The Courier
Mm. Vn. C. Hammer, PuWisher and
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Harriett* Hammer Walker, Editor
• Wo. C. Hammer Estate, Owners.
Thursday, August 4, 1932.
Entered as second class mail matter
i* the postoffice at Ashekoso, N. C
CHILDREN UNDERSTAND
Must one of these minors kill a
person outright before their parents
and the officers stop them from
driving automobiles ? One of them
has hit a poor oW delivery truck
and nothing was done. The Courier j
has no disposition to prosecute any
person or persons from any malicious
reasons. The safety of the com
munity is at stake and while these
children have not set up any repu
tations for speeding through the
streets of the town—they just should
not be allowed to drive. It is illegal
and if they should have an accident
there would be a terrible stir. This
can be avoided. Then, uppermost
among the reasons, it is teaching
utter disregard for law to this
younger generation which is a grave
thing. The present generation re
spects law little enough as is proven
jn a thousand different wTays—
strikes, etc., but we shouldn't teach
our children this.
There is a great wave of senti
ment. against this prevailing habit in
Asheboro and if a child hits one of
■these persons, there will be a reckon
ing. It shouldn’t come to this. These
children will be reasonable if ap
pealed to—children are.
THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE
AI<LOAVED TO SPEAK
•There Were precinct meetings held
by the Democrats last Saturday.
More people attended these meetings
than has ever been the case before
and this is a splendid thing—or
could have been. Several of these
meetings turned out to be held un-1
■der the autocracy method. The voters
who attended several of these meet
ings expecting to vote their senti
ments did not do so. They were
disappointed and left dissatisfied.
There is no need for brother Demo
crats to leave a meeting with such
a feeling-—a remedy must be found.
Perhaps, since we already have a
Primary system, it would eliminate
this state of affairs to put all can
didates in the Primary. Randolph
is under a special act anyway and
it would be a very easy matter to
select all the officers-under one Pri
mary. The Primary system is cer
passed that a few men can dictate
the way people vote and name the
delegates who shall vote their sen
timents. Let the people name who
they want themselves. The autocrat
is scheduled for a short reign in
Randolph—this is the day of rule byj
the masses, not by a Dictator nor by
the aforementioned “Big Five.”
tainly
but the day has
FARMERS EXPRESS
THEMSELVES
At the regular monthly meeting ofj
Randolph county Commissioners, peo
ple from all sections of the county
gathered. Farmers came to express ;
themselves concerning whether or not 1
to retain the services of the County 1
Farm Demonstrator, E. S. Millsaps, !
Jr. The room where the commission- '
ers met was crowded and a most ‘
heated argument arose. The argument
was not whether or not Mr. Millsaps i
was wanted as a man, but it was a ,
question of spending that amount o* \
money. In the course of the discus- i
sion, it was made public that the i
county only pays Mr. Millsaps $810.00 <
per year, this amount being supple- <
mented by the state. It was further ‘
pointed out that this amount, when j
apportioned throughout the county,
amounts to only about the price of a s
package of cigarettes to each farmer, t
Jbere were farmers there who ex- <
pressed their belief that a good farm £
paper would do as much good and ’
'- ere all for saving this amount,
and every other possible short cut, ?
before raising the tax rate. From j
the applause greeting the men who j
voiced this sentiment, the representa- <
tives were well divided. i
There were a large number of farm- >
ers who had been helped with their 1
grain crops, rotation and fertilizer un- 1
til ttieir acres were yielding double
what they formerly did, and they |
gratefully gave the credit to Mr. Mill- j
saps. There were cattle and dairy (
men present who spqke .$» concrete j
terms of what his pure heed cattle \
movement had done for them. The <
poultry raisers also spoke out and i
stated that, in this one matter alone.
Mr. Millsaps had brought more money "
into the county than had been ex
pended in his salary. .
