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VOL. LVI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY APRIL 17, 1930. ~ NO. 11.
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1?"The Beeches," In Northampton, Mass., purchased by ex-President Coolldge for his residence. 2?U. S. S.
California, flagship of the battle fleet, passing through the Panama canal on the way to maneuvers at Guanta
namo. 3?Ras Taffari, who has proclaimed himself emperor of Abyssinia, following the defeat of the rebels nnd the
death of Empress Zaudltu.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Illinois Republicans Name
Ruth Hanna McCormick
For U. S. Senator.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Ruth hanna Mccormick,
daughter of one former United
States senator and widow of another,
may be the first woman to be elected
a member of highest deliberative body
in the land. Her nomination for this
high office by the Republicans of
Illinois was an event of national im
portance, and it also has international
implications for the chief issue she
raised in her primary campaign was
American adherence to the World court,
which she unreservedly opposes. Sen
ator Charles S. Deneen, whose seat
was the prize in the contest, favors
such adherence with the reservations
now pending, and his decisive defeat
must be taken to indicate that the
> Republican voters of Illinois stand
with Mrs. McCormick in tills matter.
This may nst be true of Chicago,
where the fight was complicated and
probably decided by party factional
strife.
If Mrs. McCormick is to be elected
she must defeat at the polls that for
mer Illinois senator and seasoned
political campaigner, Col. James Ham
ilton Lewis, who easily won the Dem
ocratic nomination. The colonel Is an
avowed wet and says he will make
his campaign largely upon the liquor
issue, with attacks on the Hoover ad
ministration and the Hoover policies
thrown in for good measure. Mrs.
McCormick has supported the Eight
eenth amendment and the Volstead
act and may expect the hearty sup
port of the various dry organizations.
Aside from personalities and Issues,
the victory of Mark Ilanna's daughter
is notable as. "the first conspicuous
and unequivocal acknowledgement of
the full implication of the Nineteenth
amendment," in the words of the Chi
cago Tribune. As such It aroused
the enthusiasm of the nation's women
and the interest of every one. Mrs.
McCormick is now a congressman at
large, and among the first to con
gratulate her were the other six wom
en who are members of the lower
house. No woman ever lias been
elected to the senate though Mrs. Fel
ton of Georgia served for two days
in 1922 by gubernatorial appointment.
T OBBYING activities of the Meth
odlst board of temperance, prohi
bition and public morals were the
subject of a warm Interchange of
opinions before the senate committee
on lobbies. Congressman Tinkham of
Massachusetts appeared before the
committee to ask that the political
doings of the board be Investigated,
and he supported his case wltb much
documentary evidence as well as with
vigorous argument. Senator Walsh
of Montana, although a Catholic, came
to the defense of the Methodist or
ganization. Tinkham, It may be un
necessary to say, is a wet and Walsh
is a dry.
Tinkham next day presented a sim
ilar rase against the Federal Council
of Churches and the Anti-Saloon
league, and the committee decided to
call for the books and records of the
three organizations.
FINDING the adoption of a com
plete live-power treaty Impossible
at this time, the naval parley dele
gates In London decided to quit after
Signing a pact, the outlines of wbicb
were stated as follows:
A five-power agreement between
Great Britain, America, Japan, France
and Italy on the following terms:
1. Postponement for five yenrs of
replacement of capital ships sched
uled by the Washington treaty In 1022.
2. Extension of the aircraft carrier
category to Include carriers not ex
ceeding 10,000 tons, the armament of
which shall be limited to six inch
guns.
3. Definition of coast guard and
other small ships exempt from limi
tation.
4. Classification of warships and
methods for permanent limitation by
global and category tonnage.
A five-power agreement prohibiting
the destruction of merchant ships by
submarines, unless the passengers and
crew of the captured craft are placed
In safety.
A three-power agreement between
America, Great Britain and Japan on
the lines previously given In these
columns, providing for reduction of
battleship fleets and limitation of
cruisers, destroyers and submarines
as In the Reed-Matsodalra plan.
