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MORAL RECKLESSNESS IS DAN
GEROUS: For by me thy days shall
be multiplied, and the years of thy
life shall be increased. —Prov. 9:11.
LOVE OR HATE, THEY RETURN
TO US: Blessings are upon the head
of the jus,.: but violence coveretn
the mouth of tne wicked. —Prov. 10:0
today....
1782—John C. Calhoun, famed
South Carol.na statesman, lawyer,
congressman, secretary of state, and
Vice President, oorn in Abbeville
District, S. C. Died Marcn 81, 1850.
1800—Gerard Hailock, noted New
York journalist of his day, corn at
Plainfield, Mass. Died Jan. 4, 1866.
1813 —Joshua B. Lippinc U, found
er of the Philadelphia publishing
house of the name, corn in Burling
ton Co., N. J. Died Jan. 5, 1886.
1837—Grover Cleveland, Buffalo,
N. Y., lawyer, sheriff and mayor,
governor. President, defeated for
second term and elected again after
the defeat, born at Caldwell, N. J.
Died at Princeton, N. J., June 24,
1908.
1839—(100 years ago) Thomas R.
Price, Confederate soldier, South
ern professor of Greek, Columbia
University's noted professor of .Eng
lish and philologist, born at Ricn
mond, Va. Died May 7, 1903.
1878 —Arthur P. Kellogg, New
York editor-sociologist, born at Kala
mazoo, Mich. Died July 21, 1934.
TODAY IN HISTORY
17l8—Lady Mary Montague of
England, then living in Turkey,
made first known experiment of in
oculating her son for smallpox—
practiced in Turkey but not in Eu
rope.
1780—Some 200,000,000 worth of
paper money issued by Continental
Congress, ordered redeemed at mar
ket value of 10 to 1 in speie, be
cause of depreciated.
1818—Limited Service Pension
Act of Congress provided pensions
for Revolutionary veterans. $8 per
month to privates to S2O for officers
—in need. The rush indicated every
veteran in need.
1839—Cliinoic Government at
Canton orders all opium held by
foreigners be given up or burned
and forbidding importation forever.
1925—Middle West cyclone kill;
some 800 and injures thousands.
1937 Disaster at the London Con
solidated School, New London, Tex
as—big rural school blown to dust
and more than 400 children killed.
1938 Mexico confiscates property
of 17 American and British oil com
panies.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Margaret C. Banning of Duluth,
novelist, corn at Buffalo, Minn., 48
years ago.
Joanna C. Ccicord of the Russell
Sage Foundation, New York, noted
social worker, born 57 years ago.
Dr. Richard P. Strong, Harvard
professor emeritus of tropical dis
eases, born at Fortress Monroe, Va.,
67 years ago.
Dean Francis J. Haas of the Cath
olic University of America, born at
Racine, Wis., 50 years ago.
Victor Murdock of Wichita, Kans.,
noted newspaper editor, corn at Bur
lingame, Kans., 68 years ago.
Dr. Julius Morgenstern, president
of the Hebrew Union College, Cin
cinnati, born at St. Francisville 111
58 years ago. ’ ”
Prime Minister Neville fchamber
lame of England, born 70 years ago.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
Today indicates an expressive na
ture, ready to make friendships.
You should be careful of associations
and heedful of your wall, in life
There will be many ups ana downs
some of which may be serious
ANSWERS TO
. TEN QUESTIONS
See B ick Page
•1. The science ol' bird study.
2. Cleveland Indians.
3. Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis.
4. Kom’-pa-ra-ule; not kom-par’-a
ble.
5. No.
6. Kabul.
7. United States Housing Authority.
8. Midshipman.
9. An in trument for measuring
small angles or, dimensions.
10. Dominion of Canada.
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY
1. What outstanding distinction in
North Carolina does Miss Julia Alex
ander, of Charlotte hold?
2. How many individual families
are there in the State?
3. Who was the congressman who
retired in 1840, after twenty years
service, to take up farming?
4. Who was Jesse Franklin and
when was he governor?
5. How much land in North Car
olina is classed as waste land?
6. When was Chatham county es
tablished?
ANSWERS.
1. She was the first woman in
North Carolina to be licensed to
practice the profession of law. She
was granted a license by the Su
preme Court in 1914.
2. The last census gave 644,033
the greatest number of any South
Atlantic state.
3. Henry W. Connor, of Beattie’s
Ford. Lincoln county. Congressman
Connor was Tn congress continuous
ly from 1721 until his retirement. He
died in 1866 and \yas buried at Sher
rill’s Ford, Catawba county.
