The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 4, NO. 4
C'sftrities Board
Elects Officers
Mrs. J. E. Lambert Becomes Chair
man And M. D. Munn Vice
Chairman
V Mrs. J. E. Lambert was elected
chairman of the Board of Associat
ed Charities at the annual meeting
of the board . Mrs. Lambert suc
ceeds Mrs. J. P. Whitehead.
M. D. Munn became vice chair
man of the board in the election of
/•ifticers for th e year, succeeding K.
D. Battle. N. D. Edmondsou was
elected treasurer to succeed Mrs. C.
G. Smith.
Miss Susie Battle as executive sec
retary and E. H. Austin as record
ing secretary were re-elected.
Mrs. Lambert, with the execu
tive Qommittee of the board plans
an extensive survey of the work be
l ing done by the Associated Charities,
i it was indicated at the meeting. New
| policies of administering the work
of the charities will be inaugurated
conditions require them, Mr. Aus
tin reported.
The executive committee is compos
ed of the officers of the board. The
Board of Associated Charities itself
includes the chairmen of the social
service committees in each of the
churches in th e city and several
other citizens interested in charita
fble works.
Miss Battle as executive secretary
and Mrs. C. G. Smith as treasurer
delivered reports at the meeting,
covering the board's activities during
the past year.
City Bond Issue
Sold At Premium
Aycock Says Interest On Tart Of
Issue Is "Lowest in City's History"
Rooky Mount's general re
funding bond issue, to provide
funds for the Jordan street rail
road underpass and additional funds
for the new city hall, was bought
today by McAlister, Smith and l'ate
of Baleigh at slightly above par and
part of the issue will bear the low
est interest rate in Kocky Mount's
experience.
The bond issue sold for $43,068.80
with, the first $24,000 of maturities
to bear three £gl_cent interest and
the remainder 2 3-4 per cent.
City Manager L. B. Aycock this
ifternoon called the 2 3-4 per cent
interest which the last $9,000 of the
maturities bear "the lowest interest
rate ever placed on a Rocky Mount
city bond."
Th contract for the Jorda n street
railroad underpass, which part of the
bond issue was to finance, has al
ready been let to F. A. Tripplett
of Chester, South Carolina, Highway
Commission Chairman Capus Way
nick informed Mr, Aycock.
The board of aldermen will con
sider Thursday night a proposal for
immediate action to tunnel or re
route the ACL railroad tracks which
split Main street. Well informed
citizens expect the aldermen to fav
or the proposal and to make ar
rangements for suspending any pro
portions to build the underpass until
the railroad removal project has
been further investigated.
„ The $200,000 Jordan street under
pass would not be necessary if the
railroad tracks were submerged in
to a tunnel through the business
district of the city, but it could be
used if the tracks wero re-routed
around the city.
Offer Suggesticns
To Check Blue Mold
No onea has been able to dis
cover a sure-cure for blue mold,
the disease that costs tobacco
.growers thousands of dollars a year.
But there are a number of things
growers can do to lessen the dam
age blue mold does .to their plant
beds, said Dr. Arthur Shaw, ex
tension plant pathologist at State
College.
Locate the seed beeds in warm
places where the siin can shine on
them all day long. When possible,
make new beds some distance away
from the old ones.
If old beds must be used again,
first burn or stem the soil to kill
the disease organism.
Before seedlings appear in the new
b&" destroy all hold-over qr vol
tobacco plants that come up
in ti.d old beds.
Sow more seed than needed, so
' that if some of the seedlings arc
damaged, there will still be a supply
of healthy plants. Several small
beds sctttered over tli€> ' farm are
safer than one large bed.
Sow the beds early, but not too
thickly, as a moderate stand of
, plants gives th 6 best results.
As soon as weather permits, re
move the canvas covers during the
day to let in sunshine and fresh
air. If necessary to speed the
growth of diseased plants, water
them with a solution of nitrate of
soda.
Transplant the seedlings before
blue mold appears. If the disease
attacks them, leave them in the seed
bed until they recover. Don't set out
diseased plants. Spraying them is a
waste of time and money.
