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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Bridge Club Meets
With Miss Wester

The Seven and One Bridge club me,
Monday evening at the home of Miss
Dorothy Wester, on Young avenue
Contract was played at three tables
after which the high score prize, q
painting done by the hostess grand
mother, Mrs w. H. Wester, Sr., was
awarded to Miss Adele Powell and the
low score to Miss Alma Parh;:m.
Fudge cake. and ice cream and gin
ger ale, were served to the following
guests: Mrs. G. P. Sellars. Miss Eliza
beth Singleton, Miss Alma Parham
and Miss Margaret Dorsey. Ind tie
members: Miss Adele , well Miss
Clara Fenner, Miss Jess. itcse Miss
Ann Stevenson, Mrs. Walter Il Stone,
Miss Sadie Parham, Miss Virgie
Hayes, and Miss Wester.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
MARRIAGES, PARTIES
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
legend OF SPRING.
Indy Van Der Veer.

e me wind we hear crying,
Ol, T., y Of the mist a sound;
ou' Bride is walking on the land
sam seeds are in the ground.
Pride is bring all the lambs,
sam when the wind is signing,
Alu meadow lands are G'y will
~ nl boar the newborn crying.
Ian the candles lit for God,
Anu mla dandelions. will grow;
III the pastures of the world
10 g' a. saint of Spring must go.
drives her flocN, Of IN porn
gold staff in her hand
7alks so lightly no one sees
Sl Her footprints on the land.)
,rhan the dar:G'lnns shine ou:
Dr W know she has Teen by;
-. v" hoar the calling Of the ewes,
"" ,ra hear the new lambs cry.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Legion Auxiliary
Will Meet FRIDAY

There will be a very important
meeting of the American Legion Aux
Hilary Friday afternoon at o'clock in
the American Legion Hut, it was an
nounced today.
The following ladies will be hostess
es for the session, Mrs. D. P. McDuffie
Mrs. w. B. Daniel, Jr., Mrs. C. l.
Mackey, Mrs. G. N. Gill, Mrs. Geneva
'Teiser, and Mrs. A. D. Patterson.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Services At HOW
InnOcents Church

The following services at Holy In
nocents church for the remainder OF
this week, to any or all Of which g
cordial invitation is given to all who
attend are as follows:
Ash Wednesday,:
7:3O Holy Communion.
1870 Litany, Penitential Office, ano
sermon.
$3.50 Evening prayer and sermon.
Thursday:
4:3O Special children's service.
Friday:
1900 Litany.
400 World Day of Prayer, to BE-
narticinated in by all the churches
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
announcement of
Engagement Made

/ Inc following announcement which
has been made will be of interest to
their many friends:
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Powell announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Emma Madeline, to Ralph Finch. The
wedding will take place in the early
spring.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01

taken up in discussion Of the bird
house exhibit that will be put on the
first of March. Judges were appoint
ed to select the best for which prizes
have been offered. Judges will be
Mrs. E. G. Everett, chairman; ]. p. B.
Council, and Mrs. r. T. Upchurch. H.
G. Anderson has charge of this pro-
ject in the schools.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
PRAYER for Home Missions

The Woman's Missionary Society of
New Bethel church will begin their
March session of prayer for home mis-
sons with a meeting at tho home of
Mrs T H. Weldon Wednesday even
ing at 730 o'clock. All ladies of the
society are cordially invited to attend.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Mrs. l.. D. Wall to
Speak At EPSON

Mrs. L. D. Wall, district chairman
of Parent-Teacher Association, will
speak at EPSON high PIT. A. Thurs
DAY night at 7:30 o'clock, it was an
nounced today.
She will have as her subject, "The
Local PIT. A." and will also discuss
many other important items with the
group. Everyone is urged to attend
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Scouts Meet Wednesday.

Girl Scouts of Troop No. 1 and
will meet at 4 o'clock Wednesday aft
ernoon at the Parish house for a re-
hearsal of the Court of Awards to be
held Thursday evening. This meeting
will take the place of their. regular
weekly meetings.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
To New York

Charles Gary has returned to his
home in New York City after spend
inc the weekend as the guest Of Mrs.
c. j. Burton on William street. Mrs.
Gary will remain here for some time
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
EIICKSBORO NEWS
BY Miss Florence Woody.

