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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." crie<l the Merry Little Rreexe
who hnd first spoken.
All the other Merry Little Breezes
looked op In the top of the tall chest
nut tree and for a few minutes no one
said a word. At Inst one of them
spoke:
"I don't see anything that I haven't
seen every day lately, except that Jack
Crust tins pinched open the burrs.so
that we can see the brown nuts. He
must have done that last night.*
"That's Just It J" cried the first Mer
ry Little Breeze. "Yesterday those
burrs were closed, but today they are
| open and that gives us a chance to
help the squirrel cousins. Pon't you
see now?"
But the other Merry Little Breezes
didn't see, and they said so. "Watch
me!" shouted the first Merry Little
Breeze, and raced over to the tall
chestnut tree, lie shook the topmost
branch on which were several wide
open burrs and out fell the brown nuts
and rattled down through the leaves
to the ground all around Happy Jack
Squirrel, who was Just starting to
climb the tree. He didn't keep on
climbing. No, Indeed. Without so much
as a look up to see what had made
those brown nuts fall, Happy Jack
scampered after them. You see, he
was afraid that if fie left them lying
there his cousin Chatterer, or his oth
er cousin, little Striped Chipmunk,
would come along and find them. So
Happy Jack scurried about hunting for
those brown nuts the Merry Little
Breeze hnd shaken down, and when
lie found them he hurried to hide
them.
The other Merry Little Breezes saw
right away what the first Merry Little
Breeze meant by a way In which to
help the squirrel cousins. They would
Just shake the brown nuts down and
save Happy Jack and Chatterer the
trouble of climbing the tall trees to
' gather the nuts. It would not only
i save them trouble and real work, but
also be a great deal of fun. They
always did like to shake trees, and
now it would he more fun than ever
liecatise it would really and truly be
helping others. So each one hastened
to shake n branch, and the brown nuts
fell and rattled down like raindrops.
Nbw Chatterer, the Bed Squirrel,
hnd been passing on his way to a
I hickory tree, hut when he heard those
I brown nuts rattling among the leaves
or. the ground, he came hurrying over
to see what It meant, and his bright
I eyes sparkled as he Raw so many nuts
on the ground Just waiting to he
picked lip and carried away. He
| darted forward to fill his cheeks with
them, only to have Happy Jack the
| Gray Squirrel rush at him angrily.
"Those are my nuts!" shouted Hap
py Jack, and his voice was very harsh
and angry.
"They are not !** screamed Chatterer.
"They don't belong to anyone until
they have been picked tip. I have Just
as much right fo them as you have.
You don't own the tree. I guess if 1
want them I'll take them and yon can't
stop me."
"I found the tree first, and they be
long to me!" harked Happy Jack. "If
you don't go away and leave them
.alone I'll make yon sorry!"
Jack ground his long sharp teeth In
a way not at all pleasant to hear. The
Merry Little Breezes stopped shaking
the branches of the tall chestnut tree
and looked down in dismay. It seemed
to them there were trees enough for
both, btit here were these two cousins
so greedy that they were quarreling
and growing angrier every minute. It
was quite dreadful,
c IMI. by T W. Borcsm ?'WHU Servlc*.
I -Those Are My Nuts!" Shouted Happy
Jack, and His Voice Was Very Harsh
and Angry.
Gehrig Keeps Strong
Lou Gehrig, husky tlrst bawman of the
New fork Yankees, at White Sulphur
Springs. W. Va., taking strenuous ex
ercise with the ax as a preliminary to
the winter training season In Florida.
I
FISH AND SHELL FISH
FISH and sli^ll fish are two ot onr
most extensive sources of food, and
io some form are found In almost all
parts of our country. Where It Is pos
sible to get the fresh fish, one may
always feel sure of a delightful dish,
and even canned fish and shell fish are
to be prized.
Deviled Clams.
Take 2.1 fresh or canned clams. It
fresh, chop the hard portions and cook
slowly for ten minutes in three table
spoonfuls of hotter and add one
minced pepper and onion. Now add
one-half pound of sliced mushrooms
and cook three minutes. Add one
hnlf tenspoonful of salt, onefourth
teaspoonful of celery seed and four
tablespoonfuls of flour. Cook until
smooth, adding two eupfnls of milk
very gradually. Now add the soft
parts of the crabs or clams and pour
into buttered ramekins. Cover with
well buttered crumbs and hake until
brown. ?,
Baked Fish With Potato Stuffing.
Pare and cook five medium sized po
tatoes with one good-sized onion In
boiling sailed water until tender
When tender, remove the onion and
mnsh, adding butter, cream or milk,
and seasoning to taste. Prepare the
fish and salt well on the Inside before
KITTY McKAY
By Nina Wilcox Putnam
V ^
The girl-friend says when It comes
to bathing-suits for the Palm Beach
season, the girls are certainly trying
to out strip each other!
fj. ISIS Bel! Syndicate. ? WKtJ Servloa.
INEXPLICABLE
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
I NEVKit look upon a child
* Upon Its mother's breast,
So Innocent, so undefiled.
The blessing, and the blest,
I never look and can believe
The child cnn ever be
A man to make a woman grieve,
Or woman such as he.
I never look upon a man,
A man of greed or sin.
The features of a woman scan
And see the wrong within,
f never look and can believe
The guilty or defiled.
However either may deceive.
Has ever been a child.
? 1333. Douglas Mallocb. ? WNU Service.
putting in the stuffing. Slew up and
rub the fish well with flour, cut diag
onal slashes on each side of the back
bone and Insert five narrow strips of
salt pork. Dust with salt, pepper, and
celery salt. Pour around the fish a
can of condensed tomato soup, one
tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce,
one tablespoonful of catsup and one
third of a cupful of water. Bake un
til tender, serve garnished with sliced
cooked eggs and the tomato sauce
poured over all.
Any fresh fish stuffed and baked. If
basted with a snappy french dressing,
a bit of garlic or onion Juice several
I times during the cooking, will be very
much finer flavored.
? 1933 Western Newspaper Union.
KONERS
i.k i.i
A scout is a liend to all and a bother
to every other scout
BONERS are actual humorous
1 tidbits found in examination papers,
essays, etc., by teachers.
If the nitcher takes his foot out of
the box and throws It ... it
shall he ralledia balk.
? ? ?
Strategy is when you don't let the
enemy know that you are out of am
munition. but keep on firing.
? ? ?
Insecticide Is when an insect kills
itself.
? ? ?
Monroe was a man who nursed the
soldiers during the Civil war, and has
since l>ecn 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<?the
sergeant and get a saddle. The horse
is then said to be gathered.
(ft Bell Syndicate.) ? WNU Bertlca
Pedigree May Not Help
A long pedigree doesn't prevent a
horse from being the last of his race.
Bold Highway Bandits in England
y w\ ^ x
THERE are not many tinman highway bandits In England these days, trat
here are two bandits of the deer family In Richmond park that bare he
come famous. They freqnent the roadways and hold np motorists who must
band out some tidbits before they are allowed to pass.