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The Courier Wm. C. Hammer, Publisher and Business Manager. Harriette Hammer Walker, Editor Wm. C. Hammer Estate, Owners. Thursday, August 11, 1932. Entered as second class mail matter in the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C WHAT PEACE! Boston, the city of correct speech, also records a remarkable case where a couple lived in the same house •without speaking for six years. In 1929 the wife obtained a decree of separation for “justifiable cause.” Despite their differences, they con tinued to live in the same house and the husband paid $20.00 per week toward support of the silent wife. No reason was given for petitioning the court to reduce this amount last week except that the earning ca pacity of the husband had been re duced. There was not a word record ed of complaint from the husband — be just did not have the money. Any man who lives with a woman who is silent and peaceable has no room for complaint—pity Tis that there are not more women who retrain from nagging for six years. PEACE A.VD HARMONY The two parties in Randolph have held their conventions—the Repub- , Means the last Saturday in July and the Democrats the following Satur day—the first one in August. Bot.i conventions had brass bands and i both conventions had immense crowds of interested folks. The Republicars I sat until five o’clock and the Demo-1 crats marked time and marveled at i their interest but when their conven tion day came there was no break ing up at five. At six o’clock the last candidate was named and the crowd dispersed without hearing the { resol utons—"print ’em in The j Courier” was the cry, as they left for heme and supper. Toth parties had keynoters— speeches of flowing oratory, but the signs of both point toward great peace mi harmony within the ran*.' of both :amps. After the Republican convert ,nr closed the Democrats "got seam . .r. account of the, harmony, b.it r'n '. : .o r own convention clos ed f:i ' -..me fashion, it looks like both ;a.:.es aim to put up a couple if staff f.ghts this fall. Randolph, vath a divided court house now, will | be the scene of some heated bat-1 ties in the fall. This election will1 be heated in many places, hut Ran dolph politics always run at white: heat anyway before things are over.! Those who enjoy watching a good political scrap will doubtless get j their money’s worth between now and | November 4th, for the party lead-; err- have already donned their fight-j ir.g clothe?. I RIDING AND THE LIKE Virginia took up the question oi fining hitch-hikers some month; | hence. Minnesota is now considering; the same subject and it might not, be a bad plan for North Carolina to ( put the subject under consideration. At Lexington a few days ago .1; child left home “for no apparent i reason” and caught a ride with a j person described as “an elderly lady". This woman may have meant well in giving the child a ride but it is I dangerous business picking up a child. There are parents who might deal rather harshly with a man or woman who helped their child slip away from home and with this fact born in mind, children will not find it j so easy to wander about. Last j winter it was popular thing to “bum a ride to the show” which meant they either were released from school after their lessons were over in the afternoon, or took french leave and caught rides to near-by towns, saw a movie and caught rid es home some time that night. This was source of sorrow to many par ents who disapproved, but who seem ed to be powerless as long as people would give the boys, and sometimes girls too, rides. These children would have been much better off to have seen the show in their own town in the afternoon and spent their even ings in study. There was consider able comment by the school head concerning the lack of study in a good many cases last year and, if memory serves us right the press carried a plea for parents to co operate in urging that the children study at home. One thing that would remedy this evil would be to keep the children at the school a little later in the afternoons which would also mean that they need hot go to school at the unearthly hour in the mornings that they did last year. So general is the dissatisfac tion of this early hour, however, that it will probably not be a source of dread when the winter mornings come this year. __ Charles A. Hylton, of Randolph county, has entered suit in middle district federal court against the Veterans Bureau for recovery of $1,725 in accrued monthly compensa tion payments and also an unspeci fied amount in erroneously paid premiums on a $5,000 was risk in surance policy. Libby Holman Reynolds, young idow «f Smith Reynolds, of Win awBalam, who was supposed to |p» committed suicide several weeks fo, is charged with the murder HW tauband. Reynolds' secre Ah Walker, young Winston p man, is also charged with the It’, Going to Take More Than Whitewaah, Herbert} By Ta'burt The Open Forum ARMFIELD GRATEFI'L FOR PEOPLE’S SUPPORT To The Editor of The Courier: I wish to thank my friends of Randolph county for their loyal sup port of my candidacy for the State Senate, and hereby pledge my every effort toward electing the Demo cratic ticket in November from Con I stable to President. Regarding the county ticket I want [to go on record as endorsing and approving of the entire action of the Democratic