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WAYNICK NAMED
CHAIRMAN N.C.
HIGHWAY BOARD
High Point Newspaper Man Succeeds
E. 15. Jeffreys to Important Post.
Commission to Name Assistant at
January Mooting. Governor Pays
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News from the State Capital.
By M. R DU N N AG AN
i Special Correspondent)
Kaieigh. N. C.?Capus M. Waynick,
assistant chairman of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission,
was named full chairman Saturday,
taking the place of Chairman K. B.
Jeffress, resigned, who was stricken
in August. Mr. Jeffress has made a
remarkable recovery so far. but his
condition was such that he was not
expected to be able to resume his duties,
certainly for a long time. He was
kept as chairman for more than four
months since he was stricken, receiving
his full salary. It is understood
that he carried health and accident
insurance which is now paying him
a good sum. approaching, but probably
not as much as his salary.
The commission, meeting January
10, is expected at that time to name
an assistant chairman in order to be
prepared in case accident or misfortune
should befall the chairman at
<11 iv uiuc. niw wuuiU pro viae a man
familiar with the work and ready to
take over the job if it should become
necessary. The commission is also expected
to name a State highway engineer
to succeed the late John D.
Waldrop. killed in an accident nearly
five months ago. VV. Vance Basse. assistant,
has been acting engineer and
is considered a likely successor. R. G
Browning, locating and claim engineer,
and Jack Roach, in charge of
the prison division, as well as Charles
Upham, former engineer, now secretary
of the American Road Builders
Association, are applicants for the
job.
Governor Ehringhaus visited Mr.
Jeffress last Friday and talked with
him on highway matters. he was
lighted and surprised at the recovery
made by the highway chairman, wbc
had asked to see the Governor It
was then that he tendered his resignation
to the Governor.
Governor Ehringhaus visited Mr
Jeffress last Friday and talked with
him of highway matters. Ho was
delighted and surprised at the recovery
made bv the niehw&v fhair.
man, who had asked to see the Governor.
It \%as then that ne tendered
his resignation to the Governor.
HOOD PLAYS SANTA CIAliS
Commissioner of Banks Gurney P.
I-Tood played Santa Claus to 14,833
.North Carolinians by sending them
checks for 5237,836.37 on claims from
27 banks in liquidation during the
week of December 20-27 Banking department
folks took only a short time
off Christmas in their efforts to get
as much money to former depositors
a3 possible for Christmas.
STATE WINS TAX SUIT
North Carolina .von its income tax
action with the Norfolk and Western
Railway Company for 5S6,421.71 in
income tax and Interest for the three
yeare, 1927-28-29. in an order just
signed by oudge Henry A. Grady. The
railroad gave notice of appeal to the
State Supreme Court. The railroad
claimed that it owed no income tax
for those years. Commissioner of Revenue
A. J. Maxwell followed the formula
fixed by the revenue act for
computing taxabie incomes of corporations
having part of their business
in this State and port in others, found
the railroad was due to pay a little
more than 525.000 each of the three
years, levied and collected the tax.
The railroad paid it under protest,
demanded its return and instituted
suit for its return. The railroad has
three lines in this State, the two main
ones being those from Roanoke, V*x,
to Winston-Salem, and from Durham
to Lynchburg. Va.
FERTILIZER MAY BE CUT
Reductions in the prices of fertilizers
used by North Carolinians, who
consume about one-seventh of the.
commercial fertilizer used in the na
tuon, is tne aim of a movement made
last week by Governor Eminghaus. A
hearing is to be held ip Washington
January 9 by the NRA which will receive
testimony for or against the
price fixing feature of all codes and
with regard to alleged excessive prices.
