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mm i ???? - . m 1 ' 1 ? . The Alamance Gleaner * . ? , # ?, t VOL, LVI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 7, 1930. NO. 27. im -^ wiwwffi ?* :t:>WM?WP I 1?Statue of George Washington being replared In Union square, New Tork, after remodeling of the park. I? Scene In Sansn Monica, Calif., during the Pioneer Day pnrade that was part of the celebration of the Centenary of the Covered Wagon. 3?New United States submarine V-5, declared to be the safest fighting craft afloat, being given Its preliminary test oft Provlncetown, Mass. 1 NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Dirigible R-100 Makes Safe Flight From Britain to Montreal, Canada. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Great Britain's big dirigibip, the R-lOO, mace a successful and uneventful crossing of the Atlantic ocean, taking ofT from Cardington, Wales, and reaching Montreal about 76 hours later. There, at St. Hubert airport, she was tied up to the moor ing mast that had been built for the purpose, and her passengers landed, well pleased with the trip. Until the airship reached the vicin ity of Newfoundland she maintained a speed of between 50 and 70 knots, but the ever-present fogs then forced a slowing down until she got well into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, having passed over the Belle Isle straits. While passing over Quebec the airship sustained some damage to the fabric covering one of the fins, and the mo tors were shut off until repairs had been made. This delayed the arrival at Montreal somewhat and prevented the tieing up of the ship to the moor ing mast until early Friday morning. Throughout the voyage radio commu nication was kept up with hases in Kngland and Canada and with ocean liners. The northerly route was tak en, following the great circle by way of north Ireland to a point south of Cape Farewell, Greenland, then to Belle Isle and along the St. Lawrence river to Montreal. Squadron Leader IT. S. Booth was In command, with four officers and a civilian crew of 39 men. Among the few passengers were Lieut. Com. Charles Dennistoun Burney, managing director of the firm that built the r 300; Lieut. Com. R. St. John Trentice of the British aircraft carrier Cour ageous, and Maj. G. H. Scott, famous British airship commander. {"'AXADA'S parliamentary elections ^ were watched with great interest because the results are likely to be Im portant to the United States as well as to the Dominion. The Liberal gov ernment, headed by Mackenzie King, was decisively defeated by the Con servatives, and Richard B. Bennett. Conservative chief, will be the new premier. Mr. King himself was re elected to parliament, but many mem bers of his cabinet lost out. these in cluding Finance Minister Charles A. Dunning, who drew up the budget In creasing tariffs against the United States and lowering them to Great Britain, which constituted the main issue of the campaign. A quick call to a session of the Ca nadian parliament is considered one certain result of the political upset. Canada's extension of tariff prefer ences to Great Britain, without exact ing tariff preferences In return, can be expected to be withdrawn or modified as the result of the election. The electors turned It down In defeating the government candidates. Canada. In other words, will make its trade treaties with the world, irrespective of empire ties and sentiment. The St. Lawrence seaway plan Is once more thrown in the realm of po litical controversy and uncertainty. Higher tariffs against the United States, In the absence of a Canadian American trade agreement, are to be expected under a Bennett premiership. STARTLING news came from China. A large Communist army took pos session of Changsha. capital of Hunan province, the government troops re tiring without making any defense, and the city of half a million inhab itants, a commercial, political and edu cational metropolis, was looted and partly destroyed by the Reds. Ten government buildings were burned, as were numerous foreign properties and the Japanese consulate, and the offices of the Standard and Texas Oil com panies were robbed. Wealthy resi dents who were unable to escape were tortured to death. The Red invaders proclaimed a Soviet republic. The burning and looting, says a dis patch from Shanghai, was carried on in a systematic manner. The city was divided into 50 wards, each ad ministered by a Communist leader with a group of riflemen. All power was centered in a supreme Soviet commit tee. Gangs of Communists, headed by squads of Red troops, surrounded buildings marked off by the supreme command for depredation. Orators proclaimed the Communist purpose "to distribute the surplus wealth," and selected followers en tered the buildings and transported furniture and valuables to the street, where they were auctioned off. The proceeds were pocketed, after which the coolies and town riffraff were invited to enter and complete the looting. After this the places were burned and the crowd moved on to the next building scheduled for de struction. More than 200 foreigners. 