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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09
Senate Takes
Its Hurnor But
House Serious
i Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Rxn VNN NICRET

Raleigh, March 9.-The State Sen
ate has reached that stage in its SeS-
sion when it can afford to kill a little
time with matter in the lighter vein,
while waiting for the revenue bill to
| come over from the House. It is tacit-
| ly understood that when the revenue
and appropriations bills come to the
floor there is not much occasion for
| levity. The business of raising and
| spending enough money to govern,
| educate, protect and conserve three
and a half million people for two
years is recognized as serious bust
ness.
days in the throes of this problem.
The Senate will be next week. Mean
time, the Senate calendar is rather
light. Governor Horton, intensely
serious in manner and appearance
nevertheless can appreciate humor
and most of the time he INDUCES the
frolcsome senators. But when he
thinks comedy gets too near tragedy
he calls a halt. IS ft
Yesterday the Senate was discuss
ing the bill amending the law licen-
sing embalmers and funeral directors
Several counties had asked to be eX-
einpted. Senator DR.. Long attempted
to explain that the bill didn't do any,
thing except change appointment of
licensing board members from the
health department to the governor.
Senator Curtis, of Buncombe, arose
70, ask the senator from Halifax a
very serious question" He wanted
to know if the bill made any pro-
vision for taking care of dead poll
ticians left over from the 1889 Cen
eral Assembly. Hardly had the laugh
ter started when President Horizons
gavel hit with a resounding clap and
he snapped: The senator is out of
ORDER
A few minutes later, however,
when the debate conferred around the
attempt to define what is a legal
newspaper, and the procedure got
sort of tangled up in parliamentary
law, Senator Clark moved that the
bill and all amendments be referred
to the committee on conservation and
development, the presiding officer
put the motion in regular form and
with a perfectly straight face. The
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09
LONG NOT ENTHUSED
BY BURIAL MEASURE

Raleigh, March Or would like
to ask Senator Long if somebody
didn't make mistake in arranging
the calendar" commented Senator
Tom Gold yesterday. owe have just
finished talking about tombstones,
and now we are talking about en-
banners and funeral directors. Isn't
itacustomary to bury man before
erecting tonbstone?"
"As physician" retorted the Sen
ator from Halifax, II have little use
for either embalmers or tombstone
Sa1eSmen" t3t
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09
Thrill-P acked Contests
Attract Throng To Gym

with Rideout, Gambler and Turner
tieing top honors, with six points
each. Blake got five, and the other
tallies were scattered.
One of the largest crowds of the
season turned out to witness the
games, the proceeds Of which are to
be used for free cafeteria meals at
the school for those unable to secure
them.
Talk at the gym last night was for
another meeting of the lassies and
the All Stars The Bulldogs are sche-
duled to meet Zeb Vance again Fri
day night in a second game for the
title of county champs.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09
High Teams urn Back All Stars And Zeb Vance Cagers

ment sent forward by Dan Tompkins
Of Jackson, taking in more TERRITORY
than Bladen's Bombshell Page ap-
proved. The Bomb commended if
would exempt any book in which a
portion Of the Scriptures is quoted
In the end Tompkins cat out all ex-
PLANTATION of definition Of the Bible
letting it go at adding the words
"Holy Bibles" to the exempted list
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09

1918-Americans obliterate more
than a mile of German trenches on
Lorraine front.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09
COLD SANDDROPS
EPSON IN TOURNEY
Franklinton) Routs Louis
burg Boys To Take Frank
lin County Title

Gold Sand girls and Franklinton
boys won the county court titles in
Franklin county basketball tourna-
ment, which came to close last
night with the finals in each division
Gold Sand turned in a 25 to 10 vic
tory over EPSON, and Franklinton
boys routed Louisburg boys 43 to A.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09
BIBLES ARE EXEMPT
FROM SALES LEVlES
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, March ga stern, SUD-
boen House refused to grant any ex-
emptions or relief Tor the flesh OF
man. but did extend aid and COM
fort to the spirit by adding Holy
Bibles to the list of articles exempt
ed from the sales tax.
Even this proposal brought on de-
bate. however, the original amend
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-09
MRS. .HOEY VISITS
IN STATE SENATE

