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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24
rs Shopping
DaysRe1naiin
Until Dec.25
Little Over T hire e
Weeks for Buying of
Gifts and Other Pre-
parations for Holiday
Sc a son; Merchants
Have Large Stocks

With slightly more than three weeks
left before Christmas, the shopping
season will get under way in Hen
derson Friday. AS Thanksgiving
passes, merchants and individuals as
whole will turn their thoughts to
preparations for the holiday season.
Exactly 26 shopping days remain,
and during that time virtually all
Christmas purchases remain to be
made.
Henderson merchants are well
stocked with merchandise for the Sc
lection of customers, and are count
ing on the next three weeks and more
to compensate in some measure for
the slackening of trade that has
marked the fall season up to the
present time, due, in part at least, to
the unseasonably warm weather.
The Christmas atmosphere has al
ready pervaded local stores. Many of
them have placed their preliminary
decorations of wreaths and festoons
in red and green colors. Holiday mer-
chandise is on display, and advertis-
ing already is emphasizing Christmas
offerings.
One store has already held its
Christmas toyland opening, and 9TH
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24
BROWN LEADERAT
THANKS SERVICES
Lists Causes For Gratitude;
Offerisg For Metho-
dist Orphans

Rev. r. E. Brown, the pastor, led
Thanksgiving Day services at tae
First Methodist church, held in tie
auditorium of the church Wednesday
evening. 1t was regular-order Ser
vice hour, with hymns and the SER
mon subject appropriate to the oc-
Fcasion. The attendance was consid.
cred good. -
Rev. Mr. Brown has just returned
from the North Carolina Conference
annual session ii Elizabeth City,
when he was returned TO the local
pastorate for his fourth year. Many
OF his members greeted him at the
Wednesday light services for the
/ first time sin he returned.
L in his sermon the preacher listed
numerous things for which he was
personally thankful, emphasizing
church relationships and friendships
built UP during his stay here, and
expressing the happiness Of himself
and his family at being sent here for
a fourth year of ministry.
The offering taken was for the Meth
odfst Orphanage at Raleigh, the i'll
stitution supported by the Metho-
dist church Of the North Carolina
Conference. Mr., Brown stated tina.
there are now, 30 children in the
institution, and made a special appeal
1or an offering as liberal as possible.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24
LIST Baptist
Dedicates
New Chimes
Gift of Mrs. Cora E.
Ba---as; Large Con-
gregation Present for
Services

A service of dedication for the
Mas amplified electrical chimes,
which have just been installed, was
held at the First Baptist church at
10 O'Clock this morning, combined
with the usual Thanksgiving Day
service
Al congregation which filled the
main auditorium and the balcony of
the church attended the services. Rev.
A. S. Hale the pastor was in charge.
The chimes are the gift to the
church of Mrs. Cora E. Barnes, for
many years a faithful member and
regular attendant at the services. Her
son, Alwyn p Barnes, was the first
to play the chimes in church serv-
ice, playing the organ and the chimes
accompaniment during that portion
of the service devoted to the dedica
ton. Mrs. Barnes, who has been in i'll
health lately, was able to attend the
services.
Speakers Presented.
Mr.. Hale presented those who had
part on the program. The letter OF
presentation was read for Mrs. Barnes
by H. w. Anderson, church clerk,
and the address of acceptance was by
J. r. league, chairman of the board
of deacons. The letter of appreciation
from the church was read by Mrs. j..
T. Alderman, also a member of the
board of deacons. The pastor and the
congregation joined in a responsive
reading in, the dedicatory lines.
The entire dedicatory service was
contained in printed bulletins diStri-
buted too oh persons attending the
exercises. These included the order
of SERVICES the presentation, the ac-
ceptance, the appreciation, the tdedi-
cation and a prayer of dedication.
Marker To. Be Placed.
Also on the printed programs was
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24
as Shopping Season Begins Here Tomorrow

zation are planning for a big district
meeting and class initiation to be held
in Oxford next Wednesday sevening,
according to announcement today. The
meeting will sbeao one of like nature
being held at some point in all Of he
% districts of the State during the
coming week or the latter part of this
week.
j. Y. Cooper, of Louisburg, is dis
trict president in the 10Th, and is
making preparations for the Oxford
meeting. s ~
Throughout the State the meetings
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24

