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The Alamance gleaner 1 ? "* ? ??? ? . ... VOL. UH. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY JULY 21, 1927. NO. 25. DOINGS OF THF. WFF.K | NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordania Is Fatal -to Hundreds. By EDWARD W. PICKARD HUNDREDS of men, women and children?perhaps as many as a thousand?were killed in Palestine and Transjordania by the severest earthquake that region has experi enced in a hundred years. Thousands were injured and other thousands were rendered homeless. In Jerusalem many famous buildings were seriously damaged, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Hebrew univer sity, the Dome of the Bock, the Ilasil icu, the Russian church, the Bag dudcse synagogue and the government house on the Mount of Olives; but the casualties in the "City of Peace" were few. Elsewhere, especially east and south of the Dead sea, the destruction in towns and villages was almost com plete and hundreds of mangled bodies were taken from the ruins of houses. Half of the town of Nablus was ut terly wrecked and many inhabitants were killed. It ^as reported that 3(10 were dead at Maan, 3(1 at Amman, 72 at Kamleh and 80 at Ludd. In Jericho there was but one victim, but the Win ter Palace hotel collapsed and other buildings were damaged. British military aviators from Trans jordania helped in the rescue of many survivors, and relief work was got ui.der wily promptly. Pope Pius, deeply grieved by the catastrophe, sept instructions to the patriarcldate at Jerusalem concerning relief meas ures. The earthquake was felt in Egypt and caused great alarm but not much damage. On the same day there were severe temblors in Victoria, Aus 'triil in. i' loods following a cloudburst in the valleys of the Gottleuba and Mugiitz rivers, tributaries of the Elbe in Sax ony, killed about 200 persons and devastated the valleys, burying the ruins of villages deep in mud. Troops and hundreds of relief workers were rushed to the rescue, the Red Cross leading the expedition and being/ fol lowed by thje communists, the Fascists, tjie "Steel Helffiets" and the rebub lhwn''Reichsbahniei". forces, all united for once in the 'task of extricating and feeding the haples^ survivors. The same violent storm that struck Sax ony raged along the Alps and Apen nines in northern and central Italy, doing vast damage. Y EVIN CHRISTOPHER O'HIG ^ GINS, vice .president of .the Irish Free State, minister for justice and perhaps the leading man in the gov ernment. was assassinated as he was on his way to church in Booterstown. a suburb of Dublin. Three men tired bullets into his head and body and .escaped in a motor car. O'Higgins. before his death a few hours later, whispered: "I go as Collins went.and as my father went I die as I have lived?-for Ireland. I die at peace with thy enemies and with God. I forgive them all." The brutal murder caused intense h:d;gnation, not only in the Free State bui throughout the world, and mes sages of sympathy were received by President Cosgrave from King George, the duke of Aberoorn for northern Ire tond and many other personages. Ramon de Valera denounced the crime as murder inexcusable from any stand point and said b^ was confident the republican organization was not re sponsible for it Ten men, all said to be connected with irregular organiza tions. were arrested, the charge being tout us senior officers of secret groups toe.v directed the conspiracy resulting to the assassination. One of the pris oner* was a son t>f Count George Plunkett A NOTHER week of debate in the naval limitation conference at Geneva, and no definite results. Great BfUain, still striving to maintain her predominance on the seas but not will tog that the conference should fail. ?nggested a compromise solution of toe cruiser problem. \V\ C. Bridge Genres Rust Tour It Spontored by A. F. L. x<w York.?William Green, prest ('ri* of the American Federation of ?ttlmr charged thai the aim of a del ation of trade unionists, sailing this toonth for Russia, is to bring about JJ*?Snltion of Russia by the United tMt0* arKj tiis organization t(i Qo connection with the move ment. The delegation, he said, is composed 'en trade unionists and a large roan, first-lord df the admiralty, said if the United "States would agree to limit the nurrifeer of 10,000-ton cruisers to ten each for America and England and six for Japan, he would be pre pared to accept the maximum tonnage figures of 400,000 tons fixed by the United States. Mr. Gibson and his colleagues might have reached some agreement with the British with this as a starter, although it was asserted in Washington that our government could not accept Bridgeman's figures. But here the Japanese stepped in with the -flat statement that they would not go above 480,000 tons