mt}m Extended
■lfefA Fori, Cotton
/ Coming in Fast.
WUteemen Located at
BljLgi ide Pharmacy and
Hr? rothers Store. Don't
■pose Sign Up Today.
■ roiti. dline for the. cotton con
■ theUp has been extended
luff's v th e ' rea s° n being in
Nash County to have
horoughly acquaint him-
M'hla / vrith the terms
Bjina, \nd at the same time to
Hand /possible for aU to join
■ drive for better cot
■ jprfe in 1934.
■ $4, jil this time the contracts
■i In coming into the office
Hp- ' >unty agent at a fast clip
IB b urging that every farmer
fflT? 'county get in touch with
loci committeemen who will be
gi;l to go and the con
i alsfin detail if there is any
tnil'that is not understood.
'Me President is urging that the
'arfiers of the South .do this in
rdir that the farmers of this
tate and other states will have
c>Ae chance to get more than a
«ae living from the sale of the
Hi crop. The time has come
■;n, if we as people, and the
H.nt f as the backbone of Ameri
■ Citizenship" is to live and
Hdper, then we must co-operate.
■Tie efforts put forth by the
nsident, Governor, and farmers
■North Carolina brought in nice
■'idencjs. This only goes to show
■ | -epperation is the only thing
11 'to put the farmers of our
Jrl Jback on a paying basis.
j I ? go, farmers. Make it 100
Follow the motto of the
| J knd say one and all, "I do
ISOMER RECTOR OF
EpHURCH OF GOOD
SHEPHERD IS DEAD
Ration was received here of
ith of Rev. Frederick Dieh!,
jr rector of the Church of the
/ Shepherd here, at his home
y-mville, Va., on Thursday. He
! red from a heart attack,
oeral services will be held in
ville on Saturday, according
ft announcement made here.
Diehl was well known and
!d in this community and his
comes as a shock here,
ng his life in the city he
I an active part in community
1 in addition to the heavy
I ,»es of his church.
ES AFTER CRASH
lock holm, Sweden. Eric
*e, aerial engineer, jumped
I an uncontrollable plane at
jght of 4,000 feet. His para-
Ite caught on the machine and
I fled around and around and
['Well with it into the sea. Res
k were surprised to find him !
1 \seious and unhurt.
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7TURN BRITISH DRUMS
>lt_
jtondon. —General Sir lan Ham
-5n has received from President
n Hindenburg the drums of the
wecond Battalion of Gordon High
■ndors, which have been in Ber
li since the Armistice. During
k IB war the Highlanders stored
tir drums in a police station at
tend. After leaving Ostend, they
t i 1 not return and the drums were
\Jund by the Germans when they
Itered the port. Recently, Presi
ent von Hindenburg notified Gen.
lamilton that he would like to
■eturn the drums.
5400 SCHOLARSHIP"
CONTEST AT HIGH
POINT COLLEGE
\The second annual oration-essay
Itest for high school seniors will
« itaged at High Point College,
| March 22 and 23. The awards for
' the successful contestants in this
contest will be, first prize, S4OO
scholarship, second prize, SIOO
scholarship, and third prize, SSO
scholarship.
\ The subject is, "The Kind of a
\dlege Freshman I would Like to
"All registrations for the contest
Jhould be made with the Promo
tional Secretary at the college by
February 15. This is an extension
of time of one week. A copy of
the oration or essay should be in
.his hands not later than March 1.
The judges of the compositions
will grade same and notify the
contestants whether or not they
are there eliminated or must com
ipete in the delivery contest to be
held in the college auditorium
Warch 22 and 23.
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STEADY INCREASES
NOTED IN RECEIPTS
FOR LOCAL OFFICE
Steady increases in receipts for
the local postoffice were reported
by officials here who released
statistics on sales in January,
1934, and January, 1933.
A gain of $372.26 was shown in
the figures for the two months.
January of this year showed sales
amounting to while in
January, 1933, receipts totaled $4.-
625.46.
