The Alamance gleaner 1 VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1933. NO. 52. j News Review of Current Events the World Over Chancellor Chamberlain Says Great Britain Wants War Debt Cancellation?Inflationists Lose in Senate? Lame Duck Amendment Ratified. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Great Britain has been invited j to discuss with the United States the war debts with a view to revision and possible reduction, the invitntlon having been extended by the Hoover admin istration with the al most certain concur rence of President Elect Roosevelt. The conference, if the Brit ish accept, will be held in March; and It will be followed Im mediately by similar conferences with the nations that are not Chancellor in default in payment Chamberlain to this eounfry, name ly, Italy. Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Finland and Latvia. But Secretary of State Stimson, In sending out the invitations, omitted France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary and Esthonia, the nations that have de faulted ; and this, too, it Is under stood, met with the approval of Mr. Roosevelt, who will be President when the negotiations are under way. However, there were indications in Washington that Mr. Roosevelt will have arranged separate conferences with the defaulters. England is espe cially interested in having France in cluded In such arrangements as may be made, believing a final settlement of debt and economic subjects cannot well be reached unless France is taken into account. Representative Ralney of Illinois, Democratic floor leader in the house, seemed to be roused by the news. "The conferences won't amount to anything, in my opinion," Rainey said, "because the American people are not going to stand for a reduction in the debts. "The debt conferences should be linked with the world economic con ference. The thing to do is to bring about a removal of international trade barriers so that trade can be revived a iic luuiemma nucuuj i?iujcv ieu hold only a possibility of opening up trade routes and giving the debtoss a chance to pay." England accepted the invitation, and her stand on the war debt ques tion was slated plainly by Chancellor Neville Chamberlain In an address be fore the'Leeds Chamber of Commerce. Briefly, the British government will ask either cancellation or reduction so drastic that it will almost amount to the same thing. If this cannot be obtained, said Chamberlain, the settle ment reached must be flnal and must not involve resumption of the German reparations. "To disturb the Lausanne agreement," he said, "would be to re open old wounds and to destroy for an indefinite period all prospect of agreement on matters alTecting the happiness and prosperity not merely . of Europe but of the whole world." Undertaking to explain the matter to "the farmer of the Middle West," the chancellor said that If the war debts payments were to be resumed they could not be made by loans or by further shipments of gold. "Ef fective means of paying." he contin ued, "would have to be found and they could only he found by increasing sales of foreign goods to America or, what would come to the same thing, by diminishing purchases from Amer ica." THERE will he no more lame duck sessions of congress, for the Twen tieth amendment to tiie Constitution has now been ratified by more than 36 siaies una win go Into effect October lft next. Action by the Missouri legislature clinched It. and sev eral other legislatures came Into line the same day. Under this amendment both sen ators and representn tives assume office on January 3 following their election. The President and Vice Sen. Norrlr President take office on January 'JO following election. The I newly elected congress Is automat ically called into session on January | 3 and on the same date one year later. The changes do not affect the terms of Hoover and Curtis or any member of the present congress. Adoption of the amendment Is some thing of a personal victory for Senator N orris of Nebraska who fought for It thmngh many years. It was passed hy the senate several times but al ways previously was blocked In the bouse. INFLATIONISTS are becoming more vociferous and apparently more numerous dally In Washington, but at this writing they have not got any where. Their first big effort was put forth during debate on the Glass hank ing bill in the senate. Wheeler of Montana. Independent Democrat, of fered an amendment providing for the free coinage of silver nt the ratio of sixteen to one?the old formula of William Jennings Bryan?and Buey Long of Louisiana proposed another amendment authorizing the govern ment purchase of silver and stabiliza tion at approximately 14.38 to 1. After violent discussion both these schemes were defeated, by a vote of 56 to IS in each case. During the debate Senator Tom Con nally of Texas increased the perplexity of the senate by announcing he was preparing a measure to debase the gold content of the dollar by one third and perhaps, if