THE ALAMANCE GLEANER |
VOL. UV. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 13, 1928. NO. 45. |
WHAT'S GOING ON
i j :
'NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Congress Meets and Hears
the President's Message?
Hoover's Progress.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
CONGRESS assembled Monday for
the short session and both houses
adjourned almost Immediately In re
spect for members who had died.
Next day they got down to business
and received the President's message.
In this, which was by way of being
his valedictory, Mr. Coolidge reviewed
the progress of the nation during the
live and - one-half years that he has
been Chief Executive, and painted an
entrancing picture of the present
prosperous condition of the American
people. But he put forth a warning
that while we are enjoying unprece
dented < peace and prosperity, "It Is
too easy under their Influence for a
nation to become' selfish and degen
erate."
Of bis recommendations to congress
these are the more Important:
, A system of farm relief consisting
of a federal farm board and stabilisa
tion corporations to handle crop sur
pluses, fjpanced In the beginning by
a government revolving fund.
Passage of the bill providing for
fifteen additional cruisers and one
airplane carrier, but without the re
quirement for laying them down In
three years.
Ratification of ftie Kellogg multi
lateral treaty for the renunciation of
war as an Instrument of national
policy.
A more effective law to promote the
consolidation of the railroads Into a
few great systems.
On .Wednesday President Coolldge
sent In his annual budget message,
and Im if he asked that all proposals
(or new expenditures of a substantial
character be rejected In order that a
threatened deficit In both the current
and the next fiscal years may be
avoided. The budget for the fiscal
year 1030 calls for expenditures of
$3,780,710,047, leaving the treasury
with an estimated surplus of $60,378.
1S2. The President said that while
this surplus would be small, neverthe
less It was satisfactory Inasmuch as
It points to a balanced budget He
said there are no Immediate prospects
of further reduction in tax rates.
President Coolldge referred to the
fact that bonds of the French gov
ernment aggregating more than 400
millions, given In payment of surplus
American War supplies, will mature
In the latter part of 1020. In case the
French government fails to' ratify the
war debt funding agreement which
merges the war supplies debt with Its
other obligations to the United
States, the President suggested that
the amount due chould lie applied to
the retirement of our war debts In
stead of being available for current
expenditures. ,
OECRETARY of the Treasury Mel
^ Ion In his annual report set
forth the prosperous conditions In In
dustry and finance. Figures of In
dustrial production show a decrease
of 3 per cent for the fiscal year ow
ing to a decline In activity during the
latter part of the calendar year 1027,
but a recovery tmk place In the early
part of the eaiendar year 11)28 and
has continued.
In Attorney General Sargent's year
ly report the most Interesting portion
wns that concerning prohibition en
forcement, prepared by Mrs. Wllle
brandt. This admitted frankly that
the government's efforts to check the
smuggling of liquor across the Cana
dian border have bgen of little avail
and that the traffic ft Increasing.
EXCEPT for the necessary supply
btlla, congress Is not expected to
pass much legislation of major Im
portance at this session /But mem
bers of both bouses were quick t6
get their pet schemes to the front.
In the senate the Boulder dam bill
was unfinished business and Senator
Johnson of California was permitted
to get It In ? favorable parliamentary
position, the original senate bill being
substituted for everything In the bill
Passed by the house Inst session lft#^
the enacting clause. It waa believed
the debate on the measnre and nu
merous pending amendments wdsld
take two weeks. In his message ;the
President Indicated his dissatisfac
tion with this legislation and Ijtt!
mated he might veto It unless It ward
mode to comply with certain condi
tions.
Senator McNary of Oregon Intro
' duced a new farm relief bill which in
! general follows the lines of the much
vetoed McNnry-Hougen bill, but omits
the equalization fee. It Includes a
provision for a stabilization corpora
tion such as was recommended by Mr.
Hoover. While McNary and some oth
er senators hope to get sotion on this
bill during the present session. It Is
the general opinion In congress that
nothing In that Una will be accom
plished until the special session which
Mr. Hoover promised to call.
