Chicago Gangster Killed
In New Outbreak Gang War
A murderer and a suicide in the
efforts of the federal government
to solve a $250,000 mail robbery and
Stamp out a national crime ring in
Chicago this week. Gus Winkler,
•‘fashion plate” of gangdom, was
murdered by enemies who shot him
just before he waa to have been
questioned by federal operatives.
Edgar B. Lessenberger, owner at a
fashionable night club and gambling
resort committed suicide which
brought out one revelation after an
other and caused the arrest of twen
ty persons in five cities and the is
suance of several warrants in con
nection with the mail robbery in
Chicago last December.
Wi DO OUR PART
THE SfOPE AND PURPOSE OF THE
PRESIDENT’S EMERGENCY
RE-EMPLOYMENT
CAMPAIGN
The President’s Emergency Re-employment Campaign may ba
described briefly as a plan to add from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 persona
to the nation's payrolls within the next six weeks or so, through
agreements made with the President of the United States by some
5,000,000 concerns or individuals, employing two or more persons each.
In order that this number of jobs may be made available, it will
be necessary, of course, for employers in many cases to shorten work
ing hours. The plan also provides for certain minimum wage scales
which also in many cases will mean added labor costs for the employer.
The President’s Agreement, however, includes a pledge of coopera
tion from the consuming public, and it is thus anticipated that the
employer, while undertaking a larger expense as the direct result of
his agreement with the President, will gain added patronage as the
just reward of his public spirited attitude.
The fact also is to be borne in mind that where all employers act
together to put people back on thcii payrolls or to raise wages, no
employer, as the President himself has pointed out, **will suffer because
the rdative level cf competitive cost will advance by the same amount
for all.'1
It is to be understood that this plan is supplementary to the plan
of code adoption by various industrial and trade groups which has for
its purpose the elimination of unfair competition, the establishment of
more equable rewards for labor, the spread of employment and the
control of production. This plan for speeding business recovery,
launched under the provisions of the National Recovery Act passed
by the last Congress, is rapidly being made effective, and there will
be no let-up on the drive to make its adoption widespread.
The President’s Emergency Re-employment plan will bridge time
and bring the nation out of the depression more rapidly than if the
code adoption plan were depended upon exclusively. The President’*
Agreement also covers many business groups that would not be amen
able to any of the code arrangements.
And what is still more important, perhaps, the President’s Emer
gency Re-employment campaign carries certain psychological values
that are as priceless as patriotism at this juncture of our economic
history. The President himself made this quite clear in his recent radio
address to the nation when he said: “On the basis of this simple prin
ciple of everybody doing things together, we are starting out on this
nationwide attack on unemployment. It will succeed if our people
understand it—in the big industries, in the little shops, in the great
cities and in the small villages. There is nothing complicated about it
and there is nothing particularly new in the principle. It goes back to
the basic idea of society, and of the Nation itself, that people acting
in a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone
could ever hope to bring about**
Thus we have all the power and potency of mass attack directed
along sound lines of organization and system. Here briefly, is an out
line of this organiaed attack on unemployment: In every community,
organizations are formed along military lines, which is fitting enough,
because the President’s Emergency Re-employment campaign is Uncle
Sam’s war on unemployment and the nation is rallying to the colors just
as loyally as though we were actually engaged in a war against a
foreign foe. *
The local committee is made up of the active heads of the leading
business and civic organizations, and includes also the mayor. These
committees in the thousands of cities and towns throughout the country
were formed following telegrams and letters sent by General Johnson
to the presidents of Chambers of Commerce or similar trade bodies in
every section of the United States. These local committees elect a gen
eral to have charge of the city campaign and a lieutenant general who
is a woman. The general selects three colonels, each of whom is to take
over a certain part of the campaign work. For example, Colonel No. 1
has charge of the “man-power” or organization department. Under his
direction block-to-block canvasses will be made to check up on com
pliance with the President’s Agreement, and to make a survey of the
unemployed, as to adaptability by experience as to trades and indus
tries and thus be able more readily to help in the processes of assimila
tion of labor by expanding industries. Colonel No. 2, briefly, has charge
of newspaper publicity and kindred activities; and Colonel No. 3 has
the training and direction of public speakers under his charge.
Each of these three colonels has seven or more majors on his staff,
and each major has about the same number of captains. Each captain
has seven or more field workers. All of the local organizations are, of
course, constantly supplied with educational and inspirational material
of all kinds from the National Recovery Administration in Washington.
Literally tons and tons of printed matter has been shipped to every
nook and corner of the country.
