N. C. Ranks 42ndIn Land Values;
California First, Nebraska 2nd
California now ranks first In the
United States la the per farm value
<tf farm land and buildings, he.
.> average bt<"« (16,466. California U,
approximately $4,000 higher than'
the neat ranking state, Nebraska
At the other ex.reme comes Mi~
~ slseippl vita a per farm value ot
lane! and buildings of only $1,100.
- Fifteen years ago Iowa was thr
gk,e»t farm sta * in the union
« an ave age valur of all farm
" ' .> pi : farm oi apprexima-.u.
- ; . In 1033 Iowa held fo-tn
jk ai with a va'ue of land and
■bgrfeog* alrne, per .a u.. t . oarei
(11 000.
North Carolina now rahks forty
first in value of farm land and
bul dings per farm, average being
«MW. While the rank of the state |
has not changed much during the
KM fifteen years there has been a
decided drop in the average valua-,
tton par farm. In 1090 all farm
property tn North Carolina averag
ed (4AM per farm. This figure In-1
eludes livestock and farm machin
es along with land and buildings.
North Carolina ranked forty-third
in farm values per farm at thaf
time. In 1990 the average value of
land and buildings alone tn North
Carolina was 93.983, and we ranked
fortieth among (he state/. In 1930 .
the average value of land and
buildings alone was $9,018 and our
rank was forty-second. During the
last five years the average value of
farm land and buildings has drop
ped to 89.069 and our rank aa has
bean indicated It now forty-first
among the statea. In other words,
the value of farm land and build
ing! In North Carolina has declined
kg 98 percent, but the rank of the
state remains approximately the
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HEALTH
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iftwrtmhi
Literally, leukemia meant white
Wood. The name la descrlpdve of
the condition, for leukemia it a dla
com to which there la a marked to
craaee to the number of white cella 1
present to the blood.
Under the heading of leukemia
there an Uated numeroua subdivi
sions, each describing tome particu
lar fora of the dlaeeae, but deaplte
the careful etudy of its varying
ferae, «a an atill much in doubt
aa to tta origin.
neoent work, however, strongly
auggeeta that leukemia la a neoplas
tic dleeaia, that la, it belongs to
that group of new-growth diseases
which are ooilegtlvely called can
Any type of cell that la capable
of multiplication may, from the
theoretical standpoint, produce a
malignant new growth. The white
Mod cella, being capable of multi
can therafore give rise to
The itleeeae leukemia has been
experimentally produced to mloe.
The iieeeae has been propagated
from the sick to
Itfay animal.
dletaae evidently arises only
the multiplication of the
cancer call. The growths
in tile inoculated animal
net cut of the ennlmal's own
■ but by the multiplication
tkanemttted cancer cells.
Jh egpartmenta, It baa been
t,thSt the leukemia of mice
produoed resembles very
<8|e leukemia found to man.
-: fhe wuggeetid relationship of the
^IKl^emte artificially produced and
ddlkenatoly transmitted m mice.
*jto> thaS tound effecting man, of
fe» a new field for the further study
1 problems of new
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By KOUBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD. Some Up (or
Urn, some lap f.r WoiK. and ^mc
jtui tVi-.juody eke t tap
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„ ... iivUyw -oil Is .ap-tap tapping
i v i.uy to sleaile.ness and grace.
Ca the net,..—or btiuu.u u t>a
.ool .he tap-dancing cycie in
turns, the excrement sp>ead t rom
[the people who make a business ol
it to the people who only want to
learn.
Not everybody can dance like
r'red Astaire, Eleonor Powell, Bill
Robln-on, Ruby Keeler or HUeanore
Whl.ney, but everybody—so it
seems to Dave Oould dance lnstruc
tor at Me.ro—can iry and does.
8ince Eleanor Powell came on the
tot and made a hit,- Gould’s classes
have multiplied. His latest pupil Is
May Rooson, who is 71 this month
and thinks nothing of being as
. igned a tap dance (or her new
Him. "Gram” CI aid already has
taught her a time step, dllliculty
preliminary to other tapping
achievement.
It Is a dim role that brings the
venerable May to class. But then,
says Gould, that is how many ol
his regular pupils get the dancing
(ever. They learn a lew steps (or a
picture, and then they're "oil to
Buffalo.”
