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The Alamance gleaner VOL. LVI. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 22, 1931. NO. 51. News Review of Current ! Events the World Over i I Dispute Between President and Senate Over Power Board Nominations Wrecks Co-Operation?Red Cross Asks Drought Relief Fund. i I By EDWARD W. PICKARD imwr i mmmihb * bbb /CO OPERATION be ^ tween President Hoover and the sen ate, never notable for Its warmth, was prac tically obliterated by the dispute over the appointments to the power hoard. When the senate asked the Chief Executive to re turn to It his nomina tions of George Otis Smith. Marcel Gar Sen. Wheeler saud and Claude L. Draper so that It might rescind Its confirmation of those names, Mr. Hoover with undcrstan I able Indignation curtly refused, de claring that he "cannot admit the pow er of the senate to encroach upon the executive functions by removal of a duly appointed executive officer tinder the guise of reconsideration of his nomination." The President was fortified in Ids action by an opinion of Attorney Gen eral Mlttcliell, and lie gave out a pub lic statement explaining his course and intimated that the action of the senate was actuated by "a hope of symbolizing me as t> defender of the power interests if 1 refuse to sacrifice three outstanding public servants." He said there was no Issue for or against the power companies involved. Senators who are In opposition to the administration thereupon rrose in their wrath and scathingly denounced Mr. Hoover, and the body, by a vote of 3G to 23, ordered the clerk to re store the names of the three power commissioners to tiie executive calen dar. which placed the senate on record as holding tlint no power commission exists. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana served notice that he would seek to tie up the salaries of the com missioners In the annual Independent offices appropriation bill. Intimating that If necessary a filibuster would be conducted against the measure. While the action of the senate was In order under its rules, it was un precedented and'doesnot seem to have met with general public approval. Since the commissioners had been du'y sworn In and the attorney general has ruled that the appointments were con stitutionally made. President Hoover was on solid legal ground in rejecting the senate's demand und indeed that was the least he could do under the circumstances. In this case the rules of the senate are In conflict with the law and the Constitution. Whether or not Mr. Hoover was wise In im pugning the motives of the senate Is open to question. SINCE the destruction of private grain operators is held by the fed era I farm board to be no part of its function. Chairman I.egge has virtual ly warned them to be ready for the July 1 settlements. He discloses that ttie board not only holds huge contracts for future delivery but also is fast gaining control of the cash wheat sup ply. Legge said the grain stabilization corporation is iioiding about To.OOO. 0<>0 bushels of cash wheat, and about Sfi.000.000 bushels of futures contract wheat which must be delivered be tween now and next July 1. He admitted that on July 1. when the new crop begins coming in. he ex pects the hoard to he holding "vir tually all of the national carry-over." Such a position with any futures con tracts outstanding would place the board In a position to wipe out short speculators who happened to be due to deliver wheat to the board. A sim ilar condition existed several months ago. and at that time the board spared the short sellers by extending the de livery date. WITH the warm approval of Pres ident Hoover, an ap peal for funds for the relief of sufferers In the drought-stricken districts of the United States has been Is sued by John Burton Payne, head of the lied Cross. It Is the hope of Mr. Payne I hat $10,000,080 will be contributed by the J. B. Payne o f?onnfrv. fcCIICMIUO VIIIACIIO "I - -says tlie demand* for help In the drought areas a rV Increasing. Not ?inly food, clothing nnd fuel for human helngs are needed, but also feed for the live stock. In his letter to Mr. Payne the Pres ident reviewed briefly the drought re lief work of the Red Cross since Inst fall, when Jo.000.000 was set aside for the purpose and appeals for further funds were postponed until It should 1 he possible to measure the volume of requirements. He continued: 1 "The problem lias now developed ' more than the available funds and is 1 not wholly one of food, clothing, and 1 other personal care among farmers, 1 who have suffered from the drought. * There Is also difficulty in the smaller ' rural and Industrial towns as a dou- 1 hie reaction from the drought and de- 1 presslon. I understand that these towns are unable to organize effective ly to meet their problems as