The Rocky Mount Herald
Volume 5, No. 29
DOWAGER QUEEN MARIE DIES
AT RUMANIAN CAPITAL
«...
Mjarie Helped Stoape Destiny Of
Her Country For Generation; 1
62 Ye£n Of Ace
STRICKEN WHILE ON TRIP
Bucharest, July 18. —Dowager
Queen Marie of Rumania, who help
ed shape the destiny of her coun
■ try for a generation, died today in
her sixty-third year.
The Queen Mother, famed for her
■beauty, died at her palace at Sinai,
the royal summer residence, at 6:25
P. M. (11:25 A. M. E. S. T.)
Prime Minister Miron Christea,
who also is patriarch of the Ruman
ian Orthodox church, celebrated
mass in the palace Immediately ar
ter her passing. Previously he had
administered extreme unction as
r death neared.
In Bucharest all public buildings
immediately displayed flags at half
staff.
Fear Expressed
The 62 year old queen, long suf
fering from stomach trouble, was
(•feared early today to be in dying
condition. Her physicians described
her condition as "very dangerous."
King Carol, Crown Pince Mihai
and Princess Elizabeth all were at
her bedside at Sinai, the royal sum
mer palace.
The physicians' bulletin said:
Physicians' Bulletin
"The state of health of Her Majes
jty is in very dangerous condition.
UEs morning she had a fresh, vio
lent hemorrhage.
''Her Majesty is very weak."
Queen Marie, 62 years old, who
I long has been ailing from stomach
i. disorders, suffered a relapse yeeter
» dify after her return to Sinai from
Dresden, Germany. She had spent
\ the past month under treatment at
Dresden.
i An official communique last night
i said the queen was suffering from
I "Liver disease and had a hemor
rtage" en route from Germany.
| j All visitors were barred from the
| palace and all her engagements can
k- celled for a month.
Visited U. S. In 1926
Her trip to the United States in
,• 1926, ostensibly to dedicate a mu
| seum of fine arts built near Seattle
t, by Samuel Hill, a former Red Cross
officer in Rumania, was credited
f with having been a factor in bring
ing America investments in Ruman
l ia up to more than $25,000,000 by
{ 1930.
I Out of the political picture there
after, Marie devoted herself to lit
erary work and charity. She was ee-
F, pecially active in child welfare and
I was instrumental in having the
* playgrounds of Bucharest improved
14. atad extended. Althought as she ad
mitted she sometimes spent 12 hours
a day at her writing, she was seen
frequently at the opera and main
tained a keen interest in the theatre
She and Carol long remained es
fe,: tjanged over his abandonment of
j his wife, former Princess Helen of
I Greece, for Mario had been largely
instrumntal in arranging that match,
I But the Rumanians saw hope of a re
!' conciliation between mother and son
£ when, in October, 1936, she kissed
f htm on the occasion of his 43rd
%, birthday.
N- Her health failed in 1937. An at
'l tack of grippe in March was compli
» cated by phlebitis and an internal
If hemorrhage. There was a recurrence
■ of the latter in June and again in
[ November. The third was so severe
[ that eight noted specialists were
1 summoned in consultation. Carol
cancelled a hunting trip to be near
W his mother and her daughters, Queen
I Marie of Yugaslavia and Archduch
ess Ileana, were summoned to Zo-
Castle.
yV -
j 'lt was a warm day, and a dull
1 case was being argued. The law
> y»rs made sp'Wcfess of interminable
I. • length and the Judge fell into a
I doze. ,
"But we must have water here,
' your honor," thundered the defend
ing lawyer, in such tones that the
judge came to.
"All right," he mumbled, hastily,
"but only a very little in mine."
•j Administration favors lifting arms
W embargo on Spain; end of neutral
\ ity scheme is likely.
If /
*Rep. Barton will seek wide study
of •'seven deadly sores" of present
L economic situation.
Edgecomb Tax Rate
Will Not Be Raised
Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County's
tax rate wil not be raised above the
$lO5 tax rate of ast year, it was
learned today from. County Com
misaioner C. Carlyle Ward of Roeky
Mount.