4. Jesse Franklin was born in Sur
ry county in 1758 and was an im
portant figure in State affairs from
the Revolutionary War until his
death in 1823. He attained the rank
of a major during that war. Follow
ing the war he served in the House
of Delegates, in Congress and then
in the State legislature until 1813.
During the Eighth Congress he was
President pro tern of the Senate. Ser
ved one term as governor, 1820-21.
5. A total of 1,295,000 acres.
6. The legislature which convened
at New Bern on December 5, 1770
passed an act establishing Chatham
county. The act became effective on
April 1, 1771, and provided that the
minor courts be held at the home
of Captain Stephen Poe with the dis
trict court at Hillsboro. Pittsboro the
present county seat was not charter
ed until July 6, 1787.
Births And
Deaths Drop
Over State
Raleigh, March 18.—There were
373 fewer deaths in North Carolina
in February, 1939, than in the cor
responding month a year ago, fig
ures just released by the State Board
of Health’s division of vital statistics,
of which Dr. R. T. Stimpson is di
rector, show. This, added to the 270
drop reported in January, gives a
total decrease for the year, through
the first two months, of 643. The
decrease in the number of births for
the same period was 481.
There were 93 deaths reported
from preventable accidents last
month, as compared with 104 in
February, 1938, Dr. Stimpson’s re
port shows, while somicides drop
ped fifty per cent, the February, j
1939, total being only 17, against 34
the same month last yaar, while sui
cides dropped from 37 to 25. Thera
were also substantial decreases in
deaths from these two causes in
January.
Deaths among children under a
year old in North Carolina in Feb- I
ruary, 1939, as reported to the
State Board of Health, numbered
384, as compared with 419 the corres
ponding month last year, reducing
the rate from 66.8 to 65.8, while
there were 38 maternal deaths in
February of each year, the rate be
ing slightly higher this year, due to
the decrease in the number of births.
Although numerous “epidemics”
were reported over the State,
through the press, last month, deaths
from influenza totaled only 73, as
compared with 87 in February, 1938
while deaths from pneumonia drop
ped from 395 in February, 1938 to
277 last month, and deaths from pul
monary tuberculosis from 156 to 128. .
There were 19 deaths from pel
lagra in February, 1939, as compar
ed with 17 in February, last year.
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knock at their doors, but to ring them up.
HENDERSON. (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1939
Regulation Os
Dog Feed Now
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, March 17.—A1l Fido’s
food will be fit, if a bill introduced
in the Senate by Lyn Ballentine of
Wake and Joe Warren of Caswell se
cures final legislative approval and
enactment.
The bill is titled “to regulate the
registration and sale of canned dog
foods”.
Authors of the measure did not say
so, but it is implied that they feel
that everything else has been and
is being regulated, so why not dog”
food?
Too, there is in the bill provision
for payment of inspection fees for
the regulation and inspection; and it
is quite possible that the revenue
end of the thing was also in the
minds of the Senators.
Anyway, the bill’s in the hands of
Cousin Willie Clark’s Agriculture
committee, and will probably be
heard from again some of these fine
days.
The bill would make provision for
labelling cans, statement of certain
ingredients contained in food, guar
antee as to wholesoineness, purity,
etc.
Under the act copies of all labels
would be registered with the Com
missioner of Agriculture, who could
refuse registration or revoke alter
registration in case where regula
tions are not complied with.
There would be a $5 fee for regis
tering the labels and a 2-cent in
spection stamp tax per carton of 48
cans.
The commissioner, or his deputies,
would get power to confiscate lots
of goods when regulations not com
plied with.
Violation would be misdemeanors,
punishable for first offense not more
than SIOO fine,' and subsequent of
fenses not more than SSOO.
Justices Bill
Due Monday
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, March 18.—The time ap
proaches for introduction of the
boards of education and justices of
the peace “omnibus bills.” Custom is
to assemble nominees for these places
from all the representatives and then
grouping the 100 counties into one
bill. •
Page of Bladen is chairman of the
J. P. committee and he is trying
mighty hard to get his bill ready for
introduction Monday night. Trouble
is, says he, the representatives
change their minds so much. He has
had to rewrite a page or two of the
bill several times after some mem
ber has decided to name ‘Squire Doe
instead of ‘Squire Roe.’ But Page
says that when he reports the bill to
the House it will “not make the jus
tice of the pence situation in North
Carolina any worse than it now is.”
Many counties nominate candi
dates for the boards of education in
the party primaries, but even in
these it requires ratification of the
General Assembly to really elect
them. A large number of the counties
do not have any nomination or elec
tion except by the legislative delega
tion, and in a nnmber of these coun
ties the legislators are on the well
advertised spot.