are the municipalities. "The arrangement made by Secre tary Hyde and yourself by which a representative of local Ited Cross chapters will sit upon the local com mittees created by the Department of Agriculture for administration of the crop relief will assure that every one truly deserving will be looked after with care and without waste. "I am confident that you will com mand the never failing generous In stincts of our people toward those who are less fortunate." Investigation of conditions in Ar kansas shows that Senator Caraway was not exaggerating much when he told of the needs of the farmers of his state in his argument for the sen ate amendment to the $45,000,000 drought relief appropriation. The sen- i ate wanted to add $15,000,000 for loans i for food, but the house rejected the amendment. Senutor Robinson of Arkansas tried a new plan, offering an amendment to the Interior department appropriation bill providing for a federal donation of $25,000,000 to the Red Cross for relief in city and rurul districts. APOLOGY and rep aration from the Republican national committee are de manded by Alfred E. Smith. Democratic Presidential candidate In 1928, for permitting its executive director, Robert II. Lucas, to circulate 800.000 cop ies of the 4,AI Smith Itaskob Idea of Hap piness" circular In Ne Al Smith hrnskn nnd other states during tlie campaign last fall. On the circular was a picture of a barroom. Mr. Smith made his demand in a letter which Senator Wagner of New York Introduced before the Nye sen atorial campaign committee, lie de elnred a quotation attributed to him was false, .and said: "I am entitled to have 800.000 copies of a statement, showing that I was falsely quoted, dis tributed just as widely as the original cartoon was nnd to the same organiza Hons." Senator Nye told the committee that charges of perjury would be filed at Lincoln, Neb., against George W. Nor ris, the grocer of Broken Bow. who sought to run against Senator George W. Norris In the last primary In Ne braska. DIt. John Grier Hlbben hns an nounced that he will retire from the presi dency of Princeton university at the end of the academic year in 11)32. There is much discussion as to who will succeed him. but the board of trustees lias not yet taken up the question. Most p r o ra I n e n tly men a m R. A. Fotdlck tioneil for the place Is Raymond A. Fosdlck, an eminent New York law yer who graduated from 1'rlncetun with the class of 1005. He Is now one of the trustees. Senator Dorld A. Reed of Pennsylvania, a member of the class of 1000. Is also suggested. He. too. Is on the hoard of trustees. Doctor Hibhen was elected presi dent of the university Jnnuary 11, 1012, and Inaugurated the following May 12. He succeeded Woodrow Wil son. who resigned In 1910 upon his election as governor of New Jersey. Only three of Princeton's fourteen presidents served terms longer than the 20 years of Doctor Hlbben. They were John Wltherspoon, the sixth president, who served from 1768 to 1700; James Carnohan. the ninth, from 1825 to 1854; and James McCosli, the eleventh, from 1868 to 1888. IF THE Democratic party wants an other wet candidate for the Presi dency In 1032. Albert C Ritchie Is ready for the Job. .Such was the Im plication In his address when he was naururated 'or the fourth time ?* jovernor of Maryland. Dealing with national rather than state Issues, he attacked prohlhltlon, criticized the part played by the Hoover administra tion in the economic sltuutlon and de clared his opposition to governmental interference with business. SERIOUS opposition by the senate to President Hoover's six nominees for membership on the tariff board de veloped In the euse of only one, and luring the week all of lhem were con firmed. They are Henry P. Fletcher, Vhomas \V. Page, John Pee Coulter, Alfred P. Dennis, Edgar B. Brossnrd iikI Lincoln Dixon. Robinson of Arkansas and Walsh [>f Montana attacked Brossnrd, who is from Utah, because of his alleged part In advocating a high tariff on sugar in 1024 when he was an econo mist In the employ of the old tariff commission. But the radical Republi cans failed to support the Democrats j and some of them made speeches In favor of Brossnrd; and the Utah man was confirmed by a vote of 4.5 to 30. I JNDKU the aus ^ pices of the In ternational Chamber of Commerce a great world business cniiicr ence will open in Washington May 4 and continue six days. # Business men from 40 countries will attend and will try to deter mine the causes of the present Interna nutional trade depres 8. H. S'rawn won. Tins subject win oe taaen up promptly at the llrst plenary session, wlilcli will he presided over hy Georges riieunis. former premier of Belgium and president of the International chamber. The program for the conference waa announced by Silas 11. Strawn of Chi cago. chairman of