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Evening star., 1937-03-28
Easter.

The human race need not believe In
q Risen Savior. 1t may prefer, If such
be its will, to mock the legend of the
Man of God triumphant over Death and
victorious over the Grave. But can it
afford to doubt Life itself? Easter,
thoughtfully considered, is the season
when the question of Divine Purpose is
answered. Then, with the promise of
Spring before its eyes, the sentient soul
witnesses to its faith in the cosmic
scheme of things in which it is part.
Easter, even to the skeptic, signifies
fulflllment. The age-long experience Of
the species prompts confidence in the
ceaseless operation of that universal
principle under which Life constantly is
reborn. Whether the law be person.
allied In Christ or simply reflected in
a fleld-hower aspiring toward the re-
turning sun probably does not matter
very much A merciful Father will not
require OF His children more compre-
hensive intelligence than He has given
them. If the finite mind cannot grasp
the marvellous mathematics of inflnity,
the stars will not fall. Something beyond
the power of rational analysis convinces
the human heart that Reality is real,
Truth true and Beauty beautiful.
And If these factors be appreciated,
existence is riddle easy to read. The
instinct to hope should be enough.
While the spirit is competent to dream,
no man or woman or little child need
Evening star., 1937-03-28
FULFILLMENT
REV JAMES FREEMAN d. D, D., D. C. L.,
BISHOP WASHINGTON.

There is no day in the calendar that
so completely answers LIES greatest
riddle as Easter. If Christmas speaks
of Joy, Easter speaks of fulhllment. DR..
Van Dyke called 1t the worlds SUM-
rise" the dawn of its hopeful tomorrow
1t furnishes in its story of the risen
Christ the answer to mans deepest in
quiry: IF man die, shall he live again."
True, there have been those who have,
out Of their deeper musing and specula-
tion guessed at what lies beyond the
grave. The great thinkers of all time
have searched their souls to discover
if possible that which would give them
q clue as to what is beyond the last
horizon. They have dared to affirm
that there must be an answer to mans
persistent demand for fuller, more
satisfying life. Says the great English
scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge: Il am as
convinced of continued existence on the
other side of death as am of existence
here. 1t may be said you cannot be as
sure as you are Of sensory experience.
I say can"
Tennyson in flowing verse gives ex-
preston to his faith as he contemplates
the death Of his beloved Arthur Hallam:
Thou wilt not leave us in the dust,
Thou madest man. he knows not why;
He thinks he was not made to die;
And Thou hast made him, Thou art
just
Every great poet has given expression
to his search for the fuller, larger life
Browning. Shakespeare, Shelly. Nothing
is SO instructive to man as his quest for
life. From the great philosophers, think
ers and poets we may CLEAN much that
heartens and sustains us when the mys-
terry of death enfolds US, but search
where we will there is no voice that
speaks with affirmation and flnality saw
ing His who rose triumphant on the first
Eastern morning. 1t is significant that
He rose with the dawn, thus associating
the new life with the new day. Christ
differs from all other teachers in that
He does not guess or speculate. He
afhrms. He confidently declares Himself
to be the giver of that which man most
persistently seeks, namely, life Standing
beside dead man, he boldly says: Il
am the resurrection and the life; he
Evening star., 1937-03-28

despair. Let 1t be granted that humanity
is crucified from day to day, from hour
to hour; let it be conceded without argu-
ment that the times always are out Of
Joint, bitter and sad; let the whole sor-
rowful scroll of struggle and loss and
poignant pain through centuries un-
counted be displayed; let each separate
nations pitiful ordeal be exhibited and
each individual destiny be exposed in
pathetic nakedness broken and Scared
paint the tragic picture as black as one
will, the elemental Fact still stands; Life
does not die!
And nothing less is the meaning Of
Easter. 1t is the Feast OF Continuity.
and its synonym is Immortality.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Member Of the Associated Press.
Legality of the Sit-DOwn.

