Seed Improvement
Will Be Helped
The North Carolina Crop Im
provement association will aid
groups of farmers in a community
who may wish in establish one
standard variety of each important
crop growp *n that community.
‘Four groups have adopted the
production of certified seed an a
definite community project," says
Gordon K. Middleton seed special
ist at State college. "Two oi these
the Woodleaf community in Rowan
count y, and the Ited Oak com
munity in Nosh county, have bean
developing their program for two
or three years. Benson and Candor
in Johnston and Montgomery coun
ties, began tneir work this season.
This is being done in connection
with the local schools. County
agents in several counties are also
developing county-wide programs
Examples of this ere seen in th?
cotton work ki Union! the lespe
pedeza development in Stanly anti
and the production of certified Irish
potato seed in Ashe, Avery and
Watauga counties.”
Any community wishing to start
the growing of one variety this next
season should see that every grower
gets enough regi. ered or certified
seed to plant a small area and then
produce enough seed for his entire
farm the second year; or, one or
two growers can get enough seed
for the whole lot and multiply the n
for the entire community. This lat
ter is probably the best plan, says
Mr. Middleton, as it does away with
some of the danger of mixing var
ieties.
Of the 29,000 bushels of cotton
seed Inspected this fall, 13,000 were
grown by the four local community
associations mentioned.
Gardner Will Try
To Prove Theory
i R. R. Clark In Greensboro News.)
Governor Gardner Isn’t going to
quit with spreads of home grown
food. He will undertake to show
that It can be really and truly
grown at home. A tract of land
will be secured In Pitt county of
100 acres or less, on a hard sur
face road and easy of access, on
which will be demonstrated the
adaptability of the soil of that sec
tion to the growing of food and
feed crops. The state prison will
furnish a sufficient number of
honor grade prisoners for the cul
tivation, and the governor will
probably give the experiment his
personal supervision. It is as
sumed that cost records will be
kept and the demonstration will
be made complete. Pitt county was
selected, the governor says, because
it has been the largest cash in
come producing county in the
state, Its total cash crops in 1928
amounting to eleven million dol
lars. And it may be said also that
it is from Pitt that the loudest
cries of distress are heard now
leading citizens asserting that
many of the people in that county
will go hungry, before the winter is
over. They have no food and no
credit and are unable to obtain
work.
The governor will endeavor to
show Pitt citizenry and others in-,
terested. next season, that there js i
no cause for the people to get that j
way. To make sure that foodstuff
can be grown, he will undertake to
demonstrate that it is practicable.
This will be the only demonstration j
of its kind in the state. It is
placed where the need for the les
son is supposed to be greatest.
BOVS, DON’T GO OFF AND
GET SWELLED HEAD
Fountain Inn Tribute.
Next to the destruction ot a j
bright young',ter by vice, the s-id- '
dest and most depressing sight in
the world of business is that of a
clean and ambitious young fc'low
ruined by sw'ell-hcad. I’ve seen it
happen again and again. Our boys
go away to make a place for them
selves in the outside world and be
gin to climb almost at once. They
are humble and modest. They nave
good manners; they feci and show
a great respeet for older and more
successful men. They have the
charm peculiar to boys raised In
the country. These qualities ap
peal to their employers and they
are promoted and given more pay.
We hear about their success and
delight in it. We expect them to
mount high. And then they come
home lor Christmas. We watch
them and say nothing, but our
hearts are heavy with shame and
disgust. The poor young fools
have the swell-head. A little .suc
cess has spoiled them. Then charm
is gone. They are opinionated,
loud, assertive, boastful. If only
they could realize how they humil
iate us!_ We had hoped so much
lor them. And now we know they j
have reached their limit, A man
has shot his load when his head j
swells. The qualities that won I
promotion for him are gone. If j
he had remained humble and re
garded each upward step as the
trilling thing it is, he might have
reached the top.. But a little suc
cess swells a little head, and h's
strutting tells us we expected toe
much. He Is a fourth-rater after
all, doomed to feel proud of a
tourth-rate success.
Triple Slayer Arrested
Walter Crab
tree, posing
with a State
trooper at the
Keyser, W. Va.,
jail, after kill
ing three men
and wounding
two women and
a girl at Rom
ney, W. Va.,
December 18.
(IhffM ujitinnal
Newsreel)
Atlanta Society Worries About
Shortage Of Eligible Men There
Wins Greatest Award
in Legal History
Bertha Cleavcngcr, was ward
ed $460,000 in her breach of
promise suit against John H.
Castle, the millionaire real estate
operator. The jury's award is con
sidered the largest in the legal his
tory of the country. The highest
previous verdict was $226,000.
This was later cut down to $125.
000. Mrs. Cleavengce declared:
“I was certainly satisfied with the
▼•rdict.”
n«i>rut(m) Natures!)