20 of them Americans, were at the summer resort at Kuling, near Kiukiang, and were considered to be in grave dan ger. On Wednesday the American gun boat Palos, which was approaching Changsha, was fired upon by Com munists and five of her crew wound ed. The Palos returned the fire, using machine guns and three-inch rifles at close range, and finally dispersed the Reds. The Palos had previously helped evacuate foreigners from Changsha and was returning to sur vey the ruins of the city. Two Amer ican missionaries. Rev. William Llngle of Salisbury, N. C., and Rev. Allen Cameron of Lawrence, Kan., remained in Changsha because they had con scientious objections against accepting protection from gunboats. T TNDER the guidance of Prohibition Director Amos W. \V. Woodcock, dry enforcement is to be carried out in a manner that will not be so likely to arouse the rage of the citizenry, Mr. Woodcock proposes to have the dry law agents trained "to act always as gentlemen" and to resort to the use of firearms only In self-defense. He called the administrators and spe cial agents all In to Washington and laid before them a statement of his policies which was said to have been approved by President Hoover and Attorney (leneral Mitchell. Schools will be set up to teach the agents "to use their brains rather than their brawn In discharging their duties," to train them In methods of gathering evidence, In knowledge of the law and in habits of discipline." Five major points were emphasized in the Woodcock statement aside from the proposal to maintain high per sonal standards for agents. These were: (1) Establishment of a system of dally reports to Washington by deputy administrators; (2) scientific research into snch problems as drunk enness statistics, alcoholism deaths, and hop and corn sugar production; (3) efforts to obtain more state aid in dry law enforcement; (4) efforts to secure more uniform sentences for violators; and (5) concentration upon the commercial liquor traffic rather than upon "pitiful, plcayunlsh, non commercial cases." Supervisors of Industrial alcohol permits also met In Washington and, with their chief. James M. Doran, con sidered liow they might best combine their efforts with those of the pro hibition enforcement unit President Hoover's law enforcement 1 commission will issue a second formal report of its work this fall. Arrange ments for formulation of the docu ment will be completed at a meeting here early in October. Leaders of nearly all the dry organ- I izations in the country issued a signed I declaration of policy which was looked upon by many as a recognition of the growing antagonism to prohibition en I forcement as it has been carried on in the past. In it they repudiate all en- j forcement policies that do not regard i and safeguard every personal right guaranteed by the Constitution, and , pledge themselves to a campaign of education. The declaration states it is the paramount purpose of the Eighteenth amendment to destroy traffic In intoxicating beverages, and that the enemies of prohibition try to make this appear as offensive sump tuary legislation. OUT of the welter of Democratic aspirants for the gubernatorial nomination in Texas, "Ma" Ferguson, former governor, and Ross S. Sterling, I wealthy Houston publisher, emerged in the lead, and the victor will be de termined in a run-off primary, since neither of them had a majority. State Senator Love, who led the successful bolt in Texas from A1 Smith In 1928, was among those badly beaten. Unit ed States Senator Morris Sheppard was renominated. There will have to be a run-off elec tion in Oklahoma also. The leaders In the Democratic race for governor were "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Frank Buttram; and for United States sen ator, Thomas P. Gore, the blind for mer senator, and Charles J. Wrights man. WITH virtually no opposition the j London naval treaty was passed