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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03
Bing Crosby : Ethel Norman lin
ANYTHING GOES''-Moon Tuesday,

ing belief even in educational circles
was that only those who intended to
go on to college and whose parents
We're able to send them to college
should attend high schools and that
those who were not able to go to col
lege should remain on the farms or
in factories or shops.
The belief no longer prevails, how
ever, that a grammar school educa-
ton is all that is needed in rural and
dustrial districts and that the high
schools should be reserved for the
sons and daughters of professional
men and white collar workers who
are able to send their children on to
college. Yet the high school curri-
culum in North Carolina is still
modelled after pretty much the same
pattern as it was 80 years ago and
for the most part does little more
than prepare boys and girls to go on
to college, many people now complain
They maintain that the public schools
especially the high schools, should do
more to prepare boys and girls who
do not want to go on to college or
who are unable to go to college for
making living by giving them more
vocational instruction in agriculture
mechanics, domestic science and al
lied subjects.
Few Go to College.
For while there are almost 100000
children in the high schools of the
sent time, with about $1,000 gradual
ing from high school each year, only
about 1000 Of these graduates go on
to college after graduation from high
school, statistics show. Thus only
slightly more than 26 per cent of
those who actually graduate from
high school go on to college each year
while IA per cent go back home to
work on the farms, help their moth
ers in the homes or go to work in
factories, mills, stores or offices.
1t is agreed, of course, that most of
the high schools offer excellent
courses and fine preparation for the
26 per cent of the graduates who go
on to college for professional train
ing. But the complaint is becoming
louder and being heard more FREE
quently that the proper type of pre-
paration is not being provided for the
IA per cent who do not go on to col
lege-and indications are that this
complaint is going to DO voiced on
the floor of this coming general as
sembly' Many are going to ask if it
is good business or good sense, or
even good educational policy, to shape
the cirricula of the high schools for
the benefit of 26 per cent of the grad
yates and compel most of the other
Ia per cent to take the same courses
as those who intend to go on to col
lege, when it is known that major
ity do not and will not go on to col
lege. There are indications that the
Legislature may balk at the steadily
increasing demand for more and more
money for the schools unless some eff
fort is made by the school forces to
revamp the curricula more to present
needs.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03

from rage On6.)
arrested, is due to the alleged failure
or refusal of the management of the
Battery Park hotel to make an inves-
tigation of the screams heard from
the girls room the night she was
killed and reported to the hotel man.
agement by at least seven different
persons and to it's slowness in report
ing the murder to the sheriff and the
police. 1t has also been learned here
that Prof. Clevenger was locked in
his room in the hotel and told to stay
there by the hotel management after
he discovered his niece's body about
$3.50 the morning of July 16, until
about 1920, when the murder was fl
nally reported to the sheriff and Prof
Clevenger allowed to leave his room
Reports brought back from Asheville
are to the effect that between the
time the girls body was discovered
and the. time the sheriff was finally
notified, the room had been thorough
ly cleaned up, evidently by the hotel,
so that very few clues were left and
these made virtually worthless.
Friends of Prof. w. L. Clevenger
maintain that he was unlawfully and
forcefully detained and imprisoned in
his room by the hotel management
and that he has ample grounds to sue
the hotel for damages both for it's
treatment of him and for negligence
in reporting the murder of his niece
to the sheriff or police. The belief is
also growing here that the murder
was an inside job" and committed
by some one very familiar with the
hotel, if not actually connected with
It.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03

