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The Alamance gleaner Vol LXV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940 No. 5| -ja? WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LoBINE Congress Tears Budget Apart: Defense Fund May Be Raised But Other Items Are Slashed (EDITOR'S NOTE?When ?pinion are expressed In ikon columns, they sre those of the news analyst and net naeeaaarfly of this newspaper.) ?? Bole seed b]r Western Newspaper Union ?_ CONGRESS: Mutilation After almost a month of argument it appeared that congress would grant Franklin Roosevelt his $1,800, 000,000 defense budget for 1M1, but. the price would be (1) drastic slashes in ail other items and (S) a boost in the $45,000,000,000 national debt limit. In both house and sen ate, four out of five committeemen kept one eye on the purse strings. The other was cocked carefully to ward the constituents back home, who are more concerned about econ omy than pork barrels, even in an election year. One warning came from Budget Director Harold D. Smith, who told 1 federal agencies to start train ing for a smaller diet next year. WOOD RING AND STARK They'll win; otheri will late. He threatened to be "plenty tough" on requests for deficiency appropria tions. Another came from house ap propriations committeemen who threatened to cut a proposed 525,000,000 farm tenancy fund from the agriculture department's budgfet. But actions spoke louder than threats: Out from the appropriations com mittee came a badly mutilated in dependent offices bill, usually the catch-all for pork barrel items. It was $94,492,186 below the President's budget estimate. Gone were all funds for the national resources planning board and the office of gov ernment reports. Cut drastically were items for the executive office and the maritime commission. Nor did the house backslide on its ap propriations committee; next day, having shouted down $22,000,000 in pork-barrel requests, it passed the bill almost exactly as reported by the committee. Meanwhile the army and navy were getting better treatment Ad miral Harold D. Stark, chief of naval operations, told the house naval committee that he hoped to complete a $2,276,000,000 building program by 1945. Across the street. Secretary of War Harry Woodring told the house military committee about deficiencies in critical ord nance. Fondest congressional hope, obvi ously, is to raise the extra $460, 000,000 for national defense without imposing election-year taxes. But there still remains the $800,000,000 {originally $1,300,000,000) naval pro gram, suggested not by the Presi dent but by Georgia's Rep. Carl Vinson. If this carries, no economies can stop the national debt short of its present limit. Also in congress; R. Mourned was the fate that befell congress' senior statesman, Idaho's 74-year-old Sen. William E. Borah. While house and senate office taiikl ings kept an ear cocked for news, the man who had served the senate S3 years lay close to death in his ? Rock Creek Park apartment, vic tim of a cerebral hemorrhage fol lowing a fall. C Vice President Jack Garner, whose opposition usually means cer tain death to any proposal, barked against a military loan to be TREND How the wind it blowing? LABOR?Thanks partly to the cur rent bouse committee probe, a Gal lup poll showed most of the nation favors revision of the Wagner labor act Score (of those who had an opinion): 53 per cent tor revision; U) per cent for repeal; S per cent for no change. Meanwhile the houae committee was about to ask for more money. COMMERCE?Shipments of air planes, petroleum and metals to the allies boosted U. S. exports in De cember to $358,000,000?the largest for any month in almost 10 years. leaguered Finland. So had the Pres ident, for his recommendation of a $80,000,000 loan through the Export Import bank was strictly for non military purposes. However, since the Finns wanted money for muni tions only, their cause seemed lost. C Still arguing for continuation of the reciprocal trade-act, the admin istration sent Undersecretary of Commerce Edward Noble and As sistant Secretary of State Henry F. Grady to testify before the bouse ways and means committee. De fense of the act itself completed, the state department next turned its guns on the senate's plan to seek ratification power over all trade treaties. C. The senate foreign relations committee agreed to survey the en tire field of U. S.