The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 3, NO. 9
IPou Announces
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(By w. S. Penn)
| Geo Boss Pou, who announced his
■candidacy for the Democratic nom
ination for State Auditor on Mon
► day is a native of Smithfield, John
ston County and the son of the
late Congressman Edward W. Pou,
who represented the Fourth Con
gTactional District in Congress for
[ many years. like his father, he has
always taken an interest lit every
thing pertaining to the betterment
of the welfare of the people and has
been an enthusiastic and active Dem
ocrat. He has served as Secretary
aad Chairman of the Johnston Co
► unty Democratic Executive Commit
tee and as President of the Young
Peoples Democratic Club of that
County.
Mr. Pou has a wide acquaintance
throughout the State. First appoint
ed as Chief Clerk in charge of all
recounting in the State Prison De
* partment, Mr. Pou immediately took
la course in Accountancy, Book
fkeeping and Business Administra
tion. One of his first official acts
.Jwas to request the installation of a.
modern system of bookkeeping and
accountancy. Later appointed as Su
perintendent of the Prison Depart
* meat he continued active in tho;
supervision of the Accounting system
' and was Budget Officer for that De
** partment.
k During the period Mr. Pou was the
head of the prison system in North
Carolina, many noteworthy reforms
were introduced. Proper hospital
and sanitary facilities were provid
ed and it was made compulsory for
all prosiners to be vaccinated
against smallpox and typhoid fever
' and to be tested for traces of verer
-9 al diseases. He established a special
colony for tubercular prisoners. He
was aso responsible for the estab
lishment of the criminal insane divi
t sion at the State Hospital for he
insane and for segregating these in
sane prisoners from the others. Be
fore this time they had been kept
at the Central Prison.
But n addition to humanizing the
prison ystem, Pou is also credited
with administering the affairs of
the State prison system on a sound
business basis and bringing good
M business management to the prison,
although he was never willing to
sacrifice the welfare of the prison
ers in order to show a dollars-and
cents profit on the ledger. He has
stated that if nominated he will
consider it his duty to uphod the
hands of the Democratic nominee
* for Governor and render such as
sistance as he can to such Govern
or in carrying into effect his pledges
to the people.
Mr. Pou attended Wake Forest
College and the Unversity of North
Carolina. He is an honorary Vice-
President for life of the North Car
olina Sheriff's Association and last
year served as National Vice-Presi
dent of the American Road Build
ers Association. He is a member of
the Junior Order, the Democratic
arty and theP Amercan Legion. Mr.
and Mrs. Pou have large farming
interests in Wake and Johnston Co
unties.
LEGION POST WANTS
CLOTHES USED NOW
Greenville, Feb. 20.—The Pitt co
unty post of the American Legion
Tuesday night went on record de
ploring the fact that there are hun
dreds of garments on hand here
made by the sewing room during the
summer months that because of gov
ernment red tape cannot be procur
ed for use-by needy families.
The matter was presented to tho
post by J. H. Jtose who stated that
there are several hundred garments
stored here but due to the fact
that there wai a controversy between
the WPA and ERA forces it was im
► possible to get any of the garments
for distribution among the needy
families. The matter has been taken
up locally and with state offices of
the government relief bureau but
those making the requests have been
sent from one headquarters to an
other without any results.
BACK WHERE HE
STARTED FROM
Bennettsville, S. C.—Frank Town
send, Main street grocer, is a vol
unteer fireman. Recently he heard
the general alarm, dashed a block
to the first station and swung
aboard tho track to ride to the fire
1 rrwtly MfoM the street from his
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"•adie Mae Deal
Repeats Honors
High School Student Wins State
Play Writing Contest For Second
Straight Year
For the second year in succession,
Sadie Mae Deal, a student at the
Rocky Mount high school, has won
the original play writing contest con
ducted for high schools of North
Carolina.
Miss Deal's work, "The Bridal
Chamber," was chosen from a large
list of entries as being the best or
iginal play submitted by a hign
school student in the state. An
nouncement of Miss Deal's accom
plishment was made by Mrs. Irene
Fussier, Executive secretary of the
Carolina Dramatic association. The
judges met at Chapel Hill where tho
contest was held.
The winning play will be present
ed in the Playmakers Theatre in
Chapel Hill during the annual dra
matic tournament which will be
held the first week of April.
Last year Miss Deal's work, "The
Word of A Huckins" won the state
contest.
