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Wake Forest Man Baptises Convert In Historic River Jordan F. M. Royall Says He Has Baptised 1,000 ChrfaOam In China And Other Places (Special to The Courier) Wake Foresf, Feb. 15.*? At the same spot in the river Jordan, Be thabara, Palestine, where John the Baptist baptised Jesus Christ al most 20 centuries ago, F. M. Royall, above, Baptist missionary and grad uate of Wake Forest College, is shown performing the ceremony with a native convert. The Reverend Mr. Royall grad uated here in 1891, in the same class with President E. W. Sikes of Clemson College, S. C. He W at present director of the American Near East and Holy Land Mission at Shiloah, Haifa, Palestine. For several years he had a chapel and tent on Mt. Carmel near the ?cene of Elijah's contest with the priest of Baal. "I have baptized more than 1,000 Christians in China and other places," he said, "and have preach ed the Gospel to people who had never seen a white man before nor had ever heard of God until I told them." Wake Forest has 45 other mis sionaries in foreign lands. They are in every continent. Its first repre tentative was the great pioneer, Matthew T. Yates who left here for China in 1846 and did a work at Shanghai which compared with that of Judson and Carey in other lands. "The Howler," Wake Forest College yearbook, will be dedicated this year to him. WASHINGTON BY RADFORD MOBLEY AUTOCAffTEft WASHINGTON BUREAU Washington, D. C. (Autocaster) i Feb.? The last of the Hoover fam- < ily personal effects have been taken j out of the White House and put l on board a Government ship, which M will take them through the Panama i Canal to the Mare Island Navy i Yard in San Francisco Bay. From ] there it will be a short haul by 1 truck to the Hoover's permanent i residence at Stanford University, i Palo Alto, California. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover are "living nut nf snitrases" until the fourth of March. They , will have very little - baggage to , take with them when they leave Washington on that day. Mr. Hoo ver will accompany the new Presi dent to the Capitol, but hi$ plans do not contemplate remaining there to listen to his successor's inaugural address. Instead, he will meet Mrs. Hoover at the railroad station, short ly after noon, and they will take a train for New York to catch a ship which is' sailiog that night for Cal ifornia. ] Democrats in Control. Twelve years of uninterrupted j 1 Republican control of the Federal | 1 Government are practically at an end. The Democratic Party is in ? more complete control than it has been since the first Administration of Woodrow Wilson, which began just twenty years ago. At that time 1 only a few .persons on either side of , the Atlantii anticipated the great w European war. and fewer still had any remote idea that the United States would be dragged into it. Yet it is the events which occurred during the war which are at the roots of the economic troubles from which the United States and all the rest of the world are suf fering. By all odds the biggest job ahead of the Roosevelt Administration is the adjustment of the international situation, with respect of debts growing out of the war, and the ef fort to restore international trade upon which the prosperity of the United States still depends. And the most important task which President Roosevelt and his party's Congress will have to tackle also grew out of the war. This is the problem of pensions, hospitalization and bonus payments for those who served under the American flag in that war. It seems from here at this time safe to assert, first, that the new Administration will not consent to the demand of the American Legion for the immediate payment of the deferred bonus certificates held by by veterans of \the war. It also seems safe to predict that there will be a complete reorganization of the system of caring for invalid and disabled veterans whose allowances and injuries are not directly due to their war service. At present the cost of medical and hospital service for such cases is estimated at around $ 400,000.000a year, and it is antici pated that this will be one of the first point* of attack by President Rooesvelt in his effort to reduce the cost of carrying on the ' Government by at least 25 percent. Presidential Power. The desire of many of the Demo cratic party leaders to rush a bill through the present Congress to give the President broader powers than have ever Men conferred upon any BAPTIZING IN JORDAN Rev. F. M. Royall, graduate of Wake Forest, pictured at baptising in River Jordan. President in peace time, for the re organization of governmental offices, the consolidation of governmental bureaus and the elimination of un necessary functions, Seem to have run against a snag in the shape of in intimation from the White Bouse that if such a bill a? pro posed is adopted Mr. Hoover will ?eto it. Mr. Hoover had asked for lutliority to make certain reorgani sations, which authority was denied lim. He never requested any such Droad powers as it is proposed to :onfer upon President Roosevelt, ind he does not believe that any ^resident should be exempted from he control and review of his acts jy the Congress. Since there are