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^ nm The Alamance gleaner 1 VOL. LX. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY JUNE 21, 1934. NO. 20. News Review of Current Events the World Over Tugwell Confirmed by Senate Despite Bitter Attacks? Darrow Board Assails Johnson?President Roosevelt's Plans for Social Regeneration. By EDWARD W. P1CKARD ? by Western Newspaper Union. Rkafuulj i.ir im?i;i.i;s ap pearance before the senate aj:rl culture committee to he quizzed as to his fitness tor the position of under R. Q. Tugwell secretary or agricul ture was rather farci cal, even though It brought on heated en counters among the members of the com mittee. The senators aired their own views freely, but learned al most nothing concern Ing those of Mr. Tug well. He did tell them he believed the Con stitution was flexible enough to take care of any necessary economic changes; that he was op posed to the adoption of Soviet plan ning by America, and that he thought his experience on his father's farm and his research qualified him for the position to which the President had appointed him. Finally the committee reported the nomination favorably, the only two opposing votes being those of "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Caro lina and Henry D. Hatfield of West Virginia. The action of the committee as sured Tugwell's confirmation by the senate, but the debate on the floor was unexpectedly long and the attacks on Tugwell were outspoken. Senator Schail of Minnesota, for instance, said: "Agriculture demands and already has experiment stations dealing in actual crops, live stock, and markets. It wants no 'bold experiments in col lectivism' by a self-styled philosopher who functions like a three card monte sharp who jumps upon a box with three shells and a pea and who en tertains the public with his cry, 'Now you see It and now you don't Who is the next gent?* "Tugwell's general denial, and his specific denials, in the light of his as sociates in the field of political writ ing, are absolutely worthless. They are an insult to an intelligent Jury. He Insults the United States senate in order to gain a high office from which he can preach 'collectivism* as a substitute for American Institutions and the Constitution." WHILE the delegates'of the steel workers' anions were gathering In Pittsburgh to vote on the threat ened strike, President Roosevelt and his advisers brought forward a plan for an emergency law designed to avert the walkout. It was admittedly a temporary expedient to give the President an effective agency for the consideration of industrial disputes arising during the life of the NRA. Under the new bill's terms, boards selected by the President would be empowered to order and conduct an election, by a secret ballot, to deter mine "by what person or persons or organizations" employees may desire to be represented in negotiations un der the collective bargaining features of the national recovery act. The proposed boards also would have the authority to order produc tion of pertinent documents and wit nesses to give testimony under oath, and their orders would be enforceable by any United States court of compe tent jurisdiction, similar to like privi leges enjoyed by the federal trade commission. Vested with authority to prescribe their own rules and regula tions. the boards would be armed with a penalty clause In the new law, set ting $1,000 fine or a year Imprison ment. or both, for violation of their decrees. IN ITS second report to the Presi dent the national recovery review board, headed by Clarence Harrow, loosed another Wast at Administrator Johnson and In effect recommended his removal as head of the NRA. The board said Johnson had given the re covery program an un-American and dictatorial tinge that handicapped it In the war on depression; that he has arbitrarily decreed life and death for industries, and that by arbitrary mod Ideation^ of codes he has helped big business concerns to oppress their smaller competitors. "The rule of the military commander Is totally tinsulted to the genius, hab Its. traditions, or psychology of the American people, and wholly Ineffectu al in meeting the present national crisis," the board concluded. The second Harrow report covered the retail dry goods, warehousing, lum ber, cement, retail food, boot and shoe, electrical manufacturing, bedding, pe troleum, coffee, plumbing fixture, em broidery, and lead pencil codes. Com plaints against the warehousing, elec trical manufacturing, and einbnililery codes were dismissed as without foun dation. But in the other codes the board claimed to find oppression of small businesses or consumers. SECRETARY OF STATE HCI.I. sent to Great Britain soother note concerning the war debt, hluntljr re futing the arguments of the British government, saying it was up to the debtor to offer propositions in such cases, and Intimating that an arrange ment for part payment in goods might be possible. However, when June 13, the day for installments, came, Uncle Sam received only $1GG,538, which was the full sum due from Finland. The larger debtors all gave notice of de fault, and so did most of the others. Czechoslovakia suggested a readjust ment to permit it to pay In goods and