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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-04-07
Wolf Eaten by Wolves

One OF the popular new DOCKS
is William Fog by Upton Sim
clair. This review of it by Don
aid k:rkley appeared in the Bal
timore Erenino Sun:
Upton Sinclair's long apology
! for William Fox's defeat a. the
hands Of Big Business is An un-
successful attempt 10 turn q
farce into tragedy. No doubt
Mr. Sinclair tried sincerely to
present Mr.. Fox tat Mr.. Fox's
own request) as the philanthropy
ic and benevolent shepherd OF
Fox Film who was made q mar
tyr Of by the wolves Of Wall
Street. Actually Mr.. Fox fares
worse than those enemies whom
he hoped 70 inpale between these
| covers.
To begin with, We get only
one side Of the question and must
take Mr., Fox : testimony with
out privilege Of croSs-examina-
ton That gigantic piracies and
conspiracies are achieved by Ger
tain corporations in the process
Of extending their holdings at
! the cost Of the independent bust
ness man and the poor little
stockholder is d charge no long
/ er rev One need only read the
newspapers 10 be willing 10 con-
cede that Mr.. Fox may be quite
correct in assuming that the in
terests' combined 70 take Fox
Film away from him and that
the methods used were rough
and ruthless.
But what else did he expect
When he went into business? II
is useless for him u pose al this
date as an innocent lamb led TO
/ slaughter, after his own rise
| from nothing 10 the dictatorship
| Of one If the largest Of the film
| studios. He appears herein as
a squaWker, a poor sport and a
| bad loser Attacking his fnan-
cial enemies at this date is like
| throwing tar at tar-baby. Mr..
| Sinclair and Mr. Fox have told
Us little about these deals that
We didn't already know or sus-
pect
"On the other hand, the book
presents It's own hero in d far
from lovely light. We cannot
| sympathiZe with his chief griey-
ance, that he was thWarted in
/ his ambition ~ become the sole
! head Of the greatest movie stu
/ dio in the world. When he was
! deposed all the critics cheered.
This book, inspired BY him,
/ is damaging even when Mr.. Sin
clair means tO be Kind. If it
gives true picture, Mr. Fox is
a fellow Of Little culture and
negligible attainments outside
Of his business Office. He has the
! effrontery 10 believe, We are as
sured, that the personal deity
of William Fox personally super
vised the ultimate downfall and
dissolution Of many Of his indi-
vidual and corporate enemies.
'The books chief interest lies
in its exposition Of many inside
details Of the operation Of the
business side Of the film indus
try. The juggling Of vast
blocks Of stock, the disappear
ance without trace Of millions,
the gigantic rake-offs Of the peo-
pie who swing the big deals, the
lines running from Hollywood to
the White House, to the tele-
phone company, to Wall Street,
to Detroit - all these things
make interesting reading but
they do not restore to the Fox
his hide. That is hanging on the
Il back door of fbo horn of 'tbo ~
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-04-07
Presentation of Sweaters

The formal presentation of
varsity sweaters took place
Monday evening at meeting Of
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Yellow Gains

Among the peoples of the
world, Japan has the highest
birth rate, with four new sub
jects Of the emperor being
born every minute, or $3.50
every day. In 1923, 1,OO7,S68
babies were born in Japan. At
the same time the death rate
was the lowest on record.
Startling news for England and
Wales was the official an.
nouncement last year that the
death rate had exceeded the
birth rate, with 1874 per 1,O0c
deaths and 1873 per 1000 births.
The rest of the Continent, aside
from Spain, reports declines.
despite the pronouncements
and preachings of MuSsolini,
Hitler and other advocates Of
increasing birth rates. France
feels the decline notably. The
average Frenchman has only
90 children today, whereas in
1896 the average was 3, and 100
years ago it was 4.
The population Of the world
is, roughly, 2,000,000,000 per-
sons, Of whom 550,000,000 are
whites. Less than a third, not
much more, indeed, than a
quarter of the worlds popula-
ton, the white race, occupy
ing only two-fifths of the sur
face Of the globe, nevertheless
controls nine-tenths of it's area.
Lothrop Stoddard fixed the de-
cline of the white race as be.
ginning in 1900 after a remark
able rise which, starting in
1900, continued for 400 years
and gave the white man do
minion over almost the entire
globe.
This is true, he asserts, for
the United States and for Eu-
rope, Great Britain and the
dominions and commonwealths
of the British family of ma
tions. Well it may come, this
decline and death Of the white
race, but it will be a long time
in coming, if ever; a long time
indeed before MacCauley's last
man awakens in his city Of the
dead.
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Wine Promotes Temperance
Whiskey Does Not