Secretary Perkins has done well to
clarity and to amplify her often quoted
statement that the legality of this sit
down method has not yet been de-
termined by the courts" She says, cor
rectly enough, that at the time OF the
statement the courts had not passed on
the matter. Without laboring the point,
1t may be said that after the courts had
decided, she might with perfect proprlety
have called the decision officially to the
attention Of the public and given it
the emphasis that her previous state
ment received. Silence by the admins
tration after the courts decided took
on the appearance of tacit support of
the strikers and their method.
Secretary Perkins now acknowledges,
however, the decision of the Michigan
courts and their flouted orders and adds
wise counsel: Nor should disobedience
to these orders be counseled by any
Government official. The courts are an
tnstrumentality established by the people
themselves as method agreed upon by
citizens in a democracy as a practical
way of settling civil disputes among the
people. 1t is necessary to have and
sustain such a method in order that we
NAV live together in free democracy"
That is we'll said, and it comes close
to the nub of the serious question
raised by the sit-down strikes and their
obvious success as a method OF gaming,
bv force, points sought by the sit-downers
Many good people are now furlously
engaged in a naturalization OF the Sit
down strike as legal performance and
their reasoning puts the most involved
legalism of the Supreme Court COM
pletely In the shade. The conception
Of the workers vested interest IN his
lob as property and his right to protect
1t is being stretched to cover the action
of a small group or highly organized
minority in seizing not only the property
of the employer but the job-property OF
their fellow employees as we'll, and in
defytng the courts and all constituted
authority in holding it.
Much of this argument is entirely
beside the point. Some conceptions OF
jobs as property are validly held-but
their validity ceases as soon as the asser-
ton of one property right depends upon
the forceful seizure of other property
and the abrogation of other property
rights through defiance of the courts.
Somewhere there is a sane middle
ground between new and old concep-
tions of property rights and our search
for it will be facilitated by removal from
the picture of the illegal and dangerous
sit-down. Regardless of social or eco
nomic predictions, if the choice is to
be made between the sit-down and the
orderly processes of government and law
there can be no question of what that
choice must be. We cannot have both
sit-down in defiance of the courts and
respect for property rights-any property
xtghts-at the same time.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Fifteenth Biennial.

It would be a useless exercise of energy
to attempt to make rules for art. Such.
in any event, is the conviction of the
trustees of the Corcoran Gallery Of Art.
For the Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition
of Contemporary American Oh Paint
ings, therefore no hampering prohibi-
tions were set up. The result is a won-
derland of pictures in which the visiting
public, beginning today, will find rich
variety of evidence of esthetic democracy.
Obviously, it is right that it should be
so. American civilization is not cast in
q single rigid mold, not meant to con-
form to single pattern of ideals. The
founding fathers of the Republic pro-
vided for freedom of opinion in politics
and government, and their philosophy
has been reflected in every department
Of creative enterprise. Difference, then,
and not monotonous repetition Of themes
and methods should distinguish the cur
rent display An hour spent in the in
spection of the four hundred and sixty
one canvases being shown will serve to
convince any skeptic.
But variety is not an end in itself.
Progress also is wanted. The Corcoran
trustees have definite goal in mind.
1t is their hope to encourage general
appreciation of native genius. They
seek to advance the hour when America
may attain a spiritual maturity. With
out apology, they vision Nation free
and peaceful and prosperous because
wise and good.
1t follows that the Fifteenth Biennial
is an experiment. If throngs of men,
women and children visit the gallery
view its contents and come away lifted
up" in mind and heart. profit may be
counted and gain registered for society
at large The exhibition is offered on
democratic terms for the enjoyment of a
community not afraid of the values it
represents.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
ii Duce Finds a Friend.

