The Rocky Mo
VOLUME 3, NO. 14
Electriiication
Meeting 'Planned
More Than Thousand Nash Family
Heads Invited to Nashville
April 7
Invitations are going out from the
office of the home demonstration and
county agents to the heads of more
than a thousand rural families in
Nash county to be present in Nash
ville on next Tuesday morning, Ap
ril .7 to attend a meeting for an
intelligent and authorative presenta
tion of the subject "Fundamentals
of the Effective Use of Electricity
on the Farm." While the invitations
are going out to those who have
availed themselves of the opportun
ity of connecting with the upwards
of 200 miles of rural line now com
plete or building in the county or
are in close promimity of these lines
the meeting is open to the public
and all who are interested in this
subject are invited to attend.
The meeting will be held in the
'court house starting at 10:30 and is
expeeted to be marked by both a
morning and afternoon session and
will be attended by outstanding au
thorities on this subject, included
among them being D. E. Jones ex-,
tension engineer of the rural elec
trification authority, G. E. Kennedy,
state electrical inspector, Pauline
Gordon, home management special
ist for North Carolina, and others
from the farm extension service in
Raleigh, including Mrs. Jane S. Mc-
Kimmon, state home demonstration
-agent who has been invited but who
, has not yet finally indicated that
she can attend.
This meeting is designed to satis
fy and to establish in the minds of
the rural residents the practicability
of electric service on the farm. The
meeting might better be termed a
school on the anbjeet of the appli
cation of electricity to the farm
tasks. As far as possible technical
engineering terms will be avoided
and the audiences will be told as
to the most efficient manner of do
ing things with electricity, and
things that should and should not
be done in equipping a rural home
in .greatest efficiency. While the
meeting is the outgrowth of efforts
of the rural Electrification author
ity, the REA is working through the
agricultural extension service at
"State College and the meeting in
Nash county will be in direct charge
Of H. G. Wharton, Nash coWty
ftm uRTMit, nn-d 'WW*. • Kiße"▼htW
Gordon, Nash home demonstration
agent.
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Mrs. Barnhill
Is Interred
Local Woman Succumbed At Home
Following Lengthy Illness
Mrs. J. E. Barnhil 1, 57, well
known local woman, was buried Mon
day in Pineview ■cemetery after Dr.
J. W. Kincheloe, pastor of the First
Baptist church, conducted funeral
services from the residence, No. 115
Atlantic avenue, Monday morninq;
with the assistance of Rev. G. W.
Perry, pastor of the First Methodist
church.
Mrs. Barnhill, a resident of the
city for about 35 years, died Sat
urday night at her home following
an illness that confined her to her
bed for the past seven months.
She belonged to the First Bap
tist church, the General Interna
tional auxiliary to the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, the Wo
men's Benefit association and tho
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy.
Before her first marriage she was
Miss Maggie Carson, and was born,
in Bethel. Her first husband, the
late F. S. Gardner, died about ten
years ago. Then about five years
ago she was married to J. E.
Barnhill, who survives her here.
Other survivors include her son 3,
J. C. Gardner and F. S. Gardner,
both of this city; and F. C. Gard
ner of New York City; four broth
ers, W. J. Carson and W. H. Car
son, all of Bethel; and her sistnr
Mrs. Roland Taylor, also of here.
Active pallbearers included her
nephews, Dr. R. L. Whitehurst, of
Rocky Mount; W. J. .Whitehurst, Old
Point Comfort, Va.; J. R. Carson,
Bethel; Alton Carson, Bethel; Ralpi
Carson, Bethel and Wesley Gardner,
Old Point Comfort, Va.
Honorary pallbearers were: Dr. R.
L. Whitehurst, D. J. Rose, Z. B. Jen
kins, S. S. Toler, Dr. J. A. Speight,
Dr. M. L. Stone, Z. B. Bulluck, H.
