The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 5. NUMBER 49
WOODHOUSE LAUDS
WAGE-HOUR LAWS
Cudilt /fcr Addressee Cur-*
rest Club In Local Y.
M. C. A.
"For a beginning on a very trou-
question, I think it is a
good act" wag the evaluation of tr.e
Federal wage-hour law made by
Professor E. J. Woodhouse of the
history and government department
of the University of Nojth Carolina
in an address to the Current Top
es club.
Th e program of the club, for the
first time in its 25 years of existence,
was broadcast by the local radiD
station from the dining room of the
Y. M. C. A.
Of Elmer Andrews, the wage
hour administrator, Professor Wood
brune said, "I hav e been very fav
orably impressed by hie spirit o£
reasonablness toward all concornoi."
Professor Woodhouse commented
of the scope of the act, "I would
expect its extension in the near u
,ture to cover agricultural laborer!.
I don't think that is undesirable,"
he added.
Observing that the act affected im
mediately at least two and a half
million workers, the speaker said in
reference to workers like the stern
mers in tobacco factories, "Some
will lose their jobs, I'm sorry to
say." He added, "TBat's unfortu
nate, and I think that will be taken
i care of in amendments to the act."
The professor expressed his opinion
that the act will be amended by
the next legislature.
Commenting, "This act will un
doubtedly go to the supreme cour:
. and soon," Professor Woodhouse
predicted that it will be held con
stitutional.
Asked during a discussion follow
ing the address "Don't you think
the effects of the act are felt
more in the South!" Professor
Woodhous e replied, "Why, y«n; but
I ask you haven't we exploited la
bor in the South?"
Professor Woodhouse said thac,
although he opposed the NTBA and
its "crack-down" form of adminis
tration, he favored the wage-hou:
law because "our government ha*
the right as the representative of
ali of us to regulate relations De
tween employers 'and employes."
J U Bo wen, program qh*lr
man, presented the speaker. Presi
dent John M. King conducted tbo
meeting.
DODD BLAMES U. S. FOR
RISE OF GERMAN NAZIS
Absence From League Cited Here A»
One Reason For Hitler*# Power
FORMER AMBASSADOR
TELLS OF PERSECUTION
Tells State College Audience Of Me
mortal To layer Of Jews; Says
World In Worst Condition Of
Last 500 Years; Calls For Chris
tian Revival
i
Failure of the United States to
enter th© League of Nations imme
diately after the World War was
blamed by Dr. William E. Dodd,
former Ambassador to Germany, as
one of the main reasons for Adolf
Hitler's rise to supreme power in
the Reicli.
Speaking at State College before
«' an audience of 1,000 which listened
attentively to a speech nearly two
hours long, Dr. Dodd described how
completely Hitler has mastered the
German people and how he i» car
t ryine out his announced policy or
eliminating persons of Jewish blood
in the Fatherland.
Describes Memorial
•'About half way between Berlin
and Potsdam," related Dr. Dodd in
« illustrating Hitler's method of popu
larizing persecuton of the Jews,
a small park beside the h.ghway la
its center is a statue erected to he
memory of the man who killed the
most Jews in th e months following
Hitler's ascent to power. There in
marble this German 'hero' U de
picted kneeling on the chest o a
Jew and cutting the Jews throat
with a knife."
The audience, including many
Jews from Raleigh and other citie,,
laughed derisively when Dr. Dodd
told how two life-size portraits ot
Hitler and Mussolini in th e old
lieichstag building boro the inscrip-
'EDGECOMBE NEGRO
HAS GOOD RECOKI)
Young 4-H Boy .Surpasses Fathei's
Corn Yield With Later Crop
College Station, Raleigh, Nov. 28—
Ther e are many instances where a
4-H Club boy or girl outdid adults,
and thereby caused the elders to
adopt improved methods of farmiiii",
carrying out the prophecy: "A lit
tie child shall lead them."
F. D. Wharton, Negro farm agent
of the State College Extension Ser«r.
ice in Edgecombe County, reports
gych a case in the Lcggett commun
ity, on Tarboro, Bout e 2.