"The Bridal Chamber" is a trage
dy. The setting of it is by the pic
turesque Silver Springs of Florida
Miss Deal received her inspiratioi
for the play after a visit to the
springs last summer.
The young playwright is a member
of the advanced class in dramatics
of the Rocky Mount high school of
which C. M. Edson is the instructor.
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Arlington Street
Church Nearly
Out Of Debt
The Arlington Street Baptist
church has about realized their
debt, which they have been strug
gling under since 1922, the depres
sion and the many other reverses
had left the membership very mucd
discouraged and with an indebted
ness of
A year Ago when Rev. O. N.
Marshall was called as pastor, he
found this situation and he began
at once to look for a way out. The
holders of the indebtedness were
vsry cooperative and favorable to
ward the First Baptist church aud
with T. A. Avery leading in a
campaign jointly with the church
they have about discharged tho
debt and soon will be able to an
nounce the debt paid, and the time
of dedication, which will be a great
day for the Arlington Street Bap
tist church.
Biblical Drama
To Be Given
"The First Commandment" To Have
Many In It—Slated March 4
"The First Commandment," por
traying Joseph and his ten brothers,
Moses and the giving of the com
mandments, and the scene of Jesus'
nativity, will be presented at the
high school auditorium March 4,
it was announced.
This presentation is a Biblical
drama, and will be given under the
sponsorship of the Clark street Meth
odist church as a community under
taking. Miss Mary Pendergast, of
Milbank, South Dakota, is here to di
rect the production which will have
about SO persons in the cast.
It will begin at 8:30 o'clock the
night of March 4, and will include
for the musical portion a choir of
20 leading voices here, Miss Pen
dergast outlined.
The cast has not been selected
but will be shortly.
"The First Commandment" is de
signed to portray essential religious
truths as set forth in the Command
ments of God, and rich oriental
costumes, a well-devised lighting
system, and a group of well-trained
local people are envisaged for the
production.
Miss Pendergast had charge of this
same play in Salisbury and Danville
Va., in this section.
NEGRO MERCHANT DIES
OFTER LONG SICKNESS
James Sessoms. pioneer Negro
merchant of the city, died follow
ing a lingering illness of two years.
He was 77. He retired four years
ago from the active work of his
store which he operated for 17
years.
Funeral services were held from
Mount Zion Baptist church of which
he was a member and was in
charge of his pastor, Dr. M. A. Hunt
er assisted by Rev. J. H. Clant-on,
pastor of Saint James Baptist
church. The services were held
Thursday afternoon at three o'clock.
Surviving are his widow, four dau
ghters, Mrs. Walter C. Bryant, Mrs.
Handy Gray, Daisy Sessoms, and
Blanche Sessoms, of New York; one
son, Innis and a number of grand
children.
Stocks on the "big board" gained
$3,218,965,497 in January.
President moves to cancel billions
of unused credit authorizations.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1936
Health Officer
Assumes Duties
Tarboro, Feb. 19.—Dr. L. L,
Parks, new Edgecombe county health
officer, took over duties of the office
here Wednesday.
He came here from Auburn, Ala.,
where he was connected with the
Alabama board of health for the
last five years. A native of Glea
son, Tenu., he received his acade
mic and medical training at Vander
bilt Lmversitp ana served his in
ternship at Hillman Hospital, BLr*
mingham, and Ford Hospital, De
troit.
He had been with the Alabama
health department continuously
since 1930 except for a year spent
at the Johns Hopkins School of
nygiene and Public Health, 1933-34,
and for some time in CCC camp work
He is a captain in the Medicat Re
serve Corps.
Dr, Parks succeeded Dr. A. D.
Gregg, whose resignation became ef
fective last December 15.
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LUXURIOUS STATEROOMS
ON "QUEEN MARY"
Almost All Cabin Class Staterooms
Will Have Connected Bath And
Toilet—Many Tourist Rooms Will
Have Private Bath, And 80 Per
cent Will Feature Private Toi
lets Adjoining
Happening to drop in at the of->
flees of Graham Dozier your corre
spondent could not help observing
their excitement over details, just
received, regarding luxurious acco
modations on the "Queen Mary,"
new Cunard White Star superliner
now being groomed for her maiden
voyage next May.
"More individual room for passen
gers than ever before," said Mr. Do
zier "will be the keynote of the
Queen Mary, for despite her im
mense size (she is the first ship
in the world to exceed 1,000 feet
along the waterline) the new ship
will carry less than 2,100 passengers
in all three classes."