Convention Saturday. I lam sorry all the candidates could not win, but we all know some of us must lose in order that some might win. 1 am especially sorry that Air. Clay Johnson and Mr. John Rail a both could not win, as 1 consider them both capable and deserving! Democrats. I think Mr. Bulla has discharged the duties of his office since his appointment in a most ad mirable way, and 1 feel sure that in h.is next run for office the Demo , iraty of this county will be united; behind him. Atrain assuring the Democracy of this county that 1 am very grateful and that I shall always be at the sendees ef 'the Democratic Party, 1 am. Faithfully yours, \V. J. ARMFIELD, III Asheboro, Aug. X. THANKS DEMOCRATS TOR SCPPORT GIVEN Editor Courier: I desire to express my gratitude to the Democrats of Randolph coun ty who cast their vote for me in the county convention Saturday for the legislature. I was not an office seeker and never expect to be, and! had not announced for any office; but it makes me feel good to know that there are several Democrats that believe with me. I have only been fighting for a return of the Jeffersonian democracy and against! the present Hamilton tendencies in i vogue in our county and state. I shall continue to fight. I thank vou, A. C. LOWDERMILK, Aug. 3, 1932. Seagrove, N. C. •ALL TOGETHER. DEMOCRATS" To The Courier: The county democratic ticket has been nominated and I am support ing it, and calling on all democrats ir. the county to forget their dif ferences and get together for the good of the party. As Chairman of the Trinity pre cinct committee, I promise that if every other precinct in the county shows up in November as well as we do, the entire ticket will be elected. 1 was not able to be at the county convention, and I do not think I need to repeat that I had nothing to do with my name being placed in nomination after I. had announced that 1 was not a candidate, nor that I had nothing whatever to do with any trading or attempts at any such thing. My interest in politics is mainly with the purpose of making the democratic party democratic; and I believe with the primary two years hence, the people of the coun ty will take charge of the party and there will be no more political manipulation by a few. There is no office I want for myself, but I shall continue to work for the party just the same. A majority of the people in this county are fanners, yet it appears that they are not considered in choosing candidates for office, but there are going to be some new de velopments in politics in the next few years. - In this general connection I want to express my thanks to The Courier for their fairness to everyone, and especially to myself in enabling me to try to stir up the people to a realization of the fact that the issues before the country are more important than the men running for office. This I tried to do with out any selfish ambition mixed up with it, and while I didn’t succeed very extensively, I think something was done in the right direction. BRUCE CRAVEN, Aug. 8 1932. Trinity, N. C. MR. PALMER PROPOSES A CHANGED PROGRAM Editor Courier: I submit some remarks on the present condition of the fanner,and 3ome of the things that have brought about these conditions: 1. Low prices obtained for farm products: Wheat 60c, cost of pro duction $1.06; Rye 35c, coat of pro 11.10; oats 28c, cost of pro }*;■ :i duction 70c; Corn 35 to 40c, cost of production 75c; Cotton 514c, last year at this time 8c; Tobacco VzC to 16c—average about 7c, cost of pro duction and a decent living it should average about 34c. Pork 7c, Beef j average about 8c, Calf hide 11c, j killing said calf 00c, Milk Cow i $25.00, one year ago same cow sold I for $50.00; Pigs $2.00 now, one year j ago $10.00 a pair; Chickens, fancy, i 12c—one year ago 21c; Chickens, common 8c—one year ago 15c; Eggs , 10c—one year ago 22c; Butter 10c i a pound—one year ago 24c; Prac 'tically no sale for milk; Cream low est price in history > of the dairy business—is that enough, Gentle men 7 I propose to make a few com ments—do you think you can live on the farm, pay your taxes, educate, feed and clothe your children with the present prices of farm products? Let’s look for a moment at tobacco. . not one percent of the tobacco : raisers of 1931 could pay their taxes i out of their tobacco, at the same time one tobacco manufacturer in our state made a clear net profit of 136 millions of dollars. The com, wheat, cotton grower would not have ! been able to pay his taxes, buy school books for his children if he had sold four-fifths of his entire grain crop for cash. There must be some entrenchment of the reckless expenditures of the , tax payers' money in the county of (Randolph to wit: Take off the $10 ! per day that is being paid to the Randolph County Hospital, Inc.; I recommend that you take off the i amount paid to the County Farm Demonstrator, less one half of one percent of the population of Ran dolph county may have been bene fited by his services. Let this group of tax payers pay his salary if they want him retained by the county, and thus relieve the other 9814 % of ! the tax-payers of the county who I have positively not been benefited j by his services. I I am reliably informed that the ! county game commission gets from (dog tax, principally, from $1400 to j$1700 annually, with an equal amount I paid into the school fund. Gentlemen t this