Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1937 — Page 5

fcp And File j |!t( Os the Yesterdays k O s Interest Today I By ■ W |LLIAM H. ZIEGLER j - oN DVORAK. AMERICAN? Anton Dvorak was a real ■ .....n ill spirit. The poverty Evened horizon of his youth. continued through moat of left no stain upon his ■U |( is hard to picture one in Kje soul was germinating such melodies could be in such Kerty as not to be able to buy ■Tjisper on which to write. ■*Lrr. September 8, 1841. His Ler kept a small inn and was E*lillage butcher. Antons early

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A Modern Press Service Is Bin Scale Importer and Exporter of World News — Flashes Circle (Jlobe In 10 Minutes. OF U. P. * ORIGIN AND GROWTH ■H fnib-d Press was founded line 11. 1907, through the ; M| 'merger of three news services BB wh.ch had served newspapers a the Middlewest, the Pacific Coast and the Atlantic seaboard. ram —o—■■l First U. 1’ serviie delivered M abroad »as to Nippon Deinpo Taushin Sha (Japanese Telegraph News Agencyl in Tokyo. | ■ a IWB. ■ Service to South America be■M pn in 1916; I’. P. is now the ra9 dominant service on that con- | tinent. j M V. P. night service for morn ■ mg newspapers was inaugural ■ ed in 1919. ■H Service to newspapers on the ■■European continent began in ■ am. ■■ i Today United Press serves ■ more than 14<H> newspapers. ■ published in 60 countries and H;territories and printed in 21 ■I languages. maintains 170.000 M iniles of leased wires in the States alone; reports HH imports and exports news on a rale not matched by any other I ten-ice. I II * * ■ I Thia is the first of two 91 stories telling how the United 11 Press reports the world for 'll readers of this newspaper. ■ I Editor. H Cornwallis surrendered at York H town and 49 days later the news I reached England. I Lindbergh landed in Paris and tour minutes iatei teletype writers, in newspapers throughout the en ' tire world clicked out the United Press flash. Around the globe the news raced i by telephone, cable and wireless to more than 1400 newspapers in 50 countries and territories, and ns published in 21 languages. Between the surrender of Cornmils and the landing of Lindbergh lie more than 150 years; but little more than a single genera tion has passed since the beginning of modem methods of newsgathering and distribution. In that brief time has arisen the tradition of accuracy and speed which brings to newspaper read- ’ ers today, the assurance that what they buy is both true and fresh. | The Surrender of Cornwallis was not only late in reaching England hut its truth was doubted. "It was, not authenticated sufficiently." a' diarist wrote, “being only men- ■ tioned in a morning paper in Lon ton." Covering Cornwallis Story in 1937 I Today none would have doubted! the story, for a corps of United’ Press correspondents, led probably by Webb Miller or some other! veteran of war coverage, would have been on the ground to rec-1 ord for today's newspapers and, tomorrow’s histories the precise' "ords of Cornwallis, the terms of | his surrender, its significance, and

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( education wa, mo.tly along mugle . al lines so that he might play m I the family orchestra. The organist and chief musician of the vliiaan t Anton Llehinann, became his friend and teacher. Then to Praaue ...d shin 'of’li ‘°h ' h * friendship of Brahma, whose influence got him a "stipend" from the Kul tur-Minieterlum at Vienna. In 189" he came to New York as Director of the Conservatory but three years later he returned to Prague where he died In 1904. WHY Illi O'CLOCK Tradition tells us the first clock dial was made by Henry Vick in 1370 and It was made for King Charles the Wise. Charles was neither as wise as he looked or as his name indicated. When the dial was submitted for Royal approval,

