The Alamance Gleaner
Vol LXIII : GRAHAM N c THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1937 No. 41
IXeics Revietc of Current Events
BOOSTS FOR BUSINESS
Morgenthau's Encouraging Speech . . . President Has
Building Plan . . . Japs Take Shanghai
France has bought $10,250,000 of our store of gold, and part of the big
shipment sent from New York on the Normandie is here seen being un
loaded from a truck at a North river pier.
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4^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
e Western Newspaper Union.
Balance Budget: Morgenthau
D USINF.SS men of America re
ceived a cheering message, pre
sumably direct from the adminis
tration, delivered by Secretary of
genthau. Addressing
the Academy of Po
litical Sciences in
New York, Mr. Mor
genthau declared
the time had come
for balancing the
budget, but said this
should be accom
plished without addi
tional taxation.
, jc-ncouragemeni ior
8e?iel*ry industry and busi- I
Morgenthau nesswasjstated thus:
"The laws should be so written
and administered that the taxpayer
can continue to make a reasonable
profit with a minimum of inter
ference from his federal govern
ment."
Moreover, the treasury head went
on record as opposed to a continu
ance of the era of unlimited govern
ment spending. Said he: "The basic
need today is to foster the full ap
plication of the driving forcp of
private capital. We want to see
capital go into the productive chan
nels of private industry. We want
to see private business expand!"
The plan advanced by Mr. Mor
genthau for balancing the budget
was to bring next year's expendi
tures, under the 1939 budget which
takes effect next July 1, within this
year's revenues. To achieve a bal
ance, exclusive of debt retirement
payments, the present scale of ex
penditures would have to be sliced
$700,000,000, he added.
While he urged against tax in
creases, Mr. Morgenthau suggested
that a broader base for income
taxes, increasing the number of tax
payers above the present 3,000,000,
would be a more equitable substi
tute for the present federal taxes
on consumers ? the so-called nui
sance taxes.
President's Building Plan ~
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, In a
4 conference with several business
leaders, told of his new plan for
checking the threatening depression
by stimulating private home build
ing by private capital. He re
vealed no details, but Chairman Ec
cles of the reserve board said the
President was confident such a pro
gram would reach full scope next
year. Eccles was unprepared Jo say
whether the undertaking would be
directed through a new government
agency, but thought legislation of
some sort would be necessary.
One suggestion is that the social
security reserve be used for loans
for home construction.
Shanghai Falls to Japs
C TUB BORN defense of Shanghai
^ by the Chinese came to an end
when the Japanese troop* made
their way across Soochow creek and
occupied the entire city. The de
fenders retired westward and pre
pared to block the way of the in
vaders toward Nanking.
The victorious Japanese spread
death and destruction through
Shanghai, and mercilessly shot
down the Chinese groups which were
trapped in various quarters. They
turned machine guns on & platform
inside the international concession
from which a number of foreigners
were watching the fighting, and
Pembroke Stephens, correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph, was
killed.
In Brussels the Far East peace
conference was considering a plan
for giving direct aid to China if
Japan should reject mediation. Co
ercive action against Japan was not
thought advisable, but the idea was
that China should be permitted to
obtain munitions and arms to keep
up her fight. The chief difficulty
would lie in American neutrality
legislation.
France Buys Our Gold
""TWO big shipments of gold
abroad were made by the gov
ernment within the week. The first
was $10,250,000 sent to France on
the Normandie. Then $5,000,000 was
started to England on the Aquitania.
It was believed other shipments
would follow before long.
The gold shipments were handled
by the stabilization fund and were
regarded as an operation under the
tri-partite agreement, which binds
Great Britain, France and the Unit
ed States in a "gentleman's pact"
to maintain currency stability.
Ramsay MacDonald's Death
Ramsay mac donald, who
rose from poverty and obscur
ity to become three times the prime
minister of the great British em
pire, died suddenly of heart disease
on a steamship bound for South
America where he was to take a
long vacation with his daughter. He
was seventy-one years old and had
been practically out of politics since
1935, when Stanley Baldwin succeed
ed him as prime minister. Mac
Donald at that time was offered a
peerage but declined the honor.
