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PAGE FOUR The Rocky Mount Herald Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, by the Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company. Publication Office Second Floor Daniela' Building, Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina TED J. GREEN ....News Editor and Manager Subscription Rates: One Year, $1.00; 6 Months, 60c. Pntfered as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at the post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates reasonable and furnished to prospective advertisers on request ECONOMY IN WARSHIPS There are any number of sincere citizens of this Republic who point to the money spent for warships as great waste and tell how many schools, libraries or hospitals could be constructed with the money used for one battleship. The idea that the construction of war ships is an economic waste would have some force in a world where peace is cer tain but in the present state of internation al affairs a reasonable navy is common sense insurance. Moreover, those who can remember the World War recall what immense sums had to be expended in the rush construction of ships and how many millions of dollars were involved in th e great warships junked at the disarmament conference. From the standpoint of national economy it is wisest to build a navy on a long term program, with construction carried out uniformly to present a balanced fleet in respect to age of ships as well afe types. A MONEY PUZZLE We confess, immediately, that we under stand very little about money, either in re gard to its acquisition or its operation in the economic sphere, but we have been a bit puzzled to understand why so many na tions, in times of stress, desert the gold standard, only to pick it up again later on. What confuses us is the same question asked by Prof. G. F. Waren, of Cornell, who wants to know why England, and. oth er nations, can run a managed currency suc cessful in periods of monetary chaos and not be able to do the same when conditions become normal. HELPING BOYS "No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy." With so many millions of men out of work it is such an easy matter to become care less and pay no attention to boys. Men are doubly busy with the affairs of business and trying to figure out how they can live up to their codes. Worrying details occupy one's mind. Yet, all about us, are boys who need help—the help that comes from en couraging words, a helping hand, a little boost. All these helpful things take just a minute of any man's time —and yet they mean so much to a boy. It does not take long for a boy to grow rind develop into a man. It may be that what we sav today will have a big influence on what kind of a man he will be. Are we doing the thing that will help the boy. Just a cordial word of greeting in the morning as the boy is on his way to schoo will frequently give the lad just the need ed encouragement for that particular day. Do we do that? Can we truthfully say that we have been the means and channel by which a boy gets inspiration to do better 11 There is so much we can do in boys work without ever having to take any time to do it. Most men are willing to do this only if they realized how easily it can be done. "No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy."— Times Herald, Al liance,. Nebraska. The man who bets and wins rarely tells about the time he lost his pants. Correct this sentence: "There will be no cold weather in the winter of 1934-35. Thereis no telling how much admiration the average small boy has for Santa Claus. The power company now krows what a dangerous instrument propajra:..! can be. Blind optimism is just about as bad for a community as senseless pessimism. Americanism: Millions of prize seekers and one winner. Service is its own advertisement and its I own reward. Finishing a hard and prolonged task gives huge satisfaction. There are lots of people who believe in charity only when it is broadcast. Let's turn over a new lief in 1935 with some long term planning for savings. Friendly criticism may be extremely helpful even though it is not so pleasant. Experience is the one valuable gift that time alone will present to the TAX PROPHET Consistency, as the world has been told on good authority, is the bane of little minds. Nevertheless, as the State Depart ment of Revenue devotes all its present head of that department thought of this tax when he was in a judicial and not a de fensive frame of mind. , As chairman of the State Tax Commis sion in 1930, State Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell considered the sales tax among all other possible sources of revenue. In the report signed by him, the Commis sion, after consideration of all the possible merits of the sales tax as a source of rev