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Wi DOOM MM
AN OLD MYTH PROVED TRUE
Until a comparatively; few years
ago there was a decided tendency
in this skeptical world to scoff at
all the beliefs and traditions that
have been handed from generation
to generation from away back in
the dim mists of antiquity. For
countless thousands of years all
mankind implicitly believed that
there existed in the world’s youth
and presumably still existed in its
unexplored regions, strange mons
ters of various forms. Then mod
ern science arose and it became the
fashion to ridicule these folk
myths, so that several generations
have been brought up to distrust
everything that their ancestors be
lieved.
But science is, after all, merely
the endless search for truth; and '
the deeper science delves the more
it discovers in proof of these anci- j
ent beliefs. Probably the most ,
widely-spread belief is in the ex- {
istence of the strange monsters s
which folk-lore classifies under the 1
broad name of "dragons.” The 4
dragon has been for countless cen- ^
turies the emblem of Imperial f
China. The legend of St. George
slaying the dragon which issued ,
from his cave and devoured the \
young women of the community s
is older than the written word.'1
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Some years ago scientists discsover- 4
ed the remains of fossil reptiles,
any one of which might have pass- j
ed for the dragon of ancient myth; ;
but it was thought that all of these i
animals had perished Ion|g before s
Man made his appearance on earth, i
Lately, however, real "dragons” 1
were discovered on a remote island
in the Indian Ocean. They are j
not as big as the dragons of myth- j
ology, but they are clearly surviv- <
ors of one of the oldest forms of;,
life, and their survival clearly in-1
dicates that larger and earlier types |
may well have been contemporary
with, primitive man. These giant
lizards from the Island of Komodo,
of which living specimens have
been brought to the New York
Zoological Gardens, conform in
every respect except that of size to
the monster which St. George slew.
They are only eight or pine feet
long, but they live in caves from
which they sally forth with great
ferocity and kill human beings, if
any happen to get in their way, or
deer or other large animals, drag
the bodies to their caves and devour
them at their leisure. They are
incredibly powerful and fierce,
and it is easy to imagine the panic
into which the appearance of a
dragon in the neighborhood must
have thrown the settlements of
primitive man. No wonder the
dragon "myth” has persisted in the
songs and stories of the human
race.
PURVEYOR OF HAPPINESS
The "second edition” of the Cen
tura of Progress Exposition, which
opened on Saturday, May 26, is
said by those who have seen it to
be better, bigger, easier to see and
more interesting and varied, than
the great show on Chicago s lake
front last year.
The management is said to be
lieve that there will be even a
larger attendance that the record
breaking figure of 22,000,000 whe
went through the gates in 1933,
We hope that will prove to be true
• for we know of nothing that is ol
more definite and durable valui
than the impressions and knowledgi
such as this, takes away with him
That sort of thing is wealth thal
nobody .'an take away from it;
possessor, and in all of the frantic
pursuit of happiness too many peo
pie think they can gain it only by
"making money” and too few rea
lize chat happiness comes from an
inner content of knowledge, mem
ories. hopes and beliefs which have
nothing at all to do with money.
In a very real sense, it seems tc
us, such international exposition;
as this one at Chicago are genuine
purveyors of happiness. Enter
tainment alone is not happiness;
but there is plenty of that promis
ised for this season, of 1934.
We have an idea that a very
much larger number of people this
year than last are going to find
themselves in a position to motor
to Chicago, or fly' there, or go by
rail or bus or boat—what a lot of
wayrs there are to go places nowa
days!—and that there will be a
great desire on the part of those
who missed out on the exposition
last year to go now' and see for
themselves the wonders and the
beauties which their friends who
went last year have been telling
them about.
We can’t think of any bettre
way to spend one’s vacation thaal
to take in the Century of Progress
this Summer.
HIT DEPRESSION ON THE
CHIN
One reason why revival of the
construction industry is regarded
as being so vitally important to
recovery by most authorities is that
the bulk of the employment it
tvould provide is where it is most
needed—among skilled and un
skilled laborers.
In 1930, 2,3 00,000 persons were
employed by the building industry.
