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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER Vol LXIV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938 No. 10 IVeirs Review of Current Events NEW SPENDING PLANS Billion and a Half More to Be Asked for Public Works Program ? . . Battle Over Reorganization Bill Members of the bouse of representatives were swamped with tele grams from citizens ail over the country urging that they vote against the administration's reorganization bill which, it was feared, would pave the way to an American dictatorship. Above is seen Congressman John J. O'Connor of New York, a leading foe of the bill, reading some of the mes sages he received. A C Western N< % Billion and a Half Wanted HARRY HOPKINS, chief of the WPA, and Aubrey Williams, his deputy, had a conference with the President, and immediately aft erwara me wora went out unofficially that Mr. Roosevelt contemplated offer ing congress a pub lic works program calling for the ex penditure of $1,500, 000,000 to end the re cession and revital ize business. im&m According to the I ? . , plan this money Harry Hopkrns wou,d be rajsed by federal bond issues, and would be lent to states and cities without interest for periods as long as 50 years; and it would be repayable in small amounts annually. The President, it was understood, plans to push housing and slum clearance projects, his immediate desire being to stimulate heavy industries. Williams has said a much greater emergency relief fund than is avail able would soon be needed if the new thousands of unemployed were to be cared for by the government. Jesse Jones, whose Reconstruc tion Finance corporation has been authorized by congress to lend a billion and a half to almost anyone as Jones pleases and pretty much on his own terms, advised business men he would consider their loan applications individually. "The main thing this act does for busi ness men," said Jones, "is to per mit them to get loans from us for longer terms." * Kill Reorganization Bill A T SIX o'clock on the evening of April 8 the President lost his fight for the passage of his government reorganization bill. The house of representatives voted 204 to 196 to send the bill back to committee, thus shelving it for this session of congress at least. One hundred and eight Democrats, 88 Republicans, 6 Progressives and 2 Farmer-Laborites joined to carry the motion, which sent the bill back to committee, thus killing the bill. Voting against recommital were 191 Democrats, 2 Progressives, and 3 Farmer-Laborites. Not one Repub lican voted to save the bill. The bill, among other things, would have authorized the Presi dent, by executive order, to trans fer, regroup, co-ordinate, consoli date, or abolish any of the 135 bu reaus, agencies, and divisions of government. Certain independent boards and commissions were ex empted. Closing pleas, delivered in dra matic fashion by Speaker William B. Bankhead and Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, failed to swing enough votes to save the measure. The two leaders placed the issue squarely on the President. A vote against the bill was a vote of lack of confidence in the occupant of the White House, they said. In opposition to all this organized effort were Representative John J. O'Connor, New York Democrat, ^iduuul S THE WORLD'S WEEK twspapcr Union. chairman of the rules committee, a group of other Democratic leaders and the solid Republican minority. They argued that the nation was fearful of the bill's implications. At a period in history when dictators abroad were growing increasingly arrogant, the congress should refrain from passing a measure which seemed to pave the way for a dic tatorship in the United States, they asserted. The voting on the motion tp re commit, offered by Representative John Taber (R., N. Y.), started shortly after 6 p. m. As it progressed the tension was great. Railway "Court" Proposal , I-I OW to save the important rail ways from bankruptcy was the subject of conferences at the White House and of deep study by the President. He rejected the sugges tion of an outright government sub sidy, and then adopted and offered for legislative action the plan of cre ating a special unit with judicial or quasi-judicial powers to speed up voluntary reorganization of the car riers and solve other of their prob lems. The unit may take the form of a special court or a board within the interstate commerce commis sion. "Help Business" Measure XXTHAT Sen. Pat Harrison called * ' the "help business" measure, being the revenue bill as rewritten by his senate finance committee, was submitted to the senate. Though Harrison said he expected its speedy passage, others believed at least a full week of debate would be necessary. Sen. Charles McNary of Oregon, minority leader promised to support the bill, saying, "I think it is a great improvement over the house ver sion. I am in favor of speeding its passage to help business." Plan to Defend Czechs EPH PAUL-BONCOUR, French .ureign minister, has devised a plan for an alliance linking Soviet Russia, Poland^ Jugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia with France for the spe cific purpose of pro tecting the Czechs from aggression on the part of Nazi Germany. The French ambassa dors to Moscow and Warsaw and the ministers to Prague and Bucharest, who had been summoned Joseph to Paris, were in Panl-Bonconr structed by Paui Boncour to sound out the govern ments to which they were accredit ed regarding the proposal. Efforts to bring about agreement between the government of Czecho slovakia and Konrad Henlein's Su deten German or Nazi party broke down when Premier Hodza rejected the Nazi demands for elections among the nation's 3,500,000 Ger mans to determine whether they should gain autonomy. Victory for C.I.O. INLAND STEEL corporation wa? ordered by the national labor re lations board to deal with the Steel Workers' Organizing committee, an affiliate of the C. I. O., and to sign a wage and hour contract if an | agreement is reached. The compa ny is expected to test the order in | court, but if it complies the C. I. O. union will have won by labor board action what it lost in a long and bitterly fought strike last summer. The company at that time said it would deal with the Lewis union but would not sign a contract. It con tended this was not required by the Wagner act and said it considered the S. W. O. C. and the C. I. O. "irresponsible." "An employer is not privileged to deny collective bargaining to the representatives of his employees merely because he views the repre sentatives as irresponsible," the board held. "And the alleged irre sponsibility is likewise irrelevant in determining whether he must em body understandings in a written agreement." * New Wage-Hour Bill DEP. MARY NORTON of New Jersey, chairman of the house labor committee, promised some time ago to bring in a new wage hour bill that she thought would get through congress and meet with the approval of the President. A sub committee of her group formulated a measure and she i called the full com mittee to consider it. Prolonged debate in me committee ? 4 was predicted, and ReP- Norton the bill then would require approval by a hostile rules committee where a small group of southerners killed the previous bill. This new bill is a compromise. It ignores the demands of the South for wage differentials to offset low er living costs; and it is far from meeting the desires of the two great organized labor groups. Outstanding features of the meas ure are: X. Creation of an independent five man agency, which would be ap pointed by the President, subject to senate confirmation, to fix and ad minister flexible wage-hour stand ards pointing toward the 40-40 goal as "soon as possible." 2. The board could fix wage rates on the average basic pay for each occupation in individual industries. It could not fix hourly rates more than five cents over the average during the first year nor go below it. It could, however, increase the hourly rate by five cents every year until the 40-cent level is attained. 3. The board could not set maxi mum hours at more than 48 per week at the beginning and would be instructed to reduce them grad ually to the 40 goal. * Bigger Dreadnaughts r TNITED STATES and Great Brlt ain advised each other that they would invoke the escalator clause of the London naval treaty and would build dreadnaughts larger than 35,000 tons. The British also notified Germany and Soviet Russia of their decision. Both nations based their action en Ja pan's refusal to dis close her naval con struction plans. IH France, third sig ? . . natory to the treaty, Senator Clark announced she would continue to adhere to the 35, 000-ton limitation "so long as no continental power departs from that standard." Opponents of the administration's "big navy" program are rather nu merous in congress, though prob ably in the minority. One of the most consistent of them is Senator Clark of Missouri. Commenting on the invoking of the escalator clause concerning battleships, he said: "It is just the preliminary announce ment of a world-wide naval build ing race." ? Loyalist Spain Split CPANISH insurgents are, at this ^ writing, near the accomplish ment of Franco's great objective, the splitting of the territory held by the loyalists in the eastern part of the country. They captured the ancient city of Lerida, known as the key to Catalonia. Further south the rebels were al most to Tortosa and their vanguard was actually within sight of the Mediterranean sea. All along the Catalonian front the government troops fought desper ately, but it seemed their struggle was hopeless and observers be lieved the war was nearing its end. In the battles in eastern Spain, it was reported, the American bri gades in the loyalist army were al most wiped out. THEY WON'T SAY DIE! Their Friends May Weep But Courageous Cripples Overcome Handicaps and Carve Useful Careers in World of Business By JOSEPH W. LaBINE Next time you're down on your luck and your jaw sags like an overloaded clothesline, try swinging your legs and arms, or blinking your eyes. And be thankful you have arms, legs and eyes. A lot of people haven't. But the