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The Alamance Gleaner VOL. LVI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY APRIL 3, 1930. NO. 9. 1?Senate committee probes unemployment sltnatton. 2?Edward E. Pohony with his wife and lawyer leasing court after his acquittal on charge of attempting to brihe Former Secretary of the Interior Fall. 3?Helen Hull, author of "The Asking Price," who won the Guggenheim fellowship. NEWS REVIEW OF GURRENTEVENTS Tariff Bill Passed by Senate After Months of Heated Controversy. AFTER months of heated and acri monious controversy the senate passed the tariff bill by a vote of 53 to 31. It goes back to the house which passed It last May and will be thrashed over In conference committees of the two houses. The result will be a Compromise bill which may be ex pected In about six weeks. The bill as passed by the senate represents a higher degree of protec tion than that afforded under the present law, but provides duties on a somewhat lower level than the bill passed by the house. Senator Reed Smoot (Rep., Utah) told the senate that the dutiable Items In the bill as passed represent the equivalent of an average ad valorem rate of 38.99 per cent, as compared with 40.54 per cent as reported from the finance committee, 43.15 per cent as passed by the house, 34.01 per cent in the present law and 21.08 per cent In the Underwood act of 1913. The senate made 1,253 amendments to the house bill, according to Senator Smoot. Among the features of the sennte bill are Included many increases In rates on agricultural products over those granted In the house hill, a somewhat smaller Increase In the duty on sugar than In the house bill. Im position of duties on cement and brick as In the house bill, a new duty on soft wood lumber, elimination of duties on shingles and hardwood lumber as proposed In the house bill, lower duties than In the house on alumlDum. pig Iron, watches and clocks, and on many chemicals and other manufac tured articles. Bitter contests In the deliberations of the conference committees of the two houses nre expected over the ex port debenture farm relief provision and repeal of the flexible tariff which are In the senate bill. Senator Borah, who voted for the bill, Indicated that lie did so chiefly because of his sup port of these two provisions, and In timated that he would vote against any conference report that eliminated them. on tne nnai vote on me um *?o ?c publicans and 7 Democrats voted for the bill, while 20 Democrats nnd B Republicans voted against It The rad icals split, seven of them voting for the bill and one being paired for the bill while five voted In the negative. THE question of paying the price which France demands for Joining a Hve-power navy reduction treaty has been passed up to (treat Britain by the United States delegation. If the British government offers a security guarantee acceptable to France, the Amerlenn delegation may favorably consider America's commitment to a consultative pact. Under this plan Great Britain would be pledged to protect France against aggression. America would be pledged to consult with European powers In the event of a European war. but would not be bound to employ armed force against the aggressor. It Is not clear whether the United States would be committed by Implication to take sides In a European quarrel, and Join any boycott proclaimed by the League of Nations. Whether tbe British gov ernment will make a concession In line with a security guarantee acceptable to France la the big question of the moment, and one MacDonnld's cabinet must soon decide. Since the beginning of the confer ence France has been trying to Induce Great Britain to underwrite French security. Hitherto the British have refused to give France security guar antees. declaring against entangling military alliances. But both France and Great Britain would like to com mit the United States to an under standing by which this country would not be neutral in case of a European war, but would respect any blockade declared by the League of Nations. Now the American delegation holds out promise of such an approach to com mitment of a character represented by a consultative pact on the condition Great Britain will give France an ac ceptable guarantee. Foreign Minister Brland of France has returned to the conference and is happy In seeing what he believes is a surrender by Great Britain and the United States to the French de mand for a security pact. THAT France has reduced her army by 44 per cent since 1913 was claimed by Senator Albert Mahieu as the senate approved the 1930 army budget. Expenditure, however, in creased. owing to a boost in war ma terial. This year France will begin the application of the one-year service act, practically all conditions now be ing fulfilled. One of these conditions is that a force of 106,000 permanently enlisted men should be maintained. RT. HEV. James De Wolf Perry, bishop of Rhode Island, was elected primate of the Episcopal church at a session of the house