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The Alamance gleaner VOT T.VIY ? ' 1 GRAHAM, Ji, C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16, 1933. N0 2 News Review of Current Events the World Over Economy in Government Gets a Boost?Senate Ousts Sergeant at Arms Barry for Traducing It?Roosevelt Invites Governors to Parley, By EDWARD W. PICKARD pCONOMY was given n real boost by the senate when it passed the treasury-post ottice bill, for it inserted into the measure provisions giving the j incoming rresuient nl most dictatorial pow er In reorganizing I he structure of the fed eral government, co ordinating, consolidat ing or reducing the number of agencies and eliminating over lapping and duplica tion of duties, ain or der to further reduce expenditures and in crease efliciency in govern men t." The measure withholds authority to abolish or transfer an executive department In its entirety, though Senator Norrls urged that this privilege also be given the Chief Executive. His proposal was rejected because senators feared It might lead to the combining of the army and navy Into one department of national defense, as has often been suggested. The bill as approved by the senate grants the new President much greater latitude than was asked by President Hoover for the same pur pose. The executive orders will not become effective until sixty days after being submitted to congress unless congress itself provides by law for an earlier effective date. * Besides this grant of power to reor ganize the federal establishment the senate moved toward further econ omies by adopting an amendment of fered by Senator Sain O. IJratton of ftew Mexico, one of the leading Demo crats in the matter of savings. It re quires all department heads to cut their expenditures for 1934 by 5 per cent, though this must be done with out cl..log wages?this being insisted upon by Senator Costlgan of Colorado. Mr. Bratton estimated that his plan would result in the saving of about $140,000,000 In the cost of operating the government during the next fiscal year. Other economy measures at tached to tiie bill, it was said, would realize some 20 millions of additional savings. One of these Includes the en listed personnel of the army, navy and marine corps In the present 8V6 per cent salary cut affecting all other fed ernl employees. In the house all kinds of attempts to economize were beaten during con sideration of supply bills. The rep resentatives even declined, by an over whelming vote, to reduce their own salaries to $7,000 or $0,000, opponents of the proposal arguing that they could not afford the cut and that low ering the pay would make the house a "rich man's club" and make It 1m p?issible for a poor man to enter con gress. The proponents of the reduc tion were denounced as demagogues. WITH grave formality the senate and house met together In the house chamber and watched their offi cial tellers extract from a mahogany chest the reports of state electors on hist fall's election. The reading clerk loudly announced the state totals, and when these had been set down on big tally sheets and added up, the con gress was solemnly informed that Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Gar ner had been elected President and Vice President of the United States | by a vote of 472 against 59 for Hoover and Curtls.v OKNATORS, despite their rules, can find ways to say some mighty mean things about one another; but an out sider mustn't cast aspersions on their Into.rrt*., I>. ..I J o i/a ? 141 15. Barry, who has been sergeant at arms ol the senate for 1-1 years, has found this out and has lost his Job. The seventy-three year-old omrtnl wrote an article for Al Smith's New Outlook the opening paragraph of which was: "Contrary, perhaps, to the popular belief, there are not many m congress?that Is, out and out grafters, or th(??e who are willing tn ho audi; there are not many sen ators or representatives who sell their votes for money and It Is pretty well known who those few are; but there are many demagogues of the kind that will vote for legislation sole ly because they think that It will help their political and socinl fortunes." Indignant senators were swift to call Barry to account. Sitting as a trial court, they heard him admit he was unable to prove that there were bribe takers and grafters In congress; and they refused to consider his pleas that Senator Glass had said about as much concerning the fight against the McKadden banking bill, and that la reulity his article was meant to de fend the reputation of congress de spite its Inept wording. By a rote of 53 to IT the senate deprived Barry of his post on the ground that he had traduced that body and could not prove his charge. In the words of Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania, the senate "made a holy show of Itself." Barry did not lack defenders, the warmest of these being Senator Otis Glenn of Illinois and Senator M. U. Logan of Kentucky. Mr. Glenn, being a lame duck, was not afraid to say what he thought, and be bad a lot of hot thoughts on the matter. He pointed out that what Barry bad written