The Alamance gleaner vm nil ? ? '? si VUL. liii. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 2, 1927. - ? ? NO. 18. ^ HAPPENNINGS OF THE WEEK ....??A ItPIIIPIU Al" I In hi. ' NtWd KtVltW Ul CURRENT EVENTS y Opt Lindbergh Is Recipient of Unprecedented Honors in France. THK notable event of the week end ing May 27 was the completion of Capt. Charles Lindbergh's successful crossing by airplane from New York to Paris at 10:21, Paris time, Satur day night. May 21, after 33 hours 29 minutes In the air. Paris gave the intrepid American flyer a wildly enthusiastic reception, In which there was no evidence of the reported enmity for American con testants In this transoceanic air race that had resulted In the loss of two French flyers, Captains Nungesser and Coll. From the moment his plane came to a stop on Le Bourget flying Held, just outside the French capital, he be came the acclaimed hero of the civ ilised world. In Paris no such tumul tuous scenes have been witnessed since the signing of the armistice at the close of the World war, and for the week following the landing he has been sought for and feted by all classes. The king of Belgium wired him an Invitation to be his guest at Brussels, King George of England ex tended blm an Invitation to visit him In London, organizations of many kinds contended for the honor of be ing host to him; the French govern ment conferred upon him the medal of the Legion of Honor. From Captain Lindbergh's own countrymen came hundreds of offers of employment at fabulous salaries. Motion picture pro ducers, vaudeville theater managers, managers of lecture courses, offered large sums for his services, and If he wishes, it is estimated that he could within the next twelve months easily make a million dollars as a result of bis heroic exploit. So far he has re fused to consider any of the offers, as serting that he had no Idea of com mercializing the flight which he made solely for the purpose of advancing the science of aviation. It is not known at this writing when he will return to America. Before do ing so he will accept the Invitation from the kings of Belgium and Eng Isnd and will visit Stockholm and other European cities. The United States government has offered to bring him back on board a battleship as the guest of the American people and It Is probable that he will accept this Invi tation. Captain Lindbergh covered the dis tance from San Diego, Calif., to Paris -6,725 miles?In actual flying time of 96 hours and 40 minutes. He left San Diego, Calif., on the afternoon of May 10 and arrived In St. Louis?1,600 miles?the next day. After a rest there be hopped to New York?900 miles? crossing the American continent In an actual flying time of 23 hours and 15 minutes. A/ter a few days' rest he atarted from New York to Paris? 3,660 miles. This Is a new world's ree led for nonstop straight line distance, the previous record being 3,400 miles. ANOTHER event of Importance In the field of aviation was the at tempted flight of the Italian aviator, Francesco de Pinedo, from Newfound land to the Afcores Islands, a distance 1.200 miles. He left Trepassey Bay. *? F.. Monday morning. May 23, but beanie lost In the fog and landed on the ocean some 300 miles from his abjective point and his plane was t?*ed Into port by a sailing vessel fat had picked him up. A MOVE of unusual Importance In ^ the field of international relations the break between Great Britain Wd Soviet Russia following the rev elations resulting from the raiding by foe British government of Arcos, Ltd., foe Russian trading company operat In England, and the official Soviet fride delegation. In the house of com ???* Prime Minister Baldwin an ?otinred that on the basis of Sir Wind j Child's findings in documents in the raid on May 12 the Brit government had decided to break 95 dlDlomatlc relations with Russia. ? me prime minister referred at length to the documentary evidence ower In financial circles, although comparatively little was heard of him In that field. He was an active phi lanthropist In a generous but unosten tatious way., so that almost nothing was known of his benefactions. Wall street estimates his wealth a? more than $300,000,000, basing the es tlmate on the income-tax payments that Mr. Whitney made for the years 1924 and 1925. SOME