how they will get through the winter
or make a fresh start in the spring.
TUGWELLS VIEW
An emergency situation and a long
time policy must be differently con-
sidered, says Tugwell
For example," he points out, cir
rigation, generally speaking, may
have it's merits. But how about spe-
cific irrigation project? Will it OF
will it not cost more than the value
of the land to be watered?
"And may not the dry cycle be end.
ing? May we not be on the eve of a
highly productive one?"
But suppose all the cultivatable sur
face soil has been blown away in the
meantime, down to hardpan? What
will be the good of wet season, in
a region where nothing can grow any
way?
THAT is not true" answers Tug
well. "of the northern Great Plains
states. Their soil has not altogether
blown away. They are not in the dust
bowl proper. They may be essentially
q grass country. But perhaps their
dryish sections, on an average, are
more or less cultivatable as we'll as
pastoral"
OTHER POSSIBILITIES
In short, even grass land may have
possibilities for small-scale subsis-
tence farming; the cattle raiser may
be able to set his own table from his
own carefully-tended garden instead
of living on canned vegetables and
condensed milk.
So, too, can the wheat farmer, in
stead of being single-cropper
Ditto the southern cotton grower
He can't eat cotton. He ought to be
able to raise own own vegetables
some chickens and a pig or two. The
difficulty is that, frequently, his land
lord will not let him do it, but insists
on the devotion of every square inch
of soil to cotton.
Progressive-ism is not altogether
free from this selfishness.
Illustratively there has been. quite
trend of Dakota farmers recently
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03
RECORDER PROTEIN
PRESIDES AT COURT

Three minor cases were heard to-
day in Recorders court with Record
er Protein S. b. Rogers presiding
in the absence of Recorder r. e.
Clements.
Isaac Faulkner was found not gull
ty of assaulting his wife.
William Johnson, Negro, was gull
ty of driving an automobile without
proper operators license, and pray
er for judgment was continued upon
payment of the costs and obtaining
the proper license.
Henry Knight was given 80 DAYS
on the roads for being drunk COM
mitment not to issue upon the pay
ment of fine of 81 and costs.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03

Regular price 5000.
This week .....
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03

to Wisconsin.
Now Wisconsin has considerable
land which once was and still should
be offorested, but today has been cut
over Wisconsin authority would be
glad to see it go back to forest but
looks coldly, to say the least, upon
any new type of farming except tree
farming. And of course tree crops are
too distant for the average farmer to
depend on for his current require
mentS
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03
NOTICE OF SUMMONS BY PUB
LEGATION IN THE SUPERIOR
COURT.

North Carolina:
Vance County:
Jimmie G. Smith, Plaintiff.
VS..
Amer Benson Smith. Defendant.
The Defendant, amer Benson
Smith, will take notice:
That an action as above entitled has
been commenced in the Superior
Court of Vance County, North Caro-
lima, against her, to secure a divorce
absolute on the grounds of adultery
committed by the defendant. And the
said defendant will further take
notice that she is required to appear
at the office of the Clerk of the SUI
perior Court of Vance County, at the
Court house in Henderson, N. c., on
the 14th day of August, 1896 and an
swer or demur to the complaint in
said acton or the plaintiff will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded
j. the complaint
This the 18th day of July, 1896.
E. O.. FALKNER,
Clerk of the Superior Court, Vance
County, North Can DINA.
X. B. Carter,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03
Dual Problem in
Drought Regions

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One TOMLINSON Empire Sofa, regu- Gin
ular price $166.50, reduced to ..... @11V
One Chair, covered in Needlepoint, solid mahogany,
regular price, $500, C10 IN
One Royal Easy Chair and Ottoman, CO.. In
regular price, $3.50, reduced to ...... @At.OV
One TOMLINSON Duncan-Phyfe Sofa,CE0 IN
regular price $780, reduced to VOAeOV
One TOMLINSON solid mahogany corner cup
p ppaaa !sght Eeaaeed fs $3.50
One TOMLINSON Duncan Phife sofa, COO IN
regular price, $780, reduced to :. VOO.JV
Most of the above items are being shown in our
Window.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03
Talk Broadening
School Curricula

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-03
Clevenger May
Bring Hotel Suit

CONTINUED from Page One.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20
Peace Pilgrimage

