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Forward Observation Post
MM by I. M. Callmll, Bu U, Mww>M», N. C,
MJrturt tocikua Legtsa. Peyriiiul *f North CanMM.
Wlmq the Pburtesnth annual Na
tional convention of the American
legion in Portland, Oregon, on Thu re
day. September 15, 1932, adopted the
resolution demanding the Immediate
payment of the adjusted service cer
tificates in full and in cash by the
government, the peQcy of the Legion
on this matter was definitely deter
mined for the coming year. The Nfc
tional Convention Is the supreme gov
erning body of the American Legion.
The National Convention of the Am
erican Legion there la Portland. Ore
gon, this past week demonstrated
clearly and emphatically the fact that
the delegates and alternates of the
various Departments really and truly
represented their respective Depart
ments and the sentiments of the over
whelming majority of the Legion
naires of America, when the National
Convention at Portland went on rec
ord everwhelmlngly (1.167 for and on
if 109 against) demanding the imme
diate cash payment of the adjusted
service certificates. The rank and file
of the Legion are more than pleased
for the action of the national con
vention at Portland is clearly what
the overwhelming majority of the
rank and file of the members of the
American Leggm desire. The National
Convention of the American Legion
has spoken the Beqtiments of the
rank and file of the Legion.
I'nited Action Necessary.
The Legionnaires of North Carolina
and of the nation, however, know that
in order for the Legion to serve the
enactment of legislation providing for
the immediate cash payment of ad
jsted service certificates at the next
session of Congre*}. it is necessary for J
the Legion to muster its full mem
bership strength earlier than ever be
fore this year before Congress con
venes. so that Congress will properly
realize that the National Convention
at Portland absolutely spoke the sen
timents of the overwhelmingy nrm-
Jortty of the rank and file of this
the greatest organization of former!
service men that the world has ever '
known, the American Legion. Mem-1
bership is the voice of the Legion, and |
early and complete re-enrollment of!
all former members between now and
December (when Congress convenes)
Is highly advisable. The National Con- 1
vention has spoken in no uncertain
manner. It now remains for every
Post of the American Legion to fol
low up this mandate of the National
Convention by rolling up the largest
early re-enrollment ever between now 1
and December first. That the Legion
Posts in North Carolina and through-:
out the nation will "follow through” |
properly and in no uncertain manner,
is assured by the increased interest
which is now being manifested by the
various Po ts in North Carolina which
have perfected their plans to re-enroll ;
their entire numerical strength ear
lier than ever heretofore. The Lgion
nairs of N. C. realize tat united and
concerted action by the Legion Poets
is now vitally necessary and impor-,
tant They also realize that early and |
complete re-enrollment means com-!
plete access not only Tor the Legion s '
great Legislative program of neces
What The State Manufacturers
(Every child of the state should be able W recite at least 5© things
made In N*orth Carolina )
The day of the tallow candle and the old hand loom has passed, and
today from one end of the state to the other gigantic factories are turning
out almost everything that goes up the bach or into the stomach of man
hind Many of the nation’s most famously advertised brands carry the
Carolina label In their wanderings over the earth.
Here are a few of the things made In the state, which surpasses all
others in Its variety of manufactured goods:
In textile the state leads all states In the Union In variety of product*,
ss well as number of and variety of mills. These embrace denims, canton
flannels, flannelettes, towel and toweling cotton table damask, sheets and
sheeting and pillow cases, commercial yarns and ginghams; dyed, mercer
ised and processed yarns and cotton goods; pure silk and ilk and rayon
combinations; dress goods; shirting snd shirts; overalls, work shirts and
work gloves; cotton and silk hosiery for men and children; cotton, cotton
and rayon combinations, and pure silk ladles' hosiery; full fashioned silk
hosiery; men’s clothing; draperies, corset covering, cotton upholstering
materials, narrow webbing fabrics, rugs, handkerchiefs, neck ties; cordage*,
tape and rope, fancy dlk and oelanese dress goods; window curtaining;
chambrays; ice bags; laundry bags, fish nets, tire fabric; waste products;
mattresses; bagging and ties;.cotton and woolen underwear-for men and
children; cotton and woolen blankets; bedspread; tents and awnings.
North Carolina leads all states In the manufacture of tobacco, and the
R J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, of Wlnston-Shiem, alone turns out each
year 18,000 carloads of tsbacoo products, while Liggett mid Myers, Ameri
can Tobacco company and others do a tremendous business. Several com
panies make cigars.
Her foundries and machine shops turn oat everything from belts and
nuts to sawmills and engines. Many kinds of textile machinery and manu
factured. Including humidifiers, bobbins, spools, dyeing machines, spindles
flyers, card clothing, etc.
