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Evening star., 1936-06-28

ana EdUdrd L. PO1ter.
composed Of the leading men Of the
country-men who we're known as
patriots and who had the confidence
of their communities and who knew
deeply the need for extensive reforms.
Their task was building a new govern
ment on the scantiest precedent-a
government adequate for a freedom
loving people of scattered geograph-
ical residence and of diverse interests.
At the outset of the convention in
May. 1887, Robert Morris, who
financed the Revolution, made the
motion that Washington be chairman.
Rather than revise the Articles of
Confederation, as they were charged
to do. the SIS delegates resolved to
prepare a wholly new Constitution.
80 Delegates Sign.
In little more than four months
the foundation law of our Nation had
been drafted and SO of the delegates
signed it on September II. 1887. Nine
delegates favoring the instrument we're
absent at the final ceremonies, while
seven opposed it in its completed
form.
Then came the battle for ratifica-
ton by the people themselves-not by
their State governments. The new
Constitution provided that it should
go into effect when nine States had
Endorsed it. Conventions, especially
chosen by the people. were the agen-
cies decreed. No provision was made
for States not ratifying. They would
have simply stood in their isolation as
best they could.
No proposal of government ever
had such debate. such public discus
sion, such searching analysis, such at
tacks, such defense. Its motives were
impugned. its contents assailed. Alex
ander Hamilton came to its defense
in series of papers which stands to-
day as one of the ablest expositions of
the Constitution in existence.
Delaware Is First.
Delaware was first under the wire
with a unanimous Endorsement on
December 7, 1887. little more than
two months after its submission. Five
days later the Pennsylvania Com
monwealth voted two to one in favor
of ratification. On December 18, New
Jersey gave a unanimous vote for it
and on January 2, 1888, Georgia did
the same. On January the Connec-
ticut convention ratified by a vote
of 1913 to 40 and on February Mas
sachusetts, after close battle, ap-
proved by 1877 to 1853.
This was the decisive conflict in the
campaign, for on April % Maryland
ratified by So to IL, followed by South
Carolina by vote of 149 to 70. The
New Hampshire convention was the
scene of desperate struggle, but it
finally ratified, 81 to IS. on June 81,
1788 This was the ninth State to
approve, and the new Government
came into being.
The powerful State of Virginia was
a "hold-out." although both WASH
ington and Madison fought for the
Constitution. On June IS her conven-
ton ratified it, 80 to 70. New York
also was recalcitrant, but the motion
to ratify was finally adopted on July
26. 1888. The hope that New York
would be the seat of the new Federal
Government was one Of the favorable
-i North o.rolin. 1t nA rejected
Evening star., 1936-06-28
Pill to Combat Famine
Prescribed for China

LANCHOW. China R).-Future
tamines in China may be effectively
overcome if Starvation specific"
invented by DR.. Ma Yen-Shu, a Can
tonese physician, proves successful.
Dr.. Mas prescription, it is said,
consists of pills containing highly con-
centrated seasame, beans and certain
medicinal ingredients.
The taking of these Starvation"
pills, DR.. Ma says. will enable per-
son to live for weeks without ordinary
food. He has submitted his formula
to the Kansu PROVINCE Ear'ine Com.
mission for consider - rreas1
are of relief to We ~
Evening star., 1936-06-28
War Refuge Havens
Proposed for Europe

PARIS (P).-Wartine reservations
for the aged, the infirm and mothers
with children, are proposed by Georges
st. Paul, surgeon-general Of the
French army.
Under the plan, European coun-
tries would set aside such reservations
in sections not likely to be in the
fighting zone in event of war. and
equip them for caring for large coll
onies of refugees.
The refugees would be placed under
the control of a commission Of neu-
trails agreed upon by belligerent ma
tons, and would be free from attack.
The zones also would be available
for military hoj itals.
Evening star., 1936-06-28
BY MARK SULLIVAN.


