The Alamance Gleaner
VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1934. NO. 31.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Secretary Morgenthau on Costs of New Deal?Realign
ment of NRA Code9?Interesting Results
of Recent Primaries.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C by Weetern Newspaper Union.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
MORGENTHAU, In bis first speech
since taking office, forecast an even
tual inflation of $2,800,000,000 by an
' nounclng the treasury
expects sooner or later
to apply Its gold "prof
It" to a reduction of
the national debt
"For the present this
$2,800,000,000 Is un
der lock and key," Mr.
Morgenthau said.
"Most of It, by au
thority of congress, is
segregated In the so
called stabilization
Secretary fun(ji and for the
Morgonthau present we propose to
keep It there. But I call your atten
tion to the fact that ultimately we ex
pect this 'profit' to flow back Into the
stream of our other revenues and
thereby reduce the national debt."
The "profit" In question accrued
through a bookkeeping operation when
the amount of gold fixed by law as the
equivalent of $1 was reduced from
23.22 grains to 13.71 grains. This
meant that an ounce of gold was
worth $20.67 one day and the next
had a value of $35.
Just previously the treasury had
taken title to all the monetary gold In
the country, paying for It at the $20.67
rate. On every ounce It made a "prof
It" of $14.33, the difference between
the purchase figure and $35.
The secretary gave In figures his es
timate of the cost of the New Deal.
Against an Increase of $6,000,000,
000 In the national debt, he asserted,
various assets should be deducted.
He listed them as follows:
An Increase of $1,600,000,000 In the
treasury's cash balance since March 4,
1933.
The gold "profit," amounting to $2,
800,000,000.
An Increase In the net assets of
agencies wholly owned or financed by
the government, amounting to $1,095,
000,000.
Morgenthau did not carry the prop
osition through to Its arithmetical
conclusion, but the cost of the New
Deal under his theory would amount
to $505,000,000.
GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON, through
a spokesman, has flatly denied
the story of his dispute with Donald
Rlehberg and Secretary of Labor Per
kins over control of the NRA, but well
informed persons In Washington be
lieve it is true. The President calmed
the storm but put off the decision. The
NRA is being reorganized temporarily
to serve until the next congress gives
It permanent form, and for the pres
ent Johnson retains his supremacy.
To bring about greater efficiency
and economy the codes of the NRA
are being realigned. Industry is di
vided into 22 classes, the Initial move
toward cutting down the number of
codes from 682 to about 250 and group
ing them In ten grand divisions. Merg
ers are relied on to make the drastic
reduction In the number of codes.
Codes with similar or related inter
ests are grouped together. Allied
businesses will thus receive Identical
treatment on common problems, offi
cials said. The codes also are ex
pected to be easier and cheaper to ad
minister
The 22 classifications in turn are
based on four fundamental groups as
follows:
Producing Industries?Food, textiles,
leathef and fur, ferrous metals, non
ferrous metals, non-metallic products,
fuel, lumber and timber, chemicals and
paints anji drugs, paper, rubber.
Fabricating Industries?Equipment.,
manufacturing, graphic arts, construc
tion.
Service industries?Public utilities,
transportation, communications, amuse
ments, finance.
Distributing trades?Professions and
services, wholesale and retail codes.
\ fL'Cn political benefit to the ad
ministration in the congressional
campaign is expected to accrue from
the reciprocal trade treaty with Cuba
which has Just been announced. It
is the first of the projected trade
agreements and little criticism of It is
likely to be heard. The domestic sugar
producers, who of course do not like
the reduction In the duty on Cuban
sugar, were prepared for the action
by discussions of past months and ac
cordingly had adjusted themselves to
the situation.
The domestic tobacco interests are
consoled for reductions In duties by
the limitation of Imports of Cuban
cigar leaf tobacco, cigars and che
roots of all kinds xo 18 per cent of
the total quantity of tobacco used In
the United States during the previous
year for the manufacture of cigars.
