The Alamance Gleaner i VOL. LV. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 9, 1930. NO. 49. M' _ 1?Neptune's envoys announce the coming of 1930 on the sands of Santa Monica, Calif. 2?Senator Frederick M. Sackett of Kentucky who was selected as American ambassador to Germany. 3?Office In the State. War and Navy building, formerly occupied by General Pershing, now used by President Hoover while the executive office building Is bteing repaired after the fire. ' NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Prohibition Enforcement Is Still the Chief Topic in Washington. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PROHIBITION enforcement con tinned to be the dominant ques tion In Washington, and the dry lead ers In congress were especially rocal In the controversy. The most im portant development of the week was the statement by Senator Wesley L. -Tones of Washington that during con ferences with members f)t this Ft Dover crime commission he had been glad to learn that the commission la unani mous !h agreeing that Its' function la. to devise the best means possible for enforcement of the Eighteenth amend ment. Senator Jones averred that the commission holds that the wisdom or unwisdom of the amendment Is not Involved in Its work. This was held to be a severe blow to the hopes of the wets, though it is hard to see how the latter could have expected the commission to try to de termine the practicability of prohi bition. Senator Jones asserted that the dry phase of the commission's work should be completed by July 1 and warned that a clear and convincing showing of'its need will have to be made be fore funds for prolonging the prohibi tion Inquiry beyond that date are made available. As Jones is prospec tive chairman of the senate finance committee, he will be In a position to supervise funds asked for the com mission's work. The Washington senator continued: "I find that an Important report has already been given to the President. It will be submitted to the congres sional Joint committee sought by the President as soon as created and ready for work. Other reports will be ready soon. "All seem to view the Industrial alcohol situation as the most difficult one to solve properly, as well as one of the most Important phases of pro hibition enforcement In working this out the commission should shield no Individual and no line of business." Senator Borah of Idaho repeated his attacks on the present dry enforce ment personnel, asserting that "prac tically open saloons" are to be found all over the land. "When I say this," he said, "I do not mean slibply New York or Chicago. I mean to state a condition which prevails throughout the country. I do not assume that you can catch every bootlegger. But the open flaunting, defiant, persistent dis regard of the law, day after day and month after month, with no effort being made to st6p It. calls for discus sion." Mr. Borah sent one or two lettera to President Hoover, and though their contents were not made public It was understood the senator offered proof of his assertions, and It was Indicated that If the administration did not make use of the information given he wdnld lay his evidence before con gress. Then came F. Scott McBrlde, super intendent of the Anti-Saloon league, with a statement In which he took Issue with Borah's charges "The prohibition department has been doing good work, but there are places where conditions can be bet tered." McBrlde said. "These will be found and corrected. The Depart ment of Jnstfre has bad some bad spots. Mr. Mitchell has been active In correcting these but the Job bas yet to be completed. "The most hopeful sign about the J situation la the fact that the legisla tive officers, as well as the administra tive officers, Including the President, are not sidestepping responsibility as has been true nnder some former con ditions and the fact that In the Cap ital and all over the country enforce ment Is responding to official Insist ence." Senator Brookhart of Iowa, the un relenting foe of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, renewed bis demands that President Hoover remove the sec retary from his cabinet, and also de clared that Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills, Assistant' Sec retary Seymour Lowman and Prohibi tion Commissioner Jatnes M. Doran should be dismissed. COAST guardsmen seeking to pre vent the. landing of liquor near Newport, R. 1., opened' tire on a rum running boat, the Black Duck, and killed three members of the crew. Their action was upheld by their Superiors, but the incident serves to provide more ammunition for the ene mies of the Eighteenth amendment. In old Faneull hall, Boston, the IJberal Civic league held a mass meet ing that sent