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The Daily Independent Oombirwd with The lodep?ra?nt, a weekly ettabllihed by W. O. Saunders In 1808 Pnblisbcd every Jar cvccpt Sunday by The Independent Publishing Co., at 104 E. Colonial Ave.. Elizabeth City. I'asuuutank County. North Carolina ? TELEPHONE 1122 I bubecr.ption Kate*: By mail in the Elizabeth City trade territory, 1 year $4.00. 0 mos. $2.23. 3 mot. $1.23. 1 mo. 50 centa. Elsewhere $5.00 a year. .Must be paid in advance. dy Carrier: Single copy 5 cents; one week 12 centa payable to carrier ' amber I'nited Press Associations ami National Editorial Association Entered at the poslofficc at Elizabeth City, N. C., as second class matter. National Advertising itepresentative. Thomas K. Clark Co.. Inc. 205-217 East 42nd St.. New York City Monday, April 26, 1937 \Y. O. SAUNDERS told THE BIBLE'S I li e college newspaper I VALUE boys and girls at High Point the other night tliat their education was not complete if it did not include a knowledge and apprecia tion of the Bihle as a mine of human inter est material. "I suspect that the Bihle is still Ihe world's best seller, not alone for its moral and spir itual value, hid for its gossip value as well. Some of those old Bihle writers anticipated J the modern newspaper columnist several thousand veal's." said the speaker. And the editor recommended the reading of the King James version of the scriptures, rather than the more modern revised trans lations. "The poetry, majesty and sonority] of the language in the King James version I entitle it to ever-enduring fame without its boost from ccclesiasticism." FAILURE of (lovcrnor HOEY AND I loey to recognize the PASQUOTANK p ru y e r of Pasquotank Democrats for place on the rcorgani <1 State Highway and Public Works Commission was to he expected. Governor I loey. after all, is a very pleasant machine politician who could not he ex pected I % hand out plums to a county that gave him a walloping in the June primary. Altho Pasquotank gave Governor lloey an overwhelming majority in the Novcnil>er election, that fact could not offset the hurt to his pride inflicted by that Graham ma jority hack in June . Hut since Pasquotank played out of luck in supporting a losing gubernatorial candi date. it should find a lot of satisfaction in the appointment of Hon. Collin I). Barnes, of Muri'reeshoro. as member of the Com mision from the First District. Mr. Barnes is no stranger to Pasquotank folk. Twice in his career he has represented this district in the Slate Senate with ability and dignity. Let's givi him a big hand. At the same time, one must applaud Gov ernor llocy's display of good sportsmanship in giving even second place on the new j State Liquor Commission, to Pasquotank's F. Webb Williams. j AGAIN our esteemed FALSIFYING contemporary, the Nor HISTORY folk Virginian-Pilot, out rages every respect for historical accuracy by giving prominence to the false claim that the first religious rites observed by English settlers in America was at Cape Henry, April Lib. DJ07. Witness the headline in the magazine supplement of the Virginian-Pilot for Sunday, April 25: FIRST WORSHIP IMMORTALIZED Granite Shaft Designates Spot at Cape Henry Where First Settlers Paid Homage to God .'{50 Years Ago This newspaper has had occasion in past years !o call the attention of the Virginian Pilot to its falsification of history. The \ ir ginia newspajH'r's repetition of the offense is inexcusable. To hegin with. April 21), 11)117 is not the *>.")<tt!i anniversary of the landing at James town. Twenty yens previously the Knglish landed upon Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina, and the first sacrament in the Knglish Protestant religious faith ob served in the Western hemisphere was the baptism of the infant Virginia Dare on Roanoke Isl.-od on August IS, 1.~>S7. That tin Knglish colonists who same to Virginia 20 years later paused at Cape Henry and gave thanks to Cod for their successful \r.yag h fore proceeding to explore the in land v'av: . no one denies. But the docu mentary evidence of that earlier religious ceremony lias Urn too well authenticated for lb" learned editors of the Virginia news paper to feign ignorance of facts. We have !>? en letting Virginians gel away with their clu'ins In Hie first permanent Knglish settlement in America, at James town in lot>7. 