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TARHEEL SCRAP BOOK BY Bytan Tkuus McNiir. : - —ii. 11.1 « ' .... Having a photographic mind may be irksome and annoying at times. Surely many things are best seen through darkened lenses and imme diately forgotten. But the photogra phic mind snaps a scene in all its de tails—get’s a clear view and keeps it. AH through the years that imprint may turn up again. Revivified. by a sound, a voice, a bit of color or a word or even an odor. There is this to pay for file pos sessor of a photographic type of mirid—one is never addicted to lone liness. If the setting and the events of one’s life were at all varied, such ; as one may oe constantly entertainea t ; 'with memory pictures of tragedyj pathos, humor, beauty—and, well,'of . -life itself. There is no loneliness for ■ such a one. Odd to realize the immensity of our | world-wtde news service. | ^ any time, anywhere one may pick upj a paper and suddenly receive1 Iff tidings of some long forgotten friend ,or acquaintance in some far distant part of the world. • _ | - In a Miami paper, on the back' page recently there appeared a four inch , story concerning a convention held in another city by a d\£c dub. The list - of delegated mentioned <a name of an |p acquaintance we knew on the West f J Coast years ago. Immediately a series of mental snapshots were released, and a life . as we saw it, was revealed. Somewhat like the old silent movies it is, to tools ■ within recalling thesdj scenes and in <£ dents. He had Courage. We know that be cause he was a member of- the A. E - _ F. More. He had enlisted in a dan gerous branch of the service. Recalling him, we realized he was iil the sort of man who would like !to live dangerously. None of the molly coddle in him. And yet—why does he not Return to his home on the Texas Banget ' that is easy. "Why so few <Sf the A. E. S r F. boys return home—and they for the most part only to regret it. Yet there he was, this western ■ 1 range lad-smothering himself in the softness of ,•» city like L- A. _ j ♦ In fact he'was patronizing a mani cure shop and, other beauty empor rums. A large part oi ms.small sal ary) was said to be spent' each weds on his hair and npila. Would Los An geles make a fop of him-Perhaps he had his eyes peeled for a movie opening.' His girl* were, a movie extra, ano other girl doing1 important bits in the movies, and a cashier in a restaurant popular with the movie colony. ■ One day he tossed a letter down with some show of petulahce. “Got so I dread seeing a letter from home.— My Mother’s letters! Please read that one and tell me what I can possibly say in{ answer.” • J I read it—and it was a heart wring er. It was so simply and so sincerely stated. It was such & hungry plea of a ■ lonely, unlettered mother for her son, v ". I remained silent. "You could not answer it either could' you ? What can I say in reply to that letter? . I’ve written; her all about my work— and given her descriptions of Lois Angeles—even told her about my girls and have sent her a lot oi> nice pre sents—but every time her letter is the same. Come home/* “What she wants is you. How can you refuse to go! Think how she wor ried <hrer you while you were enlisted in the service—and how she yearned for your return. Why don’t you go back there. What is there here—the bright lights and the movies— a little more to spend perhaps.” ; • He made a gesture, of revolt—and a grimace. “You- don't know those little Texan cow towns^-or you could never say go back.’’ ■' "I’ve passed thru Texas you know —and I’ve seen those towns in the movies. They seem interesting.” ; ' "Everything appears interesting to you,” he said—’’perhaps because you have a journalistic outlook on life, but if you had seen what I have—oh well, maybe you could describe .it hut I can’t Iisaw great gobs- of life and what you would call "color.” Big ex citing, dramatic things—ami I had just got into it Just as I was all key ed up for a life of in tensest action— and with what we thought was a nohU purpose—oh well, it all fell thru. It just suddenly stopped and W4 didn’t get the Kaiser or make the world Bafe for democracy—or any thing—it just all fell flat—and—well : L can’t 'imagine just going