Harriettc Hammer Walker Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier a Week—10c By Mail, .$4.00 Per Year 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- j clusively entitled to the U3e for 1 publication of all news dispatch- ! es credited to it or not other wise credited to tin’s paper and ; also the local news published j herein All rights of publication of special dispatches nerein arc also reserved. Foreign Representatives: Pr'-ovt Griffith & Brunson, Inc. Member of North Carolina Press Association The Daily Courier Established 1870 Phone 144 1891 William C. Hammer 1980 Published Daily, except Monday and Saturday FRIDAY', DECEMBER 10. 1987 THE GIF] fi I. 'HEX all through the hous:" was title of the most lovely picture ir. Vogue today. A green and neutral wall made a back ground for a holiday table with holly-berry-red chairs, trio red glasses, red roses, Christmas greens in graceful festoons—and a lovely picture. Who wouldn’t love to go to-such a home at Christmas-time! All through the year many of us work 'with very unromantic tools and rather unormantic places, but at Christmas every grown-up reverts to a little child, whether h ? admits it or not, and loves the gla mor of it all. For those who toil and often make sacrifices during the entire year, what could be nicer than to “take Christmas” by visit ing friends, accepting and dispens ing hospitality. In the good old days, people kept ouen house at Christmas-time and friend communed with friend in the good (dd-fashioned way. A spirit of neighbor]iness prevailed that Tasted throughout the ye%\ Meet ing about the Yule board, sitting in front of the Yule^log and just tak ing t'mc to be human being shou'd be the lot of even newspaper folk at Christmas. Business folk would not resort to such cut-throat com pet’t’on if old-time Christmas cus toms were revived. A f'w years ago, the Christmas card habit became sort of bad— entirely too widespread and g:fts vraw exchanged that meant, little s-i-rp awnnmng. Both have their place. and Christmas would be a time without either, or both. But the gift of friendship cannot be ppwhesad with money and is the o"ift that should be ex piinno.f^i at, the season when the wwM (,cUohvnted the birthday of the Greatest Gift. W'th Other Editors! A TWO FISTED MOUSE A mouse has threatened the foun dat;on of a modern state—a very special mouse, to be sure, but still a mouse. Yugoslavia has deported Miolcev Mouse because of his sub versive antics in the newspaper Po lit'ea. Mickey, it appears, was get ting involved in affairs of state, and his popularity was driving his comic strip foes to cabals, juntas and other Revolutionary devices. Yugoslavian censors began to see M!ckey as a one-mouse revolution disseminating dangerous ideas. No word has been received to indicate whether or not Donald Duck, Pluto and Horace Horsecollar have also been exiled a3 bomb-throwing plot ters. M:ckey, with such press notices as these, may transform the world's concept of a mouse. To be mouse like may come to suggest ferocious ness and the courage of a lion. The Yugoslavian censor may have “turned earth’s surface rough” for Mirkey but not even a Hollywood mouse can expect Green Pastures and Parmesan Fields all the time. Mickey has demonstrated that a mouse can cast a shadow as large as an elephant. But he has re tained at least one tradition of the mouse—he has more than one hole to hia abode, and if Yugoslavia plugs one of them, there are thou sands more where he will run no risk of deportation on the grounds of subversive activity.—Christian Science-Monitor. Berkeley, Calif. —AT)—Because California'holda 88 per cent of the world’s dried prune crops this year, the Prune Prorate program has been set up to distribute them. The organization will give special at tention to encouraging exports and diverting some of the crop into re Washington 0ay Book By PRESTON GROVER \\ ashington—The Japanese are likely to be rebuffed by the United States once more very soon— and they will be left with little oppor tunity for official recourse. Best sources indicate that Hawaii will be denied the privi lege of statehood. The reason given here in off-the-recbhl- con versations. is that there are so many Japanese there. Immediately after the regular session last summer a party of senators and representatives left for Hawaii to go once .again into , the question :p¥ isTamT ; ninthhobtk' They took along wives arid dreigfi ! tors', and expenses were paid IVohi 1 a $'11,000 appropriation by the I Hawaiian legislature. I As in 1035 during a similar in jurin', they took voluminous tosti 1 mony and came back with impres sions something like these: The island population of 385,000 justifies statehood, since that makes it about as largo as sev eral smaller states of the union. I It biult morale to give self-gov ernment to a people. The populace is capable of stable self-government under state hood 1 Japanese Lead Bin—here is how it stack- up: Estimated Population 385,090 Japanese. 