The Alamance Gleaner
VOL. LX.
GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JANUARY 17, 193/ * NO. 50.
INews Review of Current
Events the World Over
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Supreme Court Takes Up Gold Clause Abrogation Case ?
Senate Committee Favors World Court Adherence ?
Congress Gets the Budget.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? by Western Newspaper Union. -
HAVING given the New Deal a slight
swat by holding the petroleum
control feature of the N1RA uncon
stitutional, the Supreme Court moved
rapidly toward a
Judgment as to the
legality of the abro
gation of gold pay
ments. Several cases
challenging this act
were lumped and oral
arguments were
heard. This being a
matter of vast im
portance, Involving
$100,000,000,000, At
_ torney General Homer
S' "j* h,rasel<
" appeared to present
the case for the government. Mr.
Citmmlngs Is an excellent lawyer, but
not much can be said In praise of the
legal abilities of most of tie men whom
the exigencies of politics have shoved
into his office In Washington. So prob
ably he was wise to handle this matter
himself.
Cummlngs defended the constitu
tional authority of the President and
congress to adopt the presenc mone
tary policy as Inherently the right of
the government to preserve itself.
In an argument distinguished for
oratorical display as well as for Its
legal aspects, Cummlngs said an ad
verse decision by the court would:
1. Increase the public and private
debt of the nation by $69,000,000,000.
2. Create a special class that would
be beyoDd the pale of the general
financial structure, a class composed
of those holding bonds demanding pay- .
ment In gold.
3. Reduce the balance In the United
States treasury $2,500,000,000.
4. 'Add $17,000,000,000 to the pub
lic debt and Increase the Interest
charge on this debt alone by $2,500,
000,000 a year.
The latter sum alone, Cummlngs
said. Is equal to twice the value of the
1934 wheat and cotton crop.
The attorney general referred to the
troubled state of the country In the
spring of 1933 and added, "I contend
and shall show that the congress and
the President of the United States act
ed reasonably In a period of very great
difficulties and that their acts were not
^the product of caprice."
Prom the questions asked by the
lustlces, observers gained the Impres
sion that there was a sharp division
of opinion among them.
OENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON,
^ majority leader of the senate, be
ing Informed that the foreign rela
tions committee had voted 14 to 7 in
favor of the project for American ad
herence to the World court, said he
would bring the resolution up on the
floor of the senate as soon as pos
sible. However he recognized the
sentiment against it was strong and
would not predict the outcome of the
fight.
The new resolution as approved by
the committee is slightly altered to
meet the objections of other .nations to
what Is known as reservation Ave. Mr.
Robinson said :
"The legal Import and effect of res
ervation five has been preserved In
fall. It Is provided that discussions
may take place under the Root pro
tocol, bat In the end the court may not
entertain over the objection of the
United States any request for an
advisory opinion on any dispute or
question In which the United States
has or claims an Interest."
Of the Democrats on the committee
Senators Lewis and Murray voted
against the resolution; Republicans
who favored It were Vandenberg and
Capper.
PETROLEUM control provisions of
the National Industrial Recovery
act, specifically section 9 (c), are held
by the Supreme Court of the United
States to be invalid as unconstitu
tional abdication of legislative power
to the President. Eight of the justices
united in rendering this decision. Jus
tic* Cardoso alone dissenting, and the
opinion was read by Chief Justice
Hnghea.
The section declared void authorized
the President to ban Interstate ahlp
ment of "hot" oil? that Is, oil pro
duced In excess of state quoraa.
While the opinion did not deal with
other phases of the recovery act. It
aroused widespread speculation as to
disposition of other esses. This was
the first major "New Deal" case to
come before the court
emergency legislation by congress
to remedy the situation and to meet
the objection of the court was re
ported to be an immediate likelihood.
THOSE Democrats and Republican*,
eminent and otherwise, who are
banded together as the American Lib
erty league are now really getting Into
action against what they deem the rad
ical features of the administration's
program, and their executive council
has put out a ten-point platform. It
declares the league's opposition to such
practices as sweeping delegations of
legislative authority to the President,
lump sum appropriations to be doled
out by the White House, socialization
of industry and regimentation of Amer
ican life.
In the first plank of Its platform the
league pledged Itself "to preserve
American institutions which safeguard
to citizens In all walks of life the
right to liberty and pursuit of happi
ness" and at the same time "to combat
the growth of bureaucracy, the spread
of monopoly, the socialization of In
dustry, and the regimentation of Amer
ican life."
Invasion of the law making and law
Interpreting functions by New Deal ad
ministrators was also rapped by the
league in promising "to uphold the
American principle that laws be made
only by the direct representatives of
the people in the congress, and that
the laws be Interpreted only by the
courts."
Other points In the 10-polnt declara
tion of policy pledged the league to
fight for government economy, a sound
federal fiscal policy, a stable currency,
protection for investors, and individual
liberties.