back on 'the range to round up steers—re membering all that” ■ "Bnt your mother is there and she is getting^ old. What is there here V* And then it developed that seeing ' Paris and London and, the cosmopoli tan peoples, he had begun to realize how little he knew. He wanted to* leam. Above all he wished to drop his dialect and his eolloqualisms. ' --•^r^eame out here with a chCroprac h«j said, “my overseas buddy. %s was to learn to be one myself. Hut. I, soon saw that my education was hot sufficients. You see every time f open my • mouth I give the show away,” He wished to associate with, per sons of some cluture and educational attainments,-to read and to patronise the beauty parlors—to get a polished j [look. Thor he would study to be a i chiropractor or he would get a part, in the movies, or as a lasi resort ire would buy a restaurant and settle | down tn the stereotyped American: way. He would "keep up with the| Jones” by gum, and drive a good car hither and yon neither knowing nor caring where he was going. He and his family would buy what the maga zine ads say buy and he would see 1 all the best movies jvhen they were new. He would show them!' And it developed that the thing most repulsive to him now in that (clean, open life on the range, was the constant and eternal bleating of the calves. - “There is nothing any one can ao about it. And there is no getting away from the sound of them. I used not to notice. But now—I wonder if you understand what it is like—af ter Paris and the sea, and the trenches—the night raids. Say I be lieve you can realise what it would do to a fellow’s nervep to just go back there—four miles from even a cow town, and ride the range re membering these things and all the while night and day never to be able to get out of the sound of those hun dreds of bleating calves!” Yes, I did understand, and 1 realize why he married the cashier of the movie restaurant, bought a restaurant of his own, and dallied along! the rest | of his days just “keeping up with the Jones.” 1 __ ! I * ' ( New model cars. Scented toilet ' soaps. Movies. Any new fangled fol ' de-rol one might see advertised. It I was pleasant ta have money to buy them. Pleasant, too, to keep expen sively manicured hands—But I say he was a sort of a war-time casualty af teii all and that he would have been 'much more an individual and a hap pier lad back there on the Texas range wifib'his mother and dad and with his old pre-war girl—riding a .mustang, hearing the calves bleat paring his- own nails! ) Henrik Ibsen subtnits that a man should so far be independent' and .above the service of his fellows as to even sew on his own buttons! OBSERVERSSEE GREAT CHANGES IN PARTY SET-UP '• - ; ’ * / ' ; ... //• - .. $ If one is to judge by recent reports sent from Washington hy newspaper m«p, the impression prevails there that the country 13 on the threshold of changes that win eventuate in a complete reallignment of the old line political organizations. The possibil ity is considered that the Democratic party, as such, no less than the Re publican party, is,doomed, ms will be seen in the’following article repro-. dneed from the Greensboro News un der a Washington date line of June 36th: • ■ ' Democratic ehieftstns, apprehensive over the present trend in the domain of politics, reflect upon what happen ed to the Democratic party in New York, aft?r the failure of party lead ers there to show their support to Mr. Roosevelt at Chicago, and subse quently manifested small sympathy for new deal policies. There was adopt ed a policy of proscription, under the supervision of National Chairman For ley, which led to the election of a progressive Republican as mayor. They even changed the name on the party door plate, the group operating under the Roosevelt aegis having been designated the recovery party, or something. If they have not si toady perished from undernourish ment the Democratic regulars of the greater city are probably on the fed eral emergency relief rolls, along with the one-sixth of New York’s popula tion. Predicted New Deal Party. After this bureau had ventured the belief that a brand new Roosevelt, or new deal party would presently emerge, and that this party would oc cupy the field, whatever form aisf di rection the opposition party, if any, might take, Arthur Knock wrote m the New York Tunes: "There is no doubt, for- example, that Mr. Roosevelt hopes to see Sena tor 1st Follette, of Wisconsin, re-elect ed, although the renascent Democra tic' party in that state is eager to send a second Democrat to the -Unit ed States Senate. “The latest presidential dictum is fairly, certain toI arouse new specula tion whether Mr. Roosevelt intends to cast off the party label in 1936 and affix a new one upon himself and those of all political allegiances who support Ms.policies.” ..'