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PAGE TWO ROCKINGHAM PQST-TITSPATCH, RICHMOND COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940 ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH Established December 6, 1917 Published every Thursday afternoon at Rockingham, Richmond County, N. C. ISAAC S LONDON Editor and Proprietor Bntered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice at Rockingham. N. C. DEMOCRATIC IN POLITICS Phone 182 your items. Subscription Rates: One year $2.00 Six months $1.00 PUNCTUAL. It has been the custom for countless years to notify jurors to report for Su perior ' Court at 9 o'clock -even tho the first ' day has never seen Court open till 10. There is no reason for. this. The punctual man is penalized. The notification should read to be PRESENT at ten o'clock, exactly the time wanted. And 10 would mean 10. In fact, in this new day, radio has made our American people more time-conscious; for with the radio, every pro gram, etc. must be met on the splitsecond. Many a time we have had a teacher or preacher to come in and ask us to insert an item about some program. "What time?" we would ask. "Oh, about 7:30," would be the re ply. When as a matter of fact there was no intention of start ing till 8. But that's not the case with our school Supt. Bell. When he advertises a definite time, he means just that. And so with Walter King in fu nerals ; he does his best to have them on the scheduled dot. Yes, jurors hereafter ought to be summoned for exactly the time they are wanted, and not an hour earlier, or even a min ute earlier. We might add that Judge John H. Clement opened Court Jan. 8th exactly on the stroke of 10 o'clock. Good going, Judge. UNIVERSITY. The new WPA aided dining hall at the University is completed and put in operation Jan. 2nd. It seats 1,050, twice the capa city of old Swain hall. It has two cafeterias and a restaru xant, and a soda fountain that is open till 11 p. m. The new building is at the west end of old Emerson Field, and faces west; it is 121 feet long and 121 wide. It was built with WPA funds and is a self-liquidating project, at no cost to the State. That is fine. And now to make the Uni versity complete, there should be a movie house built on the campus and operated 'AT COST for the students. There is ho sense in the 4,000 students to have to plank down 30 cents for the commercial town thea tres, any more than having no cot-eating place and forcing students to eat at higher-priced cafes. A University-operated movie could put the pictures to I the boys at 10 or 15 cents and not lose money. It should be built. All true suckers have imagi nation. The swindlers talk is never convincing unless you an imagine the great profits. 1 OLD TREE. The sleet ofj Jan. 7th, 1940, did some dam- age to the huge live oak tree on East Washington street, in j the former McNair yard. But ! so tremendous is this tree, that the broken branches can scarcely be missed. Undoubtedly, this is the larg est tree in Richmond county. Th s was the site of the old Walter F. Leak home, later the Cole home, and occupied from 1899 to 1903 by the A. J. Max well family, and still later by the W. E. McNair family. Th tree has an interesting bit of history. The acorn is said to have been planted by the late Walter Francis Leak, around about 1820, which would make it 120 years old. But we doubt that. It must be many years older. The present cir cumference of the tree is 15 feet, one inch. We say we doubt that Wal ter Ft. planted it. From the files of the old Post, we note that dn Feb. 12, 1909, 15 water oak trees were planted on the grounds of the grammar school, these donated by W. C. Leak and Wm. Little Steele. And these years trees are now about 31 old and not big ones, Guaging the known either age of these trees, and their size, jind the unknown age of that mammoth Leak tree, we are led to the conclusion that the latter must be many years older jthan 120 years. A legend has been built that under leath this big tree lies buriec $10,000 in gold. That Walte - F. Leak when an old man married a rich widow of Eastern Carolina, and that she brougit with her that much money in cash; she died of ty phoid fever shortly afterwards, but none of this money was ever located. No, this is not a tip, nor a suggestion that prowlers begin uprooting that tree; chances are it's roots go down almost to China. Wal ;er Francis Leak and his fir3t wife lie buried in old Leak cemetery, a mile north - east o; f IB Rockingham; they are the g W. L. andparents of the late Scales and Mrs. Hal S. Ledbetter. Mr. Leak was born March 26, 1799, and died April 28, 1879. His wife, Mary C. Leak, was born July 17, 1799, and died Dec. 4, 1871. JAIL. .