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tttm THE ST ATESVILLE RECORD, STAf ESVILtR N. C. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY FIGHT AGAINST THE DREADED AFTERMATH OF THE FLOOD SERUM CHECKS PLAGUE child is Inoculated against fever at a refugee hospital in Louisville. An army of Red Cross nurses and doctors worked to combat fever, influenza and pneumonia in regular and relief hospitals.

In this city, hundreds of bodies were buried without identification, so great was fear of contagion. TO TAKE STEPS TO SAVE SHAD Will GiveTiin Opportunity to Spawn in Larger Numbers Raleigh, N. Feb. (UP) Inland waters will make their contribution to the expansive program for restoration of the valuable shad Industry in North Carolina, according to J. D.

Chalk, state game and inland fisheries commissioner. iSenson limits for taking shad and herring In Inland waters must now conform with those of the state's commercial waters, with the end In view of giving the shad in larger numbers a.n opportunity to spawn. Chalk said. Since the Inland waters provide much of the spawning grounds for these flshes, Chalk said, it was felt that restrictions should be placed here ae well as in commercial llm. its so as to- rehabilitate the fisheries.

CARL BAILEY APPOINTED Sheriff John White Moore announced Saturday that Deputy Sheriff Carl Bailey had been appointed to succeed Mrs. T. M. burton as jailer. Mr.

Bailey assumed his duties Monday at the local jail. WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK FLOOD IRONY water robbing them of homes and property, residents of Cincinnati haven't enough water to drink, with it turned on only one hour a day In the city's mains. People went un- bathed and unshared for days. Here they fill buckets and jars from artesian wells in a brewery, but note the warning sign. Brief Life Sketch of Robert Burns (By D.

P. Allison) January twenty-fifth marks' the on hundred seventy eighth anniversary of one, who is conceded by many to be the, greatest poet of the English speaking race, If not of the world, "Robert Burns. In writing, this sketch on Burns, the writer in a measure feels himself handicapped, not by lack of material because his biographers have been many, but rather in fear that he will bet accused of vain repetition and twice or thrice told tales. Aside from being familiar with many of the biographies of Burns, my knowledge of the great poet has been supplemented by stories handed down in my family, relative to many phasete. of his Sife.

My maternal grandfather, the late Francis Brown, was of the Browns of Dumfireshire, Scotland, where Agnes Brown, the mother t. of Burns was born, the daughter of a Carrick farmer. My first love of poetry was in- Stilled in me by my grandfathtr, when he would repeat his poems with a "burr" on hie tongue that would make a Scotch-man sick. William Burns of Burness, father of Robert, was of the north of Scotland where his ancestors for many generations had been. farmers in Kincandlne-shire.

As a young man. he spent some years In Edinburgh later moving to the south where 'he married, the above mentioned Agnes Brown. They took a small farm in the adjodn- ing county of Ayr near Alloway and It was there that RJobert Burns was born on January twenty-fifth 1759. Burns received. a common school education, he was a voracious reader of books and was largely se'lf taught, graduating from the university of hard knocks, which after all Is better than any sheepskin or degree handed out toy any institution of learning.

It is said that he worked problems in Calculus for recrea- tion. As a boy he followed in the footsteps of his forbears, that of farming and is therefore known as the p'lowboy poet. As a genius i of expression, according to some I of the world's greatest literary Burns has never had a I peer. Hie versatility was ed, he composed freely on poli- tics, religion, art, science, nature, or the quirks and indlosyncrasies of those whom he knew personally or, by reputation. In hie elgh- teeu years of writing he composed some three hundred seventy five poems, many of them the most beautiful and thought inspiring that have come down to us through the years.

His temperament was truly Scotch, writing one poem with all the warmth of an affectionate nature and in. the next forgetting or ignoring his generosity, and with all the biting sarcasm and ridicule at which he was a master. Some faults of We nature might well be termed virtues, for by them he brought before his public i some very pertinent and timely I facts, that often was the runner of neede'd reform in gov- I ernment and social life. The government of G-reat Brl- 3 tain, in Burns day was an abso- lute monarchy, but his voice raised in behalf of the common people was as one crying in. the wilderness, "make thy paths straight." He was followed some years later by Sir Walter Scott, a fellow countryman, and later in England by Macauley and Dickens.

