LOIISBI'RG COTTON
Cotton ivas worth l? 1-2 cents a
poiinii iu !,oirf>buri{
yesterday.
THE COUNTY - THE STATE - THE UNION
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LOU1SBURQ, N. CAROLINA t'BIDAY, APRIL 23, 1938
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NUMBER lO
JUDGE COW
PER PRESIDES
JEFFREYS GUILTY SIMPLE
' ASSAULT
Willie Milliard Was (jlrrn IS lo
'<6 Months? (iriind Jury Makes
Report ? Court Convened Tues
The regular April term of
Franklin Criminal Cou>>f conven
ed in Louisburg on Tuesday mor-i
ning ? having tak^if holiday on!
Monday ? Easter Monday.
Judge 0. ^Vernon Cowper, of
Kinston. presided in a most effic
ient ami/ business-like manner.
while/Solicitor W. Y. Bickett, of
Raleigh, ably represented the
ate in the prosecutions.
Julge Cowper's charge to the
grand jury was full and interest-i
ing and covered the whole situa-|
tion in a very intelligent manner.
He divided their duties into two]
classes, one to prevent those
against whom there is noD proper!
evidence from going to further i
expense, the other to see that the '
guilty ones are tried. There arei
other duties, such as protecting!
ohe County and individuals i
against crime and damage to;
property, and to see that officers!
perform their duty, looking after;
County property, particularly the'
Jail, prison comps and County 1
home. He paid special attention
to automobiles as crime instru-j
ments. Deaths upon the high
ways last year totaled 40,300. He
stated that loss of self control or
justi wickedness is responsible for
these deaths and violating traffic
laws. He thinks patriotism would
help control this as well as law
enforcement, which is always an
aftermath. *"
The charge was a strong one
and enjoyed.
After completing the charge t-he
d jcket' was taken up and disposed
oi as follows:
Taz Hargrove was foiyid guilty
o! reckless driving and was given
3 months on roads.
Willie Williams was found guil
ty of assault with deadly weapon
and was given not less than 18
months nor more than 3 years in
State prison.
M. B. Jeffreys was found guilty
of simple assault.
Presley Kearney plead guilty to
larceny and receiving, judgment
suspended for two years upon pay
ment of costs.
Grand Jury Report
The Grand Jury completed its
work on Wednesday afternoon
and after filing the following re
port was discharged with the
thanks of the Court:
To Honorable G. Vernon Cowper.
Judge Presiding:
We, the Grand Jury of April
Term, 1938 Franklin County Su
perior Court, respectfully submit
the following report:
We have passed on all bills
which have been submitted to us
or that have been brought to our
attention, to the best of our know
ledge and ability.
We have visited the County
Jail, the Prison Camp, the Coun
ty Home and find them all well
kept and in good condition.
We have talked with the May
or of Franklinton and he reports
that the City lock-up has, been re
paired and put in good condition.
We discussed with Mr. J. S. How
ell, a member of the Board of
Commissioners of the Town of
Louisburg, bhe matter of the
Louisburg City lock-up, and he
promised to take the matter up
with the Town Board immediate
ly.
Respectfully submitted.,
W. R. DEAN, Foreman I
of Grand Jury. i
'lay
Saturday is the lust day to file
to ran for office in the June
Primary.
When Earl Williams of Monroe,
route 1, came back from tl^
. Nary two years ago, Jobs were
hard to gpt so he raised 6500
broilers last year and 5600 this
season. He made a neat profit of
about 15 cents a chick. Now he
doesn't want a city Job.
Program At The
Louisburg Theatre
The following Is the program
at the Lonisburg Theatre, begin
ning Saturday. April 23:
?8aturd"ay ? Double Feature-^
? ^ill Boyd in "Cassidy of Bar 20"
and Claire Trevor in "Walking
Down Broadway." Also Chap. 2 j
"The Lone Ranger."
Owl Show Saturday Night 11
P. M. ? Adults Only. Sally Ellers
and Ann Shirley in "Condemned
Women."
Sunday-Monday ? Bette Davis, 1
Henry Fonda and George Brent
in "Jezebel."
Tuesday ? Mickey Rooney, Ce
celia Parker and Lewis Stone In
, "JuHg? Hardy's Children."
