The Alamance gleaner
Vol lxiii
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937 No. 21
Netcs Review of Current Events
F. D. R. EYEING THIRD TERM?
Belief He It Grows in Capital . . . State Troops Act
For Peace in Strikes . . . Mediation Board Hits Snags
Being hum an at bar on island where President Roosevelt "humanised"
relations between the White House and majority members of congress :
Senators Key Pittman (left) of Nevada and John H. Overton of Louisiana.
"Humanizing" the Majority
A S MAJORITY members of con
gress met on Jefferson island
in Chesapeake bay with President
Roosevelt, to have their relations
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tive "humanized,"
the belief in Wash
ington circles that
the President is will
ing to accept a third
term expanded t o
the greatest propor
tionsithasyetknown.
The spark which
touched off the lat
est cloakroom whis
perings of a third
term was the dec
laration by Gov.
President
Roosevelt
ueorge H. Earle of Pennsylvania
that he would give "unqualified
and final" support to a Roose
velt - for - President movement in
1940. Further reports had it that
John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion and leader of the sit-down
strikes that have swept the nation,
was working toward the same end.
The President has only indirectly
disavowed such an ambition. He
said at his victory dinner:
"My great ambition on January
20, 1941, is to turn over this desk
and chair in the White House to my
successor, whoever he may be, with
the assurance that I am at the
same time turning over to him as
President a nation intact, a nation
at peace, a nation prosperous . . ."
The "humanizing" on Jefferson
island was interpreted as attempts
to salvage the New Deal programs,
which have been getting a mild
kicking around in congress of late,
through heart - to - heart talks
between Mr. Roosevelt and his sup
porters in the Capitol.
Several pieces of attempted leg
islation, most notably the Pres
ident's Supreme court bill, have
apparently created a split between
the conservatives and liberals in
the Democratic party. The Presi
dent's continued silence throughout
the C. X. O. strikes has been a fac
tor, too. Democratic members of
congress are puzzled to decide
whether the President is unwitting
ly bringing about the split, or is
doing so deliberately with an eye
to freezing out the conservatives
and creating a completely liberal
party. They would also like to know
whether he is silently supporting
John L. Lewis or is simply giving
the C. I. O. leader plenty of rope
with which to hang himself.
States Patrol Strike Areas
A S NATIONAL guardsmen, or
** dered out by Gov. Martin L.
Davey, arrived on the scene to pro
tect the public peace in Ohio cities
where steel strikes hava
caused bloodshed and threatenea
more, violence dwindled, temporar
ily at least, to the throwing of a
lew stones and choice epithets.
At Warren, troops dispersed pick
ets and allowed loyal workmen to
move in and out of the Republic
Steel plants. A general strike which
the C. L O. had ordered and
claimed to be 40 to 70 per cent ef
fective was recalled after a day.
At Youngstown the strikers were
celebrating the order by which sev
eral hundred state troops were
forcing the four plants of Republic
and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube
company to remain closed. Then
Gov. Davey reversed his order, com
manding troops to keep the plants
open.
Shortly before the arrival of the
troops, in Youngstown two C. L O.
strikers had been killed and 25 per
sons injured as strikers and local
police fought for hours in front of
a Republic plant.
Bethlehem Steel's plant at Johns
town, Pa., was closed and kept
closed for several days by Pennsyl
vania state police under instructions
from Governor Earle. Martial law
was finally lifted.
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Nazi Fleet Moves on Valencia
C*OR the second time Germany
" and Italy withdrew from the
four-power non-intervention patrol
of Spain, asserting that by this act
their "freedom of action" was re
stored. Hitler immediately ordered
the strongest units of the Nazi fleet
to Valencia, the loyalist capital, the
while assuring Great Britain he
would commit no rash act. Britain,
in turn, let it be known through her
ambassador at Berlin that she
would regard any hostile act against
the loyalists "most seriously."
The reason for the Fascist nations'
withdrawal was that Great Britain
and France had refused to join
them in a naval demonstration at
Valencia to protest the alleged loy
alist submarine attack against the
German cruiser Leipzig on May 18.
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Hopkins Slices WPA Rolls
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS
TRATOR HARRY L. HOP
KINS is busy ^rimming 314,759
names oS the WPA rolls, to shave
the total to 1,655,477 by mid-July.
