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No. Cost
Educational 42 24
Hospitals 4 7
Public Buildings 8 6
6ower„ 11 18
Water Systems 17 7
Electric Power 1 3
Streets, etc 9 8
Engineering Structures 3 12
Flood Control, Water
Power, Reclamation .. 1 7
All Others 4 13
ALL Industry Shares.
A study of PWA spending during
the four years of its activities re
veals that nearly every line of in
dustry in the United States shared
in the money expended. The Bureau
of Labor Statistics Department est
imates that for every hour of labor
created on a public works project
undertaken by a non-Federal agency
there was 2.5 hours of work for thosa
engaged in supply and transporta- :
tion. Thus it was estimated that more
than 1,400,000,000 man-hours of labor
was required in mines, forests, fac
tories and on common carriers in '
addition to the 556 million man-hours '
of labor on tho sites of tho projects.. '
On Federal projects the figures are 1
said to be more convincing. 1
Pump-Priming Defended. *
Of course, tho PWA is part of tho
pump-priming enterprise. There is '
this to sa.v, however, about pump
priming. Some observers believo that
it would have put the country on a 1
permanent basis of prosperity before 1
if the government had not put brakes
on credit too quickly, if labor had 1
not attempted to get concessions too :
quickly and if capital and business
had not been greedy in overproduc- !
ing in an effort to get all off it
immediately. Certainly, any careful
student of the past will not find
that the facts conclusively condemn
pump-priming as a method of start
ing the nation along the path to
permanent recovery.
Wheat growers in Rockingham j
County are interested in the crop in-J
surance plan for wheat as explained |
nt the recent meeting in Staunton, j
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Teacher Morale
Held Chief Goal
Dr. Anderson Tells Ins'itute That
This Is Biggest Problem Of
System
Chapel Hill, June 17.—Th» most
important part of a well-rounded
public school educational program—
and the biggest problem—is main
tenance of morale of the teaching
corps, declared Dr. Homer W. An
derson, authority in public educa
tion and superintendent of the Oma
ha (Neb.) schools, at tonight's ses
sion of the Administrators Institute
at the university.
"Between the teacher and the
child there is a delicate relation
ship and thelloss s of morale on the
teacher's part will make for a loss
of confidence and interest in the
child," Dr. Anderson said.
Other speakers today were Dr.
Ilarl 11. Douglass, head of the uni
versity division of education, and
Prof. 11. J. Maaske of the Univer
sity department of educ-tion, who
led discussions on the advisability of
adding the twelfth grade to the
North Carolina public schools.
Dr. Anderson named three factors
which, he said, go toward main
taining high morale among teachers
—"knowledge that their work is
worth-while, security of tenure, al
ready provided by many states, and
adequate standards of 'living, with
salaries sufficient to stimulate teach
ers to do their bast."
An open forum was conducted by
Dr. Douglass and Professor Maaske,
•both of whom advocated the 12-
yea.r school system and addition
of the twelfth grade to the elemen
tary schools and not the high school.
Dr. Douglass said that "in the
South, the seventh-grade pupils are
studying the same subjects as the
eighth-grade pupils in the North
and- West, and consequently they
come out of the elementary schools
without a thorough mastery of the
i li-mentary subjects.
"A year added to the high schools
will not prepare young people bet
ter for college because a good fun-
I' damcntal education in the lower
grades is lacking," Dr. Douglass said.
| W. 11. Dpck of tho Green Creek
! community in Polk County has pur
| chased two blooded Grey Pereheron
I mares from which he expects to raise
his own workstoek.
THE ROCKY MOUNT HER ALP, ROCKY MQtTNT, NORTH CAROLINA
BIG PAY, PUBLIC SERVICE, SMALL PAY, RELIEF
(Continued from pa«e one;
by Mrs. Powell.
The wife of the mayor of Raleigh was for some time
on the ERA payroll at a good salary as a supervisor.
So was the wife of a former chairman of the board of
county commissioners, who is a reasonably wealthy
man.
Federal, state and county, relief offices employ wives
and daughters of high officials and t is apparently
the accepted thing.
Salaries of WPA administrators, supervisors, steno
graphers, ditch diggers, privy builders, sewing room
workers, etc., all come from the same source—the
billions of dollars appropriated for relief. Custom
has established a false rule that if the pay amounts
to a good salary it is government service; if the pay
is barely enough on which to subsist it is relief.
