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The Alamance gleaner 1 VOL. LIH. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY APRIL 14, 1927. ' NO. 10. HAPPENNINGS OF THE WEEK 1 IEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS owers Confer on policy in China While Their Na tionals Are Fleeing. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. VHAT to do In, or to, China was the serious problem discussed st week by the governments of the alted States, Great Britain and Ja in in an exchange of notes. The sit ition in Shanghai and along the ingtse river, though no less danger is than in the previous week, was not replete with Incidents of violence, raouation of Americana, British and ipanese from Hankow and towns be ,nd was carried on rapidly, and in me instances the escaping foreign ?s were stoned and otherwise at cked by Chinese. Near Nanking a earner carrying refugees was tired i by Chinese troops and the Amerl ,n destroyer Paul Jones replied vlg ottsly with machine guns and two mnders. The United States is clos g all Its consulates in Szechwan and unan provinces and its gunboats will ? withdrawn from the upper Yangtse i soon as the evacuation of Ameri ins is completed. Most of the lat r are missionaries, and a few of iem have refused to leave their ists. At the request of Rear Ad iral Williams, commander of the siatic fleet. 1,500 American marines ere started on the way to China, he force includes an artillery detach ent and an aviation unit. The ar val of these marines at Shanghai 111 bring the American landing forces lere up to 4,750 men, and the au lorities at Washington said the army trees probably would not be sent at ils time for fear that such a move iglit be interpreted as meaning that le United States intended to occupy lilnese territory. The marines for le new expedition were taken from astern stations and were called the ixth regiment after the unit that on fame in the World war. It was said in London that the atti ide of America and Japan would de de the question whether the powers lould withdraw entirely from China ad let the factions fight it out or lould hold on to their concessions by iree. The British government Is rep isented as willing to adopt either Jurse, but will not undertake alone > maintain the latter policy. Japan's ahlnet decided to co-operate with merica and Great Britain, and pos Ibly France, in investigation of the anking outrage, and probably will rork with them in -the defense of ves and property; but both Washing >n and Tokio indicate that they are verse to anything like active inter entlon in the Chinese civil war. Pres ient Coolidge, furthermore, said the 'nited States would not Join the Brit <h in punitive measures because of lie Nanking incident. This was ap roved by the conservative members f the Nationalist government, but It ras reported in Shanghai that the imerican civil officials there were Teatly displeased by Mr. Coolidge's olicy, one of them declnring: "Un ess the powers take action now we re lost. 1 believe emphatically that determined show of force now would 'nt the Chinese conservatives in lower." Dr. C. C. Wu, one of the conserva Ives, said coercive measures tending o intervention in the Chinese situa lon would have the effect of throi^ "a alt China to the radicals and into he arms of soviet Russia, which is 'waiting an opportunity to communlze Asia. American naval and ma Joe officers there also seem against my policy of intervention. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, intimated to parlia ment that the British government r"dld not let the Nanking attack go ""finished unless the Cantonese trade full apology and paid complete Memnity. It was said the punish ment might take the form of a block ' of the Cantonese along the anctse above Shanghai. As was ex acted, the radicals of the Kuomin ??g have sought to represent the ? *nking affair as an outrage against the Chinese, ,nd Gen ChUng Kg|. ' ( antonese commander, said lie would make a strong protest concern ing the bombardment by American and British warships. Gen Chiang Kai-shek states that ne will soon announce the beginning o a great campaign against Marshal Chang Iso-lln In the North. He plans to send three armies against Peking, t he first army will proceed northward along the Shanghai-Peking railway from Klangsu province; the second army will advance north along the eking-Hankow line through Honan Province and the third army, com manded by the Christian general, Feng Yu-hsiang, will advance on Pe king from the north by the Peklng Sulyan railway from Kalgan. General [ Chiang declared the nationalists ex pect to obtain military domination of all tbe Chinese territories before next Christinas. Chang, for his part, lias virtually asked the help of the foreign powers in combating the Cantonese, appeal ing especially to Japan because, lie says, tbe full