Her miscellaneous factories make automobile tires and tabes, stoves
and ranges, wagons, automobile bodies, batteries, trucks, monuments, shoes,
chemicals of all kinds, medicinal preparations of almost every variety,
roofing, paints and varnishes, asbestos ysMoa and cloth, brake lining, paper
and wooden boxes, leather goods of nanny varieties, including handbags,
suit cases, etc.; piphig, culverts, terracotta products, common and shale
brick, hand made pottery, hand woven fabrics, leather, turpentine, and
machinery.
In food products there Is a wide range of .manufactured articles. In
cluding ice cream, dairy products, sandwiches, peanut products, candles of
many kinds, bread, cakes, bottled goods, cold drinks, beverage dispensers.
Fisheries products of all kinds, hid and canned goods.
Brick making machinery; work shoes and ladles* fine patent shoes;
electric and other signs; safety raaor sharpeners; barrels, staves, mantels,
sash, doors, braid* cheats, wheelbarrows; aWningK tents, bakery and soft
drink products; candles; basketsi box shook*, flour snd mill products; furn
iture of all kinds, including living room, dhring room, bedroom sod porch
kitchen cabinets; juvenile furniture; school desks, opera chairs,
laboratory and library equipment; novelty furniture; bank and store fix
tures; beds md beddings and iiMtltrssrs; bank bosks, boats, brooms, bug
gies, school bus bodies; building materials; cereals; canneries; clothing;
coffins and caskets; cosicrete prod nets; cotton seed products; fertilisers;
exeelsor; crushed stone; elevstsrs, fish scrap and flshsrlss products; cotton
gins; harness; grain cradles; photo engraving preduets; railway nsoter earn;
roofing; sheet metal; shoe cleaner; structural steal; talc; taps; tin pro
ducts; tubes: veueers; vehicles and puts; viofias; was* pulp and paper;
tannic add; hand made wood-and tactile mvaHaa; dust equipment; nrgk
cal supplies; ■raammrtal abase; giaulta paudusta; met# dad bull} hydro-
•ary and beneficial legislation for
their disabled comrade*, for the wid
ows and orphans of their deceased dis
abled comrades, and for veterans in
general, but also will mean that the
entitle program of progress and ser
vice of the Legion, itteluding Child
Welfare, Americanism. National De
fense, Rehabilitation, Employment,
Community Service, will be more suc
cessful than ever before this year.
Facts About the Legion.
The blue ud gold button of The
American Legion testifies honorable
service for God and country in time
of war, and service to community,
state and nation in time of peace.
Practically every piece of legislar
tion beneficial to ex-service men has
found the American Legion right be
hind it. The sucoess of the entire leg
islation program (which consists of
the resolutions adopted at the Port
land Convention) depends upon early
and complete re-enrollment for 1933.
The Legion is the most democratic
organization in the world today. There
is no rank in the (Legion, no race, no
creed. Honorable discharge from the
U. S. Array, Navy or Marine Corps
and service in one of those branches
of the service in the uniform of your
country at some time between April
6. 1917 and November 11, 1918, are
the only requirements with respect to
eligibility for membership in the Le
gion. Legion membership is the “cheap
est" and best form of veteran protec
tion. in dollars and common sense,
possible anywhere in the world. Yet
membership in the American Legion
is not only a priceless thing, but a
productive thing for every member.
| Legion membership costs approxi
mately only what one cigarette eaoh
day will cost the veteran.
The record ot service of each mem
ber of the Legion during the World
War is now required to prove ab
solute eligibility for membership. No
amount of money can buy member
ship in the Legion, unless the ap
plicant proves his eligibility or sub
mits proper proof of his service rec
ord during the World War in accord
ance with above requirements.
Since the Legion is not an organiza
tion for profit and since the Legion
is a pure service organization, it ren
ders a greater return than most fra
ternal org&ryto&tio&s. Every eligible
veteran should belong to the Legion
for his own personal good and for the
good of his family.
The Legion is backing the greatest
principles of Americanism by com
batting un-American principles and by
supporting patriotic education among
the children and our citizens. Each
Legion Post endeavors to make the
communities in which their Posts are
located a better place in which to live.
The Legion teaches true sportsman
ship and higher ideal to the youth of
American through te Legion's great
Junior Baseball program (in which
more than 400.000 boys participated
last yean and through its Oratorical
Contests. Sohool Medals Awards and
Boy Scout programs.
The Legion has a great National
Defense program and demands an
adequate national defense. The Le-
HENDERSON, (N.C.,) DAILY DISPATCH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1981
ENTERS COLLEGE WITH NINE COWS
iKfll v ad
Astride a cattle pony and driving
her own herd with whirling lasso,
17-year*old Elena Percy of West
Feliciana parish, Louisiana, ar
rives at Baton Rouge with her tui-
gion cooperates with the R. O. T. C.
and C. M. T. C. programs.
