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THUSDAY, JAN. 31, 1935
ARE MASTERS EVER
“UNSANITARY” ?
This is a serious question—are
masters ever unsanitary ? To be ex
plicit, a holder of a master's degree
—can a holder of a master’s degree
be unsanitary ? If so,—how ?
If there is a person able to answer
this question, please give your
opinion, as well as the answer, as
to whether or not a person who
uses the term “unsanitary" should
be accorded a master’s degree. We
vote a hearty negative when it
comes to such.
Perhaps this word, which is really
not a word at all and not in the
dictionary, does not grate on your
ears to the point of wanting to get
good, thick ear-muffs, but its pret
ty bad, pretty bad for a master’s
vocabulary.
CONVENIENCE VS NUISANCE
A taxi in its iplace is a great con
venience and in other places, a grand
—yea, grand and glorious nuisance.
Asheboro has quite a flock of taxi
$afcs, driven chiefly by gentlemen of
color As aforementioned, a taxi
cab is a great convenience at times
but when they whirl about the
streets on two wheel* as is the case
rushing that these colored drivers
need to step on their starters and
bfv-v madly out of the parking place
into oncoming cars before whirling
around comers on two wheels—one
and a quarter.
If the police force of Asheboro,
would like moral support from many
citizens in taking a definite stand
about this matter, they will have the
desired support. There are many
citizens, men and women who are
efficiently tired of the deafening
toebtpot-toot-toot-toot of these shnll
horns In their ears and in front of
their homes, to “back up” any ordi
naca that might be passed or en
foreed—that i» U !“cky
enough to escape in tb« fn 3
dodging pedestrian or in #»•>*
ON TAIL WAtGGING
In this everyday prose existence,
there are some bright spots—-beauty
spots of flowers, trees, buildings,
people, books—but one popular maga
zine collects in every issue gems of
speech that are bright spots. In the
most recent issue of this printed
visitor the very first descriptive
phrase was memory provoking
“Around her eyes were the dry beds
of old smiles.” This was said by
Gertrude Atherton and reminds us,
that in this busy world, there are
too few people who would answer to
that description, alas!
Then, we’ve all seen, and had to
have doings with, people who had
“No more memory than a mirror,”
as described by Edith Wharton like
wise the man, woman and child who
“Puts some elastic in his truth-tell
ing,” as per Joseph C. Lincoln. “He
paid no more attention than if I were
a piece of good advice,” has hap
pened to all of us but was said by
Westbrook Pegler.
“Dawn was beginning to prowl
around the sky and put out the
stars,” and “a room furnished in
exact faithfulness to the installment
period.” But the man “who has ever
been the tin can on his own tail”
and the people who “steer by the
fixed star of self-interest” are not
go interesting as the puppy
who “wagged estatically everything
behind its ears.”
TALENT—SUNG AND TTNSUNG
Asheboro, unfortunately, is no
Mft-nmt from other towns its sine
and many larger ones, in that there
are very few really cultural things
offered. There are" no lecture cour
ses, muakales or anything of the
kind for those who desire something
Mttmment from the town's one di
version—a moving picture.
There is one organization outside
the literary programs at the Wo
man’s club, civic dubs and the so
The members of the chorus pay noth
ing for this service, the only cost
being for the music, which is very
little per person.
Aiding Mrs. Hilker is Mrs. S. B.
Stei'.nan as pianist. Asheboro has
I long known of Mrs/ Stedman s
tdcr.ts b:*h .it ;’-.e piano, organ and
on the violin. She is a daughter of
Mrs. W. H. Moring, whose very
name carries the thought of music
with it for she was a music teacher
of a generation or so ago. Not only
was Mrs. Moring a teacher, but she
! is a musician of no mean talent. Per
! haps her musicianship, worthy as it
| is, is not uppermost in Mrs. Moring,
for musicianship without the saving
grace of service, is not worth a lot
to a community. In the former days,,
while Asheboro was a smaller town |
with less musicial talent than now,
Mrs. Moring’s playing and singing
was almost a necessary part of Ashe
boro and Randolph county—giving
generously and willingly of her tal
ent. Mrs. Moring not only gave <>T'
her talent but gave a generou: sac
rifice of her health for, it will be
recalled by many that, she fell and
broke her leg while rendering musical
service for a friend, at a little
country church.
