The Alamance gleaner
Vol. LXIII
GRAHAH, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1937 NO. 43
Weir* Review of Current Events
VANDENBERG'S PROGRAM
Michigan Senator's Plan to Give Honest Business a
Chance . . . President Talks Peace with Utility Chiefs
Representative J. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), and Representative
Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the house agriculture committee,
discussing farm problems at a meeting of the committee to draft the new
farm bill.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
? Western Newspaper Union.
Vandenberg's Program
CENATOR VANDENBERG of I
^ Michigan didn't wait for the I
leaders of the Republican party to
formulate a program on which to
battle the Demo
crats. He broke out
with a ten-point pro
gram designed to
"give honest busi
ness a chance to
create stable pros
perity."
His ten points
were:
1. An end to gov
Fy&flH H ernmental "hymns
of hate" and bitter
Vandenberg attacks on business
? men.
2. Progress as rapidly as possible
toward a balanced budget.
3. Amendment or repeal of the
surplus and capital gains taxes and
substitution of "incentive taxation"
for "punitive taxation."
4. Amendment of the social secur
ity act to eliminate the "needless
drain upon the resources of com
merce and labor."
5. Revision of the Wagner labor
law to make for greater certainty in
"long range industrial planning."
6. Abandonment of the so-called
wage-hour bill and substitution of
legislation to protect states from
the importation of goods produced
by substandard labor.
7. Repeal of many of the Presi
dent's emergency powers in order
to free business from "executive
despotism which is at war with ev
ery tenet of the American system."
8. Reasonable and practical farm
relief, without bureaucratic controls,
processing taxes, or price pegging,
but with benefits for soil conserva
tion practices, financing of export
able surpluses, and return of the
domestic market to the producer.
9. Foreign policies that will keep
America out of war through pur
suing "an insulating neutrality"
rather than sanctions.
10. "Frank abandonment of all
anti-constitutional activities and in
trigues which shatter democratic
faith."
Peace Talk with Utilities
D ESTRICTION of the construc
tion and expansion activities of
the privately owned public utilities
being recognized as an important
factor in the current business re
cession, President Roosevelt began
a series of conferences with the
heads of these concerns. He seemed
to be in a conciliatory frame of
mind and sought to lessen the utili
ties' fear of the effect of govern
ment policies, but without making
any concessions. His first caller
was Wendell Wilkie, president of the
Commonwealth & Southern corpora
tion, and next day he talked with
Floyd Carlisle of the Niagara Hud
son Power corporation.
Though he appeared amiable, the
President at the same time was
sending to various congressional
committees and federal agencies a
report by the New York state power
authority, whacking friends and
agents of the private utilities for
"propaganda" against public power
development. It presented figures i
to show the government could pro
duce water power at a much lower j
cost than private utilities could pro- i
duce power by steam plants.
Chino-Japanese War
JAPAN'S armies were slowed up
J by rain and mud in their ad
vance up the Yangtse valley, but
as there seemed no likelihood that
the Chinese line ol defense would
hold, the "Nationalist government
moved out of Nanking, scattering its
departments among a number of
cities. American Ambassador John
son and his staff moved to Hankow.
The Japanese qpmmanders in
Shanghai took over full control of
most of the city and its customs of
fice. They demanded that the in
ternational settlement and French
concessions officials hand over the
city's four leading citizens as hos
tages. Most prominent of these was
T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of Dic
tator Chiang Kai-Shek.
The Far East conference in Brus
sels, unable to accomplish anything
to end the conflict adjourned.
After French Throne
A LARM of the French govern
ment over the plotting of the
Cagoulards or "hooded ones" that
led to the arrest of many rightists
and the raiding of
hidden stores of
weapons and ammu
nition was far from
baseless. Evidently
there was a real
conspiracy to over
throw the republic
and set up a dicta
torship and eventu
ally a restored mon
archy. The govern
ment announced,
Doe de Guise however, that the
plot had been wrecked.
From his place of exile in Bel
gium the Due de Guise, pretender
to the throne of France, issued a
manifesto announcing he had de
cided to try to regain the throne.
