The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LXI. * _fiB
GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY JULY 18, 1935. NQ g4
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Lobbying and Virgin Islands Investigations Develop Lively
Scraps?House "Rebels" Are Tame Concerning
TV A Amendments.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Western Newspaper Union.
FIFTY thousand dollars was appropri
ated by the house for Investigation
by the rules committee of lobbying for
and against bills affecting utilities Inter
ncto PonroeontoHro
VOIO. *?VJJlVOVUlUHI V
Rankin of Mississippi
declared that Repre
sentative O'Connor of
New York, chairman
of the committee, was
unlit to conduct the
Inquiry because he
was antagonistic to
the administration.
O'Connor, rising to
reply, was given an
ovation by the house,
and promised the In
vestlgation would be thorough and Im
partial.
Already the committee had begun Its
work, the first witness being Repre
sentative Brewster of Maine, who de
clared Thomas G. Corcoran, New Deal
lawyer, had tried to force him to vote
for the "death sentence" provision In
the utilities bill by threats of stop
ping work on the Passamaquoddy
project Corcoran was then put on the
stand and denied the main features of
Brewster's story, whereupon the Maine
congressman shouted, "You're a liar."
Corcoran explained with facility his
activities in behalf of the utilities
measure. He said he was assigned to
help with the original drafting of the
bill "through a direct request from the
President" Senators Wheeler and Ray
burn, be said, asked him to help bring
?bout passage of the bill.
The senate committee on audit and
controls reported favorably on a reso
lution calling for a $50,000 appropria
tion to Investigate lobbying In connec
tion with all legislation at this session,
and the resolution was adopted by the
senate.
DERHAPS It wag the summer heat
* In Washington; perhaps there was a
lot of pressure from the direction of
the White House. Anyhow, the hack
bones of the house Democrats, recent
ly so stiff against "dictation" by the
administration, weakened mpst notice
ably when the house took up the re
drafting of the Tennessee Valley au
thority act. Nearly all the recent
"rebels" among the Democrats fell Into
line and the bill was shorn of every
major provision that was objectionable
to the President These amendments
were approved:
To delete a clause saying the TVA
must sell power or chemicals at not
less than cost after July 1, 1937.
To let the TVA operate without ab
solute control by the comptroller gen
eral o\?r Its expenditures.
To delete a section preventing the
agency from constructing power lines
paralleling existing private ones.
To let the authority decide whether
private Interests may build dams or
appurtenwit works on the Tennessee
river or tributaries.
This victory greatly heartened the
administration forces, and they pressed
forward to try for another in the
conference on the utilities bill. Also
In the senate they carried on a deter
mined fight for the amendments broad
ening the powers of the AAA. Sena
tors Borah and Byrd were the chief
opponents of the New Dealers In this
latter battle.
/~\NE of the hottest scraps of the
^ year developed between Secretary
of the Interior Ickes and Senator Tyd
lngs of Maryland over the Inquiry Into
lue administration or
Gov. Paul M. Pearson
In the Virgin Islands.
The secretary accused
the senator of "white
washing" a witness
before the Tydlngs
committee; and the
senator retorted by
advlslDg the secretary
to "confine yourself to
the duties for which
you hare been ap
pointed." Both of
ttiem were thoroughly angry and Tyd
ings in a letter accused Ickes of seek
ing "cheap publicity."
Federal Judge T. Webber Wilson of
the Virgin Islands had given testimony
that exasperated Ickes and the sec
retary demanded that the Judge be re
moved from oflice for "official miscon
duct" Then Ickes wrote to Tydings
a letter carrying his charge of "white
washing" and saying of the Judge's
testimony: "There was no cross-ex
amination to test bis truthfulness, and
if any statement ever needed such a
test it was h(s."
Judge Wilson had told the commit
tee that there had been "administra
tive Interference" with his court and
that Morris Ernst, counsel for the
Civil Liberties union, while a guest
of Governor Pearson, had threatened
to put him "on the spot" In the press
unless he granted a rehearing to a
government employee accused of theft.
Tydings accused Secretary Ickes of
"gross deceit upon the American peo
ple" by stating In an Interior depart
ment press release that Paul C. Yates,
administrative assistant of Pearson,
had been discharged, when "you know
and I know that Mr. Yates had re
signed five days before your press re
lease was issued."
' I v0 PROVIDE quick employment and
end the dole, the entire four-billion
dollar works-relief fund must be ex
pended within the next twelve months.
