The Alamance gleaner
No. 50
INews Keview of Current
Events the World Over
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President Roosevelt's Message Rebukes Supreme Court and
Asks Increased Federal Powers ? Wisconsin Uni
versity Regents Oust President Frank.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
THINLY veiled but unmistak
able was President Roosevelt's
rebuke to the Supreme court in his
annual message on the state of the
President
Roosevelt
Union. Standing tri
umphant before the
lopsidedly Demo
cratic senate and
house in joint ses
sion, the chief exec
utive said:
"The United
States of America,
within itself, must
continue the task of
making democracy
succeed.
"In that task the
legislative branch
of our government will, I am con
fident, continue to meet the de
mands of democracy whether they
relate to the curbing of abuses, the
extension of help to those who need
help, or the better balancing of our
interdependent economies.
"So, too, the executive branch of
the government must move forward
in this task and, at the same time,
provide better management for ad
ministrative action of all kinds.
"The judicial branch also is asked
by the people to do its part in mak
ing democracy successful. We do
not ask the courts to call non-ex
istent powers into being, but we
have a right to expect that conced
ed powers or those legitimately im
plied shall be made effective instru
ments for the common good.
"The process of our democracy
must not be imperiled by the denial
of essential powers of free govern
ment."
Sketching the program for his sec
ond term, the President said legisla
tion he desired at this time includ
ed extension of the RFC, of his
power to devalue the dollar and of
other New Deal authorizations
about to expire, deficiency appro
priations, and extension of the neu
trality law to apply to the Spanish
civil war. Conceding that NRA
had "tried to do too much", he con
tinued: "The statute of NRA has
been outlawed. The problems have
not. They are still with us."
The President proposed federal
and state supplementary laws to
help solve the social and economic
problems of a modern industrial
democracy and challenged specula
tion, reckless over-production and
monopolistic under-production as
creating wasteful, net losses to so
ciety. It was indicated that later
on he would seek enlargement of
federal powers over industry, agri
culture and commerce.
No members of the Supreme
court were present to hear the re
buke by the President, but the
house chamber was filled to its ca
pacity and there was a spirit of
jubilation that broke out in fre
quent demonstrations. The loudest
of these was accorded to Jim Far
ley.
THE senate and house met the
day before the President ad
dressed them and organized, with
Mr. Garner of course as president
of the former and
Speaker Bankhead
again ruling over
the lower chamber.
The one matter of
interest in this pro
ceeding was the se
lection of Sam Ray
burn of Texas as
majority leader of
the house. He had
beaten John J. O'
Connor of New York
in the caucus, hav
ing the potent back
Sam
Raybarn
ing of Vice President Garner and
presumably of Mr. Roosevelt. Of
the total of 16 new senators only
two were absent, Clyde L. Herring
of Iowa and William H. Smathers
of New Jersey, both Democrats.
Two new Republican senators were
sworn in, H. Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire and Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts.
Immediately after the President's
address had been delivered on Wed
nesday, both house and senate hur
ried with the neutrality resolution
applying specifically to the civil war
in Spain. The senate adopted it
quickly by unanimous vote, but
there were parliamentary delays in
the house, and meanwhile the
freighter Mar Cantabrico managed
to get away from New York with
Robert Cuse's cargo of airplanes
and munitions for the Spanish loy
alists, valued at $2,000,000.
^LENN FRANK, president of the
University of Wisconsin, was re
moved from office by the board of
regents of that great institution,
by a vote of 8 to 7, on charges
that his administration has not been
capable and that he has been ex
travagant in personal expenditures
for which the state paid. Allegedly,
Dr. Frank was ousted because Gov.
Philip La Follete demanded it. As
one regent said: "He has not been
very Progressive." Accused of play
ing politics in this affair, the La
Follete group replied that there is
no politics in their attitude in the
sense of political party affiliations
or convictions, but that they have
been .extremely patient with Dr.
Frank over a period of years, and
that he has shown himself incom
petent in many ways.
The "trial" of President Frank
occupied two days and aroused in
tense interest throughout the coun
try, especially among educators.
Chairman of the Board H. M. Wilkie
and Regent Clough Gates were the
prosecutors. Dr. Frank made vigor
ous reply to the charges against
him, declaring most of them to be
"false statements." He explained
that he had spent university money
for his household furnishings be
cause there were none in the big
mansion provided for the president,
and he forced Gates to retract some
accusations.
