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VOL. LXII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1936. NO. 29.
News Review of Current _
Events the World Over
United States Won't Interfere in Spajiish Civil War ? Crop
Control May Be Dropped by AAA ? Jeffersonian
Democrats Organize.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
? Weitern Newspaper Union.
tfFFORTS of European nations,
^ notably France, to persuade the
United States to join in a neutrality
pact concerning the civil war in
Spain are not likely
W. Phillips
to succeed. Howev
er it is the intention
of our government
not to interfere in
the situation in any
way whatsoever. In
structions to this ef
fect were sent to
all American repre
sentatives in Spain
by William Phillips,
acting secretary of
state. While assert
uig uiai me /vxiieriv;au ucuuautj
law prohibiting assistance to war
ring nations does not apply to the
Spanish civil war, Mr. Phillips said
that the United States intended to
conform with its "well established
policy of noninterference with in
ternal affairs in other countries, ei
ther in time of peace or civil
strife."
Most of the nations invited to
participate in the non-intervention
agreement were willing, but Ger
many temporarily blocked the plan
by announcing that its answer would
be delayed until Madrid gave a sat
isfactory reply to German protests
regarding the execution of four
German nationals in Barcelona.
France set August 17 as the dead
line for completion of the agree
ment, and it was expected that, if
general neutrality failed, the
French government would lend aid
to the Leftist government at
Madrid.
Dispatches from Seville said Gen
eral Franco, rebel commander-in
chief, had received a large num
ber of German and Italian planes
manned by aviators from those
countries, and was about to launch
an attack on Madrid from the air.
The fighting for possession of San
' Sebastian and in the mountain
passes north of Madrid continued
unabated and losses were heavy on
both sides. General Queipo, rebel
commander at Seville, announced
he was about to adopt new colors
of the rebellion, red and yellow,
which are the colors of the Spanish
monarchy.
/"OFFICIALS of the agricultural
" adjustment administration dis
cussed in Washington the advisa
bility of drastically reducing or re
moving altogether the planting re
strictions on com and wheat next
year. No decision was made and
farmers will be consulted before
any cnanges are ordered. It was,
however, definitely stated that
wheat acreage will be expanded.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
passing through Chicago on his way
back from Iowa, said he believed
government-controlled crop insur
ance would prevent wild price fluc
tuations in farm produce. The plan,
he said, has not progressed be
yond the embryo stage, but probab
ly would entail storage of crops in
government granaries. Each farm
er, depending on the percentage of
his normal crop he wished to in
sure, would make his "insurance"
payments in the form of bushels to
be stored in a common pool.
The plan, preventing "lean years
and fat years," would tend to stabi
lize market prices because it would
assure a continual adequate sup
ply of whatever commodity was to
be insured. Gradually, he said, it
might be worked out to include all
major farm produce.
FOLLOWING a conference of
" President Roosevelt, Chairman
Harrison of the senate finance com
mittee, Chairman Doughton of the
house ways and means committee
and Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau, the administration's fiscal
program for the coming year was
thus outlined: ?
1. Assurance that no request will
be made to the next pgpgress for
the levying of additional taxes or in
crease of present tax rates.
2. Launching of an immediate
study by treasury and congressional
tax consultants of present revenue
laws as ? basis for recommends
lions to the next congress for elimi
nation of inequitable taxes, especi
ally those unfair "to consumers or
to trade."
3. Treasury assurance that "with
continued recovery" the revenue
yield is approaching the point where
it will cover government costs and
provide a surplus for reduction of
the public debt.
Mr. Koosevelt then started on a
three-day trip to the vicinity of
Johnstown, Pa., where We talked
over flood control problems with
Governor Earle and others, and on
to Cleveland tot a visit to the Great
Lakes exposition. His itinerary pro
vided then for a visit to Chau
tauqua, N. Y., to deliver a speech
on foreign affairs.
TWO veterans of the senate, Wil
liam E. Borah of Idaho, Republi
can, and Joseph T. Robinson of
Arkansas, Democrat and majori
ty leader, won their fights for re
nomination without much difficulty.
Borah defeated Byron Defenbach,
who was backed by the Townsend
ites. His Democratic opponent at
the polls in November will be Gov.
C. Ben Ross. In the Democratic
primary to select a congressman to
succeed the late Joseph W. Byrns
of Tennessee the Townsend influ
ence gave victory to Richard M.
