The Alamance Gleaner
VoL LXIV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1938 No. 38
Weekly News Review
Rome-Berlin Axis May Crumble
If Germany Is Given Colonies
By Joseph W. La Bine ?
Foreign
At best, Germany, Italy and Ja
pan are unnatural bedfellows with
nothing in common except totalitari
anism and a grudge against the
world. Flushed by her imperialistic
victory at Munich, there is every
reason to think Germany might
abandon Italian and Japanese alli
ances if they stood in the way of
her march to world power.
Rirst step in this direction has
been taken by Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler in presenting African colonial
GERMANY IN AFRICA
Oj onetime German possessions (shoum
in black) France holds mandates for
Togoland (I) and the Cameroons (2);
Great Britain has minor interest in both.
British South Africa (5) holds mandate
for Southwest Africa (3), and Britain a
mandate for Tanganyika (4). Angola (6)
is held by Portugal.
demands to Great Britain and
France. What Hitler wants ? and
probably will get ? is return of Togo
land, Cameroons, Southwest Africa
and Tanganyika, held under League
of Nations mandate by Britain and
France since the Versailles treaty.
If they pay this price for peace,
Britain and France will also agree
to German arms equality. British
French gain through such a transac
tion would be German friendship
and an understanding that Italy had
better confine her imperialism to the
Mediterranean area on pain of com
bined German-Franco-British oppo
sition. Moreover, II Duce would be
forced to withdraw from Spain.
Next Der Fuehrer may turn his
eyes to Japan, which now controls
one-time German islands forfeited
after the World war. Since Hitler's
aggressive imperialism makes one
conquest merely an appetizer for
the next, moreover since self-pity
ing Germany looks angrily at any
nation which controls large territo
ries and resources, Japan may find
her Chinese conquest threatened.
T ransportation
U. S. railroads, arguing before
President Roosevelt's fact-finding
committee, have claimed a 15 per
cent pay cut is the only solution to
their problem. Labor, which threat
ens to strike if the pay cut is en
forced, says better management
will do the trick. Without waiting
for the fact-finding commission to
report, railroad management has
taken the matter into its own hands
on three fronts:
Northwest? Before the interstate
commerce commission have ap
peared stockholders of two huge
lines, Chicago St North Western, and
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pa
cific. Their plan: Physical consoli
dation of the two roads, immediate
ly effecting operating economies of
$10,000,000 a year and hastening
normal recovery of the two roads.
Southwest ? An I. C. C. examiner
has recommended reorganization of
the Missouri Pacific line with sharp
reduction in its fixed interest debt.
Also recommended is consolidation
of owned properties being operated
as the Missouri Pacific system, ex
cepting the Missouri-Illinois rail
road.
South ? Placed before the I. C. C.
is a plan for merging the Gulf, Mo
bile h Northern railroad with the
Mobile & Ohio line. Chief opponent
is Burlington railroad, which owns
37.7 per cent of G. M. & N. stock.
Chief significance of mergers and
reorganizations is (1) that railroads
will become economically sound ;
(2) labor will suffer through de
creased employment, though wage
levels probably will not be cut; (3)
?cores of small communities, origi
nally built to follow the railroad's
line Of expansion, will find them
selves isolated without rail service.
Defense
Knotted inseparably in recent
news have been Japan's conquest of
China and world democracy's at
tempts to strengthen their military
economic positions against German
Italo-Jap aggression. Though Eng
land and the U. S. have been rub
bing noses in their trade pact ne
gotiations, October of 1938 will be
remembered primarily as the month
when America first stood up and
barked at modern imperialism.
Within 24 hours two barks came
from Washington. First was Presi
dent Roosevelt's precedent-shatter
ing condemnation of nations employ
ing force (Japan), exile (Germany)
and repression (Italy) as instru
ments of national policy. Next day,
on the heels of Japan's conquest of
Hankow, the state department mad*
public a 21-day-old protest to Tokyo
against violation of China's "open
door" policy.
This was but percussion in the
new American overture of prepared
ness. Chiming in are plans to
strengthen military and naval forces
so that "the Western hemisphere
may work out its own interrelated
salvation." To the north, at Kodiak,
Alaska, the navy is quietly prepar
ing two bases accommodating at
least 200 long-range patrol bombers.
Thus, if Britain and France deny
it, the U. S. admits Japan has be
come the Far East's No. 1 power
and bids fair to dominate the Pacific
unless stopped. Although Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-shek will continue
battling Japan in the hope his foe
will eventually commit military and
economic suicide, there is little like
lihood that China's door will be re
opened to Western nations unless
Japan wants it.
