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IODAY<<<<I 10M9W ? '*"u ?MMKMJtttR] 90QCMUD6E TRAILERS , . ? ? . homes ' * . , ..I Now lhat Spring is here and ' Summer is close at band, the peo- | pl? who keep tab on such things . are predicting that there will be twice as many trailers on the roads of the nation this year as last. Something like 400,000 people ' will spend a lot o f time seeing America first and dragging their homes behind them, and a lot o( 1 them will find spots where they wonld like to stay and will stay there, with no other home than the trailer. A lot of people, including Pres- | ident Roosevelt, are worried about the growth In the trailer popula tion. California is especially dis tressed about the increasing num ber of people who come there in trailers and stay, without buying i or renting a house. ^ The President told Representa tive Elliott of California that the Federal government was studying that situation and would do some- ; thing about it. He thought the| trailer folk ought to have perman ent homes. What Californians fear is that a lot of these nomads will become public charges. But I don't see in that any reason for blaming the trailer. GYPSIES ? ? ? ? ? nomads In the year HIT a strange, dark skinned people, moving in small bands from place to place and set-' tling down nowhere, first) began to flock into Western Europe. Be cause people took them for Egyp tians. they came to be known as "Gypsies." They were really from India, and the strange language they spoke, and their descendants still apeak all over the world, was a dialect of t'he an'ient Sanskrit, the mother language of almost all Eu ropean and Ijjdian tongues. Gypsies got a bad reputation be cause of their ability to get the better of simple folk in horse trades, aud because they fooled silfy women into believing ?.?bey had the power to foretell the fu ture. And because the Gypsies had no fixed homes, travelled in covered wagons or caravans and lived iu the ope^r "respectable" people came to loy k with auipicioi^ npnn anybody ot any race who chose roam instead of "staying put." I think t-hat almost everybody Mill has in his spirit something of the urge to move from place to place, an urge inherited from our ancestors of ten thousand years ago, w'ho were all nomuds. ROAMKRS lilx-rt) As a people, we Americans have always been roamers. The spirit of adventure is in uur blood. Stop and think that> every American is de scended from ancestors who came from somewhere else. Even the Indians came to America from Asia. Before automobiles were Uream ed,of. Americans were always mov ing on from the places where thejK were reared to other parts of the country, and a high proportion kept on moving, never staying | long enough in one place to est ablish themselves permanently. I think that national restless ness, the urge )h> be on the move, bad a good dea! to do with making this country the kind of place it is. Nowhere else in t'he world could men move so freely over such, a wide area as iu America. MIGRATION .... ceusuM , In Washington a short time ago i I sat in a conference of a hundred ! or more people who discussed for two days what sort of questions j are to be asked of the American ! people in the Census of 1 d 4 0. I was most Impressed by the in sistence by the majority of the group t hat everybody should be re quired to tell where he or Bbe liv- j ed ten years ago. The purpose is, of coarse, to find out whether peo ple are still crowding Into cities or moving back to the country. Prom what I learned from the experts there, I was glad to find Miat the old roving spirit of Amer ica still persists. The problem of internal mi|ratlon Is a baffling one tor those who would like to see erery American citizen planted in a fixed spot. It was Interesting, too, to learn Watch Your Kidneys/ H?lp Than Cleanse the Mood J Harmful Body Waste Yoor kidJMrrs art constantly flluHnf utter from th? Mood stream. But ?wwyi b 1*1 In th?4r work? do i IbThM ? fafl to ro? net m Natore tn?vlti? that. If retained, maf (?