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kktw' If fci i i aaiirilhi imwki! jiaM fc-' iinMi-hUri--m PAGE SIX THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER -The Foremost Newspaper in The Carolinas- THURSDAY MARCH 8 1934 SECTION ONE wn mtk iifc (Tljc CIrarloHc (Obstruct STRANGE AS IT SEEMS BY JOHN H1X Reg Pat Oft EetahlUhed la IR69 65th Year of Puhlicatloo The Human Side BY KEMP JR President Publisher Editor Associate Editor Munuglng Editor News Editor Curtis Johnson Wado Harris Julian 8 Miller James A Parham Ernest Hunter MEMBER OE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Frees ts exclusively sntUleo to the tire for publication of sil news dispatches credited to it or rot otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published therein SIBSCRIPTIONS PAYAHIE IN ADVANCE Rates by Mull in the Ho Carolina: fihSolINfc A6 AN emosivE 16 10 POWERFUL 1 WAN tHT Daily and Sunday Sunday Only Delivered by Carrier i'Oo per week 610 per year Above rates applicable to eubscrlpttons in the two Carollnaa only Rates for subscriptions to more distant eonee quoted on request Address label on mailed copies shows expiration date Renewal should be lent in time to prevett Interruption In service Always give old ss well ss new address when ordering change made News 0 Pictures and Players Once in a great while Hollywood outdoes Uses' and produces a motion picture that establishes a new high mark in genuine entertainment Such a picture is Happened One in which CLAUDE TTE COLBERT and CLARK GABLE are co-starred Never before have these two artists appeared in such a delightfully refreshing vehicle In producing this picture the movie tycoons have set a standard that will be extremely difficult to maintain HOWARD WILSON age 22 of Birmingham Alabama hitch-hiked his way to Hollywood because he couldn't get a job in Birmingham and landed a contract with Paramount four weeks after his arrival Such things happen about once in a decade "Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage is now in production with CHARLOTTE HENRY playing the part of Lovey Mary THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 8 1934 KMPMCk CHB1S1 FOB ALL FOB LHKIST MUSICAL IHSTSUMFmT imiENTEP bV StNlFRAuKUH wfys piAvep 3S toping Itte A6AIN6T devolving SIA6S CV LINDENS BORROW FOR SIN: Lord my God Her me For I am ready to halt I will declare mine Iniquity I will be eorry for my sin Realm 38 15 18 FAIR-MINDED LEADER George Sloan who has pioneered the textile industry into profitable operation under the code evidently has been mindful of the scriptural admonishment to "let us be honest in It might not have been agreeable to some of the old line captains of industry but it was at least an honest confession on part of Mr Sloav that the industry had been threaded with many evils before the code came along At the same time it is an established fact that many of these evils have been obliterated and the industry placed on a basis reflecting fairness alike to owners and employes to the greater profit of each side under operation of the code Mr Sloan had knowledge of the sore spots in the industry and lent his influence to their eradication The wisdom of his course has been proved to the satisfaction of the captains of industry many of whom are coming around to further views in support of the limitations of hours for which he has developed an active championship It is the observation by The New York Journal of Commerce that the progress so far made after only a six trial of the code speaks well for the judgment of the industry in co-operating with the NRA Employment within the cotton textile industry has been largely increased while wages have been greatly advanced Control over machine-hour production has permitted operations on a remunerative basis Wool and silk manufacturers were slower than cotton mills in putting their codes into effect hut progress there too has been unmistakable Improvement in rayon yarn and fabric finishing has been impressive in every particular The hectic rush to produce regardless of accumulating stocks and consumer resistance has given wray to control of output in each case On the question as to whether the NRA will continue to operate successfully for the industry Mr Sloan with his usual frankness says it is yet too early to give answer but of us who date not contemplate its failure place our hope in the fearless and able leadership that has so far characterized its admimstiation in a never-failing recognition of the partnership relation between the Government and industry in an ungrudging public willingness to assume the necessary higher costs attendant upon these efforts to improve the National purchasing power and finally in wholehearted and unstinted co-operation on the part of labor as well as Looks to us as if existing situations in some pf-ts of the country close at home as for example Shelby and Spindale might be improved if the Government should send Suan out on the circuit to talk to both managers and