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“The Carolinian Horde Sweeps On” A Review Of The Progress Made By Carolina And Carolinians | In Recent Years. Chapel Hill Weekly Once when Gerald Johnson canie through here, In one of the Inter val* Of his toll on th* BnlUmoit Evening Sun, I asked him: ' Who is the genius who writet, that piece, every day, at the lower left-hand corner of the editorial page?'’ There are lots of good things in the Evening Sun, but the paper would be worth many times the price 11 it had nothing else In It bi t these daily essays or various as pect* and Incidents of every-day life. They are rare humor. Mr. Johnson told me the author of them was Frank Beirnr, a VU - glnian permanently exiled in Balti more 1 didn’t know until yesterday why Mr. Beirne had fled his native state. Now he tells the reason: he was crowded out by the Invading North Carolinians. But they are still pursuing him, Where wiP be go next, to escape the spreading flood of T.U Heels? New York is no refuge: f's streets are fairly choked with North Carolinians. And they infest Chi cago Boston Philadelphia. and other cities. 1 don’t know bill one thing the man can do if he want* to be safe from all contact with the species; that is. move to Pinehurst, North Carolina, The person to whom Mr Beirne alludes in the final paragraph bf the article which appeared in the Evening Post Tuesday is easily ree igr.trable as Gerald Johnson. We reproduce the article here •RAH-RAH. CAROLINA” (By 'Francis F Beirne.' 1 don’t, know why I am writing this article about. North Carolinians 1 have no idea why nnyorie els? should be particularly Interested in North Carolinians. Vet North Caro linians have a way of insinuating themselves into your consciousness. SometimesT find myself ea.ving over «hd over again : 'Chase is leav ing the University of North Caro lina,” or "Simmons has hem de feated for the senate,” or "They are building a great medical school at Duke.” very much as I might say to myself ’The American tennis team lost the "Davis Cup" or the “R-100 landed in Canada " t presume that these random thoughts are inspir ed by something I have read in the newspapers. Obviously there are edi tors who imagine that what goes on tn North Carolina is news. Why they should think so I do not know. Now I hold n6 prejudlec whatever against North Carolinians. In mj early boyhood we Virginians did not take North Carolinians very serious ly. Certainly we did not consider them a menace. The memory of th; Civil war was still fresh The idea seemed to be that if any trouble BEGINNING FRIDAY EVENING Aug. 22,25, 27, 29 Any lady accompanied by a gentleman will be admitted FREE. Ladies unaccompanied b y gentlemen, each two will be admitted on ONE FARE. TOM THUMB GOLF COURSE Nurse Tells How CARDUI Htlpvri Htr Mm. W. A. Cox, • well-known profeeaiona l V nurae. of Burn Si aide, Ky..writaa: *■- ''w *1 1 was in vary bad health, and only weighed 110 ponnda. I read in the paper* about Cardui. and thought 1 would give it a try-out After I had taken one bottle, 1 could see that I waa improving. After I had taken it a month or two, I began to gain, and 1 weigh at present 168, and have weighed that for some time. I am now 66 years old, and can do as much work as the aver age middle-aged woman "I would advise any woman, who ia weakly and in a rundown condition, to try Cardui, but not to ex pect one bottle to make her wall. I take two or three bottles a year, now, and I feel fine.” CARDUI OSEB BT WOMEN FOB OVER M YEARS Take Thediord’e Black-Drau*ht lot Constipation, Indigestion, broke out we could keep the North Carolinians on our side, as th»\ were not given to doing a great deal of original thinking. We remember-1 ed that they made very good sol dier* during the war when led by Virginians. In fact, it has recently been brought to light, I belie w that when the North Carolinians played a prominent and glorious part in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg Pickett did not even have to go with them He simply pointed them In the general direction of the enemy This conception of the innocuom North Carolinian attended me throughout my days at the Univer sity of Virginia. Our football season was always concluded with the Vir ginla-Carolina game on Thanksgiv ing Day at Richmond. There was never any question a* to the out come of the game. The University of Virginia always won. No matter how disastrous the season had been It always ended In a burst of glory Carolina never refused to act as the sacrificial goat. Even at that early date, however, had we Virginians but known it there were warnings of what was to come. North Carolinians had already advanced upon and conquered Nor folk. There were unmistakable In dications of their designs upon