-July, 1939, was the biggest month in the history of our Richmond county jail the daily iverage being 40, with 53 cared for one night. The comfortable capacity is 32. In contract were the measly nine in the jail Jan. 6th. Sign that the times are better, or human nature on the up? RECORD. "Look at the rec ord and be proud," was the very appropriate admonition of FSA Paul McNutt in his speech at the Jackson Day dinner in Raleigh Jan. 8th. McNutt made a fighling speech; but it is hardly likely the country will next November place the forces of reaction in power. The past 8 years has been one of achieve ment under Franklin D. Roose velt. ; If h receives a vicious blow and turns the other cheek, he is either a Christian or a Neutral. FLYING. On Dec. 31st, Bert McLaurin and Leo Page went ' out to the Rockingham airport ' and got ready to fly down to Maxton and there accompany the Flying Cavalcade as far as Camden, on their way to the air met at Miami. And just before taking off, they saw a plane circling over town; it saw the big ROCKING HAM letters on top of court house, with arrow pointing to the east; and very soon it lighted at the airport. The pilot had gotten lost, on his way from Raleigh to Maxton, and right glad to find the good Rockingham port. He refueled and then continued down to Maxton and rejoined the fleet. While here, the stranger looked over the Piper Cub local plane, and found that he had flown that plane from the factory at Lockhaven, Penn., to the dis tributor at Altoona where in April, 1939, Bert and Leo had gotten it. Not so large a world after all. These small planes carry only 16 gallons of gas, and get about 20 miles to the gallon. They have to refuel, for safety, about each 200 miles, and so make rather short hops. The local airmen take to the air about every day, and fre quently fly up to Pinehurst, Charlotte, Maxton, Myrtle Beach, Bennettsville, and near by points. Just as casual as going in their cars and they feel a lot safer. Happy Birthday To You Every reader of the Post Dispatch is invited to send in names of their family, friends,- neighbors for this Birthday column. They should be listed for week following Thursday issue. JANUARY 12th Gladys Hicks Thomas Coble, 1923 JANUARY 13th Roy Dawkins Henry Lemmonds Catherine Moss, 1920 Grace Robertson, 1922 Betsy Sairfax Dockery Clay Beli; 1911 (d l-7-'39) Linda McKay Maness, 1939 JANUARY 14th Douglas B. Bailey Sarah E. Haywood, 1933 Margaret Phillips, 1922 Lucy Cooper O'Brien, 1916 JANUARY 15th Ruby Jankins Leon Buckles Mrs. J. E. Young Elizabeth Leviner Mrs. L. L. Williams Lena Covington, 1915 Mrs. L. T. Wadsworth Miss Beatrice Langley Dorothy McDonald, 1921 Mrs. A. J. Riggan, 1893 (d) Marriage of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dees, 1884 JANUARY 16th Jasper Terry Mrs. Ola Hughes Farrell Beane, 1919 Thomas J. Andrews, 1920 Mary Louise Hasty, 1925 Barbara Pendergrass, 1917 JANUARY 17th Lee Jenkins H. D. Godfrey Lee Roy Seago Mrs. Ross. Williams Miss Geraldine Self Betty Jo Capel, 1934 Bobbie Lee Deal, 1931 Mrs. Hugh Henderson Miss LeGrand Parks, 1938 Wilson Arthur Hasty, Jr. '37 Perry and Jerry Childress, twins JANUARY 18th Mrs. H. L. Deal William Ballard Mrs. G. S. Coble V. A. Caudill, 1902 Mrs. W. E. Covington Mrs, A. H. Rohleder Mrs. Robert L. Johnson William Doug. King, 1939 Perry Bradshaw, twin, 1934 Jerry Bradshaw, twin, 1934 Malcolm Nicholson (Buddy) McNair, 1914 Look At Your. Label! GLIMPSES sit m Brevities Gathered Here and There About This and That. (Not an attempt at being jottings of things seen Hard luck for Coach Ray Wolfe Jim Lalanne slipped on his