North Carolina Newspapers

TWO News Items F And The Sta I Raleigh.?Vanished ate the political babbles of yesterday on Capitol Hill. The tempest has settled down into its teapot. The mountain has resumed its mole-hill proportions. With slight exceptions, due and expected, the life on the- bill has settled back to normal. In fact, it hardly left normal. but it was described as in a helluva stir, and, being so described, it had to stir. Governor Ehringhaus came through, halted for a few hours, added a reference to an earlier statement, went 011 his way to "VVrightsville. spoke to the bankers and included one brief paragraph only to show that he feels and resents the persistent and continuous efforts of the political snipers who would bring discredit upon his administration and thus injure the fair name of the State. 4 First of all it seems to me," he said, "that we might busy ourselves J ?those of us who are familiar with the working of government ?in an effort to encourage a better attitude and a. larger sympathy toward the o-rtV(?rniYif?nt Ti isn't i?Y?vern mental orge, seeking to despoil its subjects! it isn't a greedy Moloch with an insatiable appetitee for spending and wasting the people and their substance. Its affairs are entrusted by popular vote to men of patriotism and some ability. Its officers are not a group of fattening political parasites, but are giving of their brains, their hearts and best energies in a manifest effort to solve the problems that press upon them. Are they liot entitled at least to the presumption that their acts are controlled by an integrity of motive and arc not the result, of sinister schemes and suggestions ?" (Governor Ehringkaus had formerly announced that Chairman E. B. Jeffress was in reality head of the administration and personnel of the Highway and Public Works Commission and had the entire confidence of the Governor. This came as a re suit 01 the newspaper charges uiatj George Ross Pou, educative directorj had issued the orders and had sup-.j planted Jeffrtgk as actual head. Both! receive the same salary. Both have been reduced. Pou's reduction, volunteered, was The " perequisites'' of his office as head of the prison?food supplies, servants, laundry ? allowed oy law, but not a raeanitem, wmcn he volunteered to give. up. Both are - pirancu, wiui tfttla positions, and are in harmony. Then the 3nipers, seeing their pet bubble burst m their faces to their evident discomfort, turned to another department, the Revenue Department. "What about Commissioner Maxwell? Why has Dr. Marcus Cicero Stevens Noble Jr. supplanted him? Maxwell and Jeffress were described as "cigar store Indians," heads of departments m name only, and supplanted by subordinates. Governor Ehringhaus had answered the Jeffress matter, but had ignored explanations as to the status of Maxwell. And the status of Maxwell continues to be ignored, except that the Governor referred newsmen to the statement issued by Commissioner Maxwell when he was rear) do in ted. Mr. Maxwell called attention to the j increased work of the department, the new divisions and activities added by j the 1933 General Assembly--the sales I tax, the highway patrol, the oil and _ gasoline inspection, and the weights j and measures work, the latter sub-, ject to transfer on the Governor's order?and announced that Dr. Noble had heen named as executive assistant commissioner to handle personnel I and organization work in the department. Because Mr. Maxwell, absent from his office for some weeks, due to illness and death of Mrs. Maxwell and for other reasons, had not kept up with details of an investigation 'ue had instigated and authorized and because he would not give details of the investigation which was heing done supposedly in secret and avoided questions by the expedient of saying he did not know, it was broadcast that he knew nothing of what was happening in his own department. And one newspaper even said he did "not know Dr. Noble until he was appointed. They have been on friendly terms for several years. Moreover. Mr. Max a odes os mo codes, SEZ. JED SLJVERS, "!WS COUNTRY WILL NEVER BE AfeLE Tc^COUTftOL its OUTPUT Of- * MUTSf rom Raleigh te At Large well is drawing a salary of $5,500 a year, Dr. Noble $5,000, about what he had been drawing. Except for probably a part of a month, when Mr. Maxwell and all other State employees were taking a '25 per cent, cut for three months, he has drawn a larger salary than his executive assistant, Dr. Noble Also. Mr. Maxwell suggested that the personnel of the department, which had come to ts.ke too much of his time, be handled hi its preliminary stages otherwise. The plan of the executive assistant came out of that suggestion, even if modified. So, really, the "cigar store Indians" turn out to be real live indians, doing their work as usual, despite snipers who would befuddle the administration. Gang Wars in Raleigh Raleigh is breaking into the spotlight in a