DUKE DINNER AT
KINGS MOUNTAIN
ON DECEMBER 11
nr Raymond Crupell
Will Be Speaker;
Many To Attend
, -v feature of the Duke Univer
Day Dinner of the Cleveland
Rutherford counties Alumni Asso
Ijgtion, to be held in Kings Moun
I tain on December 11th, will be an
address by Dr. Raymond Crispell
[of Duke University. He will bring a
L^ge regarding the aims and
poses of the institution and va
rious phases of its growth and de
cent at this vitally impor
tant period of its history. His sub
j«t will be ' Looking to the Cen
Knnial m 1938."
In addition to the address of the
.vening there will be a number of
Lther interesting features, lnclud
f ti,e election of officers for the
ensuing year. There will probably
also be brief remarks by on or two
members of the local group and
I Krhaps a short musical program.
1 The Duke University Day Din
I ner is one of many to be held In
I yorth Carolina and other states
j. commemoration of the twelfth
anniversary of the creation of the
put, Endowment, making possible
Duke University, on December 11,
1824. At least two dinners will be
held in countries outside the Unitr
| td States.
The number of local Duke al
| muni groups is now seventy-two and
a large proportion of them will
; hive meetings in observance of the
twelfth anniversary. In 1929, sev
I Hiteen meetings were held; in
the number had grown to
[ thirty-eight; in 1931, there was a
total of fifty-two meetings, in 1932
' 1833-34 about the same number,
and 65 meetings in 1935. In addi
, tion to dinners in leading cities all
I over North Carolina, meetings were
! held last year in eleven other states,
one of these being as far away as
| Los Angeles, California.
An Interesting feature at many
: Duke University Day meetings this
year will be the presence of par
ents of Duke students now at the
institution. Wives and husbands of
alumni sre also expected to attend
the various gatherings.
A statement pads from the
Alumni Office of Duke University
is to the effect that there are now
in the office files the names of 11,
000 located alumni of the institu
tion. Every state in the Union is
represented in the alumni list, and
ill the hundred counties in North
Carolina. Names in the alumni files
represent thirty - four different
countries outside the United States.
Sundown Stories
For The Kiddies
The Glow
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
"I think I forgot to say goodnight
or good winter,” Jelly Boar growl
ed softly. “I hope I—I mean all of
you—i mean all of us—sleep well.”
"Go back to your cave, Jelly
Bear," Willy Nilly said gently.
You are so sleepy that you don’t
know what you are saying. But it
»as kind of you to think of us.”
“I’m so sleepy,” Jelly Bear ad
mitted, "i hardly know what I am
f*ying, but 1 love you all — very—
ho-hum—much."
With that he gave a wave of his
»rm which was so powerful that
Top Notch and Mrs. Quacko Duck,
*ho were standing nearby, fell right
O'er, They picked themselves up
«nd were not annoyed. They knew
he did not mean it.
Then Jelly Bear moved towaid
Willy Nilly and, bending over, lick
'd his hands.
You're so good to us. It makes
oil feel we’re nicer than we are
-nicer—better—somehow.”
Oh, Jelly Bear, you are what
makes me nicer—you and all of
*>Y Puddle Mucldlers.”
Then Honey Bear came out of
•ho cave, fololwed by Jupiter and
Blacky Bear and the cub Chubby.
We 11 see you in the spring,” each
**‘d in turn, in very slfepy, low,
war voices. And in turn each kiss
^ Willy Nilly goodnight, or good
Winter, and gave him a huge, beau
Wul hug.
The bonfire was out now. The
wars had gone back to their cave
or the winter. But there was a
,0* from the fire—and a deeper
‘°w in the heart of the little man
Willy Nilly.
Maybe he did have aticking-out,
tinted ws' But at the moment
didn't matter in the least.
for Baby’s Cold
>ved best by two
erations of mothers.
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Sunday School Lesson
Symbolism and Imagery
International Uniform Sunday
School Lesson for Dec. 13.
Devotional Reading: 1 Corinthi
ans 15:35-44
• • •
J^OT only ordinary readers, but
scholars, have puzzled over
the Book of Revelation. Though
probably not the last book to be
written, It la the closing book in
our Bible.
All manner of theories and In
terpretations have been offered
concerning It, but no one can
claim to have solved with au
thority all its mystery.
Possibly much of the symbol
ism and Imagery was intelligible
to those for whom the book was
written in days of persecution
in the church, but there is much
truth in the claim of the scholar
who said that the key to the
mystery had been lost, and
could not be recovered.
