North Carolina Newspapers

NONE WILLING TO CLAIM THIS PAPER I ¥ No Faction Leadens Of Demo crats Admit Connection With The National Democrat. ' (By David F. St. Clair) Washington, June 8.—There ap peared here on May 30th, the Nation al Democrat, a paper claiming to be the national organ of the party. The paper seems to have attracted more attention among Republicans than * among Democrats. To most Demo crats it is as mysterious in its origin as a foundling found oris the doorstep in a stormy morning. None of the leaders of the factions of the party are willing to admit the remotest con nection or association with the organ. Its editorial and advisory staff are made up of men who worked for Mc Adoo, Underwood, for the Ku Klux Xian, for the Republicans and there are also neutrals among them to whom one candidate at New York, seemed to he as acceptable as another. With the exception of Representative William A. Oldfield of Arkansas, who Is chairman of the Democratic Na tional Congressional Committee, there is no one on the editorial staff who is well known to the Democratic'par ty as a whole. The keynote of the paper is “smash sectionalism in the party.” Perhaps that is one reason why its staff is so personally conglomerate. Minds of all factions have been brought together In its editorial sanctum. Milton Elrod, the publisher of the paper, was noted as a Ku Klux organizer in Indiana, and Fred Steckman, the editor, was Oscar Underwood’s trusted publicity man at the New York convention. That is smashing sectionalism as. far as it goes. The paper’s plan for eliminating factionalism, such as kluxerism, Ro manism, Rumism and every other sort of ism except Jefffirsonianism is to find principles on which all Demo crats can stand without fighting one ^another. In other words, the National ^Democrat has set out to find ground where every one in this country who believes himself to be a Democrat can find himself agreeing with his fellow Democrats. That ground is the principles laid down by Thomas Jef ferson, the founder of the party and the chief founder of the American republic. The great difficulty that confronts the National Democrat is the fact that there is not a prominent Demo crat in the country who does not be lieve in the principles of Jefferson and profess to be a disciple of the Democratic sage. Dry Democrats in Congress like W. D. Upshaw of Ceorgia will tell you that if Jeffer son were alive today he would be a strong supporter of the Eighteenth Amendment. Every Democrat who vo ted in Congress to take money out of the Federal treasury to build roads in the South profees to be Jefferson Democrats. Even Senator Wheeler of Montana, the running mate of La Follette, last year told the public that be had left the Democratic party be cause it had deserted Thomas Jeffer son. Every Democrat who voted to put into the constitution the child la bor amendment believes Jefferson if he could see the conditions under which children in some industries lar bor would back the change proposed. It is just like every man who is po ssessed with some dogma or doctrine in religibn thinks he can find some authority in the Bible to support it. If the National Democrat would eliminate from the party all those Democrats who could not subscribe to Jeffersonian principles as it ap plies these principles the party might retain its honor but nothing else. However, the paper intimates that it will demand a house cleaning on the basis of Jeffersonian principles. It warns self-seekers in the party that they need expect no quarter from it. The Republicans see in the appear ance of the paper the recrudescence of a militant Democracy and announce ’ they will prepare to “meet this stan dard of opposition.” Democratic critics of the paper are of the opinion that the “organ” «does not so far promise much for the Democrats but It may be of some service to the Re publicans if it arouse them from .their drunken stupor of success. Sen ator Butler of Massachusetts has warned the Republicans that they are in a fair way to lose both houses of Congress next year if they don’s wake up. He is going out to wake them up and is counting the National Demo crat to aid him. * 1500 Babies WU1 Die — “Will your baby escape?”, is the •question ashed by the State! Bureau of Health, in forecasting that about 1500 babies will die during the three months of this summer from diarrhea and* enteritis. These babies will be under two years of age. The science of preventive medicine lias made wonderful progress. It has proved that vaccination will prevent i typhoid fever, smallpox, diphtheria and a great many other diseases, but no vaccine will prevent the disease that will kill 1500 babies this summer. Prevention of the disease begins ■with the birth of the. child, according to the Board of Health. Less than 5 per cent of the serious cases of diar rhea are among breast fed babies, and fatalities among this class of ba Queer Mock Marriage Ceremonies in India There is a wonderful variety In the marriage customs In different parte of India. i In addition to the Important cere monies which are binding there are mock cereiponies. One of the most Interesting Is a custom prevailing In the south, which takes place on the first of the ceremonial days. Before the day all arrangements for the couple have, of course, been made, bnt there Is a mock ceremony of send ing out the young man to find a suit able bride. Before marriage be la sup posed to make a Journey to Kasl, the modern Benares, and