Tilt ftiAUkUH PAEii AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONlAPf
THURSDAY, APRIL 29. 1937
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VOL. LII
Number 17
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Boom Evident in Building Field
HE increase in the volume of new building con
struction throughout the country in 1936 over
the previous year is encouraging in many ways.
In normal times building is one of the largest in
dustries, employing at its peak more than three
million workers in the building trades, besides other
millions in the production of building materials and
equipment. Last year was the biggest building year
since 1931, according to authoritative construction
reports. But nothing which can properly be called
a building "boom" has as yet set in. . .'
The people of the United States built about 260,-
000 new homes in 1936, as compared with 75,000 in
1935. But the total amount spent on new housing
was only $12 per capita, as against $61nat the height
of the last home-building boom in 1925. The outlook
now is that about 425,000 new homes will be built
this year. If takes about 400,000 new houses every
year to house our normal population increase prop
erly and replace buildings burned or otherwise ren
dered, uninhabitableMuch,. new home Jbuilding -will
be necessary in the Ohio Valley because of flood
damage, but apart from that the United States
needs at least a million new houses now. .
There is considerable doubt whether there is
enough skilled labor to carry on a ' real building
boom if it got started. All through last year reports
of a shortage of competent bricklayers, plumbers,
carpenters and other building mechanics came from
every section where there was a marked increase in
building operations, and contractors are reported
as being prepared to offer "bonus" wages this
Spring to good men. Wages are already near the
high figure of the middle .'20's, both for skilled men
and ordinary labor. One reason for the shortage is
that many building trades workers have established
themselves in other lines. Forced by the depression
to find work wherever they could, half a million or
so have found ways to make a living either as
farmers or in other occupations.
There is no new crop of journeymen workers to
replace those who have died or become incapacitat
ed by age, illness or accident in the past 10 years.
With the revival of building, which is starting now
and bids fair to continue-for another 10 or 12 years,
the building trades would seem, to offer a fine op
portunity for boys who can find ways to become
masters of almost any one of the building crafts.
Good workmen will be in greater and, greater de
mand for a long time.
One Ounce of Radium
The Governor General and the Prime Minister of
Canada have just ceremonialized a "notable in
crease" in the production of radium in Canada dur
ing the past three years. Total production: one
ounce. Market value; $1,400,000.
With this addition, the world's supply of radium
is now about 25 ounces, not enough to make up a
two-inch cube. It is scattered widely, but the where
abouts, the ownership and the pedigree of almost
every particle are on record. There is a possible
secret store in the hands of the Belgians, who held
a world monopoly until 1929, when Gilbert La
Bine discovered the Eldorado mine on Great Bear
Lake. ' - , ' : . . .
Radium is a pure element in a violent state of
disintegration. Its atoms are constantly exploding
with frightful force, but "their number is so great"
that scientists compute it will take 19,000 years
before every atom of ar$ given particle of radium
has exploded. ' .
A millionth of an ounce of radium injected into
a human body is enough to cause death by the dis
integration of the tissues. Yet it is this ability to
destroy living tissues which makes radium valuable
in fighting cancer. If radium can be focussed upon
malignant growths, the cancer is demolished.
About one out of ten persons who reach the age
of 35 will die of cancer. Because there is so little
radium, very few cancer victims will be able to re
ceive radium treatment.. Every new radium unit,
therefore, promises relief for' thousands. Hence the
extraordinary importance of the discovery of ra
dium in Canada, and the official celebration of the
mining and refining of the first ounce.
School Board Conference
To Be Held at University
Members of the school board of
this county have been invited to
attend the first state-wide school
board conference to be held at the
University of North Carolina next
Wednesday, May ,5.
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state super
intendent of public instruction; Drf
Julian Miller, editor of The Char
lotte Observer, and Dr. Marion R.
Trabue, director of the division of
education of the consolidated uni
versity, are among a number of
speakers who have accepted invi
tations to appear on the program,
according to announcements receiv
ed here.
The meeting will consider the
chief problems of administration in.
education and will attempt to unify
practices in so far as possible.
More . than 200 board members,
representing, 65 per cent of the
boards in " the state, have already
made plans to attend, according to
Professor Guy B. Phillips of the
University department of education,
who is in charge of arrangements.
