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THE COURIER Established, 1876 Phone 144 Published Tri-Weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 111 Worth Street, Asheboro, Ran dolph County, N. C. Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer, Publisher and Business Manager. Harriette Hammer Walker, Editor Wm. C. Hammer Estate Owner. Advertising Rates upon applica tion. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, $2.00; Six Months, $1.00; Three Months, 50c. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice 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 j communications intended for ] publication must be signed. THURSDAY. JULY 15, 1987 THK\ AM) NOW HOT weather causes many a look toward the calendar-—wonder ing how much ■ longer this torrid heat can hold out. And calendars are interesting'. People even hav" favorite calendars. The favorhd one in a newspaper office usually i flanked about, with much mark ing but in the meantime, several important, historic events engage the eye and mind. ft was on July 26th, 177a, that the American postal system was established and two days later. July 28th also brings an important date on the calendar, the begin ning of the world war on July 2S, 1914. These two happenings are as far apart as the two poles in a way. Think of earlier wars when news was scarce because of trans portation. Mail service was in deed a crude affair and uncertain, at, best. When we sit down for a good session of complaining about the mail service—the slowness thereof, etc.—we might contrast the mail service now with that of (he first dav of July, 1863, the date of the battle of Gettysburg. Men were dead for weeks before their homefolk found out the sad tid ings. Then, often, some foot-sore soldier brought the tidings first hand, before the official notice, if any, was sent. The World War dispatches were censored, it’s true, but they were quick and the picture on the calen dar of the galloping horse of 1775 may well be compared with the postal and cable service of the World War days. And, historic minded North Car olinians who are looking toward Mantep and thinking of the birth of Virginia Daie, and of the estab lishment of the first representative assembly in America, at James town, on July 30th, 1619—compar ing then and now, is an interest ing sport for hot weather. But, calendars are interesting things— even in hot weather. GEOGRAPHICAL PERFECTION HUNTING the mountains, they | found and enjoyed the ocean, I was a story that came from Kins ton where many such come. Kin stonians say that a New York fam ily landed in their town this week and stopped to inquire the way to i the mountains, Shenandoah Valley and such. When told that they were several hundred miles too far east for mountains, the versatile Kinston folk recomemnded the ocean, just 70 miles distant. And. j a good time was had by all, runs j the tale. This is a fable with a moral, re vealing the geographical advant ages of North Carolina as a state above other states. Few states are blessed with the mountains on the west, the ocean on the east—and with some very fine beaches, too— and the Piedmont section full of de licious peaches—all at the same time. Irvin Cobb was right — what North Carolina needs is a press agent. We have everything heart could wish, but we do need to tell the world about it. Possibly many people will trek to Manteo for the pageant of historic interest during the ten weeks. It is surprising that many North Carolinians do not seem to know about it them selves. How, then, can we expect visitors to know, or care? With Other Editors | BAILEY’S BARRAGE TIMELY Senator Bailey’s barrage directed yesterday at the so-called compro mise bill for reform of the judic iary, aa proposed by the adminis tration, was a timely and reasoned ;ontribution to the fight upon a proposition fundamentally un sound. The stubborn opposition with Buch brilliant logic as by Bailey, successfully steam-roller pressure the is its purpose perhaps a bit lavish in his praise of the court as presently consti tuted and operated, but his case ! was before a vast and not unpreju ; diced jury and naturally he made I it strong. The issue stands sim ply, as Senator Bailey pictured fl 1 that the Supreme Court must be protected against intimidation < r even more direct abuse by stacking j its bench. Mr. Walter Lippman, writing recently in the New York Herald Triune, made the point that there i is no good reason why the measure j must pass now, however much in I sistence there be for such on the part of Mr. Roosevelt and his mi visors. The powers of the Fedei.il government have been greatly ex tended, and they are ample for any legislation Congress might really I wish to enact. He makes the cause for filibuster on the measure by asserting that it is purely a fight j for preservation of American liber- | ties. The new court reform propos'i- j tion is no more moral because of j tlve modification of its scope ami purpose—and it deserves to die as j iniquitously as its predecessor. We hope it will not require a filibuster j to defeat it, but if that is the only 1 course open there seems no other choice.