The Alamance Gleaner
Vol. LXIII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1937
Xeir* Review of Current Events
PARITY PRICES ABANDONED1
Would Cost Too Much, Says Wallace . . . Japanese
Air Fleets Bomb Nanking . . . Protests Disregarded
American Legion Members From West Reach New York City by Air
plane for Their National Convention.
W. PuJuUlJ.
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
? Western Newspaper Union.
Drops "Parity Price*"
ONE of the administration's chief
policies for agriculture has
been abandoned, Secretary Wallace
announced in Washington. "Parity
prices" for farm
products, he said,
could not be at
tained. The aim now
will be to give "the
average farmer the
same purchasing
power he had in the
half century before
the World war.
"I don't think
there is any way of
getting enough mon
ey out of the Treas
ury," Wallace said,
See. Wallace
to give farmers parity prices dur
ing the next ten years for cotton,
wheat, corn, hogs, or any other prod
uct that is exported. You might be
able to get enough for a year or
two to do this. But the consumer
would soon rise up in protest."
The secretary still believes that
national control over production of
the major farm crops is necessary.
"In my opinion," he said, "the
principle of co-operative crop ad
justment is sound and will eventu
ally be applied again."
Douglas Heads SEC
WALL STREET didn't like the
idea of having William O.
Douglas as chairman of the Se
curities and Exchange commission,
preferring the more conservative
George C. Mathews. However,
Douglas was elected to the post,
succeeding James M. Landis; and
to reassure the financiers he de
scribed himself as "a pretty con
servative sort of fellow from the
old school, a school too old for some
to remember," who has in mind
"no ruinous theories of social ex
perimentation. ' '
Roosevelt Goes West
"NOMINALLY to visit his daugh
' ter in Seattle, actually to find
out what recent events have done
to his popularity among the people
of the Middle and Far West, Presi
dent Roosevelt left Hyde Park on a
special train that also carried mem
bers of the White House staff and
several cars full of reporters and
camera men. Mrs. Roosevelt was
with her husband.
The President had nothing to say,,
before his departure, concerning
Justice Black, who was on his way
back across the Atlantic and was
scheduled to take his seat on
the Supreme court bench before Mr.
Roosevelt's return to Washington.
Nanking and Canton Bombed
DAYING no attention to the pro
tests of the United States, Great
Britain, France and Germany, Ja
pan sent her air fleets on bombing
raids that spread death and ruin in
Nanking and Canton. Chinese
planes met them and fought bravely
but with little avail. American Am
bassador Nelson Johnson, under in
structions from Washington, regret
fully abandoned his embassy in the
Chinese capital and put his staff
aboard the patrol boat Luzon, but
?bey returned to Nanking. It was
reported in Tokyo that Chiang Kai
shek would remove the seat of the
Chinese government to Chengtu.
The "soviet republic of China"
has dissolved itself and the com
munist Chinese army decided to
unite with Chiang's forces.
before leaving for the Pacific
vuast, the President announced
that he was organizing a new foun
dation to direct the war against
poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis.
It will carry on an educational cam
paign supervised by experts and put
within reach of all doctors and hos
pitals. The foundation also will see
to the financing of responsible re
search agencies and aid the afflicted
in becoming economically indepen
dent.
Mr. Roosevelt also gave approval
to John Biggers' plans for a volun
tary enrollment of the nation's un
employed, to be carried out with the
aid of the Post Office department.
Madam Perkins Snubbed
FOR the first time in the history
* of the Labor department, the
secretary is not asked to address
the annual convention of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, to be held
in Denver. The list of invited
speakers was released, but the
name of Madam Perkins was not
there. The secretary, whose admin
istration of her office never has
been taken very seriously by the
country, is considered by the A. F.
of L. to be prejudiced in favor of
its rival, the C. I. O.
Plan to Fight "Polio"
Legion Head Hits Naziism
C*OUR hundred thousand members
" of the American Legion and
their families and friends gathered
in New York for the annual conven
tion of the organiza
tion which opened
with a memorial
service for dead vet
erans. Parades,
sham battles and
plenty of fun-making
marked the proceed
ings, but the former
soldiers also gave
much timft tn rp
rious business. Har
ry W. Colmer, retir
ing national com
mander, delivered a
Harry W.