TT Is not merely doubtful elec-
election in which, today, the Re-
i publicans have much the better
promise of winning. A few OF the
more concrete evidences of this con-
dition include the detection of con-
servatives like .ex-Gov. Smith from
one wing of the Democratic body; the
detection from the other wing Of
radicals under Representative Lemke
and Father Coughlin. Il do not men,
ton the Townsendites, for the Town
sendites probably take as many from
the Republicans as from the Demo-
Gratis. At the same time the Town.
send leaders are acutely, aggressively
hostile to President Roosevelt; so far
as they can guide their course to de-
feat him, they WILLY These are not
merely the isolated actions Of individ-
uals. They reflect mass movements.
Evidence of mass movements include
the number of Democrats who, in pri-
maries, voted against Mr.. Roosevelt
and in favor of Col. Henry Brecken-
ridge, who was running merely for
the purpose of giving to protesting
Democrats chance to express their
opposition to Mr. Roosevelt.
Yet another evidence of Republican
prospects is the recent Literary Digest
poll of the $1,000 registered voters in
Binghamton, N. Y That poll showed
that about l out of every Bingham
ton persons who in 1882 voted for Mr..
Roosevelt will this year vote against
him. The accuracy of Literary Di-
gest polls as barometers has been
demonstrated over and over. It has
always turned out. think, that ac-
tual results on Official election DAYS
have been within l per cent of what
the Literary Digest polls indicated.
And If the results in Binghamton be
applied to upstate New York as a
whole; that is, if the change in Bing-
hamton also is taking place in all of
upstate New York-in that event the
Republicans would carry upstate New
York by about 2 to /. Such a change
would place New York State in the
Republican column rather over
whelmingly. And what takes place in
upstate New York ought to be dupli-
Gated in practically all the East. Il
am writing in hotel room at the
Democratic Convention, and I give
the Binghamton figures roughly, and
from memory, but I think they are
correctly
Sees Condition Unprecedented.
I cannot recall any condition to
duplicate what happened within four
days preceding the Democratic con-
vention. I cannot recall any case in
which there have been two separate
defections from party. Certainly
there can have been no case in which
one detection started in one direction
and another IN the opposite direction
Nor can recall any detection which
started in advance of the convention
The condition shows an intensity of
feeling, and quantity of mass move
ment, which is likely to increase
throughout this campaign.
Because the defections from the
New Deal came to climaxes just when
the New Deal convention was about
to meet, the country has failed to see
the seriousness of them. The con-
servative detection first emerged sew
eral months ago. in the form Of
Smiths threat to take a walk" in his
Liberty League speech. From a diff
ferent angle, the conservative de-
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over the country was a prepared ad-
dress to the people to join in the OBJ
servance which displayed the head
lines:
"l789-Let's All Celebrate-18S9
The Centennial of Our
1789-Let All Celebrate-15S9
The proclamation featured this sig
nificant paragraph at the beginning:
Notwithstanding the previous Dec
laration of independence. the real
birth of the United States as a nation
dates from April 80, 1889. when the
Inauguration Of the first President
under the newly ratified and matchless
Constitution formally ushered the
United States into the family of ma
tons"
The spirit Of patriotism ran high
for the time, but again the day has
sunk into the realm of the unnoticed.
1t required little more than four
months to write the Constitution, less
than a year to ratify it by the required
number of States and part of another
year to put the Government into oper-
alton. Yet it was as If miracle had
occurred.
Change Seen Unprecedented.
It is doubtful whether history could
reveal any other fve-year period in the
life of any. people where such change
had been wrought. Consider the de-
spair of Washington as he wrote. in
1886. the passage quoted earlier in this
article.
Now note what he said on June 8,
1890, three years from the time the
Constitutional Convention was called
and one year after the United States
as a Nation was born. His message is
in a letter to Marquis de Lafayette:
"You have doubtless been informed
from time to time of the happy prog
ress of our affairs. The principal diff
culties seem in great measure to
have been surmounted. Our revenues
have been more productive than it was
imagined they could be. I mention
this to show the spirit Of enterprise
that prevails"
Letter TO Lafayette.
On March 10. 1891, Washington
wrote again to Lafayette: Our coun-
try is fast progressing in its political
Importance and social happiness" And
again-on July 10 of the same year
to Catherine Macaulay Graham: The
United States enjoys a scene Of pros
perity and tranquility under the new
Government that could hardly have
been hoped for"
And on July 20, 1871, he wrote to
David Humphreys:
tranquility reigns among the peo-
pie, with that disposition toward the
general Government, which is likely to
preserve 1t.
Our public credit stands on that
high ground which three years ago it
would have been considered q species
of madness to have foretold."
High Praise Of Gladstone.
Years following have registered many
checkered events for the Government
founded in those momentous years,
yet history bears out the word of
Gladstone of Britain that the Consti-
tuition on which that Government Is
built Is the most wonderful work ever
struck OF at a given time by the brain
and purpose Of man."
independence day will doubtless en-
dure as the popular birthday of the
United States. But If Constitution
day is heralded as the most impor-
tant and National day as the most tri-
umphant, the celebrations will not be
far amiss. Let each patriot choose his
own or choose all. But let him always
recall that history prdains not one, but
three, birthdays 10 America!
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first took office.
ernment are clcgged, and We are de-
scending into the vale of confusion
and darkness"
The constantly deepening gloom, as
Washington saw it, is revealed again
in a letter he wrote on November S,
1876, to James Madison:
mo day was ever more clouded than
the present. We are fast verg-
ing toward anarchy and confusion.
How melancholy is the reflec-
ton. What stronger evidence
can be given of the want of energy in
our Government than these disorders?
A liberal and energetic Con-
stitution, well guarded and closely
watched to prevent encroachments.
might restore US"
Letter to Henry Knox.
In the following February, Wash
ington said In letter to Henry Knox
If any person had told me that there
would have been such formidable re-
bellion as exists. would have though.
him a bedlamite, a fit subject for a
madhouse."
The moral fabric of the so-called
Nation had rotted almost completely,
it appeared Mobs drove the Con-
gress, such as it was, from Philadel-
phia into New Jersey; in Massachu-
setts they shot. up the court houses.
Tories were the victims of armed
bands which drove perhaps 100000
known British sympathizers into Can
ada in violation of international
treaties.
A last desperate effort to avoid
complete paralysis was made. A con-
ference called for Annapolis in 1885
had drawn delegates from only five
States. Its only accomplishments
but what an accomplishment it proved
to be-was the issuance of call for
a greater convention at Philadelphia.
Franklin Asked Prayer.
The stake was everything, but there
seemed only a desperate chance OF
winning. Even Benjamin Franklin,
who in his youth had made great
sport of the clergy and was known for
his skepticsm, proposed that the Con-
stitutional Convention should open its
meetings with prayer-averring that
all human means of obtaining agree
ment seemed to be useless.
The States had in common a lam
euape. a love for the English common
law. experience in loyal governments
and something of unity in religion.
But opposed were what seemed to
he hopelessly incompatible political
views and economic interests. A
strong monarchist sat with the dream
or of pure democracy. The idea OF
surrendering State sovereignty to a
strong central union was next to
impossible to many.
Tbey felt that both the rights of
the States and the individual liberty
of the citizen would be imperiled.
Some declared that freedom would
perish.
Economic Battle.
Economically speaking, the slave
holding States were pitted against
those opposed to slavery. The South
wished to protect its slave properties
and the North its industry and ship
ming Agricultural interests We'd with
commercial interests. and small States
clashed with large ones on the ques.
ton of representation. A
Fortunately. the convention wa
Evening star., 1936-06-16