The cut was to be effected "simply
through not replacing men who
found jobs in private industry" and
by combing the lists for ineligibles.
WPA officials emphasized the need
for economy by comparing the es
timated $2,175,000,000 spent in 1937
with the $1,500,000,000 approved by
9ongress for relief in fiscal 1938.
Miss Perkins Names Three
THE federal government took a
hand in the settlement of the
dispute between John L. Lewis'
Committee for Industrial Organize
tion and the big in
dependent steel
companies, as the
mediation board of
three, appointed by
Secretary of Labor
Frances E. Perkins,
sat in Cleveland to
hear the cases of
both tides. The
government's move
was prompted as
the steel strikes, af
fecting plants in
Secy. Perkins j
several states, tnreatenea new out
breaks of violence which might be
beyond the powers of local or even
state governments to control.
Charles P. Taft II, Cincinnati
lawyer, son of the former Presi
dent and chief justice, and a mem-,
ber of the "b'rain trusP1 of Gover
nor Landon's presidential cam
paign, was named chairman of the
mediation board. Appointed to sit
with him were Lloyd K. Garrison,
former president of the national la
bor relations board, and Edward F.
McGrady, assistant secretary of la
bor and a former A. F. of L. or
ganizer under Samuel Gompers.
The mediation board had a job
cut out for it. It was to conduct an
investigation of the strikes and the
grievances of both sides, then make
recommendations for a settlement
It has power to act as arbitrator
only if both sides request it to do
so. The first stumbling block it en
countered was the refusal of Tom
Girdler, chairman of Republic, to
sit in the same room with C.LO.
representatives.
French Premier Quits
pACED with one of those financial
crises all too frequent in recent
French history, Premier Leon Blum
asked the senate for powers which
would make hi?
financial dictator of
France for about six
weeks. He did not
believe it possible
to bring order into
the treasury without
30 drastic a meas
ure. When it was
refused he and the 20
members of his cab
inet resigned. He
had served 117 days
of his second year as
premier of France ?
Premier Blma
something of a modern record. Pres
ident Albert Lebrun designated Ca
mille Chautemps, radical socialist
and a former premier, to attempt the
formation of a new cabinet. A suc
cessor to Blum was not immediately
in sight.
Th% Popular Front government
was one of the bulwarks of leftist
tendencies in Europe, as opposed to
extreme Fascism, and openly ex
pressed its sympathy for the Spanish
loyalists. Its passing is extremely
important in international affairs.
The Mail Must Go Through
FEDERAL warrants were issued
' at Cleveland for six C. I. O.
leaders in the strike at Youngs
town and Warren, charging them
with preventing delivery of the
United States mails to loyal em
ployees of the steel company plants
there. Their names were not re
vealed.
The order for the obtaining of the
warrant was given by Attorney-Gen
eral Homer S. Cummings after he
had looked over testimony at the
senate post office committee's hear
ing. Charges have been made that
C. I. O. leaders were censoring the
mall in Ohio cities and refusing to
permit delivery of parcel post pack
ages containing food, clothing and
other "irregular" articles for work
ers in the plants.
"All mail that the post office de
partment sees fit to attempt to
deliver must be delivered," said
Cummings. This did not conflict
with the post office department's
refusal to deliver packages to the
plants, but sought to prosecute per
sons who would prevent the delivery
of mail the department had okayed.
Bilbao Falls at Last
DILBAO, capital of the Spanish loy
u alists, fell before an attacking
force for the first time in history; it
naa wunstooa many
sieges dating from
medieval ages. In
the bombing and
shelling which broke
the "iron ring" of
defense the loyalists
had so steadfastly
maintained the city
was literally torn to
shreds and the death
toll, which included
many women and
children, was enor
mmi? Rirf oo a
Gen. Franco
Fascists moved in, parading Jubi
lantly, to take possession of the city
for Gen. Francisco Franco, not a
shot was fired. The last defenders
had fled toward Santander, 45 miles
to the west. The Basques were es
timated to have used 75,000 men in
defending Bilbao; 10,000 were either
killed or wounded.
Louis Is Champ by K. O.
JOE LOUIS, the "Brown Bomber"
from Detroit, became heavy
weight boxing champion of the world
when he knocked out Champion
James J. Braddock of New York
in the eighth round of a scheduled
15-round bout at Chicago.
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The Tax Parade
A congressional committee
opened hearings on tax evasion
and avoidance by wealthy citizens.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen
thau was among the first to testify.
