The Alamance gleaner
Vol. LXIII v GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1937
No. 15
News Review of Current
Events the World Over I
Ambassador Dodd's Remarkable Warning of Fascist Plan
for United States ? Steel Workers' Strikes
Started by the C. I. 0.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
WILLIAM E. DODD, American
ambassador to Germany, has
stepped into the limelight and the
result may be embarrassing to him
. onrl ??"? ?Vio
istration. In a long
letter to Senators
Bulkley of Ohio and
Glass of Virginia he
urges all Democrats
to unite in support
of the President and
thus avert a dicta
torship in the United
States. It was as
sumed he meant the
? rresiaem s supreme
court enlargement
W. E. Dodd bill should be sup
ported, since that is the measure
that split the party in congress.
Dodd, former professor in the Uni
versity of Chicago, said he had been
told by certain friends that a n
American, not named, "who owns
nearly a billion dollars," was pre
pared to set up a fascist regime
which presumably he would con
trol. There are not many American
billionaires now, but no one has
ventured to guess publicly the man
Dodd has in mind.
"There are individuals of great
wealth who wish a dictatorship and
are ready to help a Huey Long," he
wrote. "There are politicians, some
in the senate, I have heard, who
think they may come into power
like that of the European dictators
in Moscow, Berlin, and Rome."
Congressional leaders were quick
to take up Dodd's assertion, Senator
Borah of Idaho leading off with the
declaration that the ambassador
was an irresponsible scandal mon
ger and a disgrace to his country.
"I have an idea," said Borah, "that
his supposed dictatorship is the fig
ment of a diseased brain." Senator
Gerald Nye of North Dakota, radi
cal, introduced a resolution call
ing upon the State department to
demand that Dodd name the billion
aire in question.
In the house Representative Fish
of New York denounced Dodd, and
demanded that he be recalled and
forced to give the name of the man
who is ready to set up a dictator
ship.
This reaction in Washington led
Ambassador Dodd to amplify his
warning by a prepared statement
cautioning against perils which
would result from defeat of Presi
dent Roosevelt's recovery program
and reiterating the assertion that
Americans of great wealth are look
ing toward Fascist rule; but he still
disclosed no identities.
TpHERE were persistent reports
in Washington that the Supreme
court controversy would soon be
settled by the resignation of at least
two of the justices, Brandeis and
Van Devanter, and possibly Mc
Reyflolds and Sutherland. It was
said friends of these men had urged
their retirement "for the good of
the court itself."
Senator Henrik Shipstead of Min
nesota, Farmer-Laborite, returning
to his seat after a long illness,
declared himself flatly against the
Supreme court enlargement bill;
and his colleague. Senator Ernest
Lundeen, another Farmer-Labor
ite, said he would not support an
increase of more than two in the
membership of the court.
D KIT .TP MURRAY, chairman of
*? the steel workers' organizing
committee of the C. I. O., called
the first major strike in the cam
paigu ui uewis aiiu
his associates to un
ionize the steel in
dustry. On his order
the employees of
Jones It Laughlin
Steel corporation
plants in Pitta
burgh and Aliquippa
walked out after
Murray had failed
to get from the com
jiany ? Bigneu tui
lective bargaining Philip Murray
contract. The strike call affected
27,000 men. Thousands of pickets
surrounded the Jones 4 Laughlin
mills and kept non-union workers
from entering.
The company announced its will
ingness to sign a contract if it might
grant identical terms to non-union
employees and declared its disposi
tion to deal solely with any group
that could poll a majority of its em
; ployees in an election supervised
by the national labor board.
Next day the strike spread to the
plants of the Pittsburgh Steel com
pany at Monessen and Allenport,
Pa., where 5,900 men went out.
Murray said it was inevitable that
the Republic, Youngstowq, Bethle
hem and Crucible steel concerns
would be involved very soon.
There was considerable disorder
at Aliquippa, and the police used
tear gas bombs to disperse the pick
ets. Governor Earle hurried to the
region to help settle the trouble, and
he ordered the sale of liquor stopped
in areas affected by the strike.
Employees of Fisher Body and
Chevrolet in Detroit returned to
work pending a conference with the
management; but the plants of
those concerns in Janesville, Wis.,
were closed by a dispute over the
status of 14 non-union workers.
Their plants in Flint and Saginaw
also were shut down, as was the
Fisher Body plant in Cleveland.
John L. Lewis, head of the C. I.
O., apparently killed any chances
for peace with the A. F. of L. when,
addressing the Lady Garment Work
ers' union convention at Atlantic
City, he called President Green a
traitor to organized labor and de
clared neither he nor any of the
workers unionized in the C. I. O.
campaign wants peace with the fed
eration. Lewis charged that Green
tried to prevent Governor Murphy
of Michigan from settling the Gen
eral Motors and Chrysler strikes.