employes HIT AMI PHIIOSOPHF These modern gii-elmcs may tie all riht but those old Spanish rales used to yo three thousand mile on a galleon iprsi i lie Recoul A Kansas nty (rjstal gaier atreated for fortune telling took his metal to lail with him Nmv mabe be can aee his wav out Edinburg Valley Renew Irtt see uses 22 Different muscles vmeh it -ST1N6S DRV POCK ii ot At tKe 0M Of fUMPY 60 DOROTHY DELL was born on a plantation near Hattiesburg Mississippi RANDOLPH SCOTT is the star hoarder in the home of honeymooners CARY GRANT and VIRGINIA CHER-RILL (who wed last month In London) CARL BRIS- SON conceited and greatly overrated Danish actor who has been such a success on the London stage is now in Hollywood playing the leading role in the cine-matization of Earl Carroll's "Murder at the EVELYN VENABLE is said to he the only vegetarian in Hollywood LANNY ROSS while a student at Yale University was a member of the Yale quartette During the World War EARL CARROLL served in the aviation corps for two years in France KING BAGGOT one-time star and director of many long-remembered pictures occasionally gets a day's work as an extra His glory gone he has no resentment hut seems happy in merely earning enough for the hare necessities of life CHURCH UNION IGNIFICANT not only of the general trend of the moods and aspirations of the times but of the growing attitude of intimacy between divergent church bodies is the movement to bring about the organic union of the Presbyterian Church of the United States and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of he South This effort has reached the dramatic stage of having been definitely proposed by a conjoint committee of these two denominations which for years have been seeking to agree on some basis that might he proposed to their respective higher judicatories That in itself is not tantamount to the union in mind but it is at least a tangible movement in the direction of the objective of the organic consolidation of these two faiths The basis upon which in the estimation of these committees the bodiea might unite has been unanimously determined upon and accepted by the commission That is definite progress It is an accomplishment never before reached Opposition even within the committee itself had previously been voiced and there had been attempts to go so far as to dismiss the conferences and reject the entire enterprise The unanimity which has now been attained within the commission appointed by the two higher courts of these churches to deliberate upon the project of union may therefore be considered as a vital and significant step in the direction of the actual consummation of the unity proposed at an early date Other than the new spirit of a growing liberalism among churchmen'figures in this movement although that is a factor not to be despised The cardinal differences that have always existed between these two branches of the Presbyterian faith are virtually negative with the single exception of the use of an inspired psalmody in public worship The Associate Reformed Pieshyterian Church has held to the principle that no other form of praise was allowable whereas other Presbyterian branches have long ago dismissed this contention as a basic element of separatism That the attitude of members of this churrh toward this issue has been gradually changing within these late years has been a matter of general observation and knowledge The United Fresbytenan Church of the North which was the companion denomination of the Seceders in the South opened its doors to hymnal praise some years ago and even in the Southern branch individual members have rather generally disregarded the tenet of their official faith on this matter Rut other factors have played too in the equation not the least of which is the economic presame being felt in the maintenance of denominational enterprises missionary and educational within the same territory a duplication of effort on reduced financial resources The movement is praiseworthy from any consideration A more united front on the part of all churches would increase their effectuality This is no day in the face of the militant challenges which the Protestant Church is confronting to be showing hostility and divisiveness among themselves especially when such separation is based upon hardly more than either traditional or geographical lines There are more than 200 different denominational faiths in America The worldling looking upon a conflict of credal positions is confused as to which to accept and therefore questions the rationality or accepting any so long as such a condition of differences abounds A united organization for Christianity would have its hands full in a world so replete as ours is today with personal social moral and religious problems' An ununited worse than a hostile and antagonistic attitude among the various faiths makes the primary task of the Church all the more insuperably difficult Iff Naught Syndic! ln 3-6-34 'Igs until fhe rpPVnted mdes