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The Alamance gleaner VOL. LVIX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY MAY 18, 1933. NO. 15. 1 '?? ? ii News Review of Current Events the World Over International Tariff Truce Seems Assured ? Progress Toward War Debt Settlement?Senate Passes Bill for Control of Securities. r ' By EDWARD W. PICKARD /""\NE of the busiest men In the world these days Is Norman U. Davis, American ambassador-at-large In Eu rope, and It would appear that he Is Iaoing ins miiiiuarious Jobs very well. It was up to blm to persuade the Briysh govern ment to accept the\ proposal of President Roosevelt that there be an International tariff truce pending the outcome of the world economic con ference In London. H n vli This he accomP,1>hcd' according to an an nouncement by Prime Minister Mac Donald in the house of commons, al though Great iffltain made important reservations providing that the tnnde pacts now being negotiated by Britain should not be affected. The text of the agreement between Davis and Mac Donald was cabled to Washington for the final approval of the American government, which was promptly given. France, Italy and Belgium have ac cepted the tariff truce, the two former stipulating that it be based on the present dollar valuation and that a superduty can be imposed if the dollar depreciates further. Favorable re sponses were expected In Washington from Japan, Germany, Holland and : China. PRIME MINISTER MAC DONALD in his speech to parliament also took up the subjects of war debts and world disarmament, throwing considerable light on the negotiations between his government and President Roosevelt. He declared that the world economic conference cannot be fully successful nnless the war debt difficulties have been removed before it comes to an end. He said that on this "there Is complete union of opinion." The pre mier asked parliament to luish up dis cussion of this question and not ask embarrassing questions concerning his negotiations with the United States. He said that if the world disarma ment conference was to come to any thing like a satisfactory conclusion, the United States would have to take part In a consultative pact, "the ef fect of which would be to increase the security of European nations and the safety of threatened nations against war." The United States, he said, had so agreed and an announcement would soon bo made in Washington to that effect. President Roosevelt presumably agrees with MacDonald concerning the necessity of settling the war debts. Ho sent to congress a message asking 'that he be given authority to deaf with the other nations In settling the debt Issue, at least temporarily. Secretary of State Hull admitted that the debt matter would be taken up concurrent ly with the issues before the economic conference, but both he and MacDon ald insisted It would not form part of the conference discussion. MacDonald said the June 15 due date on debts was "an awkward hurdle" and asked ' parliament not to make It harder to Surmount by premature debate. In his message to congress President Roosevelt also asked for a grant of blanket power to negotiate tariff re visions so he can carry out his pro gram for stimulating world trade by breaking down high tariff barriers. TURNING back to the matter of worlik disarmament, we again find ? Norman Davis active. He had a long talk In Ixmdon with Dr. Alfred Rosen berg. who is Chancellor Hitler's chief adviser in foreign affairs, and is said to have told him flatly that the United States Is utterly epposed to any In crease in armaments by anyone, and that America regards Germany's pres ent policy of demanding a larger army as an obstacle to the success of the disarmament conference. He let the German know that the United States government thinks Germany is tend ing to become a disturber of European peace. Rosenberg in return. It Is said, dis claimed any intention on Germany's part to disturb peace, but reiterated Germany's claim to equality of arma ments. preferably to be obtained by disarmament of other nations to the present German level than by Ger many's rearming to their level. '?pHE Wheeler resolution, urging *? American delegates to the world economic conference to work for an agreement to remonetlie stiver at 16 to 1 with (old, was approved by the senate. The resolution merely calls on the delegates to "work unceasingly for an International agreement to re monetize sllvpr on a basis of a definite fixed ratio of not to exceed sixteen fine ounces of sliver to one fine ounce of gold." THE International wheat conference opened In Geneva and the Ameri can delegation was on hand, its mem bers Including Henry Morgenthau, Sr.; George C. Haas, member of the federal farm board, and Frederick E. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune. THE Simpson price-fixing amend ment to the farm bill was rejected by the house by a decisive vote?2S3 to 109?because Chairman Jones of the agriculture committee declared the President was opposed to It and Ma jority Leader Byrns urged the house to stand behind the administration. The senate agreed to the report on the measure by the conference com mittee after vain protest by advscates of the price fixing amendment It also yielded to the house by agreeing to broaden the power of the secretary of agriculture to Initiate and approve agreements for marketing farm prod ucts, without regard to the anti-trust laws, and to license the handlers of agricultural commodities. Under the bill as finally passed the secretary may Include under these provisions not only the seven basic commodities em braced by the benefit and production control portions of the bill but all ag ricultural products processed and mar keted In this country. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT contin ued his economic .conversations with foreign statesmen, and the most colorful of his visitors was T. V. ooong, me youtnrui appearing minister of finance of China, who was presented by Min ister Alfred Sze. Doctor Soong natur ally- was especially Interested in what stand the President might take in the Sino-Japanese quar rel, and he stated in T. V. 800no deta" 1116 P?8ltl0D of China. No informa tion was given out indicating Mr. Roosevelt's intentions in the matter, but press dispatches from Washington were received in Peiping quoting Soong as saying he had been assured of American intervention In China if Japanese troops captured Peiping. These dispatches probably were mis leading if not entirely false. Viscount Klkujiro Ishli is on his way from Japan to Washington, and when he meets the President he, too, will be concerned mainly with lhe Ameri can attitude toward the Far East em broglio. He is prepared to defend the Japanese conquest of Manchuria and will urge American recognition of the puppet state of Mancbukuo. One of his important tasks will be to learn how far the idea of a consultative pact to Implement the Kellogg-Brland anti-war treaty has developed. As was said above, Mr. MacDonald told parliament that the Unitejl States had agreed to take part in such a pact. Others who consulted with Mr. Roosevelt were Dr. HJalmar Scbacbt, president of the Reichsbank, who brought up the questions of German equality at arms and boundary re visions; and Albert J. Panl, finance minister of Mexico. GOING ahead with the President's program for federal regulating of most tilings, the senate passed the ad ministration bill for tbe control of se curities sold in interstate commerce. Differences between the senate meas ure and that already ppt through the house were mostly slight and easily compromised. The former, however, contained an amendment offered by Senator Hiram Johnson of California setting up federal machinery to aid holders of foretgn bonds that are In default. Under the bill, the federal trade commission will become the governing body of the securities trade. Persons or corporations about to sell securi ties In Interstate commerce and agents of foreign governments about to sell foreign securities must register each issue with the commission, together with detailed Information concerning the Issue. WAR against Bolivia In tbe Gran Chaco dispute was formally de clared by President Eusebio Ayala of Paraguay, the pence negotiations con ducted by neutral South American na tions having failed. The warfare hus been going on unofficially since June, 1932. Neither nation shows any signs of yielding. The Paraguayans hailed their President's netion with joy, and the Bolivians said they were ready to fight. SUMNER WE1.1.ES, the capable new American ambassador to Cuba, was received at the dock In Havana by a few officials and about 100 other persons who were per mitted to pass through the strong guards es tablished by the gov ernment to prevent a demonstration. Along the sea wall drive on his way to his hotel he was cheered by thousands who hope he can help In restor ing prosperity and o. _ ... .. pence n the Island Sumner Welles .... . . republic. In a state ment handed to local newspaper men the ambassador referred to the his toric bonds between the Cnlted States and Cuba. "I will give my most earnest con sideration to the fundamental problem of regenerating the healthy flow of trade between us," he said. "I hold the sincere conviction that It Is to the prime Interest of Cuba, as well ns to the Interest of the citizens of the United States, that there be con sidered at an appropriate moment the bases for an agreement which will stimulate the advantageous Inter change of commodities -to an equal extent between both countries." Concerning the Cuban political sit uation, Mr. Welles said: "The government of the Cnlted States reiterates the (Ellhu) Root in terpretation given to the Piatt amend ment In 1001; that Is. that the Piatt amendment Is not synonymous with Intermeddling In the domestic affairs of Cuba." REPORTS from Washington that President Roosevelt planned to provide emergency relief to avert a food shortage In cities were Ignored by the National Farmers' Holiday as sociation at Des Moines, and an ap peal was Issued by It to every planter and cattleman In the country to Join In the farm strike. Milo Reno, president of the associa tion, said that when the house of rep resentatives killed the Simpson amend ment to the farm relief bill, which would have guaranteed production costs, all hopes of cancelling the strike were shattered. The other four points of the associ ation's demands are: Settlement of mortgages on a low-interest, long-term basis, lower property taxes, free sliver and payment of the soldier bonus. Meeting In Montevideo, Minn., mem bers of the