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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
BR|DCERS SPEAKER
FOR ROTARY CLUB
Prominent Lawyer Says r.
G. Kittrell Originator of
Absentee Vote Law

J. H. Bridgers, dean of the Hcnd-
ersou Bar, told members of the Rot
airy Club at meeting Of that civic
group last evening at Z o'clock at the
First Presbyterian church that r. G.
Kittrell "a member Of the Henderson
bar and a representative to legisla-
tune from Vance county in 1915 and
1917, was originator Of the absentee
voting law of Norta Carolina, the
measure being passe primarily for
the members CT Company "C", local
infantry company, watch had been
called to the colors i'll 1917, to vote
in elections in the State.
]. r. league was i'll charge of
the program, and presented Mr.. Bird
gers to the club.
Many interesting facts concerning
the absentee. voting measure were
related by the speaker.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
SALES ARE
!. S226,3B8 |NyANCE
Stock of Merchandise $21,-
$685. and Cash Balance.
Is So, 1872 June 80

Gross sales of the Vance county IL
quor store for the fiscal year from
the time the establishment began
business July Is. last year. to June
30, 1885,. amounted. to 1926, 1851, 1t
was announced ny Chairman T. H
Crudup, Of the county ABC board,
today
From the gross sales item must be
deducted s6.593.84 paid to the State
of North Carolina as three percent
sales tax, leaving $219.794.67.
At the end Of the fiscal year the in
ventory. meaning the stock of liquor
carried on hand, amounted to $21,-
86822 Furniture and fixtures, listed
at half their cost were put at ST.
351.83, with cash on hand of $8,782. 16.
A total of $4,000 in net profit was
turned over ITO the general fund of
Vance county on July out of the
earnings for the year. 4 r.
With the exception of two weeks,
the store was in operation for a. full
year as of June &c. the date of the
report At the present time. the store
has been operated slightly more than
year.
Sales during April, May and June
were sharply off from other months.
May was the smallest month, of the
year in gross receipts, the total a.
mounting to $10,7S856. /. The lasgest
single month was $36,922.7O in De-
cember. F'e5 st>sv.~ s>-1
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
HENDRICKS SHOWS
VERY LITTLE CHANGE

Little change was noted in the con-
dition of G. w. Hendricks, 63 year
old carpenter who was found injured
alongside the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road tracks near Andrews avenue
crossing Monday night about IL
O'clock: He is being treated at Maria
Parham hospital for a broken thigh
and scalp wound.
AS far as was learned today, Hen
bricks was still unable to tell what
had happened to him. OFFICERS VINO
investigated the accident were OF the
opinion that the man was struck py a
fast northbound passenger train that
passed that point about 80 minutes
before the injured man was found.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
ROAD TERMS GIVEN
in D|SORDERLY CASE
O'Brient, MIR. and Mrs.
Forbes and Madeline
Forbes Before
Recorder

Bert O'Brient was given 1S months
on the roads, Harry Forbes six
months on the roads, Mrs. Harry
Forbes four months in Jail as sus-
pended sentence, and prayer for
judgment was continued for Madeline
Forbes. their daughter, when the four
were tried before Recorder r. E.
Clements in county court tooay on
charges of operating a disorderly
house.
The three receiving road or Jail
terms all appealed. O'Brient's bond
was fixed at $3.50, Harry Forbes at
$500 and Mrs. Forbes $500. The SEN
tence of Mrs. Forbes was not to be-
come effective on good behavior for
two years. The girl was also put OH
good behavior for two years.
The warrant was amended in court
to charge O'Brient and Madeline For
hes with using an automobile for inn
moral purposes. but they were ad-
judged not guilty on this count.
Another warrant charged OBrient
with hit and run driving and with as
saulting his wife with a deadly wea-
pom, namely, an automobile. He was
acquitted on both these counts.
. Witnesses testified that they had
seen O'Brient frequently at the For
hes house at North Henderson, both
day and night, and sometimes late at
might One witness testified to seeing
1.-THE girl sitting on his lap in rocker
lin the house. Witnesses said there was
noise at and about the house that
a nuisance. 1t was tesci-
fled that O'Brient had been seen fire.
quenting the house over period of
the past three months or so.
O'Brient has been a resident of
Henderson for a number of years,
during all of which time he has been
the agent here of the Herald-Sun
papers of Durham. Forbes is mill
operative in the North Henderson
mill.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
AUTO, TRUCK TURN
OVER NEAR OXFORD
No One Was Injured in
Either Crash; Patrolman
Cooke Saw Car Crash