The only good thing that be said about prohibition,
think that taught large number of Americans drink
wine.
Before, generally speaking, there only two drinks
beer and whiskey.
It is true that the nobe experiment. taught many young
people to drink whkey who otherwise would not have
learned and taught millions Of all ages drink gin
In spite of these handcaps however the wine industry
fourshed in its many gises disguises and vastly
greater market for light wines has been built up result
Of the Eighteenth Amendment than existed when was
passed.
Beer and light wines promote temperance spirits do not
Hence glad to that in the liquor law which
the New York Legislature expected to adopt the tax
whiskey and gin Will he high and that wine will be
parativey low
In view the spirits should be high the traffic
will BEAR by which high enough to yield the maxi
mum revenue without encouraging bootlegging.
The wine tax, the other hand should be low is
compatible with revenue needs
The tariff on foreign wines is different matter.
This country produce excellent light wines and its
grape growers and wine makers should have protection from
competing foreign brands.
Discussion of the liquor law also should remind New
Workers that that State has in its western part large
where wine grapes of the best quality be grown
By keeping the wine down the Legislature will only
aid the of temperance but will help to revive
important industry and will give the most practical form
relief to the farmers of the State.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
An Emergency
The Governments Part

Secretary Commerce Roper week issued statement
which apparently designed explain away the
ssency of the Governments policy and the policy
which is insisting private employers adopt furherance
OF the national recovery program.
that the purpose of the statement it utter failure
Nowhere in the document is there given any logical
why the Government should persist in salary cutting
its employees increase furloughs and dsmsa and gen.
orally treat its workers shabbiy while procams private
employers that the only way bring back prosperity is
increase salaries and hire additional workers.
Secretary Roper his
there indication that confusion exists in minds
the apparent inconsistency of the Government in reducing its
departmental and expenses while appealing in
dustry to increase its payrolls.'
After that opening would expect the Cabinet
officer to tell why it is not inconsistent especially after
Recovery Administrator Hugh johnson had just admitted that
the lamentable inconsistency existed
But Mr. Roper does not do that.
He tells instead this Administration had promised the
people that expenditures in the operation Of the normal
functions of the Government would be reduced at least 25
cent necessary amount to keep the expenditures for
the normal function of the Government within income
It is true that the Democratic platform contains the fol-
lowing;
tion of governmental expenditure by abolishng
less commissions and Offices consolidating depart
nrents and bureaus, and eliminating extraUagance to
accomplish saOing of not less than rs per cent in
the of Federal GoUernn1ent-"
Neither Mr.. Roper anyone else point to that para
graph in the platform justying governmental wage
cut policy of dsmsng loyal and ongt time employees or
furloughing other employees for long periods.
platform does intimate that the savings
accomplished to be made at the expense of the working
man.
Consequently neither the platform
for refusal to give the Government employe his due.
The situation which exists contemplated
when the platform written when Mr. Roosevelt
inaugurated.
We have the Government through the National Re-
Covery Administration, leading mighty army of employers
toward the goal of unemployment and the resabhment of
high wage standards.
That emergency exists the Government just truly
as it exists for the private employer.
exists just much for the worker in the Government
service as for the worker in private industry.
private industry increase it's wage expenditures to
meet the emergency the Government do no less.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
The Human Side of the News
Witchcraft Today-Is White Domination Passing?
Blu EdLUin C.. Hill
.Bv EdUin C.. Hill

