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The Alamance gleaner vot T yf ============= ? GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY MAY 30, 1935. ^ " ~ News Review of Current Events the World Over Roosevelt's Veto of Bonus Bill Overridden by House, Upheld by Senate?Ford Boosts Wages?? Hitler's Peace Program. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? Western Newspaper Union. ^ r> I a uew yitreucui, rrcsiueilt ^ Roosevelt "acted as his own mes senger" and personally returned to Speaker Byrne the Patman bonus measure wan ms dis approval. Before a joint session of the house and senate and crowded galleries the Chief Executive read his veto message, an able and well ordered document in which he set forth bis convic tion that "the welfare of the nation as well nn thf* fntiirp wplfnrp Preiident tj,e veterans wholly I Rooseve justifies my disapprov al of this measure." Asserting that an able-bodied citizen, even though he wore a uniform, should not be accord ed treatment different from that of other citizens, he said: "The veteran who is disabled owes his condition to the war. The healthy veteran who Is unemployed owes his troubles to the depression. Any at tempt to mingle the two problems Is to confuse our efforts." Mr. Roosevelt's stern warning against the dangers of inflation inher ent in the measure was listened to In silence, though there was mild ap lause at other times. All his argu ment was In vain so far as the house was concerned, for as he left the chamber there were quick demands for a vote and by the time he had reached the White House the representatives had overridden his veto and again passed the bill by a vote of 322 to 98. In the affirmative were 248 Democrats, 64 Republicans, 1 Progressives and 3 Farmer-Laborites. Those voting to sustain the veto were 60 Democrats and 38 Republicans. The re passed bill was laid before the senate by Vice President Garner, and Senator Tbomas Insisted on the reading of the veto message in that body. Action was postponed for one day because a lot of the senators wanted to make speeches. The debate In the senate was long and perfervld, and quite unnecessary because the result of the vote had been a certainty for several days. Fifty four senators voted to override the veto; but 40 supported the President, and only 32 were needed to kill the measure. Three members had switched over from their stand when the bill was first passed. Thay were Pittman of Nevada, Pope of Idaho and Coolidge of Massachusetts, all Democrats. The only absentee was Norbeck of South Dakota. DONUS advocates and inflationists were prepared for further action In various ways. One plan was the In troduction of a bill to draw $2,000,000, 000 to pay the bonus from the work relief appropriation, out of which the President has already approved the allocation of about $1,000,000,000 for Immediate work projects. Other measures, as riders to navy or legisla tll-A U : 11 ~ homo u>c upi 1UL1UU UIII3, ?XIC i"=ius drafted. So there wa3 a prospect of a great tangle In the administration's legislative program. IV ITS annual statement the Ford Motor company discloses that it made a gain of $3,759,311 in 1934 over the previous year, to a total of $380, 270,391. Just before these figures were made public, the company announced that the minimum dally wage of Its employees would be raised from $3 a day to $6, adding $2,000,000 a month to the pay roll. The Ford and Lincoln plants in Detroit and all other cities share In this revision of the wage scale. Henry Ford began boosting the wage scale back In 1914, and in answer to adverse criticism of economists, he made the pay Increases a policy of his company. He put the minimum wage at $6 in 1919 and ten years later raised It to $7, where it remained until the end of 1931. With the depression it fell back to $4, but In March, 1934, a raise to $5 was made. VjlSS JANE ADDAMS, "first citizen of Chicago," International famed as a social worker and peace advocate, hag gone to her reward, and her pass ing is deeply mourned by the many thousands of poor and unfortunate per sons for whom she had made life more endurable. She started ber real life *ork in 1889 among the Italians and other foreigners on Chicago's West aide, founding Hull House, which grew into the most famous social settlement In America. Later her activities were extenaea to the amelioration of sweat ! shop conditions, the child labor prob 1 lem, and then to the matter of inter- I national peace. During the war she 1 was made president of the women's in ternational peace conference at The ' Hague, and she Interviewed the officials J of virtually every one of the belllger- I ent nations. Three times she presided t at the sessions of the International ' Congress of Women, and she was prom- 1 lnent in many hnmanitarian move- ' ments. But it is as the head of Hull - House and the tireless friend of the ? poor and underprivileged that her mem- : : ory will live longest ' GOV. MARTIN L. DA VET of Ohio withdrew the warrant charging Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins with criminal libel, so the ad- i ministrator was able to visit Cleveland 1 and make a speech without being ar- I rested. The governor said that "all ' I the objectives which were sought have J been accomplished and no good purpose can be served by carrying on guerilla 1 warfare." FIRST of the list of projects to be undertaken under the works relief ' j program is the Passamaquoddy tidal J power scheme, and there Is a lot of | ' grumbling because it was placed at the head of the line by the President himself. This project was once turned down as un economic by Secretary Ickes, the assertion being that It would cost too much in com parison with the re turns that might be expected, would take too long for comple- MaJ?r neming tlon and was In a region where so , much work relief was not needed. But ? Mr. Roosevelt, whose Campobello sum mer cottage is near the location of the proposed dam site, is said to be personally interested in the project, believing it will bring new industries to the area. Anyhow, this big Maine project is to go ahead, and Maj. Philip B. Fleming of the army engineers corps has been chosen to take charge of the construc tion. Major Fleming has been serving in the PWA for some time but has been released for this Eastport work. IX ADDITION to the Passamaquoddy project, calling for $10,000,000, about a billion dollars in work relief allot ments were given verbal approval by the President, these having been favor ably passed by on by the allotment board. Included in this program are extensive rivers and harbor works throughout the country, and a $100, 000,000 Integrated works program for Wisconsin. The latter was planned by Senator La Follette and his brother, Governor La Follette, and approved by the administration. IN AN executive oroer tntr i rmucui established pay rates under the $4, 880,000,000 work-relief measure, dividing the country Into four sections In set ting regional wages. Pay will range from $19 a month for unskilled labor ers in the South to $94 a month for professional and technical workers in the East. The wages will be from 20 to 30 per cent below the prevailing wage rate structure throughout the country. O EICHSFUEHItER HITI.ER, ap pearing before the reichstag, out lined a 13 point program for disarm ament and the improvement of inter national relations, and did it so well It cannot well be ignored by the other nations of Europe. He again rejected the resolution of the League of Nations council condemning him for the re arming of Germany, but said Germany might return to the league if that body divorced itself from the principles of the Versailles treaty and from the "psychology of victors and vanquished" and "after Germany is granted full equality rights, extending to all func tions and privileges in international life." To the great satisfaction of Great Britain, Hitler promised to respect the territorial clauses of the Versailles treaty, which, he said, could not be modified by unilateral action. He de clared Germany was willing to sign non-aggression pacts with all her neigh bora except Lithuania, and to agree to an arms embargo "if others would do the same. Also the reich Is ready to sign an air convention supplementing the Locarno pact pTHIOI'IA, In a note to the League of Nations council, defied the Italian war preparations and gave warning that she "would yield neither to Intimi dation nor to violence." Capt. Anthony Eden and Pierre Laval tried In vain to persuade Baron Aloisi, Italian delegate, to accept a gift of exclusive economic privileges in Ethiopia In exchange for saving the league's face and keeping a united front in Europe. The states men in Geneva began to believe there was no way of stopping Mussolini's Af rican adventure. The Itome govern ment is decidedly exasperated against Great Britain, charging that the Brit ish are promoting the shipment of war materials to Ethiopia through British somaliland. Euiperor Ilalle Selassie las Just bought a large fleet of bombing >lanes from Turkey, some of whieli sere sold to the Turks by British firms. \| AXEUVERS of the Pacific fleet were marred by another fatal air flane accident. A seaplane plunged into he ocean 40 miles south of Midway ls and and the six members of its crew vere lost. The victims were: Lieut. Harry Brandenburger, Lieut. Charles I. Kelly, Aviation Chief Machinist's Hate P. C. Litts, Chief Radioman C. if. Derry, First Machinist's Mate P. J. Proteau and Third Machinist's Mate Q. A. Sharpe. WHEN Dennis Chavez was brought into the senate to be sworn in as successor to the late Bronson Cutting >f New Mexico, six "liberal" mem >ers silently walked out of the cham )er in protest against the efforts that lad been made to unseat Mr. Cutting. Those who participated in this un precedented action were: Senators Hiram Johnson, California; William B. Borah, Idaho; George Norrls, Ne braska; and Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota, Republican Independents; and Robert M. LaFoilette, Wisconsin Pro gressive; and Henrlk Shipstead, Min lesota Farmer-Laborite. RUSSIA'S Immense