-Japanese relations, including proposed embargoes against Japan, after the abrogated trade pact expires. EUROPE: The Belligerents Britain's war consisted of (1) a factory explosion; (J) a reported railroad sabotage put; (3) a fiery defense in commons of Prime Min ister Chamberlain's action ousting War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha, and (4) the slaying of Britain's first German on the western front. France's war featured (1) expul sion from the chamber of deputies of all pro-Stalin Communists; (])? news of a "plot" to aid Hitler, and (3) a verbal battle with Berlin, where France was accused of back ing down on its promise not to in terfere with German expansion in eastern Europe. It was not so quiet for the Finns. For five successive days Russian planes defied temperatures ranging down to 81 degrees below zero, bombing Helsingfors, Hango and other cities mercilessly. Though they might be poor soldiers, the ? id I SWEDISH VOLUNTEER "Nam it it your duty . . Russians proved themselves persist ent in the far-north Sella sector. Forty thousand of them staged a new drive, only to be routed. The Neutrals "Nam Ika war Id kmomt what it it to ha a Finn. Nam it it yam duty la thorn what it mmm Io ha a Swede. Make ua yam miod mom. /aim lha Smadith V oluntaar Army, With Finland far Smadan!" This advertisement in a Stockholm newspaper was one answer to Rus sia's order that Scandinavia stop sending aid to Finland. Richard J. Sandler, ex-Swedish foreign minis ter, demanded that his nation send troops to defend the Finnish Aaland islands. Though both the allies and Ger many tried to remain aloof from this Scandinavian-Russian spat, they were undoubtedly being drawn into it. One reason was the continued sniping at each other's iron ore ship ments coming out of Sweden. While tension grew here, it less ened in Netherlands and Belgium, which only s few days earlier had ordered complete mobilization in fear of a Nazi invasion. But there was still a chance that Germany and Russia would try to confound their foe* and hostile neutrals alike with lightning-like blows at both the Lowlands and Scandinavia. Italy, watching over, the Balkans like a mother hen, hsard a. warn ing from Rome to be ready for war "at any moment." Still on the fence, n Duce countered Britain's renewed wooing with a warning that Italians should not be too greatly impressed by "recent demonstrations at inter nstional sympathy." Know your newt? One hundred it perfect tcort, deducting 20 points for mm aneetion yam mitt. Score of 60 or higher it eccepteble. 1. b which of the following cities did fire kill 5M people, de stroy 7,000 homes and leave SO,000 homeless: (a) Taranto, Italy; (b) SMsucka, Japan; (e) Nairobi, ftSWto; (d) Tegoeigalpa, t. The new IT. 8. ambassador to Belginm, formerly minister to Eire, is: <a) John Cndaby; (b) Joseph Davles; (e) Tyrone Pow er; (d) Joseph C. Drew. 1. True or False: Great Britain In a note to the Pan-American neutrality committee in Bie de Janeiro, rejected the MO-mile "safety sone" constructed around the Western hemisphere. 4. .Which gubernatorial candi date in Louisiana's stormy pri mary election was taken to Jail: (a) James A. Nee; (b) Earl K. Long; (c) James H. Morrison; (d) Sam Houston Jones. 5. The New York stock market deals in: (a) stocks and bonds; (b) grab; (e) lire stock. L (B) is correct Shizuoka. Japan. 2. (A) Is correct. John Cudahy. He was rushed to Brussels because of the new Nazi crisis (See EUROPE.) 3. True. 4. (A) is correct. (Joaes and Long led the election, but no candidate had a majority of all votes cast; therefore a run-off is necessary.) 5. (A) is correct (The stock market queried 5.00b people, learning to Its amazement that 24.2 per cent believed grain was handled there. 0.7 per cent said live stock, and the other 77 per cent, stocks and hoods.) DISASTERS: Turkey Again Last December at least 30,000 died when earthquakes and floods hit north central Turkey. About the same time 1,300 more died in the flooded western plains. Late Janu ary brought still more tragedy to a nation whose international diplo matic woes are legion. A second major earthquake killed 50 and in jured 160 more in the Nigde district, 300 miles southwest of the first quake area. Luckily, such blows were cushioned by French-British friendship. Available to the Ankara government was some $340,000,000 in loans and credits, Turkey's "price" for keeping the strategic Dar danelles open to allied warships. (This low, to bt repaid partly through British imparts of Turkish tobacco, prompt ed tha government to baa imports of U.S. tobacco. Mourning at the notes, American growers found them solves deprived over night of en export market running between IbOfiOOfiOO end 17OJMOftOO a yam.) DEFENSE: Mock Warfare From San Francisco south to Santa Barbara, troops awaited an attempt by the navy to land an at tacking force of 6,000 men. Mean while the Caribbean sea buzzed as marines, troops and some 30 war ships of the Atlantic squadron staged a mock war. POLITICS: Call to Duty _ */ realise whet it meatu to bo e candi date for the Republican nomination for President?what it meenain responsibility, hard work, in tecrifke. Yet it Is e cell to duty no citisen cam ignore. My answer u yes." Thus did Frank Gannett, Roches ter, N. Y., publisher, toss his hat into a ring already cluttered with Tafts, Bridges, and Deweys. All he had waited for was a bid, and that ; came from the Youag Republican Club of In diana. Un lets be gains tremendous strength, tew observ ers expect Candidate Gannett to make much of a. showing But 'h?