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The Washington times., 1936-05-14
Educator Finds
Our Talk 'CIuttered
'CWhat I mean is"

''What I mean is"
This is the most Objectionable
phrase in the English language is
the firm belief Of Mrs. Ruth Nor
ton Donnelly, instructor in the
University Of California Extension
Division, says q university bull
letin.
A persons vocabulary is q d.
rect indication of his ideas, &C
cording to Mrs. Donnelly. He
starts out to explain something
that he does not understand him.
self. Naturally, the listener stops
listening and the speaker starts
all over again with one Of those
pet phrases,
The Washington times., 1936-05-14

Busy Americans Find Smoking Cames Pleasant Aid That Helps
Digestion to Proceed Smoothly Increases Alkaliniy

Auids-necessary for the enjoyment
of food and for good digestion.
Smoke as many as you like =. they
never get on your nerves.
From Cancels costlier tobaccos
you get unequaled mildness. Smoke
CameIs for a comforting Hf-for
well-being-and for digestiO"S sake!
Camels set you right!
The Washington times., 1936-05-14
Murphy Quits Manila
To Meet President

MANILA, P. L, May IA U.N.S)
Frank Murphy, American high
commissioner in the Philippine
Islands, departed today on the
S. s. President Coolidge for the
United States to confer in Wash
ington, with President Roosevelt
on q trade parley. ..'
Murphy also planned to visit
Detroit, where formerly he was
MAYOR
The Washington times., 1936-05-14
Benning Citizens

The Benulng Citizens ASSocia-
ton lsst.n t voted to carry their
fight for traffic lights at the east
md west ends of the Benning
Viaduct direct to the Commits
sionerS, the Director Of Traffic
having refused to install the lights
where i dangerous traffic hazard
was alleged to exist.
The Potomac Electric Light and
Power Company was requested to
abandon an U1sightly ash dump
on their property on Benning
road.
The secretary was directed to
obtain q ruling from the Zoning
Commission regarding the right
of q junk yard to operate at
Kenilworth Avenue and Benning
Road.
The meeting was held in Odd
Fellows Hall, with President Frank
James presiding.
The Washington times., 1936-05-14
Bus Driver Cleared
In Crawford Death

Edwin w. Rubeck, 80, Of the
1900 block L st. N. w., was ex-
onerated Of blame by a coroner's
Jury yesterday at a hearing on the
death Of Edward A. Crawford, 66,
Of Chevy Chase.
Crawford, a mechanic at the
Capital Transit Co. garage, Geor-
gia Ave. and V st. N. W., was
crushed to death May 7 by the
wheels Of q bus
The Washington times., 1936-05-14

Many annoyances of our daily lives
rush, worry, mental strain slow
down the flow of the digestive fluids
so necessary to good digestion.
Science and common experience
agree that smoking a Camel is pleas
ant way to stimulate good digestion.
For .Camels increase the flow of de
gestive fluids alkaline digestive
The Washington times., 1936-05-14
american u. Park

The American University Park
Citizens Association at a meeting
last night in Hurst Hall Endorsed
the boys club movement spon-
sored by the Metropolitan Police
and voted to cooperate with
Lieutenant Lowman in organizing
9 club in the Eighth Precinct.
Mrs. Frances Williams was
named representative to the City
Wide Playground Council.
It was announced that the gar
den committee, Jet Wayland,
chairman, will begin Sunday to
!. inspect lawns and gardens in
association territory to determine
the annual prize awards.
The association voted to have
The Washington times., 1936-05-14
S5S10RE TAX
OPPOSED BY
CITIZENS
BY A. J. DRISCOLL
c,t,xena Associations Editor