progre** wjik made at Phila delphia In the effort* of the union miner* and operator* to negotiate a new wage agreement. After two day* of discussion of con dition* In the Penn*ylvania *o?t coal field* and in the bituminou* territory generally a sub scale committee of *1* members each wa* appointed to get down to work and attempt to arrive at a basis for negotiations. It was made clear by both aides, however, that no concrete proposition had yet been advanced. The miner* said the Joint conference was called by the operators and any proposition must come from them. A'rmen Will Resume Fighting Forest Fires J1" little band of former service who annually patrol the great "J** ureas of the West to detect and the fighting of fires will be on 7* Wt ngaln this snmmer despite a "wtaM of planes. I l> ' W"r department, which for the I . "'R,'t years has been furnishing I tti '*5re*? service with machines for A itlPUriK>f,e' has found ? way to get B ?d a shortage and aid a dis treated neighboring branch of the gov ernment. As a result planes will be operated again this summer from Olendale and Sacramento. Calif.. Eugene. Ore., and Vancouver and Spokane. Wash.. In an effort to cut down the $20,iX)0,000 an nual fire loss in the national and pri vate forests. Transporting Are fighting tools and sapplies and dropping them whe^e needed on the firing lines, scouting of fires after severe electrical storms and during periods when smoke and haze obscure the forest from ground look out station* and reconnaissance to de terrnine where best to concentrate Are fighting force* are the chief duties of the forest air patrol. I Fight plane* were used last year to protect the main forest region* of Cal ifornia. Oregon, Washington, western Montana and northern Idaho. From June to September, the season of greatest fire hazard, a total of 483 flights were made for a flying time of 1,002 houra. The coat of the work amounted to $43,539. HELEN WAS ON THE JOB (? by D. J. Walsh.) HAROLD JENNISON resented the strident peal of the door bell. It waa hla afternoon off and he wanted to apend It In peace. Helen should be there to an swer It, anyway. That waa her Job. Harold waa very particular about do ing anything that waa Helen's job? that Is. what he considered to be ber Job. He opened the door scowling. It was a little boy with a basket of veg etables. Before hj had opened his mouth to solicit Harold had said "No" quite ttrinly and shut the door. He settled himself again in the big wing chair he liked so much and spread his paper. Was It going to be impossible to rest even at home, he wondered. Such a good chance, too. with Helen away for the day. She wouldn't be there to keep on asking her eternal questions. Why was he so late getting home'; . . . Yes, he was late?fifteen min utes later than he was last night. . . - She had been so worried about a train wreck or something. . . . What would he like for dinner? Did h < care for the potatoes boiled or fried tonight? Well, she Just wanted to know about It .... She had thought that fried ones would be a change. The tele phone Interrupted his thoughts. He felt like pulling the Instrument from the wall. "Is Jimmy there?" came a strange voice. "This Is Main 6350," said Harold with a great deal of patience. "Oh!" came a peevish voice at the other end and Harold heard the click of the disconnection. "Well, It wasn't my fault that six got the wrong number," snapped liar old to the transmitter. "She might have said, 'Sorry!' at the very least!" He very carefully inserted a thlcl cardboard between the bells then Well, that was that He settled himself tn the wing ehati again. The house was quiet as death It seemed as If some disaster wen Impending. He rose and adjusted thi cushions once more. There was so much he needed t< think out First, of course, there wai Helen. He had known for a uumbei of months now that he no lo.iger care; for her. It wasn't anything be coul< help, you understand, but they ha( simply grown apart Instead of grow |ng closer together. It wasn't hli fault, of course. Neither was It hen ?exactly. Three years before he bad though she would be the only one, but bov young and foolish he bed been f I man is bound to change as the yean pass. He had his business and tin stimulating Influence of keen buslnesi competition. He would