to President Hoover a message asking a searching investiga tion of the slaylngs by the coast guard, and after the meeting a mob attacked the coast guard station. Celebrant; of New Year's eve in the larger cities found their activities were subjected to rather less interference by the enforcement officers than tn recent years. The supply of intoxi cating liquor seemed unlimited, though It is admitted most of it was syn thetic with bogus labels. Thousands of washingtonians and visitors to the National Cap ita! attended the New Year's day re ception held by President and Mrs. Hoover. Among the callers were the members of the cabinet, the hand somely garbed diplomatic corps, sen ators aod representatives and many hlgb officers of the army and navy. Sir Earn Howard, the British am bassador, and Lady Isabella were the first of the long line of diplomats to wish tbe Hoovers a happy New Year. The chief Justice and Mrs. Taft were missing from the White House reception for the first time In years, owing to the death of Charles P. Taft. IF JOUETT 6HOUSE, chairman of the Democratic national executive committee, knofvs what he la talking about, we are' not likely to have a new tariff act In the near fntore. Be Issued a statement In Lexington In which he said that either the coalition tariff measure, which attempts to carry ont the promise of real tariff benefits for the farmers, will be enacted or there will be no tariff bill at all. "That latter," he said, "la the more probable outcome, which means that months and months of congressional sessions have been utterly wasted because of the efTort to jam through s\tariff revision that had no reason In economy or justifiable excuse at tips time." I* NDIA'8 Nationalists nnder the lead ership of Mahatma Gandhi have taken a bold step toward Independence for their country. The national con gress, with only six dissenting votes out of 2,000, adopted Gandhi's resolu tion for a middle course toward the objective. The resolution authorized the all-India congress committee, an executive body of about 900 members, to launch, whenever It thinks the time ripe, a program of civil disobedience to inclnde non-payment of taxes and similar resistance to British rule. The Indian Liberal federation has accepted the British declaration of ultimate dominion status for India. PRINCE CAROL seemingly la still trying to gain the throne of Ro mania. and Italy la reported to haws espoused his cause Id a way that has aroused the anger of the Rumanians. Recently Slgnor Precloel. Italian min ister to Bucharest, called at the Ru manian foreign office and Informed It In the name of the Italian government that Italy considered It necessary to regularize thq dynastic succession to the Rumanian throne and that Prince Carol should be recalled to Rumania and crowned king. The Rumanians do not dare to make effectual protest against this Inter ference In their Internal affairs for they fear they would be Isolated In their quarrel wltb Jugoslavia, which ; they and Italy regard as an enemy. THERE was great rejoicing and celebration In China over the an nouncement of the Nationalist gov ernment that extraterritoriality was to be summarily ended on January 1. But the state council's mandate evi dently was Issued for home consump tion and It had little or no effect In the treaty ports, where the foreign officials still declined to let their na tionals be tried In native courts. For eign Minister C. T. Wang said his government was prepared to consider and discuss, within u reasonable time, any representations made by foreign nations with reference to the Chinese decision to end the consular court system and assume legal jurisdiction over foreigners. SENATOR FREDERICK M. 8ACK ett of Kentncky has been select ed as ambassador to Germany. He was cruising In tbe West Indies when Informed of this fact and that the German government had announced that his appointment was acceptable to It Mr. Sackett started back to Washington at once, saying he would resign from tbe senate and soon be ready to leave for Berlin. KENNETH HAWKS, movie director and sportsman, and nine other men engaged In the Aiming of venture some air "shots," were hurled to death In the PaclAc ocean In two tangled, blazing monoplanes off the I'alos Verde hills, 25 miles from Los Angeles. Eyewitnesses said that one of the two planes poised above the otber and then, as If the pilot had lost his vision In the piercing rays of the setting sin, had darted down and struck the top of the lower plane. SCOTLAND'S wont tragedy of 1029 came Just at the close of the year. A moving picture theater at Paisley was thronged with children attending a gala performance when fire broke out In the projection booth. Panic ensued, and within a few moments