The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 3, NO. 28
iouring Party
Returns Home
;ty-Five Take East Carolina Tea
' chers College Travel Course
Ireenville, July 7.—The touring
rJty of sixty-five who took the
jt Carolina Teachers College trav
study tour to New England, Can
i, and a number of points in the
ited States, has returned and
rnt several days on the campus
eting classes and taking exami
tions. Professor J. B. Cum
ags, a member of the geography
iiirtment, had charge of the field
rk in that subject and was chair
n of instruction, Mrs.
s the official hostess of the party.
M. Mulholland,' a member of
i Greenville high school faculty
; ion the college staff as English
I critic teacher and as an instructor
[ of English for the second term of th®
! -Summer School, had charge of the
- -work in literaturo. The work in his
tory was in charge of T. Conn Bry
ant, a member of the Greenville
high school faculty and critic teach
! erT of history for the college.
A banquet type of dinner was
given the tourists the evening after
their return, with V. ML Mulhol
land as toastmaster. The snappy pro
! gram of short clever toasts, and
snatches of songs reflected the en
thusiasm of the travelers.
The next tour is scheduled to
* 'ave for the Texas Centennial and
Mexico on July 10. J. B. Cum
ny'ngs will have cbnrge of the field
'•"ftork in geography on this tour ar.d
, Mrs. Cummings will again be t}o>
tess. Field work will also be done
in history.
Bookings have been made for two
pjother New England-Carkda tours,
r* pne to leave on July 20, and the
,s r on August 12. Paul T. Bisks
wI3 for tiie past year has been a
/student assistant instructor in the
social sciences, is the conductor and
? business manager of these tours.
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; Wilson A B C Board
Effects Changes
ii Wilson, July B.—After working a
year with a special investigator of
their own Wilson county's ABC
board turned over complete control
of county liquor enforcement to the
■ regular law enforcing agencies of
*e town and county today after a
special meeting today of the board.
\ The enforcement of the liquor Jaw
in the county was turned over com
)■' pletely to Sheriff W. A. Weath
ersby while the enforcement of the
liqnor law in the town was turned
over to Chief of Police John R.
| Gurley.
Heretofore, the ABC board had a
special investigator for their control
f patt of the program in the county,
whg, although he was a deputy un
der Sheriff Weathersby, took or
ders only from the ABC board.
Under the new ruling made by
the board today, Deputy Russell
Page, who had been working for
the last year as ABG investigator,
will be a straight deputy sheriff un
it der Bheriff Weathersby and will
D take orders from him.
W Also under the new ruling the
j! ABC board will pay, by the gallon
for illegal liquor captured by
f town or county officers on the con
dition that the owner of the liquor
is arrested by the officers. Unlike
' the old system it will not make any
difference whether the arrested man
ia found guilty in court or not.
• v Tho officer of the sheriff will be
ayed for the illegal liquor he cat
torches, by the board.
/I Sheriff Weathersby attended the
I jboard meeting hera. today,
t/ Admitting mat the board had beon
f wrong in having a special investi
; gator of its own taking orders only
' from the board B. J. Williams,
chairman of the Wilson ABC board,
w said today that the organization of
i the system last year had come so
A fast in the county that some mis-
I Uvea had of course been made.
I- "With Page taking orders from
f tts, but at the same time being
I a deputy-of the sheriff" Williams
said today, "it caused a certain
amount of friction there and wo
feel that in turning over the cm
forcement of tho liquor law in the
i, county to those who have been elec
-6 ted by the people is the best thng
j for the control system in the coun-
COWS DRINK LIQUOR
»U£H AND GET DRUNK
 w SJJ.V ———
IF- Columbia, 8. C., July 2.—State
V,, Constable M. B. Higgins, Jr.,
thought the Wild West with its fiery
• steers, had come to Lexington co
unty.
Peaceful bossies, he said, cavort
ed and rolled about a pasture in
ad of munching grass.
Constable inspected artd founl
that four cows and six hogs had
I devoured the mash at an illicit
still nearby.
The hogs, having lived up to
their reputations, were quietly
sleeping it off.
