NORTH CAROLINA ■
I MAY GET NEW
! MARRIAGE LAW
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Efforts Will Be Made To Have One
Enacted At the Next Session Os
The General Assembly.
Highsmith Says State Needs To
Safeguard Marriage And Home
Raleigh, Nov. 10 —North Carolina’s
lack of an adequate marriage law,
the importance of such a law, and
'the declaration that an effort will
be made to have one enacted by the
next general assembly, as a vital
part of the state’s war on venereal
diseases, are emphasized in a state
ment by Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith,
assistant director of the health edu
! cation, State Board of Health,
Mrs. Highsmith says: “North
Carolina has practically no laws
i safeguarding marriage and the be
; ginning of the home. On the statute
; books are two laws, neither of
which as it operates today is worth
the effort to enforce it This is the
i opinion of one register of deeds who
!says that the present marriage law
j which requires the male applicant
| for a marriage license to sign an af
fidavit saying that he has no active
tuberculosis or a venereal diseas,
and has not had for two years prior
thereto, is totally ineffectual. This
law is an alternative to a prior law
which required a health certificate
from the groom in order to obtain a
marriage license. Neither law; re
quires anything of the prospective
bride—not even a written state
ment to the effect that she has no
tuberculosis or a venereal disease
in the active stage.
20,000 Syphilitic Children
“But has not the time come when
North Carolina can and will take
steps to protect its children from
the ravages of venereal disease? It
is estimated that there are 20,00
children under fifteen years of age
in North Carolina today #who have
syphilis inherited from infected and
I neglectful parents. And yet this
large number is not the whole story.
j'Only about 43 percent of syphilitic
babies live to reach ten years of
age. Therefore, it is safe to say that
at least 70,000 other babies were
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We Are Pleased
to
Announce The Addition
of
Mr. Gilbert Wagstaff
to the
Personnel Os Our
Funeral Home
Mr. Wagstaff is known to hun
dreds of people over the county
and in surrounding territory
and we believe that he will be a
valuable asset to our organiza
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JOURNEY’S END
This 40-pounder, with bis neck
already in a halter, awaits the
Thanksgiving axe, knowing well
that hr won’t hr hung!
bom syphilitic but died in infancy
or early childhood.
“When it is known that children
inherit blindness, feeble-minded
ness, insanity, susceptibility to dis
ease and premature death from
syphilitic parents, and when it is
further known that 90 percent of
these tragedies could be prevented
through an enforced law requiring
a Wasserman test of both man and
woman before marriage and anoth
er law requiring the proper treat
ment of expectant mothers showing
a positive blood test, does it not
seem that public opinion would de
mand this protection for innocent,
helpless childhood?
“Fortunately, there is a growing
sentiment today in behalf of these
measures. A poll conducted recently
by the American Institute of Public
Opinion found that 92 percent of
those voting on the question, wheth
er or not there should be premarital
Wasserman tests, were in favor. Os
all the votes cast in the Southern
states, 94 percent were favorable.
Some Pertinent Facts
“In connection with the campaign
being waged against syphilis, a num T
ber of states have enacted laws re
quiring, as a prerequisite for the is
suance of marriage license, evi
dence of negative Wassermann or
similar bigod tests. Connecticut en
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PERRON rpi T NTV TIMES -t-t- ROXBORO. N. C.
acted such a law in 1935 and, con
trary to many predictions, it work 3
well. As evidence it has popular
support, about 10% more lab
oratory examinations Were made
for prospective brides and bride
grooms during the first five months
of 1937 than for the same period in
1936. Illinois passed a bill in the
spring requiring compulsory health
examinations for all couples apply
ing for marriage licenses, which
went into effect July 1, 1937. Michi
gan has a similar law that goes into
effect Oct. 29, 1937, and New Hamp
shire's law becomes effective Oct.
1, 1938. New Jersey is preparing a
bill patterned after the Connecticut
law to be introduced in the 1938
New Jersey legislature.
Will Sponsor Law
“North Carolina also will spon
sor a marriage license law at the
next session of the General Assem
bly, according to Dr. Carl V. Rey
nolds* Secretary of the State Board
of Health and State Health Officer.
Says a marriage law is a part of the
State’s program to control venereal
disease, and that he will press the
passage of the bill when the Legis
lature meets in 1939.
“As evidence that such a law is
reeded, witness the number of cas
es of syphilis that are being report
ed daily to the State Board of
Health—an average ,if 33 a day,
1,000 a month, on 12,000 a year. A
fair estimate places the number o',
syphilitics in North Carolina at
300,000. Without restrictions for
preventing the spread of the disease
and proper means of treatment :"o
those infected, this will mean that
we will continue to have 109 new
cases of infection every day, and
the birth of ten newborn syphilitic
.babies every day.”
