Siftiiigs From the Legislature By 31. K. DUN NAG AN Special Writer for The Democrat ^ Raleigh.?Both houses of the Genera] Assembly have "gone up the hi*! and back again" during the past week several times, reminding of the gymnastic feat of "running in place" and getting nowheie, but the legislative body is making progress, even though there is apparently much lost motion, and the fifth week ended with them further along in the tasks before them. The main problem has been balancing the budget and leaving enough foi the departments, institutions and agencies necessary to get along on for the next two years. That is still the major hurdle and, in getting down to brass tacks, the joint finance committees have about discarded the Budget revenue bill and a sub-committee is directed to find new sources ?and that, is interpreted to mean that a sales tax will be levied, even though strenuously opposed. Another MacLean bill "13 in to provide an eight months school without any ail valorem tax on property. Figures have been produced to indicate that the eight months school can be operated with probably $2,000,000 more than was appropriated last year and on he same basis or standard. It the salary schedule is reduced, then the addition would be reduced _ by that much. Moreover, with an 8months school, the proposal is to ab- | dish all local tax districts so far as 1 tax for school operation is concerned which would eliminate several million dollars in local taxes over about three fourths of the State. The MacLean bill would require Si the tight months school and, to support it and the other requirements, it would be necessary to raise about -Si0,udC,G0G to balance the budget.! 1; would mean a sales tax of about 1 two per pent, of general sales, if i>i the license, income and franchise b; taxes remain as 'they have been for ?( two years, or a three pei cent, tax si, if they reduced to the 1329 scale. Ci The committees think industry is taxed too much in the new Budget H revenue bill. It now looks as if the ai sales tax is inevitable, since ad val- P orem will be removed. hi About all taxpayers have been m heard by the finance, and depart- vv ments and institutions have had their day with the appropriations commit- le teee. These t-wo groups are about in ready to gel down to business and ie bring out in a ftw days the commit- w tec revenue and appropriations mea- so tsures. th The committee on Koorguiiimifu;. hi of the (jpvernjn'ent is .haying its troubles, its first actual defeat fo catwe when the Senate, by a 2G to 01 24 vote, refused to abolish the Cor- Pi poration Commission and set up n P.,b", Utilities Contmriaioper in-!? stead. Concessions were made, but hardly enough. However, IV** measure was revived and again referred to the committee. Ii is likeiy that it will be adopted, but the only thing certain is another fight. M This committee did get through to two more of its bills. One transfers r.r the Local Government Commission pt work to th'e State Treasurer, now* 01 Charles M. Johnson, who developed 1 e the local government work. The oth- T! er abolishes ihe office of Executive SI counsel, iiul nil unmcoiara sawmg|ioft was prevented by Governor Ehr- fi ing'naus, whore request that the of- hi fice end with the adjournment of the B Genera] Assembly was written into bi the act. Tyre Taylor will thus con- w itnue to look after parole matters 111 until the legislature finishes its work when some provision will probably in have been made for the pardon and Ir psrole work. ei The teat farm abondonmint, mer- ai per of welfare with health work and ol other reorganization bills did not til come up lasit week. They too will meet opposition. R Seventy bills and resolutions, pre- is dominantly local, have been ratified te so far. Ten public measures were rat- fi ified last week and 22 local bills. N The fifth week saw a slowing down hi of new bills, about 100 having bean oj introduced, bringing the total for the m session to about 476. The number ei will continue >to dwindle. One of the hardest fights was on the measure to allow the medical profession iu kcvolte licenses of phy- U sicians without appeal to the courls. n it finally was passed, however An- n other bill passed that caused a fight t* set tic one abolishing deficiency p judgrr.cr.tc, v.'hieh makes the property fj purcrascd, mortgaged and sold un- t< der mortgage stand for the balance c, of the purchase price due. Another