The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 4, NO. 10
AMERICANS ARE
MOST GULLIBLE
LOVE MAKERS
Wfiik Everywhere Except In Busi
ness According To Llss ("avalieri
Homo, Feb. 26. —Lina Cavalieri,
who rose from a flower girl on the
v streets of Rome to be the toast of
V Moscow, Paris and New York, be
lieves the American is the most gull
ible in love, "as in everything else,
except business." But she admits
he is a dynamic force. _
In her memoirs being published
in Italy, the woman once acclaimed
as the' world's greatest beauty has
much to say about men and how to
be beautiful. She once married an
American and divorced him a week
later.
An Englishman to Lina Caval
ieri loves with a book of etiquette
in one hand. She says ho makes a
good companion, and a courteous
friend. But, complains the former
opera singer, he doesn't laugh, he
only smiles; he doesn't eat, he nour
ishes himself; he doesn't love, he
merely makes a home for a woman.
The Italian, she says, is a dream
er, a poet; he is intelligent, but
jealous and irresponsible.
The Frenchman is more practical,
according -to Lina Cavalieri. Love
is a pleasant auxiliary in his life..
The former beauty is 62 now, but
she still retains her youthful ap
pearance.
"My socret is simple," she says, I
get up at 6 every morning and take
a long walk before breakfast. I
never stay up after 10 at night.
"Women sleep too much. They
would be healthier if they slept
eight hours and no more. They
shouldn't let their beds lure them
for every small illness," she said.
Better looking than most women
- at 40, Lina Cavalieri reminisced in
an interview.
"Stage life taught me to preserve
my body. And I believe beauty is
to feminine success what coachwork
is to an automobile."
, Her theory about food is simple,
although unorthodox..
"Once I was the victim of my
food: "I could not eat strawberries,
sardines and other things because
I was subject to nettle rash. One
bite and my body would broak out
with it until I became tired of this
and decided that if I was to suffer
anyway I would eat my fill. From
that day I've eaten what I liked,
according to my appetite, within
limits. The curious part of it is that
I never have been troubled with
nettle rash since!"
She eats few dishes with quanti
ties of vegetables, fruits and toma
toes. Evenings she eats a light din
ner. .
On beauty Lina Cavalieri says:
"Women should never let their
skins become dry. When this hap
bens beauty begins to fade. Even
now, when I am no longer young, I
rub my entire body with glycerine
every night. And every morning I
cleanse all grease from it. That's
all."
Lina Cavalieri began life as a
flower girl, rose to be a Russian
princess, won fame for her beauty
and jewels, and was a celebrated
opera singer, often accompanying
Caruso.
At the sunset of her glamorous
life she decided to describe her life
in memoirs.
"I wanted to relive old memories
by writing them," she said.
"In my book I have told about
the squalor of my childhood home
and of the triumphs I later achieved
ia art. My fame as a beauty was
only incidental because my beauty
was a gift I held in trust,
"But I've not told everything,"
she added with a smile. "Certain
tender memories are too sacred to
reveal. Today I am no longer Prin
cess Linotchka Bariatinsky, no lon
ger fabulously rich. My memories
are all I possess, you see; and I
have wanted to keep just a few for
myself alone."
Roosevelt Plans
. Fishing Trip In Gulf
Washington, March 3.—President
Roosevelt got out a big, blue chart
of the Gulf of Mexico today and
mapped a tarpon-fishing trip for
himself for late April.
He told a press conference he
hoped official affairs would be such
at that time to permit him to get
away on a little sea-going vacation
off the Teas coast. He said he
probably would use the Presidential
yacht, Potomac and go to New Or
leans to embark there.
The Chiem Executive will have
had most of his legislative program
■Jgr this season in the lap of Ccn-
by then. Today's message
transmitting a factual study of the
good and bad in the defunct NBA
was his 12th special communication
of the two-month-old session.
