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■ ■ - THE COURIER MhImm 144 — -——W if—- Wo. C. Hammer, Publisher and Business Manager. Harrietts Hammer Walker, Editor •■■WaL C. Hammer Estate, Owner. Advertising Rates upon application SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, $2.00; Six Months, $1.00 Three Months, 50c Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. Articles for publication must be in the hands of the Editor by 5:00 o’clock p. m., Tuesday. Letters to the Editor are welcome, but all communications intended for pub lication must be signed. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1936 TO MY VALENTINE SINCE this is Leap Year, Uncle Sam’s mails should be extra heavy during this week. Timid maidens now have every excuse in the world for sending Valentine tokens to timid and slow swains. Even when its not Leap Year, St. Valentine lets down the bars and lovers, would-be’s, and lonely old maids and bachelors often branch out with good results. It is hardly the thing to get technical at a romantic period, but the Valentine season has often brought about matches between timid couples who have hesitates— From the lovely old lace hearts of i days ago to the quite prim valentines of today is a fairly long step, but | whether it is said with candy, flowers, a spoken or written word, the senti ment is the same—at Valentine time. PERHAPS HE’S RIGHT 4 SINCE a week before Christmas, white has been the chief color scheme for the good earth—all over the nation. The sunny south has al most lost her trade name but many old-timers tell us that “we shall have an early spring.” There are many j signs pointing to this—an early Easter and all that. The most definite sign, however, appeared in Monday’s News and Observer when our good friend, the conservative John Livingston—former Washington correspondent—dared put his thoughts in black-and-white con- j ceming the matter. A boxed article concerning same was spread across the top of that newspaper as follows: While several inches of slush fron the heaviest snow of winter still laj on the ground yesterday, the first sign of spring—a cardinal trilling in a tre* on McDowell street—appeared ir Raleigh yesterday. The cardinal’s been around all the time, but yesterday was the first time he’s sung, reported John H. Living stone. Appearing exactly a week aftei the fabled groundhog, the bird seemed to verify the groundhog’s weathei forecast. Last year, Mr. Livingstone reported hearing the cardinal’s first song or (February 17. “As soon as the sur | came out about 1 o’clock, he started off quite a concert,” Mr. Livingstone I said of the 1936 cardinal. “I thoughl that very unusual. However, he may have been just taking advantage of the first opportunity he had to sing J afraid that he wouldn’t get another.’1 TOBACCO MARKET IN ASHEBORO AMONG a few progressive citizens of Asheboro there is some casual talk about the need for a tobacco warehouse in the town. This sounds like a rumor that should be aired in the open, fertilized, watered and made to bear fruit. We are fast approach ing the season when tobacco plants are put in hot beds, carefully tended and encouraged until they are suf ficiently hardy to stand alone—grow ing into profitable crops. This idea of a tobacco warehouse should be as carefully nurtured as are the plants. There is no warehouse within a radius of forty to fifty miles from Asheboro. Winston-Salem, with excellent warehouses is a good forty five miles from Asheboro; Burlington is further; Sanford is likewise over fifty miles and Carthage about the same distance. It would, therefore, be a great con venience to the farmers of Randolph county who grow tobacco, and most of them do to some extent, to have a warehouse in the center of Ran dolph. The county is practically square, measuring 26 by 28 miles, or thereabouts. It would be quite an easy matter for our own tobacco growers to market their products in their own county—a great convenience to them and retain the money, or profit, in our own county. This is one matter of importance that should come to the attention of our citizens at an early date. There are several plans that would be quite possible for securing a warehouse, also several available places. Drive Carefully—Save a Life DOING/ % DRAKE/ —By CENTRAL MACHINE WORKS IT’S A SURE THING that Asheboro motorists will SAVE MONEY when we WELD or BRAZE their broken auto parts! Our modern equipment is the reason! PROPERTY does get "run down.” Most home-owners would like to fix k up and pro tect their investment, but few are able to pay immediate cash. The BIRD FINANCE PLAN (formulated in co operation with the National Housing Act) now offers a convenient natural solution. It permits you to repair, modernize, improve your property fit pay out of income each month. There is no investigation charge, no down payment, no red tape, no delay. ** Just two simple forms to fill put. Then piece order for war. _!n t_Jl. .11 J-mIIi for von. A BOW TO THE LIBRARY ON Monday evening a new business —(or is a library a business?) opened hospitable doors in Asheboro The Randolph Library opened fo: business at this time and ha: “welcome” on the mat for every lover of literature in the county. The Courier has long wanted to see an institution open in the town 1 and being county-wide, this library ic j thrice welcome. We, therefore, extend the glad hand of fellowship to the library and bow individually to eacv member of the club who has made i: possible for the town and county tc , have such a long-needed institution. There are books of versatile selec j tion on hand