The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 4, NO. 46
WATSON ON
STATE TEAM
Expert Student Team. From State
College' Off On Swing
Through Mid-West
College Station, Raleigh, Nov. 18 —
Van Watson, Jr. of Rocky Mount,
member of tho crack N. C. State Col
? 'lege crops judging team, left hers
' Tuesday for a swing through tho Mid-
West where ho and his team-mates
will compete in two major intercol
legiate judging contests.
First stop for the State College
team, representing an institution hav
ing a higher record in crop judging
[ * work than any other , will be in Kan
sas City, Mo. There at the American
Royal Livestock Show, being held
Friday , they will compete against
other teams in seed judging, taxo
nomy, and market grading. This show
is an annual event sponsored by the
Kansas City Board of Trade..
The big event of the trip will be
the International Livestock Expo
sition in Chicago Friday and Satur
day November 26 and 27. At this
i t show the boys from North Carolina
will compete against crop judging
teams from leading land grant Am
erican colleges and universities.
State College teams have always
niade enviable records in these con
tests, bringing home many first hon
ors and much recognition for the
school
Dr. J. B. Cotner of State College,
* the team's coach, accompanied the
** judgers on the trip. The team other
than Watson is composed Qf J. F.
Giles, Arch dale; J. C. Frink Bladeu
boro; and B. P. Jenkins, Jr. Shelby.
LEGION POST
M HOLDS FETE
"Parade Of Progress" Dinner Spon
sored By Spring Hope Post Dur
ing Week-End
Spring Hope, Nov. 15. —Contraiy
to the usual custom of khaki-clad
parados to martial music, Spring
Hope's Vester-Wheless American Le
gion Post 91 took cognizance of the
Armistice season with a week-end
dinner in the Baptist church annex.
The Legion's extensive guest list in
cluded representatives from all the
V main enterprise* of tftjvn and com
munity, tho after-dinner remarks of
0 ihe various visitors presenting a par
ade of civic progress and a bird's
eye view of the future possibilities
-./■ of this town.
Grouped around three largo tables
in the Annex hall the assembly open
-1 ed with the singing of America led
by T. H. LeCroy. Dr. J. R. Vann
returned thanks. The delicious bar
becue dinner with slaw, bread and
coffee was gift of the Post Com
mander C. S. Bunn of Stanhope.
Near the close of dinner Miss Cor
inne Pridgen sang "My Buddie''
k accompanied at the piano by Mrs.
R. L. Pitts. Motion was made by
L T. Valeatine and instantly pass
ed that Miss Pridgen be made
"Sweetheart" of the Legion.
Toastmaater C. S. Bunn briefly ex
plained the purpose of the Legion
saying it "stands for the finest
things in America ... in the fu
\ ture, men will be proud to be mem
* bers" and called attention to the
youth movement emphasized in all
Armistice speeches. Other specially
invited guests, many of whom mado
remarks, included: Mayor John J.
Proctor; the town commissioners;
if Mrs. L. W. Davis, U. D. C. presi
dent; John J. Pitts, Lions Club
president; Mrs. J. P. Pierce, P. T.
A. President; Misses Ada E. Valen-
V tine and Annio M. Cherry, faculty
members; T. H. LeCroy, vocational
agriculture instructor; Hobart Brant
ley, past commander of this post
and now Commander of this dis
trict; Earl Mallison, representative
of the local Fire Department; I. T.
' Valentine of Nashville, former com
mander of this post and still an ac
tive member; Mrs. I. T. Valentine;
and Miss Constance Matthews, Edi
tor of the Nash County News.
* Funeral Rites For
- Pneumonia Victim
Funeral services for Minnie Pau
line Weaver, three-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Weaver of
Rocky Mount route one were held at
y three o'clock from the home with
Elder A. B. Denson, Primitive Bap
[ tist minister, officiating. Interment
* followed in the family burying
grounds.
Little Minnie died at a local hos
pital after having been ill with
pneumonia for five days. Besides the
parents she is survived by her
■'* grandmothers, Mrs. Minnie Weaver
and Mrs. Mary Ann Pridgen.
i
J. F. Barringer of Gold Hill, Ca
barrus County, secured 1.7 ton an
acre of cured Kobe lespedeza hay
from four acres and sold the hay
for $lB a ton. He says this is bet-
Iter than growing cotton and his land
is more fertile as a result.
Applications of nitrate of soda
I used as a top-dressing about the
corn crop, increased the yield on
the farm of Joe Etheridge in Pas
quotank County from about 50
bushels an acre to 71.4 bushels an
acre.