Representative Britten's at
tempt to bring about an Inter
parliamentary conference with the
British on naval limitation was given
the approval of the house naval Rffnlrs
committee, of which he Is chairman,
after he had energetically defended
hla action In addressing Prime Min
ister Baldwin directly .Instead of
through the Department of State. Mr.
Baldwin's reply, which was sent llrst
to Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and
which Secretary Kellogg declined to
? receive, was later transmitted to Mr.
Britten. In It the prime minister said
that the congressman's suggestion was
Interesting but that he could say or
do nothing more about It because the
United States government bad not
been consulted.
\yf R- AND MRS. HOOVER and their
Ij* party made tbelr first Sooth
American stop at Onayaqoll, Ecuador.
To reach the port they were trans'
ferred to the cruiser Cleveland and
sailed for seven hours up the Guayas
river. President Ayora and other of
ficials met tbera at the pier and the
army and school children paraded
through the gaily decorated and
thronged streets. At a banquet' the
President and Mr. Hoover made ap
propriate speeches, and nest day tho
party, laden with gifts from the PVcua
doreans, was on Its way to Peru,
escorted by a Peruvian cruiser. As
Mr. Hoover stepper ashore In Oellao
Wednesday nine airplanes swooped
above the harbor and thousands of
citizens Joined the officials In (retting
blm. Troops escorted him along- the
concrete' road to Una, where be
called formally on President logula,
visited the famohs cathedral Jn which
Is the tomb of Plsarro. and was en
tertained at a feast In his address
Mr. Hoover said that commercial air
plane service between North and
South America Is thp hey to new un
derstanding and friendship and he
predicted that such a service wfll be
realized within another twelve months.
On the way from Pern southward the
Maryland made a brief stop at Anto
fogasta, Chile, where an official party
from landlocked Bolivia was on hand
to meet the President-Elect Valpa
raiso was the next port reached.'
There and at Santiago the Chileans
extended themselves In their welcome
to their distinguished guests.
SOUTHERN Chile experienced a ter
rific earthquake that killed mora
than two hundred persons and
wrecked the town of Talcs and Its
port. Constitution. The temblor
broke a big dame* at Barahona and
forty were drowned In the rush of re
leased waters. Fifty more were
killed In a copper mine. The govera
ment was quick to send adequate' re
lief forces and guards to the scene of
the disaster.
OfflLLPUI. physicians and his own
d brave spirit enabled King Odorge
of England about' to bold hie own
against the attack of Inflammation of
the lungs, but his heart was rdther
weak and the doctors did not conceal
the fact that he was still In danger.
Tuesday the king signed an order cre
ating a royal commission to perform
his duties during his Illness. Be
uemed Queen Mary as ttt head, the
other members being the prince of
Wales. the dukV of York, tbSf ?dh
bishop of Canterbury. Ismd
lor Hallsham and Prime Imalmer
Baldwin. This tsvnot a regency but a
council of state with limited lo-swu
to exercise eome functions ef royalty.
? r?
chiefly the signing of documents, com
missions and acts of parliament. The
prince of Wales was conveyed by the
fast crnlser Enterprise from Dar-ea- ?
Salaam and reached Sues -Friday
night He planned to land at Brindlsl
and {he Italian government offered a
special (rain to carry hMs from there
to Calais by the shortesf route. The
dnke of Gloucester went from Bula
wayo to Capetown and sailed from
there on the steamship Balmoral
Castle Friday.
Field marshal sir william
ROBERTSON took a nasty slap at
the United States when addressing n
meeting of the League of Nations
union conference In London. "Dis
trust and jealousy still prevail an<!
nations seem to learn little or nothing
from the experience of ten years ngo,"
he said. "I stilt fall to see how war
can ever be the meajis of bringing
lasting peace. France and Italy still
consider the maintenance of large
armies a national necessity. Rnssls
continues to keep formidable military
forces. Germany Is fretting over
what It considers Its defenseless posi
tion. America, Influenced by Imperial
istic tendencies, apparently means,
whatever happens, to continue Increas
ing Its navy, and official utterances on
the question bear close resemblance to
those claims we were accustomed to
Jiear made In Germany previous to
the tragedy of 1014-18."
