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Established August 12, 1914
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is made perfec • weakness. Most
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in my infinities, at the power of
Christ may re t voon me.—2 Cor.
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TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES
.1789—(1.50 year" ng ' Alexander
H.. Stevens, Rut ; r-ofesscr of
sqrger. "io + .ed surgt-on
profess i . L.' yurK. Died
March j v
1 1793- ’• Hues, St. Louis
lawyer, t,
ncoln’s 'l ; f ‘ . icy-gtiic.ax, lo.ii in
Gqochlaoc: county, Va 1 T ';rch
25, 186 y.
1796—Charles Follcn, German
liberal who fled Germany, Har
vard’s, first professor of German,
clergyman and aoolitionist, born.
Died January 13, 1840.
1802 —Marcus Whitman, medical
missionary and pioneer, who did a
goodly share in laying the founda
tions of Oregon, idano and Wash- j
ihgton, born at r nvillt, N. Y. I
Killed by I ’ : ans, .. a Walla Walla,
Washing!. i. loveu t . 1847.
1846—1 4. nnam, famed
Chicago .itect, * u at Hender
son, N. V P’ :d Tun l, 19x2.
1871 —iici-old Me rath. c'welist,
born at Syracuse, N. Y. n iec -
tober 30, 1932.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1609 —Henry Hudson discovers
11 Manhattan Island.
1781 —Los Angeies, second Cali
fornia settlement founded. About a
dozen settlers and their families,
more of Indian-African olood than j
Spanish, from the nearby peninsula, j
i 1804 —26-year-oid Capt. Richard i
Somers, U. S. N., leads a small band j
q{ Americans into Tripoli harbor, *
with whom we were then at war, in
attempt to block harbor by explod
ing powder ship—exploded pre
rnatUrfcly n l Americans killed.
185P —Clucago first lighted by gas
—“presented a steady, golden
flame.” *
•1864—(75 years ago) Noted’ Con
federate Gen. John Mory n killed
at battle of Greenville, Term.
1882—Edison, for first t.me in his
life arrayed* in a “Prince Aloert”,
turns on power station in New York
city, lighting 400 lamps, first city
in world to be :o lighted.
1932—Raymond Robins disap
pears on way to see President at
White House.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Edwin Haisey, Secretary to the
TJ. S. Senate, born in Nelson coun- ,
ty, Va., 58 years .ago.
Beatrice Stevens of Pomfret,
Conn., artist and illustrator, born
in New York, 63 years ago.
Simon Lake, submarine inventor
and naval architect, born at Plea
natville, N. J., 73 years *
Rollin Kirby of New rork, car
toonist, born at Galva, 111., 65 years
ago.
Carmi A. Thor of Cleveland,
ex-Treasurer cf United States,
born in Wayne • y, W. Va., 69
.years ago.
George P. Da;-, asurer of Yale
University, born in New York, 63
years; ago.
Tom K. Smi' 1 * * 'lt. Louis, bank
er, bbrn at G1 ; , Mo., 57 vear~ I
ago. ! •
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
- Today’s native will possess the
ability to turn the hand to any
task. There is a kind and generous
dispositicn and a 1 N of in-
with a • 1 ays seek
ing a T -1 things,
and • f., >■ • t ei . .o demands
ot evei h*e. iodav may pro
duce !a ' nveukr.
ANSWER- -Q ~
i JEN QUESTIONS
jSei. Vaclc Page
- ‘ - ■" '
1. James Madison.
2. South Africa.
3. One that feed- on flesh.
4. Forty yard lint mr the defensive
Hide.
5. $6,500
6. Rh' 1< blind.
7. Sed'-i •i \; no* -da'tiv.
8. Lo’ ion. .nglanj
9. One ;:hot.
10. Ninety feet.
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY
1. How much paint was bought for
r finishing North Carolina automobile
• license plates last year?
2. How many years following 1861
were North Carolinians absent from
J the National Congress?
3. Why was North Carolina not
represented in Continental Congress
| in 1785 and 1786?
4. How much inheritance taxes did
! the State collect last year?
1 5. When did Virginia Methodists
hold their annual conference in a
r North Carolina city?
I 6. What form of punishment did
t the State adopt in the place of cut
[ ting off ears?
i ANSWERS.
