The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LV. ? GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28, 1929. " NO. 43.
1?View in chapel of University of Chicago at installation of ltobert Maynnrd llutthlns as president ofv ?e Inst I
tution. 2?Omaha's new $500,000 Coliseum, built for conventions, stock shows and prize fights. 3?Thousands oi
persons gathered at the grave of Rev. Patrick J. Rawer in Maiden, Mass., where many miraculous cures are
reported.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Industry and Finance Give
Assurance That Nation's
Business Is Sound.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
[ 1NLESS President Hoover and the
t-' lenders of flnnnce. Industry and
labor are all wrong, the country's
business structure is on a firm basis
nnd there Is no reason why pros
perity should decrease, despite the
stock market collapse which In dx
weeks reduced stock prices by about
37 per cent.
What the leaders mentioned think
about the situation was brought out
In the conferences called in Washing
ton by the President. First to gather
were the presidents of a number of
railways, together with William But
terworth, president of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States;
Julius Barnes, chairman of the cham
ber's board; Secretaries Mellon nnd
I-amont and Ernest L. Lewis, chair
man of the Interstate Commerce com
mission. President Hoover thus told
of the results of this meeting;
"The railway presidents were unan
imous In their determination to co
operate In the maintenance of employ
ment and business progress. It was
stated that the railways which they
represented would proceeo with full
programs of construction and better
ments without any reference to recent
stock exchange fluctuations; that they
would canvass the possibilities of fur
ther expansion, and that amongst
these particular railways It appeared
that the total volume of such con
struction work already Indicated an
Increase during the next six months
over the similar period of Inst year."
Later In the week, at the annual
meeting of the Hallway Business as
sociation In Chlcngo, the rail officials
of the ceunt'y gave out nore definite
Information of their plans for ex
pansion and betterment which will
call for the expenditure of a billion
dollars.
The second group to assemble In the
White House Included the twelve mem
bers of 'lie advisor; council of the
federal reserve system and the mem
bers of the federal reserve board, to
gether with government officials. They
gave assurance of the soundness of
the business structure and the prob
ability of cheaper money. Each mem
ber of the council reported that busi
ness and banking throughout his dis
trict were In a sound condition.
On Thursday morning the nation's
Industrial leaders assembled, with
Jnllus Rosenwald, Henry Ford and
Owen D. Young of the General Elec
tric company at their head. Inc.uded
In the conferees were the chiefs of
nearly all the great corporations?an
Impressive gathering Indeed. The
President asked these men to co
operate in maintaining their business
activities on the same plane as In past
months and to make expansions
wherever possible. What the Presi
dent particularly desires to avoid Is a
curtailment of Industrial activity In
anticipation of a possible business
slump due to the stock market col
lapse. He received the assurance that
the constructive activities of the vari
ous Industries would b" continued, and
even expanded to take up the slack In
employment.
That afternoon William Green, pres
ident sf the American Federation of
Labor, and qther prominent labor
leaders, together with Secretary of
Labor Davis, conferred with Mr.
Hoover. And -t was announced that
oh Monday there would be meetings of
the leading public utility magnates
and pf farm leaders.
Thursday evening Mr. Hoover an
nounced that a truce between capital
and labor had been made; that the big
Industries of the country would not
reduce wages and thai organized labor
would make no demands for Increased
pay. Both groups, he said, had pledged
themselves to assist the ('resident In
his endeavor to maintain business sta
bility and progress.
Soon after tlds Henry Ford an
nounced that a general wage advance
was to take effect Immediately In all
his automobile plants, benefiting about
13(1,000 men. He gave his views on the
industrial situation, maintaining that
prices of commodities are too high
and must come down, while wages are
too low and must be raised.
As a result of the series of confer
ences it is planned to set up some
sort of an organization to act as a
clearing house 'or the activities4>f the
different groups. Mr. Barnes and Mr.
Butterworth, in co-operation with Sec
retaries Mellon and l.amont, will fig
ure prominently in this work.
