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Capital Gossip
BY HENRY A VERIER
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
in the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 13. —' Taking notice of
the many protests made against it,
Lon Folger, Democratic national com
mitteeman, explains that the $25 (no
more, no less) contribution plan for
raising $12,500 for tne national con
gressional campaigns of 19?8 is the
product of the national treasurer and
not of the State organization.
Treasurer Quayle is quoted by Mr.
Folger as saying that the plan has
worked splendidly in every state
where it has been tried. It is not in
tended to be undemocratic by keeping
the “little fellow” from contributing
his mite, but has been adopted on the
principle that for national campaign
fund purposes the small contribution
costs almost as much as it is worth
to get. A contribution of sl, for ex
ample, is more of a liability than an
asset, says Mr. Quayle, because of the
great mass of detail work which must
be done in connection with collecting
it.
The smaller contributors can do
their bit by contributing to their lo
cal district and state Democratic cam
paign funds, Mr. Quayle points out.
E. F. Arnold, secretary of the North
Carolina Farm Bureau Federation has
gone to Chicago to attend the annual
session of his national organization,
the American Farm Bureau Federa
tion.
The National Labor Relations Board
made North Carolina something of a
battleground for labor litigation last
week, with hearings on “discrimina
tion against union” charges in Raleigh,
Charlotte, Greensborq and other
points.
Contrast. Raleigh folks who shiver
ed on the streets Saturday read this
cheering item (gathered by the enter
prising United Press) when they reach
ed their offices:
“Eleven persons were overcome to
day as Rio de Janeiro sweltered in an
early summer heat wave that pushed
the temperature up to. 101.3 degrees
Fahrenheit in the shade.
Raleigh's morning paper Saturday
fired a blast at Chairman Frank L.
Dunlap, cf the Highway Commission,
charging him with ‘suppressing news.’
As the N. and O. assault said,
newsmen have found the highway
commission an awfully tough proposi
tion since Capus Wavnick was ousted;
but there is some difference of opinion
over the reason.
Some hold that Mr. Dunlap just
won’t talk. Others hold that he does
not know anything (not even what’s
happening in his own department) to
talk about.
These sc-called “strong, silent men”
are often just plain dumb, you know.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey, celebrat
ing his 60th birthday anniversary Sat
urday, reasserted his allegiance to
prohibition as the best solution of the
liquor question.
He expressed the opinion that the
majority cf North Carolinians would
vote against the present county liquor
store system if the matter were sub
mitted to a vote.
Freezer-lockers offer North Caro
lina farmers a good opportunity to
store meat, fruit and vegetables and
keep them fresh”, says H. W. Taylor,
of State College.
DWARF OAK SPECIES
IS FOUND IN STATE
Petroleum Committee Chief Says They
Oppose TJ.ae of Highway
Funds Otherwise
Dispatch Fliireau.
_ the Sir W-lter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 13.—This story is
about Quercus Ilicifolia.
No, it isn’t a football story. Quercus
is not an all-American center like
Wojciechowitcz. It’s a “dwarf oak.”
Some 25 yeo.rs ago, while making a
study of the timber resources of Gas
ton county, State Forester J. S. Hol
mes climbed Crowder’s Mountain to
look out over the surrounding coun
try and to estimate the proportion of
forest and cultivated land.
H e was somewhat surprised to dis
cover a species of dwarf oak quite
common in Connecticut and Pennsyl
vania, but which had never been re
ported south of Virginia. The dwarf
oak is known as “bear oak” and'its
botanical name is Quercus Ilicifolia.
Within the past ten days, Holmes
found some more of these dwarf bear
oaks on Moore’s Knob in Hanging
Rock State Park. The trees are very
small and rather difficult to recog
nize. They resemble the chaparrel
found in the west more thany any
thing else and they form a cover so
dense that even the bears have great
difficulty in penetrating it.
“The chief interest in finding
growths of this bear oak here in
North Carolina is that these thickets
are examples of the persistency of
some species of trees in growing at
great distances from their normal
habitat,” Mi - . Holmes said.
The oaks found on Moore’s Knob
were located very near the top of the
mountain, which has an elevation of
2,225 feet.
