THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL. LII.
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Franco - Italian Relations
Strained by Attempt to
Kill Mussolini.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
THOUGH friendly relations between
Italy and France are strained as
a result of the latest attempt to as-
Premier Mussolini, It is not
"ffkely there will be an actual diplo
matic rupture. The Italian anarchist
who threw a bomb at the dictator's
automobile insists that he had no ac
complices, but the Italian authorities
are convinced that his crime was
plotted In France and they accuse that
country of deliberately sheltering con
spirators against the Fascist regime.
Immediately after the bomb throwing
Mussolini, without naming France, ut
tered a warning to other nations that
Italy proposed to "put a stop to cer
tain culpable, tiresome conditions."
The Italian press was more outspoken t
and berated France soundly, to which
the French replied, officially and un
officially, with disclaimers of responsi
bility and advice to Italy to watch
its own borders and keep out the plot
ters whf might form their plans in
other countries. There were demon
strations against the French consu
lates in several Italian cities, and the
French charge d'affaires in Rome filed
three protests. Premier Polncare
called in the Italian ambassador to
Paris and made it clear that France
would regard further officially In
spired criticism of Its hospitality for
foreign political refugees as an act
of extreme unfriendliness. Notwith
standing this, the directory of the
Fascist party issued orders which said
in part:
"The land of France, for whose
safety some of our 500,000 war dead
fell, has been for years the most hos
pitable land for all those hatching in
their perfidious hearts hatred against
Italy."
It is there, the orders continue, that
"spirits are excited, bombs are built,
and those people are instructed who
later will enter Italy to attempt the
life of the head of the Italian regime.
All this cannot longer be tolerated."
The orders declare that, If France
desires to continue friendship wljth
Italy, as the latter deslfes, it must
change its line of conduct.
The Itallaa government published
a list of political refugees, most of
whom are living In France, and an
nounced action that will deprive them
of their citizenship.
COLORADO Republicans seem to
have wrested the control of the
party's affairs in that state from the
hands of the Ku Klux klan and sim
ilar secret organizations. United
States Senator Rice W. Means, direct
ing head of the klan In Colorado, was
defeated for renomlnatlon by Charles
W. Waterman, counsel of the Presi
dent's oil conservation board, who was
supported by the antl-klan element
In addition, all the candidates for
office who were sponsored by Senator
C. Phlpps were beaten by those
supported by Clarence C. Hamlin and
ex-Governor Shoup, leaders of the an
tl-kliin faction in the party. The
Democrats nominated former Gov. W.
E. Sweet for senator.
Maryland Senator Weller, Re-
Publican, defeated Congressman John
hillp Uiu f or t jj e genatorial nomlna
-011 to oppose *M. E. Tydlngs, Demo
crat. Governor Ritchie was renomlnat-
Senators E. D. Smith of South
aroiina and Wesley Jones of Wash
ugton won renomlnatlon.
Michigan Republicans had an exclt
ng gubernatorial fight* and Gov. Alex
foesbeck was badly beaten by Fred
> P" Grt on of lonia, mainly because
'oesbcck has been exceedingly 11b-
In the granting of prison paroles
I co tarc ' ons - The Groesbeck-Green
jest was so bitter that the Dem
ln th* th ' Dk 11 to a split
i tlon e lU ; l,ubllcan P ar{ y the elec
, 0 of Hliam J. Comstock, their un-
R! S6(} g ubernatorial candidate,
cha! rJUtOr Butler of Massachusetts,
Zr r ® an of the Republican national
| "nd Gov. Alvin T. Fuller
e without opposition.
League of Journalists
Urged as Aid to Peace
league of Journalists
of.. ' " m °re good than the League
World the Press Congress of the
Dr u- r 4B asßur ®d by Its president,
T *rsit r dean of the Unl
of Missouri school of Jour
w In the capital of the League
*tr® i " BaW Doctor Williams,
V u ' v n '^ B noble city, I make bold
1 a league of Journalists.
and the Democrats of the state put up
former Senator David I. Walsh and
William Gaston to oppose them. The
Democrats of Louisiana renominated
Senator Edwin S. Broussard, though
former Gov. Jared Y. Sanders gave
him a close race. Senator Dale of
Vermont was unopposed for renoml
natlon.
Republican national leaders have
brought out the old saying, "As Maine
goes, so goes the nation," following
the election last week in that state.
It was won by the Republicans with
ease and their majority of about 20,-
000 was considered quite satisfactory
for an off-year. Gov. Ralph O. Brew
ster and all four congressmen were
returned to office. The Democratic
congressional committee admittedly
could find little encouragement In the
Maine results.
