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WELDON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1929
NUMBER 39
STATE SOLON’S
PAY DAYS OVER
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Members of General Assem
bly Face Heavy Calen
dar As 60 Days End
debating bond issue
Bq M. L. SHIPMAN
RALEIGH, March 11.—Running
into the first week of the period
during which It will have to work
without pay, the General Assembly
today faced a calendar of important
matters with half a dozen major
measures yet to be considered. The
sixty day limit expired last week
and legislators do not get any more
pay, but the work must be finished.
The important appropriation and
revenue bills have not yet come
from committee, the educational
and equalization fund bill is still
under consideration, the highway
patrol issue has not been definitely
settled, the Australian ballot has
been passed by both houses but a
free conference must decide on the
difference in the house and senate
measures on this subject, the per
manent improvements bond issues
for State institutions have not yet
been approved after being called
back for reconsideration after being
killed and many other important
matters must be decided. •
Most Serious Bills
The chief, and, it appears, most
serious matters up this week are the
permament improvements bill and
the school equalization fund and
school term measure, for these mat
ters have been linked together in
what amounts to a display of poli
tical trading that threatens both.
The senate does not want to ap
prove the house recommendations as
to size of the equalization fund for
schools so the house is purposely
delaying consideration on the per
mament improvements bill with
the privately expressed determina
tion of many house members to
slaughter it if the senate will not
come to terms on the school bill]
The house appears entirely obliv
ious of the dangerous policy it is
following, and evidently does not
sense the fact that it will handicap
the institutions of the State ser
iously if it carries out its play
of politics. The senate is likewise
accused by the friends of the ed
ucational forces for unwillingness
to provide the large equalization bill
provided in the house bill.
While this debate continues of
course the revenue and appropria
tions bills cannot be completed, for
the law requires that revenue to
cover all appropriations must be pro
vided by the session of the legisla
ture making the appropriation, and
no one knows what wil be given to
schools, nor, for that matter, does
anyone know whether a highway
patrol bill will be passed that will
need an appropration for its sup
port. It is by and large the big
gest muddle any legislature has been
in in recent years.
Commissions under Budget
During the weeK the State high
way commission and State agricul
tural department were brought
under the authority of the State
budget bureau, a plan which was
very much desired by Governor
Gardner. The governor also got
favorable consideration of his pro
posal to make the heads of the
revenue, printing and labor, In
surance and agricultural depart
ments appointive instead of elec
tive, though final consideration of
this bill will not be had until later
this week.
During the week the legislature
approved the workmen’s compensa
tion act in final form, add favorable
to both sides. The bill had the ap
proval of both labor and capital, so
its passage, with a few amendments,
was a foregone conclusion. The bill
is an excellent one, and allows in
demnities to working men which
are greater than those allowed in
a majority of the states of the
union. North Carolina acted very
tardily in passing this type of law
but when she did act she did it with
full enthusiasm and as if deter
mined to make up for the past.
Keconsidlng Bond BUI
The permanent improvements
' bond issue bill, as was stated in
this correspondence last week, came
back for reconsideration after hav
ing been killed, but it immediately
got tangled up in politics and con
sideration was postponed from day
-to day. Every effort was made by
certain forces in the house to kill
the Australian ballot biU by amend
ing it, but it flnaUy passed, though,
at best, it is only a compromise
measure and does not hold out the
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Major Segrave Sets
A Speed Record Of
231 Miles An Hour
OCEAN SPEEDWAY, DAYTONA
BEACH, Fla., March 11.—In a flam
ing streak of super-speed, Major H.
O. D. Segrave, famous British race
track driver, today set a new world's
speed record for automobiles when
he sent his powerful Golden Arrow
machine roaring over the hard wave
lapped ocean speedway here at the
tremendous speed of 231.36246 miles
an hour.
Driving his beautiful 12-cylinder
machine at a dazzling pace, Major
Segrave eclipsed by 23-81 miles an
hour the former record of 207.55 set
here last year by Ray Keech, of
Philadelphia, in the 36-cylinder Tri
plex owned by J. M. White. The
new mark also surpassed by 28 miles
an hour the record of 203 which
Segrave set here in 1927 with his
Sunbeam Special.