1. Official reports show the item
of paint for this purpose amounted to
$4,252; steel, $18,555. The total cost
of manufacturing the plates was $32,-
> 273. This amount included prison la
* bor to the value of $2,477.
j 2. The last congress North Caro
\ lina was represented in before the
> Confederacy was formed was the
’ Thirty-sixth Congress in 1861. The
. next delegation from this State to be
seated was in July 1868.
3. The several states at that time
ypaid the salaries of their delegates.
* North Carolina’s finances were in
“* such shape during those years that
* she was unable to pay salaries of
delegates. Delegates were named,
however.
4. Budget commission reports to
! the last legislature showed total in
-1 heritance tax collections of $2,106,-
1 688.
’ i 5. The annual conference of Vir
• ginia Methodists in 1811 was held in
• Raleigh. Since there was no Metho
* dist church in Raleigh at that time,
j and no auditorium large enough to
hold the delegates, the sessions were
! held in the State Capitol.
I 6. The penalty of cutting off ears
I was abolished by the legislature of
j 1831 and whipping was extended to
take its place, except in a few of
! the most serious crimes.
J
OTHERS VIEWS
! OUR USFJTFSS BILLIONS
i To vhe Editor.
Two men ui the darker race were
seated beside a pile of bricks
amusing them selves fishing pork
and beans from a can and masticat
■ng them slowly. One was large,
dowdy and wore an old tattered hat
with a shirt containing only one
sleeve. And his toes had almost suc
ceeded in cutting a new tunnel
through his number ten shoes.
' The other was darker, slightly
bent and moved slowly.
“This is the dang best job ever
I had, Ed,” the taller one was say
:ng.
“Yeah, Sam, I have to agree”’,
! the darker one mused as he stopped
with his beans in midair. “I don’t
have nothing to worry about. I
work on thig WPA and has the
easiest job of;my life.”
“An’ another thing”, Sam said, a
smile tugging at the corner of h/
mouth, “I go by the ABC store every
Saturday and’ get me a pint of
Four Roses, and boy do I have a
[time? Look at these old shoes”, he
j" continued stretching his feet for
j ward, “full of holes, but v/hy should
[ I worry? Now I ain’t puttin’ no
niohey in no shoes when the wel
fare people will give me some.
Why all you gotier do is Tet the!
kids go around until their clothes J
get so thin the people will think t
they are in a nudist camp, then |
you’ll get all the clothes you need, i
An’ look how some people rave
about high taxes. Why, we hardly
know what a tax is.”
“You’re right”, Ed agi'eed, “You
just look at cousin Willie Penrod
down the street a little. Why he
works hard every day and part of
the night an’ he hardly makes
enough to feed and clothe his fam
ily. An’ if he makes anything the
government takes it for takes. i
“Another thing, Ed,” Sam said
tossing the empty pork and bean |
can away, “the other day a farmer |
comes to me and asks me about ’
, working for him through his tobacco
j crop. Now ain’t that somethin’?”
Yes it is something. Something
preposterous and incredible. Why I
SALLY'S SALLIES
ftegisjered S. Patent Office.
/ JIUSH NO mm-)
/ MY , y
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1939
should Sam want a job on the farm
oi- anywhere else as long as he can
loaf on the WPA and get his liquor
and bread without exerting any
energy? Why should Sam, Ed or
cousin Susie or cousin anybody want
to work if all the necessities of life
ur given, to them gratis.
But there is Sam’s cousin Willie
Penrod, Penrod Willie or whatever
you wish to call him, who works
hard. From sun-up until sun-down
he labors trying to make a decent
r living. But who gets the benefit of
his labor? Why Sam and Ed on the
WPA, of course. Willie has to pay
for’ their clohtes, the food they get
at the unemployment office and pay
• heir taxes.
While the above is purely fic
titious and may seem a little fa
tuous, if you wish to call it as
such, yet it gives a vivid and au
thentic description of America in
its spendthrifty program to restore
prosperity for the betterment of
humanity.
But has prosperity returned?
If your answer is in the affirma
tive take one good look around you
and watch the vast number of un
employed people who today are
armbling along the streets and
along the roads, searching for an
honest job. And if you still believe
prosperity is here, take one in
timate glimpse at the government’s
statistics.