"This is the reason why the Queen
Mary's magnificient terraced decks
have a total space of 112,320 square
feet, or more than the area of 2 1-3
American football fields, providing
exceptional opportunities for deck
sports, promenading or lounging in
"hundreds of declc chairs.
"Even more important, however,
is the fact that passengers will en
joy more spacious, better lighted
and better ventilated staterooms.
Not only are a greater portion of
the staterooms outside rooms, but in
Cabin Class, nearly every room has
its own connecting bath and toi
let. In Tourist Class a goodly num
ber ot' rooms will have private bath
rooms and fully 80 percent of the
rooms will feature private toilets
adjoining.
"The Cabin Class staterooms are
the last word in restrained modern
ism and have been indicidually de
signed by famous British artists. A
passenger crossing the Atlantic may
thus occupy a room decorated in one
style and on his return'occupy one
of entirely different lines, as there
are no fewer than 26 separate types
of treatment in the staterooms.
"For the sake of variety some of
these beautiful de luxe staterooms
are paneled entirely in wood, while
others are various combinations of
woodworks, fabrics, and tints of
paint. No less than 21 rare woods,
ranging from Australian maple to
Swedish pine, have been employed
to create unrivalled aratistic efforts,
while the general color scheme of
the hangings and carpets will be iu
rich shades of gold, blue and green.
"Separate supplies of hot and
cold air will pour into each state
room, under the individual control
of each passenger, quite aside from
regular electric fans. Lighting will
issue from concealed lights or grace
ful bracket lamps on the walls, with
separate illumination for dressing
tables and reading lamps.
"Unique 'extra' features include
an individual telephone, by which
passengers may communicate with
other pafts of. the ship or with
friends on either side of the Atlan
tic. An electric clock, wall plugs
for the curling iron and an electric
heater which supplements the regu
lar heating system, are also includ
ed.
"Even in Tourist Class staterooms
notable improvements are evident,
including modern thermotank venti
lation under the passenger's con
trol, electric fans, box-spring mat
tresses. ample storage space for
wardrobe trunks and an unusual
number of private bathrooms and
toilets.
"Good news to thousands of stu
dents, teachers and other tthrifty
people who travel Third Class, is
the fact that the Queen Mary will
actually offfcr rooms for two or
four which will compare favorablp
with First Class accomodations of
only a few years ago. Some of the
most notable features of these
Third Class staterooms include: ther
motank ventilation, electric tans,
reading lights with special direct
downward beams over ea£h berth,
ceilings and walls that unlike the
past style are completely covered,
concealing the steel construction of
the ship, mahogany bedsteads witn
box-spring mattresses and hot and
cold running water in washbasins."
December net operating income of
Class 1 rails rose 21.3 per cent.
Bank clearings In 22 cities up 3
per cent from year ago.
When the Smelt Are Running
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Millions of guaetts are heading upstream In the rivers of the state
of Washington on (Heir way to' the spawning grounds. The residents
harry ant to catch all they can, using everything to dip out the fish
and carry tbeia borne. This man has been using a bird cage to scoop
up the smelt from tbo» Cowlitz river, and loads them Into a doll buggy.
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Do Something Now !
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The outlook for the farmer is very gloomy at this time.
The committee of Governors meeting in Washington seem
to have admitted the failure of their mission apparently
before they had even gotten started.
We read in the paper this morning that our Governor
states that they could not hope to do anything this year.
Now when do those who represent us expect to do any
thing for us?
The tobacco seed, in many instances, has not even been
planted and it takes about two and one half months to
get large enough to transplant.
I believe it would have been better, if the farmers them
selves had gone to Washington and let the Congress and
Supreme Court kn|w their feelings.
It is unfortunate that the Governors conference should
have admitted their failure so soon.
When President Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 1,
1933, he did not delay, he never said it was too late. He
put legislation on the books that gave immediate relief to
the farmers, which relieved the destitute condition of the
country. He never said anything about the time being
short! It is true that Senator Bailey got up on the floor
of the Senate and worked against the first farm relief bill,
saying that he was from a toabcco state and said the Pres
ident's legislation would do no good. He was wrong. It did
do good. The price of tobacco was raised from 8c to 20c
that fall. .
When those who were against this legislation failed to
deter the President with the argument that it was too late,
it was then the first Liberty League talk of destroying the
country began to appear that the Constitution was being
violated because the President was undertaking to clothe
the naked and feed the hungry.
