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The daily independent., 1937-07-20
What Other Editors Say
Friendly PredatOrs

Wisconsin's new law prohibiting the use of steel
traps on poles, posts trees, or perches three feet
or more above the ground should be gratifying to
those who have striven to educate the public to
understand that the hawks and owls for which
these traps are set are friends of mankind.
Most states of the American Union have on their
statute books laws protecting all hawks except three
the small sharp-shinned and Cooper'S hawks and
the large goshawk which have the reputation OF
preying upon poultry, game birds, and songbirds.
These laws are largely based upon painstaklng re-
search by the United States Biological Survey to
ascertain birds food habits. Pennsylvania law
makers at one time enacted hawk bounty law,
and the results were so dire that it hastily re-
pealed. Vermin devoured the farmers crops, and
bounty hunters shot everything in sight.
The pity about pole traps and hawk-killing con-
tests is that the first victims are the large-Wnged
gders miscalled hen hawks" whose feeding hab-
it's help rather than hurt the farmer. Audubon So
coeties and other conservationists are gradually
making the facts known.-The Christian Science
Monitor.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20

enyirons These mobile homes are equipped
for electric lights; many of them for rum
ming water.
Somewhere on the banks of the Pasquo-
tank River some one could provide camp
ing ground where, for fee, the trailer
campers could have electric lights, toilet and
shower facilities and other conveniences.
Most of them ask nothing for which they
are not willing to pay. As rule they are
anything but buns.
And here's tip for some enterprlSlns
chap at South Mills; there arc a number OF
ideal trailer camp sites along the Dismal
Swamp Canal.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

ton cut short these aspirations by
getting big vote.
Lake Builders
The Tennessee Valley Authority
has become so adept in the mat
ter of building dams and Great
ing artificial lakes that, as II IN
response to a summer Whim, it
has thrown in an extra lake for
good measure.
Nobody hears about Big Ridge
Lake. Ii is not on the engineers
drawings for power development
or flood control. 1t is just some
thing that IVA did for the fun of
it, like the miniature pie that cook
makes for Sonny with leftover
dough.
Maybe it was leftover dough"
that built Big Ridge Lake, but the
project is rapidly paying for it
self. 1t is purely a recreational
par. On the banks of this lake
which did not exist two years ago
is a group of 10 tourist vacation
cabins.
Merry Go-ROund
Not since the famous filibuster
of Huey Long in June 1885 have
the perspiring crowds been so
great in Senate corridors, waiting
to get an earful of Court bill de-
bate. Resettlement's Special
Skills Division, charged with
teaching homesteaders to sing,
weave, paint, and act in plays,
has been drastically cut in the
recent reorganization of RIA. =.
One Of the folklore items garner
ed by workers on the WPA Writ
ers Project comes from Charles
ton, S. c., and records the chant
of the fish vendor as he hawks
his "shortieS":
Mama, Mama. get your pan,
Here comes the shorty man.
The sugar refincrS are leaving
no stone unturncd in their cam
paign to prevent the importation
of refined off shore" sugar
from Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba,
etc.. They have employed the
services of one Of the largest and
most expert adviStiSing firms in
the country, N. w. Aver of Phila-
delphia, to help with their cam
paign. The Social Security
Board certainly has gone in for
fancy names. principal techni-
cal analyst" is the impressive
title conceived for one Benjamin
S. BeeCher, ISidore S. Falk is to
be principal medical economist" "
James Guy Tucker becomes con
Structive accountant" and one
James S. Douglas of Louisiana
wears the sobriquet of technical
adviser on motion pictures.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
BONES
PLOWED UP IN
ILLINOIS FIELD

York. ILL.,, W.R)-Undisturbed for
possibly centuries, several skele-
tons and relics have been diScov-
cred here as further evidence of
the mysterious tribe of sun wor-
shippers known as the Mound
Builders. who flourished before the
first white man came to Illinois
American Bottoms"
The skeletons were unearthed
in field south of here by farmers
who were plowing the land for
spring planting. At depth of
foot or less they uncovered one
human skeleton intact and near
by a number of bones and orna-
mentS which indicated at least five
or six other bodies had been bur-
led there.
Scientists were asked to exam
inc the complete skeleton. 1t was
indicated that the body had been
we'll over 6 feet in height. The
teeth we're almost perfect.
The find again aroused interest
in the huge earthen structure
which dot the bottom land in this
region. The largest mound, still
unopened, stands in a state park
near Collinsville, III. 1t is known
as Monks mound and was con-
structed in a series of plateaus.
On it's top were indications that
an eternal fire" of sun Worshipers
had burned there until extinction
of the race.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
The Open Forum
DR.. BIAS COMPARED
TO BOOKER WASHINGTON