for cruisers and destroyers combined, this being the total for both categories as suggested in the original American plan. Vis count Saito said his delegation was ready to return home without any treaty, and that if the Americans and British could get together, they might ! as well sign a two-power pact. This, j however, did not suit Mr. Gibson at sill 1 Afr. Cridgeman requested that a plenary session of the conference be .j held on Thursday. At this he, Mr. Gibson and Viscount Saito again set forth the positions of their respective governments in the matter of cruisers, and there was a formal review of wha^ had been accomplisli^tl?if anything. Talking to the correspondents, Mr. Gibson was optimistic. "We luckily hold a middle position" he said. "The Japanese are in full accord with our original figures and we can get an agreement with the British on in creased tonnage totals under consid eration. Now it is up to the British and Japanese to get together." America has not definitely held out for 25 10,000-ton cruisers, Mr. Gibson added. Representatives of the agricul turists in 16 Middle Western states, attending the Northwest farm conference in St. Paul, voted to sup port the McNary-Haugen farm reLief bill until it becomes law, though they were willing it should be revised to meet President Coolidge's objections. Drafted by Congressman Charles Brand of Ohio, the resolutions urg?] that the bill be changed: To permit the President to select nominees for tire federal board to sta bilize prices of farm products, instead of having them chosen by farm organ izations. To make the bill general in its appli cation so as to include all farm prod ucts, instead of the five specifically named in the bill which Mr. Coolidge vetoed. MR. COOLIDGE received a call from representatives of the Western Stock Marketing association who pre sented a plan for extending the co-op erative marketing process to the cattle business, and asked government aid in its organization. Extended to the en tire Western range, as is suggested, cattle would be manipulated just as the fruit growers of California handle their crops, holding them until they get a certain minimum price. Such an organization would compel the packers to bargain for cattle on the ranches instead of in the Omaha and Chicago markets. Among other visitors of the week at the summer White House were a large number of members of the Natlonul Women's party, just from their meet ing in Colorado Springs, who pre sented to the President their demand for "equal rights for women." The farmers of North Dakota also sent a delegation to tell Mr. Coolidge that they are in favor of the St. Lawrence waterway project and a new diversion of the Missouri river waters through the James river valley and to urge the ! early completion of those projects. | I FRANK O. LOWDEN, whose*boom I for the Presidential nomination has just received the indorsement of 10. 000 residents of Muntana. delivered an address before the Wisconsin legis lature. and seemed to make an excel lent impression. He confined his talk entirely to the problems of agriculture and the necessity for stabilization of prices of farm products. Especially vigorous applause greeted these two parts of the speech: "What the farmer asks is that be be given the same right to name a price in the first instance and that he be enabled to acquire an organization which will secure to him the same staff of economists and styles Itself tlie American trade union delegation to Russia. Its report, he said, was j to be made the basis of the campaign for recognition. The following. Mr. Green said, are members r?f the commission: L. E. I Sheppard. president of the Order of ! Railway Conductors, chairman; Wll | liarn Johnston, former president of | we International Association of Ma | ehinists: E. J. Manioc, president of the Order of Railway Telegraphers; I'hil E. Zeigler, editor of the Railway 7 power to maintain that /price which other industries through tfheir superior organization now enjoy*5' "The federal farm board should be able to empower organizations of farm ers to take control of the surplus and to distribute the cost of that operation not only among the members of the co-operatives but among alii the pro ducers, whether they we members or not." HONOLULU is host, for two weeks, of the Institute of Pacific Rela tions, and 106 leading citizens of ten nations bordering on the Pacific or having especial interests in that ocean are trying to arrive at an understand Ing of the causes of friction between East and West. The conference is un official and the discussions are frank and open, with no germane topics for bidden. Nearly 50 Americans are present, in cluding Dr. Kay Lyman Wilbur, presi dent of Stanford university and chair man of the institute; Prof. James T. Shotwell of Columbia university ; Rob ert Dollar, president of the Dollar Steamship company; Mrs. Carrie Chap man Catt, lecturer of New York: Stephen P. Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education, and Archbishop Edward J. Hunna of California. r^MI'I A'PIVfi nili'op r.pnmiEPll Miir shal I'ilsudsky has executed an other coup d'etat In Roland by send ing ids soldiers into the senate and ordering it to dissolve because it would not pass laws lie considered nec essary without debating them. ? 1*11 sudski had given democratic rule a trial for about ten months but It wasn't satisfactory to him so he has resumed the absolute dictatorship. PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER DORAN held a conference with his district administrators in Washington and warned them that honest physi cians and retail druggists are not to be harrassed in the prescription or sale of liquor for medicinal purposes. Prohibition agents are not expected to practice medicine or pharmacy In the enforcement of the Volstead act according to Commissioner Doran, who continued that doctors and druggists as members of responsible profes sions, should be given an ample op portunity to explain apparently Irreg ular practices before they are sub jected to the expense of proceedings to revoke their permits. WHETHER the two $1,000,000 libel suits against Henry Ford will be settled out of dburt as a result of his public retraction of and apology for the anti-Jewish articles In the Dear born Independent is uncertain at this writing, but Aaron Sapiro said he was negotiating a settlement of his ac tion. in Washington there was a mass meeting of Jews called to consider Ford's apology, and eloquent appeal* for its acceptance in good faith were made. But a majority of those pres ent preferred to wait and see if Ford's actions conform to his words. 80 the resolution of acceptance was rejected JOHN DREW'S death in San Fran cisco caused the nation to heave a sigh of regret, for the dean of tin American stage was universally be loved and respected. His entire lif? bad been given over to ttye work of entertaining the public with clean. In telligent and thoroughly artistic act ing and he passed away "in the har ness" though be had readied the age of seventy-three years. Another capable and popular actor, Gregory Kelly, died in New York after several months' illness. DR. F. SCOTT M'BRIDE, general superintendent of tl?e Anti-Sa loon league, has issued a statement saying the league will make every effort to elect a bone dry congress next year, despite the fact that many constitutional lawyers are of the opin ion that any modification of the Vol ! stead act would be held unconstitu tional by the Supreme court of tin* I United States. "The 1928 campaign," be says, "will be carried Into every I congressional district. Candidates who are not known friends of the prohibi , tlon cause will be opposed, while can ! didate9 who are friendly, to prohibi tion will be supported to the fullest j extent." 1 Clerk; Timothy Shea, assistant pres ident of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen and Enginemen; John Brophjr. former president of District No. 2. United Mine Workers; Frank Palmer, editor of The Colorado Labor Advocate (Typographical union); Wil liam Mitch. Indiana state secretary of the United Mine Workers; Albert F. Coyie. editor of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Journal; James W Fitzpa trick. president of the American Artists' and Actors' feder ation. A PARTNERSHIP IN THE TROUT BUSINESS <?) ?jr D. J. Wal?h.) Grandfather prown, who walked on four legs, two of them being canes, and eleven year-old Leslie, were great chums. They would wander down the hill and along the brook and Into the woods, and grandfather would tell about when he was a boy,; how then more than half the country was woods; how his grandfather had told him of wolves cbmlng up to the very door of the log cabin In the night, and how, one one occasion, when his mother was In the best room talking with a neighbor, a bear had ambled into the kitchen and eaten all the Thanksgiving dinner. And Leslie woijld listen with her round eyes full of wonder, and try to picture to her self the almost unbroken forest, with bears and wolves and all sorts of wild animals roaming about In the shadowy depths. On the IJrown place was a "live" spring where the water bubbled up merrily, and from which the overflow wont dancing and sparkling down to the brook at the foot of the slope. One day grandfather stopped at the spring and said musingly: "John an' me used to have good times round here. To think o' the trout we raised In this spring 1 Seems like It was only yesterday." "Raised trout?" queried Leslie, skeptically. "Yes, we were boys then. John was your great uncle?died more'n sixty years ago. Long time. Isn't