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X TV VJ The Daily Courier Established 1876 Phone 14 4 1891 William C. Hammer 1930 Published Daily, except Monday and Saturday Harriette Hammer Walker Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier, One Year—$5 By Mail, One Year--$4 By Cdrrier a Week—10c Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Member Associated Press The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatch es credited to it or not other wise credited to this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member of North Carolina Press Association TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1987 j war cLorns With war clouds lowering on the | Japanese-Chineee horizon, Presi dent Roosevelt will cut his visit to North Carolina short and return to Washington for a conference with Secretary of State, Cordell Hull. The plan to come to Manteo for the anniversary of the birth of the first white child born in America, enjoy the day, the pageant, mingle with the Tar Heels and their friends and return via Norfolk by boat to Washington, was an allur ing outing—even for a president. But, when war clouds lower— even a President must be at his post and the condition is serious. With refugees thronging two steamers Monday bound for Amer ica—sailors carrying babies, assist ing Americans to reach the boats in safety, American citizens are compelled to realize that war is at hand. Peace organizations had better spread propaganda toward the Yangstee river on both banks of which fighting is going on. This is not our fight — neither Was the World War. But it looks as if these yellow men really mean business. There is almost another generation grown since the last war—to use as cannon fodder, but why not let the yellow men fight out their own battles. America’s loss in the World War was, and is, irreparable. And, all for what? What was America’s gain in the World War? And, what would be the gain now? The idea of fight ing for peace may have been the way out when the Indians were at our very doors in the early days at Jamestown and at Manteo, but when we are not actually involved the matter dignity, and such intan gibles are nothing compared with losing our perfectly good American men in another war that does not concern us. It may not have been : a popular remark of the Revolu tion, when the General commanded • that there be no shooting until the soldiers could see the whites of the 1 eyes of their enemies—but it saves ] a lot of ammunition—and lives. With Other Editors WELCOME ] The traditional dream of the used and somewhat frayed daily . newspaperman is a weekly journal £ which will enable him to live in and , with the country instead if saving f it; an office with a comfortable chair or two—or perhaps a coucn such as Louis Graves of the Chapel j Hill Weekly is reported to have , bought for his more reflective mo- ; ments but soon to have pressed in- ] to service as a filing cabinet—on ( which to seat old friends and new subscribers dropping in to fetch j money; a well-organized compos- t ing room which never clamors for copy; grateful advertisers who say: ] “Get me up an ad to suit your , space and charge me what you think is right for your splendid helpfulness.” , This is not deponent’s notion of what sach dreams materialize into, for he has been around a bit. If the weekly be in a thriving com munity and carry a head of steam commensurate the result is some thing like that which greeted our eyes Sunday when the Aaheboro Courier came to hand. Established in February, 1876, as the Regula tor, becoming the Courier in Sept ember of 1879, it ran as a weekly until March of last year. It then was a semi-weekly until Novem timee her, when it went to three a week, sad on August 8, 1937, appeared as a 12-page daily with Associated Press dispatches. Our manners to Mrs. Harriette Hammer Walker, publisher and ed itor, with toe hope, but scant ex jpetathm, Pat she will experience and Asheboro will supply the answ er. For our own part we seldom attempt to tell time anything, and we’d hestitate quite a spell before assuming to advise Asheboro on what it could not or would not do. For Asheboro, as reported by the I Courier and accepted by :ts neigh ! bors, is now a hustling, healthful, homogeneous hive of industry and commerce numbering 10,000 and more inhabitants, who sent their manufactured products into the uttermost parts of the earth and their baseball teams to Wichita, Kan., to compete for the national semi-pro championship. A few hurried figures may suffice to give some notion of the