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PAGE TWO The Rocky Mount Herald Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Caro- Vu, by the Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Companj Entered as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at the post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina under the Act of March 3, 1879 BcVscription Rates: One Year, $1.00; 6 TED J. GREEN News Editor and Manager M. BULLUCK Assistant Editor 4dvertising rates reasonable, and furnished to pros pective advertisers on request Pabliaation Office: Second Floor Daniels Building, Bocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina DOES HONESTY PAY? By Lovick P. Law in "Supreme Council." Standards of every kind around us, busi ness, social, spiritual, have in the last few years been breaking down. There is no use denying this fact. The fruits of this break down are to be see non every side today. Whether it is in politics, religion or socie ty, the question comes again and agam in a whisper to men running for public of fice, to men in business, to women in social channels/ Does it pay to be honest and play the game square? I am standing up in the open and say ing it absolutely does. Do you want to get your answer? Con sider the discredited public officials who have tasted of the forbidden fruit and have had to flee to other countries to escape pen alties, and see them when at last they returned to face the crowd. Do you think the price has been high? Look at the men on every side of us, in this busy whirling race today, and see them held up to ridi cule and scorn before that world that once bowed down to worship. Why? They did not play the game square and now pay day has come. A prominent man once said: "The man with the bill will always come," and that is true; he always comes sooner or later and you must pay. Pay day is sure to show up. Integrity bankd against hard days ahead and stores up a coin that the world cannot take away. Lowered stand ards and the idea that a man can get away with crooked deals and shady practices and come out on top is an exploded theory, even though some may argue otherwise. Human wrecks along life's highways, that lie bleaching in the sun, are mute evidence that to play the game square pays in the long run. Prosperity—financial, social, pol itical or otherwise—built upon the founda tional theory that all men are crooked so why not get something out of it yourself, ultimately will meet with disaster. To play the game square' with yourself and others means a clear conscience at night fall and a sweet pillow where your head will rest in peace and no raven will croak 011 your bedpost. , : : Do not lose your true sense of manhood The pathways of life are clutterup with broken men and women who thought they could get by with anything and found the avalanche swept upon them and carried them down. They are to be seen bowed heads, broken hearts, and shoulders droop ed, who once held their heads high and power flashed from their eyes, but now the old dash is gone. You do not have to look long to find out the answer for this change.! —I"- 1 ■ lIMES HAVE CHANGED — but we still have much to be thankful for Pilgrim fathers jfiSfi — gave thanks for the / A simple blessings nature had SbyJDLpjr if bestowed upon them. 1 1 \) ilvH et us to ° ve t^ian ' cs — F ♦SsLJI * f° r a greater peace, a greater TT V 1 plenty, and a greater promise V 1(l Jm °f future prosperity than 'sl!|fvk they ever knew. $ I 1 / Planters National Bank and Trust Company Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation They did not play the game square. There is a great call today for men of) strength and character who will not be swayed by popular currents when those cur rents are controlled by graft, greed and wrong. Keep your flag up and keep it fly ing high. Do not dip it to the crowd that would destroy your high idfeals and warp your soul. Thus to stand firm will mean that in the end you will find yourself upon the hill tops of life, breathing the ozone of honest effort, and you will be able to look the world in the face, unashamed. You have left your imprint upon humanity, in the right way, and more than that, you will be able to say when you near the end of the road and daylight fades: "It pays to play the game square." MUNICIPAL LEGISLATION The Oxford Ledger A group of elected and appointed muni cipal officials are to assemble here today. Friday, to study the legislative program which has been approved by the North Car olina Municipal League. This group may approve, disapprove or amend proposals of the League. Developments in the legislative sessions in Raleigh in recent years have brought about a realization of the importance of municipal organization to protect municipal ities against encroachments by the state, wittingly or unwittingly. The State is constantly reaching out for new sources of revenue and with recurring frequency has found it advantageous to tapi the sources reserved for municipalities. And I there is no indication that the State intends discontinuing the practice. And, on the other hand it is strongly evident that the State, through action of the Legislature, is in position to provide thg succor that suf fering municipalities must have. The Noßth Carolina League of Munici palities is on record favoring (1) the return to towns and cities of 10 per cent of State collected gasoline and motor vehicle taxes; (2) return to counties and municipalities of entire proceeds from State-collected tax on intangibles; (3) "simplification" of proper ty tax collection laws; (4) constitutional "home rule" for municipalities. Further, the League opposes homestead exemption and State restrictions on municipal taxing pow er. The legislative program of the League, as embodied in those four principles, is not narrow nor 'cheap," but is directed in a way designed to bring about a better under standing between State and local govern ments. The State must steer clear of,a pol icy of financial and political strangulation ! for local governments, be they county or municipal. Local governments of the state can ac complish through the North Carolina Lea gue of Municipalities desirable results which cannot be achieved and which are being lost through independent action. It has j become the duty of the League to protect local governments from the Wolf of State which is constantly scratching around for I finances intended for home-use. THE ROCKY MOCNT HERALD. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS JUBILANT OVER GAINS IN CONGRESS STATES The results' of the election last week catapulted the Repubican PUT ty back into the thick of the national political fight. While the party failed to come anywhere close to con trol of the House of Representative! it scored notable gains in member ship, both in the House and the Senate, and made distinct progress toward reclaiming state governments G. O. P. JUBILANT . The Republicans have good cause to be jubilant. Their gains exceeded the expectations practically all Dem. ocratic politicians and measured u-) to the maximum forecasts of news paper writers. In the House, Repub lican strength was almost doubled, moving up from 88 to nearly j7O. In the Senate, the Republicans at tin next session will have at least eight new senators to add to the fifteen of the present Congress. In the gov ernors, pronounced gains were re corded for the Republican party. Whereas,- the Party could claim onlv seven of the forty-eight governme ts before the election, the number will be more than doubled as a result of the vote last week. Figured another way, the election cut the Democratic majority in the House from around 240 to about 80, and reduced the lead in the Senate fiom more than 60 to approximately 40. In addition to capturing control of new state governments, the RJ publicans also acquired innumerable local offices throughout the nation. These will help in strengthening the Party machinery for the test that is certain to come in 1940. TREND IS REVERSED Moreover, Republican satisf actio i is based u{son the definite arrest of a trend-to the Democratic Partv which began in 1930 culminated in in the astonishing sweep of 1933. The next Congress will have fewer Democrats in the House than at an/ time since 1933. In the Senate, while the Democrats stay above 1933 figure it may be attributed to the fact that only one-third of the Senate was up for election. Thus, reason the Republicans, tlie long overdue reaction to the Demo cratic triumphs of the past few years has arrived and, in its coming, has exhibited a force stronger than was expected. This is the solace that the Republicans get out of the electi' n last week and the basis of rosy hopes for 1940.' DEMOCRATS IN POWER On the Democratic side, it is point ed out that the country, on the ba sis of the election of members of the House of Representatives, re mains safely Democratic. Realizing that their top-heavy strength for tiu past three Congresses has been e duced, they assert that only one. l , in the last twenty-five congresses, has the Party possessed greater strength. Emphasizing third Party strength in the new Congress, they points out that in the last fifty years the Republicans, in their long con trol of the national governme.it. OUR PRISON POPULATION (Prom The Biblical Recorder) According to figures published in the News and Observer, the num ber of prisoners in the -State Pris on system on May 25, 1938, was !»,- 421. In 1888, when the population of the State was about half what it now is, the total number of pris oners in the state peniteniary was barely a thousand, most of the.n colored. Today we have nine times as many prisoners as then, and on ly twice as many people. How do w c account for itf It is surely not I because we were then; as a win;.; our people are much hotter educat ed than they were 50 yeais Nor is it because our laws are more rigidly enforced now than then. In fact, punishment for crime was much more severe then than notv; larfcenies which were then punished with penalties of two or Hirer years ! are now punished with penalties of only so many months. Nor did crixn-i inals escape detection then more us ually than now. The fact is that' there were fewer crimes and fewer criminals then than now in propor tion to the number of peo^l"}. It would be rash for any one to say that he knows •'he absolute rea son, but w hink we know one reason for tin- present increase in prison population. It is that respe. t for law is no longer tuught i North Carolina as was taught ;• half century ago. Then children could boast of a greater strength in the House in only three Congresses. | Regarflless of this reasoning on the part of the Democrats, however, the election disclosed a reversal o' the trend which sent the Democratic Party to new highs. Once a trend is demonstrated by the voters, the pre sumption is that the trend continues. If the present trend, reflected in the election last Tuesday, continues for the next few years, it will inevitably mean the election of a Republican Congress and possibly a Republican President in 1940. This is what makes the Republicans feel so well and the Democrats a little anxious as they look to the future. OPEN QUESTION As stated earlier, the main issue in the election was whether Pres;- dent Roosevelt would retain the support of a majority of the mem bers of Congress. This remains to be seen. Already it is apparent that independent action on the part of both houses of Congress has oeen greatly accelerated. Undoubtedly, conservative Democrats, if united with a solid Republican vote, can curb the President's leadership. •If tho President and his party unite on a program then the control of the Congress is certain and nothing that th ( , Republican minority can do will be effective. It will be interesting to watch the next session of Congress to obseivc whether there will be a divisi in among the members of both partie? on basis of the Liberal vs. Conserva tive fight. Both parties have this problem. Each is divided into what might be called two factions, wi.li the one leaning toward liberalism and the other towards conservitive principles. It is conceivable that an issue may arise, in line with the President's recent political leader, ship, that will cause the parties to divide on the basis of the funda mental liberal c onservative issue. This would mean that conservative Democrats and conservati/e Repub licans would be on one side, and lib eral Democrats