The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LXII.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937 No. 51
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President Roosevelt in Inaugural Address Pledges Aid for
Forty Million Under-Privileged ? Secretary Per
kins Tries to Break Motor Strike Deadlock.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
? utTJ ideals, beautifully worded
"and eloquently voiced. That
seems to be a fair description of
the second inaugural address of
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. Standing
bareheaded on the
capitol portico in a
cold, pelting rain,
he took the oath of
office administered
by black robed
Chief Justice
Hughes, and then,
in ringing words
carried by radio to
the ends of the
earth, he pledged
his administration
President
Roosevelt
to carry on its fight for the social
security and material prosperity
and happiness of the entire people
of the United States. In effect, he
promised that the federal govern
ment would bring about a better
life for one-third of the nation now
underprivileged, and that the pro
gram of planned economy would
be continued. For forty millions
who are not getting their share of
the nation's material benefits the
government will provide homes,
food, clothing, education, recreation
and increased incomes.
The President's listeners inter
preted some of his phrases as a
challenge to the Supreme court, as
when he said:
"Nearly all of us recognize that
as intricacies of human relation
ships increase, so power to govern
them also must increase ? power to
stop evil; power to do good. The
essential democracy of our nation
and the safety of our people depend
not upon the absence of power but
upon lodging it with those whom
the people can change or continue
at stated intervals through an hon
est and free system of elections.
The constitution of 1787 did not
make our democracy impotent.
"In fact, in these last four years,
we have made the exercise of all
power more democratic; for we
have begun to bring private auto
cratic powers into their proper sub
ordination to the public's govern
ment. The legend that they were
invincible ? above and beyond the
processes of democracy ? has been
shattered. They have been chal
lenged and beaten."
Before the inauguration cere
monies, Mr. Roosevelt and mem
bers of his family attended a special
service in St. John's Episcopal
church. After delivering his address
the President reviewed the military
parade from a cupola built in front
of the White House. In addition to
the soldiers, sailors and marines,
samples of the Civilian Conserva
tion corps and of the National Youth
administration were in the line, as
were the governors of 46 states with
their staffs.
OECRETARY OF LABOR FRAN
? CES PERKINS herself undertook
the difficult task of breaking the
renewed deadlock in the General
Motors strike, but .
at this writing she I
had not made much
progress. Governor
Murphy of Michi
gan, who went to
Washington for the
inauguration,
helped her, arrang
ing separate meet
ings with John L.
Lewis, C. I. O. lead- j
er, and President
Sloan of the motor
corporation. But his
? ;> W
Secretary
Perkins
efforts to bring these two gentle
men together seemed futile. Lew
is summoned Homer Martin, head
of the striking union, and John
Brophy, C. I. O. lieutenant, from
Detroit and conferred with them
on "strategy". All the union lead
ers appeared supremely confident,
and Lewis insisted the demand that
the union be recognized as the sole
bargaining agency must be conced
ed if there were to be any strike
settlement negotiations.
Secretary Perkins, after talking
with both sides, went directly to
the White House. She said she was
"keeping the President informed"
of developments. The belief was
general that it would be necessary
to invoke the personal aid of Mr.
Roosevelt to bring about a peace
ful settlement.
Lewis brought about the tempo
rary suspension of negotiations by a
statement he gave the press. With
brutal frankness he said:
"We have advised the secretary
of labor that the 'economic royal
ists' ? and the du Ponts and Mr.
Sloan are among them ? used their
money to try to drive Mr. Roose
velt out of the White House.
"Labor rallied to the President's
support when they attacked him.
"These same economic royalists
now have their fangs in labor, and
labor now expects the government
to support labor in its legal and logi
cal objectives."
This was too much for Sloan, who
started for home with the remark:
"We find it useless to attempt any
further negotiations in Washington.
Any time the President sends for us
we'll be there."
Lewis' position was strengthened
by the settlement of the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass company strike and in
creased prospects that Libbey
Owens-Ford glass workers would
return to their jobs. His strategy
has been to curtail General Motors
production, and interfere with its
principal competitors, Ford and
Chrysler, as little as possible. Re
sumption of production by glass
manufacturers would permit Ford
and Chrysler to produce at full
speed while sit-down strikers keep
General Motors plants inoperative.
