THE COURIER
ROXBORO, N. C.
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J. W. Nodi, Editor and Publisher
P. O. Carver, Jr? Associate Editor
Mrs. Elisabeth Noell Mas ten, Local
and Society Editor
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Wednesday, September 5, 1934
PARK-TO-PARK HIGH.
WAY
All North Carolina Is Interested
In the Park-to-Park Highway, and
will be grievously disappointed
should the routing be made
through Tennessee. Our under
standing is the matter will be set
tled in a few days, and should
Secretary Ickes route it other'than
through Western North Carolina
far as Tarheels are concerned.
Tar Heels are concerned.
Really, this proposition means
much, more than the average rea
der will think, for Western North
Carolina has spent hundreds and
thousands of dollars in developing
tourist trade, and now to kill all
of these efforts will be a hard blow.
In discussing the matter the Cleve
land Star, one of the ablest, if not
the ablest, weekly in the South,
ha? the following timely remarks:
"The entire state of North Caro
lina wil suffer Irreparable loss
if the preposterous blunder of rout
ing the Park-to-iPark Highway
through Tennessee is made.
Nature has given Tennessee the
western entrance to the park. Nature
has given North Carolina the east
ern entrance to the park. Hie
government should not undo what
Nature has done. '
Because of this natural fact, the
mountain counties have for more
than 35 -years depended upon and
counted upon for the future at
tracting tourists ttf "scenic spots
unparalleled anywhere on the con
tinent. The investment Is already
so great a stake that to destroy it
would be to strike a blow that
would cripple the entire state for
years to come.
No longer is any community iso
lated. Bad economics in any one
locality invariably, these days, pre
sage hard times elsewhere.
The case for bringing the Park
way through the Ashevllle route is
unanswerable?the finest dcenery
lies this way. And isn't scenery the
whole object of the parkway? isn't
it a tourist parkway?
Moreover, competitor Tennessee
has slight claims to more Federal
bounty if that bounty is to be had
at the expense of North Carolina.
During the sixteen months previ
ous to July, Tennessee received
$300,000,000 for development and
recovery, at the same time turn
ing into the Federal treasury only
$13,400,000 in taxes.
Last year. North Carotins paid
more Federal taxes per capita than
any other state in the union. We
actually paid into the Federal cof
fers the enormous sum of $264,321,
000 second only to the empire
state of New York. But at the same
time, only three other states. Rhode
Island,'Indiana and Kentucky, re
ceived less capita in emergency re
lief grants.
In the matter of getting out'of
the depression, then,,, we have bgen
neglected because jre were consi
dered more competent than
distressed states. But now. we have
a matter In which the Federal
Government alone can help us.
Only Federal action cte^ supply the
8cenlc Parkway.
We need it, we deserve It, we:
have paid for It, and we must have
it.'
HOME FIRST. ABROAD
NEXT
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For fifty years The Courier has
carried this motto at Its mast head,
and during all of these years we
have tried to live up to It. We have
never knowingly advised any one
t? do anything which would
cause him hurt or harm, and we
will not do so at this late day, but
when we preach from the above
text We believe we are well within
bounds of Justice to all. Of course
we all want to see our county and
town prosper, and If we prosper
we must all pull together. No sec
tion can grown and thrive when a
goodly portion are trying to pull
down what others have built up.
Consider Person county twenty
years ago,and think of Roxboro
twenty years ago; that there have
been wonderful strides all must ad
mit, and it has grown and prosper
ed because the majority of the peo
ple were In sympathy with the
move. Much has been written
about the farmers not doing their
j full duty In helping "to build up this
section, but it must be remember
ed the farmer Is not the only
sinner, for the town man who In
sists on spending the money he
earned here In some nearby city
is just as guilty as the farmer who
sells his tobacco on some other mar
ket and helps to build up that
town. We doubt If any one saves
on purchases made outside of Rox
boro; of course, now and then you
will flnd some special bargain be
ing offered by some merchant in
some of the cities, but take It as
a whole and the merchants of Rox-I
boro are just as honest, Just as!
reasonable in price as you 'will find!
anywhere. And we are decidedly
favored by having . such a goodly
(number of wide-awake merchants,1
In all lines, and when you have a
dollar to spend remember when you i
spend it in Roxboro it is going to'
help build up the town and county, |
for your home merchants pay taxes
here and are interested in schools,1
churches and every good work un
dertaken.