Gould’s youngest pupil Is Juan
ita Quigley, 4, who has been study
ing two years already. Rosalind
Russell, an interested student, prac
tices in spare time. Louis Hayward
took It up to Improve footwork in
his boxing hobby. Joan Crawford
learned to dance long ago, but when
she thought she was to dance op
posite ClUton Webb In a movie, she
went to work with serious Intent.
The picture was called off, but
Joan still dances.
Marlon Talley, the opera star,
who had never danced In her life,
learned the ballroom type during
her long idleness under contract at
the studio.
All newcomers, of course, are ex
pected to report for tap-dance les
sons regularly. It's supposed to en
hance their poise, attractiveness,
and health, besides preparing them
for possible dancing roles.
Stenographers, secretaries, execu
tives as well as stars are learning
the Intricacies. Exercise, fun, waist
line preserver—whatever they call
it, they dance.
Thousands Seek
Hostess Jo h On
Big Air Lines
By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH
NEW YORK.—(#)—Requirement*
are atrlct, yet thousands ot young
women are seeking the comparative
ly lew hostess Jobs available on pas
senger ships of the nation's air
lines.
Six years ago the first major
transport line announced It was
adding women to it8 regular crews.
Since then the beauty, charm and
bravery of the hostesses who cruise
the nation’s skies have become
traditional—and applications from
young women have crammed the
files of the major companies. One
line has 3,000 applications, but In
sists there is a shortage of quali
fied women.
Generally stated, the air-minded
young woman must fill these re
quirements If she would don the
pert uniform of the slewardess:
She must be a graduate register
ed nurse.
Her height must not be more
than five feet, four, nor may she
weigh m^re than 130 pounds.
She must not be more than 26
years old.
She must have an engaging per
sonality, be solicitous of the com
for of others and capable ot per
forming a variety of tasks, from
explaining the fundanasmals ot
aerial navigation to heip.ng change
a diaper.
One of the airlines operates a
school to polish Its stewardesses,
classes going into such things as
passenger psychology, how to make
air travelers oomtortable, serving
lunches and answering questions
about the geography ot the routes
flown.
The stewardess must be a regis
tered nurse, explains an air line
representative, "because the insti
tutionally trained girl has an un
derstanding of discipline and a
knowledge of how to deal with the
public that Is required In the job ot
s.ewardess.”
The stewardess may not be “beau
it.il but dumb.”
She must have san^e enough to be1
able to carry her end of almost any
conversation. She mint have pots.
In the presence ot the great am
near great tor many in these clas
lficat ons .ravel by air -politician
and movie stars, opera singers am.
captains of industry.
Army, Navy to Get a Billion;
But Whom Will America Fight?
BY HI'WIAI COKKKNHOMIIKjyi
WASHINGTON Nobody teems
” to know why Congress te sp
proprieties more than a billion
dollars for the army and the
navy this rear Rut the 8«*nate
army hill rails for |3R4 M9 61V
and President Rooserelt's hudeet
satlmetaa 1(110.114.07? (or the
navy
The navy la more definite than
the army about why It needs so
much m-ney It la aure that It
Is (• tnt to tight Japan tonne? or
later rite Idea Is widely held,
particularly amnnit congressmen
from the west, though no one has
explained satisfactorily how el
ther the Japanese or the Amer
ican nary could operate with suc
cess ao far from home
The army la vague about whom
It's going to tight No army of
tidal aerloualy contends that ex
pension from I1S.OOO to 1SO.OOO
men and the addition of bun
drede of new planet la meant (or
defense against Mexico or Cana
da. And faw believe that ah en
emy could get past the nary to
land an army on our shores. •
see
MEMBERS of the military af
^ fairs committees are equally
haxy about the Identity of our on
known foe Some of tham pro
fees to believe that the Japanese
might attack ua via Lower Call
fornla or Alaska Other commit
tee members and certain high
army offlrlsla seem to think we
are menaced by a Red uprising.
The suggestion haa been beard
that we may need that army at
home; and army men occasionally
mention preparation for the possi
bility of subduing American dtl
tens by use of American soldiers.