The N.R.A. emblem, known popularly as the Blue Eagle, is one of
the most interesting and vital features of the campaign. All employers
who sign the President’s Agreement are entitled to display the Blue
Eagle with the initials N.R.A. and the words “We Do Our Part.”
Merchants, manufacturers and all others who have the right to display
the insignia by reason of their having complied with the President s
Agreement, are permitted to hang it on their walls, or in their windows,
or on trucks and cars, and, if they so desire, to stamp it on their prod
ucts or merchandise. It is, in fact, the desire of the Recovery Admin
istration that all make liberal use of this badge of patriotism.
Any person in the United States who wishes to cooperate in the
President’s Emergency Re-employment Campaign and be considered as
a member of the N.R.A. may go to the authorized establishment in his
locality and sign a statement of cooperation as follows:
“/ will cooperate in re-employment by supporting and patron
izing employers and workers who are members of N.R.A.
Any such signer will then be given and may thereafter use the
insignia of consumer membership in N.R.A.
Every phase of the progress of this mighty campaign will be flashed
in the newspapers of the country and announced constantly over the
radio. In this way everyone will be in a position to know just what tho
campaign is doing from day to day in actually putting people back on
the payrolls and adding to the mass purchasing power of the country.
While, as has been 6tated, it is desired that liberal use of the
insignia be made by employer and consumers, it is to be remembered
that the official N.R.A. emblem is the property of the United States
Government and may not be used or reproduced without authority of
the National Recovery Administration.
The lists of all employers who sign the President’s Agreement are
displayed in local post-offices and it is urged that all employers who
have not yet signed the agreement do so immediately and deliver them
to their local post-master.
With some minor exceptions, the terms of the President’s Agree
ment with employers is, briefly, as follows: Any employer of a factory
or mechanical worker or artisan must not pay him less than 40 cents
an hour or work him more than 35 hours a week, except that if the
employer were paying less than 40 cents for that kind of work
on July 15 the employer can pay that rate now, hut not less than 30
cents an hour. As to all other employes—those on a weekly rate—the
employer will pay not less than 915 a week in a city of over 500,000
population; or *14A0 a week in cities of between 2S0.000 and 500,000;
or 914 a week in cities between 2^00 and 250,000 population; Or 912.00
a week in cities of lets than 2,500 population, and the employer agrees
not So maA this class of workers mere than 40 hours a week. As to
employes whs were getting a higher wage, the employer must not
reduce their wages because of a reduction hi their hours and he should
generally keep the usual pay diferenees as between the lower and the
higher paid employes. And after August 31, he must not work children
under W years of age. There are, of course, some other rules which
apply to epnrisl rtrTT, but die terms of the agreement as here outlined
sew the large bulk of cases.
TRINITY FARMER KILLED
BALD EAGLE SATURDAY
J. W. Pearce, of Trinity, route 2,
killed « bald eagle while squire!
hunting on his farm Saturday aftr
noon. The eagle, a rare specimen
in this county, is believed to be the
first killed in the Trinity section.
The eagle measured five feet nine
inches from tip to tip of his wings.
The bird has attracted considerable
attention by the people of the com
munity and visitors.
Boys More Emphatic in
Expressing Their Temper
Boys fly into rages more often than
girls. They spend more of their time
being angry. And they act much worse
in the process, according to a writer
in the Philadelphia Record.
At least that is what statistics com
plied by a child psychologist, indicate.
Commenting on these figures, the di
rector of the Philadelphia Child Guid
ance Clinic says: •
"Boys do express their antagonism
more violently than girls. They go
through more motions in showing their
anger. Whereas girls, because they
are girls, have been taught subordina
tion from the start. 1 really think they
are probably angry Just as often and
just as violently as boys, but they can
cover it up better.
"Being mad clear through and get
ting over it is considered by some peo
ple to be a sort of virtue ‘I like a
I person to say what he has to say, get
it off his chest, and forget it,* some
one tells you.
“This usually indicates that the per
son himself—or herself—would like
the luxury of flying into a rage and
throwing furniture around. He’d like
to indulge himself in an orgy of anger
but doesn’t quite have the nerve. So
he gets a vicarious pleasure out of see
ing some one else do it."
Human Bones Dissolve in
Salt Water of the Ocean
Did you know that salty sea water
dissolves bones? Many old wooden
boats with metal fixtures of past cen
turies have been found at the bottom
of lakes and seas but there are no
authentic cases of finding skeletons
in these wrecks.