Such was the flat statement of Presi
dent Roosevelt to the State PWA direc
tors, who were gathered in Washington
for a two day conference. After dis
cussing the old PWA program, the
President said: "You are now an im
portant part of an even greater effort?
one to be made during the next year
which will provide quick employment,
so that we can attain, if possible, the
goal we have set within this year 1935.
Before the year is ended we will end
the dole we have been paying to em
ployable persons during the last two
years. In other words, we must give
useful work to three and one-half mil
lion people and I believe we are going
to do it
"In order to do it, of course, we
are faced by a problem of arithmetic
which is comparatively simple. We
have four billion dollars and three and
one-half million people to put to work
with It That means we have to av
erage things up. It means that we
have on the average about $1,140 per
man year.
"That has to Include the cost of the
material, so that the four billion dol
lars Includes not only the amount we
pay the men but also the cost of the
material."
STANDING atop a cannon, Benito
Mussolini told 15,000 Black Shirt
volunteers and the world as well that
In the matter of Ethiopia "We have de
ciuea upon a oirugijie
in which we as a
government and a
people will not turn
back. The decision is
Irretrievable."
Unless Emperor
Halle Selassie gets
right down on his
knees to II Duce, the
war In his dominion
will begin in Septem
ber when the rainy
season ends. No one
expects the "king of kings" to submit
tamely, so other nations are advising
their nationals In Ethiopia to get out of
the country. William Perry George,
the American charge d'affaires at Ad
dis Ababa, was authorized by the State
department to advise American citizens
to leave, or take whatever other steps
he deemed necessary to protect their
safety.
Mr. George transmitted to the em
peror the rather curt reply of the
American government to his majesty's
appeal for aid in stopping Italy. Sec
retary of State Hull, writing by au
thority of the President, told the em
peror the United States was "loath to
believe" the two countries actually will
engage in warfare as they are both
signatories of the Kellogg pact. The
note also pointed out that the arbitra
tion proceedings might arrive at a sat
isfactory decision.
The chances that war might be
averted by the arbitrators seemed
slight Those gentlemen met again at
Scbevenlngen and their session was
disrupted by the Italian representa
tives when a spokesman for Ethiopia
set forth the fact that Ualual, scene
of the bloody clash last December, is
well within the Ethiopian border.
Emperor Haile Selassie made an
other attempt to get International ac
tion by calling for a meeting of the
League of Nations council to thresh
out the dispute with Italy. At the
same time the emperor appealed to the
world for fair play and protested to
five European powers against their re
fusal to permit the shipment of arms
and munitions to Ethiopia. It. was
said in Geneva the league council prob
ably would be called into session with
in a few weeks. The protest about
arms shipments was not likely to do
Ethiopia any good. Indeed, it was said
Great Britain had provisionally Joined
the nations banning such transactions. |
/COMPTROLLER GENERAL M'CARL '
doesn't care where the chips fall
when he starts hewing. He has Just
given an opinion that ruins the Pres
ident's plan to require bidders on gov
ernment contracts to bind themselves
to abide by any future legislation pro
viding for minimum wages and maxi
mum hours of labor In employment on
such contracts. A proviso to this ef
fect was being exacted of bidders. i
Mr. McCarl holds that the proviso
may be viewed as a "request" only
and a bid could not be rejected be
cause the person making it refused to
subscribe to this principle.
The plan was advanced from the
procurement division of the treasury,
which proposed that the government
replace the requirement for code com
pliance on all government bidders,
knocked out when the recovery act
was voided by the Supreme court
'"TIIOCGH the naval treaties ot
Washington and London have been
abrogated by Japan, the American gov
ernment still keeps its eye on the max
imum permitted for our navy by 1942
and Is making a determined effort to
reach It, much to the delight of the
"big navy" men and to citizens gen
erally who believe In adequate pre
paredness.
Secretary of the Navy Claude Swan
son has announced that a ship con
struction program has been decided
upon which calls for the construc
tion of 12 destroyers and six sub
marines. These are in addition to the
15 destroyers and six submarines for
which bids have been advertised and
will be opened next month.
The airplane building program calls
for 555 new planes during the current j
fiscal year. Of these, 282 will be re
placement planes for those now in '
service and 273 will be new craft Two I
airplane carriers and six cruisers now
under construction and scheduled for
completion in 1937 are to house some
of the new planes.
FLOODS in several eastern states,
following torrential rains, took
about three score lives and did vast
property damage. The Finger lakes
and Catskill mountain regions in New
York v suffered most severely. The
deaths there numbered forty, and thou
sands were rendered homeless. Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman announced an Im
mediate allocation ot $300,000 for use
in rehabilitation.