ECHNICAL workers in the
movie industry at Hollywood
were disappointed when the screen
actors' guild, settling its own trou
bles with the producers, refused to
support their strike. But the C. I.
O. took up their cause, assured them
of active support and promised to
p\pce 340,000 men on picket duty in
important cities throughout the
country. At least, that is the as
sertion of Charles E. Lessing, head
of the striking unions.
Lessing said the film boycott
would be directed at theaters in in
dustrial areas where unions are
strong. He selected New York, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, De
troit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and
St. Paul as key cities for picketing.
DRITISH royalty and the British
government are at outs con
cerning the wedding of the duke of
Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield.
ine auie wisnes u
to be public and of
ficially supported by
King George and
Mary, the queen
mother, with whom
Edward discussed
the affair by tele
phone. The cabinet
insists the marriage
should be strictly
private and not at
_ . . tended by any mem
Dukeo t be, of the royal
Windsor family except as a
private person. Edward postponed
the marriage until June at the re
quest of his brother the king, and
it is said he would yield to the de
mand of the government and have
a private wedding ; but Queen Mary
and King George believe the cere
mony should be public and recog
nized as a matter of "Stair treat
ment" for the duke, and that his
bride should be formally recognized
as the duchess of Windsor.
"O EMEMBER, this is the Presi
dent's pet project. He wants
the CCC made permanent, not ex
tended for a two year period."
So shouted Representative Wil
liam P. Connery of Massachusetts
at the members of the house. But
the house would not heed the im
plied warning and voted, 224 to 34,
in favor of giving the CCC two
more years of life. This was in
committee of the whole, and next
day this action was confirmed.
The senate, forgetting all about
economy, approved, 40 to 29, an
amendment to the second deficiency
appropriation bill which commits
the government to the expenditure
of 112 millions on a new Tennessee
river dam at Gilbertsville, Ky.
TO SETTLE the long pension con
troversy between railroad oper
ators and their employees, a com
promise bill was introduced by Sen
ator Wagner and Representative
Crosser amending the railway re
tirement act. Fundamental conces
sions to workers include eligibility
for pensions for employees absent
on account of sickness, increases
in death benefits, and authority to
include prior service in calculating
length of service upon which an
nuities are based. -
Ff RESPONSE to' the recent re
quest of a foreign government,
reported to be France, the adminis
tration has taken the position that
it will not permit the export of he
lium for military purposes abroad.
The request was for a very large
amount of the gas, presumably for
? large airship, and investigation
convinced officials in Washington
that the nation asking it was plan
ning no such commercial service as
was performed by the German gov
ernment with the ill-fated Hinden
burg.
/TAD in a cloth of gold robe em
^ broidered with colored emblem*
and lined with white satin, King
George VI of Great Britain knelt
ii
ueiuie iiic urciiuian
op of Canterbury in
Westminster abbey
and the primate
placed on the mon
arch's head the
crown which Ed
ward never wore.
Then the queen's
crown was placed
on the head of Eliz
abeth, and the two
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wua uicu plates uu
their thrones. At the
same time all the
assembled peers and peeresses
donned their coronets, drums and
trumpets sounded and the guns at
the Tower of London boomed. This
was the climax of the grand spec
tacle that had attracted many thou
sands of persons to London and that
held the attention of the world for
a few hours.
First of the day's events was the
procession to the abbey, which was
observed by vast throngs in the
streets, windows and stands. It was
two miles long. The lord mayor of
London, gorgeously clad and carry
ing the city mace, arrived first at
the annex built at the abbey en
trance, and was followed closely by
the speaker of the house of com
mons, representatives of foreign
governments, the prime ministers
of the dominions and the princes
and princesses of royal blood. Next
came Queen Mary, and then King
George and Queen Elizabeth.
When all the fortunate ones en
titled to places in the abbey had
taken their seats, the ceremony be
gan with the ancient "recognition"
ritual; the archbishop of Canter
bury presented the king to the peo
ple, and four times the throng re
sponded with "God Save King
George." After the rite of corona
tion and the actual enthronement of
the monarchs the doors of the abbey
were thrown open, George and Eliz
abeth, wearing their crowns and
carrying their scepters, stepped in
to their coach, and the second grand
procession made its slow way to
Buckingham palace.
Every detail of the spectacle and
ceremony had been rehearsed until
all were perfect in
their parts and noth
ing marred the per
formance upon
which the British
government spent
about $2,000,000. It
really was a gor
geous show and no
one begrudged the
money it cost, espe
cially as visitors to
i-ionaon spent proi>
riiHiMih ably t?n times as
Elizabeth mUch. Though in
general ancient routine was fol
lowed, there were some notable con
cessions to modernity. For instance,
the abbey was equipped with tele
phones and loud speakers. Anoth
er innovation, on the days before
the coronation, was the stationing
of companies of soldiers from the
various dominions as sentries at
Buckingham and St. James' pal
aces. Never before had this duty
been entrusted to other than the
British guards.
