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The Washington times., 1935-03-30

Blankly, desperately, we stared
at each other. Then I began to
cry. And he. tight-lipped, said,
"Now, now, Elsinore"-which is
my name, only who but a Yer
monter would ever think of calling
me that? And then We went up
to his house. And his mother let
me in as if were a peddler. And
when my trunk came, I put on the
white silk dress which my mother
had made by hand, and hooked it
up all wrong, and knelt and asked
God to help me-and went down,
still Sobbing, and was married.
For, of course, there wasn't any
thing else to do. That was 1908.
And If you said you would get
married in 1908, you did.
Those staring children-I know
now that such strangeness as
theirs comes to all of us when we
are about to end one life ami
start another. It is part of that
constant lonely process of birth
and death by which we grow. But
with most young things, that
StrangeneSS passes with their first
moment alone,
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She Realizes Her
Tragic Mistake

And now are you beginning to
see why it was not possible for q
western girl to achieve marriage
with a Vermont Puritan? Tough
on me? Tough on him, too, for
he was, at heart, a decent, kindly
man, cruelty needing the fun and
freedom which. he dared not take.
can see him yet-the fine dark
blue eyes hardening themselves
against their own hunger; the
sensitive, intelligent features tight
ening against the challenge Of the
world, the FLESH and the devil as
represented by Yours Truly. Yes,
I had suspected he was like this
before marriage. I had known he
was afraid Of his mother, and was
always talking texts. But these
little eccentricitieS would surely
cease when we-and love-could
go off by ourselves.
But with the first limp, reluc-
tant handShake which my new
husband gave me after the min
lister had pronounced us one, be-
gan to realize my tragic mistake.
Marrying q Puritan wasn't-could
never be-merely a private ro-
nance. It was part Of a Pilgrims
Progress. You might take a wife
or a husband, but your Souls Sal
vation was StiI your main con"
cern. So God wasn't just an acceS-
sorry such as all respectable fam
lily folk expected to have around
the home-He was the whole show.
God was the whole show, and
everything was q sin. First Of all,
worst Of all, loving was a sin. Not
just bad taste or merely carnal
conduct, but an actual sin which
blackened birth and haunted life
with Q horrid consciousness OF
guilt.
So there we were-C. B. c. and
God and Elsie-setting up house
keeping in a little peaked-roof cot
tage at No. 13 Myrtle Street.
The peaked roof had q leak in it;
my husband had q Conviction Of
Sin: God had a Crouch; I had a
restless heart and an itching heel.
The combination wasn't 50 hot!
Was I in love? Again I can only
say I don't know. No 19-year-old
girl, past or present, really knows
whether she is in love or not. But
every healthy 19.year-old girl is
willing to be in love. wanted
to be in love.
But something was wrong, ter
ribly wrong. What? I couldn't
have told. Nico Girls, in 1903, had
no Hygienic Lectures, Frank Films,
Love Confession Magazines or talks
by Popular Psychologists to wise
them up to the why's and where
fores Of the love technique.
Had No Time
To Waste
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think the Great Change was
ushered in by the spilled blood Of
patriots and the conferences Of
statesmen. AS a matter Of fact,
it arrived with the uproar Of
smashed teacupS, banged bed
room doors, and young ladies Of
10 shrieking to go home to their
mothers.
CHAPTER TX
So married life started for us
in No. 13 against a crumbling
background Of outgrown senti.
mentality and economic programs
gone haywire. But even at that,
we might have made q go of it
If we two could have stood united
against that background. But we
didn't. And the reason was ap-
parent from. the first. c. B. c.
and were never I'VE two" There
was always at least one outsider
preSent-uSually two.
One Of those outsiders was my
mother-in-law. Like the proverbial
Chinese dowager, she dominated
every activity Of our home. But
occasionally she was absent.
There was one other, however,
who was never absent, from
whom we were never free. That
other waS-God.
That lugubrtous Lord Of old
New England-you cannot pos
Sibly understand the why's or
wherefores Of your country, un-
less you are familiar with that
remarkable deity. However, let's
be fair. Grim godlineSs wasn't
confined to New England. The
Protestant Church was still the
Social Center as well as the
Spiritual Arbiter Of all American
village life. And American Pro
teStantiSm in 1903-even in Cali
fornia, where it was mellowed by
Latin CatholiciSm-waS no tap
dance.
Family automobiles and neigh
borhood talkies had not vet ar
rived to challenge or temper the
rigors of the Sabbath. All nice
Young People went to at least
three church services on Sunday.
Outside Of that the only permiS-
Sible diversions were reading,a.
cookbook or taking-a-quiet-walk.
Even q furtive game Of croqueC
was o public scandal.
There Were Many
Prohibifions
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combination like that? You
can't do anything, for If God is
with you-or you can make the
other fellow believe He is-who
can be against you?
The Puritans didn't discover
this fact. They only revived an
established technique and in
vented some new thumb-Screws.
Am funning? I am not.
am telling you, in all seriousness,
exactly how 1.-The backbone OF
America" felt about God in 1908.
II I seem to jest, it Is only be-
cause I am trying to whistle
through q fog which hopeleSSly
blighted many q life and raised
cruel Cain with mine.
And let me state right now that
I feel righteously justified in that
whistling. For I believed then
and I believe now that the Puritan
code was a wicked libel on the
real God-and that it had not
the remotest connection with His
glory and strength and tender
JOY. They called me sacrilegious
and eventually, something much
worse.
But to me, my attitude was
truly reverent and the real God
was desecrated by these cowardly
souls who saw only sin and on-
Scenity in the beauty He created.
And in fighting for myself, I
fought for Him, too. For I
loved that joyous God then. I
love Him now!
She Realizes Her
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Had No Time
To Waste

