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Evening star., 1937-06-24
Theatrical History.


Bill Shakespeare to his troupe one day
Remarked, as he rehearsed a play:
I'VE will proceed as in the past
And have no ladies in the cast,
Although, quite freely, I admit
The girls would make the greater hit.
Their arts and charm would soon engage
For keeps the center of the stage;
And all In vain I try to teach
Them to respect poetic speech
A Juliet fair would merely pose
Or dance upon her dainty toes.
Macbeths grim wife and all the rest
Would scorn the literary test,
And now the show would have no chance,
Unless they did classic dance.
Boys must portray the ladies when
Girls won't rehearse like gentlemen"
Events, 1t cannot be denied, this view
Have fully justified,
For after Shakespeare had his day,
The genius feminine held sway.
At first majestic and serene,
They next came dancing on the scene,
And now the plot is lost while rows
OF girls are twinkling on their toes.
Satan is gittin' come up with" said
Uncle Eben. "Dar is so much sinfulness
ct present dat he's got to work extra
hard III dc Tina"
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Shooting Stars.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON
Misjudgment.

Misjudgment.
Jimmy has a base ball suit
Complete from head to feet.
Admiring playmates all salute
His uniform so neat.
Johnnys clothes cling to his frame
Without trace of style,
And when he starts to play the game
We greet him with smile.
Appearances lead to mistakes
In matters great and small;
A handsome picture Jimmy makes
But Johnny hits the ball.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

wen, we are about twelve billion
dollars poorer now than just before June
ID. You guessed it; incredible as it may
seem, our thirteen debtor nations failed
to pay up. AS some philosopher once
said, "A man that can pay, and won't
pay, is in very strong position" How
about the debtors holding something
along the line of Harlem rent partv"?
Evening star., 1937-06-24

Eminent European politicians are in
terested in arranging new problems of
local import and allowing citizens of the
U. S. A. to go as far as they choose in
assuming ability to guess the right
answers.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Not Quite Yet.

From the Worcester Gazette.
Despite the hot weather, the price of
eggs remained about as it was, indicating
that the season Of egg-frying on side
walks to prove how hot It Il has not yet
begun.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Fixing Attention.

FIXING AttentlOn.
Are you going fishing because you
need a rest?"
NO" replied Senator Sorghum. "A
man in my line needs a certain amount
of publicity. I find that my constituents
frequently neglect to pay attention to my
most thoughtful speeches, but when I
go fishing all the papers comment on the
fact"
Jud Tunkins says the reason a speaker
is long -winded is that after he has got
a few auditors going he's afraid to let
them get away and think things over.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

The Governor of PENNSYLVANIA de-
cldes to compromise his local difficulties
by giving President Roosevelt another
term Of office as soon as possible.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Farm Relief
From the Kansas City S,

From the Kansas City Star.
Retiring Justice Van Devanter is re-
turning to farming, his first love. And
there's no doubt that his chances in
farming are considerably improved by
reason Of a $4,000 annual income.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

Perhaps that Alaskan glacier that is
thundering down its course at the un-
precedented glacial speed of hundred
feet an hour is made of frozen heavy
water
Evening star., 1937-06-24
All Other States and Canada
Member Of the Associated Press.

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sne use 1or republication Ut all news dispatches
paper and also the local news published herein.
herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Keeping Up With Royalty.

From the Troy IN. ~ Record.
Well, the Americans who went to
London for the coronation are now re-
turning home. where their families
who read about 1t in the newspapers-
can tell them that really happened.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

Possibly the next move in administra-
tion circles will be toward a minimum
pocket allowance for Junior"
Evening star., 1937-06-24

Wives of Bluemont. Va, postmen plan
to organize ladies' auxiliary. How is
"Femailmen" for a title?
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Red Tape.

The dangers which in red tape" lurk
Have often caused dismay;
When one man who attempts to work
Finds two men in the way.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

Is it possible that those mass faint
ings' over in France were occasioned
by the proximity OF debt day?
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Classics.