State Highway Patrolman L. Il.
Cooke, Jr., reported two wrecks as
happening yesterday, both OF them
about three miles from Oxford on the
Durham highway and near each 9th
err. No one was injured in either
wreck. is
A D. Fender Grocery Company
truck ran off an embankment and
overturned, and while officers were
investigating that accident, Patrol
man Cooke stated he saw the other
wreck as it was happening.
Adam Steigenwald; of Philadelphia,
his wife and Miss Morrow, of Union,
s. c., were proceeding toward Dur
ham. when the automobile got onto
the shoulder and swerved as the driv-
or pulled it back. finally overturning
into creek Officers rushed to the
scene, but none of the occupants were
injured. 'Patrolman Cooke blamed the
automobile wreck on locking of
brakes as the car skidded.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
Bookland Tour To
Be Month Longer

Boys and girls who are registered
for the Bookland Tour at the III. Leslie
Perry Memorial Library have one
more month in which to complete the
tour. The passenger list includes 81
from West End School, Is from Cen
trail School, 81 from Clark Street
School, Sc from North Henderson, 3
from South Henderson, and 13 from
the County schools. Of this number,
II have read ten books to complete
the tour
The school which has the highest
percentage of passengers who read
ten books will receive book for its
library.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE
Without CaIomel-And You'll Jumj Out q Bed ID
the Morning Karin 10 &C

the Morning Karin ID, &c
The liver should pour out two pounds 81
liquid bile into your bowels daily. II this bills
e not flowing freely. your food doeen I digest.
1t just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats u6
your stomach: You get. constipated Youa
sunk and the world looks punk. !. -.
Laxatives are only makeskifts. A YnArt
bowel movement doesn't getat the catiSe II
takes those good. old Carter'S Ltttle kivet
Pills to get these two pounds Of bile fiowin&
freely and make you feel upland uf'' Harm.
less gentle. yet amazing In making bile fioG
freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills b.
name. Stubbornly refuse anything else 26t.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
Temporary Post Office
Now Definitely Located
In Old Rose Warehouse
Henderson Grocery Compa n.y. Owners Of Property Ad-
Months; Post Office Work May Start Soon
be made around September 1.

be made around September 1.
HI. r. Morris, one of the owners
OF the building, with +. G. HOr-
ner, said this afternoon work had
already been started, in charge Of
nj. l.. Wood, local contractor, and
that It would be ready for the
post office on. time. 1t is under
stood that both floors of the
building will be occupied.
Acceptance bf the building as
temporary quarters for the post
office was taken to mean that an
award would be made in the very
near future Of the contract for
the enlargement and remOdeling
of the present post office build
ing which Is to be increased. In
size by half or more. Bids for the
work were opened recently In
Washington, and the low. figure
was approximately 1000.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

l. In the schools of intermediate or
secondary education in England,
what is tagging?
g. Who was Martin Luther?
3. Where is the Luapula river?
4. In Roman mythology, who was
Lucina?
5. Which is the best known and most
valuable of all cereal crops?
g.: What is scrod?
Z, Who wrote the Merry Widow
Waltz? 81.
8. Which state of the u. S. is nick
named the i"Wolverine State?"
8. What is a chipmunk?
10. Did the United States borrow
money from the English govern
ment during the Civil War?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22

Temporary quarters for the
Henderson post office while the
present structure on Garnett and
Winder street is being remOdeled
and enlarged will be located In the
old Rose company warehouse on
East Montgomery street. opposite
the High Price Warehouse. 1t was
learned today after the Hender-
son Grocery Company, owner OF
the property, was advised by the
Treasury Department of the Sc
lection of the site. t.+
The lease is definitely for twelve
months from the date of Occup-
ancy. with the option of a longer
time IL needed. The owners are
given As days in which to remodel
the building for the use Of the
post office. which means that the
transfer from the present site will
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22

Ely Culbertson of NeW York, bridge
expert born in Roumfnia' 40 years
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
Baptist Service
Omitted Tonight

