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I'AGE ELS THE STADNTON NEWS-LEADER. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1935 Staunton A'eic Leader LAST DAYS OF POMPEII? Daily Bible Verse By FEE REV. T. M. STEVENSON Pastor CrAlgsviile Presbyterian Church Letters From The People Staunton Daily News EstAbllihea ISM Staunton Morning Leader Established isoe NEXT YEAR'S WINTER WHEAT YIELD SET AT 450,000,000 BUSHELS, SMALLEST SINCE '35 Prealdeat Hterome Opt One Day at a Time CTrt 'Walton Ople tilt or General Menace As thy days, so shall thy strength a I Jr.

7,: be. Deut. 33:25. Eatered at Post Ofrioe. Siauatoci, Ve aa ecosd-clAM mail natter Dec.

21 avThe ever, there remain two Justifiable federal crop reporting board forecast next year winter wheat crop suspicions oi Argentina course at Lima: today at 435,000,000 bushels the smallest since 1935 and 201,000,000 PablteheS morning except Holiday by Tha Leader Pub. Co. nx CantraJ Aeou 6taunton. a. Mmban Aeaoetated Preee, Audit Burftao of Clrctiiatlone and Virginia Praaa Aaaoclatloa 1.

Her government is jealous of U. S. leadership and wants Latin Editor, The News-Leader: Every year when Christmas comes around I read, in company with many others, the letters to Santa Claus from the dozens of little children all over the county and city. There are always one or two which bring tears to my eyes and a lump to my throat and make we wish I could go out and buy up the stores to fill the stockings of these little ones so that' not one of them will feel disappointment and heartache on Christmas morning. No one individual could possibly dc this, however, and it remauis for our splendid, alert firefighters who give freely with the time of Christmas -ot their Jtoie and energy and to our valuable charity organizations to assure happiness to these young hopefuls and their families and friends.

This year the Santa Claus letter WEATHER REPOET Government Station At 8- AL A. (8 a. m. Dec. 20 to 8 a.

m. Dec. 21:) Maximum temperature 42. Minimum temperature 24. Precipitation, 0.

Prevailing wind direction from W. America to understand that she is the big dog among them. bushels less than was harvested this year. The board based its prediction on two factors, an eighteen percent reduction in acreage planted and poorer crop prospects in the great plains area, where drought conditions have prevailed since sowing Tha Aaaoetatad Praaa la exelualrely entitled to tba as of publtratloita of all cava diapatchea credited to lu If 2. Her government has alreadv not otharwma craditad la i tbia under fascist Influence due and also tba local nawi publtabedf.

to commercial, industrial, flnan haraln of-tha-crop-last-talL rial and blood ties with Germany The area planted to wheat was and Italy. estimated at 46.173,000 acres, com iuq ob eiiun PiVj I year paid In id Tinea 14 09 ttailjr I montha r.id In advance Dally I montb paid In Advance by mall only .49 Dally I weak by carrier Jl There has been criticism of the United States by representa tives of a number of Latin-Am' (8 a. m. Dec. 21 to Fa.

mTDecr 22.) Maximum temperature 45. Minimum temperature 22. rPecipitation, 0. Prevailing wind direction from W. 0 MACHINE FROM STAUNTON TOOK COSTLY PLUNGE i 7.7.

7. .77.7. .7.." 77. li.ie ertcan nations for not taking the a montna a. I out-and-out leadership at Lima, pared with 56.355,000 for the 1938 crop ano 45,644.000 acres for the annual average during the 1926-35 period.

The agricultural adjustment administration, in an attack on a surplus, has asked winter wheat growers to hold their planting operations to about 39.000.000 acres. Officials Pleased Although the reduction in acreage was only about sixty percent oecreiary huii nas Kept rather in the background, his strategy ap which has touched me most is one from Ruby Cupp and I quote it in full it is worth anyone's time to read and contains a lesson for all of us: "Dear Mr. Santa Claus, I am Just a little brown-eyed girl. I would like for you to bring me some candy, nuts, oranges, and something nice. I am not choicy about that.