There’s a comradeship in the Le
gion which money can not buy. That
comradeship is the result of a com
mon experience on the part of each
member having served their country
honorably in time of need and their
devotion to mutual helpfulness and
their desire to continue to be of ser
vice to disabled comrades and to the
community, state and nation. The men
who served side by side in 'l7 and
'lB through thick and thin have a
great deal in common and have every
reason to stick together now in this
their oyna. outfit, the American Le
gion which knows no rank and knows
no class, for each serves as the equal
of his comrade and all strive toward
the same goal, which Is the realiza
tion in the Ife of the Republc of the
principles of Justice. Freedom, Demo
cracy and Loyalty. Just as friendships
made on the battelfields and in the
service endure, so likewise the friend
ships made in the Legion also endure.
A larger Legion means greater and
increased Legion service on the part
of the local .departmental and na
tional organizations of the American
Legion.
Individually, this veteran and that
veteran can do little; collectively, in
the 10,000 Posts of the American Le
gion with more than a million mem
bers, the Legion can accomplish any-
Fourth Os The Nation’s
Populace Goes To School
America's Fundamental and Vital Industry, That of
Education, Goes Into Operation Again, With 1,300,-
000 Employees and 31,000,000 Pupils
“What we do In our public schools with our children determtaes what
ear Nation shall be. In spite of temporary economic difficulties. It Is no
time for back-tracking in education. It Is more vital tor us to have better
education and more of it to protect us from our own ignorr»»ee and follies.
Men are children but once and during that period the grown-up can at
least afford opportunity to the child. ” —Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of
the N. S. Department of the Interior.
Washington, Sept. 23.—This month
America's most fundamental and vital
industry—that of education—with 1.
500.000 employees carrying its dally
results to 31,000,000 people will find
itself quite generally in operation.
Latest available statistics from the
Federal Office of Education show that
education will put to work this week
and next approximately 1,037,605
teachers in all types of schools, 26,-
95#-superintendents and business offi
cers, 37,764 public school supervisors
and principals, 238,306 janitors about
50,000 bus drivers and approximately
125.000 carpenters, plum
bers, electricians, health officials, etc.
This year’s school family will not
outnumber 1930,'s record-breaker of
one-fourth the Nation's total popula
tion, according to estimates. Public
elementary and high schdftl attend
ance will approximate 25,000,000. Col
lege and uqtwerqity rggitetration is
expected to surpass a million full-time
students and about one-quarter mil
lion part-time students.
Nearly 800.000 boys and girls will
"toddle off* to kindergarten within
the next two weeks. This is about one
ithlrd the number of all four and five
year olds in large cities, according to
the 1930 Census. Forty-thousand will
be sent to private kindergartens. It
is interesting to note that kindergar
tens will be maintained in practically
all of the major cities oi the United
States this year, despite decreases in
educational appropriations. Only two
per cent of more than 600 large cities
will eliminate klndgergartens or re
duce kindergarten programs this year.
Evidence of the decreased birth rate
again may be seen in public elemen
tary school enrollments. Due to econo
mic conditions, however, the public
schools /are expecting large enroll
ments of boys and girls who formerly
attended private institutions of learn
ing, so that the total elementary
school registration will approximate
that of IMI.
Public high school education should
be more popular this year than ever
"before because of the scarcity of jobs.
The holding power of the high school
will be increased, and there will bo
fewer "drop-outs’* In the freshman and
sophomore years, it Is predicted. Many
graduates of the past few years, now
unemployed, are expected to fall In
‘line to taka high eohool post-graduate
courses, provided free by many city
school systems, and adult education
at the high school level le expected to
, show a sharp riee. Total enrollment*
tion fee “on the hoof" to become
a fully enrolled freshihan studant
at Louisiana State university. Her
enrollment cost nine head as
cattle. a
thing that is worthy.
The Legion works for all veterans.
With the interests of ex-service men
in geperal and the disabled in parti
cular always at heart hte Legion,
through persistent and organized ef
fort, has obtained many benefits for
the disabled and for veterans in gen
eral. The Legion believes that one of
the best ways to prevent any unnec
essary wars is to enact legislation
which will really take the profit out
of war. This explains why certain in
terests and certain individuals op
pose the Legion. Many of those in
dividuals were profiteers during tho
war.
Great Battle Ahead.
In accordance with the mandates
of the National Convention at Port
land, the American Legion will con
tinue to battle for just and beneficial
legislation for the disabled and for
veterans in general, and the Legion
will resist to the fullest extent pos
sible any and all eforts on the part
of those enemes of the Legon to cur
tail bchnd closed doors benefits which
are just and proper which it took the
Legion thirteen long years to secure
in open hearings. A great fight is
likely during the coming year, .parly
and complete re-enrollment and en
thusiastic support by every Post will
again bring victory to the Legion and
real and substantial relief to the dis
abled and veterans in general by an
appreciative and grateful nation.
this term should exceed the 1930 rec
ord of approximately 50 per oent of
all high school age boys and girls.
