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THE GLEANER GRAHAM, N. 0.. SEPT. 15, 1938 IMC ID KTXBT THUBEDAT J. D. KERNODLE, Editor <1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE ICnteral M Um PoMoaet at Ombi m. M. C., u Moond-clua ggiUtr. Conservative/ Liberal, Oi ? Whether the several branch es of the American Government shall remain separate and inde pendent as provided for in the Constitution upon which the Union was founded and has en dured for more than a century and a half is being put to the teet. The wise men who wrote the fundamental law did it deliber ately, not hurriedly. They meant it for a guide for suc ceeding generations, not as a makeshift that might be chang ed to fit the whims of some <"-ne who, perchance, obsessed of bid own superior wisdom, or for selfish reasons, should find fault, and essay to do it better and in a better wAy. Hum it up as you may, the Chief Executive finds fault with the fundamental law, in that it circumscribes h i s duties and powere and limits his ambitions. If the founders had intended that the Legislative and Judi cial branches should conform to the wishes of the Executive and do his bidding, they would have said so, but they did not by im plication or otherwise. If they had said otherwise they would not have promulgated the fun damentals for a democracy, but a dictatorship and autocracy, or a despotism. With the Legisla tive and Judicial branches con forming to wishes and notions of the Executive, the Govern ment would be reduced to a dictatorship, maybe something wone. With their independence gone, the Legislative and Judi cial branches would be reduced to the rubber stamp level. No credit for the worthwhile things he has done should be withheld from the President. He came along when business was bogged, bankruptcy ram pant, and millions walked the streets in idleness and unem ployment and other millions in a land of plenty did not know where the next morsel would come from. Social security has been pro vided for lavishly, but not all. Billions have been spent in the effort. The worthy and the unworthy have shared in the bounty ? the unworthy, if possi ble, should be eliminated, but it is they Who would cry loudest. As for the others ye "have al ways," and as a decent people, worthy the name of a nation, they must be provided for. The Government at Washing ton has been provided with the funds and given a free hand in ?pending until inside of six years the national debt has been increased around 90 billions and is now over 40 billions. Be cause there are men, patriots, in the Senate and House, whs think for the solvency and safe ty of the Government, and op pose what the President is pleased to call liberalise^, he has undertaken to "purge" them from their places in the legists tive body, and replace them with the rubber stamp sort, yes-men, that he may pro ceed unhampered in his expert IB Mi. Ha went off on a jannt through the West and orated In behalf of the friendly ones. After a trip at sea, he came back through the canal and in vaded Georgia. There he pat up a liberal to oust Senator George. The primary was held yesterday and Camp, the Pres ident's protege, was swamped Over in Maryland the President staked another against Senator Tydings, conservative, who fared no better than his Geor gia favorite. These recent political events have punctured and badly crip pled the President's prestige. The people who vote have spok en in no uncertain terms. They have resented being told for whom they should vote and, doubtless, have tired of the wasteful ezpendiutre of billions. At the beginning of his sec ond term the President had the unbounded confidence of the American people. He proposed to reorganize and make over the Government. 1 There were patriots who would not stand for it. Other things could be cited that have impeded. He has not profited by his mistakes, and that he has waned in pop ularity during the past year and a half beyond repair, is be cause he has disregarded the signals. Yonng Democrats In Convention The State convention of North Carolina Young Democrats in Durham last week was one of the year's political highlights in the State. They gathered from all parts of the State and made an impressive aggregation. The first hurdle of conse quence was the report of t h e committee on resolutions, which is supposed to say something abont political affairs in the high brackets. Here the com mittee almost balked. The 100 percenters and the antis were in evidence and only faint praise for the President was accorded . But the event that has been given more notice than any thing else was the spee ch of Senator Josiah William Bailey. Mr. Bailey did not mince words in his criticism of the ex periments being made by the Administration and the activi ties of the President and his aids in the various political campaigns on lately. He said they were "nosing" into State politics and out of their place. The Young Democrats knew that he would handle things with glovee off, or, perhaps they would not have invited him to speak. If so, they were not disappointed. If he had sugar coated and soft - soaped they would have been disapi>ointed and nauseated. The organiza tion