The Alamance gleaner i VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 1933. NO. 49. News Review of Current Events the World Over Nation Mourns Death of Former President Coolidge? Japan Again Attaeks China?Democrats Push Domestic Allotment Bill Through House By EDWARD W. PICKARD C A I.YIN COOI.IIXJE, former Presi dent of (lie United States, has passed away, and the whole country mourns his goins. Thursday noon he & was found dead by Mrs. Coolidge at their home In Northamp ton. Mass. He had not been seriously ill, mid his demise was a terrible shock to his family and friends. Swiftly as the wires could carry them, messages of condol ence came from Pres ident Hoover, Presi dent-Klect Roosevelt, countless other men and women of prom incnce. ftnu me governments or 111.111v foreign nations. Funeral services, simple and unos tentatious, were held Saturday in Northampton, President Hoover and many other dignitaries attending, and the Jtod.v was then taken by automo bile to Plymouth, Vt, and laid in the Cnolldge plot in the old cemetery. The griCf of the nation was ex pressed by the President in a proc lamation ordering 30 days of public mourning. Mr. Coolidge, who was sixty years old Inst July, had been in the public service nearly ail of his adult life, advancing from councilman of North ampton In 1S99 to the highest position In the nation in 1923, when he suc ceeded to the Presidency after the death of President Harding. He was elected President the following year, and declined to be a candidate for a second elective term. He flrst became nationally prominent while serving as governor of Massachusetts, which place he held for two terms; he was then chosen Vice President on the Harding ticket. Though never con ehiered "brilliant," Mr. Coolidge was one of the ablest and wisest of our Presidents and was unflagging in his devotion to his high duties. Since leaving the White House he had en gaged In the insurance business but also had found time to act.as head of the commission named to study the {tmbletns of transportation, especially the railroads. JAPAN has resumed its ruthless course against China, and the rest of the world thinks it can do nothing about It except to express regrets. As a matter of; fact there la little or nothing Hint ran l>e done. Mili tary hit erveni Ion Is ot:l of the question, ii net financiers, mer chants nml munition makers would make Imid nm! probably ef fective wails If an economic boycott of .lapnn were.pnqiosed. The League of Na tions has already dem onstrated its compar ative helplessness In wini iiiiu< iuiiMiuui eintrigtMiciva. Uesiiinption of hostilities between the two Oriental nations began at xhnnlinikttnn. the gateway city be twren China and Manchuria at the etui of the Croat Wall. Marshal Chang Ifsuch Hang, former war lord of Man churia. according to the Japanese, was gathering there troops, nrn^ atfd munitions and transporting them thence into Jeliol province, which Ja l?an intends to add to Mancliukuo. Kurtheruiore the Japanese conveni ently found two bombs in their gen darmerie station in Shanhaikwan. This was enough ext?bse for them, so ihey first bomlied the city from air planes and then occupied It after tanking three assaults by sea and land. Chang's troops resisted brave ly but were forced to retreat after losing from fit Ml to 1.0U0 men. I.nrge numbers of civilians also were killed or wounded and the city was badly ImfteretL The Japanese losses were ttftrtally reported as eight dead and 13 seriously wounded. Marshal Chnhg reformed his soldiers at Changll under protection of three armored trains and defied the Jap anese. lie advised their commander at Tientsin, Ceneral Nnknmurn, to ad dress all cninmiinlcnfions to Nanking, not to tiim. rejecting the Japanese contention that the Shankaikwan lighting was a focal Incident that could ne settled hy local negotiation. IN ILLINOIS, too. warfare long smoldering was resumed, this con flirt being between the United Mine Workers and the rebel union known ?l the Progressive Mioers of America. The scene of the encounter was a coal mine at Klncnld, a' small town near Taylorville. A body of Progressive miners met an equal number of United Mine Wm-kers coming from the shaft and in the resulting clash a machine gun, rilles and revolvers were used freely. Two persons were killed, one a United miner and the other a worn an. The wounded were numerous The superintendent of the mine in sisted that operations would not be suspended, and the authorities were expecting further trouble there and at other points in the coal belt. The new union is strong in that particular locality! though it has not made much headway in the southern Illinois coal fields. The fighting broke oul again the second