Wednesday ? Phil Regan and
j Penny Singleton In ^O.ut*ide of
Paradise", " ' " '
i Thursday-Friday ? Shirley Tem
i pie In "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
' Farm."
Four Billions More
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WASHINGTON. D. C. . . . Admin
istration offlelals announce that
with ? speedy Congressional okay
tbey will be able to pour an esti
mated four billion dollars Jnto tits
dry eoonomle pump betors tbe end
of Hay. Plans call for relaxation
of RJXJ tending restrict Ions, new
poMte works, mors pensions and
Insurance bsnefes. and loans to
sftles and states. Most of tbe
money srlll be spent by Harry
Hopkins, rsllsf osar (above), who
asked (or an end to "direct relief."
Miss Thomas Re
ceives Superior
Grade
Little Miss Talmadge Thomas,
of the Junior Music Club of Louis
burg received a superior rating
in piano at the State competitive
festival held at Queens-Chico Col
lege in Charlotte, on Saturday.
April 16.
Others who won the right to
attend this State festival along
with Miss Thomas from Louishurg
were Misses Jackie "Harkins. Eliz
jbetli Martin. Sarah and May
Davis, who received high rating
in the District festival held at
Peace College. Raleigh.
Those accompanying b h e s e
young ladies to Charlotte were:
Mr. and? M?Sr- M. S. Davis. Miss
Pinch of Louisburg College. Mrs.
O. Y. Yarboro of Mills High
School. Miss Kate Blanchard, of
Hertford, and Mr. E. F. Thomas.
'.OUISBURG METHODIST
CHURCH
Easter Sunday was a happy day
in the Louisburg Baptist Church.
The anthem by the choir and the
message by l-lie pastor on the
theme, "Fellowship with the Liv
ing Christ." were heard apprecia
tively by a large congregation at
the morning service of worship.
Around fifty persons attended the
closing assembly of the Training
Union at 7:15 p. m. At the even
ing service Rev. L. F. Kenii
brought to an attentive audience
an informing ahd inspiring mes
sage-on^ the subject of immortali
ty. "
This Sunday promises to be an
other good day. Services of wor
ship will be held at 11:00 a. m.
and 7:30 p. m. The Sunday School
will convene at 9:45 a. m.. and
the Training Union at 6:30 p. m.
The sermon topics for t'he day are.
"A Good Man," and "Casting a
Shadow." The public is cordially
invited to attend these services.
ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Early celebratiou of the Holy
Communion will come at 8:00 a
m. Church School sessions will
begin at> 9:45 a. m. and Morning
Prayer and Sermon will come at
11:00 o'clock.
The Young People's Service
League will meet at 6:30 p. m. in
the church.
Saturday evening ot this week
the Servers Guild will meet in the
Rectory for organization.
SENIORS GIVE PLAV
?The Senior Class of Gold Band
will present the play, Aunt Sa
manthy Rules the Roost, a farce
by Charles George on Friday even
ing, April 29th, at. 8U)0 o'clock in
the high school auditorium. The
cut of characters is as follows:
' Aunt Samanthy Slmpkins. An
old maid ? Mae Gilliam.
Serena Simpkins. Her older
niece ? Ruby Taylor.
Sophie Simpkins, Her younger
niece ? Mildred Watkins.
Polly Paine, Maid ? Dorothy
Guptou.
Annie Ambrose. Village Dress- i
maker? Nannie Leonard.
Blanche Bowers. Woman ot few 1
words ? Lurlyne Woodard.
Lucien Littlefield, Farmer? |
Marvin Pleasants
Blair Boswell, Likes Serena ?
Robert Radford. ,
Frank Fairfield, Likes Sbphle ?
Johnnie Cottrell.
Lawrence Lovewell, S(ranger ?
Melville Griffin.
-Buddy Baskins, Grocery Boy ?
Bucik Joyn^r.
Co'rtie an enjoy an evening of
fun. ? ? .
Stttocrtto t<* ch? franklin Tim**
Louisburg College
News Items
I.Ol ISIilIKi COLI.KOK AM)
THK STY 1, 10 SHOW
The annual Style Show, staged (
by the Textile Department of the
State College of the University- of
{North Carolina under the direc
tion of Dr. Thomas Nelson, has
become quite an event wit*h the
[colleges of North Carolina. The
'Domestic Arts Department of these
colleges encourage their students
to design, tit, and make dresses
from goods made by students of
the TexMle Department of the
Stale College, and these young la
, dies exhibit the dresses made by
them at this annual Style Show.