Dainty potterns on teorose,
maize, blue, or white grounds
bios cut, So inches long.
Pin-dotprint niehties finished
with she'll stitching.
Second Floor
Evening star., 1936-06-16
Husband Granted Divorce.
Special Dispatcn to The star.

Special Dispatcn TO The star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, June 16.-Judee
Charles w. Woodward has signed o
decree in the Circuit Court here grant
ing TO Roland L. williams Of Silver
Spring an absolute divorce from Hazel
Roberta williams of Long Island, N. Y,
and awarding him the custody Of the
couples 5-year-old son, Roland L. Will
liams, jr. ~They were married In Fred
erick, Md, In February, 1928.
Evening star., 1936-06-16
SPEECH STARTLING u. S.
PROMISED BY COUGHLlN
s> the Associated Press.


BOSTON, June 16.-Rev. Father
Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit planned
Yesterday to make a speech in New
York next Friday that would startle
the Nation"
The head of the Union for Social
Justice did not say what would be the
subject Of his speech when he made
the statement after a radio interview
last night, but only few minutes be-
fore he had said that neither of the
presidential candidates is worth A
nickeP'-not even q plugged nickel"
In the radio interview Father
Coughlin charged the Roosevelt ad-
ministration with going "off the gold
standard and onto the dole system"
He added that it did not follow that
those on the dole would vote to uphold
such a system.
Evening star., 1936-06-16
81 GIRLS GRADUATED
BY CATHOLIC SCHOOL
Immaculate Conception Academy
Awards Commercial and
Classical Diplomas.

