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PAGE TWO The Rocky Mount Herald Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Oftro lu, by the Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company TED J. GREEN News Editor and Manager M. BULLUCK • Assistant Editor fetored as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at the post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina under the Act of March 3, 1879 BAacription Kates: One Year, |1.00; 6 Months, 60a Publication Office: Second Floor Daniels Building, Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina Advertising rates reasonable, and furnished to pros pective advertiuerg on request SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT Commonwealth Citizens of Enfield and Scotland Neck should read carefully the report of the coun ty health department on the prevalence of typhoid in the county. This report shows that out of 24 cases of typhoid which have been reported this year, ten were at En field and nine at Scotland Neck. Typhoid fever is a disease which can be controlled if citizens give their cooperation. Proper sanitation is the first step toward removing the menace, but the report indi cates that even sanitation has been neglect ed by some citizens. Then there is the nno culation method of protection, and those who fail to guard themselves in this easy manner are certainly neglectful of their own welfare, to say the least. It is the duty of every citizen to make every effort in the public interest to pre vent the spread of disease. Those who re fuse or neglect to do this should be driven to action by the force of aroused public opinion, for he who neglects measures to prevent this disease is not only a threat to himself but a threat to all citizens. NO ORANGE LIQUOR STORES Orange county voted by a large against having liquor stores. With North Carolina's state university located in Or ange, the election had more than a local in terest. People in every part of the state were interested in the outcome, and many Farm Conditions Seem Improved' Index Seen in Acceleration in Col lection of Rocky Mount Credit Group Although Easter ' (Carolina farm income probably will not hit a n»w high this season farmers in this section seem to bo in good finan eii l condition, John C. Vick, secre tary treaaurer of the Rocky Mount Production Credit Association ob- today. He based his observation on a healthy acceleration i;'the payments of farm loans this year, as compar ed with last year. Farmers have paid back to the association this year about twice as many loans as they had at the same time last year, Vick said. The fig ! ROCKY MOUNT * * * | The Trading and + I Of Eastern I | HOME OF j The DEPENDABLE TOBACCO MARKET ' , Bank With | The Planters National Bank \ And Trust Company | MEMBERS: Federal Reserve System, £ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are glad that, the voters of Orange decided I against liquor stores. Whiskey may be avail able to those who know the ropes in "dry" Orange, but it will not be the tempation to college students that liquor stores would be, and it was because of this that many out side the county have been concerned over the Orange county election. EXTRA CURRICULUM U. N. C. Tar Heel Topic Chapel Hill This issue describes what is usually call ed the extra-curricular side of student ex perience at Carolina. Sometimes this has been referred to as the "side-show aspect of education, and scholars have been jeal ous of student interest in the "extra curri culum." There may well be a broader con cepton of the curriculum and a more vital conception of education. Chapman and Counts in an early text have the following preface: "Greeting his pupils, the master asked: 'What would you learn of me?' And the reply came: I 'How shall we care for our bodies ? 'How shall we rear our children? 'How shall we "work together ? 'How shall we live with our fellowmen? 'How shall we play? 'For what ends shall we live? . . .' And the teacher pondered these words, and sorrow was in his heart, for his own learning touched not these things." Surely this is a reasonable request for pu pils to make of the school. From that more general point of view the curriculum in gen eral would be composed of four essentials; First, the subject matter of formal course; second, the influence of the personalities of the faculty and \ staff of the institution; third, the voluntary activities of the stu dents; and fourth, the impact on the stu-i dent of the total University community andj environment. What your son actually gets as an educa tion is not the list of credits or a degree, but the total changes made in his growth by the total curriculum. This University believes in the education al value of what students do with and for each other, and what they absorb from "the spirit of the place." Much of the distinction of this institution lies in the richness, de mocracy, and vitality of the "extra curricu lum." ures, including loans paid through Monday, were $49,000 for 1938 com pared with $25,000 through Septem ber 12 of last year. The loans paid through Monday amounted to 10 per cent of total loans outstanding. At the same date last year, payments amounted to 6 per cent. Loans amount to about $500,000. "Collections will be good in Ed gecombe and Wilson counties," Vk-k predicted for this fall. "Some loans may have to be carried over in Nash. There is a bad section near Bailey where rain and hail did a lot of damage. Of course, that'ij not the fault of the' farmers." About the condition of the to bacco farmer, which in this section means practically every farmer, Vick announced. "They won't have as much left over this year as they did last year, on account of the short crop." All farmers and farm leaders in the three nearby counties, director:) of the association, are Dr. S. E THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA Crocker of Stantonsburg, preside.ir, W. P. Woodruff of Nashville, vino preside- tt, M. F. Morgan of Bailey, S. R. Jenkins of Pinetops and C. B. Walton of Wilson. The Rocky Mount Association is accumulating a reserve with which it hopes some day, Vick disclose i by the federal government. Then to retire $150,000 capital stock heid rowers, who get voting stock as a the association will belong to bor part of each loan they receive. TO PURCHASE BUTTER The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporatio?' has been authorized to purchase 70,000,000 pounds of but-, ter from the Dairy Products Mar keting Association, producer coope rative organization, for distribution through State relief agencies. Hopkirs criticizes Workers Alii ance as soliciting political fund from persoas needing relief. By Hugo Sims, Special Washington Correspondent STUDY OF FAMILY INCOMES DISCLOSES "LOWER THIRD" AVERAGES $471 A YEAR An interesting study of the aver age family income ig to be found in the report of the National R t . sources Committee, recently submit ted to the President. The survey shows that during 1935-36 there were 106,000,000 Ameri cang livi'tg in 29,400,300 family groupg and 10,000,000 men and wo men lodging in rooming houßee and hotels, living as lodgers or servantg in private homes or maintaining in dependent livir g quarters as one person families. Income Levels The family groups which compos ed ninety-one per cent of the total consumers in the nation, show a wide variety of income levels. It was found that 14 per cent, of all fami lies received less than $."00 during the year; 42 per cent, received less than $1,000; 65 per cent, less than $1,500; and 87 per cent, less than $2,500. Above the $2,500 level ten per cent receive dup to $5,000, two per cent, received between $5,000 and SIO,OOO, and o - ly one per cent hid incomes of SIO,OOO or more. These figures apply to the family groups with out regard to the number of persons in each group. The reader should understand tlia the estimates of income distribu tion are based directly on data ou family incomes secured in a nation wide study conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in cooperation with the National Resources Com mittee and the Central Statistical Board The data studied covered some 300,000 American families and P small number of single men and wo men. The income for each family lr cludes that received from all soui cea, including the net earni- gs of different members, of profiits, divi dends, interest, and rents from pen sions, annuities and benefits, from the occupancy of owned homes, a rid —for rural families—from home grown food and other farm product used byl the family. Single .'lndividuals, . Single individuals, who constitute! nearly eight per cent, of the total population, received nineteen per cet. of the total consumer income Sixty-one per cent, of this group re ceived incomes of less than SI,OOO ninety-five per cent, received less than $2,000, and a little more than one per cent, received $5,000 or more. The report points out that the ei timated national income in 1936-33 was $59,0110,000,000. If this sum WHS evenly distributed among families and single individual consumers, it would have averaged, $1,622 for each fmily nd $1,151 for individual cou sunier units. Lower Third, $471. Dividing all consumer units into groups, the statistics show that the lower third, involving 19,000,000 fam ilies, and single individuals, receiv ed i: comes of less than S7BO. The share of the aggregate income re ceived by this lower third was just over ten per cent, and the average income of the 13,000,000 units was $471. Middle Third, $1,076. The next group, the middle third also includes $13,000,000 families aatl single individuals. These units re ceived from S7BO to $1,450 during the year, or an average income or" $1,078. The tital income of this mid die class was 24 per cent, of the ag gregate ?ational income. Upper third, 53,000. The upper third, the Inst 33,000,- 000 consumer units, had incomes ranging from $1,450 to more thai) $1,000,000. The average income of this group was just under $3,000 and the figures show that the too third of the nation received about 66 per cent, of the aggregate in come of all families. All Shareßelief It is surprising to note that among those in the lower third more than 9,000,000 utits received no assistance of any kind from a relief agency, although 4,000,000 families and sin gle individuals were dependent on relief for at least a part of th.