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BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA The Rocky Mount VOLUME 1, NO. 40 Cooley Backs President In Vigorous Manner Congressman From Fourth District Vigorously Cham pions The New Deal Sanford. Congressman Harold D. Cooley opened the Democratic campaign in Lee county here Fri day evening in a stirring address, to an enthusiastic audience. The appearance of Mr. Cooley, his first in Lee county, was under the aus pices of the Lee County Young Democrats. Music for the occas ion was furnished by the Sanford Moose band. -v. Dr. J. F. Foster, Democratic county chairman, presided over the meeting and announced that Congressman Walter Lambeth and ' Carl Goerch would deliver cam paign addresses here, on October 19. J. C. Pittman, of the Sanford bar, a college mate of the speaker of the evening, presented him to the audience. Declaring that the coming election will be the test of our faith in the plans and policies of the New Deal, Mr. Coiley said that is is the duty and privilege of every citizen to vote and regis . ter his approval of the leadership of President Roosevelt, the world's \ most famous citizen, who is doing so much to dispel the clouds of doubt and despair and to help the forgotten mna. Mr. Cooley flayed the members of the newly organized Liberty League who are opposing the plarf of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. He said that many of those who claim that the New Deal is infringing upon the liber ties of the American people, are 1 trying to protect the interests of the public -utilities, wildcat bank ers, munition makers, those who •would defy the pure food laws, and employers who would grind t.he hearts out of their employees. Mr. Cooley said that the AAA has brought smiles to the faces of thf farmers, instead of the look of despair that had existed for the past few years. He praised the Kerr-Smith tobacco act and said that the cotton growers would > benefit by the Bankheud act A3 soon as some of its inequalities could be ironed out. He said that in the gigantic task that the ad ministration has in remedying conditions some inequalities are bound to exist until smoothed out. Mr. Cooley declared that "Pres • ident Roosevelt in his New Deal is trying to save the red blooded men of America from the bread line and to restore their self re spect, not to destroy but to regu late business, to find the best wty back to social justice and fair deal ing, so that human happiness may follow." , National Safety Council finds riße in automobile deaths. Readers, when you pur chase goods advertised in these columns tell the merchants you saw it in THE HERALD. Try Our Advertising Columns Tell The Herald's 8,000 read 4 your needs and what f«a have for ule, rent or ex dnie BY the DM of oar Claaafied Ad Column or B«ignlar A 4 Column. Hospitals Given National Approval Five Nearby Hospitals Listed By College Of Surgeons As Approved By Them Three Rocky Mount hsopita's, and a hospital in Wilson and one in Tarboro have the seal of ap proval of the American College of Surgeons, information received here this afternoon ind : cated. These five institutions are listed among 2,480 hospitals in 'he United States and Canada which are so approved out of 3,533 hos pitals of 25 beds and more. The local hospitals given ap proval include the Atlantic Coast Line hospital, the Rocky Mount Sanitarium and the Park View hospital. Edgcombe General hospital in Tarboro and Wilson's Moore Her ring hospital were also approved. This information was issued in the seventeenth yearly report of the college of surgeons. To make the approved list, def inite requirements rftust be met "These include particularly the maintenance of organized medical staffs of ethical, competent physi cians; complete jnedical records; and analysis of the clinical work adequ«te laboratory and x-ray fa cilities; and a thorough review of the hospital each month so as to carefully check up the results of the professional activities within the hospital, analyze, and seek to improve, them," the bulletin re ceived from the college of sur geons, Dr. Franklin H. Martin, founder and director general of the college, shows. Dr. Martin, in presenting the annual report, said "Hospital care despite trying economic conditions in the United States and Canada, of the last five years, has shown a most gratifying improvement in service." RITES CONDUCTED HERE FOR VICTIM OF SUICIDE Body Of Miss Hale Is In terred On Sunday A throng of persons attended final rites here yesterday after noon for Mis* Martha Elizabeth Hate, 16-year,-old ?uicid? victim who snuffed out her life by inhal ing gas. The funeral services were con ducted from the home of the gill's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hale, 511 Buena Vista Avenue, with Rev. H. C. Ewing, pastor of the Clark Street Methodist church, as sisted by Rev. William Towe and Rev. Norman Vaughan, in charge. Interment was mada in Pine view cemetery. Efforts of the local fite depart ment members were futile in at tempts by artificial respiration to restore life to the girl whose, body was found early Saturday night slumped on the bathroom floor. Besides her fatho • and mother the dead girl is survived by two sisters, Rena and Leiha, and cne brother, Robert STUDENTS STRIKE Bridgeport, Conn.