natural!; progress. Helen had allowed domes tlclty to get her. She couldn't thlni farther than the butcher's hills of las month. He realized and admitted with i twinge that she had helped him quip a bit. She had been thrifty. It wai that as much as anything that ba< given htm this good start But be wai so sick of her Infernal domesticity He hated to be asked what he wante< for dinner and what h" would have foi breakfast. She didn't seem to reallz that she had repeated herself for thre. yeara on the same subjects. Day afte day. ii sne oniy Knew a mile aoout mi 1 topics of the day. If she would brusl the cobwebs from her mind and us< It be bad oo doubt she might be In terestlng. But It was going to t> hard to tell her. Bather bad for bin to say: "Well, Helen, I am going ti the club to live after this. I am ut terly sick of the sight of you I" IJi winced. It would hurt her, of course Hut what was a man to dot It was worse to stay on and preten. something you did not feel. No, then was oo other woman?not definite!; at least. It was just?all other worn en. They kept so young and Interest ed In life and affairs. He stirred uneasily In his ebalr He looked at his watch. It was pas five and she hadn't arrived yet Wha | oo earth could be keeping bert He removed the card from the be! of the telephone. It whirred Impa tiently. He frowned as he put the re celver to bis ear. Calling, no doubt to tell blm she would be late. Tba was like her. As If he dn't knov j that now. "Oh, Harold," shrieked a womao'i voice. "Something awful bos bap pened. Helen Is on No. 4 and It'i wrecked?In the ditch?" "On No. 41" be repeated dazedly "What was she doing on a train v But the hysterical voice had runi off. He couldn't even tblnk wbo I might have been. He strode up and down tbe room Wbat was she doing on that train any train? Great guns I Could It b that alie was leaving lilinT Why la thunder Should ahe want to leave nlm ?him, her husband? Suddenly be realized the terrible import of that message. She might be injured, dead. Dead I Ills wife lying mangled. He hurried out the door, forgetting even bla coat. Be started the car and dashed down the drive. It was one of bis pleasures to keep the car for his own use. Helen never had It 11 he had allowed her to use It today, his mind accused, she wouldn't be ly ing In the ruins of a wrecked train at this minute?perhaps dead. He followed the road along the tracks, expecting at any minute to come upon the biasing ruins of the wreck. His Imagination pictured varied and terrible panoramas of that choas. Curse it, anywuy. Why dhl he think so much I Only once did Ills thoughts suggest to him very slyly that If Helen should chance to lose her life, thut would be such a simple way out of their mess. He swung the cur violently about as he thought of that. He didn't wont to dwell upon that, twbhgered him that his mind hud played Aim such a trick. He hud gone miles Vnd miles and still no sign of the wreck. All at once theD he knew that he had been going the wrong way. It must be down the line instead of up i He turned and sped through the town age III and out to the other side. It ; was miles and miles and milt: that he { traveled. Ue turned the lights on the cnr and hunched over the wheel, his drawn face turned to the road ahead. I.ivld pictures of Helen raced about his mind. Wlij hadn't he allowed her to take the car? It was as much hers as any one's. Then his fevered mind suggested that they might have taken Helen home by the time. No sooner | had the thought come than his car whisked about and was traveling again toward the city. Lights blazed In the house when he brought his car to a stop. He , dashed, a gaunt, anxious figure, into the hall. He auw Helen come through the room from the kitchen. He saw her come toward him, hut she must be a ghost. Presently she would van ish In a puff of smoke. Sweat stood out In beuds on his forehead. "Where "have you been?" she asked first. "Why do you stare at me so. Harold?hurry?dinner Is waiting. I fried the potatoes for a change," she rambled on In a monotonous voice. Still he looked at her. "The wreck T" be muttered through cracked lips. "Oh. did you hear?" she asked, brightening. "Wasn't It lucky that 1 Just missed taking that train?' Then her face clouded. "There's been some thing that