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PAGE EIGHT Carolina-Made Goods for N. C. ■ 9 The average- person knows very little about the various kinds of cloth manufactured in the state, and less about the various purposes for which it is useable. This condition has come about largely because such home made goods have not generally been available, and where available, have not been marked so as to reveal their origin in North Carolina. The “Made in Carolina” Campaign which is being inaugurated, aims to have North Carolina made goods both stocked tend marked by our local stores so that pur chasers may know and use them. Som of the Home Demonstration Agents, 4-H and Women’s have already learned of the wide possibilities of North Carolina made goods. Here are a few examples: The later part of July more than 100 members of the Home Demon stration Clubs of Craven county met at the NeusenForest school and among other things, held a style revue. One hundred and ninety one of the dresses these club members had made were of Carolina dress goods. Fourty-four were entered for prizes, being grouped in the following classes: house dresses, street dresses, party dresses and afternoon dresses. The average cost of the dresses was 94 cents. The suits, including jackets, and in some cases, hats and purses, aver aged $2.00. During the short course for far mers and wives held at State Col ege early in August, a show was one* of the attractions. Women from a number of counties entered 85 cotton dresses in the contest, under the following classes. House dresses, general wear, ensembles, afternoon frocks and evening gowns. The dresses were made of Carolina made goods and ranged in price from 25 cents to about $4.00. Major Sloan of the Cotton Textile Institute recently appeared at fash ionable Myrtle Beach clad in even ing clothes madG of cotton goods. Likewise, Major S. W. Kramer, of Cramerton, attended a ball at the Saint Regis hotel in New York during July, clad in a tuxedo made of goods manufactured in his mills at Cramerton, N. C. His dress suit met with (the entire approval of the hotel management. More recently, Mr. Stuart W. Cramer, Jr., was promptly admitted to a social affair in the roof garden of the Ritz-Carl ton in New York, dressed in evening clothes made of cotton goods manu factured at the Cramerton mills, and was declared by the head waiter to be “the best dressed man there.” Mr. Cramer made it clear that his appearance in the cotton fabric out fit was not for the purpose of noto riety, but to call attention to the desirability of evening clothes of cotton. Carolina manufacturers be- | lieve the fashion wiil spread. These examples are sufficient to indicate the wide range and many possibilities of the goods manufact ured in our state and set an ex ample which all North Carolinians might well emulate. State Fair To Be Bigger and Better —s — September 3—The biggest special to the best State Fair in the history of North Caro lina, planned as an object lesson of what can be accomplished through Governor Gardner’s live-at-home program, has been promised the state of North Carolina, by Secre tary T. B. Smith. The premium list has again been thoroughly revised this year and 28 additional pages offering more high premiums have been added, Secretary T. B. Smith said recently. More than $2<5,000 in premiums, exclusive of the purses lor the horse racing was given away by the Fair last year. It is expected ithat this total will be exceeded 3this year. Since the farmers of the -state have had better crops; they itave more livestock <to display. Ten thousand premium lists have already been distributed to the farmers of North Carolina and there are more still to go out from the secretary’s office in Raleigh. Competition in some classes is limited to North - Carolina, but in many classes it is open to the world. ® FIND CAUSE OF JAKE PARALYSIS Washington, Aug. 27—A taste less, odorless compound, generally used in the lacquer and leather in dustries, is responsible, in the opin ion of government chemists, for the thousands of cases of paralysis announced today that the strange Bach Yard Kronies SAy DAD ) SUP ME -A ( DOLLAR YOU? y • Sv f&\M \ Yy' / ' * / .ndr Vfc- Cotton Co-Op to Give ( Out $200,000 Soon Approximately $200,000 will be distributed by the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Asso- , ciation within the next few days to members who delivered corton of the 1929 crop to the seasonal pool of better grade than ‘7''B inch middling, said Vice-President and General Manager, U. B. Blalock, today. A basis of settlement has been agreed upon by the Association with the