"Have the moral courage not to
abdicate before present difficulties,"
the manifesto appealed to French
men. "Do not permit, in a moment
of abandon, dictatorship of any kind
to impose itself.
"Certain of my ability to assure
your happiness, I have decided to
reconquer the throne of my fathers.
France then again will reassume
her mission in the world and again
will find peace, unity and prosperity
through a union of the people with
a titular defender-king."
Windsor Wins Libel Suit
duke of Windsor won his
nuel suit against the author and
publisher of the book "Coronation
Comments," and in a settlement
out of court received a substan
tial sum, said to be $50,000, from
them, which money he gave to char
ity. Lord Chief Justice He wart
commented that the libels "ap
peared almost to invite a thorough
and efficient horsewhipping."
Green Oppotes Labor Bill
WILLIAM GREEN president of
the A. F. of L., practically
broke with the administration by
denouncing the pending wage and
hour bill as unacceptable to labor
and demanding that it be sent back
to committee for revision.
Green assailed the national labor
relations board and declared it no
longer is safe to permit a govern
ment board of that kind to admin
ister laws governing labor relations
with employers.
After Labor Racketeer!
FOR four months Eliot Ness, the
1 young safety director of Cleve
land, Ohio, has been investigating
labor racketeering in Cleveland, es
peciauy in the build
ing trades, and then
he made a report of
his findings that re
sulted in a special
session of the Cuya
hoga county grand
jury to hear the
stories of scores of
business men who
allegedly have been
terrorized by labor
union officials. Ness
said these men were Eliot Ness
prompted to volunteer their Infor
mation because of the security of
fered them and the knowledge that
many others were prepared to tes
tify.
In addition to protests from busi
ness men that they were being shak
en down, Ness also had numerous
complaints from rank and Ale union
men that their leaders had obtained
dictatorial control of the unions and
had used it for racketeering pur
poses.
This resulted in hundreds of men
being thrown out of work, impeded
legitimate business, and kept hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in new
industries out of the city.
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Governors Ask Tax Repeal
rjOVERNORS of the six New
England states, in conference
in Boston, adopted resolutions se
verely criticizing the tax and tariff
policies of the administration. They
demanded repeal of the capital
gains tax and the tax on undistrib
uted corporate profits, and de
nounced the pending reciprocal
trade agreement with Czechoslo
vakia as imperiling the jobs of
thousands of American citizens.
The governors who took this ac
tion were Lewis O. Barrows, Re
publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Re
publican, New Hampshire; George
D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont;
Charles F. Hurley, Democrat,
Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross,
Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert
E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island.
Trade Treaty with Britain
TN WASHINGTON and London It
' was officially announced that the
United States and Great Britain had
agreed to negotiate a reciprocal
trade treaty, which
has been sought by
Secretary of State
Hull ever since he
started his recipro
cal program in 1934.
The negotiations are
expected to begin
before the close of
the year.
American admin
istration officials be
? . ? lieve such a pact
Secretary Hall may ,ead ^ , com.
mercial union of all English-speak
ing peoples and will be a powerful
influence in preserving world peace.
London looks upon it as an in
strument to form a front which all
nations may enter later on condi
tions of most-favored-nations reci
procity, and therefore as an indi
rect reply to the new German
Italian- Japanese alliance.
Principles said to be already
agreed upon provide that Great
Britain would receive reduced
American tariffs on textiles and
coal.
in return she would grant the
United States lower tariffs on food
stuffs, eertain raw materials, iron
and steel and other essentia la of a
rearmament program.
Immediate opposition to the pro
posed pact developed among the
statesmen in Washington. Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois,
Democratic whip, protested against
any British accord until the Eng
lish pay off their defaulted war
debt to the United States. He called
the proposed pact "trade treason."
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Massachusetts Republican, served
notice he would sponsor a resolu
tion halting negotiation of all new
trade treaties until congress can 1
determine whether they are respon- 1
sible for the current business re
cession.
Representative Allen Treadway,
Massachusetts Republican, de
nounced the proposed treaty as cer
tain to prove disastrous to Amer
ican business. He warned it would
throw "more Americans out of their
jobs."
