The Alamance Gleaner
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VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 23, 1934. NO. 29.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Eugene Black to "Sell" New Deal to the Banks?President
Warns Against Food Profiteering?
Cotton Textile Strike Voted.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? by Western Newspaper Union.
p*UGEXE R. BLACK has resigned as
governor of the federal reserve
board, and President Roosevelt has
given him a new position?contact offl
cer oeiween me djiiiks
and the government
This means that Mr.
Black is expected to
'?sell" the New Deal
to the financial insti
tutions, which in the
past have been among
the severest critics of
many features of the
President's program
for recovery. He re
?- lurns to nis iormer
Eugene R. position of governor
Black 0f the Atlanta Federal
Reserve bank which he left In May,
1933, to assume the direction of the
whole reserve system.
Mr. Black himself said his new as
signment is "to muster the strength of
our financial Institutions behind re
covery In America." Some observers
In Washington thought the move indi
cated that the administration was go
ing to make another attempt to thaw
out the vast sums in commercial
credits that are lying idle in the banks.
"l'ou can do much good," President
Roosevelt wrote Black In accepting his
resignation, "by presenting the recov
ery program to the country's reserve
banks, commercial banks and other
financial institutions, by acquainting
them with the successive steps taken
by the administration which have re
sulted In the present prosperous condi
tion of these institutions and which
make possible their co-operation with
the administration in its program of
complete business rehabilitation.
"I am pleased to think that your
position as governor of the Federal
Reserve bank at Atlanta will give you
opportunity to undertake this work
and that that bank, together with the
federal reserve board, will co-operate
with you in its performance."
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, it turns
* out, is not at all dismayed by the
catastrophic dronth that has afflicted
a large part of the country. To the
White House correspondents he indi
cated his belief that the drouth was
in a way a blessing, in that it was wip
ing out farm surpluses two years soon
er than could have been done by the
Wallace crop reduction plan. He ex
pressed the belief that there will be
plenty of food for all, and made It
clear that the administration would
not stand for any profiteering in food
prices or grain speculation to the detri
ment of the farmer and the public.
"Chiselers," It was promised, will be
promptly and severely punished.
The federal grain futures adminis
tration directed by J. M. Mehl, it was
tevealed, Is watching grain trading
closely. The first evidence of manipu
lation will bring punitive action.
The consumers council of the AAA
tinder Dr. Frederic C. Howe, Is chart
ing food prices. Housewives will be
warned of any Increase out of line
with market supplies.
Secretary Wallace has admitted that
there will necessarily be Increases in
food prices, and figures released by
his department show they are already
beginning to go higher.
V\/'HILE Harry Hopkins, federal re
* lief administrator, is vacationing
In Europe, his place Is taken by Au
brey Williams, his assistant. Mr. Wil
liams has been in con
rerence with the Pres- fl
fdent, laying out the 8
plans for drouth re- 8
lief and the conserva- 8
tion of food supplies. ?
Among the first things 4
the relief adminlstra
tion will do is to buy ij
op hay and fruit that
otherwise might go |
to waste. Hay on pub- 8
lip hmlo nl.A _m I
? - ??jo aiw Will UTJ .
cut and baled. Tl*e
complete program Williams
*'as being formulated by Mr. Williams
and Secretary Wallace. It was ex
pected this would Include expenditure
?f $330,000,000 left In the special
drouth appropriation, and distribution
of food and clothing to the needy by
the surplus relief corporation. Aid for
live stock la to be provided.
Mr. Roosevelt Is determined that the
relief administration shall be kept
clear of politics. At his suggestion
telegrams were sent to relief directors
and workers everywhere telling them
t? keep out of partisan politics and to
resign If they wish to run for office.
XX/HEN the NBA Is reorganized and
* * put under control of a commis
sion?a change that is soon due?Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson may still be In the
picture, despite the belief that he
would retire completely. He told
something of the plans for the shake
up, and at the same time said: "If
the President wants me to stay, I
might serve as chairman of the board,
provided it did not take all of my
time." ?
Johnson said he expected the whole
reorganization of the NRA to be com
pleted within the next 60 or 90 days.
The first step, he said, will be the for
mal submission of plans to the Presi
dent. Congress will be asked next
winter to enact the revised NBA set
up as a permanent government control
over industry, Johnson disclosed. It
will be the New Deal for business
which President Roosevelt will try to
fix on the country for all time.
This "permanent" NRA, as sketched
by Johnson, would consist of a general
governing board, a single administra
tive officer to carry out the board's
dictates, and a long string of govern
ment representatives sitting on code
authorities as umpires in disputes be
tween employers and workers and be
tween industry and the public. Broad
ly speaking, the NRA might retreat
and allow business greater freedom.
PRIMARY elections in several states
brought about interesting results.