C. Joyner, P. G. Cobb, T. L. Wors
ley, Walter Snell, B. T. Burgess,
Dr. R~ H. Noell, L. W. Murphrey,
W. G.\t!herry, Ellis Edwards, Dr.
W. B. Kinlaw, E. H. Stancil, J. R.
Thomas, J. H. Hughes, L. F. earsall,
T. E. Jenkins, W. R. Sanders, and
W. G. Home.
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Isaac Daniel Is
Buried Tuesday
Middlesex. —Funeral services for
Isaac Daniel, 61, who died sudden
ly Monday afternoon on his farm
niera here, will be held Tujesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Members
of the Junior Order of which he
was a member, will have charge of
the services.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
P. E. Lewis and Mrs. Aubrey Lewis;
two brothers, John Daniel and Mae
Daniel; and a sister, Mrs. C. W.
Hales.
Institutions Get
Large Sum From
Duke Foundation
Institutions in Edgecombe nil
Nash eounties received a total of
$20,334.42 in the appropriations
made today by the trustees of the
Duke Endowment for hospitals and
orphanages in North and South Car
olina.
Charlotte, March 31.—Trustees of
the Duke Endowment, meeting here
today, appropriated $962,499.22 to
103 hospitals and 47 orphan homes
in the Carolinas.
Of the total, $522,475 went to hos
pitals in North Carolina, $343,769 to
hospitals in South Carolina, $62,662.-
92 to orphan homes in North Caro
lina and $33,592.30 to orphan homes
in South Carolina.
The appropriations brought to $lO,-
586,387.08 the sum allotted to hospi
tals and orphan homes in the Car
olinas by the Duke endowment sines
its establishment in 1924.
Allottments. were made to hospi
tals on the basis of one dollar for
each day's treatment of a free pa
tient and to orphanages on the basis
of the number of days care for each
orphan for the year.
x The trustees announced that in
addition to the applications from
hospitals acted upon 18 others were
pending.
The orphanages in North Carolina
and the amount allotted to each:
Alexander home, Charlotte, $548.43;
Alexander schools, Union Mills, $2,-
358.01; Appalachain school, Penland,
$390,30; Baptist Orphanage of North
Carolina, Thomasville, $10,187.69;
Buncombe County Children's home,
Asheville, $532.14; Catholic Orphan
age, Nazareth, $2,157.08; Children's
Home, Winston-Salem, $6,043.64;
Children's Home Society of North
Carolina, of Greensboro, $54.68;
Christian Orphanage, Elon college,
$1,461.68; Colored orphanage of
North Carolina, Oxford, $2,264.93;
Elida Orphanagaf Asheville, $978.20;
falcon Orphanage, Falcon, $728.50;
Forsyth Temporary Home, Winston-
Salem, $53.90; Free Will Baptist Or
phanage, Middlesex, $2,518.42; Gas
ton County Childrens home, Dallas,
$75.43; Grandfather Home for chil
dren, Banner Elk, $1,299.03; IOOF
Home, Goldsboro, $1,190.55; Memori
al Industrial school (Negro) Win
ston-Salem, $1,10256; Methodist Or
phanage, Raleigh, $5,245.57; Metho
dist Protestant Children's Home,
High Point, $1,947.69; Mountain Or-
Bla#k .Mountain, $1,147.04;
National Orphans Home, Lexington,
$4,533.30; Nazareth Orphans Home,
Rockwell, $854.57; Oxford Orphanage
Oxford, $6,799.69; Presbyterian Or
phans Borne, JJarium Springs, $4,-
884.07; Pythian Home, Clayton, $607,-
05; Quaker Children's Home, Mc-
Connell, $321.92; South Mountain In
dustrial Institute, Nebo, $482.18;
Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, sl,-
673.04; Wright Refuge, Durham,
$158.03.
The North Carolina hospitals aid
ed and the amount each received
follow:
Angel, Franklin, $5,129; Anson
Sanatorium, Wadesboro, $5,120; Al
bemarle, Elizabeth City, $5,221 ;
Asheville Mission, Asheville, $lO,-
166; Aston Park, Asheville, $8,322;
Baker Sanatorium, Lumberton, $7,-
146.