A most remarkable fact was the ,
group of young hoys there who did i
not hestitate, wham the opportunity r
was given, to speak out foe retaining
the lftrfer of their 4* Club. A^brief
account was given by s boy member
of th* calf «5tob <* the^.trfp to Btf
for the county as a whale the decision;
of the Commissioners.
Pacts and figures appear elsewhere
m this issue of the paper as were
presented to the Commissioners pub
licly, while a great many letters were
sent t© the body insisting that the of
fice not be abolished. The decision of
the Commissioners to retain Mr. Mill
says, seems to be in accordance with
the greatest burden of the proof of the
value of such a person and office to
Randolph county.. It was also made
clear that it was the farmer’s place
to call for Mr. Millsaps when and
where he could be of assistance to
them.
BETTER TIMES AHEAD
Whether it is really true or not
there are several leaders in the
business 'world in various parts of
the country who are optimistic about
business being on the upgrade. Peo
ple who do delve into business deep
ly are of the opinion that the nation
as a whole is definitely upon the
upswing of the present economic
cycle and claim that they are able
to detect strongly evidence that con
ditions are gradually improving and
will continue to improve. Thinking
men hold out the hope that things
are swinging back slowly, but that
they are swinging back. The very
fact that this progress is slow is
basis for hope that it is sure and
will prove steadily. The road down
hill has ever been a faster trip
than the upward pull, but it is the
person and business climbing the hill
that see a goal ahead. A downward
tumble requires no goal, and often
ends in a tragic jumble.
Perhaps the very fact that peo
ple are beginning to talk “better
times” will have a most wholesome
effect upon business. As' long as
we found pleasure in blaming Presi
dent Hoover (altho’ he may be to
blame until after the November elec
tion) and sat down to just take this
depression as something that we had
coming to us, w7e got it. Asheboro
has never felt the terrible pinch that
some places have experienced, for
we have never been the spontaneous
booming kind, and, just at present
money does not seem to be espec^l
ly plentiful, but there is a differen
attitude prevailing pretty generally
This is a general feeling of brother
hood. not the kind you read about
but folks have found that a lot of
other folks not only have feelings
but a heart and a disposition to help
the other fellow. If this is going
to be the foundation that this new
era, or cycle, is built upon, then this
period of depression has been worth
while. We may not have as much
money as we formerly had, but many
of us have found that we do not
need as much, and since we haven’t
nad as much money to spend running
iround aimlessly we have visited
with our friends and neighbors a
sit and found them plum worth while
folks.
With Other Editors |
i SOON OR LATE, THE BLOW
FALLS
(Monroe Journal)
Some little sentiment is being ex
pressed by different writers over
the quick retirement of Senator Cam
eron Morrison. A powerful book was
once written called “The Way of All
Flesh.” A less powerful but equally
as true a one might be written on
the “Way of All Public Men.”
The blow has fallen swiftly upon
Mr. Morrison. When he was appoint
ed to fill the term of Senator Over
man until a regular election came
round everyone supposed that it
meant that he would not only serve
out the full unexpired term but that
he would be elected as a matter of
course for the next term running
six years from next March. But a
few weeks ago all th'S seemed so
plain that Mr. Morrison was not
seriously disturbed by the news that
two or three candidates were in the
field against hint. And now, after
a briof Bfervice in the senate, he
mide his last appearance in that
body on Saturday. So fell the
sweep of political sentiment that he
is hardly given time to shake the
hands of fellows members in * the
lobby before he is hustled from the
senate chamber. No wonder there
is some' disposition here and there
to weave a bit of sentiment about
the episode, for Morrison as Senator
proved but an episode.
There is no moral nor room for
moralizing even if there were an
audience willing to listen. It is not
the fault of Mr. Morrison. It is not
the excellencies of Mr. Reynolds. It
is pot. the ingratitude or other short
coming'of the public. It is the way
of political life. No man can change
it, no man ever escapes it. The
man who is not willing to face it has
no business in public Pfe.