> year. In the middle third only thir- ( teen per cent, or 1,700,000 eongum er unita, were dependent on relief at some time durifg the year. Ano ther surprise, it seems to us, is t"he showing that amd'ng the 13,000,000 units of the upper third, nearly twenty per cent, received some relief assistance. Of course, it sould be borne in mind, as stated above, that this group's income started at th» $1,450 level. New England at Top. The average i-tomee of families in five geographic regions, as shown by the sample data, taken for 1935- 36, is as follows: New England, sl,- 810, North Central, $1,796; South $1,326; Mountain and Plains, sl,- 363; Pacific, $1,775. The report points out that these averages are affected by the concentration of high incomes among families in large cities, rela tively more ' timeroue in the New England, North Central and Pacific states. It also says, "The averages for the South and for the Moun tain and Plains regions are weighted by a relatively large proportion of farm families." Negroes Lower. Negro families were sampled ex tensively to study the marked dis similarities between the income dis tribution of racial groups. It wis found, for example, that the average incomes of White and Negro fami lies (r'on-relief) was as follows: Southern rural communities, $1,535 and $506; Southern cities of 2,500 and over, $2,019 and $635; North Central cities of 100,000 and over, $2,016 and $1,227. In the comparison above, the average White family in come is first and the average Negro family income is the second figure. It will be seen from these figures that the income of non-relief White families was botwee - . two and three times thit of the Negro families. Observations. There are some other interesting observations to be found i?.' the table of incomes. For example, families and single individuals, or 5.38 per cent, of the units, were un der the $250 income level and re ceived only one-half of one per cent of the aggregate income. It is not until we come to the ir come level of $1,500 to $1,700 that we find that the units larger incomes than if the aggregate in come had been equally divided among all units. 1,000 to 1 Ratio. At the top of the income scale the one hundredth of one per cent, of the population received approxi mately one per rent of the ;tttional income. In other words, the 2,125,- 534 units at the bottom of the eco nomic scale received about half of the income enjoyed by the 5,387 units at the top of the scale. The j lower units were under $250 per! year and the upper units above SIOO -' 000, The ratio of the income level j per unit, was about 1 to 1,000. I. T. VALENTINE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW General Practice in Both State and Federal Coarta NASHVILLE, N. C. DR. R. L. SAVAGE Diseases EYE, EAR, NOSE AND TROAT GLASSES FITTED Office over Five Points Drug Store Rocky Mount, N. C. {fresh'fish! X afUUAL SEASUJN tor f ! Ocean View ! ! SPOTS I + Which We Receive Daily | % Call The I * BEAUFORT $ * And * I MOREHEAD * ! SEAFOOD ! + Phones 1610-1836 + t 157 Washington St. | t ROCKY MOUNT. N. C. ? +++++ ++ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1938. E, F. Prince, Route 4, Raleigh, re ports that six 50-yard rows of run ning butter beans, well fertilized and sprayed, will bring him more money than 2 1-2 acres of cotton. i SuperSolvenized PUROL-PEP Gasoline | NOW At REGULAR PRICES! AT ALL J PUROL ! SERVICE STATIONS i I I A PREMIUM GASOLINE —AT REGULAR PRICE ; J Distributed by «; IDAUGHTRIDGE! OIL COMPANY L**++++ +^++++++++++++++++ * ++++++ ++++ easiest?; xIMBICETC/ NMHKIIEISr \-£)cu/i/ Scuiurufitm \ Open Until 8:30 P. M. Friday 10:00 P. M. Saturday TOMATOES 3 to 2 Can 17c |C| I A °r Royal Degsert |A JCiLiLiV/ 4 Packages 1«/ C BABY FOOD " Hclnz 15c Mil Carnation or Pet or* ITIILIV 4 Tall Cans LOC SCHOOL SUPPLIES |j HONEY NUT , Tablets, Pencils, Ink | OLEOMARGARINE and Mucilage |l Reduced Prices 12c JEWEL 85c' CI OITD Pender's Self-rising or 77 rLUUiI Plain. 24 Lb. Bag /lC SALMON o'ifsl9 c SUGAR FAT BACK I 10 Lb. Bag Q 46C Pound POTATOES 14c ORANGES !S rnia 19c ONIONS I'S For 10c BREAD ,t: d ,"i:„ h a, J T'c OYSTERS g arjß 45c PICNIC'S Ib 21c mWVV Golden Blend II tU"rtL Double Fresh. Lb. 14C hwR'CjHT EGG OUTUJOK i improvement in the fal! and outlook for «gg produc ers iias beer' reported by C. F. Par rish, extension ponitrymaa jmt 9tat« College.
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