and more will be added ! as the library gains momentum. The j young women who have put thi“ i project across for the town most i certainly deserve a risine vote o* I thanks from the citizens of the county j for the;r hard work, which will mea" ! of inestimable value to the town and county. With Other Editors BACK AT 1920 The Republicans, in the matter of getting themselves a presidential candidate, are back at 1920. That was the last time they had a free-for-all. The contest this year falls into that classification. There were three leading candidates in 1920, who, like the five leading candidates in 1936, ran the gamut from radicalism to conservatism. On the left in 1920 was Senator Hiram Johnson, like Colonel Knox and ex-President Hoover today. More or less in the center was Governor Lowden of Illinois, like Governor Landon and Senator \an denberg in 1936.—Charlotte Observer. WOMAN'S WORK Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated a point that ought to be remembered by those, who accuse working women of having created the unemployment of men, when she said that the truth is almost the other way around. “It has been said that women were tak ing men’s jobs,’’ Mrs. Roosevelt de clared. “Men took the women’s jobs by mechanizing work that women did at home.” Women have probably entered em ployment to a far less extent than industry has entered the home. It was not so long ago that mothei made all the clothes the family wo/e and practically all the food the family ate. Millions of women who worked for no wages put up every year mil lions of jars of pickles and preserves and canned goods. They manufactured for use. But now the same goods are manufactured for profit. Industry by modem methods has taken away many of the jobs which women used to do in the home. Of course some new inventions like the typewriter and the telephone have impelled many women to 'work for wages. Machinery has made it pos sible for women to perform tasks which once required the muscles of men. But a great many of the women in industry are merely doing the jobs which have belonged to women from the beginning of the world though they do them now in the factory for wages and not in the home for family use. Indeed, with the transfer of much of woman’s work from the home to the factory a great many men entered for wages into this old realm of women. The strangest aspect of all this argument about women and unem ployment is the fact that men are complaining about women working as if it were something new. The truth is that if change has occurred the metamorphosis has taken place in man, not woman. From the earliest times men have been content to let women labor beyond the limits of sun to sun. If the machine age has done no more than set him to grumbling because women do work, certainly nothing short of a revolution has taken place.—News And Observer. THE STATE AND THE SCHOOLS Governor Ehringhaus spoke the obvious in New Bern when he de clared that the failure of North Carolina to spend as much on educa tion is due to failure of local contributions here to match local con tributions elsewhere.” What the Governor did not stress is the fact that this “failure of local contribu tions” in North Carolina was less a failure than a deliberate act since the introduction of State support for the eight months school was accompanied by the sweeping away by law of local taxes for local schools. The sum total of the accomplish ment in North Carolina has been this: Before State support the people con tributed so much for public education. The money for the schools came from them in local taxes and went to local schools. After the beginning of State support the people contributed a smaller sum for the support of public education. It was collected by State taxes aiuj spent under the direction of State agencies. Before and after the people paid. Only in the change the children and the teachers got—were deliberately given—considerably less. The change was accompanied so far as education is concerned by distinct advantages. Schools in many backward, poorer sections were de finitely improved. But the change was also accompanied by many distinct disadvantages. The best school sys tems in the State, built up across a long period of years, wen in one year Bung back to a dead level of mediocrity. The change was accom panied by relief to local property taxpayers. Hut the change was ac companied by a change in the tax basis, which relieved gnat property owners to a far greater-extent than R did lRHe ones, which in large National Boy Scout Week Is Observed By Asheboro’s Troops In Fitting Way the mediocrity which is the best the State can provide in a State system out of State funds. That way is slow and difficult. But the difficulty arose not from any multiple and spon taneous failure in localities through out the State. The “ failure of local contributions,” if failure it can be called, was a part of the design of the State system in which Governor Ehringhaus finds much for favorable comparison with the systems of some other states which despite the com parison have nevertheless far better, less crowded schools. And after all, what the children, what the people of North Carolina are interested in is schools and not systems, not how the paying is done but the quality of education that is provided.