& 1"t? M< qpaot ftko whoto _ fotflof of miiii X&js&ifBfc ?. En baas ?teai>! i forty Nam. doans pills f that the swing of population is def- j initely away from the cities and back to the country. More Ameri cans than in years are seeking se curity for their families by whole time or part time subsistence farm- j ing. t But watch those families start roving as soon as they are old 1 enough to go out on their own. They wouldn't be Americans if they didn't. > POPULATION .... ageing I By getting the reports from svery state of the number of babies born and the number of people who die, and checking up on im migration from abroad and em igration back to their fatherlands of foreign-born residents, the Cen sus Office keeps a constant tab on the rate at which the nation i3 growing. More foreigners are leaving every year than are coming in. , People are living longer, so the, death-rate is declining. But fewer babies are being born; so that the total population of America is in- , creasing at a very much slower rate than at any time in our bis- ) tory. The statistical experts I talked with in the Census Bureau say that, unless something happens to change the picture, by 1970 our population will be stationary, at about 142 millions. There will be fewer children and young people, many more old folks. 11 that is so, there will be room for everybody to roam and live as he or she pleases without! fear of being crowded out by newcomers. But with a people averaging fif teen or twenty years older than now, there may not be so much inclination to ramble. The smaller! proportion of youngsters will have, it seems to 'me, a better chance. PROFITABKS PIGS Ninety-four Columbus County farmers sold 4 0d fat hogs through their small cooperative association last Friday. The hogs weighed 77,460 pounds and brought $4. 588.84. The buying company held back 1774. <i<> for soft and oily hogs but will return this as soon as the questionable hons are killed and inspected, says the farm ag^ni. /m* it* ** iU ?rtMUi cvM^rim Wy YHI AMKftiCAH i NITRATE OF SODA 4 Tot TOP-DRESSING at SIDE-DRESSING Give your crops the nitrogen they need for plant-food bal ance and profitable yields. Use dependable, quick-acting ARCADIAN NITRATE, Thi American SODA. ? THE BARRETT COMPANY, 9 EVERY SUIT AND COATi I SELL IS GUARANTEED FOR A YEAR - BECAUSE IT IS MY PRIVILEGE TO SELL THE FAMOUS 2>euud Jli+te. OF TAILORED-TO MEASURE CLOTHES The Only Clothing You Can Buy That Is Both Quatoaiteedt For Wear and OnLuAejf. Against Damage ? THE NEW SPRING SELECTION OF 3 00 HANDSOME FABRICS IS NOW READY AT PRICES , STARTING AT $24 50 DOUGLAS PERRY BoitluMe Mercantile Co. Pboae B87-8 8. Main St. HISTORICAL I By KKV. E. H. DAVIS One would not think that the very attractive place on Main Sweet immediately opposite the Baptist Church is one of the old landmarks of this historic town. Not in its present shape of course; with its up-to-date Improvements) which it has taken on but recent ly since coming itno the posses-, sion of Mrs. J. W. King and mod-: ernized under the skillful touch of' J. W. Pruitt. My acquaintance, with it began more than TO years ago soon after the Civil war, own-: ed I know not by whom but occu-l pied as a residence by Mr. Patrick1 Henry Smith, the solitary village undertaker, whose solemn duty be gan immediately on notice of a death when hurrying to the be reaved home with tape-line and yard stick he took his measure ments much as a present day tailor would and then returned to his shop to construct or build a coffin accordingly. Mind you a coffin : and the material pine, or poplar or black walnut ? In value just in the order named, with only the ! more opnlent affording the last i mentioned. But farther back than ; he ? much farther back Just how : much I do not know, it was the home of Grandma Shines ? called Grandma even by those not thus! related to her. Her maiden name was Sarah Richmond, a daughter ' of William Richmond and Anne Millikan. Married first to Gabriel1 Long. Their children were (1)' Mary, married to Green Hill grand son of the first Green Hill. He was: Public Register in this county for; a number of years and his pecu-i liar signature with P. R. following! may be seen on our oldest official | documents. He was also first cou- 1 sin to Rev. Major Green Hill. | (2) Anna, married to Jordan1 Thomas. Mrs. Mary Penn, Mrs. I Jones Fuller afterwards Mrs. Dr. J King. Joel Thomas and Gabriel I John Thomas were the children of ; this Union. (3) Martha, married Joel King. (4) Rebecca, married, Chas. Applewhite Hill. I remem ber well the two last mentioned , and attended itae funeral of each. ' (5) One son, Nicholas, married a, sister of Jordan Thomas. These! were the children of Sarah Rich-| mond Long, who after Long's death married the Rev. Daniel Shines and thus acquired the name by which she was more widely , known ? Grandma Shines. From the tenor of her letters many of which are in the hands of her de- ! scendants today she must have been a real help-mat^ to her preacher husband. He was one of the pioneers of Methodism in this part of the country