The Alamance gleaner 1
VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1931. NO. 37.
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President Hoover's Financial Restoration Plan Approved
by Congress Leaders?Senator Morrow's
Death Loss to Nation.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
CK)LLOWING a series of confer- I
" ences with bankers, business men
?and economists. President Hoover
called to the White House the lead
ing members of the
senate and house,
both Republican and
Democratic, and laid
before them a com
prehensive plan to
stabilize the domestic
banking situation and
relieve the depres
sion. In general his
project received the
approval of his hear
I era, and he then an
nounced It to the peo
Presldent pie of the country,
Hoover. asking their full sup
port.
Briefly summarized, what the Pres
ident proposes is:
Creation of a corporation hy pri
vate bankers, with capital of $300,
000,000, to take up the "frozen" pa
per of Insolvent banks and other
financial Institutions and otherwise to
give elasticity to the financial situa
tion. He said $150,000,000 of the stock
already had been subscribed. j
Liberal izatlfin of the rediscount lim
itations by which the reserve board
Is now prevented from accepting cer
tain classes of securities.
Expansion of the federal land hank
system to provide further credit ac
comodations for the farmers.
Mr. Hoover also told the congress
men assembled that he planned to
discuss with Premier Laval of France,
when the latter comes to Washing
ton, the possibilities of an extension
of the International moratorium.
This was the only thing that brought
forth any decided objection from the:
lawmakers. Some of them said Ihe
time for this had not yet arrived.
The President said the congress
leaders had agreed, regardless of
party, to put through the legislation
that might be needed to make his
plan effective, hud It was not thought
a special session would be necessary.
If the privately financed institution
falls to restore business confidence,
lie said, he would recommend the for
mation of a federal financed corpora
tion similar In character atyl purpose
to the War Finance corporation of
World war days.
DEATH, sudden and unexpected,
came to Dwlght W. Morrow In
Ills home at Englewood, N. J., and the
United States lost one of Its best and
most useful citizens.
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New,Jersey was I
strjeken with a cere- I
bral hemorrhage as he I
slept, and passed I
away without regain- I
lng consciousness. He I
was fifty-eight years I
old, and while he had I
accomplished a great p
deal In his too short l|
life. It was the gen- ?
erai Denei tnat , ne
was, as Ambassador Morrow.
Dawes said, "at the threshold of ?
great career of public usefulness." ?
At Senator Morrow's deathbed
were Mrs. Morrow, her daughter,
Elisabeth, and a few other relatives.
Another daughter, Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh, Is In China with her hus
band. Mrs. Morrow./ sent the Lind
berghs a cablegram announcing tint
death. The youngest daughter, Miss
Constance Morrow, was away at
Smith college, and the senator's son,
Dwight \V. Morrow, Jr., was at Am
herst.
Born Id West Virginia anil educat
ed at Ambers/. Mr. Morrow went
through Columbia law school ,snd was
successful It) the practice of law.
Coming Into contact with big finan
ciers. ha was made a partner in the
great hanklqg house of J. H. Morgan
k Co. tie gave the government emi
nent ^service during the war. and aft
erward was made amhnssndor to
Mexico. In "this post he displayed
remarkable skill as a diplomat, set
tling In . a few months controversies
that had long been the cause of ex
treme III feeling between the Amer
ican and Mexican governments. While
he was ambassador his daughter was
married to Colonel Lindbergh.
Giving up the Mexican |>ost, Mr.
Morrow announced his candidacy for
the senate, and It was characteristic
of bis straightforwardness that be
at the same time declared himself
In favor of rei>eal of the Eighteenth
amendment. Ills victory at the polls
was no surprise, for the |>eople of his
stata held Mm In high regard. In
? deed, all the nation liked and ad
mired him, and he w?? considered
Presidential timber, though Ills name
might not have been presented to the
Republican ' convention of 1032.
