Buffalo Meat May Soon Come
In To Replace Beef, Is Said
New York Vanes.
It may be that the kind of meat
tnoat available to pioneers, of our
plains will once again grace the ta-,
bles of Americans for the buffalo in
the north, having been nearly ex
tinguished further south, is teported
to be building herds that will supply
food for future generations. Those
who are watching the comeback of
the buffalo in the wilds of Canada
predict a time when herds will once
again approximate in size to those
found on the plains by men who
opened the west.
Present-day Canadians have al
seady learned the taste of buffalo
meat. The small domesticated herd
In Buffalo National park at. Waln
wright, Alberta, has flourished so
that every year until lately a num
ber of the animals had to be
alaughtered to make room for the
reat. At such times the meat ap
peared on the market from coast
to coast In competition with beef.
But the supply was always limited.
fThe prophets of the north, on the
ether hand, foresee abundance not
only for Canadians but for millions
Of others. The source Is to be the
recently discovered wild herd of the
Beaoe river district, with the de
velopment of which the Canadian
government Is now concerning it
self.
Pew persons had any Idea a dec
ide ago that there were any wild
buffalo left. Then, In 1921. the ef
fort to Increase the meat supply
carried a government surveying
Jiarty into the uncharted sections
of northern Alberta. There was
found a herd of several hundred
feild buffaloes.
Immediate step* were taken to
Jjrotect them. Their range, some
17,300 square miles In extent, was set
apart as a reservation and wardens
were stationed there to look out
lor them. Studies made of them
£om time to time showed that they
ad not suffered in the least from
their migration. They proved equal
fn sire, strength and vitality to any
of their kind. It was observed that
their numbers were increasing. In
1824 the herd was estimated at be
tween 1.500 and 2,000. It was soon
after this that the Idea was con
ceived of sending the surplus from
the domesticated Wainwright herd
to the Port Fitzgerald sanctuary In
the Peace river country, there to
mingle with the wild herd.
Corrals had to be built where the
buffaloes could be kept until a ship
ment had been assembled, and scows
had to be constructed In Which the
river steamer could tow the cargo of
animals from the end of the railroad |
to its destlnatln. The Journey was
long and difficult and great were the
expense and trouble involved, but in
the last three summers many ship
ments have thus been moved. The
experiment Is reported to be com
jjletely successful.
It will take a long time for the
buffalo to “come back.’’ though only
ft little more than half a century
ago It was superabundant. A crea
ture of the wide plains, it had to
give way before civilization.
Buffaloes were roaming over one
third of the continent of North
America when white men first came
here. Cortez saw one of them in
the zoo of Montezuma. Alvar Munez
Cabeea, afterward known as Cattle
came to land after his shipwreck
off Texas and saw buffaloes there.
An English navigator, Samuel Ar
gon, in 1612 reported a buffalo in
what is now the District of Colum
bia, and In 1679 Father Hennepin,
having traveled up the St. Lawrence
to Great Lakes country, sighted
herds in what Is now western Ill
inois. Fifty years later surveyors
from Colonel William Byrd gave
accounts of buffaloes roaming the
boundary between Virginia and
North Carolina.
*io» iney migrated over the west
ern plains in herds that numbered
millions every reader of America’s
history knows. So numerous were
they that, some of the Indians, to
whom they gave food, raiment and
shelter believed that they issued
from the earth continuously in a
Stream that was inexhaustible.
The coming of the railroad, how
ever, quickly dispelled that belief.
The Union Pacific line, spanning
the country, split the great herd
into northern and southern divi
sions, and first one, then the other,
was presently wiped out.
With the opening up of the plaim
by transportation, the slaughter be
gan. A vast army of unemployed
rushed to the buffalo country to
hunt. The animals were defenseless.
The moment thetr leader was pick
ed off they stood in confusion, wait
ing to be shot and the hunters did
not fall to shoot.