JAMES W. GOOD, secretary of war,
died In a Washington hospital fol
lowing an operation for acute ap
pendicitis. The news of his demise
was heard with deep regret through
out the country for Mt. Good was re
garded as a most efficient servant of
the nation and was popular with a
host of friends, ('resident Hoover
was especially grieved by the death
of a man who had bfen his close as
sociate for ysars and who held his
high regard. The war secretary was
given all military honors at the funeral
services which were held In the east
room of the White House nno were
attended by the I'resldeut and Mrs.
Hoover, the members of the cabinet
and as many others high in the gov
ernment as coufd be accommodated.
Then the body, on an artillery caisson
drawn by six bay horses, was escorted
to the railway station and taken on
a special train to **edar Rapids, Iowa,
Mr. Good's boyhood h me, for burial.
It was accompanied by committees
representing the administration and
the senate and house and by Acting
Secretary of War Hurley and Gen
eral Summerall, army chief of staff.
p RESIDENT HOOVER has com
' pleted the ielegatlon to the naval
conference In London b.v naming as
additional members Secretary of the
Navy Charles Francis Adams and Am
bassadors Charles G. Danes. Dnlght
W. Morrow and Hugh S. Gibson. The
others, previously selected, are Secre
tary of State Henry L. Stlmson,
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsyl
vania and Senator Joseph T. Robin
son of Arkansas. Admiral William V.
Pratt, commander of the United States
fleet, and Rear Admiral Hilary P.
Jones, retired, will accompany the
delegation as naval advisers.
The addition of Secretary Adams
and the three ambassadors to the
delegation wns a measure taken to
pacify Admiral Jones, who had threat
ened to refuse to go along because he
thought the administration wns not
giving proper consideration to the
navy and the naval authorities who
have been opposing what they consid
ered too great concessions to Great
Britain. It was said, the admiral Is
now satisfied.
FINDING It was Impossible to com
plete Its version ol the tariff bill
this month, the senate voted. 41) to 33,
to adjou-n the special session of con
gress sine die on Friday night, and
the house concurred. This gives the
lawmakers an Intermission of ten days
before the regular session convenes on
December 2. The adjournment was
proposed by the Democrats and the
old guard Republicans voted for It
because they are disgusted with tip
tariff measure as It now stands. The
new grouping of younger Republicans,
headed by lesialor Allen at JCan
sns and called "Young Turks" by
Senator Pat Harrison, tried fo
keep the session alive, believing
much more progress with the sched
ules could be made. The tariff
hill retains its place on the senate
calendar as unfinished business, and
though the Vare case comes up for
disposal during the first week of the
regular session, the senate J^nders
hope the tariff measure can be passed
before the Christinas recess.
Doings of lobbyists In behalf of high
and low tariff on sugar were investi
gated by the senate committee on lob
hying during the week, and the in
formation elicited was Interesting
though not especially incriminating
Most important of the witnesses was
President (tentschler of the National
City bank of New York, which ins;I
tution is deeply Interested in Cuban
sugar plantations and refineries
flAUKY F. SINCLAIIl. oil magnate.
* * completed his term of Imprison
ment for contempt of the senate and
the District of Columbia Supreme
court ami was given his freedom after
IDS days of confinement, lie seemed
happy and healthy and posed obllg
iugly for news photographers, declared
he was guilty of no moral turpitude
and asserted his imprisonment was "in
violation of common sense and com
mon decency" to make hint the scape
goat for corrupt politicians.
TWO of our new ambassadors pre
sented their credentials last week
at the courts to which they are ac
credited. John W. Garrett was re
ceived with all due ceremony by King
Victor Kminanuel of Italy after being
conveyed with his staff to the Quirinal
palace In three gala coaches. In the
royal palace In The Hague Auihassa
dor Gerrlt J. Diekemn was received by
Queen Wilhelinlna of The Netherlands
MOST of New York, New England
"un(I the mnrltime provinces of
Cunndn were stu i t led by n series of
violent eortliiiunke shocks early In the
week. At first It was believed no ma
terial damage hail resulted, hut In u
few hours the cable companies found
that nine of their twenty-four Atlantic
cables had been broken. The center
of the disturbance wns at sea be
tween Nova Scotia and New York,
and several liners that were In that
region were brought up sfandlng as If
they had run against a reef.