The reductions In duties on fruits
and vegetables Imported from Cuba
apply only to certain seasons and thus
are not as objectionable to domestic
producers as they might otherwise be.
As against the concessions made to
Cuba, which are regarded as so Im
portant from the standpoint of that
country as to offer great promise of
economic recovery, there should be
rather widespread benefits to agricul
tural and Industrial producers of the
United States.
BELIEVING the emergency phase of
agricultural adjustment is about
over, the AAA officials are simplifying
their program for the future. Tenta
tively they propose these control plans
for 1935:
Wheat?10 per cent reduction In
acreage below that of the base pe
riod, 1930-32 Inclusive; desired acre
age, about 62,000,000; desired produc
tion, 750,000,000 to 775,000,000 bushels.
Corn?Possibly a 15 to 20 per cent
reduction In acreage, instead of 20 to
30 per cent as specified by the 1934
program.
Hogs and other livestock?No direct
control, supply being regulated by ad
justment of feed crops.
Cotton?10 to 15 per cent acreage
reduction under base period, 1928-32,
inclusive, Instead of about 40 per cent;
desired acreage, 32,000,000 to 37,000,
000; desired production, 11,500,000 to
13,000,000 bales.
it fTERGUSONISM** In Texas was
v struck a probably fatal blow
when James V. Allred, the young at
torney general of the state, won the
v Democratic nomlna
tlon for governor In
the Democratic run
off primary. By a ma
orlty of about 45,000
v o t e a he defeated
Tom F. Hunter, who
was backed for the
nomination by "Ma"
Ferguson, the present
governor, and her hus
band, James E. Fer
guson, who formerly
occupied the office un
til ousted by the legislature. The Fer
gusons have controlled Democratic
politics In Texas for some twenty
years, but their sway probably is now
coming to an end. Mr. Alired la only
thirty-five years old, but has come to
the top swiftly. His nomination is
equivalent to election.
UPTON SINCLAIR, the Socialist
author who turned Democrat in
order to run for the Democratic nomi
Ttation for governor of California, suc
ceeded in his purpose. In the primaries
he ran far ahead of George Creel, who
was director of propaganda during the
World war; Justus S. Wardell, con
servative, and Milton K. Young, the
Democratic candidate in 1930. Sin
clair campaigned on a plan "to end
poverty in California" which was set
forth in a book he published. It calls
for the state to take over and operate
defunct factories and businesses and
farms acquired because of tax delin
quencies as a means of placing the
unemployed. Sinclair's opponent in
the election will be Frank F. Merriam,
the Republican acting governor. Sen
ator Hiram W. Johnson easily won re
nomination and Is on the Republican,
Democratic, Progressive and Common
wealth tickets; his only opponent is
George R. Kirkpatrick, Socialist.
South Carolina Democrats will have
" to holdla runoff primary to decide be
tween Cole L. Blease, former governor"
and senator, and Olin D. Johnston,
young attorney of Spartansburg, for
the gubernatorial nomination. In a
referendum held as a guide for the leg
islature the drys were defeated.
Democrats of Mississippi also will
hold a runoff primary to determine
whether Former Governor Theodore G.
Bilbo or Senator Hubert D. Stephens
shall represent the state in the senate.
Francis j. gorman, head of the
strike committee of the United Tex
tile Workers, sent to the sectional
leaders the secret Instructions for a
general walk-out in the cotton textile
Industry on September 4. The order
afreets approximately 500,000 cotton
mill workers; and about 300,000 more
will go on strike then or soon after
In the silk, rayon and woolen mills.
"I am fully convinced," Gorman told
reporters, "that the strike not only
will materialize but will be success
ful."
The administration, however, still
hoped that the strike could be avert
ed through the efforts of the national
labor relations board heeded by Lloyd
Garrison. The union leaders have
made It plain that they expect the
strike will be Indirectly financed by
the government through the relief or
ganizations. They admit that their
unions have not sufficient funds to
carry the workers through the pros
pective period of Idleness.
