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THE HOWE MESSENGER
Friday, April 15, 1938
News Review of Current Events
HOUSE VS. PRESIDENT
^Administration Makes Great Concessions to Save
"Dictator" Bill . . . Senate Gets Tax Measure Built
to Aid Business
Members of the house of representatives were swamped with tele-
grams from citizens all over the country urging that they vote against the
administration’s reorganization bill which, it was feared, would pave the
way to an American dictatorship. Above is seen Congressman John J.
O'Connor of New York, a leading foe of the bill, reading some of the mes-
sages he received.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Tumult Over Reform Bill
‘IT7rHEN President Roosevelt re-
VV turned from Warm Springs he
found that a crisis confronted the
administration forces concerning
the reorganization
bill pending in the
house and that there
was danger that the
opposition to that
measure would de-
feat it. He called to
the White House a
number of leaders,
and it was decided
to push the bill
through with a min-
imum of conces-
sions. Representa-
tive Sam Rayburn, majority leader
of the house, told the President
it would pass with amendments to
which he had agreed. One of these
would enable congress by concur-
rent resolution to override any re-
organization proposition the Presi-
dent might put through. Another
would exempt the bureau of edu-
cation from the scope of the bill.
Representative John J. O’Connor
of New York, one of the leading op-
ponents of the measure, admitted it
probably would get by with the con-
cessions offered, but said he would
vote against it even if the title alone
remained. He and practically all
other members of the house were
flooded with telegrams and letters
urging that the bill be defeated.
Even after passage by the house,
the measure would have to go to
conference and many days or weeks
of debate could be expected there.
Eventual enactment of the bill was
to be expected but the probability
was that it would then have lost
most of the “dictatorship” features
which seem so repugnant to many
thousands of American citizens. The
popular opposition had not been less-
ened at all by the President’s ac-
tion in making public a letter to an
unnamed friend in which he dis-
claimed any intention to become a
dictator and asserted he has none
of the qualifications that would
make him successful in that role.
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"Help Business" Measure
■\X7HAT Sen. Pat Harrison called
* Y the “help business” measure,
being the revenue bill as rewritten
by his senate finance committee,
was submitted to the senate.
Though Harrison said he expected
its speedy passage, others believed
at least a full week of debate would
be necessary.
Sen. Charles McNary of Oregon,
minority leader, promised to support
the bill, saying, “I think it is a great
improvement over the house ver-
sion. I am in favor of speeding
its passage to help business.”
The three chief matters in con-
troversy were:
Administration opposition to elim-
ination of the undistributed profits
tax and drastic modification of the
capital gains and losses tax.
A proposal by Sen. James P. Pope
of Idaho to attach as a “rider” to
the tax bill an amendment to im-
pose $212,000,000 of processing taxes
on manufactured cotton, synthetic
fabrics, rice, tobacco and wheat.
Amendments by Sen. Robert M.
La Follette of Wisconsin to broaden
the tax base.
Sloan Hits Government
A LFRED P. SLOAN, JR., chair-
man of the board of General
Motors, reported to the stockholders
that the corporation’s earnings for
1937 were lower. And he declared
that the government’s policy toward
business had caused a lack of confi-
' /
dence which was largely responsi-j
ble for the business recession.
Sloan asserted a sharp decline in!
consumer sales began in November,
and in commenting on the slump as
it appeared “through the eyes of in-
dustry,” he named two factors.
"One influence,” he told the stock-
holders, “was the fact that there
had been developing a growing lack
of confidence and a fear as to the
future of American business enter-
prise, due to the attitude of govern-
ment toward business, and econom-
ic policies affecting business.”
The other influence discussed by
Sloan as responsible for “throwing
the domestic economy into the vio-
lent and unprecedented decline”
was what he described as a “radi-
cal” increase in pay rolls for indus-
try as a whole in the early part of
1937. In some important industries,
he said, this increase was extended
to an “uneconomic degree.”
At his own request Mr. Sloan has
been eliminated from further par-
ticipation in the profits under the
corporation’s bonus plan.
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Bigger Dreadnaughfs
T TNITED STATES and Great Brit-
ain advised each other that they
would invoke the escalator clause of
the London naval treaty and would
build dreadnaughts
larger than 35,000
tons. The British also
notified Ge r m a n y
and Soviet Russia
of their decision.
Both nations based
their action on Ja-
pan’s refusal to dis-
close her naval con-
struction plans.