—High 1'oint Enterprise. Lambeth Demands Retrenchment (Continued from'Page 1) telephone and telegraph bill for nine months amounted to $3,309, ' 000 which is in excess of the total costs of operation of all the public (schools of North Carolina for one i month. The speech ended with the fol lowing summary: “The conclusion of the whole mat . ter is this. The time has come for the government to put its house in | order. The national income for this ( year is estimated to approach 70 billion dollars, having climbed from | the low point of 39 billion dollars in 1932: so that it is now well above the normal level. We should now not only have a balanced budget but should begin to reduce the pub lic debt.” Railroads Request Rate Alteration Would Adopt ICC Schedule For Cotton, Woolen And Knit Goods. Rail carriers of North Carolina yesterday sought permission of the Utilities commission to revise rates on cotton, woolen and knit ting factory products moving in trastate to conform to interstate rates on similar commodities. Complete revision of present schedules and adoption of inter state rates would mean both in creases and reductions in freight charges with the majority of com modities receiving reductions, said C. H. Noah, freight rate expert for the Utilities commission. Applicants pointed out that the proposed revision would make in trastate rates uniform with inter state rates prescribed by the Inter state Commerce commission and ef fective since July 8, 1937. The new rates would cancel present com ! modlty rates and would not affewt lower rates adopted to meet truck j competition, applicants said. The revision would establish the freight rates on the affected eom ! modities at specified percentages of I first-class rates. J Mi STORIES IN STAMPS BY I. S. KLEIN The Struggle Of Vang AnoVin* Ti'/?•'•. * \*70„* Of Chi nese civilization, the world was considered the battleground in the eternal struggle of the two major forces of life—male and female. It was not a conflict, but an effort to create a unity, a har mony, between these forces. Symbolizing this struggle, the Chinese drew two symmetrically curved figures, one black, the oth er white, opposing each other within a circle. It is the “yin yang” so well known and so uni versal in Oriental design. Accord ing to Chinese belief, every part of the woffii, both animate and inani mate, is ruled by the yin-yang, the opposition of male and female, light and darkness, active and passive. Out of this symbol, other mys tic forms have risen—the squared maze pattern around Oriental rugs, similar designs for borders, and the swastika. Early Chinese stamps includ ed this symbol in their border ■ . n designs, and Smany stamps of Korea have fea yang. The sym bol appears at stamp shown —iTTTrwtrr T here BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON BY RODNEY DUTCluv * NEA Service Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON—That party the ” Democrats hat! at Jefferson Island is well in the past, but some of the best stories of what happened on the island are just beginning to leak out. One of them evidences the fact {hat although President Roosevelt will call a man by his first name us quickly as one thus addresses a barber or waitress—often ap plying the praenomen to a lady I or gent on first meeting—it takes a Jim Farley to remember the correct name every time. A group of anti-court bill sen- ! aims stuck close to each other on the island, and a half dozen of them approached the President in a group to pay their so-called re spects. Senators Bailey of North i Carolina and Byrd of Virginia had passed by and had not been | greeted by their first names, which would be a story by itself. Then up stepped Senator Clark of Missouri. And the President either had become flustered by this time or else suffered one of those brainstorms or memory lapses which at one time or an other afflict us