The Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 5, NO. 4 LOCAL PRODUCTION CREDIT ASSN. MAKES FINE RECORD Reports subfnitted by officers and directors of the Bocky Mount Pro Iduetioj, Credit Association at the an nual Stockholders meeting in Bocky * (»Mount on Tuesday, January 25 in dicated that this farmers' coopera tive credit organization had anoth er successful year in 1937. The re ports showed an increased volume of business done and, notwithstand ing* the recession in farm prices, a ' good collection record. Complete and detailed reports were given to the stockholders at the meeting, which was well attended by farmers from Nash, Wilson, and Edgecombe counties, which aro serv ed by the association. The financial + o,tement of the association was dis played on a big chart and other in teresting data showing costs of ope ration, etc., were likewise display ed on charts. Reports were made to the meet ing by S. H. Crocker, president; J. G. Vick, secretary-treasurer, and M. F. Morgan and W. F. Woodruff members of the board of directors. 8. H. Crocker was elected to servo on the board of directors. Other O-I members of the board, whoso terms did not expire this year, are M. F. Morgan, W. F. Woodruff, 8. R. Jen kins and C. B. Walton. The reports revealed that the as sociation made 786 loans for a to *| Ita* of $416,081 in 1937. Ernest Graham, president of the Production Credit Corporation of Columbia, addressed the stockholders at the conclusion of the business ses sion. Mr. Graham stressed the fact that- the production credit associa tion is a permanent, dependable source of credit for responsible farmers organized on a cooperative ■basis. He said theeo associations have systematized farm financing, are farmer controlled and operated, - mrnC money only to fa.rmftra. awt 'all of the farmers' short-term cred it needs and are operated by farm ers in the interest of farmers. Whilo the association is a local or ganization, having local control, it has the advantage of being connect ed with a nation-wide system. Others who spoke at the meeting were Frank P. Spruill and Wiley t W. Meares. Officials Set On Resettlement Stere Despite efforts made by both by Congressman John H. Kerr and sev eral others who are interested, it ap pears that the Resettlement admin istration is determined to place a cooperative store in tho Roanoke Farms area to serve the government tenants. Objection to the proposed store as .government competition with retail establishments which tax es has been voiced in Iweral quar-' ters» but apparently scant heed i? being paid to the objections by the Resettlement officials at Washington. Congressman John H. Kerr wrote The Commonwealth this week that his efforts to eliminate the store 'have been unsuccessful and Senator Reynolds also wrote The Common wealth that he did not know what could be done about the matter. Ijjfforts will b e continued by in terested parties, however ,and it was intimated to The Commonwealth this week that if necessary an engage *ment will be sought with President Roosevelt and strong objection regis tered to the establishment of the store. A report o n this gathering receiv •eJ: as The Commonwealth wont to press late yesterday indicated feder al officials had not changed their plans at all. Another Limit? future shortage of golf wood clubs in the United States may re sult from a new disease killing per simmon trees, it was intimated her 0 yesterday by George H. Hepting of tho U. S. Department of Agriculture. Practically all woods are made of persimmon, Hepting said, and a new disease discovered in Tennessee is killing persimmon trees as fast as the chestnut blight wiped out the chestnut trees. Hepting, of the Asheville station, was addressing the North Carolina Association of Nurserymen, Candidate 9Hr Hk WSSm mm JjSUg To be a candidate for Judge of Nash County Recorder's Court, in the race two years ago Grissom was defeated by a majority of 388 votes/ A change of 195 votes orit of ap proximately eight thousand cast would have given him the nomina tion. AB C' S ARE RESCUED FROM SCRAP HEAP, Child; Guidance Authority Say Youngsters Should Learn Well His ABC's (By Lydia Gray Shaw) Boston— Thoee well-worn ABC's once thrown into the trash basket along with Mother Goose ajid th multiplication table, have been pul back into circulation. Starting news in this day of pro gressivo education, but it . omei from Dr. Donald D. Durrell, profes sor of education at Boston Univer sity and director of the Educationa Clinic there. Dr. Durrell takes exception to th progressive thesis thatroadingshoul' [be taught by training the child t learn words from their appearand on the page. All In The Curlicue "You wouldn't believe it," he says "but the most common error in chil dren's reading is the confusion of the word 'girl' with the word 'dog. l Children see the curlicue of the let ter 'g' and get the words mixed up.' Stupid, but how are they to tell the 1 words apart when they can't spell —have never even heard of the let ter g'f" Lest progressives start tearing at his throat, however, Dr. Durrell is willing to compropiiso. He will con cede tho value of phonetics if they'll let him teach the alphabet along with it. Dr. Durrell then returned on meth ods of determining a child's intelli gent quotient. A bright youngster—j analytical, thorough, quick—can't at-1 tain his proper I. Q. if he's a slow! reader, says the alphabet advocate, because the tests have "to be read to be comprehended. Proof Of The Pudding He has devised a method of test ing a child's ability to understand the spoken as well as the written word. The child minus the alphabet gets along beautifully with the hear ing comprehension section, but falls down on the eye tests. That proved |to Dr. Durrell the alphabet isn't dead yet. Exhaustive tests have shown boys —they're more analytical, have more patience. They also have shown thi3, he says. Two children of the same age, background and previous education, starting the same reader under the same teacher, will stumble over dif ferent words. There's no accounting for it, tho educator feels, so the on ly thing to do is to adapt method's accordingly. The alphabet, says Dr. Durrell, leads the way. Swine influenza is causing con considoiaible trouble to farmers in Bertie County, at first it was thought the animals wero infected with cholera but inspection by a federal veterinarian showed the to bo "Swine Flu." The best things in life are the things wo miss—at least it seems so from reports our friends bring us. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1938 AUTO DEATHS SHOW GAIN FOR 1937 1,123 People—2s More Than Pre vious High Of 1935 Lose Their Live:—Many Accidents Automobiles killed 1,123 persons in accidents in North Carolina i n 19- 37, setting a new yearly record for highway fatali.iea, the motor vehi cle division reported Monday. Last year's toll was 25 more than in 1935, when the previous high was established, and nearly 100 moro than in 1936, whe n 1,026 persons lost their lives in highway mishaps. Tho division said there was our I fatality for every 341,168 gallons of gas consumed in 1937, compared with one highway death for every 331,- 404 in 1936 and one for every 284- 433 gallons in 1935. Every 522 nd car was responsible for on e death in 1937; every 536t'i for one in 1936; and every 468t!i for one in 1935, the division report ed. The report for 1937 showed 7,413 accidents, resulting in 7,980 injuries. CITY SELLS NEW BONDS me," he said. "I want them to iden tify me as 'ex-Governor William It. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray.' Then I won't care who files." "Alfalfa Bill" went straight to u hotel, parked himself in the mid dle of the bed—hat, shoes, muffler and all—and held open house, "Don't ask me how I feel," he growled. You're not a doctor. You wouldn't know what to do if I felt bad. But how do I lookt" He looked in excellent health. He is 68. He asked photographers not to snap him with his mouth open. "There are only three animals that go around with their mouths open," he said, "a monkey, a pos sum and a new dealer. But don't say anything about the new dealer. I want to keep this a pleasant dis course." Murray may have hard sledding if the New Deal undertakes to pun ish him. He refused to vote for Roosevelt in 1936 and supported Governor Landon, the Republican nominee. By producing 69 weighed bushels of corn on one acre, Frederick Gra dy of Duplin County won the 4-F1 corn club championship of the coun ty this past season. The club mem ber will feed his corn to hogs in another 4-II project. Dissention in the Nazi Ranks? No, gentle readers, Der Fuehrer is not daring the gentleman at right to start something. Thfl seemingly threatening left in the swastika dec orated sleeve belongs to Herr Frits Todt, general inspector of the Ger man auto-road.s, and is as thing but a forceful gesture which he employed while introducing some of the oldest workers on these roads to Chan cellor Hitler. Rocky Mount Values "Mother- Wit 99 i The Rocky Mount Herald has permitted citizens to write in its forum column! on subjects they may think of public interest all along. In last weeks issue there was a letter addressed to the Herald, signed by a citizen, suggesting that there was in contemplation by the city manager and the governing au thority a very important change in the personnel of the Chief of Police office. That the present Chief was to be supplanted and an employee from another department of government was to .take his place, and that the city was | planning to send him away, at much cost to prepare him for the duty of the offifce to take G-training. There was fur ther suggestion thatj the public was not being informed of these contemplated ehanges so vital to them. While these suggestions are the thoughts of the writer yet it invites discussion. Other than what appeared in this letter of the citizen we have no information and, of course, know