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DIXON FILLS
VACANCY OF
SA.’: A. ASHE
Clrandson of Governor Samuel
Ashe E'signs as Clerk of
United States Court
DIXON LAWYER, PREACHER
Thomas Dixon, author of a bushel
of books, playwright and actor, law
year, preacher, lecturer and super
lative orator, Saturday was sworn
in as clerk of the United States
court in the eastern district with
El■eadquarters in Raleigh.
Judge I. M. Meekins who tendered
Etmn the appointment four weeks
administered the oath which
tjfie native Tar Heel took before ex
ercising his own first functions. Dr.
EXixun then reappointed the sundry
clerks in his department and the
vwrfk goes on without, interruption.
Capt. Samuel A. Ashe, who had
serv&d 19 years by appointment of
Xudge Henry Groves Connor, pre
ciecvssor of Judge Meekins, retired
Saturday from that long service at
tihe age of 96.
©k. Dixon, 11 years Judge Meek
ins senior, is a personal friend of the
Daiianally known jurist and that
fact probably more than anything
dse forestalled the certain criticism
which would have followed the ap
pointment of a Democrat to this
very desirable position. Nearly all of
the men proposed as successor to
Captain Ashe lacked the pe sonal
closeness to Judge Meekins that
deck of his court is supposed to
Have. When Judge Meekins succeed
ed Judge Connor there was no dis
turbance in the clerical department.
Captain Ashe was retained and his
assistants with him. Judge Meekins
has received a very little censure
for naming a Democrat to a Repub
lican position.
There is bigger precedent. Presi
dent Taft appointed a De ocrat to
this judgeship in 1902 ■ > Judge
Meekins was a devoted friend of
Taft Dr. Dixon isn’t the world’s best
Democrat any more than President
Franklin Roosevelt is. Each voted
for Teddy Roosevelt, an offense
against old time politic. -J-at Judge
Meekins never comnf 1 5 Dr. Dix
on voted for Franklin Roosevelt
ence, but no more. ' • Tar Hee;
dramatist and novelist has beer
pretty independent in his politic
He stumped the state a nst Pres :
dent Roosevet last fall Having sup
ported Teddy as Franklin did, am
then Franklin as neither Teddy n<
anybody else of his tribe wouh.
Lave done, Dr. Dixon probably
eluded that he had done enough so
the Roosevelts. Anyway, Judg
Meekins held none of his Roosevel
votes against him.
Saturday, Dr. Dixon, who was 7
years old January 11, observed t’ •
50 years ago he preached his first
sermon as pastor of the Taberr • 1
Baptist church in Raleigh. It m.-
have been a humdinger, for in
another year he was called to Bos*o.
and New York pastorates. In the big
city he was enough smoke to get in
to Bob Ingersoll’s eyes. Inge sot
was 30 years the senior of Dixo"
and the greatest orator on the globe
many judges thought. But
took him on as did the clergy of
Brooklyn and New York following
Ingersoll’s famous Christmas se •-
monos 1888. Dr. Dixon’s el .
brother, Amzi Clarence, and Inger
soll mixed it often. But Tom D x
Eaad the better style for the agnostic.
So, Tom Dixon goes back to Ra
leigh after an absence of 50 years.
He has relatives in Raleigh and in
Greensboro. Mrs. J. Ernest Thacker
of that city, is his sister. The late Dr.
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Delia Dixon Carroll was also his
sister.
Judge Meekins has appointed him
to a $5,000 position which gives Dr.
Dixon some of the leisure that he
will love. Though more than 50
years distinguished inside and out
side Raleigh, it is guessed there that
he will turn his hand to writing and
produce more books and plays.
These made him several fortunes,
none of which he has now. His 73
years are not heavy. He expects to
live to be 100. And history tells him
that some of the greatest work ever
done by man was wrought by indi
viduals above 70, 80 and even 90.
Mrs. Simpson Buys
Load of Clothes
A truckload of new clothes, exotic
creaions of fashionabe Paris dress
r-akers in ultra-modern, glamorous
designs, was sent to Mrs. Wallis
Warfield Simpson last week.
Dressmakers, hatmakers, hair
dressers, and manicurists journeyed
to the chateau to serve the woman
who soon is to become the bride of
the Duke of Windsor.
The Duke’s favorite color of blue
predominated in her choice of 17
costumes. Ten were of that color.
She showed a decided taste for the
ultra-modern and severely plain in
dress designs, preferring the fitted
effects with clinging lines.
Her selections included a negligee
of sapphire and silver lame. A glam
orous evening tailleur was fashion
ed with clinging silk jersey of deep
carbon blue with a jacket edged in
modernistic schrolls of white
leather.
A pale bue crepe evening dress
had long side draperies with brilli
ant cerise crepe floating to the
ground in front and back.