I grin as I write this, an in.
credulous grin ct the wonder Of it
all. There you sit, a Perfectly
Nice Person, reading these words.
And here I sit an Eminently Re
spectacle Person, writing them.
Yet, as years ago, no decent per
son would have dared show an In
The Washington times., 1935-03-30
She Stayed There
Ten PGralyzing Years

How quiet that virtuous village
was after Benicia; how correct!
Like q Sunday school picture
card. SpotleSS, square, clap
boarded or brick houses, their
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terest in such matters, much less
discuss them openly.
Do you remember those first
movies, those old novels, with their
conventional picture of the Pro
spective Mother hastily concealing
the Tiny Garment in her work
basket, lest the future father SuS-
pect what was about to happen to
him? And it wasn't only the Tiny
Garment that these wives hid, as
though 1t were evidence Of crime.
All the sweet sudden clamor Of
life-its gay pagan urgencies-
these were shameful, forbidden
things, to be INDUCED in only after
prayer and in the fear Of God!
What do you do, little bride Of
1885, when you're 19 and just mar
ried? You make love to your hus-
band. Shameless, joyous, reckless
love. You rush out on joyous ad.
ventures. You spend long, lus-
cious, lazy hours dreaming Of the
miracle and beauty and delight Of
it all, laughing, crying to yourself,
making up little songs, waiting for
q footstep.
Is that what you do when you're
10 and just married?
No, it is not what you do-not If
you married a New England Puri-
tan at the turn of this century.
You wait for the footStep, al
right. And it comes. But it's 60
ing out to prayer meeting-and it
has no time to waste from the
pressing business Of its Souls Sal
vation.
CHAPTER K
OF course, you could go to prayer
meeting, too. Your soul also is in
urgent need of salvation. But you
don't want to pray! You want to
go somewhere. Do something.
Something jolly. Let's!
You say these things with varia-
tionS. People used to laugh at
you back home for saying things
like that; used to kiss you and
give in to you. But nobody laughs
at you, or kisses you or gives in to
you now. Instead, you are met
with a Cold Stare.
(Oh, why can't he understand?
Oh, why can't he be just a little
warm and human? Oh, why did I
marry him, anyway? Why didn't
I marry Louis or Howard or Tom
instead? But won't cry. won
cry! I won't cryD
So you walk to the window and
stare out hard at the long, empty
green dusk of the elm-Shadowed
street, keeping your eyes blinking
bright, firming your soft little
chinless jaw against a shameful
quivering. And the stubborn
shoulders dwindle into the dis
tance and disappear and the
sound of the hurrying footsteps
is gone, and there is nothing left
in the street-nothing whatever.
Back home the street would be
filled with a rush Of laughter and
song; with the clatter and clump
of the old buggieS; with flutter
Of blue and pink and yellow ruf-
files swaying like flowers about
bright tangleS Of brown and
golden curlS. And someone would
come riding by silver saddle
chains jingling, looming dark in
the twilight, with a smiling brown
face bending down upon you.
Healthy Impulses
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NOW READ ON