oil muM- ngen rt in id in fh FU of Knrdv hishor than at nnv other point on the rnait Its and fall are gieat that water rii'-hM through patN of the bay at 9 milfe an hour when the tide romee In owners make use of the tide as a natural They cart thir boats rear hnre wbt'e the t'de is in th remove barrel's while the ts rut gnrdirg the Rvs'e Tho frumsnt was pined hv rapid turning the wbuh were wet with ram water a-nd holding the or ad then another of the glasses Fran 1 a i a now in th- ban Museum of A Nr 4 Tork SERIOUS IF TRUE If the charge which is virtually made In black and white In the Open Forum section of The Observer is to be accepted namely that a definite movement is on foot to raist the rate of the sales tax from three to five per cent and that public schools may be shunted wholly over to this tax for support the people would do well to open their eyes to the implications of such a move In the first place it is hardly conceivable that such asuggestion to raise the rate of the sales tax would be entertained seriously by any considerable number of those in authority when they realize the desperate-ness of the fight they must make to retain the present rate of taxation But to conceive of placing the schools Under the revenues derivable alone from this form of taxation is obnoxious unwise and intolerable It would defeat the basic principle that undergirds the theory of free education subjecting the entire educational system of the State to what the people are able to buy In other words it virtually condemns a school child to whatever limitations may he imposed upon the individual buyers of the State If they are able to buy a great deal there would obviously he a great deal of revenues for education On the other hand if their purchases are scanty the revenues for school support would be correspondingly depleted a to Lr Georg Gtaoej pro- fevjor rf chenmal engine ring at the university of Mp hi-gan is 10 Pmes as powerful ah TNT as an exp'osi'e Lvon if the exp-Be powers of TNT could be controj'ed as can gascline it would make a rather poor motor fu! Atnone who has tn-l 1 knows that an ordinary ttuu gloss will make a mu i al tone if rubbed with the moistened tinier Benjimm I-ranlHin made use of this fact in the indention of his strange niusual instrument which he alled the armonmi" In this instrument he mounted several of different diameters on a common shaft which couid be turned by a tmaule Thc glasses were tuned br Tomorrow: Hater at fPfiono a quart Asks Government For Wooden Le GRACIE ALLEN calling on a specialist for advice about some digestive trouhle she was having returned to the studio set to tell GEORGE BURNS her husband what the doctor said George he's the nicest said Graoie told me just to take a little lettuce without oil a glass of orange juice and a bran cracker George you know I forgot to ask him I wonder if I'm supposed to take that before or after consumption and prosperity if the logic is correct When a merchant finds himself stocked with slow moving goods he reduces the prioes puts on a sale and disposes of the stock He docs not raise prices and advertise the fact because he knows that the public will not pay them BROWNE Wilmington The Open Forum Department for expression cf viw bv Hie people Conti ibutoi a are re-vjijjted to confine their atta to JOU woids or at as the limit toninbutor will be pfirntted to monopolua space to the ciowding out of other contributors Thu department is open to all readers but ihey are urgently requester) to have due regard for the limitations To The Ohscrvn A in Illinois recently asked his representative to furnish him with a wooden leg made an investigation It was found the applicant possessed two good natural legs and that no apparent icason existed why he should have a wooden one The representative then stated his case he said constituent had a fear of losing one of his legs in an accident and merely wanted to be certain he could obtain a wooden one if he The request was denied but the instance points a moral dresses and recorded other notes in a little book She left him in Petersburg and he guarded the seat again until DELICATE ISSUE Gradual elimination of CWA workers is a wise expedient That can hardly be questioned even by the more thoughtful of the workers themselves The manner in which it is done however is a factor of primary consoqucnce It would he lamentable if such workers were to he dropped so suddenly and In such large numbers that projects for which the public has put out its money for materials could not be consummated The social side of the issue is also one of no mean consideration That calls for the expenditure of the most judicial and fair-minded administrate An indiscriminate dismissal of such workers might leave them in such plight in the future that their latter state would be no better than their former Getting rid of the less needy and taking continued care of the more destitute is the desirable rule of practice and one surely which the administrative