The Alamance gleaner
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VOL. LV. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MAY 9, 1929. NO. 14.
Monster Plane Ready for Service
The huge four-motored all-metal Dornler-Supenval flying boat which will carry 25 pnsscngera In the new
winter service between Washington, D. C., and MlunU, Ifla., and summer service between Detroit, Cleveland und Buf
falo.
Americans Don't
Plunge Any More
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Few Are Seen at Monte
Carlo and Resorts in
French Riviera.
Monte Carlo.?Are Americans
abroad beginning to lose their pro
verbial Interest In gambling, and are
tbe famous casinos of the French Ri
viera falling to attract tbe American
visitor as they ased to? This possi
bility Is fast becoming a reality. If
what bas been seen recently along the
aznre coast may be taken as an indi
cation.
Americans, by tradition the most
conspicuous and daring players
around the green cloth, are to be seen
less and less among regular gamblers
at Monte Carlo, Nice and Cannes,
where during the winter season bac
carat and roulette are tbe chief diver
sions of smart society. By curious
contrast, German visitors?who ever
since the war have been Increasing tn
number here from year to year?are
now as numerous In tbe big casinos
as tbe English.
"Americans are playing less and
less," an official of tbe Sporting club
tn Monte Carlo, said. "A few of tbe
old standbys are as much In evidence
as ever, but In general the American
element Is getting smaller each win
ter: Even the most casual tourist
used to try bis luck on a few rounds
at least. Now, If be plays at all, he's
as cautious as a pawnbroker and gets
scared away at the slightest turn ol
luck."
Schwab a Regular.
One of Monte Carlo's "old stand
bys" Is Charles M. Schwab, the steel
magnate, who for 40 years has vis
ited the famous principality every
winter. He arrives at tbe Casino at
about XI a. m., plays until one, often
returns after lunch, and Is nearly
always there in the evening. The
duke of Connaught, uncle of King
George, Is another perennial visitor.
He frequently plays beside Lord Mel
chett, who has had a brilliant run of
luck this season at baccarat and Is
still wlnulng steadily.
But It Is tbe Cannes Casino whicb
bas gained the reputation In recent
years of entertaining the smartest In
ternational crowd In the world. Here
the absence of Amerlcaps from the
gaming tables Is most remarkable.
In Cannes sensational gambling
coups are the order of the day. but
Americans are seldom found In the
play.
Some great gains and losses bare
been registered since the opening ot
the season. Princess Hobenlobe of
Austria, one of the most Indefatigable
players, has In the last tbree weeks
watched 3,000,000 francs vanish from
her bands.
Lord Derby. Lady Coats, and tbe
famous Marquis de Soriano, Spanish
sportsmen, have been steady winners.
Americans are few in number, and
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hare chalked op no unusual feats one
way or the other. Mr. and Mrs. Dud
ley Gllroy, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
l.ewlsohn, and other prominent mem
bers of the Cannes villa colony play
nightly.
Gene Tunney a Visitor.
Mrae. Paul Dubonnet, who was Mrs.
Jean Nash, "the best dressed woman
In the world," Is a consistent winner
among the Americans. Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Tunney spent several days In
Cannes recently and were seen In the
gambling salons, but the tighter did
Uttle playing.
Among the many German enthu
siasts, Prince Schnumburg-Llppe Is
the most frequent winner in the big
stakes. He Is a yearly visitor to
Cannes, and well known at Monte
Carlo also. King Olaf of Norway and
King Gustnv of Sweden were recent
Interested spectators in the Casino.
The Dolly sisters, famed for their
sensational play In casinos all along
the Riviera, have not visited here as
yet this year.
Frank J. Gould's newly opened
pleasure palace, the Palais de la Medl
terranee at Nice, which was recently
rumored a financial failure and may
be abandoned at the end of this sen
season, has seen little gambling of
any importance up- to the present.
When the great casino first opened
Its gambling license had not been Is
sued by the French government, and
for some time there was no play al
lowed. The luxurious salons are now
In full swing, but the delay In start
ing Is supposed to be a chief reason
why the Mediterranee has been some
what under the wet blanket.