day. two men being wound ed. The sheriff of the counly ordered picketing stopped and forbade public meetings of the Progressive union. Five companies of state troops were sent to the scene. FARM relief as conceived by the Democratic majority of the house was being hurried to a vote in the house. It was In the form of the do mestic allotment bill _ introduced by Marvin : Jones of Terns, chair man of the committee on agriculture, and in plain language it calls for a sales tas on necessities for the benefit of the farmer and, according to its sponsors, of the na tion at large. Its four main provisions are: 1. To levy on the t four basic farm com mortifies of wheat, hogs, cotton, and tobacco, and on silk and rayon a man ufacturers' sales tax which. In the case of wlieat, will amount to 2U0 per cent of the present farm price and which, in the case of hogs, will amount to nearly CO per cent of the current price of pork. 2. To give power to the secretary of agriculture to fix tlie prices of the four commodities by determining their "fair exchange value" and to deter mine the "fair exchange allowance" necessary to restore the purchasing power . of the commodities to their I909-T4 level. 3. To bring about inflation by hand ing to the farmer in the shape of "ad justment certificates" a negotiable cer tificate of government indebtedness secured by the tax revenues and re deemable by the government. 4. To give to the secretary of agri culture power to control the produc tion of wheat, bogs, cotton, and tobac co by granting him authority to de termine the percentage of production required for domestic consumption; to disburse adjustment certificates only to those farmers who cut production 20 per cent; to decide how this cur tailment of production sliall he de termined, and to decide what use the farmer shall make of lands so taken out of production. Dairy products were not included in the measure, though a hard tight for this was made in committee. It is provided that the measure be in effect for one year, with the President given authority to continue It tor an addi tional year. MR. ROOSEVEt.T, having turned the state of New York over to Governor Lehman, is devoting most of his time to preparations for as suming the office of President. Thurs day evening be conferred In New York with the Democratic leaders In con gress and a program for balancing the budget was decided npon. The Treas ury department figures Rxlng the 1H33 deficit at 402 millions were accepted and It was agreed to effect an addi tional saving In the budgqt estimate of 100 millions, to enact a beer bill estimated to produce 125 millions, to continue the gasoline tax 1 cent per gallon to produce 137 millions and to Increase ihe income tax rales to produce 150 millions. PRESIDENT HOOVERS program for reorganization of the federal government Is being absolutely blocked by the house Democrats, who intend that Mr. Roosevelt shall be empow ered to make such changes as he thinks fit after bis inauguration. This development angered the President and on his return from Florida he told the correspondents that all recent re organization moves on the part of con gress were merely make believe and the proposals of the Democratic lead era * backward step. He asserted that any real reorganization "'sensibly carried out" will sooner or later em brace the very executive order* which j he Issued lately and which the IVrn ocrats In the house planned to veto. These would regroup f>S se|wimte agon cles Into nine divisions. Chairman Cochran of the house expenditures committee was unmoved by .Mr. lino | ver's protest, lie said It would he "unjust and most unfair" to Sir. Itoose^ celt to make so many changes only a few weeks before he takes ofllce. SEVERAL hundred angry farmers of Plymouth county, Iowa, gathered in Le Mars and by force prevented a farm mortgage foreclosure sale. seiz ing the Judge and sheriff and threat ening to hang an attorney who was bidding in the property as representa tive of lhe New York Life Insurance company, holder of the mortgage. The lawyer had offered only $30.1100. con siderably less than the total debt of the owner of the farm, but saved his life by obtaining from the Insurance company authority to increase the bid. fXlNGRESS was asked by President Hoover to provide another $150, 000 for the American delegation at the Geneva disarmament conference. Id this connection It is interesting in react, to a the current Issue of | the Pictorial Review, j an Interview with Prof. Albert, Kinstelo ? had by Ivonrad Ber- * covicl shortly after k the famous niathema- I tician had unexpect- I edly nppeared In Gen- I eva. Kinstein bitterly I denounced tlie con " ference as a farce and I as "the erentest frn? edy of modern