It waa such men. as these that the foundation of the present British government, which is not only a very limited monarchy but a liberal democracy as well. The "Twa Dogs," one of his first poems is a satire on the idle rich and their oppression of the poor, and showed at that early day in the life of the poet, jUst, which way the wind blew as far as he was concerned, and in after years when, he was the most quoted and talked of man in Scotland, riding the top wave of popularity, he never deviated from the course he had charted in ad- An incident is often related of Burns which shows hie outspoken opinion of those who carry their until it develops (or perhaps degenerates would be better word) Into snojbbery. fbte occasion Euros walking down Prince's Street in Edinburgh with Lord Skeene, a young and very dissolute nobleman, when suddenly without excuse or a "by your leave, my lord," Burns ran across the street and threw his arms around an old farmer and engaged him in conversation for some time; on rejoining: his Lordship he was asked why he ran off without apology to speak to an old countryman and Burns with his eyes flashing replied, "Sir, that man was an old friend of 'mine and has a noble character and a heart of gold, while you sir, have no character to boast of. What a rebuke to snobbery! Some will say that Burns was an uncouth boor, but Sir Walter Scott says of him he was the most highly educated and cultured gentleman he had: ever met.

How refreshing it would be if more of us were as outspoken as Burns and thus help to eliminate some of the hyypocrisy of (this present day, or as Burns himself would put it: wadl some power the Giftde gie us, Tae see ousel's as ithers Burns had no especial style or verse, his poems ran the gamut of expression in Lyrics, Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, and Vers Libre. He has been called by some American Cfritic, the peasant poet, this is a misnomer? as there is no peasant class in Scotland, anymore than in America. Burns ancestry 1 on both sides was of that sturdy middle class folk that are the brain and brawn and backbone of any country. Burns is described as being five foot ten inches in height and weighing around one hundred sixty five pounds. Dark auburn hair and hazel eyes, and was more of the brunette type than otherwise.

Like all Scots he was independent to a marked degree, bowing the knee to none but his Creator, to him a man was just a man for a' that and a' that. Like all his countrymen he was no lover of the House of Hanovier, the ruling house of Great Britain and in one of his most satirical poems refers to George the third "That idiot scion of a bastard raae." During the American Revolution he was in sympathy with the cause 1 of the Colonies and narrowly, escaped trial for treason on two Had Burns lived our own southland in 1861, would have been perfectly at home for he was naturally a secessionist and was never) satisfied with things as they especially if he could find any excuse of grievance. At a meeting among friends one night, he was asked to drink a toast to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham who was at the time Chancellor of the British Exchequer, and Burns replied to the amazement of all present, that he would drink a toast to a far better man "George Washington." The love of Scotsmen and their descendants for the fatherland ia proverbial and 1 in this respect Burns was no exception to the rule, some of his most beautiful poetry is about hie beloved Scotia. In that pastoral epic of Scottish rural life, "The Cotters Saturday Night," the poet lays bare the very throbbing heart of Scotland, That poem is an answer to the oft repeated why is Scotland great? Why has Scotland led the world in H-S religious thought and produced more great preachers than any other country large or small? The reason is that the home life that Burns writes about, and which is he rule and not the exception is bound to bear fruit. There are some, whom Burns would classify as the "unco guid," that will say that Burns was a drunkard and a As for hia drinking, he was not a confirmed alcoholic, although periodically he did drink to excess.

But in this he was not different from Shakespeare or our own Edgar Allen Poe, so why single out Burns for criticism. He was far greater than either. Burns was an admirer of the fair sex, but it was more on paper than otherwise, his poems on My Chloris," "My Bonnie P-egrgy Allison." and many more dedicated, to the tender passion, mark him as the greatest lover of his time. If this is a crime, the-a mea are crimi- WHAT THE FLOOD WATERS DID TO THIS SMALL TOWN FLOOD SURGES SOUTH a small town near Memphis, lies under ice and water. This picture shows the deserted business street as merchants closed shops and carried wares to top stories.

