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PAGE TWO Through... I 1 STATE CAPITAL KEYHOLES 1 By BESS HINTON SILVER ' STEAMING UP—The campaign in behalf of Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby’s silver-tonguer, for the Democratic nomination for Governor next year, is being whipped into nice form if the political stars read true. Mr. Hoey is yet silent on his decision but the boys who snoop around learning things about people addicted to poli tics say you need not be surprised if there is an immediate up-cropping of Hoey-for-Govemor Clubs among the youngsters at Chapel Hill and other institutions of higher learning. If the matter develops that far you can mortgage your house and lot and bet that Hoey will be a candidate and the odds will be with you. CONGRESS The State Capitol this week is of the opinion that Con gressman R. L. Doughton is in a mood to seek the governorship via the Democratic primaries and a can didate to succeed him in Congress from the Ninth District. He is no less a person than Dalton Warren, the Senator from Alleghany County. Friends of Mr. Warren say he is go ing to seek the Congressional seat no matter what “Farmer Bob” decides to do but express confidence that Dough, ton really means to retire from Con gress even if he does not run for Governor. V ! * "ONE MORE THING Friends of 1 Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham think he is doing nicely presiding over his second term of the State Senate : and they are beginning to roll the old : political ball in his behalf for Gover- i nor. “Sandy” said his luck with the Legislature would influence his deci sion on the Gubernatorial matter and even his enemies are failing to point out major mistakes. You can’t tell what’s going on in the Scotch head . of the Lieutenant Governor but a lot of people are ready to help him make up his mind to step across the line as a candidate. It’s going to be highly embarrassing to many people if Gra ham and Hoey cross swords. CHANGED COURSE—Many close personal and political friends of Re presentative R. Gregg Cherry, of Gaston, say he is paddling his canoe toward the Speakership of the ls>37 House. They say he has abandoned . any idea of running for Governor. At least he has told some folks that he wants to come back to the Legisla i ture one more time. If he seeks to wield the gavel over the 10 Repre ": sentatives he is likely to find Repre • sentative R. F. (Jack) Morphew, of • Graham, grabbing for the handle in the Democratic caucus two years hence. Ambitions make political his tory. OPPOSITION North Carolinians are writing their Senators and Con gressmen to oppose the Rayburn bill which would repose authority to ft* rates in the federal power commis sion. State regulatory bodies would find their hands pretty well tied un der the Rayburn bill and Tar Heels still are suffering from federal dis crimination in the matter of freight rates. Considerable sentiment against the Raybutn bill has been manifest in Raleigh especially among person? owning stock in domestic power com panies. They fear its passage wouli' reduce the value of their holdings. MARATHON—The boys who know their legislatures say that a rea' bombshell exploded when the motior was made in finance committee to re duce the sales tax rate from three to two percent. Immediately all former predictions on sine die adjournment were withdrawn and even the optimis tic Robert Grady Johnson, Speaker of the House, admitted that the end if not yet in sight. The anti-sale : taxers led by Representatives W. L. Lumpkin, of Franklin, and Ralph Mc- Donald, of Forpyth, are wise enough to adopt this course in their effort to slow down the trend toward consump tion taxes. One man’s guess is about as good as another’s on what will happen before the General Assembly folds up for good—(or worse). i DIVERSION Don’t sleep upon ■ your couch if you want your gasoline taxes spent on your roads. Designs looking toward using it for other things have not been abandoned. On the other hand, diversionists are re ported sitting up nights planning the best way to get a finger into the high way fund. When the real raid starts some potent influences of legislative opinion will be found in the ranks. There is considerable opinion motor ists pay their taxes without' com plaint and will not kick up much of a row if they are spent for general fund and other purposes. What’s your idea 7 \ COMING UP—Don’t get the idea that the suggested tystem of text book rental has been abandoned. The bill providing for such a system is still in committee but individual law makers are getting things in line to push the measure through the legisla ture ere long. You haven’t seen any fight, not even over the sales tax, to what , you will witness when this text book matter comes into the front line THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C„ THURSDAY, MARCH f, 1986. trenches, according to past records and present predictions, there is little doubt, however, that sentiment for renting books is growing and the proposition has a much better chance of becoming law than during past sessions. WIELDS CLUB Senator Lloyd Griffin, of Chowan, is one member of the General Assembly who getA things done without benefit of oratory. You couldn’t exactly say that he has “it” but when it comes to the school sys tem his ideas usually prevail. The secret of it is that he has the knowl edge and determination needed to guide legislation through a General Assembly. When storms break over the school problem Senator Griffin usually lets things ride until the boys get the weights off .their chests and then he takes the floor. The ques tions fly thick and fast and he ans wers them all and usually what ap peared to be a rebellion against the education committee turns out more in