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THE COURIER EttabhUhtif mi Phoae 144 Published Tri-WCekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 111 Worth Street, Asheboro, Ran dolph County, N. C. Mrs, Wm. C. Hammer, Publisher and Business Manager. . Harriette Hammer Walhir, Editor. Wm. C. Hammer Estate, Owner. Advertising Rates upon applica tion. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear, $2.00; Six Months. $1.00; Three Months, 50c. Entered as second class matter at the postolRce at Asheboro, N. C„ under the act of March 3, 1879, Articles for publication must be in the hands of the Editor be fore noon Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Letters to the Editor are welcome, but all communications intended for publication must be signed. _L. , TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937. ORGANIZED LABOR HARDLY has the United States scratched the surface of union membership—as compared to other countries. We are told that union membership is increasing rapidly but the score at present is only 2*5 per cent of industries workers actually signed up in a union. The trend toward increased member ship is certainly on the upgrade, but this country has a long way to go to show up favorably with other countries of the world. It is especial interest to note that dur ing the present year the growth has been more than double that of aViy year since 1933—the low point. Each year since that time about half a million membership growth has been shown. . It has been a year and a half since John L. Lewis decided upon a goal and launched a drive for membership—or mass unioniza tion of workers. He admitted an end of patience with the pace set by the American Federation of Labor and publicly disapproved of its policy of organization by orafts. He, therefore, resigned his official position with the federa tion, led eight international unions, j \Vhieh have now increased to six-| teen, in a movement to form the] (jommittee for industrial organizu-l tion. Now, members of this group are bargaining with the very larg est units of the automobile and steel industries. These industries have previously pledged against dealing with unions other than those sponsored by themselves. * At the moment there are 7,000, 000 organized labor members and ^0,000,000 unorganized workers. The committee for industrial or ganization is composed of 2,000, 000 members with 2,250,000 mem bers of independent plant and rail anions. There are 2,750,000 mera fiers of the American Federation of Labor. • Possibly the increase in mem bership recently is due partly to the efforts of Mr. Lewis, but there is a new force moving and operat ing over the entire field of labor. This force is the policy of the Federal Government, calling for tie enforcement of the rights of Collective bargaining and penaliz ing employers who interfere with tjfiis right. * A HOPKINS HEADACHE FaA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins is having his troubles -•-troubles of various types: money troubles, project troubles, political troubles and, just plain trouble. And now that the pressure has been brought to bear upon cutting down expenditures for relief, 'the clouds look grey. According to Mr. Hopkins, although industry has cheated jobs for millions, this country still contains more millions e{f men and women who want work but there are no jobs for them. Despite this fact, Mr. Hopkins }»s outlined a schedule for March, .April, May and June. In March he Would give 2,150,000 jobs at a cost of $146,000,000; in April 2,000,000 3bs at a cost of $134,600,000; in ay 1,800,000 jobs at a cost of $}20,000,000 and in June 1,600, 000 jobs at a cost of $108,000,000. I This would be a cut of 550,000 jfbs and a saving of $43,000,000 a month within a period of four nths. This is figuring without sueh aa a flood of >le disaster. Recently, six states—-es* tup a mm the to boat relief program through the new fiscal year that begins July 1st. Mr. Hopkins is said to get an excellent salary, as does the President, together with honor, power and the like—but they have their worries, and with them, the fate of hundreds of poor people rest. Meanwhile, we howl against an increase in taxes. Possibly a new name for a headache would be a Hopkins headache. 8th, 9th (Grades Divide Contests 8th Grade Girls Defeat 9th Grade 8-4; Sophomore Boys Rout Freshmen The inter-class tournament at the Asheboro high school began Monday afternoon with the 8th and 9th grades splitting honors—the 8th grade girls opened the program with a 8-4 victory over the 9th grade girls, but the sophomore boys came back to wallop the freshmen 44-5. All the scoring in the girls game was done by one player on each team, Kittie Lee Fritz dropping in four field goals for the winners, while Margaret Robbins got a field goal and two foul points for the losers. The 8th graders, who had four players of the regular squad in their line-up against two for the 9th grade, were in front all the way, and had a 6-3 lead at the half. The 9th grade boys were able to present what was practically the regular second team during the season and scored at will while preventing their opponents from getting a single field goal. Jar rell’s 24 points put him far ahead of all rivals for scoring honors, but his teammates all had a hand in the victory. The score at' tht half was 20-4. Girls 8th Grade G F P Fritz, f . 