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The Busy World
A* Seen by >.
ThaPoorest Paid Editor
In the United States.
’ JfiMt Work Both Ways 'i
, Mrs. Hammond of New Orlqaifcr is
«W Washington' to start i'tiroye ;to
nit the senate to oust Huey.Long,'
fte illustrious gentleman holding one.
aft the Beats ih the senate for the
state of Louisiana. She says she
represents women's organizations and
that she proposes to enlist the aid-of
the women throughout the country, in
getting rid of Long, as it is a> nation*
- ai and not a state question.
'4a That is where she is wrong. A
s^n+nr -m-y he a disgrace to the
denato.. and personally Objectionable
to. all its members,’ but it does not
follow that tfiq senate has a right to
W a ar ■
get rid of a duly and iegally elect
ed member. If a' state chooses’ to
send up a disgrace jt must and should
bear it until such time as its own
people tire of Aiiri, j , .
•Supposq therd were no ’factjonal
objections to tong ih Louisiana and
sdme one in another section ■ of the
country (mmahded that the senate
turn him out,, what a howl'would go
up in the. name of states’ rights.
One thing the American people gen
erally seem not,- to have learned is
that they themselves aye the respon
sible agents of democracy and when
they select poor sticks or bad sticks
th«y ‘must' bear them until they de
cide ,to select1, better ones. K...
Doesn’t Move in Even Pace.. .
The recovery campaign is too vast
athing and embraces too many va
ried conditions and factors to be
expected to move along in stately
place without a ripple of iimpediment.
Everything cannot be made'to fit in
to the plans overnight, and while the
general purpose }s% great concep
tion, there are bound to develop
hitches here and there.
'The higgfst hitch so far is the lack
of the ‘ development of buying power
in proportion to rising prices. That
is a real difficulty. This is particu
larly true in the south where the
buying poster of the farmers is, the
most powerful' consideration.' Prices
that farmers and others have to nay,
including the rising price of labor,
has not yet been offset by a rise in
toe farmers’ income. Cotton has not
yet been sold and if sold at the pres
ent prices will fall far short of pro
ducing the buying power that is need
ed- And the tobacco market has op
ened with sUch low prices that Gov.
Shtf hnaus has launched a selling mo
ratorium. If the tobacco and cotton
ferine!*'Ire compelled to ’Sell— at
at price# they toe going to be
n the ditch. Their income for
> *yeai**iwilt!'be/determined' upon a
ptke prevalent eight to twelve
months ahead of the level of prices
which they will be compelled to pay
f«tr their needs before another crop
can be put on the market. This is a
serious aspect of the question.
What Yet Is Lacking?
We hear a good deal about what
education will do for the salvation of
society and none of us dare argue
that the lack of education would cor
rect any of the faults that education
does not correct.
When Germany was beaten and
buffeted and her leaders dispaired of
military glory after the days of
Frederick the Great, that nation
Went home and devoted itself to the
education of its people. It far out
stripped all other European coun
tries.
Then, while the Franco-Prussian
war was raging, the Prussian peo
ple, the main part of the German na
tion, were described by an American
as a thoroughly educated people.
“Prussia,” said this writer, “is the
foremost in general education. There
is not a soldier of hers, we dare say,
who cannot read and write good Ger
man. Masters in every department
of human knowledge, philosophers,
philologists, Greek criticB, Sandscrit
scholars, metaphysicians, naturalists,
have worn spiked helmets. And these
two nations, so endowed, have de
voted their entire resources, for sev
eral months, to shooting, stabbing,
tolling and maiming the men of the
other as if that were the sole busi
ness for which nations exist.”
Certainly No Panacea
' i So universal education is no pan
acea for trouble. Here i* the best
educated people in the world flound
ering around after the greatest war
in hiBtory, sunk probably as low in
the scale of happiness and satisfac
tion as tht most benighted people in
the world.
No wohder'some people say that
Schools ere a failure. College grad
uates in America rank high in the
■ list of the unemployed. In North Car
olina an army of teachers and sclrnol
people face a wage too small for the
4»ouort8 of life. And for this reason
the popular mind, having been taught
that education was for the purpose
of making money, sees it as * fail
ure, .. ■ .'
j,f We are facing the need of a new
valuation of education. If modem ed
ucation cannot give jobs and if it can
Jive to a whole nation no more sat
isfaction than it has given Germany,
what can it give?
