Today's —
SMALL TALK
&
By MRS. RENN DRUM
n*E already been razzed for setting up as
an art critic—which I didn’t—because I had the temerity
to ay the pictures in the recent high school art exhibit made
little impression on a person whose taste in art was untrain
f(] A! least that was what I meant to say. that, so far as
anv impression they made on the average person was con
cerned, they were neither good nor bad.
And hfre 1 go. letting myself In
fpr lhe .same sort of razzing again,
„hfn 1 tell you, If you like pictures
all, it's worth your while to see
onfj on display at the grammar
'hoots this week. They’re grand.
;nd of £uch variety that, among the
;ne hundred forty pictures display
ed voi re sure to find several Just
to’your taste, no matter what kind
you like.
' If vOU do no more than spend
minutes before the "Camp Fire
B(U bv Witowski and the "Whis
lling bov" by Frank Duveneck, you'll
t* giad you went. Whether you
Msnd before them ten minutes or
thirty minutes, you'll keep seeing
omethfng in those two pictures to
give vou pleasure.
Then there is Francisco Goya's
■ Water Carrier," so virile the life
in it almost startles you; and the
laughing Cavalier” by Frans Hals,
who lets you know there's more up
his sleeve than he expects to tell
y.u; one of the loveliest of the ma
donnas. Frrruzzio’s "Madonna of
the Street"; and those exquisite
mother and child studies by Poth
ast. which delight the heart of any
mother,
Giand Canyon" by Thomas Mo
ran. an English born artist, which
is . upposed to be one of the best
interpretations of the canyon, made
me realize why there aren’t more
paintings of it. It just can’t be done.
His picture of the canyon Is no more
the canyon than if the artist had
never seen his subject. However, a
tiling which is so beautiful It takes
your breath anew each time you
return to its rim certainly can't be
put on canvas. For eight years I’ve
been looking for a good picture of
Grand Canyon through which I
might recapture a vision of it, and
row that I've seen one, I wish the
artist hadn't tried his hand at it.
When I found myself classing one
of the pictures as “not very good,"
I. kept remembering what an Eng
li-h teacher once said, "Before you
criticize a poem, try to write one.”
If you've ever tried to either write
a poem or paint a picture, you’ve
learned how good even tr.a poor ones
are
The pictures are on display at
Marion school today and will be at
LaFayette school tomorrow.
IF THE YOUNO MEN ABOUT
town go social on me, as the wom
en have already gone, I suppose
111 have to be twins to cover the
social front. Four of them this week
cuhcr struck out to develop into
socialite sor else they’re rebels who
intend to start an anti-nursing
movement.
These young men, Johnny Brew
er George Houser, Sam Barwick,
and Horton Gragg, whose wives
leave them home to ’tend the baby
one night each week while they
vep out to their bridge club, re
fused to be left behind Tuesday
v'ening. While the wives were mak
ing merry at the George Houser
home the husbands and children,
Billy Brewer, Shirley Ann Houser,
«ancy j0 Barwick and Barbara
Beam, had a hilarious evening to
geHler at Johnny Brewer home.
The men carried on a half-baked
-they admit themselves that the e
"asm a game made durlng ^
session-game of bridge between
■"Ping small noses and settling the
'"JarreU which arose from time to
nme beneath and about the table,
ce. Ice water and cigarettes
Sported as dee-licious) were
!f|c refreshments furnished.
They had so much fun they’ll
P ohabiy make the rebellion a week
*5 affair.
liJTLE n°RMA jean WALKER,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. B.
hf- kf^f Suttle street, celebrated
a" c!nhday yesterday along with
in h"lce daT' and there’s no doubt
,y.mur mind as to what her lucky
ls- She was bom. five years
•h( i'iterday’ the eleventh month,
^eleventh day and the eleventh
m’f1 the temPtation to talk
for * 1 °Wn °!Tsprir.'g is too much
morrow V wd0 ls five t0‘
ihir^nth ' , n 0n
th« birthn 3 UCky diy t0T me) 4,1(1
on Fric.da!ut3morr<>w again comes
FYlday-the-thirteenth.
