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The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 4, NO. 38 • WORK MAKING PROGRESS ON NEW CLINIC Building On Rose Street Will Hoube Speight-Stone-Bunn Clinic A new and modern clinic, being constructed on Rose street by Dr. J. A. Speight and Dr. M. L. Stone of this city and Dr. J. P. Bunn, Jr., of Battleboro, is expected to be com-' pleted about tlie end of the year, i was learned. . Of modern brick architecture, the clinic will have complete medical facilities. It will include an opera ting room, a delivery room, a lab oratory and an x-ray room, in the down stairs portion to be occupied by the physicians' offices. There will be five bedrooms and living quarteis upstairs, and the building will b e served by an ele vator. . _ , . When the building is completed, a part of the upstairs will be occu pied by Dr. R. L. Whitehurst's den {• tal office. Fort Macon Road Is Now Complete Route Winding Among Sand Dunes From Atlantic Beach To Fort Macon Opened Raleigh, Sept. 22.—The surfacing of the highway which winds among the sand dunes from Atlantic Beach to Fort Macon State Park and old Fort Macon had been completed so that this highway is again open to the public, State Forester J. S. Hol mes announced today. This stretch of road, about four miles long, was built by the Civilian Conservation Camp located in the Fort Macon State Parle area about two years ago and was later taken over as a part of the state high way system by the State Highway and Public Works Commission. Duo to the large number of people who lxave been visiting the park and old Fort Macon since the road was built, the highway department fin ally decided to surface it so that it would be passable under all weath er conditions. This surfacing was completed and the road open to traffic Sunday, September 1-, Mi. Holmes saiil. . It is now possible to drive from Morehead City all the way to Fort Macon on a surfaced highway. The new road turns off the left of the present surfaced highway just before it reaches Atlantic Beach. Although tho highway to th© fort was not then open, 729 persons vis ited the fort enclosure during the week ending Saturday, September 11, Mr. Holmes said, not including those who drove into the park but who did not visit the fort. The weekly average of thoso vis iting Fort Macon this summer from May 24 through September 11 was 224 a week fis compared with 803 a week for the corresponding per iod in 1936, Mr. Holmes said. This decrease in the number of visitors is attributed largely to the fact that the road to the fort was closed much of this time due to the sur facing operations. The number of visitors is expected to increase ma terially now .that -the road has been surfaced and opened, Mr. Holmes said. M. G. Moore Dies At Rocky Mount Home Retired Mall Carrier Succumbed At Arlington Street Residence Mack G. Moore, 79, retired mail carrier and native of Edgecombe county, died at his home on Ar lington street of the infirmities of old age. Funeral services wer o held from the homo at four o'clock with Elder A. B. Benson, Primitive Baptist minister, officiating. Interment fol lowed in the Worsley burying grounds. . Mr. Moor e was a'mail carrier here for 21 years before he was retired on August 7, 1926. He served un der five post masters. .. ~ He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Arabellar Worsley Moore; four sons, S. A. Moore of Roanoke, va., J. U. Moore of Delmar, Del., C. A. Moore, Scotland Neck, and T. K. Moore of Norris, Tenn.; a daughter, Mrs. S. p. Judgo of Hobgood; and three sis ters, Mrs. Walter Brown, Mrs. Billy Lancaster, and Mrs. John Weeks. Pallbearers for the services were Ilenry Lanier, Walter Calhoun, N. T. Crocker, Tom Turner, J. B. % - Price, H. J. C. Taylor, George Gas kill, and Tom Dixon. Prom six acres of red clover, H. A McNairy of Guilford County ob tained 14 loads of fine legumo hay at the first cutting and 1,050 pounds of recleaned seed at the second cut ting. He sold 600 pounds of the seed to the Guilford FCX store for $250 and kept the remainder for his own use. Definite demonstrations of three acres each are being placed on Bertie County faring using crim3on clover, vetch and Austrian winter peas, IN WASHINGTON UNITED STATES SENATOR Adjournment of Congress does not mean the end of Congressional ac tivity until the next session. The recess period is marked by studies o nthe part of House and Senate committees, preparation of depart mental budgets, the gathering of statistical for Congress and investigations, such as that now being carried on by the Senate Committee on Agriculture in .connec tion with new farm legislation. Not the least important of these between-session activities is tha studies being made of the country's tax system. Treasury and Internal Revenue experts, working in con junction with tho full-time staff of ■ the Committees of Congress, are now laying plans for tax legislation when Congress again convenes in January, or earlier, if a special ses sion is called. While this "behind the scenes" ac tivity is primarily designed