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? 5 ?" ? , ? 1 The Alamance gleaner VOL. LVIX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 31, 1933. ' NO. 30. News Review of Current Events the World Over Johnson Bringing Basic Industries Into Line Under Codes; Wants Banks to Relax Credits; Caffery to Succeed Welles in Cuba. By EDWARD W. PICKARD fODES for the oil, steel and lum ber industries, formulated in Wash ington after hot discussions and with great travail, were agreed to by the ?onnocontntiroQ nf fho Htr/ry Ford Industries and signed by President Roose velt, who thereupon retired to his summer home at Hyde Park. N. Y? to complete his interrupted vacation. But General Johnson, indefatigable N R A chief, had to continue the battling, for there remained of the so called basic indus n ntrtmnhilps tft hp brought under the wings of the blue eagle. Despite the sometimes angry debates over main points of divergence, especially the open shop question. Johnson was certain fhe automobile code would be completed within a few days. Donald Rlchberg. NRA general counsel, asked that the open shop clause be eliminated because It left doubt as to whether the industry ac cepted the collective bargaining pro vision. The motor car manufacturers seemed disposed to agree to this with out surrendering the policy. Every one was anxious to learn what stand Henry Ford would take, but he maintained deep silence. Mr. Ford is the only large automobile man ufacturer who is not a member of the National Automobile Chamber of Com merce. Hitherto he has insisted on his right to bargain with his workers without the intervention of unions. That he may alter this policy, volun tarily or otherwise, was indicated by dispatches from Edgewater, N. J., which said the employees of the Ford assembling plant there were organiz ing under the auspices of the Amer ican Federation of Labor. In the past Mr. Ford has maintained the open shop by meeting or exceeding the de mands of organized labor In pay and working conditions. It was thought possible he would adopt a similar course in the matter of the blue eagle code. Coal operators, according to General Johnson, were all displaying a co-op erative spirit that Insured an early agreement for the bituminous industry, and the representatives of the miners appeared willing to accept com promises on the question in debate. DY LABOR day the oil code will go into effect, and the industry gener ally will support It although it does not completely satisfy the trade. To a very limited extent it provides for price fixing for gasoline. Standard Oil of Indiana did not wait for the effec tive date of the code, but put all its refineries on code schedules of hours and wages. The part-time system was abandoned, resulting In a 13 per cent increase in the total wage payment and a corresponding increase in the purchasing power of the refinery em ployees as a group. Base rates of pay in the various re fineries were established as prescribed by the code as follows: Whiting. Ind.. 52 cents an hour; Wood River, ill.. 52 cents; Sugar Creek, Mo., 48 cents; Neodosha, Kan., 48 cents; Casper. ^yo? 50 cents. These rates are for common labor. Proportionate adjust ments were made in rates for skilled labor. J^BFAIL dealers who gathered In Johnson's office for a hearing on their code were warned by the admin istrator that the government would Dfit '-?'tiiiienance un 'ftisonable price in creases and were ||rged to resist such "sts from jobbers *ho s"I'ply them with j~*'r oods. He said t, p national Industrial recovery act wou]d "Tease prices to ""W costs lm ^ compliance ; the trade char 7'" J'15* because ' this "there is no reason to -f. , Mrs. Mary H. Rumsey ?i if Ip?>/ ?> ajr licj Ullll l riisui*? y?'J do this you Just kill the goose ''uit lays the golden egg. The house hint we are trying to build will col hse like a house of cards.'* la enforcing compliance with the eagle provisions. Johnson assert that there would be no violence, no hunting and no boycotting But, ** said. the administration would ??*e to uncover -cheaters behind the Je eagle and then "we ore going to move in and take the bine eagle right off their windows." Human nature being what it is, there naturally are lots of complaints of "chiseling" by persons and concerns that have received the blue eagle. These come most numerously to Mrs. Mary U. Rumsey, head of the commit tee that is supposed to protect the con sumer?though Professor Ogburn says it isn't doing it?and to President Wil liam Green of the American Federa tion of Labor. Both of them have or ganized systems for watching and catching the code evaders. Mr. Green has instructed all union men to keep an eye on things throughout the coun try and to report to him any suspected violation of codes; he then reports to I General Johnson. In this way a clos er scrutiny of code chiselers than j the government could institute is made possible. SOME time ago Administrator John son hinted that the banks were not j doing their part in the recovery pro gram. and he has now persuaded them I to relax credit extension conditions i and thereby make money available in j the channels of general commerce. To begin with, he conferred with mem bers of the federal reserve board and Jesse Jones, chairman of the Recon struction Finance corporation, con cerning