Louisburg College students have
been conspicuous in these shows
and have carried off a number of
prizes for the beautiful garments
designed and made hy Miem and
exhibited on the occasions of this
I show. Under the direction of Mrs.
j Nellie Tipton Moon, head of the
i department of Domestic Arts of
Louisburg College, the following (
thirteen young ladies from her de- '
partment will exhibit' dresses and
costumes designed and made by ,
them, at the style show to be held
the latter part of this week; . |
Miss Alma Lee Becton. Stantou
burgj Miss Lillian Brown. Klch j
Square; Miss Mildred Cole. Dur-j
ham; Miss Lillian Corbiot. Gates
ville; Miss Lucille Daniels, Stone
wall; Miss Ida Gibbs. Columbia;
Miss Kathleen Goodwin, Mill
brook; Miss Josephine Lamm.
Wilson, Miss Reon Maltese, Hemp:
Miss Lellah Pittman. Whitakers; ,
Miss Laura Stutts, Mount Gilead;
Miss Bethany Von Canon, West |
Knd; Miss Betty Young, Kittrell.
This Style Show tokes place in
Pullen Hall of the State College
on Thursday. April 21. 1938, and!
a large number of the friends of|
the young ladies will witness the
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HOAKI) OK TKISTKKS
KKCENT ACTION . !
The Board of Trustees of Louis
burg College met in Kaleigh this
week and voted to accept an offer
made to t-he Board of Trustees
for certain property belonging to1
Louisburg College located on Cha
pel Hill Street in Durham. N. C. I
The money derived from this sale
and also twelve thousand dollars
collected during the campaign last ,
, summer for funds for the college
?is now applied to the indebtedness
of the college. The pledges made
last summer for Louisburg Col
lege were made with the under
standing that the total indebted-!
ness would be raised. In view of
the fact thaii the indebtedness has
been so nearly raised, each person j
who made a pledge to the college I
has written that the pledge will |
be paid in full. As a result, all old
accounts against the college have
been paid in full and a goodly sum
has been paid on the bonded in
debtedness of t'he college. Dr.
Walter Patten, the Public Rela
tions Secretary of the college, will
continue work on this matter un
til the indebtedness of the college
has been paid in full.
K. E. GUPTON DEAD
Mr Kilmus E. Gupton. one of
'Franklin County's oldest andi
most highly respected citizens
died at his home near Sandy
Creek Wednesday evening about
8 o'clock, in his 82nd year. He!
was one of the old school of Sou-'
them gentlemen, whose ideas were
broad, generous and strong.
He is survived by three sons, j
Clyde. Gupton. Haywood C. Gup.i
ton and Rompton Gupton, besides
a host of relatives and friends. >
Funeral services were held from
the home yesterday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev.
C. B. Howard, and interment was
made in the family cemetery
nearby.
A large number of relatives
and friends attended the last rites,
and the floral tribute was espec
ially pretty.
Wins Stove
Mr. $. R. Chesson won ('he
Pyrofax gas stove at the close of
the demonstration conducted by
the Carolina Heating and Engi
neering Co., of Durham, under
the supervision of Mr. R. P. Kinf
on Friday night. The demon
stration was a success and accord
ing to Mr. King was very satis
factory.
RETURNS FROM CUBA
A party composed of Mr. and
Mrs. G. B. Cooper, Miss Ethel
Bartholomew, of Raleigh, Miss
Katherine Teague, of Henderson,
and Mr. Edward Bartholomew re
turned this week from a week's
tofiV including, Miami, Fla., and
Havana? Cuba. ,
Saturday it the last day to file
to run for office in the June
Primary.
Madison farmers have planted
101,500 seedling tree* so far this
season and they say these trees
will be worth $60,000 in a period
of 25 years to say nothing of the
soil saved and rebuilt.
Before#Tlie Ballot, The^ Ballyhoo
VIENNA . . . Propaganda Is IndlspensabJe In Nasi politics. Here Propa
ganda Minister Paul Qoebbels arrives in Vienna to personally take
charge ot the "build-up" for the plebiscite which afllrmed Hitler's an
nexatfoa of Austria by a #9.75% "pure" vote. Uer Fuehrer himself
spolce Immediately before the balloting liegan. shouting. "I regard
Vienna a* * pearl and I will give It a setting worthy of its value!"
