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TheElkinTribune AND itENFRO RECORD / Published Every Thursday by KLK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc Klkin, N. C. Entered at the pont office at Filkln, N C., as second class matter FRANKLIN HIMtEKRAXD, Publisher THURSDAY, MARCH 20, l»30 Subscription Rates, per year In the State, »1.50 Oat of the State 92.00 THOUGHTS Let the words of my mouth and the medita tions of my heart, be ever acceptable in Thy sight 0 Lord my strength and my redeemer.—Psalm 19. There is nothing so kingly as kindness and nothing so loyal as truth. — Kingsly. o MERCY The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven ; Upon the place beneath; it is twice blest— It bleß»eth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest iu the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown: His scepter shows force of temporal power. The attribute to awe and majesty. Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above the sceptered sway,— It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself. And earthly power doth then show likest Gad's. When mercy seasons justice. —William Shakespeare. What Chicago needs, more than Big Bill, Is a big billy.—Virginian-Pilot. o- The London Conference has at least succeed ed in reducing Its aims.—Publishers Syndicate. o ' ■ ■■ - ■ One thing certain, the women In Congress don't do all the Mobile Register. i_o ' No doubt part of the rottenness of politics comes from the soils system.—Arkansas Bazette. —: —o —— . . Awful thought. Suppose, the millennium, when at last it comes. 4s held up until ratified by the Senate.—Los Angeles Times. o— Fifty million powder-puffs were sold in this country last year. Some lucky manufacturers are making hay while the nose shines. —-Punch. ' ' o "What is the present generation driving at?": ask« a contemporary. About fift? miles per hour, I should imagine.—Passing Show, London. ' o j v A critic' says the old-timers were more cour teous than moderns. Even the old cars rattle be fore they strike*." —Wooster Record., ~ r .. , An expert, says a, really good'-diamond will make a hole, in plmost anything. > Especially a. banking Show. «■ v. • Anybody could'get- rich' if he could guess the exact moment at which a' piece, (if junk becomes an antique.—Youngstown Vindicator. • ,1 « '' o Those Sant,o Dominican insurgents seem de termined that the other end of their island shall not . get all the attention.-*—lndianapolis' Star. - i We read that a New Zealander, who played the piano for one hundred and twelve hours with out stopping, is coming to England. This country Is always very good to refugees.—Punch. o Some of the coins In use in the South Sea ißlands, we read, weigh as much as half a pound each. It is almost impossible to avoid earning big money there.—Humorist (London.) o Thrift is alleged to have become a vice in America, but little credence is attached to the rumor that many ostensible speak-easles are In realty savings-banks.—Punch. o~ /. The BBC hopes to broadcast the roar of Nia gra Falls. Another natural feature of the Amer ican continent to which we would gladly listen- In is the silence of the great opeu spaces.—Punch o A man recently accomplished the Journey to Switzerland, without challenge, on his wife's pass port. The authorities, no doubt, merely assumed that the "lady" was traveling in her winter sports costume.—Passing Show. i _ o 1 As a result of recent drag-net arrests in Chi cago a notable decline In the number of robberies is reported. Most of the Innocent citizens having been picked up by the police, there' was no way of the robbers to get at them.—New York Times. o Somebody has discovered a region in West Virginia with 30,000 people and not a single tele phone. just the place we've been looking for. Sounds as if a man could do a day's work there without being interrupted by people calling wrong numbers. DETROIT AND UNEMPLOYMENT Detroit attempts to solve her unemployment problem as far as the municipality is concerned by cutting from the city payroll all persons who ire not naturalized citizens of the United States or natives and goes a step further by chopping off all persons on the pay roll who have not been residents of Detroit more than a year. Detroit ha* the best of intentions in this re gard but it does not alleviate the unemployment there. It is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Displacing the non-citisens of Detroit and the unnaturaliaed doe* not heip the unemploy- ment situation, but