Rand Is Acquitted
TAMES H. RAND, JR., president
J of Remington Rand, Inc., and
Pearl L. Bergoff of New York were
found not guilty of violation of the
Byrnes act by a jury in the United
States District court in New Haven,
Conn.
The verdict was a blew at the
government's first attempt to en
force the act, which forbids the
transportation of strikebreaker*
across state lines With the intent of
interfering with peaceful picketing.
Bedtime Story for Children
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
JUMPER THE HARE CONSULTS
BUSTER BEAR
JUMPER THE HARE was sitting
" under a low growing hemlock
tree deep in the Green Forest,
where he could look out over the
pond at Paddy the' Beaver. Jumper
was not feeling at all good that
morning. No, sir; Jumper was feel
ing anything but good. In the first
place, it was a long time since he
had had a real good sleep. In the
second place, he couldn't rest easily
a minute even with his eyes wide
open. All the time he felt as if his
heart might jump right up in his
throat any minute. And it was all
because Reddy Fox had set out to
"Buster," Said Jumper, "How Do
You Like the Green Forest?"
catch him, and gave him no peace
night or day.
"Old Mother Nature certainly
takes better care of some than she
does of others," thought Jumper,
just a wee bit bitterly, as he
watched Paddy the Beaver swim
ming about in his pond. "Now,
there is Paddy, perfectly safe out
there in the water, and here am I,
not safe anywhere. It isn't fair.
It certainly isn't fair."
Then Jumper looked and listened
anxiously for the least sign of Reddy
Fox. But all was quiet, and once
more he began to think about the
unfairness of Old Mother Nature.
Now, that isn't a bit like Jumper the
Hare. Jumper is almost as happy
go-lucky as Peter Rabbit, and takes
things just as they come. It wasn't
long before he began to feel a little
ashamed of himself for having such
thoughts. He thought of those long
legs Old Mother Nature had given
him to take him quickly out of dan
ger, and then he remembered how
Paddy the Beaver has to get his
food on shore, or most of it anyway,
and how slow and clumsy Paddy is
out of the water. The more he
thought of this the more ashamed
he grew of the thoughts he had had
of Old Mother Nature's seeming un
fairness and pretty soon he knew
right down in his heart that he
wouldn't change places with Paddy
the Beaver if he could, not even to
get rid of Reddy Fox.
He was still thinking of this when
a stick snapped a little way from
him and his heart gave a great,
frightened thump. You see, he had
grown so anxious and nervous that
whenever he heard a stick snap or a
leaf rustle he was sure it was Reddy
Fox trying to steal up on him.
Jumper held his breath and looked
in the direction from which the
sound had come. There, shuffling
along and muttering to himself, was
Buster Bear. Jumper grinned. It
was a very great relief to see Bus
ter Bear instead of Reddy Fox. You
see, Jumper is't the least bit afraid
of Buster, because he kows he can
keep out of his way. Buster knows
it, too, and so he wastes no time
trying to catch Jumper.
Jumper hopped out and sat up in
front of Buster Bear. Buster sat up,
too. Very funny they looked as they
faced each other, one so very big
and one so small, and both sitting
up in just the same way. Paddy
the Beaver had to laugh as he
looked across at them.
"Hello, Buster!" said Jumper.
"How do you like the Green For
est?"
Buster's little eyes twinkled as he
grinned down at Jumper. "Pretty
well. Jumper; pretty well, so far.
MANNERS OF
THE MOMENT
By JEAN
COME people would ask you how
^ you were if they happened to
pass by when you were drowning.
"Hi, there. How are you?" they'd
say, with a broad grin and a cheery
wave of the hand. "I'm drowning,"
you'd answer. And ten to one
(wanna bet?) they'd answer, "That's
fine." They always do.
Personally, we think the question,
"How are you?" should be reserved
for hospital and convalescent cases.
But for tea parties and casual meet
"HI. There. Bow Are roof
ings on the street a much better
leading question is, "Bow much are
avocadoes todayT" or "Have you
seen the new hatsT" Something
chatty, you know, that won't get
you into a discussion of measles
symptoms. Of course, you can
leave oat the leading question alto
gether. "Hello" is quite enough,
and if no conversation comes natur
ally it may be followed after a tact
ful interval by "good-by."
