The Alamance gleaner
Vol. LXIII
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1937 No. 25
Neu>8 Review of Current Events
SENATE KILLS COURT BILL
Votes 70 to 20 to Recommit . . . Elect Barkley New
Majority Leader . . Spanish War Enters Second Year
Senator Harrison (right) Congratulates Senator Barkley.
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" ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
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Glory Be to Godt'
n YING for weeks, the scheme to
add to the number of justices
of the Supreme court finally choked
its last gasp and left this world. On
a roll-call vote the United States
senate voted to recommit the Rob
inson substitute for the President's
original bill to the judiciary com
mittee. The vote was 70 to 20, the
most crushing defeat the President's
legislation has yet suffered at the
hands %f a house of congress.
In an agreement made at a ses
sion of the judiciary committee ear
lier, it had been decided to let the
opposition senators write their own
bill, an innocuous measure for "ju
dicial reform" not dealing in any
way with the Supreme court. Sena
tor Barkley, the new majority lead
er,- attempted to save the Presi
dent's face by having the bill left
on the calendar, but he never had a
chance. When the roll-call came,
even Senators Ashurst of Arizona
and Minton of Indiana, two of the
Supreme court bill's chief support
ers, voted to recommit.
"Glory be to God!" said Sen. Hi
ram Johnson (Rep., Calif.) when
the results of the roll call were
made known. The applause that
bellowed forth from the senators
and gallery alike left no doubt that
the veteran from California had
voiced the sentiments of the great
majority.
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Low Interest tor Farmers
BY A vote of 71 to 19, the senate
overrode the President's veto of
a bill extending for a year low inter
est rates on loans to farmers. It
was a defeat even more crushing
than the recommission of the court
bill, and made the bill a law with
out the President's signature, for
the house had previously passed it
by a two-thirds majority over Mr.
Roosevelt's veto.
Senator Barkley made a half
hearted attempt to stave off the
overwhelming vote, and the defeat
was accepted By many observers as
an expression of resentment over
Barkley's having been elected ma
jority leader instead of Sen. Pat
Harrison of Mississippi.
Barkley, 38; Harrison, 37
, CEN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH
^ of Illinois changed his mind at
the last minute and today Alben W.
Barkley, hard-fisted blustering sen
Vice President
Garner
ator from Kentucky,
is the majority lead
er of the United
States senate, suc
ceeding the late Jos
eph T. Robinson of
Arkansas. The vote
jv as 38 for Barkley
to 37 for Sen. Pat
Harrison of Missis
sippi.
The conservative
Democrats in the
senate had been as
sured of 36 votes,
enough to elect Harrison, on the
eve of the secret election. But that
night Dieterich, apparently under
pressure from the Democratic party
organization in Illinois, begged Har
rison to release his pledged vote, in
order that the President's choice
might head the party in the senate.
The slim victory by no means
patched the obvious party rift. Even
the administration admitted that the
President's Supreme court bill was
virtually dead, even then. Vice Pre*
ident Garner visited Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana, leader of the
opposition forces, and invited the op
position, which it was believed had
enough votes to recommit the sub
stitute court bill to the judiciary
committee, to draft a new bill.
President Roosevelt then told Sen
ators Barkley and Harrison at the
White House that four measures
"must" be passed before the Janu
ary session: The minimum wage,
maximum hours and child labor
bill; the new AAA and ever-normal
granary bill; the Wagner housing
bill, and legislation to plug loopholes
in the federal tax laws. Congress
was all for quick adjournment, the
President was told.
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A Citizen Takes His Pen
CRUSHING blow to the Presi
dent's court program, delivered
at the time it hurt most, was a let
ter written by Gov. Herbert H. Leh
Gov. Lehman
man of New York to
Sen. Robert F. Wag
ner of that state.
The letter, made
public, revealed
Governor Lehman's
opinion "as a citizen
of the state of New
York" that the bill
would be "contra
ry" to the "inter
ests" of the people
of the state. "Its en
actment," the gov
ernor wrote, "would
create a greatly dangerous prece
dent which could be availed of by
future less well-intentioned admin
istrations for the purpose of oppres
sion or for the curtailment of the
constitutional rights of our citi
zens."
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Bloody Anniversary
T" HE Spanish civil war entered
*? its second year. For the popu
lations of rebel cities, the occasion
was one for joyous celebration, with
fiestas, bull lights and -concerts the
order of the day. Gen. Francisco
Franco, commander of the insur
gent forces, publicly proclaimed it
a "year of triumph." He ordered
that all communications and public
documents for the next twelve
months be dated as of "the second
year of triumph."