and her, correspondence indicates that she was his frequent if not constant companion as he traveled the ex-j tensive circuits. She touched peo ple in many sections and every- , where the impression was of t"be | same sort. People knew her to be , a woman of culture, of ability and of deep piety. There are many let- j ters extant here from people out , South, Miss., Tenn., Alabama, for mer Carolina folk making inquiry ' of or sending regards to Grandma ; or Mother Shines. Being such a person as indicated, the wife of a preacher and well nigh one. her- i self it seems a little strange that she bhould liavo bad the experi ence with the circus and the ele phant that is part of the history of this house now so well appoint ed and up-to-date. While she lived ! there a circus with at least one I elephant came to town. The beast, ib must have been a small one,, some how ok other became refrac- 1 tory and eluding his kfeper was ? finally chased into the basement of 1 Mother Shines' house and there: captured. Whether or not this in- 1 eident had anything to do with j the supposed hostility of the pul pit towards the circus 1 am not able to say. Mr. Blake Nichol son, of Halifax, an old gentleman to whom I was pastor more than 40 years ago told me that before; the Civil war he attended John i Robinson's circus at- Ransom's | Bridge and he added this interest- ! ing statement which may have been an exaggeration. That one might have climbed a tree at any time during the day and he would have seen a dozen fights going on. I remember John Robinson's cir cus coming to Louisburg in the late 60's, through ibe country from Warrenton. They stopped for rest, for feeding and for lining up in what was then my father's grove, just where the beautiful residences of Messrs. Tonkel and Yarboro now stand. The tent was spread In a flat South of the river and to the left as you crossed the bridge going South. The bridge was a narrow single track affair with high abutments at each. end. The elephant as he mounted the abutment next to town and put his big foot on the flfloor of ifce bridge and looked down did not like the look of things and refused to go. No amount of urging would in duce him to change his mind. He absolutely renigged ? if you under stand what I mean. Being still of that mind he was carried around or driven through the river. Get ting him into' it was easy enough but getting him out was quite an other matter. He seemed to want to spend the rest of the day right there and by his behavior in it in dicated that he had not had such a time since he left his kinfolks In Asta. Have you ever noticed that be fore we were found out we care a lot what our neighbors think, and when found out we figure It is none of their business? dMBia mrm wro pound, or food Tr? . K? ?' bttrr. nw, nrn a ** *?* wb?o TOO i.l unm. hurled ct TS. W? r-onuch cfuo poor* out loo ??* Ui Toor food doMl 4m*t tad ?ou auu hwrttrjrn. uim, ??tn or tour (mi *our. *fe* ud np**t a II c*?r. Dceum ma nmr t*k* ? Uulht for stciurb KJft if H ?>=???<? ?nd fooUih. It ukn U>om UU> bUefc tablet* ttlltd BeU-im lor XodlfMllcg I O* KM! itomiik fluid* tarateM. raurr* ito M tin* end ? ? ? I Who knows most about Ijj^uUdingcars? Ford has built more then one-third o! all the autoncG* biles ever built in the world - mstamm TThERE are more Ford cars in we today than any other make. And there are more Ford V-8s than any other 8-cylinder car. The 1939 Ford V-8 represents the broadest ex perience in building cars any manufacturer ever had. You will find values in it far beyond what any other maker can put into a car at the low Ford price. Ford performance, traditional for a generation, has reached new heights in the 1939 V-8. And now Ford style leadership is equally outstand ing. "The smartest cars on the road" it the way own ers describe their new Fords. Smartest in action. Smart est in appearance. Leaders, u they deserve to be. FORD V*8 Look at these FORD FEATURES ? sme LIADMSHIP* The lux ury car in the low-price field. ? V-7YPE 8 CYLINDER ENGINE ? Eight cylinders give smooth ness. Small cylinders five ? economy. ? HYDRAULIC IJMKfS-Easy acting? quick, straight stops. ? 7Rim CUSHIONED COMFOUT New flexible roll-edge seat cushions* soft transvsrse springs, double-acting hy draulic shock absorbers. ? STABILIZED CHASSIS -No front-end bobbing or dipping. Level starts, level stops, level ride. ? SCIENTIFIC SOUNDPROOFING? Noises hushed for quiet ride. ? LOW PRICiS- Advertised prices include many Items of desirable equipment. 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