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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
DIR. FURMAN'S AUTO
DAMAGED BY FIRE

Fire partially destroyed an auto
mobile belonging to DR.. w. H. Fur
man sometime between two o'clock
and dawn this morning while parked
in a garage at his home on Granite
street, according to Fire Chief E. T
Shepherd.
Fireman j. W. Hayes, investigated
the blaze, and said the entire interior
of the vehicle was burned, including
some instruments belonging to Dr.
.Eurman.
The cause of the fire was not as
certained. The doctor parked the We
hicle in the garage, after making a
late CALL
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

/. Which was the first state admitted
to the Union after the adoption OF
the Constitution?
2. What is bauxite?
8. Who was Frank DempSter Sher-
man?
4. From what country did the U. s.
purchase the Virgin Islands?
:. Name the first Secretary of the
Treasury under the Constitution of
the u S.
6. For what go1s, ament agency do
the initials PWA stand?
T. Name the National Anthem OF
France.
8. Who is Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors?
9. Where is the lowest point of dry
land on the earth, computed from
sea-level?
10. How many units are in bakers
dozen?"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
LEON WICK BACK
FROM RALEIGH SHOW

L. M. Wick, manager of WoOlard's
electrical department returned today
from Raleigh, where. he attended the
1888 preview showing of Hot Point
Electric Servants.
Mr.. Wick reports many improves
ments in the 1923 line of refrigerators
Ranges, Dish Washers and Home
Laundry equipment. Outstanding were
the Hot Point Refrigerator featuring
Circulaire, Super Speed Freezing and
Pop Ice Trays, enatling the user to
remove either two cubes or an entire
trav of ice with an exclusive tray ar
rangement. Hot Point electric ranges
with the new select heat control for
real economy in electric cooking.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28

Old Zadok Dumbkopf staggered IN
TO the editors office under load OF
what looked like of good-sized section
of the public library. For fully five
minutes he rained books and pamph-
lets onto the editors desk.
az wish to insert an advertisement
in your publication" announced 70
dak, ito the effect that certain sena-
tors would find it to their advantage
to contact z. Dumbkopf, ESQ.,, this
City.
"You appear puzzled?" he continued
"It's this-theres a long-winded fill
buster going on in the senate and
those solons who are doing the I'LL
busting need ammunition to talk
about. That's where I come in.
Here's a dandy volume-'The Deve-
lopment of Needlecraft and Hemstit-
ching in the Early American Colonies
Isn't that one a hcot? Here's another,
The Art of Dentistry as Practiced by
the Early Polynesian Peoples.
"I'm sorry" said the editor, 1--WE
cannot accept your advertisements
"And why not?' demanded Zadok.
Because" answered we ed, "it is
strictly against our rules to advertise
or encourage the use of such deadly
drug as your library"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28

for the further more thorough test
by X-ray processes, which will be con-
Quoted at the Parker Sanatorium
here early in February. The deposit
should be placed with the teacher, he
said. The State Sanatorium clinicians
are to be here the second week in Feb
ruary, and the deposit must have been
made at the time the engagement for
the X-ray examination is made.
The health officer explained that
there was not sufficient time during
the past two weeks to give skin tests
to children in the colored schools, but
he hoped this could be arranged dur
ing the spring and before the end of
the present session. Only children a
round ten years of age and older are
treated.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
FUNERAL SATURDAY
FOR MRS. CANNADY

Funeral services will be held Sat
urday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from
the home of a son-in-law, Frank Often
for Mrs. Celeste Cannady, who died at
9 o'clock Thursday morning at her
home in North Henderson.
Pallbearers nave been announced as
Monk Hughes, Lord Wilkins. Jack
House, Jesse Harris, Herman Hopkins
and Clyde South. Flowerbearers were
announced as Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Wood
lief, Mrs. Alice Peeden Mrs Putnam,
Mrs. South and Mrs. Woolard
Rev. ]. c. Dempsey, pastor of the
South Henderson Holiness
church will be in charge of the ser
vice.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
"BURNSIDE" TRACT
FIGURES IN DEEDS