Such a comment as this cannot go
without mentioning the name of Miss
Nannie Bulla, who came along later
—it is true, but not much later that
many of the Asheboro musicians
now the active business group of the
town, did not receive their musical
impetus from her class. It was “Miss
Nannie” who taught and inspired
Grady Miller, our townsman who has
made a name and fame for him
self in Greensboro, Raleigh, Chapel
Hill and other places in the state,
recently winning honors and a musi
cal degree from Columbia.
But—back to the Woman’s Chorus
—the people who “have a leaning”
toward music would do well to join
this organization that takes one
hours from the time of busy people
weekly—for the chorus is composed
chiefly of busy people, one way or
another. The group is doing some
quite worth-while work and being
thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated
by those who are fortunate enough
to belong to the group. Those who
are outside are certainly missing
something really worth while!
IT’S Tjp; llAW—
The British Parliament 234 years
ago came to the defense of bachelors
and widowers—poor defenseless sons
of a gun—with the following legisla
tion: “That all women of whatever
age, rank, profession or degree, whet
her virgin maid or widow, that shall
from and after such Act impose upon,'
seduce and betray into matrimony any I
of His Majesty’s subjects by means!
of scents, paints, cosmetic washes*ar- j
tificial teeth, false hair, Spanish tool,
iron stays, hoops, high-heeled aWes
or bolstered hips, shall incur the pen
alty of the law now in force against
witchcraft and like misdemeanors,
and that the marriage upon conviction
shall stand null and void.”
—Contributed by a friend.
GREENWOOD WORKER
WRITES ON UNION
Greenwood, S. C. — Miss Carrie
Nash, former financial secretary of
Textile Union No. 2171, here, recent
ly wrote the following to the Green
wood Index Journal:
“When the union was first or
ganized I was under the impres
sion that such an organization had
the financial backing of the U. T.
W. A. in close cooperation with the
A. F. of L., which I understood had
a large treasury.
“At the time the union was or
ganized I was making a good liv
ing wage, and was aware of it, but
at the same time I felt that if
my joining the union and helping to
support the organization it would at
some future time be the means of
increasing my own or other peo
ple’s salaries, I was willing to do
so.
“After joining I was elected to
fill the office of financial secretary,
therefore, I feel that I am in a
position to know a few things that
might be enlightening to others.
“Before the strike was called I
had sent to James Starr, secretary
to Francis J. Gorman, approximately
11,100. During the strike we received
weekly bulletins from headquarters,
issued by Gorman, telling us to hold
fast, stick together, etc., that they
were behind us mid wide awake,
which led us to believe that when
we readied a crisis we would
ceive help from headquarters.
"After our k>e*l treasury wai
pfeted ear secretary was authorized
by the president to send Mr. Gor
man a special delivery, stating our
circumstances. TSifc hong done, we
waited a week tod, deceiving ho
reply, a telegram was then sent to
Mr. Gorman telling him it Would be
impossible to tarry on any longer
without help. We received no reply
from this.
“At the convention in Gaffney a
I resolution was drawn up and tele
graphed to Mr. Gorman asking that
a commissary be set up in Gteai'
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we would continue to grow.
“Before the union was organized
I don’t know of a single needy
family in our community, and now
I could name a dozen needy families.
What has the union profited any of
us ? It has bred enmity among a few
and brought hardships to many, and
now Mr. Gorman doesn’t even recall
that there was ever a local No. 2171
in Greenwood, S. C., or, if he does,
there is no evidence of the fact.
“I sincerely hope that if any
one reading this happens to be a
100 per cent union member, or is
still inclined to belong to a union,
he or she will not be offended, for
I have merely stated the true facts.
“I do not care for any more
union experience and prefer to be
dictated to, from now on, by some
one I know personally and not Gor
man.