having armed himself with the books of the student, etc., he sets out on his long Journey. But on his. way he comes %cross a man who, after entering Into conver sation with him. Informs him that he has a lovely daughter who would make a suitable wife. After various discussions on the sub ject the arrangements are made and the youth returns to inform his parents of the proposals, after which the final decision Is taken. This ceremony Is still carried oat, and It provides a splendid opportunity for teasing the young man. There Is an Instruction In the laws of Manu which he Is supposed to keep In mind In selecting hte bride: “Let' bim not marry a girl with reddish hair, nor any deformed limb, nor one troubled with habitual sickness, nor one either with no hair or with too much, nor one Immoderately talkative, nor one with Inflamed eyes. Let him choose for a wife a girl whose form has no defect, who has an agreeable name, who walks gracefully, like a phenlcopteros, or like a young ele phant, whose hair and teeth are mod erate In size, whose body has exquis ite softness.” Famous Landmark in - Ancient English City The town of Boston In Lincolnshire, from which Boston, Mass., takes Its name, is remarkable for its imposing church tower which, rising to a height of two hundred and seventy feet, forms a landmark discernible for many miles around. The tower is locally known as "Bokon Stump," and was undoubtedly Intended as a guide for travelers both by land and sea. It Is surmounted by a beautiful octag onal lantern tower, completed In 1460. History tells us that In 654 Saint Botolph, from whose name the word Boston Is derived, built a monastery In “a wilderness unfrequented by men," named Icanhoe, and that out of this wilderness arose St. Botolph’s town, or Boston. Boston Is stir* rounded by fen country, and Is situ ated five miles from the sea, to which It Is connected by a waterway known as the Haven. Manufacturing Crayon* Crayons are made chiefly from chalk. Tho coloring matter la mixed in with the aid of inter and la pulve^ laed by means of triple rollers. This la dried to a certain consistency and f^l Into a <machlne which expels it In the form of a rod through a circular opening, the diameter at which equals that of a pastel or crayon. Cut to the requisite length, the crayons are set to dry on trays which are stacked in racks on steam-heated shelves. The process of making colors In the “cake” form differs from that employed for crayons. After being mixed and ground, the mass of color Is carried to the drying rooms In pans. It Is left In chambers of varying degrees of heat until the water has been evap orated, when the resulting dough Is ready for kneading. The mixture Is then fed through a machine, emerging In the form of a strip, pressed to about an eighth of an inch thick, which is cut into “cakes.’’—Family Herald. Flowery Advertising From an auto ad: It Is not a mech- | anlsm; It is an Inspiration. Ton enter an enchanted world, carried steadily onward by a force a» Irresistible as time. There Is no semblance of harsh ness—only the gentle undulations of Its springs to stimulate a wayward fancy. It snggests a Venetian gon dola, languidly drifting on halcyon seas, or a placid stream winding Its ! silvery way through sylvan glens. The symphony of It all lqlls ■ one Into se-; rene forgetfulness. Life acquires new .phases and there ensues a clearer con ception of the sublimity of nature. Verily it was designed for the Immor tals.—Boston Transcript. s Why Ho Chmm Singing n want my daughter to enjoy some ktod or artistic education," said the fa ther who had recently made hla tor tune, "1 think I’ll let her study sing "Why not art or ilteraturer sog “ Art^aJoUa canvas and litera ture wastes reams of paper. Singing merely produces a temporary disturb Did $oom Hard Job ' It was all on account of the labels. Doctor Glass had to. send a box of pUla to a patient while there were half a dozen live chlckei to one of his frlendt The labels got ml»~ senger delivered the pil tor’s friend. So far not much ha done; but the patient was pained u** receiving a hamper of live, fowls and an envelope containing the following Instructions: "Two of these to be swal lowed every half hour in water." SOME INTERESTING FACTS It has been estimated that in the United States there is one dog to ev ery 25 inhabitants. The Eastern States are above the average in the number of dogs owned. “Boldface” when applied to type re fers to color. “Roman” refers to stylh. Any style of type may be made im "boldface”; that is, the type that produces heavy, black print. ; The Forbidden City is located in Pekin, the capital of China. It is a walled inctosure, one mile square in area, containing the imperial palace and pleasure grounds, formerly occu pied by the emperor. Electricity has been known for a lorfg time. It was known to the an cients. It is believed that Thales knew that amber after being rubbed ac quired the property of attracting light bodies. No definite scientific information was acquired, however, until the close of the thirteenth cen tury. In 1600 William Culbert pub lished his book “De Magnete”, in which he used for the first time the terms electric force, electric attract ion and distinguished between elec trics and non-electrics. The Rev. William Ashley Sunday, (Billy Sunday), after his conversion, acted as assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A., at Chicago, 1891-95, and en tered the evangelical field in 1896. Lloyd George’s prominence in Eng land dates from the Boer War. He took up a position to the govern ment’s war policy and became a lead er of the ‘pro-Boer” section of the Liberal party. He was at this time the most unpopular man in Great Britain, but during the period of re action following the war his reputa tion rose rapidly. About 1775 a tribe of Shawnees fought a sanguinary battle with a tribe of Delawares near the banks of the Susquehanna. The trouble began in a quarrel among Indian children about some grasshoppers, hence the name “Grasshopper War”. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce says that the first rec ord it has of a fan being used on an automobile for cooling an engine is a Daimler car with a flywheel fan. This was prior to the year 1898. The sphinxes are not the tombs of kings. Archeologists are of the opin ion that they were employed to guard the approach to a temple. According to the inscriptions of the eighteenth dynasty in the shrine between the paws of the Great Sphinx it repre sented the Sun God Harmachis. In many cases the heads of sphinxes were royal portraits. At the northeastern corner of the isthmus of Suez, Africa has a geo graphic union 90 miles .wide with Asia The Suez canal intersects the Isthmus of Suez, between the two continents, and the Sinai Peninsula is included in the continent of Africa and not Asia. The original Siamese twins were two brothers, Chang and Eng,-who lived to be 63 years old and died with in two and a half hours of. each other in 1874. They were bom of a Chinese father and a Siamese mother in Siam, tience the term “Siamese twins”. Since that time any two children similarly joined have been referred to as “Siam ese twins.” In the southwestern parts of the United States, particularly in the in terior portions of southern California and southern Arizona, there are ex tensive desert regions where sand storms are likely to occur. Some por tions of Nevada and other parts of the great basin lying between the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas are also risited by sandstorms. The Biological Survey says that the rattlesnake acquires from two to four rings a year, usually three. Un ier normal cinditions one ring is ad ded each time the snake sheds its skin, rhe young rattler is provided with a single button at birth, and within a few days it sheds its skin and com mences feeding; in about two months it sheds its skin for the second time and then the first ring of the rattle is uncovered or added. This has been growing under the old skin and its pressure was apparent- in the jwoolen appearances of the tail at the base of the original button. The last seven or eight vertebrae^ fuse togeth er shortly after birth and form a com posite bone known as the “shaker”, end it is around this bone that each cap or ring of the rattle forms. The Biological Survey says that perhaps the only curiosity or interest rats have is in obtaining food. Owing to their cunning ways it is not al ways easy to clear rats from premis es by trapping; if food is abundant it is impossible. A-few adults refuse to enter the most innocent-looking trap and yet trapping, if persistently fol lowed, is one of the most ways of destroying these rodents. Rust in plants is a i and is incurable. All ; disease must disease infested up and Pyrotol is an explosive made from surplus war material, which is now being used for agricultural purposes. Pyrotol is used for blasting stumps, stones, ditches, and in orcharding. In some instances the heart of . a mummy was left in place by the Egyptian embalmer; in other instan ces the heart and other vital organs | were remoyed frbm the body, wrapped •separately and interred. King Tut’s rtaummy has not yet been disturbed, so\ it is not known just what plan the embalmer followed in this instance. Chemist's “gray powder” used for finger prints is composed of and chalk. It may be had at any drufe store. Aluminum dust may also be us^d for making finger prints. mercur The American Genetic Association says that in\1917 it was estimated 1.07 per cent yf the babies born in the United States were twins. Twenty per cent of these are said to have been twins of the1 identical type. The Postoffice Department says that there are approximately 250, 000 people in the*classified civil ser vice who are affected \by the postal pay increase biU. \uy Here is how to compute the height of a tree by measuring its shadow: Take a stick of definite length and measure the shadow of the tree. Find the length by the shadow of the stick by holding it at right angles to the ground. Multiply the length of the tree’s shadow by the length of the stick and divide by the length of the stick’s shadow. The Department of Agriculture Says that the total estimated con sumption of meat in the United States i 1^1924 was 18,484,000,000 lbs., excluding lard, which was 1,766,000, 000 pounds. The amount consumed per capita in 1924 was 164.9 pounds, ex cluding lard, which was 15.8 pounds. REPUBLICANS HOPE TO SMASH GOV. AL SMITH The Republicans of New York state have started a movement in which they hope to smash A1 Smith, New York’s popular governor. It all comes about over the fight in the Democratic ranks for mayor of New York City. The present mayor Hylan wants another nomination for the place.. It is up to A1 Smith to say whether Hylan realizes his ambition, for although Smith is ‘not head of Tammany Hall, the great Democratic organization in New York City, it listens to his dictation. It is