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the Alamance gleaner 1 VOL. LIII. ===== GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1927. r NQ 3 WHAT'S GOING ON 1 NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Pre?ident Asks Powers to Agree on Further Cut in Naval Armament By EDWARD W. PICKARD I,- INSTRUCTION from President (J Coolldge, the American ambas jadors at London, Paris, Rome and Tokyo presented last Thursday to the governments of Great Britain, France, i Italy end Japan a memorandum sug gesting that they "empower their dele gates at the forthcoming meeting of the preparatory commission for the disarmament conference at Geneva to negotiate and conclude at an early date an agreement further limiting naval armament, supplementing the Washington treaty on that subject, and covering the classes of vessels not covered by that treaty." The President in a special message to congress explained the consldera dons that mi^ved him to take this ac tion, and Included the text of the note to the powers. In this he said the American delegates at Geneva would have "full powers to negotiate definitely regarding measures for fur ther naval limitation, and, If they are able to reach an agreement with the representatives of the other signa tories of the Washington treaty, to conclude a convention embodying such agreement, in tentative or final form u may be found practicable." The American government and peo ple, the President said, "are convinced that competitive armament constitutes one of the most dangerous contribut ing causes of international suspicion and discord, and is calculated event ually to lead to war." Despite the hope of the United States to complete the work otAhe Washington treaty and extend limit ing treaties to cover cruisers, destroy ers and submarines, the message con tinued, "far-reaching building pro rams have been laid down by certain powers, and there has appeared in onr own country, as well as abroad, a sen timent urging naval construction on the ground that such construction Is taking place elsewhere." Presidential campaign pontics and the third term problem came out Into the open last week, and prob ably will stay there, for some time to tome. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi dent of Columbia university, a wet Republican and for long a potential candidate, started things with an ad dress In New York In the course of which he asserted that In his judg ment Calvin Coolldge would refrain from Injecting the third terra Issue Into the campaign of 1928 and would not be a candidate to succeed himself. He declared that other Republican leaders throughout the country felt as he did and that Mr. Coolldge's com mon sense would keep him from seek ing a renomlnatlon. Doctor Butler's Deeeh dealt with Issues he believes will have to be met In 1928 and told the Republicans that the party, would lace the fight of Its life and that vic tory would go to that party which hood squarely on three Issues?pro hibition, farm relief and foreign Policy. The lid thus being taken off, Beck ?' Wisconsin, Insurgent Republican, Introduced a resolution In the house, declaring It to be "the sense" of that hody that congress Is opposed to a Wrd presidential term. Speaker Rlcbolas Longworth, who Is supposed te have presidential ambitions, In an 'ddress before the women's patriotic inference on national defense In Washington, caustically criticized the ?^ministration's economy program, ea . Pedally as it affected the navy. "The leading argument of those In "?a house who opposed any appropri ation for the cruisers was that another m'tatlon of armament conference Fjlfct be held In the comparatively **r future, and that, under the clr wmstances, we should proceed with ? o new actual building program," said r- Longworth. "To my mind, that ?fgument refutes Itself. I have not fthe slightest doubt that It was our commanding strength and generous willingness to make great sacrifices that brought about the successful re sults of the Washington conference. "Today we are In no such position of superiority but rather In a position of inferiority. We must then take up the question of a new conference on the limitation of armament, not as a nation willing to make great sacri fices In the cause of peace, but as a nation begging others to make sacri fices themselves." Senator Borah responded to Doctor Butler's challenge concerning prohibi tion by admitting that was a proper issue In the coming campaign and as serting that the Republican party declare Itself unmistakably on that question. He said this would be done by the voters themselves and there fore the Issue should be presented In the states and districts, prior to the election of delegates so that the dele gates might be chosen In accordance with the popular view. This