—Three hun dred high school students quit their classes in a strike for short er school hours. Last year, ow ing to congestion, the school op erated on a half-day schedule. The opening of a new school re lieved the congestion and full day classes were begun. «H)UR SLAIN IN BATTLE St. Jacob, 111. When robbers entered his tavern, Elmer Jack son opened fire with a shotgun, and in the fusillade which foilowed two of the bandits, an employe and one patron were killed. BOLIVIA REFUSES Buenos Aires. Bolivia is not inclined to cease hostilities in the Chaco until a final settlement of the territorial dispute is attained. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1934 CATTLE EXPERT GEORGE STEIN, A. C. C. ( Wilson Wilson.—George Stein, rret-h -iiian student at Atlantic Christian College from Rocky Mount, will leave with three other North Car olina boys for Kanras City on Oc tober 17 to take part ir. the na tional livestock judging contest to be held there from the 20th through the 27th. These four young farmers com prise the State delegation which will compete with representatives from the other forty seven 3tates for livestock juSging honors. Pre viously Stein and the other three have won out in local, district, and State contests. Stein, a graduate of the 1934 class at West Edgecombe High school, Rocky Mount, has a very fine record behind him as a stu dent in high school vocational ag riculture, having won the coveted Carolina Farmers' degree, which is bestowed upon a few young Tar Heel farmers each year for their excellence along several lines in the field of vocational agriculture. NEW AGENT IS ADDED TO INSURANCE COMPANY Ward Announces Alford As Special Agent Here D. L. Alford, Jr., formerly of Asheville and Durham, has arrived in the city today to begin work as special agent for the Life In surance Company of Virginia, C. C Ward, generii agent of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, announced. Mr. Alford, who worked this section of the State for two years from 1931 to 1933, is well acquainted with eastern North Carolina, it is understood. Mr. Alford plans to make his home in Rocky Mount. He fin ished Duke University in Durham fn 1931, and afterward went to work as an agent with a territory including all e ist of Raieigh. Fcl 'owing his two years work in this par*, of the State he moved to Asheville, wher? he was connected with the George Vanderbilt hotel tr >.io « From Ashev'.o Mi. All >rd came t I ocky Moun*, where he begins wo f with tii; Life Insurance Company of v irginia as special agent for this territory. OFFICIAL, DEAD, HELD 3,000 UNCASHED CHECKS Marlinton, W. Va.—When S. L. Brown, clerk of Pocahontas County, died after serving for for ty years, auditors found 1,500 money orders and 3,000 checks which had never been cashed. Most of them were for sums ranging l from one to two dollars. Every year when his books were audited, Mr. Brawn wrote his per sonal check for the amount due and was never short A cent in his account. Whether writers of the checks made them good or not is a question, because most of the checks are out of date. However, many new checks are being re ceived by the administrator of his estate. The money orders will be paid in full by the Post Office De partment. League of Nations receives Ec uador as its sixtieth member. Drop in world wheat crop fore cast as improving situation. Roosevelt picks two boards to direct NRA reorganization. Is He Out To Be Governor Several articles have recently been sent out from Raleigh by certain feature reporters advocating Mr. Hoey for governor, undertaking to feel the lay of the ground as to how public sentiment is for him. Mr. Hoey is the brother in-law of former Governor O. Max Gardner and generally recognized as his chief and confidential adviser, and Mr. Gardner made the statement that he offered to appoint his brother-in-law senator when he appointed Governor Morri son, but Mr,. Hoey must have thought it was probably too much of a family affair, and according to news reports, de clined. Some of these reporters have gone so far as to say that other candidates are waiting to find what Mr. Hoey will do before they decide what they will do themselves. This is, of course, to try to build up sentiment for Mr. Hoey. The public does -not believe this to be a true statement of condi tions, for it is not believed there are any candidates awaiting their decision on Mr. Hoey's action. It is not thought in this part of the State that Mr. Hoey will offer himself, even though he is trying to feel out the ground, but, if he should run, can the Democratic party afford to nominate him? Some of his friends say he is making so much money he can't afford to offer himself as his financial loss would be so great. He is one of the General Counsel of the Power Trust, and he represented this great interest during the last three sessions of the legislature as Senior Counsel and lobbyist. He is reported to also serve the combined tobacco manufacturers in the same capacity, with large retainers. He is also re tained by five of the text book publishers who have books to be adopted and sold to the Board of Education, and was so employed during his brother-in-law's term of office as governor, and was reported to have represented the pub lishing house that was not low bidder when in 1930 there was sought to get an adoption of a new arithmetic at a lower price than the one on the list, and after several hearings and the bids were in, Governor Gardner declined to go forward with the adoption, and Mr. Hoey's client retained the old book for another year by reason of the failure of the adop tion. It was reported by his friends that his fees and honorar iums were far in excess of $25,000 per session for work as lobbyist among the members of the House and Senate, and appearances before the financial committee. He was recog nized as the dean of the lobbyists. A.F.L. Checks On Williams San Francisco.