BY Miss Florence Woody.
The farmers have done a great deal
of blowing in this section.
H. G.. Woody of Oxford, route S.
visited his wife in St. Elizabeth hos
pital, Richmond, and states she is do
ing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Jones and Miss
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
In Washington

Miss Leila Shaw and Miss Lois
uon of Raleigh, and Miss Halene
Carroll spent the weekend in Wash
ington D. c.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
From Raleigh

Miss Sadie Boyd and Miss Margaret
Daughteridge, of Raleigh, were guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper b.
Hicks and Mrs. George V. Boyd. r.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Condition About Same

The condition of Charles H. Ross
was reported about the same today.
He has been undergoing treatment at
Park View hospital in Rocky Mount
for sometime.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
ID u A POStDOned.

rortral school PIT. A. will not meet
~. week. because of Fathers night,
, rnhcb will be had Tuesday. night,
March s.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Visiting Here

W., NJ c. Marks, of Raleigh, is
Sps t. Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Carroll.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
Doing Very Nicely

H. w. Harris, Sr, of route 2, Hen
derson, who recently underwent an
operation &. Duke hospital, Durham,
was said to be doing very nicely.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
With the Sick
Mr.. Green Improved

w. S. Green, who has been i'll for
sometime at his home on Nicholas
street, was said to be some improved
today.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-03-01
In Richmond.

49,. George V. Boyd spent Satur-
W. = Richmond, Va, visiting friends.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
The Chant Mystery

1He department OF Justice has as
signed two Of its expert investigators
to the Job Of unraveling the intriguing
mystery OF the tobacco auctioneer's
chant. It's murder, folks-phonetic
murder in the worst degree, perpe-
trated on tobacco buyers generally
and all too often re-enacted at the
expense Of radio listeners with sensi-
tive eardrums.
The department is not just curious
about what the auctioneer is or is not
saying when he cuts loose with his
sing-song harangue at the tobacco
market. 1t wants to find out how and
why his high-frequency linguistic
oscillations achieve their magic of
selling an entire tobacco crop, sight
unseen, within a few seconds. Off,
cials Of the Antitrust Division have
a hunch that such procedure may be
found to be in restraint of free trade
under the Sherman Act, to say noth-
ing of free and orderly speech as
taught by McGuffey and other ex-
ponents of the careful use of words.
Obviously, the crime against the
English language committed by the
purring auctioneers is too battling
for a couple Of antitrust investi-
gators to waste much time over.
They will have their hands full trying
to keep tab on whose crop is being
sold for how much from one minute
to the next, for the tongue of the
gentleman on the auction platform
is not the only thing that moves fast
and furiously at tobacco auction It
does seem too bad, though, that the
combined talents of the G-men, Army
and Navy cryptographers, State De-
partment code experts and all avail
able interpreters could not be put to
work on the problem Of translating
tobacco "chantese" for the elucida-
ton of the puzzled public.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. Trdce,peU.

little fishes, AZ small as they seem, are
capable at nipping of the feelers Of
snails. Without It's feelers, a fresh water
snail must die. Many deaths of red
snails seem mysterious to owners, who
do not associate their demise with the
dashing around of the male guppies.
This dashing around, Of course, has an
other purpose, but even a counting guppy
has time for bite or two OF food, espe-
cially II 1t is fresh snail antennae.
Various small shrimp from time to
time find their way into the home aqua
rum. One of these, popularly known as
the glass shrimp, attained little popu-
larity for this purpose, but you seldom
see 1t any more.
Aquatic snails, in various forms. are
widely used as scavengers, but far too
much Is expected Of them. They eat
f1sh food along with the fishes, as might
be expected. Their services as scav-
engers are negligible. Many persons
expect them to clean up the refuse in the
tank, which they will not even try to do,
except II starving, and even then they
are merely trying to find undigested
bits Of food. Nor will they do much at
cleaning off the algae which collects on
the inside walls.
Small forms of catfish, likewise, are
ballyhooed as scavengers in the fresh
water aquarium, when this true fish is
no scavenger at all, but merely likes to
grub in the sand for bits Of food which
the other fishes knock down from the
surface of the water.
The Corydoras, a type of miniature
catfish, is an engaging fish in his own
right, perhaps the only one which can
wink his eye.
This he does in the most solemn man
ner, as he faces the front of the tank,
resting on the sand as is his habit.
The first time a spectator sees a fish
wink he scarce can believe his own eyes,
much less those of the catfish.
These miniature catf1shes, however,
roll the water so that usually they are
perpetual nuisance, keeping everything
IN constant stir, yet sometimes the
owner does not associate the murky ap-
pearance Of his aquarium with the en-
gaging rascal of fish which causes it.
*
Another odd creature for the small
tank is the so-called weatherfish, or
loach.
This is eel-like, in appearance, and
was sold here in 1888 and 1884, but we
have not seen any since. 1t is harmless
to other fishes. and has an interesting
habit Of burying itself in the sand, with
only its head out
1t, too, will stir things up in a tank,
and is no more scavenger than the
catfishes. Indeed, few creatures take
prepared food from the surface more
readily. The weatherfish gets its popular
name from the fact" that 1t is supposed
to swim rapidly when a storm is ap-
preaching. AS far as our observations
went 1t was good swimmer at all times,
but particularly so at feeding time, ire
spective Of barometric pressure.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Doqwood in the Sprinq