\bout 1,000,000 more were em
>loyed in construction work in
ither industries, bringing the to
al to 3,600,000. Managerial, pro
essional and office workers con
tituted less than 12 per cent of
hese. The ratio was 7 or 8 wage
arners to 1 "white-collar” em
loye.
Again, it is reliably estimated
hat for every worker actually em
iloyed on a building job, anpther
worker is employed behind the line
n industries supplying necessary;
upplies. The upshot is that, in not
nal times, more than ten per cent
f all the workers of the country
re directly or indirectly dcpend
nt for their livelihood upon the
iuilding industry. The teriffic drop
n construction work that came
eith the depression was as a re
ult, very possibly the largest sin
;le factor in causing unemploy
nent.
Today American industry is ex
>anding as rapidly as it can. And
he individual should follow that
aad, by building and repairing his
iwn property now, while prices are
till down. A national movement
imong home-owners to renovate
heir property would be a blow de
•ectly to the chin of depression.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
How would this strike you as an
nvestment opportunity?
You are given a chance to turn
i certain part of your monthly or
annual earnings over to a group
of financial experts. A contract
is drawn, whereby you "buy” a
definite sum on the easy-payment
plan. They will take your pay
ments and invest them r govern
ment bonds, in the best of indus
trial securities, in first mortgages
on good rural and urban property.
Their total investment, made up
by hundreds of thousands of small
payments such as yours, embraces
the whole sweep of sound Ameri
can business and productive enter
prise. Stringent laws, passed foi
your protection, regulate the type
of investments that can be made.
In order to assure you the ulti
mate in safety, the concern yot
turn your money over to has gi
gantic cash reserves, built up ovei
many years, to stand behind youj
comparatively small investment.
This isn’t all by any means. II
you die, even though that shouk
happen after you have made bui
one payment, the full amount yot
have contracted for will be paid t(
your heirs. After a few years, yot
may borrow against your invest
ment if need be—or you may droj
further payments and receive a casl
settlement, in case of dire peces
sity.
That sounds too Utopian to b
true. But it is true—and the in
stitution offering you that is lif
insurance, which has survived thes
recent years of black depressioi
with colors flying.
WE ARE not thinking of
MENTIONING ANY names
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TODAY, AND you can
st SI St
BET ON that. "Look here, Mrs
st st st
HEPBURN, WHY have you beer
st st st
HITTING MY little Bobbie?”
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DEMANDED A certain
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WELL-KNOWN WOMAN right
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HERE LAST week. "Mrs.
BAKER I only hit him because he
WAS RUDE and called me a fat
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OLD PIG”, was the reply.
"BUT, GRACIOUS, Mrs.
HEPBURN”,"EXCLAIMED her
NEIGHBOR,' "YOU ought to
KNOW BETTER than that.
THRASHING MY son won’t do
YOU ANY good—you’ll have
TO START dieting.’’
I THANK YOU.
'AND THE CAT CAME BACK
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Whitener
and Mrs. Donahue and children
visited the airport Sunday to see
Mr. Cat come sailing down from
the plane by parachute but alas! he
wrecked the chute and came down
like a plummet arid we hear that he
still retains his nine lives.
—Salem correspondettfe. Morgan
ton Neil's-Herald.
YEH; GAL'S IS A ROVIN’
ANIMAL
Some of the Antioch folks are
still visiting. This is a very fine
time to visit, anyway, since there
isn’t so much field work to be done
along now, especially for girls.
Girls do most of the visiting, any
way.
—Antioch correspondence, Monroe
Journal.
CALL OUT THE S. P. C. Ad
Did you happen to see the midget
car proceeding down Wentworth
street carrying six passengers?
—Item Charleston Neil’s & Courier
GOING UP TO SEE ’EM SOME
TIME,.
Miss Valley Mae West left last
Friday on an extendel visit to rela
tives and friends in Whittier and
Winston-Salem.
—Franklin Press.
MUST TIKE TO WORK
Last Monday was a holiday, cele
brating the declaration of Meck
lenburg independence, but contrary
to all uses and customs the Peoples
Bank did not observe the day by
closing. When asked about it Mr.
R. L. Harris, who happened to be
present, said it was simply an
versight.
—Roxboro Courier.