Deeds to the Burnside tract" were
recorded with the Vance Registry yes
'erday.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company sold the burnside
tract" in WILLIAMSBURG township TO
Lipscomb Lumber Co., Inc, for $40
and considerations.
Lipscomb Lumber Co., Inc, convey
ed the same tract to r. B. Crowder
for $40 and considerations. The tract
is composed of 1908 acres of land.
N. A. Stegall and wife sold Tucker
Harris a tract of 1905 acres on the
Henderson Warrepton road for 81 and
considerations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
FALKNER MEMBER OF
CLERKS COMMITTEE

E. o. Falkner, Clerk of Superior
Court for Vance county, has been ap-
pointed a member of the legislative
committee of the Association of Clerks
of the Superior Court of North Car
Dina.
Other memeers of the committee
are J. N. Sells, chairman, Nash coun-
ty; w. H. Sawyer, Wake, George f.
Hughes, Jones, and j. F. Barden,
Wayne.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
DENTAL WORK ENDS
in WHITE SCHOOLS
DR.. Guy Harris Concludes
Is Weeks in County;
Examine Colored

Free dental examinations and treat
ments for those eligible among the
children of the white schools of Hen
derson and Vance county were con-
Guided today by DR.. Guy Harris, of
the State Board of Health staff. Dr.
Harris has been working in the coun-
ty since shortly after the current
school year began last fall, or total
of sixteen weeks.
During the past week, last of the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-28
TABERNACLE M. E.
SERVICES SUNDAY

Rev. D. A. Petty, the pastor, an
nounced today he would preach at
Tabernacle NJ E. church of the Mid
dleburg charge, on next Sunday morn
ing at II o'clock. His subject was
stated as, "a Warm Religion for the
Cold Winter" The public is invited
TO attend
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
FINDING A JOB THE
OTHER SIDE OF FORTY

American industry cuts Its own throat
when it refuses to hire men because they
have reached the hoary old age of 40.
If the American Legion Employment
Commission can do nothing else through
Employment Day, next Sunday but con-
vince employers that it is utterly foolish
to refuse a Job to a man because he is
over 40, the day will be a success. En-
ployment Day has been set aside by pro-
clamation of Governor Frank F. Merriam
to help the Legion state department in
its program. Especial emphasis will be
laid on employment of men the other
side of forty.
Industry needs youth - but it needs
age. too. Youth provides fire and fresh
ness Age provides experience and bal
ance. Fire and freshness are all very
well, but uncontrolled they often lead
to irrepairable blunders. The brakes are
best applied by those who, from the
depth of their own experience, know at
first hand what headlong blunders can
bring about.
1t was no accident that the founders
of the American government set an age
limit below which no man can be Presi-
dent. They knew the advantage of the
wisdom age brings.
But experience and wisdom are vague,
intangible things. To many employers,
they are no more than words. 1t is these
who should go to the record
One hundred prominent employers
were questioned recently about their
preferences. The answers showed they
voted youth more careful about personal
appearance more cheerful and more en-
thusiastic But look on the other side
of the ledger. They voted the employees of
40-plus more productive, more willing
to undertake unpleasant assignments,
more loyal and more able to take criti-
cism. The vote three-to-one
Going even deeper into actual records,
another survey was made recently in re-
tail establishments from California to
New York. The result was, perhaps,
startling. 1t should be interesting to
every person who employs salespeople
For every 500 worth of goods sold by
people in their 20's, salespeople in the
30's were turning in S102 04 worth of bus
mess, those in the 40s were selling
S107.3S worth of goods-and those in
the SOS were bringing $1Os.75 to the COM
pany's cash register.
Employers, of all people, should never
forget that 1--WE learn by experience"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
The LITTLE MAN
WITH BIG IDEAS

you're a good sport-but you're just
too little"
Spoken in sympathy many years ago
by big man to little man in college
football locker room, those words are
said to have started one of the most
shining careers in the history of engin-
eering.
The little man was Joseph B. Strauss,
who died this week at the age of 6S-
the little man who made big ideas come
true One of those big ideas was the
great Golden Gate Bridge at San Fran
cisco-the bridge that experts said
couldn't be built.
Joseph Strauss has proved that no
man is too little for big ideas.
1t isn't the size of a mans body that
counts, it's the size of his ideas, his ambi-
tion and his zeal. And above all it's the
fighting spirit-the same spirit that made
Joseph Strauss prove to himself and to
the world that he wasn't "just too little"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
Editorials and Comment
TUESDAY MAY IL 1888
OFF THE JOB
ONTO RELIEF

