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Evening star., 1940-07-09
Passing of the P. w. a.

unless continued by Congress or
utilized in some phase of the ma
tional defense progfam-alternatives
for which there is admittedly only a
forlorn hope-the once great Federal
Emergency Administration of Public
Works Is destined before many
months to pass finally and COM
pletely from the American scene of
action.
Abandoned by the New Deal after
it had performed effectively for
seven years ore of the most i'm
portant functions of the recovery
program, the P. w. A. now is to be
relegated to the scrap heap.
The handwriting appeared on the
wall year ago when the P. w. A.
was snatched from the protective
control of Secretary Harold L. Ickes
and was merged, for eventual liqui-
dation, in the newly created Federal
Works Agency. No one realized
better than Mr.. Ickes that the White
House had pronounced its death
sentence. Prior to the transfer he
had tried in vain to obtain an au-
thorization from Congress to con-
tinue its existence, in some form or
other, beyond June 80, 1941, the final
date fixed by law for its expiration.
President Roosevelt did nothing to
encourage him.
When transferred last summer,
the P. w. A. had reached the peak
of its second huge construction pro-
gram. 1t had trained and expert
enced staff of 10,400 employees when
the ak fell for the first time. Now
its staff is fewer than 2,40O. The
gigantic task charged to the agency
is practically complete. True to the
mandate given it by Congress, all
but few of the 6,156 projects in
its non-Federal program had been
completed before the June 80, 1910,
deadline. AS the remaining projects
are put into public use the process
of final liquidation will be speeded
up. The end is just around the
corner.
The reason for the P. w. A. death
sentence year ago was not so much
that it had outlived it's usefulness,
but rather that the New Deal had
decided to abandon it's costly and
none-too-successful pump printing"
efforts. The death sentence was
actually passed when the P. w. A.
was excluded from the 1941 Relief
Act and ignored in all construction
plans for national defense. The
Work Projects Administration, on
the other hand, is destined to play
an important role in defense pre-
paredness.
There is no need to recapitulate
the outstanding record of the P. w.
A. over these years. 1t has left
monuments of public usefulness in
practically every county of the
United States, and it is to the credit
of Secretary Ickes, who was it's
guiding spirit for six of it's seven
years, that the record is one of
which the Nation can be Justly
proud
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Says Americans Need
More Backbone.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Where are the good red-blooded
Americans? When we go to ball game
we root for our team. We do not sit
down and say the other team is better
than ours, our team is no good, we are
going to get licked. Is that the way to
win? Are we as Americans going to
sit down before the Nazis and root for
them unwittingly by saying, Don't hit
us, we have nothing to fight with"
We are Christian Nation. We have
God back of us; we have wealth and
we can make use of it if we will. We
need more Patrick Henrys, people who
have backbone; people who believe in
what they stand for and act like it.
We are those people and We can do
whatever is required of us.
June 20. AN AMERICAN.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Manufactured Incident

From all indications the Japanese
Army is endeavoring to manufac-
ture major grievance against the
United States as the result of the
arrest by American Marines of six
teen japanese gendarmes in the
American defense sector at Shanghai.
The armed gendarmes, in plain
clothes, had been sent into the
American defense sector without
notification to United States author
tiles. Their arrest properly followed,
and some force presumably was
used when three or four of the gen.
darmes resisted.
Upon the basis Of what appear to
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Opposes Reelection Of
Present Administration.
Cn the Editor of The Star.