FELL OFF SOMETHING BUT
TWAN’T A HOSR
"Did you ever see a dream walk
ing, gurgled the radio crooner—
Yes! and the young woman that
we saw' recently under the influ
ence liquor looked like a nightmare.
—W. Curtis Russ, Waynesvillt
Mountaineer.
4 PRECEDENT BEGINS
James S. Manning, Governoi
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: FE.LL&B. VUHO \AVOUT pay
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VUOkkV ABOUT EM,
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Kitchin’s campaign manager, has
the refusal of the Supreme Court
Associate Justiceship vacated by
Justice H. G. Connor in^ accepting
President Taft’s apointment as'
Eastern District Judge.
—25 Years Ago, Raleigh News &
Observer.
’TAINT NOTHING BUT TUR
NIP TOPS; WITH SAND IN ’EM
Mrs. David Simpson decided I
needed some spinach to eat and
brought it along from the big farm
south of town. I am going to do
my best, but may fall down on the
job. I' am just a plain old citizen,
and when people bring me corn
bread and buttermilk, beans and
peas, I know what to do with them.
But this fancy stuff I knock a
foul on every time.
—T. B. Raney, Monroe Journal.
THEM AS GETS CURB SERVICE
WANTS MORE OF THE SAME
S. C. Bennett, of the Dry Ponds
community gives us a remedy for
bean beetles which he says is sure
to kill them. It is this: Go to
the proper authorities and get a
sack of “relief” flour. Take it to
the bean patch and spkinkle some
on each en(d of every row. The
crafty beetles will go to the flour
eat it and then sit down and
starve to death waiting for you
to bring them more.
—Cole Savage, Morganton News
Herald.
HOME COOKING (CHEF’S
HOME)
Better than any tale of a cat
and a dog living together iri
amicable relationship is the story
told ay a sign put. up by a near
Raleigh filling station proprietor
attempting to attract hungry mo
torists. The display announces
'Home Cooking—New York
Chef.”
—Tom Walker, Tar Heel.
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A MERE TRIFLE
The women’s bathirfg suits are
said to be causing concern at cer
tain beeches. Some people worry
about mighty little.
—Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. '■
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON ;
Continued from page one <
for more and better methods of ]
bringing prosperity back. Action i
has taken the place of inaction, and c
no one questions the fundamental I
honesty of purpose behind every
thing that is being done here. (
There has been great courage dis- ,
played in the face of strong oppo- ,
sition to any kind of change. ■
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The banking situation has been ]
put on a firm footing. In spite of .
many failures, breakdowss and )
changes in experiments, the feeling ]
is quite general that basic perma- ^
nent improvement will come out of s
the NRA and the AAA. Even t
hose most directly affected by the <
plans for regulating the trading ink
ecurities admit that the former j(
conditions were extremely bad and i
needed reforming. Not everybody j
agrees that the methods of regula- ;
tion selected arc the best and most ]
workable, but they will at least ,
cure the worst of the old evils, ,
even though they may bring new j
ills in their train to some.
Washington still believes that if
the wide-spread program of relief
had not been put into effect,
through the PWA, CWA, CCC,
FERA and other agencies, there
would have been a real revolution
in America. Different folks have
different ideas about that, but so
jlong as the Administration believed
jit, it probably did the best thing to
[avert it.
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There is no disputing the tend
ency toward a more even distribu
tion of wealth. If this Adminis
tration can have its way for an
other six years, there will be no
more enormous fortunes left undis
tributed. It will take a genera
tion or two for new accumulations
of capital to concentrate in a few
hands.
The President is not willing to
go niearly as far in the line of con
fiscation of wealth as some of his
advisers. He is a "middle of the
roader” with natural tendencies
toward conservation and if he seems
to veer to the left at times, it is
because by yielding a yard he can
keep himself from being pushed a
mile in the direction of radical
Socialism.
It’s a fine thing to be stirred by'
he beauty of the blossom time, but
don’t be so much stirred that you
must sit down and write a poem
which the editor will have to re
gretfully turn down, when you
might be planting some good flow
ers and vegetables in your garden.
dtoRAMBUNG
S li ■round
IjfJ I NEW YORK
t M M t -HUGH KENNY
I read all the signs in subway:
vhen I take an unfrequented route
\To transportation system has evei
aicceeded in so thoroughly mixing
ny sense of directions . . . There
nen in a row on the subway at 9
i. m. They’re freshly shaved and
ibviously going to work. Yet all
hree of them nod stupidly in their
leep! Must have come from the
nd of the line an hour way in
Irooklyn . . . Central Park was
rowded with happy kids at play
n Saturday. Too bad it’s so far
rom many of the tenements.
