The Alamance Gleaner VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 1, 1931. NO. 35. C ??????????????If???? ??.?. News Review of Current Events the World Over Great Britain Forced to Abandon the Gold Standard? Steel Cuts Wages?President's Appeal to the Legion. / By EDWARD W. PICKARD Great Britain started oft the ? week with a bang that could be heard around the world. The national ? government, finding the gold reserves | or the Hank of Eng land were reduced to the danger point, the money borrowed from | America and France \ exhausted and the withdrawals of for eign balances from the country continu ing, adopted the evid ently wise course of I abandoning the .gold standard at least temporarily. The situ ation had become so critical that this had Chancellor 8nowden. to be done. In the words of the offi cial announcement, "This decision will, of course, not affect obligations of his majesty's government or of the Bank of England which are payable In foreign currencies." On Monday the government's bill was rushed through both houses of parliament and approved by the king, and the gold standard act was thus suspended for six months. Whether the nation will go back to that stand ard depends on the course of events. Though the government's decision was not announced until Sunday night, It fcas reached several days earlier and the rulers of America and France were warned. In the stock exchanges of both countries a check was put on short selling, so the evil effects were minimized and the bears held under curb. Of course the pound sterling dropped to low figures, but there was a decided recovery within a few hours. The London stock exchange and some continental houses were closed tem porarily. Chancellor Snowden, always cou rageous in difficulties, presented the case to the house of commons when the bill wns up for passage and to the crowded benches and galleries he had no apologies to make. He cited the chief reasons for the action as follows: The tying up of British funds In Germany, with its immediate effect on the London market. Criticism abroad concerning the British government's expenditure In keeping the unemployed on the dole. The adverse balance of trade, which he said "has been seized upon and exaggerated." The new government's inability to command a united front in the house of commons. The naval unrest "exploited in for eign newspapers, causing general nervousness abroad." Mr. Snowden explained that as a result of all this people began to take their possessions away from England, but added that the actual crisis started last May with the collapse of the chief banks in Australia. J. P. Morgan, who was In London, gave one of his exceedingly rare In terviews to the press. 'This step seems to me," he said, "to be the second necessary stage In the work of the national government, the first being the balancing of the budget. The completion of the gov ernment's work will be the restora tion of trade In this country. This being the case. It seems to me to be f. hopeful and not a discouraging event, and one which brings the great work of the government much nearer to accomplishment." JAPAN'S action In seizing Mukden and other South Manchurian dtles was causing a lot of trouble not only for China but also for the Japanese government. The ag- . gresslve course. It ap pears, was taken by the war office with out awaiting the ap proval of the govern ment at Tokyo, and the cabinet was bad ly spilt. War Minis ter Mlnaml aggra vated this rupture by ? ending reinforce ments to Manchuria from the Corenn gar- .... . rlgong on hi. own Inl- 8hi<"h"? tl.tlre. Foreign Minister Kljnro Shldehara was especially rolled, for he hoped to settle the quarrel with China by peaceful negotiations, and apparently Premier Wakalsukl was of the same mind. On demand of Alfred Sre. Chinese delegate to the League of Nations, a special meeting of the league council w?s called to hear Nanking's protest against the action of Japan. Kenklchl Yoshlzana. Japanese spokesman, announced to the council that Japan would respect In every way the stipulations of the league covenant and of the Kellogg pact In her policy toward Manchuria. T. V. Soong, Chinese minister of finance, proposed a Sino-Japanese commission tjo *ry to solve the Man churia problem and this suited Tokyo, hut It was rejected flatly by Nanking. President Chiang Kai-shek in a mes sage to the Chinese people, declared that "If the League of Nations and the Kellogg pact signatories fail to op hold Justice between China and Japan, the notional government Is prepared for a final and supreme struggle. I shall lead the army and the entire nation in the fight for the preserva tion of our race. I shull go to the front nnd. If necessary, fall with other patriots." The Canton rebel government ceased Its hostile campaign against the Nationalist regime In order that all China might