studies this past quarter and so had to drop out for the winter term He'll be missed in February "spring" practice, but'll be back in March and make up the work in Spring and Summer sessions and be there next fall slinging that oF ball around. . . ;. . . New rules shorten the time by five seconds for ball to be put in play to 25 sec onds hereafter. .... This may tend towards eliminating the huddle. ...... Personally, I like the old barking of signals gives a thrill to hear the staccato . numbers and see the team snap into action. Carolina and Duke should iron out the 1940 conflict whereby Carolina plays Tulane and Duke plays Wake Forest the same afternoon. And Flora Finch is dead means nothing to you younger movie fans, but in the silent screen days she was the head-liner of comediennes .... . . started in 1910 when movies were just a dubious gadget. . . . her partner, John Bunny, died in 1915. she capitalized on her ugliness thin'face, angular figure died Jan. '4th of blood poison from cut on her arm. Gov. Hoey underwent an operation for hernia in Duke hospital Jan. 5th... ... . . friends happy he is o. k Went into "office -much "YiUifi'ed, but ends 4-year term 'next January as perhaps the State's most popular executive. As you readers perhaps know, I am a stickler for facts and dates and I rather regret that teachers now do not stress historical dates instead of periods or eras Last week the Charlotte Observer quoted Clarence O. Kues ter, Charlotte C. of C. veteran, with a list of prominent men born in January and two of the six were wrong Stone wall Jackson as born Jan. 24th, Franklin Roosevelt as Jan. 3rd.; I wrote Kuester of his errors; he replied that it was the Observer who errored it typographically. . . . . . . Anyway, errors can always be put on a paper, and public men can be "misquoted".. . . . j . . As we have said before, a doctor's mistakes are buried: a paper's blazed to world. Young man writing to "Lonely Hearts": "Dear Lonely Hearts, my doctor told me I smoke too much and that I would have a tobacco heart. What should I do? Perplex ed." "Dear Perplexed: Eat lots of candy and you will soon have a sweetheart." Eleven billion cans used every year in America to package food. ... . wonder how many tin cans are mas querading on the highways as automobiles? The Finns ski and the Russians skee-daddle. Tempera ture wasn't so keen about the new year from, the way it shrunk from it 12 degrees on Jan. 2nd and 3rd. A subscriber writes: "You keep writing me about owing you for your paper, and I haven't ever discribed for it. I omit getting the paper but I hadnJt ever discribed for it." (She could have said "prescribed" instead of dis cribed or subscribed). Duke's huge new gym was dedicated Jan. 6th with a Duke win over Princeton in basketball 36-2i7. The gym is the largest in the south, seating 9,500. . . . . . It is Zsj2 feMong.by 175 wide. . . ". .'. At this dedication, the. lights went out at 8:01 just as Dean : Wannamaker began tospeakjaivl were off for 8 minutes and 10 seconds. . . .- . . Such a building seems too large now, but so did the 35,000 seating capacity stadium when it was built in 1929 "They'll never fill it," was the prediction then; but they did, many times, with 51,500 packed into every corner Nov. 18, 1939, when Carolina and Duke played. ..... And this big gym will in time be overflowing and prove too small. ....... Up Duke-way they build for the future. Freud must have been right. the man who doesn't wear a hat is usually bareheaded because he for gets where he left it Yes, the writer seldom wears a hat may be one reason why at 54 we show no signs of baldness. Don't blame those who lose their self-reliant inde pendence even the birds quit foraging if you provide drumbs every day . Here in Rockingham Grocer Jim Seawell each morning scatters grain on the paving in front of his store, and scores of small birds know this and flock there to partake of his thoughtfulness; they seem to know this food will be there, rain or shine and it is; for Jim has a heart. ' Like to tell your friends a secret? Why expect them to deny themselves the same enjoyment. Just don't tell. DEFINITIONS: "Pedestrian is a man who two cars, a wife and a daughter." "A bathing suit is a garment with no hooks but plenty of eyes on it." "Gossip is when nobody don't do nothing, and some body goes and tells about it." "Echo is the only thing that cheats a woman out of the last word." My thanks to Judge Don Phillips for several pounds of venison steak killed by him on a deer hunt in Bladen county last week. A school boy's essay: "we should not use the word guts because it is offal" . .... . Kidding the safe way of saying catty things you are afraid to say in dead earnest. . Doctors are not callous, but they see so "much 'suf fering, they must practice indifference or break -down. Gen. Bob Tombs said the' Confederates wore them selves out beating the Yankees but then they didii't have as heavy a job, numerically, as the Finns'. An automobile is said to be a vehicle which is dividing mankind into two classes the quick and the dead. . . k . . . Winter is the season when we try to keep the house as hot as it was in the summer when We kicked about it and a nag is defined as a woman with no horse-sense. Max Fleischer who just made the color cartoon "Gulliver's Travels" that he hopes will out-draw "Snow White," requried 678 artists who turned out 665,280 draw ings, used up 16 tons of paper, 49,999 pencils and consumed 27,600 aspirin tablets. 1939 was a bad year for big daily papers 75 fold ed, 11 by merger and 64 just quit. Here is a good one, clipped: "It takes only one hat to cover the head of an egotist. It takes only one ice bag to cover the head of a "morning after." But it takes ever so many shovels full cf dirt to cover a careless driver."' Electric clock in Fox's Sunday stopped at 10:57 p. m. Shows when lights went off in down-town section. Billy Dimetti, soda slinger wouldn't set it Monday a. m. till 10 : 57 easier to start . electric; part . without having trouble (p of moving the hands laziness personified. ON THE CUFF a "kolumnyist UUl JUSl S. L.) 1 i 4 and heard. I has Editorial's Henry M. London Born April 11, 1879, Died Dec 30, 1939. Si He was My Friend Writes Judge Hoyle Sink. . . "It is with sincere -regret that we lose Henry London. He was my friend a conscienti ous, able citizen and he will be hard to replace." A Fine Servant of Church. Bishop Edwin A. Penick writes the editor for the copy of Jan. 4th issue of the Post Dispatch containing sketches of Henry London, and says. . "I .shall keep that ' page be cause of its historical value and also because it will recall to me the extraordinary achievements of one of the finest servants our Church in North Carolina has ever known." Loyal and Friendly. Louis Graves, in Chapel Hill Weekly, Jan. 5th: "Henry Lon don was a familiar figure on the University campus, loyal and friendly and cheerful ; he was liked by everybody." Courteous, Pleasant, Willing Writes Charles G. Rose, for mer president of the N. C. Bar Association, "Fayetteville, Jan. 6th. "I had the privilege of know ing Henry London for a little over 40 years; he and I were at the University together he graduating in 1899, I in 1900. And I have claimed him as a friend ever since then, and served with him in many capa cities. I shall miss him on my trips to Raleigh as I always called in his office, if nothing more than to say "hello." He was always courteous, pleasant and willing to go to any length to accommodate a friend.. He leave to his family a 'goodly heritage.' " FAITHFUL EVERY TRUST (From Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, "Parish Messenger," Jan. 7, 1940). It must be left to others to record the great loss felt by the, State of North Carolina, the University, The Bar Associa tion and numerous other State and Civic Organizations, in the death on Saturday, December 30th, of Henry Mauger London but it is for me as his Rector and personal friend to record the irrevocable loss suffered by The Church of the Good Shep herd, the Church in the Diocese of North Carolina, and the Na tional Church. As Vestryman Diocesan Treasurer, and dele gate to the General Convention he touched the life and helped make the history of each, and to every trust he was found iaitntul. What more can one