The Courier
WILLIAM C. HAMMER
Born March 24, 1865.
Died September 26, 1930.
Thursday, April 9, 1931.
Entered as second class mail matte*
Id the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C.
In the passing of Pr. M. J- Moore,
for more than thirty years a physi
cian of Asheboro. a faithful servant
6f the people rests. Dr. Moore was
a simple mail, retiring in nature ex
cept when it came to his profession
which was practiced chiefly during
the days of bad roads in Randolph.
During the neriod of- his practice, for
in recent years his ill health has not
allowed him to be active, Dr. Moore
belonged to the type of “country doc
tor” who went at all hours of the day
and night and with few convenien
ces. He belonged to the horse and
buggy age and in giving his service
to the people, it meant exposure and
slow, long drives in all kinds of weath
er. Too much cannot be said in
praise of these doctors and while the
doctors of today give as freely of
their service, conditions are certain
ly better for them to practice their
profession than formerly. Dr. Moore
is typical of a large number of
splendid doctors of this type in the ;
town and country and it is with sin
cere regret that their passing is
chronicled.
A neighboring 'l:u!y newspaper j
copied a splendid editorial running in
a recent edition of a newspaper in a
western state. The editorial dealt
with the deplorable lack ot good en
glish and bemoaned the fact that high
schools in that state were graduating
girls and boys who were not able to
speak the English language correctly.
The article suggested that if colleges
would iai.se their requirements for en
trance in English and if requirements
for teachers would be more ,-tnngent.
it might help matters—true. Yet
there are some ideas that could be
added to this, if after the teachers
were prepared and the college stand
ards were raised, it might not he a
bad idea for some of the sweet young
things who are teaching to get enough
money to lmy the trousseau to put«in
a little time reading some good litera
ture. Hut even this would not b^
enough, the root of good English is in
the homes. There is too much good
reading matter going to waste for an
evening to be spent gossiping—there
are too many libraries where books
may be obtained and too many peo
ple willing to loan books for the lack
of good reading matter to be an ex
cuse. The parents should look to their
laurels and not only provide the out
side reading that will help after the j
schools do their part in foundation;
■work—and it might not be a bad idea j
for the parents to set the example
and raise the social standard along I
with the college standards.
A GOOD EXAMPLE
For many years Sol and Kitty Wit- j
tenburg, of Philadelphia, have cele-j
brated the Passover holidays by giving j
groceries to needy families in their
city. For eight hours needy Jews were
handed baskets of flour, eggs, sugar
and other necessities by,the two Wit
tenburgs assisted by Judge Leopold C.
Glass, and assistant District Attorney
Theodore Rosen. Judge Glass’ sis
ters also distributed food from their
home last week.
The example of dispensing gifts at
Christmas time has come down
through the ages but the example of
sacrifice has never been followed.
This thought is quite timely and now
when groceries and clothing would
mean much to some people and hard
ly be missed by others, it would not be
amiss to follow this example ahd a
week late wouldn't make much dif
ference to those who benefited by the
gifts.
A NEED TO FILL
The papers spread forth the facts
of suffering in various places and it
all seems far away and unreal. There
is some suffering nearby and people
suddenly become agitated about it
and flock to the rescue, but things are
not investigated very carefully or it
would not seem so far away. Recently
a tragedy occurred in this county and
no real cause was given. Perhaps
hunger was not the direct cause but
whole families who go for a whole
day without food should be helped es
pecially when the father and mother
have both been ill for a long time
and not one of the large family of
children have ever attended school.
Sending money to heathen countries
is all very well in its place and cer
tainly has its good points but when
conditions exist in Randolph county
where there are public charity funds
and where teachers or communities
should have enough milk to human
kindness to investigate why children
cannot attend school and report it
to some organization who advertise
that they have departments of welfare
or charity.
This is just another instance of
blindness to conditions nearest us.
but surely there are some people who
are interested in bettering such con
ditions. A whole time truant officer
■or county nurse might help since the
State board of health will not allow a
county health physician to help with
unless there is illness.
QUITE A CONTRAST
An interesting comparison was
made when gold nuggets “as big
as onions” were found 500 miles be
low the border into Mexico. A clear
account of ti e rush was given in
Nogales, Ariz. by Manuel Llantalda,
who is said to be several times a mil
lionaire, after having been a clerk in a
grocery store a few weeks ago. Hun
dreds of Mexicans peons who were
scarsely able to keep soul and body to
gether with their farming become j
wealthy over night.
When Robert W. Service wrote the
lines:
‘ We wanted the gold and we got it,
Came out with a fortune last fall
But somehow the gold’s not what we
thought it.
