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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07
Election Board To Ask
Sweeping Vote Reforms
Repeal of Present Absentee Law and Enact
ment of New One Proposed With New State
wide Registration, and Limitation of Precinct
Votes

vile, and the two Republican mem
bers, Adrian Mitchell, of Windsor, and
L. v. Hall, of Charlotte, will not go
along with the chairman in recon-
mending any provision for absentee
voting to replace the present law.
They are on record in favor of COM
plete abolition of the absentee ballot.
The third Democrat, j. O. Bell, of
Hendersonville, has consistently made
it clear he favors the absentee in prin-
ciple. but has equally consistently
stood for such reforms as will prevent
the wholesale frauds such as marked
and marred many 1888 primary cleo
tionS.
The Lucas view, in which Bell will
probably concur fully, is that the alb
sentee ballot can be so protected as
to make it's fraudulent use almost i'm
possible, or at least so dangerous that
nobody will attempt it. He will recon-
mend that complete authority be CEN
tralized in the county election board
chairman for the issue of absentee
ballots, would make it certain that
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Compost Of
N. C.. Farms Is
OF 80 Acres
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Dec. THE State Depart
ment of Agriculture has calculated
lust what the composite or average"
North Carolina farm would have-lt
such a farm in fact existed.
The composite farm, according TO
tbe denartment's census, would mon
tain 90 acres. of which only % acres
would be cultivated.
Five persons would live on the larni
and would use three tons OF 1ertillzer
in cultivation of their crop. Four acres
would be cleared pasture land TOT
grazing only
The composite farm would have one
cow and II hens of laying age.
Corn would be the largest single
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regime, which he has pledged to the
rehabilitation of weakened French
economy and the strengthening OF
ornaments.
The Senate appeared to be almost
unanimous for him. Bitter criticism
was expected from communists and
Socialists on three points of the Dala-
der program his use of mobile
guards and police to crush strikes he
held To endanger an upward economic
climb. decree laws imposing new
tares and the French-German friend
ship agreement.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07
Think Farmers Resent
Keeping Payroll Taxes

Washington, Dec. 7.-(AP)-Some
senator's protested today to see OBJ
stacles in the path of anti-administra-
ton proposals to extend social secur-
ity benefits to farms and household
workers.
Senator Norris, Independent, Ne
braska, an administration supporter,
said he feared such step would be
Impractical. It is being considered
by President Roosevelt and his adj
visors. Norris said he believed it
would be. next to impossible" to re-
quire farmers and housewives to keep
payroll and tax records sinailar to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07

those now used by businessmen in
making social security reports.
On the other hand, Senator Green
Democrat, Rhode Island, also an al
ministration hacker, was inclined to
discount this difficulty. He said he
had not made up his mind on p-o-
posals to broaden the protective base
of the law, but added that they must
be considered from financial stand
point as well.
An influential southerner predicted
that resentment among farmers over
any proposals to make them liable fer
payroll tax payments would be, felt
in political circles Immediately.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07
Jewish Rules
In Germany
May Hit u. S.

Berlin. Dec 7.-(AP)-The United
States Embassy was understood today
to have sent detailed report to the
State Department expressing belief
that the anti-Jewish property DEGREES,
announced Monday. by Economics
Minister Walther Funk, may affect
American property rights.
The Embassy was said to have ask
ed Washington for instructions. Since
publication of the Funk DEGREES, Unit
ed States officials have been trying
to obtain official German interpreta-
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Friends Urge
Hoey TOGO
To Rose Bowl
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Dec. IA really earnest
and sincere effort has been launched
to have Governor Clyde r. Hoey at
tend the Rose Bowl game in Pasa-
dena California, on January 2, when
Duke University's Blue Devils mix
and mingle in football fray with the
Irojans of the University of Southern
California.
Representative Clarence E. Stone
OF Rockingham county, appears &c
De sponsor of the movement, which
ne says is based on the principle that
the governors presence at the GRID
classic would really climax the adj
yertising program of North Carolina
Tor which the last General Assembly
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Anna Hahn's
Death Set
For Tonight