CANADA'S elections last week were
watched by the United States
with unusual Interest, and the victory
of the Liberals, it was predicted, would
result in reciprocity with tills coun
try. Leaders there said the defeat of
the Meighen Conservative government
meant the Canadian people refused to
be hived behind high tariff barriers.
W. L. MacKenzie King, leader of the
.Liberals, had urged the wisdom of
freer trade facilities, and some of his
Progressive allies In western Canada
are out-and-out free traders. The
Liberals won 119 parliamentary seats,
and of their natural allies the Pro
gressives won 8, the United Farmers
of Alberta 11, the Laborites 3 and the
Independents 2. It was certain Mr.
King could muster a majority of about
50 votes for his policies. It was ex
pected Premier Meighen and his cabi
net would resign promptly and that
Mr. King would be called to form a
new government.
SEVERAL thousand delegates of the
Ku Klux klan met In Washington
for the annual convention, paraded
down Pennsylvania avenue in robes,
but without masks, declared them
selves against the World court and
also against Gov. A 1 Smith as a Pres
idential candidate, and re-elected Hi
ram W. Evans as imperial wizard.
.Evans also said the klan would wage
war against alienism, bolshevlsm,
Catholicism, modification of the Eight
eenth amendment and European In
tervention In Mexican Internal affairs.
Resolutions were adopted demanding
strict adherence to a "hands-off" pol
icy toward Mexico's church squabble
and expressing the order's sympathy
with the Calles government in Its
"efforts to free the people from stulti
fying foreign Influences and to popu
larize the education of the masses."
Every delegate to the convention
took a solemn oath to attend some
Protestant church every Sunday in
the year, unless prevented by illness
or some other emergency; and a sim
ilar oath is to be administered by the
delegates to every member of the
klan.
TORRENTIAL rains, the heaviest
recorded for September, swelled
the rivers and. streams of the Middle
West into roaring floods and immense
damage to crops and real property re
sulted. Western Illinois was hardest
hit by the rains, which descended oh
sections of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
South Dakota, Wisconsin and Michi
gan. The losses ranged from $5,000,-
000 In Illinois to half a million in
lowa. About a score of persons lost
their lives. Most of the damage falls
on the corn crop.
ELECTION of non-permanent mem
bers of the League of Nations
council by the assembly resulted in
the choice of Poland, Chile, and Ru
mania for three-year tenure; Colum
bia, Holland and China for two years,
and Belgium, Czechoslovakia and San
Salvador for one year. By a special
vote, Poland was declared re-«llglble
for election at the expiration of her
three-year term, thereby becoming a
semi-permanent council ' member.
There are 18 candidates for the nine
seats, including the Irish Free State
and Uruguay whose representatives
w£re bitterly disappointed by the re
sult of the balloting.
August Zaleskl, foreign minister of
Polahd, on behalf of the delegation
froth Poland, Sweden and Finland,
presented a petition asking that the
league enter the battle against alco
holism. He declared the evil of alcu-
keeping open and free the channels
of world communications, may do
more good than any other human
agency, league or association of na
tions." *
To facilitate the gathering and
transmission of accurate news, he
urged that the league or interested
government* call a world conference
to consider means of making truth
more readily available and reducing
transmission rates.
"No country is wholly free from of
fensive and unnecessary interference
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GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3D, 1926.
holism was made worse by the lack oi
co-ordinated international action.
After the nations signatory to the
Locarno treaties had deposited with
the league secretariat signed copies
of the pacts, Doctor Stresemann of
Germany demanded that the Rhine
land be evacuated by -the allies. In
an interview he said: "If Locarno has
any meaning at all, It should mean the
existing frontiers of western Europe
are guaranteed against forceful re
vision, and consequently no othef
guarantees, such as occupied zones,
are longer necessary,"
Paul Boncour, French delegate,
urged that a general conference on
disarmament should be convoked at
the earliest possible date. The
league's disarmament commission
adopted a modified resolution empha
sizing the necessity of concluding as
soon as possible a convention of the
private manufacturer of arms.
MEXICO has more trouble on its
hands. The Yaqul Indians of the
state of Sonora, who never have been
really conquered, are in" revolt and
the government has sent large bodies
of troops to the scene. One detach
thent of artillery is reported to have
been destroyed by the Indians. The
Yaquls stopped a train on which Gen
eral -Obregon was traveling and seized
the former president, but he was soon
released, presumably after paying ran
som. It is believed in Mexico City
that the Indians have been stirred up
by revolutionary agents sent into the
country by Adolfo de la Huerta, head
of the revolt against the Obregon gov
ernment In December, 1923.