Regardless of whether you are a
white-collar man, a Say laborer or
a farmer, patronize your own home'
folks and help build up Person;
county and Roxboro.
-The latest nev.s from Mr. E. B.
Jeffress, our worthy and popular
.highway commissioner, who was
stricken about ten days ago. is more
favorable, and the doctors say he
has a chance. We were struck with
an article appearing in the Raleigh
papers Monday stating that in many
of the churches, there Sunday
morning prayer was made for his
recovery by the ministers. We sin
cerely trust he will speedily recover,
and soon will be able to be at his
accustomed duties.
At this wirttng, Tuesday after
noon, nothng can be said definitely
as to the extent of the strike in
the textile mills. The strike was
called for Saturday night at 11:30,
but as Monday was Labor Day and
a general holiday many of the mills
did not work. We are happy to say
there has been no labor trouble here,
all of the mills started up yesterday
as usual.
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While things look bright for the
farmer the fellow who has received
the least consideration, the white
collar man. is getting it in the neck.
His salary has been cut, probably
two or three times, and while busi
ness has Improved somewhat, It has
hot yet reached the point where a
raise seemed Justified. With salary
cut from twenty to forty per cent,
and everything he has to eat?all of
which he has to buy?advancing he
Just naturally feels like the "for
gotten man."
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ADVEBT1SE IN THE COURIER
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD
15,000,000 STARS
* BEHIND A DI/V\E/
A DIME HELD AT ARMS
LENGTH AGAINST THE MILKY
WAY OBSCURES IS MILLION
STARS.
Muscle head?
One-fourth of all our muscles
are in our neck and face.
Water
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JELLY FISH WHEN j
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PROGRESS IN CURE OF CANCER GIVES
HOPE IN FIGHT ON DEADLY SCOURGE
Washington,?Spread in the pre
valence of cancer, especially among
industrial workers and residents of
manufacturing districts, presents
the most serious problem facing
medical and health authorities, ac
coding to statistics of the Federal.
Public Health Service. It to inj
creasing more rapidly than other'
disease, and thus jumped in 33
years from seventh to second place
as a cause of death in this coun
try.
With prevalence growing b? leaps j
and bounds, the increase constitu
tes the greatest peace-time menace
to health and life that the world
has known in modern times.
Medical science is not standing
still in the face of the emergency
and certain progress against the
disease is coming to light through
out the world, notably in the Drew
Cancer Clinic, in Oermantown,
Philadelphia, where external can
cer seem to htave been brought un
cer seems to have been brought un
ed progress against internal can
cer. ?
Danger In Sulphur Fumes
Unles the combined efforts of the
world, such as are being put forth
by scientists that "the average
delphia, meet with a larger success
as a whole, it is frankly pointed out
byy scientists that "the average
length of life, and expectation of
life from the age of 10, must gra
dually go down."
. Federal statistics indicate that
cancer is taking more lives than
any other disease with the one ex ?
ceptton of heart ailments. The
Drew Clinic finds that in the great1
industrial states with thickly po-1
pulated manufacturing centers. |
where sulphurladen fumes arise
from furnaces,, the growing pre
valence is especially, marked. It
Is found that the Incidence of can
cer has become higher among In
dustrial wolrWers?mental workters,
brewers, workers in coal tars and
gas pitches, workers in contact with
sulphuric acid and otherwise in
contact with sulphur fumes than
it has among any other class of
people.
Cancer Death Rate Jumps , Lr
The death rate from cancer in
this country has increased 68.5 per
cent in 13 years, and now num
bers 128,000 fatalities a year, and
I is claiming annually more than 100
lout of each 100,000 of population,
j So great is the toll among all
' the deaths of men between the ages
I of 46 and 70, one in eight is due
| to cancer, and among all deaths of
women between 45 and 65 one in
five is due to cancer,
j While decisive reductions have
been made in deaths from conta-:
jgious diseases in recent years, es-j
pecially those that affect children,
and young persons most, tl\e Pub-,
| lie Health Service points out that'
I these lives are later overhung with
an even-darkening shadow of in-,
creased liability to what seems to
be the grimmest and most inexor
able malady of all.