Having perused your paper of
the tenth instance. I was exceed
ingly pleased to have seen the
write up and picture of the State
Normal School of Elizabeth City,
N. C. admire your fairness in re-
CARDS to race and creed. There
fore, permit me through your COL
umn to speak about President
Bias, president of the State Nor
NAL School of Elizabeth City.
He has accomplished certain
achievements that have not been
practiced by most presidents of in
stitutions. That one is his philan-
thropic attitude that he has and
is showing toward the student
body at large, of his institution.
I am speaking authenticity when
I say over one hundred students
have been helped to finish his or
her institute work by the direct
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
THE
ONCE OVER
BY
H. PHILLIPS
(copyrloht, 1887, by The Asso-
oIatsd Newspapers.)
Father And Son Dialogues

Father And Son DlaIosue
"Popper, have there been any
more long-distance alrplane
flights in the last few minutes?
II haven't heard Of any, ouC
Stain will probably land in Chi
cago any momen; now, my SON.
rs he coming by alrplane'
pop?"
Nonsense! BY glider"
Gee. 1 didn't know anybody
could make flights across the
ocean by glider"
THE ways things are going the
entire Moscow Board of Trade IS
apt to arrive in America any
time by box kite"
Pepper, why is everybody eros
sing by way of the North Poie?'
I'm not certain, but I guess
it's because all the other air
routes are so congested. I hear
travel on the New York-Bermuda
and Gotham-Foynes route is so
thick the planes have put on
bumpers"
us it harder the North Pole
way?"
1--WE always thought so until
those Soviet flyers landed there
and began sending out radio mes
sages complaining of the heat"
But didn't Peary and DR.. Cook
and all those explorers say it was
frightfully cold at the Pole, pop
per?"
"Yes. And it probably was. But
these Communists make it hot
wherever they go. Now run along
and play with the boy next door"
"Popper?"
YES"
why is Russia suddenly doing
so much flying to the United
States? Teacher asked me that
yesterday"
Tell your teacher I don't know
and that I'm as nervous about it
as she is. I think your mother is
calling YOU"
whats that buzzing noise?"
That's probably a group of
Chinese scientists landing in
Central Park after a five-hour
flight from Shanghai. On the
other hand, it might be the Grand
Llama Of Tibet dropping off at
Times Square on test flight to
Oil City, Pa, using a broom:stick
and portable motor.
Pepper, if everybody else can
fly, why don't we get a plane?"
1--WE will, my son. I'm phoning
for a demonstration in the
morning. Well all take our vaca-
ton in it,"
where, poper?"
ooh, I dunno. I want to visit
Franz-JCsef Land and Rudolph
Island, but your mother favOrS a
few days in Archangel and Nova
Zembla. Now scat"
The daily independent., 1937-07-20


AN ACT OF Ridge, one of the largest
VANDALISM and most picturesque sand
dunes at Nags Head is be-
ing surely destroyed by wildcat effort to
clothe its drifting sands with vegetation.
Because southwest winds pile a little sand
on the highway that runs by the hill, some
one has decreed that brush fences be erected
on the hill and its sands studded with grass.
What a crime against nature and what folly!
We have an idea that the mosquito prob
lem complicated by making a wilderness of
Jockey Ridge will be more distressing than
the occasional drifts of sands from its east
ward slope to the highway.
Much of the soil erosion work now being
carried on along the Dare beaches is emf
nently desirable and worth while; but if the
National Park Service or any other agency
plans to destroy the beauty and poetry of
those sand dunes for which Nags Head is
famous, it is engaged in an ignoble under
taking that will have disturbing repercus-
sions in all the years to come.
One of the greatest attractions of the Nags
Head coast is its mighty sand dunes De-
strOying their naked beauty is as if an An
thony COmstock invaded the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York and put pants
on all the Statuary.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
A READER of this news
LIVE WHILE paper, commenting belat-
LIFE LASTS edly upon speech made