Growers who wish further infor
mation may secure it in extension
circular No. 207, "Approved Prac
tices in Handling Tobacco Plant
Beds," which may bo obtained free
from the agricultural editor at
f State College, I)r. Shaw pointed out.
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UNITED STATES SENATOR
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It is too early to anticipate the
course of the new Seventy-fiftl
Congress in reshaping Fedaral pro
grams and Federal activities in the
light of the brighter economic skies
that have followed in the wake of
depression storms. However, there
is every indication that the Congress
will give more than usual study to
each recommendation that may call
for larger expenditures, increased ac
tivity and new functions of govern
ment.
Evidence of this is already avail
able in the form of the unprece
dented interest in the estimates of
income and expenditures—the Fed
eral budget—submitted to the Con
gress by the President. Thus it is
obvious that expenditures must be
justified on the basis of the con
tribution they will make to the pub
lic welfare.
Predictions of a "rubber stamp"
Congress by reason of the sweeping
victory of the President last Novem
ber, .and the top-heavy Democratic
majorities in both Houses are not
borne out by developments to date.
THE BUDGET—The Federal bud
get for the fiscal year 1037, as sub
mitted by the President, calls for
expenditures of .roughly $65 for
each man, woman and child in the
United States. It also calls for tax
es in amount of s4i>, on the aver
age, for every individual, adults and
youngsters. The difference of S2O
represents the deficit.
Let's look at the budget anoth
er way. John Jones can maintain
his .family budget and keep incon\e
and expenditures balanced so long
as the latter adher 0 rigidly to the
budget. But if some mishaps befall
the Jones family, requiring unusual
expenses, the hjad of the household
has to borrow. From then on, in
come must be increased or expendi
tures slashed, else the budget loses
caste.
That is what happened to the Fed
eral budget. In the absence of ade
quate income to cover the emergen
cy outlay and in the face of main
tenance of regular expenditures,
there has been a deficit. In other
words, multiply the Jones problem
about three million times and you
have a picture of the Federal sit
uation, which, however, is getting
better as regards increasing reve
nues.
The $8,000,000,000 budget for the
fiscal year 1937, is around $3,000,-
000,000 above the 1932 level, due to
relief expenditures, farm-aid, adjust
ed compensation for veterans, So
cial Security, recovery programs and
so on. The 1937 total may be raised
or lowered by the Congress as hear
ings are held on various appropria
tion bills. Have these increased ex
penditures been justified? Congress
will decide.
PRESIDENT'S VlEWS—President
Roosevelt's thoughts on the subject
can best be expressed in his own
words as follows:
"The programs inaugurated during
the last four years to combat the
depression and ti initiate many need
ed reforms have cost large sums of
money, but the benefits obtained
from them are far outweighing all
their costs. W 0 shall soon be reap
ing the full benefits of those pro
grams and shall have at the same
time a balanced budget that will
also include provision for reduction
of the public debt.
"The fiscal plans of the Federal
Government of these four years have
been formulated with two objec
tives in mind. Our first was to re
store a successful economic life to
the country, by providing greater
employment and purchasing power
for the people, by stimulating a more
balanced use of our productive ca
pacity, and by..increasing the na
tional income and distributing it on
a wider biyse of prosperity. Our
second was to gain new advntages
of permanent value for the Amer
ican people. Both of these objec
tives can be accomplished under a
sound financial policy.
"Business conditions have shown
each year since 1933 a marked im
provement over the preceding year.
Employment in private industry is
increasing. Industrial production,
factory pay rolls, and farm prices
have staedily risen."
SURE RECOVERY SlGN—What
ever may be the final appropriations
for Federal operations, one sure sign
of recovery is the estimated increase
of $1,712,000,000 in Federal taxes
for the fiscal year 1937 as compar
ed to 1936. This increase is, of course,
predicated on the maintenance of
present' tax rates, and renactment of
the long list of excise nd so-call
ed nuisance taxes scheduled to ex
pire in June.