to sim plify existing tax laws, plug loop holes and otherwise improve the tax structure, it ig an open secret that consideration is being given to means of improving the whole tax structure. Whether that will lead : to removal of certain taxes and the levying of others, is problematic. Should the income tax base be brqadened and special taxes elimi nated! Would better knowledge on the part, of taxpayers of what they actually pay be preferable to hid den taxes such as we now liavef These and other questions are be ing asked by those- concerned with the interest of the taxpayers, as well as the necessity for providing adequate Federal revenue for neces sary governmental functions. With it all, there ig a growing realization among members of Con gress of the need for a better under standing of the fundamentals of taxation. Some favor inclusion of the subject as a part of citizenship train ing in the schools. There is much merit in this contention, in the opinion of many Congressional lead ers. They contend, and rightly so, that too little thought is given to Fed eral funds. For example, it is not unusual to hear some advocate of a Federal project say: "Government money will pay for it, there will be no cost to us." Such is not the case. The only source of Federal revenue is the taxpayer, and it is the taxpayer who will pay for any Federal project or activity, what ever the nature and wherever it is located. It lias long been contended that "hidden taxes," indirect levies of a nature resulting in taxpayers having little idea of what they pay, is largely responsible for a widespread lack of interest in Government. If the students of our schools obtain ed a greater appreciation of the routine facts of government, with more information on revenue and expenditures, they would have more interest when they became voters. They would be more eager to go to the ballot box and help correct evils and be more attentive to the selection of public officials. One writer declares, and with some reason, that America repudiat es rather than plans. His meaning is that there is move interest in the part of the electorate in repu diating something that has been done, than in selection of officials who have an eye to the future. Support of this is found in the fact that only in times of national dis tress, or when some outstanding is sue is before the people, do the vot ers throng to the polls in great numbers. . , . . Many believe that the interest of young people in the affairs of gov ernment is certain to havo a whole some effect and mean that there will be a steadily growing interest in governmental affairs. And there is no phase of these affairs of great er importance to the individual than the taxes he pays and the return he gets for those taxes. Better national understanding or conditions is the answer. Rocky Mount Man Gets Naval Honor Bobert Nathaniel Spivey, son of Mrs. Mary Love Spivey of 351 S. George street in this city, recent ly graduated from tho Naval Train ing Station at Norfolk, "Va., as Hon or Man in his platoon, it was stat ed in a communication from Cliief Turret Captain lialph E. Harrison. Mr. Spivey enlisted in the Navy at Baleigh, June 21, 1037, and ac cording to tho communication has maintained the highest average in his platoon, which includes 70 young men from states east of tho Mississippi and south of New York. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937 AGRI.PROGRAM AT R. M. FAIR A special program for farmers of Nash, Edgecombe and surrounding counties will be presented at the Rocky Mount Fair next Wednesday, September 28, Resident Manager Palmer V. Boyd announced today. The fair will begin Tuesday with ■ome of the finest educational and entertainment features this section has ever witnessed at a local expo sition. It will continue through Sat urday, October 2. County Agent Joe Suggs will be in. charge of the Farmers Day program, and he is arranging special features of interest to rural folks. In charge of agricultural exhibits at the Rocky Mount Pair is Mrs. John Barrett, who has been associated for many years with the farming interests of Nash and Edgecombe Counties. She is receiving the splendid cooperation of Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon, Nash County homo demonstration agent. A total of $2,500 in agricultural premiums is offered .including listt ings for a big livestock department added this year, Manager Boyd pointed out. A flood of requests for premium books indicates a rec ord-breaking number of farm exhib its, h© added. Prize money is limit ed to producers in Nash and Edge combe counties and surrounding areas to eliminate the stiff compe tition of professional exhibitors who. annually tour the fair circuits. A feature attraction every after noon and night will be Hinkle's Wild West Rodeo, a rip-roarin' ag gregation from the Texas plains, with 25 head of stock and 40 people appearing in the South for the first time. This glittering demonstration of fancy riding, roping and shouting will be presented before the grand stand each afternoon and night. Al so presented twice daily will be a dozen thrilling hippodrome acts. In addition, the colorful Continental Revuo will be presented each even ing, bringing a chorus of 20 girls and a swing band in an all-new mu sical comedy. Industrial Wages Show Increase Movement Is Particularly Marked In Continental United Slates Geneva, Sept. 15.