We are today witnessing veriication
Of the truths that chickens come home
to roost, and that as we SOW, so shall we
reap.
Any one with the slightest vision
could have seen eight years ago that the
world was in a revolutionary ferment,
and that the ominous shadows of war
were deepening and spreading over Eu-
rope, which in their fruition were loaded
with repercussions dangerous to our po-
litical, economic and financial welfare,
and national security. And yet did we
do anything to prepare to meet them?
No. On the contrary, Mr.. Roosevelt and
his subservient Congress undertook all
kinds of Utopian experiments that have
almost exhausted the financial resources
of the Nation, and in the end we have
but little of practical value to show for
them, and have piled upon the backs of
the people mountain of debt that we
will in all probability never be able to
liquidate, and that will make it exceed
ingly difficult for us properly and ade-
quately to build up our national de-
fenses that are now imperative without
almost bankrupting the Nation.
Several years ago, Immediately after
the pump printing, boondoggling and
orgy of profligate spending and vote buy
ing began, I wrote several letters to the
papers pointing out the ominous clouds
on the international horizons and their
significance to us, and urging that in
stead of useless expenditures upon all
sorts of fanciful and non-liquidating
projects the money they were costing
should be largely devoted to building up
our national defense. I pointed out
that such expenditures would ramify
throughout our industries, promote re-
covery, make jobs for the unemployed,
and that in the end we would have
something worth while to show for the
use of the taxpayers money. But no,
Mr.. Roosevelt and the theorists he sur
rounded himself with had no ear or time
for constructive suggestions and their
only object appeared to be the pursuit Of
policies that would perpetuate them in
Office regardless of the welfare of the
country.
Indeed, the chickens have now come
home to roost and the evils in admin
istration and policies sown by the New
Deal are being reaped today in our de-
moralized system of industry, in our
social disintegration, and our terrible
financial plight, and utter unprepared-
ness to meet a situation that is threat
ening civilization and our own institu-
tions and liberties.
An administration that has so bungled
and mismanaged the affairs of the Ma
ton for eight long years is in my humble
opinion unworthy of further trust and
confidence, and as for me am frank to
say that I have no confidence in the
ability of Mr.. Roosevelt and his asso-
ciates, or in the present Congress, to meet
the very grave situation confronting us,
or to guide and direct proper and ade-
quate provisions for the defense of the
Nation. We have had enough Of the
New Deal. Let us replace 1t with a
square deal to business, labor, agriculture
and with equal rights for all and special
privileges for none. Then, and then only
will we be able to 90 forward In formulat-
Ing and achieving q rational and ade-
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Congressman Urged to Read
Revolution of Nihilism."
July II.

To the Editor of The Star:
In the world tribulations of today, I
wonder if Representatives and Senators
realize the aspirations of the Soviets,
the Nazis, the Fascists?
If the members of Congress have not
read Hermann Rauschning's "Revolu-
ton of Nihilism," please advise them,
particularly the isolationists, to do So
In not helping England we are con-
doning the aggressions of Germany
under a dictator who Systematically
breaks his word, instigates murders and
stops at nothing in his path to world
power.
Read this book about the aims of
national socialism written by a former
president of the Danzig Senate and
then stop Hitler" if it is possible.
June "a. CLARE M. BREED.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TrdceDell.

good-looking, neither going forward to a
jungle nor backward to sparseness Of
growth again.
Small fruit trees always attract birds,
and that whether they eat the fruits or
not.
There is just something eminently ma
tural about fruit tree. Specialists in
recent years have given us many new
forms of miniature fruits. which make
the best sort Of garden ornaments.
They also attract the birds.
The hollyhock, among the pefennials,
Is one of the best bird attracters, not
because they find anything to eat in it,
but simply because 1t is such an emf
nently natural sort of thing.
Some plants, above their fellows,
strike the observer as basic forms OF
plant life.
The hollyhock is one Of them. There
is something supremely natural, plain
honey, about the hollyhock. 1t acts
something like a biennial-that is, 1t is
best in the second blooming year, but if
not wiped out by the rust, which attacks
it, it will live and bloom for many years
The tall stalks, the pretty flowers and
the general growth of this plant make it
favorite of most persons, and of the
birds, too. we feel sure, although they do
not seek it.
We do not believe that position of the
bird bath plays any way near SO great
a part in use as the fact that it is in
yard filled with plenty of plant life
Of all kinds.
AS far as we have been able to figure
out, the birds do not much care for a
bath right out in the middle of the
yard.
They prefer the bath surrounded by
shrubbery. Often the basin nearest the
house is the most patronized.
AS to preference for elevated or
ground baths. all we can say is that
in some yards they like one the best,
in another the other type.
We have an acquaintance who has
several pedestal baths almost totally
unvisited by bird life Yet in our own
yard, in a shrubby corner, there is a
bath on a pedestal much visited by the
songsters.
We have two sunken baths, one an old
tile; this is the birds choice over the
other, neat bowl sunk flush with the
earth near gate. Song sparrows are
about the only ones which have used
this latter bath.
There aren't any hard and fixed rules
for the use of bird baths. We believe
that different conditions will prevail
which will give varying results, accord
ing to circumstances.
The thing to do is to be sure the
garden affords the birds that natural
feeling of some privacy which they would
get in the woods. The basic planting,
OF course, is tree of some kind. If
it is tree bearing fruit or berries, such
as the mulberry, there is Just that
much more chance of 1t attracting
feathered life. In the center of the
city we have seen wood thrush daint-
lily eating mulberries not two feet from
busy alley. Before this tree grew up
no thrushes had been seen there in
years.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Half Way to Heaven