nothing as to the facts, however, may we say that the law enforcement department is a very im portant part of the city government and it is always im portant that citizens have respect and confidence in this de partment. Some time back there was contemplated a change in the Chief of Police office and many of our citizens op posed the change and as above stated we know nothing of 'the fact. However, we might suggest to the governing authorities that it is an important matter and the people I are entitled to be informed. There are some people that be lieve that the police department should be maintained as a military organization with military discipline officers sa luting and bowing to each other. We do not believe that Rocky Mount desires such a po ice department. For if the officers have to spend their ;ime bowing to the associate officer, observing military jrocedure they will have no time to protect the public in he enforcement of the law. We have no knowledge of the natter but merely make this as a suggestion that it is an mportant matter and should be dealt with in a way com nensurate with its importance. We don't know much about G-Men and G-Training. Rocky Mount wants Moth er Wit in its Chief of Police. THE CHILD CANNOT PROTECT HIMSELF The campaign for the eradication of syphilis is now in progress with 12,299 cases imported last year. We note that Rocky Mount only repoi'ted two cases, Nash County 139. and Edgecombe County is not listed in the press report. We hope that this great work is advancing faster than this re port. would indicate. Our information is that this campaign is needed as much in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County and Nash County as anywhere else. This is especially true of the congested areas. We believe Rocky Mount should give special emphasis to this great work. All people coming in contact with children as nurses should be examined at once, and if found infected should receive treatment. DR. DURRELL DISCUSSES TEACHING ABC Some time back our paper in its editorial column took issue with the State Educational Department in its meth ods of undertaking to instruct or to teach a child to read before the child has been taught its letters. Having observed the difficulties of young children in this mongrel and confusing method we felt that somebody should have something to say to bring it to the attention of the public mind, and we have been informed that many teachers who actually teach the children are of the same opinion that we are, but are unwilling to take issue with their superiors in office, and for that reason are having to teach a system which they think is wrong. In the press yesterday we have a very enlightening state ment from Dr. Donald D. Durrell, professor of education at Boston University and director of the Educational Clinic there. Dr. Durrell takes exception to the progressive the sis that reading should be taught by training the child to learn words from their appearance on the page. "You wouldn't believe it," he says "but the most com mon error in children's reading is the confusion of the word 'girl' with the word 'dog.' Children see the curlicue of the letter 'g' and get the words mixed up. Stupid, but how are they to tell the words apart when they can't spell—have never even heard of the letter V?" Lest progressives start tearing at his throat, however, (Please turn to page two) GOVERNOR HOEY SPEAKS TO ROCKY MOUNT PEOPLE LOOKING AT WASHINGTON (Hugo S. Sims, Washington Cor. respondent) F. D. R. FEELS SECURE The idea is abroad in some quarters that the President feels that his Administration is on mucn firmer ground since the retirement of two Conservative Supreme Court Justices and their replacement with men of the same political philosophy. Whilo the President, in his battle against what ho considers econom'c privilege, has been able to win elec tions by enormous majorities, his program has been successfully resist ed in tho Courts because his oppon ents feel that the five Conservative justices would stop tho New Deal even when the ballot box failed. LEGAL POWER SHIFTS The recent elevation of Stanley Reed to the High Tribunal onds the domination of the Conservative group, and is a shift in tho balance of gov ernmental power which ia far-reach ing. Consequently,, business men now realize that thoy must mak'j terms with the President or else seek to thwart him by arraying Congress against him. This may bo accom plished temporarily bat, in the long run, there can be little hope that tho people of tho country will turn conservative in their attitude toward high finance and big business. NEW DEAL WINS CASES Tho President's troublo in the Court began with his early legislat ive measures but since last February, when Mr. Roosevelt opened his at tack on the Supreme Court Conserv atives, the opposition lias lost one legal battle after another. Since the beginning of tho Court struggle, there has been consistent Court ap proval of New Deal laws—in