It?" "But how did you raise them, grand father?" persisted Leslie. "Oh, Just caught Vm In the brook with nets an' put 'em In the spring. Then we stopped up the outlet with wire nettln', so they couldn't get out. Used to feed 'em with grasshoppers an' bugs an' things. Time an' tling ng'ln I've been to SI Hopkins, the butcher, for chunks o' liver an' such meat as he'd give away. My I but didn't they eat." "How old were you, grandfather?" asked Leslie, the glow of a sudden resolution beginning to form In her brown eyes. "Older'n me?"' "Lemme see. I guess I was "bout nine an' Johnny ten. Stlrrin' chaps we was then. Didn't have to go round with two canee." Be laughed regretfully and moved away toward the brook. Leslie walked soberly toy his side evidently trying to solve some prob lem which his words made complex. But as they went on ber face cleared and presently she was racing on ahead In pursuit of an unusually pretty butterfly. Every afternoon grandfather took a long nap and then Leslie played with the chickens or kittens or Towser or went down the slope to gather flow ers. But this afternoon she had some thing more Important In view. She slipped Into the woodshed, got the net he had made for ber to catch butter flies, went down to >he "brook and tried to dip out some of the tiny flsh that were darting about In the water. But the holes In the net were too large and as a ft en as she caught them they slipped through, so that at the end of an hour she returned empty-handed. The next day, when grandfather was asleep again, site tried the net once more. And the next, and the next. Then she hung the net on Its peg In the shed and tried to think of some other plan. She was not going to give tt up this way; not she. She wns eleven and grandfather and Uncle John had been only nine and ten. Grandfather shouldn't know a word about It until the flsh were safe In the spring and the door shut so they couldn't get out Bat In spite of the thoughtful look on her face and her tightly shut 11 pa, two whole daya went by and ahe waa no nearer solving the problem. Then a late spring freshet came tumbling down the valley and helped her. It commenced to rain on Sunday and poured down with scarcely a break until Friday and. In addition to this, there was a rumor of a dam giving way somewhere up In the conn try. Anyhow, the water came rushing and roaring down the valley, "blgh er'n he'd ever seen It afore," grand father declared. The brook became a river; Ita water rose np to the very edge of the spring, and the ledge of rock where they had been accustomed ?o go after mosses and lichens was entirely submerged. It took three days for the water to go down and two more for the ground to become dry enough for Leslie to visit the spring. Grandfather had the rheumatism and said he guessed he wouldn't go along; he'd look over the almanac until she got back. But he had scarcely got bis spec tacle* on his nose when she came racing up the hill with glowing cheeks, and an exultant expression In her eyes. "Why?why! What's the matter, child?" grandfather asked. But Leslie only pressed her fingers against her lips and shook her head. A few minutes later he suw her hurry ing back to the spring with what ap peared to be a piece of wire netting and some bits of boards. At first he thought of following her, then some thing In the almanac engaged bis at tention and he forgot all about 1L The next day the sun came out bright and warm and after breakfast grandfather proposed a walk. It was Just the proposal that was trembling on Leslie's lips, and she caught up her hat and went racing down the slope. Leslie was standing demurely at the spring when be caught up with her and he was about to chide her for running away when his glance fell upon the water. "Small fry?little trout 1" he ejacu lated, wonderingly; "an' hundreds of 'em I Land sakes, child; where did they come from?" "I 'spose the freshet brought 'em down," Leslie answered gleefully. "Anyway, I found 'em here and shut them In. See, grandfather," pointing eagerly to a piece of wire netting placed clumsily In the outlet of the spring. "Yes, I declare! I see It. You're a keen one. Metihe I can fix the nettln' a bit for ye, though". But what ye goln' to do with 'em, Leslie?ruise 'em?" "Y'os, you and I?In partnership, you know," triumphantly. "So we be, so we be?In partner ship," he assented. "I guess you an' I will make a pretty sound firm, eh, Leslie? Whnt I can't do In catchln' grasshoppers 111 make up In buyln' liver an' givln' advice. But s'pose we fix this wire door first." As the weeks went by f!sh-feedlng became one of their regular occupa tions, and It was a question which of them derived the most pleasure from the task. By next spring many of the trout were four or five Inches In length, and grandfather began to get In the habit of