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The Alamance Gleaner VoL LXV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940 ' No. 52 9 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Britain Loses World Sympathy Through Harsh War Measures; U. S., Japan Protest Sea Action (EDITOR'S NOTE?When opinions nro expressed in these J**"?"?' ore those of the news snsjyst sad not ?eoeosnrOy of uus p? ? by Western Newspaper Dnioo ????? LINLITHGOW CRAIGIE LOTHIAN There is trouble in the Lowlands and Rumania, too. GREAT BRITAIN: U. S. Trouble T F U. S. public opinion once favored * the British against Germany, it had shifted by late January until most Americans looked with equal disdain on both sides. Reason: British interference with American shipping, seizure of mail and re fusal to recognize the 300-mile neu trality zone thrown around the West ern hemisphere. To make it worse, all protests by Secretary of State Cordell Hull had been rejected per emptorily, until finally Mr. Hull slapped back with an aide manoire. Its gist: That U. S. vessels were being held up by the contraband control three times as long as Italian ships, therefore the U. S. could charge discrimination. There was every sign that this protest, like oth ers, would be rejected. In Wash ington British Ambassador Lord Lo thian saw unhappy times ahead. Indian Trouble \/l OHANDAS K. GANDHI'S inde A ?* pendence demands for India broke into print when Britain be gan demanding war assistance from the empire. Lord Linlithgow, vice roy, thought after the war would be time enough to talk about Indian independence. This provoked a storm of protest, but Gandhi cau tiously urged a non-violence cam paign. Lord Linlithgow, relieved, was willing to discuss terms. But he was still playing with dynamite. Japanese Trouble ALREADY irked because Britain has been friendly with China's "rebel" Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Japan's ire was heightened when a British warship stopped a Jap pas senger vessel in the Pacific, remov ing 21 German merchant sailors be ing returned to the Reich via Russia. Next day Tokyo gave British Am CONGRESS: Yes, but? "Do I Junk the budget thould be bet aueod? Yet. Do I think expenditures should be cut down? Yes. Do I think Inset thould be increesed? Yes. But if you toy, 'Morgentheu, whet land of laset should there bef I cannot enswer that because I do not know." This apparently (rank recitation from the secretary of the treasury was no more than he had promised several months earlier, yet it made bif headlines. On budget-balancing and decreased expenditures he prob ably was more outspoken than the President, but not on new taxes. Never has any administration spokesman suggested what kind of levies congress should enact this ses sion, and Henry Horgenthau's state ment before the house appropri ations committee failed to clarify matters. Biggest news was Mr. Morgen thau's contention that the federal debt limit should be hiked five bil lion dollars above the present $45, 000,000,000 mark with which it is now flirting dangerously (tee graph). He remarked that there was "no particular danger involved" in this act, but his audience apparently thought otherwise. Trimming des perately, congress lopped $11,401,000 from the treasury-postoffice supply bill, bringing to $128,143,300 the re bassador Sir Robert L. Craigie a note demanding amends, calling the incident an "unfriendly act" and warning that repetition would ag gravate Japan's anti-British senti ment. Mext day, when a British vessel halted Japan's Tauua Mara, Ambassador Craigie found thousand of Japs milling around his em bassy, while the press bleated against his country. Lowland Trouble \\l HEN Winston Churchill made v * a speech demanding that Neth erlands and Belgium join the allies in fighting Germany, the press and government of these countries shouted angrily. To placate them without losing Britain's point, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain next spoke, saying Britain was ready to help Belgium, but would reserve the right to decide when help was need ed. Far from placating the neu trals, this speech only irritated them more. In The Netherlands all par ties joined in telling Britain to keep quiet. In Belgium if was loudly pro claimed that the government can de cide for itself when and if it needs help. Rumanian Trouble IflNG CAROL of Rumania has re mained cautiously neutral de spite British wooing. But in mid January, when German troops were reported occupying the southern part of Russian Poland the British struck again, confident Carol would accept their aid gratefully. Instead they got