Oh, let me linger In this lovely place
Where mountain treetops brush against
the sky;
Where crisp white clouds, edged with
rare shadow-lace,
Curtain each window-jauntily looped
high.
Here where thick leaves form archways
never doors
Fragrant wind tangles my uncovered
hair;
Children would love it-rompinr on grass
floors
With piney-folk Stars are a silver
stair
That we could climb to pray, with folded
hands
Touching Gods garden-gate. Dreams
would come true
Beneath this roof, deep-thatched with
sun. Quicksands
OF greed and hate dissolve when
shining blue
heaven Is near. Bird-music ouiets main
And Oh. Dear Lord, these tears are
only rain.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Suggests Short Enlistments
In Present Emergency.

To the Editor Of The Star:
We read in the papers that there are
as many as 300 soldiers in Alaska!
What this country needs is less big talk
and little common sense.
Why not do as President Harding did
to relieve unemployment after the first
World War-offer one-year enlistment
opportunities to those who want them?
Let us make an honest attempt to
get 100000 young men into the Army
for year.
Lots Of men do not want to be tied
up for three years but would welcome
a one-year enlistment.
Why do Congressman want to get away
from Washington in times like these?
Maybe they will be asked to stay home
later. They should! BAYART REID.
June 80.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Huskin Service
To Star Readers

reader can obtain the answer to
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Evening Star Information Service, Fred.
eric j. Haskin, director, Washington,
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quate defense of the Nation that has
become imperative if we are to preserve
our institutions and liberties and this
hemisphere from Nazi domination.
ALEXANDER S. LANIER.
r,,11
Evening star., 1940-07-09

There have been frequent recent
references to this time as frances
darkest hour since 1871" Compared
to the present tragedy, 1871 was a
sunburst.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ,ortter. although the use OF
a pSeudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserUes
the right to edit all letters Uith
q UieU to condensation.
Evening star., 1940-07-09

One of Poland's great weather ex-
perts has come to this country to
work. Maybe he can do something
about It.
Evening star., 1940-07-09

A. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of ell news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights OF publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Science for the Loymon

A 48-page booklet answering In lay
mans language questions about such
subjects as the stars, the weather, ami.
mails and plants.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Member of the Associated Press

Entered as second-class matter post ONCE,
Washington. q. C..
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@. How long do turtle eggs require for
hatching?-R. U. v.
A. The incubation period of the eggs
of American turtles is approximately
two months.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Meeting Of Teachers 10
Precede School Opening
Several Are
Mentioned In
Council Post

Names of several residents oil the
first ward have been mentioned Tor
the vacancy on the City Council tha'
resulted from the resignation several
DAYS ago OF J. w. Gill, who had re-
presented that part Of the city OH the
BOARD Tor several years.
Mayor Henry 7. Powell sad To-Day
no meeting had been called to elect
4 successor to MIR. Gill, and he APP
reared to be doubtful that one would
be, and thought probably the matter
would be allowed to stand until the
regular fourth Monday night meet
ING of the Council. Under the law,
the Council fills all vacancies that
occur in mid-tcrm, recipients hold
ING under that selection until the
next annual municipal election the
first Tuesday in May.
Among those whose names nave
been mentioned are Frank b. Powell
w. r. Trogdcn. S. j. Lane. Jr., W. II.
Aulbert and others. 1890
There has appeared to be little
cryStaiization of sentiment among
members of the Council us to 4
choice of successor to Mr.. Gill, ana
that may account for the fact that
no meeting has been called.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Four Negroes
Get Terms On
County Roads