seventy little ones were dead and scores Injured. . .1 < . .. ? MOST noteworthy of the death* of the week wai that .of Charlea P. Taft, Cincinnati newspaper publisher and half-brother of William Howard Taft, former President and now chief justice of the United States 8npreme court. Eighteen months ago Mr. Taft was stricken with pneumonia and he never had fully recovered. He had a distinguished career as a lawyer and publisher, served one term In congress and was prominent In state and civic affairs. NEW TEAR'S day was Football day In California. In the treat Roae Bowl at Pasadena the University of Southern California met the unde feated team from the University of Pittsburgh and fairly swamped It, winning by a score of 47 to 14. In San Francisco teams of star college players from the East and the West battled In a game for charity. the Easterners scoring IB points to 7 for their rivals. at tsss. WMMI mvs?>? CslN.1 i! FOR HER | !: HUSBAND'S i: 11 APPROVAL 11 (Abr D. 1. WaUh.t MB. AND URS. WILLIS had bat lately returned from their flrat trip abroad. They bad wandered, often aadly bewil dered. through approved picture gal lerlea. They bad dined at the Cheshire Cheese. They bad been secretly dis appointed that Shakespeare's house was so tacky looking, as Mrs. Willis expressed It. But Mr. Willis had been bitten by tbe mosquito of European culture (as be understood It, that Is). He pre sented his wife with a cigarette holder and the good woman nearly fainted. She confided In the occupant of the next deck chair (from Ohio) and that worthy suggested a psychi atrist "Not that awful psychoanalysis!" cried poor Mrs. Willis, who had been given a book on that subject by her enterprising husband and never rightly recovered. "No, no, my dear," soothed the To ledo woman, "nothing like that" (It would never do to admit she'd never heard of Freud, but she hadn't). "1 mean, well, just a doctor, who, well, takes care of?" "Crazy folks?" cried poor Mrs. Wil lis. "Well, do you know 1 was half afraid that awful hot day In Paris, and Mr. Willis would aft and eat out doors. And nd real cooling Ice cream sodas, either. I can't see myself why people go to Paris for food. Give me a good pile of hot cakes, or a nice fried pork chop." "That's just what my Gerald says, but you have to come abroad just to be thankful you aren't a foreigner, I guess," rather lamely, for Just then the sprightly WIIUs hove In sight. He bowed. In what his distressed wife thought a French manner. A week later Mr. Willis poked the bash In front of him In dlsguesL "Why can't we have croquettes?" as asked Irritably. "Because, Wednesday, when your poor uncle Timothy came to dinner he thought I said croquet, and yon know you laughed, and, after all, even If he Is deaf, he has what little money there Is In your family." "Well, but Uncle Timothy Isn't here tonight. I Insist on more modern ways. Tou have defied me about smoking. Well, I suppose every one can't like the taste of tobacco. But I Insist, Insist, mind" (Mrs. Willis was reminded of a peppery general In an English play, and was certain that trying character had precipitated this scene), "1 say again I Insist on mod ern cookery. We are no longer obliged to consider every cent We've traveled?" "Unhappily, yes," sighed the poor wife, wondering if the psychiatrist was urgently needed. "Tou've never been tbe same sensible man since we started that trip, never." "I will not put up with nagging," cried Willis, starting for the door. ?That afternoon Mrs. Willis motored quietly to town. She bad a long talk, not with the mental specialist, but with the up-to-date bookseller. And ber topic was cookery books. The bookseller was very modern. He sprinkled vltamlnes all over his con versation as If they were paprika. Mrs. Willis was Impressed. She took an exotic volume with pictures of car rots and tables of calories. She drove musingly borne. The next day was Wednesday, the day sacred to tbe deaf and wealthy Uncle Timothy; tbe day, also, when other members of the families were wont to drop In after dinner to listen to the really excellent Willis radio. Mrs. Willis was not without humor. And she bad quite a full shore of common sense, albeit she refused point blank to wear 8panlsb heels, rouge her nice red cheeks or make herself "sick at the stomach" as she worded It. With a cigarette. "I'm a Victorian," she asserted, "and a Victorian 111 die." However, she cooked a varied and appetizing appearing meal, using s multitude of odd nut combinations of which she'd never beard and of whose power to delight her newly fastidious husband and the robust Uncle Tim othy she bad grave doubts. Laboriously she wrote menu cards. They'd bad them at the club once when a noted temperance lecturer had come to