Federai Farm Board where by with cotton in the seaso»al pool will get their premiums for grade and staple as was announced when the 16 cents per pound loan was put into elf feet last fall. The 16 cents per pound loan was later re duced to 15 cents and members who drew only 15 cents, basis middling 7/8 inch, will get an additional 1 cent per pound. Statements and settlement checks are now being made up in the Raleigh office of the Association and they will be released about the 15th or 20th of September when the money for settlement from the Federal Farm Board becomes avail able. Since the 9 cents per pound advance on middling 7/8 inch cot ton of this season’s crop was an nounced a few days ago by the American Cotton Cooperative Asso ciation, interest in the Cotton Grow ers Association has been very great ly stimulated. New membership con tracts are coming into the Raleigh office of the Association without solicitation as if the delivery season were already underway. Several | contracts have been received dur ing the past few days from pro ducers who will deliver a thousand bales or more each. This is indica tive, said Vice-President and General Manager, U. Benton Blalock, that farmers are not going to sacrifice their cotton at the present market levels. | ® Average Age of School Pupils Lower Raleigh, September 3. There is a tendency for the overageness of j North Carolina public school chil-; dren to decrease, it is learned from the current edition of State School Facts, bi-monthly publication of the j Department of Public Instruction. The average Chronological age of the 595,747 children enrolled during 1928-29 whose ages ranged from five to twenty-one years was 10.79 years, that paper points out. Two years previous the average chrono logical age of the pupils enrolled in schools for the white race was 10.82 years. There is very little difference between the average age of pupils for these two years. The average “standard” age, on the other hand, the average age which these pupils ought to have, according to their grade location, is 9.86 years now, whereas two years ago in 1926-27 this age was 9.77 years. Thus, as School Facts points out in its study of age grade conditions the age at which these pupils ought to be approaches the actual chronological age. Con sequently, the average overageness of these pupils tends to decrease. In 1926-27 the average overageness for the white school children of the State was 1.05 years, in 1927-28 it was 1.01 years, and in 1928-29 .93 of a year, this change taking place largely as a result of an improved placement of pupils ac cording to their ages in the re spective grades. The results of the study pre sented by School Facts show con siderable difference as between the standard age of rural and city pupils—the latter group being near ly three-fourths of a year farther advanced. The average chronological age of the two groups, however, are approximately identical. As a result, the amount of overageness of city school children is much smaller than that of rural children. Ac cording to School Facts, rural pupils are 1.09 years over age for their grade, whereas in city schools the average overageness is only .45 of a year. poison is “ortho-tri-cresyl” phos phate, and that the “ortho-tri cresyl” alone caused the paralysis which has ben particularly serious in the south and west. The body, the investigators said, acted chem ically on the compound in such a way that it “split”, and the poison ing resulted. 6 6 6 Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days, 666 also in Tablets. Carolina-Made Goods For the Carolinians This idea of saturating the North Carolina market with North Caro lina manufacturers is a potential giant. There is nothing new in the idea of selling goods near where they are manufactured, the essential economy of that having been ap parent from the very beginning of commerce; but that of selling as much as possible of the State’s pro ducts within the state,an extension of the “live-at-home” d'oetrine as at first propounded, is surely cap able of introducing a new factor of strength, a great strength, into the business equation. It will stimulate just in proportion to the organized effort, the intel ligent publicity, that is put behind it. Nobody has found anything wrong with the psychology of it. It proposes to do things that are well within the possibilities of the art and science of the publicist. Is it out of the question to cause an article to appeal to the customer’s imagination because it was manu factured just around the corner in stead of in some far-off state? By no means. It calls for a concert of effort of