In releasing the figures postal
authorities here expressed their
satisfaction in the report and stat
ed that receipts were showing not
able gains each month.
KENNETH WEEKS
IS HONORED BY PRE- \
MEDICAL FRATERNITY .
i
Davidson, Feb. 3.—Six Davidson
college students have recently been 1
invited to join Pi Delta Alpha, na- 1
tional pre-medical fraternity. The •
six men are B. C. Barnes, David
son; J. H. Batte, Concord; B. B.
Fort, Barium Springs; L. M.
Hule, Atlanta, Ga.; J. A. Wads
worth, Charlotte; and K. D. Weeks,
Rocky Mount. •
Dr. Addison Brenzier, Charlotte
physician, will address the local
chapter tonight on the subject,
"Down the Alimentary Canal with n
Camera and Tools." The lecture t
will be illustrated with lantern
slides and moving pictures.
TEXTILE WORKERS
OPPOSE 'STRETCH-OUT' v
Council Also Voices Opposi- *
tion to Gardner as NRA
Administrator }
Salisbury, Feb. s.—The Central '
N. C. Textile Council representing
12,500 workers, in session here this
afternoon, adopted resolutions con
demning he stretch-out system in I
mills in some sections of the State
and sent a telegram to Dr. Robert i
W. Bruere, chairman of the Na
tiohal Cotton Textile Industry Re
lations' Board, in Washington, pro- j
testing against alleged practices.
Dissatisfactions that the State
board had taken no action on cases j
alleging discrimination against
workers active in unions was also j
expressed.
The meeting, which has 100 dele- ]
gates in attendance from 15 local
unions, voiced opposition to former
Governor O. Max Gardner being ,
named as successor to General
Hugh Johnson, NRA administra
tor, as rumors indicate is possible,
The opposition was based on previ
ous decisions by the former gover
nor in labor disputes and his posi
tion of ownership and financial in
terest in textile mills.
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SCHOOL BOOKS AVAIL
ABLE FOR NEEDY
PUPILS HERE
A supply of school books have
been placed in the hands of local
welfare officers and are available
for grammar school and high
school pupils who need them, Mrs.
R. D. Bulluck, relief administrator,
announced today.
Miss Dolores Brant is in custody
of the books and has announced
that the books will be returned to
the donors after February 20 un
less there is need for them in the
schools.
Welfare officials state that they
believe there will be a demand for
these books and have requested
citizens who have books that they
do not need to turn them in at the
welfare office on Tarb >ro street.
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CHRISTIANS SLAIN
Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. Two
Christian villages were burned
and eight Protestant converts slain
in a religious among tribes
men of northern Kavirondo.
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TO USE GAS GUNS
New York. Victor Wolfgang
von Hagen, who will lead a three
year expedition into the Galapa
gos Archipelago, plans to use gas
guns to capture wild animals in
stead of traps and guns, which
have frequently crippled useful
specimens.
REPORT INCREASE
IN EMPLOYMENT
New York.—NßA officials re
port an increase of 201,000 em
ployees in manufacturing, retail,
and wholesale fields since last
August, when the NRA began.
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934,
Grave Situation
The Federal Government will
be asked to appropriate money
at the earli«st possible moment
for the aid of schools in the
present educational crisis, ac
cording to an announcement of
the Joint Commission on the
Emergency in Education, ap
pointed by the National Educa
tion Association and the Depart
ment of Superintendence. Fol
lowing close upon the reports
that more than 2,000 rural
schools had shut their doors, and
that the school of some large
cities will be forced to elope by
March 1, a nation wide campaign
for emergency relief to public
education was launched at a con
ference in Washington.
Relief will be sought either
through congressional or admin
istrative action. Participating
in the effort to prevent the com
plete collapse of the American
public schools, are forty-eight
state education associations with
a total membership of 600,000
teachers and school officers.
Reports placed before the re
cent Washington conference
showed a gradual decline in edu
cational opportunity throughout
theL entire nation, and included
accounts of pitiful sacrifices of
JEGRO MINISTERS
i ALLIANCE STAGES
GATHERING IN CITY
A meeting of the Inter-Donomi
national Alliance of Negro Minis- '
ters was held at No. 435 Atlantic
avenue here yesterday with, 35 ;
members in attendance.