unite to combat Japan. Soviet Russia took a hand In the melee, making formal protest to Japan against the latter'* course in taking steps in Manchuria without first notifying Moscow. Russia says her interests In Manchuria are as large as those of Japan. The tone of the Moscow press was warlike. On Wednesday Secretary of State Stimson sent notes to both Japan and China urging them to cease hostilities, and the League of Nations council cabled to Tokyo asking Japan to per mit a neutral commission to Inves tigate the situation. PRESIDENT HOOVER. deciding suddenly to appear before the convention of the American Legion, went to Detroit Monday and delivered a stirring address to some 10.000 Legion naires and their fam ilies. He was warm ly received and lis tened to with respect, and it was evident that his main pur pose. the heading off of demands by the organization for addi tional bonus loans at this time, had been President accomplished. Hoover. Mr. Hoover made his message brief, and he dealt with no other subject than that which took him there. In effect, the President made a request that the Legionnaires should not press for additional loans under the vet erans' adjusted compensation act. There had been a concerted move ment within the Legion to have this convention pass a resolution demand ing that veterans be permitted to bor row the full amount of their adjusted compensation certificates. Instead of only half, as at present, j But the President shrewdly avoided making a direct plea. He said It was not fitting that the President of the United States should plead with them In a test of patriotism. He was "pointing out the path of service In this nation." Mr. Hoover said, and he left the choice with the Legion. The President outlined the financial plight of the country, and said he was convinced that the Legion would seek to add no farther harden. When the President finished and had left the hall with criea of "We want beer!" ringing behind Mm. be was driven directly back to hla spe cial train which left at once for Wash ington. After a warm debate thet Legion adopted a resolution condemning the Eighteenth amendment and calling on congress to hold a nation-wide refer endum on the repeal or modification of the dry laws. The convention als> voted not to press for full payment of compensation certificates at this time. Henry L. Stevens. Jr? of Warsaw. S. C.. was elected national com mander. Directors of the United states Steel corporation, the Bethlehem Steel corporation and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company announced that wage rates of their employees would he reduced shout 10 per cent, effective October 1. At the same flme the General Motors corporation an nounced a readjustment of salaries, the cuts ranging from 10 to 20 per cent; and the United States Rubber company gave out word that Its entire organization would go on a five-day week, without change In the hourly scale of wages but involving a reduc tion of one-elerentji In salaries. These readjustments by huge corpo rations were not unexpected hut sere greatly regretted, by Hie Hoover ad ministration. The wn?e cut* were I bitterly resented by organized labor I whose officials feared they would lead to reduction* nil along the line. A* a matter of fact, several other big con cerns did put la efTect similar cuts. PLANS' for a general urmnmcnts construction holiday go on apace. The League of Nations armaments committee Invited the United States to participate In Its discussions of this subject In a consultative capac ity and Uncle Sam gladly accepted. Then Secretary of State Stimson an nounced that Hugh It. Wilson. Amer ican minister to Switzerland, had been Instructed to inform the committee that the United States Is favorably inclined toward the Idea of an Inter national building holiday for land, air and rtaval armaments. Mr. Wilson will report to Washington on any plan of action advanced and will then re ceive further instructions from the administration. Another hopeful sign Is the fact that 1'remler I.aval of France has ac cepted an Invitation from President Iloover to visit Washington. It Is expected he will come some time in October. JOUETT SHOUSE. chairman of the executive committee of the Demo cratic national committee, is one of those who believe it is not always wise to let sleeping (io,4a ue. ne knows his party is hound to come up against the prohibition question before or during the next national conven tion, and lie conse quently has stirred up the animals by pub lishing "some plat form suggestions" j in tne orj;an or tne ???? ? Woman's National . Democratic club. Jouett In general Mr. ?hou"' Shouse stands on the liquor question with the Smith-ltaskoh fuctfon of the party. He favors the submission to the states of a substitute for the Eighteenth amendment whereby wet states could restore the manufacture