Today’s
SMALL TALK
By MRS. RENN DRUM
EVERYTIME I TRY TO SHOW OFF I GET INTO '
and yet I never learn that showing off doesn’t
1TROUBLF
and yet I never learn that showing off doesn’t pay. For
mstance, last week in presenting the problem about the
horseman going to the fairs, I let it be known that I “doted
pn problems,” and worse than that I kidded W. R. Gary, prin
pal of the Fallston high school, who also dotes on ’em, by al
cipa
low
,ing him only fifteen seconds in which to work the one
given.
Now comes a letter, presenting
t^o problems—which I can only
d^ify as brain-torturers as con
tiasted to the usual brain-teasers—
which look like trouble for both Mr.
c>ary and me. The letter is from
Hoyle Lee, instructor of mathe
matics. at Brown University, Provi
nce, Rhode Island, and his clos
ing paragraph, after stating the
problem, is:
How long would you give Mr.
Gary to work these? Incidentally
Mr Gary was my inductor in
mathematics in Fallson high
school."
,Now. look here, Mr. bee. can't
you take a joke? I was just foolin’ j
about liking problems.)
• • * •
A few questions asked about Mr.
Lee revealed the facts: that he was
weaned on a problem, that, as a
little fellow, he ate ’em spread on
his bread and that he still swal
lows one before each meal just to
keep his digestion in good order. ;
Whereas, when I was a child, we ;
only had problems as a special
treat for Sunday morning break
last, when we had plenty of time;
to chew on ’em.
• * • •
Seriously, I did discover that Mr.!
lee has a really remarkable gift
(or mathematics which won the
rrspeet of the Wake Forest college
faculty, during his four years there,
to such an extent they termed him
one of the best students in that
subject the college had ever had
and scattered 99’s and 100’s over his j
papers like chicken feed, all of]
which boosts my respect and ad
miration for the young man, even
though I’ve never seen him. How
ever, it also increases my embar
rassment at letting him get me out.
on a limb on this problem question.
The problems Mr. Lee gives fol
low:
Five men and a monkey have a
pile of nuts. During the night one
man rises, gives one nut to the
monkey (who Immediately eats it)
and takes a fifth of the remainder.
The second man rises, and not
knowing what the first has done,
repeats the process. Each man in
turn does this, never forgetting one
hut for the monkey. What is the j
smallest number of nuts that could
have been in the original pile? (It
might be noted that nowhere is any
nut divided into parts. Each man
takes a whole number of nuts.)”
• * • •
And this one: "The sum of the
ages of Mary and Ann is 44 years.
Mary is twice as old as Ann was
when Mary was half as old as
Anne will be when Anne is three
times as old as Mary was when
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• • » •
As I used to say when I was a
teacher, "Now, children, read your
problem carefully and decide, first
of all. what you’re working toward."
You’ll be given as much time on
these as you like for, unless Mr.
Lee comes to the rescue, there may
be no answers forthcoming.
“I haven’t even tried the last one
given, but I’ve figured all over my
desk blotter, on the backs of all
the enelopes and cancelled checks
in my desk drawer, and chewed my
pencil into splinters on the first one
without getting the desired result.
I've X-ed my way through columns
of equations; I’ve renewed old ac
quaintance with the solution of
X-Y-Z problems, and then gone
about with an accuous — meaning
more than usual—look on my face
in an effort to formulate two dif
ferent equations from the thing
with which to work; I’ve even slept
with it sitting on my temple but, to
date, it still has the ups on me.
* * * *
The worst of the situation is that
I’ve been overheard by a number of
people on various occasions mutter
ing something which sounds like,
"If it can be worked, I can work
it.”
Hunting Men Who
Are Lost On Hunt
ROANOKE RAPIDS, Dec. 16 —
(iP)—Sheriff's deputies continued a
search today for Ralph Merritt and
Peter Smith, 21 year old Roanoke
Rapids men, who disappeared while
hunting along the Roanoke River
last Tuesday night.
Robert, Ralph’s younger bro
ther, said they separated from him
Inst Tuexdftv nieht. leavine him on
the river bank while they went
across to an island. The younger
brother said he waited all night and
the pair did not return.
Sheriff J. C. Stephenson quoted
the younger youth has said his bro
ther and companion had but one
shell between them but he heard
five or six shots fired on the island
during the night.
Sheriff's deputies searched the is
land yesterday without finding any
trace of the missing youths.
Banks May Close
Day After Xmas
RALEIGH, Dec. 16.—(AV-Paul P.