With inevitable nearness of ad
journment, the legislature is expect
ed to make short work of passing
the bills as they come from the com- j
mittees —naming about a thousand
magistrates and between four and
five hundred county school board
members.
SLIGHT WEAKNESS
IN FEED MARKETS
Raleigh, March 18.—Feed markets
turned slightly weaker during the
period under review and a part of
the recent price gains were lost, re
ports the U. S. and North Carolina
Departments of Agriculture in the
Weekly Market News Service Re
view. Greening grain pastures in the
Central West and rapid growth of
other pasturage in Southern States
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reduced feeder demand for wheat
millfeeds. The index number of
wholesale feed prices declined to
106.4 compared with 106.7 last week
and 108.5 for the corresponding week
last season.
Egg prices during the past week
on the northern markets have been
about steady and the drop which has
aiready occurred may tend to lessen
the seasonal decline in prices dur
ing the next few months. At Balti
more ungraded large whites at 18
cents and in Washington, net f. o. b.
to shippers, Government graded and
! dated, U. S. Extras, large whites at
20 cents per dozen were fully steady.
Although poultry marketings con
tinued above last year as a result of
the heavier production of winter
broilers and large marketings of hens
and pullets culled from farm flocks,
the market tone .ruled mostly regular
this week. At the periods close all
sizes of colored fowl wholesaled in
Washington net f. o. b. to shippers
at 1 Bto 19 cents and Virginia Rock
fryers and broilers at 18 to 20 cents
per pound.
Hitler Tries Intimida
tion of Roumania
(Continued From Page One)
Germany would guarantee territor
j ial integrity and independence to the
Roumanian people if Roumanian
would export exclusively to Ger
many grain, oil, lumber, cattle and
foodstuffs. Roumania would be ex
pected to cease building up her in
dustries and turn instead to agricul
ture.
The Roumanian legation spokes
man in London said presentation of
these demands to Roumania by Ger
many had been confirmed by gov
ernment sources in Bucharest. The
proposals were immediately reject
ed, the spokesman said.
As to whether the demands con
stituted an ultimatum, the spokes
man observed that usage of such a
term implied the threat that if the
demands were not accepted they
would be followed by some form of
punitive action. In that sense, he said
that Germany’s “proposals” were
perhaps not an ultimatum.
Vote Reform Bill
Being Re-Written
(Continued From Page One)
ed one case where 368 absentee bal
lots bore the name of a magistrate,
who later got on the stand and swore
that he had signed only three.
It was young Senator Gardner’s
amendment to keep the absentee
for the primary as well as the gen
eral election, and his argument for
it that furnished the highlight of the
committee session. Gardner said
this bill was an attempt to approach
reform from the wrong angle. He
paid his respects to the folks who
saying in effect that absentees were
good in November but very evil in
June.
Referring to the large number of
North Carolina citizens in Washing
ton and elsewhere in government
employ, he said elimination of ab
sentee voting disfranchised them. It
is true, he admitted, Ahat they could
come home to vote, but that would
cost a lot of money. “This proposal”
he said, “simply amounts to putting
a property qualification on the right
to vote. The m an who is rich
enough to make the trip can vote;
if he isn’t that rich he can’t.”
These absentee votes may be need
ed more than some senators realize,
according to the youngest of their
number. The national situation is
2xtremely uncertain. “There may
De a situation in the national elec
tion of 1940 that -will be surprising”
he warned.
Gardner might have gotten a fav
orable vote on his amendment but
for the appeal of Willie Lee Lump
kin, rated as a champion election
5-10-20 YEARS AGO
(Taken from Daily Dispatch Files)
March 18, 1934
Damages of $50,000 each for the
deaths of Mrs. Lillian M. Baumeister
and Mrs. Mildred A. Breslin, of
Staten Island, New York, who were
fatally injured in a head on auto
mobile collision near here February
14, were filed late yesterday against
Mayor George P. Dowling, of/Audu
bon, N. J. and the Strawbridge and
Clothier Department store cwmpany
of Philadelphia.
Edwin G. Watkins, of High Point,
spent the week-end in the city with
his family on Gholson avenue.
March 18, 1929
One of the most charming chil
dren’s parties of the season was
given last Saturday by Mrs. W. W.
law reform advocate. Lumpkin
agreed with ’bout near everything
Gardner said but he warned that
time is getting short and that it will
be disastrous to the Democratic par
ty not to do something about elec
tion laws. Anyhow he has found
that all legislation comes by com
promise, and he doesn’t believe any
stronger bill will be acceptable to
the House of Representatives. Upon
that plea, and with the promise by
most of the members that they will
help him get through a supplement
ary bill permitting government em
ployees to vote absentees, young
Gardner withdrew his motion, and
the substitute bill was reported
without dissenting vote.