enue, came to the following conclusion: But in our opinion this series of advan tages of the general sales tax is out weigh ed by its infirmities. It takes little ac count of ability to pay, and is the most successful form of tax on poverty that could be invented. It stands between the hungry and every loaf of bread and demands its payment in advance. It would take its toll from the very sums that charity distribut es to help feed the unemployed and the help less. To the extent that it took any tax off the landlord it would pass it on to his impoverished tenant, and from the owner of the factory to his partially employed laborers. It offers widespread opportunity for fraud in concealing the tax after it has been passed on and collected by the dealer. It pyramids with multiple sales. Its administration would be expensive and dif ficult and would require an army of employ es if administered with approximate suc cess and equality. The inevitable tendency of any form of sales tax that adds definitely to the sale price is to increase the volume of inter state purchase, where the tax cannot ap ply, as against purchase within the State. North Carolina is peculiarly susceptible to this influence, with its long border lines. The Constitution of the United States guar antees the free flow of corrfmerce across all State lines and no tax can be imposed upon it. This limitation makes it impossible for State to employ the sales tax principle in any large way as may be done by independ ent sovereignties that control the flow of commerce across their borders. These obligations seem to us to far out weigh the advantages of a general sales tax. Every man has a right to change his! mind, but, in the opinion of many, it seems a pity that so excellent a prophet as Com missioner Maxwell should devote himself to attempting to argue away the troubles which he himself with great wisdom pre dicted would follow the levy of the tax on the subsistence of the people. In particular it seems unfortunate that Mr. Maxwell, who said that to the exent that the sales tax "took any tax off the landlord it would pass today feel impelled to argue sharply with '> on to his impoverished tenant," should Dr. G. W. Forster, agricultural economist ol State College, for undertaking to show that the sales tax has done just what Mr. Maxwell said it would do. Apparently proph ets are hard to please even when they are right. WORLD POLITICS Two significant developments in interna tional affairs have taken place in Europe recently. People who are interested in knowing-where and when the next war will develon and what will be the line-up of the countries involved can keep posted bv tak- ; ng a small degre of interest in following the news affecting international affairs. At London. Norman H. Davis, speaker for the American Government, warned Ja pan without calling any names, that the de nunciation of the present naval treaties wfuld mean "conditions of insecurity, of international suspicion and of costly compe tition" in naval armament. Notwithstanding this expression it is generallv expected that Japan will soon announce its intention of abrogating the treaties, thus ushering in an unrestricted era of building warships. European politics have taken a new turn as a result of Franco-German conferences : n Pome, following which France announc ed that it would not send its troops into the Saar to keep order during the plebis cite and Germanv agreed to accept an inter national police proposed by Great Britain. This apparent agreement between Germanv and France caused apprehension in Russia, which worries lest Germany attack her Western border. Russia and France are friends and the Russians have got ten the French to agree not to make any agreement without consulting Russia. Un til Germany signs the Eastern Locarno security pact Russia will be disturbed. A MATERNITY MARATHON It's an interesting marathon going on in Toronto, Canada, where $500,000 is to be awarded to the mother who has the most children in the decade ending October. 1936. It seems that a certain Charles V. Mil lar left that amount as a prize in the ma ternity sweepstakes. One woman, with elev en babies to her credit, leads the entrants but another keeps in the running by pre senting her ninth baby this month. She has given birth to twenty-two in all, but only nine since 1926. The milennium will be at hand when the United States pleases Japan. What the average restaurant needs, more than anything else, is a cook. Most people are willing to speak by the they can write the book. iOUNT HERALD, ROCKY M 1 THE ROCKY IN MY OPINION (By Frank Smethurst, in the News And Observer) Louisiana alone has a Huey Long, which is doubtless an ex cellent thing for domestic tranquil ity. But those States which are pharisaically grateful might take the spectacle of the