Rich mond They took up strategic posi tions as presidents of trust com panies and general managers of to bacco factories. It began to be the case that when a young Virginian sought employment he found him self facing a North Carolinian win,, with an unforgivable lack of breed ing. instead of asking him ‘Who was your fatherTic would inquire "What can you do?" Worse than that, the University of Virginia suddenly came to the conclusion that it needed a presi dent. which it had got on very well without for almost a. hundred years. To make matters even more deplor able It was discovered that the person who seemed to fill the bill was a North Carolinian. The In stallation of Dri Alderman as first, president of the unlverstUy was quite naturally succeeded by rioting among the undergraduates. The re bellion was eventually put down and there Dr. Alderman Is today. Still these were small and unim portant incidents. North Carolina continued to sleep on quietly, which was most reassuring to Virginians. If visitors complained of Virginia roads, Virginia had only to point, to North Carolina. If there was iliter acy In Virginia. North Carolina could be counted upon to provide il literacy even more shocking. The hookworm, os I recall, flourished far more generally in North Carolina than in Virginia. Thus, with such a glaring example of a backward state at her very doorstep, Virginia es caped the more active well-doers and reformers who. If they touched Virginia at all, halted only tempor arily on their way to tire Carolina battle front. Life in Virginia in those days was calm, peaceful and altogether delightful. Then something happened to North Carolina. Somebody appar ently told the Carolinians about education and they began to read and wTite. Virginians having taken their knowledge of reading and writing aa a mater of course never dreamed of using them for ostenta tious display. But the North Caro linians conceived the notion that, reading and writing are valuable cheifiy as a vehicle for expressing Ideas It got to be a craze Vith them and they pursued letters with the enthusiasm of first-century Chris tians. With the advancement t f education came the inevitable prog ress in other tilings. The result of this on Virginia was that she suddenly realized that she no longer had a horrible example »l her doorstep. Even worse, she ran the risk of becoming a horrible ex ample herself. In recent years the University of North Carolina has been beating the University of Vir ginia at football as regularly as she formerly was beaten. Virginia un der-graduates now have to subor dinate social pastimes to sweating and struggling on the football field in the hope of some day turning out a victorious team, while alumni of the institution with horror on their countenances ask what has oecome of the sterling manhood they used to know. Members of the faculty of the University of North Carolina have become obsessed with the idea thnt theirs is an institution of higher learning. They have set about writ ing folk plays and editing;* maga zine of social forces. So the Unlvei sity of Virginia faculty must retali ate by publishing a literary quar terly and undertaking tedious re search work in folk songs. Wortliy men who looked for years of happy retirement in the leisurely academic atmosphere of Charlottesville sud denly find themselves called upon to do battle in the front rank. Why should Virginia need "ood roads? Roads bring people in and they take them out. Virginians wanted nobody In, they didn't want to. get out. What earthly use were good roads? Then North Carolina got them. And if North Caroline uad them there was ever reason for Vir ginia having them, too. And so Vir ginia has had to go to Jhe trouble and expense of building roads. Like wise she has gone to the trouble and expense of building oetter schools Furthermore, there has grown Up a school of Carolina his torians who have begun to write history to suit themselves and not at all according to the old tradition It looks as if Virginians wilt have to go to all the annoyance of .writ ing more history to offset the Caro lina historians. * It is bad enough to have to face Paul Greens and. Gerald Johnsons and Howard Odums. But when news goes forth that another North Caro linian has taken a Pulitzer prize for writing music and is actually in the throes of writing an opera—well, what is a poor Virginian to think or to do? While all of this has been going on in North Carolina, the state has continued to dump its ex cess population into Virginia and the conditions in North Carolina and Richmond continue to grow steadily worse. X flatter myself that I was among the first to see the handwriting on the wall. Ten years ago I came to the conclusion that, with the descent of North