Thirty-two girls received their diplo-
mas of graduation from the Immacu-
late Conception Academy at the an
nual commencement exercises, the
first to be held in the schools new
auditorium, at Eighth and N streets.
Rev. DR.. John Keating Cartwright,
pastor, presided and presented the
diplomas. The program was presented
under the direction of Sister Rosa Of
the Daughters of st. Vincent de Paul,
principal of the academy.
Graduates of the academic COM
mercial course were.
Callahan, Rita Ann Noone, Rose Mary
Carter. Marjorie A Norris, Teresa Y.
Cleary, Margaret T. Preller, Marie A.
Curtin, Joanna A. Roche, Mary A.
Donaldson, Genevieve Rohrkemper, Mary
Dorr Rita Augustus Schumm. Helen z.
Dowling. Doris H. Silvestro, Nuzia A.
Driscoll, Rita Teresa Winter, Louise Mary
Fitzgerald, Mary Z. Woolls, Esther z.
Diplomas in the modern classical
course were awarded to:
Altemus, Roberta Z. Harden, Marian Lee
Berres, Mary M. Lyons. Mary z.
Brew. Anne Kathleen Mayhew, Doris C.
Curtain. julia Teresa Murphy. Rita v.
Fisher, Mary c. Quill. Mary Ellen
Fitzpatrick, Patricia Rhodes. Mary Grace
Fusitt. Mary Ann Yettef, Doris Marie
Evening star., 1936-06-16

Sophia Nishtchevitch, who died re-
Gently at Sombor. Yugoslavia, had 16
husbands in 40 years, divorcing II and
seeing die.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-30
LADIES GUESTS OF
THE ROTARY CLUB
Delightful Program Had at
Meeting Of Civic Group
Last Evening

A meeting Of the Rotary Club, the
fifth for the month of December was
held last night at $50 o'clock at the
Busy Bee Cafe dining room, and, fol-
lowing the custom of the club, the
ladies of Rotary were special guests
for the session.
In the absence of the president, T..
B. Rose, Jr., due to illness, and alb
sence from the city of Rev. j. A. Jones
vice president j. w. Jenkins, past
president presided.
In addition to the lady guests, Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Gary, of New York,
guests of f. F. Shaw, Mrs Goodwin,
of Emporia, guest of r. G. Young, and
Miss Henrietta Strause, guest of N. P.
Strause, were also present for the
meeting.
The program was in charge of G. G
Patterson Rev. r. E. Brown, and l..
L. Harvard with Rev. Mr.. Brown serv-
ing as POSTMASTER.
Place cards were paper hats and
cigarettes, and the cards were select
ed from hat to name the gentleman
for the address of welcome and the
lady for the response. J. G. Cooper
welcomed the ladies to the meeting
and Mrs. R. G. S. Davis responded
Gift Icoxes were presented the ladies
with DR.. 1. H. Hoyle conducting an
auction with spirited bidding.
Club singing was enjoyed with R.
]. Jones as leader, and Mrs. E. F.
Shaw was at the piano.
The event was most enjoyable, a
three course dinner being served.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-30
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1886
COUNTY WILL TAKE
TITLE TO PROPERTY
Final Foreclosure on Tn.
paid Tax Accounts Plan
ned Immediately

Legal procedure whereby the Conn
ty of Vance will acquire title to nro-
perty on which back taxes have M
been paid for 1888 or earlier is to Nv
started in the next few weeks and
this time action will be final in tbo
possession of the land or other roo1
estate, it was said today bv Samuel
M. Watkins, chairman of the Vance
Board of County Commissioners
Mr. Watkins explained that tho
county does not want the pronort,,
1t wants the taxes, and is giving FIJI,
and fair warning to such pronort,,
owners in the hope that thew vii,
make sediment before the dead lino
The county knows it is poor business
to possess such property and much
prefers that the taxes be paid and tho
owners retain title But it was ON
phasized that the commissioners arc
tremendously in earnest this time
and intends to take possession unless
settlement is forthcoming.
All such property owners were urg-
ed by Mr.. Watkins to take UP the ar
counts at once. The legal end of the
transactions is being handled by
H. Perry, county attorney
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-30
W. M. HENDERSON
DIES AT HOSPITAL
H a d Been Ill Several
Months; Funeral and
Burial This Afternoon