Toward the end of the week came
the belated news that the quake had
caused an Immense tidal wave which
hit the Iturln peninsula on the south
const of Newfoundland. Several vil
lages were swamped by the water anil
at least thirty-six persons were killed.
Gen. pascual oiitiz hubio
w-s elected president of Mexico,
defeating Jose Vosconcelos by a large
majority. Ituhlo may he relied on to
carry on the policies of President Oil.
(le Is of an old Mexican Indlun fam
ily, tracing his ancestry to the last of
the Turascan kings of Mlchnncnn. He
has had an adventurous life, taking
pnrt In all the revolutionary activities
since his youth.
SOVIET RUSSIAN forces, Invading
Manchuria, captured Ualul Nor,
tbe key position of the Chinese front
line defenses In the "Three Rivers"
district, after nineteen hours of bloody
fighting. The Russians thus rut off
the Chinese position In Mnnchouli and
opened the way for s drive on llallar.
besides gaining possession of valuable
coal mines.
TP. O'CONNOR, called the father
?of the British house of commons
and familiarly known to the world as
"Tay Pay." died In London at the age
of eighty-one years of septic poisoning.
Famous as an Irish Nationalist and
as a Journalist, he had served as a
member ot parliament for forty-aloe
consecutive years.
THE
!! FORGOTTEN ii
DAY
<? by O. J. Wslib.)
HII.DA WAYNE had forgotten
nil about It until (he saw the
figure nine staring at her from
the calendar. Uer birthday I
She smiled grimly. As far as she
knew there wasn't a person In the
world who remembered that today she
was fifty years old.
Fifty years old made her an old
rfomnn, at least she had always sup
posed It would. Hut when she looked
Into her mirror she couldn't see that
she looked so terribly ancient. Uer
tight-fitting little black hat hid the
few gray threads In her pretty fair
hair; her complexion. If not exactly
school-glrllsh, was fine and clear. She
wore glasses only for close work and
her throat didn't have the fatal poucli
lness which women desperately strive
to chase away with astringents. Uer
figure, too, was trim aod graceful.
And she didn't stump as she walked.
It all came, of course, of her rigid
determination to appear young enough
for her job. That precious job with
Its unfailing weekly pay envelope.
Just enough to keep her comfortably
housed, fed, warmed and clothed;
just enough to permit her to enjoy s
few simple pleasures like music, plays,
books and movies; Just enough to en
able ber to lay aside a bit for the
rainy day which experience had
taught her comes sooner or Inter to
most mortals. A Job, she reasoned,
was a body's best friend when you
lack relatives and dependable ac
quaintances. Hilda loved ber Job.
She strove for It, earned her right to
ii i'y every kiii sue pussesseu.
Fifty years old! She ought to be
good for a decade yet. She bit her
lips. Theo, with a brave lift of,her
chin, she struck out to Join the stream
of workers that flowed toward the
business places.
There was a new girl In the office
that morning. A young girl, a pretty
girl. Just out of business school, with
soft, pink hands, shy eyes, a timid
self-conscious flush In her smooth
cheeks. The kind of girl who lives
at home, safely nurtured, and spends
her wages as she pleases. The
kind of girl who works, waiting nntll
she achieves the eternal triangle of
the feminine heart?home, husband,
babies. Hilda had once been Just
such n girl. But the husbnnd hnd not
materialized, therefore the other two
elements of a perfect existence be
cnme lacking. The right man as far
as Hilda was concerned had come, but
he had soon gone away again nnd mar
ried the girl Hilda considered her
worst enemy. Oh, well 1 It wns all
over long, long ago. But the mem
ory of It made her glance now nnd
then at Alice Fancher, whose youth
and charm refreshed her. She hoped
that the right man would come for
Alice before It was too late?before
she was flfty. afraid to lose her Job,
unexpectant of what the future held
for her.