how it was accomplished. The _ story would have been factual, complete, graphically told. • Its distribution would have been ' in the hands of trained, critical ; United Press editors, working with the swift asurance of experience ► to deliver the report first tersely I for the sake of speed and then in j more complete detail, to newspapi er editors from Reykjavic to Bangi fiofl. Next day a new story may have | burst upon the world and CornII wallis - surrender no longer would j be news, for news is earth's most j perishable commodity. It is destroyi ed by the ticking of a clock. With | the passing of a day it is “stale.” The United Press deals in “toi day’s news today.” I U. P. Delivers World Pageant of News From the ends of the earth U. P. delivers a moving pageant i of the lives of nations, kings, scien- | tlsts, explorers, peoplg. as they make news. U. P. men, from day I to day experience, are attuned to j the changing world scene. From his map-lined office adjoining the big U. P. newsroom in New York, Earl J. Johnson, gen- | oral news manager, directs their movements, reads their dispatches and their confidential reports, praises their scoops, and shares their enthusiasm in the endless pursuit of facts. His staff is old in experience but young in years — citizens of the world with ringside seats wherever the big news is breaking. The first intimation of an imI portant world development sets in ■' motion a chain of activity I throughout the intricate system of men and wires. Each man I knows what he is expected to do, 1 and goes to work on an instant s notice. Suppose a king dies .... From London’s Fleet Street the United Press flashes the word by cable and ocean telephone —to its headquarters in a Manhattan :; skyscraper. I in the New York newsroom, a (cable editor rises from his chair. "Flash!” His shout silences the rattle of the many teletypewriters which, ' at 60 words a minute, have been i rolling out news of the world. I In the momentary pause the I cable editor dictates the brief flash to the tense operators, who pick it up. word by word. In that instant the news has begun its swift journey over the 170,000 mile domestic wire circuits of the United Press, delivered instantly to hundreds of newspapers throughout the land. ! As the flash ends, bells on each jangle, calling attention of teleI teletypewriter set up a demanding 'jangle, calling attention to tele ! graph editors everywhere to the i important story which has just I "broken.” Bv that time other U. P- editors i are flashing the news to Buenos ' Aires. Lima. Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, for client newspapers in J south America, where, as in North | America, the United Press is the I dominant news service. I London already has sent t I flash to Paris, Rome. Berlin. Vi- ■ enna, Madrid. Lisbon, for relay over Europe. Through San Francisco it speeds to Honolulu, Manila, 1 Tokyo and Shanghai. ! Flashes Girdle Globe I In Less Than 10 Minutes i United Press can girdle the

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the king studied It carefully and said: "That is all right with one exception. The figure for four o'of°lV” h ° Uld f ° Ur ° neS ius, '*“ d T our Majecty is wrong,” answered Vick "IV is the proper symbol for four.” “I am never wrong,” thundered the Kink, "take that dial away and correct it.” • • » OR IN ANY HOME TOWN Chauncey Depew in his Memories of Eighty Years says that on one occasion when Senator Jeff. Davis, Populist, from Arkansas, had abused him as the arch associate of bankers and capitalists, in a senate speech, someone told Davis he had gone too far. This alarmed Davis and he crossed over the Isle and said: "Senator De-

Hugh Baillie. President of United Press : globe with such a flash in less j than ten minutes. When the first galvanic shock jof the story has subsided in New York, the instant the fitst terse message has cleared the wires of less vital news, the organization 1 gears itself quickly for what is to follow. Swiftly, quietly and surely i men and machine proceed to send i details of the king’s death, the ! significance to his and other na- ; tions. messages of condolence and comment from world the story of the ruler’s life. ! Newspaper extras are crowding the presses of a hundred cities with the first details. As edition follows edition the United Press flow of news gives each more and 1 more facts to tell the full story of . the “vorld-shaker” on the day it 1 occurs. i A story of such magnitude might j have occurred anywhere. The United Press would have covered it. The whole wide world is this press association’s beat. Key bureaus in the world’s principal cities are i web-centers from which extend lin- ' es of communication to correspon- ' dents in lesser areas. • u. p. Meets Deadline Every 10 Minutes I Constant vigilance is their duty. Where a newspaper must meet no more than a dozen deadlines a day. the United Press must meet a deadline somewhere every ten minutes of the day and night. Its dispatches always are goin to press, always racing to print, for it serves newspapers in every timeI zone of the globe. Consider that at 6 P. M. in New York afternoon editions are just rolling from the presses in San Francisco, moriflng editions are being made up in London, while in Tokyo 'evening paper staffs are | preparing for another day. in ail these parts of the world, and remoter points, newspapers depend on the U. P. for world news. I United Press operates “ 'round the ' clock and round the world." Its 'network of wires and men. with 95 bureaus in the capitals and principal cities, transmit news constantly and with all the speed possible by every agency of communication known to man. Aside from ordinary methods, United Press men have used carrier pigeons, airplanes, speedboats, semaphore signals, in efforts to deliver the news first. (To be continued)