Jacob Rosenthal, a wealthy New
Yorker, was kidnaped by bandits while
motoring from Cuernavaea to Mexico
City and held for ransom. Federal
troops were put on the trail of the
bandits, who sent warning that if
they were pursued they would kill
their captive. This being ignored they
murdered Rosenthal.
HENRY STEVENS, firearms expert,
joined his brother Willie and
Cousin Henry de la B. Carpender in
the county jail at Somervllle, N. J.,
on charges of murdering Rev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills,
whose bodies were found under a crab
apple tree four years ago. The slain
rector's three relatives by marriage
and his widow, Mrs. Frances Stevens
Hall, were Indicted for the murder by
the grand Jury. The Indictment of
Henry Stevens was something of a
surprise, although he recently figured
prominently In the revived Investiga
tion and It was officially announced
that his alibi, considered Ironclad four
years ago, had been broken down.
PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE
and their summer household de
parted on Saturday from White Pine
camp in tjie Adlrondacks, thelt vaca
tion having come to an end. The
President has profited greatly physi
cally by the outdoor life in the moun
tains and returned to Washington full
of energy and brown as a berry. He
found the White House all cleaned
and repaired, and also found his sec
retary, Mr. Sanders, in good healtn
again after a sea voyage.
CAPT. RENE FONCK and his crew
selected for the transatlantic non
stop flight all went to the flying field
at Westbury, N. Y., early Thursday
morning prepared tq- Jump off for
Paris in the huge Sikorsky plane,
which had been tested and approved
by Lieutenant Curtin, navigator and
alternate pilot But when nearly
everything was ready for the start a
bad leak in the gasoline tank was
discovered. SO the piano was put back
In the hangar for repairs and the
start was postponed. Perhaps before
this is read the flight will have been
made or have failed. On the other
hand, weather conditions may hava
caused indefinite delay.
SENATOR CARAWAY of Arkansas
has broken out In a new spot. H«
says the graves of America's war dead
In France have been desecrated wftti
abusive and vulgar writings on the
crosses, and urges that the bodies of
all soldiers buried there be brought
home: The War department says
nothing of this c haracter has been re
ported to It, and General Pershfeig,
chairman of the American battle mon
uments commission, declared that dur
ing his recent stay In Europe he had
heard nothing of such desecration.
with press liberty," he said. "It s
not enough to be free » write the
truth. Freedom to know the truth Is
essential to Journalism. , Lack of ad
equate and correct Information makes
Impossible truthful interpretation and
comment It Is useless to have liberty
to publish and discuss facts unless
there is unfettered opportunity to ob
tain these facts."
He declared that publishers should
be free from censorship and control,
but should be held responsible for tIM
wise "T"-"'" oS tlMdr freedom.
Avian TB Cause
of Great Losses
Particularly Disastrous in
Corn Belt States and
Is Spreading.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Recently pathologists of the United
States- Department of Agriculture ex
amined the glands taken from 819
tuberculous hogs which had originated
in modified accredited areas—areas in
which bovine tuberculosis had been
practically eradicated. The organism
was not found In all glands, but of
the 136 in which tubercle bacilli were
found, 60 were Infected with the bo
vine type, 45 with the avian type, and
81 with both types.
Losses In Corn Belt.
Such facts as these demonstrate
that the avian type Is causing many
retentions of hogs from modified ac
credited areas, says Dr. J. A. Klernan,
of the bureau of animal Industry, in
charge of tnberculosls eradications.
This fact should stimulate a greater
activity against the disease in poultry
flocks, he suys. Avian tuberculosis
exists only to a limited degree In the
eastern and southern states, but It
is causing great losses In the middle
western or corn belt states. ' In fact.
In many counties greater financial
losses than bovine .tuberculosis, and
there is every reason to believe that
It is spreading rapidly.
The field force, in Its regular.work
with cattle during the past 15 months,
has inspected 202,538 poultry flocks,
of which 12,301 flocks, or 6.1 per cent,
were found to be infected with tuber
culosis. More than 10,450,000 fowls
were included In the flocks Inspected.
This survey included work In those
states known to have only a light
infection as well as those known to
be extensively Infected.
Method of Fljjhtlng.
The best method of combating avian
tuberculosis may or may not have been
Worked out, says Doctor Klernan, but
that fact should not prevent proceed
ing with the present method until a
better one had been devised. Where
Infected flocks are found the owner Is
urged to dispose of the entire flock,
thoroughly clean and disinfect the
premises, and before re-establishing a
flock move the quarters to a new loca
tion If possible.
