SEPTEHIBER 20. 1934
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News From T
Other Ralei
By M. R. DUXNAGAN
i Staff Correspondent)
Raleigh. X. C.?Thirty-six units of
North Carolina National Guard has
been called out on svtikc duty to the
end of last week, embracing about
2,200 men, all after aiaiatance by local
officers who showed that local
conditions in mill areas had gotten
out of their control. Tn no cases were
troops sent when workers had gone
or. strike voluntarily, but. as Governor
Ehringhaus has adopted a policy,
only to those areas in which mills
have been stopped by ilying squadrons
from other sections who forced
workers desiring to work from running
mills. The Governor insists that
when the majority cf men in a mill
desire to work, their right to do so
will be protected.
iiiie uiere nan oeen many litstances
of initmidat'on and threats,
only in a few cases has there been
actual violence, the most noticablc
being the explosion of dynamite both
at Fayetteville and Burlington, and
minor bayonet prickings by guardsmen
to keep strikers back in Concord
Belief now is. basde on statements
of labor leaders, that the flying
squadrons will stop their activities,
leaders ciaiming they will direct their
activity to organize workers ill mills
now running and not organized. In
that case, the textile strike, started
on Labor Day, is expected to settle
down to an endurance contest between
striking employees and employers.
However, many observers arc not
so hopeful, and fear that there will
be further trouble, possibly even
bloodshed, before the strike comes to
an end.
Governor Ehringhaus asks that the
attention of the public, as well as the
striking employees, be called to the
definition of "peaceful picketing" given
by the U. S. Supreme Court, hop-<
ing that understanding wii) prevent!
trouble. It is:
"In going to and from work, men
have a right to as free a passage
without obstruction as the. streets afford,
consistent with the right of others
to enjoy the same privilege. Wc
are a social people, and the accosting
of one by another is an inoffensive
way and an offer by one to communicate
and discuss information
with a view to influencing the other's
action are not regarded as aggressive
or a violation of that other's
rights. If, however, the offer is
declined, as it may rightfully be.
then persistence, importunity, following
and dogging become unjustifiable
annoyance and obstruction which
Is likely soon to savor of intimidation
From all of this the person
sought to be influenced has a right
to bQ free, and his employer has a
right to have him free.- V. 8. Supreme
Court's decision in ease of the
American Steel Foundries vs. TriOity
Central Trade Council.
POTATO MEETING
The potuto situation in North Carolina
veil! be considered at a meeting
to be held in Washuigton September
20th. cailed by Congressman Lindsay
Warren. Governor Ehringhaus
urges all interested in potato growing
to attend. He has been active
for a year in efforts to bring some
relief to potato growers and hopes
that at this meeting some definite
progress can be made. He plans to be
at this meeting, unless prevented by
unexpected developments.
JEFFRESSIMPROVED
E. B. Jeffres3, chairman of the
State Highway and Public Works |
Commission, was reported as being
slightly improved in a Richmond hospital
after a brain operation some
two weeks ago, following a stroke of
paralysis in his Greensbor-j home. Mr.
Jeffries has been unconscious since
the stroke, but was reported as being
some stronger. The Highway
Commission, meeting last week, decided
to con i inue to act as a unit on
matters before that body in the absence
of Chairman Jeffress. in the
hope that he may be able finally to
return and resume his work.
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STATE FAIR IX OFFING
Extensive preparations are being
made for the annual North Carolina
State Fair to be held at the fair
-grounds near Raleigh October 8-13,
under direction of Norman Y. Chambliss
of Rocky Mount, and George
Hamid of New York, who gave such
a successful fair last year. Premium
lists of more than $10,000 have been;
prepared and unusually large and fine I
exhibits are expected, following such |
a successful season in the State in
most farm products. The operators
promise excellent entertainment features
and splendid races.
WELFARE CONFERENCES
"Some present-day problems in the
changing social program" will be the
theme of six annual district welfare
conferences to be held at as many
central points in the State in October
under joint auspices of the State
Department of Public Welfare and
the State Association of county welfare
superintendents. Dates and places
for the six conferences are announced
by Mrs. W. T. Bost, State
Commissioner of Public Welfare, as
follows: Western, at Newland October
10th; Northwestern, Winston-Salem.
October 11; Southwestern. Rockingham,
October 12; Northeastern,
Elizabeth City, October 16; Central,
extile Strike:
gh Comment
Xa3hvi!lc. October 17: Southeaster?]
Southport, October 18
TOBACCO PRICES DOUBLED
Tobacco markets in North Carotin:
sold 55,419,012 pounds ot" tobacco du
ring the month of August for an av
erage of 525.47 a hundred pound.*;
more than twice, the 512.97 paid ii
August last year, in which montJ
40,370,997 pounds were soid. Till
does not represent a full month*
sales, as markets on the South Caro
Una border during the month am
the eastern bright belt later. Centra
markets opened some two weeks ug<
and Piedmont markets are y;i i<
open. Prices in August las; year wen
those paid before tlie parity agree
nient was reached as the result o
uiv. insistence ot Governor Ehrmg
haus with AAA folks and tobaeci
manufactures on several trips t\
Washington. The August average the
year is being maintained on the marl
kets that are now open, thus far ii
September.
