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The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 241 School Children Free At Fair ! State Superintendent of Public In- 1 Struction, Clyde A. Erwin, has noti fied all county and city school su perintendents that school children will "be admitted free to the State Fair on Friday October 18, up un- : til 5 o'clock P. M., when accompan- J ied by parents or in a group ac companied by a teacher. If the tea- I cher accompanies a large group of 1 students, the teacher will be admit- i tod free also, i - Mr. Erwin advises that there is no provision in the law permitting • the granting of a holiday for at tending the State Fair. However, he "■ expressed the hopo that the school children will be able to attend. Schoolmasters Ot , Edgecombe Meet r ' Edgecombe Teachers Meet At South L Edgecombe—Gresham Talks Tarboro, Oct. 9.—The Edgecombe Schoolmasters club held an interest ing meeting in' the South Edge combe school Monday night with an attractive program of entertainment. The principal t address was deliv ered by Prof. N. E. Gresham, Edge combe superintendent of education, who discussed the character of i school work that is to be done in the county. He reviewed the work done in the past and pointed out the program for the future, stress ing the need for efforts " on the part of the teachers in or der to have success with the work. Thq teachers should cooperate in ev ery way with the patrons in school work in order to achieve the best 1 results. Prof. Gresham asked the cooperation of the teachers in se wfe exhibits for the Coastal Plain fair. He said that the state has suffered on account of so many ' teachers resigning. The state needs the best teachers in school work. /• "Let .us make our best efforts to i. improve our work," he declared. Of '* ffetfri for the bustling roar «fvere elected as follows: Prof J. G. Feez or, president; S. A. Bowden, vice president; Griffin, secre & tary-treasurer. ? The club will meet at West Edge eombe school in November. Letters of their work will be sent to Profs. Gaston Walston, Daughtridgc, and Miss Alice Out land who resigned. Former Superin tend? Nt J. A. AJjSJ-nathv will receive greetings from the club and best y, wishes for his success in his new ' Held of work. The home economics class was thanked, for the elegant •tipper that was served. | ' Solons Expenses Are N6t Pleasing Many Teacher* And Principals Do * Not Like Lobbying Activity Of Warren The fact that the North Carolina Education association paid a pro fessional lobbyist $5,200 in fees and "expenses for four months work during the recent session of the gen i eral assembly—about twice as much as the average teacher gets for tea ching the eight months term—has not proved very pleasing to many teachers and principals ever since y this fact became known. In addi tion to paying this $2,500 to for mer State Senator Stover P. Dun nagan of Rutherford_ county, home county of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Erwin fbr lobbying for measures desired by Erwin and the education associa tion, the association also paid the hotel and "entertainment" bills of two other lobbyists, it was admitted by Jule B. Warren, executive sec retary of the education association before a meeting of county school principals in a nearby county, ac cording to reliable reports heard here today. It is understood that the bills paid for "entertainment" jis submit ted by lobbyists included some ex penditures for liquor used in wining and dining some of the members of the general assembly. At least, when questioned by several school prin cipals as to whether these bills in cluded any expenditures for liquor, j, it is understood that Warren agreed that it probably did include some such expenditures. But when he was asked if he could say just ex actly how much of the association's funds contributed by underpaid prin cipals and teachers had been ex -8 pended in buying liquor for lobby ists, it is understood that Warren replied that these expenditures were nqt itemized with the result that he could no say what the "expenses" listed included. £t is also understood that num ber of these principals asked War ren to tell in detail just what good resulted from the employment of Duituagan as a lobbyist and what he ; had accomplished and that War ret had. rather a difficult time ans-> wiring these questions. A member of the 1935 assembly here today, when asked how much good Dunnagan accomplished, said tnat in his opinion his work was "not worth five cents." Senator J: H. Lewis of Illinois, is seriously, iU i*, Moscow. Thos. W. Fenner Passes At Home Was Former Corporation Commis sion Auditor; Funeral In Scotland Neck Thomas W. Fenner, 81, former auditor of the State Corporation Commission, died at his home here, 214 New Bern Avenue, yesterday af ternoon. Funeral services will be conducted' at 3 o'clock this after noon in Scotland Neck. A native of Scotland Neck, Mr. Fenner was born on November 4, 18- 53, the son of the late William and Annie Marie Smith Fenner. Most of his life was spent in Scotland Neck, where he was for