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The Rocky Mount Herald " : Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, by the Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company. Publication Office Second Floor Daniels' Building, Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina ! TED J. GREEN ....News Editor and Manager 1 Subscription Rates: One Year, $1.00; 6 Months, 60c. ■atered as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at the post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates reasonable and furnished to j prospective advertisers on request On Overworked Word The Williamston Enterprise. The most overworked word, and perhaps the one least understood, is "confidence." It has been brought to the front by preda tory wealth. What they want is full confi dence that they can dominate political rules of the country. What the average little W»n wants is confidence that he will get fair play and the assurance that he will be saved from the plundering and oppressive domina tion of his opportunities, his privileges, his person, and his property—which makes the meaning of the word entirely different. When the word "confidence" can be de-' fined as producing a feeling of honesty and safety, it is one thing; but when it is con strued to mean special privileges for a spec ial class that gives them the assurance of getting the best of every deal, then it means an entirely different thing. Must Defeat Politicians The very fact that high State officials are now advocating national legislation to tax inter-State shipments of merchandise, is evi dence that they already consider the sales tax a fixed policy of taxation for North Caro lina. The Fair Tax Association offers sal vation from such a policy, if you and others will give it the moral and financial support neecssary to carry its campaign to success ful conclusion. We must defeat the pur poses of the army of State employees and politicians now working for its retention, and match the efforts of powerful interests within and without the State who, for selfish reasons, are willing to finance a campaign having as its purpose perpetuation of a form of taxation which is characterized by Colum bia University economists as "an unneces sary and backward step" after making an unbiased survey and study of the operation of sales taxes in different States—thanks to the Rockefeller Foundation, which financed the survey. Pictured as a Monster The sales tax is wrong in principle, and' we should be done with it. Let me repeat! here what I said in Greensboro last week: I If the State can get sufficient money from its subjects to bring about the wonderful results credited to the sales tax, which is unjust and unfair, it can certainly get enough money to accomplish the same re sults through a system of taxation based on true principles of fairness. A cursed | thing like the sales tax monster, which preys 1 upon the poor by exacting toll on purchases! of food, fuel and raiment, in equal propor tion to the toll exacted on the purchases of the rich, and which drives business from the | stores of patriotic home merchants who have, during all these years willingly carried their portion of the public burden—such a mon-j ster, I contend, should be damned to a pre-' mature death. The Fair Tax Association is the only or-| ganization which is openly and continuously! waging battle against the sales tax, and I| urge you to immediately join its ranks, and| influence others to do likewise. Wives of Great Men Colliers' Weekly. No one can dispute the right of women to j hold office in this country. The right was 1 won after hard political struggle against! great odds. And since the establishment of j equal suffrage, many women have been duly! elected to office and have acquitted them-j selves creditably. It can be presumed that' they have risen on merit, and are continuing in power on the basis of demonstratable achievement. But what is to be said of the! woman whose sole claim to po'itical office! lies in the fact that her husband died in it? It is not necessary to note specific in stances. There are and have been wives elevated to the office of sheriff, congress man, governor, even senator, on the some what diaphanous theory that a widow in-! herits her husband's office as she does his' house and other chattels. On e has only to! recall, however, the common saying that opposites attract—to remember the frequen cy with which a strapping six-footer is seen 1 with a tiny bit of fluff clinging to his arm— to realize that matrimony alone does not qualify a woman, upon her husband's demise, to step into his boots. A frequent indictment of the American! male is that he is too sentimental with re gard to the American woman. On this one count, certainly, he is vulnerable. It would seem, however, that it is not for men alone