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PAGE SIX
VPIJH DIVISION
ALWAYS AN ISSUE
In Old Days Lanr Grafts
Met the Cry, but Land
Is All Gone Now
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, July 19.—Division of
wealth always has been a cry in th»
United States—except during war
times.
That is an interesting fact gained
from a re-reading of historical
sources.
Originally, when the nation could
reach out for new primeval lands,
that urge was satisfied, to a large ex
tent. by homestead parcels.
But even that was a long way in
coming.
The east feared it would be drained
of population and that the "under
classes’ - would gain political domin
ion if land in the west were made
easy to obtain.
Southern planters feared a newly
settled” west would not only compete,
but might destroy the "institution of
slavery.”
The east held the power for a long
while, in combination with the south,
and western lands fell into the hands
cf huge enterprises, speculators and
politicians.
Members of Congress were caught
in more than one land speculation
deal, just as previously they had been
caught speculating in currency of the
nation, in common with financiers,
prior to the federal currency system
forced by economic necessity on the
nation during the Civil war.
Finally, in spite of opposition from
presidents on down, homesteads were
made easier to obtain for the aver
age man.
But the growth of capitalism over
shadowed the gain—for monopoly
grew instead of lessened, and the
many because the employes of the
few —whether in city factory or on
country land. f
CAN A PRESIDENT DIRECT?
Attacks are being made on Presi
dent Roosevelt for proposing meas
ures which were not advocated by
the Democratic platform.
History shows that this is an evi- j
dent conclusion during economic '
crises.
Abraham Lincoln (a minority presi
dent, incidentally) was elected on a
platform that was largely economic,
which said nothing at all concerning
the freeing of the slaves in slave
states
Yet President Lincoln was barely
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Biaii Rodman is riding in a truck
ivi th Janet Lord from the town of
Boise vai n in western Canada to the
weird old home of an elderly Miss
Boisevain who lives in a huge house
with only a woman servant and a
fierce dog $ t hey have just met. He
is going to retrieve his car that be
came mired in the ditch near the
Boisevain house during a terrific
thunderstorm the night before.
Shortly afterward the queer old
woman refused him shelter and her
dog chased him from the house.
McClure, the truck driver, tells Blair
there is much mystery about the
Boise vain house. The girl is on her
way to Miss Boisevain’s to become her
companion after answering an ad in a
Vancouver paper following her fa
ther's death. She shoics Blair an at
tractive letter from Miss Boisevain
and then bids him goodby as they
reach the house. When McClure
tells him he brought another young
girl to the Boisevain house two
months previously who never re
tnrned, Blair decides to delay his
trip west a few days. Meanwhile Janet
meets Miss Boisevain who surprises
her as much as does her bizarre house.
Janet learns that Nita cannot talk.
&hs notices Miss Boisevain' 3 crystal
ring and, gazing into it, sees Blair
Hodman’s features.
(VOW OO ON WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTER 10
WITH A QUICK movement, Janet
handed back the ring to Miss Boise
vain, and laughed rather unsteadily.
'“How queer,” she said aloud, al
though she meant to keep her
thoughts to herself.
“What is queer!"
The girl did not answer. Instead,
fine looked toward the swinging door
where she thought she heard a
scratching, grating sound. The door
opened and a big dog bounded into
the room and Caine straight toward
h«r. The dog’s eyes, bloodshot and
wild, stared at her.
Janet, recoiled. The dog was flerce
v . looking and his movements were as
lithe and as supple as those of a
v v; tiger. When he reached her chair,
he snarled a little and lay dowp at
£er feet, growing still to hiinteelf,
£s if she did not exactly please him.
His eyes never left her face.
(J,"X°j u heed not fear Rajah,” Miss
oqisevhiii explained. v “He wiU not
hurt you. Although, to most people
He is very dangerous.' He keeps
Strangers out of the house,”.., ’■
"Axe you sure he will not bite
ate? He looks at me ... as if he
doesn't . . . well, as if he doesn’t like
*»• very well.” Janet shuddered as
tlie dog snarled again. She had no
desire to make friends with him.
