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VOL. LVH. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 1932. ? . NO. 49.
JNews Review of Current
Events the World Over
Japan Succeeds in Pushing China Out of Manchuria?
Plans for Unemployment Relief and
i Government Economy.
B> EDWARD W. PICKARD - ^ ~ "
JAPAN, Ignoring tlie order* of the
I.engue of Nations and resentfully
disregarding the notes from the United
States and other powers. Is apparently
to have her own way
In Manchuria. Con
veniently dubbing ail
opposing forces "ban
dits," she sent her
armies forward from
Mukden during the
week in an Advance
that was destined to
reach Chlnchow. Re
sistance was met at
various points but
was overcome with
Gen. Me Chan 'irmor,ed tralDS' bomb"
ing planes and artil
lery, and the Chinese steadily fell
back. >!?'"-o#
Finally Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang
decided it was better to give the Japa
nese no further excuse for carrying
the warfare into North China, so he
ordered all his forces to withdraw
within the Great Wall, and this move
ment was begun immediately, accom
panied by much confusion and the
flight of the panic-stricken civilian
population of the region. Thus the
Japanese gained complete control of
Manchuria and the gallant tight put up
by General Ma Chan and by the troops
directly under command of Marshal
Chang has been in vain.
In Nanking the new coalition govern
ment was organized and a new cabinet
appointed with Eugene Chen, leader of
the Canton faction as minister of for
eign affairs. It was thought that Chen
might be able to negotiate s settlement
with Japan on the basis of guarantees
for fulfillment of treaties in exchange
for military withdrawal of the Japa
nese.
MOSCOW charges that Czecho
slovakia has been plotting to pro
voke war between Russia and Japan,
presumably to promote the sale of war
munitions. The story was that a
Czech diplomat had tried to Instigate
the assassination of Koki Hlrota, Jap
anese ambassador to Moscow, and the
man accused turned out to be Carl
Wanek, secretary of the Czech diplo
matic mission to Moscow. The gov
ernment at Prague recalled Wanek but
scouted the allegation that the mission
Itself was involved In any plot
Wanek has a reputation as a special
ist in military affairs in several large
European countries, and counts among
his associates the military attaches of
several allied capitals.
MAHATMA GANDHI, returning to
Bombay from the round table
conference in London, told a vast
throng of his followers that he would
not flinch from sacri
Being the lives of a
million people as the
price of liberty for
India, and he warned
them that In the com
ing conflict with the
British they might
have to face bullets
Instead of staves. His
utterances plainly In
dicated that he is
about ready to aban
don his policy of pas- MlhJtm,
sive resistance. 0jndM
If the fight Is In
evitable, I will expect every son and
daughter of Mother India to contrib
ute his mite.- he said. "However, I
will not abandon attempts to save the
nation from a fiery ordeal. It on the
other hand, there Is no single ray of
hope I shall not hesitate to call upon
you to bear any amount of suffering."
He counseled his followers to keep
their 'leads, despite the bloody events
In the northwest frontier province, the
arrest of I'andlt Jawaharlal Nehnr
and deportation of Abdul Graffur
Khan, leader of the "red-shirt" tribes
men.
The trouble on the northwest
frontier of which Gandhi spoke Is giv
ing Viceroy Lord Willingdon great con
cern. The anti-British red shirt or
ganization staged violent riots near
Peshawat and fought with the troops,
many being killed and wounded.
WASTE and extravagance In the
federal government must be re
duced, in the opinion of President Hoo
ver, and many others as well, and It
was annbunced at the White Honse
, that the President was preparing a
special message to congress recom
mending the consolidation of depart
ments and bureaus. He wants Imme
diate legislative action providing for
grouping all construction activities of
the government under one administra
tive head and the transfer of the shlp
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ping board and all federal merchant
marine activities to the Department of
Commerce.