onnosition was voiced by the
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association last night to legisia-
ton pending in Congress that
would place an excise tax OF 80
an each store licensed In the
District Of Columbia. ,.
George H. Partridge, chairman
~ the committee on leglslatlon,,
renorting against the bill. declared
r. Is discriminatory and would re
fleet itself in increased costs 70
the public. oooordad
: Favorable action was ACCORDED
= bill to amend the District Cooe
to provide for appointment Oh y
snecial committee on health. un
|. der the jurisdiction Of the com
missioners, to pass on lunacS
leases before institutional com
mitment is determined.
A bill sponsored by Commis
7 sioner Hazen to provide an tnStl
: tuition for treatment OF habltua
; drunkards and drug addicts wa
! referred back to the law commlt
tee. =.
! port by H. H. Rowland. Of =
! education committee, which ~
!. commended completion Cora
! wings and addition Of 80 IN
! to Taft High School iOr tne
|. dorsed q school Pr. .s new sN.. s sic
: Bunker Hill seesSSted Tor SIX.
. mentary schoeLs Rhode Island
. 4as,ats stneel.S, and completion
~~an,,a NJ to the Woodbridge
y U.a,,eE,t Z. Gee was directed to
1aool authorities to erect q
- around the grounds at Bur-
seaghs school.
4 President Clayton C. Marsh was
directed to appoint q committee
to cooperate with Captain Mans
field, Of the Ninth precinct, in an
effort to have a pond filled in at
D brick yard at Bladensburg Road
and New York Avenue where q
child recently was drowned.
New members elected are Law
renee L. Buckheit, Samuel H. Mace.
Y. Bennett miller, Arthur L. Black
burn "A. B. Genung, Herman Sig
non. Alvin Stephens and William
WHa%fell. ..
The Washington times., 1936-05-14
D. {. Driver Freed
In Accident Death

Emory r. Best, II, Of 1870 Fair
mont st. N. W., was exonerated
yesterday by a coroner's jury in
the death of Charles jackson, A,
struck in front of his home, 1406
Belmont st. N. W., May l. by an
automobile driven by Best.
The Washington times., 1936-05-14

July 4 at Fort
an all-day IN River Road.
Bayard PIG its policy Of main
Conbsie entire area of Amer
phsniversity Park as strictly
IicSsential. the association com
Ended the Zoning Commission
Tor changing the section east Of
Road to "A" restricted.
The group adjourned to meet
again on the second Wednesday
in September.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07

man, woman or child.
Increasingly during the past sew
eral years dentistry has been be-
coming a part of general science.
1t was not so long ago that the
dentist was simply an artisan-and
often a very bad one-because, al
though he might be skillful in the
very intricate processes which he
had to learn, he frequently forgot
that he was dealing with living
tissue that would not stand any
amount of foreign bodies driven
into it. And many is the bridge
and crown and cap that has come
off to reveal sources of long con-
tinued systemic poisoning beneath.
The change that has occurred
was summed up in the remarks of
the retiring president, DR.. Winter
of st. Louis, who pointed out that
only q hundred years ago dentists
were drawn from the ranks of the
artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths
and BARRIERS; and Of DR.. Miner of
Boston, the new president, that
mot until diagnosis becomes the
foundation on which the whole
structure of dentistry is built, can
il lay claim to be a learned pro-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07

the ten minutes I gazed upon his per-
son he didn't smile once. And he was
telling a joke.
His story fits the pattern too, He
was a clerk at 10 a week, with the
London and Shanghai Bank, London
office. In spare time he tossed off
highly moral storiettes for the kid
dies and sold them to public school
magazines. He sold a few $50 pieces
to English poplar magazines and
then heard that in America it was
possible to get as much as $780,
Promptly he migrated-and almost
Immediately began to sell his stuff to
the best American magazines. His
first check was for $500 and the
honorarium mounted rapidly. He now
gets $4,000 for short story and about
100000 for a serial His books have
been going great guns in England,
too, outselling any other author for
the last couple of years. They have
been translated into ten languages.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

