The Alamance gleaner
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937 No. 49
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Bra Plans Settlement of Cuban Debts to Americans ?
Roosevelt Says Federal Government Should End
Child Labor and Starvation Wages.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Wc?tern Newspaper Union.
L r-utKitU LAREDO BRU, the
new president of Cuba, proposes
to settle all Cuban
obligations in the
United States and is
expected soon to in
vite the bankers and
bondholders con
cerned to enter
negotiations to that
end. Credit for in
ducing Bru to do
this is given to Col.
Fulgencio Batista,
who appears to be
largely in control of
affairs in the island.
President
Laredo Bra
Mnenmf>ligatii>ns include about $75,
000,000 owed to many Americans
b? * Pubhc work g^
bonds which were issued during the
s&sr ot President Gerar
fb,^ DeW institution which the
Cuban congress recently voted orig
inally prohibited any such negotif
vf3, u3e contemPlated before
1940 but when it appeared in the of
ficial gazette that article had been
radically altered. It now orders the
government to find a satisfactory
^ 011 debts to the United
States before 1940 and authorizes
immediately! * ne?otiatio^
This "error" in the gazette's com
Posmg room is supposed to have
been ordered by Colonel Batista
and though congress has the power
to correct it a majority oi cZ
gressmen, after reading the arti
cle m the gazette, gave it their
approval. So President Bru, it
seems, is free to go ahead with the
negotiations.
? LAMINATION of child labor,
long working hours and starva
tion wages is a necessity, and must
be earned out by the federal gov
ernment since it cannot be done by
state action. So declared President
Roosevelt in his press conference.
He warned the correspondents not
S/g* wf3. Planning to revive
the NRA and insisted aU he could
Kre*fnt Was 11181 something
should be done to fix maximum
Hours and minimum wages.
Since the day of the NRA, said
Mr. Roosevelt, there has been a
steady decline in child labor, gruel
ing hours and starvation wages by
. Pfr cent of American business
. . f, the o^ier 10 per cent, he
said, they were still failing to live
up to the best standards since the
death of the NRA.
Attorneys for the American Fed
eration of Labor were reported to
be about ready to submit to the
President a bill designed to restore
labor protective features lost in the
death of NRA. It provides that
congress catalogue unfair "con
duct which would be forbidden to
employers and assure workers
adequate protection. Violations
would be punishable by a fine. The
federation is expected also to back
leaeral licensing of interstate cor
porations as provided by the O'Ma
honey bill.
T 2?1 BERRY, before retiring
016 fovernorship of South
. ?T a; appointed Herbert Hitch
cock of Mitchell, S. D., to fill out
2* the late Senator Peter
Norbeck. The new senator is Demo
cratic state chairman and his ap
pointment brings the Democratic
membership in the senate to 76,
toe highest party total in history,
republicans now number 16.
Mr. Hitchcock was born in Ma
quoketa, la., in 1867 and was edu
cated at Anamosa, Davenport and
Chicago. He went to Mitchell in
i?H and was admitted to the bar
yean later. He was presi
dent of the school board in his home
town for ten years and state's at
torney four years. He served as
state senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929.
A NEBRASKA'S unicameral
?, f ulaturt' unique in the Unit
ea States, was about to begin its
nrst session, Gov. R. L. Cochran de
clared politics was out He dis
couraged party caucuses among the
members and said he would have
no spokesman in the legislature
The governor pointed out that the
constitution provides that the one
house chamber shall be non-parti
san and that the voters had done
S2f ejecting, on a nonpoli
bcal ticket, 32 Democrats and 21
Republicans. He said he would coo>
ttaue personally and as governor,
?11 measures far new forms of tax
("JOVERNMENT officials, from
the President down, were anx
ious to prevent the export of Amer
ican airplanes to Spain, license for
which was given perforce by the
State department to Robert Cuse,
a Jersey City airplane broker. Cuse
proposes to send $2,777,000 worth
of planes to the Spanish loyalists,
and his action was criticized in
Washington as "legal but unpatri
otic." Senator Key Pittman of Ne
vada, chairman of the foreign rela
tions committee, assailed the Cuse
deal as improper and dangerous
and said it might embarrass not
only the United States but also other
nations in their efforts to enforce
the hands off policy toward the
Spanish war. Congress may be
able to rush through prohibitive
legislation before the planes are
shipped.
HEN the German steamer
Palos was captured by Span
ish loyalists at Bilbao because it
carried war munitions supposedly
destined for the Franco forces, the
Berlin government demanded its
release under threat of reprisal.