-ii.' Sees Strange Campaign A day • or so later Frederick Wil liam Wile made a contijbution to the Washington Star. Bewildered by cur rent events he wrote: “Never In a generation of American politics have party lines been, in such baffling dis array as they promised to be in the impending congressional campaign. A messenger from Mars, descending up on the crazy-quilt scene, could hardly. be blamed for his inability to te!! who's who and what’s what. With President Roosevelt insisting that his own speeches are not to be regarded as ‘political* in any sense, and with the understanding that other mem bers of the administration are to shun 'partisanship* in public utterances, the Democratic campaign, if conducted generally on those lines, W.ll he the strangest on. record.” And then came the American fire side chat of the President, who gave praise to Congress for non-partisan ship,’ followed by the declaration that the days of the seeking of “mere party advantage through the. misuse of pub Be power are rapidly drawing to a dose.” Coincident with this came the disclosure of the. fact that the Presi dent and his political advisers were strongly inclined to throw their sup port to western radicals, still wearing the Republican label, even in states where the Democrats, Eke those in Wisconsin, were demanding a free hand in an attempt to elect avowed members of that party to the house and senate. Lewis Is Puisled. But the acid test is support of the new deal policies, rather than party loyalty, and this development has so alarmed Democratic leaders that Sena tor Lewis, of .the Democratic sena torial campaign committee, visited the President in an effort to get his bear ings. In some sections Democratic spellbinders are not certain that it will be considered in order to make a Democratic speech, or venture be yond prstse of the new deal activi ties. Senator Lewis informed the Pre sident that members of his party who are responsible for the policies and strategy of the campaign, in so far as these are not formulated at tjhe White House, are beginning to view the present drift with alarm- Th® Ha nots senator left with the understand ing 'that these party matters would receive the serious consideration of . the President and his advisers, upon Mr. Roosevelt’s return to Washing ton, and in the meanwhile Senator - Lewis, who insists, as did the lament ed David B. Hill, that he is a Demo crat still, will consult the members of his campaign committee, including Senator Bailey. ' , t The North Caretfna member has consistently opposed the appointment of Frank R. McNinch, as chairman of the federal power commission, ' for reasons primarily related to party regularity, and he is dophtleas ex periencing some -uneasy moments over the prospect ’at having to make a choice between throwing the support of the senatorial campaign committee to .a number of western Republicans, who call themselves progressives, or of appearing cool toward the nfiw Events are thus almost, certain to place a number of the party re gulars in an anomalous position. I Its Effect'OB SOBtQ. ■ ( And as the modern drift, in the so cial, industrial &nd political life of the nation carries the new! deal fur ther and further from the Democratic party of our daddies, men wonder how all this is 'going to} affect the south* There is a catholicity about the new deal which enables It to compre hend, or calU into the fold the people i of all parties, whose sympathies hap pen to run in that direction, and all ' creeds and races, without reierence to color or previous condition of servi tude. Southern senators hard been ap proached to ascertain how