g new law limits the work of women i, clerks to a 10-hour day, a 54-hour p week and prevents continuous work more than l.ourc, iut does not apply to towns of less than 5,000 inhabitants, or where not more than a three are employed. ^ A Building and loan measure, spc- 0 cifying kinds of shares and requiring a a reserve fund, was enacted. Anoth- a er measure passed prevents a stock- d holder in a closed bank from paying double indemnity only once, in case a bank closes, -then reopens, and is again closed. t: The resolution, rushed through the tl House and halted in the 'Senate while h its introducers cooled their heels be- ? fore a committee, asking Industrial Commissioner T. A. Wilson to explain how much he spent of State t.money informing employers to get j (Continued on r I) " - JHll WA1 A Nor VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 32. Heroic Rescue- Chief Captain Giles 8tedmany of the S.S. : J Amerimn ?. -*v?vuo??, r.m uccoraea great honor? when he landed 22 men ' in New York, the crew resetted from the ainktnff Ezoter Oitj during a rag- ! ln^ storni in mid-ocean. J RITCHARD CASE ; IS THROWN OUT | C :natc Dismisses Contest Against i Election cf Bailey Charging Ir- i regularity. Reynolds Opposes S Expense Allowance. j Washington:?The Senate Friday ( igbt dismissed the contest brought < ,* George M. P rite hard, Republican, \ gainst the election of Senator Jo- ; ah W. Bailey. Democrat, of North o arolina. r Senator Moses, Republican, New s anipsltire, presented the report of r i elections subcommittee declaring t. ritchard's charges of irregularities id not been sustained and reeonv 5 ending its adoption. It was approved v ithout a record vote. y Senator Reynolds, Bailey's col- g ague, began a protest against pay- r g the $12,000 expenses of the con- s "Ounimitltiti- uy " hut-; -j hen Democrat Leader Robinson . ggested this e pending report, Reynolds took ; a =>=?,. - ?X Moses then submitted a resolution a S reference to the audit committee , 1 what expenses should be allowed } ritcliard. c i lew Pocaio Variety May Open Big Field 1 Truckers of .the Goldsboro end ih.1 ! ount Olive sections may be able ' furnish Irish potatoes to the great ark its of the middle west, if an exrinient to be conducted this spring i i the plantation of James T. Albritn near Calypso proves a success. ' he honticultural department of the tale College, Raleigh; the Atlantic J oast Line Railroad and a western rm are cooperating with Air. Al- ' ittton in trying out a crop of Red 1 !if.s Triumph and Western Cobblers J >lh of which arc types of spuds : hich find a ready market in the 1 iddle west. ' Most of the potatoes new grown the sections mentioned are the ish Cobblers, a white potato, ftast-i n markets prefer the Irish Cobbler ' id 'practically all of the potato crop J : eastern North Carolina is sold in 1 ie east. iniuuie western markets nrotev the!, ed Bliss Triumph potato, and if it found that 'this potato and the wesrn cobbler can be grown suceessilly in this section, it will mean that orth Carolina potato growers will ave opened up to them the market f Chicago and other ipg cities of the .iddle West as well as retaining the astern markets. BUYS BARNET STORE Mr. J. P. Pearson, of North Wilcsboro has purchased the 1. T. Barest grocery store and produce busicsi in East Boone and announces >day his opening for Saturday. Mr. enrson is a former member of the rm of Pearson Brothers, well known j Wataugans, and will doubtless suceed well in bis new location. Mr. arnett has not said as to whether e will enter other business enterrises. MRS McGUIRE DEAD Mrs. Mary Louisa McGuire, died t her home Saturday near Todd afsr a short illness. She was 83 years Id and death was likely due to her dvanced age. Other than that funerl was at Todd on Sunday further eitails could not be secured. IiOW DOWN" MOUNTAIN Washington.?There's a high mouniln that's so low that you can't see he top of It. A mountain a mile igh was discovered in the Pacific icean off the coast of Santa Cruz, alif.. by the crew of the United States eodellc Survey boat. Guide. But liippers needn't worry about h'.tting he top of the mountain because it's ' ,401) feet under the surface of the,P AUG! i-Partisan Newspaper, ?fe BOONE, WATAUGA COM PROPOSES A PLApI TO AID THE FISCAL STATUS OF SCHOOLS Banner Elk College Head Sees in Flan to Support State Scho'ofe by Commodity Tax. Plan Wou? Aid Teacher* So They Would