The commissioners have definitely
expressed their intention not to
raise the tax rate, he said, and as
yet foresee no emergencies that will
change their minds.
The Edgcombe commissioners will
take final action on the 1938-39
county budget at a meeting in Tar
boro at 10:30 o'clock Monday
morning, Commissioner Ward stat
ed.
Although the budget requests of
the county departments call for
more money than the $lO5 tax rate
would provide he commented: "The
requests will have to be hewn down
within the reach o>f the tax rate."
The Edgecombe commissioners
have also withdrawn their applica
tion for a $25,000 government grant
for a $56,400 courthouse annex,
Commissioner Ward revealed today.
The county has the money on hand
to put up for its share of the cost,
he said, but the commissioners have
decided against building the annex
for the reason the state of the
crops does not indicate a particu
larly prosperous year for the coun
ty.
CAROL, NICHOLAS GO
TO MASS AT SINAIA
Brothers Temporarily Reconciled By
Death of Mother, Queen Marie
Bucharest, July 20.—King Carol
and his younger brother, Nicholas,
reconciled at least temporarily by
the death of their mother, the Dow
ager Queen Marie, attended Mass
together today at Sinata with oth
er members of the royal family.
Nicholas, shorn of his title and in
exile since April 26, 1937, for mar
rying a commoner, was summoned
by the King yesterday to attend the
funeral. He was warned, however,
that he must leave Rumania imme
diately after the ceremonies Sunday.
The two brothers dined together
last night—their first meeting since
Nicholas was exiled.
Foreign delegations which will
come for the funeral include Prince
Regent Paul of Yugoslavia, the
Duke and Duchess of Kent, Field
Marshal Wilhelm Goering of Ger
many and a French military group.
Co-ed Writes H
Of Average Society
Chicago, July 17. —The average
society girl is an ignoramus whose
chief interest is men in general
and a good marriage in particular
—and what's more, gals, that's in
writing. j •
A petite University of Chicago co
ed, who has just won her master's
degree for her findings in, a thesis
called ''the social orientation of the
society girl," admitted today her
findings were harsh, but explained:
"Society girls mostly are snobs,
but realy it isn't their fault.
"They just don't know any bet
ter."
Thereupon, Miss Mary Elaine Og
den of Waterbury, Conn., who is
herself a comely eyeful, told how she
went about reaching her conclusions.
'"The society girl," she said, "is
a person who participates to the
fullest extent in three institutions:
The finishing school, the debut and
tho junior league."
Those are requisites. Even if a
girl does have family background
and sufficient wealth she does not
classify as a society girl unless she
does participate in those three.
The background, Miss Ogden be
lieves, ig laid in the "backward
ness' of select finishing schools,
which tend to make the society girl:
1. Overemphasize popularity with
! men.
2. Overemphasize her own im
portance.
3. Develop class consciousness.
4. Social accomplishments.
"The chances are," Mis Ogden
said, "that a better education ig
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938
Cleaning Tar
To Be Continued
River Snagging By Army Engi-|
neer 8 Will Extend From Tar. I
boro To Greenville ,
Tarboro, July 20.—The Tar Riv
er an&gging iproject will be continu
el to Greenville, according to Coun
ty Auditor M. L. Laughlin and
Congressman John H. Kerr.
The cost of the additional snag
ging for floor relief will be $75,-
000, and the money was raised with
a donation of $25,000 from the riv
ers and harbors fund and $50,000
from the Army Engineer's surplus.
The work will continue at once.
Resident Engineer Hamilton E.
Hicks, who conducted the work of
snagging the Tar River from Rocky
Mount to Tarboro, ha s announced
that as soon as some of the machin
ery is remodeled that the work will
go on.
The Tar River s nagging was a
$90,000 Army Engineer's floor con
trol job, using WPA help, and the
results were so satisfactory that the
chairman of the Edgecombe county
commissioners, Walter C. Hargrove, |
Commissioners Ben C. Mfeyo anjd
Sam Anderson and Auditor M. L.
Laughlin made a special trip to
Washington to get Congressman
John H. Kerr to help get the ad
ditionail appropriation for the work.