This is to certify that w. H. Wester,
Jr., has purchased the stock of goods
and fixtures known as Buchanans
Grocery at corner of Garnett and
Horner Street in Henderson, N. c..
from J. T. Buchanan and J. NJ Baity.
All payments by the customers of said
business through August list, 1886 are
to be presented to J. T. Buchanan
and J. M. Baity for payment W. Fl.
Wester, Jr., is not responsible for any
debt contracted prior to August 3rd,
1896 and J. T. Buchanan and ]. NJ.
Baity are not not responsible for any
debts contracted after August 1, 1886
This August 7th, 1886.
BUCHANAN GROCERY co.
(PerD J. M BAITY
w. H. WESTER, JR.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
II TODAY =
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

1533-Queen Elizabeth of England,
born. Died March "a, 1903.
1727-William Smith, noted colonial
Philadelphia educator and clergyman,
born in Scotland. Died in Philadel-
phia, May IA, 1903.
1S13-Howell Cobb, Georgia lawyer,
congressman, speaker, governor, sec
rotary of the treasury, Confederate
general, born in Georgia. Died Oct.
9, 1853
1819-Thomas A. Hendricks, Indi-
ana's governor and senator, 21st vice
president of the United States, born
near GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Died Nov. "a,
1888.
1820-Nathanie Whooler, pioneer
sewing machine manufacturer, born
at WATERFOWL, Conn. Died at Bridge
port, Conn., Dec 81, 1898.
1S36-Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-
man, British prime minister born.
Died April %, 1908.
1875-Henry Kitcheil- Webster, n v
elist, born at Evanston, Ill. Died
Dec. 8, 1882. AAH
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
TODAY IN HISTORY

1778-Daniel Boone and the garri-
son of some 70 Americans in the IL
FAINT settlement of Boonesborough,
KY, successfully repulsed attack of
nearly 500 Indians and Tories.
1807-English, hearing rumor Dan
ish fleet would cooperate with Napol-
con against them, sent expedition
against them and seized Danish fleet
after bombarding and capturing
Copenhagen.
1822-Brazil declares it's independ-
ence from Portugal.
1892-Epic heavyweight prize-fight
in New Orleans when James J. Cor
bett ended John l.. Sullivan's fight
ing career
1916-U. S. Shipping Board came in
to existence.
192S-Al Capone attended funeral of
two of his assassinated fellow-work-
ers with II truckloads of flowers.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07

Average Man already published and
those appearing this week, and then
to send us a postcard indicating their
choice. The letters quoted here last
week and this are those the writer
believes to be the best of all the hum
dreds submitted.
piens that vacillates from acting bv
instinct and emotion to the using of
intellect and the obeying of spiritual
laws.
by the impersonal calculations of
science, this neurological creature
would be approximately: One-half
Asiatic; one-fourth European; one
eighth North and South American:
and the remainder African and Aus
tralian. His heart rate would be 72
heath a minute; respiration 18 a min
ute; oral temperature 98.8 degrees
Fahrenheit. His religious belief would
be about two-fifths Roman Catholic.
Confuc.anist and Taoist; and three
eighths Protestant, Hindu and Mo-
mammalian; the rest of the religions
completing his devotional attitude.
Iaklng the average of all the data on
the human body, mind, and soul will
give the specifications of the Aver
age Man.
Inc common assumption is that
the Average person is synonymous
with a normal person, or an ideal
racial type: The latter being the pro-
duct of wistful thinking that makes
MIN in the U. S. seem to be the 1000
american with heart bursting with
prlde for country, flag and family -
Reproofs, queries, etc., are vel
coined by Clark Kinnaird. Address
him care this newspaper.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
Dentistry No,U Branch
Of Science of Healing