COTTON CROP LARGE
The cotton crop in North Carolina
is estimated as of September 1st tc
amount of 325 pounds an nere. s
poundage not exceeded since the appearance
of the boll weevil in 1924
and almost equal to the ail-time record
of 342 pounds in 1911, the SlateFederal
crop reporting services report.
The State's record crop war
1,208,000 bales in 1926, produced 3.1
an average of 320 pounds to th-:
acre. The crop this year will approach
that figure, although the acreage
had been cut about one-third in
the past few years The Governor
Gardner program of larger production
on smaller acreage is being achieved.
Boll weevil damage started about
August loth, but unless the ravages
increase, the proportion of the cotIon
ruined by these pests will be
small North Carolina is expected to
produce more cotton than is allowed
under the Bankhead bill, while tile
nation's will be less than is allowed,
it is now indicated.
"DUCK STAMPS"
"Duck stamps," costing 31 and
available at postot'fice.s, are now
available for those who wish to hunt
migratory waterfowl in North Carolina
this season. The "duck stamp"
is to be pasted on the State hunting
license, which must be presented
when applying for the new stamp.
This stamp is a tax imposed by the
Federal Government on hunters, the
proceeds to be used for the purchase
of refuges and protection ot migra
tory waterfowl. One such purchase
has recently been made In North Carolina,
the 49,000-acre tract embraced
in Lake Matlamuskeet, Hyde County.
YADKIN FLOATS KOND !SSL;E
Yadkin County recently voted
$140,000 in bonds for an extensive
program of new school buildings and
additions to others, by a majority oi
1,600, about two to one against the
registration. The money will be borrowed
from the PVVA and a grant oi
about $42,000 will be made, in addition.
This is the first time in the history
of North Carolina that a countywide
election for a county-wide school
building- program has been voted
State Superintendent A. T. Allen
says. It has been done by county
commissioners before, but never by fi
vote of the people, he said.
LICENSES MUST HE PAID
Professional men and artisans
some of whom have been "getting
away with murder" by not "paying Iht
annual license tax required of tlu
Stale, are now in a fair way to lost
their licenses to engage in their professions
tinder renewed activity ol
the Stale Revenue Department
Groups in several towns and citiei
have been and are being cited to ap
pear before a Superior Court judg<
to show cause why their license.'
should not be revoked, for failure t(
pay the tax. In case of lawyers, il
is now determined that there art
close to 2,500 practicing in the State
while only about 1,800 paid the li
cense for 1932, records show. Somi
of the other professions also shov
larger numbers that pay the tax
which is $25, but if a lawyer make;
oath he did not receive more thai
$1,000 the previous year from hi
profession, he is allowed license fo
half price, $12.50. Forty-two per cent
of all lawyers in the State paid th
half price in 1932.
The revenue department under it
reorganization is going after delin
quents. Those listed as being require^
to pay this profoisoinal license ar
attorneys, physicians, dentists, vetei
inary surgeons, osteopaths, chiroprac
tors, chiropodists, oculists, optician;
optometrists, all healing art practi
oirtnorc fnr nnv nil l*ir?ria arforitiooT
and architects, public accountant;
photographers, real estate, renta
leasing and loan agents, also license
morticians, who pay $10, howevei
Private detectives also pay S25. I
is a sort of double teaming on lav
yers, who can be disbarred for n<
paying the State tax and also tl
dues of $3 a year to the North Car<
Una State Bar.
TO DROP FERA WORKERS
Unemployed workers on relief rol
will be dropped from these roll3
they turn down jobs offered them b
cause they can receive larger ps
from the FERA, Mrs. Thomas O'Be
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV!
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The W eek in
1 Washington. D. O. ? President
* Roosevelt's hold upon the affections
1 of the American people docs not seem
i to have diminished, to judge from
reports brought back to Washing ton
by political scouts of both parties.
"Even those in and out of his own
party, including many rock-ribbed
' Republicans, who never have voted
arid never, will vote the Democratic
ticket, admit the charm of the man
and concede the effect of his personal
magnetism not only upon those who
meet him face to face, but oven when
it is projected over the radio. There
is no question that Mr. Roosevelt's
voice 13 the most persuasive that has
ever spoken into a microphone, while
his cheery smile wins the personal re
JPCTT ui u:ow: wjlo arc most latterly
opposed to tne course of his
Administration.
