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The Alamance Gleaner 1 VOL. LIV. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 23, 1928. NO. 29. |jj HA PPENNINGS OF THE WEEK NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Secretary Kellogg Goes to Paris for Signing of Treaty to Ban War. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SECRETARY OF STATE KELI.OGO has sailed for France to take part in the ceremony of signing the multi lateral anti-war treaty which he has negotiated with the great powers. The signing will take place In Paris on August 27 and the accompanying pomp and circumstance will be worthy of so notable an event. Mr. Kellogg Is accompanied by Mrs. Kellogg and William H. Beck, his private secre tary. Before sailing he let it be known that he will transact no other official business while abroad, set ting at rest the persistent rumors that he would discuss naval limitation and other international subjects with for eign officials. Before returning to America the secretary expects to make a short visit In London and to go to Ireland. President Coolldge, addressing the convention of the Wisconsin American Legion at Wausau, described the Kel logg treaty as the brightest hope for International peace the world has ever seen and declared that if it had been In existence in 1914 the World war would not have been started. He con tinued : "While It wonld be too mnch to suppose that war has been entirely banished, yet a new and Important barrier, reasonable and honorable, has been set up to prevent It This agree ment proposes a revolutionary policy among nations. It holds a greater hope for peaceful relations than was ever before given to the world. If those, who are Involved in it having started It will finish It its provisions will prove one of the greatest blessings ever bestowed" upon humanity. It Is a fitting consummation oB the first decade of peace." Soviet Russia hoped to be Invited to sign the Kellogg treaty "with the great powers, but 'Mr. Kellogg said no to this proposition and If Russia signs It must be along with the minor na tions. The Soviet press was bitter over this "snob." asserting that the capitalistic powers did not wish the Soviets to sign for that would hinder them from attacking the Bolsheviks. It was said at Riga that l.atvla and Esthonla. which are constantly arrest ing agitators plotting to overturn their governments. - are hesitating to sign the pact, since with a neighbor like Russia they would like to know what guarantees nnd means would be pro vided by the signatory powers to main tain peace WAR clouds that were hovering over central Europe hlew away when Marshal PUsudski addressed his Polish legionnaires at the reunion In Vilna. Ten thousand of the vet erans were gathered in the city which is the constitutional capital of Lithu ania hnt Is held ky Poland, and It had been feared the meeting would be the starting of active warfare against the Liths. But the Polish dictator was exceedingly mild In Ills address, his only provocative statement being: "Vllna remains mine. I received It ?as a present from my soldiers. They fought for It and gav> It to me. which was a very nice thing to do." Later, reviewing the parade of the legions, he remarked: "Ten years ago we were worried about Vllna. but then we were wellk. Vfnw We aH itrohg." " WITH the Croatian and Serb Agra rian deputies absent, tbe parlia ment of Yngo-Blavia ratified the Net tune conventions with Italy by a ma jority of only one vote/and then ad journed. This action, however, by no means ends the trouble In that coun try. The opposition asserts the con stitution calls for a two-thirds vote for treaty ratification, and It Is gen erally admitted the Nettune conven tions give the disaffected Croats more power In their demand for home rule. At the same time the treaty leaves Italy with no excuse for interfering in the Yugo-Slav Internal affairs. The Croatian peasants' party. In meeting Harvesting by Old Method Tried Again Modern scientific Investigation has called Into play tile oldest method of hnrrestlng In the world. A crop of oat* and wheat, termed the smallest nnd yet the most repre sentative planting* of the*e grains, was garnered by hand In connection with new experiment* nt the Brooklyn , botanic garden. TV harvest was omdncted by Dr. Ohtga It. IV Investigator a?d In Zagreb, declared that Stefan Raditch, their murdered lender, re mains "the president of the party, al though dead," which is Interpreted to mean that his spirit still dominate? his countrymen. In Rome the ratifl catlon of the Nettue pact was hailed as an auspicious sign of the opening of an era of friendly and mutually profitable relations between the two nations. ONE of the most Interesting