For 1933—1938 the government
appropriated 36.8 billions for re
lief and unemployment. And for the
year 1939, 12.5 billions were appro
priated, bringing the total govern
ment appropriations to 49.3 billions
for the so-called relief and unem
ployment. In other words, we are
spending, or should we say wasting
money at the rate of SIB,OOO every,
minute. Every sixty second we are
getting SIB,OOO deeper in debt.
How long can we afford to waste
our money at this prodigious rate
with a new world war impending?
(.lust before typing these lines I
heard over the radio that Warsaw
has been bombed six times by the
German army.) How long can. we
continue to pay high tax to feed
loafers while we honest American
citizens are trying to make a decent
living? Why our useless spending
this year will equal the value of
the states of Montana, Idaho, Ore
gon and Washington, and yet we
continue to spend foolishly.
We Americans had better wake
up before we run into a national
bankruptcy.
HENRY AYSCUE.
Henderson, Route 1, Sept. 2, 1939.
PARTIALITY BY POLICE.
To the Editor:
A lew days ago an officer of the
police department tagged my car
parked in front of Woolard’s drug
store for parking just out side the
line. I paid the dollar and felt that
I had no one to blame but myself.
The next day I saw two cars park
ed between the space my tagged car
occupied and the hydrant. One of
these cars was parked directly in
front of the circular line enclosing
the hydrant.
They were there at least 30 min
utes, and during that time three
members of the police force passed
by at different periods and entirely
ignored the violations.
Personally, I think these new traf
fic regulations are splendid, and we
should have had them long ago, but
they are doomed to failure if the
police department does not enforce
them without partiality.
A. J. DAVIS.
Henderson, Sept. 4, 1939.
TOBACCO CROP FOR
STOKES INCREASED
Danbury, Sept. 4.—Stokes coun
ty’s 1939 tobacco crop is three mil
lion pounds larger than the 1938
crop, but it will have to average
20 cents a pound to bring as much
as last year’s total.
J. F. Brown, farm agent of the
State College Extension Service,
said growers harvested 12,955,000
pounds in 1938, which returned
them $3,100,000. Production this
year is expected to total 16,000,000
pounds.
“If the crop averages only 18
cents”, Brown said, “the total re
turn will fall short of last year’s
crop by nearly a third of a million
dollars.”
ONE-VARIETY TYPE
OF COTTON POPULAR
I
College Station, Raleigh, Sept. 4.
Sixty-five cotton-growing commun-
LABOR DAY PARADE
v- IFTHEVh GrET
y \ -roa ether y\ avbe
y «la/ 1 ' coiiuto Ci ET
ities in North Carolina have been or
ganized into one-variety associations
to improve the production of the crop
and to obtain the free classing serv
ice and market news information of
fered by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, it was announced here
today by J. A. Shanklin, extension
cotton specialist of State College.
Shanklin and Ralph Raper, assistant
extension cotton specialist, have
helped county farm agents organize
the one-variety associations.
Twenty-four counties have these
one-variety associations this year,
and nearly 3,000 farmers are enrolled
with agreements to grow and mar
ket a single standard improved va
riety of cotton in each community.
They have about 45,000 acres so cot
ton planted, and agreements have
been signed with 85 ginners to set
aside certain gin days for the hand
ling of one-variety cotton exclusive
ly.
Why The Ears Rebel
At Airplane Flights
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
IN MY yearning to be modern
and keep abreast of the times, I have
felt it my duty to overcome my
natural repugnance to leaving the
earth, to which I have long been
attached by affection and gravita
tion, and soar into the atmosphere.
I have undertaken several airplane
journeys in the last few years, but
I am about forced to give them up
because of the discomfort to my
ears.
To many of my fellow passengers
to whom I complained this seemed
strange; they said they felt no dis
comfort and the pilots awarded the
Dr. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
recital of my symptoms only a pity
ing smile. I thought I was peculiar
and brooded. To my relief, I find
that many of my fellow human be
ings, young and old, have had ex
actly my experience and that even
the pilots suffer so much from it
that it is their common occupational
disease, called “aviator’s ear,” in
the United States, in Germany,
barotrauma, and by aviation sur
geons, aero-otitis media.
