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The Rocky M VOLUME 2, NO. 35 Halifax Growers Protest Prices "• % -'V Tobacco Farmers Wire Kerr Urging Conference With Hutson 9eek ing Belief Scotland Neck, Aug. 26.—About 50 Halifax County tobacco farmers meeting here tonight recorded a pro test against prices paid 'or tobac co on the eastern markets and au thorized a telegram urging Con gressman John H. Kerr to confer met. B, Hutson, director of the tobacco division of the AAA, asking for some relief. Charlet JT. Shields presided at the mooting. Some of those speaking to urge efforts be made for better prices were Turner Whitehead, J. Barron and D. E. Henderson. f The charge was made at the meet ing that the average price at the several markets patronized by the farmers in attendance was not more fihan 17 cent 3. The text of the telegram sent "3«nan Kerr follows: "The atobacco markets opened to day one-third off from prices at the opening last year and from op ening prices on the border markets this year. We, therefore, urge that you take this matter up with Hut son, chief of the tobacco division, and obtain Bome relief for the to bacco farmers. On account of in creased production costs, present priees will barely meet expenses." - o Miss Faulk Was |. Buried Sunday 1,1. Local Young Woman Dips At Home I ! Rites Here at 10 A. M. From Home i * • Hallene Piitman Faulk, 21 native j of Salemburg who had lived here | for 12 years, died of tuberculosis at her home, No. 919 Arlington street, late Friday after a three-year struggle against the disease. Miss Faulk, a member of the class of 1932 at West Edgecombe high school, a member of the Clark 'j Street Methodist church, as well as Bthe Sons and Daughters of .Liberty, "was called a bright studenr in her school days. She was interred at her native town Sunuay afternoon. Final- ser vices were conducted at ten o'clock Sunday morning with Rev. C. W. Goldstein, her pastor, in charge, and rites followed at Salemburg with Mr. Goldstein and Rev. W. J. Jones, .Baptist minister tjiere^j)ffi(jiating. The service was held from the Bap tist church at 3:30 and interment followed in the cemetery. Six of her West Edgecombe school classmates served as pallbearers. Her close relatives included her lather, C. C. Faulk, of this city; three brothers, G. A. Cooper, Whita kers; A. T. and E, M. Cooper, Sal emburg; and a sister, Mrs. E. M. Tjjdgr, 0 f Raleigh. Several nieces ephews survive also. ' Jt mother died several years ago. > o BLADENBORO LAD WINS ESSAY PRIZE Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 29.—Robert Layton Pait, 20, graduate from Bladenboro High School, won the State championship and first prize of a one-year college tuition schol arship in the eighth annual essay contest of the North Carolina Cot ton Growers Cooperative Association here recently. Second prize of $25 went to Mil ton Lord, of Cary High School, third of sls to Grace Mewborn, of Snow Hill High School, and fourth of $lO to Loy Crowder, of Polkville High School in Cleveland County. The prizes were presented by Col. J. W. Harrelson, administrative dean of N. C. State College, who commended the contestants highly on the, quality of their essays. "The essays we have heard recited here today would do credit to college graduates," he told more than 400 farmers and farm leaders who had assembled in the classing room of the Cotton Association for the pro (L gram. The contestants had previously won out in school, county and dis trict contests in which several tlious- 1 and students in rural high schools in the State praticipated. All of the students spoke on "What a Unified Program of Cooperative Marketing and Cooperative Purchasing Can Mean to the Farmers of North Car olina." o ACC STUDENT PAYS HIS WAY BY SELLING CREAM Wilson, August 27.—Kenneth Murray, graduate of Atlantic Chris tian College here, payed his way through that institution by selling ice cream on the warehouse floor during the tobacco market each summer he went to the school. Now he has graduated, and this summer he is working his way through the tobacco market the same way. He aims to becomo a tobacconist and lie's making money thsi summer sell ing ice cream on the market so that he may start out on his own next year. He is from Wilson Mills. o . DEFENSE The government will spend for national defense a sum equal to ♦6.35 for each person in the coun try. The Navy gets $458,684,379 and the Army $347,762,450. WB. U. Brooks % Dies In Durham f Durham.