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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23
TODAY'S HOROSCOPE

Today's is degree of perseverance,
under trial. The native will be in
tellectual and inclined to the artis-
tic in literature. There will be manv
and severe slips of fortune, but the
spirit of resignation will bear the
soul UP till success is achieved.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23
5000 YEARS AGO
(Taken from Daily Dispatch Fiiesl

the Rotary club the chief speaker was
lev. w. C. Martin, pastor of the
First Methodist church, who spoke
on the practical side of the Golden
Ru e, tracing the axiom back to the
earliest times of it's conception by
man as a standard of living.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23
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A WISE EVALUATION: What things
were gain to me, those l counted loss
for Christ. Yea doubtless, and l count
all things but loss for the excellency
of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my
Lord: for whom l have suffered the
loss of all things, and do count them
but during, that 1 may win Christ
Phil. 81, 8.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23
FCtR RENT,

FCtR RENT.
5 room house, Hot air heat, Rock
Spring ST., room house, Rock
Spring Street, 5 room house, Row
land ST., room apt, Carolina Ave.
5 room apt, Charles Street, 5 room
house, Zollicoffer Ave-, 6 room house
Oxford Rd., with Arcola heat. .
four room apts., College ST., to be
ready for occupancy soon. Call w.
}. Powell at office of Al. B. Wester,
Phone 139. 23-3tl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

and p H, Kline, State College agrono-
nomist.
The exposition will be held in the
Easley Warehouse Annex, corner Of
Church and Gay streets, A. D. Stuart.
State College, seed specialist and Sec
retary of the Corp Improvement AS
ssociation, is in charge of arrange
ments.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page

1. Yes.
2. Gulf of Bothnia.
8. Maryland.
4. Tennessee II, Oklahoma 0.
5. Divide the total times at bat into
the number of base hits.
6. "Un-American activities"
z. Department of the interior.
8. Budapest.
8. CzechosIovakia.
10. Jamestown Va.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

is the study Of infancy and child
hood. And there are practitioners
who specialize in geriatrics and
have special hospitals for it's treat
inent. Besides, why do you need
it?"
He said because he was seventy
two, although I can honestly (this
tinne) say he doesn't look it, nor act
it. He is so active that he gives point
to the doctrine that seventy isn't
old any longer.
Worst Time
He isn't at all like that other
member of my club, who in reply to
the question of what the worst fea-
ture Of old age was, said, "The time
after four-thirty."
When somebody asked did he
mean four-thirty in the afternoon
or four-thirty in the morning, he
said:
"Both. After four-thirty in the
morning you can't get anysleep and
after four-thirty in the afternoon
you can't keep awake. Or else in
the afternoon there is a vacuum
with not darned thing to do until
the movies open up"
My friend isn't like that. He is
just as active in business from four |
thirty to six as he ever was. And he
tells me that if he wakes up in the
morning he starts in on his Spanish
lesson so that he can appreciate his
projected South American trip. He
is very much alive and up-to-date,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

said to have been considerably larger
than usual, and overseas securities
markets gave ground readily. Bonus
and commodities followed the share
list in the retreat. The price of scrap
copper was cut and talk was heard
of a possible slash in the domestic
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23
January %, 1919

January %, 1919
E. G.. Watkins returned home
Thursday morning from trip to the
Northern markets in the interest of
the Watkins Department Store.
Townsville is to have a double
mail service daily after March 1, in
stead of the single delivery that is
made now
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

LET US ASSIST YOU WITH YOJTp
remodeling job. A new Bird Roof
new porch, a new room or paint
up with Lowe Bros. paints. Use orr
finance plan and make easy month
ly payments. Alex S. Watkins. .Tbo
Place of Values" 20-a+
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

The Krupp works at Essen. Ger.
many, is producing cannon at tho
rate of 80 per day. Two cannons for
every garage?,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