service. In Berlin the Reichsbank declared a six-months moratorium on its for eign obligations, these including the Dawes and Young loans. No cash transfers will be made by the hank from July 1 to December 31, 1934. SENATOR ARTHUR ROBINSON of Indiana, who was renominated by the Republicans, will be opposed at the polls next fall by Sherman Min ton, the selection of the Democratic state convention. Mr. Minton, a World war veteran, Is now public counselor for the public service com mission of the state. His nomination was a victory for Governor McNutt over the faction led by R. Earl Peters, former state chairman. FN THE Democratic run-oft primary 1 in Alabama, Former Gov. Bibb Graves won the nomination for gov ernor and goes back to the executive office which he held from January, 1927, to January, 1931. Judge James E. Horton, who pre sided In the second trial of Heywood Patterson, one of the nine negro de fendants in the "Scottsboro case," and then set aside a jury verdict of death, ran more than 2,500 behind A. A. Grif fith of Cullman. George Huddleston of Birmingham retained his seat as congressman from the Ninth district, but Congressman Miles C. Allgood of the Fifth district wa* beaten by MaJ. Joe Starnes. WHEN President Roosevelt signed the tariff bargaining bill he ac quired authority to negotiate recipro cal trade treaties without senate ap proval and to increase or decrease tariff rates by as much as 50 per cent in order to stimulate foreign com merce. This policy of swapping reduc tions, the government believes, will result in great benefit to our foreign trade, and at the same time will give adequate protection to industry. Al ready nearly thirty foreign nations are lined up, awaiting an opportunity to negotiate reciprocal treaties. IMMEDIATE relief from distress and recovery of business prosperity fall far short of President Roosevelt's plans for regeneration of the nation. President Roosevelt This was revealed in his special message to congress which told of the plans and reo^ ommendati ons he would submit to the next congress. He asked for no present legislation, but gave notice of the social experiments he pro poses to begin next winter. The message dis cussed the three fac tors of housing. land and resource planning and old age and unemploy inent Insurance. Expressing satisfaction over prog ress In relieving industry, agriculture, and unemployment, the President, as serting his right to chart social re forms, declared, "It is childish to speak of recovery first and reconstruc tion afterward." Taking up the housing problem, he said millions of dollars had already been provided to improve living condi tions, and voiced the hope that with passage of his housing program prl | vate capital tcould be stimulated to widen the scope of home building. Discussing planned control of the land, he declared that hund.*eds of thousands of families now live "where there Is no reasonable prospect of a living In the years to come." Sounding the failure of the govern ment thus far to create a "national policy" for the development of land and water resources. Mr. Roosevelt in dicated his Intention of providing such a policy, and for the transferrins to new lands of "those people who can not make a living in their present po sitlons." Outlining his views on providing se curity against unemployment and old age, Mr. Roosevelt said he was seek ing a "sound means" which he could recommend to provide an immediate safeguard against these "hazards and vicissitudes of life." \/f AX BAER of California brought the world's heavyweight title bark to America by soundly whipping Rrimo Camera, the huge Italian, in New York. The fight was the most exciting one seen in this country for a long time. Scheduled for fifteen rounds, it ended In the eleventh when the referee declared a technical knock out and awarded the victory to Raer. Camera was game to the end. Thir teen times he went to the canvas, yet he was advancing against the retreat ing Baer during the greater part of the contest. Camera went into the ring weighing 2G3 pounds, and Baet tipped the scales at 210. fV>.\GRESS completed action on the communications bill and It was handed to the President for his signa ture. This new law puts an end to the federal radio commission and creates a new board of seven members known as the federal communications com mission that not only tak.s over the duties of the radio board but also all control thift has been exercised by the Interstate commerce commission over telegraphic and telephonic communi cations. A significant new provision which the bill carries into law Is the assertion of full control over all wire and radio communications by the government in case of war or "public peril." LARGELY through the efforts of Norman Davis, American ambas- i sador at large, the Eurnoonn states- ! men at Geneva were . .jrsuadeti to j Premier Mussolini drop tfipJr quarrermg and adopt a mild i compromise resolution ! that prolonged the I life of the disarma ment conference. Great Britain and France agreed upon a plan, based on the return ef Germany to the conference, and the aid of Italy was enlisted. It was ar ranged thnt Chancel lor Hitler should go to Venice ana tnat rremier iiusso linl should fly to that