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those others, and now Bobby was
offside as they saw in football.

those others, and now Bobby was
ofiside, as they say in football.
Now, mother knew that up in
that tree she and the children were
perfectly safe from those Dogs.
There was nothing to worry about,
50 far as they were concerned. Dogs
cannot climb. But Farmer Browns
Boy and his cousins, Sue and Sammy,
were coming. In fact, they were
at the foot Of the tree by the time
Mrs. Bobby had the frightened chill
dren located. She did some quick
thinking. Perhaps they didn't know
about the children. Perhaps they
thought that there was but one Coon
in that tree.
Quickly but silently Mrs. Bobby
made her way down that tree. Halt
way down she waited until all were
on one side Of the tree, so that the
trunk was between her and them.
Then she climbed down quickly and
away she ran, keeping the trunk of
the tree between her and her pur-
suers. Thus she got a good start
before Bowser. circling around, found
her fresh scent, and with q roar was
after her, Flip at once joining in
the chase. Just then, the cloud hay
ing passed, the Green Meadows were
flooded with moonlight and Tommy
spied the dark form Of Mrs. Bobby
headed for the alder swamp. He led
the way there, while up in the Big
Hickory five young Coons still shivered
with fright as their willy mother led
the chase away.
(Copyrisht 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-07
LARGER GALLINGER
HOSPITAL IS ASKED
Congress Heights Citizens Asso-
citation Backs Use of Old
HOSPITAL.

A three-point program asking for
improvement of conditions at Gal
linger Hospital was adopted by the
Congress Heights Citizens Association
at its meeting last night.
Offered by Edward j. Newcomb. the
program called for an increase in
personnel, annexing Of the old Tuber-
culosis Hospital on Upshur street for
use as a convalescent section. and
construction of additional buildings
necessary to relieve the overcrowdine
condition. MIR. Newcomb, a former
member OF the Board Of Public We'll
1are, commended Supt. Bocock of
Gallinger for his management of the
institution under inadequate condi-
tons.
Mr.. Newcomb declared that while a
member OF the welfare board a request
Tor 200 additional employees chiefly
nurses, was asked, and only 20 were
added.
Drs. Charles B. Campbell and ]. p
Shearer of the Washington Medical
society spoke to the group on pre-
cautions against diphtheria and ap-
pendlcitis, respectively DR.. Campbell
Illustrated on a blackboard figures
showing how diphtheria was gradually
neing eliminated as a major disease
oy lnoculating children. He urged all
parents present to take this precau-
tion, assuring that no i'll effects would
follow. DR.. Shearer, defining chiefly
tne symptoms Of appendix inflamma-
tion, showed figures where 20 per
cent OF every victim OF appendicitis
dies. This, declared DR.. Shearer, is
attributed to neglect, permitting the
disease to reach advanced stages,
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UNDERPASSG GIVEN
BACK|NCBY GROUP
Dupont Circle Citizens As
sociation Hears Two Voice
DisapprovaI.

The Dupont Circle Citizens Asso-
citation approved a committee report
calling for the construction Of a $780,
600 underpass on Connecticut avenue
at Dupont Circle at its meeting yes
terday in the Mayfiower Hotel
The committee report was adopted
with but two dissenting voices, Col.
H. c. Clark maintaining that the
abolishment Of street cars would solve
the problem. Another objection was
that traffic is now held up but short
time, not long enough to make a
change worth while.
Harry M. Bedell Of the Traffic
Advisory Council, reported the council
has long advocated the underpass.
In favoring the underpass, the COM
mittee discarded retention of the
present system. cutting lanes through
the circle, erecting an overpass, or
constructing an underpass on Massa-
chusetts avenue.
In resolution introduced by Harral
Mulliken, the association favored a
ban on all-night street parking and
approved the efforts Traffic Director
Van Duzer has made furthering the
ban, Mr.. Van Duzer quoted the
results Of a recent survey showing
that In most precincts there are
facilities for night parking, and that
IN the first, second and third pre-
clncts, facilities could be provided in
time. He suggested a five-year plan
as the best way to achieve the ban
without unnecessary hardship on any
one.
Resolutions asking more stringent
enforcement Of laws against defective
muffiers and unnecessary sounding of
horns were passed, as was one asking
legislation against any blowing Of
horns between midnight and z am.
Both were introduced by Mr.. Mulliken.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

