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William C. Hammer
1930
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1987
NEW YORK FARMERS
HOW odd for New Yorkers to be
fussing- about the spelling of
plain, old country wiffletrees!
And, arguing the whole length of a
column, while the Legion is in
session there, at that. Everybody
knows there are plenty of colorful
stories toady for New York news
hawks and this discussion was not
just a space-filler.
A part of the augument ran thus:
The Times of last Wednesday
recorded the sale at the postoffice
auction of a horse collar and three
whiffletrees for $3. This little item
elated us, leading us to think we
had settled forever the great whif
fletree controversy and definitely
put Mr. Webster, who spells the
word “whippletree,” in his place.
But we reckoned without Uncle
Sam. With the government homing
in on all sorts of private enterprise
nowadays, we should not have been
surprisd to find it poking its nose
into this particular controversy,
and in a particularly nasty way. It
is now revealed that the current
year-book of the Department of
Agriculture brazenly supports
“whippletree,” despite the Oxford
Dictionary, but weakly evades its
legal responsibility by merely quot
ing a passage from Agnes Chase’s
“First Boon of Grasses" pleading
for the use of technical terms in
farming. “Spikelet, glume and lem
ma,” says Miss Chase, “are words
no .more difficult to learn than are
hames, crupper or whippletree, car
buretor, clutch or magneto.”
All right, Miss Chase— but drop
iri on any farmer and ask him
how his whippletrees are doing. He
may not correct you. But he will
certainly dipper with you.
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A WISE JUDGE
rEN Judge Harding advised
applying a good old-fashioned
paddle to delinquent negro youths
who came into his court—not by
any voluntary net on their part,
however he received plenty of com
ment. Newspapers of Greensboro,
where h^ is holding court this week,
quoted him rather praised his ad
vice.
This Judge, who is one who knows
law and metes it out with common
sense a-plenty, is holding court in
Greensboro this week. He is dis
posing of a great many cases, ac
cording to the records, but he 's
taking time to give advice on the
side. And, he is giving it from a
vase store of experience. This man
is not young. In fact his close
friends know that he will celebrate
a surprising birthday shortly, and
he knows life and human nature.
This is a well rounded man—one
who can sit down and write a
speech for a missionary society,
teach a Sunday School class, at
tend a movie, play a good game of
cards and entertain his friends
with real human-interest. He talks
for hours—and not of himself. He
is, therefore, an unusually wise and
eapable man, and parents, black
and white should think over the
wisdom of his words in child con
trol.
HIGHWAY DEATHS
1 We do net believe anybody
♦ would contend that 101 deaths on
• the highways of North Carolina
* daring the month of August do not
* constitute a deplorable overplus of
preventable destruction.
There ought to ho a law. Bat,
shucks! then are plenty of laws.
Are they enforced? Hero and
the highways; but there has been
assigned to the state highway pa
trol the responsibility of curbing
the heedless and won ton. The patrol
has been increased and reorganiz
ed. It was on the job in August.
We do not mean to say that it
could have prevented any of the 101
deaths, but it does look as if it
should have.
For the rest of this month.
October and November all of us
will know where to look for pa
trolmen on Saturdays, and it is
something to have a reasonable as
surance of being able to get in and
out of the parking spaces allotted
to attendants op a football ga#'.
We d > not believe, however, that
fatalities occur in ratio to traffic
density. Why not give the patrol
men the intersections of highways
leading to the towns in which the
football games are staged and let
I the local traffic squads, if any—
I and some might be employed when
i there are no regular traffic offi
cers—look after clearing the game
I crowds ?—Greensboro Daily News.