Benjamin Bryan a Negro 4-11
Club boy, planted his corn on May
21, nearly two months after lis fa
ther's corn was planted. But the boy
gave his corn special cultivation _4id
treatment, whereas the elder Bryan
did not give his crop any special
attention.
When they harvested their sorn
at the same tim e last week, in the
presence of Agent Wlharton the fath
er felt sure he would have the larg
er yield, especially because of ear
lier planting. However, the boy
made an average yield of 50 busheu
an acre and the father's averaga
yield was several bushels an acre
below this.
When he looked at the corn and
weights, the father saw how much
labor and time he was wasting by
his method of growing corn and re
solved to adopt the policies of Ws
son in the future, Wharton said.
This 56-bushels yield is not, how
ever, the best corn yield of the
year in Edgecombe County by a Ne
gro farmer. H. L. Dixon, a ienant
on the Brick School Farm, made a
yield of 92 bushels an acre, which is
15.6 bushels more per acra than, he
made last year.
The high yield of Farmer Dixon
was chocked by Agent" Wharton', b.
J. Knight, Halifax County Negri
agent, and I. C. Rogers, vocational
agriculture teacher at Bricks, in the
presence of John W. Goodman, As
sistant director of the Extension
Servce; C. R. Hudson, State Negro
agent, and others.
Arturo Tosoanini and family,, io
become naturalized citizens, re
nouncing Fascist Italy.
tions "Saviours of Modern Civiliza
tion." These concluded a series o'
500 paintings depicting Jews in
conceivable crime, Dr. Dodd related
No Aid To Germany
Instead of America holding aloof
from the League after the World
War, the former Ambassador de
clared, this country should have
lent its influence whole-heartedly to
international cooperation. The Unit
ed States made no effort to aid
Germany when it struggled under a
democracy that collapsed with Hit
ler's rise to powor, he stated.
"Why couldn't we have recognized
the importance of the German peo
ple trying to govern themselves
from 1919 to 1933t" Dr. Dodd asked.
"Why couldn't we have made trad*
a little easier for tliemf" Why
couldn't we have made it easier fur
Germany to have paid her debt!''
The tense struggle against ob
stacles which seemed insurmount
able set the stage for a dictator iu
Germany, Dr. Dodd declared.
"During my stay in Berlin I fel'
that if our peoplo had joined tne
League we could have prevented
these dictators from takng sucli
powor," he continued. "The worlj
is in the worst condition that it has
seen in 500 years, and I don't know
how we'll get out unless w e apply
the Democracy which Thomas Jeffer
son taught all his life but in which
he was defeated."
Dr. Dodd also saw need for tho
revival of_Christianity, which, he
said, "is in as much danger now as
democracy is."
President Wilson Praised
High praise for the vision and
humanitarian principles of President
Woodrow Wilson was voiced by Dr.
Dodd. He ascribed the defeac o:'
Wilson's international peace program
to moneyed interests and related
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ROCKY MOUNTTNQRTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938
Governor Hoey Welco
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Farmers, Vote For Crop Control !
Within a few days now the farmers of Nash and Edge
combe Counties will be given an opportunity to vote on
whether they desire a continuance of crop control. The mat
ter is squarely up to the farmer himself. Up to this pres
ent date we have not heard any criticisms of the crop con
trol law but we have heard some few criticisms which were
directed at the manner of the operation of the law and
these criticisms have been few and far between. This will
be one of the most important votes that can come to the
farmer and the great agricultural interest of the whole
country. If the farmer fails to support and vote crop con
trol he is leaving himself absolutely in control of the great
concentrated wealth of the country and putting himself ab
solutely at the mercy of the buyer and highly organized
special interest. If crop control fails to be voted in for
another year and confiscatory prices are offered for our
crops how can we afford to go to Washington and ask for
governmental relief when we have turned down the very
plan that has been offered for our relief. Those few who
oppose crop control admit that they have no plan and they
admit that before President Roosevelt was elected that ag
ricuture was absolutely paralyzed. There is but one thing for
the farmers to do at this time and that is to register and
vote fojr crop control and continue to vote crop controj
until some better plan is offered. Up to this present time
no plan has been brought forward nor do we expect oiie
will be brought forward for next years crops, so let us vote
unanimously for Crop Control.