IMPORTANT MEETING
Franklin County Memorial Associa
tion Tuesday, April 26th, at 3 P. M.
\
A Special Gall for all officers and chairmen of all com
mittees of the Franklin County Memorial Association,
and members of the committees and any others interest
ed in the work of the association has been made to meet
in the County Commissioners rooms on Tuesday after
noon, April 26th, at 3 o'clock for the purpose of electing
officers for another year and to make plans and arrange
ments for holding memorial services this year.
Your presence is urgently needed and expected.
A. F. JOHNSON, President.
MRS. H. W. PERRY, Secretary.
C. E. JEFFREYS. Ch. Ar. Committee.
Recorder's Court 1
Franklin Recorder's Court held
a recess session on Friday of last
week and disposed of cases as
follows:
Garland Leonard was found not
guilty of assault with deadly wea
pon with intent to kill.
James Holmes, assault with
deadly weapon wi[h intent to kill,
dismissed for want of probable
cause.
Henry Holmes, assault with
deadly weapon, with intent to kill,
probable cause found, bound over
to Franklin Superior Court un-l
der $300 bond.
Clarence Allgood. Charlie All-;
good, assault with deadly weapon,
operating automobile intoxicated,
not guilty as to Clarence Allgood. 1
Not guilty as to either defendant
on all charges other than assault'.
Assault charge as to Charlie All
good in this warrant was amend- 1
ed and new warrant drawn. Prob
able cause was found and defend- ;
ant required to give $300 bond for
appearance at Franklin Superior
Court."
J. M. Shaw was found gjiilty of
operating automobile intoxicated, j
prayer for judgment* continued.
Four beef calves have been
purchased by 4-H club boys of
Pitt Count/y and will be grown
out for exhibition and sale this
fall. ;
r
A Guernsey Cattle promotion j
sale will be held for Haywood
County farmers on April 21.
? Britain Deals Direct ,
MEXICO CITY . . . r W Rlckett,
British promotor who negotiated 1
an oil contract with Ethiopia be- i
fore the Italian conquest. baa con
ferred at length with President
Cardenas and other high Mexican
officials for satisfactory indemni
fication tor o|l lands confiscated
by the government. Britain de
cided to deal directly instead of
through customary Washington
channels after .expresgihg" Impa
tience with slowness of the Ameri
can "good neighbor" policy.
Grant For Schools
Supt. W. R. Milts received tele
grams Wie past week from Sena
tors Bailey and Reynolds and
Congressman Cooley, informing
him that the WPA has reopened
the Franklin County School buil
dings application and had ap
proved a grant of $29,250 for the
const ruction of New School Buil
dings at Justice and Bunn.
The Board of Education had
already advertised for bids to con
s&ruct the Justice building, but
the reopening of the applications
and' the grant by the WPA neces
sitated a change in the plans so
there will be no bids received.
New plans for both buldings
will be made and the machinery
placed ijj motion at an early date
for the two new buildings at Jus
tice,;and Bunn.
FRANKLINTON NEWS
Mrs. Walter Boyd and children,
of near Oxford, spent the Easter
holidays w-ith her mot'her, Mrs.
Irma Kearney.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wheeler
spent last week-end with friends
and relatives near Conway.
Mr. and Mrs. N. B. House had
as their guest during the holidays
their children. Mr. and Mrs. Maur
ice House and children, of War
renton. Mr. a"nd Mrs. Alvin House
?tid daughter, of GibsonviUe, and
Miss Eunice House, of Raleigh.
Mr. William Shivar, of Kinston,
spent last Friday night wit.h his
brother, Wesley Shivar.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Powell and
children, of Roanoke Rapids, and
Mr and Mrs. J. H. Rogers and
children, of Creedmoor, w.ere
week-end .guests of their mother,
Mrs. H. Bell.
Mr. George Woodruff, of Rich
mond. ind Eddie" Gibbs, of Wash
ington, D. C., spent last Wednes
day with their aunts, Mrs. H. Bell
and Mrs. .C. G. Hight. They were
accompanied by Mr. G. L. Gibbs,
who has been seriously ill in Me
morial Hospital, Richmond,'" Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Ellis, of
Roanoke Rapids, spent Monday
afternoon with Mr. G. L. Gibbs.
