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The Alamance Gleaner VOL. LVI. ' * GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1930. NO. 33. 1?View in the water front section of Santo Domingo after the terrible hurricane that wrecked the city and killed about 4,000 persons. 2?Peruvian cavalry guarding the United States embassy in Lima following the revolt that overthrew President Leguia. ?German battleship Hindenburg, sunk at Scapu Flow and raised by the British, being taken by tugs to Kosyth to be broken up for Junk. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Results of Maine Election and the Primaries in Other States. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NE state election and a bunch of primaries served tQ keep up the Interest in politics. From the varied results the advocates of repeal or mod ification of prohibition derived consid erable comfort, believing that the big dry majority In congress will be some what reduced by November elections. In the Maine election the Repub licans were victorious, putting their candidates in every major oflice. Gov. William Tudor Gardiner was reelect ed, defeating Edward C. Moran, Jr. Congressman Wallace H. White, Jr., of Lewiston was chosen to succeed Senator Arthur F. Gould by a large majority, and all four seats In the lower house were won by Republicans. The Hoover administration was the main issue, and though the Repub licans won, their majorities were much cut down as compared with those of two years ago. Of the primaries, those of the Re publicans In Michigan were the most Interesting. Senator James Couzens, who is a moderate wet, won renomina tion over Chase S. Osborn, dry. Rep resentative Louis C. Crampton, a dry leader in the house and recognized as the spokesman of the Anti-Saloon league, was defeated by Jesse P. Wol cott, an avowed wet, and three other wet candidates for the house won nominations, at least one of them beating a dry. Wilbur M. Brucker, attorney general, defeated former Gov. Alex J. Groesbeck for the guberna torial nomination. In Detroit on the same day Frank Murphy was elected mayor to succeed Charles Bowles who was recalled in July. Briefly, here are results in other primaries: South Carolina?Democrats nom inated James Byrnes, a dry, for the senate, defeating Senator Cole Blease. Colorado?Republicans chose George II.' Shaw, opposed by the Anti-Saloon league, for the Phipps seat In the sen ate, turning down W. V. Hodges, In dorsed by the dry organization. Ed ward P. Costigan was nominated by the Democrats. I^ouisiana?Gov. Huey Long defeated Senator Ransdell for the Democratic senatorial nomination after a sensa tional campaign. New Hampshire?Republicans noro Inated John G. WInant for governor. Democrats named Albert W. Noone, eighty-four years old and a wet, for both governor and senator. Delaware?Republicans renominated Senator Hastings and Congressman R. G. Houston, both dry; Irenee DuPont, Republican leader, announced he would support former Senator Thomas F. Bayard, wet, whom the Democrats nominated for the senate. Washington?John F. Miller, vet eran dry congressman from Seattle, defeated for renominatlon by Repub licans by Ralph A. Horr, an active wet. Georgia ? Democrats renominated Senator W. J. Harris and chose G. II. Cars well for governor. Arizona?George W. P. Hunt won the Democratic gubernatorial nomina ? tion for the eighth time. ENTRY of another woman candidate has made the senatorial campaign In Illinois a three-cornered affair, with ?mail projections In the shape of sev eral minor aspirants who have no Chinee of election- James Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic nominee, con tinues his serene way as a wringing < wet. Representative Ruth Ilanna Mc- j Cormicfc, regular Republican nominee, found it necessary or advisabib to i modify her dry stand to the extent of promising to abide by ttie result of the referendum on prohibition. There upon Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill en tered the race by petition as an un- i qualified dry. She received the in dorsement of the state Anti-Saloon < league, but the W. C. T. U. declined to pledge her its support, concentrat ing instead on the referendum. Col onel Lewis said he feared the battle between the two women would work to his disadvantage, but his appre hension?if any?was not shared by ids supporters. The activities of Sen ator Nye's campaign fund probing committee, it was thought by many, would help rather than harm Mrs. McCormiek's chances. SOUTH AMERICA revolutions some limes are swift in action. The one in Argentina is a case In point. With in a few days the military Junta headed by Gen. Jose Uriburu gained complete control of the country and President Yrigoyen, sick and aban doned by his cabinet, was forced to resign. Later he was placed aboard the cruiser Belgrano and permitted to leave the country, presumably for Montevideo, Uruguay. Provisional President Uriburu and his government took steps to restore normal conditions and sternly sup pressed all disorders, establishing martial law throughout the country. The populace was ordered to turn in all arms on pain of severe