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»Hy Ww rjjhTiUmp—!* »y<—», flight n, ny^th,**
£>.-en so ye aiso outwardly appear
righteous unto man, but wh’un ye
are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
—Matt. 23:28.
THE FORCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS BEAI’TIF' L AS WELL AS POW
ERFUL: Whicn is as a bridegroom
coming out ui nis chamber, and re
joiceth as a strong man *o run a race..
—Psalm 19:3.
Totiay
TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES
2789 —(150 years ago) William C. j
Bonu, bfcii-,au s ut astronomer,!
whose Boston panor was made into J
an observatory, oorn at Portland, j
Maine. Died .January 29, 1859.
1823—J0.-ep.- Leiriy, noted Phila- .
delpliia scientist and anatomist,!
born there. Lieo April 20 ,1891. |
1842—E!:ott Couta, acted orni
thologist and Diet, gist of his day, j
born it rori.-i jmui, N. *l. Died ini
Baltimore, December ?J5, 1899.
18^-I—ivaainee Tnompson, In
diana poet-.'uthor. oorn at Pair-
Held, Ind. Died February 15, 1901.
1859—James H. Kirkland, Van-1
derbilt University enanceilor, wno |
rameu acaafc.ii o itondanis in the i
South, born Spartanburg, S. C.
Died August 5, 1P39.
1868 —Mary .Austin, author, born |
at Carlinviile, 111. Died August 13, !
1934.
I
TODAY IN HISTORY
1776—Continental Congress or- j
ders ail commL. t ! oear ‘ United 1
States”, nstead " ‘United Colon
ies”, first iime o-cailed officially.
1826—The Christian Advocate,
pioneer Methodist periodical, first
issued. ,
1839—Mode, Ala. .vent through i
its second oig ire of the month, !
a most disastrous one.
1841—/’resident Tyler vetoes!
Fiscal Corporation Bill and all but i
one of ais Cac.net esigr. .
1850—California narrutted to the j
Union a? the 31 Cate—New Mexico j
and Utah oecome Territories. j
1873—Britain : ettles ue historic |
Alabama Claims.
1919—Police strike in ; oston be- j
gins--not a policeman on streets:
at midnight. '
TODAYS BIRTHDAYS I
Marriner S. Feeler, chai n of I
the Board of Governors of ■? e Fed- \
eral Reserve System, bom at Lo- !
gan, Utah, 49 years ago.
Dr. Samuel M. Cavert general !
secretary of the Federal Council of
Churches, New York born at i
Charlton, N. Y., 5! yea -s ago.
U. S. Senator Henry Styles Brid
ges of New Hampshire, born at
Pembroke. Maine, 41 years ago. !
Cyrus R. Sm,th of Chicago, presi- |
dent, American Airlines, born at
Minerva, Texas, 40 years ago.
Ex-Governor Alfred M. Landon I
of Kansas, born at W. Middlesex j
Pa.. 52 years ago.
Max Reinhardt, stage manager- 1
producer, bom in Austi ia, 66 years I
ago. j
Ralph Waldo Trine of Hollywood !
born at Mt. Morris 111 ’ •
73 years ago. ’ ” i
J..mes Hilton, English author of!
Goodbye, Mr. Chips”, born 39
years ago.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
Today gives one of versatile
character, well suited tor ,ocial
lne. Many friends dll be maße and
the li_e will be : uecessf.il through
pleasant associations - with people
casually met in the course of or
business Conservation
of the mean, will bring financial
success as well as social.
The moral of persistence is a re
assuring factor in huma| nature
Poetry consists in the liberation of
beautiful analogies.
ANSWERS TO
fEN QUESTIONS
* Sf‘ Bn fife. Pape
1. Numerator ;• u denominator.
■ 2. John Philip Sousa.
3. Utah.
4. The Big Bear.
5. Gteorge Wash in.gton.
6. Henry Armstrong.
7. Topaz.
3. Acadia.
9. The I: land of Manhattan.
10. fin.
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY
1. How many more men did North
r Carolina have iiNarms in the Sixties
• than in the late World War?
2. When was the first train op
erated between Morehead City and
! Goldsboro?
! 3. What was the expenditure lor
; seed by the highway landscape de
, partment last year?
4. What three counties rank highest
I in tobacco acreage in the State?
i 5. When did a candidate for the
state senate threaten a riot if he was
t defeated?
[ 6. How many years did Congress
t man Lewis Williams, of Surry coun
| iy, serve in Congress?
i ANSWERS.
I 1. Between 1860 and 1865 there
I were a total of 127,000 North Caro
| linian, or one person in each seven,
lin active service. During the late
• j World War the state sent 86,550 men,
one out of each fifty of the state’s
? | population, into the service.