In Nebraska Representative E. R.
Burke of Omaha, advocate of the New
I ? Deal, won the Demo.
cratlc nomination for
senator, defeating Got.
Cbarles VV. Bryan by
an astonishing plural
ity of more than 06,
000. The Republicans
nominated Robert G.
Simmons. It was pre
dicted by friends of
I Senator Nornis, radi
cal Republican, that
c n R..rb. the progressive ite
publicans would sup
port Burke, for Simmons, a member of
congress, has been attacking the NBA
and the AAA.
Ohioans are given their choice be
tween two veteran politicians in the
race for the senate. A. V. Donahey,
three times governor of the state, was
made the nominee of the Democrats,
running far ahead of Gov. George
White and Charles O. West. The last
named was the choice of the national
administration but he made a poor
showing. Senator Simeon D. Fess, one
of the most vociferous opponents of
the Roosevelt programs, easily won re
nomination by the Republicans. For
governor the Democrats nominated
Martin L. Davey, the "tree doctor,"
and the Republicans put up Clarence
J. Brown.
Gov. J. M. Futrell of Arkansas was
renominated, as were all but two of
the state's congressmen who sought
re-election. Democrats of Idaho are
so well satisfied with Gov. Ben C.
Ross, former cowboy, that they renom
inated him for a third term. The Re
publican nominee there is Frank L.
Stephan.
Looking over these primary results
and considering the prospects all over
the country. Democratic leaders in
Washington predicted their party
would gain sir senate seats. Repub
lican campaign managers said the
G. O. P. will hold its own. As for the
house, the Democrats admit they will
lose at least twenty-five seats, and
their opponents claim the Republican
gain will be between fifty and sev
enty-flve seats.
UNLESS President Roosevelt can
prevent It, about half a million
workers In the cotton textile Industry
will be on strike on or about Septem
ber 1, because they are utterly dis
satisfied with their NRA code. The
convention of the United Textile
Workers of America In New V/irk -vot
ed mandatory instructions to the
union's executive council to call this
general strike, and if it goes into ef
fect It may later spread to other
branches of the Industry. Involving an
additional 250,000. Leaders in the
strike movement are Norman Thomas,
former Socialist candidate for Presi
dent, and the younger element in the
union.
The specific aim will be to obtain
a reopening of the textile code and
its revision along lines demanded by
the union. Demands will be mode for
the 30-hour week with 40-hour pay,
elimination of the stretch-out system
with corresponding readjustment of
machine loads, and a universal system
of collective bargaining on the baala
of free choice of representatives by the
workers.
D ELATIOXS between Russia and
Japan have been further strained
b.v the arrest of 17 Soviet subjects, all
officials and employees of the Chinese
Eastern railway, by Manchukuo au
thorities. They are accused of plot
ting against Manchukuo and Japan
and of being In collusion with bandits
In recent attacks on the railway. The
Russian consul general at Harbin
vainly demanded the release of the
prisoners. In Moscow the arrests gave
rise to rumors that Japan was pre
paring to declare military law and
take over the railway, the sale of
which has long been a subject of fruit
less negotiation.
Tokio dispatches quoted a foreign
office spokesman as saying the govern
ment was considering sending a gen
eral warning to Moscow.
DRINCE RUDIGEIt VOX STAR
r HEMBERG of Austria, who has
Jnst been In Italy consulting with
Premier Mussolini, says the Austrian
goverment expects a
new Nazi outbreak In
that country within
the next few months.
He says he has ln
formation that a
putsch is being pre
pared, and that he
distrusts the peace
talk of the German
government He also
doubts the reports of
the dissolution of the
Prince Von Austrian Nazi Legion
Starhembera ,n Germany> and be.
lieves the reich is still financing the
Nazi in Austria. The prince's state
ments are borne out by the fact that
Austria has sent a note to Great
Britain, France and Italy, asking per
mission to enlarge its army because it
fears another Nazi putsch is imminent.
Starhemberg asserts that an over
whelming majority of the Austrian
people are in favor of the Hapsburg
restoration, that the Vatican Is for it,
and that Italy and England are neu
tral ; but that France and the little en
tente would oppose it
VJITTTH -he sanction of the Ameri
* * can Federation of Labor a strike
was called in the plants of the Alumi
num Company of America, which is
controlled by Andrew W. Mellon, for
mer secretary of the treasury, and
his family. Six of the plants, at New
Kensington, Arnold and Logan's Fer
ry, Pa., Alcoa, Tenn.; East St Louis,
111., and Massena, N. V., were closed,
and those at Fairfield, Conn., and
Baden, N. C? were about to shut
down. The company normally em
ploys about 15.000 persons. Proposals
offered by the workers' representa
tives late in July were flatly rejected
by the company.