city’s place in commerce: Per Annum, 41,600, 000 pairs of hosiery, 600,000 hand kerchiefs, 325,500 yards of tape, 780,000 pounds of thrown silk, 312, 000 dresses, 23,400 suits of bedroom furniture, 57,000 breakfast room suits, 312,000 chairs ami oodles and scads of other things handled more or less locally. The town has grown from 1,865 in 1910 to its pre sent proportion; what’s to prevent! its continued geometrical progres-! sion ? It certainly delivers the goods, and. its depression record would ! indicate that it gets pay for them, j If there was bankruptcy in Ashe j boro during the bottom ’80s, it was I not visible to the naked eye; and j the one of its three banks which I failed to reopen after the holida-/ ; paid off all its depositors in full j and, we seem to recall, its stock I holders as well. ! And geographically the city is | all right. We had not realized, un j til appraised of the fact, by the I Courier, that Asheboro is appro t imately one third of the distance | between the equator and the north ! pole, out we had known for years | that it shared with Franklinvilb I the honor of being at the exact, center of the state. Now it appears, it is also the center of the mid south. Verily, it looks as if Greensboro would have to accept the assistance of Asheboro in pivoting the pied mont, too! Fine, say we who are proud ?r of some of our neighbors than w° j always take time to admit! A j hearty welcome to the Courier on j its entrance into the daily news paper field. Quite lately the signs and por tents indicated that it would also be in order to extend to another Asheboro contemporary, the Ran dolph Tribune, a welcome into the daily ranks; but that sprightly con temporary has declared in its cur rent issue that it will, for the pre sent anyhow, abide in the more leisurely way.—The Greensboro j Daily News. Specialist Urges Common Sense Used Raleigh, Aug. 16.—The house de signed for city dwellers should stay in town; it has no business on the farm, said D. S. Weaver, agricul tural engineer at State college. Yet many farmhouses are built according to plans that are suited to city dwellers but not to the re quirements of a farm family, he added. Another mistake often made, he said, is that of planning the farm home from the outside in rather than from the inside but. In designing a farm house, he observed, the first step is to con sider the needs of the family, and plan to meet those needs as far as possible. Determine what rooms will be needed, he went on, and then plan the general shaep, or outside of the house, to provide those rooms. Another important consideration is to build the house so that addi tions can be made to it from time to time, as the family increases in size, without involving too much expense or making the building look misshapen. The federal bureau of agricultur al engineering and the bureau of agricultural economics have de veloped designs for farm houses that can “grow with the family”, Weaver pointed out. For a young married couple, the house might first consist of a bed room, kitchen, and a combined liv ing and dining room. Later, three bedrooms and a bath can be added conveniently. “Farmhouse Plans,” farmers bul letin No. 1,738, contains plans for 40 farm houses. Farmers bulletin No. 1,749, “Modernizing Farm houses,” gives suggestions for re modeling homes. These bulletins may be obtained from the U. S. department of agri culture, Washington, D. C. rpHAT patented dewict, provides perfume ter appropriate to the film, will oe a little hard on the customers in some of the recent “program" pic tures. The Chicago quack who could tetl a "bod Kver” just by * #■* step, shouldn’t hove had trouble diagnosing the situation whew police walked into kit office. f Strikers had to picket New York autosnaU. * You oanY alt down on a coffee spigot. r* * • • The case of the New Tork state woman, who found « ***** ; Court Nominee Has Hands Full Senator Hugo LaFayette Black. Roosevelt appointee to repla^J“f' tice Willis Van Devanter on the Supreme Court bench, gave up 8 a few years ago. am. he had an armful of -sons. Here s onm Martha Josephine Black. 4, youngest of lus thiee children w instead ol playinc golf, Senato. Black plays with the youngsters. Senator Black Believes Constitution Is Flexable By Morgan M. Beaty i (AP Feature Service Writer) j Washington, D. C., Aug. 17.