There will be no mid-week prayer
service at the First Baptist church
this evening, it was announced today
by Rev. A. S. Hale, pastor.
Rev. Mr.. Hale is assisting at re-
vival at Island Creek Baptist church
this week. The services are at and
s o'clock and will last through Fri
day evening.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
DECREE WORK FOR
JUNIORS THURSDAY

The regular weekly meeting of the
RAYMOND B. Crabtree council OF the
Junior Order will be held tomorrow
night in the orders hall at o'clock
Councillor T. E. Stegall has request
ed that all officers and members at
tend the session as there will be some
degree work.. The degree team was
urged to be present. Other matters
of importance will come before the
fraternal group.
The organization was to have a fish
fry this afternoon at Young's Rock
Mill as a gift of the past councillors.
It was scheduled for $3.50 o'clock.
Ely Culbertson of NeW York, bridge
a,rr,art horn in Rounlania. As years
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
ONE DEED.

.'n' - ONE DEED.
One realty deed was filed with the
Vance Registry yesterday, Legg-Par-
ham Company conveyed to Sidney
Burwell, for $40 and considerations d
lot on Mer1ifnafl street.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-07-22
REPORT OF CONDITION
THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF HENDERSON

THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF HENDERSON
OF Henderson in the State Of
with banks and cash items in nroces.
OF collection $2L491O6
United States Govt obligations
state county, and 33s2516
"e ooncs notes. and debentures 5262OO
Loans Giscounts 1ss o7o
Banking House 2Ss2 furniture fixtures $4,000 25sss2
uo.,, s IVY @>JJCc sob (jI III tit it,
LIABILITIES AN,. eAt4r41, u .g,i3 VII;
Deposits of partnerships ana Eofboaiohsl 4 gIf
I'd Time deposits evidenced savings pass BOOKS A7747 49,
c Other time deposits ........ "a oo7 TX
lolA1 DEPOSITS ................
DIVIDENDS declared but not yet payable
TOTAL LIABILITIES EXCLUDING CAPITAL ACCOUNT
except deferred obligations in whic
subordnated to claims other cred sss 1s3 %
- $3.50 ~ " "0
'a) Capital stock and s7oooooo
fo> rTais t...' $4,000
w. 'oiSuFu pro1ts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
~ 49,, '..',' 4269o4
V % capital account -: s54544o
TOTAL LIABILITIES CAPITAL 4... s251 e17 So
On e9 the against dena 81 bs hank was
assets reported above which
his bank capital is renon.os -. oo
stock per share 'f.s..t - - " = =
M '" Weer Cashier, bank do solemnly swear
ha the ABOVE statement is
this report fully represent the true state Of Tho several mat
tiers herein contained and knowledge
eoiieo' 1A''s': Wesey Cashier -
Watson } Directors.
s, :. na., cuA ,G~s -, R. F. Clements
Sworn to and subscribed before day July 1885,
and hereby certify That
My expires 1897 ~. g ,@1
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Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
Now Let The Rulers Speak

One of the most firmly rooted ideas in the
minds of the American people today is that
they do not want war. Our memories are not
SO short that we have already forgotten the
moral and financial devastation which was our
sole heritage as "~victors'' in the last conflict.
Considering this lesson, and the present Span
ish pepper pot which seems in imminent danger
of boiling over, the reports that President
Roosevelt is considering calling a conference of
rulers to discuss means Of insuring world peace
has been received with eager interest through
out the country. In some circles it is consid-
cred one Of the most important developments
in the field Of foreign affairs that has occurred
during this Administration.
The delegates to the conference - rulers of
Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia,
and spokesman from China and Japan = would
consider the causes of war, discuss the practi-
cal possibilities Of disarmament, and personally
pledge themselves to do all they could to pre-
vent war in any part of the world.
The idea of such a conference seems at first
fantastic. But in its very daring lies its appeal.
Treaties have been broken. Disarmament con-
f~erences have failed. 1t is possible that an in
formal conference of rulers, bound not by
weighty and obscure documents, but by their
own personal responsibility to prevent war,
might succeed. With prayers the peoples Of the
world would wish it godspeed.
Nat. Council for Prevention Of War.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
Roosevelt Receiving Labor Support

