Custody Suits Ever a Tragedy to Children . ' UiNIFREO ju.O/EVEWD a_ I Charles J. ! CLEVELAND Family o-rn\ . T0TMS& Gladys’ k'enkard wDsughter^ (J2svOl»nao w _ Charges5 Eric^ite. Is it light' that the ex-wile1 .should get the children ill nine out j of ten divorces? These are questions that prob-i ably will never be satisfactorily an-! owcred. As long as divorce laws remain what they are, and husbands in their American chivalric manner, allow their wives to blacken them ©n court records and marry the “other man,” the children will be awarded to their mothers, regard-1 less of which parent would be the! better guardian. Of course, in a great many cas es, the mother is the better guard ian for the child, at least while it is very young. But later on, When the child is a growing boy. he needs healthy masculine influence. Cosmo Hamilton, who was di vorced some time ago, lias never] ceased to miss his two step-children. He believes a man is "a better mother than a woman. ’ Mr. Hamilton probably isn't ac quainted with Clarence J. Cleveland of Los Angeles. If he were, he might discover another angle to this interesting question. And that an gle is how' many fathers want to be ! School Head Out I>and G. Millard (above), prmel ?;a. Rochester, N. Y.; High i.'Chool, ousted after a row with two students, Lyle Knapp and Ivuart MacDonald. Three hun dred pupils of the school, it is re ported, threaten to strike unless Knapp is returned to the school tester. Two Hurt In Crash Of Car Bpimlalr Men Injured Returning: From Shelby. Shelby Man Driving:. Rutherfordton, March 9.—While returning from Shelby near Second Broad river Wednesday night and rounding a curve Dave Walker and Vailon Sliytle, both of Spindale, vcre painfully injured when the: l ord car in which they were riding ran into a side ditch. Walker is Im proving under treatment, at the Shelby hospital while Shyile took treatment at the Rutherford hospi tal and is now recuperating at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J M. Shytle, of near Green River. Sob Allen, of Shelby, driver of the car. was slightly injured. It is re ported that the car struck a rock v bile going rapidly around a curve, e rasing that wreck. American gui rushed by the prince of Wales at Panama City, t>&y? H. R. II. is "not a bit offish.” She was not, however, referring to his horemanship.—Arkansas Ga vcltc. ’ . 1 bothered with a group ol' mother less children. Mr. Cleveland has been awarded the custody of hi? seven children,; for whom he fought his wife in court. "After babyhood the mother -is; inferior to the father in every way,"; declared Hamilton. Women grow' old at nineteen. Men are still boys at thirty, and many of them retain a good deal of boyishness all their lives. Therefore, they are better companions and playmates Tor the children, because they understand childish thoughts and ideals bet ter.” Perhaps. But father is not so ready to give up an evening's pleas ure for the sick little boy as mother is. He is not so ready to mend the broken toys and to wipe away the tears after the street comer hood lums have stolen his candy. A ten-year-old lad sat on the edge of a chair In supreme court, New York, the other day and testified against'his mother. His papa's law yers asked him a great many lead ing questions, to all of which Charl es Eric White replied as well as he could. And then his papa’s lawyer asked him if Ills mother had treat ed him well. “No,” was the answer, “In what way does she mistreat you?*’ “She did not get me what I want ed. I wanted an electric train.” So in this instance it might seem that Mr. Hamilton was right. The little boy wanted the train. Mama did not get it for him. Probably his father did. Anyhow the judge ruled that the boy should stay in his father's custody. But baby Ernestine rebelled bit terly when the court gave her to her father. It was the last chapter in the case of Alfred Oxenham, wealthy retired banker, against his wife. Pauline Kallman. The hus band had won the divorce on grounds of infidelity. He had won his son, Alfred, Jr, 6. Then he bat tled for possession of his daughter. “I feel sorry for you,” said the judge to the weeping mother.” It is not easy for me to separate moth er and daughter. But I have no al ternative. I will, however, set a date later when you may see your child ren.” The little girl had to be coaxed to ”0 with her father. The wealthy father of another babe kidnaped his child and fled r broad. Then the mother, Mrs. Mary Kennard, of New York, was awarded custody of the child, Mary, 2. This is the second time that Mary has been kidnaped. Right after her parents’ separation, the little girl was taken from her fath er by her mother. The mother dar ed all to take her child. Seven-year-old Michael Furey of Jersey City, was heartbroken when the Judge awarded him to his mother. Indeed, it is difficult to say which parents should be given the child. But if the courts would let the child decide, we might come nearer to a solution of this sad problem. Still another solution can be found, which may do more to solve it, and that is, when parents are so fond ol their children, they ought to forget about their disagreements and stick together, if only to be sure of the joint possession of their children. Ferryboat Damaged. New York, Mar. 4.