fession or an important branch of
the great art and science Of heal
ing"
Our grandfathers were content
to expect from their dentists a few
filings and temporizing treatment
until, in the natural course of time,
that grim reaper, the dental for
ceps, had removed one by one each
lone last pearl, and then the dent
list made them plates. The dent
ist-the modern one as well as his
predecessor-is up against the in
exorable law that the teeth nat
urally atrophy as time goes on.
But the modern dentist keeps us
going longer.
Teeth Very Important
It is surprising, in way, that
this small part of the human body
the teeth-should have such i'm
portance that they attract a pro-
fession to care for them nearly
half as large numerically as the
medical profession. But a glance
at history shows us how dear man.
kind has always held his teeth.
If a man struck out his slaves
tooth Hebrew law commanded him
to let him go free. This was be-
cause the teeth were the instru-
ments of life-those by which food
is eaten. Gle who strikes out a
mans eyes does not hinder him
from living, but a most miserable
death awaits the man who has all
his teeth knocked out"
If a boys teeth are close to-
gether, according to a Swiss prov
erb, he will stay at home; if wide
apart, he will travel.
Old English folk lore has a cal
endar Of what will happen" to you
If your teeth are pulled on certain
days.
On Monday, approaching sad
ness; on Tuesday, legacy from a
distant relative; on Wednesday,
loss and shame; on Thursday. sue
cess in business; on Friday. con-
fusion in affairs; on Saturday, dis
covery of a secret; on Sunday. q
love quarrel.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07

New York, Sept. TITS too bad"
said the young Hollywood scenarist a
rev months back that P. G. Wode-
mouse has queered himself with the
Big Boys out on the Coast. He was
making two grand a week and could
have kept it up indefinitely Now he
had to go shooting his mouth off a,
bout being paid all that money for
DOING nothing and laughing, mind you
laughing at the studio for being a
sucker. They'll never hire him again
and it's too bad"
The young Hollywood scenarist has
been, since then, retired-I think I'M
willingly, toO-from his happy and
oplitic berth. And Percy Grenville.
Woedhouse has just signed up at two
thousand week or better (most like
iy better) for another stretch among
the articulate shadows of the West
Coast
There may be moral in that. And
If there is any moral in it, it's this:
the more you club, them, the better
they like it. This goes not only for
the producing roguls but for buyers
Of talent in radio. the publishing bus
other way, perhaps more flattering
to the bigwigs: they don't care what's
said about them as long as they think
they're getting something useful for
their Cutlery productions.
Perhaps they were buying the
WOdehouse name. Attached to pic
ture this has a psychological value,
whether P. G. himself stayed up
nights toling on the script or spent
his time lolling in Palm Springs and
wondering if he'd turned in his for
warding address, for weekly checks,
in proper form to the Hollywood post
office
When audiences see tho Wodehouse
label they prepare themselves to gig
gle. He is, as evryone knows, an en-
ormously funny fellow and the pro-
per thing is to laugh at anything in
which he has had a hand, or is al
legged to have had a hand. The crowd
used to start guffawing as soon as
Will Rogers walked on the stage and
at a Marx Brothers picture I have
heard loud filters greet the subtitle,
Passed by the National Board of Re-
view
On second thought, that subtitle
may he actually funny and not a godo
case in point: but you see what I
mean. All this gable about writer's
going to Hollywood and doing not a
blessed thing for months on end to
earn their fabulous stpends fails to
upset the producers very much. The
film magnates are getting. in most
cases, what they pay for-if it is no
more than the prestige value of hav-
ing some luminous scribe attached to
the staff. They are buying office de-
corations-often an important item
if nothing else.
The producers are able to main
tain an arctic calm in the face of
direct taunts from Wodehopse him
self about the high wages and snort
hours And while the press carries
hilarious bartS, coined III the Wode-
house hilt, revealing the sad state of
Hollywood working conditions in the
$2O00-a-week class. the studio is
laughing up it's sleeve and preparing
to offer Wodehouse $4,000 to come
back and loaf with them again next
year.
I saw Wodehouse once-a brief
brushing at large party He was the
traditional humorist OF fiction: a
grave, baldish gentleman with anti
quated Silver-rimmed specs. During
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
IT'S TRUE

You're wrong if you believe that
the Average White Man is more SUI
sceptible to sunstroke and heatstroke
than a Negro. Actuarial statistics
show that more negroes than whites
die of these causes.
The Average Man" contest closed,
as scheduled, on Saturday. All let
ters postmarked before midnight are
being considered for the prize. an
unabridged dictionary 1t will take
considerable time for the writer, the
sole judge, to read all letters; and
the opinions of readers on the best
one is desired, therefore the prize
winner will not be announced for
about two weeks. Readers are invit-
ed to study the observations ON the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
NOTICE 0r SALE.

