[Itot&m&tt Sally Htsjiafrfy Established August 12. 1914 Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by HENDERSON DISPATCH CO.. INC at 109 Young Street HENRY A. DENNIS. Pres. and Edito M. L. FINCH. Sec.-Treas., Bus. Mgi TELEPHONES Editorial Office 50i Society Editor 6H Business Office 6V The Hondo -son Daily Dispatch is ; member oi Tike Associated Press Southern Newspaper Publishers As ■ociation und the North Carolin, Press Association. The Associated Press is exclusivel; entitled to u>e for republication ai news dispurine* credited to it or no otherwise twined in this paper, an< also the lo-\a news published herein Albrights publication of soecia dispatches he-eui are also rest. id. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Payable Mrictly in Advance One Yt w $5 Oi Six Months 2J>< Three Aionuis 1.51 Weekly (By Carrier Only) 1.' Per Copy 0j Entered at the post office in Hender son^LC. i stooiid class mail matter MAP A GREAT COURSE AN! SULK TO IT: Unstable as water thou shait noi excel.—Genesis 49:4 Riiles Aplenty It >s a heartening development, ii true, that Uncle Sam has thre" mil lion or so rifles good enough Hwat serv ice. ;;nd the country is just that much more fortunate that, was gen erally supposed. FU; • where were those oif;cial< who now reveal all this generous supply of guns while so much has been said about the slow pace of the preparedness program'.' They might have been able to give ettective answer before this to charges freely made about the woeful lack ot this and other sorts of equip ment. The important consideration is. however, as to what portion of the supply that now comes to lignt would be efficient for 'modern warfare. It will be much better than having conscript drill with broomhandles. but could American doughboys stop a Hitler blitzkreig with them? With these rifles, infantrymen would be able to shoot, and a bullet put in the right place would do what is expected of it whether fired from one of these old guns or the newest type of firearms now being made with which to equip troops. They may be good enough for training pur poses and possibly could and may have to serve for that purpose until better and more modern equipment is provided. At any rate, we have three million rifles. The next thing in order is to get a supply of them that are better than the best possessed by any army, and also to manufacture enough machine guns, trench mortars, and other arms that infantrymen need if they are to perform their duties in an adequate manner. The Obliging Gayda Britons are under obligations to the Italian Editor Gayda tor his ad vance notice that they "ain't seen nuthin' yet" in the way of German blitzkreigs until they experience what is still in store for them. Well, we must admit that, so far as the censor has been pleased to be frank, nothing has come that Britain has been unable to withstand, or that has shaken the morale of her people or seriously impaired her r :sti->g capacities. Assuredly this is not to say the Ns'ii peak has been reached. If it has. Hitler is defeated. Moreover, Berlin itself semi-officially reveals that the first phase of the Battle of Britain has ended, and new and greater things are on the way. Then there is the report that Win ston Churchill said he would almost welcome an attempt by Hitler to in vade the British Isles. Talk is cheap, 'tis true, but Churchill's firm ness and audacity has given his countrymen a new determination and a fx-esh confidence in their ability "to take it." What the obliging Gayda has iri mind the world does not yet know It could be a further prrt oi the axi.i war of nerves. It is not readily ac ceptable that Hitler has been saving up aa unheralded chest of horrors, unless it be a greater or a more in tense mass attack of war planes. And so far the Germans have by ncj means won the war in the air even; and there is not much to indicate that they are likely to in the v«_ v immediate future. The world's prize optimist is that athlete who has started training foi the next Olympic games. The South American condor has the largest wing spread of any bird. Totalitarian eagles—take note! Our Defense Experts A predominance of army and navj men in the panel representing this country on the United States Cana dlan Defense Commission shoulc . provide such technical knowledge as wil be needed. These men. whi , make a cereer of lighting, or pre paring for it. ought to be capable ol . determining what is the best course to pursue in cooperation of the twe countries for their mutual advantage Mayor LaGuardia. though a left ) winger through an1 through, give: > representation to the greatest Amer i icon city, which would be highly \ ul . nerable in the event of an air at " tack. For him and the people whose ' affairs he manages defense is as vital r and of mueh real concern as foi 1 -inv part of ti c nation. He is in po sition. too. to speak with authority Jon the problem as it relate.