'^JOBODY who knew Ray Long well
was surprised to hear that former
ly famous magazine editor had com
mitted suicide at his California home.
In late years he had not been very
successful in business, his most recent
ventures being in the field of scenario
writing. He was not one to put up
with adversity very long.
CRITICS of the President's program
hare made up their minds that be
is deliberately building up a "crista"
which will provide excuse for a de
mand for constitutional amendments
in the campaign of 1936. Their con
viction was strengthened by Mr. Roose
velt's letter to Congressman Samuel
B. Hill, chairman of the Interstate
commerce subcommittee, urging the
passage of the Guffey coal bill regard
less of doubts as to its constitution
ality.
President Roosevelt followed the sug
gestion of Attorney General Cummings
that the legislation should be put
through congress because "the situa
tion is so urgent," and that the ques
tion of constitutionality should be left
up to the courts.
THE secretary of the treasury ap
peared before the house ways and
means committee which was trying to
formulate the new tax bill wanted by
the administration, and declared that,
depending on the rates of taxation
adopted, the measure might bring in
as much as $1,000,000,000 a year or
as little as $118,000,000 annually. As
the representative of the administra
tion, the young secretary declined to
advise as te the rates, though the Re
publican m?'.libers of the committee
tried to pin him down to details. The
legislation outlined by the President
Includes taxation of Inheritances and
gifts, higher surtaxes on million dollar
Incomes and graduated Income taxes
on corporations.
Senator Charles L. McN'ary of Ore
gon, Republican leader, predicted that
congress either would recess and re
convene in the fall or would put oft
enactment of the tax bill until the ses
sion beginning January 3 next
OCR army lost an able and distin
guished officer In the death of
MaJ. Gen. Stuart Ileintzelman at the
army and navy hospital In Hot Springs,
Ark. The grandson and son ot army
officers. General Ileintzelman waa
graduated from West Point In 1899.
After service In the Philippines and
China he was sent to France as an ob
server, and when America entered the
war he held high staff assignments.
He won the D. S. M. and was decorated
by France and Italy. From the Incep
tion of the OCC General Ileintzelman
was In charge of federal reclamation '
projects In Missouri until last Feb
ruary, when he was given command of
the Seventh corps area.
HHHb JKk
T. G. Corcoran
Sec'y Ickei
W. P. Georg*
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House That Breathes to Keep Itself Cool
THIS model of a house that breathes
trough Its walls to keep cool won
first prize In the better bousing display
at the San Diego exposition. With It Is
the Inventor, R. J. Neutra, Los Angeles
architect The house Is of steel with
exposed portions coated with aluminum.
Air channels run through the walls,
and when the heat of the sun warms
them It starts a cooling draft
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
* " ?
A QUEER GAME OF HIDE J
AND SEEK ?
<
OVER In the Green Forest where ?
the moonlight sifted down through -
the tops of the silver beech trees, ber 1
gan a queer game of hide and seek. 1
Buster Bear was "it" Danny Meadow '
Mouse was hiding. Buster Bear was '
'It" for his stomach's sake. Danny '
Meadow Mouse was hiding for his life. 1
Buster Bear was rather enjoying that '
game of hide and seek. Danny wasn't 1
enjoying It at alt
By the time Buster Bear had whirled
around after Danny had surprised and
startled him by running out from nn- '
der his very paw as be started to
rake over a little pile of leaves in
search of beechnuts, Danny had, as
you know, disappeared. He had dart
ed behind the trunk of a big tree.
For a couple of minutes Buster stood
Inst as he had been doing when Danny
Meadow Mouse first saw him, only he
lid it in a much more hurried way.
fou see, he was looking for a fat
Meadow Mouse now and not for sweet
little beechnuts which would lie per
fectly still when he had nncoTered
them. Presently he came around be
hind the tree where Danny was hid
ing. Danny darted around the tree
trunk to the other side. Blister saw
him go. "Ha!" exclaimed Buster. "So
there you are!" and rushed around
after Danny. Danny darted around
to the place he had Just left
Now, Buster Bear, as I said before,
ran more quickly, but he cannot run
around a tree trunk as fast as a little
Meadow Mouse can. He soon found
that out. Danny always managed to
keep the trunk of that tree between
them. Finally Buster Bear gave up
running around that tree and sat up to
think. On the other side of that tree
crouched the most frightened Meadow
Mouse in all the Great World, wonder
ing what would happen neit, and
trembling so that he shook all over.
Danny had played many games of hide
and seek in his life, bat never one in
which he had felt so wholly helpless
as he did now.
? T. 'V Bargees.?WW Servtcs.
