions, and, as it chanced,
delivered them on his sixty-seventh
birthday. Administration leaders
declared they completely justified
the President’s broad interpretation
of the general welfare clause of the
Constitution and his policy of ex-
tending federal power, and it would
seem, that this is true. Justice Car-
dozo’s opinion on the unemployment
insurance said:
“It is too late today for the argu-
ment to be heard with tolerance
that in a crisis so extreme the use
of moneys of the nation to relieve
the unemployed and their depend-
ents is a use for any purpose nar-
rower than the promotion of general
welfare.
“At times taxpayers have con-
tended that the congress is without
power to lay an excise on the en-
joyment of a privilege created by
state law. The contention has been
put aside as baseless.
“The power to tax the activities
and relations that constitute a call-
ing considered as a unit is the power
to tax any of them.”
Concerning the old age pension
provisions he' said the scheme of
benefits created by them is not in
contravention to the limitations of
the tenth amendment, and: “Nor is
the concept of the general welfare
static. Needs that were narrow or
parochial a century ago may be
interwoven in our day with the well-
being of the nation. What is critical
or urgent changes with the times.”
In another 5 to 4 decision the
court upheld the Alabama state un-
employment insurance act, declar-
ing the relief of unemployment a
valid state function.
Yet another opinion was handed
down by five of the justices, up-
holding Wisconsin’s law prohibiting
injunctions against peaceful picket-
ing in labor disputes.
The general view of neutrals in
Washington was that the day’s opin-
ions effectually put an end to the
chances of passage of the Presi-
dent’s bill to enlarge the Supreme
court.
Wage and Hour Measure
Offered in Congress
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in a
^ special message asked congress
to enact a new law for the benefit of
workers in interstate industries, reg-
ulating the hours of
work, the wages and
the employment of
children. Immedi-
ately after it was
read, Chairman Hu-
go L. Black of the
senate labor com-
mittee and Chair-
man William R.
Connery of the
house labor commit-
tee introduced iden-
Senator Black
tical bills designed
to carry out the proposals of the
President. The measure had been
agreed upon in conferences at the
White House and was promptly re-
ferred to committees with prospect
of quick action. It had been ap-
proved by John L. Lewis, head of
the C. I. O., but since laws setting
minimum wages for men have al-
ways been opposed by leaders of
the American Federation of Labor, it
was considered probable that orga-
nization would not like the bill.
The twin bills originally had pro-
posed a forty hour maximum week
and a 40 cents an hour minimum
wage. But, at the last moment,
these limits were eliminated and
spaces in the measures left blank
for congress to fill.
By its main provisions the meas-
ure will:
Apply to all strictly interstate in-
dustries, thus excluding such enter-
prises as the service trades, hotel
business and other purely intrastate
fields.
Establish a five-man administra-
tive board.
Supplement the administrative
board by advisory boards in indus-
tries where thought necessary.
Provide that the work week can-
not be reduced below 35 hours in
any industry but that employers in
certain businesses affected by sea-
sonal variations may work their la-
bor more than 40 hours, paying time
and a half for overtime.
Establish $1,200 a year as the
John D.Rocke-
feller, Sr.
improved SUNDAY
iTrZio^i SCHOOL
LESSON -:-
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
wage above which a board regulat-
ing wages and hours would have no
control; set 80 cents an hour—or
double time—as the largest mini-
mum wage.
Provide a series of gradations
in apprenticeships.
Prohibit industrial homework, a
new feature.
Exclude employers of less than
15 workers from the bill’s provi-
sions.
Bar from transportation or sale in
interstate commerce goods manu-
factured in violation of these stand-
ards or by workers less than sixteen
years old.
Lesson for May 30
THE REMAKING OF JACOB
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 28:16-22, 32:
24-30.
GOLDEN TEXT—And be not con-
formed to this world: but be ye trans-
formed by the renewing of your mind.
Romans 12:2.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Jacob's Great Dis-
covery.
JUNIOR TOPIC - What Changed
Jacob.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP-
IC—Finding One’s Better Self.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP-
IC—Face to Face With God.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Dies
in His Florida Home
“T AM very tired,” said John D.
A Rockefeller, Sr., to his secre-
tary as he sat in the garden of his
Florida winter home at Ormond
Beach. Then he
went to bed, soon
fell into a coma, and
a few hours later
passed away, peace-
fully and painlessly.
His wish to live to
be one hundred
years old was not
fulfilled, but he
would have been
ninety-eight on July
8 next.