Under and by virtue of an order OF
the Clerk IF the Superior Court of
Vance County, North Carolina, made
in the Special Proceeding entitled 1T.
P. Gholson, Adm. of the Estate of
Mary Allen, deceased, VS.. Eugene AL
len and wife, Pinkis Allen, William
Allen and wife, Gertie Allen, w.
Henry Allen and wife, Lucy Allen,
Tommie Allen, and wife, Dora Allen,
Teola A. Bahkerville and husband,
Silas Baskerville, Sarah A. Roberts
and husband, George Roberts, Martha
A. Hayes and husband, Harrison
Hayes, Maria A. Broadway, widow
Julia Allen Register, widow; Punch
Allen, minor, Julia Allen, minor; and
Maria Allen, minor, children of Roy
Allen, decd, Harriet A. Harris
daughter of Mary A. Allen, deceased;
Wilson Baskerville, husband of Mag
nolia Allen Baskerville, deceased, and
nolia Allen Baskerville, deceased;
Roser Register and wife, Viola Roy
ster; May Willie Register and Andrew
Register, children of frankie Register,
deceased, and all other unknown heirs
and persons in esse who shall appear
by Guardian ad Litem," heirs at law
of Mary Allen, deceased the same be-
ing upon the Special Proceedings
docket in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Vance County,
the undersigned Commissioner will on
Friday, September 49, 1886, at twelve
o'clock, noon, at the Courthouse door
in Henderson, N. c., offer for sale 10
the highest idder for cash. that GER
tain real estate lying and being in
Vance County, North Carolina, more
particularly described as follows
Begin at q stone, the old Sam Allen
corner, and George Badger Hughes
corner in Mary Ayscue line; run
thence North along the old Sam Allen
line Ala it. to a stone, Hayes and AL
len corner; thence West 622 feet to
stone, Mary Allen corner in Sam AL
len land; thence South parallel with
first line Ala #. to a stone on the
Hayes line; thence East 642 feet to
the place of beginning, containing six
acres, being made of two tracts, one
of IL acres as conveyed by Sam
Allen to Mary Allen on March II, 1918,
and of record in Book SO, at page Il,
Vance County; and the other being a
tract of 4 IL acres, conveyed by Sam
Allen to Mary Allen Sept 49, 1919, as
recorded in Book 80, at page 346, TO
both of which records reference is
mere made for further description.
This the 18th day of August, 1885.
A w. GHOLSON, Commissioner.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
ANSWERS

l. In case where one neighbor
sought to enjoin another from operat-
ing steam mill the smoke from
which annoyed him, the North Caro-
lima Supreme Court observed: IF a
man instead of contenting himself
with the quiet and comfort of a coun-
try residence, chooses to live in town,
he must take the inconvenience OF
the noise dust, flies, rats, SNAKE, SCOT
and cinders." Hyatt VS.. Myers, 70 N
c. 237.
q Recognition of this old English
common law was practiced until 1856
when it was abolished by the Code
Commission. England abolished it by
act of Parliament in 1927.
B. The North Carolina general as
sembly in 1882 granted General Green
commanding officer at the Battle of
Guilford Court House, a boundary OF
$4,000 acres of land. The land was
located in what is now Tennessee.
4. The English settlers, at that time
recognized no right of the Indian
They not only took their land, but
captured Indian men, women and
children and sold them into slavery
The practice became so Infamous that
Pennsylvania forbade their being re-
ceived into that colony.
5. In State and local taxes the per
capita amount was 1910 Only seven
states were lower than North Caro-
lima.
6. The Third Provincial Congress
which convened at Hillsboro August
20, IT'S A total of 1874 delegates were
present, representing every county
and borough town in the Province.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
BY FRED H. MAY

