BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA
VOLUME 1, NO. 15
Congressional Leaders Working
Hard To Complete Program
PLAN ADJOURNMENT
TARIFF TO CAUSE DEBATE
NO CODE "RACKETS"
SILVER'S STATUS
LOANS TO INDUSTRY
PROBE POWER RATES
REPAYING DEPOSITORS
C. C. C. AND VETERANS
MILLIONS ON RELIEF
"'With the idea of an early end
of this session of Congress, con
gressional leaders are working
hard to complete action on items
which the President urges before
adjournment. These include stock
market regulation, modification of
the Federal securities act, an emer
gency appropriation of $1,500,000,-
000 for relief and rehabilitation
and extension of the temporary
bank deposit guarantee law for
another year.
While silver and closed-bank
relief legislation appear on the
list doomed to wait for the next
session, the possibility exists that
insistent demands for action may
cause these questions to be taken
up now. The Wagner Labor bill,
the Connery 30-hour week bill, the
railroads' 6-hour day bill, the Dill
9 bill on communications, the Lewis
unemployment insurance bill, and
the permanent air mail measure go
over.
While it seems to be the aim
of the leaders to finish the session
by the middle of May, tnere is one
question to be taken up which
might cause an outright effort to
block the legislative process and
thus mean a much longer session.
This is the reciprocal tariff bill,
the most controversial subject in
the program. Action on it will
precipitate prolonged argument
although the President is in an
excellent position with all meas
ures absolutely essential to the
of the government so far
along as to be unsuitable targets
for filibusters.
Taking cognizance of protests
against "racketeering" by code au
thorities in the forms of high Sal
aries to employees and unduly
heavy "expenses," President Roose
velt has decided that General
.Johnson shall approve all' budgets
and assessments for financing the
.administration of various codes.
'.lndustries under more than one
code will not be expected to con
-tribute to the expenses of more
than one code authority. This
£ seems to be a natural development
of the code idea because unless
some supervision was provided,
the opportunity existed to take
advantage of those compelled to
•obtain membership in the code or
ganizations.
The agitation for silver legisla
tion, which is backed by the Silver
> Farm bloc, calls to mind the fact
that an international agreement
J -sr** reached at London last year
ooper&tion among the great
.oducing and holding countries
for restrictive action to enhance
the world value of the metal. In
January, President Roosevelt with
held suggestions in regard to the
further use of silver in order to
• see what effect the international
agreement would have.
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The President is known to be
opposed to any action in til he has
-worked out a purchasing plan, and
Speaker Rainey says the Chief
Executive "is as strong for silver
I am." Nevertheless, the power
it ful silver bloc is pressing steadily
ahead with the aim of lifting sil
ver from the commodity status and
making it primary money. It is
probable that this question may
' prolong the current session of Con
gress.
By the treaty, the United
States, Canada, Mexico, Australia,
and Peru, the major producing na
tions, agreed that none should sell
any silver until January Ist, 1938,
and that they should purchase or
withdraw annually 35,000,000 fine
ounces from their mine production
.veflirs, beginning January
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The Rocky Mount Herald
be used for currency purposes.
This agreement has been ratified
by the countries affected, with the
exception of Peru.
The holding countries, including
India, China and Spain, agreed to
limit their disposal of silver for a
four-year period. Spain had not
ratified the pact by April Ist,
which was the deadline, but the
Spanish Government had been
given an extension of thirty days.
It was also provided that sixty
six nations would refrain from de
basing their silver coins, use sil
ver for minor currency, and take
no measure to depreciate the price
of the metal.
The President is understood t >
have approved the proposal of
Senator Glass to empower Federal
Reserve banks to make five-year
loans direct to going industries.
While definite details are subject
to adjustment, especially with the
Governor of the Reserve Board, it
is understood that something will
be done to extend Federal credit
to industry so that recovery may
be aceclerated by private business
activity.
The Federal Power Commission
has been directed by Congress to
investigate and compile the rates
for electric energy and its services
to residential, rural, commercial
and industrial consumers through
out the country. Senator Norris,
of Nebraska, and Representative
Rankin, of Mississippi, were each
given a pen used by the President
in signing the resolution which the
Mississippian says the first
measure of its kind ever passed in
the country.