Biltmore, Asheville, $2,090; Black
welder, Lenoir, $1,937; Brantwood,
Oxford, $1,374; Brunswick county
Southport, $3,137; Burrus Memorial,
High Point, 3,738; City Memorial,
Thomasville, $2,111; City Memorial,
Winston-Salem, $21,873; Clinic
Greensboro, $3,340; Community, Wil
mington, $6,408; Davidson, Lexing
ton, s9l; Duke, Durham, $69,375;
Edgecombe General, Tarboro, $5,389;
Ellen Fitzgerald, Monroe, $1)506;
Garrett Memorial, Crossnore, $2.-
218; Goldsboro, Goldsboro, $10,726;
Good Samaritan, Charlotte, $9,727;
Grace, Banner Elk, $10,131; Grace,
Morganton, $4,484; C. J. Harris Com
munity, Sylva, $1,678; Haywood co
unty, Waynesville, $11,022;
Highsmith, Fayetteville, $20,180;
Hugh Chatham Memorial, Elkin, $4,-
880; Janves Walker Memorial, Wil
mington, $23,396; Jubilee, Hender
son, $4,160; Laurinburg, Lauriuburg,
$3,275; .
Leaksville General, Leaksville, sl,-
600; Lee County, Sanford, $4,792;
Lincoln, Durham, $20,336; Lawrence,
Mooresville, $3,385; Lyday Memorial,
Brevard, $684; Maria Parham, Hen
derson, $2,535;
Marion, General Marion, $1,792;
Martin Memorial, Mt. Airy, $4,207;
Memorial General, Kinston, $5,313;
Memorial, Reidsville, $2,451; Mercy,
Charlotte, $13,748; Mercy, Wilson,
$5,610; Moore county, Pinehurst,
$6,010; Morehead City, Morehead
City, $1,969; Mountain Sanitarium,
Fletcher, $1,676;
North Carolina Baptist, Winston-
Salem, $14,218; Park View, Rocky
Mount, $12,427; Patton Memorial,
Hendersonville, $1,225; Pittman Hos
pital, R. L. Fayetteville, $8,963; Pres
byterian, Charlotte, $12,599; Ran
dolph Asheboro, $2,903; Rex, Ra
leigh, $17,166; Richardson Memorial,
Greensboro, $6,840; Roanoke Rapids,
Roanoke Rapids. $4,169; Roaring
Gap, Roaring Gap, $1,790; Rowan
General, Salisbury, $5,284; Ruther
ford, Rntherfordton, $5,171; St. Ag
nes, Raleigh, $14,707; St. Leo's
Greensboro, $5,841; St. Luke's Tryon,
$1,500; St. Peter's, Charlotte, $5,345;
Shelby, Shelby, $9,526;
Spartanburg Baby, Saluda, $2,848;
Stanley General, Albemarle, $1,650;
Sternberger's Children's Greensboro,
$4,237; Susie Cheatham Memorial,
Oxford, $2,700; Thompson Memorial
Lumberton, $9,097; Watts, Durham,
$25,283; Yadkin, Albemarle, $2,528.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY/APRIL 3, 1936
Public Due Statement
Some weeks back, we stated in our editorial column that
WP had many inquiries as to why the gymnasium was not
being started along with the cement stadium. We have not
received an explanation of this from any official source,
yet we are being told that there is no discrimination in the
matter, and if there is no discrimination in the matter, yet
the delay is taking place. We do feel that some responsible
head of the city should give the people of Rocky Mount
information on this subject and if the matter is not being
delayed they could probably tell us when it is expected
that the gymnasium will be started. There have been many
rumors and many suggestions and it is hoped that the gov
ernmental authorities of the city will clarify this matter.
TAX REPORT SHOWS INCREASED
CONSUMING POWER
Revenues of the State of North Carolina for the past
three quarters of the current year had increased $4,189,136
over the same period of last year which is more than ten
per cent increase.
The sales tax alone increased $1,854,176. While we have
never been an advocate of the Sales Tax and feel that
economies and other modes of taxation can supplant it
yet there is one note of significance in this report; that
is that the consuming power under the New Deal and the
recovery laws passed by this Democratic Administration
is thoroughly demonstrated in this report.
The masses of people, while not enjoying the prosperity
which they are entitled to, yet it shows that conditions are
so much fetter than they were in "33" yet there are those
in the face of what we see still standing argueing against
the work of this Administration.
