The Rocky Mount Herald
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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
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Bntered as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at
tbe post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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prospective advertisers on request
THINGS WE CAN DO WITHOUT
Oxford Ledger
The opening of the tobacco marketing sea
son is certain to be followed closely by an
invasion of strangers who have "wooden
money" or something equally useless for
sale and who ply their nefarious trades with
profit.
The people ought to turn thumbs down on
such fly-by-nighters.
Another thing that does the town no good
and if not stopped, may cost a life or limb is
the broadcasting wagons which come in,
parade over the streets with sonorous tones
emanating from the loud speakers, upset
ting the nerves of the most sturdy, fright
ening the life out of horses and mules, and
jeopardizing the life of every person on the
streets because of the distraction.
Such vehicles come, stop in the middle of
the stree, play a record and continue with an
advertising spiel, all the while blocking traf
fic and endangering life and property. It
is hardly possible that any local establish
ment would be permitted to operate such an
outfit day in and day out and there is no ex
cuse for permitting an outsider to do so even
a fraction of a day.
If these are the ways of the big city,
then leave the solid rap of the horses hoof
to make the music on our Main street.
Let's watch out for these undesirables,
regardless of how they travel, and if they
have something to sell, make certain the
proper privilege tax is paid before they are
allowed to operate in competition with those
who are here day in and day out, through
depressions and after them, constantly striv
ing to make the town a better place in which
to live and do business.
If they can't contribute their just share
to the upkeep of the town, they have no
business coming.
If you bothered less about somebody else's
religion and attended a little bit more to your
own, you'd probably be better off.
LUCK
The Columbia State
Probably Henry Ward Beecher was in a
playful mood when he remarked thati a
man never has good luck who has a bad
wife. We admit it is no good luck to get a
bad wife, but if Mr. Beecher meant that a
man generally met with bad luck in the af
fairs of his life because he had a bad wife,
we might conversely be tempted to believe
a husband will never have bad luck if he has
a good wife.
W e think, however, this is putting just a
little too much unnecessary and unreason
able responsibility on the wife. If lightning
should happen to knock the husband over—
but it is just like a man to blame it on a
woman. We are ready to agree with the ob
servation that if you trace the "necessary
concatenation of human events" a very little
way back, you may discover that a man's
going in or out of a door has been the means
of coloring with misery or happiness all the
rest of his life.
The question has been asked if it was
chance when a powder-house blew up in a
distant State and nine persons were killed,
but in one home a sheet of plaster fell across
the crib of a four-year-old boy and saved
his life. Was this one of those strange
things which is "rarer than a white crow?"
Some people are said to be so fond of ill
luck that they gladly run half way to meet
it. Others are said to be born lucky. Pitch
a lucky man into the Nile, says an Arab pro
verb, and he will come up with a fish in his
mouth! A baby is reported to have climbed
through the bars of a second-story porch,
fallen 18 feet to the paved yard below, and
landed unhurt on the backs oi two sleeping
dogs.
Another escape is recorded even more ex
traordinary because of the number of people
involved. In Otter Lake, Micrfigan, during
luneral services the floor of the church col
lapsed, dropping the entire congregation of
250 into the basement. Nobody was injured
and the part of the floor where the coffin
rested remained in place.
None of these could by any chance have
been just chance. Chance or luck is a term
we apply to events to denote that they hap
pen without any foreknown cause. Chance
and accident and luck do not signify any
thing really existing. They simpiy indicate
our ignorance of the real cause.
If a jinx or luck god existed, however, we
would certainly be ready to concur that
"there are no chances so unlucky from which
clever people are not able to reap some ad
vantage, and none so lucky that the foolish
are not able to turn to their own disadvant
age."
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The man or woman who upholds business
ideals in times like these, and lets the cash
slide, is the man or woman who will have
some business to uphold later on.
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT. N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934
BEHIND THE BAYONETS
News and Observer
The one oustanding fact that should not
be forgotten in the quarrel between R. R.
Lawrence, president of the North Carolina'
Federation of Labor and Governor Ehring-I
haus over the Governor's action in ordering!
the greatest peacetime mobilization of i
troops in the history of North Carolina is
presented in Lawrences incontrovertable
statement that "not a single life was lost
or a single person injured as a result of
strikers' activities."
