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' N ' ? ?1 The Alamance Gleaner ] VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 17, 1931. NO. 46. News Review of Current Events the World Over Opening of the Seventy-Second Congress?President Hoover and Secretary Mellon Call for Higher Taxes?Germany Reduces Everything. By EDWARD W. PICKARD WITH tlie Democrats In control of the house and John Nance (lar ner of Texas elected and Installed as speaker, the Seventy-second congress began Its work on time. Representatives \ of the majority party I celebrated their new \ status In the lower chamber with wild I cheering and "rebel" : yells. Hut the senate j was fittingly more se ; date and its first ses i sion was brief and ; formal. Next day the fireworks began In thnt chnmhpr with th? _ r * anticipated revolt of arner the progressives against the re-election of Senator Moses of New Hampshire as president ' pro tempore. They have never for given him for calling them "sons of the wild Jackass," so they gave their seven votes to Norrts of Nebraska. The Democrats voted solidly for Pitt man of Nevada but fell short of the required forty-five votes by three, so there was a deadlock that threat ened to last a long time. The most interesting event In the ?enate was the swearing In of Mrs. Battle Caraway of Arkansas to fill the seat of her late husband. Intro duced by Senator Ilobinson, she took the oath of office, signed the register and quietly returned to her seat, al most in tears. Her associates all fathered about to congratulate her, but there was no gaiety In the affair for the memory of her husband was ever present. In all, sixteen new sen ators presented themselves to take the oath, nearly all of them being first term Democrats. Nearly one hundred new members of the house were Installed, and so Democrats that Mr.. Garner won the speakership by the following vote: Gar ner 218; Knell. Repnb llean, 207; Schneider of Wisconsin, pro gressive Republican, 8. Krale of Minne sota. the lone Farmer Laborite, voted for Schneider. Of course all the other officers of the house are now Mrs. Caraway Democrats. The first actual work in the boase was the adoption of new rules, so lib eralized that it will no longer be easy for bills.to be pigeonholed by the com mittees to which they have been re ferred. Now 145 members can pro cure the discharge of a committee and bflng a bill to the floor for a vote. This change was made especially for the benefit of the proponents of mod ification of the dry laws, nnd the stage was set for an early vote on some of their bills, which will put the rep resentatives on record though there la no hope yet for the passage of the measures. While congress was assembling and going through the business of the first day, the Communist "hunger march ers" who had traveled to the Capital by automobile and auto truck from va rious parts of the country- besieged the Capitol building and the White House In vain efforts to lay their demands be fore the legislators and the ('resident. They were rebuffed, fnirly, gently, by the police and other officials, and next day started home, still discontented and defiant. ECONOMIES In the navy and army which are urged by the President were the objects of further attacks. Early In the week President W. H. Gardiner of the Navy league came out with a new assault on the administra tion policies In that respect, rrltlclz ' 1ng a statement by Secretary Stlmson. hitting hack at the Hammond com mittee, assailing the President for slowing up cruiser construction and calling on congress for an Investiga tion of Mr. Hoover's financial policy toward the navy. Next, National Commander Stev ens of the American Legion conveyed to the President the legion's demand that he approve authorization of war ship construction necessary to bring the American fleet up to the maximum tonnage limits of the London treaty. The organization also asked congress and the administration to rescind the economies for the military establish ment and to renew for the army. Na tional Guard. R. O. T. C_ and other military activities the same sums ap propriated for the current year. Finally came the annual report of Rear Admiral Frank B. Uphnin, chief of the bureau of navigation, which termed the administration policy of reduction a severe blow to the na tional defense. He said that history shows that decreases in the navy eventually result In expenditures many times greater than the temi?o rary savings. Mr. Stevens of the American Legion also called personally at the White House and told Mr. Hoover the legion not only Is for adequate national de fense but also Is In favor of submit ting to the people the matter of re peal or modification of the dry laws. PRESIDENT HOOVER on Tuesday transmitted to congress his mes sage on the state of the Union. In which he sketched the economic crisis confronting the coun try, related In consid er a b 1 e detail the measures he has Initi ated to alleviate the business depression and unemployment and recommended In general terms legisln tion creating