— j Like a lot of other folks, Hugo Black has a pet idea He thinks old Dame Democracy can go modern without losing her place in the hearts of the American people. But unlike most of us, Hugo Black doesn’t stop with the idea He has tried to prove he’s right. Whether he has succeeded is a matter of opinion. But at lease he has fought to keep old Lady De mocracy “in style”, and consequen tly’ he has won a nomination to the United States Supreme Court. He Cites an Example About that idea: Senator Black believes the lan guage of the constitution is sound enough and broad enough to fit modern economic conditions, with out tampering. In his opinion, the whole thing is a matter of inter pretation by the Supreme Court. His favorite example is inter BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Staff Correspondent < WASHINGTON.—Senator Hugo Black’s appointment to the Supreme Court is Roosevelt’s latest and most conspicuous chal lenge to the south’s economic political system and to the south ern blocs in Congress which have most persistently opposed his 1937 program. The appointment was practi cally decided upon late in the evening of Aug. 11, but not finally until the next morning, when it was sent to the Senate. It was kept a secret because Roosevelt confided almost exclusively throughout his deliberations with Attorney General Homer S. Cum mings, who is one of the best secret-keepers in town. Runners-up in the order named were Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Donald Rich berg and Judge Sam Bratton of New Mexico. • * * CTANUEY REED, a Kentuckian, probably would have been selected if there had not been a justice—McReynoMs—sitting from the Judicial circuit whence Reed come*. Black’s judicial district contains six southern states with a population of M,400,MO. The fact that the relatively mild and ointment would likely to help along the resignation of Justice Sutherland than appointment of the aggraaaivety liberal Black was carefully weighed. But in the end Roosevelt de cided that it would most advance his cause to appoint the one iqili tantly liberal Southern senator, to encourage those in the south who want to reconstruct its economic which some southerners state commerce, that undefined something which the constitution says the congress Shall regulate. “When our country was young there was very little commerce among the states,” explains th-3 champion of advanced labor legi3u lation. “In fact, the roads were so bad interstate commerce on a large scale was impossible, but now some statisticians contend 90 per cent of our commerce is interstate. “Anybody an see that much of our trade is carried on nationally without regard for stats lines; np why should we not state the thing in so many words, and proceed to have congress regulate it? “All we have to do is face the fact. And; mind you, the Supreme Court will face that face!” Those words were spoken quiet ly in the senator’s office a few months before the Supreme Court did just the thing he said it was going to do. It upheld the Wagner labor law, and broadened its view considerations included the improbability of confirma tion trouble, since the Senate could hardly turn down acsenator or its southern members turn against a fellow southerner. Chief points against Black are that he has a strong liberal record in re cent years, that he was originally elected with Ku Klux Klan back ing, that he failed to disclose any thing like the full findings of his lobby investigation which 'flared so sensationally. .Although some are now calling him wild and radical, and as a southerner chairman of the Senate labor committee he was incautious enough to sponsor a wage-hour bill on the theory that higher liv ing standards would revive the south, Roosevelt is said to be im pressed by his “sound, cautious approach” to problems. One also learns that Roosevelt sought to lay at rest the bogey raised by senatorial opponents who insisted they would never permit confirmation of any sena tor who had favored the court plan. JJEAVEN knows what the effects * of his effort will be, although there would be no such effort had southern members been mart obe dient to his desires. Roosevelt’s week-end trip with the LaFollettes, his virtually scornful refusal to attend the Democratic senatorial "Harmony” dinner and the anwihntaunt of Black all point to the same thing —that Roosevelt considers himself the leader of his party and will fight to purge it of those lesser leaders who feel he is trying to and whom helhinks have'no right • • • Ridin’ Pal Ken Maynard in “Fugitive Sher iff,” coming- Saturday to the Caro lina. Railroad Yarn Lyle Talbot and Polly Howies in Universal’s dramatic “West Bound Limited” ending tonight at the Carolina. of interstate commerce to do so. But don’t get the idea that Hugo Black is going to the Supreme Court and trample down the rights of the states and try to create an agre of a central government. N.