The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5, NO. 13
ONLY TWO CONTESTS IN
SIGHT FOR CITY ELECTIONS
With the city elections only ono
month distant, only two contests
for offices to be voted on at that
time have developed, those beintf (
for positions in the city recorder's
court. The seven aldermen whoie
terms expire are up for re-election,'
but none oi them lias announced
opposition as yet.
In the recorder's court race, S. I.
Arrington and Jack Murchison, local
attorneys, have announced as can
didates for the offices of judge and
solicitor, respectively; whil© Judge
Ben H. Thomas and Solicitor H. Lyn
wood Elmore are candidates to suc-J
ceed themselves. I
First to file notice in the forth
coming election was Jack Murchison,
who announced aa candidate forj so
licitor two weeks ago. He has been
engaged in law practice hero for two
/ yearß, having received his law
license in 1936 after graduating
from Wake Forest College. Mr.
* Murchison is a member of the Ju
nior Chamber of Commerce and Pha
lanx fraternity, and served as chair
man of the Rocky Mount-Nash Co
unty Red Cross roll call conducted
last fall. ,
Mr. Arrington, who announced last
■week, is an attorney of long stand
ing in the community and now hold
t'ne office of vice-recorder. He is
an alumnus of the University of
North Carolina and Wake Forest
College.
Registration books will be open
from April 15 through April 23, it
has been announced, and the pri
mary election will be held April 29.
Lucas Addresses
Ahepa Gathering
Greek Group Celebrates Independ
ence Day At Wilson Meeting
Wilson, March 23.—"The irresist
able idea of free institutions, the
impelling dynamic of scientific in
quiry, and an appreciation of the
fine arts as handmaidens of prog
ress are the imperishable contribu
tions of your forebears to the rise
of civilization," Silas Lucas, Wilson
County solicitor, told a large gath
ering of members of the American
Hellenic Educational Progressive As
sociation here this afternoon as
some 500 Greek-Americans of Eastern
Carolina gathered here to celebrate
Greek Independence Day.
Ahepas from Raleigh, Greensboro,
Wilson, Durham, Chapel Hill, Rocky
Mount, iKinston, Farmville, Eliza
beth City, Goldsboro and Farmville
met here today for a. meeting this
afternoon and a giant ball at tho
Cherry Hotel tonight.
At this afternoon's meeting sever
al prominent speakers extolled ths
beauty and greatness that was
Greece. Among them was Judge O.
P. Dickerson of the county court
here, and Socrates Gliarmis of Wil
son, past president of tho local
Ahepa chapter. '
Thomas P. Surlos of Rocky Mount,
president of the local chapter which
acted as host today, presided over
the ceremonies while Thomas K.
Zrakas, State Officer of Ahepa in
troduced the dignitaries.
dancing to, tho music> of
Paul Moore and his Raleigh orches
tra, some 500 dancers tripped tho
light fantastic at the Cherrp Hotel
at the annual independence ball of
tho organization.
Speaking of the independence of
the Greek nation Solicitor Lucas told
the gathering that "117 years ago
the' {fVek people dedicated themselv
es to The vindication of their nation
al integrity and the faith of the»r
fathers. Fired with the fever of
those valiant veterans and inspired
by the sign of the Cross, they
launched that memorable crusade
against the iron heeled voluptuaries
who desecrated their homes and
their altars for generations."
Shirley Wins
London, March 22.—Shirley Tem
ple of the movieß has been awarded
SIO,OOO in public settlement of a li
bel action based on an article which
appeared Oct. 28, 1937, in ''Night and
Day" a London journal which has
since discontinued publication.
ZFIRD MOVES
i TO NEW STORE
Bfird's Department Store whica
has been located in one of the to
bacco warehouses on Washington
Street for the past several monthi
pending repair and complete reno
vation of their store on W. Main
St. moved back into the main storo
Friday morning. The store is new
nnd complete throughout from top
to bottom. One of the most mod
ern in the State and they are ready
to receive their old friends and cus
tomers in the same old style at thu
same etand.
State Leaf Sales
577,632,891 Lbs.
