The Alamance gleaner
GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1936.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President's Revised Budget Figures Put Debt at 34 Billions
? Mussolini Tells World His Immense
Army Is Ready.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C Weatern Newspaper Union.
DEVISING the 1937 budget flg
v ures he submitted to congress
In January, President Roosevelt
now estimates that expenditures
caused by the bonus
and the AAA invali
dations will put the
public debt at the
all-time high figure
of $34,188,543,494.
He says, however,
that better business
will run tax receipts
up $12,000,000 high
er than was expect
ed. The President's
revision covered the
fiscal year that be
gan Julv 1 last and
President
Roosevelt
will end June 30, 1937. During his
absence from the capital it was is
sued by Acting Budget Director
Daniel W. Bell.
The chief items changed by the
estimate were:
1. Receipts, fixed at $5,665,839,000.
2. Expenditures at $7,762,835,300.
3. Gross deficit for the year at
$2,096,996,300. "
4. Public debt on June 30, 1937,
at $34,188,543,493.73.
These estimates compared with
January figures as follows:
1. Receipts of $5,654,217,650.
2. Expenditures of $7,645,301,338.
3. Deficit of $1,098,388,720.
4. Public debt at end of year of
$31,351,638,737.
The $2,000,000,000 deficit Mr.
Roosevelt estimated is the lowest of
the New Deal. Regarding this fig
ure the President said:
"The estimated deficit for 1937 is
$2,096,996,300 which includes $580,
000,000 for statutory debt retirement
and $560,000,000 for further pay
ments under the adjusted compen
sation payment act.
"Deducting the amount of the
statutory debt retirement leaves a
net deficit of $1,516,996,300.
"This does not- mean that there
will be an increase in the public
debt of this amount for the reason
that it is contemplated during the
year to reduce the working balance
of the general fund by approximate
ly $1,100,000,000."
What Mr. Roosevelt meant by this
was that instead of borrowing mon
ey to cover the difference between
receipts and expenditures, the
Treasury would dip into the general
fund for $1,100,000,000.
PRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT and
* Alf M. Landon, rival candidates
for the presidency, met in Des
Moines, Iowa, in their respective
capacities of President of the United
States and governor of Kansas, and
discussed the problem of relief for
the drouth sufferers and prevention
of future drouths. With them were
the governors of other midwestern
states. Governor Landon was pre
pared to offer for consideration the
program for long distance drouth
relief which he submitted to Harry
L. Hopkins, WPA administrator,
during the more serious drouth of
1934. It was said to resemble in
many particulars the plan the Pres
ident has been advocating in recent
speeches and is a joint federal
state program. /
Just before the Des Moines con
ference got under way there were
heavy rainfalls in Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma which weather fore
casters thought were "the begin
ning of the end of the drouth."
FRANCIS B. SAYRE, assistant
1 secretary of state in charge of
reciprocal trade agreements, has
returned from a six weeks' tour of
F. B. Sayre
Europe, and the de
partment has begun
a drive to expand
that favorite pro
gram of Secretary
Hull. Fourteen of
those agreements
already have been
signed, and a survey
is being made of
other nations with
which trade pacts
may be concluded.
During the next fls
cal year negotiations will be opened
with as many as possible and offi
cials said as many as a dozen new
treaties may result. Ten months re
main before the power given the
President by congress to negotiate
such pacts expires.
Officials declined tr specify which
rations may be approached on pos
sible trade pacts until the study of
trade and trade trends between the
United States and other nation*
gives an indication of which might
prove moat profitable.
T T WAS Benito Mussolini's turn
1 to go into the European version
of the Indian war dance, following
Hitler and Stalin, and he gave a
great performance. At Avellino,
center of the Italian army maneu
vers, II Duce announced to a cheer
ing throng that he could mobilize
8,000,000 soldiers, "in the course of
a few hours and after a simple
order." The premier declared the
world is in the throes of an irresisti
ble re-armament race and Italy
must reject the idea of eternal
peace, which he said is "foreign to
our creed and to our temperament."
He asserted that the armed forces
of Italy are more eflficier.'. than ever
as a consequence of the Ethiopian
war and that the 60,000 men en
gaged in the maneuvers are but a
modest and almost insignificant part
of the country's actual war strength.
Germany's new army of a mil
lion men, created by Hitler's order
doubling the term of compulso
ry military training, is to be fi
nanced by increased taxes on 'all
companies and corporations by 25
per cent for 1936 and by 50 per
cent for 1937.
JAPAN proposes to build up a
** submarine fleet approximately
30 per cent larger than that oi either
Great Britain or the United States.
Such was the substance of a note
delivered by the Japanese embassy
in London to the British foreign of
fice. The decision' replaces the sub
marine parity among the three pow
ers established by the 1930 London
naval treaty.