(Tulare Advance-Register)
A fervent Amen" is generally being
heard, following Attorney Webb's ruling
that persons voluntarily leaving their
work in trade disputes are not entitled
to unemployment benefits. The opinion,
far reaching in significance holds:
IF an individual is an active partici-
pant in trade dispute or if he leaves
work voluntarily or at the request of
some organization which is a party to the
dispute, he is not entitled to benefits for
unemployment during actual progress of
the dispute
Today, with literally millions of men
and women eagerly searching for Jobs.
it is asking a lot TO expect the public to
support in idleneSS those who walk out
on gainful occupations; the logic of
Webb's opinion must appeal to all
thoughtful persons.
We even venture to hope that this COM
mon sense attitude may go farther. even
tually applying to system which now
takes money from the pockets of harass-
ed taxpayers for the maintenance and
support of those who are we'll able to
support themselves California has had
first hand knowledge of the way the sys-
TEN works. PicketS at q Nevada CITY
mine, for example, demanded-and re-
ceived-support for themselves and their
families during the weeks when they not
only refused to work but endeaVored in
every way to keep others off the job.
The incOngruous picture was heighten-
ed when subsequently, at relief camp
at Sacramento, the same men, their num-
Der augmented by some 200 sympathizers,
demanded state support and got it.
Like conditions have been common in
many other communities of the state and
nation.
Obviously, such program is unfair
and unjust. Workers who wish to quit
work have no right to sponge on the rest
of the community. Taxpaying citizens
are having difficulty enough supporting
those who can't get work.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
BEHIND THE WAGE-HOUR BILL
he Wall Street JOurnaD

zine wall Street JOurnaD
Certainly the wage-hour BILL in its
present diluted form, is not the imme-
diate threat to industrial stability that it
was when it first burgeoned in congress.
1t remains, however, legislation which is
hazardous.
This country, by virtue of the Wagner
Act and other pieces of legislation. is
committed to policy which permits and
even encourages self-organization of la
Dor. Wages and hours are, and will re-
main as long as we have the employer
employe relationship, properly the busi-
ness of the employer and the employe.
The intervention of government except to
prevent an emergency situation resulting
from industrial strife, is undesirable 1t
is undesirable to the employer and, whe-
ther he sees it or not, potential bane to
the employe as well.
When a government seeks to set hours
and wages, it brings into relationship
which is most workable when most fleX-
ible, having in mind the needs of the two
parties concerned, an arbitrary determi-
nation which is likely to create a malad-
Justment of lasting benefit to none and
of distinct form to ALL
Labor doesn't see that threat vet. But
its there. For just as surely as a govern
ment undertakes to set minimums it will
undertake eventually to set maximums,
and presently both. We know only too
we'll by the experience of Europe what
that means in the end. It is a result which
all those who still believe in the Ameri-
can idea wish to avoid, whether it means
immediate gain or immediate loss.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
WE'LL / Il
TeIlYou..
says
Bob Burns

One of the first lessons you
have'ta learn in life is that no
matter how hard you try to do
anything, there's gonna be some
body that amt gonna like it.
learned my lesson in jest two
days when I was boy while visit
in my Aunt Puney. The first
night came i'm at ten o'clock and
went to my room in the ordinary
way but the next morning Aunt
Puney says, "When you come home
i'm the middle of the night you
don't have'ta make enough noise
TO wake everybody up"
Well, the next ngiht came
home a little earlier and 1 went
down the hall as quietly as posi-
Bile. But the next mornin,, Aunt
Puney says, "YOu didn't fool me,
young man-I heard you tryin' to
sneak in at GAS last night
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
Famous Sayings

Thomas Mann, exiled German
author, has been saying a great
many sensible things on mis- cur
rent tour of America, but nothing
that he has said is much more
worthy OF our serious considera
ton than his recent remark in
New York that freedom must
learn the art of self-defense.
Freedom as it exists in America
is a priceless thing. We who have
always lived in it take it for
granted, perhaps even fail to real
i2c that it can conceivably be in
danger. Mann, who saw freedom
Sruffed cut in Germany, has a
clearer appraisal of it; and his
warning is somthing to ponder
over.
That the ideal of freedom must
eventually prevail in this world is,
to DR.. Mann. something that goes
almost without saying. But before
it can prevail the race is apt to
live through some dark and pain
ful times, and those who know and
love freedom must learn the art of
defending it against its mortal
enemies.
Now it is very easy to say that
we must defend freedom; the
trick is to learn just how the job
is to be done. For freedom can
not defend itself by taking up the
WeaOOnS of SllpDreSSiOn. Those
weapons cut both ways. Any free
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
News Behind
the News
Cal of the Films
Sleuth in Hollywood :.