Reynolds Talks
At Maine Rally
Gives New Deal Credit For Return
ing Prosperity In His Keynote
Speech
Washington, March 31. —Neither
of the North Carolina Senators was
in Washington today.
Senator Reynolds was in Maine
addressing the Democratic state con
vention which will nominate candi
dates who will face the electorate in
September, two months before the
rest of the nation goes to the bal
lot box, making the election one
of particularly significance.
Senator Bailey was still at his
home in Raleigh where he - spent
the but was expected back
here 'tomorrow in time to sit in the
meeting of the commerce committee
on the new flood control bill, which
was introduced today and which,
like its predecessors, fails to car
ry anything for North Carolina
rivers.
Senator Bailey is only one of a
number of Senators who are at
tempting to add items to the meas
ure, but he occupies a strategic po*
sition on the committee which will
report the legislation.
Representative Weaver is anxious
to confer with Senator Bailey in re
gard to the TVA report, made yes
terday which recommends that the
Fontana dam on the little Tennessee
river,' a site now owned by the
Aluminum Company of America, be
constructed ahead of the Fowler's
Bend dam on the Hiawassee river,
a dam for which an initial appro
priation was made last year after
considerable effort. Both dams are
in Mr. Weaver's district but he is
committed to the Hiawassee project.
S. Edgecombe Wins
Triangular Debate
Macclesfield, March 30. —For the
fifth consecutive year the South
Edgecombe debating team has prov
en to be top notch as far as the dis
trict in which they were included
was concerned.
Friday afternoon Ora Abrams and
Jonas Owens proved to the judges,
who were professors of Atlantic
Christian College, and to the nega
tives Rosa Lee Wooten and Mabel
Owens of Saratoga that the states
should adopt socialization of medi
cine pointing out that doctors would
have fairer chance, that 50 million
people would receive medical care
who do not get it now and that
the new plan is necessary, practical
and desirable.
Tho negative side of the South
Edgecombe team, Alice Thomas and
Dana Mattox were also successful
in proving their points against the
Leggett affirmative in the Leggett
school building. They were accom
panied there by their coach, Miss
Sadie Belle Brown.
On Thursday evening a contest
was held at the South Edgecombe
school to determine who should have
the award as the best local high
school debater. Dana Mattox proved
to be the winner. The team will bo
sent to Chapel Hill for the finals.
Acting president and secretary
Friday afternoon were Roy Parker
and Wiley Leon Lane respectively.
MAGISTRATES MEET IN
SALISBURY APRIL 24
The annual convention of tho
North Carolina Magistrates Associa
tion will be held in Salisbury on
April 24, H. A. Bland of Raleigh,
association president, said.
The magistrates will elect new of
ficers at that time. The principal
speaker on the program will be J.
M. Broughton of Raleigh, president
of the North Carolina Bar Associa
tion.
Schools Rating
Given In Report
Central High School Of Rocky Mt.
Ranks Fifth In State In Number
Enrolled
The position or the Rocky Mount
high school in comparison with tho
other schools of the state is shown
in the recent report for the years
1934-35 compiled by the Southern
Association of College and Second
ary schools.
According to the report, Central
high school ranks fifth in North
Carolina for the number of stu
dents enrolled. R. J. Reynolds high
school of Winston-Salem leads with
1,580 students. Hollowing are Char
lotte with 1,277, Asheville with 1,-
273, Durham with 960, and Rocky
Mount with 919.
The Southern association each year
compiles the percentage of failures
made by graduates of the various
high schools while in their fresh
man year at college. The report for
the local school in this respect is
very complimentary. Of the local
graduates in college only 10.2 per
cent of thei* grades were failures.
In comparing this with the other
larger schools in the state only Dur
ham schools in the state only Dur
ham has a better average for the
past year with only 10 per cent of,
their graduates' grades being fail
ures. Other schools and their marks
are Winston-Salem, 15.5 per cent;
Charlotte, 11.1; and Asheville, 13.1.
The Rocky Mount figures were takeu
from the 41 graduates who entered
college from the graduating class of
1934. Of the 137 graduates in this
class, 41 went away to college.
