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The Alamance Gleaner VOL. LX. ' GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 13, 1934. NO. 45. News Review of Current Events the World Over Davis Warns Japan Against Scrapping Naval Treaty? Peaceful Agreement for Saar Plebiscite?Moley and Richberg to Industrialists. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? by Western Newspaper Union. NORMAN H. DAVIS, American am bassador-at-large and our chief representative in the naval limitation conversations that have been going on Id London, nas given plain warning to Ja pan that if that na tion insists on scrap ping the Washington naval treaty, security will be endangered, suspicion created and the world forced into a costly naval con struction race. Mr. Davis was addressing the American Corre spondents' association N. H. Davis in ixmuuu, uui ilia worus were mi'lliiI for all the world to hear, and as his speech was the first comprehensive statement of the American position since the opening of the conversations. It was regarded as of the greatest Im portance. He also announced, for the first time, that President Roosevelt has proposed "a substantial all-around re duction In naval armaments." Mr. Davis said that, since no agree ment for armament reduction has been reached, the Dnited States advocates the continuance of the Washington and London treaties with their assurance of "equality of security." Asserting that the Washington pact put an end to a ruinous naval race and established "a sound basis for peace In the Pacific and the Far East," he continued: "Only by maintenance of the system of equality of security, with propor tionate reductions downward of naval strength If possible, can there be main tained the substantial foundation for security and peace which has thus been laid. "Abandonment now of the principles Involved would lead to conditions of Insecurity, of International suspicion, and of costly competition. With no real advantage to any nation." Unofficially, It Is said that when Ja pan gives formal notice that she is de nouncing the Washington treaty, prob ably on December 20, the United States will Immediately withdraw from the discussions In London. Officials In Washington consider that to continue the conversations would be tantamount to acquiscence to Japan's demand for modification of the ratios on which the treaty Is based. No more than any other nation does the United States wish to see the re vival of the race in naval construction, but the government will not tolerate the decllnp of our navy to a subordi nate place. Recent utterances of cab inet members and of congressmen who especially have to do with naval affairs make this plain. in his annual report to the President, Secretary of the Navy Swanson says that although the United States may reduce Its naval strength proportion ately with other powers. It is Imper ative that a navy second to none be maintained. He warns also of the dangerous shortage of personnel in the nary, saying that "ships are valueless unless manned by adequate crews of trained, experienced officers and men." THE government of Jugoslavia has decided to expel all the 27,000 Hun garians now living in that country. The process will be gradual but re lentless. Already more than 2,000 have been deported and more are being sent away daily. Hungary called the action of Jugoslavia to the attention of the League of Nations. DEACEFUL solution of the Saar * plebiscite problem seemed assured when the council of the League of Na tions unanimously and gladly adopted the report of the Saar committee em bodying the Franco-German agreement for payment for the mines In case the region votes to return to the reich. ? Leading op to this settlement were two announcements of utmost Importance. First, Foreign Minister Pierre I-aval of France prqmi^ed that French troops would make no attempt to enter the Saar territory before or during the vote on January 13. "I desire to an nounce," said he "that France will not participate In any International force which It may be found necessary to send Into the Saar. We cannot par ticipate In such a force because Ger many cannot participate." Then CapL Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, told the council that Great Britain would contribute troops to the proposed International force, pro vided Chancellor Hitler of Germany were willing that such an army should be sent into the territory. When Ber lin was Informed of this, a foreign office spokesman announced that Hit ler's government would raise no objec tions to the plan. All this was in effect a victory for the policies of CoL Geoffrey G. Knox, the league commissioner of the Saar, for he has long advocated the crea tion of an international police force for the territory. Delegates of Italy and Czechoslo vakia declared their countries would send troops, and Maxim LItvinov, Soviet foreign commissar, said he be lieved Russia would be willing to sup ply a part of the league force. DISPATCHES from Warsaw said the Poles were amazed and alarmed by the Franco-German agree ment because they feared the under standing between those two nations would be extended to include Great Britain and Italy. The foreign office hinted that in that case Poland's re lations with Russia might be made closer. Poland resents being left out in the cold, for she is determined to be recognized as one of the great pow ers, and to play her part in the stabil ization of peace in Europe. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned from Warm Springs to his recondi tioned executive offices in Washington with the greater part of his winter program completed. It will be pre sented to congress in his annual mes sage on' January' 3; The major items have to do with expansion of the pub lic works administration to provide worls relief, revision of the NIIA and the AAA, extension of power develop ments, /social security insurance and low cost housing, and the paring down of the budget. \/f EMBERS of the Mid-Continent Re clamation association, represent ing 19 states, met-in Chicago and per fected plans, for a soil erosion and flood, control program, to cost $900,000, 000, which the association will recom mend to the federal government with a request for a survey to determine its practicability. The plan, which was developed by A. B. Hulit of Chicago, involves the construction of canals and dams over an area extending from northern North Dakota through Texas to control flood waters originating on the eastern slopes of the Rocky moun tains. INTERESTING statements were made to the American Congress of Indus try in New York by two of the Presi dent's closest advisers, Raymond Moley and Donald Richberg, director of the nation al emergency council. Professor Moley de clared there is no j workable substitute < for the present cap * Italistic economic sys tem. "Basically," he said, "the New Deal was an effort to save | capitalism and, by spreading the range of opportunity under it, to enable the aver age maD to regain a measure of con trol over the conditions under which he lived. It seemed to me in 1933, as it seems to me now, that this effort to save capitalism was wise and Just "By no stretch of the Imagination could the vote of November, 1932, have been interpreted as a mandate for the abandonment of the capitalistic system. Finally, even had there been such a mandate, there was and is no work able substitute for our present system." Moley expressed much optimism re garding business. He told the indus trialists, in effect, that they need have no fear of any radical change in the present economic and social order, that industry was needed to stimulate trade, bring about recovery, and that In the last analysis it .would be the business men who would distribute the wealth of the nation. Mr. Richberg admitted the NRA t^ia not achieved all its aims in its effort to bring about industrial self-govern-, ment, but insisted that its fundamental principles must be preserved in perma nent legislation for codes of fair com petition. He warned the manufacturers that the permanent law must be written in co-operation with labor and consumers, as well as private business and gov ernment, so that there should be nei ther work-consumer regimentation by business nor business regimentation by government. He hinted that If employers consent ed to legal restriction in return for In creased power under the codes, organ ized labor would be called upon to do likewise In submitting to legislative control. Donald Richberg Organized labor was soundly berated by, C. L. Bardo, president of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers. He said its contribution to national recovery had been "the most wide spread inauguration of strikes, co ercion, intimidation, and violence that the United States has ever seen, as evidenced by strikes In Minneapolis, Cleveland, textile industries, and the general strike at San Francisco." Bardo pledged the united opposition of the National Association of Manu facturers to the efforts of the Ameri can Federation of Labor to obtain through congress legislation imposing a 30-hour week on Industry, or any other effort to "fix a rigid and arbi trary work week for all industry." Industry's platform for recovery, which was proposed at a meeting of the national industrial council, urging return to the gold standard, a balanced budget, and other orthodox economic measures, was adopted. LORD RIDDELL, who during the World war was Lloyd George's chief liaison officer with the press of the world, is dead in London. He gained fame and great wealth as a newspaper publisher. As a reward for his war work Riddell was made a peer in 1918. His voice over the telephone carried the first news to England of the signing of the Versailles treaty. For some time after the war he continued to be a friend and confidant of Lloyd George. Later there were political dif ferences, % but while the close liaison ceased the two men never ceased to be ? friends. Lord Riddell leaves no heir and the title expires with him. SERGEI KIROV, one of the most prominent members of the Russian ! Communist party's political bureau, was assassinated in Leningrad, and as | lie was a close asso ciate of Stalin his death was the -occa sion of public mourn ing. The government announced that the assassin was Leonid Nicolleff and that he "was sent by the ene mies of the working class." But It appears there is something I more to the event ; Sergei K rov than a mere murder. A dispatch from Warsaw said ten Red army officers had been executed as the ! result of a plot to assassinate all Soviet leaders at the same time. The Moscow government denied this story, but at the same time It was put ting under arrest scores of White Guards, enemies of the Soviet regime, accusing them of "terroristic action." They were tried by a military colle gium of the Supreme court and sixty six of them, including one woman, were found guilty and immediately executed. The names of those executed were officially announced. Among them ap parently were none of the leaders who had figured prominently with the White armies during the civil warfare following the Bolshevist revolution. Nor were there any names of men who have had national prominence subsequently in Russia. The executions were carried out while Kirov's body was being cremat ed. He was given a state funeral and his ashes were placed in the Com- j munlsts* Valhalla beside the wall of the Kremlin where rest the remains of Lenin, John Reed and other heroes of the Red revolution. CENTRAL, western