I can hardly wait until parently being to let the Latins Tba data on roor nam fa telle whan your time la out. Sand renew-ala before expiration data to guard aratnat audden atop, fcubucrttwe wlablng to change Areas muat rtve the old aa well aa tha sw handle the show, thus disarming possible criticism that we were dominating the conference. This course may have given Argentina of that sought ly the AAA, officials asid they were pleased with Communication and matter Intended for cubllcatinn ahould ba ed- Christmas. "Your little friend." creaeed to Department, the opportunity she wanted Mittr r.rtilnln to anbacrlntlone I "Just a little brown-eyed girl who isn't choicy." Doesn't that touch a matter should be Except that the circumstances addftaaeo to the Buelneaa orae. responsive chord in every breast? Cm aTtTBICXIBXBfl I 5 propewea constitute Harrisonburg, Dec.

22. Clifford Stuart, colored of Staunton, remains In Jail here for a hearing in trial Justice court on a charge of drunken driving, which was brought after his car plowed through a hedge into the Sinclair -filling station Wednesday night, doing damage estimated at $200. Stuart, who pleaded guilty to police court yesterday to being drunk, said he was not driving the car. He stated that William McCoy Stuart was driving. William McCoy Stuart was not here yesterday but has been summoned for a hearing Tuesday.

Purcell Dunning, the third occupant of the machine, pleaded guilty to being drunk and was fined. The trio was approaching Har- God bless au the little blue and brown-eyed boys and girls and may you all have "something nice" in railing to rei piJ direct slap at the United States, there seems no good reason for rai ahould pbon 41U your stockings on Christmas morn the degree of compliance, "I think it is gratifying," said R. M. Evans, agricultural adjustment administrator, "that we were able to get such an acreage reduction under a voluntary program." Under the AAA's program, the 39,000,000 winter wheat acreage goal was apportioned among growers on the basis of a formula prescribed in the farm law. Farmers were free to comply with or ignore their allotments, but only those who complied will be eligible for maximum benefit payments, which will be between twenty-neven and ing and hope and couraee in your hearts to carry with you through FRIDAT, DEC not accepting the provision against both "continental and extra-continental' aggression.

"We have no the years. A MOTHER. Staunton. Dec. 22.

0- designs against Latin American A New "Milking' nation, and acceptance should strengthen our position." Scheme? HOLIDAY SERVING HELPS of Spring wheat growers also have dent. afford to overlook the slap. Japan's Defiance been asked to reduce operations from about 24,000.000 acres last year to about 16.000,000 acres for the 1939 crop. Once more the Virginia Public Service company is the target of criticism, which may result to proceedings against it And Its holding company in federal court. A committee consisting of promin Evans said that if spring wheat Japan now feels strong enough Here are some standard proportions that may help you with holiday entertaining; it takes ten pounds of cooked chicken to make salad for twenty-five servings; one-third of a pound of butter will spread a one-pound loaf of bread for sandwiches; it takes a pound of loaf sugar and a gallon of coffee to serve twenty-five persons.

You will need a pound of salted nut or candy to serve eighteen farmers comply to the same extent as winter wheat growers, the 1939 a Z' pi EZ A DAII dearth of good writing. 7 -V EiUU Tay Oarnett, the director, says to launch a direct program for the elimination of foreign" concessions The VVarrock Richardson ALMANACK Virginia Edition ent citirens of Alexandria and Tic- inltv charces that A new attempt xtra-territoriality in China wheat acreage would be between compares with the AAA's total goal of 55.000.000 acres. I Tf fsata Vaim Islands off the India coast have to milk the company is in pro- IW Jean ir.a. she would do this when the mom tinted their nails red. They use h(wiA-nut It, and a meats Officials said that should the quart of ice cream or sher gress.

ent struck. She thinks the Western spring wheat crop be held to about bet for eight. 175,000,000 bushels and present win That Alexander Speer. at the nations are now so well occuoied dramas that caricatured the word entertainment. i ter wheat prospects remain -un GEORGE TUCKER New York It isn't very nice to changed, the 1939 production would kick a man when he is down, and it isn't very fair to second-guess him jbe about 660.000,000 bushels, or 270.000,000 bushels below this year's after he guesses first and falls.

