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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14
Hello Everybody!
This Is Winky!

Thanking the crowds and
crowds of people whO've been
in to see me. l think most
everybody in town was here
yesterday. 1t sure kept me
busy, too, because everybody
wanted to see me wink my eyes
and everybody wanted me to
help with Christmas shopping.
i had to show all the little
folks that darling Twinkle
Tunes Piano Book with the
real piano that anybody can
play. And do you know l
found that the grOwn-ups
were having just as much fun
with il as the children?
There's something that real
ly has been bOthering me ever
since I've been here. You
know I'm just popping out
with curiosity, anyway. To
save my skin / couldn't figure
why everybody stopped at
that table in the front, and
shifted. l must have been
dumb = but, suddenly 1T
dawned upon me that those
luscious scents I'd been smell
ing all the time were coming
from that very table. Then
did begin to itch to get up
there.
Well, a little while ago
decided the OppOrtune time
had arrived. l wasn't so busy
for the moment, so up
iu.nned. I shifted once and
was it grand! 1 shifted again,
and t.fa: was better still. L
shifted the third time and that
was the best of all.
peeped, and saw that Elsie
and Doc were both busy help
inc the customers SO l thought
it was a fine time to fix my
self uD. I rubbed first on the
right side, and then on the
left side, and got it good all
behind my ears. l was just
beginning to take good long
rub ali the way down the
table when oh, goodness,
mercy me!-Then up ran Doc
Just in the nick OF time to
grab the stopper and keep
that bottle of Tweed from
splitting ali over the Len
theric, Yardley and Old Spice
Sets.
Gee, but l thought was
in for good scOlding. But
Doc said, "VVinky, maybe you
lust don't know any different,
but the Lentheric, Yardley
and Early American sets for
MEN are on that table in the
rear" Now there's a pal for
you.
So here 1 go back to the
rear, folks. Come on in and
sniff with
WINKY
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14

pe-to-America transatlantic
television will be a fact within a
Few years, according to news item.
Well, if things don't improve over
Shere. we won't look.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14
Continues Ill.

Mrs T. P. Jackson continues quite
i'll at Maria Parham hospital, her
friends Will regret TO learn.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14
CHURCH SOCIETIES
ANNOUNCEMENT

Madge Inman, Surry; Annie Mae
Dickerson, Vance: Allcne Green,
Wilkes, and Pauline Sizelnore, Yad-
kim
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14
senior Choir Rehearsal.

SENIOR choir Of Holy Innocents
church viii hold re-
Jay evening at 7:45 O'Clock
eN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14
CONGRATULATIONS
f@5I<AH5&&8&Te
A DAUGHTER.

Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Read, of Ok
ford Road, announce the birth of a
daughter. Roberta Hayes, on Friday
December s, at Maria Parham hos
pital. Mother and daughter were re-
ported to be doing very nicely.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14

In Watts Hospital.
Tollie Smith is being treated ir
Watts's hospital, Durham.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-12-14
In Richmond Hospital

Jack Richardson, of the Towns
vile section, is being treated in a
Richmond, Va. hospital.
Evening star., 1939-08-15

Even in the history OF medicine
the zone has its place.
Yet it is individual distinction
which is most commonly appreciated
at the moment when the Canals
first quarter century is celebrated.
President Theodore Roosevelt, Major
General George w. Goethals, Briga-
dier General William C. Gorgas,
Colonel David Du Bose Gaillard,
Major General William Luther Sibert,
Rear Admiral Harry Harwood Rous-
seau, Major General Whitfield Davis,
John F. Stevens, William Barclay
Parsons, William H. Burr, Benjamin
M. Harrod and Edward Schildhauer,
these are but the leaders in cam
paign in which every soldier gave
the best of himself for the ultimate
victory. It was not a fratricidal
strife in which they were engaged.
Rather, it's character was that of
peace. The goal was a correction
of nature, which should be useful
and helpful to all mankind No
greater social achievement ever was
carried to completion. 1t is a tri-
umph of which every living soul
may we'll be proud.
Evening star., 1939-08-15