Writing in La Gazette de Hollande
of The Hague an anthropologist points
out that human skeletons dissolve in
sea water and most quickly in salt wa
ter. He brands the stories of finding
skeletons in wrecks of craft over a
century old as pure tiiction. The an
thropologist bases his conclusions on
what was found when the Dutch gov
ernment drained Haarlem lake. After
the lake was drained hundreds of
miles of trenches were dug to complete
the reclamation. While many ancient
wrecks were found in the lake bed
not a single human bone was found.—
Pathfinder Magazine.
Date of the Bible
The general collection of the Holy
Books of the Jews were first called
the Bibla or "books'’ by St Chry
sostom in the Fourth century A. D.
As Van Loon states in his "The Story
of the Bible,” this collection had been
growing steadily for almost a thou
sand years, and most of it has been
written in Hebrew. He adds: "But
please don't ask me when the Bible
was written, because I could not an
swer you.” Smyth’s "The Bible in the
Making” says: "There is no doubt
that the ultimate beginnings of Bible
history and literature were mainly
oral, ballads and folk songs recited
among the people: stories of the dis
tant past told in shepherds' watches
and around the camp tires, and after
wards collected in groups of literary
form; laws and judgments, some of
them written, most of them handed
down orally for generations by the
priests at the various sanctuaries.”
The Emerald Buddha
Along the fringe of Asia, in the
ports where men from far-away
places meet and discuss the mysti
cism of the Orient, the legend of the
emerald Buddha is well known, ob
serves a writer in the Detroit News.
Some say it is to be found hidden
somewhere in Japan. Others place It
in Formosa; still others in the For
bidden City of Tibet There are those,
too, who proclaim that if it exists at
all it is none other than the greenish
idol of Buddha enshrined in Bangkok.
But the majority of those who con
tend it is real and not something con
cocted by myth and fancy believe It
is to be found in a dark, secret, snake
infested crypt beneath the Bayon in
the dead city of Angkor Thom.
Rattleinakei Unique
Rattlesnakes are viviparous and the
young when born are nearly a foot In
length. The rattler Is unique among
serpents. No other species of snake
has the rattle at the end of its tall
which is sounded when the snake is
irritated, angered or frightened. This
rattle resembles somewhat the buzz of
a locust It is commonly believed that
the rattler sounds Its rattle before
striking and, probably in most cases
it does so, but it cannot always be
depended upon. A sleeping rattler or
one rendered sluggish by the cold
might strike without any warning
whatsoever.
Explorer a Scientist
Most Journeys that seem daring and
romantic to the public are expeditions
of exploration. As exploration Is one
way of supplying the science of geog
raphy with data, the explorer, in his
way, is a scientist A point less com
monly understood is that scientists,
who are not explorers in the usual
sense, go into strange lands and un
dergo hardships for other reasons than
geographical discovery.
Lowest Pass Acraas Alp*
Brenner I*aas is the lowest which
crosses the main chain of the Alps, the
sommit being only 4,588 feet above sea
level. This pass is in north Italy, con-,
nectlng this country with Germany. It
is open at all seasons of'the year and
is crossed by a railroad.
Home Protection and Beauty
lirAGC Increases and higher
prices for raw materials,
brought about In part by the "New
Deal" mean that painting coats are
going' up.
Every borne periodically needs,
both inside and out. the protection
and beauty that fresh paint gives.
While paintihg costs kept going
down and down through 19S0, ”31,
and '33, as shown in the chart
above, thousands of home-owners
postponed much-needed painting.
As a result, millions of dollars
worth of property has been allowed
to run down.
Although it is always poor eco
nomy to neglect painting, it is easy
to understand why so many prop
erty owners postponed this neces
sary task during the three years
when painting costs were steadily
The Open Forum
NOTICE!
Randleman, N. C., Oct. 10, 1933.
North Carolina,
Randolph County.
Wm. H. Pickard being duly sworn
says: 1 got the bird dog named “Pal”
when he was more than a year old
from Ex-Judge Shaw, of New Jer
sey, a northern friend of mine, who
raised him from a puppy. I kept
him for a while then gave him to
my nephew, Eugene G. Morris, Jr.,
and he later sold him to Mr. A. B.
Cole of Rockingham, N. C. This
being the dog referred to inthe
“celebrated dog case from Rocking
ham” and any statement saying that
this dog “Pal” was raised or even
owned by any one except the above
named people is untrue.
Wm. H. PICKARD.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 10th day of October, 1933.
R. G. Ferree, Notary Public.
My commission expires 10 28 33.
PROHIBITION AND
BOOTLEGtil&G
(By N. M. Harrison)
The proponents of the repeal of the
eighteenth amendment are giving as
one of the reasons for their stand
on prohibition the fact that there is
bootlegging. They would have you
believe that bootlegging originated
with the eighteenth amendment, and
that there is more liquor drunk undeT
prohibition than during the open
saloon days.
