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‘ SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1937
LADIES OF THE JURY
HOUSES on the campus of Vas
sar college were taxed to ca
pacity during this week with wo
men, eager to learn the gentle art
of becoming members of juries.
Women from all walks of life were
there, from Mrs. Roosevelt, the na
tion’s first lady, to women who
came from more lowly surround
ings. There were many from the
business and professional women's
c,lubs and colleges, as well as priv
ate citizens who intend to exercise
their new right of jury service in
the state of New York.
I The article describing the scene
Vassar said “unofficially and m
formally, but with unmistakable
iest, organized women of New
York state set about plotting a
maximum of coverage for instruc
tion in the process of jury service
finder the permissive law enacted
last spring."
A discussion of the necessity of
fi jury being locked up over-night
caused several timid souls to de
mur. Nor so, Mrs. Roosevelt, who
Cited the fact that in this day of
air travel, people are often locked
up over night in the plane and that
a jury room is just another place.
Mrs. Roosevelt continued her dis
course with a frank expression of
her views.
“I have always regretted that
people do not take the jury system
more resiously in relation to the
courts and I expect, hope and be
lieve that women will be better
than some of the men who are ser
ving on juries today.”
As the first speaker at the con
ference, Mrs. Roosevelt urged the
importance of a concerted appfal
to women generally to register for
jury service, deprecating the diffi
culties involved for some women as
no more strenuous than those en
dured by men who serve.
“It seems to me that as long as
they are citizens, women should be
ready to accept this one of the
chores that go with citizenship.”
she argued. “My experience with
women is that they can use their
heads as well as men. It is easy to
accept the privileges of citizenship
without feeling that you have obli
gations also.
“As long as my husband remains
in the White House, it would not
be possible for me to serve on a
jury, but I hope to attend the jury
school that will be held here in
Dutchess county in September to
learn what is required so that I
could qualify and serve under
other circumstances.”
ANOTHER ROSE
FEN Edith Wharton died in her
villa in France, a voluminous
writer was lost tq the reading pub
lic. Not only did Edith Wharton
write much, but exceedingly well—
sufficiently well to capture the Pu
litzer prize in 1920. Long after she
is half-forgotten, her Ethan Frome
and The Age of Innocence will live
as memorials. This writer was
known as a “chronicler of inner cir
cle of New York society in which
■he had been reared.
This woman, who was living in
her villa with a friend, quietly, was
in fairly good health until she suf
fered an apoplectic stroke and
never recovered consciousness, dy
ing the same day. Her death was
unknown in Paris that night but
day, as the body lay in state,
the writer would have been pleas
ed and proud of the homage from
her wide eirele of friends.
While she was a writer herself,
wrote more beautifully
of the sincere tributes
i have appeared of hex life and
It is always a
she know of
her life
ref so many
had
fering, joy and sorrow of others
until the figures sprang from the
printed page into living being. Af
ter all, when a real writer dies, the
public mind wonders •f writing
should not be lifted to a little high
er plane, from a vocation—avoca
tion, or what you will, to a real
art.
Anyway, here is one more flower
to place with the many that sur
round her casket and will be heap
ed upon the mound of clay.
With Other Editors
BOY SCOl'TS ABKOAI)
Thirty thousand boys in their
’teens from 37 countries, speaking
30 diflerent laungages, foregather
ed in Holland the first week in Au
gust for a grand international boy
scout “jamboree” It was probably
the largest crowd of youngsters
ever assembled anywhere since the
Childrens Crusade, when the zeal
ous youth of all Europe set forth
on foot for Jerusalem to recapture
the Holy Sepulcher from the Mos
lem's. Certainly it was the most
representative international gather
ing of youth ever held.
Though they could not, most of
them, understand the words of each
other’s conversation, no one who
understands the camaraderie of
boyhood can doubt that every boy
knew what the other boys who
spoke in strange tongues were sa\ -
ing. They all had a common bond
of interest, for though the details j
of their scout-craft differ as be- ;
tween nation and nation, the boy
scouts of all the world have the
same underlying principles and
purposes. Honor and loyalty bro
therhood goodwill and helpfulness |
speak the same language under all;
skies. i
The world needs more of such ;
international contacts of youth.
