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The Rocky Mount Herald Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, by the Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company. 'hr Publication Office Second Floor Daniels' Building, Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina TED J. GREEN ...News Editor and Manager y i Subscription Rates: One Year, $1.00; Six Months, 60c; Three Months, 35c Entered as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at the post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates reasonable and furnished to prospective advertisers on request Sundown Hills, wrapped in gray, standing along the west; Clouds, dimly lighted, gathering slowly; The star of peace at watch above the crest — Oh, holy, holy, holy! We know, O Lord, so little what is best; Wingless, we move so lowly; in Thy calm all —knowledge let us 'IV rest— § tyi, holy, holy, holy! —John Charles McNeill. > children are often no dumber than their parents. Nearly every candidate runs on a platform T»f justice. Study is all right but to be valuable it should lead to results. Nearly everybody that we know has a good opinion of himself. It's about time to page the expert who said we would have no winter weather. Things must be getting better fast —we heard of a bank that made a loan the other day. Now that the government is stabilizing gold it is time for individuals to stabilize their own expenses. Traffic Murders Nearly 30,000 lives were lost in 1933 as a result of automobile accidents. Some of these were unavoidable, but the greater majority of the fatalities could have been avoided had the motorists involved ex ercised proper safety and care in the opera tion of their vehicles. While the deaths were accidental, some of them were the result of such carelessness as to justify the charge of murder against the operators of the cars. Increased effort to reduce the number of automobile acci dents will be undertaken and an effort will be made to secure the adoption of uniform traffic laws and operating rules throughout the nation. Helping the Farmer . | All in all, nearly two billion dollars in pro- C cess taxes have been levied on the consumers of the United States and all of this vast sum will be distributed back into the hands of the producers of wheat, cotton, corn, hogs and tobacco. Realizing the inability of any voluntary method of cooperation between farmers to succeed, the Roosevelt Administration has attempted to devise plans and provide the necessary money to work out some proper agricultural plan so that prosperity may bo possible for American farmers. A While there may be temporary mistakes and errors made, requiring correction, the ' fundamental fact remains that the farmers have an administration which has sponsored and is carrying out an ambitious program for agriculture, designed to give the farmer •the benefit of a fair price for his products and to protect him against over-production. Watch Out for the Big Talkers From State. A week or so ago we had something to say in these columns relative to candidates for the legislature who were advocating cer tain measures of tax reform. We'd like to say just a few more words on the same subject. DON'T be mislead by the candidate who . ,promises you tax reduction along any par ticular line, because there can be no reduc tion in taxes during the forthcoming year. Or, if there should be any such reduction, it could be but very little. Don't be fooled by the candidate who tells that he is opposed to the sales tax or that h he is opposed to the present fee being charg ed for auto license tags, or that he is in favor of a reduction in the gasoline tax. b Keep this one point in mind: Whenever a candidate tells you that he is in favor of eliminating or reducing any form of taxation, ask him to tell you definitely , Iwhat kind of a tax he is going to favor in its stead. And please! DON'T let him get by with k the assertion: "Oh, I favor a general re duction and strict economy along all lines." That doesn't mean a thing. Make him bt specific and concrete. If he tells you that Ptthe State can get along without some other jtax to take the place of the sales tax, or ' gasoline tax, or tax on auto license plates, tell him he's either a fool or a liar. THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934 Taking Care of Friends The Hon. Edward M. Gill, private secre tary of former Gov. O. Max Gardner, was succeeded in office by Mr. Charles G. Powell, appointed by Governor Ehringhaus. On January 9th, we are informed that the pres ent Governor created the office of Legis lative assistant, to which the Hon. Edward M. Gill was appointed in order to take care of him whose duties, we are informed, were to be contact man or messenger from the Governor's office to members of the General Assembly, sometimes called executive lobby ist, at a lucrative salary. At the close of the legislature the duties of this office, hav ing become unnecessary because of the ad journment of the Legislature which left this ex-secretary without a job. A new office was created with the CWA with the supposed duties of handling com pensation cases, to which position this for mer ex-secretary then being without a job, was appointed, pending the negotiations of the Hon. Tyree Taylor, looking toward the procuring of him a job in Washington. With in a short while he secured the job at a lucrative salary under the recommendation of former National Committeeman, O. Max Gardner before our President rebuked na tional committeemen for their lobbying pro pensities. When Mr. Tyree Taylor received this appointment, this former ex-secretary Gill was then appointed Pardon Commission er to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Mr. Taylor to Washington for his national duties, giving him four