The news brings a curious
yarn from Sumatra. British
agents report that the natives
are in deadly fear Of were
tigers"-human beings that
walk by day as ordinary men
and prowl the night as blood
thirsty tigers; turning them
selves by witchcraft and black
magic into fanged, striped, four
footed killers.
Hubert Banner, Of the Royal
Geographical Society, reports
the true story of a brassware
peddler who was taken for one
of these were-tigers. The ped
dler approached a village late
at night. Before he could reach
the protection of it's lights he
discovered that he was being
stalked by a tiger. Terrified, he
took refuge in the first place
he could find, which happened
to be a pit which had been dug
by the villagers to trap a real
tiger. All that night the beast
proWled about the brink Of the
pit in which the brass peddler
lay huddled. Its prowlings
erased the marks of the ped
dler's feet, leaving only the
marks of it's own pugs.
In the morning, when the
tiger had skunk from the sun
back into the jungle, the viii
layers found a man inside the
tiger trap, yet there was not a
single human footprint around
the pit itself, only the plain
prints of a tigers feet and
claws. Without hesitation they
speared the luckless brass ped
dler to death, certain that they
had trapped a were tiger.
The belief, in one form or an
other, is one Of the oldest in the
world. The Indians of northern
Canada are to this day terrified
of "Were-wolveS" and werewolf
crimes. South American Indians
deep in the Amazonian jungles
fear ghost-jaguars, and believe
that wicked men, controlled by
evil spirits, can take the form Of
bloodthirsty jaguars. Through
out India fingers that ancient
fear Of human-tigers-h u m a n
souls transmigrated into the
body of a tiger.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Three-Minute Journeys
BY Temple Manning

elms" that figure in the poem.
The lea, or meadow, rolls on
either side like a velvety green
carpet. The church, just about
a mile from the village and set
amid beeches, elms and chest
nut trees, dates back to twelve
hundred and something. It's
gray flint walls and square Nor
man tower tell the period Of its
architecture.
Directly opposite the lovely
porch of the little village church
is a yew tree with gnarled
trunk and branches. One likes
to believe the legend that it
was in the shade Of this old
yew tree that Gray penned his
poem. The tree, indeed, is
fabulously old, it's spreading
branches, thick with foliage,
almost entirely obscuring the
sunlight.
About a mile from the church
is a smart country club, Stoke
Court. once this was West
End farm and belonged to the
uncle Of Thomas Gray. It was
while visiting there in 1742 that
Gray wrote the poem that has
become a classic. About a hun
dred years ago the farm was
roIIrchaSed nv the grandson of
William Penn, and it was only
a few years ago that it was
acquired and modernized for
its present purpose.
Inside Stoke Poges Church
is The vault of the Penn fam
lily, and at the back of the
church is the Penn pew. Will
liam Penn himself is not buried
at Stoke Poges, but at the
Quaker burial ground at beauti-
full Jordans, seven miles away.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21

yOu u G1lSu-
But they don't-they won't.
All they see are the failures.
If they could look beneath. see
how much you wanted to make
good
For you did-didn't you? All
your life you'd wanted to make
good. Not just play safe-pile
up a profit-but really do some
thing sple did. something
lovely
But who would believe you If
you tried to tell them that
with a messed-up record like
yours?
I'LL B We YOU,
STRANGER!
My records messed up, too.
And all my life I've wanted to
make good, just as you have,
yet blundered instead. And
many and many a time, these
dark moods come to me as they
come to you. Moods when my
pride is in the mud. when 7
hate myself. when wonder
If it's worth while, trying to
go on
And then I'll remember a
verse I once heard:
"HoW many IoUed your mo-
n1entS of glad grace,
And loUed your beauty 1Oith loUe
false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim
soul in you,
And IoUed the SorroDS of your
changing tGce."
The pilgrim soul''-why do
folks like you and I, stranger,
dream so nobly-then fail so
terribly? That's why
SOMETHING IN US WON'T
STAY PUT.
Something in us can't be
satisfied with the things that
satisfy so many others. And
once-I despised that "some.
thing" in meas you're despis-
ing that something in you, now.
Once I wished could be like
other people" comfort
able, respectable, successful peo-
pie
People who always succeeded
in what they started to do
People who never blundered,
never ravelled out, never made
fools of themselves
How I envied those people.
How I wished I could share their
comfort and safety!
But I don't any more. I know
now that I couldn't be like such
people if I would. And I
wouldn't if I could. For in me,
as in you, there's a pilgrim
soul" And it's the gypsy fires
for us, who are made like that.
Not much to look at-a gypsy.
Ragged, weary, hungry and
broke-uSually. Np place he
The Washington times., 1933-08-21

