Kiser and Turner
Are Busy Men
These Days
As in the closing days of 1939,
when Hill Kiser became business
agent of the Building Trades Coun
cil, and John S. Turner came into our
midst as a representative of the Hod
Carriers and Common Laborers or
ganisational work, 1940 is bring
ing new success, membership in all
organisations in this line growing by
leaps and bounds; new agreements
being reached that brings organised
workers more and more into the con
struction lines, despite opposition
from many sources.
Brother Turner informs us that
the past three months has seen more
than three million dollars in union
contracts signed for construction
work in this territory.
Both Brother Kiser and Brother
Turner, are live wires and have made,
and are making the A. F. of L. in this
territory a factor to be reckoned
with in construction work, and, with
the outlook for greater building ac
tivity bright, there is much work
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ahead of them, bat with organized
labor’s part in this forward move
ment in the hands of two such cap
able labor men there is nothing to
be worried about.
Brother Kiser is one of the best
known men in labor in this section,
being first vice president of the North
Carolina State Federation of Labor;
president of the Plumbers and Steam
fitters local; a past president of Cen
tral Labor Union; president of the
Charlotte Building Trades Council,
“etc., etc.”
Brother Turner came to us un
known and unsung, from Sheffield,
Ala., looked the situation over, and
saw an opportunity for organisational
work, and between periods that he was
rfiot called away on government proj
ects, where thousands of his organi
zation members were employed, to say
nothing of private construction, he
has worked for organisation in this
territory at all times.
Roosevelt Boy
Is an Explorer
Quentin, Grandson of T. R-,
Brings Importer'.
Data on Tibet
NEW YORK.—Another Roosevelt
has won his spurs in the exploring
game—with a cargo of treasure and
the ability to eat caterpillars to
show for his pains. He is Quentin
Roosevelt, 19 years old, grandson
of President Theodore Roosevelt,
son of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, sen
ior in Harvard university, veteran
of two expeditions to Asia’s interior.
Quentin has returned to Harvard
after a trip of six months during
which he traveled 13,000 miles
through the recesses of China and
Tibet in search of relics of the an
cient Nashi tribes.
He found no lost river as d;d h s
Grand-dad Teddy and his Urc'** per
mit when they explored in Brazil
before Quentin was born. But he
came across about 2,000 old manu
scripts and scrolls which he be
lieves may be missing links be* ween
the Asiatic civilization of ti e pres
ent day and life there around 700
B. C.
Exciting Experiences.
He can’t tell of being caualit in a
Himalayan avalanche as was his
father, Theodore Roosevelt Jr.,
; while following the ancient trail of
Marco Polo in Chinese Turkestan
in 1924. But he can lell of duck
ing Japanese bombs in central Chi
na, and of being in a Chinese army
pay roll plane which outmaneuvered
pursuing enemy craft.
It was his second long trek
through China. Two years ago he
accompanied his mother through the
provinces of Szechwan, Anwhei,
Chekiang, Honan, Hopeh, and Kiang
su.
During his six-months’ journey,
Roosevelt said, climate varied from
20 degrees in the high Tibetan pla
teau to 117 degrees in Indio-China.
One hundred tough horsemen of
the Chinese army, armed with mod
ern rifles and boasting a few ma
chine guns, formed his escort as
he pushed on from central China
to the southeast, and the land of
the Nashis.
Roosevelt said his caravan was
attacked several times by bandits in
the back country. However, he
found most of the natives friendly
and willing to aid him.
It was to match an ancient fu
neral scroll found by his father that
Quentin started the journey which
took him through wild and moun
tainous country.
Finds Ancient Scrolls.
In crumbling temples and ancient
chests, he found scrolls—six of
them—together with other centuries
old writings of a people who still
"chase” devils and have remained
"unchanged by Are and famine.”
The scrolls. 40 feet long and eight
inches wide, contain what the Nashi
believe are markings on the road to
heaven and to helL,
They list all the virtues a man can
have, and all the sins he can com
mit, and when a native dies, a priest
reads his particular story—good or
bad—over his funeral bier.