Carolinians upon my na tive state, there was no longer room for Virginians in Virginia. Oh for n Pickett to head these North Caro linians toward a stone wall bristling with enemy bayonets and fully sup ported by artillery and tell them to go to it! Once across the Potomac and under the protecting guns of Baltimore I felt I could breathe safe ly. That was ten years ago. Alas for | shattered hopes! Even Baltimore has ceased to be a refuge. Like the Jap lanese beetles, the Carolinian hord: sweeps on. As I pause in the day’s gruelling work to tilt back on the two hind legs of my chair and dream of. the Elysian fields south of tlie Potomac and to conjure up a vision of the far-flung hills of the ’Blue Ridge I am suddenly brought to life by the rat-tat-tat of a type writer, It is the man who shares m> office, wrapped in the infinite joy of literary composition. And he is s North Carolinian. 53 Million Car* Predicted In 1940 In the United States there Is an average of one motor car for 4 5 people. California leads the states with one car for 2.3 people. Nevada be ing a close second with one for 2.4 people. Iowa and Kansas tie for third place with one for 3.1 people. When this country as a whole shall have reached the present Cal ifornia standard of car ownership, the number of cars will have neai'ty doubled. Our roads and streets will have to accommodate about 53 000.000 cars Instead of 26,500,000, The number of cars increased 8 per cent last year, whereas popula tion increased only 1.5 per cent. It is probably not far amiss to estimate that by 1940 there will be twice as many ears In use in Amer j ica as at, present. America is now spending about $3,000,000,000 annually in road and street construction, improvement and maintenance, including snow removal and street cleaning. If the number of motor cars shall double In 10 years. the money collected from gasoline taxes and licenses will more than double, for many states will undoubtedly raise the tax races Bond issues are likely to increase In per capita volume, for motorists will continue to be impatient to lengthen, widen and otherwise Im prove the highways. And. why not? As we have repeated shown, high way expenditures continue o lag far behind the Increase in motor car expenditures,—Chicago Roads and Streets. Not Afraid "I’m going to make a parachute jump from 10,000 feet tomorrow.” "What if the parachute don't open?’’ "Oh, that won t stop me.” .. - -illllUg1"-MUK Swift’s Suicide Gun Baffles Police in <^»ti? Mis* Helen Morton Dayly Swift, famous society sculptress, of Chi cago, whose husband, William E. Swift, son of the multi-millionaire meat packer, was found shot to death in a private sanitarium,1 Where he was being treated. Mrs.1 Swift is atpresent critically ill in the Johns Ffcipkins Hospital, Balti more, and unaware of the taagedv, i t»t*rn*ti»n*l K»w*re«ll Rutherford Talks Removal Of Trams Time Keeping Plan Section Beginning To Rcalite In convenience of Train Removal, Makes Protest. The removal of two Southern pas senger trains operating on the Mar ion-Sheiby division is meeting wiii; protest in Rutherford county. Speaking or the removal Hit' Rutherford County News says; ‘'The section of country fron Shelby to Marion traversed by (lie Southern railway is beginning ti; realize the inconvenience of having the early morning and night, p.., senger trains removed. This thro*'; Rutherford county without an ea. ‘ morning train anywhere. McDow ell county still lias the Asheville and Salisbury division of the South ern while Cleveland county, will con tinue to have the trains from Shel by, south as usual. "The removing of these two trams will greatly inconvenience mai! w ■ livery. It means that all of our out going mail dispatched south and east must go in the afternoon only. ‘‘This section of country is in great need of outgoing morning mail. The star route from Gastonia to Shelby should be extended t' Union Mills, or to Marion. Local civic clubs should go to work on this proposition at once. ‘•While we are surprised that tee Corporation Commission allowed the Southern to take off these two trains Sunday without any hearing we a*e not surprised that they were taker off. “Officials of the Southern, stated recently that they were losing $1 - 800 per month on the actual oper ating expenses of these trains. On? could hardly expect a corporation to continue to operate trains at a loss. “This goes to prove that the ai vance of civilization seems to work a hardship on one of our best tax payers, the railroads. The automo bile, bus, airplane and truck have taken much of the railroad's busi ness. Last year the three railroads that come into Rutherford county paid a total county tax of $68,752.98. How could we get along without rail roads? We have never