One Of the major detectives
in the war which the Roosevelt
administration is waging to
drive out the enemy Of depres-
sion involves directly 30,OOO,OOo
Americans living on farms East
and West, North and South.
This objective, in the words
Of the President, is:
"To increase the purchasing
power of our farmers and the
consumption of articles manu-"
factured in our industrial com"
u,unities; and at the same time
greatly to relieOs the pressure
of farm, mortgages and to in
crease the asset Oalue Of farm
loans made by our banking in
stitutionS."
If this fourfold purpose can
be accomplished, more than the
one-fourth of our population
living on farms will benefit.
other beneficiaries will include
millions of Americans living in
cities and towns who sell to the
farmer and all those who hold
his mortgages.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Practical Examples

What will this mean to the
wheat farmers in Kansas? The
buying power Of every one Of
them will be increased by $190.
In other words, the wheat far
mers in each county in Kansas
will have 100000 more with
which to buy what they need
and pay their debts if the cost
Of raising a wheat crop can be
reduced 10 cents a bushel or
the selling price increased by
the same amount.
In the State Of Kentucky
more than 500 can be added
to the purchasing power Of
each tobacco grower if he can
be helped to net only 3 cents
more per pound for his tobacco
crop. This will add almost
100000 to the purchasing
power Of the tobacco growers
in each of the 100 counties Of
that State.
Three cents more per pound
for cotton in Mississippi, made
possible in part by lowering the
cost of production and in part
by increasing the selling price,
will add $263,03O to the spend
ing money of the cotton grow
erS in the average county OF
that Southern State.
Adding l cent per quart or
so cents per 100 pounds for
milk sold each year in the
State of New York will add
more than $4,000 to the buy
ing power of the milk pro-
ducers in the average county
of the Empire State. And that
will mean an increase Of $27,-
100000 to the annual income Of
all milk producers in the State
of New York.
It was said Of Abraham Lin
coin that he always saw the
Union whole" When Mr.. Roose-
velt mobilizes the agricultural
extension forces North, East,
South and West to help the
farmer increase his buying
power, he knows that he is
also helping to increase the
selling power Of the average
business man and manutac-
turer in every city and town
in the United States.
Copyright, 1898. The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
To Tighten Burden

If only the net income OF
American farmers can be in
creased, the deflation Of farm
values can be checked, the
farmer can buy more from his
fellow citizens living in cities
and towns, pay his bills, and
the interest on his mortgage,
and begin to reduce the burden
of debt under which he has
been staggeripg in recent years.
None of Mr.. Roosevelt's fel-
low Americans have a keener
appreciation of the accuracy OF
his estimate of the agricultural
situation today than the Fed
eral Extension Forces of the De-
partment of Agriculture, and
the State and county agrlcu!-
tural agents who cooperate with
them in helping the farmer TO
help himself.
Many illustrations are gwen
by these extension agents VINO
are helping the farmer today IN
2,4OO of our 5000 counties, OF
the benefits that will accrue to
the average business man living
in the city or the town if only
the purchasing power OF the
average farmer can be in
creased.
H. w. Gilbertson, Of Mime
sofa, the able senior extension
agriculturiSt of the Department
of Agriculture, can cite you
case after case where enabling
the farmer to buy more enables
the business man and the
manufacturer to sell more.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21

Eighteen births for every 1000
Of our population were recorded
in the United States last year,
against a death rate of about II
in every 1000, leaving us an
average of about seven lives to
the good in every thousand.
Census officials and insur-
ance actuaries have figured
that the year 1850 would mark
the peak of population growth
in the United States, but they
are inclined now to revise their
calculations, holding that the
stationary point is apt to ar.
rive considerably before 1850.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
@~ ~~
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