I. But the cows, Huggins said, were
'J v wabbling about, rolling over and
kicking up the turf. I
'Such lowing you never heard,'
he commented 'They sounded dif
ferent from sober cows.'
The constable destroyed the still
, and left the animals to suffer from
hangovers.
Farm income for May highest for
month since 1930.
Bailey Explains
His Vote
An explanation of why he voted
against the compromise tax bill was
given by Senator Josiah W. Bai
ley in a letter to The Winston-
Salem, Journal.
His letter reads:
"I have received copy iof your
editorial Sunday, June 21st.
"I quote the following language
from this editorial: 'But his vote
against the tax bill proved that he
was not in sympathy with the Roose
velt program at a most vital point,
involving taxation of great wealth
in this country.'
It is my view that my vote did
not prove anything of the sort. All
my vote proved was that I could
not get the consent of my mind to
vote for the bill. If I had been ac
tuated by sympathy with" anybody
I would have been untrue to my
trust. It was my duty to look thru
the bill, to study it carefully and
form an opinion as to what was
best. I voted for the Senate bill.
I could not vote for the compromise
bill. I would have voted for tho
compromise bill if I had thought
it best for the country.
"Do you propose that a member of
Congress shall be prescribed as not
being in sympathy with the Presi
dent because he happens to vote for
a measure that the President does
not approve or against a measure
that the President does approve ? If
this is your policy, just follow it
through to its consequences. It
would mean nothing more or less
than that the members of Congress
should come up here and vote pre
cisely as the President recommend
ed, and, of course, they might
stay home without pay or expense
to the public and have the Presi
dent to issue his decrees. This
would be 1 the destruction of the
present theory ■of representative
government. If you really believe
we should proceed to this destruc
tion, say so. I do not believe we
should. I do not think the Presi
dent believes we should.
"I discussed the whole tax ques
tion with tho President. He stated
plainly in his message to the Con
gress he would leave the method of
raising the money to the members of
Congress, which was proper. He
offered a plan in general outline
byway of suggestion, but did not
insist upon it. If you doubt this,
vou- got tho massage and read it.
for yourself.
"The bill that I voted against was
not the President's bill. It was not
the President's plan. It was a com
promise between the House plan and
the Senate plan. Nevertheless, you
put me in position of voting against
the President's tax plan.
"Let me review your position in
this matter as follows:
"1. The President left the devis
ing of a plan to the Congress.
"2. The President made some gen
eral suggestions, but did not insist
upon them, but made these sugges
tions subject to the statement that
he desired the Congress to frame a
plan and that what he desired was
the necessary revenue.
"Nevertheless you labelled the
compromise bill as the President's
plan, implying that a failure to
vote for it was an exhibition of iacK
of sympathy with it and undertake
to place me in an adverse position.
"You even go so far as to state
I voted on the side of great wealth.
It was my view that the compromise
bill, against which I voted, would
make it extremely difficult for small
and weak corporations that had no
reserves or that were in debt to ac
cumulate reserves or pay their debts.
I was actuated wholly by considera
tion for the small and weak corpor
ations. However I would not charge
anyone who voted for the compro
mise bill with being out of sympathy
with this type of corporations. They
had reasons of their own and I am
satisfied they were honest reasons.
The question may not be settled by
argument, but it will bo settled by
experience and that experience is
now just ahead of us. Could you
possibly get the consent of your
mind not to hand down harsh judg
ments concerning your fellow men
pending the test to this experience?
Is this too much to ask of yout May
I even dare to ask if you have read
the tax billf It has not been print
ed for distribution, and if you iiave
read it you have a great advantage
over all of the rest of the Americau
people.
"You have recently seen in the
pres3 the long list of acts recom
mended by the President for which
I voted. I am fully supporting the
President. I do not think an intelli
gent discharge of my duties as a
representative of the people, even
when I happen not to vote just, as
the President has recommended, will
be interpreted by reasonable men as
an exhibition of want of sympathy
with him.
