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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
MEMBERS OF CLUB
DISCUSS NEW YEAR
President T. P. Gholson To
Name Committee to Map
Years Program

Important matters pertaining to the
operation of West End Country Club
during this year were discussed last
evening at a meeting of the member
ship at the club house.
T. P. Gholson, president, presided
over the sessions, and discussions
were toward making this year even
bigger than the past year.
President Gholson will appoint a
committee within the next few days,
he said, to work out an entire pro-
gram for the year, and this commit
tee will report to the annual stock
holders meeting probably the frs
week in February. There was also
some discussion of erecting and main
tanning a swimming pool on the
premises.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
BOY SCOUT TROOP
MEETS THURSDAY

Boy Scout Troop 81 will moot
Thursday evening at 7:3O O'Clock in
the future instead of the customar,,
Friday night, and all scouts wero
asked to note the change in date Of
meeting.
All scouts were asked to bring their
soc new registration fee to the next
meeting.
Friday night at 1880 o'clock, tho
boys will assemble at the Episconal
Parish house for a 'possum hunt, and
all were requested to bring their flash
lights to the hunt.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19

One of the best years in the asso-
cations history was reported to the
stockholders of the Home Building &
Loan Association at their annual
meeting last night by Joel T. Cheat
ham, secretary-treasurer. w. A. Hunt,
president of the association since it
was organized in 1912, presided.
The number of shareholders in
creased "a to GAL, and the number of
shares held increased 677 to a total
of 6,813 Mortgage loans at the end
of 1887 numbered 155 for a total of
$225,577 81, an increase of So, 681 AS. In
stallments paid in amounted to $780,,
319.75, an increase of $29,511.69.
The rate of earning for the year was
.0612 percent, and the associations as
sets were $26O952S at the end of the
year.
During the year matured two series
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
1887 One OF Best Years
For Home Building-Loan
Shareholders Increased H. Stock 677 Shares to Total
6,813; Mortgage Loans 81 577 and Total Assets
$261 ,O95; Earning Above Six Percent

during 1887, paying to shareholders In
cash and cancelled mortgages to-
tai of $61 ,581.82, and has no unpaid
obligations and owes no money. I'm
divided profits were $23,342.72.
Stockholders included 602 white and
80 colored people.
In the election of directors for 1888
all of last years 20 were reelected
except one, and M. w. Wester was
added to the board.
The meeting of the directors will
be held at later date to elect Of
ficers for the year.
A majority of the stock in the asso-
citation was represented at the meet
ing, and a number of the older share
holders had words of commentator
to say about building and loan in gen
eral, and about the conduct of the
association.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
JUNIOR ORDER TO
MEET ON THURSDAY

The Raymond B. Crabtree council
of the Junior Order will hold it's regu-
lar meeting Thursday evening at 7:30
o'clock, and Councillor S. N. Powell
has urged all members and officers to
be present. Arrangements are to be
made for a supper sometime next
week.
G. V. Jenkins, captain of the de-
gree team, asks all degree team mem
bers to be present for degree work.
There will also be several important
announcements.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
DANGEROUS

1t is dangerous to sell a SUBSTITUTE
for 666 just to make three or four
cents more. Customers are your best
assets; lose them and you lose your
business. 66G is worth three or four
times as much as SUBSTITUTE.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
DRUNKEN DRIVER
IS HEAVILY FINED
Mayor Problem M. Y. Coon.
er Presides Oyer City
Court Session TODAY

Mayor Protein M. Y. Cooper nro
sided at today's session of CITY Govt
with a jury trial being given to Vanoo
Husketh, route 1, Henderson, charoeS
with driving intoxicated.
Husketh was found guilty of the
charge, and was fined SIS and costs
of court, and his license was revoked
for one year. Failure to pay the fina
meant 80 days on the roads. Ha no;S
the fine.
r. H. Fisher was fined S1O ons
costs for being drunk.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
Hearing for Fairbanks
Set for Friday Morning
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was treated after her mutilated and
bleeding body was found near that of
her dying husband last Sunday night
by the side of their truck-trailer in a
tobacco warehouse vacant lot. It was
there that Fairbanks admitted he at
tackled them after he had an argu-
ment with Good. over treatment of a
bird.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19