can call home. Mighty few he
can call friends. No more
social standing than a wood
tick. And all the world giving
him the ha-ha or ours
ing him out for being a COM
mon tramp. And yet
There are points about being
a gypsy, too.
There are visions in those
wistfuI eyes, which the satisfied
ones never see. There are songs
in those listening ears, which
the successful ones never hear.
There's a flame in that foolish,
floundering heart which the
SNUG ones can never feel.
Pilgrim souls-gypsy hearts
don't be discouraged, stranger,
if you belong to their clan.
After all, Life's pretty much Of
a gypsy herself. Ever think
what a lot of wandering Life
has done. what a lot of blum
ders Life has made. what a
lot of energy and treasure she
has wasted on her way?
YET THE OLD GIRLS
STEPPING RIGHT ALONG!
And maybe just stepping
along" struggling, laundering,
reaching, falling, yet somehow
never quite losing sight Of the
stars. maybe that's as well
worthwhile as stacking UP a
million. Sometimes I think it
is
So don't be too disgusted If
you're just a pilgrim, old dear.
Take it from me, you have a
lot Of company!
Copyright 1888, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
The ChildLabOr Amendment
States Should Ratify At Once

The swift progress of repeal in striking contrast to the
course another constitutional amendment which perhaps
as important but which has seized the public imagination
in the waythe amendment to eliminate child labor
throughout the Nation.
The new NRA codes have accomplished more in this drec
tion than years of agitation and attempted legislation
But the codes are after ALL emergency measure and there
the distinct possibility that when the emergency has passed
many consciencee employers will try revert the old sys
of hiring children for nothing week. otherwise
plotting them
The constitutional amendment which has been before the
States since 1924 will ratified cinch the New Deal far
the rights of children concerned.
Governor Lehman recently asked the New York State lega
ture to repair the omission during the present special session.
The legislature should do so.
New York will then be the thirteenth State to have acted on
h and will have advanced the cause Of the
children apother step toward the final goal.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Stoke PogeS

Stoke P0geS
Very few places with literary
associations have such beauty
and serenity as the little village
of Stoke PogeS in Buckingham
shire, a county just to the
south Of London. It's little
High Street and pretty cottages
are worth a visit in themselves,
but its very famous church
yard is what most visitors go
to see, for it was in the quiet,
beautiful Gods Acre of Stoke
Poges that Thomas Gray wrote
his immortal poem, so descrip-
tive of English country life and
and the simple peasant folk.
Somehow one understands the
"Elegy" better after having
spent an hour or so in and
around Stoke Poges church.
It is but a short run from
busy London to the mellow
serenity of Stoke Poges. Al
most imperceptib1y one finds
oneself taken back to an ex-
istence that Was quiet, meas
ured and simple-the existence
that Gray pictured so graph
ically in his work.
Near by is busy Slough, until
the war a quiet little country
town, but now humming with
activity as factory after factory
starts operations there. This
town, so near London, has fine
shipping and railroad facilities,
yet land and labor are cheap,
so Slough may become one Of
England's greatest industrial
centerS. One hurrieS away,
back to Stoke Poges, grateful
for the quiet and serenity Of
that little village.
EVERYWHERE are the ''rugged
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
White Race Dying2

Is the white race dying out,
nearing it's end? Is it doomed to
disappear before the onrush Of
the yellow race? Vital statistics
on the birth and death rates of
the United States, England and
it's dominions and Europe, bring
sharply to the front the prophe-
cies and predictions that the
white race is close to it's peak
if it has not already passed it.
These statistics call to mind,
also, DR.. Lothrop Stoddard's as
sertions, made a decade ago in
his notable book, "The Rising
Tide of Color"
The Washington times., 1933-08-21

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everything?
"A ! W a Y s
made a mess
of e We ry-
thing
One blum
der after an
o t h e all
your life
Until no
body believes
in you any
more
If only
S o m e b o d Y
u n d e rStood
Ire a liZed
how h a r d
xyNS1SI &%,iaI
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Farmers Buying Power
Rising Under Roosevelt
By James T. Williams, Jr.

For example, he will tell you
that reducing the average cost
of raising wheat by 10 cents
per bushel or increasing the
selling price Of wheat by the
same amount, will make it pos
Sible for each wheat farmer in
the United States to get $1.40
more per acre for his wheat.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21

a man kissed each other seven
times in fifteen minutes-and it
was a "crime-play" at that.
Once, I secretly thought that
a kiss was the most wonderful
and thrilling thing in the world!
I could write whole columns
about it. No other subject so
intrigued me! But then, kissing
was a personal and private af-
fair, not a public pastime like
flagpole sitting.
It's the REPETITION Of a
thing that makes it monotonous
and tiresome. For, while repe-