The Journal -Patriot
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MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1933
‘Negative Side Scores
The observation is made that in the tri-
I angular debates for the high schools of
(Wilkesboro,' Elkin and Mount, Airy ten
days ago, the youthful debaters upholding
the negative side of the*qufery won the de-
1 cision in each instance. The query was:
“Resolved, That North Carolina should
adopt the sales tax as a feature of the
state system of revenue.”^
Whether the personal opinion of the
judges—and it is easy for most of us to
consider that which we believe strongly as
more logical than what we do not believe
—had anything to do with the results or
! whether the negative teams were just bet
ter speakers and presented their argu
ments more forceably is a matter of con
jecture.
Most of the affirmative teams chose to
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MONDAY, APRIL 10,
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The Dawn Must Come
By way of the Cleveland Star comes an i advocate the luxury Sales tax and shied
inspiring thought from the Chicago Daily j away from a general sales tax in their ef-
News which was reproduced in the Editor | forts to build up a logical debate. The
and Publisher. I negative teams were “loaded” for them on
It is true, if we may add our own com-1 either question and it is not surprising
ment, that darkness follows the brilliance I that victory was theirs,
of the evening sun. It is also true that the } Neither the general sales tax nor the
darkest hour is just before dawn. Further-' luxury sales tax has much to commend it.
more, it is true that nothing can hold back I Affirmative teams declared that they
the dawn, not even the darkness of early were advocating a tax on luxuries and
morning. i seemed to define luxuries as being the
Those are facts which no one contra-! things not absolutely necessary to one s
diets. But to get back to the article men-, well-being. That was a weakness in theii
* tioned in the opening paragraph, we note I armor which the negative champions
that a list of those commended for bravery i pounced upon with a vim and vigor that
is given. The patriots, those guardian | would do credit to real warriors. True
angels of the.right and of faith are to be j enough, they declared, that we can do
found all around us. It is they who have
never doubted that the “never-ending
cycle of night to day persists and that
nothing can hold back the dawn.”
Let us Ipok at the list of those the Daily
News commends for bravery:
—the cop who shot it out with armed
bandits and took his share of load at
$165 a month that he didn’t get.
—the juror who stood by his convictions
in spite of threats
—the school teacher who uttered her same
old cheerful “Good morning, children,”
without her breakfast.
without going to the show, .smoking a
cigarette, eating candy and other things
of that kind. But should we take that
course where would the much-needed
revenue that they (the affirmative) seek
from that .source come from? Besides
there are 'many things, such as electric
lights, running water, bath tubs and .steam
heat, which can be done -without but they
like thq things mentioned as luxuries tend
to elevate the .standard of living and add
to the sum total of happiness in the
world.
We only hope that our legislators take
the man w'ho di.sregarded all advice and j of f},e arguments against a sales tax
kept his property in his own name g^d save us from that burdensome form
^the man who stuck to of taxation.
—the banker who protected his depositors |
—the dairyman who didn’t water the
Reforestation
The good that will ultimately result
from the reforestation program, inaugu
rated by Pre.sident Roosevelt for the re
milk
—^the manufacturer and the merchant
who refused to cut the quality and in
spite of “hell and high -water” kept
their flags flying , -ir ..
J , . , , , . . . lief of unemployment is not known. Yet
—and last, but most important, the! f .
patriot who has kept his faith in God! government money must be spent in re-
and America. ' lief projects—and it .seems necessary—
The dawn mu.st come. It is coming. | we doubt that Mr. Roosevelt could have.
The only cjiiestion is whether we shall be' found a project which would place more
on the job and arise to meet it.
The Weather
It is a con-imon saying that the Winters
are getting milder and the summers hot- i century,
ter. Now comes along the United States
weather bureau, which has been studying
the weather conditions directly for more
than sixty years and by reference to old
records for more than r hundred years |
back, and confirms the belief that the pa.st I
few year.-- have been exceptionally mild. ^
Since 1903 the United States, especial- j
ly that part of it ea.st of the Rockies, ha.s I
.been enjoying the longe.-t "warm siiell ' in j
history. The average a.nnual temperature j
has been .-teadily rising for twenty-live |
years. Perhaps it has begun to change. |
The Winter just passed was not as mild |
a.s the last one. which was the mildest in j
a century. If we have a cool spring, weath- i
er sharps say, we may look forward to a
cooler Autumn. I
Just after the war of 1812 there was a I
long warm spell, la.sting more than ten
of the money into the hands of the laborer
at so little overhead expense.