The other big casinos In Nice, es
pecially the Municipal casino, are re
ported to be making money as fast as
the Gould enterprise is losing IL At
the most recent estimate the Palais
de In Mediterranee Is said to he com
bating a loss of 75,000 francs dally.
Horse Loses "Docility"
and a Plane Is Blamed
San Francisco.?One of the leading
air mall operators of the West has
Just received a bill from a farmer for
$75. His horse's "docility was dam
aged" to that extent, the agrarlnn
complains, when a mail pilot, seeking
his way under a "low ceiling" of
clouds, flew over the stock yard.
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! I Hole in Ohio Mayor's
Pocket Costs Him Job 3 3
i3 fllouster, Ohio.?A hole In the <.
J; pocket of Mayor Hugh Gormley | J
< i cost that Indlrldnal his Job.
3 I Mayor Gormley. sixty-year-old J |
? > vett-ra? of couoty politics and < >
3 3 mayor of this city 29 years, lost 33
? > S1TI.86. money paid to him In ??
3 3 fines and license fees. He said 3 3
I ? the money was lost through a ' M
3 3 hole In his pocket. <.
31 Called before the dty conndl J;
i. to make tils report and turn < >
3; over the funds. Mayor Gormley J J
c - explained the situation. The ? >
31 council demanded that Gormley 3 3
?? pay hark the money by Install- <1
3 3 ments. And Gus Gaskella, conn 3 3
? > dl president. Is mayor following 1 >
3 3 Gomiley's suspension. ! 3
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ttoyai Kesiaence uiven war oereavea
View in tbe grounds of the Villa Margbertta In Bordighera, on the Italian
Riviera, favorite realdence of the late mother of King Victor r.mmanuel. which
bis majesty has donated to the mothers, widows and children of Italy's fallen
soldiers of tbe World war.
X Offered $125 for Each |
? Day Passed in Prison |
4* Boston.?Serving time behind 5
ithe bars Isn't so bad wlieD you J
are paid $125 a day for your 4
trouble. $
Benjamin Collins of Lowell f
probably will be compensated on ?
tills busis?$500 for four days' J
Imprisonment?because he was 4
sent to prison as a bug-snatcher J
when he was Innocent The 4
house of representatives has up* *
proved the compensation hill and 4
^ the senate is expected to concur ^
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Remains of Tylosaur
Found in West Kansas
Lawrence, Kan.?A new species of
tylosaur, a huge reptile which hun
dreds of centuries ago floundered In
the cretaceous Inland sea in western
Kansas, has been placed In the Pyclie
museum at the University of Kansas
here.
The specimen of inosasaur was
foflnd by H. T. Martin, curator of the
department of paleontology at the
university. In the chalk beds of west
ern Kansas, and has recently been
mounted by him.
The specimen is unusually Impor
tant, according to Martin, as It repre
sents a new species of the tylosaur
group and is probably the smallest
specimen of this family thus far
known.
The skull of the animal Is ndsslng.
but if complete would measure about
twelve feet, Martin said. The largest
tylosaur from the Kansas cretaceous
formation measured 40 feet.
Sex Determination in
Cattle Accomplished
Warwick. England.?Experiment* In
sex-determination in cuttle, which
were expected to be valuable In breed
Ing race horses, bave been conducted
with almost perfect success by E. O.
Wlieeler-Breene.
Forecasts of the next offspring of
30 cows were correct with only one
exception, (tules worked out from
years of statistical tabulation were
followed.
The statistics showed the Intervnls
at whlcb cows calve govern the sex of
the next calf.
T.mple to Bo Playground
Peking.?The extensive grounds of
the Temple of Uenven In Peplng.
where the emperer used to worship
his Sod. are to be turned Into a mod
ern recreation Held for New China.
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0 MOTHER-MY-LOVE, If youH give me
your hand.
And go where I eek yon to wander,
I will lead you away to a beautiful land?
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder.
Well walk in a sweet-posie garden out there
Where moonlight and starlight are streaming.
And tho flowers and birds are filling the air
With fragrance and music of dreaming.
There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress.
