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FAITH AND WORKS: Trust in
the Ix>rd. and do good: so shall thou
cwell In the land, and verily thou
shalt be fed —Psalm 37:3.
POWER OF FINANCE BOARD
President Hoover himself hardly
has more power than the newly cre
ated Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration. which is headed up by
Charles G. Dawes. The act places
enormous power in the hands of a
few men, who have uie aumority to
lend money in great gobs, if they like,
or to parcel it cut to make It go a
long way and rtach many individual
concerns ■
The new corporation will be man
aged by a board of directors consist
ing of the secretary of the treasury,
the governor of the Federal Reserve
Board, the farm loan commissioner
and four Other persons appointed by
the president with the consent of the
Senate. As a matter of fact, the cor
poration. In a sense, is these seven
men. It is their job, as Mr. Hoover
has said “to d.op deflation in agri
culture and industry."
Half a billion dollars thus far has
been placed at the disposal of the
corporation, which has the right to
lend the money to r* t ' r "»<K farmers
banks operating and closed -life in
surance companies, building and loan
associations and other financial ins.i
tutions. The corporation can secure
one and a half billion more money
for lend.ng purposes by selling "re
construction bonds." The board of
directors alone determines the terms
and conditions of the loans. Directly
and indirectly the corporation can
lend up to one hundred million dollars
to any establisned domestic corpra- j
tion. It can place interest rates high,
or low. It can accept or reject do
mestic collateral as 1“ «pes fit.
Through the secretary of agr.cul
ture. it can lend from .V) to 200 mil
lion dollars to farmers without any
eollat»*rr\l at all save a first lien on
future crops, which may not even
be planted.
As far-reaching as arc the corpor
ation's powers, they are no greater
than tne gigantic problem It faces in
attempting to r*store business in this
country. Discussing the extent of the
new government concern. The Nation
says:
"The Corporation's loaning powers
are paralleled by its bond-selling
powers. The principal and interest of
the reconstruction bonds are guar
anteed by the United Stages. Yet the
Corporation can set the interest rates
and sell the bonds or? its own terms
and conditions. It can also buy th<“
bonds back at whatever price it
agrees upon with the bondholders.
There is nothing in the act to prevent
it from borrowing money at six pe:
cent, aay, and loaning it out at three
percent, or borrowing at eight and
loaning ax once. There Is nothing to
prevent it from overloaning to one
Industry or section and underloading
to another industry or section, or
from accepting questionable collat
eral. lit the end the Treasury De
partment, not the Corporatioa. will
bear the losses incurred in this tre
mendous attempt to prevent industry
from going to the wall.”
Smith says he ;s not a candidate and
the Japs say they are fighting a de
fensive war. What a world!
First it was groundhog day. then
Lincoln’s anniversary this Friday, with
Valentine day Sunday. A week later
is Washington's birthday, and on the
29th the missus celebrates. We’ll say
this February Is a famous month.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
Gaorge Washington, tike some of
ua in these modern times, was •some
what of a stickler for the old ways
of doing things. And that accounts
for his refusal to observe February
22 aa his birthday. It continued to
be February 11 with him, even after
the British government had adopted a
new system of reckoning time. As
a matter of fact, it makes very little
difference whether George wwe born
on February 11 or 22. The big thing
is the service he gave to his country
and the government he helped to es
tablish here in the new world.
We clip ‘-the following from the
Goldsboro News-Argus about Wash
ington's birthday:
In a Bible at Mount Vernon, a Bible
more than 200 years old, may be seen
the following inscription:
"George Washington, son of Augus
tine and Mary, his wife, was born the
11th day of February, 1732. about 10
in the morning and was baptized the
sth day of April."
Why. then, do we nowadays cele
brate February 22. as Washington's
birthday?
The answer arises out of the fact
that the calendar on which the Eng
lieh-apeaking parts of the world were
running at the time of Washington’s
birth was not correct.
About 20 years after Washington's
birth, and while the American Colo
nies were still under British rule, the
British parliament dropped 11 days
from September of that year in order
to bring the written and printed cal
endar into more correct correspond
ence with the passage of the seasons
and years as measured by the sun and
the stars.
Than calendar, called the Julian
calendar, had gotten behind 11 days
in 17 centuries. The charge made by
British parliament followed by about
a century and a half the correction
instituted in some other countries by
order of the then Pope, Gregory XIII.
From this authority the Improved
calendar got its name of the Grego
rian calendar.
The change of course had wide
spread effects and special laws had to
be included to protect contracts, ate.
George Washington is said to have
been one of the many folks who, for
reasons of sentiment, continued to
keep anniversaries by the old dates
and, although he legally recognized
February 22. kept on observing Feb
ruary 11 as his birthday.
TODAY
America Month.
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.
1802—Lydia Maria Child, among the
most popular of miscellaneous
writers of her day. born at
Medford. Mass. Died in Way
land. Mass., Oct. 20, 1880.
1812 —Alexander H. Stephens. Geor
gia statesman. Vice-President
of the Confederate States of
America, born near Crawfords
vllle. Ga. Died in Atlanta, Ga.,
March 4. 1882.