by both houses of the British parlia ment and then was made effective so far as Great Britain Is concerned by receiving the formal approval of King George under quaint procedure Insti tuted during the reign of Henry VIII. T X LINE with the Hoover program * helping business. representative* of the various branches of the build ing industry and allied agencies of j finance met in Chicago and created a j permanent national conference on I contraction. Julius FT. Barnes, chair- I man of the national building survey conference last fall, presided and was , made head of a committee to complete j arrangements for the organization of the conference. D C SSI AN goods will not be kept out of this country merely because they come from * Soviet stale. This j In a sentence was the stand taken by President Hoover, and consequently Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman had to reconsider his de cision denying the entry of two ship loads of Hussian wood pulp at New York Imported by the Amtorg Trading corporation. Any action barring Soviet gocals the President held must , be based solely on the law applicable ; to all nations and designed to exclude > convict made goods and prevent "dump- ' Ing" practices on the part of countries competing in American trade. IP THE Wafdlsts or nationalists of Egypt succeed in their campaign against King Fuad. Abbas Hllml. former khedlve who was deposed by the Brit ish. may be restored to the throne. The British government Is said to be disposed to accept this resnlt, though both Itsly and France have declared their opposition. The Wafdlsts assert that so long as Fuad is on the throne there will be no peace In Egypt and no possibility of settling disputes with Great Britain. till WMUra Knrnie Ulies. 1 ? WAS NOT : | ACCUSTOMED | | TO PARLOR | I ? TRICKS | " l't' (? br D. J. w?l?b.) IT WAS greatly against the wishes of the Summers family thnt their daughter, Janet, accepted the po sition as assistant director of the "Falrleigh Summer Camp for City Children" at Lake of Tines. For sev eral weeks It had been the subject of considerable argument and Mrs. Sum mers bad wept on several occasions at the mention of it. "But, mother, there Is nothing at the seashore for me. 1 spent eight weeks there last summer and was bored to death. Nothing but dancing, bridge and motoring?that crowd won't even go swimming for fear of getting tanned! Sit around In flashy bathing suits under striped umbrellas and pose I I cannot waste another summer like that, and surely It won't be wasted If I can help K little children?poor, hungry little waifs?to get strong and well." "And so you call spending a summer with your family, associating with the best people on the cape as any other normal young woman should do, wast ing time, Janet?" Inquired Mrs. Sum mers plaintively as she Inspected the back of her exquisitely marcelled hair with a mirror. "And besides, the Leon ards have taken The Haven' for the summer and 1 had hoped?" Janet laughed and kissed her moth er's cheek. "So that Is what you had up your sleeve; Well, Nancy will have to do the society stuff for the family. Not even Andrew Leonard and his family tree and his millions coold tempt me away from the Falr leigh summer camp." ? ?????? "And now children," called Miss Janet Summers of New York and Cape Cod the third morning of the camp ing season, "we will race to the lake and duck. The first fire who get wet all over can drive to the post office with me. One! Two! Three!" and thirty children scampered down the In cline Into he lake. "Klne! Lizzie, Mabel, Arthur and you two boys were first. Now practice the swimming stroke I showed you yesterday and I am going to swim out to the raft. I'm coming right back." She was swimming lazily out beyond the raft when a voice came across the water. "Hey, youngster, you're getting pretty far out. Better go back. "I'm going to race yon In." and Janet caught a glimpse of a tousled wet head above the blue of the lake, a muscular brown arm cutting the water like a knife. She turned quickly and start ed back. She was an excellent swim mer and they touched bottom at the same time and turned to face each other. The man laughed. "Some swimmer! But?but, I guess you're not one of the youngsters after all. I'm Jim Falrlelgh, Miss?" "Summers, Mr. Falrlelgh. Assistant to Mrs. Raney and Mr. Gray. I'm so glad to know you?but I thought you were an old man I" and then he was surrounded by a happy, laughing group of children, thin little arms encircling his legs, the air filled