The President said his 14th, pro
posing an appropriation for work re
lief in the next fiscal year, would be
acady late this month, after he re
turns from Warm Springs, Qa. He
•will leave for the Southern resort
on March 10.
o
The per capita increase in wealth
in America is indicated by the fact
that in 1910 there were 16,372,000
savings accounts. In 1935 this had
grown to 41,350,000. In 1900 there
were 10,000,000 life insurance policy
holders; in 1935 there were 63,000,-
000. In 1900 there were 1,000,000
telephones in use; in 1936 there
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WMmMTON
UNITE'D STATESVNATOR
******
Stripped to the bone, President
Hoosevelt's proposal for reorganiza
tion of the judiciary, including an
increase from nine to fifteen in the
membership of the Supreme Court,
unless Justices seventy years or over
retire, is just another major skirm
ish in the age-old battle over human
rights and property rights. The bat
tle has been waged, and waged
strong, since our founding fathers
began their labors at the Constitu
tional Convention in Philadelphia,
just 150 years ago.
It is evident that the constitution
as finully drafted was designed to
place major emphasis on human
rights—th e rights of man. No bet
ter evidence can be found than that
the Congress was created, despito all
compromise, to represent the legis
lative will of the people. Provision
wa 8 made for the President to ex
ercise a veto over the acts of Con
gress—a veto that can be overridden
by great majorities. And courts
were created to see that no rights
guaranteed under the Constitution
wero infringed upon . It is doubtful
whether it was intended for the
courts to nullify legislative acts of
Congress—the legislative will of the
people.
Nevertheless, the great Chief Jus
tice Marshall quietly laid down such
a principle in the famous case of
Marbury V. Madison. In delivering
that historic opinion, the Chief
Justice held in effect that a law
repugnant to the Constitution is.
void. From that day to this there
has been a question as to what ex
tent the Congress can carry out the
legislative will of citizens. The
power of Congress to override a
Presidential veto is definite, but the
judicial veto of a majority of nine
judges appointed for life seemingly
ends tfoe power of Congress to solve
national ills, economic or social.
The Supreme Court's verdict of
"unconstitutional," under that theory,
is truly supreme, whether such au
thority over the destinies of 130,-
000,000 people was intended or not.
In any event, since Chief Justice
Marshall's day, the Supreme Court
has steadily taken unto itself broad
er powers of legislative review. There
is ample reason for the statement
that in case after case the courts
have been building a mass of de
cisions based on the strictest con
struction of the rights of property.
As a result, important questions
are raised. Does Congress represent
the will of the people! If so, shall
the Supreme Court nullify that will
through legislative review? Is it
the national desire that a President
be voted out of office because he
was not in tune with the times—as
was the case with Hoover—and his
successor, twice elected by unprece
dented majorities—as was the case
with Roosevelt—be powerless to cor
rect the conditions our citizens con
demned?
Let me hasten to say that these
questions do not involve personali
ties. They involve issues the most
ardent supporters of the President's
proposal nor its critics, question the
personal integrity or character of any
distinguished member of the Su
preme Court. It is the viewpoints
of some members that is question
ed—whether they regard the Consti
tution elastic enough to meet the
legislative will based on human
rights. Proponents of the Presi
dent's proposal for judiciary reor
ganization say they cannot. Critics
of the proposal say they_ can and do
interpret tho Constitution. AND
THE BATTLE OVER HUMAN
RIGHTS AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
CONTINUES.
Unfortunately, the issues are not.
being decided by individuals. Too
much propaganda and hysteria is
evident. To accuse the President of
trying to "pack the Supreme Court"
is to question his sincerity in carry
ing forward a program that some
27,000,000 of our citizens approved
last November. And whatever else
may be said of the President's pro
gram, few can question his honest
desires to make our nation sounder
and more wholesome than ho found
it when he took over the reigns of
government.