WASHINGTON. - AAA officials
admit there is more dissatisfaction
with this years farm program than
in any year since 1884. They blame
Drastic cuts in acreage allotments.
especially in corn, which might not
have been so drastic if AAA hadn't
hoped it might be able. by getting
crops reduced, to avoid applying
compulsory marketing quota fea-
lures of the new act.
The bad price situation in cotton
resulting from the big crop last
year.
Initial failures to understand the
new program, a larger factor be-
cause of the new acts intricacieS.
Inevitable inequities and instances
of favoritism or discrimination.
Some corn growers have been
especially resentful because, thanks
to the 1884 and 1896 drouths, which
saved them from previous restric-
tions, they now reduce corn acreage
for the first time if they are to
participate in the AAA program.
No immediate general revolt
against any of the programs-cotton.
corn, wheat, tobacco and rice being
the important ones-is anticipated
in Washington Officials rely on
education. removal of allotment
inequities by county committees
which usually keep a small reserve
of unallotted acreage to straighten
out mistakes, and the customary
tendency of farmers to become re-
conciled to their allotmentS after
early resentment.
But there may be real trouble
later. The loWdoWn is that Wash
ington is much more worried about
possible ''revolts" which may come
next fall toward election time) as
a result of low prices, especially
in wheat and corn.
Senator Vic Donahey of Ohio,
chairman of the IVA joint inves-
tigating committee, seemed alto
gether too leisurely about the inves-
tigation-in the minds of some Of
the other committee members. That
was why Rep. Jim Mead of New
York, chairman Of the House COM
mitteemen, called on Donahey for
a meeting at once to prepare for
immediate work.
Donahey had appointed w. O.
Heffernan former state auditor, to
head the investigating staff. Heff-
ernan announced on his own hook
that there'd be no hearings until
fall and that he, Heffernan, mean
while would visit the IVA area and
later start assembling a staff and
some evidence.
Although Donahey isn't up for
reelection this year. other members
are. Some of them could use
little publicity now, and may be
very busy at home this fall.
Quite few wives of senator's and
congressman have their spouses on
diets and otherwise in training for
the fall campaign. They brag to
each other of the respective number
Of pounds they've made their hus-
bands take off.
Also, there's a certain public
speaking school in Washington
which reports attendance by an in
creasing number of congressional
wives who expect to help by going
on the stump this year themselves
Mrs. Charles j. Collen, widow OF
the California Congressman who
died recently, is said to be planning
to use the knowledge acquired in
this school in campaign to sue
ceed her husband.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17

pretty poor-that
chap was suspici-
ously polite"
What a travesty
on theatre man.
ners! Homer did
MT mean to knock:
he was making an
observation born
Of long experience
with New York
City box offices.
We all know that
when a play is a
sell the box
office becomes
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17

high hat toward the people to whom
if owes its continued existence.
I related the above incident to
a group OF friends. One OF them
had been that afternoon TO see
that fine production Susan AMI
God" She had already seen the
plav herself. and this time was
taking an elderly woman who does
Mt see or hear as well as she once
did. When asking FOR seats, this
was explained. and the request was
made that if they could not have
two center seats near the front OF
the orchestra for that day, that
thev be given two such seats for
the near future. The ticket-seller
handed her two tickets without
word. Questioned ON location, ne
replied curtly: They are toward
the side and good seats. You can
see and hear everything. This is
a small house
The woman knew it was not a
small house, but she took the tickets
and went in to the last two seats
on the side of a widespread thea
tire. directly under a box. Any
action at the side Of the stage was
lost entirely. and being under
box. the acoustics were very bad.
This. added to the fact that actors
today take delight when speaking
in turning their heads away from
the audience. caused them to lose
many of the lines.
Now, just precisely what did that
man gain by giving them those
seats2 The women would have come
another day.
Such incidents as these give New
York City the bad name it bears
with regard to courtesy. / go into
theatres in other cities and towns
and find ten times the courtesy,
thoughtfulness and gentility that 1
contact in New York City.
john D. Rockefeller, Jr., taught
his children to save nickles. He
put them on a very small allow
ance in order TO teach them to
spend wisely. If they spent their
money fcolishly, the did without.
Teach your child thrift through
the habit of regular saving. A
penny a day will inculcate a habit
which will build a backlog for the
future.
Ramil Arcel says Most fighters
are whipped outside the ring. I've
seen lots of boys lose the fight On
the way from the dressing room
to the ring I have to know the
mind of a fighter as well as his
muscles" That simply means, of
course. that they cannot win sim
ply because they feel they can
not win.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17