sires employment to the chos en. Those who have been on the city payroll limply will go Into the ranks of the unemployed and those who have been without work thus have a chance to get a job. - Unemployment is the worst this country has known since 1914, statistics point out and, al though there is probability that the situ ation will be bettered, it seems to us that native Americans must be taken care of henceforth. Immigrants by the hundreds of thousands pour into this country each year from foreign lands. They are willing to work for a cheaper wage than'the American laborer and tend to low er our high standard of citizenship. It appears that the United States can hardly assimilate the flood of immigrants coming mnually and yet maintain the balance level of giving continuous work to the people already here. The best and wisest thing congress can do is to get to the bottom of the issue and put up the trnrs against the stream of the poor from other lands thus giving American industry the part of ibsorbing the labor already on hand; giving it A-ortt continually and thus end the seemingly ov erproduction of labor BIOGRAPHY COMES THROUGH Historical biography is taking first rank in the literature of the world. Recently a flood of biographical works have been poured on the book marts and are eargerly devoured. Since Lytton Strachey brought out his 'Queen Victoria." the floodgates have been let down and the lives of Bismarck and Napoleon and "William II" hove been written by Ludwig. In this coun try Albert J. Beveridge has admirably done a "John Marshall" and partially completed an "Abraham Lincoln." Claude Bowers has writ ten of the Jacksonian period and followed it with a "Johnson." Numerous lesser books dealing with histori cal subjects have come out arid all are among the best sellers. .. . * These books are putting a new light on his tory. which never should be uninteresting by clothing the dry meat and bones of historical fact with the blood and freshness of romance to make the great characters of history more human and believable. » Andre Mauros in writing oi> this earger ness for historical facts has this to say: "In a period of unrest and reconstruction it is not only the great men that we need to under stand, it is ourselves. The life of the great man helps us here. The elevator, boy who said, "In that man Napoleon, I find so many traits of my own character," made an exact and. profound ob servation. In relation to the world, scales and dimensions are of little importance. From the point of view of eternity, what is the difference between jth.e ambition of ah elevator boy who hopes to become a'hotel manager and'the'ambi tion of a little Lieutenant of Brienn& who hoiies to- becoipe a general? Drelsef rightly gave the title ''American Tragedy" to a common elevator boy sort of tale. It was a tragedy as pathetic as the story of Oedipus or that of Macbeth. Human passions are not numerous; love, jealousy, ambi tion. And they are found in all Wfen." 1 THK VALCTfi OF LITTLE THINGS i The .story is being told of a lazy yduhg man, «(ho got a Job oh an' English railroad. Hd -started •,"at the bottom" but didn't like the'hard'work. He asked the management for a "thinking job" and- was'told that if be wjuld think of.ohe a •year which would save the compa.ny, money they would give a salary proportioned Ao what he saved tlieta. After a'week he came back with' his Xirss idea. He had notided that all the rolling stock, of the; road bore the initials of the Great Western Railway in gilt letters. Ajjypo.dy could tell by looking at them, he said, that they belanged to a railway, so why paint op the unnecessary "R"? The company officials, whose head is an Ameri can, by the way, had an estimate made and found they could save $35,000 a year by using "G. W." instead of "G. W. R." So the lazy man's salary is $35,000 a year. A famous economist once calculated that one inch added to the shirt tail of every inhabitant of China would make some millions of profit annu ally for the Manchester cotton mills. A boy in the stationery stock room of a big manufacturing concern worked out a plan for reducing all print ed forms to a few standard sizes and grades of paper and saving the company $25,000 a yeaß. When the first Ford car to cross the Rock Moun tains under Its .own power came back to the fac tory, Mr. Ford noticed that one bolt was missing. He learned that it had been lost east of Denver. "We don't need it. then," he said. The car de sign was changed to omit the unnecessary