No questions or cares to perplex you;
There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress.
Nor patching of stockings to vex you.
For I'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream.
And sing you asleep when you're weary.
And no one shall know of our beautiful dream,
But you and your own little'dearie.
And when I am tired Til nestle my head
In the bosom that's soothed me so often.
And the wide-awake stars shall sing in my stead
A song which our dreaming shall soften,
So Mother-My-Love, let me take your dear
hand.
And away through the starlight well wander?
Awaythrouah the mist to the beautiful land?
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder!
?Eugene Field
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Mothers' Virtues
Put on Record
Most Beautiful Descrip
tion of Wife and Moth
erhood Ever Penned
Found in Book
of Proverbs.
By Right Rev. James E. Freeman.
Bishop of Washington.
In her tongue ta the law of kindness.
?Proverbs 11:28.
No finer tribute to feminine graces a
is contained In the Bible than that re
:orded in the thirty-first chapter of
:he Book of Proverbs. It Is a glowing
tribute to wifehood and motherhood.
?The heart of her husband doth safely
trust In her; she will do him good and
not evil all the days of ber life." Of
her unfailing devotion to her house
hold the writer says: "Her candle
goeth not out by night; she stretchetb
out ber band to the poor; yea, she
reacbeth forth her hands to the
needy." "She lookcth well to the ways
of her household and eateth not the
bread of Idleness." Little wonder Is
It that ber children "arise up and call
her blessed; her husband also, and he
praUetb her." It Is a lofty concep
tion of the mother of thfe household.
Nothing that Is here written concern
ing her Is more significant than the
passage, "In her tongue Is the law of
kindness." There can" be little higher
In the way of the fulfillment of the
graces and virtues of motherhood than
this.
The Understanding Heart.
The law of kindness Implies a gentle
and understanding heart. It will not
be hindered or distracted through mis
understandings nor will It yield to the
petty annoyances that day by day
cause friction and unhupplness. The
law of kindness will not reckon with
.hese. It recognizes with understand
ing sympathy temperamental Inequali
ties and those elements that render
members of a household dissimilar In
thought and practice. The law of
kindness resists and overcomes the un
considered and thoughtless utterance
and readily forgives the unwitting act
of disobedience. The mother of tbe
household, like Mary of old, penetrates
beneath the surface of things, weighs
with fine discrimination the differ
ences In those who constitute the
household and exercises a Judgment
that finds Its Inspiration In the law of
kindness. It Is safe to say that this
supreme gift of mother love Is one of
the mightiest factors In the shaping
of character, and that It contributes
more to an orderly and peaceful home
life than all else. It Is the source of
contentment and the Inspiration to
higher thinking and living. Subtract
tbls from our borne life and we impov
erish It
True Kindness.
We are not thinking, concerning this
great virtue, of that kind of cheap
sentimentality that discloses Itself In
undlscrlmlnating kindness. Kindness
without the loving word of counsel Is
futile. Kindness that reckons not with
an ordered and orderly household
whose discipline contributes to the
strengthening and enrichment of char
acter Inevitably produces Impairment
of domestic felicity.
Mother's Sunday compels as to think
more definitely of those fundamental
things that constitute the strength and
sanctity of borne life. It Is demon
strable tbat the homes of a nation
have the power of making or unmak
ing It Xbey either exalt Its standards
or debase them. They either con
tribute to the wbolesomeness of onr
social life or they gravely Impair It.
Indeed the home standards affect for
good or III every phase of our cor
porate life. No home llvetb to Itself.
We are living In an age In which the
duties and privileges of women bare
been Infinitely broadened. They are
equal sharers with the men of the na
tion In Its large concerns and oppor
tunities. They have to do with the
making of policies and the shaping of
national Ideals. All this should make
for greater refinement and whosesome
ness In all that concerns our well
being.
Mother's Responsibilities.