According to a statement Issued by
the President, the purpose of the con
solidations is to cut the cost of fed
eral government, curtail the growth of
independent bureaus, eliminate over
lapping and promote efficiency. While
refusing to set a definite figure indi
cating the savings which would follow
the consolidations, Mr. Hoover said the
grouping last year of all veterans' ac
tivities under the veterans' adminis
tration is expected to save from $10,
000.000 to $15,000,000.
Chairman Cochran of the house ex
penditures committee, which will han
dle the consolidation legislation. Is in
accord with most of the Chief Execu
tive's recommendations.
DURING the holiday recess a
ate committee considered two bills
that call for the appropriation of fed
eral funds to care for the unemployed,
and heard testimony
and arguments from
social workers from
Chicago, New York
and other cities. One
of the measures. In
troduced by Senator
La Follette of Wiscon
sin, provides for the
appropriation of $250,
000,000. The other,
fathered by Senator
Costlgan of Colorado,
a. i - Puta the amount at
F ll tt $375,000,000. Mr. Cos
0 * tigan told the commit
tee that nothing short of government
help could provide necessary relief for
the unemployed. Some of the wit
nesses heard estimated that as much
as $700,000,000 would be needed for
relief during 1933 and that the funds
from state, city and private sources
would not be sufficient to carry the
load through the winter.
President Hoover Is now, as always,
opposed to a direct appropriation from
the treasury for unemployment relief
purposes, holding that It would be In
the nature of a dole and would be a
dangerous precedent.
WETS In the house of representa
tives, It now appears, are to ob
tain only one vote on prohibition In
this session. They may have their
choice of whether this shall be on a
referendum proposal for repeal of the
Eighteenth amendment or on a meas
ure calling for modification of the
Volstead act to permit the manufac
ture and sale of light wines and beer.
Representative Rainey of Illinois,
Democratic floor leader, said the
Judiciary committee would not report
favorably on either measure. "The
wets will have to bring the bill to the
floor through the petition of 145 mem
bers," he said. "That la the only
way In which they can do It. They
will have but one vote and that either
on a reftrendum or light wines and
beer. They can't have both. The
rules of the bouse will be so Inter
preted."
' He said he felt the referendum had
the better chance for "getting by" be
cause many drys, himself Included,
would vote for It
NEITHER reparations nor war
debts will be finally settled at the
European conference which Great Brit
ain has called to meet January 18 In
T.snssnne. if the nro
gram practically
a freed upon by Brit
ish add French treas
ury experts Is adopt
ed. They suggest a
new three-year mora
torium for Germany
on the conditional re
parations and that
Germany be required
daring that period to
pay the unconditional
eansr-idnns Intn f h a
Ban""~fnr"int*nJ?tlon- 8enlt0f HuH
al Settlements, such amounts to be
Immediately reloaned by the bank to
the German railway! or re-Invested
within Germany, thna avoiding all cash
transfers abroad by the relch.
The creditor powers would under
take to concede to Germany an In
partial re-eiamlnation of her capacity
to pay reparation! toward the close
of the moratorium period.
On this side of the water Senator
Cordell Hull of Tennessee comes for
ward with a call for International ac
tion to lower tariff barriers as the
first step In solving the debt problem.
The former chairman of the Democrat
ic oatlonal committee says payments
can be made only through the restore
tlon of healthy international trade,
that tariff walls have strangled trade
and that It Is "fatuous" to insist on
debt payments and at the same time
have world commerce hampered. The
r enator, who Is a member of the Dem
ocratic policy committee In congress,
says he purposes to offer a resolution
looking toward a tariff conference of
the nations.
SENATOR CARET of Wyoming. Re
publican, and bis subcommittee on
banking amended the house bill to In
crease the capital'/ation of the federal
rimoan? W adorns fiig-sum oiy^r
000,000 to be used Id granting post
ponements on faam mortgage pay
ments. This additional sum I: to be
repaid to the federal treasury by the
banks when their need for the money
has passed. Senator Carey believes,
the amendment will permit a morato
rium and, at the same time, avoid
weakening the banks.
A favorable report on the measure }
with the amendment was decided upon
by the committee.
