By L. L. STEVENSON
Brick, concrete and steel have
largely displaced trees in New York.
The last tree vanished from Times
square years ago when the Pare*
mount building was erected. Fifth
avenue didn’t have any trees until
elms were planted recently in front
of Rockefeller Center with other
trees around the development. Then
came more elms in front of St. Pat
rick’s cathedral and maples on Fif
tieth street. Indications are that
there will be many more Fifth ave
nue plantings. Also there is the pos
sibility that Sixth avenue, from
which the old elevated has vanished,
in time will become a tree-bordered
thoroughfare. Down on the lower
East Side where in the not-so-distant
past many a youngster never saw
a tree unless he was taken or went
to a park, there are now play
grounds with trees. Trees have also
made their appearance on other
streets that formerly were bare.
• • •
One Hundred and Sixth street is
one of the latest thoroughfares te
get trees. When the planting is
completed, there will be 349 in all
and they will extend from the Har
lem to the Hudson river. The trees
are oriental planes. New York’s
sulphuric acid and soot-laden at
mosphere isn’t good for trees. In
fact it is so bad that, as has been
stated in this space previously, a
few years ago there was fear that
Central park was about to become
treeless. Tree surgery, scientific
methods and the expenditure of
considerable money saved most of
the park’s trees The plane tree
has been found to stand city hard
ships very well, in fact much bet
ter than most other varieties. For
that reason many have been planted
and many more will be. That’s a
safe assertion because within the
last few years New York has be
come tree conscious.
B * •
For such property owners as de
sire trees, the city will supply them
and see that they are planted cor
rectly for $50 each. During the first
year, the owner must look after his
own trees. After that, the city takes
them over, if they are in good con
dition, and thus he is relieved of
responsibility and expense. With
city-planted trees, the loss has been
extremely small, only two out of
every hundred having failed to sur
vive. The usual cause of death has
been failure on the part of the prop
erty owner to supply enough water.
• • •
Thanksgiving day—both of them—
this year belongs to the past but
comes to mind a story told during
his recent visit to New York by
Albert A. McVittie, chain restaurant
owner of Denver and newly elect
ed president of the National Restau
rant association. Before going into
the restaurant business he was in
the show business, a “taffy pulling
cowboy," an amusement park con
cessionaire and the manager of a
traveling show troupe. Back in
1907, he and his company became
stranded in Grand Island, Neb., and
when Thanksgiving day came, Mr.
McVittie found his pockets entirely
empty, diligent search failing to re
veal so much as a single copper.
• • •
Just about the time Grand Island
families were sitting down to turkey,
mince pie and all that goes with a
Thanksgiving feast, Mr. McVittie
encountered an acquaintance and
succeeded in negotiating a loan of
IS cents. The borrowed money
went into a Thanksgiving dinner
doughnuts and coffee. As he laid
his dime on the counter, he vowed,
“As long as I live, to remember
the mess I'm now in, I will eat a
doughnut a day." He’s kept that
vow for 32 years, which means
about 11,680 doughnuts. Also that
Thanksgiving day back in 1907 has
also meant some of the greatest
feasts ever known by Denver’s poor.
And Mr. McVittie still likes dough
nuts.
• • •
Maybe it’s my (ace. Maybe it’s
the way I dress. But at any rate,
another one of those salesmen of
watches supposed to have been
stolen slipped up to me as I was
looking into a window on Right*1
avenue and tried to put over a deal.
The watch he furtively exhibited
looked mighty good. But just then
a cop I knew stopped to exchange
the time of day and the timepiece
salesman vanished before he
even made a quotation. At the mo
ment, I’m wondering where I can
get made up to lode like a city
slicker.
(B«U Syndicate—WNU S' Vi
‘One-Ann Bandits
Locked in Jail Oll
BILOXI, MISS —B:- d, Mia 4
sippi’s seashore rea^t, has been
declared free of «'4>t machines,
the “one-arm bandits’’ that were
objects of a police raid. Many
of the “bandits’* were confiscat
ed, and locked in a cell »t the
city jail pending trials of their
owners.
Bakery Ordered To
Cease Discouraging
Union Membership
The Nationel Labor Relation*
Board today announced an order di
recting Collins Baking Co., Colum
bus, Georgia, to cease discouraging
membership in Bakery A Confection
ery Workers Local Union No. 486,
(A.F.L.), and to reinstate six em
ployees with remuneration for any
losses in back pay they suffered by
reason of the company’s discrimina
tion.