victory of the National ists would be followed by an attempt of the Russian Bolshevists to start a Red revolution in Japan, which nation the Russians still consider their enemy. p\ISPATCHES from Mexico City say President Calles and his cab inet, under pressure frpm General Obregon, have accepted the oil und land law understandings arrived at four years ago by the Joint commis sion on which Charles Beecher War ren and John Barton Payne represent ed the United States. These provided that Article 27 of the Mexican consti tution of 1917 could not be given a retroactive effect. Calles insisted these understandings were not binding on his administration, and this was es pecially the contention of I.uls Moro nes, minister of industry and com merce and labor. But the United States maintained the contrary, and its position was supported by Obre gon and finally was accepted by the cabinet. Obregon's victory over Mo rones may bring the latter Into the open as a candidate for the presi dency in opposition to the general. NEARLY all mines In the central competitive field, comprising western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, closed down at mid night Thursday because of the fail ure to agree on a wage scale, and ap proximately 150,000 miners were thrown out of employment. Officials of the miners' union said temporary agreements had been made with a large number of plants, but the spokesmen for the operators said the union clulms were exaggerated and that the mines involved were small. Dispatches from Washington Indicated that at least for the present ttie gov ernment would take no hand In the controversy. Government surveys In dicated that nonunion and union mines unaffected by the shutdown liave a potential output rate able to supply the country for several months. The figures showed that upward of 9,000, 00ft tons of soft coal per week would continue to be produced and thaf, with the large stocks on hand, there would be no shortage for many weeks. BECAUSE the Armour Grain com pany is nccused of delivering 5,000 bushels of "screenings" for No. 2 rye, tile Department of Agriculture-is car rying on an investigation that in a way involves the Chicago hoard of trade; Iowa has officially demanded that'the grain company be suspended by the board from all trading privi leges. and resolutions were Introduced in the Illinois senate calling for the same action and for a study to see If it Is posslbig to cancel or amend the charter of the board of trade. The rye transaction took place nearly a year ago. Secretary of Agriculture jardine cited the grain company and the latter asked the Supreme court for a restraining injunction. Mr. Jar dine says the bourd of trade refused the government access to records in the case, but President Bunnell de nies this. WHAT was believed to be a d?Jlb-_ crate attempt to assassinate Henry Ford was revealed when it be came known that the automobile man ufacturer was in a hospital recover ing from painful injuries. Mr. Ford -?? ? was driving alone at night from tha Dearborn engineering laboratories to his home when a large closed car con taining two men crashed Into his conpe, forced It over a 15-foot em bankment and drove on rapidly. Mr. h ord was rendered unconscions, but recovered and made hla way to a gate way of his estate where help was ob tained. He was taken to the hospital suffering from contusions and slight hemorrhages, but within a few days was said to be on the road to com plete recovery. Department of Jus tice agents took hold of the case and a number of suspects were arrested. This supposed attempt on the billion aire's life came In the midst of the trial of Adam Saplro's million-dollar libel suit against him, and also at a time when he Is said to have aroused considerable 111 feeling among mer chants because he opened cnt-rate re tall stores. A MERICA, France and England JA'were all threatened In the trag edy In the Gare du Nord, Paris, when Countess de Janze, estranged wife of a Frenchman, shot Raymond V. de TruffOrd, scion of a prominent British family, and then put a bullet through her own body. The countess was Alice Sllvertliorne of Chicago, cousin of J. Ogden Armour and well-known In American social circles. Her rela tions with De Trafford recently led her husband to file suit for divorce. For several days after the shooting It was believed both the countess and De Trafford would die, but latest reports are that they are out of danger. WHILE Mrs. Coolidge was trying to learn from White House aides where the President Intended to spend his summer vacation, news came down from Wisconsin that the Chief Executive had selected that state and would spend the hot months up among the muskle lakes and trout streams. The exact location of the summer capital was said to be unde termined. but the Q. B. Helnemann estate on Trout lake was reported to be favorably