was formed on the political battlefield a number of years ago and it is militant. On the other hand, had not Mr. Bailey been plain and out spoken, as he has been since be took issue with some of the President's New Deal proposals, those who have criticized most severely would have turned on him for lack of courage and trying to carry favor. So there you are ? "you'll be damned if you do and you'll be damned if you don't." The oonvention for the ensu ing year elected the following officers: Gordon Gray, presi dent; Mias Kate Fenner Ur quhart, vice-president; Allen Marshall, secretary; Joseph Moore, treasurer. Harper Barnes of Graham, former head of the Alamanoe county organ isation, was chosen district vice-chairman, embracidg the counties of the Sixth Congres sional district Bj virtue of this office he is a member of the State executive committee. The general business of the of the country is reported on the up grade. President Roosevelt has been a consistant loser in bis at tempted "purge." The Sena tors have wjn renominations over his protest. His prestage is badly deflated. The gods of war are on pa rade in Europe and bristli ng in armor. Unless there is a lot of composing, a second world war may be lannched. About every nation is armed to the teeth, the military spirit is ram pant, and they may be fool hardy enough to want to test the new equipment. Gods of the Harvest Secretary Henry A. Wallace came into the New Deal as a dis contented Iowa Republican. He brought with him a plan of his own, part of it on trial and called it "experiment". It finally came to be known as the Ever Normal Granary. The great truth that "man proposes, God disposes," has warped the Wallace granary, as the boundless yields of crops trlut the markets and give one a dull, sickening pain in the pit, as he rends the daily market prices offered for the golden grain, the snow white cotton, the tasseled corn, the sustaining potato, and other products of the farm. Wallace challenges the farmers challenges them to face and con quer the new challenge. He de clares, with apparent confidence, the farmer can still win. We all hope that he is right. ? News Service. How Men Progress and Succeed The eternal verities for prog ress and success in life ? particu larly the adage that "man lives by the sweat of his brow" ? holds as true today as ever, in spite of the theories of recent years. A parent of wisdom 50 or 100 years ago undoubtedly gave the same advice as the parent of wis dom today. If you lei your mem ories fto back to some of the good advice given you in childhood, you will readily recognize the fundamental elements for prog ress and suocess given by B. D. Kunkle, director o f the manufac turing staff of General Motors, to the graduating classes of the Qen eral Motors Institute, recently in Flint, Michigan. "Bard work ia still the main characteristic by which men pro gress and succeed", Mr. Kunkle s.iid. "And always keep in mind that ability to get along with oth ers and to gain their goodwill ia essential to the achievement of any large degree of success in life. "Many people mistakenly be lieve that progress is made thrn personal consideration, and thrn influence, but it is my observation the men who hold the places of importance today, have achieved those places through sheer weight of their own ability. "They have progressed by do ing the things that come to their hands to do, better. Their prog ress has not been achieved in one dramatic move. They have accu mulated consideration by the suc cessful filling of less important achievements." McGuffy readers contained such fundamental tried and proved wisdom. Mr. Kunkle's concluding optim ism is .likewise refreshing : "In dustry needs yonth, needs its vi sion, its fresh viewpoint, its cour age and enthusiasm, for industry is essentially progressive and only through constant renewal of cre ative thought and driving enter prise can it progress." ? Nat. In dus. News. Several Johnston county ponl trymen are planning to have their flocks blood-tea tfd so that they may be able to sell their egg* to State-approved hatcheries. The Integrity of The Americas By J. E. Joaes Washington, D. C? Sept. 1J ? TJ>* early anceatrv of the Good Neigh bor Policy mav be traced back t0 the Administration of President Monroe, who proclaimed his lasting "doctrine." The enduring friend - ship between the Americas is sym bolized by a marble oullding In Washington, Among the throngs of dally visitors in thjs showp'.ace a~e ma*y teen, women and children om the Republics of the South. They cherish this building, with its tropical atmosphere as part of their own partnership in all America. The Pan-American Union is an official international organization of 21 American Republics whose major purpose is to increase and develop p^ace, friendly intercourse, and com merce. It Is controlled by a governing board composed of the Secretary of state o f the United State* and the diplomatic represen'a tives in Washington of 'other ' republics. j When Prank B. Kellogg was secretary of state Jn 1926 ' the Pan-American Union took notice of the blunt statement of the Ameri can Secretary towards Mexico, cha?g in? it with confiscation of Amer ican