p ^ SINGLE TEACHER SCHOOLS BURDEN GIVE LE89 EDUCATION PER DOU LAR THAN OTHER SCHOOLS; ON DECREASE. ' ^ Raleigh. Tables which show the inefficiency *nd extravagance of one-teacher ichools In North Carolina are; prevented In the November 1st Issue of "State School Facts," semi-monthly publica tion of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. A. T. Allen. Figures presented show that the average cost per d^y per pupil of in. struction is the same for the one v teacher schools and all the schoole of the State that the average scolar ship of the teachers of the one-teacher schools is far below the average schol arship of the teachers of the State. Ttye actual figures show the teachers in the one-teacher schools to have a scholastic Index of only 363.5 as against a scholastic index of 533.6 for all the white schools againBt an index of 474.9 for all the rural white schools, against an index of 686.6 for all city schools and against an index of 706.6 for the schools of the 24 largest cities. But the ottmlstlc outlook is that the one-teacher rural schools are on a steady decline In North Carolina. - V There were In ithe year 1923-1924 1,595 < such schools /n North Carolina as compared with 2,131 in 1920,1921; 3,908 in 1910-1911 and 6.411 in 1900 1901. These figures are for white i' y schools. The negro schools h&va shown a similar decline. Edgecombe and Washington are the banner coijnUes in the matter of one teacher rural white schools being ab solutely free from them. Durham and Wilson counties have one sUch school each. , Wake county has thirteen such schools and ranks v42nd among the counties of the state in this respect. Ashe, Wilkes, and Randolph are the three copntles ranked lowest In one teacher white rural schools. Ashe has 42, Wilkes has 44, and Randolh has 66. Three counties, Alleghany, Graham and Randolph have over one-third of the rural white enrollment in one. teacher schools. Twenty-seven conn of the rural white enrollment in one. teacher schools and thirty-six couu ties have less than ten per cent of the , rural white enrollment in sncil schools, . ? ? Fifteen Awaiting Death at Prison. r Fifteen mien wait In the death house , ' at the State penitentiary for official ' destruction -by the SUte of North Car olina in .the octagonal electric chair room there unless executive clemency or new , verdicts on new trails inter venes. The date of dosth tor six la definitely,' and probably finally, for No vember. The death penalty imposed on 'Cheat ham. Evans, Nash county negro. Sat. urday by Judge C. C. Lyon for the murder teat July of A. L Joyner, Hot lister taxi driver, brought the total of the waiting men to fifteen. Eleven - of the men. waiting electrocution are negroes and four are white men. Thir teen were sentenced for first degree ? murder and two for rape. Monday, November 10, is Uie data set for the killing -of John Leak and Kenneth Hale, negroes of Davidson connty, Is sentenced to electrocution der of Charles Garwood, taxi driver, t on Atfgust 7. ?n Saturday, November 15. Austen Carter, whit* man ot Rockingham county,' and James McBrlde. alias Jor . dan, of Vance county, are scheduled to die. Albert Byrd, negro of Lenoir county, la . sentence dto eelctrocution .. on Navember 18 for rape. Gorsom Cplten, of Halifax county. Is sentenc \ , ed to pay the extreme penalty on Thpraday, November 20. -Others waiting death but with the , . sentence stayed by appeal at the : death house are: C. W. Stewart and his son, Elmer Stewart, of Brunswick county, for murder; George Love, ne gro of . Henderson county, for murder; . Jim Collins, negro of Anson county, for murder; Vanoe Morgan, alias Vanoo Claburn, for murder; Will Brown, alias Ezra Steel, of Forsytho county, for rape; Lon Walton, negro, of Hoke county, for murder, and Alex Rodman, negro of Mecklenburg coun ty, for murder. . New Corporations. The following certificates of incor poration were Issued from the office of Secretary of State. W. N. Everett: Knight-Overland Company, of Char lotte, Incorporated. Charlotte, with authorised capital <50,000 and $10,000 subscribed by W. T. Hoppe. A K. Hoppe, both of Charlotte, and C. L. Howard, Greensboro. Highway Engineers Hold Meeting. District engineers from the nine State highway districts met in Raleigh and discussed details of construction, maintenance and specifications* for highway work in 1925. Final figures on the September flood damage *vero placed at J300.000 by the engineers. The three eastern highway divisions .were hardest hit by the rains and :!n damage there was greater than In Ml other districts, the engineers stated Evidently Not All Turkeys Are Unlucky I At Least, Thl? One Ought to Be Happy In Such Companlonchip. America'^ ^ ivin| Days Since the earliest times and through out all the nations of the earth, there has been and still is observed some sort ot festival in celebration of the Ingathering of the grains and fruits of the soli. Mcreover, religloos-servicoJi of some sort have always had a promi nent part in the festival. As In ancient times the peoples offered sacrifices and gave offerings to some special deity In graticule for the present and supplication for the future, so today the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiv ing for the blessings of the present and solemn prayer for their continu ance In the future are offered to Qod. * The Old Testament Is filled with exhortations calling the Hebrews to bring their "first fruits"' unto the house of the Lord, to adorn the tem ple with