This lack of bloodshed by the workers is
the best demonstration that there is not and
never was any need in North Carolina for'
such a mobilization of . soldiery as the!
Governor ordered this week following con-!
ferences with »some of the State's leading j
manufacturers and some calls from civil of
ficers who hurried to cry their inability to
protect the public peace before a single drop)
of blood had been shed or a single test made
demonstrating the inability of the civil of-,
ficers to maintain civil peace.
Undoubtedly the moving cavalcades ofj
strikers which invaded other communities i
than their own served to alarm not only the;
Governor but all citizens. Now, as the Gov-i
ernor himself reports in making his own dis-1
claimer for acts of civil officers and special i
deputies, the leadership of the national
strike has disclaimed the acts of such mobs
of men. There has been violence in this
strike. In some other States men have been;
killed; in practically every case the dead,
not the killers, have been strikers. The
worst violence occurred in the State in which
troops first appeared. But in North Caro
lina there has been a great deal more fear
than violence, a great deal more timidity
than self-possession.
With a fine record in dealing with strikes
behind him, Governor Ehringhaus had the
opportunity to serve as an example of sanity
in the midst of fear. He failed to seize it.
Instead in a State in which the first striker
has yet to draw the* first drop of blood, he
called out troops enough to give to the strike
the pageantry of war. He may, as he says,
have used the troops only to guard mills
where there was no strike and not to break
the strike in any mill. The fact remains
that in all this troublous time he has offered
much force but not word of concilation.
For this difficulty while conflicting men
pulled him in conflicting ways and excite
ment sped far ahead of violence across the
State, every citizen should have sympathy.
His task certainly was great and called for
greatness. Unfortunately in this crisis the
Governor did not display it. He did not rise,
as he rose to the defense of the farmers in
1933, to speak at least as their Governor to
the men who were striking for what—mis
taken as they may have been —they believed
to be just. Instead he used the old weapon
which has broken the backs of more strikes
than it has ever preserved the peace. Bay
onets were set to gleaming again about mills.
They rose after the manufacturers request
that they b e shown unsheathed there. Grant
that the Governor acted in all honesty for
what he believed to be the welfare of the
State. The fact remains that he so acted in
the midst of excitement that workers in
North Carolina, organized in unions author
ized and endorsed in the National Recovery
Act, see the Governor's bayonets and,
I through them, cannot see his wish for their
I welfare.
TWO LINES OF THOUGHT
Under our American plan of government,
! every man has the right to choose for him
i self the kind of government he desires.
We now have before us two lines of
thought—one is backed by men who have
i shaped the financial policies of our govern
ment for half a century. They have so ma
! nipulated every channel of business that
j they have drained the profits of practically
j every business in this country into their own
j coffers, which has created millionaires and
billionaires in great numbers and at the same
time has pauperized thousands of times as
many.
; The same crowd which has pauperized us
1 doesn't like President Roosevelt or his poli
j cies because he has choked them off us. They
! are now doing everything they can to dis
{ credit him. They have gotten A 1 Smith and
John W. Davis, two discarded, disappointed,
disgruntled, dishonest politicians, to try to
I h iip destroy the President so they can grab
the common folks and squeeze and rob them
j again.
! Of course, they expect a flock of hungry,
ruthless, dishonest politicians to fall in line
with them to help them in their designs.
Now that the people know what ho/iest
government means, they need to stand up
and fight for their rights at any cost. Watch
the politicians. Many of them love office far
| better than they do people.— Williamston
Enterprise.
NO DECISION YET
From The Yellowjacket
The Democrats of the 17th judicial dis
trict of North Carolina have spent three
months in political travail trying to nomi
nate a candidate for judge, and still the war
is on. They have held two primaries, gone
into a tail spin three times and haven't
struck oil yet. In the meantime they have
resorted to all the devious* devices known
to Tammany politics. They have employed
addition, subtraction, multiplication and di
vision ; they have resorted to coercion, inti
midation and exclusion; used knives, rocks
and pistols; voted criminals and dead men;
used "repeaters" and bribed shilly-shally Re
publicans and still they tell us that Demo
cracy means "a government of, by and for
the people." Horsefeathers!
MORE ENLIGHTMENT
Ever and anon it develops
through a combination of unfor
seen events that there are offi
cials on the State pay roll whose
services are not vital to the con
tinuation of governmental proces
ses and functions. .