Atkinson of Nashville by the nar
row margin of 13 votes.
In the Presidential contest the
American Federation of Labor, as
an organization, will maintain its
traditional non-partisan policy, ac
cording to the firm declaration of
President William Green. The fed
eration, said he, is not in the Non
partisan Labor league, which is
backing President Roosevelt. "We
will not formally indorse any candi
date this fall," Mr. Green contin
ued. "Our non-partisan committee
will merely prepare parallel reports
on the labor records of the two
chief candidates and of the plat
forms. We will send out all data
to our membership. They will have
to make up their own minds."
pORTY - THREE Democrats.
" most of them prominent nation
ally or locally and representing
twenty states, gathered in Detroit
???SHllMB irk 4a11 rtna
J. A. Reed
and the world how
much and why they
disliked the New
Deal. After two
Jays of conferring,
they organized
themselves as the
National Jefferson
ian Democrats and
named Former
Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri as
their national chair
man. They decided to establish
headquarters at once in St. Louis
and to set up an organization in
every state. Then they gave out
a 1,500 word declaration or plat
form in which they declared they
"will not support for re-election the
candidates of the Philadelphia con
vention for President and vice presi
dent, and we call upon all loy
al and sincere Democrats to con
sider the question of their duty to
their country in the apprcaching
election with the same earnestness
that has guided our deliberations ?
joining with us if they feel that our
conclusions are sound and our anx
iety for the future of our party
and our country is Justified."
The name of Governor Landon
was not mentioned in the declara
tion, but a number of its signers
are openly supporting the Republi
can candidate. Among these are
Joseph B. Ely, Col. Henrj Breckin
ridge, John Henry Kirby of Texas
and Robert S. Bright of Maryland.
D EBELLION among the Town
^ sendites, smoldering ever since
their Cleveland convention, has
broken out into civil war. Dr. Fran
cis Townsend has just summarily
ousted from the organization three
of the eleven directors. Apparently
ths reason is that they are support
ing President Roosevelt and object
to Townsend's effort to swing his
followers to the support of Lemke.
The three men thrown out are
Dr. Clinton Wunder, a former Bap
tist preacher, now living in New
York; John B. Kiefer, Chicago re
gional director, and Maj. William
Parker of New York, eastern re
gional director.
LEADING officials of Class I rail
roads, meeting in Washington,
voted to petition the interstate com
merce commission for an advance
in freight rates to replace the tem
porary surcharges which expire at
the end of this year, and to meet
the rising expenses of the roads.
The petition also will ask the
commission to give the railroads
relief on the long and short haul
clauses in the various commodity
classifications.
\I 7 HEN the American Bar a*
'* sociation convenes in Boston
soon it will receive two widely dif
fering reports from a special com
mittee named to study the effects
of New Deal legislation on the
rights and liberties of citizens. They
wjjre made public in Washington.
Thej majority report, signed by
John., D. Clark, Cheyenne, Wyo.;
Fred H. Davis, Tallahassee, Fla. ;
George L. Buist, Charleston, S. C.,
and Charles P. Taft II., Cincinnati.
Ohio, "deplored" the action of
President Roosevelt in reducing
congress to a "rubber stamp" body
to carry through his program of
legislation.
"Novel legislative and govern
mental trends of the New Deal are
just as uncertain today as they
were two years ago," the report
said. "Laws specifically proposed
as emergency measures with limit
ed life have been declared by im
portant members of the administra
tion to be the beginning of perma
nent changes in national policy.
"There has been a continuing
conflict between such officials as to
whether a new social and economic
order is in the making or the old
institutions are being perfected so
that they may be preserved."
These findings were challenged
by Kenneth Wynne, New Haven,
Conn.; Fred L. Williams, St. Louis,
Mo., and James G. McGowen of
Jackson, Miss. In their minority
report they said: "If the purpose
of the resolution creating the spe
cial committee was to get the opin
ion of the American Bar association
regarding legislative trends de
signed to meet changing economic
conditions, the report is superficial.
It does not deal with the problem
but concerns itself with a short
range attack on surface triviali
ties."
DREMIER BLUM made good one
* of his campaign promises by
putting the French leftist govern
ment in control of the Bank of
France. The board of regents, in
existence for a century, was abol
ished and replaced by a council of
seven headed by Leon Jouhaux,
president of the conference of la
bor. The others are representatives
of the ministry of finance, savings
banks, consumers' co-operatives,
handicrafts, chambers of commerce
and chambers of agriculture.