Putst year Mr. Morrow was one of
the leading members of the American
delegation to the I-ondon naval con
ference, and the foreign statesmen
who met him then heard of his death
with deep sorrow. President Hoo
ver's statement, on henring the sad
news, was: J
"The country has suffered a great
loss In the death of Senator Morrow.
His loyal and generous character as
a neighbor and a friend; his pnhlic
spirit as a citizen; his service during
the war; his accomplishments as am
bassador to Mexico; his unique con
tribution to the success of the I<on
I don naval conference?are the record
of that sort of American who makes
j our country great."
LATIN America launched a strong
attack on the tariff policy of the
United States Immediately after the
opening of the Pan-Amerlcari com
inerciiii congress in
Washington. Robert
P. La moot, secretary
of commerce, was in|4
the chair, and both
he and Silas H.
Strawn, president of
the Chamber of Com
merce of the United
States, tried to head
off the tariff discus
sion, but without suc
cess. The issue was
_ _ , raised at once by
R. P. Lamont. (he de|eBat|on
and Its proposal that there .be a two
years' truce on customs Increases was
backed by the representatives of sev
eral other countries.
At the same time the Argentine del
egation filed In behalf of one of Its
members. Luis Flore, representing the
Buenos Aires Chamber of Commerce,
a hitter Indictment of American pro
tectionism. Senor Flore charged that
the United States with Its tariff bar
riers "Is largely to blame for the pres
ent evil situation" of the world eco
nomically. Following the example of
the United States, or seeking reprisal,
other nations had adopted a protec
tionist program with disastrous re
sults on trade, he said.
Chairman Lamont blamed the
World war for the economic situa
tion. The more direct factors, he
said, were overproduction, overspecu
latlon. artificial price stabilization ef
forts and unwise budgetary practices,
and he urged each country to correct
Its own mistakes.
SPEAKING of armaments. Senator
Claude A. Swnnson of Virginia
has Just put forward a proposition so
simple that It sounds foolish?-and
.perhaps It Is. His
plans is mat rresi- ?
dent Hoover nrrnnge I
for a naval building ?
holiday with the otb- ?
er great naval pow- I
ers, which would be K
all right except that W
the holiday Is to he ?
observed by all of I
them except the I
United States. Brief- I
ly, lie warns Wie *
oilier tiowers almost
to stop building na- 8*n^ 8w*n*0n
val vessels until America can gradual
ly arid slowly Increase Its fleet up to
thsf limits ,of the London pact and
modernize Its now outranged battle
ships.
"It Is Incumbent upon the United
States to submit a definite proposal
for a naval holiday," Senator Swan
son said. "It seems to me we can
properly do this and submit a proposal
In which we can obtain aecnrtty and
at the same time practice economy.
The United States Is at present, under
the terms of the London conference,,
In agreement with Great Britain for
equality In naval power and In an
agreement with Japan for a substan
tial ratio of Ave for the United States,
and three for Japan."
WHEN the American federation
of Labor opened Its annual con
ventlon In Vancouver. B. C.. Prest
ldent William Green lost no time In
setting before It and before the na
tion the serious conditions that exist.
He warned Industry that "revolutions
In the past grew out of distress add
hunger," and demanded that anoth
er point be added to the bill of rights
?the right to work. He Insisted that
standards of Jife and living must be
maintained if a high level and that
the policy of catting wages was all
wrong.
Recommendations of the executive
council, contained in its annual re
port, included the following:
President Hoover should call a na
tional conference of employers and
labor to discuss how all workers may
share in available employment.
Immediate Inaugurated of the five
day week and the shorter work day.
The wage structure aud wage
standards should be maintained.
A guarantee that ail now employed
shall be assured their positions and
that work be shared equitably by all
through spreading working hours.
Prohibition of child labor.
Stabilisation of industry, especially
those seasonal in character, by carry
ing on improvements during slack pe
riods.
While not liking the dele, the coun
cil said there must be either work or
unemployment Insurance.
On the question of modification of
the Volstead act the executive coun
cil again expressed itself as favoring
2.75 per cent beer.
