B. & L. Groups Urged To Support Home Loan Banks
Stock Sale
Plans To Be
Mailed Out
Fight For Bank Branch Traced By
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Condition Of State B. & L. Groups
Lauded As Excellent
Conditional applications for
stock in the Home Loan bank to 1
be established it Winston-Salem,
will be mailed out to bui’ding and
loan associations, insurance com
panies and savings banks of North
Carolina within the next few
days, O. K. LaPoque, deputy in
surance commissioner of R.aleigh,
and supervisor of building and
loan associations advised B. & L.
officials.
Mr. LaRoque urged these sec
retaries and directors to have their
associations subscribe for stock in
the bank, pointing out that it
would be one of the best steps
they could take. In response to
his remarks, those present passed
a unanimous vote in favor of the
home loan bank system.
Mr. LaRoque traced the long
history of the fight for such an
institution and described the bank
as "not a dumping ground for
promotions, not a governmental
'Santa Claus’, but a business pro
position.” He pointed out that
the bank will have a minimum
capital of $125,000,000 and will
enable the member organizations
to borrow money necessary for
many progressive activities.
Although the North Carolina
law on operation does not allow
them to buy this stock, it has
been arranged so that the associa
tions can deposit collateral for the
stock Aey wish to buy until after
the next session of the General
Assembly when it is felt certain
that the law will be changed.
North Carolina should get and
could use wisely borrowings from
the bank amounting to $10,000,
000, he said. He explained that ,
the stock bought by the compan- ]
ies should pay them six per cent, j
He urged the association that bor- ,
row money to use it: first, to pay ;
off what they owe to local banks; (
second, to pay back what they
have borrowed from the Recon
struction Finance corporation;
and third, to supply the needs of
the community.
In describing the condition of
building and loan associations of
the state as splendid, Mr. LeRoque
said that the Reconstruction Fin
ance corporation had loaned them
$3,000,0001.
"When you consider the red
tape that has to be gone through
to get loans from this organiza
tion, you understand what a real
ly fine standing the building and
loan associations have,” he declar
ed.
PATTERSON ITEMS
Miss Pauline McCorkle, Miss
Fanny Sloan, and Marks Davis,
who have been attending college at
Boone, spent the week-end at
home- • , u
Communion services were held
at Mt. Moriah, last Sunday. Pre
paratory services were held Satur
day afternoon. Large crowds at
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tended both.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Patterson
attended the State Grange meeting
held at Greensboro, Wednesday
and Thursday of last week.
A most delightful affair of the
past week was the chicken stew
held in Corriher’s pasture, by the
Luther League of Chapel church,
Thursday night. After a series of
interesting games, the chicken was
served, followed by fruits and
peanuts. About 35 Leaguers and
their friends enjoyed the delight
ful affair.
Mr. and Mrs. Pauji Baity, of
Charlotte, were visitors at the
home of Mr. add Mrs. W. A. Pat
terson last week.
Miss Evelyn Patterson, who has
been attending college at Lenoir
Rhyne, spent several days last
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Patterson.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Shue and
family visited Mr. and Mrs. Ver
non Bost, of Mt. Ulla, Sunday af
terrloon.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Albright
visited Mrs. Albright’s mother,
Mrs. Wilhelm, of near Salisbury
Sunday afternoon.
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in 4 weeks get on the scales and
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"Do you send your shirts to the
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"No, I just wear them once and
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FIRST LOVES
By Felix Diesenberg
SIXTEENTH V INSTALLMENT
Almon Strauss, cabling from
Paris, urged John Breen to con
tinue the work of Colfax:
You have never met me, but I
know and have confidence in you.
We must not despair, no matter
how dark the night. We must go
forward wherever we see our way
or where we feel our way. Plan
ning must continue so that later
on we will know what to do.
John Breen didn’t know what
to do. The pay he was getting
was necessary. If only the in
stiable city would calmn down.
How it tossed and squeezed and
misused its people.
*
When the youth, Mitchel, was
overwhelmed by the myth, Hy
lan, when the shaky city was be
ing pounded hourly by rumors, in
that time when shipping and men
and dollars mingled in red carni
val, Josephine Rantoul splurged in
a splendid orgy of waste. She
even made money, and she demon
strated her ability to spend it.