Throughout the British empire
coronation day was celebrated with
parades and banquets, and wher
ever on earth as many as two Brit
ishers came together, George VI
was toasted.
George Leonard berry,
veteran labor leader who has
been serving as President Roose
velt's "co-ordinator for industrial
co-uperauim, wuai>?
ever that may
mean, is now United
States senator from
Tennessee, having
been appointed by
Governor Browning
to fill out the term
of the late Senator
Nathan L. Bach
man. He will serve
until the regular
election in novcm- _ _
ber, 1938. U
Mr. Berry, who is
fifty-three years old, is one o f the
largest landholders in the South. He
owns a weekly newspaper at Rog
ersville, Tenn., and the Internation
al Playing Card and Label com
pany. He has been president of the
International Printing Pressmen
and Assistants Union of North
America since he was twenty years
old.
First Electric Welded Steel Church
This church in Peoria, 111., is believed to be the first of its
kind ever built. It if constructed of steel throughout and the
material is joined by electric welding. The total cost of the
steel work, including designing, fabrication and erection, was
only $2,000.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
PETER RABBIT GETS HIS WISH
JUMPER THE HARE, wwo is
** Peter Rabbit's big cousin and
had come down from the Great
Green Forest, had seen very little
of Peter lately because he disliked
to leave the Green Forest, and ever
since he had seen those strange
tracks deep in the Green Forest
Peter had kept close to the dear
Old Briar Patch. So Jumper had
not heard Peter's story, which no
body believed and about which ev
"I ? I Knew Too Wouldn't Believe
Me. Nobody Does," Said Peter
Sadly.
erybody teased Peter whenever
they saw him. One moonlight night
Jumper took it into his head to
visit his cousin and find out why he
had been keeping so close to the
dear Old Briar Patch.
First making sure that the way
was clear, for Jumper is very, very
timid, he scampered across to the
Old Briar Patch as fast as his long
legs could take him and was quite
out of breath when he got there. He
found Peter sitting under a bram
ble bush looking quite as miserable
as he felt.
"Hello, Cousin Peter! Where have
you been keeping yourself lately?
I haven't seen you or your tracks in
the Green Forest for days and days.
Are you sick?" asked Jumper.
"No," replied Peter shortly, "I'm
not sick, but I guess I will be if this
keeps up much longer." Peter
looked very glum and unhappy.
"If what keeps up?" asked Jump
er, looking very much puzzled.
"Having everybody make fun of
me every time I show myself, and
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nobody to believe what I say," re
plied Peter.
Jumper looked more puzzled than
ever. "That is bad, Cousin Peter,"
said he. "It's bad enough to be
made fun of. I know all about
that. Everybody makes fun of me
because I have such long legs and
because I am so timid. I've grown
used to it now, but still I don't en
joy being laughed at. But it's a
whole lot worse not to have people
believe what you tell them. I had
a whole lot rather have people
laugh at me than to say the things
they do about Sammy Jay. No one
believes him even when he does tell
the truth, and that's perfectly
dreadful."
"I know it," said Peter mourn
fully. "That's the trouble with me
now. I've been telling the truth and
no one believes it. Now they never
will believe anything I say, and
they'll think of me just as they do
of Sammy Jay, and say the same
dreadful things about me."
"But what is it that they don't
believe? You haven't told me," in
sisted Jumper the Hare.
"I ? I? don't want to tell you be
cause probably you won't believe
FIRST AID
TO THE
AILING HOUSE
Br Rogu B. Whitman
PREVENTING PAINT FROM
PEELING
A FRIEND recently wrote me of
trouble with peeling paint:
"On the east wall of my house
there is a small window of a bath
room with a flat frame four inches
wide. The surface is practically
flush with the stucco. Within two
years after that frame was painted
for the first time, the paint began to
peel, and it has continued to peel
after each repainting."
He wants to know where the trou
ble lies; why paint should peel on
that particular window frame, and
nowhere else.
The most usual cause for the peel
ing of paint is moisture in the wood.
On a dry and warm day, the mois
ture is drawn out through the sur
face and breaks the paint away
from the wood. With this in mind,
my friend's problem is to And out
how moisture gets into the wood.
Until he does so, paint on that
frame will continue to peel.
One possibility is that moisture
enters the wood from inside. Be
ing a bathroom window, steam and
moisture in the room air may eas
ily be responsible. In that case
much or all of the trouble can be
averted by giving all of the in
side parts of the window two coats
of high quality spar varnish, or one
coat of aluminum paint followed by
spar varnish or enamel.