Each gave a report on activities
in his church. Special speakers
were Dr. G. W. Bulluck, M. D.,
Rev. W. C. Somerville and W. E.
Gay.
Rev. Somerville has returned
here to resume his duties at Mt.
Zion Baptist church after a year
and a half at a graduate school.
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Far Ports
I shall go down to the sea when i
Have leisure to get away,
And I shall look on the sea and
sky,
And white sails on the bay,
And I shall wish with an eager
wish
For the sliding hills and foam
And slanted decks, and for flying
fish,
And'for far lands to roam.
I shall dream dreams of the ports
afar
That never my eyes shall see,
And nights shall follow a guiding
star
j Where tropical islands be:
At dawning I shall look overside
And watch while the moments
flit
The black boys dive in the azure
' tide
To clutch at a silver bit.
At Cartagena one time we swung
At anchor before the town
And watched where a silver coin
was flung,
A black boy diving down;
And came a swirl in the cobalt
deep •
A gasp from the watchers
drawn,
A shark with a lightning rush and
sweep, -
And the poor black boy was
gone!
And from my dreams of the ports
I've known,
The ports I shall never see,
I shall turn back and shall seek
my -own,
! My loved ones who wait for me,
' Glad for my dreams and th£*end
s of it
For the hum-drum ways I go,
To reach for my easy chair and sit
At ease when the sun is low.
—Judd Mortimer Lewis in the
) Houston Post.
SAVES DEER
Ithaca, N. Y.—Molasses cakes
are being used in state forests to
save the lives of hundreds of deer
in snow bound fastnesses. Packed
into the woods and suspended from
trees, the food is available for the
animals. Cakes weigh fifty
pounds each and contain forty-five
parts molasses and fifty-five parts
soybeans.
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E. Y. Floyd, tobacco specialist,
recommends scattering about 30
pounds of clean oat, wheat or rye
straw over each 100 yards of to
bacco bed. The straw seems to
have a beneficial effect in con
trolling downy mildew.
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Italian ocean mail fliers crash
on Brazilian coast; two hurt.
teachers and parents to provide
their children with a meager por
tion of their American birthright
of education. Teachers were
found copying texts in longhand
in order that there might be a
sufficient supply of books for
the pupils to study. Many teach
ers have taught months without
pay. A total of more than $40,-
000,000 is now owed to teachers
by school districts which will be
able to provide only a few more
weeks of school this year for
their children unless substantial
assistance comes from the Fed
eral government.
One out of every four teachers
is now being paid a rate less
than that established for factory
hand? under the Blanket Code of
the Federal Administration.
Children are being herded into
schoolrooms under conditions in
w'hich individual instruction is
impossible.
The recent ban on child labor
by the New Deal has freed many
additional children who expect a
chance to continue their school
ing, and in many states are re
quired by law to do so. Twenty
five thousand teachers have been
dropped from the schools, while
a MILLION more pupils have
come into them.
Louisa's
etter
Keep Away From Any Kind of
Complex
Dear Girls:—
It is wise not to value ourselves
too lightly nor to take ourselves
too seriously.
Many of us have inferioritv
complexes. We imagine that ws
are below par in looks, intelli
gence, popularity,' etc., and our
thinking that way makes it true.
A person who is nervous about
her appearance or manners can
not possibly be at her best. Even
a beautiful girl will lack the poise
and assurance necessary to suc
cess.
On the other hand even an ordi
narily nice looking girl with the
last named qualities and good
grooming will bef a charming per
son.
Too much confidence in one's
good qualities, however, is just as
disastrous as too little. Nothing
is quite as disgusting as the men
or women who are so blatantly
sure of themselves. No matter
what subject is being discussed
they always bring the conversation
back to themselves. They com
pare their acts and adventures to
those of everyone else, always to
their own advantage. The ma ; n
word in their vocabulary is "I."