Some of the butchers took out
only the tongues of the buff aloe,
and discarded the rest: some took
cnly the hides; some took the meat,
too. In 1873 the Sant* Fe rail
road carried out of Kansas mo’e
than 26,000 robes, 1,600,000 pounds
of meat and almost 3.000,000 pounds
of bone.. The annual rate of buf
falo destruction for the country
was estimated at something like 2,
600,000 head between 1870 and
1878; and within a year or two af
terward the southern herd, counted
as almost 10.000,000 a decade before,
was practically gone.
The attack upon the northern
herd started on a big scale in 1880
and three years later they were
I said to be less than 1,000 head lelt
at large In the United States.
It was In 1907 that the Canadian
government evidenced Its interest
In buffalo culture by purchasing the
unrivaled private herd of 700 head
belonging to Michael Pablo of Mon
tana and setting aside 160 square
miles at Walnwright tor Buffalo
National park. This herd has thriv
en so that the surplus shipped north
to the wild range has amounted to
about 7,000 in the last three years.
Hartford Powel, Jr„ Says There
Is No Inspiration In Tobacco
Or I.lquor.
New York.—"There Is no Inspira
tion In either tobacco or liquor.”
Thus Hartford Powel, Jr„ disposes
of that hardy tradition tnat authors
and other artists are Impelled to
their greatest creative efforts by
artificial stimulation.
He spoils several other time-worn
conceptions of how an author works
in telling how he wrote his latest
novel, “Married Money.” a novel of
Boston society, which begins in
June Harper's Bazar.
Mr. Powel. author of "The Vir
ginia Queen” and other best-selling
works, admits that he smokes furi
ously at work, but he believes it is
purely habitual and has nothing to
do with the quality of his compo
sition.
For one thing, there is the lay
man’s Idea that a writer, caught tn
the throes of a story, writes on and
on, neither stopping for time, food
r.or eyestrain. “I write spasmodical
ly. Two hours is the longest period
I can work without a break,” admits
Mr. Powel.
As for the belief that a story
springs full-blown Into the author's
brain and rushes out through his
pen, he comments: “I have never
sold a story unless I have medi
tated upon It at least five years and
told It to anyone who would listen.
That’s how you find If it is a bless
ing or a bore."
‘‘There is no Ideal place In which
to write, he believes. "If you build
yourself an Ideal place it Is so
charming that you can t settle down
to work in It.
I “Dictating Is a lot of fun. If you
happen to have a charming secre
tary and amuse her with your story.
If she Isn't amused, you might as
well tell her to tear up her notes
and then give her another story.
"But usually when a story of mine
comes back from the secretary's
typewriter it Is a mess. Instead of
being vivid and readable, it Is
wordy and stupid. Then I take off
my coat and write it again, and re
write It, and keep on rewriting until
It looks like something, or not.
"Rewriting is the. only assurance
of a decent product. Silverware has
to be polished, and so does every
thing else, except maybe the articles
that have to be roughened—and I
don't like rough books enough to
want to write one.
"There are no imaginary char
acters. Every character in every
novel is based upon someone the
author has seen or has read about.
We take real people and stick them
into imaginary surroundings, or put
them up against fictitious problems.
There is a lot of savage satisfaction
In taking a man you hate and send
ing him into a llfe-and-death strug
gle with a grizzly bear. Or you can
take a woman you don't precisely
yearn for and marry her to a clown.’’
NO NEW RELIGION,
ASSERTS CHESTERTON
New York—Modern cults and
religious •'novelties’’ are simply a
matter of labels, while no new truths
hnve been discovered since the
founding of the Christian religion,
in the opinion of O. K. Chesterton,
British essayist and philosopher.
Chesterton expressed only trival
respect for modern ideas in a frank
essay published in the current num
ber of The Bookman. First, he finds j
they are borrowed from ancient or
medieval beliefs, and secondly, what
ever their merit, they wither very
qpiickly in modern hands.
Chesterton, while he is essentially
a humanist, has decided that hu
manism is no substitute for religion.
