The Alamance Gleaner
Vol. LXIII
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937 NO. 44
Aetrs Review of Current Eventn
ROPER HITS TAX SETUP
Says Profits Levy Has Not Fulfilled Expectations . . .
Building Boom Plan Is Offered Congress by President
Japan is pushing her conquest of China not only in the Yangtze valley
bat also, and especially, in the northern provinces. Here is seen a Japanese
tank unit rumbling along the road to Taiyuan.
zv SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
C We it era Newspaper Union.
Tax Setup Needs Revision
r\ANIEL C. ROPER, secretary of
commerce, says the entire tax
structure of the United States should
be revised. He was speaking at a
banquet ol the Busi
ness Advisory coun
cil in Chicago, and
his statements ap
peared to meet with
general approval.
"A general revi
sion is necessary to
simplify determina
tion of tax liability,
to distribute the bur
den of taxation more
equitably, and to
aee. Roper broaden the base of
taxation to include larger per
centage of our earning population,"
Secretary Roper said.
He asserted that the undistributed
profits tax had not entirely fulfilled
its proponents' expectations that it
would "bring about a higher veloc
ity of money through larger and
more widespread distribution of cor
porate earnings."
Mr. Roper expressed confidence
that a "constructive approach will
be found to the solution of the utili
ties dilemma and that significant
results will be forthcoming."
That this confidence has a sound
basis was indicated by two an
nouncements made the same day
by prominent utility executives.
Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of the
Consolidated Edison company, told
the New York state public service
coitimission that his company plans
a $25,000,000 expansion program.
The development came during hear
ings concerning a proposed $30,000,
000 bond issue.
Back from submitting to the Pres
ident a formula for better under
standing between utilities and the
administration, Wendell L. Willkie,
president of Commonwealth and
Southern corporation, proposed a
general truce between business and
the Roosevelt administration. Will
kie's company has been involved
in some of the bitterest controver
sies with Washington.
Building Boom Wanted
REVISION of the existing housing
law in order to facilitate a
building boom was asked by Presi
dent Roosevelt in a special message
to congress. He said such legisla
tion would ease the flow of credit
and open great reservoirs of idle
capital to fight the business slump.
The responsibility for the success of
such a program he placed squarely
on labor and industry.
Specifically, the President recom
mended changes in the housing act
which would:
I. Reduce from 5% per cent to 5
per cent the interest and service
charges permitted by the Federal
Housing administration on loans
made by private institutions.
i. Authorize the housing admin
istrator to fix the mortgage insur
ance premium charge as low as %
of 1 per cent on the diminishing
balance of the insured mortgage in
stead of on the original face
amount, and to V* of 1 per cent on
the diminishing balance of an in
sured mortgage where the estimat
ed value of the property does not
exceed $4,000 and where the mort
gage is insured prior to July 1, 1939.
3. Increase the insurable limit
from 80 to 90 per cent in cases
where the appraised value of the
property does not exceed $6,000.
4. Facilitate the construction and
financing of groups of houses for
rent, or for rent with options to pur
chase, through blanket mortgages.
5. Clarify and simplify provisions
for the construction of large scale
rental properties through facilitat
ing their financing.
6. Grant national mortgage asso
ciations "explicit authority to make
loans on large-scale properties that
are subject to special regulation by
the federal housing administrator."
7. Remove the July 1, 1939, limita
tion on the $2,000,000,000 permitted
to be outstanding in mortgages, with
congress eventually limiting the in
surance of mortgages prior to the,
beginning of construction of individ-'
ual projects.
8. Permit insurance for repair and
modernization loans as provided
previous to April 1 of this year
when this provision of the housing
act expired.
Civil Service Plan Hit
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S pro
' posal that a single administrator
be substituted for the three-man siv
il service executive board was se
verely criticized by the Brookings
institution as tending to "invite en
croachment of politics rather than
to repel it."
The institution report, drafted by
?Lewis Meriam, questioned the feas
ibility of the plan and doubted
whether it would achieve the Presi
dent's purpose of taking the civil
service commission out of politics.
Religious and political affiliations
would present . difficulties in selec
tion of a single administrator, the
report pointed out, adding that the
proposed plan would represent too
much centralization of power in an
individual.