Co liner
notable report on his stewardship,
warning against dangers confront
ing the nation from within and with
out.
Colmer declared attempts to sub
jugate judiciary would destroy the
"checks and balances" in govern
ment; and he proposed that the
American Legion undertake an edu
cational program on the principles
set forth in the Constitution. He
asked each post to hold at least
one meeting this fall on the basic
law.
The commander's warning against
perils from without led him to con
demn severely German propaganda
in the United States and the alleged
action of the German government
in fostering the organization of Nazi
groups and camps in this country.
The Legion elected Daniel J.
Doherty, a lawyer of Boston, Mass.,
national commander and awarded
the 1938 convention to Los Angeles.
Besides condemning Communism,
Fascism and Nazism, the conven
tion called for a larger and better
equipped army and navy and for a
ban on the report of helium gas.
Eden Still Hopeful
A NTHONY EDEN, British foreign^
** minister, hurried from Geneva
to attend a special cabinet meeting
to which he reported on develop
ments in the Medi
terranean situation
that is so threaten
ing to European
peace. He told of It
aly's reiteration of
its demand for par
ity in the "anti
piracy" patrol, and
it was believed both
he and Prime Min
ister Chamberlain
were hopeful that a
rupture could be
averted by a partial
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Anthony
Eden
yieiumg 10 mussonm in mis matter.
British public opinion was said to
be strongly against a complete con
cession.
Meanwhile events in the Mediter
ranean were not such as to bolster
Eden's peaceful designs. The Brit
ish aircraft carrier Glorious report
ed it had been attacked by a sub
marine near Malta just as it ar
rived to take part in the patrol of
the sea. Also the admiralty an
nounced an unidentified airplane
dropped six bombs close to the de
stroyer Fearless. The British and
French fleets began their search for
"pirate" submarines,
Spain's premier, Juan Negrin,
stood up before the League of Na
tions and fearlessly presented the
evidence of Italian and German in
tervention in the Spanish civil war,
demanding that the league take steps
to stop it. He called Mussolini and
Hitler "international highwaymen."
The assembly of the League of
Nations voted down the Spanish
government's request for re-election
as a member of the league council.
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President on Constitution
ALL orators on the one hundred
fiftieth anniversary of the sign
ing of the Constitution were loud in
praise of that great document. Pres
ident Roosevelt, speaking from the
foot of the Washington monument,
was emphatic in his expression of
admiration for and loyalty to the
basic law which his opponents have
accused him of trying to under
mine. But he called it a "layman's
constitution, not a lawyer's con
tract." He reiterated his asser
tions that the Constitution was in
tended by its makers to be a state
ment of objectives and not a rigid
document, and declared democratic
government in this country can do
all things which "commonsense peo
ple, seeing the picture as a whole,
have the right to expect."
"I believe that these things can
be done under the Constitution with
out the surrender of a single one
of the civil and religious liberties
it was intended to safeguard," Mr.
Roosevelt continued, "and I am de
termined that under the Constitu
tion those things shall be done."
Green Slams Lewis
r) ENUNCIATIONS of William
^ Green by John Lewis and of
Lewis by Green come almost daily,
but the attack on the C. I. O. leader
by the president of the A. F. of L.
in a speech in Washington was es
pecially vigorous. He declared the
beetle-browed L4wis was an oppor
tunist who hopes to gain political
power through the formation of a
party combining labor and agricul
ture, and reiterated the opposition
of the federation to the organization
of such a party.
Lewis, said Green, was to blame
for the bloody strike in "little steel"
plants and for its collapse which he
attributed to C. I. O.'s disregard of
the rule that the workers them
selves should decide when to strike.
"Surely those who are to suffer
and sacrifice in a strike ought to be
accorded the right to say whether
they are ready and willing to do
so," Green asserted. "The issues in
volved in any impending industrial
conflict ought to be made clear."
Vandenberg's Battle Cry
?'A/IT' E HAVE just begun to fight"
* * was the battle cry adopted
by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
in a speech at Bay City that was
taken as the opening of his campaign
for the Republican Presidential
nomination in 1940. He made it evi
dent that he hopes to be the stand
ard bearer for a coalition party, as
serting that a realignment of politi
cal parties is inevitable. Indeed,
he declared, this probably was the
one thing that could save our na
tional institutions. He was not so
sure that the opposition to the Roose
velt policies would unite under a new
a new party name.