The board stated that about Sep
tember 16, 1838, William Jennings
Reed and Percy Holloway, employees
of the company, arranged for an or
ganisational meeting of the employ
ees, to be held on December 31, 1938.
On December 29, during the height
of union activity, Holloway was dis
charged allegedly because he ex
pressed dissatisfaction with wages
and violated working rules. The
board also found that on January 4,
1939 the company discharged sev> n
other union members who had at
tended the December 31 meeting.
Woman Tafce* Long Journey
To Read Epitaph on Grave
SAINT JOHN. N. B.—A tombstone
epitaph has sent Mrs- E- J ■ Chub
buck of Berkeley. Calif., on a jour
ney of several thousand miles.
Mrs Chubbuck, busily engaged in
rounding up a lineal record of her
forbears on Loyalist stock, found
that the only record of the birth of
her grandfather, Aaron Clark, was
written on his tombstone.
It statee that he "was born on the
St. John river where the city of
Saint John now stands ”
Aaron Clark, son of a Baptist min
ister, George Clark, left New Bruns
wick in 1833 to settle in Drumbo,
Ont., and later in 1855 moved to
Michigan
Mrs. ChubUick is Ue wif* *f a re
tired publiaher, and sne and her
husband came here in effort to
locate the tombstone.
Jews Ordered to Wear
Armbands in Polish Area
BERLIN.—Jews in the K»/isch
district of Poland, who fail ti wear
“Jew yellow” armbands or who
leave their homes between five p. m.
and eight a. m may be punished
with death, according to a Lodz
German-language newspaper which
reached Berlin recently.
The November 16 issue of the
Deutsche Lodzei Zeitung published
a decree by the district president
imposing the regulations and report
ing that unlimited fines could be
substituted for the death penalty
in “special cases.”
The same issue also revealed that
a synagogue had burned on Novem
ber 15, “but a fire brigade succeed
ed in preventing other buildings
from catching fire ”
Find Hunter Frozen to Death
FAIRBANKS. ALASKA. In 28 be
t low zero weather, a searching mk
found the frozen h<> of .'o' n
29, who becH'*)#' • ap-iit"
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NOTICE OK SERVICE OK
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
State of North Carolina.
•County of Mecklenburg.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
Ka>mell Myers Kllwonger.
Plaintiff.
Vs.
Robert liermon Ellwongcr. „
Defendant.
The defendant will take notice that an
action has been commenced against him
;>y said plaintiff in the above court for a
divorce absolute on the grounds of two (2)
yii*. reparation.
That defendant is further notified that he
* required to appear before the undersigned
•ourt and answer or demur to the conpliint
riled herein on or within thirty (SO) days
from the last issue of this notice or tho court
will proctvd to try the issued in this matter.
This the 13th day of January, 1340
J. LESTER V OLFE.
Clerk of Superior Court
Jan. 13-25; Feb. 1-3.
| Women Take Up
Burdens of War
Million Sign for Duty in
Britain; French Gir't
Also Active.
LONDON.—More than l.OOO.iiOO
women volunteers ere engaged in
war work (or Great Britain.
No matter where jrou go or when,
you are likely to see in action sun
dry members of the WATS, WAAFS,
WRENS, or WAFS, not to mention
the ladies of the Dorcas society roll
ing bandages.
The WATS are the Women’s Auxil
iary Territorial service (Britain’s
Territorials or Terriers correspond
to America's National Guard).
WAAF means Women Auxiliary Air
force. The WRENS are the Wom
en’s Royal Naval service, and WAFS
stands for Women’s Auxiliary Fire
ervice.
. Few Frenchwomen in Uniform.
In France, on the other hand, is
no great semimilitary organization
of women and there will be none.
Few of them are to be seen in uni
form except in nurses' garb. No
young girls have picked up rifles and
gone with their brothers and their
husbands to the front, like the Car
mens of thr Spanish Civil war.
But each individual Frenchwom
an, without leadership and without
direction, has sought her place and
taken it, and, thanks to her, when
the war is over, the home and fam
ily will survive and whatever may
be the means of subsistence for the
faiyily win be intact.