World War veterans from fourteen countries, invited by French group, gathered on July 12 at Verdun for an unusual peace demonstration. The num- Der present was estimated as 10000 to SO00O There were 500 Germans among them, fraternizing with their former enemies on French soil for the first time since the war. It was peace pilgrim age," with the special purpose of pay ing tribute to the dead by pledging to support peace. Politics, propaganda and speeches were absent.
 . The seriousness of the participants may be judged by the fact that the mid tile-aged veterans travelled 150 miles in 1olting busses, ate only cold meals by the roadside and slept on straw beds in inn -provised billets to make their two-day demonstration. From Verdun they marched slowly to the Douaumont Os- Suary to stand silently at the graves of fallen comrades. Bells tolled, bands blayed dirges, minute guns were fired and bugle calls blown. Earnestly they spoke the words, "ThiS is for the peace of the Eorld."
 Z. These men, who know war from their Own experience and suffering, came from France, Germany Austria, the United States, Great Britain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Lzechoslovakia, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Roumania and Denmark. Hun gary and Bulgaria were not represented but sent cordial messages. It was an i'm -pressive demonstration, and one arouSing faith that some day war will be conquered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20
More Outdoor Life

The Youth Hostel movement, started some years ago in Germany, has begun to spread in this country. The youth hostel is shelter where groups of young folks who make bicycle trips, hike or ride horseback may put up for the night. They prepare their own food and generally trough it." The first hostels in the United States were started in Massachusetts. There are now 35 such camps in New England, and others are planned. The idea is to have them follow bicycle paths and hiking trails through the open country instead of keeping to highways.
 The movement is interesting for the evidence it gives of a well-establiShed and growing interest in outdoor life on the part of American young people. Pessimists who deplore youths supposed dependence for entertainment on movies, radio and automobiles are overlooking the tremendous amount of camping and tramping that is done these days. Mem bers of Scout, Camp Fire or other outdoor groups have developed a feeling for woods and fields that their parents did not have.
 There are hiking clubs and nature study groups which take more and more indoor workers for week-ends out of doors. It all seems to indicate that we are achieving balance in recreation and entertainment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20

GENERAL years ago. when the picket fires of O our economy seemed to be flickering out against the approaching night, someone asked an economist when the depression was going to end.
 "It will end," he remarked dryly, about six months before we realize that 1t has ended"
 Looking about this broad land today, one is forced to wonder if 1t isn't about time for to wake up and realize that something happened to us some six months ago.
 For the America of 1936's midsummer does not have the look of land that still is bowed down under the weight of calamity. Wheels are turning as they have not turned in years, factory chimneys are contributing their agreeable muggness to the city air. and people are busy once more and act as if they were going to be even buster.
 r EFT us as some statesman or other used to say, A have look at the record
 The Federal Reserve Boards index of industrial production reached 100 in April and has gone high CT since then-the HOO" being the level of 192S-25 activity C"
 Index numbers of the Department of Commerce, using those same pre-depresSion years as base, show automobiles at 130, electric power at 121 pc. troleum at 142, and steel ingot production at 94
 Building contract figures are up. Production of copper and buminous coal is far ahead of the same period last year. Steel has gone close to 1929 levels
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20
The Campaign Waxes

The only exciting moments during the Townsend plan or Old Age Revolving Pension party convention of last week at Cleveland was when the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin took the platform in sur prise address. There have been thunder ing speeches made to date in the 1886 political campaign, but none compares with that of the radio crusader whose words are law in the hearts of many Americans today. His denunciation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was SO complete that no adherent of Father Coughlin can any longer hope to be aligned with the democratic party and its candidates.
 Reverberations from this dramatic speech in which he pinned the label Of "liar" on the President are not yet ceased. They won't for many weeks to come. Father Coughlin has taken a bold step. Whether it is to be regretted or praised, we don't know. Certainly he stepped in where only he might step. In his dual role as clergyman and political com mentator he has launched such an offenS- i've against the candidates of the two major political parties that not either one of them or their advisers conten- plated.
 He has placed the 1886 campaign on very personal basis. We certainly must be aware of that after reading the criti- cism of President Roosevelt that Father COughlin voiced. Not even the President of the United States is above such criti- cism, we well realize that And in this day and age of free speech and expression of ones innermost thoughts almost any thing goes when the political touch is upon it. Probably it is just as well that Father Coughlin came right out in the open with his attack rather than to camouflage it with sugary phrases. At least his stand is made. We think, though, of his followers, many of whom merely place blind faith in what he says, but who hesitate to label the President of the United States 'tthe great liar and great betrayer".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20
TOday'S Political SideShOw
c. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent [.

