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The Rocky mount Herald VOLUME 1, NO. 46 PARAGRAPHSSt)N NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON BUSINESS SURRENDERS ELECTION FORCES ALIGN MENT. TO WORK WITH NEW DEAL SECURITY PROGRAM PUZZLE. ROOSEVELT USES BRAKES "POWER TRUST" DOOMED TV A TO HEAD YARDSTICKS LABOR ANXIETY. v By Hugo Sims Special Washington Correspond ent * Big business, well able to un derstand election returns, took lit tle time to admit that President Roosevel,t as a result of the re cent voting, is in complete control of the national government for two, if not six years, and that it might as well fall in line, regard less of its own desires. Frankly, leaders say that this movement toward cooperation is an effort to prevent exactment of extreme t measures by bringing about suffi cient improvement by the time Congress meets to give force to protests against drastic innova tions. Accepting the verdict at the polls wise leaders foresee that President Roosevelt will face a strong "left" group, ready to go much further than the Chief Ex ecutive, and that the best thing to do is to give support and en couragement to present undertak ings, lest worst befall, and thua aid Mr. Roosevelt in resisting un wise proposals. For more than a year industry, business and fi nance have been yearning for some sighs of a return to old times but the hope has faded. Most* of the uncertainties about, which business leaders complained still exist but without prospect of any change in broad policies which created them. So that we come to the recent resolution of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, introduced by Silas H. Strawn, relentless critic of the New Deal, reciting evidence "of a growing determination by business, indus try and agriculture to cooperate in every possible manner to pro mote an improvement in recovery from our existing economic con f dition" and pledging the fullest cooperation of the chamber to reach a "common agreement upon a program which will be fair and just to all and accelerate the ef forts toward recovery." This attitude is quite different ' from the questionnaire sent the President some week 3 ago, virtu ally demanding reassurance along specific lines in order that busi ness might be "reassured." it must have been a bitter pill for the Chamber of Commerce leaders t to bow to the President who ig nored its queries but no one denies the wisdom of the action. The question before business was not to formulate a plan, as many of them at one time seemed to think, but to devise methods of cooperat ing with the broad outlines of the New Deal. The extent to which this atti > tude has taken hold of other big business leaders is realized when we recall the recent conciliatory resolutions of the American Bank ers Association, which met at Washington, and note that the National Association of Manufac turers, which has held back stren uously, is promoting a conference next month at which three large organizations will attempt to out line a program to be presented to the President in a friendly, help ful mood. Speculation as to "private" as surance to business leaders arise but none seem to have been given. Recent developments have en couraged conservations although Mr. Roosevelt declined to make any promises about budget balanc ing or dollar stabilization, the two pledges that the Chamber of. Com merce tried to extract in Septem ber. Insisting that he will go ahead with the New Deal the President has placed greater em phasis on recovery rather than reform, although by no % means abandoning his social-economic ideals or his refusal to admit that there must always be "millions of unemployed." Concretely, conservatives have been pleased at NRA changes, Treasury refinancing along con ventional lines, refusal to openly endorse Upton Sinclair, the termi nation of the House Owners' Loan Corporation, the Federal Housing campaign based on the response of private capital, opposition to cash payment of the bonus, restoration of full pay to government work ers on the ground that recovery would warrant it by next June and the lifting of the ban on the export of capital. Mofeoyer, offi cials have taken repeated occa sions to declare that the govern-1 ment, in many operations, is only until private industry or capital takes up the slack. The speech of President Roose velt at the National Conference on Economic Security has been close ly studied, with conflicting inter pretations placed upon his re marks. Newspapers generally her alded a postponement of the se curity program, except for unem ployment insurance, and business generally took it as a retreat from advanced proposals for old age pensions and health insurance. On the other hand, Secretary of Labor Perkins declared the speech did not close the legislative door to these matters and she is prob ably right, but undoubtedly the President's speech did nothing to shove the measures through. Mr. Roosevelt's speech followed the cry of Harry Hopkins, relief administrator, for a "bold stroke" in favor of social security. It gave definite information that "unem ployment insurance will be on the program," but not as charity for "it must be financed by contribu tions, not taxes." Frankly, the President said he did not know "whether this is the time for any Federal legislation on old age se curity" and decried the activity of organizations which have increas ed the difficulty of getting sound legislation by "promoting fantas tic schemes" and hopes "which cannot