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The Alamance gleaner ?News Review of Current Events the World Over Resident Roosevelt Tells Congress of his Great Work Relief Plan ? Designed to Supplant the \ Downright Dole. By EDWARD W. PICKARD \ / ?by Western Newspaper Union. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT la bis message to congress, delivered In pcraon at a Joint session, offered the law-maker* a "new and ereatlv en Pr??ld?nt f Rootavalt larged plan" of work relief. He did not esti mate its cost, bat as serted that the system of outright doles should be dropped and the government should . undertake projects of slum clearance, grade crossing elimination and other public works that would give em ployment to about 3, 800,000 persons now without Jobs. The flg {tires to De proposed for this were re served for his budget message, but he assured congress that they would be "within the sound credit of the gov ernment" J Mr. Roosevelt declared the gains made In the year 1934 were greater [than the losses and expressed "a strong hope in the* coming year." He reasserted his belief in the "profit mo tive" but uttered a warning against wealth "which, through excessive prof its, creates nndue private power over private affairs, and, to oar misfortune, oyer public affairs as well." This, nat urally, was taken as applying espe cially to the public service Interests, which have been so apprehensive of the administration's intentions. As for a legislative program, the President made no attempt to outline one, but he did promise that definite legislation soon would be proposed cov ering old age and unemployment In surance, benefits for children and mothers, and other features of his so cial security plans. He declared the nation was making headway toward the "new order," but onder the framework of the Constitu tion, and he spoke of the Increased in dustrial activity, benefits to agriculture and profits to merchants that have been realized. Then came this stern warning : "Let him who. for speculative profit or partisan purpose, without just war rant would seek to disturb or dispel this assurance, take heed before be as sumes responsibility for any act which slows our onward steps." The President reported an unsettled condition In the foreign field, with the resurrection of old Jealousies and pas sions and new strivings for armament and power In more than one land, add ing: "There is no ground for apprehen sion that our relations with any na tion will be otherwise than peaceful." i Discussing the matters that will be brought before congress for action, Mr. 'Boosevelt said: _ "Among the subjects that lie imme diately before us are Ux) consolidation iof federal regulatory administration over all forms of transportation, the {renewal and clarification of the gen eral purposes of the national Indus trial recovery act, the strengthening <){ our facilities for the prevention, de tection and treatment of crime and criminals, the restoration of sound con ditions in the public utilities field through abolition of the evil features of holding companies, the gradual ta pering off of the emergency credit ac tivities of government, and Improve ment In our taxation forms snd methods. "We have already began to feel the bracing effect upon our economic sys tem of a restored agriculture. "The hundreds of millions of addition al Income that farmers are receiving la flndlng Us way. into. Jhe__channels of trade. "The farmers' share of the national Income Is slowly rising. The economic facts Justify the widespread opinion of those engaged In agriculture that oar provision for maintaining a bal anced production gave at this time the most adequate remedy for an old and _ Texlng problem. "For the present and especially In ?lew of abnormal world conditions, ag ricultural adjustment with certain nec essary Improvements In methods ahould continue." TWO thousand eight hundred bills were introduced and referred to committees on the first day of the new congress. Number I, handed In by Representative Wright Patman of Texas, provides for the payment o( the adjusted service certificates of vet erans Immediately In cash, through the Issuance of greenbacks. 1'atman and other topporters of this plan call It "controlled Inflation." Lemke of North Dakota, Republican, introduced a measure for the liquida tion and re-financing of agricultural Indebtedness. The I. liquidation would be carried out at a reduced rate of Interest, according to the. bill, by es tablishing an efficient credit system, through the use of the federal farm loan and federal reserve banking sys tems. Lemke also provided for the creation of a board of agriculture to supervise the program. Continuance of the HOLC was pro posed by several congressmen. The bond Issue of this agency would be In creased anywhere from one billion to four and a half billion dollars In the various bills Introduced on the sub ject A 100 per cent payoff for depositors whose funds are tied up In trust com panies was sought In two bills written by Representative Clarence J. McLeod of Michigan. Many bills were Introduced providing unemployment and old age insurance. THE Seventy-fourth congress, elect ed on