- The Daily Courier Established 1876 Phone 14 4 1891 WilKatn C. Hammer 1930 Published Daily, except Monday and Saturday Harriette Hammer Walker Publisher SUBSCRIPTION SATES By Carrier a Week—10c Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C., under the Act of March S, 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 arc also reserved. Member of North Carolina Press Association WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1987 HOLIDAY DEATHS HOMES in America were sadden ed by 428 violent deaths over the Labor Day weekend. Highways were thronged with cars,, pleasure bent cs fair weather prevailed rather generally and the lure of a double holiday added to the urge I to get out on the open road. The Associated Press survey in dicated that 302 of the 428 violent deaths were from automobiles which left 71 to die from all the other accident causes that the evil forces could think up to lay in the paths of holiday folk. This grand total, however, was less than half the number expected by the nation al safety council which based the prediction on the total of other years. Figuring statistics, the council decided that there-might be a round housand tragedies in the United States. Their estimate set the highway figure at 500; drown ing might take 100 and other causes would have a chance at 400 —but not so. The number was smaller, to start with, and the high way toil proved a real road hog. Smaller than expected—but too big a toli. WATER EVERYWHERE “II7ATER, water everywhere, and ff and not a drop to drink” was sa'd many years ago—possibly when th-> man stood out in the mid ; die of the ocean on a rock. Today, • acientiste have brought water ‘ down to fine point and water must ■ not only be pure and water must . be wet and all that—but now, wa ter most be wet-ter. This wetter water miracle is ; chemistry’s latest discovery and is said to answer the prayer of mill ions for something to take the dust out of the air line nothing else did. ’ Wetter water became a reality wlflan several institutes of research and chemical corporation made a joint announcement yesterday. '■ The news report—realising that • the public no longer swallows any 1 thing that won’t bite—gave a brief ■ explanation for the layman. • It’s no pun, but “wetter water • is made that way with alcohol. • There’s nothing intoxicating about the stuff. The alcohol is . a new “synthetic,” something that does ; not exist in nature. It is made from waste gas f oil wells. The new feature of this alcohol is the giant size -of its molecules. They have a most peculiar effect ; on ordinary water. A few drops ' of this “oil well hootch” added to | a gallon of water actually makes it 1 "wetter.” [ That is, the water wets whatever > it touches almost instantly. Things ! like yarns that would take an in ‘ definite time, many minutes as a ! rule, to wet through in water, soak • in few seconds in “wetter water.” [ Most spectacular was adust lay ' ing experiment. In a work room where the dust was hazy thiek and 1 breathing risky, an ordinary water spray fell through the air without ' relief. ■ MARKET ESTABLISHED • ! SURPLUS SWEET POTATOES Camden, Sept. 8.—An office for purchase of surplus sweet po tatoes has been set up at the Shaw boro in Camden County by A. C. Richard and G. P. Border, represen tative of the Federal Surplus Com odities Corporation and is paying cent3 a bushel for bulk sweets and 60 cents a bushel for those in baskets, reports County Agent T. X«L. Carr. These prices will let the _gr»wer break even on coat of production. Carr also reports the distribution of $3,369.40 to 20 far mers who cooperated in a hog ship ment last month. Char lee Darwin wrote the 'Ori gin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” in I860. Browning wrt *m, “The Lost famous because : Washington Cay Book By PRESTON GROVER Washington—Railroads in olden days gave passes to state legisla tors an 1 congressmen and paid the cost of junkets to points of interest until the thing becomes somewhat a national scandal. Laws put an end to that type of railroad good will budding. Hut now the colonies, Hawaii and the Phillipines, have found a rffew wrinkle of the old game. They finance all-expense visits by mem bers of congress, entertain them lavishly and seek to induce in them, a sympathetic understanding of island problems. That view of it may be a trifle harsh on the islands. Weary mem l>ers of congress and their wives, sons and daughters may be entitled to the relaxations the insular pos session provide. What better -on tribution could the island make, in that case, than to provide a sea' cruise to soothe senatorial souls? Or the placid peace of an island beach to heal congressional scars ? Islands Foot Bill Perhaps the islands have no sec