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PAGE SIX HIGHWAY SAFETY HA® TALKED instruct High School Seniors in How to Drive Automobiles K*Aliy Dlftpafcb Barham, In tfce Sir Walter Hotel By J. BASKKRVIJ.L f" Raleigh, May 25—With the high schools of the State turning out be tween *24,000 and 25,000 graduates each spring and who will soon become the State’s newest crop of automobile driv ers —although many of these have al ready started driving cars before they finish high school —the time has come to give these high school graduates some definite instruction in how to drive automobiles- more safely, in the opinion of Director Arthur Fulk, of the highway safety division of the De partment of Revenue. Accordingly a conference was held Monday between State Superintend ent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Er win, Director Fulk and Dr. Herbert J. iStack, of Columbia University and director of the safety education di vision of the national bureau of cas ualty and surety underwriters, regard ed as one of the outstanding figures in.the safety education field today, in an- effort to work out a definite safety education program for all the high schools in North Carolina. As a re sult, Superintendent Erwin is going to try to work out a plan calling for a definite course in highway safety in every high school in the State, be ginning next year. "What we are recommending is that every boy and girl in the junior or senior classes in every high school in the State be given a minimum of 16 periods of instruction in highway safety, or one period a week for 16 weeks,” Dr. Stack said. “Experience in other states shows that this much instruct; n has proved very valuable in reducing accidents among the new crops of drivers each year, also that the boys and girls who have taken these courses are much more safety conscious, develop into much better and much safer drivers than those who have not had this instruction. "At present there are 21 states in which regular instruction in safe driving and the proper operation of automobiles is taught as a regular part of the high school curriculum, with 3,000 high schools giving this instruction. But this is hardly a drop in the bucket when we realize that there are some 15,000 high schools in the nation, from which approximately 1,000,000 boys and girls are graduated each year and -that most of these are potential pew drivers of automobiles. They have had instruction in Latin, in algebra and geometry, in history and science—yet few of them have had any instruction in the safe and proper operation of an automobile or in the traffic laws of their State. Yet the records show that within two years 65 per cent of all the boys who graduate from high school and 45 per cent of all the girls become drivers of automobiles, while many start driv ing thei rown or their parents cars before they leave high school.” Experience has shown that not much can be done to educate adult automobile drivers to drive more safely, except by strict law enforce ment, heavy fines apd prison sentenc es, Dr. Stack said. ' But actual re cords in counties and states where there has been compulsory and syste matic safety education in the public schools has shown a decided improve ment in safe driving among the young er drivers. "Our chief hope, then, is in educat ing the younger drivers to be more careful and in how to drive safely,” Dr. Stack said. “For the three main needs of a good automobile driver are accurate information about how the car operates, a proper attitude and skill in operation. We have found that young drivers who have not had definite instructiqji in the operation of an automobile usually do not have sufficient knowledge or information about the mechanical operation of a car, do not have the right sort of at titude and ar e lacking in skill, due to insufficient experience. We have also found that of those young driv er®<— older ones, too—who have the main factor is usually a, bad attitude. They do not realize the need for being careful, for obeying thfe law and either don’t care or don’t realize that other people and other drivers have eertain rights.” jßoth Dr. Erwin and Director Fulk were impressed with the facts given them by Dr. Stack and agreed to do everything possible to bring about more and better instruction in safe and proper driving in the schools of the State. Missing Virginia NurSe Mystery at Albuquerque, N. M; Albuquerque, N. M., May 25.—<(AP) —A slender hope the fate of Miss Martha Pifer, missing Indian sana torium nqrse, whose home is in Vir ginia, might be determined in the swirling waters of the Rio Grande was abandoned today by Sheriff Ross Salazar. Attention of officers was turned to- - ward the river last night when Police Chief Pat O’Grady received an anony-' mous note saying the writer had “put her there and maybe she is drown by now.” Palaza joined O’Grady in expressing belief the note was written by a crank but added he would press the search "if there were a chance of doing any thing.’’ ~ . He said it wpuld “take an army to search the river, swollen by melting snow.” ' LEARN A TRADE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES: Print ing offers many, opportunities for advancement to young men. Skilled workmen in this industry are in de mand. THE SOUTHERN SCHOOL OF PRINTING’S facalities for teaching the iqpchanics of-the tirade * are the best.. For,particulars write * to V C. Garriott, Secretary-Treasur er, 151,4-16 South .Street, NaahvlUg, Tennessee. - m—. aria hex Lngiand .bw. may have bem (as King?inAquicns hereb een ever sine*} ah£ tooarceto tfaekeamon. of oUWs JtoXs his treasure ; JjeWioACL NEXT—The Spanish Armada. Elizabeth breaks Spain’s power on the sea. Age of William Shakespeare, other great poets. Elizabeth introduces laws for poor. BUDGET enlarged BY PRESBYTERIANS Assembly at Montreat Adopts $1,375,-, 000 Total To Be Raised in Coming Year Montreat, May 25 (AP) —A budget of $1,375,000 for general purposes was approved today by the General As sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The budget was approved as recom mended by the committee on stew ardship and finance. The total was $25,000 above the present budget. Church activities sharing in the amount would be as follows: Foreign missions, $719,583; home missions, $380,417; religious education and pub lications, $61,875; training schools, $20,625, and American Bible Society, $13,750. Scottsboro Cases To Be Resumed On July 6 in Alabama Decatur, Ala., May 25. — (AP) — Resumption of trials of the Ne gro defendants in the interna tionally known “Scottsboro case” was ordered today for July 6 by Judge H. W. Callahan in Morgan County Superior Court. The Negroes, whose convictions twice have been reversed by the United State Supreme Court are charged with attacking two white women aboard a freight train. Judge Callahan ordered a spe cial term of the court to convene the first Tuesday in July and or dered the sheriff to have eight of the nine Negro defendants in court at 9 a. m. The N»3groes now are held in jail at Birmingham. At the last “Scottsboro trials” last year Haywood Patterson was convicted a third time and sen tenced to 75 years. His appeal now is pending before the Alabama, Supreme Court and he will not be brought here July 6. e•• * ' Leaves To Attend Marriage of Son Mrs. W. G. Watkins left today for Waynesville, where she will be joined by her son, M. D. Watkins, and they will go to Nashville, Tenn., for the wedding there next Thursday of Mrs. Watkins’ son, Linville. to Miss Johnie Turner, of Jacksonville, Texas. The groom-to-be is a member of the pitch ing staff of the Nashville baseball club in the Southern Association. He was farmed to the Jacksonville club by Nashville last year. r— —— —* Ydii’re Telling Me! • , ■...<• rvr'n ——-h * By..WILLI AM RITT Central Press Paper The papers -say they have just dug another prehistoric dinosaur some where in Asia—Thibet I think it was, or maybe it was Philadelphia. Any way, it was .plenty big—perhaps big enoungh to bang today’s columns on one of its bones. i : ■ ... .• So, now, if all you children will kindly put away your nudist maga zines and, date books and give teach er your undivided attention you brats will learn something that may do you no more good than the knowledge of Lou Gehrig’s batting average, but, at least, this is scientific. The dinosaurs, it seems, were the biggest pieces of self-moving meat that ever swallowed an oak tree for a cocktail hour caanape (which is French for hors d’oeuvres which, in turn, is French for little bits of indi gestion served on a tray). While the my dears, were as big as heavyweight whales they possessed even less brain matter than the pedestrains who think the police force put up traffic lights as a joke. . These oversized animals were so dumb they ate up all the trees they could find instead of leaving the table a trifle hungry so they would have something left to eat dn another day and not to mention retain that grace ful waistline. Eventually, the dinosaurs got to eat ing each other up. This was very dramatic and had swell screen possi bilities, but naturally reduced the number of dinosaurs until there was only one left and he —or she—of course, starved. We feel very sorry for the din osaurs, but, in away, it is very lucky they disappeared when they did, as the human race- would have encoun tered serious difficulties, if the din osaurs had gotten the idea that they wore lapdogs. Manager Frank Frisch, quizzing a sqout on a bush league player’s pros pects: “I don’t care if he can throw like Rube Waddell and bat like Ty Cobb—how’s his footwork?” HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, TUESDAY, MAY 25,1937 Mussolini Paper Warns Jews View They Must Adopt Milan, Italy, May 25.