Lot Conveyed-A lot on Alexander
Avenue in South Henderson was sold
by T. j. Richards, ct al, to James II.
Hoyle, ct al, for $40 and considera-
tons in the only realty deed filed
with the Vance Registry yesterday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19

"Now in my day we had less gym
nastics and more geography and we
learned etiquette at the end OF q
hickory stick. That's why my genera
ton has really amounted to some
thing!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-19
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

/ Where is the largest continuous
mass of coral in the world?
2. Who was Giuseppe Ortunino Verdi?
2 What was the name of Frances
most celebrated modern composer,
recently deceased?
a. Where is the Abraham Lincoln Ma
tional Park?
s. What state was represented by
Joseph H. Rainey, first Negro Con-
gresham of the House of Represen-
tativeS?
6. In which of Dickens novels is
"Fagin" the Jew a character?
z. Where are the Aran Islands?
g. Name the science which deals with
the celestial bodies.
9. What is rigor morris?
10. Where is the Sheliff River?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11
Dreadnaughts

The biggest and best, of course, is none too good for America. If we have to provide new naval armament, we want fleet that will serve the purpose. Many Americans have lost faith in battleshipS, but when our experts insist that we still need such floating fortresses, civilians cannot talk back. If effectiveness grows with size, and 45,OOO-ton dreadnaughts with 18-inch guns can defy air attacks and give us command of the sea, as the experts believe, let us have them, even if they cost $70000,000 to 9100,000,000 apiece.
 Deep as we are in debt, publicly and privately, and insecure as most of us feel economically, the country is still worth hundred times what the proposed fleet of battleships and other craft will cost us. The present plans contemplate about $1,100,O00,000 worth of new naval con- struction. In the present state of the world it looks like insurance, and it also makes work
 Not much has been said lately about air defense, but presumably that is being planned by the experts on par with sea power It must be, if for no better req son than to protect our warships from overwhelming attack. Suppose few of those air bombs that have been shatter- ing Spanish cities were to drop onto the decks of our battleships - or down their tunnels. The air equivalent of naval gun with 18-inch bore might be man. of-war bird dropping an "egg" with 10 tons of nitroglycerine in it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11

Labor relations in this country continue to move in circles, with re- peated confusion, because of the jug handled Wagner labor act. The latest ruling of the National Labor Board against the Inland Steel Company only serves to push the strife about contracts pack to where it was a year ago. The board has ruled that an employer who refuses to sign a union contract violates the labor act.
 Last June the conflict between some of the independent steel com panies and the c. l. O. union, the Steel Workers Organization commit tee, was about the legal necessity for signing a contract. At that time letter which Senator Wagner wrote to The Sun in November, 1885, was cited to show that the steel companies were acting in good faith in their refusal to be forced into signing. The Senator's letter said in part: "The law does not require any employer to sign any agreement of any kind. Congress has no power to impose such a requirement.. An agreement presupposes mutual con sent. The law merely requires that an employer bargain collectively Wlth his workers, which means that he shall receive their representatives and engage in fair discussion, III the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11
Cross At 76

