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By ALICE I^VNOEIJEH
Internationa} News Service Stall
Correspondent.
Paris, July 27. —How many hats
did Napoleon own? Nearly every mu
seum in Europe has a “petit chapeau”
that once fit the head of the c;'ebrat
ed emperor. There are no fewer than
three ip the Musee d l'Armee at the
Invalides in Paris. They were worn
at tike Battles of Elba, Eyiau and St.
Helena.
Recently another chapeau of the
"petit Corporal” was sold at auctiou
ati the Hotel lirouot for the fat sum
of 43,000 francs. It is the regular
Napoleonic shape in black and was
picked up on the field of Marengo.
The purchased gave a guarantee that
it would not leave Prance. Monsieud
Girard of Monte Carlo who bought it,
is reported to have been acting for the
of Monaco.
After the hat, the famous “blouse
de Badinguet,” in which Napoleon 111
fled from the fort of Ham brought
the sum of 3,900 francs and will re
turn to the city of its origin for the
town of Ham has brought bnf-k the
shirt of heavybluc sail-cloth which
Napoleon borrowed from the mason
Badinguet.
The youngest and- smallest student
at the American Conservatory of Mu
sic in the historic old chateau of Fon
tainebleau. is little Doris Diamant,
who hails from St. Louis, Mo. She
has only seven years to her credit but
is already an accomplished singer and
pianist. She -intends to study with
the most eminent musicians and will
make her debut in Parts.
Time was when, if you asked a lit
tle French boy what he would like to
be ithhetuhe grew up to be a big man,
he would reply without any hesita
tion, "•} would like to be a station
master. .archbishop, fireman or candy
seller.” Ask the same question nowa
days and.be will- answer straightaway :
“Cyclist and win the Tour de
France race.” - (
, If it happens to be a little girt; she
will say:
“L want to be like Suzanne Leng
len.”
Ail of which proves there is a gen
eriaPteuaissance of sport in France to
yeurs. she will walk off with the Olym
day and that very likely within a few
pic games. v
Even the best of ’em sooner or lat
er turn to the movies, for many reas
ons. Following in the steps of several |
good artists of the Comedie Fran
caise. Firm in Gemier, actor-manager
of the Odeon, France’ second theater,
is now working on the production of
“The Magician” in the south of
France. Gemier is not only- taking
part in the production, but is studying ,
the producer's methods, both from the
- point of view of technical production
as well as acting. France will prob
k ably sec a Gemier picture within a
1 few years.
1 A postcard which was posted lti
i| Paris fourteen years ago addressed to
| Cherbourg has just been delivered, to
A the right place but not to the right
d*person, for in the meantime, he has
9 died. The card carried only a ten
»centime stamp which was quite suf
* ficient in those days and the postal
I authorities made no extra charge for
J TILLIE : THE JTtIRER
JERRY ON THE JOB ~ IN CASE OF ACCIDENT
delivery since it had been so long Je- j
layed.
TODAY’S EVENTS
Tuesday, July 97, 1996
Centenary of the birth of YViliiam
Perry Fogg, noted American traveler
and author.
One hundred years ago tdJTajr died
Gen. James Winchester, who com
manded the American troops at the
River Raisin- massacre.
The fourth biennial conference of
the International Federation of Uni
versity YVomen begins its sessions in
that city today.
The American tour of the Swedish
Crown Trice and Crown Princess ends
today at Sau. Francisco, whejre the 1
. royal party will embark for .the Ori-.
. ent.
The Interstate Commerce oommis
- sion has set today at New York as the
date and place for the resumption of
bearings on the events leading up to
the receivership Qf the Chicago, Mil
, waukee & St. Paul Railroad.