events of the week, though It was given but brief mention in the newspapers, was the action of the Argentine cham ber of deputies canceling the entire war debt of Paraguay to Argentina, amounting to 10.000,000.000 pesos or more than $4,200,000,000. There were indications that Brazil also would cancel its claim against Paraguay, which totals on even greater sum. The cancellations probably will do much toward rehabilitating the credit of Paraguay, which has been at low ebb owing to the huge debts which never could be paid. Jose Guggiari was in augurated President of Paraguay. MUCH space WHS devoted during the week to comments on Her bert Hoover's speech of acceptance. President Coolldge warmly congratu lated the candidate on the address, and naturally the other Republican leaders found it a political document of remarkable force and clarity. Nat urally, too, the Democrats did not think so much of It, and some of the farm organization leaders called It "disappointing" because it did not out line a specific proposal for agricul tural relief, though he promised that a definite plas for this would be forth coming. Others of the farm leaders highly commended the section on agri cultural relief, agreeing with Frank O. Lowden, who said: "Mr. Hoover frankly recognizes that the most nrgent economic problem In our natlop today Is agriculture; and that the solu tion of this question constitutes the most Important obligation of the na tion. No farm organization conld ask for more In the way of general ex pression." _ J The drys were fairly well satisfied with his statement on prohibition, that he does not favor repeal of the Eight eenth amendment and stands for effi cient enforcement of the laws enacted thereunder. The wets In the Repub lican ranks hoped that he would later elaborate his views on the liquor ques tion, revealing them as more to their liking in tbe matter of modification. On Thursday Mr. Hoover left Palo Alto for southern California, planning to pass thence through New Mexico and Arizona, up Into Iowa and then on to Washington. OFFICIAL notification of Senator Curtis, Republican vice presiden tial nominee, drew a big crowd at Topeka Saturday and the ceremony was thoroughly enjoyed by the sen ator's relatives and fellow townsmen. Senator Simeon D. Fess notified Cur tis of his nomination, and the candi date accepted In a characteristic speech which was given wide circula tion throngh a radio hook-up of many stations. GOVERNOR SMITH, before com pleting bis speech of acceptance, conferred with eleven farm relief ad vocates from seven states, and also had Important talks with such psrty leaders as Carter Glass. Josephns Daniels, Senator George of Georgia and Senator Walsh of Montana. Mr. Daniels, bone dry, predicted the South would remain solidly Democratic, but frankly told Mr. Smith that If bla ac ceptance address showed a more moist tendency than . the people of North Carolina believed In, the normal Dem ocratic majority In that state would be considerably reduced. Despite his own Tiew9 on the liquor question. Mr. Daniels Is warmly supporting Smith, and laughed away the thought that if elected be would nullify prohibition. Hope for a Joint discussion of the candidate's record between him and Dr. Joins Roach Straton faded last week. The preacher Insisted that the affair should be held In some large hall and Mr.'Smith said It would be In Calvary Baptist charch. where Doc tor Straton first made his attacks or* nowhere. The governor told the min ister he had no Intention of conduct ing a political debate with him hut wished to nrtvear In bis church to re plant pathologist, to teat varietal re sistance to smuts and plant diseases that attack small grain crops and an nually destroy hundreds of thousands of bushel*. Twenty to twenty-fire ?** rletlea of wheat were represented among the 12.000 Individual plants af tbls grain, and 40 varieties among the 2T.."00 oat plants While It has been proved that there are different races of smuts. Doctor Seed says. It has not yet been deter mined If they are t# be found only In certain section*. This uranism It an* ply to statements "traducing" the gov ernor of7 New York. The preacher, [ who has not won inuch support for his methods, says he will go ahead with | the "debate" in the biggest hall he can I hire, whether or not the governor ap I pears. OHIO * Democrats nominated Con gressman M. L. Davoy of Kent for governor and the Republicans selected Myers Y. Cooper of Cincin nati. Both had Anti-Saloon league support. For senator the Democrats named Charles V. Truax and the Re publicans renominated Senator Few Candidates to All out the unexpired term of the late Senator Willis arc Congressman Theodore K. Burton, Re publican, jmd Graham