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Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

vanced his social standing by
marrying Lucretia Hart, the
daughter of a prominent citizen.
Four years later he was elected
to the Kentucky legislature and
this proved to be only the first
step in his swift ascent which
came to a triumphant climax
on November 4, 1911, when he was
chosen speaker of the house.
At that time the United States
was on the verge of war with
Great Britain. England's inn
pressment of our ,seamen, the in
fluence of her traders and some
of her officers in stirring up the
Indians in the West and her Or
ders in Council, declaring a
blockade of nearly the whole
coast of Europe, thus was ruin
ing our trade-au these were
factors in the complex situation
which was leading inevitably to
war. President James Madison
vacillated between strength and
weakness in dealing with the sit
uation.
The "War Hawks"
But there was no vacillation in
the policy of the speaker of the
house. He was the leader of the
'war hawks"-John c. Calhoun
of South Carolina, Felix Grundy
of Tennessee, Richard M. John
son of Kentucky, William
Lowndes and Langdon Cheves of
South Carolina and others from
the South and West.
Through his position as speak
er Clay arranged the important
committees in the house so as to
keep them under control of the
war party. He himself made
more than one stirring speech in
favor of preparedness for the war
which he foresaw so clearly, in
favor of placing a large army at
the disposal of the President and
finally in favor of declaring war
against Great Britain unless she
took less arrogant stand in her
attitude toward America. But
either misunderstood
ing the real temper of America
or discounting her power, re-
fused to adopt a more concilia-
tory attitude, thus playing into
the hands of the "war hawks"
Madison ("mousy Little Jem-
N.Y." Clay's adherents called
him) was finally Unanswered into
a position from which he could
not retreat. On June /, 1872, he
sent a message to congress re-
counting the many causes which
would justify hostilities with Eng
land. On June. 4 a war bill was
passed by the lower house and
sent to the senate. There its pas
sage was delayed for various
reasons so it was not until June
1.-THE anniversary of the Battle
Of Bunker Hill - that it was
passed by a vote of 19 to 13. The
next day President Madison |
signed the act declaring that be-
tween the United States and |
Great Britain there existed a
state of war. Thus "Mr. Clay's
war" began.
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

Z you remember from
your school days that
L Henry Clay was called
the "GreatPacificator." Your
history book told you why
because, during the bitter
slavery dispute that was
driving the North and the
South apart, he brought
about, in 1921 and again in
1850, the compromises which
postponed for a few years
the war between the states.
Remembering him thus in
the role of peacemaker, it
may be difficult for you to
think of him as an ardent adj
vocate of war, even a elm
co." and as the ''man whose
influence and power more
than any other produced the
second war with England"
Yet that was the verdict of
Josiah Quincy, one of his con-
temporaries, and it is con-
firmed by Bernard Mayo,
author Of "Henry Clay,
Spokesman of the New West" "
published recently by the
Houghton Mifflin company.
This book, the first of three
projected volumes, deals only
with the first phase of Clay's ca
reer, that period when he was
the "Cock of Kentucky" 1t was
the vitriolic tongue of John Ran
dolph of Roanoke who called him
that, and it was an apt nick
name. For if ever a young Amer
lean had reason to be "cocky"
in those days, Henry Clay was
that young man.
His career up to the outbreak
of the War of 1912 had been truly
remarkable. He had left his ma
tive state of Virginia when he
was barely twenty and had gone
to the new state of Kentucky. At
twenty-nine he was a member of
the state senate. He had proved
himself the most successful law
yer and the most popular poll
tician in the new commonwealth.
He had made a fortune, built a
fine house, married into the Ken
lucky aristocracy, gained the
friendship of all the best people
and won the confidence of all
others.
BY the time he was thirty he
was already thinking of the Presi-
idency. (That was to be his con-
suning ambition but one he was
never to realize). Before he was
thirty-fve he was in the United
States senate but gave up his
place in that dignified assem-
b1age to become a member of
the lower house where the oppor-
tunities for action-and personal
power - were greater. Chosen
speaker of the house, he made
that Office for the first time in it's
history second in influence only to
the influence and power of the
President and he proved it by
making a war which everyone
recognized as ''Mr. Clay's war;"
Examine Henry Clay's back
as Mr.. Mayo does, and
this meteoric rise is easily I'M
derstood. He was born on April
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