Meant Business
Tarboro, March 3.—Mrs. Emma
Niel Harrell, 25, of Edgecombe
county, doesn't like being a divorcee
—a fact she proved beyond doubt
here when she lost no time alter
ing her status aB such.
Appearing before Judge J. Paul
Frizzelle in superior court here yes
terday, Mrs. Harrell—she was Mrs.
Emma Niel Summerlin then—asked
for and got a divorce from her hus
band of five years, John Summerlin.
Then she strode from the court
room and into the office of the reg
ister of deeds, a distance of but a
few steps, where a friend obtained
a license for her to wed John Har
rell, 70.
Magistrate E. D. Foxall was sum
moned and tied the knot in short
order. From divorce to remarriage,
some figured, was a matter of three
and three-fourths minutes.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1937
Legionaires
Plan Supper
For Friday
District Commander Dunn To Have
Surprise For Officers
Members of the Coleman-Pitt post
of the American Legion will have
a Dutch supper at 7 o'clock Friday
night at H. H. Duke's luncheonette
neth here on the Tarboro highway,
Commander Palmer V. Boyd of the
post announced.
Members who plan to attend were
asked to communicate with Com
mander Boyd or George Batchelor.
Dr. W. H. Dunn, Legion command
er for the Wilmington district, will
have a surprise for officers of the
post, Mr. Boyd announced.
Plans for a dance and a district
meeting to be held by the post in
the near future, the commander
said, will be discussed. The welfare
and building committees will make
reports.
Commander has urged all members
to be present.
Health Officer
Planned In Nash
Board Of Health Recommends Part-
Time Officer Be Employed Full-
Time
Nashville, March 2. —At a special
meeting here yesterday, the Nash
county Board of Health adopted a
resolution recommending that a full
time health officer be employed for
the county, that Dr. T. O. Coppedge,
present part-time officer, be employ
ed for this full-time position, and
that the health departmen budget
be increased by $1,200 to take care
of this new office.
This action was taken that Nasii
county might participate in Social
Security funds in the amount of $3,-
000 a year. In a letter to The Gra
phic, local weekly newspaper, three
weeks ago, Dr. Carl V. Reynolds,
state health officer, pointed out that
Xaali county was losing $3,600 a year
because it did not meet the require
ments of the Federal government
made for participation in a general
allotment of health funds. Among
these requirements are that the eo
unty maintain a full-time health de
partment personnel and that the
county officer have certain special
training in health service. Nash co
unty meets all the requirements ex
cept those two, and the state health
department has urged that the coun
ty revise its set-up so as to be eli
gible for these funds.
"I have to advise that it would be
possible for the state board of health
to allocate $3,600 additional to this
department (Nash county health de
partment) should the board of health
and the county commissioners of
Nash county place the health work
under the direction of a full-time
qualified health officer," Dr. Rey
nolds said. "For this amount," ho
added, "it would not only receive
the service of a health officer on a
full-time basis, but it would provide
sufficient funds to enable the county
to have an additional public health
nurse."
According to the resolution, the
recommendation was made on the
condition that Dr. Coppedge accepts
the full-time position and on the
condition that no more than $1,200
will be needed for the additional ser
vices.
Dr. Coppedge could not be reach
ed this morning for a statement
about the matter. It was learned
from Raleigh last week, however
that he had made application for the
training which the Federal govern
ment requires of health officers be
fore the county may participate in
the Federal allocation for health ser
vices.
INFLATED"
FIREMAN
Rocky Mount firemen, usually af
fable and talkative, wore frowns
of apprehension—the assistant chief
has the mumps.
That was what the doctor told
J. R. Thomas just before sending
him home to bandages, hot water
bottles—tout no pickles.
•To thos e firemen who laughed at
him, Assistant Chief Thomas spoke
defiance from inflated jaws, re
minding at the same time that he
had been pretty closely associated
with them during the past few days
and that the quarantine signs al
so may bedeck their homes ere
long.
"The worst part about it," mourn
fully declared one unhappy fireman,
"is that only two members of the
department have had mumps."
