THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VoL LXV # GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1939 . No. 25 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Ironside Visit, Credit Offer Clinch British Aid to Poland If Germany Moves on Danzig (EDITOR'S NOTE?When opinions are expressed In these celnmns, they am these ot the news analyst and net neoessarUy of this newspaper.) Released by Weatern Newspaper Union. EUROPE: N Stifled Rumor At n?i -,J which new* SIB IRONSIDE, p^per corre rtiur*ud- ipoodinti traced from Warsaw to London and finally back to their birthplace at Berlin. The rumor: That Danzig'i problem i* now subject to peaceful negotiation. Both Poland and Britain denied it, and their, explanations made sense. The rumor began spreading just as Maj. Otp. Str Bdmupd side, inspector general of British overseas forces, arrived' in "Warsa* for Polish-British staff consultations. Germany obviously hoped the peace rumor would split the consultants, Poland thinking Britain had sold out for a German-sponsored peace. Nothing like that happened. Te the contrary. General Ironside's vab & offered the most firm reiteratidh to date that Britain is ready fa fight for Poland's cause. It came sharp ) on the heels of Prim% Minister Neville Chamberlain's guarantee to proMbt Danzig as well as Poland, plus offers of British credit to bol ster Warsaw's ^armament. RELIEF: More Trouble A big enough headache for one man was WPA's wage strike, which hit Administrator F. C. Harrington smack between the eyes. But nc sooner was the strike settled than uoionei Harrington faced an aven bigger headache: Under the "anti-career" provision t in this year's relief measure, WPA I must discharge 650,000 (one-third of r all employees) by September 1. Al t though the law specifically states . employees who have worked 18 , months must take a 30-day "vaca i tion," the holiday will probably be i much longer. Reason: WPA's $1, r 750,600 for 1939-40 will carry only > 2,000,000 workers contrasted with ^ 3,000,000 in 1938-39. ! One good reason why congress ? may lose its adjournment enthusi ? asm is that dismissals and new t wage scales will take effect just i about the time weary solons would 1 reach their home stamping grounds. MICHIGAN: Sin Eighty-year-old Gov. Luren D. Dickinson came to office last winter when Republican Gov. Frank Fits gerald died. A Godly man. Gover nor Dickinson amused veteran poli ticians, yet many a constituent found him refreshingly different. In June he attended the National Conference of Governors in New York, return ing home to deliverji sermon warn ing mothers and daughters of high life evils in New York. > New York's Mayor LaGuardia ? called him "a senile old fooL" Ne braska's Gov. R. L. Cochran thought 1 the convention's only dull feature 1 was Governor Dickinson's speech. A week later the governor's ser | mon made bigger news. New York 'MISS MICHIGAN AVIATION" New York wasn't miekod newsmen cornered 23-year-old Willo Sheridan who came east as "Miss Mchigan Aviation" by the gover nor's own appointment. Willo made a good story. While shutters snapped Willo sampled Manhattan cham pagne and said: "I'm having a won derful time here. I respect Gover nor Dickinson and think he's a very fine man. But I don't think New York's a very wicked city." Back home in Lansing, Republi can John B.. Corliss Jr. started a re call petition against the governor because of his "recedt sounding off about the evil he thinks he found in high places." While Corliss' fellow thinkers rushed to Sign, the gover nor took them by surprise. Said he: "I'll sign the petition myself." LOUISIANA: Both Feet A whisper of scandal started when Louisiana State university's Presi dent James Monroe Smith fled to Canada after allegedly bilking three banks out of >300,000. The whisper grew to common gossip when Smith, LSU"? Construction Superintendent George Caldwell, LSU's Business Manager E. N. Jackson and Dr. Clarence A. Lorio, president of the state medical society, were indict ed on a total of 29 counts. This was only the beginning: By mid-July federal probes were underway regarding (1) Louisiana's administration of the 1937 sugar act; (2) violations of U. S. oil regu lations; (3) misuse of WPA mate rials and labor; (4) an unannounced subject under scrutiny by the U. S. treasury's department of revenues. Meanwhile Ave men made great by the late Huey Long were arraigned on charges of using the mails to defraud the state of $79,000. The Ave: Dr. Smith; Seymour Weiss, political bigwig and millionaire; J. Emory Adams, nephew of Dr. Smith's wife; Monte E. Hart, elec tric company official who has re ceived many state contracts; and Louis Lesage, oil official. CONGRESS: Prayer "I mm certain that from the lima of ad journment until congress meets again, ike President mill gray as never before that there will be no new crisis in Europe." Thus did White House Secretory Stephen Early help Franklin Roose velt swallow his most bitter pill of the year, an agreement with con gress to table neutrality legislation until next session. This agreement seemed prematpre, however, for the next day Secretary of State Cordeli Hull received two resolutions from the senate foreign relations commit tee asking consideration of: (1) an embargo on all U. S. war material shipments to Japan; (2) renuncia tion of the U. S. Jap trade treaty. This done, only the President's $3,460,000,000 lend-spend bill barred adjournment. While carriers them .i MTf v.