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The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 4, NO. 14 EARNHARDT IS PRESIDENT OF i LOUISBURG H jyV > — y S ~' ihe t,' frf'Trustees of Louis burg College has elected the Rev. IQtiD. E. Earnhardt as president to eTlcC'ted the late Dr. A. D. Wilcox. TiiiV selection will find general favor among the friends of Dr. Earn hardt and the friends of Louisburg. Dr. Earnhardt is well qualified by training and experience to assume : the very difficult role., r J)r. Wilcox through yeoman's ser if ,«ce that probably overtaxed his * "strength and contributed toward his u eath, saved Louisburg. More than l -.t he instituted a new plan for anient college, a plan under I Ir the students —boys and •>re given opportunity to pay i for their education through °p the college. Earnhardt as a Methodist pas * 1 influential eastern Carolina knows intimately the peo ,at the College should serve. V a great capacity for leader '• * Itor enthusiasm and for hard I i He is splendidly fitted to ear- Si where death cut down the Js Dr. Wilcox. m 5 —* — 'J ome Economics Glass States Aims J wf. .As no field of effort is worth TCvseh unless it has definite goals and (([■jectives, we have set up for this Ijllarse definite goals and objectives 1 C'.Ur follows: Mi 1. To become better home daugh iVrs and consequently better citizens • vV; A. Learning to live with other feffyk'ple. A. Better understanding of &r parents view point. • %). Better adoption to our brothers ll Bisters. r \ Accepting our share of home and responsibilities cheerful ' j V Cooperating with our families in the fianiily income. A. Accept |aVw our rightful share cheerfully 5 «d not expecting more than our 1 fiare. f i 5. Striving to develop our bodies, a (binds, and jiisonalities so that wo ".Jrnay be attractive both mentally and j JVysically. ■ Vi. Developing respect for other rights. A. Accepting rules make for law and -ardor. 11. tj» ,ot appropriating other peoples for our own uses. 1 7. .Cooperating with our friends I and teachers to make a bettor school f community. B. Realizing the possi bilities of our own homes as social f centers. il. Having good t'mes with our own families. 2. Having good times with our friends, A. Learning to be a good hf 'sBB. B. Learning to be a good C. Games, foods, decorations ate., for parties, picnics, camping trips, etc. C. Realizing our responsibilities jt ha consumers. M 1. Clearer understanding of cloth- H ing industries and how they affect I? our daily lives. IK 2. Clearer understanding of food industries and their affect on our If daily lives. If 3. Developing ability to judge and K eij/isa wisely and thereby get more H for our money. I In addition to the regular Home K Economics program, the girls of the B Department are providing hot lunch H for the under nourished children and if already have plans for carrying on ■ more and better health projects, in ■-and around the sihool next -year. (IRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST "REALITY" was the subject of le Lesson-Sermon in all churches nd Societies of Christ, Scientist, u Sunday, March 28, 1937. Golden Text was from Psalms ): 1. "Lord, tl ou hast been our welling place in all generations." Among the citations which com jised the Lesson-Sermon was the allowing from the Bible: "I know lat, whatsoever God doeth, it ball be for ever; nothing can be ut to it, nor anything taken from and God doeth it, that men | should fear before him. That which felias been is now; and that which is ®to >hsß hath already and God that which is past." (Eccl. .1: 14, 15.) 'til I*' B3oll "Sermon also included y "he following passage from th e Chris- V tian Science textbook, "Science and fj with Key to the Scriptures" t by. Mary Baker Eddy. "The spirit -I,'i ua' / reality is the scientific fact |L i in all things. The spiritual fact, re- BLv—i n the action of man and the i'VniyerSv, is harmonious and "f Truth. Spiritual iot invirted; the opposite ■j\4iscord ; ' which bears no resemblance ■ "ifc'spirituality, is not real. The on- I !y evidence of this inversion is ob n tatted from suppositional error, B which affords no proof of God, V Spirit, or of the spiritual Ration. Material sense defines all flings ma- Jaterially, and has a finite s«nse of tho if infinite." (Pago 207). IIMANY VISITORS 0 IT The usual crowd of many thous liunds journeyed to Winston-Salem L .Saturday night for tho Easter Morn ■ ing Sunrise service of the Mora- I vian Church there. This event, cel -1 ebratod for more than twe hundred 1 years by this church, has become V one of the most famous events- of i the year in this state. Abont 45,000 attended this year. v \H WALTON UNITED STATES*SENATOR ****** Hearings before the Senate Com mittee on the Judiciary with ref erence to the President's court plan have served to focus new attention on tho important part Congressional committees play in the legislative field of our government. It is not too much to say that these commit tees really draft the laws under which our people live. Nevertheless, comparatively few people really ap preciate their importance and havfe a knowledge of their functions. All proposed legislation is refer red to the proper committee. If it pertains to the courts, it goes to the judiciary committees of both Houses. If it pertains