As far as neglect of his duties for
outside writing and lectures Dr.
Frank noted that most of them
were in Wisconsin, for which he
never took any pay at all. He has
been out of the state 137 times in
ten years, he said, and eighty-eight
of those trips were specifically
with educational groups, alumni
bodies or other university business.
The remaining engagements, he
said, were with groups whose prob
lems were related to the problems
arising in the various schools.
General motors corpora
tion flatly refused to consider
collective bargaining in its 69 plants
except through local management.
wnereupon sou dele
gates from those
plants in ten cities
met in Flint, Mich.,
and granted to a
"board ol strategy"
power to order a
general strike. The
board is headed by
Homer Martin, in
ternational president
of the United Auto
mobile Workers ot
America, one ol the
Lewis C. I. O. un
A. P. Sloan
ions. Eighteen of the corporation's
plants already were closed by sit
down strikes and walkouts, and 50,
000 of its employees were idle.
Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen
eral Motors, is on record as in
sisting that no one union shall be
the bargaining agency for the cor
poration's employees. As he left
New York for Detroit he said: "Let
them pull workers out. That's the
only way I know to find out how
strong the union is."
Homer Martin has declared that
"the question of recognition of the
union is not negotiable."
William S. Knudsen, executive
vice president of General Motors,
declared the company never would
agree to collective bargaining on a
national basis and, despite strikes,
would continue to produce automo
biles as long as possible.
Still there was hope of a peaceful
settlement for the G. M. officials
seemed likely, at this writing, to
agree to a conference with the
board of strategy. James F. Dew
ey, conciliator for the Department
of Labor, and Governor Murphy of
Michigan were active in the effort
to further negotiations. One stum
bling block was the insistence of
General Motors that the sit-down
strikers must get out of the Fisher
Body plants in Flint before any
conference could be held.
IT WAS announced at the White
House that President Roosevelt's
eldest son, James, will become a
full fledged White House secretary
and draw a salary of $10,000 a year
after June 1. Until the beginning
of the new fiscal year, James will
act as secretary but will be on the
public pay roll as administrative
officer drawing $7,500.
At the elevation of James to the
secretaryship. Assistant Whit*
House Secretaries Stephen T. Early
and Marvin M. Mclntyre win also
become full secretaries.
VI INNESOTA'S new governor, El
mer A. Benson, in his inaug
ural address took a hard slap at
the Supreme court. Said he:
"I recommend that you petition
congress to submit a constitutional
amendment which would remove
from the Supreme court its as
sumed power to declare unconsti
tutional laws passed by congress
pertaining to child labor, regulating
working conditions in industry and
agricultural and industrial produc
tion, providing security against old
age, unemployment and sickness
and social legislation generally.
"Progressive America stands
helpless to enact needed social and
economic reforms while a reaction
ary Supreme court has usurped au
tocratic powers never intended by
the framers of the constitution."
A NDREW W. MELLON, Pitts
** burgh multimillionaire and for
mer secretary of the treasury, has
offered to present to the nation his
magiiiuueui art coi
lection, valued at
$23,000,000, together
with a $9,000,000
building for its hous
ing in Washington
and a fund for its
maintenance and in
crease. The offer is
made through Presi
dent Roosevelt, with
whom Mr. Mellon
has been in corre
spondence and con
ference on the mat
Andrew
Mellon
ter. It will be submitted to con
gress with the President's favorable
recommendation.
The Mellon collection, part of
which is stored in the Corcoran art
gallery in Washington, includes
many paintings of highest impor
tance and some fine works of sculp
ture. Lord Duveen of Milbank, head
of a celebrated art firm, says that
its actual value is more than $50,
000,000 and that it is the "greatest
collection ever assembled by any
individual collector."
ITALY sent a note to the French
A and British governments offer
ing to withdraw her support from
the Spanish Fascists provided all
other nations withdrew their sup
port from the loyalists. This was
Mussolini's reply to the Franco
British note urging that no more
volunteers be permitted to go
to Spain. Evidently it would call for
long negotiations before noninter
vention became effective.
Hitler had not answered the non
intervention note, but the German
authorities indicated that their
"war" of reprisal on the Spanish
loyalists for seizure of a German
steamship had ceased.
Probably realizing that his hope
of final victory was slim unless he
was ably seconded by Mussolini
and Hitler or could speedily cap
ture Madrid, General Franco di
rected a renewed and violent attack
on the capital. Both Madrid and
Malaga suffered severely from
Fascist air bombardment.
