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Tie Rocky Mount Herald blished Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, by the Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company. blication Office Second Floor Daniels' Building. Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina D J. GREEN ... News Editor and Manager Ascription Rates: One Year, $1.00; 6 Months, 60c. toted as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at he post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. vertising rates reasonable and furnished to prospective advertisers on request Criticizing other people does not improve e critic. In a few years it will be unpopular for a m to talk about economy. The average man will lie about fishing, inting, gardening, women and income. Few individuals pity themselves if they ive something real the matter with them. Only a statistician can estimate the vol ne of debts written off in the past few ars. One trouble with society is that too many ©pie are living on the average income. Most politicians would desert the "dear ople" if offered longer jobs carrying more y. There is little use being on time when you e going to meet somebody who is always te. Nothing printed in a newspaper is annoy jUS—the newspaper, if no one else, is be ad it. Most town boosters are willing for some dy else to do the expensive part of the osting. Now that the House has passed the bonus 1 many members feel more assured about e veterans' votes. Farmers who accept government benefits list not complain when the government Ips somebody else. When the average woman gives the aver « man a "come hither" look you can put e man down a "hither." Funny thing, so few of the weather ex its are telling us about the warm winter, at was predicted last fall. There are advertisers who do not realize e value of subscribers—they buy their ad rtising at the bargain counter just like >men plunge for remnants. Big business doesn't want the government business but it won't say anything as long there is money to be secured. Tht spy fever is on the increase through t Earope and some people in this country xe a Japanese form of the same mania. Business will be better when every mer uit understands that his success need not built upon the failure of his competitor. It's about time for father to think about s vacation—he might as well do it now to wait until the family gets off for the mmer. The government, so far as we have been le to observe, has done something special r every industry and business except the wspapers, which have been the main sour s of getting news of its activities to the ople. $5,000,000,000 Loaned More than $5,000,000,000 have been loan by the United Government to 847,000 rsons and institutions. Seven hundred and tty-seven thousand of these have been ins to individual farmers but the amount money advanced to the farmers so far s been only a small part of the total. From the standpoint of the amount of oney borrowed the division is as follows: inks, $1,896,922,000 or nearly thirty-eight r cent; states, cities, counties, etc., $941,- 0,000. or about nineteen per cent; farm ocessing and marketing, $405,000,000, or ?ht per cent; railroad, $397,000,000, or a tie less than eight per cent; farmers, 96,000,000, or a little less than eight poi nt; private construction companies, ound $250,000,000, or five per cent; mort ,ge loan companies, $220,000,000, or a little are than four per cent; home owners, 79,000,000, or three and one-half per cent; gging farm prices $135,000,000, or about 'o and one-half per cent; building and mi agencies, $113,000,000, or a little over B per cent; and insurance companies, ■,000,000, not quite two per cent. Bfost of these loans, in amounts, were RFCbut the loans to THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1934 COMMENTS OF THE PRESS Another Poet Laureate News and Observer. Harvey Crouch, director of the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation, believes that the South is leading the nation in economic re covery. But. he insists, if that process is to con tinue Southern farmers must live on the land. All the agricultural economists, practical as well as theoretical, from George Wash ington to Max Gardner, haye agreed on the essential virtues of living at home. But there is this difference between all these and Harvey Crouch. Most of his predecessors, as well as his contemporaries, have resorted to prosaic prose as a vehicle of wisdom. Mr. Crouch wings his philosophy with song. Here is the Crouch "Internationale," the "Marsel laise" of agricultural freedom: If you have a garden, a cow, A smokehouse, a sow, Twenty-four hens and a rooster — You will have more than you used to. A Dangerous Policy for Schools Winston-Salem Journal. It is impossible to conceive