PRESIDENT HOOVER announced
* the appointment of the fourth mem
ber of the American delegation to the
disarmament conference at Geneva,
the ma i. selected being Norman H.
Davis of New York, who was under
secretary of state in the Wilson ad
ministration and chief financial ad
viser to the American delegation In
the negotiations that resulted In the
treaty of Versailles.
Later in the week the remaining del
egate was appointed, he being Hugh |
Gibson, ambassador ^o Belgium, a vet
eran in such negotiations. As alter
nate in case any delegate cannot serve,
Hugh Wilson, minister to Switzerland,
was named.
Arthur Henderson, former foreign
secretary In the Labor government of
Great Britain, told correspondents In
Paris that he expects to preside over
the arms conference, although he no
longer Is In office.
BOTH federal reserve and commer
cial banking officials are severely
criticized for their course with respect
to the stock market collapse in the
tun ui Jf-J ill nil ajr
pendix to the report
being compiled by the
senate banking and!,
currency committee's
subcommittee which
is\ Investigating the
national and federal
reserve banking sys
tems.
The committee,
headed by Senator
Carter Glass, Demo
_ crat, of \irginia. who
Sen. Glass , ..
was sponsor for tht
Federal Reserve act in congress, is
particularly critica1 of what it holds
to have been the bank's excessive par
ticipation in the security markets and
of the "mischievous" effects o; loans
made to brokers "for acconnt of
others."
A suggestion is jiTered that the
banks be prohibited from acting for
corporations. Investment trusts and
others in making such loans. Xt the
same time, the report shows the na
tion's bankers ate opposed to new re
strictions upon their Investments in
securities.
Acting under a resolution by Sen
ator Glass to "make a complete sur
vey of the national and federal reserve
banking systems," the subcommittee is
expected to bring In a bill to revisa
those systems in some particulars.
O AILROADS west of the Mississippi
were granted authority by the In
terstate commerce commission to put
recently authorized freight rate In
creases into effect on one-day notice.
The Increase order allowed five days
for giving notice. Instead of the cus
tomary thirty days.
The Southern Pacific Railroad com
pany and its employees' organization
reached a harmonious agreement on
the wage reduction problem when 15,
000 shop employees accepted a 10 per
cent cut in pay. The company noti
fied the maintenance of way men that
their wages would be reduced 15 per
cent in thirty days.
There was a general expectation that
the railway labor unions would accept
a 10 per cent wage reduction effective
about the middle of January as the re
sult of conferences in Chicago and
Cleveland, and that the Canadian
unions would adopt the decision of
the American unions.
FINLAND had a national referendum
on the question of abolishing the
country's prohibition laws, and on the
basis of early returns it was estimated
that the 00 per cent of the Finns had
voted wet The result of the referen
dum will not finally decide the prob
lem but will serve to guide the gov
ernment.
Archbishop diaz, head of the
Catholic church In Mexico, has In
structed the priests and all other Cath
olics to disregard the n*?w law passed
by congress which limits to 25 the
number of priests In the federal dls
trict. So the chances for renewed
trouble there are good.
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. BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
PETER RABBIT TRACKS HIS
NEIGHBORS
TT WAS a perfectly glorious night
* Mistress Moon flooded the Green
Meadows and the Green Forest with
silvery light, ftnj.the white snow which
covered everhelped to moke 'stilT
more light In fact It was almost as
light as day, It seemed to Peter Itab
bit. In spite of all little Mrs. Peter
could say he had started for the Green
Forest Just as soon as Jolly, round, red
Mr. Sun had gone to bed behind the
Purple Hills.
"It's just like visiting a new world."
thought Peter as he reached the edge
of the Green Forest. "I do wish that
Fuzzy wasn't so timid." By Fuzzy he
meant little Mrs. Peter, who yon know,
It Was Whitefodt, the Woodmouse.
was once Miss Fuzzytall. "She thinks
that just because my coat 18 brown
and everything else Is white It Is a
great deal more dangerous here than
when there Isn't any snow. She doesn't
know what wonderful hiding places
there are everywhere now. The snow
has bent down all those little hem
lock trees and the lowest, branches
on the big hemlock trees so that un
der them are the most wonderful caves.