There would be greater hope for
peace, if the youngsters of all na
tions had. more chances to get ac
quainted with each other. The ini-1
pression and friendship formed in
boyhood are the lasting ones. It j
will be hard for fire-eaters an i j
demagogues to persuade these boy j
scouts who foregathered in Hull- j
and that all the people of any other
nation than their own are scoun
drels anu should be hated as enem
ies. They know better. They have
lived with them, played with them,
swapped keepsakes with them and
sung with them around the camp
fires. They know that the boys of
other countries are just like them
selves.—Chatam Record.
Washington
Day Book
By PRESTON GROVER
Washington—Back in the elegant
eighties the Congressional Record
was just about compulsory reading |
for advanced students in elocution.
Today one time readers of the re
cord from Bangor to Bisbee lament
the languishing of an oratorical
art which formerly flourished in
the halls of congress. The national
legislature still boasts punch-pack
ing and stylish phrase-making but
almost vanished is the grandilo
quence that went with frock-coat
ed m. c.’s.
Those who like their rhetoric
resonant and rhythmic fear Ari
zona’s Senator Henry Fountain
Ashurst may be the last of the ora
torical Mohicans. Fortunately the
former Cowpuncher, who won his
spurs years ago as one of the great
est word-wranglers of all time,
shows no sign at 62 of doing a
philological fade-out.
Outshines Conkling
New York’s Senator Roscoe Con
kling was a forensic flash of the
19th century but some of the Ash
urst enthusiasts will tell you that
much of Conkling’s stuff was lum
py compared with the sparkling
syntax of the courtly 6-foot Ari
zonan.
As an Ashurst classic they cite
his defense of the donkey as the
emblem of the Democratic party—
a serio-comic discourse delivered
by the senator in 1930 when the
Republican elephant was a robust
symbol of G, O. P. supremacy. An
excerpt:
“He is a sure-footed, trustworthy
creature of epicurean taste and
gargantuan appetite; but his ap
petite, happily enough, may be sat
isfied by a nibble at a desert cac
tus and he is then ready for another
long and lonely journey. ...
“He is the personification of the
sublime virtures of moderation,
forbearance and rigid economy.
From the vibrant chords of his
throat come zigzag bars of music
as thrilling as the midnight min
strel of the nightingale....
“The donkey must not be aban
doned for upon his back the Dem
ocratic hosts ascend the steep ac
clivity to power, or to change the
figure of speech, he is the pons
asinorum over which they march
to victory.”
Conkling’s speciality was the
production of a medley of meta
phors in an organ-toned voice. In
summing up a slander case for an
orphan girl client, he emoted:
"I have sisters, and I would
rather have clods should fall upon
their coffins than that one of them
should be robbed of that priceless
reputation without which a wo
man is a casket without a jewel a
ship without a rudder and a help
less wreck on fortune’s lonely
shore.”
Grandoisa grammar by Conk
BEHIND THE SCENES •
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY DITCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
WTASHINGTON—In the year of
W jg32t when the Roosevelt-Gar
ner Democratic ticket was running
rather well against the Hoover
Curtis Republican ticket, there
came forth a solemn cry from the
Republicans and the forces of Wall
| Street:
“Heaven help us!” these con
servatives cried. “Only one frail
life will stand between the nation
and that wild man Garner, who
was Hearst’s candidate for the
| presidency and yearns to wreak
his dire will on the bankers and
oth'er big people of New York!”
Mr. Roosevelt, at that time,
j was generally attacked as a weak,
! pusillanimous, wishy-washy fel
! low who didn't know his own
j mind.
The first four years went rather
j well with the Roosevelt-Garner
| team.
Garner, a small-town banker.
