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PAGE TWO 30 Whooping Cough Cases Reported In Past Month Thirty cases of whooping cough were reported from over the county 1 to the Vance County Health De- j partment in October, it was shown j in the monthly ‘report of reportable diseases made by the depattment. This is the largest number of cases of the contagion to be shown in a single month in nearly a year, and put the disease in the forefront < foi the month. This Municipality ! Shows Its Citizens Where Money Goes * To strip away the veneer and camouflage ot governmental book keeping is the first step in achiev ing genuine economy—that s the op inion of Mayor IT. \\ . Bettis oi Fort Wayne. Indiana. lie makes the various municipal costs so plain that the average cit izen can compare them with a hair cut. a loaf of bread or a pack of cig arettes. In addressing the annual confer ence of the National Consumers Tax Commission in New York. the Hoosier mayor said: “In Fort Wayne we show that the individual who has a hone a sessed at $4,000 will pay cents a month for police protection, or the mace of a meV: for fire protection 48 cents, less than the price of a haircut—in Fort Wayne: garbage collections eight cents, less than a Sunday paper: street cleaning 13 cents, less than a gallon of gas: street repair. >ix cents the price of a pound lor” of bread: for parks and recreation B_' cents, the price of a pound o steak: health de partment 5 cents, the price of a sott drink: payment on debt la cents, the price of a pack of cigarettes: ether city activities, including pensions and schools. 27 cents, less than a movie ticket." The total is $1.96 a month for all the'Uivil services in Mayor Beals' city How many other municipalities can use such yardsticks so favorably? There should be interesting action i in some 6.000 city and village halls ‘ when the NCTC women begin com paring Mayor Beals' political brass tacks to their own community situa tions. President Is Not De- | cided Upon Course (Continued From Page One) United States Lines' ships to Pana-! manian registry would be legal, the President, however, said other ques tions were being discussed to benefit not only the laid-up crews but the . ships themselves. He said he would . discuss with maritime labor leaders during the day the orospects of j working out with the Maritime Com mission a project lo give training under commissioned officers to of ficers and seamen thrown out of work. They would be paid by the government during such training. Mr. Roosevelt said he also was con- • sidering use of the 25 to 35 Amer ican-flag ships taken out of the North Atlantic trade in fetching materials the government is purchasing under; a $10,000,000 appropriation for a re- ; serve of strategic war supplies. In this connection, he referred to the agreement with Great Britain to exchange American cotton for Brit ish rubber and tin. American sh : ps now idle may be used to bring the rubber and tin back from the East Indies, while the Briti.-h -hips ca - v American cotton back to the British Isles. ■ Stevenson ENDS TONIGHT TOMORROW 10c & 26c They Jje by then wits™ if//. aad hopes... as a team vl igwHak '/ sf na!e* nulls them along ////. r I aSf Cans Iu„ ~„«»•» [I Pete sfrw rTyrTllii _ jms Smith ? N ' * * Chapter No. 2 “OREGON TRAIL” Pop Com \t Sale Today And Tomorrow Delicious French Fried Pop Corn * In The "New Large Size Box One Box 5c * Two Boxes 6c So Tarty, So Good For You Eat Pop Corn For Health’s Sake Gold Seal Soda Shop Stevenson Theatre Building There were three other types of contagious disease reported, how ever. On;£ of r.wse. diphtheria, had two separate cases, and there was_ 1 one each of chickenpox and scarlet ever. v State law requires that these and certain other diseases must be re ported to the department when uund. Weighs Fliers Capt. Charles L. Leedham A new scientific apparatus is being used by the United States army to determine whether a prospective flier is likely to go to pieces emo tionally in an emergency while pilot ing a plane at 350 m.p.h. or more, it was reported by Capt. Charles L. Leedham, of the Army School of Aviation Medicine in Hollywood, Fla. The machine tests control of blood stream by the nervous system. (Central Press) Methodists’ Confer ence Is Dissolved (Continued From Page One) ference convened and the following officers were • elected: T. M. Grant, of Greenville, secretary; F. W. Pas chal!. of Burlington; W. H. Brown, of Jackson Springs, and Dr. E. L. Hillman, of New Bern, assistants. Rev. W. C. Wilson, of Nashville, was named statistical secretary, and Rev. B. H. Houston, of Morehead City, assistant. McDonald Group Is Seen As Backer of Broughton (Continued From Page One) of their own choice. Instead they plan to operate as a cohesive unit in support