are any like that didn't see them and
they must have been segregated All
came in contact with were real folks,
courteous and accommodating, and
made me want to stay longer, but my
pocket book said I better get back down
to James, Ga, in order to keep the
skips out of my eating regime. Well, 1
am back home again, but there is a
desire within me to go back to the good
old City of Washington when 1 can
stay longer, I read The Star during
my brief stay and brought some copies
home for the folks to read. It's a darn
good paper with all the news the people
want. The copies I brought back are
at this time being passed around among
the so inhabitants of the immediate
environs of this village and all are en-
joying reading them immensely.
James, Ga. w. T. PITTS.
August H.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Honking of Horns
At Night Protested.
To the Editor of The Star.


Wasn't it just about year ago that
much was being said by the superin-
tendent of police about the measures
that were going to be taken to suppress
unnecessary noises, particularly the
honklng of automobile horns after IL
pm? Hope put new life in some thou
sands of us to whom city noises are
wearing, but what has come of it all?
With our doors and windows wide open
during this hot weather, our ears are
assaulted at all hours of the day and
night by the raucous blasts from auto
mobile horns
Why are these horns blown? In 90
per cent of the cases it is because an
impatient motorist thinks he is going
to be slowed down by pedestrian or
another car, or because he is signaling
for his friends to come out and joir.
him. Are either of these justifiable rea-
sons for rending the air?
Might I suggest that publicity could
do much to bring about better condi-
tions. Can't the Commissioners, the
superintendent of police, the automo-
bile associations, the newspapers take
hold and make of Washington a rea-
sonably quiet city instead OF what I
have heard some one call "the noisiest
city on earth?" F.S. HAY.
August IL.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
A Fiendish Crime

Lie WlIUle country is shocked Dy
the announcement that the wreck
OF the streamlined railroad train
City of San Francisco in Humboldt
Canyon, forty miles from Elko, New,
Saturday night, was deliberately
planned. Physical evidence soon dis
covered indicated that the GRIM
inals employed technical knowledge
and experience to create a disaster
in which twenty-four persons were
killed and one hundred and four
teen injured None but degenerate
minds could conceive of such crime,
none but malevolent hearts could
have wished to execute such an act
of treason against the human race.
The passengers involved in the
disaster and also the members of
the train crew were innocent victims
OF a flendish hatred, martyrs to an
aversion as senseless as it was
shamelessly cruel. Only anarchists,
waging war upon their fellow crea-
lures indiscriminately, can rejoice
in mass murder so purposefully ar
ranged. The place for the catas-
trophe was chosen; a curved rail
80 feet long and weighing more
than sixteen hundred pounds was
moved four inches and spiked down
again; the labor must have occupied
two or more men at least half an
hour. During that time no twinge
of conscience troubled the perpetra-
tors of the outrage, no instinct
toward mercy deferred them from
their vicious deed. They carefully
avoided interfering with the elec-
trio signal system which, had it been
disturbed, might have prevented the
wreck.
Perhaps the criminals never will
be caught, but if the search for
them succeeds it will be important
to know the source of the queer
mental processes that devised and
executed a plan that for sheer wan
ton depravity has few parallels.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Opposes Turning Canal
Into Roadway.

To the Editor Of The Star:
So much is appearing in the papers Of
late about how grand and glorious 1t
soon will be for Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny O..
Public to hop in their flivver and "fliv"
from the maddening crowd out into the
open country and along the soon-to-be-
started boulevard along the picturesque
and historic old Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal-extending from Georgetown to
Great Falls in Maryland as well as in Vir-
ginia. Few, in anticipation of pleasurable
days, stop and think of what havoc and
heartbreak this plan entails for those
fearless souls who years ago hewed home
for themselves and loved ones in the
Wilderness" These-and their number is
legion-ask nothing of life or living but
to keep their homes and memories. Yet,
the politicians think it a great way to
get rid of considerable money and at
the same time gain any amount of
acclaim for giving to the public another
park, of which it already has surfeit.
Many there are in these areas beside
the canal who in worry and uncer-
tainty are in state Of nervous collapse.
Can nothing bs done about it'
August i3. AARYLANDER.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
A Georgia Visitor
Looks at Washington.

