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The Dally Courier Established 1876 Phone 144 Published Daily, except Monday and Saturday Harriette Hammer Walker Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier a Week—10c By Mail, $4.00 Per Year Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Member Associated Press The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use^for publication of all news dispatch es credited to it or not other wise credited to this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches nerein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives: Bryant, Griffith & Brunson, Inc. Member of North Carolina Press Association 1891 William C. Hammer 1930 TUESDAY, DEC. 28, 1937 DOWN IN HISTORY HISTORY records another Christ mas—one that has been happy lor most Asheboro and Randolph folk. Pew tragedies have marred the joyous season and, looking back over the year, it has been a rather good period for most of us. Good health, fair business, friends and such are priceless pre sents -hat have been given many of us and too few of us counted these thmgs into our Christmas gifts. The shooting of firecrack ers at Christmas season instead of the' fourth of July has caused many to forget temporarily. But, all-in all, Christmas in Randolph county has been a rather happy one even though the after-holiday-feeling is present in most of us and we find it hard to get back to the grind after enjoying friendships, relatives, vis its. parties, Santa Claus, trips ami the like. Decorations are coining down, and will ha laid away until another Christmas at which time Father Time will have turned a leaf on his calendar and probably made man;, changes for many of us. ANOTHER ’38 INTEREST HEALTH insurance is said to be the next move in the social se curity program. Shortly after Jan uary 1st the national program of .‘•‘jobless insurance” will swing into .force. Tiie action will be staged on | a broader front, according to news reports and will play over 22 states an 1 the District of Oolum—| bia. Many are the problems connect ed with this angle of social security and the plan will probably vary ip the different states. But many are interested. The migratory work er is to be taken care of, which, in itself, is an item. The problem is . whether several thousands of mi gratory workers will be taken care of in their resident states, should they lose their jobs. Or, would the state or states in which payroll taxes have been paid, be responsi ble for their living. Then, there is the matter of workers who fall ill. The state laws vary here as to the amount and continuity of benefit payments. •Here another question arises. What If The worker ceases to be employed by illness and cannot be 'placed.in a job? Does he lose all his benefits due and payable? This 'is the case in New York state. The social security act grew out •of studies and recommendations made by the President’s committee •on economic security, stressing the importance of a health insurance plan, indicating that it would later submit a plan. No such plan, has heen made public. These are some of the matters of interest that face official Wash ington early in January and will radiate down into the states in due season. Verily, we are a people living on our government—almost comparable with the much-talked of English dole. TWO PET8 WAGES, taxation and like terms wil} be the theme song when Congress reassembles within ten days in the nation’s capital. Busi ness men predict a decided quick ening of tempo and say we may expect this when Congress goes back to their task. This session is described by forward lookers also as ‘‘one of key importance to busi ness.” During the first weeks of the ses sion, the matter of taxation will be uppermost with some important amendments expected that will ap pty to 1D9? earnings. It is also ' f (possibility of high penalties for 'unreasonable surplus accumula tions. It is aso expected that the federal housing act will be so amended to make home building more attractive during 1938. As to the effort the White House —a new effort, in fact—to get a re vised wage and hour control hill before the house, is said to be an other test of strength. It is said of Sir. Roosevelt, except for his two pets, the wage and hour con trolls and a new farm control plan, there are no new reforms in his mind. v Washington 'Day Booh By PRESTON GROVER im i immii 111 n •«••••• ihii»ii»iiiii*ihiii* Washington—Excitement over the sinking of the Panay has driven most other phases of the Chinese was' off page one—but here is the status of the battle up to this point: Draw a circle, and it represents a rough map of China. From near the top of the circle draw a line straight down so as to cut off about the right one-third of the circle. That one-third is the important part of