Amid his mounting trials and tribula-
tions in Spain and elsewhere, Mussolini
has done an effective stroke of diplo-
matte business, whereby Italy and Yugo-
slavia agree for five years to bury their
differences and quit glaring at each
other, daggers drawn, across land from
tiers and the Adriatic Sea. Thus are
removed, at least for protracted period,
danger points in Southeastern Europe
which long threatened to make the
Balkan tinderbox once again the start
ing place of y general conflagration.
When the Italo-French situation was
less amicable than it is today political
and economic understanding between
Rome and belgrade would have savored
OF an effort to separate France from her
Little Entente allies. Apparently both
Czechoslovakia and Rumania hail the
new treaty without any fears on that
score, while no objection is forthcoming
from Paris. Ever since Italy sealed with
Albania, Yugoslavias southern neighbor
pact of mutual support and co-opera-
ton, and later riveted financial and
commercial ties with the country directly
across the Adriatic from the Italian
bootheel, Rome's relations with Yugo-
slavia became more or less chronically
strained. They were aggravated by
oppression of Yugoslav minorities within
italian territory and of italian minori-
ties in Yugoslavia. The agreement just
negotiated provides machinery for avoid
ing future misunderstanding on these
and other counts. It pledges each coun-
try not to help third power should the
latter attack either Italy or Yugoslavia
Mutual trade opportunities will be pro-
noted. If the arrangement is faithfully
carried out by both Sides it should prove
= powerful bulwark for peace in corner
Of the Old World Inherently full of ex-
plosive possibilities and war dangers.
from Mussol1ni's standpoint the deal
Evening star., 1937-03-28

men? One well-authenticated story
going the rounds Of higher Government
circles may give cue. The story is this:
Leading financial interests, who guide
the policies of many large industrial Or
carnations, have passed the word that
employers can best serve their interests
by making concessions to workers at this
time. Then. so the story goes they are
in position to advance prices more
than enough to cover costs, thereby
taking advantage of q situation that
promises very profitable operations in the
period just ahead.
Later, If there is an upset, labor.
having overplayed its hand-will be
vulnerable and, as in England, may be
brought under restraint. AL Of this
means the biding Of time.
(copyrish4, 1879
Evening star., 1937-03-28

When the Maryland Legislature takes
a holiday some of the members with
ideals Of conservative propriety may de-
mand chaperonage to keep them from
being routed by insidious influences into
Baltimore night clubs. Many of them
have responsibilities in local transactions
which call for neighborly confidence that
might be impaired by even gossipy sus-
picion of unceremonious frivolity.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

The narrow escape Of the man and
woman in an automobile when the plane
crashed near Pittsburgh calls renewed
attention to the need of routing all kinds
highways.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

An arbitrary demand for new blood"
in a judiciary hitherto regarded as re-
markably sound and capable constitutes
one of the most interesting ideas yet
revealed by political science.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

Americans still 60 to Europe where
the political situation, however distressing
1t may be, involves no personal obliga-
ton to talk about 1t.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Comedy Calculation.

you drop an occasional remark of
considerable sapiency," said the close
friend.
Il try to-" answered Senator Sorghum.
Life has become so serious that comedy
is regarded as excusable only in one
who is able to sell It,"
Jud Tunkins says leader is some
times a man who gets a whole lot of
people to agree with him, but oftener
a man who learns to agree with a whole
lot of people.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

Each small annoyance ever known
Is common to the human race,
And yet we seek to gid our own
With pathos or romantic grace.
What though your nerves are of the key?
What though the cook may put on airs?
And friends with your umbrella fee?
Nobody cares.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Duty and inclination.

The small boy soon will swimming 60,
And stern reproof shall not be spared.
His father does his duty, though
He would 60 swimming If he dared.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
.Joyous Enthusiasm

Joyous Enthusiasm.
do you know q consistent and thor
ough optimist?"
EYES," answered Miss Cayenne, "a radio
announcer"
"As the world grows older" said HI
Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "the people
learn many things, including new ways
of making the old mistakes"
The Faithful Signal
The wind it came a-blowin'
And the rain began to fall,
The flowers stopped their CROWN
And the song birds ceased to call,
But presently before us
Was q signal bright on high
So we all joined the chorus,
There's rainbow in the sky!"
The world has had its sorrows
When the storm was raging fast,
There we're always the tomorrows
When the sun shone bright at last.
So We'll hold to our endeavor
To be happy by and by,
For no Ill fortune ever
Chased the rainbow from the sky.
"satan goes after evildoers," said Uncle
Eben, but hs punishes more foolish
folks dan he does sinners"
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Shooting Stars.
Introspection.
BY PHuANDER JOHNSON.