“CARRIE NASH.
“329 Grove street,
“Greenwood, S. C.”
—Daily News Record, Jan. 8, 1935.
Quo Vadis?
Plain Talk On The Issues
Of The Times.
By BRUCE CRAVEN
This is just some plain talk for the
hill billies of Randolph including my
self. No one outside of the county
is permitted even to read it, because
it is not written for them and they
wouldn’t have enough sense to under
stand it anyhow.
Please note the title of these re
marks, “QUO VADIS?” That is
Latin and sounds smart, and I
picked it out just to show that we
can show off too if we want to.
It is the title of a famous novel of
the times of Nero who was Governor
in the time of a depression a long
time ago, and it is supposed to
mean “Whither goest thou?” Some
years ago a prominent statesman was
asked what it meant and he didn’t
know much Latin and said it means
“What in the are you headed into?”
So it is appropriate all around for
these remarks and these times, Mr.
Nero and all.
Well, let’s get the worst over
with first, the Legislature! There are
171 of them down in Raleigh in
cluding the Lieutenant Governor.
Right quick, see if you can name
the Lt. Governor? He is all right
and good enough for the job, and
the Lt. Governor always expects to
get to be Governor and never does.
Max Gardner was the only exception
and he had to wait eight years and
other valuable considerations before
he got it.
Besides the 171 legislators there
are 171 lobbyists and 172 plain
grafters. In the whole crowd may be
a fsw who are working for you,
but God only knows who they are,
and He is not publishing anything
about the Legislature.
Up to date the biggest thing that
the Legfedatam has accomplished is
a resolution congratulating one of
the members on having a new son,
hut k looks like it would have been
better to have extended sympathy to
hiS wife. R is very doubtful if It
is anything to brag about being bom
in North Carolina right now. Just
think of a man having to live down
a record of having been bom "during
the Legislature «f 19S5.”
All this tragedy on public high
ways in, North (Carolina, (3 or 4 a
day, they have quit counting any
thing hdt the prominent citizens) Is
<0 be slopped by passhig a law re
quiring'every driver to get a license
and pay 0 for it. Of course anyone
will sober up long enough to get the
license, then get him a drink end
start out to see if he can find a
highway patrolman. The law, when
k gets into effect, will have one
effect and one only—it is Just an
other tax.
vote for liquor which he will not do.
By voting for liquor what I mean is
voting to get less liquor in a State
by having more liquor and making
it easier to get. The wet gang
argue that liquor is open now and
anyone can get it who wants it, and
so if you just make it so he can
get it even if he doesn’t want it,
then we will have temperance. And
also cats will have horns, and the
camel will walk through the eye of
a needle with his head in the air.
One thing that puzzles me is that
most people have good old horse
sense (which is the kind a jackass
hasn’t got), and yet the politicans
peddle out such boloney as that
liquor argument as though they think
the people are just a bunch of
boobs who would rather have fine
words than something to eat. I wish
everyone could get as fed up on
bunk and propaganda as I am, and
then maybe we could start some
thing. Good friends of mine in
High Point the other day asked me
if I didn’t think it would be better
to have legalized sale (saloons) of
liquor in North Carolina to regulate
it and get some taxes out of it. I
asked him if he wanted the saloons
in High Point, and he said “NO,”
and I told him he was dam sorry
North Carolinian to want to put in
other places what he didn’t want in
his <mrf town. 7«ow about you, Ran
dolph hill billies? Want a bar room
right next to your church or school?
If it is good anywhere, that is the
best place I know of for something
good.
Dr. Forster of State College has
published figures showing that the1
sales tax in this State in 1934, cost.
the farmers of the State $50(^000
more than the property taxes from
which they were relieved. “They"
say in Raleigh however that we have
to have it for the emergency just
like they said in 1933, but what I
want to know if we have such an
emergency as that to pack off on
the people something that everyone
is ashamed to admit he is in favor
of, why in the heick don’t they do
something about the emergency ?
They can’t cure it just by making
the people pay more taxes.