add! tlonal Instrumentali ties for the same pur pose and Increasing tnvpn to mppt n thrw? President and a half billion dol Hoover lai deficit this year and next. Regular Republicans declared the message represented constructive statesmanship of a high order, while Democrats and progressive Republi cans took It as a challenge. Generally. It was accepted as the opening gun of the 1032 campaign. There was much comment on the fact that no mention was made of prohibition. On Wednesday Mr. Hoover sent In his budget message, containing the ad ministration's program of tnxntlon and other measures of government financ ing. At the same time the annual re port of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was made public. This called for Increased rates on personal and corporation Incomes. Inheritances, to bacco and capital stock sales. New levies tvonld he Imposed on automobiles, radios, telephone, tele graph and cable messages, amusement tickets, checks and drafts and realty sales. Postal charges would he boost ed. Kxemptlons from Income taxes would be lowered to Include l.TUU.WXI new Individuals wltliln the scope of the federal levy. The Democrats In congress Immedi ately began an attack on this pro gram, saying they would soon have ready one of their own. THIRD In the list of Presidential messages came the one on foreign relations, which contained the request that congress ratify the Hoover mor atorium. More Important than that was the suggestion that the war debt commission should be reconstituted with power to reopen the debt settle ments. Though Mr. Hoover reiterated his disapproval of cancellation of the war debts, such actlsn, or at least a further reduction of the debts seemed, to many congressmen, to he Implicit In his proposal. So many of them ob ject to either coarse that a long de bate was In prospect. ? HIS national socialists or "Nazis" now being In control of three German states and constituting the most powerful political party In the coiintrv. Adolf Hitler hag been talking free ly to correspondents on his Intentions. Briefly, he proposes, when his party Is In rested with the eor ernlng power by way of the ballot box. to set np a dictatorship on the Italian model; to recognise and gay to the fullest of Gen many's ability all her foreign debts coo- "raw tracted lo business and normal trail a actions bat to reject "political black mail"; to Insist npoo a new war debt arrangement; and to destroy commu nism In Germany. Be declares there will be no Nasi march oo Berlin, and denies that be seeks the presidency. Hitler's challenge to the government brought salt resimnse from Chancel lor bruenlng la the form of a warn ing that President Von Hlndenhurg would Invoke martial law If neces sary 1? kn the constitution. At the same time the President signed and made public a drastic emergency de cree designed to close up what Bruen lng called "the deflation period Im posed upon Germany." The decree reduces wage scales to the level of 1027 and cuts rents, food prices and about all other living costs. It also re duces Interest rates. Imposes com pensatory taxes on Imports and strengthens measures against the flight of capital. JAPAN and China accepted the pro posal of the league of Nations council for cessation of hostilities in Manchuria, while a neutral commission inquires Into the facts, but both na tions made reservations that rendered the agreement little more than a form by means of which the council saves Its face. Premier Wakntsuki's Japanese cabi net decided to resign because of dis sensions, and it was thought a coalition ministry would be formed with Inuwal, leader of the Sciyukal party, as premier, GERMANY'S capacity to pay rep arations and especially her abil ity to resume payments next summer are being studied by the consultative committee of the Rnnk for Interna tional Settlements at Basel, Switzer land. Walter W. Stewart. American member, refusing to accept the chair manship. that place was given to Dr. Alberto Bcneduce of Italy. Carl Jo seph Melchlor was the first person heard, the burden of tils argument he Ing that Germany could no longer pay reparations. This Is, Indeed, the view of millions of Germans of all parties. TpHUKK great farm groups, the Amer -*? lean Farm bureau, the National Farmers' union and the CI range, In ses sion In Chicago, united on plans to light In congress for surplus crop control. Their leaders said their demands would he for the export debenture and the equalization fee. and that their disagreements of the past on these matters had been adjusted. Amend ments to the agricultural marketing act to permit the farm board to use those principles will be introduced in the senate and House soon after the holiday recess. The organizations will offer no objections to the program of the farm board other than the stabi lization opera tions, MISS JANE ADDAMS, founder of Hull House in Chicago, and Nich olas Murray Butler, president of Coluinbla university, were Jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize for 11)31 by the Nobel Institute of