positions within a year's time without the loss of one day's pay. As his first appointment related back to January Ist so as to take care of his livelihood during the interim of his appoint ment. Mr. Brantley Aycock was then given the job under the CWA of Workmens Com pensation created for Mr. Gill. Negotiations then were pending to take care of Mr. Aycock in Washington. Mr. Aycock filled this posi tion pending these negotiations. Soon he received his appointment which left this new creative position unfilled! with the CWA. Recently Mr. Jimmie Massenburg of Polk County, a county in which there were serious complaints made as to the handling and manipulation of the absentee ballots in the last primary election. This newly created position has already taken care of three gentlemen who were out of employment. The writer is not advised whether there is any negotiations pending now in Washing ton to give Mr. Massenburg a better job yet. But it is exceedingly hard on Mrs. O'Berry not to be able to have an experienced officer in this work to fill this job, as the changes take place so fast even though it has been suggested that the largest part of the duties is to draw the salaries thereto. Mr. Massenburg, it will be recalled, oppos ed in the last legislature the bill which re quired Commissioner Hood to make public attorney's fees in his department which fees have totaled more than $328,000.00, and Mr. Massenburg at the time while a member of the legislature, was on Mr. Hood's attorneys list and has since remained on the list, draw ing large fees. Note to Alumni News and Observer. „ Frank Graham's opposition to the victory at-all-costs trend in college athletics is well known but by officially stating his position in his report as president of the Consoli dated University he has given formal warn ing to enthusiastic alumni that professional ism is not wanted and will not be tolerated at Carolina and State College. The athlete at Chapel Hill and West Ra leigh, if Frank Graham has his way, is going to be just another student. There will be no special privileges, no fat scholarships, no jobs paying athletes a ten dollar bill for jumping over a chair, no unusual considera tion at the hands of professors. That such privileges for the athlete do exist in colleges, and perhaps at colleges within North Caro lina, goes without saying. That they exist is difficult to prove. It is certain, however, that they cannot exist without some official or officials of the colleges themselves know ing all about them. There are some North Carolinians who doubt that it is the mere scholastic fame of our educational institutions which has at tracted many highly touted athletes to the State from other sections of the country. These skeptics even speak of "missionaries" who go from North Carolina colleges with both a proselyting zeal and a promise of free tuition, or free tuition and board, or, so it is said, even more. All these reports Dr. Graham has heard. An idealist he is, but not an innocent. That is what makes his statement important. It is nothing new for a college president to de plore the subsidizing of athletes. But, un like some college heads, Dr. Graham has taken stands on various occasions which in dicate that his attitude is not merely re served for oratory. Indeed, Frank Gi'aham is listened to with probably more attention than any other man who speaks in North Carolina, not only because he can speak far better than most public speakers, but also because when he opens his mouth he says what he means and, afterwards, can be de pended upon to do what he says. Most people are so busy trying to take care of their neighbors that they haven't the time to take care of themselves. Russia and Japan are talking like a pair of school boys who are each afraid the other might start a scrap. Women ought to make good detectives. They usually get their men. Public Forum To what artifices will not some people resort in the deviltry to mislead us! It appears that even newspapers, sometimes, likewise, get victimiz ed and are unable to protect the people from the misfortunes that confront them. The Evening Telegram, of Rocky Mount, N. C., that ever watchful beacon and guide of the dear peo ple in matters of public welfare, has allowed itself to become the champion of the Yankee cad from Republican Pennsylvania, to suc ceed Chief Hedgepeth as head of the police department of the City of Rocky Mount, The Telegram of Saturday, as often before, was fulsome in praise of the fine record made by him. On the editorial page of the Evening Telegram of Monday, February the fifth, I quote the following: "This newspaper has no desire to meddle in the affairs of the Public Safety committee, into whose hands will fall the task of choosing a successor for the retir ing chief, but it is our hope that the committee will keep in mind the changing aspects of law en forcement and the constantly growing difficulties that confront officers in charge of protecting the public from the ravages of thieves and plunderers and men who prey on society. Certainly records of achievement are to be considered and weighed. And the efficiency of a police department is measured in terms of the effi ciency of the officers who direct it." It is almost incomprohensible that the Evening Telegram would willingly urge for the post of Chief of Police of Rocky Mount a man unworthy in any sense; but the sirens of Yankee-doodle seem to have gotten in their work with Ulysses. However, nobody will disagree that record should be con sidered and weighed. What is the record of the anoint ed. One item, at least, is too ugly and sickening even to relate. By his own confession he cloak ed thievery and robbery for a num ber of years. By,his own sworn testimony he conspired to get peo ple to violate the law. How much more, O Lord, do you want. Is anybody,, the Telegram too, so gullible as to be mislead and seduced to suppose that official in tegrity or "the problem of crime detection" can be promoted or the public welfare protected by dis honest brawn clothed in the ma jesty of the law. A bouquet was also thrown at our celebrated and übiquitous "assistant state solicitor." He is long on evidential love, With the requisite fund always in store, He's got the bloodhound "skirt," He knows whither the culprit was bound, And even the trail he went. Let's demand more honor and character and a better record, or better records. K. T. KNIGHT. 