The farmers should insist on something being done im
mediately, if it can be done in 1937, in can be done in 1936.
The farmers can not afford to have this crop of 1936 taken
from them and unless something is done to protect them,
we fear the consequences.
TOO MUCH MONEY
At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen last Friday
night, bids were open for the re-modeling of the old Mason
ic Temple. The lowest bid being around $76,000.
We are not prepared to say that the bid was too high, for
we are not acquainted with the specifications, but we are
prepared to say that $76,000 is entirely too much money to
.be spent in re-modeling this building.
It would appear to us that $25,000 should be the great
est amount that the city should undertake to spend on this
building. . .
Plain, convenient, comfortable construction is all that »s
necessary. To do more would be wasting the tax payers
money and we commend the Board of Aldermen for turn
ing the proposition down.
Our recent heavy expenditure has made some of us lose
our idea of the value of a dollar.
Before the great bank failures, most of the banks ad
vertised with pictures of their great buildings. It appear
ed that those with the biggest buildings were the first
ones to break. So now, you never see a bank advertised
with a picture of its building.
Rocky Mount has been fortunate in that it has not bur
ied much of the public money in fine buildings, fine offices
and swivelled chairs for its employees.
Let us not start it this late date.
100,000 VISITORS
IN NEW ORLEANS
Over Half Million Persons Pay
Homage To Rex, Lord Of This
Rule; Miss Cora Jahncke Is Paid
Clty'a Greatest Social Honor, That
Of Being Qneen Of The Mardi
Gras
New Orleans, Fe. 25.—New Or
leans became a bedlam of carnival
hilarity today as the whole city
joined once more in mass celebra
tion of Mardi Graa.
Business paused as young and old
took to the streets to pay homage
to Rex, Lord of this Rule, and his
consort in a getting of glamorous
parades, singing and dancing by
grotesquely costumed maskers and
i impromptu pageantry.
Ruben E. Tipton, vice president
, of the Lykes Brothers-Ripley Steam
i ship Company; ruled as Rex, King
' of Carnival.
j The citv's greatest social honor,
that of being queen, fell to Miss
Cora .Jahncke, daughter of former
assistant secretary of the navy Ern
. est Lee Jahncke.
[ Warm weather and a forecast that
' no rain would fall brought praeti
■ cally all of the city's almost 500,-
000 inhabitants from their homos to
I join in the fun with approximately
> 100,000 visitors,
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' tion is perfected by NBC
PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
Thomas Accepts
Fire School Post
Assistant Chief Named On Fire Col
lege, Drill School Group
t J f N. Thomas, assistant fire chief
since 1929, has accepted a place
on the Firp College and Drill
School committee of the North Car
olina Firemen's association follow
ing his unanimous selection for the
post by the executive committee ot
the association.
Mr. Thomas, who since 1932 has
been acting as assistant to the in
structors of the yearly fire schools
held in this state, will now be a
regular instructor, having been nam
ed an additional member of the fire
college and school drill committee.
Sherwood Brockwell, state fire
marshal and conductor of the -early
firemen's training school, indicated
in a letter that Mr. Thomas' work
"in this First School has been won
derful and has made him the most
popular instructor on the staff."
Mr. Brockwell, who spoke only a
short time ago at the annual fire
toen's banquet here, said in a com
munication notifying the assistant
phief of his selection, "Your work
in the development of this major
undertaking of the association has
been outstanding and certainly jus
tifies this recognition."
The fireman's school this year
will be in Wilmington in May.
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Arthur Everette
Buried At Tarboro
Tarboro, Feb. 2o.—Funeral servi
ces for Arthur Edgar Everette, 43,
were held from his home here at
three o'clock this afternoon with
burial following in Greenwood cem
etery.
Mr. Everette died in a local hos
pital Sunday night after a five day
illness with pneumonia. He was a
machinest employed by Runnymede
mills and numbered many friends
in Tarboro.
Surviving are his widow, six sons
and daughters, Betty. Arthur, Lucy,
Ruby Mae, William and Thomas, all
of this city, and one brother, J. T.
Everette, of Greenville.
Alice Suiter Jr
Will Compete
Alice Suiter was elected by the
seniors of the Rocky Mount high
school to represent them in a stat?
wide contest sponsored by the R.
A. R. Miss Suiter's record of schol
arship citizenship, character, and
service will be submitted to the
judges who will select the winner
for North Carolina.