And somehow the gold isn't all.”
times were not as hard as they are
now, and perhaps the poet would add
a few different lines now about what
gold nuggets “as big as onions” would
do for hungry and drought stricken
people to say nothing of the middle
class who also feel the pinch of hard
times.
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Mil AEFDEi-S)
NOT LESS EDI CATION—BI T
MORE
Robert Maynard Hutchins. Presi
dent of the University of'Chicago, has
this to say in The Yale Review con
cerning- the present crisis of business :
depression: “.the remedy of our'
present ills and the only hope we i
have of preventing their recurrence is
not less education but more.”
In considering the development of
higher education and its relation to
the practical field of social problems.
Or. Hutchins indicates four essentia!
needs: ( 1) more money for improve
ments; (2) more liberal extension of
academic freedom; (3) more intensive;
study of human problems; and (4) a
wider dissemination of the results of I
this stud) by means of adult educa*
♦ion. !
The f earth need mentioned accounts
for the rap'd growth of university ex
tension. -in -e it is this division of a
modem stat ■ university that is large
ly responsible for the dissemination of
everyday problems.
In North Carolina adult education
is being promoted by means of cor
jespondencr instruction, extension
classes, lecture courses, extension in
stitutes, publications, library service, I
radio programs, and other forms of;
universtity and college extension |
Through these means the citizens of j
the state are enabled to keep abreast
of the times and to obtain intelligent
assistance in the solution of social and
economic problems.
The Open Forum
A LETTER FROM HOME
The Courier:
Have been intending to write you i
a few lines in regard to the appre- |
ciation of the home paper I receive j
each Monday. It is like making a vis- !
it with homefolks. You have been so j
prompt in sending the paper to me.
I want to thank you for the rotograv
ure edition of Randolph county. Views
of Randolph county sure looked good i
to me, and to see Asheboro progress- |
ing so fast. I’m a native of Randolph j
county but being away about Id years.
Still I find no place on earth like the
“Old North State”, with the long
leaf pine trees. That is something
you don’t see much of in the “Long
Horn State” of Texas. I hardly j
knew Asheboro when I made a visit to
see homefolks and friends there two
years ago. Asheboro is a real nice
little city.
Thanking you again for the good
service shown me.
Yours truly,
MRS. CHAS. J. MU It PH REE,
(Formerly Mabel Woodell)
2438 Douglas Street,
April 1, 1931. Dallas, Texas.
AFTER THREE DAYS
Ry Grace Noll Crowell
What did that Easter morning mean
to Him!
I think of it, Oh, often, and am glad—
His earthly lifetime past—its grief
and pain,
With all the sore temptations that He
had.
All of it past—the last long hillside
climbed,
The last cry uttered, and the last tears
shed,
And never a grave to close on Him
again
Within the darkened garden of the
dead.
And now folded napkin laid aside—
And all eternity before Him there,
While those Hie loved were cc^ning—
and the dawn
Was on the hills—the birds’ song on
the air.
How beautiful it must have been to
Him,
After the dusty roadways He had
known;
How strangely sweet the garden flow
ers were,
How cool and colorful the dawn light
shone!
No morning of the earth means more
Ad men
Than Easter morning—bat it takes
my breath
To think what that first Easter mart
have.been
To One, taaw-risen, after days of
death.)
!“ TTY* ; _
—The Christian Herald, New York.
Nicaragua exports
VALUES OF NEWSPAPERS
(Spencer Mnrphy in Salisbury Post)
There isn’t a weekly newspaper in
North Carolina which isn’t worth more
to the life of the State than any
thousand miles of paved highway
within its borders. There isn’t a daily
which isn’t worth more to North
Carolina’s future than any school
house in the State.
Some newspapers are dishonest,
some are controlled by “the interests”
and some are in the hands of natural
born asses. Any man who denies that
doesn’t know a newspaper from a mail
order catalogue.
But the great majority of news
papers in the United States, certain
ly in North Carolina, are honest, al
truistic, public spirited institutions,
run more for the public good than
private gain. Anybody who knows
North Carolina newspapering knows
that is true. He knows too that the
publication of a newspaper is more
often a hand to mouth business than
not.
DIET AND SNIFFLES
(Philadelphia Record)
Is the common cold the result of
diet deficiency ?
Strange is the dispatch from Balti
more reporting that Dr. E. V. Mc
Collum, professor at Johns Hopkins,
has found a relation between the food
you eat and this most common and
most costly of human ailments.