boughs and palm branches, and^ continue the feast and rejoicing for seven days. The ancient Egyptians offered sacrifices and gave offerings of corn and wine to Nelth, the mother of the sun. The ancient Teutons and Scandinavians offered sacrifices to Frey, the god of rnln and sunshine, and the author and protector of all fruits of the soli. Although, for the most part, present-day celebrations are connected with the final In gathering of the crops, the festive observance In many countries is still made with th. "first fruits." Distinctively American. But Thanksgiving, as commemorated In Amerlen, Is distinctively an Ameri can institution. The duy finds Its birth In that first Thanksgiving ob served by the doughty Pilgrims <>f Plymouth colony In the fall of 1021. who were Justly grateful for the first harvest In their new home In Massa chusetts, ant} Governor Bradford ap pointed three days of thanksgiving and feasting. Chief Massasolt and other friendly Indians were bidden to the feast. and brought with them four dressed deer. The dawn of the first day of Thanks giving wns broken by the booming of a great cannon, and later a solemn procession filed toward the meeting house. EJlder Brewster curried the great Bible, and Governor Bradford 'followed In the rear. After the serv tee the pnrty returned to the central log cabin, \vhere all enjoyed such a feust as they had not tasted since leaving their home laiid the year be fore. The ceremonies lasted for three days, and It Is to be doubted If many similar gatherings since have been filled with such friendliness and broth erllness,' ns characterized this first day of thankfulness. Although the first year In the new land had been a hafd one for the colonists, nearly half of their* number dying during th? first terrible winter, yet they felt that tbey bad much to be grateful for, 8ponaor?d by Qovernor Bradford. The year 1622 was even more fraught with misfortune, but again they declared and1 observed their thanks, and continued to do so year after year. Later the Idea of Governor Bradford? a period of "rejoicing; to gether after a more special manner" ? was taken up by other colonies, such as Boston, Salem and Virginia. The state of Connecticut did much to fos ter and encourage the annual celebra tion of Thanksgiving day, and by the first quarter of the following century tlie fall festival had become well es fl Prayer 6H* 1$ this day our daily breads Tn prayer we an t?gage; But please to haoe It well mixed Mp OIltD partley, milk, and sage. Jlnd keep tMs Dread Trow worldly eyes. Our pride must be held downs So please to hide It an away Tn a turkey cocfted quite Drown. Chat man lioes not by tread alone Ts still quite true, we weens So with our bread Include today Some cranberries and ice cream. tabllshed throughout the New world. The dutch settlers of New Amsterdam had brought with them memories of Thanksgiving days in Holland, where, indeed, the Pilgrims had also been initiated into the Dutch manner of ob serving such festivals. The' annual Thanksgiving day in the Netherlands fell early, in October, when the people went to church to thank God for their deliverance from the Spanish ; for the Dutch early In the Seventeenth cen tury cast off the yoke of the Spanish, Just as our forefathers later tbrew off j the yoke of Britain, because their rights were Invaded and they Were taxed without their consent. In the New Amsterdam (New York), the first Thanksgiving proclamation on record was In 1044, In gratitude for deliv erance from the Indians. Thanksgiving In December. ^ With the coming of Revolutionary times, the custom of. Thanksgiving days spread still further. In October. 1775, a proclamation was Issued for. Thanksgiving to be observed Decem ber 15, signed "By order of the Provin cial Congress, John Hancolck, Presi dent." This proclamation is note worthy, since It was the first to appear without the royal arms and the words, "God Save the King." l?revlqua to thai date the proclamations had read some thing after this fashion (1743) : "Jn the seventeenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Sec ond, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland. King, De fender of the Faith, etc., God Save the King." The first national proclamation for a Thanksgiving was made by the Con tinental congress, designating Decem ber 18, 1777. The next year, December 30 was set apart, although In May a special day of thanks had been ap pointed upon receipt of the news that France had signed a treaty of alliance with the thirteen, states of the Ameri can Union. Washington's Proclamation. After the signing of peace with Great Britain, III October, 1788, con gress appolpted December 11 as a day of Thanksgiving. In January, 1705, George Washington Issued a national proclamation for February 19. in rec ognition of our "exemption from for eign war, the prospect of continued exemption and the great degree of In ternal tranquility," and directing the people to "render thanks to the great Killer of nations for the manifold and signal merries which distinguished our 'ot ns a nation." Not until April, 1S15, did another na >na! Thanksgiving occur, proclaimed liy President Maillson upon the con clusion of the War of 1S12. During the Civil war. President Lincoln ap pointed a da.v of Thanksgiving follow ing the victory at Gettysburg, and 'It was he who established the custom ot Presidents Issuing annual Thanksgiv ing proclamations, appointing the last Thursday of November. Today the governors of many of the states Issue proclamations In conjunction with that of the President, so that Thanksgiving 's the one holiday of the year receiv ing official sanction and personal sup port on the part of Americans of all political and religious beliefs. ?wwwmwwn HOW TO KEEP WELL ' " i ? Dr. Frederick R.