SENATOR THOMAS D. SCHALL of
Minnesota, Republican, engaged
in an acrimonious controversy with
President Roosevelt concerning the
frtrrtiar'o noonrtlnn tVint
the administration Is
seeking to curb the
press, and the blind
senator used language
that was so disre
spectful to the Chief
Executive that even
Mr. Roosevelt's sever
est critics could not
approve of It. The
President had asked
e a _ . ? Mr. Schall for the
Senator Scha ., . .
facts on which ha
based his recent assertion - that
plans are under consideration for
"a national press service to take the
place of the Associated Press, the
Hearst News service and the Unit
ed Press." This service, Mr. Schall
said, would "have exclusive use
of all government news and be In a
position to give Its service only to
those newspapers loyal to the Roose
velt dictatorship."
"Once these facts are in my hands,"
said Mr. Roosevelt, "they will receive
immediate attention In order to make
impossible the things you say will be ;
done, because I am Just as much op
posed to them as you are."
The senator immediately sent to the
President and made public a 630 word
letter in which he said in part:
"You ask me for 'Information' con
cerning what you yourself have done.
Are you attempting to secure the facts
so that you may be in a position to re
fute yourself?
"Your telegram to me bears out the
suggestion of the constant effort to
mislead and fool the public. Your de
sire to make yourself appear before
the people of the United States as cham
pion of a free press may be as insin
cere as your promises to the people
when you accepted the Democratic
nomination at Chicago with the state
ment that you were for their platform
100 per cent.
"To date you have not kept one
of the covenants you pledged the peo
ple at that time. Let me recall your
testy anger at your disappointment In
keeping out of the press code the ex
pression of a free press."
Schall went on to cite what he
called "specific evidence" of an lnten- j
tlon by the President to force a cen- i
sorship of the press so that "your acts
and the acts of your Communistic
bureaucrats might be hidden from pub
lic gaze."
Mr. Roosevelt sent the senator an
answer sharply rebuking him for his
"vituperative" letter "which gives no
facts and does not answer my simple
request." In conclusion he said: "The
Incident is closed."
BRITISH people the world over re
joiced at the announcement that
Prince George, fourth son of the king,
was engaged to wed the lovely Prin
cess Marina, niece 01
the late King Constan
tlne of Greece. The
announcement from
the palace In London
said: "It Is with the
greatest pleasure that
the king and queen
announce the betroth
al of their dearly be
loved son Prince
George to Princess
Marina, daughter ot
I'rince and Princess George
Nicolas of Greece, to which union the
king has gladly given his consent." j
An acquaintance that dated back j
five years to the young couple's first
meeting in London ripened into love
at the summer home of Prince Paul of
Jugoslavia, where Prince George and j
Princess Marina have been visiting.
The princess, who was educated- in
Athens, Paris, and London, tipeakg
fluently French, English, Greek, Rus
sian, and German. She inherits all the
beauty and charm of her Russian
mother and the pleasing personal
qualities of her father.
DESPITE the polish denials that a
secret pact has been concluded
between Germany and Poland, La
Llberte, nationalist newspaper of
Paris, charges that such a treaty has
been signed, and gives Its alleged
stipulations which provide that Poland
shall relinquish the Polish corridor to
the reich In exchange for German sup
port of a Polish attempt to gain con
trol of Lithuania, peaceably or other
wise.
The nationalist organ reports In ad
dition five military and territorial ar
ticles and the fact that the treaty con
tains a series of economic agreements.
The chief of the latter calls for fur
nishing raw materials to Germany by
Poland, even in time of war, In return i
for German exports to Poland. ,
Baseball Is Revived at Its Birthplace
THE first game of baseball was
played at Cooperstown, N. Y., In ?
1839 on a diamond laid out by CoL ?