of bishops In Chicago. He succeeds the late Bishop Charles P. Anderson of Chicago. Bishop Perry as primate or presiding bishop occupies a position In the United States comparable to that of the archbishop of Canterbury In England. Bishop Perry is a great great-nephew of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the battle of Lake Erie In 1812. PROPOSALS to pay World war vet * erang a portion of the face value of their adjusted compensation certlfl cates In cash received a death blow In a letter from Secretary Mellon to Representative Hawley, chairman of the house ways and means committee. Under a bill fathered by Representa tive Cochran the $635,000,000 now held to the credit of the adjusted compen sation fund would be made available for the payment to certificate holders of 25 per cent of the face value of tbe certificates. In his letter Secretary Mellon point ed out that the Cochran proposal is hased on the false assumption that nil of the $635,000,000 reserve Is Im mediately available. The fact Is that In order to flnnnce the scheme It wonld be necessary to Increase taxes or authorize a bond Issue for the purpose, he wrote, there by increasing tbe public debt with "a consequent disruption of tbe orderly program upon which the government Is proceeding." HIGH treasury officials express con fidence that the 1 per cent In come tax reduction granted by con gress for tbe year 1920 can be con tinued this calendar year. Income tax collections for March have exceeded expectations thus far. and the finan cial outlook for the government for the remainder of the fiscal year 1930 at least Is bright. Revenues from Income taxes for (he fiscal year that ends June 30 now total $1,785,282,857, or $134,000,000 more than was collected for the cor responding period Inst year. This col lection has given the treasury books a paper surplus of $101,957,270. despite a falling off of customs receipts for the year of $28,000,000. Treasury experts liold that with set tlement of the pending tariff bill the custom duty collections will expand. Federal actuaries believe the heav iest drain on the treasury will come from the federal farm board. Con gress has Just appropriated an addi tional $100,000,000 for the board, llow much the board will be forced to draw from the fund is dependent upon the agriculture situation. "TPHE Department of Agriculture an nounces that a 2.8 per cent In crease In the acreage of corn this year, a 15 per cent decrease In that of durum wheat, and a .1 per cent In crease In the acreage of all other spring wheat, as compared with last year's harvest acreages, were Indicated by farmers' Intentions on March 1 to plant this spring. The report wns based on returns from about 50,000 farmers and was In tended to furnish Information which would enable farmers to make such adjustments In their plans for this year's plantings as may seem de sirable. THE Canadian bouse of commons, by a vote of 173 to 11, passed I'rtme Minister King's bill to ban liquor exports to the United States. The galleries were crowded for the final commons scene In connection with the bill. Senators, who will now have the bill In hand In the upper chamber, crowded their railed sanc tum overlooking the commons floor, following the vote with keen Interest. The 173 to 11 majority recorded for the bill Is one of the largest on com mons' records, and the total vote of 184 out of a possible 244 votes In dicates a remarkably large attendance of members. THE great North German Lloyd liner Europa broke the world's record on her maiden trip to the United States. She smashed the rec ord held by her sister ship, the Bre men, by 18 minutes, and could easily have bettered the mark by several hours. The official time from Cher bourg breakwater to Ambrose light ship was 4 days. 17 hours and 0 min utes. It took the Bremen 18 minutes longer. So the crown of the fast est liner In the world goes to the Europa. THE national business survey con ference has received reports from 27 lines of business for the four months following the stock market crash which Indicate that American business. In general. Is Arm and show ing steady Improvement. Although the reports "Indicate both strong and weak spots" some of the early retarding factors, partly psycho logical, "appear to have been gradu ally overcome," according to Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the confer ence, who made public a summary of the reports. This view was borne out by the reports themselves, three fourths of which were optimistic. "The reports Indicate that the Im portance laid upon construction as an Influence In restoring Industrial bal ance has not been over emphasized," Mr. Barnes asserted. "They show that for a revival of construction In Its manifold forms a first requirement Is adequate and reasonably priced credit." There Is no cause whatever for alarm over the country's construction program, according to Mr. Barnes, as utilities of all kinds contemplate such expenditures this year as to aggre gate *3.250.000,000, as against *2,808 000,000 last year. REPORTS made to William Green, president of the Americas Feder ation of Labor, show that unemploy ment decreased slightly In the first two weeks of March for the first time since August l A 1SSS. Wssura Newsetssr Union ? ! k x novels | it \to order i p v was his j ? specialty rm m-?? HI (? br D. J. Walsh.) MBS. AUItELTA SMITH bad enjoyed an affluent widow hood for more years than she cared to count She also en Joyed a vague "poor health" which asked for little lunches between the three meals enjoined by normal civi lization. Most people In Lenvllle smiled on her vagaries with an amused toler ance: a few accepted her at her own valuation. These she liked. The tol erant she merely talked about But the librarian at the public li brary, Mary Fenn, groaned Inwardly when she saw the slow, waddllag form enter. Nothing ever suited Mrs. A\i relia. Modern Action she abhorred. Style for her was not Sense she shuddered from; nonsense she failed to understand. Then came Leonard Varley. He wus a nice young man with too much tal ent for happiness In a small commu nity, and altogether too much good looks for a city with many girls. His aunt, Iteglna Wiles (one of those who tolerated Aurella), declared be was like the young man In "Patience" be set by twenty lovesick maidens. The allusion hit Leonard, who knew his Gilbert and Sullivan, and he merely replied that If It were but twenty he could endure It, but It seemed more like a circus. Reglna told Mary, who was a pet of hers, and she sought to amuse Leonard. Mary professed herself far too busy Audlng suitable Action for Mrs. Smith, who promised an addi tional room to the tiny Action for Mrs. Smith, who had promised an addi tional room to the tiny library "when she passed on" if she could And suffi cient novels "with happy endings, some tears and plenty of wholesome pathos" while she lived. Otherwise the sum was to be diverted to a home for the Sons and Daughters of Those Who Died Toung. Mary In despair, at a Sunday eve ning supper, suggested that Leonard, In the Interests of the Lenvllle public library, himself write a novel with nil the required Improvements on current and classical Action. "By Jove I will," he cried, and dart ed from his aunt's dining room to start bis masterpiece forthwith. The "twenty (odd) lovesick maid ens" grew weary of walking along Pine avenue. Leonard remained clois tered. His aunt considerately gave out at the corner drug store he was busy writing a book, fehe knew her broadcasting station. Id three months' time he had pro duced 80,000 words of such Inane va pldness that he was hopefnl of Its re maining with the obsolescent publish ers to whom It was submitted. He whooped every time the mailman failed to offer him a bulky package. He took Mary to nice roadhnuses. where they danced until two o'clock In the morning. He drove his aunt reck less rides (which she liked, being still a redoubtable tennis player herself) and while Mary grew to like his fun and pep more each day, still, no hap less "returned with regrets" package made Its reappearance. At length a letter came front Messrs. Bllte & Burberry, the publish ers. The book had been accepted by their reader. It stated, subject to the writer's consenting to change the title ("Suburbia Still Sobs"), which, they i declared, "might be considered by some of their readers to be a sar casm," and provided a few more char acters might be left alive and whole at the conclusion. The sum offered was not large. But the publishers seemed sure of a large sale?"there Is so little wholesome fic tion published these days," they sighed ?Beonard swore he could hear the sigh?and he whooped once again, danced his aunt around the room and phoDed Mary the news. "You've saved my life," she cried. "Mrs. Amelia Smith Is talking of call ing ber lawyer to alter her will this ' very afternoon, and now, well, I'm i afraid you will have to meet her." ' "But, of course, I will," he said. "Do I have to arrive In a hearse?" "You foolish boy, of course not Just tell her how frail she looks (she weighs 200 pounds) and that you think her bands are like Marie Antoinette's. And If any of your relatives ever did die young you might?" "One of 'em was hanged at the age of twenty for smuggling In Cornwall In the old country In the Seventeenth century, and another was a drummer boy and was shot In the War of Inde- < pen dence." a "Well, talk about the caves of Corn wall and don't mention tlie smuggling. I coo Just see the nice, cheerful books that will go Into that new addition nft er poor Mrs. Aurella really has?" "Done the wisest thing," replied Leonard, "and there Is something else." "Tell me later; there are ten old ladles at the desk waiting for books, and one of them Is she." It Is only fair to add that Mrs. An relia was charmed with Leonard, fie spoke feelingly of the smuggler's early demise and of his lore for his nged mother, whose delicate hands played with the (smuggled) lace shawl Ids love had brought her. All painful de tails were deleted