considered. It is about seventy-five miles from Lake Superior and Is a pretentious establishment In fine natural surroundings, with a score of small lakes nearby. It was stated In Washington that the Presi dent would not go to the Far West for his vacation because the situations in foreign lands and other matters might make it advisable for him to return to Washington hurriedly. CMVE well-known Americans were 1 appointed by President Coolidge to represent the United States at the International economic conference In Geneva. They are: Henry M. Rob inson of Los Angeles, one "of the framers of the Dawes plan; Norman H. Douglas, New York financier; John W. O'Leary of Chicago, president of the National Chamber of Commerce; Prof. Alonzo E. Taylor of Stanford university, and Dr. Julius Klein, di rector of the federal bnreau of for eign and domestic commerce. Harry f. Sinclair, on mag nate, seemingly most go to Jail for contempt of the senate. Justice Hitz of the District of Columbia Su preme court denied him a new trial, and then heard arguments as to whether the verdict of guilty returned by the trial Jury should carry punish ment for oue offense or for four, one for each count In the Indictment. Both a Jail sentence and a fine are manda tory, Imprisonment being for not less than one month nor more more than twelve. TWO well-known citizens were on the death list of the week. Will H. Dllg, founder and former president of the Izaak Walton League of Amer ica. passed away In Washington where he took np his residence a year ago. Perry S. Heath, known as the "father" of the rural free delivery service, also died In Washington. Be sides his work In the Post Office de partment he was prominent as a newspaper publisher, and was Identi fied with the framing of the constitu tions of North and South Dakota. Maj. H. O. SEGRAVE. an English man, established a world record at Daytons Beach. Fla.. when he drove his raring car Sunbeam over the sand course at the terrific speed of 'J03.79 miles an sour. Member? of Congreut Incline to Athletict Congress ig growing younger, and athletic, aa time passes. * hatever the cause, more members congress, and noticeably of the ate, where the average age Is tra 'ooally higher than In the house, t* more Interested now In various ?f exercise than ever before. J?1'* the long recess, they can be ejected to pay more attention to the ""lopment of their skill during the spring find summer than bus been pos sible since last fall. The mujorlty, of course, is miyle up of golfers, headed by Vice President Dawes, and Including at least one rep resentative, William B. Oliver of Ala bama, who shoots consistently under 00. Tennis, however. Is represented, together with horseback riding, hunt ing. Ashing, swimming, walking, gym nasium exercises and the well-known "dally dozen." Several have notable athletic ca reers behind them. Representative Daniel A. Reed <tt New York, prime mover In the organization, bark In 1920. of the house gymnasium, which la maintained through private sub scription* by mem born, waa a foot ball jpnd wrestling star at Cornell, where he later served for 15 years as gridiron coach. He also waa coach for I'enn State for a time. Representative Albert H. Vestal of Indiana, one of those who became In terested in the gymnasium Idea, has given him credit for restoring bit health. First Glorious Angela speeding through the night, Joseph's garden filled with light; Soldiers watching swooned with fright, When Jesus rose again. j When the garden silent lay. With the so'.dlera fled away. In the dawn of Easter day ! The holy women came. At the tomb an angel apoke; Hope and joy Is them awoke; To the Master's friends they broke The greatest news of earth. Mary, longing to remain. Where three days her Lord had lain. Heard Him speak to her again. And saw Him face to face. Two He taught along the road. Though their hearts within them glowed. Did not know Him till He showed Himself in breaking bread. Faith the ten apostles knew When He said, "Peace be to you! As God sent Me, send I you. With news to lift mankind." Therefore, in our thankfulness Praise to Him we now address; Prayinff Gospel truth may bless All people ev'ry day. -?Malcolm Sanders Johnston, lu the Living Church. Egg* Play Large Part at Easter in Serbia At the breakfast table on Raster Sunday In Serbia young and old are face to face with piles of multi-colored eggs 1 It Is not polite to eat an egg by yourself there. You must give your right-hand or left-hand neighbor the chance of tapping It with bis egg. to see which breaks first If yours breaks first you are bound, according to custom, to hand It over, and try your luck again! This quaint cere mony Is not only carried on In the house but at the table. During Ras ter week no proper Serbian leaves the house without an egg In his pocket, with which to exchange greetings in the street