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ELKS SERVICE
Annual Memorial service
of the BPO Elks will be held
at the Elks lodge at 3 p. m.
Sunday, presenting the
solemn ceremonial of all Elks
lodges held the first Sunday
ill December, honoring their
departed brothers.
John E. Cline, past district
deputy, will give the eulogy
to the dead. Exalted Ruler D.
L. Madigan will preside. All
interested persons are invited
to attend. Tea will be served
afterward by members of the
Does.
Banquet
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sity (scrimmage team), managers
and others. A speaker is to be se
cured, probably Coach Walker of
Wake Forest, or some other out
standing figure in the college
sports world.
Joe Garzik is Elks club chair
man of the event. Tickets may be
Virginia:. They went to Chester
Weanesday, where they spent the
night with the Rev. and Mrs.
Clyde Melton, and on Thanks
giving Day went to Richmond,
where they spent the remainder
of the time with Mr. and Mrs. A.
E. Cline.
Mrs. W. D. Matthews and Pres
ton Matthews visited Mr. and
Mrs. Warren I^atthews and fam
ily at Fayetteville Sunday after
noon, going especially to see the
new baby, Roger Michael Mat
thews, who was born November
9.
Misses' Kate and Eva Graham
have returned from Charlotte and
Ruffin, S. C., after an absence of
more than a week. With ther sis
ter, brother-in-law and Mr. and
Mrs. H. P. Futrell of Norfolk, Va.,
they first visited Mr. and Mrs. N.
G. Graham of Charlotte, then
went to Ruffin to spend some
time with their brothers, Ralph
and Dan Graham, and their fam^i
ilies.
Col. Lowery Moore, of Wash
ington, D. C., assistant chief of
Negro Slave Failed To Stay Awake-
Result, New Mode Of Curing Tobacco
secured from him, at the Sandhill , ^^e U. S. Signal Corps, will spend
Sport shop or by calling 8911 or
7983.
Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Younts. Colonel Mbore is head
of the Organized Reserve of the
SignaJ Corps.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Paul of
Washington, D. C., were guests of
Mrs. P-cllv Adams visited Mr. David McCallum
and Mrs. Morgan Fitzgerald in Thanksgiving holidays.
Chapel Hill during the weekend David McCallum
IN BRIEF
and attended the Carolina-Virgin-
ia game Saturday.
and son David were supper guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Medlin of
Mr. and Mrs. Linwod Keith of Pinehurst Saturday night.
Sanford --^rere simper guests of Lawrence Walter
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. McRae Satur- children, Larry and Jean, ar
day. evening.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Parker re
rived from their home in Slaters-
ville, R. I., on Thanksgiving Day
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^ and Mrs. W. E. Blue. Mr. Walter
went home Saturday, but Mrs.
Walter and the children are re
maining until Christmas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Maples and
their two children of Raleigh
spent Thanksgiving Day with his
mother, Mrs. Frank Maples,
Knollwood.
Pfc. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Fos
ter of California moved into an
apartnient in the home of Mrs
Bruce H. 'Lewis on Tuesday of
this week. He is stationed at Fort
Bragg.
The Rev. C. K. Taffe le^t last
Friday morning for Richmond,
Va., where he was joined by Dr
J. A. McLean on a trip to- New
York to attend a meeting of di
rectors of the American Bible So
ciety.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoke Pollock
sfient last week in New York City,
on a trip which combined busi
ness and pleasure. They saw five
plays while there and had a de
lightful but busy time. ~
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Howard had
as their guests from Wednesday
until Friday of last week Mrs.
Howard’s brother and sister-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Long,
their daughter. Miss Anita Long,
and a friend, Mrs. E. C. LaSalle,
of Rochester, N. Y. They stopped
over on the way home from
Miami, Fa., where they had been
vacationing for two weeks. Mr.
Long is connected with the East
man Kodak company.
By Robert Bartholomew
The present method of curing
tobacco to a bright yellow color
was accidentally discovered by a
Negro slave on the farm of
Abisha Slade in Caswell county
in the year of 1839.
The slave was Stephen Slade
and he largely ran the farm of
Abisha Slade’s and also worked
as a blacksmith for his owner and
neighborhood farmers. His shop
was located near the tobacco
barns and Stephen had construc
ted a. pit for making charcoal for
his forge.
One night it fell Stephen’s turn
to' stay awake and look after the
fires in the tobacco barns. It was
a rainy night and the hours were
long. Soon Stephen fell asleep and
allowed the fires in the barns to
go out.
When Stephen aWoke, rather
than use the wet wood that was
on hand for curing the tobacco,
he ran to his blacksmith shop and
secured a quantity of charcoal.
He quickly placed the charcoal on
the dying embers of the’ barn’s
curing fire.
Startling Effect
The application of the sudden
drying heat, which came from the
charcoal, produced startling ef
fects on the barn of tobacco. The
results of Stephen’s drowsiness
was 600 pounds of the brightest
yellow tobacco anyone had ever
seen.