ond string motives. It is easily re membered that the railroads insist ed they had no motive other than to oblige when they supplied rail road passes to state legislators. Two score or more members of both houses made the tour of the Philippines 18 months ago. headed by Vic' President Garner. This summer a dozen or more are going to Hawaii. The Philippine govern ment footed the bill on the first trip, ano in keeping with this now established custom, the Hawaiian government will pay the way of the visitors headed for the white sands of W'aikiki. At this point it is well to mention items of interest about the islands and their legislative problems. When gold was revalued in 1934, the Philippine government had about $56,000,000 on deposit in American banks as currency re serve. The Philippines claimed the *23,000,000 profit resulting from revaluing gold, although by law the family nest egg of the average American was paid back only dol lor for dollar. Congress saw it the Philippine way in 1934 and approved payment but in 1935 refused to appropriate money to pay. Senator Adams of Colorado tried in 1936, the year of the Philippine tour, to put through an act repealing the Philippine claim. The senate agreed with him, although it was in conflict with ad ministration wishes; but the bill was never taken up in the house, and the claim still stands. Adams won senate approval again this last session and the bill is still pending in the house, awaiting action next session. The islands also are inter ested in sugar quotas and import taxes. Ideal for States Hawaii has a specal interest in sugar lesgislation, hoping that next session congress will give the island refiners a lift by permitting them to ship to the United States a lar ger quota of refined sugar. These all-expense visits may have little or no effect in obtaining a friendly vote from congress. But if they do, why shouldn’t Florida finance an all-expense trip for congress in an effort to get her ship canal? Or Maine put ’em up for two weeks at Bar Harbor in re turn for Passamaquoddy power. That is an entertaining prospect. Committees Meet Diseuss Tobacco Raleigh, Sept 8.—County tobac co committees of North Carolina have been called to meet at State College Wednesday to report on growers' sentiment regarding crop control legislation. A summary of these reports will be presented to Senator E. D. Smith at a hearing to be held in Winston-Salem, October 18, by a sub-committee of the Senate agri cultural committee. The meeting was called by Claude T. Hall, of Woodsdale, chairman of the state tobacco growers advisory committee, fol lowing a meeting of the state com mittee at State College. Hall pointed out that the Senate agricultural committee is making a special effort to sound out the sen timent of farmers regarding crop control, and it is highly important that the opinion of North Carolina growers be brought out at the hearing The county committmen have been asked to do aid they can to get the sentiment of their local grow ers before coming to Raleigh. HaU announced that the €2 coun ty committees would find Wednes day a good day to meet, in view of the mass meeting sponsored by the Farm Bureau to he held at the college the same day. The committeemen will attend the mass meeting, then assemble for a •state-wide committee meeting at noon, Hall stated. Among the speakers at the Farm Bureau meeting will be Senator Robert Reynolds; Chester Gray, Washington representative of the Farm Bureau; Col. John W. Harrel son, Administrative deaa of State College; and Dean I. O. Schaub, director of the State College exten sion service. The Brittish Parliament the Qnebeck Ac in 1774. The act recognised the Catholic faith awl allowed the French inhabitants their civil laws Candidate Trusted by Labor Is G. O .P. Need, Says Lodge BY SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE Written ICxetaaively Ur This Paper and NEA Service, Inc. THE Republicans are the opposi tion. And as dissatisfaction develops with the methods and failures of the New Deal, the Re publican party will be the only place for dissatisfied voters to go. To regain first the confidence of the people and then control of the government, the Republican party must do several things. It must develop a genuine and realistic 20th century Republican ism. It must have a personnel at its national conventions which will include actual representation of the rank and file of the people. This country no longer votes for parties. It votes for men—or women. Plat forms usually are about the same. The Re publican plat form last year promised at least as much to labor, for in stance, as did the Democratic platform. And the Re publican party can get the vote of the working man, which it conspicuously failed to get in the last election, if it puts up the candidate v-ho will'convince labor of his sincerity. Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “MUSEUM,” by James L. Phelan; (Motrow: $2.50). Perhaps because it’s one of the least elaborate in construction James L. Phelan’s “Museum” ranks rather high in the category of pri son novels. Or perhaps this is be cause it’s really not a novel at all, but a prrt of Phelan’s own exper ience. The author is a cousin of Sean O’Faolain, author of “A Nest ol Simple Folk.” His correct name As Seumat Ua Faolain, and early in life he was working for Irish free dom. He fought in the Ester re bellion and eventually he shot a< mail clerk in Lancashire. In the, course of his “duty” as Irish agi-: tator, he twice was sentenced to; death, and actually spent 14 years in two prisons—Dartmoor and Parkhurst. While in prison he wrote enor mously The total (of which “Mu seum” is presumably a part) is nearly five million words. Part of this output was poetry, part just fact about prison. “Museum” itself was smuggled out of jail, although it seems that a certain amount at least of Phelans writing was re turned to him by the authorities. The novel is nothing at all ne-.v, and .t has a fault in American eyes. This last is that once in a while there is a stream of con sciousness passage, in this case more o£ e, triekla tfian a stream. And this is in the most difficult combination of British low class slang and prison argot, almost un translatable for any but an ex pert. Some might also find it a fault that Phelan’s attention is so entirely concentrated on the prison; one loses control of the system of checks and balances one must ap ply to prison problems to keep one’s sense of proportion. Otherwise •“Museum” is literal and absorbing narrative of the ex periences endured by a young lifer, and the emotions created by the experiences. The prison types are perhaps a little hard and fast, and Phelan's values a little foreign to normal experience. The core of the book is just, however, and the writing is at least adequate. Read ers will not again look blankly at prison wall as the motor past. Jean Giono was bom 42 years ago in Manosque, in the French department called Basses-Alpes. He still lives there, although, ac cording to his American publisher, all Paris would like to get at him. Giono’s first book is called “The Song of the World" (Viking; $2.60) It is a poetic fantasy, in purport the story of the quest of two men, one of the forest and one of the river for the son of the former. The quest takes them into sinister coun try, and the man of the river finds there the woman he can adore, she is blind. The strange thing about the book is not its story, which has mo ments of complete unreality, even impossibility, but the tension of the emotional content. Giono is apparently not at all concerned with fact, although he does lip service to everyday fact through out. He is playing upon his reader like a Heifetz, pulling strange and always lovely tone from his hu man strings. It may be the fault of the translators that occasionally the tone is sour. Or perhaps of the earthbound perceptions of his reader. Who knows ? If the rather dark quality of the novel does not appeal, the sweet sentiment,of "Life and Miss Ce leste" (Bobbs-Merrill, $2) may, This is the story of a staunch little lady, her ineffective sister, and the encroachments of time and pover ty. It also is the story of the small reward that at last came to Mias Celeste and her sister. One could not call the book important ,bufc rfca, . . T ABOR continues to be non partisan. There is no doubt that a larger Republican congres sional contingent will be elected in 1938 than in 1936 and it is reasonable to suspect that some of them will have labor support. Personally, I don’t make routine speeches damning the New Deal. I have no quarrel with its larger aims, but I do insist that Roose velt and the Democratic Con gresses have not achieved results. The President in the recent session of Congress placed all his executive energy on at tempts to enlarge the executive power and spent praettcallr none at all in improvwe the condition of the people. I have accepted the fact since the last election that the adminis tration aims are almost unani mously accepted by the peo ple. But let’s achieve them! And let’s achieve them within the Con stitution. The strong tendency toward en largement of executive powqg still continues, although it has been checked in certain of its ex treme manifestations. The Repub lican party is the only instrument which can check it adequately. NEXT: Representative Mawy Maverick, dynamic Texas con gressman, outlines a definite pro gram for the future, a goal to which all must work, regardless of