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The Rocky Mount Herald \
Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Caro
by The Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company
Publication Office: Second Floor Daniels Building,
Bocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
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IfTBS MARY RENNEKER Assistant Editor
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SPEED KILLS
.-The Gold Leaf Farmer, Wendell.
Every now and then we hear the old ar
gument that speed alone on the highways is
not the cause for accidents. However, we
note that in almost every instance of a fa
tal accident speed was a contributing cause '
Two cars traveling at twenty miles an hour
meet with the impact that would result if
a car traveling forty miles an hour hit a
tree, but if the two cars are traveling sixty,
(miles an hour, then the, "impact speed," is
120 miles an hour. Slow drivers may cause
wrecks that injure—but speed kills.
If President Roosevelt's trip to Buenos
Aires does nothing but inspire his country
men to study South American geography
and history, it will be well worth while. For
what most of us don't know about that part
of the world is nearly all of it.
Argentina, toward whose capital Presi
dent Roosevelt is voyaging, has 1,153,000
square miles. This means that it is about
the size of all Europe west of Poland and (
Hungary, or 300.000 square miles larger than
the United States east of the Mississippi,
or five times the size of France, or four
times the size of Texas.
Buenos Aires is not by 200 miles as far
south of the equator as Washington is north;
but the southern hemisphere is considerably j
colder, latitude for latitude than the north
ern. Argentina's long stretch is north and
south, and its climate varies from as cold as
Labrador to as hot as Texas. Most of its
territory varies from cool temperature to
subtropical in climate; and it probably has
a higher percentage of fertile land than any
ot/ier large country on earth. Though it ris
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es to the peaks of the Andes on the west,
most of the country is level or gently roll- 
ing; and one Argentine railroad runs 211
miles without a curve.
Argentine has 12,000,000 inhabitants —
and one-fifth of them live in the capital. In B
a fertile country, with less than 11 per
sons per square mile, that is not so good, g
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AGE AND LAW
News and Observer
The fact that the attorney of the Social ■
Security Board in Washington, who declar
ed that the act passed by the last session -
of the General Assembly was legally inade- \
quate, is only 26 years old may be inter
esting, but it is by no means important.
The important fact is not his age but his de
cision, which has been accepted by the Na
tional Social Security Board.
> Governor Ehringhaus may not like that
decision. Attorney-General Seawell may not
like that decision. Let them say, and per
haps correctly, that it is a cockeyed deci
sion, but we have had enough foolish talk
about the young man's age. Alexander the
' Great was younger than that when he left
a conquered Europe to begin the conquest
of Asia.
Young Thomas H. Elliott is no Alexander,
but neither is the fact that he is 26 years old
a mature contribution,to the discussion of
the question as to whether or not North Car
olina is justified in gambling on a possible
future action of Congress in regard to $2,-
500,000 which the State may lose forever.
TEACHING THE BIBLE
The Gold Leaf Farmer, Wendell.
Every now and then something happens
to drive home the fact that the average boy
or girl has no comprehensive working knowl
edge of the Bible. And then, all over
, again, we begin to wonder why an other
wise intelligent populace allows the great
est and most important book in any lan
guage to be crowded out of the schools by re
ligious prejudice.
No sensible person would want to see the
teaching of any denomination or sect made
a part of the course of study in our schools,
nor would we advocate the teaching of even
the Christian religion, as such, but the Bi
ble has had so profound an effect on the
history of the world, and it is such a won
derful book within itself, and aside from its
religious message, that it seems to us the
' schools are making a sad mistake not to
- teach it- at least in high school.
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA
Scimitar and Song
Edited By
Lara Thomas McNair
"For dear to gods and men in Sa
cred Song, .
Self taught 1 sing; by Heaven, ami
Heaven alone
The genuine seeds of poesy are
sown."
From, the Odyssey Homer.
A Blessing Supreme
To be honored ig sweet satisfaction;
To be famed is a great fleeting
gleam;
To be loved is a joy and a comfort;
But to love is a blessing supreme.