Governor Ehringl'aus has conferred
with Washington officials and
has asked Commissioner of Agriculture
William A. Graham to compile
data in fertilizer prices to be presented
at the hearing. Governor Ehringhaus
cites that the 1934 prices of fer(tilizer
were considerably higher than
1933 prices and is seeking to bring
cut information which will show any
unreasonableness of this increase in
price He is familiar with the practices
in the potato belt, by which
the fertilizer folks get all of their
money out of. the sales of potatoes
through crop iien3, even thouglfXIis
grower gets little more than what
HUSKY THROATS
Overtaxed by ,
speaking,sing- \
log, smoking \ c
Got the Homesteads
Allen (above), the homestead lead|
er who hitch-hiked to Washington
and stormed capital door9 last year,
I will head the caravan of 20 families,
49 adults and 55 childron,
vrhich starts January 10 for the
640 acre tract awarded as homesteads
in Minnesota by the Emergency
Relief As?*jw
J fertilizer cost. The same thing is often
i true of growers of tobacco, cotton,
! corn, wheat and ether North Caro-1
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DRY LAW IN NO DANGER
The Turhrigton%act. North Caro|
Una's bone dry liquor law. is not ex- .
jpected to be changed by the 1935 j
i General Assembly, in face of the over-1
Iwhelmingly heavy dry vote a little;
j more than a year ago. Bills will proh-1
I ably be introduced to repeal or modify j
: it, but they are not expected to get;
anywhere However, it may be that j
the beer-wine law may be changed to!
allow a higher alcoholic content than \
the 3.2 per cent. Efforts may be made
j to increase it to 5 or 6 per cent. Some
iof these might get through, on the
beep is not sufficient
' I and causes much drinking of illegal)
?; blockade liquor ir. the State, as well
:|as the also illegal liquor bought in
| Virginia. Also, it is claimed that many
iof the places now selling beer will J
. not renew their licenses another year, j
i j thus cutting down the revenue from |
{ this source, since these places are not j
able to sell enough to make a profit
after paying the taxes. The revenue
from beer license and consumption
i amounts to about $400,000 a year
now. A larger per cent of alcohol
[would increase consumption and cut
down the use of harder liquors from
bootleggers or from other states, on
which this State gets no revenue, it
is contended by those who would increase
the alcoholic content.
DEEP GAP NEWS
Married on December 22nd, Miss
Delia Mae Miller or Brownwood to
Mr. Paul Greene of Deep Gap.
Mr. Tra Day of Reading, Pa., vis
jiteu ias a{;oi motner miring tne lioliidays.
He holds h position with the
|R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in
j that city.
Mr. Willard Lookahill left recently
for points in Maryland, where he will
j seek employment.
Christmas passed off very quietly
I at the Gap. Rabbit hunting took the
I order of the day. Mr. A. A. Greene
I amused the community with his pack
jof hounds when they aroused Mr.
Gray Fox and gave him a not chase
I for about two hours. Old Mr. Gray
j fox had to take for a log.
Miss Sarah Morris of Boone Route
II spem the holidays visiting her aged
1 aunt, Mrs. Martha Watson, and her
brother. Clay Morris.
Miss Pearl Carroll, who spent several
months in Reading, Pa., has returned
to her home.
A nice Christmas program was given
at the Gap Creek Church last
week. Santa Claus distributed toys
and sweets to the great enjoyment
of the children.
IMPROVEMENTS ON CAI'lTOI.
i SOU ARE ABOUT fOilPLCTf.n
Raleigh, N. C?Finishing touches1
! have finally been put on the iir.prove!
rnents under way or. Capitol Square
lor several months, as a CWA and
FERA project, and the six-acre tract
has beer, turned over to Superintend- '
ent W. D. Terry and Mother Nature
to put on the finishing touches. Recent
work has been setting out shrubbery
and sowing grass seed, and with- '
in a few months, when Mother Nature
has had opportunity to get in
a few licks, the place will be beautiful
beyond description. The Memorial
Mall was completed some six years
ago, but the recent work has included
tunneling for heating and other
purposes, erecting fountains, building
the Vance Plaza, laj'ing walks and
driveways and otherwise carrying out
the plans drawn for fhe square under
direction of Governor A. W. Mcl^ean
The permanentjSIanting plan, us provided
in the plans, is to be followed
in detail for years to come, and the
square will be a beauty spot of the
State. Flood lights have been playing
on the beautiful old building during
the holiday season.