the shock of their lives: Pressed by Germany to fulfill oil contracts, Rumania clung to neu trality and barked at British-French oil firms operating there. She in sisted they provide their share of petroleum to help Rumania fulfill her contracts with Germany, thus providing oil to run Nazi planes to bomb English-French territory! TREND How the wind it blowing . . . AGRICULTURE ? Mortgage-debt payments of 75,000 farmers holding land bank commissioner loans will be eased by a reamortization plan extending payments over longer pe riods. Cause: Henry Wallace's new full control over the-farm credit ad ministration. NATIONAL DEBT tSOJtOOfiOtfiOO m**tf auctions rrom administration esti mates already in the mill. With enough such reductions congress hopes to avoid both new taxes and a boost in the debt limit. Also in congress: C To aid Finland without taking re sponsibility, the senate banking and currency committee rigged up a "finesse formula" to increase the Export-Import bank's revolving fund by (100.000,000. Still to be adopted by congress, the measure would let Jesse Jones give Finland an extra $20,000,000 for non-military purchases. Hdtitever, since only a third of the present $10,000,000 loan has been used. Banker Jones doubt ed whether Finland would be inter ested. Reason: The Finns want munitions, not food and clothing. C In the house ways and means committee, pros and cons continued fighting over the reciprocal trade act, which expires June 1. A breach in agricultural opinion was evi denced when Farm Bureau Presi dent Edward O'Neal testified tor the trade program while National Grange Master L J. Taber spoke against H. C The house voted Rep. Martin Dies of Texas $75,000 tor his committee investigating un-Americanism. w Can you answer the following ques tions about the following people? Per fect score is 100. Deduct 20 points for each question missed. Score of 00 is excellent; 60, good; 40, average; 20 or less, poor. ? 1. Giuseppe Motta, Ave times president of a mountainous Euro pean country, Just died. What country? Z. Edwin Carewe became fa mous as a movie director. Why was he in the news recently? L Ignaee Paderewski, world famous pianist, has just been named president of what govern in ent-in-exile? _ 4. Earl Russell Browder, C. 8. Communist leader, was tried on a federal charge of passport fraud. What was the trial's out come? 5. Wang Ching-wei, an Oriental, is about to become head of what government? 1. Switzerland. - 2. He died. 2. Poland-In-exile; government locat ed in Prance. 4. Browder was sentenced to tour years in prison. He appealed. 8. Japan's puppet government In China. POLITICS: Break _ . "l am convinced that, with the condi tions now confronting the nation and dis satisfaction now permeating the minds of the people, his candidacy would result in ignominious defeat." Thus, before his United Mine Workers convention at Cojptnbus, did C. I. O. President John L. Lewis score Franklin Roosevelt. Since Mr. Lewis had already blasted at Candi dates Garner and McNutt, this lat est attack only heightened suspicions that C. I. O. will favor the Demo cratic candidacy of Montana's Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. Next day he explained his speech'. "I intended (it) to be a distinct jar to professional politicians in the Democratic and Republican parties. I intended it to serve notice that la bor was not to be taken for granted." But though John Lewis thought the New Deal had broken faith with la bor, his mine workers did not neces sarily agree. Introduced at the con vention were at least 45 resolutions urging a third term for the Presi dent. Observers wondered whether ; this indicated a coming break in the strangle hold Mr. Lewis has held over his unionists. JAPAN: Treaty Lapses In a single week the Tokyo gov ernment found its relations with two major nations approaching the crisis point. The English were persons non grata tor having searched Jap ships (Saa GREAT BRITAIN). The Americans were regarded disdain fully because abrogation of the 1911 trade pact went into effect, plac ing commercial relations between the two nations on a day-to-day basis. Peace talks between U. S. Ambas sador Joseph Drew and the Japanese foreign office were ended abruptly while Tokyo sat on its hands, hop ing tor the best. Obviously there was no chance tor a new treaty in the near future, because state de partment had Japan right where it wanted ber. If the present repri mand proved insufficient to make Nippon quit interfering with U. S. rights in the Orient, there still re mained the highly potent embargo weapon. Although the senate foreign rela tions committee