0 -o 1 VAGABOND VERSES I ! By J. Gaskill McDaniel I | 0 o REQUISITION My aunt, who weighs four forty six, Has ventured into politics To get some legislation of her own; Of course, she likes the bonus bill, That improved tariff's good, but still These do not fit the needs she has known: There've been reductions here and there, Yes, cutting down most every where, And yet, my aunt is overcome with grief; Each night she pens this mourn ful prayer To Roosevelt, in his swivel chair, "Please, Frankie, send me down some form relief." Editor's Note: You may secure a personally autographed copy of Vagabond Verses by sending fif teen cents in stamps to the author, in care of the Herald. This pocket sized edition contains McDaniel's best liked poems of the past five years, as well as a photograph of the Vagabond Poet. o Cotton growers planting five acres or less may reduce their crop by two acres or grow no cotton at all this year and receive rental and parity payments for the reduction. 0 o 1 DR. W. R. CULLOM'S CORNER I i 0 o The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America met in Wash ington, D. C., a little more than a month ago to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its or ganization. One of the main ad dresses of the meeting was made by President Albert W. Palmer of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Dr. Palmer believes that a con sciousness of God in the minds and hearts of people today is our most pressing need. The following para graphs from this great address speak for themselves: "Godlessness is the greatest peril of the present hour! I mean by Godlessness just what the word means in its barest outline: to be godless is to have God substracteri from you. To be without God is to have a world-view in which there is no unifying power and no central intelligence; it is to have no moral code beyond the passing whim or temporary expediency; to live a life within which there glows no larger hope and beneath which lies no undergirding purpose. It is a fundamental weakness of our age that too many people have no sense of accountability to anything beyond themselves. They go through life without having felt reverence and awe in the presence of an eternal glory. For them there is no Great Spirit—only countless little spirits clothed in the frailties and limitations of hu manity "Why have we lallen upon such a godless day in human history? The plain answer is that the con fused and blurred thinking about God so current today is the in evitable result of our changing cos mic ideas and the failure of the great mass of people to adjust their religious conceptions as yet to the world order revealed by modern science. But the adjust ment is on the way, and it grows apace. A new sense of the reality and contemporaneousness of God is just about to burst upon the world. Greater than any other re covery act will be an adequate ani convinced recovery of God! Scientists Are Seers "Naturally and properly, the prophets and seers of this modern recovery of God are among the philosophers and scientists them selves: Bergson, Whitehead, Pringle-Pattison, Streeter, Edding ton, Jeans, Smuts, Morgan, Over street, Montague, Wieman, Milli kan, Compton, Walter Horton and a host of others stand like the last three majestic figures in Sargent's great frieze of the prophets point ing toward the dawn! 'God is not dead nor doth he sleep,' they all say in varying fashion. The uni verse is not a chaos nor a wander ing hulk upon an unknown sea. God is here, a contemporary fact and purpose, a power making for integration on ever higher and higher levels, producing beautv, truth, intelligence and moral law. There is a God! "Now such a God is no far-off traditional figure, hpwever vener able, handed down from the long ago, about whom we may calmly debate as to* whether we believe in him or not. Quite the contrary! He is one from whom we cannot possibly escape and to whose laws and activity we are constantly ad justing our lives. This becomes startingly true when we suddenly realize that just as potent and in exorable as the laws of mathe matics or the natural sciences, though less adequately explored or understood, are the laws of the social sciences, the exast workings of which are becoming clearer every day. "This, then, is the bugle call of courage and good cheer which re ligion brings to men in this pres ent hour; There is a God! And he is here—a living, inescapable, con temporary reality! "There is something in the uni verse which is on the side of de cency, honor and good will; some thing which is urging men on to see the wisdom of replacing greed and cruelty by an orderly and just society; something which increas ingly arouses the conscience of the world against war and pushes on toward an organized and peaceful world. That something is God! We live in the day of a new revela tion coming to men in terms of these great social goals and ideals. God did not say all he had to say day before yesterday; he is say ing new and larger things today as he calls on men to write new codes of social welfare and replace the crude and cruel disorder of the past with better civilization built on human values and obedient to the moral law. Men are saying that we are in the midst of a great revolution. The religious truth is that we -are in the midst AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD KWYXW \ P& ST ARCTIC EXPEDITION/ J ~oo° YEARS *o° OTHCK j J -■-* "- Go^MDSMtt^owl ' ARE MILLED TO PREVENT 1 J&WSBW&CI DISHONEST PEOPLE PROM '!