Abner Doubleday who Invented the I
game that soon became the great >na- Ls
tlonal pastime. Recently Doubleday &
field, named for blm, was rededlcated I
with much ceremony, and a ball game jtfe
was played by local talent before a H
large gathering. I
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
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HANDSOME, HAPPY CHICOREE
ur\[D you ever see a happier fel
low than my cousin, Chicoree?"
demanded Linnet the Purple Finch of
Peter Rabbit, as they watched Chic
oree coming toward them. 'Til ven
ture to say that he has been having
such a good time that he hasn't even
thought of building a nest, and here
half the people In the Old Orchard
have grown families. I've got a nest
and eggs myself, but that madcap Is
Just roaming about having a good
time. Isn't that so, Chicoree?"
"Isn't what so?" demanded Chico
ree, perching very near to where Lin
net was sitting.
"Isn't It true that you haven't even
begun thinking about a nest?" de
manded Linnet.
"Quite true, but what of It?" said
Chicoree. "There's time enough to
think about nest-bulldlng and house
hold cares later. Meanwhile Mrs.
Goldfinch and I are making the most
of this beautiful season to roam about
and have a good time. For one thing, i
we like thistledown to line our nests, I
And there Isn't any thistledown yet.
Then there is no sense in raising a
family until there is plenty of the
right kind of food, and you know we
Goldfinches live mostly on seed. Just
as soon as the children are big enough
to hunt their own food they need
seeds, so there Is no sense In trying
to raise a family until they can find
plenty of seeds when needed. How do
you like my summer suit. I'eter?"
"It's beautiful." cried Peter. "That
black cap certainly is very smart and
becoming."
Chicoree cocked his head on one
side the better to show oft that black
cap. The rest of his head and his
whole body were bright yellow. His
wings were black with two white bars
on each. His tall also was black with
some white on It. In size he was a
trifle smaller than Linnet and alto
gether one of the smartest dressed of
all the little people who wear feath
ers. It was a Joy Just to look at him.
If Peter had known anything about
canaries, which of coure he didn't, be
cause canaries are always kept In
cages, he would have understood how
Chicoree Is often called the Wild
Canary.
"I suppose," said Peter, "It sounds
foolish of me to ask if you are a mem
ber of the same family as Linnet."
"Very foolish, Peter, very foolish,"
laughed Chicoree. "We belong to the
same family, and a mighty fine fam
ily It Is. Now I must go over to the
Old Pasture to see how the thistles are
coming on."
Away he flew, calling "Chic-o-ree,
per-chic-o-ree, chic-o-ree!" As he flew
he rose and fell in the air in much
the same way Yellow-Wing the Flicker
does.
?. T. W. BurgeM.?WNU Service.
HoiHS
UNUSUAL DISHES
WE ALL like to serve occasionally
something a bit different and out
of the ordinary, but for the daily diet
the common foods simply served we
enjoy the best.
Golden Coconut Shortcake.
Allow two slices of sponge cake for
each serving. Prepare orange sauce
by using one cupful of orange Juice
thickened with corn starch, adding a
bit of sugar and hatter. Cover each
slice of the cake with the sauce in
safidwich fashion, cover with thinly
sliced oranges and top with freshly
grated and sweetened coconut.
Stuffed Tomato Salad.
Scoop out the centers of six ripe
even sized tomatoes. Chop the centers
and add one cupful of c ?oked rice. I
one-half cupful of diced celery, four j
tablespoonfnls of cheese grated, one
hard cooked egg, two tahlespoonfuls
, "fit; tiiiinll iminn, all 1
minced; season with salt, a Ifttle lem
on Juice and any other desired season
ing. Fill the tomato cups and chill.
Serve on lettuce with salad dressing.
Pot of Gold Dessert.
Mix one-half cupful of sugar with
one-fourth cupful of cornstarch, add
a bit of salt and a cupful of rich milk. |
one cupful of orange Juice and when j'
cooked until smooth and thick In a
double boiler add two tahlespoonfuls j
of butter and the well beaten yolks j
of two eggs. Lot cook until smooth. |
Serve molded In individual molds, with
whipped cream.
Maple Junket.