Trend
How the wind it blowing . . .
TIME CLOCK ? Film actors earn
ing up to $1,000 a week, and all
extras, now punch time clocks
each morning under new union
contract with provision for over
time work.
'NOBODY' ? A baby born to one
of 200 sad-eyed Jewish refugees
living in a ditch in the Czecho
slovak-German "no man's land"
has been named "Niemand,"
meaning "nobody."
?BANG' WARFARE ? Japanese
troops patrolling streets of newly
captured Canton, disperse terri
fied Chinese by merely pointing
their guns and shouting: "Bang!'
U. S. LANDLADY? Women hold
25 per cent of all U. S. jobs
(apart from domestic service),
are beneficiaries of 80 per cent of
all life insurance, own 50 per cent
of all corporate stock, operate 60
per cent of savings accounts.
HAIR RAISING? Mrs. Dorothy
Kantack of Chicago has won a di
vorce decree against the hus
band who protested against her
new "upswing" coiffure.
People
British royalty symbolically cor
responds to the U. S. flag. Since
the Czech crisis proved Great Brit
ain's empire is becoming vastly in
dependent, a little flag waving is en
tirely proper. First, King George
and Queen Elizabeth announced a
OK EAT BBITAIN'8 MARINA
It sA? being aiM /or luurputon?
state visit to Canada and probably
to the U. S. Latest news is that the
popular, 35-year-old duke of Kent
becomes governor general of Aus
tralia next year. To fun-loving Kent
and his wife, beauteous former
Princess Marina of Greece, Austra
lia will mean virtual exile from
their favorite diversion, London
night life. Though English papers
discreetly failed to mention it, part
of the U. S. press called Kent and
his wife victims of royal jealousy.
The claim: That slim, elegant Ma
rina is usurping Queen Elizabeth's
rightful place as ruler of British
fashion.
Treasury
Inconveniently close to election
day have come piecemeal reports
and offhand predictions concerning
the U. S. fiscal situation. When
President Roosevelt talks finance
before congress on January 3, he
may ask almost anything. But right
now, as the President busies him
self with budget planning, he can
be guided by facts and forecasts:
Fact i: Despite upswinging busi
ness, the U. S. treasury deficit for
the current fiscal year jumped above
one billion dollars October 20, leap
ing forward several million dollars
> day. Gold reserves, mounting
since the European scare, hit $14,
008,236,361. Revised, the 1939 fiscal
deficit prediction stands at $3,984,
SECRETARY MORGENTHAU
Coolest of all concerned . . .
000,000, second largest in New Deal
history/
Forecast: Though "pump-prim
ing" will help business, the 1940 budg
et will be unabalanced. Only by con
tinued spending can the administra
tion hold a mass vote for the 1940
election, thereby forestalling the
normal swing to Republicanism. Bjjt
it is far more pr 'ul to pay than
merely file away i..e bill, and next
winter's congressmen will present
at least five new methods of making
John Public pay:
(1) A 10*per cent "one shot" In
come tax levy to garner $263,000,000
needed for increased armament; (2)
a processing tax to pay for the
agriculture department's proposed
"domestic dumping" program for
crop surpluses; (3) removal of tax
exemption from future issues of fed
eral, state and local bonds, also on
official salaries; (4) extension of
social security to include farm la
borers, domestics, bank employees,
seamen, self-employers, etc.; (5)
lowering of income tax exemptions
under $1,000.
Coolest of all concerned with fiscal
affairs has been the man in direct
charge, Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr. Unworried
by mounting gold reserves ("We
have plenty of storage space") he
predicts improved business condi
tions will cut relief rolls and help
the budget, which observers now
think will run to $8,000,000,000. Only
Morgenthau fear has centered
around the British pound sterling,
whose declining tendencies have ad
verse effects on U. S. prices.
White House
When its investigations first
opened, the Dies congressional com
mittee on un-American ism confined
most of its probing to Fascism and
Naziism. Neither of these "isms"
has much support among U. S.
politicians. But with election time
approaching and its witnesses be
coming influenced by political fever,
it was natural that the probe should
turn- to a more popular "ism"?
communism. First came the charge
that Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins was impeachable for failing
to support aggressive deportation
proceedings against communistic
Harry Bridges. Madam Perkins re
plied that she was awaiting court
decision on a test case, that pro
ceedings could move no faster than
the courts themselves. Next the
committee asked why Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan had taken a
passive interest in the 1936 sit-down
strikes, only to learn that Governor
Murphy had commented that "some
times events make laws malleable."