indicated there was i little chance for an embargo (which would hamstring Japan's war in China), there was plenty of pres sure forthcoming from U. S. church groups. Why, they demanded right eously, should American scrap iron be used to kill Chinese? THE WARS: Rusto-Finnish Helsinki claimed 20,000 Soviet troops (ell when the Finns repulsed Russia's strongest invasion of the war northeast of Lake Lagoda. Es timated Red casualties to data: | 100,000. While foreign legionnaires swarmed into Finland from Scandi navia, the Baltic states, Hungary, the U. S. and elsewhere, the de fenders still had no adequate de fense against Soviet bombers, who enjoyed a field day strafing civilians in small mid-Finland towns. Allied-German Only four days after Britain's de stroyer Crnmllt was torpedoed with a loss of >1 men, the destroyer Es mtouih went down in the North sea carrying 179 crewmen to the bottom. It was her twenty-third acknowl edged naval loss since the war be gan five months ago. On the west ern front, meanwhile, all was peace ful. Last Newsman to See Borah Recalls How 'Lion of Idaho' Kept Mum in 1936 Campaign Didn't Favor Landon, So He Played Ball With Home State Denu. By ROBERT S. ALLEN (Co-muthor, atilh Draw Pearton, of "The IPathington Merry-Go-Round "} Oteteaed by Waters NnaV? Union.) WASHINGTON. ? The Sen ate just doesn't seem the same without Senator Borah. He was the first leader I came to know intimately as a cub Washington reporter 15 years ago, and I saw him last the day before his fatal acci dent. I think I am the last news man he talked to. It was late in the afterhoon. I knew that the President's message on the Finnish loan was due the next day, and I dropped into Borah's office to get his views. Wrapped in an army blanket, he was lying on a couch, reading an article on trade treaties. He motioned me to a chair, which I pulled up near him. On the marble mantle directly over him was a striking new photograph of himself which he liked very much. Duty Came First. Borah looked well, but frail, and recalling that during the Christmas holiday he had told me he was think ing of tdking Mrs. Borah south, I said, "What about your trip?" "I guess that's off, Robert," he replied. "Mrs. Borah won't stay if I don't, and I can't." "Why not? Things aren't so active now. A few weeks of warm weath er and sunshine would do you a lot of good." "Yes, but I can't leave. Those trade treaties are up and I've got to be on hand to keep an eye an developments. It's a close light and we can't take any chances. I would like a little rest, but I feel it's my duty to stay on the job and oppose this act." "What about the Finnish loanT" I asked. "That's a very distressing dilem ma for me, Robert," he said. "My heart goes out to those gallant peo ple, but at the same time I have grave misgivings about lending money to anyone in Europe. Once we let down the bars we can't fore see what it may lead to. We must keep out of that mess regardless of our personal sympathies." Dilemma of 1*M. I remember another time when he was in a dilemma. It was in 1*36. That spring, at the age of 71 and for the first time in his long career, he decided to make a serious try for the presidency. There was consid erable popular response, but the ma chine politicians were against him. He went to the Cleveland conven tion empty-handed?and he knew it. The night Herbert Hoover made HE WATCHED LAN DON?Sen ator Borah waited far Alf London's campaign before "prejudging" him, but he later confided: I am not for him." his speech?which he secretly hoped would stampede the delegates?I countered Borah leaving his hotel. It was past midnight, hot and sticky. "Come along, Robert, and walk with me," he said. "It's cooler out here." So we walked about the deserted streets and he talked about Hoover, the convention, and AH Landon. Doubted Landon's Ability. "They'll nominate Landon tomor row." ha said. "The stage is all set. Hoover tried to run away with the convention tonight, but they don't want any of him. It will be Landon and Knox, you mark my word." "And then what are you going to do. Senator?" "I don't know. I'll wait and see what Landon says. But what I'm wondering is what can he say. He knows nothing about national or for eign affairs. I am told he is a nice gentleman, but the country needs more than that in the White House in these times. I don't want to pre judge Landon. I shall hear him out, but I have a strong hunch I will not support him." He Didn't, Either! Borah's premonition was right Three months later I spent a day with him in Boise as he campaigned for his sixth senatorial term. We had a long talk that night in