The average for all the high
schools in the Southern association
is 12.4 which is above the mark of
the local school. The schools in
North Carolina which are members
of the association have an average
of failures of 13.1 per cent.
There are only six colored high
schools in North Carolina which are
on the accredited list of the South
ern Association and the Booker T
Washington school here is one of
the select class. Other schools in
this group are Durham, Oxford.
Winston-Salem, Kings Mountain, and
Sedalia.
The accredited list of white high
schools now includes only 34 in
North Carolina. Twenty of these are
public schools while the remaining
14 are private institutions. The pub
lic schools in the state which are
o nthe approved list are Asheville,
Biltmore, Chapel Hill, Central of
Charlotte, Concord, Lexington, Mor
ganton, North Wilkesboro, State
School for tho Blind in Raleigh,
Roanoke Rapids, R. J. Reynolds in
Winston-Salem, Curry Training
School, Durham, Greenville, Hender
sonville, Kings Mountain, Morehead
City, New Bern, Southern Pines and
Rocky Mount.
The Southern association embraces
the states of Mississippi, South Car
olina, Texas ,Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Flo
rida, North Carolina and Virgin
ia.
Child Dies From
Hot Water Burns
Wilson, March 31.—John Willie
Hathaway. 3-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. R. Hathaway of New Hope,
died last night from burns receiv
ed when he fell into a pot of boil
ing water at his home last week.
Surviving are his parents; four
brothers, Roy, Leslie Ray, James and
Willard Hathaway; and two sisters,
Gladys Mae and Betsy Gray Hatha
way.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday afternoon from New Hope
church at 3:30 o'clock.
Mcßae Presents
Views To Voters
Stresses Honest Primaries And Elec
tions And Economy In Government
Kinston, April I.—John A. Mcßae,
candidate for Governor called for
primaries and elections 'free of
taint,' economy hi government, abo
lition of the sales tax 'at the ear
liest opportunity,' and State-controll
ed liquor stores in a campaign
speech here tonight.
"If the sales tax cannot be abol
ished, it should be reduced to two
per cent if possible and taken off
the bare necessities of life and
meals," he told his audience.
Discussing the liquor situation,
Mcßae said he favored placing all
liquor stores under State control
but giving each county the right to
vote on whether stores should be
set up within its boundaries. He
stated that if he is elected he will
use "every opportunity to say to
the youth that liquor is harmful and
its use attended by danger."
Other topics discussed by the
speaker included schools, automobile
license fees, and farm conditions.
He said that $3 should be the maxi
mum charge for an automobile li
cense, that teachers are entitled to
fair treatment at the hands of the
General Assembly, ancL that "good
schools, good roads, ana good sani
tation should be provided to make
the farmer's condition satisfactory
and make him want to remain on the
farm."
Conduct Funeral
For Mrs. Batts
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah
O. Batts, 77, who died late Satur
day night at her home in Elm City
after an illness of two weeks, were
held from the graveside in the
Thomas graveyard near Elm City at
three o'clock.
She is survived by four daughters,
Mrs. May Wiggins of Wilson, Mrs.
Ed Petway of Wilson; Mrs. Pattie
Howell of Kelford, and Mrs. Mattie
Driver of Castalia; three sons, Wil
liam Batts of Elm City, Josh Batts
of Wilson and James Batts of Roc
ky Mount; a brother Jonathan
Woodard, of Wilson; three half-,
sisters, Mrs. Nannie Stott of Sims,
Mrs. Pattie Boykin of Wilson, and
Miss Mattie Stott of Wilson; two
half brothers, Billie Stott and Char
lie Stott, both of Wilson.
All N. C. Jails
Are Under Par
Washington, April 1. —Hearings on
the appropriation bill for the De
partment of Justice, on which the
House began consideration today,
showed that county jails in North
Carolina have an unusually low rat
ing.
Of the 100 eounty jails inspected
by the Department of Justice, 78,
have a rating below 50 per cent, a
! number exceeded only by Georgia
' and Texas.
