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The Rocky Mount Herald
Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Caro-
M" by The Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company
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Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County. North Carolina
TED J. GREEN News Editor and Manager
lIISS MARY RENNEKER Assistant Editor
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TEACHERS AND CONVICTS
Upton G. Wilson in The Reidsville Review
North Carolina's prison population on No
vember 1 was 8,516, while the number of
her school teachers on the same date was
approximately 23,000. When it is remember
ed, however, that the turnover in prison
ers is several times as great as the turn
over in teachers, it will not be far from the
truth to say that in a single year the State
admits more convicts to its prisons than it
does teachers t 0 its schools. Nor will it be
far wrong to say that North Carolina is
spending more on its prisons, prisoners and
crime than it is spending on its schools.
Yet, what it is spending on prisoners,
prisons and crime seems to b accomplish
ing very little, as our prison population is
constantly increasing. Each prisoner, it may
be said, is an evil influence, while each
teacher is, or should be, an influence for
good. But what the good teachers are do
ing is being largely nullified by the harm
those who follow crime are doing. We are
getting nowhere in our fight against the in
fluences of evil.
What then, is wrong ? Why does our pri
son population constantly increase? The
weakness must be in our homes. More than
3,000 years ago a wise old man, recognizing
even then the value of proper home train
ing, wrote: "Train up a child in the way he
should go and when he is old he will not
depart from it." That advice is still good.
Our criminals are training up many of our
youths in the way they shouldn't go. Only
our homes may successfully combat this
wrong sort of training. Proper home train
ing is the only answer to the crime problem.
COUNTING COSTS
News & Observer
Those Americans who are disturbed by
the cost of the Roosevelt program against
the depression, may be interested also in
the cost of the depression to all the people
of the United States. For the five years of
the depression, Robert R. Nathan, chief of
the Income Section of the Division of Econo
mic Research, estimates the losses to busi
ness at $26,631,000,000.
Far more important than increased gov
ernmental spendings has been the drastic
drop in national income from $81,034,000,-
000 in 1929, to $67,917,000,000 in 1930, to
$53,584,000,000 in 1931 and to $39,545,000,-
000 in 1932. Fortunately, since the begin
ning of the Roosevelt administration the
trend has been upward to $41,889,000,000
in 1933, to $48,561,000,000 in 1934. Thus
in the four years of the Hoover administra
tion from 1929 to 1932. tb*> annual national
income dropped $41,489,000,000.
Those were the costly years. Today ap
parently they are behind us. If such a na
tional income as that which prevailed in
1929 could be restored—and the trend un
der Roosevelt is in that direction—the
costs of the recovery program could be paid
off by the nation ia its stride.
The News-Leader extends congratula
tions to the City of Greenville and the
members of the Board of Aldermen in the
naming of Hon. M. H. Blount as mayor to
serve the unexpired term of the late Roy
C. Flanagan. We believe that our City Fath
ers did exceedingly well, and that their
choice has the approval of a large majority
of the citizens. T 0 Mr. Blount we extend
our heartiest felicitation, realizing, as he
said in his remarks immediately after being
sworn in, that the office of mayor carries
a very definite responsibility. That he will
do what he believes best for the greatest
number of our people, we have not the
slightest doubt. He has ability, knowledge
of law and of constitutional government,
and a sense of fairness in his dealings. He
is a native of Pitt, coming from a family
long prominently and closely identified with
the growth and development of the great
county of which Greenville is the county
seat. As a successful practicing attorney,
Mayor Blount will be able to see personally
that the city's legal interests are looked af
ter properly. His ability as a parliamen
tarian, and as an extemporaneous speaker
additionally aualifies him for the honor be
stowed upon him.
■—The Greenville News-Leader
NO TRAINING
'■ American Humorist v
Once a Western town held a Charley Chap
lin contest. Prizes were to be given to those
who could imitate Charley Chaplin. When
Charley heard about it he immediately en
tered the contest. He came in second.
STEEL AND HOGS DIFFERENT
The Pathfinder
The Pathfinder wishes to call attention to
the great difference between steel and hogs.
No, we have'nt gone nutty; we are talking ;
the hardest kind of hard sense. It is true i
that steel is an offspring of "pig" iron—but
from that point on, the two products take
absolutely opposite courses. You naturally
ask what we are driving at —and you are
entitled to know. Some great periodicals
like to speak in cryptic terms or fancy
phrases—perhaps so as to conceal the fact
that they have no worth-while thoughts to
contribute to the world. The Pathfinder has
t 0 deal in plain "common sense"—which is,
after all, uncommon.
The radical difference between hogs and
steel is revealed on the financial page of one
of the leading newspapers of the country.
This paper had one article headed: "Heavy
Hog Influx Breaks $lO Price"—and right
below this article, another article headed:
"Steel Prices Unchanged."
Now are you beginning to see the real
difference between hogs and steel? Doesn't
a ray of light begin to dawn on you to
show you how differently the great industr
ial magnates manage their business from
the way the farmers manage theirs? Hogs
in September reached the highest point in
six years—the "top" being $12.25 per hun
dred pounds, in Chicago. But this high price
had the effect of inducing the millions of
hog raisers to hustle their hogs to market
—and of course the price went down. What
else could possibly happen? Even $12.25
is not considered a "high" price by the hog
farmers—seeing that this is considerably
below the prices which have ruled in the
days of prosperity. But of course for the con
sumers, pork prices ARE too high.