a legend. "Chimes, Gift of Mrs. Cora
E. Barnes, Thanksgiving 1885," which
it was stated would be inscribed on a
marker to be appropriately placed
in the church.
Announcement was made after the
service that the chimes would be
played by Mrs. "A. j. Davis, church
organist, for brief period, this even
ing, starting at 7:30. o'clock. The
church will be open at the time for
those to attend who so desire, but the
music will be amplified with suffi-
cient strength that it can be heard
some distance from the church, il
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24

are shooting for mark of at la.,. ..
new candidates for membership p''s 81, 81
Is i inquire representing the 81 Ills Ills
OF service given to the Junior yea Sesfs
IN North Carolina by the late 81 order
Vance, of Kernersville, who ser rala +
State secretary from 1899 to 1oss 81 = Us
year of his death. -''O' Tie
District deputies have arranoo,
connection with their class init; seu IN
interesting program featur;s s'a'loas
pers, speaking by prominent n,o NOS sup
OF the order in the State, stunts Il
rades and the like, says the anno ys-
cement. iioun-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24
Two PARTS Of program.

was Stated.
Two Parts of Program.
The first part of the service was
the usual Thanksgiving Day program,
during which an appropriate anthem
was sung by TIA choir. The offer
ing was made for the Baptist or
phanage.
During the part of the service de-
voted to the dedication Alwyn p.
Barnes was at the organ, with the
chimes connected. Foursshymns were
played at that time, and at the con-
cluSion. the annlification was added
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24

ers are expected to follow in the COM
ing week. Toys are of a different de-
sign and character this year, and at
tractive in the extreme.
Outdoor decorations in the business
section are to be erected next week,
and the lighting arrangements will be
elaborate. With the addition of the
greenery, the lights will be turned on
for the first time ON Monday, De
cember s. according to announcement.
Business houses are cooperating in
furnishing the funds to finance the
decorations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24

with four other hymns of the Chris
tan Church used. A short period then
was devoted to the playing of request
numbers.
Many people from other churches
joined with the First Baptist congre-
cation for the days exercises.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-11-24
JUNIORS PLAN FOR
CLASS INVITATIONS

Members of the Junior Order of the
twentieth district of the State organi-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
GREEN SAYS
Government Rail Ownership
Is Sure to Come

Chicago (ILNS) President Will
liam Green, Of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, told the A. +. of l..
Railroad Employees department con-
vention here that railroads should be
taken over by the national govern
ment.
"Railroad lines are headed toward
inevitable government ownership" he
said, 1T is the only permanent, prac-
tical remedy for the problem as pre-
sented by the owners. The railroad
situation is extremely bad"
Green charged that rail manage
ments were responsible for the des-
perate plight Of the roads, adding
that if they had paid off some of
their debts from year to year in the
past, the present huge debts would
not have been accumulated.
''The only way the railroads can
be saved, the interest Of the workers
maintained and service be kept up
for the good of the country is through
government ownership" the labor
head said.
| Discussing the present wage sit
uation in general, Green sail that in
service to the nation by maintaining
dustry and management could do a
existing levels and if possible raising
them. He said that the favored few
with regular incomes could not buy
enough goods from industry to keep
the country's economic machine run
iiing ct high speed 1t took huge
buying power such as could only be
furnished by the rank and file of all
workers in this country.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
60 Year-Old Union

Cleveland (OLNS) Opening of the
1888 Great Lakes shipping season
marked the Goth anniversary of the
Sailors Union of the Great Lakes, the
oldest trade union Of sailors in the
world
The original organization was eff
fected at Chicago in 1868, and was
reorganized April |, 1878, to enlarge
its activities to cover the entire lake
area. The union played an important
part in the formation Of the American
Federation Of Labor, and has remain
ed an affiliate of that organization
since its inception.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Social Security
Benefits Children