TOWARD the end of the week the
District of Columbia grand Jury
started on an Investigation of the
charges that Bishop James Cannon,
Jr.. and Ada L. Bur
roughs conspired to
violate the federal
corrupt puctice act
during the last i'res
I den tin I campaign.
Miss Burroughs was
treasurer of the anti
Sinith committee in
Virginia, which was
headed by the hishopT
Uulted States District
Attorney Leo A. Ho
. . ver is directing me
Bishop James |nql|)ry an? ,le gay,
Cannon, Jr. fhe charges u gainst
the two resulted from their alleged
failure to tile a proper report of cer
tain campaign expenditures with the
clerk of the house of representatives,
as required by law.
The 1028 Presidential campaign ac
tivities of the Virginia clergyman are
still under investigation by the state
campaign funds investigation commit
tee headed by Senator Geruld P. Nye.
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FIRST nonstop airplane flight from
Japan to the United States was
made by Clyde Pangborn and Hugh
Herndon. Jr., the young Americans
who flew across the Atlantic and then
on to Japan, where they were arrest
ed and fined for flying over and pho
tographing fortifications. Starting
from Samushiro beach and dropping
their landing gear, they took the
course over Dutch Harbor and down
the coast to Seattle. Hut they didn't
stop there. Instead they circled Mt.
Rauier three times and flew on to
Wenatchee, Wash., the home of Pang
bom's mother, and there made a peril
ous landing In the dust. The little
capital of the apple country wont
wild over the boys, and a represent
ative of the Japanese paper Asahl
handed them a check for $25,000, the
prize for which they were trying.
PARLIAMENT was prorogued on
Thursday and a call was issued for j
a general election to take place Octo- I
ber 27. Prime Minister MacDonald's I
national government decided not to re
sign but to go before the electors as
constituted. The campaign already is
under way. Many of the Liberals
pledged their support to MacDonald.
Julius Curtius resigned as foreign
minister to Germany because of the at
tacks of the Nationalists due to his
failure, to bring about the Austro-Ger
man customs union. Next day the en
tire cabinet resigned and Chancellor
Bruening was instructed by President
Von Hindenburg to form ? new gov
ernment with enlarged powers.
FRANCE la sending, as its repre
sentative at the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary fete at Yorktoun.
V4., one of Its most distinguished sol
dlers. Marshal Henri
Petain, the hero or ?
Verdun. The cruisers ?
Duquesne and ?u(Tern I
are bringing, UUn and I
his party and will ar- ?
rive at Torktowu on I
October 15. In Hie I
group are the runr- I
quia de tjrasxe. the ?
marquis de Uochqin- D
beau. General DOI- I
lone, the due de No- ?
.nd M. Xavter
de Kocbumbeuu. alt
of whom are descendants of Washing
ton's French comrades In arms In 1781.
"I so without official Instructions."
Marshal IVIaln aald before embarking,
"but I ahall not be at a loss for suh
Jecta to talk about lo America I lm
aslne General Pershing slid our World
war cotnradca who will meet na al
Yorktown will talk to ua about those
French soldiers who' fought with
Washington under "tlie orders of La
Fayette. Itochambepu. and Pe Graase
For my pafFT Intend to reply by talk
ing about the Amerli*u,^)dler? wb<t
fought In France In Ml 7." , . .!
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SHE HAS HEARD THAT?
If a Jane wants to lasso a "steady,"
Just wear some duds of the following
color schemes:
"Red and ysllow, catch a fellow.
Pink and blus, he'll be true.
Black and whits, hold him tight."
((E). 1931. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU 8ervlce.>
RADIO QUEEN
Harriet Lee. bland and stately, was
tbe choice of tbq judges In the (bird
annual search for tbe most beautiful
{radio artist In America, held In con
I
nection with the radlo-electrlc world's
fair. Miss Lee's mellow contralto
voice has been featured on programs
over the. Columbia network for the
two years.
