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HE NOEHSO N DAILY DISPAIUH
Established August 12,1914*
Published Every Afternoon Except
Sunday by
HENDERSON DISPATCH CO., INC.
at 109 Young Street
HENRY A. DENNIS, Pres, and Editor.
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GENUINE PRAISE Whoso offereth
praise glorified me; and to him that
ordereth his way aright will I show
the salvation of oGd.—Psalm 50:23.
LOVE NOT THE WORLD: Love not
the world, neither the things that are
in the world. If any man love the
world, the love of the Father is not
in him —1 John 2:15.
My
by
James Asivell
New York, Aug. 19. — x don’t know
why various wags consider me an ap
propriate target for an old and speci
fic sort of joking I have probably re
ceived more literature on courses in
eisel engines, electrical wiring, street
sweeping and airplane piloting than
any man alve. Salesmen, led on by
card:; addressed in my name, have
filled my anteroom.
Today arrived tne latest attempt
on the part of some newspaperman
jokester acquaintance at humor. It
appears I have been entered in a con
test for moving picture stardom
sponsored by a film manufacturing
company. A large and impressive
certificate accompanied «ne notifica
tion.
"You have qualified, from your pic
tures, as the comedian type m our
search for tomorrow’s stars. If you
win you will receive e guaranteed
contract in Hollywood".
I am wondering if the prankster
sent in my actual likeness.
* * *
Ad
The classified advertising columns
of the metropolitan press remain
more humanly revealing than the
news space most of the time. Take
this one, which appeared in a morn
ing paper of great dignity:
‘ Going Europe, want expert to
teach roulette, know standard sys
tems. Box 0000’’.
I’d like to see the quantity of pros
pectuses received by that trustful ad
vertiser for wildcat oil promotions,
schemes for separating gold from sea
water and for lifting buried treasure
in foreign strands. As a matter of
facts I was tempted to offer him a
few choiqe building plots in Rocke
feller Center myself.
TODAY
TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES
1774 —Meriwether Lewis, joint com
mander of the historic Lewis-Clark
exploring exppedition, governor of
Louisiana Territory, born in Albe
marle Co., Va. Died Oct. 11, 1809.
1807 —Charles Francis Adams, among
the country’s greatest diplomats, son
and grandson of Presidents, father of
eminent sons, born in Boston. Died
there, Nov. 21, 1886.
1830—Francis Joseph. Emperor of
Austria-Hungary, born. Died Nov. 21
T 6.
1834—(100 years ago) Marshall
(Field, Chicago’s great merchant prince
born near Conway, Mass. Died in
New York, Jan. 16, 1906. (
1846 —Robley D. Evans (Fighting
Bob Evans) distinguished naval offi
cer, born in Virginia. Died in Wash
ington, D. C., Jan. 3, 1912.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1857—Virginia Dare .first child of
English parentage to be born in Ame
rica—at Roanoke Island, N. C.
1838—First scientific expedition fit-
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" ~ Francis Joseph, emperor . . . and tired old man
Vienna celebrated, 20 years ago today, though her armies faced imm#=
diate defeats on two fronts. For it was the 84th birthday of the emperor,
the glorious possessor of 50 million subjects and* perhaps, one friend*
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Saturday. August 18; 230th day of
year, 59th day of Summer. Morning
stars: Merucry. Venus and Mars.
Evening star: Jupiter. Moon first
quarter.
WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
Aug. 18, 1914—There is gaiety, and
cheering, and glittering display of
bayonets, swords and medals in Vien
na. The Austrians have not won a
victory: as a matter of fact their arm
ies are facing defeats on two fronts.
It is the 84th birthday of the emperor,
Francis Joseph I.
No one of his subjects has less to
celebrate than he. Forty-eight years
before he had told an audience at
Frankfurt. “I have an unlucky hand.”
lie was thinking of past events, but
the phrase was prophetic, too.