He predicted that the publicity
it will give to the discriminatory
and excessive rates revealed will
lower the cost of light and power
to the consumers of this country
by as much as $50,000,000 a year
to begin with and, maybe, many
times that amount.
The effort to repay the deposit
ors of closed banks the full
amount of their money now tied
up meets with the disapproval of
Secretary Morgenthau, who points
out .that nearly one-half of the
money would go to four per cent
of the depositors and that the pro
posal, if enacted, would cost the
taxpayers from $1,250,000,000 to
$2,500,000,000.
The idea behind the bill is for
the Government to take over the
assets of closed banks and release
the money to speed up recovery.
In a letter to the President, Rob
ert C. Fechner, director of the
emergency conservation work, re
ports that the C. C. C. now oper
ates 1,468 camps in the United
States, with an authorized strength
of 303,625 men. This includes
250,000 unmarried men between
the ages of eighteen and twenty
five, 28,225 war veterans and 25,-
400 expert woodsmen. Since its
beginning, something like 600,000
men have been employed, sending
nearly $60,000,000 home for the
support of dependents. Generally,
conservation work in the United
States is said to have been ad
vanced from ten to twenty years,
and forest fires were reduced to
seventeen per cent of the average
for the previous five years.
As a result of the over-riding by
Congress of the President's veto of
the bill containing increased allow
ances for thousands of veterans
and restoring to the disability rolls
other thousands who had been cut
off in the Economy Act last year,
the Veterans' Administration has
restored 57,000 veterans of the
Spanish War, the Boxer rebellion,
and the Philippine insurrection to
the pension rolls. An additional
122,000 will receive compensation
increases so that they will get
seventy-five per cent of what they
were receiving at the passage of
Act in March, 1933.
We are all travellers in the wild
erness of this world, and the best
we can hope to find is a friend.—
Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934
GOVERNOR EHRINGHAUS' SPEECH #
Sunday's Greensboro News carried a press account ot
Governor Ehringhaus' speech in Rocky Mount last Friday
night, in which he was reported to have stated that if all
the institutions of higher learning assisted by the State and
all the State Hospitals and all the Training Schools were
closed and all he health work discontinued, that a general
sales tax would still be necessary.
In this same newspaper a statement was carried showing
the condition of the State's finances as of March 31st, 1934.
The general fund showed a cash overdraft of $1,781,501.65,
which was being reduced steadily each day from income
taxes, in this same statement the Highway fund showed a
cash balance of $10,510,516.76.
Both the general fund and the Highway fund belong to
the people of North Carolina. Now if you subtract the
overdraft of the general fund $1,781,501.65, from the net
cash balance of the Highway fund of $10,510,516.76, we
will still have a net surplus in the Highway fund, which
belongs to the State of North Carolina, of $9,826,938.05, as
of March 31st, 1934.
If the figures were known as of today, it would probably
even show a larger net surplus than the above report. Yet
with the condition of the State Treasurer, the Governor is
being reported as having made the above statement. The
Governor spoke against the general sales tax in his campaign
for office, then leads the procession in the general assembly
for the general sales tax, stating that an emergency existed,
and that the measure would be temporary. In aIL of his
speeches that we have seen reported, he appears to spend
most of his time in defending the sales tax and trying to
justify his having spoken against it in the campaign, and
his change of heart after being elected. He does not talk
of the emergency in taxation now, but in all his addresses
that we have read reports of, he seems to be trying to make
the general sales tax permanent. His efforts in trying to
get Congress to pass a law placing a tariff wall- around
North Carolina, shows he is in favor of the general sales
tax and is trying to make it permanent. He sent his Reve
nue Commissioner and his sales tax collector, Mr. McMullin,
to advocate the same before the National Tax Association
and also before Congressional Committees. Would he have
done so if he expected the measure to be temporary? Yet,
we have a net operating surplus for this year of $9,826,-
938.05, and when the reports from the Treasury shows that
the receipts from the general sales tax will probably not
be more than five million. Where is the necessity?
THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW
The people have a right to know where a candidate seek
ing the nomination for the House of Representatives and
the Senate stand on important questions which they know
will come up for consideration in the next Legislature. We
are informed that certain candidates are being asked not
to tell the voters where they stand leaving themselves open
to do as they please without being incumbered by a platform
or a pledge made in the campaign. Is this fair? Is it right?
