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And Moses said unto Hobab, the son
of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’
father in law, We are journeying,
unto the place of which the Lord
said, I will give it you: come thou
with us, and we will do thee good:
for the Lord hath spoken good con
cerning Israel. —Numbers 10:20.
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TODAY’S ANNIVERSARY
1742—John CLeves Symmes, New j
Jersey soldier, jurist, pioneer of the |
Northwest Territory and founder of |
cities, including Cincinnati, born on
Long Island, N. Y. Died in Cincin
nati, February 26, 1814.
1801—Theron Baldwin, pioneer
missionary of the West, to whom
several mid-West colleges are deep
ly indebted, born at Goshen, Conn.
Died April 10, 1870.
1818—-Charles Robinson, Mass,
physician, Kansas pioneer and poli
tical leader in a stormy period, first
Kansas State governor, promoter of
education, born at Hardwick, Mass.
Died at Lawrence, Kans., August 17,
1894.
1824—Stanley Matthews, Ohio
lawyer, Justice of the U. S. Su
preme Court, 1881-89, born in Cin
cinnati. Died March 22, 1889.
1826 —Mahlon Loomis, physician,
dentist and dental inventor, pioneer
in wireless a generation before it i
was perfected, lirsl to use an aer- !
ial, an inventor ahead of his tinie,
born at Oppenheim, N. Y. Died,
broken-hearted at failure, October
13, 1886.
1853 —Anna A. Gordon, temper
ance worker, born in Boston. Died
June 15, 1931.
1860 — Chaucey Olcott, singer of
Irish ballads, born at Buffalo, N.
Y. Died March 18, 1932.
TODAY IN HISTORY,
1839 —It having been announced !
that blood hounds have been im
ported to aid in the capture of Semi
nole Indians in Florida, many pe
titions are received in Congress re
monstrating against the barbarity
plan abandoned.
1861— First battle of Bull Run.
1877—Pittsburgh in throes of la
bor trouble—mobs seem to take
over city.
1883—Over 300,000 pensioners on
Government rolls.
1915 —United States sends Ger
many third note on rights of neu
tral ships.
1925—At Dayton, Tenn., John T.
Scopes found guilty of teaching
evolution in local high school in
violation of State law.
1936 Dr. Townsend chased and
brought back at deposition hearing
in Cleveland.
1937 — Administration’s Court Bill
abandoned.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Mrs. Frances F. Preston, widow
of President Grover Cleveland, born
at Buffalo, N. Y., 75 years ago.
Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U. S.
Minister to Norway, born in New
York, 69 years ago.
Dr. Hehry G. Knight, chief of
the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
of the Dept, of Agriculture, born at
Bennington, Kans., 61 years ago.
Ernest Hemingway, noted author,
born at Oak Park, 111., 41 years
ago.
Dr. Raymond A. Kent, president
of the University of Louisville, born
at Plymouth, la., 56 years ago.
Most Rfev. Edward J. Hanna, San
Francisco’s retired Catholic arch
bishop, born at Rochester, N. Y., 79
years ago.
Dr. Joseph F. Newton of Phila
delphia, noted Baptist clergyman,
born at Decatur, Tex., 61 years ago.
TODAY’S HORISCOPE
Today’s native may devote the
life to horticulture or forestry, or
some kindred pursuit connected
with natural scenery. There is a
love for nature in its quieter moods,
a devotional, gentle mind with re
fined instincts. Indications point
to some public service, which will be
attained by sheer force of ability.
MILK
North Carolina received a larger
cash income frofn the sale of milk
than from any other livestock pro
duct, the estimate being $12,232,000
in 1938, reports the State Department
of Agriculture.
Love, honor and be kind to the
old folks—and be good and patient
to them, and make their last days
the brightest and hest^rSelected.—
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY
1. What is the total value of the
real estate and buildings owned by
the State?
2. What ultimatum regarding ex
ports did North Carolina issue to
England in 1774?
3. What additional punishment did
North Carolina put on British sym
pathizers six years after the Revolu
tionary War ended?
4. What is the actual consumption
os gasoline for each motor vehicle
in North Carolina?
5. Who was the North Carolinian
responsible for the constitutional re
quirement of a two-thirds majority
to over-ride the President’s vote?
6. Who was the governor to serve
the longest term in North Carolina?
ANSWERS.
