' PAGES TWO News Items F And The Sta By M K. SlIKKAGAN (Special Writer for The Pcmcirat) Raleigh.?Urging national legisla- j ticn to protect merchants and State treasuries of sales tax states against advantages for non-sales tax states, Governor Ehringhaus has written to Senator Bailey and Reynolds and the i eleven North Carolina Congressmen to support a bill drawn hv Director Harry Xlcilullan and adopted by the National Association of State Tax Administrators iti Indianapolis this; week, to support the measure at this I Session of Congress. "The bill, as you will observe., applies the principle of the Wilson a id Webb-Kenyan bills to sales by outside merchants of merchandise for use in North Carolina by making them subject to sales taxation adopt- j ed by the General Assembly exactly j as intra-state transactions are Iia- j ble," Governor Ehringhaus wrote. "Its merits, it seems to me, wili appeal both to those States having at present a sales tax as well as those which do not have it but which of necessity must face the possibility of such a tax at all times. In your own State I believe that both advocates of and objectors to the sales tax will approve, for the bill, if adopted, will obviate the disadvantages now most! seriously urged by objectors." A copy of Mr. McMullan's address to the tax administrators and a study ! ~ and discussion of the principles in- r volved in the bill by a member Of t the faculty of the University law school, which "covers every possible "j legal phase of the situation," were enclosed with the letter to the State's ,j delegation. Aware of the difficulty j of getting legislation through at this ! c session, Governor Ehringhaus suggested that it might he added to some pending legislation. He lauds the State's legislators, mentioning high places on important committees, and '! feels that as one reason why they may be able to get it through. Ap- n proval by the administrators of all \ states gives it a nation-wide support, * he states. Governor Ehringhaus makes the l; -i ,.r nt,",,.* v. olina merchants and the North Caro- ( tina treasury, "believing that this ,, measure, conceived as it is to secure an equality of opportunity and formu- , lated in accord with sound legislative phecedent. is a measure of relief which, the federal government can and shuld afford immediately" He j ( states that it is a measure giving to j each sLxo- tut Cuuntc to deal equal ly with all who sell for consumption within its borders and protects J against outside advantage. Support of the bill involves neither . approval nor disapproval cf sales tax ( imposition; it simply guarantees each State and its merchant citizens again outside advantage and provides that equality between the states which it . was the purpose of the Constitution framers to promote and preserve/' , Governor Khrtnghaus concluded his j letter. The bill, he notes, is now in , the hands of Congressman Lindsay ' G. Warren. State Tax Plan Lauded , IMr.vth l^nmlnn'a nldti <-?f cV?irtiT-.cr - - -- -? -? ? M jpf" - k v?rv l the burden of taxes from land and at the same time carrying on more i extensive functions, Including schools, : and with ail of its balancing the liud- ; get, has been heralded through the i nation, evidence this time being the i request of Congressman Brooks Met- < cher, of the eighth Ohio district to i Governor Ehvlnghaus that he tell 1 how it is done. t "I am informed that your State, I North Carolina, is the only state that t has completely overhauled its system ,'t of taxation, lifting the inequitable j i burden from land, centralizing re-1 t sponsibility and co3t of education, | c economizing drastically, but saving c the public, schools," Representative 8 Fletcher writes the Governor. t "Next week we are beginning a \ series ctf hearings before our educa- i tion committee in Congress, and being a member of this committee I am anxious to have all the information available or just what you did in c changing your taxing system so as [ to sav your public schools in the pres- 1 ent crisis. t "Also, I will appreciate any sug- c ge3tions you care to make concerning 1 the best method of reducing taxation t costs. t "We are considering legislation for s the purpose of Federal aid to educa- c tion and many of us feel that before t we authorize the appropriation of t much money for education, we should s make a careful check-up of the possibility of much of it being wasted in financing educational non essentials." Seek Federal School Funds t Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintend- J ent of public schools, and Jule War- * ren, secretary of the North Carolina ' Education Association, have been in f Washington with educational forces ( relative to appropriation of Federal ' funds for public schools, both as a 1 relief measure and as a permanent ' policy. Dr. Allen thinks the State has 1 a good case, but is not sure of the results. North Carolina apparently occupies t the peculiar position of having done c too