LIVE WHILE paper, coilllllehuhS pei''
LIFE LASTS edly upon speech made
by U. S. Judge Isaac NJ
Meekins some weeks ago, when the Judge
told a graduating class in Columbia, to
spend their money as they made it, says:
That's just what am doing. work hard
in my business, have to get up at five o'clock
in the morning, close my store at SIX in the
evening and go to bed around o'clock at
night in order to conserve my strength and
energy for the next day. And put every
cent make into my home, carrying little
life insurance on the side in case | should
get bumped off unexpectedly. Earlier in life
| skimped and denied myself and my family
to make investments. Every investment |
ever made soured on me. am investing to-
day only in things that bring me returns
in satisfaction from day to day"
And who would say that that man isn't
practicing sound economies?
The daily independent., 1937-07-20

help of this good man. To b. moe
explicit. he has gone into h!s OIL
pocket. / have heard one O! III
pariShionCrS state. after .m.IG
the school, Il must with The .E
income Of my salary, repay P.G.
John Bias" He is one who bcLGS
in the Statelncn. that the vri
is not only cryinS for decree mG
and women, but they are Gg&
for folk who can produce tn
goods" His earnest ambition j
to see that this is done b. BIS
graduates.
He has the three ncocSlF
characteristics that make q gat
leader and teacher, namely: Z.
telligencc. simplicity and cIcrl.@
ability.
He is very much h,cr5,G .
moral supremacy. The stHoca
love him and do 10 fear .&
Though he has his collSuiD-&
and recognizes tECr abIlIs. "
he takes a persona! .airF.t .
them. To my humble cStlma.I
he is the Becker T. Waslma!& @
Eastern North Carolina. 40 c4'
ing to draw too Scyclc cf.l!G-
I will say he possesses a. 2.@
qualities. and some greater .l-
I am looking through ny 't.o
Of observation.
A Statistical! report Ic.a.W
the school accomplishment
been mentioned before II i'@ y
per, SO 1 most humbiy rci1a.! "'~
reiteration.
He las hcipcd many lIri -
by training them TO hep wv
selves thru The ag:.culinra. c-
mel as we'll as tnc M''i.''.'.
mental source. lie is nol o!i' %
asset to the co!orcd rare, o..
asset to The State OF NortA 20
lima. and furthermore. 70 "~
country. More anon.
Rev. q. II. Coi!'y' y =
rs Dobb STccD
Hcrtford. Il. {.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
HOG AND
HOMINY

high price of feed this year.
North Carolina is increasing its hog produc-
tion. according to a recent farm census. lhls
is mighty good sign.
North Carolina farmers who mix hog
with homny seldom so wrong. In the worst
wears they have meal in the bin and meat
in the smokehouse to tide them over until
another season.
Especially lucky are the growers OF early
Irish potatoes who have hogs to consume
at least a part of the surplus they might
otherwise have to throw away. Hogs, as
rule, are not crazy about an Irish potato
diet. but thev will eat them and thrive on
them if mixed with other feed, when they
refuse to eat them just so.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
Sounds Honey, Anyhow

Those Russian fliers landed in
a cow pasture. From Moscow to
U. S. cow, in a manner of "spik-
king"
The daily independent., 1937-07-20

HiStbAS' ~NS
ing in tranScontinenCal hike on
one foot.
Dentists in convention in At
lantic City are told that too
many teeth are extracted un-
necessary. There is nothing more
comforting than to read this
while waiting in the ante-room
Of a dentists 'office.
The world marVels at the in
credible nerve of the Russian
aviators in even attempting a Mos
COW to California flight with only
one motor. But they had top
faith in that motor. 1t is just pos
sible Stain had told the man
ufacturer to make a motor that
would do the job, or ELSE.
"'I am very hoppy,' said Pilot
Gromoff'. Boston Post. How
about a new name for the three
airmen: The Happiness Boys?
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More than 5000 miles and a.
cross the North Pole in a single
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
REMEMBER when yOl
AUTOMOTIVE
HISTORY

took the tires Oft and
lacked the old bus up, removed the battery
and let the car hibernate during the winter
months? And that wasn't so many years
ago. Then most main highways were nearly
impassable in winter; gasoline was poor;
tires were shoddy.
But gasoline is richer, tires are Detter'
roads are safer and the automobile itself has
been 50 highly perfected within the past few
wears that it runs as well in cold weather
as in hot weather. And nothing about the
automobile has undergone greater improve
ment in recent years than the tires with
which it is equipped.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20
A TIMELY
TIP

trailer camps on our streets every day, the
Ocean Highway (U. S. ~ being an easy
travel route for them.
But the trailer tourist finds no camp in
which he can park in Elizabeth City and its
The daily independent., 1937-07-20

motored plane! It's like compet-
ing in a transcontinental hike on
one foot.
The daily independent., 1937-07-20