Columbus (OLNS)-Very few chill
dren receiving assistance under the
aid to dependent children section of
the social security act become juven-
lie delinquents, Judge Henry ]. Robi-
son, chief of the state division of pub
lie assistance, announced last week.
Unofficial figures gathered by the
division disclosed that Ohio's aid to
dependent children program, provid-
ing care for thousands of neglected
and dependent youngsters, deserves
credit as big factor in helping tc
reduce juvenile delinquency among
under privileged youth.
More than $4,000 children in Ohio
are being cared for under the pro.
gram, Judge Robson said They are
youngsters, mostly under 16 years OF
age, who came from homes threatened
with being broken because of the
death, absence or incapacity of the
wage-earner.
Through the program, these chill
dren are being kept together in theil
own homes or those Of blood rela
tives, under the supervision and ad
vice of the division of publpic assist
ance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
EMPLOYER
Must Put Agreements With
Workers Into Writing

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
NLRB has decided in the case of the
Inland Steel Company of Chicago and
the Steel Workers. organizing COM
mittee that if an employer, bargain
ing collectively with his employees,
comes to an agreement, that agree
ment must be put in writing and sign
ed. The decision is a long one, cover
ing many points; but the heart of the
much-discussed bargain -but-not-sign
doctrine as the board views it is here:
''The respondent (Inland SteelD is
correct in it's assertion that it is not
compelled to reach an agreement.
However, the precise question before
us is a different one. 1t is whether
refusal to embody, in signed
agreement, any understandings that
may be reached, constitutes failure
to bargain collectively within the
meaning of the act"
The board further says that will
ingness to write out and sign any
agreement actually reached is an in
tegral part of bona fde collective bar
gaining. 1t says:
Employees, in insisting on writ
ten agreement, are merely asking
what any prudent business man would
expect as matter of course from
those with whom he deals.
"The respondent (Inland Steel, in
dealing with a large automotive con-
cern, for example, would be expected
to refrain from the obvious impro-
priety of rebufing an attempt to en-
ter into a contract, and insisting on
mere negotiation without reduction of
the terms to a written agreement.
Such conduct is simply not engaged
/ in between concerns dealing as
equals"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

Iall Of our fellow Americans are
equally as sympathetic toward this
campaign on behalf of the more than
| I20,000,000 Chinese civilian victims of
undeclared war
"Authentic dispatches received at
the New York headquarters Of our
committee report almost unbelievable
horrors which the Chinese civilian
population in the path of the Japan
ese advance is undergoing.
Wounded Lie INTENDED
Eye witness correspondents report
that the sight of men, women and
children, maddened by the pangs of
hunger, raking through refuse piles
with the pitiful hope of finding a NOR
sci of something edible is a common
sight. We learn also from reliable
sources that the wounded lie side by
side with the dead in fields, bitches
and roads for days, while dreadfully
inadequate force of heroic doctors and
nurses attempts to cope with needs
unequalled within memory of our
modern civilization.
These are some of the conditions
llabor's committee for civilian relief
in China will attempt to alleviate by
raising funds for a people who sent
more than 81 1,4425,000 to American
agencies for comforts and necessities
Of American soldiers during the
World War"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Sentiment Strongly Against Making Workers
Pay for Carriers Rehabilitation Though This
Would Please Wall Street Interests.

The railroads are capitalized at
around $4,000, 100000. The market
value Of their outstanding securities
may be half that sum, but one doubts
it. The actual prudent investment is
certainly very much less. Wall Street
will fight and scheme endlessly for
some plan that will turn water into
gold.
Watchfulness Demanded
The attitude of high menace is
shown by the Wall Street Journal,
which, not so long before the crash
of 1929, said that the railroads could
not be reproduced for less than $685.
oo0,o0o,oo and asked with an ain
of injured innocence why they should
not be allowed to earn profits ON that
sum.
President Roosevelt is on record
as in favor of cutting down the CAPT
talization Of electric utilities; and
may be trusted to take the same at
titude with railroads. No small mum
Der of congressman and senators
know the situation fore and aft. The
courts may not be awake to the facts
but at least, railroad attorneys have
no such grip on the supreme court as
they once did. But this is a matter
none the less, which demands inces-
SAINT watchfulness from the public
A national subsidy OF some sort
may be necessary as a start; but as .
permanent cure, it would be worse
than the disease
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Union Teachers To
Meet at Cincinnati