In the first "year of triumph,"
more than a million persons, includ
ing women and children, were
killed. The insurgents claim to have
taken 34 of the 50 provincial capi
tals of the country, and all of its
colonies. They have captured six
of the eleven cities of more than
100,000 inhabitants: Seville, Malaga,
Bilbao, Saragossa, Cordoba and
Granada.
The rebels lost little time in at
tempting to regain their losses
around Madrid. Franco unleashed
the full power of his main army of
160,000 in a drive to recapture Bru
nete and other suburbs of the loy
alist stronghold; they were met by
at least 250,000 defending govern
ment troops. Every weapon of war
except gas was used. There was
hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches
and the greatest use of artillery
since the World war as the fiercest
battle of the Spanish conflict raged.
The battle was opened by as spec
tacular an aerial fight as the world
has seen in years; insurgents were
reported to have lost 27 planes
against only four for the loyalists.
Sino-Japanese Crisis
JUST alter a verbal agreement
between Chinese and Japanese
military commanders had appeared
to have prevented an impending re
newal of the Sino-Japanese war, the
Japanese government officially an
nounced that heavy concentration of
Chinese troops had been made at
Peiping, constituting a direct act of
aggression against Japan.
At the same time the Nanking
government claimed that 17 Japa
nese troop trains, carrying 30,000
soldiers. Were en route to North
China from Corea and Manchukuo.
Earlier, 12,000 Japanese troops
were said to have arrived in North
China to supplement the regular
garrison of 7,000.
At Tientsin, Gen. Sung Cheh- Yu
an, chairman of the Hopei-Chahar
political council and commander of
the Chinese forces in North China,
had complied verbally with the Jap
anese ultimatum for peace, al
though he refused to sign anything.
In a talk with Lieut.-Gen. Kiyoshi
Katsuki, the Japanese commander,
he apologized for the clash between
Japanese troops and the Chinese
Twenty-ninth army at Lukowkiao
July 7, the incident which perpe
trated the new crisis, and expressed
the regrets of the Hopei-Chahar
council. He said that he would dis
miss several of his officers as a
punishment.
Part of the agreement was that
both Chinese and Japanese troops
should be withdrawn from the
walled city of Wanpingshien, suburb
of Peiping. But Chinese troops re
fused to withdraw when, they al
leged, it became certain the Japa
nese had no intention of withdraw
ing, either. In the midst of many
conflicting and confusing reports the
outcome of any truce was problem
atical to say the least.
Europe Short on Grain
EUROPE began to worry about
*-J the possibilities of a hungry
winter as early threshing indicated
a serious grain shortage.
Germany's shortage was estimat
ed at 3,000,000 tons. The deficit will
be met partly with increased con
sumption of potatoes and sugar
beets, and partly with cheap, plenti
ful corn from southeastern Europe.
It is expected, even so, that Ger
many will have to buy 1,500,000 to
2,000,000 tons from *other foreign
countries. Experts estimated that
the German harvest for 1937 would
be 10 to 20 per cent below the aver
age for the years 1930-35.
Poland, from which Germany has
been able to buy grain in the past,
will not be able to sell any this year,
while Hungarian, Rumanian and Ju
goslavian crops will be smaller than
last year, because of drouth.
Of the Baltic countries only Lithu
ania, it is believed, will have a crop
equal to her needs. Crops suffered
badly in Latvia, Esthonia and Fin
land. Only Spain, in aU Europe,
with an increase of 15 per cent
over last year's grain harvest, ap
pears likely to enjoy a well-filled
bread basket.
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De Valera Is Re-elected
IF HIS party, Fianna Fail, can
keep in power that long, Eamon
de Valera will be president of the
executive council of the Irish Free
State for another five years. He
was elected to the nation's highest
office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the
dail eireann (parliament). De Va
lera, in favor of severing all ties
with Great Britain, won even the
vote of the labor group, which does
not endorse his party.
It was believed that De Valera
would go ahead with legislation nec
essary to implement the new con
stitution approved in the plebiscite
of July 1. He would in that case
set up a senate and elect a president
by popular vote, as the constitution
provides. If De Valera is elected
president, to serve seven years, po
litical experts say he will virtually
disappear from politics and his
party will break up.