The brotherhood of man, was seized
upon by men as a doctrine, whereas
it was really a mood. He has no
surprise in the discovery that, the
mood having passed, the doctrine
withers and democracy languishes
with it.
The British essayist, in his Book
man article, comes to the conclusion
that humanism is merely a torch
snatched from the eternal fire of re
ligious truth and waved, soon lan
guishes away from its parent fire.
After long years of pioneering search
among modern trends of thought, he
announces his conclusion that he
finds only one solid rock lasting
through the ages—the Christian re
ligion. bestriding land* and ages and
giving off only as sparks the ephe
meral cults which occasionally
spread a blinding, but brief light on
the sky of time.
Star Advertising Pays
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The automobile shown above will convey the Forest
City Kiwanis delegates to Kiwanis International
Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 23, 1929.
The insets are upper right, M. W. Hewitt, manu
facturer, lower left, George R- Gillespie, lieutenant
governor Division One and lower right, Chas. Z.
Flack, club president, official delegates who will
make the trip.
Who Founded G.O.P.
It Vexing Problem
Krpublicans Must Decide In Time
For Diamond Jubilee. Hoover
Playing Hands Off.
Chicago.—Now Is the time for all
good men to come to the aid of
their party.
It Is the Republican party, call
ing for a champion who will decide
the question unanswered in its 75
years: "Who founded the O. O. P."
But the good Republicans, who
celebrated the party’s diamond
Jubilee anniversary this year will
have to decide for themselves its
birthplace for Vlpon, a college town
In Fond Du Lac county. Wisconsin,
and Jackson, Mich., through more
than a half century have vaunted
themselves each as the cradle of the
party. Today each of the rival towns
was preparing a festive birthday
party, Rlpon (which pronounces it
self "rlppin) for June 8 and Jack
sen for July 6.
President Hoover, whom the dis
puting cities would cast in the role
cf Solomon, with Solomon's wis
dom, declined invitations to both of
the celebrations.
meeting July b. ihs«.
Jackson,'s claim is formal, rest
ing on the fact that a convention
there on July 6, 1854 framed the
first state ticket and platform under
the name "Republican”; in con
sequence whereof numerous states
men headed by Vice President Chas.
W. Fairbanks, Journeyed to the
Jackson shrine on its 50th Repub
lican anniversary. President Taft
dedicated & memorial tablet there
in 1910.
But numerous reputable histor
ians in and out of Ripon, held that
ihe germ of the Republican party
had been incubating In the Wis
consin city for two years prior to
the Jackson convention.
In 1852. when the Whig General
Winifield Scott was overwhelmingly
defeated for the presidency by the
Democrat. Franklin Pierce. m'any
insurgent Whigs decided that the
spirit had passed from the still am
bulant corpse of their party, and
expressed * determination to aban
don the carcass. Prominent among
these was Alvin Earle Bovay, of
Ripon, a delegate to the Whig con
'.ention and a friend politically of
Horace Greeley. In later life Bovay
asserted that he had discussed the
idea of a new party with Greeley
during the 1852 convention and had
even suggested the name "Repub
lican," which he said appealed to
him, among other reasons, for its
adaptability to the divers tongues
of immigrants then swarming at
America's gates.
New Party Needed.
The need of a ntjw party to op
pose the Democrat was apparent to
many at the time, for the forces
opposed to the extension of slavery
were hopeless divided In ineffectual
groups lacking direction and con
trol.
Bovay retained a mental note of
the new plan and in 1854. midway
between presidential elections, de
cided to strike During the winter
congress had been considering the
Kansas-Nebraska bill which would
smooth the way for extension of
slavery into the northwest terri
tories and repeal the Missouri com
promise of 1820, until then regarded
as sacred. The north was inflamed.
Bovay canvassed the citizenry of
R'.pon and gathered them into the
Congregational church on February
28. 1854 for a political mass meet
ing. The townsfolk adopted a re
solution pledging themselves to
meet again and form a new party
If the Kansas-Nebraska bill became
law.