of a more dangerous policy for public education in North Carolina than a policy which provides that schools shall stand or fall with the sales tax. Yet that is, in effect, the pollicy which Governor Ehringhaus proclaimed to the members of the North Carolina Education Association Saturday, and they applauded him vigorously. The Governor has long been a champion of schools. Surely he does not mean to say now, after more than 50 years of toil and struggle and sacrifice on the part of our people to establish schools for all of the children, that if the sales tax goes down the schools must go down with it. Schools were maintained in this state long before the sales taxers ever got control of our Legislature. And schools will be main tained long after the sales taxers are poli tically buried beyond hope of resurrection. No citizen should be misled into believing that schools will perish if the sales tax is re pealed. Let No One Be Deceived Winston-Salem Journal. Sales tax apologists and propagandists in North Carolina are harping on two strings. First, they tell us that nobody has any right to demand repeal of the sales tax with out in the same breath suggesting something to take its place. Secondly, they say it was impossible for the last Legislature to find any way to raise enough money to run the State government and the schools except through a sales tax. No citizen should be deceived by this ar gument. And surely no intelligent citizen will be. When the sales taxers set out to take all of the State tax off of property, both real and personal, they did not suggest anything to take the place of that tax. They simply demanded repeal of the property tax, and let it go at that. Some of them even went so far as to assure the people they would never favor a sales tax. But no sooner did they get an opportunity to vote in the General Assembly of 1933 than they cast their ballots for a sales tax. The argument that there was no other way to get the money to maintain the gov ernment and operate the schools and save the credit of the Commonwealth is just plain hokum. If the State can get the money by an unfair system such as the sales tax, it could more easily procure the money by a fair system. The money is here. The sales tax has at least demonstrated that fact. It is not a question of getting blood out of the turnip. There is enough money in North Carolina to finance the government and the schools without impairing the for tune of any citizen. The question is, how to get the money in such way as that all will contribute in proportion to their ability. The one way not to raise revenue is a democracy in the sales tax way, because it does not require citizens to contribute in proportion to their ability to pay taxes. Women may not be able to keep a secret but then we know one or two men, with the gift of gab. who tell all they know and a lot of things that they don't know. There are some people in the world who judge everything by promptness in paying bills. Usually they are the folks who in herited their father's money. Now that Admiral Byrd, in South Polar regions, has lost two planes it begins to look like the conspiracy against commercial aviation is broadening. Why should people vigorously object to taxation by the government and, at the same time, defend excessive charges by private monopolies ? Robert Quillen, speaking of a boy of twelve years of age, very truly says: "He can understand anything that his parents have the wit to explain." man's lack of Thoughts for Holy Week This is what is known as Holy Week. It is, as nearly as can be ascertained, the anni versary of the last week of our Lord's life in the flesh. On Friday of Passion (Suffer ing) Week He died on the Cross. It is fitting that we allow our Lord's suffering for us to be much in our minds and on our hearts during this week. In a recent book by Dr. Hubert L. Simp son, are a few paragraphs which are passed on to the readers of the News as a fitting expression for the season. "Sir John Suley points out in Ecce Home that when people speak of a Christian Spirit they usually mean a forgiving spirit. The weak character makes excuses for himself; the strong and big make excuses for others. This word of Jesus "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is more than St. Paul's 'Give place into wrath'. The cruxifiction of our Lord was the most ter rible crime in the history of the world. There was none other who could intercede for those responsible save the great High Priest himself. It must not be that in offer ing Himself as an atonement for all the sins of the whole world that any of mankind, even those directly responsible for the Cruxific tion, should have put themselves, even by that awful act, outside the pale of Divine forgiveness, the Divine mercy, and