! and southern legislator, was de
1 lighted when “my boss" went,
after the securities market, the |
utility holding companies and ,
other powerful northern combines, j
He gave much valiant help, al
! though he frequently yelled and
I pounded the cabinet table Roose
j velt often telephoned him at
j Uvalde, Tex., to get his slant on I
j a tough problem.^
T>UT things happened in 1937.
^ There was the court plan
Garner was acquiescent on that
one because he felt a liberalized j
court would slam down on the
financial oligarchies of New York.:
But the sitdown strikes and the
i rise of the C. I. O appalled him.
| He instigated arid supported the
j - efforts of senators to smoke out
Roosevelt on the labor issue and
day when hemispheres are mar
ried and lightning is the language
i in which they are betrothed.’'
Mr. Ashurst on the miracle of
1 wireless: “The radio has made a
i whispering galley of the skies; it
I assembles the people’s, thoughts
| and sends them around the world
I on wings as swift as the lightning’s
i fiery bolt.”
Eloquent Lewis
Illinois’ Chesterfieldian Sena
tor J. Ham Lewis ranks with the
great speech stylst of congression
al history. A poetic passage from
a idea for U. S. entry into the
League of Nations delivered when
Lewis was in his oratorical prime
at the end of the World war.
“We can salute the regenerate
earth in the new spirit which our
children reincarnate it with their
sacred bodies still sanctifyng the
soil that is their distant grave.”
Indians austere Benjamine Har
rison, 23rd President of the United
States and a prominent member
of the senate, was famed for felic
ity of expression. Upon the death
of a fellow Hoosier, he said:
“He had ample time to arrange
the draperies of his spirit before
entering the presence of the Great
King.”
MANHATTAN
By GEORGE TUCKER
New York—As addenda to the 1
already incredible fund of Holly
wood legends which throw some
light on why studio attaches go
insane early in life, Fibber McGee
offers this recital of a film auto
crat whose tantrums were the dis
pair of everybody who worked for
him.
Finally one scenario writer re
belled. Hurrying to the producer
while his movie was still up, he
banged hig fist on the desk and
shouted “I’m quitting! I'm sick of
you going into nervouse tailspins
evervtime something rubs you
the wronk way!”
“Quitting!” cried the mogul. All
right, go ahead and quit! But re
member, when somebody else wants
to hire you—nuts to them, that’s
what you are, and I’m the guy
that can do it!”
Then there was the actor, a very
bad actor, who wasn’t going so well
in a melodrama which took place
aboard a Trans-Atlantic liner. Re
moving his greasepaint one night
he was startled to receive a note
after a horrendous performance
from the producer with a check
and this statement: “Here’s $100
on account.”
“What do you mean, on ac
count?” inquired the ham, hur
rying to the producer.
“On account of there’s a new
actor who’ll take your part after
next Friday,” the producer told
him.
Nut village no longer exists
—at least, the avalanche of noises
which drove people crazy has long
since been curbed by the police—
but it may stage a comeback of a
few loud speakers continue to get
away with esubrosa announce
ments.
Nut Village used to be that clus
ter of side streets on the west side
of Manhattan below Chambers
street, where every stall was a
radio shop... .What made it nerve
raeking and a source of brisk trade
for the psychopathic waifl at Bell
evue hospital was the loudspeakers
in every door.
The noise became a vast bed
lam of confused bellowings.
Natives living in the district com
plained bitterly-The horses of
the police department became jit
term and upset, and the sparrows
to cut down the $1,500,000,000 re
lief appropriation, which he also
felt was dangerous.
The wage and hour bill, at least
in its original form, was anathe
ma to the white-haired, fiery vice
president. In all these things he
saw a violent upset to the eco
nomic system of the south, al
though he had long resented the
considerable dependence of the
south on northern capital.
Roosevelt wouldn’t listen to
Jack’s advice on these matters
and Garner went away to Uvalde.
The court fight became close and
crucial with Senator Joe Robin
son’s death and Roosevelt called
Garner back to help him save the
pieces
Garner insisted little was pos
sible unless those three measures
were abandoned. Roosevelt in
sisted on them.
