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Grits and Gravel (By T. MOSES JONES.) Gary Green, the R. F. D. No. 1 mail carrier told me this afternoon that he had five new Henderson Dailv Dispatches to (begin on his route this morning. So that made my poor heart feel mighty good. I truiy hone within the next week that five new ones will have begun on each of the five routes from Oxford, and seve ral from Stem, Creedmoor, Hester. Stovall. Nelson, Virgilina, Franklin ton, and Rougemont, as lots of folks with those addresses frequently come to Oxford, and when they do, I most usuallv see them, or they see me. I saw it: yesterday's paper where Claude Crews of down near Dabney had a new electric range, or rather that his wife had drawn the lucky number and won a range. Claude was over to our town today and I was congratulating him on their good for tune. I also told him when they khi ed the old red rooster and roasted him electrically, that I would be over to his house to dinner sometime. So he said “Moses, you had better put it off for awhile longer, as my wife had a new wood range, so she traded the stove she won for a frigid-airre”. Well”, said I, “I’ll just wait until the weather gets a little hotter and come and get some good home-frozen ice cream.” So Claude will be the loser, and I the winner, no matter which way he :rles to treat me. Stanley Ellington, one of Claude's neighbors, hasn’t 'been over our wav in a month or so. I first met Stanley ~notic¥ Just arrived truck load fresh fruit and vegetables. Oranges, 30c peck, 51.15 bag. Nice Winesap Apples 30c peck. Turnips, 2 bunches for 15c. Celery. 2 for 15c. String Beans, 3 Ebs. for 25c. English Peas 5c lib. Beets 2 bunches for 15c. Green Cabbage, 3 lbs. for 10c. Sweet Potatoes 30c peck. New Potatoes, 3 lbs. for 10c. To matoes, 2 lbs. for 15c. Tangerines 15c dozen. Shelled Peanuts, 10c lb. Navy Beans 5c lb. Onions 5c lb. Onion Sets, 3 quarts for 25c. Lemons 25e Dozen. Country Eggs, 2 dozen for 25c. Florida Fruit Store Check These Low Prices! Southern Manor Tomato Cat Slip 2 14-oz. bottles 23c Southern Manor All Green .1 .-.' • ■■"■'.■, Asparagus No. 2 can 25c Southern Manor Whole Beets 2 No. 2 cans 25c Large, Strictly Fresh EGGS Loose dozen 19c Southern Manor Pineapple No. 2 can 15c Standard Quality Apricots No. 2 can 15c Mother’s Relish or Salad Dressing pint jar 17c Colonial or Mansfield Evaporated MILK 4 Tall cans 25c | New Treat Salad Dressing quart jar 23c Colonial Pure Concord Grape Juice p®‘ 15c Colonial Grapefruit and Orange BlendedFruitNo .2canl2c Meat Department Fresh Produce Dressed young Fresh green fryers 33c lb. cabbage .... 2 l-2c lb. Branded chuck Tender string beans 10c lb. roast 18c lb. Native veal cutlets 35c lb. Nice, crisp celery 6c stalk Star sausage in y a# W mesap apples, bowls 25c lb. jq c Picnic hams .... 19c lb. *" *’ ‘ ’ Onslow county Fresh strawberries 10c qt. hams 35c lb. _ __— Fat back meat .. • • l° c lb- . Oysters 35c. qt. Texas beets and Butterfish 10c lb. carrots 5c bunch at R,at Breedlove’s at the Breedlove Family Reunion two summers ago. That was the day I saw more good something good to eat on one table at one time, than I had ever before seen or tried to help eat. Folks were there figuratively speaking from Maine tto Florida, and from New York to California, and literally speaking from Virginia to South Carolina and from Asheville to Hatteras. I never felt so helpless and so un necessary in all ,my life than when Mr. Breedlove called on me to ask the 'blessing. I got so excited that I almost started saying, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” but wound up by saying, “Thank God for Dinner.” And WHAT a dinner! So much for Stanley Ellington. Mr. and Mrs. Gedie Hendrick of Route 1 visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mabry at Henderson Wednesday. Mr. Hendrick married their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Mabry. Heretofore I have told of the many instances about Granville folks going to Vance to make their home. But this time it is just the opposite. Today someone took Me. Bofo Cat cher's baby boy, Edward, for some one else, but I am not going to tell you who they thought he was. One of the eight or ten Moss broth ers was in town today wearing a new suit. And I am not going to tell you whether it was an overall suit, a bathing suit, a baseball suit, a cow boy suit, or a Sunday suit. The thunder and lightning this morning makes us thing that spring is almost here. Can’t remember when I have ever heard thunder be fore. I suppose that the terrapins turned lots of folks’ hands lose when they heard it. Miss Birdie Louise Abernethy has gone to Raleigh where she has accept ed a position with the Unemployment Compensation Commission. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Abernethy who live on Raleigh Street. Alex Parham of Route 4' is suffer ing with his right eye in which he was struck with a flying chip. Mrs. Jim Cottrell of Route ‘2 was in town shopping recently. Her twins, Jean and Joyce, are now three years old. ( :»(*: Will Wood was ever today and said that Creedmoor was still on the map. Robert Clark of near Cullbreth is sick at his home. Robert has not been well since an operation a year or so ago. i > • Now I want to tell you of a man who is ithe father of twenty-tour chil dren, and who then adopted another to make the number an even quarter hundred. J. L. Sparks lives down to wards Kittrell. He is nearing 77, and is now the father of eighteen living children. His oldest child is fifty-seven, and the youngest is only ten. Since this past Christmas, his oldest son, the father of nine children, met one of his half-sisters for the first time, hav ing never seen her before. Mr. Sparks children are now scattered over a wide area of this state, and even down in South Carolina. Having lost his first wife, he re-married, his second wife now living with him. Mr. Sparks has been a real marks man in his younger days* having kill ed as high as eighty-five hawks in a season, six in one day, and thousands in his lifei. Several years ago tobacco thieves had gotten some of his tobacco two different times, just as he had it stripped and ready to load to take to town. One night he sat up at the patok house and the visitors arrived about midnight. They shot at him and ran behind a tree. before the man got his right hand out of sight, there was no necessity of do ing so, as Mr. Sparks removed it from his arm with a shot gun. The man was at the hospital for some weeks, and then Mr. Sparks went to court and pleaded FOR him, instead of against him, thinking that the man had already received enough punish ment. Mr. Sparks is a great fellow, and not a braggard. Anyone who' will listen to him, can learn from him. Capital Gossip BY HENRY AVERJLE Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 18. —Just a word of warning. Those coming to Raleigh while the Education Association meet ing is’ in session will do well to eat heartily before reaching the capital city or to bring their rations with •-.hem. Thursday, with the teachers’ session just starting, it was practically im possible to get into (much less get ser ved in) a Raleigh eating place. It seems that whoever gets the Democratic nomination in the eighth is going to have something of a fight on his hands. The Republicans have named John R. Jones, only G. O. P. solicitor in the State, who has proved he can get votes for himself. Edward Murray, clerk of the Su preme Court, has just received noti fication that the United States, Su preme Court has denied a writ of cer tiorari to the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road in its appeal from a Halifax county verdict awarding Thomas M Batton, one-time A. C. L. flagman, $37,500 for personal injuries received as a result of falling some 60 feet over an embankment at Weldon. . The verdict, Mr.. Murray said, is one of' the largest that has come to his attention recently in an injury case. Next week’s Supreme Court calen dar shows 15 cases for oral argument, only one of them criminal and that not a capital case. Causes from the fifth and sixteenth districts are set for argument, the fifth district ones onlv to be called Tuesday, March 22. Beginning Wed nesday morning the cases will be call ed as docketed without regard to the district from which they originated. T. L. Grier, supervisor of CCC selec tion for the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, is in Atlanta to day for a meeting of army officers and state directors of CCC selection to discuss changes in CCC enrollment procedure, which has been authorized and directed by the War Department. More than half the motor vehicle accidents in North Carolina during February occurred in cities or incor porated towns. There were 9 fatal ana 304 non-fatal urban accidents against 41 fatal and 193 non-fatal accidents in rural territory. “Tom Bost seemed to be worrying about my entry fee; I didn’t want Tom to be worried; so I just came down and paid up,” said Lon Folger fifth district congressional candidate and State Democratic National Com mitteeman. The Greensboro New? scribe had been speculating whether or not Lon was just a “blind” to keep others out until Frank' Hancock fully decided to stay in the Senate race. 1838—(100 years ago) Alice C. Flet cher, ethnologist and friend of the Indians among whom she lived for many years in the West, originator system to loan Indians small sums to buy land and build houses for themselves, pioneer in the field of Studying Indian music, born in Cuba (of American parentage). Died April 6, 1923. Bl (fcnturn (Dub /0k * STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY mMHB 11 * Y ***_ s ” LP Egpgan *I.OO « *1.95 HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY, MARCH 18,1938 Babson Blames Congress For Business Stalemate (Continued from Page One.) February payments to investors wera $300.(>00.000 against $350,000,000 last year. As a result of all these reduc tions in income, total purchasing pow ei' is far below the peatis of 1937. It is not surprising, therefore, that re tail trade has suffered. Actually it is remarkable that sales have been as good as they nave. Faying is off only about 15 per cent from *he 19 9 7 level while industrial activity has sagged 30 per cent. We are now in the critical period of the “recession”. The next few months should tell wheiher or not I must revise my forecast for the en tire year. Up until nrv’ there has been little danger of another major depres sion. Basic conditions have been sounl There has been no speculative pyramiding of real estate or stocks. Banks are not loaded up with ques tionable securities and loans. Prices of raw materials are