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Static Wrecked Hindenburg
THE spectacular crash of the
Zeppelin Hindenburg, killing 36
at Lakehurst, N. J., last May 6, was
probably caused by an unseen spark
of static electricity which jumped
from the atmosphere to the frame of
the dirigible. At least this is the
theory of the board of inquiry which
investigated the accident and re
ported to Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper.
The experts considered every oth
er possible cause ? fire, sabotage,
brush discharge of electricity from
sharp points on the ship, broken
propeller blade, radio transmitter
spark lightning and structural fail
ure ? and decided that their theory
most nearly fitted the circum
stances attending the disaster.
Inventor of Wirelejj Diet
GUGLIELMO MARCONI, who al
tered the lives of all of us
when he invented the wireless, died
suddenly of a heart attack at his
home in Rome. He was sixty-three
years old.
How the Sea Can Snap a Ship in Half
Cape Banks, Botany Bay, New South Wales.? A dramatic airplane view of the S. S. Minim's broken
hulk, as the ship appeared the morning alter she had run ashore during a heavy fog. Two of the crew of 25
died, victims of the lashing force of the sea which broke the vessel's back.
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MISTRESS SPRING WAKES
ALL THE SLEEPERS.
j Wake up, wake up, you drowsy heads!
Wake up, wake up, and leave your beds I
I The gladdest time of all the year
| Has come, for Mistress Spring is herel
CHEERFUL Robin was singing it
up in the Old Orchard. Little
Friend the Song Sparrow was sing
ing it down along the edge of the
Laughing Brook. Winsome Bluebird
was whistling it from the top of
the Big Hickory over by the Smil
ing Pool. Blacky the Crow was
cawing it from a fence-post on the
?5RIL.
Blacky the Crow Was Cawing It
From a Fence Post on the Edge
of Farmer Brown's Cornfield.
edge of Farmer Brown's cornfield.
Danny Meadow Mouse was shout
ing it in a funny little squeaky
voice down on the Green Meadows.
Even Sammy Jay was screaming
it through the Green Forest. And
over in the dear Old Briar Patch,
Peter Rabbit was saying it over
and over to himself as he thumped
and thumped for pure joy.
It was true. Sweet, beautiful Mis
tress Spring had arrived. Cheerful
Robin and Little Friend had come
with her, and so had Honker the
Wild Goo$e. It was his voice com
ing down from high, high up in the
blue sky that had told the glad
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news. He hasn't a sweet voice. Oh,
my, no! The voice of Honker is
anything but sweet. And yet it is
good, wonderfully good to hear after
the long, cold days of winter, for
every one knows when they hear it
that Mistress Spring has arrived.
You see, long, long ago Mistress
Spring went to Old Mother Nature
and asked her for a trumpeter,
some one whose voice was strong,
to travel up from the far away
South with her and tell all the world
of her coming, and Honker the
Goose was chosen because his
wings are strong and be flies high,
and because his voice is strong, and
the sound of it carries far. And
from that day to this when the
voice of Honker the Goose is heard,
every one knows that Mistress
Spring has arrived.
Now, Mistress Spring wastes no
time, for she has a great deal to
do, and the very first thing is to
waken all the sleepers whom gentle
Sister South Wind has not already
wakened. Peter Rabbit never could
understand how she does it because
there are so many sleepers? little
people who wear fur, little people
who wear neither fur nor feathers,
but whom we call bugs, and all the
little and big plants. There are so
many, many of them who sleep all
winter long that it has always
seemed to Peter as if Mistress
Spring must miss some of them.
But she never does.
So now that Mistress Spring really
had arrived Peter was too happy to
sit still. He just had to hurry around
and greet his friends as fast as they
waked. Bobby Coon and Unc' Billy
Possum had crawled out of their
hollow trees just after Winsome
Bluebird arrived. Now Peter felt
sure his old friend Johnny Chuck
would be crawling out, and he hur
ried up to the corner of the Old
Orchard where Johnny's house is.
Sure enough, there sat Johnny
FIRST-AID TO AILING HOUSE
?y ROGER B. WHITMAN
CARING FOR RUSTIC WORK
^JOT long ago I received a letter
explaining the purchase of a
playhouse built of rustic work; of
bark covered saplings. Within a
week after it was put up, insects
were found flying around inside,
and were soon so thick that the chil
dren refused to play in it. Little
piles of sawdust were found all over
it inside and out. I was asked how
Jhe insects could be destroyed.