bolt, costing four or five cents to make and instal. The saving on the next twelve million Model T's was more than a half a million dollars. Sometimes it pays to spend money liberally. It always pays to cut off unnecessary expense. :—o - FOREST FIRES Surry county citizens hare been active sup porters of the North Carolina Forest Service since it first became active in the county in 1926. Since that time, there have been 28 fires which burned a total area of 1,770 acres. This is Indeed an en triable record since many counties have had sin gle fires which burned as great and even greater acreages. Foresters have generally accepted an Ideal is to the number of acres which can be allowed to burn annually. The limit thus established is 1.10 of one per cent of the total forest area. The for est area of Surry county is 191,620 acres which would allow 192 acres to be burned each year. However, once an ideal has been reached, it ceases to be an ideal. In 192§ the fire acreage for the county was only 178 acres which is less than 1.10 of one per cent. Last year nne county had only 5 acres burned so we can still establish the id«»l of not having any fires daring the entire year. Ev ery resident of the county can assist in reaching this ideal by using the necessary precautious while in the woods. THE muux TRIBUNE, KUOX, SOftTH CAROLINA SURRY SUPERIOR COURT BEGINS A TWO WEEKS TERM ONLY MINOR CASKS UP FOR TRIAL. JUROR JOHNSON PRESIDING The regular March term of Surry > superior court, for a two weeks term for the trial of civil cases only, convened here today with Judge T. L. Johnson of Lumberton, presiding. While there are more than one hundred cases docketed for trial, none of the cases is of general county wide interest. The majority of the cases are considered of mi nor importance and it is expect ed that the docket will be prac-, tically cleaned during the two weeks the court Is in session. The jury for this week is as fol lows: C. T. Hall. E. F. McNeer. M. D. Poplin, T. G. Rrnrtdock. B. H. Douglas, Morris Inman. Sr., Sajp E. Banner, A. D. Hardy. R. L. Marion, Q. C. McCann, A. J. Brooks, Roscoe Cook. M. R. Bai ley. Chas. Brlnkley, E. W i Lin ville, M. L. Ross. J. P. Lewis, J. W. Bowden. W. R. Stanley, T. M. Chilton. The following is the report of Dr. M. T. Foster, county health officer for the month of Febru ary, 1930: Reportable cases diphtheria 2; quarantined by visit 2; gonorrhea 3; scarlet fever 5, quarantined by mall ( 3; by visit 2; syphilis, 1; tubercu lis, 2; whooping cough 2; chick enpox, 8, quarantined by mail, 7, by visit 1: pallagra 1; pneumo nia 5: ( influenza 7;. Control practices, diphtheria released without culture 2; child contacts to scarlet fever 'jpiarantined 7 days, 1. diagnostic consultations: to communicable diseases, 1; Im munizations, completed toxin an titoxin. preschool children 38; completed toxin antitoxin, school ich'lldren 3 28, Tompleted -aivti ty-' phoid inoculations 219. smallpox vaccinations .first grade school children. 9 smallpox vaccinations , other than first grade school children 13, pertussis 2; vener eal disea.se control, syphilis, new, cases at clinic 1, total cases at clinic, 14, number *iven treat ments 14; gonorrhea, new cases at clinic 3. total cases at clinic 4, number givep treatments 4; i tuberculosis control, nurses' vi ßw Ifs to cases or contacts, ,1,3 pur.s-, e»' visits to post sanatoria cases j 4, visits to physjeians or cljnlcsj I for diagnosis or treafment 9. new | cases registered with physicians or clinics for diagnosis . ineut prenatal, new prenatal . cases, visited by nurse/ip, purses .visits to. prenatal cases 10, cases ,delivered ,in .hospital ,1, f njidvf(ves i, Instructed and *2; In l font, parse to .infants un , one year . 40„ \isits infants, under • one year >to .physicians .3: .Pre t school child, nurses, visits to children ages 1 tp 5 years, 59; 'to medical, {B. ' school, child, number schools In Larea, white .47, colored 16, nura t her children..weighed, first grade \ 389, notification of weight sent j parents first grade 1, number of t under weights weighed, fjrat , gradfe every 2 weeks 148; schoo} children examined by physician 2JO; hours spent in examination ' by physician 6; number of the ' schools In which physician exam i ined children 2, school children. vision, hearing and measure . made by teacher or nurse 206;. f school children inspected by phy sician or nurse. 