Newspapers / The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, … / Dec. 31, 1931, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
? I The Alamance Gleaner i VOL. LVII. t GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 31,1931. NO. 48. ? News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Ratifies the Hoover War Debt Moratorium After Warm Debate?Woman Made Member of Arms Parley Delegation. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SIXTY-NINE senators voting In the I affirmative, some with reluctance, the senate ratified the Hoover mora torium on Intergovernmental dehts arier several aays 01 hectic debate. Twelve j members, equally di vided between the two j partlps, were recorded ] In opposition. The Re publicans, all listed as Insurgents, were Fra zler, Johnson, Nor beck, Norrls, Nye and Schall. The Democrats who voted jio were Rnlnur Po piitvtio Poll ban. Johnson ?a"y. Dill, Mckellar and Thomas. In view of the pledges 'President Hoover had received In advance, the light against ratification was admitted ly hopeless, but Senutor Johnson of California and several others insisted nevertheless, on voicing at length their objections to the resolution. Johnson In particular was bitter In bis denun elation of Mr. Hoover's course In this matter, criticizing him for not giving due notice that the moratorium as original); proposed had to be altered to suit France. He repeatedly charged that the President had abandoned the former American policy and bad agreed to the linking of war debts and reparations. McKellar of Tennessee. Gore of Oklahoma, and one or two oth era were scarcely less outspoken that Johnson In their opposition. The senate rejected half a dozen amendments and adopted the resolu Mon as K came from the bouse which had passed It by a vote of 317 to 100 after adding an amendment which puts congress on record as not committing Itself to any policy of cancellation or revision of war debts. Both house and senate, having set tied the moratorium matter, adjourned until January 4. Senator Borah made a futile elTort to have the date for reconvening changed to January 28, as the President had recommended. About the time the President was signing the moratorium resolution word come from Basel that the Young plan advisory committee had report ed that Germany will he onahle to re sume payment of the conditional rep arations when the moratorium termi nates next July, and that "adjustment of all reparations and war debts to the troubled situation of the world" would be essential. The next repara tions conference Is to open at The Hauge on January 18. BECAUSE of difficulty In obtaining foreign exchange for debt remit tances, the government of Hungary declared a moratorium for one year on foreign debts. The decree atlpulated that public and private debta for whlcn euffldent foreign currency la not avail able muet be paid In pengoee to the Hungarian National bank which will hold the money aa trustee for the cred ltora. The pen go la the Hungarian monetary nnlt. In order that trade and commerce may not bait, the National bank will put at the dlspoeal of Hungarian cltl gens such sums as are needed to tarry on and also will cover service on the so-called credit-freezing agreement. WHILE congress was debating the moratorium, the senate finance committee continued Its Inquiry Into the sale of foreign securities In this vvuuii/. HVicioi ciur nent banken were beard, the most Inter esting In some ways being Otto H. Kahn, head of Knhn, Loeb A CO, For boors Mr. Kahn held forth, ex plaining the Intrica cies of International finance and describ ing elvidly the crisis in world economics. AleKAtiwK Ua IT a tin Otto H. Kahn road* clear that be was opposed to either caorenatioo or permanent reduction of the war debts ? owed the United Stales, be declared that the emergency required tempor ary adjustments'to lighten the harden of German reparations and European war debts Neither Justice nor ezpe dlency could lead to Insistence at this moment on demands for payments to the full letter of agreements effected la the past. Mr. Kahn said. In an outline of his own attitude, la rigorous terms, Mr. Kahn, said. "If It were possible to And a way by which all these reparations and war debts which hang around, the Dec* of the < world like a millstone, could he taken out and. sunk Id the ocean, I should welcome It." PRESIDENT HOOVER announced that Gen. Charles G. Dawes, am bassador to Great Britain, would head the American delegation to*the world conference on disarmament In. Geneva. He then named as h member of the delegation Dr. Mary Emma Woolley. president of Mount Holyoke college, the first of her .sex to be given such a position by a first-class power. She has been an active worker for Inter national peace and an advocate of navy reduction. Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia. Democrat and member of the senate foreign affairs and naval committees, already bad been named as a delegate. The President and Mr. Stlmson will direct the course of the Amerlcan.dele gation from Washington. The mission will go armed with secret instructions and will keep In close touch with the State department. DURING consideration of President Hoover's proposed $50U.00<^IXK) reconstruction finance corporation fey the senate bunkihg and currency sub committee, uaniei Wlllard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, praised the inclusion of the rail roads in the category of Institutions to be ' aided as necessary at this "critical time." Banker witnesses heard did not oppose this Inclusion. Mr. Wlllard told -the committee that the u'm" railroad* throughdut the country had $1,000,000,000 In ma turities falling due within the nbxt three year* and. no money to pay them. HI* own railroad, he admitted, must meet $8,000,000 worth of ma turities In May; $35,000,000 more In August "It would be a satisfaction to me.r aald Mr. Wlllard. "and I think It would be In the public Interest, If. when these securities mature next summer, we could borrow at a reasonable rate of Interest from the government And. of course. It would be to our Interest to pay hark as quickly as possible. It would he a good deal for the govern ment with a profit, and the hazard would be well plgh negligible. The alternative, he {Minted out, would be for the railroads to borrow from other sources and at "stress prices." Senator Couzens of Michigan broke In at one point with the assertion that It was folly'for a board of "non experts Id railroad affairs" to pass Judgment on loans to railroads; and praised the success of the transporta tion act of 1020 with Its revolving fund of $300.(100.1)00 administered by "railroad experts" He Intlmnted that be will seek to revive a part of that act of 1020. SENATOR GRRAJ.D NTE of North Dakota, .op behalf of his committee on campaign expenditures reported to the senate that Bishop James Cannon, | Jr., had violated the corrupt practices act In hla handling ot campaign fundi In 1028. The committee also declared that a considerable part of the $133,000 received by the hlslmp and his antl-Smlth Democratic committee found- Its way Into hla personal accounts. Bishop Cannon, It _ _ was found, bsd per ???">!? Cannon sonslly handled the stealer share of the money. He handled It. SO.Inves tigators discovered. through no leas than ten bank accounts, from and to which funds were transferred In a maze of transactions All told, the committee learned, S1&3D0 In political contributions was transferred to the bishops prtrate accounts snd re mained there until long after the elec tion. ' DISPATCHES from Paris stated that France waa on the point of signing two Important trade treaties One la with Germany and pro rides thst that country shall snpply Prance with all the nitrates she needs for the next nine months JThe other Is with Russia and In It France pledges herself never to Join any movement to boycott any class of Russian gooda or refuse to supply the Soviets with any j materials they may need. France's stock of nitrates, an essen tlal for the manufacture of war muni tlons, Is said to be dangerously Ue pleted. and It Is held as curious thai Germany should undertake to supply the deficiency and, through other pro visions of the treaty, to aid In build Ing up the French nitrate Industry tt a poln< where It will be Indppendeir of the Germnns. In the pact with Ruisla both na tlons agree to commit no act of ag gresslon against euch other and no' to take recourse to war; and If a third country commits an act of nggresslor against one signatory, the other slgna tory promises to observe neutrality and give no help to the aggressot ifatlon. CONVENIENTLY dubbing as "ban dlts" all the Chinese In Man churla who oppose them, the Japanese are merrily proceeding with their war Close censorship leaves the outside world In some doubt as to what Is being done, but enough leaks out to make it certain that Gen. S h I g e r u Hon Jo. Japanese com mander, Is carrying on some large-scale operations. Another ?onslderah!e body of 1 troops from Japan ar rived In Tientsin, he- r u Ing quartered there to j0 prevent tlie Chinese pouring Into that city If Chlnrbmr falls Into Japanese hands. The American legation In China warned Americans residing along the Helping-Mukden ruilrhad to evacuate to Tientsin. General Honjo sent a force of 60C infantry and railroad guards north - ward rrom Mukden. These troop? were Instructed to seise the towns of Kangplng. Changtu and Fakutnen with the object of sweeping out 7.00U Chi nese troops who are said to he men acing Japanese lines of communica tions on both the South Manchuria railway and the line running north west from Ssuplngkal through pien chlatun and Tuonan. Fakumen was taken on Tuesday. CHINESE Internal affairs, mean while, were In a terrible muss and the country was without a govern ment. Every minister and vice min ister resigned, and the nation was without an official to voice a protest against the Japanese aggression. The entire government quit despite an ap peal from Gen. Chen Mlng-shu. acting head of the executive council, to stay on the Job. WHETHER or uot Dwlght F. Davis is to return to the Philippines as governor general was not decided dur Ing the week. Mr. Davis arrived In Washington and had a long conference with the President, hut did not hand in his res!