fact, legal victories of the Administration have been exactly one hundred per cent. When tho Court declared the Wagner Labor Relations Act consti tutional, approved the Social Securi ty Aet and refused to upset the Se curity and Exchange Act and the power phase of the TVA and PWA. it wa s apparent that business had been completely defeated. Conse quently, industrial and financial leaders havo the alternative of ad justing themselves and their opera tions to the present situation or of seeking to defeat the Roosevelt pro gram at the polls. This latter course promises little or nothing in view of the trend shown in recent con gressional elections. SEEKS CO-OPERATION The President last week continued his series of conferences with lead ing business men of thai nation. As nearly as we can get it, the Chief Executive is sincerely anxious for business men to cooperat 0 with the Government but he does not intend to abandon reforms which, he feels, lmvo been endorsed by the voters of tho country in overwhelming fashion. In other words, the extent of the cooperation depends almost entirely upon the willingness of the business men to accept basic reforms and to contribute to tho settlement of evils in business practice. HOLDING COMPANIES This explains the President's state ment advocating tho abolition of all holding companies, whether in tho public utility or other fields, and whether they are top or intermediate concerns. It applies particularly to holding companies which control banks and operating utilities. The President asserted that holding com panies with $600,000,000 of assets can control $13,000,000,000 of utility (Please turn to page four) m ' " 1 1 1 i i "■ ■ 1 i m NOTICE 1 I Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and ad dress to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. f Name Town » State Route N0..„« - . SI.OO PER YE Aft Declare® Soak-The Rich Taxes Wont Work To Relieve Average Maa Rocky Mount, Jan. 25.—Governor' Hoey said tonight that new soak the-rich taxes probably would yield little income, and warned that the average citizen must expect to foot the bill for any increased govern mental servcie. "The intelligent citizen knows that neither the State nor national gov ernment can raiso any money ex cept by taxation, and whether di rect or indirect, it must be paid by the general public," the Govern or said in a speech, at a banquet of the Rocky Mount Chamber of Com merce. Many persona, the Chief Executive said, complain about the trend to ward centralization of government and, at the same time, demand larg er grants of money from the central government. "The taxes cannot all be raised by levying tribute on rich peoplo or large corporations," the Govern or asserted. "We aro taxing wealth in both State and nation rather heavily, and to. increase the taxes more woalil probably not produce any greatly increased amount of revenue—for we can easily reach the saturation point," he said. The public, Hoey continued, should decide whether the Federal govern ment should curtail its spending fio> that the budget may be balanced under' existing taxes, "or whether other forms of taxes should be lev ied to continue the spending and try to balance the budget at some future date." "The President very properly has asked what reductions the public will recommend," Hoey said. "I think it is up to tho to accept tho opportunity and in good faith offer suggestions for decreasing the na tional expenses, and specify the gov ernmental services that should be dispensed with. "Of even greater importance than balancing the budget, in my opinion, is the full restoration of confidence, and I wish to commend warmly the recent efforts of President Roose velt to unite business and govern ment in a definite forward move ment to end the recession and in-» crease employment with the full as surance that business is geared for i\ continuous and sustained advanco, with the sympathetic cooperation of government." 12,299 CASES OF SYPHILIS REPORTED j The Division of Epidemiology re ported lliat Charlotte topped other North Carolina cities during 1937 in reporting syphilis eases, listing 1,286 of the 12,21)9 reported from tho entire state. Larger cities led in cas es reported, the board said, as they are population centers and most of them have clinics. The Health Board emphasized the necessity of reporting syphilis cases last year more than ever before, the total number doubling the 6,08$ listed in 1936, tho 5,189 in 1935, and the 5,201 in 1934. Winston-Salem listed 1,190 cases, Asheville 674, Greensboro 634, Ra leigh 537 and Durham 530. Some reports were: Beautfort 135, Cabarrus 124, Columbus 217, Cravon 56 and New Bern 219, Cumberland 469, Franklin 130, Granville 109, Harnett 332, Moore 282, Nash 139, and Rocky Mount 2, New Hanover 40 and Wilmington 369, Pitt 359, Richmond 231, Robeson 256, Ruther ford 104, Surry 160, Vance 211, Wayne 60 anT Goldsboro 362.

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