—News And Observer. BALFOUR HONOR ROLL Following is the honor roll for the fourth month of the Balfour school: Grade 2—Donald Keever, Lucy Lee Spinks, Maxine Brown. Grade 3—Jane Gelbach, Cleo Bris tow. Grade 4—Gladys Brown, Alma Davis, Julia Faye Jarrell, Frances Whlker, Nora Dee Dfccae. Grade 5—Grace Nell Towery, Juanita Hill. If you want to test your memory, try to remember the things that worried you yesterday. Knee Action Advised By Official Of Well Known Auto Company Thousands of motorists this winter have discovered the full benefits of the knee action ride for the first time, as was pointed out by the Oldsmobile vice president and general sales manager. These drivers are those who rarely if ever drive off pavement. Their driv ing is limited to city street or smooth paved highway. But the cold winter, which has seen ruts and bumps of ice and snow formed on all heavily travelled roads, has demonstrated the advantages of knee action wheels, which move up and down independently of each other and soak up shocks through big coil springs. “Knee action definitely gives an improved ride on even the smoothest streets”, officials say. “This has been proved to motorists all over the world who have driven a car with knee action and one without over the same | route under the same conditions and compared the comfort. “But the rougher the road the more I noticeable this difference is. And the; cold winter, producing bumps of ice | and snow on even the smoothest nigh- i ways, has accentuated the difference between the ride in a knee action car, and the car without this improvement. USE THE COURIER WANT ADS (Continued from page 1) committee for this group of boys is composed of Rev. L. R. O’Brian, Rufus Hill, Edwin Morris, assistant masters are John Garrett and James York. Members of this troop are: Bill Allred, Bob Allred, Jack Burkhead, L. D. Burkhead, Jr., Wallace Black, Ralph Cox, Harold Cranford, W. C. Craven, Truett Frasier, David Gel back, Willie Green, Wm. Harding Hussey, Bud Hedrick, Robert Johnson, Lewis Millsaps, Thad Moser, J. C. McPherson, Robert MeGlohon, John McGlohon, Robert Mabe, John L. Mc Rae, Jack Pugh, Arthur Presnell, Herbert Richardson, Hoyle Ridge, Tal Rochelle, David Stedman, Fred Swing, Harold Walton, Fred Henley, Bob Milks, Binford Bowman. Troop number 26 also meets weekly at the Presbyterian church with Lester Monroe, master, T. Lynwood Smith, assistant. The committee for this troop is Dr. C. G. Smith, M. I. Ellis and John Baity. Members of the troop are: Rex. Ellis, L. D. DeMarcus, Alston Underwood, Graham White, Bernard Hurley, Delbert Boling, Lawrence Steed, Richard Milks, Ben jamin Sanford. Jr., S. W. Taylor, Jr., John Bunch, Paul Blackman, Edward Burkhead, Joe Sugg, Donald Chisholm, Joe Moore, J. A. Duncan, Vance Cox, Ray McRae, John Covington. The South spends annually in the North a billion dollars more than the North spends in the South. The payroll tax on the Social Security Act will total $3,420,000 in Tennessee in 1036. Based on 1030 census figures, the amount will in crease annually in the state as fol lows: $7,610,000 in 1037; $11,700,000 in 1038; and up to $13,500,0 in 1050. ! Neighborhood News From New Salem And Of That Community Randleman, Route 1, February 11. —Mrs. Jane Doctor has returned from. a visit of several days with friends in Greensboro. Misses Edna and Iola Jarrett have accepted positions in Burlington. R. L. Canoy, Jr., has recovered from a recent illness. Mrs. Mabane Henley, who has been ill, is recovering satisfactorily. Hayes Dennis has bought his father’s farm near Polecat Creek and has moved on it. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Kirkman and son, Lloyd, of Greensboro visited their mother, Mrs. Dora Kirkman, on Sun day. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Colon Farlow January 30th, a son, J. Keith. Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Ward of High Point visited relatives here Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. L. Vance Dorsett have moved to their cottage on the high way near here. We have plenty of snow again. The present generation can refer to ’35-’36 as one of the hardest winters on record. E. C. Hinshaw has recovered from a recent attack of tonsilitis. David Sumner Improves David Sumner, Binall son of Dr. George H. Sumner and Mrs. Sumner, who has been quite ill from pneumonia in a High Point hospital, is consider ably improved and will probably be returned to his home in Asheboro shortly. Frank Auman Out Again Frank Auman, who has been con fined to his home in Asheboro from a severe attack of influenza, has re covered sufficiently to be out again. Mr. Auman has been ill for a week. There are 124 congressional dis tricts in the fourteen Southern states. Pick-up & Delivery NORFOLK SOUTHERN R. R. Now offers this new service on less than carload shipments. It will collect and deliver free of charge, with a few minor exceptions, or if you elect to trans port your freight to and/or from its depot an allowance of 5 cents per 100 pounds will be made to you. Collect on delivery shipments will also be accepted when originating at and destined to certain stations on Norfolk Southern Railroad. For advice and information apply to your local agent or any other representative of the railroad. Ship By NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD .——————— : YOU GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY IN OLDSMOBILE !: v.'.»r Be •• critical as you like— it's your money you are paying out and yon are entitled to the moat that every dollar will bay you .. . That's why we say—go am the Oldsmobtle! Look at its tire. Try oat ha rnnmineaa Coast ap ha mod* em fine-car faatnreal Note for yonraelf Oldatnobile’a every convenience, evdry provision for extra safety, extra comfort,. inrnsBTl economy and extra long life... 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