Even his political foes admit that
he was one of the outstanding states
men of the time.
Italy Joins Anti-Reds
MUSSOLINI has given the dem
ocratic governments of Europe
something else to worry about, for
Italy has joined Germany and Japan
in uicu ojiTOusut
to combat commu
nism, and no one
knows how far this
alliance will go or
just what are its In
tentions. The three
"charter members"
of the pact-^that
status was given
Italy? hope that all
other fascist minded
nations, Including
Poland, Portugal,
Hungary and some VtmRIbbentrop
of the South American republics,
will adhere to the agreement.
Political observers saw the pros
pect of a world divided into three
camps ? fascist, communist and
democratic.
Emerging as one of the probable
chief leaders of this united front is
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German
ambassador to Great Britain. Hitler
sent him to Rome to sign the new
pact, and it is expected that the
headquarters of the alliance will be
in Berlin.
Brazil Hat a Dictator
OETULIO VARGAS, president of
Brazil, is now dictator of that
country. In a coup that was unop
posed he dissolved all legislative
bodies and put into effect a new
constitution with corporative fea
tures. He issued a manifesto de
claring the suspension of payment
on all government debts abroad.
The foreign relations ministry in
Rio de Janeiro said Vargas' coup
was not connected with European
political ideologies and denied re
ports Brazil planned to join the
German - Japanese - Italian pact
against communism.
Reasons for Thanks
A MERICA can be thankful for the
blessing of peace. President
Roosevelt asserted in a proclama
tion designating November 25 as
Thanksgiving day.
"A period unhappily marked in
many parts of the world by strife
and threats of war finds our people
enjoying the blessing of peace," he
said. "We have no selfish designs
against other nations."
At the outset of the proclamation
the President said, "the harvests of
our fields have been abundant and
many men and women have been
given the blessing of stable employ
ment."
Bloch to Head Navy
A BOUT the first of next February
the American navy will have a
new commander-in-chief in the per
son of Admiral Claude Charles
Bloch, nominated by Secretary
Swanson to succeed Admiral Hep
burn. The son of a Czechoslovaki
an immigrant and a native of Wood
bury, Ky., he is now fifty-nine years
old.
After his graduation from the na
val academy Bloch served under
"Fighting Bob" Evans on the U. S.
S. Iowa in the Spanish-American
war and was cited for "meritorious"
service in rescuing Spaniards from
burning ships of Cervera's squad
ron. During the World war, as com
mander of the transport Plattsburg,
Bloch won the navy cross for "dis
tinguished service."
Judge Graham Passes
WILLIAM J. GRAHAM, presid
ing judge of the United States
Court of Customs and Patent Ap
peals and for nine years a Repub
lican congressman from . Illinois,
died of heart disease at his home in
Washington.
Our Navy Grows Rapidly
CECRETARY OF THE NAVY
^ CLAUDE A. SWANSON re
ported to the President that the navy
is stronger than at any time since
war aays ana is
moving steadily up
to the full strength
permitted by the
treaties abrogated
by Japan. It will not
go beyond the limi
tations in those
pacts unless other
nations do so.
Under its big re
placement program
the department has
Sec. Swanson under construction
two new battleships and has appro
priations for 85 other warship*.
These include three aircraft car
riers, one heavy cruiser, nine light
cruisers, fifty-five destroyers and
seventeen submarines.
Five years ago the total num
ber of under age vessels was 101 ot
728,050 tons, with twenty-three ves
sels of 122,500 tons under construc
tion. Today the navy has US ves
sels of 869,230 tons under age, and
eighty-seven vessels of 335,569 tons
under construction.
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Farm Measure Ready
VTOLUNTARY crop control for
' wheat, corn, rice and cotton;
and compulsory limitation of tobac
co production, are arovided for in
the new farm meaebre drafted by
the house committee on agriculture
for action in the extraordinary ten
sion of congress.
Secretary Wallace's "ever normal
granary" plan is included in the
bill. The measure also provides
for "tariff equalizing taxes" which
would be actually a revival of the
processing taxes which the Supreme
court declared unconstitutional.