RESPONSIBILITY ENFORCING THE LAWS UP TO
EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCH OF GOV#
We notice according to press reports that Chairman • Lu
cas in describing the horrible conditi6"n that racists in, the
state with reference to holding elect ton a states that prob
ably the law is all right but the whoW'trouble was with,the
people themselves." Now if the law is sufficient then, who
is responsible for the enforcement of the law. Is it not the
responsibility of the chief executive, the Judges and the
solocitors duty to see that the election laws are properly
enforced. It has been generally thought throughout the
state that if a man stole chickens, hogs and turkeys, that
he would be arrested and sent to jail but with all the stea -
ing that has taken place in elections in North Carolina we
have not heard of but one man being put m jkil and he was
probably one of the least offenders. He lived in Wake
County and was charged with fraud
votes. Nobody was ever put in jail in Polk, Clay and many
other counties whose elections have been conducted in -
manner. The trouble is with the judges and solicitors ana
with appointment to please on election boards rather than
with the people. It is easy to excuse the whole matter by
saying that the whole trouble is with the P e °Pl®\^ n ? w £p
feel that it was right to charge up the condition in G
, ii. fiprman people and excuse and relieve
pAsident f r _om e j^ion
Era In North Carolina """
it is up to the courts to see that the laws are eniorceu.
Lt. Governors
Live Long Time
The recent death of William C.
Newland, of Lenior, who was Lieu
tenant Governor 30 years
brings to mind the longevity of the
men who fill the Lieutenant Govern
or's office in this state as compar
ed with thos e who fill the office of
Governor. At the present time there
are eight former Lieutenant Gov
ernors living who filled the offica
durnng the past 60 years, Dougn
ton, Winston, Gardner, Cooper,
Long, Fountain, Graham and Hor
ton. Lieutenant Gov. Reynolds died
only two years ago at a ripe old
age and less than 10 years ago Ma
jor Stedman, who served as Lieu
tenant Governor in 1885-89 passed
away. Also Lieutenant Governor Tur
ner who was in office in 1901-05
died less than a decade ago as did
Lieutenant, Governor Daughtridge
who served in 1913-17.
There are only three living for
mer Governors, Morrison, Gardner
and Ehringhaus. »
RITES HELD FOR
G. A. BONE SATURDAY
Final rites for G. A. Bone, 41,
who died at hia home near Westr/s
suddenly Friday were conducted
fronj the home Saturday afternoon
at 2 o'clock'. Rev. C. B. Peacock,
pastor of the deceased, officiated,
assisted by Rev. Mr. Johnson, Bap
tist minister of Momeyer. Burial
took place in the family burying
ground nea r Sandy Cross.
Survivors include his widow, Mn
Stella Bone; three sons, Leoston,
Cuthrell, and Randolph Bone, all of
the home; four daughters, Jose
phine, Kathrine, Elizabeth and Ma
rie Bone, of the home; one brothir,
G. L. Bone of Nash county; and hi.'
mother, Mrs. Fannie Bone of Nasi
County.
Since 1876 only two Lieutenant
Governors succeeded to the offlca of
Governor when Vance was elected to
th e United States Senate and Hoi";
who bcame Gorernor on the death of
Governor Fowle.
Gardner who was Lieutenant
Governor in 1917 was elected Go",
ernor in 1928.
URGES MALE
TEACHERS
Says Females Develop Sissy Boys
And Boyish Girls
PSYCHOLOGIST SCORES
FEMININE DOMINANCE
Excess Of Women In choot Rooms
Results In Weak-Kneed Hus
bands, Dlcatorial Wives, Lop-Sid>
ed Personalities And Much Un
happineas For Boys And Girls
Chicago. No. 26.—From a woman
psychologis came the suggestion
that American elementary public
schools could, with profit, hang out
this sign:
"Men wanted; too many women
in the teaching profession."
