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UNEMPLOYMENT IS BEING |j
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Raleigh, Dec. 3.—As the smoke
of the 1930 political battle clears
way, the stage, all set for
appears, with the 193 C contest in
the offing. Included m the 1932
contests will be those for the U. b.
Senate, Goernorship, his lieutenant,
the attorney general, and others,
while the 1936 governorship race is
being to take form.
Senator Lee S. Overman has an
nounced his candidacy to succeed
himself. Former Governor Cameron
Morrison has announced his op
position. Robert R. Reynolds, Ashe
ville, and Frank D. Grist, coml ™ s ‘
sioner of labor and printing have
hinted at possible candidaces. Clyde
R Hoev, Shelby, often mentioned, is
saying nothing. Governor Morrisons
friends doubt that Senator Over
man will be a candidate, finally,
but think their man would have lit
tle trouble in defeating him on the
“new and younger blood idea.
Former Governor A. W. McLean,
it is generall understood, will support
the only other member of the JN.
C ex-Governor Club, despite splits in
the past. Other supporters of Sena
tor Simmons in the June primary
may or may not folow Governor
McLean. If Mr. Hoey enters the race,
which many doubt, he would cause
trouble, plenty of it.
While the 1932 Governors race
may be said to be in a statu quo
things are heading up for
race? Thomas C. (Tam) Bowie,
Jefferson, while not inclined toward
the Attorney Genera' office route,
will, under normal conditions be a
gubernatorial candidate in 1936, his
friends say. A. H. (Sandy) Graham,
of Hillsboro, is expected to keep his
contracts and friends by running for
Lieutenant Governor in 1932, with
his eye on the Governor’s chair in
1936. Judge T. L. Johnson, now of
Asheville, retired from the 1932
race with the apparent purpose of
entering the 1936 contest.
D. F. Giles and W. F. Wood, both
of Marion, and Mr. Graham are pros
pects for the Lieutenant Governor’s
race in 1932. With Mr. Bowie def
inietly out, the prospects for the
1932 Attorney General race include
I. M. Bailey, attorney for the N. C.
Corporation Commission; Charles
Ross, attorney for the N. C. High
way Commission, and Kenneth C.
Royall, Goldsboro. Doubt that Mr.
Royall will run is expressed, while
there is intimation that another un
named candidate will get in that
race. All of these contests have in
teresting possibilities.
Twenty-two highway construction
projects, involving about $1,500,000,
are included in the list on which
bids will be received at the State
Highway Department December 9,
John D. Waldrop, State highway
engineer, announces. These include
an aggregate of 25.5 miles of concrete,
11. miles of asphalt, 14.31 miles
of gravel surfacing, 21.13 miles of
grading and structures, 3.49 miles
of grading, structures and topsoil,
three bridges and structures on
one piece of road.
Nineteen of these projects are ap
proved for Federal Aid, estimates
being that half a million dollars or
more in Federal money will be
utilized on all except three, in Mar
tin, Tyrrell and Sampson counties.
The $500,000 county equalizing fund
and funds from the highway dis
tricts will be used to meet the
Federal Aid on the 19 projects.
Despite the fact that North Car
olina’s estimated 1930 tobacco crop
of 539,000,000 pounds is 40,000,000
pounds greater than the actual 1929
crop of 499,000,000 pounds, tobacco
sales at the end of October this
year were 6,000,000 pounds less
than at the same time last year, or
272,132,427 pounds this year as
compared with 378,175,860 pounds
last year, figures of the State Fed
eral cooperative crop reporting!
service shows.
The smaller sales this year, in
face of the larger estimated crop,
are taken to show a tendency of
the growers to keep the tobacco
off the market, in view of the low
er prices being received this year.
The average price this year is al
most exactly five cents a pound
lower than at the same time last
year, the 1930 average being
$14.92 a hundred pounds, as com
pared with $19.91 a hundred last
year. The figures show that slightly
more than half of the estimated
crop this year, 539,000,000 pounds,
or 272,000,000 pounds, had been
sold by the end of October.
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First steps toward organized relief
and coping with unemployment in
the State will be undertaken this
week, following the meeting in the
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of Governor Gardner’s Council on ;
Unemployment and Relief in North :
Carolina with Frank Bane, Washing
ton D. C., representing President <
Hoover’s Comittee on Unemploy- <
merit*
M. Eugene Newsom, Durham, re- <
cent president of Rotary Internation- (
al, is chairman of the council, with
Mrs W T. Bost, commissioner ot ■
public welfare, as vice-chairman, j
and 13 other citizens, leaders m ,
civic, labor, industrial, banking,
newspaper and other circles. :
“Immediate organization to meet
the many grave issues arising out of
this problem appears to me absolute
ly imperative at this time and is,
of course, in conformity with, the
President’s plans in this connection,
Governor Gardner wrote the mem
bers he named on the committee,
urging them “to cooperate to the
fullest degree in this effort to work
out a program in cooperation with
the Labor and Walfare Depart
ments, which will assist in organz
ing the State for the relief of
the distress in which large numbers
of our people now find themselves.