the sole Issue of support of the New Deal, began Its first session on the dot and devoted Its first day to the organization or the two bouses and the swearing In of new members. The lawmakers assembled In the Capitol were a serious looking lot, and with reason, for they have on their hands a big job, that of making the New Deal permanent; and In the doing of It they must solve some of the most perplexing Speaker Byrnt proDiems tnat our national legislators ever bare faced. It would seem that the Democrats will bare no troutfle In passing any legislation they wlsb, for they have an overpowering majority. In the senate are 89 Democrats and only 25 Republicans, plus one Progres sive ? Robert M. LaFollette ? and one Farmer-Laborite ? Henrik Shipstead. The house is comprised of 322 Demo crats, 102 Republicans, seven Progres sives and three Farmer-Laborites. The administration Democrats do not an ticipate any trouble from the Repub licans; It is from the radical mem bers of their own party that their woes are likely to come, and the help of the Republicans may be necessary to curb those left wingers. The ma jority leaders in both houses can be counted on to hold the radicals under a tight rein if that is possible. In the speaker's chair sits Joseph T. Byrns, chosen unanimously by his fel low Democrats. He is too much of a compromiser to suit many of them, but is now tied to the administration, whleh declined to oppose his election. John H. Bankheid of Alabama, Byrns one of the old school, won the leadership of the house after a> brief struggle. Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas was re-elected majority lead er of the senate, and Senator Lewis of Illinois continues as whip. In their pre-sesslon caucus the Dem ocrats voted to reduce materially the Republican representation on house committees, and decided to abrogate the 145 rule for discharging a com mittee and bringing a bill to vote with in a week. The number now required for this action is 218. This latter ac tion will provide another restriction on the radicals. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT did not wait for the opening ot congress to start bis flgbt against immediate payment of ihff^rcteranj' bonus. The commander of a Legion post in Texas wrote blm for Information on tbe mat ter and Air. Roosevelt replied at length, detailing his reasons for opposing tbe payment He argued tbat tbe obliga tion Is not immediately due; that of 3,500*000 certificates outstanding, 3.038, 500 veterans have borrowed 11,680,000, 000, or "more than the present worth of their bonus certificates," and that when the veterans borrowed 50 per cent of tbe face value of the certificates in 1931 they used the funds to discharge their debts. This last point, according to Nation al Commander Belgrano of the Ameri can Legion, Is one of the strongest ar guments for Immediate payment of the adjusted service certificates. "Tbe foundation of good business Is good credit," said Commander Bel grano. "The money due veterans would be used to satisfy bills at the corner grocery, would help pay rents tbat are long past due and would go J to bard pressed merchants to discharge the account* of harder pressed vet erans." - , Speaker Byrna admitted that the cash bono* bill woald pass the house "because there la no opposition to It there," but be added that If the meas ure Is finally enacted the administra tion will insist on some additional tax ation to meet the estimated 12,000,000, 000 expenditure. It la believed the senate also will pasa the bill, bnt lead era doubt ita passage by congress over the Presidential veto. IF LOUISIANA wants any more pub lic works money from the adminis tration, It must "clarity" some of the new laws which Its legislature has passed at the behest of Senator Huey P. Long. This Is the gist of a letter sent to Got. O. K. Allen by President Roosevelt, snd the "klngflah" la not pleased by It He told the reporters he would make hla reply on the floor of the senste at the first opportunity. The President's warning applied espe cially to the Louisiana moratorium law passed In November. Since Its enact ment the PWA baa held up payments on about 60 Louisiana project*. SENATOR VANDENBERQ of Mich igan, liberal Republican, says he will Introduce In the senate a bill de signed to tske the Post Office depart aumi out or pouuca. The measure he ha* drafted would pot all postmasters and pos tal officials, except the postmaster general, under the dTll serr Ice, and In the giving out of Jobs the post office employees would have the preference. Senator Vandenberg has t been persistent]; demanding that Post master General Far ]PT Plfhop PMlrrn frnm 8?nator Vandtnbcrg * ? VU1JU UVUJ UIQ VBUIUCI VI give up ills chairmanship of the Demo cratic national committee. In line with this his bill would prohibit the postmaster genera] from holding any political office. By taking politics out of the de partment and establishing a career service, Vandenberg- said, "the pave ment-pounding letter carriers may look forward to ultimate graduation to the high post of first assistant postmaster general." T"\EMOCRATS of Rhode Island sur ^ prised themselves and everyone else by gaining control