£ *
T>UT it’s evident now that Jack
wasn’t going to stand for all
that program and next thing you
know the vice president, as the
President’s emissary, was going to
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of
Montana, another former “wild
man,” and saying
“Burt, write youi own ticket!
A few days later Garner gav
eled the “ticket” Wheeler and his
opposition colleagues had written,
refusing to permit speeches and
even neglecting an amendment
from the anti-administration Judi
ciary committee
And at this writing it’s not en
tirely clear whether Garner or
Roosevelt comes nearest to being
“the man on horseback.” But the
conservatives of 1932, if they re
membered their words, have eaten
them with relish.
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and dashed out their brains against
the sides, of the buildings.
Eventually the law—the fore
runner to Mayor LaGuardia’s Anti
Noise League—clamped down on
the shops, and for a pleasant inter
lude place was no noiser than other
neighborhoods of the city.
But Nut Village is creeping
back. The shop keepers hang out
of their front doors, and turn their
loud speakers a little louder when
ever a patron shuffles into view.
Farmer Increases
Value of 10 Hogs
Columbia, Aug. 13.—At a cost of
only $77.31, H. W. Spruill of Cres
well, Route 1, Tyrell County, has
increased the value of ten head of
hogs from $95,71 to $259.16 in a
period of 48 days, reports County
Agent H. H. Harris. When start
ed on feed the animals weighed 1,
126 pounds with a market value of
8.5 cents a pound. During the
feeding period the animals gained
964 pounds. The selling price had
also gone up from 8.5 cents to 12.4
cents a pound which meant a-profit
of $43.91 on the original weight in
addition to a profit of $42.23 on the
increased weight or total net profit
of $86.14 for the feeding venture,
says Harris.
For unmounted units, a flag is a
color; for mounted or motorized
units, a standard; and for ships it’s
an ensign.
Literary
Guidepost
By JOHN SELBY
“1851 AND THE CRYSTAL PA
LACE,'’ by Christopher Hobhouse;
(Dutton: $2.50).
“1851 And The Crystal Palace"
probably is one of the least invit
ing book titles of the summer, but
- the volume is one of the summer s
most amusing books and make no
mistake about it. Christopher Hob
house and his gentle, occasionally
malicious, sense ot humor have
captured and confined in the book
'the essence of Victorian England,
and what certainly is one ot the
sanest pictures of Prince Albert
ever written. This last as sort of
an extra measure.
I Albert was not liked, and Albert
knew it. He simply could not un
derstand the reticence, attraction to
sport and other facts of the Eng
lish character. He liked being seri
ously useful, and talking about it,
and his English friends seldom
talked shop. He liked particularly
being president of the Society of
Arts, and patrons of their erhibi
tions of “art manufactureres."
So that when Henry-Cole strange
product of a British record office,
1 stirred up the idea of a great in
ternational exhibition the Prince
was delighted. It might help break
the ice for him, and of course it
might also Do Good for Victoria s
Dear People. Plans went forward,
a building committee created a
dreadful design for the structure
which would house the great show,
and then a man »named Joseph
Paxton got wind of thihgs.
Paxton was the Duke of Devon
i shire’s head gardener, man of af
fairs, director in various railways,
building genius. In a week he
thought up the Crystal Palace and
drew workng plans. Almost as
quickly he reopened the building
question and got his idea of a house
of glass approved. And out of a
storm of more than teapot propor
tions rose the vast Crystal Palace,
and from all over the world came
thethings to fill it* The exhibition
was enormously successful, al
though Mr. Hobhouse’s pictures of
the exhibits themselves are fright
ening.
So to the fire last year. One of
history’s most fabulous periods is
seen from an entirely new angle,
and described with humor and yet
not unsympathetically.
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gratulations to The Courier owners
and help in the publishing of The
Daily Courier.