They think .everybody is interested
in their least thought or deed.
Many of us have a touch of ego
without realizing it. Perhaps we
have not been as successful in the
ways we hoped to be and we try
to reassure ourselves with brave
talk. Perhaps we have been more
successful than we hoped and we
are not content to hide our light
under a bushel.
In either case we make a mis
take. We get the name of being
a "big" talker and sometimes fail
to get the credit which is really
our due, because of this reputa
tion.
If we could only be natural and
human what a pleasant place this
world would be. If none of us
ever felt embarrassed or considered
it necessary to make an impression
how much nicer we would seem
to others.
, A good idea is that of keeping
I to the middle course, taking our
selves seriously enough but not toe
much so. Yours,
LOUISA.
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NOTICE TO INCOME TAX
PAYERS
Representatives of the U. S. In
-3 ternal Revenue Department will be
' at the following places on the dates
' given, to assist taxpayers in filing
Federal Income Tax returns. In.
1 quire at post office. If you havt
e received blanks by mail bring same
y with you.
e Enfield, Feb. 26.
s Raleigh, Feb. 19 to March 15.
Rocky Mt., Feb. 27-28, Mar. 1
2, 3, and Mar. 12-15.
Wilson, Mar. 5 to 10.
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PROFITS
.0
l- New York.—The General Motors
Corporation had a net profit ol
$83,214,000 for 1933, comparec
ib with $165,000 in 1932 and $96,-
770,407 in 1931.
Musings
Those blue and through days
will come no matter how happy a
person you are. There are morn
ings when you wake up and long
to close your eyes again—for
keeps. There may be gray ran
on the outside and gray despair
on the inside filling your soul with
misery. Then the day goes all
wrong—you burn the toast, the
water pipes freeze or the wood is
out—everything is wrong. And
those resolutions you made to the
effect that you would keep happy
in spite of it all just go hay-wire.
We can't get around a blue da>
now and then and I think that it
helps us to appreciate life more
after that "no matter what hap
pens" feeling is over.
And I had one of my blue moods
last week. There is no way I can
escape my feelings except by tak
ing a long walk and as I walked
I thought "What is the need to go
on? It's t]je same thing day af f ir
day—futile, meaningless and mo
notonous." Suddenly I stopped
and my gaze riveted itself upon a
field green with early wheat. Win
ter in the sky, winter on the hills,
winter in my heart—but there de
fying it all, laughing at he black
ness and despondency, came the
spring! And I was suddenly
ashamed of my thoughts. Why
couldn't I be confident and com
placent, no matter how dark seem
ed the future, and wait for what
life had to give me? And I was
happy again remembering that no
matter how long or dark the win
ter, spring will come again. I
thought of this: "The darkest night
the world has ever known did not
put out the sars."
I believe in these young peop'e
of today because I think they have
what it takes to get along in this
topsy-turvy world. They don't sit
back and wait for opportunities to
be brought to them; instead they
go out after them and they don't
stop on the job.
The Old Folks who are continu
ally drumming out the fact that
the world is going to the devil be
cause the youth of today is ba.',
are finding themselves left in the
rush for better times. Because
who of us sure what is right
and what is wrong? Does it not
mean entirely different thing ir.
each person's mind and how can
one person censor another if that's
the case? Each of us must think
for ourselves, break our own trails,
run our own risks and pay the
penalties. But in so doing we
must be guided by our conscience,
by faith and by the knowledge of
the Supreme Being.
I believe in the youth of '.oday
in spite of its slang «nd hardness;
I like their fearlessness, their get
up-and-go spirit, their tolerance
and open-mindedness. But you
older folks will say that I believe
in them because I am young; but
you, too, must have faith in us
and be patient and open-minded.
We must, together, make 1934 the
biggest and best year ever.
