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WPiPi '? _ r'1 tv --'v - ??' --- '?' . - ???.' i-T. .? ? .. *" ? $$. ? / >?5 $\j> / np) ' I. *? all* The Alamance gleaner VOL. LVI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 1, 1931. NO. 48. News Review of Current Events the World Over Lucas Tries to Oust Senator Norris From Republican Party?Borah Thinks Special Session Will Be Necessary. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Eradication of Senator George IV. Norris from the Republican party la lemanded by Robert R. Lucas, executive llrector of the Re >ubllcan national com nlttee in a scathing itatement which Is laid to have the tacit ipproval of'the White Rouse. In return, the R. H. Lucas independent Republi can senators Insist that the national committee oust Mr. Lucas. Chairman Fess of the committee has declared for a hands-olT policy, but a showdown is demanded by Senator I*owell of Ne braska and others, and there Is in prospect a lively party quarrel that may very well embarrass the Repub licans greatly. All this is the outcome of the discovery by the Nye campaign fund committee that Lucas financed a campaign against the re-election of Norris. Lucas lias freely admitted the facts and defends his action by the rssertion that the Nebraska senator is not really a Republican and has no j right to be classed as such. "To accept office at the hands of this party and then viciously oppose its'policies, principles and leadership, brings an intolerable situation and one which must be eradicated, If the party is to live," says Mr. Lucas. "Such conduct by Senator Norris has been revolting and until the lead ers of the Republican party not only fail to support but give their active opposition to men like Senator Nor ris, they are not doing their full duty to the party which has come down to us from Lincoln.** Aiier lemug nuw ue {inruici; iuu tributed three pieces of literature to the antl-Norris campaign, Lucas goes on to relate In detail the many ways In which Norrls has displayed his "party treachery" and "ingratitude" by opposing the administrations and policies of Presidents Coolldge and Hoover, all of which is a part of his tory though heretofore officially ig nored by Republican party chieftains. Convened by an emergency call by Chairman Nye, the senate committee discovered further that the $4,000 which Lucas borrowed to pay for the anti-Norris propaganda and for which he gave his personal note was guar anteed by a $40,000 special account of the Republican national committee In the Commercial National bank In Washington. This was in the nature of a counter attack against Lucas and was reinforced by statements made by Norris and Senator Cutting of New Mexico. The Nebraskan openly charged that Lucas had sworn to a falsehood when he testified before the I committee that the money he paid was his own private fund. Cutting defend- , ed Norrls and attacked the national committee. Then up stepped Representative Wood of Indiana on behalf of Lucas and 'eaved a 'arf a brick at Senator Norrls; whereupon Senator Brookhart of Iowa, finding It wasn't a private fight, shied a dornick at Secretary Mellon and called Lucas "an insig nificant wart." * There were Indications that Presi dent Hoover and the other party lead ers would ignore, officially, the entire quarrel, which would perhaps be the safest course if not the bravest. WHETHER or not Lucas wins out In Ills fight on Norris, It Is now thought doubtful that he will be made chairman to succeed Senator Fees. The man now most prominently m en tloned for the place Is Ray Renjamln of San Francisco, a close friend of President II 4 HIV Mnjimin. Hoover. Several week* ago Mr. Benjamin had several conference* with the President. Then he went home and cleared up his private affair* and returned to Wash ington for an Indefinite stay. When questioned concerning the report that he was to he given the chairmanship, he said he was In the capital to real ise an old desire to open law offices there, and added: "I will do anything 1 can. however, for my party." Mr. Itenjamln lis* had an extensive legal career and has been active In politics In California. He wi^s regional director for the national committee for the west