P. Hunt. Den* ocrat. In Hamilton county Charles I' Taft II, son of Chief Justice Taft. was defeated for renomination as county [ prosecutor. ABOUT seventy thousand trainmen and conductors of Western ruil roads are In process of voting on a proposed strike following the failure of a joint conference with their em ployers. The result will be made known September 2 and union leaders say the ballot will show that 98 per1 cent of the men favor a strike. The roads will be given until September 4 to come to an agreement with the men on their wage demands. J. W. Hlg gins, chairman of the employers' com mittee, declared the men rejected an offer-of arbitration, thus violating the spirit and pyrpose of the Watson Barker railroad labor act. One of the chief obstacles hi the way of agreement which previous con ferences and arbitrations were unable to surmount is the so-called "double header" rule, which limits the tonnage and number of cars trains where two engines are used, and which the railroad heads Insist be removed. NEWS of one of the minor trace dies of aviation conies from Klc de Janeiro. MaJ. Carle del Prete, who, with Captain Ferrarin, dew from Rome to Natal, Brazil, was injured in a .test flight of a plane at Rio. It was found necessary to amputate his right leg, and he failed to recover from the operation. HENRY L. STIMSON seems to be doing very well as governor gen eral of the Philllplnes. Last week lie appointed Jils cabinet from members of the Nationalist party, which car ried the last flection, and the ap pointees were immediately confirmed by the island senate. In a statement Senator Sergio Osmena. Filipino lead er. said the appointment of the cab inet "shows that the go\^*nment of the Philippines has returned to nor malcy," and further "this happy ter mination of a past crisis, this begin ning of a new understanding, has been attained through an adequate inter pretation of the Jones law and de partment reorganization act." NOT only Florida, but all the other aouthern Atlaiftie Mates suffered severely from the aeries of violent storms that caine up from the Gulf of Mexico. SHIP-TO-SHORE mall service with the aid of amphibiao airplanes was successfully established when a plane loaded with malt was catapulted from | the deck of the French liner He de France 450 miles off the port of New York and reached iand in about four hours. The saving in time was about 12 hours, and this Is expected to be | increased. Eventually the same serv | ice will be established at the French j end of the run. Tjtte extra charge for this Is quite heavy. ? FAR from yielding to Japan, the Na tionallat government of China hue sent another note to Tokyo reiterating lt? Intention to abrogate the treaty of 1890. The Japanese government, is Jnst as determined to refuse revision until China acknowledges the validity of the old pact Japan has scored one big point lo the postponement of the proposed union of Manchuria with Na tionalist China. Americun Minlstci MacMarray went to Mukden from Peking, and in Tokyo It was believed he had been Instructed to Investigate the Manchuria situation personally and report to Washington. The Jap anese think he is not unsympathetic with them in tlits mutter. thnt agronomists In their efforts to \ promote agriculture In their respec tive states may sol re. ft I* In neutral soil with little or no excess of ncJd or alkaline, dry. wkh only enough moisture to permit the seeds to %ennlnate. that smuts lire likely to work their greatest damage to wheat and oat*, the laitanh garden experiments proved. The temperature In which smut* flourish, however Is higher for oats It Is G8 dcgfee* Fahrenheit, ts rout pared wfth ?> 10 .V) decreet for wheat. STRICTLY 1 BUSINESS 1 <? br D. J. Walib.) "* Jt ISS BARLOW straightened |\ f\ her glasses and looked Jl through them thoughtfully at her third assistant It was not the first time that she had looked at Jean Boyee, bnt It was the first time she bad ever seen what she saw now. "She cried before she came to the office this morning," Miss Barlow con cluded. "She Is unhappy. Young things shouldn't be unhappy. I don't like to see it" / It was a fact that Jean's big, shell rim glasses did not cover up all the tear-staln about her eyes. Her mouth, too. had a despondent droop, and If It had not been closed so tightly it might hare trembled. From the first Jean had been some thing of a mystery to Miss Barlow. The senior member of the firm had hired the girl direct from business school and she had proved to be well trained and willing. She lived at home with her mother, and did not make friends with pretty blond Miss Rhodes or stylish, dark Miss Howe, both of whom were serving their second year nnder Miss Barlow. She did not even make friends