This entire progrem was announced
by Secretary Stlmson with the full
approval of the other delegates and
was announced In parliament by
Prime Minister MacDonald. Mean
while Brland, French foreign minister,
and Dino Grand), chief of the Italian
delegation, had had a conference and
hgreed that their nations could not
yet reach an accord In the matter of
navies, but that further discussions
should take place In Geneva when the
League of Nations meets In May. >
M. Brland later explained that
France Is ready to pledge not to con
struct any capital ships during the
Interim until 1930. unless Germany,
through building additional units of
the Ersatz Preussen type, forces her
to do so.
It was understood the proposed
treaty and Instruments would be
ready for signing by April 17 and that
the American delegation would sail
for home April 22 on the Leviathan.
DRY law violations and prosecu
tions are increasing the popula
tion of the federal prisons at the rate
of one every 08 minutes, according to
statistics issued by the Department of
Justice. Between June 90, 1929, and
April 1, 1930, the number of federal
prisoners both In federal penal Insti
tutions and local jails, mounted from
19,349 to 25,620, an Increase of 0,277
In nine months.
Approximately 75 per cent of the
Increase, according to the Department
of Justice estimates, was due to con
victions under the Volstead and Jones
laws.
THE administration of the $20,000,- '
000 Fanners' National Grain cor
poration, the first national co-opera
tive set up by the federal farm board,
was tnrned over at a meeting In Chi
cago to stockholders representing 21
regional farmers' grain marketing as
sociations.
Nineteen farmer stockholders were
named on the new board of dlsectors
of the grain sales co-operative, which
takes the place of the original board
which Incorporated the organization.
Two of these original directors were
dropped?P. A. Lee, Grand Forks,
N. D.. and H. O. Keeney, Omaha, Neb.
The five new directors Vlded are:
E. E. Kennedy, Kankakee. IIU Farm
era' Union; C. B. Steward. Omaha,
Neb.. Farmers' West Central Grain co- j
operative; Oscar Slosser, Astoria, Ohio,
Ohio Farmers' Grain and Supply as
sociation; F. J. Wllmer, Rosalia.
Wash., president North Pacific Grain
Growers' association, and W, J. Knhrt.
Minneapolis, Northwest Grain asso
ciation.
C. E. Huff, 8al!na, Kan., was elected
president; John Manley, Enid. Okla*
vice president, and Lawrence Farlow,
Bloomlngton, 111., secretary.
MAHATMA GANDHI'S campaign
against the British government
In India was not going quite to his
liking, although the movement wag
spreading In various districts. The
trouble Is that the English refrained
from martyrizing him personally.
Two of the ascetic leaders' sons and
numerous others were arrested for
violating the government salt monop
oly laws, and one of the sons was
promptly sentenced to prison. But
Gandhi, up the time of writing, had
not been taken Into custody. An
noyed by the tactics of the British
authorities, who were seizing the Il
licit salt the Nationalists were mak
ing from sea water, Gandhi so far
abandoned his non-resistance policy
as to advise his followers to hang
onto the salt If possible. The Indian
women are taking an Increasingly
prominent part In the passive resist
ance campaign.
TROUBLES for the Chinese Na
tionalist government are multiply
ing. Not only Is there open warfare
between It and Gen. Yen Hsl-shnn,
ruler of ShansI province, but now the
rapid growth of Communism, In the
southern provinces Is cnuslng great
alarm. Wealthy Cantonese merchants
and bankers are co-operating with the
government of Canton In raising a
fund and equipping a "Chinese Anti
Red army" which Is to be trained by
foreign military tacticians.
RAS TAFFARI, who became co
rnier of Abyssinia In 1928, has
proclaimed himself emperor. This
action Is the sequel of the crushing
defeat of revolting tribes, the killing
In battle of Rns Gugas Walt and the
death next day of the Empress Zau
ditu, wife of Has Gugas.