proposal sent shivers down the spines of many Republican leaders. Henry Ford contributed his bit by visiting the White House and then In forming the correspondents that he had told the President that the coun try generally Is -"solid as a rock" and that existing prosperity will not only continue but Increase. He added that he considered the President "more popular with the people of the United States than ever before," but he re fused to discuss the President's chances for renomlnatlon. AT THIS writing It appears likely that the McNary-Haugen farm relief measure will be passed by con gress and that it will be vetoed by President Coolidge because he still considers It a price-fixing measure and therefore economically unsound. The President was said to favor rather 'the Curtis-Crisp bill, which contains no equalization fee provision and which Frank O. Lowden condemns for that reason as "wholly missing the point of legislation which' we have been advocating." Farm bloc leaders In Washington said if Mr. Coolidge vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, the corn belt would rally to Lowden for the Presidential nomination. One emergency agricultural relief bill was passed by congress and signed by the President. It appropriates $10, 000,000 to be expended in co-opera tion with the states In the eradication of the com borer. IN ALL likelihood the world court has ceased^- to be a political issue and the United States is definitely out of that tribunal. Last week the State , department received from Great Brit ain and two other major powers, not named, notification that they were not prepared to accept the American res ervations unconditionally. President Coolldge announced in his Kansas City speech that unless all the nations ad hering to the court protocol accepted the American reservations without change he would not again submit the matter to. the senate and the United States would remain outside the court. It was stated at the White House last week that Mr. Coolldge had not changed his mind in regard to this. MEMBERS of the senate commit tee on privileges and elections again failed to agree on a report In the case of Frank L. Smith, senator designate from Illinois. A majority of the committee seemed to be In fa vor of recommending the seating of Smith, but several. Including the Dem ocrats, thought that evidence as to the facts in the case should be pre sented before a report wis made to the senate. One may repeat the pre diction, made several weeks ago, that the matter will not be settled before the present congress comes to an end on March 4. r?OR the second time President Cool " ldge withdrew the nomination of William J. Tilson of Atlanta to be federal Judge for the middle district of Georgia. The senate was abont to vote on the nomination and rejection was certain. Senator Harris of Geor gia led the opposition, saying that Tilson was personally obnoxious to him. The Judiciary committee had twice reported adversely on the nomi nation. pORTUGAL enjoyed one of Its pe i riodlc revolutionary movement* last week. The revolt started with the military In Oporto and spread to Lisbon, the capital. There was light ing In both cities and considerable bloodshed, and before the week ended It was announced that the afTalr was practically over, the government hav ing suppressed the rebellion. During the fighting In Lisbon the American legation was riddled by bullets and Minister Fred M. Dearlng was forced to abandon It The revolt was direct ed primarily ngnlnst General Car mona, the president-dictator. T | NDETERRED by protests from both the Cantonese and the north ern Chinese, Great Britain went ahead with her preparations for the defense of the International 'concession at Shanghai, and the Gloucestershire and Durham regiments, having reached Hongkong, proceeded to Shanghai as did a number of British warships. Dispatches from Hankow, headquar ters of the Cantonese, said Eugene Chen, nationalist foreign minister, had resumed conversations with Owen O'Malley, the British charge d'affaires, and that an amicable agreement might result. One reason for this may have been the reported reverses suffered by the Cantonese troops In Cheklang province, which halted their progress toward Shanghai. Marshal.Sun Chuan fang, allied' with the northerners, was said tp have captured Chuqhow. Much of the speech from the throne at the reopening of the British parlia ment was devoted to the Chinese tan gle, and while both the king and .Prime Minister Baldwin gave assur ance that Great Britain dealred a peaceful settlement by negotiation, the latter made It plain the govern ment was determined to protect Its nationals In China and would land troops at Shanghai If this yas made advisable by local conditions, regard less of any protests. Secretary of State