Let’s look at the North Carolina
senators back for a quarter or half
a century. Which one of thorn es
caped? In. recognition of services
In the Civil War and reconstruction
General Matt Ransom and Gov. Zeb
‘ hod long, useful and hif""-1
deciding between them and his seat
in the senate. Vance died and Jarvis
was appointed to fill part of his
unexpired term—filled it and no
more, though he ran for more and
longed for more.
General Ransom, the greatest po
litical artist we ever had, because he
coupled with his talents a great abili
ty, was thrown out on his head in
his old age by a legislature of which
at least some of the members were
negroes. This legislature gave the
plum to Marion Butler who held it
one term. No man has ever gone
out of the senate in a cloud like unto
that which surrounded Butler in the
minds of most of the people of the
State.
After Butler came Mr. Simmons.
Next to General Ransom and Gov.
Vance, he was our most powerful
senator. He is out in his old age
and bankrupted. Mr. Bailey holds
the seat. What will happen to him is
in the future. He is assured of
the present term but no earthly
gu«ss could be made further.
Going back to the line of the
western senatorship. Jeter C. Prit
chard got the balance of the unexpir
ed term of Vance and the full term
following. While he suffered no pere
sonal eclipse in passing out the po
litical arrangement by which he was
put in was wiped out in the fury
and indignation of the Red Shirt
campaign, which was the result of
the combination of which he and
Butler were the chief beneficiaries.
Senator Pritchard by reason of a
friendly national administration, was
seated in a judicial chair and passed
the remainder of his life in a way
that atoned considerably for the per
formance by which' ne~was first
elevated.
Senator Overman came in as the
successor of Pritchard. He had a
long and useful career, but was
greatly disturbed by Mr. Reynolds’
surprising campaign against him
and by the shadow of defeat which
was due this year. And Mr. Mor~
rison had already given notice that
he would be a candidate for the
scat this year. Scator Overtnan died
in harness only because he died
when he did.
| And now we have Mr. Reynolds.
There are indications that North
Carolina will accept Mr. Reynolds at
his own valuation. He has been
nominated by an overwhelming vote.
So far as any one may judge there
is no map in North Carolina, cer
tainly no democrat, that does not
hope for him a useful, honorable and
highly successful service. He will go
in with the enthusiastic good wishes
of all. But who can guess now how
he will go opt, or who can hope,
judging by the past, that it will
not be as “The Way of All Public
Men.”
"Week-End Marriage”
Is Coming To Sunset
Theatre Next Week
Loretta Young, beautiful screen
actress featured in First National
productions, had the arduous task re
cently of changing her clothes seven
times in one day for her latest pic
which
turn, “Week-End Marriage,
comes to the Sunset Theatre next
Monday and Tuesday. She did not,
however, regard it as work.
“You just don't know the feminine
heart if you think that was a tire-'
some task,” Loretta commented on the
“Any girl would be pleased to wear
that many beautiful gowns In one
day. But-1 was unusually delighted,
because there was another distinction
attached to them. We have a new
and wonderfully clever designer,
Orry Kelly, at the studio, and it. fell
to my lot to have the honor of being
the first to benefit -by his advanced
ideas, the first gowns he has made for
the screen, being designed especially
for me.”
1 Kelly, who was brought to Holly
wood from Hew York by Warper
Bros.-First National, after ten yean
of success in costuming some of
Broadway's most lavish stage produc
TOMA'
-HEALTHFUL,
iEFUL
Luncheons
Whole Baked Potatoes Stuffed
with Chicken and Corn Pudding
Cueumbw^Watercress Salad
Scones g£* Honey
Tea
CoW Spiced Ham
Potato Salad. Tomato Jelly
Crisp Lunch Rolls
PeackeB and Cream
C' Arm TaA J
Cookies
Take Advantage of the Present Low
Prices of Fresh Tomatoes
Tomatoes are recognized today as
one of our most healthful and useful
vegetables—or fruits—for tomatoes
are really a froit. Just now they
are so reasonably priced that the
luscious, ripe fruit can be used in
numerous ways both cooked and un
cooked. Tomato juice or sliced to
matoes, rich in valuable mineral
salts, acids and vitamins, fit in as
appetizers with almost any menu.
