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The Daily Independent OombliMd with T*1? lnd?t>end?nt, a wwkly muMMmJ kf W. 0. Saundara .'n 1303 mriishod every day except Sunday by The Independent Pnbliehlna Oe.. at 104 K. Colonial Are.. Elizabeth City. PuqooUak County. North Carolina TELEPHONE 1123 Mnbeortption Rates: By mail hi the Elizabeth City trade territory, 1 year 14.00. 6 mo*. $2 25. 3 xnoa. 31.25. 1 mo. 50 cant*. Elsewhere 35-00 a year. Uust be paid In ad ranee. By Carrier: Single copy 5 cents: one week 12 cents payable to carrier M?lber United Presi zweociatio" and National Bditorial Aseoeiatioa filtered at the postofflce at Elizabeth City. N. C., as second class matter National Advertising Representative. Thomas F. Clark Co., Inc. 203-217 East 42nd St. New Terk City. Tuesday, November 3, 1936. MALARIA is a coni A LOCAL munity disease. It usu PLAGUE SPOT ally aff licts first the un derprivileged individual whose resistance to disease has been danger ously lowered by malnutrition, overwork or exposure. From this start it is spread by mosquito carriers to countless other in dividuals, some of whom may be laid low by the infection. Malaria is a burden on any community that tolerates it. It lowers the strength, the vital stamina and the morale of those who have nothing to offer in exchange for their food, clothing and shelter than their physi cal labor. It leaves the poor sick in mind as well as in body, impairing their usefulness to them selves, to their families and to their com munities. The ailing and disheartened man or woman who earns his or her bread by the sweat of the brow is a potential charge upon the community. From this class comes most of our direct relief cases, and many of our work relief cases can be traced to the lowered vitality and enthusiasm of the individual who had once been a victim of some such disease. Malaria levies taxes in many forms upon any community. One may escape actual in fection, but no one can escape the financial cost that inevitably shows up in the tax bill and in the lessened productivity of labor in industry. At last night's meeting of the Board of Aldermen, I)r. T. S. McMullan, municipal health officer, called attention to the ap pearance of several cases of malaria in the northwest section of the city and called at tention to a filthy open ditch in that area that is a nauseous plague spot where the malaria mosquito surely breeds. Dr. Mc Mullan insists that this inexcusable health menace be removed. He should have the active support of all good citizens whlie Elizabeth City is still relatively free of this insidious and devitalizing disease. WELL, folks, it's all THE REAL over but the balloting DANGER AHEAD and the shouting. And we feel that our read ers will join us in voicing a fervent exclama tion of thanks that we may now be permit ted to focus attention upon something else other than jiolitics. It has been a costly and a bitter campaign. The money powers have shown Roosevelt 110 quarter and he accepted the challenge and hurled defiance at his enemies in a way that has made them madder than ever. When, in his Madison Square Garden Speech Saturday night, the President boasted that we (the |>eople) would become the masters of the money powers in the next four years, he couldn't have angered or frightened big business more if he had said "we arc going to Sovietize America." For that is just how ? * * " - ? ? ? l l _ ?1_ _ the President's threat was interpreted uy me private rulers of America. This newspaper has no idea that Mr. Roosevelt entertains any serious thought of going ^inhcr to the left than he has al ready ; in his zeal to place human rights above property rights in America. Both Congress and the Supreme Court will have something to say about that. But the danger ahead lies in the possibil ity of the private rulers of America under taking to sabotage a new Roosevelt admin istration and start a Fascist revolution in America for the overthrow of democracy it self. Roosevelt has accepted, if not raised, the class issue in America, and the upper class in any country is dangerous when aroused. See what happened in Spain. THIS newspaper will OL'K BIGGEST face a trying experience JOB tonight when it under takes to give its readers in Elizabeth City and the Albemarle the first news of the results of the State and National poll in today's election. We have had 110 previous experience in handling the spot news of a national elec tion; but, then, we never had any previous exjierience in publishing a daily newspaper. We do not