The Alamance Gleaner
OL. LXII. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY JULY 9, 1936. NO. 23.
IN REVIEW1^' vy 1
hy Gdum/uL UJ. Plckanar^
C Western Newspaper Union.
President Roosevelt Is
Renominated by Acclaim
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D.
* ROOSEVELT was renominated
by unanimous acclaim by the Demo
cratic National convention in Phil
adelphia, receiving the convention's
entire 1,100 votes on the first ballot.
Vice President John N. Gamer was
likewise renominated (or that po
sition by acclaim.
At a great public massmeeting In
Franklin field, Philadelphia, attend
ed by 110,000 people on the evening
of the convention's adjournment.
President Roosevelt and Vice Presi
dent Garner were officially notified
of their selection and responded
with acceptance speeches.
The President sounded the battle
cry of his campaign for re-election
by denouncing "economic royalists
who hide behind the American flag
and Constitution."
The convention
unanimously
adopted a s t r o ng
New Deal platform
and voted the abo
lition of the his
toric two-thirds rule.
The sessions were
marked with ex
treme enthusiasm.
Party harmony and
rresiaeni a determination to
Roosevelt stand militantly on
the administration's record in the
past three years.
The abolition of the two-thirds
rule for the nomination of candi
dates was one of the significant
achievements. This rule, which
has been in use for more than 100
years, was superseded by the adop
tion of the rules committee's report
recommending that at future con
ventions only a bare majority be
required for nomination. While
some southern and the eastern and
western states opposed abrogation,
they were reconciled to it by the
committee's rcommendation that
changes be .made in the apportion
ment of delegates.
The platform pledged continu
ance of soil conservation, benefit
payments to farmers, a sound cur
rency, a balanced budget and ?
constitutional amendment if neces
sary, to achieve the party's broad
social program. It praised the ac
complishments of the New Deal in
a preamble, declaring that it
planned to continue them in the in
terest of the nation. The platform's
keynote was that the Roosevelt ad
ministration has put and will keep
the nation "on the road to recovery
and prosperity."
Regarding the Constitution, the
platform declared that while the Re
publican platform proposes to meet
national problems by action of the
separate states, the Democratic
party recognizes that minimum
wages, maximum hours, child la
bor, monopolistic and unfair busi
ness practices, dust storms, drouth
and floods could not be handled by
states. It stated:
"If these problems cannot be
effectively solved by legislation
within the Constitution, we shall
seek such clarifying amendments
as will assume to the legislatures
of the several states and to the
congress of the United States each
within it proper jurisdiction, the
power to enact those laws which
the state and federal legislatures
within their respective spheres
shall find necessary, in order ade
quately to regulate commerce, pro
tect public health and safety and
safeguard .economic security. Thus
we propose to maintain the letter
and spirit of the Constitution."
In addition to soil conservation
an?- benefit payments, the farm
plank pledged the Democrats to
financing share-croppers and ten
ants in buying lands; favored com
modity loans on farm surpluses
and retirement of ten million acres
of submarginal land from produc
tion and rural rehabilitation.
Railway Pension Acts
Declared Unconstitutional
DENSIONS ' for railway workers
1 received a setback when the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme court
ruled unconstitutional two acts
passed, by congress last year.
The court held that the govern
ment had no right to levy or collect
taxes to finance the rail pensions
and invalidated as "inseparable" a
companion tax measure providing
for payment of the pensions.
Both act* were passed last year
under the sponsorship of ths ad
ministration and with the support
at railway labor leaders after the
United States Supreme court had
held unconstitutional the 1934 rail
way retirement act.
One of the measures involved
levies upon railroads an excise
tax of three and one-half per cent
"of the compensation not in excess
of $300 per month paid to its em
ployees." Workers would have paid
a three and one-half per cent in
come tax upon their wages not in
excess of $300 per month. The mon
ey thus collected would go into a
pension fund. The other act estab
lished the retirement system for
employees at the age of sixty-five.
Farm Income Up 90 Per Cent,
A. A. A. Report Sets Forth
AN INCREASE of 90 per cent in
the cash farm income on cot
ton, wheat, tobacco, corn and hogs
from 1932 to 1935 was recorded un
J " - ? - ?
uer me Agricultural
Adjustment act, in
validated by the Su
preme court last
J anuary, according
to the annual report
of Chester C. Davis,
former administra
tor, made public in
Washington.
Cash farm income
from these five ma
< a
jui. ittriu products n. n? ..
which came under Davis
production control, rental and bene
fit payments was $1,365,000,000 in
1932, the year before the AAA be
came operative. For 1935 it was
$2,593,000,000.
The report pointed out that cash
farm income from all other prod
ucts increased in the same period
from $3,012,000,000 to $4,307,000,000.