— (AP) — Premier Mussolini’s newspaper .de manded today Italian Jews pub licly declare themselves enemies of “international Hebrewism” or renounce their Italian citizenship and residence. “We do not admit that our He brews can have the mentality of their co-religionists who were and are the inspiration of the Spanish horrors, of the French disorienta tion, or the Soviet inferno,” Oreste Gregorio wrote in the newspaper, the Milan Popolo d’ltalia. “The Hebrews of Italy face a dilemma which up to now they have ignored—perhaps transport ed by a religious impulse or by a vision which did not cling to reality—a precise and inevitable dilemma,” Gregorio wrote. * INQUEST SATURDAY IN GASTON KILLING Gastonia, May 25 (AP) —Coroner C. C. Wallace announced today he would hold an inquest Saturday on the death of John H. Graves, local shoe repair er, fatally hurt in a car collision Fri day night. Fred M. Allen, textile as sociation secretary here, is under sl,- 000 bond in connection with the death. ACQUITTAL REFUSED TO PARKER AND SON Newark, N. J., May 25 (AP) — Federal Judge William Clark to day denied motions by Ellis Par ker and son, Ellis, Jr., for a di rected verdict of acquittal in their trial on. conspiracy charges in the Paul Wendel abduction. Highway Board Is Told By Governor To Plan As - Single Statewide Unit fContinued irorr Page One.) mission should reserve to itself the power to formulate the State road po licy, with the district commissioners acting as contact men to represent the full commission in solving local pro blems, and meeting with representa tive authorities throughout the sev eral counties. Enlargement To Be Sought Unless Older Men Retire (Continued from Page One.) written to Chairman Wagner, Demo crat, New York, of the Senate Bank ing Committee, asking the securities act be strengthened “in connection with the form and content of the in dentures and the duties to be assum ed by the trustees acting under them.” Activity on Capitol Hill was light for the day. Few committee hearings were in progress, and the main busi ness before Congress was final House action on the $1,500,000,000 relief ap propriation. f ii ... - ■ ■ j... i -t—■ i ■■ M —i Crime Put On Girl By Ex-Sweetie , f »•mrjf . ■—.m (Continued from Page One.) inaccuracies in her police statement accusing her ex-sweetheart of the hat chet slaying, Gladys fought back un der cross-examination, insisting the statement was “substantially true.” While her co-defendant, Donald, listened to Prosecutor Daniel O’Re gan’s continued efforts to break down the girl’s story, Gladys clung to her testimony,, “Donald did it.” ,i Her story was still largely unshak en when the prosecutor ended his main cross-examination of the girl at noon, after two days of questioning- Just before the prosecutor finished, Judge Thomas Meaney asked of Gladys; “How do you feel?” “All right,” said Gladys. But she looked tired, and glanced at the clock. •»- - - T" ' : - 11 Daughter of .Brown . Talks For Defense (Continued from Page One.) i . ■ i » ... A-1 strike her mothre. Her sister, Annie Belle, 17, testifying for the State last week, said her father knocked her mother down Christmas eve because the latter wanted to go to a road house dance. .... t The child said the only jbipw struck during the Christmas eve quarrel yvas delivered by her mother, who .she -said took the defensive. She said her moth er pushed her father up against a wall and he only shoved her away to de fend Irmself. Walter Brown, the defendant’s brother;, testified Brown’s daughter Dorothy, told him after the Christmas eve quarrel her father did not strike her mother and her mother had teen the aggressor,, ■ * t . Dorothy Brown was the last wit ness for the defense, which closed its case at noon. CARP-GRAPHICS ~~ bv S% DOVOUKIIW v AfA iIHA^WMSWORNmiFRF PIOYOUKHOIYthat / DIDYOUKNOILmt ABOUT $9,000,000 0F NORTH // JOSFFH HUQHFS", OF EDFN CAROIINA GOAD \VAf COINED AT TON WAfTHE FIRST PfltfON PHILADELPHIA BEFORE I 860? II TO BRING BFFORE THE CON TMWAS ONLY A MALL PART I' H TINENTAL CONGREW, THE OFTriE GOLD TAKEN FROM THE PROPOSITION OF INDEPEN MINES IN THE L£(JISIATi)RE OF 1876, A BUI \YAF DFNCF t V- INTRODUCED "TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE X f ,5 ' OF NORTH CAROLINA AGAINST • • • • TH£ EDITORS OF How to Reduce the Waist Line HI > M Ilf . • ' . . . . • I, Trying to take off a couple of tons, Pit, the elephant, joins pretty Gena Collins in a few setting-up exercises. Both the behemoth and the little lady are features of the Pan-Arherican Exposition to open in Dallas, Tex., in June. (Central Press) FACE DEATH IN HATCHET SLAYING •_ > jig Ji H I Mg mBM • : ::p J jp;: : : i <*** WM 'V f .Jy-:;108 l-p ■ ijHHI m •-.s- i?