Thus died the man
who, starting with a
$4.50 a week job, fought his way to
the very top of the financial world,
created the vast Standard Oil trust
and built up one of the biggest pri-
vate fortunes ever recorded. At the
age of twenty-six he was beginning
to be prominent in the then young
petroleum industry, and in 1870 was
formed the Standard Oil company
which, by methods that were con-
sidered ruthless, gained control of
three-fourths of the country’s oil
output. For 40 years Rockefeller
and his associates were bitterly at-
tacked through the courts and in
every other way possible, and fi-
nally, in 1902, the Standard Oil trust
was ordered by the Supreme court
dissolved into its component parts.
But its business went on and >the
Rockefeller millions continued to in-
crease until the family fortune was
estimated at about two and a half
billions. At the height of his ca-
reer John D.’s income was between
50 and 90 million dollars.
Disturbed by ill health, John D.
retired from active business in 1911.
Some time before that he had
switched from accumulating wealth
to giving it away. The giving was
done systematically, and represent-
atives of the family interests esti-
mate that his own benefactions be-
tween the years 1885 and 1934, both
inclusive, totaled $530,853,632. At the
top of the long list of gifts are the
Rockefeller Foundation, which re-
ceived $182,851,480, and the Gen-
eral Education board, which was
given $129,209,167. For years the
University of Chicago was a pet of
his, and he gave it in all $78,448,407.
Numerous educational and religious
institutions and organizations were
given large sums, and in times of
great disasters Mr. Rockefeller do-
nated generously to the relief funds.
Mr. Rockefeller’s body was taken
from Ormond Beach to his estate
at Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, N.
Y., and there the funeral rites were
conducted by Dr. Harry Emerson
Fosdick of New York city. Next
day the oil king was laid to rest in
Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, be-
side his wife who died 22 years ago.
Only two of Mr. Rockefeller’s chil-
dren survive him. They are John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., head of the busi-
ness since the father retired, and
Alta, wife of E. Parmalee Prentice.
There are eight grandsons and five
granddaughters.
Third Son Born to
the Lindberghs
r"iQL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
vj telephoned to the American em-
bassy that a third son had been born
to Mrs. Lindbergh on May 12, coro-
nation day. The news had been kept
secret for nearly two weeks. Mrs.
Dwight Morrow wrote to relatives
in Cleveland that her daughter and
the infant were both “doing nicely.”
Russia Will Have Air Base
Close to North Pole
COVIET Russia is planning to es-
^ tablish regular airplane connec-
tion with the United States by way
of the Arctic ocean, and in pur-
suance of the plan is building an air
base on the ice within a few miles
of the North ptple. Four scientists
have been landed there from a plane
which first flew over the pole, and
they will remain on the floe for
a year, keeping in connection with
the world by a powerful radio. They
have named the floating ice field
“Comrade Stalin’s Land.” The con-
templated air route will be from
Moscow to San Francisco.
Though Admiral Pe?ary presum-
ably planted the United States flag
at the North pole, neither this nor
any other nation has claimed sov-
ereignty over the region.
Front Page News! “Well-Known
Crook Converted!” After years of
deception, thievery, and all kinds
of wickedness, Jacob, “the sup-
planter,” had a transforming expe-
rience of the grace and power of
God and became Israel—“ a prince
of God.” That is indeed front-page
news and the marvel of it all is
that we may today proclaim the
grace of God in Christ Jesus for the
redemption of every one that be-
lieveth.
Memorial day is a most appropri-
ate one for our lesson, for the first
portion tells us of a memorial stone,
and the last section tells of a great
victory. We do well on this day to
remember the days that are gone,
to recall the heroic deeds of our
valiant dead. It is right that we
should honor them for victories
rightly won and for a noble cause.
But let us not fail to recognize that
the great battles of life are those
fought in the realm of the spirit and
that the victories won there endure
for all eternity. Every teacher of a
class in the Bible school should with
God’s help endeavor to make this a
day of blessed memory and victory
in Christ for the boys and girls, or
men and women of the class.
We consider today two experi-
ences in the life of Jacob, both of
which have their counterpart in the
lives of many of God’s children in
our day.
I. A Vision and a Vow (Gen.
28:16-22).
Jacob met God. Have you met
Him face to face? Have you had
“such a revolutionary experience in
some unexpected spot”? What a
sacred place it has become in your
life. Perhaps it was at mother’s
knee, or in a little crossroad’s
church, or on a busy city street.
God was there—you dealt with him
—he blessed your soul—life was
changed- Such may be the experi-
ence of each one of us. The place
where Jacob had this experience
had been known only as Luz. Now
it became Bethel—“the house of
God.”
Spiritual experiences are not sim-
ply for our pleasure; they carry
a real responsibility. Jacob rec-
ognized this and set up a memorial
and made a vow. The depth of
his purpose is revealed by the fact
that it touched his earthly posses-
sions. When a man’s conversion
reaches all the way through to his
purse, you can be sure that some-
thing has happened to him.