condition of affairs should and i must be changed if we hope to get i on our feet and save our farms and homes from being sold for taxes. We are reliably informed that the auditing of our books in Asheboro is costing the taxpayers more than [ twice the amount that it ought to. There is being a most extravagant practice tolerated that should be changed. It is a matter of common knowl edge that there are hundreds of tax payers whose property is being sold and will be sold for the ex cessive tax that must be paid with in the next few weeks. Who can stand up under it? Can we hope to live and take care of our families under such damnable conditions ? I say, gentlemen, it is high time that we wake up and do something about it or we must be thrown out of a house and home and join the ten millions of unemployed in this coun try that knows not one day where the next day’s meal is coming from. Relief for the farmer will come through a judicious expenditure of our tax money properly distributed by our county board of commission ers. Gentlemen, I beg of you to get busy and call a halt. R. C. PALMER. Liberty, Aug. 2. TWO BARRED ROCK HENS LAID 4 EGGS IN DAY Four eggs in a day is the record of two Barred Rock hens, the pro perty of Mrs. F. E. Gay, of North Asheboro. Mrs. Gay found last Friday that her two hens—both in the same pen—had laid two eggs each. One hen apparently laid two well-rounded eggs, one normal in size , and white in color, the other smaller but perfectly formed. The other hen had laid two oblOng shaped eggs, dark yellow in color, one regu lar size, with the other smaller in shape but also oblong shaped. Otho D. Lyon, 62, farmer and fill ing station operator on the Durham Oxford highway, was shot and killed Friday night by unidentified persons who attempted to rob his place of business. Davidson county’s tax rate will re main 65 cents on the $100 valuation for the year 1932-33. A year ago the rate was cut from $1.36 to 65 cents. Loss of a million dollars in valuations this year was offset by economies in administration. Tax rate of the town of Rocking ham has been fixed at $145, at against $2.93 in 1929. The Rich mond county tax rate is 67 cents on the $100 valuation. s > ’ With Other Editors SIMMONS BACKS CANDIDATES (Winston-Salem Journal) Perhaps no" man knows Senator Simmons bettor than does Frank Hampton, who was h's secretary for many yean while he was active in politics and Statesmanship. Hamp ton has just returned to Washington after visiting the distinguished Nortn Carolinian. He says that the former Senator will support the national Democratic ticket since he regards Roosevelt and Garner as personifying the best in Democratic ideals and traditions. Simmons interprets the opposition of the big interests and special pri vilege to the nomination of the New Yorker and the Texan as the best sort of evidence that the nominees are real Democrats and dependable friends of the people. It was large ly because of former Governor Smith’s close alliance with Tammany Hall that Senator Simmons opposed him so unrelentingly in J t>28. Mr. Hampton declares that Senator Simmons is the greatest North Caro linian, living or dead. While he may be speaking somewhat superlatively out of the enthusiasm of friendship and long association with the former Senator, yet no one, regardless of party or interest, will dispute Sena tor Simmons’ title to rank with. the very greatest of North Carolinians. This State has had, and now has, many distinguished citizens, men and women alike. Senator Simmons is typical of the best that these repre sent. 1 i i i i 1 1 1 \ i HOW W E HAVE LOST FREEDOM j (Fountain Inn Tribune) America’s great gift to mankind was freedom. Here, for the first time, the com mon man had opportunity to choose his own way of life and rid his soul of chains. Rut the ideals of a race are made by its literature. And American literature, for many generations, confined itself to varia tions of a single theme, “From Rags to Riches.” It was, at first, excellent propagan da. It encouraged people to get away from poverty, which is degrading and ugly and prolific of evil. But the universal ambition to “get ahead” soon made money the measure of all value. The rich were somebod ies; those that failed to get rich were nobodies. Riches meant power and honor and social standing. People no longer were content to escape poverty. They no longer were content with enough. Since money proved their excellence, it was nec essary to show off to prove their po ssession of money. Keeping up with the Joneses became the national am bition. And liberty was gone. People are no longer free. They no longer choose their Own way of life. They pant in a treadmill, chained fast to custom, sweating play-pretties to impress the neighbors. No one dares to violate the' rules, for one who prefers living ftther than get ting is called a crank or a leech. Work is a necessary evil, not a virtue. Machines are built and the hours of labor shortened in order to give men more leisure. If leisure, then, is the goal of man’s striving, why doesn't he quit work when he has a competence and devote himself to the art of living. Little wealth is needed to provide necessary comforts and security. Mil lions now in the treadmill have enough and to spare. Why should they cling to jobs they do not need while men as able are jobless and destitute ? They do it because they are