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The Alamance gleaner := ? VOL. LX. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1934. NO. 42. News Review of Current Events the World Over President Starts His Social Reform Program, Putting Unemployment Insurance First?Visits TVA on Way to Warm Springs. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? by Western Newspaper Union. WITH the election In the back ground, President Roosevelt Is ready to pusb forward more rapidly his ambitious plans for what he calls "the abundant Ufe" in this country So be has appointed a large advisory council to aid in formulating and retting through congress his program of social reforms. Ths chairman Is Frank P. Graham, president of the Dnlverslty of North Carolina, who has been serving as vice chairman of the NRA consumers' advisory Frank P. Graham board. He and his colleagues, all known to he New Dealers or in close sympathy with the New Deal, are asked by Mr. Roosevelt "tor advice and counsel In development of a program for unemployment Insurance, old age security and adequate health care." Work on the social program already Is well under way and an executive committee has laid the groundwork. Also Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor and chairman of that execu tive committee, has named an advisory committee of physicians and surgeons that, according to advance rumors, will report a program that will be "revolu tionary almost to the point of estah listing socialized medicine." This medical group is beaded by Dr. Har vey Cushing Of Yale whose daughter Betsey Is the wife of James Roosevelt, son of the President Secretary Perkins announced that other committees were being organized to aid In the formation of plans for federal Intervention In problems of public health, hospitalization, and den tistry. WHEN the federal conference on economic security met In Wash ington, nearly all the members of the advisory committees were present The President told the delegates that he would present to the coming con gress bills to provide for setting up im mediately an unemployment Insurance program. As to health Insurance and old age pensions, he said be was not certain the time had arrived for fed eral legislation to put these Into effect and he uttered a warning against "organizations promoting fantastic schemes" and arousing hopes "which cannot possibly be fulfilled." Though Mr. Roosevelt conceded to the separate states the right to decide what type of unemployment insurance they would adopt he declared that he would reserve to the federal govern ment the right to hold and Invest and control all moneys which might be collected. This was necessary, the President j added, because of the magnitude of the funds, and "so that the use of these funds as a means of stabilization may be maintained in central management and employed on a national basis." It is expected that from $4,000,000,000 to $.">.000,000,000 would be raised in the course of several years. Mr. Roosevelt insisted that unem ployment insurance must be kept en tirely apart from the dole, and that j it should be managed strictly on an actuarially sound basis. He indicated that he favored legislation along the lines of the Wager-I^ewis bill intro duced ljj the last congress, under which a 5 per cent federal tax would be put upon all commercial pay rolls, certain portions of the proceeds being paid back to such states as had adopted legislation for the working of an un- j employment iaimnince-procraro. . Refore the conference members went to the White House to hear the Prrtfl dent, they indulged In a discussmn that brought out all sorts of views on what should be done. Relief Adminis trator Harry Hopkins and Mayor La Guardia of New York urged Immediate establishment of a federal program to Include benefits for the 4,200,000 families now on relief. Hopkins said i ?ny program not encompassing these destitute "Is not worth Its salt-* La Guardia, In the same vein, said cities j cannot hold up under the relief load j much longer. This was not In accord with the view expressed a little later by the President, and was an example of the confusloD of ideas In the con ference. TOR the purpose of obtaining better co-operation among federal agencies engaged In lending government funds, the President has appointed a commit tee consisting of the heads of the agen e'es, with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthao as chairman. The new organization will report to the Presl- | dent from time to time and its actlvl- I ties will cover the treasury, interior, public works, federal housing, farm credit. Home Owners' Loan corpora tion, agricultural adjustment adminis tration, export-import banking, com modity credit, federal deposit insur ance, the RFC, federal reserve board j and public works housing. In connection with this co-ordinating I move, the White House stated that when the present applications of the Home Owners' Loan corporation have been reduced to terms of approval the original $3.00U,0(X).000 allotment will have been used up. ANOTHER program that is being rapidly prepared by the Presi dent's advisers tor action by congress has to do with the nation's natural re sources, and the necessary legislation is being drafted by the national re sources board. It is of utmost Impor tance and in Washington there is a be lief that it may lead to government control, and possibly government own ership. of all timber lands, oil reser voirs and coal fields, and government dominion over all existing and future i water power developments on the na tion's lakes and rivers. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has gone to his winter retreat at Warm Springs. Ga., where he will remain until after Thanksgiving day, and on the way had some interesting experi ences. First he traveled to Harrods burg, Ky.. where he helped Gov. Ruhy LafToon and other officials in the un veiling and dedication of a memorial to the men and women who established there the first permanent Anglo-Saxon settlement west of the Alleghenies. The monument, erected by the federal government at a cost of $100,000, over looks Pioneer Memorial State park. It depicts an epoch rather than an event, and the only portrait among the many carved figures is that of George Rogers Clark, who there planned his conquest of the old northwest terri tory. From Harrodsburg the President I went to see the Tennessee valley devel- [ opment which has been well called the I laboratory of the "more abundant life." It was with dee|>est interest that he viewed the work that la being j done by about 1.2U0 men building dams i in the Tennessee river and tributaries to provide power, flood control, navl I gation and new fields of work for per sons drawn from unprofitable land. After a visit to the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson at Nashville. Mr. j Roosevelt Inspected the revived Muscle Shoals plants and the Wheeler and W!? son dams, and then went to Tupelo. Miss., the first town to purchase power from the new federal development. UNCLE SAM need exj>ect no pay ment from France on the war deht on December 15. when the next Instal ment is due. It Is stated In Paris that r ranee will then de fault for the fifth straight time. Pierre Etienne Flandln. new premier, opposed pay- 1 ment In 1932. when he was minister o f finance, and his cab inet is now raking the same position as the previous government ?awaiting an Anglo American settlement which would serve as a basis for Franco Premier Flandln American negotiations. The only idea for revision of the debta-dbal has meJ with any. enthusi-? asm in French parliamentary circles Is a 10 per cent payment to correspond with the reparations relief granted Germany by the Lausanne agreement. Proposals for larger amounts, or "pay ment in kind." have met-with coldness The chamber of deputies Is clinging to the position that France will not pay one cent more than it gets from Germany. ANDREW MELLON may now have another cause for grievance against the federal Treasury depart ment, for the government has made charges against the Onion Trust company of Pittsburgh, a Mellon Insti tution, of flllng "a false and fraudulent Income tax return" for 1030 In a tax action demanding payment of $218, 333 plus a 50 per cent penalty. In supporting Its claim, the govern ment listed eight transactions In 1931 as evidence that all were " a part of a false and fraudulent course of con duct on the part of said Onion Trust company." Among the 1931 transac tlona were two "accommodation" deal! with Andrew W. Mellon. Federal judge charles l DAWSON of Louisville, Ky? over ruling an attack on tbe validity of the Frazler-Lemke farm moratorium act, declared "with regret" that It la con stitutional. In his opinion he said: "Tbe legislation. In some of Its pro visions, Is unfair to creditors, and un wise even as to farm debtors, for It Inevitably closes to them all private sources of credit." FREDERICK LANDIS, the only Re publican to be elected to congress from Indiana In the recent election, died of pDeumonia In bis borne town, LogansporL He was a brother of Kenesaw M. Landls, national base ball commissioner. BUDGET requests for 800 new air planes have been submitted by the army air corps, and If the corps' plan is approved tbe United States will have the largest and most np to date mlll tory aerial armada In the world. In cluding eventually 2,400 planes. GERMAN Nazis Id the Saar, or ganized as tbe German Front, as sert that tbe French separatists have been trylDg to stir up a quarrel for the purpose of Inducing Geoffrey Knox, president of the League of Nations commission for the Saar, to call In for eign troops. The accusation was con tained In a note sent the League deny ing that the German organization has gone beyond the law In urging Inhab itants of the Saar to vote for return of their land to Germany In the pleb iscite to be held January 13. In its memorial to tbe leagne the German Front asserted that It pos sesses documents to prove that France bas sent arms Into tbe Saar and that pro French groups bave heen trained In the use of machine guns and In flammable liquids. This is for the pur pose of executing a coup d'etat late Id November or early In December, tbe German note said. SENATOR THOMAS and bis fellow 1 Inflationists were not pleased wltb the President's choice of a new rot ernor of the federal reserve board to succeed Eugene Black. He picked Marrlner S. Eccies, a Utah bank- | er, whose ideas of in flation are not at all those of Thomas, for the; do not include flat money. Mr. Eccies believes in "credit in flation"; be would control the reserve banks' purchases of government securities. Issue money against these purchases and Marriner S. Ecclet spend the new money for government bonds, thus creating an endless chain of credit arrangement. So long as this chain were maintained unbroken, the government's credit would be inex haustible. Something like fifteen