His reign was a succession of wars,
disasters and tragedies. His brother
Maximilian was executed and his sis
ter-in-law driven crazy by Mexicans
over whom they sought to rule; his son
and heir Rudolph committed suiedie;
his wife was assassinated; his nephew
and heir. Francis Ferdinand, was mur
dered. The only person he could re
gard as a friend in his last years was
his companion of many years, Kathe
rina Schratt, an otherwise obscure
actress, he emperor had everything
that men seek —power, glory, riches;
and none of the things that make
them happy.
His country started the World War,
but there is no doubt that no one
wanted war less than he. He even re
alized that whatever side won, it would
be the end of his empire
(As this is written, three weeks be
fore publication, Katherine Sachratt
is alive, but as faded and withered as
the memory of her ill and in poverty
in Vienna.)
GREAT DAYS
Aug. 18. 1227—Temujin, the Genghis
Khan (very mighty ruler) of tljjo Mon
gols, one of the three greatest con
querors in all history died in his
travelling palace at Ha-lao-tu, on the
banks of the river Sale, Mongolia, at
65.
He became a ruler at 13, built the
minor domain of his father into an
Asia-wide empire which his grandson.
Kubilai Khan, was to extend into half
of Europe. (Kubilai inspired Marco
Polo’s classic pages)
That Genghis Khan’s death might
be a secret from subject nations un
til his son, Ogotai was installed in
power, the escort killed every person
they met as they carried the body to
a secret burial place. A clan was
charged to watch the sit for genera
tions .until the surrounding forest of
saplings grew into great trees and
eraced all trace of the grave.
Aug. 18. 1587—Birthdate of Virginia
Dare, often identified as first white
ted out by Government set out for the
(Southern Seas under command of
Charles Wilkes.
1933—Japan tells the world her at
titude toward China and Manchuria.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
James M. Baker, U. S. minister to
Siam, born in South Carolina, 73
years ago.
Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of Rol
lins College, Florida, born in Brooklyn,
N. Y., 62 years ago .
Dr. Henry P. Fairchild, noted New
York University social scientist, born
at Dundee, 111., 54 years ago.
Rt. Rev. George C. Stewart, P. E.
bishop of Chicago, born at Saginaw,
Mich., 55 years ago.
Lucy L. W. Wilson, . noted Phila
delphia high school principal, born at
St. Albans, Vt., 70 years ago.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
This day promises to develop a sche
mer, full of initiative in commercial
enterprises. Developing the character
on its better sides,, a strong business
man and a good citizen will result;
but if there be bad aspects to fortune
or liberty, and laxity in training, the
jail may pprove the end.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934
child born in America.
She was not. First chil dos Euro
| pean parents born in North America
was illegitimate!
I When Jean Francois. Sieur de Rob
-1 erval. first viceroy of Canada went to
his domain, in 1542, he was accompan
ied by a niece, Marguerite Roberval,
who loved a. chevalier in the company
not wisely hut too well. The viceroy
was a stern and unforgiving man, and
when he learned the consequences of
the affair, set his niece ashore on an
island near Newfoundland with an old
Norman nurse, a small supply of food
and weapons. As the ship sailed away,
the captive lover burst his bonds, leap
ed into the sea and swam to her.
The child, the nurse and the father
succumbed to hardships. The mother
survived to be rescued by a ship two
years later and taken baciT'to France.
Virginia Dare’s own legitimacy is
questioned. It is suspected that Sir
Walter Raleigh was the sire of the
child born on Roanoke Island, North
Carolina, to Eleanor White, wife of
Ananias Dare.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Miriam Hopkins, b. 1904 in Bain
bridge, Ga,, cinemactress . . . Gustav
Edwards Simon, known as Gus Ed
wards, b. 1881, composer (Schooldays)
and vaudeville impresario . . . Logan
Feland, b. 1869, retired Marine Corps
jnajor-genera! ... Elinor Smith Sullh
van, b. 1911, aviatrix
ASTRO-PROGNOSTICATION
Zodiac Sign: Leo. Persons whose
birthdate it is are deemed by astrolog
ers to be of self-centered, uncommuni
Beebe Feat Gives U. S. ‘Low’ Mark
mpL>A # ' £> SS,OOOrr.