of both houses of the state general assembly when a senate committee recounted the ballot* from Portsmouth and South Kingston and declared two Democrats bad been elected to the senate instead of tbe two Republicans who had been certified as winners by the state returning board. The Democratic legislators Im mediately organized tbe assembly, ousted the supreme court members, abolished the state appointed board of public safety and passed a reorganiza tion bill to consolidate more than 80 agencies Into 11 state departments. Foreign minister pierre la VAL Is crrrylng out successfully tbe work begun by bis murdered predeces sor, Barthou, to brlni France and Italy Into friendly accord for the set tlement of all tbe conflicts that have arisen between those nations since tha World war. The agreement It Is be lieved, will also Insure peace In tha gotlatlons It wss announced that M. Laval would go to Rome "to have im portant conversations with Premier Mussolini on questions which Interest tbe two countries and on International politics and to conclude conversations which have been going oa between the two countries." WITH remarkable celerity the Jury Id the Hauptmann trial >u se lected, consisting of eight men and four women, and Attorney General Wllentz set forth the state's case against the Bronx carpenter who la accused of kidnaping and murdering the baby son of Colonel Lindbergh. The colonel and lira. Lindbergh were present, and they and Betty Gow, the chlld'a nurae^-gfre among the -early witnesses. On behalf of the state the attorney general demanded the penal ty c f first degree murder. IN 1933 the James E. Sullivan memo rial trophy, awarded to the athlete contributing the most to the cauae of amateur athletics during the year, was missed by Bill Bonthron of Prince ton by Just one vote and waa given to Glenn Cunningham. Now it la lo Bill's possession aa the result of his great foot-racing campaign during 1934, ip the course of which he estab llahed a world record for 1.50U meters and beat Cunningham In three out of five races. In the nationwide ballot conducted by A. A. U-! Bonthron led in the pre liminary voting and then piled up 1.0T2 votes In the final test after the field had been cat to aeven. Benjamin B. East man. former Stanford track star, ran second with 929 and then came Ralph Metcalfe. Marquette university's negro j sprinter, with 413, and Glen Hardin, | Louisiana State university, with 285. This Makes Duck Shooting Look Very Easy JIHN a COWIESON, nationally rec ognized wild dock tamer, bu a way with him, as may be Judged from thla picture of him and some friends on Lost Lake, Florida. Moat of the birds are mallards, snd with John are about as tame as domestic chickens. Bedtime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS PETER FINDS DOTTY THE TREE SPARROW HAVING been reminded of Dotty tbe Tree Sparrow, Peter Babbit was eager to find him and learn bow bvhad fared through the aummer. He was at a loas Just where to look (or Dotty until be remembered a certain weedy field, along one edge o( which the bashes had been left growing. So Peter hurried over to the weedy field and there, sure enough, he found Dotty jind a lot of his friends. They were very busy getting their break fast Some were clinging to the weed stalks picking tbe seeds out of the tops, while others were picking op seeds from the ground. It was cold; Rough Brother North Wind was doing his best to blow up a snow storm. It wasn't at all the kind of a day when anybody would expect to find anyone In high spirits, but Dotty was. He was even singing as Peter came up, and all about Dotty's frlenda and relative* were twittering as merrily as If it were the beginning of spring Instead of winter. Dotty was very nearly the size of Little Friend the Song Sparrow, and looked somewhat like him save that his breast war clear ashy-gray, all but a little dark spot in tbe middle, tbe little dot from which he has been named. He wore a chestnut cap, al most exactly like that of Cblppy tbe Chipping Sparrow. It reminded Peter that Dotty la often called tbfe Winter Chippy. "Welcome back," cried Peter. "It does my heart good to see you!" "Thank you, Peter," twittered Dot ty happily. "In a way, it Is good to be back. Certainly It Is good to know an old friend Is glad to see me." "Weil, It IS good," declared Peter very emphatically. "At best there are few enough folks about In winter, and I don't know of anyone 1 enjoy having for a neighbor more tban I do you." "Thank you again," cried Dotty, "and please let me return the compli ment I like e&M weather. I like winter when there lan't too much Ice and stormy weather. I always feel good when It Is cold. That la one rea son I go north to nest" Do YfH J Know? That the custom of strewing flowers on the graves of sol diers originated among Southern women during the Civil war. This beautiful cus tom gradually spread over the country and in 1868-69 Gen. John A. Logan, com mander-in-chief of the G. A. R., appointed the 30th of May as Decoration Day. Q. McCIur* 8>nd!c*tc WNU "Speaking of nests, do you build In a tree?" Inquired Peter. "Usually on or near the ground," re plied Dotty. "Ileally I am a ground bird, although I am called a tree a par row. Most of ui sparrow* spend oar time on or near the ground." ?I know," replied Peter. Tm very fond, of the Sparrow family. I Just love your cousin, Chippy. I wish he would stay all winter." Dotty laughed a tinkling little laugh, good to hear. "Cousin Chippy would starve to death," she declared. "He eats worms and bugs and has to go where he can get them. I eat seeds and can get plenty here, so I stay." C T. W. B?n<?