- Green, Editor of "Health." ? ? ? ? i (?, 1924, Weattrn Newspaper Union.) SIDE-SHOW FREAKS r WENT to the circus the other day. After the circus I went Into the side show. The jostling and iffishlnj; crowd was only moved by curiosity to see these unfortunates. Rut It waa evident, to the trained eye, that prac tically every one of this ."world's greatest collection of human curiosi ties" wus sick. Let us go down the line and see what alls them. First, "the tallest man In the world." Giantism, or growth beyond normal Is generally duo to disease. of the pituitary body, a small gland at the base of the brain which regulates growth. These giants hnve normal trunks, the excessive growth being' In the long bones of the legs and arms. They generally die young. Dwarfs have always had a great at traction for the public. For centuries every royal or noble household had a dwarf us an attendant. There are two kinds of dwarfs. One Is born very small and Is always under nor mal slie, probably due to lack of some essentlul part of their body machinery. Others are normal at birth but be- ] come stunted through- some disease, such as cretinism, rickets or water on the bruin. Some dwarfs have keen minds, but most of those iieen In side shows are feeble-minded. The rubber-skinned man owes his place to the fact that bis skin Is loose from the dlsappeaiance of all fat and that'lt has an alutorroal elas tic quality. ' The living skeleton Is, of course, the victim of. one of half a donen diseases which cause extreme enntclutl6n ; on the other hand,, the fat woman Is usu ally suffering from disease of the thy-* rold gland. The blue man has an nhaormal con nection, either In his heurt or lat*ge blood vessels, between the venous and >. the arterial systems, so tfcat the blbe blood from the veins is not pumped through the lungs, where It would be come red. but goes' back lato the ar teries without change. Bearded women are sometimes men disguised and sometimes women with ubnormnl growth ot' l^ilr tin the face. The ossified man has what doctors call "arthritis deformans," or In flammation of the joints, all of which are locked tight by lime deposits. Tattooed men and women are prod ucts of Intention and hot of nature. Most freaks, like mof.- deformed persons, are short lived. They be long In hospitals and asytjms, rather than In public exhibitions. Some day we will be sufficiently civilized and Intelligent not to regard 1 deformity and misfortune as a souroe of enter tainment. '? v* ' WHY ATHLETES DIE YOUNG "PRANK CHANCE Is dejd at forty seven. The peerless leader, the captain of the Chicago Cubs, the win ner of National league fend world's championships, one of the greatest first basemen In the history of the game. He Is dead when ha should be In his prime. ? Looking over a list of chitmplon run ners, football and baseball players re cently. I was astonished to find how many of the uthletlc heroes of twenty years ago are dead. Most of them die In their enrly forties. I knew many of the star runners of the enrly nine ties. I' only know one who Is ?ttli living. Why Is It that thexe men who nre Ideals of physical strength and athletic ability In their youth, seldom, as the Irish say, "make old bones?" Because In becoming the str.r per formers that they are, they develop (heir heart muscle far beyond the needs of everyday life. The football player who can go through the long and hard-fouglit games, -.he runner who can stand the strain of the four mile rnce, the baseball player who can beat the ball to the pihte and espe cially the sprinter who ran do 100 yards In ten seconds flat, n.ust have ii hertrt which Is far stronger and larger than that of the ordinary man. This Is all right as long AS the nth IctjB Is young and keeps up his gntn?. But by t;ie time he Is thirty-five or forty, he hns passed ills prime. Younger men take bis plate or break his records, ns he himself won fame by surpassing bis predecessors. He goes Into business. Tblk gerfernlly means sitting at a desk eliht hours s day. He goes on eating as he did when he wns In active sports. Fat accumulates In his muscles and around bis waist. His heart Is much larger than he needs for bis present work. When any organ In the body is not worked to Its limit, It begins to degen erate. so what was once the athlete's greatfst asset becomes now bis rreater danger. His heart becomes flabby and soft. Pneumonia, bronchitis or asthma thr?*v an increased burden on a weak ened henrt muscle and the once vigor ous man dies, apparently of the dis ease but really of an overdeveloped and degenerated heart. Sports and games are of great value 'n developing and training the body. P.ut they should l>c chosen so ns to t rfvlvci- tb'- soundest and best-tra nod >i>/\ j,i,??t!'le. for the 'ortgrst nnd ? t\ * t M life possible (Sanies whli-i* ? lor'.op the wlio'e body ru*!ier thun a .an and whirh do not ovrrdevt'lop rtiiy one orgun at the expense of the other* ire, Ln the end, the mo?t valuable. MITCH! "Hn Rude , s ?-*?? ?*erer wcce^fuiP7nIU'atlon that infl^ ??n(l"?ona. Th? ?(!? OTe?omin? of D,.. B{?* ?"?> ?ad h?)inf Promin^tmi^ Phymcian for one ofK), Co^Sj?? ' ' .Ut^Lnt ?$"*' "*? tiK ? . 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