The cheese factory at Not ch Wilkesboro
has increased the prices paid for
milk with a corresponding increase in
deliveries at the plant.
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WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVERY
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ECONOMY ... in North Carolina
The Governor of North Carolina
talked in New York the other day
about, economy in State government.
He had a right to talk about that,
for North Carolina has been tightening
its belt and cutting its expenditures
to meet its income.
There is not a State that couldn't
cut its running coats by one-third, as
North Carolina has done, not a county
that couldn't dispense with many
expenditures which benefit nobody
but taxpayers. And there isn't a single
political unit in the United States
that couldn't balance its budget without
hardship on the taxpayers?if the
politicians in control really desired to
serve the people instead of feeding
on them.
If we ever have a revolution in
America it will be over the question
of taxes, just as our Revolution
against British rule was.
TAXES ... on sales
One of the things North Carolina I
did to balance its budget was to enact |
a sales tax. New York City has lately
put a sales tax into effect. Greatly to
the surprise of politicians, who predicted
uprisings, the public takes to
tire sales tax like a duck to water.
Politicians are governed more by
fear of what the voters may do to
tbrni than by any other motive. They
are always afraid that people who
know they are being taxed will vote
them out of office.
ft has been rcy observation that
nobody objects to fair taxes honestly
collected and honestly expended for
proper public purposes. We object to
paying taxes and getting nothing for
them.
What the politicians really fear
about the sales tax is that they can''
increase it as fast as their desire to
waste money grows.
REPRESENTATION* . . . missing
1 often have disagreed with Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, but I find myself
in fuil agreement with him when
he challenges the "superstition that
tile people are truly and fuliy represented
by elected public officials."
The direct primary, which was intended
to give free expression to the
popular will in the selection cf candidates
for office, has had, he points
out. the opposite effect. It has permanently
enthroned minority rule,
leaving public opinion to shift, for itself."
I also agree with Dr. Butier that
there i3 no excuse for letting immature
students undertake comparative
studies of despotism, democracy, republicanism,
communism, nazisni or
fascism Most of Lhe wrongheaded political
and social thinking today emanates
from young academicians who
are not drv behind the ears.
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RELIGION' ... in schools
When the Protestant churches gave
up their function of teaching, and
yielded to the temptation to let the
State support the schools, they sowed
the seeds cf irreligion and paganism.
In my youth, religious instruction
was an essential part of public school
education. Even through-high school,
the daily Bible reading and hymn- j
singing were a part of the curriculum.
I don't know how generally that
has lu-pn abandoned* hot T bnnw the',
in the schools which millions of Amer- |
ican children attend today there is no j
hint of religious training or moral
guidance.
Only the Roman Catholic parochial
schools and the private schools main
tajncd under other church auspices
Seem to be concerned these days alrout
the morals of youth. The oldest of
all these schools in America, founded
more than three hundred years
ago, happens to be under the control
of the church to which I belong. I
think it is the best thing we do!
YOUTH . . . the neivs staff
I went the other night to the semiannu.il
flinnhr r?f
??v >.>nuiiaiia. J. L3
membership is limited to men who
worked on any New York newspaper
thirty or more years ago I was one
of the youngest present, according to
the calendar, but what struck me was
the youthful spirit of everybody there.
Men well along in their seventies,
some past eighty, most still active
in newspaper work and looking for- j
ward instead of backward.
One man past eighty told me he
was about to sail for Madagascar; j
there was a good story there, he had
been told. One young fellow of 77 has
just written a dozen western adventure
stories for a popular magazine.
I know of no occupation that keeps
men so young and compels them to j
keep abreast of the times like news- j
paper work.
TKIk> TO THE MOOST
How the Karth looke from Other
Worlds. An intensely interesting article,
profusely illustrated, bj Prof.
Lucien Kudau.v, distinguished astronomer.
One of many features in The
American Weekly, issue of January
fi. Get this magazine regularly with
the Baltimore Sunday American. On
sale by your favorite newsdealer or
newsboy.
THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C.