I wanted to say to you. dear?" He mopped his face wearily. Would she say that she was tired, that she wanted to leave? "You won't like It, I am afraid." she began timidly. "That 's the reason i haven't told you before." She stopped uncertainly. Ue tried to tell her that he knew already, that tie understood und didn't blame her at all. He hud been a telfisb brute, iiut the words wouldn't come. \ "I've been giving lectures In the next town on the home and Its du ties," she went on, not looking ut him "That was the reason I usually took the train, but now they want me to take on more work?you had to know. It's In the college/' she explained. Helen, his Wife, giving lectures In a college I He smiled blandly. A won derful woman, his wife. Not anothei like her. He rose and straightened himself vigorously. "Say now. that Is n ifresl Idea? ! ?Where's my coat?" he hoomed. "I i hope the dinner Isn't cold?fearfully s hungry," he went on as he got Int. - the coat she held. e She smiled. The anxious expressloi ? had left her face, a "I didn't know what you wanted fo: * dinner," she apologised. "So I fried t ibe potatoes?" t. "Great! Fried potatoes are great!' be laughed. It seemed so funny. "Do I you want to drive the car mornings e to the college?" he asked finally, f "I can take the train," she mur mured. "But I prefer you to take the car,' he Insisted. "Trains sometimes art wrecked." t ' Made Mattera Won* fie?I made an awful mistake Just now. I told a man I thought the host must be a stingy old blighter, and It happened to be the host that I spoke t t0' | She?Oh. you mean my husband! , Preliminary Drum-Beating "Does your wife ever suffer In si i lence?" "Occasionally, but not until after sh's made the deuce of a row over her grievance."?Boston Transcript. Paith'e Inheritance Reason and faith resemble the two l sons of the patriarch; reason la the - Drat born, but faith Inherits the bless a Ing.?CulverwelL t : ?? On a Tipporary Road, Iraland. (Prepared bv the National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.) IRELAND, which holds such ? se cure place Id many hearts. Is not a large country. The longest line of land which can be drawn Is three hundred miles?from Fair Head, In the northeast, to Mlzen Head, in the southwest. Taking the country as a rough lozenge, the short diagonal from northwest to southeast Is about two hundred miles. The terrain Itself may be roughly divided Into three ports: a mountain ous region In the north, an equally mountainous region In the south, and s great central plain. What you will see as a visitor In Ireland depends on your own mind. I Names, little crannies in cities, will work their white eery mnglc on you. The walls of Derry (Londonderry) will make your heart beat faster, for no gallantry In Frolssart rivaled that of the thirteen apprentice boys who ' locked the gates against James of the Fleeing and held the city for eight long months, not only against King James, hut against famine and pestilence. Things to Sea and Think About. On Lough Erne you will Hnd that Saint Patrlck'a purgatory which en thralled the mind of medieval Europe and which Is still a place of devout pilgrimage. At Bullyshannon you may be for tunate enough to see the salmon, lying packed like sardines, awaiting the op portune moment to spring up the Falls of Asaaroe, springing sixteen feet In the sir against the foaming roaring water. At Muckross tire fantastic cliffs will hold you. In that one named the Mar ket House you will see a blood brother of the rock out; of which the African i' sculptor hewed the fearsome Sphinx. In Donegal you will see the desolate Rosses, a tangle of small lakes and greut granite boulders, and he who loses his way In that desert by night Is the most luckless of beings. The great mountain of Donegal is Krrlgul, and Its white cap Is not snow but white quarts. From Its top, on a fair day, you can see the Scottish Heb rides, Islay and Jura, floating on the water like young brown gulls. From Horn Head, sometimes out of s mist will emerge the reeky battle ments of Tory Island, like something evoked by an enchanter's wund. The roar of the Atlantic crashing into that cavern known as MacSwIne's Gun will | shake the stoutest heart ' Belfast Is about as Irish a city as I'ulsley Is. It Is of no antiquity and, escept for