his room before he retired. I remarked that I hadn't heard him aay a word during the day about Landon. "And I don't intend to say any thing about him," Borah replied quietly. "I am not for him." "Are you tor Roosevelt?" "Well, Robert," be said, 'I've got a lot of Democratic friends in Idaho and I think they know where I stand." And then with a gentle smile he added, "That's a pretty good news story, isn't it?" It certainly was. It was the big scoop of the campaign. Mannerisms Mark the Man? They All 'Perform' Off Guard NEW YORK. ? A1 Smith jingles coins in his left pocket and the duke of Windsor straightens his necktie. Frank lin D. Roosevelt jerks his head sideways. Call them habits, manner isms or just plain nervous ness, but they're among the distinguishing features you've no ticed when famous men make speeches or appear before the news reel camera. Most of us, great or little, are thumb twiddlers, button twisters, arm swingers or fist clencb ers in our forgetful momenta. *TWs Is the Fetal.' A widely known Boston professor used to eater his classroom holding a short, well-sharpened pencil which be twirled as be talked. "Now this," he would say at in tervals, "is the point." Each time he would jab the peocil at the class, until his amiMed students finally made up sweepstakes on bow many times he'd do it each hour. The late William Jennings Bryan combined his mannerism with prac ticality. Before his platform ap pearances he would have someone bring an old-fashioned dish pan with e piece of ice to the rostrum. As his fiery speech-making warmed him, Bryan would run the palm of his hand over the ice, then over his forehead. To break this routine be would occasionally step to tbo front of the platform, weaving back and forth while the audience gasped for fear be would topple into the front row. A Henoch Swinger. Bertha Wells of Beaton, who was formerly tat Chautauqua work with Bryan, recalls the platform gestures at many other speakers. Dudley Crafts Watson, director of music at the Chicago art mueeum, went through a repeated routine of tak ing off his monocle, swinging it around tat his hand and replacing it to the eye. "One woman speaker asked me for a handkerchief Just before Che went en," Miss Wells remembers. "All through her lecture she stood twisting it fat her hands. When she returned it, the handkerchief looked like a cruller." Ben. James Reed of Missouri used to have a habit of chewing tobacco in the courtroom, while Sen. David I. Walsh of Massachusetts can never speak without thrusting his left thumb into the corner at his trou sers' pocket. r Psychologists who have sretched such carrytatgs-on from the specta tor's seat don't believe it's neoes i sarily a matter at n > niwiicas Sometimes the speakers are merely throwing off excess energy. Or, as one psychologist suggested, it may net be so much the energy or the BiniUtM^ n wbst the ypf fcfr for dtamer. Patent Office Kept Busy by Gadgeteers WASHINGTON.?Sevenhun dred human problems, most of them inconsequential, are solved every week at the United States patent office. Inventions ranging from thumbless boxing gloves to fluorescent theater aisles con tinue pouring in to prove how wrong was the patent director who resigned 100 years ago because there wasn't anything left to invent. If nothing else, it proves there's no slump in enterprise these days. The past year, for example, brought forth this collection: At the University of California botanists discovered in the juice of milkweed an active substance that can tenderize meat. A Philadelphian solved the prob lem of that first cigarette in the package with a strip of transpar ent film that tears off the seal, de stroys the revenue stamps, opens the flaps and pulls out two ciga rettes. Ne Doable Exposures. An amateur photography fan per fected a device making it impossi ble for the camera enthusiast to ZIPPER HOT DOG?The wienie hat a perforated eating which op erates on the sapper principle. take a second picture without wind ing the film?thus preventing a dou ble exposure. Peter J. Gaylor of Elizabeth, N. J., developed a synthetic rubber in valuable for elastic threads in cloth ing because it does not deteriorate rapidly. Many inventions, here and abroad, have made it easier and cheaper to wage war. Germany, for exam ple, is treating mineral, vegetable and animal oils with an electrical discharge process that increases their viscosity. American chemists have discovered a less expensive? but Just as deadly?way to make more poison gas. Another Invention Needed. Some Inventions are designed to soothe ruffled nerves. There's a new spring cap for tooth paste