the Alamance gleaner i ' 1 VOL. LV. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY MARCH 7, 1929. NO. 5. WHAT'S GOING ON [j NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTjVENTS Hoover Is Inaugurated and Sets His Program Before the American People. By EDWARD W. PICKARD HERBERT HOOVER Is now Presi dent of the United States of America and Calvin Coolidge is again a private citizen. Despite the wishes of Mr. Hoover that the Inauguration be as simple as possible, the committee in charge made the event the gayest of Its kind in more than a score of years, and the national capital was thronged with visitors who partici pated In the three days' entertain ment. The feature Included a recep tion for the governors of a large num ber of states with their staffs, an air circus that enlisted army, navy and civilian aircraft, the great Inaugural parade and a charity ball. Being notified about 11:30 Monday morning by a committee from the sen ate and bouse that the time for his inauguration was at hand, Mr. Hoover, with President Coolidge, escorted by cavalry, rode down Pennsylvania ave nue to the capitol and, In the senate ehamber, saw Vice President Dawes swear In Senator Charles Curtis as Vice President Mr. Curtis made a short address and the Presidential party went to the Inaugural stand. There Mr. Hoover took the oath of office, nrimlnlstprpii hv Chief Justice Tflft of the Supreme court, and made bis In augural address. Thereafter the Pres idential party betook themselves to the White House, ate Inncheon and, from the reviewing stand in front of the executive mansion, watched the long Inaugural parade which took about four hours in passing and over which hovered a hundred airplanes. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, following the precedent set by Theodore Booseveit, left Washington In the afternoon for their home in Northampton, Mass. President Hoover's address was lis tened to with enthusiasm not only by the vast crowd present but also by a. radio audience that embraced a con siderable part of the country's popu lation. It set forth his view of the state of the nation and of its rela tions with other nations and his con ception of the policies best designed to promote peace and improve living conditions. But, more important, it disclosed an eminent engineer's vision of a huge program of public works In the next four years, Involving the ex penditure of billions of dollars, and of a farm relief program that, while cost ly, will, he believes, return tremen dously Increased profits for capital and labor. Offsetting the great ex penditures suggested, the new Presi dent pointed the way to govern mental economies beyond, even those of the Coolidge administration. He proposed the elimination of waste In the processes of government to an ex tent that wonld save the taxpayers more than would be expended on wa terways, farm relief and other proj ects combined. This would be accom plished by a radical reorganization of the federal government on scientific lines of reclassification of functions, elimination of overlapping, and event ual reduction of personnel. CONGRESS In Its final days cleared up some legislation and left some unfinished, killed or postponed. Fili busters were frequent and In some cases effective. They caused the sen ate to abandon the congressional re apportionment bill passed by the house and to consent to the continua tion by a committee of affairs of the Indian bureau. The second deficiency snpply bill, minus the 124,000,000 pro hlbltlon enforcement Item, was passed by the senate after Senator Dill had condncted a filibuster on behslf of his demand that the appropriation for a survey of the Nicaragua canal route be cut In half. The senate also adopted the conference report on the naval appropriation bill after the rad ical group had made a hard fight, so 112,370.000 will be made available for starting work at once on the cruiser building program. Despite the stubborn opposition of the wets In the house, that body passed the senate measure, known aS the Jones bill, which -Increases the maximum penalties for first offenders against the Volstead act. The pro posed legislation for the deportation of alien gunmen failed because the senate conferees refused tb accept cer tain provisions In the house hill, hold ing that they created unjustifiable In equities. Efforts to postpone the national ori gins Immigration restriction plan, which goes Into effect July 1, also failed. The President transmitted to congress a revision of the national origins quotas which decreases the British quota from 05,804 to 65.721, and Increases the German quota from 24,908 to 25,957, and the Irish from 17,427 to 17,853. Norway Is reduced from 2.403 to 2,377, Sweden from 3, 399 to 3,314, and Denmark from 1,234 to 1,181. President