CALVIN COOLIDGE has completed
two sections of the 500-word his
tory of the United States which Is to
be Inscribed on Mount Itushmore In
the Black Hills, and they have been
made public. They are as follows:
"In the year of our Lord, 1770, the
people declared the eternal right to
seek happiness, self-government, and
the Divine duty to defend that right
at any sacrifice.
"In 1787, assembled In convention,
they made a charter of perpetual
union of free people of sovereign
states, establishing a government of
limited powers, under an independent
President, congress, and court,
charged to provide securities for all
citizens In their enjoyment of liberty
equality, and Justice."
The other sections will deal with ex
panslon of American territorial domln
Ion westward, the Louisiana purchase
the admission of Texas, the admlsslor
of California, the settlement of bound
ary questions with England and Oregor
and the catting of the Panama canal
ONE hundred years ago. on Aprl
10, 1830, eighty-one frontier*
men with a train of covered wagont
get out from St Louis to blaze a trai
to and across the Rockies. So, or
Thursday of last week, another banc
of men with ten covered wagons bor
rowed from historical societies am
collectors started from the same plan
on the route to Oregon. This was the
beginning of a series of events ar
ranged to celebrate the Coverec
Wagon centennial. There will Is
festive gatherings all along the Ore
gon trail and the whole affair will las
until December 29 In accordance wltl
a proclamation by President Hoover.
HOG ISLAND, which during the
war was the biggest ship yard li
the world, has been sold by the gov
eminent to Philadelphia and will b<
transformed Into the largest alr-ma
rine-rail terminus In tbe country. The
Quaker city pays Uncle Sam g3,000,
000 tor a total area of 946 acres,
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Easter! There is something In the
very name that suggests all that the
day stands for. Hope, Faith, Resur
rection! Its sound carries us back
across the centuries to that first
glorious Easter morning, when the
bereaved women came to the tomb
and found that death had been con
quered. It brings us a vision of tbe
white-robed smgel in the sepulcher,
saying to these weeping women: "Be
not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of
Nazareth, which was crucified: He is
risen; He is not here." And the com
fort and hope of the words fill us
with joy, for even Nature today re
echoes the words, as we witness tbe
miracle of resurrection all around us.
Every field and meadow, every open
ing bud and blossom, the glory and
brightness of the spring day, all
bring hkppy assurance to our heart.
All that is beautiful never really
dies; each year there is added beauty
and loveliness as the world awakens
from its winter sleep. And so, too,
we feel, that we shall know that end
less life and resurrection in that far,
fair country that awaits beyond. The
promise that He made is still with us,
and Easter day, with all its joy and
all that it stands for, assures us that
It will come true.
KATHERINE EDELMAN.
((?). 1930. Western Newspaper Union.)
WELCOME EASTER
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Thy voice of heart and spirit
raise,
O, Church of God, with songs
of praise.
Be ever blest, our Easter morn.
When hope was born.
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Most Beautiful Festival
The religious observance*, past and
present, connected with Easter vary,
and are Innumerable, but primarily
they have one Idea: the festival of the
resurrection of Christ, observing It as
the principal feast of the Christian
era.
In every home and In every church
It Is a significant, spontaneous and
universally beautiful festival; a day
of rejoicing and happiness.
In every pulpit in the world on
Easter messengers proclaim that man
shall overcome all his enemies, con
quering even death Itself.
In the story of Gethaemane and the
darkness of Calvary and story of
Christ triumphant, the world takes
new courage and sees goodness and
right triumphant over sin and Injus
tice, humility conquering pride and
hate cast out by love.
Saw Triumph of idaals
The Resurrection was as great a
reality In the experience of the dis
ciples as the Crucifixion. For them
the triumph of Rome and Its allies
over their hopes and their faith was
short-lived. The dawn of Sunday
brought them assurance that the real
triumph lay with the Ideals which
Jesus nad proclaimed. From that
hour forward tbey were convinced that
Be was right
SONG AT EASTER
By Charles Hanson Town#
If this bright lily
Can IIto one* more,
And its whits promts#
B# as bsfors,
Why can not ths great ston#
B# morsd from His door?