Tliat up to the present point is
the greatest work the women of
France ere dows © Mi# wgr. It is
the task offered by conditions end
circumstances, which in Frgnce dif
fer from those © Great Brit*© tpd
in every other-country involved fey
the war.
Later, if the drain upon French
man power becomes greet enough,
other fields of activity will fee open
I to Frenchwomen, and they'will be
| there ready and capable to do the
| work ra it is needed.
Th.y will drive ambulances, they
will direct and manage the work of
passive defense, they' will fee avia
tion pilots, truck drivers, chemists
in the laboratories, interpreters, and
whal not. Such work, however, will
never be highly organized, but will
be undertaken by small groupa of
volunteers, already preparing for
the aall.
SubtuMiA for Alii.
The vast mass of Frenchwomen
will continue te work to keep tke
country running and to substitute
for their husbands, their sens, and
their brothers who are at war. They
will be giving energy beyond their
strength to keep agriculture, com
merce, and industry going, and at
the same time fulfilling the numer
ous tasks of social service required
of them in times of such stress.
British women’* war activities
range from miiking cow* apd mak
ing shell detonators to bandage roll
ing ’’bees” such as Queen Elizabeth
holds each week et Buckingham pal
ace.
The WATS, WRENS and the like
ere recruited from aR ranks, in
cluding titled bluehloods, house
wives, strip teasera. and fUtnour
girls. They art recruited Juft as
soldiers are, wear skirted versions
of military uniforms, and for the
moet part observe the same dis
cipline and live in the same kind of
barracks to whieh the troope are
accustomed.
KNEW WHO GOT FIRST
We’ve had a drinking competition
at the club tonight, announced her
husband.
Or, have you? she replied acidly,
and who got second prize?
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Washington Typo
Union Celebrates
125th Anniversary;
Notables Present
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The ban
quet given at the Willard hotel here
Sr Columbia Typagraphical Union
o. 101 on January 6 In celebration
of its 126th anniversary was attend
ed by over seven hundred persons, in
cluding Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
who in a brief talk credited the In
ternational Typographical Union
with having set an example for the
government’s social security program.
In addition - to Mrs. Roosevelt, the
speakers included Miss Frances Per
kins, Secretary of Labor; Augustus
E. Giegengack, public printer; Clar
ence J. Deeper, president of Colum
bia Typographical Union; James 1.
Crockett, union secretary; Fleming
iXewbold, business manager of the
Washington Star; Eugene Meyer,
publisher of the Washington Post,
Claude, M. Baker, president of the
I International Typographical Union;
Woodruff Randolph, secretary-treas
urer of the I. T. U.; John B. Colpoys,
■ditor of the Washington (D. C.)
Trades Unionist and United States
Marshal of the District of Columbia,
and Frank Morrison, secretary-treas
urer emeritus of the American Fed
eration of Labor, who gave the anni
versary toast as follows:
“Here’s to a future anniver
sary. Then, may we all, in retro
spect, view another era of human ad
vancement — advancement for the
benefit of the individual printer, this
to be achieved by solidarity of pur
pose, unity in thought, unity of ac
tion, unity toward a common goal
■ o build a strong and powerful or
of printers.”
Charles J. Warren was toastmaster,
George Q. Seibpld, former union sec
etary, gave the invocation, and ft^iss
.Frances Thatch sang “The Star
Spangled Renner.”
retary of Labor; Mary Anderson, di
rector of the Women’s Bureau of the
Labor Department; Mary La Dame,
■ . «'
special assi
Labor; Dr. _
of the concilia)
bor Department;
^resident of the
mission;
SVWHS;
of
the late loug.tupe labor leader &and
iresident of the_
ical Union; Francis
vice president, and John J
second vice president, of the I. T. U.;
John Locher, pi
reauleat
tral Labor Union; bliss
stage and screen
Nellie V. Wilson, L_
cerd for mpre than 60 years.
Cen
B«an,
i actress, and Mrs
holder of a printer’s
Africa
Still U 'Parle' in Spate
JASPER, ALA.—Airies still is the
Dark Continent in many ways.
C. J. Dotson, Baptist missionary
to Rhodesia, has found it so. ho said,
in an address at the First Baptist
church of Jasper.