Winston-Salem Led Old Bright Belt
With A Poundage Of 45,141,489
—Wilson Leader In Carolina
According to the final report of
the chief statistician of the state
department of agriculture North Car
olina growers sold their 1937 tobacco
for $141,056045, an increase of $40,-
924,039 over returns from the 193*5
crop.
The 1937 average was $1.50 moro
per one hundred pounds than in
1936. Growers sold 577,623,891 jpounds
last year, compared with 437,552,-
728 pounds in 1936.
All sales, including dealers' and
warehouse resales, totaled 643,253,-
217 pounds and averaged $24.07,
compared with 489,400,476 pounds in
1936 at an average of $22.48.
Total producers' sales and aver
ages by belts for 1937 were listed
as follows:
Old bright belt: 192,771,381 pounds
for $45,145,369, an average --of $23.-
42, compared to $22.65 in 1936.
New Bright belt: 290,031,750
pounds for $74,738,140, averaging
$25.77 compared with $23.20 in 1936.
Border belt: 89,695,756 pounds for
$20,076,909 averaging $22,38 compar
ed with $21,72 in 1936.
The Asheville market sold 5,125,-
004 pounds of burley tobacco for
$1,096,427 or an average of $21.39
per 100 pounds, compared with $38.-
82 received last season.
The official summary revealed th?
Wilson market led the state in pro
ducers' sales with 67,936,190 pounds;
Greenville was second with 55,422,-
210 and Kinston third with 46,390,-
024 pounds.
Leaders in producers' tobacco sales
by belts were:
Old bright belt; Winston-Salem
first with 45,141,489 pounds; Dur
ham second with 40,590,412; Oxford
third with 24,125,048.
New Bright belt: Wilson Hirst;
Greenville second; Kinston third.
South Carolina belt: Fairmont
first with 36,658,733 pounds; Lutn
berton second with 24,333,578;
Whiteville third with 16,735,544.
Leaders in average prices by
belts were:
Old Bright belt: Durham first, av
eraging $25.64; Fuquay Springs sec
ond, averaging $25.50; Henderson
third, averaging $25.37.
New Bright belt: Farmville first,
averaging $26.17; Robersonville sec
ond, $26.12; Greenville third, $25.98.
South Carolina Chadbourn
first, averaging $24.05; Fairmont
second, $23.11; Fair Bluff third,
$22.99.
Campaign Manager
Oxford, Mar. 26.—Frank Hancock
announced from Oxford tonight that
William Delvin, Jr., of Hickory, will
manage his campaign for United
States Senate.
FAMILY AFFAIR
In 1929, David Beaulc, of Sabat
tns, Me., married Bertha Rancourt.
Next year, his brother Godfrey mar
ried her sister, Mary Ann. By 1934,
the two remaining Beaule boys had
married the two remaining Rancourt
girls. Finally, Napoleon Beaule, fa
ther of the boys, married Mrs. Ran
court, mother of tho girls. Then all
10 Beaules went to New York for a
honymoon.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938
Judge Is Winner
In Church Gamble
The fact that a. Cincinnati, Ohio,
jurist recently won SI,OOO at .1
church bingo party, and a city detec
tive won S3OO at another church
party, provoked the following com
ment: When it is a crime punish
able by arrest and fine for an ordi
nary citizen to wager a dollar on a
horse race, how much greater tli3
offense for a judge or a member oi
the detective force to indulge in such
practice!
Those observers who frown upon
gambling of any sort were of tho
opinion that there was something in
consistent in a judge, who sit s upon
a municipal court bench and tries
gambling cases, receiving SI,OOO as
a ga.mbling prize. The unfavorable
pubfiitfy aroused by the incident
caused' """he chief of police to issue
a notice requesting his officers and
detectives to resist temptation and
asking that ther families do like
wise.
The complaisant attitude of many
people toward the church gambling
practices is shown by a bill recent
ly introduced in a state legislature
making bingo illegal except in
churches. However, while no ban
has yet been placed on church bin
go parties in Cincinnati, "those in
the know" predict that this form of
gambling is doomed in that city.
In tho neighboring state of Ken
tucky, Governor Chandler vetoed a
measure passed by the state legis
lature that would make legal "bank
nights'' in connection with motion
picture shows.