Governor Wilbur L. Cross is deserving of the heartiest congratulations on the observance yesterday of his 76th birth day. At an age at which many men and women no longer have an interest Tn the affairs of our civic existence, he is very much conscious of his duties as both a citizen of the United States and an elective official of the State of Con- necticut. He is in good health and he is apparently as much as ever the peren- nial candidate of the Democratic party for the governorship of the state.
 It is appropriate, we presume, at this time that the Young Republicans of Con- necticut should take alarm at the grow ing sentiment in their party for an en- dorsement of candidate for the goVer- norship, such as Gov. Cross or Mayor Jas per McLevy of Bridgeport, Socialist. It has been advanced, not officially, of course that the republicans in state con- vention either endorse Gov Cross and seek to gain an advantage by soliciting Republican votes, which the governor IS claimed to receive every time he runs for office.
 The other alternative is nomination of Mayor McLevy on coalition ticket of Socialists and Republicans. That doesn't set too we'll with many members of the 2. o. D., because it undoubtedly would necesSitate, in case of victory, of con- plete subservience to merit system and civil service without any regard for bol- stering the fading ranks of Republican, ism in state departments. So we are not surprised that the Young Republicans are up in arms and demanding new deal" for the party in this state, ousting all "old guards" and reactionaries.
 However, we were interested in reso- lution the group has prepared to be used in qualifying the type of guberna-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11
In New York
RY GEORGE ROSS

New York. April 1.-The facade of Carnegie Hall, I venture, IS more pretentious than the great musl- clans who pass under it. I once saw Walter Gieseking, the eminent concert pianist and composer, sllnk through the back door after trl- umphant program, and proceed to noisy and smoky swing den on West Sand street. There he was persuaded to play racy tune him. self.
 From several Carnegie appear ances, the violent and brilliant Jose Iturbi has dashed off to a nearby Latin oasis, where he sits and reVels in the popular rhumbas. And he admits that his hands itch to grasp those noise-making gadgets, the maraccas.
 There is a nondescript-looking Neapolitan restaurant in the Fifties, where stars of the Metropolitan Op- era dine often. They feel complete ly free there to try out an aria on a companion while Joe Romano, the proprietor, makes magic passes at the spaghetti platter. These eyes have seen Lucrezia Bori there, and her voice lifted in song. Lawrence Tibbett is another patron.
 Formidable a scholar as Walter Damrosch may be-and he is well advanced in age-he is one of Hol- lywood's most ardent movie fans; attends them regularly.
 And I haven't seen this record- ed: Though the impression went that Arturo Toscanini dined only at his hotel apartment, he frequent ly strolled to an obscure Genoese eating place near Third Avenue to feast there. The owner-chef never will forget it.
 Musicians are as covetous of amusement as the rest of us, but they have been depicted in too many places as being as cold as the Car negie Hall facade.
 Dale Tales
 Last summer on a certain South American cruise boat, all the pas sengers mulled over the identity of that fellow in Cabin class who held himself aloof and shied off from social intercourse like misan- thrope. And not until the ship reached port did they learn he was Dale Carnegie-author of How to Win Friends and Influence People" "
 Since then the apocrypha has turned up in various guises. Usually reliable sources swear they saw Car negie strolling, hatless and lonely, through the Times Square district. Or that he arrived at night club and reserved a table for one, look ing forlornly about him for com- pany. Or that he gets into busses for the sole sake of striking up a conversation with the conductor Perhaps you've heard these tales l tho. They aren't true
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11
A Thought for Today
Our Greatest Lobbyist

The Roosevelt administrations reor- ganization bill has apparently been side tracked for the current congressional ses- sion. There is hardly any chance that It will be revived sufficiently before fall elections. And unless the results next No- yember indicate that the Roosevelt pop ularity is even greater than It was two years ago, we doubt if a chance Will De made next January to revive the meas ure. Administration leaders Saturoay noon credited the vote, recommlttlng the bill to committee, as the result or loooy- ing and propaganda.
 We're going to agree that the bill was defeated by lobbying and propaganda. We're going to state, too, that the great est lobby that could ever be summoned provided the incentive for the defeat ot the measure which conferred unusual powers on our chief executive, as well as making certain necessary changes ln our federal government. We honestly believe that public opinion caused the house to vote late Friday night 204 to 196 to re- commit the reorganization bill. No great CT lobbying force than public opinion could be brought to bear on any congress sional matter.
 If there be any disgrace attached to the use of such lobby or such means or propaganda as this, then our democratic form of government is at fault. II our duly-elected representatives ana senators are not directly responsible to the people who elected them and who continue to reelect them, then why do we so heaItlly endorse this form of representation? Why not eliminate it entirely and return to the less democratic method of appointing national legislators, allowing some prom inent national official to be the sole dlc- tator of the makeup of our national leg iSlative halls.
 There are many sides to this reorgan- ization bill battle which could be dls- cussed. Naturally Roosevelt opponents gloat and term the defeat the bltteresC one the President has been subjected to during his two administrations. That may be so, but there are other pressing problems at hand which will not allow President Roosevelt time to glover, II he were so inclined and we don't think ne will be- He has the more pressing need of finding jobs for millions of American men and women; he has the task or opening up vast sources ot funds that may be turned into the business chan nels of the nation. Revitalizlng American business right now is far more important than reoreanizing the federal govern ment and centralizing power in the White House.
 Let individuals take the reorganization bill defeat as their political feelings move them. But the great mass of citizens or this country of ours should rejoice thaS at last they are able to Wield a bit of influence; at last their representatives react to their bidding and heed thelr pleas; at last there is good reason to be- iieve that we have not deserted the past for future fraught with perils of a "dictated government"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11