methods by which the bankers might be induced to grant loans on classes of security which they have not been willing to accept. "Bankers ought to resume the financ ing of ordinary commercial opera tions." General Johnson said. "I have studied the figures on commercial credit trends recently, and I do not think they? indicate much loosening up on the part of bankers. "We are working on that now, but listen, the ordinary banker wants sound risks. Most of them got pretty badly burnt in past years, and we've got to establish some basis for assur ing them safety. "I don't believe you can force ex tension of credit by fiat. The whole trouble In this country has been lack of confidence by all classes of people, and we've got to do what we can to bring confidence in business, in loans, and in the future back again." HAVING accomplished neatly and speedily the job for which he was sent to Cuba, Sumner Welles will soon return to Washington to take again Jefferson Caffery nis position or assist ant secretary of state in charge of Latin American affairs. He is to be succeed ed as ambassador to the island republic by JelTerson Caffery who, from his post in the State department, so ably seconded the efforts of Mr. Welles. Caffery. like tVelles, Is a career diplomat and was minister to L.oiomuia ueiure uecuiuiug u^iaiam secretary of state last spring. In the last 22 years he has held many Im portant diplomatic positions. CafPery Is from Louisiana and the favor with which he Is looked upon by the ad ministration Is one of the thorns in the flesh of Senator Huey Long. His first job in Havana will he to nego tiate a new United States-Cuban com mercial treaty. President De Cespedes of course hopes this will include lower duties on Cuban sugar. Settlement of the water front strike in Havana led the new president to believe Indus trial peace would soon be re-estab lished. Most of the Machado supporters and porristas having been killed or cap tured, except those who had escaped from the island, the Cuban mobs let up in their bloody work. Their last grim performance In Havana was to steal and try to burn the body of An tonio Anicart, former chief of police, who had committed suicide to avoid capture. Former President Mario Menocal. Col. Carlos Mendieta, leader of the Nationalist party, and many others who had been driven to exile by Machado returned to Havana and were enthusiastically welcomed by the I people. FORGE N. PEEK. administrator vJ of the agricultural adjustment act. put Into efrect at six principal live stock markets what has been called the "birth control" program for pigs, the , object being the elimination of about r>.000.000 animals and the consequent raising of prices. In Chicago, Omaha, Sioux City, St Paul, Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., the emergency relief administration began the purchasing of 4,000,000 pigs between 25 and 100 pounds in weight each and 1,000,000 brood sows. Most of the meat ac cumulated was to be distributed to the poor. A price schedule was fixed and the farmers were to be paid the dif ference between this and,what they * actually received, from a fund of $55,- * 000,000 obtained from the processing tax on all pork. The buying opera tions were to be started soon at other leading markets besides those named above. r A/fEREDITH NICHOLSON of In- , dianapolis is one fortunate au thor. He has been appointed by Pres ident Roosevelt to be minister to Para guay and he will have, in Asuncion, the capital, a most delightful place to , live, among pleasant people. Mr. Meredith was summoned to Washing- , ton for preparatory conferences and ?is expected to leave for his post in . the near future. Leo It. Sack, a Washington news- , paper man, was appointed minister to j Costa Rica. > , ROBERT H. GORE, governor of Puerto Rico, is not liked by the Liberal party of the island, which claims to represent 46 per cent of the electorate. It has sent to President Roosevelt a protest against Gore's ad ministration, charging that he has ut terly failed to live up to his declara- | tions for efficiency and nonpolitical policies and has grated on the sensi bilities of the people. MAHATMA GANDHI has won an other contest with the British government of India. Imprisoned be cause he had renewed his civil dls Mahatma Gandhi K!e ooeuience campaign, he started a new "fast unto death" and in a week was so near dissolution that the authorities released him unconditionally. His wife and Miss Madeleine Slade, one of his "three graces," were released from sir months' sentences at Ahmedabad so they could attend him. Gandhi had been of m ; t Vis. romnin In Poona and refrain from conducting civil disobedience propaganda, lie re fused. lie demanded that he be given unlimited facilities to conduct from prison his campaign in aid of the Hin du untouchables. He was told he could carry on the campaign only if he kept it free of politics. "I might as well be dead If I can't work for them," he said and began his fast, vowing he would maintain It I until death unless the government re lented. ENGELBERT DOLLFUSS, the di minutive but nervy chancellor of Austria, assured of allied support, took steps to check the German Nazis along the Bavarian border, where, he was informed, the latter were fo menting trouble and planning inva sions of Austrian territory for next