contemplate a special edition tonight. Our regular mail edition goes to press at 2 o'clock in the morning. Returns from most states will not begin to come in by our leased wire before 10 o'clock and returns Complete enough to base any pre 1 diction upon will hardly be available until after midnight. Our regular edition will 'carry the results up until 1:30 tomorrow morning. Thereafter we shall issue extra editions as the news warrants. Read it in THE DAILY INDEPENDENT, today's newspaper today. NewsBehind theNews By PAUL MALLON Copyright, 1936, By Paul Mallon ELECTION WEATHERVANE Washington, Nov. 2.?Politicians will keep their eyes fixed election night on the returns from New York. There is the weathervane. If the President wins it. you may go to bed. The result should be conclusive by midnight. But if Landon should happen to win the state, you will probably never get to bed. The election will be wide open until the last vote is announced. What makes New York so important is not its electoral votes, but the fact that no expert has been able to work out a practical winning com bination for Landon without those 47 votes. Roose velt can win without New York, but Landon cannot. Announcements regarding the national outcome, therefore, are likely to be made on the basis of the early Empire State returns. ? * ? NOTE Once, in a very similar situation, the same New York key to an election situation did not work. Then, as now. California was considered such a certainty that it did not seem to be worth while counting votes there. When Hughes, in 1916, won New York, announcements of his victory were made. But, next day, Wilson won California by about 4,000. and the announcements were reversed. ? ? ? ANALYSIS A last-minute check of the vital states has left even the experts at opposing headquarters writhing on the floor. Consider Illinois, for example. The official calcu lators at both headquarters use the Digest poll as a basis of their best calculations. They figure that the soundest estimate can be made by analyzing the percentage of gain for Landon over the Hoover vote and the percentage of loss for Roosevelt from his 1932 vote. Thus, they eliminate some of the Digest error in polling more 1932 Republicans than Democrats. On this basis, they calculate the probable Illinois result as: Landon 1.651,139. Roosevelt 1.695,074, or a majority of about 43.000 for Roosevelt out of 3,300.000 votes. As anyone can see. this is reducing straw analysis to its proper level. But, when such a system indi cates anything less than a 50,000 majority, it indi cates nothing. So when most of the analysts now put Illinois in the category of "probably Roosevelt,'' they do so out of respect for the Chicago Kelly Nash machine rather than from the figures, which indicate only that the state is highly doubtful. # ? ? ESTIMATES The same system also gives the following results: Massachusetts?Landon 807,707, Roosevelt 634.518. Pennsylvania?Landon 1,617,790, Roosevelt ! 1,234.526. New York?Roosevelt 2.352.442, Landon 1,129.821. Ohio?Landon 1.325.893. Roosevelt 1,171.526. Indiana?Roosevelt 760.332. Landon 750.319. Michigan?Landon 825.721, Roosevelt 761,866. Iowa?Roosevelt 494.562. Landon 474.111. Kansas?Landon 393,185, Roosevelt 389,844. Minnesota?Roosevelt 485.452, Landon 397,807. The trouble is that these figures probably under estimate the Roosevelt total 2 or 3 per cent, because the Digest does not reach much below the tele phone-subscriber. auto-owner class. Another seri ous defect is the fact that straw polling does not work out as accurately in populous centers as in the country districts. It is physically impossible to poll a city, especially if a political machine is operating in it. Cross sections of sentiment just do not run with divisions as clear-cut as in rural communities. Consequently, these analysts should be taken only for what they are worth?an interesting indi cation. * * ? DEPRESSION Chairman Farley is said to have run into more trouble than the Republicans in raising money during the last two weeks. The unofficial and voluntary levy on federal employes is supposed to. have been boosted from 2 to 3 per cent in some instances. Most amusing of the latter-day campaign stories is the one about the newsman whose girl friend works for the government. She received a letter inviting a contribution, without mentioning any figure. The newsman disguised himself as a gov ernment employe merely by washing his face and leaving his hat at home. He called upon an assist ant treasurer here, and asked what contribution