with Miss Barlow, al though it might have seemed to her Interest to do so. She came by her self, went by herself, and ate her lunch alone at noon out of a small double basket with bandies. However, it was none of these things that puzzled Miss Barlow; It was, rather, the appearance of the girl herself. She wore a black skirt, a long sleeved, high-necked black pon gee blouse, a black coat and a black hat of a severe shape. Neither Jew elry, perfume, color nor makeup could be discovered about her. Her soft brown hair was dragged back from her high forehead into an astonish ingly tight little wad at the wrong angle of her head, nr<j she wore large size shell-rlm glasses which covered up a third of her pretty pale com 1 nlexlon. "Most girls," thought Miss Barlow glancing at the brilliant Miss Itowe and the winning Miss Rhodes, "most girls try to make themselves look as well as they can. This girl seems trying* to make herself look as bad as she can. 1 can't fathom It, and what's more, I haven't time to try to today." It was a particularly busy day. The third and youngest partner, Mark Wlilard, 'who had succeeded to his father's place In the business, was in and out of the office half a dozen times an hour, and each time he en tered the dark girl and the blond gill showed that they were keenly aware of bim. But Jean Royce never lifted her eyes, although Mark Willard was an extremely personable young man whom any girl might have taken an interest in. Once he had occasion to speak to Jean, and Miss Barlow watched them curiously, tbe other girls enviously. "He could ha've told me and I could have told Jean," Miss Barlow thought. Sbe wondered If Mark,' the much sought after, found the girl some thing of the same mystery that sbe herself did. She was Inclined to think that he did. "And nothing attracts a man's fan cy more than mystery." Miss Barlow found that she had let a drop of ink fall from tbe tip of her fountain pen upon her new blue blotter. It vexed )ier. for she liked her desk to be neat Miss Barlow was forty-five, and twenty years In the business world bad taught ber to sift the wheat from tbV chaff. There was a quality about Jean Koyce that she had not hither to found among ber office associates The girl was fine, not a coarse thread In her. But in spite of all her pains taking she did not give promise of that efficiency which Is necessary to business success. When the noon hour came Miss Barlow went over to Jean Royce. "Come to- lunch with me, my dear," she said. "It's spell a dreary day. I feel I'd like some company." Jean looked op gratefnlly, flushed and murmured an acceptance. , Miss Barlow lunched every day In 'a favorite corner o* ber favorite res taurant Usually she bad sand wiches, salad and tea, but today she went a little farther and had cakes and chicken to please'her guest Immediately after they sat down Jean removed ber glasses, folded them and laid them beside ber plate. "My eyes feel a little tired," she explained. Miss Barlow looked at the girl in astonishment The removal of the glasses made a striking difference In her looks Jean had beautiful eyes large, clear and of a lovely blue-gray with long lashes "Why do you wear them 7" asked Miss Bartow. They're not necessary, ar? theyr she leaned forward con# . dentlally. "Are they anything but plain glasses?" Jean bit ber lip. "No, they aren't." the confessed. "I wear them because?because they make me look older for one thing, and?and more businesslike." "It's a pity, a great pity," said Miss Barlow firmly. "Do yon think so?" asked Jean a little breathlesaly. "I do. I recommend that- yon leave oft wearing glasses since yon can see better without them. Another thing, yon bare lovely balr. Why not give that a chance, too?" "Bat, Miss Barlow," protested Jean. "1 do so want to look strictly bnsl nesslike. I am so anxious to succeed and appearance has such a lot to ilo witb lb If yon knew how carefully I have chosen my costume 1 Of course, black Isn't necessary, but black Is so serviceable. No one can tell whether It la new or old black, and mother and I have to?to consider these things now that we are alone togeth er. I wish you could know my moth er." "I shall come to see ber," promised Miss Barlew. The following Sunday afternoon Miss Barlow went to Lamont street to call on the Royces. Jean met her at the door of the small, plain house which yet bad such a good air about It within and without. Miss Barlow almost gasped at the sight of the girl Jean was In pink without the glasses ?a youthful, radiant pink, with her lovely hair waved and all her beauty undlmmed by disguise. Mrs. Royce was a gentle, dear little woman with sweet eyes and a charm ing appeal of manner. They made Miss Barlow stay to supper and over the cake which Jean had made, tbey became slightly con fidential. "I don't like the way Jean dresses for her work," Mrs. Royce said. "Of course It is all right for ber to wish to look businesslike, bnt those glasses ?and the way she does her hair? and?and?and that dreadful little black bat without any trimming at all I" "Is It an unexptainnbie mystery?" asked Miss Barlow. Jean flushed. "N?no. It Isn't. You see, I?I've always been considered ratber gooJ looklng?" "Good looking! Why, she's a downright beaoty," thongbt Mis* Barlow?"and I've always beard thai looks wers no asset In the business world. So I made myself Just as plain as I could."