SPEAKING OF BUDGETS—WhiIe
there is tremendous interest in bud
get-balancing. few people realize
that the Federal Government ope
rated for more than a century wityi
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ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937
Rivers Rise In
All Parts State
Raleigh, Jan. 20.—Protracted rains
sent two North Carolina rivers—
the Yadkin and the Roanoke—out of
their banks today.
The Roanoke at Weldon was three
feet out of its banks and Meteor
ologist Leo A. Denson said it would
rise two feet more during the day,
and probably two more tomorrow.
The Yadkin inundated many acres
of lowlands along its upper reach
es, but damages was negligible. Trib
utary creeks near Winston-Salem
were several feet out of their banks.
A 36-hour downpour yesterday
brought the rainfall in the Yadkin
watershed to a foot jn 48 days.
FoTsyth county (Winston-Salem)
schools and nine school units in
nearby Wilkes county were closed
duo to the bad condition of roads.
The Neuse and Tar rivers in the
eastern part of the state wer e ris
ing steadily.
Sunday Hours Set
For Spring Hope
Spring Hope, Jan. 10.. —In their
regular monthly meeting the town
board of Spring Hope passed a new
ordinance requiring all business
firms to close during church hours
Sunday and Sunday night. The clos
ed hours are 9:00 to 1:00 and 7:00
to 9:00. Penalty for violation was
set at SSO for each offense.
The board also issued a warning
notice .to all payers of license tax
that unless paid at once they will
proceed to collect by law. City fi
nances and other civic topics receiv
ed some discussion also.
'"lie full membership of the board
was present,, namely, Dr. F. G. Cham
blee, P. E. Daniel, B. C. Delbridge,
A. T. May and C. H. May.
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Weather Delays
Peanut;' Harvest
Windsor. Jan. 18.—Rainy, sultry
and damp weather lias prevented
the harvesting of some of the Ber
tie peanuts raised in 1930; many of
the peanut crops grown by Bertie
farmers still remain in the fields.
There are also, a few scattered
patches of cotton remaining unpick
ed.
On the other hand, despite weath
er conditions, some farmers have
finished harvesting 1936 crops, and
are already at work, looking for
ward to this year's crop. Some have
begun to prepare tobacco beds in the
edges of the woods. It seems to pay
to "make hay while the suu
shines."
Wilson 4-H Clubs
Plan For Event
Wilson, Jan.—Wilson county's
4-H clubs will hold their annual
Achievement day at the Frederick
Woodard school auditorium here
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
which time B. Troy Ferguson, Dis
trict Extension agent of Raleigh will
be the principa.l speaker, it was an
nounced by Miss Lois Rainwater,
home demonstration agent and J. A.
Marsh, assistant county agent here.
At the same program various 4-H
club members and individual clubs
of the county will give several- pro
grams.
Awards will also be made to out
standing clubs and club members in
thp county at that time.
Also, every club member in the
county who has submitted a satis
factory record during the past year
in various 4-H club projects will be
awarded a certificate l)y Miss Rain
water and Mr. Marsh.
Miss Mary Anna Jones, president
of the 4-H Club County Council,
will preside over the meeting.
County Couple
In Motor Wedding
The motor wedding is the newest
form of matrimonial ceremony in
Johnston county.
Miss Eleanor Johnson of Four
Oaks, Route 3, and J. C. Holmes of
Benson, Itoute 2, were married in
a moving automobile Tuesday.
The marriage license was secured
at Smithfield, county seat of John
ston, and the couple motored to the
home of Elder Xure Lee in Samp
son county to be married. To make
the marriage legal, the ceremony
had to take place in the county that
issued the license.
Th e couple, therefore, persuaded
the minister to ride with them
across the line into Johnston where
ho performed the ritual as the car
rolled aloaig bumpy, country roads.
Mr. and Airs. Holmes will be at
home near Benson.
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"A home-made Briek Brooder" is
the title of Extension Folder 30,
prepared by David S. Weaver and
C. 11. I'arrish. Copies aro free to
North Carolina poultry growers on
application to the Agricultural Edi
tor at State College.