The second meeting was called
March 20 in a little white school
house still standing on the rampus
ef Ripon college. The assembly for
mally voted to abolish the town
committee of the Whig and Free
Soil parties and named a commit
tee of five to work out the forma
tion of a new party. The committee
comprised three Whigs, a Free Soil
er and a Democrat. Bovay said lie
proposed the name “Republican"
for the infant political organisation
but suggested that it was inadvis
able for so small a group to under
take the parental responsibility of
christening.
This, say the Rlponltes, teas the
birth of the G. O. P. Similar meet
ings were held In other states. On
May 0, 30 members of the house of
representatives met at the invita
tion of Israel Washburn of Maine
and agreed to form a party to be
called ‘'Republican.'’ The Michigan
group was the next to convene,
gathering under Jackson’s oak trees
on July 6 and drawing up the first
ticket of candidates under the
name ‘'Republican. "
On July 13, anniversary of the
enactment of the ordinance of 1787,
anti-slavery conventions met at
Columbus, O, Madison, Wis., Mont
pelier, Vt., and in Indiana, Ver
mont and Wisconsin delegates call
ed themselves Republican, the New
Englander even selecting delegates
to a national convention should one
be held. Ohioans and Hoosiers pro
posed only to elect anti-slavery
congressmen and adopted the new
party nomenclature only the follow
ing years.
Ripon and Jackson are not alone
in their claims of parentage. Pitts
burgh has added Its voice to the de
bate, for It was in the Pennsylvania
city that delegates from the nine
states foregathered in 1856 as the
first Republican national conven
tion and nominated the explorer
John C. Fremont.
The Spanish Motor Way.
I
Asheville Citizen.
A small religious paper reports
that Prirno de Rivera is putting a
sharp check on motor accidents In
Spain. Under a new ruling any au
tomobillst who knocks down a
pedestrian is promptly arrested, re
gardless ot circumstances or of
social position. A sentence of six
years is imposed for the slightest
injury. If death results the mini
mum punishment is twelve years
imprisonment. Futhermore bail is
not granted under any circum
stances.
It is stated that the results are
amazing. Since New Year’s day
there have been nc automobile ac
cldenta in Madrid. In the provinces
also immunity has been secured.
History shows that the Latin peo
ples take kindly to dictators and
dictatorships. The careers of Mus
solini and of Piimo de Rivera are
but repetitions of those of many
others gotng back to the times of
the Caesars and even earlier. Proud,
warlike, intensely religious, and
devoted to traditions, the Italians
and Spaniards have always achiev
ed their greatest glory when under
despotic rule. The accomplishments
of Diaz and of Cnlles indicate that
the same thing is true in Mexico
too.
But whether or not such rigid
control of automobile traffic and
such drastic punishments would
prove successful in America is an
other matter. For one thing we
have vastly more automobile traffic
on our crowded boulevards and
highways. It is estimated that 80
per cent of the world's motor cars
are owned and operated in the
United States. Hence a larger pro
portion of accidents in this country
is inevitable.
But we have nearly thirty thou
sand deaths a jeer and about five
times as many injuries resulting
from careless automobile driving.
Evidently there is great lcckless
ness and disregard of motor regu
lations in America. Reckless, ignor
ant. irresponsible drivers and speed
maniacs cause most of these.
We need stricter regulations and
stricter enforcement of them in
America. Where laws are laxly en
forced, the temptation to disregard
them is great. The Anglo-Saxon is
supposed to be noted for his seri
ousness. But automobile driving
statistics in this country do not
altogether bear this out. Perhaps
we can learn something in the
United States from the Spanish way
with mortorists.
Ice Cream Supper.
The B. Y. P. U. of Pleasant Grove
Baptist church will give an ice
cream supper next Saturday night,
June 8. Proceeds goes tor the
church Ever'bodv lpvitcd.