Stuffed and baked with meat,
cheese of vegetable mixtures toma
toes make attractive and flavorsome
main dishes. For cold meals, meat
or fish can be molded into attractive
salads in tomato aspic. In many
ways tomatoes can be used to con
tribute color and flavor to salads or
other combinations.
For the main dish in the first
menu, select large firm tomatoes,
cut off the tops and scoup out most
of the juice and pulp. This may be
strained and saved for a rich toma
to juice cocktaiL c For the stuffing,
cut hajf a popad^fj,boned cooked
chieirenme andpealon vnth salt
and pepper. Scald a half cup of
milk and add one and one-half cup
of canned corn and two well-beaten
eggs. Mix with the diced chicken
and stuff the scooped out tomatoes.
Sprinkle the tops with buttered bread
crumbs and bake irt moderate oven
for twenty minutes.
The colorful tomato jelly m the
second menu makes a tasty and at
tractive garnish or accompaniment
to any roast or platter of cold cuts
or cheese.
To make it select very ripe toma
toes. Cook them very slowly with
out water until soft and then drain
in a jelly bag as you would any oth
er fruit juice. Let them drip with
out squeezing if you want a clear,
niced colored jelly. Add a little
lemon juice and rind and for every
cup of juice add a cup of sugar. You
should now boil the mixture until
it reaches the jelly stage—or if you
wish to save time and rad—you can
hasten the process by adding liquid
frait pectin. A cup of clear **pple
juice may be added for every five
cups of juice if you want to insure
a clear, firm jelly without using the'
commercial pectin.
During the warm days' of summer,
try tomato aspic molded into a loaf
with salmon or cold meat. To
make the aspic, boil two cups of to
mato juice, salted and peppered to
taste and season with two table
spoons of lemon juice.1 Soften three
tablespoons lemon gelatin in cold
water and mix with Jbe tomato juice
after removing from the fire. When
the mixture begins t$ set, add one
CLAIMS TH
Farley WU1 X«T<
State T®
A German thief m
through a skylight with a _
sausages stolen from a butcher. He
slipt,"caught the string of sausages
on a spike, and was strangled by his
booty.
A New York City policewomen
sms sent to a hospital after being
ran down by a youngster on a kiddie
oar, continues a writer in The Ameri
Variety of Offerings
to Attract Business
It would be interesting to know
which of the world’-s Journals iturted
the practice of bestowing what are
nowadays horridly termed “free gifts”
on Its readers. The earliest Instance
I know of was;-that of the furls Fi
garo. which sotiieWhfera abooT the mid
die rtf last century sent a case -of or
tinges to each annual- subscriber. A
grave political sheet. "Ktyndard ” gave
boxes of sweets to Its subscribers at
Christmas time In 1808.
About the same time Paris restau
rants took to supplying a new Install
ment of some popular novel with the
hors-d’oeuvre, after giving due warn
ing. so people dined there day after
day until the tale was told. Rending
rooms gave free tickets to certain res
tnurnnts. so that after tilling the mind
one could go round the corner and
stoke np the vile body.
A wine shop proprietor offered to
clothe his customers free: eacli gar
ment was-given after the consump
tion of a certain number of a certain
sort of drink. Sprightly “lads of the
village” who had lost a hat or needed
another pair of hoots used to round up
a crowd of friends, who vowed to im
bibe the requisite number of glasses.
A necktie or a ring, however, could
be “earned” nt one session, without
help. If one had a fairly strong head.—
Manchqafer (YCng.) Guardian.
Entire Body Affected
by Overstrained Eyes
Eye strain is as injurious to tlie hu
man system as an actual defect in the
structure of the eye, according to the
reports of hundreds of eyesight special
ists questioned hy the Itetter Vision in
stitute. Normal eyes that are sub
jected to the continuous burden of Woe
work requiring close application are
forced to recruit their nervous energies
from the supply which Is intended for
other functions, ami the result is a
tired condition of the. entire body.