The same day Ambassador Hough
ton, gt the annual dinner of the Pil
grims society In I-ondon, assured
Great Britain and Europe that Ameri
cans. and other peoples of the west
ern hemisphere are rsaUy lovers of
peace, and he pointed out that the
5,000 miles of unfortified and un
guarded American-Canadian frontier
are proof sufficient to the'world that
two peoples ran live side by side not
armed against each other.
ONE of the frequent*.peasant up
risings against the HSvlet govern
ment of Russia has last been sup
pressed In the Minsk district by the
chekn punitive-detachments and sixty
of the Insurgents had been executed
at last accounts. Before they were
routed the rebels had* Interrupted
railroad communications with Poland,
burned 8ovtet model farms, murdered
Cpimnunlst village officials and am
bushed -the tax collector*. The Rus
sian grain collections for November
are said to have been only a third of
the anticipated amounts and the gov
ernment Is alarmed by the decrease
In Siberia, the Urals and Caucasus.
NEARLY ? score of sOdals of Ca
nadian distilleries were Indicted
by a federal grand Jo 17 In Buffalo,
N. Y., as a step In fresh efforts to stop
the liquor smuggling across the bor
der. Thirty true Mils yfere returned
charging conspiracy to smuggle whisky
and other Intoxicants Into the United
States. Fn Detroit the government Is
uncovering a $2400,000 rim liquor
conspiracy that Involves the wholesale
bribery of customs border patrol In
spector and guards by the boose run
ners. Already twenty or more of the
Inspectors bars been arrested and
startling confessions bars been ob
tained.
ANOTHER big bank merger In Chi
cago baa been arranged. The
First National and Its subsidiary, the
First Trust and Barings, are to be
merged with the umou Trust com
pany. This consolidation win giro
Chicago two of the largest hank* la
tbo United States. Total aaaeta of
the First National-Union Trust com
bination will approach $000,000,000.
total deposits will be Marly $300,000.
000 and capitalisation win be about
$70400400. It wlH be second only to
the recently announced Continental
Illinois Merchants merger.
STRIKING metal worliws and their
employers of the Ruhr district la
Germany agreed, nndtr pressure ef j
the government, to abide by the nrM 1
t ration of Minister of the Interior
Severing, and the plants have been J
reopened on tbo previous wage scale
pending hip decision.
Ezra meeker, tbo' last snmvor
of the Oregon Trail pioneer* and
a most picturesque Agora, died Mar
week In Seattle at the Age of ninety
seven years. Ha took his wife and
Intent child em tbo trail In I89Z
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Marked Progress in
Aviation Daring Year
Forecasting the nse of all-metal
planes and the 'day when "the nn;
skilled owner-pilot who now drtreshls
own car" will fly a plana the natloosi
advisory romntttes for aeronautics, la
Its fourteenth annual report, snbmlt
ted by President Coolldpr to tunanNS.
""slyxed-lho advance ramie thle year
?a aviation. ,
Ptesldeaf CooUdpa la for?nnlln? tha
"oart enmtaanfcd est "tha saMaiat ?a
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relopment" of aviation aiaee At
Wright brothem made their ftiar flight.
Juat a qnarter at a -erntary agar -t
"Paring the year itm," the ihpeflt
which m tranacikted to tb?* PtMl
- deal by Jeoeph & Amee. rhafrima or
I the adrlaory cocuaittee. anld. "Omattr
progreaa oraa made than It any glagia
year at ore the fiat eaccemftif Right
of man In a ?? pernor dHaan hoarier
thaa alr Ryifig marhlte." . .'t M
Net only haa thta tweoty-flftS aoul
trtSS r^wa^|ft*JSSia?1''Zr
American tranocpnttaootal all-air aad
airptaae-rill road aenieea for mall,
paaamgarl aad iiipraaa. (be report
riataa. bat It baa aaao a 100 per cent
locraaae la alrplaaa production for
private ownership, a SO per cast no
doctlno la air mall peattpa rates. aad 4
the greatest forward itrtdo pet made
lb the atodp of rriadoaAi pm-emlneat
problem?safety.
The developmenr of "ooooptnnfng
wings or wing epateme" U the objrrt 1
M a aertaa of pnaaia dlatribuUoa
<?. Itll WMara Newspaper Us I on.)