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Leaving my home town in Jones
County, Ga, few days ago 1 hoped
a day coach on the Southern Railway
and rode into Washington on a pillow
I had invested two bits In with a rep
resentative of the Union News Co. 1t
might have been lack of experience on
my part, but couldn't make that pillow
behave. I applied it to all parts of my
anatomy trying to get my moneys worth
out of it. The way matters stand now
I feel had some change coming.
I looked at some of my fellow pas
sengers with some degree of envy, as
they were sleeping up a storm How
ever, firmly believe that the ma jority
of them were contortionists. If had had
the S. to go with the Is cents I could
have ridden in the Pullman. I wished I
had been able to do this when started
unwinding myself at the terminal
I noticed when I went through the
terminal that it needed some repairs.
The railroads are o. K and I don't see
why everybody shouldn't start patron
izing them more. Maybe if the term
inal boss in Washington would apply to
the alphabet department there he might
locate some letters under which he could
float loan with which to brighten
things up bit,
Walking up the street and looking
around noticed the taxpayers money
Is pretty well represented. hope none
of it is misrepresented. This was in
evidence from Georgia on up, but, nat
urally, there are larger splurges of 1t In
Washington.
Before my departure I read in the
paper where the Representatives and
Senators were talking about adjourning
on account of it being so warm in WASH
ington. When got there 1t was real
chilly to me and mighty pleasant there
after. Both houses were in session, so
in the afternoon thought I would go
over and check up and find out If Uncle
Sam was treating the boys right. I
visited both galleries and was surprised
at how cool it was in them. Then went
to the Office buildings and 1t was mucn
cooler in them. I wondered how come
the talk about adjourning on account of
it being too hot when the majority of
the slow-motion lawmakers would 20
back to their homes where it is really
warm and perspire freely with the good
people who put them in office.
They told me the folks around Wash
ington were biesety and uppity. II there
Evening star., 1939-08-15
VIENNA, Va.


Dear Sir:
Early this spring I heard bird call
that sounded like suit yourself, suit
YOURSELF For a long time I couldn't
see the singer, and when I did I didn't
recognize him.
But finally, with the help of glasses,
l discovered that he was black on the
head, throat and wings, with rusty red
color on the underside, and black tail
and wings family marked with white.
MY bird book told me that he is an
orchard oriole. Are there many in this
section of the country? The nest is in
an old apple tree a short distance from
the house.
This fellow is quite friendly, comes
almost to the back porch to eat corn, and
the other day brought his wife and a
baby
THE lady was an olive brown and not
quite so large as her mate
THE baby had his fathers coloring,
although he was a little spotty as so
many baby birds are
I'VE have feeding box in one of the
trees near the house, but few of the
birds use it, seeming to prefer to pick
up the grain from the ground, even
though it is much closer to the house.
Should we have top to the boy?
Your column is SO interesting that
am making scrap book of the articles
about birds. We have many birds be-
cause we have great deal OF pasture
and pine woods and a little creek on
our land.
Very sincerely yours, F. T. M"
The orchard oriole is tolerably COM
mon resident, more often seen herea-
bouts than the famous Baltimore oriole,
perhaps.
The orchard oriole, Icterus spurius,
goes by many names, including brown
oriole, basket bird, orchard starting,
bastard Baltimore, orchard hang-nest.
The general contour of the orchard is
like that OF the Baltimore, but it is about
an inch shorter and considerably darker.
Its wings are great deal like those of
the flashier bird, but IT totally lacks the
"a 'iildiil soIu-ol dliSe OIl Tic
The nest of the orchard is hung, but
not in the same way, and seldom from
the very tip of branch. as is the more
famous nest of the Baltimore. Photo
graphs of the nest of the orchard show
1t suspended about the middle of
bough. We can find no record of which
bird builds the nest, but suppose it is
the female, as with the Baltimore orioles.
1t is said that the orchard never uses
twine, but only grass blades and that
these, woven through the nest, turn yell
low and are a dead giveaWay just at
the time the fedglings are completely
helpless. Ornithologists point to this
as an instance of the mistakes made by
instinct since the bird has never been
able to correct this through the ages
Evening star., 1939-08-15
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. TraceDeH.

