The Alamance gleaner
Vol. LXIII
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1938 No. 51
Apits neciet r o/ Current Events
"LITTLE BUSINESS" HEARD
Five Hundred Formulate Program While "Big Business"
Gets Another Swat from President
Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana is here seen in action as he
established a record for ion; talking in the senate, at least in modern
times. Engaged in the filibuster against the anti-iynching bill, this suc
cessor of Huey Long spoke for 27 hours and 45 minutes? and he confined
himself strictly to his views on the measure.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
?i Western Newspaper Union.
Turn of Little Business
CALLED to Washington from all
parts of the country by Secre
tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper,
some 500 representatives of "little
Secretary
Roper
business undertook
to formulate a re
covery program for
submission to Pres
ident Roosevelt. Mr.
Roper and his as
sistant, Ernest
Draper, took part in
the preliminary dis
cussions, and since
the President could
not receive all of
them a small com
mittee was named
to take their pro
posais 10 me wnue nouse.
According to reports from the
capital, the President desires legis
lation for federal financing of small
industries to stimulate business.
This would require the creation of a
new government agency unless the
power were granted to the Recon
struction Finance corporation.
Three chief complaints of the
small business men are:
The undivided profits tax has pre
vented them from accumulating a
"rainy day" surplus.
The capital gains and losses tax
has frozen capital and prevented
the encouragement of new enter
prises.
Monopolistic practices are pre
senting increasing hazards to their
successful operations.
Congress and the administration
already are busy with steps to cor
rect these alleged abuses.
Biq Business Scared Again
V/T EANWHILE big business ? and
the country generally? was
discussing with considerable appre
hension the declaration by the Pres
ident that industry must reduce
prices and at the same time keep
wages up. An immediate result
was the crash of prices on the stock
exchanges, the decline reaching as
high as IVi points. Commodities
declined in sympathy with stocks.
"It industries reduce wages this
winter and spring," the President
said at his press conference, "they
will be deliberately encouraging the
withholding of buying? they will
be fostering a downward spiral and
they will make it necessary for their
government to consider other
means of creating purchasing pow
er.
Many congressmen, Democrats
as well as Republicans, took issue
with Mr. Roosevelt's logic and eco
nomics, pointing out that industries
lack the resources to keep wages up
on a falling market because their
funds have been depleted by the un
distributed profits tax.
Lynch Bill Doomed
FIFTY-ONE senators voted against
' a motion to invoke the cloture
rule for the purpose of choking off
the filibuster against the anti-lynch
ing bill, and the measure which
the southerners were fighting so
determinedly was thus doomed to
failure.
Majority Leader Alben W. Bark
ley of Kentucky, who had supported
the bill and voted for cloture, i m
mediately served notice that the
senate had made it impossible for
the bill to be passed.
Miners for Third Term
\/f INERS from three states, at
tending the convention of the
United Mine Workers of America in
Washington, presented eight resolu
tions urging that President Hoose
velt be drafted for a third term
in the White House. Echoing the
description of Mr. Roosevelt by
John L. Lewis as "the only Presi
dent who has given the common
people a square deal," the third
term resolutions were submitted by
unions from Royal, Pa., Avella,
Pa., New Salem, Pa., Uniontown,
Ky., Rivesville, W. Va, Everett
ville, W. Va., Scottsdale, W. Va.,
and Lochgelly, W. Va.
In response to innumerable de
mands that the C. I. O. make peace
with the A. F. of L., Lewis pro
posed that his organization march
into the A. F. of L. February 1 and
that units be granted charters.
President Green of the federation,
which was in convention in Miami,
said this was just the same old
proposition and would merely trans
fer the conflict into the midst of
the federation.
Steiwer Resigns
FREDERICK STEIWER resigned
r as senator from Oregon in or
der to enter the private practice of
law in Washington and Portland,
Ore. Steiwer was keynoter of the
last Republican national convention
and has been a steady opponent of
the New Deal.
Jackson Gets Reed's Place
O OBERT H. JACKSON, assistant
" attorney general, was nomi
nated by the President to be so
licitor general of the United States.
He succeeds Stanley Reed, whose
appointment to the Supreme court
was confirmed by the senate. Jack
son has tieen much in the headlines
lately because of his speeches at
tacking business and his avowed
intention to seek the governorship
of New York.