150.000 Hawaiian . .. 22,090 Chinese . 28,000 Filipino .........__ . 35,000 Portguese, White Ameri cans and other Cau casians .. 80.000 The balance is made up of vari ous mixtures of Asians, Havaiian. and Caucasians, Now of these 150,000 Japanese, app’vximately 110,000 are Ha waiian born, and therefore Amer ican citizens. The Yankee popula tion is probably well under 50,000, sharply outnumbered by the Japa nese Off The Record As one member of the com mittee explained it (not for quotation), as long as Hawaii re mains ' a territory its governor is appointed-in Washington. Its dele gates to- eongre. s have restricted ' influence. If statehood should be , granted, the state would elect its own governor and send senators and representatives to congress. As to the committee’s report, one member said: “The jury is still out.” But another added: "The verdict is in." One senator is still chuckling at Democratic leaders who, claimed they knew to a man just how every Democratic member was going to vote late last session on who would he majority leader, Harrison or Barkley. Behind closed doors each senator was given a slip of paper on which to write the name of his choice. Said the senator: “I saw one man who was counted on for a Barkley vote dot an ‘I’. There is no ‘I’ in Barkley.” It’s Odd But It’s Science By Howard W. B'akeslee (.P> Science Editor — ■ ---- By Howard W. Blakesiet* (OP) Science Editor) Philadelphia. — Scientists aio using sound as a scalpel to cut out I of typhoid fever vaccine the impuri ties that cause unpleasant after effects. The sound scalpel tears apart the bodies of typhoid germs. This is done by placing the germs in a solution and passing through it. high-pitched, wkistling sounds. One substance separated in this way from the germs is typhoid “virulence antigen.” This antigen, a protein, is the stuff that makes typhoid vaccine. The sound yields pure antigen. Chemical extraction, the usual way of obtaining the antigen, leaves impurities which have been blamed for after-effects of typhoid vaccination. Experiments with pure sound made antigen are under way at the Johnson Foundation and the de partment of biology of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. Rabbits and other animals have beefi given “massive” doses of the virulence antigen, much more than would be needed to protect a®«inst typhoid. In no case have tTiese huge doses been followed by serious reactions. Constitution Neglects Movit Quorums Washington —CP)—For the edu cation of his colleagues Senator Tom Connally of Texas has gone to considerable trouble to- define the word “quorum.” “The Constitution requires the presence of a quorum”, Connally shouted irritably, as he addressed rows of empty seats. “That does not mean a quorum down fi*,the dining room, that does not mean a quorum down at the picture show, that does not mean a quorum over in the office build ings it means a quorum here, on the floor of the Senate,” he roared. But still no one came in. . I SANTA and the WHITE FOX i By SiRrid Arne The story thus far:. None of Son ia's friends can help him rescue Helga, the doll, from the dangerous white fox. But then something un j expected happens. — Chapter 11 The Sailor Doll | As Santa and all hi? friends sat and wondered how to save Helga from the white fox, something strange happened. The toyshop door opened and in flew a little lady no taller than a teaspoon. She Tiad a tiny, bright star tied high up^ on her soft brown hair and her eyes were very blue. She flew to the arm of • Santa’s chair and smiled up at him. “Good,” said Santa, “I’ve been wishin g for you.” "Ye.?, 1 ’heard you wishing,” said the fairy. “So I came. 1 know what the trouble is.” “Dear me, yes,” said Santa. “Have you any ideas?” The little lady—and i’ll tell you who she was: she was the Queen of Fairies—twirled on her toes jmd laughed so gayly that even Santa, worried as lie was, grinned sheep ishly. “Santa, you’re a dear,” said the Fairy Queen. “You hake a doll of the North, and then you expect hc-r to be a simple little toy.” “What do you mean ?” “You heard her say she wanted io go to sea,” said the fairy. “She’ll never no a Christmas gift.” Song of the Sea Shell Sant a, frowned a minute, and then said, “Maybe you’re right.” The fairy smiled up at the ced ing, and from the spot at which Hoiidav Candv Can Be Rolled at Home Party By Mrs. Alexander George ( B Feature Service Writer Cherished recipes for holiday cookies and confections are handed through generations in many fam ilies. Modern shops are full of allur ing sweets but home-made goodies have :> special Christmasy touch. If you're going to make some sweets yourself, begin at least two weeks ahead of the holiday season. Many delicacies need to “ripen.” a little to be at their best. And not a few boxes will have to be mailed. Candied Containers As soon as your confections and cookies are thoroughly cooled after cooking put them into