Kellogg made an effort to solve the problem of Shang hai by proposing that that city be ex cluded from the zone of warfare be tween the Chinese factions, but this was not considered favorably by either the nationalists or the northern ers, and of foreign nations only Japan gave It approval. Premier Mussolini announced that Italy would snpport Great Britain's program and sent a warship and marines to the scene of action. The transport Chaumont, car rying 1,200 American marines from San Diego, arrived at Honolulu and proceeded eastward, for either Guam or China. About six hundred Ameri can missionaries have taken refuge In Shanghai and more arrive from th* Interior dally. THERE was heavy fighting In and abont Chlnandega between the Nicaraguan government forces and the rebels. The latter occupied the clt7 but were driven out after Lee Mason and William Brookes, American avi ators In the service of President Diaz, had raided and bombed them. The city was practically destroyed by bombardment and flames. A dispatch from Managua said Doctor Sacasa, leader of the liberals, was preparing to accept the government's peace terms or withdraw from the country. FOB some two months following March 1 President Coolidge and his personal and official household will occupy the Patterson mansion on Du pont Circle, thitf residence having been selected as the temporary White House while the executive mansion Is undergoing repairs. The house Is one of the show places of .Washington and Is now owned by Mrs. Elmer Schlesln ger, the daughter of the late Robert W. Patterson, editor of the Chicago Tribune. YOSHIhItO, the late emperor of Japan, was burled last week with all the prescribed ancient rites, last ing for several days. A million add a half persons gathered In Tokyo to see the funeral procession, and in the crush two were killed and hundreds Injured. After the ceremonies In a specially constructed pavilion, the body was taken by rail to Asakawn and placed in the tomb at the foot of a nearby hill. **? I* Symbol of Authority in House ^ ^reir,onl?l mace, the symbol of ''Hert authority rooted In the Pobn108 ?' nnclent Roman re ^ ? as much ? part of the sit of the house of represents tires members are thaselres. b yh. hswgST^lon^lt It stands In a lower pedestal near by. It Is never unguarded, and for more than eight years has been In the cua tody of A. C. Jordan of Lyons, Kan., tall, stalwart, genial assistant sergeant at arms, whose dnty Is to maintain order on the floor. Made In 1842 of ebony fasces, or rods, three feet long, representing the states, bound with thongs of silver and surmounted with a silver globe and spreading eagle, the mace of the house represents powers rarely exer- | clsed, Including summary expulsion of a disorderly member. Usually, when the assistant sergeant at arms Is called upon to restore or der, he Is able to do so merely by marching through the disturbed aisles carrying the mace or by holding It over two excited members. If a mis behaving member falls to heed that display of authority, however, he may lay It betide him. That act auto matically expels him, and be would have to obtain a formal reinstate moot BIG EVENTS FOR "SUNDAY TOWN" By A. a SHERWIN : ? (Copyright by W. Q. Chapman.) ((T OOK8 like a* If every day I was Sunday In thla dead old 1 -/ town, eh, neighbor?" re marked a patriarch of the town in question. "That's right," asserted a compan ion very slightly his Junior In local his tory. "The Norths made It, the Norths killed It," added the first speaker sen tentlously, and then both glanced quite appropriately over at a great unoc cupied factory building, with small structures and any number of work men's cottages about it, also unoc cupied. Gloom and decay were expressed In the presentment The great gates of the plant through which once trooped happy and hopeful artisans hung loosely. There was an array of broken windows. Here and there the cement casing of the factory had crumbled away. The yards were overgrown with weeds. Dismal desolation was suggest ed at every angle of vision, The history of the great abandoned plant of John North, for ten ylars a busy hive of Industry, had engulfed the history of the town Itself. At the height of seeming prosperity there had come an awful crash. Stories of spec ulation, of extravagance, or enormous outside Investments were rife. A re ceiver had been appointed, the assets of the business sacrificed and Walter Drury, the young manager of the city sfilce of the plant, was arrested and sent to the state penitentiary for ten years on a charge of forgery, embes slement and falsifying the books of the concern. Drury was unknown In Fairfield and everybody pitied old John North, who died a month after the crash. He left a daughter and two sons, at the time small children. They were given Into