( No one, of course, would argue
taat the lack of education could sup
ply what we need, but the question is
now, what is lacking behind our edu
cational system f
tint Month of 8ales Tax
- 2 The North Carolina aalea tax went
fato effect on the first of July. The
preliminary collections for that
month did not come up to expecta
tions. But reporta were alow in com
ing in. It took some time to make
collections and get the new machin
ery in order. Now the revenue de
partment reports that the collections
for July will approximate half a mil
lion dollars. And July was a xero
month. From now on we may ex
pect a rapid rise in collections. And
if they turn out this way the sales
■_ tax will have provided the revenue
' fcspected from it and the revenue
whlah could have b*er> obtained from
pthar '• y
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VOLUME 60, NO, 34.
; • CARTHAGE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933.
12.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
M; C. STUTTS PAYS
‘ SISTER TRIBUTE
h pi
Popular Citizen, Who Died Last
' ♦ Week, Shows Appreciation
to Mrs. D. Carl Fry
HE WAS IN' HIS 60TH YEAR
A codicil'to the will of the late
Murd Stutts, filed Monday with John
Willcox, clerk of the Moore county
superior court,, in which he bequeath
ed his home place to her, pays this
fine tribute to Mrs. D. Carl Fry, his
sister, whoi nursed him in his last
illness:1'; V- -~
“The reason for 'giving her this
property is that she has been so faith
ful and good and kind to me that I
have decided that I would make this
codicil, as I know that she deserves
this consideration.”
The will divides $2,000 in postal
savings between the brothers and. sis
ters of the deceased. His three sis
ters get $300 each and Wilbur and
June Fry, his neices, were bequeathed
$100 each. Tbe residue of the estate,
estimated at several thousand dollars,
is to be divided equally between the
brothers and sisters of Mr. Stutts.
Witness to the will were T. L. Cagle
and Otis Baker. His brother, T.
Stutts, and Mrs. Frye are named exe
cutors. . ..n 1
IN WILL CODICIL
Murd C. Stutts, who died early
Thursday morning after an illness of
cancer lasting Jive years, was one of
the best-known and»most popular cit
izens of this community. He. was a son
of the late Noah and Delhy&utts and
was born’at the obi homestead, near
Hemp,vbn July 31, 1873. He was
therefore a little more than 60 years
of age.
Surviving are the following broth
ers and Bisters: D, M. Stutts, of Nor
folk, Va.; C. M. Sutts and Fulton
Stutts, of Carthage; Prof. D.- T.
Stutts, of Irwin; Mrs; W. B. Way,
Mrs. J^R.^ Sheffield and Mrs.D. Cart
Fry," of Carthage. • v
Funeral services were conduced
Friday afternoon by Rev. J. H. Buf
faloe, a forma* pastor of the decease
ed,,a«iste4 by Rev. W- S..folded, pas-'
tor' of the Presbyterian church, and
Rev. J. E. Ayscue, former pastor of
the Carthage Baptist 'church. Pall
bearers were: Honorary—Dr. H. B.
Shields, Dr. A. McN. Blue, Dr. Chas.
T. Grier, T. L. Cagle, John Baker, L.
C. Wallace, Jake Hurwitz, Abraham
Hurwitz, Heywood Andrews, J. E.
Muse, I. W. Williamson, George Mc
Neill, Jim Muse, Joe Womble, H. L.
Myrick, S. H. Miller, Dr. R. L. Fel
ton, Dr. F. H. Underwood, A. B. Cam
eron, and W. A. SeaweU; active—Reid
Flinchum, A. W. Lambert, Otis Ba
ker, Myrton Stewart, J. M. Morgan
and W. J. Harrington, Jr.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful and the hundreds who at
tended the last rites was eloquent
testimony of the esteem in which Mr.
Stutts was held.
The end came at the home of his
younger sister, Mrs. D. Carl Cry, with
whom the deceased had lived for the
past twelve years. Although he was
in intense pain the last four or five
months, Mr. Stutts bore his suffering
with Christian fortitude and was re
signed to death.
Although he was born in the north
ern end of the county, Mr. Stutts
spent most of his life in Carthage.
For many years he was an v expert
trimmer in the employ of Tyson &
Jones. Upon the passing of the bug
gy from the scene, however, he enter
ed the employ of N. Hurwijp & Sons.
He lived a frugal life,, invested wise
ly and accumulated his share of world
ly goods.
Mr. Sutts, who never married, was
devoted to his parents and his broth
ers and sisters. He was a very kindly
man and loved children. He was a fa
miliar figure at community singings
throughout this section and was a
man who possessed scores and scores
of friends^ . .
Beard To Attend Rally
Ex-Servicemen Expecting t Big Time
at Thagard’s This Afternoon
Bryce Beard, commander, and Jim
Caldwell, adjutant, of the North
Carolina department of the Ameri
can Legion, of Salisbury, have writ
ten that they will attend the big
Moore county ex-servicemen rally
abd barbecue to be held this after
boon at .Thagard’s pond. Joe Blythe,
'former commander of the big Char
lotte post, and the contractor who
got the Aberdeen to Richmond coun
ty line road job, iB also expected to
be'present.* , ■ -1
The menu planned for the day
'consists of barbecued pig, lamb and
chicken. County Attorney S. R.
Hoyle, a former commander of the
Joseph 6. Henson post, is billed for
a speech, and Bob Denny will lead in
the sinking of "Smiles’1, ‘I’m Sorry
I Made You Cry,” and otper old war
time favorites. Another attraction
will be a local colored quartet.
A number of the ex-servicemen at
the CCC camp at Jackson Springs
are expected. It promises to oe an
enjoyable occasion.
CRIMINAL HAS A SHORT OUTING
Bailey, described as one of the
i worst criminals of the country, es
. caped the Dallas, Texas, jail yester
[ day, where he was confined on a kid
itnapiiig charge, and remained out four
si hours before he was caught after a
si chase at Ardmore, Oklahoma. He was
. * run down in an automobile and tap*
' without tri% of a stitlt*
SCHOOL BOARD RANKS
H|GfI *N INTELLIGENCE
r Fop .character and intelligence^
The Moore County News irill stack
the Carthage school district com
mittee «p against any jn the state.
It'iS composed of the following:
Rev. - Dwight Ivesf chairman;'
Lonnie 'Flue, Mrs. R F. Seawel,
Jr., P. K. Kennedy a£A Mrs, H. G.
Poole..;,
The board has already *- ’been
sworn iii and held its first meeting
last week. , •' .v
IN WASHINGTON
Colleagues .Have . Apparently
Forgotten Beale Incident, ^ f
Siiys Moore ;
JOB SEEKERS HOUND RIM
The Mortis Seale incident lias Mown ;
over,- leaving Senator Robert R. Rey
nolds in his .old enviabla pesitionas
one of the most popular American
senators, according to * leading citi
zen of Moore county vhio has had oc
casion to. ipend much time in Wash
ington In recent weeks.
>' "His colleagues are convinced that
Senator Reynolds was unaware of the
nature of Beale’s speech,” this gentle
man informs The Moore County*News,
"and the fact that he spent much time
in company with Senator Joe Robin
son while in Arkansas is evidence that
his carelessness has been overlook
ed.” Senator Robinson, the democrat
ic leader, was incensed when he read
the Beale speech, which was a subtle
attack on Senator Bailey, in the Con
gressional Record. Senator Reynolds
later apologized on the floor of the
senate.
j No Conflict Between. Senators
. “In fact,” continued the Moore
county man, "all Washington wonders
that Senator Reynolds has not made
more ‘slips’ in view of the hordes of
job-seekers that have hounded him
night and day.
V8d*, -W*t& e^li . .
thousand'miles away
Senator from Ne
the,
was amazed to find Senate* Reynolds’
office packed with people. ‘What’s!
this,' he asked, ‘another Morgan in
vestigation?’”
The charge that Senator Reynolds
is being denied his share of the pa
tronage is also being confounded.