air tight boxes, and store them in the coldest part of the cupboard or pantry. (The refrigerator is usual ly too cold.) Candied grapefruits make tasty j 'containers for confections. Use .grapefruit halves from which the pulp has been removed. Wash them put them in a kettle and cover them with cold water, so it comes four inches above the level of the rinds. Add half a teaspoon ful of salt for each four cups of water. Cover the kettle and sim I raer the halves for an hour, chang ing the water three times to re move any bitter flavor. Then measure two cups of gran ulated sugar and one cup of water for each halves. Boil sugar and water together three minutes and J hen put the rinds into this syrup. Simmer about 30 minutes or until the rinds are well candied. Re move the rinds and sprinkle them with granulated sugar. Let them cool, then heap them full with as sorted confections. How To Salt Nuts Candied raisins, prunes, apri cots dates and currants make fine fillers for box corners. Prepare l them by mixing two cups of gran I ulated sugar, one cup of water and one teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Boil the in gredients together four minutes, ‘hen add two cups of fruit. Cook slowly until a fine threat forms whet; some of the syrup is poured from a spoon. Pour into a shallow nan and, when slightly cool, sprin kle with confectioner’s sugar. You will need salted nuts for dividing lines or comer fillers in boxe Sprinkle a cup of blanched nuts in a thin laver over a shallow nan Add one tablespoon of olive oil or butter. Bake slowly and stir frequently with a fork until the nuts are evenly browned. (About 20 minutes.) Then sprinkle half ai teaspoonful of salt, while warm, npt< a cloth. Wipe off surplus salt and fat. Store them in air-tight lars. If they need refreshing later, heat them five minutes in a mod eratc oven. To blanch nuta, eover a cupful with boiling water. Put a lid over them and, alter five inmates, re move the brown skins with your fingers. Then dry them five min utes or so in a slow oven. Dipping Mixtures Stuff dates, prunes or figs with cream candies or fudges, peanut butter, cheese, toasted nuts, can died fruit* or coconut. Then roll some in plain or toasted coconut, granulated or brown sugar or chopped nuts. Dip others in melted fondant or chocolate. (Dried prunes must we washed well and steamed for 15 minutes before they are ready for stuffing.) Keep chocolate or fondant for dipping over hot—not boiling— water. , If your fondant is too thick, thin I it with cream. But if your dipping she looked in the rafters there fell a small rope ladder down which scrambled a pert sailor doll. He was brown as a maple leaf in the fall, and his wavy yellow hair had red lights in it. His shoulders were good and square, and he wore a sailor’s white shirt and some blue dOngarecs. He grinned mischiev ously and reached into his pocket for a tiny sea shell. He listened to it a minute, looked surprised and put it back in his pocket. Santa simply couldn’t control his curiosity. “What is it?” said Santa. “Would you like to hear?” asked the sailor. “Certainly, certainly,” said San ta, and he listened very closely. This is what the sea shell said: Who is it that combs his hair with a tree, Who is it you hear but cannot see ? “It’s Dangerous” j Santa looked puzzled and stared questioningly at the sailor. But the sailor only smiled. “Come now,” said Santa. “What’s the answer?" “Let me go looH for Helga?” asked the sailor. “"ikes, but why do you want to go?” asked Santa. “It’s danger ous.” “That’s the very reason,” said the sailor. “And the answer to the sea shell’s question is this: it’s the wind. He combs his hair with a tree, and you can hear him but you can’t see him.” Santa threw back his head and shouted with laughter. “I guess your trip is going to be more dangerous for the white cox than for you,” he said. “We'll hc-lp you get started tomorrow.” chocolate needs thinning, melt into it a fed shavings of paraffin. Never let water get into dipping choco late; it stiffens the mixture. To soften fondant wrap it in a j damp cloth and, after an hour, knead it with your hands and shape it for dipping. (Fudges may also be shaped into balls and dipped.) Place bits of candied fruits, coconut and nuts in the centers of several of the balls—as surprises. Double decker fudges and fon dants make unusual treats. Put a layer of white fudge in a shallow, buttered pan and cover it with a layer of penorfhe or chocolate fudge. When it is firm cut it into ears. Put a layer of nuts, chopped candied fruits, marshmallows or coconut in between for triple deck ers. Christmas Coconut Snowballs (Makes Two Dozen) 1 2-3 cups sifted cake flour 1 1-2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder 1-3 cup butter or other shorten ing 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 1-2 cup milk 1 teaspoon lemon or vanilla ex tract 1 can moist, sweetened poconut Sift flonr once. Measure. Add baking