all. The only other possibility is that he was trying to be funny, which is un likely. ' “Hello, Fran it!" exclaimed Frank Roosevelt. And was Bennett Clark sore! * * * VOUR correspondent also has indulged in research as to the hog-calling contest which was a feature of the picnic, heretofore inadequately reported. Not with any thought of in flicting any bum humor about hog-calling and pork barrels, but rather with the thought that hog calling might soon enter into the court plan debate. It seems that Roosevelt himself organized and umpired the hog calling contest, entering Harry Reporter Loses Good Story; But Writes Another Wedding Sometime ago, in that great city of N'ew York, a city editor sent a cub reporter to cover what was supposed to be a top hat society I wedding. The wedding was sched uled in an uptown enurch, in the 70s block. It came near press time and the reporter had not returned—then the “sheet” was sent down stairs and the press started its run. A few seconds later the cub came in —and explained to the boss that the bridegroom failed to show up, so there was no wedding and no story. That cub looked for anoth er job. Which brings us to this—yes terday a news desk in Asheboro received a tip that a young lady who had recently married, obtain ed her husband through the med ium of a matrimonial agency adv. —That seemed like a hot tip, so off went a reporter. He didn’t get his story—for the lady in a.uestion met her groom through regular mediums, stars and moons and things like that. But we did hear tell of this one —and the names of the recently wedded pair are so well known 1 here that we fail to mention them —maybe most of their friends know the details, another can piece two and two together. The adv. was placed with a “bu reau” by the Asheboro girl, not the first one we mentioned. Letters began to use up Uncle Sam’s stamps, between here and an army I Hopkins and Secretary Henry | Wallace as White House rivals j against Congressmen Jim O’Con j nor of Montana, Bob Mouton of Louisiana, and Otha Wearin of I0Wa—all three great braggarts as to their hog-calling proficiency. Roosevelt himself decided the result was a two-way draw be tween Mouton and Wearin. * * * I'T'HE Union Postal Clerk, official -*• organ of the National Federa tion of Postofllce Clerks, in a col umn called “Trapp Opens His i Trap,” because it’s written by one J B. Trapp of Los Angeles, is responsible for the following items: The one and only place where one can mail a letter free to any part of the world is at Postoffice Bay, Charles Island, in the South Seas. The postofllce is a barrel anchored in shallow water, handy for sailors on long voyages. Zachary Taylor once refused a postage-due letter. It was notifi cation of his nomination for the presidency and he didn’t get the news for days. The first opening of a postoffice in Korea in 1885 was a flop be cause the Koreans, thinking it was a plot of the “foreign devils,” burned the postofllce and killed the postmaster on the very first day. The telegraph was a part of the postal service from April, 1844, to March, 1845, and during that period its inventor, Samuel Morse, was on the federal payroll as superintendent Of that branch of the service. Then Congress re fused to provide for its continu ance on the ground that it should be a private enterprise. A man in Webster Grove, Mo., has paid rent on a private post office box for several years. He has never received a letter. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service Inc.) post—so they thought they might as well look each other over. Arrangements were completed, the prospective groom was schedul ed to arrive at the local bus sta tion at 5:45 o’clock. The girl was to stand nearby, with a white flow er—guess she wanted to have the first look. In came the bus and rtf stepped our man. Ue looked far the stone wall, which the girl wroje was located opposite the bus sti-1 tion. She looked first, then held the flower in her hand. The grooip, bashful, of course, looked, walked hither and yon, then pihked up cou rage enough to speak. Said he, “Are you satisfied?” Said she, “Do we get married “5” “I reckon we do, that’s what jl came for,” was his reply. Thfjy then toted his baggage to her sis ters’ apartment, then made a quiqk trip to a well known justice, of tile peace. But wc lost our story. Peace Meeting Ashton B. Jones, Atlanta, On., will be a speaker at an outdoor meeting on the court house lawn Saturday afternoon at 6:30 o’clock. Mr. Jones will speak on world peace. Sunday morning