IN WASHINGTON
IS
TAKING
PLACE
BY
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Although this is being written in
advance of th e convening of Con
gress, it is already evident that the
special session will have a very de
finite bearing on the trends in busi
ness, industry and agriculture dur
ing the months ahead. In fact,
whether the present lull will con
tinue into 1938, or pick-up with
heavy holiday activity, may largely
rest on what the Congress does or
does not do.
Tho result is that members of
Congress are returning to Washing
ton with a new determination to
participate in making the session
run as smoothly as possible and
devote to the purposes for which it
has been called. This opinion is
shared by many of my Senatorial
colleagues.
If there is one thing that stands
out in the pre-session discussions,
it is that the big job before Con
gress is to give business and indus
try new assurance through relief
from taxes that are proving bur
densome and at the same time find
vhe necessary funds to give need
ed assistance to agriculture. The
word assistance is preferable to re
lief.
With hearings completed in all
parts of the county, it is not un
likely that the members of the Sen
ate Committee and Houso Commit
tee on Agriculture will report to
the Congress very early in the ses
sion, perhaps during the first week.
Considerable thought is being given
to finding an effective compromise
between those who favor compulsory
crop control and those who favor
voluntary control. How to accom
plish either with legislation that will
be branded as constitutional is, of
course a major problem.
But the farmers have -more reason
for hope than they have had in re
cent years. Their views have been
given to Congressional committees
direct. There will be no delay in
the character of shunting farm leg
islation aside for less important
things.
Whether tax revision will be
thrown into tho special session is
problematic. The decision on wheth
er to tackle the tax problem now
or at the regular session convening
in January, may depend a great
deal on the progress in drafting a
farm program that is workable. If
that moves along swiftly, tho high
ly controversial and important tax
question may came up.
There is much evidence that those
engaged in activity working on a
tax program realize that business
and industry, and in turn agri
culture, are greatly affected by a
national hesitancy. It is hesitancy
of business and industry to expand
and create more jobs. Thus assur
ance that the capital gains and un
distributed profits taxes will be
modified would undoubtedly have a
stimulating effect on the whole
country. How soon it can be given
is the question of the hour.
On the whole, there is reason to
believe that every effort will be
made to unify the thought on im
portant subjects to the end that
the White House and the Congress
will finally work together with a
: great deal of harmony. While busi
ness, industry and agriculture look
first to Congress to give the nation
al reassurance needed, the Presi
dent will undoubtedly atempt to
make recommendations that will
find sympathetic attention in the
| Congress. This would assure speed
ier action on all legislation.
! At this early date it looks as if
special session will assume great
importance from the very first and
attempt to end what is well describ
|ed as "national hesitancy" in the
march to improve our whole economic
structure.
U. D. C. To Send
Annual Box To
Confederates
Mombers of the Bethel Heroes
chapter of tho United Daughters of
the Confederacy will send their an
nual Thanksgiving box to the Home
for Confederate Women in Fayette
ville during the week, and members
are asked to send contributions to
the home of Mrs. S. Robbins, on
Tarboro Street, not later than Wed
nesday.
Tho Thanksgiving box is filled each
year with canned fruits and other
edibles, as well as gifts of toilet
articles and other things to be used
by widows of veterans of the War
between the States.
Armando A. Callejo of Cuba
spent several days during late Oc
tober in Chowan County studying
the production of peanuts on farms
of the county.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937
STROKE IS
FATAL TO DR.
BRASWELL
gg-y*
is
l)r. Mark Kussell Brasweli, for
many years regarded as an outstand
ing and influential citizen of this
community, died early Monday in a
Richmond, Va., hospital following a
cerebral hemorrhage suffered last
week. He was in his 73rd year.
Funeral services were conducted
at his home here at 11 o'clock Tues
day morning ljy the . Rev. F. H.
Craighill, rector of the Church of
the Good Shepherd, assisted by the
Rev. R. Dwiglit Ware, pastor of tho
First Methodist church. Burial fol
lowed in Pine View Cemetery.
Dr. Brasweli, who was connected
with numerous business and farming
enterprises in Nash and Edgeeombe
counties and Rocky Mount, suffer
ed a stroke last week while en route
to Richmond from Rocky Mount.
He -was taken to a hospital there and
his condition was described as criti
cal from the first.
Survivors include two children,
Mrs. Ilyman L. Battle of this city
and Mrs. William D. Perry of Chap
el Hill. A brother, J. C. Brasweli,
president of the Planters National
Bank and Trust coznpany of this
city, also survives.
f)r. Brasweli, son of tho late
Thomas P. and Emily Brasweli, was
born near Battleboro. H e attended
school at Bingham Military Academy
near Mebane, and completed his
academic education at the University
of North Carolina. His medical
training was received at the Univer
sity of Maryland and the College of
Physicians and Surgeons at Balti
more.