>, such thing, if he carries out that pet idea. Easy on Small Towns He believes rural and small town America should have the right to determine how and when it shall keep up with the commercial pa rade along the national arteries. . The corner grocery and the bar ber shop in Dothan, A!a., for in stance, should yield only to local public opinion when it comes to wages and hours. Consequently, all the liberal la bor legislation sponsored by the Alabama leader has avoided laying a heavy hand on small town Am erica. He says that’s true of the 30-hour week bill he failed to get through the senate for five years. Likewise he thinks the wage and hour law he succeeded in getting through the senate this year will not abruptly alter the lives and business of millions of Americans who love their small town homes. All of this philosophy has not been easy to explain to the voters who sent Black to the senate. In Alabama it is easier to talk about the Civil War ana local is sues than it is to demand the 30 hour week for the men who make steel in the furnaces of Birming ham. But this fellow Black has a way about him. j - You can’t pyramid $1.20 to a seat in the United States senate without having something on the ball, and $1.20 is all young Black had when he migrated from Clay county to Birmingham just after the turn of the century. But he loves the law and people. That spelled success for the dark eyed lawyer, now 61, who knows when to wear a twinkle in. his eye and when to lash out like a vicious prosecutor. His personality was never more effervescent and his tenacity never more apparent than when he rode the wage and hour bill through the senate hearings this summer. Works While He Doses The Alabama senator was com pletely lost in his task. He seldom stopped to eat at meal time, but constantly whipped away at the well-nigh impossible task. One day a photographer asked him to pose and Black consented, but went on working. “Your hair—” began the pho tographer, progering a comb. “Oh, yes,” rejoined the nearly bald Black. ' “My wife’s been tell ing me to get a hair-cut for a week.” And then with that twinkling eye, and puckering diinpie that dis tinguishes the Alabamian hi the senate: “Just goes te show a man ought to do what his wife tells him to ” But Hugo Mack was at work two minutes later on wages and hours. i Court Appointee ’ T - M '_, - -. ,tV AFRICAN HISTORY i,S&A c*v <$&$&***&■ vv i S«^<tf5 rtUG ,9t& . * ha^ $0' fwA»XgV&YNOtKfm! *^jtos^ S* *3^^^ % ROOSEVELT ouvee v/e/Weu Homes THE PRESS ^sTiffAVMS *»*?£**„ ' 4 # *°RE OARD£,^Ct0' C°°^ t«e: -vvv iar sp ’■gw*' im ^ *Tf 5/ setvw ?& country THE HOME TOWA/ L «•* ^ 'C/\T/Oa/ f& °Zs*'**“ OCTOBER Comedy-Drama To Be Shown, 18th “It Can’t Last Forever,” a mad and merry comedy drama featur ing Ralph Bellamy in his first comedy role, with Betty Furness and Robert Armstrong in esupport, will head the new screen program at the Carolina Theatre Wednes day. Among the film’s highlights are two currently popular tunes, "Lazy Rythm” sung by a group of colored swingsters, and “Crazy Dreams,” rendered by Barbara Bur-1 bank, a beatiful young torch-sing ing screen newcomer, and the Blen ders, famous radio and vaudeville choral quartette. The story of “It can’s Last For ever” concerns a couple of vaude ville agents who sign a “Master j Mind”, give him publicity build-up only to have him get gloriously J drunk at a crucial moment. Bell amy has to take the place of his psychic marvel and as the result he and Armstrong run into the funniest series of complications seen on the screens herabouts in many months. STRAWBERRY PATCH NETS A SPLENDID PROFIT Manteo, Aug. 16.—A strawberry patch containing a little less than one-fourth acre has given Mrs. R. H. Midgett of Wanchese, Dare county, an income of $200.72 this year, reports County Agent C. W. Overman. Since May 1 Mrs. Mid gett has harvested 1,.25 quarts of marketable berries in addition to the 175 quarts of culled berries that were used at home and given to neighbors. Plants for this patch were secured from a neighbor sev eral years ago and Mrs. Midgett does not know the variety, but she is so well pleased with the income that she is enlarging the plot to one-half acre this fall, she says. Today “Westbound Limited” with Lyle Talbot and Polly Rowles. Also color cartoon, “Indian Ser enade”; a comedy, “Bury the Hatchet”; and latest news events, Wednesday Only “It Can’t Last Forever” with Ralph Bellamy, Betty Furness, Robert Armstrong;, and