By Katherine Neal Smith In
"The Quickening Seed"
Equanimity
Could we accept life's baffling mys
teries
As childlike faith embraces fairy
lore,
And sing our lifesong as a trouba
dour
Who nonchalantly lilts his melodies,
In t u lie with Nature's two-toned
harmonies,
We'd find more pleasure in its mi
nor score,'
More laughter in each lachrymose en
core,
More color in its lyric symphonies.
What if the laughter catches in our
throats
To see the flower cut down before
its prime,
The wisp of fog dissolve, the well,
run dryf
The perfume lingers on; fresh rain
connotes *
New life within the well, while there, |
sublime,
The sun that claimed the fog shines
in the sky!
Gordon LeClaire, Montreal Daily
Star, Montreal, Canada
Thought
Thought goes out from the trees and
from the grasses;
It goes as a cloud not seen.
It goes into space and is part of
space and of all that endures.
But the dogs whic hhave been piled
on one another
And the stone which has been cut
Cannot go like this through our
believing.
By Gilean Douglas, In Cycle
Preparation
Give me the boundless plain
That spreads my thoughts so far
The wind must bring them back
again.
Give me the deodars,
Whose trembling heights inspire
, And lead my thoughts among the
stars.
I Give me great mountain peaks,
A s lofty temple shrines
I Where always their Creator Bpeaks.
Give me the restless sea,
1 Its ceaseless challenge -flings
Long thoughts into eternity.
Give me a sunset sky,
Or how can my heart contain
God's greater glory, by and by.'
Emma E. Thayer, In Galleys of
Dreams.
• The Gnarled Pines
Tall pines, thank God that you grew
gnarled and gaunt
Against a turquoise sky
Otherwise, your life also would have
been
Strange and hard pressed, conformed
until you'd die.
Green pines singing in a natural
wood
Over the hills and far out to the
sea.
Had you grown up as a timber
tree should
You'd only be part of a house like
me!
Lura Thomas McNair, In "Blue
Moon" Washington
Don Blanding
and Poet
By Lura Thomas McNair
Years ago when Dr. Edwin Green
law's English .Classes and many in
dividuals of a somewhat literary
persuasion, met in the historic old
Gerard Hall at Chapel Hill to heai
one of the celebrated "McNair lee
, turer-t" a statement was used in tin
introductory speech which mosl
aptly applies to the subject of oui
sketch. •
The visiting lecturer was non
other than Hamlin Garland, tin
great mid-western story writer, win
will be most readily remembered as
author of "Main Traveled Roads."
Dr. Edwin Greenlaw himself Intro
duced Mr. Garland and with his in
imitable irony and with that humor
oug quirk of the lips which all hi:
students must remember, statec
I words to this effect: that all o!
i the assemblage before him—ir
i fact all of us present are prob
ably writers, but we are going t(
hear a man speak today who .1
not only a writer but is one whosi
) writings can and do produce wha'
1 you students call iron men."
' Don Blanding's works do just that
they produce iron men. Perhaps tha'
phrase is more or less obsolete to'
day and as much a back number a*
"green-backs." Keeping up witl
slang phrases has never been mj
avocation, but w e have it on gooc
authority that Blanding's 1935 boo!
called, Memory Room, was sold oui
by advance orders ono month be
fore it was placed on sale. This firsl
edition comprized 5000 volumes
The sales were expected to top ter
thousand by last Christmas and prob
ably did.
i Of this book the versatile authoi
| said, it keeps the "worthless trea
sure and the priceless trash" whicl
is the loot of years of wandering
Hence the title —Memory Boom.
Other books published by Dodd
Mead Co., 449 Fourth Ave. N. Y
J City which Blanding wrote are:
Vagabond's House (verse) Songs of
The Seven Seas (verse) Let us
Dream (verse) Hula Moons (travel)
Stowaways in Paradise (boys ad
venture)
Invariably h e is described as ex
otic—but his work i 8 always under
standable. In fact a long WTite-up
of his new book which appeared
some months ago on the Book Page
of the Sunday News and Observer,
commented especially upon the fact
that the people like and enjoy
Blanding's verse. In fact they like it
so well that they buy out whole
editions in advance sale.