—Dr." B. U. Brooks, 54, g who died of a sudden heart attack Saturday at Watts hospital, was buried Forest Hill cemetery at ' Nashville at 4 o'clock Monday after -0 noon following funeral services held g at 2 o'clock at the First Presbyter _ ian church here, conducted by Dt. _ David H. Scanlon, pastor of the . church. Dr. Scanlon also conducted . the committal service in Nashville. r Dr. Brooks was a member of the e National "Board of Pediatric Exami g ners, chairman of the Lincoln hospi tal board of directors and a inem e ber of North Carolina Pediatric ? Society, American Medical Society r and the Durham-Orange Medical Society. He was also a member of the Durham Kiwanis Club and the _ local post of the American Legion. e During the World War he was in B charge of a field hospital in France. t Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Annie Dozier, of Miami, Fla.; his step t mother, Mrs. Lena Taylor Brookß, of Whitakers; two brothers-in-law, . David Sills of Baltimore, and Rob j ert Sills of Winston-Salem; a half _ sister, Mrs. Jack Downing, of Wil -3 liamston; and a nephew, Dr. Bruce t Brooks of Baltimore. Also surviving . are two nieces and a nephew, all of Oklahoma City, Okla. Dr. Brooks' ' wife, Mrs. Annie Sills Brooks died . last year. Both Dr. "Brooks and Mrs. t Brooks had been interested in and had done much work for the colored race. Active pallbearers were J. B. Ma son, Walter Bass, Dr. W. R. Stan ford, K. B. Patterson, Marshall Spears, and L. C. Mann. t Honorary pallbearers were mem bers of the Durham-Orange Medical Society together with the following: Albert M. Webb, John W. Carr, Jr., ' John W. Christian, Holland Holton and C. N. Harris. Flower bearers were deacons and elders of the First Presbyterian church. o- Local People Back From Camp A group of Rocky Mount people returned last night from Camp Eli ada, near Asheville, where they at tended the thirty-second annual meeting conducted by the Rev. L. B. Compton. In the number were Miss Kathrine Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. C. ' M. Arie and their son, Billy, Mr. ' and Mrs. O. W. Barrett, Mrs. C. A. ' G. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Lee and children, Harvey Mae, Jr., and 1 Hortanse; Mrr Taint TL JXt- * ton and daughter, Miss Virginia Lof- ' ton;; J. Lofton, Master Cotton, G. W. Matthews, Mrs. W. Dußois, R. ' F. Spears, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Biver- ' ette. Other local people who had at- j tended part of the sessions return ed to the city several jlays ago. The annual meetings held at Camp ! Eliada bring together a large group ' of religious workers from many de- 1 nominations, this year representativ- ! es of twenty states and the Domin ion of Canada being in attendance. s o ■ CANST THOU BEAT IT i From Portland (Mich.) Observer I Consider the editor! A child is c born unto the wife of a merchant | in town. The physiciun getteth ten 1 plunks. The editor writeth a stick t and a half and telleth the multitude 1 that the child tippeth the beam at nine pounds. Yea, he lieth even as 1 a centurian. And the proud father t giveth him a Cremo. ( Behold, the young one groweth c up and graduateth. And the editor putteth in the paper a swell piece. Yea, a peach of a notice. He telleth of the wisdom of the young woman and of her exceeding comeliness, i Like unto the roses of Sharon is ( she, and ber gown is played up to t boat the band. And the dressmaker i getteth two score and four iron c men. And the editor gets a note of ( thanks from the sweet girl graduate 1 —maybe. j And the daughter goeth on a ] journey. And the editor throweth himself on the story of the farewell 1 party. It runneth a column solid. And the fair one remembereth him from a far with a picture postal card j that costeth a sixth of a jitney—may- t be. ( Behold ,she returneth, and the j youth of the town fall down and worship. She picketh one, she pick- i cth a lemon. But the editor calleth \ him one of our promising men and 1 getteth away with it. And they sent unto the editor a bid to the wedding, 1 nnd behold the bids ar fashioned 3 in a far city. 1 Flowery and long is the wedding J notice which the editor printeth. t The minister getteth his bit. 1 The editor printeth a death no tice, two columns of obituary, three 1 lodge notices, a cubit of poetry. ; And he forgetteth to read proof on 1 the dead, and the darned thing cometh out, "Gone to Her Last 1 Roasting Place." And all that are akin to the de ceased jumpeth on the editor with 1 exceeding great jumps. And they pulleth out their ads and cancelleth 1 their subs, and they swing the ham- 1 mer even unto the third and fourth 1 generations. 1 o 1 MALADY ATTACKS HORSES c ' Boise, Idaho.—Something like 500 I horses in five counties have died ] from an epidemic brain disease with t in the past few weeks. 1 ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA- FRIDAY. AUGUST 30, 1935 Liquor Receipts Show Increase Tarboro, Aug. 27.