France, third sig-
natory to the treaty,
Senator Clark announce(j she would
continue to adhere to the 35,000-ton
limitation “so long as no continental
power departs from that standard.”
Secret hearings on the $1,100,000,-
000 naval expansion bill were begun
by the senate naval affairs commit-
tee, with Secretary of State Hull and
Admiral Leahy, chief of naval op-
erations, as the first scheduled wit-
nesses. Chairman Walsh said open
hearings would be held later.
Opponents of the administration’s
“big navy” program are rather nu-
merous in congress, though prob-
ably in the minority. One of the
most consistent of them is Senator
Clark of Missouri. Commenting on
the invoking of the escalator clause
concerning battleships, he said: “It
is just the' preliminary announce-
ment of a world-wide naval build-
ing race.”
The maneuvers of the United
States fleet were transferred from
Alaska to the equator for the second
phase. In the “battle” for posses-
sion of the Hawaiian islands the
fleet lost eleven flyers and three
$100,000 bombing planes.
Loyalist Spain Split
CPANISH insurgents are, at this
^ writing, near the accomplish-
ment of Franco’s great objective,
the splitting of the territory held
by the loyalists in the eastern part
of the country. They captured the
ancient city of Lerida, known as
the key to Catalonia.
Further south the rebels were al-
most to Tortosa and their vanguard
was actually within sight of the
Mediterranean sea.
All along the Catalonian front the
government troops fought desper-
ately, but it seemed their struggle
was hopeless and observers be-
lieved the war was nearing its
end.
Rep. Rayburn
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Improved
Uniform
International
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
LESSON ^-
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union. *
Lesson for April 17
THE VICTORIOUS SERVANT
(Easter)
LESSON TEXT—Acts 2:22-36.
GOLDEN TEXT—This Jesus hath God!
raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
—Acts 2:32.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Peter’s First Ser-
mon.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Peter’s Greatest Ser-
mon.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR
TOPIC — Winning with the Victorious
Christ.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT
TOPIC—The Risen Christ Our Hope of
Victory.
"Up from the grave He arose
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes;
He arose a Victor from the dark
domain,
And He lives forever with His saint3
to reign;
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!
Let the glad chorus swell the good
tidings that the One who humbled
Himself to become the servant oi
all is the “Victorious Servant”—yes,
the Victorious Lord!
Easter is the great holiday—a real
holy day of the Christian church.
We rejoice in the incarnation, for
only as the Son of God identified
Himself with the human race could
He bear our sins on Calvary’s tree.
We keep the cross before us, for
only as He died did He make atone-
ment for our sin, but above all we
observe the resurrection, for had
He not risen for our justification we
would indeed have been without any
hope. Ours is a resurrection faith;
let us live it in resurrection power.
Life is so serious in its respon-
sibilities and burdens, so often dis-
appointing in its trials and sorrows,
that we need to sound the note of
victory. But it must be real victory
and it must be assured at the cru-
cial point where all the hopes of
man find defeat—at death. Only the
Christian has the assurance of vic-
tory there, but, thank God, he does
really have it in our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Turning aside from our studies in
the Gospel of Mark for today we
consider together the sermon of
Peter on,the day of Pentecost. He
declares Jesus to be:
I. Approved by Mighty Works
(v. 22).
Theories may have validity only
to the man who accepts the author-
ity of the one who proclaims them,
but facts are stubborn things, the
reality of which no man can deny.
There are those who speak about
the Lord JesUs as though we asked
them to accept Him on the basis of
our claims for Him as the Son of
•God. They forget that the facts of
history—from the hundreds of years
before His incarnation when the
prophets spoke of His coming, down
through the account of His earthly
life, death, and resurrection to
which we may well add the ines-
capable argument of Christianity as
it stands in the world today—all
speak of Him as the Son of God.
Our Saviour is indeed “approved of
God unto” every one who wants to
believe “by mighty works and won-
ders and signs.”
in. Raised Up by God (w. 24-32).
The cross was not an accident.
Jesus did not die as a martyr to a
noble but hopeless cause. He came
into the world “to give his life a
ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28).
He said, “I lay down my life . . .
No man taketh it from me, but I
lay it down of myself. I have power
to lay it down, and I have power to
take it again” (John 10:17, 18).
But the fact that the cross was in
the eternal plan of God in no way
justifies those who slew Him.
Though they were fulfilling the
divine purpose, they were actiiig as
free moral agents fully responsible
j£or their wicked deeds.