Kingfish as a tip to make sure that they themselves are altogether free of Longish ways. Consider the Latest episode of the Kingfish and the school tea chers. Surely, there's nothing very ori ginal in the trick by which Long sought to drive a hidden joker through the special session of the Louisiana Legislature. Jokers are not quite legitimate offspring of legislative technique, but they have been exposed with no great shame even in North Csroljna. Occasionally successful, they have been accepted within the family circle by the blessing of the court and a genial dispo sition to concede that all is fair in politics, too. Equally certain there's no nov elty in the plight of school teach ers battered about at the whim of the prevailing political mood. The critics of Long's proposal to make Louisiana teachers re sponsible to a State agency with authority to hire and fire, shout "patronage and spoils." The Long adherents probably cite the vir tues of centralization. The difference between them is a difference of policy—central ization or local control. The term inology depends on partisanship. And this is merely one item in a long list of items. There was a great clamor about freedom of speech when Huey in tervened in the editorial policy of a student publication. There was neither clamor nor even a suggestion of invaded lib erties when a State College stu dent editor in North Carolina wrote harshly about a Governor and later yielded to pressure in an apology and a promise to be good. Huey is having difficulties with the football coach of Louisiana State, much to the glee of his out- of State critics. He is re ported to have offended the coach' by a too intense personal inter est in the team. Not many months ago, a trus tee of a North Carolina institu tion was going over the head of the coach to write letters to ir dividual players telling them how they should play. Huey Long, one may admit, is even a greater menace than his uncompromising foes contend, but at least he has no exclusive con trol even of the evil which in him appears to be a concentrate. ROAD INTRODUCES NEW RAIL BUSES Specially Designed Cars Stream- Lined, To Operate On Nor folk Southern New fast rail service, with the popular stream-lined coaches pro pelled by internal combustion en gines, will be introduced by the Norfolk Southern Railroad early next month on its main lines, it was announced yesterday by L. P. Kennedy, superintendent. A new type of rail coach, known as a "Rail-Bus," has been devel oped especially for the Norfolk Southern and two of these modern coaches, providing the latest in railroad passenger transportation, will be delivered tomorrow by its builders, the American Car and Foundry Company. Two addition al units will be delivered by early spring. The new coaches, each self propelled by internal combustion engines mounted beneath the bod ies, will be exhibited at Norfolk, Raleigh, and other stations along the Norfolk Southern between the Good News! PONTIAC Coming With New Low Priced Six Improved, [QUNT, N. C. date of delivery and the first week in January, when they will begin regular runs from Raleigh to Washington, N. C., and from Goldsboro to Beaufort. Theh "Rail-Bus is approximate ly 57 feet in length, seats 53 per sons, and also carries a 12-foot mail and baggage compartment. Built of Corn-Ten steel and alum inum alloy, it is capable of a speed of 65 miles per hour. A recent test on the B. and 0. tracks at Philadelphia demonstrated that it can attain a speed of 62 miles miles per hour in one minute, from a dead stop. In comparison with the steam coach, the new stream-lined unit has a much lesser weight. With its own engine, it weighs 38,000 pounds, while a steanr-coach with out power will average 80,000 pounds. The most luxurious seating equipment is employed, with full leather semi-recliner, air cushion ed individual bus seats built by the J. G. Brill Company, the first to be used in railroad cars. This car has a greater power per pound of ' weight than any equipment yet turned out by the. builders. It carries 216 pounds of weight for each horse power, as compared with from 300 to 400 on the Burlington and Union Pa cific's stream-lined Diesel trains. Estimates indicate that these cars can be operated at a cost comparable with that of buses on the highways and provide double capacity of the average highway unit, with mail and baggage space in addition, as well as providing fast schedules, and safety and comfort. One car will be operated be tween Washington and Raleigh, leaving Washington at about 7:45 a. m., reaching Raleigh at 11:15 a. m., retufning to Washington about 2:30 p. m., and arriving there at 6 o'clock. The Goldsboro coach will leave Goldsboro or Beaufrt in the morn ing and return in the afternoon. 