miniature Chicago gang warfare. Two bootleg and rumrunuing gangs have "beat, up" two people for alleged tipping of police which resulted in raids and capture of several gallons of liquor. Police apparenty are just finding out that there are gangs in Raleigh?many people certainly have known it for a long time- and made the raids on tips. vjne gang, live or six strong, waylaid and beat up a young* man theyj thought had tipped police to a lib- ] oral supply of liquor at a negro's i house. Then a traveling man, in the j presence of two of them, mentioned I the beating up. He was also given j a dose. Also, another gang, heaued by a woman, with two aides, waylaid and beat up a young woman they thought had told police of anotuer supply that was confiscated. &?$st of the alleged assailants have been caught aiM tried and given road or prison sentences. They appealed and the appeals stayed the sentences This reminds of the flag-rant liquor violations in Raleigh some two years j ago, when on certain streets thirsty.] would line up and have their money j ready, receiving the liquor that was delivered much as miik or ice is dc-1 livered. Then the rumrunners would make their deliveries, then scurry away at the approach of police- Decoys would often do the. running, taking the police on a merry chase, while the whiskey laden cars would ease ji'viy while pr.lice ?"?msin;v empty cars. Some of those same folks Arti inrluilnd in th?v nw- .iltt nf ac. sailants. Negro Given Reprieve Johnny I-ee, Dunn mulatto bay. was given a reprieve from the electric chair and death for killing Jacob [Hill, Clinton negro barber, in older that Solicitor Ciawson Williams may make further inquiry into the death of Arthur Campbell ir. Dunn last win ! ter. Lee claims Asa Herring, negro farm agent, promised him .$75 to kill Hill, but had paid him only a part of it. He said Herring told him if he did not do the job, he would go as did Campbell, who had agreed to the killing, but failed and later was killed himself in an unexplained way Herring, who was given 30 years for hiring the boy to kill Hill, was a brother-in-law of Hill and supposedly wanted him killed so he. could get his insurance. Solicitor Williams will see if he can find reason to charge Herring with the death of Campbell. Etheridge Succeeds Hnrrelson Col. J. VV. Harrelson, who has served as director of the Department .-?f nfiTifl^ryatinn nitrl FlWT.>1nnmor>t four years and who will be succeeded around September 1st by R. Bruce Etheridge, named last week by Governor Ehringhaus, will return to State College and continue the teaching of mathematics. He was on leave of absence during the period he served as head of the State department. However, Colonel Harrelson, who left the college as a mathematics professor, will return to it as head of the mathematics department. Also, it is being talked by those who should know that Colonel Harj relson is being looked upon as the | next president of State College and I that he is now being groomed to head the State's agricultural and engineering institution. He served some 20 years ago as president of the State College alumni association and is now chairman of the executive committee of the college. He is considered equal and capable in every respect to handle the institution, if and when vacancy occurs. Dr. E. C. Brooks has been president for several year3. Etheridge an Able Man R. Bruce Etheridge, of Manteo, a banker, sportsman and for several years a member of the General Assembly, is considered an able man to head the State Conservation and Development department. He has served on the board of that department for several years and is especially versed in the fishing end of the work, which constitutes a large part of the duties of the office. Having associated with the legislators for several terms, he is expected to be of great value to Governor Ehringhaus, as he was in the 1933 body, in the 1935 General Assembly. The new law relating to the department provides that the posts of State game warden and director of fisheries activities be consolidated and placed in the hands of a man with' WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?jsVEitV Northwest Wheat Belt Fatn Thomas Peterson, (center) of Cass spring wheat former of the North we tne Agricultural Aojusimeni A.aniinis government in trying to solve the pr for wheat. Right, is County Extenaicv Madison, neighbor wheat grower who scientific knowledge. Because of that i wording and the tone of the legisla-| ture ,it is considered doubtful that! cither Charles Kngland, Slate game; warden, or J. S. Hargett, in charge of i inland fisheries, will be retained in j the new post. Current belief is that< a new man will ut selected for the) new job and both these official will be allowed to go. But, of course, it. is by no means certain what will hap-! pen. Change hi General Sides Tax The general sales tax on numbers of mechanical devices and musical instruments and supplies, which have heretofore been paid by the distributor or wholesale merchant and the tax paid on the wholesale price, will, after September i, be applied on the retail sale at the retail price. Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell' and Division Director Harry Mullen state. The mechanical devices include cash registers, typewriters, adding j and bookkeeping machines, billing machines, check protectors or protpotognanhs. if??i ein" tcrs,: it igiuaires>, or other refrigerating machines, lightC'g iyctc?,sr 7F'*wuii'ig iimuVtmes, mechanically or electrically operated burglar alarms, or automatic sprinklers, addressograph machines, multigraph and other duplicating machines, i vacuum cleaner*?, mechanically or electrically operated oil burners, coal stokers and card punching, assorting and tabulating machinery. Also pianos and organs, graphophones, yictrolAu or other instruments using discs or cylinder records, and the sale of records for either or all of these instruments, radios or radio accessories. Sales of these items arc- to be reported and treated just as the sales of any other merchandise and included in the regular returns. Merchants are required to inventory all such merchandise on hand September 1st on which the tax has been paid by the distributor. Small Amount of Poll Tax Paid Poll tax levies for the two years 1931 and 1932 were $1,273,441.34. of which only $4131,899.18 has been paid in to the State Treasury, leaving a balance of $841,542.16 yet unpaid, according to figures compiled in the office of State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson. Watauga Coimtv's Iaw for th*? fu-n years was $5,881.50, while $1,500.00 has been paid for 1931 and $441.11 for 1932, total of $1,941.41 for the two years, thus leaving a balance of $3,940.09, Johnson's compilation reveals. Treasurer Johnson announced recently that he was going to ask the Governor and Council of State to allot him sufficient funda from the Contingency and Emergency fund to have J tlie State Auditor send auditors toi each county and have the funds audited so the ad valorem tax can be determined and It is likely that the poll taxes will be checked at the same time. Many Still on Relief Rolls One person in every ten in North Carolina was still dependent, upon Federal relief fund3 during the month of July, despite, the big increase In the employment situation in the State, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry shows in figures made public recently. In Watauga County 24.7 per cent, of the population received aid in July, the report shows. Wilkes had the smallest percentage j of dependency of the 100 counties,] only 1.4 per cent, of the residents receiving aid. Stanly was a ciose second with 1.7 per cent. Avery County had the largest percnetage, 32.5 per cent., or nearly one-third of the county's population. Tied Up Deposits Small Less than four per cent.?3.71%?of the deposits in all State banks, savings banks and trust companies in North Carolina and less than seven per cent?6.83%?of all resources of all such banks were tied up in the 50 : restricted banks, including 32 branch- j es, which did not open on a full sched-' . - H pf-'; THURSDAY?BOON'S, N. C. "-T" iers Sign for onrrol County, North Dakota, was the tirst r.t belt to appl.v for a contract with itration and thus cooperate with the oble:n of getting a reasonable price, r. Agent. E. A. Calhoun. Left, r..W.j , also signed. 1 i uel after the March 4 banking holiday, it is shown in the recent report of the condition of State banks made by Commissioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood. This showing is better than that I of the national banks in the country as a whole. President Roosevelt announcing in. his radio talk of about that date that about 90 per cent; of the resources of all national banks were held by banks which had reopened and were doing business as usual on an up restricted basis. In North Carolina State banks 9317 per cent, of the resources are shown to be held by banks that are fully open and doing a regular business. Snberitenec 'lav Ir?cwais(? Inheritance taxes ai North Ca?-o-; lina were paid by 1.040 estates tor the fiscal year JS32-53. just closed, and amounted to -S500.o38.3S, a slight increase in both numbers el paying estates and amount paid as compared with those of J1331-32, but a decrease in estates and only about hair oi thoj amount collected for 1330-33, figures. (Continued nr. Cng. 31 j Rural Highi Pub flint; long-hold aim of 'getting A the farmer out of the mud" promises to be brought materially closer to realization through the application of a very considerable part of the f400.00o.0fi0 federal road fund to the secondary highway system. The United States Bureau of Public Heads will have heavy responsibilities in the expenditure of the fund, and it i3 fortunate that research conducted by the Bureau provides the basis for the construction and improvement of low-cost