should be made. The assistant treasurer told him: "Three per cent." "That's all I wanted to know," said the young man. bowing himself out. The assistant still thinks he was talking to a customer. * * * BUCKET BRIGADE The government will resume business Wednes day. It has been in adjournment for about six weeks. Everybody in the departments has been out campaigning for Roosevelt. The exodus from the agriculture department was so great that the President appointed the weather bureau chief as acting secretary of agriculture a couple of weeks ago. Everyone above the weather man was out campaigning. Likewise, the acting secretary of the interior is the comparatively lowly chief of the geological survey. The presidential order appointing him expires today, when the secretary and all the higher-ups are expected to return from the stump. It is a matter of general inside knowledge tliat strong pressure was put upon some reluctant AAA officials to get them to make speeches. H. R. Tolley. AAA administrator, actually apologized in ' his first one. He explained to a western audience that it was the first time he ever had done such a thing. Another high" agriculture official insisted on tak ' uig leave without pay before doing any cam ? paigmng. ^OmOrn THE CANDID SWEEPSTEAKS WINNER Q?Well, Mr. Wimple, how does it feel to win $150,000? A.?How would I know? Q.?You get it, don't you? A.?Only a little more than naif of it; the rest is grabbed by the government. Q.?But I thought the govern ment was opposed to sweepstakes and would have nothing to do with lotteries." A.?You're right. The govern ment considers them illegal, vici ous and highly degrading, but it doesn't object to taking its cut. Q.?Well, now that you have won quite a sum of money, what do you intend doing with it? A.?I haven't any definite idea. Q.?Do you mean to say that you haven't any plans whatever? A.?Oh, yes indeed, but I know I shall discard 'em in no time. Q.?Of course you intend to see that your little boy is sent to college? A.?Only for the newsreel con versations. He would rather have a barrel of ice cream, and by the time he gets old enough to go to college there won't be a dime left. Q.?You have plans to take your family to Europe, of course? A.?Positively not. Q-?But all their lives they have wanted to travel, haven't they? A-?And long after these win nings are spent they will still want to travel. Q-?How about your poor old father? A?Shush! He hasn't heard about this. And if he does I'm going to deny it. Q.?And your wife's folks? You intend to see that they are made very comfortable and happy in their old age? A?That's what SHE thinks! Q- This is a rather superflu ous question, but I asume you will buy yourself the Home You Have Always Wanted. A.?You're nuts. I'm very happy nght where I am. Q.?But, my good fellow, this is mutiny. It is almost a law that a sweepstakes winner announce his determination to build the Home He Has Always Wanted. A?Yes. but if the builders had to wait for them to start building they would starve to death. ? Q?But surely 'here is some thing you intend doing with all this money? A.?You bet there is. Do you want the truth? Q?No. A.?-Well. I'm going to give it to you nevertheless. I'm going to buy a sedan, fly a yard of mink from the radiator cap, go to Flor ida for the winter, take a flyer in the stock market, locate a good poker game, start doubling my bets on football results and, er, lissen .... (He whispers) Q.?Really, What race? A.?The Fifth. q?But will they take that much money in one bet? THESE AFTER-YEARS Elmer Twitchell says that little did A1 Smith ever expect a few years ago that he would be a guest star on a Repblican pro gram. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has been made into a musical show and we now will hear in the years to come of the chorus girl who play ed in a Tom Show. George Abbott is said to have encountered only one real difficul ty in making it a musical show; he hasn't been able to teach the bloodhounds to croon. Jimmy Mollison started on an ocean hop wearing a dinner jacket. Probably on the basis of a pre diction that the fog would be like soup. Ima Dodo stood on the curb and cheered for both Landon and Roosevelt during those parades. "I did it," she says, "for fear somebody would think I wasn't in touch with the issues in this cam paign." If President Roosevelt kept a diary a la Pepys he could have concluded it after that State of Liberty speech, "And so to Bed loe's." (Copyright, 1936, By The Associ ated Newspapers.) j WORK ON KEEL OF NEW BRITISH