The new board is expected to
continue the anti-devaluationist pol
icy of the retiring board of the insti
tution.
UENRY MORGENTHAU, secre
tary of the treasury, and the
national commission on fine arts
have given their approval to the
design for a memorial half dollar
which will bear the likeness of
Phineas T. Barnum. The coin will
commemorate the centennial anni
versary of the establishment of
Bridgeport, Conn., as a city, and
Barnum is honored not for his
achievements as a showman but
for his great philanthropies and
rich gifts to Bridgeport.
OECRETARY OF COMMERCE
^ ROPER'S department has just
put out a "world economic review"
for 1935 which contains many
uueresiing iibic
ments. It says, (or
instance, that
future business
orospects arc condi
tioned in part upon
the possibility of
narrowing the gap
between g o v e rn
ment expenditures
and receipts. It as
serted that "the
government deficit
springs from the
A. P. Sloan
root of unemployment, which is
still the major problem confronting
the country," and continued:
"Most of the recent increase in
the public debt has resulted from
emergency expenditures which will
be reduced as the need dfihinishes.
At this date the evidences of need
are still manifest."
As to "the part played in the re
covery to date by the heavy govern
ment expenditures," the report said:
"This question is not easily an
swered, but it is certain that such
outlays have had an influence
in many directions ? lor example,
on retail sales, on farm income, on
the growth of bank deposit* and on
the prevailing level of interest
rates."
The latter statements may well
be compared with the report of
Alfred P. 'Sloan, president of Gen
eral Moton, to the stockholders.
Business recovery throughout the
world ? in which the United States
has participated ? ia being gen
erated by a combination of various
factors, Mr. Sloan explains. In
this country the automobile indus
try has been helped, ha says, by
principal influences. Only one of
these, he points out, has Its roots
in the New Deal financial schemes
and he finds that particular influ
ence a bad ooe because it creates
a temporary fool's paradise in
which sale* and earnings are bal
looned by extraordinary govern
ment expenditures.
Water Carried for Miles to Thirsty Cattle
A common scene now in the central New York farm district is that of farmers hauling water from res
ervoirs many miles away to save the lives of_ their parched stock. Here is Bert Cardwell, of Onondaga Hill,
filling up a tank for his cattle. ^11 springs and wells in the district went dry as the result of the greatest
dry spell in the history of the country.
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
JERRI HAS A SAD AWAKENING
T* HE stranger had visited the j
Smiling Pool as he had been do
ing for more than a week. Jerry
Muskrat had kept right on working
or his house. All the time he had
kept a bright eye on the stranger
to see what he was doing. As usual
the stranger visited each of
Jerry's favorite eating places. It
seemed to Jerry that he was at
each a little longer than usual, but
Jerry didn't think anything of that.
Just as soon as the stranger had
left Jerry swam straight over to
a certain old log which lay half in
the water and half on the bank. He
Finally He Twisted Around to gee
What Held Him. It Was a Trap.
felt sure that on the upper part of
that old log he would And some
pieces of apple or carrot. He wasn't
disappointed. His nose told h i m
they were there even before he
could see them. Now ordinarily
Jerry climbed right up that old log
out of the water, but this time he
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A BACHELOR EFC'JSE HE
DOES UNDERSTAND THEM!
didn't. It just happened so, that was
all. He climbed out on the bank
beside the log and then up on the
log. There he sat down and began to
eat. My, how good those pieces ot
apple and carrot did taste! You see,
Jerry had been working very hard
and he had a splendid appetite.
At first he sat facing the water.
After a while he changed his posi
tion so that his back was to the
water and his tail dropped down
in the water where it covered the
lower part of that old log.
Snap! With a squeal of pain and
fright Jerry jumped right up in the
air. He lost his balance and fell
off the old log. Then he tried to
scramble away. He couldn't. Some
thing was holding him by his tail
and pinching it most dreadfully.
Jerry was too frightened to think.
He couldn't imagine what dread
ful thing had got him. He pulled
and pulled until it seemed to him
that he must pull his tail out by
the roots. Finally he twisted around
to see what held him. It was a
trap! The stout cruel jaws of it
were gripping his tail about an inch
from the ->nd.