"Are you an admirer of the classics?"
EYES," replied Miss Cayenne; al
though can't help regarding it as un-
fortunate that they are so much easier
to dance than they are to read"
Evening star., 1937-06-24
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Fear is no fault, if conquered" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. IF fear
could never exist, there would be no
merit in fortitude."
Evening star., 1937-06-24

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Evening star., 1937-06-24

@. Is War Admiral small horse?-.
H. G.
A. He Is small racing horse, being
only Is hands 2la inches high.
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Evening star., 1937-06-24
Editor
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Evening star., 1937-06-24

@. Are many radio receiving sets pur-
chased on the installment plan?-H. K.
A. According to a survey conducted
by Radio Today, 50 per cent of the radio
sets purchased during the past year
were acquired on the installment plan.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

@. What Is the name of the organiza.
ton that is supplying milk to Spanish
children in the war Zone?-T. w.
A. The North American Committee to
Aid Spanish Democracy, 381 Fourth
avenue, New York City, is feeding and
clothing Spanish children. Bishop
Francis j. Mcconnell is chairman of the
organization.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

q FIedSe give some 1actS about th0
pink house in Woodstock, Conn.-D. G..
A. This striking residence is known as
Roseland, and it was built in 1845 by
Henry Chandler Bowen, who was a silk
merchant. Mr.. Bowen used to have
gatherings there on the Fourth of July,
to which many prominent people came,
including even the President of the
United States The significance of the
color of the house is said to be that
when Mr.. Bowen died he left in his
will the proviso that any heirs who
should thereafter inherit the house, and
live in it, must keep it painted pink or
lose their rights to the next in line.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

Written?-L. T.
A. On May IA, 1854, at St Andrews.
There were 13 rules and they were
signed by % members of the club.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

@. How much was Billy Rose paid for
managing the amusement enterprises at
the Texas Centennial Fair last year?
e. R. w.
A. The producers contract was for
$1,000 a day for 100 days.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18

There are 213 different religious
denominations in the United States.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
l8 Dead in West
Virginia Cave-in
Termed Worst Tragedy in Past
Ten Years; Seek Cause of
Explosion in Mine

The black depths of the blasted
Macbeth mine at Logan, w. Va,
held nine dead men Friday while
the bodies of nine others killed in
West Virginia's worst mine disaster
in a decade rested in a funeral
home.
Stumbling rescue crews, so worn
out they could only speak with diff
ficulty of the terrors of the explo-
sion in the deep pit, had brought out
the nine and had definitely located
the bodies of the other victims.
Two of the 18 trapped when the
blast let go last week were believed
behind an almost impenetrable mass
of slate, coal and timber.
1T may be days before we get to
them," said a weary member of one
crew.
No one held any hope that the two
men were alive.
At the hamlet of implanted houses
grouped around a black and grim
tipple, eight miles east over hillside
roads, sorrow gripped the mining
folk for the second time in six
months.
Last September they stood, as
they did Friday waiting for crews to
bring out the dead. In that blast 10
men died. The toll this time seemed
certain to be 18.
Homer Estep, almost blind with
fatigue, stopped moment after the
last trip up to describe how he
found the bodies:
All Badly Burned
Some of them feel as if every
bone in their bodies was broken. All
of them are scorched and burned.
Their clothing is charred. The explo-
sion killed them at once.
II don't know about Earl and
Jimmie (Gearhart and Wiley). We
haven't found them yet.
cts terribly hard work getting
the bodies back here. We have to
crawl three-quarters of mile over
slate with the StretcherS before we
can get to place the mine motors
can reach.
Were going as fast as we can but
it will be some time before they are
all out"
State mine department officials
attributed the cause of the blast to
accidental ignition of gas pocket.
At Washington, United States
bureau of mines officials were in
formed by G. w. Grove, of Pitts
burgh, that he believed the explo-
sion of an electrical origin. Grove,
heading the inquiry into the blast,
said the mine employs three major
safety principles but it uses trolley
power locomotives which give off
sparks and certain mining machin-
cry which lacks approval.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
Soil Water Should
Be Controlled and
Conserved in Ashe
Light Terracing Demonstration
to Be Held on Gentry and
Pennington Farms
&C. J. RIGID


