FRIE&X, .JANUARY 8, U&B6
OF INTEREST TO
WOMEN
CLUB NEWS PERSONALS
YEAR'S END
Old Year, yon have been very kind
And though you take go many
things
I You did not rob us of the right
To laugh and cry and sometimes
sing.
We've worried so when skies were
dark,
Complained—and cried aloud,
raved and been impatient when
4 lie sun was far behind a cloud.
I No polished vows we make today
But from you we would borrow
Your wisdom and your courage,
That we shall need tomorrow.
—Frank L. Alderman
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Cy Edson haß returned to the city
• after spending the hoi days with his
& parents in Florida. \
Mißs Isabella Suiter returned to
Bock Bidge Wednesday after spend
ing the holidays at home.
M. P. J. Williams, Jr., spent New
Year's day in Washington, D. C. as
the guest of C. F. Richards..
Mr. and Mrs. C. Gordon Smith and
family have returned from Florda,
after spending the holdiays there.
' 4 John Hocutt of Williamsburg, Va.,
has returned to his hom« after
spending Christmas with N. B. Do
zier.
Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Fountain and
family have returned from Fountain
I I Inn, S. C. ( where they spent Christ
mas with Mrs. Fountain's parents.
Wesley Coghill, T. L. Conyers,
Fred Warren, George Hornbeck, Ma-
Ikey Faison, Sam Henry and Gordon
Smith have returned to Davidson
College after spending the holidays
with their parents here.
FIRST CHURCH OF
CHRIST, SCIENTIST
"Christian Science" was the sub
ject of the Lesson-Sermon in all
churches and Societies of Christ,
Scientist, on Sunday December 29,
1935. T . .
The Golden Text was from Isaiah
80: 1. "Arise, shine, for thy light is
. came, and the glory of the Lord is
W risen upon thee."
▼ Among the citations which com
prised the Lesson-Sermon was the
following from the Bible: "And Zac
•chaeus stood, and said unto the
Lord, Behold ,Lord, the half of my
goods I give to the poor; and if I
hare taken any thing from any
by false accusation, I restore him
fourfold." -And Jesus Baid unto him,
This day is salvation come to this
(■ house, forsomuch as he also is a son
Abraham. Far .the -of is
come to seek and to save that which
raw lost." (Luke 19: 8-10)
The ■ Lesson-Sermon also included
the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, "Science
aid Health , with Key to the Scrip
tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "The
prayer that reforms the sinner and
heals the siik is an absolute faith
that all things are possible to God,
—'-a spiritual understanding of Him,
an/unselfish love. Regardless of what
ahcther may say or think on this
'subject, I speak from experience.
Prayer, watering, and working, com
bined with self-immolation, are
God's gracious means for accom
plishing whatever has been success
fully done for the Christianization
and health of mankind." (Page 1)
, GOOD CANVAS HELPS
PROTECT SEED BEDS
A good grade of canvns having 26
strands to the inch used on tobac
co seed beds will help protect the
young plants from flea beetles and
, cold weather.
To keep the beetles out however,
the seed bed must be made tight,
said C. H. Brnnnon, extension en-
L tomologist at State College.
He suggested that six-inch boards,
1 stood on their sides, be placed
■ around the bed, with soil banked
■ around their bases. The canvas is
■ stretched over the boards.
As an additional protection, he
said, a strip of ground about two
'"feet wide encircling the bed may
be planted to tobacco. If the to
' bacco in the strip is kept poisoned
I s regularly, it will serve as a trap
\ 1 for the beetles. Poles may be plac-
II -ed around the mnrgin of the trap.
Since flea beetles often wreak se
\l rious damage to tobacco bedß, Bran
,J non is urging the growers to take
/fW every precaution possible.
He also pointed out that njiptha
lene flakes have been found good
in the control of small worms in
the tobacco beds. Tight beds, he
added, will hold the gas much long
er thaa a loosely constructed bed,
- and in them a more effective worm
control iis possible.
• Even if a grower does not plan
• to seed his tobacco bed for a few
weeks yet, Brannon said, he should
1 start pr>paring the bedß right away
I g0 as t« them in good condi
tion a«Bßing time.
DetaMp instructions for control
ing vela and insects in tobacco
*si plant mav be obtained free by
> growers «pon application to the ag
] ' V riculturll editor at State College,
L I ttaleigh.