J f G'^LlG
"No matter how hot tempered either
prove to be after the wedding march."
?aye Reno Ritzi, "they will find it
takes just as much coal to heat the
house."
WN'U Serrie*.
Danny Always Managed to Keep the
Trunk of That Tree Between Them.
perfectly still. He was listening. He
was listening for the rustle of a leaf
to tell htm In which direction Danny
bad gone. But not a leaf rustled. Bus
ter couldn't bear the faintest sound
to tell him that there was another
living thing anywhere about
"Now, where can that scamp have
gone to?" muttered Buster. "He cer
tainly hasn't gone far. He must be
right around here somewhere. Prob
ably be Is hiding under some of these
leaves. I'll pull over a few of them
and find out"
So Buster began to rake over the
leaves all about with his great claws
2?Y0U Know?
That the European cranberry,
found in Canada and north
ern United States was the sa
cred plant of the ancient
Druids? There is also a larger
berry which is native to
America.
C McClure N??w?par>*r Syndicate.
WNU Sarvlca.
Question box
i,EDWYNN, The Perfect Fool |
Dear Mr. Wynn:
What Is meant by the expression,
"lie came down with flying colors"?
Truly yours,
V. U. SOHSXIABT.
Answer: That expression Is used
when a painter falls off of a high build
ing with a pot of paint In bis hand.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
l'ou are so smart and claim you
know so much. Here's one for you.
Answer this: Did you ever see a dog
without eyes, without ears, without
hair, without a nose, without a mouth
and without feet?
Tours truly,
TETTER N. ARIAN.
Answer: Yes, I saw a dog like that
?a "hot dog."
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Last night I had an argument with
my brother about different kinds of
weather. My brother said that "cold"
travels faster than "heat." while I In
sisted that "heat" travels the fastest.
Who Is right?
Truly yours,
L SICKLE.
Answer: You are right, "Heat" trav
els fastest because you can't catch It,
while It Is very easy to catch "cold."
Dear Mr. Wynn:,
In tills morning's mall I received a
circular from a plumber who claims
he Is selling a new kind of stove which
will save half the coal I use In the
stove I have now. Do you advise me
to buy one of his new stoves?
Truly yours,
L SI. KURIOCS.
Answer: !f your plumber Is telling
the truth when he says his new stove
saves one-half of your coal, why don't
you buy two of bis stoves and save all
your coal?
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I have just bought a little house In
the country. It Is a new house, but It
Is terribly (lamp, due, 1 guess, to poor
construction. What I want to know la,
how can I keep water from running into
my house?
Yours truly.
L O. X. MYHOWS.
Answer: Don't pay your water bill
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I have often beard an actor on the
stage tell a joke and then hear some
one In the audience call the joke a
chestnut. What Is the resemblance of
a Joke to a chestnut?
Sincerely.
L M. A GIGGLER.
Answer: You can't tell til U Is
cracked.
c NtwpApdft.
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|y[INUTE MAKE-UPS |
The back* of the new hats will ham
a definite influence on roar coltfamj
Many of them have no back and d?
ply perch high on the nrirled carls of
roar head. Carls are larger, mom
swirled, and fill that space between the
collar of the coot and the brim of tbr*
hat.
CopTrffht by Public L*dftr, lac.
WXU &*rr\cm.
Because You Came to
Our Street i
By ANNE CAMPBELL
BECAUSE yon came to oar street.
The trees wore greener dream
' And erery yard In oar street
Was drenched with loveliness.
The birds sang sweeter songs this
year.
And every child was gay.
: There was a Joyoas atmosphere
Becaase yon blessed our day.
Bat when yoa go from oar street
The leaves will flatter down.
The saa will sec on oar street;
The blossoms ell tarn brown.
The antnmn rains will fan ... Tfcn
storm ^
WIH tear tile nests apart
And only memory wta warm
Toor seal apo* each heart
Tor we hare stored on oar street
A thousand summer >>y?
To comfort hearts en oar street .
When winter (loom inA'
And always thoagi aflpiii are
And bitter winds
We will be ever
With simmer dreanssePjwnl
Conrrisnt?WKC swrrten *
Big Black Beret
The forward movement of this ho?*
1 Mack velvet beret by Mine. Ajnes la
emphasized by the clever use of la
verted racks In fan-like arvanseMBb
I The simple band knotted on the left
[ side la of black beittnc ribbon.
Fireflies for an Infant Prince
MORE than 20,000 fireflies were caught by children In Kyushu, southern
Japan, and sent by airplane to Tokyo. There they were set free In tlM
palace grounds for the enjoyment of the infant prince during the summer season. ?