"Tho truth is I have & very gTeat
sympathy with the President. I have
formed no harsh judgments against
him, and on the other hand I de
fend his course to the full extent
of my ability. I have defended him
more than once on the floor of tho
Senate and more than once before
(thef people of North Carolnu* II
am now committed to his defense in
our state throughout the coming
campaign, and also at the request
of the national chairman I have
agreed to make speeches in doubt
ful states. For my part, I could
not believe that the national chair
man would urge me to defend the
President in Indiana or Illinois, if
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ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936
Mrs. Owen To
Marry Again
First Woman Minister Will Wed
Danish Captain After A Brief
Romance
Copenhagen, Denmark, July 7.
A quiet romance of King Chris
tian's Danish court became tonight
the brief betrohaJ of Mrs 1 . Ruth
Bryan Owen, America's gracious
•'Madame Minister."
She will wed the flaxcn-hairoi
Kammerjunker Captain Borge Rohde
42-year-old honorary gentleman
groom to Denmark's ruler, in Now
York. The date, it was reported
will be tomorrow or Thursday; the
place, the Long Island estate of
Mrs. Owen's daughter, Mrs. Robert
Lehman.
Mrs. Owen, 50 years old, tho
handsome daughter of William Jen
nings Bryan, is the United States'
first woman minister plenipotentiary.
She reached the United States
last Sunday on two months' leave,
and intends to participate in Presi
dent Roosevelt's campaign for IV
election. Captain Rohde, whose nj
tlier announced the engagement to
day, is expected in New York to
morrow .
He asked for and received per
mission of the foreign office to wear
his uniform Ahile abroad, presum
ably at the wedding.
This consists of a tall bearskin
cap, a scarlet jacket and light blue
trousers with silver stripes.
With this colorful regalia, Cap
tain Rohde is entitled to wear the
decoration of a Knight of the Bel
gian Order of the Crown. It was
conferred on the officer by the late
King Albert of Belgium for services
in commanding a guard of honor
during the latter's visit to Denmark
in 1926.
Denmark heard the official an
nouncement of the betrothal over
the radio tonight.
Mrs. Owen, in a long-distance
telephone call to Washington, con
firmed the betrothal but miade no
further comment. Her friends in
New York sad she was out of town
on a brief visit.
(In Washington, authorities said
Mrs. Owen would not lose her cit
zenship by marriage to the Danish
captain, and subsequently, would
not have to resig nher ministerial
post unless she chose. I
(She will gain Danish citizenship
in addition, it was said at the
Danish consulate in New York. Her
new title will be "Kammerjunker
inde," which means gentleman in at
tendance upon the king.)
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HE VOTED THROUGH
Wilson, July 5. —Evidence that all
those who vote at the polls do not
know who they are voting foT was
brought out in court here Friday as
Harry Exuin, 23 year old Wilson
farmer, testified in his own behalf
on a charge of forgery.
His case was noil prossed after he
was examined as to his mentality
by Jud&e O. P. Dickinson and Silas
Lucas, Solicitor.
He was charged with forgery a
check in the name of J. T. Watson,
local man.
"Do you know who the president
of the United States isT" asked
Judge Dickinson, in looking into
the mentality of the young man.
The young man didn't.
Do you know who the governor of
North Carolina ist" asked the judge.
He ventured that he was sure
one of them was Roosevelt.
"Did you vote in the last pri
mary!" asked the judge.
"I did," was the answer.
"Who did you vote for!" asked
his honor.
"I don't know," was the answer.
"I just noticed a lot of names on
the sheet and somebody at the polls
suggested to me that it wouldn't
make any difference who I voted
for, and so I marked where he told
me.
"Did you vote for a man named
Dickinson f" asked Solicitor Lucas.
"I don't know," said Exum, -'but
I think that was one of the names
I marked."
Judge Dickinson laughed and So
licitor entered a noli pross with
leave on tfce grounds that the man
was mentally incapable.
FIRST CHURCH
OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
"God" was the subject of the Les
son-Sermon in all -ehurehes and So
cieties of Christ, Scientist, on Sun
day, July 5, 1936.