Consistently from the day Of ny BIRTH had Wanted Out
had thought marriage thereto OF course as
sumed was in love. eager to be in love- But still
Wanted Out
Now though the freezing March wind had actually stripped
me- my dreams dropped from For the first time in 10
years came wholly awake perceiving, with numbng GER
anty had the last place earth where could
hope to find Life
For instead of finding Life going to be married Just
when last free and things might be interesting was
going be mardand would have to wash Dishes and sweep
floors and 60 any place anyone ever ever more
vvhv
The Washington times., 1935-03-30
Elsie Derides Sentimental
Stories of Mythical
Good Old Days.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

the foregoing chapters of her Ovd morrative Elsie
Robinson tells of childhood days in BeniciG CG Where life
aOas hard and rugged.
When girl reached IT, she married. Elsie a0Gned
than that She Ooned to know and feel everything
life had to offer; she aOomted out!
So at 10 she aOent to Vermont to nCry young Ne'O
Enqlander little realizing then the heart he and bitterness
this 1Oould bring her.
Lack of understanding kept Elsie and her husband spir
itually apart. They mever really became one. ~
The author declares that American marriage Z" 1908
nDcs be1v;Idering affair." The Gibson Girls not
merely an Intriguing mode They were symbol OF
changing 1O0rld.
Fashion still ldcng the Gibson G1 into corsets, bt
cher spirit aUGs coming Nncovered."
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Copyright by Elsie Robinson
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06

program should Immediately be cur
tailed. Ordinary government expenses
should be slashed. The relief program
should become merely relief pro-
gram for those who need relief. Most
people object to a dol" but the time
has come when the unemployed must
be supported as cheaply as it is hu-
manly possible to support them.
. If spending continues at the pres
ent rate and government credit is
thus destroyed, then who will pay the
2rOcer's bill for those who are with
out jobs? Many of my readers contend
that the morale of our unemplayed
must 2e maintained by making"
work for them and paying them a
fair wage, or they will run riot and
do injury to our present system of
government. Let those readers i'm
agine what a threat these 100000
public wards will be when Uncle Sam
can no longer borrow topa y for their
food, clothes, and shelter.
Vital Need for Peoples Lobby
Remember that the governments
six-billion-a-year spending program
has created and is creating a strong
selfish group of vested interests. This
is the real danger. Right down in
Washington today there are eight or
ten powerful blocs lobbying, bullying,
and threatening our congressman 20
increase these huge pork-ibarrel ex-
penditures. These blOcs will be there
next year. the year after and the year
after that struggling just as hard as
they are today for eVer-increasing ap-
propriatiOns for their own selfish in
teresth. Congressman are supposed to
be representing the people. But they
are not voting as the majority want
them to vote, for the people have no
lobby. AS are suit the people are not
running the country.
Can anything be done? Yes We can
fight fire with fire. We, too, can bully
and threaten and lobby our congress-
men. We are over 1OO,OOO,OOO strong
We car. send letters and kilograms
demanding that they vote down in>
creasing expenditures. We must force
thm to vote as we want them to vote,
or else we face disaster in the not
too distant future.
Business, IS registered by The Bah
sOnchart, stands at one per cent above
year ago, but is still 10 per cent
below normal.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06

ary. as it has tendency to return. II
never leaves any disability in the
joints and its worst feature is the
chance that it may affect the heart
Or the circulatory organs.
The chronic form of arthritis,
which affects young people from 20
to 80, is the one that / speak Of as
the real central problem of arthritis.
The arthritis of old people over so
IS not much of a trouble maker. True
the patients complain a great deal.
but after ali it affects. usually only
one joint, and it only affects their
activity in the sense that it keeps
them from moving as fast as they
would like to- But there is an apt
story which applies to their condi-
ton about the fellow who was in
jail and asked a guard what time It
was. The guards reply. you remem-
Der. was, What do you care? You
aren't going any place." We do not
wish to appear unsympathetic to-
wards the arthritis. of old people. We
have some of it ourselves. But the
treatment is not troublesome and the
nature of it will be taken up tomor-
row.
Concerning the treatment of the
chronic arthritis of young people,
commonly called "rhsum&toid arthri-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06
SCHOOL BUSES GAS
TAX MAY Be LIT TED
Senate Education Chairman
Would Afford Relief
For Trucks.
DnIIy Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,