Hoover may obtain the re peal of the revision plan at the ex traordinary session of congress. He opposes It on technical grounds, hold ing the national origins figures cannot be accurate and that It Is best to leave the quotas to the present census basis. CONTRACTS for the sale and oper ation of the United States and American Merchant lines and the con struction of two palatial liners by Paul W. Chapman & Co., Inc., of New York, were signed. The documents provide the necessary legal guarantees that the ships will remain under the Amer ican flag for a period of one year and maintain a regular schedule. Chap man takes over the operation of the eleven ships of the two lines, Including the Leviathan, and will let contracts for the construction of two liners nearly as large as the Leviathan, but faster and more luxuriously appointed. They are to be speedier than any ships now built or building. Chapman agreed to pay the ship ping board $10,300,000 for the fleet and some shore property. Approx imately half of this sum Is to be paid at once. The shipping board agreed to loan the purchaser approximately $50,000,000 as three-fourths of the con struction cost of the proposed new 11 TV AT"a Airmanship of the highest order and cool nerve saved Colonel Lindbergh and his fiancee. Miss Anne Morrow, from serious Injury or death down in Mexico City. The colonel and Anne had been on a little air plane ride In the course of which a landing wheel was lost. Llndy told the young lady they would upset on landing but not to be frightened, sur rounded her with cushions, and flew about until the gasoline was ex hausted, to avoid the possibility of explosion. He then came down to ground with the utmost care and skill. The plane upset, as he expected, anil he sustained a dislocation of the shoul der, but Anne was unhurt The col onel's Injury was attended to at a hospital and he took Anne home In an automobile which he drove with his left hand. He declined to talk about the upset, insisting It was "not an ac cident, merely a mishap." Showing that the "mishap" hadn't daunted them, Llndy and Anne made three short flights next day, the col onel handling the plane with one hand. George Haldeman, who was Ruth Elder's pilot on her attempted trans atlantic flight, made a fine nonstop flight from Windsor, Ont., to Havana, Cnba, in 12 hours and 50 minutes. Joseph Lebrlx, the French aviator, and two companions on an experi mental mall plane flight from Paris to Saigon, Indo-Chlna, crashed lp the Gulf of Mataban, Lower Burma, when more than eight days out from Mar sellles. The plane was destroyed but the aviators escaped serious Injury. Walter Scherz, who was helmsman of the dirigible Los Angeles when It was brought over from Germany, and of the Graf Zeppelin on its round trip between Germany and the United States, died In Berlin from balloon gas poisoning. BANKER members of the repara tions commission last week dis cussed the possible Issue of German war debt bonds. The prevailing view seemed to he that the Issne should be for not more than a billion dollars and the term for amortization should be thirty to tblrty-flve years. It was thought one-f the rnln. tills face smelled of tobacco smoke nnd fresb air as he kissed her. Nell's face smelled of spinach, roast pork and ap ple dumplings, with a dash of rice powder. They smiled, glad to get each other back. "Well?" she Inquired. "Good day, take It all round. What you been up to?" "Curtains. Washed six pair. They dried beautifully. Hurry up und wash. The roast's getting overdone." I They sat opposite each other at the ? dainty table. They ate with keen en joyment of the food. Nell was a good cook. They glanced at each other with satisfaction, two mhldle-aged married folk with graying hair, clear eyes, steadfast hearts. "Rose was In this afternoon. She's going to have her dining room done In panels and chnnge the draperies," Nell related. "Did you see Paul?" "We lunched together as usual." Paul and Rose were their children, married and taking right after their parents.' "Paul reminded me that we'd been married thirty years day after to morrow, It don't seem so long!" "Paul was our first anniversary pres ent ARd Rose came near being our third," Nell mused tenderly. "This time we're going to celebrate," Sidney announced. "What do you mean?" "We're going back to Cedarvllle, where we started together; where I earned $8 a week. And we tried he roically to save $21 We did ft, too?" "Till Paul came. He upset our schedule," Nell laughed softly. "And Rose upset It still more. We had to have more money. So we pulled np stakes and came here. You've always been a good provider, Sid." "And you've always been a man ager. What say to the trip?" Tbey talked a lot about the trip. Nell got excited. She called up Rose and consulted with her, Sidney