Meredith college
PLANS annual stunts
COLLEGE, Raleigh,
c'lfbrair , "Meredith College will
%enSr: u'T Stunt Day on
Pfcjjr, 14 with a traditional
r ^r.'Pd aluiwnae - student
«!ym p^rtests' and an original
Nb r-prr!*,? The fc5ti'ritles have
th, v arranged to honor
^ to Umnae wh0 are ex'
oceaston *° CampUS IOT
J“iim,cjV!Jl k Llilfrtc' courts were
«iit, 4UUl) drivers one day
*« u," "r“,N' lart bceu ordered
,u k liown.'1
Say Unemployment
Figures Are Down
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 .—{IP)—
Commerce department experts re
Jorted today that unofficial check
ups indicate there are now fewer
than 9,000,000 unemployed.
They said the number of those
out of work has been falling off
steadily this year and was "slight
ly less than 9,000,000 at the end of
September.”
This compared with their esti
mates of 11,000,000 for January and
9,550,000 in August.
The September figure is more
than 6,000,000 below the estimate
for March, 1933. when a high of 15,
000,000 was reached, according to
the commerce department experts’
estimates.
The latest figures were consider
ed highly important, coming as
they do at a time when the admin
istration is engaged in an announc
ed attempt to bring the budget
closer to balance. Relief of unem
ployment has been an enormous
factor in the present unbalanced
budget.
Emphasizing that their periodic
estimates are unofficial, the com
merce department men disclosed
they will seek an appropriation of
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000 for a com
prehensive census of the unemploy
ed.
Baby Is Brought
To House By Dog
PEARL RIVER, La., Nov. 12.—(/P)
—Mrs. Louis E. Crawford, 24, wife
of a WPA worker and the mother
of two young boys, assumed care
today of a rosy-cheeked eight
pound baby boy brought to her
doorstep by a dog,
“It was just about the fall of the
night,” she said. "This big, black
dog came trotting through the
brush with something white in his
mouth. When he saw me, he stopped,
and I was so scared all I could do
was stand there.
“I’d never seen the dog before.
Most of the dogs around here are
hounds and this one looked like a
brindle bull.
"Then while I was looking the
white thing moved and I heard a
baby’s cry. When I realized It was
a baby I got a cold chill.
"I ran off the porch,” she con
tinued, “and shouted ‘put that
down you! put It down!’ I clapped
my hands and made like I was go
ing to hit him and that scared him
off. He put the baby down and
ran into the woods.”
Mrs. Crawford and her husband
decided they “wanted to keep the
child.”
“We’re going to call him Moses,”
Mrs. Crawford said.
Peggy Joyce Seeks
5th Safe Husband
LONDON, Nov. 12.— (IP) —Peggy
Hopkins Joyce, preparing for her
fifth venture Into marital “happi
ness forever after,” wants No. 6 to
be a safe husband.
Today she made her amateur
Jockey fiance, Vivian Jackson, 30
year old professor of Astro-Physics
at London university, promise he
will give up steeplechase riding "the
next time he falls.”
Astro-Physics, Peggy explained
vaguely, has “something to do with
stars” and she doesn’t mind how
many stars he sees—through a
telescope, or even in her eyes. But
she doesn't want him rising from
any saddle-to-sod parabolas in a
dazed or possibly damaged condi
tion.
She’s worried, too, and so is Vi
vian, lest her Amercian friends
might think he is a regular jockey
—not a gentleman amateur stee
plechase rider—or that they might
picture him as a stodgy professor.
“He’s really a dear,” said Peggy.
“And you can tell he’s an amateur
because—well, because he only fin
ished twentieth in a field of twen
ty riders the other day.”
“Acorn Award#” Go
To Scout Troop#
GASTONIA. Nov. 12—Announce
ment Is being made by officials of
the Piedmont Council of the Boy
Scouts of America to the effect
that Walter Head, president of the I
Boy Scouts of America will make j
an "Acorn Award” to every Scout
who enlists a' new member and to
each Troop that is responsible
through its efforts in getting a new
troop organized. The award to be
made to each Scout who brings a
ntw members will • be a "Acorn
Award" button and to tne troop
organizing a new troop will be
awarded a Flag Streamer.