LINER STARTED Clydebank, Glasgow. ? (U.R) ? Hundreds of hammers are pound ing in the John Brcwn company shipyard as the keel box for the Cunard White Star No. 552 liner, sister ship to the Queen Mary, is under construction. ' Workmen are engaged on plans which it is believed call for a ship about 2,000 tons larger than the 80,773-ton Queen Mary. The new liner, not yet named, is to be com pleted for launching in 20 months. Although plans remain a closely guarded secret, it is understood that No. 552 will be 12 to 18 feet longer than the Queen Mary. Fox Profits Motorist Ellsworth, Wis. (U.R)?A. A. Shedd recently collected a $4 county bounty on a gray fox which he ran over with his auto mobile. R H E U M A I I S M Have you ever had rheumatics running up and down your form. That fills you full of aches and pains, especially 'fore a storm? And then when comes the night time and to bed yourself you take, You find this gurgling stream of pain still keeps you wide awake. Well here's some remedies you'll get from sym pathizing friends. They are so legion-dary that they seem to have no ends; "Now get your teeth and tonsils out, they've ulcers at the roots, That give you uric acid from your head down to your boots. And don't cat any sugar nor cat anything that's sour, And leave all meat from off your list, don't eat it any hour; And don't cat bread, cat none at all, not white nor pink nor blue. For starches turn to sugar and that plays the deuce with you. And don't eat certain kinds of fruit, nor pastry, cakes nor pics. Eat all the vegetables you can, but always eat "em raw. And take a sun-bath every day and rub yourself with straw; And don't drink 'toxicating drinks, nor fizZ drinks, cocoa, tea. And don't let cofTec quench your thirst, no matter where you be; But drench yourself with water every day of every week, ? For that will drive away your pains, put color in your cheek. Now you go get some kidney pills and take a box or two. Your kidneys arc not working right, that's all that's wrong with you. Go get some Sally Salman's salts, and take 'em by the peck. And fill yourself with Krinklcy Kapsulcs clear up to your neck. And let some Chiropractor prack you up and down your spine, Let Os-tce-o-paths oss you?then you'll soon be feeling fine." Now if you follow all advice you'll get from each good friend, I'm mighty sure your "rhemuatiz" will soon be at '.n end? Because there'll be so very little left, for you to do. By that time the mortician's car will call around lor you. F.ALPH GORDON. IN SAFE HANDS as wftk JEANNETTEAND GENE VIEWED WITH DOUBTS Eight-Months Engagement Not Hollywood Brand, Declare Skeptics By HENRY SUTHERLAND UP Hollywood Correspondent Hollywood, Nov 2.?(U.R)?While Hollywood is reported betting the ceremony will never take place, Gene Raymond and Jeannette Macdonald have blithely set their wedding for June 17, 1937. Reason for the choice is purely sentimental, Raymond says. Its the anniversary of their first date. Film colony skepticism, on the other hand, is founded on a dis trust for long engagements, and with almost eight months inter vening between announcement 'I do's," the proposed Raymond Macdonald troth threatens ail lo cal records. According to Holly wood philosophy, eight months is long enough for one divorce and two marriages. No winter book quotations on the probability of a domestic cul mination for the long-range ro mance are available, but gossip has it five will get you eight in t.hc proper quarters. y Meanwhile, unperturbed, Ray mond and Macdonald are poring over blueprints of a new home and pricing furniture. They are also pulling studio strings to in sure a two-months honeymoon, almost as much a rarity in Holly wood as their protracted engage ment. "I'm getting up in the world,'' boasted Marie Wilson, tow-headed comedienne, when asked to help. Mayor Frank L. Shaw of Los An geles to perform a civic ceremony. Now her pals and her sweetie (Director Nick Grinde) are giv j ing her the merry raspberry. The ceremony was the local opening of "National Cheese Week." Meet Hollywood's latest star, Tyrone Power, Jr. Power is to be costarred with Loretta Young in "Love Is New," a comedy, just eight months after he emigrated from Broadway, which is consid ered exceptionally fast work. Pow er is a slim, slick youngster; did twp bits in "Ladies in Love" and "Girls' Dormitory," then won his spurs in "Lloyds of London," yet to be released. Margo. single-named Mexican reformed dancer with an odd sense of humor, confides she got her first job in pictures by telling Ben