called up Paul and consulted with him. The children, too. became excited, for fa ther and mother were dear old steadies who always stayed at home. You couldn't pry them off the front porch In summer or away from the radio tn winter. Cedarvllle was a day's Jour ney away, and to review old memories was something of an adventure. Nell admitted that she find been Itching to go back this long while. Cedarvllle called her louder nnd loud er as she grew older. It must be some thing about the dear little white house where she and Sidney hnd set up housekeeping?. All next day they traveled toward Cedarvllle. They had scats In the qull man. Nell wore a trim tan coat and close-fitting hat that made her look almost girlish. Sidney might easily have been taken for a bridegroom. Their bags were new. Sidney read his newspaper and Nell tried to get Inter ested In a magazine. But her thoughts strayed to that fateful day now almost a quarter of a century past when she had last come this way. Sidney car ried Rose and the biggest satchel; she led Pan and carried another satchel. They were tried, yet eager and hope ful. Rose bad the snuffles and It took a good many hankies to keep her little nose clean. And Paul was at the age where be asked a question every other minute. Sidney aqswered the child patiently, although his mind was busy with the whys and wherefores of the new job he was undertaking. Evening brought them back to Ce darvllle. Cedarvllle, they found, hadn't been standing still In their ubsence. Cedarvllle had grown up. They taxied to a great new hotel. They were a hit bewildered by this lively new Cedar vllle. Not a soul they knew anywhere In sight Next morning they started out to find the little white house. Suppose It bad burned down or been moved away or built over Into some unrecognizable sbape? Nell's eyes misted. They found the street and It was much the same, for Cedarvllle had moved on toward the railway station. And they found the house. Nell grabbed Sidney's arm. She couldn't speak. "Oosb-all-Frlday I Look at that maple! It wasn't any thicker through than my finger when I set It out!" Sidney exclaimed. Upon the front door was a sign "For 8ale." They peeked In all the lower windows It was so dirty and shabby. It needed mothering dread fully. Nell, remembering bow It bad ooked when she left It felt I lamp rise In her throat They went round and sat down upon :he sagging back steps. Nell saw that :he valley-lilies she had set out were i great patch now. She stared at them wistfully, recalling the April morning when she had set out the few plants somebody had given her. It was one it those times when their Income and expenses refused to come out even, and they had only mush and milk for dinner. But what matter? They were young and healthy and happy and aw fully In love. Voices, steps. A child came first, then a girl. The boy was sunny-haired, i gallant two-year-old In blue rompers. The girl, his mother, was young, eager, alive, and so pretty that one didn't notice how shabby were her dress and hat. "Oh I" she exclaimed, startled. "I didn't know anybody was here I Were you thinking of looking at the bouse, too?" "No," replied Sidney, while Nell hungrily eyed the child. "We're Just resting for a bit, that's all. Hope we're not In your way." "Oh, no!" The girl looked relieved, finding that they were not prospec tive buyers. ' ? Meanwhile Nell had got hold of the boy, making friends by way of a candy I she had found In her bag. Ke crunched the hard sweet with bis white bahy teeth and grinned. "I've got the key here," said the girl. "The real estate man said I could come and look round. Maybe you'd like to go in with me?" They went In. Nell carried Jlmmle ns they strayed from room to room. "I don't know," murmured the girl. "The price is more than we exi>ected to pay. But It's nice and quiet out here. Steve said I could go ahead ami pick out a place. He's busy all dny, and tired at night. I wish you folks would tell me what you'd do In my place." "1 al.rv.ltrl loha If ** Vol I ent/t rvsarvs.xrxf ? oiivuiu ??-l *'*-?? ou.u I" ly. "Of course, It's terribly dingy, but n little paint and fresh paper will change all that. Just tell the real estate agent that he's got to allow you something toward alterations. He will, I'm sure?Have you noticed this dear little corner cupboard? And tills closet under the stairs? Just the place for your husband to hung away Ids coat. And wouldn't a red geranium look nice on that windowslll? Up stairs that small room over this one will he tine for the boy. And the sun will shine across his little bed all morning." "I believe I'll take It," said the girl. "Did you notice the lilies and that splendid maple tree?" "I?I believe I did," answered Nell. They went away lenvlng the girl with the house. Rut that evening they came back again.