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Page Two Would Check Foreign Importations ! ■ ~~~ — ' ••• r ~-+~»'■ \ V .... lr • x> v v »«86w r Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who will shortly open u drive against the Importation of foreign-made goods in the United States. Mr. Randolph's drire is especially aimed at Japanese and Russian articles (jeing sold in this country. Bone of Contention in the Aegean Sea View of the island of Leros, one of the Dodocanese Islands, which the Italians terra the "Helgoland of the Aegean." The island was taken by Italy In 1912 from Turkey, and heavily fortified. Now Turkey Is thinking of taking it back while Italy is engaged in Ethiopia. However, the island is predominantly populated by Greeks and Greece believes that In case of a redistribution she should be given the Islands. This Little Lady Gets Younger Every Year Fannie Ward, the little lady who seems to have learned the secret of eternal youth, pictured on lier ar |mJ . *MJ£ljgKM r Vr* ^* s - JHH (r nrj ' J mRi rival at New York from Europe on the liner Bremen. She was accom panied by her daughter and son-in law, Lady and Lord Terence Con yngham Plunket Champion Amateur Gardener and His Garden Hours spent in his garden to regain health after a nervous breakdown have resulted In John Kakakes of Spokane, Wash., being Judged the best amateur gardener in America. Kakakes' garden lias just been unani mously awarded first place by the Judges in the 1935 national yard and garden contest. The Kakakes garden is an example of what can be done through careful planting and continual care. Shrubbery with branching foliage and small pine trees make an effective background for flowers of all types. One of the features of the garden Is an Irregularly shaped lily Dond surrounded on three sides b.v moss covered rocks and foliage. Here's a New Musical Instrument ' ' V 'I JL 4 , £ v - 2Slfeylk J^\\ '* - , % ■■ ■■ * ,«Ss» """ss£**'. " ' ' ""*•"• ': : _ A .' The solfia, a new musical instrument invented by Hans Kaulbersch of Berlin, is here shown. It can be operated either by blowing through the rubber tube or by a bellows. The solfla is Intended to supply a demand for a low-priced musical instrument for homes of persons In moderate circumstances. THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA When the Snow Flies It's a WINTERsault! Orville Uorgersen of Seattle does not recommend this stunt unless you know your stuff and have plenty of fresh snow to land in. Uorgersen u . v * -fc ] ■ ■ ffc ■>••. .V... >:'.w:. .%.%Wnmw has gone to the winter Olympic games where he will locate training quarters for American contestants and assist in training. He could teach 'em a few tricks, all right I He does stuff like this just to "warm up." Scenes and Persons in the Current News I s W \ W 3/ L& - FV ■Hh v r Mm .wr nf \ I / iJy * W •' atfmv I j7J ' «T''^H HOIHH BBhb jHr. B B BfflOU - I I—The Erie, first of a new class of 2,000-ton gunboats, floated at the Brooklyn navy yard. 2—Group of O. A. It. past commanders received by President Roosevelt when they were In Washington to make ar rangements for the national encampment In September. 3—Model of the million dbllar memorial shaft that will be erected on the San Jacinto battlefield near Houston, Texas, for the Texas Centennial celebration: It will be 550 feet high. 1 Business Smelled Bad, So He Took Up Toys Just a few years ago Clyde H. Melton of Devine, Texas, headed a $3,500,000 enterprise and was known as the "World's Bermuda Onion King." The depression came, bank failures wrecked the financial struc ture of business, and today he is fighting his way back to economic Independence as a salesman of toys In a store in Pasadena, Calif. Museum to Show President's Sailfish W. L Brown, chief taxidermist of the Smithsonian institution, mounting a 9 foot 8 inch sailfish landed by President Itoosevelt at Cocoa island, off Costa Rica, last October, which will be placed in the National Museum. Chicago Polar Bears Take a Dip Even though the mercury stood at 12 degrees below zero, Chicago's original Polar Bear club considers! It lust another day for their dally dip. Emperor of Japan at Army Review Mounted on his favorite charger, "Shirayukl," the emperor of Japan, Hirohlto, with princes of the blood and military leaders of his empire, reviewed the 10,000 troops stationed in the Japanese capital on the Yoyogi parade grounds. Old Man Winter Is Viola's Best Sweetie Miss Viola Smith of White Plains, N. I*., Is the versatile snow queen of Lasell college, Auburndule, Mass. She was chosen head of winter sports. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1 Name of Britiah Origin Claimed by Most People ; Although It is probable that slightly less than one-third of Amer icans are English in paternal blood, ' more than half of our name use ' Is English, writes Howard F. Bar ker in the Atlantic Monthly. Mow much more than half cannot be stated exactly, but allowing for va riations and special circumstances affecting certain names, it seems a ■fair statement that American fam ily nomenclature Is 55 per cfffh English. Part of the difference be tween the 55 per cent and the per centage bused on blood Is accounted for by neflo name use carried over from the slaveholders of the Old South. All names other than Eng lish have a tendency to seem queer to us. If they are at all like Eng lish names these more familiar ap pellations are often adopted In their/ I stead. yT I Both conversion, which la, rVange j on the basis of sound, and transla- 1 tlon, change on the basis of mean- J ing, increase the English element in our name usage. Thus Germans e named Moritz and French named Maurice come to be known as Mor- * rls, a typically Welsh patronym. In J like manner the German cognomen Roth, pronounced In German as Roat, may be replaced by Root, an Esses name. Sometimes respelllng contributes to the Anglicize tlon, as when (Berber is respelled as Garver and then converted into Carver, which is distinctly English. Changes nre commonly suggested by the sound of the appellations, but mean ing or supposed meanings play some part. A German Schaefer becomes a Shepherd, and a Sommer a Sum mers, by consideration of meanings. Likewise an Irish McShane finds excuse for being a Johnson, and a Cleary a Clark. So, too, an Asians becomes a Harris, and a Levlnsky a Lewis, Race Horse Honored In Eldridge park, Elmira, N. Y., Is a bronze statue of a race horse, the American Girl, a famous trotter that won so many races that her owner challenged the world, but no one accepted the challenge. On Oc tober 2, 1875, the American Girl dropped dead in a race, while in the > lead. Tense excitement and sym- f pathy were aroused, the race itself forgotten and the crowd pressed i across the track to where the fa vorite lay. From the grandstand could be seen a rainbow, one end apparently just over the body of the horse. The American girl had •died in the harness, as she lived, ahead. The band played a funeral dirge. Soon the Judges' stahd was draped In black and subscription started for a monument to be erect ed above the place where the mare was burled.—Detroit News. Stevens, of Hoboken, Had Early Idea of Railroads "Who did Invent the railroad? Mod ern discussion has been divided over the question, but close-up opin ion in 1832 gave the credit to Col. John Stevens of Hoboken, states the New York Sun. The American Railroad Journal in that year noted that 20 years previously, in 1812, Colonel Stevens published a pamphlet in which he recommended a railway from the Hudson to Lake Erie instead of the canal which was then under dis cussion. In that pamphlet Colonel Stevens was quoted as proposing the em ployment of steam power to propel cars or carriages and made the fol lowing prophetic statements "I should not be surprised at see ing steam carriages propelled at the rate of 40 or 50 miles the hour." But when he made his prophecy he was far In advance of the age "and enlightened men considered the project as visionary." Phone 265 ft PEERLESS CLEANERS Dry Cleaners, Dyers, Tailors, Hatters 127 Rose Street Rocky Mount, BATTLE & BARNES h- General Machinery and Automobile Repairs. Electric and Acetylene Welding. Lawn Mower Repairs. Portable Equipment for Outside Work. PHONE 270 235-239 S. Washington St. DRY CLEANING If It's Dry Cleaning Call CASEY'S CLOTHES MADE TO MEASURE Phone 683 906 Falls Road
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