they would feel about the appointment of certain negroes to office. r*' The south is right frequently al luded to as traditionally conservative, end of late there-has been raised the question of how the people of that section would respond if a new party is to be brought into being that would in some degree ignore racial lines, or minimize that issue and that woulff provide a congenial party abode for the radical senate bloc that has been recruited from the west. This would only prove a temporary home, of course, for the progressive group, hut the coalition if effected would hold for the purposes of the approaching campaign and? would be of sufficient duration to leave the Democratic re gulars in a state of utter demoraliza tion. Sooner or later the lonqewolves from the great open spaces would charge that, restrained by Wall street influences, Mr. Roosevelt had not moved far enough toward the left, and they would abandon him at the first critical juncture, just as the Re publicans have never been able to count on their support. * .* ' SOUTHERN TAKES OFF • ' OU9 CRESCENT LIMITED New Orleans, Jane 27.—The Cres cent Limited,' crack green-coached pas senger" train that for pears has raced through the south on its flight from Broadway to Noo Aleens, makes its last run Wednesday—choosing retire ment rather than the commonness oi carrying day coaches as just anothei transport.. Never has-this last of the extra-fine trains of Dixie jinked ^a day-coach to its string of all-Pullman cars! For years reservations on this de luxe liner of the rails were almost at a premium. Patronage has fallen, off in recent years and this has forced the removal of the extra fare and the ad dition of the da^ coaches. Within every railroader there is sen timent and romance attached to trains With the Crescent’s proud history, it would have beert less majesty to ask her to take to the road beds as just another train—and not the accepted queen of the line. So the fast limited with its famed ; identifying green INCORPORATED r SANFORD, APEX, RALEIGH, SMITHFIELD, FOUR OAKS, DUNN. LILUNGTON, FUQUAY SPRINBS, VA- ( IN A, rlTTSBORO, HILLSBORO, LIBERTY, DURHAM, RANDLEMAN, ABERDEEN, TROf, MT. GILEAD and HENDERSON -*■ -".V NORTH rflROl.INfl STORES fOR NORTH MtOMNA PEOPLE; 1 FRIDAY SATURDAY, JOLY 6th AND 7th me VfKJPO flUB PART <C We have it! ADIATED TION MILK Contains bun shine** Vitamin D. Ideal for ba bies. More nour ishing for all the family. 3 Tall Cana 19« 6 Small Can* 19c Miracle Whip Salad Dressing, qt jar 23c SALMON (pink) can WESSON-OIL, pint 11c POSTUM Cereal, pkgr. 21c 19c Par .TEA, 1-4 lb. pkg. 12 l-2c GRAPE JUICE, Miisselman’s APPLE SAUCE, N o,. 2 cans, 2 for 4 oz. Bottle, - - 5c 10 oz. Bottle, " 10c J' * ' 15c PICKLES, Pill or Sour, qt. jars 2 tor 25c | Kraft’s MAYONNAISE, pint jar 19c'SNOWDRIFT Shortening, 6 lb. can - 63c FAT BACKS, 3 pounds, 25* JELLO ICE CREAM POWDERS, 3 packages 25c 1 LUZIANNE I COFFEE POUND PACKAGE a Shinola . SHOE POIJSH, can--- 9c Scott County' No. 1 Can LIMA BEANS i-5c Stringless - No. 2 Cans BEANS, 2 for-y 15c Phillips » 5 One Hi Cans PORK & BEANS_23c -vv..v., 'V n POST TOASTIES 3 Packages ‘i** i 'i-j, MUSSELMAN’S APPLE JELLY, 6oz. jar_5c No. White Potatoes, 10 Pounds, 19c __v.,-.—; ---- -L Fancy California doz. ORANGES, • 33c f BANANAS, •2 Pounds, 11c Large Head Iceberg LETTUCE. - IOC ^hhH colored can, is being.honorably with drawn from service. ■_ Just before 10 o'clock Tuesday night as it has done for twelve years, the Crescent slid oat of its died under the Station bordering on the broad Miss-, issippC, and the pistolur of its power- i fol engine pumped faster as it rain along the fringe of the French Quar-1 ter and past the old market, where thousands of caps of blaelc, black cof-, fee are served in the Wee hoars of the morning to .society folk on their, way home from mid-night celebrations Its funnel belching Asmoke and red glare from its boiler {Humiliating the, engine cab, the Limited tore along as' it passed over the boyoas, slipping out from Lake Ponte hartrain. Through the night it hugged the gulf coast, passed Biloxi and Mobile, then stduck north for Montgomery^.sliding across the plains of Alabama td greet the rising sun. The schedule calls 'djor it to roar