-:- 'M \ ::■ ■ t; . ■>' y.-:-’:ggßßiߧBßk Donald Wightman . Gladys Mac Knight ?r?,t t !\ pe^lty for Donald Wightman, 18-year-old former choir singer, sweetheart, Gladys Mac Knight, was asked fey Prosecutor Daniel T. O’Regan as the two went on tvM -in JewZ Each dAf^^° U SI^ arged r ith the hs * tchet murder of-Gladys’ mother. Each defendant Pames the other for the crime. .They are shown above bn way to court for the day’s session. THIS WEEK-ISO YEARS AGO fflrTl ' The Story of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 * Sentinel Features ~ FOR THE PEOPLE One hundred and fifty years ago this summer a group of fifty-five Americans planned and wrote an historic document that stands as one of the high lights of human achievement. It sounded a new note in govern ment. It made government of the people, by the people, for the peo ple practical and lasting. It became the inspiration and the model of democratic governments throughout the world. It was the Constitution of the United States. In this and succeeding articles will be told each week the story of how, on the same dates of 150 years ago. those fifty-five men wrought through a sweltering Philadelphia summer, to give the American ideal of freedom both reality and per manence. The Convention that wrote our Constitution opened formally on May 25, 1787, at Philadelphia, in the historic structure already famous as the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence. Its purpose was to achieve a more practical form of union than was provided under'the Articles of Confederation, which had proved so inadequate as to be called “a rope of sand.” To many contemporary observers that opening session seemed rela tively, unimportant. But Jater his torians learned to acknowledge it as one of the most significant sessions of the entire summer. For 6n that date the Convention chose George Washington as its presiding officer. Although his voice was seldom heard thereafter in debate, into the final product of that Convention, the American Constitution, was woven. much of the strength and grandeur of his character. Realizing, but undaunted by, the difficulties ahead, Washington faced them with a soldier’s simple faith and courage. /foAH NUMSKUU. f* 'r°'rAL V— ECL - IPSF ' : FOR DEIAC. A YOUNG MAN TOUCHED, HIS FATHER. FOR. A HUNDRED, WOULD IT BE A\ SON STROKE ? jed jg TITOSVILU&, PA. DEAR. NOAH= WOULDN'T THE. PR.IMA DONNA 'S PERSONAL. NOTE. BE PERFECTLY GOOD ON THE HIGH SEA? DR-. J.AOVEJtTON 0 FARMINSTON. mo. COAAEL or* POUKS-SEJMD YOUfe. NUASKUIO-ION NOTIONS EARLT TO NOAH, IN CARE. OF THIS MPCft. Aloah Numskuu. 1 jwAHTEDj UtiHT i ' DEAR. 1 PICTURES IN THE E ROGUES SALLE.R.Y steal, engravings -> UUNE. STAI.TE.R.- SYCAWCeE . f a i v DEAR NOAR=IF THE 1 WHISTLE WENT ON A’ ! TOOX WOULD THE 1 Pistons ring and the ! SOVER.NOR.S BALL. f ' <=> h outlano y A - DEAR NOAH— WHEN SHOES DYE, DO THEY TURN UP THEIR TOES 7 MIIDRELC) HAYES CORBIN, tc.y.’ North Pole Pilot gjp^lfe . IP j M. V. Vodopyanoff, (above)' has added to his laurels by*, landing a Soviet plane at the North' Pole. Vodopyanoff is chief pilot forj the Dr. Otto J. Schmidt expedition which is charting an airline between Moscow and San Francisco across the North Pole. (Central Press) BY RAYMOND PITCAIRN “Let us raise,” he urged, “a stand ard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.” I During those first days, too —on May 29—the Convention received two plans which contained many of the fundamental principles finally incorporated in the Constitution. They were significant proposals—for they emphasized the idea of gov ernment by the people. One was the “Virginia Plan,” introduced by Edmund Ran dolph, Governor of that state, though largely developed by James Madison. An outstanding feature was its proposal of a National Legislature in which the people should be represented, rather than the separate states. Its basic principle was probably best expressed'by Madison when he wrote: “The genius of republican liberty seems to demand . . . that all power should be derived from the people.”, It proposed too, a National Execu tive and a National Judiciary. * All these proposals were new and at variance with the Articles of Confederation under which the new nation had lived since the close of the Revolution. The second plan came from an other Southerner, youthful Charles Pinckney, of South Carolina. Similar in general principles to the Ran dolph Plan, it was more specific in detailed provisions. It was, however, the famous Vir ginia Plan which formed the basis of the early debates. What was said in those debates and how from them developed the Constitution under which our nation has risen to great ness, will be told in succeeding ar tides. Next Week: Unique in Govern ment. mm i WILS -BLA sshLjl George Washington
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