Officials of fifty-one railroads in the
United States and Canada winch sup
plement their rail service with motor
trucks and busses will be called upon
' to testify at the series of hearings to
be started by the Interstate Com j
ntcrcc Commission in Chicago today
in its investigation into motor vehicle
, transportation. x
True Jtomances for August main
tains the usual high standard of all
Macfadden magazines- Tt features a
startling story of , conflicting emo
tions entitled ‘'Mother of Hi Chil
dren,” which ieilsl of a roHii.w&o Ufar-
J rt«s his stehbgraphSf merely heeguse
he believes she will make an excellent |
mother. Another feature As “The
Power of Love” an amazing story of
a modern miracle man and - an
actress. There are more than a dozen
other intriguing andthrilfiiig tales of
which “A Girl’s Deceit,!!,. “A Love
Frolic,” “The Price of a Hhsband”
and “I Played YVith a Man's Heart,”
are especially worthy of mention.
The building of Windsor Castle was
begun by William the Conqueror.
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NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS
Margaret Bridgers in The Uplift.
North Carolina in 1985 had 153
hospitals in 59 counties, with 11,997
beds for 2,812,090 people. Tne count
covers hospitals, public, private, semi
public, and institutional —88 general
hospital, 11 nervous and mental fcos
itnls. 25 tuberculosis hospitals, aud
29 others.
Included in this count are nine ne
gro hospitals with 353 beds for a pop
ulation of 763,400 negroes. These
negro hospitals' are located in Ashe
ville, Durham, Gastonia, Charlotte,
Wilmington. Henderson, Monroe and
Raleigh (2).
The counties having no hospitals
1 for either race are 41, as follows:
Alexander, Alleghany, Bertie,- Bladen,
Brunswick, Camden, Caswell, Chat
ham, Clay,.Columbus, Currituck, Dare,
Dhvie, Duplin, Hertford, - Hoke. Hyde,
Jacksonfi. Jones, Mitchell, Montgom
ery, Onslow, Pamlico,
Pender, Perquimans, Person, Samp-
Warreiq Yad
kin and Yancey.
The law allows county .group ] hos
pitals wherever two oe am counties
can agree on eo parfnhnjlfin 1 tcfjns.
sb far there is no county grodp hos
pital in North , , _
The first public hospital m Sorth
Carolina was founded, as a gracious
charity—the Rex Hospital in Ralaigh
in *1839. Thirty years ago ams"
sighted North Carolinian, Geprge W.
Watts, gave a hospital to his county
and then spent more for years won
dering if people were going to use it.
I He had reason to wonder fqr during
I the first nine months only sixtyAight
patients came to this hospital. It
could have served twice as many
more. This county was not ungrate
. ful ; its attitude was that of the gen
-1 eral public which thought op hos
pitals at that time simply as places
where people went to die.
§mce that time public opinion has
changed to such an extent that North
Carolina now provides one hospital
i bed to every .496 inhabitants, a decid
ed improvement over the raio of 1920
rv
tm eeNeo&B bary tmbunb
which., was one bed to every 761 ill- .t
habintants. Despites the progress, t
Ndrth Carolina raftlS thirty-niqfh 1
aniong the southern States in niimber \
of inhabitants per hospital bed. The 1
first twenty-four states in the Union I
raft go from 154 to 297 t
Pei hospital bed. Thus half the i
states provide two hospital beds where (
North Carolina provides only one. <
Urban Location I
The need of hospital facilities is
brought even closer home when ( we
realize that North Carolina ranks ,
twenty-eighth according to the per- ]
centflgc of counties without-hospitals. |
In this respect North Carolina with ']
41 counties without stands first .
i among the southern states. Georgia
ranks forty-eighth with 68.3 per cent. |
, of the counties without hospitals.
• Three spates, Connecticut, Maine and
, New Hampshire, have hospitals in ev
, ery county.
The tendency toward concent ration
, in ( urban areas is revealed by the fact
■ that nearly three-fourths of North
, Carolina hospitals are located in slx
•• ty-ffve towns, qf which thirty one have
less than 2,500 or more inhabitants.
■ More than 'naif the hospitals are lo
i cated in towns of 5.000 or more in
. habitants. All the nine negro hos
■ pitals in the state are located in
tovyns of 9,0000 or more inhabitants.
These hospitals provide one bed for
i evorry 2.163 negroes in North Caro
i link. This rather startling ratio is
i decreased by the freed beds available
• to negroes in general hospitals, But
. the reduction is not large according
r to the latest report.