While this is true, it ought to
be recognized at the same time
that there are clear and beauti
ful religious teachings in the
mysterious setting of this book,
and that, in imagery and literary
power, it has a sweep and gran
deur that stir the soul, even
though one may not be assured
of the exact meaning of partic
ular details.
Perhaps the clearest and most
unmistakable portions of the
book are in the letters to the
seven churches of Asia.
Here we have a chance to see
the Christian movement in its
reality, with the struggle of
good and evil in an ancient
world dominated by powers of
force and violence and all man
ner of tyranny and wickedness.
One would expect that, under
such conditions, those who dared
to follow the Christian way
would all be inherently pure
and beautiful souls, beyond
weakness and beyond tempta
tion; yet the picture of these
early churches reveals much that
was not ideal.
• • •
UERE in our lesson, in the ln
troduction to these letters to
the seven churches, the symbol
ism of the book is emphasized.
In Patmos, the writer tells us,
he was “in the Spirit on the
Lord’s day," when he heard be
hind him a great voice, as of a
trumpet The voice commanded
him tow write to the seven
churches all that he should see,
and as he turned toward the
voice, he saw seven golden can
dlesticks.
One need not dwell upon other
details of the image, and the
writer became convinced that
the Living Christ was speaking
to him, and that the message
came directly from God.
First of all, in this message,
Is the appeal to cast aside all
fear. The Living One has the
keys of death and of the unseen
world.
The forces of evil may destroy
the bodies of men, but they can
not destroy the soul. In the
great struggle of good and evil,
the good will triumph, for truth
cannot be destroyed.
0 • • •
IN this world of the present day,
A new terror has laid hold of
whole masses of people. At a
time when we supposed the
world has progressed in enlight
enment, and the tyrannies and
persecutions of the past were at
an end, new persecutions have
broken out.
In various parts of the world
today, men are suffering for
their faith, and all freedom of
thought and speech has been de
stroyed. Fear clutches at the
hearts of men and women, and
even in our own land we are not
so sure that religious liberty is
beyond all peril.
Can we find the faith that sus
tained men living in dark daysf
Perhaps the Book of Revelation
can be read with a new mean
ing and a new value at a time
when the great struggle between
right and wrong, truth and er
ror, good and evil, and all the
dangers involved is re-empha
sized.
It is a book to stir and sus
tain the souls of men and women
in times of crisis. /■
Imagine A Da Pont Marrying
A Roosevelt, Political Enemy
1-—_
By SIGRID ARNE
Copyright, 1936, By The Asso
ciated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— VP) —
Handsome, young Franklin Roose
velt, Jr., is seen helping the beau
tiful Ethel du Pont into a car. He
squires her to a football game. He
swings her around the floor at a
college dance.
And the gossips love It.
"What do you suppose their
families think?" they buzz.
They remember the warring of
the du Pont clan on the New Deal.
"Imagine a du Pont marrying a
Roosevelt!"
So goes the refrain since Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene du Pont announced
the engagement of their daughter
to the son and namesake of the
President.
But the real surprise is not that
a du Pont plans to marry a Roose
velt in June, but that the two clans
never were united by marriage be
fore.'The two families have long,
romantic histories, their paths
have crossed before, and they have
been powerful for generations.
Of Ancient Lineage
It is even possible that before
the French revolution the du Ponts
knew of the Delanos, the Presi
dent’s family on his mother’s side.
In the turmoil leading to the rev
olution the Delanos, who were
known as the De In Noyes, and the
du Ponts were active in Hugue-not
circles in France.
When Victor du Pont made an
exploratory trip up the Hudson to
Albany in 1787, the Roosevelts and
Delanos were already well-known
around New York.
All three families have been pro
lific. All three have taken a warm
interest in their communities. Each
has a home about which the clan
revolves. Both the Roosevelts and
the du Ponts are Episcopalians;
both have old churches in which
ceremonies have marked the chris
tenings, marriages and deaths for
generations. The du Ponts are now
in their eighth generation on
American soil, the Roosevelts In
their tenth.
Like Father, Like Son
■ In the three clans have been all
manner of professional men, poli
ticians, merchants and sea-going
men. But each family has a special
aptitude which has engaged a ma
jority of its men. The Delanos have
been predominantly shippers, the
Roosevelts merchants; the du
Ponts have stayed close to their
original gun-powder mills.