‘ No, he knows you are one of the
Household.”
There was another uncomfortable
* alienee. A silence broken only by
she repeated snarling of Rajah. The
fill longed to go to her room; but she
supposed she would have to waipfor
permission from. Miss Boisevain.
\ Suddenly, her employer leaned to
ward her. «
"What face did you see In the
Crystal?” she asked, eagerly, her
#p&il eyes narrowing until they were
hardly visible under the heavy lids.
nothing,” Janet answered,
hesitantly.
■ "I would like to know," Miss Boise
yain Insisted. She laid a cold hand
©n the girl’s wrist,
y She must answer thla woman
Suspend lowa Mayor
W. D. Hayes
Suspension from office of Mayoi
W. D. Hayes, above, of Sioux
City, la., was ordered by District
Judge A. 0. Wakefield, when a
grand jury recommended his r*"
moval for failure to act on alleged
lawless conditions. A petition
filed by special prosecutors car
ried an affidavit regarding graft
and protection payoffs. Mayor
Hayes declined to comment.
in office before he literally was thrust
into the business of freeing the slaves
in slave states.
Here, again we have the economic.
Freeing slaves was an offshoot of
the supreme economic question.
Vance Is One of Best Tax
Sources in the State Now
(Continued from Page One.).
exception of the income tax, in which
it ranked in third place, the income
tax collections in Forsyth and Guil
ford counties exceeding those in
Mecklenburg.
Forsyth county ranks in second
place for total amount of revenue col
lected and m first place for income
tax collections, while Guilford county
is in third place for total collections
from these five sources gynd in second
place in income tax collections and
sales tax collections. Durham county
is in "*third position in total collec.
tions from these five revenue sources.
The Forsyth county collections for
The inlrror was gone*.
way. She demanded an auswef. ,
“My father’s,” Janet murirtured.
She did not know why she should
have told a falsehood. Some strange
whim led her to not tell the truth.
Miss Boisevain, taking her hand
away, settled back, a wide smile on
her face.
"Do you want to look in it again?”
“I’d rather not. It upsets me.
Father, you know. . . ."
“I see.”
A shrill .whistle from outside the
room startled the girl, and in* dismay
she watched Rajah swing to his feet,
put his great head against the swing-'
ing door and run out.
She looked inquisitively at Miss
Boisevain, who was gazing at her
crystal ring intently.
"Was that someone?” Janet asked,
rather puzzled. The woman had said
there were only two people, three
with her, in this big house. The
whistle, loud and piercing, seemed
human to Janet.
“Nothing,” Miss Boisevain said ab
sently. “Nothing, probably a bird.”
At any rate, Rajah had gone and she
was much more comfortable. She
heaved a little sigh of relief.
“You will get urfed to Rajah,” Miss
Boisevain announced, reading Janet’s
thoughts again. She picked up a
small silver bell from the table at
her side and shook It vigorously.
Nita appeared at the swinging door
and came forward.
“I think Miss Lord wants to go
to her room, Nita. Did you lake her
bags up?”
Nita nodded affirmatively.
Just follow Nita upstairs. Good
night.”
“Good night.”
As Janet arose from her chair, s)?e
glanced again around the room. A
piano, she had not touched one ton
jt would be good to lurgj
HENDERSON. m C.j DAILY DISPATCH. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935
the fiscal year ending June 30 are:
Privilege taxes $ 64.994
Franchise taxes 289.636
Income taxes 1,668,346
Sales taxes 314,963
Beer taxes 2121,453
Total
In this group Forsyth cqunty rank
ed first in the payment 'of income
taxes, thir in payment of privilege and
sales taxes and fourth in franchise
and beer taxes.
Guilford county, white in third
place on the basis of total tax pay
ments from these five sources, with
$1,319,407, ranks in second place in
the payment of privilege, incon/j and
sales taxes, in third place in payment
of franchise taxes and in fifth place
in beer taxes. The totals for Guilford
in these various classifications are:
Privilege taxes, $84,445; franchise
taxes, $135,107; income taxes, $604,-
sales taxes, $453,042) and beer
taxe> "$42,454.