and northern ^ sections of Honduras were devas tated by a series of earthquake shocks continuing through rwo days. The ex tent of the disaster is unknown at this writing for all communication systems were crippled, but It was reported j that at least three towns of consider- I able size, Copas, Cabanas and Santa Rita, were nearly destroyed. PRESIDENT MUSTAPHA KEMAL of Turkey has become the Idol of all the women of his nation, for. after giving them such social rights as emancipation from the harem, he has , given them political rights. At his in stance the national assembly unani- [ mously decided that any Turkish worn an more than thirty years old is eligi ble to election to the chamber of depu ties, and that all women over twenty two years of age can vote in the na tional elections. Thousands of women telegraphed their "deepest gratitude" to Kemal. BUSINESS leaders of the country ---who are members of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States de mand a reform of the government's budgetary methods. Through a refer endum they have given approval to thirteen proposals to this end. One step recommended was "a more active centralized administrative con trol of expenditures." This would be obtained by "broadening the execu tlve allotment system of fund? so as to include all expenditures, ordinary and emergency, and strengthening It so as to avoid the necessity of defici ency appropriations." This recommendation for broader control by the administrative branch of the government also suggested that "when feasible" expenditures be re duced below appropriations. Question box i bED WYNN ? The Perfect Fool | Dear Mr. Wynn: I have just been convicted and sen tenced to Jail for twenty years. I un derstand a prisoner has his choice of jobs when he Is sent to prison. Twenty years Is a long time. Can you tell me what position I should pick out? Yours truly, A. ITZTCFF. Answer: When the warden asks you what you want to do tell him you want to be a sailor. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am troubled with.Insomnia. I can't seem to sleep at night. It worries me very much. What remedy do you sug gest to stop me worrying? Sincerely, IKE ANTSLEEP. Answer: Jump on a train and go to Virginia, get some of that corn whisky they make down there, take 3 drinks of it and you won't care a rap If you sleep or not. Dear Mr. Wynn: Can you tell me why a giraffe's neck is so long? Yours truly, ARCH OLOGIST. Answer: My. dear chap, the reason a giraffe's neck Is so long is merely because its head Is so far away from its body. Dear Mr. Wynn: A friend of mine whom I haven't seen for three years came Into my office yesterday. I always thought he was tall, but yesterday he looked short to me. He told me he had Just pot ten married. Could, that have anything to do with him looking shorter than before? Sincerely, I. GLASS. Answer: That Is the whole story In a nutshell. He used to be tall, but since lie married he probably settled down. Dear Mr. Wynn: I own a cafe which only does a small business. I can't afford a caba ret and do not know how to enter tain my customers. Can you suggest any way of me giving my customers some enjoyment while dining? Yours truly, E. TINGPLACE. Answer: Serve them some waffles and alphabet soup and they can make up their own cross word puzzles. ?. the Associated Newspapers. WNU Service. Barbados Has Clean Record Of all the land in the western hemisphere, no part of it has a cleaner early history than Barbados, observes a writer In the Detroit News. The island was uninhabited when the crew of the Olive Blossom took possession of It in 1003, and it was still without inhabitants when it was settled by Englishmen in 1627. Thus no one was dispossessed in Barbados, and the island has had a peaceful record un der the British flag ever since it was first unfolded. Bedtime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS A WONDERFUL SWIMMER IN THE moonlight on the bank of I the Big River Peter Rabbit sat gos siping with Honker the Goose. Sud- l denly they were interrupted by a wild, I strange cry from the middle of the Big i River. It was like crazy laughter. I Peter Jumped at the sound, but I Honker merely chuckled. "It's Dippy the Loon," said Honker. "He spends the summer in the Far North not far from us and started south Just before we did." "1 wish he would come in here so that I could get a good look at hirn and make his acquaintance," said Peter. 44IIe may, but I doubt it," replied Honker. "You know Dippy practically lives on the water and rarely comes ashore. He's about the most awkward fellow on land of anyone 1 know of." "Why should he be any more awk ward on land than you?" asked Peter. "Because," replied Honker, "Old Mother Nature has given him very short legs and has placed them so far back on his body that he can't keep his balance to walk and has to use his wings and bill to help him over the ground. On shore he is about the most helpless thing you ever have I seen. On water he is altogether an I other fellow. lie's Just as much at home under water as on top. My, how that fellow can dive! When he sees ' the (lash of a gun he will get under water before the shot can reach him. That's where he has the advantage of us geese. You know, we can't dive. He could swim clear across this river If he wanted to. And he can swim so fast under water that he can catch fish. It is because his legs have been placed so far back that he can swim so fast His feet are nothing but big paddles. Another funny thing is that he can sink right down in the water when he wants to, with nothing but his head out 1 envy him that It would be a lot easier for us geese to escape the hunters if we could sink down that way." "Has he got a bill like yours?" asked Peter innocently. "How do you suppose he