Ray mond Walburn. Also Popeye cortoon, “My Artiatical Temper ature”; a musical act. “Breeay Rhythm”, and a new travelog with Lowell Thomas. On the stage, eight local boys and girls dancing “The Apple.” Thursday Only “Everybody Dance” with Er nest Truex and Cecel Courtnei dge. Also Betty Boop cartoon; a new Stranger Than Fiction; and a novelty reel, “Coach for Cinderella.” Friday Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, and Helen Mack in "I Promise to Pay.” Also musical act, “Moscow Moods”; a novelty red, "Here Comes the Zoo,” and a travel tour, “Haiti’s Black Na poison. Carolina Railway Drama At j Carolina 2 Days Showing Tuesday at the Caro lina Theatre is Universal** excit ing railway drama, “West Bound Limited.” The picture, filmed with the cooperation of one of the largest railway systqm* *n the West, was made on-Ifcation some four hundred miles north of Holly wood, in the hilly country near Santa Crux, California. The rail way company placed at the disposal of Director Ford Beebe and his crew of 40 mile spur of track, roll ing stock consisting of a passenger train and two freight trains, sid ings, switch towers and other rail road equiptment. Queen of Nitwits Capitol, Wed., Thur. Gracio Allen, “Queen of the Nit wits,’” cast in “The Big Broadcast and screen spectacle playing Wed of 1937,” ParaVnount’s all-star radio nesday and Thursday: at the Capitol Theatre, makes it a practice not to read the script of pictures she’s working in. m. Grade, who is the very epitome of dumbness on the air and in films, is really one of the entertainment world’s smartest showwomen and the plan she has evolved to make her appear so really dumb is in re ality a master-stroke of-show bus iness. It is strictly the “business" 1 she is supposed to' put targe extent, her husband-partner,, George Burns. This business, to her, is the ; entire picture, regardless of what else the producers put Into the pic 1 ture. So she concentrates on that ; and lets the rest of .the production I strictly alone. To know what’s i gong on, she reasons, might in fluence in her and detract from i the utter dumbness for which she is I so famous. And it has always been so with l her. It was explained that when : she and her husband began in ' vaudeville, some years ago, it was ■ George who was the dub and the I “feeder” of the Unas. They enjoy ed considerable success under this arrangement but wafiKT until they switched roles and aha became the dub that the act began to dick in a big way. This wm shprtiy before they were disoveraT ■ Paramount and put into two-melWomediea. So delightful anjt tlj|reugh a nit wit was Grade in these early pic tures that the fame of the team be came nation wide almost ewer night and the radio called for their ser pices. And all through their oar eers, Grade struck to h*r fornmla of not knowing wm the general goings on were aftfbeat. Her suc cess in “The Big Ijmadraat ef 19* 37”, proves the efficacy of her sys aem. The way the pair prepare for a piture today is this: George reads the script vary carefully. Then he studies the lines ho and grade are assigned to do. Then he cerefaully rehearses Grace into her P«rt with out letting her know whar the pic tare itself is all about. Fresh spades contain as much as M *•* cent sugar. Local Dancers To Do ‘‘The Big Apple” Sweeping the country by storm is a new and fascinating dance craze “The Big Apple”, originating in our own South. Starting in South Carolina and thence spread ing like wild-fire to various sum mer resorts throughout the coun try, it has truly captured p nation's fancy. Because of this great popularity and the average person’s natural curiosity as to exactly what the dance is.the Carolina Theatre is presenting Wednesday night at 7:30 and 9:30 “The Big Apple”, on the stage. Eight local talented apt versatile dancers will at that time give and interesting and entertam ing demonstration. On the screen Wednesday with the “Big Apple” presentation wil be Ralph Bellamy, Betty Furness, and Raymond Walburn in “It can’t Last Forever”. The Argentine government is planning to expend $3,000,000 for the purchase of 75,000 flame throw er3 and other materials in com batting locust plagues. See the newest dance craze that’s sweeping the country! ‘THE BIG APPLE” ON STAGE . WEDNESDAY 7:30 and 9:30 FARLOW FUNERAL HOME HONFST SffiVirF iHOOFRATE CHARGES ESI MODERN FACILITIES 153 W A CAPABLE STAFF | AMBULANCE k Wl ^ERVliT flAY OH S'unT i'i E. Appliances EXCLUSIVELY ♦ Washers • Heaters • Ironers • tterrigerators ■ iwh*i» KIVETTELECT1IC
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