Labor's Non-Partisan League continues its
sweep of progress in the building of sentiment
for the reelection of President Roosevelt.
Support is growing rapidly in all sections of
the country, with organizations falling into line
everywhere. Labor realizes that its whole fu-
ture depends upon the reelection of the presi-
dent. The Landon record of hostility to labor
has been further Illuminated by the ~evasiveness
and the contradictions of the Landon campaign
speeches. In no two Landon utterances has
the COP candidate taken the same position.
The whole situation is typified by the COP
invasion of Maine, where the Liberty League
poured a fortune into the state in advance of
the Landon speeches, greasing the ways in good
old Mark Hanna fashion. This episode brought
out all over again the Liberty League-GOP al
lance and showed the hollowness of the Lib
erty League p~retense that it is not in the cam
paign to try to elect Landon.
Labor's Non-Partisan League is driving home
the facts all along the line, building at the same
time toward the future and a permanent fight
for progressive principles. Membership is
growing at a tremendous rate. With the re-
election of the President achieved, labor, thro-
ugh the League, will proceed to exert its power
for preservation of freedom and the develop
ment of the program identified with Roosevelt
and labor.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
Unconstitutional" Pleading

The New York, Westchester & Boston Rail
way Co. has petitioned the Federal court in New
York to declare the Railway Labor Act uncon-
stitutional, and to enjoin U. S. Attorney Lamar
Hardy from enforcing the penalties of the act
against the Westchester.
1t would be hard to get a better illustration
of the crazy and vicious plan now in force, of
letting any predatory outfit sue in any Federal
court to have an act passed by Congress and
signed by the President declared unconstitu-
tional.
The Westchester is in many ways the prize
example of graft as applied to the railroads. 1t
starts nowhere and ends in nothing. 1t was
started by a group of Tammany ~grafters, who
intended to sell it at its nuisance value" They
did. They sold it to the New Haven when that
road was cursed with control by the House of
Morgan, exercised through Charles S. Mullen,
the control which utterly bankrupted the New
Haven, until then one of the most steadily pros
porous roads in America.
Obsessed, as always, with the idea Of mono
poly, and hoping to get a transportation mono
poly Of New England, J. p. Morgan the Elder
got the New Haven to buy the Westchester at
a price which figures out between 10000 0
and S 100000 per mile. The Westchester nev-
er has paid, and never was expected to pay -
except in nuisance value.
Now the road, conceived in sin and born in
iniquity, is trying to invalidate an act which
railroad arrangements and railroad workers
joined in asking Congress to pass, and which,
for 10 years, has preserved almost perfect in
dustrial peace on our steel highways. Should
one laugh, or weep?
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
What Life Means To Me
By JACK LONDON

1t was the same everywhere, crime and be-
trayal, betrayal and crime men who were
alive, but who were neither clean nor noble,
men who were clean and noble, but who were
not alive. Then there was a great, hopeless
mass, neither noble nor alive, but merely clean.
1t did not sin positively nor deliberately, but it
did sin p~assively and ignorantly by acquiescing
in the current immortality and profiting there
by. Had it been noble and alive it would not
have been ignorant, and it would have refused
to share in the profits Of betrayal and crime.
l discovered that l did not like to live on the
parlor floor Of society. Intellectually I was
bored. Morally and spiritually l was sickened.
l remembered my intellectuals and idealists,
my unfrocked preachers, broken professors, and
clean-minded, class-conscious working men. l
remembered my days and nights of sunshine
and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet
wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adj
venture and ethical romance. And | saw be-
fore me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy
Grail.
So | went back to the working class, in which
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

| had been born and where | belonged. / care
no longer to climb. The imposing edifice Of
society above my head holds no delights for me.
1t is the foundation of the edifice that interests
me. There l am content to Labor, crowbar in
hand, shoulder to shoulder with intellectuals,
idealists, and cla~ss-conscious working men, get
ting a solid pry now and again and setting the
whole edifice rocking. Some day, when we get
a few more hands and crowbars to work, we'll
topple it over, along with all its rotten life and
unburied dead, its monstrous selfishness and
sodden materialism. Then We'll cleanse the
cellar and build a new habitation for mankind,
in which there will be no parlor floor, in which
all the rooms will be bright and airy, and where
the air that is breathed will be clean, noble and
alive.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