Washington
♦Day Booh
By PRESTON GROVER
Washington—Evidence that Sen- :
ator-Justice Block foresaw the pos
sibility of an anti-Klan kickback ]
and sought at once to forestall it (
has nestled virtually unnoticed in
the congressional record these
many days.
| The senate had already con
! firmed the nomination of Black to
jthe Supreme Court when Senator
| Bankhead of Alabama, the new
justice’s senatorial colleague, arose
' to make a speech. Bankhead's
1 speeches are rarely exciting and )
jn the hurly-burly of the closing
days of the session his message es
caped with the most casual refer
ence in the press.
But this what he did. Bank
head read into the record what
Senator Black had prepared in the
nature of a reply to Klan accusa
tions made against him by Sena
tor Copeland of New York and
others in the debate on confirma
tion.
The message was in the form of
letters and telegrams to Black
from Jews, Catholics, negroes and
foreign-born residents of Alabama
and elsewhere. These are the
classes made the special subjects
of Klan hate. The messages con
gratulated Black upon his appoint
ment and expressed confidence in
his ability and judicial capacity.
Comments By Black
Bankhead did not say that the
messages had been turned over to
him by Black, hut without" except
ion all were addressed to the new
justice. Moreover, in an offhand
manner Bankhead indicated that
Black had penciled notes on the
letters and telegrams to assist
Bankheau in explaining to the sen
ate whether the writer was Cath
olic, Jew, negro or foreign-born.
Bankhead said he had intended
reading them into the record dur
ing the course of the debate but
had found no opportunity until a
late stage. By then, he said, it had
become evident Black would he
confirmed, so he passed over the
opportunity. Nevertheless, next
day he read the messages into the
record, saying:
“In view of the injunction of the
Ku Klux Klan into the debate, I
desire $o read some communici
tions from outstanding Jews, out
standing Catholics, and one of the
leading negroes in the state of Ala
bama with reference to their atti
tude toward Senator Black.”
Altogether 35 messages were
read into the record. Samples are:
“It is with a great deal of pleas
ure that I learned of your appoint
ment to the Supreme Court. I feel
that this is a just and witting re
ward for your untiring work and
efforts on behalf of our people. My
best wishes and heartfelt congrat
ulations.”
It was signed Louis Pizitz. Said
Bankhead: "He is the largest mer
chant in the state of Alabama, a
Jew.”
“This is splendid recognition of
unselfish fearless public service.
The nation is fortunate to have
been ablg to command for its high
est tribunal one so able. Julian M.
Saks.”
It was in connection with this
message that Bankhead called at
tention to Black’s preparation of
the messages. Of Mr. Saks, Bank
head said:
“He was formerly of Birming
ham. A'a. (The telegram was dated
New York) and has been known
to Sen. Black, according to Sen
ator Hack’s notation here, for the
laat 26 years.”
‘No Mien Prejudice’
That Klandom was in the mind
of at least one who conratulated
Black waa indicated in a message
from John W. O’Neill of Birming
ham. which, by the way, is Black’s
latter day heme town. He tele*
graphed:
“I desire to endorse your eleva
tion t# Supreme Court and state
that United States Senator Hugo
Black baa never demonstrated Klan
prejudice in Alabama or shown any]
but fair spirit toward members of
the Roman Catholic church of Ala
bama.”
Do net crowd the washing ma
chine full of Manhete or other
woolens. Allow plenty of space for
the articles to seek- There will
then be less strain on them.
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
JT BY ROONEY DITCHER
' 1 * ’ > KA wrvlrr Min*
VTf ASHINGTON. — Although no
" one who knows President j
Roosevelt and John L. Lewis ,
expects that there will ever
be a bond of personal friendship
between the two men, the atmos
phere surrounding their public,
cleavage has become much less j
tense since I^ewis called at the
White House and discussed their
differences at some length.
Close associates of the President i
and the C. I. O. leader, who were
more or less panic-stricken after
their exchange of Labor Day com
pliments—and who have worked
strenuously to save all bridges
from being burned behind one or
both—have returned to a state of
relative calm.
They say that Roosevelt was
conciliatory and that Lewis was
considerably less belligerent at
the White House than in previous
public and private expressions.