The other 22 jails have a rating
of between 50 and 59 per cent, not
a single jail in the State being rated
as high as 60 per cent, the mark of
acceptability fixed by the Federal
Bureau of Prisons.
RULES NOT TO EFFECT
EASTER MOND'Y FISHING
North Carolina's fresh water fish-
Easter Monday, despite a 40-day
Eastern Monday, despite a 40-day
closed period, John D. Chalk, State
game and inland fisheries commis
sioner, announced.
The closed season will apply to
all fresh water fish except those
found in a few far western coun
ties. It is being placed in effect to
protect fish during the spawning sea
son.
Eastern Monday, Chalk said is a
traditional occasion for fishing ex
cursions in this section of the co
untry and it is not felt that the
lifting of the ban for one day will
do any material harm to the fish.
STATE TO PURCHASE
HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT
An operating table, X-ray machine
and beds for the new hospital at
Central Prison are major items on
which the State Division of Pur
chase and Contract has requested
bids for its letting Thursday. A
new telephone exchange system for
the remodelled prison also is in
cluded in the list.
Other materials to be purchased
this are: sash cord, linoleum,
hominy, straw hats, meat, shotgun
shells, drugs, beds, springs, mat
tresses, structural steel, lubricating
oil, galvanized steel sheets, chains,
chain hooks, creosote solution, shov
els, paint, radiator hose, steel bars,
oxygen and acetylene.
BULLET HITS NOSE
Cincinnati.—While standing near
a bonfire, Cecil Love, 14, was struck
in the nose by a bullet which had
been thrown into the fire by one
of his companions.
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Wall Street Conversation
Jack—Have you quit speculating!
Bill—No. At present I'm speculat
ing as to how I shall avoid bank
ruptcy.
PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
State Tax Yield
Rises4,ooo,ooo
Three Quarters Of Year Show Ten
Per Cent Gain; Sales Tax Leads
Way
Revenues of the State of North
Carolina for the first three quar
ters of the current fiscal year were
$4,189,136 or 10.25 per cent greater
than recepits for the same period
in 1934-35, the State Department of
Revenue reported.
General fund revenues for the
nine-months period increased 17.72
per cent from $20,290,153.48 last
year to $23,885,563.95 this year. Mo
tor vehicle taxes and fees increased
2.88 per cent from $20,589,328.72 to
$21,183,054.60 despite lower-priced li
cense tags.
Aged Father Gets
New York Offer
Specialists Want Couple To Come
There For Birth Of Second Child
New Bern, March 27.—New York
specialists who came here last week
to investigate the birth of Frank
lin Roosevelt Hughes, 15 months ago,
to Mr. and Mrs. George Isaac Hughes,
when the father was nearing his
95th birthday anniversary have
written the couple that they will
bear all hospital, doctor and trans
portation costs, with chance for a
possible movie contract, if they will
go to New York the last of May for
the birth of the expected second
child.
Although they are in great need
of money, having only a Confed
erate veteran pension and some lit
tle unemployment relief aid, Mr.
and Mrs. Hughes will likely turn
down this offer, for they prefer to
remain at home at the time to be
under the care of their own physi
cian and their local relatives and
friends. They would prefer to be
invited to New York when the ba
by is two or three months old as
they think a movie contract, would
be better then as they would lite
to be able to enjoy the sights of
the metropolis for the first visit.
William Edingloh, local landscape
gardner and florist, a native of
Germany, who subscribes to a
Rhineland newspaper, says that in
its issue of March 14 a short item
appeared to the effect that the New
Bern Medical Society had asked
for official investigation of the ex
pected birth, for fatherhood at the
age,of 96 would make a rare rec
ord in officially-reproted cases. The
birth of the son in December, 19-
33, was carefully checked 'by the
metropolitan experts, their findings
being printed in the Journal of
the American Medical Association.
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NEW WATER PLANT
PUT IN OPERATION
Municipal Establishment At Tarboro
Built As WPA Project
Tarboro, March 31.—A new mun
icipal water plant, built at a cost
of $280,000 as a PWA project, was
put into operation here yesterday.
With the start of the new plant,
an old one which had served this
city many years and which had be
come inadequate to meet the city's
needs, was abandoned.
