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OUB RALEIGH LETTER ?
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Raleigh. Jan. SO'The capital city
entertained an unusual number ot
conventions during the week, heard
Wilbur Evans, Philadelphia's young
baae.barltone, In hie first public con
cert alnce he stopped Into prominence
by winning the Atwater Kent Foun. I
dationa audition conteat a little while'
age, recelred announcement of the!
propoeed visit of Senator James A. I
Keed, of Missouri, on Marefa 17th toj
'address the State Convention of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
and experienced a destructive wind
and rain storm which smashed win.
dows In,-demolished garages, uprooted
[ f'troes, blew telephone poles down. up.
set chimneys and left an areoplane
hanging in some telephone wires.
The State's business Governor is
still playing the part, his latest more
being an effort to stimulate the de
mands for State bonds with the view
to plaeing about $86.000,000 author,
ised by the last General Assembly.
A succinct statement containing a
summary and analysis of the financial
condition of the State has been put
in pamphlet form and being distrl.
buted to banking and bond firms all
over the country. This Is expected
to produce the demand for 8tate aw.
curities by removing all doubts from
the minds of investors.
Will Taylor, Gaston county negro,
convicted of first degree burglary and
sentenced to the electric chair has re.
ceived commutation to- life imprison
ment, the change of sentence being
made by the Governor on recommends,
tkn of Pardon Commissioner Bridges,
the trial judge and jury and scores
of people in that section ot the State.
The Governor also recently gave free,
dom to three violators of the liquor
laws upon recommendation of Mr.
Bridges and the trial judges.
Capitol square and the area occu.
pied by State buildings will be beau,
tided according to plans to be sub-1
mltted by a firm of landscape srtlsts 1
employed by Governor McLean who
plans for a larger area to be used to
guide fuftre additions of State build,
ftrigs or improvements of old ones and
surveyers are at work on the Square.
Their recommendations are to be sub
mitted- to ths State Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds for ap.
proval after which local contractors
?will be employed to carry out the
plans probably entailing a re-arrange,
menl of shrubbery and some memor.
. .
It ts said that Governor McLean
will soon appoint a committee to pass
on applications for admission into the
State's penal and correctional insti
tutions with the view of placing each]]
[applicant in the proper Institution.
This committee would also codtfy tbrf |
laws governing each institution and
define the duties as between the coun
ties and State in handling these
Governor McLean haa been asked to
introduce Senator Reed when he
comes to address the Daughters of thej
American Revolution on March 27th.
That it costs big money to operate
a great State like North Carolina la
observed in reports of expenditures
during the month ot nw?mh>r aggre
gating the huge sum of more than
two and one-half million dollars, the
bulk of which was for pensions to
Confederate Veterans and their wld.
ows. This heavd drain on the general
fund of the Stat^hanged a cash bal.
ance on December 1, 1927, of $987,013
to an overdraft on January 1, 1928, of
$776,012. But the highway and other
special funds grew from a balance of
$13,000,000 to sixteen and one-half mil
lion during December. However, the
general fund is expected to show a
distinctly favorable condition right
along now since income taxes have be.
gun to pour in at a rather rapid rate.
Revenue Department officials are or
ganizing for the usual drive of field J
men and the Commissioner urges
early payments to avoid the usual
rush near the final date for filing.
These taxes are on income earned
during the calendar year of 1927 and
must be paid on or before the 16th
of March.
President E. C. Brooks of State Col.
lege Is at Battle Creek .Sanitarlam
after a breakdown suffered during
and Immediately following the Christ,
mas holidays and the faculty council
is Iv. charge of the administration of
the affairs of the institution. Doctor
Brooks is a victim of over.work and
his return to active duties is indefi
nite, according to reports of his phy.
Rlcian who advised an extended rest
at the Michigan sanitarlam. Dr. W.
C. Riddles, lamer president of the
College, is chairman of the faculty
council which Is composed of deans
and directors of extension depart,
ments. Dr. G .W. Foster, a member
of the facnlty, is one of the number ot
college officials of the State who are
'to aid the State Tax Commission in
its survey to determine the part of the
tax burden resting upon the farmers
Cite
(Best Treated
' Externally
That** why modern mother*
prefer Vick??it cannot upset
delicate stomach*. Rubbed on
throat and cheat, it acts two
inn* at once:
(1) Ita healing vapors, re
leased by the body heat, are in
haled direct to the air passages;
(2) It "draws out" the soreness
like an old-fashioned poultice.
Mls&Hlt
of the State. The Commission, which)
Is said to have completed a survey:
of the State, la expected to recommend
the ratification of a constitutional
amendment to permit a lower tan an
tnglblta, which would be pass*!
upon by the people at the general
election next November.
I The board of directors of the In.
dustrlal Farm Colony for Women cre
ated by the General Assembly have
I the backing of Governor McLean In
[making a beginning and due to the
small contract and the difficulty in
getting enough .laborers to go ahead
with the construction work of a Are.
proof building to cost around $60,000,
on the 600.acre site near Kinston,
have decided to ask fpr convict labor
to be used in construction work. In
a recent conference with the dlrec.
tors the Governor promised that main,
tenance would be provided for out of
the State's emergency and contingency
fund. Tentative plans call for an
expenditure of $64,005 on the build. I'
ing with two stories and basement. I
The expected election of Dr. Cyrus
Thompson, secretary of state daring
the fusion regime, as the successor
of the late Dr. J. Howell Way former'
president of the State Board of Health
did not materialise. Instead the Board |
In call session here daring the week
named as Its new president Dr. A.
J. Crowell of Charlotte, without even
a contest Dr. Crowell will fill out
the unexpired term of Doctor Way
which would have terminated In April,
1929. The Board also adopted a re.
solution asking for the re-enactment
by Congress of the Sheppard-Towner
Maternity and Infancy Act. The Board
finds that, with one exception, deaths
from tuberculosis In all its various
forms were fewer In' 1927 than they
have been in ? any one of the, past six
years, with indications that the death
rate from this cause will be the low.
est in the history of the State, the
number last year being 2,650 against
2,769 in 1926. The circulation of the
Health "Bulletin continues to grow and ]
over a million pieces of literature werd
distributed last year, It Is said. The
moving picture unit. of the depart,
ment la being widely aged In addition
to other educational featuree of health
promotion. Of the 2&MM achool
children examined last year diseased
throate and deoaylng teeth claimed
a total of 47,961. and 1,162 operation*
were performed at the ton*11 and ad.
enold clinics. Secretary Laughing
bouie and Dr. 0. N. Slek, of the Da.
partment have been on a tour of Ala.
bama, Tennenee, and Ohio lnipeotlnc
the work which le being done In thoee
states Wy the International - Health
Board
Secretary of Btate W. N. Everett
(Continued on page ten)
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