with shouts of Mr. Jim Is here! Mr. Jim?" An bour later he waded hack Into the water and struck out with a tine overarm stroke toward his camp on the opposite shore. Janet stood watch ing blm for a moment. "He la so dltrerent rrom Andrew and the rest. He llkea to do things worth while I Come, children, let'a practice that stroke ao we ran ahow Mr. Jim tomorrow. One, two. three, one, two three." and beneath her breath ahe was saying "Mr. . . . Jim . . . Falrleigh . . . Jim . . . Falrleigh . . . Jim . . ." He was a dally visitor at the camp, sometimes swimming across the lake, other times driving up In hla battered old car filled with vegetables, fruit, books, and oo Saturdays there were watermelons or a freexer of Ice cream for the Sunday dinner And there were bouquets of garden flowers for Janet, old-fashioned blossoms?phlox, nasturtiums, sweet Williams and pans lea Those are the only kind I grow In my garden." he said the first time he brought them. "They were my mother's favorites. 1 hope you like' them, too." He was a regular Sunday dinner guest and In the late afternoon as the sun began to disappear behind the pines and the lake took on a silvery shimmer under the twilight he would alt and tell stories to a group of quiet, contented children; stories of the fairies and the legends of Ireland; places he had visited on bis winter travels; then he would sing the Home 1 y old folk songs and the plaintive [ hymns he had been taught by his mother, his clear, rich tenor carrying the melody sweetly Into the early evening air. It was on one of these Sundays that the Falrleigh camp had the visitor?Andrew Leonard of New York and Cope Cod?gloved, hatted, mustached. io a very smart maroon roadster driven by a colored chauffeur. His clothes spoke eloquently of Fifth avenue and Jim Falrleigh In his soft shirt with collar open at the neck, tweed knickers, heavy shoes, looked Incongruous beside the city visitor. Andrew Leonard Was frankly bored and refused an Invitation to stay to sur<per. He had Just come up to set how Janet was. to bring messages from her family; her mother desired that she plan to come to the Cape before the season was entirely over, and to see what she was really doing and if she was happy, i "Of course I am happy, Andrew. Tell mother that, and also tell her 1 will not be back In time to go to the tte seashore. 1 am going to stay un til the camp breaks up.** | Jim Falrleigh stood beside her in the road acd watched the maroon roadster disappear. "Never envied those city fellows ranch," he said halt ingly, "until 1 met you. I knew right away that you were accustomed to parlor tricks?but I have been bo busy working and living?that Is. what I call living, I haven't had time to polish up much. Maybe, if mother bad lived?I'm sorry now?" The week before the camp broke up he asked Janet to come to his cabin for lunch. She was to bring delicate little Tim Ileilly and crippled Martha. He met them on the porch, an apron tied about his waist, a spoon in his baud. On the threshold Janet stopped short. The long living room was fin Ished In redwood, the massive stone fireplace at one end flanked hy well filled bookcases. On a white bear rug before the hearth a collie stretched Its yellow leugth and there were, warm-toned rugs, reading lamps, coin fortable chairs, a piano, and good prints on the walls. "Lovely, perfect." exclaimed Janet. "Why haven't you Invited me here bo fore, Mr. Jim? It Is beautiful." "Why haven't I Invited you here be fore?" he repented softly. "I?I couldn't, because 1 knew If I were to see jou where I have visualized you so often I couldn't keep from telling you what Is In my heart, and I?I mustn't do that. You see." and he smiled down at her winsomely, little Tim pressed close against his shoul der, "I couldn't ask yon to overlook my lack of parlor tricks." ? ?????? Miss Janet Summers of New York and Cape Cod sat before her dressing table, an exquisite corsage of orchids In her lap, reading the small card at tached to the lavender tulle. "If you wear these tonight I will know your answer will be?what 1 hone It will be. Cottom.ua Mmml ?! Remrdy The south, sections of which have suffered from time to time with pellagra, has had the remedy Id a cheap form within the reach of all. Exhaustive testa have Indicated that cottonseed meal Is, next to yeast, the most prolific source of vitamin O, the anti-pellagra vitamin. This vitamin, which Is essential to life. Is found also In eggs, lean meat. Hah and milk. In some sections where large families and