The sessions will get under way
at 10 o'clock next .Wednesday morn
ing with the election of temporary
officers and appointment of com
mittees. The addresses of Dr. Erf
win and Dr.. Miller will feature the
morning' program. Dr.i Erwin i will'
tliscuss school legislation, and Dr.
jMiller will talk . on school board
members . as educational , leaders.
Discussions will follow each , ad-?
dress. -
The afternoon session will get
under way with an address by Dr.
Trabue on current trends in edu
cation.
A. L. Calton, chairman of the
Cleveland county school board, will
at 2:30 preside over a session de
voted to school board problems. The
following will participate in this
session as discussion leaders.
J. H. Joyner," Guilford t county;
B. S. Woble, Winston-Salem; R. E.
McDowell, Mecklenburg county;
R. H. Whitfield, Granville county;
J. E. Sellars, Alamance county; R.
J. Grady, Duplin county; R. P.
Freeze, Hendersonville ; Chas. F.'
Lambeth, Thomasville; J. B. Turn
er, Caswell county; S, W. Black,
Swain county ; and E. S. Bowers,
Northampton, county.
Topics to be discussed include
transportation, maintenance of plant,
construction of program, attendance
problems, health work, employment
practices,' board meetings, school
support, community use of school
plants, and supervision of instruc
tion.
Addresses by E. D. Broadhurst,
prominent Greensboro attorney and
school man, and Doane Herring,
chairman of the school board of
Wilson, and election of officers and
other business will conclude the
sessions. , Mr. Broadhurst will tell
what he thinks a superintendent
has a right to expect from his
board, and Mr. Herring will say
what he thinks the board should
expect from its superintendent.
nation of the moral welfare work
on a large chart.
These meetings, are held to stim
ulate sentiment against crime and
drunkenness.
! A free will offering will be taken
in both churches for the support
of the work. Bring a dime extra
for the little "booklet on the fun
damentals of the work.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
Box Supper Saturday
Night at Clark's Chapel
There will ,be a box supper at
Clark's Chapel school house next
Saturday night, May 1, beginning
at 8 o'clock.
There will be string music by
local talent, and everybody is in
vited . to attend.
i Proceeds will go to buy equip
ment for the baseball club.
Farmers' Meeting
To Be Held at Courthouse
Saturday Afternoon
By S. W. MENDENHALL
Cohmty Agnt
Forms have been mailed to the
farmers from the county agent's
office showing the general deplet
ing base for each farm, the number
of acres you can divert from this
base with pay and the rate of pay
per acre for this diversion. This
form also shows the number of
acres of conserving crops that must
be on the farm in order to receive
the maximum payment. A large
number of the farmers have 'been
bringing these forms to our office
to get further detailed information.
Due to this fact a series of meet
ings have been held throughout the
county in order to give each farm
er an opportunity to learn as near
ly as possible just how the prop-ram
will hpln him in his farmincr
operations.
The final meeting of this series
will be held on Saturday afternoon,
May 1st, at 1:30 o'clock at the
courthouse. .It is very important for
the farmers who were unable to
attend the meetings in their re
spective communities to attend the
one at the courthouse. This is a
farmers' program and it is the re
sponsibility of every farmer to at
tend this meeting to learn how to
get the most from this program.
75 Counties Aid
Duke Hospital Patients
DURHAM, N. C, April 28-
Seventy-five counties of the state
made the lot of patients in Duke
hospital easier during the past year
by assisting . m their care, report
off the hospital, recently issued.
shows. The help given by counties
ranged from $2 to more than $9,-
000, according to the number of
patients sent from each county.
During the year ttie 10,750 pa
tients who were received' at Duke
hospital traveled a total of 1,547,
000 miles, 'or an average round trip
of 144 miles for each patient.
. The hospital's report shows that
$500,797.80' was. spent on patients
or $4.51 for each patient each day.
Patients ' themselves were able to
pay but 53.1. per cent of their hos
pital expenses. Nearly $23,000 was
paid . for them by; their home coun
ties. Patients from Macon county were
given 73 days of care, of which
$238. was paid by patients them
selves, nothing ,by the county or
city, nothing by others, and $91.23
by Duke hospital.