—Index numbers of industrial wages in 21 countries compiled by th e International Labor Office and published in the 1936-37 edition of the ILO Year Book, indi cate that the trend towards stabil ization of money wages, observable in preceding years, apparently is giving way to a slight tendency to rise. The movement is particularly marked in the United States, where it has been under way since 19- 34; in Belgium, Esthonia and New Zealand, and in Prance, where the index refers to October, 1936, and thus reflects to a certain extent the effects of recent social legislation. A similar, though less marked rise, is observable in Australia, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Swe den and the Union of South Africa. In Czechslovakia, Canada, Germany and Japan, on th econtrary, the situation is more or less unchang ed as compared with 1935, while figures for the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland show a slight fall. Small Rise In Hoars "To judge from the available statistics," says the Year Book, "the average number of hours work ed per day or per week in indus try tended to rise very slightly in most countries, the rise being fair ly marked in the United States. So far as it is possible to judge, the rise in daily or weekly earnings was thus slightly greater than the rise in earnings per hour. "The United States shows a def inite increase in weekly earnings as a result of a fairly substantial in crease in the number of hours work ed. In fact, real weekly earnings have now reached the 1929 level. This does not mean, however, that the working population as a whole has reached the same purchasing power aa before the depression, for the number of workers employed in 1936 was still below the figure for 1929, in spite of the increase in po pulation during the interval." "Free" Money For Bank Depositors The liquidators of the defunct North Carolina Bank & Trust Com pany here have a lot of money they would like to get rid of. There are about 5,000 cheeks made cut to people who had money in the North Carolina Bank that no qne has ever called for, it was said, and they are getting in the way. Though many of the unclaim ed checks are for small amounts, at least one of them is written for as much as S6OO. Some of the checks represented amounts due to depositors in banks that existed even before the Nortn Carolina Bank, the liquidators said. The checks that are not claimed by the timo the bank is complete ly liquidated will not go to waste, howevor. They will go to the educa tional institutions of tho state. Dunn Takes Over His New Job \ ***o*' ...«& JB 9|M James C. Dunn, former head of the division of European affairs, la shown (right) as he takes over his duties as chief of the newly created "political relationships department," a branch of the State department The creation of this bureau is another step by Secretary Hull in stream lining the dignified and ponderous State department and to absorb some of the responsibility which fell on his shoulders, taking valuable time away from foreign policy. Shown at left with Dunn is Jay Pierrepont Moffay who is taking over Dunn's former post in the division of European afTairs. Should Not Speak For Bar On Thursday evening, September 16th, there was a coalition of the Kiwanis, Civitan, Rotary and Junior Cham ber of Commerce for supper, honoring Constitution Day, the 150 th Anniversary of the United States' Constitution. The tneeting was addressed by F. E. Winslow, local attor ney and president of the North CaroliiTa Bar Association. The address appeared to be largely a defense of lawyers and an attack upon the recent proposal of enlarging the Supreme Court of the United States. So much so, that the aifternoon paper commented most favorably on the ad dress and entitled it, "President Winslow, Head of State Bar Association, Assails Court' Proposal as an Attack Upon Law." The views expressed in this address are probably the private ones of Mr. Winslow. Yet being president of the Bar Association, it might be construed by some that he was conveying the opinions of the lawyers; and, for this reason we are caused to comment upon this speech. We wish we had space to give the whole address, for we do not feaiieye that it reports the view-point of any apprecia ble number of the Bar of North Carolina. It carries two remarkable statements that can scarcely be reconciled, and consequently both cannot be true. In the first proposition he charges the president's proposal as an attack upon law and order. "The fallacy of the recent proposal, in the interest of social justice, to have Congress enlarge the Supreme Court to empower the President to appoint a sufficient number of new judges to validate the President's inter pretation of the Constitution, lies in