It were consti tutional, to forbid Individuals making contracts calling for payment in dol lars of current weight and fineness. Both Senator Glass and Senator Fess argued strongly against all the Infla tion proposals, as did Ueed of Penn sylvania. After being badly mangled by amendments the Glass banking bill was passed by the senate. Its fate In the house is problematical. PRESIDENT HOOVER vetoed the first deficiency bill, carrying appro priations of $31,000,000 and tlie house upheld his action, the vote being 102 to 158. The President disapproved of the measure because he and Attorney I General Mitchell held unconstitutional a provision placing control of all sub stantial refunds from Income, gift and inheritance taxes In the hands of a joint congressional committee. Sena tor McKellar indicated that he would make another attempt to remove con trol over refunds from the treasury. MR. ROOSEVELT, in Warm Springs after his inspection of Muscle Shoals, was busy studying the prob lems that^vill come before him and conferred with many notable men of his party and a few who lire not of that per suasion. Among his callers were several who, according to the cabinet makers, have Kood chances of being offered portfolios. Among these was Bronson Cutting, the senator rrora new Sen. Cutting Mexico who bolted the Republican ticket last fall and helped elect Roosevelt The gossip was that he would be made secretary of the Interior If he were willing to accept the place. Senator Cutting was accompanied on his visit by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, another "rebel" Republican. Bernard M. Baruch of New York, chairman of the emergency national transportation committee, also was io Warm Springs helping the President elect prepare his program and giving advice especially on the railroad sit uation. There was talk that be might be appointed secretary of state, prob ably the only cabinet position he would take, though many still thought that position would go to either Senator Walsh of Montana, Owen D. Young or Norman Davis. Mr. Roosevelt told the correspondents he might announce one cabinet choice before going on his yacht trip, but no more than one. Pre sumably that will be Jim Farley, who It is conceded will be postmaster gen eral. FARMERS are to have the oppor tunity of borrowing $90,000,000 from Dncle Sam with which to produce this year's crops, unless the bill passed by congress Is killed by a presidential veto. The measure makes available the sum named of the unused balance of $200,000,000 of R. F. C. funds alio cnted to agriculture. The loans will be made for planting fallowing and cultivation, and the secretary of agrl culture Is empowered to exact from borrowers agreements to reduce acre age not to exceed 30 per cent. One million dollars Is allocated for feed for farm lire stock In drought and storm stricken areas. Farm bloc members of congress de fended the bill, asserting there would be widespread suffering on the farms unless such loans were authorised. Many member, however, attacked U as paternalistic, socialistic and bound to increase farm product surpluses. Snell of New York, minority leader, declared It was utterly inconsistent with the pending domestic allotment measure, the purpose of which is to increase farm product prices and de crease acreage. The senate agriculture committee began hearings on the domestic allot ment bill Wednesday, hoping they would be completed in a week or so. The same arguments for and against It that were heard in the house were repeated. Elimination of the citizens* mili tary training camps as an economy move was rejected by the house, which added $2,.*>00,000 to the War depart ment appropriation bill to insure their continuance. Also $500,000 was add ed to the appropriation for the re serve officers' corps. The measure was then passed. The senate finance committee re ported the house beer bill amended to Include wine and to provide 3.05 per cent alcoholic content. This measure may get through congress before ad journment but probably will be vetoed if It does. ALEXANDER, the handsome young king of Jugoslavia, accompanied by Queen Marie and his foreign minis ter, Bosko Jeftich, spent the week in | r I ..(~l I/lni. LVUIMilllJU >1S1L1MK IllUg L'nrol at the latter'a tountry place, Slnala lalnce. Officially It nas Just a ramlly vls t, Marie being Cnrol'a lister, but the corre ipondents said It was ror the purpose o( seeking a common front on the question >f equal armaments, due to come up for King discussion In Geneva Alexander on January 31. The little entente powers, which Include these two nations and Czechoslovakia, did not like the action of the great powers in giving Germany Judicial equality in armaments with out consulting the little entente, and they propose now to demand more con sideration when Important matters come up at Geneva. King Alexander was especially anx ious to get Rumania's backing on a protest which Jugoslavia plans to rnlse against Italy's alleged pouring of ma chine