agencies will undertake to enforce 'another girl came in She was shoeing to sido him and he nie nm taetipo Mn Hai a masses will go in their demands his old tactics He offered her a cigarette which she declined in positive terms In a short time he had his arm over the seat at her back and it gradually worked its way about her until it touched her whereupon she removed it with her right hand and handed it hack to him with the instruction that he them all sorts of things for noth- on his own piPmisa where-ing they would vote all manner of pon something £as said ahout hor TWO CELEBRITIES Grkkn Coleman Charlotte poor-house resident distinguished as member of the South Carolina Reconstruction Legislature has had his brief day of inter-State notoriety with a good deal of fun on one side and some resentfulness on the other side and now comes the old Mississippi negro gained fame and at the same time saving his home from mortgage sale by reason of a long-distance telephone conversation with the man in-the White House It was a talk from the heart that this typical old Southern darkey had with the President and the President's prompt action proved that he has a heart open to appeal by even the humblest of his people Old Green Coleman's picture has had a run In papers North and South but the picture of the old Mississippi negro along with that of his faithful helper the mule is going Green Coleman's a few better and no doubt after taking a look at it the President was made glad over the good turn he had given the old darkey Interesting Reminisceycc To The Observer: a valuable historical contribution from the mind and heart of General A Smith in Tho Observer of the 2nd reminds me that Colonel A Osborne served as rector of Saint John's Episcopal church here in the SO's My grandmother Mrs Jame Toms conducted the village hotel and the sainted minister often stopped with her During his official connection with the church a man hy the name of 1 Keith suffered the death penalty I on the gallows Colonel Osborne was the condemned man's spiritual advisor When the day for the execution arrived there weie present probably the largest crowd in the history of the town The day and night before they ai rived from adjoining counties on foot I horseback in wagons and buggies A mot bid curious multitude determined to see the culpnt and witness the execution Ahout 10 o'clock a two horse wagon was provided driven hy i Lee Bryant In this conveyance 1 the condemned rode and with him his coffin and Colonel Osborne sat thereon slowly they wended their way to the Only a few in the enormous crowd were familiar with the surplice worn by the Episcopal clergy the others concluded that the condemned was he who was attired in the priestly garments and for the press many being unable to witness the gruesome death returned to their homes convinced that the beloved rector was he who suffered the death penalty instead of Keith the unfortunate creature who paid the penalty of death for a dastardly crime CARPENTER Rutherfordton The one-time famous names of CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG and CHARLES RAY are now listed in the casting offices of the studios as available for roles Fame in Hollywood is truly short-lived Included among several exceptional pictures that are now being cast for early production arc: which will star EDWARD ROBINSON Du starring KAY FRANCIS Adverse" with LESLIE HOWARD in the title role and starring WARREN WILLIAM PAUL MUNI has just returned from a three-month tour of Russia ADOLPHE MEN- JOU who is now studying Spanish says that he expects to reside in Spain after his permanent retirement from the screen most beautiful girls never reach the stage or sereen They remain in small towns scattered throughout the country never coming to the attention of play or picture says EARL CARROLL the noted producer who during his career has given more than 1000 girls their first stage engagements VERREE TEASDALE who is soon to he starred hy Warner Brothers is a native of Spokane Washington Sarah Teasdalc the famous poetess who died recently was her cousin She was educated at the expensive Miss Perkins' School for Gills in New York and later attended the Sergeant School of Dramatic Art Three years on the Broadway stage prepared her for Hollywood Her friends all call her "Voo" She is intensely interested in music plays the piano well and has an exceptionally good singing voice She has a very unusual hobhy that of collecting baby pictures She has literally thousands of them stored away In trunks and boxes and hanging around the various rooms of her house -and yet she only knows two of the babies personally (Copyright 1934 Observer Feature Syndicate) things at Government expense and wreck Democracy as the Romans did at the end of the Roman Empire or keep their Universal suffrage he looked on with much douht although he was a hbeial He said that "eqauhty simply meant that one could not lob a poor man of his property any more than a rich man but that it