Brown, secretary of the North
Carolina Clearing House associa
tion, announced today that after an
investigation it had been decided
it would not be feasible to ask the
legislature to pass a special act to
make December 26 this year a legal
holiday nor to ask the governor to
proclaim the day a holiday so
banks might close.
Brown added, however, that the
executive committee of the asso
ciation and Gurney P. Hood. State
bank commissioner, concurred in
advising those banks which desired
to do so to suspend operations for
the day in order to give employes a
three-day Christmas holiday.
Hie fresh-water dolphin of the
Ganges, called susu, is blind.'
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Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
By ROBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD — Myrna Loy and
William Powell have completed
their long crosscountry trip, begun
two years ago in New York at the
completion of their sleuthing acti
i vities in connection with a certain
; thin man. It was Christmas then
; you remember, and a hectic holiday
for all concerned.
In "After the Thin Man" ebul
lient Nick Charles and wife Nora
arrive home in San Francisco all
! tuckered out, but still gay in re
• partee, for a good rest over New
i Year's.
They don't get it. Instead, they
are drawn — with that casualness
which distinguishes their adven
tures—into another murder mys
tery, this time in the bosom of
Nora’s family.
San Francisco's Chinatown is
part of the setting, but it is mod
ern, minus mysterious Orientals.
Solution ‘Unethical’
Some of us were disappointed in
the solution, which rabid detec
tive fans might term "unethical,”
but Director W. S. Van Dyke, with
Powell and Miss Loy and the dog
Asta, recaptures the rollicking spi
rit of "The Tftiin Man" so effec
tively that the film as a whole
atones for its essentia] flaw.
Maik drlonno
appears to have a riverfront popu
lated mainly by the Hall Johnson
choir, which is all right with us.
"Banjo on My Kne6” presents an
interesting picture of Mississippi
river shanty boaters, a race apart.
Joel McCrea and Barbara Stan
wyck are the romantic pair, but
Walter Brennan as the would-be
Grandpappy and one-man band
who goes down to N'Yaw-leens to
straighten things out is the real
star. Unusual setting, effective
comedy, Buddy Ebsen’s dancing,
and apt casting lift John Crom
well's film above the ordinary.
Romantic South Pictured
In "Rainbow on the River" the
Hall Johnsoners are in the "ro
mantic” south of 1873, and divide
their time between the riverfront
and the cotton fields. Boy soprano
! Bobby Breen (whose face is not a
map of Ireland despite the adopted
; name) sings beautifully through a
' sentimental story of a white child
; reared by a former slave, played
| emotionally by Louise Beavers.
: May Robson is the crusty northern
! grandmother, Charles Butterworth
: her phlegmatic butler, and Mari
I lyn Knowlden is an interesting
i “spoiled brat.” Kurt Neumann di
rected.
Victor Moore's comedy comes
into its own in "Gold Diggers of
1937,” which mingles the insurance
business and backstage life tor
farce. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Powell
(Joan Blondell) are the romancers,
Osgood Perkins sparkles subtly as
the heavy, and there are Glenda
Farrell and dancer Lee Dixon, with
a Busby Berkeley finale, for good
measure. Lloyd Bacon directed.
WANTS FASTER
COURT ACTION
Power Plan* Should
Be Speeded Up
Say* Ingram
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 16.—
()P)—Mayor Ingram of Tarrant City.
Ala., said today "Some means of
speeding up court procedure on the
right of cities to obtain PWA loans
for power plans” would be discussed
by a group of Alabama, Mississippi
and Tennessee municipal officials at
Decatur, Ala.. Dec. 39.
Mayor Ingram, who called the De
catur rally for municipalities "in
terested in getting Tennessee Valley
Authority power,” made no com
ment on the United States Supreme
Court decision sending back to low
er courts on a technicality the
Duke Power company case yester
day.
Injunctions Now.
The Duke case involve'! the right
of PWA to make loans and grafts
for municipal power plants. Eight
Alabama projects, involving $2,549.
000 are held up by in (unctions re
volving around the same cuestions
raised in the Duke case, which went
to the supreme court from South
Carolina.
Mayor Ingram said an attempt
would be made to organize a south
eastern municipal ownership league,
with each city in the three-state
Tennessee Valley area entitled to
two voting representatives at the
Decatur conference.
In proposed resolutions accom
panying his call of the conference
yesterday, Mayor Ingram suggested
congress be called upon to "investi
gate the extent private sources of
finance have been closed” to mu
nicipalities seeking to acquire power
distribution systems.