BECAUSE work relief must be car
ried on the federal budget wlU not
be balanced for the coming fiscal year,
and probably not for several yeaqs
thereafter. In present
ing the budget to con
gress, President Roose
velt admitted this, but
without qualms. Be
estimated $8,520,000,
000 as the amount of
money necessary to
carry on the govern
ment's activities for
the 1936 fiscal year be
ginning July 1 next
The expenses for the
current year, partly
estimated, are $3,581,
President
Roosevelt
uw,uw.
Total receipts for the same period
are put at $3,991,904,639, so the esti
mated deficit will be *4.528,508,970.
Of the recovery and relief fund the
President asked that $4,000,000,000 be
placed at his disposal to be allocated
by him "principally for giving work
to those unemployed on tbe relief
rolls." ,
Here are some other vital things
disclosed by the message:
The national debt will increase from
$31,000,000,000 at the close of this fis
cal year to $34,239,000,000.
No new taxes are requested. Con
gress is asked to continue the so-called
nuisance taxes which expire soon and
the 3-cent stamp rate.
A national defense appropriation of
$899,948,065? the greatest in the his
tory of the country? Is requested.
A total of 137,134 federal workers
are to be dismissed.
Veterans pensions In 1936 will reach
the staggering total of $701,000,000.
Tbe accumulated New Deal deficit
for three years on June 30, 1936, will
total $11,700,000,000.
While the trend of recovery and re
lief expenditures Is downward, regular
federal expenses will Increase.
Ex-pkesident uekbeet hoov
ER has been elected a director of
the New York Life Insurance com
pany, at the Instance of Alfred K.
Smith. Be was first offered the place
two years ago when tbe death of,Oal
Tin Coolldg* created a vacancy. Mr.
Hoover said: "I have accepted In the
hope of contributing something to the
protection and advancement of tbe In
terests of millions of policy holders,
for In these great Insurance trusts lies
one of the most vital of personal se
curities to tbe women and children
: of tbe country."
MiBI PICKFOBD went before
Judge Ben Llndsey In Los An
geles and obtained a decree of divorce
from Douglas Fairbanks; and thus
came to an end the union of tbe "royal
couple" of movledom, who for ten years
were regarded as the model wedded
pair so far as happiness and worldly
| success went
Mary's gait, Died mora than a year
ago, charged Done with mental cruelty,
Indifference and neglect She told
Judge Llndsey the chargea were true
and that a fair and Just property set
tlement had been made ; and after Kllx
abeth Lewis, Miss Pickferd'a secretary,
had testified the decree waa granted
and Mary left the courtroom almost
In tears.
Fairbanks, In St Morltx, Switzerland,
was informed of the divorce bat de
clined to comment.
IN THE highly dramatized trial of
1 Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnap
ing and murder of the Lindbergh baby
the state continued to weave a strong
net of circumstantial evidence around
the defendant Lindbergh first Identi
fied his .voice as that of the man who
received the ransom ; next was Am&n
dus Hochmuth, eighty-seven-year-old
man who told of seeing Hauptmann*
driving a "dirty-green" car with a lad
der in It Into the Lindbergh lane March
1, 1932, the day of the kidnaping. Then
John i'errone, Bronx taxi driver, Identi
fied him as the man who paid him II
to deliver a ransom note to "Jafsle."
"Jafsle," otherwise Dr. ' John Con
don, the aged Bronx educator who un
dertook the negotiations with the kid
naper, next went on the stand and In
his garrulous way Identified Bruno as
the man with whom he dealt and to
whom he handed the $50,000 ransom
money. His long and somewhat ram
bling story was bitterly assailed In
cross examination by E. J. Rellly, chief
of defense counsel, but seemingly the
great value of his evidence was not
much shaken.
Detective Arthur Johnson of New
York was on his way home from Eu
rope bringing relatives of the late Isa
dora Flsch to testify for the state.
Hauptmann claimed In his defense that
the ransom money found In his pos
session was given to him by Flsch, a
business associate In New York. Flsch
later returned to his home In Ger
many, where he died.
An APOLOGY to the Canadian gov
ernment and payments of $50,
666.50 damages is the penalty Imposed
on the United States for sinking the
rum running schooner I'm Alone In the
Gulf of Mexico In March of 1B29.
This decision waa announced by Willis
Van Devanter, associate Justice of the
United States Supreme court and Sir
Lyman Poo re Duff, chief Justice of
Canada, who were the commissioners
of arbitration under the ship liquor
treaty of 1924 between the United
States and Great Britain for control
ling liquor smuggling.
Of the damages awarded, $25,000 la
to be paid as compensation to the
Canadian government and $25,666,50 to
the master and members of the crew
of the I'm Alone or their families. In
cluded Jn the latter Is $10,185 to the
widow and children of Leon Malnguy,
a French citlzep of St Pierre, Mlque
lon, who drowned when the schooner
was sunk by the coastguard.