and liberal Republi cans on the other. Just what strength such a vote would show, no one can say at this time. MID-TERM TRENDS The flection last week was a mid term election. It should be pointed out that, with tlie exception of 1934, every mid-term election since 1870] has registered a loss for the part} in control. That the Democrats ex pected some losses is a fact; tlutl their losses exceeded their expecta tions is also true. The Republican*., on their part, expected strong gains but are delightfully surprised at the extent of their realizations. the voters, or at least a majority of them, continue to look to tiio The President and his New Dial to some extent, was the general is*u , in the national elections. Apparently Democrats for national leaderhip. Nor is there any room to disput? the conclusion that tho Democratic Party, as a whole, lost distine; ground last week. were taught to obey their parents and were punished when they :1U not obey. Then teachers had author ity to make children obey and pun. ish them if they did not obey. Now let a teacher try to exact obedi ence and he is held up in the pub lie press as a monster of cruelty. Again, a half century ago there were no movies to invest crime and criminals with a glamor of adven ture and attractiveness, and only disreputable papers printed on their front pages pictures of the sexu ally corrupt with alluring stories of I thei r many amours and divorci).-'. Then there were no slot and marbi'. machines to teach even little chil dren to gamble and to bring up a generation of young people obsess ed with the belief that they had a right to get something for noth ing, even though they had to stoa: | it. If we are content to subject our young pec pi o to the contemplation of erime made attractive .'.l c >ll • doned and to let them do s they please, we must not be surprised that an increasing number of them l'ecom c criminals. Born Signaler In tl»o midst of the fighting irj ■Spain a child U horn with four I rms. A successful future is predict ed for the little fellow, with t'i; signal crops.—Alt-auta Constitution 1 PEARL S. BUCK, IS GIVEN 1938 NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 10.—The 1938 Nobel prize for literature was awarded to Pearl Buck, American author of "The God Earth," and other novels dealing with China. Mrs. Buck, formerly Pearl Syd m strycker and now Mrs. Richard J. Walsh, of Great Neck, N. Y., was born in Hillsboro, W. Va., in 18- 92 and has spent much of her life in China. (Mrs. Buck's patents were mis sionaries in China and her first hut band, J. L. Buck, was a member of the faculty of Nanking University. They were divorced in 1935.) The Nobel award was understood to have been based particularly on "The Good Earth'' which also won the 1932 Pulitzer prize for an Amer ican novel. New York, Nov. 10.—Pearl Buck said today she ''just couldn't believe i't' when cabled dispatches from Stockholm brought word that ihe had*«on the 1938 Nobel prize for literature. Her husband and publisher, Rich ard J. Walsh, said his wife was "very excited." WAITRESSES GET BIG TIP Carlyle, 111.—Two waitresses were the beneficiaries of a "tipping" con test staged by two customers. After eating meals costing less than a dol lar each, one of the men offered to double any tip left by his friend. The ''pot" opened with SSO and end- ed with $360 on the table. The wai tresses split the tip. What! No Moonlight? Mrs. Alec-Tweedie very much r.j grets that she' is obliged to posl pone her moonlight party tomorrow —Note in the I>ondon Times. None! There's no fool like an old fool , acting like a young fool.—U. S. S. , Canopus laws. O— o | LEGAL ADVERTISING I o o NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as administrate r 1 of the estate of R. T. Hatch, dt; i ceased late of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, this is to notify »tl persons having claims against the estate of the said deceased to exhib it them to the undersigned at Mt. Olive op or before the 10th'day of I j October, 1939 or this notice will be j pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate will i please make payment. This 10th day of October, 1938. ROY E. HATCH, Administrator of R. T. Hatch, Mt. Olive, N. C. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE , North Carolina , Nash County IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Having qualified as Administratrix of estate of William Thomas Mann This is to notify all persons owl 113 1 said estate to make settlement, and all persons having legal claims against the estate to present same in legal form within one year from date or this notice will be pleaded in bar to any recovery. This October 14th, 1938. LULA M. MANN Administratis C. F. RICH, Attorney. (1021 1125) FIRST CHURCS OF CHRIST SCIENTIST Suuday morning service 11 A. M. The reading room in the enurch edifice ia open daily exeeept Son day and legal holidays, from three to five P. M. I. T. VALENTINE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW General Practice in Both State I and Federal Cot*t« NASHVILLE, N. C. HILL-PROCTOR PRINT SHOP Commercial Printing Of All Kinds 114 Washington St. Phone39^]RockyMt. ! RICHARD T. FOUNTAIN | ATTORNEY-AT-LAW t ! I f General Practice in All j | . State and Federal | % Courts | i Office, Daniel Bldg. j | ROCKY MOUNT. N. C. f FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1938. DR. R. L. SAVAGE l Disease? EYE, EAR, NOSE AND TROAT GLASSES FITTED Office over Five Points Drag Store Rocky Mount, N. C. B. E FOUNT AfN * ATTORNEY-AT-LAW General Practice Office Daniel BaiMtnj ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. . 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ANNOUNCING TO MY CUSTOMERS and friends hat I have now re opened my place and am equip ped to rofinish, rebuild and up holster all types of furniture. CAMPBELL'S ANTIQUE SHOP 700 N. Raleigh St. I'hont 434 J. A. CAMPBELL, Owner p- Our Customers Who have visited our stor are pleased with our new location. ' MORE ROOM FOR DISPLAY SEE * Stock of new and used Furniture Be sure to take advantage of our low prices and won derful bargains. TONKEL'S CITY FURNITURE EXCHANGE 154 S. Washington St. I Rocky Mount, N. C. I
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