The Alamance gleaner f VOL. Lvm. ? W GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 1933. NO. 50. News Keview of Current Events the World Over Congress Not Accomplishing Anything Important? Budget Balancing Likely to Be Postponed?Johnson , Assails Borah in Senate Debate. i By EDWARD W. PICKARD ^ IF ANYTHING of moment Is nccom I plished by the present session of congress, almost cerlninly the Inst "lame duck" session that ever will be held, political observ ere will be aston ished. The Democrats, in numerical control of the house, seem be wildered and uncer tain; the Republicans gleefully assist In die trading their oppo nentgnnd complicating their attempts at leg islation; the more rad ical members of both parties slash right and left and add to the conrusjon. The senate doesn't espe cially like the house's beer bill, and the bouse doesn't approve of the re peal resolution before the senate. I To ceedlngs In the upper chamber at this writing nre held up by a filibuster con ducted by Senator Huey Long of Louisiana for the purpose of defeating the Olass banking hill. And over all hangs the prospect that I'redden! Hoover will veto certain of the most Important measures If they reach the White House. As for balancing the budget, that probably will have to wait for the special session of the new congress. Tresident Hoover apparently has aban doned hope that It can be accom plished at this session, and the Dem ocrats, Including President-Elect Roose velt, give no Indication that they have' decided how It should be done. They now deny that they plan to raise I he Income tax, the leaders who conferred with Mr. Roosevelt repudiating their first statements that such was their Intention. Representative Henry T. Itnlney of Illinois, majority lender, declares congress can balance the fed era! budget without the Imposition of additional taxes, except a tax on beer, and his statement Is greeted with gen eral expressions of approval from the taxpayers and many members of con gress. He says the budget should be balanced by cutting down the cost of government?a proceeding that has the nominal approval of bolh parties?and that the imposition ot a heavier lax burden on the people would be to "In vite revolution." All of which sounds fine, hill so far congress has failed to reduce governmental costs In any ap preciable degree. The amount It will save In this session may not be as much as $10l),UtKI.000. 0 Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, one of the most astute of the Demo crats. agreed witb the Kainey pro gram. "We." he said, "nre going to try to retrench sufficiently to avoid levying of new taxes, ft Is too early now to tell )ust how close we can come to balancing the budget through economies. Our plan Is to hold off on .revenue legislation fot several weeks while we try to secure enactment of the beer hill, ee enactment of the gaso line tax and all possible economies. When we know how much we can raise and save It will he time enough to talk of tjew taxes." SENATOR BORAH'S assertion In the senate that France was Justi fied In her stand on the war debt because President Hoover in his con ference with M. I .aval nun given the Knro pean debtor nations reason to believe their obligations to the United States would be scaled down if re|>a rat ions were re duced brought on a sharp debate between the Idaho gentleman and Senator Hi rani ?lolmson of California. The row started with the reading In the sen ate of letters from Secretary of State Stimson and Sec retary of the Treasury Mills denying thai Mr. Hoover had given Ijtval any inch assurance. These denials, Borah Mid. were Inconclusive though It is hard to see how tliey could he more SfHTific. Johnson thereu|*>n soundly berated Borah for his stand, and satirically scolded him for not giving the senate the ??facts'" known to Idm when the moratorium was before that body In H*11. The exchange of personalities between ~the two erstwhile close friends was acrimonious. Though Mr. Itoosevelt declined to CO operate with President Hoover on the war debt question, he is getting ready to tackle this snd other Inter national mntter3 Immediately after his Inauguration. In pursuance of this plan he held long conferences In New York with Secretary Stlmson. Col. Ed ward M. House, who is pn authority on foreign affairs; James \V. Gerard. American ambassador to Germany at the time the United States entered the war; Sumner Welles, who was assistant secretary of state In the Wil son administration, and Senator Swan son of Virginia, one of our delegates to the disarmament conference. AS [.AID before the senate, the reso^ lution for repeal of the Eight eenth amendment was a compromise between the drys and wets on the Judiciary committee and satisfied no one. It Is designed to bar the saloon, retains for the federal government a certain amount of control over the liquor traffic, alms to protect dry states from Importations of liquor from wet neighbors, and provides for submission of the amendment to state legislatures rather than to special state conventions. Speaker Garner and Representative Rainey said the reso lution In that form would not even be Introduced In the house If It were passed by the senate, because ft does not conform to the Democratic plat form. DEMOCRATIC logrolling and Re publican