or market place. During and since the war, the eggs were dec orated with patriotic mottoes and pic tures of the Serbian generals and heroes. The egg-artists Indicated the popularity of the soldier represented In the egg-portrait by the length of his mustache! Men pay calls upon their women friends at Eastertide In Serbia, and to each caller a decorated egg is given to take home. Hot are the dis cussions between housewives who thus provide for their friends, as to the merits of the drawings on the shells. [ - -*w *? ? ? Legend of Easier Bells Among the Easter decorations to be | seen at this season, In shop windows and elsewhere, are many Easter bells in floral designs and delicate colors. In Latin countries and in rural Que bec the chocolate bell Is very popular especially with boys and girls, to whom It typlfles one of the moat pleasing of childish Easter legends?that of the yearly flight of the church bells to Borne. Little boys and girls ar4 taught to watch and wait for the flight of the bells, and though no one haa ever seen tbem fly, the children are always hope ful that some time. If they listen care fully. they will. bear the chimes as the bells leave their steeple and float off through the night ca their journey to Rome to be blessed. The explanation of course la the silence of the bells at Passiontlde and thsfr pealing again as Raster. HOPE. MY heart *m hurt by the wtild ol men And I thought Ibnt I M?n could sine inb TWb I ranwd my face to the tytn iky, And flwpc oul my inn ee the wind rushed by. While tbn world wu tweet with floatn fair. And the pnnln ol (prkf was in tba air; Music ol God that found iU way To a lonely Heart an Eton day. fEhy the Easter Hare Several animals are associated with "Raster. The hare, (or example, be cause for many centuries It hss been regarded as the symbol of the moon and the moon governs the date on which Eaater falls. The hare feeds by moonlight, and lta young, unlike those of most other warm-blooded animals, are born with their eyes open. In deed, the old fsble Is that the hare never closes Its eyes. In the Egyp tian language the word for hare meant also ,a period of 28 days, or that of a lunar month. Other creatures are as sociated with the great festival of spring?the ass because of the cross upon Its back and because It was upon an ass that Christ rode Into Jerusa lem; and the flsh called the dory, for this la the creature from whose mouth the silver piece was taken, and ui>on either side of whose head are said In be the marks of the sacred linger and thumb. EASTER IS OLDEST OF ALL FESTIVALS Antedate* Chriatma* in the Chriatian Calendar. Easter, commemorating to Christian believers the resurrection of the Savior of mankind, Is the oldest of all the festivities In the Christian calendar. t Easter even antedates Christmas as one of the universal days of rejoicing. For while Easter, or I'sacha, ancient designation of the day, lias been ob served from the time of the founda tion of the Christian religion, it was not until four centuries after the birth of, Jesus of Ntzareth that His natal day was set apart for general com memoration. One of the most Interesting facts In connection with Easter Is that Its ori gin dates back to the old Jewish feast of the Passover. Early differences arose as to the precise day on which the Easter fes tival should be observed. In the Jew ish calendar the Passover occurs on a fixed day of the month. The Chris tians assigned Easter to Kunduy, that being the first day of the week ami the day, according to Scripture, that Christ arose from the dead. Astronomical problems of a ^otnplex character were largely responsible for these differences, which continued un til the year 325 A. D? when the Coun cil of Nicea decreed that everywhere In Christendom Easter should be ob served on the same day. It was not until the adoption of the (jregorlan calendar In 1532, however, that this decree secured anything like general acceptance. Even now, though the Gregorian calendar has been adopted In the Near East, there are some of the oriental congregations In which Easter ' Is observed sometimes before, and sometimes after, the date on which the festival Is celebrated In the Western churches. CiWtCTo ^mamxwu iW Raster time la love II For^vormora the J name, ? And all the earth la A beautiful ? ? To thoae who know [ <1 love'a hame. )1 ?Frank L. Stanton J Ancient Easter Fare la former time* the Unit dish brought to the table on Baxter day la some part* of England wax "a red herring riding away on horseback," that la, a fried herring set In the midst of corn salad. EASTER LONG AGO. oiras? Twdlakt -or. ? u_| cvu,d A crest Moa? rolled away; Mary, bearlnc apices sweat. Om levin task inteat. Droopiaa. silent, sorrowful Tease only for lament. O mourner, aad. disconsolate. Turn from the roclt raft crave And know tbou now the Master's word. The mimn that He