One newspaper said that suppose
it did cost the farmers more in
1934, they made more and therefore
they can pay it. That’s the dope
we get. What right has a farmei
to anything? He goes three year;
living on bean soup and pot liquo
and then for one little crop he
a decent price, but what right
he to any of it? Let the tax co
tors have it, or else the big coi
tions will have to pay more.
I hate to tell this, but
to be told. Way back yonde:
my granddad y James Ruffin Bui*. .
solicitor, there was a Judge holding
court in Asheboro who never felt
able unless he had about three drinks
in him, and a jury convicted a well
known blockader and the Judge
promptly fined him $50 and the coats.
The solicitor walked up to the bench
and whispered “Judge, you ought
not to let that old raacal off with
a fine. If he had been a poor man,
you would have put him in jail.”
“D- a poor man,” said the
Judge, "a poor man ought to be in
jail.” And that comes pretty near to
being the guiding star of the men
elected to office by the poor
They don’t be honest about h
Judge was, but they act
money is" is to bleed the poor man
for his last few pennies. Quo Vadis,
gentlemen, Quo Vadis?
In the meantime they are going to
raise the salaries of all those State
employees in Raleigh who are so un
selfish in being willing to serve the
State, and they have increased the
clerks and assistants for the Legis
lature until the other day an of
ficial had to beg the members to
give them something to do. They
have more water toters than they
have workers.
Talking about the auto license
tax to stop highway tragedies, they
can pass laws and levy taxes until
Gabriel blows his hom, and we will
never stop the tragedies or get law'
enforced until we have men in of
fice who want to do it and who never
forget that they have taken a solemn
oath to support the laws and en
force them.
One of the provisions in the bill
about auto driver’s license is that
none can be issued to feeble minded,
but probably it will be provided that
the law does not go into effect until
the people who passed it get back
home. ,
Lawyer J. V. Wilson stands up and
says some retnarka about' the big'
trucks busting up the highways, and
there is one thing you can hand
Brother Wilson, and that is when he
says something you can always un
derstand what he is talking about.
But you just try to do something
about it, and that is something else
again. Go down to Raleigh and try
to get through a bill to keep tbe
big freight cars from running over
the highways and endangering life
and property, and in a few minutes
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you will feel like a truck hu run
over you. I wrote the State High
way Chairman recently that the big
trucks had busted up 61 k> that
they were going to get mad at him
soon if he didn’t do something about
it. But one of you little fellows get
out on the highway a few minutes
without a $12 tag on your $10 car,
and they will get you all right. And
that just reminds me that if they
don’t cut the license tag price to
$5, let’s do something about it! 1
know what to do if you will help
me.
Hon. C. C. Cranford has a piece
in the paper in which he says the
absentee ballot is a terrible thing,
and that Randolph got along better
in 1934 without it. That is one
thing I don't care much about one
way or the other, but the sentiment
of the county in my opinion is that
Randolph ought to stay in North
Carolina and have the same law
about elections that the rest of the
State has. I wouldn’t worry if they
abolish it all over the State or
have it all over the State, but it
doesn’t make sense for one sick man
in Archdale to be denied the right
to vote and his near neighbor just
over the -Guilford line has the right.
These local changes in State law
f
never do any good and for tuch
things as elections there ought to
be State laws and nothing but State
laws, and they ought to be enforced.
Roger Babson, who lives near a.
place called Boston, writes pieces for
the papers and for pay, about the
economic conditions in the country,,
and he has said about forty times
that prosperity has at last arrived.
In his piece last Sunday he said that
the most remarkable happening of
the year 1934 was tire return of
the farmer to prosperity. I read it
carefully and wonder if he had ever
seen a farmer. I wish he could have
been with me a few months ago
when I visited a farm where the aged
couple were being turned out of
their life long home, and I found the
74 year old woman down on her
knees in the kitchen scrubbing the
floor because she loved the old place
so much she didn’t have the heart
to leave it unclean.
E. C. Abraham, tried in a Brook
lyn court for forging two checks,
proved that he could neither read
nor write. -
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water lakes within a radius of 60
miles of Spokane, Wash.
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