Is it being frank?
The people have a right to know where these candidates
stand on the Sales Tax question. They have a right to know
whether candidates are for good public schools or not. They
have a right to know where candidates stand for the Legis
lature to deal with the liquor question or to leave it to the
people who have decided it before. They have a right to
know whether the candidate believes in government by the
legislature or by executive appointment.
Thomas Jefferson said on one occasion, "Db not fear to
k ust the people." Members of the legislature should re
member when they are elected that their power is derived
from the people and though they be a member of the legis
lature for a brief season that they are still a servant of the
people. And if candidates will not tell the people where
they stand on these important questions, we believe the
people are entitled to have someone who will.
CORN-HOG PROGRAM
ADDS TO INCOME
North Carolina producers of
corn and hogs are .failing to share
in liberal benefit payments by not
taking more interest in the corn
hog adjustment program.
W. W. Shay, swine extension
specialist at State College, says
that only 1,327 contracts have been
signed in 14 counties to date. This
is an average of about 95 con
tracts to the county, yet the facts
show that there are an average of
468 farms in these 14 counties re
porting some hogs grown.
Shay finds further that there
are 41,189 farms in the whole State
where some hogs are grown. This
is an average of 412 fai-ms to
each of the 100 counties.
"If only 50 farms in each of
these 100 counties would sign for
a reduction of as much as seven
head of pigs per farm, the income
in benefit payments would amount
to approximately one-half a mil
lion dollars this year," Shay says.
"A farmer can sign to reduce by
as much as one pig and get sls
for the animal; yet, many of our
growers who are selling hogs are
required to pay the processing tax
and are not protecting themselves
by joining in on the reduction pro
gram."
Only two counties have complet
ed their sign-up campaigns to date.
Mr. Shay believes there are a
large number of farmers who
would like to have a part in the
program if they knew about it.
He has one contract from a man
who is reducing his hogs by 164
head under the base period of
1932 and 1933 and will get a bene
fit payment amounting to $2,460.
In addition, corn production may
be curtailed and the grower will
be paid 30 cents a bushel according
to the past production of the land.
Mr. Shay states that the sign-up
campaign will be closed on May 1
and he is hopeful that more North
Carolina farmers will take an in
terest in the program before it is
too late.
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GROWERS PREDICT
SHORTEST STRAWBERRY
CROP IN YEARS
Chadbourne, April 21.—Growers
predict the North Carolina straw
berry crop this season will be one
of the smallest in years due to
the activity of the strawberry
weevil.
The first berries of the season
were sold here Saturday at prices
ranging up to $5.35 a crate. Pick
ing of the berries will not become
general for about two weeks.
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CELEBRATES FOURTH
ANNIVERSARY
The Greensboro Lodge 257,
Order of Ahepa, celebrated their
fourth anniversary by a banquet
in Greensboro on April 21. Mem
bers attended from Wilson, Rocky
Mount, Charlotte, Gastonia, Ra
leigh, Durham, Winston-Salem and
Danville, Va. Several noted speak
ers were on the program.
Appointment Of
Seely Criticized
Macon Says It Was Deliber
ate Attempt to Aid Win
borne Candidacy
Asheville, April 21.—"The ap
pointment by Goverhor Ehringhaus
of Fred L. Seely, of Asheville, as
an associate of the State Utilities
Commissioner can only be con
strued as a deliberate attempt on
the part of the Governor to assist
Mr. VVinborne in his campaign for
renomination as utilities commis
sioner," declared E. C. Macon, who
is opposing Stanley Winborne for
utilities commissioner. "It is sig
nificant," says Mr. Macon in a
statement just issued here, that the
Governor refrained from making
this appointment until immediate
ly after expiration of the time for
filing notices of candidacies. This
makes it obvious that the Governor
waited to determine whether Mr.
Winborne would have opposition,
from what quarter it would de
velop, and then assist his appointee
in this underhanded manner. This
action smacks of petty politics and
low partisanship illy fitted to the
dignity of the Governor of a great
State."
Mr. Macon contends that since
Mr. Seely resides in the same cky
as he does the point will be made
that as Asheville already has an
associate commissioner it would be
improper for it to have the com
missioner also and that thus the
appointment will operate to his
disadvantage.
