The Alamance Gleaner VOL. LVI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 11, 1930. NO. 45. 1?Panoramic view of the Anglo-Indian ronnd table conference In London, with Prime Minister MacDonnld In the chair. 2?Team from the Oklahoma A. and M. college which won the live stock judging contest at the Inter national Live Stock exposition in Chicago. 8?Speaker Nicholas Longworth wielding the gavel at the opening of the short session of congress. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Hoover A?ks Congress for $150,000,000 to Provide Work for Unemployed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CONC5RESS, In Its short session, was asked by President Hoover on Tuesday to appropriate from $100, 000,000 to $150,000,000 foj the acceler ation of public works construction In order to provide employment for men out of work. It was asked nlso to make this emergency fund distributable upon recommendation of a cabinet committee approved by the President. With that amount available, the Presi dent said It would be possible to ex pend a total of $050,000,000 upon con struction of all kinds In the next 12 months. "Our Immediate problem," sold the message "Is the Increase of employ ment for the next six months, and new plans which do not produce such Immediate results, or which extend commitments beyond this period, are not warranted." The President also urged that an ap propriation be made to the Depart ment of Agriculture to be loaned to farmers for the purpose of buying seed and feed for animals, lie said congress should complete legislation, already started, in respect to Muscle Shoals, bus regulation, relief of con gestion In the courts, reorganization of the border patrol in prevention of smuggling, and law enforcement In the District of Columbia. lie said there was need of revision of the immigra tion laws and that the deportation laws should be strengthened. Surveying the finances of the coun try. Mr. Hoover more than intimated the income tax reduction could not be continued on 1930 Incomes. The esti mated treasury deficit for the present fiscal year Is about $180,000,000. and he declared that "most rigid economy Is necessary to avoid Increase in taxes." NEXT day President Hoover sent In his annual budget message, in which he warned congress not to un dertake any expnnslon of govern mental expenditures other than those required under the proposed unem ployment and drought relief programs, and said he regretted he could not recommend a continuance of the In come tax reduction. The budget he submitted provides for total expendl tures of (4,054,519,200 for the fiscal year 1932, exclusive of postal expendl tures paid from postal revenues, as compared with estimated expendi tures of (4.014,941,900 In the fiscal year 1931 and actual expenditures of (3.994,152.487 In the fiscal year 1930. To the senate the President sub mitted the World court protocols, as he had promised, together with a mes sage urging American ratification. There were Indications that the ques tion would not reach final settlement this winter. Nominations sent to the senate In cluded the name of William N. Doak of Virginia to be secretary of labor In place of James J. Davis; George Otis Smith and Frank R. McNInch as members of the power commission, and a long list of recess nominations made during the summer. Senator Nye, chairman of the cam paign fund Investigation committee, believed he had uncovered large un reported expenditures In behali of the Davis-Brown ticket In Pennsylvania, so he as'.:ed the senate to defer the sweating In of Jim Davis as senator. This would have meant that Joe Grun dy would continue to occupy the sea*, and many senators don't like him. so they voted 58 to 27 to seat Davis. On Wednesday both Davis and Dwight W. Morrow took the oath, and the sen ate was then complete, with 53 Repub licans. 42 Democrats and 1 Fariuer Laborite. IN HIS message on the state of the * Union the President said nothing about prohibition, but in the budget message he made it clear the admin istration intended to continue Us policy of vigorous enforcement of the dry laws. He recommended an increase of more than three million dollars In the funds allotted to the prohibition and industrial alcohol bureaus. This was highly pleasing to the dry members of congress, but It only stirred the wets to more energetic plans for attack on prohibition. Th?se latter decided to try to knock out the bureau of prohibition increase, which Director Woodcock intends to use in employing about five hundred new en forcement agent8. The wet lender* also resolved to make a fight on al cohol poisoning and for a vote on a beer modification bill. Senator Ding ham and Representative Goss, both of Connecticut, already had Introduced 4 per cent beer and medicinal liquor bills. CKNATOR TASKER L. ODDIK of Nevada has introduced a bill that j\'ill have considerable support In con gress, even if It does not pass. It Is designed to bar the entrance of prod ucts from Soviet Russia Into the United States, especially lumber, pulp wood, wood pulp, matches, glue. coal, manganese ore, etc.. which have al legedly been dumped Into this country at prices below the cost of production here. Overproduction is the chief throat against American agricul ture today, and If the farmers would avoid ruin they must all unite to curb It. So declared Secretary of Agricul ture Hyde In his yearly report. He said: "I want to emphasize the need for equitable; Intelligent, systematic and collective action to bring ant ply Into better relationship with demnnd." Citing the particular overabundance of wheat, the agriculture secretary said producers of that grain could ex pect federal help only If they made a practical approach to the task of com bining to adjust output to needs. Lower farm Incomes from the pro duction of 1030 as compared with the previous year were predicted hy the cabinet officer. He estimated the aggregate gross Income from 1930 crops at about $0,950,000,000. or a!