of the one man they be- Still Around Vladimir Hruban Undaunted by disappearance of his country, 'Vladimir Hruban, fonner Czechoslovakian minister to the United States, continues duties in Washington as though nothing had happened. This is his latest picture. U. S. does not recognize German conquest of Czechoslovakia. Pr^er^rs Finder marks on wallpaper may be re moved by rubbing gently with a clean, soft as soon as you dis cover such marks, and you will save en ergy and wallpaper. HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,1939 Are You Capable of Driving Auto? By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D. TESTS TO determine whether an owner is capable of driving an au tomobile are applied in a very care less and incomplete way. Automo biles have now taken rank as more dangerous than pneumonia on the American continent, yet our states and municipalities take no particu lar care to rule out the unfit among drivers, and regard with cynical Dr. Clendening will answer questions of general interest only, and then only through his column. complacency the rules which could be enforced to forbid dangerous drivers from jeopardizing the lives of their fellow citizens. A complete examination of appli cants for a driver’s license should have three parts—physical condi tion, mental condition and vision. The last is the most important. There are several aspects of vi sion which must be considered: The psychologic aspect, which in cludes the synthesis of visual sen sation into perception and its modi fication by had judgment, bad atti tude and mental disease. This is common enough. The habitual acci dent creator is defective in some way on the psychologic side, and excuses made for him are used off the record because his trouble is too deep to be corrected by good in tentions. Easily Corrected Disorders of refraction of the eye. These can easily be corrected. A refractive error does not necessarily give any symptoms, so a routine examination of drivers is necessary to detect them. Disorders of the retinal function. This is a new field, created by the automobile. It includes glare sensi tivity. The capacity of the eye to function at night is of extreme im portance. Seventy per cent of auto mobile accidents occur between 6 P. M. and 6 A. M. A machine, appropriately named the glarometer, has been invented and is used in several cities to test applicants for driving licenses. It consists of a box into which the pa tient looks and reads letters printed on a screen, but illuminated with a 300-watt lamp. The glare is cut down and the letters changed every ten seconds until almost complete darkness is reached. Third Unfit to Drive In making a large series of tests, almost a third of the applicants were so glare sensitive that they were graded 10 on a basis of 100. That means that we must face the startling fact that a third of the people driving automobiles are physically unable to drive safely at night. The problem of color vision does not appear to be serious. Only about five per cent of people are color blind at all, and these have trained lieve will come nearest to moving in 1 their direction. Every shred of available infor mation points to Mr. Broughton as the man they regard as coming closest to their views. Among the leaders with whom Dr. McDonald conferred here were his 1936 campaign manager, Willie Lee I Lumpkin of Franklin and one of his staunchest and most valued lieute nants, Itimous T. Valentine of Nash. There has been much talk on the quiet side that Lumpkin might get into the race as the McDonald stand ard-bearer, but the conference here is believed to have completely eli minated any such possibility. There has been much talk, too, that Lee Gravely, of Rocky Mount, would come nearer than any of the other suspected candidates to meet ing the McDonald tests, but there is said to have developed very strong anti-Gravely sentiment in the poli tical confab here, with the result that the Rocky Mount man can now be almost completely discarded as a possible beneficiary of the Liberal support. The McDonaldites are said to look upon Mr. Broughton as “J. M. Broughton’s candidate” and not as the candidate of any group. He is not classed as the “Hoey” candidate or the. “machine” candidate, or as the Nazi Aide at Soviet Fete - i ■«■■■. _ _ a* ■ ■ ■"■■■■■> * <Ol <■■/ . fipp ;• -• : mm WT Ww&%sgs SM I : ~rz IMs&WM - Ipc ■ >Ap P Smim October Revolution. Leading diplLttoand £ f Vffi”? eYawav from the sumptuous fete. Caviar and vodka wenfbegging. themselves so that they recognize a difference in red and green lights. Only 12 out of 1,000 color-blind per sons had a record of going through a red light. This figure is given out by the investigating department of a large city. I am told that three completely color-blind persons have been given awards for safe driving. This is contrary to views heretofore expressed in this column, and I am l» l l>Py to niake the correction. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mrs. G. B.: “Can an overactive thyroid be cured without an opera tion V Can it cause indigestion, diz ziness and visual troubles?” Answer: There is hardly tiny subject in medicine that requires more judgment than the decision about the treatment of a case of this kind. Undoubtedly such cases get well without operation, but if the condition is allowed to go on too long, there may be heart damage and eye damage. Certainly the de cision and management must be left to the family physician. The symp toms mentioned can all be caused by overactive thyroid. D. D.: “What effect has coffee on a nervous person? Does it affect the heart in any way?” Answer—The fundamental effect of coffee is to increase the circula tion of the blood. By driving more blood through the brain it causes wakefulness; by driving more blood through the heart it improves the condition of the heart muscle. Nerv ousness is a vague term, and it is not easy to decide whether coffee produces nervousness. In that peo ple are more wakefr it probably does. ■ "" " 'T — F. B.: “What causes ulcers of the intestines? Can they be treated and how? And if they are not treat ed, what will be the result?” Answer: An ulcer in the intes tine is just the same as an ulcer any place else in the body. An ulcer is a solution of continuity in the mucous membrane. The causes are (1) chemical. For instance, if you burn yourself with acid on the skin, an ulcer will result. (2) Physical. If you get a grain of sand in your eye, it will eventually result in an ulcer. (3) Infection. A germ may light on a mucous membrane surface and cause ulcer. Ulcer in the intestine is more likely to be infectious than of any other kind. All ulcers tend to heal. Ulcers of the intestines, if left alone, and if on a bland diet, will also heal. EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Clendening Ha* seven pamphlets which can be obtained by readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents. For any one pamphlet desired, send 10 cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelop® stamped with a three-cent stamp, to Dr. Logan Clendening, in care of this paper. The pamphlets are: “Three Weeks’ Reduc ing Diet”, “Indigestion and Constipation”, “Reducing and Gaining”, “Infant Feed ing”, “Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes”, “FeminineJlygiene” and “The Care of the Hair anc 1 Skir”. choice of any other particular group. They look on him as a true indepen dent upon whom they can center their efforts without fear of entangle ments with other cliques. They frank ly do not think of Broughton as be ing a fellow liberal in complete ac cord with their own views; but they do see him as the candidate who comes the nearest to their viewpoint and who, at the same time, has even a remote chance of being nominated. So while there will not be any bell ringing or tocsin sounding to call the clans to arms, there is every prob ability that the McDonald support can now be definitely listed as for Broughton. Washington Hears Tide Is Now Against Hitler (Continued From Page One) nitely,” thus enabling the White House to act as an intelligent inter mediary between the Allies and Ger many. He said that it’s a puzzle to him to see how our president can act as much of a peacemaker until he knows exactly what the row’s about. The nub of it is that the Colorado solon wants the situation so developed as to permit F. D. to figure in a pacificatory role as soon Farmer Roosevelt Gets An Ear m ■ : .y mm Sterling Byrd, an old resident of Hyde Park, N. Y., listens intently as neighbor Franklin D. Roosevelt has his say, probably about crop condi tions. The President journeyed from Washington in order to vote in the local elections. as possible. Gn me opposite hand, also over the radio, the same evening, Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma strong ly insisted that we shouldn t butt into the European affair under any circumstances. Plenty of senators and represen tatives agree with Senator Thomas. Others agree with Senator Johnson. A third faction holds that President Roosevelt shouldn't make any oiler of his good offices until the helliv erents ask him to. Should they do so, these critics believe he should ac- , cept immediately. I’m pretty sure that this element is in a majority over both the others put together. At all events it’s developing into a hot argument. To my diplomatically unsophisti cated mind it seems quite clear what the British (and French) essential war aim is-—the elimination of Fueh rer Hitler. It seems to me that they’ve stated it very plainly. Any number of their leading