Raleigh, April 6.-Gasoline used in
the 1000 or more school buses would
be exempted from the payment of the
State tax on gasoline and the schools
thus be saved about $4,000 if the
bill just introduced in the Senate by
Senator Lloyd Griffin, of Chowan,
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Education, is enacted. 1t was intended
to exempt the schools from the pay
ment of this tax two years ago, but
through some error the exemption
was not made. At the present time
operators Of airplanes, farm machin>
cry, stationary engines and motor
boats are already exempted from the
tax The Griffin bill merely amends
this section Of the present law to ex-
ernpt the schools from paying the tax
on gasoline used in school buses.
Since under the present State law,
the tax on gasoline is paid by the
distributing companies al the bulk
plants, so that the State tax has al
ady been paid on all gasoline sold
in the State, the schools would con-
tinue to pay the regular price for
gasoline, including the tax, and then
get a refund of the tax from the
State Department of Revenue. This
is the system used by all those com
ing under the exemptions.
At the present time the schools are
using approximately 100000 gallons
of gasoline year at a cost of about
$450,O00 year, including the tax OF
six cents a gallon 1t is estimated that
if the schools are exempted from this
tax that it will save about $4,000
q year that can 1e used for employ
ing additional teachers or for inr
creGsing teachers salaries.
While the road forces are expected
TO oppose the bill on the grounds that
it constitutes further diversion of.
road funds, present indications are
that it will pass both houses without
much opposition, since it is contend
ed that the schools should not be
taxed in order to provide revenue for
the highway department.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06

an interesting session when 1t comes
I'm for action. Proponents assert 1t
will pass but opponents are equally
confident it has no chance.
More than 100000 annually in new
+ox money was written in the revenue
bill during the week by the SENATE IL
nance committee. An additional So5o,-
600 diversion of highway funds ana
elimination of the present exemptions
on contributions in income tax returns
hrovides the additional revenue.
The ,nner chamber money group
o1so ctrncx out the House amendment
n The fax on chain filling stations
and adopted again the schedule ap-
proved by the Joint committee. The
diversion of highway funds would be
accomplished by application of the
sales tax to the retail price of gasoline
with the sales levy to be paid from
the nresent six-cents- -per-gallOn tax on
the product. The consumers price
Of Gasoline would not be increased
bills to remove the absentee ballot
law in numerous counties received
the attention of election law commit
tees of the two divisions and a State
wide measure for the repeal of the act
will be re-drafted and presented by a
subcommittee next week.
! A senate measure providing for the
establishment of a shoe factory at
| Central prison was reported favorablv
by the House group on penal nstltu-
tions and may be enacted into law
early next week.
Also standing chance for carry
passage and ratification is the bill tC
| reduce the cost of automobile Incense
| fees to As cents per hundredWelght
| with an So minimum. Already pass
ed by the Senate the measure was re-
ported favorably Thursday by the
House committee on roads.
Pending as q major issue for the
House is a bill to make the States
traffic laws conform more nearly with
the uniform traffic code. Its proVl-
sions for legality of 96-inch WIDTH
trucks and buses has already caused
considerable debate in the lower
chamber.
Representative Harris of Person
chairman of the House committee or
education, has indicated that Worl
on the school machinery act for the
biennium may be completed mex
week.
The House Friday went through
maze of bills on the public and loca
calendars and will more or less marl
time next week while the eknate is
debating the revenue measure.
Sessions today were of the usua
perfunctory Saturday character, only
local legislation being considered
Most members of both houses arr
spending the weekend at their homes
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06
Rv LOGAN CLENDENING, M D.

Ey LOORN OLL1IVDL1IVIIVN11 VI, %
THE REAL PROBLEM i in the
treatment of arthritis is that of the
young person with an involvement
IF many joints. There are two types
.... of this Arth ritiS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06
Ar!hrjtis in Young FoIk
Nav Be Cured With Rest