Niagara Bridge Falls
THE Falls View bridge at Ni
agara Falls, from which many
thousands of honeymooners have
looked at the cataract, was crushed
by a terrific ice jam in the river
and fell into the gorge in a great
mass of twisted steel. The bridge
had been closed to traffic a few
hours earlier, so there was no loss
of life.
Jap Slaps American Diplomat
JOHN ALLISON, third secretary
?? of the American embassy in
Nanking, was slapped in the face
by a Japanese sentry when he
tried to enter a house occupied by
Japanese troops. Allison's protests
brought an apology from the Jap
anese officer in command of the unit
involved. An official Japanese an
nouncement said Allison adopted an
insolent attitude and criticized the
Japanese army.
The Japanese embassy in Shang
hai ordered all commercial firms
there, regardleac of nationality, to
give the Japanese censor copies at
their code books.
"Guilty" Is Oil Verdict
T J NCLE SAM won the long druwn
^ out trial of oil concerns and
their executives before Federal
Judge Stone in Madison, Wis. Six
H. M. Dawes
teen on companies
operating in 10 Mid
dle West states and
30 individuals were
found guilty of con
spiring to violate the
Sherman anti-trust
1 a w. Prominent
among the men con
victed are Henry M.
Dawes of Pure Oil,
E. G. Seubert of
Standard Oil of Indi
ana, Jacob France
of Mid-Continent Petroleum, I. A.
Shaughnessy of Globe Oil and Re
fining, Dan Moran of Continental
Oil and Frank Phillips of Phillips
Petroleum.
Formal motion for a new trial was
filed but will not be ruled on for sev
eral weeks.
The defendants were accused of
entering into a secret agreement to
purchase quantities of oil from inde
pendent oil producers at artificially
high prices. These prices were then
quoted as the market price to job
bers, who had signed contracts with
the defendants to purchase the fuel
at the spot (or daily) market price.
The defense denied having artifi
cially influenced the market and
pleaded unsuccessfully that the
companies merely bought distress
gasoline to save the independent
refiners from failure and did so in
accordance with a policy approved
by President Roosevelt and Interior
Secretary Harold L. Ickes.
President's Birthday
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was
fifty-six years old on Sunday,
January 30. He and Mrs. Roose
velt decided to have the birthday
dinner the evening before, and twen
ty guests were invited, among them
being members of the "Cuff Link
club," wearing gold cuff links
which Mr. Roosevelt gave them to
commemorate their experiences in
vice presidential and presidential
campaigns, as well as in the days
when he was assistant secretary of
the navy.
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Younger Service Chiefs
D EAR ADMIRAL WILSON
BROWN, former naval aide to
the President and not yet fifty-six
years old, has been named head of
the naval academy at Annapolis,
to succeed Admiral D. F. Sellers.
Mr. Roosevelt said the army
and navy, at his suggestion, had
adopted a policy of assigning young
er officers as superintendents of the
military and naval academies.
Brig. Gen. Jay L. Benedict, fifty
six, is slated to take command at
West Point in place of Maj. Gen.
W. D. Connor, who retires Febru
ary 28.
Bridges' Record Demanded
111 AVING heard from many wit
' nesses that Harry Bridges was
responsible for maritme labor vio
lence, the senate commerce com
mittee ordered Secretary of Labor
Perkins to produce all records in
her department concerning the
alien Communist and West Coast
C. I. O. leader. The resolution of
Senator Vandenberg, adopted unan
imously, specifically directed
Madame Perkins to report on rec
ommendations of inspectors of
immigration and naturalization for
the deportation of Bridges.
KC^^d of the engagement of
King Zog, young bachelor ruler of
Albania, to the beautiful Countess
Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. The
countess, who is twenty-two years
old, recently resigned her job as
an office girl in the Budapest na
tional museum. She is a daughter
of the former Gladys Virginia Stew
art of New York, who was married
in Geneva on July 29, 1914, to Count
Julius Nagy-Apponyi, member of
the old Hungarian families of Ap
ponyi and Karolyi.
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King Zog to Marry
announcement was ex
Australia Celebrates
WITH elaborate ceremonies the
Commonwealth of Australia
began a three months' celebration
of its one hundred fiftieth birthday
as a white settlement. The first
fetes were in Sydney, where Capt.