Introspection.
AS through this curious world we walk
We find with sorrow most sincere
The things of which we want to talk
Are not what others want to hear.
What though you hate your daily toll?
What though you lose your petty
wares?
What though your comfort Fate may
spoil?
Nobody cares.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

has had Q1mculCy keeping up WIN q
movement that 1t had expected to lead
not to follow.
But apparently the November election,
affording q demonstration of labor's
newly organized political power, not only
caused employers to alter their attitude
toward outside unions, but did some
thing to the thinking of workers as
well.
After that election an organization
movement swept through the tradi-
tionally non-union automobile industry.
Steel previously had fought every at
tempt at unionization by outsiders, and
with success. Lewis, expecting violent
resistance, made the most elaborate
preparations as he set out to get steel
workers to join his union. Yet the
largest company signed up without
fight. Actually, with an organization
still in its infancy, the c. I. o. claims
more than 100000 members, compared
with the 2,700,0OO Of the old-line A. r.
of L.
The sit-down strike, now attracting
most attention, could be but an incident
in the real second administration Roose-
velt revolution.
The Lewis idea is to develop class
consciousness among the workers of the
country and to throw them into politics
as well as into the give and take OF
collective bargaining on a mass basis.
If successful, the workers could use the
powers of Government to throw protec-
tions around themselves that could read
ily change the character OF the Nations
industrial problems.
Whero does Ill Of this leave bosinass
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ONCE UPON DEC. 18th.

ONOE OIO4N DAIO'
History always repeats, ana WIFI
Germany and Japan, among other ma
tons, building up important interests
in South America, there doubtless Will
again come a time when president
of the United States will be called
upon to face the situation Grover
Cleveland did ~ years aA6Stoday.
For a long time before that Dec. IL,
1895. there had been a dispute over
the boundry between British Guiana
and Venezuela Britain had refused
to arbitrate the question. British
Guiana by itself was of no practical
value as a colonial possession. Vene-
zuela was rich in gold, oil, other min
erals and raw materials. IT little Ven
ezuela should be rash enough to fight
arbitrary measures of Great Britain,
Venezuela and British Guiana could be
put together to give John Bull very
valuable foothold in South America
indeed.
But ~ years ago today, President
Cleveland sent a message to Congress
that slapped Britain in the face. He
demanded authority and 100000 ap-
preparation for an all-American boun-
dairy commission which should deter
mine where justice lay between Brit
ish Guiana and Venezuela, and pro-
POSED, when the boundary commission
had reached a decision, to put the full
force and power of the United States
behind it.
The full power of the United States
at that moment consisted of stand
ing army of $4,000, no transports, one
modern man-of-war, and coast de-
lenses that hadn't been improved since
the War Between the States. But
War talk famed up throughout the
country. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
declared he was "bubbling over with
delight and Senator William M.
Stewart said it would be "good thing
even if we got whipped, for it would
rid US of English bank rule The
Stock Market went panicky. Congress
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Continued from Page One.)
tween good and bad business. The in
come from our cotton and wheat
crops controls the pocket-books of
hundreds of communities in the South
and West. Factory payrolls dictate
business activity in the great indus
trial states of the North In normal
years, 40 per cent of our cotton crop,
Is per cent of our wheat harvest. 10
per cent of our automobile output,
and Is per cent of our office appli-
ances are sold across the seas.
We must export a good portion of
these products and many others be-
cause we raise and manufacture more
than we can cat and use. Workers in
Asia and Europe need our surplus
goods. They all have SURPRISES which
they must also sell. We need their
goods and we buy them. If it were not
for this exchange of SURPRISES we
would have to cut our production to
domestic consumption Other coun-
tries would have to do likewise. The
c''vious result would be less goods
for world workers to divide, with a
corresponding lower standard of liv-
ing. Yet, here is a simple economic
fact almost universally forgotten to-
day:
Workers Of the world can have
more goods to divide only as mora
goods IRE produced.
Ho-y Tariffs Hurt.
We sell part of our cotton surplus
TO Japan. She sells part of her silk
surplus to us. For years, Japan has
been improving her textile machinery.
BY efficient looms and low wages.
she can undersell our cloth in our
own domestic market. She buys our
cotton. So, thinks Japan, why should
Mt we buy her textiles? But we do
not let her sell cloth to us because
it completes with our American cloths.
Hence, we put tariff on Japanese
cloth. Japan gets angry. She looks for
a new source Of raw cotton. She in
vades and captures big chunks of
China. China raised 2,259000 bales of
cotton in 1935-1936 crop year. We ex-
ported 1,55O,0OO bales of cotton TO ia
pan in the 1936-1937 crop year. How
much cotton will we export to Japan
two or three years from now?
Meanwhile, our cotton crop this year
is the biggest in our history. So is
the world crop. When our crop ran
100000 bales a year, we exported
100000 bales of cotton annually.
This year with 100000 bales, we
will have sold about 100000 abroad.
What will become Of our surplus?
The price has already dropped from
Is cents to eight cents pound. The
government is loaning planters nine
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ANSWERS