Raleigh, March 9.-Lieut. Cover
nor Horton halted Senate business
long enough yesterday to extend
cSourtesies Of the lobby to "the first
lady of the State, the wife of our be-
loved governor" and the wives of
half a dozen or more senators who
had come in with her to watch the
Senate pass a few laws.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
WHY NOT
TELLTHEM2
all Street Journal)

Inquiries are being made about the de-
gree Of compulsion resting upon citl-
zen To tell the enumeratorS of the 1910
census the amount of his or her income
during the previous year. There are
those who object to disclosing such high
~ personal information on what they
regard as a public record. The question
then arises as 70 the consequences of
refusing 10 answer.
This newspaper has no ambition to
practice law. The perturbed citizen must
seek legal advice elsewhere, if he thinks
he needs IT, But It will do no harm to set
forth some of the surrounding circum-
stances One is that the law under which
the Census Bureau functions, though it
does not specify the questions which may
be asked, does impose fine or imprison
ment or both for refusing to answer the
questions put by the bureau or wilfully
giving false answers.
On the other hand, much more severe
penalties are imposed upon census emu
merator guilty of disclosing any of the
information he gathers otherwise than
through the official channels by which it
enters into the Governments statistical
data The bureau has consistently en-
phasized the confidential nature of its
IcCoiQs anu uo uouDl aoeS It's ullllool "
guard against leakage An unauthorized
disclosure, if not made for considera-
ton, is punishable by $1,000 fine or two
years in prison, or both; if made for a
fee or reward. the penalty may be a $4,000
fine or five years behind bars, or both.
After all. several millions of citizens
have for years been required to disclose
the same personal information to an
other branch of the government, the
Bureau of Internal Revenue-and in that
reporting it is not the mere disclosure
that they find irksome
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

The perennial end-of e-Year re-
lief crises are likely to spring up
almost anywhere. Sometime a little
financial legerdemain can overcome
the pre- Christmas distress of indi-
gent families.
But even the most astute balan-
Ger Of municipal budgets can solve
the problem only temporarily. It
will probably bob up again. when
funds have been exhausted in late
1910. Despite the billions of dollars
the federal government has poured
into states and municipalities in the
forms of direct and indirect relief,
the burden of feeding and shelter
ing its unfortunates still weighs
heavily on every community.
In August this year. there were
I $4,000 cases on direct relief in all
of the 48 states. A case may be
either a single person or a family
OF four, eight or 10. The aggregate
bill for feeding and housing these
people was $38 ,088. 000-for a single
month.
The average monthly expenditure
for every relief case during the
month of August. taken as a re-
preventative month. was S2407. But
the mean payment was considerably
lower than this when considered on
the average payment made. by each
state Half of the states spent less
than S14 per case in August.
Highest payments were recorded
in the more heavily populated
states, particularly in the east.
This would explain the SO differ
encc between the mean payments
Of states and the average national
expenditure.
Expenditures per case range all
the way from 1888 in Oklahoma to
S3428 in New York. These are av-
erage figures, so that some Okla
homa relief cases were granted less
than $3.50 in supplies in August.
1t has been argued that the var
iation is due partly to varied living
expenses in different sections. To
a point this is true; but that scarce
ly explains the $90l average in Vir-
ginia. which lies just south of
Maryland where $22.42 was spent on
each case Nor does it explain why
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