The Golden Text was from Exo
dus 20:3. "Thou shall have no other
gods before me."
Among the citations which com
prised the Lesson-Sermon was the
following from the Bible: "He wan
teaching in one of the synagogues
on the sabbath. And, behold,
there was a woman which had a
spirit of infirmity eighteen years,
and was bowed together, and could
in no wise lift up herself. And
when Jesus saw her, he called her
to hm, and said unto her, Woman,
thou art loosed from thine infirm
ity. And he laid his hands on her:
and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God." (Luko
13: 10-13)
The Lesson-Sermon also included
the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, "Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures" by Mary Baker Eddy:
"Ti»Ji, Life and Love aro a law of
annihilaton to everything unlike
themselves, because they declaro
, nothing except God, Sicknoes, sin,
Field Home Saved From Auction Sale
The beautiful home of Mrs. Eugene Field, eighty-year-old widow of
the famous poet, nt IleafTord Junction, Wis., has been saved from sale
under a foreclosure Judgment by payment of a S2,(KM) mortgage. The
money was raised b.v members of Phil Delta Theta, Field's fraternity
when he was in college. The Field estate, which is on Crystal lake. Is
valued at The residence is shown above.
New Bond Issue Proposed
In Edgecombe County
A Bond Election has been ordered in Edgecombe County
to vote on a $225,000.00 Bond Issue for School Improve
ment.
The Roads have been taken over by the State but the
large bonded indebtedness incurred by the County of Ed
gecombe to build Roads which are now a part of the
State Highway System is still with us and a burden on
the Taxpayers of Edgecombe County. The Counties that
did not bond themselves have gotten more roads than the
Counties that voted these Bonds for Road Improvement.
The counties used to get one third of the gasoline tax to
help pay these bonds and keep up secondary roads. The
county gas tax was taken from the counties but the
bonds were left for the county taxpayers to struggle
with. The road from here to Pine Tops is a tax burden
that the local taxpayers should not have to bear. It should
be paid out of the gasoline tax. This very road causes the
tax payers to-have a thigh tax rate.
The State has taken over the schools and the adminis
tration of same and it will only be a shoct time before
the State will control the buildings of the schools ajnd for
Edgecombe County to bond itself in the face of these
changes may leave our county in the same condition as the
New Road Law left us "WITH THE BAG TO HOLD."
What has gone with all the Public Federal Relief Money ?
The President said the money should be spent for some
thing useful. Why not build school buildings with this
money rather than throw it away on useless and pet proj
ects. The enormous sums of Federal money which has
been spent causes us to look lightly on money, bonds are
easily put on but hard to get off.
LET EACH COMMUNITY EXAMINE ITSELF AND
SEE WHAT HAS GONE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL RE
LIEF AND SEE WHETHER THIS BOND ISSUE IS NEC
ESSARY.
What has Rocky Mount done with its relief money.
What do we have to show for it.
We have the Bullock lake which cost more than fifty
thousand dollars.
We have another project around the lake and by the
river where parents are afraid for their children to play.
We have flower planting between here and Battleboro
at many thousand of dollars cost.
We have had a Country Club Road Project.
We have the Air Port Project that has cost the Gov
ernment more than $100,000.00 and the city $50,000.00.
There is now in progress a project down by the river
which was called to our attention yesterday which has
been going on for some time that nobody seemed to know
anything about which is to cost more than $12,000.
The only thing that the city has salvaged so far is the
help that was used on the colored school.
Now what has taken place in Rocky Mount may not have
taken place in Tarboro, but if it has our officials should
not ask for a bond issue.
Even with all this careless spending of money Rocky
Mount voted large bond issues for a ball stadium and a
school gymnasium. The ball stadium is built, but tha
gymnasium nobody seems to,know anything about. Yet
more bond issues are asked.