?"And she has been por ry," thought Miss Barlow. "Well, of course too many frills aren't advisable," Miss Barlow said, gently, "but neither Is too severe an aspect. One can be strictly busi ness and not fly to either extreme The bappy 'medium In dress, my dear Is what should be sought for." Miss Barlow was anxious to see what eflect her little homily would have on Jean. Next morning Mark Mlllward was In the room when Jean entered. She wore a trim dark blue serge, her hair was allowed to go Its lovely way, and she was minus the spectacles. She looked happy, too, so happy that she was fairly radiant. Miss Barlow leaned bark In ber chair and sighed with content "Some day when she Is Mrs. Mark Mlllward she Is going to thank me," she said to herself. Dickens to Dinner Today we are going to have Charlea Dickens to dinner. lie la an Intense admirer of your mother, whom he has never wen; and we expect a very pleasant evening and dinner in which two such novelists will gobble and gabble 1 All England Is on tip toe with ex pectation (or "The Mill on the Floss." ... I expect it will be even more popular than "Adam Bede," though that has had greater success than any novel since Scott (except Dickens). . . . Hut her genius is nothing to her tenderness and goodness, and you will all love her nearly as much as I do when you come to know her.?From a Letter by G. B. Lewes to His Sons In "George Eliot's Family Life and Letters." Stupid Extravagance I wonder whether anything In the wo(ld la more atnpld or Indicative of less Intelligence than for a woman to bay what ahe doe* not In the least re quire, to get together a lot of dresses which ahe will never be able to wear ?to buy dozens of hats which will go ont of fashion In a few months, to cultivate the taste of orchids at S4 each, to look tat the most expensive market, the use of which will add oelther to her beauty nor to her health. In short to cultivate spending and to Ignore saving.?Elizabeth Mar bury, In Delineator. How Happinlwt Happen* Happiness can come about only a? a distillation of a rich, ripe, free and varied experience; It la the Inextric ably Interwoven pattern of a netful life In whatever sphere.?The Ameri can Maputo*. BH.A.&ViUyyU Erosion In tho Grand Canyon. Society. W&ahinstoo. D. C.) THE dainty clouds that float In ? summer sky and their darker brothers are only mists, but they constitute nature's sharpest tool for shaping the surface of the earth. Over and over again. In the millions of years they hare been at work, they have carried all the oceans and bare hurled them down upon the land?bil lions of cubic miles of water. They have washed away mountains greater than the Himalayas. Tbey have filled op oceans as broad and deep as the Atlantic. If we were to slice down through the crust of the earth for thousands of feet?a mile, five miles. In places even ten?we would carve through cloud-built rocks, sediments laid down, grain upon grain, each carried by drops of water that have fallen from the skies. The clouds have carved great val leys such as the Orand canyon. They bore the feathery snowflakes which built up the huge glaciers that crushed and ground their way equa torward during the Ice ages. They furnished the chief reagent for nature's laboratory, dissolving and bringing together the minerals scat tered through the rocks. The salt that savors our food, the clay that builds our houses, the Iron that has made Industrialism and the age of steel?to single out but three?are largely gifts of the clouds. Those are the labors of ,*he past. But the clouds are worklrtg now "SI" ceaselessly as they worketf\eons be fore man came upon the earth. Like the tools of the sculptor, these chisels of the sun, under the great mallet of gravity are steadily shaping tbe earth day by day. Tbey spend themselves to make tbe streams, to water the crops, to feed the world. But new cloud genera tions are ever coming on to take their places. How Cloud* Art Formed. The birth of a cloud la a puzzle to the observer. The sky Is apparently clear; then suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, a