roa.ls that will both get and keep the farmer out of the I.nul without imposing an unjustifiable tax burden for maintenance. i ne Bureau's research. conducted in its test laboratory at Arlington, Virginia, across trie Potomac from Washington, lias covered characteristics oC the ground beneath the surface which are important to the design, construction and maintenance of highways. II has also covered the problems of highway surfaces, with a view to the use of chemical and physical admixtures to provide low-cost roads with surfaces that will stand up under traffic and can be maintained at low cost. Low-Cost Highway Surfaces The surface condition of clay, sand-clay and gravel roads depends largely upon the degree of cohesion possessed by the clay or other material that acts as the binder or road "glue." This in turn largely depends upon the presence of sufficient moisture, for it is the moisture films between the particles and not the particles themselves that provide the "glue." The value 1 of chemical admixtures in maintaining cohesion has been shown by the use of calcium chloride, a white, lialcy substance which slows down evaporation and prevents the drying out of the moisture without which the surface tends to disintegrate. Spread upon the surface, the first rainfall carries it down to the subsurface soil. With the reappearance. of the sun, evaporation of the surface moisture begins but i3 replaced by the rising of the calcium chloride solution. Evaporation continues only up to the point at which, due to the calcium chloride, the solution will no longer evaporate. At the next rainfall the same process takes place with the result that cohesion is steadily maintained. Sib-Surface Soils Study The foundation of n road is as important S3 the foundation of a [ building:, in the case of roads of all kinds this foundation is provided by the sub-surface soils. The Bureau of Public Roads' program of sub-inrface research has included all of those soil constituents which are of importance In determining the reactions of widely different soils under varying conditions of load, moisture and tern| parature. This has involved tests Our Part i TODAY men of all nations ? evidencing deep Interest In 1 ttu/iiis of their rfivp^ctiye LI1 ernuieiits. This progressive a.ttitc has undoubtedly resulted from i ceaseless, though not always rec< nized, influence of the wonder Christian, teaching that in the si? of God all men are equal. Tr.io u? not mean that every person as a c zen can have assigned to him a s cial public duly. However, to eve one comes the privilege, as well the duty, of being a supporter right government, and this is iiids a high office. To each citizen CO] opportunities to support a rightec govera^hcut throug <1 intelligt thinking. Through the cuitivali and exercise of such qualities thought as are implied by the wor understanding, charity, cftizensb and prayer, the individual can p; pare himself to be a useful citizen his community. Christian Science enables one regard these subjects in their tr light. As men begin to grasp t truth concerning God's governraei and to prove their understanding bettering individual thinking, tb find themselves willing and read} accept the responsibilities of use citizenship. nrit.nrlliniffnc Hfrt thllH IT? H available by spiritual understand/1 This understanding includes intei gent comprehension, enlightenmo alertness. One who through Chr tian Science seeks to understand ! government; its purposes, metho and aims, has an intelligent stai ard whereby to measure its acts, is not misled by ials'i propaganda by personal influence. He casts 1 ballot en the side of integrity, sou sense, and progress. In this way rises above the limitations of merely material sense of govern an and begins to demonstrate the trt concerning real government; for has learned the spiritual nature man as an intelligent son of an s wise God, the perfect Mind. Charity, too, is an open door opportunities for serving. It may described as a true sense of lo Charity is the attitude which rejoh In the certainty of the ultimate t umph of Truth, even when evil see threatening. To charity, evil is o? a deceiving false seuse winch may progressively replaced with the tr sense of being as spiritual. Wh Charity governs thought, the citia may look critically upon his govei mont In a helpful way. II?' may ti the searchlight of critical inspect! CO the nation's functioning*:, and keeping aglow In his own thought? light of wisdom, fairness, patlen aad love lie will he able tn see r only the errors' to be eradicated, \ the good already accomplished. vays to Benefi lie Roads Bur< The compression test, during samples are subjected to press, lent to those imposed by a he; truck. of soil samples from ail parts i the United States. One of the fundamental tests an ?n.i1yg?e" j ~ tions of sand, silt, clay, and oth< substances which the soil contain This involves a lengthy laboratot procedure, including hydromett readings of a soil sample disperse in distilled water. The reading aro taken over a period of 2 hours. At the conclusion of til analysis it is possible to determin by employ in g complex mathematici formulae, not only the proportion of all the different soil substance: but the actual size of their pa: ticles. The "Liquid Limit" Test The "liquid limit" test dele; mines the maximum amount c moisture which the soil can hoi AUGUST 31. 