These trees that stand here, ready
tor 'he winter.
Had not one voire to ery. We
love Too, Odd!
And yet. who else has prrfved af
fection better .
Than they who drew rich splen
dor from dull aodt
?Violet Alleya Storey.
TUNA FISH DISHfeS
Tana Bah, colled the "turkey of the
sea," la ao well liked that the follow-,
log dlahee will add to
uie way or eerring it.
Tuna Fish and Caull
flowar. Scalloped.?Pre
pare a white aauce ot
two tablespoonfule each
of hotter and door, one
teaapoonfnl of salt, with
one and one-half cop
mi* or mux. cook un
til smooth and thick. Take one cup
ful of flaked tuna flsh and two cup
fuls of cooked cauliflower and add
the wMte sauce. Pour Into a greased
baking dish, sprinkle with one-fourth
cupful of buttered crumbs and two
tablespoonfuls of cheese. Bake
twelve minutes In a hot oven.
Tuna Fish with Caper Saucer
Place the tuna flsb, using one large
can. In a double boiler with two ta
blespoonfuls of butter. Heat thor
oughly. Prepare a white sauce with
three tablespoonfuls of fat and two
of flour with one and one-half cup
fuls of milk. Season with salt and
pepper, add one hard cooked egg
chopped One and three tablespoonfuls
of capers, alto chopped. Turn the
heated flsh out on a hot platter and
sprinkle with minced parsley. Pour
the hot sauce over the flsh and serve
at once. Any boiled flsb such as cod,
haddock or bailbut may be substitut
ed for the una.
Tuna Flsh and Rice Loaf.?Soak
two tablespoonfuls of gelatin In one
half cupful of cold water for Ave
minutes; add three cupfula of water
In which Ave beef cubes have been
dissolved. 8et aside to cool. Flake
one large can of tuna flsb and add
to one and one-half cupfnls of eold
cooked rice and one-half cupful df
chopped celery and a grating of
onion. When the gelatin mixture
has begun to set add .the flsh and
rice and pour Into a mold In a cold
place to harden. Always rinse the
mold before filling?with cold'water,
home 8oupa>
Cuts suitable for soup meat are the
shank, plate and neck of beef, or
??ifliifti vi vicnat
piece* of lamb
and veaL
. Wipe (ha meat
with a damp doth
and col Into tpwll
piece*. Have the
bone* tawed In
amall piece*.
Santa nan of the
meat In no ma of the fat. then add to
tba remainder with the hones. Cover
with cold water and allow one quart
to each two pounds of roeaL Let
stand one-half hour before putting
over the heat Cook slowly at the
simmering point for six hours. The
last two hours of the cooking add a
small onion, a stalk of celery and two
carrots, a bayleaf, three peppercorns,
one teaspoonful of salt and a flew
dashes of pepper. Remove tba bones:
If desired to remove fat cool and than
reheat
Creamed Vegetable Soup.?To one
quart of soup stock add ooe quart of
boiling water, one cupful each of diced
carrots and turnips, one-balf capful of
rice and cook until tender; only a
little liquid should remain. Melt
three tablespoonfuls of fat and add
foor tablespoonfuls of Hour, then slow
ly add eoe quart of milk, two tea
spoonfuls of salt and a little pepper
with one teaspoonful of Worcester
shire sauce. Add one cupful each of
cooked string beans sad pans and re
beat
Luncheon Pepper Pet?Take one
quart of dear strong -soup add one
pint of water, foor tablespoonfuls each
of shredded carrot and green pepper
and celery. Cook until the vegetables
ate tender, season highly with salt
and cayenne. Divide the portions Into
foor soup bowls or rasssrolta. Haee
ready four rounds of toast on which
has been melted a thla slice of cheese.
Lay onq on each casserole, then place
a poached egg on each, dost with pep
per end aslt and dot with hotter.
Serve el onqa.