politics. those of its readers who ever have known a person like Miss Celeste will see how beautifully Florence Glass Palmer has drawn her in this novel. There also is Guy Pocock’s wry amusing “Stubbs at Fifty” (Mac millan; $2.50). This explains how it was that a schoolmaster be lieved to be “advanced” in his ideas found himself in the midst of a determinedly modern group in London, and how the strained ideas of the group might have done great damage to Stubbs had not a person named Mary showed up at the right moment. The novel is charming enough that its allegori cal and other meanings may be ignored. ——-- jr How’s Your HEALTH? Edited for the New York Acade my of Medicine By Iago Galdston, M. D. Bad Times And Health By lago Galdston, M. D. The interesting thesis that bad times favor good health, while economic prosperity engenders ill health has been advanced recently by Dr. Emil Bogen, of Olive View, Calif. At first blush this thesis ap pears to challenge common sense. On the other hand there is a mass of facts which tends to support it. It was noted, for example, that during the first year or two of the last great war the health of the people of practically all the war ring nations was generally im proved. Again, at the onset of the recent economic depression in this coun try many social and public health workers feared that we would ex perience a serious rise in illness and a corresponding rise in our mortality rates. On the contrary, the health of the people remained good and there was a continous though gradual decline in our crude mortality rate. How then can we account for this parodoxilal association of bad economic conditions with good health and vice versa? Dr. Bogen offers a few ideas, such, for ex ample, that during economic pros perity we use more alcohol and in dulge in more dissipation. The increase in traffic, in personal con tacts, with greater chances of in fection, the nervous strain of boom times, the greater physical and mental exertions, he suggests, may perhaps account for the rise in ill ness and mortality. Dr. Bogen, however, advances as his major argument the belief that people eat more in times of depression and therefore are healthier, while they eat less in times of commercial prosperity and therefore die of tuberculosis and other diseases influenced by undernutrition. In substantiation of this argu ment, he poiats out that diabetes, traditionally associated with over eating, decreases in periods of prosperity and increases in times of business depression. Again, he draws from the World Almanac the evidence that folks eat more meat during periods of depression than during prosperous years. He ascribes this not to a sudden change in people’s tastes but rather to the fact that in times of so-call ed prosperity the purchasing power of the worker’s money is reduced and that perforce the average per son is compelled to subsist on foods that have a lower nutritional value. Make a list of duties for the young masculine members of the family to follow in cleaning his room. The business of checking then off each day gives him a sense of importance that encour age diligence. George III, who came to the Brit ish throne hi 1760, was warned by ' his mother, “George, be king.” MANHATTAN By GEORGE TUCKER New York—Jt has been seven years since the girl who became the eternal Sadie Thompson of "Rain” was carried to a rainsoaked cemetery in Kansas City, and in all that time no one has come for ward to take her place There have been other actresses with golden-red hair and fiery temper l merits wtio aspired '.o .leanne Rages’ shoes—good ac tresses who apparenty had all the requisites of so glamorous a role —yet lor some reason they never quite succeeded. And Broadway is still writing for just the right girl and just t he right play to recapture a fragment of the emotional bys terna which threatened to blast the town apart when Jeanne first in troduced her throaty-voiced lan guor to first, night audiences. Saved Play For Jeanne For awhile it was believed that Francine Larrimore, a star in her own right before Kagels died, would inherit the “Rain” soaked mantel of Jeanne. Indeed, Miss Larrimore became Jeanne’s “ghost” when she slipped into several roles originally intended for the star. It was in "Chicago” that Francine first succeeded the tempestous Jeanne, und later, in “Storm Song,” she captured the glory which would have been Jeanne’s had not death stepped in and wrote an abrupt finis to her career. There is a chapter of interesting theratrical history . to this play which Sidney Buchman wrote es pecially for eJanne. The heroine was the wayward daughter of a ship captain who teamed with beach combers and roamed the south seas in junkers and freight ers, and it was thought no actress