The war carried Gerrit Rantoul
into financial whirlpools where he
navigated with much skill. Muni
tions speculations sent his star to
dizzy altitudes, shot him upward
on a rise of values. Rantoul, at
last, was many times a millionaire.
Rantoul, at a dollar a year, also
served his country while his New
York office, in Pine Street, burn
ed with activity. At the very be
ginning of the wild time, a Rus
sian Commission, headed by a
Grand Duke and carrying an un
limited credit, fell to the wiles of
Josephine. A neoteric cult to
which she subscribed included sev
eral Russians, who, in return for
lavish entertainment, inducted the
Grand Duke and his advisers to
the genial atmosphere of St. Boto
lph and the tender mercies of the
great St. James. Rantoul after this
killing, in which Josephine felt she
held a charter interest, fell into
the expanding schemes of George
it. James.
Almost without trying and be
muse of Josephine "Clever, you
tnow,” he found himself on the
nside in Shell Case Consolidated
i fifty million dollar combination
)f enterprises previously defunct.
Tri-Nitro-Bullion also began the
erection of vast explosive works
in New Jersey, manufacturing an
unstable compound with great
rapidity as its chemists learned the
business, in quantity production
tests. Rantoul, who took on a
strange fictitious importance, was
made Chairman of the Board. Tri
Nitro soared to dizzy heights with
the booking of further Russian or
ders. Josephine did much to recon
cile Gerrit Rantoul for her many
annoying traits. Tri-Bull, as it
was called on the curb, led Ran
toul into the picric acid pool, a
sweet bit of business engineered by
St. James.
St. James, swinging Rantoul
with him at the head of a group
of the more daring newer men,
bought a fleet of lake steamers and
founded the world trading corpor
ation of Jason, Fillmore, and
Jones, with pretentious offices on
Broadway. This firm was named
after three likable chaps in his of
fice. The issue was listed on the
Stock Exchange and skyrocketed
from the start. The world was
hungry for genius, it lapped up
stocks and produced profits, and
fought for the privilege of giving
a wav its monev.
But St. James’ greatest achieve
ment was Safety Submarine, sell
ing on the curb at ten, with few
buyers, while jobbers washed the
stock in petty larceny against a
few lucky simpletons who boughi
before the upward trend of war
With the advent of St. James anc
Rantoul, and the inflex of follow
ing money, came a classic upwarc
dash. Safety—the name itself gavi
security—began to soar and
touched a point where the stocl
could not be bought at any price
Five hundred dollars a share wa
offered but few were wise enougl
to sell.
Kantoui s new place at oouui
. ampton, bought lock, stock, an<
cellar from a German dye man
under suspicion and therefore sub
ject to forced sale, appeared ii
pictures in the Sunday papers. I
was a very elaborate place and be
came the scene of the famous Al
lied Fair, the great open air chari
ty fete under the management o
the notorious Fulgence Torpilliei
the Society Ace. Seventy-fiv
per cent of the money taken wi
clear profit, for Torpillier. Bu
Josephine, in very becomin;
frocks, things with the new mili
tary effect, dawn gray, and sk
blue, carried on her flirtations with
an ever widening effect. She felt
no fidelity among admirers; she
never made the fatal mistake of
being bourtd up in any one man.
Poor Rantoul, chanting his little
private ditty, at times casting le
cherous eyes at bold telephone
tarts, girls who looked upon him
as a prospective sugar papa, to em
ploy terse terms of the time, nurs
ed a burning jealousy. The sad
part of his predicament was his
real love for Josephine, based upon
nothing but futility.
The splurge she made, the bills
she ran, the countless worthless
followers who rode in his cars,
drank his liquor, ate his food, be
gan’ to tell on him. Men hung at
her elbow, bent over her, pursued
her with the intensity of wild in
fatuation. Then things began to
get a little out of hand. St. James,
in the process of squeezing bag
holders, nipped Gerrit Rantoul for
a million; it- was a start. Josephine
had jilted St. James. Then Tri
Bull was condemned by the Gov
ernment as unsafe. The Army
would have none of it. The Navy
refused even to use it in depth
bombs. It was reported as an un
stable explosive. Gerrit Rantoul
lost heavily in Tri-Bull, finding
himself possessed of most of St.