Among the Roosevelts and the
du Ponts the interests of the first
generation have persisted to the
present. The Roosevelts still are
taught to sail boats almost as soon
as they can spell the name. The
young du Ponts grow up knowing
that they will be expected to take
their place in the great corpora
tion which has developed from
their ancestors’ original black pow
der mills, which still stand on the
Brandywine river near the homes
of the clan.
The Roosevelts have sent fwo
Presidents to Washington. The du
Held For Extortion
Letter Sent Ginger
This youthful sailor who gave his
namo as James F. Hall was arrested
at Long Beach, Calif., and held Ir
Loa Angeles under $25,000 bond or
a charge of sending an extortlor
letter to Ginger Rogers, the movi«
actress, demanding $5,000. (Associ
ated Press Photo)
Ponts have been represented by a
senator. Coleman, elected In 1024,
and a son-in-law, Rep. Colgate
Darden, Jr., who was in the house
from Virginia last session.
Marriages Within Clans
Both clans have been so large
and self-sufficient that there has
been much Intermarrying. In the
present generation of adults, the
President is a distant cousin of his
wife, and Irenee du Pont, a distant
cousin of the bride-to-be, is mar
ried to his distant cousin Irene du
Pont. Divorces have been almost
unheard until recently.
First of the three families to ar
rive on American soil was Philippe
De La Noye who landed at Ply
mouth in 1021 when he was only 10.
The next patriarch to arrive was
Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt
who landed at New York in 1049.
The first du Pont was Victor who
came to New York in 1787. He
soon was followed by his brother,
Eleuthere Irenee, who started the
family’s munitions business in
1802, and their father, Pierre Sam
uel. a well known French political
and social pamphleteer.
All three patriarchs came from
families that had been powerful,
enough in. Europe to be raised to
nobility.
Since the families arrived on
American soil the whole history of
the nation has been written. And
now they are to be united because
a handsome lad from Harvard fell
in love with a beautiful blonde
miss from Wilmington.
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Inventor Of One-way Glass
Demonstrates How It’s Made
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 7.—Meth
ods used by Edwin H. Lend, Bos
ton Inventor, In his construction of
“Polaroid." glass which eliminates
auto headlight glare and allows
three-dimentional movies to be
shown, were publicly disclosed by
him for the first time before a
group of natural scientists at
Franklin Institute.
Like automobile safety. glass,
“Polaroid” is constructed sandwich
like, two layers qf glass enclosing a
thin layer of cellulose acetate in
which are Imbedded countless bil
lions of sub-microscopic crystals.
These when properly aligned allow
light to pass through the "sand
wich" only in one plane. In scienti
fic v«mac|ilar, it "polarises" light.
Performs Process
At the end of his talk, the inven
tor actually performed one of the
processes he uses for lining up the
crystals, showing the audience an
opaque mass of Jelly-like material,
perfectly black, explaining that it
contained an enormous number of
tiny crystals, smaller in one dimen
sion than the length of a light
wave.
Placing the glass In the path of a
projection lantern, he gradually
stretched the material. As the crys
tals in it began to line up more and
more uniformly with stretching,
light was transmitted more and
more completely until finally the
material was substantially trans
parent.
He placed another similar polarizer
glassontopof the newly made sheet
had actually produced a polarizing
material before the eyes of Institute
guests.
He placed another similar polar
’ izer on top of the newly made sheet ]
; and by turning it slowly the light
j was completely cut off when the
two transparent materials w*ere so
turned that the optical axes of the
Imbedded crystals were at right an
gles to each other.
This was the first time that this
process has been performed out
side of Mr. Land's private labora
tory. Regarding the practical value
of ‘‘Polaroid," Dr. Robert W. Wood,
director of experimental physics at
Johns Hopkins University, and
dean of American authorities in the
field of optics, declared recently, "I
consider '‘Polaroid’ the most revo
lutio\ary advance in the field of
optics certainly in the last 25 years,
if not in the last 100.”
Reviews Steps Taken
In his address, Mr. Land review
ed the work of numerous natural
scientists over two centuries, stat
| ing that in 1852, Dr. William Bird
Herapath discovered the remark
able polarizing property of tiny
crystals that form upon combining
iodine with quinine salt.
‘‘Herapath did not discover the
material, only its polarizing proper
ties,” he said, “but he took the new
polarizing to heart with the same
elation that subsequent readers
throughout these 80 years have felt.
I confess that no one felt this pro
prietary Interest more keenly than
I upon my first reading of his ar
ticle. The old Oanot’s Physics
mentioned 'Herapthite,' but my own
modem physics book did not.