and sale of liquor, while dry states could remain dry. Pending such ac tion he would have light wines and beer legalized by congress. His .suggested plank on agriculture calls for the repeal of the federal farm board legislation, which he terms a costly failure, and he advo cates something In the line of a sur plus control device employing the equalization fee as a means of assess ing the farmers Instead of the tax payers generally for the cost of stabi lization. The discussion which Mr. Shouse's article already has aroused is wel come to National Chairman Raskoh. who is openly seeking to crystallize party views on the majoi issues. DESPITE the President's determin ation to keep down governmental expenditures. It is revealed now that the budget estimates for the 1083 fiscal year which have Just been sub mitted to him call for expenditures , that would break all records since the days of the World war. It was stated authoritatively that the esti mates top the estimated 11)32 expendi tures- by alm. when he was appointed ambas sador by President Calles. MOST noteworthy among the deaths of the week was that of Dr. David Starr Jordan, venerable chancellor emeritus of Stanford tint - versltg. He passed away at his campus home after a stroke of pa ngs! s. at the age of eighty yeara Doctor Jordan had achieved distinc tion as a scientist, an educator and a philosopher, and ' -r many years had been an advocate of worhl pence, fa the field of science he was liest known as an Ichthyologist. ifi by Wmutb Newspse%t Usfsai Ill I I I I I I I K-X I I I I I I I I I |I I I 111 I I 11 1 I I 1 I I I I I I I II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I j Explorers by Air Find Ancient Inca Fortress 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111*1111111111111111111111 LJ OW the^ocejin in olden times provide*] the Incns with a nat ural stronghold for their dwellings is evident in the site of this silent Canete valley village, south of Limn, Peru, atop what was once an island In the sea. Probably/ archeologlsts say, It was a litteral fortress, built ar the Pacific's re cession turned the island Into a coastal promontory, liemnants of a wull that irdted the ancient for uiicuuuu ueiuie me opumuiua came are ncre cieuny picrureu oy me nenui cameras or me oiuppee-JOlinson expe dition which has Just returned to New York after nine months of exploration and adventure in Peru. Z BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN By THORNTON W. BURGESS PETER RABBIT HAS A CLOSE CALL A CLOSE call means a narrow es cape. That Is what Peter ltnb blt had the night he gave the warning that saved some of the geese In the pond of Paddy the Beaver. Peter knew Just how much risk he was run ning when he thumped that warning. He knew that Just on the other side of the pond, hiding In the Black Shad Old Man Coycte Wat So Close That It 8eemed to Peter as If He Could Feel His Hot Breath. ows, were Old Alan Coyote and Keddy and Old GranDy Fox, and he knew, too, that they would be very, very angry because be had spoiled their chances of getting a fat goose for din ner. So the Instant Peter had thumped his warning he started for the nearest bramble-tangle. Now Peter never runs very far at a time without stopping to look and listen. He had run about a third of the wny to the bramble-tangle when he stopped and sat Dp. With his ears standing straight up he listened with all his might It was very still there In the Green Forest where he was, but back where he had come from he conld Just bear the gabbling voices of the geese, und so he knew that they had been wakened In time, lie knew perfectly well that the wisest thing for him to do was to hurry on, hut his curiosity would not let htm. Per haps, after all there was no real dan ger. lie would stay where he was and then If no one followed him per haps he could slip hack to Paddy's Pond and learn just what had hap pened after he had thumped. He won dered If Ilonker the (loose knew that It was he, Peter, who had given the alarm. For some little time Peter sat there lls'enlng and heard nothing but the distant sound of the voices of the geese. Then suddenly his heart gave a jump. What was that? He listened harder than ever. As surely ns he wns sitting there lie heard footsteps! They were very, very light footsteps, le 4 they were coming straight toward him He wuited only long enough to make sure and then once tnore he started for the bramble tangle, lipper ty-Ilpperty-lip, and this time he didn't intend to stop until he got there. Those light footsteps were made by Old Man Coyote! Peter knew them too well to be mistaken. It wns true. You see the instant Old Man Coyote, hiding there by the pond of Paddy the Beaver, had heard the thumps of Peter he had known that there wasn't the least chance in the world for him to catch one of those geese that night and he had at once made up his