If the green grass
Ascend and shake
Year after year.
And blossoms break
Again and again
For April's sake,
Why can not He,
From the dark and mold,
Show as again
His manifold
And gleaming glory,
A stream of gold?
Faint heart, be sore
These things mast be.
See the new bad
On the old tree! ? ? ?
If flowers can wake.
Oh, why not He?
?-Woman's Home Companion.
Might of Christianity
in the Resurrection
The Enster Gospel, which we cele
brate by our greatest religious festi
val, with Its truth of Immortality and
Resurrection, Is the heart, center and
life of Christianity. Paul prays that
"I may know Christ and the power of
His resnrrectlon."
This great fact has ever been the
propelling power of Christianity
Christ was comparatively unknown
and was "despised and rejected of
men," when He died upon the cross.
But when He arose, triumphant over
the powers of darkness, death and
hell, declaring, "All power is given to
me In heaven and on earth," and say
ing, "Lo, I am with you always!" then
His weak nnd terrified little band of
disciples felt themselves Imbued with
Irresistible power.
And In the strength of the Resurrec
tion, and of the leadership of the risen
Christ, they carried the great message
hither and thither, not to Judea alone,
but to the farthest ends of the earth.
Their hearts aflame with their mighty
Gospel, no persecutions could chill
their ardor; neither the Jaws of lions,
nor the nails of the cross, nor burn
ing faggots of the stake, could silence
their testimony.
Eactcr Finery
Popular observances, superstitions
and customs attend on the observance
of Easter day. One of these Is the
donning of fresh and attractive ut
tlre; a custom originated In religious
ceremonies nnd changing In form with
the years until It now means merely
a donning of holiday garments In hon
or of the happy day. The traditional
Easter bonnet Is no longer material
for the annual Joke since the line of
demarcation between leaving oft the
winter lut and putting on the summer
. one Is not regulated by Easter, as It
used to be In grandma's day, hut Is
now entirely a matter of style and
milady's purse.
Nature's Voice
At Easter time, above all others,
heaven and earth meet, and all na
ture is singing and humming and tril
ling . . . It's our fault If we don't
hear It, our fault If we can only en
vision adding machines . . . out
fault If we let April Fool's day take
precedence of glorious Easter In our
lives.?Eos Angeles Times.
EGGS LEFT BY BUNNY
Who uM rabbits don't lay Sfft?
This jronaf lady saaau to hara a hit
of weighty oridsace to pros* that
thoy do.
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' ^sterjMorrv^^pl
Roman Soldier Tells
of the Resurrection
I was a Roman soldier in my prime;
Now age is on me and the yoke of
time.
I saw your Risen Christ, for 1 am he
Who reached the hyssop to Him on
the tree;
And 1 am one of two who watched
beside
The sepulcher of Him we crucified.
All that last night 1 watched with
sleepless eyes;
Great stars arose and crept across
the skies.
The world was all too still for mortal
rest.
For pitiless thoughts were busy in
my breast.
The night was long, so long, it
seemed at last
I had grown old and a long life had
passed.
Fur off the hills of Moah, touched
with light.
Were swimming in the hollow of the
night.
I saw Jerusalem all wrapped in cloud.
Stretched like a dead thing folded in
a shroud.
Once in the pauses of our whispered
talk
1 heard a something on ths garden
walk.
Perhaps it was a cricp leaf lightly
stirred?
Perhaps the dream?note of a waking
bird.
When suddenly an angel burning
white
Came down with earthquake in the
breaking light,
And rolled the great stone from the
sepulcher.
And mixed the morning with a scent
of myrrh.
And lo the Dead had risen with the
day;
The Man of Mystery had gone His
way 1
Years hare I wandered, carrying my
shame;
Now let the Tooth of Time eat out
my name.
For we, who all the Wonder might
hare told,
Kept silence, for our mouths were
stopped with gold.
?Edwin Markham.