Army manuals contain direc
tions for dealing with mobs and
in recent years troops have been
concentrated nearer Industrial
centers. All this would Indicate
that the army really Is preparing
(or strikes and serious labor trou
bles.
Anyway it'* a good bet that the
army will be Baking tor equally
large appropriations again nest
rear.
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L> BPRB8BNTATIVB JOHN
** O’CONNOR tDem. N Y ),
chairman of the powerful Houae
Rulea Committee wblrb Inreatl
gated tohh>lng laat aummer. aaya
that the “power true!” laat rear
apent $2n,000 ooo lobbying tn an
attempt to defeat the Wheeler
Rayburn puhltr utility bolding
company art And nobody trlea
to guess how murh baa been apent
hiring high priced lawyera to light
the utility raaea In the courts.
The aad part la. howerer. that
the net reault of the court lights
to date baa been three defeata In
aulta that hare reached higher
courta
The lateet npaet waa the action
of the 0 8. Supreme Court In
turning down Attorney John W.
Darla by refuting to hear a ault
testing constitutionality of the
holding company act
In effect, the court agreed with
Solicitor General Stanley Heed
that the ault tnrolrtng the Amer
ican Public 8errlce Co of Balti
more wasn't a fair teat thua
enabling the goeernment lawvera
to present the act In what they
consider the beat possible tight
through their chosen suit against
the huge Rlectrle Bond and Share
Co. Final decision tn the latter
case Is not expected until next
winter.
The other two defeats are the
rVA case. In which the supreme
court held part of that act consti
tutional, and the Greenwood
County ease. In which Newton D.
Baker, as attorney for the Duke
Power Co„ contended that PWA
loans and grants to municipali
ties for public power plants were
unconstitutional
The Circuit Court of Appeals
turned Baker down. too. The su
preme court probably will not de
elde this Issue until next year.
Mass Illiness Strikes Teacher
And 19 Pupils After Rehersal
COLUMBUS, Or, April 34.—Nine
teen pupil* and the teacher of Seat
Highlands gramqiar school here be
came suddenly ill after a rehearsal
for a pageant Wednesday and phy
sicians attributed the attack to
“mass hysteria.”
Dr. R. B. Daniel, superintendent
of city schools, said school and
city health officers had investigat
ed the water supply and other fac
ilities at tne scnooi and found no
trace of contamination. He added
that there was no indication of gas
fumes and said the investigation
led to the theory of mass hysteria.
The children were stricken im
mediately after their return from
the school yard where they had
rehearsed a pageant to be staged
Friday. According to reports one
pupil, a boy, swooned and the
others became sick in a short time.
All of the pupils rallied after
treatment at the city hospital.
Beams Mill Section
Hat Many Sick Ones
(Special to The Star.)
BEAMS MILL, Apr. 34.—Prof C.
P. Gardner presented his normal
singers in an hour’s concert at
Pleasant Grove Sunday morning.
The singing was greatly enjoyed by
the large crowd present.
Mrs. Ida Costner remains serious
ly ill. Mrs. W. C. Bridges Is im
proved. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hen
drick are sick. Oscar Hamrick un
derwent a serious operation at the
Shelby hospital Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Hoyle and
children, Billy and Betty spent
Sunday afternoon with Mrs. J. L.
Carpenter and family of near
Waco,
Miss Verlle Glasco returned
home Saturday night after spend
ing a week with Mr. and Mrs. De
wrell Glasco of Morgan ton.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Hendrick and
sons, of Lenoir and Miss Hattie
Sherrill of Granite Falls were
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Clem Hendrick and family.
Mrs. Baxter Carroll ar\d family
of Waco spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Hoyle.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Costner and
daughter, Doris Ann, of Lincoln
ton spent the week end with Mr.
and Mrs. Hoyle Costner.
Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Williams and
son, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs, L. G. Smith and Mr. and Mrs
Pet* McGinnis of Cherryviile. Mrs.
Smith who has been spending a
few days with her mother. Mrs. Ida
Costner, returned to her home.
Miss Eleanor Elliott visited Dr.
and Mrs. Forrest Elliott of Lin
coln ton Wednesday.
Card Of Thanks
We wish to express our appreda
ion for the sympathy shown us
iring the illness and death of our
other, and grandmother, Mrs.
ama Cunningham Greer.—Mr.
and Mrs. L. E. Teel and family Mr.
and Mr*. Sam T. Oreer.
