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Urges Scouts Uphold Constitution
F. R. Talks To
Boys On Duties
Of Citizenship
President Regrets Can
cellation of Jamboree,
Hopes Future Meet
Washington.—In a surprise ref
erence to the constitution, Presi
dent Roosevelt declared in an ad
dress Wednesday night that the
success of that document depends
upon "the attitude of mind and
the degree of the spirit of unselfish
co-operation that can be developed
in individuals.”
The Chief Executive spoke to
the Boy Scouts of America. At the
outset he lamented cancellation of
the international scout jamboree
here because of an infantile paraly
sis epidemic.
His reference to the constitution
broke unexpectedly upon many of
the political minded. Only recent
ly Herbert Hoover called upon the
President to state his ideas about
amending the document.
Mr. Roosevelt did not touch di
rectly upon this point, however.
There were indications among those
close to him that he did not intend
to return to the issue in the imme
diate future, although he will ad
dress the nation Saturday night for
the first time since Congress met.
Speaking to the scouts, the
we are bound together in a
democracy under a constitution
whose purpose was and is 'to form
a perfect union, establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, pro
vide for the common defense, pro
mote the general welfare, and se
cure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our prosperity.’
"The success of that constitu
tion is dependent on the attitude of
mind and the degree of the spirit
of unselfish co-operation that can
be developed in individuals. Scout
ing is essentially and clearly a pro
gram for the development of that
unselfish, co-operative attitude of
mind.”
The President’s speech was in
keeping with a promise made when
the national jamboree to have been
here this week was canceled.
Mr. Roosevelt emphasized (the
responsibilites of citizenship to the
scouts and said the scout motto,
"Be prepared,” applies "just as
much to the wider service which is
your opportunity when your full
civic resposibilities are attained.”
"Even before you become of vot-;
ing age, wou actually have a part
in civic affairs,” he said, "and you
bear responsibilities in your home
communities. We older citizens
are very proud of the many con
tributions that individual Scouts
and Scout organizations have made
to the relief of suffering, to the
maintenance of good order and
good health, and to the furtherance
of good citizenship and good gov
ernment.”
He expressed the hope that the
jamboree canceled for this year will
be planned for some time in the
future.
Charlottean Accused
of Polio Law Violation
A warrant has been sworn out
by Dr. C. W. Armstrong, county
health officer, against J. W. Finch
er of Charlotte, manager of the
Crazy Water Crystals Entertainers,
who gave an entertainment here
Saturday night, alleging that a lo
cal ordinance recently enacted in
view of the infantile paralysis sit
uation had been violated.
The warrant charges that chil
dren under 15 years of age were
allowed to attend the event in vio
lation of the ordinance, and that
the place of entertainment was
badly overcrowded.
GOOD
MORNING
STUTTERING MINISTER
Hotel Clerk: "How did your
name come to be J. John B. B. B.
Bronson?”
Patron: "I was christened by a
minister who stuttered.”
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN
Stranger: "What is the standing
of the Spendmore family in this
town?
Native: "Well, I should say they
is sort of betwixt and between.
They ain’t exactly nobody and yet
they hain’t really anybody.
CRASH
Sympathetic Friend: "Good gra
cious! Your car is certainly smash
ed up, and you are a sight! Did you
hit anything?”
Beginner: "No, I turned out to
let a bridge go by and a big tree
came bearing toward me and
bumped right into me.”
IRISH WIT
I’ll tell you, Pat, my boy,” the
big man of the town confided, lay
ing a patronizing hand on the
young Irishman’s shoulcfer, "I
wish I had your tongue.”
"Sure, sor,” grinned Pat; "but
it would do yez no good without
my brains.”
POOR ENCOURAGEMENT
Trainer (to Pugilist). "Don’t
forget, Max, that if you feel bad,
your opponent feels worse.”
Max: "If he feels any worse than
I do he must have passed out.”
WANTED FULL DETAILS
"Here said the sightseeing
guide, was fired the shot heard a
round the world!”
But the studious young man
fresh from college was far from be
ing satisfied.
"Is the specific consumption of
time required for the reverbration
of the trapectory of circumnavi
gate the terrestrial sphere also with
in your scope of knowledge?” he in
quired.
A RISING TEMPERATURE
Things were rather strained be
tween the two sweethearts.
"But, George darling,” she said,
'3 dp lave you still. You cannot
imagine how warm me love for
you is.”
George groaned inwardly.
"Oh, but I do, all right,” he re
turned. "I’ve always noticed how
my money burns when I’m near
you.”