The Spanish government at Val
encia filed with the League of Na
tions a protest against alleged vio
lation of its territory and its waters
by Germany and Italy. But Ger
many isn't in the league, and Italy
defies it, so the protest seems
futile.
P ROWN PRINCESS JULIANA of
the Netherlands and Prince
Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld were
made man and wife at The Hague,
and all the Dutch people rejoiced
exceedingly. There were two cere
monies, a civil one conducted by
the burgomaster in the town hail
and a religious one in St. James
church. The tall, plump bride wore
a silver robe over her wedding
dress and Bernhard was in the full
dress uniform of the Blue Hussars.
Before the wedding there had
been a series of disturbing inci
dents, including "insults" to the
Nazi flag of Germany and protests
by Reichsfuehrer Hitler. But apol
ogies and explanations cleared ev
erything up and Hitler sent to
Queen Wilhelmina a cordial tele
gram of congratulations on the mar
riage of her only daughter.
CUBMISSION, conviction a tit par- |
^ don of Marshal Shang Hsueh
Chiang Kai-shek of China, appar
ently hasn't ended the trouble start
ed by him. Dispatches from Sianfu
said a majority of Chang's former
Manchurian army, numbering 250,
000 troops, had joined red troops of
Shensi and Kansu provinces in open
revolt against the central govern
ment to establish a vast communist
empire in northwest China.
Admiral albert gleaves,
U. S. N. retired, died at his
home near Philadelphia at the age
of seventy-nine years, thus ending a
career that carried him through two
wars and won for him honors from
five nations. During the World war
Admiral Gleaves was commander
of the American cruiser and trans
port force and thereafter was known
aa "the man who took them over
and brought them back."
I
Seven Million Dollar Ruin of the Crystal Palace
London's famous and beautiful Crystal Palace, familiar to all Americans who have visited the metropolis,
was destroyed by flames recently, the loss being placed at about $7,000,000. This picture shows the ruins after
the spectacular conflagration.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
THE FARMER AND HIS WIFE
ARE IN DESPAIR
""P HE farmer who owned the big
bam where the rats had lived
was puzzled. After a few days he
became sure that there wasn't a
rat left in the big barn. He knew
that they had all moved to the
farmhouse. They had been bad
enough when they had lived in the
big barn, but they were ever so
much worse living in his house. He
knew that rats did not move like
this without a cause. This meant
that they must have been driven out
of the big barn, and who or what
could have driven them out was
more than the farmer could guess.
For years he had tried to get rid
of the rats there and hadn't been
able to. Now suddenly they had
deserted the big barn and taken
possession of his house.
"I wish," said the farmer, "I
could find out what drove those rats
over here. Then perhaps I could
use the same means to drive them
out of the house."
"I wish you could," replied his
wife. "I don't know what we're go
ing to do. Those rats are getting
so bold that they don't pay any at
tention to me at all. They run
across the pantry floor in broad
daylight. The only way I can keep
food safe from them is in tin cans
or earthen jars with covers and
they have managed even to get the
Smart for Evening
Upholstery brocade in two shades
at dull blue makes this smart eve
ning coat. The simplicity of the
fitted bodice and full sweep of the
skirt enhance the at the fab
ric.
covers off some of these. They get
in the flour barrel. They have
spoiled the milk; they have stolen
the eggs; in fact, there isn't any
thing they haven't got into. They
keep me awake nights by their
squealing and racing about through
the walls. They're getting so bold
that I'm actually afraid of them."
So the fanner set all his traps.
He set traps in the attic and in
the pantry and in the woodshed. He
put poisoned food where he was
sure the rats would And it. But it
was all in vain. Those rats had
learned all about traps, and the
gray old leader of them had
learned to be suspicious of food
left where it was easy to get. He
warned the other rats not to touch
this food. The farmer blocked up
the holes in the pantry walls, but
as fast as he blocked them up the
rats gnawed new ones.
So it was that the farmer and his
wife were in despair. Do what they
would, they couldn't get rid of those
rats. The rats got into the cellar
and stole vegetables. It got so that
the farmer's wife didn't dare go
down to the cellar. She was afraid
of being bitten by a rat, and you
know the bite of a rat is often
poisonous.
?T. W. BurgeM ? WNU Service.
"Dignity," says soliloquizing
Elizabeth, "is something we try to
stand upon when we have no other
support."