*! 2. On June 7, 1858, when through
> trains ran through. Last week Gov
. j ernor Hoey signed a lease transfer
.! ring the operation of the property
! to private interests of Sanford.
3. The budget commission reports
show a total of $l7O. The salaries and
! wages of the landscape department
j for the same period amounted to
i $14,383.
4. Pitt county ranked first with
. i 33,060 acres. Johnston next with 27,-
, i 760 acres and Nash, third, with 25,-
’ j 530 acres.
j 5. Philip Alston, who was under
l indictment for murder at the time,
1 • successfully won the election in
Moore county in 1786. The senate re
. fused to seat him and, because of
this he threatened to “raise a riot.”
, 6. A total of 26 years, from 1815 to
' 1842. While Congressman Williams
; did not establish a record for years
I of continuous service for a North
I Carolina congressman he did serve
, a number of years not attained by
l any other congressman following
! him until the present congressman,
j Robert L. Doughton. Mr. Doughton
J has been in congress since 1911.
! OTHERS VIEWS
| AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM
J To the Editor:
j Since the editor has presented Mr.
jC. L. Mitchell’s biblical argument in
favor of ‘Total abstinence,” I think
it nothing but fair that the Editor
of the Dispatch allow another argu
ment from the same source that Mr.
Mitchell bases his.
From the Bible: “Give strong
. drink unto him that is ready to
perish, and wine to those that be of
heavy hearts. Let him drink and for
iget his poverty, and remember his j
I misery no more. .Prov. 1,6, 7.)
• “And thou shalt bestow that money '
'for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,
j for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine,
•or for strong drink. (Deut. xiv, 26.) '
j “Drink no longer water, but use a I
little wine for thy stomach’s sake, j
and thine often infirmities. (I Tim.
v, 23.)
“Wine which cheereth God and !
man. (Judges ix, 13.)”
I have only the biblical account of j
: Jesus Christ drinking wine; and I i
; have a most authentic source by
! which I may learn the literal mean
i ing of the English noun, wine, id est,
[according to Mr. Noah Webster (a ]
| man that had 40,000 words in his ,
I vocabulary): “Wine, n. An intoxi- i
} eating liquor obtained from the ]
I fermented juices of grapes and other i
' fruits.”
; And as to women in general, and
not speaking of any special one, I
i have seen all to often how most of
i them have been crowned, too many,
| all-too-many, dirtv clothes for h» r .
jto wash, too much housework, too
■many meals to cook, coniine ae .
not enough recreation in the “great i
| out-of-doors,” she was especially
crowned with a secondary role (poor i
! woman). She (women) came very
I near getting crowned, in the latter ‘
part of the nineteenth and the first i
decade of the twentieth century, with j
“irish confetti (bricks)” because she i
! desired her rightful right to vote, j
Yes! women have been crowned, I
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When money talks, the grammar doesn’t matter.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1939
“alright”! That’s why their backs
are so bowed and their faces so
wrinkled.
If Mr. Mitchell has intimated that
conditions that exist in China today
are a result of “Divine Retribution,”
I will prove by the very Bible that
he bases his “affirmations” on, that
he is radically wrong. Beginning of
quote: “God is not the author of
confusion, but of peace. (I Corin
thians xiv, 33.)
“The law of the Lord is- perfect . .
. . The statutes of the Lord are right
.... The commandment of the Lord
is pure. (Ps. xix, 7,8.)
“ A God of truth and without ini
quity, just and right is he. (Deuter
onomy xxxii, 4.)
“For God cannot be tempted with
evil, neither tempteth he any man.
(James i, 13.)
“The God of peace. (Romans xv,
33.)
’ “The Lord is very pitiful and of
tender mercy. (James v, II.)
“For he doth not afflict willingly,
nor grieve foe children of men.
| (Lamentations iii, 33.)
“For his mercy endureth forever.
<1 Chronicles xvi, 34.)
“I have no pleasure in the death of
him that dieth, saith the Lord God.
(Ezekiel xviii, 32.)
“The Lord is good to all, and his
tender mercies are over all his works.
(Psalms cxiv, 9.)
“God is love. (I John iv, 16.)
“Good and upright is the Lord.
(Psalms xxv, 8.)
“The Lord is merciful and grac
ious, slow to anger and plenteous in
mercy. (Psalms ciii, 8.)
“His anger endureth but moment.
(Psalms xxx, 5.)” Et ad infinitum.
End of quote.
I think the gentlemen of the Amer
ican press are a very decent lot. not
orone to obscenity; and if Mr. Mitch
ell is referring to occasional photo
graphs, in our newspapers, of some
of our pulchritudinous young ladies,
I have only to refer Mr. Mitchell to
a well known established historical
‘net: clothes were first worn for
adornment, not concealment; and
that clothes enhance rather than re
tard voluptuousness. And believe it
or not, Mr. Mitchell, morals are bet
ter in these modern times than they
were ever heretofore in the historv
of the world. If you desire proof, I
can very easily furnish you with in
numerable histories of morals in
Ancient and Medieval times.