But if you have friends who per
sist in the how-are-you habit, work
up some surprise answers for them.
"Yes, the weather'a lovely today."
... "I give up. How am IT" . . .
"Broke and hungry." The last is
the best. It may get you a meal or
something.
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Seems to me you are looking thin.
Yes, sir, you are looking thin. That
ought not to be in the beautiful
springtime in such a nice place as
the Green Forest." Buster shook his
head as if he didn't understand it at
all.
"It's all your fault I" cried Jump
er.
Buster Bear looked puzzled. "How
is it my fault?" he demanded.
Then Jumper told him the whole
story, how he had been sent to in
vite Buster to meet the other little
people of the Green Forest, how
Reddy Fox had tried to catch him,
and then had been terribly fright
ened by the sudden appearance of
Buster and had rim, and then how
he (Jumper) had run after him just
for fun, and how all the little people
were making fun of Reddy now, so
that he was spending all his time
trying to catch Jumper so as to get
even. Buster's eyes twinkled more
than ever as he listened.
"Perhaps I can help you," said
he.
"Oh, will you? That would be per
fectly splendid!" cried Jumper,
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SEASON IS HERE FOR MINCE PIES
Pumpkin Pie Also Really
Belongs to This Time.
Bj EDITH M BARBER
rVEN the most modern of us have
a few old-fashioned prejudices,
and I admit to mine! Glad as I
am to have most foods ignore local
seasons, there are certain dishes
that I, for one, am glad are usually
reserved for certain months of the
year. Mince pie is an outstanding
example of a dessert which belongs
with cold weather. While pumpkin
pie might well be served at any
time of year, it still belongs among
our cold weather desserts by custom
whether it is of the old-fashioned
custard type or that even more deli
cate chiffon pie.
In a bygone day the making of
mince meat in the early fall was
just as common as fall pickling and
preserving. Today, most of us are
content to buy one of the ready-to
use mixes which, however, we may
like to make Individual through the
addition of candied cherries, nuts,
bits of left-over canned fruit, with
brandy or some other liquor for
special flavor accent. It is a good
idea to keep a covered jar in the
refrigerator which may be gradual
ly filled with any fruit or juice which
remains after cherries, apricots,
pineapple or other fruits have been
served for dessert. This jar can be
called upon to add additional flavor
when the mince pie is in the mak
ing.
Pastry for mince pie should be
good and rich. By the way, have
you seen the gorgeous chromium
rolling pins which can be filled with
ice? The metal and the ice between
them make it possible to roll rich
pastry easily.
By the way, I had a pie which
was new to me not long ago at a
dinner party. Have you tasted egg
nog pie, flavored as the name shows
with rum?
Mince Meat.
1 pound lean beef
% pound suet
3 large tart apple*
ltt ounces citron
2 pounds raisins
1 pound currants
V4 tablespoon cinnamon .
% teaspoon mace
teaspoon cloves
% teaspoon allspice
4 tablespoon salt
1 pound brown sugar
1 quart cider
Cover meat with boiling water
and simmer until tender. Cut suet
in small pieces and let stand in
cold water 1 hour. Drain. Grind
meat suet, apples and citron in the
meat chopper. Add raisins, cur*
rants and spices mixed with the
sugar. Add cider and cook slowly
2 hours, stirring frequently to pre
vent burning. Seal in hot, air-tight
jars. When ready to make pies,
add more chopped apples, water, ci
der or brandy.
This recipe makes seven pints
mince meat.
Pumpkin Chiffon Pie.
3 egg yolks
% cup sugar
1V4 cups canned pumpkins
Vi cup milk
V4 teaspoon salt
V4 teaspoon ginger
Vi teaspoon nutmeg
% teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon granulated gelatin
y? cup cold water
3 egg whites, stiffly beaten
% cup sugar
Mix egg yolks, sugar, pumpkin,
milk, salt and spices and cook over
hot water until of custard consist
ency, stirring constantly. Soak gel
atin in cold water 5 minutes. Add
to the hot pumpkin mixture and stir
until dissolved. Cool and when mix
ture starts to congeal, (old in beaten
egg whites and sugar. Pour into
baked pastry shell and chill in the
refrigerator until set. Garnish with
whipped cream before serving.