CHILDREN are q source of constant
worry to their parents. They
do not mean to be, but they are.
Strangely enough, the older they
grow the more worry they cause. 1t
appears to be the law Of life.
Bobby Coon's. children were no ex-
ception to the rule. While they were
babies they were helpless. like all
other babies. OF course. They were
constant care to Mrs. Bobby. and
when she left them alone in their
snug home she worried some, fearing
that some one might find it and
them. But at least they remained
put That is to say, she was sure
Of finding them where she left them.
1t was when they were big enough
to venture outside that her worries
increased, and the older they be-
came the more cause she had for
worry. Now that they were two
thirds as big as their parents and
able to travel and hunt for their
food, they caused more anxiety than
ever before. You see, they were like
so many other young folk-quite
sure that they knew Just about all
that there was to know, and so
quite equal to looking out for them
selves. They were not.
They were finding out now how
wrong they were. And were they
glad that mother was with them?
Indeed they were. They were so
scared that they couldn't do any
thinking. but just follow mother.
She had to do .the thinking for
them. If they were to be saved
from Bowser the Hound and Flip
the Terrier it would have to be
through her, with the help OF their
father, Bobby Coon.
While the latter delayed the chase
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group voted in favor Of suffrage for
the District and decided to support
MIR. Finch's organization. =
The association also voted to ask
District officials to hasten completion
OF Taft Junior High School and de-
cided to favor full-time operation Of
Langdon Park.
The meeting, held in the Church
OF Christ, was presided over by w. P.
Thomas, president.
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by stopping to fight Flip, Mrs. Bobby
led the way straight to the Big
Hickory on the bank Of the Smil-
ing Pool. 1t was the only big tree
near enough to be reached in time.
You see, those frightened young
Coons had started in the wrong di-
rection when driven out Of Farmer
Browns cornfield by Bowser and Flip.
Up that tree she led them, high up.
Clinging together and to the trunk
of the tree In Q crotch 80 hidden
by leaves that they would be difncult
to see from the ground, especially
as . friendly cloud had hidden the
face Of Mistress Moon, she left them.
BY this time Bowser and Flip
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Bedtime Stories

BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
When strength and speed and courage fail
Bobby Coon,
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JEFFERSON STADIUM
MEMORIAL is ASKED
Bladensburg Road Citizens Asso.
citation Backs Substitute
Project.

Substitution Of municipal stadium
at the foot Of East Capitol street as
a memorial to Thomas Jefferson for
the proposed memorial in the Tidal
Basin was voted last night by the
Bladensburg Road Citizens Associa-
ton.
A resolution embodying the pro-
posal was passed on the motion of
r. E. Scammell after the group had
discussed several alternate sites sue-
gested by other civic groups in the
city.
Following an address by Wilbur S.
Finch, president of the District Of
Columbia Suffrage Association, the
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Natures Children
Red.Bellied Hawk
(Buteo lineatus elegans)

I'VE dull white. blotched- with yellow
brown, eggs are laid.
Hawk babies waste little time grow
ing up, though they remain with their
parents throughout the autumn. Their
parents, 1t Is said, wed for life. At
least we know they remain together
until their children can take care Of
themselves.
The young members of the family
are given tender bits Of mice or other
prey and they hold their bit of meat
with a fierce look Of ownership in
the eye. as they place foot upon the
food. Their sharp beaks tear che meat
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were at the foot of the tree, bark
ing excitedly and leaping up against
the trunk. Where was Bobby Coon?
Over in the alder swamp, above the
Smiling Pool. After his short fight
with Flip, and before Bowser had
come up, Bobby had turned aside,
expecting that those Dogs would fol-
low him. They didn't. Bowser had
followed the stronger scent of all
Evening star., 1937-12-07
PARKS TALK SLATED
Riding and Hiking to Be Tonic
OF Miss Harlean James.

The thrills of riding and hiking in
sne back country of the national
PARKS will be told by Miss Harlean
James, executive secretary of the
American Planning and Civic Asso-
clstion, at pm. tomorrow In a
National Park Service lecture in the
new Interior Building Auditorium.
Miss James story will be accom-
panied by sound movies. Besides the
taK there will be style show by
members Of the Potomac Appalachia
Club.
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BRIDGE WORK ORDERED
Repairs Authorized by Gartside
on Arlington Memorial Span.