Then Jerry understood. He
awakened to the truth, and it was
a sad awakening. That stranger
was a trapper after all. He had
been putting those good thing: there
for Jerry so that he would get ao
used to finding them that his sus
picions would be put to sleep. When
he was quite sure that Jerry had
grown careless and was no longer
suspicious of traps he had placed a
trap on that old log just under
water.
If Jerry had climbed up on that
old log as usual he would have
stepped in that trap and been
caught by a leg. As it was, he had
accidentally sprung it with his tail.
Being caught by the tail was bad
enough, but it would have been
worse to have been caught by a leg,
though Jerry didn't stop to think of
this at the time. So far as he could
see it didn't make any difference
how he was caught as long as he
was caught.
Poor Jerry! He was so frightened
that for the time being he hardly
noticed the pain.
6 T. W. Buriteu. ? WSU 8?rvlc?.
The Kitchen Cabinet^
VARIOUS GOOD THINGS
HERE is a cottage cheese pie :
that everybody will like, be
cause it is different:
Beat three eggs, add one cupful of
cottage cheese, nine tablespoonfuls
of sugar, one cupful of freshly grat
ed coconut, one teaspoonful of nut
meg, a cupful of coconut milk and
a cupful of rich milk, or use as
much of the milk as the nut con
tains and add enough cow's milk to
make two cupfuls of liquid. Add a
pinch of salt and more sugar if it is
not sweet enough. A grating of
lemon peel may be used instead of
the nutmeg if that is not liked. Pour
into a deep pastry lined pie plat<
and bake as for custard pie.
Crisp Molasses Cooties
Take two and one-half cupfuls of
pastry flour, one-fourth cupful of
bread flour, one teaspoonful each
of baking powder and salt, two tea
spoonfuls of ginger, then sift all
again. Heat one cupful of molasses,
add one-half cupful of butter and
two teaspoonfuls of soda. Add the
flour gradually and when well
mixed, chill. Roll very thin and
cut with a cooky cutter. Bake ten
minutes.
Lemon Pie
Take one and one-half cupfuls of
bread crumbs, cover with one cup
ful of boiling water and let stand
until soft. Mix one cupful of sugar
end one and one-half teaspoonfuls
ol cornstarch, add two egg yolks
well beaten and the juice and grat
ed r.nd of a lemon. Combine the
mixtures and make in one crust.
Orange sponge Cake
Beat two egg yollis with four
tablespoonfuls of orange Juice and
ore-half tablespoonful of lemon
juice until thick; mix three-fourths
of ? cupful of sugar with one-half
teaspoonful of grated orange rind
and add gradually to the egg yolks:
add the stiffly beaten whites of the
eggs and cut and fold in one cupful
of flour, sifted four times with one
fourth of a teaspoonful of soda.
Pour into a buttered cake pan and
bake in a moderate oven.
e Western Newspaper Lnioa.
ALL THE SAD
By DOUGLAS MAJLLOCH
E TALK 10 much about the
mass.
As though the lowly were a class.
The high exempted from all care.
I stood beside a casket where
A rich man lay. I heard the sob
Of her whom death had com* to
It seemed to sound, that sob of
pain.
Much like a widow's in a lane.
However money may appear.
There is no difference in a tear
Nor in the heartbreak of ? wife.
All men are rich, all who have life.
All men are poor, whom life has
fled.
For who would rather lie there
dead
Within a silver casket than
To walk abroad, earth'* poorest
man?
To one great class my heart goes
The lover who has cause to doubt.
The woman with a widow's weeds.
Whatever heart however bleeds ?
And you will find them, rich or
poor.
Within the mansion, on the moor.
I wish our talk of classes had
Room for them all, for all the sad.
C Dobs la* Mallaeh.? WXC Strrtea.
rob;
out:
For Sports Wear
Navy blue and white plaid novelty
crepe makes the box coat in this
smart spectator sports outfit. The
dress of white novelty crepe is
made with a pleat down the
front and gores in the skirt
Crude Lamps of Sian
In northwestern Siam the natives
burn holes in the mai yang tree to
| collect resin, which they use in
their crude lamps.
British Blow Up Jaffa Danger Zone
This unusual picture shows houses in Jaffa, Palestine, being blown
into the air by the force of an explosion. In one week ISO house* in
the old city were blown up by British troops as part of their plan
for the defense of Palestine. Steel helmeted troops armed with ma
chine guns surrounded the old city during the operation.