Restore Cabin Birthplace of Gen. Grant
The living room in the plain two-room cabin in which Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant, eighteenth President of the United States, was born. The cabin has
been restored to its original site at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, after an absence
of more than fifty years, and has been furnished as far as possible with
household belongings of the Grant family. Jesse Grant and his young wife
were in poor circumstances at the time their 3on, UlysSes, was born.
Some time later they moved to G;jrgetown in an adjoining county. There
they prospered and were able U build a comfortable two-story home of
brick and stone.
Better Go Very Slow
The question of making the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road Company move its tracks out of the city, or else tun
nel under the city is a very important matter to the rail
road, to the city, and its entire citizenship. Interest is
easily stirred up and meetings are easily gotten together
and action hastily taken without due consideration. The
impetus given by the railroad to Rocky Mount in days
past caused it to develop and grow as no other eastern
town has grown and for this reason we should proceed
with extreme caution and care.
The city of Petersburg has now become almost a flag
station for the Atlantic Coast Line and if the railroad is
caused to feel that their presence is not appreciated or de
sired, it is possible that many of our imoovtant trains
may go by Rocky Mount as is done by Petersbivg
today, to the -great inconvenience of its citizens. Roc. y v
Mount needs the railroad and of course the railroad neeiu;
Rocky Mount. The gates since being installed have been
administered very well and travel has been practically
without accidents. We do not believe that the railroad will
undertake to tunnel the city of Rocky Mount with the
simall population that it has. If they are required to move
too far, which will increase their distance, we feel quite
sure that many of the important trains that we have the
use of now, will not then be at our convenience. The
Board of Aldermen should give this matter the serious
consideration which its importance deserves. Where would
the merchants be during the building of the tunnel?
PROMISE MUST BE KEPT
If the sales tax is not removed from all necessities of
life, we are afraid that our people will not have the same
future respect for North Carolina's democracy, so far as
carrying out solemn pledges to the people. Below is what
the platform stated:
Economic improvement will now permit the immediate
elimination of the sales tax levy on ALL necessities of
life and on meals at boarding houses and all public eating
places and hotels. The Democratic party pledges itself to
accomplish this in the 1937 session of the General Assembly.
—State Democratic Platform.
Now, with this clear declaration on the subject, the leg
islature is undertaking to ignore this promise to the peo
ple, at least that peems to be the trend of discussion by
some of its members.
What is a necessity? Are not all good foods a necessity,
all reasonable wearing apparel of moderate cost and
household utensils? If the people cannot rely on the plat
form of the party, on what can they depend and in wham
can they place their trust?
The last Governor said there would be no sales tax and
yet he led the fight for it. This probably caused the party
to make the promise. The party must not go back on the
principles on which it abides, but stand fast by its platform.
We cannot afford it.
Large Crowd at Hearing
Of Tobacco Compact Bill
Farmers From Entire Tobacco Belt
Show Intense Interest In This
Reduction Program. Much Argu
ment For Small Farmer
With the argument for absolute
protection for tho small farmer in
th () bill led by Clarence Poe, editor
of tl»e Progressive Farmer, and
Harry B. Caldwell, State Lecturer
of the Orange, sharp division of op
inion prevailed Tuesday as in ex
cess of three thousand farmers
crowded into the Memorial Auditor
ium.
The hearing was originally schedul
ed for th 0 Hall of the House but
was moved to the auditorium when
the impossibility of jamming the
crowd into tho hall became appar
ent. Ther 0 was piuch sentiment
present for absolute protection for
the small farmer in the bill, rath
er than leaving it to th 0 local com
mittees, as provided in the origi
nal plan.
There seemed little division of
opinion as to the control program
as such. Almost everyone in tho
tobacco belt, faced with a rapidly
rising acreage in Georgia and in
Kentucky, feels the need for some
form of control. In spite of tho
increased demand it would be very
easy to produce, even in North
Carolina alone, more tobacco than
the world could consume.