several terms reg ister of deeds of Halifax County. In 1909, Mr. Fenner wa sappoint ed by Governor Kitchen as clerk of the State Prison and moved to Kaleigh. He left the prison post to serve as city tax collector under Mayor James I. Johnson and later became auditor of the Corporation Commission, a post he held for sev eral years. Mr. Fenner. had been in poor health for some time. Surviving are his widow, a son, Paul Fenner of Raleigh, two daugh ters, Mrs. Fred Drake of Raleigh, and Mrs. E. L. Baker of Summer ville, and two grand children, Thom as Fenner Baker and .Sarah Baker. A life-long member of the Epie copal church, Mr. Fenner had been a member of the congregation of Christ church since coming to Ra leigh. Service today will be con ducted at the Scotland Neck Epis copal church by the Rev. Benjamin Brodie, rector, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbears will be W. B. Drake, W. L. Long, R. V. Mason and Com missioner of Agriculture William A. Graham, all of Raleigh; W. E. Smith Isaac H. Smith and Stewart Smith, nil of Scotland Neck and Dr. Edgar • Norfleet of Roxobel. There will be no services at the home here today, but relatives and friends who attend the services from Raleigh will meet there at noon. MCDONALD ANSWERS CRITICISM BY HANES Candidate For Gubernatorial Nom ination Hits At Special Privileges SPEAKS AT HIGH POINT High Point. Oct. 9.—An answer to the assault of Robert M. Hanes on new deal policies made in a speeclT to Civitans in Winston-Sal em last Friday night was essayed Tuesday by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, member of the North Carolina gen eral assembly and now a candidate for governor, speaking before the same organization in High Point. "Sane liberalism aganst reaction aries" was the way McDonald lin ed up Roosevelt and his followers against what he called "entrenched privileges." "And the battleground is in North Carolina" declared Dr. McDonald. "The same old guard which has en joyed special privilege at the cost of the general welfare for so long that they now think it is theirs as a matter of right, now fighting Mr. Roosevelt's policies, are Being fav ored in its state by the adminis tration that placed the sales tax upon us." Mr. McDonald didn't once men tion the fact that he was running for tho Democratic nomination for governor. Civitan rules do not per mit campaign speeches in its hall but he did get around to saying tl(%t when deciding time comes in North Carolina he hoped the might of liberalism, partially cradled with in its boundaries, will rise up in its strength and assert itself. "One of the best proofs of the fact that business! is recovering," said Dr. McDonald, referring to the Hanes speech in "is to find the patient railing against his physician. Radicalism was grow ing apace when Roosevelt went in to office," he said. "This was no ac cident. The underprivileged put in to that class by the grasping few who are now the reactionaries fight ing Roosevelt,' were in a desperate situation willing to try anything. Roosevelt by his policies of restor ing the buying power to the common man and promoting the general wel fare has made this dangerous ten dency unnecessary and radicalism is no longer a threat to our peace. What is left is the reactionary, who has plenty of powerful spokesmen not away off somewhere but with in ouH own borders and favored by the Ehringhaus-Graham-Hoey ma chaine against the san eliberalism of Mr. Roosevelt. "Hoover could have found no bet ter way to help the bondholders than did our own state administra tion which has accumulated a sur plus of $20,000,000 in the state trea sury for heir benefit and at the same time cut the operating expens es of schools and other institutions beyond that ★hich has been done in any\ other civilized state," Ihe said. ADMITS WRECKING TRAIN Bloomington, lll.—Charles Long ley, garage mechanic, admitted to officers that in 1934 he caused the wreck of a freight train, explain ing that he couldn't live a Chris tian life without admitting his crime. Alton railroad officials intimated that no action would be taken against the man. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA >K'I)A> OCTOBER 11, 1935 Rocky Mt. Fair Biggest Ever Rocky Mount's annual October ex position, recognized for the past two years as one of the six best in the State, is again being pric ed for a record making week Oc tober 21 to 26, when State Fair features will be paraded before thousands of visitors. Evenly balanced with educational and recreational features, the event this year will offer the full range of farm, home and industrial dis plays, as well as entertainment at traction coming from many of America's major stale and district expositions. For the first time in a number of years harness racing will be a mat inee feature on Tuesday, Wednes day and Thursday afternoons. Fair officials have joined hands with nino other North Carolina events to of fer horsemen combined purses to taling $20,000, and entry rolls will be congested with fast trotters and pacers. Championship AAA auto races, sponsored by the famous Hankinson Speedways, will