subjected to a new profit drain. He
sold more wheat and corn to buy
gasoline and oil. In 1929 n major
oil company took out Of the Middle
West $3.50, 000,0 900 in profits. This
money flowed back to the financial
centers to be added to the already
congested flood of funds looking for
employment in capital investments.
1t came directly from tha purchasing
power of the West, the purchas-
ing power that was being cut lower
and lower as the farmer went fur
Their into debt and paid new profit
tolls.
The western farmer saw in con-
sumner cooperation a way to stop
the drain of oil and gas profits.
When he saw this he went into ac-
ton, and has in the last fifteen years
written one of the most dramatic
chapters in the economic history OF
America.
The first cooperative gasoline
station appeared in the West in 1921.
Here a group of farmers sold
shares in a cooperative society
These shares provided capital to in
stall tanks and pumps and put in a
supply of gasoline and oil. They
employed an attendant to serve
them. They sold gasoline to them
selves at the prevailing rate. But,
at the end of the year, they paid
back to themselves that share of the
income that had hitherto been col
lected, as a profit by absentee own
ers. The society was one of con
sumers. AS consumers the mem
bers met to elect a board of direc-
tors from their membership to over
see the actual business of the So
ciety. Most c~o-operatives have fol
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

lowed substantially this same pat
tern.
1t represented the first move on
the part of the farmers to keep the
margin of profits in the channels of
purchasing power. Other retail or
CARNATIONS sprang up in rapid sue
cession during the next few years.
Operating in direct competition with
the established oil companies they
were naturally forced to draw
closer and closer together to pro
tect their organizations and buy at
better and better prices.
Because of this the first co-opera-
tive wholesale came into being in
Minnesota in 1926. 1t represented
the coalition of a few retail coop
eratives who wished to buy their
gasoline by the tank car lot. This
organization began without capital,
the member retails paying in adj
vance when they placed their initial
orders. In 1885 this organization,
The Midland Cooperative Whole
sale, was mainly responsible for the
figures that showed the co-opera-
tives holding second place as state
wide distributors of oil and gas in
Minnesota.
The oil cooperative grew because
from the first they began to halt
the march Of profits out of the West
to the financial centers. In one
Colorado town there is an oil CO.
operative that is an example of
what is going on throughout the
West. This organization started
with Insignificant capital and a few
members. Today it has a member
ship of 1,400, $4,000 in ~capitaliza-
ton, and $780, 900 in reserves. It
has returned to its consumer mem
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

Maybe if Landon came out from
behind the sunflowers voters could
see whether he or Knox wears the
pants. Maybe Hearst wears EN- for
all three!
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

bers a total of $650,000 in patronage
dividends, the profit spread that the
consumers had retained for them
selves and added to their purchasing
power.
The pressure Of the competition of
the big oil companies, instead Of
stopping the growth of the coop
eratives, drove them forward step
by step. When the oil companies
made it difficult for the local coop
eratives to get their gasoline sup
plies there was an immediate expan-
sion of wholesale activities. Contin-
ued pressure of competition forced
new combines of co-operatives.
Continued to Next Week.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
The MASSES GO into
Big Business
Continued From Last Week.

Continued From Last Week.
The Rochdale weavers saw this
and laid down the principles for a
system of production and distribu-
ton for use. The western farmers,
impoverished by a profit toll that
had always worked against them,
saw the inherent soundness of con-
sumner cooperation, as set in motion
by the Rochdale weavers, and took
it up as a method whereby they
could stop the drainage of profits.
The Central Cooperative Whole
sale, the central organizations of
the Firms in the north-central
states, had been set up in 1917 with
only $500 of capital. In seventeen
years it had grown into the leading
wholesale establishment in its dis
trict. 1t was housed in a $1,000 900
home, acting as a buying agency for
over 1870 retail societies, the largest
n of which, located in Colquet,
Minnesota, a town of 1000, did a
business of nearly one million dol
lars in 1895.
The Firms provided the pattern in
America. The native farmers in
the Middle West began to study the
Finnish organization. They saw in
such a mutually beneficial organi-
cation a method by which to work
out their own economic problem, a
problem that symbolized the plight
of the farmer.
With the mechanization of the
western farms, the farmer became