the manufacturers, the quantity merchant, the distributor to the con sumer. The right sort of publicity will sell anything in the world that it priced aright, .anywhere that there is a demand for it. Organiza tions and publicity for the sale of home-made goods to home people should cost, presumably, the same as sales organization for goods pro duced anywhere else. The profit is in the shorter transportation costs, and there is enough profitt to be got out of that, enough saving, to fire the imagination of any mer chant worty of the name—and in the broad sense, the manufacturer is a merchant. If he is not a mer chant, he will not be a manufac turer for long. There should be another profit in it: intense, concentrated publicity, limiter-area appeal, should move goods at less cost than sales effort that takes in the whole world. This proposal in aid of North Carolina business merits all the sup port the state government can give to any general-welfare enterprise, and it at once received the enthus iastic approval of Governor Gardner, whose statesmanship nicludes prac tical business ability. It has the hearty cooperation of the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment. The live merchant, we believe, can easily be induced to know, an to be interested in displaying and other wise emphasizing North Carolina made goods. The initiative is with the manufacturer, properly, but as we have said, this proposal merits the conbined support of all elements of leadership, in business life and in public life. It is particularly a dapted to the moment, when busines needs every bit of stimulation it can get, every sound economy; but once initiated, we have no doubt it would be continued regardless of conditions.—Edifcoral —Greensboro Daily News, July 29<th, 1930. v WASHINGTON CURRENT COMMENT 0 Among laws benign in purpose and evil in operation, none is ab’e to wrest first place from the edict which forbids the carrying of con cealed weapons. Intended originally for the protection of the peaceable, it has disposed the law-abiding at the mercy of the law-breaker, and placed fire arms in the hands of those least fit to use them. A better d«y will dawn when the citizen looks along a pistol barrel from breech to muzzle more fre quently than from muzzle to breech. A woman lawyer, after experi menting with the affairs of the world, says that the rights which have ben accorded women are a poor exchange for the courtesies they have lost. The male side of the house is a loser also, for it has re ceiver nothing to take the place of the fine spirit formerly prompted universal courtesy to women. The latest bid for publicity comes from a couple who drove their car backward from New York to Los Angeles. That the stunt should have attracted notice, suggests that Amer ica may be in the same condition as decadent Greece, where, accord ing to a classic authority, “the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Following a report that an income tax raise is due next year, an offici f A DOLLAR? \ /why that's L A LOT OF l MONEY )1 //I \ Uk # :: | |<g>sjg THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBQRO. N. C. "Aiminq'WiqlV‘ al whose word will carry weight in determining what is to be done, says that he has “a very real hope” that the tax rate can be kept down. It is to be hoped that he will realize his hope, for an increase in tax alluded to will be a very real thing for those who have to pay it. Another death is reported as the result of the discharge of a well known “unloaded ” firearm. Ed ward VII, a keen sportsman, had a sound motto on the wall of his hunting lodg£: “Never point a gun loaded or unloaded, toward a living thing, unless you wish to shoot that thing dead.” The columnar heading stating that six “aviatrices” are to leave Washington, creates a foreboding and a nameless dread of impending I little further on, when it comes out that “ aviatrices” are just wom en fliers. The Hatfield-McCoy feud, which spil ed much blood a generation ago is recal.ed by the death of a prom inent combatant. Feudism cannot be justified, but the fact remains that when the last of the old-timers feudists closes his account, the day will mark the passing of a sturdy and fearless race, to be charged with nothing worse than a mistaken idea of the way in which justice should be administered, “Wooden ships and iron men” is a forceful and stirring term. An airplane has little to suggest the frst part of the phrase, but that men have not decayed as the means of transportation improved, is made manifest by the conduct of a Kan sas pi:ot who kept his plane in the breeze and killed a rattlesnake pass