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The Alamance gleaner ? 1 VOL. LVIX. v GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY Al'RIL 20, 1933. NO. 11. News Review of Current Events the World Over > Secretary Roper Offers Plan for Big Cut in Commerce Department Expenses; Congress Gets President's Tennessee River Valley Development. CrccitETARY of Commerce Roper ^ has laid before President Roose velt a plan to make drastic reductions In the expense of his department ? i..it- - ?>lilnk l>e? to? l.ono ? nun una iwii^ uccii pointed to as an out standing example of the extravagant bu reaucracy of Wash ing. Mr. ftoper proposes to slash the ex|>cndl t u res of t he Commerce department from $45, 000.000 In the current year to $26,000,000 In the next fiscal year, a reduction of $10,000, 000, or 42 per cent. Secretary Roper If the report Is approved; and Sec retary Roper Is successful In opernt log his department at such a saving. It Is believed he will proportionately far outdistance In economy promo tion any of the other departments. The secretary plans to consolidate many activities of the department and to abandon others. The figure of $2(5,000,000, which he proposes spending In the 1034 fiscal year, be ginning next July 1, Is not only 42 per cent under the 1033 figure, but It Is nearly gll.000,000 nnder the actual appropriations made for 1034 by the last congress. The appropria tion bills carry an expenditure of $3C,G0r>,405 for the Commerce de partment In 1034. This Is the first time In the his tory of the government, according to Secretary Roper, that an administra tion has suggested It Is not wise or safe to use money which congress Itself has appropriated, but he de clared that the administration In tended to carry out faithfully Its campaign pledges of economy. Mr. Roper plans to establish six bureaus to take over the work hereto fore done by ten. The six bureaus will he the transportation, patents, census, standards, fisheries nnd for eign and domestic commerce. The bureau of transportation will I embody a supervision of the govern | ment over all forms of transportation, lnnd, air nnd water. The Roper plan contemplates merging under one sub ordinate to become the new assistant secretary of commerce for transporta tion. supervision over the Interstate Commerce commission, and the activi ties of the United States shipping hoard; the Agriculture department's bureau of weather and public roads; the federal radio commission, the Com merce department's bureau of aero nautics. geodetic survey, lighthouses and navigation, steamboat Inspection; the War department's Inland water ways corporation; the naval observa tory, and the national advisory com mittee for aeronautics. THE ambitious scheme, conceived by President Roosevelt, to make the Tennessee river valley the scene of an Industrial, economical nnd social | experiment, has been In 141 before congress In i) brief message. Mr. Roosevelt's hoj>e Is to demonstrate In the Tennessee valle> that great eeonoinh changes for the better can be made by con serving and develop Ing natural resources. "Such use. If en ?Isloned In Its en tirety," said the Pres Sen. Norris Ident In his message, "transeends tnere power development; It enters the wide field of flood control, soil erosion, afforestation, elimination from agricul tural use of marginal lands, and dis tribution and diversification of Indus try. "In short, this power development of war days leads logically to national planning for a complete river water shed Involving many states and the future lives and welfare of millions. It touches and gives life to all forms of human concerns "I. therefore, suggest to the congress legislation to create a Tennessee val ley authority?a corporation clothed with the power of government but pos sensed of the flexibility and Initiative of a private enterprise. "It should be charged wltb the broadest duty of planning for the proper use. conservation anil develop ment of the natural resources of the Tennessee river drainage basin and lis adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the na tion. This authority should also be clothed with the necessary power to carry these plana Into effect ' Hie President's plan Includes the running of electric power Into every farm, to control crop production*, to build dam* and promote forestation projects In tbe Interest of relieving unemployment. It Is a far-reaching plan which will take years to work out, but If ? plan Is agreed