Amazing Speed
On his first official run north,
Major Segrave negotiated the meas
ured mile in 15.55 seconds for the
amazing speed of 231.51125 miles an
hour. His second trial made south
ward over the course was clocked at
15.57 seconds for a speed of 231.21387
miles an hour. His average elapsed
time was 15.56 seconds and his aver
age two way speed was 231.36216
miles an hour.
Home Ownership
Essential—Branson
(Dr. E. C. Branson, in Some Essen
tials of Good Citizenship.)
Home and farm ownership is a
condition of essential citizenship. It
was so in former times, it is so
today, and it probably will be so
for all time to come—so because of
the nature of human nature. The
porposition is worth considering in
a civilization that has shifted its
base from land ownership in the old
socal order to stocks and bonds,
notes and mortgages and similar
symbols of secondary wealth in the
new industrial order.
The ownership of homes and
farms is distinctly and directly re
lated to stable, responsible citizen
ship. A peril—perhaps the great
est peril in America—lies in restless
roving, irresponsible citizenship. . .
I profoundly believe that civiliza
tion is salted unto salvation by the
home-owning, home-loving and
home-defending instincts. I do not
believe that civilization can any
where be safely based on the land
less estates of men.
Our civilization is menaced by
restless, instable, irresponsible citi
zenship—restless and roving be
cause it is easy to shift from pillar
to post upon the instant, and ir
responsible because it is not identi
fied with any community by any
stake in the land. More than half
the people of the nation are stran
gers, pilgrims, sojourners. They are
citizens of a far country—almost
any far away place suggested by
the pinch of necessity or the lure
of opportunity.
Recent field surveys In four rural
counties of the South show that
from eighty-five to ninety-seven
per cent of the crimes are com
mitted by landless people, white and
black, town and country; that the
ratios of crimes by tenants and
renters run far ahead of their
population ratios; and that the
ownership of a home or a farm
tethers a man to law and order
better than all the laws on the
statute books.
Miss Johnson Wins
Praise For Acting
Miss Elizabeth Johnson of Wash
ington, N. C„ a granddaughter of
Samuel Trueblood, won high praise
for her work in a one-act play
“ ‘Op-o’-Me Thumb,” recently pre
sented at Raleigh by the Sigma
Phi Kappa Literary society. This
play won the much coveted cup in
the annual inter-society dramatic
contest at Peace Institute.
A reporter for The News and
Observer said that “Miss Elizabeth
Johnson of Washington, N. C., car
ried the heavy work in the winning
play. Her interpretations through
out were splendid. She was clever
where cleverness was demanded,
she was wistful where wistfulness
could be appreciated, and was not
without sympathy of the audience
at any time when she was on the
stage.”
Immediately after the presenta
tion of the two plays an informal
reception was held in the college
parlors.
Here Is Hoover’s Official Family
Here are the men whom President Hoover has chosen to constitute his cabinet for the next four
years. 1. Colonel Henry L. Stimson, secretary of state. 2. Walter F. Brown, postmaster general. 3.
Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of treasury. 4. James W. Good, secretary of war. 5. Dr. Ray Hyman
Wilbur, secretary of interior. 6. James J. Davis, secretary of labor. 7. Arthur M. Hyde, secretary c*
agriculture. 8. Robert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce, Si. Charles F. Adams, secretary of navy.
1,1 William D. Mitchell, attorney general.
Patronage Referee
May Be Eliminated
WASHINGTON, March 11.—One
of the last vestigtes of the Jackson
ian spoils system—the patronage
referee—may be eliminated by
President Hoover.
As head of the national Repub
lican organization, he is consider
ing this reform to do away with the
possibility of political bartering in
minor Federal appointments, the
United Press was informed today.
Under the present system, abuses
have grown up which Mr. Hoover
is anxious to stop. The Brookhart
Senatorial investigating committee
has exposed a thriving appoint
ment traffic in several Southern
states.
Civil Service.
The Civil Service law requires
Federal appointees to qualify by
examination, but the three rated
highest by test are all eligible for
office.
The patronage referee recom
mends one of the three for ap
pointment. The Brookhart com
mittee, has shown that in some
oases the highest bidder among the
three eligibles gets the job.