shaking his heud as be looked at them. ? "Too many of 'em, Leslie," he said gravely. "When hot weather comes the spring will not be large enough an' lots of 'em will die. We'll likely be obliged to let half of 'em out; but we won't yet. Folks do say as trout fetch a big price nowadays, an' I'd like to fatten "em up good, now we're partners." Before the summer was over the story of Leslie's trout began to get about the neighborhood and there were many visitors who wished to see the spring. Not far away was a summer resort, and one day a gentle man drove In and asked to see the trout It was near feeding time and as he stood by and watched them he explained that he had a small pond on his place which he wished to stock with trout. "Tour flub doom to ho strong and healthy," ho anld, briskly, as they walked toward the house. "I am anx ious to get good stock, and If yon ran spare me a few dozen I will be glad to pay you fifty c^nts each for them." Fifty cental Even grandfather's mild bine eyes opened wider than usual at the offer. Hut only for a mo ment; then he regained control of himself and gravely closed the bar gain. What do yon suppose they did with the money? Why, enlarge the spring and had a smaller one dug nearby, which was to be fed by the old one. Then they remodeled the outlet an<^ caught more fish, and went Into the ' business In earnest. "For I b'lleve there's money In It," said Grandfather Ilrown, sagely. "I.eastways. I hear front's wuth a dol lar a pound at some hotels right now an' In my days they wa'n't scarcely wuth glvln' away." Then there came a "make-believe* far-off look Into his eyes, and he said. Jnst as though Leslie were not there to hear; "Home o' these days a little girl I know will want a sure 'nougb education, an' fish money will come In handy." Eastern- "Coolies" The Term "coolie" or cooly," say* the fhthllnder Magazine, Is from the Hindu "Isull" or "quill," meaning la borer. The coolies are unskilled la borers from India, China and the Orient In general. They were flrst Im ported Into Western countries under contracts according to which they bound themselves to a certain term of service In the United States Chinese Imml grants in general are sometimes called coolies. Brunette? Film Well There are more brunettes than blondes among motion-picture ac tresses because, under normal .condi tions, dark hair and eyes show up better on the screen, according to Liberty. Antitoxin's Victory Thirty-three of every hundred chil dren who caught diphtheria nsed to die before the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin. i Reelfoot Lake, Hade *>y Earthguakg i = Reelfoot Lake, Showing Earthquake Ridges Marked by Trees. (Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington. D. C.) MOST large national lakes of America come Into existence many thousands of years ago, the (Sreat Lakes, most nota bly, being formed during the Ice age. But one sizable body of water. Keel * foot lake, Tennessee, was formed by a' grenf convulsion of nature, before the startled eyes of the first American pioneers on the banks of the Missis sippi little more than a century ago. And now within the past few weeks the Ileelfoot country has been shaken again and'a ridge of gravel has ap peared in a formerly level section. Perhaps I)e Soto, In his wanderings along tin? Mississippi river, saw this country as a vast unbroken wilder ness. As he thrust wearily north ward along the west hank of the, "Fa ther of Waters,'* to the great Indian village of Cnhokfa, be little dreamed that this placid wilderness would within three hundred years be torn I and racked by nature's forces, and that during one of the greatest earth quakes of historical times lakes cov ering tens of thousands of acres would come Into existence overnight. The old Spanish settlement of New Madrid, formed many years after I>e ) Soto had come and gone. did. how ever, play a prominent part in re cording the story of Iteelfoot. for here resided many of our American pio neers whose letters supply the details of that, to them, awful winter. At the beginning of the Nineteenth century this region was called Indian country, and rightly so, for In the rich bottom lands dwelt a tribe of the Chickasaw*, which camped at the base of bluffs that rose 800 feet above the Mississippi, providing the look nut -twiinfm km nee<li>d In n wilderness. Birth of Reelfoot Lake. One of the pioneer* of New Madrid. Kllza Bryan, described the earthquake that mused the birth of Heelfoot lake a* follow*: "The Mississippi first seemed to re cede from it* hank*, and It* waters gathered up like n mountain, leaving for a moment many boats. wfifcH were on their way to New Orleans, on the bare sand, In which time the poor sailor* mnde their escape from I hem. '?Then, rising 15 or 20 feet (>erpen dlcularly and expanding, a* It