would likely be consuleied hy the rabble to mean they were entitled to an equal share of the rich man's tells everything even the despite the fact that the New Dcalcts say history means noth ing The masses will want to bor row much but will repudiate their debts when their Government asks them to pay They have done so in the past they will do so in the future AN OBSERVER READER Tryon VIRGINIA'S EQUALITY LAW So far as we have observed Yugima is the only State that has paid official attention to the bootlegger in adjustment ot situations under the liquor laws The Governor had insisted on inclusion in the liquor bill of a clause that would make the purchaser of bootleg true equally guilty with the seller Some legislators bucked against any such law but in the end the Senate came around and in future the man who buys from a Virginia bootlegger stands equally guilty in the eyes of the law Legislation of that kind will operate as a scotch on the illegal business and turn into the State Treasury much money that might otherwise have gone into the pockets of the moonshiner NO MONKEYING WITH CWA Harry Hopkins heard of something that had been going on out in North Dakota What it was is indicated in the tone of telegram he sent to Governor vmllivm Lancer information he wired the Governor indicated that political contributions were collected from Relief Administration employees in North Dakota is declared the Administrator to the Governor "that these contributions were used for your political Result to a certain section Governor Lancer was immediately bounced and affairs were taken over by a new chief North Dakota had been having quite a festive time for that State had been given nearly $4000000 in grants and it was lucky to get a million and a half on account just before Hopkins heard of what was going on THE NEW DAY FOR WOMAN Woman is being given a chance under the Roosevelt administration it was President Roosevelt who broke all when he placed a woman in his Cabinet and now he has broken another precedent in elevating a woman to the bench of the United States Circuit Court and it is evident from the record of the appointed woman judjje Florence Allen of Ohio that the appointment was made on merit Francis Perm ns has distinction of being the first woman member of tiie Pr-sident's Caninct Justice Allen has distinction of being the first woman eve'r nominated for service in the Federal judiciary And we are not to forget another appointment that gave pleasure to the Nation when Mrs Rutii Bryan Owen was sent as Minister to Denmark Verily with inauguration of Roosevelt the new day lor the American woman dawned and for this change in National policy The Observer believes the country will be all the better being a sissy and the conference soon turned into an argument in which the girl proved herself well able to more than hold her own She admitted being a teacher in the public school and also in the Sunday school denied she was a prude but a ically modern gul which did not mean she had to subject herself to the advances of every exploiting man who traveled the earth He then turned to a discussion of hypocrites in churches and said he was just what he was all the time and proud of the fact that he was no hypocrite I didn't hear it all but she said something about it not taking much to make some folks proud She also told him she was not afraid of strutting bombasts wearing trousers who go out to play marbles with the hearts of silly girls I don't know who she was hut somewhere down in Southern Virginia there is a spunky little school teacher whose hand I would like to shake Blessings on her and may others follow her course until such rake-eaters and lounge lizards get what is their due Questions Basis of NRA Tn The Observer: In your issue of March fi 1934 1 I read a very interesting little editorial headed Is Referring to the tax on tobacco it makes the statement that "cheaper products would mean greater volume of business and greater volume of business would call for larger raw material which In turn would bring the grower more business and higher Pursuing the thought turiher why should we not apply the principle to other things? If it will succeed when applied to tobacco why will it not succeed if applied to cotton corn wheat hogs etc? If this principle is correct can the NRA be correct in raising prices? Is the government traveling in the wrong Can it ho possible that our leaders are working on the principle that high prices create prosperitv when they should be working on the principle that prosperitv creates high prices? It might he answered that in the case of tobacco it is taxes that arc high hut it seems to pip that the principle is the same whether it is real estate cement or food Cheap prices advance The Case of Two Girls To The Observer: Your courtesy as a purveyor of pertinent publicity items commands the admiration and personal esteem of your correspondent You are asked to carry the following from a personal editorial friend writing