Durham county’s total contribution
to the State treasury last year of
$724,376 from these five principal
taxes, is divided as follows: Privilege
taxes, $47,817; franchise taxes, $120,-
567; income taxes, $325,271;, sales
taxes, $208,949 and beer taxes, $71,772.
Durham county ranked fourth in the
payment of income taxes and only
sixth in the payment of sales taxes
and privilege taxes.
Sales tax collections for the year in
some of the principal counties, in the
order of the larger amounts, are as
follows: Mecklenburg. $648,019; Guil
ford, $453,042; Forsyth, $314,963; Wake
$308,280; Buncombe, $273,015; Durham
$208,949; Pitt, $168,134: New Hanover,
$142,274; Vance, $137,452; Gaston,
$133,365; Lenior, $133,283; Alamance,
$124,648; Nash, $116,498; Wilson, 1116,-
842; Rowan, $115,828; Wayne, $115,-
720; Robeson, $112,564; Cabarrus,
$105,007; Catawba, $94,496.
Income 4gx collections, in some of
the larger counties, in the order of
the size of the amounts collected, are
as follows: Forsyth, $1,668,346; Guil
ford, $604,259; Mecklenburg, $596,440;
Durham, $325,271; Cabarrus. $220,808;
Alamance, $213,274; New Hanover,
$166,360; Wake, $127,073; Buncombe,
$177,888; Rowan, $102,488; Catwba,
76,797; Pitt, $73,5441; Wilson, $69,815;
Nash, $56,024; dgecombe, $51,1114;
Vance. $38,000; Wayne, $29,253.
Thes mallest amount of income tax
was collected from Clay county, which
paid only $3.53, while only $22.61 was
collected from Cam Sen county, the
State s smallest county Clay county
paid $2,000 in sales taxs and Camden
paid $2,820 in sales taxes.
One-half of what we call bigotry is
cased upon kir.e fact that men have no
wish to have their real reasons for
holding or that opinion submitted to
the cold light of reason.
one again. She put her hand on the
rosewood case, lovingly, and started
toward the door.
Fastened to the wall at the side tdt
the door was an ornate gilt frame
about six feet high and four feet in
width, she thought. It had once
sheltered a mirror, but now this was
gone. The amber satin wall cover*
ing was all Janet could see. A com*
panion frame on the other side ©t
the door also was empty of glass.
Instinctively, the girl looked back
at the fireplace. She had noticed a
gilt frame above it, round and bgau
' tjfully carved. This, too, she saw
held no mirror, although it
have at one time.
Certainly, Miss Boisevaii; was pa*
culiur. . . Why, if she had taken
down the jjnirrors, did she not retfiow©
the useless frames? <
Nita, a small candle in her, hand,
opened the swinging door for' Jajiet.
The hallway was dark and the'Can
dle which the maid held high over
her head lighted up a bare space.
The feet of the servant made no
sound, whereas Janet’s high heeled
slippers clicked distressingly. She
tried to walk on tiptoes but could
not succeed in making her footsteps
inaudible as Nita did. The maid must
hav«j felt soled slippers on, she de
cided as she minced along, feeling
that she was too noisy, too raucous
for this quiet, still house.
A flight of stairs, uncarpeted,
loomed ahead. At the top of them;
Nila paused and looked back at the
girl. Her brown eyes shone strange
ly and her lips seemed drawn in
tighter line than ever. Janet smilted
wanly. After all, she should try tb
make friends with this creature who
was dumb.
Mtta’fi expression did not alter a*
smile.
AV I VS>. BE CONTINUED)
End of Ryan's Marriage to Countess Is Issue for Catholic Court
v Jtf
Ciendenia J. Ryan, Jr,
“GOVERNOR PHIL” GOES A-RIDING
Governor La Follette
Gov. Philip La Follette of Wisconsin takes a turn on horseback as he
reviews tha Wisconsin national guard at Madison.