the better she likes them-So she
keeps designers working overtime.
-@
You will be hearing a lot from
now ON about nona Massey, who
makes her American screen debut
in M-G-M's "Rosalie." Officials of
the company are so delighted with
her performance in a minor role
that they are going to give her the
title role in "PompadOur," one of
the most alluring beauties in history
or drama.
There is one popular radio player
who will have to mend her ways if
she ever goes into motion pictures
and most of them do sooner or later.
Alice Frost of the big Sister" cast
comes out of rehearsals with her
forehead all smudged. She holds
pencil in her hand, and in mo-
ment of dramatic tension invariably
draws the point across her forehead.
*
The jinx that has dogged the foot
steps of all Hollywood players who
appeared on the Broadway stage
this season has at last been knocked
out. Frances Farmer broke the
spell. She opened recently in "Gold-
en- Boy" a play about a prize fight
er, and the critics went into rhapso-
dies over her deft playing Of ro-
mantle scenes.
Radio performers develop some Of
the strangest hobbies, but for the
present Tony Wons, the c. B. S.
philosopher, is leading them all. He
makes violins. He makes violins
with the utmost care out of any old
thing he finds lying around the
house. Inspired, possibly by Bob
Burns and his far famed bazooka, he
his made one out Of piece Of tin
stovepipe and the tone to his sur
prise is excellent.
*
The battle Of the two great CLAM
orous stars of the screen, Carlo and
DIETRICH, turns out to be no battle
at all when you see their new pic
lures, Conquest" and "Angel."
Carlo is so far in the lead that
there is just no competition at all.
Conquest is a lavishly- produced,
historically-faithful romance of the
time of Napoleon, and Carlo as the
lovely Countess Walewska has new
er been more appealing. Angel"
on the other hand, is just an incon-
sequential modern triangle story in
which the camera fingers on Miss |
DIETRICH to the exclusion of any ac-
lion. ~
Because of her good work in the |
new Fred Astaire picture, "Damsel
In Distress" Joan FOntaine is go
ing to get strange reward. She is
going to be starred in "Curtain
CALL" which Katherine Hepburn
turned down. Don't think she minds
taking this hand-me-dOwn, though.
It is a grand story.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie Nc
Iarthy will be in the cast of new
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

and dresses by the
score, just as if she
hadn't had any new
clothes in ages.
Hollywood designers
have just about run
out of, ideas for Lo-
retta for in her last
four pictures she
has had altogether
some 80 changes Of
costume, and each
one was supposed to
be a knockout. The
more extreme and
bizarre clothes are.
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

"The Cock of Kentucky
Harry of the Vest The
Great Pacifcator''- The Father
of Internal improvements
those were nicknames which
Henry Clay bore at one time or
another during his life. TO it
should be added another which
has survived through the years
'tThe Mill Boy of the Slashes."
He was called that because he
was born in a district known as
"The Slashes" but Mayo's book
dispels some of the romantic leg
end that has grown up around that
sobriquet. He says:
= Ellis childhood dwelling was a
story-and-a-haH frame building
fianked by two massive stone
chimneys, with slave quarters
adjoining, situated on a gentle
slope rising from Macump's
creek. It was typical of his fam
ily's middle-class stake in Vir-
ginia society Here in these
post-Revolutionary days young
Henry did the chores common to
country boys. Perhaps he some
times rode astride a corn-laden
farmhouse to the grist mills on
the Pamunkey river. But he was
neither an indentured miller's
apprentice nor in the dire pow
erty of those possessing only the
widows and orphans God later
ascribed to him, in poor-boy-to-
greatness legends, by political
admirers of Harry Clay, the Mill
Boy of the Slashes'!"
Great Orators.
The legend that he had but lit
tie schooling is true, however. But
of more significance than this
scanty schooling was another
factor in his early life - Han
overs tradition of great orators.
Outstanding among them was the
immortal Patrick Henry and
Patrick Henry became the idol of
Henry. Clay. "Declamation early
became a passion with him. He
recited, read aloud from political
and historical works, and even
practiced in the barn before the
horses and oxen it was Han
overs, and Americas, great De-
he held constantly be-
fore him as a model when he de-
claimed on the banks of Ma
chump's creek, in silent pine for
ests and in sun-bathed fields. |
Throughout his youth his self-di-
rected training continued, en-
couraging not only a fiuency of
speech, a passion for words and
their magic but an unusual self
Years later Clay described to
a class of law graduates how
and persistently he had
devoted himself to the study of
oratory in his boyhood home in
Virginia and declared: '"To it I
am indebted for the primary and
leading impulses that stimulated
my progress and have shaped
and moulded my entire destiny"
He was, perhaps, never more
as a speaker than in
The days when he was trying to
force a tirnid administration to
;ake a farm stand against Eng
and. Of one of his speeches dur
ng that period. Mayo chronicles:
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26
Home Heating
Infc By John Barclay
IIIIlO Heating Expera