EVOLVE SERUMS “
FOR PNEUMONIA
______ I
New York.—With the reduction of
the tuberculosis death rate by 60
per cent In the past 25 years, pneu
monia stands out today as the chief
death-dealing agent among infec-,
tious diseases. Throughout the U. S.
registration area today it is gener
ally true that the toll taken by
pneumonia is second only to that
of heart disease among all causes
of death, according to R. H. Hutch
ison. widely known biochemist. In
New York state the number of
deaths among each 100,000 persons
caused annually by pneumonia
still near ilO, while that attributed j
to tuberculosis is now below 75.
However, a definite hepe that
science will soon make marked prog
rcss In the conquest of this last
great problem among infectious
diseases is seen by Mr. Hutchison,
writing in The American Druggist.
It is based on the success of the two
serums evolved and tested within
the past ten years by Dr. Frank M.
Huntcon and by Dr. Belton of Har
vard Medical school.
If treatment is made within the
first 24 or 48 hours of tire disease
with either of these serums, the
chance for survival is more than 50
per cent better than it was in years
ago, he says.
The peculiar nature of pneumonia
little understood by the layman,
precludes, however, any hope that a
single serum will solve the problem.
Science lias found that the germs of
the disease are often present in the
mouth of a normal individual as a
harmless part of the bacterial flora,
and the accepted theory is that in a
period of lowered resistance they
penetrate the membranes of the
mouth and throat and thence find
their way through the blood stream
to the lungs,
But the problem of treatment is
complicaed because the pneumoco
cci are of 11 distinct kinds Type 1
is responsible for 33 per cent of j
pneumonia cases: Type 2 for 31 per
cent: Type 3 for 12 per cent. The
remaining 24 per cent of cases are
attributed to eight different types of
germs designated as Group 4.
The two most effective serums so
far evolved have succeeded in re
Atlanta, Ga.—Despite a national
unemployment problem, AUnrra is
in the throes of a reputed man
shortage.
The problem has all the aspects
of a civic crisis, what with hostesses
driven "frantic, my dear" with tht
business of providing escorts for the
season’s new crop of debutantes
Then there’s the plight of the in
definitely past arrived debs who are
not eligible to the young married
women’s bridge and dinner activi
ties. Mme. Pompon, society col
umnist for the Atlanta Constitu
tion. risked Atlanta society’s repu
tation by publishing the dismaying
fact. Something had to be said
about it because the debutantes
took an active part In the problem
and the secret was out.
The inevitable victims of the sit
uation huddled before mirrors end
over bridge tables and conclude*.!
perhaps the high cost of corsages
1 might be eliminating the struggling
young eliglbles.
They issued a statement through
Mme. Pompon that thereafter, as
far as they were concerned, they
didn’t want any sort of bouquets,
waist, shoulder or wrist, nor even
flowers for that matter,
i “What’s the use,” they asked
Mme, Pompon. “We crush them al
most immediately, they almost al
ways do something dreadrul co our
party dresses. Besides, flowers are
dreadfully expensive. The men
spend hours trying to find new
combinations for us; it’s not fair.”
Then they added a definite plea,
disclosing the whole purpose of the
plot.
“All we want is their companion
ship, their courteous attention and
their witty jests,” the debs said,
showing a spartanlike preference
for the simpler things of life. “Of
course we want them to dance with
us. In fact, a good time is ail we
ask for, and that doesn’t call for
corsage bouquets.”
Not only is the problem veiy
much a present worry, but the sup
ply of males seem getting scarcer
and scarcer, the columnist warned.
She quoted a hostess: “is cer
tainly is true,” said a popular young
matron. “Escorts for the girls are
harder and harder to find as the
days pass. So many of them ha\e
other engagements* or are mysteri
ously 'called out of town.’ It is moot
provoking. There must be something
we can do about the matter."
Mme. Pompon expressed surprise
I that the shortage had appeared so
early in the season.
"What has become of the oia
guard," she asked, "the group of ex
perienced bachelors who, lor so
many years, have been coining out
with the buds each autumn, and
retreating to the selfish seclusion oi
every evening bridge immediately
after New Year’s.”
Apparently they had joined in the
exodus.
But the men refused the corsage
; ban. Bouquets were much in cvi
I cience at an important dinner dance
several evenings later.
Some debutantes, irked beciuse a
sister or dear friend was without es
cort that night, said they just knew
the men had got together and de
cided to give flowers and those
that didn't want to stayed away.
ducing the death rate from the
Type 1 pneumococci by more than
50 per cent when injection is early
in the course of the disease, and
have also proved effective to a de
gree against Type 2. No effective
serum for Type 3 and Group 4 cases
has so far been found, but the prov
ed success of the Felton and Hun
toon serums Is basis for a hope of
early solution of the problem.
The necessity for early treatment
i.» stressed by the American Drug
gist writer. The initial chill the pain
in the side or in the chest, the rapid
rise of temperature. the cough,
often with blood-stained sputum,
are signs anyone can recognize eas
ily. The value of the present speci
fic treatment lies largely in its early
implication.’*
A Christmas Story—Corset Gifts
Asheville.—The Skyland branch ol
.he Buncombe county chapter ol
the American Rod Cross is in good
shape now.
As there was much need among
.he poor of the Skyland community
for warm clothing. Miss Rose Chap
man, chairman of the branch, con
ceived the idea of asking the Ashe
ville merchants to donate outmod
ed and unsalable clothing to be re
modeled by chapter members Into
carments for the needy of the Sky
land community.