Mr. Davis, who was recently ap
pointed by President Roosevelt to
the Federal Reserve board, de
clared that cash available- for living
expenses, taxes and interest from
farm cash income was the highest
in 1935 since 1929, and two and one
half times greater than it was in
1932.
Gov. Landon Make* Plans
(or Notification Speech
rf ESTES PARK, Colo., Gov. Al
fred M. Landon, Republican
Presidential nominee, continued his
vacation begun with his family the
weeK oerore and
made plans for re
convening of the
Kansas legislature
and for the accept
ance speech he will
deliver in Topeka on
July 23.
Although Governor
Landon was resting
preparatory to the
rigors of the cam
_ r . paign, affairs of his
Gov. Landon state and confer.
ences with political advisers occu
pied considerable of his attention.
When the Kansas legislature re
convenes a proposed amendment to
the state constitution will be intro
duced, giving the state broad power
to provide far-reaching legislation
for social welfare and to co-operate
with the federal government. Gov
ernor Landon was quoted as de
scribing the proposed amendment
as "satisfactory."
The amendment, which may be
the basis for similar action in other
states, reads:
"Nothing contained in this con
stitution shall be construed to limit
the power of the legislature to enact
laws providing for financial assist
ance to aid infirm or dependent per
sons; for the public health; unem
ployment compensation and general
social security and providing for
the payment -thereof by tax or oth
erwise and to receive aid from the
federal government therefor."
Strikes in Provinces
Continue French Unrest
PERSISTENCE pf strikes fa the
* provinces kept France in a state
of unrest. A gain of 225,000 new
members was reported by the gen
eral confederation of labor, organ
ized labor's official body.
Altogether it was estimated that
100,000 workers were still absent
from their jobs, in spite of reports
of strike settlements in scattered
sections throughout the country.
The French Riviera witnessed ?
general exodus of foreign tourists
from 450 hotels and resorts follow
ing a lockout by the proprietors.
The hotels were closed indefinitely
after the employers declared they
could not meet workers' demands for
more pay and shorter hour*.
Severe Drouth Damage
Brings Federal Action
?fX/ITH thousands of acres of
spring wheat destroyed through
drouth and with vast corn-growing
regions threatened, the federal gov
ernment undertook a comprehen
sive campaign to alleviate human
distress and property loss, and
stricken areas were placed in the
hands of a special drouth commit
tee by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace.
Secretary Wallace named Jess W.
Tapp, assistant agricultural adjust
ment administrator, as chairman
of the committee. Four others ap
pointed were: C. W. Warburton, di
rector of the Agricultural Extension
Service; Hugh H. Bennett, chief of
the Soil Conservation Service; A.
G. Black, chief of the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics; and W. F.
Callender, assistant agricultural ad
justment administrator. Joseph L.
Bailey, assistant resettlement ad
ministrator, will also serve with the
committee.
,The committee's attention was
turned immediately to drouth con
ditions and relief need in North Da
kota, South Dakota, Minnesota,
Montana and Wyoming, but officials
were watching anxiously the in
creasing drouth damage in South
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and
parts of Kentucky, Alabama, Mis
sissippi and Arkansas.
The work of six government agen
cies will be supervised and co-ordi
nated by the committee in its work
on drouth relief. These are; the Ag
ricultural Adjustment Administra
tion, the Public Works Administra
tion, the Federal Surplus Commod
ities corporation, the Rural Reset
tlement Administration, the Relief
Administration, and Rural Reha
bilitation and Soil Conservation
Service.
League of Nations Meets
to Lift Sanctions
?\XTHILE representatives of lead
* * ing powers gathered in Geneva
to lift League of Nations economic
sanctions against Italy and the ref
ugee emperor, Haile
Selassie, of Ethiopia
prepared to plead
the cause of his na
tion's freedom, Eu
ropean statesmen
considered the pos
sibility of a reorgan
ization and reforma
tion of the League.
Observers agreed j
that while informal :
discussions on the ? ? ? . .
League reformation Selassie
would be held, it was probable that
the question of reorganizing the in
ternational pact body would be
postponed until September.
Steel Industry Resists
Drive for Unionization
r\EFYING a drive to force union
^ ization of its 500,000 worker*,
the steel industry in a Strongly
worded statement issued by the
American Iron and Steel institute
declared "it will oppose any at
tempt to compel its employees to
join a union or pay tribute for the
right to work."
Although the statement did not
mention him by name, it was re
garded by observers as the first
official response to the recent an
nouncement by John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, of a campaign to
unionize steel employees.