the charge of au aunt In a dis tant state. The plant and the splendid North residence were left to the estate, but stripped of their contents. Nobody wanted to occupy a plant or a mansion with which such gloomy memories were connected and both had remained racant. It was on the very day that the two old pioneers discussed the situation of what had become widely known as "Sunday town," that a stranger ar rived on the afternoon train. He was neat In his dress, tall, dark, and re served In his manner. He registered at the one little hotel of Fairfield as Paul Moore and his first visit was to the office of old Judge Martin, who nominally had what was left of the North estate In charge. After that this Paul Moore became a familiar figure In the town. His bearing was Impressive, sad and subdued. He was kindly and courteous to those he met, but conversed briefly on all occasions. "A strange man, but full of wonder ful power and sense," remarked the Judge one day to a friend. "I fancy he Is going to be the coming man of the town." "Why, what do you mean?" was sur prlsedly queried. "Haven't you heard that the plant Is to start up again?" "Why, no. That will be good news for the town. Indeed I" "Yes, Moore has made all the ar rangements. It appears he has no money, but a marvelous business adaptability. He has got some capital ists to furnish a large amount of capi tal, bond the bualness and put him In charge as manager. We have co-oper ated with him for enough to give him a very advantageous lease." Then began Mg events for Sunday town. The quiet, humdrum routine of the place was Invaded. Bustle, activ ity, progress became the order of the day. The plant wan reconstructed, new machinery Installed. Old workmen who had moved from the town were recalled. The cottages were put In shape for thane new tenants. Store keepers and hotel men were attracted to the place. Through it all, consistently quiet, yet forceful, the Strangely silent Moore day by day built up the revived busi ness. His aye and thoughts were everywhere. Ykl umber of employees doubled In a Jear. The big factory turned out Its product dally In carload lota A happy, contented working com munity grow up around the grant plant One year, twe yes re, three years and then n grant event was chron icled In the lltfle weakly news Journal published at Sunday town. Paul Moore had piled ap sack grant proflu.that he had paid off the bond Issue, bought out all ths other Interests and had be come the sole owner of the business Honors piled up for him on every slda but ha remained the tame silent but substantial dtlaan. He was offered the mayoralty chair and refused it, other and higher district political preferment was tendered, but he ?Mined to (brink from publicity an'I from being conspicuous. "I wish to ask you something about the family of Mr. North," he said to Judge Martin one day. The lawyer told him that Miss Eu nice North was teaching school. Th? rent Income from the plant had en abled her to place her two youngei brothers In college. "I wish her to return here to taka up her rightful position In the world," ?aid Moore. "What do you mean?" Inquired the Judge wonderlngly. "Just this: through the easy lease given us at the start by the North estate, from the nucleus of the old business here success and a fortune have come. 1 am a grateful man. ) propose making over to Miss North ? half Interest In the business I now own. At my own expense I wish the old North mansion restored." "Strange man!" murmured the law yer In almost awed tone. "Further, I wish the name of John North restored upon the front of all the buildings. He built this business orlglnslly. He shall hare all the credit." So It was done, and so from obscur ity Eunice North and her brothers came back to the old-time affluence and comfort. Paul Moore evaded seeing the young girl whom he had so benefited. One evening, however, she sent for him. A beautiful face confronted htm, but pale and troubled. "Mr. MoOre," she said, "I have ?ought to meet you to thank you. And nowln the light of a new discovery 1 must have your confidence?1 fear, your forgiveness." "What do you mean?" Inquired Moore In a low tone. "I do not believe you are Paul Moore?I believe you are Walter Dru ry, the faithful manager of my dead father, who suffered ten years of Im prisonment?unjustly." He was silent, his face grew a trifle paler. . "Speak to me!" Cried Eunice: "you are Walter prury?" "Yes." "Since returning here I have found some old papers. It was my father's complication that Involved you and you sacrificed yourself?" "You mistake," Interrupted Drury quickly. "Your father committed some errors, for which as proprietor of the business he could not be held amen able. To shield blm I bore the bur den. Shall I tell you why? He saved my father from ruin years ago, he gave me my first business position. 