Columbus, Ohio, Dec. Tap
Anna Marie Hahn's 12-year-old son
went to her side to comfort her to-
day as her scheduled hours of life
dwindled away.
At the same time, the convicted
prisoners counsel planned a possible
appeal to another woman-Judgd
Florence E. Allen, of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals-in a
last ditch effort to prevent Mrs.
Hohn's death in the electric chair to-
night.
Seeking writ of habeas corpus in
Federal district court here, Attorney
Joseph H Hoodin said he would ap-
peal to Judge Allen if the district
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07
Negro Is Sought
For Dual Assault
Near Chapel Hill

chapel Hill, Dec. 7.-(AP)-A
posse searched today for a Negro
VINO a l5-year-Old white girl said
forced her at pistol point to SUBJ
init twice to his advances.
Inc girl told police that she was
Ieturnlng yesterday to her home
near Orange church, where the
Negro attacked her at Steel Bridge
ABOUT a mile north of here. She
Sdiu that she never had seen her
assallant before, but thought she
could identity him.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07

man of the Congress
sional committee on
investigation Of UNI
American activities,
is undignified but
rather entertaining.
Ickes says, for ex-
ample, that Dies is
"the worlds fore
most zany," Dies
that Ickes "reeks
with poison hate. "
These are not the
o n ly compliments
the two have ex-
changed b e t w cen
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07
Chamberlain
Shakes Blame
AS To Eden

London, Dec. 7.-(AP)-Prime Mir
lister Chamberlain told the House of
Commons today that Anthony Eden,
former foreign secretary, had gone
to the United States ito present the
British point of view, but that here
would be no official significance" in
what he said there.
The prime minister's remarks were
in answer to series of questions on
q statement by Foreign Secretary Wis
count Halifax on December that
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07
Thinks Dies
Too Hard On
Ickes, Perkins
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Dec THE contro-
versy between Interior Secretary
Harold L. Ickes and Representative
Martin Dies chair
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-12-07

them, either, but they're a couple of
the most recent ones. Perhaps they
both exaggerate Ickes can't possibly
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
END OF DISTINGUISHED CAREER
(HaVerhiII, Mass, Gazette)

NiIoN Illil, VhdSS., ddLSIIGD
A long and distinguished public car
eer was ended when Senator McAdoo was
defeated in CALIFORNIA; Democratic pri-
mary by Sheridan Downey but the build
er and possessor of it never looked bet
ter at the height of his fame than he did
in defeat
From 1912 to 1920 McAdoo was one
OF the country's biggest men. AS secre-
tary Of the Treasury in the Wilson ad-
mlnlStratlon and as director of the rail
roads during the war, he exercised
power second only perhaps to that of
the President himself. AS the husband
OF daughter Of the President, he was
the crown prince" of the day.
In 1924 he was one Of the principals in
the memorable struggle with Alfred E.
Smith for the Democratic nomination to
the Presidency. In 1882 he was again a
contender for the nomination and a fac
tor in the triumph of Franklin d. Roose-
velt. Then he went to the United States
Senate and there he could have remained
If he had done one thing.
All he had to do to uphold the issue
on which the campaign was decided. the
$50 week pension for all persons over
%. Espousal of this scheme plus the
Roosevelt endorsement would have made
victory certain for him. But he could
not stomach the scheme it offended the
sound economic and financial principles
with which he was familiar SO he op-
posed it and was beaten-but it was one
of those defeats in which the loser can
feel proud.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
DEMOCRACIES, DICTATORS
AND WORLDWIDE WAR

Hitler's hatred of democracies may
arise, SubcOnSciously, out of a knowledge
that their governments are founded on
far sounder principles than his own.
Looking back over the immediate post
war days that followed 1918, we find tie
proof in history.
Out of the turmoil that followed war,
1t was the demOcracies that came through
most nearly unScathed. Look at the rec
ord:
Russia, ruled by the Cars, fell before
a Communist revolution.
Germany, ruled by the Kaiser, fell in
a revolution that eventually placed Hit
Ter himself in power.
Austria-Hungary, under one-man rule.
tottered and fell into oblivion that has
become more dense as the years went
past.
Spain, governed by king, saw its one
man government Overthrown and a de-
mocracy set up, only to be followed by
today's bloody civil war
Italy, where another king ruled, saw
the decline of the kings power and the
rise of another dictator.
And the democracies?
They trembled, some of them-but for
the most part they remain democracies
even today, their basic form of govern
ment unchanged.
Hitler, contemplating war, might we'll
consider these facts-and wonder where
he himself will be after another war, if
one is fought.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
Domestic Seryyice
Training School
Supplies Offered