He also proposed that congress be
requested to establish a permanent
agency to provide funds for mu
nicipal ownership at low Interest
rates.
Sainuel Huntington, governor of
Ohio 1810-11, was the adopted son
of a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, his uncle, .Samuel
Huntington.
Just Ten Years
Ago
(Taken Prom The Cleveland Star
. Of Monday, December 13, 1926) .
With a beaming sun giving out
-ummertlme warmth Shelby was
packed during shopping time Sat
urday with throngs of Yuletide buy
ers, and all stores in the ctyy re
ported a rushing business.
Shelby’s municipal tax rate Is the
third lowest among the 48 largest
cities and towns in North Carolina,
according to figures obtained from
Raleigh.
Shelby’s tax rate per 1100 assess
ed valuation is 88 cents. Only two
towns, Wilson and Morganton, have
lower rates.
Raleigh—North Carolina's cot
ton crop is 16 per cent larger than
Fast, year but worth 26 per cent less.
J. W. Atkins, publisher of the
3astonia Oazette and former head
of the N. C. Press association, is
he new president of the Shelby
listrlct Epworth league union. Mr.
\tkins along with other new offi
:ers was elected at a meeting of the
union held at Central Methodist
church here last Friday.
Beginning this week some of the
local stores will be open later at
light for the convenience of Christ -
nas shoppers. But the first of next
week all of the stores will keep open
it night to meet the requirement
of Christmas shoppers.
Bob Eskridge arrived Saturday
from Sheridan, Oregon, to spend
he Christmas holidays with his
mother, Mrs. Bailey Eskridge on
North LaFayett* street.
Cline Hendrick, son of Mr*. F. V
Hendrick, has returned from Bilt
more where he has been taking
treatment for a year or more.
Truck Driver Is
Slugged On Road
Near High Point
WINSTON-SALEM, Dec. 16.-(An
—Bleeding profusely from a wound
across the forehead, W. R. Orissett.
truck driver, of High Point, lay for 1
nearly an hour on the Winston
Salem-High Point highway last
night between 7 and 8 o’clock, tha
victim of two negro robbers who
came upon him as ho tried to re
pair his truck.
S. E. Hauser, this city, found the
unconscious man and Sheriff’s dep
uties removed Grissett to High
Point hospital and began a search
for the highwaymen. The condition
of the injured man la reported to j
be not serious.
Grissett told officers that while'
working on his motor one of the)
negroes asked for a match, and |
when he turned aside, "everything
went black.” He was robbed of be
tween $50 and $60 he says.
Marry Again After
20 Year* Divorced
CONCORD, Dec. 16.—(/Ph-Twen
ty years ago Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Cagle were divorced.
Each married again. In the inter
vening years Cagle's second wife
died. And Mrs. Cagle’s second hus
band died.
Now they're Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Cagle again.
They were remarried hers by a
son-in-law, the Rev. W. A. Oates.
"It’s permanent this time,” chor
used the Cagles.
CONVICT TAKEN
AFTER A FIGHT
LENOIR. Dec., lo.—<AV-Sheriff J.
0. Tolbert held Ell la King In Cald
well county Jail today after a 24
hour search with bloodhound* led
to the arrest of the 22-year-old
escaped convict.
King was taken Into custody at
the home of his grandfather In
Longview after a gunflght In which
three men were wounded. Qlenn
1*11, IS, wu reported in critical i
condition with wounds In his chest.
His right wrist was so badly man- |
■led doctors said they would have i
to amputate his hand. Paid Mun
day, 31, and Clyde Miller, 20, were
less serlpusly hurt.
Sheriff Tolbert quoted King as
saying the flght grew out of a
quarrel over a girl at a drinking
party.
The sheriff said witnesses told
him King, after the shooting, held
the members of the group at pistol j
point for an hour refusing to allow i
them to call a doctor to treat Lall, |
i
1
<
■ ho wait bleeding badly.
King escaped from an Iredell
irliion camp after earring IS
nonthft of a two-year sentence tar
arccny, Tolbert aatd. He Mid Kins
vould be given a hearing la Re
order's court as ebon aa the
vounded men are able to appear at
vltneeaea.
Self-In dieted
BREVARD, Dee. 16.-4*)—A cor
tner'a Jury decided Edward Aah
vorth, 15. found ahot to death In a
lied from a aelf-lnfllcted wound,
vooda near hero a few daya aga
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