/CONGRESS did not wait for the
inauguration to rush through
the bill asked by the President ex
tending for two and one-half years
his power to control the two
billion dollar stabilization fund and
to devalue the dollar. Senator Van
denberg and Representative Snell,
minority leaders, made futile ef
forts to amend the measure so that
it would call on the secretary of the
treasury to submit to congress a
complete audit and report upon
the operations of the fund after the
expiration date in 1939.
r\ ISPATCHES from Vatican city
said the condition of Pope Pius
XI was steadily growing worse. He
was suffering excruciating pain,
especially 1x1 luc
right leg. The pon
tiff, however, insist
ed on conducting
some of the business
of his office, telling
Archbishop Castigli
oni he was deter
mined to work a s
long as breath re
mained in his body.
The pope was
greatly distressed to
hpar nf ripath nf
Pope Pius
Bishop M. J. Gallagher of Detroit,
the superior of Father Charles
Coughlin, "radio priest." Bishop
Gallagher made a visit to the Vati
can about six months ago.
npHE conflict between fascism
and communism in the Old
World grows more intense day by
day, and the German Nazi leaders
insist every nation must espouse
one side or the other. Air Minister
Goering declares England especially
should align herself with Germany
and Italy, but Foreign Minister
Eden in a speech before parliament
virtually handed back to Germany
the question of Europe's fate. "We
cannot cure the world by pacts or
treaties," said he, "or by political
creeds, no matter what they be."
He demanded to know whether Ger
many intended to use the "mani
fold gifts of her people to restore
confidence to a world sick of an
tagonism," or "to the sharpening of
international antagonism and a pol
icy of even greater economic isola
tion" ? ...
German officials called Eden's
speech "untimely;" and Ulrich von
Hassel, German ambassador to
Italy, speaking in Cologne, described
the "axis of Rome-Berlin" as a
"central pivot around which the
whole of Europe revolves."
"Germany and Italy," he said,
"are destined to fight the false doc
trines of the east (Russia) and sur
mount western capitalism. Germany
and Italy are neither east nor west,
but the center, and Europe will be
able to keep in harmony only if
they remain the strong central ax
is."
It was said in Berlin that a mixed
German-Japanese commission has
been named to carry out provisions
of the Berlin-Tokio anti-communist
agreement of last November.
Over in Japan Foreign Minister
Hachiro Arita opened the parlia
ment with ? speech in which he
declared communism was to blame
for the political troubles at the world.
JOSEPH E. DA VIES, our new am
J bassador to Russia, arrived in
Moscow and at once declared: "It
is amazing! Russia is one of the
most interesting countries in the
world." Then he and his party ol
ten moved into Spasso house, the
official residence of the ambassador,
and prepared for a lively social
season.
The envoy's group was preceded
to the capital by another party bf al
most equal size, including maids,
chauffeurs, other house servants, a
personal physician, Commander N.
W. Bunkley of the United States
navy, and others. Mr. Davies said
he intended to entertain extensively
but not on the lavish plan previous
reports had intimated.
I) EPRESENTATIVES of five raO
way brotherhoods who have
been in conference in Chicago de
cided to demand a 20 per cent
raise in wages for the members of
those unions, mynbering about 250,
000. These are employees in the
train service classification ? conduc
tors, engineers, firemen, trainmen
and switchmen.
Based on the October, 1938, pay
roll statistics issued by the inter
state commerce commission, a 20
per cent pay raise for these work
ers would require an increase of
116 million dollars in the annual
pay rolls of the country's railroads.
The total pay roll for 251,598 train
service employees last October
was $48,623,261.
RUMORS were current In Wash
ington that Dr. Arthur E. Mor
gan would soon resign as chairman
of the Tennessee Valley authority
as the result of his
long and bitter dis
agreement with Di
rector David Lilien
thal over TV A poli
cies. Both the gen
tlemen were in the
capital and it ap
peared they had
laid their cases be
lore President
Roosevelt for his
decision as to which
should be the lead
er. Lilienthal, who
was formerlv Wispni
A. E. Morgan
nsin utilitip*
commissioner under Gov. Phil La
Follette, favors unrelenting war
fare on private utility interests.
Doctor Morgan, on the other hand,
doesn't want a "fight to a finish"
but, rather, a co-operative effort
to pool public and private electric
ity in the Southeast in order to end
TVA's legal war with the private
interests. The chairman, however,
stood almost alone among those who
are shaping the administration's
power policy.
Decision in the controversy is nec
essary soon for the first big con
tract between TVA and private util
ity interests expires February 3 and
the question of renewal must be set
tled before then.