The pledge of one-tenth to God is
in accord with the Old Testament
principle of the title. Many earnest
believers regard the tithe as equally
obligatory in our day. Others con-
tend that it is an Old Testament
principle only. Well, there is no
need to differ too sharply on that
point, for is it not clear that as
children of God all that we have be-
longs to Him? Surely then we would
not wish shamefacedly to admit fhat
we give less than the Old Testament
tithe. All that we have comes from
His bountiful hand. He it is that
gives “bread to eat and raiment to
put on.” Let us be cheerful (hilari-
ous) givers of what he has entrusted
to us, that his work on earth may
be put forward.
II. A Struggle and a Victory (Gen.
32:24-30).
After varied experiences of both
victory and defeat Jacob turns back
to his own land. He hears of the ap-
proach of his brother Esau with 400
men. Before he meets him he
spends a night alone. Whether it
was in fear or in trust that he ap-
proached God on that night, we dp
not know. But we do read of the
great struggle. It was more than a
physical battle—real as that was—
for here we have God wrestling
with a weak and defeated, but proud
man, seeking to bring him to the
place where he will once for all “let
go and let God” have his way with
his life.
Into the night of struggle at Peniel
have gone God’s people in all the
centuries, and lo, those who have
submitted themselves to the mighty
hand of God have come out as those
that have “power with God and with
men” (v. 28). Such an experience
is the key to successful living and
fruitful service for God. It is still
true that “God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble.”
(James 4:6).
An Aim in Life
We want an aim that can never
grow vile, and which cannot dis-
appoint our hope. There is but one
such on earth, and it is that of
being like God. He who strives after
union with perfect love must grow
out of selfishness, and his success
is secured ,in the omnipotent holi-
ness of God.
FAMOUS »
HEADLINE HUNTER
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“Spirit From the Stars99
By FLOYD GIBBONS
(t QPIRIT from the stars.” That’s the way Anna Nolan of
O Long Island City, N. Y., explains it. Anna thinks that
the sign of Aquarius, under which she was born, gave her
the courage to face the terrifying predicament she found
herself in. I don’t know whether she is right about that or
not. Where courage comes from is a question that’s a little
bit out of my line, and I’ll leave it to the doctors, or the
astrologers, or whoever wants to try to answer the question.
But adventure IS in my line and I will go on record as saying that the
one Anna Nolan had in August, 1914, in the town of Boyle, County Roscom-
mon, Ireland, is a hair-raiser and no mistake.
August, 1914! That’s a date that the world will long remem-
ber, for it was in the early days of that month—and in that year—
that the World war got under way. All England was in a turmoil,
and that excitement reached clear over to Ireland on the other
side of the Irish sea. England was calling out the Irish reservists
—men who were called for six weeks training once a year—and
a number of these reservists lived in the town of Boyle.
Neighbor Woman Fleeing From Her Cottage.
Anna’s husband was already in the army. He was a warrant officer
at the barracks not far away. Anna had rented a house in town—a house
that sat well back from the street with a garden in front of it. Across the
street was a tiny cottage in which lived the wife of one of the reservists,
an itinerant tinker who had just been called to the ^olors.
It was about eleven o’clock at night and Anna was sitting at her
front window looking out on the garden. She had been there since early
evening, just after she had tucked her children into bed. She was all
alone. Her husband was at the barracks and too busy to come home.
And Anna had been sittigg there for hours on end, wondering about the
war, and about her husband who was going to it soon, and about a hun-
dred and one other things that women wonder and worry about when the
war clouds begin gathering in the sky.
The streets of Boyle were deserted by this time. There wasn't a soul
in sight. But suddenly, the door of the cottage across the way fUrw opeh
and a woman, clad only in a white nightgown, came running out.
Anna sat bolt upright in her chair. The woman was running
as if for her life. She was barefooted and her long, black haiif
was hanging down her hack. She dashed across Anna’s garden
and took refuge in her doorway.
Husband Wanted to Kill Her and Baby.
Anna knew the woman—knew that she had a new-born baby Pnly two
days old. Why was she running out of her house in the middle txS the
night like this? She ran down the stairs threw open the hall door, and the
woman, shivering and shaking, almost fell into her arms.
“I pulled her inside,” says'Anna, “wrapped a cloak around her, and
asked her what the trouble was. It seemed that her husband got leate
to come home from the barracks on account of her illness, and had cele-
brated by getting very drunk. In his cups he had become abusive, and
finally decided to kill both his wife and the baby. She swore he meant it.
In her fright she had fled, leaving the baby behind, and as he did not come
after her she was sure he was killing the baby.”