Not Feel Full Effects of Salary Siasb. Edgar Tufts Father of Plan. Banner Elk. Feb. 7. ? A livo-afe home plan whereby the State can si a in bain the Greater University/ih ft scale of school-teachers salaries, an* still balance its budget was suggest^ ed here today by Edgar Tufts. Mr? Tufts is president '-of Lees-McRae College, which has one of the lowest per capita costs of any school ih< the state. His idea is a school tax*, levied on heads of families, which] may be paid either in cash or in' ?ind. All farm products turned iili .vould be accepted and used directly by the State's institutions of earning, the Greater University, [vhrch spends many thousands of dolars annually to -sudoIv the student lining rooms at the three institutions, ind also by ail other state colleges vhich at present pay cash prices for ;heir necessary larders. The amount of farm and garden iroduce which the school system touiu use, says Mr. Tufts, may be ncreascd by arranging for teachers n country one und two-teacher / chools to live in the school house '! ind keep house, using foodstuffs sup- J >liof the state the teachers have already 1 oluntarily made such an arrange .lent, purchasing their groceries out if their own salaries directly from the i i.ighborhood farms and finding a : aving of fioin ler. to fifteen dollars j nonthly over the old arrangement i if paying for board and room. With the free use of these small I chool houses which contain extra oonis suitable for living quarters, , is hundreds of them do. and with all j troceries contributed as a tax by the 5 lejghhorhood, such teachers could ^ tand a substantial salary cut at no .rttmllci: o? i'vujff stanillkrds anw \ ;t a reai saving in net inSbme, foi I hey woij'itl have ne-vootn^ir-.hoarALi nil whatever. These rural teacher| low voluntarily living itt* country chool houses arc r""?-r- rfTyn?M!" * irnangcment because of the greater 1 feedom which it gives them and the onvcnience of their residence. Donestic science classes give the chillren practical experience and lighln the small burden of the teacher's lousekeeping. In the case of consolidated schools t Would not always be possible to ave the retaehcr's rent money, since he consolidated buildings are not ; uitahle for residence purposes, but ilr. Tufts hebeves that their board , ill can still be saved and the comnodity tax used. Where the faculty , mve no t cache rage or teachers' club , mch an establishment can easily be et up and the pantry kept filled tr iverflowing hy a neighborhood tax , n kind. City families having no garlens or other mereas of paying the j ax in kind would have an Spportunty to furnish instead the necessary imount of cooking, dish washing and ior.se cleaning for the teache-rage. . J Cotton ar.d tobacco as well as food dr. Tufts believes, should be accep,ed by the state as a school tax, a!hiv.iP'h svf p slitrKt: rlircnim f tti rimrfrr ' he- state's expense in marketing hem. This iliscount would serve to . mcourage the planting of gardens, . n order io pay the tax in kind. As i tn incentive to the necessary continled emphasis on the live-at-home Mr. rufts says such a school tax would , >e hard to beatHis idea is based on his experience . it Banner Elk, where Lees-McRae lunior College has its own farm and vhere most of the remaining food tecesaary is supplied by students in >ayment of tuition fees. Eggs, cher-ies, a calf and many other comniolities were taken in last semester. The proposed commodity tax may un counter to the faot that a large icrcentage of the State's rural popilation is at present drawing Red >oss flour, he says, but it will serve . is a sharp stimulant to the planting )f gardens which will in turn present the necessity for continued dis- ' xibution of foodstuffs to rural citi- ! :ens who have ithe land, the time and he ability to raise enough food for hemselves, theiT families and liveitock. with a little margin left over 10 help support the staner schools. Two million dollars annually could 3e cut from the State educational ippropriaitions if the tax were put nto effect, Mr. Tufts estimates, by ibe savings in teachers' salaries and lecessarry expenditures for food by the Iwel-UlltlAWO A t uc ^muus ui wie umim. iu>Ti,ik.ui/iuiia u* higher learning. At the same time, le says, there would be no real hardship on the people and the ultimate result of the tax w51l be highly salitary. Eighiy-five per cent, of the $8,362.50 loaned to 226 farmers in Alexander County from the Government seed loan fund has been repaid. 