guns and munitions Into Hun gary through Austria. Diplomats In Bucharest said an Im portant side-issue of the royal visit would be a private conference con cerned with the problem of restoration of former King George as the ruler of Greece. Such restoration, it was explained, would be immensely valu able to Jugoslavia, since a friendly Greek government would secure use of Snlonikl harbor for Jugoslavia should circumstances demand. QOUTH AMERICA'S two unofficial '-'wars attracted considerate atten tion during the week. Colombia sent a Joint note to signers of the Kellogg pact asking that they call upon Peru not to violate the treaty at Letlcla. toward which a Colombian flotilla was steaming to recapture the town from the Peruvian Nationalists who seized It some time ago. The place was ceded to Colombia by Peru un der a treaty signed in 1922. The Peru vian government asked the League of Nations to order suspension of "all measures of force"?In the Letlcla area. Secretary of State StlmBon hurriedly called to his home the diplomatic representatives of the powers signs tory to the Kellogg pact to consider this critical situation. He then sent a note to Peru invoking the pact and making It plain that the United States considered Peru was In the wrong In the dispute. Bolivians and Paraguayans were lighting desperately for possession of Fort Nanawa In the disputed Gran Clinco and both sides claimed the ad vantage. The battle lasted for days , and the casualties were numerous. REPORTS from Tokyo said the Jap anese cabinet had decided that Ja pan's withdrawal from the League of , Nations was Inevitable and had In structed Tosuke Matsuoka to restate hit country's position In regard to Manchuria and then leave fleneva for home. Foreign Minister Yasuya Uchlda i was understood to have Informed the cabinet that application of parngraph four of article fifteen by the league, under which recommendation for defi nite action In the Manchurtan dispute cnn be made, appeared almost certain The cabinet. It was said, agreed that this step would be followed by con demnation of Japan's action In recog nising the Manchukuo Independent government headed by Henry I'u Tl, the former emperor. PRESIDENT EAMON DE VAI.F.HA won a smashing victory In the Irish Free State election!, bis purty gaining rotes everywhere st the ex pense of thst of William Coegrave, bis chief opponent. ? ll?. W?sUCI SnWMS OUMk 1 Japanese Priests on Their First Pilgrimage ... OaUKYING bundles, in which all thelr ^ worldly possessions are wrapped, these Japanese priests of the Koselji temple at UJ1, nenr Kioto, make a strange picture as they leave the temple on their flrst pilgrimage after having completed their flrst year of study. DATES TOOTHSOME, NUTRITIOUS THE perfect date, colorful, trans lucent, and altogether delicious, is now an American product, thanks to the untiring effort of our date grow ers. Arabian dates are still shipped Into our country In large quantities but nothing so far has reached the perfection of the home grown. It will probably be some time be fore we can supply tbe demand with the home product, for the date Is so well liked and Is used for confections so largely, as well as for ordlnarj food. With a handful of nuts and a halt dozen dates, a glass of orange Juice, one need not worry over calories or hunger. Dates are enjoyed in bread, cnke. cookies, chopped with nuts and molded Into bars, sluffcd with nuts or pre served fruit or fondant; added to salads they give Just the note ol sweetness that any salad needs. They lake the place of raisins or combine Willi I I til' III ML Sot. I 13 Ul v.iriuus kinds. Date Pie.?Cook one pound of dales thai have been pitted, with one cup ful of water and one tnblespnonful ol lenior Juice; conk until a thick paste is formed, then add two tnhlespoonfuls of orange Juice and let stand until cold, fcnke r pastry shell and till with the mixture, top with lightly sweetened cream and serve. As filling for sandwiches to give the children for luncheon, they are per fectly deslhablr In stufTcd dates, try any or all of the following: Peanut butter moistened with or ange Juice and a little cream. Use fondant to which chopped cher rles, ginger, candied peel has been added. Almonds finely chopped, mixed with a little grated maple sugar and cream to moisten. ^ 1913 Western Newspaper Union. Puts on Champ's Belt Just before leaving New York for a vacation to Bermuda, Jack Sharkey world's heavyweight champion, donned the belt worn by champions of bit class before blm, these Including John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Bob Flts almmona and Jim Jeffries. Thus be decked. Jack posed for the pho togra pliers. CHILDREN'S BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON W. BURGESS MERRY LITTLE bREEZES LEARN THE JOY OF WORK There a nothing like some honest work To make the minutes swiftly fly; to fill the day with golden Joy And set the hours skipping by. ALL summer long the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West SVind had played on the Green Mend >ws and In the Green Forest To dance and piny was what they were made for.