The female orchard is yellowish olive
green. She looks like an oriole, and
then again she doesn't. Most people
wouldn't recognize her at all, just as
they wouldn't know q female indigo
bunting.
When the babies can leave the nest,
the entire orchard family goes to some
corn field, there to feed upon the vari-
GUS insects which afflict corn. Thus the
family helps the farmer, who, If he knows
nothing about birds, may think they are
eating his corn.
The nest of the Baltimore oriole Is
deeper, more pouchlike, usually held to-
gether with twine of mans manufacture,
but so laced and intertwined as to be a
veritable part of the structure. Only
dark cOlored tWines are used. GAY
strands of wool, put out by interested
housewives, are never used by the Balti-
more oriole. Evidently it has too much
sense, although it Is difficult to see what
difference it would make, for the nest
hangs at the very tip of long, high
bough, usually right over the middle Of
some garden
We have most perfect specimen Of
the Baltimore orioles nest, built by the
female with great care, but abandoned
before any eggs were laid. It is a mar
velous nest, SO tied to the branch end
that it could not be torn loose except
with some instrument
Whether this mother bird had fore
sight or not, we do not know, but the
entire branch was blown from the tree
in summer afternoon storm, at about
the time when the fledgings would have
been in it, in the normal course of
things.
The question as to why birds will not
patronize feeding station is an inter-
esting one. just as why they stay away
from some bird baths.
Our correspondents use of the term
feeding box" makes us think the box
may be too deep, causing the birds TO
feel that they are in some sort of trap.
The best type of feeder is simply a
little house, with removable roof through
which seed may be poured. and a small
door, or hole, at the bottom, through
which it will spill as eaten onto a plat
form with slight rim, over which the
songsters may hook their claws.
This type of feeder may be either on
the ground or on a stake not more than
feet high, or affixed to the side of a
garage. The platform, or porch, pref
erably should be all the way around the
house or box. This permits the birds
to ny in and out easily, without feel
Ing that they are in any danger.
Seed or grain on the ground is liked
by the birds just as well, sometimes we
think better, but it lacks any protection
from rain, or the SHOWS of winter. Since
winter feeding presents the best bird
spectacles. station should be planned
with this in mind.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Deadlock Over Oil

Acting Secretary of State Sumner
WelleS has addressed firm new de-
mand to the Mexican government
that it compensate the American oil
companies with "just and effective
payment" for their properties ex-
propriated in March, 1888.
American Mexican relations have
been disturbed the past seventeen
months not only by the oil question,
which is at the heart of American
capital investments in Mexico, but
by Mexican agrarian appropriations.
The land question is on the way to
settlement, Mexico having made the
first payment of $1,OOO,0OO on her
obligations to compensate fully for
property appropriated from for
eigners.
There remains, however, the ex-
tremely difficult issue of full COM
pensation, in line with the repeated
insistence of the American Govern
ment, for the appropriated American
oil properties. This dispute has now
flared into the open, after several
months of negotiations, over COM
promise plan which would provide
for control and operation of the oil
properties by a board of nine di-
rectors, three appointed by Mexico,
three by the oil companies, and three
chosen by the parties together from
a neutral panel nominated by the
governments of Mexico and the
United States.
This proposed compromise, which
Mr.. Welles now reveals was submitted
informally by this Government to
both parties, has been coldly received.
Mr.. Welles said in his press state
ment yesterday that "the discontinue
ance OF the present discussions can
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Canal Anniversary

twenty-five years ago today the
steamship Ancon passed through the
Panama Canal from Cristobal to
Balboa. It's negotiation OF the chan
nels and locks served notice upon
the world that the genius of man
had shortened the all-water route
from New York to San Francisco
by 1878 nautical miles. The great
est engineering feat of modern times
had been finished. A dream several
centuries old came true in the end.
The Canal cost approximately
$370,000,000 in money, ten years of
labor, not few precious lives.
But it has proven its worth con-
sistently month after month, in
terms of practical national defense
as we'll as in facility of travel and
transportation between the Atlantic
and the Pacific. Likewise, it has
demonstrated the power of the
human race to conquer circumstance.
Evening star., 1939-08-15