at 11 o’clock he will be a speaker at the colored M. E. church. Sunday evening he will be at Friends meeting house; Loneliness is one form of torture from which none escapes. anci enjt PHILOSOPHERS TAUGHT THAT PLANTS were: nourished from THE SO//. ALONE/ BUT H ELMO NIT, A PHVSICIANI OF BRUSSELS, DOUBTED THE THEDBLV/ DURING THE l€>TH CEN TURY, HE WEIGHED A WILLOW TREE AND PLANTED IT IN A POT CONTAINING 200 LBS. OF SOIL/ FIVE YEARS LATER,THE WILLOW HAD GAINED Z&4- A>OUNOS, AND THE SOIL HAD LOST ONLY TWO OUNCES. JAN BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT, after making the experiment regarding plant nourishment, settled on the erroneous conclusion that the tree had taken cm its extra weight from the water that he had given it, and not until 200 years later was the discovery made that nourishment was taken in from the air, through the - ~ ' -*. -4* Queer Slants By The Staff We sat through a miserable hour and a half the other evening watching and listening to Wallace Beery make a shambles of the grand play “The Old Soak.” The only redeeming feature was the ti tle had been changed to “The Good Old Soak.” Emphasis on the prop er words would place Beery’s act ing where it belonged. Just why eBery was picked for this role we are lost to un derstand. He overplayed parts that should have been under played and lost “laughs” on best lines in the script. This is no triade against Beery as an actor. We think he is one of the grandest ever produced— but as "Clem” Hawley he was a failure. Maybe he had been bit ten, like lots of others, who have played all manner of roles, then want to play the great Borneo. We have 'seen them fail, but this w^s due to the casting director. And, also, poor direction. The bank scene was a flop. "Clem” as Beery played it— failed in his greatest moment —that “hanging scene” as it has been expressed by all fa miliar with the show. He didn’t do the hanging properly —he didn’t let “the banker swing,” he merely made a pass at the light cord. Then too, in the same scene, he lost lines which has brought the house down in “doubles.” After Beery cut the telephone cord, he hogged the scene, didn't give the banker time to discover the shears —cut off the line with his own —“1 ain’t agoing to cut you.” That was one of Don Marquis great heights in the scrip—Beery too, in a boorish manner, tried to play the lovable part created by the auth or. Instead of bringing his audi ence into “Clem” sphere he left a loathing for character. We have seen several do this show—prooably one of the best, but not known in this section of the country, Georgie Bierce, that grand actor son of a grand sire and actor, “Fete” Fierce, who rolled ’em in the aisles as “Lightnin.” Both fa ther and son, from the drama tic school at Williams. The maid, although played by Una Merkle, a gorgeous actress, was badly cast. The drinking scene was a fizzle, made brass out of what should have been smooth metal. The cameraman evidently afraid the audience would not catch the line concerning the par rot's egg,—made it brazen by fo cusing on that egg. Good lines, out pf a great mind, ruined by poor acting and poorer casting. And that sudden shift, in a horse drawn vehicle, not in the script, from the country home to a hoi spot in New York was another flop. A few seconds and “Clem” was transported to a dancers’ apartment, then to the night club. The value cf the lines and scene were lost in this atmosphere. And thus it went—we saw a girl do the maid, that made Una look like a ham and egger. The lat ter lost her laughs on the “deceas ed himself” but the former played it to perfection. We noted Frank Sullivan as sisted in writing the scrip— now we know there are two Frank Sullivans somewhere in this sphere of ours. We hope Don himself has not been forced to sit through this pic ture. We hope Beery will not want to play that immortal por trait of Frank Bacon’s Lightnin’ nor Lord Fauntelroy. Mr. Eberhart’s name is now famous in watermelon lines, as it has been in pencils. But another Eberhart. Yesterday a Mr. Eberhart was hauling a load of watermelons to the Asheboro market. He hit a ditch near Fayetteville and Kivelt street—the trailer lost its hitch and out went the melons. Green and red all over the high way—then a load of laughing col ored men—bound homeward from a PWA job. The truck stopped, the boys started to eat and a feast was had by all. I reckon we had better sue the PWA’erS. Might start another long hot session in Washington. Bet those great statesmen up there would have forgotten the Court bill if they had been near the wreck. Bet the N. C. gentleman would have gotten together over the rine—even got melon in each others hair—Oh my, we meant ears. Glad all those governors have gotten the National guard straigh tened out. Seems, now, like they were in the right war but on the wrong side. Ten years ago the drug mari huana was almost unknown in this country. Now it is known as the most pernicious drug. It is made from the weed also known ms rag weed or Italian hemp. Responsibility is put en the loulders of those who can bear It. ’ Is It Hot Enough For You? Expect Record Wheat Yield In State; Corn Crop Good Raleigh.