The view among administration
insiders is that the labor leader’s
public lashings at Roosevelt were,
largely induced by the fact that
Lewis had made so many private
1 denunciations of Roosevelt that he
i felt he could hardly avoid some
j thing of the sort in a major pub
I lie address.
They also are aware that the
i Lewis references to Roosevelt were
: unpopular among certain other
C. I. O. leaders.
Lewis partisans make the most
of the fact that it was Roose
velt who made the first concilia
tory gesture to Lewis—in the form
of an invitation to the White
House.
Fundamentally the two men
I differ through the fact that Lewis,
! a former Republican, has absorbed
the philosophy that labor can and
should rise to dominance through
a farmer-labor political party. He
thinks a successful attack by this
Hollywood
By ROBBIN COONS
|.ia , , ■ , I mill l lill I I
Hollywood—One of the best per
formances in that performance
studded film, “The Life of Emile
Zola,” is that of Gloria Holden. I
didn’t realize this until I met Gloria
Holden in person. Now I know
she’s an actress, and one of the
monst interesting in these parts.
Miss Holden played the role of
Madame Zola, necessarily a shad
owy character since Paul Muni is
starred alone and the picture is
Zola’s story, not his wife’s. In the
film Madame Zola is little more
than a background figure of sym
pathy and quiet understanding.
In'life Gloria Holden is a vivid
young person of unusual beauty,
humor and intelligence. She has
the blackest hair in town, and a
bright smile that lights up inter
esting tawny eyes.
Went Into Debt
It may have been the eyes that
made somebody think she would
be the perfect “Dracula’s Daugh
ter.” She played that one and well,
but it what is behind the eyes
that is directing her present course
in pictures.
You hear about actors “starving
for their art.” Gloria Holden didn’t
exactly starve and is ready to
take another, if need be, to do only
what she wants to do in pictures.
She’s an English girl, came to
this country as a child, gravitated
to the theater naturally. She had
been in night plays on Broadway be
fore she came to Hollywood, was
tested, and found herself happily
with a “seven-year contract.”
“I took it seriously,” she smiles,
“that seven-year contract. I also
took an apartment, sent for my
furniture, and went into debt.
Then they wanted me to do an
other ‘Dracula's Daughter*—this
time something about a leopard
woman.”
She Deserves Better
So Gloria found herself, not
wishing to devote her life to hor
ror movies, jobless in Hollywood.
She had plenty of offers, but not
! of parts she eared to play. She
(held on, by renting her apartment
and taking a hotel room, for near
ly six months.
“I could always sell my furni
ture, some jewelry I had, some fine
orientals, and get back to New
York," she says, “but I wanted to
wait as long as possible. I was
ready to go when ‘Zola* came.
They told men it wouldn’t be much
of a part, but 1 said I'd be happly to
do it even if only the back of my
head showed. For the chance to
play in seanea with Paul Muni—
you see, I want to be as superb a
character actress at he is an ac
tor—I’d have taken the part if
they warned me all my scenes
would be cut!"
As it happens, enough of her
work remains to make a distinct
impression — and Muni himself
told her she deserved better roles.
Whether the plaudits will bring
immediate assignments of the
kind she wants ska still doesn’t
Hickory nut ice cream makes a
pleasant dessert for fall serving.
Add one cup of shelled nuts to
sack quart of cream or custard
i merger upon the old political par
! ties must be preceded by a far
; more extensive union organization
of labor than has yet been
achieved.
• * *
T ABOR experts, inside and out
■*-' side the labor movement, are
saying that F. D. R. doesn’t under
stand the labor movement, is
mistaken in believing that C. I. O.
' will not become an increasingly
effective political force and un
derestimates the importance and
vitality of Lewis.