the American com mittee of the international chamber. In discussing the existing conditions he said: "The conviction is held In many quarters abroad that the first step toward business recovery In Europe Is the resumption of normal buying In the United States. Until our peo ple, by the renewal of purchase! abroad of both raw materials and fin ished products, can reduce surplus stocks and bring about a stable price level In the more important countries, European business leaders see no prob ability of substantial improvement in the world economic situation. "Perhaps the- most ominous cloud that overhangs the whole economic world is the dumping on the world markets of large quantities of grain, raw materials, and semi-finished prod ucts by Soviet Uussia, at prices less than the normal costs of production. "The Washington conference will endeavor to investigate carefully tlie distinction between cause and effect in the present situation, with a view to establishing to what extent reme dies can be sought and the flist steps hastened by co-ordinating sectional endeavor." /YNK of America's truly great .Tews, Nathan Straus of New York, has passed on to his reward. Having ac quired a large fortune in merchandis ing. he devoted himself to aiding Ids fellow men and gave away many mil lions. Outstanding among his benefac tions was his work for the conserva tion of Infant life largely through the establishment of stations where pure milk could be obtained for babies by the poor. Chicago also lost a philan thropic Jew In the death of Kdwin F. Meyer, who gave large sums to de pendents of slain policeman and was an organizer of the Associated Jewish j charities. TIl/.CE has been found, at this ^ writing, of Mrs. Beryl Hart and IJeut W. S. MacLaren and the plane Tradewlnd in which they flew from Bermuda for the Azores on their way to Paris. For several days there were severe storms on the Atlantic and It I was taken for granted that the two aviators were lost. ARISTIDK Brlnnd's plan for a union of European states In now under official consideration, for the committee appointed by the League of Na tions to study the pro posnl and draw up a scheme for putting It Into efTect met Friday In Geneva for Its first session. Not only Eu rope. hut the whole M. Briand world Is deeply interested and win follow the doings of the committee closely. The committee Includes thirteen foreign ministers and is presided over by M. Brinnd himself. Sir Brie Drum tnond. secretary general of the league, is In South America, so the chairman is assisted by .T. I- M. C. Avenol, the assistant secretary, who Is a French man. (?. 1*31. Weatern N??a|r*p?r Volo%.? Same Birthday; Same Name,- Same Army. \ But different Eime Ger?.A/6ert Sidney Johnston t Gen. Joseph E. Johnston By ELMO 8COTT WATSON ["^^^^llCBRUARY 3 Is the anal ly I versary of the birthday I of two American soldiers I I whose careers afford B I some striking slmllarl ties and some equally striking dllTerenccs.Thcy IxVjIh'^J bore the same family name, .vet were not re lated. They were grad tinted from the same military school, both achieved distinc tion as Indlnn fighters, both attained high ranks In both the United States army and the Confederate army, yet one rose to the heights as a mllltnry leader only to be cheated of Ills re ward by death, while the other lived to see Ills fame a- a soldier end In something of an anticlimax. The two were Albert Sidney Johnston nnd Joseph Eggleston Johnston. Albert Sidney Johnston was horn on February 3, 1803, in Washington, Ky? the son of a Connecticut country physician and was graduated from the United States Military academy, eighth In his class. In 182(1. lie was assigned to the Second Infantry nnd served as chief of staff to Gen. Henry Atkinson In the Black Hawk war In 1832. Re signing from the army In 1834, he was a farmer for a short time near St Louis, then In 1830 Joined the Texas patriots In their struggle for freedom. Although entering the Texan army as a private he rapidly rose through all the grades to the command of the army and In 1838 President Mlraheau Lamar of the Lone Star republic made him secretary of war. The next year he led a campaign against hostile In dians and In two brilliant battles de feated them and drove thein out of Texas. Next we find him a planter In Texas but at the outbreak of the Mex ican war he was In the field again as colonel of the First Texas rifles. This regiment soon disbanded but Johns ton continued In the service and was Inspector general of Butler's division at the battle of Monterey. Although Gen. Zaehary Taylor called him "the best soldier he ever commanded," nnd his superiors recommended him for an appointment as brigadier-general, he was passed over (for political reasons) and again retired to Ids farm. There he lived In poverty and neg lect until