—A towering tide rolling in shore before a brisk northeast wind slammed a ferry boat against an extension bridge, in juring six persons and throwing ?o others into a panic, The ferry Kest Brighton, plying between Brooklyn and Staten Island, was attempting to reach its ship in Brooklyn when the mishap occurred. An aviation enthusiast says that flying in an airplane is as safe as sleeping in bed. But we can't forget that statistics show that more peo ple died in bed thany anywhere else, ffa -hviilc Southern T.mhbeftnan. Legion’s Program Of Better Service Outlined For 1931 The progres sot the American legion for the coming year is one in which every man, woman and child in America can par ticipate and in which every vet eran of the World war is vitally interested. It is a program of continued service to disabled comrades, to the war orphans and to community, state and nation. The record of the legion in its first decade has been an outstanding record of service. The work of the legion has been highly successful in past years and it is steadily becoming ex tended as its ranks steadily in crease in membership. The most important activity of, the legion this year, as it has beer.! in every year since its inception, is the care and comfort of disabled veterans. The legion will continue aggressively its fight to obtain jus tice for those who are still suffer ing from the wounds of war. The legion Is particularly concerned over the hospitilization of those veterans who are suffering with mental dis abilities brought about by their war service. The veteran who is now In good health can help fight the bat tles of his more unfortunate com rades by becoming a legionnaire, thereby subscribing his influence to the legion’s effort. Second only to rehabilitation is the legion's child welfare program. While the legion is particularly con cerned with the welfare of the chil dren of veterans, this program seeks to benefit all children. This work, as well as rehabilitation, is financed with the income front the $5,000,000 endowment fund raised in 1925. Last year the legion was successful in having twenty-three states enact improved child welfare legislation. This activity will be continued and special attention will be given to providing world war orphans with educational opportunities, through the state aid. The Americanism program of the legion is being enlarged. Community service is one of the principal ob jectives. Legion posts all over the country are engaged in useful and worthwhile activities for their com munities. The teaching of the prin ciples of Ainericansm through the youth of the land is carried on through the junior baseball pro gram, bigger and better than ever before, and through support of the Boy Scout movement. Through many other activities the legion is promoting its good citizenship pro gram. The objectives laid down by the legion will not be difficult to attain if every eligible ex-service man makes a contribution to the cause. The veteran who is not now a mem ber of the legion but who believes the legion is right, that its program is worthy, should show his appre ciation by carrying a legion card. With a full membership all legion endeavors will be assured of suc cess. Gospel Feast. Roberts Tabernacle C. M. E. church. Sunday is expected to be a big day at the above named church. Sunday school at 9.30 a. m., Ellc son Cromer, Supt. At 11 a. m. Dr. E. L. Johnson will speak from a subject “The Man by the Side of the Road.'1 At 3 p. m. fifteen min isters will take a part in the preach ing contest. Also a choir of 13 male voices will furnish music. This is expected to be a great service. At 5 p m. Epworth league will render prograjp under leadership of Miss Mildred Rogers. At 8 p. m. Mr. John son's subject will be Closed Door and Are Waiting Quest. The public is invited to attend all of these serv ices. It Pav* To Advertise Old Boy Max Knows Inside Of Law-Making Goerclt Says Governor Knows What Each legislator l>ikes For Breakfast. (By ('ARE GOERCH.T Virginia sent its former governor, 'Mr. Byrd, to talk to our legislature, and New York sent its former gov ernor. Mr, Smith, to do the same, but things around the capltol don't ! seem to have improved materially. What most of the legislators prob ably are hoping for is a visit from i he governor of North Carolina. Some Important legislation has been acted on during the past week. The boys are beginning