4 0 8 Anderson, f. 0 0 0 Brittain, f .... 0 0 0 Morgan, g . 0 0 0 Brown, g . 0 0 0 Hayworth, g . 0 0 0 Totals . 4 0 8 9th Grade G F P Burkhead, f . 0 0 0 Robbins, f . 1 2 4 Burrows, f . 0 0 0 Ridge, g . 0 0 0 Presnell, g . 0 0 0 Cox, g . 0 0 0 Totals . 1 2 4 Substitutes—9th grade, William son. Boys 9th Grade G F P Smith, f ... 3 1 7 Morgan, f . 1 2 4 Jarrell, c . 12 0 24 Saunders, g . 2 0 4 McCain, g _____ 2 1 5 Totals . 20 4 44 8th Grade G F P Cross, f . 0 1 1 Milks, f . 0 0 0 Brown, c .. 0 0 0 Burkhead, g . 0 3 3 Henley, g . 0 1 1 Totals .. 0 5 6 Substitutes—9th Grade: Hend ersdn, Walker; 8th Grade: Haith cock, Newman, Cranford, Williams, Nelson. It was necessary to use ampli fiers at the Cleveland county court house recently when farmers gath ered to hear the 1937 farm pro gram explained could not all get into the auditorium. 1 Jack Oakie's College ' Gets “No StudJ* Plan BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON BY RODNEY DUTCHER * XBA Mnlf( MK C«W«»a*»« IJ7ASH1NGTON ~ The astonish ™ ing turn in labor history signi fied by the steel industry’s decision to sign wage, hour and collective bargaining agreements with the John L. Lewis C. 1. O., is generally attributed by high government officials here to three chief fac tors: —Conviction among leaders .of the industry, and thg Morgan Wall Street interests behind them, that Lewis was in a position to tie up production, and that he could be beaten in a strike only after unprecedented labor warfare. n—Pressure from a pro-labor ad " ministration in Washington, which demanded the 40-hour week and collective bargaining, plus existence of pro-labor state administrations and local authori ties in the steel area. 3—Unwillingness to. forego the profits which 1037 promises from steel. It may be that all those factors, and others, combined to bring about this “industrial New Deal.” It is commonly suspected here that only J. P. Morgan knows the answer. But everyone concedes the spectacular success Of C. I. O.’s organization campaign was the first key to the recent about-face by America's foremost leaders of industry and finance. * * * % ]V[EITHER Lewis nor Philip Murray claimed to have more than 200,000 of the 550,000 work ers in the steel industry at mem bers. But they were relatively .stronger in steel than in the auto mobile industry, wnere they al Annual Report 01 Randolph County Health Department Dr. George H. Sumner has this week made public the ninth annual report of the Randolph County Health Department, which has al ready been presented to the board of health and will soon be sub mitted to the county commission ers. The report is in two parts—a statistical report of the activities of the department for 1936 and also a resume of the problems which must be met in order to protect properly the health of the citizens of the county. Dr. Sumner outlines the objec tives of the health department for 1937 as follows: 1. Protection of all children against diphtheria before the end of the first year, and Smallpox be fore entering school. 2. Discovery of tuberculosis in the early stages when there is still hope of cure. 3. Medical and nursing supervision and advice during prenatal period and postpartum period. 4. Adequate medical and nursing supervision of all infant and pre school children. 5! More corrections of physical defects in school children. 6. Proper protection of water supplies and adequate sewage dis posal facilities. 7. Improve sanitation of schools and public eating places. 8. A safe milk supply for the citizens of Randolph county. In an introduction Dr. Sumner succinctly sums up the principal aim of public health work thus, “The work of the health depart ment is to prevent diseases and not to treat diseases. In other words, it is the purpose of the health department to prevent a large proportion of sickness and premature deaths, thereby, render ing the community a safer place in which to live. Personnel The development of the health department is traced from Its or ganization in 1927. To continue with the report in its own words: Our budget now allows for the employment of a health officer, clerk, two nurses, sanitary inspect or, and thirty weeks dental pro gram. At the present time, we have only one nurse. The second nurse is out permanently on ac count of sickness and we will have no one to replace her until the first of March. This personnel is not large enough to carry out an adequate public health program in this county. We should have two more nurses. In addition to the above person nel, we have had two National Youth Administration girls for the past three months working on the diptheria records, beginning