But These sad losses take place every day. and the pity of it is that most of them could be averted. I am not posing as one whose judgment is infallible, but I certainly could have told by simply glancing at when you give up an evening to the The Leader Papers' PATTERN icrop. The crop board said that in most the important wheat producing i areas crop conditions were below ilast year and below the average. theatre and find there a play so ob viously Inadequate that only the most naive person could see any Placed at seventy-two percent of thing to it, it makes you wonder cost of Els position or president, with their own quarrels that she stopped one "milking" game, in can defy them, which accumulated cash of nearly Premier Konoye put it this way a million was the objective, seems yesterday: Japan Is ready to fairly, well established.

The Alex- hdp- china abolish foreign con- andrta group charges that the cessions and extra-territoriallty. plan now is to use the company's This means that Japan is ready cash, augmented by earnings until to kick foreign powers out, to take 1940 accumulating by passed divid- over AH foreign concessions her- ends on both preferred and com- ftDCj to vest only her own ln-j mon stock, for extensions that teres is and nationals with extra- 'would be constructed by -companies territoriality-- in China. controlled by the holding concern, We are not concerned with this at exhorbitant prices. move so far as concessions are It is charged that the extensions concerned, as the United States what those producers are thinking i normal on Dec. 15 this year compared with seventy-sbr.

percent a is NOW ON SALE at the Leader Office ISC each By Mail 18c "The All Virginia Book of Facts-Send for One Today of when they risk their reputa By ANNE ADAMS Uons and their angels' bankrolls on plays that belong In the subur ban theatre class. the script that none of these plays in question had the ghost of a chance. And that's what makes.it so incredible. All of these dramas were produced by men with reputations for sound theatrical judgment. They have had successes before.

But apparently they think that what goes big in 1924 will also go big in 1938. I mean by this fact, like actors Last week three dramas came to NOW WAIST" APRONS! Broadway, involving I Imagine an expenditure of $100,000. One of them lasted only two performances. PATTERN" 4971 By ANNE ADAMS The second did better. It lasted five performances.

The third ran eight planned are in the Alexandria Area I has consistently refused to take And Are for the "national defense" control of any Chinese land. It days before folding. year earlier, conditions were said to be generally poorest in the great plains area from Nebraska southward. Because of drouRht conditions, the board said it was possible that between twenty and twenty-five percent of the acreaare seeded to winter wheat Would be abandoned. Last year's abandonment was about 11.8 percent.

The board estimated the acreage sown to rye At 7.171,000, an increase of 75 percent over last year's acreage of 6,671,000. The condition of the rye crop on Dec. 1 was reported, at 76 percent of normal, compared with 74 percent on Dec. 1 last year. AUGUSTA SPRINGS or composers, they become "typed." purpose of powering the rehabili-1 does concern us so far as extra Style flash! "Spool waists" are as fashionable for aprons as for dresses! And this Anne Adams design brings two most flattering interpretations one with a rounded top and potketjs, the other with They can't forget that once they were known as "little Napoleons" Yet before the first act curtain was rung down you could tell that here was just a lot of nothing.

The dialog didn't sound like people tated naval torpedo station. The territoriAlity is concerned, as Abro-necessary power could be obtain- gation of this right would subject ed At a low rate, the committee our nationals and our interests of Broadway. They think they can take a cheap play, put a rose in its hair, and sell to a public whose tastes and judgment have kept pace declares, from a West Virginia wholly to Japanese-controlled talking. The action was stagy and obviously inexpert. The scenery was beautiful and costly and tragic, because it was wasted on utility, and there is no reason but Chinese governments.

1 1 ima I with the times, which is more than may be said for the taste and the an mvenor one jot Ntuaung ro vur government nas stood up with such a load. That would be a for our rights in China by dlplo- Judgment of some of the produ cers whose names are interwoven charge against the company's rates matic processes, but Japan, like for a long time to come. Consum- the rest of the militaristic nations, in the theatre's history. ers as well as bond and preferred recognizes force and; force only. If you know anything about the stockholders therefore have a Her inspired newspapers are al theatre and about play-making, you vital interest in what Is going on.

ready clamoring for the use of can read a script and have a pretty If VPS can justify its plans, its force against Western nations aid clear idea whether It has a chance to succeed or not. That is indis officers will of course have no tog China, this being the answer BIBLES TESTAMENTS PRAYER BOOKS and HYMNALS We have a very complete line to select from at a wide range of prices. We can put your name or initials on them in gold, silver, or colors. Beverly Book Co. Quality Merchandise Bldg.