Think Of Telephone
Using Its Memory
Improvements In Poulsen's Mag
netic phonograph, invented in Swe
den nearly thirty years since, have
made it. possible not only to use it
for retaining and reproducing tele
phone conversations, but to trans
mit such conversations at high
speed, slowing them up at the re
ceiving end so as to make the words
intelligible. The uses of tlfcs instru
ment are described in L’Ami du
Peuple (Paris), by a contributor
signing himself “H. C.,” as follows:
“You have an important telephone
message of 9,000 words to send to
your London agent; 9,000 words at
the rate of 150 a minute would take
an hour. Your message will cost you
dear, and you may easily be cut off
before your hour is up. But happily
you have a menemophone. Calmly
seated at your desk you dictate for
an hour to an unrolling wire. Then
you get London, and in ten minutes
your wire passes before the tele
phone.
"Your correspondent in London
sets his receiving bobbin at the
same speed. He gets your message
at 900 words a minute, at which
speed the words are absolutely aud
ible. But, no! Your correspondent
has only to unwind his wire before
a detector at the proper speed to be
used by his stenographer. And you
have paid fdjf t*h mlhutes of talk
instead of for an hour!
• xne menemopnone—the tele
phone that remembers’—is due to
the labors of Dr. Stllle, a German
scientist, who has succeeded, by
means of the magnetic waves emit
ted by a microphone, in Imperson
ating permahehtly a steel wire, as
slight as a violin string.
"About 1900, Poulsen, a Swedish
scientist, went so far as to record
and reproduce sounds by utilising
the residual magnetism of a mass
of steel. The principle is as follows:
“If we cause a thread of steel of
special composition to pass through
the magnetic field of an electro
magnet conected with a microphone
the emitted sound-waves produce
variations of intensity in the field,
which deeply modify the equilib
rium of the molecules of the steel
thread. The sound is not inscribed
on the metal as with the phono
graph, but is incorporated in the
very mass of Ihe steel.
“If now we again pass the steel
wire before the electro-magnet, pro
vided with a loud-speaker, the mole
cules will be caused to vibrate in
appropriate phases so as to repro
duce the recorded sounds. The met
al ‘with a memory’ gives out these
sound-waves as often as desired,
until they are ‘erased,’’ as on a
blackboard, by varying the intensity
of the current. A new molecular
equilibrium is then set up in the
steel, and it may thus be used as
often as desired.
• me great, improvements made
by Dr. Stille consist in the follow
ing things. Poulsen made steel
threads whose ‘molecular memory’
did not last more than two or three
days, during which the recorded im
pressions could not be erased. Vj
day, thanks to the German scientist
his menemophone can reproduce ten
years later a recorded conversation,
and at the same time ‘forget’ any
part of it that is not to be retained.’*
Summer School Here
Begins Mon. June 10
Summer school for those of the
Shelby high and grammar school
allowed to make up work will begin
Monday, June 10 at 9 o’clock at
Central high school building. Pupils
may carry three courses on which
his grades have not been lower than
E. He may carry two courses on
which his grades have been P. For
further information see Mr. V. C.
Mason or Mr. J, Y. Irvin.
C. ANDREWS, Principal.
Mrs. Hoover may be the “Firrt
Lady of the land.” but Mrs. Gann
Is the First Sister.—Tampa Tri
bune.
Star Advertising Pays j
Great Possibilities
Of Arctic Region
Vast Industrial Region May Arise
There, Says Scientific
Writer.
A vast, inhabited pastoral and in
dustrial region—this is what the
present arctic wastes are destined
to become, concludes Mr. H. de
Varigny, who writes on the subject
in La Science Moderne tParis.) Mr.