times." He said it was "a travesty of Justice and of the will of the peoples of the world. It Is not only that this conference of peace Is a failure, but that these delegates have come here under the guise of peace to foster war." "If yon want peace in America," he continued, "then yon must Join us in Europe, and together we shall ask the workers to refuse to manufacture and transport any military weapons, and also to refuse to serve any military organization. Then we will have no more conscriptions; we will have no more war! Governments could go on talking from now to doomsday. The militarists could lay any plans they wish. "I have absolute Information that If a war should break out today any where In Europe so many conscien tious objectors would throw away or refuse to shoulder arms that one-half of every army would be busy putting down the revolt of the other half be fore going to fight the enemy." Dr. Carlos Armenteros, Cuban dele gate to the Eongue of Nations, has reported to his government that the disarmament conference Is a complete failure, for the present at least. A ETER three years of thorough In ** vestigation the President's re search committee on social trends has made Its report, and Americans found tlifif Its pnnrlnslnna are not widely differ ent from those of technocracy that hare caused such ar dent del?ate, though the committee does not predict the total collapse which the technocrats ptofess to foresee. Instead. It sees nc Imminence of failure of civilization, lint rather a gradual readjustment to a new scale of living. t n nil ?!?-.? n( llu hm.!-. I> ' r 11113 nu.j ...... ... IW.M.T. racy has advanced at such an alarm ing speed thaf the development of so cia! and cultural factors has been left far behind, and neither offers any defl nlte remedies. Many of the country's ills are attributed *n the report to a ??cultural lag." or the failure of changes in economic life, education, government, religion and 'science to move forward at the same rate. The great problem is for the man to catch up with the machine. New Inventions, the committee he lieves, are at hand that will be fac tor* In creating employment: the elec trie eye. the electron tuhe. light weight storage batteries and other devices may duplicate the part played by the automobile, the radio and the movies a few years ago in making Jobs for \ ori?men. On rite other hand, the committee declares that there is no assurance that ''violent revolution and dark pe rils" can be averted "unless there can l>e a more Impressive Integration of social skills and fusing of social purposes that is revealed by recent social trends." I>r. Wesley C. .Mitchell, professor of economics at Columbia university Is chairman of the committee, and Dr. William F. Of burn, professor of soci ology at the University of Chicago. Is Ita director of research. The commit tee had the aid of more than 900 In vest iga tors. e tfJl Wwtero aptr Colon. Calvin Coolidge Chang Hsueh liang |0ST Jk Marvin Jones ?? 1 Prof. Einstein j Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell if 7 ??I Nation s Memorial to a Great American HERE, Id the center of the picture. Is the former An olostan island, renamed Theodore Roosevelt island and accepted the other day hy President Hoover on behalf of the nation as a memorial to MT. IL" The densely wooded island is in the Potomac river at Washington, opposite the Lincoln memorial CHILDREN'S BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON W. BURGESS THE GREEDY COUSINS NOW that Jack Frost had o|>ened the chestnut burrs and the hick ory husks the Merry Little Breezes saw a chance to help some of their friends. Ever since they had been iid able to get anyone to play with them Ihey had wished and wished that they might find some work to do. Every one else, at least nearly every one else, was so very busy making ready /or winter that the Merry Little Breezes wore beginning to feel Just n woe bil ashamed to be doing nothing but play all day long. It was the sight of those open burrs and husks Hint gave one of them an Idea. "I tell you what, we can help Chat terer the Red Squirrel and IJ tippy Jack and Striped Chipmunk, and It will be | great fun!" cried the Merry Little : Breezes. "How?" asked all the others, crowd ; ing around eagerly. "Look up in the top of that toll chestnut tree, and tell me what you see." crieecn known as the Monroe Doc trine. ? ? ? Why is the period between the Sixth nnil Fifteenth century called the Dark Ayes? Because the lighting was poor. ? ? ? Caesar was a general. Porapey was his rival and Brutal was his friend, tie was killed by the friend BrutaL ? ? ? To gather a horse, go to the sergeant and ask him for a bridle, to the stable and get a horse, then go back t