For Corporation Control
CENATORS O'Mahoney of Wyo
^ ming and Borah of Idaho intro
duced a new federal licensing bill
for all corporations engaged in in
terstate commerce.
It is designed by its
authors, and other
senate "liberals" as
an answer to the ad
ministration's de
mand (or revision of
the anti-trust laws
to curb monopolies.
The Borah-O'Ma
honey scheme is de
signed not only to
- eliminate monop
olistic practices but
OMaboney to abolish child la
bor, prohibit discrimination against
women employees, guarantee collec
tive bargaining, serve as a basis for
further legislation dictating the
wages and hours of labor, and reg
ulate the financial policies of cor
porations.
The measure would require the
immediate licensing of all corpora
tions doing business in interstate
commerce and would direct the fed
eral trade commission to submit rec
ommendations for a federal incor
poration law. Under existing stat
utes corporations are created only
by the states.
Bus Strike Settled
INCREASED pay for drivers but
* no closed shop were main fea
tures of the agreement by which the
six-day strike of 1,300 drivers of
the Greyhound Bus line was brought
to an end. The strike had disrupted
transportation in the northeastern
section of the country and was ac
companied by numerous incidents
of violence. The wage increase,
effective next July 1, will be one
fourth of a cent a mile, and no
minimum milage is guaranteed. The
union had demanded a flat rate of
5.5 cents a mile with a 200-mile-a
day guarantee.
Snaring Uncle Sam
'T'HAT Great Britain is seeking po
1 litical as well as economical ad
vantages from the proposed trade
pact with the United States was in
dicated in an address by the earl of
Derby before the Liverpool Cham
ber of Commerce, of which he is
president. He told the Chamber that
America cannot keep out of Euro
pean entanglements and predicted
that the trade pact would tighten
the links between the United States
and Great Britain.
Derby's speech followed one given
by Herschel V. Johnson, American
charge d'affaires in London, during
which Johnson warned indirectly
that the Americans would not per
mit the pact to have political
strings.
Farm Bill Reported
\/l ARVIN JONES of Texas, chair
man of the house agricultural
committee, submitted the house's
farm bill, together with a majority
report defending the measure and
calling for speedy enactment so that
the rise of mounting crop surpluses
which are depressing market prices
may be offset.
The house bill is less drastic than
the senate version, but it was de
nounced vigorously in a minority
report which declared it was "un
constitutional, unsound, un-Ameri
can," likely to "work to the detri
ment of American agriculture," and
threatening to "dislocate" foreign
and domestic markets.
Both house and senate bills, it was
predicted, would be modified be
cause of the President's implied
threat to veto the legislation un
less it was put on a "pay-as-you
go" basis. He insisted the farm
bill must not interfere with his plans
to balance the budget.
No Time for Tax Revision
??HpHERE is no use kidding the
country," said Senator Bark
ley, majority leader of the senate,
as he gave out the sad news that
it would be impossi
ble to formulate and
pass a tax revision
bill in the brief time
remaining to the ex
traordinary session
of congress. The
senator had just
been conferring with
the President, and
his statement dashed
the hopes of those
o who believe ailing
Sen. Barkley business is in dire !
need of such assistance as revision
or repeal of the tax on undivided
corporate surpluses and capital
gains. Mr. Roosevelt had said he
was in favor of tax revision as soon
as congress was ready for it But
such legislation must originate in
the house, and the subcommittee of
the ways and means committee that
has been studying the subject had
not yet reported. So it appeared
almost certain that action must be
postponed until the regular session
which starts in January.
Vinton to Be Judge
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to
r the senate the nomination of Rep
resentative Fred M. Vinson of Ken
tucky to fill a vacancy in the United
States court of appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia. The post carries
a salary of $10,000 a year.
The President also nominated As
sociate Justice D. Lawrence Groner
of Virginia to be chief justice of the
court, creating another vacancy.
Croner will be succeeded by Henry
White Edgerton of New York,
whose nomination also w?nt to the
senate.
Small Town Spending
A UTOMOBILES, more food and
better clothing are the most
urgent desires of small-town fami
lies. That was the implication pre
sented in a matter-of-fact analysis
of surveys of the spending habits of
families in 46 villages in Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Illinois and Iowa.