'The Jamestown settlement was not permanent, as every one knows. But we ar ? net going to submit to their false claims to lirst place in all things. Particu late o!U ttsive is this late attempt to actually set the calendar hack 20 years to make il apj.M ar to coincide with the .'>.")()lh annivcrs 'J!x ,)i t o 1 IBS I I'lvdisJ) tettlcillCI'is it! A.vc. rica y?; Rranukc '. land. I THE ONCE OVER By H. I. Pl'ILLIPS 0 | (Copyright, 1937, By The Associated Newspapers) REVIEW OF THE CORONATION TRYOUT (In the manner of "Variety") "Coronation," the big British de luxer, seen in its full dress rehearsal in the streets of London, seemed to need pepping and pruning, but shortages will be attended to and show should pack plenty socko both for class and peasant draw. Tryout lacked big personalities, both King George and the Queen being held in reserve for big punch. Production has more horses than the combined Barnum, Forepaugii and Ringling shows and is no weakling in display cf gold and silver wagons. Tops is the rcyal coach, a swell hack if there ever was one. Looking like something from an early Cecil De Mille dream, with additions by Zanuck, it panicked the yokels although empty. What it will do to the mob in the grandstands when oc cupied is nobody's business. Rig was drawn by eight <8> horses that are better than rated. Not only good lookers, but have plenty of staying power as shown by smart condition at end of six-mile pitter-patter over London's 'ard ighways. Two lead ponies were lulus, packing genuine Hippo drome glamour as well as oodles of dog and pony show color. Other six beetles were a trifle green, but will click with further propping. Harness and trappings oke. 1 Military guard looked skeletonized, but will be ' built up into sure-fire appeal for the fomme clien telle. Horse Guards go to town in their end of biz and will be usual rave, but foot soldiers seem- ; ed to fall far short of top deck rating. Footwork was ragged. L I Entire performance was bogged down by usual London weather which was strictly the headache for everybody concerned. Show also suffered from being poorly spotted between morning rush hour , and forenoon shopping activities. Bright skies . and plenty sun needed few this type of prodtic- j tion at its best, but Lloyds will still give you fif teen to one against anything bin traditional tun- , brella and galoshes background on the day His I Nibs and Lady are rocked all over town to make a 1 Ronton holiday for the bonnet and shawl trade. Twenty bands we e spotted to help exploitation and did what the script called for. Hot music is crying need, however, and understand backers are howling for jazzing up of entire seore. Music as now scheduled strictly patriotic flapdoodle. Full dress rehearsal showed lack of timing and | at times action stalled, but stage waits will no j doubt be cut in next ten days. Big draw is certain. I but staying powers are questioned. Combo of a | real king and a genuine queen 'in person" re garded here as sure-fire stuff with terrific pix I possibilities and smash biz all over world. Skepticism over apptai of principals fast dis- ? appearing. George is no Clark Gable and the wife no Miss Britannia, but pair will do in show of this type. Yanking of Eddie and Wally from cast was big upset to a!! concerned, but impression here is I that new faces will hoip show. Production is by j British Isles. Inc.. btr whole empire is reported cut ! in. Verdict on this one: better than Paine's "Fall i or Pompeii" or Eill Rose's last Hipp show, but not i as big as Radio City's plans for next season. Only burden is terrific overhead and question whether American ambassador v.n appear in knee pants. Production's one n:cd is gags and a strip tease. N'ECKSS \RY RKGl LATION Ecudador is now licensing jungle explorers. I Travel in those Ecuador jungles was getting so i heavy the wild animals and native tribes had to | wait hours for tiaffic to pass. A revival of armor making is predicted. Rcpub- j | licans. industrialist and old-fashioned Americans j who tlnnk there \\a> an America before ll>32 arc I j ordering thice-piece suits of cast-iron chain as j fast as the factories can receive them. Sound pic:ures have been taken of the human brain. So that was the rattling noise we heard