There could be but one answer : that
wood, so thoroughly infested with
boring insects, could not be re
claimed. i
Many kinds of insects thrive In
wood. There are borers of many
classes that develop from eggs to
the adult beetle inside of wood,
and that as larvae are very destruc
tive. Other kinds of insects make
borings just under the bark. Be
cause of these insects, rustic work
may not be practical, for there is
no sure way to protect it against
insect attack. One signal is the
loosening of bark. When this is no
ticed, and borings are found under
neath the bark, all the bark should
be stripped off and the bare wood
given a coat or two of spar varnish.
When there are holes in the wood,
an insect killing liquid can be squirt
ed in with a medicine dropper or
otherwise; kerosene and carbon
tetrachloride are effective. In one
case that I know, the framework of
a chair was made of heavy sticks
which evidently contained borers. A
one-inch hole was bored straight
down into each timber from the top
to a depth of four inches. Carbon
tetrachloride was poured into these
holes, and the openings were closed
with corks. Soaking into the wood,
the liquid worked nearly the length
of the timbers, killing all worms
and eggs that were within.
Garden furniture is usually taken
into a cellar for the winter. This
is not advisable, for in the warm
atmosphere, any borers that may
be in the wood will continue their
work. There is far better protec
tion in leaving garden furniture out
doors through the cold weather.
They should be in a dry place, but
exposed to low temperature.
@ By Roger B. Whitman
WNU Service.
For the Sophisticated
Quaint sophistication is the charm
of this dinner dress of heavy black |
silk faille. White eyelet embroidery
forms the ruffles at the neck and
sleeves and the petticoat effect at |
the hemline of the slip.
USE BODY TURN ON SHORT
SHOTS
IT IS quite a temptation on the
* short shots to discard body turn
altogether and merely lift the club
up with a wrist action and hit down
in the same manner. The tempo of
the swing is stepped up to such a
degree that the downswing is large
ly a muscular lurch instead of a
true stroke. As a result the hit is
many times inaccurate when preci
sion at this range is of paramount
importance. The objective should
be to place the ball not merely on
the green but close enough to the
pin to get down in one putt. To best
accomplish this purpose a swing
that closely approximates that used
for the longer shots should be em
ployed. The stance naturally will
be much narrower which makes the
body turn easier of accomplish
ment. As in the longer shots let
the left arm push the club back,
the body responding by turning to
the left. This will give a wider arc
to the shot plus a slower start. In
this manner the downswing can be
started gradually and gradually ac
celerated. There need be no last
minute spasm of energy to generate
power, for the long sweep of the
clubhead will have eliminated this,
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on his doorstep taking a sun-bath.
He looked very thin, not at all as
he had looked when Peter last saw
him. He grinned at Peter and
stretched to get the kinks out of his
legs and the first thing he asked
was if Peter knew where there was
any tender young clover. ^But Peter
didn't, because, you know, the clo
ver had only just begun to wake up,
and hadn't had time to grow. But
he knew where there was some last
year's clover that had kept green
under the snow, and Johnny said
that that would do, because he was
so hungry that he could eat almost
anything.
While they were talking a merry
little voice shouted from the stone
and he looked as pert and smart
wall. There sat Striped Chipmunk,
and saucy as ever. He wasn't thin
like Johnny Chuck. You see he had
filled his storehouse, which opens
right out of his bedroom, with
plenty of good things in the fall,
and he had waked up in the winter
often enough to eat what he needed
and now had plenty left over.
"Are you glad Mistress Spring
has come?" asked Peter.
Striped Chipmunk whisked round
and round after his tail until they
all laughed to see him. "So glad
that I can't keep still!" he cried.
C T. W. Burgess.? WNTJ Service.
THIS HURTS
THE MOST
By DOUGLAS MA1XOCB
TP HEY hurt us most a way they
never dream.
Not with their words, however harsh
they seem.
But with their lives, the follies they
pursue.
That hurt the heart more than their
words could do.
Some strange rebellion in the girl
and boy
Now makes our special fear their
special joy.
They hurt us most a way they never
guess.
Not with their words, but with im
modest dress.
Immoral pleasures, for these deeds
are done
By someone's daughter or by some
one's son.
But yesterday we stood beside their
cot;
It hurts to feel they have so soon
forgot. ? -
They hurt us most a way they never
know.
Not with their words, however hard
the blow,
But with the I06S of many things
we miss.
The dreams of parents that have
come to this.
Of all we taught them, nothing has
prevailed ?
It hurts us most to know how we
have failed.
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