^Quotes'
SEN. WILLIAM E. BORAH M
U. S. intervention to force Jus
tice for Jews in Great Britain's
Palestine problem : "We can
not retain the respect of Eu
rope and our own self respect
by directing nations how they
shall carry out their treaties
and obligations, and do noth
ing but direct."
HARBY HOPKINS on WPA's rec
ord: "We have made mis
takes. But our gieateet mis
take has not been to doing too
much but in doing too little."
Brmrltart'M Wmshlmgtom Digest
Dies Committee Bares Activities
Of Radical, Communist Groups
Unseen and Malignant Growths Are Being Bred Into Our
National Life by Agitators Who Seek to Destroy Our
Government; Spread Poison in Ranks of Labor.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldf Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON. ? "Unless some
thing is done to curb radicalism in
my section, there is going to be an
awful clash and a lot of people are
going to get hurt."
So spoke Fred W. Frahm, super
intendent of police of the city of De
troit, Mich. And his statement was
under oath, for he was giving testi
mony before a committee of the
house of representatives, a commit
tee charged with exposing to view
the un-American activities of cer
tain groups in this country. It was
the statement of a man who is serv
ing a city in an official capacity and
who has gone through 246 sit-down
strikes which he asserted were the
direct result of agitation by the rad
icals to which he referred. He looks
for more in the near future and
added, by way of emphasis, that
"these communists and radicals do
not want to seek adjustment of dif
ferences between labor and man
agement; they want to make trouble
all of the time."
Through a number of weeks, the
house committee before which Mr.
Frahm testified, has been taking tes
timony, gathering evidence, digging
here and there in its effort to un
cover the activities of subversive
groups and expose them to public
view.
It has been the contention of the
chairman, Representative Dies of
Texas and some other members of
the committee, that most of as are
not aware of the unseen and malig
nant growths that are being bred
into our national life. They are out
to destroy our government, to bring
to us the type of thing that has
made Russia famous.
Mr. Dies is a sincere and honest
legislator, and he is trying to do the
job assigned him, even when sev
eral of his committee members have
sought to balk hp efforts. But there
is much more to be done in the di
rection of exposing radicalism and
the chiseling, cheating, cowardly ef
forts the agitators put forth.
Charge Commanuti Active
In Government Offices
What I am wondering is why Mr.
Diet has not sent his investigators
into the very offices of the federal
government, itself. Or, if he has
done that, as It is gossiped about,
then why shield anybody? Why not
turn the spotlight of publicity on the
individuals who want to destroy the
American system, the American
form of government, American tra
dition, the American profit system of
doing business? There has been
much talk in the last several years
about the operations of communists
within the very walls of the govern
ment, men and women who are bor
ing from within as termites destroy
lumber, and we ought to know the
truth. If they are within the govern
ment, they ought to be exposed and
chased out of the western hemis
phere; if they are not operating as
is gossiped around, then their names
ought to be cleared. In any event, I
hope the Dies committee goes on
and shows the cancerous nature of
groups that do not believe in our
system, whether they be Russians,
or Germans, or Italians, or British
or what have you.
It has been the favorite device of
the radicals and their henchmen to
characterize any official who at
tacks them as being a subject for
the ins ape hospitals. Their game
has been to laugh people out of
court whenever an effort was made
to tell of some of the things the
agitators were doing. Many will re
call an investigation by a bouse
committee several years ago where
the witnesses were laughed down
and a courageous superintendent of
schools from Gary, bid., was made
to look foolish because of the
charges he made. Well, if my opin
ion be worth anything, the folks
who were the suckers in that play
were the supposedly intelligent
members of congress who made up
the committee. It was they who
fell for a trick of propaganda. Ei
ther that was the case, or the mem
bers of that committee were just
plain dumb.
Lowu Cannot Break Crip
Of C ommanist m on C. I. O.
Concerning the sit-down strikes
about which Mr. Frahm testified, I
want to boast that I wrote of com
munist parttctpattoo ia those sit
down strikes when they were hep
pening. I had several letters there
after, calling me crazy and describ
ing me as a red-baiter. Mr. Frahm
now has put into official records the
facts that must be obvious to aay
real American, and he further has
expressed the opinion that John L.
Lewis, head of the C. I. O., cannot
break the grip thai the communists
have on his organization. That may
be the reason why Mr. Lewis has
been so silent the last several
months. Maybe he sees that the la
bor group of which he was so proud
has become a gargantuan monster
that is slowly swallowihg him, phys
ically large as he is.