Arthur Phillip landed on January
26, 1788, with soldiers and 800 Brit
ish convict settlers. Representing
the United States in the water
pageants were the cruisers Mem
phis, Trenton and Milwaukee.
Fall Kills Congressman
D EPRESENTATIVE EDWARD
A. KENNEY of New Jersey was
killed by a fall from a sixth story
window of a hotel in Washington
where he had attended a party giv
en by the New Jeraey state cham
ber of commerce. Kenney, who was
first elected to congress in 1932, won
prominence by his persistent ad
vocacy of a national lottery.
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By JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Mr. Husband, have you ever
complained when the little wife
stayed late at bridge club and
made you fix your own dinner?
Have you ever chafed over a
stack of dirty dishes while the
Missus enjoyed a vacation at
the lake?
You'd better take it and smile,
Mister, because things are look
ing bad for the Man of the
House. Woman, using her wiles
and wisdom, is getting a stran
gle hold on the nation's purse
strings and edging her way into
almost every field of activity
once marked "For Men Only."
The time may come when a
struggling young business wo
man asks the man of her choice
to love, honor and obey, to keep
house and raise the children.
All of a sudden ? after it's too
late ? we're realizing that Amer
ican women are in a fair way to
dictate how tomorrow's social
structure shall be formed.
Today's women hold ? or expect to
inherit? 70 per cent of the nation's
wealth. With such a financial
weapon in their power, it is only
fair to assume that politics and in
dustry may soon be in their grasp.
Figures Are Overwhelming.
Eighty per cent of America's
$104,500,000,000 outstanding life in
surance has been assigned to wom
en. Since the proud beauties aver
age a six per cent longer life than
mere man, they're in a fair way
to collect most of it.
Once they gain a foothold in the
business world, determined women
usually succeed. The following list
of salaries paid top-flight women ex
ecutives two years ago is far above
average, but it will make many a
male wage earner jealous:
Sarah M. Sheridan, vice presi
dent, the Detroit Edison company,
$27,762; Edna Newton, editor, the
Conde Nast Publishing company,
$28,865; Helen Neuschaefer, secre
tary, A. Sartorius & Co., $30,000;
Sophia R. Louttit, Providence, R. I.,
laundry company head, $36,000;
Blanche Green, president. Spencer
Corset company, $57,629, and Va
leria Bonham, president, Valeria
Homes, Inc., $40,000.
Most women workers aren't high
powered executives, but their apti
tude for traditional men's jobs is
amazing. A Cadiz, Ohio, woman
spent 23 years in a coal mine, and a
Minnesota woman works beside her
husband as a "lumber jill."
Perhaps the most outstanding
woman today is Mme. Chiang Kai
Shek, wife of China's ruler and often
considered the real behind-the
scenes boss of the Chinese "repub
lic."
Women in History.
And why shouldn't women take an
important role in world affairs?
Mrs. Charles A. Beard, author of
"On Understanding Woman," says
the first sharp distinction between
animals and the human race (an
thropologically speaking) came
when woman started industries and
agriculture during the cave years.
Certainly the list of women who
have altered world history is tre
mendous. Cleopatra, Josephine,
Queen Victoria and Joan d'Arc are
but a few. The list must include
the contemporary Wallis Warfield,
duchess of Windsor.
While many women owe their sue
Women, thousands of them, pack into subways, street ears and sub
urban trains each day in metropolitan centers,, competing with men on
even terms for supremacy in commerce, industry and politics. Where
will it lead?
cess more to charm than ability, it
cannot be denied that the ladies
have their share of intelligence. In
Buffalo, N. Y., an official who ex
amined more than 1,700 women for
jury service observed that fewer
women were disqualified for lack of
knowledge of court terms than men.
"Women are more honest than men
in admitting they don't know the
answer to a question," he said.
Man Offers Rebuttal.
At this point, since Mr. Husband
probably feels pretty downhearted,
it's pleasing to run into a friend like
Sinclair Lewis, the novelist, who
says women are not ready to rule
America.
"Women have been too prone to
interfere with things," he says.
"They have consistently rushed into
all sorts of reform movements and
made everyone very uncomforta
ble. Prohibition was a neat little
job put over by the ladies. Look
what it cost the country and the
havoc it created before the law was
annulled. We're still suffering from
the effects of it."