1. Including the State Capitol, of
fice buildings, and the different state
owned institutions North Carolina
owns 26,792 acres of land valued at
$8,159,334. The buildings and other
improvements are valued at $308,-
816,904, making a total of $316,976,-
238. The highway* system is included.
No state parks are included.
2. “That unless American Griev
ances are redressed before the first
day of October 1775, we will not
after that date directly or indirect
ly export Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Tur
pentine, or any other articles what
soever, to Great Britain.” From the
Resolves of the First Provincial Con
gress at New Bern, August 2, 1774.
3. In 1789 the legislature took away
the right to hold public office from
all persons who had aided or abet
ted the British Cause.
4. Including passenger cars and
trucks each one consumes an aver
age of 694 gallons of gasoline per
year.
5. Dr. Hugh Williamson, of Eden
ton, one of the States five delegates
to the convention in Philadelphia in
1787 that adopted the United States
Constitution.
6. Governor Gabriel Johnston.
Governor Johnston assumed office by
royal appointment, November 2, 1734
and served continuously until his
death in 1752. He was a Scotchman
and it was largely through his in
fluence that many Scotch Highland
ers came to North Carolina.
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page
1. It is a self-governing Dominion,
in the British Commonwealth of
Nations.
2. 32.
3. No.
4. Dinner partner first and hostess
later.
5. Kansas City.
6. Golf.
7. Pre-se’-dens; not pres’-e-dens.
8. Portugal.
9. A small musical instrument
operating on the principle of the
accordion.
10. About nine years.
OTHERS VIEWS
IN ANSWER TO MRS. WRIGHT’S
LETTER
To the Editor:
i beg of Mrs., Wright, for her
health’s sake, not to exercise too
much anxiety about the world ‘‘going
to the dogs”, for, of my own know
ledge, the world has come to an end
about sixteen times during my short
stay here. There were great prepara
tions made in the year 1,000 A. D.
for the coming of the end that never
came. So Mrs. Wright can rest as
sured that this oil world will “amble”
right along a long time after she has
gone, and the “new generation” will
still be going to the “dogs”, the same
as when “grandpa” was a “pup”.
And don’t forget, people will still be
drinking their liquors regardless of
any law, and they will be ~Srinking
mostly bad liquors if “prohibition”
is enforced. Any second rate psy
chologist knows that it is the rot
tenest psychology in the world to try
to force persons to a certain pattern
of behavior. All the laws in the world
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'f'here are only two kinds of men wKo don’t understand women
- married men and bachelors.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1939
wont stop persons from smoking
hashish taking heroin paregoric,
morphine, caffeine, cocaine, or any
other opiate or drug. We tried “pro
hibition” for a decade or more, and
never was anything more of a drastic
failure.
If Mrs. Wright is arguing prohibi
tion on the score of health and
economy, I would suggest that Mrs.
Wright also start a campaign against
“snuff-dipping”. And if Mrs. Wright
can give me one good point in favor
of snuff-dipping, I will give her
twelve against it.
If Mrs. Wright really wants to
know why people partake of alco
holic beverages, I will tell her. The
young drink because they think it
is smart to do so, thereby, some
times, ending up as alcholic psy
chotics, from which there is no cure.
The middle-aged drink as a rule> to
escape from reality. The old-aged,
as a rule, drink to get their blood
circulating on a cold morning.
Now, for snuff-dipping, the young
ladies that dip snuff are, principal
ly, the young ladies that have been
"blunged up” in an environment
that is conducive to snuff-dipping. J
Since young ladies, and even girls,
like to emulate older members ot
their sex, girls of the snuff-dipping
environs generally take to the pow
dered weed at a very early age,
thereby acquiring a “nervous habit”
that generally follows them to the
grave. Would that the world would
say: “Away with snuff-dipping”!
In spite of the ‘’fact 1 ’ that the world
is going to wreck and ruin on ac
-1 count of liquors, both good and bad,
we have the highest birth rate and
the lowest death rate since 'Noah got
drunk. And, even in my day, the
average span of life has increased
from 33 to 35 years. And even if
the aforementioned assertion were
not true, “every misfortune has its
blessing”, the white plague, during
the Middle Ages, relieved Europe of
its unemployment situation: Death
solves all problems. “The average
man’s life is nothing but the blind
will to live,” anyway. So maybe al
cohol is a blessing, after all.
FRANK L. FAULKNER.
Henderson, July 19, 1939.