/ According to government reports
has 100000 candlepower. The Nave
y. j., is the most powerful in
United States with 100000 can
u power
2 The State vote was for Vance 3d.
065, and for Holden 14471; the army
vote was, for Vance 1920 and for
Holden 1924
3. The charters were amended Civ
ing commissioners of all cities and
towns authority to provide for needy
families of those engaged in active
military and naval service of the
state and of families of those wound
ed in any such service
4. With the rise of the Jefferson
ideas CT democracy in 1899 this Gus
tom was abolished. The legislature of
that year also abolished the custom
of the judge being preceded by the
sheriff carrying a wand on his trips
to and from the court room Wearing
gowns were thought undemocratic.
5. The records of the State Prison
show that the larceny and liquor laws
were by far the most violated.
6. Thomas Eastchurch, in 1916 was
given two commissions as governor in
the Carolina colony. One of these was
as governor and Commender in
Chief in that part of our Province
called Albemarle." The other commits
sion included the settlements On the
"Pamlico and Neuse" rivers. Cover
nor Eastchurch died before qualify
ing
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-12-17
NOTICE.

The property hereinafter describe /
having heretofore been offered for
sale on the 22nd. of February 1897
and a bid of $1,86OOO received for
same and reported to the court, AMI
thereafter the court having ordered a
resale of same: Now pursuant to said
order of resale and under and pur-
suant to the provisions thereof and
the powers contained in that certain
Judgment of Vance Superior Court
entitled, D. P. McDuffee, Administra-
tor of Mrs. Sue H Hines, deceased,
vs. Mrs. Sue H. Scales ct ais, the I'M
dersi2ned commissioner will offer for
sale on Monday the 18th. day of Jan
uary 1897, at midday, noon, at court
mouse door in Vance County, N c.,
10 highest bidder for cash, at public
cutlery, the following described pro
perty, the bidding to begin at ST.
$4,000, viz:
6egln on north side of Orange
street ITO feet from Chestnut street
IN henderson, N c., and run thence
toward Walnut street 100 feet to the
intersection thereof; thence along
walnut street so feet to O'Neil lot;
tnence on parallel line with Orange
street toward Chestnut street 100
leet; tnence on a direct line so feet
to the beginning.
Inc. successful bidder will deposit
SloO.O0 with the Clerk of SUPERIOR
court at time of sale as good faith
money 70 De forfeited in case he or
'ne ian 70 take the property upon de-
mana on confirmation, otherwise to
oe creolteo upon the purchase price
azure 20 deposit said money the
property will be again offered i'm
,aediately.
81 This 18th December, 1887.
81 --R.-P.-WYCHE, Commissioner
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Pursuant to authority conferred in
that certain judgment of SUP arior
Court Of Vance County, in proceed
ing entitled, Lee Bullock VS. Edward
S. Bullock, the undersigned commits
sioner will offer for sale at midday
on Monday the 18th. Of January 1888
at courthouse door in Vance County
to the highest bidder, for cash. at
public cutlery, one one-half undivid-
ed interest in the following described
real property in Vance County, viz:
Begin at a stake and two pointers
in old road, Parker Bu1.cc.- and Bur
well corner, and run thence along said
road S so degrees w 50 poles to stake.
w. H. Burwell corner; thence S IS
degrees w 80 poles to 3 pines in Bur
well line; thence S IS degrees E 1O4
poles to sourwood and pine; thence
N 10 degrees w ISL poles to the be-
ginning, containing 40 acres, more
or less.
This 18th December, 1887.
D. p. McDUFFEE,
Commissioners.