The irew plant is equipped to sup
ply 1,500,000 gallons of water a day
should that mUcli be needed. How
ever, since the city's average daily
consumption is only a third that
amount of water, tho plant will
have to be run at full capacity only
in event of serious fires. The pos
sibility of big fires and the chance
that the city will grow in years
to conie, thus increasing its water
consumption, were taken into con
sideration in planning for the new
structure.
Of the total cost of $280,000, the
city is indebted to the amount of
$215,000, the remainder represent
ing a federal grant. The city will
pay off the- debt over a 30-year per
iod.
Customer—l shouldn't have to pay
so much for a haircut. I'm just
about bald.
Barber—Yes, I know it, but I
charge for having to search for it
in your case.—Chelset Record.
Tom—You ought to brace up and
show your wife just who is boss
around your house.
Bill—l don't have to. She al
ready knows.
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Correspondent
The Treasury Department, at th®
request of the New York Times,
recently drew up a table showing
the amount of money provided for
relief during the past three fiscal
years and also the amount spent.
In 1934, out of $4,693,000,000 avail-,
able, there was expended $2,385,900,-
000; in 1935, with $2,681,600,000 ap
propriated, the expenditures wer®
$3,194,400,000; for 1936, the alloca
tion was $2,260,900,000 and the ex
penditure, up to the middle of
March, has been $2,136,000,000 and
the estimate is that at the end of
the fiscal year on June 30th, it will
go up to $2,985,000,000. In the three
years $9,635,500,000 have been allo
cated for relief and by the end of
this fical year about $8,500,000,000
will have been spent for this par
pose.
The president, intimated very
plainly in his relief message that
the extent of government aid will
depend upon the number of
ployed given work by private indus
try. Replying, business organizations
declare that private employment
would be greatly accelerated if
the Government removes all re
strictions and permits private ini
tiative to function. On the side, the
American Federation of Labor
points out that in the last half of
1935 profits of 120 large corpora
tions increased 140 per cent and
that these increased earnings made
possible a substantial lifting of wa
ges. Actually, average wage rates
were reduced by one cent per hour
and the average work week increas
ed three hours, and the Labor or
ganization insists that by these in
creased hours "more than one mil
lion jobs were denied to the unem
ployed.''
It is quite probable that Congress
men, facing the President's tax
suggestions, have been stalling for
time in order to see what the in
come tax collections bring in. In
the last budget, income tax collec
tions for the present fiscal year
were estimated at $1,434,000,000. The
Congressmen know that from Janu
ary Ist to March 10th, collections in
creased 45.6 per cent over last year
and expect the first payments on 19-
35 incomes to show a tremendous
gain. In fact, it would not be sur
prising if this source of revenue
proves to be $300,000,000 above bud
getary figures. If this is establish
ed, Congress feels that it would
|>e relieved of the necessity of rais
ing a like amount by taxation.
There is little indication that the
Railroad Management Committee
and the Labor executives will be
able to roach any agreement on the
problem of taking care of employ
es certain to be displaced by con
solidation and unification of rail
road facilities. Nine executives rep
resented the Class One roads, and
twenty-one railroad union chiefs
spoke for 1,150,000 employes, about
16 per cent of whom will lose their
jobs if certain operating economics
are effected.
To understand the problem in
volved, it is necessary to go back
to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission's approval of the five-sys
tem plan of consolidation. This oc
curred in 1931 and numerous par
leys have taken place since that
year, with the unions combating any
consolidations that will reduce the
employment level below that of
Juno 16, 1933. Recently Joseph B.
Eastman, Federal Coordinator of
Transportation, proposed economies
affecting eleven terminals.
This led to the present effort
on the part of Management and La
bor to get together, and Labor lead
ers, fearing the end of protective
legislation on June 16th, are mov
ing to secure passage of the Whee
ler-Crosser bill in .Congress. This
would protect employes affected by
consolidations by giving them new
jobs or two-thirds pay while idlo,
or a year's wages if the employe
leaves the service. The negotiations
may break down before this is
printed but it is encouraging that
both sides prefer a voluntary ar
rangement. •
The question is extremely com
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