It all centers about vitamin A. Dr.
McCollum does not say that a lack of
Vitamin A will produce the common
cold.
But he has found that a deficiency
in this food element brings about
symptoms suspiciously like the snif
fling and nasal discharges character
istic of the common cold.
Perhaps it is significant that vitam
ins and what they do are almost as
much of a mystery as the common
cold itself.
Vitamin A is found in butter, whole
milk, yolk of eggs, spinach, water
cress, celery leaves, turnip tops, beet
tops a id radish tops. It has also
been found in carrots and sweet po
tatoes.
If a diet of these articles will ward
off the common cold, the remedy is
pleasanter than many noxious cures
which have been touted for the ail
ment. The certainty that such a diet
will keep one cold-free has not been
established—but the experiments at
Johns Hopkins are going ahead, full
speed.
Good that they are! The common
cold is often considered as of slight
importance, the producer of a few
sniffles and a headache.
Vet the common cold is assuming
a new importance as doctors study
it, and seek its cause. It is the fore
runner of dangerous ailments, a de
stroyer of resistance, a health-waster,
time-waster. The annual loss due to
the disease is estimated in the hund
reds of millions.
He who finds the cure for the cold
will do as much for the world as he
who finds the cure for cancer. The
disease is one the human race is al
ways shaking off temporarily, but
has yet to shake off permanently.
RASKOB WILL SUPPORT
“DRY” FOR PRESIDENT
Democrats have the assurance of
John J. Raskob, national chairman,
that he will support the party’s nomi
nee, wet or dry, in 1932. The chair
man made such reply to query from
an Alabama newspaper Saturday.
The query said:
“Will you support the next
democratic national nominees if they
a re for prohibition and the national
platform is for prohibition? Thous
ands of loyal prohibition democrats
wish to know this.”
Raskob wiied in reply that he
would, asserting at the §ame time that'
the party’s platform should “clearly
and honestly” define its stand with
respect to prohibition.
N.Y. Woman Lost
14 Pounds Of Fat
One 83 Cent Bottle Of Krus
chen Salts Did It.
“I am starting on my second bottle
of Kruschen Salts and am real
pleased with results. I take it for
reducing and so far have lost 14
pounds and I think it is doing won
ders for me. I do not feel so tired
evenings when I get home from
work.”
A generous bottle of Kruschen
Salts that lasts 4 weeks costs but 85
cents at Reaves Pharmacy, Asheboro.
N. C., or any drugstore in America—
take one half teaspoon in a glass of
hot water every morning before break
fast—cut out pastry and fatty meats
—go light on potatoes, butter, cream
and sugar—that will help Kruschen
take off your fat.
Before the bottle is empty surplus
fat is leaving you—indolence changes
to activity—you’ll feel younger—eyes
will brighten—step grows spry. Mil
lions know this —you ought to know
it. Kruschen Salts is the ideal treat
ment for constipation, indigestion,
headaches, nervousness and acidity.
Take Kruschen every morning—it’s
the little daily dose that does it—
if not joyfully satisfied after the first
bottle—money back.
Dalton Florist
G. N. EDWARDS, Prop.
Flowers For All Occasions
MRS. LEON CRANFORD,
Representative
Phone 81-J
Jos. J. Sawyer
ARCHITECT
YEAH, EDITING A PAPER IS EASY ^
Here is A list of questions to fire
at that superior person who believes ;
that getting out a newspaper is
mere child’s play, and what is worse,
insists on telling you about it. John
E. Allen, editor of the Linotype
News, is responsible for them:
“Could you spell correctly off
hand, the names of a large per
centage of the residents of this
town ? If you could do that, could
you write their initials correctly
without resorting to the telephone
directory or other authority ?
“Could you write down, offhand,
the names of your city officials,
your local school board, your county ;
officials, your leading state and j
national officials, getting all the |
names, initials and offices correct.
“Could you gather the threads of
a story from half dozen persons
and weave them into an intelligent,
readable account the first writing.
“Could you write seven columns
of material of 1,200 or 1,400 words
each in two or three days, week
after week, year after year, and
when you have finished those seven,
pound out* two or three columns
more before press time?
“In writing a headline, could you
call to mind in a moment enough
synonyms so that you would not
repeat the thought in the same
words ?
“Could you judge in a minimum
of time what size headlines, and
what position in the paper could be
given to each of the 75, 100 or more
stories that might go into your paper ?
“Could you decide in a moment,
or exercise ‘snapy’ judgment, on the ,
dozens of questions a newspaper |
man must face daily and get a ma- ,
jority of them correct?