>out 10 per cent less than In 1020. He at tributed the current slump In agricul tural prices to continued overproduc tion and "the worldwide business de pression," resulting In lessened de mand. Estimates put out hy the Aascri can Federation of Labor set the number of American laboring men out of work In November at 4.860,000 President William Green predicted that at the present rate of Increase the Jobless would number 7,000,000 by February. Neither figure covered office workers or farm laborers oot of employment. It was announced In New York that John d. Rockefeller and John d. Rockefeller, Jr.. had made a Joint con tribution of $1,000,000 to the local emergency employment committee's fund for the unemployed. This was a handsome gift, but not anywhere near ao large, proportionately, as the contribution of any one of many thou sands of citizens to the same cause. it JIMMY,** a little black Aberdeen Angus bred by J. I*. MeKenny of King City. Mo., was declared the grand champion steer at the International Live Stock show In Chicago, lie was sold at auction, bringing only $2.!VJ a pound. Herman Trelle, bringing a sample of hard red spring wheat which he grew at Wembley, Alberta. 1.2nd miles north of Chicago, was crowned wheat champion; and Herbert C. Wat son of Tipton, Ind., won the national corn championship. Purdue, the Uni versity of Illinois and Iowa State col lege took most of the hlue ribbons for sheep and swine. Collynle Clipper Star, a Shorthorn bull owned by F. . W. Huhhell of I>es Moines which has been winning first prizes all Ids life, took the senior and grand champion ribbons In its class. Fourteen hun dred Iwiya and girls of the 4-H club were guests of the exposition and spe cial awards were given 4.T2 of lhem for their agricultural achievements. A team from Oklahoma A. ami M. col lege won the trophy for the best live stock judging, outscorlng twenty-two other college teams. The Intercol legiate meat Judging contest was won by a team of students from the Uni versity of Missouri, individual honors In this event went to Miss Eva Buel of Nebraska university. GERMANY has caused uneasiness throughout Europe bv a protest to the League of Nations over the al- , leged terrorism against Gefman minor ities In Polish Silesia. The nccusa- J tions made by Foreign Minister Cur tius are serious and it is evident the German government Intends o force an examination of the matter by the League's council during the mee'lng j which opens January 19. The sltua- j tion Is made more grave by France's | attitude. Inasmuch as the Paris gov- j ernment Is pledged to defend the In- I tegrity of Poland with the same do- j termination as the Rhine, and military , action between Germany and Poland j Ipso facto would draw French armed | intervention against Germany. PREMIER TARDIEU of France, who ! had resisted the attacks of his op- j ponents for months, finally was do- , feated Thursday when the senate ' passed a vote of non-confidence. 147 ! to 139. Of course Tardleu and his cabinet resigned, and the result was described as the most serious govern mental crisis In many years. One of the chief factors In the downfall of Tardleu was the fact that several members of his cabinet were Involved In a huge financial scandal, the failure of Alfred Oustrlc. He also was ac cused of trying to make himself a dictator. MISSING for several days and given up for lost after she started a flight from Havana to Miami, Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller of Australia turned p safe and sound on one of the Andros Islands of the Bahama group. She had been driven far out of her course by a gale and made a forced landing on the Islet when her gas gave out. A fishing boat took her to Nassau. She planned to return for her plane and fly It to Miami. ONE definite decision has been inade by the Indian round table confer ence In London. It Is that Burma Is to be separated from India and set up as a dominion of the British empire at the earliest possible date. Burma has a population of about 13,230,000. Its capital Is Rangoon. MRS. MARY JONES, known as Mother Jones, who had been the militant friend and advocate of the laboring man, died near Washington, after an Illness of more than a year. She was 100 years old last May, (g by Wester* Newspaper Us Ion ) fipnBraiBH Qz&JLlJ MARY- GRAHAM BONNER ? amom n ?oimn wwiwi umoh ? VEGETABLES They were very small but were all coming up In a box In the schoolroom, _ _ and they were KL ? The geranium BgHjflt yiZ'/Z plant was fully EftflP s grown but the on ?mjjUjff v Ions and lettuce Muicv ^ rfcjr'ta were only begin "You commenced nra c jSl t0 8ay s?mettilnK'" 8a,<* "le 'ettuce t0 "Sometimes I get too dlscour aged to finish," said the onion -^^Jrgi3?S21| speaker. "We all i iTfliUMtffflll feet that way at The Geranium "Uf8' piant> "Why?" persist ed the lettuce. "For you It Is different, little let tuce Ienves," said the onion. "You are a salad when