OF course, in no sense relieve the
Mexican government of it's obligation
to make prompt, adequate and effec-
tive compensation for the petroleum
properties which have been taken, If
the appropriation is to be regarded
as valid" but added: "At the same
time, however, this Government ex-
poets that it's own citizens with direct
interest in this controversy will give
the most ample and attentive consid-
Grafton to all constructive proposals
that are advanced to overcome the
difficulties now standing in the way
OF fair settlement of the controversy
which exists. In the rapid, fair and
equitable solution of this controversy,
the interests of their Government are
directly concerned"
The American Government is di-
rectly concerned, as Mr.. Welles points
out, because If this dispute continues
In its present status it will constitute
a material barrier" to friendly rela-
tions with the Mexican government.
Mexico has admitted its RESPONSE
billty under international law to
make compensation for appropriated
property, and has been negotiating
with the representative of the oil
companies, Donald Richberg, on the
basis OF five principles adopted last
January, one of which was conclusion
OF long-term contract under which
the American companies would de-
rive the profits from their properties.
The immediate conclusion of such
contract has proved impossible, so
divergent are the demands of the
Mexican government and the oil
companies for present and future
control of the properties. The Amer
lean Governments compromise is
apparently not satisfactory to either
side. In that situation, to spare
American relations with Mexico any
further damage, Mr.. Welles addresses
his insistence upon settlement of the
oil question to both the oil companies
and the Mexican government, while
repeating that the failure of the
compromise does not affect the obli-
cation of Mexico to make full COM
pensation.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Out of Bounds

Twenty-six years ago the Garfield
Park Conservatory in Chicago. set
out a century plant, a civic enter
prise undertaken with complete
altruism for the benefit of future
generations of Chicagoans who would
have chance to see it bloom in the
year 2013. There was no elaborate
ceremony in which Mayor Harrison
planted it in the presence of corps
of press photographers. Two years
later, when Big Bill Thompson in
herited it, it meant nothing to him
and his henchmen. A record of it
may have been filed in some musty
pigeon hole at City Hall, listing it as
a municipal asset, but If so it was
soon forgotten. The care and feed
ing of a century plant is not calcu
lated to attract politicians.
Last May, however, it went against
the form book and began to bloom.
Much fattered by the admiration it
received from visitors, it somehow
conceived the notion that they would
be still better pleased if it expanded.
From then on it's planned economy
went haywire, and it began to grow
up, up, and ever up, at the rate of be-
tween three and six inches day. At
the same time, this blooming nuis-
ance branched outward to such an
extent that it has fairly we'll crowded
all others to the wall. Apparently it
feeds on whatever it can get, and has
already reached a height of thirty
feet, where it is legally supposed to
stop, on account of the roof.
Its custodians are immensely proud
of it, and so gleeful over its growth
that they have now removed the
last obstacle to 1.-THE roof itself.
This was an easy matter, as there
are plenty of taxpayers in Chicago
to- bear the cost. Treasury experts,
invited in as guest commentators, are
unanimous in predicting an even
greater future for the plant. now
that the sky Is the limit.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Denies Texas Is Unanimous"
For Garner.

To the Editor of The Star.
have just come across some literature
with which Garner's hackers down In
Texas are flooding the country. One
sentence in particular caught my eye:
Our sentiment In Texas is unanimous
for our distinguished native son."
Now, always thought I knew what
the word unanimous meant, but ap-
parently was mistaken. For the entire
labor movement In Texas, to take but
one section Of the population, is dead
set against Garner.
So much for labor. But now q certain
newspaper, which is certainly no friend
Of the New Deal comes out with q poll
which it conducted in Gamers home
State, showing full IS per cent of the
people for third term for Mr.. Roose-
velt. Mr.. Garner was completely ig-
nored.
Did some one say "unanimous"2
August 10. WALDO MURATH.