Japan notified Great Britain that
it was determined to keep afloat
11,059 tons of destroyers and 15,
598 tons of submarines above the
1930 London treaty quotas. This
tonnage, if the treaty's provisions
were carried out, would be scrapped
at the end of this year.
The Japanese note was In reply to
Great Britain's memorandum of
July 15, 1936, invoking the "escape
clause" of the first London treaty in
order to increase its destroyer ton
nage above the pact's allowance.
Japan gave the lack of sufficient
excess destroyers as its reason for
retaining a surplus in submarines.
The United States, like Great Brit
ain, has decided it must keep in
service after the end of the year
40,000 tons of over age destroyers
in excess of the total permitted by
the 1930 treaty.
SHOULD war break out in Europe,
France counts on having the |
powerful Polish army on her side.
Consequently the week long visit |
of Gen. Edward
Rydz - Smigly, in
spector general of
that army, and a
Polish military mis
sion to France was
made the occasion
of elaborate cere
monies. The train
carrying the Poles
crossed the border
at Belfort and there
General Rydz-Smig
ly was received by
the commanding
Gen. Ryds
Smigly.
generals of the area and reviewed
thousands of troops of the frontier
regiments. Going thence to Paris,
the Poles were accorded the high
est military honors and the crowds
in the decorated streets cheered
them lustily.
Dinners for the guests were given
by President Albert Lebrun, Pre
mier Leon Blum and Foreign Min
ister Delbos. Later they were taken
to the Franco-German frontier
where they inspected the famous
Maginot defense line of concrete
and steel strongholds and passages.
FI AN appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States the
Virginian Railway company made
an attack on the provisions of the
railway labor act authorizing collec
tive bargaining between representa
tives of the employees and the car
riers.
The railroad appealed from rul
ings by the Eastern Virginia Fed
eral District court and the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals re
quiring it to negotiate concerning
disputes with a unit of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. It con
tended the legislation, passed in
1926 and amended in 1934, violated
the Constitution by depriving it of
liberty and property, and attempt
ing to regulate labor relations with
employees engaged solely in intra
state activities.
T TNITED STATES DISTRICT AT
U TORNEY L. C. GARNETT of
Washington was asked by Vice
President Garner to present to the
federal grand jury the case, of six
Railway Audit and Inspection com
pany officials who failed to appear
before a senate committee some
two weeks ago. Those cited by Mr.
Garner were: W. W. Groves, presi
dent of the company ; W. B. Groves,
vice president; Earl Douglas Rice,
vice president; J. E. Blair, secre
tary-treasurer; R. S. Judge, direc
tor, and J. C. Boyer.
The committee, headed by Sena
tor La Follette, is investigating the
alleged use of labor "spies" by em
ployers in disputes with their em
ployees. At the time of the hearing
an attorney for the company told
the committee an injunction was be
ing sought in federal court to pre
vent the officials' appearance and
to prohibit production of their rec
ords.
1V/IRS. RUTH BRYAN OWEN,
^ * now the wife of Capt. Boerge
Rohde of the Danish king's royal
life guards, has resigned as Ameri
can minister to Den
mark in order to be
free to campaign as
a private citizen for
the re - election of
President Roosevelt,
and the President
has accepted her
resignation. This
was done in an
exchange of tele
grams, that from
Mr. Roosevelt say
ing:
* mamxmu arcs aj*
Ruth Owen.
"While I am very loath to have
you discontinue the very fine serv
ices you have been rendering as
United States minister to Denmark,
I appreciate your reasons for want
ing to resign and the motives that
prompt you. I therefore reluctant
ly accept your resignation."
Mrs. Rohde, daughter of William
Jennings Bryan, has had a long
career of public service. Before
entering the diplomatic service she
served in the Seventy-first and Sev
enty-second congresses, 1929 to 1933,
. from Florida. Captain Rohde, to
whom she was married in July last,
is her third husband.
bombs dropped from an un
,v.entified Spanish airplane fell
perilously near the American de
stroyer Kane, which was en route
from Gibraltar to Bilbao to help
in the removal of Americans from
the war zone. The Kane fired sev
eral rounds from an anti-aircraft
gun at the plane. Naturally our
government was roused to protest.
Secretary of State Hull instructed
his agents abroad to request both
the Spanish government and Gen.
Francisco Franco, leader of the reb
el forces, to "issue instructions in
the strongest terms" to prevent an
other "incident of this character."
The rebel forces in the north were
making a powerful air attack on
Irun, scattering many bombs on
that border city, and an assault by
land and sea forces was expected
at any moment. The government
troops there had refused to sur
render and their officers said right
ist prisoners, including some prom
inent men, would be exposed in
the most open places during the
bombardment.