* nation as had heen ex pected because Mrs Davis is unable to live In a tropical climate Coming from the White House, he Raid to correspondents: There is nothing I run snv nhmif flip fu ture except thnt the D,vl* Information I have re ceived about Mrs. Davis since my ar rival In the United States Is. not en couraglng. I will go to St. I^iuls for Christmas and. later, to Paris Vou understand I am on leave at the re quest of the secretary of war to familiarize myself with the sentiment In the United States on the Philippine question." PREMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy suf fered a severe loss In the death of his beloved brother Arnaldo. direc tor of the newspaper Popolo d'ltalfa and able assistant of the dure In the Fascist regime. He died suddenly In Milan after an attack of angina pectoris. LOSS of patronage Is not the only trouble Representative Louis Mc Faddeti of Pennsylvania faces as a re sult of his flerce altsck on President Hoover. He may even lose his sent In the house at the next election. Mrs. Cornelia Kryce I'liwhot. wife of the governor of Pennsylvania, has an nounced that she will contest the Re publican nomination In the Fifteenth district with McFadden. and the latter will not receive the support of the Re publican state organization, whether or not It Is given to Mra. Plnchot. Back In ID2S the lady and McFadden had an Interesting light for the nom ination and he won with the organiza tion aid. McFadden was notified by the Post Office department that he had been cat off from all patronage In his dis trict. Postmaster Oeneral Broun wrote him stating that his siieech against the President had convinced him that bis advice concerning ap pointments would not be helpful to the department. IB 1?11. WaaUra Znaiata Datsn.) 05 -A 86 POOR MARCELLA A *3 A Story of Persistent ^ Love A By FANNIE HURST 85 v- 86. (ffi by UcClure Newspaper Sypdlcate.) IWNU Service) WHEN she was eighteen, the only child of the Honorable Festus Martin bad been paint ed by Delmar, presented at the court of St. James and Introduced with formality to the official social life of Washington. It was a quick transition, from the busy, unremarkable life of Marcella Martin's childhood, as daughter of a' prosperous manufacturer of radio parts, to the highly complex social plane achieved by Festus Martin aft er bis growing wealth had enabled him to foster political ambitions, and' aft er those ambitions had landed him In congress. , Undoubtedly It was the combination of Marcella's estate of only child,-com bined with the doting ambition of par ents who could have loved 'hen more wisely, which was accountable.for the six years of rigid social disciplining which were Imposed upon the protest' ing Marcella. It was said of the Martins, laughing ly, In certain Washington circles, that" the adoring parents of this girl had actually succeeded In making over her fiee. A rather plain face, too long, with overhanging brow and dill brown hair entirely lacking' In lights. But so often bad this and that artist Ideal ized It, and so long itnd arduously had schools of massage, dentistry and hair dressing, expended skill in Improving It, that by the time she was eighteen, Marcella was Indeed quite an Improve ment npon the lank, lusterlAs little girl of other days. It can readily be imagined that the Martins spared neither time nor the most elaborate expenditures to lannch successfully Into an estate befitting her father's rank this Idolized and only daughter. The fact that she was tUffldfeht, frankly unsocial, unimpressed by wealth or station, unambitious along lines assiduously mapped ont for her by her parents whose dreams of ulti mate highest realization lay In this girl, only conspired to urge the elder Martins to maximum effort. "Why, Marcella. another ftfCWlth your opportunities wonld be In ber seventh- heaven of delight. Doesn't It mean anything to yon to have all the things your father's wealtb and po sition can afford for you?" . "Of course It does, mother, only I want them In my way. I'm no good at this social-round kind of thing. I don't like It chiefly, I guess, because I'm a failure at It Don't force, moth er. Can't you reconcile yourself to the fact that I'm not what you want me to be?" No, neither of the parental Martins could. Festus Martin, as much as his more obvious wife, wanted this daugh ter a fitting complement to his achieve ments both official and social. His wife was that A pretty, pampered looking woman with small eager ways and deep gold eyes that were brighter than, If not as profound, as her daugh ter's. "Emma," he conflded to her once during one of their freqUent contro versies abont thla problem of their girl. "I actually believe you atlll have more youth and social charm than Marrella. What la It alls the child? She's as fine a girl as you'll meet In a thousand years, and yet?and yet no two ways about It?something's missing." "It's her own fault, Festus. Mar-, cella's heart Isn't In living the life about her. That's what hurts me so. To'thlnk a girl with her opportunities doesn't appreciate