For many years following his
• graduation, Dr. Brasweli engaged in
tho general practice of medicine at
Rocky Mount. He retired from the
active practice of medicine 25 years
ago, thereafter devoting himself to
his business and farming interests
which were extensive both in Nash
and Edgecombe counties. He was
vice-president of the Planters Na
tional Bank and Trust Co., vice
president of Rocky Mount Mills and
was interested in many other busi
ness enterprises.
Dr. Brasweli married Miss Mamie
Hackney, who died a number of
years ago. A son, Thomas Hackney
Brasweli, died in 1907 at the ago of
12 and as a memorial Dr. Brasweli
erected and donated to the City of
Rocky Mount the Thomas Hackney
Brasweli Memorial Library, which
through his benefience is now under
going extensive enlargement and im
provement. This library constitutes
tho largest private philanthropy ever
given to this community.
Pioneer in Parks
Succumbs at 77
John J. Blair, High Point Educa
tor And Civic Leader, Dies Of
Long Illness
High Point, Nov. 13.—John J.
Blair, 77, educator, religious and
civic ' loader and one of High
Point's most beloved citizens, died
at the Charlotto saniiorium this
morning at 5.29 o'clock. Ho had
been in declining health for some
time,
Mr. Blair, along with his brothers
and sisters, gave High Point its im
petus for its public park system,
now regarded as one of the finest in
the South. The land for Blair
park was the gift of this family
to this city.
Mr. Blair was a momber of a pio
neer Quaker family in this section.
He was born at the Blair homeplace
here, a son of Solomon and Abi
gail Hunt Blair. He had been active
in educational circles over the state,
having served at one time as super
intendent of the Winston-Salem
schools and later as superintendent
at Wilmington. After resigning at
Wilmington Mr. Blair directed con
si ruction of school buildings for the
state, retiring five years ago because
of his health.
Surviving aro two brothers, David
H. Blair of Washington, D. C., and
High Point and Colonel W. A. Blair
of Winston-Salem, and four sisters,
Misses Martha, Ada, Emma, and El
va Blair, all of High Point. Funer
al will be conducted here Sunday at
3 P. M.
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Sergeant Knox scores a hit in a determined manner while partici
pating in the dummy thrusting contest eliminations at the Bedford bar
racks at Edinburgh, Scotland, in preparation for the tournament to be
held in London.
Senator Bailey Still Pulling
Backward
In the news columns of this issue of the Herald is a
press report out of Washington clipped from the News and
Observer, Thursday morning, an account of Senator Bai-
This speech would indicate that the Senator was not
This speech would indicate tha the Senator was not
himself, and yet when we look back to his record in the
Senate, his first term, it is the same speech from the same
Bailey. In the last Democratic primary campaign Hon. R.
T. Fountain candidate for the Senate vs. Bailey, who re
ceived 188,000 votes made the statement in all of his
speeches that if Senator Bailey or the Senators friends
could show a single instance where Bailey had voted tor
a single piece of constructive legislation offered by the
democratic party leadership during the Roosevelt admin
istration he would immediately bring his candidacy to a
close and go home. This challenge was never met by Bai
ley or anyone of his friends. His record so far this term
is and the same. Bailey has an opportunity to help
our state but he pulls backward instead of pushing. The
administration has to carry his weight and action when
he could be pushing.
Such a contrast between Doughton and Bailey.
Over in the House we find Representative R. L. Dough
ton the strong right arm of the President, working hand
and glove with the President assuming his responsibili
ties of leadership in conjunction with our great President.
The administration has necessarily passed new legislation,
most of which has been constructive and good. Doughton
and his Co. laborers in Congress from North Carolina,
who have helped in releiving us of the dire of depression
can look back upon their work with pride and a degree of
satisfaction which can not come to the man who received
his talent and went and buried it in the ground for fear he
would do something wrong as Senator Bailey has used his
talent; in pulling backward.
This note represents 1-96 of th e Nation in the Senate,
and one ninety-six was pulling backward.