tactics of hampering I marked the debate on the "domestic allotment farm relief bill In the house Even If It were passed by house and senate It probably would be subjected t^.fe(o by the President The measure j was loaded down with amendments 1 by representatives who refused to be controlled by their party leaders. Proposals to include rice within the benefits of the act were adopted 99 to 24; peanuts were added by th2 close teller vote of 11] to 110 and the but ter fat products of the dairy industry Included 102 to 75 on a rising vote. When It was finally assured of passage hy the house, the Roosevelt farm relief program was rounded out with the In troduction In the senate of companion bills designed to lighten the burdens of agricultural mortgages through the use of further federal aid and federal money. V?? ;? IX INGFISFT LONG'S filibuster against the Glass banking bill amused a handful of senators and a lot of visitors In the galleries, bat kept I the senate from ac compnsmng onytntng. Huey made a number of sarcastic allusions to Senator Glass, which rather annoyed the Virginian. He as serted that when re cent!.? he said he knew more about branch banking than Glass, he really "was not giving himself much credit." Then he produced a big Bible and rend from Isaiah: "Woe unlo thetn that Join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone In the midst of the earth." "Just change that to brnnch banks," be shouted, "and you've got what'll happen to the Independent bankers." "If yon dont lake the bouse of Morgan Into ct nslderation.' was an other contribution, "yon ain't going to regulate many hanks with any bill yon pass here. The house of Morgan Is the undisputed kingfish ot the bank Ing business." PRESIDENT HOOVER In a special message asked congress to ratify the long pending international arms convention or to enact legislation at this session, giving the CJrief Ex ecu tive wider powers in placing emhar goes on shipments of arms to lielllger enls. Neither request is likely to be granted, t'hnirtnan Itorah of the sen ate foreign relations committee has op posed the arms convention for years and Is still against It. he and others holding that it wonld not Interfere with the enterprises of the greater powers, but would discriminate against small nations. Senator Sltlpstead of Minnesota said he could approve nel ther plan, and some of the Repnb lienns. nolnbly Representative Ham ilton Fls!t of New York, declared themselves against them. REPCBMCAN membership In the house of representatives was re duced by two dming the seek by death. Congressman Robert R. Butler of Oregon died of heart dtiense In duced by pneumonia. Nest day Ihe , capital was shocked by the suicide of Samuel Austin Kendall of the Twenty Fourth Pennsylvania district. For months be had grieved over the death of his wife and Anally gave up and put a bullet through bis head as he sat In his room In the bouse office building. Among other well known men who died were Guy D. Golf, former Cnlted States senator from West Virginia, and Benton McMlllln. former gover nor of Tennessee and for 20 years a member of congress IN KKSPONSK to a special message from the President urging "emer gency action" to stave olf wholesale forced foreclosures, congressional lend ers promised a partial revision of the bankruptcy laws at litis session. The house Judiciary committee began con sideration of a hill embodying the prin clples suggested by Mr. Hoover to ease the debt situation during the present period of depression. ILLINOIS Democrats victorious In ' the November election gave the country a lesson on how to get elected at ranlt cost. Figures submitted by (lie candidates in tnat state to the clerks of the senate and house showed that William H. Dleterlch spent on ly $272 In winning the United States senator ship; the expenses of his defeated rival. Senator Otis F. Glenn, were $5,83S. Martin A. irennan expended only $2 In his success ful race for the place of congressman ? at - large. Tbe most expensive victory in Illi nois?the contested victory of James Simpson. Jr? Tenth Illinois District Republican congressman elect, cost $3, 030. Personal, exempted expenses brought the total up to $18,014. Bis election was contested by C. H. Web er, Democrat, who spent $1,525. THOSE Iowa farmers who conduct ed the "strike" of last year are mnk Ing rather successful attempts to stop the sales of property for delinquent taxes and unpaid mortgages. In sev eral localities they gathered In large crowds and saved the properties of farmers, at least temporarily. Their demonstrations were orderly. FIVE THOUSAND Indiana farmers met In their annual conference at Purdue university : nd adopted a pro gram developed by the farm manage ment experts of that Institution. The fourteen point plan, worthy of the attention of agriculturists of other states. Includes a policy of "pay as you go, reduction In costs esi>ecinlly those for outside labor, production of concen trated products to reduce marketing costs, production of high quality goods, taking advantage of marketing short cuts. Increased Intensity of op erations on good lands, culling of live stock 'vigorously' and feeding of good animals well. Increased attention to seed selection, testing and other crop practices, increased study of manage ment practices. Increased