Tme Sophomore Class of N. C.
State Co lege has outlawed liquor
drinking in future by its members
through adoption Friday ot a reso
lution, presented by the class presi
dent, Milo Stroupe, star tackle ot
the college football team and for
mer member of the U. S. Marine
Corns, as follows;
“We, as the class of 1933 of
North Carolina State College, put
ourselves on record as outlawing
drinking liquor among the members
of our c’ass.” ...
The resolution was adopted with
out a dissenting vote, although it
was pointed out that only about
half of the 504 members of the c.ass
were present.
Josiah William Zailey, Democrat,
received 323,620 votes and George
M. Pritchard, Republican, received
210,547, a Bailey majority of‘ I J 3 *
073 in the race for Lnited States
Senate in last week’s election, semi
official figures compiled by Secre
tary of State J. A. Hartness show.
Mr. Bailey’s majority exceeded that
of anv candidate running for office
in this State, the next highest hav
incr been that of Senator F. M. Sim
mons, 111,000 over A. A. Whitener,
in 1924. Votes for both Mr. Bailey j
and Mr. Pritchard were the largest
ever cast in an “of year , but both j
Governor Gardner and his Republi- ■
can opponent, H. F. Seawell, re-j
ceived more votes in 1928. # i
Mr. Bailey carried 89 counties, j
and Mr. Pritchard 11, or six more (
than elected Republican represents- .
tives to the General Assembly.
Apparently the three amendments, (
one providing for classification of j
property for taxation, another pi o
viding for seven instead of five
justices of the Supreme Court, and
the third providing for separating
the Superior Court judicial and
solicitorial districts, were voted
down Apparently, also, the referen
dum for authorizing a second bond
issue of $2,000,000 for the Veterans
Loan Fund was carried, reports
from about 75 of the counties giving
it a majority of about 45,000.
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Purging more carefully the lists
of Confederate veterans, widows
and colored servants, pensioners of
the State as result of the War be
tween the States, in the 100
counties will probably result from
the disclosures and charges against
Mason W. Gant, clerk of Superior
Court of Guilford county, in the
distribution of pension checks.
Distribution of these funds is in
the hands of the State Board of
Pensions, composed of the Governor,
the Auditor and the Attorney
General, the Auditor being desig
nated more particularly as distribu
tor. Each county has a county
board, composed of Confederate
veterans or sons or daughters ol
veterans for one or two of the
places, which is directed to meet
annually and purge the lists. Often
this is merely a matter of form,
detai’s being handled by the Clerk
of the court.
The General Assembly approp
riated $1,200,000 for such pensions
for the fiscal year 1929-30 and,
on the assumption that several
veterans would die reduced the
amount to $1,035,000 for the fiscal
year 1930-31. The actual number
of veterans Living now is around
1,700, an average of about 17 to
the county, while the widows
number three or four times as
many.
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General fund revenues collected
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FIGHT
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C
for the State during the first four
months of the present fiscal year,
ending October 31, amounted to
$5,004,957.09, an increase of $32,-
466.56 ov'ir the $4,972,490.53
collected for the same period last
year, the report of A. J. Maxwell,
commissioner of revenues, shows.
The gain the past month more than
offset a loss for the month of
September, as compared with last
year. .
Automobile tax collections, on the
other hand, amounted to $4,722,-
653.31 for the first four months
of the fiscal year, a decrease of
$440,337.91 from the $5,162,991.22
collected in the same period last
plates and title fees all showed
year. Gasoline consumption license
a decrease this year. Fees from the
sale of license plates for all of
1930 to October 31 amount to
$6,689,121.37, as compared with
$6,824,769.71 to this date for
1929, a decrease of $135,684.34.
License taxes decrease about
$52,000 and franchise taxes about
$19,000 while inheritance taxes in
creased about $66,000 and income
taxes about 38,000 the first four
months of this year, as compared
with the same period last year.
Stockholders in the defunct
Raleigh Banking and Trust Co.,
numbering 60, and owning the
2,000 shares, 'have been notified
by the N. C. Corporation Commis
sion of a 100 per cent assessment
of the $200,000 capital stock,
payable November 10, for the
benefit of preferred creditors and
depositors. The Page Trust Co. has
taken over and is liquidating the
assets. W. B. Drake, president,
owned 783 sihares and his broth
er, J. C. Drake, of Drake, S. C.,
owned 110 shares, Walter Durham
owned 106 shares.