VISIT OUR USED CAR LOT FOR
better valu IS in used cars. Motor
Sales Cc. 25-tf
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

WINDOW GLASS 8x1O-5c, 10x12 Op
14-1Oc. Stove pipe II 1-2c. Quality
Axes slips, Anti Freeze 79c gallon
See O'Neil at III Montgomery St
and save. 2o1
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

RELIABLE MAN OR WOMAN TO
handle established grocery route in
Henderson. Earnings should AVERAGE
$25.00 weekly. No capital or invest
ment required. Write The ]. r
Watkins Company, Newark, New
Jersey. 236z27
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23
January %, 1884

A. ]. Davis lett yesterday for Phil
ede phia, where he will attend a
style shcw of shoe manufacturers. He
will be away from the city for several
weeks on his regular spring trip.
John Boddie Crudur has received
an assignment in the legal depart
ment of the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration at Salisbury, it was learned
to-day, and he has gone to Salisbury
to take UP his duties in the corpora
ton.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

Wed think a whole lot more of
1929 = Oklahoma's governor inn.
peached and removed from office.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

ALL STATE LICENSED REAITTv
operators. Phone 200 for appoint.
ment. Your patronage Appreciates
Bridgers Beauty Shop 1s-tp
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

FOR RENT: TWO ROOM FURNISH
ed apartment, private bath, water
lights and phone furnished. 2oe
Clark street, phone 715-W. 23-1t
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

January 23. 1929
At last nights luncheon meeting
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

MAN AND WIFE TO RUN cor
fee Agency. Up to $45 first week
Automobile given as bonus. Write
MILLS, 7O40 Monmouth, Cincinnati
w. 23-1t
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

FClR RENT: A NICE FIVE ROOM
house, steamheated, garage attach
ed. Possession given February first
Phone 33. Alex S. Watkins. o9~te
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-01-23

WE SPECIALIZE m RODv ~
fender repairs. Motor Sales Co. 25tP
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22
Major SiIcox

In the estimation of those who
knew him well and comprehended
the value of his work, every tree in
the United States may be regarded
as monument to Major Ferdinand
Augustus Silcox His services as
chief of the Forest Service of the
Department of Agriculture justified
such appreciation. Among citizens
who have chosen to devote their tai
ents and their energies to their
country's welfare he always must be
remembered with gratitude.
Major Silcox pledged himself to a
single career. A native Of Columbus,
Georgia, born on Christmas Day,
1882, he was educated at the College
of Charleston and at Yale Univer-
sity, specializing in science. High
ideals for the protection Of the Ma
tions natural resources prompted
him to enlist In the Forest Service
at a time when conservation was
little understood. He rose from the
ranks to the post he occupied from
1888 until his sudden death.
The philosophy which Major Sill
cox undertook to put into practice
was one which still requires expla-
nation to the lay public He believed
that the forests should be used but
objected to their being wasted. From
abundant experience he was quail
fled to deplore the wreckage of whole
acres of timber by lumber operators
interested in cutting only a few
trees. With his own eyes he had
seen the havoc which a merciless
policy can effect. A moral indigna-
ton rose in his soul, and he launched
a campaign of correction whose re-
suits already are apparent.
But Major Silcox was never a ia
matte. He possessed stern convictions
and guarded them with care, yet
he also was endowed with "a sweet
reasonableness" which made him
popular with other men. His sue
cess as an arbiter Of labor difficulties
testified to his diplomacy and tact.
II on occasion he laid down the
law" in terms which could not be
challenged, he took pains to be
certain that he was right before
he spoke. His methods were not
adventurous; he was not an expert
menter in his attitude toward facts.
Perhaps his scientific training was
responsible for the dignity of his
procedure and the delicacy with
which he dealt with the problems
he was called upon to solve.
Major Silcox has passed from the
world too soon He was an Ameri-
can who could i'll be spared in an
age when vision and a genius for
achievement are wanted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22