*can didacy does presage a knock-down-and-drag-out light for New York's 93 Republican convention votes, wanted also by Manhattan's District Attorney Thom as E. Dewey. Meanwhile another prospective candidate was given his camera test: Wendell L. Wilkie, president at Commonwealth h Southern cor poration. At New York 400 sales executives applauded him. Said Dr. Paul Nystrom, president at the Lim ited Price Variety Stores associa tion: "We could expect great im provement with gathering momen tum if we had a man running for President like our distinguished guest, Mr. Wilkie." Said Mr. Wilkie: Nothing. FEWER BABIES ARE BEING BORN * ?. i&ziyu. According to Frank WUho, director of On comm. too annual birto rate U decHnlnr. Brackarf t Washington Digest 1940 Census Most Comprehensive Ever Made Since the First Survey It Is a Complete Self-Examination of Uncle Sam by Uncle Sam; It Deals in Facts and We Cannot Have Too Many Facts About Ourselves. By WILLIAM BBUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.?What were you doing five years ago? And where did you five at that time? What caused you to move, if you did change your residence? While congress is working itself into a dither of flying arms and legs and heads and heels and while New Dealers are straining at every shirt button in an effort to show Presi dent Roosevelt is the greatest peace advocate in 19 centuries, I want to talk about something that happens only once in 10 years. I refer to the decennial census, the counting of noses of Americans and the gath ering of information about them, their lives and living upon which the federal government has launched. A good many folks have been in clined to regard the census as some thing about which to joke. There was, and is, a certain number of people who think the whole thing is silly. It is not silly. Taking it on a long term basis, considering it from the standpoint of its permanent val ue, it is so much more important than the passing show of political shadow-boxing that we can well af ford to forget about much of that bunk. The census deals in facts, and surely we cannot have too many facts about ourselves. So, borrowing from the expression of Frank Wilson of the census bu reau, let me insist again that there is news of lasting value in this cen sus and the job of census taking. It is, accurately stated, a "complete self-examination of Uncle Sam by Uncle Sam," and when it is done, we all will know much more about ourselves, individually and col lectively, than we have ever known before. The current census is the most comprehensive of all of the 16 decennial canvasses that have been made since the first survey in 1790. Coanting a/ Not** fa Not Jawt Human No*** Actual work in this counting of noses has already started. And when I say "counting noses," the term is rather broader than just human noses. For, as an example, the first noee counting is directed at enumerating businesses and manu facturing establishments and mines and quarries. Census representa tives will visit something like 8,000, 000 business concerns, including about 170,000 manufacturing plants and establishments. These figures, at course, are an approximation. The census will show exactly how many there are, what they did in the way of retailing, distributing, shipping, servicing, manufacturing ?all through the list to the single gasoline station and the dry clean ing shop on the corner. Then, along about April 1, there will be a large army of real nose counters start to work. They will visit your house and mine and every other one and it is expected they will find at the end of the month that there are more than 33,000,000 dwelling units where people live and, further, it is believed they will have counted upwards of 132,000,000 folks In the United States. To do this job and the other phases of count ing, roughly 130,000 men and wom en are required. Nfdt* WiU Shaw What Program Hat Boon Mad* It seems to me, then, that we can look forward to the results of the current census as showiqg what progress