posibly be fulfilled." Emphasis was placed upon the insurance feature of old age pen sions as well as health insurance, with the admonition that "we can not work miracles or solve all our problems at once." The first task, said the President, was to "get our economic system to function so that there will be greater gen eral security." Our own idea, is that the speech was designed to put the brakes on popular accep tance to "fantastic schemes" and to warn people generally that the problem of social security is one that cannot be dealt with and solv ed by easy addresses that do not take into account the practical a n d financial questions involved. No such uncertainty developed in regard to the Tenessee Valley Authority program. While visit ing and inspecting the scene of its work the President took occa sion to emphasize his purpose to extend similar developments to every State in the Union despite "ragged opposition." In truth, his determination to keep to his "yard stick" idea means war on the so called "power trust" that will not (Please turn to page eight) 0— ——— ROCKY MOUNT MARKET CLOSES DECEMBER 7 Harold J. Browder, Secretary- Treasurer of the Rocky Mount To bacco Board of Trade, announced today that the marketing season would 'close Friday, December 7. The Thanksgiving holidays start after Wednesdays sales and will be resumed on Monday, December 3. The closing date of December 7 gives the market five more sell ing days after Thanksgiving. "The Rocky Mount tobacco mar ket has had a most successful sea son," said Mr. Browder and takes this opportunity to extend to to bacco growers and others interest ed in the market the wish that this Thanksgiving will be a most enjoyable one, and thanks to the thousands of growers who have sold tobacco on this market this season." ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934 County Teachers Hear Speakers Edgecombe Chib Meets At Crisp School Tarboro, Nov. 28.—Miss Estelle Jenkins, Pinetops school principal, Prof. J. G. Feezor, West Edge combe school principal, Prof, J. A. Abernathy, Edgecombe county su perintendent, and Miss Juanita McDougald, of the state depart ment of education, spoke at the Edgecombe Schoolmasters club session held at Crisp school Mon day night, jt was revealed here to day. President J. P. Mcßride, Cone toe school principal, presided. Miss Jenkins, stressing the more utilitarian subjects in the elemen tary school curriculum, discussed the topic "What Is Wrong With the School Curriculum?" She con fined her talk to the elementary curriculum. Too many subjects are now taught children that will have no particular use to the students in making a living, she said in substance. Prof. Feezor, considering the subject from the standpoint of the high school, said that reports re ceived by him indicated that among other difficulties the teach er load is too heavy, the classes are not properly divided and the smart students are held back be cause of the slower-thinking ones, and that teachers are not strict enough disciplinarians. Miss McDougald and Prof. Ab ernathy also talked briefly. Tailoring Co. Opens New Store The Exum Tailoring Co. opened up for business this morning its new store on Tarboro' street, op posite the New York Cafe. Their new store has been reconditioned completely and handsome show windows installed. This firm will carry a complete line of men's haberdashery, and will be a great addition to Tarboro street. Growers To Decide Fate Of Bankhead Act The fate of the Bankhead Act will be put squarely up to the southern cotton growers in the re ferendum to be conducted in De cember, says Dean I. 0. Schaub, of State College. If two-thirds of the growers vote for the act, it will be con tinued in 1935 on an improved and more flexible basis, Schaub says. Otherwise, it will be dis carded. Since some of the crop control will be necessary to save cotton growers' from a return of ruinous prices, he says the adjustment contracts, which were signed on a two-year basis for 1934 and 19- 35, will be continued in force re gardless of the vote on the Bank head measure. Experiences gained during the first years of the act!s>administra tion will enable the AAA to pre pare a more efficient and flexible method of administering the act another year, Schaub adds. Changes in the policy of adminis tering the act are now being planned. The allotments under the act, if it is continued, will be somewhat larger than this year. The con tract allotments will be around 26 percent larger next year, as the maximum reduction that can be called for under the contracts is 25 percent below the base aver age. In voting on the act, Schaub says, the grower will not be vot ing for a certain allotment or tax rate, but on the question as to whether the secretary of agricul ture shall have the power to make allotments and levy a tax on ex cess cotton. The act does not set a fixed al lotment for each grower or the amunt of tax to be paid on excess production, but empowers the sec retary of agriculture to determine the allotments and the tax by the needs of the market. "Robbie" Now a Kentucky Colonel 4 I ■' •' Frances Al. Kobjlnson, better known as "Hobble," who has been the very active executive secretary of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson during his regime as NKA administrator, is now a real Kentucky colonel. Here she is seen examining the commission bestowed on her by Governor Laffoon. More Machine Propaganda For The Sales Tax In a recent article appearing in the Greensboro