And in Hot Springs, Ark., at the
Otaklawn Park raco track the pasc
week. Deputy Sheriff Charles Mc-
Nutt, of Little Rock, collected SO,-
002 on hi s $2 ticket and $444 on a
race selection with a ticket that cost
him $lO. This is- the second largest
daily pay-off in tho history of the
American racing gambling fraternity.
Old Age Claims
Paid Promptly
Lump-sum payments under the old
age insurance provisions of the So
cial Security Act are being paid
promptly to those eligible workers
who have reached 65 since January
1, 1037, and to the relatives or es
tates of such workers who have diea
since that time, according to George
N. Adams, Manager of the Rocky
Mount Field Office of the Social Se
curity Board.
"Persons who have reached age 63.
and are eligible need not defer fil
ing their claims because they con
tinue to be employed," Mr. Adams
said, "as sueh restriction will not be
enforced until commencement of tli2
monthly benefit payments in 1942."
Generally speaking, wives of de
ceased workers have a prior claim
on lump-sum payments due their
husbanf's estate. If no wife sur
vives, the children or parents are
generally" the preferred claimants.
The amSunt of the payments varies,
of course, since it is based on the
wage,;' corned in covered employ
ment from December 31, 1936, up to
th e date of the employee's death
or tho date that he attained age
65. The average amount of the
lump-sum payments throughout the
country at the present time, how
ever, is approximately $35, although
this figure is increasing steadily.
ifany persons who are eligible for
lump-sum payments have not yei;
filed claims. Social Security Board
Field Offices are located throughouc
tho country for the convenience of
such persons in obtaining informa
tion and assistance with regard to
claims and other matters pertaining
to the old-age insurance provisions
of the Social Security Act. Persons
who believe they are eligible to file
claims should apply at their nearest
Social Security Board Field Office.
It will be very helpful if they
know the account numbers under
which they believe claims are due
them, as this will enable the Board
to pay claims moro promptly, Mr.
Adams said. Social Security accounts
represent each when claims are due.
Bill Conley turned in the best
farm record book in Mitchell Co
unty, says Frank Woodard, assistant
agent. Mr. Conley makes his living
entirely from his farm. He had an
average investment of $4,988 on
which he earned 15.5 per cent inter
eat last year.
Chicago Cubs Pitcher Hits Stride
fe- -.'l rn. ill H! Jr *i
Robert D. Logan, who joined the Cubs the latter part of the 1937
season, as he gets ready to let one of his "hot" pitches go burning towards
the home plate, inder the watchful eye of Charlie Grimm, team man
ager, during the initial workout of the Cubs who are In spring training
at Catalina island.
Dr. Poteat 01 Education
Di. Hubert Poteat, professor of Wake Forest College,
addressed the Current Topics Club here and is recorded as
having stated that he believes that school children are
not as well educated as a quarter of a century ago. Now
this is a terrible indictment for we have been going to
school two or three times longer than 25 years ago
and our teachers are all graduates of colleges and most of
them carrying a degree.
He does not seem to blame the child and he does not
place the blame on the teacher but he places the blame on
the methods of instructions which have been regimented
out of a central set up and the sad part of it, he proceeds
to prove his case. H e does not just make the statement but
he proceeds with the proof and puts his finger on the ten
der spots. Dr. Durrell of Boston University issued a state
ment some time back that children could not read and spell
because they were never taught their letters when they
begin school. This problem may be responsible for the
whole sittation. We are giving a smattering of every
thing and are not thorough in anything. The Doctor spoke
of the socalled psychology tests that are given to the
child before the seat had been assigned the child. The Doc
tor is absolutely correct in his statement what the schools
are weighted down by pedagogiel tinkering. We have
knowledge of a child who went to school and his mother ask
ed him. which room he was placed in. He said he did not
know that the teacher had given liim a psychology test and
that he did not know what his grade was on that. Isn't
this ridiculous? Something sent out of Raleigh requires a
teacher to give a test called psychology before she had even
recorded the child's name. Dr. Poteat is right and the pub
lic is indebted to him for his frankness in speaking out.
The question on these so called psychology tests are
something like this "Which end of the dog is the tail on?"