If these new privileges and oppor
tunities detract In any wise from the
high claims and responsibilities that
peculiarly belong to mother life and
mother Influence, they must ultimately
work disaster. No sociul occupations,
no Indulgence In those things tbat con
cern the slate and the nation, may be
substituted for those holler responsl
bllltles that have to do with home and
family life. The greatest trust thai
God has committed to His children Is
that which is given to the mother 'of
the household. She, more than all
others, determines the moral worth
and strength of our domestic and so
cial life. To her bands Is given the
Incomparable privilege of shaping the
characters of her children. The moral
and spiritual Ideals of the nation, as a
whole, are largely determined by Its
mothers.
Thought For the Day
WHAT would you think of a boy who would strike his mother? You
hate to think of euythiuf so unpleasant, don't you? Words can*
not express your opinion of one who would intentionally injure his
mother.
VTOW stop a minute. Probably some time in your life you bare had
^ ' a bloody nose or a skinned knee. And probably some time in
your life some one has made an unkind remark that hurt you dread
fully. Which really hurt the worst? The nose or the knee was better
In a few hours or a few days, but your injured feelings bothered you
for a long time after that unkind remark. I
' I% HE meaning of sJI this is clear* You hare only contempt for a boy
who would strike his mother, but do you realise that an unkind I
word Co her may hurt her feelings more than a blow? Roys and girls,
too are so much more careless with their tongues than with their
fists. Don't you be one to let your tongue inflict pain.
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RomeS Glories
View of Romo From 8t. Peter's Dome.
(Prepared by the National Qeorraphte
Society. Washington, D. C.)
WITU the signing of an agree
ment between Italy and the
Vatican, Rome has become
a center of world Interest.
It Is a way of Rome's. It was the
first of all the Italian cities to shake
the world, and It has been the Im
perial center of civilization, culture,
politics and religion. Two of civiliza
tion's periods developed In Rome and
bear forever her stamp and sign. Her
first period gave to the world lessons
In discipline, centralized government,
cnlonlnl policy and control, civil law,
military science, hygiene and wuter
supply. The very persecutions of that
age stimulated the primitive Chris
tians throughout the empire into
banding together until the early
church took definite shape.
Though the situation of Naples, with
Its enervating charm, worked nothing
but evil to ihat city, the location and
physical character of Rome?hills for
defense a river for navigation, broad
surrounding fields for grazing?proved
the greatest asset of her people. It
had so many natural advantages that
every warring tribe which captured It
was Itself captured and quickly he
came Roman, thus making the city
always the strongest In the peninsula,
because it was the home and fortress
of the strongest people.
And from being the strongest city
of her district, and then of her whole
country, Rome naturally expanded un
til she dominated all the world of her
time. One of her mightiest weapons
was her malleability, her willingness
to learn of others, even though her In
feriors. So she progressed swiftly,
Irresistibly, originating here, Improv
ing there, experimenting yonder, with
the result that the Ichor flowed from
her sturdy veins throughout the whole
world In Inspiration and example.
Rome's 8ewers and Water Supply.
At first Roman genius concerned It
self only w-lfh useful works, such as
sewers, bridges, viaducts. The Cloaca
Maxima, the great sewer that still
drains the Forum Into the Tiber, ts
probably the oldest true arch In Eu
rope, and testifies both to the Romans"
study of Etruscan models mid to their
skill as architectural engineers. And
what aqueducts they hull!?simple,
grand, splendid! Witness the tower
ing Arqua Claudia, 4,1 miles long, that
comes striding over the low. flat Cam
pagna like a giant on stilts?a -hun
dred feet high In places.
Ancient Rome Is suld to have con
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Ions of orator a day; and one of the
moat noticeable features of the mod
ern town la the prodigal effervescence
of Its water, gushing from fountain!
of every conceivable size and design.
The Trevl Is the most magnificent In
that city. Its water?called Acqua
Verglne, virgin water, because of It!,
purity?the finest.
The time, the skill, the money the
Romans put Into their highways?
among the most remarkable >f all
their engineering works?are almost
Incredible. No less than 11 of these
great arteries radiated from the city?
"all roads lead to Rome," runs the an
cient proverb. The most famous, the
Via Appla, was built In 812 R. C It
was kept In constant repair until the
Middle ages, and still connects Rome
and Brlndlsl, a distance of 30(1 miles.