OLD PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MADE GOATS
It is exceedingly hard on the old people to be denied the
eld age relief, which has been provided for them through
the national government, by reason of our state not provid
ing funds to meet the Federal appropriations. The Gov
ernor says he's for it, but he will not call the legislature
in special session. All three candidates for governor cried
out in a loud voice that they loved the old people, and
wanted them to have this relief, but the only one that can
give this relief is the governor, and he declines to call the
legislature together. The politicians appear to be getting
most of the general relief money, and the one that really
cannot help themselves are our old people. Mr. Roosevelt
says these old people should be a state and county charge,
and the state and county see so much money wasted in
public spending that they refuse to make appropriations
for the old people, and while the governor may be a cas
ualty in this last primary, but to the Rocky Mount Herald
it looks as if the old people have been made the goat.
and death, are not the fruits of facts. On their basis Jesus demon-
Life. They are inhariaonies whieh strated Life, never fearing nor o-
Truth destroys. Perfection does nut buying error in. any form." (Page
animate imperfection. Inasmuch as 243)
God is good and the fount of all o ■
being. He does not produce mor.il Bankers have big puzzle in ux
or physical deformity; therefore cess reserves.
such deformity is not real, but is 0
illusion, the mirage of error. Di- Great prehistoric city is found by
vine Science reveals these grand excavators in Nebraska.
PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL
PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON
State's Share
Very Small
North Carolina Got One Per Cent
Of Total Loans; Reasons for
Showing
Washington, July B.—North Car
olina, with two and one-half per
cent of the country's population,
received only slightly more than
one per cent of the total of HOLC
loans, according to complete figures
published here covering the three
year period ending June 12,1936,
in which the federal agency en
gaged in making loans to distressed
home owners.
Since June 12, the corporation
•has been prohibited from making
further loans by statute and is now
strictly a liquidating agency. It is
expected that some of the tive
branches located in the state in a 1-
diton to the headquarters will be
abandoned, as has been done in
-some states. However, no announce
ment along that line has been made
as yet.
The relatively small participation
of North Carolina in the HOLC
operations seems due to two causes:
Relatively few North Carolina ap
plications and the small average
loan due to the small average value
of dwellings in the state.
The HOLC announced today that
practically every eligible application
received a loan; and/ that even
the reatively small percentage of
benefits derived by North Carolina
was greatly increased by addition
al loans made after Congress at
the last session extended the expi
ration date for the making of these
loans.
In North Carolina, 24,303 persons
applied for loans aggregating $61,-
752,504 and 12,331 persons receiv
ed loans aggregating $31,395,287.
This ratio of approximately 50 per
dent in each instance was about
the same as that for- the country as
a whole, the total number of appli
cations beng 1,886,693 aggregating
$6,172,647,600, while there were ac
tually made 1,108,390 loans aggre
gating $3,092,870,874.
The average loan in North Caro
lina was $2,492 as compared with
a national average of $3,027. The
highest average for any state was
$5,115 in N. Y. and the lowest sl,-
731 in South Dakota.
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Miss Everette
Laid To Rest
"Miss ' Puss'' Buried In Family
Grounds Near Tarboro
Miss Mary Catherine Everette, 77
lovingly known to friends as "Miss
Puss," was laid to rest in the fam
ily ground near Tarboro after rites
here. Rev. Norman Johnson, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, of
ficiated at the service from the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Gor
don on Sunset Avenue.
Miss Everette, an Edgecombe co
unty native who lived with the
family for more than half a century
succumbed early Thursday at the
home of her nieco, Mrs. John B.
Wemyss, in Fayetteville from a
heart attack. She had lived with
Mrs. Gordon or Mrs. F. P. Bunn,
of near here.
Three nieces survive as do four
nephews, and they are Mrs. Wemyss
Fayetteville; Mrs. Jesse Thomas
and Mrs. Lee* Alridge .Kinston;
Henry Everette, Enfield; and Ju
lan, Fred and Ernest Everette,
Kinston.
Pallbearers included Fred Ever
ette, Ernest Everette, Monroe Ev
erette Fred Bunn, Joe Bunn and
E. J. Gordon.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
Tho United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations as fol
lows :
Inspector of locomotives, $4,000 a
year, Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
Criminal research statistician, &3,-
800 a year, Bureau of tho census,
Department of Commerce.