to condemn and halt this practice. Those clear-headed American women who have carried their less farsighted sisters so far politically must perceive the danger inherent THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934 Can't Stand the Light | The Williamston Enterprise, i Wall Street is disturbed over the stock market investigation. They know there is where they have pulled millions out of the public in many instances for stocks worth i nothing whatever. | They well know the art of looting with j one hand and picking with the other. The fact that they are opposing publicity of their | business is evidence enough that it is not ; clean, honest business. If it was, then they would welcome investigation. It is a case of not wanting light because their deeds are evil. Plus and Minus News and Observer. Citizens of North Carolina, who are inter ested in the adequate education of their children, will be interested in the finding of Dr. R. W. McDonald, head of the Depart ment of Education at Salem College, who re cently cited four positive and nine negative factors in connection with the status of edu cation in North Carolina. Dr. McDonald's 13 points, good and bad, positive and negative, are as follows: Positive 1. North Carolina has adopted a State mini mum educational program for an eight-month term. 2. North Carolina has paid teachers' salaries (such as they are) on time and in negotiable form. 3. North Carolina has consistently elected to public office only those persons who have avow ed their interest in public education. 4. North Carolina has simplified the school district organization of the State. Negative North Carolina is the only State in the union which— 1. Has deliberately lowered its educational standards by act of its Legislature. 2. Has levied a new tax purposely for and at the same time has appropriated less money for schools. 3. Has adopted a. policy of discouraging local interest in schools. 4. Has a city as large as Winston-Salem with only eight months of school. - 5. Pays no teacher a living wage ($720 per year is the maximum). 6. Has two State boards of education, with confusion as to their powers. 7. Provides no supervisors of instruction. 8. Has wiped out by a single act of its Legis lature all of the constructive actions taken by popular vote in every school district in the State. 9. Spends this year less than sl9 per child enrolled as a State average for operating its public schools. In recent months these in authority in North Carolina have heavily stressed the I four positive factors in the State education ! system. But friends of education in North I Carolina must not permit the nine negative I factors to be forgotten.. Until they are re j moved, there is plenty of time to wait before . indulging in unstinted praise of our educa j tional situation. The Responsibility for Crime The Williamston Enterprise. Crime is said to be the most costly thing and the heaviest burden the American gov ernment and its subdivisions has to bear, i And so far we have not definitely placed the j responsibility for crime. Of course, we gen i erally put it off on the fellow who is caught with the goods on him, and, of course, from j a legal standpoint, he is the guilty man. On the other hand, it may be the mistakes | of a mother, a father, a teacher, or the atti i tude of that class that we call "the good j people" generally. j As the child grows up he measures every ! thing he sees and hears. When he hears his , mother talk ugly about a neighbor every day and then, when Sunday comes, sweeten up j on her, nobody knows about the deceptive lying any better than the child. And when a little boy sees his dad put the big apples j and big potatoes at the top of the barrel | when he sells them, and hears him stretch | ing the truth about his acres, and multiply i ing the pounds of tobacco he gets, a fine les j son in fraud is taught; and by the time ; he has reached school age he has already | learned the art of lying and stealing—and I from those who love him best and would not have him do wrong for anything. ; Our liquor law violations have been more than doubled because of the influence of the ; so-called "better class," by their very atti j tude as well as their patronage. The handling of courts have had much to do with increasing crime on the one hand, as well as the deterring of crime on the other hand. The recent investigation in Raleigh also brings to light a condition which exists in many places—that is, officers becoming partners in crime through friendship, for money, or for fear. Political rings are weld ed by lawbreakers. Th e gamblers, the boot leggers, and the "red-lighters" vote for the j man they can rule; and he is afraid to resist and turns his face from the scenes of crime and trails on the back-tract of reports when they come to his attention. Raleigh, of