News, which has been outstanding in the agitation for retention of the general sales tax, it was suggested that the sales tax would have to be retained in order to supply funds to match federal relief for the support of the poor. The state has never engaged in this kind of relief except where there have been local calamities. The communities have generally borne the burden of the support of the in firm, aged, and afflicted. It was first suggested that the sales tax must be re tained in order to educate our children, but when it was learned that there was probably a surplus in the state treasury from highway funds and other sources of about ten million dollars or more. It was clearly shown that there was no need for the retention of the general sales tax, so then they began to advocate the sales tax for the support of the poor. There is an organization recently set up in Raleigh which is directed by Mr. Geo. Ross Pou as its executive secretary at a splary reported at six thousand a year, the same salary which he drew from the 3t&te highway Ttinds, this salary being paid by road builders. The last legislature forbade the laying out of new roads for the next two years except to meet federal funds, and by reason of this, there is a large surplus in the highway funds, and the business of this organization is to issue propaganda so as to give the highway commission the right to expend this large amount so that they can get this money out of the treasury and leave a demand for the retention of the general sales tax, which as it now appears, is not necessary. WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH THE TURLINGTON ACT? 1 We have not heard of much agitation for repeal of the Turlington Act, but it has been suggested or rumored that some representative of the machine would introduce a bill to repeal this act and that this same machine, which is very anxious to advance the cause of Mr. Hoey politically would look about for someone to defend the act, and Mr. Hoey will be requested to come down and take leadership in op position to repeal the Turlington Act, the purpose of which will be to put Mr. Hoey in the roll of being the leader of public temperance and morals with the view of getting the public mind off of his past and present* services to the great special interest for the country and his great service as dean of the lobbyests in past sessions of the last several legislatures. It has been suggested by certain correspondents of Ra leigh that Mr. Hoey will be candidate for governor, but it has also been suggested that he probably would not be a can candidate for governor but might be a candidate against Senator Reynolds in the next election. The Public Keyhole, a publication of Raleigh, has recent ly denominated him as Shelby's gift to democracy. BOYS CLUBS CONVENE COMMITTEES APPOINTED Hi Y Groups Gather At Y. M. C. A. For Meeting The junior and senior Hi—Y clubs met in separate sessions Tuesday night at the Y with the respective adult leaders, Moseley Faison and John A. Harper, of the Y staff here. The juniors had a program which included a play, the hearing of current event, and making of plans, and the seniors had a business session during which committee members were named. During the junior meeting, pre sided over by President John Chambliss, Jr., Mr. Faison recited the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by request and Tom Av era and Robert Bobbitt presented a play in dialog form. Members voted to omit the Thanksgiving gift basket and put all their ef forts into making the Christmas donation to the needy the best gift they could. t It was decided also to consider new members within a short time. The senior club had Wingate Upton preside, as President Lee Large did not attend. Committees appointed included a program committee, headed by Frank Lee Greathouse, chairman, and includ ing Tommie Bradford and Jones Huskey; devotiinal—Felix Bishop chairman, R. G. Murchinson, Jr., George Fox, and nominating com mittee of Fox, chairman, Murchin son, and Greathouse. Members also decided to have only one supper meeting month ly, and that on the first Tuesday each month. o Edgar Auton, Caldwell county 4-H club member, made 77.8 bushels of corn on one acre thi3 year. He had a profit of $37.60 after deducting expenses amount ing to $30.25. o —— Germany changes its attitude toward the Soviet, 60th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D. Fly, of this city, celebrated their sixtieth anniversary November 26th. They passed the day quietly at their home here, being visited by near ly all their eight children, twen ty-seven grand children, and five great-grand children. Mrs. Fly, who was born June 17, 1854, was before her marriage Miss Piety Ellen Proctor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Proctor, of Nash Co unty. Mr. Fly, who is 81 years old, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fly, of Edgecombe County. Children of the couple include: Mrs. Maggie James, Mrs. Eva Daughtridge, Mrs. Alice Daugh tridge, Mrs. Shade Felton, Mrs. F. R. Dew, Mrs. Albert Elmore, Joseph D. Fly, J. W. P. Fly, all of Rocky Mount. Two Arrested In Spruill Death Warrant Out For Third Wanted In Connection With Brutal Crime With two men in jail and police hot on the trail of the third, a solution for the burtal axe mur der of George Edward Spruill, 62, former Baptist minister and at the time of his death a grocer, was claimed here tonight. The arrest of Collis Reese, 28, mill worker of this city, and How ard