At noon Alice Fancher cnme to
Hilda nnd timidly asked If they
couldn't lunch together, Dick Smith
style. Hilda asked what Dick Smith
meant and Alice told her It wns an
other term for Dutch treat.
They went together to the quiet res
taurant where Hilda was accustomed
to eat her noonday rolls and salad
Over the food they got acquainted.
"Yesterday wns my eighteenth birth
day." Alice confided, her blue eyes
sparkling nt the remembrance. "I
wish you could have seen the fun
we had. Mother made me a great
white-frosted cake and stuck eighteen
pink candles In It My brother, Edgar,
gave me this wrist watch?" She dls
| played the timepiece on her slender
wriSL "nuneauy, i gui nu many
presents that I could hardly count
them It was a beautiful birthday.
"I've no doubt of It/* Hilda said,
heartily. But she looked long Into
her teacup. Tbe brew tasted bitter,
somehow.
From her side of the table Alice
Fancher gazed long and thoughtfully
at the older woman.
All afternoon Hilda had a curious
feeling, almost of being an attach,
ment to the machine she operated. At
closing time she decided to avoid
Alice Fancher. She couldn't stand
any more of that Joyous home talk.
It created too great a need In ber own
heart. She hung around, putting
things at her desk to rights more
elaborately than usual. Then she
donned her bat and coat and started
for borne.
As she came out of the building In
to the teeth of an Icy gale she heard
a young voice calling her name. "Hiss
Wayne I Miss Wayne!" She looked
up and down. Then she saw right at
the curb before her a shabby little
closed car with Alice's face at the
window. The car was driven by a
good-looking young man who opened
tbe door.
"Come, get In here I" cried Alice.
"This la my brother Edgar. Xuu are
going home with us to dinner. I tele
phoned mother nnd she sent you a
special Invitation. We're going to
have?"
"Now. AJlle! You promised you
wouldn't tell her that," Edgar said re
proachfully.
The open door of the sedan looked
very Inviting. Alice's face, Edgar's,
had real welcome In them. She had
on her thin coat and the gale cut like
a knife. Illlda got Into the car.
"What made you think of doing
this?" she asked as Edgur drove skill
fully through the boiling current of
the afternoon traffic.
"1 like you," Alice answered simply,
"You know how liking comes?some
thing In your face, your voice, your
manner gets one all of a sudden. I
hope you'll like roe. There's no rea
son why a girl shouldn't make a friend
of a superior woman person, Is there?"
There was welcome and to spare In
the 8mnll house on the unlet street.
Mother was another Alice grown old
er, Dud was the proud happy head of
his beloved family, there were a pair
of girls and a boy younger than Edgar
nnd Alice.
Alice's birthday roses graced the
dinner table. There was an nbun
dance of hearty, tasty food. Every
body waited upon Hilda, beamed up
on her, listened to her. And Hilda
warming under this pleasant Influence
blossomed out Into a charming young
ish person, who had delicious stories
to tell which could make even grave
little Bobhle double up with laughter.
After dinner everybody danced to
lively tunes from the radio. Hilda
thought she had forgotten how to
dance, but she picked up the new
steps like a girl, as Edgar and Dad
swung her round. She found herself
growing light-hearted, light-footed and
supple again. Everybody bumped In
to everybody else, for space was limit
eil. but It only added to the fun.
It was ten o'clock before the shabby
sedan left Hilda at her own door. She
ran up to her room. She was tired
through and through, but In a lot of
new spots, and her mind was rested.
She hummed a snatch of fox-trot as
she switched on the light. I-et her
bogles pounce upon her If they dared I
She'd drive them to their corners.
She wasn't afraid of bogies any more.
Upon the door where It had been
pushed In under the door lay an en
velope. She caught It up, tore It
open. Within wos a birthday card,
blue with a heavenly little house
smothered In pink roses under a gold
en sky The verse was homely and
sweet. And scrawled underneath were
these words, "Best wishes from Tom."