Three Negroes drew road terms to-
day in county court before Recorder
R. Z. Clements, after they were con-
victed of theft of flour.
Sam Allen and Otis Vaughan drew
six months on the roads each for
theft of 90 pounds of flour from S.
B. Rogers Claude Allen was not
guilty of the charge.
In another warrant, Sam Allen and
Otis Vaughan drew three months on
the roads for theft of 48 pounds of
flour from w. B. Hight. the terms
to run concurrently with the six
months term. Claude Allen drew four
months for his part in the crime.
Charlie Sneed was given six
months on the roads for being drunk,
suspended upon payment of the
costs, a fine of $40, and not be con-
victed of violating any criminal law
in Vance county for the next two
years.
William Henry Green, Negro, was
tried on a charge sworn to in 1887,
and convicted. Green drew 18 months
on the roads for carrying a concealed
weapon and being disorderly.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Teacherage Is
Not Yet Ready

While most of the work on the new
city teachcrage has been completed,
there is yet something remaining To
be done, and which will require sew
eral days. In some parts Of the build
ing, the top flooring has not been
laid, but this is expected to be done
this week.
In any event, the teacherage will
not be ready for use of the women
of the city school faculty when they
arrive tomorrow or Wednesday fol
initial meetings preceding start OF
the term on Thursday Of this week
Those who were here last year will
live in homes where they had quar-
tiers last year for possibly a month
until the teacherage is ready for then
occupancy. There are only two mem,
bers of the high school faculty, and
no new members of the grammar
school groups. Arrangements have
been made for accommodations toI
the two new teachers pending COM
Dletion of the teacherage.
Furniture for the new building has
been bought but has not yet been
received. 1t is expected in ten days OF
two weeks. Furnishings are costing
around $4,000, according to Super
intendcnt E M. Rollins. This was
bought in High Point, and will be
shortly shipped.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Usual Cases
Before Mayor

The usual variety of charges for
a Mondays session of city court
greeted Mayor Henry T. Powell to-
day.
l.. H. Mcdowell was guilty of Civ
ing a worthless check for SIP, drawn
upon the Citizens Bank and Trust
Co., to Leggett'S Department Store.
He was taxed with the costs, and the
check.
James McGhee, Negro, entered Il
plea Of guilty to aSSaulting Eliza
beth Davis. and prayer for judgment
was continued upon payment Of the
costs.
Entering a plea Of guilty to speed
ing. Bryant Robertson was taxed with
the costs.
Earl Groom was guilty of drinking
tintoxicants in a public place, and
prayer for judgment was continued
upon payment of the costs.
Sadie Holt, Negro, paid the costs
for being drunk.
Johnnie Joyner went to the roads
for thirty days for being drunk.
Clifton Richardson, Negro, was not
guilty when tried on charge Of be-
ing drunk and diSorderly.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Pegram Hurt
When Struck
.ByAutomobile

w. R. Pegram, IS, is said to be
resting comfortably at Maria Parham
hospital, where he is recuperating
from injuries sustained about 7.3O
O'Clock Saturday night when he was
struck by an automobile driven by
Richard E. Cooper.
Pegram is said to have been dash
ing across U. S: Highway NO. IN
the vicinity Of the Henderson Ice
Co. plant, and in front of an APP
preaching automobile.
Cooper was passing the automobile
which Pegram was racing to cross
the road in front of. Pegram dashed
into the path of the Cooper automo-
bile and was knocked down. Cooper
Immediately rushed the injured man
to the hospital.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Progress Of
Post Office
Enumerated