Our fore.sts are not inexhau.stible as we
have .-seemed to think during the pa.st half
At the rate of destruction dur
ing the past ,30 years, it wmuld not have
I been long until the timber supply wmuld
: be wiped out.
I It is very probable that in years to
I come, Pre.sident Roosevelt’s reforestation
I program will be looked back upon as one
I of his most forward-looking .steps.
Borrowed Comment
THIS IlKroKKST-XTION HIM. >I.\I)K FUK
NOHTII CAIHMIMVA
Times)
The rapiiliiy with which President Roosevelt
shoots bills of the utmost magnitude to congress,
to have them come back to him for his signature,
is utterly bewildering. Xobody ca,n keep track of
tUom—members of congre.sa, probably, least of all.
They, at least, have learned to sign on the dotted
line.
The latest of these great measures, however,
vitally affects North Carolina, if the state can get
its just allotment and if it is given the considera-
, I ns jiisi aiiuimeiii aiiu ii ii it* giyt-ii me
years. There was another soon . . l | history and its condition suggest. Forest
1912 the I
Civil War. But from 1875 to
Summers kept getting colder.
Whfit CR.USCS fluctuiition5> in Hver-
age annual temperature is not yet clearly
understood, but knowledge of them is im
portant. For one thing, these changes of
climate have a decided influence upon
agriculture. They determine the length
of the grow'ing season. W heat production
has been extending farther and farther
north in Canada for a good many years
now. A change of only two or three de
grees in the average temperatAe, shorten
ing the growing season, might matenajjy
care find reforestation. The federal government,
when this is read, probably will have been com
mitted to a program calling for the annual expen
diture of 2U0 million dollars to these ends. The
slate, through the agency of a forgotten man,
Joseph Hyde Pratt, and a modest one, J. S.
Holmes, has done a great work in these respects,
with results to show. Now, primarily it appears,
for the sake of aiding the unemployed, the gov
ernment itself is going into the thing in a big
way.
On paper, in the eye of the dreamer, our situa
tion might be called unique. It* might be called
an example. It might be set up as an illustra
tion and offered as the original laboratory.
ent down the wheat area of our northern “Tar, muh and Turpentine." That was what
• ?imilarlv the northward limit' ^'en^entary students in geography once wrote
rottoi belt is fixed bv the average ! down as the industry of “The Old North state.”
of the cotton where are they now?
annual temperature. . » • i
The w-eather is one topic of perennial
interest. Everybody talks about it al
though, as Mark Twain remarked, nobody
eve? does anything about it. It is of inter-
•est to everybody because /t affects e^ry-
^dv We have heard of lands of perpet
body. ^ fVifl temperature
iial sunshine, in which the
neve? JLnges from season to season,
where nobody ever has to give the weath-
where DOD y . Affpn wan
er a icond thought. We ^aye^oftenwon-
what the people of those happy
dered what tne P
^^®®de?”wJether life doesn’t get entirely
Ve Nature itself uever
mi
!-etaBge«.
They are in our burned and abandoned original
pine forests. They are indicated in savannas of
soured land, unfit for any use. Changing the pic
ture, they are in the bald-headed mountains of
western North Carolina. They are represented by
a great burden of untaxable land, millions on
millions of acres, robbed of their value and
thrown heedlessly into the lap of a people unable
to take care of them.
Here is a program indeed. The trouble with it
is that it looks to the future generations, as -we
all looked when everybody issued a bond and pre
sented it to posterity.
Posterity finally finds a bole in the seat of its
pants. , I
• .Washington. -Tf Thi "sltttlitlbn:
here almmere down to« complete
national' housecleaning. New
brooms proverbially sweep clean,
and the Roosevelt broom has
hardly began to show^ signs of
weir. Congress doesn’t like the
assumption of such complotc
leadership by the President, but
the President has the public be-
hlntf him and Congress hasn’t.
So it is a safe bet that Mr. Roose
velt will get the rest o« his major
program through Congress, al
though not without a good. deal
of muttering and grumbling. He
holds the whip-hand, and noth
ing scares the average Congress
man so much as the thought that
the President can go right over
his head by means of newspapers
and radio, and tell his constitu
ents that he isn’t doin^ his duty.
Moves For Farm Relief
Farm relief, for example: The
Senate doesn’t want to pass the
President’s bill, and doubtless
will succeed in inserting some
unimportant changes. But it will
be passed, because Senators don’t
want to risk the President going
"on the air’’ and telling people
that they were willing enough to
help bankers but unwilling to
help farmers!