to the navy, it is referred to the committees on Naval Affairs and so on. Should the measure introduced be of import ance, the committees hold hearings, such as those now in progress on the court plan,and it is here that the people register their views. Thus Congressional committees are the ears and eyes of congress More important laws, such as tax bills, etc. aro drafted in committee rooms and reach the floors of both houses as committee bills. Of course, these bills can be virtually redrafted in the Senate and in the House in the course of debate and amendment, but without previous committee con sideration the work of the Congress would be hopelessly jumbled. Naturally, members concerned with particular legislation commit tee reports, copies of hearings and confer with committee members with regard to issues of importance. Thus, the committees are firmly en trenched in tlie basic workings of the Congress. No better evidence of the key part committees have in the legisla tive branch of the Government can be found than the fact that the standing and influence of a member of Congress, whether he be a Sena tor or a Representative, is based on his committee posts. And this stand ing and influence is gained only through assignments that are baaed on seniority attained through ser vice. North Carolina's representation on committees is today particularly strong because the members of its delegation have seniority attained through continuous service. New memhers of both Houses start at the bottom of committees. The seniority rule is never violated. Man with long years in service and great prestige in the House have come to the Senate, but were forc ed to take the same rank so far as committees are concerned, as a new Senator without previous Congres sional experience. For example, Na thaniel Macon of North Carolina, who served with distinction as Speak er of the House of Representatives, started anew when he came to the Senate, and his previous experience in the House counted for naught when it came to commttee assign ments. Thus, the seniority rule is one of the most hallowed Congres sional traditions. The most treasured post in Con gress is a committee chairmanship with its prestige and power. And this prestige and power comes only through continuous service. As a re suit the committees are composed of men of experience and who are ab ly equipped to exercise the great functions given to them in the or derly process of drafting and re drafting laws and in reflecting the will of the people. Union County Poet Laureate Dead T. B. Laney, 64, known far and wide as the poet Laureate of Union i county, died suddenly Sunday morn ing at Monroe. For many years he served on the police force of that city being chief a good part of the time. After he quit the force and en gaged in other business he started to writing for the local papers, his quaint original poems being highly commented on. At his death he was columnist for the Monroe Journal. He was in great demand at all public gatherings and never fail ed to respond when called on for a talk. He published two books of poems. He was in the race for mem ber of the Monroe Board of Alder men in the primary to be held in April. o ELECTRIFICATION Fourteen out of every one hundred farm homes in North Carolina now have eleetricity coming to the farm from central power sources. Small as this percentage is it shows a large Increase over previous figures. In Lincoln County, many growers took advantage of the recent snow fall to sow lespedeza seed. They said they could see exactly where the seed fell and there wa-« no overlap ping. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937 COLLEGE GIVEN A SIOO,OOO GIFT Sir. and Mrs. Henry Pfeif fer Give Pfeiffer Junior College Sum Albemarle, March 29. W. S. Sharp president of Pfeiffer Junior Col lege at Misenheimer, announced to day that a gift of approximately $11(0,000 had been made to the school by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pfeif fer of New York City. The will be used for con struction of a new science hall, and work will begin on tho project as soon as the plans are completed. The gift is the third large con tribution made by the Pfeiffers dur ing the past four years. An even $200,000 was contributed in 1935 for five new buildings, and $40,000 was given in 1936 for the remodeling of the administration building. The new science hall will conform to the architectural designs of the other buildings and will give Pfeif fer one of the be&t junior college plants in the South. o o Comments From Washington (By William Oliver Connor) Around and around we go, where we stop nobody knows. As a matter of fact, we are not going to stop, as the ultra-conser vatives and the Supreme Court would have us to do. America is still in the making. And I hope and trust that she will not stop her march of progress. I would, certainly, hate to be left in the present state of things. 