USE- ZIfPER ON INCISION
K ?hica^o. —Of all the variefl uses
'g the herqs the jatest. Re- |
II • uirgeons attache! a zipper,
m by meajs of strips of adhesive, to J
I ''lie sidOf of an incision in order
t»at the incigion may be opened dai- j
•A tor internal inrfiepl treatment,)
I WVn % treatment "Is completed,
the inciiion zips shut.
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COMMENT""
ON SPORTS
THE YEAR IN SPORTS
ALARAMA AT BOWL GAME
BASEBALL START; STAR GAME
TIGERS, CUBS COP
SERIES: LEAGUE MEETINGS
TENNIS THRILLS
GOLD PILLS
LOUIS .CHILLS
MINNESOTA LEADS
O'MAHONEY, OWENS TOP \
1936 NEXT TIME
Well, guess the best thing to do,
since this is the dead season in
sports, is to start off the New Year
with a little informal chatter con
cerning some of the highlights of
1936 sports. Of course in this space
we don't hope to cover everything,
only the things that still stick to our
mind after all these days.
First of al] there was the Rose
Bowl game. The stories of Dixie
Howell's passes that day will live
on lips of thousands for years to
come. With the gluey hands of Don
Hutson snagging most of what How
ell had to toss, the game was a cinch
for Alabama. Alabama's eleven of
the 1934 season ended its playing
for the year that day by present
ing for the inspection of the West
Coast fans the largest number of
All-Americans and All-American can
didates that the fans from across the
rockies will see for quite some time,
or we miss our guess. There were
Bill Lee, captain and All-American
tackle; Howell, passes and dasher
extraordinary; Hutson, All-American
end; White, Francis, and gosh
knows how many others who at one
time or another showed ability of
All-American calibre. Stanford had
a good eleven for the second straight
year, but that passing attack was
just a little too mueh.
Then there came baseball, with
the Tigers favored in the American
League and Boston and Cleveland
expected to put in the strongest bid
for the title. The Cards were fav
ored to repeat in the National cir
cuit, with the Giants expected to
toss their hats into the ring wjth
some accuracy that might prove a
little dangerous to the Cards' chan
ces. However, neither the Cards nor
the Tigers were able to jump into
an early lead, and on. July 4 the
two New York teams found them
selves leading the loop. Then there
was the time out a couple of days
later for the annual All-Star game,
played this time in Cleveland. The
American Leaguers for the third
successive year came out on top,
winning this time by a score of 4
to 1. Thanks to a little belting at
opportune times, one run allowed by
Gomez and Harder, the latter star
ring on the mound for the second
straight year, seemed very, very
small to the losers. Jimmie Foxx
lej the "belting" to thrill the fans
from the Lake City. His long blows
included a smashing single and a
350 foot homer to drive in three
runs.
But to get back to the pennant
race, the Tigers came into their
winning stride in July and soon ov
ertook the Yankees, never to re
linquish the lend. The Indians with
Ed Bang's stupid campaign to oust
Walter Johnson proving to be a
i success at last, received no backing
, when the tcaui led the league ear
ly in the running, and finally John
son was remcrved after the club hau
dropped considerably in the league
standings. Steve O'Neill took over
the reins, but was no wonder at
the helm, and the team failed to
become n threat later in the season.
The Tigers, for the second straight
year coming through without seri
ous injuries that might show up the
weak Detroit replacements, sailed
along in fine style to clinch the
rag handily. In the National Lea
gue, although the Giants at one
time led by something like eiglit
games, the fight was extremely close,
and when the Cubs, hot with a twen
ty-one game winning streak, staged
their start at the season's end, there
was little else the Giants and Cards
could do but step aside.
The world series saw the Tigers
cop in six games. But for Lon War
neke, the task would have been a
much lighter one. This son of Ar
kansas was perhaps, the standpoint
hurler of the series. Hank Greenberg
was forced to remain idle in the
last few games, but Mary Owen
handled himself well at first, and
Flea Clifton was an improvement
over Owen at third. At the winter
meetings, the problem of umpires,
which had become acute during the
'35 season, was discussed full". The
leagues adoptel the plan to have
the Advisory Councils select the um
pires for all inter-league battles. In
the National, veteran Cy Rigler was
lifted from the ranks of the work
ing umps to the position of head
man along umpire row. It will be
his work to keep an eye on the
work of all the league's umps as
well as minor league prospective
umps. Rigler's work will be taken
over by George (Tiny) Parker, one
of the best umps in the minors.