In later years Stephen describ
ed his discovery in these words:
“To tell the truth about it, ’twas
an accident. I commenced to cure
and it commenced to get yellow.
It kep’ on yallowing and kep’ on
yallowing and kep’ on yallowing
twel it got clar up. . . it looked
so purty. I kep’ making it yallow
and whpn it was cured, it was
’musement for folks to come and
see it.”
When Stephen told the story of
his discovery years later, he said
that the yellow tobacco that he
first cured accidentally was sold
to a Danville manufacturer for
$40 per hundredweight. .(Vt this
time the average price of tobacco
was $10 per hundredweight.
Works Out System
Abisha Slade was a man who
took advantage of any situation
For many years following the dis
covery of the method of curing
yellow tobacco, Slade experiment
ed with curing until he had the
method worked out to a system.
By 1856 Slade was the model for
tobacco growers in the Carolinas
and Virginia. His advice was con
stantly sought for by farmers who
wanted to achieve his success in
curing yellow tobacco.
Soon Slade became the main
attraction at county fairs where
he lectured farmers, “in the new
process of curing yellow tobacco.”
Slade was held in high esteem
brother planter in the new mode
and to perfect and to commend it
than this worthy son of Caswell.”
What They’re
Saying
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MOOKITN-NIW YOXX
Programs to find the estimated
250,000 unknown cases of tuber
culosis in this country are being
conducted by health departments
and tuberculosis associations.
CAROLINA THEATRES
THERE HAS
NEVER BEEN
A MOTION PICTURE
LIKE
PRESENTED BY
J. APTHUR RANK
AN EAGEE IION fllMS
RELEASE
A TRAGIC WASTE
Out in the State of Washington
a daring young man of 19 put
a single shell in the chamber of
a revolver, spun the chamber, put
the pistol to his forehead and
pulled the trigger. Nothing hap
pened because the compartment
which contained the shell had
failed to stop beneath the trigger.
He tried it again. Still nothing
happened. He tried it a third time.
There was an explosion and he
died in a hospital.
He wasn’t trying to kill him
self, he was just trying to show
how brave he was.
We are willing to admit he was
brave. He proved it, but he will
never prove anything else.
What we are appalled at is the
tragic waste of braveiy.
Surely there are greater prob
lems in this world to challenge
the courage of youth than Rus-
sion Roulette.
—Fayetteville Observer
Muang Thai or Land of the Free,
the country decided just before
the last war to be itself, so to
speak. Thailand became the of
ficial name and it remained so
until, after the war, it was chang
ed back again to Siam. Now
comes the third change—back to
Thailand. Ah, for the good old
days when, as Gertrude Stein
might have said, “Siam, is Siam
is Siam.” —Washington Post
AT PINEHURST
Sun. 8c Mon., Dec. 11-12—8:30 p.m.
Matinee Monday at 3:00
Under the terms of our contract we agree to
charge the following admission prices:
Matinee $1.8b, $1.50, $1.20 (tax included)
Special School Tickets $1.00 (tax included)
Reserved Seats on sale at the Carolina Hotel
and Carolina Pharmacy
WHY THEY MOVED
The National Planning associa
tion’s Committee of the South has
reported the South’s ready mar
kets and nearby markets have
been more important factors than
the South’s allegedly cheap labor
in-attracting new industries since
World War II.
The committee ascertained the
reasons which prompted 88 com
panies to locate plants in 13
Southern States and found that
markets were the primary factor
in 45 per cent of the cases, raw
materials in 30 per cent and labor
in 25 per cent.
“Cheap labor,” so far as it ex
ists, is a liability rather than an
asset to the South. Those who at
tempt to exploit “cheap labor,”
either directly or by bringing out
siders to do it, are performing a
disservice to the South.
—Raleigh News and Oberserver
THE HARD WAY
Maybe it is inescapable but an
ordinary layman wonders why,
when school people come late to
the use of the movie and the
phonograph in instruction, they
have to call them “audio-visual”
aids.” Apparently the business
follows the basic ground rule of
the pedagogues that nothing
which can be described complex
ly should ever be described sim
ply.
The time may come when
teachers and particularly the
teachers of teachers don’t feel
necessity to use the biggest and
most complex words they can
find in a steady effort to prove
that they are wonderfully and
complexly educated. But not even
the most elaborate “audio-visual
aids” will do as much good in ed
ucation as would an effort to
teach in a language which chil
dren and ordinary adults can un
derstand.
—^Raleigh News and Observer
ROAD PROBLEMS
Highway Commission Chair
man Henry Jordan made an in
telligent request when he asked
the county commissioners at their
recent convention to use some
selection in recommending that
the roads of their counties be im
proved. Commissioners, he point
ed out, often make the Highway
Commission’s task more difficult
by giving their blanket endorse
ment to all road requests in the
separate counties.
Certainly, the commissioners
are in a position to examine
actual road needs in their county.
They could add weight to their
recommendations to the Commis
sion by weeding out what they
consider unworthy applications
for road work.