The committee made 110 announce
ment as to its decision, but it is
understood that the original bill will
•>o approved, and some protection
for the small farmer be incorporat
ed in a later measure.
Local Nan Is
Freed In Va.
Richmond, Ya., Jan. 19.D. Fletcher
Wilson, of Rocky Mount, N. C., was
acquitted today in police court on
charges of involuntary manslaughter
resulting from the death of Thom
as 11. Duke, 80, who was struck by
Wilson's automobile hero Christmas
day.
Duke died Jan. 7, after contract
ing pneumonia. When Wilson lear
ed the manslaughter warrant had
been sworn against him he earao
hero and surrendered.
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Tho short course for tobacco grow
ers will be held at fetate College,
January 18 to 22 and hundreds are
expected to attend.
PARAGRAPHS
For Busy Folks
NEWS
The late Horace Greeley had his
own definition for n ews, perhaps he
would think the following news in
this motorized age: E. S. Padison,
of Nashville, N. C'., is reported to
have recently torn down a garage
and salesroom for automobiles nd
built a livery stable instead. He is
going to sell mules.
BURLEY GOING STRONG
It may mean ndthing as to a
forecast of prices for bright flue
cured tobacco, but Burley opened
strong in Asheville and other North
Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky
markets. It is reported as holding its
own in price.
KENTUCKY COMPACT
The Bluegrass legislature passed
a compact bill to limit the produc
tion of tobacco, after adding an
amendment to protect the, "one
mule farmer. It is feared that it will
fail to pass the constitutional test
as it will forbid the planting of
tobacco on some farms.
THE SENTINEL
Shades of William Pell, Seaton
Gales, and Josiah Turner, Jr.! Again
there is to be a Raleigh Sentinel.
If it lives up to the lustre of its
famous namesake, and if it crackles
with editorial genius as did the
Sentinel in the last quarter of the
nineteenth century, when Turner,
perhaps one of North Carolina's fore
most editors of all time, was mak
ing the enemies of the state squirm,
then it will be a real addition to
jNorth Carolina weeklies. It is to
jbe printed in Zebulon for the time'
being we understand.
ROCKEFELLER TO OPPOSE
W. B. Bruce, superintendent of
the 35,000 acre Overhills estate in
western Harnett, says that lie feels
sure that relatives of the lat£ Percy
Rockefeller will oppose the annexa
tion of this part of Harnett to Lee,
as proposed.
"SYNTHETIC" VINEGAR TABOO
Tile North Carolina Department of
Agriculture says that it is illegal
. • take ninety cents worth of acetic
thirty gallons of 1120, even
though it be pure water, and mix
ing this i incoc.tion sell .iLfor .vinegar
34 barrels of the mixture was re
cently poured out in Greensboro, and
the department continuos to, "crack
down."
SISTER PERKINS TRIES
Efforts made by Secretary of La
bor Frances Perkins to effect a
settlement of the General Motors
strike were unsuccessful in spite
of the fact that she attended the
meoting i n person, and used all
her powerful influence to find a so
lution. The deadlock appears to
continue with John L. Lewis determ
ined to rule or else —in spite of the
American Federation of Labor, the
secretary of labor, and even the
president.
SOME SPEED
Sucking oxygen through a rubber
tube most of the time, Howard R.
Hughes, millionaire sportsman, pilot,
and movie producer, created a new
record Tuesday when he drove his
plane from Los Angeles to Newark,
N. J., in seven hours twenty eight
minutes, twentyfivo seconds. Nearly
334 miles per hour, rive and a half
miles a minute!
ROOSEVELT INAUGURATED
Franklin Delano Roosevelt opened
his second term as president when
lie was officially inaugurated on VVed
nesdy, January 20. He shows in his
face and bearing that terrible weight
of the last four years, but withal
is cheerful,, happy and buoyant. Per
haps he has never .been quite as
popular as lie is today, as he begins
his second term.
I CIGARETTES UP
Wholesalers of the popular brands
announced Tuesday an advance "t
fifteen cents per thousand. Profit
margins are so close on cigarettes
that this rise is expected to be
reflected in retail prices.