was but one small voice in a chorus of criticism of the senate, and continued: "I cannot distinguish very material ly between attacking a body of this kind, as has been done In the present Instance, and the privilege which is exercised nearly every day In commit tee rooms of the senate of browbeat ing a witness, accusing him, attacking him as he sits there, called In response to a summons. "I do not distinguish between the attacks made upon this body and the attacks made in this body day after day by distinguished members of this body, attacking, abusing, condemning, blackening people's nnines and reputa tions, knowing thnt the next morning upon the front pnges of the responsi ble newspapers of this country those charges, unsustalned, will be brondcast to the world." The debate was lively and rather ? vituperative, and was Immensely en joyed by the occupants of the galleries. One of Jiese was beard to quote: "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks." WHILE the President-Elect was yrulsing about the Caribbean try ing to catch fish the amateur cabinet builders kept right on working. Late ?rnaeln wna fixes* Wll Ham H. Woodln of New York would be secretary of com merce; Henry L. Stev ens of North Carolina, former commander of the American Legion, secretary of war, and Archibald McNeil of Connecticut or O. Max Gardner of North Carolina secretary of the navy. Jesse L Straus, New YOrk merchant, also was put Id the running for the commerce portfolio. More definite than these rumors was the report that Jesse H. Jones, eminent Democrat and business man of Uouston, Texas, would be made head of the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation. He would succeed Atlee Pomerene, whose appointment as chairman hy President Hoover was blocked, with all other nominations. In the senate. Mr. Roosevelt will rely greatly on the Reconstruction Finance corporation and Its vast credit In car rying out his plans In the "new deal" and-would receive strong and able support from Sir. Jones as Its chair man. PI.ENTT of expert advice on ways of pulling tbe nation out of the slough of despond Is to be offered soon. First the senate finance commit tee Invited more than half a hundred of the nation's leading men In all lines to present their views on the causes of the economic depression and the needed legislative remedies, and those views presumably are now being for mulated. Then President-Elect Roose velt sent to the governors of the 48 states Invitations to ineet him In the White House on March 6 to discuss means of solving national problems in which the governments of the states and the nation have a common vital interest In his letter Mr. Roosevelt said: "It Is my thought that we should discuss for our mutual benefit certain subjects, such as: "(a) Conflicting taxation by federal and state governments; "(b) Federal aid for unemployment relief; "(c) Mortgage foreclosures, especial ly on farm lands, and *ld) Better land use by afforest a tion, elimination of marginal ngrirul tural land, flood prevention, etc.; "(e) Reorganization nnd considlda tlon of local government to decrease tax costs." WITH considerable Democratic support, the government's pro gram for aid to the unemployed was greatly broadened. It provides, among other things, for an additional $300, 000,000 direct relief loans to states, and In Washington there was a belief that It had a good chance of passage during the present session. The bill as drafted also would liberalize the law under which the It. F. C. makes loans for self-liquidating construction proj ects; nnd It makes provision for loans to private corporations for the devel opniept of community farinlhg nnd ocean air transportation If such proj ects are self-liquidating. THAI flurry over .he activities of William C. Bullitt, who war report ed In Europe as being a secret repre sentative of .ir. Roosevelt sent over ... unn null i lie ?T ern meats of nations that owe war debts to the United State*, probably has blown over for good. HitIIitt, who was a State de partment representa tive under Woodrow Wilson, also was thought by some French officials to be an emissary of Col. Edward M. House, lie visited London, Furls aud other capitals and conferred with various high personages, and our Stale department called on Ambassador Edge for Infon lation. The ambassa dor replied that Bullitt was acting on his own respons'bility as a writer In terested In foreign affairs and was representing no one In the United States. Mr. Edge, It is Understood, reported that this la only one of mnuy similar Incidents. Ever since Mr. Roosevelt's nomination, the embassy has had re ports of a long succeslon of such "em issaries." VARIOUS plans for the regeneration of the Republican party have been discussed, and one already has been started. This is the organization of the National Republican league, with Vice President Charles Curtis at Its head and headquarters In Washington. Three vice chairmen have been named ?Senators Felix Hebert of Rhode Is land and Daniel O. Hastings of Dela ware and former Representative John Q. Tllson of Connecticut. The make-up of the