I SHOULD like to caution you
! against burning garbage and
rubbish in the heating plant of
your home. Many home owners
are given to this practice, know
ing it is a quick and easy way to
dispose Of garbage, but not real
izing fully that it is very harm
full to the furnace.
Your furnace was built to burn
coal, and coal only. Garbage and
rubbish, when burned in it, de-
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

and ends and make your toys as
colorful as possible-in sort ir-
resistible. In pattern 1892 you will
find a pattern of the three toys:
directions for making them; ma
terial requirements.
To obtain this pattern send IS
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle,
Household Arts. Dept, 259 W.
Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y.
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

NO444CAJ b44cI WILL
feature Irene Dunno
and as a result she
is the envy Of all
Hollywood as well
as the public at
large. Her outstand-
ing success as a
conedienne in 1.-THE
Awful Truth" infu-.
enced Universal to
postpone their biog-
raphy of Madame
Curie and instead of
that story to cast
L4~ - 4A,L1as1-y
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

You can pay as high as you want
for remedies claimed to relieve the
pain of rheumatism, Neuritis,
Sciatica, etc. But the medicine so
many doctors generally approve
the one used by thousands of
families daily is Bayer Aspirin
-15f a dozen tablets - about
If apiece.
Simply take 2 Bayer Aspirin
tablets with a half glass of water.
Repeat, if necessary, according to
directions.
Usually this will ease such pain
in a remarkably short time.
For quick relief from such pain
which exhausts you and keeps you
awake at night - ask for genuine
RaVer ASnirin.
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26
Cuddle Toys from
odds dnd Ends" /"

Fun to sew inexpensive to
make excellent for Christmas
gifts is this collection of cuddle
toys. Two pieces with just the
necessary trimming of ears,
name and tails extra. The kiddies
love thernl Use up those odds
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26
Cheap Sales Cost

Cheap Sales Cost
United States census figures for
1929 show that at a cost of but
1.64 per cent advertising created
a market for the $40, ,434, 1863, ,443
worth of manufactured products
of that year.
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26
GREW NEW HAIR

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cents cost. Complete secret and directions sent
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Carbon County news., 1937-11-26
Leader of the WAR Hawk" in 1912
Was the Great Pacificafor" ofI82Il

Henry the MAN Whose Influence and More Than
Anv Other Whose The Cock
Of Kentucky" and "pokeman We Painted First Volume
Of Notable New Biography ewesrn Nswpapruu0n
Carbon County news., 1937-11-26

Peace in the Home
He is happiest, be he king or
peasant, who finds peace in his
home.-Goethe.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
EPSON TO PRESENT
FAIR THIS WEEK
Projects by Children To Be
Featured; Eure to Speak;
Will Give Play

Everything is in readiness for the
annual Epson fair to be given on
Thursday and Friday, of this week.
Much interest is being taken in the
exhibits. Each grade is presenting n
project, valuable prizes being offered
for the eest project The community
people are also very interested in this
feature and they have already select
ed their best products to compete for
first prize.
A main feature of the fair is the
free program which is to be staged
on Thursday night at 8 o'clock. This
will attract large number of people
to the fair
The cast for the play "Black-Eyed
Susan" has been announced as fol-
lows Accompanist Mrs. Phillips; Let
tie Pennyfeather, Miss Schema Null
len; Prudence Bobkins, Miss Matte
McGinnis: Polly Prin, Miss Daisy Pur-
nell Lottie Neighbornews, Miss
Myrtle MITCHELL Miranda Herring
bone, Miss Thelma Rollins; Black
Eyed Susan, Miss Elaine Weldon; Phil
Langdon, Bobbie Winn Roscoe Samp-
son, Frank Roberts; Abner Singles,
Roger Mitchell; Elmer Thompkins.
Perry Lee Ayscue; Jimmie Simpkins,
Claud Dickerson; Prof. Hiram Catch
ing. " D. Davenport; Garden Club
guests are: Mrs Barnes, Miss Helen
Rose Hicks, Miss Sophia Pumper-
nickle, Billie Newell, Mrs. Cousins
and Miss Kathleen Wrenn.
This play is one full of excitement
from beginning to end. It is especial
ly interesting to note how well the
persons on the above cast are play
ing their roles. They will be at their
lest on Friday evening. The curtain
will rise promptly at o'clock.
Thad Eure will be present Friday
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
Post Office
Receipts Up
InSeptenber
Office Has G a / n
Over Last Y e a r;
Nine Months In
crease Is $2,137.73