Drafting of a national power pol
icy was asked by the President of
a committee headed by Secretary
of the Interior Ickes. He said
that this policy, once established,
would apply to all existing projects
and to new power developments as
they are completed.
U OWARD HUGHES, wealthy
*? manufacturer, motion picture
producer and amateur aviator, set
a new record for the flight from
Burbank, Calif., to New York? 7
hours 28 minutes, 25 seconds. It
was an astonishing performance.
Hughes' average speed for 2,490
miles over what he calls a "modi
fied great circle course" was 332
miles per hour. This achievement
is the greatest sustained speed
flight ever made.
The flight was made without a
stop, the cruising altitude being
about 14,000 feet, and the motor of
the plane could not be allowed to
operate at full throttle for more
than a small fraction of the time.
The top speed reached was 380
miles an hour.
DRITAIN'S plan to bar from Spain
?*-* volunteers from other na
tions met with a big setback when
Russia refused to adopt prohibitive
measures. Foreign Commissar
Maxim Litvinov handed to Ambas
sador Chilston a note saying:
"The Soviet government, although
it presently does not practice the
dispatch of volunteer detachments,
does not consider it expedient to
adopt unilateral prohibitive meas
ures."
AN ARMY communique issued in
Tokio announced the conviction
and sentencing of seven former
army officers and eight civilians
for their part in the Tokio military
revolt of last February 26. The
communique said the conspirators
planned a nation-wide uprising of
militarist, ultra-patriotic elements.
The special court martial sen
tenced Maj. Gen. Ryu Saito and
Capt.'Saburo Sugenami to flve years
in prison, Lieut. Col. Sakichi Mitusi
to three years, and four other ex
officers and eight civilians to shorter
terms.
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Ski-joring in the Adirondack Mountains
One of the exciting sports for winter visitors in the Adirondack mountains is ski-joring. This photograph
shows some of its addicts speeding over the snow-covered ice of Mirror lake, with the beautiful winter set
ting of the resort in the background.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTOX W. BURGESS
BILLY MINK IS DISCOVERED
FTER the rats left the big barn
Billy Mink found it less easy
to get plenty to eat. There were
mice in the big bam, and for sev
eral days Billy managed to catch
enough of these to keep from going
hungry. But mice can get into
places too small for Billy to follow,
and those that were left soon
learned to keep out of his way.
Then, Billy's thoughts turned to
the hens in the henhouse. He had
not intended to kill any of those
hens because he knew that as soon
as he did, the farmer who owned
them would hunt for him, and then
he would have to move on. He was
so comfortably located that he was
not anxious to move on. But one
must eat, and now that the rats had
disappeared and the mice had
learned to keep out of his way,
Billy's thoughts turned to those
hens.
It was the very night after the
Are which the rats had started in
the back shed of the farmhouse that
Billy made up his mind to have a
chicken dinner. He slipped under
the henhouse and up through a hole
in the corner which he already knew
about. All the hens were roosting
high fast asleep, with their heads
under their wings.
Had Reddy Fox been in Billy
Mink's place' he would have been
somewhat puzzled as to how he
should catch one of those hens. But
Billy wasn't puzzled. Not a bit of
it. You see, Billy can climb almost
like a squirrel. Reddy Fox would
have had to jump, and probably
would have awakened and fright
ened the whole flock. Billy Mink
simply climbed up to one of the
roosts, stole along it to the nearest
hen, and with one quick snap of his
stout little jaws he killed that hen
without even waking her.
Rembrandt Hat
This Rembrandt hat has a wide
brim that is rolled flat against the
left side of a narrow crown. The
only trimming is a band and bow of
black belting ribbon. The sheer
woolen frock is black with a gilet
and belt of white pique.
Has Long Snout
The desman, a small animal of
the Pyrenees, has such a long,, mo
bile nose it can thrust it into its
own mouth as an elephant does its
trunk.
Now, had Billy's cousin. Shadow
the Weasel, been in his place, he
would have gone right on killing
those hens from sheer love of kill
ing. But Billy Mink killed that hen
simply because he must have some
thing to eat, and one hen w'as more
than enough to furnish him a din
ner. When he had finished his dinner
he went back to his snug bed under
the big woodpile.
Of course, when the farmer came
out to feed the hens in the morning
he discovered what had happened.
He didn't know who had killed
that hen, but he knew that it must
have been some one very small to
have got into the henhouse. He hunt
ed about until he found the hole in
the dark corner. He knew that that
hole had been made by a rat, and
at first he thought it must have been
rats that killed that hen, and this
increased his anger.