If Ell Centro housewives start a
school for cooks and other domes-
tics as recently suggested by Di-
rector Russell Bailey of the State
Employment service, surplus COM
modities undoubtedly will be avail
able through the State Relief ad-
ministration.
George l.. Whips, SRA director
in Imperial county, plans to ask
federal authorities for the surplus
commodities as soon as the school
is established, he said Tuesday.
He and Bailey agree that the
housewives will benefit from such
a school because this will give them
an opportunity to supervise the
training of the women they employ
In addition they will be instru-
mental in removing many women
from the relief rolls by making
them capable of holding positions
in homes in the community.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
LIFE SAVING
ON THE ROADS

(Christian Science Monitor)
II America has suffered more fatali-
ties in the conflict on the highways than
in the World War-and so say the statis-
ticianS-then the recent marked reduc-
tion in murder by motorcar may save as
many lives as keeping out of war. Seven
ty-five thousand in ten years would be
the saving at the present rate; there have
been 3,670 fewer deaths from traffic ac-
cidentS in the United States in the first
six months of 1888 than in the similar
period of 1887.
The full measure of hope in this down.
ward trend is even more apparent when
the mileage rates rather than the yearly
deaths are compared. At the University
of Michigan where safety engineers have
been comparing notes at a National InSti-
tute of Traffic Safety Training, Paul G.
Hoffman, president of the Automotive
Safety Foundation, reported that high
way fatalities were at the rate of eigh-
teen per 100,000,000 vehicle-miles in
1886, while in the first six months of
this year the rate was only twelve.
He said that at the 1886 rate there
would have been $4,000 killed on Ameri-
can roads this year instead of the esti-
mated $4,000. That is a rate of saving
which would mean 100000 lives in ten
years Surely that is worth much more
work and money than has been expended
to make it possible, Most hopeful-and
most challenging-is the conviction of
the safety men that this great gain is
directly traceable to safety efforts which
can be intensified and expanded Could
MT some of the money and thought now
directed to preparations for life-taking
war be better turned to this life-saving
effort?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
News Behind
the News
The Little Woman
Politically Important
BY GERRY DICK

Rodney butcher is on vacation.
TOday's Behind the Scenes in
Washington is written by his
assistant, Gerry Dick.
WASHINGTON. - Both Republi-
can and Democratic national COM
mittees are giving some high-pow-
cred attention to what the little
woman" thinks about politics these
days.
At one time party leaders dis
turbed the domestic calm of the
housewives kitchen only on elec-
ton day, when they sent someone
around to persuade her to leave
the baby or the picked preserves
long enough to visit the election
booth.
But today both parties have full
time divisions that pay year-round
attention to what women are think
ing about government and politics
between election days.
The Democrats entrust this Job
to Mrs. Dorothy McAllister, head
of the womenS division of the ma
tional committee, and the Repub-
licanS have Marion Martin direct
ing women's activities for their
national committee.
The education program for DEM
ocratic women brings lecturers on
national affairs to local groups.
Mrs. McAllister and her aides seek
opinion by making reporters of par
ty members throughout the country
and these same members are in
formed on labor, international rela-
tions, agricultural policies, ETC., SO
that they may lead discussions in
Democratic groups.
Republican women will be kept
informed by monthly bulletins from
committee headquarters here giving
pertinent facts about major legis-
latlon before Congress. The Repub-
dcan program hasn't got under way,
won't in fact until the first meet
ing of the National Federation of
Republican Women's Clubs in Chi
cago later this month.
Dorothy McAllister is young,
talks well, rapidly, makes every
thing she says sound vitally i'm
portant. She has brown hair, cut
in a long bob, brown eyes, is at
tractlve, keen, fashionably dressed.
She likes to work with women near
her own age and younger
Marion Martin, directing the Re-
publicans' modernized program, is
about the same age, 3Oish, buoy
ant, with a contagious freshness
and forcefulness. Both women have
tremendous enthusiasm for their
jobs.
Both have sense of humor. Miss
Martin thought it hilariously funny
one time when she found she was
facing large audience which had
come expecting to see and hear
Marion Davies.
And both women are young
enough to think the hardships of
organizing tours lark. Mrs. Nc
AlliSter laughs about the time she
had just time for a shampoo in
Washington and had to wait until
She reached Boston, tousled but
undlsmayed, to get a wave.
They've both had the experience
OF motor breahdoWns and have
learned to thumb their way to
speaking engagement.
Watching them in action you de-
eide what the modern woman needs
to chase the blues away is not
new hat, but political activity.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
WHEN. A PLEBESCITE
BECOMES NOXIOUS