billion dollars, according to Mr. Eccles, should be spent by the government for public works and housing projects, and he thinks this vast sura can be obtained by following out bis monetary plans. THE government has Issued an order permitting the free exportation of capital from the United States, and business men take this as a concession to those who demand stabilization of the currency as a prerequisite to busi ness recovery. It does not mean stabilization but Is a step toward it and Indicated the administration has dropped the idea of bringing about re covery by debasing the dollar. Pre sumably. if further attempts to cheapen the dollar In foreign exchange were contemplated, the treasury would not leave the doors open for the wholesale flight of American capital abroad. TOM MOO.NEk, vho has served 18 years of a life sentence for com plicity in the San Prancisco Prepared ness day bombing In 1916, may yet win release. The United States Supreme court consented to .ve at least pre liminary consideration to bis case, and that Is a big point In his favor. ?Tlx eouH opdeeod-the warden of Sap Quentln prison to sb v cause within 40 days why counsel for Mooney should not be granted leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The order of the court does not mean that It will review the case. CELEBRATIONS of Armistice day In the United States and the allied countries of Europe were generally marked by warnings of the dangers of another terrible war in the not distant future. At Arlington national cemetery President Roosevelt quietly laid a wreath of chrysanthemums on the grave of the Unknown Soldier while military detachments stood at atten tion, and then, as taps sounded. Mrs. Roosevelt stepped forward and placed a single white flower at the foot of the shrine. National Commander Rel grano of the American Legion was one of the speakers at Arlington, and called for adequate defense of the nation against both foreign foes and the forces of unrest that are attacking our Insti tutions. California Women Prepare to Save the Nation NINETY-FIVE women of the Santa Monica bay region In California, knowr as the "Fourth Squadron,' clad In black breecheswhite shirts, overseas caps and black boots, are being Intensively trained In cavalry manual In an open field near Culver City. The squadron Is under the command of CapL K. B. Lindsay, former army officer, who puts the girls through regular army drills, maneuvers, skirmishes, jumping and that brand of hard riding known to Uncle Sam's cav alry troops. Bedtime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS FAREWELLS AND WELCOMES A LL through the long summer Peter ** watched his feathered friends and learned things tn regard to their ways he had never suspected. As he saw them keeping the trees of the Old Or chard free of Insect pests, picking up countless seeds of weeds everywhere, and helping Farmer Brown in his gar den, he began to understand something of the wonderful part these feathered people have In keeping God's Great World beautiful and worth living In. He had many a hearty laugh as he watched the bird babies learn to fly and to find their own food. All about him all summer long they were going to school, learning how to watch out for danger and how to use their eyes and ears and all the things a bird must know who would live to grow np. As the days grew shorter and fall drew near Peter discovered that his feathered friends were gathering In flocks and roaming here and there. It was one of the first signs that summer was nearly over, and It gave him Just a little feeling of sadness. He heard few songs, for he singing season was over. Also he discovered that many of the hitherto most beautifully dressed of his feathered friends had changed their finery for sober traveling suits in preparation >or the long Journey far south where they would spend the win ter. The fact Is, he actually failed to recognize some of them at first September came and some of Peter's friends bade him good-by. They were starting on the long Journey, planning to take It In easy stages for the most part. Each Jay saw some fly away. As Peter thought of the dangers before them he wondered rather wistfully If he would ever see them again. But some there were who lingered even after Jack Frost's first visit Welcome and Mrs. Robin, Winsome and Mrs. Bluebird, Little Friend the Song Spar row and his wife were among these. But by and by even they were forced to leave. Sad Indeed and lonely would these days have been for Peter had It not been that with the departure of the friends he had spent so many happy hours with was the arrival of certain other friends from the Far North, PoYOI J Know i :?n That the word "stocking" comes to us from "stock" which was formerly used as a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches or "upper stocks" and stock ings or "nether stocks." The use of stockings origi nated in the cold countries of northern Europe, the earliest being made of skins. ?. bjr II c CI u re Newspaper Syndicate WVTT Service where they had their summer homes. Some of these stopped for a few days only. Others came to stay, and f*eter was kept busy looking for and wel coming them. A few old friends of the summer would stay all winter. Sammy Jay was one, Downy and Hairy, the Woodpeckers, were others. And one there was whom Peter loves dearly; it was Tommy Tit the Chicakadee. ?? T. W Burgess.?WNU Service. Boot FISH AND FISH SAUCES FISH Is always In season, as canned, pickled and smoked tish are avail able in almost any inland city when the fresh ones are not to be found In the market There are occasions other than In hot weather when jellied hsh Is desirable; the following Is a fa vorite: Jellied Fith. Remove the bones and skin of a two pound hsh. Chop Hue and add a half cupful of water, a teaspoonful of grat ed onion, two dozen b'anched and fine ly chopped almonds and a dash of cay enne. When all these ingredients are well blended pack into a mold and steam for an hour. Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise dressing. Fish a ?a Reine. Tut one tablespoonful of butter into a saucepan and when melted add one tablespoonful ot flour, mix well and add one cupful o: rich milk, stir and cook until smooth. Remove from the heat and add the yolk of one egg and three mushrooms finely chopped, a tablespoonful of minced parsley, one half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of pepper. Add to this one and one-half cupfuls of flaked tish?any cold boiled or canned tish will serve. Heat over hot water and serve in potato baskets. Sauce Tartar. I'lace four .*gg yolks, four table spoonfuls of water, and four table spoonfuls of olive oil together. Stand In a dish of hot water and stir until the mixture thickens; take from the heat, add a table?|xw?nful of tarragon vinegar, two cbop|>ed olives, one chopped sour pickle and a tablespoon ful of capers chopped fine; add one tablesjHKjnful of finely minced parsley, a half t^asooonful of salt and a dash of cayenne. Serve at once. e. W??t*rn N*w*pap+r Union. ? Gieie&p "The one advantage of only having the one dress," says poverish Priscilia "is the absence of the worry of what to vear tomorrow.'* ? Bell Svndlcete ? WNII Service (QUESTION BOX By ED WYNN... Th? Parfact Fool Dear Mr. Wynn: I am a bank messenger and carry an enormous pay roll every Tuesday. With all this crime wave going on what would you advise me to do? Sincerely, S. CARED. Answer: Play safe. Dear Mr. Wynn: I have been keeping company with a young lady for two years. We are engaged to be married. Every time I kiss her she closes her eyes. Why does she do that? Sincerely. J. CUPS. Answer: Send me your photograph and I'll answer that. Dear Mr. Wynn: I read some statistics In the papers regarding auto accidents and It said that most of the women pedestrians who were hit by automobiles, strange to say, were hit by women drivers. How do you account for that? Yours truly, V. HICKLE. Answer: That Is the most natural thing In the world. It Is woman's na ture to ruD down her own sex. Dear Mr. Wynn: Can you tell me what Is meant by the expression, "Hush money"? Sincerely, IMA NASS. Answer: "Hush money" means the wages that are paid to babies' nurses. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 live In Newark, N. J. I know a noy who is now serving a term In Sing Sing prison. I was thinking of going Only the Lonely Hearted Know * By ANNE CAMPBELL ONLY the lonely hearted know How dark the midnight hoar. When heavy lies their weight of woa. And closed is Hope's bedraggled flower. Only the lonely hearted thrill To dawn's awakening. Watching the sun upon the hill. Hearing the birds of morning dug. Only the lonely hearted find In painful pathways trod, A poised and well-contented mind A kinship with the living God Copyright.?WNU Bervlco. In Brown Ermine This finger-tip length swagger coat of soft brown ermine has a wide Peter l'an collar. It Is trimmed with square, natural wood buttons up to see him. Can you tell me tbs "fare" there? lours truly, L ROB. TOO. Answer: The "fare" Is the same as ever. Just bread and water. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am going with a girl about twenty years of age. I am about twenty-one years old. I Just can't make her oat. One thing puzzling me Is every time 1 call on her, before the evening's over she Invariably says: "Ton tickle me." What have you to say a boat that? Sincerely, P. KINW. Answer: If you know her waB enough, do It. Dear Mr. Wynn: My son, twenty-three years of ago, does not seem fit for any occupation for the simple reason he walks In Us sleep. What can I do with blm? Yours truly, N. SOMNIA. Answer: Make blm a policeman. C. the Awxx-lafed Newspapers. WNU Service. Named "Bottle" Trees Evergreen trees with trunks shaped like soda water bottles, discovered la Australia, are named "bottle trees." What Duke Did With Its S40,000,000 . ? TK.N years ago people asked: "What will Duke college do as the mala bene ficiary of the $40,000,000 James B. Duke endowment?" This excellent air lianorama gives the answer. On the edge of Durham township In North Carolina Is Duke university, surrounded by a .I.OUU-acre campus; one of the most compact and beautiful In America. The unit was first occupied In 11130 after the comple tion of a JJU.onu.oou building program. In the foreground Is the stadium, seating 3.1.000 persons. Also shown are the various athletic lields, baseball diamonds and tennis courts The building unit is 4,1.16 feet long and is dominated by the 210-foot chapel tower which contains a carillon of 50 bells The unit Includes a medical school with a hospital of 4.10 beds with a separate f6.000.000 endow ment. All of the buildings are of Gothic architecture. Physical development has been paralleled hy academic growth. The Duke library has nearly 400,000 volumes and the faculty Includes many Internationally known scholars and 1 scientists
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