tubes, but nothing to make father squeeze it out from the bottom instead of the top. A drip-catching device has been invented for umbrellas, and somebody perfected a helical coil of wire which, as part of a cigarette holder, keeps ashes from falling on the rug. There are two important develop ments in photography. One camera can expose standard film at a speed of 2,500 frames per second, enabling you to study the wing structure of house flies or the action of a golf stick against a ball. On the more massive side. Prof. E. Newton Har vey of Princeton university has a REMOTE CONTROL SMOK ING?It keep* moke out of your eyes, but you'U break your arm lighting a cigaretteI camera which ma pa pictures two miles under the ocean. This gadget is a steal ball which resists terrif ic water pressure. It has two win dows, ooe tor the camera and the other tor projecting a beam of light X-Rays 'Blowa Up.* Closely akin is the giant new X-ray projector which enlarges a standard cheat plate up to the sixe of a regu lation motion picture screen, thus allowing several hundred people to consult over the medical problem at Sportlighl I By Grantkmd Rice Yank* Conceded Fifth Straight ' Pennant Win Deapite Ameri can League's Recent 'No Trad* , ing' Legislation. (KAMA?WMC SxrrlM.) R T OS ANGELES.?No major league 1J club ever has won Ave pennants in a row?but if the Yankees do nod hang up their fifth in a row this year, the American league race mC'-j suit will be an upaet. That, at least, is the way it looks as 1940 gets tmder i way. Ike fact that the percentage will be running against them again balds no terrors for the Yanks. One at these days, ef course, the pm sent , age is going to catch ap with the Yankees and latten them > innsa that is one fee nobody oan ssdlast. No club in the American league? and only one major league club in the modern history of the game ever had won four pennants in a row. The Yankees ran their string to that number in 1939. No dob ever had won four world serins in a row. The Yankees did that, too. Having won the 1938 series from the Cubs in four straight games, and DICKEY AND GORDON Tkey U hulp Ihe Ymmla Uf up their filth iu a raw. being laced by a supposedly strong er opponent in 1939, it didn't seem likely the Yankees granted that they would be victorious?would win again in four straight But they did. With Bed Ratbag pitching. BUI Diekey catching, Joe DiMaggto in center laid and fellows Uke Joe Gor don, Frankie Crsesttl, Bed Batfe, George Selkirk and Charlie KaBar spatted through the Uncap. it leaks as though the Yankees can II si for a while longer. J . In an effort to hobble the Yanks, the rest of the league made a rule preventing them from trading with the other clubs. The Yanks didn't mind that either. Just by way of co-operating, Ed Barrow voted for the rule With Newark. Kansas City and other clubs in .the chain sending up players faster than the Yankees can absorb them. Bar row and Joe McCarthy aren't inter ested in the other A. L. talent No Threat in Sight The Red Sox, who have made |he best showing in the attempt to over k...l * - USUI UJC A ?uascs these last two rtui came up with some flue young players . last year, notably Williams and Tabor, but they still lade a first-rate catoher and they are wear ing out in some oth er positions Cleve land should be stronger with Bob Feller still moving toward the peak and il a nl ii i a il tn Ka net a of the great pitchers of all time. Below tboee three clube, the Ti gers, White Sox and Senators are bunched pretty closely. Below them, the Browns and Athletics still are stumbling along. Aa usual, the race in the National league should be close. The Reds, new to the sweat and Are and tumult of a dose tussle in IMS, failed where, with a little more experience, they might have won. Last year, hardened by the UH campaign, they broke through?but they broke through Just ahead of the Cardinals, whose lot eras similar to that which the Reds had drawn in "ft. This year the Cardials asay ha ready. With better pttehtag than they had la US* aad better lack, they eaa win. It tsek theas grib a while tejishas that hq^lajht them, they ware reined by Injmlsa. Swinging along behind these two clubs are the Dodgers. They mead more power and thought they esse going to get it from Joa Medwick but artfh pennant chances gleaming bright again in St Louis, it doesn't look now aa though Branch Riotay is of a mind to sell Medwick. ft Larry McPhail can coma up with a power hitter from somewhere alas, watch out for the Dodgers. Worn these three teams the winner will ba d p c i d ed Bob Feller
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