Frank T. Gartside, acting super
antendent OF the National Capital
Parks, today authorized Mai. Walter
D. Luplow, district engineer for the
war Department for the Washington
area, to do repair work on the tenders
at the upstream side Of the Airing
ton Memorial Bridge.
Mr.. Gartside explained this will
consist Of tightening and securing the
cables to the piles and depositing
large gravel or small cobbles around
the base Of the loose piling.
Evening star., 1937-12-07

Copyright. 1879
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Settlers Meat Eaters.

Because Of the scarcity Of vegetables,
early American settlers used q great
deal OF meat in their cooking, and the
abundance of meat Is still the first
characteristic of American cookery.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
. TODAY
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

1744-John Houston, Revolutionary
leader and soldier, Georgia governor
born near Waynesboro, Ga. Died
near Savannah, July 20, 1898.
1769-David Hosack noted New
York City physician and professor of
his day, born in New York. Died Dec
%, 1885.
1822-Galusha A. Grow, Pennsyl-
vania lawyer and congressman, Speak
er, railroad president, congressman
again after 30 years, born in Windham
Co., Conn. Died March 81, 1907.
1842-tMary Putnam jacob, New
York physician and professor, who
gained her medical education against
the prejudices of the day in Paris by
a trick, worker in many good causes,
born in London (of American parent
age). Died June 10, 19O6.>
1872-Edith Rockefeller Mccormick,
Chicago social leader and patron OF
the arts, daughter of John D., born in
Cleveland. Died Aug. 25, 1882.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
THE LASH IN PRISON
DISCIPLINE.
To the Editor:

TO the Editor:
The writer was identified with
North Carolina's adoption of the
county unit system of public welfare
ever since it's adoption has been a
member of the State Welfare Board ;
for over twenty years has been ac-
lively connected with the North Caro-
lima Conference for Social Service
and therefore has some warrant to
speak for the social conscience of
North Carolina, in the matter of the
use of the lash in prison discipline.
For the use of the lash in prison
discipline to he an unsettled question
in this year of grace 1887 is. unbe-
lievably anomalous, for the reason
that its disuse had been regarded for
so many years by the people of the
State as a permanently settled policy.
i If in the use of the lash we have any
other state or states for company it
is so negligible and unconvincing as
to count for little. 1t is not used in
any Federal prison, nor:in any prison
anywhere of recognized efficiency and
standing. It is not favored by any in
stitution or organization in the State,
whether social, civic, educational or
religious. 1t violates every principle
of reformation and rehabilitation in
prison management. It is+a confession
IF incapacity for intelligent control.
It is archaic and barbaric and
brutal It does not belong in the set
up of an enlightened State Before the
temperance of the banished lash,
North Carolina stood at the very sum-
NIT of social progress in this coun-
try's public estimate. She will now
have to hang her head in shame, un-
til this latest prison folly has been
abandoned.
Without assuming to speak for the
State Board of Charities and Public
Welfare, it is competent to recite the
following:
Cd The State Board of Charities
and Public Welfare has made recent
public statement unreservedly con-
demning the use of the lash in prison
discipline.
(2) Those members who have SER
we'd on the board for years, the old
members, have never wavered in
their opposition to the lash.
90 The new members are socially
minded citizens, as all members Of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
OTHERS VIEWS
DISSATISFACTION: OUR PEN
SION PLAN.

To the Editor
AS an officer or promoter in the
Old Age Pension which has become
fixed purpose to provide aid to
those who have become old and with
out means to take care of themselves
in their declining years I hastily en-
dorse L. c. Cole when he asserts that
there is widespread dissatisfaction
with the administration of the old age
assistance plan, both in Durham and
elsewhere throughout the State. He
states he has appealed to the COVER
nor of this State to take steps to
remedy the complaint. He also states
that most of the complaints reaching
him are coming from three groups,
those who have been refused aid,
those who are dissatisfied with the
amount of their pension, and those
whose application has not been acted
upon although filed in many cases,
for more than two months.
Cole pointed out that, although it
is estimated that approximately LOO
aged persons, dependent and blind
persons in Durham county are eligible
for aid, only 200 applications have
thus far been approved. 1 am asking
for information, how many in Vance
countyFhave been approved? Why so?
It is not the lack of money for the
government furnishes ona-half, the
State one-fourth, the county one
fourth. The Old Age Pension is clear
and convincing. The fault is some
where.
Social security funds are admins
tered through the various welfare de-
partments of the 100 counties of the
State where comes all the money for
J. taxes to pay with all this. We have
lost our local self-government and
county pride. Who is resp onsible fer
this delay? Not the government nor
the counties nor the state, for the
money is in their hands waiting for
some one to say go ahead and speed
up.
How long, oh how long this tire
some journey? Wake up people. When
you pay ask something in return.
c.. F. .TANKERSLEY SR.
Henderson, Aug. 80, 1887
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
THE SAGA OF THE AP.
(The Atlanta constitutional