BAILEYS PLAN FOR RECOVERY IS THE OLD HOOVER
PLAN
Senator Bailey managed to find time to travel to New
York and spoke before the American Academy of Politi
cal Science, giving his remedy for permanent recovery to
wit:
"First: Abandonment of government policies tending to
"impair incentive."
Second: Elimination of the undivided profits taxv.and the
present form of the capital gains taxes. y »
Third: Abandonment of "the policy of government com
petition with private enterprise."
Fourth: A balanced budget.
Fifth: "A just law was between management and work
ers," and that is no law.
Sixth: Encouragement of increased production of annu
al wealth instead of reducing production "to induce scar
city."
Senator Bailey then stated that no small degree of dif
ficulty lies too much concern on the part of the govern
ment in economic affairs. Now if the government is not
concerned with economic affairs what should it be concern
ed with? Economic affairs deal with the livlihood of ev
ery family in the country. Yet Senator Bailey thinks that
this should not be Qf any concern to the government.
Some weeks back Senator Bailey complained because our
paper stated that he believed in the "law of the jungles"
the survivel of the strongest against the weak. The Sene
tor denied this and yet he goes to New York and makes
the above speech that is the law of the jungles.
Senator Glass, of Virginia, has opposed the new deal all
along he has opposed the government helping the individ
ual. Bailey and Glass have been somewhat together all
along, of course, Bailey has been worse than Glass in his
opposition to the President. Bailey's program is Hoover's
program. We have already tried Hoover's program for 4
years and we wer e ditched and damned during the four
years and yet Bailey would have us go back to this. Bai
ley talks one thing in Washington and New York and an
other in North Carolina.
'THE BALANCED STATE"
There was a small group in North Carolina that wanted
to put on the automobile tags of 1939 "The Balanced
State." Using the words of President Roosevelt when he
spoke of North Carolina as the "Balanced State." The Pres
(Please turn ti page two)
POTEAT FLAYS
MACHINERY
BURGESS IS
HEADOFDRYS
Raleigh Man Named To Succeed Late
Dr. Poteat At State Convention
Held At Greensboro
I Tlio United Dry Forces of North
Carolina met in Greensboro last Fri
day and Cale K. Burgees,
Raleigh, to succeed the late Dr. Wil
liam Louis Poteat as president of tho
organization.
Other officers chosen included.
John A. Oates, Fayetteville, first
vice president; Mrs. T. H. Plem
mons, Charlotte, second vice presi
dent; Judge Johnson J. Hayes,
Greensboro, third vice president;
Dr. W. W. Peele, Greensboro, fourth
vice president; Miss Vera L. Her
ring, Raleigh, secretary, and W. F.
Marshall, Raleigh, treasurer.
Resolutions adopted asked for a
state referendum on the liquor is
sue, condemned what was termed an
effort of the whiskey interests to
displace textbooks on alcoholism now
used in the public schools, and ask
ed the churches for more support
in electing prohobitionists to the
general assembly.
Another resolution asked the state
board of control to prohibit liquor
advertising in North Carolina pub
lications.
Pressly Submits
Trustees Report
Peace Junior College Seeks To Sta
bilize Finances With SIOO,OOO En
dowment
Dr. W, C. Pressly, president ov
Peace Junior College told the board
of trustees, meeting for itg annual
session, that the college's old float
ing debt had been paid in full, and
plans were now under way to raise
SIOO,OOO endowment to stabilize the
school finances.
Mrs. George Avinger, president of
the Peace Alumnae Association of
Laurinburg reported that the alum
nae had responded with $1,200 cash
contributions during the recent
"Loyalty Week" alumnae drive. The
goal of the alumnae association is
$2,000, all of which will be placed
in the college endowment fund.
Dr. Pressly who is rounding out
his 12th year as president, reported
that the school enrollment was tne
largest in its history, 294 students,
more than 235 are enrolled in col
lege courses.
The trustees discussed, general
school plans for the year 1935-3S),
and Karl G. Hudson of Raleigh was
named chairman of a school execu
tive committee to find ways and
means of raiding the remaining en
dowment amount.
Trustees present at the meeting
were . Chairman Hudson of Raleigh ;
Mrs. Avinger of Laurinburg, Mrs. C.