Colleges and unverslties are hopeful
of registering as many studehts in
1932 as they did in 1931. Many in
stitutions of higher education which
felt a drop in summer school atten
dance, hope to report a normal re
gistration within the next few weeks.
Graduate college work expected to
attract large numbers this term.
Thousands of adults without jobs
will be seeking school training during
the next several months. In the emer
gency l&dt year many cities kept their
school buildings open for adult and
parent education, and this year the
successful plan of providing educa
tion during the enforced leisure time
will be continued. Vocational, continu
ation, and night schools will again ad
just their programs to meet the needs
of unemployed and part-time employ
ed persons Day. evening, and Satur
day education will .be provided, the
Saturday classes operating very con
veniently with the 5-day week. Dear
born, Mich., Lansing, Mich., Stamford,
Conn., Gary, Ind., and numerous other
cities held Saturday classes last year
or allowed unemployed adu’ts the use
of school room or grounds.
Rural schools are expecting larger
enrollments this year because of in
creasingly large migrations of fami
lies from the city to the farm. The
Department of Agriculture reports
that 1,679,000 persons moved from
cities to farms in 1930, nearly (hree
quarters of a million more than the
number that moved from farm to city.
The trend is still "farmward,” which
means additional responsibility for
rural school administrators and teach
ers. "Rural schools must be strength
ened, their curricula enriched, and
provisions made for adult educational
opportunities.” says James A. Moyer,
President of the National Commission
on the Enrichment of Adult Life, com
menting on the "back-to-land" move
ment.
Federal Office of Education records
show that more than $56,000,000 a year
are spent to transport children in
rural sections of the United States
to their studies. They Journey, daily
in 55,000 motor vehicles and in 4,000
horse-drawn vehicles. Although the
oldtime one room schools are disap
pearing at the rate of 3,000 per year,
it Is estimated that there are. still
approximately 145.000 one - room
schools in the various flint re. and
shout 17,000 consolidated schools.
Decreases In appropriations for bte•
«attaa may hnv* a tendency this ]*M>
to many schools, to causa the crowd
ing at as many pupils as passible Into
each classroom in order to Saoploy
fewer teachers sad to keep instruction
coats to a minimum. That this prac
tice may hamper education is point
ed out by William O. Carr, ressarch
director at the National Education
Association, who recently said, *Tf
education taken for its major purpose
the development of personality and
character. Instead of routine learning
of facts, names, dates, definitions and
the like, most educators would favor
at least some small groups permitting
close and friendly contact between
teachers and pupils."
To meet pared appropriations tor
education, a number of schools, have
decided upon shorter terms. This prac
tice, altohugh not general, may be suf
ficiently widespread to reduce the
standards of instruction set for pub
lic elementary and high schools. One
month less school per year would na
turally mean, if the short tgrfti con
tinued throughout the elementary and
high school period a year and i)*%alf
less education for every high school
graduate.
Various ways of decreasing educa
tional costs are being reported to the
National Education Association and
to the Federal Office of Education in
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57 SHOULD BE EASY
We know of no time in our history when we were as well
prepared to supply the farmer as we are today. It has
been said that “Time waits for no man” and neither
should you—
We Are Ready With
The Things You Need
Heating stoves, cook stoves, plows, lanterns, axes,
Dtatils, shells, b&rb wire, field fence, molasses evapora*
tors, skimmers, kegs, barrels, knives, wash pots and
general farm hardware.
Watkins Hardware
Company
, i Henderson, N. C.
The Largest and Most Com plete Siock in This Section >
Washington, D. C. Boom arm worthy
of dupttqatton elsewhere —others ere
harmful to the school program. Presi
dent Hooter cold, "The very
first obligation upon the national re
sources is the undlmlnlshed financial
support of the public schools. We can
not afford to loee any ground in edu
cation. This is neither economy nor
good government."
MAKES CERTAIN OF
FARM WATER SUPPLY
Roxboro, Sept. 23.—(AP)--C. T.
Hall, progressive' rnrmcr of Woods
dale, forestalled the possibility his
water well might fail by piping the
water of foui* springs on his farm
through one hydaulic ram and now he
gets all the running water in hi 3
house and barns that he needs.
Just before the . excessively dry
weather set in. County Agent H. K.
Banders >aid, the farmer installed his
water system. As wells in the vicinity
began to fail, the wisdom of piping
the four springs together was seen.
Hall gets 28 gallons of spring water
an hour raised 50 feet above the level
of the ram by an "Impulser” and pipes
it 2,300 feet to his home.
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is estimated at 250.000 mile,. >Unt >Y
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