The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LV1X. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JULY 20, 1933. NO. 24.
[Sews Review of Current
Events the World Over
Johnson Hurrying Industrial Groups Into Federal Control;
President Forms an Executive Council; London
Economic Conference Nears Recess.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD |
SPURRED on by President Roose
velt?though the stimulus was
scarcely necessary?Gen. Hugh S.
Johnson, Industrial recovery adminls
iruiur, lei u De Known
| that he, intended to
I get the principal in
i dustrial groups under
p federal control as
I speedily as possible,
f He and the President
| desire that the indus
|| tries come in volun
| tarily, but if they do
| not. the general Is
P ready to hold arbi
trary hearings and
then fix the wage
rates and working
Wk T8k?
Hugh 8.
Johnson
hours for the recalcitrant trades.
These enforced regulations will apply
until the Industries present their own
codes.
If it Is necessary to adopt arbitrary
codes, these will be based on data
gathered by the administration's sta
tistical expert, Dr. Alexander Sachs,
who has already prepared a setup
codifying various leading Industries
according to a number of conditions.
They have been rated according to
wage scales existing In various years,
chiefly the boom year of 1029, and
charts have been prepared showing
how far cuts in working hours must
be made to restore a mass of employ
ment equal to predepresslon days.
With these data Doctor Sachs has
shown conclusions as to how much
each Industry ought to pay In mini
mum wages, how many employees It
ought to absorb from the army of
Idle, nnd how many hours those em
ployees ought to work every week.
Two Important codes received were
those for the lumber and steel Indus
tries. The former pegged wages so
low and working hours so long that
(leneral Johnson said: "They are
wholly unacceptable and will, In no
case, be approved." A public hearing
on this code was set for July 20. In
submitting the code. John D. Tennant,
representing the lumher men, declared
it would result in "a substantial In
crease" in the number of employees,
and that It would Increase pay rolls
by more than $10,000,000 in the month
cf August alone.
The most extraordinary thing about
the lumber code is that It would set
up "an emergency national commit
tee," to be appointed by the 27 asso
ciations applying for the code, which
would have the strongest of autocrat
ic power, to the point of exerting ab
solute control over the entire indus
try.
The cotton textile code was ap
proved by the President and went Into
effect.
poll the purpose of co ordlnating the
" many new functions and new bu
reaus created since March 4. the Presi
dent has created a super-cahinet, called *
the "executive council," similar to the
supreme war council of World war
days. Besides the President and his
cabinet, the members are: The direc
tor of the budget, Lewis W. Douglas;
the federal relief administrator. Ilarry
L. Hopkins: the chairman of the Re
construction Finance corporation, J.
H. Jones; the governor of the farm
credit administration, Henry Morgen
thau, Jr.; the chairman of the board
of the Home Owners' Form corpora
tion, William F. Stevenson; the ad
ministrator of the Industrial recovery
act. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson; the admin
istrator of agricultural adjustment,
George Peek; the chairman of the
board of the Tennessee valley authority,
Arthur E. Morgan; the federal rail
road co-ordlnator, Joseph B. Eastman,
and the director of the civilian con
servation corps. Robert Fechner.
Drank C. Walker, treasurer of the
National Democratic committee, was
appointed secretary of the council,
fairing the summer and perhaps long
er the regular Tuesday cabinet meet
ing Is to be superseded by a meeting
of the council.
CU RETART OF THE INTERIOR
ICKES. in his capacity as public
works administrator, and his assist
ants are mighty busy these days, for
government departments, states and
mnnlelpalltles are scrambling for
f ares of the $3,300,000,000 which Is
to be spent under the public works
Program of the administration. The
Proposed federal projects were given
Prst consideration, and a long list of
them was approved by Mr. fckes and
submitted to the President. Applica
tion from states and municipalities
came next, many of them having pre
viously been approved by the Recoil
structlon Finance corporation and
passed on to Sir. Ickes.
An additional $26,27G,400 of the
$400,000,000 allocated for public road
gifts to the states was approved when
the allotments for Ohio. Massachusetts,
and Utah received the final Indorse
ments of Secretary Ickes and Secre
tary of Agriculture Wallace. With the
$22,330,101 already assigned to New
York state, this action means a total
of $48,006,501 already donated as an
outright grant from the federal treas
ury for road building. Under the al
lotments Massachusetts gets $0,597,
100, Ohio $15,484,592, and Utah $4,
194,708.
ILLINOIS and Iowa, by their dele
? gates in state conventions, ratified
the repeal of the Eighteenth amend
ment, the votes being unanimous In
both cases. They were the tenth and
eleventh states to take this action to
wipe out prohibition.