Il is very interesting, indeed, to
observe the ways of nature. If we
work with nature we are able to &C
complish much. But if we work
without thought or consideration OF
natural forces or natural phenomena
we are likely to find ourselves on
the losing side of the game.
This is true in any realm OF life.
But it is especially true in the realm
of farming. To the farmer who
makes special study of the workin gs
>. ature as it relates to the produc-
ton of crops and livestock and to the
conservation of his soils and who
employs the methods that his study
reveals is best for his particular
situation, success is almost sure to
come.
Every farmer who is interested in
his work likes to make good yields
of corn, wheat, hay and other crops.
He is always glad to hear his neigh
Dor comment on the well bred, well
developed animals on his farm. But
what is the source of big crop yields
and we'll fed animals. Is it not fer
tile soils?
What is fertile Southwestern would
tell us that it is one that produces in
abundance-an over-floWing guam
tity.
What are the essentials of fertility
or richness in soils? In other words
what does it take to make soils pro-
duce in abundance? Some of the es-
sentials may be mentioned-food for
the plants, humus (decaying vege-
table matter), proper filth, moisture,
and others.
Much could be said in regard to
the best ways of assuring that all of
these essentials are furnished. But
let's think just now about the mois-
ture. If the yearly rainfall here is
so inches, why should our crops suf-
fer during a little dry season in the
summer?How much of that so inches
of rainfall actually soaks into our
fields and is held there for use by
later crops? Fifty inches of rainfall
would mean that more than one and
one-quarter million gallons of water
falls on each acre of land. How much
of this do we allow to run off? How
much soil does it carry with it? How
much of it do we control by some
definite method.
There are several methods of con-
trolling soil water. One of these is to
be demonstrated on the farm of Mr..
Walter Pennington and Mr.. j. B.
Gentry. You are invited and urged to
come to Mr. Pennington's near Nath-
ans Creek on Thursday morning,
March 4th at $50 or to Mr.. Gentry'S
near Baldwin, on Friday morning,
March 5th at $50.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
Ashe Attorney With
Treasury Lewiston

Sidney B. Gambill, secretary to
Representative Doughton for the
past two years, moved down to the
opposite end of Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. in Washington, D. c., last week
to become associate counsel in the
general counsel's office of the Treas
ury Department. He is attached to
the division handling the refund of
processing taxes.
A native of Ashe county, Gambill
was graduated from Duke Univers-
ity in 1925. After several years in
Ashe county, he returned to school
and finished his legal education at
Chapel Hill in 1882. He practiced
law in Sparta with the Congress
mans brother Governor" Rufe
Doughton, for two years before COM
ing to Washington as Farmer Bob's
secretary.
His wife is the former Miss Myrtle
Reeves of Virginia. They were class
mates at Duke. Mrs. Gambil recent
ly resigned as editor of The Allie
ghany Times at Sparta to come to
Washington. They have one child,
a daughter, Billie, 6.-The State
Magazine.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
Claims More Drink
Survey Shows Increase in Drinking
Since Repeal of Prohibition

The Women's Christian Temper
ance union reported this week sur
vey conducted through Salvation
Army officers showed intoxication
had increased since repeal in all but
three of 119 cities in Al states.
Almost without exception" the
WCTU commented, "the testimony
OF Salvation Army executives af-
firms that drunkenness is, practical
ly everywhere, growing by leaps
and bounds, not only in cities and
states which have returned to the
licensed saloon system but in most
centers where so-called state control
programs are in effect"
The three cities not reporting in
creases were Columbus, Miss; Des
Moines, Iowa and Seattle, Wash. Re-
ports from Salvation Army officers
in those cities said: Columbus-'No
noticeable difference; Des Moines-
mo apparent change; Seattle
drunkenness less evident among
lnd1gent men.
Comment from the 116 cities
which reported increases included:
Neutrality-suspicious. drunken driv-
ers, more arrests for intoxication"
Denver, Colo.-"More among young
girls; San Simply ter
rible"; New Bern, N. C.-"Week-end
drunkenness has increased; Peoria,
Il-"Decidedly more drunkenness"
Jacksonville, Fla, and Dallas, Texas
Much more; Grand Junction,
Colo. Percentage unbelievable"
New Orleans-"More open drunken
ness"
The replies were to question on
comparative drunkenness before
and since repeal"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
Fattest Man Dies
Thinks Coffin Largest Ever Made;
Takes More Embalming Fluid