Bitter cold added to the misery of. flood refugees. nals. It is true that Burns wrote of the desirable virtues, that if he possessed himself, he often failed to practice. Burns was brought up in the established church of Scotland (Presbyterian) but after he was sixteen years of age there is no record of his affiliating with any religious organization.

It has been said by some that he was an infidel but! that falsehood is forever nailed, by the fact that he was a member of the Masonic Order. He was also an, of fleer in a local militia company. The great philosopher Socrates said 'Know thyself," and Burns knew himself better than anyone else. He knew his temperament, his fancies and weaknesses, and it was possible because of this knowledge that he never Joined a church, feeling that if he did and then made a mis step he would have the finger of scorn pointed at him and. bring down undeserved; censure, on the church.

Not wanting to be classed with the modern Pharisees that have brought 'ridicule on the Church, both in his day and ours, led him to write that bit of churchmaa am Burn's knowledge of the Bible was profound. It wae his constant companion and inspired some of his finest verse, such as the para- phrasisng of the ninetieth psalm and the twenty third psalm and Scriptural quotations through many others. He studied the Book, not as a critic but 'because he loved it, he loved the teaching of the gentle Nazarene and tried to live toy the rule, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Carlyle, one of his most severe critics says of him that he was one of nature's noblemen and possessed a quiet dignity unequalled by any. Ho was a master of the lish language, but wrote best In his own broad Scots dialect. plumbed the depths, of all human emotions, from his humorous "Tarn O'Shanter" and "Halloween," the patriotic fervor of "Scots What Hae," the bitter invective of his political verse and then reaches down to your very heart strings with his "Highland Mary" and 'My daughter in.

Heaven" and "John Andereon My Jo." Speaking of hlsj personal character Carlyle says that his vices as compared to his virtues was comparable to a fly on an Scott says that his vices were but the vices of hie time and were caused more 'by environment than heredity. Burns can truthfully be called the first apostle of the new deal in the eighteenth century, for with his pen he started people to thinking and when people begin to think, it naturally follows that some action will be taken. This proves that the pen is mightier than the sword, Burns poems have been translated intp many languages, he to the Idol of the Scotch people and his poems next to the Bible are their consolation and delight. In January 1798 he was stricken with rheumatic fever and lingered until July 81 of that year and 'passed away surrounded by hia children in, bis thirty-eighth, year. PARIS STYLES By MARY FENTRESS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS The winter sports season is in full force in the French and Swiss Alps and every large couture house In Paris is rushing to fill orders for new ski clothes.

Very masculine attire still remains the smartest choice for winter sports wear, as it is warm and practical. One of the smartest of these new costumes has plus fours of a tannish yellow heavy wool, a tailored, mannish shirt of brown wool and a yellow flannel four- in hand tie. The brown and white plaid wool jacket is tailored exactly like a man's coat with two hip and one breast pockets. Brown woolly socks, brown woolly gloves and a wide (brown leather belt complete the costume. The gabardine gaiters that lace up the side of the foot are practical accessories which keep the eki shoes and socks from absorbing too much moisture.

Jackets, sweaters and blouses of varying weights are made to complete the winter sports wardrobe. A light weight, turtle neck sweater of red. blue, yellow, green and black plaid is worn with a heavier, sleeveless sweater of solid almond green. A natural colored chamois jacket can supplant the woolen jacket. This one fastens with a zipper' while the shoulder seams, round neck, cuffis and four pock- ete are outlined with a rude peasant stitching in brown.

For dinner and dancing one changes to a hand knit, lightweight sweater of brown wool that is made with short sleeves and a round neck. It Is worn with a sleeveless vest of brown and white printed wool and a flame-colored scarf. Soft, ankle- high brown suede shoee make dancing comfortable. TODAY'S FASHION TIP Plus fours are the most popular style in the new ski pants. During' the funeral service his son Maxwell was born.