coast section In the Re publican campaign, of 1920. PRESIDENT HOOVER'S Christmas present to Warren T. McCray, for mer governor of Indiana, was a full pardon restoring him to full civil rights. McCray served three years and four months of a ten year sentence to Atlanta penitentiary for use of the malls to defraud in connection with the sale of worthless cattle paper. He was paroled by President Coolldge in August, 1927. Representative Charles b. Timberlake of Colorado, seventy five years old and wealthy, and Mrs. Roberta Wood Elliott, a thirty-flve year-old widow who has been working as a waitress, were married in Wash ington by Rev. Dr. J. S. Montgomery, chaplain of the house. They started on a honeymoon trip to North Caro lina, the bride's home, and a cruise in southern waters. CENATOR BORAH ^ doesn't want any one to think he would conduct a filibuster In congress after the hol idays, but he believes there is so much im portant legislation to be disposed of that a special session imme diately after March 4 will be necessary and ? . ? . should be called by Senator Borah ? ? , ' ' the President It wns his persuasion that brought about the special session In the spring 1029. Leg islation which the Idaho solon consid ers of pressing Importance Includes power and railroad measures, the antl lnjunctlon bill, the motor bus hill, further unemployment relief and, per haps chief of all, the export debenture farm relief scheme. In the closing hours before congress recessed for the holidays Mr. Borah led other senators In a hot attack on the federal farm board's wheat opera tions. Chairman Alexander I.egge of the board, being asked what he thought of Borah's charge that the hoard in buying wheat Is merely post poning "the day of reckoning" that will come when It sells, replied: "Please don't ask me to discuss cy clones. Tou know the definition of a cyclone?-something mnde of hot air which runs amuck and usually Is de structive." He went on, however, to defend the board's policy In some de tn II Mr. Legge also paid hla respect* to John Simpson of Oklahoma City, new president of the Farmers' union, who was quoted as asserting the board is "deliberately" holding down wheat and cotton prices, and citing a sena tor as authority. "Toil can say to Mr. Simpson Hint any man making that statement, whether In public office or not. Is an unmitigated I'Jir, and say It with my compliments," the chairman said. "Such a statement has never been made by any member of the board or anyone else in authority. The absurd ity of It Is proved by the fact that wheat still Is sinking In the world market. Today Chicago wheat Is some 16 cehts above the Liverpool close, and. adding a similar amount for transportation, our wheat Is 30 to 32 cents above the world parity." VERMONT will bold a special elec tion on March 31 to choose a suc cessor to the late United States Sen ator Frank L. Greene. Until then the seat will be filled by Frank C. Part ridge of Proctor, who haa been ap pointed by Gov. John E. Weeks. Mr. Partridge, who Is sixty-five years old, Is a Republican and a business man and lawyer. CAHEKON M O K fison, the new senator from North Caroline, wea scarce I) In hie seat before he totnllj wrecked an ancient tradition of the npper house hj arising and making a speech. Of course he should hare sat silent for at least a few weeks. but the attack made by Senator '? *? McNineh Walsh of Montana on Frank R. Mc Nlnctt of North Carolina, one of the President's nominees for the federal power commission, was more than he could endure without retort He spoke eloquently and warmly for twenty min utes, starting out with the declara tion: "I would scorn to stand In this body and hear this noble man tra duced by anybody," and when he was all through he mildly expressed his regret that he "had to trespass upon . the attention of this body In almost J the hour of my entrance." Mr. McNlnch, the speaker explained, never received nor handled a nickel of any power company's money. Trus enough, he was an anti-Smith Demo crat In 1028, and he, Morrison, as a ? regular, took the stump against him, but that did not make him a Re publican. FAILURES of relatively small banks of the country were rather numer ous, and on Tuesday