(The Atlanta Constitution.)
Rare is the individual in the world
today who does not know the mean
ing of the double initial--AP-follow-
ing the dateline of a news story in
a modern newspaper. Associated
Press" has come to mean in the world
of news gathering and news reading
a symbol equal in significance tc
Sterling" on silver.
Now it is announced by David O..
Selznick, president of Selznick Inter
national Pictures, that a motion pic
ture will be made using the story OF
the AP, FROM rs founding in 1848 to
its accomplishments of today, as the
background of theme of the produc-
ton.
If the proposed picture catches the
romance of the AP, if it rightly in
terprets the full meaning of "AF," it
will bring the world a story that is.
in effect, the story Of almost cen
tury of civilizations progress as well
as a story of the constant fight for
the freedom, integrity and truthful
ness of the American press.
Few organizations carry within
their archives such a saga of service
and achievement as the heritage of
the Associaled Press today Founded,
and always continued, as a nonprofit
organization, its sole purpose in exis-
tence is to bring its 1,400 newspaper
members in this country the news of
all the world. From the highest chan
cele1ies of government to the most
forgotten atoll in the oceans of the
world, the news gathering arm of the
Associated Press extends, combing the
four quarter of the earth and the ut
most reaches OF the seven seas to
bring to the homes of the nation all
the news, full and accurately told.
Largely the work of the men who
have made the Asv,ciatd Press the
great organization it is today, the men
who have built, day ! " day, it's re
putation for fair, unbiased .presenta-
ton of the news, has been anony-
nous, in SO far as the outside world
is concerned. They have done their
duty, often in the face of severe
handicaps, and, in some instances
with lonely death as reward innbued
with the spirit of the true newspaper
man.
Mr.. Selznick will find, if he delves
deep enough and if he sees with the
eye of understanding, a cavalcade of
world advance enshrined lin the rec
ords of an organization that has done
much to make that advance come
true. He will find panorama of un-
flinching fidelity to an ideal and a
sage of service that should make a
picture to rank with the half dozen
greatest in all the history of the
screen.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
| AUGUST
sUN MON JUG WED lHv fRi SAL
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Today is the Day
BY CLARK KlNNA'RD
Copyright, 1887, for this Newspaper
by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
spicuous to the enemy

spicuous to the enemy.
A warrant was sworn out for the
son of Congressman from Wiscon-
sin, charging draft evasion.
Count Rolf Won Reventlow Ca rela-
tive of the husband of Barbara Hut
TOM escaped into Switzerland by cross
ing Lake Constance in a rnotorboat
after deserting from the German
army.
More than a hundred members Of
the 165th Infantry, at Camp Mills, l.
L., were listed as deserters. They had
been disappearing in small numbers
Forbidden. to meet in Minneapolis
the delegates to the Socialist conven
tion of pacifists arranged to gather ir
Fargo, N. D., where they had been in
vited by Gov. Lynn Frazier.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
N. C.. Revenue Off
Sharply This August
CONTINUED from Page One.)

gain of $14O,872.78 for August. Re
ceipts totalled $2,288, ,965.O6 this month
and $2,148,092.2S in August, 1886. The
total for two months this year was a
gain of $311 ,953.36, over last year.
Total receipts for August were S.
228,7O9.59, a. drop of 1899 percent from
August, 1885, and for two months the
total was $1O,939,931.15, down 22.93
percent from the 1886 period
Sales tax income in August, even
though the new exemptions of rasic
foods wre allowed, totalled $S4405 13,
compared with $SO8,O94.97 last year.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31

this board should be. This board is
the agency of government which par
ticularly expresses the social con-
science of North Carolina. There is
little doubt that after the new mem
bers have had time and opportunity
to inform themselves, the board 5
longtime unanimity on the subject of
the lash in prison discipline will be
unchanged and unimpaired.
(4) Whatever may ice the board S
constitutional right or duty of insti-
tutional supervision, will not be exer-
cised, it is safe to say, until our new
prison management has had the full
lest opportunity to meet the confident
expectation of the patiently waiting,
social minded people of North Caro-
lima, that it will in due time aban-
don the futility and the folly of the
lash as an instrument of prison re-
habilitatiOn.
A. w. McALLISTER.
Greensboro, Aug. 20, 1887.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
TODAY IN HISTORY