Mrs. G. C. Crisp and daughter,
Miss Lucile, and sons, W. T. and
David Crisp, of Candler arrived
Thursday for a few days visit with
Mrs. Crisps’ father J. B. Black and
Mrs. Slack and with her sister, Mrs.
L. E. Cagle.
Master Fred Marshall, Jr., of
Greensboro, spent part of this week
with his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Lilly. His paients, Mr.
and Mrs Fred Marshall were vaca
tioning in the mountains of Vir
ginia.
Mrs. R. K. Torbert of Lawell, Del,
is expected Saturday for a visit to 1
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Stuart Mrs. Torbert expects to
return to her home in Delaware
next Saturday. ,
Mrs. R. J. Lawrence and Mrs.
Clyde Russell attended the farm
women's meeting in Raleigh last,
week. ;
Rev. J. Clyde Auman and son of |
Thoinasville, returned to their
home Tuesday after the week-end
spent with his mother, Mrs. J. A.
Auman.
Rev. and Mrs. Auman and chil
dren have recently returned from a
tour of the southern states.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zow and
baby daughter, Elizabeth, are
spending this week with J. C. Zow.
Workmen are engaged in the
building of residence for L. C. Cole
near Green’s Service station and
for G. W. Hunt on the same site
of his house that was burned a few
weeks ago.
Fair Grove Sunday school at
Why Not had an old time chicken
stew supper Wednesday at 6:30 p.
m. on the ‘church ground.
For dessert watermelons were
served. The melons were given by
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Alexander. Be
sides the members of the Sunday
school visitors present were Mrs.
E. B. Slack and two sons of Dur
ham; Miss Stout of Star; Mr Paul
Auman of Asheboro, and Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Marshall and Freddy of
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Four generations attended Sun
day school here and were present
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man, the oldest member, her dau
ghter, Mrs. J. D. Lilly, Mrs. Lil
ly’s daughter, Mrs. Fred Marshall
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Statement ot Finances
*r»i
Jane 30, 1937
Bonded Indebiednesp
Purpose of Issue
Amount
.Outstanding
Total
Outstanding
Water Works and .Sewer Bonds
Water Extension Bonds
Sewer Bonds
Water and Sewer Bonds
Sewer Bonds
1910.,$ 39,000.00
1914. 20,000.00
1920 . 4,000.00
1924 . 83,000.00
1926 . 88,000.00
Total .
Hospital Bonds
1930....$ 19,000.00
Total
$229,000.00
$ 19,000.00
Street Improvement Refunding
Bonds
Street and Sidewalk
Refunding Bonds
1934 . 64,000:00
1934. 101,000.00
Total .. ... $166,000.00
Water Bond Anticipation Notes . 30,000.00
Revenue Anticipation Notes (Judgment).. 7,600,000
Total .I...**.... $ 87,500.00
Total Indebtedness .
- n, 4c
$460,500.00
Statement of Tax Collection
Year
Levy
Tax
Rate
ital Levy
lud. School
1933 .
1934 .
1935 .
1936 .
Uncollected
Taxes for
All Previous
Yean ....
$1.58
1.48
1.48
1.48
Vii
$ 59,350.75
69,706.70
■
6M67.16
Amount
Collected at
6-30-87
$ 58,084.74
58^4909
' 59,980.06
56,77439
Uncollected
■ ;; at
6-30-37
f 1.266.01
1,356.91
1305.52
9,792.57
5391
; $24630938
Assessed Valuation 1?33.
Assessed Valuation 1984 .........
Assessed Valuation 4(^35.✓...
Assessed Valuatioi 1986.
Revenue other titan from Property
1936 to June 30, ?937:
% ■ ■ mma
1238830
$232,18937 $26,006.51
.$8379,13430
. 4,084.169.00
.. 4440318.00
__ 4,430314.00
Taxes: Collections from July 1.
$ 4644631
10,704.92
233731
Water Rents ...
Street Asaeaameni
Water and Sewer
AH othen .
.tfcffti*.
it end Interest
and Supplies
Total Receipts ntfesfc than from Tax Levy