O that he had pulled forward as Doughton
BOARD BUYS TWO PARK SITES AND ASKS FOR 3RD
The Board of Aldermen initiated the New Municipal Ad
ministration Building by having its first meeting in it
last Thursday night and the Board took one of the most
needed and important steps taken by the Board of Alder
men of Rocky Mount in many a day when it inaugurated
its Parks and Playground Program by buying a plot of
ground on the West side of th e city on Western Avenue
and a plot of ground on the East side of the city on Mari
gold Street for two additional parks and instructed the
Play Ground Committee to consider the buying of the plot
of land on Cokey Road opposite the Lutheran church for
a third Park. This to our mind is one of the most necessary
purchases that the city has ever made, and we want to
commend the mayor and the Board of Aldermen for this
forward step. This was one of the mayors main objectives
in outlining his program in his inaugural address.
MRS. MARY SPEED JONES MERCER
In our last issue we carried press notice of the death of
Mrs. Mary Speed Jones Mercer, wife of the late Dr. W. P.
Mercer, of Edgecombe county.
Mrs. Mercer was a woman of unusual charm, culture and
talent, possessed with much natural ability, well educated
in the finer arts though reared after the War Between the
States when schools were few and education received at a
price largely the efforts of the individual. Mrs. Mercer
was a native of Warren county daughter of Duke Jones, a
large planter, coming to Edgecombe county as a young
bride of a great and good country doctor, the late Dr. W.
P. Mercer.
The doctor and his wife were more than just a physician,
the Mercers were an institution in the South, West Edge
combe. Their Country Estate "Temperance Hall" was fam
ed far and wide for its generous hospitality and it could
be well said as of "Buncombe Hall" "Welcome All."
The doctor enjoyed a large practice, requiring many
hours per day to make his calls. A large part of his prac
tice was personal visits by people in buggies, carts, and
wagons, and sometimes in fact often times these patients
were compelled to wait hours for the return of the doctor
and pending this waiting who was the emergency doctor and
lightener of heart burdens, but the good doctors wife, her
words of council, encouragement, and general administra
tion often times produced greater results than the drugs
from a hundred bottles. She was head of a great family
and might well be classed as one of the "Mothers of Israel."
She leaves besides her children and grandchildren, one
brother, Hon. Howard Jones of Warrenton and Washington,
nok Secretary to Congressman J. H. Kerr.
BAILEY DEMANDS REVERSAL
OF ROOSEVELTIAN POLICIES
SHERIFF OF
WILSON LEADS
VICE RAIDS
Parents Of High School Youths
Complain Of Situation At Tour
ist Camps
Wilson, Nov. 12.—Complaints by
Wilson county parents that the tour
ist camps in tho section were en
dangering tho morals of their chil
dren spurred Sheriff J. C. Fulghum
to conduct the series of vice raids
on several of the camps over last
week and to arrest over a score of
persons in them, the sheriff testi
fied yesterday at th G trial of several
of those arrested.
Asked who had given him informa
tion that caused him to raid the
places, mostly on the Rocky Mount
Wilson highway, Sheriff Fulghum
said that parents of children of high
school ago had complained that the
places endangered their children. He
mentioned no names of his inform
ants.
In discussing one of the raids last
weekend Sheriff Fulghum declared
that in one small building he had
found it crowded with young men of
around high school age.
Two men and four women were
convicted of running and aiding in
the running of immortal places in
the county in Recorder's Court here
yesterday.
J. I. Dilla, operator of tho Pine
Grove Inn near here, was fined SSO
and costs and given six months on
tho roads while Vera Andrews and
Peggy Walters, girls who were ar
rested at the place in the raids were
fined $25 and costs and given 90
days. Recorder Charles B. McLean
said that he would not invoke the
jail sentences if the girls get out
of the town in 8 hours.
In another case Marjorie King,
operator of a place on the Rocky
Mount highway at "The Rabbit Box''
was fined SSO and costs and given 6
months, while a girl arrested in the
raids at the place, Christine Creech
and a young boy, Preston Joyner,
were each fined $25 and eosts and
given 90 days.- The awA Bryy
girls were ordered to get out ofWn
town within 48 hours or have their
jail sentences invoked.
All appealed to Superior Court and
were placed under bond.
High Court Called
Super Legislature
Professor Corwin, Speaking At Wil
son, Says Constitution Is A 'For
mal Point Of Reference
Chamberburg, Pa., Nov. 13.—The
Supreme Court of the United States
is a '"super-legislature," Professor
Edward S. Corwin, McCormick Pro
fessor of Jurisprudence and head of
the Department of Politics at Prince
ton University, declared tonight in
an address at Wilson College.
The Constitution itself "is hardly
mor e than a formal point of refer
ence" when the court is passing upon
questions involving constitutionality
of laws, Professor Corwin asserted.
His address was the climax of Wil
son's celebration of tho sesquicen
tennial of the framing of the con
stitutional document.