NOT KILLED
After several conflicting reports
it has been learned that actress Ito
sita Diaz is alive and well, and was
not shot an a spy by Spanish rebels.
Miss Diaz gained fame when she sat
in a bath tub for nine hours straight
during the making of a motion pic
ture in Hollywood.
HOBO CONFESSES
Argentina's "Lindbergh Caße" was
solved Monday when Jose Gancedo,
dull-eyed hobo, confessed to the
kidnap-murder of the two- year-old
son of a wealthy Argentine family,
Baby Eugenic Traola.
California Colt Views World
(£..■ ... \
This California colt, only twelve hours old, takes his first look at
the big world. He was the first foal of the year at Rancho San Luis
Rey, famed Southern California breeding farm, and is a brother to the
well known thoroughbred Alexander Pantages. It will be two years be
fore this young hopeful is given a name and sent to the starting
gate.
Read The Constitution
LKI LIS KEAU THE CONSTITUTION AJN SEE WHAT
IT SAYS ABOUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COURT
Much has been said and written about the recommenda
tion of the President of the United States on judicial re
form and the enlargement of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Many who call themselves statesmen have is
sued statements and spoken to the country at large, sug
gesting that the President has proposed unwise and dan
gerous legislation. They almost intimated that the Presi
dent is undertaking to change our form of government in
directly which is absolutely untrue.
Everything that the President has proposed is absolute
ly within the rights of Congress and which has already
been practiced and done from time to time. Now, the best
information that we can get on this subject is the Consti
tution itself. Now, let us see just what the Constitution
says, to wit:
Article 3, Section 1
"The Judicial Power of the United States, shall be vest
ed in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the
Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The
judges, both of the Supreme and Inferior Courts, shall hold
their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated
times, receive for >,heir services, a compensation, which
shall not be diminished during their continuance in office."
What is written in the above section is all that has been
said in the whole Constitution relative to the establish
ment of the Supreme Court. It doesn't say how many
judges it shall have, it doesn't say what ages they shall
be, it doesn't fix salaries; it only says that when they are
appointed they shall serve during good behavior, which
means they don't have to be reelected. When the Supreme
Court was originally established, it has six judges. It wa3
increased from six to seven and from seven to nine and at
the time the Supreme Court was increased to nine, there
was only about thirty-seven million population in the Unit
ed States. We now have an estimated population of one
hundred and thirty million which is more than three times
as many as the population of the country was when the
number of judges was set first at nine. The President's pro
posal is that the number shall be increased to fifteen where
the judges have reached seventy years.
Th legislature of North Carolina is undertaking to in
crease the Supreme Court of North Carolina to seven with
a population of about three million people. In fact, the
people of North Carolina have granted this permission to
the legislature.
It seems that most of this opposition appears to come
from the same old reactionary group which actually oppos
ed the President during his first term and out of which the
Liberty League was formed.
ARE WE CONSISTENT
The children of the cities in old days if they did not
have yard space to play in, used the streets, but with the
coming of the automobile, they have been driven from
them and have been left without a place to play. Especially
is this so of Rocky Mount.
The vacant property that used to be their play ground
hase been taken up with business which -makes it absolute
ly necessary for the city to make some provision for fresh
air and play ground for our children. It is needed some
where other than Main street where there is talk of spend
ing millions for the purpose of removing the railroad. If
the railroad is removed, what benefit will it be to the chil
dren.
Rocky Mount has been derelict in its duty to the children.
We have provided a stadium for the man who is able to pay
a dollar to see a baseball game; we have provided an airport
for those who are able to own an airship, yet we are unable
to acquire a few acres of vacant land on which our children
can enjoy the fresh air. Is this consistency?
SOME EXEMPTION
It seems now there will be some
homestead exemption from taxes
this year. Possibly three or five
hundred dollars. The governor is ad
vising the former sum. The pres
ent legislature seems to be taking
the governor's advice.