The study, made by the bureau at
home economics, showed that when
income increased among these
cross-section village families, It was
usually followed by. a rapid rise tat
expenditures for food and clothes
and even more marked jumps in
the proportion of income spent on
automobiles.
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ThorntonW Burtfess
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BUSTER BEAR PLAYS A TRICK
DUSTER BEAR and Jumper the
Hare had had their - heads to
gether. This doesn't mean that they
really touched heads. Oh, my not
No, indeed! Jumper is too wise to
get so close to Buster Bear as that.
It means that they had made plans
together. If Reddy Fox had known
about those plans Reddy would cer
tainly have kept away from that
part of the Green Forest. But he
didn't know about them, and so he
didn't keep away from that part of
the Green Forest.
You see, it was there that Jumper
the Hare spent most of his time, and
so it was there that Reddy was
spending most of his time now, for
he was bound that he would catch
Jumper to pay him for making him
the laughing stock of all the little
people of the Green Forest and the
Green Meadows. At first Reddy
had been afraid, very much afraid,
that he mjght meet Buster Bear
there. He had kept his eyes wide
open for Buster, for, if the truth be
known, he was as much afraid of
Buster as Jumper was of him. But
as day after day he saw nothing
of Buster he grew careless. He
Softly, Ever So Softly, Reddy Fox
Tiptoed Forward.
made up his mind that Buster had
gone back to ttifc Great Woods from
which he had come, and he thought
of nothing but catching Jumper the
Hare.
So Reddy, because he is very
smart and sly, spent a great deal of
time looking for the places where
Jumper made his bed and for the
places where he ate. Then he would
hide near one of these and wait pa
tiently for Jumper to come. But
somehow Jumper always went to a
place where Reddy was not hiding.
The truth is, Jumper knew perfectly
what Reddy was doing, and so he
never went twice to the same place.
That is, he never went twice very
near together. If he took a nap un
der a big hemlock branch and then
went out to get a bite to eat, he
would finish his nap under another
tree instead of going bac)c to the
first one. So, though Reddy often
found places Jumper had just left
and hid beside them patiently for
Jumper to come back, it never was
of the least bit of use.
But after Jumper and Buster Bear
had had their heads together Jump
er seemed to grow careless. Yes,
sir, that is the way it seemed. Reddy
Fox noticed it right away and
grinned wickedly. Three times he
saw Jumper dozing just in front of
a great fallen tree. Then for a
fourth time he saw Jumper sit In
Works for His Food
A bird who has learned that if he
doesn't work he doesn't eat is shown
here at mealtime. He is Oscar, a
trained goldflnch who brings many
sightseers to the bird shop in Syd
ney, Australia, where he literally
earns his seed in the sweat of his
brow. The bird's food is placed in
a small truck on a runway outside
the cage. When Oscar feels the
pangs of hunger ha hauls on a string
and pulls the truck to tha side of
the cage where ha can peck at the
contents.
the same place. By and by Jumper
began to nod. Then his eyes closed
In the sleepiest way. Reddy grinned
and licked his chops. Jumper's eyes
opened, closed again, opened once
more, then closed and remained
closed. Reddy watched a long time
before he stirred, but there was no
sign from Jumper the flare. He
certainly looked to be fast, very
fast, asleep.
Softly, ever so softly, Reddy Fox
tiptoed forward. Jumper did not
move. A few steps nearer, and still
Jumper seemed fast asleep. Reddy
stopped long enough to grin, a wick
ed, hungry grin. This time he would
catch Jumper and then he would
see if the other people would laugh
at and make fun of him any morel
Softly, softly, very, very softly he
stole forward until with one great
jump he would be able to land right
on poor Jumper. Very, very care
fully Reddy fixed his hind legs to
make the spring/ and then ? well ?
then he landed right exactly where
Jumper had been, but wasn't. You
see, Jumper had been just pretend
ing to be asleep, and when Reddy
had jumped, he had jumped, too.