During seven years under Post
master General James A. Farley,
the United States postoffice depart
ment has built its finances from a
deficit of $l53,000,000 TO a net ag-
gregate surplus of $39,638, 1882, the
outgoing postal head announced in
the Postal Bulletin. Mr.. Farley has
resigned his post.
Revenues and expenditures have
been brought into balance, with re-
spect to services rendered in the pub
lie for hire, he said. A total of S.
219,135, 436.36 was for salaries; ST.
lO7,972, ADOPT, for mail transporta-
ton, and $258,917 ,4O1.78 for purchase
of supplies and rendition Of other
services.
Accomplishments mentioned are:
reduction of the work week from "A
to 40 hours, expansion of air mail
service, including iour-lold in
crease in air mail poundage; erection
of 500 postoffices at an expenditure
of approximately $315, 000,000; 'isSu-
ance of new and more attractive
stamps and a resulting increase in
sales to stamp collectors from $780,
600 to $4,00O,000 per year generally
termed clear profit to the depart
ment); addition of several hundred
thousand miles to rural mail routes,
increasing patrons served by 3,00O,-
600, and stabilizatiom of the position
of postmaster by legislation which
put first, second and third class Of
flee heads under civil service.
In addition, he continued, the de-
partment handled and paid millions
Of bonus dollars to veterans; regis
tered workers under the social secur-
ity program; sold millions Of dollars
worth of federal savings bonds for
the treasury department; took a
census of the unemployed; shipped
several billions of dollars in gold for
the treasury and sold hunting IL
censes for the department of agricul-
ture.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Negro Girl
Hurt When
Hit By Car

Rebecca Howard, a Negro girl
about elk years old, was discharged
today from Jubilee hospital, where
she has been undergoing treatment
since early Saturday evening for in
iuricS sustained when she was struck
by an automobile driven by {. S. M,
Gates in the MOBILE section to the
south of the city.
Gates was goin soutr and had just
passed an automobile when the child
dartcd from behind parked a'Iomo-
bile at the Red Front Store, and into
the path Of the Gates car.
The child was knocked down and
bruised, but not seriously hurt.
Gates took the child to Jubilee hiss
nital immedi; lsly after the acct
dent.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
May Change
Routing Of
No. l In City

Possibility that routing Of ,bo
llc'IH, hIs''Way through the ci,v
might be changed somewhat ivy NY
that laid out by State highv,,v a Y,'
gineers several months ago aino, ,lI
today. 1t was understood enai,n,.'
were here toward the las, H( r..
week making further inspcc,ion ' ~
proposed routings. -
One possibility mentioned yas .l,.,
an effort might be made 10 a,,,,n ,."
direction that would bring ,hn r ~
posed new routing in through ho
western fringe Of North Hcndcr.nr
to strike an extension of Nor,L
Chestnut street, and tina, Cho.,,",
might be the route through ,hc ri,v
This might be extended through 40
western section to tunnel tho tr,c,..
of the Southern Railway. then uIr
out into the Oxford highway 10 :,
connection with Route ! somcwhcro
south of the city limits.
Information on this project WIS M,
at all definite. But it admitted ,s
speculation following the visit #
highway engineers.
Just when a decision might he
reached, or when something definite
might be expected was as uncertain
as ever. But it is understood ,hat
latest considerations Of the routing
would take less of the playground
of the North Henderson school than
the original survey. This has been
an obstruction to first plans and the
county school board has not given
its consent to a slcing Of the school
grounds for routing of the pro-
posed new highway lane.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-09-09
Prayers For
Peace Said.
In Churches

Ministers and others in Henderson
churches led their congregations Sum
day in observance of President Roose
velt's appeal for Il day of prayer Tor
world peace. In one or two instances
there were brief silent prayers pre-
cedng the one in which the minis
ter led his congregation.
In Sunday school lessons the sig
nificancc of the day was emphasized
by reference to biblical promises of
Gods help and guidance when called
upon by the people.
Attendance at services was scarce
ly more than usual Oh the occasion,
however, and those who had hoped
tor generous response on the part
of the public voiced some disappoint-
mCnt III that respect.