Any steps that will lead to a
critical analysis of our road needs
should be taken so that areas
which need to be serviced can
be serviced. Perhaps a highway
commissioner, tired after an ex
tended road hearing, summed up
an all too prevalent attitude most
succinctly when he said: “Folks
say, T don’t care where you put
the road so long as it goes by my
house and isn’t built on my land.”
—Raleigh News and Observer
PICK A NAME
Siam, according to press re
ports from Bangkok, has changed
its name again. Known for cen
turies to the outer world as Siam
and to its own inhabitants as
SOMETHING LACKING
Mass education has about abol
ished illiteracy but something is
lacking in the accomplished re
sults. The mass education move
ment has developed a 40 million
comic magazine monthly output.
Surely, much good has been ac
complished by the movement, but
it is like training a young man
in one of the high professions
who, upon graduation, takes a
job as bartender in a tavern.
Somewhere along the way we
missed the boat. While a market
has been created for the drawings
of those with fantastic imagina
tions, little has been accomplish
ed in instilling into the minds of
people the art of living together
in peace and without selfishness
and greed.
—Williamston Enterprise
SUNBURN AND PROGRESS
Every once in a while we like
to report on Progress.
Our award for achievement this
week goes to Hoyt Scott of the
General Electric company who
has just introduced at the annual
meeting of th e American Insti
tute of Electrical Engineers an
X-ray burn meter which will tell
basking bathers when to get into
the shade.
He explained that the meter
consisted of filters and light sen
sitive cells that record on a dial
the number of minutes of sun
light necessary to produce a pink
glow or a bad burn.
But the thing that bothers us is
trying to decide whether a person
who ought to know when he has
had enough sunlight will obey
a contraption of this sort when he
doesn’t have judgment enough to
follow his own intelligence. We
expect that we will still have sun
burn. —Shelby Daily Star
BLOWING OFF
A Hollywood couple comment
ing on their separation after three I
months of marriage said: “We
both have tempers.”
Now maybe this explanation
will satisfy the judge who will be
asked to grant an annulment or a
divorce, but it certainly won’t
satisfy anybody who has been
married any length of time.
•The idea that some people have
“tempers” and others do not is
nonsense. Everybody has a tem-
oer. And everybody “loses” it
from time ^ time, even the most
calm and self-composed. It’s even
'good, psychologists say, to “blow
off a bit of steam” from time to
time.
One of the secrets of an endur
ing marriage is the proper timing
of shows of temper. The occasion
when both mates lose their tem
pers at the same time should be
kept to £r minimum.
Temper in a marriage should be
like ignition in a reciprocating
engine. While one cylinder is be
ing ignited, the other should be
cooling off.—St. Louis Star Times
Bring Your CHRISTMAS Ust
To PATCH’S
FOR EVERY MEMBER of theTamily you will
find Gifts Galore. Here are a few of many Util
ity Gifts for the Home.^
CAKE BREAKER or CHEESE SLICER
in Sets or separately
SIMMONS KNIVES
TUPPERWARE Plastic Tumblers and Dishes
Plastic Salad Sets in bright colors—$1.89
Pyrex Sets at $2.50 and $2.95
for Oven or Refrigerator
Blue Magic DRI-ALL Sets—^They will keep fresh and Crisp.
Cookies. Salt. Nuts. ate.
IMPORTED BASKETS
of Fruit. Rolls. Market and Fireplace Baskets
BATES
Percale Pillow Cases and Sheets. Plain. Hemstitched, or Scal-
. loped. Also new BATES SPREADS
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Hi-Jac Sets
Cola Aprons for the Coke Party Set—only $1
Men's Shoe Bags Terry Cloth Golf Club Covers
Set of three Ladies Shoe Mitts $1
Bed Socks and Slipper Socks
Terry Tub-ums $1 Cretonne $1 and $1.50
DANIEL GREEN SLIPPERS
in Satins. Kid and Felt for Dress or House Wear
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
from the yoimgest child up. These are books they will prize.
' WEAR-RITE GLOVES
Practically every style and fabric $2 up
RADELLE GOWNS, sizes 32 to 38
formerly $6.50 specially priced at $3.98
These are handsomely trimmed with embroidered bands.
'Peach. Yellow. Blue
MARY BARRON SLIPS
This well-known quality slip of Rayon $3.95
BARBIZON
Famous PUFFETT Bed Jacket in Pink and Blue
GLASGO NYLON SWEATERS
Every Woman knows the advantages of these lovely sweaters—
easily washed, no blocking
HICKOK WALLETS
and Key Cases for the Mr. A variety of styles and prices tViat
are sure to please Him.
FOR THE CHILDREN
DOLLS by Effanbee. Also Uncle Wiggily. Jane. Ann and Andy.
Sleepyhead, and Knickerbocker
Stuffed Aimals of the finest quality
Lots of Stocking Gifts for the Tiny Tot
In our READY-TO-WEAR Department
new ideas are arriving daily. It'll pay you to shop early and
often at Patch's. You'll meet your friends there, too.
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