Now, Jumper had jumped right
over the old tree trunk and Reddy
sprang after him. But Reddy is
not quite so good a jumper as Jump
er the Hare, and while Jumper went
clear over the fallen tree, Reddy
landed on top of it, meaning to
jump down on the other side. But
he didn't No, sir, he didn't In
stead he fell off backward with ?
scream of fright What was the
trouble? Why, Butter Bear bad been
lying down on the other side of that
old tree, and when Jumper leaped
over it Buster knew that Reddy was
close at hand, and so he jumped
up with a dreadful growl. Just as
he had done the Arst time he saw
Buster Bear, Reddy put his tail be
tween his legs and started for home
as fast as ever he could go.
"Ha, ha, ha!" shouted Buster
Bear.
"Ho, ho, ho!" shouted Jumper the
Hare.
"Hee, hee, hee!" tittered Sammy
Jay, who had happened along just
in time to see the fun.
?T. W. Burgess.? WNU Service
"Showing off that new fall coat o I
her? ? it'* really only eat fur."
WNU Mnrlc*.
ILLNESS DUE TO DEFICIENT DIET
cy. Nobel Prize Winner Gives His
ft Views on Subject. Ll
By EDITH H BARBER
"^UTRITION Intimately con- 1
1 cems the welfare of man, and
his place in future history will de
pend in no small part upon what
he decides to eat." This state
ment was made by Dr. George R.
Minot, professor of medicine at
Harvard university and winner of
the Nobel prize for medicine in 1934.
According to Dr. Minot, an ade
quate diet throughout life will often
prevent illness. In the long time
studies that he has made of the
condition of anemia, he has found
that its cause is usually defective
or deficient nutrition. It may arise
from a lack or non-absorption of
iron or of vitamin C or of a mys
terious substance found in the liver.
The condition of simple anemia may
be prevented by including a liberal
amount of iron and vitamin C.
The condition of pernicious ane
mia, which is much more serious
and for which no remedy had been
found until recently, is apparently
related to the ability to utilize vita
min B-G. Vitamin B is found in
muscle meat, eggs, rice polishings
and yeast, which need an unknown
gastric digestive factor to make
them ready for the body. When this
factor Is lacking, there is danger of
pernicious anemia. It may be sup
plied, however, by liver, kidneys
and other organs. At present, this
disease is being treated not only by
an increase of these foods in the
diet, but by liver extract taken by
the mouth or through hypodermics.
According to Dr. Minot, the first
cause of any type of anemia la a
deficient diet
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selected recipes
Liver Dnmpttn(S
Vt pound calves' liver
% cup soft bread crumbs
1 tablespoon minced onion
1 tablespoon melted (at
1 teaspoon parsley
Vt teaspoon salt
Pepper
1 egg, slightly beaten
? cups stock
Grind the liver fine and mix it
with the bread crumbs. Saute the
onion in the (at in a skillet until del
icately browned. Add the liver mix
ture, parsley, salt and pepper.
Add the egg and mix well. Drop
the mixture by teaspoonfuls into the
hot, but not boiling, meat stock.
Cook ' slowly ten to Often minutes
and then serve with the soup. To
make dumplings which may be
shaped in balls, add one-half cup ad
ditional bread crumb*.
Spinach Nests.
2 cups cooked or canned spinach
H cup mayonnaise
tt cup grated cheese
6 bread cases
Melted butter
Make bsead cases by cutting
bread into three inch squares and
cutting out the center. Roll each
case in melted butter. Chop the
spinach, mix with mayonnaise and
fill the bread cases. Sprinkle with
the cheese and bake in a hot oven
(425 degrees F.) until bread is light
brown and the cheese is melted.
Baked Eggs.
2 tablespoons butter
Vi cup milk
3 cups mashed potatoes
Salt
Pepper
2 tablespoons chopped chives or
onion
5 eggs
Paprik*
Add the butter and milk to the hot
mashed potatoes and season to taste.
Beat well, add the chives and
spread in a shallow greased baking
dish. Make five hollows, and in
each place a raw egg. Sprinkle
with paprika and bake in a mod
erate oven (375 degres Fahrenheit)
until the eggs are Arm.
johnny Cake.
1 cup corameal
y4 cup flour
1H teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
2 eggs, well beaten
Vt cup milk
4 tablespoons butter, melted
Mix and sift dry ingredients.
Combine eggs and milk and stir into
dry mixture. Stir in shortening
and pour batter into well- greased
baking pan, spreading about three
fourths of an inch in thickness. Bake
in oven, 425 degrees Fahrenheit, for
about twenty -Ave minutes.