Onion Soup au Cretin.?Tale three
eupfuls of a trained meet stock, add
one cupful of tomatoes. Slice foor
onloaa in a came rale end brown In
two tebleepoonfnle of fat In * slow
oven. Add the stock and cover with
star slices of toast-bread and on top ef
each place a cube of cflekes. Place
uader the broiling flame te melt aad
brown the cheeee slightly. Serve bat
with grated cheeee oa tup.
f/roio Umfarvioocfo UiKfarmooJ
Whtn It I* Christmas the whole year round?a section of Ralnlar Na
tional park In tha state of Washington In which snow and evergreen trees
may be scan throughout the year.
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HRISTMAS would not bo
Christmas for many of us
If wo could not haro a
Christmas tree In out
1^9 homes whfth we decorate
.BFtL with all aorta of gay orna
? tWt menu, around which we
pile the presents on Christ- -
mas eve and to which the
children come scampering
early the next morning. About the
Christmas tree has gathered a great
wealth of poetry and legend. The
Norse tree, Ygdrasll, the Or tree, of
St. Wlnfred, the yule log of th?
Druids, the mistletoe?all speak of out
forest heritage, for man has ever
been a tree-loving being. And the
Yule tree, once a pagan symbol but
now an essential part of the Chris
tlan holiday, brings to us the mem
ories of the far-away childhood of the
race when men lived close to the
trees and the "groves were Ood'a first
temples."
Although we always associate one
of the evergreens?pine, spruce or fir
?with the Idea of the Christmas
tree, II Is a curious thing to note
that the first Christmas tree was an
oak. The Incident from which the
Idea , of the Christmas tree can be dl
rectly traced took place early In the
Christian era. According to the leg
end. it occurred about 734 A. D. when
Boniface, a missionary from England,
with a small group of followers
reached Central Europe at Yuletlde.
One evening he came to a den-Ins
la a forest. Beneath- a magnificent
oak tree be found that the pagan In
habitants of- that region had erected
an altar to Tbor, tbe god of tbundei
and. ef war.
A large assemblage or Thor wor
shipers had gathered, for the annual
sacrifice waa about to be offered
This gear the moat beautiful boroe ot
the community was to be sacrificed.
The worshipers were to drink Ms
blood and eat bla flesh In the belief
that his strength would enter Into
their reins and make #them mighty
against their enemies.
This year there was also to be a
bnman sacrifice, for crops bad not
turned out well and the god Thor
had to be propitiated Boniface,
asked what be wanted, aald he bad
a message .to dellrer from the Chris
tian church. He waa told there was
no time now to listen.
The priest of Thor went to a group
of small children playing near by.
laid bla hand on the shoulder of s
boy of about twelee years of age and
asked Mm If he wanted to go to
Valhalla that night The little boy
said, "Tea, I am nor afraid I will
Just take my bow and arrow and go."
The mallet of the priest was raised
add about to descend on the bead of
the boy, when Boniface Intercepted
the Mow with Ma suit, which waa
surmounted by the .ernes of Christ
The priest's mallet was shattered on
the stone of the altar.
The rotes of BoMtace. steady" and
clear, made Itself heard. He stepped
to the altar and made ao Impassioned
on appeal for mercy for the boy and
for the Christ whom Boniface and
hla followers served that tbe Thor
worshipers desisted their rod and the
pagitn rites and made the God of
Boniface their God. The (rest oak
tree beneath which tbe altar was
erected became the symbol of the
new religion and hence, la a way.
tbe Brat Christmas tree.
The custom of deeoratlng the
Christmas tree has its roots In an
ancient Norse custom connected with
the observance of the Yoletlde. ac
cording to Agnes McCulloch Hanna,
writing In tbe Indianapolis Star.
Each village selected a tree as the
object of It* veneration at this sea
son. Tbe tree was usually a great
evergreen *fa whose branches were
contained the dwelling places of gods
nod men, giants and dwarf*. Our
earth, or midgard, a silver ball, tbsp
placed near the center of the tree;
asgard. the home of the gods, a blue
ball, near the top. The earth Is con
nected with asgard by the rainbow*
over which tbe gods descend to visit
the mortals on earth. Ia the branches
feeds a she goat, whose milk Is tbe
food of tbe gods. A little squirrel
frtaks In the branches carrying gos
sip of all that Is good or bad so
earth, to tbe gods. Tbe early Tea
tonic people added to their tree the
animals that were sacred to the gods,
such ao the wMvee and the raven of
Odin and tta eat and tbs hoar of
Freyer; the oxen, lambs and fish that
were used as sacrifices. Knowing
that after the winter solstice the day*
would begin to lengthen, the people
decorated small evergreen trees with
tallow dips In honor of their world
ash. This idea was'Well worked not
1.000 years befOed-'Cbrist. or SjOOO
years ago.