punish ment. Urlburtl showed himself espe cially anxious to obtain the recogni tion of the United States, declaring he would do all in his power to co-operate fully with this country and planning to send a good man to fill the am bassadorship in Washington which has long been vacant. It was understood that Dr. Manuel F. Malbran, former ambassador to both the United States and Chile, probably would be ap pointed. AMERICANS held tor trial In rem by the Cerro government have been released from custody. Lieut. Com. Harold B. Grow, who Is accused of planning to bomh the city of Are quipa, denies this flatly but says he prefers to have Peru decide his fate without any foreign pressure. Bolivia is in something of a fer ment. martial law having been de clared in La Paz, the capital. In Panama President Aroseraena appoint ed an entire new cabinet, which Is considered a big victory for Rodolfo Chlari, leader of the National Liberal party. Chiari now is the virtual dic tator, controlling the president, legis lature and cabinet. BRIAND'S plan for a federation of European states was presented to the eleventh annual session of the League of Nations assembly at Geneva by its proponent, the French foreign minister. He had previously set it before the League's council, which contented itself with patting him on the hack and passing the scheme along. M. Briand's speech was much the same as he delivered a year ago when first proposing the federation and he did not attempt to offer details. He said the replies to his memorandum showed the response of Europe was "firm in adherence to the principles of European collaboration," and de clared the proposed union must neces sarily work In close co-operation with the League of Nations. He denied again that the union would run cotln ter to or be in any way Inimical to the United States. Statesmen had told him, on the other hand, he declared, that relations between Europe and America could more easily be strength ened by existence of a European or ganization. "Twenty-seven nations have studied this question," ho concluded. "Twen ty-seven nations have said 'yes it can be done.' There it is before you. Go. March on. Accomplish peace!" Arthur Henderson, replying for Great Britain, caustically demanded that the continental nations disarm ar quit talking peace. Though the assembly had on its ugenda such subjects as removal of tariff barriers, the world economic crisis and the opium question, its chief concern was with war and peace. It had been hoped that the dis putes between France and Italy could be settled in conferences between Briand and Dino Grand!, the Italian foreign minister, but tlie latter de parted hurriedly for Itnme without ex planation. Conversations on the naval question, however, were held by ex perts of the two countries. Nicholas Titulesco, former Rumanian minister to Great Britain, v.as elected presi dent of the assembly. MARSHAL riLSUDSKI. now pre mier, war minister and general boss of Roland, opened his fight with the chamber of deputies in character istic fashion. He caused the incar ceration of former Premier Witos and seventeen former members of parlia ment who are opposing him. thus greatly cramping the campaign of his foes In the campaign for the elections on November 10. The opposition ap pealed in vain to the minister of Jus tice and then started riots In the streets of Warsaw, which resulted only in more arrests. MAHATMA GANDHI will not at tend the round table conference on India to be held in London, having been omitted from the list of those invited. However, the delegates at the big meeting will include a large number of the most brilliant men of India, and enough of them are ardent nationalists to make it certain that their country's desire for at least In dependence will be ably -presented. More than half of the delegates listed have publicly advocated dominion status for India. PHYSICIANS, nurses, relief workers and vast quanties of food, cloth ing and medicines, from the United States, Cuba, Haiti and Porto Hico, reached Santo Domingo, and an army of men was put to work cleaning up the storm-stricken capital of the Dominican republic. The danger of pestilence was lessened when a supply of water was obtained and the streets were cleared of bodies and debris. RELIEF for the unemployment situ ation through restriction of im migration has bpen undertaken by President Hoover. He announced that the State department, through Its con sular agents abroad, would refuse visas to alien laborers seeking work In this country. The action is taken un der the authority of a section of the law which permits exclusion of im migrants who are liable to become a public charge. r\KATH came last week to Simon *** W. Straus of New York and Chi cago, an outstanding American finan cier who, through real estate bond Issues, financed the construction of many of the most famous buildings in the country. Others who passed were Leonard Busby, head of the Chicago surface lines; Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, daughter-in-law of President Grant; Hear Admiral Simpson, U. S. A. retired, and Arthur T. Vance, vet eran editor of the