with the year 192k. This record is an individual record for each person immunized. With those records we typhoid fever and with these re cords we hope to show the number of individuals that are protected ready had achieved considerable success. * The steel tycoons had applied intetise heat on Roosevelt and Sec retary Of Labor Perkins in effort to obtain'suspension of the Walsh Hcaly law. That act said bidders on government contracts must ob serve a 40-hour work week, and certain other labor provisions. The issue was fought over more than 100,000 tons of steel the navy needed for battleships. In secret conferences, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. Mc Grady insisted the steel industry produce that steel in accordance with the law as a patriotic duty to the government. Steel officials insisted they had a duty to their stockholders and couldn't effect a 40-hour week. The Labor Department's reply was preparation of an order dated Feb. 27 for a public bearing, be ginning March 5, to which navy officials, steel industry heads, la bor leaders and members of Con gress were to be summoned. Steel men were given to understand “patriotism" would be the issue. The order was held up because of a report on Feb. 27 that an inde pendent steel company was ready to bid under terms of the Walsh Healy act. (Willingness of certain independents to “play ball" with the government, plus an implied threat that the government would make its own steel, might also have had a large part in softening the industry's attitude.) Matters stood thus when, on March 1, big units of the steel in dustry began to announce 40-hour weeks, the $5 daily minimum wage and willingness to bargain collectively. (Copyright. 1f‘3T. NIC.'. S vv.. I:” we receive only a list of births ami deaths from the registrars instead of the actual certificates. The certi ficates are mailed direct to the bureau of vital statistics in Raleigh. I would like to recommend that the certificates be mailed directly to the county health'officer in order that we may be able to study these certificates and have a more ideal record. Our maternal and infant death rate are much below the state and national aver age. We cannot claim credit for this low mortality of infants and mothers, because we have done very little work along this line, except from a general educational^ standpoint. I feel, however, thatjif is due to the mercy of the Lord that we have no higher death rate than we do have. We hope to do a great deal more educational work along this line. Our crude death' rate for 1934 is 9.0 per 100 against 10.6 per 1000 for the state. How-1 evr, our birth rate is lower, be ing 23.0 per 1000, whereas, the state rate is 24.0 per 1000. The provisional death rate* for 1936 is 8.76 per 1000 and our birth rate is 21.3 per 1000. Causes of Deaths The ten leading causes of death in Randolph county in 1936 were: heart disease, 81; cerebral hem orrhage, 44; congenital conditions, 27; pneumonia, 26; nephritis, 24; cancer, 22; automobile accidents, 16; broncho pneumonia, 16; di seases of arteries, 11; other ex ternal accidents, 10. This tabulation shows that the greatest cause of deaths is those conditions accompanying old age. We hope to have a marked reduc tion in the deaths from congenital conditions, pneumonia, cancer and automobile accidents. These causes can be eliminated largely by edu cation as to how to prevent these conditions. Fortunately we have had -no epidemics of any kind this year. We believe that we have had very good reporting this year in the1 major reportable diseases. We are very proud of our records in the1 control of diphtheria. The numbur of eases of diphtheria has dropped from 60 cases in 1927 to 13 cases in 1936. Our mortality has dropped from 2.7 in 1917 to 1.6 in 1936. We attribute this record to our per sistency in the immunization of children under five years of age. Typhoid fever has dropped from 16 cases in 1927 to four cases in 1636. The deaths have dropped from 7 in 1927 to two in 1936. Our control of tuberculosis is far from adequate. The State Sanatorium is running from three to six months behind on admissions. They are accepting only curable cases. We are in great need of a place to isolate our advanced cases in order that we may get them away from their families. We are very fortunate, however, te have our local hospital where we can get our suspicious cases yt tuberculosis x-rayed. The hospital has been very cooperative with us along this line. They, also, ad mitted two patients this year for nerve operations. te becoming one of our For the past two years m have been working to prevent this disease. The reporting of the venereal diseases has greatly increased this year. We do not believe that we have had more cases this year than in former years. The health depart ment has treated 62 individuals and given a total of 479 treatments. These those who were working. (The lemainder of this report will be published in an early issue of The Courier. Other fields of the [ department’s activities summarized i are maternity service, control of communicable disease, infant hy giene, and food and milk inspec tion.) By virtue of a judgment of the Superior Court in a Special Pro ceeding entitled “Donna Lee Mc Pherson, et al, vs. Fred Williams, et al”, I will, on Saturday the 20th day of March, 1937, at 1 o’clock P. i M., re-sell at the Court House door ] in Asheboro, North Carolina, to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the following des cribed real estate, to-wit: Beginning at a maple in what was formerly Branson and later Burrow’s line, and running thence West on said line 22% chains to a post oak; thence South on what was formerly Elliott’s line 44 chains and 44 links to a pine; thence East 22% chains to a poplar;/ thence North to the be ginning, containing 100 acres more or less. The foregoing is a tract of land conveyed by John M. Han cock, May E. Hill and Nancy J. Presnell to Mary Smith, see Deed in Register’s Office of Randolph County, Book 61, Page , 291, and conveyed by the heirs of Mary Smith to M. S. Robins, see Deed in Register’s Office of Randolph County, Book 61, Page 361, and Book 60, Page 323 and conveyed by the heirs of M. S. Robins to W. J. Moore, see Deed in Register’s Office of Randolph County, Book 135, Page 243. Except six acres sold and deeded to Joshua Everett off of original U. J. S. Shamburger and wife Sallie Shamburger. This is a re-sale on account of raised bid. This the 23rd day of February, 1937. J. A. SPENCE, Commissioner. 3t M 2 9 16 SALE OF LAND Pursuant to the provisions of a Deed of Trust executed by C. N. Bambalis and wife Calliope Bam balis to C. A. York, Trustee, secur ing an indebtedness to the Globe Industrial Bank of High Point. N. C. the undersigned Trustee will on the 20th day of March, 1937, at twelve o’clock M. on the premises in Archdale, N. C., sell to the high est bidder the following described property: Beginning at an iron stake on the east side of the High Point Asheboro hard surface Road, North West corner of Lot No. 8 of the lands herein described, and running thence with the Northern boundary of Lot No. 8, 167 feet to an iron stake; thence in a Southern direc tion with eastern boundary of Lot No. 8 and 9, 50 feet to an iron stake; thence in a Westerly direc tion with Southern Boundary .if Lot No. 9 of lands herein describ ed, 167 feet to an iron stake on East side of said first named road; thence in a Northerly direction with said land 50 feet to the be ginning and being all of Lots 8 and 9 of the map of Archdale Terrace, Archdale, N, C., a plat of which is duly registered in office of Regist er of Deeds of Randolph County, N. C., in Plat Book No. 1 at page 106 to which reference is hereby had. This mortgage dated Decem ber 10th, 1929 and recorded in Reg. of Deeds of Randolph County Book 242 at page 326. Sold on default of the payment of the amount due. Ten per cent deposit must be made by bidder. This the 15th day of February, 1937. C. A, YORK, Trustee. Walser & Wright, Attorneys. 4t F 23 M 2 & 16 NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of an order made by the Randolph County Board of Education, and in ac cordance with the law in such cases made and provided, the undersign ed will at* 12 o’clock noon on the 20th day of March, 1937, at the court house door in Asheboro, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder that certain school house property known as the Pearce School, Tabernacle Town ship, and more particularly describ ed as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a stone A. J. Pierce's comer; thence East 11 Rods to a stone; thence South 24 Rods to a stone; thence West 11 Rods to a Dogwood on A. J. Pierce’s line; thence North 24 rods to the beginning. Containing 1 13/20 Acres, more or leas. This the 20th day of February, 1937. ■_ RANDOLPH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, By. T. F. Bulla, Clerk. Moser 4b Miller, Attya. Asheboro, N. C. 4t F 23 M 2 9 Iff NOTICE OF BALE OF RIAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of an order made by the Randolph County Board of Education, and in ac cordance with the law in such DON’T BE SILLY sSS? CAM I CLAIM AMV DEDUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THEIR SUPPORT school house property known as the High Rock School, in Taber nacle Township, and more parti cularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a stone M. L. Wood comer; thence North 11 Rods to a stone in said Briles line; thence West 11 Rods to a stone; thence South 11 Rods to a stone in M. L. Wood’s line; thence East 11 Rods to the beginning comer, containing one acre more or less. This the 20th day of February, 1937. RANDOLPH COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION By: T. F. Bulla, Clerk. Moser & Miller, Attys. Asheboro, N. C. 4t F 23 M 2 9 16 FARLOW FUNERAL HOME m HUNfbl SERVICE MDDFHAIC CHARGES | MDOERN FACILITIES A CAPABLE STAFF AMBULANCE SERVICE DAY OR NIGHT 1 phone COSH no! 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