reported that Smith is not favorable to Hylan. But Hylan says if he is not nominated he Will make the race on an indepen dent ticket. This would make three candidates in' the field, the independ ents, regular democratic, and repub lican. The Republicans under these circumstances would stand a good chance of electing their ticket. And with the election of their tick et and the break between Hylan and Smith they see a chance of damaging Smith’s prestige in New York to the extent that next year when he will in all probability make the race for the senate against Stenator Wadsworth, they would stand a chance of defeat ing him. The Republicans fear Smith in the next senatorial cam paign. That Smith could be elected as matters now stand is conceded. This is why the Republicans are anx ious to see a split in the Democratic ranks in New York City, where Smith regularly piles up a half million ma jority every time he runs for any office. SHOULD COUSINS MARRY? Is there any foundation for our prejudice against the marriage of close related persons f In more than a third of the United States marriage of first cousins is forbidden. In Oklahoma not even second cousins are allowed to mar Yet in England marriage between cousins is quite common and has been for generations. An Englishman can marry his father’s brother’s daugh ter, but until recently he was not al lowed to marry his deceased wife’s sister who was no relation to him whatever. Professor Paul Popenoe, the well known 'authority on this subject, says that whether or not cousins should marry depends entirely on the cous ins. Marriage between persons of the same aiicestry and the same personal traits tends to produce children with these traits more strongly developed. If the inherited characteristics are good, the marriage results in better children. If the inherited traits are bad, then poor children are the result. Professor Popenoe concludes that if both interested parties to the mar riage are strong and healthy, ment ally and physically, above the aver age, with no bud tendencies in their common ancestors for several gener ations back, their children will pro bably be above the average. But if the cousins are mentally or physically below the average, if their ancestors had undesirable traits, or if any evidences of idsanity, feeble mindedness, liability to disease, ec centricities, or other undesirable pe culiarities i were present^ then their marriage would be inadvisable. Professor Popenoe’s conclusions traits and physical ;, there is no quick f building up a fine Wild Geese Abandon Old Flying Formation White Salmon In the state of Wash ington reports a curious occurrence,/ The wild geese Hying toward their nesting grounds abandoned the ttlue honpred “V" foruiativa und ia6k to the crescent. y' What can- account f«yr go basic a change In goose tei tiMtflogy? the New York Sun asks. Mere accident seems an Insufficient explanation. It Is more logical to consider the matter from the standpoint of cause and effect. The fact Is that the modern goose has been affo ded unusual opportuni ties for observing formations. He sees football tea.ns in action, observes the deploying I'nes of young men at elti r.«i training camp drill. He cannot belli noticing the gyrations of boy scouts and camp Bre girls. The air service brings a variety of patterns to his Mention In the air Itself. Then every goose has memories, or has beard traditions or rumors of Eu ropean war activities—the salient, the enveloping movement, the varied and wavering course of the zero hour at tack. ( * It is a scientific age. Is even the goose affected? I’erhaps he has adopt ed the empiric method and is experi menting with formations to see If, aft er all, the earth may not be able to teach him something about the alrl African Coast Natives Use Beetles as Food Several species of beetles are em ployed in medicine, but It is unusual to find them serving as food for men, says a writer In Conquest The na tives of the west coast of Africa, how ever, where the Goliath beetle Is found, eat it boiled and consider it a sweet and appetizing delicacy. In the simplicity of its coloring no beetle could bb more strikingly hand some. The beautiful texture of its closely cropped silky fur and the pu rity of the black and white-figured coat give to this Insect the appearance of being clothed in ermine and black vel vet. The construction of the nest of the Goliath beetle is one of the problems of natural history. A specimen of the cocoon is in the Natural History mu seum, South Kensington, England. It is 4% inches in length, with a circum ference of 8% Inches, and has very ■fliln walls for so large a structure, composed as It is of clay and earth. Of the Squirrel Family The 8ewellel Is a carious little benv erlike rodent of the mountains from •orthern California to British Colum bia, which lives In wet places over grown with vegetation, where It makes •xtensive burrows *and runways often kept wet by running water. They usually live In colonies and hibernate, preparing for the winter by cutting and collecting great quantities of woody plants and ferns, which they carry to places near their burrows and spread out to dry thoroughly be fore taking them Into their burrows as stored food. The Indians ate them and made mnch use of their soft fur. A second species has been described from California. The many structural differences from the beav'er have led to placing the sewellels In a family by themselves. They are regarded as most nearly representing the ancestral type of the squirrels. Emerson on Education An education “which shall keep a good coat on my son's back; which shall enable him to ring with confi dence the visitors' bell at double belled doors; which shall result ulti mately In establishment of a double belled door to his own bouse—In a word, which shall lead to advancment In life—this we pray for on bent knees —and this is all we pray for." It nev er seems to occur to the parents that there may be an education which. In itself. Is advancement In Life—that any other than that may perhaps be advancement In Death; ‘and that this essential education may be more easily got, or given, than they fancy. If they set about It in the right way; while It Is for no price, and by no favor, to be got. If they set about It In the wrong.