Remove. Red Tape
In Bond Issuance !
On Honesty Note
»7 HERBERT PLUMMER
WASHINGTON—The federal gov
eminent in making caah payment
of the bonus this summer. Intends
to proceed on the theory that all
war veterans are honest men.
Those in charge of the machinery
now being set up in the pos tot flee
department virtually have decided
to omit final formalities such as
taking veterans’ finger prints.
At explained by one high govern
ment official, every effort will be
made to simplify the procedure.
Whan It Is considered that treasury
officials estimate If the bonus bonds
to be issued were laid end to end
they would reach from New York
to London and then still go on al
most to Moscow, the tremendous
amount of routine involved In their
handling Is easily understood.
Want Vets To Keep Bonds
There's an element of psychol
ogy in the decision of the govern
ment to remove as muoh red tape
as possible In the Issuance of bonus
bonds which may be traded for
cash.
Everything possible is being done
to persuade the veterans to retain
their bonds as long ss possible. If
treasury officials could figure out
even approximately what would be
done with this bonus money s lot
of T3*tlr troubles would be removed.
Fiscal experts, however, are up
against something entirely new m
trying to make such estimates. Re
lief needs, consumer depiand and a
host of other Influences enter Into
the question.
It’s a vastly different proposition
from that presented In government
offerings to banks and business
men. A fraction of an advance in
the Interest rate on government
securities will cause almos: a stam
pede among those with money to
lend. March offerings, for example,
were greatly oversubecrlbed al
though the interest yield Is less
than 3 1-2 per cent.
The bonus bonds always will be
worth their face value, and If held,
will be worth more after the first
year because they bear interest at
the rate of 3 per cent annually un
til June IS, IMS.
Colorado has the highest mean
elevation In the Rocky Mountains,
8,800 feet. Wyoming is second at 6
700 feet.
Get Rid of Poisons
Pfdtcd by Constipation
A cleansing laxatlvw-purely vege
table Black-Draught —Is the first
thought of thousands of men and
women who have found that by re
storing the downward movement of
U» bo nil auy dlaayTtaabla symptoms ol
MMttpaUoa promptly can b« rtllsvsd. .
Mr. *■ P- Mahaftay. of Clinton, a C
writ**: "X bar* loans that SlMk-DrnusM
Is rtry nltMtlv* In tba olaaatiny of th«
•yatMk. Wbu affaeted by tbs suB hand
Mhn. Um drowilnaaa and laultud* uuU
by aoMtlpaUoa, I Uk« Bl.ck-Dr.uybt,"
A natural, puraly ragatabla laxaUva.
BLAC K-DRAUGHT
Tatis To
Parents
By BROOKE PETER8 CHURCH
Point Of View
There are and always have been
varying theories about play, Its ori
gin and purpose. There Is, for ex
ample, the surplus energy theory,
which makes play a by-product of
the child’s life, and a wasteful one.
which must be gradually v be ab
sorbed into useful channels.
Others look on play as a kind of
hang-over from the ways of early
man, a recapitulation of his various
phases from earliest times. A third
school regards play as a prepara
tion for the important work of life.
Hit child In his play Is exercising
brain and muscle and, from the ex
perience of his play time, choosing
what his life’s work shall be.
Each of these and almost all the
other theories proposed, pre-sup
poses a difference between work
and play. They claim that for chil
dren play may be very essential, but
that the sooner they give up the
futile waste of energy and settle
down to the serious business of life,
the better. Some play, of course,
will always be necessary for recrea
Uon.
What these theorists fall to per
ceive Is that what la play to one
man Is work to another. The small
boy who is called In from the base
ball field to work may one day go
out to the diamond to earn a liv
ing. The child who is discouraged
from sesnseless scribbling may one
day use that scribbling as a means
of livelihood. One child does mathe
matics as a pastime, another reads
French In his spare moments. Some
girls sew for recreation, others will
not even mend a dress.
Life Is activity, and activity Is
play or work according to whether
or not one Is doing what one wants
to do. It Is a question of attitude,
and If children are from the outset
tialned to this point of view they
may be able to keep a spirit of
youth and play rather than drud
gery.