the fact that fun damentally the proposal was in itself an attack upon law and order." The second proposition states the Supreme Court vul nerable for forty years. "The liberal lawyer admits that the movement to curb the power of the court was induced by a series of vulnerable decisions over the past forty years by a Supreme Court appointed by administrations too much under the influence of the financial oligarchy, which in practical effect, with only temporary interruptions, di rected the politics of this country from the time of the Civil War until 1932." The President of the United States has had many charges made against him. Senator Bailey made the com plaint that the President was socialistic and communistic. The Republican Party termed him a dictator. The Lib erty League composed mostly of corporation lawyers and Trust Officers accused him with over-riding the Constitu tion. However, up until last Thursday night, we had never heard the President of the United States charged with the violation of law and order. We do not possibly see how this statement can b e the view of the North Carolina lawyers. Directly after .charging that the President's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court was an attack upon law and or der, he made the remarkable admission that a series of de cisions handed down by the Supreme Court had been vul nerable for the last forty years. He stated that the court had been appointed by administrations too much under the influence of the financial oligrachy. Doesn't this last ad mission of Mr. Winslow's, that the appointments to the Su preme Court since the Civil War had been induced by finan cial oligarchy, clear the President of his most serious charge —"a violator of law and order?" When the President of the United States took oath of of fice, he found the country bordering on revolution, and more than three-fourth's of the population half fed and under-nourished with practically no clothes. The mass of common people do appreciate the great efforts in their be half. North Carolina enlarged its Supreme Court from five to seven with three and a half million population. The pro posal of the President was to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States from nine not to exceed fifteen. The Unit ed States has one hundred and thirty million population. It has even been admitted by the President's defamers that the proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court was thoroughly Constitutional. Mr. Winslow will have to admit this him self. The best way to find out about the court proposal is to read the Constitution itself. Article 111. Section 1. "The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested 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 be haviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in Office." Congress set up the first Supreme Court, and, if it set up the first under the Constitution; it certainly has power (Please turn to page four) LOCAL BOY IS OFFICER IN R.O.T.C J. E. Gfantham of Rocky Mount a major in the R. O. T. C. at State College, is assistant adjutant in the R. O. T. C. regimental staff, it has been announced by tho commandant. Major Grantham is a son of tho late Mr. and Mrs. B, E. Grantham of this city. J. T, Massey of Raleigh was ap pointed commanding officer of the school's 1,275 cadets, according to the announcement. Mrs. Melton Dies In Hospital Here Elderly Local Resident Succumbs To Long Illness; Funeral Is Held * Mrs. D. W. Melton, 63, a resident of 520 Ridge street here, died in a local hospital after an illness of several months. Funeral services were conducted at 3:30 from the home, with burial following in Pineview cemetery. Rev. G. W. Farrar, of the Bailey Metho dist church, and Rev. J. F. Gaddy, pastor of the North Rocky Mount Baptist church, conducted tho cere monies. Mrs. Melton is survived by her husband, four sons, Leon Melton, Willie Bob Melton, Joe Melton and Vernon Melton; and two sisters,. Mra. J. T. Boseman and Mrs. E, L. Ellen. Pallbearers for the futeral were Van Neal, L. L. Proctor, Lee Bose man, G. R. Griffin, H. O. Massen gill and Ed Leonard. Auto Fatalities Continue Increase The census bureau at Washington Friday night reported that 579 more persons were killed by automobile accidents in 119 major American cities during the first 35 weeks of this year than in 1936. Director Wil liam L. Austin computed this as an 11 per cent increase. Despite all the safety campaigns and caution warnings, 5,949 indi viduals were sacrificed to careless ness, speed and neglect during the first 35 weeks of this year. The 1936 toll in these cities was 5,370. Only one of 11 cities reporting more than a hundred deaths during the first 35 weeks of 1937 showed a decline. This decrease, however, was only to the extent of one death and may be wiped out in a single exceptionally high week. Pittsburgh reported 102 deaths this year com pared with 103 for the same period of last year. During the first five months of last year, the toll of deaths was consistently lower tha nthe previous year. Several explanations have been advanced. Some observers be lieve that th e severe winter kept many cars off of the highways. Oth ers believe that publication of the gruesomely detailed "And Sudden Death" and the newspaper cam paigns and the safety programs that followed were responsible. However, since June 1, 1936, the number of automobile accident deaths has been consistently above the previous yearly period. New York City reported 600 mo tor fatalities during the first 35 weeks of this year compared with 548 last year. Chicago, with 484 this year, also topped last year's com parable figure of 439. Local Patrolman Receives Injury Raleigh, Sept. 22.