President Taylor In 1849 suddenly appointed him a paymaster In the United States army and six years later President Pierce appointed him colonel of u new regiment, the Second cavalry. In 1857 be was placed In com mand of the expedition to restore or der among the Mormons In Utah, who were In open revolt against the gov ernment. For his success In this work he was brevetted brigadier-general and a short time later placed In com mand of the department of the Pn cific. Loyal to the army nnd the nation, the coming of the Civil war brought the deepest distress to Johnston. But when Texas seceded he resigned his commission?hut he regarded his com mand as such a sacred trust that he concealed his resignation until he could be relieved?and went at once to Iticlimond where In September, 1801, he was placed In command of all the Confederate forces In the West. The fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson to the Union forces under Foote and Grant followed and the new leader fell bnck to Murfrees boro where he began reorganizing his troops. Then he moved to Corinth, Miss., the key of the defense of the railroad system In the lower Missis sippi valley, where by April 1, 18C2, he had about 40,000 men, poorly armed and badly supplied. Grant, command ing the right wing of tlie Union army, wus concentrating at Pittsburg land ing on the Tennessee river with some 40,000 men and Buell was rapidly ap proaching with 40,000 more. With a Napoleonic flash of genius Johnston decided to beat the enemy In detail and to attack Grant before Buell could arrive. On April 3 he started on his 25 mile march to Pittsburgh Landing but he was delayed by bad roads and did not arrive until the 5th. At a council of war Gene.al Beauregard, his sec ond In command, protested against an attack and at'.vlsed a return to Corinth. Johnston overruled him and on Sunday morning, April 0, he led Ids army to the attack. It was a com plete surprise, for Grant was not even on the field. The struggle lasted all day and was proceeding successfully Just as Johns ton had planned. The Union army was being crowded into an angle between Snake creek and the Tenessee rlvrc and was facing annihilation. About ' 2:30 o'clock In the afternoon Johns ton, while leading a charge which crushed the left wing of Grant's forces, fell with a mortal wound. Beau regard, with enough daylight left to complete the victory, vacillated and ordered the attack to cense. That night Buell's army came up and the next day the Confederates were driven from the field. Had the bullet which struck down Albert Sidney Johnston reached another target the history of the Civil war might have beeu vast ly different. Unlike Albert Sidney Johnston, who was a Southerner of Northern nn cestry, Joseph Kggleston Johnston was a Southerner of the Southerners. He was born In Cherry Grove, Va., on February 3. 1807, the scion of a Vir ginia family which had been In this country for nearly 200 years. He was graduated from West Point in 1820 In the same class that gave Bobert E. Lee to the army and commissioned u second lieutenant In the Fourth ar tillery. With the exception of service in the Black Hawk war In 1832. most of his first six years in the army was spent In garrison duty at various posts along the Atlantic seaboard. But In 1836 he became aide de catnp to Gen. Winfleld Scott in the war with the Seminole Indians in Florida and won a brevet as captain for gal Inn try in ftctlon when troops tinder his com mand fell Into an nmhuscade. from which Johnston extricated them skill fully. On tliis occasion his uniform was perforated with no less thnn HO bul lets! In 1842-43 he was again in Florida serving against the Seminole*. In the war with Mexico he whs ut the siege of Vera Cruz and In the battles of Cerro Gordo, Coiitreras, Molino del Itey, Chapultepee and the attack on the City of Mexico. He was severely wounded at Cerro Gordo and again at Cliapultepec, where he was the tirst to plant regimental colors on the ramparts of the fortress. For his gallantry at Cerro Gordo, he was brevet ted lieutenant colonel and colo nel and finally became quartermaster general of the UniteJ States army. Johnston resigned from the army when Virginia seceded, was commis sioned a major general of volunteers by Virginia. Next he was appointed commander of the army of the Shen andoah and led It to the aid of Gen eral Beauregard When McDowell at tacked on July 21, 1801, at Manas sas. Johnston outranked Beauregard and took command so that he Is cred ited with the victory at Bull Bun. The next month he was appointed one of the five full generals authorized by the Confederate congress (among them Albert Sidney Johnston) but was placed fourtli on the list. Johns ton protested, and this is said to have been the beginning and cause of the hostility towards him shown by Pres