Varigny follows closely the argu
ments advanced by R. N. Rudmose
Brown at the recent Leeds meeting
of the British association for the
advancement of science. Man has
paid too much attention to the
tropics, we are told, leaving the
poles pretty much to themselves;
and yet the polar regions have many
resources, badly neglected, whose
Importance will increase with the
multiplication of the world’s popula
tion. Writes Mr. Varigny:
"The number of humans increases
daily; the world has never had so
many Inhabitants, and it is evi
dent that every increment of popu
lation necessitates an increase in
food production. Now the Arctic
and Antarctic regions present cer
tain possibilities in this regard, and
besides it is sure that some of these
are insufficiently known. Whence
the conclusion that the exploration
of these countries is Indicated, not
only from the point of view of cu
riosity or cartography, but also
from that of economics. We must
ascertain wnat they are able to give
to superabundant man, what aid
they are able to furnish him.
wnat, men, can me poiar Janas
give man to make life easier for him
"The past gives information on
this point; they can furnish fodder
and animal fats. With the lack of
foresight and the love of destruction
that characterized the ‘stupid nine
teenth century,’ trappers and hunt
ers have massacred the fauna, as if
it were inexhaustible. The nearest
polar lands have been devastated
first; Greenland, Spitsbergen, Can
ada, Siberia—and the fur hunters
have killed the goose that laid the
golden eggs—if that is a legitimate
metaphor. We now begin to see that
animals should not be exterminated,
but bred, to assure a permanent
source of furs, just as we have as
sured a sufficiency of wool by rais
ing sheep.
"By exploring the Arctic, man has
found out another thing. He has
proved that these very extensive
lands are not sterile; they can pro
duce vegetation, and they do pro
duce enough of it to support abund
ant herds, which have been terribly
maltreated. It was possible to breed
these herds; instead, they have been
decimated. The whole of Siberia,
Alaska and Canada present vast
maces, beyond the northern tree
line, as large as the whole United
States. Five million square miles of
soil, free from ice. This is all cover
ed with nourishing fodder, showing
the fecundity of the soil—the na
tural pasture of the caribou, rein
deer, and musk-ox. These animals
are indigenous and adapted to the
climate: they do not have to go
south for the winter. These are
utllizable food supplies, provided we
stop killing them off, and breed
them methodically.
"rne reindeer ha* long been do
mesticated in the old world, possibly
since the stone age. From it most
of its tund’-a population get their
living, from Lapland to Bering
Straip—Lapps, Zirians, Samoyeds,
Ostiaks, Tonguses, Koryaks, etc.
They raise it for it* flesh and its
hair, its milk and its hide, and they
who dc this certainly live better
than the purely hunting tribes, who
allow nature to do the breeding, such
as the Eskimos, who must live a
great part of the time on fish and
marine mammals.
“These artic pastures are not ap
preciated at their full value; they
have not rendered all their possible
service. This theme has been fully
developed by Stefansson, and the
author's argument rests on the
facts of experience.
“What effect would the organiza
tion of the pastoral industry have on
the native population? We may have
some doubts regarding the Indians
and the Canadian Eskimos. These
would be employed as shepherds
Butchering, storage, and transpor
tation would be in the hands of the
more civilized races. The Eskimos
and the whites would thus be in in
timate contact, and in such a case
the less advanced race usually suf
fers. For this reason the civilized
races generrally profit by efforts
made for the well-being of the
backward ones; they will colonize
and people the arctic regions and
prove that they are perfectly able
to live and support themselves
there. We may foresee the days,
says an English economist , when
the ‘bad lands' of arctic Canada, the
tundras of Siberia and Greenland,
will be occupied by a sparse popu
lation engaged in breeding and ex
ploiting herds of reindeer and musk
oxen. A hundred years ago, who ex
pected that sheep would be raised in
Australia and wheat grown in the
valleys of Canada?”
Radio Broadcast.
The Kings Mountain male quar
tet which is composed of Flay Moss,
Paul M. Gold, W. Kenneth Crook
and Earl Harrill will broadcast from
radio station WBT Charlotte every
Sunday evening from 6 to 6:30. Aft
er an audition a few weeks ago this
auartet was given a permanent hour
cr. the Sunday program. The quar- |
tet uses sacred numbers exclusively j
RASKOB DECREASES
DEFICIT OF PARTY
Raskob Brings Party's Debt Down
In Short Time. Now Only
$350,000.