Phone 230 putable, regardless of what you hear high-school work. Many counties have high schools for whites, but none for Negroes, though the Negro population is large. Just as obvious as this lack of schools is the great inadequacy of funds for the institutions now operated. The census of 1930 for the agricultural South, in which three-fourths of the nation's Negroes live, showed a per capita expenditure of $4431 for each white child in a separate school, but only $12.57 for the sepwiately educated Negm hesitancy in taking the public into I to the loans recently Announced about the fickle fancy of the pub its confidence. If it does not do by the United States and Britain.

V-shaped top and pockets to match. Both are made oh -so -easily especially since there's the very helpful Sewing Instructor sheet to consult. Stitch up the dressy braid-trimmed style for when you have guests and the plainer type for "busy morning" wear. If you select a check or plaid, cut the chic girdle section "bias it's such a perky touch! The straps hug the shoulders they can't slip because the back is cut high. Pattern 4371 is available in siaes small, medium and large.

Flowered version takes 2 5-8 yards 36 inch fabric and 3 yards ric-rac; other versions, 2 5-8 yards 38 inch fabric. Write TODAY for ANNE ADAMS SPRING PATTERN BOOK Just off the press! It's the best of news for everyone planning a made-at-home wardrobe! YouH find pages of fresh new styles. Bolero frocks for all ages! Suits and their accessories! Cruise wear, a bout-town clothes, wedding creations! Budget tips and suggestions for "dressing down your lic. Augusta Springs, Dec. 22 The people of the community enjoyed the operetta, "The Little Rich Girl 'Who Was Poor," presented in the school auditorium Friday niiiht, Dec.

16. Pauline Woods spent the weekend In ChurchvHle with her sister, Mrs. Hugh Jordan, Miss Nellie Smith of Goshen, is visiting her si-ster, Mrs. Roy MC-Cutchen. Miss Ardenla Click.

ofWeyers Cave, was a weekend visitor of Miss Jane McGcehe. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dannie Fridley Monday, Dec. 19.

Miss Hamilton, and Miss Reva Elliott, school teachers, have been 111 in their home for several so, the proposal to sue for a fed- Our government would be fully To succeed, a play must have era! receivership with the aim of Justified in lending further aid to people, not just actors. And those people must speak naturally and divorcing tha utility from its hold- China, whose leader, Chiang Kal ing company and making it anhek, has warned the democracies honestly and extemporaneously, not Just recite lines. And the play must out-and-out Virginia corporation, that without their help she must as it should be, will inevitably re- turn to Soviet" Russia or to Oer- characters must have something to say and many as a mediator that will se. This grim un-Ameran dlscrlm- togo, eeive wide support. 0 inauon means snorter verms, less cure favorable terms from Japan for herself, of course, as well as equipment and smaller teaching staffs for the Negro schools.

It for China. Overlook The Slap Miss Bessie Goft spent Wedn. day night in the home of ht mother, Mrs. Florence Goff. 'L means that Negroes are educated Neither the United States dele 0 Mirror Of Opinion gation nor Argentina 't, both of I less efficiently and that many of them are handiapped all their lives.

Lack of training may pre weight!" Youngster styles from which must be in close touch with their fovemments, seems to be kiddies to the "swing age! Also 6ex to red letters isn't enough. Sex isn't even necessary, as witness some of the greatest modern hits "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" for one, which is as sexless as a can of lard. You don't have to slap an audience In the facewith an eight-column murder. You don't have to fill the air with epithets to attract attention. You simply have to be natural and purposeful and know where you are going.

So far this season about 40 plays have been produced and less than half of them survive. And of the lingerie, around-the-house dresses. JOB TOR THE SOUTH (Richmond News Leader) helping the Lima conference to and things to make for men! Or vent them not only from attending college but also from entering any vocation above that of manual labor. Send her a ward a solidarity declaration of Hopeful Agreement Appears in der now! PRICE of BOOK, FIFTEEN CENTS. PRICE OP PAT much value in discouraging fas-1 many papers today that the decis- TERN, FIFTEEN CENTS.