MORE TOBACCO
Consumption of tobacco, domestic
and foreign, is shown by recent re
ports to be rapidly increasing. De
partment of Commerce figures point
to a good year for tobacco farmers
unless excess acreage~is planted. Ex
cessive stocks of the leaf have dis
appeared, and in some cases less
than a normal supply is on lind.
MORE WATER
For the fourth time in a month
citizens of Eastern North Carolina
aro warned of flood waters. Con
tinuing rain has caused most of the
streams to reach flood stage. Looks
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Bill Passed For
New Gymnasium
The $30,000 bond issue passed al
most a year ago in a general elec
tion providing for the erection of a
municipal gymnasium was made
valid when it passed the house of
representatives of the general as
sembly in Raleigh.
A bill was introduced in the as
sembly by Senator L. L. Gravely
giving the city permission to build
the gymnasium. The bill passed the
senate January 18. •
A special wiabling act from the
legislature was necessary before the
gymnasium could be built. At the
last session of the assembly, school
boards were deprived of the power of
issuing district bonds.
The general election last Janu
ary also provided for the bond is
sue which made possible the new
municipal stadium.
Legislative Digest
Tho State General Assembly haa
been busy for the past week in re
ceiving important bills, referring
them to committees, and in exten
sive anil intensive work by tho
committees pnd sub-committees.
Both branches seem determined that
i straw hats am) shirt sleeves shall
not catch them in Raleigh. Most ot
, th 0 important work is yet to be
done, but a good start is being
made.
Wednesday, January 13
A bill was introduced to make kid
napping a capital crime in North
Carolina, changing the trend of le
gislation, which for more than a
century has been lessening tho num
ber of capital crimes. Th© hotly
contested liquor issue was brought
to the front by a bill for a state
wide! referendum on whisky con
trol.
In an effort to make it easier for
the election officials, a bill was in
troduced to change the hours ot
voting from the present status (sun
rise to sunset) to 7:30 A. M. to
0:30 P. M. This bill also would
cliangp the date of the primary from
Saturday to Tuesday.
Another state-wide measure would
ban the sale and use of firewords
in the state.
Senator Pittman, of Sanford, ii
tfOduiSßd ins proposed TiTirio reor
ganize the Highway Department.
Thursday January 14
A bill was introduced to provide
for state-operated distilleries and
wholesaling of liquors to counties
that should vote wet in a propos
ed county local option plan. Prof
its of the retail sale would be split
between counties and cities, the
state taking the wholesale profit for
its share.
A bill was dropped in the hopper
to provide for th© free elementary
text-books advocated by Governor
Hoey.
A measure was presented to re
due,, the minimum on auto tags to
*'•00 and rates to 30c per hundred?
ten cents less than the present rate*
In another proposed law tho
school s'*t-up would bo so chang
ed as to give the control to tho
State Superintendent.
A proposal was presented to pro
vide $--*,000,000 in bonds for bet
terment of rural roads.
Salaries of judges of election
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Wholesalers Meet
Here In Conference
With Rales Supervisor George A.
Sholtz, Jr., of Richmond, as tho
principal speaker ainl other company
officials in attendance, employes of
the Southern Biscuit coinpny and
Kastern Carolina wholesalers (father"
ed here "Saturday for tuo meetings,
A sales meeting was held at the
Jiicks Hotel at 10:00 A. M., while a
luncheon followed at 1 o'clock.
I!. P. Shiflett, of Richmond, dis
trict manager, was in charge of tha
programs.
The meetings, which brought to
gether many wholesalers of this sec
tion, had in attendance the follow
ing business men and employes from
Hocky Mount X. If. Ward, W G.
Weeks, W. G. Weeks, Jr., H. J.
Thompson, P. J. Smith, and E. M.
Vann.
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Moist blotters in a plate may bo
used to test garden and flower
seeds now that tho nights are long
and interesting little jobs are wel
comed in the evenings.
Lespedeza seed are scarce and high
in price and it is a wise idea to
secure now all that*will be needed
for seeding on the small grain in
February.