For that reason, most ot the criticism
of the Administration so far
has been directed at its acts and
methods, and aimed ostensibly at the
President's subordinates, usually with
tiie explicit reservation that no persona!
criticism of the President is intended
And that state of affairs
probably will continue even though
some conservative Democrats desert
the standurd of the Administration.
Predict Party Division
| Out of this peculiar situation some
j astute observers here believe that a
new party line-up is definitely on the
I wny Some even go so far as to preJ
diet that the major party division ill
10."hi will be between a "Roosevelt
Party" and a 'Constitution Party,"
by whatever names them call themselves.
Indications which give color to this
idea of a new party line-up in American
politics arc many. There is. for
example, the coalition of Republicans
and Democrats in the new Amer
ican Liberty League- whose leaders,
incidentally, profess the usual personal
friendship for -Mr. Roosevelt
while setting up an organization thai
I cannot be anything but opposed u
I the Roosevelt program. There is the
| recent resignation of Low Douglas
I j Director of the Budget, latest in the
| series of rseignatiens of conserva
'1 tive-minded men from thoir Admin,
istration |x>sts. Mr. Douslus openly
t avowed his lack of sympathy with the
Treasury's system of bookkeeping
which Secretary Morgenthau deserifced
ir. his recent radio address, whereby
one set of figures is used to show
' that the campaign pledge to re.iuci
. the Government's expenditures hai
. beer, kept and another entirely die
. feront set of figures is produced t,
. cover the amounts of the heavy in
- crease in the National Debt and Lh<
disposition made of the funds so bor
s rowed.
The Treasury Report
j According to Mr. Morgenthau, tie
. $6,000,000,000 increase in th? debt i;
5 actually only $4,400,000,000. bec.auS'
L the Treasury has $1,600,000,000 of thi
, money still on hand, without countinj
the "profit of $2,800,000,000 arisin}
I from the devaluation of the gold dol
, lar. And much of the borrowed mon
, ey has been re-loar.ed through the R
F. C. and other agencies,
j Republican speakers in the etirren
, Congressional campaigns are begin
s ning to make use of Lhe Douglas res
r ignation and the Morgenthau figures
t with what effect remains to be seer
e Beyond doubt, in the more conserva
tive parts of the nation, a reactio:
g against the Administration is setting
. in, but that this will result in the re
j turn of a Republican majority -to th
e new Congress is not exported by eve:
.. the most ardent devotee of the G. C
P. And any Republican gains ar
) likely to be offset by the election c
[J some radical members from the Cer
3 tral West and parts of the Soutl
who will demand that the Federe
li
d ry, State director, announces, quotin
r. a statement from Col. Joseph Kyd
[t Pratt, division engineer. If the pa
r~ they get from jobs they take is les
,t than FT3RA scale, then they will t
to allowed the difference, but they wi
be dropped entirely if they refti;
jobs, even at smaller pay, Mrs. O
Berry states. These workers are su]
posed to supply local agricultural an
Is other labor needed, the State direc
if or said. The FERA jobs are create
e- only when other jobs are not aval
iy able, and workers are warned to ta>
r- any jobs that are available.
THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C.
r* oac prize bunch of i
?? exhibited at the Lo? Allele* |
unity Fair by Grape-Prinersr, ? ,,i
Hoe Connor. The bunch of
ipci* ^hown in the photo weighed
- pounds. ?
i Washington
.! Government go even farther to the
> left than it has gone. Moreover, a
i good deal of the disaffection Is in the
i South, where it is regarded as praci
tically hopeless to get any considerable
number of people to accept the
name "Republican" on any party
i banner which they will follow.
I The name of "Constitution Party"
has been adopted and thrown into
the picture by at least one former
Democrat. He is Colonel Hcnrv Brec1
kin ridge, who was assistant Secretary
of War in Wilson's administra
lion, and has lately figured in the
i limelight as attorney for Colonel
i Charles A. Lindbergh. He has dec
la red for United States Senator
i ficm New York under the "Constitution
Party" banner. As an anti:
New Dealer he may give Senator
Copeland a lively Contest, unless the
. j Republicans nominate a stronger can.
did ate than any now in sight.
Excitement Ahead
At the other extreme of the political
picture is the nomination on the
i Democratic ticket for Governor of
California, of Upton Sinclair, author
i of many extremely radical hooks and
i an avowed Socialist, though his Socialism
is more a mixture of Henry
George and Edward Bellamy than the
pore Karl Marx brand. His slogan,
: EPIC, which stands for "End Poverty
in California," is calculated to
. catch the Radical voters, but it is no
. secret in Washington that the siti
uation created theroby has the Administration
worried. For that mat:
t?r. as one able observer remarked j
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sain i firsv the PacVie Coast,
re amc te v.- rry is the
si:-j.'/.n. with strikes
ircretrib? :r. number as i seriousness
and the Administration trying to figure
out whether if would be belter
polities to put ail strikers on the relief
rolls or to tighter! up on its relief
program.
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