Herr Adolf Hitler's idea of what a
vote of the public should be is enlighten-
ing to Americans who have always he-
lieved that a vote should be taken TO tell
what it is the public wants.
These are Hit!er's words in his speech
of Monday:
I'm democracies a plebiscite becomes
superfluous or noXious in the very mo-
ment that it threatens not to have the
desired effect
The difference between dictatorship
and democracy could not be better dem
onstrated than in those few words. To
a dictator, there is no use of calling a
vote unless he knows in advance that the
ballot boxes will give him the exact re-
suit he wants. The people will either
support him, or they won't be allowed
to vote.
In democracy such as the United
States. a public election would be "nox-
ious' if it always had what some leaders
would call the desired effect" If it
were possible for such an election to be
held here, this would cease to be a democ-
racy.
Hitler's speech made one thing plain.
As long as he is ruler of Germany. there
will never be a vote against him in Ger
many. y
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27

Grover Whalen says there will
be no fan, bubble or balloon dan
GERS at the New York worlds fair
Quite a setback for the Nude Deal.
A Michigan Republican suggests
it might be good strategy for the
G. o. P. to boost the idea of a
third term for President Roose-
vent. 1t must be said for the plan
that there's nothing to lose but
Maine and Vermont.
A magazine writer shows how a
man can have 48 wives legally.
Now, if he only would reveal how
the fellow could explain to one
what he ever saw in the other 47!
A New York municipal clerk
banked $4,000 in seven years.
Wonderful thing, thrift.
British customs officers reliev-
ed Tom Mix of his six-shooters
when he arrived in England for a
visit. Well probably have to blame
that on the disarming British per-
sonality.
An Ontario man says he caught
a fish by using chewing gum on
his hook. Let's go to the movies
and get some bait.
A candidate in Cedar Falls. Iowa
passed out dill pickles as a campaign
stunt. We hope he warned the
voters not to try to smoke EN-.
Sir Richard Paget says man is not
naturally a speaking animal. Sir
Richard has been spending too
many evenings at the radio.
Miss Ohio won over Miss Cali
fornia in that national beauty con-
test, but Miss California should
Worry-Some day she'll be getting
that $50 a week, maybe.
The sweet cider season is on. but
We wouldn't be surprised if it prov
ed pretty hard for some of the boys.
Donald Macmillan has returned
from his seventeenth arctic cruise,
and if he hasn't reached the North
Pole, surely he must be getting
warm.
Germany recently made large
purchases of Canadian pulpwood.
We just happened to think of that
when Goering made his speech
about the country having plenty to
eat for the next 80 years.
An anxious astronomer fears the
moon will explode Think of the
calamity for song writer's. finding
a new word to rhyme with June!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27

rumbling down the ways into the
river Clyde.
The Queen Mary" now disputes
with the French liner Normandie
for the honor of being the worlds
largest ship. When the Queen
Elizabeth enters the New York
West European trade in May, 1910
she will end the argument for she
is 3,765 tons heavier, 55 feet longer
and Sis feet deeper than the
Queen Mary" The two cost ap-
proximately $25,O00,0OO each.
Queen Elizabeth was to have
launched the ship in the presence
of King George, but the king could
not leave London where his pres
ence may be required to sign mobil-
ization papers in event of Euro
pean war.
The Queen Elizabeth" will be
strikingly different from the "Queen
Mary" She has but two tunnels,
instead of three, and is so stream
lined that she resembles the Ger
man liner Bremen more than her
sister ship. She will have IA decks,
two more than the Queen Mary"
She will accommodate 2,41O pas
sengers in three classes, 300 more.
Her builders hope she will even be
faster. She will have four propel-
lers driven by four turbines.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
Bruce Cation Saws
- Ethiopia Keeps on BEING Difficult