Use OF the Rosary
Besides certain Christian 80 =.
the rosary is used by Bjia'~
Shintoists and Mohammcd''s
The daily independent., 1937-07-20

ELIZABETH CITY m i G h t
very we'll consider the busi-
ness of making a bid for the
trailer camp tourist. We see
The daily independent., 1937-07-20

WHILE all the rest of the
country is going off hog pro-
duction. on account of the
high price of feed this year,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15
Courses Marked
On SaltOn Sea
For Boat Races

While motor boat aces in all Sec
tions of the United States today
rushed plans to put their speedsters
in top running order for the Golden
Regatta at Salton Sea January "a,
Junior chamber of commerce Off
cials made final arrangements to
insure the complete success of the
races, destined to be the outstand-
ing speedboat events of the year.
The racing course, three miles oil
Highway U. S. SO at a point mid
way between Indio and Ell Centro.
has been marked out by Junior
chamber officials. The course will
be one and two-thirds miles long,
and is slated TO be tabled as the
worlds fastest speedway.
The pier at Sandy Beach has
been enlarged by the J.C.C. and a
new launching ramp has been built.
Fifteen acres of beach has been COW
cred with gravel to provide addi-
tional parking for automobiles. Tel
ephone lines have been installed to
make the Sandy Beach course the
most practical and satisfactory in
the west.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15
BENCH WARMING
By Burdeffe Kline

Should the SoX obtain even two Of
the three outfielders for whose SER
vices they are dickering, they may
surprise experts by coming out on
top this season.
They have a strong pitching staff
built around Marcum, Grove and
Ferrell; a veteran infield of F'oXX,
Mellillo, McNair and Higgins. Bob
by Doerr and Johnny Kroner, prize
rockies are also to be considered as
starting infielders and the baskstop
department is as strong as any in
the league.
Rick Ferrell will be number
backstop and Dickey and Desautels
will fill in the gap when Ferrell
needs a rest.
Joe Cronin has a mighty tough
job, however, perhaps the toughest
in the major leagues, for he has a
group of the outstanding players III
the game, and he must keep them
playing together instead of clashing.
If Cronin can accomplish this one
assignment he will manage a cham
pionship club. Otherwise. a sixth
place team will be on his hands,
and Yawkey will again be disap-
pointed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15
BRYAN GRANT
ADVANCES TO
SEMI-FINALS

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. Is. W.P)-Cov-
ering the court like az automaton,
BRYAN NJ. "Bitsy" Grant Of At
lanta Thursday defeated Wayne Sa-
bin of San Francisco 10 win his
way to the semi-finals of the Dixie
tennis championships.
Defending the title he won last
year. Grant stood off Sabin's smash
ing game 10 take the quarter finals
victory. 6-3.6-3
Charles Harris Of West Palm
Beach. last years Miami Biltmore
champion and one of the first 10
of American tennis. blasted Arthur
Hendrix, the Lakeland giant killer"
out of the tournament in the only
other quarter finals match.
The Harris-Hendrix battle was
the hottest of the day when Harris
was pressed to the utmost TO win
9-76-4
Donald Bulge, Americas ranking
net star. will meet Elwood Cooke OF
Los Angeles tomorrow and frankie
Parker. ranked No. 2 nationally,
plays Walter Senior of San Fran
cisco in the other bracket of the
quarter finals.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15
TODAYS-
Sports Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE

restlessly at night because of such
action?
Mind you, don't care if Schmnl-
ing is boycotted until the COWS
only come home, but come right Il.
the front door and start reading
the books off the shelves. For if
have a favorite fighter it isn't the
Black Uhlan from the Amazon or
whatever he is. But I don't see
that any good, temporary or per-
manent, will come from the boycott.
For one thing. it will make him a
Grade A, double-dipped martyr, and
increase his prestige in the eyes of
his countrymen a hundred fold. 1t
seems TO me that if you wanted to
get rid of Schmeling, the quickest
and surest means would be to do
everything possible to ease his jour-
ney toward a return meeting with
Joe Louis.
Max licked Joe the first time, yes,
but the next time Jawd help Gen.
eral Goering.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15
BOttlers to Meet
Yuma Cubs Sunday
AT Arizona Park

Confident they will end the Cubs
winning streak. the Coca Cola base
ballers from Ell Centre will invade
the Yuma baseball park Sunday aft
ernoon to meet the Yuma Cubs at
2 D. m.
Stark's Bottlers, who boast qqite
an impressive record themselves and
who also have chalked up a six
game winning streak, will give the
Cubs the stiffest competition they
have encountered since their re-
organization.
The Cubs hold a 10-1 win over
Calipatria and Stark's club defeated
the Calipat team 9-5 in their last
meeting.
The Cubs and the bottlerS met
early in the season and the Cokes
managed TO exc out close decision.
AS a result, the Yuma team plans to
avenge that defeat when the clubs
tangle Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15
Graham To
KeepMonzo
For Awhile