Test Strains of Native
and Imported Alfalfa
In tests designed to protect farmers
against unadapted strains of native
and Imported alfalfa, crop authorities
of the college of agriculture. Uni
versity of Illnols, buve found that
Argentine alfalfa, one of the common
types in the 4,782,500 pounds of al
falfa seed Imported Into this country
last year, has averaged about 1.50
EXCELLENT PROGRESS BEING MADE
FOR "BETTER SIRES-BETTER STOCK"
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Popularity of Pure-Bred
Sires Is Growing.
(Praparol by the United Ststes Department
it Agriculture.)
The growing popularity of pure
bred sires for the Improvement of
live stork In the United States Is
evident from the report of progress
of the "Better Sires—Better Stock"
campaign, Just Issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The report which consist* of seven
pages, Is a summary of Improvement
work conducted under a definite plan
and is complete to July 1.
Two outstanding accomplishments
received special mention. One is the
official announcement that Union
county, Ky., was the first in the
United States to reach a 100 per cent
pure-bred-bull goal. A personal In
vestigation of the live stock breeding
situation In that county, made by a
department representative, confirmed
earlier reports.
The second accomplishment Is a
record-breaking advance by stock
owner* in New Haven county. Conn.,
fn the use of pure-bred sires ior all
classes of live stock kept. That coun
ty has a total of 747 persons enrolled
for live stock Improvement, making
It the premier county in the Unit
ed States In that respect.
Other outstanding results In the
campaign are as follows, the figures
being complete to June 30, 1926:
Pertons enrolled 11,896
Animals, exclusive of fowls,
undergoing
Poultry undergofiiy^tnprove
ment 1,278,588
States In which participants
reside v
Counties having 100 or mors
participants In campaign.. 48
Copies of the report, which Is
mimeographed, and Information con-
tons of hay an acre less than three
recommended native varieties. As an
average for the past two years, Argen
tine alfalfa has made 2.07 tons of hay
an acre, whereas Grimm, Cossack
and South Dakota No. 12 common, '
the three native strains, have aver
aged 4.20 tons, 4.14 tons and 4.54 tons
an acre, respectively. Close to a quar
ter million acres of alfalfa are now
grown annually in Illinois and reliable
facts on varieties and planting dates
therefore are of interest and value to
farmers.
Foundation for Dairy
The ownership of a calf, which later
develops into a cow that gives more
milk than any other cow that has ever
been on the place. Is a real founda
tion to the dairy business. If arrange
ments are made to breed these heifers
to a good pure-bred bull, which Is
usually done, the offspring will form a
nucleus of a future herd. At the
same time the whole family Is making
more of a study of the dairy business
than would otherwise be the case.
Duck Eggs Are Fertile
As a rule, duck eggfi are very fer
tile, but they cannot be held as long
as hen eggs. If possible, five days Is
the limit for age with duck eggs! This
Is not saying some eggs will not hatch
«p to three weeks of age. but the
strongest ducklings are hatched from
freshi eggs. Duck eggs are successful
ly hatched in Incubators, but they
need more moisture than hen eggs.
More care must be taken also to pre
vent overheating the first five days.
Feed Growing Lambs
For the growing lambs cracked corn
and oats witfi an addition of bran
makes a very good ration. The lambs
should be weaned around five months
of uge. Earlier than this may he ad
visable in exceptional cases; parti«i
larly would this be true If one had a
good, fresh pasture of meadows or
wheat or oat stubble In which the
lambs could be turned and Which pos
sibly would be sufficient to take care
of both the lambs and the ewes until (
cold weather sets In.
Tuberculosis in Poultry
Tuberculosis Is a chronic infectious
disease of domestic and wild birds. It
is generally broujfrt Into the poultry
yards with fowls that are purchased
from infected flocks or with the eggs
of diseased birds that are obtained for
hatching. If the disease exists In
neighboring flocks the contagion may
be carried by small birds or animals
passing from one yard to another. A
peculiarity of tuberculosis of birds Is
that the liver and intestines are al
ways severely affected.
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cernlng methods of conducting the
..work may be obtained on application
to the Bureau of Animal Industry,
United States Department of Agri
culture, Washington, D. C.
Stand of Velvet Beans
Good Pasture for Stock
A good stand of velvet Ixans, when
used as a grazing crop for cattle and
hogs, should produce about -00 pounds
of beef and 100 pounds of pork to the
acre, says the United Stutes Depart
ment of Agriculture. The crop Is
grazed best after It Is well matured 1
or frosted. Beans needed for seed
should be gathered before the stock Is
turned Into the field. Grazing on the
heavier soils should lie done with,
more care than on sandy soils If con
tinued In fainy weather, as there is
danger of packing the heavier soil to
the detriment of thesuc£eedlng crop.