Barbecued Chicken.
2 two-pound chickens
Salt, pepper
Vi pound *weet butter
1% cup* chicken broth
1% tablespoons tomato catsup
S tablespoons Worcestershire
sauce
V4 teaspoon finely chopped onion
Disjoint chicken as for trying.
Season with salt and pepper. Melt
butter and fry chicken in it until
golden brown. Mix other ingredi
ents and cook together six min
utes. Pour sauce over chicken and
cook slowly about twenty minutes.
(Sterling Sauce.
Vi cup butter
1 egg yolk
1 cup light brown sugar
1 tablespoon milk
Cream the butter, add the sugar
gradually, then the egg yolk and
milk, beat until light.
m BH Syndicate. ? WWli fcnnw.
Host Obtain One Hamaa Head
The native girls in Sarawak
wouldn't think of marrying a boy
who hadn't obtained at least one
human bead. Sarawak lies in the
northwest part of Borneo, which is
in the Indian ocean between China
and Australia.
FIRST AD '
TO THE
AILING HOUSE
By Rogax B. Whitman
PROTECT CRACKS AGAINST ICE
A CRACK in anything outdoors?
woodwork, concrete, masonry ?
will be made wider should ice form
within it. Before winter sets in,
the outside of a house should be in
spected to locate any cracks or
crevices that would bold water and
that might be enlarged by the ex
pansion that occurs when ice forms.
Stucco walls should be under spe
cial notice. Small surface cracks
can be disregarded; the cracks to
look out for are the deep ones in
which water will be retained. A
crack in stucco should be widened
with a cold chisel, so that a patch
can be packed deeply within. The
patching material is a mixture of 1
part cement with 3 parts of clean
building sand, and only enough wa
ter to make the mixture. At the
time the crack is patched, the stucco
should be thoroughly soaked with
water to prevent the absorption of
water from the patching material
Cracks in brickwork and masonry
are likely to be in the mortar joints.
In closing these, the old mortar
should be dug out for a depth of an
inch or so to admit plenty of new
mortar.
Special care should be taken to
close all cracks in clapboards. Small
cracks can be closed with thick
paint; deeper ones with white lead,
used either as it comes or smeared
on cotton wicking or heavy cord.
In particular, the joints of clap
boards at corners should be noted;
for it is there that cracking will be
especially serious.
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WnU 9ci *iCC.
MAMNEKS 07
|! THE MOMEIT II
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I WAS 'always told that a lady
1 ihould never be seen eating on
the street. I believed in the old
myth for a long time. Bat as I
-keep telling my mother, life isn't
what it used to be. In her day yon
had to go into the kitchen, make op
a sandwich, and march out into the
street with it if you wanted to be
caught eating on the street. It was
a lot of work tor a mere taiwiiiia
But now street eating creep* op on
you. You pass a street corner stand
where there are nice hot dogs en
view and you get hungry. Well, if
you decide to buy, you cant nu
X X
Im Should Pick Iw Cam, *
In blend to Eat Ha* Dogs ?
the Street.
well put your hot dog in your pock
etbook and walk into the nearest ho
tel lobby to eat it That, again,
would be too much work (or a man
principle.
The real crux of the problem now
lies in bow and where you do your
street eating. In the first place, it
is more ladylike to stand still white
you eat, rather than to wapder along
the sidewalk munching. In the sec
ond place, it is considered mac*
elite to stand still beside the hot
dog wagon, rather than beside the
church steps while you lap up your
roll -and.
If it's a chocolate bar you've de
cided to eat on the public highways,
be careful about choosing your
streets. You shouldn't be caught
eating on the main business street,
or the ritziest parkway in town.
What you do in the back alleys to
your own business.
WNU Same*.
Lar jest Spiders to Waste
On Tobriand island are some of
the largest spiders in the world.
They spin extraordinarily largo
webs in which even small birds are
caught. When the Tobriand island
er goes Ashing be collects some
webs, winds them into a ball The
balls of web are used as bait and
are attached to long lines of twine.
When the mackerel takes the bait
its teeth become entangled to the
strands of the web, and it is as
helpless aa if tt had been hooted.