—The sale of li ' quor in the local liquor ptore reach : ed the highwater mark Saturday ' when $l,lOB were the, Receipts fo ' the day's sale. There have been in creases in the Saturday sales eacl • week since the store was opene( ' here. [ 0 Business Man Views New Deal News & Observer From the noise made by some olt Order business man, a listener a' their criticism of the Roosevelt ad ministration might almost come t the conclusion that all business 11 critical of the President. Such ii t ar from the case. Today more ant more business men are speaking out in approval of the policies whicl self-appointed spokesmen for busi ness have sharply criticized. In 1 recent statement written for Tin . Richmond Times-Dispatch, J. Pick uey Harrison, wealthy vice-president of the Universal Leaf Tobacco Com pany of Richmond, spoke the viewf of many of these thoughtful busi ness leaders. He wrote: Many of my big and little busi ness friends, who fought to the fin ish NRA, hardly now realize thai about certain features and principles of this apparently dead and forgot ten bird it would not bo wrong 1101 fanciful to quote from an old Ve die Poem—"Never the spirit shall die—dead though the House of it seems." Abolition of child labor, appropriate voluntary or compulsory regulation of hours and minimum wages—these things will live. And finally those recruits to the valiant right wing of critics from the agri cultural fraternity can scarcely fail to realize that AAA alone is today directly responsible for relative prosperity instead of abject poverty and distress throughout vast areas of the farming communities. Mr. Roosevelt has fought and continues to fight for the progres sive elimination of unemployment, for the saving of thousands of 1 homes from forced sales, for the pre servation of maximum hours and minimum wages—for old-age pen sions and unemployment insurance, regulation of utility and power com panies and other ideas of social jus tice. I have traveled much these past few years and havp crossed this -eotmtry four time* in the past eight months. Without hesitation I say that we have made already vast pro gress toward the goal which lies midway between pure Communism and absolute capitalism. I honestly believe that if politically tomorrow Roosevelt and his entire administra tion were swept out of office this is a better and greater country by reason of his policies and experi ments. That the bitterest critic of him and his policies, today , con sciously or unconsciously, has been made more cognizant of social jus tice than would have seemed possi ble only three years ago. With Mr. Pickney more and more business men are realizing that se curity for business in America de pends upon such advance as the New Deal has provided between the extremes of ralicalism on the one hand and reaction on the other. And certainly business men everywhere looking at their own ledgers can see the meaning of the Roosevelt recov ery campaign in the strictest terms of business itself. 0 STATE VITAL STATISTICS Both births and deaths declined in North Carolina during July as compared with July, 1934, the vi tal statistics report issued at Ra leigh, Tuesday, by the state board of health, reveals. Deaths last month totaled 2,431, for a rate of 8.7 per 1,000 population, while in July, 19- 34, there were 2,912 for a rate of 10.7. Births declined from 6,421 in Ju ly last year to 6,215 last month, re ducing the rate from 23.6 to 22.3. Infant deaths also showed a com parative decrease, falling from 534 to 448, while maternal deaths in creased two from 39 in July last year. There were 25 suicides last month and 23 homicides, as compared with 22 and 36, respectively, in Ju ly, 1934. Diarrhea and enteritis took the lives of 144 children under two years of age to lead in causes last month. Next came tuberculosis with 133 victims. A total of 127 persons died of cancers and 109 of pneu monia. Other leading causes of death were whooping cough, 35; syphilis, 30; appendicitis, 32; diabetes 25 and pellagra 30. DEAD MAN'S TRICK EMBARASSES WIDOW Chicago.—Police were about to ar rest Mrs. Helen Cramer on a cliargfc of shooting her husband when they were unable to find a gun near his body. Just before leaving one of ficer noticed a small piece of pipe lying across a gas stove. One end was plugged and the other point ed to the dead man. In the open end was found a discharged car tridge. Heat from the burner ex ploded the cartridge and almost staged a perfect mystery that would have embarrassed the widow. Not an 111 Wind for These Children " ;, v .... .. .... " :h i- Any wind that 'blows clown a school house is all right, according to a the children shown In this picture playing in the ruins of a portable ie school at Bairdford, near Pittsburgh, Pa. A sudden gale blew the build ing a hundred feet from its site and effectually flattened It. w