the Di vine love. It would have cast a shadow darker than the withdrawal of the sun upon the supreme event of history, the redemp tion of mankind; therefore, the first thing our Lord does, lest faintness come over His weary body, is to take measures to prevent such a tragedy. The Lamb of God is being offered in sacrifice upon the altar of the world's deepest need, and the great High Priest himself, Victor—Victorior, makes the all-embracing, all-sufficing, all-availing power, 'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.' The world of men is saved. The greatest sinner may now be saved, the blackest sin may be blotted out— beneath the shadow of that cross they are just uprearing against the astonished heav ens. This first word from the Cross wipes NORTH CAROLINA LEADS IN MANY CRIMES COMMITTED Here are figures, gathered by the Department of Justice at Washington, which represent (in the second column) the number of seven major crimes committed per 1,000,000 population during 1933 in 1,264 cities and towns throughout the country, with a total of 49,470,686 inhabitants. In the first column are shown comparable figures for 13 urban communities in North Carolina, North Average Carolina for U.S.A. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter 234 71 Manslaughter by negligence 166 48 Total criminal homicide rate 400 119 Forcible, statutory and attempted rape, and assault to rape 72 59 Highway robbery, stick-ups, armed robbery and stealing by force or violence 679 1,025 Aggravated assault—by shooting, cutting, stabbing, poisoning, scalding, with acid; mayhem, maim ing and attempts to kill 5,666 507 Burglary; includes housebreaking, safe cracking, and unlawful entry to com)mit a felony or theft 4,700 3,792 Larceny; includes any stealing of property not taken by force, violence or fraud 8,460 7,620 Automobile theft 3,763 3,204 Total of 7 crimes per 1,000,000 population ....23,740 16,326 Louisa's etter Spring Invites Us All to Begin New Efforts Dear Girls: Well, Spring is almost here. I believe it officially began on the twenty-first of this month, and na ture begins to renew herself and freshen up the earth. We might take a hint from this wise little old mother and try a little freshening up of ourselves. But let's not make the mistake of giving all of our attention to ex ternals. Spring is usually the time, with most of us, when we wipe out the dark comers and try to get rid of all the germs and dirt about the house which may have accumulat ed during the cold short winter days. Spring also means the sea son that one simply has to put. aside the old rusty felt hat and the dark coat and come forth in something fresh and bright. I for one, can never have the same en thusiasm shopping for winter things that I can when the spring clothes are put in the windows. 'I "here is absolutely something about a spring hat and suit that calls forth snatches of song and a faster step from me. So if I can possibly afford it I always buy me a supply of new spring clothes. That's my idea of a spring tonic! But let's not stop here. Let's get our bodies out in the sun and fresh air. Let us be careful of our daily baths. Why not check tfp on our teeth and take that daily ex ercise we've been thinking about for months? After we've finished with the bodies, let's give a little thought ■itL nur minds Have we been feed- out from the record the most awful sin ever committed by man, wipes it out in the very moment of its committal. The Supreme Sacrifice stands out! in the perfection 'of beauty and efficacy, casting the life of the Son of God, but bringing tragedy and dam nation to no other person. "First words and last words—how reveal ing they are! When our Lord rose from the dead on the third day the first word that he uttered was 'Woman.' It was a prophecy of all that He and His Church were to do for the raising and blessing and hallowing of womanhood. It was Christ who emanci pated womanhood and gave woman the chance to rise and rule the world. But when our Lord was nailed to the redemption Cross the first word that He uttered was 'Father.' It tells of a trust in a loving personality that never faltered in the hour when the love and fatherhood of God seemed to have been finally blotted out in impenetrable darkness. If ever such pity as a father hath unto his children dear seemed the most heartless lie in human experience it was then when Love was being crucified with every circumstance 1 of cruelty and outrage. If He could say 'Father' then, it can always be said in confi dent trust." One of the pastors of our town has re quested that members of his" congregation sing Isaac Watts' great hymn on the Cross every day this week. Nothing wholesome could be imagined than the sacred words of this great hymn: "When I survey the wondrous Cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My riches gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. Forbid it, Lord! That I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, My God; All the vain things that charm me most I sacrifice them to his blood. See, from his head, his hands, his feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down; Did e'er such love and sorrow meet. Or thorns compose so rich a crown? Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my souls, my strength, my all." Well, let's get a few good books and learn to like that kind of read ing. And after we do that let's try thinking things out for our selves. Let's not let the editors and politicians tell us what to think, but try using our own minds once in a while. I grant you it will be powerful exercise for some of us, but even trying will do us good. Yours, LOUISA. Britain announces a five-year plan to wipe out slums. us deliver THEY come but once—these smiling mes- . V CT sengers of JOY and they bring a2O and J] S ■ t/ 30 year package of Perfect Hot Water Ser- JQ & M vice. S Welcome them as they carry in showers of __ JOl, tubs of JO\ , shorter dishwashing Hot water attacks iron and hours, shorter laundry days and care-free hot always wins the battle; •water service for every faucet —all the time. you're the loser. You have the faucets; we have Ruuds. Let's introduce them to each other. At our shov.room! jro;n your faucets, di: colors tub, laiatr.ries ::d /ren dered clothes. RVUD Hot Water flows direct f row the ROCKY MOUNT PUBLIC UTILITIES sstf . Monthly Payments *" MACEDONIA NEWS Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Boone spent the week-end with Mr. Boone's parents in Castalia. Miss Bertha Pitts of Nashville spent the week-end with Miss Daisy Whitfield. Mr. Lennie Puckett of Spring VAGABOND VERSES By J. Gaskill McDaniel LAMENT I'm just a runt with fragile arms, And as for Jane, her strongest charme Are rather feeble, as the case may be; Perhaps we ain't the loving kind, At any rate, I too soon find That hearts must have a sorta magic key; I know we shouldn't get dismayed, ' | I And yet, a. thousand times I've paid To get instructions at the picture show; We sit enraptured, Jane and I. We hold each other's hands and sigh, As lovey dovey torch scenes come and go. I watch each thing Paul Lukas does, For he is where I wish I was, I even note the way he doffs his hat; Yet, later when my arbor throbs, Jane looks a bit downcast, and sobs, "Joe, you know Gable wouldn't kiss like that* Editor's Note: You may secure a personally autographed copy of Vagabond Verses by sending fifteen cents in stamps to the author, in care of the Herald. This pocket sized edition contains McDtniel's best liked poems of the past five years, as well as a photograph of the Vagabond Poet. ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES STATEMENT I note in the press of today that State Treasurer, Charles M. John son, in an address before tip Ki wanis Club at Wilmington yester day, says that "we must find a way" to increase teachers' salaries. There is no difficulty in "find ing" such a way. That way lies in removing the tremendous ad vantages prosperous foreign cor porations have in taxation over the great mass of our domestic cor porations; in the proper taxation of excess profits, which sometimes reach 100 per cent or more, on capital stock or the assessed value of corporate property; in building a tax system free and clean of favor and privilege to the special interests. The way is easy to be found. And the great mass of our peo ple, most of our manufacturers, business and professional men, merchants, farmers, laborers and domestic corporations generally, as well as teachers, are direetly interested in ending these abuses. The difficulty lies in breaking the strangle-hold of those who do bene fit from them. Hope was a visitor in the com munity Sunday afternoon. We are very glad to learn that Mr. Charles Strickland has re turned home from Duke Hospital in Durham. Mrs. L. B. Sherrod spent the week-end with her mother, who is in the hospital in Rocky Mount. Mr. J. T. Edwards is spending a few days with his daughter, Mrs. E. B. Faulk in Sanford. Mr. Clarence Edwards of Dur ham spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Rade Edwards. Mr. Randolph Green of Mome yer, was a visitor in the commun ity Sunday afternoon. Mr. Willie Edwards and partner, John Deans, motored to Wilson on business Monday. Every one is cordially invited to attend Church services here. Sun day school here every Sunday mor ning at 10:00 o'clock. Preaching every second Sunday at 11 o'clock. New insurance rose 6.3 per cent in February to $648,073,000. March income tax receipts are ahead of last yekr.
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