the nature of endorsement. DIFFICULTY lf the House of Representatives runs true to form this session it will make plenty of trouble for the Senate. Procedure of the last two or three sessions has been for the House to increase appro priations and cut taxes. As a result the Senators have been forced to place heavier burdens on taxpayers and cut allotments of State depart ments and institutions. The House members get the glory and the Sena tors take it on the chin but a man should learn about those things_Jbe fore he decides which branch of the General Assembly he prefers. SlMMONS—Raleigh is taking with a grain of salt recent published ru mors that former United States Sen ator Fumifold M. Simmons will op pose Senator J. W. Bailey next year. Likewise the politically-minded are not betting that former Lieutenant Governor R. T. Fountain will support Simmons in the event he runs. Capi tol Hill believes that Mr. Fountain will follow the line of his recent an nouncement and seek the toga him self rather than take to the trenches for Simmons. On the other hand there is some opinion that Fountain would do anything politically reason able to help defeat Governor Ehring haus who nosed out Fountain in the 1932 primaries. There fs nothing reasonably certain about the shape the 1932 Senatorial race will take. BONER —Wets and Drys in the Legislature generally agree that the Reverend R. L. Arnold, of Raleigh, made a mistake in praying for defeat of the Hill liquor bill when he was invited to open the Senate, with, pray er last week. Senator Hill,, told the Senate he resented “such a political talk and after all most of the Sena tors know the Durham lawmaker as a Dry and a strong church man. They didn’t seem to relish an outsider com ing in and attacking one pf their own flock even in a prayer. It’s entirely possible that the minister may have aided the liquor bill, although its fate may be decided by. the time you read this. Carolina Strawberrys By GUY A. CARDWELL Agricultural and Industrial Agent Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. An early estimate made by the Crop Reporting Board, United States Department of Agriculture, credits the Carolina strawberry belt with the same acreage as last year, 7,450. The preliminary estimate of the total strawberry acreage in the United States for picking in 1935 in dicates a little less than 170,00 f acres. This is a decrease of mora than 14 per cent compared with last year’s harvested acreage, and is ap urrximately 6 per cent less than the average acreage for the five-year period, 1929-1933. According to a very recent report, a production of 546,000 crates (2 quarts) is expected in Florida this season, as compared with 675,000 crates last year, a decrease of 19 per cent. There is an estimated decrease of 7 per cent below 1934 in the aver age, or 8,400 acres this year compared with 9,000 acres last year. Preliminary estimates indicate that Louisiana will have approximately the same acreage in 1935 as last year, 300 acres less. Investigations of the damage done to strawberries in the strawberry producing sections north of Lake Pontchartrain, point to a damage of from three to five per cent. The young plants recently planted and not well rooted were killed. The leaves of older plants were mostly “frost bitten.” In most cases the buds of the older plants were not de stroyed, and it is confidently expected that with the advent of warm weath er, the plants will take on new life, put out new leaves, and later produce a good crop of berries. In some sec tions, the freeze is regarded as bene ficial, as the crop will probably be delayed to such an extent as to es cape subsequent freezes, and when the berries mature they will ripen more uniformly than would otherwise be . the case. Most growers are expect ing a good crop this season, l , i The acreage in the SecoiwljEariy/ Men. Whose Careers Have Been Furthered Rby a Grant Leva Affair Inspired by the 20th Century Picture from United Artists, - "CLIVE°/INDIA" 5 Ronald COLMAN and LORETTA YOUNG "George Washington and Lady Fairfax " By INEZ HAYNES IRWIN nNTIL recently, the world be lieved that so far as there was any love in George Wash ington's life, Martha Custia was the woman. There can be no doubt that George Washington held in the high est esteem the kindly, sensible lady who became his wife. But she was by no means the star of his existence. Sally Fairfax, a Virginian, was born Sally Cary. The Cary family was aristocratic but highly liberal. When Sally married George William Fair fax, she entered another family even more aristocratic and quite as liberal. Tlie match seems to have been one of the marriages of convenience bo typi cal of their class at this period. Os George Fairfax himself, we know little. He was perhaps somewhat cool and formal, but a gentleman and a man of principle. Fairfaxes of Belvoir Fairfax brought his bride to Bel voir, his ample, hospitable estate in Virginia. There, a lad of sixteen years, Sally Fairfax’s junior by two years, met her and apparently fell in love with her on sight. He was a surveyor, without lands or property; a big, raw-boned lad, awkward on foot but singularly impressive in the sad dle; fond of dancing, plays, sport and most other innocent diversion. That lad was George Washington. There grew up between those two —shall we say a friendship on her |>art, a serious romance on his? The hiniatures of Sally Fairfax prove that she had a delicate, high-bred beauty. We glimpse in her that combination of wit and intelligence which the French call esprit. How dazzling she must have seemed to that ardent, in experienced, ambitious boy! There it no proof that she fell in love with Washington; but certainly the able ..country lad interested her. But he — for nine years, during which he be came the