The commissioners contended that
unless the river was cleaned out
from Tarboro to Greenville that the
work from Rocky Mount to Tarboro
would be wasted. The engineers were
convinced.
The river from Greenville to
Washington is being dredged.
"HOLD ROBESON AND
SAVE THE STATE"
We find the following in Charity
and Children:
"Since childhood we have heard
I the expression, "Hold Robeson and
| save the state." Recently we learn-
I ed the purported origin of the ex
pression it seems that there was a
| close contest between the Demo
' oerats. Republicans, Negroes, Third
Party or something. All of the state
had been heard from except Robe
son. The vote was close. It was
known that the Democrats would
have to carry Robeson but the num
ber of votes needed to carry the
state was undetermined. The tele
gram was sent 'Hold Robeson and
save the state,' and was understood
to mean hold back your report un
til we know just how many votes
will be needed to carry the state
and then report that number. We,
of course, do not vouch for the
truth of the foregoing."
available to society's poor relations.
• "The coming out season which
follows finishing school is devoted
to a strenuous series of social af
fairs with the implicit purpose of
making a good marriage. Success of
the debut—which has to be arrang
ed by a professional social secre
tary—is gauged on the girl's popu
larity with men, the attention given
her in entertainments in her liono,
how many charitable functions
she is expec-ted to engage in."
Tlio pretty co-ed believes that the
junior league is justified by socie
ty in that it serves as a "conven
ient justification of the existence of
the elite and the interests of the
elite."
In short, Miss Ogden concludes
that the orientations of the society
girl grow up in an "archaic educa
tion which bears little relationship
to what goes on in the world, ro
mantic escape during the debut
year and membership in an organi
zation which prides itself on
aloofness to controversy."
And finally, in her survey of fin
ishing schools, Miss Ogden said she
found.
A school where all electrical ap
pliances, girls with braces on their
teeth, newspapers and magazines
are forbidden.
A school which places Special
stress on riding to the ' hounds,
(Tuition is $3,000.)
A fashionable Manhattan school
which publishes no catologue of
courses and no description of its
facilities.
Kiwanis and Rotary Get Real Chummy
Ik.-!* f /MffWli
Here's an enthusiastic greeting between top men In two great clubs.
Rotary International and Kiwanis International. Both organisations held
their conventions in San Francisco at the same time. Left, Maurice
Dnperry, Rotary president, plants » continental kiss on the blushing S.
TraSord Taylor, Kiwanis president.
Will Aldermen Handle Their
Private Business As They Handle
The City's Business ?
A representative of the Rocky Mount Herald about the
first of July called the city manager, Mr. Aycock, and
asked when the city would advertise its property for tax
sales, and requested that the Herald be given an opportun
ity to bid on the tax advertising printing and publication.
The city manager informed the Herald that he understood
that this matter was to be taken up at the Board's next
meeting. The representative then went around to the
office of the city manager and left a request in writing
that tjie Rocky Mount Herald be given an opportunity to
bid on this printing. At the next meeting of the Board
a representative of the Rocky Mount Herald appeared be
fore the Board of Aldermen and requested that the Rocky
Mount Herald be designated and given the city tax ad
vertising for the year 1938, since the afternoon paper, the
Evening Telegram owned by J. L. Horne, had been adver
tising the property for several years and the Herald had
not been given an opportunity to do any of this business.
The Board of Aldermen refused to pass on the request
but referred the matter to the finance committee which
the Board knew a majority had already voted. The Rocky
Mount Herald never heard any thing more about this mat
ter until many days thereafter. The Herald called the city
manager and the city manager stated that the Rocky
Mount Evening Telegram had been given the publication
and that the Rocky Mount Herald had been denied the
right to bid on this printing. The Rocky Mount Herald in
submitting its bid offered to mail every delinquent tax pay
er a copy of this tax advertising notice. Three years ago
the Herald requested the right to bid on the printing anil
was refused this right and the printing has been continu
ously given to the Rocky Mount Evening Telegram. Even
though the city banking business is rotated each year
from one bank to the other and the city insurance business
is divided up.