Meantime, practical steps to
ward what Secretary Wallace
calks "abolishing anarchy In
agriculture” have been taken by
the Presidential order abolishing
the Farm BoarJ and coinoii.ing
its work with f.ie TVdrrai 1 T.i’i.i
Loan Board, the rederul L..nid
Banks, the Joint Stock Land
Banks, the Intermediate Credit
Ranks, the .Agricultural Credit
Corporations set up by the Re
construction Finance Corpor
ation, the Crop Production Loan
Bureau, and agricultural a.ssoci-
ation loan bureau. All of those
functions will be performed by
the new board with Henry .Mor-
genthau, Jr., at its head.
.Mr. Morgenthau will pull one
of the strongest oars in the whole
government. He and Secretary
Wallace will share complete con
trol so far as Government can
control such things over what
farmers may plant, how they
market their product, how much
they may get for it and how
mueh they can borrow for their
farm operations, as well as what
they can borrow on farm mortg
ages.
I’neiiiployment Relief Next
The first stage of President
Roosevelt's unemployment relief
plar the enlistment of 250,000
men under military discipline for
forestry work, seems likely
enough to be authorized speed
ily, It will use money which had
been appropriated but not spent
fof other kind* of public works.
The next stege, It Is expected,
will be sn appropriation of tome-
thing like five :> hundred million
dbUairs
thd>ta^*^ for dlr«*infelH| ’Ike
AdminlatoattoB^coaoelves #to be
the Qovjm^at^ first difJF (o
see to ft nobody -WUrves.
while waiting for the wheels of
Industry to begin to-turn again.
Money fort this and probably
for other purposes will be raised
by a new Government bond Issue
of perhaps three, million dollars.
Long-term' bonds bearing a low
rate of interest may he offered In
small units, as low as |20, and
It Is expected that there will be
little difficulty In disposing of
them. The Interest will he a
charge on the annual budget but
not so heavy as to offset econ-
'omles already beginning to be
put Into effect.
Funds from this or some other
source, possibly through the Re
construction Finance Corpor
ation, are expected to be used to
shoulder some of the farm mortg
age burden, but not to lift it all
from the shoulders of the insur
ance companies and other large
mortgagees.
Business and Railroads
One use to which Government
funds/ may be put is the stimu
lation of business by means of
some method of either making
loans for expansion purposes or
guaranteeing business enterpris
es against loss if they will under
take to resume operations at full
pressure under conditions laid
down by the Government. This is
one of the plans not yet fully
worked out. hut generally talked
about among President Roose
velt's intimates.
Early action by the Adminis
tration for the relief of the rail
road situation seems imminent.
It is said here that some of the
delay is due to negotiations und
er way between the new Secre
tary of Labor, Miss Perkins, and
the railway brotherhoods, look
ing toward a reduction of rail
road wage scales as a necessary
part of any wide-spread re-or-
ganization calculated to put the
roads or. an earning basis.
The railroad plans contemplate
a single managing head, similar
to the position of Director of
Railways during the war. This
man will be the supreme boss of
the railroads, with the Interstate
Commerce Commission acting in
an advisory capacity.
Still On Bank Problem
The banking situation consid
ered as a whole is regarded here
as in good shape, but with much
yet to be done to insure stability.
Some few hanks wibich were not
in perfect condition have been
allowed to open, due to exigen
cies of state polities. There is go
ing to be some sort of strong
Government supervision imposed
upon all banks, nut what form
It will take is not yet clear. It
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eral Reserve System to contri
bute to a mutual insurance fund
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system.
With beer legalized and the
proposal to repeal the prohibi
tion amendment likely to be rati
fied by a sufficient number of
states. President Roosevelt has
sent for a list of prisoners in
Federal prisons for violations of
the prohibition laws. He has not
said why he wants the list, but
some of his friends suggest that
he is looking for cell-room for
bankers. Several big bankers are
under arrest and apparently
headed for prison, and it is rum
ored here that many more will
be brought to trial if the present
defendants are convicted.
San Pedro Gal: "Hello, dearie,
what seems to be the matter?”
Long Beach Female: "I have a
terrible cold; my head feels all
slopped up.”
San Pedro Gal: "Too bad,
dearie, why don’t you try a
vacuum cleaner."
.Agronomy Information circu
lars number 77 and 78 giving in
formation about the value of soil
types for certain crops and the
results of cotton variety tests
for three years, are available to
citizens of Nortji Carolina on ap
plication to C. B. Williams, head
of the department of agronomy
at State College.
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