SENATOR HCEY LONG was march
ing rapidly toward victory over his
arch foe, Mayor T. Semmes tValmsley
of New Orleans, and there didn't seem
to be anything the latter could do to
stop the Klngflsh. The state legisla
ture, safely in the control of Long and
his henchman. Governor Alien, was
swiftly pushing through a series of
measures designed to put every parish
and city of Louisiana in the grip of
those two gentlemen before the state
primary on September 11. The legisla
tors also passed a bill for an Investi
gation into the affairs of New Orleans.
Amu u i liw gr.z7.1ea memoers ot me
Grand Army of the Republic were
able to attend the sixty-eighth encamp
ment at Rochester, N. I.. and many of
them eren Insisted In marching In the
parade, scorning the automobiles that
carried their feebler brothers. Com
mander-in-Chief Russell C. Martin pre
sided over the sessions and the chief
speaker was Secretary of War Dern.
Mr. Dern told the veterans that the
world was seething with unrest and
that weak nations might become In
volved In cbaos and war. America, he
asserted. Is in the grip of another kind
of war?one against economic adver
sity Intensified by the terrific drouth?
but be expressed confidence "American
character, American grit" will win
out He added:
"We will surmount the obstacles
ahead of us. And because of this pe
riod of trial, ours will be a stronger
nation, more ready to meet the other
crises which lie In the futuca. We must
be strong."
Administrator james a.mof
fett Inaugurated the bousing
administration's bllllon-dollar home re
pair program, the first loan being
made by a Washington bank to
Miss Alma McGrum, a home owner.
In the presence of many bankers and
government officials. Mr. MotTett said
credit facilities were available In cities
and towns with populations aggregat
ing 39.980.fscs.
A booklet Issued by the housing ad
ministration explains that any prop
erty owner may apply for a housing
loan to any bank, building and loan
association, or other finance company
approved by the administration for a
loan of $100 to $2,000 for Improve
ments on the property. Notes are
made to run up to three years.
TFest Point Cadets Get a Taste of Tent Life
rVEHI summer as a part of the regular routine the third and fourth-class cadets at the West Point Military academy
J-1 are given a chance to live in tents at Camp Clinton. Several members of the third-year class are here seen
getting their tent ready for inspection.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
JENNY AND MR. WREN
ARE BUSY
JENNY and Mr. Wren were busy.
Yes slree, they were busy. If there
were any busier little folks anywhere
Peter Rabbit couldn't imagine who
they could be. You see. every one of
those seven eggs in that nest had
hatched, and seven mouths are a lot
to feed, especially when every mor
sel of food must be hunted for and
carried from a distance.
There was little time for gossip
now. Just as soon as It was light
enough to see. Jenny and Mr. Wren
began to feed those always hungry
babies, and with hardly time for an
rccasional mouthful themselves they
kept at It until the Black Shadows
came out from the Purple Hills.
Wren babies, like all other bird ba
bies, grow very fast and this means
that each one of them must have a
great deal of food every day. A Wren
baby often eats Its own weight in food
In a day, and all this food has to be
hunted for and carried back and put
Into the gaping little mouths.
With seven such gaping little mouths
you can imagine how busy the Wrens
were. Hardly would Jenny disappear
In the little round doorway of her
home with a caterpillar in her bill
than she would pop* out again and
Mr. Wren would take her place with
a spider or a fly. Then both would
hurry away for something more.
Peter tried to keep count of the
number of times they came and went
but soon gave it up as a bad Job. He
began to wonder where all the worms
and bugs and spiders came from and
gradually he came to have a great
deal of respect for eyes sharp enough
to find them so quickly. He began,
too, to understand how useful Jenny
and Mr. Wren were, for he knew that
most of the worms and caterpillars
and bugs with which they fed their
babies were very harmful to plants
and trees.
Needless to say, Jenny was shorter
tempered than ever. She had no time
to gossip and said so most emphatical
ly. Nor did Mr. Wren have time to
sing. Of course they had to rest once
In a while, but It was never for a
very long time. Whenever she did
stop to rest, Jenny looked worried.
She had the care of that big family i
on her mind every minute.
So at last Peter gave up the Idea
of trying to find out from her certain
things he wanted to know and bopped
oft to look for some one who was less
busy. He had gone but a short dis
tance when his attention was caught
by a song so sweet and so foil of little
trills that he first stopped to listen
and then htirried to look for the [
singer.
?. T- w Burtresa. ?WNX Scrvtca.
I a I
"No matter how you look at It, a
woman's path is no bed of roses,"
says disillusioned Dot. "many a girl
has had to walk back from a horse
back ride too."