enger at the same time. Lon Chaney is dead. The hands of the clock of public taste may reg ister again at a place indicating that he was right in his theory that the highest art in motion pictures does not need to be sup plemented by the spoken word. English troops are engaged with tribesmen in India, but border war fare of the kind that opened the Great West is gone forever, unless; some cosmic disturbance throws, cixilization back to a primitive state. Stories of encounters like that which wiped out Custer and his entire command will have to be searched in the anna s of a closed past. Aboriginal resistance • melts away before a few airplanes and a few bombs. If Custer could have had present-day equipment, his losses would have been reported in gallons of gasoline. 0 FLASHES OF LIFE ®~- — Plymouth, England.—There’s a difference between Lady jHeath,. flier, and a merchant over payment for dresses, and the merchant is. trying to force her into bankruptcy.. Papers were served upon her aboard a liner on Sunday and be cause it is feared service was illegal an attempt will be made again in France. New York. —Edgar Allen, who once managed Peaches Browning in vaudeville, is suing her for the return of gifts. v City marshals visited her apartment and demanded: Two candelabra, one cocfcfcaini set,, one copper coffee set, one drawing room lamp, two sets of books, blue pajama coat, one ring; one? bridge set, twelve gold dishea,, one' lem onade set. They went away witfti some of the articles. Newport, R. I.—On Sir Thomas. Lipon’s yateh Erin and Shamrock V flies a. blue flag depicting the British cr-own in gold with a red bloody hand under it. It is the i burgee of the Royal Ulster Yateh : Club. The legend is that, a sailor in days of yore cut off one hand and threw it on the beach, winning: a race technically, since the condi tion was the winner should be' determined by the first oarsman to> reach shore. Peiping—What’s a war when one has a private golf course? Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang, Manchurian warlord, is remaining neural in ; the present Chinese turmoil,, finding excitement enough on his links in i his daily game of tennis. Madrid—Brooklyn’s bullfighter is in bad because of a novel color scheme. Sfdney Franklin started ■ the fans with a suit of salmon i pink embroidered with white lacings, and they booed lustily, the well : dressed matador always has a scar ■ let cape and gold braid, the colors of the Spanish flag. New York—The doom of jazz i dancing is foreseen by Thomas M. • Sheehy, president of the dancing c \ s' BUT HERE'S j hJUWtfi J A QUARTER. I f(P m ) IyOULL HAVETGf / ) BE SA - TlS >^ X / (TIED WITHZ/^vx Us-ibjy /f dST masters of Ameri«a, who are in con vention assembled. He expects that classis and conservative steps will be popular and that bathing suits with Victorian frills will replace the suntan style. Washington—The busy bee has been increasing the cherry and ap ple crops. Dr. E. L. Sechrist, who has been touring for the depart ment of agriculture, has found such things as an apple crop increased from 1,400 bushels to 6,000 and 44 pounds of cherries obtained from one tree instead of four pounds. A hive is placed under trees. The bees polinize sterile trees and those that have small yields. New York.—ln the Fifth Avenue Tuesday and Wednesday Sept. 9th and 10th # ■ V Are special Bargain Days in Sanford . Make your plans now to be here , ? WILUAMS-BELK CO. Sanford, N. C. » / I V LONGER LIFE ROOFS AT NO EXTRA COST For just about the same price you would pay for any ordinarily good roof ing material, we can cover your home with Richardson shingles, the kind that will never wear.away or will never burn. Richardson shingles can be h#d in colors to harmonize pleasingly with the general decorative scheme of your home. They combine beauty and durability to the nth degree. THE BUDD-PIPER ROOFING CO. DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA (thanks DAD. GEE, I ONLY EXPECTED V A DIME. / TO\vA-V^ THURSDAY. SEPTEMTOp , ... mansion of Miss Ella B. brnress to vast realty holdiZ* 1 ’ J*. last of her lme, a smaii ? ’ , an d poddle dines in state with her W^. ite she is m the city Th/ When sleeps in a high-backed bcH^ 6 to the one his mistress occudL Wln Santiago, Chile.— Many Rt l of the University of Chile growing beards. They insist will remain unshaven until hey expelled classmates are rein®t S ? me New York.— Wall steeet hS' 1 are to burn the midnight S® B Central Park. Tickets and l 111 are to be among the decorations,? a society dinner dance in th P tomorow night. ca sino Ay ALB.
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