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American adventurers, venturing into the ocean and the stratosphere
for new heighth and depth records, have conquered 61,000 feet oi space.
And “bathysphere" (below) in which William Beebe went down
feet in ocean off Bermuda, is shaped like gondola in which „ umar *
T. W. Settle set official stratosphere mark, as these Br*9sl
cative, easily discouraged cast. How-
ever, they win the confidence of
friends by their straight-forwardness,
and are providlLed with frequent op
portunities for advancement of their
interest. Today’s thought: Timid
dogs bark most.
SUNDAY
Sunday, Aug. 19; 46th day, 158th
year of U. S. Independence. Saturn
becomes an evening star today.
WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
Aug. 19, 1914—The war is brought
nearer the United States; the Cana
dian parliament authorizes organiza
tion of an expeditionary force.
American volunteers will be in the
first contingents.
There is a little good news, a great
deal of bad news from the war fronts.
The Serbians defeat the Austrian* at
Yadar, and force the invaders to re
treat toward their frontier. The vic
tory does nothing to restore sinking
Allied morale. No one believes the
wtr will be decided in Servia. The
big news, and the bad news, is that the
Germans are' occupying Louvain. We
have the report of an eyewitness,
Arno Dosch-Fleurot;
“The hardest thing to describe about
the entry of the Germans into Lou
vian is the hush that fell over the city.
Except for the click of German heels,
the clatter of German horses, and thf
rumble of German artillery you could
have heard a sigh 20 feet away any
where in Louvain. With the whole
city at this nervous tension a German
military airplane of the Ttbue typ?
swept low overhead, and every face in
the city stared at the black imperial
crosses on the underside of the great (
planes, symbols of the German inva
sion.”
It is like the calm before a storm.
For Louvain is to become an awful
example.
GREAT DAYS
Aug. 19, 14 A. D.—Caius Octavius,
Emperor Augustus of Rome, who was
born in September, died today, in the
month he had named after himself
because it was his lucky month. He
was 77.
He was afraid of lightning, and
lightning foretold hsi death! When a
bolt struck a statue of him in Rome
inscribed Augustus Caesar, the force
of it cracked off the C and left the
rest untouched. Soothsayers decided
that within a hundred days he would
die, for C was the symbol of 100, and
Aesar signified a god, such as Ro
mans made of their emperors after
death.
He died within the 100 days, calling
out to his wife, “Live mindful of our
wedlock, Livia ,and so farewell."
TODAY IS THE DAY
August 19, 1692—Five women, only
five among many who met a similar
fate, were hanged as witches, as the
terror that had been exacting victims
throughout Massachusetts Bay col
only for 50 years, settled violently up
on Salem.
Susannah Martin was hanged be
cause: ‘O’n a rainy day she walked
over a good bit of country without get
ting her skirts or hose muddy, and it
was sagely concluded that such nea
ness could only have been attained
through the aid of the devil!” Marga
ret Jones was executed because she
disapproved of the bleeding to which
doctors subjected patients for any an
all ailments! Mary Dyer was put to
death as a witch because she was a
Quaker. These were typical of the vie
tims of the fury fomented by Rev. Dr.
Cotton Mather, Harvard-educated
"intellectual” with his writings and
“Maybe She’ll Come Down Now!”
preachings.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Orville Wright, b. 1871, co-inventor
of the airplane . . . Bernard M, Ba
ruch, b. 1870, rtired financier ... Sam
D. Bratton, b. 1888, jurist and ex-sen
ator . . . Elsie Ferguson, b, 1883,
actress... .Tom Connolly, b. 1877, sen
ator from Texas ... Fred Stone, b.
1873, actor.
ASTRO-PROGNOSTICATION
Zodiac sign: Leo. Persons whose
birthdate it is are interpreted as be
ing well-balanced mentally and phy
sically, with the ability to surmount
the difficulties placed in their path
by unreasonable members of their
families. They have musical talent,
hey are slow to see dangers, and may
suffer financial reverses of perman
ently discouraging nature. Today’s !
thought: Who only hears part hears
nothing.