pew, I hope you did not take what I said seriously. I thought you would not care, because It won’t hurt you, and it does help me out in Arkansas.” • • • NEITHER TRUTH NOR POETRY? I left my dad. his farm, liis plow, Because my calf became his cow; I left my dad, 'twas wrong, of course, Because my colt became his horse; I left my dad to sow and reap, Because my lamb became his sheep; I dropped my hoe and stuck my fork, Because my pig became his pork; The garden truck that I made grow Was his to sell and mine to hoe. • • » WEATHER REPORTED First it rained and then it blew, Then it hailed and then it snew; Then it friz and then it thew, And then it rained, blew, hailed, Snew, friz and then anew. • • * WHEN YOU SNEEZE Pelagius 11, a Roman, became Pope in 578. He died Feb. 12, 590 of a pestilence then raging. It was so violent that patients expired suddenly, either with sneezing or gaping. The custom of saying. "God bless you," or in German “Zum wohl sein,” when a person sneezes. is supposed to have originated at that time. • * • HOW TO TRADE HORSES Sandy Legge, one of the characters of southern Wisconsin in the early days, famed veterinarian and successful horse trader, tells the secret thus: "If a man wanted to trade, I told him the weak points of my beastie right awa’. Being sure I hadna’ told the worst faults, he looked for them and paid no attention to what I told him.” A“QUOTE” “Stones and sticks are flung only at fruit-bearing trees."—From the Persians. • * • FROM THE SCRIPTURES Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall the trees’ of the wood rejoice.—Psalm 96:12. FORESEE FIGHT f r’nM'TTVT’TrT rprw ONFI his first proposals. It is believed the new deal would prefer to • postpone that issue until after the 1938 congressional elections when voters have had an opportunity to pass upon the conduct of Democratic senators who opposed the president this year. Some rebels, notably Sen. Frederick Van Nuys. D., Ind., Sen. Royal S. Copeland. D.. N. Y.. Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. D., Mont., and Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney. D.. Wyo., already are convinced that the new deal plans reprisals. With some of these senators in the center of it. congress adjourned in clamorous political bitterness. Hopes for an early return of Democratic harmony were conI siderably diminished. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican national committee said as the legislators scattered that new deal leadership i had “failed the people.” To that extent, he almost duplicated the charge made a day previously by I John L. Lewis, chairman of laI bor's non-partisan league and ' spokesman of the committee for I industrial organization. Lewis said that this session of congress ' demonstrated Democratic leadership could not make good on its campaign promises.

Outline Washington, Aug. 23 — (U.R) — I Here is an outline of legislation which occupied the first session | of the 75th congress: Enacted $500,000,000 Wagner, Steagall housingbill: unemployment census; Farm tenancy; Extension of Civilian Conservation Corps. Reconstruction finance corporation; Hot oil; $2,000,000,000 (B) gold stahiliation fund, dollar devaluation power, neutrality act; NewGuffey Coal act; New sugar quota and new- rail pensions acts; Supreme court retirement act; Lower court reorganization act; Cotton loans; $1,500,000,000 (B) Work relief fund; Miller-Tydings resale price maintenance act; Bonneville dam administration; Tax loophole ! act. Failed Os Enactment Supreme court enlargement. Government reorganization; Wages and hours control; General farm production control; establishment of eight regional authorities similar to Tennessee Valley authority; Anti-lynching bill. The Now York state executive committee of the socialist patty accepted that statement as Lewis' bolt from the new deal. It called upon him immediately to join organization of a Farmer-Labor coalition. The New York socialists charged that labor and agriculture bills had been sabotaged iat this session by conservative I Democrats and said that no mati ler how well intentioned Mr. Roosevelt might be, "the Democratic party machine is largely controlled by such corrupt politlI cal organizations as Tammany i Hall in the north and by numerous reactionary groups in the south.' I Lewis, it was learned, prepared

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for broader participation of labor's non-partisan league in municipal elections this fall and in 1938 congressional contests. He dispatched E. L. Oliver, the league's executive vice-president, on "an extended trip around the country." Oliver wus specifically Instructed to "talk with labor and farmer leaders who are interested in forwarding programs of independent political action " ■ O- 1 ■ — TWO AMERICANS (WNTINUED FROM RACtE also two chest wounds. The elevator dropped sharply to the ground floor from the second floor when the bomb hit. To that fact Billingham may owe his life. Hallett Abend, another New York Times correspondent, had been waiting outside for Billingham beside their car. He found Billingham. picked him up and taking him to the car rushed him to the Country hospital. There he was taken at once to the operating room. But he had lost so much blood, and suffered such shock, that an operation was deferred until tonight. Billingham was born at Nashville. His parents are dead. It I was believed his nearest relatives: lived in North Carolina. A former United States marine, Billingham has lived in Kentucky and West Virginia. The two Americaps were not the 1 only foreign casualties. Claus Eckert, 16. German, son i of the proprietor of a German I bookshop and circulating library, I was killed. Miss Valeria Glasser. I a Pole, and Alfred Brunner, Swiss representative of a chemical company, were wounded. The storehouse bomb again endangered American navy lives and properties. But it was the, Nanking road bomb that struck terror into Shanghai and brought' back vivid memory of the horrible ' bombing of August 14 in which more than 1.000 people were killed ! by one bomb alone and whose total casualties never will be known. Nor may the toll of today’s Nanking road bomb ever be known, because many wounded