mere we have situation in which en-
ployes who have already earned promo
tons and salary increases by hard work
and emclency must now take tests. and
If they fail those tests. must take demo-
ton or dismissal. Well. what is a test
OF efficiency in a given work, if not the
actual performance of that work, day
after day? The tests given, so far from
being better criterion of efficiency or
fitness, are in many instances mere
kindergarten as compared to any days
work on the job, and the employees fall
ure to pass such tests is due, obviously,
to panic created by fear of losing his
job or losing his hard-earned salary in
crease. Such panic is matter of tenn
permanent, not question of ability. So
true is this that many Of our schools
and colleges have long since abandoned
the system of term-end examinations
and put their gradings on the basis of
the pupils daily average.
OF course. there must be standards of
efficiency and proofs of ability in the
Governments work. But-even keeping
in mind that patronage and personal
favoritism are to be combated and I'M
worthy tolerances and promotions done
away with or minimized-the fact of
actual efficiency and worthiness can
scarcely be less reliably determined by
an employees record and status with his
superior and co-workers, than by tests
so conditioned as to produce panic and
fear that are perfectly natural to the
normal mind. Nor is everything done
that could be done to avoid physical in
convenience that prejudice ones chances
IN these tests. There are tables too
high for writing on, voices that humble
or blur the reading of test matter, in
structions blatted out indistinctly through
. microphones, etc.-none Of which can
any testee demur to-
This is not being written by a victim
OF the system, but by casual listener
IN to the whispered breads and fears
OF these long-tem Government en-
ployes who now face possible "elimina-
ton by being judged on an arbitrary
test instead of by their hard work and
proved efficiency. True, they will be
given percentage of credit for their
earned rating, If they pass the tests; but
II they fail the tests, they lose that
credit, lose everything they have won,
lose what may prove to be their only
means OF livelihood, since there are no
other Jobs they may turn to.
Why should civil service not consider
the psychological aspect Of this matter
II 1t Is concerned with merit in its en-
ployes? aRH
November 3,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22
The Right to Speak

A question of interest to all Fed
eral employees has been raised by the
effort of an applicant for a liquor
license in Takoma Park to prevent
Government workers who reside in
the neighborhood from testifying in
opposition to a request for permits
sion to dispense alcoholic beverages.
The applicant rests his effort on
the somewhat novel assumption that
a home owner with civil service
status would violate the Civil Serv-
Ice Commissions regulations against
engaging in political activities If he
should oppose request for issuance
OF a liquor license for an establish
ment In his neighborhood.
Fortunately, the Civil Service Com
mission, In an informal decision, has
indicated its belief that the would-be
liquor vendor Is distorting the mean
Ing of the regulations in this attempt
to silence his opposition. It is highly
desirable, however, that the COM
mission rule formally on this point
when an opportunity arises, because,
If its regulations can be used to gag,
or even to intimidate, civil service
workers in the matter of opposing
Issuance of a liquor license, the same
device might be applicable to public
controversies arising out of questions
affecting coming, schools, streets and
various other civic issues.
There is no reason to suppose that
the position taken by the applicant
for the license in this instance has
the slightest validity, but the COM
mission can render a substantial
public service by ruling out any pos
sibility of doubt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22
is sheer pretense-a fiction rather