much for education by taking ' s-~ .over and guaranteeing an eight ' months school, in the light of later 1 developments, to benefit greatly from 1 roin Raleigh te At Large A Spring Coiffure | NEW YORK . . . An inspiring Spring season ahead, bringing with it many new bonnets which includes those off-the-faoe models, causes feminine thoughts to turn to attractive cotfTuros. The beautiful Elizabeth Allen, screen favorite, is now sponsoring this entrancing wind blown wave. [merge!)cy funds. The present plan is o use federal money to continue Spools locally for a given period then such schools are forced to close or lack of funds from other sources, "his State will have no such schools, ince the State conducts thorn for ignt months. Hatchery in Boone Continued A State game and fish warden was ot elected by the State Board of lonsorvation and Development at its leetirig last Friday, but a special ommittee of four was named to ludy qualifications of applicants andj eport to the board at its later meet-: ng. Col. J. W. Harrelson, Bruce Kth-1 ridge, Josh Home and J. J. Stone, compose the committee. Meanwhile,j Charles H. England, game warden I or five years, is expected to continue I irider the plan by which Mr. Ether- j ige was authorized by the board to imploy a man to handle the work uni! a warden is named. l xiv uutxiKi rccuiiaiutirea earner acion and decided to continue the fish latchery at Boone at which iroprovenent as CWA projects are now c:tlected. The board conferred with llrs. fhornaa O'Berry, State CWA adminatrutor. seeking to have oyster planing, much already done, continued as tw a projects. Violate Crop Reduction Rules Violation of the letter and the spirl of crop reduction contracts, espe:iauy uitti tor tobacco, is apparently leing violated in some North Careina counties, specifically by landlords iuttingr off tenant farmers they aplarently will not need as a result of tile reduction of acreage for next /ear, Capus VVaynick. federal reemvloynient director for the State announces. An earlier statement of that nature ay Mr. VVaynick brought a protest md a denial, so Mr. VVaynick asked i few of his county directors to send lim names of any such droppings they night be familiar with. One county lirector sent him a list of about 50 lames of tenant farmers and landords where such had happened in he one county. Landlords are perrnitcd to fire one tenant farmer and 1 iJ-f nnntlinv anA t-Aw,r. ? w. , nu.u dVUlC 1J L UlCTaU ILltty >e of that nature, Mr. Waynick said Xe pointed out the money paid by he government for crop reduction ion templates using the lull number if tenant farmers on the reduced tcreage, and that it is so stated m he contract. This plan seeks to pre ent a flood of unemployed tenant armera, Mr. Waynick pointed out. Hatcherymen Organised A hatcherymen's association was irganized at Marion la3t week com>osed of hatcherymcn from Burke, fancey. Watauga, Mitchell, Rutherord, Cleveland, Polk, Caldwell, Henlerson, Avery, Buncombe and 'McDowell. S. L. Clme, Burke County, vas elected president and representaives from Cleveland, Avery, Caldwell ind McDowell are on the board of lirectors. This regional association vill handle all matters dealing with he new code for hatcherymen in that irea. Sale of Motor Vehicles Large The spurt ill motor vehicles made n the last quarter of 1933 is reflect d in the figures which show that on December 31. 1933, licenses issued in iJorth Carolina reached 405,269. as '.ompared with 374,604 three months earlier, October 31, and a fair inirease over the number issued a year >efoie, 393,730, to December 31, 1932, t is shown by the records in the ofice of L. S. Harris, director of the notor vehicle bureau. Passenger cars increased in numler from 324,666 at the end of 1932 o 327.816, or about 3,000, at the end if 1933, but the increase at the end if the year over the 305.613 regisered October 31, three months earier, was 22,203, which reflects the ast quarter spurt. The same ia true WATAOCA DRllOCKAT RVE! fflGHWAYDSn VIOLATING LAWS ASSEMBLY PASSE1 Public Works Coion'^sion iMilierftt ly Isnoros Statute in Order to 0. o some more than 50 per cent, of th total Federal allotment to this Stat Hope is expressed that contracts wi be let to utilize the entire amount 1 two or three months The emergency money is divide Into three classes, to be used on pr: niary. secondary and municipal high ways. Belief is that probably 80 pc cent, of the primary and secondar funds allotted have been utilized whll probably not more than 30 per ccn of the municipal funds have take up. This is due to two things firs that the commission wished to g< as many people to work as early a possible and the municipal project arc subject to too many delays, an second, that these delays have arise on the projects contemplated. | vii ir.e ??,uuu.uuu allotted tor mi lticfnal work in this Slate at least, million dollars of it is tied up in iai ger cites, six or eight of them coca'.if street car tracks:, telephone