China. It is the part the Japanese evidently are intent on coin rolling. At the top or north end of that op-ard-down line is Peiping—the Japanese now call it Peking again. Hallway down the line is Hankow, the new temporary capital of China. At the bottom of the line, on the south coast of China, is Can ton. A railroad runs the full length of that line, from Peiping through Hankow to Canton. Northern Conquest Completed Non- about one-third the way down this rich piece of China we are talking about, draw a line across to represent the Yellow river. Virtually everything north of the Yellow river is this rich seg ment of China is already in the hands of the Japanese. They con trol the three railroad lines which drain it. They are setting up Japa nese “advisers” to manage the lo cal government. As in Manchoukuo, far to the north, they likely enough will monopolize all commerce, simply by freezing out British, American and other competition. That part of th< military campaign, so far as Japan is concerned, is already fin ished. The territory is conquered. >T')W draw another line across this rich segment of China, about midway down. That line will con nect Shanghai, on the east coast, with Hankow, 500 miles inland on the important north-and-south rail raid. The cross line will roughly follow the line of the Yangtze river, passing through Nanking, the abandoned capital, and Wuhu. Southern Ihreat Already the Japanese have pene trated inland from Shanghai through Nanking and Wuhu, a distance of 20 miles. There is a temporary calm while the Japa nese reorganize and supply their offensive army. No students of the situation here doubt that Japan will go straight on to Hankow, an other 300 miles. Then it will con trol the north half of this major north-and-south railroad. There is a large segment of un conquered territory between the yellow river in the middle, but commercially it is largely depen dent for outlet upon Shankhai arid Peiping. Now let us move into the south ern half of this rich one-third of China. Already the Japanese have begun an enveloing movement southward from Shanghai. The plan is to take the nearby impor tant city of Hankchow (not Han kow) at the head of Hankchow bay. Reliable reports also indicate that the Japanese are sending a fleet of troop ships south along the coast in the direction of Canton. Capture of Canton would shut off the important British port of Hong Kong from access to the in land trade territory. When (or if) that is done, Japan will control every important outlet from the Chinese interior. Shankhai and the Yangtze river yet are technically free trading channels for all hands; but if Japan controls the railroads' which parallel the river and branch out into the interland, how suc cessfully can outsiders trade? Pets Get Burial Plot In Masters’ Cemetery Alamosa, Colo. —(.P)— Thanks to Frank Barrow, cemetery care taker, Alamosa pets will have a burial place not far from where theii masters eventually may rest. He asked for donation of from SI to $5 from animal lovers, and with the money prepared a plot near an Alamosa cemetery, con srtucted a fence about it and an nounced that henceforth pets would be buried there free of charge. Already three dogs, two cats and a canary rest in the plot. Their graves are marked by small metal plagues. Yellow And Black Lead License Colors Sen Francisco —UP)— Yellow and black, praised by experts for clear visibility, are the most popu lar colors for aute license tags in 193*. Ten status have adopted them,*according to the California States Automobile association. Blaek and white, must popular ownhiawtian of 1987, are being used by only five states in the new year. . BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON.—'The " proposed i ” Ludlow amendment to pre- , vent Congress from declaring war i without a permissive popular ref erendum is more than likely to be . killed, by the administration's re-i cent mass attack upon it. Nevertheless, some 218 con gressmen have signed a petition to bring it up for a vote against the wishes of both the White House and the conservative House leadership, and the fight is by no mean/ over. Jan. 10 is the date when Ludlow's resolution to initi ate the referendum comes to the j House floor, and it may be a good j idea to show what the issue in- j volved really is. Confusion arises from the Presi dent's assertion that a referendum on war it not consistent with “representative government,” and the fact that the Ludlow amend- j ment as now written is not as dear as it will be when amended. I The issue involved is simply whether Congress wants to tie the hands of the President and Sec retary of State when they play international politics, or whether the President shall continue to have the privilege of getting the nation into war without the spe cific consent of the people. The Constitution says the power to declare war shall reside only with Congress, but every student and authority on the question knows—and most of them have pointed ou*—that a President can create a war situation and actually wage war without con gressional consent. > A declaration of war by Con gress without presidential ap proval is unthinkable So is idea of congressional refusal to declare war when requested to do so by a President who already has taken the nation’s armed forces into war. As commander-in-chief April 1937 Hitler Talks Nazi Needs For Those Lost Colonies By Volta Torrey News Review Editor, The A!’ Feature Service In 1937’s April, 20th anniver sary of Uncle Sam’s entry into the World war, Grandpa Europe strain wailed “boo hoo.” Foremost among the few war changes left was the fact Der Fuehrer had 800,000,000 fewer acres that Der Kaiser-—and want ed a big farm. But he agreed to sniff a peace-pipe if the man in Woodrow Wilson’s spot would hand ok around. r anklin D. Roosevelt stuck to ciga' ets. France,arid Britain turned to Belgium. There Premier Paul Van Zeeland from princeton was trouncing the local nazi nuisance in an election. He agreed to go on the road and see how to make .friends and influence business. There was an “unhealthy flush of fever” (Doctor Hull’s diagnosis) from history’s worst case of re arming. The President told gov ernment employes not to dabble in the Using stock mart, and added: “That’s also good advice for the public.’’ The Wagner Act Besides tossing out a baseball to open the season, Mr. Roosevelt pitched mathematics at America's millions: The nation’s budget was farther from being balanced than anticipated. Congress would have to go easy. Nearly everything was going up. WPA began cutting down. The President went fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. In the Supreme Court’s cham ber-, packed every Monday, New Dealers enjoyed “a pretty good day.” The Wagner labor law was upheld, 5 to 4. Many thought that left no excuse for “court packing.” “The constitution’, others- snort ed, “has become what Justice Rob erts says it is.” “Destiny”, Senator Ashurst re ma-ked, “is tolling her invincible bell.” Golden Gate Bridged Walter P. Chrysler and John L. Lewi., made peace after $87,000,000 losses in wages and trade. Turning to fresh foes, CIO brawled with Ontario’s peppery Premier Hep burn and loss a battle to farmers angered by a Hershey, Pa., choco late plant sit-down. Into Kentucky’s “bloody Har lan” county, CIO advanced, too. Senate inquirers wondered how Sheriff Middleton, a $4,4(50-a-year mar. who admitted close contact with coal companies/ had invested $104,728 since 1934. “I’m just as puzzled as you are”, he told ,em’ Another flood flowed down the Ohio valley. Florida argued about a ship canal. The last San Fran cisco Golden Gate bridge rivet was driven; its golden head broke and fell in the water. “Minority Stockholder No. 1” tried in vain to oust Charley Schwab from the Bethlehem Steel. Father Divine Harlem’s “God”, was held after a stabbing in “heaven”. The Russian G-men’s own chief was arrested in the red purge, and Leon Trotsky, safe in Mexico, tried to clear himself of blame fpr all the “treason”, in an unofficial trigl. Franco Promises Victory I “Coronation Commentary” ap .M of the army and navy the Presi dent can order them about at will. Hence the war power actually re sides with the President rather than with Congress. There is no reason to suppose that Roosevelt plans to take the country into war But there s every reason to suppose that he seeks to massage the public mind into a state where it would be re ceptive if he considered warlike gestures “necessary.” The Ludlow amendment simply would require a favorable ref erendum vote in advance of a congressional declaration of war, except in case of invasion. Lud low promises to propose amend ments. The present version takes no account of the presidential power to get us into undeclared wars. It would require a referen dum even in face of a fascist revolution in Mexico, financed and armed by foreign powers—an ob vious menace to American se curity. Senator Robert M. LaFollettes proposed referendum amendment is much more to the point, and if Congress adopts any such amend ment it will follow the lines of LaFollette's or that of Senator Bennett Champ Clark, which is similar. LaFollette’s proposal would for bid the President to “wage war without a declaration by Congress. Except in case of invasion or a military expedition against the United States or its possessions, or against. any North American or Caribbean nation, the LaFollette amendment would require a refer endum on the question of a declaration of war. But there’s only a chance in a hundred that the LaFollette, Clark or Ludlow amendment will get into the Constitution. (Copyright, 