. . That fountain in Rockefeller
ienter plaza—I don’t like it. Why
hey did it in shiny gold is beyond
ne. But the green of the garden:
; a relief in that section of nothing
>ut gaunt granite and concrete . . .
ielen Hayes in Mary of Scotland
. . superb acting, but makes my
listory seem weaker than ever . . .
■irst warm weather filled the high
ways to the beaches Sunday, and
ome optimists went swimming in
he Atlantic. June third was my
arliest last year and even then I
ame out numb ... A woman
aught between lines of traffic in
he middle of Broadway. She’s so
rightened that she shakes her arms
nd stomps her feet like an angry
ittle girl. I’ve felt that way, too.
. . The cx-Vice Consul wore a
utaway Sunday. I wonder if he
ode the subway up to 68 th Street,
t’s much faster than a cab. But
mu do—oh dear yes—so lose caste!
■Jc -k i':
A New York attorney, Lloyd N.
icott, recently proposed an Inter
aational Grand Jury composed ol
iverage citizens of every civilized
aation. In his address.at Huntei
College in New York, Mr. Scott
explained that such a body would
;xpress the majority will of citizen;
everywhere and would be empow
ered to subpoena officials of ag
gressor nations endangering work
peace, and to make indictments tc
the World Court which would ren
der judgments and designate th<
nations to enforce these . . . All on<
needs to be certain about the ma
jority will is to look over a car ful
of New York subway riders. The]
may be brilliant or stupid, but pu
them into an organized body ant
ask them what they want. With
out propaganda to run emotiom t<
high pitch, you know the answe
will be, peace!
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That part of New York humani
ty that calls itself Broadway leave
town about this time of year to tr;
out its new scrips in; rustic’ sum
mer retreats. Of 143 plays trie<
out in Westport, Pasadena, South
arnpton. Provincetown and else
where, some 31 eventually arrivei
on Broadway. And of these 3
which appeared this season, onl
five were apparently successsfu!
each running for more than 10
performances in "the forties” nea
Broadway.
If you have never been to New
York, you may think, as I did, that
a stretch of Broadway is just one
theater after another. The fact
is, however, that the great majori
ty of theatres for the drama and
musicals are located east and west
of Broadway on the streets from
42nd Street all the way up to the
Guild Theater in 52nd Street.
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Summer . . . bus top . . . two
elderly ladies from out of town
identifying dozens of license plates
jfrom other states . . . What was
that blue one? . . . "Pardon me, la
dies, but that’s from Connecticut.’’
|.. . And why the cheesecloth on the
front of that car? ... I was stump
ed on that one till I inquired: it’s
stuck on with dry backed water
proof adhesive tape to keep bees I
and bugs and moths out of the
adiator combs.
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i One of the hottest days of the
year ushered in legal drinking at
|bars recently . . . And there were
i a lot of old-time bartenders grum
bling about the women who insisted
‘with the men, too . . . and then
'with the men, too . . . and hten
'complaining because the language
|St the bar wasn’t exactly what they
| .vished to hear.
New York roof tops begin to
japproach the limits of nudist camps
as warm weather sets in. And
many a spy glass is put to unac
customed use. Or perhaps I should
say—usual use.
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| It may take great persuasion to
jinduce junior to eat his vegetables
‘as he ought to, but if you give him
10 cents he will no doubt give an
| xhibition of eating an angleworm.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as executors of
the estate of Fannie F. Dunham,
this is to notify all persons having
claims against the said decedent to
file an itemized, verified statement
of same with the undersigned on
or before the 1st day of May,
193 5, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery. Per
sons indebted to said estate are no
tified to make prompt settlement.
THEODORE CONNOR, SAMU
EL CONNOR and ZEB TREX
LER, Executors of the estate of
Fannie F. Dunham.
Rendleman and Rendleman, Attys.
May 4—June 8.
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