month. Dollfuss ordered the mobiliza tion of more than a thousand picked marksmen in the home guards and prepared to rush them to the frontier to reinforce the troops patrolling there If the Nazi campaign continues. The Vienna home guard includes only two battalions, but thousands of volun teers are being recruited in eastern and southern Austria, and all of them are dead shots. SOCIALISTS are not happy these days, and when the Second Inter- I nationale opened Its world congress . in Paris there were a lot of gloomy faces amdng the delegates. However, 1 the executive committee firmly op posed the defeatists and pessimists ; in the party. The bright spots on the Socialist map were said to be Spain, where the tide of Socialism is stead ily rising; and the United States, where in the opinion of American mem bers, the "new deal" is leading to Socialism. COMING up from the Caribbean, a tremendous storm swept the At lantic coast of the United States from Virginia northward. About a dozen lives were lost and Immense damage was done to property. Yachts were wrecked and several liners were in peril. The storm played havoc in scores of communities in southern New Jer sey as well as surrounding states. From Atlantic City to Cape May ev ery seashore resort had flixvled streets and homes. Beach front hotels were i virtually inarooned. Ocean City. N. J., 1 was cut off from rail communication with the mainland. BY A vote of about 3 to 1, Mis souri decided that prohibition should be repealed and thus became the twenty-second state to line up In the wet column. Ratification b>; only fourteen more states Is needed to re peal the EighteAth amendment 1123. Western Nowjpapor Union. ? ? ONE OF THOSE DAYS By DOUGLAS MALLOCH JUST one of those days when the world and its ways >eem so harsh, seem so hard, seem so little to praise; IVhen the work that we do seems a thing never through, fever looks just the way that we wanted It to; rbere is nothing so wrong, neither sob. neither song, It's just one of those days that just happen along. lust one of those times when a word never rhymes, IVhen the life that we lead seems just dollars and dimes, tVhen the world Is so still, neither good, neither 111, Not a scene has a smile, not a thought has a thrill; l'here Is nothing so sad, there Is noth ing so glad. It's just one of those days we so often have bad. fust one of those hours neither sun, neither show'rs. Like a lake without waves, or a path without flow'rs; But the world isn't o'er, over now evermore, it shall blossom again as It blossomed before. For tomorrow our gaze, to the peaks we shall raise, and shall know that today was Just one of those days. (Q.1933 Douglas MalloctL? WNU Service. Graph icGolfI SPOON USEFUL IN ROUGH GRASS THERE seems to be a hesitancy on the part of most golfers to resort to the spoon when a cuppy lie In the fairway confronts them or In rough grass. Generally they will pin their chances on some straight faced Iron in preference. Perhaps Just as gen erally their shot will end disastrously. For the straight faced Iron particular ly is a difficult club in the bands of any but the expert player. All right ofT the tee. It takes considerable pow or to play It efficiently from heavy grass. In deep clover a dry contact Is almost impossible because the Juice of the smashed plants highly lubricates the face of the Iron. The ball, lacking spin, is thus hard to control. The re silient face of the spoon will take a much better hold in such circum stances. Another thing In Its favor is that It has more loft than an Iron club for the same range and can raise the ball more quickly from the long grass and set It down with but little roll ?. 1933, Bell Syndicate?WNU Service. Training Young Women of Germany for Life UNDER the direction of the Hitler government, the training of young women of the German nation In farm life and rural culture ia now being conducted at a farm school in Sutt hauson. The primary motive for this new schooling is to instill In the young women a love for home life and mar riage, and Is the first step toward once again making peasant life the back bone of the nation. BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN By THORNTON W. BURGESS WHAT JERRY MUSKRAT WAS DOING DrD you ever watch a house being built? Of course you have. You know, Hrst of all a cellar Is dug. You know how sewer ahd water pipes are laid. You must know that a lot of work Is done in the ground which doesn't go Into the house Itself, but which Is a part of the building of the bouse just the same. It was this same way with Jerry Muskrat and his new house. He had a lot to do before he could build the house Itself, which would rise above First of All Jerry Had to Dig a Cellar. the surface of the water. Grandfather Frog had been right wfien he had said that that part of the work would be the easiest for Jerry. First of all Jerry had to dig a sort of cellar. The mud from this he piled around him to make a sort of wall. It was really the beginning of the foundations of the new house. When he had this cellar finished of course the water was quite a lot deeper there than It was around It This was why he had dug it He knew that the water was so shallow around It that It would very likely freeze clear to the bottom lo the winter. He didn't want that to happen under his honse, or