Any man who has a memory fif
teen or more years long, ami knows
any history at all, knows that boot
legging is a carry-over from the
saloon days. It made its appearance
in American life early after the
foundation of this republic. In March
1791 the Congress enacted a law
requiring the payment of a tax on
liquors. The distillers soon there
after, to evade the tax, started the
bootleg business. Every generation
since that day to this has been
menaced by this lawless element.
There is not as much liquor now,
as in pre-prohibition days, despite the
statements of the repealist to the
contrary. Just a little mathemati
cal calculation will show you that
there cannot be as much.
The population of Randolph Coun
ty is around 38,000. This multiplied
by the per capita consumption of
twenty-two and one-half gallons, the
amount of legal canmunption hi pre
prohibition days, gives nearly a mil
lion gallons to be bootlegged in the
county, if the people are drinking
as much as before prohibition. To
transport this amount of liquor to the
county it will require approximately
nine thousand bootleggers to carry
a hundred gallons per car, which is
more than is safe even in a high
powered oar on account of the
weight. It will be hard to out-ruri
an officer, if one- chances to pursue,
with this amount on board. The
above amount is an average of one
bootlegger for every five citizens
in the county, or one for every
family.
The twenty-two and a half gal
lons oer capita is legal liquor con
sumed in the saloon days. Bootleg
liquor has not been taken into con
sideration, and of course will add
a great deal to the per capita con
sumption of those days.
The Government Bureau of Prohi
bition estimates the 1980 consumption
of illegal liquor to be but thirty
five per cent of the 1914 consump
tion of illegal liquors. This being
the case bootlegging la certainly not
as prevalent and not near ae much
consumed. I believe any fair minded
ner«on will say the prohibition laws
have been a suceeaa when it out the
legs! consumption from twentv-two
and one half gallons per capita to
nothing per capita now. and the boot
leg business to one-third its former
amount, all is a brief period of
years.
The Kansas City Star last year
stated that about twenty-five years
ago. Mavor Henry M. Beerdslev made
a careful surver of that cdtv for
places selling without license. There
w«-e then three hundred licensed
saloons there, and his survey show
ed twenty-one hundred other places
sinking. No one knew when or
where the decline might step end
many believed they - would be-able
to do their painting more cheaply
later.
Now, the picture is completely
reversed. As the chart shows, it
already costs more to paint the
home than it did Just a few weeks
ago, and the price trend is still up
ward. It is more than likely that
painting costs will go much higher.
However, painting costs are still
a long way from the 1929 peak and
it is still possible to buy paints at
close to the rock-bottom flgures
reached this Spring. Now. obvious
ly. is the time for homeowners to
check over the exterior and in
terior of their houses and to have
necessary painting done before
prices go still higher.
operating without license. The Star
states further that as carefully plan
ned and executed survey, little over
a year ago, revealed no licensed sa
loons and three hundred speakeasies.
Twenty-four hundred selling places
then against three hundred today.
The webs know they are not tell
ing the truth when they say there
is more liquor drunk today than be
fore prohibition, and the more in
telligent of them acknowledge it. Let
me quote you what the wet Literary
Digest, in her Political Encyclopedia,
edited by Eugene Thwing, page 289
says: “Statements made from time to
time that the consumption of alco
holic beverages is greatest today than
it was prior to the adaption of the
eighteenth amendment are unwar
ranted. There is every reason to1
believe that the quantity of alcohol
availalile for illegal beverage pur
poses during the year ending June
SO, 1930 was less than during the
your preceding.”
If you vote for the convention,
Novenv’>er 7th, and for the wet dele
gate bo that convention from Ran
dolph County, you vote for more
liquor, more bootlegging, and ■ more
lawlessness. (Holy Writ says: “Woe
unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink, that putteth thy bottle to
him and rnaketh him drunken.” If
you vote for the convention, and for
the wet delegate, or if you fail to
vote against both, you are putting
the bottle to him and making him
drunken in defiance .to the warn
ing of God.
I
Strikes Are Not
Necessary Under
Recovery Scheme
(Continued from page 1)
each industry to sustain them and not
one code has been approved without
the overwhelming agreement of the
School Lunch Box
Must Be Tempting
Milk, Fruit, Eggs, Sandwiches
Suggested—Bananas Good
For Children
By Mary G. McCormick
Supemieor of Health Teaching,
Nate York State Department
of Education
If your child attends a school
that has no school lunch program,
take every possible step to make
his noon meal as nourishing and
palatable as possible.