Many trades also were made at the
meeting. These were discussed in our
I last column.
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| As to tennis, well, th# British
' just naturally mopped up again in I
j th£ Davis Cu|? matched The Wim- I
bledon's , men's title went to Eng- j
lakd's'Fifed ' Perry, and the Ameri-J
can title to Allison. In the women's
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY CAROLINA
\ Italian Bombers Kill
Swedish Red
group, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody
staged a stirring comeback to win
the Wimbledon singles in a final
round match with Miss Helen Ja
cobs. In the American singles, Miss
Jacobs won as Mrs. Moody decided
not to compete. The most surpris
ing, and to the Americans most
pleasing, result of the summer com
petition 'was the rise of young Don
Budge, of California, to the ranks
of the nation's topnotchers. Budge
exhibited to the experts both here
and abroad an amazing show of
talent that stamped him as one of
the future greats of United States
tennisdom. Budge reached the semi
finals at Wimbledon.
In gold, Lawßon Little was again
the outstanding played. Little re
tained his title as the king of the
amateurs with his continued show
of skill in match play. Henry Pic
ard was declared the champ of the
United States winter tourneys of
'35. The title, though unofficial,
showed that he had the largest ear
nings for the winter season as well
as the lowest average score per
round. Sam Parks, an unkonwn,
won the National Open at Oak
mont in a surprise win. Parks shot
steady golf during the tourney, and
consequently held his score down be
low that of each of the other gol
fers who were his opponents. The
course was tough, and many of the
country's best stumbled on it. Parks
was more familiar with the course's
outlay than were ninny of the oth
er entrants. Johnny Revolta took
the P. G. A. tournament handily to
become rSTeFTfi that department.
Joe Louis, was, of course, the out
standing boxer of the year. Louis is
one of the many "champs" that De
troit claims at present,'the others
including Ga.r Wood, The Tigers,
The Detroit Lions, pro eleven, and
others. Joe wiped up several rings
with his many victims, and, by his
kayos over Camera, Levinsky; Baer,
and Paulino, proved his worth to the
boxing world. Jimmy Braddock, ev
ery ounce representing grit, ascend
ed the heights of the boxing world
by relieving Maxie Play-boy Baer of
his heavyweight crown. Braddock
will have to face adds a mile long
when he meets Louis, but somehow
we believe that James J. will have
more of a chance against the Brown
Bomber than some of the other
toughs. Braddock is far more a
heady boxer than Louis' opponents
to date, and we believe he can take
it more than some. In other words,
boxers so far, some of whom are
able to rid their systems of much
more aggressive fighting than Brad
dock, have as yet not been able to
take Louis' blows, therefore have
not been able to come ' back and
really hit Louis. Maybe Braddock
will tire Louis, then come back at
him to surprise the * w"
only a chance though. Wed prob
ably bet on Louis if forced to name
someone definitely. But here, this
is supposed to be about 1935.
The other major sport, football,
needs little reviewing the season is
so recent. Anyway, well rate the
successful teams according to their
apparent power thusly: In order,
Minnesota, Louisiana State. Southern
Methodist, Texas Christian, Prince
ton, Stanford, Notre Dame, Californ
ia, Rice, Alabama. Yes, that's right.
Alabama for number 10. Probably
will receive dissenting missives
about that, but it sticks.
Danno O'Mahoney in 19?5 prov
ed himself the best in the wrestling
world with little trouble. Jesse Owens
gave the greatest outstanding per
formance by breaking three world
track records and tieing another in
one afternoon. Notre Dame runs a
close second for that by its come
back grid win over Ohio State.
Next time we'll discuss 1930 and
its possibilities. Till now we'd for
gotten that we promised resolutions
for this column this time. Maybe
next time. Know of any we could
use ?
We and two other guys formed a
three-part rivalry in selecting foot
ball winners this fall, all with per
fect vision. Now the three of us are
each wearing glasses, though none
were doing same before football sea
son. We are trying to figure it out,
but are up a stump. Maybe we
are just being shown up as ama
teurs, or sumpin.' Tell us, dear
reader, what there is about foot
ball results to ruin one's vision? We
don't know.