Citizens of Oklahoma went to the
polls and enthusiastically voted for
the legalization of 3.2 btfer by a ma
jority of about 2 to 1. In Oklahoma
City the people made a rush for sixty
carloads of beer that were waiting In
the railroad yards for distribution, but
Gov. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray called out
the National Guard and kept the cars
closed until next day, after which Okla
homa, dry for 20 yearB, slaked Its
thirst.
INDICATIONS In London were that
the economic conference might con
tinue until the end of July and then
recess until September or October.
.me steering commit
tee favored this
course. It also decided
that one monetary
subcommlsslon should
discuss International
commercial indebted
ness (war debts ex
cluded). and that an
other should deal with
the questions of cen
tral banking and sil
Neville Ter- Kea?y all the
Chamhsrlaln WOrk 18 belDg d?Ee by
Chamberlain gubcommltteeg
striding the conference program was
a complete victory for the gold bloc
nations.
In addressing the house of commons
on the government's policy, Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex
chequer, said: "There is no doubt that
the avowed policies of this country
and the United States are closely par
allel to one another," whereupon the
house cheered enthusiastically. Mr.
Chamberlain continued :
"It Is the declared Intention of the
government to pursue by all means
In their power any measures which
they think will tend toward raising
price levels, which we believe to be
the first essential step toward recov
ery.
"I also agree that this country
should not depend wholly upon what
Is done In conjunction with other
countries, but thnt we should do
what we can to help ourselves. That
is what we have been doing and we
have met with a considerable meas
ure of success, sterling figures of com
modities having risen from the first
of the year no less than 8 per cent.
"We have really at last begun to
see signs that show unmistakably that
improvement Is not a fleeting one.
that it has a solid foundation and
may be expected to continue."
CHICAGOANS, especially those of
Italian birth or descent, were
eagerly awaiting the arrival at A Cen
tury of Progress of Gen. Italo Balbo
and his fleet ,of 24
Italian royal force
seaplanes. The air
armada was delayed
several days at Reyk
javik, Iceland, by un
favorable weather con
ditions, and then, de
spite continuing calm
that made it difficult
to get the huge planes
In the air, it took off
for Cartwright, Labra
dor, this being the
i /r smi
Gen. Balbo
fourth and probably most perilous
stage of the 7.100 mile flight to Chi
cago. The route thence as laid out
In advance was, to Shedlac. New
Brunswick. 800 miles; Montreal. Que
bec. 870 miles, and Chicago. 1,000
miles.
Preparations were made by the ex
position officials in Chicago and the
city authorities to give the Italian fly
ers a great reception and to entertain
them lavishly during their stay.
O ACKETEERING Is to he wiped out
if the federal government can do
It and Its agencies throughout the
country are uniting In a drive to bring
about this end. Such was the state
ment made by Senator Copeland of
New York, chairman of the senate
committee on crime, after he had called
on President Roosevelt and Attorney
General Cummings. The first phase
of the campaign, he added, will be re
search and the mapping of lines of co
operation. For the present the work
centers in three leading cities. New
York. Chicago and Detroit, where It Is
directed, respectively, by Senators
Copeland. Murphy of Iowa and Van
denberg of Michigan.
Manufacture and transportation of
guns will be one of the first tasks
tackled by the committee, it was in
dicated. Copeland urged a program
which would require all manufactur
ers of guns to he licensed, all guns
numbered, all dealers licensed, and all
purchasers examined for permits.
THAT Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Is
still one of the country's most
popular figures Is made evident by the
general Interest taken in the route
mapping flight he Ib
making over the
northern air course to
Europe. Mrs. Lind
bergh, her husband's
rival In popularity. Is
with him not as a pas
senger but as radio
J operator and assistant
V pilot of their big
I monoplane. Their
I plans were to fly
? . t . . across Labrador,
Col. Lindbergh Greenland and Ice.
land, and perhaps on to Denmark.
They had no fixed route or stopping
places and did not know when they
would return.
The Lindberghs' trip started from
New YOrk and the first stop was near
Rockland. Me., where they were forced
doj-n by fog. When the air cleared
they went on to Halifax, and after an
overnight stop, proceeded northward
on the way to Greenland, stopping en
route at St. Johns, New Brunswick.
The plane was provided with new pon
toons and Instruments and the motor
had been speeded up considerably.
FINDING of Jimmy Mattern, Amer
ican aviator, alive but Injured In
Siberia, was cause for rejoicing. For
sixteen days after he crashed In the
northern wilds he was barely able to
keep alive, and then he was picked
up by Eskimos and taken to the village
of Anadyr. The Soviet government
was active In the efforts to rescue the
flyer, and reports from Khabarovsk
said a Russian aviator expected to
take him from Anadyr to Nome.