—lnvestigation of the labor attitude of Clay Wil liams, NRA board member, will be requested by William Green, president of the American Feder ation of Labor, on his return to Washington, he announced today. Green, who plans to leav? to morrow for the East said the fed eration's executive council had in structed him to present the request t oPresident Roosevelt. An investigafon of Williams' attitude while nead of a tobacco company, toward organized labor was demanded in a resolution adopted by the A. F. of L. conven tion here last week. It accused him of opospition to trade unions and to collective bargaining with them. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" was the subject of the Le3- son-Sermon in all Churches and Societies of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, October 14, 1934. The Golden Text was fromlsiaah 33:22. "The Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us." Among th ecitations which com prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light 1 walked through darkness; as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tab ernacle." (Job 29:2-4.) The Lesson-Sermon also includ ed the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Scien ce and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "We should hesitate to say that Jehovah sins or suffers; but if sin and suffering are realities of be ing, whence did they emanate? God made all that was made, and Mind signifies God,—infinity, not finity. Not far removed front in fidelity is the belief which unites such opposities as sickness and health, holiness and unholiness, calls both the offspring or spirit, and at the same time admits that Spirit ig God, —viritually declaring Him good in one instance and evil in another." Australian youth breaks record in flight to England. Farmers Urged Enter 12c Pool By ROY H. PARK Tarboro, Oct. 18.—Farmers who pooled their cotton on the govern ment's 10-cent plan last year are advised by the directors of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association to trans fer this cotton to the newly-created 1 12-cent pool, B. C. Mayo, a direc- j tor of the cooperative said here • upon his return from the regular j October board meeting. This consensus of opinion was reached after the directors had discussed the 12-cent loan plan from every angle, Mr. Mayo said. He pointed out that one of the main advantages of transferring the cotton from the 10-cent to the 12-cent pool is that by so doing the farmer automatically extends the date during which he may au thorize the sale of the cotton from February 1, 1935, to July 31, 1935. This gives him almost six more months in which he can take ad vantage of any rise in the market. Mr. Mayo, who is director of the third district, composed of Npsh, Edgecombe and Halifax counties) pointed out that all any coopera tive member has to do in order to get the additional loan of two cents a pound, less carrying charges, is to write a card or let ter to the Raleigh office of the cooperative requesting it. The board of directors also went on record as urging farmers to see that their cotton is in proper con dition before ginning to avoid "gin-cutting." Damage from "gin cutting" has been very much in evidence this year due to exces sive rain during the picking sea son. M. G. Mann, general manager, reported to the board that, al though local interests are waging an intensive battle for the 12-cent loan cotton, deliveries to the asso ciation are running far ahead of expectations. Settlement on weights on the day of delivery, proper classing by a government grader and full premiums on all cotton better than middling 7-8, proper storage at reasonable rates, and quick and convenient sales are four of the advantages Mr. Mann said would accrue to farmers who get their 12-cent loans through their own cooperative. World idle reduced 3,000,000 in year, b'jt pace of gain slows. IVatL improvement in Septem ber is reported by banks. PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON PLANNING THE NEW BUDGET IS INFLATION BEGINNING? TWO PERPLEXING QUESTIONS BOTH PREDICT "VICTORY" SENATE-HOUSE OUTLOOK TO TIGHTEN UP THE N. R. A. ROOSEVELT AND BANKERS IS BUSINESS HOLDING BACK? HOUSING PROGRAM SPEEDED By Hugo Sims, Gold Leaf Farmer Special Washington Corre spondent. The question of how much money the government will spend in the next fiscal year is receiv ing attention as the President and his assistants begin preliminary work on the report to Congress next January. Last year the na tion was amazed by the Presi dent's estimate that the deficit would reach more than seven bil lion dollars by June 30th, with two bilion more added durnig the last half of the year. This was not the case, however, as the deficit, at the end of September was only $4,154,000,000—55,141,- 000,000 short of the estimate. With definite plans