the Chelsea Bank and Trust company of New York city " was closed after runs on Jts main office and six branches! The bank had more than 40,000 depositors and gross de? I posits as of November 14 of $23,923, 000. The deposits had shrunk In the last few weeks to around $10,000,000, It was said. The runs were attributed by officials of the bank to unfounded and ma licious rumors for which Communists, among others, were held responsible. Investigation of the rumors were be gun by the state's attorney general, District Attorney Crane and the police department, and two men were ar rested charged with circulating false rumors. ? HpHKKE was con 8 1 siderable surprise ^ In Great Britain when | It was announced the \ other day that Vis count Wllllngdon, now | governor*-general of ' Canada, had been ap- I pointed viceroy of In i dia to succeed Lord i I Irwin when the latter * ? retires in March, 1931. ( ? . There had been much LordWillingdon ta]k ^ th(, ^ that , Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald probably would be given the rich ' plum. Lord Wllllngdon, who Is sixty four years cf age, was governor of Bombay from 1013 to 1010 and of < Madras from 1910 to 1924. earning a name for a conciliatory attitude. He has been governor-general of Cunuda ] since 1926. 1 OF Git BAT Importance In the eco- : nomlc affairs of northern Kurope 1 was the signing by six nations of a ' convention binding them not to raise existing tariff rates or Introduce new ' ones without consulting one another. This was done at a conference In Oslo, Norway, called to enforce "liberal principles In commercial policy." The six nations are Norway, Sweden. Hol land, Belgium, Denmark and Luxem burg. The signatories also agreed to con sider the application of the principle which was the hasls of the treaty to "other arrangements likewise calculat ed to favor international trt^de/^ Diutatuk aiaun, in the process of "cleaning house'* In the Soviet regime, has now got rid of Alexis Rykov. Recently that gentleman was re moved from his high position as president of the council of people's cf/inmissnrg, which corresponds to premier In other gov- A|,x|, R ernments. The .ptlier day by action of the central commit tee and central control commlaalon of the Communist party he was deprived of membership In the Important po litical bureau. It was a part of Sta lin's plan to get rid of all the right wing leaders and was followed Imme diately by the dismissal of Tomsky as vice chairman af the supreme econom ic council. Both Rykov and Tomsky had long opposed Stalin's Industriali sation program, and though they re canted publicly last summer during the party congress, this did not save them. Rykov was absent from recent Soviet celebrations In Moscow, and It was explained that he had gone Sontb "for his health." That was the way Trotsky went. Only one right winger of promi nence remains In a high post. He Is Nicholas Bucharln, a member of the central committee and also of the su preme economic council. The general expectation Is that he. too, will be dropped eventually, thus leaving Stal in's Ideas supreme. NOTABI.ES who died during the week Included Oerrlt J. Dtekema, American minister to The Hague; | Vlntlla Bratlanu. Rumania's foremost statesman and bitter opponent of King Carol; Charles K. Harris, writer of "After the Ball" and many other pop ular songs; Claude A. C. Jennings, edi tor In chief of the Toronto Mall and Empire; Elo Irwin, veteran actress, and Sir Harry Perry Robinson, au eminent English Journalist. (A lltl. Western Newspaper Unlom.) f HAPPY NEW YEAR f By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I XXXAAAXAAAAA*AI 8AW on the hills of the morning The form of the New Year arise; He stood like a statue adorning The world, with a background of skies. There were courage and grace In his beautiful face And hope in his beautiful eyes. oome from Time's boundless for ever," He said in a voice like a song; come as a friend of endeavor, [ come t*s a foe of all wrong; To the sad and afraid I bring promise and aid, And the weak I will gird and maks strong. bring you more blessings than ter rors, I bring you more sunshine than gloom, tear out your old page of errors, And hide them away in time's tomb. I