The Basque authorities, when the
German cruiser, Koenigsberg, ar
rived at Bilbao, let the Palos go,
but held on to the cargo and to one
Spanish citizen who was a passen
ger. This did not satisfy the com
mander of the cruiser who insisted
the cargo and the Spaniard must
be released. The authorities defi
antly refused this, and several more
German warships were ordered to
the Bilbao sector.
There was a report in Berlin that
Hitler had been advised by Mus
solini to withdraw as gracefully as
possible from the Spanish embrog
lio, and that H Duce himself had
decided to cease supporting Franco
and the insurgents.
It was believed Hitler would avoid
war measures in this crisis, and
both Great Britain and France were
hopeful that he would preserve
peace because they have offered to
help his economic and colonial
needs in return for nonintervention
in the Spanish conflict. However,
informed German sources said the
Anglo-French note sent Christmas,
urging a cessation of German vol
unteer enlistments for Spain had
come too late, and that Germany
will permit and even encourage a
continuance of such enlistments.
CHIANG KAI - SHEK, generalis
simo of China and its dictator,
is back in Nanking. Marshal Chang,
who held him prisoner in Sianfu for
two weeKs, also is
in the Nationalist
capital, avowedly
repentant and ready
to submit to any
punishment. The
danger of civil war
has passed for the
time. The terms on
which Chang re
leased Chiang have
not been made pub
lic. The dictator is
sued a statement.
T. V. Soonj
directed to his kidnaper, commend
ing his change of heart and promis
ing to use his influence to obtain
leniency for him; and Chang also
gave out a statement admitting his
grievous fault.
These developments would seem
to have quieted down the Oriental
situation, but there is another mat
ter that threatens continued trouble.
This is the prospect that Chiang
may decide to confine his attention
largely to military affairs and to
make Dr. T. V. Soong, his brother
in-law, premier. Soong, who used
to be minister of finance, stands
high among those who favor a
strong foreign policy, including re
sistance to further encroachments
by Japan. Therefore it is easy to
see that his elevation to the pre
miership would greatly annoy To
kio and might easily bring about an
open break between the two na
tions. Since Marshal Chang is one
of those demanding war with Japan,
it is rumored that the appointment
of Soong was the specified reward
for his release of Chiang and sub
mission to discipline.^
FRANCE took a census in IBM,
and the figures, just given out,
show the population of the republic
on August 3 was 41,903,968. This
was an increase at 71,048 over the
last previous census, taken in 1931.
Of the total, 2,453,507 are foreigners,
their number having decreased by
437,418.
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CECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
^WALLACE has just apportioned
$200,000,000 to the states for road
improvement. Of this sum $125,
800,000 will go toward improvement
of the federal-aid highway system,
$25,000,000 for improving secondary
or farm-to-market roads, and $50,
000,000 for grade crossing elimina
tion.
The fund is for use during the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937,
and funds for improvement of roads
must be matched by the states.
Grade crossing elimination funds
need not be matched. Highway
projects selected, contracts and
specifications are subject to federal
approval after designation by state
commissions.
A RTHUR BRISBANE, one of the
** foremost newspaper editors
and writers of the time, and the
highest paid, died in his New York
residence of coronary thrombosis at
the age of seventy-two. The mil
lions of Americans who have read
faithfully his columns, "Today" and
"This Week," mourn his passing.
An indefatigable, able and often
brilliant worker, he continued his
journalistic labors almost to the
hour of his death.
Born in Buffalo, N. Y, Mr. Bris
bane at eighteen joined the staff of
the New York Sun as a reporter.
Shortly after he went to Europe for
five years to complete his educa
tion and became the London corre
spondent of the Sun. From that
time he advanced steadily in the
profession. For the last 39 years
he was employed by William R.
Hearst. He had been ill for some
time but characteristically con
cealed his condition from all but
members of his family and died in
the harness, as he would have
wished to do.
SILENT for two years, Mahatma
Gandhi once more comes into
public notice with a speech tending
to increase the opposition to British
rule in India. He
spoke at an indus
trial exposition held
in connection with
the annual session
of the All-India Na
tional congress, the
members of which
were already agitat
ing in favor of inde
pendence. Said the
"holy man":
"Show me the
way. I am prepared
to go back to jail
Mahatma
Gandhi
again. I am prepared to be hanged.
"If you do all I want you to do.
Lord Linlithgow (British high com
missioner for India) will say, 'I
am wrong. I thought you people
were terrorists, and, if you like, we
Britishers will go back on the next
steamer.' We would then say to
Linlithgow and the British, 'India is
big enough to hold you and more
like you.'
"That is my swaraj (self-govern
ment under native influence)."
Jawaharlal Nehru, in his presi
dential address to the congress,
warned the British his countrymen
would not be "parties to an imperi
alist war."