upon and It appears successful even before It is fully tried out, the President ex pects to apply similar projects to oth er river valleys of the natipn. To carry out the President's scheme Senator Norrls of Nebraska Intro duced In the senate a bill for govern ment operation of tbe huge war-time power and nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, which to date has cost tbe American taxpayers some $150,000,000. In the house a bill similar to tbe Nor rls bill was Introduced by Represent ative McSwaln, Democrat, of South Carolina. SECRETARY of the Treasury Woodln has laid down the law to the New York clearing house, com posed of twenty of the biggest hanks In the city. He has told the clearing bouse I banks. In diplomatic I language, that they "1 must keep their word I and make good the de | posits of the Harrl man National Bank and Trust company, now In the hands of a federal conservator. The pressure brought by Woodln, It Is ex pected, will cost the clearing house banks Secretary Wood in In the vicinity of *6,000,000. The firm stand of the secretary was made known simultaneously with the arraignment in court of Joseph W. Harrlman, former chairman and presi dent of the bank bearing his name. Mr. Harrlman, 111 since his arrest, was brought Into court In a wheel chair. The indictment charges that he caused false entries to be made in the bank's books, covering the use of $1,713,225 of the depositors' money for specula tion in the bank's stock. Secretary Woodln's action Is based on a pledge given to the controller of the treasury at a time when the bank was In financial difficulties, that the clearing house would support the bank. C*EDERA1> legislation for a 30-hour " working week in industry was as sured when the administration placed Itself squarely behind the measure. The bill has already passed the sen ate, and It Is expected to be quickly approved by the bouse and signed by the President The bill, regarded as one of the most radical labor measures to win the ad ministration support, provides In Its present form that for an emergency period of two years no articles may be received In interstate shipment which have been manufactured or pro duced by labor working more than six hours In any day, or more: than five days In any week. The bill covers output of any "mine, quarry, mill, cannery, workshop, fac tory. or manufacturing establishment.'' but It exempts the producers of milk and other perishable foods, and news pa pers. Violators of the law would be pun ishable by a fine of not less than $200, or Imprisonment for not more than three months, or both. The bill would take effect thirty days after Its enact ment. A COMPLETE program for a huge transportation regulation agency under the Department of Commerce has been laid before President Roose velt by Secretary of Commerce Roper. Under the new setup the Interstate Commerce commission would remain in a separate unit retaining Its quasi Judicial functions, while its adminis trative activities would be transferred to a new agency. An assistant secretary of commerce would preside over The transports tlon division, with four separate units under him, each beaded by a director. The proposed four divisions In the Commerce department section would be divided as follows: I.and trans portation; waterways; aeronautics and communications. Under the first would be railroads, motor transportation and pipe lines; under the second, inland waterways transferred from the War department, the bureau of navigation and part of the functions of the shipping board; under the third aeronautics, with the weather bureau moved from the Ag riculture department; under the fourth, the radio commission and regulative functions of the Interstate Commerce commission applying to telephones and telegraph. A second division of the Commerce department, headed by another u* slstant secretary, would include the bureau of foreign a>0l domestic com merce, the census bureau and the bureau of fisheries. The bureau of mines w<yild be moved to the Interior department. A (JTION on the farm relief bill wn3 delayed by a controversy aroused over the Simpson price fixing plan ? which has been written inio the ad- . ministration bill. This developed at ] a time when the Roosevelt program ; for Increasing the farmers' income and . lifting the burden of mortgages was J bumping along on a rough road sprin kled with demands for currency e* panslon as a means of restoring agri culture. The mortgage section of