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page
1. Wyoming .Montana and Idaho,
2. Philadelphia, Fa.
3. Syria.
4. Forty-four.
5. An ice substitute used for skating
rinks.
6. One hundred and sixty.
7. Clossa (Latin) meaning a bell.
8. Twenty-first,
9. General Assembly.
10. Pennsylvania,
Electrocuting of Woman
Turns Sentiment Upon
Penal Systems
By LESLIE EICHEL
New oYrk, Aug. 18. (CP),—The exe
cution of a woman may bring a great
social change.
A wave of horror has swept over
large elements of the population of
New Lork as the result of the elec
trocution of Mrs. Anna Antonio, 28,
mother of three children.
Two men went to death with her.
The law makes no distinction for
sex, Governor Herbert M; Lehman
said. True—and perhaps wisely. Thus
the public ey is turned upon the whoa,
problem of capital punishment.
Lewis E. Lawes, warden of Sing
Sing prison, who gave the signal that
put Mrs. Antonio to death, said im
mediately afterwards:
With the death of Mrs. Antonio
in the electric chair, I am more than
ever opposed to thes legal killings!
While I am convinced that the chair
is the most humane method of execu
tion it is after all only a legal kill
ing. I can reach but one conclusion
everytime I carry out a. death sen
tence. From every point of view the
death penalty is futile. Some day,
perhaps, civilization will find some
other way of compensating society.
The death penalty has been tried,
judged and found wanting”.
* * *
Cat and Mouse
The horror of the present system—
the cat and, mouse method with which
the state plays with the. condemned
for months in t'ne peath house —is
even more subtle in its undermining
' influence than the painful physical
tortures of old.
Mrs. Antonio awaited death for 15
months. Her reprieves came at the
eleventh hour. In the final effort, the
governor did not even notify her of
his decision. She waited breathlessly,
hopefully. T he governor gave out his
statement following her death.
She had died a million deaths.
* * *
Prisons
Some day—say criminologists—we
shall look back on our penal system
with shudders and embarrassment.
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13— A rowing implement •
14— To strike against 1
1 6—Before 17—-Else <
18—A member of the solar system *
20—Doctor (abbr.) 21—A bulwark 3
23—To efface 4
25—Goddess of the hunt 4
27—Basin for ships 29—A repast f
30—All right 31—To strike f
33 Chinese measure £
34 In case that (conj.)
35 Governed 37—Behold
40—Equal to 100 cent* (pi.)
42—To pull suddenly 44—Valued
4fi—a covered heap of hay
48— Articles of the same
49 Writing fluid
50— -River (Spanish)
51— Grand Army of the RepubUe
(abbr )
53—Northeast (abbr ) 34 —Tire*
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OOWN
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B—Part of the head 4—On*
6—Aloft 7—Born
B—To comb out hair 9—Forever
U—Moist 14—City tn Italy ,
!S—A_drink o? honeyjuad watoi,
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chairs and gallows, chain gangs an<
sweat ibexes, the utter futility c
crushing thes pirit out of a man, th
absurdity of recreating a man to tak
his place in his society by sue
measures, some day will be seen i
their true perspective. i
In the meantime, those who hav
the power to turn the public gaze t
the light, take such opportunities a
Warden Lawes. But there are only
few Warden Lawes.
Commander Fitzhugh Green, Arcti
explorer-author, born at St. Joseph
Mo., 46 years ago.
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21 — Neck of veal
22 Chinese monetary unit
24—Cover of a building
26—To fasten together
28—Side of a building 31 —Moss
82—Rip 34 —To Impress
35—Stone 36—To drag
88—Commanded 40—A waterfowl
41—A male red deer 43—A mark
45—Periods 47—To lease
60— To plunder
61— Above (contr.) 64—Doubly
65—street (abbr »
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