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Human Engineering Offers Maw Mopes Os Lowering Traffic Acciueni Deaths Detroit lf you quarrel with your wife at breakfast and then, while driving to the office, clip seme fenders or pass a red light, there’s probably a connection. The idea that emotional upset? can be responsible for highway accidents as much as liquor, speed or mechanical troubles is one of the beliefs developed in ‘•human engineering” the science of breaking down the hu man factor in the traffic hazard equation. This is a field of trained psy chiatrists, and therefore limited, but, in the opinion of James Stannard Baker, secretary of the committee on the driver cf the National Safety Council, it is one of the chief hopes in the fight to reduce hghway deaths. But, leaders agree, human en gineering must be explained greatly before it can become a positive influence in reducing the traffic toll. In Detroit, the recorder’s court has what is believed to be the nation’s most complete traffic clinic, yet, since it was set up in October, 1936, only 1.000 cases have been analyzed. Dr. Lowell S. Selling, the direc tor, explains that the cases, most of them hit-and-run cases, are taken on recommendation of the court. The patient is first given a 22- page questionnaire covering traf fic laws and automobile opera tion, his parentage, education, ill nesses, etc. An intelligence test and physical examination follow. “Everyone seems most interest ed in the apparatus tests,” says Dr. Selling. “But that only occu pies about 20 minutes of the four to six hours the complete test takes.” When all information has been correlated, the clinic makes a re commendation to the judge; in some cases hospitalization is sug gested, in others discontinuance of driving. And in some, Dr. Selling says, it is recommended that there be no discipline, that might be harmful. In 1,000 cases—handled at the rate of two a day, now—so per cent :f those tested were shown to have been feeble minded or suffering from some other serious mental ailment, 5 percent have been color blind, 5 per cent have had bad vision, 8 percent have suffered from some physical de tect, and 1-10 of 1 per cent were found suffering from “sericus neurological disorder.” o Queen Mary’s Tour No Land Os Make-Believe • South Boston, Va.—No make believe Cinderella can step into a coach and ride away into the land of romance as convincing as Mary Pickfard, but when the queen of the National Tobacco Festival gets into her coach in picturesque Halifax, she will ride into a romantic land that is not make-believe. For the time when tobacco was coin of the realm to this time when the gold en leaf is still virtually just that, in the South Boston community plantation-land has continued about the same, constantly pros perous, colorful and romantic. ESwIH FOR I 14c *] Super Suds (for washing dishes) Regular size, 3 f0r.... 27c Con. Super Suds, (washing clothes) Regular Size, 3 for .... 27c Giant Octagon Soap, 4 for 19c Special Octagon Soap, 2 for 5c Large Octagon Powder, 3 for 14c Special Octagon Powder, 2 for ...» 5c Octagon Toilet Soap, 3 for 14c Octagon Cleanser, 2 for .. 9c Octagon Granulated Soap, thg, 13c Klex tor 9c Timberlake, If. C. W arm Wel com e Miss Trances Lawcon cf South Boston, Virginia, waves a warm welcome tc visitors to the "heart of tobaccoland,” where tobacco will be king during the fifth annual National Tobacco Festival an September 7 end 8. Miss Lawson will take part in “Tobacaroma,” mammoth dramatic production depicting the story of tobacco, which will be a major festival feature. Mary Pickford thus will open this year’s Plantations Tour, which will stress the century merk in atmosphere, costumes, carriages and hospitality, not only for the queen but the gener al public. Each of the old houses in which Mary Fickford will be received has been lived in con tirurusly by the family of the original builder. Assisting Host esses in these houses will wear hciiiccm dresses (not costumes of the empire and anti-bellum periods. Venerable vehicles will move again; a surry, a gig. and a coach. When the coach, driven by “Uncle Henry Moore,” long coach man at “Magnolia Hall,” the ad joining estate in the village, calls at "Grand Oaks” for Miss Pickford it will carry her down the shady road to the quaint buck church, which is the oldest Palace Theatre advance program From Thursday, Aug. 31 thru Saturday, Sept. 2 Motion Fietures Are You' Best Entertainment j Thursday . Friday, August 31 - September 1 Ginger Regers - David Niven I with Charles Coburn - Frank J Albertson - E. E. Clive in “Bachelor Mother” Ginger as the glamorous shop girl “mother” of a doorstep baby wooed by Playboy David, chased by Jitterbug Frank, tern twixt loyalty, love and a living! Paramount Pictorial No. 11 j Travel Talk: "Glimpses of j Australia.” No Morning Shows; Afternoons daily 3;15-3;45; Admission 10-25 c; Evenings daily 7:30-9:15; Admission 10-30 c. I Saturday, Sept. 2 Tex Ritter with his horse ; “White Flash” in "Riders of the Frontier” Terror rules the Texas range i till this cowboy wildcat storms an outlaw fortress of fear to smash the ruthless “cattle trust”! Episode No. 4 cf the serial “Overland with Kit Carson” (“The Ride of Terror”) with Bill (“Wild Bill Hickok”) El liott - Iris Meredith - Bobby Clack Fashicn Forecast No. 4 (In Co lor) Matinee 2:30-4:00; Admission 10-25 c; Evening 7-8:30-9:45. (Box office opens at 6:45.) Admission 10-30 c. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. building in the village, having served three denominations. Here there will be a concert, which wll be tribute to the 1939 queen as an artist. She will ride through the grounds of two pil lared mansions of the Revolution ary period on the way to Clark ton, the largest and most indivi dual plantation in the country. She will also visit Seaton, nota ble f:r its odd collection of an tique costumes and furniture. For further information about the tours write National Tobacco Festival,, South Boston, Virginia. o “No flowery road leads to glory.” —LaFontaine Dolly Maliison THEATRE From Thursday, Aug. 31 thru Saturday, Sept. 2 Motion Pictures Are You* Best Entertainment Thursday . Friday, August 31 - September 1 Baby Sandy (of “East Side of Heaven”) with Shirley Ross - Dennis O’Keefe - Mischa Auer j - Anne Nagel in “Unexpected Father” (First Run) | Tile wonder baby of “East Side of Heaven” becomes the screen’s mightiest menace to a million hearts! Community Sing No. 10 (The audience is invited to join the singers on the screen.) Our Gang Comedy: “Tiny Troubles” No Morning Shows; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Admission 10-25 c; Evenings daily 7:30-9 ;15; Admission 10-25 c; | Saturday, Sept. 2 The Three Mesquiteers (John Wayne - Ray Corrigan - Ray mond Hatton) in “New Frontier” (First Run) The most daring trio that ever rode the plains fight fire with water when a gang of rack eteers try to turn a fertile val ley into a barren wasteland! Episode No. 5 of the serial “Daredevils of the Red Circle”) (“The Ray of Death”) with Charles Quigley . Herman Brix - David Sharpe - Carole I Landis Betty Boop Cartoon; “Rhythm on the Reservation” Matinee 2:30-4:00; Admission 10-25 c; Evening 7-8:30-9:45. (Box office opens at 6:45.) Admission 10-25e. • LUMBER Due to increased activity in the construction of small homes, lum ber consumption in the United States during 1939 wil be from 10 to 15 per cent greater than it was in 1938,'the Department of Commerce predicted recently. BY-PRODUCTS Skimniilk and cull potatoes are Welcome i Teachers We Are Glad To Have You Back With Us Again. Person County, in our opinion, has as fine a group of teachers as will be found anywhere in any city in North Carolina. We feel that our schools are efficiently managed and supervised. We further believe that our children nave the very finest opportunity to receive a good education. Our school* system in Person County is worthy of every ounce of support we are capable of giving. We should boast it and lend cooperation whenever possi ble. Bring your car to us for expert repair work, or if you are thinking of trading we have a good proposition for you. Jor Economical Transportation TAR HEEL CHEVROLET CO. Glenn Stovall William Yancey YOU’VE heard a lot about the modern wonders of mass production —how it brings down the cost of things you buy—how it makes possible most of the modern comforts we enjoy. But did you ever stop to think that modem mass production would be impossible if there were no mass transportation to carry the raw materials to the factories and carry the products forth to every comer of the land? The only nation-wide mass transportation in America is the railroads, with their 240,000 miles of super-highways built and maintained by private enterprise. Over these super-highways travel some 1,760,000 freight cars —rolling up an average total of 13,000 miles per car each year. These NORFOLK and WE STERN R A I L W AY being used to make wafers, chips, sticks, or croutons to develop a new use for agricultual by-pro ducts. o . “Glory is the true and honor able recompense of gallant ac tions.” —Le Sage Mass transportation is modern transportation imi n Welcome $ Teachers - To Person County’s new teachers and to the old, we greet you with a hearty welcome. We know that you will like Person County and we are going to do everything within our pow er to make you enjoy your visit here. We urge all teachers to let us know the pictures you would like to see and we will get them for you. For The Best In Entertainment Visit Your Theatres Often. Palace and Dolly Madison Theatres cars, linked together in trains and pulled by a single power plant, do a mass transportation job which no other common carrier could begin to handle —and at an average charge of about one cent for hauling one ton of freight a mile far less than the average charge made by any other carrier providing general transportation. Isn’t that what you’d call modem transpor tation — transportation able to carry all the products that modern factories can produce and modern farms can raise, and do it so smoothly that most people never give it a thought? When you look at the job the railroads are doing, you can see why government should give all “forms of transportation’’ equal treatment and an equal opportunity to earn a living. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1939
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