small Incomes are found often these foods are denied to the members because of their cost. Cottonseed meal Is also rich In vitamin B. which Is aDtl berlberl. Metal Creates Interest Metal expresses the mind, while the other materials express the emotions, ns a rule. We depend upon musses of masonry for Impreasiveneas. but we use metal where we want to create Interest. Deep Electric Faraace What Is claimed to be the deepest electric furnace In the world Is In o|> eratlon In a South African mine. This furnace, which Is worked at a depth of 8Jl)0 feet, was Installed for the heating of carbon drill ateeL "ANDREW." She looked at the lovely silver eve ning frock on her bed; at the silver slippers on her feet, and then she closed her eyes. She was hack In that redwood-lined camp at take o* Pines, a yellow collie lay before the fireplace and fine blue eyes smiled down at her from beneath a shock of onmly hair, and instead of the dellcnte-toned blos soms before her hand caressed a rude bouquet of sweet william, phlox, spicy nasturtiums and pansies. "Llzette, I want to send a telegram ( quick, and will you pack my trunk? j Just my camping togs and sports dresses, Llzette. and heaps of aprons And you can put these orchids In wa ter. I am not wearing them tonight" On the telegram she wrote: "Don't care shout parlor tricks. You are all that counts. Coming tomor row." [j Greater Rumania One of Bucharest's Modern Putlic Buildings. (Prepared by the National Geographic Society. Waahlacton. D. C.? RUMANIA, the latent of the world's monarchies to change kings, has undergone such great changes in the past dozen years that It has in effect hat. r blood less revolution. This perioo has seen the distribution of b/iUU.OiJO acres of land to more than 1.400.<*X> peasants. Before the war Kumnnia was a coun try of the landed rich and the land- J less poor. Today the maximum hold- ' Ing permitted to one individual Is 1.235 acres. King and nobles gave op their estates to fulfill ttn demands of 1 the agrarian reform. What Bussia. Mexico and other countries have done In the matter of land distribution at the cost of many lives and much money, Rumania accomplished without ? tlmt But reform was not without cost. Uncertainties', lock of organization to meet new conditions, and lack of transportation facilities increased the cost ? f borrowed money to 12 and 14 per cent. Credit is tight in a country where all the money in circulation must pass through the national treas ury as taxes three times per year. Greater Rumania Is nearly three times as large as pre-war Rumania. The new nation took In Transylvania, the Banat, Rueovina and Bessarabia, and has yet to digest tbem. ,Old Ru mania was the size of England. Great er Rumania is larger than England adding to itself Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Like the units of Great Britain, each Is different; Bessarabia Is an extension of the Russian black earth prairie; Bucovina, a forested re gion; Transylvania an upland notable for Industries as well as agriculture; the Banat a lowland. Farming Comas First. After the war Rumania saw visions of an industrial future. The country has ample resources: oil, water pow-r. wood, ore, and a good labor supply. Ten years have dimmed the vision hot have not wiped It not. Eight out of ten Rumanians still are farmers so the nation has decided to make a good Job of farming befare tnrnlng to In dustry. Co-operatives have been or ganized. Groups af peasants find they can affi .d to bny American farm ma chinery. A grain grading law was passed In 1023. 311k culture starting from nothing has increased to an en terprise enlisting 4.000 workers and sis.noo.oon capital. Sln'e the World war Kcmanians have turned definitely from wheat to American corn. Greater acreage is planted In corn 'ban wheat. Corn mush displaces bread as a national food. Bessarabia looks like Kansas. But In 1923 a second drought bit the country. The corn crop was a failure and Rumania, a country which has ex ported cereals for years, hsfl to Import corn. The government acted to fore stall 'amine in some regions. The similarity of parts of Rumania to Kansas extends to sunflowers for which both regions arc famous. In Rumania sunflowers are a standard crop; 394,355 acres were planted In sunflowers last year. Oil pressed from sunflower seeds serves as a constituent of batter substitutes. Foar foundation stones support lift In Romania; cereals, oil. lumber, and lire stock. Production of oil and lam ber has progressed rigorously. oo| enough, howertr. to