To stop this practice, The Prei
ient may order that the applicant
who is graded highest by Civil Ser
vice officials shall receive the ap
pointment, regardless of the recom
mendations of politicians.
The patronage referee is the Re
publican Congressman from the
district involved, if there is one.
Otherwise, some powerful politi
cian makes recommendations
through the chairman of the State
committee or the national commit
teeman.
President Wilson instituted the
system now under consideration by
Mr. Hoover, but the old method
was reinstated by President Hard
ing and has remained in use since
under President Coolidge.
Chairman Brookhart, of the pat
ronage investigating committee, is
confident Mr. Hoover will go back
;o the Wilsonian policy. Brookhart
means to continue his investigation
long enough to demonstrate the
necessity of a change to the Presi
dent, he said.
The committee will not go into
my Southern state before or dur
ing the extra session of Congress,
however. It may hold more hear
ings in Washington, but lacks funds
'or junketing, Brookhart explained.
When hearings are completed,
Brookhart hopes to recommend
legislation which will perpetuate
the Wilsonian system of appoint
ments, he said.
Up to the present there has been
put one vitamine created artificially.
FARMERS PLANT
MORE PASTURES
Rowan County Men Purchase
A Solid Car Of Seed;
Make A Record
COMPANY SENDS MAN
RALEIGH. March 12—Following
closely on the announcement from
County Agent W. Kerr Scott that
enough grass and clover seed to
plant 1,000 acres of pasture land
had been ordered by farmers of his
county this Spring, comes a state
ment from W. G. Yeager, county
agent of Rowan, that 75,000 pounds
of sweet clover seed have been
ordered and distributed to the far- j
mers of his county.
This planting of sweet clover In
Rowan is attracting attention
throughout the United States. It is
said to be the first time that a
county in the eastern part of the
nation has purchased a solid car of
such seed for distribution co
operatively by farmers. When the
order for the second car of seed was
made, the shipping company sent
their field man to visit the county
and make a report on what was
happening. Most of this seed will
be planted on small grain and in
addition several thousand acres will
be planted in small grain and in
and alsike clover giving the county
the largest acreage of clover in its
history.
Mr. Yeager says the farmers of
Iris county have made every pre
paration in inoculating the seed, use
of limestone and basic slag and
otherwise preparing for good stands
of clover.
In a smaller way but indicative
of the wide-spread interest in pas
tures and forage throughout the
State this year, is a co-operative
order of 2,700 bushels of soybean
seed for Chatham county farmers
and the sale of all the surplus
lespedeza seed from Stanly and
Union counties. Tom Broom, veteran
county agent of Union, says that
the farmers of his county have sold
over $30,000 worth of lespedeza seed
and poultry so far this Spring. This
new money at the beginning of the
season, has brightened the farm
outlook in that county and will
cause less bank borrowing and
mortgaging of farms to secure
money for financing crop enter
prises thi= Spring.
Miss Annie Spruill has returned
to her home in Philadelphia after
spending some time with her sis
ter, Mrs. W. C. Mitchell.
Miss Virginia Stevens spent the
week end at N. C. C. W. with Miss
Natlie Cole.
Manners For Men And
How To Instil Them
Much has been said about man
ners but little of it relates to father
and son. Mother and daughter are
more often the subject of the rule
of etiquette yet the men folk re
quire a bit themselves as Helen
Hathaway observes in an article for
the March "People's Home Journal."
She blames bad manners among
men upon the women of their house
holds and advises them to:
"Remember that the boys and
men in our family are largely what
we want them to be. If we let them
get away with rudeness, we have
only ourselves to blame in the first
and last analysis. Expect and de
mand, tactfully but firmly, that
husband, bother, or son, fiance or
the most casual man acquaintance
to be courteous and the chances are
he will be.
"Then, too,” continues the writer,
"by insisting upon a high standard
of courtesy you are doing men a
service the value which we cannot
estimate; for what person does not
like a well-mannered friend to an
ill-mannered one? What employer
won’t choose the courteous employee
to the rude? What stranger would
n’t prefer the polite to the impolite?
So don’t forget to give stress to
countesy in all your relationships
with father, son, husband or brother,
and above all things don’t you your
self fail to be courteous in your
every contact with them."