Its Use for Automobiles
“No sooner had I read of 'Hera
pathite’ than I reached for my hat
and rushed out to apply It to auto
mobiles. No doubt many before, and
mmmmmimmi »—
certainly many since, have done
the same.
"In spite of Herapath'a admission
that the fragile crystals fly apart
when touched with blotting paper,
one could, with what might be call
ed modern methods, succeed where
he failed, and grow large areas or
piece small areas together to pol
arise the windshields and head
lights of c|rs.
"Prof. Robert W. Wood, American
authority on optics, tells the story
of a letter he received from thq re
search laboratory of a large auto
mobile company some time ago:
Wanted By Auto Men
“ 'Can you prepare an extensive
area of Herapathite?’ Guessing
what was wanted Professor Wood
replied, *1 am sorry to inform you
that I do not know how to make
a polarizing windshield.'
"The difficult and exciting thing
about this research Is that the
answers to almost all of the ques
tions are inter-related and have to
be answered together. The shape of
the crystals depends on how they
are going to be turned, and the
way they are to be turned depends
upon the matrix which Is to be
selected. This In turn depends upon
the size of the particles and the
size depends upon how much is to
be overlapped which depends In
turn upon the polarising power of
the crystals.
"A further confusing factor Is
that any choices will give a suc
cessful result, although not as
highly so as the very best one.
"Here la a piece of “Polaroid*
sheeting. It Is flexible and tough,
strong, not inflammable and per
fectly stable because it la cellulose
acetate. Polarization la uniform
over the whole area and the sheet
is clear to look through because the
size selected for the crystal la
smaller in one dimension than the
wave length of light.**
I Among guests at the dinner In
HOWS qawi
HEALTH
Headaches
Considering how commonplace
headachee are. one would Imagine
that the condition ahould be easily
diagnosed and aa easily treated. But
on the contrary, headaches present
a large number of diagnostic diffi
culties. While It ia comparatively
easy in most instances to prescribe
some effective sedative which will
render the individual Insensitive to
his head pain, cure of the condi
tion, in terms of the removal of Its
i underlying cause and the preven
tion of Us recurrence, is extremely
difficult.
Headache is a symptom. It ia sel
dom if ever a disease entity. like
fever, it la a commonplace symp
tom. present In a variety of path
ologic conditions. The following list
of causes gives an Idea of the diag
nosing difficulties.
Thera art the organic causes of
headache due essentially to disease
of the brain. There are the head
aches which are associated with
diseases of the blood vessels. Ar
teriosclerosis and high blood pres
sure are included In this classifi
cation. There are the toxlo causes
of headache, and among these we
find the toxlo conditions arising out
of kidney disease or nephritis; the
allergic conditions (hay fever, asth
ma, hives) and of course one very
common source of toxic headache
honor of Mr. Land, preceding the
talk, was George Wheelwright, Mr.
Land's assootate.
Is sinusitis or Infection of the bend
sinuses.
Then ere the headaches iesoe
elated with endocrine (Usturbaaaoes,
aucb m overaotlvlty of the thyroid,
and the endocrine disturbsnoei as
eociated with the ueaopeuss.
Anemia may give rtaa to headache.
So, too, may overindulgsnce in al
cohol, tobacco and the uie of oer
taln drugs. Certain headaehae are
of a reflex natun. Thus, arthrttlo
dlseaM of the neck vertebrae or of
the verterbrae of the back may
give rise to headache. Oall-bladder
disease, dlseaM In the chest or ab
domen. may cause the head to
ache. Eyestrain Is a very common
cause of headache.
Then then is the large category
of functional headaches,, duo to
nervousness exhaustion, to neuras
thenic and to peychle and mental
disturbances.
The patient who therefore pres
ent! himself to his physician with
a headache le likely to induce
something of a similar state In Ills
doctor. For to treat the condition is
eaay, but to fathom It Is very dif
ficult. '
Better results would be obtained
In dealing with headaches if more
patients appreciated the diffletAty
of fathoming Its causes ang were
more willing to ooopSraW with
their physician la tha difficult dnd
time-consuming task of tracking
down its ltlology. . i . , .
DON’T urr YOU*-CHILD «wr
COLITIS OR
DYSENTERY
Buddy,
I can't pay a higher compli
ment than that.
Girl or cigarette.. * when
J tumble that means I'm
for ’em.
v*3! Sy^s>-r,;
Chesterfield's my cigarette.
And I'll tell all hands they've
got a hearty good taste that
makes a sailor happy. And
listen, they're milder.
•. . for the good things a
cigarette can give a sailor
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