Just now I disagree with thei
man who said "The devil made the'
small town." I am thinking howj
nice it is to walk down the street;
and know everybody you meet and |
have them call you by your first!
name, to know that when you get
in trouble you have friends in the
home-town who will always help
you and if you have been grief
stricken in the face of some great
sadness and had the home folks
come in to comfort and sympathize
with you, then you appreciate that
small town of yours. Well, there
are so many things I could men
tion as to why I like a small town:
it's friendliness, and human fellow
ship, its peculiarities, its charac
ters of humor, its important land
marks and scores of others. I like
my home-town!
RAILROADS BUILD
LITTLE
New York.—The lowest level for
railway construction since 1865
was recorded in 1933 when only
24 miles of new line were com
pleted. Abandonments reached a
new high—lß76 miles.
486,926 LOSE PENSIONS
Washington.—Under the Econ
omy Act, 486,926 veterans have
been taken off compensation rolls
according to General Frank T.
Hines, Administrator. He pointed
out that average monthly pay
ments to non-service disabled in
creased, in four months, from
$13.35 to $23.8%
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Job rise under NRA put at 201,-
00,0 in Manhattan in 3 fields.
JUNIOR ORDER
CAMPAIGN NETS
10 APPLICATIONS
The Rocky Mount council of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics has recently brought to
a close a campaign which netted
150 applications for membership in
the lodge, G. R. Griffin, secretary,
announced.
Mr. Griffin said plans were go
ing forward for a class initiation
at some tj/tne in February. The
date has not been fixed as yet.
PEASANTS KILLANIMALS
Moscow.—Since 1929 when the
Soviet attempted to force peasants
to pool their farm animals in col
lective farms, there has been a
wholesale slaughter of these ani
mals.
Figures given out by Joseph
Stalin revealed that horses drop
ped from 34,000,000 to 16,500,000,
cattle from 68,100,000 to 38,600,-
000, sheep and goats from 147,-
Phone 845
LITTRELL'S SHOE SHOP
HOWARD H. LITTRELL, Owner and Proprietor
SHOE REPAIR LAMAC PROCESS
No Nails Flexible Waterproof
EXPERT SHOE REPAIRING
No Sign of Repair—All Work Guaranteed
141 S. MAIN ST. ROCKY MOUNT. N. C.
AT YOUR SERVICE DAILY
Barnes Tin Shop
TOBACCO FLUES
Roofing of all Kind, Guttering, Spouting. Cornice Work
Skylights and Ventilating
Telephone 1746 118 Sunset Ave.
Rocky Mount, N. C.
MAY& GORHAM
Druggists
FIVE POINTS
PHONE 200
WE INVITE YOUR PATRONAGE
Let us supply you with
thoroughbred blood tested
baby chicks—rocks and redfc.
Shipments twice weekly—
|" eeC ' erS ' f° unta ' ns - an i other
having remarkable success—
.' Js&iF* A trial is convincing.
1} v New Seeds Just Received
—Burt oats, seed potatoes,
garden peas, onion sets, beans, corn, lespedeza, cabbage plants—
See us for prices find quality seeds.
H. H. WEEKS SEED STORE
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
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related debts to drive you to
distraction. Pay these small- V/
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consolidating them all into 4 1 / 1
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City Industrial Bank
"THE BANK THAT SERVES THE PEOPLE"
.j —Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation—
ANNOUUNCEMENT MADE
OF NEW COUNTRY
CLUB COMMITTEES
Announcement of Benvenue
Country club committees for 1934
were announced by R. S. Conyew,
recently elected president.
Chairmen oi the committees are
as follows:
House, W. A. Meadows; finance,
C. L. Bonney; membership, C. C.
Ward; tennis, Dr. Roy Norton;
dance, J. P. Bunn; outdoor activi
ties, J. R. Bennett; grounds, G.
A. Burton; guil, K. W. Whitley;
greens, P. C. Shore, and swimming
pool, F. S. Spruill, Jr.'
Personnel of a Sunday afternoon
musical committee had not been
selected.
Tobacco growers in eastern Caro
lina have begun to have their seed
treated and recleaned to assure
better plants in the seed beds.
200,000 to 50,600,000 and pigs from
20,900,000 to 12,200,000.