the admin istration hill is almost certain to have the approval of the house. In anticipation of the passage of the bill. Henry M urgent ha u, chairman of the federal farm hoard* is getting his department fully prepared to speed the 1 actnal application of the relief. Some delays In putting into effect all the credit relief facilities planned by President Roosevelt and Mr. Mor genthau will he occasioned by reason of the fact that the consolidation or der under which tlie President Joined ! all farm credit activities doesn't be come effective for a period of about six weeks. But Mr. Morgentlinu has readied out into tne other agencies which soon will come under his head, and as soon as the credit bill becomes law he ex pects to bring aliout a prompt organi zation of the work of Issuing 4^4 per cent bonds to be exchanged for the present farm mortgages averaging higher than GVfc per cent President Roosevelt Is reported to be firmly of the opinion that the big gest help that can be given to the farmers at this time is a loosening of their credit. Once the farmers' debts are erased, debts contracted when land values were high and crop prices up. It may not be necessary, in the opin ion of many of the administration ad visers outside the group controlled by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, to resort to price fixing and allotment schemes, to help the farmer. A2-CENT postal rate within cities, retaining the 3-cent rate for ln terdistrict postage, Is recommended In a plan for tmlanclng the post office budget submitted to President Roose velt by Postmaster General Farley. It is Mr. Farley's hope that by In creased postal revenues and a program of economy, to balance the budget, which at the present rate Is running Into an annual deficit of S132.000.000. The postmaster general said he had received opinions that If the postal rate Is cut the volume of business will be so restored as to yield greatly In creased revenues, and he added that some advisers felt that a flat 2 cent letter postal rate over the country would bring in enough revenue to bal ance tbe postal budget. The' postmaster general also dls closed a study Is being made on whcth ' er the department shall continue the . heretofore somewhat farcical practice ( of giving examinations to first and second-class postmasters. THE Immense importance attached j to the Washington conference hy the British Is Indicated In the person nel of the party accompanying Premier iiiacLJonaia. :\n more important group of \ British officials has i ever gone abroad, and ft is evident that much l is expected from the J meeting between the i British prime minister and President Boose j velt. The chief delegate \ after MacDnnald him self is Sir Hobert I Vansittart, permanent ' Premier MacDonald undersecretary or me forelgD office. Sir Robert Is the per- j manent chief of the foreign office, no matter what foreign secretaries come j and go. and all the threads of Hrltlsh 1 diplomacy are In his hands. He I knows America well, his first wife j having been an American. The next member of the party Is Sir j Frederick Ixdth-ftoss, trpasnry expert, who has represented Orent Rritnin at all financial meetings for some years. The third meml.T Is A K Overton as sistant secretary of the Imard of trade, whose specialty Is tariffs and Inter national trade relations. PltKSIDKXT Itl HlSKVKl.TS Inrita tion to Japan to Join the trade and ; polilb-al conferences In Washington j has caused a complete change In the attitude of Japan toward 'America practically overnight. Friends of Amer lea express Jubilation, seeing the first ray of hope for the return of relations \ between the two nations to the friend- I ly state existing before the Mukden Incident on September 18. 1931. Japan not only la gladly accepting | the Invitation hut the question Is being made of the greatest Importance. ?. tttl. Westers Mewipepet UStos ? CHILDREN'S STORY ?By THORNTON W. BURGESS THE HOME GOING OF JOHNNY CHUCK JOHNNY CHUCK hud made up his mind to go hack to Ids old home In the fur corner of the old Orchard. Yes. sir, Johnny was no longer obsti nate. He didn't care what I'olly Chuck might say. Hunger had quite cured hliTT of nil obstinacy. He want ed to get back where the grass was cool and clean and sweet, and where he nqed hardly more than leave his doorstep to get plenty to eat. So Johnny Chuck had made up his mind to go back home. The one Irou ble was that he couldn't decide when to start. You see, It was a