has been made, what hu man nature has done in the way of changes. Simultaneously, it will show that many theories of what government can do or has done have failed or have succeeded for re vealing just how much human na ' ture can be influenced bar m*D"nVfde, I rules. It can be said, therefore, that | a new aet of guide books are ?n the way to completion, on to WW * being filled in by the records of the people who constitute the United States. There is a thought in Frank Wfl ion's mind?and I believe Mr. Wfl son has a better concept of the can sua program and its ultimata value than any othar parson I aver nave met?that our nation is facing s much more serious problem in the matter of old age than is aW^mt to most of us. It comes about this way: Mr. Wilson pointed out that there are fewer babies be?g born annually among each one thousand of our population thanwastoe case 10 or JO years ago. The birth rate Is declining. At the same toe, through the development, of medi cal science, through improved living conditions, through elimination of hazards, reduction of accidents and so forth, the "life stum" STSckof us U getting longer and longer. Peo ple actually are living long"! expression of ".living on borrowed time" after one is 70 year* old is meaningless because eg many people now live beyond that slotted time. Soommgly Silly QwomHotu Arm Rmmlly Important At the outset, I asked (he Ques tions about whet you were doing Ave years ago and wherefou ^vr then. That was not facetious. Those questions are a part of the regular forms which the nose-countere wfll carry and which you, as a cititen, must answer. There is a good res son. I have Just written about birth end life and death. If your Uncle Sam knows something about how flrmly you are rooted to e particular farm or town or county or state, he can arrive et conclusions rather re mote from the questions. For ex ample, if you are the son of a tann 0T snd are continuing to farm, It is > reasonable to assume that you are a normally happy and reasonably suc cessful farmer. Uncle Sam wCl not have to worry about that kind. He does have to worry, as a matter of national policy, however, when the census taker reports so many from one place who have moved to the citv especially if those who moved in any dustry. There arises, quickly, the question of unemployment. Or, this business of moving about may have come from drouth or floods or pestilence. Matters of health ere reflected as well. Con tinued drouth or continued floods may ruin an area for agricultural ourpoees. With fscts concerning the somebody may be able to suggest other means of utilisation of the land. MmrmaHorn Will Mmlp Am Cmidm to tho Fmtmrm I suspect that the current eeneoe will produce a lot of information (hat will be classifiable merely - infor mation. That is, there is bound to be a chunk of the facts and etedstto which win serve no tamtodtote net That to the way ofB^do?lu the government But tnaivwuaia, business and government each wfll find things of value, information to help ? a guide to the future. We can look back to the*? of 1790 and aee where our pop?toon averaged U parens per a?are mile of the then United States and we can then see how, in 1930, It was 41.3 persona per square mfle. That is the average tor the ?Ueu; one area wfll be very much leas, an other will be very much more, end it is vital for a manufacturer or a wholesaler or a retailer to know how many prospective customers there axw in a given area. Speaking of Sports Hostak Proves Worthy King of Middleweights By ROBERT McSHANE OUlMMMI br ?M|H1 Xnwpn Union.) A S BARE U Russian victories in fa Finland arc boxers who can stiffen opposition with one punch. They're the answer to managerial prayers; the pot of gold at the rainbow's end and the royal flush of the cauliflower game. Dawn fliWgt the years the searah has boon constant far good JtaMtkMrts TIMP# Iultj Ameri* t*VhT faa "^,fc?n<r2 That's why A1 Hostak, the young Seattle middleweight, is one of to day's greatest drawing cards. Not since the days of Stanley Ketchell has that division come up with a slugger of Hostak's type. Ketchell was a standout in a day when the middleweight ranks boasted of such fighters da Billy Papke, Mike Gib bons, Frank Klaus, Eddie McGoorty and others. Patient Fighter Heat ah la tha kind af a fighter whs snails patiently far an opening. He decent press matters aad tehee pfanty of time to Mao ap n w ?at ha Masts*orer thri d*eJd? right and the referee esaally eeeato ap to tan. Seattle Al is a welcome relief from the modern school of pugilism which fights best over tha radio or In newspaper rohimne. He h quiet and unobtrusive, almost to the point