There was no telephone in the house, and just about all the men in
town were at the barracks. The poor woman was begging Anna to do
something, and though Anna was just a slip of a girl weighing in the
neighborhood of a hundred pounds, sfcfe was pretty indignant. She told
the woman she’d tell that husband of hers a thing or two, and coaxed her
into going along with her. With the terrified woman following, she started
for the cottage.
She opened the door and walked in. There stood the husband,
in uniform, in the middle of the room. “He was staring into
space and didn’t take the slightest notice of us,” Anna says. The
baby was unharmed. I helped the woman into bed and was bend-
ing over to admire the baby, when suddenly I heard the bolt shot
in the door. I looked around quickly. There stood the husband,
opening a large knife of many blades, and staring straight at me
with the wildest eyes I ever saw or ever want to see again! ”
Army Discipline Saved Them All.
For an instant the man stared at Anna, wild eyes ablaze, and then
he said slowly, “I’ll kill the two o’ you!” And right^there, Anna began
to wish she hadn’t been so rash as to venture intO/4his drink-crazed mad-
man’s house. “I had visions of /rty four. children across the street all
alone,” she says. “I woul4,4>e lying if I said I was not afraid. I was
never so afraid in all my^life.”
The man must have sensed that she was afraid of him. With a wicked
leer, he took a step forward. But it was then that courage came to Anna’s
rescue. Anna says she got it from the stars—from the sign of Aquarius
which she was born under. As I said before, I don’t pretend to know
where people get courage from, but Anna certainly got a bunch of it
from somewhere. She pulled herself together and took a step toward the
drunken man herself. “My husband is Nolan, the warrant officer at the
barracks,” she said. “Do you know what he’d say if he knew you were
acting like this? Do you know what they’d do to you if they knew that this
was the way you used the leave they gave you to see your sick wife? You’d
better get back to the barracks. If you don’t you know what will happen
to you.”
Well, maybe the stars had something to do with it, but army discipline
played its part too. The man closed his knife and turned toward the
door. Anna never took her eyes off him until he was safe outside. But
the fellow went back to the barracks and that’s the last Anna ever saw
of him.
Says she: “I had my husband see to it that he didn’t have much time
for visiting before going to France. And when he arrived at the front he
was one of the first soldiers to be killed.”
©—WNU Service.
Pilgrims, Puritans Were
Not Excessive in Dress
For reasons of conscience and
economy, the Pilgrims and Puritans
frowned on extravagance in dress,
according to a writer in the Indiana-
polis News. Massachusetts records
show that each settler was provided
with four pairs of shoes and stock-
ings, two suits of doublet and hose,
four shirts, one woolen suit (leather-
lined) with extra breeches, two
handkerchiefs, one cotton waistcoat,
leather belt, black hat, three caps,
a cloak and two pairs of gloves.
In 1634, laws passed by the Massa-
chusetts general court forbade the
use of silver and gold ornaments,
lace, silk and ruffs. Young men
who defied this law by wearing long
hair and silk were arrested, and
on’e Hannah Lyman, age sixteen,
was haled into court for “wearing
silk in a flaunting manner.”
Before the arrival of the cavaliers
in Virginia, the dress of southern
colonists was not unlike that of the
Puritan. As the colonists acquired
wealth, they began to order ward-
robes from London. In 1737 Col.
John Lewis ordered for his ward
“a cap ruffle and tucker, one pair
white stays, eight pairs white kid
gloves, two pairs colored kid gloves,
two pairs worsted hose, three pairs
thread hose, one pair silk shoes
\ '':v
laced, one pair Morocco shoes, one
hoop coat, one hat, four pairs Span-
ish shoes, two pairs calf shoes, one
mask, one fan, one necklace, one
girdle and buckle, one piece fashion-
able calico, four yards ribbon for
knots, one and one-half yards cam-
bric, one mantua and coat of white
string.”
Men among the earlier settlers
wore their own hair, the cavaliers
dressing theirs in elaborate styles,
while the Puritans and Quakers
wore theirs plain and long to the
shoulders.
Commuting Death Sentences
The power of the governor to com-
mute a death sentence to life im-
prisonment originated in the second
decade of last century aftei a man
named Jacob Lewis of Zanesville
had been convicted of first-degree
murder and ordered to be hanged,,
says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Up
to this time no person or official
group had even the power of a re-
prieve. But Lewis had influential
friends who made a plea to the leg-
islature for a commutation of his
sentence. After much argument aind
discussion, the legislature passed a
law giving the state’s chief execu-
tive the power to reprieve and com-
mutation of sentence, ^ewis’ sen-
tence was changed to life imprison-
ment
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Bryant, Russell W. The Howe Messenger (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1937, newspaper, May 28, 1937; Howe, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1015303/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .