;; Patronise Our Advertisers, Fir $ They Are CenfinQy Inviting: | :: You To Trade With Them. % o - e | H-mn f ? m? | FARMVJLLE .ft 1 ? - 1 . " 1 x voLum nnKiT : jppwiu* pot comm. | JK?ljBPPMMMMMBI High LightsOf 1939 Rotary Conference ? Inspirational Meeting Of District 189 Held In High Point With Irvin Morgan, Jr., Presiding. The 1939 Conference of Rotary In ternational District No. 189, was held in High Point on May 11, 12 and 13. Headquarters for this meeting was The Sheraton Hotel and the Rotary Club of High Point was host for the occasion. The registration booth opened at 2:00 P. M. on the afternoon of May 11 apd by that evening many Ro tarians and Rotary Anns from all points in the District had assembled to enjoy the fellowship and friend ship which the Conference, held in promise. After an afternoon of golf, bridge, sightseeing and just plain old fashioned chattering, the Conference got underway with the Fellowship Dinner. At this dinner, Ted Johnson, Past District Governor of Raleigh acted as Toastmaster. Greetings from Amos Kearns, president of the host club and selections by the Glee Club of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greens boro, with Mr. Paul Oncley directing, paved the way for the high spot of the evening which was an address on "Fellowship" by S. Wade Marr, Past Director of Rotary International, of Elizabeth City. Wade stressed fel lowship and friendship as the key to happiness and peace among neigh bors, whether they be next door, or across the ocean. With the adjournment of the Fel lowship Dinner, there was informal ri.Twirigr in the Ball Room of the Sheraton. After an informal breakfast on the morning of May 12 the Plenary Ses sion of the Conference was officially opened, with Irvin Morgan, Jr., Gov ernor of Rotary International Dis trict 189 presiding. The first order of business was the report of the Dis trict Governor on the condition and status of the District. This was fol lowed by the nomination and election of a District Governor Nominee for the Rotary year 1939-40 for the 189th District. As there was only one nominee, the order of the day and the rules of procedure were dispensed with, and Botarian W. B. ("Bill") Kiker of the Rmdsville Rotary Club was elected by acclamation as the District Governor Nominee. _ The invitation of the Rotary Club of Rocky Mount for the 1940 District c Conference was accepted. I Sr. Harold D. Meyer, Chairman of I I the Department of Sociology, Univer sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, made the opening address of the I Plenary Session. Dr. Meyer's sub I ject was Tooth and Democracy,." Daring his discussion of this subpect the speaker stressed the part which yooth will and must play in the I Democracies. Kari Miller, Director of Rotary In- i tarnations!, addressed the Conference I at the uBst session on "Rotary's 1 I Open Door." Karl's remarks were! I full of Rotary inspiration. - A Memorial Service was held fori those Rotarians in the District who I I had "Finished Service" daring the I I year. At die conclusion of this most ! I impressive service the Plenary Ses sion adjourned in silence in reverent I iimhiiji of those whoee names were! I From 11:30 to 12 JO there were I held four Discussion Groups which I I were most interesting and did much I to spread Rotary Information among I Oeveland Thayer, Past District Gov- I njiiyisAfi A Hie MliilMinii nl mm iz wfl oueu for til kinds of activities for A* Bo ?a* Hotery Anns. Ts?, ?W ?U|?/y UIMM w/wk G^maeTi *** skillful guidance of Frank H. Burns - of the Greensboro Club. A gift of a silver pitcher, twelve silver goblets and twelve bread and butter plates were presented to the retiring Governor and Mrs. Morgan by Charlie Carroll; Conference Chair man, in behalf of the entire District, at this timee. The Governor's Ball was an enjoy able affair, with Johnnie Long's or chestra furnishing the music. Before, during and after the Ball, the crowd broke up and drifted away?the con ference had adjourned. Contracts The Triple-A has announced the awarding of contracts for 215,192. square miles of aerial photography in 16 North Central and Western States, at a cost of $476,362.79. JOHN T. THOROTT ? John T. Thome of Farmville, who explained the work of the National Cotton Council before more than 600 farm leaders who attended the joint meeting of the North Carolina Cot ton Growers Cooperative Association and the Fanners Cooperative Ex change in Raleigh this past week. Mr. Thome, who has served as a di rector of the Cotton Association for a number of years, explained that the purpose of the cotton council is to find new and more uses for cotton. 200 Attend Golf Victors CM) Dinner Interests In Golf Moves Upward As Result Of Tournament; 'Hie Reds Defeat The Blues In Match Games. Bringing to a successful culmina tion the inter-club golf tournament, played by eighty six yets and ama teurs during the past week, was the Victors dinner, furnished by the Blue toarn as a forfeit and thoroughly en joyed by guests and hosts, members, ?who only talk golf, and prospective members, numbering two hundred. Dr. and Mrs. Beasley and a large group of golf enthusiasts from Foun tain were in attendance. The sumptuous barbecue dinner was served in the outdoor dining room at the park, with the president, George W. Davis, delivering the cordial ad dress of welcome and B. 0. Taylor, the winning team manager, and Bill Boyster, manager of the Blues, speak ing between bursts of thunderous ap plause. The local golf course ia now attract ing many visitors from Eastern Caro lina towns, who find it very attrac tive and enjoyable, and dub mem bers are becoming nors enthusiastic all the time, since* tfie weather has opened up. Several new members have, recently been, taken into the club and many others are expected to join in the next few weeks. Local citizens, who are not already members are invited th join the dub and get the full benefit of the course during the summer month! Thajfam jjy membership It only $10, with monthly dues of $8.50 phis tax. .. . J Opening in the spring of 1936 with twenty charter members, who ^pur | H . , by members and other Faravffle do zens to enable the Club to obtain a J . , _ , , _? H,, -x I Flower Shew Is Featared By ArtisHcprbibits Fine Specimens and Lovely Arrangements Win Blue Ribbons For Exhibitors At Annual Garden Club Show. Exhibiting beautiful specimens of roses, iris, pansies, snapdragons, daisies, larkspur, sweetpeas, Canter bury Bell, peonies, geum, stolda, fox glove, ragged robins, verbena and lilies at the most successful Flower Show of. any yet held by the Farm ville Garden Club, were the follow ing winners of blue and red ribbons, awarded for specimen plants, collec tions, arrangements and displays: Mayor and Mrs. George W. Davis, Mrs. A. C. Monk, Woman's Club, Mrs. J. I. Morgan, lbs. David T. Harris, Mrs. J. W. Joyner, Mrs. Lester Turn age, Miss Bettie Joyner, Miss Lilla Gaynor, Mrs. W. A. Allen, Mrs. How ard Moye, Mrs, J. A. Mewborn, Miss Tabitha M. DeVisconti, Miss Mary Friar Rouse, Mrs. Herman Baker. Attracting especial interest and winning commendation for their ar tistry and beauty were the follow ing arrangements, which won blue ribbons for their eshibitors: A rock garden and pool of live fish, by Mrs. T. E. Joyner and Mrs. J. I. Morgan; mantle arrangement No. 1, of pink Dorothy Perkins roses in brass vases, pink candles in brass candelabra, mantle No. 2, mass ar rangement of magnolias and hurri cane globes with white candles, by Mrs. W. Alexander Allen and Miss Mary Friar Souse; a Japanese Gar den, by Mrs. B. S. Sheppard; a tea table for two, Mrs. John B. Lewis and Mrs. Henry Johnson; a unique ar rangement of fruits and vegetables in wooden boWiy by Mrs. Herman Ba ker; a picture arrangement, carry ing the colors from the picture to the flowers below, by Mrs. John D. Holmes and Mrs. Mary M. Patterson; occasional tables, Miss Tabitha De Visconti and Mrs. David T. Harris; a colonial garden for the Major May Chapter, D. A. R., by Miss DeVis conti and Mrs. Sheppard; a May Pole scene for the Junior Woman's Club, by Mrs. James M. Wheless, Jr., and Mrs. James Smith; a miniature Flan ders Field, overshadowed by an Amer ican flag formed of flowers, for the American Legion Auxiliary, by Mrs. J. W. Jcyner and Mrs. R. LeRoy Rollins; A scene, in which a home, children, flowers, dogs, birds, animals and for est were used in telling the story of the State conservation program, by Bliss Bettie Joynei^Mrs. J. A. Mew born and Mrs. Hen Lewis;, bird houses of varied styles, birds, and pine trees, also usd in connection with the con servation idea, by Mrs; D. E. Ogles by; , roadside beautification, with roads contrasting in advertising and without, by Mrs. Lester Turnage and Mrs. Howard Moye. Judges were Mrs. J. R Lewis, Mrs. Venossa Townsend and Miss Myrtle Sutton. The Show was attended by around two hundred local exhibitors and vis itors from Bailey, Walstonburg, Snow Hill, Rocky Mount and Carroll ton, Mo.; ? * J ^ >. The Major Benjamin May Chapter House, with its beautiful walls, colon ial mantels, stair and wood work, presented a perfect setting for the many lovely exhibits. Miss Tahltha DeVisconti, president of the Garden Club, Mrs. E. F. Gay nor, chairman of the Flower Show committee and members of the vari ous committees connected with the Show, expressed themselves as well pleased with the displays and interest shown in the affair, which is an an nual event end one anticipated by the Whole town. ? WHO KNOWS ft irffn ? peace treaty ftfter the World 8. Can a fonia-borii dticen be come President? 4. . What la a drnunch^ 6. Do? the ^ngti^on contem plate^e selection of a President oh united Methodist^church ? v." ? fi t Q__? i p , , o* i? oG7i0t Kussia buudftig an [?? I. u | ? '3...^T.\V;'V;vS ''?"""1 * * ^ f ., ^_? i _'-v. "_?'" ?.-V^'^-'^r^: (Hugo S. Sims, Washington Corres pondent.) LONG SESSION? CONTROVERSY AHEAD. BUSINESS GROWLS. HOPKINS REPLIES FORCED LOANS IN WAR. / . With most of its routine business disposed of, many observers believe that Congress can adjourn next month, provided certain controversial questions of national policies are left for discussion at the next session. With only a few departmental ap propriation bills yet to be enacted and legislation to extend or review pro visions of the tax law which will ex pire by limitation, there are few routine matters on the schedule. The reqquest for the 1940 appropriation for relief is not likely to prove a bar rier to early adjournment. This does not mean that' Congress won't have a long session, question' of neutrality, devising the relief set up, changing the National Labor Re- - lations Act and the Wages and Hours La\&, enlarging the scope of the So cial Security Act, the revision of tax ilaws to encourage business and such matters as the War referendum bill are the things that stand in the way < of a reasonably early adjournment. I ' " I I There is a disposition on the part of some congressmen to remain in 1 session in order to act as a brake on : Administration moves which they : think might lead this country into i foreign entanglements. This feeling will be strongly evidenced if any at- : tempt is made to enact legislation on the controversial subject of neutrality, i The bitter-enders and the isolationst 1 bloc will prolong the session by con siderable debate and discussion and it ( is quite likely that this will lead to ] an interminable wrangle over the en- j tire foreign policies of the United States. i Y 1 The conflict between business and < the New Deal has been emphasized ; by resolutions passed by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, which met in \ Washington this month and by the , statements of Secretary of Commerce t Harry L. Hopkins, denying that pres- \ ent conditions warrant the gloom ex- ] pressed in the findings of the bud- ] ness body. Intimate circles of the ( Administration feel that business and industry are determined to force the i surrender of Administration policies ( as the price of putting new money i to work and expanding. The Presi- ] dent, it is well known, has no inten- j tion of dropping his basic policies, j The -Hopkins' statement is taken as j a warning to business that it must 1 do a fair share of oooperating and the subject is expected to be explored . by the President in his speech before . the National Retail Forum on May 22nd. ?' ' ' Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Topkins asserted last week- that more < private homes are being built in this j country than at any time since 1929; 3 that industrial production in the first j quarter of 1939 was twenty-four per j cent higher than the first quarter of ] 1938; that dollar-volume retail trade i was five per cent higher than in the first quarter of 1938 and that the i construction industry showed an in- j crease of forty-three per cent for j the same period with private residen- ! tial construction eighty-three per j cent better. National income was set ; at the rate of $66,000,000,000 a year in the first quarter of this year as (Continued m page six) -J tm. | Preach final Sermon At Eight CClock Sun day Evening The aeries of meetings, which be ? , .-v ' ? L -J ? ? Saturday evening. I * , ,? , _ . i ,, J' ? . - lt " I v 4% fl%Y HH ?? 11 30 '> V.r- ? 12l|ll.>n|l||IQ V Calls on Monopoly Com mittee to Study Reason For Mounting Idle Funds. Washington, May 16. - Jjf&jfl Roosevelt today urged *tcom mittee studying monopoly to drive in to the- reasons for the existence of I huge supplies of stagnant money and Mating ttot tt ltaJMH Stattes is to have sound prosperity, it must bring together idle men, ma chines and money. _ I In a letter to Senator Joseph u CMahoney, D-? Wyo., . the "no more urgent * _ I the country than those invalvli^i^non-J working money and cr the group, for its investigation of l "savings and investment, which was! initiated today. ,, He hoped that the new study would "assume the task of analyzing the financial machine in its ?^atlonf 1^ [ the creation of more needed wealth, j and posed t^ese questions for the in vestigators to answer: "Is it (money stagnation) because 1 pur country is leaving an era of ra pid expansion and entering an era of steadier growth, calling for rela tively less investment of capital goods?" , . "Is it because of lag, leak and fric tion in ihe operation of investment! markets which pervert the flow of savings into non-productive I ^^thTextent that intelligent utOi- l zation of. men, machines and money is made poatible, he said, "we shall strengthen the structure of democra-1 fic economy." i . I The mechanism of the national economy, he emphasized, can ]? im" I proved, but only upon a basis,of clear, , advance analysis. ? . ' "Having made tljat analysis, he i Raid, "I hope your committee will!, then be able to indicate ways * by which the machine may be made to , function more efficiently. Wealth, Ke said, must be created te ; fill a public need, and much of it ; ian be generated through private en terprise. Some can be seated I through quasi-public : but the problem is to "get this wealth moving, that is, to get it into pro ductive enterprise." - - The committee had indicated it would inquire into the problem of stagnant capital even before the ( Chief Executive's missive reached it. [t heard Prof- Alvin H. Hansen of Harvard University down ap point program to prod idle capital into prbdqctive channels and to pre sent "chronic unemployment.* Poppies Here For Sale On May 27th Bright red poppies bloomed out to lay when the American Legion Aux iary received its supply of the World War memorial flowers for Pop- , >y Day, Saturday, Hay 27. The pop >ies, hundreds of carefully made rep icas of the famous poppies of Prance ind Belgium. The idea of the poppy as the me-1 norial flower for the war dead iprang naturally to the minds of the men in Frahce when , they say these trave little flowers blooming on the tare battle graves. Colonel John McCrea expressed it in his immortal toem, and one of the-first sets of he> American Legion was the adop ion of the poppy as its manorial flower. The British" Legion also adopted the poppy and the flower is worn in every part of the world to sommemorate the sacrifice of these who fell in the ranks of the de?ao- . cratic po*ert.f ^ In remembrance of Americans heroic, dead and in helpfulness to her bving disabled and dependents, wear ' ^poppymi Poppy Day. ^ 0T8 Benefit mid Retii^fnent ^fnnd j ntwikroAfl. ? ? f ' Port Terminal Spur Surveyed By Engineer Greenville, Uay 16. ? H. D. Irving, assistant district engineer for. the State Highway and Public Works Commission, located at Kihston, has been to Greenville to make a survey of the proposed spur highway to con nect the Greenville-Washin"ton high way with the port terminal to be de veloped on Hardee's Creek./ The connecting link will enter the Greenville-Washington highway about a mile beyond a point where Hardee's Run across the main road, about three miles from Greenville. It is under stood that work on the highway will be started within a few weeks so that the highway will be available in suf ficient time for moving materials to the site of the terminal Av contract has been let for the de velopment of the waterway route from Washington to Hardee's Creek and dredging operations are expect ed, to get under way June 16. Work Is expected to be completed in about rix months. The project will provide i Greenville with the fartherest inland port with a 12-foot channel in the , State. ? o 11 ' _ 1 Adult Education Notes Literary classes in Adult Educa tion are held upstairs in the Sheppard j Building on Main Street every Tues day and Friday night from 7:30 to : 6:30. The Homemaking class meets each Wednesday afternoon fropi 3:00 to 5:00. Other Literary classes" are held in the homes of students. Literary classes at Marlboro on 1 Monday and Thursday afternoons with Homemaking Class also on rhureday. i The purpose of Adult Education is i to foster attitudes of mind and to de- J velop iinterests and capacties in stu-. i dents, which will help them to shoul- 1 der their own responsibilities, and to i seek with students, ways, which will j lead to a higher plane of living. < The teacher, Miss Florence Lewis, i and students feel very grateful to Mayor George Davis and Haywood ] Smith for the use of the Firemen's 1 room during the past several months, i ??? 1 Baptist Gather For ffigMeeting Church Reports Year of Great Progress; Doc tor Scarborough To Be ; Re-Elected. Oklahoma Cky, May 16. ? Dele- i fates to the Southern Baptist Con- ] mention, representing more than one third of the world's 12,000,000 Bap tists, assembled today to re-assert a , traditional independence and rejoice ] over unprecedented gains in the past ] ^ear. Convening of the 94th anniversary i jf the separation of Northern and t Southern B'j/tista over the question i >f Negro slavery, the group was not ] expected to receive any proposal for : unification with its Northern neigh l>ors. 1 Advance reports from officers dis- i dosed that Southern Baptists, under i their system of self-government for , church, made in 1988 their larg- i bs* gains in membership and in con- i kributions to religious work at home i and abroad. ? ' Leaders cautioned.against any um-- j fication move which they said "might compromise New Testament princi ples" and "weaken the foundation" mi which Southern Baptists have be some "the largest evangelical group in the world." . The delegates represent 24,982 \ churches, 88 more than last year, and i a .membership of 4,770,185, compar ed 4rith 4,595,602 a year ago. Re!ection of Dr. L B. Scarborough i t>f Port Worth, Texas, as convention president wast-believed certain in < viewofa precedent giving three years < ? One thousand Baptist pastors from i 18 States, meeting here on the eve of i the convention, ware challenged by'a ) layman today to "recapture the lead " there will be no progress ? comma Sfvj " A -v-#;? ;;T-? i nity ot otherwise* ?*' ' '???'** "? ^ V~ ' ? ii. _ j aaa datairafafl America Refuses Japan's Demands tn Shanghai Area Sec. Hull Not Agreeable To Japanese Rule of International Colony. C,'.< a ? . i *? ' ? , " - "'iiftf Washington, May 17. ? The United States tonight refused to meet Japa nese demands for revision of M regulations in the Shanghai Interna tional Settlement pending' "develop ment of more stable conditions," simultaneously prepared to defend, by force if necessary, American in terests in other sections of the war zone. United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew delivered a note to the for eign office declaring that, in the opin ions of this government, no satisfac tory agreement Vegarding Interna tional Settlement could be reached at this time because of abnormal condi tions brought on by Japan's military invasion of China. ^ At the same time, the State De partment revealed that American British naval parties were ordered to land at Kulangsu, Amoy,China, at 6 p. m. (Chinese time) to strengthen British and American naval detach ments already guarding the Amoy International Settlement. Anglo-American naval action fol lowed landing of Japanese troops in the Amoy International Settlement on the night of May 11. The American cruiser Marhlehead and the destroyer - Bulmer, and the British cruiser Bir mingham and three destroyers, were ordered to stand by in Amoy harbor for any eventuality. The American and British naval parties were ordered ashore follow ing a joint conference of high offi cials of those two countries. were designed to give Japan a greater measure of con trol in the political and economic life af the settlement and to dean cut so called lawless factions. 1 11 19 Japtist Vacation Bible School . ? . The Baptist Church will begin'its Vacation Bible School this coming Ifonday, May 22. The School will >psn promptly at 8:80 each jcerning . ind continue until 11 o'clock. All boys and girls and young people iges four to seventeen are cordially nvited to attend this Bible School An active program of two weeks du ation is culminating in a Commencement program and all school picnic.' The program will con dst of Bible study, character building stories aid projects, training in the Finest of church music, and various ?eereationjd features. The Vac.xtion Bible School offers a marvelous Opportunity for the re-.j., igious development of our bojrfand' -ST firls during tie summer vacation par- I and interesting and planned to meet ' 1 the neevis of the vmrioua age groups ? ? ? ? - ? '? jCBr,' '' I