That afternoon he happened to
look out of the barn door toward
the woodpile and he was just in time
to see a ilim, brown form whisk
t out of sight under the wood.
"Ha, ha!" exclaimed the farmer.
"Now I know who the thief is. There
is a mink in that woodpile. He is
the fellow who killed that hen last
night. I think, Mr. Mink, we'll mala|
you pay for that hen with your
I brown coat."
c T. W. Bgrtm ? WNU Sarrlca.
"There's no bull," says solilo
quizing Elizabeth, "about the pres
ent Sprnish fight."
WNUStrriaa.
? MOTHER'S ?
COOK BOOK
SEASONABLE DISHES
year opens up new methods
? make our meals better
and more satisfying with the mini
mum of labor. How easy it is to
make a few glasses of grape jelly
from grape juice, if needed for any
occasion. Use the bottled pectin and
in a few moments the jelly is in
the glasses, ready to serve when
chilled.
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Chop one-fourth of a pound of
mushrooms and cook them in one
quart of chicken stock 20 minutes,
then rub through a sieve. Reheat
and bind with one-fourth of a cupful
each of butter and flour cooked to
gether. A slice of onion may be
added to the stock if desired. Add
one cupful of cream and two table
spoonfuls of orange juice when serv
ing.
Brown Mushroom Sauce
Melt three tablespoonfuls of but
ter, add a teaspoonful of onion juice
or scraped onion and cook until
PAPA rNCWi-1
"Pop, what is ? hackney?"
"Copy b#y."
slightly brown, add three tableapoon
fuls of flour and cook until brown,
pour on gradually one cupful of
cream. Clean one-half pound o f
mushrooms, and cut into small
pieces, saute in butter five min
utes. Cook the stems in water to
cover and reduce to one-third of a
cupful. Add a teaspoonful of beef
extract to the mushroom liquor, add
to the sauce with salt and pepper to
season. Just before serving add the
mushroom caps. They may be left
whole if desired.
C Western Newspaper Union.
The Way of the Ctom
By DOUGLAS MAIAOCH
I THINK I had aa much belief
Aa moat men have whs have no
care.
And yet the Christ waa nevea
there
Until I was His kin in grief.
Until I had my cross to bear.
When I had only death to fear,
I think perhaps my faith mC
Seed;
But faith is not so cheaply
priced;
For they, who never shed a tear,
What know they, after all, at
Christ?
Until I, too, was laden down
I think my faith was only droM.
I think a life all gain, all to?
That not a soul shall wear the
crown
Unless it first has borne the
cross.
? DooslM Malloek. ? WXTJ SMit?.
THE L1XGU1CB
Or TOUR H1MD
A By IjwcmUt K. Dmfe
TW^Igfcuttoaol X?
?
Q CCASION ALLY you will meet a
^ man whose judgments and de
cisions are formed with almost light
ning speed. These may seem to be
the result of "hunches," yet they
seldom fail to materialize success
fully. Casual observation of such in
dividuals may stamp them am
"reckless doers," but this may not
be deserved. Their thumbs will teD
you why.
The Thumb of Intuitional Anlyril.
With those who possess this vtt.
one is apt to pass by its identifica
tion, which is clearly given by the
formation of the second, or
joint of the thumb. This may be
of average length or longer. But it
is always marked by exceptioad
slendemess of its mid-section,
which is sometimes abnormally,
tied-in or "corseted."
Coupled with a resolute first or
nail joint, this type of thumb must
be definitely placed as signifying
analytical abilities which function
at supernormal speed. The posses
sor may wonder quite as much aa
do you as to the source of his al
most uncanny perceptions.
WKU Servic*.
Age of the Sphinx
The exact age of the Sphinx ia
unknown. It has been standing
for more than 5,000 years. It ia
70 feet high and 150 feet long, ex
cluding the paws. A few pieces of
stone have been added from time
to time, but in general the statue
is carved from living rock. Until
the end of the Nineteenth century,
there remained traces of the original
coloring of the face.
Lawyer Ordained as a ^Minister
John H. Esquirol (center), former lawyer and Democratic politician,
shown as he was ordained at Garden City. N. Y., into the ministry at
the Protestant Episcopal church. At the left is Right Rev.
Stires, bishop of the Long Island diocese, who presided at the
at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. On the right is Rev. Frederick
rector of St, Gabriel's church in Hollis, Queens, who tufa
quirol for the ministry.