All wars are filled with horrors; for that's what war is-horror. A civil war seems more horrible because people of the same country are slaughtering one an- other Our own Civil War was about as horrible as any war on record. The fact is brought home to us from time to time, when incidents are related minus the TO- nance that colored war stories of another day. Hervey Allen in his Action at Aquila" describes battle that for slaugh- ter was heart-breaking thing. His locale in the Shenandoah Valley is fictional but the slaughter in the action at Aquila is without doubt not overdraWn The old re- liable bromide of General William Tecem- sch Sherman about war might even be called understatement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11

torial candidate to be sought by the Re- publicans. He must be: 1, "a prominent, registered Republican; 2, be man of un- questionable character; 3, be known to the electorate of the state and essentially a man of the people,. ." Governor Cross qualities in all save the first. He is not a prominent, registered Republican. Otherwise, though, we'd say he was per- feet for all parties and all peoples, even at 76 years of age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11

In years to come much will probably be written about the country that was once Austria. Austria brings to mind coun- try of culture, music, and perhaps that which should come first in the order of mention, a country of deep religious feel ing While Austria was still Austria to us until a few days ago, you might say the country died after the war. "Old Austria is no more" says an editorial writer in Commonweal . The suffering after the during the conflict. Imitation wiped out the last fortunes, the number of sui cides mounted daily. The sWastika flies from the Austrian chancellery Euro pean culture has lost most important element, and something very noble and graceful has come to an end"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11

marble for which the IVA refused to pay him.
 KENTUCKY, August GA battle of the century is being fought be- tween Senator Alben Barkley, Administration floor leader and open White House favorite, and Governor Happy" Chandler, New Deal critic. Both men are afflicted with preSidentitis.
 ARKANSAS, August 9-MrS. Hattie Caraway is running against a field composed of Representa- lives John Mcclellan and David D. Terry, both lukewarm Admin istrationites. Mrs. Caraway will run on her record as a 100 per cent Roosevelt supporter
 IDAHO, August 9- Senator James Pope, loyal New Dealer,- challenged by Representative D. Worth Clark, pro-utility conserv- ative.
 Bulkley Opposed
 OHIO, August 9-Senator Rob- ert Bulkley, Democrat, expert at being on both sides on most is- sues, is certain to face powerful party opposition.
 CALIFORNIA, August 30-Sen- ator William Gibbs McAdoo is on the block, but there is doubt whether he will risk his neck. So far he has warily refused to make any announcement.
 SOUTH CAROLINA. August 30 Senator Cotton. Ed" Smith, veteran Old Guarder, opposed by youthful Governor Olin Johnson, professed New Dealer, who al- ready is giving Smith the scare of his long career as an office holder.
 September will see fifteen pri- maries, chief among them being in Maryland, where New Dealers and laborites are hot after the scalp of anti-Administration Sen- ator Willard Tydings; Georgia, where the White House is trying to get Governor Rivers to take on Old Guard Senator Walter George; and in New York, where Senator Bob Wagner is up for another whirl at the wheel.
 Copyright. 1888 by United Fea-
 ture Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11
A Book a Day
Japan's Awakening Old and New Order
 Rv RRITCE CAPTION