Headaches ore to he expected, but the
sapped vitality often takes unexpected
forms, such as digestive disorders and
kidney and back troubles.
“Strained eyes are racketeers of the
nervous system,’’ says M. J. Julian, di
rector of the institute. “The human
body has a limited supply of nervous
energy at its disposal, and if one part
of the body draw’s more than its nor
mal share, other parts ore bound to
suffer. The proper glasses restore the
right distribution of energy to the
body.”
The E»er;re«n'»
Tt seems to be nature’^ intention '
that all evergreen trees shall have one *
main spike, which rises straight up. 1
The spruce, as an example, grows in '
this way with the side branches going 1
straight out parallel to the ground ^
from the base of the upright. The
upright then sprouts a number of ■
branches at its tip to repeat the proc- j
ess. If through injury or pruning, tlie
center or upright branch of a now
series Is killed all of the side branches
at this point turn gradually upward
and this continues for some time until
one, through some mysterious selec
tion. asserts Itself as the main branch
and the others then gradually drop
back to their horizontal position and
the tree resumes once more its normal
growth.
Clergy’* Wive* Live Long
The esrcctatlcn of l'fe still shows ;
an upward trend. Of thirty two pco- <
pie whose deaths were announced in
England one day recently, five were
over nlnefy years old, twelve over
eighty and. eight over sevfcrrty, with
the average age seventy-seven yearn.
Since the beginning of this century
there has been a great advance In the
average life of the British people.
Forty years ago a bajfc would have
a life expectation of about forty-live
years. According to the present av
erage, a healthy child today may be
expected to live until i| is fifty-eight.
Clergymen, it Is stated, are amqpg the
longest lived persons, and their wives
reach an even greater age.—London
Mail.
“Buck" Johnson was by nature s
settler. He settled on Bear Creek
when all the country In that neighbor
hood rtae a bowling wilderness. When
other settler* came be became rest
lew: and moved on to Devil's Gulch,
WMck^be settled.
He wa» soon crowded out of there
and sought other fields.
fl« became known as “The Settler.*1
* fhls gave Mm an exalted opinion
of himself and from settling land he
soon took to settling disputes, argu
mentt and—well. In fact, everything
tin was the chief arbitrator of the
whole countryside.
He met n little dark-eyed las* and
married her. She settled blm.~Kan
saa City Star. / /',
■I "Til*
aevetal.people *ere killed *r injured
by-goUklubi 6r flying1 golf-balls.
To balance the golf account, the
statistics of 1931 record one golfer
who was aided, in his feore by an
earthquake, a shock coming along
at exactly the right instant to roll
a hesitant ball into the cup and low
er by one the number of strokes
needed for that hole. *
One similar instance of good luck
was not so fortunate, for the year’s
records include the case of a San
Francisco citizen who drew a per
fect hand at pinochle and was so
startled when he looked at it that
he dropt dead from heart-failure.
The incident of the tiger in the
airplane happened over the English
Channel, only a few weeks ago,
when a young animal being shipped
from Belgium to a circus in London
escaped from its cage and emerged
enthusiastically into the cabin. For
tunately, the tiger’s trainer also was
a passenger. With considerable pre
sence of mind, the trainer let the
tiger cling to him and struggled back
into the open cage and slammed the
door, with himself and the tiger
inside. The' rest of the air voyage
was made with tiger and trainer in
the |ame cage and the rest of the
passengers outside. Fortunately,
neither trainer nor tiger came to,
any harm.
Less happy were the experiences
of Mrs. Elizabeth Tower, of Con
cord, New Hampshire, add Mr. Junes
Evans of Chicago; both suffered se
vere automobile accidents, one of
them fatal, when stung by a bee
while driving. A. wasp-sting caused
the death of an elderly man in
Springdale, Arkansas, and the tele
phone industry reports as one of the
year’s curious accidents in that busi
ness the injury of a supervisor who
was stung on the lips by a hornet
which happened to be inside the tele
phone mouthpiece when the victim
spoke into it.