Tom was the man that married her
worst enemy. Funny that he had re
membered her birthday all these
years, or even remembered her, for
that matter. Dear old Toml
She stood looking at the card, pic
turing Tom, fat, bald, wheezy by now
as his father had been, picturing her
self as she had romped through that
Inst fox trot. Maybe she was fifty
years old but she was young In spirit.
And the spirit only counted. Tomor
row she could face her future with a
dauntless heart. Meanwhile, she ex
pected to sleep like a baby.
Flysr at Seventy-Five
Learning to fly at seventy-five?this
Is the record that has Just been set up
hy Sir Horace 1'lunkett, the Irish
statesuinn. And It was only a year or
so ago thnt experts were gravely say
ing that thlrty-flve was the extreme
limit of age for an airman. Even
more wonderful, perhaps, Is President
Hlndenburg's Idea of a holiday. The
great German soldier and statesman
took n vacation from the cares of
state the other day?nnd went off to
stalk chnmols In the Bavarian Alps.
This Involves long tramps on the hills
nnd prolonged spells of crawling on
hands and knees. And President Hln
denburg is eighty-two!
A Boriag Jab
The late Harry I.ehr had been din
ing at the Fifth avenue palace nf a
self-made millionaire from the West,
and a friend said to him afterwards:
"So you've been dining with old lllll
Bonanza, eh? Does he take any in
terest In society?"
"No," said Mr. Lehr. "He Just sup
plies the capital. It's his wife and
daughters that take the Interest."
Norway Baas Big Estates
The large percentage of small farms
owned by the fnrmers has demonstrat
ed the success In the effort to discour
age big estates In Norway. This Is
credited to the unique law that mokes
It possible for u farmer, or his de
scendants, to repurchase, within a
certain time, any property that cir
cumstances have forced him to sell.
Memorial to Charwoman
A memorial Is to be erected In the
Roman Catholic church of Our I-ndy
and St. t'atrtck, Nottingham, England,
to Miss Elizabeth Atkins, a former
charwoman who attended the church
for many years. Miss Atkln died last
April st the age of seventy-four and
left her life savings of $3,750 to the
church.
VALPARAISO
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Elevators Up Valparaiso Cliffs.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
8oclety. Washington. D. C.)
LIKK u vast Jewelstudued sickle,
(he long, curved shore line of
Valparaiso flushes and twinkles
before (he traveler sailing Into
the roadstendtufter nightfall.
Straight handle and curving blade
gleam for miles through the darkness,
ind In the distance the Jewels rise
higher and higher until they seem to
loin the stars of heaven, causing one
to wonder where earth ends and sky
begins.
When the morning dawns and Its
mists are burnt away the explanation
Df this magic night scene appears.
Out of the distance to the left
comes the fine boulevard through
Vina del Mar, Chile's summer ?esl
dentlal drcaml .nd; Its lights formed
the sickle's handle. Along the arc
af the shore creeps the boulevard and
the connecting downtown streets;
their lights outlined the curving blade.
At distances of from ere to six blocks
from the ?ach, high bluffs rise, their
precipitous faces occupied by small
houses anchored perilously to the
rocks, and their heights crowned with
the more pretentious structures of
the older residential district; t lie
lights along the rock stairs and walk
ways of cliffslde and height and in
the myriad windows of abutting
houses were those that seemed losing
with the Ltnrs of the night sky.
"Valpo," as the city Is called down
Chile way, much after our North
American fashion of sometimes short
ening Philadelphia Into Thilly," has
reminded many travelers of other
cities. The late Ford Bryce, great
traveler thai he was. found It re
calling Spanish and Italian municipal!
tie* which glitter on the cliff hound
shores of the Mediterranean, particu
larly resembling Messinn In being
very long und extremely narrow, with
the cllfTs leaving nothing but a few
blocks between their liases and the
shore. Others have likened It to Treb
Izond on the Illuck sea.
Here and there steep paths and
rock-hewn stnlrs lead up deep gullies
thnt come down from the heights to
the littoral, but with few exceptions
they are too steep for aught but the
feet of beasts and men.
Up tha Cliffs by Elevators.