1 f»37. NFJA Service, Inc.) peared. Broadway wanned up to “Richard II”. Hollywood released “The Prince and the Pauper." “Finer Anthony 1” challenged King George VL’s right to the throne. Premier Baldwin prepared to re tire, explaining: “It is far better to go when the people may still think of you as perhaps not incompetent than to stay until perhaps they know before you do that you are becoming incompetent.” Spain’s royal family was betting its last cent on Insurgent General Franco. He was promising Mos lems the choicest blossoms in “the springtime of victory.” B.itish ships were attacked. And the tattle for Bilbao began.... literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBlf “This Is My Story”, by Eleanor Roosevelt: (Harpers: S3 “Every body’s Autobiography”, by Ger trude Stein: (Random: $3). Once in a while one should put a book aside for a while before tlying to say anything about it. When Eleanor Roosevelt’s “This Is My Story” was published on November 15 this department extracted a news story from it, anu then did a little thinking. The longer we thought, the surer we became that this is one of the few really honest, really im portant books the year has pro duced. Until one tries, one cannot know how difficult being truth ful about oneself is. When one is a public character in one’s own right, it is worse. When in addition one’s husband is President of what it, at least, the “key nation” of the world, at this time, the prob lem is nearly insurmountable. Yet Mrs. Roosevelt has been truthful, even to the extent of confessing family failings and dis agreements in a spirit of simple fac-t; not with even a vague sug gestion of “paying back” anybody. Beyond this, she has confessed her own faults just as honestly, and at greater length. One cannot ayoid the feeling that she knows perfectly well the ultimate value of her book lies in the way it shows a girl of “position” hecoming aware of a changing, challenging wor,d. And when she shows her self misunderstanding Louis Howe on trivial grounds, and later com ing to accept him as both friend and mentor, she shows her reader the perfect symbol of the change in herself. Without once trading on her position, and without peddling a single bit of political or other gos sip, Mrs. Roosevelt has done a fas cinating hook. So has that unpredictable and legendary person, Gertrude Stein. As everybody perfectly well knew, she can write as clear prose as any cub leporter. She did it in “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,” and now she has told the story of the last five years so simply that any rormal adolescent can get the fact out of it, if not all the over tones. Or undertones. Miss Stein’s frank estimate of ! S',AS MANHATTAN By GEORGE TUCKER \v,v York—Parties of four who to spend New Year’s eve in •’.nv of the (major hotels or night (luhs should count on shucking; out anvil ing from $50 to $100. There •ire a few places advertised at $5 ‘o «■,7.50 a plate, but a majority arc SHi and $15 a plate. One that I know of has announced its tariff as $25. . , , 1 bis scents an exceptional tee for dancing; several hours on a noslage stamp floor while having' one's ribs caved in. True, you get dinner, a 15 cent paper hat, a lot of confetti, and music, plus the tumult of a noisy, carefree crowd, but ”ou can get this any other night for less than a third the holi day fee. Di inks arc always extra, and at ;;0 cents to $1 a throw it doesn’t take four people long to run through a $20 bill. Wines and champagne will come from $5 to *15 a bottle. Add transportation taxi fares, plus hotel accommoda tions, and your weekly salary sails right out the window. Incidentally, the dancing space in the New York clubs is seldom larger than your living room. About 14 by IB feet. For this there are from 500 to 1,000 dancers. Don’t forget your shoulderpads. It’s getting so now a body doesn t i know which way to turn. For instance, Mr. Walter Winchell. the Broadway columnist, had this to say the other day: ‘•.Freddie Bartholomew, whose soprano voice hasn t changed > et, sounds like a grown woman via the networks!” ’ % Then along comes Miss Louella Pa rsons, the Hollywood column ette, with this announcement: “Freddie Bartholomew’s voice is i hanging and they are in a panic at Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer, for ‘Boytown’ is set to go into pro duction next month.... Personal ly,. I think it would be charming to let Freddie play his part even if the crack in his voice becomes discernible.” , Whither, Freddie, high C or has s ? Many of the bars, clam stubes, arid restaurants use sawdust on the floor. We often wondered where all the sawdust came from, sawmills being' a rarity on the island, until Ganzi, whose Palm restaurant on 2nd avenue is a saw duster, explained: There’s a fel low in New York who