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 2ouPThe chance that Franklin Delano political heapparent will be drawn from among members of the New Deal cabinet so good that thoughtful coming the list of pros- pects
 IF MR. ROOSEVELT is the chances of his Cabinet diminish to the vanishing point An as- pant Presidential nominee needs to be in position to wnc e spotlight naturally turns Excabneteers are deaoer than 1or mr wrestling champions doubt that statement just try to re- members the Hoover cabinet or even three Who served with MT. Coolidge
 RUr democratic of whom there are T now in o flee will survive the regardless of the nature political casualties Outstanding among them young rich ana nano Pennsylvania There reasons to peeVe that sen Joseph Guffey sister, Mrs Emma Guffey M er plans Earle Mrs Miller national commit Pennsyana If you listened in on the deocrac na onal high pitched voice in speech which was notably delivered by most of the men who oe lowed into ro mcrophones Senator Joe and Sister plans pretty good contender in any in which they enter him.
 TT standpoint of the senator and his sister desirable that Earle was given sweet spot m tne meeting Philadelphia of the state he offered an ad- dress of the first day. long before delegates ceased speakers and wished most Of them would shut up so they could go good one and the in his honor credit to its organizers Il TN EssAY1N Ears chances democratic nominee for nresdent in 194O the fact that the two-thirds nominating for 100 and some years national conventions compelled find candidate with support of the delegates before naon two occasions simple majority candidates ultimately lost the prize
 WITH the twotrds rule out of the way importance per- fecv feasible coalition city democrats becomes Eight states which the democratic party largely hard listed capable bosses could on candidateEarle almost him the first votes simple majority necessary to nom- mate 55i votes
 HERE their voting strengths in democratic na- II tiona conynton Connecticut l6; Illinois 5S Massachusetts G Missouri 30: Jersey New York e4 Pennsylvania 7 and Rhode Island aggregate s44 votes just more than 100 short of majority.
 
 pERHAPs largely concdena that the democratic machines of
 these states control of Americans of Irish descent speacy in Connecticut the Nasnsey com bnao i'm Illinois Cley in Massachusetts Frank Hague in New Jersey Tamany in Tom Pendergast in Missouri is Joe ouffey with his Eeady-to-hand candidate George Earle things have happened than such of the foregoing states would Jar the southern Democracy which rose prcsest nsan nAS cO bnatnn in ln2B hack of Alfred " bmun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20
Minimum Wage Sentiment

Evidently people, especially in New York state, are taking seriously the prob lem raised by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the minimum wage law. In a recent poll of public opinion, 10000 ballots and personal interviews in that state give an affirmative majority of 72 per cent on the question, DO you favor an amendment to the Constitution to regulate minimum wages" In New York city the majority was 82 per cent. The vote in the whole country is said to be likewise in favor of such an amendment, though by a considerably smaller majority.
 It begins to look as if, in spite of the strong conservatism of Americans in gen. eral regarding the federal Constitution, another amendment or two may be ex- pected before long, to meet more effec- lively some serious problems of the indus trial age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20

What looks like the first candidacy of the National Union for Social Justice party in this state is that of Terrence J. O'Neil of Oxford. MT. O'Neil proposes to joust for the congressional seat of Repre- sentative J. Joseph Smith of this city. He will run on the Union ticket, which makes one wonder if this party is going to put a full slate of candidatcI in the field. We doubt if it will, as we recall some weeks back reading or hearing that the Father Coughlinites would not oppose all the major party candidates, but only some of them. Most of their opposition is to be centered in congressional districts. Just what effect the ticket will have on the major party candidates remains to be seen. Right now it might be stated that the Union party would draw heavily from democratic voters, but whether this will be true four months from now remains to be seen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20
Numerous Nominees