you grow up. You are considered a luxury and treat." "Don't people enjoy eating you?" asked the lettuce. "Y'es," said the onion, "they often enjoy eating us. But they won't give us any praise for It. "They eat us when they're off by themselves as If they were a little ashamed of eating us. "I have often heard folks say," con tinued the onion: " 'Oh, I am ashamed to admit It, but I do like fried onions.' "Then another will say: " 'Just Imagine, little Henry likes to eat raw onions when they are small.' "Oh, things like that cut us so," said the onion. "We like to be eaten. All vegetables do, but we would like to be appreciated." "If you weren't appreciated and liked," said the lettuce politely, "you wouldn't be planted and grown. "They use you all the time?to sea son food, to make things have a nice taste and flavor." "Ah," said the onion, which was do ing the talking for the family, "that Is true. "But listen to what they always say. They explain that they like to put a little onion In the soup?not so the soup will taste of onion?oh mercy, no?but Just to give it a little flavor. "That Is what we do. We flavor many a dish, but de don't get the credit. "Folks won't say: " 'Onions are so necessary and good.' "No, tliey will even talk liarshly of our nice onion perfume. It hurts us sadly at times." "Don't you think they like onion per fume?" asked the lettuce. "We're sure they don't," said the onions mournfully. "Well," said the lettuce, "you're far more useful than the geranium plant here in the school room. Nocosaary and Good. "To b? sure It gives beauty and that's very, very Important, but you can be eaten, and you are eaten, and you are needed most o( the time." The onions felt quite cheered up. The lettuce was a kindly family? always so cheerful and willing and nice. Rainy Day Cams This Is a good game to play on rainy daya for two boys. Get a pen cil and paper. First one of you write the name of some one you know, eor er It up and right under It the other person writes the name of some one else, covers It up, and In turn you write what they do, where they do It why they do It, and when they do It. The object of this game Is not to let each other know what you write, t'ndouble this paper and read what la written on It It la often very funny. At It Again Hilly asked his mother what caused 1 the fog and she told him it was made by the mist fairies. One day he en tered a room In which his father had been smoking and ran In great baste to his mother. "Hey, mother!" he shouted excited ly. "Those doggone mist fairies bare been at It again!" Tho of Jh? fjl&Sea! ?1 f ?y ELMO 8COTT WAT80N ?- ? HEN you buy a big sheet of Christmas seals, does it ever occur to you that there's an Interesting story back of the addition of these little "scra|>s of paper" to the list of sym bols of Christmas time? And do the names of Eluar Hoi boell and Emily 1'. Blssell come to your mind when you stick one of these gayly-colored little stamps on a Christmas package and send It away to carry its message of Yuletlde cheer as weU as the message that you are thus helping In a great humanitarian work? If not, they should, for It Is to a Danish postal clerk and an Amer ican lied Cross worker that we owe the Idea and development of the Christmas seal. Back in 1003 a man named Elnar Holboell, a postal clerk In the i>ost of fice at Copenhagen, Denmark, was busy In the division of outgoing mail. It was Christmas week and he was literally burled In cards and letters. For a moment he paused in serious thought; then his face brightened. ?These Christmas cards nnd letters should have an additional stump?a benevolent stamp or seul ut a small price within the reach of all. Why not call It a Christmas stamp? "Even a 'two ore' (about one-fourth of a cent) stamp on all these cards and letters would create a mighty sum If the plan could only be realized. Christ mas Is a time of generosity and good will, when we send a kindly thought even to those whom we neglect the whole year through. Tw o ore each on every greeting would mean a sum to be reckoned with?well then, to the task!" lie went with his plan to the head of the postal service and others with In fluence and authority. And so, when the first Christmas seal committee w as funned, Including, among others, six representatives from the postal de partment, the Interest of the postal employees was Insurer! from the start. In 1WH the committee met to dis cuss the pun>ose and use of the pos sible Income from the Christmas seal, and It was decided that the first ob ject was the erection of a hospital for tubercular children, and. In general, the Income from the seal should al ways be for the fight against tuber culosis, In one form or another. Upon application to the then King Christian IX, Holboell secured the per mission to have a likeness of the de ceased Queen Louise on the first Christmas seal, and the king became so Interested that be himself selected the picture which he wished used. Naturally, Mr. Holboell and his com mittee felt some anxiety over the out come of their first venture?an anx iety which proved to be without foundation. The success was over whelming. The first printing of 2.000, 000 was immediately Increased to 0,000,000 and over 5,000.000 were sold. Since that time a capital of 3,000, 000 kronen has been realized, which has been used for the erection of large number of sanltarlas and convalescent bomes for tubercular patients. Hol boell, the modest postal