In order to prevent the "closed
shop," the industry said it "will use
its resources to the best of its abil
ity to protect its employees and
their families from intimidation, co
ercion and violence and to aid them
in maintaining collective bargaining
free from interference from any
source."
Reasserting its belief in the prin
ciples of collective bargaining, the
industry's statement pointed out
that employees now pick their own
representatives for collective bar
gaining by secret ballot.
International Conference
Seeks Mediterranean Peace
\4 EETLNG in Montreaux, Switz
erland, an international con
ference sought settlement of mili
tary and naval problems in the
Mediterranean. The conference had
been called by the powers as a re
sult of Turkey's request to fortify
the Dardanelles, which were demil
itarized under the Lausanne treaty
of 1923.
The possible threat of Russia's
growing naval strength 'caused an
alignment of the British and Jap
anese. Japan announced it was
willing to accept any limitation on
Japanese warships authorized to
enter the Black sea, providing simi
lar restrictions were plcced on Rus
sian warships leaving it.
Russia demanded tree westward
passage of warships and subma
rines out of the Black sea through
the Dardanelles, adding she was
unable to see why other powers not
bordering on this, body of water de
sired unlimited passage to it.
Box Car School , Out in California
I . ,
By H. M. IVEY
CTANDING in the shadows of the
^ high hills, in the rugged fastness
of the extreme northern reaches of
Mendocino county, California, is a
personification of the Little Ked
School House which may some day
become nationally known and na
tionally famous.
The Bell Springs Station school ?
the Box Car school, as it is known to
the few who have knowledge of its
exintence ? was born out of necessity
and is surely one of very few such
answers to a definite need, if not
the only one in existence.
Bell Spring Station's population is
very limited and its present school
enrollment numbers eight. The sta
tion itself probably owes its exist
ence to the necessity of providing a
place of residence for Northwestern
Pacific section workers, for in this
isolated district, in the heart of the
mountains, the railroad's minute
men must be on the job, alert and ;
diligent to keep a clear, safe and '
serviceable track.
The school building is exactly what
the name implies ? a Northwestern ;
Pacific box car of the conventional j
box car red, but in arrangement |
and appointment it serves admirably
its purpose and can accommodate a
limited increase in attendance.
About 100 feet removed from the
railroad right-of-way, well lighted
through skylight ?nd eight windows,
four on each side, the interior has
been done over to make it secure
against the blasts of winter. Rattan
seats, which have done service in
the company's "day coaches," fur
nish a comfortable seating arrange
ment before the sloping desks. The
"front" of the building, toward
which the students face, is provided
with desk and table for use of the
teacher.
Box Car school was made possi
bl? by the interest and co-operation
of the Northwestern Pacific high
officials, even E. H. Maggard, presi
dent and general manager, having
lent aid to the project. Others who
found time to give consideration to
the future of Bell Springs Station
youth were William Neff, general
superintendent, and M. L. Gillogly,
company valuation agent.
If fortunate in finding sympathetic
railroad officials. Box Car school
was especially fortunate to secure
the services of Miss Florence Owens
as teacher, one who is entirely in
sympathy with her task and dis
charges her duties with enthusiasm.
dangerous about the chain, Bobby
continued to pull and presently there
was the trap itself right in front of
him. He sat down and studied it.
He wondered how it worked; He
was afraid of it but he was very,
very curious. There it lay with its
paws spread wide. Bobby remem
bered that Billy Mink had said that
there would be no danger if he put
his paw under it. Very cautiously
he slipped a paw underneath. All
of a sudden that trap jumped right
off the ground. There had been a
wicked sounding snap and those two
jaws flew up and came together so
swiftly that Bobby didn't really see
what had happened. He had sprung
the trap.
Bobby didn't wait to see what had
happened or what was going to hap
pen next. IJe almost turned a back
somersault in his hurry to get away
from the strange thing.. He scur
ried along back up the Laughing
Brook as if he expected that trap
would follow him.
Q T. W. Burgm. ? WNTJ S*rr1c?.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
BOBBY COON GETS A FRIGHT
DOBBY COON walked slowly down
?*-* the bank of the Laughing Brook
to the little fence with the little
opening in it in which he knew a
trap was hidden. Bobby was not at
all easy in his mind. He didn't know
much about traps. If he had known
more about them than he did he
would have been less afraid. Look
ing across the Laughing Brook he
could see a little brown form bound
ing along the other bank in the
moonlight. It was Billy Mink. He
All of a Sadden That Trap Jumped
Right Off the Ground.
knew that Billy was not afraid and
that Billy was going to do on that side
of the Laughing Brook what he him
self had agreed to do on his side.
Bobby approached the little open
ing in that fence made of sticks, and
studied it carefully. Billy Mink had
said there was a trap there, but look
as he would, Bobby couldn't see a
sign of one. Some wet, dead leaves
lay in the little opening in the fence
and nothing else was to be seen.