■•>■'"' \-»>'"%JFTLIM JAFIJFCMM PARING PRECIOUS METAL . 1 ,£■ \'\. ' THE E " gEB, of a great revelation, if our eyes are not too blind to see and our ears too deaf to hear!" Transforming Results "From this awakening senaH""-- ness to God as an im present reality behind rf orld in which we live, certain trans forming results are sure to arise. One of these results will be a new emphasis upon the importance of social research. If God is a living God, actually present in the struggle for social betterment, then here is a thrilling opportunity to get better acquainted with him! Social research under such a con ception becomes an inspiring quest to learn the will of God. "If social research takes on new religious meaning in the light of such a recovery of God, so also does what we have been "accustom ed to call the consecrated life. You can use your life as a great cre ative adventure with God! This is the call of religion to the souls of men today. Not since the days when ..the Pilgrim fathers sailed across the sea to found the com monwealth of God, perhaps not since the day when Jesus called men to forsake all and follow him because the kingdom of heaven was at hand, has so clear and di rect a call to .human consecration come to the individual soul as is inherent in this idea that God is actually here and at work on the growing edge of social ethics. "We really ought to have a spon taneous far-spread revival of re ligion as this conception of the contemporary living God takes fire among our clergy and kindles to a flame in the mind of youth. Once we realize that life need not be a dreary routine, a boresome round of tawdry pleasures, a mere slavery to economic necessity, bur, may become a creative adventuring in behalf of God and in company with him, new arts may bloom and new explorations be made into hitherto undreamed of nobility of living. 'All things are possible— with God!' Almost anything may happen if we recover him. "Every vital religion must have some doctrine of the real presence of God. The ancient Hebrews sym bolized it with the Skekinah above the ark in the holy of holies and the Roman Catholics keep the idea alive with their doctrine of the mass. One almost trembles with excitement and spiritual joy tr think what might happen to Protestantism if it once really penetrated to our millions of ad herents that the living God is really present, not on some candle lighted altar amid incense and ritual, but out there in the street on the main highways of life where questions of politics, wages, social justice, racial fair play, and war and peace are to be decided. A Parting of the Ways "Protestantism really faces a great parting of the ways today. The opportunity is hers to lift up a great doctrine of the real pres ence of God in the vast sacrament of life and summon men to go out into all the issues and difficulties of the modern world as those who deal with sacred things and are fellow-workers with God. This would be to find God on the altar of every struggle for better farm ing, better industry, better cities, better international relations and to proclaim him so that men shall devote their lives to these high causes with a deep sense of relig ious consecration and mystical comradeship with God. Not to take this road would be to slip back toward yesterday's religion, from which the real presence of God has now escaped, and thus succumb to that moral paralysis which a great prophet of our day has stingingly described as 'a con dition of pious irrelevancy'! "But we are not going to so sink back into being merely the private chaplains of a dim reced ing glory. The living church, of whatever denomination, quickened by a new and vibrant sense of the ever-living Goi, is going forward with new joy to proclaim the ring ing message that there is a God, that he is here, that we can know his will and feel the thrill of his mighty purpose for the world. It is no accident that the Greek word 'enthusiasm' and the Hebrew word 'lmmanuel' both mean essentially 'God with us.' A dawning reali zation that God is really with us will put a new enthusiasm into re ligion, and a church with such a message will go out with joy in spite of opposition, poverty, or even persecution." o Dedicated to. My Mother Heaven is very near today Three years ago she slipped away. Heaven opened wide its door To let her in with several more. The hours many have passed away Since she left me here to stay, While she on high with Him abides I'm left here, my life to guide. May I live it pure and sublime To meet her in that great divine— For Heaven is very near today, I miss her since she went away. —A DAUGHTER. o Candidates' Cards NOTICE I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Prosecuting At torney for the City of Rocky Mount on May 4, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. H. LYNWOOD ELMORE. o NOTICE OF CANDIDACY Subject to the action of the Democratic primary, I hereby an nounce my candidacy for the office of Judge of Recorders Court for the City of Rocky Mount, and will appreciate the support of the citizenship of Rocky Mount. S. L. ARRINGTON. ANNOUNCEMENT Subject to the action of the Democratic Primary, I hereby an nounce my candidacy for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for th« City of Rocky Mount. (May 4) NORMAN GOLD. o ANNOUNCEMENT Subject to the action of the Democratic Primary, I hereby an nounce my candidacy for the office of Judge of Recorder's Court for the City of Rocky Mount. (May 4) BEN H. THOMAS.