And. Mr. Mitchell, if you are really
on the brink of meeting vour doom,
don’t feel bad about it, all of us will
soon be “pushing up daisies,” only
a matter of a few years, at the most.
And if you feel as though you have
waited your life, to that, I can onlv
quote the twelfth verse of Gray’s
Elegy:
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp
of nower.
All that’s beauty, all that wealth
e’er gave,
A wait, alike, the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the
f*rpve.”
Vade in pace.
FRANK L. FAULKNER.
Henderson, Sent. 4, 1939.
Imprimatur, please.
Albion m the Ah*
; . ; —-
[British airmen now carrying the
war to Germany are equipped like
the aviator above, pictured before
takeoff on a flight from London.
Dressed in heavy bniforms, they
can cope with the cold weather of
high altitudes. They carry machine
yams of the latest type, parachutes
and oxygen masks.
PER TAG!
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Safeguarding American Ships
Workmen are pictured painting large American flags on hatch covers
of the American liner President Roosevelt , in New York, preparatory
to further European trips to remove American war refugees. Similar
scenes were enacted in many American ports as U. S. vessels guarded
against being mistaken for those of belligerent nations and attacked.
Flag That Inspired National Anthem
Made 125 Years Ago for Ft. McHenry
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THE original “Star Spangled Ban
ner,” the hand - sewn flag that
floated over Fort McHenry and gave
the United States its anthem, is still
A national relic. Preserved in the
National Museum in Washington, it
will be the center of attention next
September, when the nation cele
brates the 125th anniversary of its
making, and of Francis Scott Key’s
masterpiece.
The immortal anthem was written
on September 14th, 1814, as Key re
joiced at seeing “by the dawn’s early
light” that the stars and stripes still
waved. He had spent the night pac
ing the deck of a cartel ship and
watching a British fleet’s bombard
ment of the fort.
The flag, which continued to wave
triumphantly as the attack failed,
was made by a widow, Mrs. Mary
Young Pickersgiil, of Baltimore.
Mrs. Pickersgill’s mother had made
the “Grand Union Flag.” under
which Washington had taken com
mand of the American Army at Cam
bridge, Mass., in 177 C.
When the British invaded Chesa
peake Bay, Mrs. Pickersgiil was
given the task of sewing a flag for
the fort defending Baltimore. The
order called for a mammoth banner,
30 by 42 feet. Because of the size,
a large floor was necessary for the
work. The mayor of Baltimore, Ed
ward Johnson, provided the malting
oor of the brewery adjoining his
home. The walls of the building are
still standing.
The huge flag contained four hun
dred yards of bunting, and Mrs. Pick
ersgiil and her daughter, Caroline,
wit h guidance from Mrs. Young,
worked day and night to complete it.
After the battle, Mrs. Pickersgiil
embroidered around the holes in the
shot-torn flag. In 1912 the “Star
pangled Banner” was presented to
ie National Museum by a descen
dant of the Commanding Officer of
Fort McHenry..
Baltimore and the nai ion will cele
brate the famous flag’s 125th birth
day in September.
5-10-20-25 Years
Ago
(Taken from Daily
Dispatch Files)
September 9, 1934
Announcement was made here to
day that the local office of the Na
tional Reemployment Service will be
moved to Durham after next Sat
urday. The office which has been
located in the grand jury room of
the court house, since its establish
ment here last fall, has for the past
six or eight months served also
Granville and Warren counties.
September 9, 1929
Practically all the brick work, and
almost all of the exterior of the new
building of the First Presbyterian
church on Young street has been
completed, with the exception of the
tower and the columns in front.
September 9, 1919
In the place of the dormitory which
was destroyed by fire at Henderson
Normal Institute last spring, a
handsome $55,000 structure is soon
to rise from the ashes, Professor J.
A. Cotton, principal of the institu
tion, announced today.
September 9, 1914
There have been abundant evi
dences in Henderson today of a deep
and general interest in the Vance
count primary election which is be
ing held in every precinct in the
county.
Capital Gossip
By HENRY AVERILL
Dally Dlspueli liureau,
In *he Sir Waller Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 9. —Sometimes it
pays to run a good bluff.
G. Q. Gilkey, of Marion, runs no
bus lines; but for one reason or
another it seems he wanted one
run from Marion to Blowing Rock
via Newlands and Linville. It also
seems he couldn’t prevail upon any
company to run a line for him.
And so Mr. Kilkey filed, with
considerable fanfare and blowing of
publicity trumpets, an application
for a franchise for such a bus line,
probably reasoning he wouldn’t
have to run it if he didn’t want to,
even if he got the permission.