4 DI v?g?ofot-e InrfuafiifcvCommhssioRav T. 4 VfiUon. Tftt. }\Mpunt Airy, thre ^ up " ^ ^ V ' -a February Tffth 9:30 a. rtfg and the aotiott of Albert C. Farthing vi L. M. Farthing. Sheriff. Legislature is Behind 1931 Mark, One W?v Raleigh.?From a numerical s ani point the 1933 general assembly i its 28 legislative days is behind tk 1931 record in only one thing?bit passed by the house. Figures compiled on the first 9 days of each of the sessions sho' that during the time the 1931 ho us had passed ITS bills while the ou. sent house has passed only 159. In a other lines the 1933 session is nan erioally ahead of the record breai ing 1931 record. New house bills tola! 104 as nsrton. The officer was bai ly .beaten about the head and strife ed a possible fracture of the skull : addition to loss of several teeth ar an injury which may cause loss < one eye. He reported that while c his patrol on the Fayette ville-Raleif highway he saw a man apparent drunk in the noad. He said he sto ped the motorcycle and attempt! to arrest the man, whereupon foi other men crowded about ?i?i. W o o'oi/l Vi n rlivnr Vile rkictftl ar Stood them off until they said th< were only joking in interfering:. J he replaced his pistol in its holste he said, the men attacked him, thre him to the ground and were beatir him and kicking him when two de utics sheriff passing the scene can to his rescue and arrested the fh men. All were taken to jail in Lillini bon. Farmers of Lincoln County a: planting an increased acreage spring oats due to unfavorable co ditions for sowing small grain la fall. IMOCl sts of Northwest North Caro >BAY FEBRUARY 9; 1933. velt Cabinet Selections *] li KTI -~g b tc c: s possible members of President-elect ^ ite Washington reports. , . . They are inia, as Secretary of the Treasury and , ( )f Montana, as Attorney General. ... named Postmaster-General. VI 'JOSEPH C. COOK v )j DIES IN VALLEY i t. :o Well Known Farmer and Saw Mill P Operator Dies Suddenly Last Wednesday. Heart Attack C Said ,ti> Be Cause Death. 's Th: following account of the death CI i- of Josf/ph C. Cook, well known in G c* this county, will be of local interest, s The news comer from the columns G :>f the Lenoir News-Topic: h s Joseph C. Cook, well known farm- w i. ci of the Yadkin Valley, died sudden- '<* i- ly at. his home yesterday morning and will be buried ?l 2 p. m. this af- " ts tenioon, following funeral rites con ? I .IUVH.M UW 1 UtU.I ,'UII. e| Atr. Cook was in his usual health V I,! and was sitting ia. frppt. of a fiye-1 * HOME ECONOMICS CLUB The College Home Economies club ( met Monday afternoon, January 29. q The following oniteretsfcingl program t. y w,iv- tendered: Vocal selections. Mir!lam Eiiry: a taslii-n alvow presented 1- by Thel.iia Oubyi,f.?hd a soldi "Alice ?, a lilue Gown," by Virginia Day vault; p ,e Pajamas, the houre dress, sport dress y Is a rainy day outfit, street clothes the y church disss and '.he evening dress y 8 i were shown. Eller. Maothews, Helen 3| iv j Abcrnothy, Mahel Gibbs, Vera Icon- j; a,", hour. Jimmie Ward, Evelyn Caudle v ; and Novella Dixon were the attrac- y 1! j live models. i- It was suggested that the elub give n 5- a tea sometime soon. A committee , was appointed to make plans for it. t i-: '''he members were very happy to y l-j have their seers ary, Miss Elisabeth y > 1 : ttneer- bark with them. TO AID IN INCOME TAX FILING n_ For the convenience of those who are reiiuircd by law lo file Federal j- income lax leturns, W. M. Thomas _s Deputy Colieciov of Internal ReveVj_ nv.e will be at. the CCatcher Hotel in l_ Boone February 20 and 21 to nssist taxpayers in making their re" turns. There is nu charge for this service. .e WEATHER REPORT for month of January, 1933, as compiled by Co-operative Station at the - State Teachers College, J. T. C. Wright, observer: r- Average maximum temperature, a 63 degrees. 0- Average minimum temperature 30 *- degrees. - Average temperature. 