The many friends of Mr. G. L.
Gibbs are glad to learn he is im
proving so fas^aud hope he will
soon be out a^ain. At the present
he is staying with Mrs. C. G.
Hight. S.
Dr. H. H. Johnson will leave to-!
day for Baltimore, to take a post
graduate course in Mie study of
the eye. He will be gone about
three or dour weeks, during this
time he. will return to his office
in Loufsburg each' Saturday and
Sunday. i.
. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Rawls and
children, Pitzhugh and Eugenia,
left yesteraay to make their home
in Tampa, Fl?.
Miss Christine Collier spent the
Easter holidays visiting friends In
Gfeensboro.
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Mr. I. P. "'wheeler visited Ral
i eigli Wednesday.
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Chief of Police C, K. PaVe sp.-nt
| Easter Monday in Raleigh.
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Mr. A. W. Macon, of Amity ville, ]
' N. Y.. is on a visit to his peop^. ;
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Mis, If. M. Sledge. Sr., is visit- j
ins relatives ill Norfolk tfiis week.
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Mr. W. H. Perry was guest of |
relatives in Norfolk the past week
end.
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Mrs. T. B. Wheeler, of Scotland
Neck, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J J
P. Timberlake.
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Messrs. A. \V. and T, P. Uhol
Ison, of Henderson, attended Court j
I hew this week.
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Mr. M. *C7 Pearce. of Hender- i
son, was in attendince upon Court
here this week. \
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\ Miss Lydia Person spent' the
j Easter holidays with friends in
j Washington Citv.
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\ Mr. C. C. Abernethy, of Spring,
Hope, was iu attendance upon:
Court here this week.
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| Miss Narcissa Clarke, of Balti
more. Md.. is visiting relatives in
and near Louisburg.
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Miss Elizabeth Johnson, mem
l.ber of the Wadesboro High School
faculty, spent Easter at home,
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Miss Ann Freeman, of Pineland
'college, Sulemburg, was guest of
her mother during the holidays,
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Dr. Ernest Furgurson, of Wil
liamston. was gnest of his people
iu Louisburg the past week-end.
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Mrs. W. O. Lee and children, of
i I.umUjrtou, are guests of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. It. A. Bobbitt.
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Miss Bessie Strange, of Dur
ham. was guest of relatives In and
near Louisburg the past- week-end.
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Mr. and Sijrs. Robert Barnes, of
Henderson, were guests of relativ
es in Louisburg the past week-end.
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Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Englar. of
I Baltimore, Md.. were guests of
[friends in Louisburg the past
| week-end.
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Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Furgurson,
of Durham, we're guests of rela
tives in and near Louisburg the
past week.
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Miss Virginia Brigham, of
Amityville, N. Y.. is visiting
friends in and around Louisburg
this week.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Green, of
Lillington. were guests of relatives
and friends in and near Louisburg
the past week.
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Dr. S. Johnson and .Miss Eliz
jabeth Johnson attended a District
! meeting of Chiropractors at Ox
I ford Saturday.
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i Dr. and Mrs. S. P. Burt and
Miss Lucy Peri VBui t? spent tas
ter in Spartanburg^tj. C\, with
Mrs. A. H. Veazey."
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Mrs. Ben .Crossman and little,
1 daughter, of Beverly Hills, Mass.,
jare guests of her parents, Mr. and
I Mrs. R. H. Welch.
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Miss Sallie Pleasants, of the
(Chapel Hill School faculty, was a
guest of relatives in Louisburg
the past week-end.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. IT. .Perry and
sons, and Miss Camllle Swindell
visited relatives in Hyde County
the past week-ehd.
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Miss Christine Liles, of Wash-!
ington, D. C., was guesti of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Liles,
during the holidays.
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Miss Edna Earle Perry, of E. C.I
T. C., Greenville, was a guest of
her parents, Mr. and Mi;s. J. W.
Perry for the holidays.
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Miss Josephine Perry, of the
Sauford School faculty, was guest
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. J
Perry during the holidays.
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Mrs. W. T. Person and daugh
ter, Betsy Blue, attended the
l Dancing Master's Convention in
! Winston-Salem the past" week.