In the main, communication between
the business district below and the
older residential district above Is by
elevator and ascensor, of which there
are a dozen or so.
The main business street runs close
to the foot of the rocky bluffs, and It
Is rather a striking experience to be
walking along with fine banks and
stores on either side, and then sud
denly come to a cross street thnt he
comes a rocky stair winding Its way
up the cliff, or ending at an elevator
which rises perpendicularly up the
face of the natural wall. Toward the
boundaries of the old city, there Is
one bifurcated ravine through which
trolley cars reach to points on the
heights.
The houses of the well to-do on the
bluffs are surrounded by narrow, wind
Ing streets, nnd one seldom sees a
vehicle here. The market folk find
their way around with pannlered don
keys nnd horses.
The view of the harbor from the
balconies of the cliff dwellers is a
striking sight. Scores of ocean vessels
ride st anchor, hundreds of small craft
ply here and there, nnd ,nt gets a
bird's-eye view r.f the busy scenes
?round the wharves, along tbo water
front streets, and In the business dis
trict
Trolleys and Busses.
The trans|K>rtutlon problem In Val
paraiso is not us acute as in most
cities. The heavy hauling ?s done on
streets near the water front, and there
is little use for carriages or automo
biles in the business district. Tbe
streets, therefore, are almost com
pletely given over to trolley cars and
busses. Most of the conductors on tbe
cars are women, and c serious-minded,
not-too-prepossessing lot they are.
Most of the trolley cars are double
deck vehicles. The fare on top is 10
I centnvos. the equivalent of 1.2 cents
I in United States currency, and tbe
fare below is 20 centnvos. Both men
and women, outside the lowet classes,
will stand jammed like sardines in a
box below, rather than go up to the
top where vacant seats are plentiful.
There are a great many busses, and
one wonders how the trolley lines can
live at the rate of fare the municipality
fixes and with the competition they
have to meet.
On the streets which parallel the
main thoroughfare on the shoreward
side, one sees much of native trans
portation. Trains of donkeys, with
their slim bodies hung about witli al
most every conceivable article, come
and go. Some are l? aded with wine
casks, others with sacks of flour or
cement, and still others with long
pieces of iron, with furniture, and
even perambulators. Boards 10 tc
20 feet long ore slung over the sides
of the animals, sticking out many feel
both fore and nff. The Chileans have
a way of making almost anything ac
commodate Itself to packsaddle trans
portation.
Sharing the streets with the pack
?ndille donkeys are tlie strings ol
carts, drawn In the fashion of th?
country?one horse hitched between
the shafts, and at Its left a second,
attached to the cart by means of a
breast collar and a single rope trace
This second horse carries a saddle
and the free ei d of the breast stray
Is fastened thereto. Its main doty
Is to carry the man who drives tht
cart The single trace enables It tc
help out the horse If the shafts oc
steep grades or In heavy mud. ~~
Lovely Vina del Mar.
The life which obhs and flows down
town and on tht heights of Val
paraiso may be picturesque and dla
tlnctive, but the real thrills are re
served fo> those who go to Its Vina
del Mar In summer. Playing the duo.
role of an Atlantic City and a faalv
tenable suburb, this rtmmunlty Is one
vast flower garden five miles long
climbing from the seashore to tb<
heights. Villas bowered in roses
wistaria, popple- pnnsles, bloomlns
trees, and rich shrubs: chalets stand
ing on terraces clad in all the gay
colors of Chile's floral ?wealth; high
tvnlled gardens, formal In treatment
but warm and beautiful In aspect^?a!
these Join with blue sky. gray rock?
and ultramarine sea to make a set
ting for the gay summer llfrtrfor which
the great seaport has long been fa
mous.
When the Inland weather becomes
hot nnd dusty, all of the socially elect
of Santiago and of the other cities
and towns of central chile come dowi
and lake villas or chulets here.
Morse racing is a passion with thf
Chileans, and the summer racing sea
aon at the Vina del Mar Jockey rlor
brings to Its tracks ihe best slaMes
of the whole country.