Perplexed voters should be pleased to learn that one presidential candidate has withdrawn from the race. He is Jacob s. Coxey of Ohio. Coxey, now 82 years old, has been more or less in the public eye ever since he led his famous army to Washington in 1894 to put before Con- gress the grievances of the laboring classes. The General" has been known for his unorthodox economic views and his spectacular ways of airing them.
 This year he was going to run as the Farmer-Labor Party'S candidate for pres ident, but decided instead to support the campaign of Congressman William Lenke, Father Coughlin's Union Party nominee. There remain the candidates of the two major parties and the Socialists and Communists. It is just as well to keep the number under half dozen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20

There has been a lot of sympathy wasted on the woman who went to her death in the electric chair at Sing Sing last week. We refer to Mrs. Mary Creigh- ton. Some people termed the execution an outrage and shame. That's a matter of opinion. Our sole thought right through the sordid last days of this woman, confessed slayer, were mainly on her past life. Her death was preceded by complete loss of physical and mental abilities. In short she figuratively went to pieces. Reviewing her past life one wonders if it might not have contributed to this complete collapse when death faced her.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20

toward the slaughterl10use fast by now. A chief buyer in Chicago iS placing orders for animals by carloads in such centers aS Fargo. St. Paul, Omaha.
 Tapp hopes to save as many head as possible by shipment to good pastures. The adminiStra- ton does not want any coIAsun1- CT kicks on the high price of beef next election day.
 Feed Clearing House
 Drouth cattle will travel at half price with the blessing of the in' price with the blessing of the ir1- terstate commerce commission, which ordered IS per cent rail reduction outbound and 65 per cent back, Q two-way ticket for the price of one. Similar 1educ- tions for feed are sought.
 In Kansas City @ central 1Ilfor- nation office is putting farmers who need feed, forage, or markets in touch with farmers who want to sell hay, rent pastures, or buy distress cattle. Buyers and sellers are reached by government radio, daily bulletins, and farm news papers. In 1884, in 8 few days, this clearing house found and loaded 100000 tons of hay. It checks profiteering. Farmers who believe they have to buy feed locally at slsy-high prices are apprised of cheaper prices elsewhere.
 In North Dakota this agency iS buying drouth sheep to sell In green regions, the money receiv- ed being used to buy more drouth sheep. There are 100000 sheep dy- ing for want of forage in this one state. If the experiment. works (lt was suggested by shepherds thems slves) 1t will be applied to cattle on 8 large scale.
 Santa Claus Politics
 oswald Aranha, aniable amhaS. sador of Brazil, was asked by Q group of democratic senators whae he thought of the two national conventions.
 He was the only diplomat to % to both the republican and demo- cratic meetings.
 "They were both Santa Claus conventions" laughed the am" bassador, "but there was one big difference between them.
 "At Cleveland they promised Santa Claus to both the rich people and the poor, while at Philadelphia they promised santa Claus to the poor people with the rich mans money"
 Copyright, 1886, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-20
Selected Poem
THE HAPPY ISLES
(Babette Deutsch in the Saturday Review of
 Literature)

CBabette Deutsch in the Saturday Review of
 Literature) They say that love- too, has its Fortunate Islands, Not fabled, not fit for the dead; But likely out of westerng water lifting Their drenched- -with-sunset head; Or pale, it may be, as the star of morning, Or meager, even, as islands in lake That you may see tethered rowboat nuzzle. But what airs, or of enchantment overtake Those who set foot upon the incredible beaches! What winds what wings, hover, and at their feet What flowers, shells, to gather, and on their lips Blow salty gusts, then sweet Some, they say, do know those Fortunate Islands. Is 1t only the young? Who on day must turn To this harsh country we inhabit, And cannot leave, or spurn.