l. what does the Supreme Court say
are some of the penalties for living in
town?
T. How long has it been since North
carolina abolished the Benefit OF
Clergy? =.
g. In what way did the State try to
snow her appreciation to General
Nathaniel Green?
4: Why did Pennsylvania place an
embargo on slaves from Carolina in
i705?
D. What was the per capita tax bill
in North Carolina in 1890?
8. What is claimed to have been one
of the ablest bodies of men ever to
nave convened in North Carolina?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
TODAY'S YESTERDAYS

TODAY'S Yesterdays
Sept. 7, 1774-The first prayer was
offered up in Congress-by a man
Congress branded a traitor!
DR.. Jacob Duche, 37-year-old, Phil
adelphia-born, Episcopalian rector of
Christ Church, Philadelphia, so NOV
ed members of the first Continental
Congress at their opening session
with his invocation that they gave
him a vote of thanks and appointed
him the first official chaplain in the
country. A few months later the
pastor made plea against resisting
the British; the same congressman
declared him traitor and confiscat-
ed his estate. He managed to flee the
country to England where he re-
NAMED until he was able to make
his prayers for permission to return
be heard, Is years later.
Sept. Z 17S4-<George Washington
saw model for a steamboat. con-
structed by James Rumsey. 41-year-
old Marylander, and proved thai con-
temporaries always insensible to the
epochal potentialities of certain in
ventions. He wrote: II do give it as
my opinion InaC the discovery is OF
vast Importance"
However, when Rumsey built his
first craft and sent it steaming up
the Potomac River, at four miles an
hour, $50 years ago this year, he
couldn't obtain financial hackers in
this country. He went to England,
where demonstrations on the Thames
brought him no more results chan
similar conclusive evidence of the
steamboats, potentialities profited
John Fitch, the contemporary of Rum
sey who developed a more practical
steamboat.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

President John T. Stone of the Pres
byterian Theological Seminary, Chi
cago, born in Boston, So years ago.
Admiral Frank 3. Upham, u. S. N.
who today reaches the statutory age
OF retirement, born in Arizona, "a
years ago.
George Palmer Putnam of New
York, book publisher, husband of
Amelia Earhart, born in Rye, N. Y.
40 years ago.
Percy K. Fitzhugh Hugh Lloyd
of ~ j., boys story-book writer,
born in New York, 60 years ago.
Dorothy Dow of Chicago, poet and
author, born at Lockport, Ill, 81 years
ago.
Prof. Carl L. Becker of Cornell
noted historian, born in Iowa, 60
years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page

l. Approximately eight minutes.
2. Chaucer.
8. The War for Texan Independence.
4. Millard Fillmore.
5. Sweden.
o. The name applied to a faction of
the Republican party led by john
Randolph from 1905 to 1911. Oh
posed to the nomination of Madi
son.
7. Italian archaeologist.
g. Maine.
g. The throne of Japan is hereditary
ana passes to the eldest living son
OF the Sovereign upon his demise.
TO- Biology.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07
TODAY'S HOROSCOPE

Todays native is intensely practi-
cal and may be, under some aspects,
rather unimaginative. Honest and
just, laborious and reserved in speech
the life will be sedentary and prob.
ably occupied with hard work. Look
out for accidents, for they would be
liable to endanger life as we'll as limb.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-09-07

m o s I unpOr-
tant was that
Of the An1eri-
can Dental as
ISOLATION last
m o n t h. The
t w o conven-
tt on s t h a t
came between
the Republic
can and Demo-
cratic g. r e
re ! a lively Of
little impor-
lance to t h e
w e l f are and
h a p p mess Of
thu NV -