41 degrees. ; 1- Average daily range in temperar ture 21 degrees. in Greatest daily range in temperaid ture 41 degrees on the 2nd. >? Average temperature at 6 p. m. m 41 degrees. th Highest temperature reached, 61 ly degrees on 19th and 22nd. P- Lowest temperature reached, 14 ?d degrees on the 1st. "" Total precipitation (including met-1% n> Scri?"w) in inches, 3.29. id Greatest precipitation in 24 hours 1.30 on the 25th. is Total snowfall in inches, 4.00. r, Greatest snowfall in 24 hours, 3.50 w on the 27th. ig Number of days with .01 inch or p- more precipitation 11. ?e Number of clear days, 14. re Number of partly cloudy days, 5. %- Number of cloudy days, 12. Dates of fogs, 4, 11, 24. Dates of killing frosts, 2, 3, 4, 14, re 15, 16. to Dates of solar hatos, 2, 11, 23, 24, n- 26, 31. st Dates of lunar halos, 7. Dates of high winds, 27, 23. RAT lina $1.50 PER YEAR WO EXONERATED If1 'NVEST1GATI0N .TAL ACCIDENT c * 1'iuLi.. Jim Simmons Freed of * ?e in Connection V/ith the ? th of James Coffey in Corojq s Investigation Monday. Young n Suffers Broken Skull When ? Fali* From Moving Truck. 3 w 1 Shu make and Jim Simmons, oiihg men of the Blowing Rock seeon were adjudged free of any comlic'itv in the death of James Coffey, eigfhbor youth, when Deputy Coroer Charles T. Zimmerman of Boone isnrln/'tc/l ?.... ?.,x i j t Tcouigcn,! u u luynaay ito the circumstances surrounding he death. Mr. Coffey it developed was riding n truck driven by one of the other oysf and there being no sideboards ) the "bed" of the vehicle he was ist onto the roadway near the Dainerfield estate on the Linvillt* highay. Coffey suffered compound fracl'ros of the skull and other bruises bout the body. The accident c-ccur2d late Friday afternoon and dc-ath ante early Saturday. The official investigation was likiy brought about by the rumor that humake and Coffey had had differnce's during Christmas, but nothing eveloped during the inquest tending > show that there had been foul lay. The jury's verdict was that James loffey came to his death from an navoidablc accident. Those composig the jury were: C. S. Prevette, r. C. Waiters. A. M. Critchcr, N. r -reen, J H. Winkler and L. F. Coon. Deceased was the son of the late eorge E. Coffey and was well known i the vicinity of Blowing Rock here he had spent his life. He was 5 years old. f niprmpnf wue AXrxrwl?>.? nPln.."Aftj. i the Reform Church cemetery. A widow survives. Vatauga Boy on Honor , fUjil* at Leea-McRatf' ^* 'ill ? if-v ' & > BWPP r sfctHSents of iea-AIcRac Jtinjof' College^ and . fi ye n- of ilico, W. Va., a freshman in ollege, a ml Clin? Farthing of Sugar rove, Watauga County, enrolled in le High School Department. Honorable mention, requiring an verage of 90 point" or over, went :> the following of the College I' avtn-.ent: T. G. Mo.Aiister of Oaro^cn, Anderson Oldham of Durham, William Salmon of Durhum, Charles feaver of Lansing, Clarence Wilkeron of Mehane, Robert Tully of Mt. [ope. W. Va., Ruth Perry of Breard, and Dysnrt Chapman, of Lewburg, Tenn. The following received honorable icntion in the High School Departier,t: Virginia Miller of Banner Elk, anie Gillespie iff Johnson City. Luticr Hodge of Bristol, and Charles 'router of Ciiftv, W. Va. Honorable mention for good work JgSgjKgj fas also given to 'en students in ollegc who came within one point or ess of the required average. Thev .-ore: I.ucille Cashion of Sanfortl, "narles Stuckcy of fjnvannah, Gator Smith of Charlotte, Verne Shook if Memory, Virgil Lively of Long 3ranch, \V. Va., Hunter Blevins of fevnilon, Va., Alex Arlcuge of Henlersonville, Ruth Barlow of Banner 31k, ABbie Seals ci Bridge-water nr.d iurke Hobgood of Durham. Students from out of the State ind from Eastern North Carolina bade particularly good showing durng it he semester, according to Mr. ritchett. IRE THREATENS TO DESTROY rOUNCILL HOME ON MONDAY A fire nlarm was sent in from the . D. Councill home on Main Street JonSay afternoon, when smoke he an emanating from the house. The ire company arrived and had some lifficuliy in locating the source of he smoke. At length ii was found hat the floor had become ignited inder the kitcnen range, and tee laze was th'en easily extinguished, t considerable- section of flooring vas burned, while the water damage vas nominal. ' LINCOLN DAY DINNER BH r?/vV k TV f Lw-wcawM ucuam/i ivuuci v xj. uat cy ui n ysjiuTig, will likely be the principal epelev sA the Lincoln day dinner a. rally to be held at King Cotton H. :el next Saturday evening;. Usual7 several local republicans attend the. events, and any interested in point. ?re asked to pet in (touch with Chairnan Russell D. Hodges, or Secretary Jlyde R. Greene. Co-operative turkey marketing Is Oelns practiced to excellent advantage by growers of Catawba County who find better profits as a result of hipping plucked turkeys to outsldo