Post office receipts in Henderson
for September aggregated $4,485.59 an
increase of $500 over the $443O.30
for the same month last year, Post
master j. r. league announced to-
day. The record for 1887 thus is kept
clear in that every month has ex-
ceeded the receipts for the correspond
inc month a year ago.
September receipts brought the nine
months total to $40, 215.58, as against
S34,O77S5 in the corresponding period
of 1886, showing a gain this year of
$2,13773
Post office officials arc hoping to
pass the $4,000 mark for the calen
dar year, and are looking to the final
quarter. almost always the best of the
year, to attain their goal. If the final
three months only hold their own as
against last year, the figure will be
distanccd But if gains are continued
in the same proportion as for the last
nine months, the years business will
go far beyond last year.
The post office last week moved
back into it's remodeled and enlarged
quarters, ,igger by about half than
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
ESCAPED CONW|CTS
ARE TAKEN HERE
Vester Gupton in Critical
Condition at Hospital;
All from Warren

Vester Gupton, of South Henderson,
was in a critical condition this after
noon at Maria Farham hospital from
gun shot wounds sustained when City
Policemen c. S. Eastwood, ]. G. Hud-
gins, j. E. Parks and Highway Pa
trolman T. E. Cooke, Jr, captured
three escaped convicts from the War
rem county prison camp this morning
about II o'clock at the home of Nellie
Inscoe in the Flint Hill section.
Gupton and Howard House, OF
North Henderson, were serving terms
for holding up Carolina Service Sta
ion here sometime ago, and the third
escapee was said to Robert Knight, of
Greensboro, who was serving from two
to five years at the Warren camp. All
three we're trustees, and walked away
from the camp last night.
The officers were acting on a "tip',
and as they approached the house,
Gupton and House fled from the rear,
while Knight remained in the house,
not being fully clothed. Officers open
ed fire on Gupton, one of the shots
piercing his left side, the man drop
ping about 100 yards from the home.
Officers Hudgins and Eastwood
rushed the man to the hospital. War
rem county officials came here short
ly after noon for House and Knight.
None of the convicts was armed,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
6O4,676 LBS. SOLD
FOR $187,246.20
Best Average Of Season and
Second Biggest Break
for This Year
RAIN CUTS OFFERINGS
CD1o
RAIN CUTS OFFERINGS
Tuesday Sale Somewhat Off Because
of Bad Weather; All Ware
house Floors Are Clear
ed During Day

A new high of $3O95 per hundred
pounds was established as an average
in Mondays tobacco sales on the Hen
derson market, according to official
figures available today. It was the
highest daily average since mid-sea-
son of 1884. The days sales aggre-
gated 6O4,676 pounds, second highest
of this season, and believed the sec
ord largest for any day in the mar
ket's, history, having been topped in
pounds by the $4,000 on Monday of
last week, whom the average wos
$29.95 per hundred.
Total money paid by buyers yester-
day was $187 ,246.2O, slightly under the
total for Monday of last week.
Warehouse floors were cleared to-
day, when offerings were lighter, due
largely to the steady rain that fell all
day Monday and most of the day to-
day. Should the weather clear, much
heavier offerings are anticipated for
tomorrow.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
Says Morrison Is
To Get Into Race
CONTINUED from 1sage One.l

lists. At least that's the way the
situation stacks up as of today.
When Mr. Morrison foregathered
with Governor Clyde r. Hoey, Con-
gresham r. L. Doughton, former Gov
ernor o. Max Gardner and other OF
the political big guns at Shelby last
weekend, he all but came right out
in meeting and announced his candi-
dacy.
According to reports from the Cleve-
land county metropolis, Cam said he
is tempted to run; that he would
like to get back at Bob Reynolds with
a caricaturing campaign; that he has
been modest long enough for a de-
feated candidate" All in all, he APP
peared willinger Gf there is such a
comparative than Barkis, of Charles
Dickens fame.
All this, no doubt, is being taken in
stride by Senator Reynolds, who is
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05