Mile upon mile, the crisp, fresh
whiteness and the soft pinks of the
dogwoods brighten the brilliant green
of Springs new foliage, in long bor-
ders along the drives in the parks, in
clusters and masses, and as single
trees adorning odd corners. This
Is picture of Washington a few
years hence. President Roosevelt has
announced definite plans for the
planting Of many thousands of these
lovely trees in the near future. The
first paintings will be in Potomac
Park, just west Of the cherry trees.
Others will be set out along the park
roads and the rehabilitated C. and O.
Canal.
The dogwood program is not an
alternative for the planting Of some
thousand Japanese cherry trees to
replace the hundred or so which will
be lost to the Jefferson Memorial, but
will supplement them as a national
attraction.
OF all trees, with the possible ex-
cep of the majestic elm which has
so high a place In American tradition,
none could have been selected which
was more typical Of the National Cap
ital than the dogwood. It is the most
beautiful of the native Towering trees
and is exceptionally well adapted to
conditions in its natural range of
which Washington is the center. In
stead of dying within a few years
after reaching maturity, as many
imported trees do, age only increases
its beauty. And the dogwood is most
beautiful at the season Of the year
when Washington's weather Is at its
finest.
Campaigns by nature and garden
organizations have done much to stop
the vandalism which threatened the
extinction of the dogwood only few
years ago. No longer are large bou-
quets Of dogwood desirable decora-
tions in view of the public sentiment
which has been built up against the
destruction Of the shrubs. The plant
ing program for the Capitals parks
will give Washingtonians an abun-
dance of dogwood in its proper setting
on the tree.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Trouble From Oreqon

The narrowed definition of labor
disputes just written into the Oregon
statutes will be measured in terms of
the Social Security Act in the hearing
called today by the Social Security
Board. The outcome of the case,
which is raising new issue, Is be-
ing awaited with deep interest in
labor circles, inasmuch as it will de-
termine just how far the Federal
welfare legislation-in this instance,
unemployment compensation pro-
visions-can be invoked toward regu-
lation of State labor practices.
The Social Security Act, in pre-
scribing the form Of compliance
through which States may get the
unemployment compensation cover
age, and obtain tax offset of ninety
per cent against the Federal levy on
employers, sets up as one require
ment that unemployment benefits
must not be denied any otherwise
eligible worker for refusing to work
when there exists labor dispute.
The Oregon law, adopted by the
voters on November 8 as an out
growth of labor trouble stirred by
the rivalry between the American
Federation of Labor and the Congress
of Industrial Organizations, is de-
signed to regulate the conduct of
unions in industrial warfare. It ex-
cludes from the category Of "indus-
trial disputes" jurisdictional strikes,
sympathy strikes, or other difficulties
not pertaining directly to wages,
hours and working conditions Of en-
ployes actually affected.
The c. I. o. already has started
court action to block the law, and is
arguing to the Social Security Board
that Oregon employers should be re-
quired to pay both Federal and State
unemployment taxes in full. On this
theory, the Federal tax would go to
the Government in entirety; the
State tax would finance compensa-
ton payments, and the Legislature
would be called upon to appropriate
for administrative costs now taken
care Of by the Federal grants.
Equally vigorous representations
may be looked for from the American
Federation of Labor, which also is
participating in the hearing.
At this stage, it appears the issue
will be productive only Of trouble. If
the board finds the State law is out
OF line with the Social Security Act,
the effect will be to jeopardize the
security system, provided it's con-
tinuance depends on double taxation.
A ruling the other way might serve
to encourage similar State enact
ments and certainly would cause
organized labor to intensity efforts
to get relief through the courts.
The board has been cast in diff
cult role.
Evening star., 1938-12-19