If Mrs. Powell had wnngled a job that paid her S2OO
a month or more she would have been honored and
banqueted and feted as a public official. Such honors
have been conferred upon the state welfare commis
sioner, who is the wife of a well-known citizen, and
upon the state director of the old PWA and ERA,
whose husband is a piominent and reputedly rich man.
Mr. Powell profesp.es surprise at his mother's con
nection with the sewing room, *nd says that if any
way can be found to get the money which she re
reived back into the public treasury he wiil pay it
back. That is a lot of bosh. If Mrs. Powell rendered
value in seams sewn for the pittance she received then
the gesture of refunding it is foolish. Besides, it would
set a bad precedent; for if solicitors, mayors, com
missioners of labor, members of the legislature, etc.,
have to refund money drawn from the public treasury
by their immediate relatives there just will not be room
at the wailing wall for them —and money lenders will
be stiampeded.
Perhaps the placing of Mrs. Betty G. Powell on the
sewing room roll at Oxford is hard to justify. Perhaps
the criticism leveled at Chairman Charlie is proper.
But why make such a hullaballoo about it, when the
payrolls of relief agencies are and have been all the
while packed with motihers, wives and daughters of
other officials? Is it really true that the man who
steals a dollar goes to jail, while the man who steals
a million goes to Congress? It is shameful to accept
from the government relief funds a pittance for honest
work, and honorable to draw from the same fund a
salary twice as large as the recipient could earn in
private industry?
This writer does not know Mrs. Powell. He professes
no love whatever for her son Charlie. But simple jus
tice revolts at the policy of holding up one person to
scorn and another to honor for doing exactly the same
thing.
Speaking of knowledge, the poet once advised his
readers to drink deep or touch not the spring. The
same advice applies to getting money from relief. Dig
deep and you'll be honored; dig up just what you
need and you'll be scorned.
Edgecombe Request
For Loan Is Denied
No Further Loans To Be Approv
ed By Commission Until Debt
Is Reduced
Tarboro, June, 22. —The Edge
combe county commissioners at a
special meeting Monday night found
their credit on borrowing was im
paired to the point that the com
missioners' signatures as indorser
was worthless for more loans from
the local government commission.
The commissioners had presented
a SO,OOO note which was to be used
for building a home economics
building at the high school this
summer for use next fall. The com-
I lnissionerg indorsed the paper and
the local government comission
sent the note back, saying they
would approve no more loans to
Edgecombe county or to any district
in the county until enough debt had
I' en retired to place the county
within the constitutional limitations
as required by the constitutional
amendment passed at the election in
November 1937.
Tn the same meeting, the commi
sionerg applied to PWA for a loan
f $."".7,1100 which would be used to
buy a lot 'or $7,000, and to put $50,-
000 into a new courthouse annex.
Under the plan of the PWA the
commissioners Would get an out
right grant of $25,650 and would
borrow at 4 per eent the balance of
$31,350. Frank Benton, of Wilson,
architect hired by the commissioners,
said $50,000 would build what is
needed for the commissioners and
their other county agencies now
ing housed for rents aggregating
I *3.000 annually.
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Bible School To
Begin Monday
>lt. Zion Baptist Church To Hold
Vacation Bible School For
Children
The Daily Vacation Bible school
of the Mt. Zion Baptist church, col-1
ored, which is located on West
Thomas street, will begin on Mon
day morning, June 27 and continue j
through July 8, according to the pas
tor, Rev. S. F, Daly, who will act
as principal of the school.
Classes will open at 9:30 o'clock
and end at 12:30 o'clock.
The school is open to all children;
of the city between four and 17
years of age. There will be no
charges or book fees, it has been an
nounced.
The faculty for the school will be
as follows:
Rev. S. F. Daly, principal ;• Miss
Mabel Wells, general secretary;
Mrs. Teena M. Grimes, assistant sec
retary; Miss Mary Mclntyre, music.
Beginners department—Mrs. Zen
obia Thomas and Mrs. Mary Wim
berley; Primary department—Mrs.
O. C. Pope and Miss Jessie Merritt;
Junior department—Mrs. J. L. Daly
, and Miss Mable Coot; Intermediate
t department—Professor Alexander
Smith and Miss Wilma Levister;
[ handwork, Professor 8. L. Dudley;
1 guest speakers to the juniors and in
, termediates Miss Onelia Davis, Sum
, mer Deitz, and Mrs. S. L. Dudley,
i R. N. Personal Hygiene.