M>s. Evelyn Mills Duvall, execu
tive director, of the Chicago Associa
tion for Child Study and Parent
Education, made the suggestion ii
declaring that "feminine domi
nance" was helping to produce.
"Sissies" among Iboys, "dictator
ial Of weak-kneed husbands," "bo;-
crazy girls"—and last, but not least,
"mojn-hating, over-aggressive wom
en.*'
"If," she said, "educators art*
sorious in attempting to develop the
whole child —the personality as wcl
as to teach the three R's—they
need to move to eliminate the lop
sided existence children of today
are leading in thir woman-dominat
ed world."
Mrs. Duvall, who has had a wide
experience in studying and analyz
ing children's problems, said tiia*;
one solution lay in improving the
status of the teaching profession
for men, and in placing greater eai
phasis on personality in the selec
tion of teachers. Some teachers'
colleges, she added, were moving 'n
that direction.
"It will cost more to get the men
into the scfioola," she said, "bu>
more of them must enter the prj
fession, and in finer quality tin a
has been the case in the past, if
the situation is to be corrected. M>jn
demand consitently higher wages
than women. And the status of the
teaching profession for men will
have to be raised. Men are not go
ing to be enticed into a profession
which for years has operated under
the apolegetic understanding that:
" 'Those who can, do; those who
can't teach.' "
"But it ia generally agreed tLa*.
masculine example is urgently need
ed. Today's children lead a pret
ty lop-sided existence in their wom
an-filled world. For the first few
years they are under mother's watch
ful eye, and scarcely see father in
these days when well-brought-ui
babies are put to bed at 6, and
have their playtime when father is
out earning the daily bread—or
playing golf over the week-end.
"From the feminine beginning the
child goes to nursery school, where
he meets more women—old outs,
young ones, kind ones and stora
ones, perhaps, but women neverthe
less. And thence to school where fir
long years to come the child mee>.?
and knows and gets around a suc
cession of women teachers with on
ly an occasional male principal to
break the feminine spell.
"Boys, generally speaking, don't
come in close enough contact will
typical 'he-men.'
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PROBLEMS REMAIN
SETS UP A NEW BOARD
MORGENTHAU VS. ECCLES
TRADE PACT SIGNED
WILL STIMULATE TRADE
20 YEARS FOR WPA
TRY PROFIT-SHARING
THE LIMA CONFERENCE
With the President away from th l )
capital and Congress not in sesHioii,
Washington officially has something
of a lull from the standpoint of
news, but there are problems that
are constantly in the forefront as
the nation seeks to solve various
problems.
Readers are fanyliar with the dif
Acuities that have presented them
selves as efforts to reduce the un
employment have been continuo i.
and are aware of the rocky road
that has beset the effort to makt»
secure the economic condition of
American farmers. These are twj
great domestic question markj,
which have the best minds perplex
ed. Reviving business may ta*e
care of some of those out of work
and help the farm situation as well
At the same time, Americans have
to face the facts that indicate ex.
istence of these issues for some
rears to come.
Along the line of this endeavj •
is the recent appointment by the
President of a board to survey the
spending policies of the government
with reference to their effect upiu
production and national incomr..
The board includes Secretary Mor
genthau, of the Treasury; Marriue
8. Eccles, of the Federal Reserve
Board; Daniel W. Bell, Acting Di
rector of the Budget, and Frederic
A. Delano, of the Advisory Commit
tee on National Resources. They will
hiaku. study before reporting W
the President and the chances arj
that it will be some time before
they have a report ready.
The fact that Mr. Morgenthau is
inclined to a conservative attitud ■
ifl regards to budgets and goverii
mental finance, and that Mr. Ecclis
is an advocate of direct government
action to put money in circulation
arouses interest. The other membo J
of the board have not, as yet, been
generally identified with policy mak
ing functions.