1 loved him, I saved his honored name, I have restored It?I am content." She was near to him. She seised his hands, her tears, her kisses show ered upon them. He told her he planned to go away so he would not be a re minder of the old trouble. She bade him stay, for without him now life would be lonely. And so they were married. Londonera Duped by Old Weather Prophet Almanac forecaata are n?t taken with much aerlouaneaa theae daya, but In tba Sixteenth century the prophete were reapected. When tliey foretold that on February 1, 1524. the Thamea would rlae In flood and overwhelm London, bundreda of people fled to the high ground on the eve of the fatal day. The prior of St. Bartbolomew'a went ao far aa to build a houae on Harrow hill and equip It with fopd and boata for a watery alege. But nothing happened, and- when annoyed beodaa era queationed the prapheta, they ad mitted a allp In their calculatlona that put the affair a mere 100 yeara away. But the way of the prognoatlcator la hard. When William Lilly, quite by accident, correctly foretold the great Are of London, he had to convince a committee that he had not had a hand In making hla forecaat come true.?Mancheater (Eng.) Guardian. I This On* Destructive The whole of continental America affords a home for the duck hawk, which la the awlfteat, moat daring of hawka, says Nature Magazine. The quick wing beat, unlike that of moat other hawka, la an excellent field character. When hunting. It rlaea abore lta prey and drops/directly down, aeldom mlaalng a cai-h. They are known to kill beyond then- needs, for aometlmea the dead are left where they fall. "Seedy Looking Man The term "aeedy" aa applied to ? peraon who la aoraewhat ahabby real ly refer* to a plant, the appearance of which la aomewhat diaorderly owing to the fact that It ha* gone to aeed when all the atrength haa been ex hanated In the proceaa of aeed devel opment The term "aeedy" la especial ly applied to one whoae clothing It unorderly and soiled and whose halt may be in need of brushing or cutting Unpaid For Complaining Customer?That laws mower I bought has all rusted. Hardware Merchant?Maybe tbat'i because there's so much due op It FLYING OWl AFRICA Workman's Huts In tha Bslglan Congo (Prepared by tha National Geo*r,aphte Society. Washington. D. C.) FLYING over the sands of the Sahara desert, the Jungles of wildest Africa, and the lake country of East Africa, French ivlators recently crossed the continent it Its widest part in a seaplane. Taking the air near Marseille, the wo French navy planes skirted the Spanish west coast of Africa, landing it Dakar, the westernmost city of tho 'Dark Continent." ? They found Dakar, port of call of .easels plying between European, South African and South American ports, a thriving city of about 25,000 people, with well laid-out streets, schools, hospitals and workshops. Dakar owes Its Importance as a port 'o the nearness to South America. While Liverpool Is more than 3,000 miles from New York. Dakar Is only slightly more than half that distance from Pernambuco, Brazil, the eastern most port of South America. The Berbers and Fulas represented In the city's population were met with it every stop In the Sudan and Ni geria after the flyers turned Inland, for both races are scattered over the north and northwest portion of Africa. The Berbers are believed to have been at one time musters of the Mediter ranean, and It Is probable that the continent was named for the Afiigha tribe, a sub tribe of the Berbers. Evi dence bus been uncovered dating back to the Stone age. of the existence of a race of people resembling the Ber l>ers who-Inherited North Africa. Unlike other African peoples, some of the Berbers might pass for Ameri cans, If they donned American cloth ing. Their skin Is light, their eyes blue, and many are blonds. Although the Berbers and Arabs have been closely associated for centuries, and are Mohammedans, the two races have remained distinct Fulas Are Strong. Tbe Eula* were originally herdsmen In tlie western and central Sudan, but lliey extended their domain to Nigeria. ; That they are a mixture of Berber and negro la tbe moat generally accepted 1 theory, yet their rcddlah brown or j light cheatnut colored akin, oval facea, even smooth hair, atralght even noaes ? end delicately shaped llpa differentiate j them from the negro type. Taken aa a whole the Kulaa are In ' telllgent people with grout atrength of character. They are fatnoua for their horaemanahlp and aa aoldiera are mostly cavalrymen. At Bamako, on the Niger river, one of the planes became disabled and vraa left for repairs. The other plane followed the Niger to Timbuktu, so called "city of mystery" which Ilea nine miles from the river proper, on the edge of the Sahara. This