make a business of delivering sawdust in new York. He has a regular trade route and retails it at 50 ceijts a potato sack. He calls with the milkman twice a week and dumps the order on the sidewalk. However, he doesn’t have to imppr* it or sweep up a sawmill to obtain his product. He gets all the sawdust he wants from the 'incvs that dock in East River. These big freighters line their holds with sawdust because it makes good insulation for the shipment of fruit and produce. He started out with a pushcart and now has half a dozen trucks. How’s Your HEALTH? Edited for the New York Acade my of Medicine By lago Galdston, M. D. Home Or Hospital? A medical authority recently raised a good deal of rumpus, both public and professional, by declar ing that most women would be better off if their babies were born at home instead of in hospitals. Of course this contention is as hard to prove as to disprove. But either side can find many pertinent facts, for its argument. When American women began to have their babies in hospitals instead of their homes, the innova tion was hailed as the solution to the problem of America’s high ma ternal death rate. But experience has been disappointing. The ma ternal mortality rate did not shrink, and there is abundant evi dence that a hospital confinement is not necessarily a safe confine ment. So far the argument seems to favor one side. But the “opposi tion” points out that hospitals must not be lumped together as if they were all alike, and also that “the maternity hospitals have a higher maternal death rate simply be cause they get more difficult cases to handle. In addition, cases which start at home and run into trouble are brought to the hospital and add to the hospital death figures.” So much then for pro and con. But what the prospective parents would like to know is the answer to the questions: “home or hos pital?” and “if hospital, how can we be sure it is a good one?” Tne decision as to home or hos pital, must be as much with the obstetrician as with the family. Much depends upon the locality and availability of good maternity hospital service. It is easily appreciated that eco nomic factors also influence the choice of a place fop delivery. With adequate and competent pre natal care (medical supervi herself, in relation to America and her- American tour, is engaging. A lot of people are sketched, some are “seen through”, and a few are squelched. One of the most disap pointing sketches is, incidentally, of Mrs. Roosevelt; one of the best is of one of the Roosevelt boys, not named by Miss Stein. A-1 ■■ WE HOPE yn*ht, 1W7. Wa sicn of the woman during the period of her pregnancy), the physician can easily judge whether the case is suitable for home de livery. The home is safe for the normal case. It is inadequate to meet the emergency that might arise. .As to the quality of the hospital, a good judgment basis is whether it is accepted by the American Medical College of Surgeons— or whether it meets the standards I which these governing bodies I have set up. These standards, which are the minimum for safety, shall be dis cussed in tomorrow’s column. ’Gator’s Pork Barrel Ruined By Federal Men Jacksonville. Fla. —CP)—A scaly old alligator in a Florida swamp south of here has a store to settle with investigators of the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit. The nine-foot saurian was living like a lord on fat young hogs tipsy from bootleg still mash until the toy men wrecked his meal ticket. The investigators saw the cagy reptile slide into the water while they were demolishing the still. Nearby were remains of several half-grown hogs. The still wreckers said it was obvious the alligator had been ly ing around the moonshine plant /for an easy living. Hogs, they ex plained, frequent bookleg stills and ..... as soon as a young porker guzzled enough liquor mash to get tipsy and wandered to the water edge, - it was an easy mark for Old Mr. (jilt or. The log book is a ship’s offid record of its voyage. f This Curious World I V ! I IN HUNTINGTON LIBRARY SAN MARINO, CALIFORNIA, IS A VOLUME OF .»* OMAR. KHAWAM, %, THAT WEIGHS ONLV j OA4T->cCXerZff77y OF AM j • OUNCE 'i-”' cent. 1537 BV HU SERVICE. INC. KANSANSr ' HA/E A GREATER. EXPECTATION OF LIFE THAN PEOPLE OF AN1V OTHER. AREA IN THE WORLD. IN Kansas, males have a life expectation of 59.82 years, and females 61.02. Utah is next with 55.39 and 58.61, respectively. The average for the entire United States is 55.35 and 58.61. India's is only 22.59 and 23.31. WHUT'S A \ BEO SHEET, ' 1KJ THESE^ ' .CLO'ES ? T I'M LUCKY IT WASN'T - TH* MATTRESS* * ONE OF TH* BED \ SHEETS \N VOUR ' \9 PAKTTS * WHUT'S TH* j MATTER WITH VQU? k HAVE VOU Np SENSE 1 OF FEELING? —^ NO SENSE, OF^COMFORT? T - 1 ,t» aw THE \A/Ofc£.V NA/MCT. '“i
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