Biggers to Manage Census
T TNCLE SAM is going to make a
count of his unemployed
nephews in the hope that this will
help solve the re-employment and
relief problem. Just how the census
is to be managed is not yet deter
mined, but John D. Biggers of To
ledo, president of the Libby-Owens
Ford Glass company, has been
named administrator of the under
taking and is formulating his plans.
Ay Thornton W Burgess
PETER HAS HARD WORK TO
BELIEVE HIS EYES
THE very morning that Jimmy
Skunk had decided to go see for
himself the stranger of whom Sam
my Jay and Blacky the Crow and
Unc' Billy Possum told such strange
stories Peter Rabbit had made up
his mind that he just had to see for
himself what was going on. He had
not been into the deepest part of
the Green Forest since the time
when he had found the strange
tracks in the snow. The truth is Pe
ter had been afraid to go. But now
his curiosity had been aroused so
by what Sammy Jay and Blacky
the Crow had said that he couldn't
keep away any longer. First he
looked for his cousin. Jumper the
Hare. Jumper had not been afraid
So Peter Had Started Off by Himself
when Peter had told him about
those strange tracks, and he felt
sure that Jumper would not be
afraid now. But Jumper was no
where to be found. In fact, Peter
had not seen him for some time,
not since Sammy Jay had first come
screaming out of the Green Forest
with his story of the big stranger
with the terrible claws.
So Peter had started off by himself.
His heart went pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat
and he sat up to look and listen so
often that it took him longer than
ever to reach the pond of Paddy the
Beaver deep in the Green Forest.
Not once had Peter seen or heard
anything to make him afraid, and
by the time he reached Paddy's
pond he had begun to feel very
brave and bold. In fact he had
almost begun to doubt if there was
any such stranger as Sammy had
described.
Then all of a sudden, right on the
shore of Paddy's pond, Peter saw a
sight that made him quite gasp for
breath. Yes, sir, it quite took Pe
ter's breath away. What was it?
Why, it was the meeting between
Jimmy Skunk and the big stranger
Sammy Jay had told about. He
was very big, quite as big as Farm
er Brown's boy, was the stranger
and he wore a black fur coat just
as Sammy had said. And there were
the great big claws, the terrible
claws, the most awful claws that
Peter had ever dreamed of. As
soon as he saw them Peter knew
for sure that this stranger was the
one who had made the big, strange
tracks he had found in the snow in
the deepest part of the Green For
est at the very last of winter. And
now here was the great stranger
with the terrible claws walking
straight toward Jimmy Skunk and
Jimmy didn't seem to know it. In
fact Jimmy Was resting and he
looked very much as if he were go
ing to take a nap. Peter wanted
to shout and warn Jimmy. Then
he thought of thumping. But he
didn't do either. The fact is Peter
didn't quite dare to.
But there was no need, for just
then the stranger stepped on a stick
and it broke with a snap. Jimmy
Skunk turned about. Of course Pe
ter expected to see Jimmy run as
fast as ever he could. "Jimmy sel
dom hurries, but he will this time,"
thought Peter.
But Peter was wrong. Jimmy did
nothing of the kind. For a minute
he just stared and stared. The big
black stranger kept right on com
ing. Then, instead of running, Jim
my went forward to meet him. Yes,
sir, Jimmy Skunk just marched
straight toward the stranger with
his head and tail held high. The
big black stranger stopped and eyed
Jimmy a bit doubtfully. Then he
stood up on his hind legs and he was
as tall as Farmer Brown's boy. This
made Jimmy stop for a minute.
Never had he seen any one but
Farmer Brown's boy himself who
could stand like that. But it wouldn't
do to let this stranger think that
just because he was big and had
cruel looking claws he could scare
everybody, and so Jimmy once more
marched forward. You know he
really has a great deal of confidence
in that little bag of scent he always
carries with him. The stranger
growled. Jimmy kept right on.
Then what do you think happened?
Why that great, big stranger began
to back away I Peter Rabbit could
hardly believe his own eyes.
? T. W. Burim.-WWU 8?rv1ct.