WNU Service.
? MOTHER'S *
COOK BOOK
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
LI ERE are several recipes that
* * it will pay you to try out.
Sweet Cider Jelly.
Before the sweet cider has grown
sour prepare a few glasses of this
delightful jelly: Measure one quart
of sweet apple cider, add seven and
one-half cupfuls of sugar, stir and
bring to a boil. Add one cupful of
pectin, bring to a boil and boil hard
for one minute. Remove and let
stand one minute, skim and pour
into jelly glasses. Cover the hot
: jelly with a thin layer of paraffin,
then when cold cover with another
layer, and there will be no air
spaces to spoil the jelly. This rec
ipe makes about eleven glasses of
jelly
Dixie Cake.
Take one and one-half cupfuls of
granulated sugar, one-half cupful
of shortening, cream together, then
add one cupful of fresh coconut milk
! and (rated coconut. Add three cup
fuls of flour sifted with three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and
one teaspoonful of salt, add one
half teaspoonful of grated lemon
peel and two teaspoonfuls of lemon
I juice. Fold in the stiffly beaten
whites of four eggs and bake in a
well oiled loaf pan.
Appetising Salad.
On a bed of crisp fresh water
cress or lettuce lay three slices of
tomato. Sprinkle this generously
with chopped sour pickle, celery
hearts and sweet peppers, using the
same amount of each. Add your
; favorite dressing and place a small
sweet pickle on top of each. This is
. particularly good with steak or fowl.
Pineapple is most delicious with
all kinds of meats. With chicken
breasts with currant jelly and but
tsi it not only make* a garnish but
a most delightful sauce as well. Use
the pineapple juice in the gravy
and add a bit of the fruit, too, to
the brown gravy.
O Western Newspaper Union.
British Bought Ohio Ores
Ores from the Hanging rock re
gion in Ohio were not only used to
produce the heavy ordinance of the
Civil war but were also purchased
by the British government for pro
ducing metal to be used in the Cri
mean war.
TIDIED UP
By DOUGLAS HALLOCH
'"T HEY cleaned my desk, straight
as, a string.
While I was out of town.
And now I cannot And a thing
The place I put it down.
A pile of this, a pile of that,
I meant to do some day.
But now I don't know where they're
at ?
I didn't, anyway.
I used to burrow here and there
In search of that or this.
But now it isn't anywhere.
And that is what I miss.
I used to have to hunt for stuff;
A little time it took;
As if that weren't bad enough.
Now there's no place to look.
And yet already things begin
To clutter as before,
And ev'ry time the mail comes in
It adds a little more.
I've found my glasses, not the case,
I've lost my fountain pen.
It won't be long before the place
Will seem like home again.
O Dourlu Ma.lloch.-WNU Servic*.
THE LANGUAGE -
Or YOUH BAUD
? B j Leicester K. Davis
C Public Udfar. lac.
Tp HE first, or nail, joint of the
thumb indicates, as preceding
lessons have shown, the kind and de
gree of its owner's will. While an
accurate index of this quality of
temperament is essential to a cor
rect analysis of character through
study of the hand, the amount of '
logic indicated must also be de
termined.
The Thumbs as an Index at Legit.
The second, or middle, joint of
the thumb may be relied upon to
tell us of this important comple
ment of character. This element
will clearly indicate its owner's love
and powers of meditation, concen
tration and ability to think things
out.
Length and symmetry and the
prominence of the knuckle itself
will make our conclusions reliable
on this point. The length of the
middle joint in its relation to that
of the first, or nail, joint, should
be carefully compared. If both are
of even length there is every indica
tion that the will is well controlled
by sound judgment. If with this,
the knuckle is unusually knotty or
otherwise prominent, we have the
man or woman who painstakingly
and with greater - than - average
amount of research studies every
move in the game of life.
Coupled with a firm nail joint,
this analytical and clear-thinking
combination is one of the surest
signs of the man or woman whose
decisions and actions seldom call
forth "I told you so's."
WXU Service.
Dental Work at the Tokyo Zoo
"Daitaro," ? hippopotamus at the Ueno zoo in Tokyo, Japan, who is
very popular with the children, shown as his long canine teeth, which
had troubled him, were shortened recently. It took twenty minute* to
coax the hippo into position with his mouth open and forty-Ore minutes
to saw off part of the two teeth; this including delays while the attend
ants fed hi>? cabbage, his favorite dish, to increase his patience.