Minnesota Farm Holiday association voted to Join in the strike. They also demanded that the Presi dent remove Secretary of Agriculture Wallace from office because he op posed the Simpson amendment. The 4,000 delegates decided they would not pay Interest, taxes or other debts until ,the dollar became an "honest measure of value:" HARVARD adds Itself to the list of universities with young presi dents, the corporation having selected James Bryant Conant, forty years oiu, 10 succeed a. Lawrence Lowell. He Is Sheldon Emery professor of organic , chemistry in the uni versity and Is widely known among scien tists for ills research work In special fields. Born nt Dorchester. Mass., March 2G, 1893. the son of James Scott Conant and Jen nett Bryant Conant, he entered Harvard Or. J. B. Conant college in 1910, after preparing at the | Koxbury I.atln school. Completing his college work In 1913, after three rears In which he attained high lion- | ors, Conant was graduated with the | degree of A. B. His degree of Ph. D. was conferred In 1916 and the next year he received an appointment as Instructor at Harvard. After serving during the war with ; the bureaus of chemistry and mines. I he returned to Harvard In 1919 as as sistant professor of chemistry. Ia ! 1925 he became nn associate profes- , sor and two years later a full profes sor. His present |>osltion of Sheldon Emery professor dates back from the j year 1929. SENATOR GI.ASS produced a new | banking reform bill that was ex peeted to have the backing of the ad ministration. It was approved by the senate banking subcommittee after that body had made an Important change which would require private bankers to abandon either their busi ness In deposits or In securities. The bill Is designed to curb the use of fed era I reserve credit In speculation and to Insure deposits In federsl reserve member banks through a 32/00.000.000 corporation. ? tin wastava Haasaaaw Utloa. CHILDREN'S STORY ?By THORNTON W. BURGESS PETER HAS TO LAUGH AT HIMSELF IF EVKU In nil his life Peter Itahblt wns sure of a thing he was sure that that dark gray form he hail seen vanish under an old log not far olT was a Mole. It wasn't hig enough tor Miner himself hut It might he one of his children, and I'eter was certain, ah solutely certain It was. That is why he had so flatly and im|iolifelj contra dieted Happy Jack Squirrel when the latter had said that It was Short-Tail the Shrew. Not even when a sharp squeaky voice from under the log asked what Happy Jack, and Striped cfilpmunk were laughing at, and Happy Jack replied that they were laughing at I'eter's long-time mistake, did Peter believe he was wrong. "They are laughing because I said that you are a member of Miner the Mole's family,* cried Peter. "Come out and show yourself nnd then we'll laugh at them." At that Happy Jack nnd Striped Chipmunk laughed harder than ever and from under the old log came sounds which were suspiciously like high squeaky laughter. "Yes, do come out Just for fun and see who will do the laughing." "Is It perfectly safe out there?' asked the sharp squeaky voice. "If It wasn't do you suppose 1 would be sitting out here in the open?" de manded Striped Chipmunk. "It is pretty bright out there. You know I don't like the sun. I don't For a Long Minute Peter Stared. ll!;e It at all." complained the sharp squeaky voice. "There Isn't enough sun to hurt you." retorted llnppy Jack. "You can keep In the shade. Come out ntid meet Peter Hnhlrtf." "I don't need to meet Peter Itahlilt," squeaked the sharp voice under the log. "I know all I need to know about him. I've seen him so often that I had Just as soon not see him again for a while." "Ilult!" exclaimed Peter. "I don't rare anything about meeting you You're .nothing hut a .Mole anyway." "I'm a Mole, am I?" squeaked the sharp voice angrily. "I'm a .Mole, am I? I'll have you to know I'm noth Ing of the kind. Miner's family may he all right but I'm thankful to say that I am not even a connection. It's time. Peter Itahhir, flint you knew ihe difference between a Mole (wnd a Shrew. I would have you to know thai there Is no Mole about me!" With this out darted the dark gray form Peter had seen vanish under ftie log. It darted out right In front of Peter and chaffered angrily. Abruptly Peter sat up and bis mouth dropped open so that he iiniked absolutely fool teh. It was true that tide wnsn't a Mole. Now that he bad a good look he could see that, while the shape was somewhat like that of Miner the Mole, and the fur was very much like that of Miner, the head was different and there was a very great difference In the front feet. Plainly this was a stranger to Peter, and yet he knew that he had seen Short-Tail often. That Is. he had hnd many just such glimpses as when Short-Tafl had dart ed under the old log. The truth Is he never had looked sharply enough to see that It wasn't a member of the Mole family. For a long minute Peter stared. Then he did a wise thing; he Joined In the laughter of Happy Jack Squir rel and Striped Chipmunk. "I have to laugh at myself," he confessed. "The Joke Is very much on me. I thought I knew everybody around here, but I find I didn't." Then he stopped laughing and turn ing to Short-Tall the Shrew, he said very politely: "I hope you will ex cuse me. Neighbor Shrew, and I hope In the future I may become really ac qua In ted with you." ? 