Climatologwt, geomorpliologist,
economic geographer, statistical met
eorologist, $3,800 a year; associate
climatologist, associate geomorpliol
ogist, associate economic geograph
er, associate statistical meteorolo
gist, $3,200 a year; assistant clima
tologist, assistant geomoryhologist,
assistant economic geographer, as
sistant statistical meteorologist, $2,-
600 a year.
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FEDERAL DEFICITS
THE FUTURE OUTLOOK
DEPRESSION VANISHING
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
LABOR VARIATIONS
WATCHING MR. LEMKE
WHAT STRENGTH HAS HE?
NEW TAX PROVISIONS
By Hugo Sims, Special Washlngtea
Correspondent
The first Federal deficit of the
depression era was recorded in the
fiscal year 1931 and each year since
that time has seen the Government
spending more than its income. Al
together the deficit has amounted to
almost $18,000,000,000. At first, as
the depression made itself felt, an
effort was made to cut down ex
penses hut this proved impossible as
income dwindled. In 1932, the Gov
ernment went to the rescue of
banks, drawing heavily on its cred
it and the following years have seen
the trend continue until, with th?
payment of the bonus this year,
the deficit is estimated at 5.4 bil
lion dollars. Beginning in 1931, with
$41)2,000,000, the figure jumped to
2.7 billions in 1932, 2.6 in 1933, 3.6
in 1934, 3.0 in 1935 and the 5.4 for
the year just ended.
Previous to these annual deficits)
j the Federal Government expended
i around four and a half billion doU
| lars but as the nation suffered in
the grip of a world-wide stagna
tion, Federal income dropped to
around two billion dollars in 1933.
In 1934 receipts were around three
bllions and in 1935 the Govern
ment's income was nearly four bil
lions. For the year 1936 the income
was about four billion dollars and
this year the Treasury expects its
income to be more than five billion
dollars. However, expenditures con
tinue to rise as the Government as
sumes larger social responsibilities
The outlook for the future e£fc
visages a record-breaking surg* or
revenue if there is continued busi
ness recovery and the prospect of
achieving a balanced budget if Uio
business recovery takes off the Gov
ernment a great part of the burden
of relief. Of course, the budget
can be balanced by a rigorous
purge of expenditures. The Dem
ocratic platfor mspeaks of a "bal
anced budget" at "the earliest pos
sible moment" and ties the decla
ration with advancing income and
declining relief expenditurs. The
Republican platform pledges a bal
anced budget "not by increasing
taxes, but by cutting expenditure**
drastically and immediately."
Cooperative associations to buy
and sell for members are a major
factor in the economic life of
Great Britain, Sweden, Czechoslo
vakia and France. Accordingly t'le
President has dispatched three in
vestigators to these countries, and
others, to survey their work with a
special sti+ly of the relationship
of these organizations to govern
ment.
There are those who hold that the
depression is vanishing and they
point to signs that have weight. For
four months the number of new
jobs has increased, aggregating 88.-
000 in Miiv according to the- Labor
Department. In a year the total
gain has been 650,000, which does
not include all occupations. Work
relief rolls, it is noted, have been
reduced a fourth in the past four
months so that now the government'*
work program employs 700,000 less
persons than in January. In addi
tion, profits earned by business axe
running well ahead of last year ac
cording to reporfls ff\om business
and corporate sources.
The Democratic platform, a*
adopted, is an emphatic endorse
ment of the New Deal with a
straight declaration that if legis
lation cannot be framed within
the Constitution to adequately regu
late commerce, protect publio
health and safety and safeguard
economic security a clarifying
amendment will be sought. The ar
gument is that 48 States, with th-Mr
legislatures and machinery, cannot
handle problems nrising from
droughts, dust storms, wages and
hours, monopolistic practices, etc.
On currency the party seeks a
sound currency stabilized to pre
vent wide fluctuations, declares th)
dollar the soundest coin in the
world, government credit higher
than in years, .deflation stopped and
values restored. In foreign affairs
the Democrats preach the "good
neighbor" poliey, oppose war, fa
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