Happy Jack" Eckert, 739-pound
circus trouper billed in life as the
"world's latest man." will rest in
death in specially built casket six
times normal size.
Funeral directors arranging for
his burial in Birmingham, Ala, said
it was one of the largest, ''if not the
largest" ever built.
Eckert, So, died Thursday at
Flomation, Ala, of injuries inflicted
in an automobile accident. His cas-
ket is being made in Birmingham.
It is to be three feet, eight inches
wide, six feet three inches long and
two feet nine inches deep. 1t will
have a double bolted bottom.
Officials of the two funeral homes
preparing for the burial said Eckert
was insured by burial insurance
firm recently and added that there
will be a loss" because of the ex-
pense of the special coffin and the
TACT that it twas necessary to use
five times the embalmlng fluid uSu-
ally used"
Happy jack" his friends said
wanted his body to go to scientists
for a study of the glands that caused
his abnormal weight but it could not
be arranged because of legal compli-
cations.
Eckert, son of Fort Wayne, Ind.
cigar maker, weighed 10 pounds at
birth.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
ALI Classes May Get
Unemployment Aid

Raleigh, Mar. 5.-Many thousands
of employers in North Carolina who
do not come under the provisions of
the State Unemployment Compensa-
ton Act because they do not have
as many as eight employees or be-
cause they are engaged in excluded
classes of work, if they so desire,
may give their employees the pro-
lection of the act by voluntarily
bringing themselves under its pro-
visions, Chairman Charles G.Powell,
Of the State Commission, points out.
Figures compiled in the commits
sion's office indicate that there are
probably 10000 employers in the
State who have from one to seven
employees. They are excluded from
the lit of thoe whose workers are
covered by the unemployment COM
penSation provisions of the act, but
they have the privilege of electing
to come under the act. By this cleo
ton their employees would receive
the same kind of protection as the
workers in larger organizations. The
act excludes the smaller employers
primarily because of the trouble in
administering the act, particularly
while the operation of the act is just
beginning. 1t may be changed to in
clude them later
Also, employers in exclud d
classes of work, including agricul-
tural labor, domestic service in
homes, work for religious, charit-
able, scientific, literary and educa-
tional purposes, and all non-profit
organizations, such as priva e
schools, colleges and hospitals, may
come under the act and give the en-
ployees the same protection as is en-
joyd by those in included closes of
work.
Employers not included because
of the small number of workers or
the type of employment, who wish
to protect their workers to that ex-
tent, may apply for voluntary COW
erage on blanks furnished by the
commission. The commission passes
on these applications and approves
them unless there is some just rea-
son for not doing so. Such voluntary
employers are required to stay I'M
der the act for two full years, and
to give notice at least 80 days before
the end of calendar year before
they are permitted to withdraw.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
Desolation, Damage,
inU. S. Flood Area