He said the nation was losing hun
dreds at millions of dollars in annual
revenue through *uch tactics. Then
his under-secretary, Ro swell Magill,
suggested three changes in the pres
ent tax laws; Tha$ depletion reduc
tions be eliminated/ that community
property provisions now in effect in
some states be circumvented, and
that higher levies be put upon the
American-earned incomes of noo
resident aliens.
The first names mentioned in the
hearings were connected with the
practice of forming foreign corpora
tions to which individual incomes are
transferred, a scheme which treas
ury officials said was usually within
"the letter of the law." Among the
first names were: Philip D e Ronde,
former president of the Hibemia
Trust company of New York, now
Paraguayan consul in New York;
Jules S. Bache, New York banker;
Jacob Schick, ex-army officer and
electric-razor inventor, and Charles
La ugh ton. motion-picture actor.
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When the Python Has the Toothache
When the python of the Rotterdam, Holland, Zoological Garden had a toothache recently, seven men
took the place of a dentist's chair, as shown, while the white-coated dentist did his work.
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PETER AND WINSOME
BLUEBIRD GOSSIP
TO GOSSIP is to talk about other
people and what they are doing
or what they have done or what
they are going to do. Peter Rabbit
and Winsome Bluebird were gossip
ing in the dear Old Brier Patch.
Winsome sat in a little cherry tree
and right under him sat Peter. Win
some had just arrived from way
down South to spread the glad news
that Mistress Spring was on her
way and would soon reach the
Green Meadows, the Green Forest,
and the Smiling Pool. You see Win
some is the herald of Mistress
Spring and keeps just a little way
ahead of her. When the little mea
dow and forest people first see his
beautiful blue coat, or hear his soft,
sweet whistle, they know that Mis
tress Spring is surely on the way
and not very far behind, and then
So He Sat and Rested, and While He
Rested He Gossiped With Peter
Rabbit.
great joy fills their hearts. First
comes gentle Sister South Wind to
prepare the way, then Winsome
Bluebird, and after him beautiful
Mistress Spring.
Peter Rabbit was brimful of curi
osity, just as he always is. You
see it was a long time since he had
last seen Winsome Bluebird and all
the other birds who had gone to
the faraway south when the leaves
began to drop in the fall, ami, of
course, he wanted to know all about
In Mickey's Place
George (Birdie) Tebbetts, the De
troit Tigers' twenty - two - year - old
recruit catcher, who succeeded
Mickey Cochrane, the team's in
jured manager-catcher, while the
latter is out of the line-up. He is
rugged, square-shouldered, is pug
nacious and scrappy, stands 5 feet
11 inches, and weighs 180 pounds.
They call him "Birdie" because of
his highpitched voice.
his old friends and neighbors, how
they were, what they had been do
ing and when they were coming
back. And Winsome wanted to know
all about how Peter and Reddy Fox
and all the other little people who
hadn't gone to the beautiful south
had spent the winter. So there was
a great deal to talk about. Yes,
indeed, there was a great deal to
talk about. Winsome felt that he
ought to be flying about over the
Green Meadows and the Green For
est, where other little people could
see him and hear him and so know
that he had arrived, but he had
traveled a very, very great dis
tance and he was tired, and so he
sat and rested, and while he rested
he gossiped with Peter Rabbit.
"Is O'l Mistah Buzzard on his way
here?" asked Peter eagerly.
"Not yet," replied Winsome. "He
won't start until after he is sure
that Mistress Spring has got here."
Peter looked a little disappointed
for there is nothing that he enjoys
more than to watch Mistah Buzzard
sail around and around, way, way
up in the blue, blue sky. He is rath
er fond of Or Mistah Buzzard, is
Peter Rabbit, for big as he is, Mis
tah Buzzard never offers to hurt
any of the very little people, not
even little Danny Meadow Mouse.
"Why isn't he starting right away?"
he asked.
"Well, you see," replied Win
some, "Mistah Buzzard doesn't like
the cold."
"But it isn't cold now I" inter
rupted Peter. "Why, this isn't cold
at all. You ought to have been here
when it really was cold ? when the
Smiling Pool and the Laughing
Brook were covered with ice and
the Green Meadows and the Green
Forest were all white with snow.