would hold on to a slippery fish if he had a bill like mine?" demanded Honker. "His bill is stout, straight and sharp-point ed. He is pretty nearly as big as I and his back, wings, tail and p^ck are black, with bluish or greenish ap pearance in the sun. His back and wings are spotted with white and there are streaks of white on his throat and on the sides of his neck. On his breast and below he Is all white. You certainly ought to get ac quainted with Dippy, Peter." "I'd like to," replied Peter, "but I guess I'll have to he content to know him just by his voice. It's ai>out as crazy sounding as the voice of Old Man Coyote and that is saying a great deal." Seeing that Honker was very tired. Peter bade him good night and left him in peace on the sandy bar in the Big River. ?. T. W. Burgess.?WNTJ Service. Jimmy Walker Now Is a "Country Gentleman ' if AMES J. WALKER, former mayor of New York, is now living the life of a country gentleman in Eng land. Our illustration shows "The Thatch," In Surrey, built hy Mrs. Walker's mother, where he and his wife reside; and Jimmy himself with Jock, his pet Seotty. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Through JEAN NEWTON A WOMAN'S EYES 11 Itlllll 111 IIIM llltlll lllllllllltll Mill IIII Mil II VANITY, THY NAME IS?? UY7ANTTY, thy name la woman!" ? There are men the author of :hat quotation did not know. One of [hem, a motion picture actor, killed ilmself the other day because he had jot too old to play romantic parts. There were other circumstances :ontribut!ng to his despondency, of course. There had been Illness and inanclal loss. But the man's beat 'riend at the time of his death said t was the prospect of playing "bit" larts with others In the romantic ?oles that was the real cause of his riving up. "His chief pride," It was said, "was his unswerving fulth In ilmself as the perfect lover' "?and rben he could no longer be that he lid not care to live. It is.a tragedy that \ye u_sed to com tect with women, that desperate bat le with the years, that Inability to trow old gracefully. Particularly vomen on the stage, whose survival n their profession was thought to de ?end on their physical charms, were issumed to live In dread of the creep ng up of Inevitable time. And yet to lay we see more and more popular ictresses outwitting that enemy. They lo It by the simple process of going ilong with time, Instead of trying to Ight It Mary Ptckford gives up sweet dxteen parts and grows up In pie ures; such a still glamorously beau Iful actress as Judith Anderson plays he modern mother of a grown son. >en on the stage a woman can be orty-five and still beautiful; she can >e sixty and still Interesting: but she Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll cannot, as a former generation al lowed Sarah Bernhardt, play accept ably a part that Is half her age. And she has discovered that her alterna tive need not he oblivion. It may be the modern demand for realism that has led actresses?as well as women In private life?to adapt themselves more frankly to the dic tates of the years, to try to use them for whatever their advantages, rather than be defeated by them. Whatever the reason, it is uncommon today to find a woman who does not know when to leave the Ingenue role for one In character. So we are spared many of the ghastly exhibitions that were fa I miliar when women thought they had to remain young or die. And If these, were tragic on the I part of women, how much more pltia uho tries, to baug I on to youth and physical glamour, how much more?at the risk of sound ing hard?Inexcusable! In every day ! life, of course, most of us find It dis I tasteful for a man to put much weight on his physical *tfractiveness. And on the stage then e so many char acter parts that a man can play, it should be far easier than for a woman to make the transition from romantic I roles before he finds himself dropped, with no recourse but the poor "bits" which naturally fall to the lot of a "has been." If Vanity's name is woman. It Is becoming hyphenated with Common . Sense. And tnen who are going to J adopt It had better follow suit with the latter, too. C- Bell 8yndlcAt?.?WNU Service. Buttons on Coat Sleeves One of the versions of the origin of the buttons on the cuffs of men's coats Is that they come from an old neces sity when the sleeves were shaped, of allowing a man the possibility of un buttoning the sleeve and rolling it back In order to wash his hands. THE DAYS THAT USED TO BE By ANNE CAMPBELL THE happy days that used to be Trail green paths of allure. The little horae that sheltered me? A nest warm and secure? Sends up its smoke against the sky Of memory. . . . Once more 1 see the golden sun climb high Above my cottage door. There never were such dawns as those? So fragrant and so clean; The dew that sparkled on the rose, The mornings silver sheen. Shed over all of us the grace Of the beginning day . . . It was the early morning face Of God that turned our way. So simple were the hours we spent. So tranquil were our days. It is small wonder that content Adorned our humble ways. And something of that beauty clings To bless us still, and bind The present to the happy Springs That we have left behind. Convrlrht.?WNU Service. Around the Corner The economonstrator. invented by Dr. II. C. Dickinson of the bureau of standards, visualizes economic con ditions to the extent of showing why they need correction and how the rem edy should be applied. New Members of La Guardia Family r T EUE are the two foster children of Mayor and Mrs. La Guardia of New LI Vork, Jean, aged sir, and Eric, four years old. They have now been legally dopted. Jean Is a niece of the mayor's first wife, who died In 1921, and Eric ? as an orphan.
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