A huge concrete gate being com
pleted by the Mexican government'
southeast of McAllen, Tex., Is de-j
signed to shunt water from the Rio
Grande to a lake two miles away,]
which will serve as an Irrigation
1 reservoir for 100,000 hectacres of
land.
Woman Held On
Kidnap Charge
NEW BERN, April 24.—Following j
a preliminary nearing Wednesday
before Magistrate Thomas Smith,
at which she pleaded not guilty but
did not testify, Mrs. Belle Bennett
alias Mrs. Beaman Sutton, 39, of
Norfolk, Va., formerly a local hotel
waitress, was in jail here tonight
In default of $1,500 bond for the
June term of Craven superior court
on a charge of assaulting Miss
Mabel M. Hutchins, 45, of Norfolk,
with a pistol, tying her with heavy
cords and leaving her in a desolate
woodland of Craven county, about
10 miles from New Bern. An alleg
ed domestic triangle was given by
officers as a motive for the attack.
Department of Justice agents are
inves.lgating alleged kidnaping an
gles of the story told by Miss
Hutchins, who asserts that she was
“taken for a ride" by Mrs. Sutton
and brought forcibly to North Car
olina In a speeding automobile that
picked her up In front of her Nor
folk home under the pretext of glv
lng her a lift to her work.
Miss Hutchins testified that she
had seen Mrs. Sutton only onoe
previously but that she had gone
with Mr. Sutton occasionally, be
lieving that he was divorced.
Memorial Day
At Pleasant Hill
On Third Sunday
(Special to The Star.)
BELWOOD, R-l, April 34.—Mrs.
Nesblt White of Linooln county
spent Sunday night with her cou
sin, Miss Colleen Mull.
Memorial services will be held at
Pleasant Hill Methodist church on
the third Sunday In May.- Only
morning service will be held, but
several quartets are expected to be
present. Decoration of graves will
be at 13 noon.
All people who have relatives or
friends burled at Pleasant Hill
Methodist church are requested to
be present on or before Thursday,
May 14 to help clean off the grave
yard and church grounds. Those
who can not come will be asked to
send one dollar to Mrs. Amanda
Warllok and she will see that a
hand Is hired.
Mrs. Jonah Bowman and little
daughter, Phyllis Jean, of Valdese
spent the week-end with MTs.
Bowman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Carpenter.
Bud Meade is sick.
Tax Collections
Swell Balance
InN. C. Coffers
RALEIOH, April 24.—Income tax
collections of more than $6,000,000
during March enabled the general
fund of the treasury of the state of
North Carolina to end that month
with a balance oi $4,429,684.29, as
compared with the Insignificant
sum of only $2,745.42 on Februagy
29, according to a joint statement
of the state auditor and state treas
urer. which was made public Thurs
day.
The actual collections of income
taxes from all sources—individual,
corporation and otherwise—amount
ed to $6,009,537.03. Attention was
called to the fact that no amount
approaching that sum could be ex
pected during any other month of
the present fiscal year, as the great
er proportion of income taxes are
paid during March.
The belanoe in the highway fundj
was $13,444,994.70, almost a four
million dollar gain over the prev
ious month. The total cash balance
reported, Including all funds,
amounted to $23,406,904. This was
an Increase of $6,655,513.34 as com
pared with the report of February
29.
North Carolina's bonded indebt
edness, although considerably re
duced during the past year or two,
still remains at the high figure of
$167,789,000 the report discloses. Of
this amount, highway bonds ac
counted for $92,771,000 while general
fund obligations reached a total of
$58,283,000. Hie next highest in
debtedness was for special school
building bonds, amounting to $12,
710,000.
More than 50,000 tung trees have
been planted in the Beaumont,
Tex., area during the past year and
more than 100,000 seedlings were
started.
Earl Green, Uvalde. Tex nr, „
hand, says he roped a live ha”,
with his lariat while riding ho!"
back. e'
We will trade in for old
tires and batteries, our
GOODYEAR TIRES AND
WILLARD BATTERIES.
Expert greasing
courteous service.
and
Don’t forget that we pay
cash for all country cured
hams.
Hall W. Tillman
Fallston, N. C.
Tillman’s Store
General Merchandise
Casar, N. C.
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