Antelope Hat
Stamp blue is the color of this
flattering antelope hat. The slightly
draped crown is open in the center
from front to back. The bird is of
brilliant red antelope. A doable saw
tooth edging of self material and
white pique trims the frock.
and poor Mrs. Grouse was a prison
er under the hard, icy crust. Then
it was cold! Why, this isn't cold
at all."
Winsome Bluebird ruffled up his
feathers just a little. It was al
most like a shiver. "This is cold
enough for me!" said he. "Tell me
about poor Mrs. Grouse, Peter. Did
she get out?"
"You tell me about Ol' Mistah
Buzzard first, and how he spends
the winter, and then Til tell you
about poor Mrs. Grouse," replied
Peter.
"All right," said Winsome.
"There isn't a great deal to tell, but
I'll do the best I can."
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First Aid Roger B. Whllaaa
to the Ailing House
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SQUEAKY STAIRS
TP HE treads and risers of a flight
A of stairs are supported in
grooves cut into the side pieces.
They are held in the grooves by
slender wedges glued into place.
With shrinkage, the wedges loosen,
and there may be a squeak as they
slide in the grooves when stepped
on. In springing away from the
riser, there is still more of a squeak
when a weight on a tread forces it
back into place.
When the under side of a stair
case is open, as it may be when over
a cellar stair, a squeak can be taken
out by driving the wedges more
tightly and securing them' by nail
ing. Light finishing nails can be
used, and they need not go all the
way in.
When the under side is not ex
posed, a squeak can be taken out
by preventing a tread from moving
on top of its riser. The first step in
this is to take off the strip of mold
ing that is under the overhanging
front edge. A wedge, such as the
thin end of a shingle, is then driven
in between the upper edge of a riser
and the tread above. The tread
will thus be prevented from mov
ing. The wedge is cut off and the
molding returned.
When a staircase is open on one
side, it occasionally happens that
the outside side-piece becomes
warped and springs away from the
treads and riser*. It is sometimes
possible to force the side piece back
into place by wedging against an
opposite wall. This, however, is ?
job that should be undertaken by
a carpenter who is familiar with
stair construction.
6 By Roger B. Whltmaa
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"Cleanliness may be next to god
liness," cays ironic Irene, "tart U
Isn't wise to depend ?, that last
dusting eff by the undertaker In
getting as by eld Saint Peter."
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Had We Not Dreamed
By DOUGLAS M ALLOC H
U AO we not dreamed, wc never
* ?* would have known
The fortune that came to us was our
own.
Who leans on luck and who depend*
on chance
May meet it and may pass it with
a glance.
But we have dreamed, and they who
dream create.
And they shall know, however hong
they wait.
This is their child, and, whether
wealth or fame.
May take possession and may give
it name.
Had we not dreamed, how poor the
world would be.
Only the finished thing to ever see.
Only the finished thing to ever know.
Not plant the seed, and tend, and
watch it grow.
But we have dreamed, and they who
dream are blessed
With the whole pleasure of the thine
possessed.
Some buy their houses, but are nev
er thrilled.
Because, to love them, they mart
dream, then build.
Had we not dreamed, but little
would be done.
Naught is completed that is not be
gun.
It must be visioned long before its
time ?
Peaks seen from valleys, and men
start to climb.
But we have dreamed, and they
who dream wiO do;
Who has a dream win make the
dream come true.
For nothing is but something ooce
has seemed.
That never would have been, bed
we not dreamed.
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A PUTTING SUGGESTION.
THERE Is much to be Mid tor
that method of putting which
will insure, insofar as possible, the
'golfer keeping his attention on ac
tually hitting the balL Generally
speaking there are so many things
for the player to worry about on
the green, such as the proper speed,
the path to take, etc., that the at
tention is diverted along numerous
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channels and ai a result the putt
is not a decisive one.
Naturally these are problems that
must b? contended, with but the
player would be better off if he
quit worrying and stroked the ball
accurately and smoothly. It is wise
to learn a putting technique that
will cast aside these annoying
angles. One of the best methods
to follow is described here and,
besides proving an excellent meth
od of putting, it will also prove a
remedy for putting ills when other
styles are proving troublesome.
The process is as simple as it is
efficient. Merely select the line the
ball is to follow, then align the
clubface square to this line. As the
actual stroke is made, think of noth
ing but striking the ball accurately
along the line you have picked out.
The method sounds easy and is,
but requires considerable concentra
tion.