—W. H. Rhodes, chief of the state department of agricul ture’s statistics division forecast today that this year’s wheat crrp would be the heaviest in North Carolina since 1900. “Other crops throughout the state are growing nicely, cultivation is good, and generally favorable sea sons prevail,” Rhodes said. “While complaints of continued dry weath er during June were reported from all sections of the state, the situa tion is much improved over that of a month ago.” If the G,228,000-bushel wheat crop indicated July 1 materializes, it will be the fifth largest ever pro duced in this state, Rhodes said. “The harvested acreage reporter! at 519.000 is two per cent less than in 1936,” he said “but the average yield an acre at 12 bushels is the heaviest average on record.” However, he added, the grain is not threshing out as heavily as earlier expected, and heavy dam age from rust, aphis, root lice, and other pests was reported in the Piedmont counties. July reports for other crops fol low: Corn Crop flood Corn—The crop is generally good in almost all sections. The 2,326, 000 acres in cultivation this year is one per cent less than was harvest ed last year, but with the conditions reported at 84 per cent of normal, the production is indicated at 44, 194.000 and with tho exception of 1931 and 1935 is about equal to any crop on record. Oats—While the 233,000 acres of oats harvested is one of the small est since 1900, farmers generally claim that the crop this year is one of the best thfey ever had. The 20 bushel an acre average com pares with 14 last year and a 10 year average of 17.6, indicating a total of 4,660,000 bushels for har vest. Hay—With the exception of the dry weather of late April and May, weather conditions affecting hay crops have been rather favorable. The last alfalfa cutting early in May was exceptionally good. Clov er crops with conditions averaging 84 per cent of normal are the best in many years. Small grains cut for hay wfere also extra good. There were 937,000 acres of hay in culti vation July 1 in the state compared with 890,000 harvested last year.1 The conditions at 79 per cent of nonpial (compares with 66 per cent last July 1 and indicates a total production of 750,000 tons or an in crease of 11 per cent over the 1936 crop. More Irish Potatoes Irish potatoes—The total Irish potato crop including the early and late crops shows a 12 per cent in crease in acreage this year, there being 92,000 acres for harvest com ared with 82,000 in 1986. However, the 78 per cent of normal condition reported for late potatoes July 1 compares with 42 per cent last year when the late mountain coun ties were suffering from record dry seasons. The total production of Ir ish potatoes is estimated at 9,200, 000 bushels, or an increase of 54 per ce it over the 5,980,000-bushel crop harvested last year. Mars may be having dust storms too. Astronomers report a huge dis turbance there and several smaller ones. ' en Corn furnishes man with i than one hundred commercial | ducts. We Serve . . . PLATE LUNCHES Also • Fried Chicken • Country Ham • Barbecue . . and All Kinds ( SANDWICHES Drive out anytime and i joy service in your car, i the counter or in Iwoths. CAROLIM THEM (Formerly K Service) Highway 220. S. Asheb I r—fascinating gjjst keep fresh naturalness by coming in fn quently for facials, waves and the other lit beauty tricks you like. Then forget yours —you’ll fascinate them all. . SERVICE BEAUTY SHOP] L p Phone 417 SAVES YoU MONEY! A Patehted newf'method oi vul canization known as the Seiber ling Vapor - Cure process pro serves die life oi die cotton and rubber in Seiberling Kras, welds them together a single unit and produces a tiro with no weak U you are lod&ikig lor excellent quality at losypriees, see us to day. Wo make liberal trade-in allowances on your old tires. mo«e 140
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