airplane, the Maxim Gorky, largest land plane in the world, was destroyed when it collided with a small training plane aver a Moscow suburb, collapsed at a height of 2,0o0 feet and fell in ruins. All on board, 48 In number, were killed, as was the pilot of the small plane. SECRET hearings were opened by the house military affairs commit tee to Investigate charges that the Tennessee Valley authority already has squandered jm.uw, CKJO of government money in questionable awards of contracts for dynamite and pow der and through other irregularities. Arthur E. Morgan, head of the TV A, and his two fellow directors, David Lilienthal and Har court A. Morgan, were summoned before the A. E. Morgan fomm,ttee. The charges are contained In an audit of the TVA made by Comptroller General J. R. McCarl. Some of the irregularities he claims to haye un covered are: The awarding without competitive bidding of a contract which obligated tbe government for an Indefinite sum of money, estimated at $(115,000. Overpayments of an original con tract by as much as 120 per cent. Awarding of contracts. In contraven tion of law, to Hrms which were not the low bidders, with one contract go ing to a bidder who was seventh from low. Failure to require one large con tractor to post performance bond and at the same time the payment of fees to tbis contractor in advance, despite a legal probibition against advance pay ments. Solicitation of bids by telephone or circulars among a certain group of pri vate business bouses, or In other Ir regular ways. The Inquiry came as the administra tion was trying to get the house com mittee to report favorably the bill, recently passed by the senate, provid ing more money for the TVA and en larging Its scope of operations. HOCSE leaders were hurrying to nnssase the administration's amendments to the AAA act, enlarg ing the powers of that organization, the demand of opponents for long de bate being denied. It was certain this measure would arouse controversy In tbe senate. Jobbers and retailers of foodstuffs, of whom there are about 911,000 In the country, are much dis turbed by these proposed amendments for tbe measure extends to them tbe processing taxes now Imposed on food manufacturers, makes thpm subject to regulations not yet specified and re quires that each one be licensed by the AAA. CROWN Prince Frederlk of Denmark and Princess Ingrid of Sweden were married In Stockholm In the presence of a brilliant assemblage. A week of activities preceded the cere mony, attracting great throngs u, the Swedish capital. City That Has No Smoke or Grime Mason ctty, wash., is one of the cleanest cities In the world, having neither chimneys nor grime, for electricity snpplies heat and light for all Its buildings. It has a popula tion of 3,000 workers on the Grand Coulee dam project, and their families. Bedtime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS AN ENEMY PROVES TO BE A FRIEND The things we do and things we say. CTis true though hard to believe it so) Affect the lives of other folk More often than we ever know. SO It Is that friends often hurt each other and In the same way enemies help each other without the least Idea of so doing. It Is a funny world. It certainly Is a funny world. You think only of yourself and straightway do the greatest possible kindness or an equally great harm to some one of whom you are not thinking at all, and never know anything about It Just take the case of Mrs. Hooty and Danny Meadow Mouse. Danny al ways thought of Mrs. Hooty, just as he did of Hooty, as one of the enemies he must always be on the watch for after dark, and Mrs. Hooty always thought of Danny Meadow Mouse sim ply as a good dinner If only she could catch him. The Idea of doing Danny a good turn never In all her life had entered her head. Nor had the Idea that she could do such a thing ever entered Danny's funny little head. Yet Mrs. Hooty did do Danny a good turn. In fact, all unknowingly she proved to be a friend. Vnn rr-momho,. Ihil PMlv Mint h.J trapped Danny in a hollow log In the Green Forest. Billy couldn't get Into that hollow log because the doorway was too small. So he promptly told Danny that he would keep watch until r Danny starved to death Inside or came I out to be caught. Then Hooty the Owl and Mrs. Hooty arrived In a tree close by and Danny overheard Mrs. Hooty tell Hooty that she had seen and heard some one moving down below and that she intended to stay right there until she found out who It was. Danny at once thought that she was watching for him. But when he had had time to think a little be remembered that he hadn't so much as poked his nose outside that hollow log since the coming of Mrs. Hooty, so of course she couldn't have seen him. Could It have been Billy Mink she had seen? Danny at once became very much In I terested and crept a little nearer the doorway. He wanted very much to see what was going on outside. For some time nothing happened. ! Then he heard Booty's voice way off in the distance. He crept just a wee bit closer to the doorway and peeped np In the top of