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Misses Dorothy and Gertrude
Foster, of Meredith College, Ral
eigh, were guests of their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Foster, during'
the holidays.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Dean, Mr.
and Mrs. P. E. Dean and Mrs. C.I
E. Bobbitt reUirned home after,
spending' several days at Asheville
and other points In Western North
Carolina.
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Messrs. I. P. Wheeler, John Ra
bll, James Collier, John L. Foster,
J. Ed Jonet, J. L. Palmer, attend
ed a meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Masons in Raleigh Tuesday
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TODAY and
CANALS for mrotiim
The Federal Government is pro
posing to buy the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal and turn it Into a .
public recreational waterway. I
can vouch for its recreational pos
sibilities.- for in my adolescent
youth in Washington the old "C
& O" canal was one of the favorite
playgrounds of the boys In their
middle 'teens whom I used to go
with.
Originally planned by George
Washington to provide a water
way betweeu the navigable lower
waters of the Potomac and the
upper reaches of that turbulent
river, the C & O canal was not
finished until 1850. after railroads
had begun to replace waterways
for inland transportation But it
carried a good deal of slow-mov
ing freight for 75 years, and it
was a grand place to swim, fish
and paddle a canoe.
I remember, the winter of 1886
87 when the Potomac River froze
solid at Washington and the canal
provided wonderful skating. Three
other boys and myself started to
skate from Washington to Cum
berland, 150 miles. There is no
more beautiful scenery in Ameri
ca than the wooded mouutains
through which the Potomac falls
and up which the C & O canal
climbs by a series of locks.
ERIE "Clinton's Folly"
Another waterway which I knew
well as a young man is the Erie
Canal, which runs 300 miles across
New York from Lake Erie tio the
Hudson River. The Erie Canal
was the dream of a great and far
seeing American patriot. DeWitt
Clinton. Clinton was first to rea
lize, after the Revolution, that
the Northwest Territory was
bound to fill up with settlers,
whose products would have to he
shipped to the seaboard. Railroads
had not been invented. The only
water routes to the sea were the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys, lead
ing to New Orleans, and the Great
Lakes, blocked by Niagara Falls,
and even if commerce could get
by the Falls it would go through
Canada and the ice-bound St. Law
rence River.
"Clinton's Folly." as his poli
tical enemies ridiculed his canal
scheme, made New York City the
metropolis of America, for it con
centrated of the freight or
iginating in the basin of the Great
Lakes at Buffalo, and carried it
by water to the Hudson River and
the seaport at its mouth. Phila
delphia was America's largest city
in 18i! a, when the Erie CanaL was
opened, and Boston second.
GI.AKE
More fatal automobile accidents
are caused by glaring headlights
than by almost any other single
cause. Every driver fervently
wishes there were some way to
krfl the glare. Such a way has
been found, and a company ha< ?
beeu formed to manufacture a
new material which, when used in
headlight lenses and applied to
windshields, reduces the glare of
an approaching car's lights 00 a
couple of bright purple spots,
while still permfttlng them to illu
minate the roadway.
It will probably be years before
this new anti-glare system come*
into general use. just as ifc took
years after the invention of shat
ter-proof glass before car manu
facturers generally adopted it.
Now many states refuse to license
a car which is nsrt equipped Wltk
safety glass, and I anticipate that
in time every car will be required
to have antiglare headlights and,
windshields. I
gome (lay, beyond doi^bt, driv
ing on our higt^ajjB, will be a
much, safer, occupation than It It
today. Automobiles Jiaye already
killed moi;e people In 'W'rtarj
than wqre killed in all of the Tjrars
this nation has been engagei iij.
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FLYING
In proportion to the number oC
passengers and (he mileage tra
versed, the annual death-toll of
aviation is far less than that oC
motoring. News of fatal flying ac
cidents gets bigger headlines than
any "other kind of sudden death
because, I believe, most) people*
have a greater fear of falling trontf
a height than of anything else.
Psychologists say that new-born
babies fear but two things: lou<3
noises and falling.
We get morr- *>f a shock from!
hearing about airplane accidents
than about" tuotoring fatalities, be
cause flying and all that relates)
to it are so new la human experi
ence Men have ridden horses,
sailed ships, travelled on wheel*
since the very beginnings 06
things. The haxards of travel on
the ground or the sea hays been
discounted ages ago. Butt np to
forty years ago no man has ever
.. (Centlss**, on ?age eight) ^