Hecht she had been a big shot in the Royal Academy of Spain for five years. The job was in "Crime Without Passion," and the joke was on Hecht, she says. There i3 no Royal Academy of Spain. Irene Dunne wired friends there was no truth in news reports she is about to adopt a child from the "Cradle," Evanston, foundling home where the film stars' heirs come from. She didn't add that "It must have been two other fellows." Film colony is preparing a big time welcome for Fernand Gravet, French matinee idol reputed to be the richest actor in the world, who is due here Thursday. Mervin LcRoy talked the guy into a con tract by promising him he could have a merry time shooting buf falo in the great open spaces of California. Gravet inherited most 01 ms folding money from his family, but added a lot by his acting ef forts. It's said he knocked all the girls in France for a ground loop, and. that when American women get a glash of his classic pan they'll swoon in the aisles. Holly wood will turn out to risk swoon ing in large numbers. Ginger Rogers, who never took a drawing lesson in her life, has suddenly taken to wearing pastel colored smocks and sketching with long sticks of charcoal held daint ily between thumb and forefinger. She's victimized several friends in portraits and says She has ? no complaints so far. (Copyright by United Press) WARTIME BOMB DEATH MISSILE 20 YEARS LATE Sidney (U.R)?Twenty years af ter he had picked it up on a bat tlefield in France, Edwin Arthur Hollinworth, a Sydney, ex-soldier, was killed by a Mills bomb he had kept as a souvenir. Hollingworth was showing a visitor the bomb when the safety catch became released. The visitor and Hollingworth's 12-year-old daughter were injured. The military authorities made a fresh appeal to holders of war relics to have them made "safe." The appeal brought a rush of cx-soldiers with souvenirs, one of which was a small aerial bomb that had been dropped in London. FATIGUE TESTS I BECLOUD BRABl ONLY SLIGHTllI Power To Concentrate ifl Found To Lapse IiiOjH Hours Without Sleep H Los Angeles, Nov. 2.? of a mere two or three n:g.T;H sleep .shouldn't dim brain porcr-^B that is, 4f a person cm conccnH trate. This was the discovery of ttfl University of Southern Ca'.ihnuH scientists who kept three studsjH awake for 65 hours in an exptr^^H ment. At the end of 65 slcepiiiW hours the students did mntufl work almost as well as at tftM except for lapses in their pon^B i to concentrate. In thdse ifirtmlB their minds "went blanlt " they could not solve even iliwfl arithmetical problems. Prom 5:30 a. m. Friday d 10:30 p. m. Sunday the studftaB had no sleep. Dr. Nell Win^B and Dr. Brant Clark with llj? ? sistants worked shifts Iceepiifl them awake and smoothing frequent quarrels that flared the students gre.v' sleepy and rnM table. ? Tested Every 10 Hours Every 10 hours the studf^B were put through a test of I more than 100 mathematdM problems and identifying '^9 than 300 colors flashed ItllCll CJfCO. Thelrfl accuracy changed despite foss of sleep. But incrt*B ingly they struck "blank" when they looked at the protiflm Of. say, 7 minus 4, and took s?S time before answering "three Tliese lapses occurred 9.2 cent of the time at the start i':B soared to 23.5 per cent at tiif-SjM of 50 hours without sleep. T^BB to the scientists' surprise, end of 65 hours without sW^B when the students should been weariest, their scores snlPCJ^B back ^o, 17.5 per cent. iH Mental Sprint Occurs H This spurt, psychologists | prove#-iihat the students' I wer? frying on in normal ion. .gut that, with the prom#* sleep ?nly a few hours aheed. tJB students turned on all their ging powers of concentration ufl "sprinted" mentally for the Difficulty in concentrating fh^B a person is tired, scientists probably is due to fatigue Pn^^B gathering in the blood .s'JpP:-,iC^B the brain cells. Suit Filed Over Grease Napa. Cal. (U.R) ? N"tnfrJ John Does and Mary Hoes in city presumably arc duaK'^d^B their boots, as the result of a* .^B j 000 damage suit filed by M8j\^B 1 Rcgrli charging that one of last Christmas allowed c^BB drip from roast turkeys onto sidewalk causing her to slip m^B break her leg. Under the ordinances, she charges. should have marked tin ?:j^B | spsfcfcHrtth red lights --'IH HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS I Cy Alley f ~ " " "" I'SE got A FI-DCUAH Bill but vse broke JES* de SAME; ?AIN' NOBODY CHAN6E IT BUT DE STO'^AN'-I owes it pah !! ? n-3 (Sepyrigbt. 133$. by Ths B?U E'.-ciifitt la-)
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