Governor For Local
Control Over Relief
(Continued From Page One)
fectively administered through state
and local agencies because of the
more intimate knowledge of local
conditions and necessities.
“This is further complicated,
though, by the manifest requirement
that local agencies make larger con
tributions for general relief and in
many instances local governments
are not in position to share heavily
in relief expenditures.
“If this transfer should be made
and local governments required to
contribute measurably to relief funds
then a rather free hand should be
given to these agencies in deter
mining the needs and basis of expen
diture. N
“If the local agencies should be
required to follow too strict federal
regulations they would be unable to
effect any great economies in admin
istration.”
Mcßryde Now Going
After Insurance
(Continued From Page One)
thority bill. Last week the same com
™ittee made short work of killing a
Mcßryde resolution calling for a
rural telephone survey. The Cum
oerland representative takes all his
nckings with a smile—and comes
oack with new threats of investiga
tloTu into P u blie utility activities.
she preamble to the measure set
>ng up the insurance investigation
committee recites that during the
P s year old line stock fire insurance
v-ompames in North Carolina collect
->niHVer+^3?’oo0 ’ 000 in Premiums and
paid out about $15,000,000 on losses.
i™. tlgure £ 3 ust 39.9 per cent of
premmm co llecti ° ns . Mutual com
parues didnt even do that well. The 1
Slit Tl on C n nn Cted ss ’ Bo paid |
cent’ 900 ’ 00, ° r JUst about 32 Per!
Mr. Mcßryde admits that insur- ' I
Parker in honor of her small daught
er, Peggy Louise, whose birthday
was celebrated on St. Patrick’s Day.
The little guests were invited to an
“Alphabet Party,” and the lovely
home on Chestnut street was deco
rated to carry out the ABC idea.
March 18, 1919
Following upon a campaign which
has been conducted throughout the
county, every county school next
Friday is to observe Clean-Up Day
by the formation of a safety league,
except in instances where these or
ganizations already have been start
ed. County Superintendent E. M.
Rollins is engaged in visiting the
schools for the purpose of acquaint
ing the teachers and the pupils with
the plan.
ance companies ought to make some
money. He doesn’t think they ought
to have to pay out all that they re
ceive in premiums. But he does not
think that there is any excuse for
collecting three times as much as the
fire loss.
The Mcßryde bill, requires the gov
ernor to appoint, within six months
after adjournment of the 1939 Gen
eral Assembly, a commission of three
men to make a thorough study of
the insurance question. The commis
sion would have to do its job in six
months, and would be paid at a per
diem rate fixed by the governor. The
report would be used as a basis for
probable limitation of insurance
charges by the next assembly.
This is the third proposal by Mc-
Bryde for investigation of a major
industry. The telephone survey idea
didn’t get very far, and the Cape
Fear Valley proposal received only
Mcßryde’s own vote when the com
mittee had it up for consideration
yesterday. That bill proposed a com
mission and an appropriation of $lO,-
000 to set up a self-liquidating elec
tric power, navigation and flood
control project on the Cape Fear
river.
Appearing before the committee,
neither as sponsor nor opponent but
as a recognized authority, Major
George Gillette of the army engineer
ing corps told of a long time survey
of the Cape Fear. He estimated that
cost of the Mcßryde development
would be about $25,000,000. He
thought that if the three functions I
of generating power, flood control j
and navigation were joined together |
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* h ® . development ' “was possibly
justified.” y
When Andrew Monroe, of the Car
olina Power and Light
the floor and showed that his coin
pany already has in this same art-'
a good deal of surplus power and
that the mean need is for more in
tries to use that power rather than
generating more current, death to
the bill was assured. The five or
six potential power developments
along the river' would have capacity
for generating 125,000 kwh S iiH
Major Gillette.
Committee vote was ten to one
Mcßryde alone standing by his brain
child.
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ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
North Carolina:
Vance County:
Having this day qualified as Ad
ministrator of the estate of Mrs.
Alice Burke, late of Vance County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against said
estate, to pi'esent them to me, or to
my attorney, on or before the 18th
day of February, 1940, or this notice
will be plead in bar of any recovery
thereof. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
settlement.
This 17th day of February, 1939.
ALBERT L. BURKE,
Administrator.
J. M. Peace, Attorney.
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