A few years ago the poverty
stricken, Iand-hungry people OF
Italy set out to get a break for
themselves by taking over the rich
lands Of Ethiopia.
Obviously they needed a break
Of some kind. Italy is full of noun
tains and rocks-and some AZ mil
lion people. The ordinary italian
works hard and doesn't get any too
much to eat; no wonder he went
for it when someone told him that
there were fat farm lands and gen
eral riches to be had for the taking
down in Africa.
So there was a war, and peace
loving folk on this side of the water
took what comfort they could in the
reflection that when the shooting
and the killing stopped, things at
least would be a little better for
the common people of Italy.
But now it begins to look as If
these Italians had bought a gold
brick.
A dispatch from Rome TO a New
York newspaper reveals that the
Italian government has given up
its plans for the colonization of
Ethiopia-for the time being, at any
rate.
In the first place, the country
isn't fully pacified yet. 1t won't
be pacified until the natives have
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
YOU CAN REGISTER!

1t is NOT too late to register for the
November 8 electiOn You have until
September 20 to make that brief but
highly important visit to the office of
your county or city clerk.
Good citizenship dictates that course.
Self-interest demands t!,at minimum of
concern for the proper choice of the
men and measures that will affect the
welfare of the state and the livelihood
of us all
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27
Well II!
Tell You,
says
Bob Burns

1 believe that the best way to
check up on a mans character is to
go back 10 his home town where
they knew him when he was a
boy. If he cheated at marbles
then. then he's pretty apt to skin
you now.
Not long ago one of those flashy,
Hollywood dreSSerS left town OWN
a tailor firm quite a bill. The firm
wrote to the tailor in the fel!a's
home town and said. This man
owes us for a full line of evening
clothes and we would like TO find
him." The tailor wired back. so
would HE still owes me for a
play suit with brass buttons he got
in 1902"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-27

has to be if he is to be successful
at selling. He wanted to get at
the very bottom of scientific selling,
so he studied not only himself but
thousands of other statesmen. He
went everywhere and studied exact
ly how other statesmen presented
their cases. He watched statesmen
for nine years, and compared one
salesman with another-Why one
could make sales and another
couldn't. He observed their man.
nerisms and even their posture.
At last he worked out these
twelve rules which have put him on
top of his profession. He is 38
years old, and has made enough
money to retire if he desired. In
stead he likes work and means to
continue
Here are his rules exactly as he
gave them to me:
Rule l. Do a rounded" selling
job. Don't be content to handle
some parts of your work unusually
we'll Unless you handle all parts
with reasonable skill, you will be a
flat wheel.
Rule 2. Plan in advance every
sales talk you make. When you
are before the customer, don't deal
sentences rapidly off the top of
your mind. When you plan your
presentation, do what you do when
you pack suitcase-put a lot in a
little space.
Rule 3. Know twice as much
about your product as you need for
convincing your toughest prospect
Don't be a sales nudiSt.
Rule 4. To win belief in yourself,
deserve belief in yourself. Don't be
burglar.
Claim an inch-prove a mile.
Use the printing of understate-
ment, then when you have arrived
at the right point-eXplod. the
dynamite of over-proof!
Prove your product by tests.
Whenever possible, make your pros
pect the tester Prove your points
before his eyes.
Don't be afraid that your COM
petitor is making extravagant
claims. A good salesman likes a
competitor who is a liar.
Rule 5. People believe what they
see, so make your sales presenta-
ton "see- worthy" Show your selling
points-and show them with show
manShip.
Rule 6. Put the plain" in "ex-
plain In other words, sing some
thing short.
The simpler it is the better.
possible, make the bolt
sell the battleship!
You should not only make your
explanation simple, but you should
make it seem simple. Use every
clay language and easy Illustrations.
Avoid technical terms. Be brief.
1 see I'm not going to have space
III the words allotted to me in this
column to give you the other six
rules, So I'll pass 'em along tomor-
row.