Be that as it may. the recent
hostilities left most competent ob
servers—and perhaps Lewis him
self — convinced that Roosevelt
j was holding the big cards and that
i Lewis had more to lose in a genu
ine break than the President. A
federal administration turned
against the C. I. O. now might
well smash it, since’ C. I. O. has
so many other enemies.
It is almost generally agreed
that in a political contest under
present circumstances, Roosevelt
would be likely to influence more
votes of C. I. O. members then
Lewis himself. Reports have been
current that Roosevelt had been
' trying to play off other C. I. O.
! leaders against Lewis.
| Lewis heard these reports long
ago and is reported to have been
' increasingly bitter because Rooce
ivelt showed a marked preference
for President Sidney Hillman of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers, both as to White House invi
tations and in the framing of the
wage-hour bill.
But it is still to the advantage
of political opponents of both men
to bust up the Roosevelt-Lewis
alliance if they jean — and to
Roosevelt's advantage to preserve
it. Lewis is still as strong a po
litical ally.
(Copyright, 1»57. NBA Service. lac.)
Literary
Guidepost
By JOHN SEUBY
Some reprints out of a busy fail
' season—
Anually, from the middle of June
to approximately the middle of
August, publishing is at what .s
conventionally described as “low
ebb.” Publishers lie exhaused in
their ardens reviewing past effort:
planning the fall campaign.
Then, in August, a deluge be
gine. Hooks begin gushing from
every press, and colleeting on
every reviewer’s desk. By mid
September this deluge has reached
almost Biblical proportions, it not
yet haing occurred to the pub
lishing world that spreading their
books evenly over the year would
give each book a better chance.
A lot of this spate of printing
has been reprints and’translations,
and of these by far the most amus
ing is Lewis Galantiere’s transla
tion of “The Goncourt Journals”
(Doubleday, Doran; $3.50). This
is made up of the reflections of
two brothers, professional exqui
sites, founders of a literary man
ner and observers extraordinary.
It is full of malice and is sup
posedly scandalous in part—al
though the scandal is pretty tame.
What is important about the Jour
nals is first thst Galantiere has
eliminated most of the trash about
the brothers Edmond and Jules’
megrims, and second that the;
Journals make a perfect historical
resume of the period from 1850 to
1870.
Next most amusing (of all
things!) is Dr. Logan Clenden-!
ing’s “The Human Body” (Knopf;
$3.75), which has sold an average
of 20,000 copies a year since its
first publication 10 years ago, and
which now has been rewritten and
freshened up and made into an ir
resistible and fascinting expe
rience for anybody who has been
confused by all the rot written
about health.
It will be newt to the socially
unsure that Emily Post’s long
popular “Etiquette” has also been
modernised and pointed up (Funk
ft Wag nails, $4); the diplomatical
ly minded will rejoice in the repub
lieation in one volume of Viscount
Grey’s “Twenty-five years; 1892
1918” (Stokes; $4.60); the literary
will dash out immediately to buy
Katherine Mansfield’s short stories,
all 88 of them, now collected into a
single volume and duly reintro
duced to the public by Middleton
Murry (Knopf; $3.50).
Dili? The Duck
Qualiffes u Coiffeur
El Paso, Tex.—(jB—Dily the
duck was a contented mud splash
er, wita apparently no higher am
bition in life, until he took up
hairdressing.
Now hairdressing has become an
obsession with him and he neg
lects everything, except his domes
tic responsibilities, to comb the
hair of his young master, Dick Lea,
nine, of El Paso.
DUIy can put as attractive a part
through Dick’s hair aa the boy's
mother. He uses his beak.
DUIy waa aa “Easter” duck pre
sented to Diek by n friend. The two
MANHATTAN
By GEORGE TUCKER
New York—There seem to be
few “average” citizens in any of
New York’s foreign quarters.