434 DRIVERS LICENSES
REVOKED IN DECEMBER
A total of 434 automobile driv- i
ers' licenses have been revoked, all
but 13 of them, drunken driving,
during the last month by the divi
sion of highway Safety of the De
partment Revenue.
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Gay states that scarslty of stocks
would halt market inflation.
THIEF GETS SCENT
Roanoke, Va.—lt was a surprised
holdup man who snatched a pack
age from M. B. Newman's car. The
package contained the hide of a
skunk and, consequently, was drop
ped by the man a few blocks away.
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Union County farmers who tried
cotton of extra staple length dur
ing the past season are returning
to the old established Mexican Big
I 801 l with its medium staple of one
inch to one and one-sixteenth inch.
I A local branch of the farmers'
1 Federation has been established in
[Macon County with a. piembership
of 350 urban and rural members.
Nine Swedish Red Cross Workers
And 23 Ethiopian Assistants Kill
ed In Apparently Deliberate
Bombing Of Hospital Unit
In an apparently deliberate at- t
tack Italian planes bombed a hos j
pital unit of the Swedish Red Croat
with the army of Ras Destu Demptu
on the Southern Ethiopia front on ■
December 31. Nine Swedish Red .
Cross workers were instantly kill
ed, as were 23 Ethiopian assistants. ,
Only one man escaped, and he was ]
wounded. i
Indignation ran so high in Swe- ■
den that guards were placed around ,
the Italian Legation to prevent vio- j
lence. Observers state that it seems ,
inevitable that this latest outrage ,
by the Italian airmen will bring ,
about serious international reper- .
cussions.
Official reports tend to show that
the tents of the unit were isolated j
from the main body of the army,
and that thpy were plainly marked. 1
It appeared, so observers have stnt- j
ed, that the attack was a deliberate- J
ly planned one, with the Red Cross 
units, as its object.
Swedish officials have wired the
strongest portests to the Interna
tional Red Cross at Geneva.
-X-TRAPPED
TRAPPED WRONG ANIMAL
Hvannis. Me. —To accommo
date a neighbor who complained she
had been bothered by a skunk un
der her porch, William'. Cook set
a trilp and waited—at a distance.
I Imagine hirf surprise, when, after
the trap had sprung and he had
captured and dumped trap, prison
er and all into the river, to discov-'
er, on recovering the trap that he
had drowned his neighbors pet cat.
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CIGARETTE CAUSES
ALCOHOL EXPLOSION
Baltimore, Md.—Millard Ernst, 28- .
year old automobile mechanic, was
preparing to smell an automobile
radiator. Forgetting the lighted cig
arette he held in his mouth, he i
leaned over the radiator. The cig- j
arette ignited the alcohol in the ra- 
diator and Ernst was badly burned
about the face.
GIRL, 4, BLEEDS TO DEATH
Graettinger, lowa.—While playing
with scissors, at hter M>mt\ little
Joan McDonald, 4, fell, plunging
them into her throat, Her jugular
vein was severed and she bled to !
death before aid could be summoned.
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FORTUNE TO CATS
Rome, Italy.—Relatives are con- 1
testing the will of an aged spinis
ter who bequeathed her entire for- "
tune, about $24,300, to her thirteen
cats "which kept me pleasant com
pany during my life.
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CEILING SHOWERS BRIDE
Pound, Wis.—The sexton rang the
wedding bells so vigorously at a re
cent wedding, that the bride was
showered by plaster which fell
from the walls and eeiling of the
old church.
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OLDEST STENOGRAPHER DIES
Belfast, Northern Ireland.—Maria 1
Wakefield, 85, said to be the world's
oldest stenographer, died here re
cently. She had been blind since she
was 15. , *"l
SHIP EELS
Montreal.—One hundred tons of
eels, frozen alive in barrels, were
recently shipped from here to Ger- t
many. They were taken from the
muddy bottom of the St. Lawrence
river.
Democratic leaders predict prompl
Congress passage of bonus.
Liquor taxes in five months are
$221,108,627.
All nations speed construction of
military aircraft.
Farm income of the country for
year jumps to $8,110,000,000.