Little Likelihood of
Fixed Date for Easter
Fixing the date of Easter Sunday
by the phases of an arbitrary moon
has required higher mathematics, and
has resulted In much confusion in the
past. For Instance, St. Augustine re
lates that In the year 3S7 the church
of Gaul kept Faster on the 21st of
March; those of Italy on the 18th of
April, and those of Egypt on the 25th
of April. In one year, about the mid
dle of the Eighth century, an English
king celebrated the Easter festival
while his queen was fasting and keep
ing I'nlm Sunday. They were follow
ing different teachers. There hss long
been an agitation for a fixed date for
Easter, now sponsored by the League
of Nations, but there has always been,
and there still Is. opposition to any
change.?Pnthflnder Magazine.
Spring Conn With Easier
Easter Is a restless festival. If 700
aren't coming you're going, and no
matter which It Is, you're never still
very long. It's the smell of spring In
the air. It doesn't make mnch differ
ence what the calendar says about the
first day of spring, because nobody
ever believes It's really here until
Easter bss arrived. Then the violets
and tbe crocuses csn come out all they
want to without being afraid of In
fringing on tha/rights of winter.
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It Eastertide the skies are blue,
And birds are flittbf to aad fre?;
bad many sweet end leader things
Speak of the life we long to kaew.
Jlies fair aad daffodils
Vie with eacb other ia their geld,
Ud tell that oace again for as
The Easter message doth unfold.
rhe world is fall of life aod light.
Of hopes revered aad joy restored}
Jpoo the earth, with lavish baodt
Its blessiags kindly heaven has
poured.
had deep ia every trusting heart
Eternal peace aad joy abidet
ror love has triumphed o'er the tomb,
Aad gladness crowns the Eastertide.
?Wisconsin Agriculturist*
Religion Led Man Out
of Spiritual Darkness
The greatest moral progress that
he human race has made has been
inder the Influences of the Christian
?eiigton. and in that religion the
.vents of Hood Friday and Easter are
>f the highest interest and signlfi
?ance. The supreme martyrdom of a
inpernatoral personality and Bis as
hen t lea t! on by the miracle of the
lesurrectlon create the Christian re
Igion. The teacher who taught as
>ne having authority and not as the
icribes became by these events the
Personification of a religion, and one
hat has led mankind In its greatest
ldrances. He established an ethical
:onnectlon of the greatest power of
nspiratlon between man and his Cre
itor. Easter became a glorified Pass
over, commemorating emancipation
From spiritual darkness and from the
lies that bound man to the lower Of
fers of creation, and conferring the
Freedom of the soul, the new birth of
man's mind and heart, the beginning
of a career which has taken man
away from the companionship of the
lower orders of life and has put him
on the pathway that leads to the an
gels.?St Louis Post-Dispatch.
OUTDOOR REJOICING
Forest Lawn Manorial Park at
Glendale, Calif., oheie iay<nin
Easter services are beM.
Glorious Message That
Easter Brings to All
Easter comes with the opening earth
pouring forth Its wealth of lovely
greenery, and bnds promising beauty
and fruition later on. It calls to ns
to cheer up. to lift up heart and bead,
because from the dead, past winter,
has come life breathing spring. It
calls us to remember that now, since
Arlmnthean Joseph's garden brought
forth the great glorious Flower of our
rare. Just as then and today It brings
forth splendid lilies from dry, bard
bulbs:
Men may rise on stepping atones
Of thalr dead solves to higher things.
That we can leave our old doings
and fallings all behind, as a snake'
leaves Its old skin behind, and having
all forgiven, go on to brighter, happier
days, with tbls certainty that what
ever may be doubtful to us now, of
this we are certain, that everything
will be better for us on the other side
of winter, when the eternal spring has
comet
Greater of FutiTil*
Easter Is the Church's supreme fes
tival. It sounds the highest symphony
of Christianity. It echoes the sub
llmest oratorio of Faith. It Is tbe
sunrise of Uope over this darkened
world. On It the outburst of angeUe
song at the Nativity attains Its most
exultant note.
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