attract many of America's most noted dirt track and speedway kings on Saturday after noon, October 26. Night show entertainment will center around the presentations of George A. Hamid's "Sensation of 1935," a colorful open air musical extravaganza to be produced each evening on a huge portable, revolv ing stage in front of the grand stand. Augmented by 10 circus and 'hippodrome acts and climaxed by fireworks, more than 50 people will take part in the revue. On the midway the World of Mirth Shows, the nation's largest portable amusement park, will pre sent half a hundred major carnival rides and shows. A headline fea ture will be Ripley's "Believe it or not" Odditorium, where Captain Ringman Hach and other human curiosities will be seen. Furniture Co. Holds Contest During this week the Enterprise Furniture Company is conducting an old age contest for Majestic ranges. A congoleum Gold Seal rug will be given to the owner of the Qldest Majestic range now in use in Rocky Mount or the surrounding territory. You have nothing to buy, and the only requirement is that you bring the number of your stove to their store in person during this week. They are conducting a special Majestic range sale this week with Guy E. Bissette, formerly of Nash ville, and who at the present time is a factory representative of the Majestic, in charge of this sale. ACC HAS 40 FROSH FROM THIS SECTION Nash And EBgecombe Counties And Surrounding Areas Contribute Wilson, October 9.—A total of ov er 40 first year students at Atlan tic Christian college from Nash and Edgecombe counties and nearby areas is registered for the first term, the records of the freshman class show. These students come from eighteen communities. The students with their respective homes are: Elm City: Virginia Barnes, John 11. Barehlor, Kstelle Carter, Attrice Cobb, Randolph Har relson, Anna Jackson, Lucille Sharpe Blanche Short, Madeline Short, C'ar olyne Wells; Stokes: Dare Barnliill, Frances Gurganus; Plymouth: Nellie Bateman, Ailon Browning, Roscoe Browning, Hugh Respass; Enfield: Lilly Batts; -Tarboro: Christine Byant, Hov.ard Roberson ; Rocky Mt.: Frank Cherry, Gus Lancaster, Jr., Sallie Melton, Bertramb Noble, Del la Noble Martlva Agnes Stein: Bai ley: Mary Frances Cockerell, Leslie Morgan; Spring Hope: Rachel Dan iels ; Nashville: C. B. Edwards; Fountain: Adrain Gardner, William Thad Lewis; Robersonville: Cleo James, Sara Doberson; Williamston: Marjorie Elizabeth Keel; and Sarah Roberson; Weldon: Sara Murrill; Macclesfield: Susan Shelton; Pine tops: Woodrow Sugg; Sharpsburg: Frances Weaver; Ruffin: James Ed ward Hudson. PLANS PROGRESS FOR CASTALIA CONVENTION Plans were progressing today for the fiddlers convention at Castalia school at 8 o'clock Friday night at which time prizes, both cash and otherwise, will be given to the best contestants in a number of musi cal activities. Many available prizes, including ones for winners in band, violin, banjo, •guitar, mandolin, accordion,, harp, piano (solo) tap dancing, clogging and singing, will be awarded at that time, Daisy Hathaway an nounced today. Anyone wishing to enter is wel come. DRAINS ALL WELLS Warroad, Minn.—When the town drilled a central well, tapping an artesian water supply, residents dis coverel the other wells had gone dry. Business gains are reported by large utility companies. Colc-Beatty Ctrcis Is A Miniature Traveling City Bb BETTY STEPHENS AND BLACK DIAMOND The Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty city in which the show is to exhibit. Circus is a perfect city in itself, More than 3,000 meals are served ev visiting a different locality almost ery 24 hours, and at these the diners every days for 200 consecutive days, consume approximately 2,000 pounds traveling approximately 30,000 miles of fresh meat, 100 dozen eggs, 800 in a season, yet moving with more pounds of bread. 100 pounds of but system and with less fuss and noise ! t r. 200 pounds of coffee, 10 crates than any branch of the army. 'nf other items equal- When annexed to Rocky Mount ly as large. For the stock and ani- Saturday, October 12, it will add to • ">nl department there are used dai the local populatitfn a Babel-like j ly. 10 tons of hay, 9 tons of straw, throng of 1080 people. These will; 300 bushels of oats, 1,500 pounds of come from every part of the world beef, while no well behaved elephant for the majority of the performers wuld think of preparing for parade are foreigners and making their first j without his usual morning cereal— tour of this country. Bratty St°ph-1 a bale of hay. ens and her high jumping horse An immense street parade nearly Black Diamond are among the stars. thr;>e miles in length will usher in The canvas city will stretch over the day of circus festivities. There 12 acres and in addition to its peo- ■ " be nearly 500 gaily caprisioned pie, will comprise 500 horses, five: horses; five herds of elephante and herds of elephants, two caravans of two caravans of camels from the camels, 10 zebras and more than 800 great desert along with nearly 100 wild animals. ' vehicular appurtenances. Five trum- One of the most