From El Dorado, Kansas, comes
what probably is the year’s most
curious accident involving insects. A
farmer near that town was shear
ing a mUle. Suddenly a bee stung
the mule so that the animal kicked.
The kick happened to catch the
shears which the farmer was using,
one blade of these was driven
through the unfortunate man’s arm,
and he died shortly thereafter from
loss "til blood from « severed Srtery.
Other accidents resulting serious
ly from extremely trivial causes, in
clude one woman killed by chasing
a mouse, a man who was shot by his
dog, and another who owed the same
misfortune to a cat, we are told as
the account runs on: (
The mouse victim, in Laconia, New
Hampshire, discovered the Invacjpr in
her kitchen, shut the door, and
chased the mouse so vigorously that
she presently collapsed and died. The.
mouse escaped.
The individual shot by his dog is
reported by the safety officials 'of
the State of Pennsylvania, a hunting
dag in the woods haying jumped on
the trigger of the hunter’s shotgun,
discharging that weapon and killing
the man. An Italian alt Pisa was
annoyed, the National Safety Coun
cil reports, by a wailing cgt He
struck at the animal with the butt
cf a rifle; missed tire cat, discharged
tiie gqn, and shot hinse!f.
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caught on fife while out riding ««
day last week. His many friX
associates are anxious for hL “4
covery. - re'
The Hama Makers Club, of Mi
Gilead community will ..meet Jul
Mto«s Rrth and B.taS-5?
Thursday afternoon, August 4 *
Mrs. R. W. Sumner has been gnm^
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law, Mrs. G. R. Sumner.
Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Hill have moved
mto their aaw home on Trtnito
route I. y"
Mrs. Syntha Spencer and grandson.
Cicero Spencer, spent Sunday in the
home with Mr. and Mrs. Edd Kmlev
THE DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE
Not leas than 20,000 persons, ft »
estimated, committed suicide in the
United States last year.
This marks a peak in our suicide
Wte :surP®®®d twice, and then,
also in depression years.
The figures, compiled by Dr. Fred
erick L. Hoffman, the well-known,
authority on such matters, am pub
lished in The Spectator, an insurance
weekly. The estimate for the coun
try as a whole is based on the re
cords of a hundred cities with a total
population of more than thirty-two
millions. For the'last"thirty years
the average rate of suicide dn these
cities has been about 17.8 per 100,000
population. In 1931 it rose to 20.5.
The figure went higher than this,
we are told, only in the panic year
1908, when it touched 21.5, and in
the war depression of 1915, when it
stood at ,20.8.
The actual number of suicides list
ed in Dr. Hoffman’s hundred cities
last year is 6,725. “Making allow
ances for a lower rate in the rural
sections,” he writes, “it is a safe
assumption that for the nation at
large the actual loss of life by sui
cide in 1931 was not less than 20,
000.” The life-insurance companies,
he reports, “are becoming alarmed
at the losses sustained through
voluntary -self-destruction.” To illus
trate this economic aspect of the
problem he cites the amounts paid in
claims by the Metropolitan life in
surance Company on its industrial
business in 1921 and 1931: “In 1921
the company paid $880,871 in claims
on account of suicide, while during
1931 these payments amounted to
$6,494,254. In 1921 suicide claims
formed 1.9 per cent, of the total
claims, while during 1931 4his pro
portion was increased to 4.4 per
cent.”
Arguing that “every suicide is a
potential-murder, in that it is chief
ly the suggestion of self-inflicted
death that drives countless thousandr
to their doom,” Dr. Hoffman goes on.
to say: "
“There is the most urgent need!
for the organisation of a national so
ciety lor the study and. prevention
of suicide.
“Without such an effort it is a
foregone conclusion that our suicide
rate will continue to increase until
it reaches Continental European pro
portions.”