Chess Tarts.
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon melted butter
V* cup milk
% teaspoon vanilla extract
V4 teaspoon cinnamon
% teaspoon cloves
% cup walnut meats
Vi cup currants
Pastry
Beat sugar and eggs together and
add the melted butter. Mix thor
oughly. Add remaining ingredients
and fill small tart pans which have
been lined with pastry. Bake in ?
moderate oven, 347 degrees Fahren
heit, (or half an hour.
Egg Nog Pie.
1 tablespoon granulated gelatin.
% cup cold water
4 egg yolks
% cup sugar
% teaspoon salt
% cup hot water
3 tablespoons rum
4 egg whites, beaten stiS
Vi cup sugar
Whipped cream
Nutmeg
Soak gelatin in cold water. Cook
egg yolks, sugar, salt and hot water
in top part of double boiler until
of custard consistency, stirring con
stantly. Stir in softened gelatin stud
when dissolved add rum and beat
well. Allow mixture to cool and
when it starts to congeal fold in
stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar.
Pour into baked pi* shall and chill
FIRST JUD
TO THE
AILING HOUSS
By Rogn B. Whitman
HOT WATER COIL IN A FIRE BOX
ITH hot-air furnaces, and often
with house heating boilers, it
is very common to obtain running
hot water through a coil or similar
arrangement in the fire box. Then
are several reasons why this does
not work out. For one thing, the
water in the heating coil absorbs
heat so quickly that the nearby part
of the fire is deadened. The lire
then burns unevenly, with a bed ef
fect on the heating of the house. One
of my correspondents writes to me
of his experience in this connection.
He had used a fire box coil for sev
en years, with poor luck, for sev
eral had burned out. On complain
ing to the maker of the heater, he
was advised to substitute a separate
coal burning stove for water beat
ing. He writes:
"I followed the advice, and shall
never regret it. In the last hard
winter, I heated the house with two
tons less o! furnace coal, which I at
tribute entirely to the removal at
the water heating coil from the fur
nace. I burn small coal in my wi
ter heating stove, but at less coat
and in less quantity. I find it much
easier to keep my furnace at house
heating efficiency. The house has
been comfortable all winter; warm
er than any of my neighbors', and
with less fuel consumption. The
theory of the furnace maker seems
proven. It takes so many beat units
to heat a house, and so many to
heat hot water. If you use some at
the heat units in the furnace for
water, they are not being used for
the house. The fire gets lopsided;
hot on one side and cool on the oth
er, greatly decreasing the efHrien
That theory is entirely sound. A
furnace is supposed to be at the
proper size for a particular house,
and if some of the heat produced n
it is taken away from house heating
to use for heating water, there m
less left for the real purpose.
There is another reason against
the use of a fire box mil The
water cannot be prevented from
overheating; as a result, steam is
formed, and the water may be dis
colored by the throwing down at
sediment. Steam in the hot water
pipes causes unpleasant rumbling
noises. What is more serious, there
is a possibility that the excess pres
sure may burst the hot water tank.
This is so common that plmniiiin
and heating ordinances usually re
quire that such systems be provided
*ith an automatic relief valve to
blow off steam.
A water-heating stove should be
of such size and so arranged that
the fire will need attention bat once
a day. In addition, it should be
provided with a damper regulator
that will shut off the draft when the
water reaches the desired tempera
ture ? usually 140 degrees. This is
plenty hot enough for all household
uses, while at the same time it is
too low a temperature to produce
much, if any, sediment.
? By Rocer B. Whitman
WNU Serric*.
Brings in Light
This novel machine invented by
Jacques Arthuys, a Frenchman, will
automatically follow the sun when
ever visible, set its mirrors to catch
the rays and then reflect them by a
complicated series of prisms and
mirrors to any 1,300-foot squat*
area desired. Thus dark rooms to
city apartmen^ and hotels can hare
the advantage of a few hours ?(
added sunlight each day.
in refrigerator. When ready to serve
spread with a thin layer at whipped
cream and sprinkle with grated nut
meg.
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