statesmen are on record to the effect that they’re not anti-German; they simply are anti- Adolf. In fact, they like the Germans, but emphatically they object to that Austrian house-painter. Naturally, while he remains on the job, any would-be peace-maker is certain to have a dickens of a time negotiating a satisfactory com promise. Germany Discontented? Hints reach Washington to the purport that the fuehrer has lost a deal of popularity at home recently. They come from Allied sources, and perhaps should be accepted a bit skeptically in consequence. Still, j they do have an air of some plausi bility. i The theory is that' the rank and j file of the Nazis were greatly dis pleased at Adolf’s hook-up with Stalin. It’s understandable. The party was as hostile as anybody to Commun ism. Adolf himself was until he made that dicker with Moscow. London and ; Paris learn (or say they do) that his j own erstwhile followers numerously resent his association with the Soviet! folk. It’s asserted that the fuehrer has had to “purge” a good many of them. Even Herr Goebbels is report ed to be at outs with his boss. It’s long been recognized that the ! old-fashioned militarists are anti- Hitleristic. It’s fair to assume that j the original “bourgeoise,” which he’s liquidated, must hate him. Maybe ■ ; ; ■-■ •■ : ■—— - j - - --- - : - : --- - : - -- ■ : : I » Pint Was‘MS m now -p The Straight 11 IP tram*(■ WUI . . ... M Whiskies in this ' N ' Copyright 1939, Jos. S.Flneh & Co., tnc., Saturn the masses already are sick of ra tioning and incidental war hardships. If the Nazis also are going back on him, his position begins to look pre carious. That’s what the Allies are counting on. Presently, they hope, Germany itself will dispose of him. Then they’ll have accomplished their vital war aim. French Army Braces For German Push (Continued From Fage One) the mechanized division 11,000.) These quarters professed to see an ominous quiet—perhaps the prelude to a German offensive in the sketchy reports of action on the west ern front, such as this morning’s French communique, which said merely: “Activity of contact units during the night.” The cabinet was understood to have discussed a French reply to the Nethc-rlands-Belgian mediation pro posal in a two and a half hour meet ing. Although the decision was not disclosed, previous indications in Paris and London pointed to a joint French-British negative response. Mysterious Defen sive Acts Taken (Continued From Page One) Residents in the “water line” vil lages were removed. After a cabinet meeting, which lasted until early today, the high command ordered removal from martial law areas of all ships un desirable for defense purposes. Am bulance units were ordered on duty at The Hague, presumably as an air : aid precaution. Buses have been requisitoned, and many trains taken out of ser vice, apparently to be prepared to remove the population of areas west of the flood defenses. The flooding process, which will ’’rnuire some time, is an unusual de fensive measure to cut off Amster dam, Rotterdam, The Hague and other industrial areas from the east. Although official explanations were lacking, the moves by Belgium and the Netherlands were inter preted as preparation for any even tualities in the European war. Slight Gai?G For Cotton New York, . ton futures op: points higher. At first hour, prior six points. Aro::w; t«, were steady at not io ; even point:. Stocks Drop Still Further New York, ,\Y Feeble rallying -on;, stock market failed loaders backed away around two .joint: Dealings slackened , i’ , eiately fast opening losses were reduced There was a subseq without much activity, fourth hour many in reaching distance •ows. Some selling wa w fears the recently was is about to assuirn live” phase. American Radiator American Telephone Anaconda Atlantic Coast Line . .. Atlantic Refining . Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel Chrysler . Columbia Gas & Elec C.< "q Commercial Solvents Consolidated Oil Co 7 '-Y ! Curtiss Wright DuPont n<s Electric Power Light 7 General Electric V. General Motors ?Ji Liggett & Myers B Montgomery Ward & Co .74 •. Reynolds Tobacco B Southern Railway ]g Y Standard Oil Co N J . 17 " - U S Steel eg ‘{} AROUND TOWN Pays Traffic Fine—Mis. P. p Hagwood paid $1 ine do vhe r. lice of ihe city clerk 'or violating traffic rules. Granted License—John Lee Wi lms and Kathaleen Ayscue, both route 1, Henderson, were granted license to wed at the Vance deg - try office yesterday. STATE Theatre 10c—25c TO DA Y—TOM OR R OW ROY ROGERS in His New Musical Western “WALL STREET COWBOY” ALSO “Spiders Web and Comedy TOMORROW NIGHT 11 P. M. “WHITE ZOMBIE” STATE Theatre TUESDAY—NOV. 14 IN PERSON —And In Picture RALPH BYRI) The Original “Dick Tracy”
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