Uncomfortable Feeling
The feeling is, I assure you, most
uncomfortable. As the ship rises
you feel as if a pugnacious little
dwarf were pressing on your ear
drums, and then something inside
your ear lets go with a rip and you
feel better for a time. Then the
pressure recommences. But when
you are coming down, the worst part
occurs. Then you get deaf, with an
increasing feeling of fulness. The
feeling does not wear off for hours,
sometimes days.
The explanation is natural. Re
member that the ear drum, in order
to record sound, must be able to
move back and forth. Nature has,
therefore, placed it in front of an
air chamber—the middle ear. Air
goes in and out of this, middle ear
through a hollow tube—the Eusta
chian tube—which leads to the
throat. •But this tube, instead of
standing wide open, as we generally
have imagined it, is collapsible
through most of its length, and acts
as a flutter valve, opening only in
termittently in response to pressure.
One other thing opens it; certain
muscles attached to it draw it open
when swallowing or yawning occurs.
5-10-20-25 Years
Ago
(Taken from Daily
Dispatch Files)
September 4, 1934
A wedding of beauty and sim
plicity was solemnized this morning
at 11 o’clock when Miss ,Sally
Young and William C. Mills, Jr.
were married, the Rev. D. E. Earn
hart, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church, officiating.
September 4, 1929
Sale of stock in the Henderson
baseball club to insure a Piedmont
league team for Henderson next
season was carried out today by
members of a special committee ap
pointed at a meeting of baseball
Aviation medical experts, such as
Armstrong and Heim, have watched
the ear drums under decreasing
pressure. The drums bulge and then
suddenly snap back in place—the
crack.
This corresponds exactly to the
symptoms experienced when ascend
ing in an airplane. As the altitude
increases the air pressure dimin
ishes and the ear drums bulge. This
creates a condition in the middle ear
which eventually causes the Eus
tachian tube to open, equalizing
pressure, and the ear drums snap
back into place—corresponding to
the crack that has been described.
Experiments with varying pres
sures have shown that the first'
bulge begins at about 200 feet alti
tude. It increases to 500 feet alti
tude and then the click occurs. The
bulge immediately begins and res
toration clicks occur about every
500 feet of ascension.
When the atmospheric pressure
is increased instead of decreased, a
totally different effect is produced.
Here the Eustachian tube, acting
like a flutter valve, remains closed
under all conditions of pressure. It
can be opened by voluntary efforts.
This corresponds to the conditions
that obtain when the plane is com
ing down. And this is where the
acute discomfort begins. Yawning,
swallowing and chewing gum tend
to open the tube and help things out,
but, in my experience, not enough.
In the meantime, the ear drum takes
an awful beating.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
M. M.: “Is it possible to get
syphilis by the use of drinking cups
or towels, etc.?”
Answer —No absolutely not.
The germ of syphilis does not live
one second away from contact with
animal (and in nature, only human)
tissue.
T. P. R.: “Do you believe in men
tal telepathy, or do you believe it a
product of too vivid imagination?”
Answer—l do not believe in men
tal telepathy.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
■Por any one pamphlet desired, send 10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr.
JU>gan Clendening. in care of this paper,
rhe pamphlets are: -Three Weeks’ Redue
• “Indigestion and Constipation",
Reducing and Gaining”, "Infant Feed
-IP.*. • Instructions for the Treatment of
Diabetw Feminine Hygiene” and "The
Care of the Hair and Skin”.
fans here Monday. The committee
members worked separately and no
check up on sales was possible at
an early hour this afternoon.
September 4, 1919
More than 500, probably even
600 or more, were immunized from
the infection of typhoid fever dur
ing the six weeks’ campaign ;iust
closed and conducted by Dr. W. H.
Furman, city and county health
olficers, according to records kept
by the physician. While this is a
comparatively small number when
measured by the population of the
county, and that part which has
never had the treatment, it is con
sidered a fair response to the op
portunity offered.
September 4, 1914
Mr. Perry Rose, son of Mr.
Ceorge A. Rose, is displaying re
markable talent as a cartoonist. He
has brought to the Gold Leaf of
fice for inspection two pictures of
scenes on the battlefield as he con
ceives them, one showing a cannon
in action and the other a sombre
scene of pestilence. They are both
very striking and suggestive and
are worthy of a professional. Mr.