league appears to be strictly regular Republican. The new organization announced by John A. Campbell of White Plains, N. Y, who will be Its director, is designed to carry on a vigorous campaign for a comeback not only In the 103G Presi dential election but In next year's con gressional races also. OKEAT BRITAIN'S cabinet In three sessions gave final approval t? the British policy for negotiations with Mr. Roosevelt In the debt conference to be held In Washington. Of course the cabinet's conclusions were not made public, but It wns understood Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay would bring back a plan providing for a lump sum payment of between $1,250, 000,000 and $2,000,000,000 as settle ment for the entire debt of about $11, 000,000,(K)0 which the European na> tlons owe the United States. This, the debtor nations think, would he In accord with their own I.auRjir.no agree ment on German reparations. Representative Ralney of Illinois de clared: "The United States will not accept any such slash." and opinion In congressional circles upheld this view. Moreover, Mr. Roosevelt's plan of dealing with each nation separately will give the British small opportu nlty to put forward a proposal for all of them. GERMANY'S new government un der Chancellor Hitler Is not to have smooth sailing by any means and may he upset at the coming elections. The Socialists and Communists were trylnx strenuously to lay aside their differences and Join In the fight against the Nazis, and It seemed likely they would succeed In this. Vice Chancellor Von I'npen, armed with a decree signed by President Von Hlndenberg a.veomed the premiership of Prussia, dissolved the diet of that state and ordered new elections on March 5. Premier Brnun and the other old Prussian ministers were summarily ousted. The government also Issued a new set of severe laws curtailing the right of assembly and of free speech and gagging the press. RECENT deaths of note were those ' of Dr. Ijiwrence f. Abbott, for , mer president and publisher of the . Outlook and close friend of Theodore j Roosevelt; and t^iunt Albert Apponyl 0f Hungary, the oldest statesman of the l-eague of NnllMis and a powerful political figure In-Tils country, e 1IJJ Western Sfwsotprt Lnlos Sen. Bratton I D. 8. Barry e Jesse H. Jones W. C. Bullitt The Fable of the Yesser and the War Eagle 86 By GEORGE ADE ?. B?H Syndicate?WNC Service. ONCE there was the kind of Ministering Angel who be Heved that to make the World happy and scatter Bays of Sunshine and plant Flowers in the City Streets and encourage smiling Faces, the Bright plan was to avoid Argu ments and agree with Everybody In the Interests of Good Cheer and Har mony. When an llplifter and Benefac tor starts out to Ves the World, right In the Face of the Fact that nearly all Adults are wrong about Every thing, he has to have a lot of Honey In his System to stay on the Job. We will speak of this optimistic Beamer as Mr. Ferver. It will be better not to tip off the real Handle, as he may be some one you know very well, possibly a Cousin. Now, Mr. Ferver was a Nice Man who had a Theory of Life which Is backed up by 1,000 Slogans such as are printed In Old English Type on square Cards and Bet up on Desks. As a He-Pollyanna he wns a walking Ad for all the Books dealing with Sweet ness and Light. Whenever he got real warm he per spired Maple Sirups. If he saw an In dividual who seemed to be'transport lng a hidden Sorrow, he wanted to go right op and kiss Him, Her or It. *?ns 'Ci/ *J|>C VI UVUU OWN I WIIU IB A. Blessing to his Day and Generation, If you merely examine his Plans and Specifications, but nevertheless and notwithstanding probably destined to be. av Joke to some Folks and a Ner vous Shock to Others, and send some Good Woman to the Foolish House. A Clear Title Beats a Clear Conscience. As usually happens, right across the Avenue from this Human Chocolate Drop there lived a Finite Chief who was hard-boiled, sun-cured and tough er than a Ten-Penny Spike. Once more we will conceal the I den- I tity of one of our Characters and merely refer to this Egg us Mr. Grumm. Always It Is better to sup press the real Monicker. In this Case the Siberian Bloodhound of whom we are speaking might be even nearer than a Cousin. He might be You your self. There was one Reason why Mr. Grumm was talked about so much, and that was because he was always sued or suing Some One, or hiring two or three Sliark Lawyers to juggle a Con tract so that Mr. Grumm would get about two-thirds of It. Many of our most hated and prosperous Operators have had the same Idea In regard to Articles of Agreement* Somebody Is going to get hooked, so why not 'he party of the Second Part? On account of this being a Family Paper that will have to go through the Mails, It will be Impossible to set down the Words used by Mr. Grumin. the Gladiator, In expressing his Opin ion of Mr. Ferver, the Pacifist. The latter often rubbed his Hands and registered happiness because he never had been snarled up In any Le gal Controversy. Which Is simply an other Way of stating that he had been, stung, hornswoggled, double-crossed, bluffed, euchred, swept