Should Provide Pensions i- l ~ * it We have had various inquiries from many of our elder ■s ly citizens wanting to know when the Old Age Pension ,r Law is going into effect. Congress in this last session, pass ed an Old Age Pension Law agreeing to pay $15.00 per ii month to each person over sixty-five years old, who comes J. within the law, provided the various states give an equal y amount. North Carolina has not provided funds to meet n the Federal Grant yet, but we feel that our state should j meet this grant, and that it ought to be one of the first pieces of legislation considered the next time the Legis ] lature meets. y Our information is that there are about 12,000 men and e women over sixty-five years of age without support that r would be denied the benefit of the federal law until North Carolina makes arrangements to do its part. It is estimat i ed that the state will have to raise between $2,000,000 and - $2,500,000 in order to give these old people $30.00 per f - month. i THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE Superintendent of Public Instruction Edwin recently . stated through the press that most of the repeaters in the public school system were in the first grade. Now why is this? We do nos feel that this is due to the teachers be ! cause. exjJerieneA**fcaches us that the first grade teachers are those who have had the most training. If you will have a confidential talk with the primary and grammar grade teachers, practically all of them will state that this new system of teaching children to read before they learn their letters or to spell one syllable words is responsible for these failures in the first grade. They are undertaking to teach the mto read words of as many as five syllables without the child knowing a letter. Now is this not getting the cart before the horse? It is like build ing the roof of a house before laying the foundation. This strain on the child and the teacher as well in tea ching him to read before he is taught his A B C'c is some what like the Chinese who have to burden their children with remembering about 15,000 characters instead of the simple beginning of remembering 26 letters. This system is supposed to be put out by Columbia Uni versity and from them sent throughout this whole nation, the primary and grammar grade teachers all know that the system is wrong and many have expressed it, but they are afraid to take an open stand against it because they are afraid it would not meet with the approval of the higher educational authorities. Wall Street bankers debauched this country by issuing propaganda that all banks must be liquid at all times. The smaller banks were victims of this propaganda and system ; for every bank knew that it was impossible to have a li | quid bank and render the services to their depositers if 1 the bank had to be liquid at all times. Yet Wall Street had issued this propaganda and the smaller banks were afraid to openly express criticism and there is a vast difference between the bank being solvent and the bank being liquid. We are hoping that the educational authorities of our state will finally see the error of the way since Superintend ent Erwin has given out the information and if they will call a meeting of the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grade teachers and ask them to give their ans wer, they will tell you that teaching a child to read before he is taught his letters is probably the root of it. Children are dreadfully handicapped in spelling today because of the failure of the teacher in teaching the syllables in spelling. 126 TEAR OLD PERSIAN A man of 126 years living at Gui lan, a Caspian district of Iran, Persia, has a son over 100 years old, a daughter of 95, six generations living, 300 descendants and has been married three times. He is Mesheda Gurban Ali, an agriculturist who was born in the ' Iranian year of 1188 (1808). Though a little deaf, Gurban Ali is in ex cellent health and has never been ill. His third wife is living, and in all he has six sons and 12 daugh ters. His recipe for health is: Eat well, be gay, be kind and walk a lot. When young ho used to eat the equivalent of 14 pounds of bread and walk 28 miles each day. His chief food now is milk. Occupied all his life in rice fields, he once carried 650 pounds of rice seven mjles from one village to another fdr a wager. Barah's lead rises in Lucas poll on Republican nomination. MISS WHEELESS TO ENTER MOODY BIBLE SCHOOL ' s Miss Elizabeth Wheeless plans to 5 leave the city on Sunday for Chi cago, where she will enter the Moody Bible school for training. Miss Wheeless is the daughter of ' Mr. and Mrs. Geo. D. Wheeless of c Hill Street, and numbers many c friends here. She is a graduate of s Meredith college, Raleigh, where she v majored in music, and for the past i three has taught in this city. EASY I Seniorage on currency issued by J the government entails profits to the Treasury. Since the revaluation of gold, and including profits thru , the silver purchase act, the Trea- j sury has made more than three bil- ] lion dollars. Most of it is expected ) to be used to retire the debt. ( o Italy bars all peace talk and Eu- t rope is apprehensive. i PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON w«— r Judge States Elders To Blame Fathers And Mothers Responsible For Sins of Youth, Declares Judge Nashville, Aug. 27.