But when the Queen City Coach
Company heard that Mr. Gilkey had
sought the franchise, it forthwith
and immediately filed for per
mission to operate over exactly the
name route. *
Hearing on both petitions has
been set for September 29, but it’s
common talk that the Gilkey appli
cation will be quietly, and joyous
ly, abandoned.
On the fropt of the new Depart
ment of justice building is carved in
for Home
refreshment QjW t
_ DRINK
Gmsc% gif
BUY THE SIX-BOTTLE carton depo^*'
big letter “Law and t
looks like they think “it
tag‘ ‘“Oscar" the
atop the same new building tig " ro
North Carolina offered it f
State reward in more tivin t s lrst
when a price of Slop was ~T yoais
head of Eddie Marshall' i" n
Negro wanted in Grarvin. Unvell
- first degree burglary C ° Unty
He was the first person n •,
participants in the two bm iV?-° ivoi ß
breaks at Caledonia and Com,' n'p le
son, for whom Governor < • , n '
Hooy has si E „ed n , , C «•
Records show that J' ■
sered a S4OO reward hr, 0 "f
--or parties’’ who killed lligj w
trolman George Penn, bin u a '
out to be Wash Turner' V rned
Payne, two of the escapes ior'tlf" 1
apprehension SIOO reward l )se
ready been had a '-
In all, Hoey has now author!
prize money for capture „i / 6 J ) . Zed
mals—seven who escaped fro, , S'
don,a, six from State Pris,, ? e '
who KiHed Penn, and n„aily%^
One million pounds of s j on |
used to construct the longest iJ7 e
on the 500-mile Blue Fudge S'
way. The structure is in Ashe o'
ty and spans Laurel Fork creep’ll
leel long and nearly inn feH
above the creek. The bridge is (m tl f
completed Parkway stretched },- h
Deep Gap to the Virginia State line!
Just to show how hot it was
m Raleigh Friday, it’s a matte-
common knowledge that folks stnn
ped talking about the European Z'
Qnm }&} t( > ask each Other
Is it hot enough for you?” And V rm
correspondent saw Bill Bellamy
Wilmington attorney, on the street
I was driving to Henderson and
I got so hot I just had to get out of
the car and rest a while,” said Mr. B
WANT ADS
Get Results
LET US SHARPEN AND REPAIR
your mowing machine blades. We
; know how and have the right
equipment. C. W. Finch. 8-2 ti
FOR SALE FRESH MlLlfcoW.
See W. G. Ayscue at Kelly’s Cross
| Roads.
WE SPECIALIZE liN ALL KINDS
of body and fender repair work
Motor Sales Co. 25-11
FOR RENT NICELY FURNISHED
bedroom, first iloor, private bath,
oil heat. Mrs. J. W. Cooper, phone
129. 9-lti
ALL STATE LICENSED BEAUTY
operators. Phone 200 for appoint
ment. Your patronage appreciated
Brldgers Beauty Shop. 14-ts
FOR RENT: THREE OR "FOUR
room furnished apartment on
Charles street. To Couple without
children. Phone 194-J. 8-2 ti
LOOSE LEAF NOTE BOOK. WITH
black back* belonging to high
school band, lost last night. Finder
please notify Mrs. W. B. Hight,
telephone 449. 9-lti
VISIT OUR USI.D CAR LOT FOR
\ better values in used cars. Motor
| Sales Co. 25-ts
GET PRICES ON OUR USED CARS
before you buy. E. & Z. Motor Co.,
Dodge and Plymouth dealers. 11l
Chestnut street. 4-eod-tf
WHITE MOUNTAIN ICE CREAM
Freezers reduced one third for
clearance. Now’s the time to buy
a good freezer cheap. Alex S. Wat
kins. 9-lti
FOR SALE: ONE NUMBER 7 Mc-
Cormick mower, one Number 6
and one Oliver. Second hand, but
in good shape. Also one new Oliver
mower. C. W. Finch. 8-2 ti
TWO CONNECTING BEDROOMS
convenient to bath for rent to four
ladies or gentlemen. Near high
school, Clarke street school. Board
if desired. Mrs. Walker, 324 Char
les street. 8-11!
FOR RENT TO TEACHERS OR
business women, large bedroom.
Mrs. E. G. Glenn. Telephone 6M.
906 Chestnut street. 8 ~ 3 “
FURNISHED 3 ROOM APART
ment, hot and cold water, use o
phone, garage, one block fromi pos
office. Mrs. R. G. Bobbitt, 3(kl • •
William street.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AT
Daily Dispatch Office; 10c per bun
dle, 3 bundles for 25c.
FOR RENT: THREE OR FOUR FI fi
nished steamheated bedrooms in
desirable section ol city.
279-J.
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fidential. Please do not can
the office for their identity
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