in our set! New York's new Thirty-ninth street tube under i the Hudson River is to be named after Abraham Lincoln- Appropriate enough! Every tunnel that takes the workers back to Jersey from New York, or vice versa, frees more slaves than Abe did. Elmer Twitchcil. when he is acting in a parti i cuiarly futile manner, now says he is just "Murphy j ing around." With the Humorists J TACTICS "No." said she. "I must be firm I cannot allow you to present me with a pearl necklace." "I am sorry I mentioned it." replied the devoted one. \ "So am I. Instead of talking beforehand about so extravagant a Kilt, you should simply have placed it around my neck. Then I might have been so overwhelmed that I couldn't refuse it."?Ex. SECRETARY'S RELIGHT "I've an invention at last that will mean a fortune!" "What is it this lime?" "Why. it's an extra key for a typewriter. When you don't know how to spell a word you hit that key. and it makes a blur l hat might be an 'c.' an 'a" or almost anything else you like."?Grit. RECIPE Build yourself a strong-box. Fashion each part with care. Fit it with hasp and padlock. Put all your troubles there. Ilidr therein all your failures As each bitter cup you quaff. Lock ail your heartaches within it, 'lhcu oil on the hi ar.i laugh. . ?Montreal Herald. MERRY ti&TfA ROUND ?niAP? MARK PE6IST6PEP By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Puerto Rican Rebels Use Interview | With Mrs. Rooseveit t o Aid! Cause; Graeiousncss to Marin cited in Island as Slap at Gruening, Winship; Three Groups Battling for Control Over Spare-Time Education of CCC; Van Zeeland Coming to Test Hull on Trade; Big Powers Behind Effort. WASHINGTON. ?Mrs. Roose velt is always so anxious to please that her charm sometimes gets the President and his associates into trouble. Without knowing it, she has been used by Puerto Rican insur rectionists to help undermine her husband's own officials in Puerto Rico. What happened was that Mrs. Roosevelt some time ago became acquainted with Luis Munoz Marin, young Puerto Rican politi cal leader, introduced to her by a newspaper correspondent. As time passed. Marin became one of the chief fomenters of anti-USA agi tation in the island. This agitation has become more | and more heated, culminating in t.he shooting of a parade of I Puerto Rican insurrectionists not i long ago. About this time. Luis Munoz Marin asked for another intei new with Mrs. Roosevelt, and thanks to the pressure of the newspaper correspondent, who is a close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, it was granted. Result was that next day. Puerto Rican papers featured the news that Mrs. Roosevelt had re ceived one of the leaders of the ant i-American movement. The | inference was that the favored this leader and opposed Dr. Ernes. Griienmg. her husbands Director of Insular Affair.;. Word has now been passed to the First Lady to be more care- , ful about the people she mtei-, views. \ Xote impartial observers who, have studied the Puerto Rican sit uation believe Dr. Gruening and , Governor Winsinp arc doing . j good job in a trying situation. Most people don't realize it. u| ? Puerto Rican agitators are olten i as fully armed as Hitler's Brown Shirts. The recent shooting oc-1 curreel when demonstrators ap peared carrying rifles. Permis-| aon had been given them to, parade WITHOUT rifles, but thc> showed up with them Batteries For Today Joe Collon. editor cf The Gard-1 ner Mass.. News, has worked out a mock baseball line-up between the ?Nine Old Men" and the New Deal which follows; 1 Supreme Court Ncw' Deal Stone, cf CffRwmner Butler. -b ri- Wagner I Brandeis. If 3b. Frankfurter Hughes, p V?' , k-' iCarriozo. ss If. Landw ! Roberts, c 2b. Rtohtaj ? I Sutherland. Hi &s\ ? -i ' I Van Devanter. rl c. Stanley Re^d McRevnolds. 3b P- Rooseveit Time of Game?Indefinite. Weather. Conditions ? Stormy uossiblv clearing. Attendance, estimated. 140.000. 