The Present Situation
. Nortli Carolinians are quite proud
; of what the state lias done in public
t health work, but they do not seem |
t to realize that our hospital facilities
• bear directly upon public health. Do
- they realise that forty-one counties
• have no hospitals, that only thirty
- six have county health departments
i and. that half the doctors are located
iii towns of 2,500 or more inhabi
j tants? Do they realize that two
i thirds of the rural counties have only
1 one hospital per thousand inhabitants
- where a tleose five are needed?
) YVith the number of country doc-
.tors decreasing the health needs of ’
the rural sections are pressing. It
is frue that the state has made laws
which facilitate the construction of 1
hospitals by counties, but only the
most advanced counties are willing or
able to finance these institutions. The
extreme eastern and western counties
do’ not fall in this group, and many
of them have not gi*eat need for hos
pital facilities.
The Duke Endowment
It seems then as though help must
code from other sources. YVithin the
lakt year a new source has been
found, the Duke Foundation. This
foundation offers one dollar per day
for every bed occupied by a charity
patient in hospitals which are not run
soil y for private gain, The real
value of this gift is apparent, when
we, realize that two-thirds of the pa
tients in this state fall in the charity
group, n proportion slightly higher
than that of the whole country.
Sherman Proved That “War Is Hell.”
(By International News Service)
Atlanta, Ga., July 26.—Sixty-two
yekrs ago this week, to the tune of
“Marching Through Georgia,” Gen
eral Sherman, who gained fame by
his-celebrated definition of "'war. was
engaged in his equally celebrated
march from Atlanta to the sea.
A handful of Confederate veterans
anil members of their fainilites here
when the Civil YVar episode took
place, held an unofficial observance of
the historic incidents enacted when
the federal forces, crushing the small
force of Confederate defenders, sacked
Aatlantn, left it in ashes and con
tiiined towards Savannah, laying
waste to the countryside, and de
j straying every living thing in its path.
“Sherman said that war is hell, and
he proved it,” remarked one gray
haired veteran, recalling the episode.
Toasted bread formed a favorite
addition to English drinks in the 16th
and 17th centuries: hence the custom
of drinking "toasts.”
Practically ever adult Eskimo liv
ing in the region of Point Barrow,
Alaska, is a member of the church.
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YADKIN RIVER YIELDS J?
SOME MAMMOTH CARP fi
Twelve Pound Fish Thrivtag in the Q
Muddy Water Far From the Sea. S(
Lexington, July 26.—One hundred J
and eleven carp, deelared to average jj
about five pounds apiece, were caught 5
in the Yadkin river about Jwelvc ] i
miles west o{ here, by a party of j
farmers from Davidson and Orange )
counties, who spent three days in t
camp there late last week. 1 5
In addition a number of fairly large , i
catfish, a red horse weighing over four $
pounds, a bass or two and several vj
other fish were kept. All carp weigh- 0
ing ijnder two pounds and all except . 3
the larger catfish were t'arown back i
into the stream, it is said. $
Over thirty men were in the camp-. >
ing party, Headed by J. E. Youpg y
and two sons, of Silver Hill to.wn
ship, and many farmers,of Davidson
and Davie counties were attracted by
stories of the success of the fishers.
A 60-foot seine was used to. hem
the fish in a small area and then ia
1 large number of men would get in the
inclosure, drive the carp up next to
the seine, where they were all caught
with the hands. Not a single fish
was lifted out with the seine itself,
it is deelared, and clubs were barred.
The Yadkin is said to contain
thousands of large carp but unless the
proper method is used, i£ is said, it
is hard to get the big fellows. Sein
ing it permitted in the Yadkin during
June, July and August, except for
fifty yeards on either side of tribu
tary streams.- but all of the smaller C
streams of the county are closed ex- ?
cept for hook fishing, which is per
mitted without restrictions.
The largest carp caught by the J
band last week weighed over twelve 1
pounds, it was stated. All the fish I
were cooked and eaten at the camp. :
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The 140 residents of. the Island of j
i Tristan de Gnn'ia, Britain's loneliest
possession, located in the Atlantic '
Ocean midway between Belinda Aires
and South Africa, are facing famine
, because of the failure of the potato
crop.
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