Pictorial Review, im. WMUti Nswaptpex UoteM "Blighted" Areas Due to Imperfect City Planning The causes and cure of "blighted" urban areas were reviewed at the To ronto meeting of the National Asso ciation of Ilenl Estate Boards by Har land Bartholomew of St. Louts, noted city planning engineer. He said the symptoms of such a condition are frequent vacancies In property and a general appearance of decay, with little prospect of a re newed market for the district. The cause he attributed to uncontrolled large scale growth. Skillful city plan ning, he said, Is both the cure and the prevention. "Much is said and written today upon the subject of decentralization of cities," Mr. Bartholomew said. "As the access to the downtown dis tricts becomes Increasingly difficult, new growth will undoubtedly take place in outlying nreas, but before we advocate and encourage too extensive decentralization of our cities we need to know very much more about them. Our blight districts are largely the result of opening up new areas of un limited size." Remodeling Offers No Problem to the Wise Many old houses over the country, built long simple lines and kept In good condition, are excellent for re modeling. There Is hardly a city or town where there are not fine old places waiting for some architect with taste to make them Into modern at tractive homes. The owner Is most fortunate who recognizes the right kind of old house before he buys It for alteration pur poses nnd who knows what to do with It after he has bought It. There are two Important factors In remodeling. First, to get a house with possibilities; second, to rearrange the exterior and Interior with the necessary plumbing, heating nnd lighting In an effective way without excessive cost or unnec essary tearing down or destroying. These results are not hard to ac complish after a little study nnd every owner who contemplates remodeling should give consideration to the prob lem before lie buys n place, not after. Matter of Remodeling Louise Hargelt, home builder editor of the Chicago Tribune, predicts 1930 will be the greatest rehabilitation year in the history of the country. "We see remodeling made simpler and more profitable for the home owner every passing season; that Is, remod eling when a house has successfully passed two test*. For usually n home must be adjudged structurally sound k* It Is worthy of being remodeled, and also not require more than one-third of its interior to be torn out. There are exceptions to this general rule, as to most rules, but, on the whole, it is a fairly safe one to go by. Indeed, in most remodeling campaigns, as little as possible is torn out of the old place, but much is added to It Instead.H Paint as Protection Moisture, the root of all trouble with lumber and metals, is the enemy of every property owner. In sections of the country where the temperature varies with the seasons, excess moist ure in the air Is inevitable. For this reason, building materials must he protected from the weathering it causes, and paint, in this connection Is the ideal preservative. It seals the pores of the wood and forms a pro tective coating over metals, thus pre venting the entrance of moisture, and the progress of weathering and rust ing. Used on concrete and stucco, paint prevents surface cracks, damp ness, and subsequent crumbling and flaking off. Town* to Avoid And the Joke of the road Is the small town that erects a "Welcome" sign and follows it up with another announcing a speed limit of "twelve miles per hour." That is no welcome to the tourist. And there are other injunctions concerning cutouts and the like. Most towns admonish the motor ist to protect its children but the town fights every effort to protect those children by routing the highway out side the city limits.?Lincoln State Journal. Improve Homo Grounds OM Intern should be gone over care fully. Unsightly depressions vehleh ennnot be remored by rolling csn be eliminated by lifting the sod. Ailing with good soil, nnd replacing the sod Where this Is Imprartlcable, fine loam can be spread over the lawn to a depth of thiee Inches. The existing grass will force Its way through the new solL Naples and ? tts Pay m Mt. Vesuvius as Seen From Naples. a (Prepared bjr the National Oeofraphle Society. Waalilnaton. D. C.) WHILE not the center of the re cent destructive Itnllan earth quake, Naples and the towns around its beautiful hay suf fered considerable damage from the tremors. And that which harms Naples, with its almost perfect ar rangement of sky, sen and moun tains, harms one of the principal "journey's ends" of the world. Any thing likely to alter this setting Is of more than passing concern to thou sands of former visitors, as well as to residents. When the Neapolitan advertises, with the sloganeer's modesty, "See Naples and then die." he lias in ndnd, of course, the city and surroundings taken as a whole. The city alone, although the largest and most pop ulous in the Italian peninsula, is a hodge-podge of narrow streets and tenement houses, teeming with life and gaiety; sordid, yet possessed with a vast vitality. In buildings and monuments historic and artistic