1000. CCC Education The question of who shall deter mine what the CCC boys are j taught in their spare hours has I stirred up a hot rumpus in inner i Administration circles. Chief battlers are the War De partment. CCC Director Robert Fechner. and Dr. John W. Stude bak:r. Commissioner Education. They have been wrangling over i; e'er since the CCC was creat ed. but the President's bill trans forming the CCC into a perma nent institution has poured fresh oil on the flames. The bill is silent on the very controversial point of education. It provide:; that CCC enrollees shall receive schooling, but the j moot question of who shall boss this job is left entirely up in the air. Implication is that the Pre sident will decide. The three contenders, however, want control designated specific ally in the bill?and each is after the prize. Under the existing set-up the Army, in practical operation, noias the whip hand over CCC school ing. The Office of Education, of the Interior Department, selects the instructors, but the Army passes on all text-books and other reading matter. Also, as it con trols the camps, it is easy for the Army to oust teachers it considers ?undesirable." Censorship Military bans on various liberal publications and instructors have resulted in a number of sharp protests being lodged with the White House by educators and others. In several instances these complaints have been so vigor ous that the President has inter vened and overruled the Army, forcing it to restore outlawed mat ter to the CCC reading shelves. Dr. Studebaker wants complete control over the educational work of the CCC. He is also demand ing that more time be allotted for schooling purposes. The Army is fighting him on the ground that it cannot share camp respon sibility, and that the CCC is not an educational institution but a working organization. So with the Army and Educa tion Office at one another's throats Director Fechner, seeing a chance to increase his author- { ity. is trying to grab off educa-1 tional control for himself. World Trade Conference There is more behind the visit of Belgium's Premier Van Zee land than t lie Administration wants to admit. Questioned about it at a press conference. Roosevelt dismissed the. matter with a wave of his hand and the statement that Van Zecland was coming over to get .111 honorary degree from Prince ton. Actually the Belgian is coming over, in effect, to take up Cordell Hull on his talk about trade con ferences. Europe so long has been hear-1 ing Mr. Hull harp on his thesis that lite way to bring about, world peace is to better world trade, that it has now decided to see I whether this is real talk or just State Department prattle. Van Zeeland. a very competent young statesman who got part of ?lis education in the USA. actu ally is the stooge for the French j and British in making this pil-1 gi image. Upon his conversations' here will largely depend the pro-1 posal for holding another world' economic conference. Mail Big M. I... New York?William Jon- I nings Bryan was never president of the U. S.. even for a few days. The absence of President Wilson from Washington did not alter his status as Chief Executive. A treatise on the subject of the President when abroad has been prepared by the Historical Ad-1 risers of the State Department . . .('. L. P.. Chicago?The array lof initials following the name of the British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay (P. C.. G. C. M. G.. K. C. B.. C. V. O.i stand for Privy Councillor. Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Knight Comander of the Order of the Bath, and Companion of the Victorian Order . . . F. I).. El Paso. Texas There is no prospect of immedi ate action by the Senate on the Argentine Sanitary Convention. The Foreign Relations Commit tee will not take it up until a ma jority of the Committee requests action, and such a request prob ably will not be made . . . B. D. S., Kagcrstown, Md. ? Opinion I among War Department officials is divided on the value of tanks in ware fare. While Field Artillery declare their anti-tank guns make tanks useless. Tank Corps officers point to large scale tank building by England. Russia. Japan, and Italy . . . C. II. K.. St. I Louis?There have been no licens ed munitions exports to Spam from U. S. since January, when licenses for export of $4,500,000 of ammunition and airplanes were issued and revoked three days later. Tili*; ROBIN IIOUSK The robins arc here end have buildcd their house In a crotch of the old maple tree That stands in our yard by the back pardon crate, With its limbs spreading wide, far and free. I watched that old robin a-work at that house, Amoral at her nest building art: But marvelled still more