far too sophisticated in the political
field to be unnecessarily annoyed by
prospective opposition. Robert is
hardly like to lose much sleep over
the prospect of opposing Morrison
again, as the incumbent would go in
to such a race with cards spades and
both casinos in his favor to begin
with.
But if one of those political miracles
which dot the States history should
develop, and if Mr.. Morrison should
by some queer run of the cards rake
in the senatorial jackpot it would
give North Carolina two senators in
Congress because nobody else would
run against a supposedly invincible
incumbent Senator Josiah w. Bailey
entered the race against the then
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
NEGRO is RELIEVED
OF $1O4 CASH SUM

William Littlejohn, Negro farmer,
living near Louisburg, lost $104 here
this afternoon acout 1890 o'clock
through a trick to two unidentified
Negroes as he stood on the corner of
Orange and Garrett streets with the
money in his hand.
The Negroes accosted Littlejohn on
the corr,cr, snatching his money, and
telling him to wait until they return
ed. He waited, but the men never re-
turned
Police officers were notified and
began Immediately working on the
case with only meagre clues furnish
ed by the Negro as to the identity of
the robbers.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
ALBERT FALKNER
NOTES AN APPEAL

Albert Falkner, tried in county
court last Friday before Recorder X.
e. Clements, and convicted of assault
with a deadly weapon, was sentenced
hy that jurist today to six months
on the roads.
Falkner noted an appeal, and bona
was set at 5000.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
THREE CASES FOUND
OF WHOOPING COUGH

DR.. A. D. Gregg, health officer for
Vance county, reported today total
of three cases of whooping cough in
the county in September. These were
the only forms of reportasle diseases
for the month, which was considered
an exceptionally fine showing for the
county. Vance has been unusually free
of contagious diseases during 1887 SO
far however.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05

before the 100000 expansion program
began a year ago.
Mr.. league said that for some rea-
son he could not exactly explain vol
ume of business during the few days
of this month iii the new building
has seemed to exceed anything nor
NAL period of recent seasons. 1t ap-
peared that transfer back to the new
building had actually induced patrons
of the office to spend more with the
post office.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1887
New HIGH OF $50. 95 Paid For Tobacco Here Monday

powerful F. M. Simmons only after he
had begge b almost everybody else of
any importa to do it. Now comes
Cam Morrison, who probably will
stay out if Farmer Bob Doughton
or any other formidable campaigner
tackles Reynolds, to see if history will
repeat.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See FUge -Four

1. What is the highest rank in the
U. S. Army?
2. Name the American inventor of the
sewingmachine.
g. On what body of water is the
French port of Dieppe?
4. Is a person who was born in the
u. S. of alien parents who were new
err naturalized,, eligible for the Of
flee of President?
5. What is the state nickname OF
North Dakota?
g. What is the fruit of the oak tree?
7. Which is the largest of the five
Great Lakes.
g. Who was George Ripley?
9. What are the colors of Notre Dame
University?
10. What term is applied to the study
of those microscopic units of the
bodies of animals and plants
known as cells?
officers said.
Gupton's condition was described as
critical at mid-afternoon. DR.. T. S.
Royster, staff surgeon at the hospital,
stating that both large and small in
teStineS were perforated
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-10-05

as the main speaker, and his tax VIII
be at II o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-11

WASHER. experienced. for cleaning plant.
Apply at once. 3416 Ga. Ave: u. W:
YOUNG MEN. between 16 and %, with
CO., 1920 New York Ave. n. ".
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-11

ROOM & board & mothers care for 2-year
old boy: private home pref. Must b
reasonable Box Hill Times Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-11
HELP-MEN
ACCOUNTANT

Experienced. are 1885. college or se.
counting school training. Experienced IN
cost work preferred. Local branch n. Y.
corporation Starting salary, $50. Per
sonnet Service. 1911 g 81. N. W.
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WANTED (3) young men, white, is to p,
as bicycle attendants: Must not be AFRAID
of work. Also man that understands bi.
cycle repairs thoroughly. Apply at once
73S 9th st. N. w.