interest, however, Naples cannot vie with the towns of central and north ern Italy. Hefore the days of a united Italy, Naples was the-capital of the king dom of Naples. A large rovnl palace, with white marble stairways and a throne room filled with art treasures, bears witness to Its former imperiul wealth. Today Naples is Italy's most Important seaport, connected by fast steamship lines with every part of the globe. Its streets are lined with factories, large and small, while the surrounding farm districts are fertile and productive. As a tourist center It is surpassed, probably, only by Paris. Dirty But Picturesque. For nil Its commercialism, dirt nnd squalor, however, Naples is extremely picturesque. Rising in amphitheater fashion on the slopes of the hills in the northeast corner of the hay of Naples the city is full of quaint, steep streets, where broad steps take the place of the slah paving of the downtown thoroughfares. FolJowing tlie cholera epidemic In 1&S4 many of the narrow streets nnd high halconled tenement houses were replaced with broad avenues ami standard build ings. It Is in the remaining canyon streets, however, that one finds the most typical Neapolitan scenes. All Naples lives outd?K?rs?to cook, to work, to play, to gossip, and almost to dress! Street singers with their mandolins, charcoal sellers and vend ers of sweets and drinks add their colorful hits to the dally pageantry. Macaroni factories line the streets of the eastern part of the city, the fringes of marconi on racks collecting a little of the dust every passing automobile and push cart stirs up. For whatever the city lacks in neatness and beauty, its famous hay more than makes amends. The hay of Naples Is a yardstick of marine perfection. Few who have seen the bay of Naples will grant that it is eclipsed elsewhere for spacious and perfect loveliness. Its dreamy head lands nnd the Incomparable contour of Vesuvius in the center at once dis tinguish and sublimate It. Fascinating to Visitors. Many lovers of Italy feel that a country like Tuscany, with its softer colorings nnd gentler contours, Is more restful nnd somehow more wholesome to live with, and that the Neapolitan scenery Is too much like theater curtains come to life. Never theless. every person who arrives at Naples under fair skies and beholds this littoral for the first time cannot help being affected by Its loveliness. Many of the visitors feel something deeper than admiration; for them all of the coast acenery from Miseno to ' Salerno has a strange and Instlng fascination. Then there are the siren worshipers who have beard the mystic gong and are content to let body and gouJ rest here forever; and to giich willing victims of the picturesque, q Naples is not a noisy, nerve-racking U modem city, full of beggars and e< rogues and fleas; it is the old "new n city"?Nen polls. d In the bay of Naples the very s: atmosphere, to such Neajmlitan spe- ii cialists, seems more bland and limpid t< than elsewhere on the peninsula, lend- tl ing to the distances a more magical b and haunting charm; the curving is shore is picked out and decorated d with countless beauties, and high t mountains desc end .abruptly to a tide- n less sea streaked with color. In which ft are set ethereal lilac-tinted islands. From the .Monastery of San Mar- ,j tino, overlooking Naples, a picture c spectacle is spread. The great, blue, a half-mooti bay, dotted with red and ? white sails, and surrounded by a j inountn.hous ooast line, which fringes t off into tlie Mediterranean at each h end in rocky islets, looks more like a i stage curtain than n reality. It Vesuvius that "makes" the bay of ^ Naples. c] Lovely Colors on the Bay. From Vesuvius, with the ruins of I'oinpeii at its base, the eye follows the curving shore line to the moun tainous Sorrento peninsula, purple and hazy In the distance, ending with rocky crags of the Island of Capri. At sunset the colors are so rich, and at the same time so soft. It seems hardly possible that they are real. The hay Is a tippling sheet of gray nnd green and blue. The rocky head lands and islands are the softest and most delicate lavender. A rolling stream of purple smoke rises from the crater of Vesuvius nnd tloats across j the sky, while. In the background, billowy pink clouds catch the last rays of the hlood-red sun as it drops Into the Mediterranean. To many observers the fairest of ; the Neapolitan gems is the Island of t Capri that lies In the blue waters j Just off the tip of the Sorrentine peninsula. From high in air to below ? the woterlitie the island Is scarred and pitted with myriad vast pock marks, some pillared with stalactites j and stalagmites, gome through which j the never-quiet sea moans ami sobs wit^ the agonized wail of a hurt monster; one white, with little pools j of pure, sweet water on Its floor, only ' a few inches alx?ve the sea; one , greener than emerald; cine blue as heaven with row iifM?n row of delicate pink corals and tiny scarlet Jelly-Ash studding the wnteriine like Jewels, while the refraction of the sunlight tints everything with the most marvel ously diaphanous color, through which the