- to othei iI oioat titers of population on the At lantic seaboard. i chairman of the United States 'board. I.aCuardia will carry mucl || weight iis decisions. He is an m l timate of the rresident and as such 1 will speak the chief executives mind ' which doubtless he understands bet ■ tor than any other man in the . I group. The commission, of course, like all the others in the vast laby 'Irinth of bureaucratic administration j with which the country is now in I tested, will. ?nd naturally, take its ! orders from Mr. Roosevelt, and will Ibe little more than clerics dnng his ' bidding. Assuming that there is general realization throughout the nation of j the wisdom of close cooperation with Canada, the gentlemen serv'ng in 'he effort to obtain the greatest poss.ble efficiency and coordination along that line must be conscious of the i weighty duties that rest upon them. Their act'otis should now and always be upon the highest possible pat ' riotic basis, with no thought of any thing else but the safety and perpet uation of the future and welfare ol I the republic. The mayor of New York is a politician of the first water, and at least one of the others is wise ; when mindful of his connections with political ramifications, but the army j and navy men. like the river, go on forever until death or the age of re tirement relieves them of their du : ties. They enn think of other thing I than the effect on potential voting ; influences. i The work of the joint defense com i mission is but one of many phases of ! the feverish preparedness program ' in th > country, but it is vital in e\ - ery sense of the word. Gentlemen : who are entrusted with the respon ' sibilities now theirs are offered a ' very outstanding opportunity to ! render genuine service to their ! countrymen. i Not So Impressive Another one of those straw tabu j lations has been published, and this i one. coming a month after the first. | cho\vs Wendell Willkie still a safe dis tance ahead of President Roosevelt in electoral votes, but neither with a comfortable margin of support in i individual states to satisfy hopes of [ their supporters. ' Certainly there is not much of a ' decisive character about the latest j showing. Percentages are too closc | to the divid'ng line in so many states that the slightest shift would give the Republican candidate a distinctly i better majority, or else would throw I the Pre ident's column far out in i front, v. t i !i both measurements I of public stnti ent he has been well ! behind his opp< nent in the electoral 1 vote enumeration. 1 At that, however. th;> President made substantial gains. That may be i signifie:.nt. It may reflect a disap j pointi:.< r • on the part of many pco i pie with the Willkie acceptance i speech ten days ago. And there is | no basis for denial of the fact that | some opinion is the Willkie of the ac | ceptance address is a different man ! from the Willkie of convention and ; pre-convention days. Somehow there I is a sort of sub-conscious feeling that Candidate Willkie hasn't quite the directness and the punch that -eemcd so evident in the months just before the Philadelphia miracle. Is 'he G. O. P. candidate of today the i ^aine Willkie who wrote "Five | Minutes Before Midnight"? Or has ] he been offered and accepted too I much advice from old-line Itepub | lican leaders? j The campaign is on, but it hasn't I actually generated a great deal of i heat as yet. Some nine or ten weeks ! remain in which the big berthas on ! both sides may be hauled into posi : tion and started to firing. Until | then many minds will remain open, i If there be any significance to straw ! votes, their greatest value will come ■ in the final month of the campaign, ! that is, in October. And if this • method of sounding public opinion | is credited with being vvoyth its salt, it will still be any man's guess as to who will win the election unless there I is a decisive