reach you clean hands, And lead on to the lands Where the lilies of peace always bloom." ) BettyS flertYeatS | Eve Pa^ ja; -cJl<tirH irl?TT^nihwil ^lancheTanntr Dillitv Gf"*='~50, JIMMY, 1 don't like that (HBrnj crowd. They are trying so ' I El har<' tC ')e mo(lcrn ",nt theY JJL^y are positively stupid," Betty Crowell explained to Jimmy Burrel In answer to his de fvfjPs rothd 'o know why she wouldn't go to the New fear's eve dance with lilm. "You're Jealous," he accused tier. "Jealous," Betty exclaimed. "Of whom may 1 ask?" The whole crowd," he Informed her. Betty threw back her bend and augbed. "Now, Jimmy, calm your rears on that question." Then with a mischievous smile she said: "Now I might be of some one 1 thought you really cared about?hut I know they aren't your type." "Lots you know or care about tuy type," was the sharp retort "Don't be cross, Jimmy," Betty Im plored. "I'm not But I'm sorry you don't care enough to go with me." "You will have a better time with out me. They wouldn't enjoy me any more than I would them." "Just as you say?" Jimmy turned toward the door?as lie opened It, "Hope you have a Happy New Year." "Same to you," she answered gnyly. Tears filled her eyes as she went hack Into the living room and sank down on the davenport. Boor, stupid Jimmy! Couldn't he see-how unsuit able the companions w ere he had made since coming out of college two years J uat Then Came a Chorua of Voices From the Gueete. before. But perhaps he could. She didn't see how be could fail to. l'oor, dear Jimmy never liked to be dictated to. The old days in college he liked to try out everything for himself? bless his heart; when he found out be was wrong he was always ready tc acknowledge his mistake. How long it had been since she had seen any of the "old crowd." Suddenly an Idea came to her. With a cry ol delight she Jumped up, and with th< telephone book before her t>egan mak Ing a list of names. Yes, she could locate most of them, and In a few min utes she was calling up the parties. Either the idea of again mlngllni with the old companions, or the curt oslty to see what a "new fashlonev New Year's eve party," as Hetty de scribed It, was, the ten old frlendi gladly accepted the Invitation. Belt] wondered how Sam Taylor would ac cept drinking In the New Year It grape Juice. Betty hod told everybody ther< would be 12 guests, hut when the] arrived there were only 11 with Betty Nothing was said, however, 'until thej entered the dining room a little before 12. when Edgar Harsh asked for whoa the extra chair might be. "Oh," Betty laughed, "That's for the New Year." It was Just a minute to 12 when steps were benrd on the porch. "Must he the New Year," Joan Bar ton suggested. "I'll let him In," Betty suggested, starting for the door, as the guests all laughed. "Betty," Jimmy's voice whispered. "Forgive me dear, for coming unin vited. I couldn't stay away. I couldn't let the old year go without your for giveness." "Jimmy," Betty, her hand tight In his, whispered: "You're forgiven arid you nre Invited, too." As Betty tried to draw Jimmy Into the dining room he pulled her hack. "Betty," he whispered, "1 didn't go to that party?1 Just couldn't." And Just then came a chorus of voices from the guests demanding that Betty "let the New Year come on 111." As the two entered the dining room the air was filled with the shrieks of whistles and blare of horns. "Welcome Happy New Year," the guests cnlled as they saw Jimmy. And then some one discovered why the other chair was there and all tried to tell Jimmy about It nt once. "Well, If I'm a 'Near Year,' I sure an a happy one," and the happy light In Ids eyes liore out the statement. Under cover of conversation he whispered: "Why did you leave this place for me?" "Because," Betty whispered back, "1 felt pretty sure that you'd come back." Sara Taylor then raised Ids glass of grupe Juice. "To the New Year, may It he as col orful as this, and," lie paused a mo ment, "as harmless." (?. 