Oslo. Norway. The prize amounts to $40, 000. Both of them hnve been Inde fatigable workers for international peace. NOT long ago the Belgian govern ment intimated to Archduke Otto, pretender to the Hungarian throne, that his presence In Belgium was prov ing omhnpruBalnc an the young man went over to England In l cognfto to visit a Brit ish ducal family. Now It Is rumored In Lon don that plans are afoot to put him on the throne through a coup that will he a reminder of the way Carol returned to Ru mania. The story Is . . ... that a group of Hun Archduk. Otto gar|nn D.b|emen Kngland ostensibly for hunting, really went to accept delivery of a powerfnl seaplane which Is ready to carry the archdnke to Bake Balaton In the cen ter of Hungary where he would take oath aa king In a miniature chapel that has been hullt In the plane and dedicated to St. Stephen. Monarchists believe that If Utto re turns to Hungary the peasant support of his cause will he strengthened and solidified and he can be established on the throne. Premier Mussolini Is known to approve of the llnpsbtirg restoration, which gives the friends of Otto lots of encouragement. ONE of the Interesting department reports of the week was that of Postmaster General Brown. It showed that the department came out 8140. 006,188 behind In the last fiscal year, which Is almost 848,000.000 shove the deficit of .the previous year. Mr. Brown repeated his recommendation that the letter rate be raised from 3 rents to 2% cents, stating that on the present volume this would bring In SM),000.000 a year additional. "A 214-cent rate wonld. however, obviously fall far short of produdm adequate revenues at the preseni time." the report said. "The deficit for 1031 attributable to strictly postal operations was more than frM.onu.onc and If present trends are maintained the net defldt for the current yeai will be In the neighborhood of 81-10. 000.000. This raises the question whether In view of the already overtaxed con dltlon of the general treasury. II would not be advisable, pending th? return of noral conditions, to fix a 8-cent rate for letter mall. (A till. Weetrrs Newspaper fetes.) rfNo^ocS^-i 1 ^ ?f ME?ciy - j MM [=T^UXI.\E was entertaining the llf bridge club of wlilch she I I I LI wal I)re8'(lent with a Christ mas party. The group of ^Q lively young women gath fcAered about the tree for jL fcTT "lelr annua' election. "Before we take up the election of officers for next year," Maxlne announced, "I want to review with you a little of what we have done this past year. "It was at our last January meeting It was suggested that we carry the Christmas spirit through the year by considering the 25th of every month a 'Christmas anniversary.' "On January 25 we helped the Stone boy get a new suit; on February 25 we took out and cooked a real Christ mas dinner for the Perkins family; on March 25 we arranged to buy music for the postman's boy. In April we took care of Mrs. Perkins. "May 25 was a Sunday, and we took all the poor children we knew to the park for the day. In June we gath ered discarded winter clothing for the Welfare society. "J)n Jnly 25 we started Phyllis Blv ens off to a tuberculosis sanitarium. I w A n o u a I ?? a | bought school sup | piles for Sarah 8tone, and Id Sep tember we made another drlre for discarded clothing. "For ? couple of weeks during Octo ber we helped In the Community Chest campaign; In Norember we waited until Thanksgiving day, l when we distrib uted Ave turkeys; i and here It Is De . cesber again. What are we to do lLI_ . li <Wt mis iuuuiu i "Well." said una of tbe girls, "of , course ?re bare been working nil moolli on toys for the Community t tree for poor children. So I suggest > that this month we apend the 23th at i home, hot that next year we follow the aame (Man. '0 no wstmi Nitntw Union, l Surprise Harold LCookJp^ ^KLL, Jennie," said Mr. Ji meson, "I don'* see but that I'm a failure after all. Even though I could probably sell \j. out this minute for s cool half-million, I cannot give >'ou the only happiness you really want this Christmas eve." "What's that?" queried his wife. ?Why, our son!" he exclaimed. "Don't you suppose 1 know how you are going to miss him this first Christ mas birthday of his that he has not been home. "Of course," answered Mrs. Jame son. "But you are a success, never theless. If It hudn't been for the money you*ve made by your hard work, we never could have given Rich ard the advantages he has had. He has that splendid opening in Chicago, and even If he Is too far away to come home for Just one day. I am glad tlufl he has the opportunities which our wealth has given him. Of course our' son means more to us than all these things, hut we still have each other, you know." Mrs. Jameson kissed her husband affectionately and led him toward the window. "Look!" she exclaimed. "A plane!" Sure enough, high over the great expanse of white lawn before the house circled a tiny plane the sound of whose motors Just barely reached their ears. Nearer and nearer the earth It came, and Mrs. Jameson kissed