should 1 say Inside his house7 Tou see that cellar really was a part of his bouse. I suppose. Anyway, it was the way by which he would go In and out, and so It had to be made safe. It wouldn't do to leave a chance of being frozen in. So he took pains to make it deep enough. Then from that cellar he started a tunnel over to the bank of the Smil ing Pool. It took time to dig that tun nel. When he reached the bank he kept right on. slanting up until be had , reached a place where It was dry and where he felt sure that the spring hood would not reach unless It hap pened to be such an unusual hood as the one which had swept away his old bouse last spring. There be made a comfortable and roomy chamber wherein he would later make a nice bed of grass. Then Jerry went back to his cellar and started another tunnel. This one he beaded straight for the deepest part of the Smiling Pool, where he knew there would be water no matter how thick the tee above might be. When this was finished be dng another to the bnnk and another to deep water so that In case of accident to the first one, he would still hare tunnels be could use. Jerry believes In being pre pared. It takes time and a lot of bard work to dig tunnels like these. It was this that Jerry was doing while Peter Rabbit was so Impatiently watching for some signs of the new house above water. The bits of earth and sod which Jerry dug out be used to broaden the foundation around bis cellar. And of course It was this work that made the water so muddy. The truth is these tunnels were quite as Important as the bouse Itself. In fact. In some ways they were more Important. So Jerry took great pains In digging tbem. He knew that the time might come when bis Ufe would depend on them. He Intended that If that time did come there should be nothing wrong with those tunnels. Not until they were flnlshed did he give much thought to the rest of the house. e C. 1111. by T. W. Burses*.?WVJ Service. Nothing to Fear but Punctures WILLIAM NICISCH of St. Louis, setting oat on a thousand-mile Jaunt down the Mississippi river on his raft made of two automobile Inner tubes cut and vulcanized together and fastened to a floor of wood and canvas, wasn't worried even by the danger of punctures. He carried an automobile pump, tire patches, rubber cement and a bathing suit SANDWICH VARIETY THIS Is the sandwich season, so we will stock up on a few new ways of preparing them. Pate dt Fole Grat Sandwich. Cook two small goose livers In goose fat until soft, mash them to a paste with three hard-cooked eggs, season with salt, pepper and grated onion. Spread on small thin slices of toast, or serve as a canape. , Mock Pate Sandwich. Remove the casing from liver saus age, mash to a paste with a little cooked salad dressing. Spread on thinly-sliced, buttered rye bread. Deviled Egg Sandwich. Take 12 hard-cooked egg yolks, three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, two table spoonfuls of lemon Juice, one-half tea spoonful of prepared mustard, salt, paprika and three drops of tabasco sauce. Mix all together and blend well; spread on buttered rye or white broad. The whiles may be finely chopped and sprinkled over the sand wich If desired. Fried Egg Sandwich. Cook a little finely minced onion In butter, then turn In an egg and cook until set; season with salt and pepper and place on buttered bread; cover with another slice. Chicken and Onion Sandwich. Take small bits of chicken finely chopped and mix with one-third the quantity of finely minced onion, sea son with salt and pepper and spread on buttered bread. Egg With Mushroom. Saute a few mushrooms In butter, add chopped hard-cooked egg In pro portions to suit the taste, bind with a little sweet cream, season to taste and spread on white buttered bread. G by Wrvtrrn Mvwiipapvr Union. U. S. Senate Employee* About 800 people are usually em ployed by the United States senate. Some of these work In the Capitol building and some work In the senate office building. The secretaries and stenographers are appointed by the In dividual senators. Other employees are generally appointed through pa tronage of the majority party. KONERS ? ? ? soion was one or tne tnree great kings of Judah. Be was a poet and some of bis songs are contained 'o oar book of praise which we call psalms. Whenever lie met Pompey be took off his bat I BONERS are actual humorous tid-bits found in examination pa pers. essays, etc, by teachers. An anachronism Is a thing that a man puts in writing in the past be fore it has taken place In the future. ? ? n Etiquette is little things you do that you don't want to do. ? ? ? Edward Bok went to work at an early age to help pay the income tax. ? ? ? Tell all that you know about Keats. I don't know anything. I don't even know what they are. ? ? ? Oglethorpe was the little Indian maiden that saved the life of Colum bus. ? ? ? Xerxes watched the battle of Sa lamis while seated on a thorn. ? ? ? A pedagog Is a Chinese temple. ?. 1*33. Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service. Reincarnated Spirits The bear, although frequently guilty of fearful ravages upon the flocks upon which the desert nomads depend for livelihood. Is never harmed be cause the Navajos believe that bears are the reincarnated spirits of good Indiana
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