In 1869 Japan was country of feudal clans living in the traditions of 1000 years ago. Czarist Russia was extending its sway across east ern Asia; China was the sleeping lion," still believed to be one of the most powerful nations on earth.
 Tremendous changes have taken place since-and it is amazing to reflect that all of them have been spanned by one mans lifetime. That man-Saionji, now the last of Jap ans elder Statesmen-led the troops of the emperor against the Toku- gawa Shogunate in 1869. Hero of that revolution, he and Kido and General Omura began to lead Japan into the western way.
 Saionji's story is told in "The Last Genro," by Bunji Omura Gippin- colt: $35O. It is an amazing, dra- matic story; for Saionji, still alive, has known both the old order and the new, in Japan.
 Saionji, the liberal, has been the guiding spirit behind Japan. His biography is thus a history of the last 70 years of Japanese growth and culture.
 Bunji Omura has projected the life of Saionji upon the background of history in an unconventional manner. The book is good biogra- phy and great history-and excel lent romance.
 Since the biography of Saionji is told in novel form, the course of history is explained through con- versation rather than description. This has its disadvantages, being sometimes clumsy. It has the dis tinct advantage, however, of being always interesting.
 Omura writes good English, good history, and good biography. In ad- dition, his prose has that wonderful beauty which so often crops out in people whose passion is poetry There are sentences which remind one of the poetry of Lady Murasaki and this alone should make the book worth reading.-M. R.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11
Labor Board VS. Court Relations in U s. Between Capital, Labor Con- tinue to Move in Circle - Wagner Labor
 Act Under Fire.
NEW YORK SUN

hope that terms may be voluntarily agreed upon by both sides without recourse to strife"
 Despite the evident meaning of this statement from the author of the Labor Relations Act, Senator Wagner last June accused the ln- dependent steel companies of acting in bad faith. In the majority opin- ion of the Supreme Court, which Chief Justice Hughes delivered April 12, 1897, upholding the Wagner act, it was explicitly stated: The act does not compel agreements between en- ployers and employees. It does not compel any agreement whatever. It does not prevent the employer from refusing to make a collective con- tract and hiring individuals on whatever terms the employer may by unilateral action determine"
 Now the Labor Relations Board of three men presumes to overrule this clear decision by insisting that sign ed contracts are required by the law; yet it qualities this by assert ing that the ruling does not, by implication, make oral agreements unlawful where they satisfy both employers and workers.
 Under such confused administra- tion of a troublesome law, how can American industry ever hope to re- duce the causes of strife? The gov- ernment foments discord; as E. T. Weir once said it is labor policy based on enmity rather than amity. In May, 1885, two months before President Roosevelt signed the Wag- ner act, The Sun said: "The Ma tional Labor Board that would spring full armed into action with the passage of the bill would be men, ace whether inside or outside the Labor Department" The three-year record bears out the prophecy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-11
Selected Poem
TO THE COMING GREAT MAN
(Oscar Williams in the Poets Corner,
 Hartford TimeS)

(Oscar Williams in the Poets Corner
 Hartford TimeS) You shall write your name with a planet, The valleys shall rise at your cry The deepening wisdom of your tenetS Shall hang in mems hearts like the sky. You shall unsling from your broad shoulders The sounding viol of the spheres You shall climb our darkest boulders And open your great soul in tears The men who shall draw your orbit Are asleep in the bed of time; The present herself lies torpid In the crook of the arms of your prime. You will open a new dimension With the air of opening door; The anger of your towering intention Will leap the land like war. Your accents will roll like the mountains Over slumbering mankind Out of your spirits deep fountains There will spring your science of mind.
 OSCAR WILLIAMS. Gn the Poets Corner, Hartford Times)