"About three huntfrfij years after
Christ the Romans #ere la the habit
of celebrating the siintce'snlstlce with
a twelve-day festival, usually riotous,
which they called the feast of Saiurn
(or the Saturnalia), and to symobllse
the Increasing light which was to be '
expected friends exchanged branches
,of trees, bearing lighted tapers, say- ?
log, 'Here Is the new light of the
year.' One it the twelve days was
glren over to children. This feature
was retained by the Catholic chorrh
as It grew In popularity. Its leaders
substituted for the Saturnalia the
Mass of Christ, as the day selected
ns ills birthday fell at that time of
the year. Friends then said, *1 give
you Christ, the Light of the world.*
In place of the old "Here is the new
light of the year,' In greeting oae
another.
"By 1700 the custom had developed .
still farther, in the forests of Ger
many the annual slaughter of beasts
came lo the Iste fall and early win
ter. and was celebrated by feasts that
often lasted for day* To celebrate
the feast (at which- certain parts ef
the animals were siren to the poor)
the peasants decorated their hots with
small trees, and any branches that
were dowering out of season, IMt -
trees or hawthorn. The rumor was
current that certain trees would hear
fruit on Christ's birthday. In order
to obtain that result, the simple peas
ants began to fasten fruit and flowers .
among the branches or la small trees,
giving us precedent for flowers sad
fruit on our Christmas trees. The
priests and the Protestant clergy tried
bard to discourage this practice, but
It gained popularity. The chosen fruit
was the apple, burease the day before
Christmas was sacred to Adam sad
Eve. At a later date the tree eras
called "Christ's tree,' although that
was much disapproved of by the
church fathers.
"When It became evident that the
tree was an accepted feature of life,
churchmen made an effort to provide *
the correct symbols for It. CUdMh
the animals used In sacrifice, the
mistletoe (ooce the flower-of-Ught, bat 1
now rulgartyed Into tho llght-oMove): . ,
the symbols of tho church sacra- "
roents; the loaf aad flagon, which
typify the communion; the bleeding
heart of Christ, -the red rose, a scan
sion Ultra, flshes, bails, anchors,
churches, and erraaas made from ap
ple-wood. tho fabled malarial of thf
true erais. "
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B Hf a Of B-Of-O-ffef-Be'
| CThe Christmas CTree^
a B-AHl . I
a I *a famlUar with the wind's wU hands S
i That to a^ bmiai braachsr. all aifht V
9 a
JL Brought whiw af dtetant. hflaf J.
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^ Aad (roar ay rooted sOeoce draw a , k
I' eaag. 1J
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,. twig there aiagu ' ?
| I The happy laughter el a child's delights n
Aad I hare luaraad a aoag af dearer J
? ? things g
I ' Than soar triad could teach m? ia the }
i ; night 8S
f I aa urrautMBif to the stars' frail rays, i
jh That parched like birds upsa ray toss- ^
i Aad gildod aB my *rhly hrrflsg ways ?
T Aad ateds of au their aOver. ahiaiag T
9 asst. & |
JT But aow smsH. tender bawds base audi J i
J With crystal glebe aad ropes af gold T'
aad greea. a*
Aad art a star withte -y dusky hdr. J
A gaysr star thaa sear I base sssa. i
i1 a
' I mb faadHor with the choias ef ear j
* < With which the winter bound sry 9
( abad* #rac* '
I . Aad with the flowers ef the frost, aglow, k
^ t Aad delicately woeea as ftae lacs. Vj
!Aad r!bboasd gifts haws budded frees 1
My bark. *
Aad new I know H was for this I cues Ji
Up froas the sell aad froas the Israel f
dark. ?
g ?Fsfth Baldwin la St W1 chiles i
mm. -mi t? ia m ? \ m ri-M-a