Greatest Rhpdesian superstition,
Whig) British authorities beve fcad
scant success in suppressing, is the
killing of habies. If twins are born,
they must be killed. If a baby cuts
an *pper tooth drat, it ipwrt be
killed. If either type were allowed
to liYS. the natives a great
calaputy would be fail the Iribe
Dotson said th§ natives dodge
strict British laws by dispatching
the ill-atarred babies secretly, then
reporting that they ded ot illness.
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WHO'S WHO
IN UNIONS
A. A MYRUP
ANDREW A. MYRUP
Andrew A. Myrup, u Secretary
Treasurer of the Bakery and Con
fectionery Workers International
Union of America, has for 32 years
guided the destinies of that or
ganisation. lie is also Vice Presi
dent of the Union Label Trades
Department and the Union Labor
Lire Insurance Company. He is
one of the most successful Labor
leaders in A meric* Through his
rich experiences he has been able
to render invaluable service to the
entire organised Labor movement.
Mr. Myrup takes great pride in
the Bakers’ and Confectioners’
Union Label which he credits with
being a great factor in tha un
paralleled growth of his organi
sation. There is an annual output
of approximately three and one
h*!f million Bakers’ Labels.
As a member of the Executive
Board of the Union Label Trades
Department, Mr. Myrup has shown
unusual activity in the promotion
of all Union Labels as well as shop
cards and service buttons.
His address is: A. A. Myrup, In
ternational Secretar y-Trea -;urer,
Bakery and Confectionery Work
ers International Union of Amer
ica, 2719 North Wilton Avenue,
Chicago, 111.
BAKERS’ AND CONFECTION
EKS* LABEL
This Label is an important safe
guard of the Bakery and Confec
tionery Workers’ International
Union for its members against in
human conditions, low wages, and
long working hours. People de
manding this Label are not only
supporting the Bakery and Con
fectionery Workers, protecting 1
them against the conditions men
tioned, but they are also protect
ing themselves and their families
against the spread of disease
breeding germs which exist in un
sanitary workshops. Our Label i.
granted only to sanitary and clean
bakeries and confectioneries. If a
bakery or confectionery owner
liyes up to the requirements of our
organisation, he may use our Label.
The Union shop workers are sub
ject to health examination by the
Union s physician and health 1ua.11
tens nee by Union support.
For further information regard
ing Union Labels, Shop Cards and
Sarriee Buttons write Mr. I. M.
O r m b u r n, Secretary-Treasurer,
Union Label Trades Department,
Amnican Federation of Labor
Mliint, Washington, D. C.
Since the violin was unknown and
pot developed for several centuries
after Rome was burned, the question
(a naked: Did Nero fiddle during the
fire.
Truck Drivers
Receive Their First
Atlanta Contracts
ATLANTA, 'Cal’, Jan. 15. —J. T.
Odum, business agent for Local Union
No. 728, Teamsters and Chauffeurs
International .Union, announces that
five signed agreements have been ob
tained recently between his Local
Union and their employers. They are
as follows:
Huber A Huber Motor Express,
running between Atlanta and Chicago;
Blue A Gray Transportation Company,
running between Atlanta and Cincin
nati; Terminal Transport Company,
running between Atlanta and Indian
hpolis; ABC Freight Lines, running
between Atlanta, Birmingham and
Chattanooga; Johnson Motor Freight
Lines, running between Atlanta and
Cincinnati.
All agreements provided for the
closed shop, adjusted wage rates, and
other valuable provisions for the
*ruck drivers employed by these pro
gressive companies.
It*» Sturt Tough Jo
Collecting Some Beta
IfAPLETON, MINN.—It isn’t
the bet, so much, but collecting
it that keeps Bill Ripon and Rosa
Wiikens guessing. __
Last year after Ripon lost a $5
baseball bet he walked into Wil
ken’s store, hollered “catch” and
tossed Wiikens 500 pennies. Wii
kens got some of them, his cus
tomers the rert.
This year Wiikens lost but when
Ripon came to the store to col
lect Wiikens simply pointed to a
barrel of sawdust. There were
500 pennies buried in it, all right,
but each had first been coated
with sheila :. R *> is still dig
ging and scrapirv
OF COURSE NOT I
"If you don’t marry me. I’ll take
a rope and hang myaelf in your front
“Ah, now Herbert, you know Pa
doesn’t want you hanging around.’’
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