Such enlightenment came, for
instance, when George Ross Pou,
bitten by the congressional bug, i
resigned his made-to-order public'
works executive position. The du
ties which had been assigned to
him were transferred to a sub
ordinate official already in the
service and on the basis of subse
quent reports have been going for
ward quite as satisfactorily and'
much more economically. There'
has been and presumably will be j
no move to refill, as such, the po
sition which Mr. Pou vacated.
A similar situation has come to
light in the appointment of Harry
McMullan, sales tax director in the
department of revenue since that
levy went into effect and glorified
by Reorganizer Noble as "director
of collections and assessments," to
the chairmanship of the State in
dustrial commission as successor to
Maj. Matt Allen, who resigned to
practice law in Kinston. The posi
tion from which Mr. McMullan re
tired, it is reported by the Raleigh
News and Observer, "is not expect
ed to be filled." Revenue Commis
sioner A. J. Maxwell, although
there has been some evidence that
he is not the highest authority on
personnel matters in his depart
ment, is directly quoted: "There
is no certainty that a new sains
tax director will be chosen as we
may handle the work with our gen
eral force."
The Daily News would be the
last person to advocate crippling
or impairment of governmental
services and functions by resort to
a reduced or under-nourished per
sonnel. Where needless jobs do
exist, however, especially in the
higher pay brackets, efficiency,
which in the final analysis, depends
mightily upon morale, could con
ceivably be much better served by
adding these available funds to
the pay-checks or hordes of lesser
workers who, after all, bear the
burden and who are suffering,
body and soul, from legislatively
engendered anaemia.—Greensboro
Daily News.
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BLAMES
MANUFACTURERS
To the Editor: This phrase, "An
abundance of cheap contended la
bor in the Carolinas," heralded
through popular publications by
the Duke Power Co., David Clark
of the Textile Bulletin, and other
large employers, has turned to
wormwood. Flying Squadrons and
picket lines, bristling bayonets and
closed mills proclaim in trumpet
tones that labor in the Carolinas
is not content and does not in
tend to remain cheap.
Concerning this the worst clash
in our industrial history, fair-
J minded, intelligent readers are
j convinced of one thing: The failure
i of the textile barons to conform to
i Section 7-A of the textile code,
which provides for collective bar
gaining and union recognition, is
the real cause of the upheaval.
Hours, wages,, etc., could have been
adjusted in an, open conference be
fore the National Labor Board
where the textile union representa
tives would have been recognized.
Sloan and other textile leaders de
fied and ignored such a conference.
The blood of the strike is on their
hands. The Federal government
and the representatives of the un
ions plead for such a conference.
The cotton mill interests plan to
i break the backbone of the union.
JOHN B. PALMER,
j Warrenton, N. C.
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CENTRALIZED CONTROL
To the Editor: I notice that the
j school patrons down in Alabama
' are striking for the right to hire
1 their teachers and control their
j schools.
If something is not done i'i
North Carolina about giving local
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school authorities control of their
schools, 1 would not be surprised
to see strikes in North Carolina.
Local school patrons have been
taxed heavily to build their school
buildings, and also are taxed to
run their schools, and local pa
trons are not going to keep on
contending with what some county
superintendents are doing, which
is, trying to take all the authority
away from their school committee
men.
There have been complaints from
Mecklenburg, Stanly and other
counties about the educationl lead
ers trying to take all the authoriy
away from the local school commit
teemen in regard to hiring toach
ers, and that is just what is caus
ing strikes down in Alabama.
J. V. Watson.
Gastonia, N. C.
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DROUGHT AFFECTS SHIPS
Buffalo, N. Y.—Low water in
the Great Lakes has forced
freighters to reduce loading cap
acity. Shipping leaders say the
season's loss of revenue will ex
ceed $10,000,000. \
OFFERS ROLLING STOCK
New York.—Receivers for the
Florida-East Coast Railway have
proposed to turn over to equip
ment trust certificates holders the
25 locomotives and 323 cars cov
ered by the mortgage. If the
security holders take the equip
ment, it will be the first action of
its kind since 1910.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
North Carolina, Nash County.
I'he undersigned having qualified
as Administrator of the estate of
Annie E. Grimes, deceased, all per
sons owing the estate are request
ed to make immediate settlement,
and all persons holding accounts
against the estate are notified to
present same properly verified
within one year or this notice will
be pleaded in bar thereof.