freely. Leonard gave himself up to an orgy of fatu ousness that, he told Mary later, was like the proverbial tired business man at a feeble-minded show. "We ought to thank Mrs. Aurella," she said later, and then blushed. For why the "we"? "We ought. Indeed," said Leonard, "and that reminds me. You have not said If you will marry the new writer of fiction for the fatuous. "I'll marry yon If you want It, Leon ard, for you're ready nice. Hut only on ore condition: After this one hor rid success (and I am afraid It Is go ing to be a big success, because there are such oodles of people like Mrs. Aurella, who don't think and hate life as It Is or ever has been), well, prom ise me you will write a novel for me In which nobody dies young and noth ing unpleasant happens, excepting the kind of things that might happen to? well, for Instance, to us." "Two custom h-illt novels, eh?" ex claimed Leonard, drawing her pretty head down on his shoulder; "well, that one may pleuso poor old Aunt Aurella In one respect, too." "How's that?" somewhat suspici ously. ' "Hsppv ending," he grunted. And then they both giggled. Windsor Chair in History Should you have a Windsor chair, writes Catherine Shellnbarger In the Brooklyn Kagle magazine, remember It was brought Into vogue by King George I of Knglund. King George, talking to one of his fnrmer subjects, admired the humble seut on which he sat, the back of which was made of slender spindles. He thought so much of the chulr that he ordered a set made for Ids palace at Windsor and so established the popularity of the Windsor chair. Among famous Americans who were partial to Windsor chairs was Thomas Jefferson. On this chair, with wide arms that served as a writing desk, and which also had a doable seat, he wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Archery Butt shooting Is nn old Fngllsh term which meniif the same thing as target shooting. In the olden dnys the shoot Ing grounds were equipped with hanks of dirt, covered with sod. which formed the no-cniled butt. Over this sod was usually placed a piece of pa per to act as a target, and the term "butt shooting" was used to distin guish It from rovers. Itovlng consists In shooting at various tnrgets placed In fields at vnrylng distances. The archers shoot from one to another, which helps develop their judgment of distances, and did In the olden days mean quite a lot to the yeomen, whose business was shooting the how and arrow, and on dnys when they were not fighting they were In the fields practicing roving. The Personal Touch "I went Into a hat store the other day," an observing Individual re-" marked, "and the haberdasher said that no matter how carefully he placed a hat upon a man's head the prospective customer always gave It an extra touch, apparently to make It sit comfortably. Well, It Is the same way In fitting a person with eye glasses. After adjusting them correct ly the client will take a look at him self In the portable mirror, and then, Id a majority of cases, he will Jus: touch the spectacles, or the pince-nex, turn and twist his head to get the reflected effect, and be satisfied. But that little touch seems to be neces sary to effect a comfortable setting of the glasses, but In reality doesn't dis turb their position In the least" "Alaska" Not "Alaskan" Do not say "Alaskan," simply 'Alaska." The territorial department if education for Alaska objects to the 'n" ending of the adjective In Alas tan gold. Alaskan reindeer and Alas kan children, etc. The school bulletin lays: "When Callfomlans apeak ol their oranges they do not do so as Cat fornlan oranges. I.lkewlse It Is Fior ds grapefruit Iowa corn, Carolina totton, or Pennsylvania coal. It is In rumbent upon Alaska schools to let It >e Alaska gold, Alaska rtlmon." Tea for Plants Cold tea poured over the soli In ablch bouse ferns sre planted acts as i tonic and revives even dying ferns % HoneyrfHany lands Woman of Paleatlno Wearing Her Money Wealth at Ornaments. (Prepared r.T the Netlonel Geoirephle Society. Washington, D. C-> TIIK United States lias settled down to tlte use of the sntnll size paper money so completely that the occasional large hill that Is encountered seems awkward. One more chapter has been written In the long story of money. Man has used money In some form since the dawn of civilization, t Ish hooks and slave girls, beads, hawks and hounds, all have served as a medium of exchange. Knrly Virginians bought wives with tobacco. Once, It Is said, Mexican Indians used cacao Deans, until aboriginal crooks began making clay counterfeits, baked untl varnished to look like the real. The study of money, as un Instru ment of trade through the ages. In volves art, heraldry, and mythology; It leads to economics and politics and far into history. When kingdoms rose, often new moneys rose with them; and. when they fell, their moneys passed uwny. Nothing s|?:ikes a gov eminent like the depreciation of Its money. The very progress of civiliza tion Itself inny be largely measured by the pace at which the various moneys of the world have been standardized and accepted by International com merce. It was, to a large degree, the t quest for gold and silver, and their use In coined money, which led to the exploration and settlement of Amer ica, Australia, and South Africa The metal disk money of the West was born In I.ydla. at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, ubout -.000 yenrs ago. Cowrie, the lowly shell money of the antipodes, has through the ages been the most widely circulated rlvnl of the metal disk; but Its day of dominance has departed. Only Isolated commu nities still cling to It as money. Yet cowrie can boast that more people have used It than have clinked the metal disks In all their varieties. China's Metal Colns.