them." Marcolla's reaction to these Implica tions of her doting parents was emo tional and deeply sincere. "Dears, don't you tblnk It hurts me as much as It hurts you that I don't seem to lire up to what you want of me? If only you could make up your minds that yod're trying to make a silk purse but of?" "Marrella Martin, nothing of the sort. Von've ten times tbe sense and Intelligence of the girls- you compete with. Why. a man like Senator Morris wouldn't look at the swarms of silly girls who buzz around him. If yon so much as took the trouble to exert your self to Interest him. That's what trou bles us. dear. Too have all the op portunities for success. Including some very natural qualities of your own, and you won't use them." The subject of Senator Morris wss a mooted one In tbe Martin household. It. seethed fitting to the parents of Marcelli that the moat eligible bach elor In * Washington, one of the most outstanding members of the upper ?i house, ? man with much achievement behind him and obviously again aa much ahead, should be potential timber (or Marcella. After all, the only child of a millionaire many times over, per sonable, probdbly the most all round educated young woman In tbe capital. - traveled. Informed and by no means without a certain quality of distinction, bad tbe rlgbt to cast her eyes blgb. Anyway, the Martins fell tbat way about It, and spared neither time, ef fort nor expense to tbe bringing to gether of these two. It must be admitted, however, tbat these somewhat Ingenuous and not al ways skilful efforts met with little success. It Is doubtful If In all the times he met Marcella, both In the Martin home and at public occasions, the beautiful ly gowned, jeweled, caparisoned little lady of longlsh .face, bulging brow, deeply Intent eyes' and clear brown skin, ever more than passingly snagged his attention. Ob, yes, his reaction. If any, might have been: Martin's daughter I Said to be clever; but a solemn young lady with that darl: brown look. Good enough fellow, Mnr tin, If he knew enough to keep out of politics. Pretty little wife with soap suds for brajns. Marcella's reactions, secret as her own sercretlve-looklng eyes, were not !ntUne with-the senator's. There re sided In the makeup of this aggressive, massive-jawed, gougb-haired member of the llbgral wiqg of politics, quali ties that were stirring within Marcella keen, new .and exciting thrills.. The moqt ?. Interesting .man In all Washington, the m?st Interesting man In America, the most Interesting man st;e had .ever, met, was the senator. Secret as wege these deep-seated emo tions, and imperturbable as ber brown eyes continued to remain" that fact grew with the months. Secretly, Mar cella was In love with Senator Morris. ?"hat It was' unrequited caused her neither bitterness nor undue pain. One Just went on?alone?caring?hop ing (or the glimpse of Mm here and there, plckiog op crumbs of lnforma tlon of bis comings and goings, and outwardly reconciled to defeat. After a while, even the Martins be came half reconciled to it. At twen ty-fonr, Marcella simply had not made her dent Her feneration of debu tantes had cdtne and gone. Practical ly all of the girls who bad rnude their bows the winter that the Marcella Mar tin coming-out ball was the crowning event of an eventful social season, were married now?rightly. At twenty-f^vCj something latent In Marcella rose apd asserted Itself. Against the resistance <tf her par ents, which she wore down with a high handedness uncharacteristic of ber, she enrolled In a school of social re search, and after two winters of Inten sive work became allied with a set tlement house In New York known as Mulberry Center. ' Then began the'happiest, most Inter ested tears of het1 lite. When she was twenty-eight, Marcella was first assist ant head of this large Institution and an outstanding figure In her chosen Held. The Martins, In their way, were proud of this success. Of course it was miles and miles removed from w(at had been their dreams for her, but, well. It takes all kinds of people to make a world. Poor Marcella. Of course, one appreciated her brains and her distinction, but Just the same, the heart of the mother of this daughter seemed to beat to the rhythm: poor Marcella. It was when she was thirty-two, con siderably heavier, and with streaks of faint gray In her strong dark hair, that Marcelln Martin, appointed by her gov ernment as first woman member of an International conference on housing conditions to be held In Geneva, again encountered Edgar Morris, now Gov ernor Mortis. He. too, gray now, heavier now, fouDd himself sifting be-. 