Perhaps this bit of his philosophy •
explains this quality of his.
Fabric
By Don Blanding
I try to live each day
In such a way
That when to-morrow
Makes today a yesterday,
I will have woven into the fabric
of my life.
Some gay design
Some patch of color
Bright, to please the eye
So that, in the graying years to
come
When all the quick responsive
senses dull
I may look back across the pat
terns of my past
And in my memory
Liv e the joys and pains
Of all my yesterdays,
He hag the words, and the grace
with which to speak our thoughts
, for us.
The Current Poetry page of The
Literary Digest; issue June 0, 1936
| tops thp page with Blanding's poem,
"When Beauty Strikes Too Deep."
flt publishes also a picture of the
I poet and gives a brief sketch end
' ing with these sentences—"Once,
. when very young, on the spur of
the moment he hopped off to the
, Hawaiian Islands. He has bee n go
ing ever since."
"The Rest of the Road" is the
title of his eagerly awaited new
volume of verse which will be out
in 1937.
His books of verse also are in
, terspersed with drawings and deco
rations in his typical exotic style
, which are expressions of his \£rse.
These are of a fantastic beauty,
, dainty, light and fanciful. A good
example is his "Roadside Lace"
an exquisits skethch of grasses and
wild flowers gracefully blown in
the wind —a scene of such rare love
liness that the average person im
mediately realizes how much beauty
he lets pass by unheeded in well
. nigh every spot.
W e consider ourselves fortunate in
being abl e to present to the contri
butor whose poem is adjudged best
in each month's "Scimitar and Song"
0 one of the large autographed Don
Blanding prints. This effer is mad"
possible through the gfc.nerosity of
James Neill Northe, editor of Sil
houettes a poetry journal no,v in its
fifth year. Silhouettes has the dis
tinction of winning second plac, in
the "Ten Best Poetry magazine Con
test" which drew many votes from
every section of the United States
and points abroad.
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Industry, in peace overtrue, tc
j support ideals of New Deal.
President orders markets protect
ed in influx of foreign investing.
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5° tho estate of O. J. Ilolcombe, de
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deed of trust given by James Wal
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'> Henley, Trustees, o n July 26, 19-
?• 24, recorded in book 258, page 86,
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'f I ''ember 5, 1936, at twelve o'clock
8 M., at the front of the Peoples
Bank and Trust Company (formerly
the building occupied by the Na
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Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the
following described lot of land
suitate in Rocky Mount, Number
Twelve Township, Edgecombe coun
ty, state of North Carolina, and
more particularly described and de
fined as follows:
Beginning at a point in the east
ern property line of North Main
street, 96.74 feet northerly from
the intersection of the eastern
'property lin e of North Main street
f with the northern property line of
Tarboro street and 12.35 feet east
of North Main street curb line
thence northerly ulong North Main
street property line 96.25 feet to a
point in center of brick wall, 12.-
40 feet east of North Main street
curb line; thence easterly an in
terior angl e of 90 degrees 43 min.
and with the center of said brick
wall 144.8 feet to a point in the
western property line of Washing
ton street, which point is 11 feet
west of Washington street curb line;
thenco southerly an interior angle
of 106 degrees 12 min. and with the
western property line of Washing
ton street 33.5 feet to a point in the
center of brick wall, which point j
is 11 feet west of Washington street
curb line; thence westerly an in
terior angle 88 degrees 52 min.
and with the center of said brick
wall 82.7 feet to a point; thence
southerly an exterior angle of 107
• degrees 12 min. and with the east
i er n edge of brick wall 29.2 feet to
a point; thence westerly an inter
• ior anele of 99 degrees 33 min.
i and with the southern edge of
> brick wall 45.4 feet to a point;
thence southerly an exterior angle
i of 98 degrees and with the east
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, thence westerly an interior angle of
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