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Under the new beauty of
Buick, modern engineering
makes history, co-starring
the DYNAFLASH ENGINE and
Torque-Free Springing
TIfHAT HAPPENS inside the
™ ’ 1938 Buick engine happens no
where else in the world.
That is not advertising language* it is
cold-steel engineering fact.
'Speeding through the raceways of the
intake manifold, the fuel mixture
vapor hurricanes into the cylinders at
speeds around 250 miles an hour.
Visit sweeps past streamline valve con
tours, a scientifically designed Turbu
lot or, built into the piston face, flings it
into airswirls of terrific, turbulence*
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ADVANCE MOTORS
ftoxboro, North Carolina
IN MEMORY
On Nov. sth., 1937 the death an
gel visited the home of Mr. and
Mrs. N. C. Zimmerman and took
from them their loving daughter,
Thelma Dale. She died in Memorial
Hospital, Danville, Va. with spinal
meningitis. Her stay on earth was
two years and four months. Sfye
leaves to mourn her loss, mother,
father, two brothers, Graham and
Thomas, sister, Irene, grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Zimmerman,
Mrs. B. J. Coates, many uncles and
aunts. The funeral was held at Oak
Grove Methodist Church by Rev.
Townsend, Sunday, Nov. 7, 1937 at
four o’clock and interment was in
the church cemetery. Music was ren
dered by the church choir. Pall
tvlalrers were her uncles: Messrs.
W. 8., J. D., R. W. Coates and Wil
lie Zimmerman. Mrs. Mabel Riggs
bee was in charge of the flowers
which were carried by cousins of the
deceased: Marjory, Eunice, and
Alice Coates, Pattie Sue, Evelyn,
and Margaret Clayton and Hilda
Grey Barnett.
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The spark that leaps through that
compact storm-center sets off a flash
ing cyclone of power, exploding with
tornadic force!
Sitting in the driver’s seat you become
aware of power that is livelier and
more brilliant because gasoline is giv
ing up more performance than it ever
gave up to motorists before!
TO MATCH this incomparable
stride, Buick engineers now give you
a kind of springing you will likewise
find on no other car in die world.
Poised on jarless coils of easy-flexing
steel, Buick floats free of bobble, jar,
chatter, jounce.
The car will not over-steer or under
steer—skidding, even on icy high
ways, is. blessedly reduced.
All was done that loving hands
could do, but none could stay the
cold hands of death. God knew best,
so we should say, “Thy will be
done.”
Written by her aunt,
Pattie Coates
THE WEEK IN BUSINESS
Two corporations that originally
refused executive salary data to
the Federal Trade Commission fin
ally filed their figures on court or
der. The National Biscuit Company
paid its executive personnel an av
erage of $35,525 per year, “high
est in any related group” covered
by the study. The International
Shoe Company reported the lowest
of any manufacturing and process-
Has your “ouch” left your “grouch?”
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Be pleasant, smile a little. A smile will do you good.
Here’s the secret —7 UP takes the ouch out of “grouch”
and leaves you in a good humor. Drink a bottle today and
then take a few home for the wife and kiddies. 7 Up is
good for you.
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Dealers BOttllSlg CO. „ Dealers
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA.
SUNDAY, NOV. 14, 1937
ing groups,” with an executive av
erage of $13,607 Steel ingot
production declined to 48 per cent
of capacity, 36 points from the
week before Labor Day .... Stand
ard Oil Gompany of New Jersey
will hereafter give its executive
personnel an annual check-up in
search of hardened arteries and
other ills of “Number One Men” of
industry In one week six ships
passed through the Panamar Canal
carrying 40,000 tons of scrap metal
designed for munition-making.
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Lincoln County farmers sold 5,-
431 pounds of live poultry cooper
atively for $917.50 cash last week.
Turkeys comprised the bulk of the
sales.
Rear tires no longer scuff half their
life away through power-wasting
wheel-slip.
Through winter and summer, without
need of grease and without “seize”
from rust, dirt, water or ice, springs
keep their gentle, even cushioning for
the life of the car.
YES, IT IS a great story, the story
of these twin engineering triumphs in
the 1938 Buiclu
So great a story that it obscures half
a score of other advances, themselves !
enough to make any car a wonderful 1
buy.
We invite you to learn more about
them this week at any Buick show
room.