British Scout Leader Honored
Lord JBaden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scout movement in Great
Britain, is shown with Mrs. Frederick Edey, American Girl Scout head,
it the New York luncheon given in his honor as a prelude to the scheduled
jubilee scout activities in United States which will end with encampment
a of thirty thousand boys in Washington.
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Countess’ mother Count Wladimir
Freed by New York’s supreme court of his marital bonds to Countess
Marie-Ann von Wurmbrand-Stuppaeh of Austria, Clendenin J. Ryan,
Jr., heir to New York traction millions, was reported planning to
ask an ecclesiastical court of the Roman Catholic church to strike
away the religious ties. Supreme Court Justice Salvatore Cotillo re
ferred to the countess’ mother, Countess May' Wurmbrand-Stuppaeh,
as prime mover in “the greatest American fortune plot” ever at
tempted. Letters of motherly advice telling Marie how to catch an
American millionaire were part of the evidence submitted. The 19-
year-old Countess Marie was shown to have been ia love at the time
of her marriage with the Polish Count Wladimir Mittrowsky, to
whom she was said to have sent impassioned cables:.
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Infantile Paralysis Cases
Reported From Early Times
By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
TWO EPIDEMICS of infantile
paralysis have been reported in the
United States this summer, the most
serious one being in Los Angeles.
Nat u r ally an
i nouncements of
I this sort in the
[ newspapers
| cause a great
| deal of public
| alarm and ex-
I citement. People
j plan to move
! their children
away from the
I epidemic district,
I and institute all
kinds of protec
ti v e measures,
some sensible,
some futile.
> For we always
have a few spo-
Dr. deadening
radio cases of
infantile paralysis with us. The fire
smolders, and in the summer months
breaks out. There have been few, if
any, summers when there was not
a more or less extensive epidemic
somewhere, so that escape is well
nigh impossible.
And this has been going on for as
long a time as the memory of man
reaeheth to. In some of the earliest
medical writings, those of Hippo
crates, the father of medicine, oc
currence of the disease under cer
tain weather conditions is empha
sized.
Epidemic Recorded
“In Thasus, a little before and dur
ing tha season ©f Arcturus, there
W. B. A. CONVENTION DRAV/S 20,000
Mrs. Bin* We.t Milter Ann Perlndige
States from all parts of the union were represented by colorful
marching units and floats in the parade which climaxed the annua
convention of the Women’s Benefit association at Cleveland. One
of the most-applauded delegations was that from Missouri Mrs.
Bina West Miller, founder and president, and Miss Ann
Partridge, queen of the convention pageant, both of Foil Huron,
Mich., were among the notables at the four-day session which " aS
attended by more than 20.000.
tL .■ > s»y v
° -IffP
Counters Mari*
were frequent and great rains. About
the summer solstice, scanty rains.
After the dog-days, the summer hot.
In this state of things, during the
winter epidemic paralysis of the leg 3
set in, and attacked many.”
Hippocrates does not piace the
epidemic in the summer months, but
Galen, another ancient writer, does.
He says it occurs when the “cold
winds of winter succeed to a humid
autumn”.
Extensive studies in our own time
clearly show that epidemics occur
in warm weather. Few cases break
out in either the Arctic circle or the
equatorial regions. In the temperate
regions, the hot months, north of the
equator, are from May to September,
but in those south of the equator,
the hot months are January to May.
Now, the peak of incidence of in
fantile paralysis epidemics in the
United States is in August. In Aus
tralia and New Zealand, on the con
trary, the seasonal peak is in March.
Even in the United States there are
variations due to climate, our south
ern states having their epidemics
earlier in the summer than th»
northern states.
Besides climate, age plays a large
role in the determination of cases,
but this is changing. In- the 1916
epidemic in New York City only five
per cent (roughly: it varied week by
week) of those attacked were over 10
years old. In the 1931 epidemic in
New York there were sometimes as
many as 30 per cent over 10 years
of age. So perhaps the “infantile"
part of the condition is changing.
These facts and others to be dis
cussed tomorrow, help us to under
standing and protect!®**.