long, long way back home. At any rate it was a long way for Johnny Chuck, though you and I would have thought nothing of it. In case of sudden danger along the w-ay there was no place In' which to hide. There would be nothing for It but to run or light. Johnny dldnt feel that he could do either. He was stifT and lame and sore from his tight with It eddy Fox. So Johnny was in a bad tlx. He was hungry, very hungry, yet feared to go far enough from his house to get enough to eaL lie wanted to go hack to his home and I'olly Chuck, yet feared to make the Journey. Perhaps Sammy Jay guessed what was In his ndnd, for Sammy suddenly otfered some good advice. "If I were In your place," said Sammy, "I would start for home about noon." -Who said anything about going home?*' growled Johnny Chuck. "I did," chuckled Sammy as good naturedly as if Johnny Chuck hadn't growled at all. "Noon Is the best time for you to start." "It's too hot then," grumbled Johnny. "It's safer than any other time." re torted Snmyiy. "You know, or ought to know, that Reddy and Mrs. Fox and Old Man Coyote usually are resting then. Bowser the Hound Is sure to be napping. If I were thinking of making a Jonrney I certainly would start right about noon." "lljh!" grunted Johnny Chuck, and that was all Sammy could get out of him. Now Johnny knew that Sammy was quite right He knew that there Is no other lime of day or night when so few are out and about as during the very middle, the hottest part, of the day. The more he thought It over the better Sammy's Idea seemed. And so it came about that at noon of that very day Johnny Chuck started back for lite old home In the far corner of the Old Orchard. Now, though he didn't know It, Sammy Jay was watching to see If he would go and Sammy followed along behind, taking care not to show himself. Sammy's eyes twinkled as he watched Johnny limp along, stop^ ping every few steps to pant or to get Just a bit of clover. The fact Is, Sammy was keeping watch and had the least sign of danger appeared he would have warned Johnny Chuck In stuntly. ?tut no danger did appear, and slow | ly Johnny Chuck made his way toward i the far corner of the Old Orchard. As he drew near he began to wonder what Polly Chuck would say. Would she I* glad to see him back? A little dis lance away he sat up nnd watched the entrance to his home, lie wished Polly would come out. Perhaps if she did agid saw him she would speak first. Thai would make It easier. Somehow, now that he was almost there he hated to go the rest of the way. It was too much like giving In. Johnny's ob stlnncy was beginning to rise again. | And Just (lien Sammy Jay screamed. He screamed Just as lie does when he sees Ilcddy Fox creeping up on some one. Johnny forgot that he was stiff and lame and sore. He forgot every thing but that there Just before him was home and safety. He scrambled down his long hall and half way down lie met I'olly Chuck. "It's nbout time you came home," was all she said. As for Sammy Jay. he flew off to the Green Forest laughing fit to kill him self. ? 1933. Douglas Malloch.?WNU Service. SUGAR FOODS FOlt those of us wlJfe do not enjoy the nutty, delightful flavor of olive oil, there are the vegetable oils that are perfectly wholesome and much cheaper as to cost These oils may be used just as Ilie olive oil Is used in nil dressings. For a good French dressing use one half cupful of vege table oil, three tablespoonfuls of vine gnr, one half tenspoonful of salt and one eighth tenspoonful of pepper. Bent thoroughly and serve on any fresh salad. Green Pepper Jam. Put two cupfuls of peppers through the food chopper twice and save all the Juice. There should be two full cupfuls with Juice enough to cover the top of the cup; discard the rest of the Juice. Take six and one-half cup fuls of sugar, one and one-half cupfuls of apple vinegar and one bottle of pec tin. Bring flie sugar, vinegar and peppers to a hard boll, then set aside for 15 minutes and sllr occasionally. Brln^ again to a boil and boil for two minutes. Remove from the fire and stir in the pectin, skim and stir for Ave minutes to cool, then pour Into Jelly glasses and cover with paraffin. Let stand a week to set. This makes a nice sandwich spread on any kind of buttered bread. Mayonnaise. To one half tenspoonful of salt, one eighth tenspoonful of white pepper add one egg, beat well, add ihrce ta blespoonfuls of vinegar, stir until well mixed, then add one tenspoonful of sirup and two cupfuls of good vege table