NITRATE SAVES
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Elmer E. Page, of Weaverville,
Buncombe County, North Carolina,
owns a 35-year-old apple orchard
on a mountainside over 3,000 feet
above sea level; but neither dis
tance, height nor age could prevent
him from getting a 200-pound sack
of Arcadian to his orchard which
he felt was badly in need of the
American Nitrate of Soda. Trans
portation facilities not immediately
available, he put the heavy sack on
his back and carried it up the
mountain.
Because of lack of fertility and
diseased condition, he was consid
ering cutting the trees down. Relat
ing his experience, Mr. Page says—
"... I used 7 pounds around each
tree about the time the buds show
ed pink. My results have been ‘An
Old Orchard Made Young.’ The
trees are free from rust without
spraying and are as fine as they
have ever been. I am looking for
ward to some big apple crops, as a
result of using ‘Arcadian’ which
has saved my orchard.”
THE SKYLAND POST, WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.
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pital, is shown with the delicate apparatus now being used in making
diagnoses of mental cases. The machine, it is said, records changes in
tne patient’s mental status and shows when improvement is being made
Psychiatrists say that development of the machine may mark the turn
ing point in the fight agains* dementia praecox.
EXPLAINS HOW TO GIVE
TURKEYS A GOOD START
One of the secrets of successful
turkey-raising is getting the poults
off to a good start.
“If you do this, you have won half
the battle,” said C. F. Parrish, ex
tension poultry specialist at State
College.
The first consideration, he said, is
to put the breeding birds in good
condition so they will produce
hatching eggs of the best quality.
To hatch healthy, vigorous poults,
the eggs must contain all the ele
ments of food stuffs, except oxygen,
that are necessary to nourish the
embryo during the 28-day incuba
tion period.
Therefore, Parrish pointed out,
breeding birds should be fed. a
good, well balanced ration. A good
commercial or home-mixed laying
mash is recommended in the feed
from January to June.
The mash feeding should start
about a month before the turkeys
begin laying and should continue as
long as eggs are desired for hatch
ing purposes.
The eggs should be gathered twice
a day and if possible stored in a well
ventilated place where the tempera
ture remains between 50 and 60 de
grees Fahrenheit. The eggs should
be turned once a day, and should
not be kept longer than 10 days or
two weeks before being placed un
der a hen or in an incubator.
Turkey eggs may be incubated by
either chicken or turkey hens or by
artificial means when the more
modern incubator requirement is
used, Parrish stated.
When hens are used, they should
be treated for lice. Two treatments
at intervals of 7 to 10 days will us
ually eradicate lice completely, he
added.
FARM
NEWS
WALNUTS TURN WASTE
SPACE INTO PROFITS
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Black walnut trees, a good source
of cash income, can be grown in
fence comers, along ditch and
stream banks, and other so-called
“waste places” about the farm.
An average North Carolina farm
could easily have 50 or more black
walnut trees, said R. W. Graeber,
extension forester at State College.
The nuts from the trees can be
harvested annually, and where a
sufficient number c-f trees are pro
duced, a few can be cut from time
.o time for timber.
There is a big demand for black
walnut lumber. Graeber pointed
out, and high prices are paid for
trees in good condition.
The income from the nuts is a
helpful addition to the regular cash
income of the farm. Figuring the
nuts from one tree at $2.50 a year,
a crop of 50 trees would produce an
annual income of $125 from the sale
of nuts alone.
Some farmers do much better
than that, Graeber added, James
Caudle, of Yadkin county, got $29.85
for the nuts from seven trees last i
'■ear —an average of $4.26 per tree.
Caudle gathered 18 bushels of
ruts from the trees and cracked
J 9.5 pounds of kernels which he
sold wholesale at 30 cents a pound.
“This may not appear to be a
large sum, but remember it came
from a bare handfull of trees grow
.'g on odd spots around the farm,
Graeber commented.
Four-H club members in Yadkin
county who use a nut-cracking ma
chine, he added, find that the ma- I
chine greatly reduces the amount of
work required to get the kernels out
of the nuts, and they are making
“tidy sums of money.”
Question: HOW SOON CAN I
TURN MY CATTLE INTO A
NEW PERMANENT PASTURE?
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Answer: This depends upon the
growth of the grasses and soil condi
tion, but if the pasture was seeded
to a good mixture and the soil is not
too wet cattle may be turned in
about the first of May. Grasses grow
only when the leaves are exposed to
the sunlight and it is best to delay
the grazing a few weeks if the grass
blades are not sufficient to insure
active growth. Under normal condi
tions, however, it is safe to turn the
cattle in the pasture on or about
May 1.
HUGE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR AAA RECOMMENDED
Tagging $620,000,000 for the Agri
cultural Adjustment administration,
the House appropriations committee
last wek recommended that Con
gress supply a total of $927,398,000
to the Department of Agriculture
for for the next fiscal year.
That would give the department
$143,652,000 more than its appropri
ation for the present year, even
though the committee cut $5,078,000
from the budget recommendation.