WOULD SHARE THE BURDEN
Father: "My son, I want to im
press you with the fact that it takes
even better judgment to spend
money wisely than to make it.”
Son: "I can understand that,
father. Let me take half the bur
den off your hands. You make it
and I’ll spend it.”
BOOB McNUTT
"Darling, will you be my wife?”
"Will you always let me do just
what I like?”
"Certainly.”
"Can mother live with us?”
"Of course, dear.”
"Will you give up the club and
always give me money when I ask
for it?”
"Willingly, my pet.”
"I’m sorry. I could never marry
such a boob.”
MISTAKEN
Housewife: "Yes, I’ll give you a
meal if you saw and split that pile
of wood, carry out the ashes, mend
that hole in the fence and sweep
the walk.”
Tramp (walking away): "I
guess you made a mistake lady. I’m
not your husband.”
CAUTIOUS
"Now, we will engrave the young
lady’s name inside the ring, if you
like, at no extra cost,” said the
jeweler, anxious to make a sale.
"Well,” said the cautious young
man, "if it doesn’t cost anything
you might just put in 'to my belov
ed’ and let it go at that.”
BRAIN TRUSTER
Panhandler: "Say, old man, kin
you help a brother Mason, Odd Fel
low, Elk, Moose, Eagle, Owl, For
ester or Labor Unionist?”
Old Man: "I don’t belong to any
of them.”
Panhandled: "Ah, den, kin you
help a fellow Methodist, Catholic,
Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Disciple
or Quaker?” a
Old Man: "I don’t belong to any
of them either.”
Panhandler: "Ah, den, shake
hands, pardner, and assist a feller
socialist, uplifter, brain-truster and
boon-doggler in distress!”
i Refuses $50,000 ]
NEW YORK . . . Whether baseball
moguls know it or not, George Her
man (Babe) Ruth is still very much
in baseball. The Sultan of Swat has
turned down a theatrical offer cf
$5,000 per week to take a part in
a big Ball production now in re
hearsal, “Baseball's my game ’ 1
a- Babe.
Sutton Selected
Rowan County
Farm Agent
Rowan county commissioners on
Monday elected D. H. Sutton as
county farm agent to succeed W.
G. Yeager, who resigned to take a
federal position.
Mr, Sutton is at present farm
agent for Caldwell county and was
formerly teacher of agriculture at
the Farm Life sohool at China
Grove.
Colored Boy Has
Infantile Paralysis
The illness of Perry Leazer, four
year old colored boy here has been
diagnosed as infantile paralysis by
physicians.
He bacame ill Saturday. This is
the second case here this summer,
the other being a five-month-old
colored girl, whose condition now
is reported to be satisfactory.
RAIN DAMAGE HIGHWAYS
AND BRIDGES
Raleigh.—Repairs to bridges and
roads in southeastern North Caro
lina damaged by heavy rains sever J
weeks ago have been completed, W.
Vance Baise, chief engineer of the
state highway and public works
commission, announces.
Heaviest damage was reported in
Brunswick county where a number
of small bridges were washed out.
Roads in Johnston, Wayne and
Columbus counties also were dam
aged from the heavy downpours.
Baise said between $6,000 and
$7,000 was expended in repairing
the roads.
N. C. Jobs Approved
WPA Advisors
Okay Projects
Itemized List of $3,422,
471 Works in State to
Be Available Soon
Washington.—Important step
toward getting Works Progress
projects in North Carolina under
way and putting employables now
on the relief rolls to work was
taken when the advisory committee
on allotments approved projects in
the State totaling $3,422,471.
Included in this list are the ma
jority of the Charlotte projects.
The breakdowns on these projects
will be made public as soon as the
entire list, which calls for a total
expenditure of over 84 million dol
lars in 3 5 States, is approved by the
President.
It was stated at the offices of
the Works Progress administrator
that State Administrator George
W. Coan, Jr., has made rapid pro
gress in submission of his list, and
it was thought the President would
approve the Tar Heel projects by
Friday.
NEWS
BRIEFS
' TO MAKE WET COUNTIES
I PAY CHAIN STORE LEVY
Raki|gh.—Dry Noiith Carolina
will crack down on the 16 counties
now selling whiskey under the so
called Pasquotank and New Han
over acts passed by the 193 5 Legis
lature and force t#em to pay chain
store license fees on their ABC
stores.