oil, a teaspoonful at a time ontll the mixture begins to tllcken' when the oil Is added; add a teaspoonful of boiling water and set away to chill. C Hit. Western Newspaper Union. Brazil Strengthens Ancient Amazon Fort "TPABATINGA, ancient, neglected fort on v * the upper Amazon river, If being strengthened as a precautionary war measure. It is close to l.etic)a, Colombian border town recently seized by Peruvians. The fort of Tnbntlngn dates back sever al centuries to the explorations of the ~ first Portuguese navigators of the Ama | zon, and Is one of tbe oldest fortifications P in the Western hemisphere. Shown also I are Colombian staff officers. About That Boy By DOUGLAS MALLOCH ABOUT that boy: I'm worried more Than I hare ever beea before. He's getting older, more a man, He's Just about where 1 began To make mistakes?of small amount When nine or ten, but now they count Yes, more and more he's coming to Do certain things I used to do. I'm worried more about that boy? The little things that now annoy His mother, just a word or sign. The same that used to bother mine. I've often wished that I had done A little different when a sou, But not imagined, even then, My son would do the same again. I'm stumped about that boy, because He's getting like his father was, Is not a bit more serious now Than?well, than I was, anyhow. The little tricks of ten or so I knew,of course, that he'd outgrow; lie's changing, that Is plain to sec? Confound it, getting more like me! ? H33. Douglas Mallocb.?WNU 6?rvlc?. You'll See This on New 3-Cent Stamp WASHINGTON'S headquarter* at Newbury, K Y, which will be depicted oo the new three-cent stamp, tr be Issued under the administration of Postmaster General Farley. The new stamp, which commemorates the 150tb anniversary of the declaration of peace, has been approved by President Roose velt It was (accented by Representative Flab of New York ' y Graphic Golf 5X5 ACVS? / ?CV'MS about AI /Sir IKON VA2? OT'AwCt-Ef ^ AO A^SlS C? 0 SvOTS. "? GOLF PRACTICE PRACTICE In golf should be m.ide as Interesting as possible tf one Is to benefit by It. Merely bitting the ball often becomes boresome Indeed, and in such a state little progress Is made. Bobby Jones overcomes this tendency of mere mechanical practice in iron play by varying the dlstnnces, trajectories and angles t< the green. He used the flag as the objective in such tune up sessions, for the Irons are employed fundamentally In play ing shots to the putting surface. Flay Ing too long from one spot tends to grow tiring and the shots after while more or less automatic. On tee shots Jones mines up the strokes by using a brassle or heavy iron at in tervals. While Jones generally con fines his practice shots to smoothing out some kink In the swing or to rem ' edy some other difficulty, MacDonsld Smith adopts an opposite nrocednre, tbat of practicing shots be Is playing welL Smith's idea, obviously, is to create a good habit Instead of core a bad one. So fleeting Is golf form, bow ever, that often playing and experi menting with a shot that is working well may In time give rise to compll cations For polishing np one's game Instead of trying to correct a definite fault a short round of golf hitting three or four balls with all the clubs in the bag la advised. e I'll Ml aradlcsu.?WKD karri oa. BONERS /end >v (, tvV LInBJ ml uacn j When you stroke a cat by drawing your hand along Its back It cocka Its tall up like a ruler, so as you can't get any further. BONERS are actual humorous tid-bits found in examination pa pers, essays, etc., by teachers. Everybody In Gandhi's army eats the same food and sleeps In the same bed. ? e ? The Romans reclined on one elbow and ate with the other. ? ? ? The skeleton Is the human body with all the meat cut off. It Is used to study the shapes of bones, etc. f ? ? A referee Is when folks get married and the neighbor's children make a lot of noise and get candy. ? ? ? An adenoid Is a growth at tbe end of the nose. ? ? ? Joan of Arc was burned to a steak, ft xsaa. n?n srodicats.?w.vu s<rvic?. New Sports Costume Ad Individually designed sweater costume from Kargers In New fork. The diagonally woven brown and gold homespun skirt has an unusual tri angular design In the center and the lacy loose weave gold colored blouse features a diagonal design scarf. The tiny puffed sleeves and the brown leather bow on the belt are features which accent the Individuality of tbia costume.
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