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PAGE TWO The Rocky Mount Herald Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Caro fix*, by The Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company TBD J. GREEN News Editor and Manager M. PACKARD Assistant Editor fetored as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at the post office at Rocky Msunt, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879 Office: Second Floor Dairiels Building, Boeky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina Mweription Rates: One Tear, 91.00; 6 Months, 60« AAvrrtiring rates reasonable, and furnished to prM peetWe advertisers on request REVIVING A LOST ART Among the signs that this country is at last emerging from the era of wonderful nonsense, don't forget the revival of the old-fashioned spelling bee. After many years, m which It looTcea as qtiaint and out-of-date as the one-hoss shay, the spelling bee again is coming into its own. The New York and Chicago fire departments send picked teams against each other; spelldowns are broadcast over na tional radio networks; even the schools are finding a new place for this old-time diver sion. The lad who can spell "apothecary," "lachrymose" and "desiccate" is in demand once more. All this would hardly be worth notice if it were not for the fact that some of our more aggressively modern educators decid ed, a decade or so ago, that all this em phasis on spelling was foolish and uncalled for. Some strange educational practices grew out of this delusion, and stranger still were some of their by products- It was held, for example, that the old way of teaching children to read and write was entirely wrong. Why learn the alpha bet at all? Teach the child to recognize words by their looks, instead; free him from the soul-cramping drudgery of the ABC's and he will learn to ride twice as fast. And forget about penmanship. "Ev erybody" uses a typewriter nowadays; handwriting is an extinct art; if he knows ' how to make block letters by hand, that is good enough. So the ultra-modernists put the old arts of spelling and writing on the back shelf and shouted hey-dey for the streamlined system of education. This was all right until some of the youngsters who grew up under this kind of schooling emerged into the wide world and sought jobs. Then appalled business began to discover that they were being asked to hire as sten ographers and filing clerks bright young high-school graduates who could not write literate letters to save their immortal souls; youngsters who couldn't operate filing sys tems because they actually didn't know whether "r" came before or after "h"; lads and lassies who couldn't even sign their own names legibly in ordinary script, and who couldn't read inter-office memos unless they were typewritten. Against this sort of thing, the old-fash ioned spelling bee is a useful antidote. The youngster who toes a crack and wrestles with "parallelogram," "hypothesis," "benefited," and "emolument" may not be broadening his mind very much, but he will at least be able to write a business letter, when he grows up, without causing the recipient to wonder what unlettered moun taineer has been playing with the typewriter. —Gastonia Gazette. if' % | V it 1 > o I THE FIRST J|| SPADEFUL £*■ J ; BbPORB a road am be laid... J 0 foundation for a home can be built... before J ] I acropcdh be planted... the first spadeful of | i: earth must be | r dp. mcwt important undertakings, a sav- | X tag* account at this banJ{ has a simple be- | X gmmng. Merely makfi your first deposit and | + account is opened. The rest is up to you. + X I X t x I 1 T 7 + | The Planters National Bank} *J ! And Trust Company jj + MEMBERS: Federal Reserve System, * Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | i i tttttttn 1111 n H"i"H.. i 11 THAT AWFUL STUFF—TOBACCO Zebulon Record While one cannot eat or wear it, tobacco is considered a necessity to a great many people. In this section it is the main money crop and church members chew, smoke and dip along with others. 'Way down in New Orleans last week the Baptist folks (strange though it may seem, the younger preach ers) introduced a resolution against the use of tobacco by church members. Louis iana has plenty of cotton and sugar but grows no tobacco, but there were enough users of "the filthy weed" present to quick ly vote down the good intentions. And now the State ABC Commissioners have decided that tobacco may not be used by any one while working in a model and modern state operated saloon. Poor old to bacco! Even the home of John Barleycorn is too respectable for his presence. A chew of tobacco may make a man act like a billy goat, but never like one possessed with the drink demon. The State seems to be follow ing in the steps of the liquor makers in try ing to make conditions so clean and respec table appearing that the people may see nothing but roses. Do what they will, the character and offect of intoxicating drink will be no more changed than a kid's skin on the hands 01 Jacob made him an Esau, or a wolf clothed in the well-fitting skin of a sheep will make him a sheep. Whited se pulchers are full of dead men's bone; hy pocrites may wear long, spotless robes, but their natures are unchanged- And drink any where, everywhere, may sparkle and go down smooth, yet "at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." Tobacco may be bad, but just now the worst thing confronting North Carolina and Wake County is the curse of legalized drink. Vote against it for your friends' and your family's sake. ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN SATURDAY'S ELECTION— The Smithfield Herald The absentee ballot has come into disre pute in elections of the past in North Car olina, and we are wondering how it will be used in the liquor election in Johnston County tomorrow. Already persons are in timating that the absentee vote will bear watching. Certainly there will be enough absentee ballots for every voter in the county who wants to go fishing or anywhere else 011 election day. Ten thousand ballots, with the accompanying affidavit blanks and en velopes, have been printed. By no stretch of the imagination can we envision a need for 10,000 ballots, but pre paredness no doubt is a good thing. The election officials apparently are anticipating a large absentee vote and if their expecta tions prove true they should exercise unu sual precautions in handling the votes. When the election, is over, no matter which side wins, let it not be said that the election was stolen with the improper use of the absentee ballots, or in any other way, for that matter. Derided by comic sheet artists, spring cleaning, including painting and repairing, is one of the finest phases of our civilization. How fine if outmoded ideas and prejudices might go to the trash pile along with old magazines, ofd papers, old shoes and other impedimenta that are discarded in the annu al clean-up. THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA " Every reader is invited to clip this column and mark his preferred poem ■ in this or any other Scimitar and Song and mail it to this editor, j A-cent-and-a-half stamp on an un . J sealed envelope is sufficient. The writer whose verse secures the I largest number of votes thereby will . receiv e a book prize, donated by , this editor, and the voter will have done his bit toward honoring or en couraging some struggling singer ' I during National Poetry Week—a . widely heralded fiesta. Beauty There is a beauty in knowing The glories of mountain and trail; I Of stars in a soft summer evening: Of spray and 'swift movement and sail. There is enchantment in language; In color and rhythms that blend. But where is the beauty surpassing btaunch love in the heart of a friend t —Grace Stillman Minck In Midland Poetry Review. Fragments Friends are the fragments, Friendship the glue, Cementing fragments Making up you. You are the master, Masons are they. Building with plaster, Stone-work or clay. Each little fragment Making you whole, Serves as the raiment Clothing your soul. Knowing your fragment*, Plainly I see, All your attainments— All you will be. j —David Raymond Innes. , In Driftwind. A book which lures you on to the i last page with reminiscent ecstasy is of Cinder Trail; by Loren -rl, B ar d of Blue River. i The book i s a human document, i The reader bounds over the raild , »n * n the enchanting cities with ■ all the care-free feeling of release j and the charm of adventure stimu lated by the author himself. Favorably; commented upon in the New York Times and th e Los Angeles Times as well as in many other ■ bmmu sale 4-17t^ NECTAR ORANGE PEKOE TEA %-Pound Package 1 3C OUR OWN TEA, M LB. PKG. lfe SOMA BEANS WITR POM 1-FT. CM 5c ▼AN CAMP BEANS, • 11-M. CANS SSc WHITEHOU SE • MILK 3 Tall Can* 19c •CNNYFIELD SLICED RINDLEBB BACON Pound Pkg. 35c •VNNYFIELD FANCY CREAMERY BUTTER to. 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City of quiet restfulnese, Touehed with tender sadness; Scars of war, and memories of long departed glories; The old order of things and the new; Strange ships in the harbor, Flying strange flags; The sea, calm beyond and all quiet on the Quay; The scents of roses and orange blossoms Emanating from old fashioned gardens With high, brick, ivy grown walls. (Contributions for this column should be sent tlo Mrs. Lura Thomas McNair, Jonesboro, N. C. Manuscripts not available for use will not be re turned unless postage is enclosed. Club Members To Attend Nat. Camp Four of North Carolina's outstand ing 4-H club members have been se lected to represent thig State at the naiional 4-H club camp to be held in Washington, June 17-23. Selected from among 42,000 club members over the State, the two boys and two girls will be guests of the U. S. Department of Agriculture along with delegates from other States of the Union. While in Washington they will be given special training in leadership and will be taken on tours to various government departments and other places of interest, said L. R. Harrill, 4-H club leader at N. C. State Col lege. North Carolina's delegates are: Bay Morrison, Iredell County; Graham Penny, Johnston County; Alice Falls, Cleveland County; and Mary Lily Foard, Iredell County. Will Build New State Laboratory Raleigh—The Council of State has authorized the State Board of Health to issue revenue bonds in the sum of $160,000 for the erection of a modern laboratory building, which will be located on the Jones Street side of Caswell Square, in Raleigh. It will be known as the Clarence A. Shore Memorial Building, in memory of the late Dr. Shore, first direc tor of the State Laboratory of Hy giene who served in that capacity from December, 1907, to February, 1933. His successor, Dr. John H. Hamilton, was named in May, 1933. Action by the Council of State fol lowed a conference with Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State Health Officer, and Dr. Hamilton. Work on the new building, which will have a grand area of 130 by 150 feet, will begin as soon as the necessary formali ties are gone through with, and it is expected it will be ready for oc cupancy within the next year. It will be three stories and will, if pos sible, be built entirely of North Carolina material, the exterior to be either of stone or'brick, but, in any event, the entire structure will be fireproof, vibration proof. When the 1939 Golden Gate Inter national Exposition closes, Treasure Island will become a super-airport for the San Francisco Bay metropoli tan region. _ —o— IVtaen hundred organizations will hold their annual conventions in the •San Francisco bay area in 1939, the vear of the Golden Gate Internation al Exposition. 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