pole I sewer and water lines, and other troi I bles that have to he adjusted, Joh D. Waldrop, chief engineer, state These are being ironed out rapid] now, however, and the municipal pr< jects, many of them hi small town and for small amounts, will be und< way soon, he said. FA I.I, OAT CROP SEKIOUSI/V DAMAGED it* l'HE FHEE/. The recent cold weather has causa severe injury to the oat crop, consii erable damage to barley and son damage to the wheat crop. "Indications are that farmers wl depend upon oats or oat hay for feei lug their work stock during the sun mer will probably be short of hay says P. H. Kime, associate agrom mist at State College. "The ext.ci of the injury cannot be determine as yet and it is not advisable to pin up the oats and reseed them for tt present. Jr. may be that many fiek 1 will recover. It is advisable, howeve J to plant ar. additional acreage i once. Mr. Kime recommends seeding tl j Fulghum variety. Three or four bus] j els ol seed to the acre should be use he 3ays, since spring oats do not ti ler to the extent that fall-sown oni do. The quicker the spring oats ai 1 planted, the better the yields will b When lespedeza is planted over tl oat3, sow the seed after the oats ai drilled or harrowed in. D. H. Osborn of Canton was r< centty elected president of the Nor) Carolina Guernsey Breeders Associi tion. Reid Mendcnhall of High Poii was elected vice-president and T. I Antrim of Durham was re-elected i seeretai-y- treasurer. of trucks, which jumped from 6? 074 at the end of 1032 to 77,453 i the end of 1033. The number of true! registered at the end of the thii quarter of 1033 was 68,891, just 1 more than were registered during tl entire year of 1932. Guilford led in numbers of passei ger cars at the end of 1933, with 22 775 which was about <00 less tha the number at the end of 1932. Keel lenburg had 20,050 at the end of 19; which was also 1225 less than thi county had a year before. Foreyl had 15,480, 200 leas than a year agi Wake had 13,400, or 850 more ths a year ago, and Buncombe had 15 900, just fifty more than a year b fore. Watauga County had 750 passeng< cars and 465 trucks at the end i 1933. as compared with 700 passengi cars and 500 trucks a year before ar 700 passenger cars and 450 true! three months before, October 31. These figures are obtained by mea uring and calculating in inches tl numbers of registration cards on fi in the office and are within half dozen of the actual numbers of cai registered. i ItY THURSDAY?BOONS. N. C. Directing Army I ie WASHINGTON . . . Abov? ai o- Generi&l Staff -n command of the icj under tho order of Postmaster Gone a j Fet>- 19th. No. 1, Brig-Gen: Oscar }3 mail operations with headquarters Fasten) division, Newark, N. J.; N< n division, Chicago; No. 4, Lieut.-r sentatives must go before the voters e! again, and one-third of the Senators find themselves facing the same ur 11 gent necessity, polities in its more n practical aspects becomes more an: more engrossing, d The Administration is lending r [_ helping hand to Us Democratic supporters in the Dower House. Natur ir ally, Mr. Roosevelt doesn't want tr y have any of his legislation defeated ( v.\ the Mouse. But likewise he doe.4 t. not want to throw any stumbling n blocks in the way of loyal Democrat t, ic members who feel that to vot< ^ with the AdminLst ration might endan ,s gor their chances of re-election u # their home districts So the word has ttinir flown the Raw iC Vote the way that wlil uo you tin s, most good with your constituent! l- next fail," is the message they haw n all received. Tht3 is expected to re s; suit in an apparently strong sent! Y ment among representatives for mor >- favorable action lr. regard to 'die sol s. diet's' bonus, for example. Member '-r from districts where the veterans vote is well organized will feel fre to vote for more liberal treatment o the ex-service men, first cautious! *11 making certain mat there are encug; id votes that will be cast on the othe 1- side so that their apparent deflectioi te will not result in anything the Pres ident doesn't like being done. That is merely one phase of prac tical polities, as it Is played In Wash i1" ington. It doesn't mean a thing ex , cept that the gentlemen in Congres v want to slay in Congress, and if the can get re-elected by making ever 'd class of voters in their respective dis w tricts think they have their interest le at heart, they will go the limit t is put that idea over. r(' To he sure, there are other consid " erations that actuate a high proper tion of members of Congress, and th le inference should not be drawn tha they are working for their own pocke j books all the time, and considerabi percentage of them. ,e New Party Proposed e_ On the other side of the politics ,e fence there are beginning to be hear -e more rumblings of an approach in, storm which may put the old Reput lican party completely out of the pic 0- ture and lay the foundation for i ^ new line-up. One of the most astut j. of