As the window is on an east wall,
it is exposed to the drive of easterly
storms. A heavy wind forces wa
ter into any cracks there may be,
no matter how fine. Quite possibly
the window frame does not make an
absolutely tight joint with the stuc
co. Again, a window on the floor
above may be responsible, or a
crack in the upper part of the wall.
Water entering a wall runs down
inside until it strikes a crosspiece
me either," replied Peter. Now,
this wasn't quite true. At least part
wasn't. He did want to tell. He
fairly ached to tell. But he was
afraid that Jumper wouldn't be
lieve his story. But after Jumper
had solemnly promised that he
would believe, no matter how hard
it was to, Peter told him all about
his visit to the deepest part of the
Green Forest and about the great
big strange tracks he had fcfand
there in the snow ? tracks as big as
Farmer Brown's boy's, only differ
ent, and showing the marks of great
claws.
Jumper had pricked up his long
ears at the mention of those strange
tracks, and now he was sitting up
very straight and staring at Peter
with his eyes very wide open.
"I ? I knew you wouldn't believe
me. Nobody does," said Peter sad
ly.
"But X do!" cried Jumper. "I've
seen tracks just like those lota and
lots of times way off in the Great
Woods where I came from. I was
just surprised that there should be
any down here in the Green Forest.
Of course I believe you. Cousin
Peter. I think I will go see them
for myself. It's a long time since
I have seen any."
"Oh, I'm so glad!" cried Peter
happily. At last his wish had come
true ? he had found some one to be
lieve him. He was so happy over
it that he quite forgot to ask Jumper
who could have made the strange
tracks.
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of the frame; there it collects, and
soaks into the back of the outer sur
face of the wall.
Paint also pe?ls on sappy and
resinous wood, although this is so
well known that wood of that kind
should have special treatment be
fore being painted. But as moisture
in the wood is the most common
cause of peeling, it is this that
should be looked for in the event of
that particular trouble.
C By Rover B. Whitman
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TheOver-l
I Fin^?r of Saturn.
Occasionally one meets, a
man or woman who seems to
delight in applying elaborate rules
of reasoning to practically every
thing in life. And yet despite this
ceaseless analyzing, such an indi
vidual never seems to get much ac
complished. The reason, of course,
is that so much mental effort and
time are consumed in the dissec
tion of whys and wherefores that
initiative and action which get
things done are bound to suffer.
Look carefully at the second So
ger of such a person and very likely
you will And the characteristics
which this lesson points out.
na Overlofieal Finger at Satan.
Excessive length and leanness,
protruding knotty knuckles and ab
sence of flexibility are the outstand
THE DIAL OF LIFE
By DOUGLAS MAIXOCH
WE FIND it easy to forget
The songs we heard, the
smiles we met,
We And it easy to remember
The faithless friend, the fading em
ber.
Yet memories are things to cbooss,
This to recall and that refuse,
Make each delight or each disaster
Either our servant or our master.
Yes, we who turn the dial of lite
Need not remember care and strife.
The tawdry tune, the tinny meter.
For there are other program*
sweeter.
We know that other things life has
Than jumbles of discordant jazz.
We turn the dial, and very near it
Pick up a tune that lifts the spirit.
And thoughts are things we may
control
To help or hurt the listening soul.
Tune out the sad, tune ia the pleas
ant,
Tune out the past, tune in the pres
ent.
Yes, so may one control the mind.
Tune out the mean, tune in the kind,
Old ills forgetting and forgiving.
Only the lovely things re-living.
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Printed House Coal
When you fix hubby's breakfast
this summer, you might wear this
smart printed house coat, fashioned
on peasant lines with its fulled skirt
and tight basque. When hubby
leaves, and you're ready for your
sunbath, zip the zipper down the
front of the housecoat, and you're
all set in matching play shorts.
"Men arc severely eensared for
their snoring," uyi ijuttktatv
Soe, "Imt when at aay ?<Wr time
doe* a married man ret a aha tie
to voice himself?"
e B?n sndiuM.? wm> aarrtc*.
ing indicationa In thia type of sec
ond finger.
With the Angara extended and
pressed together such a finger of
Saturn will be found to have far
greater length than that of the fore
finger, which sometimes seem a
quite dwarfed by comparison. The
spaces between the knuckles seem
disproportionately long. The nail
ia usually narrow or "pinched" in
form and ia often deeply set.
A second finger of this type usu
ally inclines toward the forefinger
when the hand is extended.
One may look for hyperlogical
mentality with second fingers of this
type, one that is likely to carry
logic far beyond normal bounds,
and in business particularly one
that frequently argues away poesi
bilitiea at profit from venture*
which are real opportunities.
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