her husband ggaln. She knew that In the plane was Richard, their boy, their treasure. "It Is my Christmas present to you and to him," Interrupted his wife. "Just as twenty-one years ago today I gave him to you as your soo and heir, today I give him hack to yoo. with this machine he can visit us on holidays, for now we sre twelve hours nearer Chicago." (A. 19S1. Wwtern Ntwgpnstr Union.) Please,Dear <5ai\ta^ ^karih&Bannijj? Thomas | 1 A HS. VAN DU8EN sat walling l/t\| over a letter from her son. ImB JH "The poor, dear boy! How Ivsw^J frightful for him! How dreadful! Marooned up there with all those horrible people!" A bad storm had ' prevented him from taking the weekly boat to the ! mainland. There would be no way of getting home until nfter 'Christmas. In the meantime the subject of her despair was yelling the loudest of four teen lively boys. They swarmed np ? steep hill dragging sleds. "Hey, Mr. Van Dusen ... bet 1 beat you this time! Say, my ripper Is the fastest on the slide! Bet yer a herring I'll touch the goal first!" Down they went again, sleds skim ming like birds upon the icy tracks. Feet guiding thejn from behind. Eyes fastened on the tricky turn at the hot torn. Uansome Van Dusen (seventh In line by that nnine, son and heir to an old name and vast fortune) . . . saw that someone was bound to have a nasty spill. He was directly abreast of two youngsters. There was room for two to squeak by . . . if they had good luck. Never for three. Van Dusen had tobogganed in Swit zerland, and ridden surf boards in Hawaii, and climbed a few Alps In Italy, but it Is safe to say that lie had never suffered a keener moment of fear than he experienced In this far away village of Newfoundland . . . sliding down hill with fourteen vil lage children. Van Dusen was keen, but Sandy Gait was keener. lie, too, saw the danger nhend. Somebody had to he squeezed. You couldn't stop the sleds now . . . they were going too fast. "Ix>ok out," yelled Uansome, trying to take the Inside near the sharp, rocky turn. "Look out yourself!" shrieked Andy. I and kicked out with a foot, spilling the man sideways from Ids sled. Andy himself swerved to the InsiJb. Two more boys crowded close. Three sleds came together with a crash! Uansome on top . . . without his sled. That evening he sat by Sandy'a bed and told him stories, so that the hoy partly forgot the pain In hit broken leg. It was Christmas eve and Han some said he was never happier In his life. "I've never had a better friend than you. Handy." he said. "You're aome fine little sport. Don't worry . .. things will he all right for you. I'm going to keep you for a friend . . . all my life! Too bad mother has to miss this. She doesn't know what It Is to have a good time. Have an apple. Sandy, old fellow?" And thus two friends were made the day before Christmas In a far-away village of Newfoundland. ilu. w?fm Ni?ip?dm L*Btoa.i SNE of tbe disadvantages under which the modem child' labor* la that them are too many kind* of play- / thing* and poaaeaalona ahow ered upon blm at Christmas ~T or on his birthday, or at **? other preaent-glrlng time*. A little child la often so be wildered by the array of gift* he re ceive* at Christmas that he scarcely knows where to begin when It coaaee to opening them. A child specialist of the bureau of home economics of the United Statee Department of Agriculture believe* that far fewer toys and games, and those of a very simple kind, should bo given children at any time, but espe cially at Christmas. A selection should he made among the things which will enable the child to prolong his enjoy ment by using them constantly?things he can do something with, not simply . Inked at or watch another person wind up and set going. To avoid some of the bad effects of too many gifts at Clirlstmaa time, an ihm mteht In borrowed from popular "sunshine package" that la often sent to con valescents or new mothers, for an Invalid. inch a package consists of a number of araall. Interesting gifts to be opened one at a time, dally, for an equal " ' " number of day*. Kor the mother of a new baby. It should contain ten or a dozen small articles to add to the haby's layette? these, also, to be opened one eaco any during the mother's stay Is the hos pital. Why not tend the (small child a "holiday package." containing enough little gifts for the child to look for ward to on each day of the ensuing vacation period? These need not be ox|>ens\ve articles. If possible they should provide the child with some thing pleasant to do on the day that they are opened, something not too dif ficult for his abilities. Children love to o|>en packages. There sre myriad possibilities among the crayons, paints, small and large blocks, pattern or de sign-making toys, tools, sewing mate rials. tiny doll-house furnishings, and, of course, among the children's hooka. A pair of warm gloves or a bright handkerchief, might he tucked In among the other things, scrnrdlng to the child's age and the amount son wishes to spend. .1 ( -M
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