"For most of the court's excur
sions in the constitutional sphere,
the constitutional document is lit
tle more than a taking-off ground,"
lie said. "The journey out and back
occurs iir a far different medium of
selected precedents, speculative views
concerning the nature of the Consti
tution and the purposes designed to
be served by it, and unstated judi
cial preferences.
"All of which signifies that in the
constitutional field the court is a
legislature, and to the extent that
I the doctrine of the finality of its
interpretations of the Constitution
actually prevails it is a super-legis
lature."
In sustaining the Wagner Labor
Relations Act the court, according
to Professor Corwin, presented the
nation with a "constitutional revo
lution," the result of which has
been to "throw down the barriers of
dual federalism of State and Nation
al Governments which have hereto
fore excluded Congress from the
regulation of productive industry."
Lincoln County farmers sold 5,-
431 pounds of live poultry coopera
tively for $917.50 cash last week.
Turkeys comprised the bulk of tho
sales.
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Tells Senate About Regal Shirt.
Johnston County And Other
Cases
Washington, Nov. 17. —Declaring;
for a reversal of most of the poli
cies of the Roosevelt administra
tion towards business, Senator Jo
siah W. Bailey today devoted a
large part of a speech in the Sen
ate on the pending motion to take
up the anti-lynching bill to inveigh
ing against specific acts of the New
Deal.
Tho specific acts to which ho de
voted considerable attention, and to
-acli of which he objected vigorous
ly, were:
The order of the National Labor
Board against the Regal Shirt Com
pany of Morelicad City; tho action
of the Federal Power Commission
in requiring the Aluminum Com
pany of America to secure a Feder
al license for a project at Tucker
town on tho Yadkin river; the ob
jections Rural Electrical Authority
to power company construction of
rural power lines in Johnston Coun
ty paralleling thoso which a co-ope
rative had proposed to construct; tho
alleged action of the TV A in hold
ing up another power project of tho
Aluminum company in Western
North Carolina; and tho recent
speech of Assistant Attorney Gener
al Robert H. Jackson at the Univer
sity of North Carolina on the court
and the Constitution.
The Senator used all of thoso in
stances ag illustrations of government
policies which prevented private in
vestment of capital. He also de
nounced at length the sit-down,
strikes of last winter and urged im
mediate repeal of tfic undistributed
profits tax.
Denies Filibuster
Speaking of the anti-lynching bill
itself, Senator Bailey denied any at
tention to filibuster on the bills.
Uncle Natchel Back
In New Radio Series
Natural Chilean Nitrate Folks An
nounce Resumption Of Broadcast
Program
return to the air next week of Un
tie Natch el and Sonny, the two
stars of the Natural Chilean Nitrate
of Soda program. Natural Chi
lean folks have "formed us that
these two favorites are resuming
broadcasts, beginning Saturday, No
vember 20th and November
21st on important Southern stations.
The role of Uncle Natchel, wine old
colored philosopher and loading
character in the series of broadcasts
will be played by Frank Wilson
who is well known as a radio enter
tainer and as a stage film star. He
gained considerable renown for his
performance as Mose g in the stage
and film version of Green Pastures.
Wilson's characterization of Uncle
Natchel in a series of fifty-two
broadcasts for the Chilean folks last
season, added to his laurels.
Sonny Miller, the young white
charge of kindly old Uncle Natchel
in the program will be played by
Eddie Ryan, Jr., a talen'ed twelve
year-old actor from Virginia who
has made t> number of stage appear
ances in New York and is now play
ing in ''French Without Tears" on
Broadway. He has appeared with
Katlterine Cornell, Helen Hayes and
other stars, and has been a part of
the "Easy Aces," "Dreams of Long
Ago" and other coast-to-coast radio
programs.
With the two featured players on
the Uncle Natchel program will be
a group of Southern singers whose
numbers will consist largely of old
songs of the South collected and ar
ranged by Ethel Park Richardson,
the author of the sketches. An or
ehestra of eleven pieces will provide
the instrumental features of the pro
gram. Artells Dixon, a native of
Greenwood, La., who has been iden
tified with such radio successes as
the "Brer Rabbie Stories of Joel
Chandler Harris," the "Rudy Val
lee" program, "Show Boat," "Roses
and Drums" and many others, have
been engaged by the Natural Nitrate
folks to be the announcer.
o
D. L. Culberson of Richmond
County has 40 acres of lespedeza
sericca from which he has harvested
a seed supply to be certified by the
North Carolina Crop Improvement
Association.
Eight pigs fed by Carey Dudley,
Kinston, route 4, netted him a la
bor profit of $67.71 in a 4-H proj
ect. Carey fed the pigs a balanced
ration for 124 days.