While it is true that he has been un
able to place Dowd and Cooper, his
choice for marshals in the middle and
western districts, it must be remem
bered that Ford Worthy, Senator Bai
ley’s man for marshal in the eastern
district, is still waiting for his com
mission.
Another source denies that there is
any conflict between Senators Bailey
andrReynolds and that the senior sen
ator will use his influence in securing
the marshal’s appointment for Dowd,
if not for Cooper. Dowd, it is under
stood, has strong hopes of being
named within the next few weeks.
A CHARMING WOMAN
(From the Sanford Express)
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Rockefeller, who
have been spending some time at their j
game preserve near Overhills, in up-1
per Harnett county, spent a short
time here Tuesday evening while
waiting for a through train on the
Seaboard Air Line to carry them back
to New York. Mrs. Rockefeller, who
is a very charming woman, expressed
to a representative of this paper as
being well pleased with this part of
the South and enjoys spending a part
of each year at their game preserve
in Harnett county. They make several
trips to their game preserve during
the summer and winter season.
BOY BITTEN BY DOG
I A favorite bulldog belonging to the
family of R. C. Thomas, accompanied
Miss Mary Emma Thomas to the Mc
Pherson Cafe Saturday morning and
for some' unaccountable reason bit
James Alet McPherson, who is about
9 years old, very severely about his
face, his teeth cutting bad places near
his eye, nose and throat, says the
Cameron correspondent of The Pi
lot. Dr.*H. O. Averitt treated him at
once; next day he was carried to
Sanford to see Dr. J. P. Monroe and
Dr. Neal. Both advised Pasteur treat
ment, although the dog has been in
oculated every year.
NOTHING HEARD FROM FORD
Henry Ford, who has not yet come
under NRA, remains at his camp in
the Huron mountains, while every
newspaper In the United States is full
of discussion of what he will or will
not do and what the government will
or will not do about it. Nobody knows
a thing, but the belief is that Mr.
Ford will come along with a proposi
tion of his own when he gets ready.
His officials say that he is already
observing the code conditions.
STONB CRUSHES OUT LIFE
Saturday afternoon Thaddeau Dab
er, 42-year-old draftsman for the
granite corporation at Mount Airy
was doing some work on his residence
when a huge stone said to have
weighed 800 pounds fell and crushed
his left leg and arm. With rare pres-,
ence of mind Daber twisted his cloth
ing in such a Manner as to stop the
flow of blood until his cries brought
help and lie was released. The shock,
however, was too great and he died
early Monday. He was a native of
Austria' but - Married a Mount Airy
woman who with four children sur
%hre, „ _ ': l ^
FATHER SHOCKED
TO LEARN
PLANNED SUICIDE
Well-Known New:
veals Remarkai
‘ Fine Piece of'
sp
s*
rman .Re
faitna in
ting
AN AMAZING. CONFESSION
end Mrs. P.
iting the lo
well-dressed
is hand, ap
asked:
he country,”
. A few weeks after
K. Kennedy started
cal hotel, a breezy,<
stranger, with a bag in
preached the writer an*
“Is this a good hotel
“One of the best in
was the reply. r
■ “Humph,” he sho
edly, “you must be the
When he was assure
traryy he-continued into
by. Htf returned shortly,
isn grin on his face. "No need of me
being so particular,” he skid, “as there
isn’t an available roomUn the house.
ood-natur
prietor.”
the con
hotel lob
ith a sbeep
Char
other than
rs, editor ol
dent, who
;ing confes
Guess I’ll have t6
lotte."
The stranger was ho:
the famous W. O. Saun
the Elizabeth City Ind<
last week made the an
sion in his paper that Keith Saunders,
his beloved son, had coipe near tak
ing his oym life, It is fipjf writing.
’ His Greatest Shock
“I have, had'* good many shocks
in my life,” wrote Mr, Saunders, “but
the most crushing blow? 1 ever re
ceived was at the local &>8t
Tuesday, August 23rd,
ed a letter postmarked
Y. It was from my aon
ing the information:
I receivied his letter
suicide. : .-*-'*'*
office on
hen I open
iW York, N.
ith convey
the time
>uld be a
"My heart ‘stood ,w»ll.*Strmngr to
conceal my emotions
let to Judge JJeekins wj
to be standing by. Tog
to the Judge’s chamber
floor of the Federal br
“In a typewritten let
or ten pages the bdy.de
of his sorrows jOipd his
gave ex]
position
ten his
ied the let
happened
we went
the second
0g.
r of eight
thP«tory
ive$: and
the dia
fcgot
chest may
have reconsidered and probably had j
not killed himself at all. Our troubles
have a way of diminishing in the tell
ing. The Roman Catholic church has
fewer suicides because it has its con
fessional and, generally, an under
standing priesthood. ^'
“Communication with New York
was impossible. Every telephone and
telegraph line between Elizabeth City
and Norfolk was down.
“Judge Meekins volunteered to go
to Norfolk and attempt to 'establish
communication with New York City
from that source. I agreed to keep a
stiff upper lip and divulge nothing un
til the truth could be learned.
“At 3:30 p. m. a night? message
came thru from New Yorli to the
Western Union office in Norfolk. It
said: ‘Home tomorrow on Old Domin
ion line. Will explain everything.'
Judge Meekins had been pn: good
prophet. j
“But the reassuring telegram came
too late to spare the blow to toy fam
ily. Keith had written other-, friends.
The news was all over town, by 1
o’clock. I called the family together
and broke the news to them- Called
upon by the daily newspaper for a
statement I requested that the paper
say nothing until I could get confirma
tion from New York. But' the daily
that only recently painstakingly sup
pressed the news of an attempted sui
cide for one of its advertisers, had
reasons perhaps for refusing me the
courtesy of suppressing a metre ru
mor of suicide., , ^
youth Has Its Troubles
“I suppose the average highly civ
ilized human at some time or other
in his life contemplates and plans sui
cide. I know that I am not an excep
tion. More than once I have thought
upon self destruction. There have been
times when I would have done away
with myself if the opportunity had
presented itself to make it appear as
an accident and spare my family the
humiliation of mourning a suicide.
"Youth has it troubles no less than
middle age. I have tried to put to
gether the story of my son’s disturb
ance asT got it from his letters, from
an ante-mortem newspaper story
which he wrote, and from intimate
things told me by his nearest friend.
"It all goes back to the year 1929
when the boy was living in New York
City. In that year he met and fell in
love with a beautiful and highly in
telligent girl, the daughter of an in
—— MORE ON PAGE EIGHT ~—?
A Search For Gold
Interesting Story Is Oat On • Par
ty of Carthage Citizens
A cock and bull story about a
pot of hidden gold in Randolph
county interested several local men
to the extent that they abent ah
entire day digging for the treasure
in the vicinity of Asheboro, it has
just been, revealed.
The local folks were told in deep
secrecy that the proceeds of tho
sale of a number of slaves, made
before the war, was buried at a
certain spot in Randolph. The loca
tion was minutely described and
the informant of the local people
was to get a certain share of the
find. ■'
Much digging, however, failed to !
uncover any sign of burisf^ild. f
Carter Believes Local Market
J-r Will Open On Scheduled Date
The opinion was expressed here
^Tuesday by George D. Garter,
local warehouseman, that the
closing of the warehouses in
• North and South Carolina by
gubernatorial proclamation will
not delay the opening of the Car*
thage market on Tuesday, Sept.
19th. “I believe department of
agriculture authorities will agree
upon a plan for raising the price
of tobacco by that time,” he
said.
Tuesday morning dispatches
indicated that the warehouses
might be closed for thirty days
to give workers an opportunity to
secure 1934 acreage reduction
contracts from the growers, a
step which is believed necessary
before the government will step
into the situation.
Mr. Carter, himself a large
grower, praised Governor Ehring
haus for his efforts to better the
price of tobacco, and thinks the
NEW DISEASE IS
WORRYING FOLKS
‘‘Spotted Fever,” However, Is
Rare Malady Here, Says
Public Health Officer
By DR. J. SYMINGTON
A number of people, both white and
colored, have recently made enquiries
regarding the “new disease” that is
reported to have come into the South.
According to the daily papers an odd
case or two has been reported. En
quiries are also being made as to
whether there is a vaccine for the
disease and if it is advisable to be
vaccinate dagainst it.