Is sheer pretense-a fiction rather
than fact. An attempt to conceal
our profound sympathy for the Firms
behind a mask of literal neutrality
would be an act Of both intellectual
and moral dishonesty. AS a people
we have set our face against the doc
trine that might makes right, and, in
The Stars opinion, that principle
should not be sacrificed at this time
for the sake of clinging to what,
under the circumstances, is a sterile
concept Of neutrality. The POSSIBLE
ity that Russia, whose disregard Of
neutrality in the wars of other coun-
tries has been notorious, might take
offense at the frank extension by us
of financial aid to Finland for mill
tary purposes should not be per-
mitted to deter this Nation from
adopting what is indubitably the
right course.
The Star believes that full, unre-
stricted credit to the extent OF twen-
ty-flve or fifty millions of dollars
should be Immediately extended to
Finland by the administration. It
sees nothing to be gained and much
to be lost by even awaiting formal
congressional approval of such a step.
The mood and will OF the Nation has
been made very clear in these past
weeks, and the Congress certainly,
will reflect that mood. If this step is
not taken, Finland should at least be
Immediately assured of an adequate
additional restricted loan, leaving to
Congress only the happy RESPONSE
bility of removing the restrictions
and thus sustaining honor and gall
lantry and decency as against bru-
tality, barbarism and cynical, shame
less dishonor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22

and taking of records Of turning them
over, putting In needles, and 50 on, con-
stitutes the first physical step which all
psychologists tell us leads on to greater
things.
The spirit of the hour, of course, is
firmly in favor of record changers, 50
we would say nothing against them. Let
us merely whisper that it is not neces-
sary to work 1t overtime.
Give it rest, occasionally, and give
the suggested method trial.
Be Sir Thomas Beecham, or a Tos-
canini If you prefer at your own fire.
side.
BY permitting mood to enter into your
playing, you are in the groove, as the
swing addict says, or at least was sup
posed to say
If one is really in the groove, unsteady
speaking, one is hearing what one likes
to hear. It is as simple as that.
The trouble comes when what one
likes" is much too much limited, self
limited, of course, or purse Limited, If
you like, in so far as records are con-
cerned.
It seems that the less a music lover
really knows about music, the more
positive he is as to likes and supposed
dislikes, particularly the latter
Intolerance, in music, has very few
good points. It is above all, the self
limiter, the hard and fast rule of thumb
which divides music up into sections,
with the bad proviso that If you happen
to like" one section you must instinc-
lively dislike, even fiercely hate, all which
Is In another section.
This may be all very we'll, as far as
the purse is concerned, when you are
buying photograph records Thus the
rabid hot jazz" enthusiast will so sheer
at dainty little after dinner music pieces
that he by no means would be caught
with ore in his collection. He spends no
money on such corn as he calls it.
The symphony addict, in his turn, can
be quite as intolerant. Not for him the
collection OF the thousand and one fine
folk songs of all nations the unusual
@>SoA 40 Va VIC 4odllllcSC lO1h, llIS SLdUoly
swish of grass skirts in the real tradi-
tional Hawaiian hulas.
Such music he smiles condescendingly
on, as fit for children only, never for
moment realizing that such a splendid
musician as Vaughan Williams. whom
he has perhaps never heard of. uses
countryside songs in his symphonies.
He has heard that Beethoven did the
same. especially in his eighth MASTER
piece, but he believes that the "old man"
must have been rather ashamed of him.
self
But-Beethoven wasn't ashamed. He
knew that music has a Mnitless horizon.
that those who try to restrict it merely
imprison themselves in water tight COM
partments. not music.
Use your new photograph and records
to show yourself, prove to yourself, If
need be. how wide music is, and how
much it has to offer you, if you will
give 1t chance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22
To Almost Any Little Bow

I like you when. with studious look.
Your face is bent above . book.
I like you when you stand foursquare,
Refusing to accept q dare.
I like you when you try to hide
The way you really feel inside:
And when you strut about and crow
So boyish weakness may not show.
I like you when you grin at me
Or shrek out in unholy glee
When you have played some impish
prank;
I like you best when you are frank.
7 see In every sturdy lad
The little son I might have bad.
ANNA M. pRlESTLEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles E. TraceueH.