up and car ried out uuce mese two ."veignoors were id volved In a Deal which took In cer tain Payments and ltates of Interest and long-term Leases. The Dove fol lowed his usual Policy of accepting any kind of Compromise rather than go to the Mat with his Fellow-Man. After it was all over, Mr. Fervor hnd a Clear Conscience and Mr. Grumin bad a Clear Title, and the remarkable Part of It was that neither of them had any Trouble In sleeping soundly every Night. Helping Cupid Fire Love Darts. Vou take a sympathetic Soul who has a Heart which fairly drips with Heavenly Love and Inevitably he will become a Weeping Post and a Bureau of Public Comfort. Those who were up against It went to Mr. Ferver for Consolation and later sought out Mr. Grutnm to have a heated Run-In and then sign a Mort gage on the Dotted Line. They would go on the Outside and curse the hard ened Shylock. at the same time freely admitting that his Words of Wisdom bad oot been sugar-coated. Mr. Grumm was to the Human Race what Calomel la to the Practice of Medicine. As might have been suspected, Mr. Ferver specialized In Affairs of the Heart. He was one of the Many who believed that the most useful Service to be rendered a Young Person Is to nag and encourage Him or Her Into taking the stupendous Risk. It doesn't seem to make much difference Who gets married to Whom or why or what have you. so long as the usual num ber of Victims are Induced to sacri fice themselves and keep the Instltu 1 tlon of Matrimony In good Working I Order. I If young Arthur, with the unsncces* ful Mustache and a rudimentary In telligence and about $80 In the Bank, went to Mr. Ferrer and asked lilm how about getting married to Doris, with the skinny Legs and the high Bob, then the Promoter would imme diately give an Imitation of Cupid and his Dart * "Yes, yes!" he would chortle, "hy all means! Yes, Indeed! What a wonder ful Idea! What a sweet und Inter esting little Thing she is! Isn't she? And you, Arthur, are the One Man for her. Don't stand there and deny It. One-would be almost tempted to make the Observation that, from the very beginning of Time, you Two were In tended fpr Kncli Other." May Be Wrong, but He's Interesting. The line of Talk is merely Propaganda for Installment Houses, ltertt Collec tors and Baby Specialists. Those who barkened to the Ravings of Mr. Ferver would often get up In the Night, many Months luter, to curse him and fue the Day on which he had kidded them Into it. This never ruf fled him. He was blissful In the Knowledge that he hnd helped to lay the Foundations of a Home and link two Mortals together and act as Ad vance Agent for an assortment of j Children. The mere Facts that the Home was not (>uid for, that the Couple got along I like a touple of Panthers und that all of the Outcome were cross-eyed and adenoidal cut no Percentage. Mr. Ferver believed that it was better to marry Any One than remain Single and stand out as a Blot on Clvillza tlon. Candidates who went to the Cofnn Trimmer to get a few Pointers never received any such Goo. lie said that no Young Man should marry until be was able to support a Girl In the man ner to which she had been accus tomed, am1 he never had heard of such a Case. He said that when a laid of Lim ited Means fell desperately In love with some Modern Specimen of the Expen sive Sex, the only sensible Thing for him to do was to take his Pinch*of Change to the nearest Drug Store and purchase a Dose of Arsenic. Sucli a procedure would save him Thousands of Dollars and would Insure him Pence and Quiet for Years to come, whereas any rash Experiments would probably make a Bum of him before he was 30 years old. It Is said that lie DID favor a Wed ding once because he hated all of the Parents of both Contracting Parties. The Alliance turned out to be a great Success, simply proving what Mr Grumm had always contended, that 00 per cent of the Bare Is absolutely un reliable, and no one has been able to sort out and segregate nnd label the 10 per cent which should be permitted to live. It will be evident that if the Counsel handed out by Mr. Grumm were to pre- i vnlLund be acted upon there would be no People left on Earth by lOSTi. Such a Prospect would l>e more than pleas ing to him, but It Is not in line with the Program advised by Statesmen, Political Economists and Ilumnnl Urlans. So the Conclusion must be made that Mr. Grumm Is wrong and, there fore Mr. Ferver must e right. In spite of which Mr. Grumm Is much more interesting to talk to. MOItAL: To expect the ijood to be Good Company would be asking too I much. Adopting African Babiet The McISurney orphanage lit Mat, Africa, recently reported 0".? orithan babies under their care. There are also 00 childless families waiting-for babies to adopt. They cannot Just say "give me a baby"; they must pre sent a written application telling of their wish and Christian experience. Unle3S they are church members they cannot hnve a child. Their church session or one of the missionaries must also recommend the couple. The foster mother must also spend two months at the orphanage caring for the child she