New York.—The New York Times
says that John J. Raskob, national
chairman of the Democratic party,
has reduced the party’s deficit from
$1.500,000 to $350,000 by calling upon
the guarantors of the Smith presi
dential campaign to make good their
pledges.
This was learned last night aft
er a conference of party leaders at
which plans were discussed for
strengthening the organization in
the different states for the congres
sional campaign next year.
The call upon the campaign un
derwriters was understood to have
been made by Mr. Raskob on his
own intitiatlve and to have caused
consternation among some of the
guarantors who had signed the
pledges as a matter of form and
had not expected to be called upon
to make them good.
The guaranty list was made up
two weeks before election when
funds were running short at Demo
cratic headquarters. The guaran
tors were asked to pledge them
selves to underwrite any deficit on
a budget of $4,000,000. Contribu
tions during the last few days of
the campaign were said to have
assured this sum being met, bin
the campaign eventually went over
the budget and cost $5,500,000.
The Times said Mr. Raskob was
understood to have incurred these
additional expenditures without
consulting his colleagues at head
quarters and some of the guaran
tors were said to have expressed
considerable resentment at being
called upon to make good a deficit
which resulted from exceeding the
budget.
Doubt was expressed by some of
the guarantors that they were
legally liable in view of the budget
having been exceeded, but as vir
tually all of them are personal
friends of Mr. Smith they decided
l'tigation would be impossible and
agreed to pay.
In previous Democratic cam
paigns it was said underwriters
were not called upon to make good
their pledges, but that the deficit
was left to be borne by the party
at large at the next national cam
paign.
The largest contributors to the
fund to reduce the deficit were Mr.
Raskob, William F. Kenney and
Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of
New York, each of whom was said
to have contributed $150,000 in
addition to large sums given dur
the. campaign.
FISHED FOR CROAKERS
BUT CAUGHT MAYOR
Kinston.—Rudolph Noble, a fire
man, fished for croakers but caught
James C. Dail, mayor of Kinston,
and broke up the fishing party. Dail
is being treated by a surgeon.
The mayor, Noble and others
were angling in Neuse river near
Oriental when the accident occur
red. Noble flirted his rod the wrong
way and the hook lodged in the
back of one of the mayor’s ears.
It was so securely embedded
in the flesh that the members of the
party were unable to extricate it
“without cutting off part of his
honor’s ear.” They brought him
78 miles to this city.
Dr. Mercer Parrott, who ext: i
cated the hook and treated the inch
long wound, said the injury was
not serious. He declined to com
ment on the size, shape and gen
eral structure of Dail's ears.
Griffin Expresses
Thanks For Gifts
To The Editor:
Through your paper T would like
to express my appreciation to the
members of the city school board,
the graduating class, the teachers
of the Washington and Marion
school, and others for the several
fine gifts they tendered me during
and since the commencement sea
son. Just how much they mean to
me is beyond expression on my part,
and since I cannot thank each one
personally, I take this means of
thanking all for their regards.
I. c. GRIFFIN.
Down To A Bare Fact.
A negro preacher was waxing elo
quent over his subject, the “Prodi
gal Son,’’
“Dis young man," shouted the
dusky-hued divine, “got to thlnkin'
'bout his meanness an' his misery.
Fust, he tuk off his hat an’ th'owed
it away. Den he tuk off his coat an'
th’owed dat away. Den he tuk off
his vest an’ th’owed it away. Den
he tuk off his shirt an’ th'owed dat
away. An’ den at las’ he come to
hisself.’’
The chief objection to treating a
guest like home folks is that he
might get mad and retaliate.—At
lantic City Press-Union.
Hollywood.—Vilnia Batiky is
studying English with a vengeance
Two hours daily tutorage of Jane
Manners. It is with regret this flick
er bureau reports Vilnia U rapidly
conquering her accent. Rod La Rex -
que also regrets it. Vilma’s soft ac
cent and her amusing trick of con
fusing words constituted a deal ol
her charm. Rod says that Vilrrm
returns from a session with “lan
guage ’ and, after bidding her time,
asks him with too much innocence -
how to pronounce such-and-such a
word. Of course, she spells the word.