The “new disease” referred to is
what is called “Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever.” It has other names,
such as, Rocky Mountain Fever, Tick
Fever of the Rocky Mountains, Black
Fever, Blue Disease, Tick Typhus,
and . Rocky Mountain Tick Typhus.
This disease is hot really a new dis
ease anti was ribted' inf the Snake
aT *2£j£S
fejTkt foist forty
years. The disease is mostly' report
ed from the State of Montana and
{Idaho. It was known in Bitter Root
Valley of Montana in the year 1890.
It is believed to have existed among
Indians prior to the arrival of white
settlers in that valley and when the
settlers in that valley were infected
they considered it to be a form of
“black measles.” The disease has al
so been reported from the state of
Washington, Oregon, California,
Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and
South Dakota and it is rather widely
distributed in Wyoming.
Caused by Parasite
The disease is caused by a parasite
called Dermacentroxenus rickettsi and
is carried by a tick called Dermacen
tor andersoni. The tick when infect
ed is evidently infected permanently
for the rest of its life and not only
so but it transmits the infection to
its young ones and they also go
about^ the business of infecting ani
mals and man. The parasite of Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever is found in
the blood of animals and man and is
believed to be transmitted by the
bite or salivary secretion of an infect
ed tick. Many animals are suscept
able to the disease, but the main res
ervoirs of the infection are ground
squirrels, chipmunks and mountain
rats, etc. The disease is most prev
alent in the spring when ticks are
most abundant. In its symptoms and
course it resembles typhus fever, ty
phoid fever, tsutsugamushi and
trench fever. In this country west
ern Montana seems to have the high-,
est mortality from this disease, the
death rate being as high as 75 to 90
per cent. In Montana it is only about
5 per cent. Deaths are more common
in old people and* least in young chil
dren. If you have fever call in your
family doctor and let him diagnose
your c^se.
■ , How to Prevent It j
Prevention can be afforded to a
great extent by killing off the ro
dents and animals that harbour the
parasite because the ticks become in
fected by biting these animals and
carry the disease to man afterwards.
Prevention is also greatly helped by I
the inspection of one’s person for
ticks after returning from the woods
or anywhere that ticks exist. The
disease is not believed to be trans
mitted from one person to another
just by simple contact. The tick is
usually necessary for the transmis
sion of the disease. The tick is slow
in attaching itself to a person’s body'
and this gives time to find and de
stroy it. When ticks attack sheep
about 90 per cent of the ticks die,
owing probably to the fat on the wool
of the sheep. Protective clothing
should be worn to prevent access of
the tick to the body by those work
ing in infected districts. There is a
vaccine for use against the disease,'
but owing to the rarity of the disease
in this part of the country it is not
in general use and is somewhat ex
- pensive. It is advsable. however, to
be vaccinated against those diseases
which can become prevalent in Moore
county and against which vaccination
iB practically always sure in its pre
vention. V, .
To change the subject The schools
are opening and we plan to do more
work in the schools this winter th|in
we were able to accomplish last win
ter, Por this reason the consultation
hour at the Public Health Office will
be 3 p. m. instead of 9 a. m., begin
ning Monday, September Ilia. Set
■1 yrdaya, $ a, m., as usual* ^
movement will meet with some
measure of success.
According to advices from
Washington, the authorities are
considering setting a “parity”
price on the various grades of
tobacco, to average 15 cents per
pound for the whole. Where weed
on warehouse floors fails to bring
the parity price, the government
would purchase it. These pur
chases would be financed by a
processing tax of around 4 cents
a pound on the manufactured to
bacco.
However, a grower must enter
into some sort of acreage reduc
tion contract with the govern
ment before he can obtain this
federal assistance, dispatches
emphasized.
Fear that the closing of the
Warehouses might result in dam
age to tobacco waiting for mar
ket was dismissed by Mr. Carter.
“The damage,” he said, “won’t
amount to much.”