There is, of course, the danger
that a lot of people will make foolish
and unsupported statements about
red activities^ thus throwing doubt
on the really serious phases. That
always seems to happen. Unwitting,
ly, that type of person which shouts
and shouts and has no proof cre
ates the impression that all cries of
"wolf, wolf," are meaningless. But
when a congressional committee
has the courage ? rather, w,hep its
chairman over objections of some 01
its members? has the courage to
bring the stuff out for public exam
ination, there must, indeed, be a
basis for it.
The tragedy of the thing is that
the labor movement as a whole will
suffer a severe setback.
C. I. O. Being Uted as Tool
For Destructive Purposes
There will be much more labor
trouble. You can count on that.
The Communist party representa
tives will never allow the slightest
chance for creating trouble to es
cape them. They are determined to
convince labor that it cannot trust
the managements; they are en
couraging the breaking of agree
ments between labor and manage
ment to the end that employers will
have no faith in the leaders of labor,
and they are using the national la
bor relations board wherever that
can be done to give official voice to
labor troubles. That fact is chiefly
responsible for the position which
the C. I. O. group has taken in op
position to proposals for revision of
the labor relations act. William
Green and the American Federation
of Labor are urging revision of the
law, but C. I. O., having its tenta
cles in the labor board, obviously
does not want its grip broken.
It has been known for a long time
that the C. I. O. was being used as
a tool for destructive purposes, but
the agitators and emissaries were
sly and careful. They covered their
tracks. Such information as leaked
out was promptly discredited by the
very reds who bad done tbe job ?
and they discredited any individual
who repeated the story by laughing
at his gullibility.
Diet Committee Expo?a
Methoda Ueed by Radical*
The Dies committee record ii full
of testimony about methods em
ployed by the communists in their
devious borings and destructive
tactics. The record tells, too, of
how many innocent appearing or
ganizations, created for an allegedly
useful purpose, are captured by
communists and used by them to
obtain money contributions ? for
which no accounting ever is made.
And tragic, also, are the stories of
how the real leaders laughed at the
suckers who gave hard-earned mon
ey, laughed in the secret recesses of
their hideouts about the soft and
easy minds of Americans.
But another session of congress
is coming. The Dies committee will
make a report aad probably will
ask an appropriation to enable It to
go on. We will see who opposes
that appropriation. There probably
will be opposition from two or three
members of the committee itself,
and we will see who they are. If
they are outspoken in their opposi
tion, I suspect most people will
know why.
I think this condition has reached
the point where attention be
paid to it by the federal govern
ment. It is now hot on the trail at
some alleged German spies who
were seeking American military se
crets. 80 why not make a thor
ough job 0 1 it and lift op the lid
that hides various other kinds at
spies whose work, to my mind, is
much more dangerous to American
national life?
Speaking of Sports
Huge Sports
Dish Planned
For N. Y. Fair
By HERB ROGERS
f\NE of the D?t extensive (parts
v programs ever undertaken has
been announced as a feature a I the
New York world's (air.
The program, outlined by Christy
Walsh, dlreetor at sports, will Is
elude both and outdoor
events and independent competitions
hold elsewhere with the co-opera
tion or sponsorship of the fair. The
latter events include the all-star ma
jor league baseball fame, which Is
to bo played next year In Yankee
stadium, and the International po
lice pistol tournament.
A school (or sports, with the coun
try's leaders in baseball, football,
track and field and boxing as in
structors, also is scheduled.
Manager Joe McCarthy pledged
the cooperation of the New York
i anxees in connec
tion with the school
of sport to be con
ducted from April 30
to October 31 next
year. There will be
10 classes in base
ball, which comes
first in the curricu
lum. The list of in
structors, in addi
tion to Manager Mc
Carthy, will include
Bill Terry, Babe
Ruth, Lou Gehrig,
Joe McCarthy
Johnny Vander Meer, Burleigh
Grimes, Gabby Hartnett, Dizzy
Dean, Hank Greenberg, Jimmy
Foxx, Joe Di Maggio, Bob Feller
and Uel Ott.
Football will be represented with
six classes daring next September
and October. The instructors win
include Jim Crowley, Mai Stevens,
Pop Warner, Loo Little, Chick Mee
han, Benny Friedman, Larry Kelly,
Alexander Wojciechowies and Mar
shall Goldberg.
Classes in Track
In track there will be six classes
in May and June, with Lawaon Rob
ertson, Dean Crom
well, Pete Waters,
Dink Templeton and
Glenn Cunningham,
among others, as in
structors.
For six boxing
classes in June, July
and August, Jack
Dempsey, Gene Tun
ney, Joe Louis,
James J. Braddock,
Tony Galento, Ben
ny Leonard and
Mickey Walker are
among the teachers.