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The Townsend '
Pension Plan
tr(, " ■
' 'The Townsend Plan—to tax every
business transaction in the country
P percent, and from the proceeds
pay each American citizen, under
pertain stipulations, S2OO per month
—is probably being discussed more
than any other as a means of solv
ing our economic difficulties.
This plan appeals to the imagina
tion as, no other proposal docs. It
immediately stirs the sympathies,
for few there are who begTudge
those in declining years comfort
and eaye. It arouses hope of relief
in those who are heavily laden and
upon whom the care of the aged 1
falls. There arc also millions to
whose avarice the plan silently ap- ,
peals—to children and grandchildren ,
who would welcome an opportunity'
to help "Pa" and "Ma," or "Grand i
ma" and "Grandpa" dispense of their
S2OO, each, monthly pensions. Per
haps the greatest applause for the
plan comes from this group, for
among the older generation there is
yet that sense of thrift and inde
pendence of character which would
revolt from such an unnecessary or
gy of taxing and spending as the
Townsend Plan would entail for their
ostensible sakes.
According to the statement of
ono analyst who based his figures
on the 1929 level, about 26 per cent
of that income would be set aside
for old people. From the experi
ence tables on tax pyramiding, he
declares that 45 per cent of the
earnings of the workers would, when
the plan was established, be absorb
ed in taxes —a thing which cannot
possibly be escaped for the reason
that the plan is based on a sales
tax.
.While it is probably true that a
considerable proportion of the taxes
nesded to cover the $1,500,000,000
ninthly pension fund would come
iropi those who could afford it, the
bulk of it wouH be likely to come
oyt' of thosa whose salaries and in
clines were much lower than those
of the pensioners. In other words,
the load of carrying the pensions
would be on the backs of the peo
ple who work for small incomes
according to the law governing
the pyramiding of taxes the system
would shortly break down, leaving
the whole of society bankrupt and
Virginia State Police Get New Ford V- B's j
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Scene at Richmond, Virginia. John
Q. Rhodes, Jr., State Motor Vehicle
Commissioner; Captain H. P.
Nicholas, Superintendent of State
Police: C. F. Joyner, Jr., Assistant
State Motor Vehicle Commissioner,
IJ. J. WILLIAMS W. RUFUS JOYNER I
WE ARE EXCLUSIVE DEALERS FOR THE
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130 SUNSET AVENUE ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
demoralized.
In 1929, according to the figures
of the Department of Commerce, the
national income reached an all-time
peak of $83,000,000,000, Since the
Townsend Plan provides for a pen
• sion of $2,400 per year each, for some
• 9,600,000 persons who have roached
i the age of sixty, it will be seen that
• each pension would absorb the equiv
alent of the per capita incomes of
four persons on the 1929 basis of
$6Bl.
1 It is not too much to say that the
Occidental world is in the throes of
that condition where it has a sur
plus of things which the capitalist
[ claims, but cannot use, and which
the worker produced and needs, but
cannot buy. However, the Townsend \
Plan will not supply the purchasing
i power—that function most claimed
for it—to buy these things. The load
would come on persons of low in
' comes, angl they are buying even
now beyond their limits.
FIRST CHURCH OF
CHRIST SCIENTIST
Sunday morning service 11 A. M.
Sunday School 10: A. M.
Subject: "Christian Science"
Wednesday evening service 7:45
P. M.
The reading room in the enurch
edifioe is open daily ezecept Sun
day and legal holidays, from three
i t* five P. M.
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are shown taking delivery of the
first fifty 1936 Ford V-B's of the
order for one hundred new Ford
V-B's recently placed by the Ltate
for the State Police. This Is one
of the largest single orders ever
PAGE FIVE
WATCHMAN CRUSHED ' '
Golden, Colo.—James North, 55,
failed to heed his own warning.
Placed as a watchman to warn pas
serby against the dangers of fall
ing rocks from the mountainside, he
apparently became paralyzed with
fear on hearing a great rock as it
made a 2,000-foot plunge and was
Unable to get out of the way of
the three-ton boulder.
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+ Sold at all Leading Drag J
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No Nails, Flexible, Waterproof
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Guaranteed
141 S. Main St., Rocky Mount
planed by the State. Easy starting,
fast get-away and road speed plus
Ford V-8 reliability, economy and
safety are three factors which are
causing the public to purchase.
Fords today. t, —,