but Eagles couldplay it success fully. But just at that time her ex plosive temperament led her once more into difficulties and Equity banned her from the theatre for a year. Rather than entrust the drama to another actress, a produced paid royalties on it for a year, holding it against the day when she would be permitted to act again. It was a happy Jeanne who plunged into rehearsals after h‘*r exile, and then—like that—came the stunning news that she was dead. New Season At Hand Later Tallulah Bankhead, with her husky throatiness and her wine red hai-I, gave a remarkable per formance of the much harrassed Miss Thompson in a revival of “Rain” but 10 years had left their mark on the play—it was found to be irretrievably dated—-and though Broadway cheered Tallulah, it could net forget the shadow of that other girl who had thrilled New York with one of the most exciting first nights ever seen on Broadway. Now comes the heraldry and pageantry of a brand new season. _The tom-toms are beating, and perspiring producers, their horror masks in place, ae shouting new authors, new plays, new casts. Will there be a new “Rain” or a new Eagels among them? Broad way doesn’t know. Broadway does not disdain. But, Spinx-like, it is watching and waiting. L ( i ( i t i i 5 i 1 1 1 J ] i fllfillna-ilMMiil I :■:» •|:-,Hl»lliUlllllil!l*imHHIMilHII Hollywood By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD nruofiaruao Hollywood—Film factory: On “Merrv-Go-Round of 1938” Irving Cumrr.ings is directing Bert Lalw and Louise Fazenda in a comedy proposal scene, while Jimmy Savo looks on from the sidelines. Savo, getting a chance in pictures at last after his first film —the one he’d like to forget—is not working but is watching and studying. He fig ures he has a lot to learn about pictures. When Louise accepts Lahr’s proposal, she accepts in a big way, with an old-fashioned Theda Bara ish embrace that throws both of them off the divan to the floor. And the loudest laughter bursts from Irving Cummings. Asked afterward if she couldn’t control her early Mark Sennett training in these "dramatic” scenes, Louise laughs, gestures in Cum mings’ direction. “I can,” she says, “but the man I work for can’t!” Films Speeding Up William Gargan, who plays the fighter’s manager in "Blonde Dynamite,” says pictures have speeded up since this picture was first filmed in 1931 as “The Iron Man.” Bill out of .curiosity saw the earlies film which was popular talkie of its day. The players— among them Bob Armstrong, Lew Ayres, and the late Jean Harlow —all had to move slowly, a tech nical handicap due to the camera speed then prevalent. What interested him more, how ever, was the fact that all the players looked and acted surly throughout the Him. Those were the days when the microphone was new and movie actors were prac tically afraid to drop a syllable for fear some dedicate valve would oe shattered Or it may have been the depression carrying over from re ality into the world of make-be lieve. In this new version, Bill says, they’ll have a lighter approach. Noah Berry Jr. is the fighter, Dorothea Kent has the Harlow role, and Gargan has the part of Armstrong played. The director of the present ef fort, Milton Carruth, was cutter i Franklinville News Fraukiinville, Sept. 8.—John W. Clark left Tuesday evening for New York city where he met Mrs. Clark and two daughters, Misses Nancy and Sudie, who have spent the summer in Europe and who ar rived in New York Sept. 2. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ward visit ed their son, Earl Ward at Dan yille, Va.. this week-end. J. A. Wallace and family were visitors- Sunday at Dry Fork and Danville, Va. Mason Buie, who has spent the summer with his grandparents, Mr. and Mt-3. C. S. Hutchison of Boyd ton, Va., returned home Sunday af ternoon. Misses Pattie Lufterloh and Lula Hayes spent Sunday at the home of J. E. Lutterloh at Asheboro. E. B. Gilliland had for guests at his home Sunday his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Gilli land and his son, H. B. Gilliland, all of Statesville. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Reynolds and Miss Martha Cagle were visitors in Greensboro Saturday. Randolph Mills, Inc., are making several improvements in the mills and are repairing and painting sev eral of their houses. Robert Brown, who lives on D. S. Summer’s farm has bought the Pe ter Allred farm, formerly known as the William Burgess home place. Mr. Brown is a good farmer and al so an experienced saw mill man. He has placed his saw mill oh the Ran dolph Mills land about midway be tween Franlriinville and Cedar Falls and will saflf a lot of timber for the Mills Co. F. W. Parson of North Wilkes boro, who is with the Hector Well Co. of Raleigh, is drilling a few wells here. At present he is mak ing the well near the stand pipe at Mill No. 1 deeper. e Miss Annie M. Jenkins of Bre vard, has accepted the position as music teacher in Franklinvitle high school. E. G. Thomas, Jr., left last week for Boone where he has entered Appalachian State Teachers* col lege. The Pleasant Ridge Sunday school carried their pageant, “life’s Cross Roads” to Big Oaks church, Moore county, Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lowe and children of Dundalk, Md., were vis itors at the home of C. L. Wil liams during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. .Roy Andrews of Greensboro were guests Sunday at the home of M. P. Lamb. Mr. and Mrs. JT. L. Jones spent Sunday afternoon with their son, Clyde Jones and family at Raleigh. They were accompanied home by of the one Tod Browning directed.. Jest Owe Mote On another stage Sylvan Simon, former test director and talent scout, is making his first feature picture, “Slighter Than the Sward.’’ This is a light comedy drama abeut an heiress who wins a lihel suit against a newspaper and finds it in her lap when the publisher is un able to pay. Wendy Barrie plays the heiress, Walter Pjdgeon the publisher, and Kent Taylor the re porter who wrote the story that, caused the suit. Simon is a young director, whs goes about his business and gets what he wants from his players) as if entirely unconscious of the fact it is his first picture. Altar a “take” he says, “That's perfect, just fine —let’s do H, aw* more, and this time....” Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Jones for a few days’ visit. Tre W. M. S. of the M. E. church will hold their rflgular meet ing Friday evening with Mrs. H.] M. Hackney at the Kranklinville! Inn. Grander Allred and family of, Worthville spent Sunday at the! home of G. L. Craven. Mrs. H. E. Haithcock and Mrs.i Percy Haithcock of Cedar Falls i were guests Sunday afternoon of ki. and Mrs. Dewey :JJayes. Mrs. Lottie Husband ^nd chil dren and Miss Katherine Julian went to Asheboro Tuesday morn ing where Miss Katherine under went an operation having her ton sils removed at Barnes clinic. She is getting along very nicely. 4-H CLUB MEMBER OF MANTBO A t GABON!* Manteo, Sept. 8.—McAdoo Twine, a 4-H club member of the Manteo section ir. Dare County has har vested $92.75 worth of, vegetables from hi.? garden project this sum mer ami still has enough left to supply the family until the faH and winter garden crops are ready, re ports County Agent C. W. Over man. In production these vegetables young Twine worked approximate ly 250 hours, spent $1*59 for seed and fertiliser, and paid out $8.00 for horse labor. Tb»-total expenses amounted to $42;Sg '-.which leaves him a net profit of $9t)J25 on the project, Overman - aiaj*: To remove rust on metal porch lamps rub them with fine sand paper on steel wool and then ap ply a thin coat o£$toupting oH. Frequent Rains Damage All Crops Raleigh, Sept. 8. — Frequent showers and the cloudy weather daring the past two weeks have greatly damaged the North Caro lina cotton crop, particularly in the costal plain area. P. H. Kime, of the central ex periment station at State College, reported today that seed has start ed sprouting in many bolls, while other bolls are “entirely rotten.” He urged growers to get the damaged cotton out of the field as soon as possible. Sun it two or three days, spread it out in the cot ton house and stir it every day un til thoroughly dry, he said. Dry cotton will gin with less damage, he explained. Then, too, damp cotton stored in lArge piles will generate enough heat to in jure the fiber and seed. Damp cotton should be allowed to dry for two or three weeks be fore ginning to get the best results, Kime added. Even cotton that is fairly dry at picking time should be stored one to three weeks be fore it ir ginned. He pointed out also that one inch or longer staple cotton should be ginned more slowly and with ' looser reed roll than 7-8 ineh lint. The cotton damage by wet wea ther should not be left in the field to be picket along with better cot ton that will open later, as the damaged cotton will lower the grade of the later pickings. Seed from the damaged cotton should not be allowed to mix with seed from better cotton picked la ter, Kime went on, as seed from the cotton that opened during the recent rains is not suitable for planting. ■' m.% This Curious World ■""" «AC USED TO CAW*y MAIL. OVER THE MOUNTAINS *N VARIOUS FARTS OF. AUSTRIA. oua ur in umiMiH was placed in _ AftUfie&frttS.. 4 H# HEAD AND NECK. IM ONt, rmm , acoy IN ANOTHER, and his tail. «N a THIRD/ I A FOURTH MlHSEUM PINAUy TRADED R3R ALL OF THE PAPtl^AMD THE MONSTER WAS REUNITED DIVIDE COUNTS N. DAKOTA. SO BAR,7H#?ifc;l* NO ACCEPTED ON ITS mIah