FIRST AID
TO THE
AILING MOUSE
By Rogtr B. Whitman
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
WITH the coming in of air con
ditioning, and the use of hu
midifiers, the term "relative humid
ity" is used to indicate the percent
age moisture in the air. This
term is explained as showing the
quantity of moisture in the air com
pared to the limit that the air can
hold. For a comparison, a sponge
picks up moisture and continues to
pick it up until it is saturated; be
yond that, any more water causes
a drip.
A sponge holds water in liquid
form, whereas air holds it in the
form of an invisible vapor. Air ab
"Stick 'em up!"
WNU Service.
He Drives His Tractor Like a Horse
Bert Bonham is here reen demonstrating (or Latter Day Saint offi
cials at Salt Lake City. Utah, the gasol.ne farm steed he has invented
and which is driven as one would drive a horse. "It's all in that little
iron box behind the motor," says Bert's brother and co-inventor, Bond.
When Bonham pulled on the reins the machine halted. When he released
them it moved forward. A hard pull set the rig moving backward and a
jerk on one rein turned the machine. The brothers experimented
eight years on the device.
Seattle's Russian Orthodox Church
Towering over several buildings and housetops are the awe-inspir
ing seven spirals of the new Russian Orthodox church which is being
built in Seattle. It is said to be the only one of its architectural design on
the Coast. When the church is completed there is expected to be a
continuous flow of visiting artists to paint and draw the artistic building.
This church is being erected by the pastor himself along with several
other members of the church. The pastor is the Rev. M. Danilchik, who
came from southern Russia.
to absorb it until it can take up no
more. Outdoors, excess water va
por becomes visible as a mist or a
fog, both of which are no more than
very minute drops of water.
The amount of water vapor that
air can take up depends on tem
perature. The warmer the air, the
more vapor it can hold; the greater
will be the quantity of water vapor
needed to saturate it.
Relative humidity is the amount
of water vapor actually in the air,
compared to the amount of water
vapor that would be needed for sat
uration.' Air that is fully saturated,
and that can take up no more vapor
without forming a drip or a mist, is
said to be 100 per cent humidified.
Air that contains one-half as much
vapor as would saturate it is 50 per
cent humidified, or in other words,
has a relative humidity of 50 per
cent.
The relative humidity of a body
of air depends on the temperature
of the air. Consider a room in which
the air at a temperature of 40 de
grees contains a certain quantity of
water vapor. If the temperature of
the air is then raised to, say, 60
or 70 degrees, with no more water
vapor added, the relative humidity
will be less, for at the higher tem
perature, the air has a greater
capacity for absorbing water.
Now suppose that the air in a
room is at 70 degrees, and contains
a quantity of water vapor, but not
enough for saturation. Coming into
contact with cold window glass, the
air will be chilled and will lose its
capacity to hold water vapor. The
excess above the relative humidity
of 100 per cent, which is saturation,
will be squeezed out, so to speak,
and will appear as drops on the
glass. The effect is condensation,
or what is commonly known as
"sweating."
C By Roger B. Whitman
WmJ Service.
"A rood memory is something to
be proud of," says sagacious Sne,
"bat there come times Id one's life
where he wishes to forget."
WNU Service.
First Am balance Service la N. T.
Bellevue hospital. New York City,
started the first ambulance service
in June, 1869.
'cJHMY SAYS
EATING ONIONS
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WNU Servlc*.
"Spirit of Radio"
In a costume that well befits her
title, Miss Elmina Humphreys of
Southampton, England, posed after
being chosen as "The Spirit of Ra
dio" in a contest that had many
entries. Elmina is nineteen years
old.
Ringing a Peal of Bells
Ringing a peal of bells is not just
a matter of pulling a number of
ropes one after the other until the
ringers get tired. Proper peals are
all arranged carefully beforehand,
with "music" of their own, so that
the same combination of bells nev
er occurs more than once, though
thfc peal may go on for as many as
four hours or more. This doesn't
sound quite so impossible, says
London Answers Magazine, when
you remember that with a pea. of
eight bells, no fewer than 40,330
changes can be rung. Bell-ringing
is a skilled job, and those who can
do it are very proud of their
achievements. It is computed that
something like 13,000 people in this
country have mastered the art.
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