0 O LEGAL ADVERTISING | o o NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND Under and by virtue of the au thority conferred by deed of trust executed by E. T. Winstead, dated the 16th day of February, 1931, and recorded in Book 353, Page 126, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Nash County,, J. L. Simmons, Trustee, will at twelve o'clock Noon on Wednesday, January 9th, 1935 at the Courthouse door of Nash County in Nashville, North Caro lina, sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder the following land to-wit: BEGINNING at a. stake, the cor ner of lots 6, 7, 11 and 12; thence along the line of tracts 6 and 7 S. 85 degrees N. 2640 feet to a stake in Highway No. 40; thence along N. C. Highway No. 40 S. 27 de grees W. 400 feet to a stake; thence S. 35 3-4 degrees W. 231 feet to a stake, corner of lots 7 and 8; thence along line of lots 7 and 8 N. 85 degrees W. 2377 feet to a stake, corner of lots 7 and 8 in line of lot No. 11; thence N. 5 Open 11 A. M.—Prices 10c-15c TODAY And SATURDAY WILL ROGERS in "HANDY ANDY" | JJ, J Mickey Mouse Car- Added Heaa, NEW YEAR'S SHOW MONDAY And TUESDAY SHIRLEY TEMPLE CARY (COOPER CAROL LOMBARD in "NOW And FOREVER" degrees E. 664 feetg line of lot No. 11 to the tfffming, con taining 32.4 acref ~ Being the identical tract of Aid allotted to Stella Todd in theßivision of the Charity. A. D. StPlckland lands. See Book 193, page>63s, Nash Reg istry; and being the identical land conveyed to IST. Winstead by deed from W. S. Wilkinson, Jr., dated February 13th, 1931. This sale is made on account of default in payment of the indebt edness secured by said deed of trust, and is subject to all taxes and assessments against said prop erty whether now due or to become due. A ten percent (10 percent) cash deposit will he required of the highest bidder at tne sale. This the Bth day of December, 1934. J. S. SIMMONS, Trustee. (Dl4-T4) NORTH CAROLINA EDGECOMBE COUNTY. NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF PITT-HARRIS FURNITURE COMPANY IN THE MATTER OF L. D. HINES, TRUSTEE, FOR BENE FIT OF CREDITORS. All creditor of the above nam ed Pitt-Harriss Furniture Com pany are hereby notified to file with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Edgecombe County a statement, under oath, as to his, its or their claim against said company, as required by Consoli dated Statutes 1617, on or before sixty days from and after the date hereof, to the end that settle AT YOUR SERVICE DAILY BARNES TIN SHOP TOBACCO FLUES Roofing of all Kind, Guttering, Spouting, Cornice Work Skylights 'and Ventilating I TTTTT » TTTTY R FTVTVTTTTVTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTVTTTTTTTVT' | ' COAL! WOOD! COAL! I | PHONE 414 PROMPT DELIVERY | CITIZENS COAL COMPANY I J 1017 Cokey Road Opposite Planters Cotton Oil Co $ ■ ■ I'M' WILLIAMS | LUMBER CO. 4 I Will Sell Everything § To Build Anything | * | WE OWN AND OPERATE OUR OWN SAW MILLS \ ! COAL And WOOD | * ■ Hj I Prompt D ! PHONE 1205 4 • • —^——aa——» M mm »a— I HIT!V T NEAT. T99 W*» l ft . . . wltk * KWAHI HVMPHViy IADIANTM Far baby*i bath for Srandma'a up for. Am or basanant or attic playroom banish chil bifintfy with tha healthful «unlike rays of a Portabl* Humphrey Radiantflra. If• e great little heater. Sturdy. Strong. Yet Ight enough to be picked up and connected to eny gee outlet. And a good gas fitter can puf connec tions where you went {>.:rn witU littlo trouble or Out on the sun porcS lf» at handy for tho cool •vening as an electric (*:• is fcr the hot one. In t cold kitchen, connect it up to the end of the fange manifold, «ct it on th? floor, a box, tabic, •r ehelf out of the way, end '.'..3 problem is sot/ec. i And keeping warn Isn't f!ie ht!f of it. A supply of radiant infra-red hcct to turn cn whemvrr there's an echo or ptin to be soothed is enot!--r 1 valuable use for the Humphrey Portable. The heater is 2I M high with a heavy c;awn sheet steel base 8" x 10" Total weight only Id lbs. if Is equipped for hose connection. By re moving the nose connection, It is ready for told pipe connection. Finish is walnut brown with placed trimming to harmonize with other home furnishings. ' No. 14 Come in tee it on displey. Portable Humphrey KaJintfci Rocky Mount Public Utilities 127 N. Main St. Tel. No. 1842 Rocky Mount, N. C FRIDAY. DECEMRKR 2« IMI ment may be made by the under signed Trustee as provided by law. Thig 14 Lh day of December, 1934. L. D. HINES, Trustee. (4t"D2l to Jll) I S. E. SYKES j[ * Announces th£ opening ' • |of garage 119 Rose • • t St. Next door to post • ► | office, for general re- • £ !+ pairs to ail automobiles • ► SPECIAL SERVICE TO ',t ESSEX AND HUDSON :: * mnhm YOUR EYESmm are your bread winners, don't neglect them, have them exam ined occasionally. DR. L. G. SHAFFER OPTOMETRIST Office In EPSTEIN BUILDING Phone 662 for an appointment *
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