1930. W fa tern Newspaper Union \ WAWAVAAtAAWAWMf, THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT -'By Myrtle Koon Cherryman WWWWVWUVYVVYVWUWWW IT^^^T^OING on my way forward, lo jl #Z i face what might come next f iji In life, I met the New Year. & He was not a huhe. as I hud supposed, hut a slender youth, full of hope ami con }^OiP ' fldence, and I was surprised ' to see that he carried two bags on his back. "What are you going to give me, New Year?' 1 asked. "I suppose y*?w have all sorts of things in those two sucks?Joys and sorrows, hups r.nd mishaps of various kinds." "No," he replied, "there are Just two classes of tldrfgs, and you may take your choice." "My choice!" I cried eagerly. "Then of course 1 will choose only the eas iest things, those thut will bring J<?y." "Just as you like," he said, smiling, "onlv when 1 am old, don't complain to mc that 1 have treated you badly? have cheated you! Folks do that to me sometimes!** This made nie think rather seri ously, and 1 noted that euch of his sacks bore h label. One seemed to iu dicute all hardship, and the other nil helpfulness, but thinking back'over my life, 1 remem bered how decern live some of ihe ? ' shining things had been. 1 said. pointing to the darker one. "You may , give me some out of that bog anj some from this one, please." | Smiling again, the New Year banded I me all I could hold out of each bag. When the year was old, 1 sought him agnln, to bid him Godspeed, and i he asked tne hov 1 had fared. "Very well," I answered, "but I have sometime* wondered w h u t woud have hap pened if 1 had chosen nil from the fairer looking sack labeled 'Opportu nitles,' or nil from the darker one murked 'Obstacles. Would I have had better results ellh er way?" "No," unswered the Old Year; "It would have been the same. In either ^ase, for it all de^ pended oil y o a whether obstacles became opportunl 7 ties, or opiHirtunlfles became obstacles. ' The one so often becomes the other, 1 according Into whose hands they fall." (A IMI. WMttfB Ncviptptr UbJob.) ! A NEW YEAR | | Rr HAHGAHBT (ANGSTEB + WHY do we greet thee, O blithe New Year? What are thy pledges of mirth and cheer? Comeet, knight-errant, the wrogg to right? Comevt to scatter our gloom with light? Wherefore the thrill, the sparkle and shine In heart and eyes at a word of thine? The Old was buoyant, the Old was true. The Old was brave when the Old was new. He crowned us often with grace and gift; His sternest skies had a deep blue rift. Yet straight and swift, when his hand unclasped, With welcome and Joyance thine we grasped. O tell us Year?we are fain to know? What Is thy charm that we hall thee so? Through the ether clear, from the solemn sky The New Year beckons, and makes replj: "J bring you friends, what the years have brought Since ever men tolled, aspired,^ or thought? Days for labor, and nights for rest: And 1 bring you love, a heaven-born guest; Space to work In, and work to do. And faith In that which Is pure and true. Hold me In honor and greet me dear. And sovth you'll And me a Happy Year." Sister Susan Resolves A & By HAROLD L. COOK j*'|mm t1811?, ===============?U ! fISTKU SUSAN was full of all sorts of New Year's res olutions. "Tills Isn't a man's world any more," she said. "It belongs Just as much to the women as It does to the men. We have our rights uow; we're Just as good as the men are, and l'in Just going to do everything the boys do. I'm going to skate us well as Thomas Hean and I'm going to play basketball like Join Thomas, and next fall I'll organize a school football team for girls only. I'll be the captain and we'll beat the regular school team or at least tie them, because we're Just as good as they are. I guess I'll show the world! Mother thinks that be cause she votes she's the equal of a man, but she's too old-fashioned. She Isn't half a man. I'll bet she was nev er In a real good fight In her life. It's /?// I II my generation tlmt must prove that we're the equal of men, not Just by voting, and being doctors and lawyers and things, hut by fighting, and play ing football, nnd doing everything the men do. And I think it's time there was u woman President of these United States, too. Being president of the Ladles' Aid Is too tame for women of my generation. It's time they be gan to hope something for their daughters, except washing dishes nnd bringing up bubles." Kusnn thought that her Ideas were making quite an Impression on her younger brother because he hadn't In terrupted her once. But when she : I paused for breath she saw her mis take. I "There's one thlDg you'll never be.' ! he drawled. "What's that?" she asked. ! "You'll never be a member of i i male quartet." , Silence reigned In the play room ' hut Susan's thoughts were not Idle I , She was deciding to give up the foot ? ' hall idea and perhaps the Presidency j "After nil, girls aren't boys," she sai< I to herself, "and perhaps It would b, better to ,:esolve to develop woman!; i characteristics like those of ray lovelj mother." (?. 