mind that if he couldn't din' on a fat goose lie would do his best to dine on Peter himself. He knew Just as well as Peter did that there was no safe hiding place for Pe ter nearer than the bramble-tangle and he made up his mind that that was Just where Peter would start for. You see Old Man Coyote is very smart. Yes. Indeed. Old Man Coyote Is very smart. He knows nil about Peter and Ids ways, and lie felt' quite sure that Peter would do just us he did do ?stop to listen to what was going on bark there at the f>ond. By this time Old Man Coyote was not far behind him and his nose was in Peter's tracks. Now I'eter can run very fust for a short distance, but for a long distance Old Man Coyote can run very much faster than Peter. That safe old bramble-tangle was still some distance away when Peter, looking back as he ran, saw Old Man Coyote almost at his heels. The sight of those grinning teeth seemed to give Peter more speed. Never had he run as he ran then. His heart was thumping so that It seemed as if It would burst. His breath was almost gone. The bramble-tangle was only three Jumps away, hut Old Man Coyote was so close that.it seemed to Peter as if he could feel his hot breath. One Jump! Two Jumps! Three jumps! Peter f**P the friendly old brambles brush against Itiin and then there was a sharp pull at his tail. With a little scream of fear Peter pulled with all his might and then?he was safe! H? looked hack. Just on the edge of the bran hle-tangle stood Oi l Man Coyote and in his mouth was a little hunch of white hairs. Peter looked at Ids fun ny little tall It looked funnier than ever. There was a hole In the middle where the hair had been pulled out CQhjrJ O. Lloyd.)?WNIt Service. Scene During Hankow's Great Flood Tllti flooded Ping Ho road In the Japanese concession at Hankow ufter the waters of the Yungtse river rose to s new high level since the floods of 1870. As a result of the disaster many thousands of Chinese were drowned and millions of dollars' worth of property was destroyed. Moili^^^|Book They do not live in vain who keep Close watches where the children sleep. And rive stitches whlrh repair The little garments children wear. Edgar Guest. NOW IS THE TIME THIS i? the season when we begin to look up our cherished recipe* to use for canning and pickling. That Is, the thrifty housewife does, for often a recipe Is mislaid until too late to prepare It. Cucumber Mustard Pickles. This Is one of the recipes that will be cherished, for the pickles are firm and good up to the last one. Prepare a Jar with a gallon of vinegar, a cup ful of ground mustard, and half a cup ful of salt. Drop the fresh cucumbers, well washed, dally liyn this pickle until the Jar Is full. They will be ready to eat In two weeks. Chill 8aucs. Take twenty-four large ripe toma toes, aereo white onions, two green peppers, Ave cupful* of vinegar, two tablespoonful* ol Knit and one cupful of sugar. Bring the vinegar and augur to the boiling point, add the other In gredient* which have been put through a food chopper and cook one hour at the boiling point. . Tomato Cataup. Take three dozen ripe totatoe*. three red pepper*, alx onion*, all chopped fine. Add two tenapoonful* each of whole clove*, atlck cinnamon and ground muatard. To three cup ful* of vinegar add one and one half cupful* of brown augar and three table apoonfula of salt. Cook until *mooth, put through a aleve, reheat and bottle. Spiced Qrape*. Remove the pulp from *lt pound* of grape*. Put Into a kettle and conk until soft enough to remove the aeed* by putting them through a sieve. Put the pulp and skins together, add three pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar, two tablespoonful* of cinnamon and one tablespoonful of cloves. Cook two hours. Seal for winter use. This Jam I* especially good with venison or other game. (A lilt WMt*ra Nawsoaiwr Union) The Government's Most Effective Arm | Dark Corners + | Dy DOUGLAS^MALLOCH j IP THERE'S a corner In your house A little dark, yon lift the shade; If there's a corner In your heart A little dark?well, I'm afraid You git and worry, worry thin. And just won't let the sunshine in* If tliore's a corner In your room A little dark, a lamp yon light; If there's a sorrow in your breast, I fear you sit there In the night Among the shadows, in the gloom, When many lamps might flood the room. If there's a corner in your house A little dark, the curtain raise. If there's a corner In your heart A little dark, then build a blaze Upon the ashes that are dead. Light some new dream, and look ahead. (GO. 1931. ItoudM Malloch 1 ? WNU Service. New German Threat Germany ha* develped a nevr decathlon *tar who I* ex|*ecte?J to cause much embarrassment to A mer lon's versatile track and field stars in the 1832 Olympic games to l?c held at Los Angeles. Calif. JJis name is Kurt Weiss, and he Is here seeo hurling the ulscus.