not nough Democratic votes in either ?louse to pass any measure over the 'resident's veto, if it is made a >arty issue, this seems to settle he matter so far as this Congress s concerned. iiearea f or Action Mr. Roosevelt, it is known, has isked his supporters in Congress to 'ive him all the power they can egally grant under the Constitu :icn. And, in the beginning at east, there is little doubt that he will get it. Of course, any power ielegated to the President by Con-. ?ress can always be taken away from him by Congress, but it begins to look as if President Roosevelt would find himself in a position of ?nore complete authority than any President has occupied since Mr.' Wilson, who for two years, from sarly 1917 until early 1919, was prac tically the Supreme .Dictator of the United States. - In any event, -fee-new President will have to call a special session of the Senate to confirm the appoint ment of his Cabinet members, the new ambassadors and ministers with (vhom it is certain he will replace America's representatives abroad, and the hundreds of other Presi iential appointees who must be immediately put in office and con firmed. In all, there are. something like 150.000 Government positions over which the President personally, !>r h!s Cabinet, have unrestricted power of removal and appointment. If the plans which are being dis cussed by the friends and supporters of the new Administration are car- ? ried out there will also be a big shake-up in the classified service, which is under the protection of the civil service laws. Appointments, promotions and dismissals in the classified service, which includes now about half a million Govern pent workers outside of the Army and Navy, can be made only on the basis of examinations for fitness and merit, and these places have always been regarded as permanent and secure. But all of these posi tions are Subject to Congressional action. Congress can, for example, abolish an entire bureau or division, or it can restrict the number of em ployees in any given department, thus abolishing any number of civil service posts. Probably half the population of Washington, which & composed al most entirely of Government ? em ployees is trembling In apprehension that their jobs may vanish. TODAY and TOMW FRANK PARKER 1 STOCKBRID6E BOOM ? and in rold The end of almost every previous depression' in the history of the world has been marked by some kind of a speculative boom. Perhaps the wave of a speculation in gold mining stocks which started a cou ple of weeks ago on the London Stock Exchange may prove the im petus that will bring money back into circulation rapidly. More gold was mined in 1932 than in any previous year since world records began to be kept. Most of it came from South African mines; a big percentage of it from Canada. Gold is worth more, measured in commodities and labor, than it has ever been. That makes shares in producing gold mines particularly valuable. ? * ? In times like these no predictions are safe, but I want to register a guess that the , next few months will see a revival of speculation not only in gold mining stocks, but in other securities. Speculation does not m^Jce prosperity, but it is nearly always an evidence that people who control important money have com-" to the conclusion that the worst is over, and are taking their money out of hiding. And that means that prosperity is closer at hand. TAXES? and how applied I cannot escape the conviction that the fairest systems of taxation are those based directly upon what the taxpayer gets for his money. Every cigarette smoker pays a six cents tax every time he buys a pack age of twenty cigarettes, but nobody protests because nobody feete that he is being taxed. Few people object to paying the gasoline tax, the pro- ( ceeds of which make highway im provement and maintenance pos sible. I think one weakness of our in come tax system te that incomes from all sources are taxed at the same rate and lumped together. In comes from rents ought possibly be taxed at one rate, incomes from div idends on stock investments at an other rate, and incomes from the profits of trade at still another. More people are studying this question of taxation, and studying it more intelligently than ever be fore. We are going to see Radical changes in our taxation system. BATHS? in the White House I remember when I was a boy in Washington that there was a great debate in Congress over the ques tion of putting a second bathroom Into the White House. Mr. Cleve land was President and his political opponents In Congress declared that he was a devotee of luxurious extravagance in wain ting more than one bathroom for the entire White House. I dont know how many bathrooms there are in the White House now but my guess is at least a dozen. But when it was proposed in Congress the other day to give President Roosevelt enough money to put a swimming pool in the White House basement, and Representative Scha efer of Washington objected on the ground of extravagance, I was re minded of the furore over Mr. Cleveland's bathroom. "There are lots of people in the United States that don't have swimming pools," said Mr, Schaefer. That was a pretty cheap appeal to unintelligent voters. He might have added that there are a lot of peo ple, also, who are not President of the United States. AMENDMENTS ? import one Perhaps the next amendment to to the Federal Constitution will be the repeal of Prohibition, but there Is another amendment that has been pending for ten years, which may get- in ahead of repeal. This is the amendment permit ting the Federal Government to bar from interstate commerce the pro ducts of the labor of children under eighteen. Congress passed a law years ago to that effect, and the Supreme Court held it was uncon stitutional. An amendment to the Constitution to overcome this was submitted in 1922. Only nine State Legislatures have ratified it. Thir teen have not even brought it to a vote, and twenty-six have rejected "? A great many people believe that This child labor amendment is more vital to the future welfare of the United States than the repeal of Prohibition. SILVER ? again Nearly two years ago I began commenting in this column on the price of silver and its effect upon commodity prices and world trade. Since then a good many intelligent people on both sides of the Atlantic have waked up to the fact that the demonetization of silver in Europe and the resulting of devaluation of the money of the Orient is one of the important causes of low com modity prices and a serious obstacle to international commerce. I think it can be proved that the re-establishment of the pre-war price of silver would be the longest possible step toward a revhal of business. That does not mean "s& |teen TO^OOTTbut Indues mean that [the discussions of the silver ques tion in Congress ought to be taken seriously. wunuotD ae A New York department store is Selling an electric pencil with which it is possible to write indelibly upon practically anything. You can in scribe your signature upon drinking glasses, plates, book covers, pipes, keys, wallets, watch cases. ? ? * If the elevators in the Empire Into Harness Again By Albert T. Reid JIT U N E M PLOYME^t I C.P.ISIS solioationJ DEPARTMENTS I rZlSmoihg 'Hfifli FAFkM PPwOBLtM T0P?I6N OEC-TS ? OUR. jj MATIflJ^Ag LOAD 1 state Building could be put end to end' they would reach seven miles Into the air. ? ? ? If you look long enough In New York you will see women wearing spats. i ? f ? . Evidently in times of depression New Yorkers go to the zoo. More than three million persons visited the New York Zoological Park last i year, the largest number since the i opening of the park in 1899. ? ? ? New York harbor has again been visited by its friendly whale, a fa miliar figure known to pilots through the ragged white scar on his back and afTectionately called "Spud." ? ? ? Seven hundred black ducks frtom Canada have decided to make the New York Zoological Park their home where there is plenty to eat. It costs $90 a month to feed them. ? ? * It takerf 67 feet of space to list the Browns in the New York City Directory. ? * ? Fourth Street is about half a mile south of Thirteenth street and those two cross town thoroughfares, of course, run parallel to each other when they cross Broadway. Yet in the Greenwich Village section you can stand at the corner of Fourth and Thirteenth streets. And if you want to walk from Thirteenth to Twelfth Street along Foufth street you will walk four blocks before you get there. ? ? ? There is a taxi-cab driver in New York with diamonds in his teeth. ? ? ? One New York hotel asks its guests and patrons not to tip the hat nxjp girls. "It's not the original cost but the upkeep," will no longer apply to hats and coats if all hotels here adopt the same rule. ? ? ? Window washers never get through washing the 6,000 windows in the Empire State Building here. They work from the top down. When they get to the bottom they return to the top. Saving' Fuel When there is no fire on the hearth considerable heat escapes up the chimney of an open fireplace. It the chimney has a damper, be sure to close It if the fireplace i 4 Dot in use. If there is no damper u wooden panel of two or three boards tacked together to fit up Into the throat of the chimney may be used. Attention to small points Df this sort often makes a big dif fere nee in fuel saving In cold weather. t> Diner ? Say, waiter! How many times have I called you? Waiter ? You'll have to keep count of that yourself ? I have other things to do. The County home farm in Cataw ba County will have enough Korean lespedeza seed to sell this spring to buy the fertilizer needed on the place. . Get Rid of That SORE THROAT! Any Iittle*soreness in the throat grows rapidly worse if neglected. Crush some tablets of genuine Bayer Aspirin in some water, and gargle at once. This gives you instant relief, and reduces danger from infection. One good gargle and you can feel safe. If all soreness is not gone promptly, repeat. There's usually a cold with the sore throat, so before gargling take two tablets to throw off your cold, headache, stiffness or other cold symptoms. Bayer Aspirin relieves neuralgia, neuritis, too. You may use it . freely, it does not hurt the heart. B . > A * i NO TABLETS ARE GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN WITHOUT THIS CROSS ? e Now On Display The New Ford 112-INCH "V T LOWER WHEELBASE %/ ? 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