about "Two Gills" which presents a matter of more than ordinary interest among respectable passengers hy bus today and the attention of drivers of these popular and sometimes overcrowded vehicles A BETTS Bamberg THE MILL FOR THE ORES The Government has an ear for promotion of legitimate industries of any kind so we may take it as an assured act that it will give attention to the data assembled to justify an appropriation for establishment of a mill for the gold ores in this section of the country The promoters ot this project have all the argument on their side and The Observer anticipates a successful termination to the movement now under way for unquestionably a new source of prospcritywould he opened Gold ores are abundant in the mineral belt ot the piedmont and all required is a plant to handle these ores Correct this sentence: "Yes mv daughter has had nine said the lady "but I am not vain about CWA Abuses To The Observer: To my way of thinking the hest letter to the Open Forum was written by Mr Woodward We have always had shiftless people and always will Once a certain class learn they can he fed and clothed without any work will they ever work again That was what President Roosevelt had in mind for the CWA charity is to help people to help I am an expert cateress and experienced welfare worker Have taught all branches of home making in North Carolina institutions Live alone on a farm with aged mother She is now too feeble to leave home to work Did I get work with CWA? No not even courtesy I have no father husband brother or son to earn for me or vote Yet we grew enough food stuff to tide us over We need money to buy clothing seed fertilizer sugar and coffee Now near my home are families with members working making fair money some made fair crops killed two and three hogs They have been given shoes clothing cloth blankets pork orders gro- ceries Some even hire their washing wood cut and buy new furniture Venly what will be the end? A GASTON COUNTY FARMERETTE Gastonia Rt 3 The Home Owners Loan Corporation in South Carolina has hit upon a "new by which money tied up in broken hanks can be released and it is a plan that would work wonders in North Carolina releasing as it would ot into trade channels NEEDS BALANCING One of the more sensible or the multitude of remarks made during thi cede hearings in Washington was contrihited by D0NAIP Comer leaner in the industry resident of Alabama when he said that Industrial progress in the South could not he sustained at the expense of agriculture Denominating the influence of the NRA upon textiles a3 "nothing short of miraculous Mr Comer declared that his greatest concern now is to bring about a parity in the progress between textiles and agriculture of his section And that is hitting the nail squarely on the head The South is so preponderantly rural and has its destiny so definitely attached to two major money crops that unless prices for their products are maintained on a profitable basis the industrial improvement will prove to be a mere superficiality The other day I boarded a bus in Richmond going south Opposite me sat one of these modern male members of the human species He was one who knows it all and insists on broadcasting it everywhere and always He had an overplus of brass and a few cultivated bristles under his nose He adroitly planned to keep anyone out of the seat beside him until some young woman presented herself which was not long When he saw a girl coming le invited her to a seat beside him anti their acquaintance was rapid as this modern world allows He soon was smoking and blowing in the face of a mother and baby in front of him and he offered the girl a smoke and a match which she accepted Before we were out of the rity limits he had his arm around her and they had exchanged ad- PLAIN PROPOSITIONS recent message was full ot good points for industry as well as for tho people As an example we might submit his suggestion that the public should support employers who fly the Blue Eagie and join with labor and industry to see that the few who think only of selfish gain made to play the game with the overwhelming majority" This because the spirit and letter of the NRA diawn with the greatest good of the greatest number in mind is going to be rigidly enforced And that is a proposition the country might as well recognize The NRA is here to stay and the day for penalization of the is at hand Knows It When He Sees It To The Observer: Now that the others have had their fling at your up" guy I want to lot you know that I think your editorial page has been impiovcd upon wonderfully Brevier bourgeois minion and they all mean nothing to me but 1 know a good looking newspaper page when I see one COVINGTON Rockingham The whole State should give co-operation to the plans being formulated hy the Carolina Motor Club for bringing about greater safety on the highways of the State In view of conditions that have prevailed in recent times this might be regarded as a work of necessity.