cloud patch Is floating aloft. Nature seems to be playing tricks, like s conjurer who draws kicking rabbits from an empty hat. Most clouds hare their beginnings In the oceans, started by the restless ness of the Inconceivably small and fnconcelribty numerous wafer roole cuies that hare fought tbelr adven turous way to these great basins. In the form of water, these little molecnles are relatively at rest, hud dled close to their fellows, but fairly free to slip about In the crowd of wa ter particles. As they are pressed to gether, they vibrate, as do all other molecules of matter. In the delightfully ordered world of the water molecules there Is more room at the top than anywhere else, and there the most active molecules made more active by greater heat make their way. Like flying flsbes. many of the molecules fall back Into the water; but, nallke them, some can tear themselves entirely free. It Is as 11, magically, the flsh became a bird. The escaped molecules are In a senSe no longer water; they hare become transformed by this process of evapo ration Into a vapor or gas. Vapor molecules are lighter than the oxygen and nitrogen molecules ef the air. The vapor-laden air there fore rises for exactly tbe same reason that a balloon rises. The warmer the air, the more vapor It can contain. If, on the other band, warm air contain ing some vapor Is cooled. Its capacity for vapor diminishes, nils decrease In 'vapor capacity takaa place IP a IMef asaM^atrjm Prtmo hPe^flhs Mlfcll CUdUgU IV CUUI CO UK cnmi point. It simply drops part of Its vapor load. Than tha Rain Falls. As more and more droplets pflst. they form a great misty mass thick and dense enough to obscure the sky. When water-vapor particles coudaaon Into water droplets, whether en their rise from the sea or after nuimross cloud-making adventures, they wot only grasp their nearest fellow mule cules. but they must find Infinitesimal bits of floating material, such as daat motes?a sort of magic carpet?and crowd upon them. Widely separated, the dust motes, with their vapor passengers, st first float about like asteroids tn space, but gradually the cold of the upper re gions causes more and more of the vapor molecules to jump out of ( their gaseous form and attach them selves to existing droplet* until the latter are built Into dropa heavy enough to fall earthward. The greatest speed at which a rain drop may strike the earth, do matter from how great a height It falls. Is close to 30 feet a second?a speed less , than that of a pebble dropped from a fourth-story window. In the average cloud that floats en an overcast bnt rainless day?a cloud such as those that bear most of the world's water from the aea?there are not more than two tablespoonfuls of water In cloud enough to fill the big gest furniture Tan; and, unless yon . live in a mansion, your dining room Cpuld not bold half the cloud sub staoce*that nature has crammed Into one glan of water on yonr breakfast table. Cloud* Work for Man. Cloud* are power for man at well as for natore. The clean white scrap of mist floating In the sky and the grimy, black lump of coal far under ground are brothers under their alnks ?both children of the sun. One. bora millions of years ago and locked deep in the earth, must be tollfully dug out and brought to the surface before tt will yield the power It holds. The other, born yesterday, will presently mine Itself; and If Its fragment* age merely 'guided on tbeir dash to the sea, they seem eager to turn man's machinery. Man cannot tow his loads of Ifcx COST where be will.- Nature sends them along definite highways and dumps them with fair regularity in her chosen places. For ages man used them only near where they fell or along the channels they wore ta their slide seaward; but now be he* In effect scattered the Clouds. Be has learned to transmute the down hill wanderlust of their fragments into ' invisible put potent streams of elec trons that will course along wires far from the old limiting channels. And now, though you live In a desert where you seldom see a cloud, yon may here those of more favored lands for your servants. Press a button and $ey light your house, boil your coffee, and perhaps even curl your hair. Fortunate It la that that portion of the sea which hangs ever In the air la scattered; for if all the clouds should gather and dump their burdens, now over one limited area, now over an other, man and bis works and inset vegetation would be uprooted and swept from the face of the earth. It la no leas fortunate that riven nod glaciers and clouds are pouring water Into the seas almost exactly an fast as It la being taken eat by the now evaporate# dally were poefcettdm ^
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