shift one way or the | other from the present exhibits. ! Meanwhile, the safest course is not to become excited or alarmed in eith er direction. After all, the actual vote count is what decides elections. | Reading in oed, according to a beauty expert, is bad for the chin | and neck line. The resultant im j provemcnt of the mind being of course, of no consequence. , I ——————— We've no idea what ever became : of that plan to make clothes out of ! skimmed milk. However, we've seen : plenty of vests that appeared to be ! made up of vegetable soup. German propagandists, we read I are trying to humanize Hitler. Weil. 1 they'll have to go some to catch up 'on Churchill's smile and that cheer : lullv burning cigar. I Astronomers now report that the • sun has begun to show an unusual ! number of small spots. Old Sol, it 'seems, has suddenly become partial i to polka dots. | j France has changed the name of | the chief official executioner from i "Monsieur Paris" to "Mr. Algiers." ; But he's still unpopular. i A newly invented air gun is said | to be capable of firing 10,000 times j a minute. That certainly is shooting | off a lot ol hot air. Wearing wet socks, we read, is a cure for insomnia. Now all we need I is a sure cure for the head cold I which would result. i These days when Greek meets I Lireek they discuss Mussolini's latest i threat. I ' OTHERS VIEWS FROM MR. WRIGHT To the Editor: Looking aown l'rom his capitalistic i throne ot gold, Wendell Wulkie, m ■ins speech of acceptance, said to the 'iiity million poverty stricken peo ; pie in this country who were found oy tlie New Deal, after eignty years oi Republican rule; "in America we 'are not reduced to blood and tears. | But we shall not be able to avoid the ! toil and sweat. In the montns anead ot us every man will have to work a little harder. Every housewife will have to plan a little more carefully. |l speak plainly because you must not be deceived about the dii'ficul i ties of the future. You will have to jbe hard of muscle, clear of head and 'brave of heart." • Those are the cruelist words ever 'uttered by a candidate for office in •the United States. Mr. Wilikie speaks not like one seeking office in a re 'public, but like an autocrat from (whose rulings there is no appeal. (Surely he is the American Hitler j bulwarked, not by the people of his .country as is the German chancellor, but by the wealth of plutocrats who jare the assassins of the peace and 'wellbeing of the great producing class in this country. j When Wilikie was nominated I I said organized greed had by that j 'act thrown down the gauntlet to the ! wealth producers of this country, ,saying: We are not going to have any j more New Deal efforts to aid the man in the field, factory and mine j 1—uplift the plain people—but it shall be easier for the rich to get more ■ wealth. With all my soul I hope the people will take up the gauntlet, thereby accepting the challenge of [ 'the plutocrats and fight them at the r ballot box to the last ballot, and if I i needs be shed our blood to free our I country of the industrial cannibals. ■ ; Better l'ar our bones bleached on the ! .field of honor than our bodies rot in poverty. To some people what I have writ ten may seem harsh words, but when [one remembers they are written in order that the people may see their Host and ruined condition and unite I to destroy the i.: eedy monster that (hitherto has consumed the product of jthoir labor, my words are not stern enough. JAS. H. WRIGHT. | i Henderson. i BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN! gee 1 Ivjltw v/ACATiO^ lasted What Do You Know About North Carolina? By FRED H. MAY 1. When was practically ali the l'arm property in North Carolina be ing offered for sale? 2. How long were North Carolina seats in congress vacant during the Civil War and reconstruction period? 3. Where was the first North Car olina Methodist conference held? 4. What was the amount of graft from railroad bunds distributed lo members of the carpetbag legislature of 1869? 5. In what North Carolina county: was a man indicted for joining in singing at a church? 