BOOK Provision for graduate and pro Clrt aggression. Whatever declare- ion in the Missouri case will prod AND PATTERN TOGETHER, fessional, instruction must be TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. made. The present 'z is to Send your order toThe Staun build a stronger bavse for this ton, Va, Leader Papers' Pattern survivors, half of them are barely Department. 243 W.

17th St, New getting by. What the answer is I York, N. Y. can't telL Maybe it is simply a Toronto Star; An odorless cab tion is now made will be of little the South into decent provision for effect. Somehow, disunity has rais- the-primary andrsUH Tnore, for ed its head on an important front the secondary education of Neg- in the Western hemisphere.

roes. Argent ina's opposition to the Leas than lil.DejcELjjLis,egro, declaration finally framed in boys and girls of high-school age committee is that its phraseology are enrolled in Institutions. Figures makes it a military alliance and of last year show that 735,000 she is unwilling to accept any such Negro children in the South were responsibility. Portions of the text enrolled in the first grade, an ex- which have been quoted fall to cellent showing, but that only reveel anything even approximat- 000 were graduated from second -jr. 7M bage is being publicized in the United States.

A see ntsless sort of improvement i i II he VALLEY TOBACCO CO. i Milwaukee Journal: When the air clears and it is safe once more is? tf tf 1 i to bring the subject up, remind uur rnce as as ine Loivoy- ing an a -la nee. Argentina wants a conference declaration against ary schools. We of the South something, though us to ask. Do majorities, too, have rights?" have done far from The gift that's person-al yet not too personal and In the best at taste.

Is a living, lasting plant. A poinsettia expresses the spirit of the season, and Is moderate In cost. Why not leave your-gift order 1 Masonic Building born "continental" of "extra-con tineiital powers, and has written enough. to advance Negro ele-schools. This lias not her own resolution.

Hers is in ef-1 menlary fed a pronouncement that Latin been followed by adequate ii ft American countries will consult as school training. Even where of-to Joint action in the face of ag- fered, most of these high schools A CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION BUY THIS BRAND NEW BRICK HOUSE In Stauntork'a best residential section. This In a very unusual opportunity to purchase such A delightful home at thii low price of $5000 8lx rooms, hardwood floors throughout, oversized closets, breakfast nook, den, garage, lot siie 55x160 feet. Ruckman Johnson BROKERS teal Estate Brokers Ciclaalv Agenla ProfedonAJ fctaaatoa Sa 102, Pbon 444 tf tf tf tf tf tf tf tf grewioa by the United States as are pitifully weak. Salaries for we'J as with the United States in Negro high-school teachers in the the event of aggression from else- South average less than $1,000 a 'here.

year. The term, hi manv cnm. SENT) US YOUR MA(V SUBSCRIPTION y-' TOBACCO CIGARS CIGaLHES PIPES TOBACCO POUCHES LIGHTERS Smokers Suppliep of All Kinds NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINES PERIODICALS Tobacco, Cigarettes in Christmas Packing Administrator's Notice The ndrrifiied having qualified an Administrator, c. t. of the Ule John II.

Muster, all peraons having claims against his estate are requested to present the tame promptly, duly authenticated, for payment, and ail persona knowing themwlvei indebted to the estate will settle at once with the undersigned. THE AUGUSTA NATIONAL BANaS OF STAUNTON Administrator, t. ef the Esta'e of John H. Muster, In fairness to. Argentina it must munities, ts not 150 days a year.

be Mid that she has in the paslj Again, some 2.000 public schools ft ft ft ft 'I" 1 been the victim of unscrupulous in the South now offer Negroes Yankee operators, and has natur- from- one lo four years of in- tf tf tf ahy been slower than her Meigh- ttructjon beyond the primary bors to believe In our reformation grades. In cities the tendency RASK, Florist 2.12 N. Central Ave, 1700 Here Now Hv Clyde Anderson 2 to 10 ft. Christmas Trees and food motive. Aftef allowing is toward four-year but in for a somewhat justifiable fear, of rural areas nost public schools of-f vi fur U.

8. imperialism, how-lfer onlv one or two years cf.