interesting of peting bands and two calliopes will the several circus departments is furnish mnsie. Doors to the Clyde that in charge of the commissary. Beatty menagerie will open at 1 This official and his assistants do and 7 p. m. The big show will start their marketing daily and in the promptly at 2 and 8 p. m. Dr. Douglass Death Great Loss The great common ptopie have sustained a great Joss in the passing of Dr. S. E. Douglass, who lost his life Sat urday afternoon in an automobile accident having been run into by a truck. The details of the accident have herebei'ore appeared in detail through the press. Dr. Douglass, server of two terms in the House of Rep resentatives of North Carolina, clearly brought to the at tention of the people throughout the state his interest in humanity and his desire to serve the whole people and not in the interest of a special few. While in both of the last two sessions of the legislature, he was active in trying to see that just tax laws were written and that equality was done to all of the citizens and institutions. In many instances, in fact he was more often in the mi nority them with the majority, because he felt that the gen eral sales tax was unjust, unfair and levied a burden upon those not able to bear it, believing that the general sales tax left and lost sight of entirely the consideration of the ability to pay. He was in the minority but he counted it an honor to be classe dwith the minority in an issue that appeared to him so vital. There are worse things than being in the minority and at the time of his death he was stronger in the affection of the people, even though he had been with the minority. He stood by his conscience in what he believed to be a vital matter and not for expediency. He was the son of the late W. C. Douglass, one of Ra leigh's most distinguished lawyers and he received his love and interest in the welfare of the masses of people from his father, who was considered one of the best lawyers of the Raleigh Bar and who had the reputation of appearing for the great common people. He was a real North Carolina citizen and devoted to his hume and his famil yand sympathy of our hearts goes out to them in their tragic loss of husband and father. DEVELOPING CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYERS According t othe press we are developing a great many constitution law makers and besides law makers a large crop of constitution lawyers. In a recent meeting of dis tinguished lawyers who supposedly met for the good of (Please turn to page four) PARAGRAPHS PROBLEMS AT Nash Board Gets ABC Sale Report Total Nash Store Sales Arc $43,000 —Tax Collections Excellent The Nash County board of com missioners, convening in Nashville for the October meeting, heard Nash county alcoholic beverage con trol chairman S. F. Austin, of Nash ville, report total ABC store sales from opening day to October 1 amounted to $48,425.12, for the en tire county yesterday. Judge Austin, who is expected to present a fuller report of the ABC stores' financial condition within a short time, told the board an audit was being made as of October 1, and that more detailed figures will soou be available. The board met with W. B. Bunt ing, one of tho members absent be cause of illness. Chairman R. R. Gay of Rocky Mount, presided at the meeting Monday. The status of 1934 tax collections, Sheriff C. L. Johnston reported, is excellent. The amount of uncollect ed taxes of 1934 for the whole co unty stnnds at about SIO,OOO, which is the lowest in many years, Chair man Gay showed the sheriff report ed. Mr. Gay expressed the hope that half of that will be collected now and the deadline. The board heard regular reports from the various officers. Edgecombe ABC Makes Report The report of the Edgecombe Co unty Alcoholic Beverage Control board, showing total sales to the date of the checkup amounted to about $76,000 and that the gross profit totalled roughly $15,000 fur nisTled the feature of the long ses sion of the Edgecombe county board of commissioners Monday in Tar boro, C. C. Ward, local board mem ber, reported this morning. Mr. Ward said that aside from the customary reports on the vari ous activities of Edgecombe county and the report about the sales of the ABC stores in Edgecombe only routine matters were considered. The board meeting lasted late in the day. Knights Templar In Meeting Here Groups Come From Goldsboro, Wil son, Enfield in Division and Ra leigh, Tarboro Knights Templar from Division One and from Raleigh and Tarboro wended their way to Rocky Mount for a divisional meeting last night at the Masonic te'mple, including a number of high officials from Tar boro and Raleigh a very successful meeting was reported today by D. E. Bulluck, of this city the division commander. Groups at the session include tl'ose from Goldsboro, Wilson, Enfield, and Raleigh and Tarboro. Dr. J. -L. Peacock, of Tarboro, grand commander; William Ritcjjje Smith, of Kaleigh, grand recorder; John H. Anderson, grand secretary of Masons, of Raleigh; and K. W. Par ham, the grand master of Royal and select Masons, of the same