into Atlanta near no<m time, then strike out for the Carolinas, Wash ington and Mew York. It pulls into the metropolis early ^boisday morn ine. f •• • 'aS&r&b * *L *; ■ *•&* & * ■ Beginning Thursday the New York New Orleans trains of the Southern Railway will be known simply as No. 8T and No. 38. They make the same' stops and the same fast schedule as the Crescent, but the green cars are gone.lt won’t seem quite so hncurlous with the day coaches -tagged on, and some of the sentiment ami tradition surrounding the old Crescent will be missing. Perhaps a dusky porter will . not spread a green cafpet in front of the steps for, you to mlave along as they did on the Crescent. . Planters, farmers and business men along Its route set their watches by the Crescent. It was a punctual train. The mellow whistle awoke sleeping farm hands and told them a new day was there. It served as the dinner bell further along its way, and *° 8ti11 others it was the s'gngl to lay down the plow. ’ . Ip A ride on the whizzing green streak was a fine birthday or Chnatrnas pre sent to the youngsters along its tracks who stopped their chores to see the big iron horse gallop by. Young married c<>up&* began their honeymoons on the Concent, riding to New Orleans for a carnival tour or a boat trip across the gulf or head Ing for New York and perhaps a trip to Bermuda or'abroad. Famous peo ple, presidents, movie stars, champion prize fighters and two presidents of Mexico' have ridden the Crescent. It has been Huey Long's mode of trans portation on his hurried trips from Washington to the Louisiana capital at Baton Rouge. President Roosevelt has ridden it on his way to Warm Springs. I The Crescent has gone the way the Illionis Central’s Panama limited went two years ago. The Panama was just as much of a tradition along the road from New Orleans to Chicago as was the Crescent to the south of eot ton, tobacco and pine forests. • —-X-X-X Hiss Bernice Hunt has returned from Albemarle after visiting friends. Miss Etta Frances Wilkie has is her guest Misses Cora andj Nina Boyd Bedditt, of Greenville. I' r i > i r>-- / ■ * • Miss Dee West, of ’Chickasaw, Okla., is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. R. Riley. I Miss Billie James has returned front 1 Pinehurst after a visit with her aunt, - Miss Lucy Monroe; I Miss Edna Stewart, of Charlotte, | is visiting her people. ' Mrs. E. M. Patterson has as her guests Mrs. E. Roberson and three : sons, Laurie, Bruce and Maurice. I Bennett Bryant, of El Centro, Cal., visited his. parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Bryant, last week. IS OFFERING PROTECTION AGAINST ♦ .’ • *•»!>••<*•? ■* * »• # TREATMENT FREE AMONG WHITE AND COLORED »=■ 1 / .ji . . . -r ‘ - . •••-> r ' ^ T • f/K ■ VACCINATION WILL BE GIVEN AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES : FRIDAYS, JUNE 22, 29, JULY 6,13: x Cumnock, 3 to 4:30 p. m. f . -«? Cool Springs, 4:30i to 5:50 p. m. MONDAYS, JUNE 25, JULY 2, 9, 16: ” Clint Poe’s 1 to 1:30 p. m. Harris Place, 1:30 to 2 p, m. ; - Paschals, 2:10 to 3 p. m." , . Carbonton, 2:30 to 3 p.m. ^ / New Hope, 3 to'3:30 p. m. “ Underwoods, 3:40 to 4 :15 p. m. .. Dewey Oldham’s, 4:20 to 4:40 p. m. Big Springs, 4:30 to 5:45 p. m. TUESDAYS, JUNE 26, JULY 3,10,17: Colon, 1 to 1:45 p. m. Osgood, 1:50 to 2:20 p. m. ? , : | - Deep River School, 2:30 to 3:80 p. m,„ Seawells Siding, 3:40 to 4:20p. mf • Roesers Siding, 4:80 to 5:30 p. m. - WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 27, JULY 4, 11, 13 Poplar Springs^ 1 to 1:80 p. m. Memphis, 1:40 to 2:10 p: .m: ' Salem, 2^:15 to 3:15 p. m. Nath Smith, 2:30 to 3:10 p. m. Broadway, 3:20 to 5:30 p. m. Bob Howard, 4 to 5;p~mi THURSDAYS, JUNE 28, JULY 5, 12, 19: Geo. Batchelor, I to. 1:30 p. m. Swann Station, 1:40 to 2:20 p. m. - Lemon Springs, 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. Harnett Hill School, 3:30 to 4:15 p. m. Palmer Filling Station, 4:20 to 4:50 p. m. White Hill, 4:30 to 6 p. m. >•. Tramway, 5 to 6 p. m. FRIDAYS, JUNE 29; JULY «, 13,>20: Jonesboro, 1:80 to 6:80 p. m. ^ 'Dunk Bakers, 8:80 to 4 r: m. Winstead Place, 4:30 to 5 p. m. SATURDAYS, JUNE 30, JULY T, 14, 21: Sanford, 1:30 to 6 p. m: H?
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