use of home grown seeds, producing more of the family's rfqulrements on the farm. In creased production of legume crops, avoidance of Investments lis permanent Improvements, and making more use of governmental and educational forces available to farmers." Desperate fighting for possession of the rich Jehol province was | going on between the Japanese and the Chinese armies toward tbe close of the week. The scene . of the battle wa# Clilumenkow pass In the Great Wall, the "Pass of the Nine Gates." The Japanese, employing Infantry, cavalry, artillery and bombing planes, at tacked fiercely and oc cupied the northern end of the pass, but the Chinese concen trated at the south ern end and put up a stiff resistance belnc aided by the mountainous nature of the country. Jaiuinese pin nestle* far across "the border of the province snd bom barded the city of Jehol and other towns, the war ottice justifying this so tlon hy cliarging that the presence of Chinese troops there constituted a ?menace* to the Japanese forces Of course the Chinese were on their own soil, hut a little thing like that does not deter Japan The Toklo war of fice claimed victory at fhlumenkow (Jen. Tsai Ting kal. who commanded the Chinese Nineteenth route army to Its gallant defense of Shanghai a year ago. has come to the front and asked that he be permitted to lend his army from Its encampment In Fuklen pros Inre against the Jaiuinese Invaders lie has little confidence In the stamina of Marshal Chang and seeks to replace him as commander In the Shan halkwan region. e ISSS Wasters Newtpspei Galon. Rap. Ralney Senator Johnson Sen. Glass William H. Dieterich Gen. Teat Ting Kal Harvard Acquires the Earliest Dinosaur THIS mounted specimen of Plateosanrus, the earliest of dinosaurs, bas Just been acquired by the Museum of Com pa rat ire Zoology at Harvard university. Discovered In Germany, It Is the flrst mounted specimen to be ob tained by any museum In the United State*. The Plateosaurus Is estimated - to be 100,000,000 years old, and Is regarded as the "ancestor" of Tyranno saurus and other giant dinosaurs of later periods. KIDDIES' EVENING STORY By THORNTON W. BURGESS THE FOOLISH QUARREL /""* HEED doesn't pay. It never does. ^ And yet some people never seem to lenrn this. Just take the case of Happy Jack Squirrel and his cousin, Chatterer the Red Squirrel. In the Green Forest were ever so many hick ory trees, and there were more nuts than Happy Jack and Chatterer could eat In a lifetime. But both were so greedy that here they were quarrel ing over the nuts which the Merry Little Breezes had shaken down from the top of a tall chestnut tree. Happy Jack claimed all those brown nuts were his because he had happened to be right under that par ticular tree when the Merry Little Breezes shook them down. Chatterer had been near enough to hear them as they rattled down and had come running over to get a share At once Happy Jack had tried to drive blm away. Chatterer had refused to go. In fact, at the sight of all those nuts on the ground Chatterer had at once decided that he would have all of them. You see he was quite as greedy as Happy Jack. Those brown nuts didn't really belong to either of them, and wouldn't until they had been picked up and hidden away. Rut Hap py Jack and Chatterer didn't stop to think of this. Each was so greedy that he wasn't willing to let the other have a single one. "Thief I" shouted Happy Jack. "Robber!" cried Chatterer. "No such thing! They're all mine because I found them first," sput tered Happy Jack. "I'Ig. P'g. pig!" shouted Chatterer, thrusting out bis tongue at Happy Jack. Do yon wonder that the Merry Lit tle Breezes, who had thought to help Happy Jack and Chatterer, looked down In dismay and stopped shaking down the brown nuts? Do you won der that Sammy Jay. hearing those sharp angry voices, came stealing si lently up to see what such a dreadful quarrel was about? You can depend on It that Sammy will be somewhere about when anything like that Is go ing on. At first Happy Jack and Chatterer were content to scold and call each other bad names. Then as they grew angrier and angrier they began to fight, each trying to drive the other away. Happy Jack, as you know. Is a great deal bigger than Cbntterer. but Chatterer is quicker and more nimble, and his teeth are quite as sharp as Happy Jack's. So it wasn't as uneven a fight as you might think They forgot the brown nuts lying there among the leaves on the ground They forgot everything but their an ger. They chased each other around the trees and up In the trees, all the time losing their tempers more and more. Now their little cousin. Striped Chipmunk, wasn't far away, and of course he heard that dreadful quar rel. He pricked up his ears. Then he stole softly over to see what It was all about Happy Jack and Chatterer didn't see him. They didn't see any thing or anybody but each other. Striped Chipmunk watched them for a few minutes. Then he spied the brown nuts which the Merry Utile Hree7.es turd shaken down. His bright eyes sparkled. He 'chuckled. "I suspect" said be. "that these are what they are quarreling about How silly. How very foolish. These nuts belong to anyone who can get them They are as much mine as their}." Without wasting another minute Striped Chipmunk stuffed the pockets In his cheeks with