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 withdrawn from the upper Yangtse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.
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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
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