Three 4-H club members of Cum
berland County are growing Yel
low Dauvers onions as a new club
project for the county.
TEST TUBE MAGIC
B
B Research experts in industry's
e laboratories are now seeking to de
velop, among other things, roads
g from cotton; gasoline from sea
sand; sugar as a building material;
and rubies from peach pits. Labora
tory and factory working together
j_ already have converted corn into
b soap; a substitute for rubber; glue;
and industrial alcohol.
BATTLESHIP
NAMED NORTH
CAROLINA
Washington, Feb. 26. —Secretary of
the Navy Claude A. Swanson today
authorized Representative Umstead,
ehairmau of the Naval appropria
tions sub-committee, to announce
that one of the two new battleships
for which keels will be laid on or
about June 1 will be named the
''North Carolina."
Quite a campaign has been made'
for the naming of the battleship
because of the fact that the only
battleship previously named for the
state was never placed in service,
leaving it the only one of the 13
original states never to be so hon
ored.
w. DTHACKNEY
BURIED SUN.
Wilson, Feb. 28.—Automobiles
spelled death for Willis Donglns
Hackney's wagon business a few
decades ago, his son Charles a few
years ago, and Mr. Hackney himself
early yesterday, when he died in a
local hospital from a brain injury.
As a throng of citizens watched
"Wilson's most beloved man" bur
ied in Maplewool Cemetery here,
they could see the buildings of the
wagon and buggy plant that Mr.
Haekney took over from his father
in ISBB.
The 78-year-old survivor of tho
"horse-and-buggy" days was struck
by a truck driven by M. L. William
son of Wilson and sustained a frac
tured skull. A brain clot was tho
immediate cause of his death.
The business that lias carried the
Hackney name for well over three
quarters of a century was started
in 18!>2 by Willis' father. Thirty
six years later Willis and his broth
er, George, took over control, and
by 1900 the company had reached
such proportions that the brothers
split up with Willis handling the
wagon end and George supervising
the buggy department. At the time
of his retirement several years ago,
Willis had served 26 years as presi
deht of the Hackney Wagon Co.
The advent of the "horseless car
riage" at the turn of the century
spelled doom for the wagon busi
ness, although there were a few re
vivals in rural sections where far
mers realized that it was cheaper
to make short hauls with the old
fashioned vehicle.
Last rites for Mr. Hackney were
conducted by the Rev. John Bar
clay of the First Christian church,
where he had served 40 years as a
deacon. The assisting minister was
the Rev. Frank Dean of St. Timo
thy's Episcopal church.
Mr. Hackney is survived by his
wife; two sons, W. N. and W. D.
Jr.; three daughters, Mrs. S. W.
Richardson and Mrs. Frank Lee,
both of Wilson and Mrs. Grayson
Luttrell of Baltimore, Md.; a broth
er, George; and eight grandchildren,
Mrs. T. H. Newton, Mrs. J. W. Wat
son, Willis N. and Douglas Hackney,
Frank Lee, Jr., of Wilson, and Lois
Roma and Grayson Luttrell of Balti
more, Md.
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Gardner Charged
With Conversion
Former Prisoner Is Bound Over To
Nash Superior Court
V. M. Gardner, convicted more
than a year ago of fraud charges
in connection with a "beauty cul
ture school" he attempted to ope
rate here, formerly a trusted office
worker in the local highway prison
camp to which Re had been com
mitted, was bound over to Nash
county superior sourt on a charge of
conversion of prisoners personal
funds in a hearing here Wednesday.
Nash Justice W. S. Swain set a
bond at S2OO in the hearing to which
Gardner was brought from a high
way prison camp at Jackson where
he had just completed a term.
Gardner was charged with conver
sion because, it was testified in the
hearing, he took for his own use
money which relatives of prisoners
in the prison camp here had given
him to turn over to them.