Incidentally, Mr. Holmes says, there
is no short walk in the Piedmont
which will reward a person seeking
•beauty which will outdo the climb of
about two miles from the parking
space for automobiles and the top of
Moore’s Knob in Hanging Rock State
Park.
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“Stand In” now at the Vance
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College Station, Raleigh, Dec. 13.
J. H. Campbell, of Alexander county,
has been elected president of the
State College Agricultural Club for
the mid-winter term.
A senior in agricultural education
Campbell expects to graduate in
March at the close of the winter term.
He has taken an active part in the
work of the agricultural club, and
while he was chairman of the pro
gram committee, attendance at meet
ings _ _-3 pc- cant.
FINDS PEOPLE ARE
AGAINST DIVERSION
State Forester Makes New Discovery
of Tree He First Located
25 Years Ago
Raleigh, Dec. 13.—Sentiment of
North Carolinians is running strong
ly against diversion of highway funds
to other purposes, State Senator S.
Gilmer Sparger, , secretary of the
North Carolina Petroleum Industries
Committee, said today.
Senator Sparger is conducting a
series of meetings all over the Stale,
at which oil men and others interested
in the subject of diversion and the
taxes on gasoline are being given ttv
benefit of information collected by the
N. C. Petroleum Industries Commit
tee.
“There is no doubt that the people
of the State are opposed, in principle
to the diversion of highway funds tc
other purposes,” said Senator Sparger
“and if the 1939 General Assembly can
be induced to pass an enabling act
submitting the question to a vote of
the people, I have no fear about the
result. An anti-diversion amendment
would be adopted by an overwhelm
ing majority.”
He pointed out, however, that a
two-thirds vote in both houses of the
assembly is necessary to submit ar.
amendment to the people.
“Legislators are like the rest of the
people,” he said. “They are personally
against the principle of diversion, but
they do. not see any way to get tlm
money for the Slate’s general fund ex
cept by the levy of new taxes which
would bring a tremendous howl from
those affected by it. Diversion has be
come the easy way to save them this
embarrassment.”
It will be neccmu’-y arouse public
opinion to the point where voters will
demand from their for the
assembly pledges to favor an anti-di
version amendment, he said, in order
to assure its submission.
RURAL LIFE TO BE
EXTENSION THEME
College Station, Raleigh, Dec. 13—
“Rebuilding North Carolina’s Rural
Life” will be the keynote of thean
nual conference of the State College
Agricultural Extension Service, Jan
uary 11-14.
County farm and home agents from
over the State will gather at the col
lege to meet with extension specialists
and district agents and study plans for
the 1938 extension program, said John
W. Goodman, assistant extension di
rector.
Members of the Farm Security Ad
ministration and the Soil Conserva
tion Service staffs will also partici
pate in the conference, Goodman add
ed.
These three organizations are work
ing to advance agriculture and help
farm people "ttain a higher standard
of living, he continued, “and wc are
coordinating ur work in an endeavor
to render a greater service.”
ERODED LAND MADE
INTO GOOD PASTURE
College Station, Raleigh, Dec. 13.
Approximately 1,400 acres of steep' and
eroded land has been retired to per
manent pasture by farmers cooperat
ing with the Soil Conservation Ser
vice and State College Extension Ser
vice in the erosion-control demonstra
tion area near High Point. An addi
tional 600 acres of old pasture has
been treated, giving 2,000 acres of im
proved pasture i:\ me area.
While this is only a part of the com
plete erosion-control program which
cooperators are putting into effect on
their farms it is a phase of the work
that has enabled them to work out a
better balanced farm program and a
more even distribution of farm labor
James M. Parks, project agronomist,
points out.
1927—C01. Lindbergh’s good-will
flight from Washington to Mexico
City.