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Registration Is
Increasing Here
Nearly 300 New Voters in
City Registered Since
Books Are Opened
Increasing interest in the ap
proaching democratic primary and
election scheduled for next month
was seen today as registration of
new voters in the ci|ty neared 300.
Books were opened in the seven
wards last Friday and will remain
open for registration through Sat
urday, April 28. The democratic
primary is scheduled to be held
here on Friday, May 4, and the
election will follow on Monday,
May 7.
MASONIC NEWS
A called meeting of the Enfield
chapter of the R. A. M., will be
held at Enfield Monday, April 30,
at 7:30 p. m., for inspection prior
to the annual meeting in Wilming
ton on May 8 where a report of
this inspection will be made. Mr.
G. T. Matthews, District Deputy
Grand High Priest of District 14,
will be in charge of the Enfield
meeting. Several local men will
attend the meeting with Mr. Mat
thews.
Mr. Watson N. Sherrod, Secre
tary of the Enfield Scottish Rite
Bodies was in Rocky Mount on
May 15.
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ABOUT THE POST OFFICE
Mr. T. O. Seward is still out with
the measles. His condition is re
ported as much improved.
Mr. A. D. Cuthrell, second vice
president of the State Federation
of Post Office Clerks is making a
tour of Eastern Carolina in behalf
of the Annual State meeting to be
held in New Bern, July 4. He is
being accompanied by Mr. Archer
of Greensboro, who is the State
organizer for this Federation.
MOVES STORE
The store now operating under
the name of P. C. Coppedge on
Rose Street will be moved to 131
Sunset Avenue within the next few
days, and will be known as Cop
pedge and Kinlaw. Mr. Rufus
Kinlaw and Mr. P. C. Coppedge,
who are the co-owners of this
store, are planning to renovate the
new building and enlarge their
stock of goods.
Funeral Services Conducted
For Dr. R. H. Wright Thurs,
Gathering Hears
Talk By Waters
Dr. John M. Waters of Wilson
Addresses Graduation Class
of Benvenue School
Speaking of the present econom
ic situation and its relation to the
young people of today, Dr. John
M. Waters of Wilson addressed the
graduating class of Benvenue
school and a large gathering of
parents and friends at the school
Sunday night.
Dr. Waters, who is head of the
Bible department of the Atlantic
Christian college, declared that
the biggest task to be performed
by America's youth is to "Chris
tianize the social order" as the
means of revolutionizing economic
conditions.
Although the United States is
regarded as the richest country in
the world, the people as a whole
are poor due to the fact the wealth
of the nation is in the hands of a
few, the speaker stated.
"If conditions are ever to be
changed," he stated, "it cannot be
done through wars but by Chris
tianizing the social order .. .
Christ's kingdom cannot be won
with the sword."
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CLOSING EXERCISES
AT NASHVILLE SCHOOL
Nashville, April 21.—Commence
ment activities of the high school
here began tonight and will con
tinue at various intervals for two
weeks. Tonight the senior play
entitled "Where's Grandma?" was
given. On Tuesday evening, April
24, the music students of the
school, under direction of Mrs. A.
A. Ross, will appear in recital, and
on the following Friday night the
elementary school will give an op
eretta, "Sunny of Sunnybrook."
The baccalaureate sermon on
Sunday morning, April 29, will
initiate the senior finals. The ser
vice is to be held in First Baptist
Church here with Rev. L. D. Hay
man, pastor of the Methodist
Church, preaching. On Thursday
night, May 3, class day exercises
will be presented in the form of
a play "Seniors at the Bar?" in
the high school, auditorium which
will be followed on Friday night
with the graduation exercises when
Robert House, executive secretary
of the University of North Caro
lina, will make the address.
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N. C. GETS $10,000,000
Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, head of
the CWA in North Carolina, an
nounced Wednesday that the total
CWA payroll in this state was $!),-
692,468.70, and this figure does not
include expenditures for materials
which amounted to approximately
$3,000,000. The CWA program was
continued for four months, with a
monthly pay roll in this state of
approximately $2,500,000. The
largest amount of CWA funds went
to Guilford county, $563,941.27 be
ing spent there, and Mecklenburg
county received the second largest
amount, $532,489.58. Johnston
county received $129,049.55.