?. Bell Syndicate.?'WXO Service.
rfotherffioojlBook
CULINARY KINKS
WITII mustard, pickles, chow-chow,
capers, anchovy paste, chutney \
and such condiments as most house
wives either put up or purchase, there |
is a great variety to vary the sameness
in salads and salad dressings. These
same condiments may be frequently j
used for fillings for sandwiches or for
canapes when these Interesting foods
are required.
When there Is crisp fresh lettuce for
the base of a salad one need not de
spair. Sprinkle with rolled, freshly
roasted peanuts and serve with a bit
of shredded onion and french dressing.
Use tender leaves of endive sprin
kled with chopped stuffed olives and
dressed with tarragon vinegar In the
frCSCh dreeing.
Try ripe even-sized tomatoes stuffed
with chopped cabbage to which a slice
or two of pineapple finely chopped la
added. Mix with a good boiled dress
ing.
Nowadays with flour prepared es
pecially for cuke making, one Is in
sured against coarse grained and
heavy cake. If rules are followed.
Folding In the stiffly beaten egg la
auother Important step, not to destroy
the lightness by breaking down the aix
cells in the egg.
For the hostess who wishes to serve
pies as Individual ones, there could be
nothing more attractive than the
pumpkin, the cranberry or the custard.
Measure time for baking Into quar
ters, in the first quarter the cake
should begin to rise, in the second
quarter, finish rising and begin to
brown, the third quarter should finish
browning and begin to shrink from the
pan. and il.e last quarter finish baking.
Test before taking from the oven, then
cooL before frosting.
Q, Western Newspaper Union. ??
ivoii Know?
That it took George L.
Hathaway, a World war
veteran, three years to con
struct a table inlaid with
50,619 pieces of wood gath
ered from all parts of the
world. He started it in 1923
while a patient in a San
Diego hospital and the only
tools used were a small saw
and a pocket knife.
?. by MeClure Newspaper Syndlcata
WNTI Sarvlca I
I QUESTION BOX
ByED WVNN...
Tlia Perfect Fool
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Can you help me out? The inside
of my home has been painted and the
odor of fresh paint annoys me. What
shall I do to take away the smell of
the fresh paint? There are nine rooms
in the house.
Tours truly,
L M_ CHOKING.
Answer: In a house of nine rooms
nse the following formula: Fourteen
pounds of onions?slice fine; two I
pieces of garlic?crushed; then, mixed
into the onions. Place about one and
one-half pounds of this mixture in
each room. That wyi take away the
smell of fresh paint.
By the way?if the onions are too
strong for you Just put another coat
of paint in each room.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Do you believe it is right to turn
tramps away from your door?
Truly yours,
MAT B. C. KXO.
Answer: By no means turn a tramp
away from your door. Let him sit
there as long as he wishes.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I read in a newspaper where you
said: "The most disappointed man
yon ever met was a chap who has
spent six months curing himself of
'halitosis' only to find out he was un
popular anyway. Can you tell me of
any other fellow who could be as near
ly disappointed as that one?
Truly yours.
L M. NOSEY.
Answer: Yes; I once knew a fellow
who took a bath and the next morn
ing he looked all over the house for
the Sunday papers. It turned out that
it was Thursday. He wasn't iisap- |
pointed because he couldn't Hind the j
Sunday papers. Sat His disappoint
ment came when tie foaml oat tie had
rakes a bars aad it wasnt Saturday.
Dear Mr. Wyun:
We are organising a Sshing cW?
and we were roid to hare oar camp no
the Delaware rirer right across from
Wilmington, DeL We were also roid
that dating there is wonderful. Is tt
me that the dsn. in that spot, bite
so easily?
Traiy yeara
AXS GLEES
Answer: Til tell tie world those Ish
bite. TSey are absolutely ferocious.
Why you hare to hide behind a tree
to pat i worm on yocr hoot
WNU igr? cii
A MOTHER'S
LOVE
By ANNE CAMPBELL
IN MY back yard a morning-glory
* vine
Grows wild, and If I do not weed It
out.
It will destroy each pretty rose of
mine.
And spill the poppy petals all about. &
Just so my love might grow on roots
as strong
And choke each pretty flowering
thought you holtL,
I must take care! A mother's love is
wrong
That stifles the young bloom its leaves
enfold.
Co^yrtcht.?W.VU Birr4.cc
In White Crepe
Lnciie Pa raj decorates tie Man
sleeves of tils haaisotne white #epe
$owa with a wide band of il iSst
black ?e<ialca and continues it aiw
the back of the neck to form the showi
der straps for the eatremeij tow beck
decotlecaae. % _ 2 "
Japan Prepares in Every Way for fTar
EVIDENTLY Japan wants to t>e prepared for every contingency that can be
brought about by war. The civilian population Is being thorougt \y
acquainted with the use of gas masks In case a next possible conflict la carried
right to the people. These telephone operators are important cogs In the com
munication system and therefore get special gas mask training under the eye?
of military experts.