Sugar Heiress to Enter Movies | Edmund Grainger ] ©saa f An* j* W ~ K \ -v L K SSIS& - r ■* \ z $ Spreckels’] Member of one of California s exclusive families and heiress to part of the millions made by the Spreckels family in sugar, Geraldine Spreckels, attractive young society leader, is planning to make her him debut under tutelage of Edmund Grainger, noted director Fibn Notables in Court Battle r IK > ’'Wil' \ ISlbr" '’W ’ -*■ ‘ jfj >«ai bSls«_ / & & - m k ; r I - B A i ' Z v/ / UK wfe <• k / / x t P Ml Ah \. I Constance Wort]?] , | George Bre~nt~|t Qg*' \ -v&iAi These photos show George Brent, screen star, and Constance Worth, film actress, in court at Los Angeles where Brent is seeking an annulment of their Tiajuana marriage She is fighting his suit en grounds that it was contracted in good faith and that they ll’»«d together afterward u> Los Angelea

i were treated In homes or offices and not reported to police, and the dead were carted away in trucks. At about the time of the bombi Ing, Miss Josephine "Dodie” Hat- , ton, British dancer born in Shanghai, died at the Country hospital—where correspondent Billingham was taken of wounds she received in the terrllde August 14 bombing of the Palace and Cathay hotel area. • -()■ •- —' ———. ■■ BITTER STRIFE (CONTINUED IMqw W. Hoan, welcomed the convention to the city. George B. Kiebler of Milwaukee, president of the Wisconsin United Automobile workers, and Lawrence Carlstrom, Racine, Wis., secretary of the Wisconsin U. A. W„ also made brief welcoming addresses. Hit And Run Victim At Scene Os Wreck Vincennes, Ind., Aug. 23 — Noble Deckard’s goodheartedness cost him his life at the hands of a hit and run driver near here early yeeterl day. I Deckard, seeing a minor wreck at the roadr-ide, stopped to assist I the driver the wrecked machine, Ed McLain, push the car from the ditch. Ae he did so another machine speeding by struck him and inflictled injuries of which he died two ’ hours later in a hospital. o Farm Has 50 Palomino Horses Reno, Nev. — (U.R) — The largest stables of Palomino hoYses in the world are located at the Nevada stock farm, historic breeding and training ranch for George Wingfield’s famous race horses. The ’ farm, now the state’s biggest dude I ranch, has 50 of the beautiful cream ! colored horses distinguished by I their silver manes and tails. Thirty ’ of them are registered animals. o Bank Deposits In State Increasing Indianapolis, Aug. 23—Deposits ' in Indiana state banks under the

' supervision of the Department of financial Institutions have increased by more than 1132,000,000 since June 30, 1933, according to a report just iesued by the department's division of research and statistics. Total deposits as of June 80, 1937,

Wilkins Joins Search for Flyers — rVi A W ‘ W J i Wl// ’’ ■ ■■*■.’■*. i, •' Sir Hubert Wilkins, veteran of Arctic exploration, is pictured with four members of his crew as he departed from New York for the Arctic wastes in a search for the missing Russian flyers. , Left to right.* Front row, Wilkins, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon and Raymond Booth Back row, Jerry Brown, left, and Russell Hopkins, right. Britain's ‘‘Shirley Temple? ... —s—- — TW r- A j b is JWr Ire " ■ > pair j—aeaaeiJaM t — Britain s "Shirley Temple", Binkie Stewart, poses for a publicity*picture in London Apparently the press agent forgot to supply oars in conformity with baby hands. Little Binkie ia a favorite with British movie audience*, « Play Important Role in China . ”7 w wo iRM a / 9i. . j Ching-Ling iff > If jk j I - j JWs sifcS I —ix ''LLinin V'”- i A: 'U' " ■ ’ Three sisters, named Soong, together rule the destiny of China todav. They have names like the echo of temple bells—Mei-Ling, Ching-Ling and Ai-Ling First named. Mei-Ling, is Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Chinese dictator. Ching-Ling is the widow of modern China’s hero. Dr Sun-Yat-Sen. and Ai-Ling is the wife of Finance Minister Kung *lw hold# the purse strings of China.

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amounted to $404,131,524.97 as compared with deposits of $271,817,996.17 on June 30. 1933. The increase since Juno 30, 1983 has been in excess of forty-olght per cent, and $39,000,000 of this Increase has taken p'ace since June 30, 1936.