Though no burials were permitted
In Komun cities. It comes as s sur
prise to find the finest roads lined
with the ruins of all sorts of tombs;
stranger yet to find that In medieval
limes the most magnificent of the
tombs were turned into strongholds
and crowned with battlements. The
oldest and handsomest of the tombs
on the Applan Way Is the enormous
circular mausoleum of Lady Caedlla
Metalla. more than 90 feet In diameter
with a frieze of flowers and skulls of
oxen.
Huge Impressive Tombs.
Equally Impressive, though not ?
stronghold, Is. the slender, graceful,
pyramldnl tomb of Sir Cslus Cestlue,
11C feet high, which stands Jnst out
side the Ostlan Gate, whence St. Paul
emerged on his way to martyrdom.
We probably never should have beard
of Sir Caius but for this pyramid;
the egotism of men sometimes Uvea
after them.
Rome's greatest historic and tradi
tional Interest centers In the Forum
Komanum, once a deep and marshy
little valley between the Capitolina
and Palatine hills. In the beginning
It probably looked something like one
of the present-day open-air markets.
But It did not look like a market
long, for temples and Imposing pub
lic buildings were added more and
more to the shops and stalls until tbe
whole forum was a blaze of gilded
bronze and marble, a magnificent
show place worthy of tbe center of
civilization. ,
And today? Ghosts and rulnl Bern
In a somber file are the stumps of the
Colonnade of the Twelve Gods. That
heavy basement of hrlck nnd mortar,
with bits of cracked marble still
bravely shining on It, was the orator's
platform, where Antony came "to bury
Caesar, not to praise him." Across
the Boly Way all there Is left of
murdered Caesar's Basilica Julia Is
Its brick foundation; beyond, the
crumbling fragments of the palace of
the Vestal Virgins, where a few mel
ancholy, shattered statues of the high
priestesses of this pure and lovely
cult stand tranquilly amid tbe desola
tion.
Ancient Art in Modern setting.
And hither and yun. from Palatine
to C'apltollne, from Tabulation to
Colosseum, only niln?brick, mortar,
mnrble. columna. arches, statuary?all
desolate nnd forlorn and broken. And
the lamentable pari of It all Is that
It was not the northern barbarian who
accomplished the greatest ruin, though
he did his share. For a thousand
years any Roman who wished to build
church or pulace simply came here,
tore down and carried away whatso
ever lie would. Worse yet, contractors
actually demolished whole structures
?to burn their marble for lime?and
eventnally peasants turned the burled
waste Into a vegetable garden and a
cow pasture. It was not until 1810
that the Italian government began
systematic excavation and unearthed
the present panorama of destruction.
The Romans were late In develop
ing artistic genius, for first of all they
were men of action: fighters, strate
gists. politicians?Imperialists. Their
work reflects them ? their vast
strength, their love of lavish adorn
ment, their lack of true refinement,
and their carelessness of subordinate
detail. Simpson points out In his "His
tory of Architectural Development"
that had they possessed the artistic
sense of their Greek neighbors their
architecture would have been the
grandest the world has ever seen.
For all the destruction and mod
ernizing that has transformed the
Eternal Otj, Its ancient magnificence
crops out In unexpected places: In the
blank wall of the stork exchange,
eleven coiymns of Neptune's temple;
In a narrow street, twelve arches of
the Theater of Marcellns. filled with
worksho|ie: again, a few forlorn sur
vivors of the once splendid Porticos
of Octavla. and so on. At the end
of one of the massive stitches that
span the Tiber the gleaming solid mar
ble of the exquisite little round temple
of Mater Matuta?or whatever It may
have been called?gems the bank like
a great pearl.
A few pares farther along, throat
ing Indomitably up from the level of
older days, all the beauty of pi^e
Ionic Ideals Is crystallised in the so
called Temple of the Fortune of Men,
soft ? h tied tufa and weathered traver
tine. The two stand almost Intact, be
cause of the early Christians whose
eye for beauty?or was It their prac
tical sense T?seized upoo and pre
served them as ebur ties when the
old gods ceased to call.
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