city to confer with his fellow dictator, whom he had never met. Later Louis Barthou, French foreign minister, is expected to go to Rome for a talk with Mus solini In which the misunderstandings between their countries may be Ironed out. Mussolini and Hitler were to discuss European policies generally, and, spe cifically, the German claims to full armament and the Austrian question, involving Nazi propaganda in tlie lat ter countrv. This Anglo-French compromise was a diplomatic setback for Russia, but the Soviet republic countered with the announcement that it had been recog nized by Czechoslovak', and Rumania. Recognition by Jugoslavia was expect ed to follow shortly. Maxim Lltvinov's announcement was taken to mean that the Russians intend to go ahead with their policy of encircling Germany. A committee of the disarmament conference had under consideration the matter of guarantees for any con vention which may be agreed upon: but when the question was submitted to the Japanese delegate he said his government could not consent to guar antees without reservations. There upon the Russian delegate said the Soviet government wsuld not accept any such agreement that was not signed by Japan. EVEN the Democrats In congress are not boasting openly of their success in passing the bill for a cen sus of the unemployed, and many of them voted against It or were absent when it came up for final passage. That it was designed mainly to give - jobs for the faithful at the expense of the national treasury was clear, for the census takers are not to get their Jobs until after the November con- j gresslonal elections. Then they will receive $2 a day for a long period, ob taining answers to an elaborate ques tionnaire. DROUTH STRICKEN regions of the Middle West were blessed with soaking rains, and hope was held out j for forage crops and corn. The earlier ! crops, however, are ruined over most of the area. Secretary Wallace, after a trip through the "dry" states, de scribed the drouth as a "tragedy" for the farmers who are suffering from Its ravages, but a possible future "bless I lug for the country aa a whole." OI.IN DUTRA, professional of a 1 California country club, now ! wears the crown of open golf cham ! pion of the United States. He won I the Utle by ahootlng a 293 for 72 boles, j British Tanks Patrol the Khyber Pass ALWAYS the famous Khyber pass, which connects India with Afghanistan. is carefully guarded oj the British. In our Illustration a section of the British Second Light lank company Is w^en patrolling that region. The officer Is asking information from Afridl tribesmen of the Khyber Khassadar force who guard the road through the pass. BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN By THORNTON W. BURGESS JENNY WREN'S BIG COUSIN I PETER RABBIT never will forget his j surprise when Jenny Wren asked him one morning If he had seen any thing of her big cousin. Peter hesi tated. As a matter of fact he couldn't think of any big cousin of enny Wren. | All the cousins Peter knew anything : about were very near Jenny's own size. Now Jenny Wren Is ane of the most impatient small persons in the world. "Well, well, well, Peter, have you lost your tongue?" she chattered, "Can't you answer a simple question without raking all day about It? Have you seen anything of my big cousin?" "You needn't be so cross about It If I am slow," replied Peter. "I'm Just "I Saw Him Only Vesterda> on the Edge of the Old Pasture.** trying to think who your hlg cousin Is. 1 guess, to be quite honest, 1 don't j know him." "Don't know him! Don't know hlml" sputtered Jenny. "Of course j you know him. You can't help hut I know him. I mean Brownie the j Thrasher." fn his surprise, Peter fairly Jumped right off the ground. "What's that?" ; he exclaimed. "Since when was Brownie the Thrasher related to the Wren family?" "liver since there have been any Wrens and Thrashers," retorted Jen ny. "Brownie belongs to one branch of the family and I belong to an- , other, and that makes him my second cousin. It certainly is surprising how little some folks know." "But I have alwavs supposed he . _ I ?===== belonged to tbe Thrush family." pro- i tested Peter. "He certainly looks like a Thrush.** "Looking like one doesn't make him one." snapped Jenny. "By this time ; you ought to have learned that you never can Judge anybody Just by looks. It always makes me provoked to hear Brownie calleo the Brown Thrush. There Isn't a drop of Thrush blood In him. But you haven't an swered my question yet, Peter Rab bit ; I want to know if he's here yeL" "Yes," said Peter. "1 saw hia yes terday on the edge of the Old Pas ture. He was fussing about in the 1 bushes and on the ground and Jerking that long tail of his up and down and sidewise as If he didn't know what to do with It. I've never seen any body twitch his tail around the way he does." Jenny Wren giggled. That's Just like him," said she. "It is because he thrashes his tail around so much that he is called the Thrasher. I suppose he was wearing bis new spring suit" "I don't know whetheT or not It was new. but It was mighty good look ing," replied Peter. "1 Just love that beautiful reddish brown of his back, wings and tail, and It certainly does set off his white and buff waistcoat with Its dark streaks and spot* You must admit that anyone seeing him dressed so like the Thrushes Is to be excused for thinking him a Thrush." c. T w Surges?. ? WN~tT Servtcw (QUESTION BOX By ED WYNN... The Per fed Pool Hear Mr. Wynn: I am a poor woman and set* dough- , nuts for a living. I charge three cents apiece for the doughnuto. One man says he will buy a dozen doughnuts every day If I will take off one cent from the price of each doughnut, for the hole. I can't afTtrd to sell them cheaper than three cents and would like him for a customer. What shall I do? Sincerely, OUV'p OYLE. Answer?The next time you see him tell him you have decided to give him one cent for each hoie when he re turns the holes. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 am In love with a young lady and i thought she loved me loo l-a*t night : I called at her house and her sister told me my girl was not at home. I happened to look on the rack In the hall and I saw my girl's hat hanging there, so I knew she was home. 1 never want to see her again. Am I right? Sincerely. BOB O. LINK. Answer?Tou are actio? silly. Be^ cause you saw her hat In the hall you i say she must have been home, ht that | case. If you saw your girl's stockings In the wash you'd sweai she was in the laundry. Dear Mr. Wynn: A girl friend of mine was married yesterday and of course * went to the wedding. Some relatives brought their 1 baby to the wedding and all durlrg the ceremony the baby crlec' seemed to spoil the whole thing I expect to be married very shortly and 1 want to know how I can keep the guests from bringing babies to the wedding. What shall I do? Sincerely, X. GAGED. Acswer?When yon hare your wed ding Invitations printed J:st have printed In one corner cf the Invita tions?"No Eabies Expected." Deer Mr. Wynn: My father told me that a "window" | and a "widow" were Inst the same. How can that be? Tonrs trnly. FRANK LEE SPEAKING. Answer?Toor father's advice Li very good. He means thnt when yon . get near either of them, you want to look out. C. tb? WSU S?rvlc? MpihirijQS^Boot SOME GOOD DRINK5 IITHEN the weather is either un V V seasonably hot or too cool we need, some days, a chilling, tinkling drink and the next a hot one. A de lightful drink that will appeal to near ly all tastes is the following fruit drink: Fruit Iced Tea. Make one cup of strong tea. using two or three teaspoons of the tea to a cupfu. of boiling water. Let it stand five minutes to steep, then chill. Squeeze the juice of four lemons, three oranges and add enough sugar to sweeten. Chill with plenty of ice. add a half gallon of water and serve with thin slices of orange and lemon floating on the glass. Mul'ed Cider. Put one quart of sweet elder into a D^VOI j Know ^ ItLAMO or-1 /riAOAJO lahcloo a, p==?=?aue?oe aioec 4hat at the mouth of the great Amazon River, be* an island erf. approximately the tame size as England It is the Island orf Mara jo many thousands of tcjuare miles in extent?one half of which is dense jungle the other half a vast campe>t or prairie, s-o? ? n- t^sas WNU Scrvlcs AN AIRPLANE FLIES OVER By ANNE CAMPBELL FIlOM id airplane looking down Over the recumbent town. Slum and mansion, avenue. Alley, boulevard and street. Melt Into an even view. In a harmony complete. All la equal from the skies. God, whose home is Paradise, Sees his people as do we; Lirtle folks wirb aims so high. Gazing heavenward to see A red airplane In the sky I Coof^fit-WMC S^rr'oa. saucepan. Add one small stick of cinnamon broken Into pieces, one-half teaspoon of *h ?le allspice, six whole cloves and one small piece ot ginger root. Bring to the boiling point, let boll three m:notes. Skim and tarn info a hot ator.e plfcher. serve hoc In small steins. Hot gingerbread, snappy cheese mixed wirh rich cream, makes a p_!a table luncheon wirh a stein of elder. Delicious P-'ch. Prepare a sirup of one cap of sugar, on*-ha!? cup of water, cook ant.! it spins a thread; poor the sirup oter three bearen egg whites and add slowly to one quart of freshly made ecglish breakfast tea infusion which has been chilled; add this mixture to one quart of lemon Savored Ice creass and mix thoroughly; turn Into 1 freerer and freeze to a mush. Serve from a punch howl la tall this glasses. G'r-qer Ale Ctam. Serve Ice cream la caM glasses, 13 up with gizztr ale Chocolate Ice Cream Soda. Into a tumblef pet a small ccce of Ice cream, pour over this two table spoons of chocolate sirup and fill the ?li3s with chilled soda water drawn from a syphoo. Ginger A e Ccbb'er. Fill soda water glasses half fufl it finely crushed lee. add one slice of pineapple (the small size), then fill with ginger ale Serve at once. Cij *U3J*ra. 1PAPA rNCWSH i ?i ? ? ^ , -Psp, *hat l? jrpepctpt.bttr* -Her'i tteth.* 6. B?LI Jj-aiL'c*;?.?*>T J?r*'c?k Dentistry for the Alligator w O THIS dentin, Carl Lin*, would be out ot luck If font;'hart rata Billy were to ahut bis mouth In the middle of his annual dental work. The one hundred and seventy live year old patriarch of the l.os Angeles Alligator farm has his valuable molars watched with more rare than some humans and as a result will probably live to snap at more than one future jeneratioo of visitors.
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