months. llle gay SllC "dlhcd Jul
she owed SO 000 Her place At the
store had been filled No Job. Dis
couraged? or course she was.
She had to do something to earn
money. Her mother had q small
dressmaking shop, and so she went
to work in it. Grace Ashley Have
you heard the name?
One day a woman came into the
shop and said she wanted a blouse,
which was not to be frllllSh or
mannish. Grace Ashley didn't know
ANYTHING about designing a blouse.
but she designed one, anyway, and
right then and there the Grace
Ashley dress was born. She describ-
ed to me what the dress looked
like, but I didn't understand it very
well. She went to a store ano
bought some mems shirt studs ant
put them on the front Of the blouse
When the blouse was done, the
customer liked it and complimentet
her on its originality.
This set Grace Ashley thinking
Z this customer liked the blousf
maybe other people would too. Sc
she made up another blouse, ant
hoped on train and went tc
Marshall Fields in Chicago. The1
gloWered at it, they pulled it they
criticised it. Her heart went down.
Finally the manager asked her tC
step out for q moment. After a
bit. he called her back.
Wei take 49 white blouses an6
"A colored ones he said.
She could hardly believe her ears.
She hadn't known the criticizing
and fault finding was the process
any new article has to go through
before it is accepted by store.
She had orders, Nov she had to
find a factory. And she did find
one which was on the verge Of
bankruptcy. She got the blouses TO
the store on exactly the day she
promised. The dresses sold like hot
cakes. More orders. At the end Of
the first year she counted up her
profits. $3.50.
She decided to buy factory, and
she bought one, and the day talk
ed TO her she said that she had rs
employees. They make just one mo.
del of a dress, but make it OF diff
ferent materials, and in sizes and
half sizes ranging from 10 to Al.
And they all have stud fastenings
She now owns a castle below St.
Louis on the Missippi River. Ia
fayette once visited the landing
where the castle is located) Hei
river banks are planted with dog
wood, wild yiolets, anemones, and
when you enter the gates you travel
a mile and a half to reach the
house. Not bad for former depart
ment store clerk
She started afresh with no eX-
perience, and built her success on
one of the oldest businesses in the
World-the clothing business. Don't
let anyone tell you that success
cannot be achieved today because
there are no new ideas. Remember
Grace Ashley
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

the White House was having ats
troubles with Postmaster General
FARLEY. Now. It IS said. Farley and
Roosevelt nave come to a harmon
icus understanding hence it is no
LONGER necessary TO present Nc
Nut rs FDR's heir apparent.
Although the New Dealers were
quick to criticize Thomas E. Dew
ey's Minneapolis speech, a number
of them feel that Dewey has con-
siderable of what it takes TO be a
good presidential candidate.
He has a first rate radio voice
and some of the same talent for
mimicry-can it acting ability, if
you hkc-Whieh Roosevelt himself
possesses.
AT a press conference here Dew
ev col 10 telling about Fritz Kuhn'S
trial. In MS account of It he MIN
licked the Bund leader as witness;
held himself in the rigid posture
of the Yorkville fuehrer, spoke
with his accent. and all in all put
on a first-rate one-minute show.
It's a little thing. maybe-but it
has been one Of the elements in
FDR.s effectiveness.
The speed with which the admin
istration accepted the opportunity
tc blame the difficulties of the
Chic relief tangle on Governor
Bricker Is not entirely disconnected
from the fact that Bricker has
for some time been considered the
leading dark horse in the Repub-
lican presidential race.
Bricker is no avoWed candidate.
He Is. ON the contrary, pretty def
initelv on the sidelines III favor Of
the other Ohioan, Senator Robert
TAFT
Yet there were a number of I'M
poItant Republicans who believed
that no candidate would come !
the next convention with a COM
manding lead, that a deadlock
would ensue and that Bricker
would then emerge as the likeliest
choice
One OF the interesting political
twists OF the fail is The way the
New DeaI administration is sudden
" emerging rs Il devoted anti
Communist band.
Two months ago the administra-
ton was definitely on the defen-
sive as far as Communism was con-
cerned The Dies committee was
making sensational charges about
Communist infiltration into the
New Deal
Now the administration is assail-
ing Russia, giving aid to Finland,
and-througn Attorney General
Murphy-opening a sweeping grand
jury investigation of Communist
agents in this country
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
Famous Sayings
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Relief Loads Still Weigh Heavily

Arizona should spend S12.38 per
case while New Mexico puts out
only S6.44
A simpler answer is that pay
ments are not based so much on
need as they are on the ability or
willingness of the states to pay.
All of the figures given represent
only amounts contributed by states
for the relief of their own indigents.
They do not take into consideration
the national government for WPA,
the tremendous allotments made by
PWA. NYA and Farm Security aid.
These agencies have ceased to be
merely supplements to the local re-
lief structures, have instead become
virtually mainstays against utter
distress.
1t would seem that some system
can be worked out SO that the re-
lief client in the southwest can be
granted aid proportionate to that
given the rehefer in New York
without increasing the load on the
taxpayers
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