place, were among the prominent officials at the meeting last night. Dr. Peacock made the principal address, .one of a number, all of which stressed tho fact that a re vival of interest in the work of the order was being shown in the sec tion. Special emphasis at last night's session, which was considered well attended, was laid upon the grand commander's meeting in the state capital October 28. J. N. Battsp, local commander, pre sided at this session which was held jointly with the regular conclave of the St. Bernard commandry of the Knights Templar. CORRECTION Last week the Herald carried an ad of the Antique Shop, which is located at 148 South Washington Street. Through an error the ad read 148 Nash St. when it should be 148 South Washington St. You will see their ad in these adver tising columns. NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Town , State Route No. SI.OO PER YEAS ON NATIONAL WASHINGTON ROOSEVELT FISHING FOUR SPEECHES REVIEWED NEW DEAL EXPOUNDED REPUBLICANS ACTIVE WANTS PERMANENT CCC By Hugo Sims, Special Washington Correspondent Shoring off from San Diego on the crusier Houston last week for three weeks cruising and fishing, President Roosevelt will rest, read and relax while his lieutenants re port upon the results of his speeches and parleys as he made ftia jour ney across the nation. Completely covering the opposition for a full week, the President's publicity blank eted their criticism but now that he fishes off Cocos Island the air U resounding with the attacks of hia foes. Undoubtedly the New Deal needed the publicity given ita aims by the Chief Executive, past master of ap proach toward the millions whom ha addresses as 'my friends." For many months the attackers have had the better publicity and their guns have gradually been shifted directly upon the President himself rather than upon secondary targets. From the day he left the White House, how ever, until his crusier steamed into the Pacific, Mr. Roosevelt had the spotlight. How effectively ho used it will more subsequently appear. In his first speech at Fremont, Ne braska, the President drove home to farmers the advances recorded by agriculture, recalling the thirty-cent wheat and twenty-cent corn of three years ago, and contrasting condi tions then and now. Pointing out that "for the farmers of the na tion the long, downhill road to de pression began not in 1929 but in 1920," he insisted that the plan put into practice has "borne good fruit," that the gap between prices for far mers' products and farm purchases has been lessened and that the rec- Bhows an increased income of $5,- 300,000,000 over what the farmers' in come would have been if the 1938 level had been continued. Two days later at Boulder Dam,. Nevada, Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at the dedication of that 726 foot wall' of concrete, relegated power develop ment to a secondary position and aggressively defended the govern mental spending program, which "i« already beginning to show definite signs of its effect on consumer spending." He insisted that the gov ernment has employed workers and failed, but added that "in two yearg materials when private employment and a half we have come to the point where private industry must bear the principal responsibility of keeping the processes of greater em ployment moving with accelerated speed." On the next day the President stopped to make a short address in Los Angeles. Here he assured his listeners "we have come through stormy seas into fair weather" and appealed ta liberals to unite for the same end l>y "making some conces sion as to form and method in or der that all may obtain the sub stance of what all desire." In this city, despite reports of a falling off in his popularity, the Chief Execu tive rectived what newspaper corre spondents termed the "largest recep tion of his career." The last of the. four scheduled addresses was delivered at San Die go. In this the President reveiwed national affairs along the line of his Fremont agricultural arguments and discussed foreign affairs. He found signs of a restoration of confidence in government and in business, larg ely as a result of action taken by the administration to adjust our currency, strengthen our banks, re store values and relieve burdens of debt. He declared that "an Ameri can government cannot permt Amer icans to starve" and for that reason it had been necessary to give feder al relief. He recited impressive gains: deposits in commercial banks up to $10,000,000,000 or 30 per cent; total deposits in banks $50,000,000,- 000 compared with $55,000,000,000,000 in June, 1929; deposit insurance cov ering 98 per cent of the 50,000,000 depositors; lowered interest rates for government and private borrowings; from March, 1933, through June, 19- 35, he said industrial production in creased 45 per cent; factory employ ment 35 per cent; rural general stoie sales 104 per cent; automobile salM 157 per cent; life insurance written 41 per cent and electrical power production 18 per cent. Calling attention to the cloud of "foreign war" he reiterated the (Please torn to page eight)