'Ids her at.a, political luncheon at Geneva where he was In attendance at a conference. life, tides, affairs, had flowed swift ly for him In the years which had In' tervened since his previous mec&lng With her. It Is doubtful If he'recalled her at all. .He only knew that sudden ly he was meeting a woman whose talk, whose point of view, whose deep ly quiet eyes and a certain utMrorldll ness, were giving him .the first-serious pause he had ever |n his life felt where the other sex was concerned. It occurred to him even, as be sat there beside her In the flrst hour of that lunch In Geneva, that he seemed to bd developing symptoms of a man on the verge of falling in love. Chew i Hlitary"- ? Francis Kelley In the National Geo-, graphic Magazine says that circuses were not presented nnder canvas un til 1830, although circus exhibition In the United States bad Its beginning In 1780. War's Mala Narva* Whan the flrst men bad discovered the metals and found ways of smelt ing ores, then were brought into the world war's 'two main nerves, iron and gold," as Milton called them. Getting Set for the New Year " I 1 This roaagatar iaa't (oiac to let "Old Mu Tnaa" kna i?jl>ia| as kirn?Sari ba is ikswa taking dowa tka 1931 cnlaadar ia pa apaaaliaa ad puttiag ap tka 1932 aaa. The New Leaf By charles F. WADSWORTH Kenton marsate m, ?? ? kit red leather chair la nit Ins over I ha evening papr" as he BnltM and f> ftp to replace on the table. 1 ? caught the carlonn oa the fret ?? I' "at of a little figure rep-'eseatOg the New Year turning a leaf Jt a *st htth. At the tog of the pete eae -Jaaaary I.* and the rest of the page eae h ank eicept for e guettlea mark la the eee ter. Ma rente Inked at H ??? lacartly aad lotted the paper aatde. "a new leaf V he aalt la alaiti If contemptuonaly. "Hooey" Walking to the wtadaw. he laobed down upon the afreet. He seemed restless. To frleoda who tpoke to him and wished him a happy New Tear he returned an unenthuslaatlc reply? almost casual. Sealing himself, araln he took ap the paper and noted the cartoon. Tha paper lay across hit knee as be tank Into a thoughtful mood. "People make a big fuss about turn ing over s new leaf a( New Tear's." was his comment to himself. "Rat why should I turn over a new leaf? I am not a swindler nor a cheat; pro -That You. Sally?" pie seem to respect me, and 1 try to do others as T should like to be done by." U'henjie got to the last part ot his soliloquy be seemed mora thoughtful. A whole volume of things popped "into his mind. There was La Lag d. his bookkeepdk, whom he had criticised caustically the morning be was late last week. La Land had taken the. censure without a word, but Marsaye Had learned later that LaLand's wife had been ill and It bad been necessary for him to be at home' for a while. But La Land had not been given a chance to explain. Ought to bare done so, I suppose. Then there was Mrs. Helling, whc cleaned his office. Be bad bawled bet I out for a seeming neglect She had ? * . meekly taken the abase. Now "??? ?ere knew that she bad had neuritis la her arm and It had been palnfai to her to do as well as she had. row* ny how things are sometimes, and a fellow not know anything aboat It I ' The time Miss Haseltthe. with team In her eyes, had asked to go bom# after be had upbraided her for ads- ? takes necessitating the" re-writlng of several letters, he had thought a streak of carelessness which he could not tolerate. He had not known then that the girl had had a serious quar rel with her young man which uffectuf her almost to the point of Incompa- i tence. But he knew now. By George! And I bare not apolo gized to any of them! I wonder what they think of me? But Solly, now?the break with har was her own fault. Why, she was stubborn, that's what she wast But was she. though? Sally may bars Mr side of the story, too. I wonder what It Is? We were getting on so famous- - ly. and I was Just about ready to aak her all about IL Gof (be ring and ev erythlng. Why. I believe I bars It right here in my pocket! Tea, air, there It Is I And It Is a beauty, tool I wonder what Sally would think If she knew I was here with no one with in a thousand miles, spending New Tear's ere all by myaelf?thinking I am the perfect gentleman, and "know ing I am not by my own testimony? A smile crept over bis face and his eyes sparkled. In the telephone booth he called Sally's number. "That you, Sally? ... I hare decided to turn over a new lent ... I thought that new leaf stuff was a lot of blah, but 1 hare been sit tings here at the club thinking It over. . Well, I bare found myself -j guilty of lmpetuoUty?of taking snap Judgment without knowing the facts? without enough consideration for oth ers. . . . And I want to apologia# t to yon, Sally. I was wrong and I am , sure you were right ... Do yew really mean It? .- . . ru be rigtt out I* The receiver crashed ea the hook Another glance to eee that the rlqg | was safe, and the elevator opened tot an elated lover with a new reenlv% 1 <?l im vwiuxusmraiif ./ , : NEW YEAR LULLABY jyjERRILY the beOs are ring Sleep my baby, wallj ilcap; Clad the iin-m they are lahn While my ripl here I beep. Low and eweet the aog| I*ia ?tnging la the Cthering csnrtU fight: While the New Tear beOa are Sleep, my baby, sleep tonight. Cheerily the beOa an ringing. Sleep, ray baby, amifing sleep; joyons bells, tbsir notes are Over plain and atKiiflsnd deep. Prepare and pr: ise are upward winging. Stars are shining dear and bright. WWW the New Tear balls are ringing. Sleep my baby, sleep tonight.
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 31, 1931, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75