ident Davis throughout the war. After the Battle of Seven I'ines in 1802, nt which Johnston was seriously wounded, Davis replaced him In com mand of the Confederate forces In the Fast with Gen. Robert K. Fee and the eclipse of Joseph E. Johnston as on I outstanding military leader began. I The next year he took command of the Department of the West Both Davis and Johnston have their ardent partisans In the historic dis pute between the two and it seems Impossible to arrive nt nny conclusion as to who was most to blame. But the net result was disaster In the West which further weakened the ?Txist Cause" and contributed its share to the downfall of the Con federacy. It fell .o his lot to piny a tending role In the last military scene of the great trngedy which befell the American people between 1801 and 1805. Just as he had been in command at the first m. Jor engagement of the war. so wag he In command when the last lmj>ortnnt armed forces of the Confederacy laid down their arn.s. On April 20. 1805, Johnston surrendered his army to General Sherman on the same terms under which Fee had sur rendered to Grant. After the war Johnston was presi dent of a railroad io Arkansas, presi dent of an express company of Vir ginia and agent for various Insurance companies. In 1877 he was elected to congress from Virginia and ten years later he was appoinied United States commissioner of railroads hy Bresl dent Cleveland. He died In 1SU. <? by Western Newspaper Union.) Dadchjs Fairxj^le i Ar .MAIV-GRAHAM-BOWJER ? wmw mmHi uwiow ? ? THE FARMER'S HORSE "I'll buy your horse for a good price," said the man to the farmer. l "I liate to part with him." Mild the farmer. "He Is sack a good horse and the children love him so much.** "Of course he's a good horse. "That is why I am willing to pay plenty of money for him," said the man. Now the farmer was not rich?he really was quite poor, and he need ed the money more than the horse. -Well." he said at last, "I'll sell him to you." "All right." said the man. "Hitch "He's a Good Horaa.* him to the back of my wagon. Ill take him right along." ?'No." said the farmer, "yon can't take him now. All the children are not here. "They would want to say good-by to him. They're fond of him. very fond of him. "He has such a nice way with the children." "Well, when can I have hiraT* asked the man, rather crossly. "I'll bring him to town tomorrow," aatd the farmer. "All right," said the man. "and III buy that little wagon I saw him with yesterday." "Tomorrow," said the farmer after the price had been arranged?a very good price. The man drove off. "Oh, daddy." said the children who had heard the talk between their fa ther and the man, "you aren't going to sell Horsle are yon?" And the two youngest ones began to cry. It was all the older ones could do to keep back the tears and the farmer acted as though he'd like to cry a little bit himself. "Children," he said. "I need that money. I must sell Horsie. No other horse will bring so much to me." And the children didnl urge their father any more, for they knew it was hard for him, too. Soon the rest of the children came along with their mother and when they heard that Horsie was to be sold they were all so very. very, very sad. "Come over here. Horsie." they called. Horsie walked out of the gate which led Into the field and came across the road to the farmhouse. He stood by the front porch and all the children put their heads on his soft head and neck and kissed him, as the tears streamed down their faces. "Here," said the mother, "sugar for Horsie." But Horsie did not want the sngar. He neighed a thank you. but he was very sad, for he knew something was wrong. "Have some long grass." said the farmer. Bat Horsie didnt seem to want to eat. The children sat op until very late that night They got on Horsle's hack and rode him up and down along the path behind the barn and through the field. Then he would come over by the porch to be petted. The next morning, very early, the farmer got up and the children said their good-nys to Horsle with tears C Id their eyes which they tried to keep back. * llorsle nave u fi low whlnny-whlnny and licked his mas ter's hands. "Oh. Horsle. 1 don't do that," said his master, half _i choking with tears. They started off. Z! the farmer holding - the reins so loosely ^ as If he conldn't jbear to guide Horsle to the man I to whom he was * going to sell Mm. And every few ( ml nates Horsle Horele Walked Dut of the Gate. turned hla head around and alth Ml pleading eyes begged not to be sold. The farmer could not resist the look In Horaie'a eyes and the thought of his lonely children. "I Just can't sell you," he said. Til tell the man so!" And back went Borsle to the farm. Ob, what happiness there was when he came back to them i i
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