CARTHAGE TYSON
DROPS ‘KINSMAN’
L. P. Thinks Senator Huey Long,
Whose Mother Was “Ticon”,
Should Be Discarded
Huey Long’s mother was a “Ticon”,'
as some of the members of the fa-j
mous Tyson family who migrated fur
ther South spelled their name, but!
even if they are some kin, as he Sus
pects, L. P. Tyson, of Carthage, is j
“agin” the senator from Louisiana.;
He thinks he should be driven from'
public life. j
His latest episode broke the straw!
with Lucien. Huey, while a visitor at
an exclusive Long Island, N. Y„ club
became so insulting that one of the
guests took a poke at him, breaking
a two-inch gash over his eye. There
are many versions of the occurrence,
but the most unique is that of David
P. Senter, International News corres
pondent. Says Mr .Senter:
r Huey Long, the man who
“The big he-inan * from Louisiana
met his downfall in the washroom of
the fashionable Sands Point Bath
Club, which has since banned him, not
at the fists of gangsters, but' as the
result of over-indulgence in the ten
der succulent shoots.
Asparagus Lover
“Flitting from table to table, Huey
imbibed too freely of the exotic vege
table which he secretly loves. And
so he got a sock in the eye for des
sert.
"This was the latest theory sup
plied today by the waiters’ staff of the
Sands Point Club as to the events
leading up to Huey getting poked.
John Krull, head waiter at the club,
described how Huey played an aspara
gus kiditzer.
“ ‘He kept galloping around the
room, butting into people, sitting at
tables with people who didn't know
him. He seized every plate of aspara
gus he could see. He took them away
from ladies as well as gentlemen.
“ ‘Sometimes he would nibble at a
dish and find that it was not aspara
gus. Then he would shove the plate
away from him with a roar of dis
gust.’
Golden Butter
“Other members of the club’s staff
added details to the Senatorial aspara
gi hunt.
"It was 11 o’clock on Saturday ev
ening (Eastern Asparagus time) that
Huey became satiated. His strong
Senatorial fingers were dripping gold
en butter. He pointed for the wash
room.
“Huey prepared to wash his hands.
Perhaps, in the remorse of a satis
fied gourmet, he was hasty. He but
tered the immaculate evening clothes
of a young but husky guest.
“The guest charged Huey with be
ing no gentleman. Huey threw back
one of his notable kingfish epigrams.
“The gentleman who had been but
tered socked Huey in the eye.”
HE GETS WORSE AND WORSE
A boisterous Senator Huey P. Long,
apparently untamed by his one-punch
knockdown in the fashionable Sands
Point Bath Club, was accused last
Week of throwing a train conductor in-1
to the laps of two women.
The latest amazing adventure of
the fiery Louisiana "Kingfish” alleged
ly occurred as an Illinois Central train
bore him Southward through Ken
tucky to his: Louisiana home. The
charge was made by George Laws,
conductor of the train, and victim of
the alleged mishap. Conductor Law
s^d:
■ “I was bending over talking to the
two women when I suddenly heard a
-furious grunt and some one struck
me, throwing me into their laps. I
scrambled up and recognised the
'Kingfish*. He didn’t bother to apolo
gize, but just dashed on into the din
ing car.”
The Louisiana Senator locked him
self in his compartment and refused
tp see newspaper men when he pass
ed through Memphis.
I TOBACCO FIGHT STARTS
(Governor Ehringhaus is in Wash
ington at the head of a delegation toy
ing to get the government to make a
move in-behalf of the tobacco farmers.
All hales in North Carolina have been
stopped and the government is dis
cussing plans fop reduction similar, to
those used In the cotton campaign.
Meanwhile growers ere asking the
{.goiremzfegnjb to buy enough this
yu-itt a crop to boost ttic -pmm.
AN INTERESTING
COLUMN OF NEWS
AND INTERVIEWS
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A Very Fine Instance of Devo- •
tion On the Part of a Physi
cian to His Patient '
OLD ‘QUEEN* SAFE RAC3U3T
One of the finest instances of de
votion of physician to patient was ,
that shown by Dr. A. McN. Blue to
the late Murd Stutts, who passed
away early Thursday morning: after
months of intense suffering. Twice a
day, early morning: and midnight, he 4
was there to ease his pain, so far as i
humanly possible; nor did his minis
trations end with his medical skill.