Egg for Freedom
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HOLLYWOOD . . s When the
National Inventor's Congress
meets here in January the dele*
gates will get to see Biddy Hen
doing her stuff . . . namely, "getting
her freedom by laying an
?*gg." The trick nest has a trap
door which is opened when the egg
roll3 down to the basket below. The
rooster is Master of Ceremonies.
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HIGH GRADE BEEF CATTLE MA
| BE BROUGHT FROM THE WES
College Station, Raleigh, N. C. T
opportunity of bringing high gra<
j beer cattle into North Carolina fro
the mid-west has appealed to nuroe
ous farmers and dairymen of tl
State, says L. I. Case, animal hu
bandman at State College.
Due to the feed shortage In tl
[drouth area, he explained, the eatt!
j men are anxious to sell their catt
jat sacrifice prices rather than buy e
iplOnsive feed for the winter.
Case is working on a plan wher
J by North Carolinians can pool the
1 orders for cattle and get quanti
i! i [ > i: i v nat ct tuitoivitVumii ouVai
'under ihc usual expense.
To further explain the details
! the plan. Case will hold three met
i :ngs this week, Last week a lur
j number of growers from Western
C. attended a meeting in the coui
house at Sylva and showed a grc
I deal of interest in the movement. 3
I reported.
| The first meeting this week will
lin the courthouse at Rockingham
j 1:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Ca
! has issued an invitation to farme
lot the surrounding territory to atlci
the meeting, particularly farmers
Richmond, Anson. Cumberland, Ha
inett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moo?
inuiiuoipn, kodosou, Scotland, Stanl
and Union counties.
Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock 1
will explain the plan at a meeting
the courthouse at Newton for farr
crs from Alexander, Burke, Cafca
rus, Caldwell, Catawba, Clevelan
Gaston, Iredell, McDowell, Meckle
burg. Polk, Rowan, and Rutherfo
counties.
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I To Meet in Greensboro
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The State Sunday School Conveni
tion. sponsored by North Carolina
j Sunday School Association. Rev. Shu!
ford Peeler. Genera! Secretary, to be
i held in Elie Fiiut Presbyterian Church
i in Greensboro en January 21-22-23.
| promises to be the moset outstanding
event in religious education in this
State and a fitting start for a great
year. All denominations will participate
in this meeting.
Amorig Internationally known men
who appear 0:1 the program are Dr.
Robert M. Hopkins of the World's S.
S. Association: Di. Charles L. Goodel),
of the Federated Council of
Cnurches of Christ in America: Harry
C. Munro. of the International
Council of Religious Education; and
Prof. H. Augustine Smith of Boston
University.
Dr. Goodeil. of wide fame through
his "Vesper Reveries" broadcast front
New York City, and outstanding leader
in Church School work, particularly
along the tines of evangelism,
is scheduled to bring messages on
"Church Social Evangelism" and "Religious
Education in the Home," as
well as assisting in various other capacities.
Dr. Hopkins brings a wealth of
knowledge from first-hand contacts
with the Sunday School movement
in many countries of the world. His
messages will be on "The World Outreach
of the S. S. Movement," and
~ "Principles Underlying Religious Edy
titration."
;T Leaders are anticipating 1,500 delegates
to this convention. Those ex
pecting to attend are urged to regis0
ter now and be assured of securing
110 rooms and entertainment,
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he j Long sought cures for many hu-s
| man afflictions may be found in dead
ty snaKe venom, science believes. Head
tie about this unusual discovery in Tlse
e- American Weekly (issue of January
le 6) which comes with the Baltimore
x- Sunday American. Oil sale by your
favorite newsdealer or newsboy.
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r- peal out our sincere preeth
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3', their loyal support which
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tending greetings to the man
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and sound ha nlfinrr
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JANUARY 3. 1935
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1 Once Again
Once again we come
to the starting line of
a new year. And once
again we are happy
to greet our friends
and patrons with a
joyful "Happy New
Year!" Once again
we thank our loyal
friends for their pat- |
ronage. We hope our
service will merit
their natronacre thru
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i all feel with the turning
>f the new year, the bells
ngs to all our friends* and
Year." We thank ali for
we shall strive to merit
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