to do them selves proud. The governor's road bill has gone through a-kiting and 'here is no question or doubt about, most of the Oth»r legislation he rec ommended at the beginning of the Mission. Of course he. probably won’t got through everything lie advocat ed. but ho batting average is going to be mighty good, nevertheless. And while we re on the subject of tire governor, let me tell you a ill tie secret. The old boy's got sense. Plenty of it. I don’t pretend to know all of the i inside workings of our state politics. ,.but I'm willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that two weeks before the legislature met Max could have told you the fate of each measure to come up during this session, in oth er words, it looks to me as though he’s got Napoleon,, Alexander the Great and George Washington com pletely outclassed when it comes to skillful maneuvering. There's another thing to Ik1 con sidered. too. You've heard of the expression that So-and-so knows his onions? Well. Max knows his legislators like nobody's business, lie's got 'em card-indexed and cross indexed. He knows what each one of them likes for breakfast, what kind of cuff-buttons they wear, whether they are addicted to halitosis or the M-veri-year-ttch and whether they approve or do not approve of dunk ing. By the way what's become of Colonel Kirkpatrick and John Sprunt Hill? There whs a large and enthusias tic crowd on hand to see and hear A1 Smith In Halelgti Monday after noon. He got a tremendous recep tion and everybody In the state seemed to be keenly Interested In his presence and his speech. But that's nothing. If a six-leg ged giraffe that was able to play u saxaphone and kettle drum at the same time were to visit Raleigh he would attract an equally large crowd But he’d receive very few votes for the presidency, The legislature has been kidded u lot since they went Into a trance in Re.lelgh two months ago. but the boys really deserve a lot of credit, j They've been putting in some real work and some very constructive' thought. As a general rule, a legisla tor never thinks of working and hej hever harbors a constructive thought, but this gang up in Ra leigh seems to he an exception to the rule. It is actually beginning to look-believe it or not—as though our proiK'Uy taxes Were going to be ieduced; . ■ And here’s something I want to get across in that connection. If the boys actually should accomplish a miracle and bring about any mater ial reduction In property taxes, every county might to singe a big home - coming celebrutton for them when they start hitch-hiking from Uu j leigh on their way home. Th< y ought to have banquets given in their honor and oilier distinctions showered upon them. Until now, theyh'O been showered principally with bricks, und I believe the Bible says It is not well for man to live bv bricks alone. They have been laboring under tremendous difficulties. On all sides they have been confronted with lob byists, who have been trying to con vert them. We send missionaries to foreign countries for the purpose of converting the heathen. What we ought to do is to send the mission aries to our legislatures and send the lobbyists to the heathen; par ticularly those heathen who are In clined to be cannibalistic In their tendencies. Things are beginning to look a lot brighter. The soldier have got their bonus, the legislature Is about to ad journ and it looks as though that bit of coal down in the cellar might last during the balance of this cool weather. Business Is picking up. Sherwood Upchurch has shed his j spats, Angus McLean tipped a bell-1 boy a dime the other day, Tobe Con- ■ nor had a facial massage last week and Rivers Johnson has got ltd «1 his dandruff. No. wonder the senate is all wet. They’ve got a Fountain for presid ing officer and Rivers on the floor' of the senate chamber. Mr. Lunsford, reading clerk of the house, has Improved a lot in his reading and can now enunciate such words as tropics, duties, baker, land slide, glycerine, etc., with perfect clarity. He ought- to thank his stars that he Isn’t reading clerk for the general assembly In Moecow, where the presiding officer of the lower (on^ral illation* .— - -----*— A recent picture of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the grand old member of the United States Supreme Court, who wilt celebrate his 90th birthday on March 8th, after spending more than half his life on the bench, , house is name Muftanchywykiso t'itch. Taking everything into considera tion, the legislature has been be having very nicely during the past week. Here's knocking on wood. Chicago is threatened with anoth er failure to meet Its pay-roll and about its only hope is hi getting change for Ite "Dig Bill.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. IUI STf t. > SALK OK REAL ESTAtfc real' ' tie' power anti authority contain