When his condition permitted, the r
kindly Doctor took Mr. Stutts for oc
casional rides through the country and
acted as his confidant and friend until
the last. ' ;
Another Old Superstition : | -
There is an old superstition, ac
cording to the Looker On in the Un- * - i
ion Republican, that if a portrait of -
a living person hanging m a room
falls that a death, probably that of
the person in the portrait will occur
in that home in a short while. Those
who believe this have their beliefs '
strengthened from the following
which occurred in New York, Thurs
day of the past week: Sometime in
the early hours of Thursday morning, _
says the New York dispatch, a large <' T
portrait of Henry Ward, former pre
siding justice of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals, fell with a
crash from the wall in the court’s
chambers. A few hours later, Judge
Ward was found dead, lying face
downward in a bathtub half filled with
water, at the country home of a neph
ew at Shelter Island, N. Y.
A coroner’s investigation resulted
in the decision that the 83-year-old
jurist had died accidentally. It is pre- e
sumed that he slipped and fell into
the tub. ;
Court Clerk William Parkin was re
hanging the portrait when weird •<;'
Baseball’# Beit Star*
enjoy this baseball yarn from Wal
ter Winchell’s column:
“Willard Keefe reports that a bill
player named Sumner, of the White
Sox, never got out of the bull-pen I f
save when a game appeared to be
irretrievably lost. One Sunday when
his team was playing a double-head
er with the Yanks, Sumner labored in
the pen, and when he decided he .
wouldn’t be called on, he ordered a f
sandwich. He had just buried his
teeth in it when the Yanks fell on the
Sox hurter, who was sent to the f
bench. Sumner was called in to take
the rest of the punishment. ' -
“The rookie laid down his sand
wich, and said to the warm-up catch- f
er: ‘Who’s up next?*
‘Ruth, Gehrig and Chapman.* ^ :
“Sumner shoved his sandwich back
into the shade. ’Don’t let anybody
touch that,’ he said, ’I'll be right '
back.’ ” • v • •
Queen Safas ^ -
Two dapper, well-dressed men
struck the county seat about twenty- ? :--1v
five years ago and rented an office in : >5
the old postoffice building, which stood "I
on the now vacant George McNeill
corner, next to the Seawell building.
They drove a pair of fine horses ana : : ^
had the appearance of men of means.
The curiosity of the natives was
soon satisfied. They were selling
Queen safes, fore-runner of the mod
ern kitchen cabinet. Drivers went out
daily with a load of safes, and re
turning empty in the late evening,
' would count out the day’s collections,
mostly greenbacks, before the gaze of ; »
local people. “No, we are not sell- s
ing stock,” the smooth-talking fel- ;•
lows would explain to the Carthage
folks, when their cupidity was arous
ed, “but we are offering the rights
for a number of North Carolina coun
ties.” There was a rush to buy these '
rights, which sold for wh*t the vie- 4
tim was able to pay. The awakening
came one day when the strangers
were no longer observed about 'the
streets and their luxuriously equipped
office was closed. They had departed :
in the night. t « ' ■
Once and a while one of these eld
Queen safes is discovered in a barn ; , 4'
or an outhouse, silent reminders off a >
big fleecing scores of Moore county
citizens received.’:'..' ;
Some Local Jottings
W. Ml Holt, of Jonesboro, and thd ,
writer went to Prance on the same
boat, the U. S.’S. Maui, now engaged 1
in the Pacific trade. It was the Maui,
it will be recalled, that circled its
course in search of the lost Pacific
fliers.
Tom Vick says he believe* “nut* -
grass will grow in a Salt bog.
Uncle Charlie McLean is about the
streets, as spry as ever, after an ill- # 4
ness of weeks. At tho rate the old
Confederates are dying out, Uncle
Charlie will soon be the only living
veteran of the War Between the
States. .. . r. .
Tho ladies say Mrs. W* J. Adams
has the prettiest flower garden in the
community. .
A recent bridegroom refused to let
Rev. J. A. Dailey proceed, with the
ceremony until the rug wks removed ■
so that h® - Could see- how to pand
with the'run c-f the f5--- I --, , ■ ■■■
otherwise, ho told t-'v - n ' i n
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