The Madrid government admitted
its troops had sustained an "im
portant reverse" in a battle at Oro
pesa, 100 miles southwest of the
capital and were driven back to
Talavera. Later a loyalist victory
at that place was claimed, though
London heard the rebels had scored
another victory there. The fighting
in the GuadarramA mountains con
tinued indecisively.
RESOLUTIONS adopted by the
American Bar association at its
meeting in Boston declare firmly
a-ainst any attempt to limit the
power of federal courts to pass on
the constitutionality of laws. The
association avoided what had been
expected to be a lively debate by
taking a noncommittal attitude on
the report of another committee
which denounced in great part the
alleged invasion of the rights of citi
zens by the New Deal. This report,
to which there was a minority re
port appended, was received and
filed by the assembly, but not ac
cepted, and the committee which
filed it was discharged from further
duty.
Frederick H. Stinchfield of Minne
apolis was unanimously elected
president of the association.
DERHAPS the farmers of Amert
I ca don't realize it, but during Ju
ly they enjoyed the largest cash in
come they have had since 1929. Fig
ures given out by the Department of
Agriculture show the sales of farm
products brought them $711,000,000
against $582,000,000 in June and only
$451,000,000 in July, 1935.
To their income from sales, the
farmers added $24,000,000 in various
forms of government benefits, bring
ing the total cash at their disposal
to $735,000,000. The rental and oth
er benefits totaled $97,000,000 in
June and $19,000,000 in July. 1039.
\
Drouth-Stricken Farmers Got Government Aid
Their crops seared and withered and their farms reduced to dusty stretches of sun-baked soil, these
North Dakota farmers are forced to turn to work projects as their only means of avoiding starvation for
themselves and families. They are being put to work on water conservation and irrigation projects to re
claim their once fertile land from the grip of drouth and barrenness.
TTiornton W Burgess
FARMER BROWN'S BSY LOSES
HIS TEMPER
TT WAS a long time since Farm
* er Brown's Boy had visited the
Laughing Brook and the Smiling
Pool, so ol course he knew nothing
about what had been going on there.
One morning, having nothing else
to do, he took it into his head to go
over to the Smiling Pool to see how
"I Guess Yon Are Pretty Nearly
Ready for Cold Weather," Said Be.
Jerry Muskrat was getting along.
Jerry saw him coming and his heart
was so filled with distrust because
of what he had suffered from the
trapper who had so nearly caught
him that he actually suspected
Farmer Brown's Boy.
"I used to think that I could trust ,
Plaid Top-Coat
The oack swing is important in
this plaid top-coat of fleece-like
woolen in reddish brown and blue.
The dress of spongy brown woolen
has a brilliant red suede telt to
match rows of ilne stitching trim
ming the collar.
Farmer Brown's Boy," muttered
Jerry, "but I don't trust him. I
don't trust anybody. As likely as
not Farmer Brown's Boy has been
friendly just so that he can take ad
vantage of it." So Jerry promptly
hid where Farmer Brown's Boy
could not see him, but where he
could watch Farmer Brown's Boy,
The latter was whistling, a habit
he has when he is feeling hapny. He
came straight down to the bank of
the Smiling Pool and there he stood
for a few minutes looking at Jerry's
house. "I guess you are pretty
nearly ready for cold weather,"
said he, just as if he were talking
to Jerry. "I've brought a couple of
carrots for you and I hope you will
enjoy them. You'll find them over
by that favorite old log of yours."
Farmer Brown's Boy pulled a
couple of carrots from his pocket
and walked over to the old log
which lay half in the water and
half out.' It was the very log
where Jerry had been caught in
the trap by his tail. When Farmer
Brown's Boy got there he gave a
little whistle of surprise. There
were some pieces of carrot already
there. Then Farmer Brown's Boy's
face clouded. "I wonder what this '
means," said he, and at once be
gan to look about. It didn't take
him long to discover the trap fast
ened to the old log. "Ha! I thought
so!" exclaimed Farmer Brown's
Boy, and his face became angry
looking.
He reached down and got hold of
the chain of the trap and pulled it
free from the log. Then he tossed it
up ?n the bank and at once went
over to another favorite feeding
place of Jerry's. There, just as he
expected, he found another trap.
This he also threw up on the bank,
and his face looked angrier than
ever.
Now Farmer Brown's Boy knew
all about trapping, and, what is
more, he knew all about the ways
of Jerry Muskrat. So he went from
place to place where he thought
traps might be set. He found two
more, and by this time he had quite
lost his' temper.
"I'd like to know who it is has
dared to set traps here," he grum
bled. "This is on our land, and
everybody knows that we don't al
low trapping. I guess I'll have to
go up the Laughing Brook and see
if there are more traps up there.
I'll take these traps along with me,
and whoever owns them will lave
to come up to the house to get them.
Then I'll give him such a good
piece of my mind that he won't do
any more trapping along the Laugh
ing Brook and around the Smiling
Pool."