cava; 1 Co. kneel amonc theUliee Put by thy epicene. The Lord is Risen, ae He said. And waits to apeak to thee. Hare Employed N as Symbol V^A) of the Moon 'wX b Doubtless man; people have won lered what relation to the Raster leason la borne by the hoata of randy ?area and rabblta which are dlaplayed ?y ttie confectioners, aide by aide with he Raster e||i. Thin amoclatlon of he hare with the festival la an old uatom among the Gennana and haa loubtlea* lieen Introduced Into thla :ountry by them. Ita origin la remote tnd rather vagne, but the attempt to race It brlnga out Intereatlng facta. In an article hy Katherlne Hlllard, n the Atlantic Monthly for-May, 1890. he author went Into the aubject of the faster hare at length. Researches laving shown that the hare waa used >y various anclept nations as a sym >ol of the moon, she prefaced her re narks by some explanation of the ?lose connection between the moon tnd Raster. thus establishing the -haln of related Ideas. For one thing, the mentioned that the Saxon goddess Boafre Is thought to have been Iden tical with Astarte, the t'hoenlclan god less of the moon. Then followed an account of the Important part which .he moon played In the religious my -.hology of the Kgyptlnns. Its differ ?nt phases were thought to represent the conflict between the' powers of good and evil. During the latter or s-anlng half of the moon Typhon. the His Eastsr Fina. cod of darkness and evil, wan sap* potted to conquer Osiris, who repre sented light and the principle of good. Osiris, it was thought, wus cut up into 14 pieces, corresponding to the latter two weeks of the moon'ri monthly ?ourse. Then, "with the new moon. Osiris come back-to life, sad at its full' the Egyptians .sacrificed a black pig (representing the now conquered Ty phon) to Osiris. In the planisphere >f Denderah, the god Khunsee Is seen offering a pig by the leg in the disk of the full moon, and, continued the au thor, "In some parts of England a leg af pig is still eaten on Easter Monday ?a curious survival of this sacrifice." /USN [IMS) This Is the message of Kaster for us, hat there is a life beyond life. Our work implies the need of hope to make the present-day tasks prepare us for 4omethlng to come after us. This is to lire nobly and to grasp the inner meaning of that which so often baffles as. As Browning has conceived it: How very hard it la to be A Christian! Hard for you and me. Not the mere task of making real That duty up to Ita Ideal. Effecting thus, complete and whole. A purpose of the human aoul? For that la always hard to do; But hard, I mean, for me and you To realise It, more or less. With even the moderate success. Which commonly repays our strife To carry out the alma of life. \\Learned J t Professor Bunny, with a very learned air, discusses a problem In Calculus He explains that the reason why peo ple eut colored Easter eggs on Kaatar Is because It is Easter. EGG IN HIGH PLACE AS SACRED EMBLEM Stood for Renooation of Mankind After Deluge. One writer leys: "Errs were held bj the Egyptians as a sacred emblem of the renovation of mankind aftei Die deluge. The Jews adopted It to suit the rirrumstancees of their h!? lory." In Italy, Spain and I'rovence, where so miiny pre-Christian supersti tions are retained, eggs have long tig ured In the celebration at the time of the vernal equinox and s|>orts with eggs have been Indulged In for cen turles. This common occurrence of the egg in pagun, Jewish acd Chris tian observances gives the symbolism far more significance than if it were only found in one place, time or faith A game played among the Chris I Ian children of Mesopotamia consists in striking colored eggs against one . another. The egg that breaks first Is won by the owner of the egg thai struck it. Immediately another egg is pitted against the winning egg nno thus the game goes on for "keeps" un HI the lust remaining egg wins all the others. Easter morn In radiant glory Dawneth o'er the earth again! Bursting blossoms tell the story O'er and o'er In glad refrain. From their prison rfave they risen; resurrection are they singing. Praise to their Creator bringing. Ix>rd of Easter, let thy glory Ease our sorrowing hearts of pain* / O'er and o'er ihe wondrous story May we sing In glad refrain: Christ Is risen From death's prison. Light from darkness Faith Is bringing; Joy and hope are now upsprlnglng. ? Helen Elisabeth Coolldge, in the Ohto Farmer. EAsifcK b the tppoioted | time of Resurrection?of ft Restoration?of the spiritual I qualities that have tun1 puis blurred and marred fat the / battle with the material. Faith that whatever Is. is beer?Faith in the buowhslf that nothing dies will wipe awaythe bUndfaig team awd that the stones are 1 array from their etpnlrheit, and their hejiphiaai three ? perhaps in 5eyoy of another ? s^Eaiar:- k
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