farm lands in way that placed that cantankerous Repub lic) "on trial before the Test of the World." The complaint smould ered through all these years, anVJ the debts have never been paid. Ironing out Hitf?reneea with the Southern Republics has usually been affected through painless di plomatic procedure. Secretary of . State Hull is a master in the arts of friendly compromises, and here ceived the plaudits of all Ameri cas in the apparent successes o f the Inter-American Conference at Buenos Aires In December, 1938, which resulted in the United Styes Senate "ratifying two treaties and five conventions and one protocol with the representalves of the other 20 American Republics. Thus the integrity of the Americas was reaffirmed, Now the Americas face a new test. It Is: Can the inte grity of all America be preserv ed, with' Communism rampant In Latin America, r But <m Labor Day, when .the Na tion wai engaged in everything except laboring, Secretary Hull spent the day at his Idesk 1b the State Department. "The note" from Mex ico was before him, and jn brfef It reasserted the refusal of the latter Government to make provi sions for the payment of Its debts and furthermore defiantly asserted that land-grabbing would continue. Secretary Hull had charged Mexi co with acts of delay and eva sion never heard before "In the history of the Amerlctnhemisphere. Other accusations paraleUing thai one had been brushed fa side by the Cardenas government. Little wonder that Washington reads, with growing concern, such statements as the following by a former United States senator, irom Mexico : "The Mexican question y s something more than the detfbe ? rate stealing of the mines, rinches, plantations and Ml wells erf Ameri cans. It deals, finally, with' the character of the neighborhood *e are to suffer south of our border, under the 'good neighbor' policy." It is because the Good Neighbor Policy is a logical rontinuat ion p t the Ideals of Moiwa that v]t has been accepted throughout the Amer leas, . Our own cwinntry, in *rving its best to maintain the high standards of democratic govern - ment so often reiterated In Laftih Amerlcas Conferences, and ih the frequent sessions of diplomats in the Pan-American Union, clings tenaciously to its text, that the business standards of gov - ernments should be higher than those ot individuals. Maoris Cooked With Heated Stones Maoris cooked their food chiefly by steaming it in ovens lined with heated stones. On North island they used springs, putting the food into nets and lowering it into the natur ally hot water. Before missionaries arrived in New Zealand the natives were notorious cannibals. New Zea land is an archipelago, greater in size than the United Kingdom ? that is, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. There are two main Is lands. North island Is more irregu lar and deeply indented than South island, which possesses a bold, Uni term seaboard. , . By L. L. STEVENSON Every night in the year an aver age of more than 5,000 New Yorker* and visitors to New York are pro vided with costly entertainment without having to pay admission fees. For these free shows stars of stage, screen, and radio are em ployed, some at five-figure fees. Ex pensive studios are maintained and theaters leased. Radio is the host.. All the public has to do, or as much of the public as can be accommo dated, is to obtain tickets. For a number of programs, the demand is so heavy ticket requests have to be made at least three weeks in advance. That has brought a new kind of ticket scalping. Speculators, through various forms of chiseling, obtain ducats and peddle them at from 25 cents to a dollar each. True, the tickets bear a warning against sale, but that makes no dif ference. For the less popular pro grams, tickets are distributed here and there. Since they are free, there are always takers. ? ? ? In the not so far-off days, studio audiences were limited indeed. Usu ally chairs were provided only for sponsors and their friends. Occa sional visitors, to whom it was de sired to show special courtesy, were admitted. For the general public, there were barriers. Instead of being invited to come in and see the show from a comfortable seat, the public was invited to stay out. Radio lis teners set eyes on their favorites only when they broadcast in public. Sometimes radio performers were used to lure trade. It seems but only a short while ago that one of the earlier teams filled a big res taurant on the nights they broadcast from there. But despite lack of accommodations and other draw backs, studio audiences started to grow. Then came the accommoda tions. ? ? ? In its quarters in the RCA Build ing, the National Broadcasting com pany has 10 studios each capable of seating from a few hundred to 1,500 ? and 1,500 seats are far more than the total in many a Broadway theater. Pages and ushers are nec essary to direct ticket holders to the proper studios and to keep them in line. Also to keep them from smoking. Curing 1937, the total number of show attendants was 781,037. The number, of course, would have been greater, but even with repeat shows, it was impos sible to take care of all who wished to attend. The repeat shows, most