1 EiKsUIN ALi MbMIUW
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Lovell
of Clayton were here to attend the
Pythian banquet Tuesday night.
Mr. Lo\ell is Grand Keeper of the
Records and Seals in North Caro
lina. There were also several chil
dren present from the Pythian
home at Clayton.
Miss Cleo Hamilton visited
Smithfleld and Raleigh last week
end.
Mr. Marvin Revelle of Woodland
was a visitor in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. T. O. Vaughan last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Etheridge of Selma
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Coppedge.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hancock
and children of Spring Hill spent
Sunday in town.
Mrs. J. B. Zollicoffer spent the
week end at Greensboro.
Mr. Robert Allen spent the
week end in Winston-Salem.
Miss Katherine Pierce spent the
week end with Miss Martha Pierce
at Salem College.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Spruill of
Windsor spent Sunday with Mrs.
W. C. Mitchell.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Howell of
Warrenton were visitors in town
Sunday.
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W ould-Be-Bandit
Flees When Gun Is
Pressed To Body
Eu&ane Bachellor was held up
by a highwayman Friday night. He
had just put up his car and turn
ing from the garage a masked man
covered him with a gun and order
ed “Hands up." Mr. Bachelor, who
was carrying his own gun in his
hand at the time, grabbed the
bandit’s pistol and turned it aside.
By the time the bandit had wrench
ed the gun loose and again ordered
"Hands up,” Mr. Bachellor had his
own gun pressing the abdomen of
his assailant and ordered him to
“Hands up.” The highwayman broke
away and ran. He had been recog
nized, however, and later Deputy
Sheriff Mitchell arrested a young
man named Keator who lives about
three miles from Weldon.
Keator was arraigned before
Magistrate Carter Saturday morn
ing. He plead “not guilty,” denying
the charge. After the magistrate had
bound him over in the sum of $1,000,
Keator tried to escape through the
backdoor. On being blocked here he
made a dash for the window, but
the deputy was too quick for him
and snapped handcuffs on him. In
default of bond Keator was taken
to the county jail at Halifax.
U. D. C. Meet With
Mrs. O. W. Pierce
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy held their regular
meeting at the home of Mrs. O. W.
Pierce with Mrs. O. W. and Mrs.
W. A. Pierce, Mrs. Lee Johnson and
Mrs. H. V. Bounds as joint hos
tesses. The meeting was opened
with the usual exercises. A note
of thanks was read from Mr. Sam
Trueblood and family. Mrs. Man
ning was welcomed as a new mem
ber.
It was moved and carried to give
$10 for four years in succession to
the Norman V. Randolph relief
fund. The treasurer was instruct
ed to give Mrs. Turner $5 which
she gave to an old Veteran who
was passing through town and
needed help. The treasurer re
ported $60.00 on hand with $36.50
paid on State taxes.
Members were urged to sub
scribe to and read "The Confed
erate Veteran, ’ also to use their
influence in having more Southern
literature in our schools.
Mrs. Holoman gave an interest
ing talk on different phases of the
work. Miss Jane Gregory gave an
interesting reading. Music on the
Orthophonic was enjoyed while the
hosesses served delicious sand
wiches and Russian tea.
Urges Veterans To
Apply For Bonuses
Loss of nearly a billion dollars
faces World war veterans of the
country who have failed to apply for
the Federal Adjusted Compensation
"bonus’’ unless they act before Jan
uary 2, next, acording to Sergeant
Roy W. Younger, in charge of the
local U. S. Army recruiting at Ra
leigh.
With 4,477,412 ex-service men and
women estimated as eligible for the
benefits of the so-called “soldier
bonus” only 3, 613 163 had received
Adjusted Compensation Policies up
to a rencent date. Their claims ag
gregated $3,487,384,702, or an aver
age of $965 each, he stated.
Among approximately 800,000 vet
erans still entitled to apply, the re
cruiting officer believes there are
undoubtedly many who live in this
vicinity, and there will be given
the necessary papers to fill out if
they will call or write to the re
cruiting office, he declared.