* At least that is what they seemed to think. Why anyone should work was something they couldn't on derstand In spltr of the fact that Old Mother >\ est wina nerseii woriteu every day. When enrly in the morn in? she would turn them out of the big hag to play they would watch her go away to turn the windmills that pumped the water for the cows, to blow white sailed ships across the dis tant ocean, to sweep away the smoke from great cities, and they would won der why she did these things when it was so much easier Just to do noth ing at all or to romp and play. Hut even playing becomes tiresome, especially when nobody will play with you. And now tlint the busy autumn had come there was no one to play wilh. Everybody was too busy to play. So it came about that the Merry Utile Itreezes because they could think of nothing else to do, offered to help Striped Chipmunk, of whom they were very fond. They offered to shake down nuts from the trees that he might more easily fill his secret storehouse. You know Striped Chip munk is not much of a climber, lie can climb If he has to, but he never feels at home in the trees and never likes to get far above the ground. So for his winter stores he depends on what he can find on the ground, and let me tell you tnere nre no Drigtitcr eye* ttwn those of Striped Chipmunk when It comes to finding nuts snd seeds hidden under brown leaves. But there are others quite as eager as Striped Chipmunk to find outs for secret storehouses, especially his cons Ins, Happy Jack Squirrel and Chat terer the Ited Squirrel, and because they are bigger and stronger and very, very selfish, they often chase Striped Chipmunk away. So Is It any wondet that when the Merry Little Breer.es offered to shake down the brown nuts for blm. Striped Chipmunk chased his tall for pure happiness? Happy Jack and Chatterer were still quarreling and their voices sounded harsh and angry as the Merry Little Breezes danced along ahead of Striped Chipmunk to a tree some distance from where Happy Jack and Chatterer were calling each other names and worse than wasting the golden mln utes of that beautiful day. Striped Chipmunk looked op and bis eyes sparkled. The night before Jack frost bad opened the prickly hurra and Striped Chipmunk could see the brown nuts ready to drop. The Merry Little Breezes shook a branch and down rattled the brown nuts. Striped Chipmunk squealed with Joy and stufTed the pockets ot his cheeks until the Merry Little Breezes shouted with ""laughter' because he looked so funny. Then he scampered away to his secret storehouse. Back he came and did It all over again. As soon as he had picked up the last nut the Merry Little Breezes shook another branch and down showered more brown nuts, roll ing under the brown leaves on the t round. It was great fun. It seemed us If those bright eyes of Striped Chipmunk saw where every nut rolled I to. Of course they didn't, but those they didn't see his keen little nose found, so It amounted to the same thing. Never had the Merry Little Breezes had such a good time. Some times they would tense Striped Chipmunk by shaking down only a few at a time Then they would shake a branch so hard that the brown nuts would fly In all directions. But Striped Chipmunk didn't mind. All he wunted wns to have the nuts on the ground where he could get them. Back and forth back and forth, back and forth he scampered between his secret store house and the place where the brown ? 1933 i>ouela? Mallocn.? WNU wrric* nuts were helug shaken down aod Id his heart was a song of Joy. And there was a like Joy In the hearts of the Merry Little Breezes, for they had discovered the Joy of something to do. of work Never had a day passed so quickly. They had helped another and In so doing had wod for them selves a great happiness. "We'll come again, tomorrow!" they cried, as they saw Old Mother West Wind coming across the Green Mead ows with her big bag in which to take them to their home behind the Purple (1111s. "Thank you!" cried Striped Chip munk, as he sat down to rest his weary lega ? 1913 by T. W. Burgees.?WNU Berries. Happy Jack and Chatterer Were Still Quarreling. KITTY McKAY By Nina Wilcox Putnam The girl-friend says that if mothi had to live on her evening frocki they'd die of starvation. ?. 193?. Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service Worry and Trouble j By DOUGLAS MALLOCH j I'VH seen u lot whose luck was lm Brutus among the traitors, and so, dy > ing. he gasped out the words "Tee Hee Brute." g te. B?n Syndicate.)?WNU 8er?loe. - ?^ Monument to "Forgotten President" AT LAST a monument to Martin Van Uuren. the "forgotten President," has been provided In Klnderhook, N. I, the little village In which be was born 150 yenrs ago. This monument, of Vermont marble, waa unveiled recently In front of the Martin Van Buren high school. Van Buren's bodv lies to so In conspicuous grave in the Klnderhook cemetery.