This August 27th, 1934.
C. F. RICH, Administrator of
the Estate of Annie E. Grimes,
deceased. (6t A3l to 05)
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST
North Carolina, Nash County.
Under and by virtue of the pow
er of sale contained in that Deed of
Trust executed by F. I. Rudy and
his wife, Nancy Rudy, to R B. Da
vis, Trustee, and duly recorded in
Book 353, Page 511, of the Public
Registry of Nash County, the in
debtedness thereby secured being
past due and the holder thereof
having directed the undersigned to
foreclose, the undersigned will of
fer for sale at public auction for
cash on Saturday, September 29,
1934, at 12:00 M., at the Planters
National Bank and Trust Company
corner, in the City of Rocky Mount,
Nash Coun'y, North Carolina, the
following described real estate.
Beginning at the southwest cor
ner of the intersection of Pearl
Street and Beal Avenue, and run
ning southerly with Pearl Street
50 feet to George Robbins, Jr., old
corner; thence westerly with Geo.
Robbins, Jr., old line 138 feet,
thence northerly on a line parallel
with Pearl Street 50 feet to Beal I
Avenue; thence easterly with Beal
Avenue 138 feet to the beginning;
being part of the identical lot or
parcel of land conveyed to Alphon
so Hicks by deed from M. R. Bras
well and wife Mamie H. Braswell
and J. W. Hines and wife, Tillie
M. Hines, recorded in Book 204,
page 163, Nash Registry; and be
ing the identical property conveyed
by Alphonso Hicks to A. C Bone,
by deed recorded iri Bool; 260, Page
149, Nash Registry and by A. C.
Bone to A. Hicks by deed recorded
in Book 316, Page 511, Nash Reg
istry, and by A. Hicks and wife,
to F. L. Rudy and wife by deed re
corded in Book 336, Page 222, Nash
Registry, to which reference may
be made for further description
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and identification. i
The above described property
will be sold subject to a deed of
trust to K. D. Battle, Trustee, se- j
curing a debt to the Rocky Mount 1
Homestead and Loan Association
and also a deed of trust to R. B.
Davis, Trustee, securing a debt to
Dr A. C. Bone; also all outstand
ing taxes due the City of Rocky
Mount and also all outstanding
taxes due the County of Nash.
This 27: h day of August, 1934.
R. B. DAVIS, Trustee.
L. L. Pettitt, Attorney.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
North Carolina, Nash County.
Under and by virtue of the pow
er and authority contained in that
certain deed of trust given by W.
C. Eatmon and wife, Kate Eatmon,
to R. T. Fountain, Trustee, on
February Ist, 1932, and recorded in
Book No. 363, Page 338, Nash
County Registry, default having
been made in the payment of the
indebtedness thereby secured as
therein provided, the undersigned
will offer for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash on
Saturday, September 29th, 1934, at
or about the hour of 12 o'clock,
noon, in front of the Planters Na
tional Bank and Trust Company,
corner of Sunset Avenue and Main
street, city of Rocky Mount, the
following described real estate sit
uate in Nash County, .State of
North Carolina, to-wit:
150 feet of ;he western part of
lot No. 13, which was drawn by
Emma B. Bulluck, now Emma B.
Langley, in the division of the
lands of her grandfather, O. L.
Jackson, the same being lot No. 13 ;
of the Boone land and which will
be found by reference to Book No.
94, Pages one and seq. Said 150
feet is described as follows: Be
ginning at a stake in Williford's.
line, corner of No. 12; thence
with the line of lot No. 12 N. 86
deg. 15 min. E. 150 feet to a stake,
a newly made corner; thence with
the new line, across jaid lot S. 3
deg. 15 min. E. 3.6 C chains to a
stake a newly made corner; thence
with the line of lot No. 14 S. 86
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deg. W. 150 feet to a stake in M.
Williford's line; thence with Willi
ford's line N. 3 deg. 30 min. E. 3.63
chains to the beginning. This de
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T. L. Worsley and wife and John
L. Worsley and wife to W. G. Eat- \
mon, recorded in Book 134, Page
388, Nash County Registry.
TTiis the 28th day of August,
1934.
R T. FOUNTAIN, Trustee "
Ben E. Fountain, Attorney.
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