offset losses is cereals and UTe stock. Buys American Automobiles. Despite the depression, and lack ol roads, sales of automobiles, most ol them American, continue to Increase In 1928 12.000 were sold?a record Many of them go to the oil field* where they permit the engineers It charge of outlying wells to get tt Ploesti occasionally for the enjoyroem of companionship In the Internationa dub. Automobiles are the biggest Iten of American Imports Thlcb includi accessories. Alms, oil field equipment radios, phonographs and records, en glnea. Insecticides and electric refrlg era tors to the amount of 112.000.000 Walnuts and fur skins are Ramanla'i chief exports to the Coiled State* Anion; the improvements to which BumanU looks forward is the reclam ation of vast p.reus of swanr.p land. Seven thoosar.d square miles of marsh will afford ample land for *he remain ing landless peasants, numbering abont 000.1JOU. Bucharest (Eacnresti), capital ot | Bo man; a. has Ions been known as "The Little Paris of the Balkans." It has many earmarks of the French capital. One of Its wid; tree-lined tboroaghfhres is caned the "Little Champs Ki>see" and there is an Are ?Ie Triomphe. both of which suggest the atmosphere of chdKs. The bridle paths flanking the thoroughfare con stantly resound with the thuo of heads of blooded horses, mounted cy smart looking men anc woto: and the seemingly endless mass of pedestrians strolls in a gay mood with no apparent destination. Bucnarest Has nric snopa. Bucharest Impress*-* the traveler from the time he emerges from one of its modern hotels downtown SlMfs ns fine as can be found jr most cap itals of tl?? wortd line the business streets. Behind large plate glass win dows the American traveler finds such familiar articles as American made flashlights. radios and phonographs. It is not necessary to find an auto mobile salesman to see American au tomobiles on display. The streets are fnll of them. In front of a hotel or business building six to eight of a dozen antomobiles are popular Ameri can makes and across the street a billboard plastered wna an adver tisement of a popular car made In Michigan. The doorways of the large movie or ci ?ema houses display bright ; colored advertisements with the name* I of American actresses emblazoned in large letters. Bucharest is a wa'led town, without the waif. Crowded. as was the cus tom when city walls were the main defense. Bucharest drops iway from ? the slitter of the C*alea Victoriei and the boulevards to the run-down Orien talism of the outer sections and then abruptly to the empty, dusty plain. Its popu'ation has more than doubled in the last decade and houses, as else where In eastern Europe, are at a premium. It requires influence, per sistence and bribery to set into on? of the few hotels the main i.t tract foes of which are the dining rooms, ofter open to the sky. Suhrounded as It is by rich farming country, Rucharer? has not lacked for food, and the restaurants are well filled at all times. The Kb mania a loves the uniform, and high heels on soft laced boots like those of tbe French aviators suit the fancy of the young dandies whose perfumed mas tacbes preserve their dignity by reach ing straight out instead of turning op at the ends. The women are chic. Some Striking Contrasts. The few fine buildings are mixed in with unassuming structures which would never be it home la Paris ot Berlin, and opposite the imposing Wat College Tzigane women may be work ing at a noisy power saw which is re ducing crooked poles to firewooa The few main streets are lined with mod ern buildings and new residence ave nues are stretching out toward the periphery of the circular city; but in the crowded center of the town the 1 confusing litter of tiny streets and alleys reminds one of a rabbtt warren. In the market place, the traveler ' gets a glimpse of the rural folk who ! cluster about stands of vegetables which they bring to the city from the rolling farm land nearby. Here the ? men seem to display no particular type i of costume, most of them wearing > European coats and trousers and there t are as many derbies as there are caps I and soft hats and fez-shaped woolen head coverings. On the other hand the women folk blaze forth In bright colored shawls which cover the bead and shoulders, and aprons with stripes of a half dozen unblending colors. Their dresses are Just abort enough to reveal In the summer time that all i feet arc not shod - . W ' 4 Vl
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