C. McAllister of Fayetteville, Mrs.
B. R. Lacy of Raleigh, and Mrs.
Robert Wyatt of Raleigh; the Rev.
Dr. Harry Whitmore of Wilmington,
Rev. W. M. Baker of Mebane, J. M.
Baird of Oxford, Rev. Georg 0 Mac
this of Durham, the Rev. Dr. R. A.
White of Mooresville, Rev. James A.
Jones of Henderson; H. H. Littrell
of Rocky Mount, R. W. Dunn of Ra
leigh, B. W. Kilgore of Raleigh and
the Rov. Dr. P. D. Miller of Raleigh.
Washington County sheep growers
have a good crop ''of early lambs
now running on small grain. Many
of the lambs ar© being creep fed
and are showing good flesh.
Orango County farmers planted an
additional 150 fruit trees in home
orchards last week.
NOTICE
Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky IfouMl
Herald m. > so by sending SI.OO with name and ad
dress to Tbi ..ocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. €.
Name
Town , Stat© ftouW No
SI.OO PER Y&m
EDUCATIONAL
AND METHODS
Youth Of College Age Are Not So
Well Educated AH 25 Years Ago,
He States
"Our young men and young wom
en of high school age today are
nothing like so wll ducated as they
were 25 years ago," declared Dr.
Hubert Poteat, head of the Latiu
department at Wako Forest College,
addressing the Current Topics duV
on the club's annual ladies night
program last night.
The dinner meeting in the Y.
C. A. last night, at which the ladies
wer 0 guests for a program of danc
ing 'and singing entertainment and
Dr. Poteat's address, concluded the
Current Topics- club meetings until
October.
Stating his topic was "An Educa
tional Credo," Dr. Poteat began hia
remarks: "You hear 5. lot about pro
gressive educators. Tonight lam
going to be a retrogressive educatolr,
if you like."
The Wake Forest classics profes
sor charged full tilt into the theory
of determining school children's fu
ture careers by mental tests and
questionnaires, relating with fine
scorn that some ''educational ex
perts" tried giving mental teets to
babies 15 minutes after birth.
"What we are doing to our chil
dren today is to test them and mea
sure them and paw over them and
integrate their I. Q.'s and amuse
them. We haven't time to educate
them." Dr. Poteat declared indig
nantly.
For his expressed belief that
school children are not as well edu
cated as a quarter of a century ago,
the Latin professor laid the blame
to three things: pedagogical theor
ies and new bags of teaching tricks
that change every year, complica
tion of the machinery of education,
and the attempt to train students
for jobs.
"No one can estimate the damage
done to the minds and souls of chil
dren by pedagogical tinkering," Dr.
Poteat charged on the first point.
"The child is now a guinea pig in
a low comedy laboratory, and thero
is no end to the indignities that may
be heaped upon him."
Assailing tho "left-wing" educa
tors who say that the traditional
"mental discipline" courses 'like La
tin, Greek and geometry) do noft
increase a student's mental power on
practical problems, Dr. Poteat callel
that idea "bunk."
Again and again the Wake Forest
Latin professor blasted broadside at
what lie called "the cogs nd levers
and cams and ga/lgct* of the incred
ibly multiplying machinery of edu
cation." The machinery of education
is under going "the most unreason
ably and disproprtionate increase,"
he said, and is becoming complica
ted by "miles upon miles of the red
dest of red tape."
Dr. Poteat offered as an illustra
tion of the educational machinery
the "loud insistence for numbers of
courses in methods of teaching."
When an applicant is being consid
ered as a prospective French teach
er now, he said, the question too of
ten is not "Does s he know French?"
but rather "How many courses in
teaching methods does she have?"
Flaying the "absurdity" of empha
sis on .teaching methods, the educa
tor said, "I wouldn't swap thorough
knowledge of the subject for all the
teaching methods in alf the courses."
He blamed the "machinery" also
for suppressing personality behind
the teacher's desk, commenting:
"When you take out of education the
porsonal tou»h of student and teach
er, you have taken out of education
its life and soul."
Dr. Poteat swung out vigorously
against the elective system and
(Ploase turn to page four)