EDUCATION FETE
STARTS CONTEST
IN ALL CUSSES
Extension Service To
Sponsor State
Try-outs
CHAPEL HILL, Nov. 12.—A largo
number of contests in various fields.
Including essay writing, scrapbooks,
posters, declamation, graphic and
plastic arts, original playwriting,
poetry and musical composition, will
be conducted in connection with
the centennial celebration of public
education in North Carolina next
spring, it was announced today by
R. M. Grumman, director of the
University Extension division and
chairman of the centennial commit
tee on contests and awards.
‘‘Awards to winners of the con
tests will be emblems in the form
of a beautiful key design, signify
ing the history of education in this
state,” Mr. Grumman said. "These
emblems will be given to all suc
cessful participants.”
The essay contests are offered to
Junior and senior high school stu
dents of members of parent-teacher
associations with the cooperation of
the North Carolina congress of par
ents and teachers: elementary.school
students are eligible for the scrap
book, poster, declamation and poe
try contests, the latter consisting of
poems pertaining to the centennial
celebration; and elementary and
junior and senior high school stu
dents are eligible for the graphic
and plastic arts contests, which In
clude original drawing, painting and
sculpture In any medium.
In the musical contest, any resi
dent North Carolina composer is
eligible.
In the original playwriting con
tests, with the cooperation of the
Carolina Draipatic association, eight
classifications are open to any resi
dent of the state. The classifications
include county high schools, city
high schools, junior high schools,
junior and senior colleges, junior
community groups. Little Theatres
and Individual playwrights. All
playwriting manuscripts must be in
the office of the bureau of Com
munity Drama at Chapel Hill by
January 15.
In the essay, scrapbook, poetry
and poster contests, each school is
to have its best essay selected by
January 15, and in the hands of the
county committee by January 22;
each county is to have its best es
say selected by February 15, and
sent in to the state committee by
February 22.
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Large Crowd At
P.-T. A. Meeting
In South Shelby
18—LARGE CROWDS
Despite other meetings In town
115 patrons of the South Shelby
School attended the meeting Tues
day night. If Interest manifested j
and attendance counts, then this
meeting was the best. The devo
tional was in charge of Mrs. J. T.
Jones and Mr, Haynes.
Rev. C. V. Martin, the president. ■
presided over a short business!
meeting and urged parents to co-!
operate with the school. The room j
prize of one dollar offered by Mrs. j
C. H. Reinhardt for having the I
largest percentage of parentsl
present was won by Miss Hardy’s!
second grade.
As is always the custom during
American Education week, all
classrooms were thrown open and
parents were asked to meet the
teachers, look at their children’s
work and ask questions concerning
the child's progress.
A splendid American Education
program was rendered by Fred
Whitener, Rachael Brown. Billie
Bridges and a group from the fifth
grade.
Featuring the entire program
were two splendid addresses, one by
Superintendent Walter Abernathy
on "The Responsibility of Teachers
and Parents” and the other by Rev.
F. H. Price who spoke briefly on
the "Value of the School to the
Home.”
Opposes Control
Of Straw Votes
TAMPA. Fla!! Nov. 12.—m—The
Tampa Daily Times quotes Dr. Geo.
H. Gallup as expressing oposition
to a proposal by U. S. Senator
Kenneth D. McKellar (D-Tenn) tor
federal supervision of straw votes.
Dr. Gallup conducted the Insti
tute of public opinion poll which
forecast the reelectlon of Presi
dent Roosevelt.
The Times, in a copyrighted in
terview, quoted him as saying an
attempt to bar such returns from
the mails “would be a direct viola
tion of the freedom of the press.
Concerning Senator McKellar’s
advocacy of a congressional inves
tigation of the Literary Digest tab
ulations. which indicated Governor
Alf M. Landon would be elected
president, Dr. Gallup said:
“Personally, I have complete
faith In the honesty of the people
who supervised the Literary Digest
poll. They had everything to gain
and nothing to lose by being
right"
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I Don’t Forget We Carry The Best Balbrig
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