6. Why was North Carolina called the recruiting ground of the South | during the Revolutionary War? ANSWERS. | 1. During the years from 1825 to j 1840 there was a general movement of people from North Carolina to; the west and southwest. During those: years it was claimed that nine out of every ten families were offering! their property for sale and planning to migrate to some of the newly opened territories. The building of. railroads and other improvements! aided in stemming this tide. Many' hundreds of families moved away,; however, before the tide was stop-, ped. 2. Eight years in all, from 1861 to ( .1868, when the first senators and! congressmen were allowed to be seat-' ed in the national congress. 3. At the home of Green Hill, a leading Methodist of the state, about one mile east of Louisburg, Franklin i county. The conference was held in April 1785. | 4. A total of $241,713.31 was claim ed to have been distributed among \ members of the legislature by George! W. Swepson, president of the West ern North Carolina Railroad. The; legislature had adopted an act which j' provided a large bond issue for this railroad. ! 5. Robeson county in 1833. William Linkhaw, a church member, had j indicted by other members, because his singing was out of key and dis-1! SALLY'S SALLIES Kcnstcrcd U $ Patent Ofiicc .. X ~\ will./ ——icy;/ ^-3. w I Distributed by King Fca'ures Syndicate, Incj Science savs that flies can go for days without settling—the grocer says some of his customers go for months. turbcd the congregation. The lower court convicted him and the case was carried to the Supreme Court where a reversal was ordered. 6. North Carolina had a larger population than any of the other southern states and more men of military age to draw from. This with the greater willingness of North Car olinians to fight for independence made recruiting much easier in the state. It has been stated that North Carolinians were more interested in getting in the ranks and lighting than in being commissioned as officers. i ANSWERS TO TEN QUESTIONS See Back Page 1. rne em 01 rugni*.. 2. No. 3. Scandinavian Peninsula. 4. Yes. 5. An instrument used to extract foreign bodies from the bronchial tubes. 6. Business executive. 7. Below. 8. British West Indies, off the coast of Venezuela. 9. April. 10. Julius Caesar. TWO JOBS FOR JESSE JONES ARE SOUGHT Washington, Aug. 27.—(AP)— President Roosevelt will ask Con gress to permit Jesse H. Jones to re tain his present post as federal loan administrator after he becomes sec •etary of commerce. Stephen T. Early, the White House oress secretary, made this announce ment, and said Jones was "very j anxious" to accept the commerce [ jortl'olio. He will succeed Harry L. j rlopkins, who resigned last week to j •ecover his health. Jones' nomination would not go ! :o the senate. Early said, until the ' egislation allowing him to hold both j lobs was passed. The request for the authority will be made after Jones •cturns next week from a vacation n Michigan. Present law forbids an individual J o hold two federal positions at the j ame time. Under the proposed leg- i slation. which will mention Jones by | lame, he would be limited to the j ;ingle $15,000 salary paid a cabinet >fficer. He now receives 812,000. Friends of Jones in Congress have ■xpressed reluctance to see him leave he , leading post. His handling of (illions of dollars in federal loans las won him praise from both par ies. Early said the President asked the 6-year-old Texan to keep hir: pre ent job at the time he offered the abinet place to him. PRISONER WITHOUT CRIME New York, Aug. 27.—(AP)—The ell door unaccountably slammed ehind William Colton, a cleaner, as e worked on a seldom-used floor f Brooklyn criminal courts build ig—and made him a prisoner. "I'm ' acked in," he shouted out the win- | ow to a man across the street. "Get I omebody to let me out." "G'wan I ack and sit down," the man shouted | ack, "you're crazy." Three hours iter, Colton's cries brought a clerk rho released him. RETURNS HOME College Station, Raleigh, Aug. 27. -Fifty per cent of the students who 'ere graduated from N. C. State Col ?ge in the Class of 1940 with de rees in animal husbandry and dairy ig returned to their home farms to pply their education to improved vestock production, Prof. R. H. tuffner, head of the college Depart lent of Animal Husbandry and •airying, announced today. Heads Air Corps Col. Millard F. Harmon New commanding officer of the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center, with'"headquarters at Randolph Field, Texas, "West Point of the Air," is Colonel Millard F. Harmon, former commander at March Field, Cal., and instructor at the Com mand and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan. (Central