—State highway patrol headquarters received word this morning that Patrolman R. H. Sutton of Rocky Mount was injur ed while en route this morning by motorcycle from Wilson to Smith field. Sutton was taken to a Wilson hos pital and was not believed to be seriously hurt, Lieut. D. T. Lambert said. No other details were avail able here. Patrolman Sutton is the son of J. W. Sutton of 620 Branch street here. Polk County farmers are show ing increased interest in trench si los. Several farmers who have never before had silos are requesting aid from the county agent in digging and filling these ensilage contain ers. 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 T °wn State Route No SI.OO PER YEAJV ROCKY MOUNT SECURES NEW REVENUE POST R. R. Dau K htrid(fo Will Be Head of Field Office For This Section Rocky Mount will receive one of two nc.w district, offices to be es tablished by the state Department of Revenue Commissioner A. J. Max* well it was announced. R. R. Daughtridge, formerly in 'ho New Bern district, will have charge of the Rocky Mount office, ho stat ed. The other new office will be at Rockingham and offices which are located at Raleigh, Charlotte, Greens boro, Asheville, New Bern and Wil mington will be retained. In the Rocky Mount district will be the following counties: Camden Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Nash, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquim ans and Wilson. "Dead" Man's Wife Asks Separation Legal Tangle Produced By Death Sentence Commutation In Court Again Schoharie, N. Y., Sept. 15. Mrs. Nellie C. Jones, 46, whose first husband was held by the New York Court of Appeals to bo civilly dead though physically alive, sought a legal seperation today from her sec ond husband. Mate No. 2, Harry P. Jones, 37, of Albany, N. Y., endeavored unsuc cessfully to have his marriage to Mr 3. Jones voided as bigamous. He claim ed that a death sentence pronounced in Raleigh, N. C., on her first hus band, Clyde Montgomery, was com muted to life imprisonment three weeks after Jones married tho sup posed widow at Rensselaer, N. Y., in 1923. Tho case was carried to New York's highest court, which ruled unanimously last Juno that tho com mon law establishes the "civil death" of a man sentenced to the death penalty, regardless of whether sen tence is executed. In the present action, Mrs. Jones charges desertion and asks S2O a week alimony and SSOO counsel fees. State Supremo Court Justice Harry E. Schirick, before whom the case was argued here, reserved decision. In arguing his case before Justice Schirick, Ransom 11. Gillett, Jones' counsel, asserted that "Mrs. Jones is at present in Virginia." Harry W. Williams, her counsel immediately leaped to his feet and called her name. She arose from a spectator's seat in the courtroom. "Well, she's in this state now, anyway," remarked Justico Schirick. Williams said Montgomery even tually was paroled and now lives in Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Jones' former home. He added that Mrs. Jones did not learn that her first husband still was living until after her sec ond marriage. Carolina School Starts Night Class Carolina school of Commerce offi cials have just announced that their New Fall Opening was much larger than in previous years. Many stu dents from surrounding cities aro enrolled this year. While the New Term has already started, new stu dents may enroll any week-day. There is still room in Day School for a few more students but the seating capacity is rapidly being as signed. Those who are not fortunate enough to attend Hay School, this school maintains a very fine Night School. The. New Term of Night School began last Monday evening with an enrollment of twenty-five. Enrollments are being received al most da'ly for both day and night school. Night School is held on Mon day and Thursday evenings from seven till ten o'clock. Many who are working during the day are avail ing themselves of the Night School to "raise their pay" or to win pro motion. It is expected the Night School of Carolina School of Com merce will be the largest and best this year than at any other time in the history of the School. More in terest is being manifested in busi ness education. Carolina School of Commerce is known throughout East ern Carolina as a progressive and up-to-date business training school. A new Burroughs' Calculating ma chine has just been purchased for the Office Training Department.