powder and sift together three times. Cream butter thor oughly. Add sugar gradually and cream together Until light and fluffy. Add eggs, then flour, al ternating with milk, a small amount at a time, and beating after each addition until smooth. Add flavor ing. Turn into greased cupcake pans, filling them two-thirds full. Bake in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) 20 minutes, or until done. Cool. Cove)- each cake with seven-minute frosting and sprinkle thickly with moist, sweetened coconut. Arrangc on large platter and insert a small : twig of evergreen or candle holder with tiny red candle in each cake. (Light candles just before serving.) Seven-Minute Frosting 2 egg whites, unbeaten 1 1-2 cups granulated sugar 5 tablespoons water 11-2 teaspoons light corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla Ccnabine egg whites, sugar, wa ter, and com syrup in top of double boiler beating with rotary egg heater until thoroughly mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water. Beat constantly with rotary egg beater and cook for seven minutes, or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from boiling water. Add j vannilla and beat until thick enough to spread. ‘Wandering: Ranch’ Gets Permanent Home Tonopah, Nev. —(Jtt—They still have a hard time running accurate surveyor’s lines in this sparsely settled country. For years a dis pute has been going on as to whether the big Potts ranch is in Nye county or Lander county. The latest court decision is in tended to give the ranch a perma nent home in Nye county and to place its $16,000 assessment on the tax rolls. Lander also was ordered to pay Nye $2,$66 for taxes alleged to have been illegally collected. ‘Bobby’ For Jamaica Kingston, Jamaica —UP>—An English “bobby” will be imported to tiie West Indian port in the Canibbean sea. He will instruct the local constabulary in the “ins and outs'* of directing traffic. MANHATTAN By GEORGE TUCKER New York—A stage manager of one of tae oner a companies tells of | two of his divas who are carrying I on a feud with one another. It ap pears that one of his warblers, in I a flirtatious mood, carried off the boy friend of the other. The jilted one immediately favor ed her more successful confrere with a blistering dressing-down, calling her 50 different kinds of Judas and warning her to keep out of her path thereafter. It was a ringing denunciation, replete with acrimonious invective and leaving* the atmosphere quite decidedly sul phurous and blue. Finally she ended on a note which was a masterpiece of rebellious whimsy: ‘'And you can find some one else to lend your curling irons to after this, too!” she screamed. William A. Brady, one of the veteran and more successful producers hereabouts, received a lot of enthusiastic comment after his ialk on the radio the other night. The husband of Grace George, whose career has been as chock-full of adventure as four Sax-Rohmer hovels, related many exciting moments in his theatrical and sporting hey-day, such as the time he presented Helen Hayes in a play one night and managed the late Jim Corbett in a prize fight the next. However, as he humorously re called, his most thrilling achieve ment came at the age of nine. De voted to the theater even at that age, he was seated in “peanut heaven”, which means the upper balcony, one' night, and from that distance succeeded in throwing a marble through the bass drum in the orchestra pit. That, he says, gave him his greatest thrill. It isn’t generally known that John Golden, another eminent producer with a fund of anecdotal reminiscences that would start*' even Bob Burns, has plied the trade of a brick layer in his car reer. Yet, it is true. In addition to accepting packages from Irish hod carriers, ho has been a lawyer, a song writer, an inventor and a comic-strip artist. His most notable achievement on Tin Pan alley was the hit, “Poor Butterfly”, which he wrote in collaboration with Ray Hubbell, and on another occasion he wrote a song in collaboration with Woodrow Wilson. Professor Golden’s latest con tribution to the theatrical stage is one of the town’s three smash hits, “Susan iinij God”. He aims to throw* four others into rehearsal between now and February. f Subway stations have long been jpopular as indoor retreats for homeless men, especially during winter However, they are not Warm in winter. These subterran ean enclosures often are colder than the air on the street levels. Literary Guidepost By JOHN SELBY “The Theater In A Changing Eu rope”, by Thomas H. Dickinson; (Holt: $5). Those of us who c!o not read the literature of the theater from a specialist’s viewpoint must have been convinced of its poverty. It is practically impossible, these days, to find anything written about the theatre which considers the subject “in the round.” There are plenty of arty maga zines which fill space with pictures and paradoxes which can only be understood if you have seen the very latest