Every state in the country will se
lect a representative who will be
the guest of the D. A. R. at its an
nual congress at Washington, D. C.,
which will be held in April. The se-
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made at Asheville early in March.
Maude Battle was the representa
tive of the Rocky Mount high school
last year.
LIVING 100 YEARS
NOT NOW UNUSUAL
Living for a century is no loner
as uncommon as one might inm
gine. The average length of life Is
steadily getting longer. Women are
more likely to reach a ripe old
age than men.
So reports the current Illinois
Health Messenger, drawing conclu
sions from a study of mortality
statistics in that state. One in each
2,000 persons who die in Illinois
has reached the ago of 100 or more.
"To live for 80 years is now al
most ordinary. More than one in
each 10 people who die have reach
ed their eightieth birthday.
"Living for at least 80 years grows
constantly more frequent. Thus in
1910 only 6.9 per cent of all deaths
in Illinois were among people who
had lived for more than 80 years,
while in 1934 the proportion was 10.-
8 per cent "
$2,249,178,375 is demanded by the
President to settle the bonus.
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CONGRESS LOOKS AHEAD
LIMITED TVA VICTORY
BIG QUESTION AHEAD
THE SHIPPING SUBSIDY
SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS ,
MONEY FOR WAR
CONCERNING INFLATION
ROOSEVELTS ATTITUDE
Encouraged by the progress of
the agricultural adjustment bill,
congressional leaders believe that
it is now possible to wind up the
session early in May. The decision
of th eSupreme Court on the TVA
saved Congress a lot of time as
an adverse decision would have
been followed by heavy oratory and
possibly the necessity for new leg
islation to deal with the develop
ment.
The neutrality debate threatened
to delap matters in the Senate, al
though House action was quickly
secured under a. so-called "gag"
rule, limiting debate to twenty
minutes to each side. A renewed
effort on the part of a group of
senators headed by Senator Nye, to
put real teeth in the resolution to
empower the President to embargo
materials of war, as well as arms
and ammunition, might revive thia
issue and force the writing of per
manent legislation at this session.
This would require many days and
invite a prolonged filibuster on the
part of those who oppose even the
simple extension of existing Uuv
which was sent to the President last
week.
Otherwise, Congress must pas#
a tax bill, an appropriation for
work relief and the regular depart
mental supply bills, but these should
not present real obstacles to aa
early adjustment.
The opinion of the Supreme
Court in the TVA does not appar
ently dispose of some constitutional
que&tions involved in other cases
that attack the right of the Feder
al Government to provide funds to
municipalities and other political
sub-divisions for the erection of
competing electric, gas or other util
ity systems. There are a hundred or
more PWA cases pending in the
courts that bring up this question.
They involve about $1,000,000,000 of
power construction projects, most
of them linked with irrigation, nav
igation, flood control, and erosion
programs. Two of the cases have
reached Circuit Courts of Appeal
but there is no indication as to
when they will reach the Supreme
Court.
In its majesty opinion on the TVA,
the Court rendered no decision in
connection with any other dam or
power development in the Tennessee
Valley. It did not pass on the valid
ity of the Act creating the Tenn
essee Valley Authority or make any
pronouncement on the board pro
gram now underway in that area.
The Court decided that the Wilson
dam at Muscle Shoals was constitu
tionally constructed, and that the
purchase of transmission lines to
carry surplus power to a market
was valid.
Arguing the case before the
Court, the TVA attorneys narrow
ed the whoie case to whether Con
gress may construct dams to con
trol navigation and floods for the
national defense, and whether it
may contract for privately owned
transmission facilities to carry tho
surplus power to market. The Court's
decision was restricted to this nar
row basis. The Government's strate
gy excluded evidence that the con
ception and practice of TVA was far
more than an agency to dispose of
the surplus energy created during
the process of regulating naviga
tion and preparing for war.
While no explanation was expect
ed for the 59-day deliberation of
the Court—longer than that requir
ed to decide any New Deal case—
it appears to have been caused by
the attitude of four Justices who
took the position that the plaintiffs,
having no case, had no proper stand
ing in Court and their action should
have been dismissed. On the decision
itself the vote of the Court was
eight to one with Justice Mcßey
nolds, dissenting, holding that the
purpose of the TVA must be judg
ed on all available facts. On this
basis he found the entire scheme un
constitutional.
On the heels of the victory, the
Administration is preparing to set
up additional power authorities to
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