Walter Martin Henderson, 81, native
of Vance county, died at Maria Par
ham hospital at 4:45 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon after an illness of several
months from a complication of dis
eases. He had been at the hospital "a
hours prior to his death.
Mr.. Henderson was born in Vance
county September 4, 1874, and was
in the tobacco business for 46 years
the last ten of which he had spent in
Farmville, North Carolina.
Surviving are one brother, r. l..
Henderson, of Newport News, Va; ;
and two sisters, Mrs. John T. Thomas,
of Henderson, and Mrs. w. T. Estes,
of Franklin, Ohio. The late N. M.
Henderson was a brother, and the late
Mrs. Edward Hines, of this city, was
a sister.
For the last four months, during
the period of his final Illness he mad
lived with his niece, Mrs. Dorsey E.
Evans, at 155 Clark street, Henderson.
Mr.. Henderson had heen a member
of Holy Innocents Episcopal church
in Henderson for 38 years. His parents
were the late Richard Bullock Hen
derson and Mary Elizabeth Martin
Henderson, who have Gseen dead 10
and 18 years, respectively.
Funeral services were held this aft
ernoon at $3.50 o'clock from the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Evans on Clark
street, with interment following in
Elmwood cemetery. Rev. I. w.
Hughes, rector of Holy Innocents
church, was in charge, assisted by
Rev. A. S. Hale, pastor of the First
Baptist church.
Pallbearers for the funeral were an
nounced as follows:
Active, Henry T. Powell, S. B. Bur
well, D. c.. Loughlin, w. c. Gates, ST.,
and Coy Monk and Laith Norris, both
of Farmville; honorary, Or. H. H.
Bass, Jr., G.. w. Dunkley, Robert H.
Dunkley, E. F. Woodlief, j. c. Cham
pion, M. C. Evans, w. M. Young, r.
F. Thompson, Clarence S. Finch, Joe
Burnette, Thomas D. Horner, G. c.
Shaw, r. G.. S. Davis, w. r. MacNair,
r. B. Powell, Frank M. Dorsey, G.
M. Cooper and Asa Parham.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-30
FURTHER PLEA FOR
SECURITY RECORDS
Postmaster league Urges
Those Whose Records
Are Out To Act

A renewed urgent appeal was made
today by Postmaster j. r. league to
all delinquents to return their social
security cards to the post office i'm
mediately. He reiterated that the So
cial Security Board had asked that a
final check be made by Thursday
night, the end of the month, the quar-
ter and the year, but many cards with
data about individual workers are
still out.
Already a total of 5,z81 numbers
have been assigned in the office here
and the records have been forwarded
to the regional office of the Social
Security Board at Baltimore, which
serves a group of states, including
North Carolina Mr.. league estimated
that some 500 to 600 were still out,
and emphasized the necessity for i'm
mediate return of the records to his
office.
Extra help in the post office pro-
vided for the social security job will
be discharged probably in the next
few days. This corps of workers al
ready are up with their duties and
waiting for the last filings.
Many concerns preparing to set up
their records on employees found they
needed the numbers assigned in every
case but did not have some of them.
Mr.. league said today the post office
had duplicates of all numbers that
had been allocated here and the cor
rect numerals could be supplied
promptly to any concern asking them
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-30
Doctors Treat p Cases
For Fireworks Injuries
Three Had Injured Eyes, Two Had Face Wounds and
One Very Bad Hand; Tw of Injured Suffered from
Firecrackers Thrown Them, Not Intentional

With fireworks legal for the first
time in years this Christmas, al
though the shooting of fireworks was
still prohibited by a city ordinance,
injuries resulting from exploding
crackers and other concoctions were
serious enough to require medical
treatment at the hands of doctors for
a total of twenty-three persons. One
doctor said the number was the lar
gest he had ever known here.
Several of the injuries came near
to being very serious. Three had in
juries to their eyes, and one had Il
badly mangled hand Two had injuries
to their faces. Two persons were in
jured by firecrackers that exploded
near their faces after having been
thrown 1t was not supposed they had
been Intentionally hurled at the
victims.
Immediate injection of tetanus anti
toxin was given in all cases to prevent
lockjaw, which is very common in in
juries resulting from powder Turns,
especially from explosions at close
range. 1t was stated by one physician
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-30

that this anti-toxin treatment is al
most one hundred percent effective
when given Immediately after the in
jury occurs. He recalled the exper-
fence of the Allied governments dur
ing the World War. Deaths resulted
for from Is to 80 per 1000 injuries be-
fore the anti-toxin came into use. BY
the time the United States entered the
war the treatment was universal, and
only 36 cases, or .016 percent, occur
red out of a total of 224 ,08@ persons
wounded 1t was a policy in the army
to administer the anti-toxin as quickly
as possible when medical aid reached
an injured man.
The Henderson City Council sew
eral weeks ago rescinded an ordinance
against the sale Of fireworks in the
city, and issued license at $50 per year
to applicants. The Council, however,
did not repeal the ordinance against
shooting fireworks, which is still a
violation of the city. But it was not
enforced this Christmas, in the face
of the licensing of the sale of fire.
works