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PAGE FOUR SJntiU'mnt Hatly lifipatrlj fiitabllthMi August 12, 1214 Published Every Afternoon Except Monday by PENDERSON DISPATCH CO„ INC, at 169 Young Street ffiT.TfRT A DENNIS. Pres, and Editor If. L. FINCH, Seo.-Treaa., Bus. Mgr. TELEPHONES Editorial Office JJJ Society Editor •••• Business Office 910 The Henderson Daily Dispatch is a member <?f the Associated Press Southern Newspaper publishers Asso ciation and the North Carolina Press Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republlcation all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and Uso the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. SUBSCRIPTION PRICEB Payable Strictly in Advance One Year Six Months Three Months *• • • 1-5® Weekly (by Carrier Only) 15 Per Copy 06 National Advertising Representative! FROST, LANDIS A KOHN 250 Park Avenue, New York 860 North Michigan, Ave., Chicago General Motors Bldg., Detroit 1413 Healey Building, Atlanta. Entered at the post office in Hender son, N. C., as second class mail matter C.lßl*' r ~ «. . xL. GA' CHRIST fct—Uiifwu t mi.M4 . Inti «it» »r >6 JUSTICE FOR EXPLO ITERS: Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that they may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balance by deceit. —Amos 8:4, 5. t s TODAY TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES 1803—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ame rica’s great sage, essayist, poet, phil osopher and thinker, born in Boston. . Died at Concord, Mass., April 27, 1882. 1810 —William H. Channing, noted Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, arbiter in labor disputes, born at Schenectady, N. Y. Died July 21, 1908. 1847—John A. Dowie, preacher, pro phet and healer, the much-talked-of founder of Zion City, born in Scot land. Died in Chicago, March 9, 1907. 1854—Clara Louise Burnham, nove list, born at Newton, Mass. Died at Casco, Maine, June 20, 1927. 1860—Price Collier, journalist and traveler, born at Davenport, lowa. Died abroad, Nov, 3, 1913. TODAY IN HISTORY 1787 —(150 years ago) Constitutional Convention began sitting in Philadel phia. 1908 —Act of Congress approved re- * mitting a portion of the Chinese In- J dimnity. 1923 —American Iron and Steel In stitute refuse to abandon 12-hour day. 1925 —U. S. Supreme Court finds Japanese and other Asiatics, even though they served in American army, ineligible for citizenship. j 1932 —Mayor Walker of New York, on witness stand, states he put a quarter-million dollars in safe at home and that he and his wife “just spent it.” TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS j Dr. J. McKeen Cattell of Garrison, N. Y., famed psychologist, born at Easton, Pa., 77 years ago. i Rev. Dr. John R. Mott of Yonkers, N. Y., famed Y. M. C. A. leader, born \ at Livingston Manor, N. Y., 72 years ■ ago. 1 Gene Tunney, onetime champion , pugilist, born in New York, 39 years ' ago. j Igor I. Sikorsky of Bridgeport, Conn., aeronautical engineer and man- : ufacturer, horn in Russia, 48 years j ago. j Col. Henry Breckinridge of New York, noted lawyer, born in Chicago, 51 years ago. Dr. Selskar M. Gunn, sanitarian, vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, born in Eng- , land, 54 years ago. TODAY’S HOROSCOPE Today is a well-balanced day. It carries a noble and kind disposition, magnetic and fanciful and with con siderable talent. Today usually leads up to positions of trust and today’s na five will rise by his or her own merits, perhaps to a considerable eminence. It. is not a day of great wealth, though it promises success. mg 0 0 Iwftß \ \\ ( i 3k 2QKg. \/Y -'[QUIET VffS s * <?/v^ —. Today is the Day . By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1937, for this Newspaper by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Tuesday, May 26; Independence Day in Argentina. Morning stars: Saturn, Venais, Uranus, Mercury, Jupiter. Evening stars: Mars, Neptune. Full moon. Zodiac sign: Gemini. TODAY’S YESTERDAYS May 25, 1776—Congress authorized employment of Amerindians as scalp ers of whites! The measure was a retaliatory act, for the British, who invented scalping, were stirring up tribes to use it against the revolting colonists. As we’ve told you here before, Amer indians never took scalps until they were hired by our dear British cou sins to kill Frenchmen at so much per head, with the scalplock as the basis of payment of the bounty. May 25, 1803—Concord, Mass., be came the birthplace of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it was to be the place where he did the writing that made him the first American poet and es sayist with an international reputa tion. He ate pie every morning for breakfast, and if guests didn’t do the same, he’d have the piece of pie they didn’t eat on their plates at the next meal. We said here last week that Emer son was author of the phrase “If a man write a better book, preach a better sormon