disasters that robbed them of these faculties have usually inspired them to make the best of it. More often than not they've achieved outstand ing success. Nineteen - year - old Jessie Simpson is an example. A few month's back she was acclaimed Miss New Jersey, a personable young lady whose beauty and talent won admiration every where. Then one day she ran for a train, missed, and woke up in a hospital a few days later to find both her legs gone. Gone, too, were tennis, golf, dancing and other sports, but Jessie Simpson didn't weep about it like her friends. Disas ter brought her a new life, and today she's receptionist at the New York city telephone office. Moreover, she's building a ca reer as a commercial photogra pher's model, for Jessie's hands are remarkaby beautiful. Legless Swimmer. Speaking of legless people, there's also the case of Charles (Zimmy) Zibelman of New York who lost his legs years ago in a Chicago trolley accident. Since then he has become famous as a stunt swim mer. He was photographed drink ing beer and smoking cigars while swimming "across the Atlantic ocean" ? in the swimming pool of the Queen Mary. His most not able achievement is a 144-hour, 145 mile swim down the Hudson river from Albany to New York last au tumn. In Provo, Utah, a high school student named Wilkins Nuttall is a prize-winnnig lightweight wrestler even though he has but one leg! Nuttall used to stand on the side lines until he said to himself one day, "What has any other wrestler got that I haven't got?" and pro ceeded to give more experienced matmen a run for their money. Success on "Stilts." In the village of Bellflower, Calif., lives Ralph Veady, a leading busi ness man and bicycle rider who nevertheless has no legs. Seven years ago Ralph was working his way through Whittier college by driving a tractor. One day the trac tor overturned and he regained con sciousness to find his legs gone. To day, seven years later, Veady con ducts his jewelry business, drives his car and even dances, with the aid of artificial legs. A star performer in many amateur races, Veady is also an expert swimmer and a clev er skater with or without his legs. Only a few miles from Bellflower, in Huntington Park, lives Miss Clo ver Kerr, who lost both legs and one arm in a traffic accident last year. Like Jessie Simpson, she refused to be pitied, outlining a new career before she left ? her hospital bed. Today she has found the way to happiness and usefulness. Miss Kerr is artist, counselor, philosopher and fairy godmother to hundreds of crippled youngsters in the Far West through her daily broadcast over station KFWB in Los Angeles. Blind, But Not to Color! Helen Keller is not America's only accomplished blind person. Her re markable career is almost equalled by that of Miss Nettie Timonds, sixty-three-year-old farm manager of Bladensburg, Iowa. When she was three years old Miss Timonds was stricken with diphtheria and was left unable to talk. Two years later Theodore Geisler, a blind Chteafo lawyer, finds no difleolty walking through the Windy City'i crowded (treeta, (aided bjr hla highly intellifent "seeing eye" dog. These animals have krone kt new independence to sightless persons. ABOVE : Jessie Simpson, Boboken, N. J., beauty, whose legs were eat off by a railroad train, bnt who has carved herself a new career as com mercial photographers' model. BE LOW: Bobby Jones, the world's greatest golfer, who was weak and puny as a child. speech returned, but then came deafness. Nor was this the end of i her bad luck, for in 1883 Miss Tim onds fell on her head and went blind . . .on Thanksgiving day. Undaunted, she has become a successful farmer, aided by her trusty hired man, Perry Wilson. He will tell you that Miss Timonds is. a crank about her peonies; she in sists that the different varieties and colors be grouped and blended. But Miss Timonds and Helen Kel ler both had to learn the hard way, before scientific research found means of aiding the physically dis abled. Today instruments have been designed which provide mechanical eyes and ears to youngsters born without sight or hearing. Science Takes a Hand. In Evanston, 111., five-year-old Joan Higgins cannot see or hear but is learning with the aid of a "phon otactor," devised by Dr. Robert H. Gault of Northwestern university. Whereas Helen Keller learned to "hear" by placing her fingers on the speaker's lips, Joan Higgins' phono tactor translates voices into vibra tions. She places her fingers on sen sitive reeds which vibrate from 64 to 8,000 times .a second as the in structor speaks into a telephone. Few joys can compare to that of the blind person who regains his sight through surgery. In Asbury Park, N. J., Mrs. Ella Reynolds was taken home from the hospital to see the three children whose faces she had often caressed, but whom she had never seen. After 15 years of total blindness she was again made happy by surgeons who removed cataracts from her eyes. Infantile paralysis, one of man kind's most feared assailants, has left in its wake many a crippled victim but most of them have found new hope in the joy of