* The moon was shining, they had planned to sit on the steps, hut Just as they approached the front door opened and out came a tall young man and a girl. They locked the door, their door, behind them. "They were the nicest couple, Steve," Nell heard the girl say. "Just like what I hope you nnd I shall he when we get to be their age. You'd have thought they'd lived here once them selves by the way they knew nhout everything. If It hadn't been for her I don't know ns^l should have felt we . could have It. hut don't you see what ' a dear little home It's going to make ! us?" "You're n wico lime woman. uaisy," i returned Steve. In the shadow Nell squeezed Sid ney's arm. She sighed thankfully, j The little house was In good hands again, that was evident. Where Men Falls Down It may seem a hit odd. but a stand- [ Ing offer of to the man who | will Imitate the work of the bee and j reproduce the honeycomb Is still with out a taker. Maeterlinck could write j feelingly of the life of the bee. Ree I Fesler and James Whltcomb Itlley could philosophize humorously, and fool the busy Insects Into doing dou ble duty hy shifting the hive from north to south and hack again; ex perts are utile to obtain honey In vari ous flavors hy sending the honey gatherers Into varied pastures and among different blossoms to do their stuff, hut the construction of the comh continues to he the private and . secret function of the bee himself. So far as making honeycomb Is concerned man gives n fine Imitation of the drone.?Lafayette Journal and Cou rier. Ballroom Etiqoat of 1860 In an old bookshop on the Strand, London, a collector recently found an old volume entitled "Etlqnet of the Ballroom," published In 15*00. Among Its "rnles" Is this one: "The practice of chewing tobacco and spitting on the floor Is not only nauseous to ladles but Injurious to their gowns." Need for this one has been outlived but here Is one still applicable to modem times: "Love-making Is out of place In the ballroom." -Capper's Weekly. Ami Sbe Camas The true go-getter vaa the old fashioned lad. The modern Just sits out in front and hooks fer er. WMMCll Scene In the Lebanon Country. (Prepared by th? National u?oicrapnic < Society. Waihinctoo. U. C.> INTO the Lebunon. the great moan tain famous for its cedars, one , may have his choice of travel by rail, or by foot and saddle along ( the poorer roads and trails. The rail way leads from Beirut over a pass in the mountains to Damascus. It is a narrow gauge rack and-pinion system, and crosses the mountains at an ele vation of 4,880 feet above sea level Few have any Idea that hidden away among the mountains are sights and scenes to excite the admiration of even the most disinterested; but. in order to see them, the comfort of the train has to be left and a number of miles covered in the saddle. The railroad, built by the French, at times runs through some very fine scenery, and the entire journey of 90 miles is a constant panorama of mountain, forest, or plain. At different points scattered In the mountains are to be found groups of cedar trees which until recent years suffered so severely at the hands of the natives that they were fast disap pearing; but lately they have been protected. The largest group of these undent and Interesting trees is to be found at Besherry. Here on an ele vation are about 400 trees, the high est of which does not exceed 80 feet, while some are from 30 to 40 feet in circumference. By reason of heavy snows these trees can only be reached during the months of summer and early autumn when crowds of natives make merry under the pleasant shade afforded by the spreading branches of these raonarchs of the mountains. Were a visit made to the homes of licse mountain people, there would be much of interest, for the raising of he silkworm and the sr.bseqnent silk mrvest gives occupation to the ma iorlty of the men and women in tbe many villages. Psttunlnn th? In every home throughout the moon tnlns may be seen women and girls compelling an already too satisfied sheep to swallow a little more of the green food that has been gathered off the hill shies or purchased from some nearby garden or mu!l?erry plantation This pet lamb, subject to frefluent bathings. Is being fatted to provide savory dishes through the long and severe winter that faces the native. During the month of November the fatted sheep Is killed and cut up In to mincemeat and melted In Its own fat, to he used as a relish and sauce with the boiled rice or wheat that forms the staple d!sb of these hardy people. In some parts of the Lebanon the earth lends Itself to the art of mak ing pottery, and thousands of the na lives get a livelihood by the manu facture of all kinds of earthenware vessels. The Lebanon contains natural beau ties and wonders that e