wishes, under the super vision of matron and nurses. She Is also visited as frequently as possible after the child leaves to sec that all Is going well> As far as possible the babies are returned to their own tribe and have been sent to the homes of masons, carpenters, chauffeurs, teach ers and evflngellsts? the latter pre dominating. Never are 'he babies for gotten in prayer when the nurses meet for morning worship.?Montreal Her aid. Important Science Demography Is the science which deals with the statistics of health and disease, of the physical. Intellectual, physiological and economical aspects of births, marriages and mortality. The first to employ the word was Achille Dulllard (18M), but the mean Ing which he attached to It was mere ly that of the science which treats of the condition, general movement and progress of population In civilized countries, L e., little more than vital statistics. The word has come to have a much wider meaning and may now be defined as that branch of statistics which deals with the life conditions of peoples. George Washington :: First President of the United States s: Nature and Fortune ? l Never Made \ A -^Better Man W TKomat J. Wtrtrnbakv m CwthI Nntarr K I ().\K of tlie recent biographers |\| of Washington has given us kLjj so just' nnd true a picture of ArMw the man as that drawn by Jefferson more than a cen "1 think I knew General V v Washington intimatoly and thoroughly," lie said. "His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very tirst order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Itaron or Locke, and, as far as he saw, no Judgment was ever sounder. It wns slow In operation, being little aided by invention or Irn agination, hut sure in conclusion Hence the common remark of Ids ofh cers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best. . . . "He wns Incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with Hie calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest tea lure in his character wns prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, wns maturely weighed; refraining if tie saw a doubt but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, wluite\er obstacles opposed. . . . "He was, indeed, in every sense of rh? words, n wise a tpxid and a great e - ? -n man. His temper was naturally Irrl table and hlghtoned, but reflection and resolution had obtained a Arm and habitual ascendency over It If ever, however. It broke Its bounds he was most tremendous In his wrath. . . . "Ills bear) wns not warm In Its af fections, but he exactly calculated ev ery man's value and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to It . . . It may truly be said that never did na ture and fortune combine more per fectly to make a great man and to place him In the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man everlasting remembrance." After all has been said. It was Washington's character which was so premely great, which was responsible for the greatness of bis achievements. In the Itevo'.ution It was the trust In Washington which held together a faltering and discouraged people, which tided the country over the dark est hours, which was responsible for the eventful victory. After peace had been won It was this trust in Washington which made it possible for a disunited people to attain enduring strength and unity. There have been greater generals than Washington, greater statesmen; there has been no greater character. When the writings of Ills detractors have passed Into obscurity his memory will remain, what it has always been, a sacred legacy to the American people Washington Memorial National Carillon The photo shows the Star Spangled Banner national peace chimes, known as the Washington Memorial National Carillon?first large American carillon made in America by American bell makers. On the extreme right is the latest addition to the shrine being in stalled. Washington and Education Writing ot Washington, Corbin says: "Ills Interest In popular education was nb less ardeut than was JelTersop's, and took on a peculiar quality from the fact that he thought of himself always as one of the^wjeducated. His solici tude for the schools of Virginia and for a national university is expressed In many eloquent and noble passages and In liberal bequests." WASHINGTON'S FAMILY George Washington's mother was Mary Ball, said to have been a lineal descendant from John Ball, medieval champion of the rights of man. Her mother was Mary Mon tague, who, as "the widow John son," was married to Colonel Joseph Ball. Her grandfather was Colonel William Ball, who emi grated to Virginia in 1650, and set tled in Lancaster county. George Washington's father war Augustine Washington, the gTandsct of Law ence Washington and the great grandson of John Washington, who came from England about 1650 and settled in Westmoreland county, Virginia. The English ancestry has been traced back through Lauren da Washington, father of Lawrence, ctveral generations to the Sulgraee branch of the family. Hearing All Suggestions, He Selected Whatever Wae Beet.
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