-k ? , vj rr jesse jones Railroad? remained silent. stiver remained sOent, Federa; Lending Administrator Jesse Jones endorsed the scheme to let railroads lease $300,000,000 worth of new equipment. He also suggested they could offer bondholders RFC cash and preferred stock in exchange for outstanding bonds. Meanwhile Sec retary of the Treasury Henry Mor genthau Jr., praised the lending bill as a "realistic approach to our eco nomic problem" which would "put 300,000 people to work without add ing te the tax burden or public debt." As battle lines formed, Sen ate Minority Leader Charles Mc Nary conceded the bill would prob ably pass. Also in congress: C House conferees sought compro mise between wage-hour amend ments offered by New Jersey's Mary Norton and North Carolina's Graham Barden. Argument: Farm ing interests want processors of farm products eliminated from wage-hour supervision. C The senate passed the Logan bill, embarrassingly discovering in next morning's Congressional Record that it had subjected decisions of the la bor board and all other quasi-judi cial or quasi-legislative agencies to review by the court of appeals. c The house passed the bill of New Mexico's Rep. John J. Dempsey and Sen. Carl Hatch, banning use of offi cial authority to influence elections. C The senate approved and gave the house a bill extending federal crop insurance to cotton farmers. ENGLAND: Wheat Armament Even in 1931't crisis British wheat prices hit no lower than 3 shillings, I pence. But in mid-July of this year came a new low of 3 shillings pence (about 49* cents per bushel). At this Juncture a "pre paredness" parliament considered a step which would at once relieve price pressure, eliminate surpluses and bolster defense. The move, sug gested by Economist John Waynard Keynes: Appropriation of 100,000,000 pounds ($490,000,000) for accumula tion of war reserves in four catego ries of England's vital imports. About 234,000,000 bushels of wheat would thereby be purchased. BRIEFLY... IN NEW YOKE. Gossiper Wal ter Winchell let it be known a re liable informant had told a se cret: That 1040's Democratic ticket will be Roosevelt and Mc Nutt. IN WASHINGTON, Treasury figures showed the U. S. had an average deficit of $22,300,000 per day during the new fiscal year's first 19 days. IN MID-PACIFIC, an American ship helped rescue 209 from the flaming Bokuyo Maru, Jap pas senger and freight liner. IN TOEYO, British-Jap talks concerning British rights in China reached a hopeless deadlock and collapsed. IN JERUSALEM, Arabs kid naped Dr. Jacob Goldner, Cleve land minister, and his son, Ger ould. Later they released Dr. Goldner to dig up $0,000 ransom for his son. Pictorialized ^GERMANY J IT A I V yfUGO ITALY LITTLE WAR?Austrian Ger man-speaking farmers in the Ital ian Tyrol refuse to be Italian ized, yet refuse to be returned to Germany. A profitable tourist trade has been killed by Musso lini's order evicting foreigners from the Tyrol while he and Hit ler "strong-arm" the Tyro liana into some sort of submission. Meanwhile Italy denies rumors that the area will be leaded or ceded to Germany. ^-^SXylSAKHALINl ISLAND RUSSIA) T- i Shi MAN- M CHUKuoi~/ JAPAN I??I BIGGEB WAS ? Soviet-Japa nese disputes in Manchukuo's Lake Bor region are minimized by a new dispute on Sakhalin is land involving Japanese leases on Soviet coal and oil concessions. Sakhalin is owned half by Rus sia and half by Japan. When So viet officials fined Jap conces sionaires $112,000 for failure to fulfill obligations to Russian workers, Tokyo claimed its pres tige had been ihsulted and de manded that fines be rescinded. Both nations stood their ground. Bruckarft Washington Digest Whole Farm Program for 1940 Is . To Be Broadened, AAA Announces Soil Conservation to Be Stressed; Increased Opportunities Given for' Participation by Small Farmers; Folks Are Awakening to Fact Waste Must Be Paid For. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.?A press release has just coma to my desk from the Agriculture) Adjustment administra tion It outlines the farm program for 1940. That is next year. The statement from the AAA press bu reau announced that the 1940 farm program was evolved at a three-day conference of "approximately 100 AAA farmer-committeeman and oth ers interested," acting for all of the millions of farmers. It explained that the whole farm program is to be broadened, but I will quote the opening paragraph, which is, of course, official: "Increased emphasis on soil con servation, increased opportunities for participation by small farmers and greater reeponsibility of admin istration V) the farmer committees are included." I have watched the AAA officials operate for five or six years. They are still struggling for that more abundant life and, therefore, I have observed the changes with soma curiosity. Also, there has been a certain -amount of humor in whatJ they have done?not humorous for the farmers but for an onlooker whose life savings and hopes were not directly at stake. There never has been a dull moment. Some times, the antics have resembled the movements of whirling der vishes of the desert in their most fervent moments of prayer; other times have produced attitudes on the part of the officials and their underlings that strangely resembled a mouse-colored and very stubborn mule that my father once owned, and then, again, there would be forthcoming schemes so fantastic that only a person wearing the de gree of doctor of philosophy could have read the words without turn ing to Mr. Webster's unabridged edi tion of the dictionary. They have gone from the doctrine of scarcity to the doctrine of some other ex treme and most things in between, always requiring, however, that the farmer must sign up a contract with a lot of do's and don't's. Jut a Word ot Prauo For AAA Adminitrator* T ? l. I I aiwi a maj uui uc aituscu ui uc ing a common scold, let me give the AAA administrators a word of praise just here. The soil building and soil conservation phases of the program likely are going to be valu able although I fail to understand why anybody thinks it is necessary to pay a farmer to keep his own land in good shape. But, skipping my own thoughts on that, there is justification for governmental inter est in helping to restore soil on a national scale because our nation is going on for a number of years ? we hope. Then, too, there is argument fa vorable to a policy of government encouragement in the planting of trees, a program of reforestation. There is, of course, that famous "parity" business. There is a fund of $229,000,000 which a bunch of vote getting congressmen put into law. From it, the AAA officials can pay farmers producing wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and rice certain sums if the price of these commodities is less than "79 per cent of parity." We have had that one before and after many trials there are still many hundreds of versions of "par ity." It has put the money out There is no doubt about that. The AAA men made sure that all of it went out, but some of the methods of calculations, of appraisals, of dis criminations among farmers, of do's and don't's and just plain bureau cratic regimentation make a fellow dizzy. I cannot help wondering what those who live a hundred years from now will say when they read the current AAA records. They may find some new words that will prop erly describe the mess. Now Comes tho Pay-CHf On tho 1940 Farm Program Next comes "commercial vegeta bles." There is to be designation, as this year, of "commercial vegeta ble counties," the designation, of course, to be done by AAA officials. Commercial vegetable farmers, aft er they sign up and do as they are told, will get payments, too, and I hope the arrangement will make the green onions that my wife buys from the commercial vegetable man who calls at our door somewhat less spongy. And now, we give you the pay off on the 1940 program. Next year, any farmer who growl a vegetable garden will get $2?two whole dollars that are still highly regarded by me?if he "co-oper ates" and does as he is told by the AAA master farmers. If he fails to grow that vegetable garden, ha will be docked $2. The government will get it, too. Uncle Sam's boys are good at that. To make sure about getting that $2 fine, the AAA will deduct it from whatever other pay ment that the farmer has earned. The regulations have not been is sued yet so I cannot report to you in advance what you will have to do to get your f2. The AAA may pos sibly tell you that you have to grow so many rows of radishes, so many hills of beans of two or more IJ pas maybe some pole beans if you have planted trees under the reforestra tion program. Or they may tell you to produce so many yards of spin ach, and there must be carrots and peas, because children must eat car rots and peat. And potatoes! I waht" to warn the AAA about potatoes. Maine