play. There are the review columns which strain the new plays through the mind of a man who goes to the theater every night all season—even worse than doing a book a day. And there are Variety and its sisters, large and email, in which the theater be comes “show business.” Now there is a general book which can be understood by the layman, and which is authoritative as well. It is compiled and partly written by Thomas H. Dickinson, and it is called “The Theater in a Changing Europe.” Dr. Dickin son has 16 collaborators, and be fore the reader lias finished, he has read a reasonably extended article on the state of the Euro pean theater in each country Theatre Menu SUNSET Today Barbara Stanwyck and Her bert Marshall in “Breakfast For Two”. Sportlight, “Rhythnr Of The Game.” Traveltalk, “Chile Land Of Charm”. Pathe News. Saturday William Boyd and George Hayea in “North Of The Rio Grande.” Blue Mountain Ran gers—On the stage. Charlie Mc ’ Carthy arnd Edgar Bergen in “All American Drawback.” Ser ial, “Secret Agent” No. 6. Serial, “Painted Stallion” No. 10. CAPITOL Friday ft Saturday Joan Blondell and Pat O’Brien in “Back In Circulation.” Para mount News. Screen Song, "Magic On Broodway." _ where there fa " atheater""worth writing about—Bulgaria and Rou nianin as well as the ubiquitous# Russia and the theater of France, Germany and Spain. Dr. Dickinson has done the in troduction with eminent sanity. He insists that instead of viewing the theater in the light of one of.; its component parts, it must be seen as a whole—“of all the arts ,, he writes, “the theater lies most; near to the motivating heart, the dynamic imperatives which .op erating beyond reason, in a legion of implacable but mysterious will, are driving society on a path it cannot forsec.” This may be too broad a state ment; the theater certainly is in , America still a matter pf exploit- | ing amusement, and one socially conscious play a year, in the con mercial theater, is a good average. Just the same, it is a thought, and long searching by this department has failed to find as much thought in writing on theatrical matters as exists in, for example, the field of music or literature, or even paint-, ing. Dr. Dickinson’s book is long, reasonable well illustrated and' the average of writing ability among the contributors is high enough to serve their purpose. Bragg Is Best In j First Season i (■By the (.!“> Feature Serv ice Huntington, W. Va. — Nelson Bragg', one of the nation’s leading kickers of points after touchdown, never had made a conversion until this season. Bragg, 185-pound regular guard on Marshall college’s Buckeye con ference championship eleven, found experience was not essential and proceeded to boot 21 points from placement out of 22 tries in regular scheduled games. He probably would have rolled up a larger total, but ihe Herd thundered over its combined oppo sition 297 points to ID and Bragg had a lot of rest on the bench. Coached by Cam Henderson to “keep your eye on that pumpkin, ’ Bragg, stands with his leit foot planted and his kicking foot back eliminating a step. His only miss of the year came against Ohio university when he was taken off the bench in spite of a severe injury to his right leg. He was inserted again after Mar shall. ’s second touchdown and pla:e kicked a perfect goal to give the Herd a 13-13 the and preserve its undefeated record. Bragg, a Berkley, W. Va., boy, has another year of competition. The Colorado river aqueduct, now under construction, will bring wa ter .242 miles across the daesrt to Los Angeles and surrounding cities. Buick Reports ■ Sales Progress Flint, Mich., Dec. 10.—<.T>—W. F. Hufstader, general sale3 manage’', announced today that domestic re tail deliveries of Buick motpr cars during the first twenty da^t cf November totaled 13,411 units, com paring with 10,402 units in the first twenty days of the preceding month, a gain of 2,919 acrs or 27. 82 per cent, and with 12,025 in the corresponding period of Novem ber, 1930, a gain of 1,386 cars or 11.52 pet cent. During the second ten days this month, Mr . Hufstader said, 6,635 Buick cars were delivered at retail in the United States compared with 5,752 irr the corresponding period of October, a gain of 883 cars or 75.35 per cent. He added that in the period from November 1, through the 23rd, Buick registrations in the Detroit area were the second largest in the county, and that a similar posi tion is being maintained in other large markets. Eagle Loses Battle With Six Men Sheridan, Wy,o. —UP)—It took six men to capture the eagle Dr. I. P. Hayes wounded near here. The doctor was hunting pheas ants when he saw the eagle and shot twice at it. The bird fell, stunned, but was up on his f0 tryirp- to ran whe«-Di\ i|gy his five hunting companions tool.' him. They tied his and wim brought him to the Sheridan “But it was a Job holdin, down until we could"pet a r< him’, the men said. 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