—The August term of criminal court convened here Monday with Judge E. H. Cran mer presiding. There are three murder cases on the docket, and a number of other cases. About 30 persons are in jail awaiting trial. Judge Cranmer in his charge to the grand jury said that much had been said about the recklessness of the young people, but that the fath ers and mothers of the State were the owes responsible for the delin quency of the young people that the commonwealth was based on the church and the home. In paying his respects to Nash's A. B. C. stores the judge stated that he bought no whiskey and drank none, and that he would unflinchingly sentence any man convicted in his court on whiskey charges. Judge Carnmer laid stress on the useless killing of persons by care less driving, stating that there were few accidental killings, that they were the result of careless handling of cars. In charging the grand jury rela tive to visiting the County Home Judge Cranmer stated that in car ing for the old and infirm Nash co unty was merely obeying the Bi ble instruction of "Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these, ye have done it unto me." o Editor Peele Gets Juicy Plum (From Raleigh News & Observer) Juciest plum in the gubernatorial patronage basket is the secretary treasurer of the North Carolina Railroad Company, of which a three quarters stock interest is the most valuable asset in the State's qort- I folio., Because the State owns the con trolling interest in the railroad which it sponsored and nursed thru the long, lean period of railroad de velopment, most people think of it as a State railroad. As a matter of fact, the fcitate~does .ibsomtely rtn-" trol the road, although technically 1 it is as much a private*corporation i as the Southern Railway,' which leas es its right-of-way and equipment 1 and pays $280,000 a year for them. ' When Governor Ehringhaus moved ' to Raleigh from Elizabeth City, he 1 did not forget his homefolks, and c when it came to dispensing the sl,- ' 500 secretarial plum, he handed it 1 to Editor Herbert I'eele, of the Eliz- ' abeth City Advance. Because Chief 1 Clerk R. O. Self of the Utilities ! Commission can be hired to attend 1 to the secretarial duties in his spare 1 time, and because otherwise the du- ■ ties of the ollice requires little more ' than attending the annual meeting, ' signing of papers, and trausfering 1 stock, the secretaryship has not In- ' terferred with Editors Peele's edit- ' ing. And that record is increasing the duties of Secretary-Treasurer Peele. i He is being called upon more and I more to officiate at stock transfers. ' This week 103 shares of SIOO par ! value stock changed hands. The 1 price was around $l6O. The ' activity in the stock is taking on proportions of a Bmall boom. WILKESBORO ELECTION TANGLE AIRED Judge Phillips, presiding over , Wilkes superior court, Thursday, { took a whirl at the tangled elec- ; tion affairs of the town of Wilkes b'oro when he ordered the old board , of commissioners to turn over the books and moneys of the town to citizens who alleged they were le gally elected when 57 votes were cast while th epolls remained open 50 minutes on election day. May 7. This order signed by Judge Phil lips was in a mandamus action brought by the "outs" and was sign ed in the face of a final judgment signed by Judge Daniels that the ticket used was an illegal one, and in the face of a case that is now in Superior court in which Judge Clem ent allowed the alleged illegal 57 , ballots to be counted. Judge Phillips denied the old board the right to give bond for ; the books and records pending the outcome of their case in the Supreme court, appeal having been entered ] against his order, but allowed those 1 who allege they were legally elect- i ed to give bond in the sum of sl,- 500. By agreement of counsel, the j old board, clerk, and tax collector, , will be given the privilege to have 1 an audit made up to the time they are turned- over, it is said. GIFTS One result of the new tax recom mendation to the President has been to hasten gifts. John D. Rockefel ler, Jr., for example, recently dis tributed twenty-five million