Capital Gossip
By HENRY AVERILL
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 21. —Any person de
siring a conference with Charles
Ross, attorney for the highway com
mission, can save himself the trouble
: of a trip to Raleigh for about ten
days. Mr. Ross has been very close-
I ly tied to the job for months, and
|he is taking a vacation until next
Saturday. He left the city about
the middle day yesterday, “destina
tion unknown.” He said he might
tell his family where he was, but
probably not even they would
know. He has found that to be
the only w/y he can get any real
rest.
W. Kerr Scott, commissioner of
agriculture, has a number of sheep
•on his farm in Alamance county.
Last week he contributed most of a
large wether to a Kiwanis dinner
at Haw River. Nearly a quarter left
over, he brought to Raleigh, had a
local case to cook it, and invited
several friends in to enjoy it. Vet
eran newsman Tom Bost admitted
it was his first sheep since he was
a kid. Highway Attorney Charles
Ross thought it was very much like
goat. Health Officer Carl Reynolds
just forgot about chewing gum and
case ratings and topped off the sheep
with a big hunk of watermelon. The
fact that thirteen were seated at
the table didn’t seem to affect the
appetite of any of them.
An armistice or a truce or some
thing in the Mt. Mitchell road situa
tion has opened the Wilson toll road
for general traffic. The road was
closed last week when CCC camp
workers, State Park Service and
owners and lessees of the toll road
could not get together on temporary
curtailment of traffic. The conflict
of interest persists and no per
manent solution of the problem has
been reached. But the road is open
and cars can get to the top of Mount
Mitchell again. J
The North Carolina Sandhills as
locale for a summer vacation is hard
to believe, but it’s so. There are
ten completely equipped cottages in
the Sandhills Land Use Develop
ment of the Farm Security Adminis
tration, near Hoffman, now under
lease by the State Department of
Conservation, ready for rent to
parties for week-ends or weekly va
cation stays. There is a small lake,
private bathing beaches, and all the
accessories of a vacation resort. The
cottages are being used now, and
there is some prospect that the area
may be developed into an all year
resort.
Adverting to the Charlie Johnson
announcement that he will not be a
candidate for governor, former
Judge Walter Siler of Chatham
says he expects fix a date
upon which he wiJljj publicly an
nounce the date upon which he will
make the announcement that he, too,
will not be a candidate for gover
nor.
Os 8,199 additions to the public
assistance rolls of North Carolina
last year only 17 were foreign born.
There were 5,821 whiles, 2,329 Neg
roes and 49 Indians included in the
total number. Eighteen new cases
claim to be more than 100 years old,
including four white men, seven
white women, one Negro man and
six Negro women. More than half
the total number live on farms.
Consensus of expressed opinion
about the capital city anent the
death of W. M. Hendren, in Win
ston-Salem, is that the State has
lost a splendid citizen, the North
Carolina bar one of its most dis
tinguished members.
Several legislators appearing in
Raleigh on various items of personal
or professional business bring re
ports of good crops, scarcity of
money, and little interest in poli
tics in all sections of the State.
Former Commissioner of Agricul
ture Will Graham, now State sena
tor from Lii|?oln county, reports an
excellent corn crop, good prospects
for cotton and other crops in his
5-10-20 YEARS
AGO
(Taken from Daily
Dispatch Files)
July 21, 1934
A Severe electric storm that came
up at the time furnished the Kiwanis
club with a segment of its program
Friday evening that had not been
counted on, and one that was. not
enjoyed by the members. The storm
broke as the men were starting the
meeting. Somebody looked out the
window and saw “great balls of fire”
rolling along the power lines on
poles on the sidewalk a few feet from
the window.
Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Yow and their
daughter, Miss Ada Rose Yow, have
just returned from a trip to the West
Indies and South America.
July 21, 1929
With the premium list going to the
printer this week, it was announced
today by C. M. Hight, secretary of
• the Golden Belt Fair, that larger
prizes would be offered in some sec
tions of the list than have been post
ed in more recent years. This applies
particularly to the poultry depart
ment, and that of household farm
exhibits.
Julv 21 int>n
I Advertisement: New Shipment
ladies’ sweaters here. We have them
in old rose, pink, green, blue and
white —beautiful, form fitting designs
in popular colors. Geo. A. Rose Co.
Persons applying for the anti
typhoid treatment Saturday at the
office of Dr. W. H. Furman, health
officer, numbered 140, .
part of the world.