These taxes would be applied only
to wheat, cotton and rice? 3 cents
a pound on cotton, 20 cents a bushel
on wheat and tt cent ? pound oo
rice.
President's Birthday
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
authorized the use of his fifty-fifth
birthday, January 30, for the promo
tion of the nation-wide fight on in
fantile paralysis. As in previous
years, the day will be celebrated
in many cities with balls. This time
the funds raised thus will not be
handed over to local agencies but
will all go to the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
HOW TROUBLE WAS MADE
FOB JUMPER
^JO ONE had enjoyed the Joke on
Reddy Fox more than had
Jumper the Hare. It had tickled
Jumper almost to pieces to think
that he who was accounted the most
timid of all the little people in the
Green Forest should have been able
to frighten Reddy Fox. Of course,
it was Buster Bear who had given
Reddy his first fright and made him
put his tail between his legs and
start for home as fast as he could
run, but it was Jumper who had
started after Reddy right at his
heels and had made Reddy think
No One Had Enjoyed the Joke on
Reddy Fox More Than Jumper
the Hare.
that he was Buster Bear and so
frightened him still more, so that
he didn't dare stop long enough to
turn and see who it was behind him.
Of course, to all who saw them it
looked just as if Reddy was running
away from Jumper the Hare, and
every one pretended to believe that
he was. Then they tormented Red
ly and made his life miserable for
Aim by calling him a coward, afraid
of Jumper the Hare, and things like
that.
Reddy had fallen into a terrible
rage at first and had tried his very
best to catch his tormentors. But
after a while he saw that the an
grier he grew the better pleased
were his tormentors. It was just
what they wanted ? to make him an
gry. Only Jumper the Hare took
care not to have anything to do
with Reddy. He kept out of Reddy's
way. He had no mind to make
Reddy any angrier than he already
was. You see, Jumper never goes
looking for trouble. No, indeed I He
tries his very hardest to keep out of
trouble. And so he kept away from
Reddy Fox.
Now, Reddy Fox is, as you all
know, very, very sly and smart.
After a little while he began to re
alize how foolish it was for him to
get so angry, or anyway to show
that he was so angry, every time his
neighbors plagued him about run
ning away from Jumper the Hare.
So, no matter how anger might
fill his heart he would pretend not
to mind in the least and would try
to laugh at the jokes, but all the
time would be just boiling inside.
Now, at first his anger had been all
against those who had called him
names and made fun of him, but as
Smasher of Atoms
This giant atom-smasher has been
erected near the laboratories of the
Westinghouse company at East
Pittsburgh, Pa. With it scientists
hope to break the atom for the first
time. The smasher is a steel-coated
tank, 30 feet in diameter, 47 feet
high. Inside is an electrostatic di
rect current generator and a 40-foot
vacuum tube. It will generate volt
ages up to 5,000,000, and will shoot
particles of matter through the tube
at 100 million miles an hour.
he thought it over little by little
his anger turned against Jumper the
Hare. If Jumper hadn't run after
him no one would have laughed at
him, for nearly every one had been
just as much afraid of Buster as he.
Therefore, it was all the fault of
Jumper. The more he was teased
the greater grew his hate of Jump
er, until at last he made up his mind
that he would catch Jumper.
Now, of course, the other little
people didn't know this. They
thought that they were making life
very miserable for just Eeddy Fox
alone. Not one of them ever stopped
to think that when trouble is made
for one it almost always hurts some
one else. They thought that they
were making Reddy Fox very mis
erable, as indeed they were, but it
never entered their heads that they
were also making life very miser
able for Jumper the Hare. But they
were. Yes, sir, they were. If they
had let Reddy alone he would have
let Jumper alone. But as it was, he
just grew more and more deter
mined that he would catch Jumper.
So he spent all his spare time try
ing to think of some plan whereby
he could catch Peter Rabbit's big
cousin. And Jumper, who always
was very, very timid, grew more
timid than ever and wished and
wished with all his heart that he
had not played that joke on Reddy
Fox, which had made Reddy the
laughing stock of the Green Mead
ows and the Green Forest.