Billy Mink had said the trap was
under those leaves. Bobby won
dered how Billy Mink knew. Billy
had told him that there was no dan
ger except right in that little open
ing.
Very cautiously Bobby pulled away
the dead leaves that covered the
ground on his side of the little fence
In front of the opening. He even dug
down into the sand a little. Pres
ently his fingers caught something
hard. He pulled them away as if
they had been burned. Nothing hap
pened. Curiosity gave Bobby new
courage. He dug away very care
fully the leaves aryi sand at that
particular spot and presently he
uncovered something shiny. Any
thing bright and shiny always inter
ests Bobby Coon. Again he touched
it and snatched away his paw. Noth
ing happened. Then Bobby got hold
of that shiny thing and pulled ever
so gently. The leaves in the little
opening in the fence moved. Bobby
pulled again. Those leaves moved
some more. You see, Bobby had
hold of the chain of that hidden trap.
Finding that there was nothing
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? MOTHER'S ??
COOK BOOK
RECIPES WORTH TRYING
SANDWICHES are something that
are like the poor? "always with
us" ? and a new filling is always
greeted with a kind welcome. Here
is one that is called:
Delielons Sandwich Filling.
Mix the following ingredients
thoroughly and spread on bread or
toast: One cupful each of peanut
butter and grape jelly, one cupful
of chopped raisins and one cupful
of chopped pecan meats.
Apple Cinnamon Waffles.
Take one and one-half cupfuls of
flour, one-half teaspoonful of salt,
one-third teaspoonful of cinnamon,
one-fourth cupful of sugar, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, two
eggs well beaten, one cupful of
milk, one and three-fourths cupfuls
spoonfuls of shortening (melted).
Mix and bake on a hot waffle iron.
Serve with butter and brown sugar.
Baked Steak.
Place a three-pound sirloin steak
in a flat baking dish, spread with
butter, after boning the steak.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and
add a thin layer of lemon slices,
then one layer of chopped gfeefl
pepper and a third layer of onion
slices. Use two large bermuda
onions and one green pepper, one
lemon. Cover with two cupfuls of
catsup and place in a hot oven to
bake, allowing twenty minutes to
the pound. Add mushrooms to the
gravy in the pan and serve with the
steak.
Prune Hearts.
Soak one dozen prunes over night
and cut into small pieces. Wash
and trim a beef heart, making sev
eral 2 ashes in it To the prunes
add six graham cracker*, one
eighth teaspoonful of salt and All
the heart cavities. Skewer with
toothpicks, and lace with cord to
hold in the stuffing. Add the juice
of half a lemon to the prune juice
and pour over the heart. Baste
often while roasting for one and
one-half hours.
C WcaUrn Vi?ii>tp?r Union.
No Gonip
"Did she start in life as a Follies
Beauty?"
"I never saw a photograph of her
in costume," said Miss Cayenne.
"And anyhow I would never criticize
? girl who has had a hard-working
career trying to subsist on an im
modest salary."
REMEMBERING
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
XX/ HEN some old road we wind
* v again.
Some road we walked in other
days,
The things we seek to And again
Are flowered fields and shaded
ways ?
Avoid the rocks that hurt our feet
And take the pathway that was
sweet.
And when the mind goes wandering
Along the long age of life.
What folly to sit pondering
Upon the sadness and the strife ?
When we might walk the better
years, ,
Recall the smiles, forget the tears.
Beside the fading ember, then
Let love recall the better thing,
The mind alone remember then
The momenta worth remember
ing ?
Avoid the rocks that hurt our feet
And take the pathway that was
sweet.
0 Doiflu Miltaek? W1TO iln ilaa, I
White Linen Hal
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White stitched linen forms this
flattering hat for Anita Colby, film,
player. A white linen suit is worn
to match and the flowers which
form the trimming on the hat exact
ly match the red of the blouse. Over
the crown is placed a wide-meshed
veil.
ANNABELLE'S
ANSWERS
By RAT THOMPfO*
DEAR ANNABELLE: WOULD YOU
ADVISE GIVING MY SON AT COL
LEGE ALL THE ALLOWANCE I
CAN AFFORD?
DOTIMO DAD.
Dear Dad: NO ? ALWAYS
HOLD BACK ENOUGH TO
BAIL HIM OUT!
Aaaftb?U?.
British Military Tanks in Action
FOB the first time since the wmr, foreign military attaches and til* public
saw the Royal Tank corps in action at Lul worth, Dorset. England, recently.
Tba squadron, part of which is shown above, used service shells and machine
gun bullets against moving targets.