Graasvllle, and sbe knew they were "classy." "Putting on dog." growled Uncle Timothy, adjusting bis specs to read the card. "Pity for Americans to go abroad If they can't keep their senses. Percy (to Mr. Willis), why d'you let that good wife of yours lose ber bead? She'll be trying to smoke next, like some of those flighty flappers 1 see. Disgraceful, 1 call It and a wom an well past forty, too." Hs picked over bis salad. "What's this? Carrots don't look cooked to 4 me," he roared; "we ain't donkey*. How's Ihnt, eh?" Eva Willis grew red. But she val ued Uncle Tlmothy'a good oplnlon-too much not to stand by her colors, now, and she noticed that ber Percy's ears were crimson. "The truth Is, uncle, that Percy Is ashamed of me since we came home. He's all for the Dew fashions. (A frantic kick under the tahle prevent ed?possibly?any allusion to tbe cigarette holder.) "Well," she re sumed, without wlDdng perceptibly, "I And we're all out of date eating so much meat. No rltnmlnes, and most people with high blood pressure and so on, really dangerous So tonight I determined to serve a real modern vegetarian dinner, with ruw cnrrot salad. Just like that high-toned Dum bles lleud Itest cure, that Is so fash ionable, uncle." "Dumb-bells Is right." again roared Uncle Timothy, "so It's Perty that Is the fool, eh? Well, I always respect ed your good sense," he said more softly, "and now, ain't there a nice pork chop In the Ice box? Or I could do with a nice platter of scrambled eggs or so, but never as long as I live will I eat grass. It Isn't Christian." Meekly, Mrs. Willis rose and gilded Into the kitchen. In a suspiciously short time a dish of well-browned chops was on the table with French fried potatoes and tomatoes. Uncle Timothy beamed. "Tell you what," he said, "I wouldn't have been so upset If you'd set me a dish of snails, seeing that I know Krenchles eat 'era. But when it comes to donkey food. . . ." "You'd best throw that fool cook book away," whispered Mr. Willis. "Don't be scared. I didn't pay for It Just got It for my husband's approval," nodded the lady. History of Marionettos Jointed figures moved by wires en tertained early Egyptians, and ancient Greece loved the puppet show. Eng land watched gravely while puppets enacted Bible stories. The courtiers of Charles the Second's day could be -es much entertained by a puppet he roine as by a living Thomas Betterton or Nell Gwyn. But gradually England grew tired of the doll actors. Almost the lost Eng lish puppet shows dealt with the story of Napoleon, the death of Nelson, and Grace Darling's rescue of the crew of the Forfarshire. Then they, too, disappeared. The continent has remained more faithful to the puppets. Mseterllnck has actually written for them, and In Italy, the marionettes have never lost public favor. Tli* Windtnn It was a most astonishing thing, bat the Smiths were always changing their residence. Some people decided that perhaps Mr. Smllli found moving about cheap er than paying rent, bat the real rA son was that Mrs. Smith loved a change. One day a friend of the family, re turning home rather later than was his usual practice, espied Smith fol lowing a van of furniture. "Hello, Smith," he cried. "Movln' again! And where to this time?" "I dtinno," was the weary answer. 'Tin Just followln' the van to find out"?!-nndon Tit-Bits. Ha Mat a Foot, Anyhow Pnt Murphy vol a great favorite In the works. Even hli employer would unmet I mo* stop nnd crack a Joke with him. One day the boat met Pat. "Morning. Pat," he aald. "I hear that lately you've taken quite a fancy for the, girls." Pat blushed nnd snickered. "Have you not met your fate yetT" asked the boss. "Sure nnd begorrnh, sir," exclaimed Pnt sadly. 'T met one of her father's fate In one of his big shoes last nolght." No EtnH An accident la an event that tnkea place without one'a foresight or ex pectation. aaya a Pennsylvania official, and no. atrlctly speaking, there are no automobile accidents. The driver who "runa contrary to the law of cen trifugal force or the law of momen tum la abaolutely certain, aooner or later, to have a mishap." Now you know what to expect. And when the mishap occurs don't try to wriggle out by saying you were never told these laws bad been passed. Wood. Used for Paper Spruce Is the principal wood used In the manufacture of paper, targe quantities of hemlock are also con sumed. as this wood ranks next to spruce In volume of material from which pulp is made. BaOdiag Trouble Moat men worry all through their work about that which Is to come, the thing they are going to do, the money they are going to get.?American Magazine. Tin Strange Seas ?