or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten track to his ; door.” This no doubt was a surprise to.some folk who believe Elbert Hub bard wrote everything he claimed in his books. Emerson thought so lit tle of the phrase he did not include it in his collected works. And it’s not true anyway. Two bet-' ter mousetraps were invented last year and exhibited at the Inventors’ Congress. They got wide pubicity in newspapers and magazines. Not even one person wanting a mousetrap has yet gone to the door of the inventors. They haven’t been able to sell the patent rights. AMERICA AT WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—76 were kill ed, 174 were wounded by German bombing planes which staged a raid upon England’s southeast coast and bombarded Dover, naval base for Eng land's Channel patrol force. Os the ANSWERS TO TEN QUESTIONS See Rack Page 1. Ship machine for hoisting anchor. 2. Spain. 3. George Bernard Shaw. 4. Trinity Sunday. 5. A lake in the Grampian Mountains in Scotland. 6. None. 7 Java. 8. A fermented beverage made from mare’s or cow's milk. 9. In an airplane accident. 10. Spain. What Do You Know About North Carolina? By FRED H. MAY 1. When was Woodrow Wilson a student at Davidson College? 2. What was the first victory for public education in North Carolina? 3. Why were the people of the Cape Fear counties exempt from taxes fol lowing the Revolutionary War? 4. In what direction does the State Capitol face? 5. What native of Guilford County became governor of the State of Ten nessee? 6. At what age did Walter Clark become a lieutenant in the Southern army? ANSWERS 1. V/oodrow Wilson entered David son College in the fall of 1873. He re mained in college until after the spring examinations but left before commencement because of illness. He did not return to college the next year but kept up his studies at home. 2. It was the following provision in the constitution of 1776 which said, “a school or schools shall be established by the legislature, for the convenient instruction of youth, with such sal aries to tV e masters, paid ty the pub lic, as may enable them to instruct at low prices.” The founding of the University was a partial happy ful fillment of the provisions of this ar ticle. No schools of lower learning were established. 3. Because of the destruction of the property in section by the Bri tish soldiers and Tories. The British had held the port of Wilmington and Brunswick and aided by the Tories had ravaged the whole Cape Fear Sec tion. 4. It faces east. The first Capitol building begun in 1792 fronted east, down New Bern Avenue. At that time the idea prevailed that important pub lic buildings should face toward Jerusalem. The original building was burned in 1831 and the present build ing which replaced it also was built to face the east. 5. Newton Cannon, Dorn in Guilford county in 1781 was governor of Ten nessee from 1835 to 1849. His chosen state first sent him to congress in 1813 to 1817 and again from 1819 to 1825. He was appointed by President Mon roe as one of the two commissioners to treat with the Chickasaw Indians. 6. At the age of 15 he was lieute nant and adjutant in the 35th North Carolina regiment, and was wounded at Sharpsburg. He resigned his com mission and entered the University where he graduated in 1864. Return ing to the army he was elected lieute nant colonel, being the youngest man to attain this lank in either army. HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, TUESDAY, MAY 25,1937 MAY | J.pCjvlil 9 lvo e* \ 1314is| ,a .. a4 ..V->&27 28|2ft| casualties, 43 were women and 23 wer e children. In numbers slain and maim ed it was the greatest aerial raid over England since the war bgan. This German raid on Dover and the (British ibombing attack .'on Zeebrugge, in both of which scores of civilians died, recalled Mark Twain’s satirical prayer for war: “O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smil ing fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shrieks of the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land for our sakes, who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, mak ing heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet. We ask of one who is the Spirit of love and who is the ever-faithful re fuge and friend of all that are sore beset, and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant our pray er, O Lord, and thine shall be the praise and honor and glory now and ever. Amen.” On the 25th, President Wilson made William S. Sims a vice admiral, so that he would be on equal terms with Allied naval commanders abroad. After a pause necessitated by a shortage of ammunition, Italian troops resumed the offensive and drove back the entire Austro-Hungar ian battle front on the Carso Plateau, bringing them within 16 miles of Tri este. In a two day thrust the Italians took 9,000 prisoners, including 300 of ficers, one town, one village and three hills o fvital strategical importance bear the Gulf of