6 T. W. BarKASK. ? WNB Servlc*.
* MOTHER'S *
COOK BOOK
GOOD AND ECONOMICAL
A BEEF loaf is an economical
** main dish to serve occasional
ly, and it may be as tasty as it is
satisfying. It is without waste, and
when sliced may be served as cold
meat for the second day. The fol
lowing is slightly different, but rec
ommended as very good :
Beef Loaf.
Simmer one and one-half pounds
of round of beef in a quart of boiling
water, teaspoonfui of salt and a ta
blespoonful of vinegar. When ten
oer chop very fine. Add to the
broth, wh'ch should be at least a
cupful, a teaspoonfui of sug ir. the
same of sage and thyme. Add one
tablespoonful of Worcestershire
sauce and more salt and pepper.
Mix with the meat and press in a
buttered mold. Serve when well
chilled with sliced tomato on let
tuce with mayonnaise.
Stuffed Flank Steak.
Have a flank steak, trimmed and
scored. Mi* one cupful of bread
crumbs one small onion chopped,
one-half of a grated carrot one
half cupful of chopped celery, one
tablespoonful of minced parsley, j
one teaspoonfui ot sugar and salt
and pepper to taste Add one-third
cupful of hot watei or vegetable
liquor to moisten. Spread this mix
ture over the steak, ml1 up tightly
and tie firmly. Sprinkle wit*- sea
soned flour and brown in a little hot
fat. Place in a covered baking
pan and bake one and one-half
hours, basting with butter and vege
table liquor three ir four times
during the baking. Serve with pan
gravy.
Maeedolne Salad.
Take two cupfiaa of cooked rice,
one cupful of peas, three tablespoon
fuls each of minced celery and grat
ed cheese, four tables poonfuls each
of pimiento and relish, one tea
spoonful of salt. Mix well and serve
on lettuce with french or mayon
naise dressing.
When fresh coconuts are in the
market, keep some freshly grated
coconut well sugared in the ice
chest. Use it on salads, on custards
as topping for cream pie and cust
ard pie and as cake filling It is
so much tastier than the canned
or package variety, which we wel
come when the fresh nut is out of
the market.
? W*ura N??aptp?r Onloa.
Eve's EpiGrAPOS
ftothino is
cnor-e painful
then the bore
oho tries to
force hocoe
pointed, *e<ofl*k?
THE DAILY ROUND
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
WHO treads a daily round majj
deem
The daily round a grind,
For so the task will always aeemj
The task however kind.
Until it is a faded dream
Of something left behind.
This morning wt our way shad
wend
To some familiar door,
Shall walk a street, and meet
friend.
And find a place of yore:
But some day all of that shall end.
And end forevermore.
J
Yet I have known of mortals wbaj
Had found, yet never found,
The ease they dreamed, as I and
you
Dream now of limbs unbound ?
Who longed for something
could do,
Again the daily round.
? Dowlu Mftlloch. ? WN'U Strrfca.
RY THIS TRICK
By PONJAY HARRAH
Co*Trt?k? br F*Mlo Lmlom. bo.
'^OTAS ^U-L?j@/
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SPOT '
MYSTERIOUS PREDICTION
ON a sheet of paper you write tfa*
words: "You will choose four."
Place the paper on the table, (bided
so that no one can see what you
have written.
Next lay four stacks of cards fat
a row. Ask a person to choose any
stack. When he has iooe so, have
him open the paper; then you prove
that the stack he chose was "four."
Any heap may be choaen. If the
person takes the stack at your right,
you count the stacks yourself: "one.
two, three, four?" ending on his
heap. If he takes the stack at your
left, you ask him to count the piles
himself. He counts from his left;
and his chosen stack is number
four.
One of the middle stacks has
four cards; if the person chose it,
tell him to count the cards and be
finds that he has four. The other
middle stack has only one card;
that card, however, is a four spot,
face down. If it is chosen, have
the person turn up the card and he
sees the four.
WNU !
"Too Much Preaching"
Rev. Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, who
urged a moratorium on preaching
for one or two years in his annual
statement as rector of Trinity par
ish, New York. Dr. Fleming made
his suggestion after declaring that,
despite the record of Trinity's ac
tivity, "there is no part of the
church of Christ that has not failed
lamentably in its witness and min
istry in these recent years ? the im
potence of the church is the worst
failure."
The Dogflsit
The dogfish is a small, slate-col
ored shark, thret. feet long, with
a strong spine in the dorsal fin. It
inhabits both shores of the North
Atlantic, southward to Cuba. The
flesh is used for food and the liver
yields oil. The very tough skin Is
dried and used, like sandpaper, te
polishing wood. Sometimes aa
many as 30,000 dogfish have been
taken in a single haul at the net.