Either the individuals are wholly
ignorant or they are surprisingly
bright. Most of the alert ones prid
ing themselves on their adapt
ability, and asking no quarter in
the struggle to establish them
selves in a new land, make a point
of keeping abreast of the times in
all things possible. They are con
versant oh all current topics of im
portance—they know who is who
and are familiar with Tammany
Hall and Joe DiMaggio.
However, the dull ones are
amazingly in reverse. Not only are
they unacquainted with doings
here—they are astonishingly ig
norant of condition at home. For
instance, in a restaurant which
makes n speciality of Hungarian
waitresses, the talk between a
part of men was on European poi
itics, and one of them turned to the
girl.
You’re Hungarian, aren’t you?”
.... She admitted this, and then
the fellow said, “Well, would you
favor a restoration of the mon
archy?”
The girl looked at him blankly,
“What is a monarchy?” she want
ed to know. She wasn’t kidding, j
The word simply meant nothing j
to her.
N?w York’s Roumanian colony j
is small but well-behaved. The
only disorders occuring there are j
internal ones, brought on by argu
ments disputing Carol’s rights to
the throne.
hTe Italians still have a “Little
Italy” on the East Side ,but there
are so many Of them that they are
all over town. Far in excess of a
million, there are more Itqlins 'n
New York than in Rome.
The English, as a rule, maintain
their efignity and their serenity
even in Manhattan heartwaves,
clinging to the tradition that no
Britisher worth a saddle of muttort |
ever permits himself to be effected '
! by economic or climatic disorder,
j Panting into the office on a re
I cent day .when the thermometor
| was flirting with the 100 mark, I
got into the elevator with the New
York correspondent of a London
newspaper. He was, as usual, his
immaculate self, collar freshly
starched, wholly untouched by the
humidity. I noticed with some as
I tonishment that he even w'ore a(
vest beneath his tweed jacket.
Ourselves, we were in a di
sheveled state and carried our coat
on our arm, a circumstance which
seemed to leave him wildly aston
ished.
“Really”, he said in honest pro
test, “does one go around in his
shirt sleeves?"
How’s Your
HEALTH?
Edited for the New York Acade
my of Medicine
By Iago Glide ton, M. D.
Do You Hate Milk?
'oo few adults drink enough
milk. Some wail to because they
consider milk to be babes’ or in
valids’ lood. Others have an aver
sion for milk believing that it
gives them indigestion, constipa
tion, diarrhea or headache.
The first group should overcome
their prejudice. Milk is as valua
ble a food for adults as for infants.
It is thi very best source of cal
cium, and the American diet is no
toriously deficient in calcium. It is
a good source of vitamin A, and
milk proteins are also valuable.
Milk drinking people are fa
mous for their good physique.
Historically the "herdsmen were
always superior in strength and
aggressiveness to the agricultural
ists. They won fame as the con
querors.
Elie Metchnikoff, the Russian
scientist, believed that the drink
ing of “cultured" milk aided lon
gevity. He founded his conviction
on the hardiness of certain Sla
vonic roups who subsisted largely
on milk and milk foods. Experi
ence has not validated Metchni
koff’s theories on auto-intoxica
tion. Not the cultured milk, but
milk proper, appears to be the
valuable element:
Thogse who simply hate milk
should fathom the reason for their
dislike of this valuable food- Some
few will be justified, in that they
are alleric to milk. Such individ
uals may indeed suffer every time
they consume milk, no matter in
what form or way they take it.
A larger number of individuals,
however, suffer from a psychic
(not organic) aversion for milk.
These people often relish ice
cream, milk shakes, or soups and
stews made with milk. Of course,
there is no exceptional virture in
taking milk as milk, rather than as
a milk shake or ica cream. It is
only slightly more convenient to
it straight—and especially is
this likely to be tho case whan one
i$ obliged to watch one’s calories.
Those who find milk constipat
try boiled milk. Or they
Greensboro Business Review of 1937
These Reviews by J. D. Carabo Advertising Service
Flynt Studjos
MAKERS OF
FINE MINIATURES, COPIES AND PORTRAITS ^ '
22S West Market Street Greensboro, N. t.