SEATTLE AL BOSTAK of bailifiltanw. A believe-it-or-not item in Srfi era of ring boastfulneas. Ha doesn't term every opponent ? "kiiiM f I mvast A IImssji1! s i p. !??? I aa Asa Dam, ana dc aoesn i promise to flatten him in the first round. Ha wen the middleweight title Irani Freddie Steele en Jaly M, UN, lost It to S0U7 Eftefer the tatter pert af the year, and Ami regained Us lanrels by sispplaf Briefer la Oh fenrth round af a return can test In Seattle en June ST, ISM. Whan Hasten accomplished this feat he did semethtaf no middleweight bach his ciena frem Paphe In ISM. Crowd Pleaaer Win or lose, Hostak is a popular fighter. When be climbs into the ring his shyness is shed arith his robe. He's in there for ooe purpose and that's to tag his opponent as rapidly as possible. He has as much raw courage as any fighter in the ring today. In his lb-round fight with Briefer In 19M he fin ished the last 10 rounds arith both hands btohsn, still trying for n knockout. The Mew York Boxing commis sion, arhich moves in mysterious ways, has refused to recognise Hoe tak*a claim to the title. It's blessing had been bestowed upon Ceferino Garcia of the Philippines and Los Angeles. The National Boxing as sociation recognizes Hostak as the champion. controveiay has ctiMd widespread dissension, par ticularhr 00 the Pacific coast. Most ring addicts claim that the Seattle flghtar is Band and ahouldera above SL^ MkillaM^Mte I m . ?? .IM, uM rnuippma Drawier. I^KfMMi t^vh^tajrnWi That's tha story of Marino and Hostak. It may be stereotyped. Undoubtedly it is. But the pair could eerva as blueprint for the, much-used plot It's Just luck tost they haven't been eued for plagiar ism by soma budding author. Sportlight I By Grantland Rice Doctor Hutch in? of Univeraty I Of Chicago Believed in li t Cent Team?bet It Played in I Million-Dollar League. (NAHA?win? amMJ . LOS ANGELES.?It is a difficult 5 assignment to get into a winning t: football argument with Alooso A. . , Stagg, of Tale, Chicago and the Col lege of the Pacific. Lonnie Stagg made Walter Camp's .> first AO-America team h IS?. jest SO years ago. He started coo<Atag Chicago university in MB, wUeh happens to be some ft years ago. his' prime. He bee proved that by Ma record at the College of the Pa cific where, at 77, he is stai one o< the best in the game. Lonnie Stagg still thinks that foot saved. That the game should still have been carried on. I don't believe so-tmded e Big Ten tent. I don't believe so?in ? major league background. JZSSSFtt&tiS. ^?SWC remaining in ftia ?rr for any toon at payment. I ?tm contend that you cant com pete with tfa* l??*n teams te any conferenca on this baste. I am aat defending proselyting, athletic schol arships or direct payments. I am only saying that any university that abandons this triple-threat hasn't much of a chance against the great majority who follow this path. Vte it is the winning path. Chisago's Case. It was certainly a stunting ulan this last season to throw the Chi cago team against the list of oppo nents the Maroon squad had to face ?Ohio State, Michigan, even Har ! yard. Dr. Hntchina said once?maybe | twice?that ha believed te a lfrceat 1 football team. O. K.?ao far. Bod don't let them try to play te a n3 I lien-dollar league. I happen to knew teat the vaat majority of college footbdH pi?J'? ? ! on the better-known teams today are rather weB taken cats of. Hoot of them hava scholarships- Moat at them have good Jobs jam tied ar they move into financial briengb menta that carry Uwm along. Part of this may be summer jobs freas leading alumni who give the ath lete enough to go through rnllbgh I Or they may be allotted II a a tickets per game which they can By substantial ????"<? I mean from $100 to $150 a game, if it hap pens to be e aeO-ebt. rve eaaa too many tickets before the laet BMt I Bowl geme eold for $10 * ticket to do any guessing along this Hoe. Chicago had nothing Bka this to I offer. Chicago had no plan at tak I ing care of its football pteyara. Ate I Chicago had no soft cuuraea ehsie certain young bosky athletes cowte I get by who happened te heva ws I particular leaning tow ai de Latte. Greek or higher mathetmatlea. Or I logic, or advanced Ihflte A Case ef Deete. It may be that Dr. Hotchtei ad I Chicago ia right. But in many eaja I doubt h. For this reason. Football atfbads I are usually 40 or SO strong eat at I s.ooo or 10.IIW dtewte| They^be than the football playero^I daabt i^ To read aH^that ia^ written ysn'd togte o?^^r cent^whJ'wr^l tditwtoottamplayers hava to&OW. They^are not teaming any aaam te danbatc an hwtltzition that i?? from^5,000 to lXWS^ento-what
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