and Idaho voters may kick about including potatoes in the list of "must" vegetables. In the South, there ought to be melons, for there is nothing like a good ripe water melon. Medical men advise squash in the diet, along with rutabagas. As a special favor to me, T am go ing to ask tost anions be included and planted alongside that row of tomato vines. Will Extend Law at Far at Language Can Be Stretched Of course, u I Mid, the regula tion* have not been issued and ao I do not know what will constitute a vegetable garden "within the mean ing of this act," aa the official rules will say. On this point, however, 1 think it can be said, aafely now that the regulations will extend the law just as far aa human ingenuity can stretch language. The idea will be to embrace aa many of the farm ers as can be brought under the newest?and rawest,?of the schemes for regimenting the \f? "Tiers of the nation. None will be overlooked, except perhaps those like myself whose farm consists of a backyard soma (0 feet deep wherein are crowded flowers that I love. I guess that I will not get any payment for planting trees, either. But the real reason I resent this $2 payment is that it represents a gi gantic reduction in the price of votes. I think those gAA men haven't learned much about politics. They've gone sissy. The new price sounds like a Are sale. They ought to know that no vote* induced by that price will stay put. But to get serious about this thing, this new atrocity that is being put over in the name of farm aid, it ought to be said that never In all recorded history has there been any such thing attempted before. Folk* Awakening to Fact Thai Waete Matt Be Pmd Far We have witnessed waste In more forms in the last few years than ever happened in our nation or any other. Folks throughout the coun try are awakening to the fact that this waste has to be paid for, be cause taxes are beginning to sneak up on them from the most unexpect ed directions. There will be more. Of that, (here can be no doubt Meanwhile, instead of slowing up federal spending, ere find AAA pay ing ft for a garden. There should be something in the way of aid for those Who grow window boxes. It was only the other day that the treasury released final figures on its condition at the end of the fiscal year, July 1. Those figures showed that the government had spent ft,900,000,000 more in the last 13 months than it had taken in by taxa tion. Shortly, thereafter, a private organization issued a statement showing income and taxes of 183 great corporations. Those figures which were claimed to be official revealed that only about half of those corporations had made enough money in the last year to meet their tax bills. In some instances, the taxes paid by those corporations amounted to as much as three times the income that was left to them after they had paid their workers and their overhead expenses. CMmmS *r W?Mn Smpaptr Uatoa.) Speaking of Sports Wimbledon Win ? Brightens U. S. Tennis Outlook By ROBERT McSHANE OT so sure of themselves today 1 are the many calamity howlers who bade tearful farewell to toe United States' Davis Cup chances when J. Donald Budge, latter-day scourge of the tennis courts, turned pro. It was a sad, unhappy time for his millions ef followers when Bodge succumbed to toe tare of a 975.M# a year guarantee. Amateur tennis In toe United States, they croaked dismally, was all washed up. Bodge was toe only star worthy of toe name, the only man who could give this country a fighting chance for the greatest of all tennis honors. The recent Wimbledon tourna ment gave the prophets of disaster a terrific setback. Bobby Riggs, America's No. 1 disciple of tennis, defeated Elwood Coo)te, another Yankee, in the ail-American finals of England's great court show. The match was top and tuck for Ave sets and then Riggs won out Biggs Inherited the No. 1 position from i. Donald. Those experts whs saw the Wimbledon matches de clare that he is a much improved player. The hard-fengfet finals in dicated that Cooke is pretty close to being toe No. t racks tor, ranking a I BOBBY RIGGS gnat deal hither than he did a rear a to, when he waa n?tdorad Jaat another food teaalr player. Twelve months afi Elaesd was net consid ered seriously as Davis Cay timber. He was hold ia each lew esteem that the brass hats did net think enomh of him to Mod htm aeroos to Eacland with Miss Marble. Miss Jaeobe, Mrs. Palfrey aad Riffs. They live bin beat faro aad told him to shift for himself. Rift*, of course, hasn't been list ed as the greatest player who ever appeared at Wimbledon. Which is remarkable in that it was said about Don Budge, Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines. It was also said about Henri Cochet, Bill Thompson and Tony Wilding. r Von Cnmm Absent And It is also true that this year's Wimbledon match left one thing to be deaired. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, who defeated Riggs S-l, 8-0 at the Queen's club tournament. Is considered by many to be the best amateur of today's game. Von Cramm did not play at Wimbledon. Another United States hopeful is Frankie Parker. Remember him? A flew years ago he looked to be a pretty good tennis player. Bapeita agreed that if Frank could poliah up his forehand he would be near the tap. But that forehand dJdnt seem to acquire much polish. Sev eral months ago experts were all for dropping him. New comes reports from the West that Parker has at last discovered himself. His forehand has dafialte ly improved. Going set to Califor nia. ha discarded Us aid style sad worked eat a new ferehand. la Chi cago Frank wen the national clay start championship. Than ha teamed with Gene Make te win the Wayae gabin, both under considera tion for Davis cap action. Another thing that keeps Davis Cup enthusiasts from figuring toe strongly on an American victory is the fact that Australian players were occupied elsewhere. And long ago Australia was selected as the logical place to house the big-eared Davis Cup. However, when Riggs, Cooke, at al start hammering the ball across the net, anything can happen. Tha boys might even win. Anyway, where once before was only gloom and despair, now comes through a ray of hopeful light. America still has a good chance of annexing this year's match. Sport Shorts I OU GEHRIG'S daily stint really isn't hard. He merely walks to the plate before each fame and pre sents the lineup to the chief umpire. _ For this hr is naid *227 daily . .. The 20 flrst stringers on Northwestern"! 193S football T"^ com piled a B average in classroom work, all of which made Coach Lynn Waldorf happy . . . According to Luke Sewell, veteran American league catcher (Tharlev Lynn Waldorf Gehringer ot Detroit and Luke Applinf at the White Sox are the hardest A. L. players to pitch to . . . Lefty Grove's son expects to enter Duke university this fall. . . Boston Wee ball scribes say the Red Sosc aren't on top because other clubs in the league use second-string - pitchers against the Yanks, flrit-striagsrs against Boston . . . lighted pools for fly-casting at night and to your own neighborhood is a commercial venture being tried in various parts of the country . . . Gordon Drillon, outstanding Toronto hechgy for ward, is also a fine Softball player . . . Rowing is the oldest intercol legiate sport in the United States. The first crew race, held fa) 1852, was between Yale and Harvard . . . Johnny Drake, former Purdue play er who is now owned by the Cleve land Rams, is a special pbliceman at the San Francisco fair .... Big league pinch hitters aren't very food of night baseball. They come out of a dark dugout into.the brilliance oi me neta ana too oner una mem ?elvei easy prey (or opftteihc pitch er. . Ohio State awarded 144 athletic letter, last year. Football led with 31 and baseball wis next with 19. Because Gmtt Cleveland Alexander allowed his dues .to lapse in the Players' Benefit association while he was still ia the majors, be is not eligible for help from the baseball relief fund, which is seteUsd each year by funds front the AD Star game . . . Marquette university did not lose a football regular by graduation p . . Lefty. Grope'a son expects to enter Dulte university this . fall . c. Fistic Svengali JIMMY GRIPPO, manager of light J heavyweight Meho Betttna, has added a nor wrinkle to the honored profeaaion of pugiliwn. jimmy is the prouq possessor or iq ftu eye. hatd l^i't. ti^tod hiajOTtl training technicstfCeatiy Bsfsrsseery fight he hgagtsss Ms ags"'sf a Ban, the speed s< e* gato lops aad the punch sf a pile-driver. All la afl, Meho la a very daagsrs? manager-, arti eyl^Eyea h*Tmsa ager will admit Mat. ' Grippe isn't fooling,about the ben eficial effects ha sags hypnotism has Grippe Goto to IMk. *! on Bettina. Ha potnta oat that lltlio haa suffered only one defeat 4MB ha bag an String him tha eye. Whan this eaaHSewer Sreagal gaaa ta work an Us leather teasing Trilby ha last pals Mm ta (leap Thy ha Tw'watt a?|it vartat'inSen tawal a daciaiaa to BUr Cto far tha thiaipisnihlp af tha 17* paarf dhrtstoa. A lllMt match la sched atod far this faiL Only ooa handicap exists. Bill Brown, New York boxing commis sioner, declared that Grippo must do bis hexing act before the fight ers enter tha ring. That elidiinatee what might be, from the specta tor's standpoint, an enjoyafle double feature. * Tha bowing commission also told Grippo that there could be no mora pictures of him hypnotising boxers. , "Maybe they're right," said Grip pe, "they waat to keep bsateg se rteee- They deat want K to be Hka OMwe to Western Saeew OetmJ