For less than $200 in American
money—“with a kitchen stove or a
rain helmet included here and
there”—Roosevelt obtained all the
treasure he wanted.
Before heading back to America
to translate the Nashi scrolls and
manuscripts, Roosevelt pished on to
Tibet, picking up beautiful banners
and a pair of solid silver sword
sheaths which now rest on V* fire
place.
Much of the material in the $9
crates be brought home was for
museums. For Harvard's zoological
laboratories, there ware specimens
of some rare insects of the Nashi
«nd Tibetan countries._
Teamsters Signing
Agreements With
Trucking Concerns
H. L. McCrorie, business agent for
the Teamsters and Chauffeurs, local
No. 71, reports that progress is be
ing made in the wage and hour agree
ments between his local and the 12
trucking concerns working under
closed shop agreement. This week
he reports that a gain of nearly $6,000
a year in pay for drivers has been
secured with one of the companies
and a reduction in hours was also
agreed to. These agreements will
become effective on February 5th,
and will amount to great gains to the
^nembers of the Teamsters in every
way.
Organizing activities of the Team
sters and Chauffeurs are reported
bright, and the endeavor of this or
ganization is to reach the 1,000 mark
'before 1940 has passed into the dis
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HARTFORD, CONN. — Imagine
Meteorologist Henry E. Hathaway’s
embarrassment when he learned
that one of his co-operative observ
ers was forecasting the arrival of
thunderstorms by watching his
dog’s ears.
The observer’s report of a thun
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minutes ahead of the weather bu
reau’s observation. Hathaway
made inquiries and discovered that
the dog’s hearing was so acute it
picked up the distant rumblings be
fore they were audible to the human
ear. Whenever the dog dashed into
the house and hid under the bed,
the observer telephoned the bureau
a thunderstorm was on the way.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Massachu
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ing in the United States, is being
modernized for use of Harvard of
ficials.
President James B. Conant and
his aides will move into the ivy
covered building as soon as inter
office communicating systems and
other modern equipment are in
stalled.
Built in 1720, the structure has
been used as a dormitory since the
hevolution when American soldiers
were billeted there. Despite the
modern touch, the hall still retains
some of its Colonial architectural
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Average Baby Knows Three
Words at Year-Old Stage
IOWA CITY.—Research by a child
welfare expert at the University of
Iowa revealed that the average baby
cannot speak at the age of eight
months and utters a single word at
10 months.
On the average the language
learning process, progresses from
the first sentence after the fifteenth
month to 1,500 words at four years,
according to Dr. Orvis C. Irwin.
Dr. Irwin’s research showed that
the child at a year usually has a
vocabulary of three words and after
another six months has increased it
to 20 words.
"During the next three months it
will jump to more than 100 and at
two years it may contain as many
as 250 words,” Dr. Irwin said.
"From the second year on the words
will be added at a reduced rate so
that at three there will be some 900
words and at four about 1,500.”
The 10 most frequently used words
in constructing a sentence, accord
ing to Dr. Irwin, are: I, is, it, you,
that, do, a, this, not and the.
Nouns and verbs are used more
frequently than adjectives and con
nectives. The research expert said.
Declarative sentences predominate
during the first five years, he added.
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“How are you getting along in
your new eight-room house?”
“Oh, not so badly. - We furnished
one of the bedrooms by collecting
soap wrappers.”
“Didn’t you furnish the other seven
rooms?”
“We can’t. They are full of soap.”
YES, WHAT?
Church services are not so exciting
flow as they were in the “good old
lays” when the gesticulations of the
ninister as he denounced “the world,
the flesh and the devil" served to
]uicken the interest. A little girl was
taken by her father to an old-fash
oned church for the first time. She
stared for a while open-mouthed
watching the old Highland minister,
shut up in a box pulpit, thumping the
Bible in the accepted style and wav
ing his arms like flails. Unable to
stand it any longer she whispered
tearfully: “Father, what'll we do if
he gets out?”
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