Trieste, location of the most important port and naval base of Austria on the Ardiatic. Twin Drive For Bilbao Will Start (Continued Iron. Page One.) trian neighbors struggled shoulder to shoulder. Several thousand troops recently called into action aided the Basque defenders. Basque commanders de clared Gladacano perhaps the most strategic point on the iron semi-circle of fortifications protecting Bilbao from the north, east and south had been sufficiently bulwarked to bring Mola’s warriors to a definite halt, but continued doggedly to delay this final test. Sectors to the northeast of the em battled capital lapsed into relative quiet. Crop Year Outlook Is Among Best (Continued from T*age One.) looking good. Bud worms did consid erable damage around the first of May. Likewise, many farmers replanted cotton because rains drowned out their first efforts. The ?cond planting is up to a good stand. Blair added. Much of the credit for the good stands may be traced to the treatment of the cotton seed with Ceresan, the agronomist declared. More farmers than ever before have treated their cotton seed this season. Most tobacco which has been set out is thriving, but the farmer’s chief problem this year has been the secur ing of sufficient plants due to the j ravages of blue mold. Small grains are unusually good, is are vetch, red and crimson clover, | Blair stated. Prison System Is At Stake in Fight fCnnMnuej rrom "age One.) break up th prsent Statewide prison plan and break the system down into ten divisions, with the highway com missioner in each division the head j of the prison camps in his division as well as of the roads. For several years now there has been a growing animosity between the “old timers” in the prison system, con sisting chiefly of those which were inherited from the old State Prison . regime, when George Ross Pou was ( superintendent, and the hold-overs from the old county prison camps, and the personnel added after the prison system was consolidated with the highway system. Under the administration of former Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, first under Chairman E. B. Jeffress and then under Chairman Capus M. Way nick, an entirely new note in prison ! administration and management was introduced in North Carolina. The first was that the prisoners must work on the roads and help pay the cost, of maintaining the prison. The second was that the prison system is for the benefit of the State and of the prisoners in it, rather than for those, running it, that the prisoners were hu- j man beings and must be treated as j such. The new order and new ideas in jected into the prison system were well received by the public generally | and immediately resulted in improved I morale among the prisoners, with pri son disorders and escapes falling off to the lowest figures ever recorded. The guards and other prison employes who had been inherited from the old prison camps and State Prison who were able to fall in line and get in step with the new administration, stayed on. Those who did not were fired. A few who thought enough of their jobs to conform with the new plan of prison administration to car ry out orders, even though they were not in sympathy and harmony with the new system, managed to hold on and are still holding on. But this latter group, together with the scores, if not hundreds, of former prison guards and employes who had' been fired and hence cut off the State’s payroll, early joined forces with (he contractors and others who were out to get Waynick’s scalp—and who got it—in the hope that any change in the administration of the highway commission would he better for them them Waynick and Oscar Pitts, acting director of the prison division. A good many felt that since the General Assembly definitely put the highway commission hack on a district basis, it would be easy for the commission to put the prison admin istration on a district basis also, and thus open the way for the county po liticians in these districts to get their fingers in the prison pie, as well as in the highway dough. But whether this faction gets away with its far-flung plans remains to he seen, as both Governor Hoey and | (he new highway commission have the final say-so. Governor Hoey has al ready stated that he wants the same policies to be continued in the man agement and administration of the prison system as have prevailed dur j ing the past four years and if he makes this clear to the new highway , commission, it will have little choice. For its members were appointed by 1 the governor. Yet it is known that \ some of the commissioners are in hearty accord with the suggestion J that the prisons as well as the roads j be administered on a district instead ! of a Statewide basis. ! : TRADE IS SKIMPY IN STOCK EXCHANGE Market in Sound Technical Position But Traders Keep Mostly to Sidelines New York, May 25. —(AP) —Traders had a slightly chilly attitude toward the stock market today, and shares were allowed to shift for themselves at limited losses. Trading continued skimpy. That the market was in com paratively sould technical position was shown, brokers said, byt the fact offerings did not swell on the decline. In the bond market, United States government obligations and low-yield corporates found favor. Transactions approximated 800,000 shares. American Radiator 21 1-8 American Telephone 168 American Tob B 78 7-8 Anaconda 54 1-8 Atlantic Coast Line 47 1-2 Atlantic Refining 29 1-4 Bendix Aviation 20 1-2 Bethlehem Steel 85 3-8 Chrysler 11l 1-4 Columbia Gas & Elec Co 12 Commercial 14 Continental Oil Co 15 3-8 DuPont 159 Elec Power & Light 10 7-8 General Electric 53 3-4 General Motors ... *. 