of which go on late in the evening, attract as many as do the earlier shows. ? ? ? The Columbia Broadcasting com pany leases three theaters and maintains studios for audiences in the Barbizon Plaza and on the New Amsterdam roof. Audiences during the past year totalled approximate ly 1,000,000 persons. In 1935, the total was 636,396 and in 1936, 791,687. That accounts for about 60,000 more a year. Also, there are the various independent stations with their stu dios. Meanderings and meditations: A long string of barges slipping slow ly down the Hudson . . . With a little tug puffing importantly ahead . . . and another nudging the mid dle barge like a collie dog herding sheep ... A barefooted girl skip ping rope on the broad deck of a scow . . . Wash flapping in the wind on the deck of the last in line ... I envy barge people their life . . . Sliding through waterways from the Great Lakes down to the sea ... No hurry ... No fuss . . . Only an occasional worry . . . Homes traveling right along with them ... A living earned with plenty of time for meditation . . . Reading ... Or to turn out that novel . . . and ever changing scen ery . . A big white excursion steamer hurrying up the river . . . Flags flying gaily ... An orches tra playing dance music ... All decks crowded . . . City prisoners out for a day of freedom . . . With a tired homecoming. 9 B?U Syndicate. ? WNU Scrvlc*. Bluebird Defies Mails CHILLI COTHE, OHIO.? The mys tery of the missing letters from Mrs. James Wood's mail box has been solved. A bluebird, having a nest in the box, didn't want letters clutter ing up its home, so they were tossed out. Disgusted Snakes Go on Hunger Strike BERKELEY, CALIF. ? Rattle snakes, brought here for the an nual convention of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, went on a hunger strike, probably because they did not like the name of the so ciety. To keep them from dying before the society closed its dis cussion of them they were fore- I ibly fed by thrusting a syringe, filled with hamburger, eggs and < milk down their throats. US. RELIEF MAP TO BE LARGEST IN THE WORLD ? Work Started in 1923; Will Not Be Completed Until 1940. WELLESLEY, MASS. ? A huge curvature relief model of the United States, largest of its kind in the world, is being built at Babson insti tute by r corps of geographical ex perts. Work on the model began in 1923, but various obstacles delayed work during the depression. On January 1 of this year, Dr. Wallace W. At wood Jr., Clark university geogra pher, was placed in charge of the project. Since then the rate of con struction has increased about 15 fold. Under the present program, com pletion is scheduled for January, 1940. The model is in the Coleman Map I building, erected specially for the I model on the Babson campus. There a giant, dome-shaped, steel frame work ? 63 by 45 feet ? has been con structed by Bethlehem Steel corpo ration. It reproduces in exact pro portion the earth's curvature. On this framework is placed a plaster base map on which is paint ed the outline of the United States. Bunt m sections. Because of the size of the model, it is being constructed in small sec tions, to be placed In their proper position on the curved framework. Each section is one degree of lati tude long and one degree of longi tude wide. The finished model will contain 1,216 such sections, of which more than 400 now are completed. Systematic mapping of the United States did not begin until 1885, when certain sections of New England were surveyed. These first efforts were unsatisfactory, and a new start was made. Until now, only about 55 per cent of the country has been covered by the official topographical survey maps of the federal govern ment. In areas having no topographical survey, stream maps must be used. These are combined with airplane photos and supplemented by all ob tainable spot-elevation figures. Many Sources Used. From this is created a topograph ical map that serves as a guide in construction of the model. Sources being used by Dr. Atwood and his staff include the regular United States geological survey maps, coast and geodetic survey charts, geological survey bench marks, state geodetic surveys done by the WPA, maps by chief engineers of railways, by war department, coun ty and state highway engineers. Among the most important sources of information are the sec tional aeronautical charts of the bu reau of air commerce, designed pri marily to show airline pilots the lo cation of radio beams and beacons. Besides extensive areas in the West and South unmapped except for air charts and scattered eleva tion figures, are the Mount Wachus sett section of Vermont and the northtm section of Maine. North central Pennsylvania and the Caro linas also have similar areas. The Father of Umbrella* For Men It Remembered LONDON. ? The recent sale of Jonas Hanway's umbrella at a auc tion room has recalled Hanway's fame as the philanthropist who in troduced umbrellas into the rainy streets of London about 1750 and so saved thousands of Londoners from pneumonia and rheumatism. Drayton, Swift and Gay all had written of umbrellas in London long before Hanway's time, but umbrel las to them were a women's