James’ holdings, exchanged for
value before the bad news seeped
through that the stuff was worth
less. It was one of the little for
gotten tragedies among the pig
ren, well behind the front.
The expensive apartment at th.:
St. Botolph had been succeeded by
a more lavish suite covering two
floors of the new Du Barry. A
super-flat with private elevators
and exclusive service, an expensive
nest bordering on the eastern edge
of Central Park. Poor Ranatoul
fairly groaned when he began to
realize the drain of this establish
ment. He was worn down by his
excitement, irritable through his
worries, and Josephine, spending
his money and banking her own,
rode on the necks of her admir
ers. What a flaming time of lurid
patriotism it was! In the great
hotels, foremost in the vast enter
tainment for chairty Josephine
lived on high. It was at this
time that Cloissy evolved his fam
ous scent, Parfum Josephine!
si- * «■
Judge Marvin Kelly, white, rud
dy of face, still the solid sub
stantial figure of unshakable in
tegrity, lead the lists of casualties
in the club, the same club where
he had so often sat with his friend,
Gilbert Van Horn. The old Ave
nue had seen many stirring march
es, and the day when the great
Liberty Loan Parade swept up the
Avenue he had marched. But his
eyes looked down the colunms of
killings, down the lists of the lost,
the lists of wounded, anjd then ht
found it.
John Breen, Major 11th Engi
neers, wounded at Argonne For
est.
"Poor Gilbert, I can almost feel
him here, looking at this, but no,
he would have been alross too.”
John Breen had departed for
the war. John had no particular
desire to fight, or to live. His ut
ter carelessness, as is often the case
set down as transcendent courage.
He was decorated with the Croix
de Guerre. A month later he for
got it somewhere, and never men ■
tinned it. He concentrated on en
gineering.
"John has been wounded.” Mar
vin Kelly met Josephine in the St.
Botolph. The war was on its last
legs. John had survived. "He’ll
probably never get back to the
front.” A look of great concern
came into Josephine’s eyes. "Anc
they’ve pinned a few medals or
him, the Croix de Guerre,” he add
ed.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
"A woman can make a fool oi
"Ah, yes, but think of those ter
you in ten minutes.”
minutes.”
TURTLE WITH 2 HEADS
VIEWED BY SCIENTISTS
Schenectady, N. Y.,—Scientits
in an electric company’s laborato
ry today had a two-headed turtle
under their microscopes.
The turtle has two mouths to
feed one stomach. It is in excellent
health and waddles about the lab
oratories unabashed. It has a divis
ion in its spinal column and the
heads terminate the ends of a "Y”
spine.
The heads appear and behave
normally. They react independ
ently. Each controls the two legs
on its side of the body.
The turtle was found near a
Schenectady lake by Norwood
Clie, 9-year-old daughter of an
official of the electric company.
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More People Killed j
By Acidity Than j
War Say Scientists
ffAll Deaths from So-Called Natural Causes are I
Merely the End-Point of Progressive Acid j
Saturation” Says Well-Known Authority 'j
SCIENCE DISCOVERS
The Human Body Con
sists of Eleven Essential
Minerals. A Deficiency
of Any of These Causes
Many Human Ills.
Most Stomach Disorders, Indigestion, Gas, Bloat- f
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ness, Nervousness, Rheumatism, Sleeplessness, 1
Loss of Strength and Vigor Are Caused by a I
Lack of Some Essential Mineral Element and a I j
Deficiency of Vitamins. 1 "7
In the light of recent scientific discoveries. Leading Physicians I
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if the system could be regularly supplied with a sufficient quantity 1
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DEFICIENCY IN MODERN FOODS 1
The process of refining modern foods; bleaching of flour, rice, [ -•
sugar, etc.; together with improper cooking takes out of our foods f
the very things that God intended we should have. I
ACIDITY TEARS DOWN HEALTH I
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system becomes clogged with impurities. Various aches and
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