Dissolve one Junket tablet In a table
spoonful of cold water, add to a pint
of lukewarm milk, a little almond
llavorlng and a half cupful of maple
sirup. Serve with the top of the sher
bet glasses sprinkled with grated
maple sugar or sprinkled with finely
shredded almonds.
Vavamna- ''r<n?
"Quite True, but What of It7" Said
Chicoree.
WITTY KITTY
By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM
.. ? ? '
The girl chum tays picking out her
speed boat for next seafson was easy
in comparison with the ordeal in store
?picking out her first spring hat.
WN'TT |Urvlc?
i QUESTION BOX
I Br ED WYNN...
|j The Perfect Fool
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I met a friend of mine today I i
haven't seen In years. He told me his j
father died on the "scaffold." He ;
didn't seem ashamed to tell me about r
it, that's what got my goat. Can you
account for a fellow who will go
around and say a thing like that .
about his father, without blushing?
Sincerely,
L D. CLAIRE.
Answer: Because your friend told
you his father died on the "scaffold''
it doesn't necessarily mean he was
hanged for murder. He might have
been a bricklayer and. If so, probably
felL
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I am secretary of a little social
club. We needed some money, so we
decided to raffle off a piano. We had
2,000 tickets printed to sell at a dol
lar apiece. A day after they were *11
sold, our club rooms caught fire and
the piano was burned to ashes. We
are in a quandary what to do. What
can you suggest?
Sincerely,
C. SHARP.
Answer: Very simple. Hold the raf
fle just as you had intended and in
stead of finding out who won the pi- j
ano, you'll find out who lost the piano.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
An uncle of mine told me his daugh
ter, who is seven years of agev has
a pet "clam" with which she plays.
He even tried to make me believe that
the "clam" would get In bed at night
and cuddle up along side of his daugh
ter's neck and sleep. It sounds silly
to me. Do you believe it?
Sincerely.
C. FOOD.
Answer: Of course. I believe it. Ia
the first place the girl Is seven years
of age. That means she is quite small. I
being small she must have a tiny neck. I
The reason the clam cuddles by her
neck is very plain. It probably is a
"Little Neck Clam."
Dear Mr. Wyim:
Do yon believe in the old saying:
"It s the deeds that count, net words"?
Soars truly,
ROSIE CHEEKS.
Answer: Not when I'm sending l
telegram.
& the Associated Vsvsra&era
W\C Hrr ct
Perfume Quiets Nerves
In Asia, perfume is widely used to
quiet the nerves and aid digestion.
Many Oriental peoples rest after earn
meal, lnhaiing their favorite scene in
the belief that the mental state thus
created Induces a relaxation and con
tentment beneficial to assimilation.?
Collier's Weekly.
^YOII Know?
That pie. according to recent
report, is the supreme na
tional dessert of America?
with the apple predominant.
It is estimated that the
American people consume
1.500.000 pies a day.
?. by McCl u ? * N*?*p?p? smAic***.
WNT7 S#frtcf
Sometimes I Wake?
By ANNE CAMPBELL
SOMETIMES I wake and tremble in
the dark.
Thinking of yon, across the mile* of
night.
Your lamp of life barn* with a feeble
spark.
1 do not know when on e winged
flight
Ton will be through with living's
sweet delight.
But this I know: when In the distant
blue.
Tour soul shlnet out, a new and lovely
star,
On such a night as this my thought*
of you
Will come and linger near you where
you are.
The light of your pure spirit will
reach far,
Just as it finds me now, to lay a hand
Upon my consciousness with yon
apart:
Speaking yf love while midnight an
gels stand?
Dark sentinels who, with their woe
ful art.
Lay bands of black foreboding on my
heart.
Copyright.?WXU S^rrie*.
Kidnaped Pup Bach, Ransom Paid
MllS. FKANCKS llLJLHJl.NSKY of Wlnthrop, Mass., shown with her pet ter
rier, "Kid Koots Ace," with whom she was reunited after she had paid
ransom money to Chicago crooks who kidnaped the dog last February. Maybe
"Kid Boots Ace" wasn't glad to be home again, tool