How differently the steel people manage
their industry! Did they reduce their prices
when the after-war slump came? No, they
practically maintained their war-time high
prices. Instead of going ahead and keeping
up their production, and trying to find new
markets, as the farmers did, the steel bar
ons shut down their mills, turned most of
their workers loose on a world already over
burdened with unemployment—and let the
public whistle. At the lowest point of the
depression, steel production was down to
only 15 per cent of k capacit"—which means
that only 15 steel workers were being em
ployed, when 100 should have been. And
vet *he prices of. steel were not reduced ac
cordingly.
That is why the newspapers keep publish
ing, day after day, with tiresome, asinine
silliness, the fact: "Steel Prices Unchanged."
Of course steel prices are unchanged—be
cause there is a combination of the steel
barons which forbids lowering of prices to
meet the conditions. And the industrial em
ployers still expect the farmers to keep on
producing foodstuffs and raw materials at
ruinous prices, so that the cost of living
can be kept low—and in this way wages
and the cost of industrial production can be
| at n minimum.
We merely point to these facts—never
before shown up so forcefully—to illustrate
how differently general industry and the
farming industry are handled. The govern
ment is making every effort to remedy
this unjust setup. But when we see "steel
prices unchanged," while the prices of
farm products still have to bear the brunt
of the "law of supply and demand," it seems
to indicate that the plan has not got to
working perfectly as yet.
WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A MAN
The Enterprise
Some writers seem to think that it is
much harder to make a real man now than
it was a century ago, assigning as the reason
that it is harder to fifcd good boys to make
men out of, which is a great essential.
Abraham Lincoln was willing to work
hard to make an honest living, and, more
than that, he was willing to work hard to
improve himself. Garfield worked to sup
port himself and his mother while he was
R boy in his teens. He Wbrked to educate and
fit himself to occupy the highest office in
his country.
Many others have done likewise. But are
we making this type of men now? Is the
boy of today willing to pay the price in hon
est hard work, necessar yto make the foun
dation for a go«d man?
Who wants you today, young man? If it
is for a job of bookkeening, can you multi
ply and divide; do you know anything about
fractions; in other words, have you prepar
ed yourself through hard work to do the
work and have you shown yourself worthy
to be trusted? Or have you taken up your
time so frivolously that you think more of
ball contests than you do of the business
entrusted to you?
It is a sad thing to see ho wlittle the aver
age good business man thinks of the boy of
today. He is afraid to trust the youth with
important business details and is often
afraid to trust them with money because
so many have shown themselves dishonest.
The boy who has many duties and more
work and responsibilities has a much better
chance to do well in life than the hot-house,
late-sleeping type, who do nothing except
"laze" around and eat rich gravy and shuns
obligation.
We may expect fewer men in the future
than we have had in the past. Too few of
us form a definite purpose in our hearth
and stick to it while we are young; we un
balance our minds by cultivating the physi
cal to the neglect of the mental and moral
elements. And it takes them all to make a
THE ROCKY MCHINT HERALD, R6CK7 MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA
FORUM
PROSPECTIVE CALAMITY
To the Editor: In 30 years, accord
ing to J. Pierpont Morgan, poor fel
low! great private fortunes in the
United States will be completely
wiped out if the government doesn't
behave and return to the Ola Deal
policy of taxing the hide off of the
poor for the benefit of the rich.
Isn't such a prospect simply terri
fying? Think of what a calamity
it would be to the people of this
country if they were unable to
keep up with the damphoolery of
the young heirs and heiresses! How
can we be able to know the prevail
ing price of princes, dukes, counts,
barons and other royal nit-wits un
less we have rich American girls to j
buy them? Another thing: Lawyers,|
like other human beings, have to ]
live. What would become of the at-1
torneys of Reno, Nevada, and other i
divorce centers, where the idle rieh I
change husbands and wives about |
every six months? If Mr. Morgan's
predictions are correct, the poor peo
ple ought to be working themselves
into a lather of protest and see that
something is done about it!
If the New Deal policy of taxing
the rieh as well as the poor will wipe
out private fortunes in just 30 years,
I wonder if Mr. Morgan would be
good enough to estimate how long,
under the Old Deal, it would re
quire the possessors of these great
private fortunes to empty the Unit
ed States Treasury by their evasion
of income and other just taxes? If
my memory does not fail me, it
seems they had Mr. Morgan down
in Washington before a committee a
year or so ago, and it was revealed
that he hadn't paid any income tax
es in years through the manipula
tion of his stock accounts. Fine old
boy, he!
ROBIN O. KING, Raleigh
ASKING FOR IT
Despite the warning from the Pres
ident and Secretary Hull, American
business men have exported a "con
siderably increased amount'' of war
materials. The business man may
not know it but they are asking for
a new law that will strictly regu
late Such shipments.
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$100,090 BILLS
The bureau of Investigation has
turned out 4,200 SIOO,OOO bills—the
largest up to a year ago was the
.SIO,OOO denomination. Only 104 have
been issued.
A new orchard of 2,000 fruit trees
has been planted by the Jackson
Training School in Cabarrus Coun
ty under the supervision of the
farm agent.
FCC considers plan to revise whole
broadcasting structure.
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Members of the Varina Woman's
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the possibility of a new club house.
Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Judd have giv
en a lot and the citizens of the town
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May 1 that the Morganton curb
market has been established, Burke
county farmers and farm women
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