A. J. Maxwell, State commis
sioner of revenue, said the tax
would be the same as on any other
chain stores—no charge for the
first store, but $50 for each addi
tional store up to five. No county
has more than five liquor stores.
HIVE SUPERFLUOUS FOR
BEES IN PITT
Greenville.—Mrs. O. H. Jack-j
son’s bees don’t necessarily have to
have hives to do business.
Mrs. Jackson, who resides a few
miles from Greenville, iwent to
her grapevine a day or so ago and
heard a buzzing overhead. Looking
up, she discovered that her bees
had abandoned their hives and
placed a comb of honey about
three feet long and two feet wide
in the grapevine.
Rogers-Post Funeral j
— I
Ihe bodies of Will Rogers,
America’s most famous and belov
ed humorist, and Wiley Post, pre
mier aviator, killed near Point
Barrow, Alaska last Thursday at
5 o’clock (11 o’clock Eastern
standard time) when their plane
crashed from a height of about
5 0 feet, were brought home by
plane piloted by Joe Crosson, ace
Alaskan flier.
Mrs. Rogers and the children,
Will Jr., Mary and Jim made a
transcontinental trip by private
train for the funeral which was
held in Los Angeles due to the
fact that Mrs. Rogers felt unequal
to another long trip from the coast
back to Oklahoma. The last rites
were held in the little church "Wee
Kirk o’ the Heather” so beloved
by Will, with Rev. Whitcomb
Brougher, friend of the humorist,
conducting the service. As the lit
tle church accommodated only
125 people, another service was
held in Hollywood bowl, which
seats 3 5,000 with Rupert Hughes,
author, delivering the eulogy. >
The body of Wiley Post was!
transported by plane to Oklahoma!
where final and silent tribute was!
paid to one whose home coming |
for the first time was not a joyous
ane. Funeral services were held in
the little Landmark Missionary
Baptist church in Maysville, and
also in the First Baptist church in
Oklahoma City,*afterwhich inter
ment was in Fairlawn cemetery
while planes overhead dropped
flowers.
Seldom has the news of the
death of two men had such an
affect upon the country as a whole
is has the death of Rogers and
Post. Rogers was possibly the most
familiar figure in America, since
dis wit and humor had endeared:
aim to millions who never saw
aim. Post was considered one of
the most outstanding aviators in
the country, and had many excel
lent qualities which made him a
favorite with all who knew him.
[ Hat and Bag Forecast Football Season Ahead I
NEW YOBK . Jean Parker’s new Pall nit with the military air, ia
topped by asm art'little gray, hat .that gives a suggestion of a helmet,
which hints strongly of the favorite Pajl sport. The bag verifies the M-*
It is designed in football shape and property initialed.
Congressman Doughton
To Speak Here Sept. 2
Will Be Guest of Master Barbers'
Meeting At The Yadkin Hotel
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The Associated of Masters Barb
ers of North Carolina will hold
their eighth annual convention
here September 1,2, and 3rd. Con
gressman Robert L. Doughton,
chairman of the ways and means
committee, will be among the dis
tinguished persons to address the
group, according to the program
being issued over the state.
The Yadkin hotel will be head
quarters for the event, and business
sessions, banquets, dances and other
affairs will be held there. More
than 600 delegates are expected to
attend. Delegates will register at
9 a. m. Monday, Sept. 2, and the
convention will be called to order
at 1:30 p. m., invocation being
rendered by Rev. Thomas C. Cook,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church here.
Mayor C. F. Raney will extend
words of welcome, with response
by M. E. Meadows, of Asheville.
There will be talks by Dr. C. W.
Armstrong, J. Allan Dunn, and J.
J. Lloyd, representative of the In
ternational Barbers’ Union of In
diannapolis.
Congressman Doughton’s address
is scheduled for 3:30 p. m. and the
public is inivted to attend and hear
this important leader.
After the banquet, which will
be held at 7 o’clock, Sept. 2, a
dance will be held, this beginning
at 9:30.
The program for Tuesday, Sept.
3, begins at 9:30 a. m. with an
address by Walter Wagner of
Chicago.
Seek Grant For
Local Armory;
Plans have been advanced for ,
the city to secure a $25,000 grant
from the WPA for the erection of
an armory for the National Guard,
Company C of the 103th Engi
neers which is commanded by
Capt. E. W. Cole.
The civic and public affairs
committee of the Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring the pro
gram, and is seeking sites and ways i
to make the project possible. Capt.
Cole has designated Major W. L.
Eatum, of the reserve corps, to pre
sent the matter to civic clubs and
ather groups, and variolis organiza
tions are lending their assistance.