'B2O- Theodore O'Hara, Kentucky
editor, soldier and poet, author
of “The Bivouac of the Dead,"
horn in Danville, Ky. Died In
Barbour Co.. Ala., June 6. 1867. 1
1833- Melville W. Fuller. Bth Chief I
Justice of the U. S., 1888-1910,
born at Augusta, Maine. Died at
Sorrento, Maine, July 4. 1910.
.836 Washington nationally
known Columbus, Ohio. Congre
gational clergyman and author,
born at Pottsgrove. Pa. Died at
Columbus, Ohio. July 2, 1918.
1339 Johiah Willard Gibbs. Yale Uni
versity’* noted professor of ma
thematical physics, born at New
HJaven. Conn. fDied April 28.
1903.
1847 Thomas Alva Edison, the great
est inventor Jn history’; creator
of the incandescent lamp, the
phonograph and 1,000 other in
ventions; ideal American; whose
name, for many years, typified
America the world over; born
at Milan. Ohio. Died at West
Orange, N. J.. Oct. 18, 1931.
TODAY IN HISTORY.
1836 Incorporation Mount Holyoke
Seminary. Mass.. one of the
first institutions in America for
the higher education of women.
1361 —Abraham Lincoln left home for
Washington to be inaugurated
President.
1929—The State of the Vatican City
created.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
Dr. Valeria H. Parker, nationally
known New York City social hygiene
worker, born in Chicago, 53 years
ago.
Governor Ross S. Sterling of Texas,
horn in Chambers Co., Tex., 57 years
ago.
Rear Admiral George W. Laws U.
S. N., born in Chanuahon, 111., 62
years ago.
Prof. Olive Day of Yale, noted eco
nomic historian, born at Hartford,
Conn., 61 years ago.
Dr. Hugh T. Karr, eminent Pitts
burgh Presbyterian clergyman, born
in Canada, 60 years ago.
Myer Bloomfield. New York City
lawyer, pioneer in the science of vo
cational guidance, born 54 years ago.
TODAY'S HOROSCOPE.
Today indicates a strong and force
ful nature. It is a day for a politician;
a leader of men. capable of forcing
away i nthe world by push and
energy. Avoid the tendency to excess
of violence in word and act, and keep
the passions in control. The nature
is endowed with & fortune that should
not be allowed to ruin itself by in
discretion.
HENDERSON, fN. C,T DAILY DISPATCH* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1982
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THURSDAY, February 11
“I Will Arise and Go to My Father”
(Read Psalm 32.)
It Is not easy for anyone to take the
first step back toward God. Pride
Interferes. Habits Untorier'e. Yet
we know that we must take that titep
or perish. So. let us make a definite
break with all our miserable doubts
and with all our menial reservations.
Let us endure this separation no
longer. Let us end this self-imposed
banishment from the only Light that
can be illumine our souls' darkness.
Have we lost all of our capacity for
action? Has our faith all but disap
peared? No. We will arise and go
to our Father. There is nothing else
left for us to do.
PRAYER: O God, we would have
sold ourselves into slaveryy, choosing
the way of selfishness in tho service
of mammon. We would have made
our bed in hell, seeking to please only
our senses. But Thou hast saved us
from ourselves i>.nd hast stirred again
in us the desire i Thee. We come,
O God, to Thee. We ask nothing
save that we may live once more in
Thy light. Father, wilt Thou now re
ceive us if we come? In deep humi
lity and in contrition, we pray that.
Thou wilt receive us. Amen.
Whose Captive ?
His enthusiasm a.- a war corres
pondent has placed Edward Hun
ter. International News Service, in
a difficult position. Arrested be
tween Changchung and Harbin,
Manchuria, Hunter is a prisoner of
one faction of the warring orient
als. Japanese authorities say that
he is in Chinese hands and Chinese
say that as they have no troops in
that area. Hunter’s captors must
be Japs. -Meantime General Araki,
Japanese Minister 6f War. has re
quested General Honjo. Jap com
mander in Manchuria, to try to
effect the relen.-c of the adventur
ous scribe.
Byrd Hero Jobless
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CtPt. Frederick C. Melville, skip
per of the City of New York, base
ship of the Byrd Antarctic expe
dition, who led the rescue of Ad
miral Byrd and his party from the
Ice of Little America two years
ago, is jobless. While watting for
shipping activities to open up, he
U writing a book about his south
pole experiences* at his home in
Lynn* Maaa.
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By Central Pres*
New York, Feb. 11—Balancing the
Books:
DEBITS
Time Wasted—Looking again at the
catching the show at a fourth rate
Second avenue night club; HMenlng
.to "Minnie the Moodher” sung by
every orchestra leader in town while
his players make vague discordant
sounds on their instruments; watch
ing debutantes and would-be debu
tante in the somnolently smart places
corttort themselves into pretzels after
the current dancing mode and reflect
ing that they are simply doing the
old can-can without fire; listening to
peppy young ladies who have a phrase,
a cliche for everything, such as “white
tie” for dull dress, "champagne-tea”
for cocktail party, and so on.