--WMD Bcrrlc* Week Ends at Sequoia Some 4,000 people spend their week ends In Sequoia National forest the year round. THIS 1i the time of the year when entertaining li done for the young folks, when colorful and Interesting dishes are more appreciated. Cranberry Orange 8a lid. Prepare molds of cranberry aance. Arrange In the center of a nest of lettnce and place thin slices of orange around the mold. Top the cranberry with a rose of mayonnaise and place a candled cranberry on each slice of orange. Chrysanthemum 8alad. Take bright thin-skinned oranges, waah, cut the skins from the blossom end to the stem end, hnt not quite through, leaving a small portion to hold the petals In shape. Cut Into polnta to resemble a flower. Carefully remove the pulp, not to break the flow er, Cut the pulp Into small pieces, draining off the Juices to add to the dressing. To eight oranges take one apple finely diced, two tablespoonfuls Question box b, ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool Dear Mr. Wynn : A young man Invited me to the Metropolitan opera honae where they were ringing the opera "Aids." I went with him, but the minute we got Id the theater he itarted talking to me and never stopped the entire evening. I couldn't tell yon what the opera was abonL aa be talked so much 1 only heard him. Be haa Invited me again to go next week to the opera "II Trov atore." Shall I accept? Sincerely, I. LOVEJOY. Answer: By all means accept and go with blm, especially If you hare never heard HIM In "II Trovatore." Dear Mr. Wynn: - I have IT children and I am the fa ther of these 17 children and I want to take my 17 children to the clrcns to look st the lnlmsls, but I cannot afford to bny 17 tlcketa for my 17 chil dren to look at the animals. What shall I do? Tours truly, L M. SIMPLE. I PAPA KNCWS-I Ill? "Pop, what Is a gallop?" "Quadruped laapa." A Ball Indicate? WNU (?rrlc*. the circus and aak for the manager. When be finda out that the 17 children are your children and that you are the father of the IT children 70a won't hare to buy ticket* to fo In and take a look at the animate. HeU bring the anlmala oat to take a look at you. Pear Mr. Wynn : While on my vacation, at the aea Ihore, I aaw something shaking and abont a mile ont In the ocean. As I did not bare my field glasses I could not make ont exactly what It waa that waa ahaklng so In the water. My curi osity la aroused. Can you tell me what It was that kept ahaklng and shaking. THE BURDEN OF. * TOMORROW By ANNE CAMPBELL' THE future may be dark with cac tain aorrow. But I will walk a valiant way. I will not taka the burden of mm* row Upon my heart today. I will not lift a lack of phantom trea> blee From a remembered year. And bear their bogna weight UU ?liver babble* * ? They eooa would dlaappear. I am content today! Why dhotlf I borrow From Fate I cannot Itayt I will not take the burden of Iran* row Upon my heart today. OwrtaM^-WKU an-rle* r i' WITTY KITTY ?r NINA WILCOX PUTNAM 1 wo .?>:??? ?fcwa.t'iVy 1 The girl chum says that, tine* has quit wearing har hair bobbed, afcs believes aha could win an Interaatlnaal hairpin loalng contest. wNuavrtM. of lemon Juice poured over It to keep It from discoloring, add two taUa spoonfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of diced celery and one-half capful at broken nutmeata. Arrange the cops oa lettuce, fill with the aalad mixture, add ing mayonnalae and seasoning to taste,' using the orange Juice instead of creas to add to the mayonnaise* Roaat Turkey. Cot strips of fat salt pork and cov er the breast of a Arm, plump turkey or other fowl. After stuffing place la roaster and brown. During ?he baste every fifteen minutes with or ange Juice and lemon Juice. Add two teaspoonfuls of lemon Juice to a cap ful of orange Juice while basting. Use the liquid In the pan also for besting. The fruit Juice enhance* the flavor, making It more tender. Prepare and bake a plain sponge cake in a square tin. When cool eat Into rounds with a cookie cottar mf cover with any creamy frosting. Sat In tinted coceoot. Decorate with kalyaa of nuts, sliced date* arranged la de sign or with bits of maraschino ctar rlea or candied fruit. C. Weura N?w>pep*r tJaha. all the time. In the ocean? I beg te remain. Sincerely, ALMA MOTHER. Answer: From your deacrlpttoa, et the way the thing you aaw ahaklng m much and the fact that It was In the ocean. It must have been a Nervoas Wreck. ?. th? A?oelat?d N?w*p*p?ml WNUiwHefc Dome for a New Planetarium W! HEN tbe Hay den planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History In New York Is completed It will have Mrtltecturml feature* nerer before uaed. Tbe workmen are aeen here putting th/oflter covering on tbe done.
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