^ The cash of China, coins w ith holes in them, still dominate the marts of many men In a considerable corner of the Asiatic world. There exist In scribed cash pieces attributed to 111.. 1U79 H. C. nnd slmllur pieces, unln scribed, believed to be earlier. Tbe tao. also of China, was one ot the first metal coins In the world. The word means "knife" or "sharped-edged Instrument." hence the name was ap plied to the razor-shaped coins of old j China. The earliest Chinese metal coins are believed to have been mlnlnture spades, unlnscrlbed and without per foration and with open shank for In serting a handle. Some authorities place them earlier than 'JiltSi II. C. Convenience for carrying Is accept ed as accounting for the introduction and long use of perforated coins by China and Its neighbors. From earliest times a string has been the poor roan's pocketbook. There have been many unique moneys In different countries. Nails were once so precious thnt they were used as money In Scotland and In New England in pre-rcvoltitlon days. And while the mark was skidding to zero after the World war, postmasters in remote parts of Germany used shgc nails for small-change purposes?they bad a fixed utility value. Bars of crystal salt are money lb many parts of Ethiopia. This medium of exchange, however, suffers deteriora tion in a strange way. It lias l?ecoine a nice courtesy, when meeting a friend, to pilfer a coin to be licked! So does the money lose weight through friendly hospitality, and it is to be hoped 1 lint the salt acts as a germi cide! The Island of Yap, of the Caroline group, neighbors in the remote way of the South sens with the Philippines nnd New Guinea, undoubtedly boosts the strangest of money. It is of stone and the coins are sometimes 12 feet in diameter and weight many hundreds of pounds! When Cattle Were Money. It is nearly 3.000 years back to the time of Homer, when there was no such tiling in the Western world as money. People bartered In the mar kets, exchanging suckling goats for woven rugs. There were neither dncats nor dollars In which to price them, nor was there an established measure of value. The habit of haggling, still prevalent, may have come down from those ancient days of barter. The idea of money was not yet born to that borderland of Europe and Asia that was then the West. The nearest approach to an article that would function us such was the milk-faced ox. This animal possessed one prime requisite of money. It was generally recognized as a tiling of value desired of nil men. Money must primarily lie something that every man wants, for which lie will exchange any of his or dinary corn modi ties, and the ox came nearer meeting this test 1,000 Ik C., in the triangle that was Greece, Egypt, and Palestine, than did any other ele ment of weaitji among the masses. The peoples from which Western civilization sprung were pastoral folk, their wealth' being represented in sheep and cattle. Gradually they came to measure other values by the unit of the herd, the ox. A little later armor was priced In oxen. A knight could buy n serviceable suit of armor for ten oxen. The# modern word "pecuniary.* from pecus. cattle, has its place In oar lan guage because cattle were once money. Sheep represented a lower monetary denomination. They were small change I Ten sheep equaled one ox. After copper was mined In Cyprus and pots made of it, these utensils came to he used for money. Later conveniently shaped strips of copper replaced pots as a medium of ex change and later still these were of a definite weight. When shrewd trad ers debased the copper by mixing cheaper metals with It. or gave the pieces u short weight. It became nec essary for the local government to step in, test the metal, and certify to its value hy a stamp. Thus the mod ern Idea of metal money of value was born. When copper became plentifol and therefore cheap. It was too bulky to serve as the principal money. Silver displaced it and ruled the money world for 2.000 years. In time the same thing happened with silver that had happened with copper. It became too bulky to figure In large transactions. Gold, which had always been in the background as money, was brought forward to become the standard money metall ?" Jf
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