SECRETARY SWANSON Is deter
mined to build the navy up to
treaty limits, and his department has
been allotted $238,000,000 of the pub
lic works money. The navy's con
struction program. It Is estimated, will
create more than 2,430,000 "man
weeks" of work, and will result In the
modernization of the fleet. Bids on
seventeen of the authorized vessels
will be opened in a few days. The re
maining fifteen vessels will be con
structed speedily In government navy
yards.
LEADERS of the Republican party,
determined that the G. O. P. shall
not die or even sleep, are actively
planning for the elections of 1934 and
profess the belief that
they can regain much
of the ground lost In
1032. Under the per
sona I direction of
Everett Sanders,
chairman of the na
tional committee, a
series of regional
meetings is being
held, the latest being
In Chicago where na
tional committeemen
and a few others
from eight central
Everett
Sanders
siaies gmnereu. iiirir priH-evumga
were not made public, but it was
learned that they are banking on the
"mistakes" made by the Democratic
administration and are expecting more
of them to be made In the future. La
ter there will be similar meetings In
western cities.
Mr. Sanders said In Chicago that
three conferences In the East had giv
en assurance of better times ahead
for the party, provided enough hard
work was done. He satd the attitude
of national h .idquarters Is one of
locl.lng forward and not backward.
ONE THOUSAND veterans of the
Rainbow division celebrated the
fifteenth anniversary of the battle of
Cbampagne-sur-Mer with a three-days
reunion In Chicago Including a fete
at A Century of Progress exposition.
In the list of those who addressed
the former soldiers were MaJ. Gen.
Douglas McArrtiur, chief of staff of
the United States army; Gen. Charles
P. Suinmerall. former chief of staff;
MaJ. Gen. George E. [.each, former
mayor of Minneapolis; Col. William
P. Screws of Alabama; MaJ Gen.
Matthew A. Tlnley of Iowa, and CoL
William J. Donovan of New York.
e. ;lil. WMtara Kswsp&psi Unlow
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
JERRY LOOKS FOR A
PLACE TO BUILD
OF COUKSK Jerrj Muskrot was
Joking when lie asked peter Rab
bit If he had come over to the Smil
ing Pool to help him build a house. He
knew that Peter couldn't help If he
wanted to. and he wouldn't wont to 'f
he could. There Is no getting away
from the fact that when real work la
concerned Peter Itnhhlt Is lazy. All
his neighbors know this.
"Are yon really going to build a new
house?" asked Peter, hla eyes wide
with curiosity and Interest.
"Of course," replied Jerry. "How
"Use Your Thinker if You've Got
One." Replied Jerry.
do you suppose 1 would get along next
winter without a house?*'
"1 didn't know but you would use
your castle in the bank," replied peter.
"1 could, but I don't want to," re
plied Jerry. "In the first place It Is in
the bank of the Laughing Ilrook, and
that isn't where I want to be. 1 want
to be down here In the Smiling PooL
In the second place I like a good big
comfortable house like the one that
was swept away by the flood last
spring. So I mean to have another
and better one for this coming winter."
Of course Peter was all Interest at
once. "Where are you going to build
It?" lie asked.
"1 don't know. Where would you
tuiihi It If you were In my place?"
asked Jerry.
"Why don't you build It right where
the old one was?" Inquired Peter.
"Use your thinker If you've got one,"
replied Jerry. "What happened to my
old house?"
Peter remembered the spring flood
and how the water had risen until
It ran so swiftly that It had swept
Jerry's house away In pieces, leaving
Jerry homeless. It was plain that
Jerry had learned a lesson. Peter un
derstood that the reason he wasn't
building In the same place was that he
didn't Intend to have the same thing
happen ngaln If he could help It. That
was Just plain sense, something Jerry
has a lot more of than has Peter.
"1 won't build at all If I can't find
any but the old places," said Jerry.
"Perhaps there won't be any flood
next year," said Peter hopefully.
"And perhaps there will," retorted
Jerry. "Perhaps Is a mighty uncer
tain word and I don't want any per
hnpses In my new house. Now If you
will excuse me I'll go look for a place
to build."
Jerry dived from the Big Rock Into
the Smiling Pool and Peter could see
his little black head In the moonlight
as he swam for the opposite shore.