course, may be an exception, yet there are many towns and cities where justice is sold to satan by officers of the law. Half of all crimes will be stopped when courts, enforcement officers, and the better class of people do their duty as citizens and officials. in this situation. They should be able to de nounce such sentimentalism. COMMENT O PREDICTS GOOD YEAR THE GOLF BALL EQUIPOISE UNDERWAY JONES DEFINITELY OUT After a rapid fire swing around the National League circuit, Presi dent John Arnold Heydler is con vinced that baseball is in for its best year since 1930 and that his own League will witness a hot pennant race with the world cham pion Giants fighting to withstand the challenge of three powerful western clubs. He thinks that the hitting and pitching of the Cubs and the speed and power of the Cardinals and Pirates will test to the utmost the great defensive work of the Giants. Lon Warneke, blond Arkansan, got off- to a good start with the Chicago Cubs. In two games against Cincinnati and St. Louis, he allowed only one hit per game. Incidentally, Carl Hubbel of the New York Giants is also off to a good start, allowing only one run in two games. Francis Ouimet, captain of the U. S. Walker Cup golf team, denies that he has any binding instruc tions as to the ball to be used at St. Andrews on May 11 and 12. Somehow the impression got out that the players had been bound to use the American ball, slightly larger than the British sphere. As St. Andrews is a sea-side course and frequently windy, the Ameri can ball because of its size does not behave too well in a breeze. Ouimet's statement is that the players will use the ball best suit ed to atmospheric conditions on the day of the matches. The United States Army polo team recently won a trophy by de feating Mexico's crack riders two games to one at- Mexico City, D. F. The Mexicans lost the first two games but won the last con test. After the game, Ambassador Daniels presented the Army team with the cup at the request of President Rodrique and stressed the benefit in international rela tions that is certain to come out of such sports encounters. Equipoise, Cornelius Vanderbuilt Whitney's handicap champion, opened the season by winning the $7,500 Philadelphia handicap at Havre de Grace, Maryland. The victory enabled the long-striding, chestnut horse to pass Gallant Fox in total winnings and placed him close on the heels of Phar Lap, who earned $332,250. The world's money-winning record is now held by Sun Beau, $376,755. Equipoise is now six years old and has been the outstanding performer on the American turf for the past two years. This season he is out to i maintain his laurels and, if pos sible, to go ahead of Sun Beau's record. Thirteen tournaments are plan ned by the Professional Lawn Tennis Association this summer, beginning May 19th, in New York, and winding up with the national championship on August 18-25, probably in New York also. This is the first time that the Associa tion has arranged a tournament schedule of national scope. Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Mil waukee, Memphis, Louisville, Cin cinnati and Indianapolis will stage tournaments and there will be a tournament at the Century of Progress exposition. Tilden, Vines, Cochet, Plaa, Richards, Barnes, Gledhill, Chapin, Cozeluh and Nusslein are expected to take part in the tournaments. Bobby Jones visited New York the Qther day and reiterated his statement that he is "through with championship golf." Referring to his defeat in the masters' tourna ment at Augusta, Bobby said his putting was off as it had been for some time. He attributed it to the fact that he hadn't played much golf lately, which led to careless ness and a failure to take the gamg seriously. o PLANE TANGLES IN TARGET Norfolk, Va. Lt. David L. Cloud, Jr., crack Marine pilot, lost his life when his airplane caught in a sleeve target towed by another plane. His parachute opened per fectly but both pilot and parachute, dropping into the Atlantic, were immediately lost to view. FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS AUTHOR ITY POWER Washington. A decision by Federal Judge Francis G. Caffey in New York, denying an injunc tion brought by the William F. Chiniquy Co., of Chicago, to re strain the issuance of NRA labels by the millinery industry was re garded here as of special signifi cance. It upheld in every respect the power of the industry's code authority to enforce compliance with the code. In denying the ap plication Judge Caffey announced his decision immediately from 'the bench, without further argument from counsel or waiting for briefs to be filed. It was the first attempt to question the right of a self governing industrial body to insti tute investigations to determine whether its members are comply ing with the trade practice pro visions of