was sent back to Europe for eight
months in 1881 on a duty tour involv-
ing the study Of world weather con-
ditions. The following year he went
back for six month more to pursue
advanced meteorological studies in
the Geophysical Institute at Bergen,
Norway, and to spend two weeks each
in the meteorological institutes at
London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg,
Prague, Vienna, Frankfurt and
Munich.
1t is seldom that any Federal apt
pointee can bring to his duties so
rich a background Of experience in
his chosen field. This is an appoint
ment which gives reason for con-
gratulations all around,
Evening star., 1938-12-19

. decade, from 1922 to 1882, tho
United States engaged in virtually
no naval or merchant marine ship
building. As result, the Navy De-
partment, faced with the necessity
OF building up technical civil per-
sonnel to support its ship-building
program, cannot find the trained
men 1t needs.
Within the next three years the
Navy must increase its civil rolls, in
the District and the field, from TO-
600 to 100000. To do so, however, it
must make good the existing ma
tional shortage, due to past neglect,
OF men qualified in the more highly
technical and specialized build
Ing trades and occupations, among
them naval architects, marine engi-
neers of the various ship specialties,
mold loftsmen, shipftters, copper
smiths. and the like.
In some cases, particularly those
OF naval architects, 1t is anticipated
that q year of basic "in service"
training will be required even to de-
termine whether the man is capable
OF going on. Obviously, we must pay
a penalty for neglecting, for even a
decade, our ship-building program.
1t is fortunate that the penalty can
be paid now, in time of troubled
peace rather than in the face of war
conditions under which time would
be the essence of security.
Naval construction is becoming in
creasingly technical with the pas
sage OF time. It is becoming more
and more apparent, even to the lay
man, that an annual program of
ship replacement would be to the
best interests OF national defense.
In this way, only, can the number
OF naval vessels nearing the age of
obsolescence be kept to a minimum
and can the art of ship design and
construction be kept at a maximum.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
The Shadow Athwurt