D R OGRESS of the illness of Pope
* Pius was followed with great
anxiety, for it was admitted at the
Vatican that he was steadily grow
ing worse and was suffering intense
pain. The paralysis was spreading
along the left side and arm, and
one' report said his physicians de
clared science could do nothing
further for him.
GEN. HANS VON SEECKT, who
died in Berlin at the age at
seventy, was one of the really capa
ble commanders in the World war.
While acting as chief of staff to
Field Marshall Von Mackensen he
was responsible for the peat defeat
of the Russians at Gorlice, and he
planned the campaigns that resulted
in the collapse of Serbia and Ru
mania. After the Von Kapp putsch
of 1920 Van Seeckt was made com
mander -in - chief of the German
army which he built into an effi
cient force.
AMONG the numerous govern
mental reports at the year's
close that of M. I. Myers, head of
the farm credit administration, is
interesting and encouraging, show
ing that the outlook for the finan
cial status of farmers for 1937 is
bright. During 1936 the total loans
to farmers by the various FCA
agencies were $070,000,000 com
pared to $1,060,000,000 in 1939.
The decline reflected a decrease
in the "emergency demand" by
farmers for assistance from federal
agencies, because they "had no
other source of credit after the de
pression," Myers said.
"In the country as a whole, farm
ers apparently had more money for
equipment, machinery, farm build
ings and repairs in 1936 than in any
year since the depression."
He added that this should con
tinue next year because of in
creased purchasing power and the
opportunity to get short term cash
loans at the present reasonable
rates.
New Engine for Fighting Airplane Fires
Here is a photograph ot the chemical fire engine that was tested at Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris,
recently, to determine its efficacy in fighting fires of gasoline or oil. An old plane was set ablaze with a
large reservoir of gasoline and the new device put it out in 30 seconds. The engine consists of a fast car
fitted with a specially adapted hose which throws artificial snow and chemical froth on the fire.
ThQrn^on ^ Burg*e ss
WHERE THE RATS WERE.
TF BILLY MINK didn't know
* where the rats who had left the
big barn had gone to, the farmer
who owned the big barn and the
henhouse and the woodpile knew.
Yes, indeed, the farmer and his
family knew just where those rats
were. They were in the farmhouse!
You see, the wise gray old leader
of the rats knew the safest place
for them was in that farmhouse. In
the first place it was big and that
meant that there was plenty of room
with ever and ever so many hiding
places. There was food there, plenty
of it, to be stolen. They could be
very comfortable in that farmhouse.
More than this, they would be safe
from Billy Mink.
That gray old leader knew that
Billy Mink would hesitate a long
time about actually entering the
house because of his fear of man.
He didn't believe that Billy would
dream of looking for them in that
house, especially if he couldn't track
them over there. This Billy couldn't
do, as the wise old leader very well
knew, because it had been snowing
when the rats left the big bam and
the falling snow had covered their
tracks and destroyed the scent.
So, while Billy Mink was looking
under the woodpile and in the hen
house for those rats they were mak
ing themselves very much at home
in the farmhouse. They could climb
about between the walls and go
where they pleased. The first thing
to do was to make homes for the
babies. It didn't take some of those
rats long to find the way to the
attic. Now the attic was filled with
In Black and White
Huge puff aleeves, a high waisted
bodice and a full skirt are the style
points emphasized in this attractive
gown. It is fashioned of Bianchini's
1 moire lama and black lyoos velvet.
trunks and boxes and papers and
all sorts of odds and ends. It was
just such a place as rats love. Right
away the old mother rat began to
tear up papers and make rags of
clothing that hung in the attic. Rags
and paper make the finest kind of
nest for a rat. These nests they bid
in dark places behind boxes and
trunks.
And while they were busy with
this, the father rats set out to search
for food. It didn't take them long to
find the pantry and gnaw holes
through the wall into it. And they
were not quiet about their work,
either. The farmer and the farm
er's wife knew what was going on.
They could hear the scamper of
little feet across the attic floor and
faint squeaks between the walls.
They could hear the gnawing.
"Gracious!" exclaimed the farm
I PAPA KNOWS
"Pop, what is bettam?"
"Conversation orer beer."
e B?H S radicate. ? WHU Senna.
er. "I should think all the rats in
the barn had moved over here."
He little guessed how exactly he
had hit on the truth.
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MOMS COOK BOOK
SEVERAL GOOD DISHES.
\1T HEN fresh coconuts are in the
' ' market, try using the grated
nut freely in many dishes. A salad of
fruit sprinkled with two or three
tablespoonfuls of grated coconut is
most attractive and appetizing.