A T. W. Burgess.? WNU Service.
MARKERS Or
THE MOMENT
By JEAN
tf?n?iM.rinii- Bin i
TpO BE sure it is always tempting
to lay the blame on some one else
when you have been gauche. It's
especially tempting when you bump
into another person on the street or
over a bargain counter. You'd like
to ask her where she thinks she's
going or something genteel like that.
But don't let yourself be caught up
in the emotion of the moment. U
you're very, very mad, just give
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When Too Bump Some One on the
Street, Don't Argue.
her a haughty look over your shoul
der. It's much better than starting
an argument and getting into a
brawL Above all things don't open
your mouth. Don't say a word. It
is sure to be the wrong thing.
II you're not so terribly mad, how
START DAY WITH GOOD BREAKFAST
Menus for Fall Days Should
Be Carefully Planned
By EDITH M. BARBER
T^HE American breakfast of the
present day naturally begins
with fruit. Nowhere else in the
world is there such a variety of
fruit to be found. Nowhere else is
the quality so high. In many house
holds orange, grapefruit or tomato
juice is supplemented by chilled
melon, baked apples, stewed pears,
figs or prunes. A choice of cereals
may be offered for the next course.
Occasionally you may like to serve
on a chilly morning a steaming bowl
of porridge, although ready-to-eat
cereals should be offered also.
"Eat your cereal, child," my
grandmother used to urge, "it's
warming to the stomach and it
sticks to the ribs."
No urging of jaded appetite will
be needed if the perfume of sizzling
bacon has been wafting into the din
ing room. The term bacon is gen
eral, but the varieties of this fa
vorite breakfast meat are many.
Three principal kinds are Ameri
can, Canadian and Irish. The dis
tinctive flavor of the latter, by the
way, is due, so they say, to the
good rich Irish potatoes and milk
upon which the pigs are fed, as
well as to the special method used
for the smoking. Bacon with fresh
country eggs, prepared according to
preference is probably our stand
ard breakfast dish. It can be va
ried, however, with broiled or baked
salt mackerel, kipper baked in
cream, plump little sausages, which
furnish savor for the first meal of
the day.
Of course, there will be toast, hot
and crisp and well buttered. There
may be hot rolls or muffins or
toasted English muffins. We may
add griddle cakes or waffles for
Sundays and holidays when there is
plenty of time and when men must
be fortified for golf.
And don't forget that jar of mar
malade or honey for that finishing
sweet touch.
BREAKFAST DISHES.
Rich Mnfflni.
% cup shortening
y? cup sugar
1 egg
3 teaspoons baking powder
% teaspoon salt
2 cups flour
1 cup milk
Cream the butter, add the sugar
and egg well beaten, sift the baking
powder and salt with the flour, and
add to the first mixture, alternating
with milk. Bake in greased gem
pans 25 minutes in a moderate
oven (373 to 400 degrees).
Codfish Cakes.
1 cup salt codfish
2% cups cubed potatoes
% tablespoon butter
Pepper
1 egg
Soak codfish overnight in cold wa
ter. On following morning, pour off
water from codfish and ahred by
placing pieces on cutting boards and
using fork. If codfish has soaked
for 12 hours it will shred easily.
Cook potatoes until tender, drain
thoroughly and return to kettle in
which they were cooked. Shake over
heat until thoroughly dry, mash
thoroughly, add butter and pepper
and beat until light; add flaked cod
fish and continue beating until mix
ture is light and fluffy. Add more
salt if necessary. Use No. 16 ice
cream scoop for dipping up balls.
Put in frying basket and fry for
1 minute in deep fat (385 degrees
Fahrenheit). Drain on brown paper.
Kidney Stew.
X large kidney
1 tablespoon butter
1 onion
IV* tablespoons flour
Salt
Pepper
2 tablespoons sherry
Remove fat and sinews from kid
ney. Wash thoroughly and place in
saucepan with one-half teaspoon salt
and enough water to cover. Allow
it to come to a boil and then sim
mer for Ave minutes until very ten
der. Remove the kidney, retaining
the water in which it has been
cooked, and cut in small pieces.