1 could not s'and the constant injus tice and corruption that faces us on every front. Fifty years from today we are going to look back upon this era and thank God for his guidance to a more progressive and abundant life. A life more human in its as pects. And we will not have for gotten the advent of a great admin istration, the coming of a great leader. I am sure that I need not mention his name, for it is on the tongue of every American. Day after day, I have listened with earnest intent to the controver sal question before the people. I do not close my ears to what any-] one has to say, I listen intensely to all sides that" I may have more of the details of a given question and deduce what I consider the right from the wrong. I have spent several days at the hearings ou the Judiciary reorgani zation controversy now still in ses sion on Capitol Hill and I have conceived most of the facts on both sides of the question. In my personal belief, I was, at first, against the President's pro posal. I decided to get all the in formation possible on this issue. I have listened to tho exponents of the plan and have gotten all points that I could from the opponents. When the Labor Non-Partisan League met here in Washington, I attended and got the views of these men. I listened to the President in his two speeches on behalf of the measure, and I gave much atten tion to the critics ridiculing these speeches, and they were many. I do not believe these newspaper and radio critics are speaking their own opinions, but are paid by those same people who so bitterly oppos ed the President in the last cam paign. I must, however, admit that a few men are opposed with all honesty and sincerity to the proce dure the President is taking to bring about a change of interpre tation on social legislation. I com mend every man for candor and sincerity, but who would not look down with disfavor upon a man who | would sell himself in Buch way. I am sorry to say, but there are too many of such people in our country. Therefore, we must get the facts and do our own thinking. The people in North Carolina, I am sure, hav e had the facts from apparent observations around them. They have seen a change for the better in nearly every phase of their livelihood in the past four years of Mr. Roosevelt's administration. They havo seen the social legislation, that Mr. Roosevelt and the people so earnestly wish to have on the sta tute-books, annulled by the Supreme Court of the United States. I gave careful attention to the speech: "The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the People," deliv ered by our own Senator Bailey ov er National Broadcasting Company, February 13, 1937, in which he bit terly attacked the President's plan. I saw, to my surprise, a circular by Mr. Bailey entitled "Hard Ways" with a largo photograph of himself gracing it, circulate through the Ju diciary Committee hearings. I am convinced that some of the members of the Supreme Court have overridden measures such as the AAA becauee of personal biases, and that now it is time to forget bally hoo and do something to bring about a conception that the American peo ple have demanded. If somo chango does not take effect in that direc tion, I fear the consequence. But I believe reason will triumph, and the President will win with the sup port of the people back home. It is, however, high time that we let our congressmen and senators know our stand. Daniel Clark was elected president of the recently organized Cumber land County Agricultural and Home makers Club composed of older rural boyg and girls not now in school. Muni and Rainer Win Film Awards Greatest film stars of the past year—Paul Muni and Luise Rainer. Frank Capra was named for best direction. They were named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the ninth annual pre sentation dinner at the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles. Muni was given the award for his portrayal of "Louis Pasteur." Miss Rainer won film dom's highest honor for her work in "The Great Ziegfeld." And the best direction award was given to Capra for his "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Photograph shows, left to right, Muni, Rainer and Capra with their awards. People Should Watch Report Of Experts Generally when so called experts are employed to make surveys it is usually the custom to find out what the em ployers want reported and to incorporate what is desir ed to be done as a basis for the undertaking. The state of North Carolina used the Brookings Institution to put over their great Centralization Program which has caus ed the destruction of local Community Spirit and indi vidual initiative and the people are reaping the bitter fruits. Now Rocky Mount has employed a $7500.00 so called ex pert for ninety days and there will be at least three thous and dollars additional cost. We all know the Railroad will not be moved. There is "A Nigger In The Wood Pile." There is something that the Board or at least, that part of the Board who wished this survey off on an unsuspect ing public' may not anci it will not be surprising if you don't find that so Called Expert making some recom- , mendation which is in line with some desires of some one who wants something done but who does not have tho spirit to boldly go forward with his or her purpose. We hope the public will be on its guard for these experts are not new at their business. It will not be surprising if we do not find them making recommendations out side of the Railroad question. It has been suggested that the stools could be salvag ed by selling them to the various warehouses for the sales Supervisors to sit on while the sale progresses. In this way