that her mate gave no help. Keeping strangely aloof and apart. She gathered dried grasses and pieces of string. And wove them with marvelous skill: Then off she; would fly. and return, her beak filled With mud. from the pond by the mill. Then she fashioned the whole, 'the mud. grasses and string,), To the form of her red breast so true: And the inside she lined, oil so springl.v and soft. Where she laid four small eggs. Robin-blue. Soon four little robins were hatched and tier mate. Helped to feed them until they were flo^'n: And next year they'll come and may build there again, When the - ee cue- to birdhoud ha~s i'[p' :1o ...RALPH GQEDCTL. THE GIANT KILLER gosh \HOTWER ONEfy # 7 THf % In j . L> L ull'd 1 fjlL.-t Mild?'.' ' , \ ^ QuikkS In The News, By I'NITED I'RESS Marseilles. France, April 25. ? : (U.R>? Customs guards, noticing there were no women among the black-clad mourners following a coffin, halted tiie proce sion. They j found t lie coffin was filled with j English cigarettes which the I "mourners" were attemp.ing to | smuggle past the customs New York. April 25.? iU.R>? A whisky manufacturing company j announced tonight it would "car ry coals to Newcastle" by shipping 50 case of Anurican whisky to Scotland this week. Cleveland. April 25.?(U.R1? Ar riving heme late last night. Louis ! Chalto. 32. walked nonchalantly' | up the steps, produced the key to j the front door, and proceeded to j I his bedroom, where he was met by ! ! a fusilade of bullets. At the hos- ; : pi:?.!, the new occupant of the res- ! idenco explained he had fired at j a suppo eel burglar and Chalto [ I recalled lie recently had moved to ! a house several doors away. Youngstown, O.. April 25. ?(U.R) | ?Mickey Mouse or one ot his dis- I tant cousins stole the show from Jane Cowl as she appeared in ( "Fir. t Lady" at the Park theater. Th? final act curtain was detain ed 17 minutes when the mouse scurried about under rows of seats in the balcony as women scream ed and their escorts stomped. Columbu.. O.. April 25. ? (U.R>? A, Ltiand McCle.land and his bride-to-be descended the court-' house steps, the young lady in- j sistcri on examing the marriage license which Probate Judge C. P. McClelland, t lie bridegroom's j father, had issued to them. Her 1 fears were well founded? it was i r. dog license. New Orleans, April 25. ?<U.R>? j WPA workers will "have to get to ; work at Shakespcar Park like any j ether salaried persons" despite a ' strike of "taxicab trucks", relief i director James Cruncher warned tonight. The workers had considered , failing to report after 22 operators ! of taxi-trucks on which they rcg-, ularly had ridden to work at 10 ! c.nt. a head struck for higher wages. New York. April 25. ?(U.R>? ' Folks out at Manhasset were dub- : ious tonight after announcement I that "the world's large t cello- | phane package" will be opened . there Sunday. It will contain a : complete two-story house. 17-C'cnt Bill Deferred Lamar. Colo.. <U.R>?A taxpayer ; requested of County Treasurer S , Fred Clark that he be permitted to pay his taxes in two install- j ments. Clark agreed. The taxpay er presented his tax notice of 17 cents and paid 8 cents on ac count. TEA( li:? MOU)| A GUIDE rOHEW SLOVS STUDEX1 L\r. I ? oars: 1 I M aadi u M .study . the nci-d fl to the taditic:: . ? ? ' olCW. ' The I new i",:: I c-:ir.nv d. I I i:b?ci I re::: v. ni- - ecrdin-r .. . C. I., c deaa: ? ::v : :hed hi i graph. ? Th.v-. ? hi- :?? 10 ::v :: ;n-t atl: teacher ? ? pupiis e : . I ful ple.c in ceed:r.a iirp:.:' M 1 HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS By Alley BARBER SAY HE A 5ELF-MADE MAN, BUT 'PEAR V ME HE PONE QUIT TOO SOON !! ! 7 * fatpyri&Uc 1KZ by The SywiitAit iae-J i What's The \ j ?0l\ In Wailing 9 ? ? * Have von horn doim: without | ser\ico because you thought )oii <" sa\ ina uiuiicy 'i I be value of telephone senev m v,?nr home in ease of enier^eiieie- aioa far outweighs the small cost. I !i< a ???"? the telephone affords you quirk ;??: "'i;;l visits with your friend.* and ' ' * both in and oul-of-lwon. V? lull s the jzooil in waiting' V?; compare ihe little you arluaii. '? with the convenience, <?<>*;? -? pleasure thai the leirphou will un<louhtc(lly aifrcc tha! iloej'ii t pay to try ami <h> w;i ? Norfolk & Can Telephone & Telet vC' Elizabeth City ? Hertford ? Edeatm ?