living. Trie most publicized case is that of Fred erick Snite, Jr., whose millionaire father willingly spends $2,000 a day to keep his son alive in the "iron lung" which may be his home for the next 10 years. From Cripple to Athlete. It's an accomplishment for a crip ple to regain average health and become normally active, but it's amazing wheil they become out standing athletes! Glenn Cunning ham, the world's "fastest human," was trapped in a lire when he was eight years old. What had once been a pair of legs were grim, blackened fragments. Few people thought he would ever walk again but Cunning ham fooled them. Today if you see him running around the track a full hour before his race starts, don't think Cunningham is "strut ting" for the public. He has to ex ercise those rebuilt legs, to work up circulation by sustaiqgd effort. Bobby Jones, the world's greatest golfer, was so skinny as a youngster that a good sneeze would have top pled him in the dust. Modern society is taking a much more humane attitude toward the . cripple than did our forefathers. Sci entist* and the public alike are re alizing that physically handicapped people can become useful citizens. ? WtmiB Newspaper Unto?. Collie I> in Ninth Year as Law Student Iowa City, Iowa. ? The Univer sity of Iowa's most faithful law student is attending classes for the ninth straight year. He is Huckleberry Finn, chynky, red-gold collie belonging to Law Professor Percy Bord well. He is well known about the campus for his faithful at tendance at classes and because he is a figure in an Iowa song composed by Professor C. M. Up degraff. He made history at a mock trial several years ago when he sat sedately near the justices of the Iowa Supreme court as they made their annual visit to the law college. He sat sedately, that is, until a blank cartridge pistol was fired as a part of the pro ceedings. Then Huck bolted for a window, upsetting dignified jur ists as he went. ROBOT RIVALS MAN AS PROBLEM SOLVER Work* Out Engineering Equa tions at Rapid Speed. Sydney, Australia. ? In the re search laboratories of the Univer sity of Sydney a machine has been invented to solve engineering sci entific and mathematical prob lems that almost rivals the human brain. It is destined, the university be lieves, to become to the engineer and scientist what the adding machine is to the bookkeeper and accountant. By tracing curves on a sheet of paper it reduces the weeks ordinar ily required for complicated prob lems to a few hours. It can be adapted for solving many problems in railway engineer ing; for establishing range tables for artillery fire; for preparing statistical investigations; for solv ing many problems in physics, bac teriology and electrical research. For instance, it will work out in a few minutes the problem of how to safeguard any electrical system, either of wiring or machinery, against lightning flashes. Other curious possibilities of cal culation include the adding of the total of three quantities that are constantly varying. This ordinarily requires tedious labor. The inventor is D. M. Myers, a young research physicist of the ra dio research board of Australia, working under a government grant. American Method* Used by Bandits in France Carcassone, France.? France now has its modern, American-type stickup gang. Working on American lines, com plete with submachine gun, five automobile bandits stuck up a French gold mining company's pay roll truck and baffled French police are now searching for a clue. Closely following time-honored bandit custom, the five men were standing around an apparently bro ken-down automobile when the pay roll car drove up. One man blackjacked the driver while another held the submachine gun on the two guards. When the gangsters drove off the guards opened fire. Police are convinced that one of the five is seriously wounded. The Surete-Nationale, which is in charge of the case, claims that the gangsters must come from Mar seilles ? home of France's "tough boys." They also believe that this same gang is responsible for sever al important hold-ups in the south ern region. The payroll amounted to slightly more than $20,000. Five Children Row Mile Daily to Attend School Lakeside, Ohio. ? The grandfa thers who relate hardships they en dured to go daily to school have nothing on five youthful members of the Zelms family who each day are rowed across the treacherous mile wide Sandusky bay channel to at tend classes. The children live on Johnson's is land and must go to Marblehead peninsula. - And after the risky journey across the channel, they must walk another quarter-of-a mile to catch a school bus. Fourteen-year-old Lloyd Zelms, a seventh-grade student, assumes the responsibility for rowing his young er brothers and sisters. On clear days his job is not so difficult but when the waters roll heavily the undertaking is precarious indeed. The children leave their home shortly after 7 a. m. and return near ? p. m. When the water f reesaa over they are forced to walk across the ice to reach their des tination. _
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