Benares Salad.
Chop rather coarsely two cupfuls
of tart apples, add two cupfuls of
grated coconut, one-half cupful of
celery finely cut, two tablespoonfuls
of chopped onion, one tablespoonful
each of chopped parsley and red
pepper. Serve with trench dressing.
Sometime serve head lettuce
with:
Blaekstooe Dressing.
Take four tablespoonfuls o f
mayonnaise dressing, the same 'of
whipped cream, two tablespoonfuls
of chili sauce, two tablespoonfuls of
vinegar and a tablespoonful of finely
minced onion, adding at the last
? tablespoonful of cream roquefort
cheese.
Cassolet.
This is a famous French dish
which is both historical and appe
tizing. Soak overnight one quart of
lima beans, in the morning bring
to a boil, add salt, more water and
cook until tender. Place in a casse
role two cupfuls of cooked chicken
or duck, add the beans, an onion,
one-half cupful of strained tomato,
on* quart of chicken broth and a
teaspoonful of kitchen bouquet.
Eve's EplGrA^ns
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Bake one hour, uncover and sprinkle
with a little minced parsley and
serve.
Hot Potato Salad.
Boil half a dozen potatoes with the
skins on. Peel and slice while hot.
Fry thin slices of bacon and cut
into small bits, using half a cupful.
Pour off the fat, leaving two table
spoonfuls, stir into this one table
spoonful of flour a bir;?f mustard,
a dash of cayenne and salt to taste.
Stir until smooth, adding gradually
I one-half cupful of mild vinegar. Let
the dressing boil, add the bacon and
a small, finely chopped onion, then
the potatoes. Serve very hot.
?? WNU Service.
m> Nov Rrji slant Thumb
AS HAS been learned from pre
ceding lessons, the fir.t, or nail,
JMnt of the thumb denotes the type
of will power of the individual. The
will however, expresses itself in
manj ways. The thumb will show
you how. In this lesson we shall
analyze the reverse of the inflexible
or stubborn will.
The Thumb of Noo- resistant Will
You will note many thumbs which
indicate this kind of will power, or,
rather, lack of it, in varying degree.
The outstanding indication is the
resilient, yielding quality of the first,
01 nail, joint when pressed back
THIS LAND OF OURS
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
VT O man is master in this land at
* ' ours.
Since ev'ry citizen retain* bis
pow'rs.
The humblest is the highest, sine*
the low
Selects the high, and tells him thus
and so.
Who takes an office does not take
a crown.
Becomes the servant of the lower
down.
Hires out his services (or certain
pay,
A hundred million others to obey.
They are the government, he but
the tool.
The instrument by which the peo
ple rule.
What is this capitol upon the hill?
It is the workshop of the people's
will.
Then where dwells pow'r? Not un
der gilded domes ?
Beneath the roofs of twenty milboa
homes.
There reign what kings there are,
who delegate
To men less busy matters at the
state.
And they, these public servants, rise
' anH fall
As they their limitations shall
recalL
Theirs not to order, wear l. ?
Theirs but to order as we order
them
How he shall toil and where be
shall abide
Are matters for the freeman to
decide
Not always right the humble man
may be.
But better to be wrong and still
be free.
? DwkIm Malkwfi ? In ilti
Test for the Nerves
Dr. Thomas H. Staggers, mecc
ano - therapist at Cleveland, Ohio,
thinks he has something here as hs
piles match upon match upon match
all upon the mouth at a beer bottle.
The something is a test at steady
nerves. Working most at two days,
the doctor succeeded m electing
? tower of 3.585 matches bthti
someone with a heavy tread caused
the edifice to collapse. This lusw
upon which the doctor is shown
working, is his second attempt. Hs
has promised to keep at it until the
first tower is left far in the ihiik
ward toward the wrist The lack at
will power and the tendency to ira
pulsiveness always associated with
the overflexible thumb are iilly
found in exact ratio to the
of flexibility.
In thumbs indicative of i
ant will, the first joint may be either
excessively long or short, but oftoa
is found with length disproportion
ate to that of the second Joint Its
sides are either extremely straight
or exaggerated in taper.
Those with first, or nail, joint of
this type invariably possess wills
that too readily fall in with sug
gestions of persons who may not al
ways wish them well They realia*
when it is too late the folly of *?- ?'
pulse which has had its way Un>
governed by reflective thought
The characteristics which mark *1
the non-resistant will, when found in
thumbs of refined structure, always
signify that extravagance, where ths
purchase of luxuries is concerned,
is almost sure to override sound
judgment In the coarser type at
thumbs, indulgence in grosser Bam- I
terial desires is apt to be ? i
and always present risk.