commerce, of no Impor tance; but within easy reach of It are the blue Mourne mountains, tbe great Dun of Downputrlck. where the coun try folk soy that St Patrick, St Brlgtt. and St Columkille are all three burled. Near Castle Upton are some ruined buildings of the Knights Templars, of Interest as a minor establishment founded by the Knights who escaped to Harris. At Antrim Is the greatest round tower of Ireland, nearly one hundred feet high. Near the town is Lough Nengh, the largest lake In the British Isles, bordered with orchards. At llalllnderry Jeremy Taylor wrote his most Important works, and near It, L nt Whiteabbey, Anthony Trollope wrote the autobiography. Nine Glens of Antrim. North of Belfast, at I-a rue, begin the Nine Glens of Antrim: Glennrm, Ulencloy, GlennrilT, Glen Ballyemon, Glenaan, Glencorp, Glendun, Glen sbesk, and Glentow. Near Cushendall Is Osslan's grave. Thackeray called Olenarlff a miniature Switzerland. North of Antrim Is Rathlln Island, or Raghery, as the Gaels call It Tha stormy sea between Irelund and Rag hery la called Sloch-na-mara, or Gnllet of the Ocean, and can only be sailed over in the finest of weather. Here Is Brace's refuge. It Is a gallant little island, with an immensity of birds. It Is mentioned not only by Charles KIngsley, but by Ptolemy. Near Baliycastle Is the famous Car rlck-a-Rede, a ropewalk over a chasm sixty feet wide and ninety deep, a couple of planks lushed together by rope. The handrail, also a rope, swings away from yon as you cross. The Giant's Causeway, near by. Is more curious than beautiful. The best time to see It is in a gale, when the tessellated terraces are assaulted by a cavalry of foam. Parts of It are called by fantastic names: the Honey comb. Lord Antrim's Parlor, the Or gan, the Giant's Loom, the Gateway, and the Lady's Fan. Uowth Is northward, with the small Islands of Ireland's Eye and Lambay. Through Swords and Malnhlde one travels to Drogheda, whose wslls still show the effect of the lord protector's cannon, and whose river, the Boyne, shows so little effect of Ireland's greatest battle. Westward of Drogbedn Is New grange, famous for Its Druid burial mound, wltb a passage of great stones forty-eight feet long leading Into a stone-roofed chamber. It Is the oldest Celtic monument in Europe. The Norsemen are supposed to have rifled It, so that no man knows what It con tained. Taltaght, near Dublin. Is the great burial place of the legendary legions of Parthelon. who died of the plague. ? Kingstown Is so modern as to he vul gar. Bray and Dalkey are pretty little coast town a Wlcklow and Vila off Avoca. Going In Wlcklow, you inter a world of glena, like Glen of the Downs, the Devil's glen, and mountain takes like Toy and Lough Dan. Glendalough, or the "Glen of Two Lakes," as the Gaelic name means. Is a deep, solitary glen In a wild region, the upper lake of which has something terribly sin ister about It Here are the rulDs of seven churches, which have stood for upward of twelve hundred years, and a round tower. It Is the site of the hermitage of St. Kevin. The Vale of Avoca and the Meeting of the Waters are the prettiest spots In Lelnster. The scenery of Lelnster seems to have a feminine, soft quality. The road from Dublin to Klllarney passes through Maryborough and Thurles, In which latter city Silken Thomas, the Earl of Klldare, burned the .great cathedral In 1495 because he thought the archbishop was Inside. Moeroun castle, on the Kerry road, is the birthplace of Admiral 81r Wil liam Penn, the father of the founder of Pennsylvania. Gongane Barra Is a place of the most dark and beautiful aspect. Steep mountains and a lake tike black marble, and trembling silver rivers shining Into the dark water. The English poet, William Words worth, writing about Klllarney, says: "In point of scenery this Is the flnest portion of the British Isles," which Is treason to his own lake country. The name Klllarney means "Church of the sloe bushes." The lakes are three: the Upper or McCarthy Moore's lake; the Middle or Tore lake; the Lower is called in the Gaelic Lougti Leone. In the Gap of Dunloe, the brawling Loe river expands Into little lakes of water remarkable for their blackness. The Golden MacGllllcuddy's reeks and the Purple mountains stand around this district like sentinels.