Why, I can jump out of sight almost
anywhere here. Hello! I wonder who
made those funny tracl^ I believe I'll
follow them and find out."
The tracks were just the tiniest of
little dots with a tiny little line be
tween the two rows. That line puz
zled Peter. Yon know he Is not
used to tracking his neighbors. Of
course the double row of dots were
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New Harvard Captain
the prints of tiny feet, but what made
the line? .Peter followed as fast as he
could, which wasn't so very fast, be
cause the tracks wound about so much.
Presently they led to an old log cov
ered with snow. In one side of It was
a little hole, and right there the tracks
ended. -
Hello !** calTita feter.
??Hello yourself and see how you like
It!* replied a squeaky little voice.
Peter chuckled. He knew that voice.
"Why don't you come out add be po
lite when you have callers?" he said.
"Did you say callers? Who Is with
yon, Peter Rabbit?" asked a squeaky
voice.
"Well, a caller, If you like that bet
ter. There Is no one with me," replied
Peter.
Right away a pretty little head with
the loveliest soft eyes appeared at the
hole. It was Wliitefoot, the Wood
mouse. "Excuse me. Peter, If I seemed
to be a little bit Impolite," said he.
"I have to be very careful these days.
I can't afford to take any chances
when there are so many hungry peo
ple about How did you find me?"
"Easy enough," replied Peter. "I
Just followed your tracks, though I
didn't know whose they were."
Whitefoot sighed. "That Is the trou
ble with snow?It Is a regular telltale,"
said he. "One cannot move while It Is
soft without leaving tracks. It tells
all one's secrets. Better watch out,
Peter, that some of your enemies don't
catch you by means of your tracks;
they are very easy to follow."
?Tmlibt worrying," declared Peter.
"If they can see my tracks I can see
theirs, so It Is nn even thing. It Is
great fun to follow tracks. By the
way, Whitefoot, how do you make that
funny little line between your foot
prints?"
"With my tall, of course. IIow stu
pid of you not to know," replied White
foot "A long tall Is rather a nuisance
sometimes," he added.
Peter chuckled. "Mine doesn't both
er me," said he. I'm very glad to have
found out about your tracks. Next
time I will know them. Now I am go
ing \p see who else I can follow. If
isn't often I have such a chance, and
It Is great fun. I expect I shall learn
a whole lot about my neighbors."
"Watch out that they don't learn
some things about you that you would
rather keep secret," warned Whitefoot.
But Peter Just laughed and went on
his way.
by J. O. Lloyd.) ? WSV Service *
can ii. Hageman or Lornin, Ohio,
right end of the Harvard varsity 11W1
eleven, who was elected unanimously
to captain the Harvard team for the
coming season, llagernan Is nineteen
years of age and has earned an envi
able reputation as an all around In
tercollegiate athletic star.
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J WALL OR ROAD ::
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I By DOUGLAS MALLOCH ;;
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| Walls, fences, borders, what are they,
That shot and shell may shoot away?
I The barriers that hold us back
j Are not the forts that men attack.
But barriers we seem to build
Within ourselves. The world Is filled
| With men who failed. I wonder why?
j So oft a purpose seems to die
With not a battlement before.
Peace has defeat as well as war,
And more dreams die by their own
band
Than some attack some foeman
planned.
Well, first we bnlld a wall of doubt
| About ourselves?ourselves shut out
From dties tbat we dream to take.
The wall the first of all to break.
Whatever victory we want,
I ll oM wall Hut as is "1 can't."
If thus you think, no other man
Is much Inclined to think you can.
Who doubts himself has built a wall
Around himself the first of nil.
And now must spend his strength and
time
His self-made barrier to climb.
And, even If he scales the top.
There Is another thing to stop
Ills progress: 'tis the twisted wire
Of folly, habit and desire.
The brambles that will bar his path
Are often but the fruits of wrath
From seeds that he himself has*sown.