CREDITS
Time Well Spent—Watching " Noble
Sissle’s eloquent Hands in the Park
Central Hotel grill; eating onion soup
at the Lafayette, soft scrambled eggs
with sausage at Childs, pot au feu,
or what have you, at Charles'; get
ting a moronic delight out of the in
imitable “Popeye”iin the comics; view
ing Madison Square Garden's arena
when empty, vast and silent and full
of ghosts of thudding gloves, spinning
Wheels, skimming stakes, mara(hon
ing feet; looking straight down from
the tower of the Empire State build
ing; watching Ramon and Rosita
dance—Rosita being the little Waco,
Tex.' girl, who found fame as a Span
ish dancer in the night clubbs of the
world; feeling the thrill of receiving
ietters from readers in towns which
have just taken on this column.
HOP, SKIP AND JUMP
Anent my comment recently on the
thirst of radio execs for fresh slants
and new ideas, several people have
pointed out to me the mazes of red
tape which must be unwound before
a newcomer, with or without the goods
can get a hearing. They may have
had hard luck, or their moans may
mean something.. .There are only
about 8 per cent of all the telephones
'ln the world which you can’t right by
picking up yours and placing a call..
Bus barkers now point out to tour
ists the amazing resemblance between
a plaster saint on a comer of the
Riverside Rockefeller church and
Professor Albert Einstein... But the
figure’s mustachioed curve downward,
if you’ll notice, while Relativity Al’s
gc, slightly up. . .That monkey puzzle
printed here recently has unloosed a
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27 Pile
29 Long cut
30 Attention
31 Roofing material
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vengeance
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DOWN
Jk Liam
soporific spec
tacle on the stage
of Earl Carroll’s
beautiful theatre;
taxing through
the ‘maze of
trucks parked in
solently at 45-de
grec angles In
narrow 47th
torrent of demands for the solution,
with many answers subm.tted. . .The
only correct one opened so far stems
from a bright lady in Terre Haute,
1nd...1 flunked the blame thing my
self, I may as well confess, on the
first five tries...
There is one radio station which
doesn’t boil when an occasional mild
cuss-word slips into (the mike.. ."Aunt
Jemima," the ether is a grace
ful dancer, despite her ample build..
The Chinese and Japanese really don’t
look alike, as Ive discovered, study
ing photographs during the present
Eastern fracas...A New York paper
queried thousands of girl readers thus:
"Which would you rather (have, a hus
band and babies or Greta Garbo’s
fame and fortune?”.. .Ninety per cent
of the answers preferred the domestic
setup... How honest were they?...
You say, I can’t.
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10 Tunes
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19 A fuel
22 W.-*xy substance
23 Luminary
25 Malt beverage
27 Slim
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The Backward Student
The police department here has 220
goldfish on its hands, confiscated in
raided speakeasies.. .One Harry Ros
enthan, of Scarsdale, has offered to
buy them, but the Aquarian society
protected, on the ground that the
gentleman in question once tried to
introduce the vogue of dancing slip
pers trimmed with New Zealand gokl
fish, and that he has made shoes out
of frogskin.
QUEST
A postcard in this morning’s mail
Leads Search for Sub
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Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, first
lord of the British admiralty, has
been directing the search for the
British submarine M-2, which
dived to the bottom of the Eng
lish channel with a crew of 56
aboard. Hope of finding any of
the men alive was abandoned.
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Not" lad, who’s on his way to the
South Seas to meet and interview
among others. Queen Vaekeha, of the
Fiji islands, who hss 500 husband?
“That’s a place where one family out
of work means depression.'’ Rip says.
FASHION NOTE
My scouts, who never sleep, report
that tflie new hats ere being trimmed
with vegetables this year—springs of
parsley, chic groups of string beans,
baby tomatoes and so on, while a
smart boutonniere featured by one
shop consists of a bunch of miniature
bananas. One of those Mds below
off the other day, I am told, and
when the crowd Aspersed it resemb
lod a brown derby. One of the diners,
forewarned, carried a salt-cellar.
NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE Or
COTTON GIN
By virtue or power conferred in the
will of the late A J. Parkinson, duly
recorded in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Vance County,
and a deed of W. W. Dickerson, the
undersigned will sell, by public auc
tion. to the highest bidder for cash,
at the Court House door in Hender
son. on Monday, Feb. 29th., 1932 at
12 noon the following describ
ed property.
Begi nat the north east corner of
Mrs. Frances Goodson lot. run thence
eastward by Speer’s line 2 chains to
north west corner of Woodlief lot.
thence South along said lot 278 feet
to middle of road, thence westward
about 123 feet to Mrs. Goodson line,
thence northward along said line about
252 feet to the beginning, containing:
approximately 3-4 of an acre, being
known as the Gin lot, on which a Cot
ton Gin is located, just east of Kit
trell.
The Gin. machinery, and building
will be offered separately, and then
all the property as a whole.
This 28th day of January. 1932.
OSCAR H. PERKINSON,
E. H. PERKINSON,
P. J. PERKINSON.
Executors of estete of
A. J. PERKINSON. desea^ed
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