Senator Arthur Corey from Pitt
reports the greatest need in his sec
tion right now to be more tobacco
barns. A record-breaking crop,
ripening all at the same time, is
taxing the barn capacity. The crop
will be barned or ruined in the field
by August 1, according to the sena
tor.
As for politics, neither of these
gentlemen would admit that there
is any such thing. They agree that
the State probably will elect a gov
ernor next year, but there is almost
no indication of who is most popular
at this time.
Farm and home improvements
will be featured along with better
cultural methods at the annual field
day at Oxford test farm next Thurs
day, according to program made
public today. Former Congressman
Umstead will deliver the principal
address, and there will be the usual
technical discussions of farm prob
lems.. “Electricity on the Farm” will
be the subject of a talk by James
McAlister, of Roper, district winner
of the Young Tar Heel Farmers
speaking contest.
Since the highway patrol was es
tablished in 1929, patrolmen have
traveled a total of 25,057,094 miles,
or one thousand times the distance
around the world at the equator.
Imposing figures of numbers of ar
rests, investigations, costs and fines
collected, etc., accompany the re
port for the year ending June 30,
which also ended the first decade of
the patrol. What puzzles the aver
age motorist is how the patrolman
could travel that many miles and be
so conspicuous by their absence
when needed—and so obviously
present when a little speeding up is
attempted.
The fact that the “Lost Colony”
pageant will be presented at Fort
Raleigh on Roanoke Island for the
one-hundredth time Saturday night
is declared by newspaper men to
be a miracle. The “miracle” con
sists in the magnitude of the spec
tacle presented in about as isolated
spot as can be found in America,
still running longer than most big
hit Broadway shows. Admitting that
there isn’t any reason in sound logic
for the play to survive at all, the
publicists point out that attendance'
constantly increases.
Candidates usually run on econ
omy platforms, and then increase
expenditures after election. Vide:
Roosevelt speeches in 1932, every
gubernatorial campaign in North
Carolina since reconstruction, and
the recent municipal campaign in
Indicted
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Seymour Weisa (above) of New
Orleans, one-time chief lieutenant
in the regime of the late Senator
Huey P. Long, was one of five per
sons indicted by federal grand jury
on two counts of using mails to de
fraud in getting $75,000 of Louisi
£- g - State University funds,,
Raleigh. The commissioner of pub
lic safety in the capital city, for
mer hotel man Bob Powell, raved
and ranted about the excessive
number of automobiles used by his
predecessor. Now he states that it
is impossible to operate the depart
ment with fewer cars, and in fact,
one or two more are needed. Selah.
Survey Aids
Apprentices
Daily Uisjiatcn Bureau,
in tiie Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 21.—Clarence L.
Beddingfield, executive secretary of
the newly constituted apprentice
ship council, auxiliary to the State
Department of Labor, reports splen
did cooperation among employers
and workers alike in his preliminary
surveys.
In an effort to ascertain the num
ber of skilled workers in the various
crafts and trades in North Carolina,
so that the need for training replace
ments may be scientifically met, Mr.
Beddingfield is assembling a com
prehensive cross-file of workers. In
formation is being obtained from
the State-Feleral employment agen
cies, from labor unions and from em
ployers so labor.
When the project was undertaken
it was feared that there might be
some jealousy or resentment among
workers already on the jobs and in
their organizations. To the contrary,
the State Federation of Labor has
offered every possible assistance and
made available essential records,
contractors and employers of skilled
labor were expected to approve the
plan, but the eager co-operation
among them has also been agreeably
surorising to the council.
The council has functioned only
ten days and, of course, hasn't ac
complished a great deal. When the
files now being developed are com.
pleted it will be possible within a
few minutes to ascertain the number
of master masons, electricians, steam
fitters, carpenters, etc., in the State.
These will be classified as to em
ployed or unemployed, as to age and
race, and as to length of service in
the trade. From this data it will be
comparatively easy to determine
what trades have a surplus and what
a shortake of skilled craftsmen and
the apprenticeship allocations will
be encouraged accordingly.
RECORDS MADE IN
GREENSBORO GROUP
Greensboro, July 21. —The distinc
tion of making the highest academic
records in their respective classes in
Greensboro College for the scholastic
year, 1938-1939, goes to Miss Dorothy
Plonk, of Kings Mountain, junior;
Miss Dorothy Moore, of Lexington,
sophomore; and Miss Helen Porter,
of Greensboro, freshman, according
to announcement made today by Dr.