I bid you never plant your own
And yon will find a passage through
The pits that others set for you.
If you yourself no pits have set
Of futile sorrow and regret.
Yes, men will fall, and fall again,
Because they drng a ball and chain
Of foolish pleasure, doubt or fear.
But, If you keep your vision clear,
Your purpose true, your morals clean,
Life has no bounds, luck no desmesne.
How far a man may go, my friends,
Iiow high he climbs, how low de
scends.
Depends, whatever fortune brings,
On him, and not on other things?
Not on his luck nor on his load.
But If he builds a wall, or road,
re. 1932. Douglas Vlalloch.)?WNU Service.
Old Man River Ousts the Jobless
STEADY rising of tbe muddy water* of the Mississippi has resulted Id the
abandonment of many "residences" In the little villages established on Its
shores near St. Louis by more than 1XM) Jobless men. These settlements are
called Merryland, Tlntown, Ilappyland. etc. In the picture "Mayor" Gus
Smith Is seen at the right with a few of the citizens.
MotiS^Co^Book :
FOUR GOOD THINGS
II7TIEN you wrint to serve an ex- 1
* ? ceptionally nice frozen dish, try:
Apricct Henri. <
Take one can (two and one-half \
pounds) of apricots, put through a 4
sieve, add to the fruit one-fourth cup- \
ful of lemon Juice, one and one-half 4
cupfuls of orange Juice, one cupful of *
sugar and a pinch of salt. Mix well
and freeze.
Orange Blossom Salad.
Peel small navel oranges and re
move all the white membrane. Slice
firm heads of lettuce In three-fourths
Inch slices, place an orange on the let
tuce and open the fruit so that it re
sembles the petals of a flower. Mois
ten the fruit and lettuce with a snap
py french dressing and top with a
spoonful of. mayonnaise mixed with
whipped cream.
Oivinity Balls.
Cook one and one-fourth cupfuls of :
sugar, one-third cupful of light corn :
sirup, one-fourth cupful of water, one- I
eighth teaspoonful of salt to the hard I
ball stage. Leave the saucepan over
the burner after the heat has been
turned off. Beat one egg white un
til stlfT. Pour over the hot sirup very
slowly, beat until the mixture holds
Its shape. Add one-half teaspoonful
of vanilla, one cupful of sliced dates
nnd one-half cupful of nut meats; mix
thoroughly and turn out on a marble
slab, make Into balls and roli In toast
ed or tinted coconut This makes one
and one-fourth pounds.
Basic Energy Soup.
Take two and one-half pounds of
veal or beef soup meat and bone.
Brown, half the meat before adding
the water. If light stock Is desired
use veal and do not brown. Cover
arlth two quarts of cold water. Have
the bones crushed and simmer for
two and one-half hours. Do not al
low It to boll. Now add the vege
tables and cook another hour. Strain,
chill and remove fat. It Is now ready
to be served with other vegetables or
noodles. t
Pineapple Salad.
Place a ring of pineapple on lettnce
and arrange three balls of cream
cheese on each. Fill the center with
mayonnaise and serve.
{(?). 1921. Western Newspaper Union.)
| kit^MckXY^t
I By Nina Wilcox Putnam ; I
The girl-friend says her husband Is
to modest he watches the bathing girls
through the wrong end of his tele
scope.
<C. Bell ByndlciU.l?WNU Serrlce.
Typical American Seen
A typical American Is one who
doesn't resent silk hats because he ex
pects to wear one himself some day.?
Minneapolis Star.
| Milliner Sits as Judge in a Soviet Russian Court |
' | lUIS typical scene in a Moscow
* criminal court shows Comrade Sol
kina. a former milliner, presiding. It
is what William I. Slrovlch. represent
ative from the Fourteenth congression
al district in New Yorlrclty, describes
as a part of "the finest and piost hu
mane prison system in the world.''
Doctor Sirovicb recently completed a
visit to the Soviet states to study
their prison system and Judicial ma
chinery.