19Jf. Wntern Newspaper Union.) Glovti as Presents In rid Knglnnd and Trance It onci was Tie New Year's custom to givi presents of gloves tc acquaintance 1 and Motives t&M** I Wo tfyi /CIjtitk J virr igA-t i > AFFI.lT*ft" was resplendent I^U I with decorations for the I K I New Year's dunce. Brilliant ly colored festoons joined WfcC B clinndeliers of green lights Kwhile concealed side lights cast 'rose tints ceilingward. Tony's orchestra played. Jr.7.7.. J:i7.7., Jazz?seen, felt, heard until the midnight hour, when pandemonium reigned. Veltna loved the aliveness of it all. She had lived In a quiet neighl*orlrood where a birthday party was a grand event, before her parents moved. Then she inet Valeria who took her to her tlrst public dance. Her mother wanted her to be sane, reasonable; she was still in high school. Her indulgent father pleaded. "Young people must have pleasure, mother; you cannot keep her at home always.** When ^jier mother remon strated Velinu culled her "back Dum ber," "kill-Joy," "old-fashioned." Then came tlds New Year's dance and tlie midnight hour. Out of the throng came a youth, clear-eyed, hand some. He 6ecmed apart from, not a pari of. the crowd?passing through. Velrna, full of the spirit of the hour, caught his eye, laughed and blew her carnival horn. He was the first boy she had seen who meant anything hut a dancing partner. She felt this one was different She wanted to hear him talk?to dance with him. He dodged her confetti hut a serpentine coiled teasingly about his neck. "Silly little fool," he said disgustedly, tore away | the paper and was gone. New Year's morning found Velnui tired and cross, fretful us usual; but "Silly Little Fool," He Saio Disgust edly . . . and Wat Gone. when she started to speak unkindly to her mother introspection brought a blush of shame and she suddenly be came considerate and helpful. In the afternoon Valeria came to ! tell her of a dance out at Log Cabin ? Lodge. "It's a benefit for some crip | pies or something. Frank and Klmer want to take us. You'll come of course." Veimu's mother reminded Iter. "You were out rntll two last night, und you know there's school tomorrow." "For cry in' out loud," began Yelma. "You never want us to have any fun! Heck, Mom, you're sure?" but she did not finish. Hinging in her ears came "silly little fool." She put her arm around hfcr mother. There, Mom, I didn't mean it. You're alright I won't go." Karly to bed that night Velinn closed her eyes still seeing a clear-eyed, youthful face and before she went to 6leep she made a solemn resolution never again to be called a "silly little ? fool" by people really worth knowing. Instead of being lead, Velmn be came a leader. Her crowd learned tenids, rowing, swimming and found j plenty of healthful exercise and Jolly j good times that brought peaceful sleep i and happy dispositions. Summer cnme ana ineir tennis ciuo , went to tlie ocean for a swim after the game one day. In the plunge they had ruces and diving contests. | Velma was usually the winner. Her " face aglow with health and pleasure, ' her graceful young body poised for a , high dive, she was suddenly conscious i 1 of a youth standing beside her. Off ! she went turning a summersault in it the air, into the water with hardly a : splash, striking out across the i?ool . with long even strokes. Following her came the youth, clear-eyed, handsome. ] "Say. that was great!" he said. "Yes, ? thanks to you." she replied. y "Why thank me, I did not teach r your "Yes you did." "I did not." "You did." "How could I and not know Itf e "You'd he surprised." site laughed? * and that was the beginning of a I friendship that was worthwhile. <?. 1930. Western Newspaper Union.)