the City could save the cost. CAN THE PATRONS OF SCHOOL SIT EASY AND SEE SCHOOL LOT DESTROYED BY GYMNASIUM LOCATION Our information is that the School Board in conjunction with the Board of Aldermen have let the contract for the school Gymnasium and unless some change of mind takes place in Board Members the Building will be located on the small measley space just back of the high school which is the only air space for the whole high school which in itself is not large enough for the children to stand on without using the streets. We realize that most of the Board's functions have been taken away and placed in Raleigh, but we still thought the local Board had a right to place the buildings and if the land cannot be bought at a reasonable price it can and should be condemned. We have just had one of the most horrible tragedies to take place in Texas where a school building was blown up and about five hundred children killed and twice the number wounded. To place this building on this lot would create a fire haz ard that would bring reproach in the face of the Texas disaster, on every citizen in Rocky Mount. The School Board does not have the moral right to place its citizens in this position even if it has the legal right. The arm of the law is not shortened. The School Board has the power to condemn if it cannot be bought at a reasonable price. The School Board has already been negligent in not acquiring the whole block when the high school was located where it is, and if the Board will not acquire more land for the Gymnasium, then we had better not have the Gymnasium. The building of this building is a function of the joint Boards, and we cannot see why the City is able to spend more than one hundred thousand on a new office building. $160,000 for air port, SBO,OOO city lake, and.beau tification projects for the advancements of realestate. Stadium in the neighborhood of fifty thousand dollars. The City went and acquired extra lots to enlarge the ball park which are not being used. When it comes to dealing with the children it looks like the School Board is holding on to the spigot while the Town Board is pouring out by the bung and some time 3 even with the whole bottom out, dumping the money. The Parent Teachers Association has a duty in this matter and certainly they must not be advised as to what is about to take place. Can they excuse themselves if this building is allowed to be built on the small air space in the rear of the High School which is covered by children every recess, without their intering a protest. When the two lady members were added to the Board it was said this change from men was made to women for women understood the needs of the child and would look after the vital matters such as health and athletics training, that men would over look. We wonder if the two lady members Mrs. W. H. Horne and Mrs. McDearman are consenting to the location of the Gymnasium back of the 1 high school. PARAGRAPHS For Busy Folks 19 DIE Nineteen persons were burned to death and two others perhaps fa tally injured near Salem, 111., on Wednesday when a private bus crashed into a concrete bridge and burst into flames after a front tire blew out. Only five escaped alive from the burning vehicle. The bus was loaded with a professional roll er-skating troupe, en route from St. Louis to Cincinnati, Ohio . TO VACATE As a result of lengthy discussions between John L. Lewis, labor lead er, and auto industry officials, it was announced that Lewis had agreed to withdraw strikers from the eight Chrysler corporation plants at Detroit. Six thousand striking em ployees had held the plants since the strike began on March 8. FIX BLAME Officials investigating the causo of the explosion which killed 455 pu pils and teachers in the New lion don, Texas, school on Thursday of last week reached tho conclusion Monday that accumulated gas under the basement floor caused the blast. NO SITDOWNERS Governor Hoey announced Satur day night that sitdown strikes will not be tolerated in North Carolina. The Governor, a sound jurist him self, says that these strikes, involv ing the seizure of property of oth ers, are clearly illegal. He enum erated the privileges and rights he will guarantee for labor in this state, including the righft to work along with the right to strike. II DUCE—AGAIN Again Premier Mussolini of Italy seems in the mood to defy all the rest of tho world. This time it is about sending troops to war-torn Spain. The Spanish Loyalists de clare that thirty thousand or more Italian troops are leading the battle against the government of Spain. France and England ar u protesting to Premier Mussolini. WANT A GAG Horr Hitler, head of the Ger man nation, is suggesting that the freedom of the press be declared null and void as far as Europe is concerned. I'ei'hapg lie thinks a well-gagged press would be kinder to some of his ambitious scenes. The papers are not likely to be dumb on thig effort to gag them. COREY FOR COMMANDER American Legionaires of Greenville are making a hard drive to elect former State Senator Authur B. Cor ey State Commander of the Ameri- can Legion. Corey served with the 113 Field Artillery in France, serv ing with Battery C as a Corporal and later with Headquarters Company of Raleigh as a Sergeant. He has served several terms as State Sena tor from Pitt, where he is a suc cessful attorney. Gunter Advises Planting Longer Stapled Cotton Fuquay Springs, March 15.