The usual period of pasturing velvet
beans Is about three months, but this
may be shortened or lengthened as,
deemed advisable.
Keep Salt Before Stock
It Is a very common practice among
those who salt their horses ami mules
to give them a 1 literal amount of suit
once each week. Experimental work
Indicates thnt It Is much better to keep
salt before horses and mules so that
they may eat It as the system de
mands. If given salt only once a week
they frequently overeat und drink an
abnormal amount of water at that par
ticular time, which frequently upsets
the digestive system and causes other
disorders.
Plow early and deep for big wheat
yields. If you plow late, don't plow
so deep.
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First Floor Plan.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give ADVICE FREE OP
COST on all problems pertaining to the
subject of building, (or the readers of
this paper. On account of his wide
txperlence as editor, author and man
ufacturer. he Is, without doubt, the
highest authority on the subject. Ad
dress all inquiries to William A. Rad
ford, No. 1127 Prairie avenue. Chicago.
lIL, and only Inclose two-cent stamp
for reply.
Inexpensive, two-story construction,
with one-story convenience, that Is an
objective which seems a bit difficult
to achieve In a small home and yet It
can be done If one Is not too literal In
his Interpretation of what Is meant.
Just how would we go about It tp get
this result? Well, the simplest way is
to take a look at the plans which ac
company this description. Modify
them to suit yourself, and then go
ahead. Yes, here Is a two-story house
which offers most of the convenience
of the bungalow.
It is a smull house, and yet not too
small for a fair-sized family, for It
contains six rooms and an enclosed
sun porch. There are renlly two front
entrances, one door opening Into the
living room and another Into the sun
porch. These two rooms occupy the
front portion of the house. The living
room (s a large one. 23*4 feet by 13
feet with the fireplace at one end.
The sun (Kirch Is slightly set back
from the line of the living room and
Is square,, being 12 feet each way. Di
rectly back of It Is the dining room.
Doorways open from this sun porch
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Second Floor Plan.
Into both dining room and living room
and there Is a door from the living
room into an Interior hallway. From
this hall the dining room, kitchen,
first-floor bedroom and lavatory, and
the stair to the upper floor are
reached.
Yes, there is a Erst-floor bedroom
and lavatory and It Is these which
give the house Its bungalow conveni
ence. They are placed in one corner
where they neither interfere with the
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other rooms nor are disturbed by th»
activities of the living portion at the
home. Between the bedroom and the
dining room is the kitchen, a compact
space, by 10 feet, where every
thing has been designed for labor
saving in the preparation of meals and
other necessary housework
The stairway tends to an upper hall,
at each side of which there is a large
bedroom. A big closet in each bed
room, Including that below stairs, will
appeal especially to the lady of the
boose, while there are, in addition,
two smaller closets in the upper hall.
On the second floor Is fotmd the regu
lar bathroom with foil equipment. A
special feature of the second floor is
a small balcony reached by French
doors, opening from one of the bed
rooms.
In construction, this is a frame
house finished In stucco, but. Hka
many other such designs, may be
treated in other finishes to suit the
taste of the future occupant* Either
siding or shingles would be appropri
ate and brick also might be used to
good effect. The chimney and the
porch walls are of brick which adds a
pleasant decorative touch to the rath
er plain walls set upon a low con
crete foundation.
Simplicity is evident throughout
the only ornament besides the brick
work being the pergola-llke porch roof
and the entrance detail (the latter is
also simple, bat adds much to the
front appearance of the house) and
the use of brick for sills below the
windows. This last Item Is quite effec
tive. when brick of a good color is
used in relieving the solid color of
the wall expanses
Canada Making Record
in Building Activity
Record-breaking building activities
throughout Canada marked the begin
ning of the current half-year period,
according to reports made public by
the dominion bureau of statistics.
Building permits Issued In the sixty
three principal cities totaled $78,620,-
362. an Increase of 19 per cent over
the same period a year ago. This Is
In contrast with a small loss In build
ing permits Issued in the principal
cities of the United States for the
same period as shown by the national
survey of S. W. Straus A Co. -
A Good Range
There Is an art in good cooking, but
no matter how well you cook or bake
your efforts are in vain without the
proper equipment That's why It paya
to buy a good range—one of recog
nized baking qualities and guaranteed
to operate perfectly.