Seldom has there been a more re-
markable juXtaposition of headlines
than those in Sundays newspapers.
"U. S.-Argentine Breach Grows on
Defense Ties" ran one. On the same
page, another read: "Argentine Youth
Alliance, Using Nazi Salute, Assail
'Perils of Yankee Imperialism.
Then a third: Navy to Test Hemi-
sphers Defenses-War Games From
Cuba to Brazil in 1889"
Unquestionably the most arresting
of these indubitably correlated sub
jects is the Associated Press Buenos
Aires dispatch narrating that Argen-
tine boys of high school and college
age have set themselves the task Of
arousing the nation to "the perils Of
Yankee imperialism" Even more dis
quieting is the added statement that
this Latin American youth movement
Is backed by "Fascistic higher-ups"
and that its members "are being
trained In the gestures of Hitler and
Mussolini." Operating as the Ma
tionalist Youth Alliance, a branch of
the Argentine Civic Legion, brown
shirt organization founded by the late
General Uriburi, military dictator
from 1880 to 1882, the boys are pla-
carding Argentine street corners
with signs assailing President Roose-
velt's good neighbor policy as a
farce" and a blind" This is Ian
guage almost Identical with the sales
talk which mischief Nazi-
Fascist propagandists are peddling at
Lima and which finds its echo in
German-Italian press comment on
conference efforts to consolidate the
New World against democratic
influences.
Secretary Hull, addressing the
Inter American Conference In Peru,
warned the sister Americas of the
shadow" Of totalitarianism that
"falls athwart this hemisphere"
What he had in mind is precisely
such developments as the youth
movement now swinging into sinister
action in Argentina. Hitlerism in
Germany is primarily sustained by
the youth. The Fuehrer and his
henchmen never cease to boast that
1t is their sheet anchor. Some OBJ
servers Of the Nazi scene contend
that but for the abiding faith of
Germany's younger element in the
Messianic character Of "the move
ment," anti-Semitism, as well as the
less ignoble things the dictatorship
stands for, could not endure. Those
who are plotting the Modification of
the New World seem to have fixed
upon the youth as their first objec-
tive.
The United States Navy could not
have chosen a more timely moment
for holding large-scale maneuvers in
the Atlantic. An American armada
OF one hundred and forty fighting
ships, six hundred planes and fifty
thousand officers and men will speak
the kind OF language that commands
respect in Berlin and Rome, because
1t says that this country is equipped to
fight to preserve democracy against
those "resurgent forces" which Mr..
Hull described at Lima as menacing
all that the Americas hold dear,
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Driver Of Falls Church
Bus Defended,
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
On Monday, December IL, there ap-
peared In your column a letter from a
man supposed to be from West Falls
Church, Va, condemning the bus service
and the driver of the 8 am bus, which
condemnation was altogether unfounded.
I have been travelling daily for some
years on this same bus line and, regard
less OF weather conditions, this company
gets its buses through and furnishes
good service.
It is true that at times buses are
crowded, especially when snow and ice
cover the roads. Quite a number Of
people who daily drive their own auto
mobiles are afraid to take them out and
At such times they ride the buses. Why?
Now, with reference to the man who
drives the am. bus-I happen to
ride with this same driver every day, or
nearly every day. He is one of the most
careful drivers have ever travelled with.
I have been q passenger on his bus when
the roads were covered with ice and
snow and In bad condition. He is very
careful, courteous to every one and
very considerate Of his passengers. In
TACT, all the drivers on this line are Of
that type and think that any one
VINO complains is simply disgruntled
over something else and has to take it
out on some one"
Criticism is all right where it is needed
or deserved, but hate to see and hear
unjust criticism. These same people
who are continually complaining or crit,
icizing never think Of giving word Of
praise where praise is DUE"
Z. L. JONES,
December II. Falls Church, Va.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
UNDERWOOD STREET.

Dear Sir-1n the early spring we went
rum for the children to watch. BY
chance we got crawflsh Also He was
SO tiny we just could tell what it was.
Long ago we released the baby frogs,
but the crawfish is still in the aquarium
and though you might like to know
about him. He is now about az inches
long and most interesting to watch
feeding.
HE almost gobbles up his food when
we put 1t IN. He uses his pinchers to
flnd the food and pass it back to tho
next two set of feet. Then he starts
stuffing and only goes back in his shell
when all the food Is gone.
HE will not allow q bit of grass to
stay planted. He cuts 1t down and takes
1t into his house-abig shell we put In
the aquarium.
"At first, several days would pass and
we would not see him, but now several
times day we see him out, but only
once or twice have I seen him at the
surface of the water.
That was just day or 80 before he
shed his shell. The first time he shed,
we thought he had died and that the
guppies and snails had eaten him up.
"As yet he is timid, and shadow or
quick movement near the aquarium will
send him into his shell in hurry. Can
you tell me how long they live and how
large they grow?
And about ummingbirds-they do
light. We used to watch several on a
wire clothesline over bed OF yellow day
lilies. Also the Kentucky cardinal is
very fond of the seed Of the yellow flow-
cred forsythia.
Yours very truly, A. c. r."
The crawfish, or crayfish, sometimes
attains length of inches, but there
is not much chance of it in an aquarium.
1t probably will not grow much larger,
nor live longer than from two to four
years under the artificial conditions Of
the aquarium.
The crawfish, Of course, is not q fish
at all, but a crustacean somewhat re-
sembling the lobster.
The fish" part Of its name evidently
came from confusion in translating
the French ecrevisse, which in turn is
from older FORM crevice
Webster's International gives it craw-
fish crayfsh.
The Oxford dictionary, under "craw-
fish, says "see crayf1sh." There it gives it
crayflsh craWfsh. Such is the difference
between American and English.
This is the first time this column has
heard of the crawflsh being used in q
local aquarium.
That it does not consume live guppies
as food is very much to its credit.
The fact that 1t is well fed undoubt-
edly has something to do with 1t. He
seeks refuge in his home, the sea shell,
because he is afraid Of the guppies. These