to continue the C. C. C. and with heavy ex penditures certain to continue through relief agencies and P. W. A., there is no chance of balanc ing the budget in full, although it is expected that the "normal" expenditures will be less than in come. Another development is that payments to the R. F. C., which is authorized to call on the Treasury for nearly two billion dolars, are about equaling loans thus lowering the prospective deficit for next year. The argument over the amount of inflation involved in the na tionalization and purchase of sil ver got underway agnin when it was seen that there has been an increase of $134,000,000 ui money outstanding in the past two months. More than half was in Federal Reserve notes but appar ently $56,000,000 was in silver certificates. Meanwhile, silver is being bought at the rate of 35,- 000,000 ounces a month, which means a two year program to reach the goal set by Congress and establish silver at a one-to three ration with gold as a curren cy backing. Undoubtedly the next Congress will face two perplexing questions when it gets together in January —payment of the bonus immedi ately, and 30-hour week legisla tion. The annual convention of the American Federation ol Labor unanimously went on record in favor of the latter as a means to eliminate unemployment, nnd tbe American Legion Convention, meeting in the latter part of this month, is expected to call for im mediate payment of about $2,200,- 000,000 to the ex-soldiers. Four teen of the forty-four departments have gone on record in favor of this step and they represent more than a third of the voting strength of the Legion convention. Republican and Democratic par ty officials insist that the election in November will be a "victory," and it is safe to predict that after it is ove r the results will be up held by partisans of both sides as a "vindication." Particular atten tion centers upon the Senate races because, if the Democrats make anything like the gains they ex- -u-L-irll i ij j u i r 11 - - - 1 " ' i-i IIF-iN n_i IJULUJHUIJI NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending $l.OO with name and - address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Name Town : ..State -Route No. i— * rr _ | - 1 -i rr . n _- r n - |||lrillrtnnnr|| . L|lJuui uuuuvnimgj $l.OO PER YEAR pect, that party will acquire such a control of the upper chamber as to enable it to retain a ma jority in 1936 even if a Republi can President is then elected. In asmuch as only a third of the Sen ators have to face the voters every two years it requires years to overcome a large majority. The present roll call in the Sen ate shows 60 Democrats, 35 Re publicans and one Farmer-Labor member. A gain of four for the party in power, which seems like ly. will give it a two-thirds ma jority, enough to invoke cloture, run roughshod over opposition, ratify treaties and suspend Senate rules. However, it is safe to say that there will be few occasions when all the Democrats will vote solidly behind any measure. While greater interest is center ed in the Senatorial contests, the House elections offer an opor tunity for something like a clear declaration of the people upon t he major policies of the Administra tion. The entire membership of the House is to be filled, giving the voters a chance to wreck the New Deal, if they are so disposed, by the simple method of electing opposition candidates. This, it seems, will be hard to do, because in many districts candidates are finding jt expedient to avoid at tacking the Administration. This is not the case in Pennsylvania and Michigan, however, but 3* n ~ erally it js the picture. Ths reorganization of the N. B. A. forecasts some changes in pol icies as well as a new method of administration. As set up by the President, a policy-fixing unit ' a headed by Donald Richberg and includes Secretaries Ickes and Perkins, Harry Hopkins and Ches ter Davis. This group will make recommendations to the President and, while changes will come slowly, it is clearly indicated that price-fixing and production con trol provisions of manyy codes will be eliminated. More effective ac tion to prevent monopolies, pro-« tect small businesses, enforce the collective bargaining section, and emphasize the need for unrestrict ed prdouction and open competi tion are urged as vital to the cap italist system. The administrative board ia headed by S. Clay Williams, for mer head of a large tobacco com pany, and includes Sidney Hill man, a labor leader of New York; and A. D. Whiteside, president of Dun and Bradstreet; Leon Mar shall, a deputy NRA administra tor, and Walter Hamilton, an econ omist. AH of these members &r«j familiar with NRA administrative details which they will have to handle. Realizing that compliance with NRA codes has grown steadiy worse in the past few months, the next step will be to put sharper teeth behind the enforcement pro visions ana to begin a drive to obtain obedience to the provisions of codes. The President is taking a strong personal hand in passing upon all phases of the recovery effort and will soon tighten up compliance machinery by setting up a judicial division, in which the Federal Trade Coninisision and the Department of Justice will have definite functions. The meeting of the American Bankers' Association in Washing ton later this month will bring (Please torn to page eight)