dollars, consisting of 2,100,000 shares of stock, but the report to the Securi ties Commission does not list the recipients. jJL SI.OO PER YEA» By Hugo Sims, Jrperml WUAII|IM Correspondent BORAH SHOWS STRENGTH i HAS BEEN INDEPENDENT EAST FEARS INFLATION WEST TO DECIDE ELECTION McNARY WANTS FAItM AID SILVER ISSUE PUZLING REAL CRISIS IN EUROPE U. S. IS TO BE OUTSIDE NEUTRALITY DISCUSSION TEXTILE GROUP REPORTS The strength shown by Senator Borah in the poll conducted by Robert li. Lucas, director of the Republican national committee ia the Hoover administration, has the supporters of Mr. Hoover aad many Eastern Republicans worried. The Idalioan has always possessed strength with the voters but because of his strong individualism has aot been in much favor with the mu aging heads of his party. He baa freely criticized Republican Preai dents and usually stands guard oa | his own reservation. It is known that Senator Borah is closely watching the recent de velopment for the purpose or as sessing the situation with a view toward determining whether to see* the Republican nomination. He wants to be sure that there is a strong call from the voters. He has lambasted the New Deal but, on the other hand, he has voted for the bonus, the Wagner labor disputes bill, the public utilities death sea tence, for the AAA amendments and to restore pensions to veterans of the Spanish-American war. He op posed the World Court, extenaioa of the KRA, the central bank pro posed by the Rev. Coughlin and the LaFollette plan to increase income taxation on the little fellow. Recently, the story goes, an ad mirer in the East approached the Idalioan, to persuade him to lay low on his demand for a managed cur rency. However, few who have the slightest idea of his determined views would have bothered to talk it over. He is of the opinion that farmers need no subsidy and that . their real jiroblems could be solved | by a managed currency to put pur- I chasing power in the hands of the masses. Mr. Borah is distinctly lib eral and well able to recapture for the Republicans some of the inde pendent vote that it lost in 1932. • With most political expert* con vinced that the battleground of the next election will be in the West Republican strategists want to know whether they can reform the out of joint alliance between the in dustrial East and the agrieulin-al West and Mid-West under uy candidate. If Mr. Borah reprep uts the real sentiment of his wid'ly flung constituency the gap to be bridged is deep but the party plat form must undertake to do it. Ob servers report that there was a shift toward Borah in the East some weeks ago when ho came out for surrency inflation, the bonus and the Frazier-Lemke farm refinancing program—all of which mean more money—the conservatives were once more frightened at this "enemy" o£ what they call "sound money." With the Democrats frankly look ing toward the West and South for the votes to win next fall it became evident that Republican plans must be centered around a East-West coalition. Senator McNary, co-author of the McNary-Haugen plan for farm relief, frankly admits that the issue will be settled in the West, concedes that the South will be Dem ocratic and declares that "the bag of wheat and the hogs must be got back to the Republican party to win." He believes that this can be done only by offering a farm pro gram that will satisfy the farmers as more to their advantage than the AAA. He hopes to force discussion of a new agricultural program among farmers and to secure such wide approval that the Republican con vention will adopt it as a plank. Undoubtedly the party that can make the strongest appeal to the farmers of the West will have the best chance to win, insofar as the present line-up predict the result. Politicians do not forget that the Republicans from ten States, meet ing in the Grass Roots convention in Springfield, 111., hopped on every New Deal policy without restraint except the farm policy. The proces sing taxes may be unpopular in the East, whero the benefits are small and whero the manufacturers are kicking about them, but farmers, West and South, are generally be hind the AAA and the processing taxes and ready to do battle for them. As Congress came to the end of -its long session the silver issue, in stead of subsiding is more promi nent that ever in the political puz zle and also affects tho domestic economic situation, tho foroign trade and exchange stabilization questions. The writer frankly like to know more about it but even the most learned do not always agree in discussing it. Along this lino it 1 is interesting to note that the Sen ate has authorized an investigation of the effect of the silver-purchase program on imports and exports, on (Please torn to pace eight)