Ha was buried with full military and Masonic honore in Dumfries where in the first years of his married, life he lived in the direst poverty and later rose to the heights of fame. Today on the public square of that beautiful city, stands, the magnlficlent tomb and monument of Robert Burns "Friend of Man." No tour of Scotland is complete without a trip to the Burns country, and there are as many people who visit his birth-place in Ayr and his tomb in Dumfries as visit the home of George Washington at Mount Vernon Virginia. "Here sleeps In peace, the rustic bard, Who penned the deep effusions of his heart, By the praise of men, a soul un-marred, He waits the resurrection morn." Burns left In his writings the ideal he etrived for but never reached. Let us ju4ge him by Gully Control an Aid In Bird Conservation Methods recommended by the Soil Conservation Service for trolling gullies on. North Carolina farms offer an excellent opportunity for increasing wildlife, ac- yxxrding to the State College Extension Service.

How these methods of gully erosion control were adapted to favor wildlife development on the farm of J. M. Knox, one of the cooperators in the Charlotte demonstration area of the Soil Conservation Service, is explained by Sydney Franklin, junior biologist. Gullies on the farm, large and small, were planted with hardy s'hrubs such as wild plum, wild rose, privet, and coralberry in the BRIEF ITEMS OF HUMAN INTEREST British Shun Canada LONDON of interest in immigration in is deplored by the British Dominions Emigration Society in its annual report. "For the fiscal year endnig 1 March 31st last," the report states, "the.

total number of people, entering Canada was 11,103. Of these 2,049 wero British and the remainder foreigners." Gobbler Blocks Flue YALE, Okla. Cox built a fire la his, wood stove. The smoke started billowing out into the room instead of going up the chimney, and all of. Cox's manipulations with the damper were futile.

When the smoke became so thick that he was driven from the house, Cox saw an old gobbler on the chimney. Some as 13 Trumps MILL CITY, Ore. happens once in a lifetime. Playing contract bridge, Mrs. J.

P. Potter dealt this hand to Mrs. R. F. Saucier: ace, king, queen, jack, ten and three small diamonds; the ace and king of hearts, the ace and king of clubs and the ace of spades.

Mrs. Saucier made a grand slam in diamonds. Co-ed Knows Apples MINNEAPOLLIS at the University of Minnesota agree that pretty Ella Toenberg should know her Ella is the only woman student in the university's department of horticulture. She wants' to be a floral designer and a landscape gardener. Professor Invites Hate EUGENE, Ore.

Os- winter and early spring in 1935. car J. Marder, recent addition to The plantings were made across the gully bottoms in such a way as to act as living dams. The gullies were then seeded to a mixture of common and sericea in a ratio of about four to one in favor of tht common variety. The ground was prepared by raking before and after seed- Ing and the seeded areas were mulched with pine needles and brush to hold the seed In place until vegetation became established.

These plantings provided both food and cover for wildlife, and In order to round out the program several areas along field borders and other waste spaces not ordinarily used for cultivation were planted to cowpeas, millets and sorghums. This variety of plantings was designed to furnish food throughout all seasons. Erosion in goillles and galled spots about the farm was completely controlled by these methods. Inspection after the vegetation became firmly established showed that these areas were being extensively used by quail and other species of birds, Franklin said. LUTHERAN CONVENTION CLOSED The second semi-annual convention of the northern conference of the Lutheran.

Synod of North Carolina closed Friday at the Holy Trinity Lutheran, church in Troutman. Rev. Cf. L. Shipton, of Richmond, Va.

made an address at the Friday session and the sermon was delivered by Rev. Olin 'Swicegood, of Cleveland. Loyalty to church causes were discussed by Rev. C. N.

Yount, of Faith and Mr. Charles Heilig, of Salisbury. Rev. D. F.

Swicegood, of Salisbury delivered the address at the closing service Friday afternoon. A good attendance was had at the session, a large representation, of all churches in this district of the synod being present. A Good Example For two hours he had been the pest of the party. His imitations wero terrible, ranging anywhere from George Arliss to a humming bird. In a far corner had been eitting the man with the screwed- up face.

"What would you like to me Imitate now?" asked the bore, man moved, He spoke. How about ground, ho? that's the University of Oregon history faculty, said he aspired to attain the title of being "the most hated professor on the campus." "I propose to accomplish this rank by having abominal high standards." he explained. Legal Safeerocrker Called BEND, Ore. emergency call for safecrackers was necessary here when two new safes Avere installed in the offices of the countyv clerk and county treasurer. While the officials were away for the week-end, the safes were installed.