The guard unit has 64 enlisted
men and three officers, and has a
payroll of about $12,000 annually.
Highway Death
Toll Declines
Raleigh. — Sixty-nine persons
ivere killed and 528 injured in ac
:idents involving motor vehicles
luring July, the monthly report of
:he State Motor Vehicle bureau re
x>rts.
The number of deaths was 14
ess than the toll for June of this
fear and followed the usual decline
n highway deaths during July for
:he last five years.
In July, 1934, there were 70
deaths from automobile accidents.
Among those killed in July this
fear, 20 were pedestrains, 27 died
n collisions between cars, 20 were
filled in non-collision wrecks, one
svas killed in a collision with a
dxed object, four were bicycle
■iders and five were children play
ng in the streets.
Sirs fatal and 43 non-fatal ac
:idents involved drinking drivers.
Dne fatal and two non-fatal wrecks
resulted from drivers falling a
ileep. '
A majority of the wreck* occur
red in clear days and on straight
■oads. There was only one hour of
:he day, from 7 to 8 o’clock in the
norning, when no fatal accidents
)ccured daring the month.
Rowan Schools
Open Sept. 19
September 19 has been tentative
y set for the opening of the schools
>f Rowan county, a postponement
>f two weeks, and September 23
:or the city schools after a meeting
)f the County Board of Health and
ichools officials. The postpone
nent is to avert danger of infantile
paralysis.
The board also decided to keep
n effect an ordinance prohibiting
:he gathering of children under 15
fears old in any public place.
Steele Reunion
August 29th
The Steele reunion wifi be held
it South River Methodist church
in Rowan county, August 29th.
All friends and relatives are in
cited to come and bring a well
ailed basket. jJ5
Work To|egin
Soon fe State
Bagley Is Told By Power
Companies They Will
Take Over Feasible
Lines
Raleigh.—Approximately 1,000
miles of power lines will be laid
to service rural North Carolinians,
Dudley Bagley, chairman of the
Rural Electrification authority,
said after a conference between
representatives of the larger power
companies operating in the State
and REA officials.
The lines will be put up und
er the Rural Electrification prog
ram, and work on some of the pro
jects will get under way in the near
future, Bagley sad.
Bagley, who expressed much sat
isfaction at the progress made at
the conference, said the power
companies, one by one, expressed
a willingness to take over lines
held feasible under government re
gulations.
The Federal government holds
feasible all lines whose gross in
come for the first year is 20 per
cent of the total cost of the ex
tension.
Bagley said the power companies
would give an estimate as to h.ow
much mileage they will take over
under the REA plan within a few
days.
The education work proposed
through the extension division of
the authority was discussed and
received high praise both from
REA officials and representatives
of the power companies. The ex
tension work is being carried on
under the direction of D. S. Wea
I ver, who on September 1 will take
[over the duties of extension special
ist in rural electrification fields.
He will have a full-time assistant.
The sale of appliances also was
the subject of much discussion.
Under the plan, installment buying
of necessary electrical appliances
will be provided and encouraged.
The authority will not deal in the
appliances, but will lend money to
private concerns wishing to deal in
them, Bagley pointed out.
Represented at the conference
were the Duke, Carolina Power
and Light, Virginia Electric and
Power, Nantahala Power and
Light and the Durham Public Ser
vice companies.
Officials of companies owned by
various municipalities will be call
ed for a meeting some time next
week, Bagley said. The group will
include towns and cities where the
power plants are owned as well as
those where the power is redistri
buted. - ■ v
Rowan Home
Agent Resigns
Miss Mamie Whisnant, home de
monstration agent for Rowan
county for the last four years, has
tendered her resignation, effective
September 1 to the Board of Com
missioners to accept a promotion
as assistant to Miss Helen Esta
biook, specialist in home furnish
ings and home management of the
State Extension department. Her
headquarters will be in Raleigh.
McCorkle Applies
For Pardon
Application for parole of J. M.
McCorkle, former Salisbury bank
er now serving 2*4 to five years in
the state prison for misapplication
of funds from the estate of the late
Mrs. Peter Frercks, is soon to be
made. McCorkle is 66 years of age
and is reported as being in ill
health.
On Visit To Texas
Mrs. W. G. Watson, well-known
and prominent boarding house mis
tress of 107 South Lee Street, left
Tuesday morning for Wayco, Tex.,
where she will spend sometime with
her daughter, Mrs. Q. W. Burns.