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. Is. UP
President Charley Graham of the
San Francisco Seals. who has sent
more successful baseball players to
the major leagues than any other
man, leaned back in a huge desk
chair today and talked obtu the
100000 worth ef ivory he has
helped to develop.
During the years this silver
thatched. 58-year- old executive has
headed the Seals. such stars as
Lefty O'Doul, Joe Di Maggie. Paul
Waner. Earl Ayerill and Augie
Galan have graduated into the big
time.
In less than a eeeade Graham has
traded nearly one million dollars
worth of players-l6 stars who have
made good. Latest is Joe Marty out
fielder who led the Pacific coast
league in batting last year. He's
now with the Chicago Cubs and his
purchase price was reported at $780,
600 and three players.
Because he would not put his
stamp of approval on another play
er. Catcher Vincent Monzo, Graham
will have only one prospect going
I'D this season. Clark Griffith want
ed to buy this player and is re-
ported to have offered neat sum,
but no deal was made because OF
Graham's astute judgment.
Il can't sell Monzo yet" Graham
said. I'm not SO sure about his
arm. We're going to try him out
here for several months. He's a
major leaguer if his arm proves
okay. Right now can't sell him
because my heart won't let me do
business that way
Graham regards O'Doul and Di
Maggie as the two star graduates
from the Seals.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15

PALM BEACH. Fla, Jan. Is. WP,
"A fight fan asked me today what
l thought of the new boycott league
formed to prevent Max Schmeling
from fighting James j. Braddock
and I said I thought it was one OF
the greatest leagues ever devised in
the noggin of man, and undoubted-
" would go whirling down the ave-
nues of time alongside other famous
leagues, including that of American
Fenwomen, Hanseatic, and th
Three-Eye.
The fight fan said that sounded
like sarcasm TO him, and did / mean
it that way and / said l surely did,
and that 1 would bet him even
money that when the end of the
world came the Three-Eye would
occupy bigger niche than this new
league whose purpose is to prevent
a German from hitting an 1rishman
on the profile, and vice versa.
The fight fan then grew bit
bitter and accused me of being bl-
ased. shallow, and a no-good chicken
fancier only chicken fancier wasn't
the term he used.
Well, maybe I am an inadequate
chicken fancier, and shallow, too,
but I'm not biased. Not about prize
fighting, anyway have my con-
victions on important matters, such
as why the hen crossed the road, the
proper way TO make French dress
ing, and the sureSt cure for bee
stings. and will defend them long
and loudly But prizefighting has
always stuck me as being bit too
unimportant to get excited about.
I never have been able TO see
prizefighting' Importance in the
scheme of things. How anyone, save
the friends and immediate relatives
of the boxers involved, can find it
in their hearts TO care who holds the
titles. from flyweight to heavy
weight, is a mystery to me.
It is this lack of appreciation for
the merits of the fight game that
is the cause OF my apathy toward
the league formed to boycott
Schmeling. I know 1t is aimed, not
so much against Schmeling as
against Adolf Hitler and his treat
ment of race, but still that doesn't
make me admit its worth. After
all. the persecution Of a prizefighter
isn't very adult method of strik-
ing back at the leader of power
full nation
Suppose a similar situation to the
one in Germany existed in this
country Can you imagine our ma
tional leaders or our people being
plunged into remorse by an an
nouncement from Germany that the
American 185-pound nose-bashing
champion had been forbidden to
make an appearance III Hamburg OF
Worms, Would you as a citizen toss
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-15
Reserves Beat Varsity
JACK BRITTON'S
BOY TO FIGHT

BOSTON, Jan. Is. UP)-A Gray
haired manof so whoruled the well
terweight world q generation ago
acts as chief second tonight for an
18-year-old youth who aspires to
reach the fistic heights achieved by
his father.
The youth is Bobby Britton,
promising young lightweight.
The veteran who'll be in his cor
ner is Jack Britton, considered one
Of the worlds greatest Welter-
weights.
Opposing young Britton in 10
round feature bout will be light
haired lad who also carries the
name of another former Welter-
weight champ Honey Melody
CThere is no rei2tion however be-
tween the Honey Melody of the
early 1900's and his modern name
sake.)