the tree where he had heard Mr. and Mrs. Hooty talking, j He was just in time to see a great j dark shadow sweep silently down. He heard a spiteful snar! and knew then that Mrs. Hooty had tried to catch Billy Mink and had missed him. And he knew, too, that, having escaped, j Billy would waste no time hanging j about there, but would seek a safer place. Danny let a little sigh of relief escape. Mrs. Hooty had frightened Billy Mink away and did not herself j know that Danny was there. He was no longer trapped. She who would gladly have eaten him had proved a friend by setting him free. Didn't I say that this Is a funny world? e. T. W. Burgess.?WNTT Servtc*. Danny Overheard Mrs. Hooty Tell Hooty That She Had Seen and Heard Some One Moving Down Below. I PAPA rNCWS-l I I "Pop, what It worryT "Carbon In tht cylinder." ?. Bell Syndicate?WNU Sereloe. i Question box b,EDWYNN, ' ~hf Perfect Fool | Dear Mr. Wjrnn: In the past ten days I have read In the newspapers of thirty-four men com mitting crimes. I discovered, by keep ing tabs on them, that twenty-eight of the thirty-four men ran away to Caa ada. Bow do you account for that? C. ELUSIVE. Answer: I am surprised, as I thought everybody knew that It was the only place "Toronto." Dear Mr. Wynn: Don't you think a man will succeed better In life If he goes by the fol lowing rule: "Live and let live"? Truly yours, HAMMOND EGGS. Answer: That is a great rule for every one excepting a butcher. Dear Mr. Wynn: A friend of mine has Just returned from a trip through the South Amer ican tropics and he said that some times, while walking along, he would sink 10 and 12 Inches in the ground. What struck me rather peculiar was his assertion that farmers lived there and cattle grazed all around. How coald cattle exist in mad like that? | Tonrs truly, E. QCATEK. Answer: Your friend is right I have been where he speaks of and I have seen the mud so deep down there that the farmers had to Jack the cows up to milk them. C JLaocia:*! N<wij?y?ra. w NT Serv.d*. -y I1oihe|^Coo^ Book DELICIOUS FRUIT DRINKS pvURIXQ the summer when much ^ water is lost from the body by perspiration, more water should be taken in some form. The easiest drink on# knows about is lemonade, refresh ing, cooling and easy to take as well as make. Keep In the ice chest a Jar of the lemon Juice boiled with sugar and water to form a fruit sirup. A mixture of grapefruit Juice, lemon and orange. Is another drink well liked. Having a sugar sirup made to use for DoVOli Know? , That Washington, D. C., in 'proportion to its size, has more trees than any other city on the globe?its only rival being Buenos Aires. Sien from the air, the city is one mass of living green. C McClura N???ptp?r Syndicate. WNU Mr* lea. sweetening U a great convenience, a* It sweetena at once and doe* not drop to the bottom like sugar and baa to be stirred to be dissolved. Tboee who like honey use It often In preference to sugar, as It Is tbe best sugar to give children, being easily digested. When company drops In and needs quick refreshment on a bot day, try an orange ginger ale. For eacb per son combine two-thirds of a cup of orange Juice, one-third of a cup of ginger ale. pour over a glass of cracked Ice and serve at once. For a delight ful ice cream soda serve a glass two thirds full of orange Juice and add a ball of vanilla Ice cream. Stir rapidly and serve. Orange Juice with lemon Juice is liked by many as a combina tion drink, iced coffee served as an Ice cream soda drink is most delicious. Drop in the bail of Ice cream and serve at once. One should remember when serving these refreshing drinks that they are not only cooling to tbe body, delightful to the palate, bot are supplying the body with needed min erals and vitamins for health. THE UNKNOWN By ANNE CAMPBELL I DO sot know which way the road may lead Tomorrow. My aool may tremble like > broken reed To sorrow; , Bet though unknown the dark antrar eled way. ? -* I hare Today! tf" *^E? This day la steeped in Joy! Each ihiijy lag minute Has gladness in 1L So black forebodmgs steal the skies' clear bine; The sen shines through. And golden lies the path that winds this hoar To love in flower. ~ <C> * I hare Today: I face it gratefully, V Intending, Xo matter where the road that's meant for me Is wending To walk it as the saints their hard way trod. With faith La God! Copyrljjiit?W>T ** Back Drapery In this lovely gown ensealing back drapery Is held it the hips with a half round crystal clip. The tightly fitted bodice with draped shoulder cer ericg U fastened In front with tiny ; glass buttons. Gay field fiowers are on the black crepe. Fighting Fire With "Airfoam" THIS la a scene at Feltham, England, during a demonstration of the "alrfoam* apparatus which extinguishes tires In quick time with a smothering action. A mixture of 90 per cent air, 9.8 per cent water and 0.2 per cent soap produces ? foam seren times lighter than water, which excludes air from the seat of com bustion and can be pumped to great heights. ? - -j 11 iiaBiilMB^W
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