ITotHej^l^Book
QUICK DESSERT
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WHEN notblcg seems available for
a quick deesert, are crumbled
cookies or bits of cake, adding nuts
and a few finely cut datea Serve
with
Caramel Nut Sauce.
Melt four tablespoonfuls of butter
In a saucepan, and one and one-fourth
cupfuls of brown sugar and two-thirds
of a cupful of corn sirup, boll to a very
soft ball stage or to 230 degrees F.
Add three-fourths of a cupful of evapo
rated milk and one-half cupful of pe
can meats. The nuts may be omitted
when they are used In the pudding It
self.
Cookies for picnics should be of the
durable variety, which packs well.
Bake then any time and pack In a
to* that may be carried right along
to the picnic. These are a kind that
will be liked:
Orange Bread.
Mix and sift three cupfuls of flour,
six teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
one-half teaspoonful of salt, then add
one egg beaten, one and one-half cup
fuls of milk, three-fourths cupful of
sugar, one-half cupful of candled or
ange peel chopped fine, with the Juice
and thin rind of an orange. Chop the
rind. " "
Lemon 8lrup.
Add the juice of six lemons to the
grated rind of one, four cupfuls of
sugar and two cupfuls of water. Boil
together for ten minutes, cool bottle
and place In the lee chest. When serv
ing use one to three tablespoonfuls
of the sirup with chipped Ice and cold
water. This Is ever rendy lemonade.
Enargy Salad.
Arrange three leaves of lettuce on a
salad plate, add three dates, one table
spoonful of raisins, three tablespoon
fuls of cottage cheese, three almonds
and three pecans with one slice of
pineapple. With bread and butter or
hard crackers, this makes a good
luncheon with any fruit Juice for a
drink except grape fruit Juice.
Ices, sherbets, frappes, are all de
lightful dishes frozen In the mechani
cal freezer and are but a few moments'
work to prepare.
((2). 1931. Wtstrrn NiwiptDtr Union.)
. BEDTIME STOW FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
PETER RABBIT THINKS
THINGS OVER -
PETER RABBIT sat looking oyer
his shoulder mournfully. He was
looking at that* funny little tall of his,
which, since Old Man Coyote had
pulled a tuft of hair out of the mid
dle of It, looked funnier than ever.
You kuow that tall f I ways has worried
Peter. If Peter ever is envious It Is
when he sees some one with a beautiful
tail. It was bad enough to have noth
ing but a little white bunch for a tall,
and now to have that torn and ragged
?ot dear I Peter felt so badly that
1 be almost forgot to be thankful that
It was only his tsll and not he himself
that Old Man Coyote had got hold of.
But Peter Isn't the kind to worry
for very long over thiDgs that cannot
be helped. "The hair will grow out
Th? Little 8ten Looked Down on Him
and Winked and Twinkled.
?gain and then 017 tall aurh aa It la,
will be aa good aa ever. Besides, when
I am sluing on It no one can aee It,"
thought he.
80 he atopped worrying about hla
tall and began 10 think over the warn
ing Old Man Coyote had given blm.
"He aaja I've got to get him a tat
gooae to moke up for the one I cheat
ed him out of by waking Honker and
hla followers over there In the pond
of Paddy the Beaver or elaa I never
will get back to ttla dear Old Brier
- Patch," thought Pater. "Ba known
. ? v
very well thnt 1 couldn't get him n fat
goose If I would and that I wouldn't
If 1 could. It's Just his way of telling |
me that lie Is bound to get even with
me and that lie's made up his mind to
catch me. Probably he's biding some
where along the way to the dear Old
Brier Patch this very minute.