was one of the most interesting stopping places on the flight. Whether Timbuktu Is entered from the sooth by the "water" route or the bridle paths from the north or west, the city seems nothing more than a labyrinth of narrow streets with mud walls thrown np on both sides with out any sense of direction. Regard less of what street one takes, after a few right and left turns, he finds him self In the famons market place. Tlmbnktn was founded as a trading center in the Eleventh century and has never lost that characteristic. Of the 8,000 Inhabitants many are no mads who pass through with cattle or engage In the great salt trade from the central Sahara. Tbe "home-folks" lead simple, fairly cheerful, but "un eventful lives. Up the Niger and Benue. From Timbuktu, the planes followed the Niger to Lokoja, Nigeria, at Mie confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers In British territory. Lokoja la the oldest white settlement In the In terior of Nigeria and was once the seat of administration for the Inland provinces. At the meeting place of twp great rivers. It wag, too, the door way to the north. Something of'thls (unction atlll survives, but the com pletion of a railway In recent years, running from Lagos on the coast to the relatively healthy uplands of northern Nigeria, and passing far west j of Lokoja,, has decreased the Impor- I tance of the latter town. From Lokoja the aviators (lew up the Benue river and Into French equa torial Africa, In the heart of which lay another stopping place. Arcbam bault. There the flyers had passed from Mohammedan territory Into a re gion of fetishism. A sect of this prim itive people has some unusual fea tures. Its members spurn clothes, wearing only a thin strip of cloth and a bead belt Ochre clay Is daubed over I their bodies, and they adorn them selves with glass-bead necklaces, met al bracelets, and ostrich-feather bead dresses. Each member always car ries a small stool, and much of bis time Is spent seated on It In solemn dignity. Their secret communications are through prolonged gutteral coughs. Turning southward on leaving Fort Archambault, the flyers uguln left French territory at the Ubangl river and entered the Belgian Congo. This huge Belgian possession U more than 77 times the size of Belgltnn. On their way to Stanleyville, metropolis of the Congo, the aviators flew over vast for ests. One, the so-called Pygmy forest, covers 25,000 square miles. Seldom la the ground In this whole area touched by the rays of the tropical sun. for the uuderbrush and the foliage of the giant trees are so thick that only here and there a pencil-like stream of light pierces the darkness, beneath. The jungles seethe with vicious animals and Insects, and the Pygmies, who sel dom grow more than four feet In height, are Uie principal Inhabitants of this wood Id fastness. The Belgian Congo. About 10,000 of the 9.000.000 people in the Belgian Congo are white. Moe: of them lire at the %umvrous stations established throughout the colony by the Belgian government. The uatlves are black and Include many different types according to their geographic lo cation. The resources of the colony have hardly been scratched. Cold, tin, cop per, lead, rubber, palm nuts, palm oil, and Iron are Importances ports. Iron stone hills In the southeastern re gions have an estimated deposit of milllonsi of tons of high-grade ore. The rubber supply seems Inexhaust ible. ALjltanleyvllle the aviators found a bus/ little town, built on both sides of the Congo river. On the east bank Is the headquarters of the vice gov ernor and many up-to-date residences, while the left bunk Is occupied by rail way terminals und workshops. Palm trees lining the avenues In the resi dential section remind one of a south ern Florida boulevard. All this mod ernization has come about since the eighties when Stanleyville was little more than a native village. Flying In a southeasterly direction, the plane reached the African Great Lakes, passed over Its second stretch of British territory, and came to the Indian ocean at KUUmane, a small town about midway along the coast of Mo zambique, Portuguese territory. The city of Mozambique, the next stop, la situated on a small Island abont three miles off the coast. It was once the heeqaarters of the Portuguese Kast African government and the center of' the East African slave trade. The slave markets have disappeared, yet Mozambique has changed little during the last few hundred years. Majunga. largest port on the west coast of Madagascar, requited a 1?| hop across the Mosamblqae channel. From this point the aviators flew to Antananarivo, capital of the third largest of the world's islanda (outside the Arctic regions), thus ending the first half of thetr trip.
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