Prest) FONDA PRESENTED FRANK JAMES GI'N Residents of Bishop, California, where a number of the outdoor scenes for "The Return of FranK James" were made, presented Henry Fonda with one of the famous out law's six-shooters upon completion of the film company's work in the community. The gun had been given to Lee Horton, Bishop's town marshall, in 1903. and carries the initials, "F. J." "The Return of Frank James" is due to open Thursday at the Em bassy Theatre. Gene Tierney. Jackic Cooper and Henry Hull are featured in the picture. DEAIS- NO A Mi - HCVV l-ON© DOES IT TAKE- AN UNEMPLOYED PICK POGKE1T TOft6ET WIS HAND /n''AGAIN ? Joe SA\*L.TZ. T»L£JPO, okIiq. DETAF2. NO A A «= ON WHAT TERMS WOULD XOU Sell -a house: to a TERMITE 7 JOHN C.OH.INS CHAELOTT^NC. Postcabp a notion "TOKITE. tKi-I■ In K>n« ftMW"• TOBACCO Monday, Sept. 2nd.—First Sale at Dixon's Warehouse.. \ Tues. Sept. Srd—First Sale at Dixon's Warehouse. Thurs. Sept. 5th—First Sale at Nixon's Warehouse. Friday, Sept. 6th—First Sale at Dixon's Warehouse. Dixon's Warehouse mullins, s. c. C. O. Dixon, C. C. Dixon and Lee Got)ch, Proprietors i WANT ADS Get He$uits THE HENDERSON . lege begins new %' '"'-'V 0I Septembcr 2. C'aii • '' this week ;md ;,K.i•' d«y Fully accredited WE SPEClALi/:. ; ; kinds of body an.! . * pair work. ALL re FOR RENT FUR.V rnent closc in Pi TOBACCO FAR ME! old papers lor pat Daily Dispatch o les 1'oj 25c. A SMART NEW H • ._Y oi vjiir other beauty do wonders i'oi y,ui Phone 200 for a;,.. gcrs Beauty Sliou GIVE ME YOUR scriptions. Pron ■ >i call Frank Johnsoi,. derson. II ' re. rid 5-tf SL'ii GET PRICES ON O before yuu buy. L. L • Dodge and Plymouth Chestnut street. • • Ul • - t'c ir;-?f \L \",\v JUST RECEIVED M-Y loads extra good ii.i-r to sell, it will pay before you buy. R. K. s and Sons, near Fire . YOU CAN REMODEL \ put on a new root Mid |.... • now but pay iatei in finance plan, ha y nuoV. nients. No red tape. Alex •: \\'.:V kins. <• TOBACCO FARMERS (JJ old papers lor paciiiiiy \ Daily Dispatch ollice. tt les l'or 25e. YOUR .'(■(at «e bun 8-tf SAVE MONEY ON OIIDKHS before August .'11. Time, $ months, $2.07. . i (jn.w er. 7 months, $l.'>od. Come see lur y«mi self. R. E. Satterwhite iv Shi,- \"o;h Fire Station L!3-tf FOR SALE: 5000 FACE BRICK AT $20 per thousand. Thomas (I Hor ner. l'ri-tufs-lf FREE DIRT FOR THE HAULING See Henderson Grocery ( . once if you want this dirt. Henderson Grocery Co. JG-iiti TOBACCO FARMERS GET YOUR old papers 'or packing tobacco ;it Daily Dispatch office, three bun les for 25 c. 8-'.; LEAKN A TRADE HIGH SCHOOL, GRADUATES: Print ing offers many opportunities foi advancement to youiij* men. Skilled workmen in this Industry art' In de mand. THE SOUTH FJ IN SCHOOL OF PRINTING'S facalities fr teaching ihe mechanics of the tr?fc are the best. For particulars #ri* to V. (-. Garriott, SeCietary-Treasiji er, 1514-16 Sout'j Street N'h)>^vi,:» NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtue of the and authority contained in a Heed "1 Trust executed by William 11. Green and wife, Elna J. Green, recorded in Vance County in Book 172. at pagt 617, default having been made in tin payment ol' the debt therein secured, at the request of the holder of the note, I shall sell at public auction. t» the highest bidder, for ca.-h, .it the Courthouse door in Hcnder-on. X. C.. at 12:00 Noon on Monday. Septcii.bcr 9, 1940, the following desci bed estate: Begin at a stake on llushi -R land Road or Bridget! S' l et. in the Eastern Section of Henderson. Nor':: Carolina. Carter's come:: mk: run Westerly along Carter'- l::u !.tf 6 inches to a stake: thence N>;thc:iy 73 ft. 6 in. to a stake: tl < mi : " - ly 156 ft. to a stake <>n H };hes-ii"*'' land Road or Bridget! Strei--: • • nn1 Northerly 75 feet alom; H - o* Rowland Road or Bridyett Street, t the place of beginning. For more accurate description Charles F. Foster plat v. he! duly recorded in Register of I»e "~ page 103. For further descripti<-r. :•: ' made to Trustee's Deed < Carter. Trustee to T. P Glx corded in Book 17u. . ■ erence is also made t" dt 'i P. Gholson to Wm. H Green aril wife, dated Jan. 29. This the 6th day ol T. P. GHOLSON. I'ru>tec. 6-13-20-27 INSURANT! -- Kl NTAI> Real Estate- Home 1 i";" '''''!, Personal and courts - to all details AL. B. \M S'I K!t Phone 139 >1(l B. H. MIXGN (Incorporated» Contractor and Builder "Builds Better !' Also Wall Pap*-' Roofing and !•" Extermination Phone 7.