fash- , ion. Hanway's achievement, after he returned from Persia with his 1 umbrella, seems to have been the conversion of the male population, and so well did he succeed that not long after his death in 1788 even army officers carried umbrellas in London. I Pays $300 for Old Stamps; Finds One Worth $50,000 LOS ANGELES.? A few months ago. Warren R. Du Bois purchased a stamp collection from an estate for $300. Included was a 1-cent blue issue which he marked for sale at $3. It went unsold. A short time later he found it bore a Baltimore, Md., first-day cancellation of Au gust 17, 1861. Jubilant, Du Bois checked with experts. The stamp is worth $50,000. Eating 10 Meala a Day Job of 125-Pound Girl BOSTON.? Petite Anna Martin if paid to eat 10 meala a day. Employed by a chain restaurant to try out the menus of rival coo cerns, the slim professional "tast er" is on the job six days a week endeavoring to "lift" the most pal atable of rival concern's dishes and transplant them to her employer. Miss Martin keep* in trim for her job by walking every place she goes. While the exercise helps, it can hardly be compared to the energy consuming occupation of six-day bi cycle riders, the only other persons I to approach the eating capacities of the 125- pound "gourmet." j Chihuahua May Be Whit*. > Black, Tan, Other Colon No one knows th? exact origin of the Chihuahua, a graceful, ewlft moving little dog that may weigh from one to six pounds. It Is quite possible that the early Inhabitants oi Mexico crossed their native dog known as the techichi (which was indigenous to Central America) with a small smooth-haired breed brought from Asia. No one, however, knows for sure about this cross breeding. But this much is certain, according to Bob Becker In the Chi cago Tribune, students of dog his tory are not in doubt about the native dog known to the old inhabi tants of Mexico. They have a pret ty good idea what It looked like. Archeology tells us about the techichi. Carved stones showing pictures of the breed, the ancestral stock from which the Chihuahua has come, are found. The carvings show a dog that closely approximates the Chihuahua. There are a long-haired and a short-coated or "smooth" variety of Chihuahua. It is very likely the short-coated dog is the original true Chihuahua. The breed has an ex cellent disposition, is intelligent and alert and comes in many colors. In fact. Chihuahuas may be snow white, coal black, black with tan or other mixed colors. It's rather in teresting, aa far as the history of the breed is concerned, that hun dreds of years ago the early inhabi tanta of Mexico liked dogs that had a definite bluish color. These were held sacred. Notice of Sale ot Real Estate Under authority of a judgment of the Superior Court) of Alamance County made( in an action en titled, "Aahevjlle Safe Deposit Com pany, Successor Trustee et al, Plaintiffs, vs. L. T. Glenn, Thelma Olenn et al, Defendahta," which action was brought by the plain tiff a against the defendants for the purpose of foreclosing that deed of trust dated May 2, 1128, and recorded in the office ot * the Register W Deeds for Ala - mance County in Book of Mort gages No. HO, at pages 841 et aeq., the undersigned Commissioner will, on Monday, September 26th, 1938, at the Courthouse door in Or* - at IS 00 o'clock, noon, bam, Alamance County, North Car olina, offer for sale to the high est bidder for cash, the follow ing described real property, to- wit : A> certain tract or parcel of l*nd in Burlington Township, Alamance County, North' Carolina, adjoining the lands of W, J, Thompson and others jand bounded as follows ^ Beginning St an iron stake with Thompson pn Cameron Street, thence with Thompson's line S. 33 1-2 deg, E. 121 feet to iron stake with Jones; thence with Jones' line 8. 55 deg. W. 43 ft. to ! an iron stake with Durham; thence wtthbls line N, 33 1-2 deg West 60 1-2 feet to jan iron stake ; thence 8. 33 1-2 deg. W. T (feet to an iron Montgomery'a corner; thence with" Montgomery's line N. 33 1-2 deg. i?r. 60 1-2 feet toan iron stake on side of Cameron St; thence with the line of Cameron Street J*. 65 deg. B. 10 feet Jto the /beginning, containing 5,605 sq. feet of jand to be the same oe there more or less. Ten percent of the purchase price will be required to 'oe fcjaid when knocked down to the purchaser and the balance upon cohfirm ation. This the 22nd day of Aug. 1938. LOUIS C, ALLEN, Commissioner. NOTICE! Summons By Publication WORTH CAROLINA, &LAMANCB COUNTY In The General County Court Mrs. Annie Covington m K. Covington The defendant above named will ake notice Uuft an action entitled ta afoqve baa been commenced in fee General County Court of Ala nance County, North Carolina, (or Uvorce, and tie Mid ISefendant will artier take notice that ha la re l aired to appear before K. H. Mar KT, Oerk of the Oeoeral Coontjr ixirt at( Alamance County, at hla rffice in Graham, North Carolina. m the 17th day of October, ins, md answer or demur to fee com ilaint in Mid action, or the phla lff iwil apply to the Com* for the eiief demanded In aatC complaint Thia the 14th day of Sept, 1*U. SARA MURRAY, >eputy Clerk of the Oegeiei Coun ty, Coot pf Alamance Count*, h Mm*, xtfy, i