The Rocky Mount Herald has carried the whole tax
advertising for Edgecombe County two times upon a low
bid. At the time the Rocky>Mount Herald asked to bid in
Edgecombe, the county was paying 35 cents per parcel. The
Herald big 28 cents, the Evening Telegram and Tarboro
Southerner 35 cents. The next year the Board of Com
missions of Edgecombe County designated the Tarboro
Southerner and the Evening Telegram at the rate of 25c
per inch even though the Rocky Mount Herald bid 20
cents. The year 1937 the Rocky Mount Herald again bid
20 and asked to be given the contract and finally the con
tract was awarded to the Rocky Mount Herald at 20 cents
per parcel. This year, 1938, the Rocky Mount Herald bid
20 cents again, The Tarboro Southerner, 15 cents and the
Tarboro Southerner is carrying the county advertising at
15 cents per parcel where they formerly received 35 cents.
The City of Rocky Mount formerly paid as much as 35
cents per parcel, and th tax payers had to pay when the
advertising could have been secured for 20 cents per parcel
which would have been a saving of several hundred dol
lars to the city tax payers.
Now would the Board of Aldermen as individuals deal
ing with" their own private property have handled this item
of business in this selfish way when they couid have sav
ed severaTTiundred dollars? We do not believe there is a
citizen in itocky Mount including the Board of Aldermen
and Mr. Horne himself that would have paid several hun
dred dollars more for advertising in one paper when they
could have gotten the same service in another paper at
much reduced price. These are facts which we feel the
citizens of Rocky Mount are entitled to know. The muni
cipal business of Rocky Mount belongs to the people and
the board of Aldermen and officers of the town are the trus
tees of the people and the people are entitled to know
what their servants are doing. The foundation for Rocky
Mount prosperity was laid many years ago by men who
have passed on. They laid the foundation for the splendid
municipal ownership of public utilities which is coining
money for the City of Rocky Mount. This foundation was
laid many years before many of the Board of Aldermen
who now sit on the Board were there- We called attention
last week to the one sided way the City's legal business is
had. All of it going to one firm of lawyers who are broth
ers-in-law of the owners of the Evening Telegram.
The owners of the Rocky Mount Herald pay taxes on
more than 30,000 dollars worth of property and certainly
more than the Rocky Mount Evening Telegram.
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Son Is Born To
Roosevelts, Jr.
Seven Pound Boy Born Last Night
—President's Eighth Grandchild
Philadelphia, July 20—-It was a
boy today for Mr. and Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and the Pres
ident was a grandad again—for the
eighth time.
The seven pound boy was born
last night at the Philadelphia ly
ing-in hos|>ital to Mrs. Roosevelt,
the former Ethel DuPont, and
young Franklin 9 aid everyone was
"fine"—including himself.
"To my prejudiced eyee," said the
father as he announced the birth,
"it looks like a very beautiful ba
by."
The question oif a name remained
undecided.
Robison Declares
Church Has a Job
The church "has a job to do" as
long as there are people "in need,
and not getting a fair deal," the
Rev. Newton J. Robison declared at
Hillyer Memorial church.
"This church," he asserted, "tries
to be as devoted to injustice as the
Old Testament prophets. Those
-prophets taught that when people
are oppressed, the wrath of God is
upon those who do the oppressing."
Throughout his discourse on "The
church Aims High," the Rev. Mr.
Robison stressed the need for re
ligion to join in the fight to as-
I sure for all people a fair chance
|to obtain the good things in life,
physical as well as spiritual.
He centered his sermon on the
theme: "A religion as considerate
of persons as the teachings of Je
sus; a s devoted to justice as the
Old Testament prophets; as re
sponsive to truth as science; as
beautiful as art; as intimate as the
home; and as indispensable as the
air we breathe."
''The church sometimes is accused
of living in some kind of an ideal
world and being not at all practi
! ca\," said the minister. "It is a
difficult problem to keep its high
aims, yet stay practical enough to
accomplish them ....
"Jesus Christ was concerned
about the physical welfare of peo
ple. A number of times we have
presented the teaching that He was
concerned about the souls of men.
He was. But he spent more time
ministering to the needs of their
bodies. Whn they were tired and
hungry after an all-day meeting,
he fed them; when he found them
sick, he healed them.