were, at the same time, the hank* over flowed with a retrograde current rapid a* a torrent. The boats, which before had been left on the sand, were now torn from their mooring* and suddenly driven up a little creek, at the mouth of which they had lain, to a distance In some Instances of nearly a quarter of u mile. "The surface of the earth was from time to time by these hard shock* covered to various depths by sand whhh Issued from fissure* that were ; made In great number* all over this j country. Some of these closed up Im I mediately, after they had vomited ! forth their sand and water. In some (daces, however, a substance resem bling coal or Impure stone coal was i thrown up with the sand. *Tt I* Impossible to say what the depth of the fissure* was; we have reason to believe that some of them , were very deep. "The site of this town was settled down at least l.r> feet, hot not more than a half mile below there does not appear to be any alteration of the bank of the river. "Back from the river larpe ponds, or lakes, which covered a large part of the country, were nearly dried op. The beds of some of them are ele vated several feet above the former hank*, producing an alteration from their original state of 10 or 20 feet, and lately It ba* been discovered that a lake was formed on the opposite side of the Mississippi, In the Indian country, upward ct 100 miles long and from 1 to 6 miles wide, of a depth of from 10 to fiO feet." Several such letters are full of !n^ teresting detail, yet now we know that the facts were greatly exag gerated. For example, the 100-mlle lake is nearer 14 milqg in length and 4% miles In width. Great Area Affected. * This we do know and realise, how ever: That such an earthquake. If occurring at the present time, would probably cause ten times the damage which followed the San Francisco ' earthquake of 1906. Reel foot was not the only lake formed, for large ureas in eastern Ar kansas and nortliwestern Louisiana were partly submerged and a number of small lakes formed. This earth quake, known historically as the New Madrid earthquake, caused a settling and rising of the land over a large territory, and partly demolished the old Spanish settlement from which It was named. General Roger* of Revolutionary fame, living at Rook Island, on the Coney Fork river, at the foot of Cum berland mountains, 200' mile* to the east, saw great hloeks of sandstone, loosened from the top escarpment, 1, 000 feet above the river, crash down the mountain side*. A ftreut area throughout America was affected by this earthquake. Far up In the northern woods of Canada the Indians reported that earth tre mors occurred; to the west in Mis souri and Arkansas, the rejtorts of James' expedition say that the In dians were terrified by the same I quake, while to the southwest, on the Washita river, there was much fear umong the settler*. What occurred In the Reelfoot re gion? What happened to New Mad rid? There were no hard rocks In that section; ull the country was cov ered hy rich loams and clays, and un i der this surface soil was layer after layer of loose sand and clay, down to a depth of 2,000 feet. The earth wave* came up through these 2.000 feet of sand and clays, and where breaks occurred on the surface fsiured streams of quicksand from deeply buried layers, veritable sand geysers. The great forest trees moved, with branches interlocked, like fields of grain before the wind. Their trunks, not having the suppleness of youth, fell prostrate or reclined at grotesque angles to the earth. The rhythmic motion of the earth is well shown by the parallel lines of cypress trees growing on the low crests of the muny rolls In the Reel foot lake region. An airplane view I brings to life again (lie roll of the earth ns It occurred more than a cen ttiry ago. 1 During the last 100 years the Mls si-slppl river has continued to ravage the areas along Its course during the Hood sou sons. While the river writhed hark and forth across its mighty plain, the newly-horn Reel foot lake grew more beautiful, and nature be gan to heal scars on the landscape which were Inflicted at its birth. Its clear, brownish water became the home of many flsh and its surface was dotted with Illy pads, called "yonco pins," whose gorgeous flowers had the Imprisoned yellow of a river sunset. To this haven of beauty, teeming with plant growth and flsh, soon came, on their yearly 20,000-mile pil grimage, the wild denizens of the air ?ducks, geese, water turkey or cor morants, coots and the White heron, while the, rail, gaillnule, bitter* and teel nested among the saw grass and the lily pads. Some fifteen years ago the state et Tennessee, reellatag the value of Mat foot lake as a source of revetnsa, made It a flsh and game pusses*.
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