those brown nuts until be couldn't get another one In Then away he scurried. I'retty soon he was back again. He paid no at tention to his quarreling cousins, but stuffed his pockets again and was off to bis secret storehouse. Hack and forth be scurried, work ing with might and main. He knew that once Happy Jack and Chatterer stopped quarreling and discovered him they would drive him away, and he would have to go because he was too little to fight. Sammy Jay watched him and chuckled. The Merry Utile Hreeiei saw him and they chuckled. But his two big cousins were still fighting and saw only eacb other. At last Happy Jack and Chatterer had to stop for breath. They were too tired to run and figbt any longer. But still each was determined that the other shouldn't have those brown nuts. Happy Jack looked down to gloat over the treasure he bad been fighting for. Then be gave a little gasp. Not a single brown nut was to be seen. Chatterer did the same thing. For a few minutes both forgot tbelr quarrel and raced down to poll over the leaves In search of those nuts Not one was to be found. Their foolish qoarrel had been for nothing. Just nothing at all e IMS, St T. W. Barew-WJVC ferries. , r^. iStt* Then as They Grew Angrier and An grier, They Began to Fight. Gone Professional v r When Mildred (Babe) Uldrikson. the marvelous young girl athlete of Texas, was suspended recently by the Amateur Athletic Dnlon she protest ed rigorously, and later was exon erated. But she now hss forsaken ber amateur status As a professional she will do Sports writing snd work In the movies. ? THE GREATEST THING By DOUGLAS MALLOCH WHAT Is the greatest thing In life? The man of arms may say the strife. The man of trade may say the mart? Vet who takes money to his heart Will find her faithless, and the cheers Of victory mean some one's tears. What Is the greatest thing of all? The rich may say the castle ball. The proud may say the wreath of fame? Vet earthly glory fades the same As earthly wealth. There must be more. Than these In life to hunger for. What Is the greatest thing we find? The wise may say the learned mind. The fool his passions and delights? Vet life some sudden question writes Focls cannot answer, nor wise Do more than wonder and surmise. What Is the greatest thing? Not these Poor things that either pain or please. To love, to feel, to smile, to grieve. Not much to know but much believe? For, books or pleasure, wealth or strife. The greatest thing In life Is life. ?. 1123. Dooirlaa Malloeh.?WNT7 S*rr1c? Sunday Evening Supper NJO ONE enjoys balancing a plate ^ on an unsteady knee while help ing one's self to a dish and holding a cupful of hot liquid in the other hand. The host and hostess who think of the comfort of their guests will provide ample space for the placing of a plate anl cup. The enjoyment of good food can he entirely spoiled by the too In formnl and careless manner of serving. A convenient spot should b* provided for ench guest and a minimum amount of equipment, for there are few sleight of hand performers who care to Juggle a plate and cupful of hot coffee. To most of us there is a real sense of relaxation and enjoyment In meet ing around the fire a few congenial irienus, ur 11 lu summer ? ? liuer a porch or garden Is equally delightful. Try to serve such food as nil! be eas ily handled without the discomfort of dripping dishes. The meat if hot should be served In such a manner as to be eaten easily, the salad compact enough to stay In shape Accessories like pickles, olives or celery should be ar ranged on one plate. If cheese can not be dispensed with put It Into the stalks of tender celery, where It may be nicely handled. If hot rolls are served, butter them ?for butter and knives make another burden. For dessert Ices, sponge cake, or chilled fruit and cakes of different kinds will be enjoyed. The tea cart is one of the helpful aids In serving such a supper. Have the plates, cups, the hot dish, what ever Is served In casserole, hot toast ready to serve with the hot meat dish and the lea or coffee equipment as well as the silver to be used, all on the top shelf. If the tea cart has leaves so much the better for serving. On the lower shelf place the dessert plates and serving dish or sherbet cups. With a small table placed for the serving of each two or three guests everybody will be comfortable. As the Sunday dinner has been a hearty one, the supper should be food tasty hut not too heavy. ? by Wester* Newspaper Ualo*. ECNEI3S Every morning my mqfher wares ber arms to stretch her abominable muscles. BONERS are actual humorous tidbits found in examination papers, essays, etc, by teachers. A surfeit Is an apron worn in the front, ? ? ? Macbeth rode a vaulting horse which threw him, but because he had ambi tion he went right on riding. ? ? ? Mineral wool Is the shearings from a hydraulic ram. ? ? ? Religious fanatics went out Into the desert and sometimes hollded high columns on which they would spend their lives In order the better to com mute with God. ? * ? If It were not for Madame Carle and her husband there would be no radio today. ? ? ? Before Daniel was born his mother was visited by an angel and so she called him John. ? ? ? Cardinal Woolsey soared up like a rocket and came down like a brick, because he tried to sit between two stools