1933 n Government xre 1 Many doors to service are opened Lhe< by the qualities exprmod iu the word ^J"ciUze??bip." Citizenship, as a way "jot living, has Lo 1>j with such oppc~f?e j tunitics as come to the thinker in l"e the usual walks of life, in the borne, 3K~ the school, or the shop. CUlseu3hip 5U^ means bringing to bear upon these rht activities the influence of a liigb idealism It means practicing Jesus' hi- Golden Rule. "All things whatsoever pv- ye wcuJd that men should do to you, ry- do ye evrti so to them." For the stu*s dent of Christian Scienco to be a of good citizen he must practice the ^ truth discovered und founded by few Mury linker Eddy. That this religion ,us i3 the (Science of Jesus* teaching:: has >nt been proved many times by the works on which its students have done and are of doing through the spiritual under"ds Ktaudinir of God's law. He who nrac ip, tiees Christian Science, in ways small re- or great, is well prepared to take his in place as a servant of mankind. Speaking of "a knowledge of the Science to of being.*' Mrs. Kiddy says in "Sclue once and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 128), "It raises the thinker into his native air of insight by and perspicacity." Surely, one so e. I equipped can furnish strong support to lo the right activities of civic govflll ernmeiiv- The doorway to the highest service is opened through the lower for good in true prayer. Prayer l<Jre founds thought on the divinely sub?*> stantla 1 Rock, Chr '., the true idea 11 J* of God. the strong foundation for J*? the superstructure of harmonious '* >" living. True prayer avails, and the Christian Scientist learns to pray availing!*' not alone for tue good of himself, but for the whole world. In "e Christian Science, prayer i3 fervent, reverent aspiration; it is spiritual vision. Prayer is that mental attitude which rests on the conviction that God, I.ove, is the only cause and cre3 a tor, and that every real effect is Godlike. Prayer breaks tho mesmer\lh isiu of befogging material sense, and through the mists it reveals God*s Jj* man. governed by God. Through prayer consciousness Is filled with the holy facts of being; greed is re to placed with unsetfed love, hatred be with brotherhood, lust with peace, ve. and ignorance with wisdom, ces "Are we benefited by praying?" ri- asks Mrs. Eddy on page 2 of Science idsj and Health; and her immediate lly I answer is, "Yes. the desire which be goes forth hungering after righteousue iiess is blessed of our Father, and if. ten does not return unto us void." As :eu pen universally learn so to pray, the ni- mental atmosphere of the whole mi world will be suffused with lovingion kindness, and all can then echo the by angelic rejoicing, recorded by the :he Reveliitor, "The kingdoms of tliit ce. world are become the kingdoms o? xpt our Lord, and of his Christ; and be mi shall reign lor ever and ever** wnrisiwn scwncc Woihior. --* * 1 t From eau Research j HB?P Taking an hydrometer reading of a aoil satnple BPmB."dlaporsed in distilled water. One of the steps g necessary to determine ;2 the proportions of <?and, silt, c!sy and other sub., / stances. n '/f/ without losing stability i/W &/to a harmful degree. This P Jf ff liquid limit varies great/ . ly with different soils t i and is of great imporl '-Mm; tance in determining the W0X16111 to which capillary and other moisture will Ipsjfe lessen their stability. - While all soils require a. v. j&L certain amount of mois^ture for cohesion, too r; muck moisture will have i the same effect xipon j them as will too much moisture upon a handful which soil ot dan)p aand. urea equiva- ^ compression test. In wily loaded which a sarnpie Qf the soil is subjected to loads comparable to those a if heavijy loaded truck would impose. determines "the resistance to presis sure from above; the resistance to r lateral flow, or spreading out, under ;r such pressure; and the expansion s. or tendency to take nn wa*a*j y being compressed, ir The knowledge which these and id other tests make available, enables ;s the highway engineer to know in !4 advance how the soils which ho le must work with will react under e. varying conditions of moisture, il pressure and climatic changes. It s the soils are deficient In certain s, qualities, they indicate what mar terlals should be added, and In what proportions. They tend to give the highway engineer the same degree of "exact knowledge r- about his soils, -as the structural if engineer possesses concerning d I steel and stone.