There is adventure, excitement
and even glamor in flood.
When the levees break and the
turbulent water spills over the
lands, drama rides the crest.
But when the spree is over and
the river sullenly retreats to its
normal channel, the picture is dis
mally different.
Human fugitives creep down from
their high places and return to their
ravaged homes to pick up the pieces.
There is only desolation, damage
and despair.
All over eastern Arkansas thou
sands of families are learning that
the hangover from the spree of the
Mississippi and its tributaries is not
a pretty thing. Resettlement admin
istration supervisors returned this
week from a tour of the flood area
to relate the plight of hundreds of
low income families.
An example is the Howell Mantle
family. The supervisors found the
young farmer struggling to hang a
door, swept away by the flood. He
glumly showed them what happened
to his home during the month the
farm was covered by eight feet of
water.
Mrs. Mantle, wearing overallS and
boots, Strengthened from her dis
couraging task of trying to scrub
Just from the kitchen stove. She
thought she might restore it with a
Jew more days of polishing. She
r,ourned over the wall paper. It had
zen such a nice blue. Now it was
faded, tattered and couldn't posi-
2ly be reclaimed.
The furniture had disintegrated
like cardboard. The house itself
.ested uneasily on it's foundations.
Mantle found his farming nipple
ments rusty but intact where he had
hastily piled them. The clubhouse lay
quarter of mile away. The soil
vas still a quagmire, but Mantale
had obtained lumber from the re-
ettlement administration, he had
tools, and his father-in-law to help.
His eye frightened as he looked out
across his fields.
"Another week of wind and sun,
and it'll be dry enough to plow," he
said. Things will look different
then"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
Presidents Come From
Varied Walks of Life
Legal Profession Has Furnished
More Than TwO-ThirdS OF
United States Heads
STATE OF VIRGINIA LEADS

More than two-thirds of the presi
dents of the United States have used
the legal profession as stepping
stone to the white house. Franklin
D. Roosevelt is the twenty-second
lawyer to hold the highest office In
the gift of the American people.
Strangely enough, the next high
est number of presidents were con-
tributed by the farm, three farmers
or planters having become chief
executives. Only six other profess
sions or occupations are represented
in the role of president educator,
engineer, tailor, soldier, public Off
cial and journalist. Not single bus
mess man so far.
The thirty-one presidents we have
had represented five political par
ties. Republicans lead with thirteen.
Nine have been Democrats, two Fed
eralists, three Wings and four Re-
publican-Democrats, as they were
known then.
Twelve states have contributed all
our presidents. Virginia still leads
next comes Ohio with seven, New
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two each, while South Carolina, New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Kentucky,
New Jersey and Iowa have been the
mothers of one president each.
Only seventeen presidents have
been active church members but all
have had leanings toward or taken
some part in one of nine different
UNCONVENTIONAL organizations. The
Episcopal church leads with ten
presidents who were it's communi-
cants. Second are the Presbyterians
who claim seven. The Methodist and
UnitarianS have contributed four
each, Dutch Reformed two and the
Congregationalists, Baptists, Quak-
ers and Disciples of Christ, one each.
Serving as president of the United
States is a strenuous man-killing
job, although President Roosevelt so
far has seemed to thrive on it. How
ever, few presidents enjoy long life
after their terms are ended. Herbert
Hoover is the only eX-preSident
alive today. Presidents wives, on
the other hand, usually survive
their husbands by several years. At
present the widows of six presidents
Benz amin Harrison, Grover Cleve-
land, Theodore Roosevelt, William
H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin
Coolidge, and, of course, the wives
of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt-are all still living.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18

King Henry Christophe of Hayti
(1811) Negro of unknown origin,
transformed Hayti from a wildness
into the richest and most prosperous
country of its size in the world with
the greatest rulers who ever lived.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
VultureS Kill Horse

Before a farmer could intervene,
vultures killed horse near Harris
NTH. South Africa. Farmer M. Lieb-
brandt was on his veranda when he
saw seven vultures swoop down on
the animal, standing in field. They
began tearing away large chunks Of
flesh and soon had torn the horses
throat.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18

A grasshopper's, ear is in it's
stomach.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18
Proud of 21St Child

Mrs. Bertha Cox johnson, 80, wife
of farmer residing near Akeley,
Pa, proudly fondles her 21st child,
a six-pound girl born recently. Said
Mrs. Johnson: I'm in favor of large
families"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18

Rings in the ear-lobs of a Msai
woman must never be detached dur
ing her husband lifetime-Kenya
Colony, East Africa.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-03-18

The Washington monument has
eight windows.