.WASHINGTON.--There may have
been more than met the eve behind
Secretary Iekes' recent assertion
that he wasn't taking any stock in
the talk about Paul Y. MeNutt's S
being the New Deals pet eandi-
GATE for the presidency.
Until Ickes made tins remark,
there had been some rather strong
indications the inner circle was
looking on McNutt with a good deal
OF favor The Hoosier made several
very New Deaish speeches in No
vember and seemed a particularly
welcome guest at the White House,
ana the assertions Of some OF his
hackers that he was getting the
blessing of the inner circle at least
went undenled.
Then Ickes spilled the beans, say
ing bluntly that the liberal and
progressive elements in the admin
istration weren't for McNutt.
One explanation for all Of this
offered here for what It may be
Worth-is that McNutt served as
an excellent counter-irritant while
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
LaFOLLETTE AGAIN

Senators Robert NJ LaFollette, accused
by witness of thinking that only peace
officers and never mobs, violate civil lib
|erties, quoted from newspaper clipping
showing that in a Stockton strike riot 13
officers had been treated for injuries,
hone of them gunshot wounds, and that
As non-officers were treated, 27 for gun
shot wounds.
No better indication of the senator's
Thought processes has ever been given.
|Inferentially, it appears that he believes
|no officer should shoot until shot at, no
officer should wound anyone until he
himself has been wounded.
In other words, the senator seems to
believe that open revolution should be a
fact before corrective measures are taken.
Somehow, we cannot agree
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No Qu5u

NO. $3.50
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the Coun
ty of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Estate Of
O. G. HORNE,
Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given by the
undersigned Administrative Of the
estate of O. q. Horne. deceased, To
the creditors Of and all persons
having claims against the said de
ceased, To file their claims with
the necessary vouchers within six
months after the first publication
OF this notice. in the office OF the
Clerk OF the Superior Court of the
State of California, in and for the
County of Imperial, in the City of
FL Centre, County of Imperial, State
of California, or to present said
claims with the necessary vouchers
within said six months to the said
administrative at the office Of
WhitelaW & Whitelaw. 209 Rehkopf
Building, El Centro, County of I'M
perial, State of California, which
said office the undersigned selects
as her place of business in all
matters connected with the said
estate of O. G. Horne, deceased.
Dated this 29th day of November
1899.
EMMA S. HORNE,
Administrative of the Estate
OF O. Ct. Horne, Deceased.
WHITELAW & WEIITELAW,
By DORSEY WHITELAW,
Attorneys for Administrative.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK
PLAYS OSTRICH

If ousting Willard D. Ellis as general
agent Of the Farm Credit Administration
IN California, Utah, Arizona and Nevada
will bring about change in the credit
policies of the FCA and the Federal
Land Bank at Berkeley. then Ellis Gus
ter Is much to be desired Should the
IOlson-a appointed California Farm Debt
adjustment commission accomplish this
one thing, it would have justified its eXis-
tenee for good many years.
We have no direct knowledge of how
FCA and the land bank operate elsewhere.
but their failure TO operate in Imperial
Valley, their ostrich-like hiding from the
hecessity of providing a sound basis for
agricultural credit, has nullified the very
goal for which they were organized.
It seems the heighth of financial as
sininity for an agency which was formed
TO relieve the financial distress of farm
ers to say, we cannot lend you money
because your securities are not good
enough.
II inc farmers security was good
enough he wouldn't have to go to the
FCA or the land bank.
Pilng absurdity on top of assininity.
these undetermined federal agencies
declare that they cannot lend federal
money in Imperial Valley because of
uncertain credit standing engendered by
construction of the All American canal
built with federal money In other words
one federal agency has loaned twenty
six million dollars to the people of I'M
cerial Valley without security, so that
the people may have an unthreatened
water supply for their farms, and an
other federal agency refuses to lend the
individuals of Imperial Valley few
thousand dollars that are needed if there
are to be any farms on which to use water
from the All American canal.
The merest beginner Of a business man
would lend a hundred dollars if he knew
1t would provide a means for repaying
not only the hundred dollars, but an
additional thousand dollars loaned ear
lier. Yet that is Just what FCA and the
land bank refuse to do.
What is the use of having a federal
land bank, or an FCA, if they are going
to demand the same securities, loan upon
the same basis and operate ON the same
policies that a private banking chain
follows? They might as we'll get out of
Fhe field, quit cluttering up the federal
governments office space, and leave bust
hess to private initiative If the farmer
has to be in the same position to borrow
from the federal land bank as he does to
borrow from private bank, then what
6n the name of all that's holy is the use
in having the federal land bank?
Any organization set up to help farm
ers out of tight spot ought to do just
that, or disband The land bank has the
Betup to help the farmers, but so far it
hasn't shown the inclination.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
ETHICS OF
COMMUNISM
(0range News

