The Courier Mm. Vn. C. Hammer, PuWisher and ~r*--——-llavtaMT 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. --.—... : 11 "■'■■■■■■■■■■ ..— ■ » ... .._ 111 To Improve the Flavor of Roasts ----- ■ . ----- ■" ‘—r~* In Hif ^esOnX W*h Point Hoa • Aag. I._,|r £352T£.^2r;^ *? know her heahK 1..: Spend ft ^... her dadfchter, Mrs. Charlfeftii*** High Poipt, route S. °* Cod Crotts, bob of Mr. and nil T.m ewa, i. . wimtZ £S SSJi£™ * “ri«< lonh. vo*80 ,ne in hw car 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^ ?• •*-*»• h„ 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.”

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