Slice onion and cook with the butter
in frying pan. When light brown
add flour, stirring gently; add sher
ry and 1 V? cups of water in which
kidney was cooked. Bring to a boil,
stirring occasionally. Add pepper
and more salt, if necessary.
Griddle Cakes.
2V4 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1
2 cups milk
Vi cup melted shortening, or cook'
ing oil.
Mix and sift dry ingredients. Beat
egg, mix with milk and stir into
first mixture. Stir in melted short
ening. Bake on both sides on hot
ungreased griddle. Preparation
time 7 minutes.
If sour milk is used, substitute 1
teaspoon soda for 3 teaspoons bak
ing powder.
Baked Salt Mackerel.
Soak mackerel overnight. Drain,
dredge with flour and pepper. Put
in a greased pan and half cover
with top milk. Bake in a moderate
oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit) about
fifteen minutes until tender. Add
one-fourth cup of cream and cook
ten minutes more.
Q Bell SrruUcate. ? WNU Servlc*.
Mutual Helpfulness
The great things in life are accom
plished through co-operation and the
strength that comes from mutual
helpfulness. ? Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
ever, and think you can control)
yourself it would be awfully nice at
you to say softly, "I beg your par
don." Even if you think she did do
the bumping, it would be a nice
thing for you to say.
WMU Servic#.
TO THE
AILING HOUSE
By Rogu B. Whitman
WHAT CAN BE DONE
ABOUT DRAFTS
A FEW days ago I called .on
** some friends who live in a two
story house. The stairs come down
into one corner of the living room,
and after a few minutes it was no
ticeable that there was a draft at
cold air at the hpttom. My friends
spoke of this ; they said that on cold
days the draft was so strong that
the whole living room was uncom
fortable.
The reason for the draft was
clear enough. The stairway was
open, and heated air from down
stairs, being light, rose to the upper
story. Chilled upstairs air sank to
the floor by its greater weight and
ran downstairs just as water would
run down. When the heat was on,
this action was continuous.
The cure would be in the more even
heating of the house ; a treatment of
the upper story that would check
the chilling of the air. This in the
first place would be in greater pro
tection of the windows, for they are
largely responsible. They should
have high quality metal weather
strips, and be protected by rightly
fitted storm windows. The metal
weatherstrips would prevent the
leakage of cold air into the house
through the joints around the win
dow sashes. The temperature of the
inside window glass, through the
protection of the storm windows,
would be raised, and would not have
so great a chilling effect of the air in
contact with it. It is not ?*?"?*?
to have storm windows only on the
exposed side. They should be ao all
sides to protect the inside glass
against the low temperature at oat
door air. In addition to this, there
should be a layer of In
the floor of the attic to prevent lose
of heat through the upstairs
With these changes, the tempera
ture through the bouse would be
more even. Drafts are created by
differences in temperature; the
greater the difference, the more
rapid will be the circulation and the
stronger the drafts.
One common cause of draftiness
is the crack between base boards
and flooring, especially on the
ground floor with a cellar beneath.
For the time being, these cracks
can be stuffed with anything that is
convenient; strips of newspaper, for
instance. But for permanence, this
crack should be closed with quarter
round molding. There is swelling
and shrinking of the base board as
well as of the flooring in the change
from the damp air of summer to the
dryness of artificial heat When the
molding is nailed either to the
flooring or to the baseboard, the
crack will re-open. To keep the
crack closed at all times of year,
the molding should be nailed to the
studs and other framework within
the wall. For this, long nails should
be used, driven through the molding
at such an angle that they will
pass through the space between
base board and flooring and into the
woodwork behind. Swelling and
shrinking of the floor and base
board will then have no effect; the
crack will remain closed.
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Elysium , Paradise of the Greeks
Elysium was the paradise of the
Greeks, and was also called the Isles
of the Blest. This home after death
was supposed to abound in beautiful
gardens, meadows and groves,
where birds sing, rivers wind be
tween banks fringed with laurel and
the air is always pure and the day
serene.
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