The second point in defense of
man's continued supremacy ij a
tendency to pay women smaller
wages. Recent United States De
partment of Labor surveys show a
difference of from 50 to 60 per cent
between men's and women's sala
ries on the same type of jobs.
They're Strong Haters.
Point three (and here's a good
one, Mister!) is that women are not
the suave diplomats required for
success in business. When it cornea
to real Hate, women are tops, ac
cording to experts in the British di
vorce courts. Men, being tougher,
are just meek second-raters. The
learned experts explain that the cru
Madera women follow every trade and profession from carpentry to
medicine. The comely Ism in this pictare is getting ready to paint a tow.
el streak in feminine makeup comes
out especially when the qbject of
their hate is another woman, prov
ing that women will never be suc
cessful in business dealings with
other women.
The fourth point comes from testi
mony given by the working girl
herself, an energetic young Boston
secretary who rushes home with an
Miss Edna Nelson, stewardess for
United Airlines, U one of the large
army of trained nurses now follow
ing this romantic profession.
armful of groceries each night.
She's a housewife.
"How much does my salary really
mean to my family?" she asks. "A
good three-fourths of it is wasted
on such expenses as a maid, extra
food, luncheons, carfares, clothes,
laundry, etc. That could all be cut
out if I stayed home and did the
job nature fitted me for. In other
words, for about $10 a week, I'm de
priving my youngsters of their
mother when they need her most,
and working myself into a nervous
stew in the bargain."
"And anyway," grumbles her
husband, "it ain't fair. The fact
that my wife and several million
other women are working keeps my
salary down. She gets home late
every night and I eat canned beans
for supper. The beds are never
made on time, the dishes are never
washed and the house looks like a
shambles. If this foolishness doesn't
stop pretty soon I'm going to ? "
"Okay, Mister," answers the wife,
"why don't you try washing dishes
yourself now and then?"
Which makes a fellow suddenly
realize that women alwaya have,
and always will, direct the destiny
of mankind.
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CALL RECRUITS
IN SYPHILIS WAR
Call for "recruits" in the "War
Against Syphilis" by Gen. John J.
Pershing and Dr. Ray Lyman Wil
bur will be heard throughout the
country. General Pershing is chair
Gen. John J. Pershing.
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man and Doctor Wilbur is vice
chairman of the National Anti
Syphilis Committee of the American
Social Hygiene association. "Aided
by state and city committees in
many sectors, we expect to enlist
Bay Lyman Wilbar.
broader interest in the fight on
syphilis and the conditions which
favor its spread with a war fund
of $500,000 contributed by volun
teers," says Doctor Wilbur, who is
also president of the association.
Several Colleges Join
War to Check Syphilis
Stimulated by the national cam-'
paign to control venereal disease, a
few colleges and universities are'
making syphilis tests a part at the'
routine examinations required at in- '
coming students. Judging from ?
survey made by the Chicago Trib
une, serological diagnosis for sypb-.
ilis is not a common regulation |
among student health services, how
ever.
Instruction on the sexual and so-j
cial hazards of the disease is far,
more common. Many universities,
in fact, require their freshman men '
and women to take courses in health ;
or hygiene revealing the character;
of the disease. Others confine this,
instruction to medical and socio
logical courses beyond the reach of
most students.
University presidents, deans, and)
health directors questioned were)
unanimous in declaring that sypb-,
ilis does not constitute a major
health problem on American cam
puses.
Most of them agreed that students
found to have syphilis and gonor
rhea should be kept in school where
they could have adequate treat
ment. Prep school leaders, dealing
with younger boys, were just as cer
tain that all syphilitica should be
barred.
The University of Chicago, Uni
versity of Iowa, and Dartmouth col
lege are schools which have elected
to give Wasserman or Kahn tests
to all newcomers. New York univer
sity offers free tests to all students,
but does not require them.
Testing began on the Midway with
the winter quarter this month, tak
ing advantage of the Chicago board
of health's program of free and
secret examinations, since the uni
versity health service lacked funds
for this purpose.
Dartmouth college began routine
Wassermans last fall and found ooe
case of congenital syphilis among
650 incoming students.
The University of Iowa started
serological testing of freshmen in
19X4 and continued until 1930, re
ported Dr. M. E. Barnes, head of
the department of hygiene. It
ceased, he said, because of many
objections. The university then con
fined its testing to food handlers,
employees, and others.