20; sanitation, number dairy farms 11. number, ' dairy cows 230. sanitary inspecr ■ tlons and 3, food | ' handlers examined 4; dairy cows ' tuberculin tested 84; dairy farms inspected 19; rural privies built or improved 1; laboratory, exam ination for tuberculosis i; for syphilis 20; for gonorrhea* 1; ex amination of milk samples 11; popular health instruction, num- j health pamphlets, placards, ! etcT, distributed 950; articles on health published in newspapers, 4; lectures or talks on health, 1; County physician report: exam ination, prisoners 12; teachers, 1 child for industry 6, by court or der 1, for admission to institu tem 2; visits to jail 9; visits to tions 2; for lunacy 1; post mor county home 9; physical examin ations,. 7; patients treated 3; conferences 9. Mr. and Mrs. Webster of Ama rllla, Texas arrived here recent ly for an extended visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jonesi Bill Freeman, student at the,] State College, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Freeman. A box supper will be given at the Cross Roads Baptist church located near Salem Park, on Sat urday night, April 10th. The proceeds derived from the sale of boxes will be used for the benefit of the church. Miss Blanche Jones of Sparta spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Hill. Mrs. D. D. Riddle and small daughter Susan Waugh, and Miss i Eliza Capehart of Sanford were recent guests of Mrs. SaUte Fol- ser. A play "Oh-Kay" will be pre sented by the Dobson school In the high school auditorium on Friday evening, March 28th. The f proceeds will be used for the [ benefit of the acliodl. The Young Peoples Missionary society of the Methodist vChurcb held their March meeting Friday evening with Misses Julia and and Mazie Comer as joint hostess Miss Julia Comer the president presided, and also conducted the devotionals. Bonnie Mae Stan-' I ley was program leader. The topic for the discussioj was "It II were to become a Missionary jwhat country would I choose andj .why " Japan, Korea and Chinaj 'were chosen and discussed by Misses Josie Stanley, Julia Co mer and Margaret Harkrader.' Others participating in the prog-j ram were Misses Helen Harkra-' der and Maude Marion. At the conclusion of the business ses-! 'sion a social hour was enjoyed 'V-% An engineer on the Pennsylvania Mam L«nc put on the brake* too suddenly with this curious result. ; _____ . . i - -'. 11 Kaye Don of England will try to break all records for speed on wheels with this curious car at Dayton* Florida. 1 . , _ . __ sMftr/ POLITE AUWAfI \ / { TO PEAK WITH \\ _ , ) I "THANK ) / \ VOUR. MOUTH j 1 *? U " / t OEAR.iI I POLL, \ ANYTHING, / .Jfel \ ' r / »WmlA m^mm^ IA / WELL, THBN. MOM y IP I *AV ) I "THANK vou" V/ITH k\Y / r- YtAVKAj* Uvtnku I mouth pull, am.i / JINGLES^' M I Vvyoyuo KAKe A Ra * l\ UAO)4H AWAV ooct cwa , fil "• 1 l\ " , y/Lw I Vrvrt ** He *ouko mv MH om*T\»r ' n Kg;*. m [AHPTHen cH/wy / j during which time delicious re freshments were served. The next meeting will be held with Miss Eva Collins. The annual Junior-Senior par ty of the Dobson high school was given Friday evening. March 14 in the home economics sewing room. The room was decorated with the class colors and Sa'nt Patrick colors, green and whit*, i Larue pines and cut flowers dec orated the room also. The guests were met at the door by ,Jessie Bell Haymore and Wilson (Comer who directed them up the the stairs. The wraps were taken by Irene Martin and Fannie Gil lespie. They were then present jed with tally cards In the shape ,of a shamrock with the number of their table and couple. At the door a table covered with green and white paper with pines .surrounding it was holding the 'punch bowl. Tall candles in po tato holders surrounded the !punch bowl. Those serving the punch were Viola Snow, Mary, v . -■ ■ jf* "-V 0 THURSDAY. MARCH 98, 10AO Dobbins and Edwin Reld. Margaret Harkrader the games and contests particflli >ated in during: the - evening hisses Joaie Stanley and Agnca White "served refreshments. ThJ? favors of green and white mint baskets were filled with green and white mints. just before leaving for their homes members iof both classes formed a circle and sang "Auld Lang Syne." T. M. Marsh, register of deeds issued marriage license the past week to L. M Cockerham, El kin, to Emma McCain, Wilkes county. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Edmonds, a daughter, named Mil jfid Spencer, on March Rorn to Mr. and Mts. CjKde Mitchell a daughter. lumed Mary Sermantery, on March 9th; Rorn to Mr and Mrs. Robt. Fall in, a daughter, named Delsie Lee on March 10th.
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