1933 bjr T. W. Burgcm. ? WNU Service. Graphic Golf] . ? 1 n? ??> D f cmck evans keeps clu3wead at r'swt an?-es to swogtt lensth op intended use. o a KEEP CLUBHEAD AT RIGHT ANGLES TO LINE CIIICK KVANS |m?.vs particular at tention to the position of tiie club head as if is taken back from the ball on the upswing. With his left hand muring the club hack be keep9 it in the same position it was in addressing t lie ball for a distance of three Indies. i;vuri3 does this painstaking ly; his purpose being to keep the club fuce at right angles to the imaginary line to the hole for a distance of five or six inches; starting two or three Inches back of the hall and continu ing on for a few inches ahead of It. Tills insures him a true swing in h direct path for the pin. ? 1931. Hell Syndicate.? WNU Barvlca. VEGETABLES AS TIIKItE are so many people nowadays who eat little or no meat. one may find what Is called the "vegetable plate" In most restaurants which serve three to live different kinds, well seasoned and cooked and this supplies a good main dish. More and more vegetables Is what onr bodies need to give them the right kind of roughage, as well as the vi tamins and minerals so Important to health. Creamed Celery. Take the coarser stalks which are not perfect enough to serve au nat ural. cook In a very little water and serve with butter sauce, or with a rich, white sauce, adding grated cheese for variety. A few of the white ten der leaves may be served scattered over the dish for garnish If desired. Carrots in Parsley Butter. Take eight or ten carrots, wash and scrape, cut Into dice or Into slices. Cook In a small quantity of boiling water lightly salted, until tender. Melt one-fourth of a cupful of butter, add one to two tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice and one tablespoonful of finely minced parsley. Pour over the carrots and serve hot. Dandelion Greens. Wash greens, cut fine with scissors. Place' four tablespoonfuls of bacon fat In a frying pan. add one-fourth cupful of mild vinegar and a tea spoonful of salt Cover after drop ping In the drained greens, when wilt ed serve at once. Carrots and Apples. Take six carrots and six apples (the tart kind), cut carrots (Dto shoe strings and core the unpeeled applet; cot Into one foortb-loch slices. Place a layer of apples In a hot frying pan with two tahlespoonfnls of sweet fat, cover with the carrots, season with a tablespoonful of sugar, salt and cayenne to taste. Cook, turning when browned to tbe other side. Serve on a platter with a layer of each, so that the layer* may be lifted together. A tm w?? wnmer DUw J Forestry Camp Set Up in Virginia i . <i i i <tM . m< ii VIKW of part of the reforestation camp at Luray, Va , and some of Its 2W members of the great forestry army that has taken In many thousands of men who wera without employment nnttl I'resident Roosevelt's plan was put into operation throughout the country. Prehistoric Hopi Indian Tower Reconstructed * A RANGE of Tlslon extending for ? distance of nearly 100 miles over the Grand canyon and 1'aloted desert to the Navajo and llnpl country It to be had from this Indian watchtower. a recreation of the prehistoric Indian tow ers, at Desert View I'olnt, 28 miles east or El Tovar, Aria. The tower Is built of native stones collected from the surrounding country, many of them from In dian ruins found along the rim of the Grand canyon. I DO NOT KNOW | By DOUGLAS MALLOCH I DO not know 1 envy so the wisdom of the wise Who have by heart the rules of art, compare, and criticise. Some things, no doubt, are wrong about, a ballad or a rose. But ] am glad the faults they had I'm not the one who knows. I'm not so sure that things endure be cause of perfect line Or perfect tone?that these alone have helped this heart of mine. Perhaps the tilings a shepherd sings are faulty songs at best. And yet some word of his has stirred an answer In my breast. I'm not the one, bis singing done, to say If poor or well lie sang his lay this summer's day?be cause I cannot tell. I know a note brought to my throat a sigh, mist to my eyes? I do not know I envy so the wisdom of the wise. r> 1933 Dour la* Malloch ? WN*U 8?rvtc?. KONERS I 1 I* ' I Isolation Is putting cold packs around n person. BONERS are actual humorous tid-bits found in examination pa pers, essays, etc., by teachers. Alexander's ambition was to con quer all the world, or as much as pos sible. and to make a great umpire. ? ? ? What happened to Athelstane and why was he taken out of the story (Ivnnhoe) at this time? lie was knocked down by the tem plar In a light and was taken out of the story because he was dead. ? ? ? Quarantine Is a promise of money refunded if not satisfactory. ? ? ? Vou like things you can eat Ion love things you can't eat. 1 love my little dog. ? ? ? The knflrs of Africa are a very sav age race. In time of war they beat their tum-tums and can be heard for ninny miles around. ? ? ? The social ladder of the Egyptl&ni was used in building pyramids. e Bell Syndlcmt*.?WNU Serrk*. For the Small Boy I?1111 I ?MI1 Iked This manly little suit Is trimmed with rows of stitching on the neck and sleeves. The stitching Is done with a very heavy six-cord thread so that it will stand out well.
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