Ties bearing pictures of bomb
ing airplanes are said to be popu-
lar now in Europe. 1t must be
very confuSing-a man wouldn't
know whether he was looking
down at his own chest or up at
the sky.
Speaking of golf handicaps
district commissioner of Rhodesia
has just experienced the worlds
worst. A cabled news dispatch
says that he was playing course
near his home when he happened
to look up and saw he was being
stalked by four lions.
A European has developed q
radio amplifier which enables the
listener to hear plants growing. At
last Wen be able to find out
whether tiger lilies actually snarl
zadok Dumbkopf says the letter
81" is very important. For in
stance, says Dummy, it can change
a charWoman into a chairwoman
Germany has installed 5000 out
door public loudspeakers SO all Of
its citizen can listen to NaZi radio
propaganda.
1t takes approximately 80 gal
Ions of sap to make one gallon of
maple syrup.
TailorblrdS are SO named because
they stitch leaves together to form
their nests.
Apicus, noted Roman gourmand
delivered lectures on how to excite
hunger
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
You re Telling Ne -
BY WILLIAM RIFT

BENDING OVER and then
standing erect is an excellent way
to reduce a waist line. 1t will also
reduce weeds if performed on the
front lawn
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17

More than $1,000 taxicabs, most
of them American-made, cruise
the spacious avenues of Toxic,
Japan. This exceeds the number i'll
use in New York City.
Since 1920 the number Of duck
hunters in the United States has
increased from 1,750,000 TO approx
imately 100000.
It is estimated that unpaid doc
Tor bills in the United States total
more than $350,000000.
U. S. civilian conservation corps
officers are under strict orders not
to impose military training upon
the enrolleeS.
A Pittsburgh, Pa, judge fined
his wife 50 for a minor traffic VIC
lation and then reached into his
pocket for the money.
Anatole France, Victor Hugo and
Montaigne, all noted French writ
ers. were fond of cats as house
hold pets.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
Bruce Cation Says
- Freedoms Defense is Truths

society which tries 10 use them
will end by finding that it has
somehow ceased 10 be free.
1t would be better, perhaps. TO
begin by understanding clearly
Just what a devotion to freedom
implies.
Such a devotion-when carried
into practice through such in
struments as democracy-implies,
primarily, a belief that the great
mass Df human ttings have n
them the good will, the good sense
and the common decency 10 handle
any problems that can face them.
In other words. it implies a broad,
sustaining faith in the human
race.
This, of course, is only a starter.
for to hold such a faith, and to
live by it, means that one can
have no use for any form OF OBJ
scurantiSm. II means that the
quest Tor .knowledec must so ON
endlessly, that the exact truth
about any and every phase of life
must be given to the people at all
times, that the people must-aS a
great democrat once said-have
the right to make their own mis-
takes.
All of this is the exact opposite
OF the faith that prevails in the
authoritarian governments.
1t is ,as matter of fact, a
broader faith than many of us
actually live up TO in America. And
yet it is the only faith that can
make freedom and democracy
work. And to defend freedom and
democracy, one must begin by de
Tending that faith in season and
out of season.
Viewed in that light DR.. Mann's
injunction is clearer. Understand
what freedom really means, and
you can see how it is to be de-
Tended. Protect that broad faith
which animates freedom, and free
dom itself viii remain alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

My friend Homer Croy invited
me to the theatre the other eve-
ming. He purchased the tickets,
and as he turned from the box
office. he said: THE plav must he
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17

Yawn Yawnson says he has an
uncle who for the last 40 years
has Whistled all day long while he
worked He's a locomotive engineer
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-17
Grab Bag
One-Minutc Test

One Minute Test
/. In what country is the city of
Rangoon?
2. For whom was the state of
Utah named?
8. Who wrote THE Legend of
Sleepy Hollow?