Jack
Dempsej
Boys ana (iris wno complete um
?cbool courses will receive certifi
cates issued by the (air's academy
of sport beartnf the pidnte's
name and that of the celebrity eoo
docting the class.
The latter trill include an award
to the male or female, amateur or
professional, voted to have contrib
uted moat to the welfare of Ameri
can sport during 1938, individual
certificates to figures in various
sports fields who have accomplished
something of special merit, awards
of the all-America board of baseball
and the all-America board of foot
ball.
Pro Football
That the college beys no longer
have an exclusive franchise on foot
ball interest has been proved by the
increased attendance at profession
al games.
Despite the handicap of poor
weather conditions early in the sea
son, attendance at National football
league contests is running 10 per
cent ahead of the record set last
year. The pro teams appear to
gain public attention and approval
year by year, and many make at
least enough money to keep going
and show some profit.
Those Sore Arms
Here'* ? new theory (or the cause
of this season's epidemic of tore
arms among major league pitchers.
Tom Daly, veteran Red So* coach,
blames it onto short undersleeves
?and all along we thought It was
the lively ball.
Daly should know, because he haa
caught such pitchers as Walter
Johnson, Red' Faber, Grover Alex
ander, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Tyler
and others.
"All this stuff about the lively ball
causing these arm ailmenta this sea
son Is the bunk," said Daly.
"They like to pitch with short un
dersleeves or no sleeves at all. What
they are doing la inviting trouble.
"Kid pitchers now are wearing
fancy polo shirts at night," deplored
the veteran. 'If* like putting out
the welcome sign tor Old Han Pneu
New Grid Offense
Grandstand eoaefces ipn
that the 1*3* Mason has broeght
something new to loot ball. Daring
attack Is agaia ruling the (int. go
far, the season has developed a bril
liant offense wt seen for many a
year.
As a result, scores have been
climbing. There are fewer scon
less ties and dull games. Whether
you've been taking your football
from the 50-yard line or over the
radio, you've been treated to mot*
thrilling dashes for touchdown* ia
the current crop of major games.
The eoaebes theiasetves an at a
loss te account far this aew spirit
la U? ?
Crowley says:
"Teams Hut aren't
(apposed to be ae
bat oa offense are
running wild. Ever j
one's ret a passer
and at leaat one lair
my team at Ford
ham had a good at
tack. It's Ja>t aver
age, I guess. "
Crowley did not
exaggerate when he
Jim Crowley
said that every team has a good
passer. Among the boys who are
throwing the ball with exceptional
talent are Bill Patterson ct Baylor.
Dave O'Brien erf Texas Christian,
Harold Van Every of Minnesota. Ev
erett Kischer of Iowa State, Lanny
Hollins of Vanderbilt, George Stirn
weiss of North Carolina, Bifl Pad
man of Stanford, Wilmeth Sidat
Sing of Syracuse, Sid Turkman at
Columbia and., Gill Humphrey at
Yale.
Increased baeUeld versatility has
accompanied the rise at geed
tog. The barter
can run as well as L
longer rely spaa the specialty I
The development at the air-raid
has brought new problems to the de
fense strategists. The (lve-fnan line
has not figured importantly to their
calculations. The 6-3-2 and the
7-1-2-1 defensive alignments.
more adaptable, are setting
er use. There is a trend
less blocking the line fay the <
team.
Lateral passes seem to be to the
discard. Bat the km at this spee
faas who, at aiM have al
ready seea the best brand at toad
ball to a decade.
Here and There
/"^OLFERS in Bendigo, Australia,
^ are on the verge of jitters be
cause of the large number at balls
carried off by crows during matches
... No changes fa size or weight
have been made fa the ciichat bd
since the first one was manofaD
tured 370 years ago ... Ah J?e
kins, holder of most at the siitinto
bile records for racing against time,
plans to install a new motor and
then go after CapL George Eystoo'a
mark on Bonneville salt flata . . .
Every West Point football player
hurt in a game is carried from the
field on a stretcher, regardless of
the nature of his injury.
Pocket Billiards
By CHARLES C. PETERSON
President. Nations! Billiard Association
of America sad World's Trie*
Shot fhsmplsB.
I N*. S
A combination pocket and billiard
shot Place balls as per diagram.
In this shot take special car* against
striking your cue ball to one side,
top or bottom. Stroke absolute cen
ter with a level cue. I have watched
good players fail to get a break be
cause by striking the cue ball above
center, the cue beB will go to the
right of cluster, and when striking
low ball, the cue ball will go to the *
left of cluster; and the same ep
pliee wt*n you english right or ML
hard.
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