The new manager of one of Ashe
ville’s oddest general merchandise
stores responded with enthusiasm to
the suggestion and told the ladles
to call with a truck the next day.
Promptly the chariatably inclined
Skyland members called and were
rewarded with a large and heavy
packing case which hud been nailed
up.
The chairman was so elated at the
success of the campaign for Clothing
for the poor that she called a meet
ing of the members of the organi
zation to open the box, consider the
contents and discuss distribution to
the worthy poor.
The members gathered. The box
was opened. A member reached in
and drew out a corset with a bustle
Dumbfounded, another member
withdrew another article which
proved to be another corset of the
vintage of 1886. The packing case
was found to contain exactly 150
corsets of bygone styles and one
suit of boys clothing. Skyland mem
bers are wondering if the worthy
poor should be put into corsets.
?ell Up Tree If Hi.
Ancestor. Were Not
Greensboro News,
‘‘I can’t accept the doctrine that
my ancestors lived up a tree,” writes
Judge George P. Pell, a pure work
of supererogation, we think, since
nobody seems to have assailed Judge
Pell's ancestry.
But if his forbears were luckier,
we have his own word that their
posterity was not so fortunate. The
corporation commissioner leaves
quite a deal for the imagination. He
desires a statement from the evolu
tionists as to when and at what
stage of evolution does the anthro
poid ape’s successor acquire a soul?
Barring the fact that 1930 is a cam
paign year and that Judge Pell is
a candidate to succeed himself, the
writing is u terly irrelevant and un
timely.
But the judge and his trees'ari
in order. In March, 1928, there was
issued the epochal questionnaire to
the Forty Immortales, among whom
was Judge Peh. ‘‘You ask if'I am in
favor of Gortrnor Smith as a Dem
ocratic candidate for president,’
Judge Pell wrote. "I admire Gover
nor Smith’s fine executive ability,
horse sense and the fact that he is
a thorough human being without
any snobbishress or keep off the
grass’ signs about him, but his wet
ness so vitally effects the expedi
ency of his nomination that I am
honestly up a tree.”
Booking back over that awrul
year we recall that the Smith issue
made a monkey of many of those
same Forty Immortals. There was.
for instance, the editor who wrote
reams on Mi-. Smith’s unfitness, and
then spoke 'ages in his favor. There
was Mr. Hampton, for another in
stance, quite ready to hop on the
bandwagon, but crossed signals
stopped him There was Mr. Bailey,
who is credited with two speeches,
both superb utterances, one for
Smith, one against him. And final
ly, there was The Senator, high
priest of legularity, breathing
threatening^ and slaughter against
(he Smithites, and loving them fit
to kill now.
But Judge Pell, who protests, for
the House oi Pell, that it has no ar
boreal ancestors, is on record as
honestly up a tree." And it is pos
sible that he may have to take to
tali timbers again.
Mrs. Eva Buggy has been appoint
ed chief of police in Salem, O., to
succeed her nusband. who died re
cently.
I Loyal lo Hunted Mate
Seeks t o Set Up Alibi
Alternating between a stolid face
and tears, Viola Brcnneman, alias
Dane, alias Church, alias Reed, ■
who lived with Fred Burke, alleged
bandit and cold-blooded killei
wanted for the murder of a St,
Joseph, Mich., policeman, is belt
in St Joseph, Mich. She is seek
ing to set up an alibi for hei
“man” in connection with the St
Valentine’s Day maesr-cre. o.
Moran gangsters^ln^Ch.oa^^
New Lures Draw To
Merchants Windows
Wall Street Journal.
It has long been the custom of
some great corporations and mer
chants to include in their windows,
displays of some object of interest
apart from their wares, that will
attract attention indirectly to the
articles for sale. The American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. once
had an electric light bulb with no
visible power connections, flashing
on and off in a tumbler, to call at
tention to the advertising in the
windows of their building on West
Street, Western Union had an elab
orate model of a ship at sea to il
lustrate the latest device for test
ing the ocean depths, and the
Wannamaker store had one of the
first all-metal Ford airplanes on
view. An enterprising store on low
er Broadway is now calling atten
tion to its window full of station
ery novelties through a stock ex
change ticker in operation, with the
result that there is usually a fair
sized crowd gathered when the
market is in session.
Rockefeller Heir
Will Be Married
Philadelphia.—A romance that be
gan several years ago at a Maine
summer resort report has resulted:
In the engagement of Miss Mary T. j
Clark, of this city, and Nelson A.!
Rockefeller, second son of John D.
Rockefeller, jr.
In announcing the engagement
yesterday Miss Clark's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Percy Hamilton Clark.
said the wedding would not take
place until ‘‘some time after next
June," after young Rockefeller has
graduated from Dartmouth college.
They phn a honey moon abroad.
Miss Clark is 22 and Rockefeller
21, Their romance began at North
east Hnbor, where both families
spend their summers, and an asso
ciation which started through the
interest of both in outdoor sports
blossomed Into an engagement.
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