a code. Edwin Falk, complainant's counsel, attempted to argue the constitutionality of the NIRA but the court declined to listen, declaring that point had been decided by Judge John C. Knox in the U. S. District Court of New York, who held the act constitutional in a recent suit in volving the cleaners and dyers code. Judge Caffey emphasized that he could find nothing unreas onable in the code. The regula tions, he said, "were prescribed by the President and are pursuant to statutory authority. They are within the principles prescribed by Congress in laying down rules for these code authorities. It is not action by the President in erecting unreasonable to limit the use of the label to those who have been ascertained by the proper authori ties, through examination, to have lived up to the regulations of the code." o FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST Sunday morning service, 11 a. m. Subject: "Everlasting Punish ment." Sunday School, 10 a. m. Wednesday Evening Service, 7:45 p. m. The reading room in the church edifice is open daily except Sunday and legal holidays, from three to five p. m. o CLARK STREET METHO DIST CHURCH H, C. Ewing, Pastor Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.—L. F. Lane, Supt. Divine Worship—ll:oo a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The pastor will be in charge of services. Epworth League, 6:45 p. m. Wednesday Evening Service, 7:30 o'clock. New We will exchange good used furniture for country produce and allow market price for chickens, eggs, hams, shoul ders and sides, corn and pota toes. . See G. F. HASSELL 129 Sunset Ave. Ocean* of hot water , in endless abundance, always ready, to come rushing and gushing, steaming hot, from every faucet—ali-h-h how smoothly you H pi sail through the day! It means the difference between a long, tiresome day, and a short, joyful one. It means that every cleaning task is done two to twenty times quicker. It means that every member of your family can have his full share of cleanliness, comfort, health and convenience, that comes from ' 'l| i "made-to-measure" hot water service. y| ;Jm ( Install an automatic gas water heater—then open the faucet j| 11 | IIMW) wide, with confidence. Hot water flows at once—to shorten ,|fl pBKB the workday—to lengthen the play- iff* ""*? *T yjftf day— to make a pleasant voyage of every homekeeping day. EASY MONTHLY 9 . . PAYMENTS fmßtSr -A** "• "Made-to- Measure" Hot Water Service ijfjgii ROCKY MOUNT PUBLIC UTILITIES 127 N. MAIN ST. TEL. NO. 1842 ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. ! * W. H. GAY rr. ! + STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES + FRESH MEATS—POULTRY + | ++++++ ++^++ + i++ +++++++4 . ++++ 1 4 . 1 + 04 COKEY RD. t MAY & GORHAM Druggists FIVE POINTS PHONE 200 WE INVITE YOUR PATRONAGE t + I Notice of Candidacy ! ! For House of ! + #i X m I Representatives •I* | From Edgecombe County * T + + + On April 6th, I gave public notice of my candidacy £ | for the House of Representatives from Edgecombe £ | County and I believe it to be the duty of one seeking t J to represent the people as a member of the Legisla- £ | ture, to let the people know his position on important £ | public questions which are certain to come before the * | Legislature and must be dealt with. £ * •J* * I believe in public education and will support the £ * necessary and proper expenditures for the public school £ * system. I have four children attending the public J | schools and it is my hope to have them graduate from £ J the public schools. The present salary schedule of £ J teachers, I believe too low and will support a salary J J bill which will place them in line with other work of £ f like character. *■ t t * I am opposed to land tax for the support of the * J State public school system. Land is now carrying * | the burden of bonds for local road building, which was * | put on before the State took over the roads, which £ | nvikes the land tax already too heavy, by reason of £ | these county road bonds. * t 4* + I am absolutely opposed to the general sales tax *■ * because I believe it is unjust and works a hardship * % on our citizenship. The ability to pay is absolutely *• * disregarded in this mode of taxation. 4» * £ * I have made some study of the State's condition and t * know that the State of North Carolina has sufficient t * resources to support it's necessary functions of govern- % + ment without resorting to the gross sales tax, and if * * elected to the Legislature will support measures in £ * line with position herein set forth. I will appreciate * + the support of the citizenship of Edgecombe County. * t t + This 3rd day of May, 1934. % * * f + | Faithfully yours, £ ! ROSCOE GRIFFIN 1 ♦ 1 + z »+♦♦++++*++**♦+++•?• '•++++++++++++++++++++++++.f++++.£.
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