heard of a railroad opposing a tax for better schools. They have always favored progress and have done their part to make the country , what it is. “We all should patronize our rai. roads more than we do. How : luch tax does the county get out of all the bus lines operating in and through the county?" Co-operative Association. Madison county iarmers working through their local cooperative as sociation did over 33,000.00 worth of business last year. The association is known as Madison Farmers, Inc., and the membership is made up of bonafide farmers. rr -^ QUEEN CITY COACH LINES FOR, ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON FAYETTEVILLE. FOR ASHEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: Leave SHELBY:—9:45 a. m.; 3:45 p. m.; 8:45 p. m. FOR CHARLOTTE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 a. m.: U;50 p. m,; 4:50 p. m.; (6:50 p. m., Saturday and Sunday inly,) 9:50 p. m. FOR WILMINGTON AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SHELBY:—10:50 a. m,: FOR FAYETTEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS: LEAVE SIIELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 a.m.; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION — PHONE 450 QUEEN CITY COACH COMPANY Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— COURTHOUSE RECORDS 1 OK JULV Real Estate Transfers John Doe to Sarah Doe this wife), 124 acres land: consideration—5 dol lars and love affection. » Sheriff to Federal Land Bank, (Case Federal Land Bank vs I. M. Breakh 399 acres land considera tion—1500.000. (Fore-closure). i Tax Collector to State, 16 housea and lots, 7 farms, 5 automobiles. 4 Chevrolets and 7 cars considera tions—Taxes. (And 77 other efforts to possess and re-possess). Marriage Licenses Jimmie Deddbcat to Sadie Flap per Heap. Bill Dett Doger to Elbe Cayenne Pepper. Jule Napoleon Hookwinn to Toot sey Wootsey Milkshake. Jake Paralysis Stoppit to Pinkcy Dinkey Dinks. (And S5 other happiness hunters that can't be listed here). Births Born to Joe and Halie Motes, a1 baby girl, weight pVund.v "amed! Lindy. 'And nobody else) Mortgages Every boddiC to Used Car Co., Ij automobile. Poore & Kneedy to Ride A- Pay Sales Co., I car. Hadda Fitt to Ham & Ncggs, 1 radio. Cann Knott Makit to Henry Ford, 1 touring car. (And 99 other of a similar na ture'. Deaths Harini Skarinv Chase, age 19; cause. 5 gallons gas and 1 quart of corn. Aaron Hittim Hardd and family, ages, 55, 54, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6. 5 and 2: cause—65 per hour. A. Pedless Trian. age 84; cause, didn’t dodge quick enough. (And 66 very similar socalied ac-j cldents*. MIKE AND IIIS FAMOUS DOGS flat rock, s. C„ aug. 25, 1930.1 leer mr. editor: i have benn asked to rite up iny i J beegle dogs who ansers to the1 name of nelly and rover and which i was imported from Ohio about 4 i m ago, and as they have already ] won some prizes at the fair, i feel: that it is my duty to do so onner, count of them being the best dogs n the country., nelly can out run rover when she is after a rabbit but rover can cut run nelly when he is after a fox and visa versa, one time the former was running a fox and the latter was running a rabbit and rover was going so fast that he oatted his eye and run past the fox and diddent know it for 3 days when he was found 11 hundred 45 nlles from home. but nelly ketched the rabbit and saved him for rover when he got lack home and then went and cetched the fox that rover run over when he batted his eye and she vaid 15 pounds and i sold her hide 'or 3$ and c45 in cash at the stoar and the man sed that was all it was worth onner count of she bit her thru the skin and later on,; he sold the same hide for 11$ tn cash, so he beat me out of the difference a grate manny people have wans ed to buy nelly and rover but mon hey don't mean nothing to me when it is rattled at me for them 2 dog-, but 1 have a few of their off spring for sail and who ever wants l v; them for 2$ can have the same b', calling at my house betwixt sun down and dark on saddays for same, but 1 have decided to keep my imported dogs as they give me some thing to brag about since the old lqdy quit working so hard. when it comes to training dogs ansoforth, i know my chitterling 1 have teached nelly and rover nooi to smell a rabbit lyid a fox at tie same time, and when 1 say sickem rover, he makes a dive for the fox, when i say sicken nelly she lights out after the rabbit, and one can ketch the other about as quick a the tuther and they always brim; both of them back to me for horn use. i will be glad to show the sed dogs to anny add miring friends pi good dogs, so just rite or foam when to expect you. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. 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