Two Meetings To
Be Held. Sunday
The Rev. George Seay has an
nounced that on Sunday, May 2,
there will : be two mass meetings
held, one at the Cartoogechaye
Baptist church at 11 o'clock, a. m.
and one at the Mt. Zion Methodist
church at 3 o'clock ' p. m.
The subject for both meetings is
to be "The Liquor Traffic With
Associated Evils." The programs
will consist of lectures by the ReV.
S. R". Crockett and the Rev. New
ton Dills. Essays, songs and selec
tions from books and leaflets will
be given by others, with an expla-
Urges Tax Collectors To
Be 'Understanding'
Revenue field men returning to
their jobs were admonished by
Gov. Clyde R. Hoey to cultivate a
spirit of understanding rather than
"vengeance" in their tax-collection
methods.
"Collect the taxes," Gov. Hoey
told approximately 80 field men
yesterday in the revenue building,
"but not in a spirit of vengeance.
Treat all alike. We don't tax the
farmer's land or the city man's
home for the benefit of the state,
but the money must come, from
somewhere. ' .
The chief executive said the sales
tax must be levied on all persons,
otherwise it would become "discrim
inatory." ; ' V
"Those who do .not pay must be
required to do so," the governor
added, speaking of taxes in general.
"Not, however, in a vengeful spirit,
but , through a proper approach, can
you overcome the prejudices which
exist in the minds of some of the
people." Ashe ville Times.
Used Car Statute
Challenged In Wake
Validity of the 1937 general as
sembly used; car statute will be
contested in Wake county superior
court ,
Eight of the state's second hand
automobile dealers filed suit in
Wake court yesterday, contending
the law unconstitutional.
Under the law dealers bringing
used cars into the state for resale
are required to post surety bonds
and pay a tax of $10 per auto.
Attorney General AAA. F. Sea
well and state revenue commission
er A. J. Maxwell have been named
defendants in the action. They have
30 days to answer complaints.
, The plaintiffs alleged the law in
valid because it attempts to deal
with interstate commerce. It would
also be impossible for them to post
the required bonds, they said, be
cause no bonding company would
assume the liability involved.
Asheville Times.
Mules Stung to
Death By Bees
COCHRAN, GA., April 27.-A
swarm of bees stung two working
mules to death on the farm of F.
C. Stewart in this Georgia peach
belt section.
Stewart said the bees attacked
the mules as they passed the ap
iary, drawing a wagonload of fer
tilizer. The animals ran away, but
became entangled in a brush thick
et, where the bees finished them.
JAPAN BANS PAMPLETS
TOKYO. More than 100 pamph
lets bearing no political and eco
nomic questions have been banned
by the police since the military re
volt of February 26, 1936, according
to the newspaper Miyako. which
stated that the censorship section
of the police has been augmented
to deal with booklet inspections.
CAWS AND EFFECT
MUSKOEE, OKLA. Two four
somes were playing a match at the
Meadowbrook Club golf links, but
a crow snatched the victory.
B. E. Ellison drove his ball down
the fairway. A crow swooped .down,
picked it up with his beak and
flew into a tree. The golfers fail
ed to make the bird drop the ball.
Instead it became frightened and
flew away leaving the players with
the problem 'who won the match?"
"We've looked all through the
rule book and can't find a thing
to decide it,' said Ray J. Stem,
club manager.
ABBEY WANTS FEES
LONDON. The public will have,
a chance to see Westminister Ab
bey in its coronation decorations.
Officials will leave the settings in
place for several weeks. The coro
nation chair with other ceremonial
fittings, will be on view. Officials
frankly, explained that one reason
for keeping the abbey open was to
collect admission fees.
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A vehicle tunnel is to be con
structed under the , river Meuse in
Holland at a cost of $7.500000. It
will have lanes for aiifr.mK;i
traffic, bicyclists and pedestrians.
The giraffe is one of the Queer
est animals known to man. It has
the spotted skin of a leoDard. the
callouse breast of a camel, th
head of a horse, and the neck and
hoof of a Stag.