Are equipped
to take care
of all of your
p h otographic
r e q uirements
whether they
are portrait
or commercial.
When interest
ed in photo
graphs, of
Smyre Implement Company
John Deere Farm Implements, Tractors and a Complete Line of Farm Machinery, Featur
ing Syracuse Plows, at 509 Walker Avenue. Phone 7382 in Greensboro.
There are not many establishments
in this section that surpass Smyre
Implement Company in point of the
diversity of articles carried for the
farmer. With the well known line
of John Deere Tractors and farm
machinery they can satisfy the
most exacting, and many farmers
in this vicinity are using this make
with entire satisfaction. Their bus
iness has increased as the years
have rolled by, until today they
have a wonderfully large patron
age.
These implements need no fur
Even German Bees
Must Help Hitler
Berlin.—l/P> — Beekeepers and
silk cultivators are to have a share
in the cultivation of the land bor
dering Adolf Hitler’s auto roads.
Every particle of soil is to be lined
up in the Four Year Plan for eco
nomic independence.
Land unsuitable for ordinary
agriculture is to be planned with
vegetation attractive to bees. It
your children, your mother, father,
yourself, or a family group, or !f
it is a photograph to be used for
a passport, a newspaper or maga
zine reproduction, or to be sent
with an application for a position.
Go to F'iyut Studios. When your
requirements are for commercial
photographs, such as: Store win
dow displays, interiors of stores,
offices, factories, shops, or your
ther comment because every farm-j
er knows what results can be ob
tained by using them. They rep
resent quality and are of the lat
est design. New models are com
ing in as soon as manufactured, so
every reader that is interested in
keeping up-to-date should make
this place his headquarters when in
Greensboro.
When they started in business
they determined to furnish service
to every owner and there is no
question but that they have suc
ceeded.
is hoped thus to increase by 50
per per the value of Germany’s an
nual honey and wax production—
today about $20,000,000.
Quantities of mulberry trees
also are to be planted to increase
the cultivation of silk worms. Silk
production is increasing rapidly in
Germany.
Other portions of the land bor
dering the Reich's auto roads are
to carry grass crops for goats,
sheep and rabbits.
home, to be filed away with inven
tories or for other purposes, pro
gress photographs for contractors
or Architects #1iomes, office buf
fings, or factor^. You wifi fiiii
Flynt Studios second to nose.
When interested in photographic
work of any kind, Dial 2-0329, and
ask Flynt Studios to give you an
estimate.
- " .
They maintain 'a service depart
ment carrying all kinds of parts.
This means that their interest in
patrons does not end with the ssJe
of their machinery.
If you have not met the manager
and his associates be sure the neat
time that you are in Greensboro to
drop around and get acquainted
with them. We are glad in this
review to compliment them upon
the progress they are making and
predict for them a great future,
and to recommend them to the pub
lic.
Liquor Chief Paid
As Much As Governor
Sacramento (JS%—As a result of
a recent pay increase, California's
liquor law chief, George M. Stout,
now draws $19,000 a year, the same
salary as Go£ Prank F. Merrian>.
Lemon halves and slices are apt
to give a bittw. taste to punch if
they are left hJftf It ia best to wait
until serving them to add them.
Cherokees Vote Soon on “Paleface” Proposal
1 1 ..—11 ■"""" 1 illEli
Still distrustful, perhaps, of some of the white man’s motives, Cherokee
thus far have blocked efforts to Ifltfkl the Sfcyland Parkway through their rasa
Mountains National Part. While the routs of tbs *100,000,000 scenic highway
3,Old Indians debate in tribal council# and prepare to vote soon to a referendum
pictures show the Cherokoss ia chiteeteriskie aeenes on the isservatioa. Loft, i
regalia enjoy pageantry in the stadium of their modern school at Cherokee. Bi