Row Rod savvies there’s a catch
to it, but he has been pronouncing
the word in question for years, so
he bravely replies. Vilmg, drags
forth the dictionary. They look up
the wrord. Vilma is right. But, all
the same, one regrets the passing
of the Banky accent in favor dl
box office talkies.
While on the subject cast an eye
toward Victor McLaglen, Vic is
British. He speaks with a marked
ditto accent. In “The Cockeyed
World’’—sequel to “What Price
Glory?’’—he must be a la an Amer- *
ican sergeant. So Vic is another
Hollywood-its laboriously learning
Americancse as she “flattenized.”
Greta Garbo stands aloof in this
race of accent versus English. The
smouldering Swede must know that
“Match Appeal’’ is what counts
with her. The rest is— er—Kismet,
Amuse-o-Grams.
Moran and Mack, the Two
Black Crows, had finished night
work for “Blackstage Bues
Charlie Mack was trying to ar
gue his partner into going to a
midnight gathering.
Moran: “But I don't want to
go and I won’t go.”
Mack: “Boy, but you’re stub
born. Nature practiced on mules
for 2,000 years before turning
out a masterpiece like you.”
_
Why, Harry!
Checkmate for Harry Rapf:
He chanced to be on the set when
three golden ringletted girls tripped
.in for a scene in MGM’S revue.
“They ain’t the Mawby triples,
are they?’’ asked a startled prop
man.
“Yeah, why not?”
“They were tiny when I saw ’em
last.”
Harry Rapr volunteered an ex
planation—something a supervisor
rarely does: “That must have been
when we first statred this picture ”
New Style.
Corinne Griffith postcards from
Belgium that the reverse side pic
tures the cheapest dress she ever
purchased. Corinne vows she’ll wear
it in her next cinema. As a native
model it may be microphonic. It
certainly speaks for itself. Inci
dentally, Corinne and her husband
Walter Morosco, are having a swell
time fluttering about Europe with
nary a thing to do but flutter.
| SCREENALITIES: Eally Eilers
having a matzah autographed by
sundry cinema-ites at ye Mont
martre . . . And the eve before Doris
Dawson and her dancing partner
wining the contest cup presented by
Loretta Yonung . . . Edna Murphy.
Mervyn Leroy, Esther Ralston and
George Webb making a foursome
Edna had just come from the
Writers’ club, where she appeared
in a skit yclept “Orchids and Dan
delions,” by Sada Cowan .
Constance Talmadge and a party of
friends also in evidence. Connie
caught herself a superlative cold
and wouldn't have minded feeling
oetetr . . . Hear tell Florenz Zieg
fcld has invited Nancy Welford to
come New York-wards and appear
in his music comic version of "East
if West,” but Nancy, waits to see
what present ,or presents) “thr
Gold Diggers” bring her . . . Mrs.
Gregory Lacava was rushed from
her Malibou Beach home to the
Santa Monica hospital t'other eve.
Operation performed immediately.
Latest war reports she is resting
easy ... Apropos of nothing, Joan
Crawford calls Douglas Fairbanks
‘‘Encle Peter.” And, that’s all—ex
cept for
Style Reels.
By HOWARD GREER
(Fashion Director.)
Barbara Stanwick, straight
from New York, starts off to ac
climatize herself with a filmy
print chiffon equally adaptable
to garden parties or formal
dinners. Below, a tight, hip
swathe, the skirt Is cut in flar
ing gores. A scarf collar covers
one arm and falls away in long
ends on the opposite side.
VILMA BANKY
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of M. L. Beam, late of
Cleveland county. North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons having
claims agaiast the said estate to
present the same to me properly
proven on or before the 30th day oi
May, 1930, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of recovery thereof
All persons owing said estate will
please make immediate settlement
tr the undersigned, this May 30
1329.
H. I, BFAM. Administrator of
M. L. Beam, deceased, Grover
Ji, C,
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