Rose would do well to cultivate and
use his talent.
HEREFORD BREEDERS
TO MEET IN ANSON
Wadesboro, Sept. 4.—Plans have
been completed for the fifth annual
“get-together” of Hereford breeders
of the State to be held in Anson
county on Friday, September 8, it
was announced here today by J. W.
Cameron, county farm agent of the
State College Extension Service. It
is expected that a North Carolina
Hereford Breeders Association will
be formed.
A business meeting will be held in
the court house here, starting at 10:30
a. m., after which the group will go
to U. B. Blalock’s Pee Dee farm, 14
miles south of Wadesboro, and one
mile south of McFarlan on Highway
No. 52. There an inspection of Mr.
Blalock’s other Hereford herds in the
county will take place, and a bar
becue luncheon will be served.
ROTATION HALTING
TOBACCO DISEASES
Reidsville, Sept. 4.—Crop rotations
apparently are giving excellent re
sults in controlling the black shank
disease of tobacco in Rockingham
county, reports Farm Agent F. S.
Walker.
When Agent Walker found this
disease on a number of farms in 1934
and 1935, he recommended that rota
tions be started, in which tobacco
was to be eliminated for at least four
years. A recent check-up revealed
that producers who followed the re
commendations and. waited four
years before planting another crop
of tobacco have secured almost a 100
per cent crop this year. However,
those who planted only after a wait
of two years still have definite evi
dence of the disease in their fields.
NEW 3-CENT STAMP
: PUTONsaJ e M J £re
A new three-cent stamn a
placed on sale at tho r, has
post office and has been n? nd ! rs ° a
by many users of the F chas e<l
new stamp was issued T’ 8, The
yance of the 25th „„ , . *«T.
the opening of the Pm' , ry of
to shipping, in August ni4 Canal
new stafhp first was T he
in the Canal Zone. ' 1 don sale
It is purple i n color
same size as a sneei- i i d the
stamp. On the left V ■ deliv ery
Theodore Roosevelt 2fiih P t? ure o{
of the United States,' \v> a/ Cs,dent
right of General George w the
als, chief engineer in Ueth ‘
tion of the canal. In the cenf Uc '
lartT'cut. SHiP MSSin S
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We pay the highest prices for
scrap iron, brass, copper, aluminum
batteries, radiators, and old auto,
mobiles. Blaustein Hide & j lm k
street ’ Wesl Monl S°mwy
WINDOW GLASS! JUST RECEIVED
our new fall stock of window glass
ail popular sizes large and small
Fresh putty too. Phone 33. Alex s’
Watkins.
ALL STATE LICENSED BEAUTY
operators. Phone 200 for appoint
ment. Your patronage appreciated
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better values in used cars. Motor
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
Daily Dispatch Office; 10c per bun
dle, 3 bundles lor 25c. 23-ts
FOR RENT: THREE ROOM" FIRST
floor apartment, private bath and
entrance. Mrs. George J. Rowland,
824 Nicholas street. 2-lt
FOR SALE
VIRGINIA FARMS
55 acre tobacco farm, 7 room house,
stable, ordering house, pack house,
one tobacco barn. This year’s to
bacco crop one of the best in this
section. Plenty of fruit. Price
$3250.00. Good terms.
100 Acre tobacco farm on hard sur
faced road close to town. 8 room
house, tobacco barn, pack house.
Plenty wood. Branch one Boundary
Buildings recently painted. Price
$4500.00. Good terms.
GO Acre tobacco farm well located,
v new tobacco barn, good cottage
house, plenty fruit. Buildings in
good condition. Price $2600.00.
250 Acre tobacco farm located on U.
S. Highway No. 1 one mile from
high school. 6 room dwelling, 2 to
bacco barns, ordering house, pack
house, numerous outbuildings, elec
tric lights. This is one oi the best
tobabcco farms in this section.
Price $8500.00.
Let me show you these farms at once.
ROBERT L. YOUNG
312 Union Trust Building,
Petersburg, Virginia.
21-28-4
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A. D. Patterson
General Contractor
Henderson, N. C.
’ All kinds of building- paint
ing and remodeling
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