Cincinnati (OLNS) The 1888 con-
vention of the American Federation
of Teachers international Union, af-
filiated with the American Federation
Of Labor, will be held in this city
August 15 to 10. The Sinton Hotel
has been chosen as the convention
site and headquarters, according to
word received from Irwin r. Kuenzli,
Chicago, executive secretary of the
Teachers international Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Labor Party Wins
In Queensland

Washington, D. C. (ILNs)- Wire
less dispatches from Brisbane, Aus
tralia, say that the labor party has
won the parliamentary election of
Queensland by quite an unexpected
majority. 1t will have at least 43
votes in the parliament to 19 held
by all others.
Queensland, the northeastern state
Of Australia, and two and a half times
as large as Texas, has had a labor
government for % years, except the
period from 1929 to 1882.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Four
million members of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor thus far are enlisted
in the campaign being formulated by
labor's committee for civilian relief in
China, Matthew Woll, chairman of the
committee, announced here.
Chairman Woll, who announced in
itial organization of the committee
several weeks ago, said that funds
raised through activities sponsored by
the committee would go for aid of the
more than 30,000,000 Chinese civil
ians who have been victimized by the
Japanese invasion of North China.
Serving with Mr.. Woll on the ma
tional committee, of which William
Green, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor, is honorary chair
mar, ARE more than 100 officers of ma
tional and international unions, he
said
State Organization Pushed
Organization of state committees
also is well underway, according to
Mr.. Woll, with twenty-five state chair
men actively engaged in forming To-
cal committees within their states. Cit
les where these units of the national
committee have been formed represent
a population of more than 100000
people, he revealed.
Subdivisions of the national COM
mittee also are being formed, accord
ing to Woll, and these have been divid-
ed into the following classifications,
newspaper publishers, fraternal and
civic groups, writer's divisions, speak
ers and radio.
Declaring that the response Of news
paper editors to invitations to serve
on this division of the committee has
been more than heartening, Woll an
nounced that to date 625 editors OF
daily and weekly newspapers have sig
ni6ed their active support OF the
cause of Chinese civilian victims OF
the japanese invasion by accepting
membership on the committee. More
than 100 radio stations also are linee
up behind the committee, he said, anc
seven heads Of leading national fra
ternal and civic organizations are
represented on this subcommittee.
"The cause of the millions of Chi
nese civilians who have been rendered
homeless and destitute by the Japan
ese invasion of North China is one
that strikes a sympathetic chord il
the breast of every member of tht
American Federation of Labor" Mr.
Woll declared.
And the responses we have received
from every one whom we have asket
to serve with us makes me feel tina
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15

New York City (ILNS) New York
University has signed a collective
bargaining agreement with the Build
ing Service Employees Union for $50
of its workers who fall in that classi-
fication. They get 50 a week raise
all around. The minimum wage is
put at $23 a week, and hours at a.
"a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
No. 3
BY ELIOT HARRIS


Washington, D. G. (ILNS) What
must the railroads do to be saved
or what must be done to them to save
them? Some of the best minds in
America are being concentrated on
answers to those questions; and the
problem is well worth all the brains
that can be brought to it. Taken to-
gether, railroads are one Of our sick
industries. If they had been in the
market for materials and labor for
the last year as they were in earlier
times, we should have heard much less
about the recession.
Also, in some fashion, they must be
saved. They are still, though no
longer monopoly, the greatest
single agency Of transportation You
cannot imagine the modern United
States without railroads.
1t would be presumption to lay out
complete plan for rehabilitating the
railroads. 1t is not presumption, but
a necessary bit Of common sense, to
point out some things that any rail-
road cure must include; and two
things should be clear from the start.
| Labor Must Be Protected
| First, the railroads must not and
cannot be cured at the cost Of their
workers. That would please Wall
street, no doubt; but it would be in
justice and misfortune to everyone
else. Railroad labor is not overpaid
now, and never has been. Some of
it, the maintenance of way men, for
example, is wretchedly underpaid.
If any cure is found that involves the
abandonment Of services and even of
lines, the men must be compensated
for the loss of their jobs, and, if re-
Iquired to move, for their homes.
1t is a very fortunate circumstance
that the railroad unions are fully alive
to this need, and that railroad man
lagements in some instances have con-
ceded most of what is here stated. II
lis another fortunate circumstance
that President Roosevelt has made ii
clear that he wants no railroad wage
cuts
Cuts in Capitalization Due
1 Another thing equally certain but
not so well guarded as the first is
that no plan should be considered
which does not make drastic cuts ir
the present overcapitalization of the
railroads. They have always beer
Iovercapitalized The Cullom Com.
Imittee, which held protracted hear.
ings all over the country in 1886 be.
fore drawing up the interstate com.
Imerce commission law which was
passed in 1887, reported that at least
one third of the capitalization of the
railroads at that time was just plain
water
! That is pretty nearly true today
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
Railroad Cure Plan Must Protect
Labor and Cut 0vercapitalization
UNION LABOR LIFE TO MEET