In Major Scourge
; Cancer has become the major
' scourge of the ruman race, with I
, its ravages increasing among in
j dustrial workers. For this reason
the constructive efforts of doctors,
such as in the Drew undertaking,
are attracting wide attention, and
have a tremendous and vital bear
ing among factory workers and em-1
ployes in this and every other,
country. j
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A Spanish seaman invented a
steamboat with a speed of three
miles an hour in 1543.
NEGRO YOUTH, 15,
IS ON DEATH ROW
Booker T. Watson, Nash Kilter Is
Youngn* Man Ever On
Death How
Death Row received a 15 year
old boy yesterday, the youngest
person ever to occupy a cell there
He is Booker T Watson, Nash
bounty Negro youth under sent
ience to die October 26 for the
murder of Hlnsey T. Williams,
Wilson County farmer. W&tson'sar- I
rival brought the Death Row po- I
pulatlon to 26, one short of the
all-time record set some months
ago.
Watsop is the eighth person to
rome to Death Row while still less
than 21 years of age ,AU of them
were Negroes, four were executed
and the sehtences of the other
three were commuted to life Impri
sonment.
The Death Row record of 27
prisoners would have been equalled
but for the commutation of Henry
Hudson. Charlotte Negro sentenced
to death for burglary. Hudson was
moved from his Death Row cell
earlier last wee.k
Youngest To Go
The youngest man ever to go to
the cWath chair was J. w. Ballard
alias Bus Jackson, who was ex
ecuted on December 11, 1931, for
murder. He was 17 years old. An
other minor, Bemioe Matthews,
alias Joe Matthews was executed
the same day for the murder
Matthews was only 20. -<
Ballard and Matthews were
sentenced from Rowan Coutcy.
Most famous of the Death Row's
minors Is Jake "Sunshirte Jones.
Negro who escaped the death chair
through executive clemency. It was
contended that Jones was abnor
mal mentally and he was sent to
insane asylm at Goldsboro. Jones!
escaped from that institution sev
eral months ago and burglarized:
a home in Durham before being re- \
captured.
Jones was 20 years old when
sentenced to death in Wake Coun- |
ty for the murder of a filling sta-l
tion operator.
Prison records show" that Watson
?Is the 295th person to be admitted
to Death Row since the electric!
chair was Installed In 1910 Of|
that number. 139 have been exe
cuted. two have died while on!
Death Row and sentences of the
others have been commuted.
Hauser The Oldest
The oldest prisoner ever to come
to Death Row was John Henry
Hauser, Davie County white man ,
who was 82 when admitted to
prison September 9, 1931. He was
sentenced fpr the murder of his
son-in-law. Hauser was ill when
admitted and though he never has
been commuted, he is now a pa
tient in a Winston-Salem hospital.
Only two women one white and
one Negro, lever have occupied
Death Row cells and each was
commuted. They were:
Sarah Black, Wilson County Ne
gro woman, received In prison May
27, 1933, under sentence to die June
29, 1933, for murder. Her sentence
was cummuted to life imprison
ment on June 28, the day before
she was to die.
Ida. Ball Warren, Forsyth Coun
ty white woman, received in prison
March 16, 1916, under sentence to
die March 31, 1916, for murder. Her
sentcnoe and that of Samuel p.
Christie, white man sentenced with
her, was commuted to life Imprison ]
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LAST CALL TO
SUMMER CLEARANCE
Final reductions have been made for clearance
of all summer goods and prices are lower than
you will see them again unless there is another
depression. ?*
All ready-to-wear, piece goods, white and sport
shoes and summer accessories are at ridiculously
low price levels. It will certainly pay you to buy
a lot of these goods now.
NEW FALL THINGS /
Are Beginning To Come In
A good shipment of Ladies' New Knit Suits,
Knit Dresses and Sweaters are on display. Our
buyer will spend next week in New York complet
ing purchases for Fall things for wotaen. In the
men's department everything is ready for the
early fall shopper: Suits, Shirts, Hats, Shoes and
Socks. Come in and take advantage of our low
cash prices. You'll save money and we will be
pleased to serve you.
HARRIS & BURNS
Roxboro's Best Store
ment on March 21, 1916.
Minors On Death Row
The following minors have been
received on Death Row, prison re
cords show:
Willie Black, Green County Ne
gro, sentenced to die for criminal
assault. Received April 2, 1916,
and sentenced commuted to life
imprisonment October 25, 1916.