Any honorably discharged veteran
who served in the army, navy, or
marine corps for more than 60 days
between April 5, 1917, and July 1,
1919, providing he began his service
before the Armistice, is entitled to
the benefits of the adjusted compen
sation law. To be valid, application
must be filed in Washington before
January 2, 1930. Congress recently
extended the expiration date from
January 1, 1928.
Relatives of deceased ex-service
men may make application for the
“bonus” and will be helped to com
plete the application blanks if they
will call at the recruiting office.
Loss of army discharge does not
cost a veteran his adjusted com
pensation, the recruiting officer said,
although a discharge is desired when
available.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Neal Jr.
spent the week end in Columbia.
BLASTING CAPS
DANGER SOURCE
Five Hundred Children In
jured Annually: Dean
Schaub Urges Care
INCREASE IN THE SPRING
RALEIGH, March 12.—Five hun
dred children are injured annually
in the United States by playing
with blasting caps left lying around
carelessly after explosives have
been used. Eighty per cent of these
accidents occur in rural districts.
“Some children are killed,” says
Dean I. O. Schaub, head of the
school of agriculture at State col
lege. “These blasting caps are half
filled with fulminate of mercury,
one of the most sensitive and im
pulsive of all common explosives. It
is also very powerful and when the
caps are left lying about by care
less workmen, they are picked up by
boys and girls who hammer them,
pick them, throw them into fires
or otherwise use them as playthings.
As a result, there is a loss of an
eye, a finger or hand blown off or
a permanent injury in some other
way. Many children are thus un
fitted for useful occupations in later
life.”
me uean says mat most oi these
accidents occur in March, April and
May and decrease in the late Fall
and Winter. A large number of far
mers in North Carolina have order
ed farm explosives in recent weeks
to be used in clearing land of
stumps, ditch digging and other
ways. Caps used in firing these ex
plosives should be carefully stored
away. Few people realize how
dangerous they are and that a
spark or blow will explode them.
The explosion of the fulminate is
so exceedingly quick that flying
particles of copper will imbed them
selves in iron a foot away. A box
of caps will blow a hole through
a two-inch plank and one cap will
blow a child's hand off.
Explosive manufacturers in the
United States are now realizing
this danger to children from caps
left carelessly about and are urging
all purchasers to use care in handl
ing them.
Pythian Banquet
Held Here Tuesday
The Weldon Lodge No. 227 of the
Knights of Pythians held their
banquet in th ebasement of the
Methodist church on Tuesday even
at 7:30. Every place was filled and
one of the largest crowds they have
ever had enjoyed a delicious three
course supper.
The Rev. R. S. Fountain was
toastmaster for the evening and
his jokes were enjoyed by all. A
very interesting program was en
joyed. The program was as fol
lows:
“America"; Invocation; menu;
Introduction of Guests, N. J.
Shepherd; Address of Welcome, T.
A. Chappell; Vocal Solo. Mrs. R. T.
Daniel; "Echoes from Pythian
Home,” George E. Lovell, Grand
Keeper of Records and Seals;
Vocal Solo, Miss Maude Cotton and
Mrs. R. T. Daniel; “Moo-Cow
Moo," Miss Marjorie Collins; In
troduction of Speaker, Prof. A. W.
Oakes; Address, C. F. Gore, Grand
Chancellor Domain of North Caro
lina; Pythian Quartete; Words
from Royal Vizier, C. E. Carter;
a number by D. W. Seifert; Pythian
Quartette.
How Mongolian Girls
Pick Their Husbands
When a Mongolian girl comes of
marrying age she sets a day for the
ceremony, then at a certain time
she rides forth from her tent on i
fast horse, pursued by her suitors
who have been waiting outside. The
swain who catches her first becomes
her legal husband, although if she
is not pleased with the first who ap
proaches her she may beat him off
with a lash she carries. When at
last she is pleased, however, she
surrenders, is grabbed from her
horse, and is carried away. This
story was told by Owen Lattimore,
who has but recently returned from
a caravan tour of the Gobi desert
in Mongolia, the details of which
adventures he has told in “The
Desert Road to Turkestan.”
Mr. Grant Hostrander of Peters
burg, Va., spent several days here
last week.
Miss Jane Zollicoffer spent the
week end with Miss Elizabeth Al
len at Salem College.