The ethics of communism are illumi-
mated by the policies of the Russian gov
ernment in the present European crisis.
The double dealing Of Moscow, character
istic of all Russian governments, illus
trates the total lack of moral respon-
sibility inherent in all branches of the
communist movement.
With the political maneuvers of Euro
pean governments, Americans have little
concern; but they have great concern
with the understanding of a movement
whose purpose is subversion of the Ameri
can form of government.
The poison of communism has been at
work in the American system for years.
The extent to which it has penetrated may
be observed in the Bridges trial, where
a coast labor leader is accused of active
participation in the communist govern
ment. Il would be foolish to contend
that such advances in political organiza-
ton are Of no concern to the American
people.
A doctrine based on class hatreds and
a technique committed to the destruction
of religion, of our conceptions of moral
ity and of our traditions of representa-
tive government motivates the commu-
mist movement. An American policy
which refuses to recognize the advance
of such doctrine is full of danger for
American institutions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
Photographs

Paris is the only city in the world
where tourists are taken on sight
seeing trips through the sewers
Suede" finish leather means
that the flesh dnner) side of the
skin has been rubbed by abrasive
wheels, removing the loose, fleshy
deposits and cutting down TO even
fibres, giving it a close, soft nap.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

This was al
most the very
bottom OF the de
pression.. Then. as
if tllines were not
bed enough al
ready. she was IL
an auto IN o b lie
smash up. a n {
when she was pull
led out she hac
to stay IN the
hospital for eight
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
You re Telling Me-

And then there was the car dri-
yer who thought he was generous
because he split his alcohol 505J
between himself and the radiator
Christmas bells change to Christ
mas bills by the use Of an II But
lot of assistance comes from the
owe.
Try as hard as we may, somehow
we can't work up much sorrow oyer
the fact that scientists so far have
been denied TINS autumn the usual
amount of snoWflakes to study.
European scientists are expert
menting with artificial yarns.
shucks, their propaganda depart
ments have used them for years.
A new type auto may have the
engine in back. For the first time
perhaps, the motor may be as far
behind as the payments on the car.
The days are getting shorter
Even the sun, it seems, is tired OF
looking at the idiculous doings in
the northern hemisphere-especially
Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
Thoughts for the Day

And i a kingdom be divided against itself that
kingdom cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against
himself and be divided he cannot stand but hath
an end-Mark 3.24 25
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
Dale
II
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CARNEGIE

In 1882 a clerk was working ii
a department store in St. Louis,
Just one clerk among hundreds.
You'd think there was no exciting
future for her. wouldn't youp
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
Barbs- :

The tattooing business is BOOM
ing. with orders for American flags
coming in fast. This is an age
when no American wants to be
mistaken for an enemy gunboat.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

Neither rich, heavy nor gas-producing
foods should be eaten Just before or dur
ing an airplane flight" says Hygeia, the
health magazine discussing air sickness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

Among 20 songs selected for harmonic
ing by the st. Louis Society for Preserva-
ton of Barbershop Harmony, "SWeet
Adeline" didn't get SINGLE vote
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

The New York City tax law says
bluntly that you can't bring cigar
cts in from neighboing states to
evade payment of, the tax And no
butts.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21

President Roosevelt has been as
sured of carrying the 9th assembly
district of New York if he should
run again. SO what's stopping him
from tossing in the hat?
Russia still insists she's not at
war with Finland. Any similarity
to living nations is purely homi-
cidal.