1837-Ralph Waldo Emersons IA
nous grafton, "The American Scholar
delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society of Harvard, calld Americas in
tenectual Declaration of independence
1846-First issue of the Boston Her
aid.
l864-Gen. George B. Mcclellan nom
mated by Democrats their President
ial candidate against Lincoln running
FOR second term-eleven Lincoln con-
cedes McClellan's winning because OF
split in Republican ranks.
1897-Patent is. sued Edison for the
photographic Motion Picture Cam
era-one of the important stops in the
! movies of today
1910--Glenn H. Curtiss makes a new
record flying IS miles in an hour and
Is minutes.
1910-Ex-President Theodore Roose-
velt's notable speech at Osawatomie
kans., on the New Nationalism" Re
construction of society by political ac-
ton, relatively new conception for
those days. Criticism of the u. S. Su-
preme Court which had nullified re-
cent social legislation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
NOTICE OF PAROLE.

Notice is hereby given that an ap-
plication for parole will be made to
the Honorable Clyde r. Hoey, Gov
ernor of North Carolina, for James
Williams, convicted of larceny and
receiving in Municipal court in Hen
derson on April IL, 1887, and sentenc-
ed to IL months on The roads.
Protests should be filed with the
Governor Immediately.
JOHN WILLIAMS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
TODAY,S HOROSCOPES

Iodays native possesses an eager
intellect with shrewd insight into
affairs. The nature will be some.
what reserved and perhaps bashful;
not by any means unsociable, but a
trifle awkward. The affections will
be sincere, the mind pure and the dis
position generous; a person to be de-
pended upon.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
-4eIsT 70. Al .-rL. FOR CHRIST
U|]l1io)|',||.l U|lf]]ll11i5o| |'|...lE@o0

JOHNS SPLENDID VISION: And l
saw a new heaven and new earth:
for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away; and there
was no more sea. And John saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming
down from God, out of heaven, pre-
pared as a bride adorned for her hus-
band.-Revelation 21:1, 2.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31
ANSWERS

l. Leonidas Polk, born in Raleigh
IN 1901, founded the University of the
South at Sewanee, Tennessee. He was
the first Bishop of the Episcopal
church in louisiana During the war
between the states he was known as
The Fighting Bishop" and was killed
at the battle of Pine Mountain.
z In 1902 sixteen man-power
pump was bought at the price of
1874. 1t was paid for through free-will
offerings. The pump would throw a
stream of 80 gallons of water per min
ute distance of 1872 feet.
8. The definite reason was never
given, but it was officially suggested
In the general assembly that he was
suspected of plotting to overthrow the
proprietary government in favor of
the Crown. He was removed XIV the
proprietors in July 1925 after having
served one and one-half years as gov
ernor. The Crown took the COLONY
over in 1929 and two years later ap-
pointed burlington to the governor
ship again, then three years later re-
moved him.
A. In addition to the usual require
ments of candidates of recognized
parties the independent candidate
must file with the board of elections
a petition signed by 25 percent of the
voters entitled to vote for a candidate.
The basis for figuring this 25 percent
is the gubernatorial vote in the last
primary
5. The North Carolina delegation
was seated July 20, 1868, more than
three years after the war had closed.
6. 1t was an act of the general as
sembly of 1715 allowing religious free
dom in the colony. Those not of the
Church of England, however, were
called Protestant Dissenters." The
act allowed Quakers to affirm in
stead of subscribing an oath. Under
this act no Quakers were allowed to
give evidence in a criminal cause. nor
were they allowed jury duty. They
could not hold office.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31

New York, we understand, has a
terrible time trying to put over its
less noise campaign. All Washington
needs to do is have congress adjourn.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-31

Tuesday, Aug. 81; national holiday
is the Netherlands and possessions
(Queen's 57th Birthday. This week $
morning stars: Venus, Saturn, Oranus'
evening stars: Mercury, Mars. Jupiter
Neptune. This weeks zodiac sign:
Virgo.