The committee stipulated that to
meet the present “emergency” in
the “dust bowl” area, up to $5,000,-
000 should be made available im
mediately from funds previously
appropriated for soil conservation
work.
For “conservation and use of ag
riculture land resources,” the com
mittee recommended a total of
$470,000,000.
Official Disappoves
Putting Boys in Jail
Man Who Has Given Shelter to
4,446 Boys Enjoys His Life
Work in Nebraska
Father E. J. Flanagan, who has (
given shelter and comfort to 4,446
boys in the 19 years he has operated
the nationall-known boys’ home
bearing his name, points to the
American system of dealing with
juvenile law violators as “a huge i
manufacturing plant of hardened
criminals.”
The system, he said, is “void of
any semblance of intelligence.”
To Boys Town
Father Flanagan has just com
pleted a successful fight for custody
of 15-year-old Billy Meager of Den
ver, who killed his father. With the
sanction of the courts, the priest
brought the boy to his 360-acre es
tablishment in Omaha, Nebraska,
know as “Boys Town,” recognized
as a regular town with its own offi
cers and postmaster. Father Flana
gan is emphatic the town is “run by
boys for boys.”
He believes, “No boy is really a
bad boy; when he goes wrong, there
is some reason for it entirely beyond
his control.” All of the boys who en
tered the home, he said, became
“good citizens” after leaving.
Jails Are Wrong
The priest objects most vigorous
ly to what he says is an almost uni
versal practice, the confining of ju
venile offenders in jail with harden
ed criminals.
“Imagine,” he said indignantly,
“locking juveniles in with such har
dened company. And we Americans
wonder why our criminal army is
growing by leaps and bounds. Such
a system is a maker of criminals.
“We pride ourselves on being
great builders. We may be great
builders of stone and steel; but
there is something much stronger,
much more important than stone
and steel. That something is char
acter. I fear we are rank amateurs
in our knowledge of the building
and moulding of character.
“Worse than that, we don’t seem
to have any appreciation of its im
portance or any willingness to learn
how to build it. My motto is ‘Give
a boy an even break and you’ll nev
er regret it.’ ”
Once a juvenile offender—and not
all the boys are law violators —en-
ters the home his past is not refer
red to by officials or the other boys.
He is entered in a school class and
given a job. He may wait on tables,
work on the farm, or do some other
work for which he is suited. He may
participate in all sports and in the
boys’ band.
Your Capitol
The Capitol building is situated on
a plateau 88 feet above the level of
the Potomac River and covers an I
area of approximately 3 1-2 acres. I
Its length from north to south is
751 feet, 4 inches; its width, includ- t
ing approaches is 350 feet.
Its height above the base line on '
the east front to the top of the Stat- '
ue of Fredom, surmounting the [
dome, is 287 feet, 5 1-2 inches. The !
Statue is of bronze and wegihs 14,-
985 pounds. It was erected and plac
ed in its present position December
2, 1863.
The Capitol grounds have an area
of 58.8 acres, and at an early date it
was occupied by the Algonquin In
dians, known as the Powhatans,
whose council house was then locat
ed at the foot of the hill.
The southeast corner stone of the
original building was laid Septem
ber 18, 1793, by President Washing
ton, with Masonic ceremonies.
The North wing was finished in
1800 and the south wing in 1811. A
wooden passageway connected them.
On August 24, 1814, the interior of
both wings was destroyed by fire,
set by the British. The damage to
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Kills Herself in
Search for Peace
Helen Mont, 25-year-old actress
who died a week ago in her fashion
able Park avenue apartment—as
guests, responding to a prankster’s
invitation to a “mystery” cocktail
party, crowded the lobby below—
took her own life in search of
“peace,” her farewell note disclosed
this week.
Pale and nervous, her Turkish
born husband of a month, James
Mont, an interior decorator, made
public the suicide letter to stop, he
said, disturbing rumors about its
content.
Her note began:
“My daring—this is the proverbial
note. I am doing this primarily be
cause I failed as a wife. You have
done everything in your power. I
couldn’t ask for a better husband.
. . . Maybe some day—somewhere in
another world—l love you. . .
“I have so many things to say to
you—because I love you and won’t
see you for a long time . . . I’m sorry
to cause you notoriety. . . . See that
mother gets my insurance. . .
“My pet, remember they’re play
ing my favorite opera—l guess I’m
all wrong with my ideals. I can’t
change—so—the music is lovely—
listen to it Sunday—you know
when.”
the building was immediately re
paired.
In 1818 the central portion of the
building was commenced, under the
architectural superintendency of
Charles Bullfinch. The original
building was finally completed in
1827.
The corner stone of the extension
was laid on the 4th of July, 1851, by
President Fillmore, Daniel Webster
officiating as orator.
The House extension was first oc
cupied for legislative purposes De
cember 16, 1857, and the Senate
January 4, 1859. That part of the
building was completed in 1863.
Dr. J. K. Hunter ||
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