“Could you do these simple things
and a thousand and one more diffi- .
cult things too numerous to men- j
tion ?”
If he says “Yes,” turn him loose ;
on the next edition, if his answer is
r.o, he’ll be gone before you are
halfway through the list.—Morgan
ton News-Herald.
Snakes in a zoo live on a diet of
mice, rats, ducks, rabbits and pigs,
according to the size of the reptiles. ■
Half Soles and Rubber Heels
One Dollar and I p
SMITH SHOE SHOP
206 Sunset Ave.
Asheboro, N. C.
You get what you ask for and
pay for only what you get.
TWO SHERIFFS ARE
CITED FOR CONTEMPT
Two North Carolina sheriffs and
one county jailor have been cited to
appear before Judge Johnson J.
Hayes in federal court to show why
they should not be held m contempt
of court. They are Sheriff W. Locke
McKenzie of Rowan county, Sheriff
Bruce McMillian of Alleghany county
and his jailor, J. L. Roupe. It is al
leged these officials have permitted
federal prisoners to leave the county
jails in which they were confined and
go to their homes and spend the
nights. Contempt hearings have been
set for May at Winston-Salem.
Here’s A New One
An airplane pilot at Norwalk, Conn.,
was arrested Saturday and lodged in
jail on charge of piloting an airplane
while intoxicated. His plane careeneo
through a crowd of 200 spectators and
several automobiles, injuring several
persons and damaging several cars.
''When I was a child, if I did
not feel well, or if I had a cold,
my mother gave me Black
Draught,” says Mrs. Orpha
Hill, of Wofford, Ky. "When I
i was married, it became a fami
' ly medicine in my own home,
’ as it was in my mother’s.
"I take it for headache and
! especially for constipation.
■ When I get bilious, my skin
gets yellow and I have a very
bad taste in my mouth, and a
’ drowsy feeling all during the
day. My eyes burn wid I get
dizzy, or my head is 'swim
ming.’ When I take Black
Draught, it seems to drive the
impurities out of my system
\ and I feel fine. I am seldom
without this reliable remedy.”
THEDFORD’S
/or Constipation, Indigestion^,
Biliousness
WOMEN who are run-down. nervouK
I or suffer every month, should take
1 CARPUI. Used for over 50 year*
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
Of FORD VALVE
" Bright, enduring
RUSTLESS STEEL is used
for many exposed bright
metal parts of the Ford
WHEN YOU BUY a Ford yon boy enduring beauty.
The body finish is made to last for the life of the
ear and practicallyall exposed bright metal parts ex
cept the bumpers are made of enduring Rustless
Steel.
This Rustless Steel has great tensile strength.
It is the same bright metal all the way through. A
salt test equivalent to forty years’ service under the
severest weather conditions failed to have any effect
on its brilliance. It never requires polishing. All
you do is wipe it with a damp cloth, as you do your
windshield.
This is just one of many features that show
the substantial worth of the Ford. In speed, com
fort, safety, economy and long life — in the rich
ness of its finish and upholstery —- it brings you
everything you want or need in a motor car at an
unusually low price.
Call or phone for demonstration.
LIQUOR TRADING AMOUNTS
TO 3 BILLIONS A YEAR
Illicit liquor traffic in the United
States in a recent year reached the,
giant proportions of three billion
dollars, revenue officials estimate.
The bulk Of the money paid for im
ported booze went to the British Isles. |
There are thousands of agents in Eng
land who arrange for purchases and
shipments of liquor to the United
States, it is said, and these are fin
anced by syndicates of American
capital.
Gaming revenues support Monaco.
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SOUTH CAROLINA “WET"
URGES “WET” CANDID,
Ashton H. Williams, of w..
S. C., ‘ wet” leader in his statTfc
statement Saturday called upon"
"dry” Democratic leader in the ^
to acquiesce in the nominate
“wet” lor President in 1932 1 *
draw from the party and national
vention in 1932 and nominate » i ?
ticket. Attitude of the southern
leaders, Williams said is hurtiiJ1
chances of the party’s success in 15
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s of 3,600, 90 per cent in the trade area of
== Asheboro. It is figured that an average
= of 5 people read each copy of a news
= paper. That means 18,000 people read
s THE COURIER each week. 90 per cent
5j of these do all or a part of their trading
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■ 3. COST
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one cent. To have that postal card, or
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. trading area of Asheboro.
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or in a daily newspaper. Why? Because
a weekly newspaper, like THE COURI
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cessity that goes into Randolph house
holds each week and one which has gone
into hundreds of households since they
were established.
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