"Now. If It were Keddy Fox, I
wouldn't mind so much. But Old Man
Coyote la so very smart and clever
that I'll have to use all my wits to
keep out at his way. 1 could fool Red
dy, but Pin not so sure about Old Man
Coyote. He knows I can't stay here
forever. There Isn't enough to eat In
this old bramble-tangle. And he knows,
too, that I will want to get bnck to
Mrs. Peter. She'll be worried most
to death. Peter, you've certainly got
yourself Into a peck of trouble this
night. It won't be safe for you to
poke your nose outside of tbU bram
ble-tangle tonight, that's sure. Hut .
you're glad you saved those geese even
If It did get you Into a heap of trou
ble. Now you've got to think of some
way to get out of it.
So Peter made himself as comfort
able as possible nnd settled down to
do some hard thinking. The little stars
looked down to him und winked and
twinkled, which was their way of try
ing tovtel! him to keep his courage up.
And so the night passed The little
stars winked themselves out and dis
appeared. The Black Shadows re
freared deeper and deeper Into the.. .
Green Forest until at last the first, .
Jolly Little Sunbeam came stealing
a Ions nnd crept into the old brumble
tnngle and kissed Peter on the nose.
Day I.ad come nnd at ill be had thought'
of no plan to get safely hark to the
dear Old Brier Patch. It was time
he was there now nnd Utrte Mrs. Peter*
would begin to worry.
"Perhaps."* thought Peter, -Old
Man Coyote was Just trying to score
me. Usually lie spends the day in hit
house up In the Old Pasture. But y??t
never can tell what he'll da I wish
1 had wings nnd could fly: 1 wish
hello! WUnt's Sammy Jay making
such a fuss about?** >
Peter pricked up Ids ears and lie
tened. Finally there came to him tbo
harsh voice of Sammy.Jay, "Thief!
Thief! Thief'.*' screamed Sammy, and
his voice enme from over near the
edge of the flreen Forest* Peter
sighed, r - ,
"I guess there Is nothing to do hut
ti stay right there.** he muttered.
"Sammy has found Old Man Coyote
hiding over there. I know It just at
well ns If I were there and could See
him with my own eyes. Sammy.el-,
wayo screams that way wher lie sees
Ok*. Man Coyote. I guess he did n:ena
what he said after all.** *
?? hv J O. Lloyd.? ? WNf K?r*lc?i ? (
if dogs hay the moon. Mod many
dogs do, there must be a cat there.
Signs of Relief
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APPtV AT
OFFICE OF SOPT
! What Do We Care? !
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By DOUGLAS MALLOCH ] |
WHAT do you care If skies are
gray?
Even tlie best ones set that way.
What do you care if gold takes wings?
Eten the rich man's does such things.
What do you care If plans go wrong?
Maybe you thought so all nlong.
What do you cure (nnd you do. no
doubt).
What Is nil of the cnre about?
What do you care the most of all?
It Isn't winter, It can't be fnIL
What do you care In your heart of
hearts?
It can't be money, when that departs.
What do you care when you care a
lot?
Not If you have your way or nht.
What do you care, and I know you
do, '
Just as long as I care for you?
What do you care? For I believe
Just as much, though the rest de
ceive.
What do you rare? Not much en
dures.
But whatever I have Is yours.
What do you care? Tou care for me,
And I for you. as It's plain to see.
So It's all right Itere, and It's all
right there.
So whatever happens, what do we
care?
MB. lilt. Douglas llallocb.)?WNU SS'rlca
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GIDUGAGJ*
"A politician rons for offle6/* nyt
enfranchised Dannie, "but Wt ambi
tion is to win in a walk."
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Elaborate Fad of a Wealthy Western Man j
pitOBABM the moat complete miniature village In tlie United States, tills -
' tiny settlement near Denver Is a source Of much pleasure to Its owner and
builder, Oeorge Turner, millionaire business man of Denver. Several years'
time and a large amount of money were spent tn bringing the MUiputlan
village to completion. It Includes beautiful Utile lakes spanned by bridges.
a complete municipal ugncing mimaiure residences, more on 11 dings. - 1
barber shop, garages, s railroad station, and most of the other establishments to be found In a flourishing town.
buildings are all from four to six feet la height ^ t .. .
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