Safe company workmen forgot to leave the combination. School Geography Scrambled, CLEVELAND (UP) teaching school in Chagrin Falls, Geauga county, Mrs. Jessie Wolcott lived in Summit county and drew her salary from Portage county. Her pupils were from Cuyahoga county, Starlings Invade Texas FORT WORTH; Tex. Influx of starlings, tiny birds that for four decades have lived in lorthern and eastern states, hreatens to become a "plague" in North Texas.

Soviet Buy U. S. Cattle NOVOROSSIISK, U.S.S.R. (UP) consignment of pedigree cat- le purchased in America has been brought to Novoroasiisk. The stock is to be sent to collective and state farms.

Old Bicycle Permit Saved PAINESVILLE. O. F. G. Perry owns a bicycle rider's pernjit for 1899, issued by the county auditor, and granting F.

G. Perry the right to ride a bicycle, Pullet Lays 7-Inch Egg HAMILTON. Ont. egg measuring'6 inches in circumference and inches long was laid by a leghorn pullet owned by Frank Whltley, of Hamilton. Dairyman Shocked When He Finds Cows Shocked RACING DRIVER HOPES TO BUILD 350 M.

P. H. CAR Juggernaut Envisioned by Ab Jenkins Not Assembled Yet By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent CONNERlSVILLE, Ind. (UP) Ab Jenkins, American's hope to Detter the world land speed record held by Sir Malcolm Camp- aell, works daily with a corps of engineers on body designs of a new (twin-motored, racing car expects to exceed 3GO m.p.h. In his famous Bluebird, Campbell attained a new mark of 301 m.p.'h.

on, thei Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah in 1935. "Many technical problems on the cars still are unsolved, but I believe it will -hit 35p or 360 m.p.h. without any difficulty," Jenkins eald. "Naturally, I plan to use the same 13 mile straightaway Campbell used. It's the best speedway surface in the world." Holds 144 Records Jenkins holds 144 speed and endurance records set last summer an oval course on the Utah salt beds.

This will be his first major attempt with a super-powered car. "One of the chief problems in designing a racing car capable of exceeding 350 is to keep it balanced at terrific speeds," he said. "At this speed a car has; a tendency to take off like an airplane, thus throwing off the steering. It's going to be just as hard figure a design for brakes powerful enough to stop a from, 350 m.p.h." To Test Giant Engines Jenkins, an adviser in the experimental department of ah automobile company, said he planned to install two 1,800 horsepower engines on a 200 inch wheelbase chassis. WHndtunnel tests on the body design already are under way and final tests likely will be accepted late in February, Jenkins said.

"We plan to use a horizontal to keep the front of the car from sailing off the ground," the veteran driver explained. "For the brakes, something new be designed. Ordinary brake matter how strong are out of the question. Wings as Brakes "I am having flaps, or side wings, similar to those on an airplane, fixed up to assist in the braking. These hinged wings will be operated by a lever and pulled open, by the motor when I want to stop.

It may take a lot of experimenting before we get what we want." Jenkins sought aid from several of the nation's leading engineers, including Augie Duesenberg. He said he also planned to rebuild his Mormon Meteor, in which he established, his 144 marks ast year, and attack all records from 10 miles to 24 hours. TARBORO, Jan. 28 Berry Lewis was shocked when he found two of the best cows at hia dairy barn dead. He leaned against the sheet metal wall to ponder the situation and an electric shock floored him.

Lewis found some wiring had come in, contact with the charging them. The Home-Made Auto Goes Six Miles on a Pint CLEBURNE, Tex. makeshift "toy" automobile that really runs amazed adults and chillren alike here when itsyounff inventor, Dan Flynn, made a trial run through the, business district. Flynn's auto, among other things, has the following parts: A washing machine engine for power. An apple box coaster wagon chassis.

A pint fruit-jar for a gasoline tank. A cardboard motor hood. The machine will travel 12 milea an hour and will go about six miles on -its pint of Flynn, built the car in his back yard In three days. Woman, 108, NEW BEDFORD, Though she recently her 102 birthday anniversary, Mrs. Catherine T.

enthusiastic Sbe.