—Ruskin. Raised a Little Doubt The manager of the Doemup laun dry had advertised for a man. Early next morning, a mlld-eyed young chap appeared, and referred to the adver tisement “You think you can fill the hill, do you?” asked the proprietor. “I dunno, boss- I’ve druv a laundry wagon, but I never druv one o’ them other things." "What other things T’ And the applicant handed him a clip ping of the ad, which read: “Wanted —a man to drive laundry wagon.and solicit” Early Code of Laws When civilization first began In pre historic times, It Is probable that law of some kind also became established. Even as early as 2200 B. C. a code of written laws had been formulated and Inscribed on Babylonian stone. The Hammurabi code, now over 4,000 years old, has several features that resemble our modern laws. Discoveries Of re cent years seem to confirm the idea that Babylonia was the/cradle of civi lisation. Temples dating back to 6500 B. C.'have been unearthed. At the Party »t,'s the hardest work to get Alice to sing. He—WelL 1 suppose the poor girl doesn't like to hear It any better than the rest of us do.- " Five years ago b their inventor were ed. Alden L. Putna Just recently granted a pp*“» which he had h«en fnr <_ • The Weather t No More Guessing H. H. Clayton of Canton, Maas., for years at Blue Hill Observatory, has a new and scientific method for predicting weather according to variations in the sun's heat.. has never failed in tests at Cantoiv A man can’t get into a barber shop these days, according to Arthur Baer in his column in the Washington Her ald, because his ladylike relatives are all in there having their eyebrows-bob bed and their ears shingled. The only beard jn a barber shop is the picture of Abraham Lincoln hanging over the stove. We wish, he says, the man who invented the safety razor would invent a barber shop without women. MUCH INDIFFERENCE Many of the best women in North Carolina are politically indifferent, is the opinion of Mrs. Eugene Reilly, of Charlotte, who attended the sessions of the International Council of Wo men held in Washington last week. . The women in North Carolina, accord ing to Mrs. Reilly, have difficulty in making advancement in politics be cause of the conservatism of both men and women. Most of the women of the State, she points out, were tip posed to the woman suffrage amend ment to the constitution and for this reason the legislature of the State voted against it. It is Mrs. Reilly’s opinion that Miss Alexander, who was defeated for mayor of Charlotte, would have made a better mayor than many of the men who have held that office in recent, years, but that she lacks political ex perience for the governorship. “Of Every $100 Invested In Oil Stocks $95 Is Lost” The United States Treasury De partment sent out this item four years ago: “Production of oil is one of the great fuel requirements of the world today. But fake oil stocks have let the fires under hundreds of thousands of bank accounts die out. Nathan Adams, vice-president of one of the largest banks of Dallas, Texas, in touch with every ramification of the great Texas oil industry, estimates that qut of every $100 invested in oil stocks, $95 is lost.” This means that for every $20 in vested in oil stocks, only $1 is safely invested, and that there is one chance in twenty to win when one uses this means of gambling. Perhaps some of us have little sympathy for the individual who, with all the.opportunities available for his protection from fraudulent stocks, will nevertheless let himself be duped by oily-tongued stock salesmen, but we should at least have sympathy for the wives and children of these “easy marks.” Mote stringent regu lations against “stock salesmen” are needed all over Dixie.—The Progres sive Farmer. Is it worth while—the endless search For what is poorly termed “ success*? Is it worth while to concentrate On artificial happiness? The frenzied urge that drives men on In sordid striving after gold— I wonder if they find in it The satisfaction life should hold. I wonder if each day for them Contributes something truly grand. Can men whose hearts are slaves to greed And selfish purpose understand The great abiding peace of mind, The priceless ecstasy of soul That are the glorious reward Of those who seek a higher goal? r Is it worth while? WiH any man Confess that he believes it pays To sell for things material A life of precious nights and days? We know such plan is not worth while! We know that men are richly blest Alone when they begin to learn That wealth of character is best. A When Better Automobile* Are Built, Buick Will Build Them uestionXJVhy do all of the great rac ing cars use Valve in-Head engines?