back at attrac tive levels and inventories of goods have been thoroughly cleaned up in most industries. Danger Point Near. Business is constantly moving one way or another. It does not stay at a standstill very long. Most of the re cession came before the New Year. Since then there has been only minor decline. We are now at a critical point. The sharp drop in purchasing power is a danger signal. Depressions are nothing more than a continuous downward spiral in buying power. Prosperity is the opposite process. Once the spiral picks up momentum it is mighty hard to stop. Business has been very glow for six months and the spiral has been getting a good start. We will not be in a major de pression, however, until pay-cuts and lay-offs are the word everywhere. The order “to cut” has not yet been given out wholesale. * I liken the present situation to a run-away freight train coming down the mountain. There are plenty of op portunities to switch it off on a spur track before it wrecks a passenger train in the station in the valley be low. The train has already passed sev eral of these cut-offs. But the yard men apparently cannot decide which cut-off to use. They are standing a round arguing among themselves over some petty railroad red tape. Mean while, the freight slides on toward the village below. In my analogy, busi ness is the runaway freight, while our congressional leaders are the blunder ing yard-men. Nero Fiddles. Since the “recession” started, Con gress has been in session nearly four months. Only two important acts have been passed: the housing act and the farm act. Both are “recovery meas ures”. but neither one gets at the root of our trouble. The housing act would step up building if union labor would help. But it can do little under cur rent conditions with labor costs ex horbitantly high. The farm act is so complicated that few people even un derstand it. The feeling is that it will aid somewhat —but largely in the di rection of more, “hand-outs.” Every busing »san knows what the real problem-j®’s4ay: Lack of con fidence iri the future because of un necessary Federal spending and a vicious taxation system! Every mem ber of Congress knows this, too. Yet Washington dilly-dallies over politics and does nothing about the house cleaning that is necessary. Taxes are throttling new enterprise and expan sion but the proposed revenue bill is just a rehash of the present patch work system. The utilities would spend millions on new construction if Congress would end the terrific un certainties which this industry faces. Inertia at Washington is jeopardizing recovery. Two Reasons For Bullishness. I have not turned bearish, however. There are still two possibilities which EEB3EIE| 1 c«K E OCTAGON T sT,? 110 d CONCENTRATED pkg. SUPER SUPS lUL&Hio* Palmolive Soap, 3 for .. 20c Super Suds (for dishes) 2 for 19c Gt. Octagon Soap, 4 for 19c Octagon Toilet Soap 3 for 14c Gt. Octagon Powder 4 for 19c Crystal White Toilet Soap 3 for 14c Oxford Toilet Soap, 6 for 25c Flour Feeds Groceries H. B. Newman Phone 250. can yank us out of the current slump: 1. Fundamental conditions are sound. Many industries are stabiliz ing.! Financial factors, such as bank deposits, are improving. Spring buy ing can help business wriggle out of the clutches of pessimism despite Washington. Remember we are not yet in a major depression—even though we must go one way or the other shortly. 2. The President is waiting until the psychological time to announce Ihis “recession-ending” program. He and his advisers are convinced that business should be ready to go ahead in April or May. Then he will an nounce his program in order to get the credit at the polls in November, if business picks-up. Surely now is not the time to dump overboard good securities, homes and other property. Remember that every day of depression brings inflation Sultana or Dlxiel;/ nd WHITE HOUSE EVAPORATED DCAiIIFfT MILK BUTTH| A -s 25c M =,== Wtk A&P ftoft Twist 8 Small Cans 25c B/itEAD Real Cow's Milk Made Doubly Rich by Evaporation Is None Better Loaf QC EGGS Strictly Fresk Dozen 19c (mW ANN PAGE SALAD / DRESSING n jar 17c MSsa STANDARD PACK 1 Campbell’s Tomato KETCHUP - IGc soup GELATIN DESSERTS OR PUDDINGS * SPARKLE 4 «!• 15c “ ,s 25c IONA PLAIN OR SELF-RISING _ _ _ __ _ - _ _ Fancy Blue Rose FLOUR 24 - ,b - Ba s , *sc rice ATLANTIC SOAP } FLAKES L s®- .«*■ 15c 6jj|*^sc ASPARAGUS mmm mm 4* gm Pet or Carnation CHIPS i ca. 10c milk STANDARD GRAPEFRUIT JUICE 3 "a. z c... 25c Buffet Fruit ground-and that Salad, can 10c fjfli: T# S Blue Peter ’W OPouid of Eight H m Da. Sardines, can .. 10c 1g h c ffi n £°* ee - ■ * FRESH PRODUCE Strawberries, basket H l-2c Beans, fresh tender, lb. . . • . 8 l-3c Spinach, fresh, lb 8 l-3c Bananas, golden ripe, lb.* ___ 5c Tomatoes, fancy ripe, lb. . 8 l-3c Potatoes, new Red Bliss, 4 lbs. * 13c Cabbage, green, 2 lbs. 5c nearer. If this “recession” turns into a major depression, currency inflation will come all the sooner. Meanwhile, as a selfish as well as a patriotic ges ture, protest to your congressman and Finest Quality j MEATS And Very Best Service. Turner's Market Phones 304 and 305 / PAGE THREE senators. Demand an end to busi ness persecution. Remember it ii; th< consumer who pays the bill of gov ernment—not just the Rocket eller: and the Morgans.
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