slaves. They are slaves to the fallacy that the making of ash trays is more re spectable than leisure—slaves to the idea that success consists in making more money to buy more expensive trinkets to impress more people. Certain natives of Africa stretch their lips to the size of dinner plates. They do it to excel their neighbors, for they are enslaved by custom and unable to realize how silly it is. BACK-TO-FARM MOVE (Southern Cultivator.) Passage by the United States sen ate of the measure calling for feder al supervision of the movement of unemployed persons to the farm is a step toward government aid for the soundest and most permanent form of unemployment relief. There may never again be work for some of the millions who are now walking the streets of our cities in idleness. millions of unemployed at this time most of basic necessity be of a tem porary nature. Independence is assured in the safety, shelter and possibility of reasonable prosperity on the farm. Not only does the bafck-to-the-farm movement offer a sound rehabilita tion plan for the unemployed, but it is the most economical in the long run, as is demonstrated by the case of an Atlanta family which regained independence as the result of an Atlanta woman’s generosity. The head of this family, an expe rienced office worker, had been with out work for months and he, his wife and their three children were faced lritVi aafnoT ctovno with actual starvation sion of their fumiti home. Sent to a farm in a at an expense of less 1 have become indepe ic In the unstable, unsound and un wise expansion of business during the boom years work was plentiful, but business has learned the folly of its error through painful deflation and reduction of unnecessary overhead expenses. In additional, it is certain that the so-called “machine age” through which we are now passing will still further lower the demand for man power. Whatever work is found for these the winter. Prom a pathetic liability ] in the city they hare become a val- i uable asset to the community in which they now live. i A sound solution of the unemploy- ; xnent and economic trouble with i which the country is now afflicted is the re-adjustment of our unbalanced population through sending the sur plus millions out of work in the cities back to the farm. The question of the prices of farm products would not necessarily be involved, for if no market, these farm families would Proof of High Culture in Sodom and Gomorrah The inhabitants of Sodom and Go raorrah renched a high state of cul ture before they were destroyed by “brimstone and Are from the Lord out of heaven.1’ The people of the two cities lived before the Iron age. but they exer cised great ingenuity in utilising oth er materials. The excavators found stone ovens in the irrectangulnr houses. These are similar to ovens still in use in some peasant parts of northern France. England. Wales., and Ireland. Traces of violent conflagrations were found in the ruins, tending to confirm ttie Biblical story of the city's destruc tion. One excavator said that on the plain below the hill on which the cities stood there was a curious rock forma tion. about five feet high, which legend associates with Lot’s wife, who, ac cording to the Biblical story, was turned into a pillar of salt at the time the cities were destroyed. The excavators penetrated twenty six feet and dus through three cities, each built on the ruins of another. Underneath these three, they said, is probably a fourth. The ruins of So dom and Gomorrah were found in the top layer. Hawaiian Plant Highly Prized by Botanist* On* of the most interesting plants in the world, tlie tlaleakula Silver sword, once abundant, has now be come so scarce that botanists cover ev ery specimen of it that conies into bloom with cheesecloth to protect it from insect enemies that would oth erwise destroy its seeds. The lltiien kalu Sllversword grows only on 1 lie rim and in the crater of llnleakala, a great dormant volcano in that por tion of the Hawaii National park lo cated on the island of Maui. When young Hie plant, known to Hawaiian* as "pohinahitia” or “ahinaliina” from thoir word “gray." is a beautiful sil very sphere of incurved linesar leaves. The silver coloring is caused by tlie dense covering of hair which reppls some of the penetrating rays of the sun and also guards the plant from too rapid loss of moisture. When it at tains a diameter of about two feet, the great silvery ball shoots up a mag nificent duster of (lowering heads to a height of from three to six feet. Life in the Middle Ages fn many ways die coming of the flermanic barbarians into the western Itoman empire meant a setback for or derly government and economic pros perity. and for art, science, literature and education. After a time, however, I lie vigorous northerners absorbed the fundamentals of the classical civiliza tion, and on the basis of a mixture of older and newer elements a political, social and economic system was devel oped which had a character of its own. Tlie fairest way to look at the Middle ages is lirsl to study its characteris tic features such as feudalism, tlie unity under tlie church. Oolitic archi tecture, serfdom and the manor, and second to notice how these gradually developed into more familiar modern forms, such as national stales, nation al literatures, town life, and a strong middle class.