Kannon, of Louisburg, came with dramatic suddenness last night shortly after the grand jury returned true bills against the three on murder and robbery charges. third man, James Kannon, 34, of Raleigh, who jump ed a bond in Nash County when hi* case was .called on|. .robbery charges in the present term of Nash court, has not been appre hended. Police said the men were in sep arate jails. They declined to re veal the source of their informa tion or to say why the three men were suspected. Spruill was found, his head crushed with an axe or "some blunt instrument" in a crumpled heap before the safe in his store here by a negro customer on Monday, July 23. He was last seen alive by his son-in-law, John El len, when Ellen drove him to the store where he slept, late Sunday night. The weapon with which the gro cer was slain has never been found. Rewards totalling $450 were posted by the State, city and friends of the slain grocer. Norman Gold, employed as pri vate prosecutor, said "we are con fident we have the right men." DURHAM MERCHANTS PUSH SALES TAX FIGHT Durham—The launching o fan extensive campaign of the Dur ham merchants against the State sales tax gained momentum today as the legislative committee of the Durham Merchants Associa tion sent out a questionnaire to all members asking them to say whether or not they favor making the fight. In the letter accompaning the ballots, the legislative committee stated that it "stands ready to wage an uncompromising fight against the reenactment of the sales tax." To make a worthwhile fight, the committee pointed out that a united effort by all merchants must be made, and unless the poll indciated that the mtrchants were behind the committee solidly, the committee's fight would not pro ceed. The legislative committee oppos es the sales tax since it violates in its opinion the three fundamen tal principles of taxation: 1. The tax should produce sufficient rev enue to operate the government; 2. tax sould bear lightly on those least able to pay it; 3. tax should not interfere with orderly conduct of business. o Two new 4-H clubs have been organized in Union county re cently by County Agent, Tom Broome. SI.OO PER YBAB Prominent Local Men Are Injured Tyler, Johnson, In Auto Accident Tuesday, Reported Resting Comfortably A. L. Tyler, manager of a lo* cal department store, and W. S. Johnson, manager of a city drug store, both injured seriously an automobile accident about threo miles out of Petersburg, Va., Tuesday, were reported as rest ing comfortably this afternoon at their homes in the city. Mr. Tyler's injuries included a head wound, bruises, and a lac* eration of the knee, while Mr. Johnson suffered a fractured skull and a general shakeup. The acci dent occurred about eight o'clock yesterday morning. Messrs. Tyler and Johnson were enroute from this city to Richmond, Va., on a business trip. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Tyler, as we]l as the two unknown men in the cleaning company's truck with which Mr. Tyler's car collided, were taken to a Petersburg hospi tal after the accident and receiv ed treatment there. Following that the two local citizens wera brought back to the city to their residences Accounts of the accident indicate that it happened like thle: Tyler driving his car, was accompanied by Johnson to Petersburg. The cleaning truck, driven by one of two men whose identities are not known, apparently attempting to stop on the wet paving, had the brakes locked. The locking of the machine's brakes threw it sideways across the road, and Mr. Tyler was un able to avoid hitting it. His car was practically demolished as a re sult of the accident Those in the truck were also in jured, one rather seriously and other not very badly. Twenty-one stitches were neces .mry 10-eleae.. fpbui'jL head wound at the Petersburg hospital Tuesday morning. Need For More And Better Work Animals Horses and mules are not listed among North Carolina's surplus commodities, says C. D. Grinnells, associate professor of animais hus bandry a' State College. In fact, he says, the shoitage in work stock, felt for years, reached significient proportions during the depression and is still one of the State's agricultural problems. Grinnells says it would take at least four years to appreciably remedy the shortage, but a pro gram stailted now would, in a few years, plac: North Carolina in a good position insfar as work stock is concerned. Prices of good, sound animals will continue high, he says and owners of good stock will find it well worth while to breed and laise high grade animals. Meanwhile, he urges farmers to 'ake care of the stock they have. Too many, farmers have drifted in to the custom of lettifig their houses and mules shift for them selves. The rations are limited and the quality of the feed, es pecially during the off season, is usually bad, indigestible, damaged, or mouldy. This condition is aggravated by advanced age, poor teeth, and less efficient digestive tracts, found in many animale. Improp er feed is a serious matter for old horses and mules. Abrupt changes of feed, overeating, and careless treatment often prove fa tal. Horses are less able than cat tle to withstand the effects of bad feed. The horse or mule fills an im portant place 6n the farm, espec ially in these days of crop adjust ments, Grinnells says, and it will pay farmers to take better care of their work stock. Readers, when yon par chase goods advertised hi these columns tell the Merchants yon saw it in THE HERALD.