Baltimore, Nd. (ILNs) The an
nual stockholders meeting of the
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
will be held at the Lord Baltimore
Hotel here on April 20. Directors will
be elected and other business trans
acted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-04-15
AFL Rallies Full Strength
For Chinese Civilian Relief

Four Million Trade Unionists Throughout Nation Enlist
In Campaign to Raise Funds to Aid Victims of Japan
csc Invasion, Chairman Wo, of Labors Relief Com
mttee Announces
Evening star., 1938-04-04
MIDDIES WILL GET
new MESS JACKETS
1000 Purchased for Use by June
Week-Changes Made in
White Uniforms,
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, April 4.-Midshipmen
of the Naval Academy will have new
white summer full-dress uniforms by
June week in the form of mess jackets
similar to those worn in the fleet by
officers of the Navy.
Announcement Of the purchase Of
1000 new mess jackets--two for each
midshipman-was made today by
Comdr. William ]. Larsen, aide to the
superintendent, Rear Admiral Wilson
Brown.
The jackets can be worn by the mid
shipmen after they become officers
At the present time there is distinct
difference in the uniforms of mid
shipmen and officers.
The mess jackets will have a vest
as part of the uniform.
The white uniforms Of the midship-
men also will be changed somewhat.
The anchors will be removed from the
collars and instead epaulettes will be
added. A first classman's epaulettes
will contain three small stripes and an
anchor. A second classman junior)
will have two stripes and an anchor
and the third classman (sophomore)
Evening star., 1938-04-04
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO. April 4.-Mustaph Nahas
Pasha, whose Wafdist (Nationalist)
party was smothered under a deluge
OF government votes in Egypt's general
elections charged today that he was
dragged from his car and manhandled
when he tried to supervise the voting
OF his constituency Saturday.
King Farouks government appeared
headed for reorganization after hav-
Ing won decisive victory in the elec-
tions. which were marred by disorders
In which six persons were killed.
Latest returns gave the govern
ment. headed by Premier Mohammed
Mahmoud Pasha, 96 seats in the new
Chamber of Deputies. The Wafdists
won only IL.
The Saadist party, made up largely
OF former members of Nahas Pasha's
following, took 79 seats and independ-
ents accounted for 70. Runoffs are
necessary in l8 constituencies.
The resignation of Abdel Fattah
Yehia Pasha, foreign minister, was re-
garded as a move preliminary to q
cabinet shuttle.
Nahas Pasha failed to obtain a seat
IN the Chamber of Deputies. He had
been premier before Mahmoud Pasha.
Evening star., 1938-04-04
REV. GEORGE JOHNSON
TO LECTURE TONIGHT
Educational Function of Home,
Topic of Fourth in Series
of Carroll Talks.

The Rev. George johnson. who
was recently appointed by President
Roosevelt to serve on his National
Advisory Committee on Education,
will speak tonight at o'clock on
THE Educational Function of the
Home" as the fourth in the series of
Carroll lectures, sponsored by the Boys
Guidance Association at the Willard
Hotel
An associate professor of education
at Catholic University, DR.. johnson is
one of the editors of the Catholic
Educational Review, member of the
board of editorial consultants of the
Nations Schools and author of a
number of articles on educational sub
jects.
He has served as director of the
department Of education of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
secretary-general Of the National
Catholic Educational Association and
director of the Model School at the
Sisters College at Catholic University