Washington's political observer ,t has come out boldly for the forma I tion of a new party which he wouli la call "Constitutional Democrats," a opposed to the present Democrat! _ party, which he terms Socialist Dem I,- ocrats. it Probably neither the name nor th cs scheme will get far, and nobod; d thinks that Mr. Lawrence expects hi 18 plan to be adopted. But the attentio: le that is being pad! to the idea itsel: of trying to line up those who stf 1- believe in the rights of the individut as superior to the rights of the Stat< in in some form of effective oppositio <- to the tendency to regulate and cor w Lrui au aumui activities by a paiet it nal government, indicates the possi .h bility that a new "bloc" if not a net a; party may be built around a nucieu in of forward-looking Republicans an conservative Democrats, e- Cleveland and Bryan Those with long political memoric ;r are recalling what, happened to th of Democratic party in 1896, when i ?r was hopelessly split over Free Silve id and other Populist issues: so com ts pletely split that a powerful factioi headed by none other than Presiden 3- Cleveland, refused to follow the pai le ty"s candidate, Mr. Bryan, and pu le I their own "Gold Democrat" candidat a in the field to contest for the Presi rs dency. That marked the end of th old party control, and a high percen lying of the Mail e the flight officers making up the Armj*8 job of carrying the air-mail '?*.] PnrVv Thop took nvpr tlip tnh..rm Wrstovcr, in chorgr of Army Corps here; No. 2, Mnj. Byron Q. Jones, r>. 3, Col. Hcraec M. Hickman, Central 1. Henry M. Arnold, Pacific division. .iking on mail at Newark. t t Washington ! I tege of these who had called them-j i selves Democrats became adherents of j . the Republican party in the course of the next few years. . Now. these old-timers say. the Rei publican party is in the same fix. The "Old Guard" is completely discredit; ed. The public believes that too many i I men got rich because of their politi-, Jcal affiliations, or that too many rich! i I DIDN'T LIKE FUN AND F WAS ALWAYS IRRITABL NERVOUS. MY FIANCE C MY TROUBLE. INSISTED TAKE UP CAMELS. I ADOR TASTE. MY "NERVES"? All 'I Ll "1 :c~ ^3, ?:j \ \ fl?f| Chi! *! t announ Listen to the good ne i authorized distributoi 8 here at our store?all 1 i feeds for chickens, turl 8 calves, dogs, horses, steei C i- In taking on the Puri: that we are offering so: y better and more profitabl< 8 j lowest feeding cost. Thes q t_ makers?laboratory teste times like these it is mo: make every animal and We will be happy to se about Puiiiia Chows. D MULLINS a Boone, Noi I BEST PRICES PA] ^ |'| ' j FrofkabU U+df t? Im [_ ^HaRK'iiOf to frreetnt dltrasei pn e MARCH 1. 1034 men had the- say in the party's affairs. Any new political line-up must leave the "Old Guard" out completely. in the position that tne Gold Democrats were in forty years ago come next Presidential election. The opposition to the revolutionary g| program of the Administration, to be. effective. must be built on nevr lines that will admit anyone, whether he ? has previously called himself a Democrat. a Republican or a progressive independent. The name "Republican" wit! have to be discarded, these folks looking to Mid-West Those who feel that way and among j9 them are some who are always factors to bo reckoned with in national politics, ore looking away from the %X two coasts for leadership and trying to fin-J a figure in the middle west, somewhere between Pittsburgh and Denver, who can be put forward as a symbol around which to rally those who dislike the present drift of things. 'i Some of the names suggested and seriously discussed are those of Senator tbFollette cf Wisconsin and his brother. Governor 1-aFolIette of the same State: Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, and Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. To those who object to those names as having rather too radical a connotation, the names of Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas are offered. So far this is mo3tIy talk, but out of it may coine conclusions as to just what 3ort of leadership the people who prize the rights of the individual above the rights of the Government might be willing fo accept, and what sort of a program or statement of policy could be framed that would appeal to enough of that sort of people to start something moving toward the formation of a new political party. The oat crop of Caldwell County is reported killed and the wheat crop badly damaged by the recent freezes :&&&] ih, il CEMENTS ws, folks! We are now : of Purina Chows. They're ! those good Checkerboard teys, mules, hogs, cows, rs and sheep. na Line we sincerely feel mething which will do a a feeding job for you at the ;e feeds are proven money r! nnrl farm nrmrnJ ?J UV...UAU^U pVV^U "CtSlU 111 re important than ever to chicken on the place pay. rve you and tell you more rop in and see us. * i & CLAY rth Carolina ID FOR CHICKENS mr yettr pro- ^ tie* huiwm mrou lr??Wu