"He iamo to seek and to save
those who were lost. And if you
and I are as considerate otf persons
as Jesus Christ, we shall be seek
ing to save those who are lost."
Moreover, he added, Christ saw
great -possibilities in every person,
110 matter how humble or import
| ant he might seem or how large or
small his accomplishments.
As for being "responsive to truth"
the Rev. Mr. Robison said: "All
I truth is God's whether it bo found
in the physical realm or any other.
. . . We would not say we're ex
actly afraid of the truth, but some
times we are not sure /when we
have found it. We have no right to
be swept away by this theory and
that, but when we know a thing is
true, it is our duty to accept it."
Making religion "indespensable as
the air we breathe" means taking
it into all phases of life and into
every hour of the day und night, he
continued. Speaking in generalities
usually i g dangerous, the pastor com
mented, but added:
"I have become convinced that re
ligion ig either something that in
cludes the whole of lift*, or it is
worthless."
A deaf mute is always ready to
take a hand in conversation.
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SI.OO PER YEAJi
Halifax Probing
Election Charges
Board Of Elections Plana Secoa4
Hearing Tomorrow Moraine;
Fraud la Charged
Weldon, July 20.—The Halifax
county boord of elections is sche
duled to hold a second meeting to*
morrow morning, continuing inves
tigation of charges of fraud in the
June primary. The fraud charges
wore brought by 31 petitioners.
At a hearing Monday, the board
decided to meet again tomorrow t*
examine absentee ballots and certi
ficates used in the primary. E. &
Clark, Weldon attorney represent
ing the petitioners, asked the board
at the hearing Monday for written
permiseion to examine the absentee
ballots and certificates, E. L. Travis
of Halifax, representing those wh«
denied the fraud charges, objects#
on the grounds that the paperg Sad
not been properly impounded ginct
the election.
L. A. Parks of Tillery testified
Monday charging that W. W. Deber
ry, F. M. Fitz-Patrick ( L, E, Turner,
and Josephine Turner voted in Coa
noconara precinct but were not re*
identa of the precinct.
J. R. Glasgow, former county ABO
superintendent and registrar at Lit
tleton during the recent primary,
testified that he allowed four Repub
licans to vote in the Littleton pre
cinct knowing them to be Republi
cans. He said that he thought it
legal after he ascertained they
would support the nominee.
Glasgow also testified that J. R.
Newsome, a resident of Warren
county, voted in the Littleton pre
cinct after voting in a Warren
county precinct.
Attorney Clark made a motion
that the votes of Weldon, Littleton
and Roanoke Rapids precincts num
ber one and four be recommended.
The motion was denied for the pres
' nt. . ...
I
Nash Youth Wins
In Essay Contest
Red Oak High School Student Tn
Compete In State Event
Raleigh, July, 20.—Selected a*
Eastern District winner from hun
dreds of contestants in 20 counties,
Horace Edward Moore of Rocky
Mount and a student of Red Oak
, High School, will -ompete here o l
Tuesday, July 2ti, with rhreti other
district winners t'or the State cham
pionship in the j Eleverotli An4iu| I
. Cooperative Essay Contest.
| Winner of the State final contest
: will be presented with a one-year
I college tuition scholarship and
| in cash. AM contestants this year
| wrote on either "The Kind of Far
mer I Intend To Be" or "The Kind
: of Fiirm Woman I Intend To Be."
Edward Winslow of Gates won sec
ond prize in the Eastern District
Contest, while James Revel of Con
way placed third and Neal Seegarg
of Belhaven placed fourth.
The Essay Contest is sponsored as
an educational project by the North
Carolina. Cotton Growers Cooperative
Association and the Farmers Coop
erative Exchange and the Carolina
Cooperator Publishing Company, and
during the past eleven years more
j than 45,000 essays have been writ
ten.
Included in the Eastern District
! are the following counties: Beaufort,
| Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan,
Craven, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe
Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford,
Hyde, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, North
ampton, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Per
quimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washij»ton
and Wilson.
Ashe County farmers pooled 2,-
549 pounds of wool the other day
and sold it for $019.29. Clear wool
brought 25 cents a pound and re
ject wool 20 cents.