Milk should always be part of
the luncheon. If your child doesn’t
get his milk regularly at school, be
sure to include at least half a pint
in his lunch. It should always be
sent in a small bottle or jar which
must be thoroughly cleansed every
day before filling. Fruit is also
essential in the school lnnch basket.
Among the fruits liked by children
are ripe bananas, oranges, apples,
pears and grapes. Bananas are es
pecially well liked by children and
are very good for them when ripe.
Ripe bananas are those with brown
speckled skins.
Each day’s lunch should also in
clude at least two sandwiches. Any
kind of bread is (food for sand
wiches-—white bread, whole wheat,
oatmeal, brown, raisin or nut. Al
most any kind of bread is an eco
nomical and appetizing source of
energy. Bread also supplies min
erals and other food essentials.
Appetising fillings include egg,
chopped meat, cheese, sliced toma
toes and leafy vegetables, particu
larly lettuce or cabbage. There
should be a leaf of lettuce or some
other leafy vegetable included in
every sandwich. Plain desserts
such as ginger, date or oatmeal
cookies, sponge cake, ginger bread,
custards or sweet chocolate are
beat.
The bo* itself should be essy to
clean and convenient to carry.
Metal boxes, in which the food ia
carefully wrapped in waxed paper,
are most likely to keep the contents
in a palatable condition. In peek
ing. the heavier objecta should be
placed at the bottom, to prevent
the food being crushed and spoiled.
Thin is (As eixth of a series of
article• on the health of school chil
dren prepared for this paper. In
her next article, MU» MeCormiek
will dtsewes the eMU’t rest and
t.'acp.
industry submitted it Not one single
code has been imposed. No* one
drastic provision of this law has been
invoked.
“These financial gentry who as
sume to know more about how to
operate a business than the men
who are running it should take some
consel of these circumstances, but
finally and above all they should
answer the fundamental question of
how you are going to reactivate busi
ness without giving the mass pur
chasing power so necessary to mass
production. You cannot squeeze
hlood out of a turnip.
“There is criticism also that there
is ‘chiselling’ behind the 'blue eagle
and that our failure to hang, draw
and quarter these opportunists is re
ducing confidence in the whole plan.
“I think that this criticism is jus
t'fied. But the point has never for
one moment been overlooked. The
question of enforcing compliance is
complex. Taking away the blue eagle
has been proved to be a terrific
economic punishment. We must have
a method of justice and certainty.
“Organisation for this involves
other departments of government.
Men have been working night and
day to prepare a national network to
handle these problems and the result
will shortly be forthcoming.'’
Plan Goes To Limit
The administrator asserted that
there was “a distinct movement to
raise farmer antagonism t» NBA on
the ground that anything done for
workers before farm prices are raised
to their pre-war relation to other
prices in unfavorable to agriculture.’’'
Then he explained:
"The essential purpose of the
parities. It is a cohesive program.
It proposes somethin# for every op
pressed area. We all recognize that
the greatest disparity is 'the lowness
of farm prices. But the agricultural
adjustment act was given to the
farmers just as NRA was given to
workers. It goes to the ultimate
limit to cure the ills of agriculture.
"There are much more drastic pow
ers fit that act and they are being
ably and vigorously administered. But
there can be nothing in our new so
cial compact that says that one class
must wait for any benefit to another
class. The aim is to raise the condi
tion of all together.”"
Asserting that the people will
stand for breadlines and bare pave
ments only so long, Johnson inquir
ed “what are we to do about it?”
“If a dictator came tomorrow what
more could he do than has been
dane-?”" the* administrator asked.
“If same ruthless seeker after pow
er aspired to grasp this sorry schema
of things what could he do to feed
the hungry mouths grown bitter
and resentful after four years of pa
tient suffering.
“The answer is that he could do
nothing. We will find our way out
of this mess not by smashing down
all that has been built up but by
applying intelligence and time and
control to this complex machine of
which we all are a part and that is
exactly what NRA is intended to
do.”
FVom one to two tons of bright hay
an acre are reported by Caldwell
county Iespedeza growers.
BARGAINS IN LOTS
Situated on or near highway No. 70, others on new rood
or old gravel rood.
WILL SELL IN LOTS OR SMALL
HOME SITES.
Running Water On A Part of Property
ELECTRIC POWER AVAILABLE
APPLY—
Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer
MOTOR SERVICE CO.
North Fayetteville St. —:— Asheboro, N. C.
This Garage Is
“Back to New.”
HEADQUARTERS
FOR
1J Cylinder "
11 Valve Grinding.
1f Automobile Overhauling.
1f Automobile Refinishing.
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