Gladys George—in—“Madam-X”
Stevenson Wednesday and Thursday
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DaILY ufSPATCII MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1937
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Dickens’ Christmas Carol
OHOST TRANSFORTED
\ SCROOGE FAR FROM THE CITY. AND THE GHOST ENTERED A ' NOW SHOWED HIM
SCROOGE HAD RETIRED, BUT ALONG THE COUNTRY .ROAD, SCHOOLROOM WHERE A LONELY LE LOOKED BEFORE LEAV
AWOKE SUDDENLY ON THE DEEP SCROOGE RECOGNIZED "EVERY BOY SAT READING. “THE SCHOOL SCHOOL ON A CHRISTMAS
DULL STROKE OF ONE. LIGHT GATE AND POST AND TREE. IS NOT QUITE DESERTED,” SAID R ? L / ; DAY - * 1 REME MBER,” SAID
HAD FLASHED UP IN THE ROOM, “GOOD HEAVENS!” HE CRIED AS THE GHOST. SCROOGE LOOKED, SCROOGE, DRYING HIS EYES.
AND HE FOUND HIMSELF FACE HE LOOKED ABOUT, “I WAS BRED AND WEPT TO SEE HIS POOR FOR- “THAT GIRL, YOUR SISTER, DIED
TO FACE WITH THE GHOST OF IN THIS PLACE. I WAS A BOY GOTTEN SELF AS HE HAD USED A WOMAN,” SAID THE GHOST.
CHRISTMAS PAST. HERE!” TO BE. “HER CHILD IS YOUR NEPHEW.”
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IBieken#’ Cfjrfetmas Carol
THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST ™ j tbi' COOLING HIS FACE IN A TOT OF
LED SCROOGE INTO ABT £>Y CITY. BSI3HI IN A TR. *✓£, THE oHOP WAS * daptfr rpup FTDDTjER STRUCK
IT WAS CHRISTMAS TIME. AT "YOHO. MY BOYS," SAID FEZZI- TRANSFORMED INTO A SNUG, loGER DE COVERLY"
ONE. SHOP THEY ENTERED. WIG TO YOUNG SCROOGE AND HIS CHEERY BALLROOM. ALL THE UP SIR ROGER DC COVERLY.
"WHY. 1 WAS APPRENTICED FELLOW APPRENTICE. "NO MORE FEZZIW&S CAME IN, AND THE ™EN OLD FEZZTOIG STOOD OUT
HERE " SAID SCROOGE. "THERE’S WORK TONIGHT. IT’S CHRISTMAS COOK, THE BAKER, THE MILKMAN ™ DANCE WITH MRS FEZZIWIG
OLD FEZZIWIG! BLESS HIS EVE. LET’S HAVE THE SHUTTERS AND HOUSEMAID. SOON ALL CHRISTMAS GMETINGS FILLED
FTP ART IT’S FEZZIWIG ALIVE UP BEFORE A MAN CAN SAY WERE DANCING TO THE FID- THE AIR hhLhiJKA
HLAK * AGAIN!” “ ‘JACK ROBINSON’.” DLER’S MERRY TUNES. TION ENDED To le continued
Here is what a 70-mile-an-hour gale did to the waterfront at Protincetown, Mass., on the tip of Cape Cod.
This is all that is left of a huge cold-storage wharf, which collapsed under the lashing of mountainous
seas. The knife-like northeaster caused heavy damage along the New England coast-
Secret Bride for Year
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Virginia Moore, described by Mc-
Clelland Barclay, artist, of NeW York,
as the “loveliest girl in the world, in
the world,” has been Barclay’s secre
bride for more than a year, it- has been
disclosed. The two were married at
Lake Worth, Fla.
Wind, Sleet and Snow Play Havoc With Eastern States
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Just to give you an idea or what Old Man Winter has in store, this picture
from Buffalo, N. Y., illustrates the effect of an 11-inch snowfall, the worst
i that city has ever recorded in any December in its history.
TO GET HIGH IRISH POST? ,
Count Howard Taaffe and wife
Will this man, Count Howard Taaffe, an Austrian nobleman, be
named titular head of the Irish Free State under the new constitu
tion? Such is the report from Dublin, where this picture of
Taaffe and his wife was taken several years ago. Count Taafte
family left Ireland 300 years ago. His wife is an Irish woman, tie
has sold all his estates in central Europe and plans to live in Ireland.
Should he be appointed to the high Irish post by President Eamon
de Valera, the latter would not lose any power for he would mco
likely hold the office of president: of the council, a much more im
portant post