Gardner was brought from the
Jackson prison camp for trial here
by Nash Deputy Sheriffs P. H. John
son and J. R Tanner.
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ROMPING ON BAILEY
The Federal Farm Bureau Federa
tion very reasonably called on Sen
ator Bailey to keep his campaign
promises. He pledged support of the
President, and the Bureau says he
isn't doing it. They are asking that
he support the Court Reform Mea
sure.
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SI.OO PER YEAS
COUNTY RETAIL
SALES TOTALED
$3,548,000.00 IN
YEAR OF 1935
Survey Just Released Shown There
Were 215 Stores In This County
The 21.1 retail stores in Martin
County reported a business of $3,-
548,00 during 1935 or approximate
ly one million dollars more than in
1935. On an average, eaeh person
1 in this county bought $l5B worth of
merchandise of one kind or another.
| The 215 stores employed 395 clerks,
j paying them $241,000 or an average
(salary of SSO a month.
Tn 1935, the 29,642 stores in tho
I State handled a business valued at
I $403,210,000 compared with $363,111,-
000 in 1933 according to a sur
vey of retail trade released through
the University of North Carolina
News Letter recently. The per
capita sales for the State as a whole
in 1935 was $163, tho 60,207 em
ployees receiving an average salary
of $736 each.
Martin County ranked 21st in the
list of per capita sales, Pitt and
Beaufort Counties leading by very
small margins in this section. Meck
lenburg, wit ha per capita average
of $265 in sales, led the State. Avery
County, with only S7O spent by
each of its inhabitants on an aver
age, trailing the list of counties.
Probably the most startling fea
ture advanced by the survey com
paring 1933 sales with those for
1935 is found in Tyrell County. In
1933, Tyrrell reported only $73,000
worth of merchandise sold compar
ed with $437,000 for 1935. That coun
ty ranked 100 th in 1933 and frith
in 1935.
TIGHTENING
ON ETHIOPIA
Son-in-Law of Haile Selassie Cap
tured And Shot; Show Rebels No
Quarter
Rome, Feb. 25.—Relief and re
joicing swept Italy tonight in the
aftermath of capture and execution
of Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law and
"last hope" of Haile Selassie, con
quered Ethiopian King of Kings.,
j Desta, who often promised to give
up, but never really submitted, was
tracked down in the region west of
th© southern Ethiopian lages, his
last column decimated and his sub
chieftians "liquidated." Taken with
a few of his men, he was "turned
immediately over to the firing
squad." Viceroy Rodolfo Grazini,
himself now recovering from bomb
wounds at the hands of rebellious
Addis Ababa natives, smashed Ras
Desta's defense forces, onee num
bering a quarter million, in the
southern Ethiopian conquest a year
ago.
Most newspapers tonight devoted
their front pages to the Desta's
capture, for his stubborn activities
and the attempt on Graziani's life
last Friday had instigated a feel
ing of uncertainly as to whether
Ethiopia, after all, really was "nine
tenths" conquered, as officials insist.
ABC WARD
GIVES NASH
SURPLUS
Commissioners Recommend The
State Maintain Road in Griffias
Nashville, March 2. —Nash county
board of commissioners received a
$5,000 check from Millard F. Mor
gan of the county ABC board and
heard reports from Nash farm and
home demonstration agents at their
regular meeting here yesterday.
The Nash ABC board's contribu
tion to the county treasury, aris
ing from ABC operations in the
county during the past month, has
been duplicated each month for tho
past half year ABC officials report
ed.
The commissioners recommended
that the state highway commission
grant a petition from J. K. Murray
of Griffin township that the high
way commission maintain a one mile
stretch of road from the Aventon-
Davis Bridge road to Mr. Murray's
residence.
The board also voted to contribute
from the county treasury to the
support of an indient resident of
tho county.
Nine Gaston farmers purchased
4200 pounds of lespedeza seed from
three other Gaston' farmers last week
thus keeping both the seed and the
money within the county.