There he disappeared among the Black
Shadows, hut now and then a faint
splash told Peter that he was still
there and very busy. All around that
side of the Smiling Pool he traveled,
now running In and out among the
rushes where the water \\yis very shal
low, now swimming where It was too
deep for wading. And all the time his
shrewd little eyes were taking note of
everything which might be of ad
vantage for the new house he Intended
to build.
?. 1933. byT. W. Burgess. ?WNU Servle*.
To Battle Foreit Fire*
Chains of water holes have been es
Inbllshed along the main highways of
British Columbia's northern frontier
from which water can he pumped with
portable gasoline pumps to light forest
llres.
IQraphicGolf
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Puvy 1
CHIP \
SHOT
OPP
RIGHT
FOOT.
L to 2J
WATCH POSITION OF BALL
IN CHIP SHOT
MANY errors In chip shot play
come from the wrong position of
the ball at address, flayed o(T the
right foot the shot appears much eas
ler t$ play and gauge. It Is a simpler
matter to Judge the exact place where
the ball shnild be hit. Furthermore
the ball con be kept low and better
controlled In Its (light. Played further
forward there Is danger of topping or
as often happens slashing Into the
turf underneath the ball. Accuracy
Is needed In the chip and for this rea
son a relaxed stance Is a distinct aid
with the hands and wrists doing a ma
jor share of the stroke. The hands
move back only slightly In the back
swing, the bend of the wrists affording
the force of the stroke. Bobby Jones
above stands with feet close together
in this shot, a factor which aids his re
laxation and enables the arms to swing
freely with no sign of a body check,
as Bobby swings back slow and keeps
the head down. Many golfers prefer
the strnighter faced Irons for this shot.
? 1931. Bell Syndicate ?WNU Service.
SWEETENING
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
WK NKK1) a recipe for llrlng.
We need nnmher cookbook giving
The rnlea successfully to make
A life as well as mix a cake.
We have our rules for dough and
batter
But living Is another matter.
Vet there Is not another thing
That needs so much of sweetening.
Ah, yes, with living, as with cooking.
We need a little forward looking.
Let's study living for awhile
And with our labor mix a smile.
When life Is rather tasteless. It'll
Be wise lo sweeten It a little.
There's really not another thing
Life needs as mucb as sweetening
We have our customs culinary,
Vet more than that Is necessary.
We need another recipe:
To sweeten life with sympathy,
To comfort hearts, to brighten faces,
And sweeten home and other places.
In life, like any other thing
1'ut In a little sweetening.
& 1332. Doug!** Mil loch.?W.VU Serrle*.
Training for Flying at Their Own Expense
SO ENTHUSIASTIC are these mem
bers of the naval and marine air
units that they refuse to let a little
thing like a shortage of government
cash deprive them of their training.
They are paying their own expense at
the naval air station In Washing
ton, D. C.
GOOD SALADS
SALADS are alwnjrs Id order, and
one never tires of new combina
tions and different ways of serving
them.
With the tender new carrots on the
market a most tasty salad may he
made with fresh grated carrots, a lit
tle finely minced onion and celery,
stirred into a lemon gelatin aDd al
lowed to mold. Serve on lettuce wffh
a snappy mayonnaise dressing.
Chicken salad the way Hawalians
serve it Is made as usual with chick
en and celery with the addition of
as much finely-cut pineapple as chick
en. Garnish with asparagus tips mar
inated in french dressing.
Collards These are greens used
much In the South and may be grown
In any climate. The flavor Is like
very mild cabbage and there la a
slightly bitter taste. Cooked as spin
ach or served with and cooked with
salt pork, they make a very palatable
and nourishing dish.
?. 1533. Western Newspaper Union.
She Gets Her Alimony by the Ton
RATHKK than go to Jail, Bert Taylor Anderson, farmer near Los Angeles,
Is paying alimony In bay by tbe ton. This substitute for currency was
approved by the court when Anderson aald be could not pay tbe $50 a week
due his divorced wife. Rose Ida Anderson. Tbe lady Is here seen wltb tbe
first truck load of bay she accepted.
KONERS
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Before the Australian ballot the
candidates were all different sizes,
shapes and colors.
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays. ?tc, by teachers.
In the West the farming Is done
mostly by Irritating the land.
? ? ?
If the air contains more than 100
per cent carbolic acid. It Is very dan
gerons to health.
? ? ?
Venizelos are the members of the
Greek cabinet who resigned.
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A skeleton Is a man or person with
out meat or skin.
ft int. Bell tradlc*U^WKU ferric*.
Dressed for Tea
m
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This large bat or white with a scar
let velvet crown matches the simple
velvet scarf held in place with the
new Lanvln bar pin. The swagger
coat of all silk corduroy velvet Is also
white.