The commissioners found that the
master and members of the crew were
not parties to a liquor smuggling con
spiracy.
THERE were huge sighs of relief
In the chancelleries of Europe
when the success of the conversations
In Rome between Foreign Minister
Pierre I -aval or France .
ind Premier Musso
Inl was announced In
formally. For two
lays the two states
nen discussed the
joints at Issue between
:beir nation* and con
lltlons In general In
central Europe. Emerg
ng from the last of
Lhelr meetings, Laval,
Pl.rr. Lavs I * ?mlllnK broa^ly,l aal?
to a group of French
and Italian war veterana.
"I am glad to tell you that Premier
Mussolini and I are now In complete
accord."
Without waiting for an official com
munique, those best Informed said
Laval and 11 duce had reached a full
agreement, the principal features of
Which are a Joint declaration to pre
serre the Independence of Austria, a
fire or six power pact of noninterfer
ence, and provisions for colonial con
cessions In Africa. The pact agreeing
not to interfere with one another's In
ternal affairs presumably will Include
Italy, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Aus
tria, and Bnngary ; and later Eng
land. France and Rumania may be
asked to adhere to it
SENATOR HDET P. LONG, after
attacking the administration oo the
floor of the senate, betook himself to
the radio and continued the assault
Be declared the Roosevelt policies
were hopeless, snd summoned all the
people to flock to his banner and help
wipe out all fortunes above three or
(our millions, "making every man a
king."
Meantime the revolt against the
klngflsh in Louisiana was growing
Citizens by the hundreds were Joining
the Square Deal association which Is
pledged to march on the capitot la
Baton Rouge unless the legtalature re
peals certain of Buey's dictatorial
laws.
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Veteran Dredge Is Busy on Another Big Job
WHEN throngs gathered at Pot Holes, Dear Id ma, Calif.,
watclied with lntereat the operation of the walking I
ten cubic yards of earth at each swoop. The dredge la a
Panama canal and later In Mississippi flood control work.
T
to celebrate the starting of the AU-Amerlcan canal they ,
irldge dredge shown In the Illustration as It shoveled np
veteran on big projects, having been used first on the ]
I
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
PETER FINDS ANOTHER
FRIEND
?irviD you and your relatives come
^ down from the Far North
?lone?" asked Peter of Dotty the Tree
Sparrow.
*S etotlves
came along with ta ao -that we had a
very merry party."
Peter pricked op his ears. "la Slaty
here now?" be aaked. eagerly.
"Very much here," replied a rolce
right behind Peter's back. It was so
unexpected that It made Peter Jump.
He turned to find Slaty blmself chuck
ling aa he picked up seeds. He was
very Dearly the same size as Dotty but
trimmer looking. There was no mis
taking Slaty vhe J unco for any other
bird. His head, throat, and breast
were a clear alate <*olor. Underneath
he was white. His sides were grayish.
His outer tall feathers were white.
His bill was flesh color; it looked al
most white.
"Are you here to stay all winter?"
cried Peter.
"I certainly am," was Siaty*s prompt
response. "It will take pretty bad
weather to drive me away from here.
It the snow gets too 'leep I'll just go
up to Farmer Brown's barnyard. I can
always pick up a meal there, for Farm
er Brown's Boy Is a very good friend
of mine. I know he won't let me starve,
no matter what the weather is. I think
It Is going to snow. You know I am
sometimes called the Snowbird."
Peter nodded. "So I have heard,"
?aid he
"By the way, 81aty, what do you
make your neat of and where do you
put It?" asked Peter.
"Uy nest Is usually made of grass
and moss and rootlets," replied Slaty.
"Sometimes It Is lined with One
grass. When I am especially lucky I
line it with long hairs. Often I put
my nest on the ground and never very
far above 1L I am like my friend Dot
ty the Tree Sparrow In this respect
*YOlI Know?
reply
That Panama hats, contrary
to popular belief, are not
made in Panama. They are
made in Ecuador and Colom
bia, but are known as Pana
ma hats because they are
brought to Panama and there
traded.
MeClor* Newspaper Srvdleat*.
It always seems to me easier to hide a
nest on the (round than anywhere else.
There la nothing like baring ? neat
well hidden, it takea sharp eyes to
find my neat, 1 can tell yoo that, Peter
Babbit."
Just then Dotty, who had been pick
ing seeds out of the top of ? weed,
gave a cry of alarm and Instantly there
was a flit of many wing* aa the little
feathered folk sought the shelter of the
bushel along the edge of the field.
Peter aat op very straight and looked
this way and looked that way. Cronch
Ing flat among the weed* he saw Black
Pussy the Cat. Peter stamped angrily,
then with jumps he started for the
dear Old Brier Patch, llpperty-llpperty
Up.