Wilson Autry, 19 Monroe Coun
ty Negro. Received June 13, 1931,
under death sentence for criminal
assault. Did not appeal and was
executed August 10, 1931.
Dudley Moore, Davidson County
Negro Received August 29, 1931,
under death sentence for murder.
Executed April 29, 1932.
J. W. Ballard, alias Bus Jackson,
17, Rowan County Negro. Receiv
ed September 17, 1931, under death
sentence for murder. Executed De
cember 11, 1931.
Bernice Matthews, alias Joe Mat
thews, 20, Rowan County Negro.
Received September 17, 1931, un
der death sentence for murder. Ex
ecuted December 11. 1931.
Jake Jones, 20. Wake County Ne-i
gro. Received February 13, 1933,
under death sentence for murder.
Sentence commuted to life imr
prisoment February 16, 1933.
James Dallas Hamlet. 17, Duplin
County Negro. Received February
3, 1934, under death sentence for
burglary. Sentence commuted to
life Imprisonment May 18, 1934. I
Booker T. Watson. 15, Nash
County Negro. Received September
1, 1934, under death sentence for
murder. Case now pending.
Europe Bowes To
American Industry
Success of American automobilee
in foreign fields is drawnig the at
tention of official of Washington.
In road tests competition as well
as in design solons, American cars
have this year walked away with
many honors, it has been pointed
out at the Capital.
Among the interesting competi
tions in foreign lands this year has
been the Moroccan Rally in Africa
and the annual Monte Carlo dis
play.
In Africa, a Plymouth sedan won
first prize .after a road race of
1,000 miles in which the stamina
of all entering cars is severely
(tried. Through trackless desert
and winding mountain trails the
cars traveled from Sfax, Tunisia
to Marrakesh, Morocco. Of 32
starters only eight cars finished,
with the American built Plymouth
the first prize winner.
In Monte Carlo and at Nervi,
| Italy, De Soto automobiles won
grand prizes for beauty fo line. The
new Airflows have proyed exceed
ingly popular with Europeans who
were the first to attempt true
aerodynamic design. The De Sotbs
howeler, won out over all other
makes, whether American or Euro
pean built.
It was noted in Washington that
both the prize-winning cars were
members of the Chrysler Motor
family.
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JOHf! JOSEPH GA1HE5 MT
A case of "Infantile paralysis"
has just left my office. The for
midable disease of the spinal cord,
oretty well known over the land
because of the experience of our
president with the same affliction.
We know of his interest in the
mineral spring in the south, where
he goes occasionally for renewed
treatment.
My patient, a wife aged SO had
the acute attack last January. Her
home?on the farm in Missouri.
Her doctor, a skilled diagnostician,
brought her through the acute sta
res with remarkable judgement. A
cultist had diagnosed the case
"neuritis", which was vague?de
cidedly inaccurate; mistakes in .this
disease are often hard to rectify
after the harm is done.
The good family doctor "got out
of the case with all he could save."
The woman can hobble about a lit
tle, with assistance. The febrile
'tag<- is gone. It is my business to
restore the damaged system as
aafefy and as fast as possible. We
io not need medicines now, so
much as we need warm baths and
trained massage; these we shall
rive the good woman?and it's go
ing to take time.
One thing that is positively dan
rerous here?at this stage is, httct
ful manipulation of the spine. I
shall not permit the masseuse to
attempt to 'adjust" the vertebrae,
i knew of a man in her condition
who took three or four very pain
ful spinal "treatments."? he never
walked again!
This woman has had inflamma
tion of the spinal cord?one of the
great nerve centers of the human
lystem. The inflammation has left
the gregt nerve-trunk weakened
snd Incapable; no amount of ham
mering on the bony structures can
help us restore normal function.
We want hydrotherapy and skilled
massage to restore.
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Sleeping Sickness
Increases In 111.
Springfield, 111.,? With 37 new
cases reported during the past week
the State Department of Public
Health today announced a "pro
nouloed upward trend in the pre
valence" -of epidemic encephalitis
ot sleeping sickness. a
Since August 1, the public health!
officials have received reports of?
65 cases.
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We have installed ce
ment presses in our shoe
shop. We can now put
new soles on y?ur shoes
without the use of any
tacks, because they are
cemented into place. Give
4is a trial.
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ALL WORK
GUARANTEED
J.C.
Shoe Repairing, Pressing
and Dry-Cleaning.