—Chicago Tribune. Neck Yoke* end Sabot* Holland is a very old country, and is an odd admixture of ancient and modern. In the town of Waardenborg, for Instance, Hie inhabitants still de pend upon the community pump for their supply of water. The housewife carries a pair of wooden shoes, which mark her as a true daughter of the Netherlands. The neck yoke as an aid to carrying burdens is an Instrument that goes back into antiquity for its beginning. Many primitive people of the Hast Indies use the neck yoke In transporting weights. In China the neck yoke has developed into a long hantboo pole that Is balanced on the shoulders and to the end» of which burdens of equal weight are attached. « " Siam’s Clit|iB| Customs Shaving the hefids of men and boys Id Siam Is a religious rite, and Is performed Id the temple by priests. Although the Siamese hove an up-to date king and numerous western ways are being Introduced Into their gov ernmental life, they remain at heart typically oriental and ding to the an cient customs of their ancestors. White elephants march In their sacred pro cessions, maidens dance In the tem ples as tliey have been doing for cen turies, the king Is carried in a palan quin, and. save for the occasional bos sing of an airplane, the visitor to Slam could easily forget that he is living in the Twentieth century. to Conclusion Two club members were having n lteated argument in the club lounge Every moment their words became more personal. Finally one said: “You've enough tin in your head to make a kettle.” “And you've got enough water in your head to fill it,” was the reply. At that a quiet member stood up “And both of you have enough gas to boll it I” be said, and vanished from the room. Sinai In mathematics a tine la defined as The perpendicular dropped from ot* end of a circular are opon the radiuV of the other end; the ratio of this per - produce enough. for their own con sumption. The propoeel contained in the sen ate bill that the agricultural de partment, with the co-operation of other governmental agencies, shall encourage formation of state and local organisations to posh the back to-the farm movement is a step in the right direction, although it docs not go as far as it should in putting the government behind the move ment. • Tyre Taylor, president of the young Democratic clubs of America, esti mates the clubs have a membership of 400,000. Work started Monday on the audi torium building for the Junior Order orphans home at Lexington to cost approximately $80,000. NORTH CAROLINA BOYS HONORED Gold and Trips Awarded Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild Competition ATLANTA, Oa. (Special)—When 112 boy craftsmen from all parts of the United State! and Canada gather in Detroit next month for the second annual convention of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, the State of North Carolina will be represented by Marcus B. Andrews of Mount Gilead, who carried off top honors at the state judging just concluded here. He will receive not only the trip, but SI00 in gold, and his model will be reiudged in the international compe tition for lour university scholarships of four years each. Second-place award for the state went to C. H. Moffett of Madison who earned one of the Detroit trips last yoar. He will receive SlOOiin gold, and his model will also be re judged in the international competi tion for scholarships, though he will not attend ithe convention. Additional awards, ranging from S15 to 125. were made to W. R, Mann of Whitakers and Philip J. Carmichael of Walkertown. A similar list of awards is being offered in each of the 4 8 states, in the District of Columbia, and in each of the seven Canadian Guild districts. Claude Reagan, of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, in charge of the North and South Carolina and, Georgia judging, held here, voiced gratification at the high standard-wT craftsmanship achieved in the state this year. "Every boy who finished a model," said Reagan, "has not only developed his manual skill, but far more important than that, has learned a lesson in perseverance which will stand by him all his life.” A Laxative that costs NEXT TIME you need medicine to act on the bowels, try Thed ford’s Black-Draught. It brings quick relief and is priced within reach of all. Black-Draught Is one of the least expensive laxa tives that you can find. A 25-cent package contains 25 or more doses. Refreshing relief from constipa tion troubles for only a cent or less a dose—that's why thousands of men and women prefer Tbed ford’s Black-Draught. or less a dose A senes of revival miLai« »>®8in *t Pilgrim HoImesrtpih^!Lwil,i Franklinville Sunday ^® hup* at u«t 'idth, at U o^rSS A"* eontinue two weeks or ’mo^ »* vieea will be conducted ever* 8*r" »t 7:45 by the pastor rL”* R.- Cooper, of Asheboro. The —.V?’ fL,7*» «• «X ^ coowy; wa, altered ,„d ^ Thursday by rnsked bunds, „„ away witii *1,318 in cash. This was the second time this year the Ma noiia bank has been robbed, £ first robbery having occurred Janu ary when five men entered the bank and got away with S14 ann They were afterwards apprehended and sentenced to prison. MOVED to building formerly occupied by Lewallen & Bums—Sun set Avenue. Dr. T. H. Soady Phone 444 — House 443 Cash or Credit AMOS FURNITURE CO. Successors to Fox Furniture Company Asheboro, ... N. C. 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