silvery ripples of the bottom sand, about 40 feet below, seem with in arm's length. Bark on the mainland, the traveler can find beauties along this delight ful coast even south of the bay. As he drives up over the crest of the Sorrentlne peninsula the Siren Islands loom in the distance, too far away for even the echo of the charmers' song to he heard. At Posltnno the road divides into two white ribbons, binding the town to the green hill side. On by the caves of troglodytes, who have all the comforts of home?little patches of garden, amiable goats, olive groves, and grape-arbors?the road winds in and out, up and down the stem face of tlie cliffs, rising and sinking In great billowy sweeps, plunging hastily through short, black* tunnels, racing around big and little bends. Now It skirts the shoulder of a cliff, with only an 18-inch wall be tween the wheels and the boulders hundreds of feet below. Picturesque watch-towers stud the shore, ancient defenses against the Barbary corsairs. And then presently Amain, once the brave little maritime republic that maintained Its Independ ence so long In denance of princes | and emperor** if? MTCHgi <(cX 1930. Western Newspaper Union.) The world Is all dark or the world ia all bright Just as we choose to make it: Our burden is heavy, our burden is light Just as we happen to take it: And people who grumble and peo ple who groan At the world and at every pro posal Would grumble and groan if the world were their own And the sun, moon and stars at disposal. ?Harriet Swift. 0 ADD TO THE FRUIT CLOSET As sugar is one of the cheapest of )ods In common use, its food value high, most house wives are appreci ating the chance I 10 preserve L ( 1/ V ' i 'I as much of m/'mXb'A I the delightful fall It fruits as possible. Try some of these and see what an ddition they will make to your pre ?rve closet: Tomato-Raisin Conserve.?Take two ?arts of fresh ripe tomatoes, two :mons cut fine, four sour apples ored and cubed, six sticks of cin amon, one tahlespoonfui of whole loves, two pieces of ginger root, one mall piece of mace. Tie the spices 1 a bag. Cook all these ingredients Dgether until a thick mass is made, hen add two pounds of sugar and oil 15 minutes, or until a jelly stage $ reached. whic? is when the mixture rops off in sheets from the side of he spoon. Add one capful of nut oeats just before removing from the re. if liked. Carrot Marmalade.?Grate 12 me liun?-sized tender carrots, add four opfuls of sugar, three lemons, juice nd peel: one teaspoonful each of [round clQves. cinnamon and allspice, ied in a small cloth. Before adding he spice let the mixture stand one our. then cook slowly one hour, turn nto sterilized gla?ses and seal. Pear and Apple Conserve.?Take ?ne pint of diced pears, one pint of liced apple, one lemon juice and grat d rind, one cupful of seedless rai ins. one-half cupful of walnut meats, hree and one half cupfuls of sugpr. >team the raisins for 30 minute*, add hem to the other ingredients and cook intll thick and clear. Turn into rlasses and cover with paraffin. Nats nay be omitted and a small amount >f preserved ginger may be added. DAINTY DISHES. Some time when entertain.ng one's friends at a dinner, try this method of ________ serving sw??et potato: Orange Sweet Potato. [ Jg? 3 ?Cook the sweet potato 1V| [J in their skins, peel. mash and season with HT r II better, salt and white IftT rM P e P P e r- P'epnre the ?JjlJM halves of oranges that ?" " have been squeezed of their Juice by removing all the white inner lining of the skins. Fill them with the seasoned potato and about twenty minutes before serving time place them in the oven to become hot; a small piece of marshraallow may be placed on top to brown or a sprig of parsley used on top for a garnish when serving. Oyster Soup.?Add four tablespooa fuls of quick cooking tapioca to a quart of rich milk, two teaspoonfuls of salt, and cook until the tapioca is clear, stirring often and cooking in a double boiler Add one cupful of oysters and the oyster liquor, a dash of cayenne and paprika and four tablespoonfuls of butter. Serve when the oysters are curled. Sour Cream Pie.?Mix the yolks of two eggs well beaten, one cupful of sour cream, one-half cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one cup ful of raisins and one teaspoonful of cinnamon. Cook together until thick, then pour into a baked pastry shell. Whip the whites of the eggs until stiff, add four tablespoonfuls of sugar and spread over the top of the pie and brown slightly in a slow oven. Ozark Soup.?Corer a rresn soup hone with cold water and simmer until the meat la tender, adding salt toward the end of the cooking. Strain the broth and to one quart of the broth add one medium sized potato rut Into dice, and one-half cupful of washed rice. Let cook until tender, then add one can of tomatoes, bring to the boiling point, add a table spoonful of flour mixed with one cup ful of sweet cream, boll Are minutes, add seasoning of salt and pepper and serre. For further flaror add one teaspoonful of sugar, a little chopped celery, a pinch of curry powder and a bit of mace with a few dashes of cayenne pepper. 7vu*"r0?.