C. T. W. Burg eaa. ? WNU 8?rr1c?.
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QUESTION BOX
By ED WYNN...
Tin Perfect F?al
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Can yon tell me why It U that Scot
land la alwaya full of Americana In |
the summer!
Sincerely,
a sick.
Answer : That merely demonatrate*
the gratefulness of the American peo
ple. The reason Scotland la full of
Americana In summer la atmply to pay
them back for the Americans being
full of Scotch In the winter.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
There la a man Urtng across the
street from me who Is acting queerly.
The first day I saw him he wss run
ning around hia back yard drinking
from a medicine bottle. The second
dsy I watched him he was still run
ning and still drinking from this medi
cine bottle. Now, the third day I '?
miiii '
Tl ? n
by
JEAN NEWTON
A WOMAN'S EYES
?miiii
Through
WHEN WE WAKE UP
Jt
LONDON neurologists recently car
ried on ao Interesting experiment
with three soldiers of tbe British army.
They tested the aoldlers as to the ef
fect of their mental altitude on their
physical strength. This was measured
by a device which the men gripped
with all their might, registering aa
they gripped. j
It was found that In their normal
ktate the men had an average grip of
a hundred and one pounds. Then,
hypnotized and told they were weak,
their greatest effort registered only
twenty-nine pounds. Still hypnotized
and told they wei^ very strong, their
strength returned to tbe normal hun
dred and one pounds and then Jumped
to a hundred and forty-one!
So, tbe men were weaker. In the
relation of twenty-nine to a hundred
and one, when they BELIEVED they
were weak, but BELIEVING they were
strong, they actually registered
strength of a hundred and forty-one
against a normal best of a hundred
and one 1 ?
Sure enough people are constantly
hypnotizing themselves Into one thing
or another. Some allow a few disap
pointment* or defeats to hypnotize
them Into accepted failure. Of moat
of these It la true that If they believed
better of themselves they coold do
better. It Is also true, as enthusiastic
"encouragers" point out to us, that
most of the nnusual achievements la
the world went band In hand with the
supreme confidence ? which Is self-hyp
notism ? which convinced some men
and women they coold not fall.
However, klll-)oy thoogh It brands
me. It most be pointed oat that self
hypnotism can be a two edged sword.
How about the man wbo would have
made a perfectly good carpenter who
hypnotised himself Into confidence that
he was cut out for the law ? and Uyed
the Ufe of the "also ran" and tbe fail
ure? How about the farm lad wbo
found self-expression and Joy In mak
ing things grow out of tbe earth, but
who hyp no tired himself, or allowed a
food parent to hypnotize him. Into be
lief that be waa called to "go to the
city and make good"? Bow about the
woman who would hare made a good
accompanist, but wbo hypnotized her
self into belief that abe must not be
lost to the concert stage? That story
of heartbreak and defeat la a not un
common one.
Tbe experiment of tbe soldiers
proves how belief In ourselves can hyp
notize us Into strength. The question
la, can we follow through when we
wake up?
e. B?ll Syndicate. ? WNU Service.
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WITTY KITTY w
Br nina wilcox nmuM
1
Th? girt chum says If thm Inter
national bridge tournaments kMp up,
?II hop* of world peace will be
? B?ll SmdlMU.? W^U S?rrl??.
looked over I law him skipping
around the yard and still drinking
from the same medicine bottle. Cu
you account for these strange actions?
\ Yours truly,
V 1 GATES.
Anir?C?: The man you retetf to is rrt
lently a very sick man and his doctor
must hare told him to take his medi
cine two days running and then skip
i day.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
My brother Is In tlx regular arm)
ind I hare decided to enlist In the
irmy also, but do not know what '??
lo. Ton see the only condition nafter
which I will Join the army la thai 1
must be near my brother. How shall
I go about Joining the army and being
close to my brother? He is in the Sev
enty-fourth regiment
Truly yours,
D. ZKKTKEL
Answer: Tours Is a difficult prob
lem, but I will help you: first, write
to the United States (orerament and
tell them you wish' to enlist in the
army and, as yon want to be near your
brother, who's in the Serenty-fourth
regiment, yon wish to be pot In the
Seventy-fifth.
e tha AaaoelaUd If r
WNUI
Green Wool Coat
4
This coat by Chanel la made of
bright green woo I. Ita handsome lines
give elegance to the form, and the
high-low treatment at the waist makes
It suitable for large women as well as
?MIL
r Perfect Commonwealth
The perfect commonwealth Is a so
ciety of free men and women, each at
once ruling and being ruled.
Japan Also Adopts Streamlines
THIS la one of the new streamline locomotives now being tested on the
Japanese governmental railways for the purpose of speeding up service oa
the lines.