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HONOR SOCIETY ADMITS
SEVEN NEW MEMBERS
Seven members of the junior
class of the Rocky Mount high
school were tapped for member
ship into the National Honor so
ciety in an impressive ceremony
conducted by officers of the or
ganization at the opening exercises
which took place in the auditorium
of the school, Friday morning.
The new members of the honor
society are: Connie Lee Thigpen,
Roderick Murchison, Jr., Robert
Nichols, James Strickland, Ballard
Wilson, Wingate Upton, and Ida
Wood.
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Congress leaders poised for
drive to end the session.
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President opposes silver legisla
tion now, Rainey reveals.
SI.OO PER YEAR
The funeral services for Dr. R.
H. Wright, late president of East
Carolina Teachers College, who 9|
died Wednesday morning as a re
suit of a heart attack suffered H
last Monday, were held at the Hj
campus building 0 f the college at H
three o'clock Thursday afternoon, H
with Dr. G. R. Combs, pastor of
Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church IB
officiating, assisted by Dr. Frank H
Dean, rector of the Episcopal H
Church of Wilson. The body laid H
in state from l to 3 o'clock in the fl
campus building. There was a fl
guard of honor from the student
body representative of various or- IB
ganizations of the college which
changed every twenty minutes. ■
Interment followed in Greenwood
cemetery.
Only President of E. C. T. C. fl
Dr. Wright was one 0 f the lead- I
ing figures in educational affairs 98
in North Carolina for a quarter of |B
a century. He is the only Presi- S
dent East Carolina Teachers Col- H
lege has eve r had and it is now B
nearing the close of it s twenty- I
fifth year. B
Dr. Wright was graduated from I
the University of North Carolina M
in the class of 1897, having been U
prepared for college i n his moth- I
er's private school. He received 8
his M. A. degree from Johns Hop- 9
kins University and did further 9
graduate work at Columbia Uni- 9
versity. The honorary degree of 9
doctor of education was conferred 9
upon him by Wake Forest Collegj. 9
STUDENT BODY 1
OFFICIALS ELECTED I
AT A. C. COLLEGE 8
Wilson, April 23.—Jacob Taylor ,8
of Bethel was elected president of M
the student body 0 f Atlantic Chris- fl
tian college in campus elections a
held the latter part of last week, ■
it was announced here. 9
Besides Taylor, who is in his I
junior year, other officers selected S
were Oscar Brinson of New Bern, 9
sophomore, vice-president; Miss ■
Georgia Brewer and Miss Mary 3
Brewer, twin sisters from New 9
Bern, secretary and assistant sec- S
retary; Miss Maria Brinson of 9
New Bern, junior, treasurer. I
ALBERT COX, JR., NOW 1
ON STAFF OF THE 8
WHITE HOUSE 1
Washington, April 21.—Albert L.
Cox, Jr., son of General Albert L.
Cox, formerly of Raleigh but who
now is practicing law in Washing
ton, has become a member of the
White House staff.
Young Cox, who entered the
United States Naval Academy last
September, but who resigned
in January, is one of the aide.-t. to
Marvin H. Mclntyre, assistant sec
retary to President Roosevelt.
TO LEAVE PRESIDENCY
At a meeting of the board of
trustees of Greensboro College this
week Dr. S. B. Turrentine asked
that he be released from the presi
dency of the college after the next
scholastic year, 1934-35. The trus
tees re-elected Dr. Turrentine for
another year, at the same time ex
pressing their appreciation for his
constructive work during his ad
ministration which has extended
over 21 years. Noteworthy im
provements have been made in
Greensboro College during Dr.
Turrentine's presidency. Dr. Tur
rentine has been vice-president of
the North Carolina College con
ference and at present is chairman
of the conference's committee on
high school relations. He also has
served as vice president of the
Southern Association of Colleges
for Women.
CAT MOTHERED PUPS
The Dalles, Ore., April 21.—A
large cat owned by Mrs. N. H.
Moser insists on mothering two
tiny toy terrier puppies along wtrh
her own kittens. The cat nurses
and washes the puppies, much to j«
the disgust of their mother. She
is undaunted by threats of tha |
dog, no larger than herself.