III. Raised Up by God (w. 24-32).
“It was not possible that he should
|be holden” of death (v. 24)—what
a beautifully final and positive state-
jment. It was an impossibility that
Christ should remain in the grave,
and it is the absolute assurance of
Scripture that we who “be dead with
him shall also live with him” (II
Tim. 2:11). To the believer, the one
who is in Christ, the resurrection of
the Saviour is the guarantee that
we shall be raised. Christ is the
first-fruits of them that sleep in the
grave. (I Cor. 15:20.)
Peter in his sermon turns to the
Scriptures to prove the resurrec-
tion referring to the prophet Joel
as well as to the Psalms of David.
It would be well for us to do like-
wise on this Easter Sunday of 1938,
for we have infinitely richer re-
sources, for in our hands is the New
Testament with the story of the res-
urrection and all the references of
the epistles to this glorious truth.
Use your whole Bible as you teach
the lesson.
IV. Ascended and Exalted (v. 33).
"Look, ye saints! The sight is glorious:
See the Man of Sorrows now;
From the fight returned victorious.
Every knee to Him shall bow:
Crown Him! Crown Him!
Crowns become the Victor’s brow."
“He humbled himself . . . Where-
fore God hath highly exalted him”
(Phil. 2:8, 9). Read Philippians 2:
5-11 as a fitting close to this glorious
lesson.
Toleration
The more readily we admit the
possibility of our own cherished con-
victions being mixed with error, the
more vital and helpful whatever is
right in them will become.
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WATER- the Elixir of Life
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
6 East 39th St., New York.
F ALL the elements required to support life and maintain
v-J health and efficiency, water takes precedence. Without
it, the protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and vitamins,
which build and repair tissues, provide motive power for the
body engine, and regulate the complex processes necessary
to existence would be utterly useless.
Water is the magic stream <$>-
through which all nutritive
elements are carried into and
through the body and there
held in suspension. It is the
ever-ready messenger which
distributes heat, moisture and
body-building material, where
and as it is needed.
★ ★ ★
Man Is a Sponge
Our bodies are like water-logged
Sponges, for we carry water to
the limit of our ca-
pacity. A human
being is more than
two - thirds water,
and this proportion
must be main-
tained, if health
and strength are to
be preserved.
There is enough
water in a person
weighing 150
pounds to fill a 15-
gallon barrel. Muscles, liver and
kidneys are about 80 per cent wa-
ter, the brain 85 per cent. Even
bone. is made up of more than
one-third water, so you can see
that the old adage “dry as a
bone” is not strictly accurate.
No cell can function unless it is
constantly bathed in fluid. Fur-
thermore, the cells depend upon
water to transport their foods
through the blood. This alone re-
quires ten pounds of water in
constant circulation.
* We may term these functions
an incoming service. But it is
equally important as an outgoing
stream. The cells need water to
flush away their waste products.
And if the surface of the lungs is
not kept moist, there can be no in-
take of oxygen, no output of car-
bon dioxide.
Without water, no waste would
be carried out of the body. Poi-
sonous substances would remain
to wreck the system within a short
time. Water flushes the countless
channels of physical existence—
even while we sleep, for it con-
stantly passes from the body
through the lungs and skin, as
well as through the bowels and
kidneys.
★ ★ ★
Water Starvation
Where do we get all this water?
When we are thirsty, we take a
WE OFFER ★
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edge and experience of C.
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for 30 year^ has exerted a wide
influence on the food habits of
this nation, are now available
to homemakers through the se-
ries of articles now appearing
in this newspaper. These dis-
cussions are as fascinating as
fiction, as up to date as to-
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thoritative. For no matter what
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cussion, C. Houston Goudiss
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tion to the study of food, both
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a better nation. Sharing these
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assist in carrying out our aims
—to be the best available guide
in the most important of all
matters that affect the homes
of the readers of this riewspa-
per—for health, happiness and
prosperity depend first of all
upon food.
★ Every homemaker will
want to clip these articles, and
save them. She will find them
invaluable aids in keeping her
family properly fed.
drink and there the interest of
most people ends.
Few individuals give proper
consideration to supplying the
body with all the water it needs.
Yet, when the water content of
the body diminishes, health and
life are in danger. A loss of 10
per cent of body water is a serious
matter arid a loss of 20 per cent
is usually fatal.
It is only in rare instances—
such as when lost in a desert—
that man actually dies of thirst,
for even when no fluids are drunk,
water is consumed with food. But
all about us we see men and wom-
en suffering from the effects of
water starvation. Some indica-
tions of this are dryness of the
skin and lips, mucous membranes
and scalp. There is also danger
of damaging the kidneys which re-
quire water to flush away the acid
products of metabolism. And very
often constipation can be traced
to a deficiency of water, which is
necessary to soften the contents
of the intestinal canal.