I Children are asked to register at
• the church on Friday morning, June
; 24, at 11 o'clock. The faculty will
meet at 10 o'clock.
Johnston Officials
mi
Dismissed
State Election Board Directs Ballot
Inquiry. Hearing On Young's Ap-
Peal Set For 13th Of July
I A recount of ballots in all of
| Johnston county's 19 percincts, con
j ducted here Wednesday and Thurs
day by the county board of elec
tions under supervision of the state
board, last night resulted in the
declaration of E. J. Wellons as the
Democratic nominee for the state
senate instead of J. B. Benton who
had previously been certified as the
winner.
The county board rescinded its
original certification after the re
count showed Wellons with 4,932
votes and Benton with 4,858 votes,
a majority of 74 in favor of Wellons.
"Official" returns canvassed by the
county board on June 7 gave Ben
ton 4,928 and Wellons 4,905, or a
23-vote majority for Benton.
The recount was ordered by the
state board of elections after a hear
ing in Raleigh Tuesday when Wel
lons appealed from a decision of the
Johnston county board dismissing
his protest of the "official" returns
certified from WildeTS township,
where Wellons claimed a manipula
tion of votes had put Benton in the
lead.
LINDBERGS HAVE MOVED
TO NEW FRENCH HOME
It would appear that Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh and wife have defi
nitely decided to never again re
turn to the United States to live.
The past week the famous flyer and
his family moved into their new
home on remote Bliec island off the
coast of Great Britain, which is un
der French rule.
After quitting Long, Barn, their
Kentish home in England for two
and one-half years, they crossed the
English channel Thursday to thel
northwest coast of France.
Residents along the coast said|
the colonel, his wife, and their two (
sons, Jon and Land, were installed
on the rocky isle they purchased laatj
April.
Iliiee island is only large enough
to accomodate its castle, formerly
the home of Mine. Adelina Patti, An
glo-Italian singer.
island in April, the title passing
island in Apri.l the title passing!
from two French brothers, Norbert'
and Roger Lafont, to a corporationj
headed by Mrs. Alexis Carrell, wife
of the American scieaiijt with whom
Lindbergh developed th_ "mechanical
| I.iart."
Mrs. Carrell is a Fiviicli citizen.
Fiench law proliib.s the sale of
'Strategic military or naval terri
tory'' to a goreigner.
—
PotaTomato
Wilson, Jun e 22. J. F. Sikes, Wil
son County farmer of Elm City,
route tyro, is no Luther Burbank'
and probably never heard of the
famed Califomian, but ho brought
something to town yesterday that
would have interested the late nat
uralist beyond his widest hopes.
Sikes brought a potato plant in
to town that had irish potatoes
growing on the bottom of it and to
matoes growing on the vine atop
the plant. Hikes said that there had
been no attempt on his part to graft
the tomatoes and potatoes together
on ono plant and that they "had
just grown" on the plant. He said
that lie not only had one such plant
but that he had several and that
lie was planning to save the seed on
the tomatoes and grow them again
and see what would happen.
HEADS CHAPEL HILL DORM.
I
Eva Lee of Rocky Mount has been
named president of one of the
eight women's dormitories at the
University of North Carolina for
the summer school session, it was
announced here in a dispatch from
Chapel Hill.
Miss Lee is president of Old West
dormitory, of wheli Paul ana Cooper
of China Grove is social chairman.
Presidents and social chairman of
the other women's dormitories are:
Old East: Nell Cobb, Raleigh, and
Lillian Hogan, Roanoke, Va.; Steele:
Louise Hunter, Liberty, and Alice
Pugli, Richmond, Va.; Grimes: Mat-!
tie McsGinnis, Hamlet, and Char
lotte Hill, Kinston; Manly: Mildred
Long, Batesburg, S. C., and Ruth
Goodman, High Point; Spencer. Vir
ginia Bower, Lexington and Vir
ginia Eagles, Birmingham, Ala.; New
Dormitory: Edith Setzer, Hickory,
and Eleanor Hall, New Bern; Ar
cher House: Elizabeth Suddarth,
Chattanooga, Tenn., and Elizabeth
Huntley, Beaufort.
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OF
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$6.98
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Sale Price
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