The retirement of Attorney Qeu-i
eral Cummings in January will i
mark the first break in the origi
nal Cabinet of the President bv
resignation. Former vacancies hav?
been occasioned by death. Imme
diately upon announcement of M*
Cummings' intention, the air wai
filled with rumors of other Cabinet
alternations,' with the finger bein;;
put specifically upon Secretaries Ro
per and Woodring. There may be
something to the reports althougi
we recall very well the wild flock
of rumors that "filled the newspaper
columns after the 1936 election. It
was said that several Cabinet mem
bers would resign but we discount
ed the suggestions then and they
proved groundless.
The trade pact that goes into
effect January first between the
United States ,and Great Britain,
New Foundland and fifty non-self
governing colonies of the Britisa
Empire, will last for three years
and may mark an epoch in interna
tional commerce. Both countries
made concessions in the hope that
both will secure trade advantages.
We reduced duties on items describ
ed as "complementary rather than
competitive" with American prod
ucts. In 1937 the value ef the trada
covered by these concessions was
$141,000,000. In turn, Great Britain's
concessions, including a number of
agricultural products, affected ex
ports that were valued at $200,000,-
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000 in 1936.
At the same time, Canada and
the United States enlarged theiT
trade agreement duties on Ameri
can products which it imported ie
1937 to the value of $241,000,000. 1m
addition, Canada abolished a 3 per
cent excise tax on 447 items, i»a
which $18,000,000. revenue was col
lected last year. The United Slates
reduced duties on certain farm prod
ucts, minerals and lumber whiih,
it is expected, will give Canada ae
cess to some of our markets for
these things.
The signing of the trade agree
ment marked a reversal of BritiA
commercial policies for the first
time since the World War. During
the war days the British abandoned
their traditional free trade poli:v
and began the erection of stiff tar
iff walls, which, it must be admit
ted, came after this country adopt
ed the Smoot-Hawley Act which,
raised our tariffs considerably.
Harry L. Hopkins, Administrator
of the WPA says that the Federal
Government, in its efforts to pro
vide jobs for the unemployed, could
find useful work for at least twent.r
years. He advocates putting the or
ganization under civil service and
making test of an applicant's riglrt
to a job the ability to "do a day's
work." As readers know, Mr. Hopkins
insists that his organization has not
been politically active and that
prompt action has been taken
against efforts to take advantage of
those on relief work. He points out
that, in many instances reported,
the trouble was not with WPA of
ficials but with local officials over
whom he has no control.
Talking quietly before the Senata
Finance Committee last week, lead
ing business men gave their viewa
on profit-sharing as the most equit
able and most business-like method
of establishing and guaranteeing
Dr. P. R. Cokcr
Claimed By De*th
Hartsville, S. C., Nov. 23.—"\ivi>i
Robert Coker, 68. noted asrieu 1 -
turist, capita'ist and of
Scretary of Comnt TCC Daniel Rj
per, died suddenly early today at hU
hom e here. He had boon in failing
health for two years.
Known widely as a plant breeder
and cotton expert, Coker was the
originator of staple cotton varieties
planted widely in the United State*
and elsewhere. lie was pics.ii ut of
J. L. Coker and Co., and of Coker's
Pedigreed Seed Company. He served
as Hartsville mayor from 1902 t»
1904, was chairman of the SoutH
Carolina council of defense during
the World war and also federal food
administrator for thestate during
the wa r period.
Coker was a trustee and benefac
tor of Coker College here, founded
and endowed by his father, James
Lide Coker. 11l health prompted him
to resign three months ago as a
trustee of the University of Souh
Carolina, where he received hij
bachelor of arts degree in 1891.
His widow and six daughters, thri>e
of them by a previous marriage to
the lormer Miss Jessie Ruth Richard
son of Timmonsville, survive. They
are Misses Martha, Mary, Carolyn,
Hannah and Eleanor Coker and Mrs.
Katherine Wilson of Henderson, N.
C.
The funeral will be held at 2:3;)
P. M. tomorrow in the Coker Col
lege chapel, rfr. Howard Reave*,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
will be in charge. Interment will oe
at Hartsville.