say? He loved his Church, and I feel that above all honors; and he justly received many from State and Community; Henry london placed none above those bestowed upon him by the Church, and thus hi? Church came first. To her he gave his best and she in turn gave him much. Above all, he gained the strength to live and die unashamed, and unafraid His faith in God and his strong belief in Eternal Life through Jesus Christ remained undim med to the end. While we shall miss him, his influence will long abide and continue to encourage us to carry on and always put our Church first. Our deepest love and sympa thy goes to his devoted wife, two sons who bear his name, his sisters and brothers and a host of friends ; and to God we yield our united thanks for his life and influence. "Well ; done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter into! the blessed rest and. everlast ing peace and the -glorious com-; pany of the saints. HcadachyBrcath Bad? Make This Check-Up The Police Siren means "Look-out!" And so do Nature's signals head aches, biliousness, bad breath, which are often symptoms of constipation. Don't neglect your sluggish bowels, for a host of constipation's other discomforts may result: such as, sour stomach, loss of appetite or energy, mental dullness. Help your lazy bowels with spicy, all vegetable BLACK-DRAUGHT. Acts gently, promptly, thoroughly, by simple directions. BLACK-DRAUGHT'S principal in gredient is an "intestinal tonic laxative." It helps impart tone to lazy bowel musqles. Next time, try this time-tested product! HENRY LONDON WAS A VALUABLE CITIZEN (Morgantoh News-Herald, 5th) The life of Henry M. London. I who died in Raleigh Dec. 30th, i bore testimony to the fact that inheritance, as well as training and environment, counts large ly in the making of a man. Major London, his father, was one of the leaders of his gen eration, a friend and co-worker of the North Carolinians who kept the Ship -of State steady and resolute in the trying days of Reconstruction immediately following the war period of '61 '65, in which he was an active participant. Newspaper people think of the London family as belonging to the "printing press clan." but as a matter of fact they have followed varied lines of useful activity. Isaac London . a younger son,1 has stuck to his father's main "line, newspaper ing, formerly in his old county. Siler City; now- editor-publisher of the. Post-Dispatch, at Rock ingham. Henry's talents were more along the line of his fa ther's side lines of politics and law, but probably his chief contribution to his day and generation was his ;;; authorsh i p of a, countless number of -bills which were written during the last twenty-five years into the laws of the State, this work being in connection with his job in the Law Reference Li brary at Raleigh. A stickler for detail, con scientious, painstaking, metho dical, Henry London did well everything that he undertook to do. As secretary of the Bar Association of North Carolina for many years he gave of his time and energy generously to that organization and was very popular with fellow lawyers throughout the State. Truly, North Carolina has lost a vaiuaoie citizen ana nis family and friendshave suffer ed an irreparable loss in .the death of Henry London. 50 AGAINST 20 Yes, exercise is necessary to health : but men get knock ed off at fifty by exercising like men of twenty. Cleaning and Pressing. When you bring or send your clothes to Bob's Clean ers, you are certain to get full value prompt work, satisfactorily done by our expert cleaners with the most modern of equipment. We deliver without undue delay and we strive to please. May we have the privilege of serving you? BOB'S CLEANERS PHONE 422 Dick Royall, Mgr. Mary Judd Royall, Mamie Corder m aw mm mssm 1 1 Separate or mixed. Full time Japanese sex or, guarantees 95 to 98 accuracy in sex ing and dividing the two sexes. Our 20th year of improv ing our grand purebred breeders. 100 blood tested. We are proud of our wonderful quality. Every chick carefully EJ graded and hand picked. None better. 9 Different breeds. Also Baby TURKEY. 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