None of these ill effects may be
feared if you take enough water.
★ ★ ★
How Much Is Enough?
A healthy, normal individual re-
quires about four quarts of water
every 24 hours. That requirement
varies somewhat with the season.
In hot weather there is a greater
elimination of water through per-
spiration and that loss must be
replaced.
However, it is not necessary to
drink four quarts of water a day.
For part of our needs are sup-
plied by food. The body draws
upon three sources for its water:
First, water taken as a drink or
in other liquids; second, water
supplied by foods, especially fruits
and vegetables, for although solid
foods appear dry, most of them
are in fact from 75 to 95 per cent
water; third, water formed in the
tissues in the combustion of fuel
foods. Fat gives the most water
when burned. In fact, it produces
more, water than the weight of
the original fat. Sugar gives the
least.
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Foods Rich in Water
A half-pound potato contains
nearly a full glass of water. Some
other foods that are more than
70 per cent water are asparagus,
berries, string beans, cabbage,
cauliflower, celery, cucumber,
eggs, citrus fruits, cherries,
grapes, melons, apples, raw and
cooked greens, milk, onions,
cooked green peas, boiled pota-
toes, sauerkraut, shell fish, meat
stews, tomatoes and squash.
Foods containing less than 30
per cent water include butter,
cakes, candies, ready-to-eat cere-
als, crackers, dried fruits, nuts,
potato chips, sausage, bacon, syr-
ups and zwieback.
"At "At tAt
Avoid the Dry Habit
In addition to the water con-
sumed with food, every normal
individual should drink about six
glasses of liquid daily—as water,
milk, coffee, tea or other bever-
ages.
Most people drink far too little
water. Women often have the mis-
taken notion that water will make
them fat. To demonstrate the fal-
lacy of this idea, a world-famous
physician once remarked that if
that were true, poor people would
long ago have adopted the prac-
tice.
It is possible to drink too much
water and those who are suffering
from disease should be guided by
their physician in determining the
amount required. But most nor-
mal people could increase both
mental and physical efficiency by
taking more of this magic fluid.
★ ★ ★
Drink Water with Meals
The question is often asked—“Is
it wise to drink water with
meals?” The answer is “Yes.”
Have You a Question?
Ask C. Houston Goudiss
C. Houston Goudiss has placed at
the disposal of readers of this news-
paper all the facilities of his famous
Experimental Kitchen Laboratory in
New York City. He will gladly an-
swer questions concerning foods, diet,
nutrition, and their relation to health.
You are also invited to consult/ him
in matters of personal hygiene. It’s
not necessary to write a letter unless
you desire, for postcard inquiries
will receive the same careful atten-
tion. Address C. Houston Goudiss at
6 East 39th Street, New York City.
There is evidence that the drink-
ing of a reasonable amount of wa-
ter with meals by normal individ-
uals stimulates the secretion of
gastric juice, thereby improving
digestion. It has also been dem-
onstrated that it aids in the ab-
sorption of food by the body and
retards the growth of intestinal
bacteria.
The homemaker should be just
as conscientious in providing her
family with sufficient water as
with adequate amounts of the oth-
er food substances. For water
must be included in the list of es-
sential food constituents. It is in'
truth, the ELIXIR of LIFE.
C. D. L., Jr.—Pyorrhea seems
to be associated with a mild vita-
min C deficiency which has gone
on over a long period of time. To
obtain adequate amounts of vita-
min C, you should eat plenty of
citrus fruits, tomatoes, strawber-
ries and raw, leafy vegetables,
such as cabbage.
Mrs. S. T. R.—Answering your
question as to what is the most
efficient time to begin reducing—
the proper time is when the
weight first begins to climb above
normal. Most people wait until
they are 20 or 30 pounds over-
weight and then reducing becomes
more difficult.
Miss T. P. G.—Yes, there is a
stimulant in cocoa that closely re-
sembles caffeine in coffee. But a
cup of cocoa contains less of the
stimulant than is found in a cup
of tea or coffee.
Mrs. A. R. M.—No, milk is not
fattening. Women especially fear
that milk will increase their
weight, but this fear is not justi-
fied, since a pint of milk, or two
large glasses, only supplies 340
calories.
© WNU—C. Houston Goudiss—1938.
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