—The few cents extra required to plant an acre of improved cotton over gin-ruu varieties should return a profit to tho grower tenfold, L. Bruce Gunter, Vice-President of the North Caro lina Cotton Growers Cooperative As sociation, said here today. Mr. Gunter, who attended a regu lar meeting of the Board of Direct ors of the Farm Cooperative in Ral eigh last week, pointed out that farm ers can secure Coker cotton seed one-year from the breeder for plant ing at a cost of approximately 80c an acre above gin-run soed. "Records at State College show that such good seed should produce a staple of around inch and 1-16," Mr. Gunter said, adding that on the basis of the grade and staple prem iums now being paid by the Cotton Association strict middling inch and 1-6 cotton will bring $11.25 more per bale than strict low middling 7-8 inch. "Since it takes no more land, no more fertilizer, no more cultivation and no more expense in any way— except the small outlay for good soed —to produce this longer staple cotton that brings a premium," Mr. Gunter said, "it seems only good sense for every farmer to plant at least some improved seed this year." The cooperative leader pointed out that last year only about 13 per cent of the State cotton crop ran inch and 1-16 or better and added that the supply of North Carolina grown cotton of this quality was not near enough to fill tho demand. NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Name Town State , Route No SI.OO PER YEA* FARMERS ARE PAID FOR SOIL CONSERVATION Over Two-Thousand Checks, Amount ing To $198,679.47, Arrive At County Agents Office MORE TO COME Nash County is richer this week by $198,679.47 as the result of the arrival of the Soil Conservation checks. The checks started pouring into the County r.gent's office last week and at noon today 2081 had arriv ed and had either been paid to the farmers or remained in the of fice awaiting disbursement. These 2081 checks represent 10- 71 applications, or something over half of all the applications made in the county there being 2032 in all. The gross payment, from which is deducted the cost of administra tion of tho Soil Conservation pro gram for the County, amounted to $203,148.04. Out of this total, $1,868.59 rep resents payments for soil-building practices under Part 1, Section 3, of the Soil Conservation Act. A farm is eligible for payment under this provision if the farm has a cot ton, tobacco or peanut soil-deplet ing base, or if the crops in tho gen eral soil-depleting base normally are grown in excess of the home con sumption needs of the farm on an acreage not less than 15 per cent of such base. Cards are being mailed by the County agent's office to all persons who have checks, and no person will receive his check until he has first presented this card. The entire staff of the office is working over time to facilitate the handling of the checks and all farmers eligible for payment will be taken carq of as soon as the office can discharge the clerical routine connected with the disbursements. It is expected that the entire batch of payments will continue coming into the County from day to day until they are all hero within tho next few weeks. Miss Lena Kober son, tho County Agent's secretary, predicted today that they would all be paid within the next two weeks. Lost Colony Contest Honors Anniversary High school students in this county nro due for some hcadscratching If most of them enter an interesting contest which was announced last week-end to all public high school principals in North Carolina. For solutions of the mystery of what became of the Lost Colony, the Koanoke Island Historical Associa tion, Inc., sponsors with the Foderal Government of this summer's mam moth 350 th anniversary celebration of the English settlement of America on Roanoke Island, N. C., is offering a SSO first prize and 107 other prizes valued at S3OO. The solutions will be written by the students in papers which must not number more than 1,200 words, and must be completed and handed to the high school principal not later than April 15. Attractive illustrated folders ex plaining the contest will be available from high school principals this week. Clyde A. Erwin, State Superintend ent of I'ubKc Instruction, is chair man of the committee of judges. Will Not Allow Ney Grave Opened The session of the Third Creek Presbyterian church, near Cleve land, Rowan county, have voted unanimously to oppose the opening of the grave of Peter Stewart Ney, believed by many to have been Mich ael Ney, marshal of France, and Napoleon's "right-hand man." About a year ago C. W. Allison and others, of Charlotte, received permission from the church session to open the grave in an effort to determine definitely the identity of the man who has been dead 90 years, but the grave has not been opened, and now officers have vot ed their opposition. Friends and members of the his toric church in western Rowan have expressed opposition to tho project ed opening of the grave, and the church officers are abiding by their wishes in resolving to oppose each a project. Five Granville County farmers re cently purchased 1,100 pounds of Ko rean lespedeza seed from Chatham county growers.