tis", / have been interested in the
replies to QUESTIONABLE sent ont
to sixteen of the prominent medical
men in this country who have been
especially interested in this disease
They were asked for their opinions
about treatment under the following
headings: rest. physical therapy in
cluding massage and exercise, heat,
water treatment, drugs. removal Of
the foci of infection as in the teeth
and tonsils, climate, injections of for
eign protein. streptococcus vaccine.
blood transfusions. the low carbony.
drate diet. intestinal hygiene inc!ud-
ing colonic irrigations, etc.
This list shows what are consid-
cred to be all the possibilities Of
treatment for this disease. The order
in which the methods Of treatment
are listed above is the order in which
those methods were approved by the
sixteen different specialists. In other
words, everybody agreed that rest
was, the most important; that mas
sage and, exercise are next most i'm
portant; that heat is next most i'm
portant: that water is. fourth most
important, etc.
Emphasis on Rest
1t seems to me the thing that
needs the most comment is the en-
phasis on rest, and this applies to all
forms Of arthritis acute and chronic,
in the. old and in the young. AS long
as people can hobble. they will get
around on their poor islflamed joints.
They will take every form Of treat
ment except that Of going to bed and
allowing Nature to do it's best aud
Nature. as everybody who has any
wisdom knows, does 95 per cent of
the treatment in any individual case
anyhow.
EDITORS NOTE: Six pamphlets
by DR.. Clendening, can now be OBJ
tained by sending 10 cents in coin, for
each, and a f-addressed envelope
stamped, with q three-cent stamp.
to DR.. Logan C1endening, in care of
this, paper. The. pamphlets are:
Indigestion and Constipation" Re
ducing and Gaining" Infant Feed
ing" Instructions for the Treatment
of Diabetes" Feminine Hygiene"
and 1.-THE Care Of the Hair and Skin"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06
10000 Frenchmen To Be
Kept ON Army Duty Long
After Enlistment Ends
CONTINUED from Page One.)

program at Stresa.
There was excitement in the free
city of Danzig, where a flood of Nazi
fervor carried the populace along pre-
paratory to the Volkstag elections to-
morrow, and at Adds Ababa, Ethio-
plan capital, Emperor Halle Sallassie
confirmed for the first time in an
exclusive interview that his nation
had broken off direct negotiations
with Italy in the border disputes
Paris-The Council of Ministers,
presided over by President LeBrun
decided to keep the active army force
up to 10000 trained men in France
for the next three months. Troops
meanwhile, were moving into defense
works on the French border near
Metz. The cabinet will meet in spe-
cial session April 8 to decide on the
policy at Stresa.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06
Guards at Charlotte
Camp Held
Continued from Page One.)

been located.
Appearing before. court authorities
Little, Rape and Gordon were reloas
ed under 81 900 signed bonds for thei,
appearance next Monday at a hear
ing before Superior Court Judge Don
Philips sitting as a committing mag
istrate.
The four men named in the war
rant are charged with using such
treatment as a means of torture h,
tieing and claiming Woodrow Wilson
Shropshire and Robert Barnes tC the
bars of their cells as to cause their
feet to become frozen, with the result
that infection set in resulting in the
double amputation of these member.
A separate warrant charged Rape
with flogging and whipping TWO 9th
er Negro prisoners. Little was charg
ed with being an accessory TO the
alleged whippings.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-04-06
Sessions of Legisla-
ture Very Brief
Continued from Page One.)

General who explained the set-up of
the federal department of justice and
paid tribute to the two North Caro-
linians, j. Crawford Biggs and Angus
Dhu Mclean.
Early sine die adjournment loomed
again today following action of the
Senate money group in reversing its
position on the controversial sales tax
issue. Only Thursday the body had
voted 9 to 8. to reduce the sales tax
levy from three to two per cent. The
return to the three per cent tx was
by an 8 to 5 ma iority
The revenue bill will go to the
Senate early next week and a deter
mined fight to reduce the tax on gen
eral sales to two per cent is certain
when the membership is resolved in
to a committee of the whole. Anti
sales takers have shown surprising
strength in the upper chamber and
will leave nothing undone in their at
tempts to reduce the levy.
In passing the lethal gas measure,
the House refused to amend it to pro-
vide that the chamber be made NOV
able SO that executions might take
place in counties in which capital fe-
lOnies are committed.
A special message from Governor
Ehringhaus to the Legislature Thurs
day urged immediate passage of eight
bills suggested by the federal public
works administration to aid the State
in getting PWA allocations The
chief executive also recommended i'm
mediate passage of two rural electrifi-
cation bills introduced Monay night
as administration measures
Brought to the Senate calendar by
a without prejudice" vote of the fl
nance committee, the Hill liquor
store control bill promises to provide