-a-" in. ' 1 ? ? ..I Scene on the Shore of the Caspian Sea. < Prepared by lb* National llaoaraphlr 8oelety. Waahlnaton. D. C.I TIIK world's two must liu|K>rtonl and heat known bodies of wa ter that He below sea level are the Dead sea and the Caspian tea. The Dead sea Is really a gigantic ilnkhole. In no other continent Is there such a deep depression In the rnrlh's crust; nor will one find greater jesolatlon or more uncomfortnbfh con ditions for man and most other llv Ing things even In the hearts of the greatest deserts. The Hebrew scriptures have thrown an atmosphere of tragedy about this :ountry. There, the chronicle states, were situated the wicked cities of Sodom and Comorrah, destroyed by the wroth of Jehovah; and there the modern render sees the blasted region, seared by unbearable heat, with Its hitter death dealing waters, to prove the story to Ids satisfaction. According to the lllbllcnl narrative the Jordan valley and the plain near Its mouth on the shores of the Dead sea where the destroyed cities lay shared the early good fortune of the Promised Land Itself and "flowed with milk and honey." But an end was put to this pleasant condition by the rain of brimstone and Arc. The story of the region deciphered from Its rocks by geologists begins much earlier than the days of the pa triarchs whose actions are recorded In the Bible. This record seetns to In dicate that Palestine and the whole western end of Arabia rose from the sen a million or more years ago In what the geololglsts term the Tertiary era. Shortly after the rise. It seems, a great slice of the Innd parallel to the coast of the Mediterranean sank to great depth, forming the huge rift valley, "the Obor," now occupied by the Jordan rteer and the Dead sea. ? Dead Sea Has No Outlet. It Is believed that the climate of Palestine In remote times was moist and that the great Inland lake was for a while kept at Its highest point When drier conditions set In the lake began to shrink, eventually retreating Into the present position of the Dead sea and exposing the valley now oc cupled by the Jordan. This Is prac tically the only large river In the world which flows In a valley ready made for It almost from source to mouth. The Dead aca depression having no outlet, all the salts contained In the large original Inland sea were retained when evaporation reduced the volume of the body of water to Its present dl menslons. In addition, for hundreds of thousands of years the Jordan and the other streams and torrents that flow from the desert hills Into the basin have been carrying In additional salts until now the waters of the Dead sea constitute one of the most high ly concentrated natural brines In existence. It Is estimated that on the average some six million tons of wa ter flow Into the Dead sea dally, and since tbe level of the sea changes bul little, an equal amount Is pumped out dally by evaporation. The present Dead sea Is 47 mllet long and about 10 miles wide. Its surface Ilea approximately 1,300 fee! lower than sea level and at Its deepest point Its bottom lies another 1.300 fee! down. This great rift In the earth-! crust, therefore, lies 2.000 feet belou sea level and Is the deepest hole It the land anywhere In the world. Be cause of the Intense heat and drynesi and the presence everywhere of sal the land Immediately about the Dear sea Is a region of desolation. Caspian Sea Is a Puzzle. Tbe Caspian sea was thought, h tbe earliest periods of recorded time to be part of the great "stream oi ocean" surrowdlng the habltahh earth. HerodoOus,. the Greek Baedek sr. mentions a -visit to It In 4.VS B. C. when It was as even greater mysten ? - ? -? ~t than today, for then no one knew Its extent. Some authorities claim that the Cae plnn had Its origin In a great Inland sea. an Asiatic Mediterranean, with an outlet to the Arctic ocean. In support o( the Arctic outlet It Is point ed out that seals are still hunted in the Caspian and there are other forms of life which show evidence of Arctlfc ancestry. It Is argued that the Cas pian owes Its present size to climatic changes and evaporation. That the sea has reached other levels Is evident by the numlier of terraces that can be seen hack from the coast. However, to complicate matters, the weak de velopment of the terrnres indicates that the sen did not stand at nny one I level for a long time. Walls and cities have been fourd In many sections un derneath the surface, an Indication that the level of the water was even | lower at one period than It Is now. Shifting shore lines nre not the only eccentricities of the Caspian Al though 85 feet helnw the level of Its neighbor, the Black sea. and with no known or possible outlet, the Caspian Is less than hclf as salty. It is only threeelghlhs as sally as the ocean. Furthermore, the northern part, which receives large In the Russian empire