assistant, be came postmaster at Cbarlotten Zund. near Copenhagen, and a Danish cross of knighthood was his badge of honor. He died of heart trouhJe in his sixty second year on February 23, 1327, and, as was fitting, the Danish Christinas seal for 1327 bore the picture of Dinar Holboell, whose Idea has spread over tiie entire world. The story of how Miss Emily 1\ His sell's name came to be associated with the Christinas seal was told in an ar ticle by Leigh Mitchell Hodges which appeared in The Survey last year and which has been reproduced in pam phlet form by the National Tuberculo sis association. His story of "The First Christmas Seal" follows: December, 1907?the World war seven years ahead, but a deadlier war at flood?tuberculosis taking one-tenth of nil who died from dis ease?folks everywhere wondering what could be done to stem the tide. Noontime, December 9, 1907, In Wilmington, capital of little Dela ware, two pretty girls in Ked Cross uniforms taking their place at a table in the post otlice corridor, ask ing a quarter each for little pay en velopes thus labeled: 23 < HltlftTMAS STAMPS One Penny Apiece Issued by the Delaware Red Cross, to stamp out the White Plague. Put this stamp with message bright On every Christmas letter. Help the tuberculosis fight. And make the New Year better. Those itamps do not carry any kind of mall, hut any kind of mall will carry them. Mld-mornlng, December 11. 1907, eighteenth floor of the North Amer ican building Id Philadelphia, a day member of the staff in his cubby hole. "A lady to see you," passing a card engraved "Miss Emily P. Bis sell." "Is she good looking?" "Sure." "Show her In." Enter the secretary of the Dela ware Bed Cross on unofficial busi ness. She had come to nsk a favor of the editor. She wanted him to run a little story about this, taking a sheet of stamps from her hand bag. Delaware was worried about tuberculosis, needed a few hundred dollars to start caring for poor pa tients. She had read Jacob litis' story about the Danish Christmas Stamp In the Outlook, wondered If Delaware couldn't Issue one and sell enough to build a small shelter? here It was, but she was afraid?. Downstairs went the occupant of the cubby-hole, two steps at a time, to the office of E. A. Van Valken burg, president and editor of the paper that had been first to dis please the doctors by proposing pub licity as the weapoD to use against the white plague. "Here's the way to wipe out tuber culosis," half shouted the man from upstairs, as he waved the sheet of stumps under the editor's nose! "What the hell do you mean?" A brief explanation. "Tell Miss Rlssell the North American Is hers from today." "How soon can we have 50,000 of the stamps?" was asked of the lady from Delawase. She gus|>ed and said she'd telephone from Wilming ton that evening. ?J Ten o'cloek the morning of De ceinlier 13, 1907, a few thousand of the stamps, they were so-called at first, on sale In the publication office and a few more at a booth tn Wana inaker's. Also a !op-of column five bank head on page one of the North American. Next day a seven-column "spread" on page one, and on December 18, with the stamps selling fast. The presses la Wilmington couldn't print them fast enough, so a Phila delphia printer was enlisted. Through Its Washington corresiondent. the newspaper got the postmaster gen eral's permission to put up a booth in the Philadelphia post office lobby. Front Jaclb Itiis. on Decemlter 19: "Good for you and for Philadelphia and the North American. Keep It up. 1 am glad the little seed I sowed In the Outlook last summer has borne fruit." Five days before Christmas the governor of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania branch of the Natlon nt Hed Cross Indorsed tlie stamp. Four days before Christmas an edi torial urged that "A Million Mercy Messengers" be bought by the peo ple. Two days before Christmas "llnppy New Year" was added to the stamp design. Then a flight of signet) indorse ments front Washington. President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Root. Secretary of War Taft. Meantime, the Nallonul Red Croaa stopped, looked am) listened, at an annual meeting, to Miss Bia sed and the cubhy-hole man, and decided to get behind the stamp. On November 12, 1908, tbe first gun In the second campaign was fired by the North American, a page one promise to sell 1.000.000 of tbe 1008 stamps, and one month later to the dny It ordered Its fourth mil lion. Meantime? Every day from November 12 to January 1, the Red Cross Christmas Stamp was a matter of first-page moment, and many a day it was given precedence over all other news In the North American. "It Is splendid," said President Taft at (lie meeting of tbe Red Cross In Washington. December 8. Two days later tbe first page of the North American came oat with a border of the stamps In red and ? tbree-column facsimile likewise col ored. Other newspapers In many parts of the land were Joining the procession. When the curtain was rung down on this set tn Jannary, the net result of tbe stamp sole throughout the nation was $133,000. "I never could have believed It," said Miss Blssell. Annual sales of Christmas seals amounted to $53,000,000 to dale, from this source alone. Yet tbe money is the least part of It The message Is what has counted most. Between thein, the death rate from tuberculosis has been cut In half. And It Is stIU going down. Its fate la sealed. (? by Wwtern Nvwipwpar L'olow.)