56 1-2 I Liggett & Myers B 95 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 51 Reynolds Tob B 50 Southern Railway 38 1-4 i Standard Oil Co N J 66 3-4 U S Steel 97 3-4 j COTTON QUIET BUT PRICES ARE LOWER Close Is 14 to 17 Points Down, With Middling at L 3.16 Cents in Quotations New York, May 25 (AP)-Cotton J futures opened steady, two to four 1 points lower on easier Liverpool cables and continued favorable weath er. By the end of the first half hour the market had sold off 5 to 9 points, October having declined from 12.70 to 12.87. By midday the market was quiet j at or within a point of the lows. Futures closed steady, 14 to 17 low-. er. Spot quiet, middling 13.16. Open Close! Ju 1 ;/ 12.78 12.6*7 | October 12.68 12.59! December 12.67 12.54! January 12.70 12.57 March 12.76 12.63’ May 12.80 12.67 ALLEGHANY~VOTES ON LIQUOR STORES Jones County Elections Board To Consider Matter Soon; Dare Stores Open June 15 Raleigh, May 25 (AP) —Alleg- , hany county voters ballotted today i on whether the county shall ope rate liquor stores. Observers fore cast a close vote. Meantime, at Trenton, N. C-, Ben Brock, chairman of the Jones County L ections Board, said the board would consider a petition for a liquor election at its next meeting. At Manteo, N. C., M. L. Daniels, chairman of the Dare county ABC board, said the county’s liquor stores would be opened about June 15. . C. I. O. Meanwhile Stirt e Bis: Drive For Other Groups (Continued from Page One.) eorriing the steel workers' organizing committee the right to represent its members. | bAout 3,000 workers of the Sharon Steel Company in Sharon, Pa., and Lowellville, Ohio, voted today to de termine whether the committee should represent them in collective bargaining. Ven Bittner, S. W. O. C. regional director at Chicago, carried the campaign for the contract with the Inland Steel Corporation into a conference with company officials at 28th Year of Service INSURANCE All forms Property Management Rentals. Sales Loans on Real Es.ate | Long or short terms Surety Bonds Your interest protected j Your business appreciated. Al. B. Wester Office 115 Young St. Phone 139-J. 1 THE LIGHTNING ROD: Indiana Harbor, Ind., earlier in the day. At Cincinnati, American Federation of Labor chieftains fashioned strategy for war on the Lewis C. I. O. Thomas Ricket, president of the United Gar ment Workers, announced that union’s agreement with the Amal gamated Clothing Workers was at an end because of the latter’s affiliation with the C. I. O. The A. F. of L. executive council considered plans to augment the war chest. John Frey, president of the metal trades department said reds were ac tive in the C. I. O. and the communist party expected to control it eventual ly. The charges were ridiculed by Charles Howard, president of the In ternational Typhographical Union, and the only C. I. O. member at the conference. Take the Dispatch With You! Take the Dispatch with you on vacation this summer! Let the home-town doings follow you wherever you go; read what’s going on in Henderson when you have more time to enjoy what you’re reading. PHONE 610 OR USE THUS COUPON The Dispatch will be sent to you every day without fail if you’ll let us know before you go. Fill out this coupon. THE DAILY DISPATCH I Please send my Dispatch to me I at I (Address) (Town) (State) | from to | ■ (date) (date) NAME * | ADDRESS * WANT ADS PLANTS-ZINNIAS, LARGE, SMALL sweet scented Marigold Asters, Scabiosa, Calendula Fetunias and Snapdragons will be ready in a few days. W. R. Turner Miss Kate Furman. 25-lti WANTED YOU TO SEE “YOU’RE In The Army Now,' Vance Theatre Thursday for benefit of Color Guard 105th Medical Regiment. 25-2 ti All keyed ads are strictly c >n fidential. Please do not call the office for their identity. FOR SALE THREE FRESH MILK cows, one full blooded Jersey giv ing four gallons per day. Several others coming fresh soon. Claude .1. Fleming, near Wise, N. C. 25&2S STUDENT CENTER OFFERS BlG gest sale of year on patent medi cines and other articles. Everything must go below cost. 23-2 U REAL VALUES IN CEILING, flooring, square edge and beveled siding, finishing boards 7 pine and cypress. A big stock of doors and windows. Alex S. Watkins. 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