A school for the 100 county tax
supervisors is to be held in Raleigh
early in December, conducted under
auspices of the State Board of As
sessment, to aquaint them with their
duties and instruct them in methods
of handling the new quadrienial as
sessment on real estate, the board
announces. The tax supervisors lor
each county will then be required
to conduct similiar schools for their
township assessors and listers.
In addition, the State Board is
preparing a uniform blank on which
tax returns by individuals are to be
made in all *of the 100 counties
and is laying down regulations to
provide for more equitable and
even valuation as between counties.
This is one of the objects for
which N. C. Tax Relief Association
has been contending. Government
experts are to be in charge of the
j school and will furnish the instruc
, tion.
j Although Chairman R. A. Dough
j ton, of the State Highway Com
, mission, does not look with favor at
i the proposal to increase the gaso
-1 line tax from five to six cents a
j gallon, he is frank to admit that
;he can see how no other way by
i which the commission could take
, over the 45,000 miles of highways
j in the 100 county systems and main
tain them, thus taking this burden
Modernistic Cushions
Os course if you are giving cushions
this Christmas, they must bespeak the
modernistic, for modernistic is the
word for things decorative this sea
son. The two in the picture are the
“last word” in cushiondom. The top
one Is of felt with appliques of felt
giving a vivid splash of color. The
large hand-embroidered black satin
cube shape is a floor cushion and pro
vides an inviting resting place for
milady’s dainty slippered foot.
JUST A BACK HANDER
from property taxes.
The last General Assembly added -
one cent on the gasoline tax, which
brings in about $2,500,000, and
appropriated $500,000 additional, the
$3,000,000 going to the counties to
maintain roads or pay off road
bonds. If another cent should be
added and another $500,000 allotted
to the counties, the $6,000,000 would
be sufficient to maintain the 45,
000 miles of county roads at their
present standard and at about 75
per cent of the present cost, Chair
man Doughton thinks this would en
able the State commission to main
tain all of the roads and take all of
the cost from the counties, except
administration costs, but it will meet
with strenuous opposition from auto
mobile owners who would pay the
shifted tax.
The one-cent sale is an effec
tive means for persuading a cus
tomer to buy twice as much as
he wants of something that he does
not need.
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THE POWER OF
THE STATE
(From The Hamlet News-Messenger)
That a proposal to extend
the power of the Federal
government to enforce laws
against gangsters, racketeer
ing and other crimes does not
have weight in government
circles was made clear by
President Hoover in a recent
formal statement. In the state
ment he said: “Such action
would be a reflection on the
soverignty and stamina of the
states. Every single state has’
laws to cover such criminality.
What we need is a more wide
spread awakening to the fail
ure of local governments to
protect their citizens from
murder and corruption.”
President Hoover said ex
actly what Thomas Jefferson
would have said under similar
circumstances. He said what
John Marshall would have
said, and what Abraham Lin
coln would have said, and also
what Wm. McKinley, Wood
row Wilson and Grover Cleve
land would have said. It is
not a political matter, it strikes
of the Constitution and of
our Union of States.
Under our system and form
of government all enforcement
of police regulations or what
is known in law as police
power is left to the states,
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with outstanding exceptions.
Crimes and offenses against in
terstate business and all con
stitutional violations, concern
ing mails and other functions
of the Federal government are
necessarily and naturally with
in the scope of government
administrations. The Eight
teenth Amendment is another
example of the Federal Gov
ernment’s cognizance of police
power enforcement. Thus, in
cooperation with the States or
with certain of the States, the
Federal government dose act
ualy control or does attempt to
to control a . traffic indepen
dently of the theory of the
theory of the reservation of
the police power to the States.
But the exceptions prove the
rule. The moment that the
Federal Government goes into
the enforcing business of mat
ters concerning the soverignty
of the States, the States are no
more States but arbitrary and
artificial units of a centralized
Federal Government. Mr. Hoo
ver, tho an engineer, is smart
enough to see this. His firm
denial of any considerations
look toward the encroachment
of the United States govern
ment upon the powers of the
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Pittsboro, N. C.
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various States is timely ...
consistent, and is a recovnit;.
of the fundamental stru c w
of our government. Until such
time as the people 0 f th
United States change both th
spirit and the letter of th«
Federal Constitution, the Gov
ernment must keep hands off
of those functions rightly am >
constitutionally guaranteed to
the States. One of the quickest
ways to “save the Union” is to
safeguard those rights that
make the Union possible.
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