TO understand that al music Is music,
d something which many music lovers,
and some musicians have not done as yet.
Maybe they will, in time.
If they do not, music will continue to
be divided of into water-tight compart-
ments, one labelled symphony music, !"
one folk music" another hot jazz"
and so on.
And people who like one sort will con-
tinue to praise their favorite, and to pre-
tend that they do not like any other sort.
The swing musician will insist that
music played by long hairs" as he terms
symphony musicians, is staid and stif
and unworthy Of ones ears.
The symphony lover will pretend that
no human being in his right senses could
ind thing to praise in swing" or
"jazz," or the blues"
All this is wrong, because 1t divides
what should not be- divided
1t is as II the index finger should say,
Il am the one that does the pointing"
and refuse to have anything to do with
the thumb.
We all know how useless the whole
hand seems If we cut the thumb and
have 1t in bandage.
Music divided against itself is In a
bandage, unable to give all that it other
wise could.
This discovery is Individual
You must make 1t for yourself, either
through listening with unusual receptiv-
ity, or playing some sort of instrument
or properly using the modern phono-
graph and records.
Many new monographs and gifts of
records will be In full operation this
Christmas time.
It is just as we'll for newcomers to an
adventurous art to realize that music u.s.
after all, adventurous.
1t Is not divided into compartments,
nor Is there any real reason for anybody
refusing to listen to one sort of music
just because he thinks he likes another
type best.
Just because your new gramophone has
a record changer Is no reason why you
have to use 1t all the time.
1t is an interesting gadget quite salts
factory for playing a stack of dance
records one after the other, but it has
definite drawbacks If you believe in being
a conductor OF your own music, and
building your program as you go, IN the
best musical traditions.
There is a psychological something or
other in entering into the making of the
music step by step, just as pianist does
when he sits down to his instrument.
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1t is this phase Of the photograph
which deserves to be stressed, because it
is most often forgotten.
1nvariable use of a record changer
makes photograph into radio without
announcer. whereas manual operation
converts 1t into sort of orchestra of
which the owner is conductor, or leader.
The mere physical action Of putting on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-22
Fuel for Red Raiders

AS newspaper headlines continue
to tell of Red bombing raids over
populous Finnish centers, the State
Department has taken steps to make
more effective Americas extra legal
moral embargo" on sale of certain
war supplies to nations guilty of such
inhumane attacks on defenseless
civilians. The embargo, which al
ready covers warplanes and their
{. parts, has been extended to include
formulas and devices used in the
manufacture of special highest
gasoline essential to efficient per-
Torrance Of powerful bombing
planes. AS in the case of planes
and equipment, the new ban will
require no law for enforcement. It
will be established through CO.
operation of private industry with
the Government.
The moral embargo" was invoked
last year against Japan after the
indiscriminate bombing of Chinese
cities. 1t is potentially applicable to
Germany as result of the aerial
raids on Poland, but the Nazis so
far have not sought to buy planes
in the United States. After the
ruthless bombing of Helsinki and
other Finnish cities by Russian
warplanes, President Roosevelt on
December 2 reiterated the Govern
ment's hope that American manu.
facturers and exporters of airplanes,
aeronautical equipment and mate
rails essential to airplane manufac-
ture" would not sell their products
to nations obviously guilty" of
"unprovoked bombing and machine
cunning of civilian populations from
the air." All manufacturers promptly
announced that they would strike
Russia from their lists of customers.
Later the ban was amplified to cover
molybdenum, an ingredient used in
hardened steel, and aluminium, ex-
tensively employed in aircraft man.
ufacture.
Voluntary embargoing of plans,
plants, manufacturing rights or
technical information" relating to
production of aviation gasoline fol-
lows closely reports that Russia has
been planning to undertake develop
ment and manufacture of such fuel
on large scale. Heretofore the
Reds have depended to a consider
able extent on the United States for
manufactured gasoline of aviation
quality. So has Japan. America has
led the world in development of
high-test fuels for airplanes and,
knowing this, Russia has sought to
secure from this country manufac-
turing rights and machinery that
would have enabled her to carry on
in event Of an interruption Of the
American supply. Perhaps Russia an
ticipated that eventually the moral