Luther L. Gobbel, president.
The achieving of this distinction,
together with a good attitude and
conduct record, entitles each of these
students to a highest proficiency I
scholarship in the amount of S7O for
the session beginning September a. I
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Motor Sales Co. 2 5_tf
THOUSANDS OF YOUNeT~MFN
and women are self-supporting n
dependent, carefree, because tm-v
are trained for business emplo/
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New term, September 4. h n
ALL SUMMER SPORT
reduced. Bostonian and Mansfield
oxfords now $5.95 and $3.95 in
most all sizes, also Bates shoes n(l . v
$2.95. See these today. Men’s Shoo
Inc., J. H. Tucker, Manager. 20-2 t
ALL STRAW HATS, HALF PRirj?.
Jantzen bathing suits, reduced ‘>s
percent. Geo. A. Rose & Son. 21-2 t
GET PRICES ON OUITuSED CARS
before you buy. E. & Z. Motor Co
Dodge and Plymouth dealers. 111
Chestnut street. 4-eod-tf
FOR STOPPING LEAKS OLD
Roofs! Use our plastic roof cement
liquid roof cement and roof coat
ing, also leak proof nails that seal
the nail holes. Alex S. Watkins.
PHONE 495 JOE’S PLACE—For
pit cooked barbecue over oak and
hickory coals. Delicious, golden
brown chicken. Only native pork
and chickens used. We deliver your
orders. Give us a trial. Phone 495.
JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER SHlP
ment of Marlboro white shirts
slightly irregulars, SI.OO. Geo. A,
Rose & Son. 21-2 ti
VISIT OUR USED CAR LOT AT
rear of garage for values in used
cars. Scoggin Chevrolet Co.
mon-wed-fri-tf
WANTED: TWO OR THREE ROOM
* unfurnished apartment. Write P.
O. Box 293. 2 1 -2ti
THAT DRESS YOU ARE WEAR
ing will look so much better and
feel so much fresher if you’ll let
Valet dry clean it for you! Things
do get so dusty and droopy in the
summertime. Phone 464. Valet
Cleaning Co. 20-3 ti
ALL STATE LICENSED BEAUTY
operators. Phone 200 for appoint
ment. Your patronage appreciated.
Bridgers Beauty Shop. 14-ts
SPECIAL OFFER ON MADE TO
measure suits, extra pants free, for
limited time only. Geo. A. Rose &
Son. 21-2 t
UNTIL AUGUST 1, 1939-
Cars washed and greased for
SI.OO. Legg-Parham Co.
Phone 65. 14-15-ti.
VISIT OUR USID CAR LOT FOR
better values in used cars. Motor
Sales Co. 25-ts
ALL SUMMER SUITS INCLUDING
gabardines, reduced 25 percent.
Geo. A. Rose & Son; 21-2 ti
LOOK AT YOUR HAT—EVERY
one else does. Discard your old
brown straw hat and get a fresh one
at half price. All sizes to select
from. Men’s Shop, Inc., J. H.
Tucker, Manager. 20-2 ti
FOR RENT ONE FOUR ROOM
house. Apply Kinney Shoe Store.
10-ts
WHEN IT. RAINS IT DRAINS!
Super channeldrain galvanized
roofing. The leak proof kind. Sold
in Henderson by “The Place of
Values” only. A big improvement
over the old style. Alex S. Wat
kins. 21-lti
SHOES
Values to $5 on Racks
at 99c and $1.99
WEBB’S
Henderson Shoe Store.
19-4 ti
OLD PAPERS FOR , SALE AT
Daily Dispatch Office; 10c per bun
dle, 3 bundles for 25c. 23-ts
FOR RENT: DESIRABLE FOUR
room steam heated apartment,
close in. Four room apartment,
Turner avenue. Five room house,
good repair, Coliege street. Four
room house with bath, just off Ox
ford highway. Phone 341-W. R. L.
Mustian. 21-It
AIRMORE SUITS, FABRIC BY BO
at greatly reduced prices. Not all
sizes, but still a wide selection. Be
sure and see these values today.
Men’s Shop, Inc., J. H. Tucker,
Manager. 20-2 ti
A. D. Patterson
General Contractor
Henderson, N. C.
All kinds of building- paint
ing and remodeling.
219 S. William St.
Phones:
Office 433* 'esidence 768