young military hero of Vir ginia, his affection' never changed. When he was at Mount Vernon he saw her constantly. When he was at the front with Braddock or the Virginia Militia, he wrote to her reg ularly. Then he married Martha Cnstis —partly if not wholly, one must believe, as an escape from a love vhich his sense of honor rendered lopeless. Durin» the period of his lagagement, he sent Sally Fairfax two otters from his soldier tent, whose r.nguage leaves no doubt. He loved icr, would always love her. But— hrewcll to all that! Hotbed of Idea: Wuat Belvoir and—especially—ita Distress did for him in the malleable ■ears between sixteen and twenty ive cannot be overestimated. The louse was a hotbed of liberalism, irobably of republicanism. To what iiscusaions must the boy have listen id! New ideas, brilliantly expressed, iaust have swirled their fiery patterns ;,n his plastic young intelligence. Opinions, vocabulary, democracy of feeling, exquisiteness of living—he must have absorbed them all. At that time, Addison’s Cato was tlie inspiration of all people with re publican leanings. It is the tragedy of a patriot who died for the Roman Republic. Sally Fairfax introduced George Washington to this play. Pos sibly they read it together. At any rate, the Fairfaxes produced it at Belvoir. In later letters, Washington refers to his memory of Sally Fair fax as the heroine. Henceforth, Cato became his Bible. He carried the book group of States shipping strawberries in which the Carolinas are included and with which they have to compete, in part, in marketing, are shown to have 43,220 acres of strawberries in 1935, compared with 58,160 acres in 1934, a decrease of nearly 26 per cent. Taking into consideration the above information, it would appear that fgiaMs®ai3iaEisJsisisjaisiaiaEiaiaiaisf3jaißisiaiaiaiajaiaißf3iai3iaia]siiißiaisiaiaisE)BJ3iaiaj3i 1 Now Open for Business I Cartwright’s Bakery 1 IN EDENTON, N. C. Next to Quinn Furniture Company Formerly the Sanitary Bakery I PHONE 184 Inez Haynes Irwin is one of a noted writing family. Her husband, Will Irwin, writes. Wallace, her brother-in-law, writes. So do Laetitia MacDonald Irwin, her sister-in-law, and Phyllis Dugane, her niece. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, she was brought up fit Boston. She was in active combat sectors during the World War, Italy, England and France. She's written twenty books and more short stories than she can count. Collection of old and odd bottles of all sorts is her hobby. with him on his campaigns. In his plain but rather diffuse writings, he seldom quotes poetry, even indirectly, but when he does, it is always Cato. Finally in that desperate winter at Valley Forge, he had the play pro duced for the encouragement of his army. What memories those pompous periods must have evoked —Belvoir and Sally and the loveliness of Vir ginia! These memories were the more poignant because two years be fore our Revolution began, George Fairfax had taken his wife to Eng land. They never returned; and George Washington never saw Sally Fairfax again. His Wife Approved In 1877, two letters written by George Washington to Sally Fairfax, nineteen months before his death, came to light. Although apparently she destroyed many of his other letters, these, carefully preserved, were found among his papers. They descended to the Fairfax relatives in America who, as John Corbin puts it, “treasured them through two genera tions in the awed silence of Victorian propriety.” George Washington signed one, Martha copied and signed the other. She adds a message, “My affectionate regards for you.” Washington says: “During this period many important events have occurred. . . . None of which events, however, nor all of them together, have been able to eradicate from my mind the recollec tion of those happy moments, the happiest in my life, which I have en joyed in your company.” Surely those sentences, coming from the contained Washington, are surcharged with meaning. The situa tion has a lovely fragrance. All three. of these people were in their late sixties. The man tells the love of his youth what she has always meant to him. The wife adds a p'osteript as one who intimates “I know all about It, my dear, and I understand.” The other woman keeps the letter all her life. But more important than the fact that Sally Fairfax gave George Wash ington the happiest moments of his life is the quality of the ideals which she instilled in him. When he came to her, he had no opinions; when they parted, the republican principle was part of his mental fibre. When, after the Revolution, a group of his officers suggested to Washington that he de clare a monarchy and seize the throne, he rejected the idea with horror. It is very likely that if he had chosen to become a king, the American people, still living in the uncertainties of hope and belief, would have approved. Instead he went on in his quiet, sober, powerful way moulding onr scheme of govern ment. Certainly we owe the man that George Washington became to Sally Fairfax. Perhaps we owe our republic to her. The End. * * * Such is the charm of romance back of the scenes in the lives of most renowned men. It is of such material ns this that the romance of Robert Clive and his beloved Marguerite, is built. This tender love story, and other adventures, are beautifully presented in United Artists’ new 20th Century production, "Clive of India”. Ronald Colman portrays Clive, with Loretta Young aa Marguerite. Carolina strawberry growers should < have a favorable season in prospect ! this year. However, of course, a * .great deal depends tjpon the buying 3 power in Northern cities, quality of ] the berries, and the care and attrac- < tiveness with which the fruit is grad- 3 ed, packed and paKaged. ; ; TRY A HERALD WANT-AD! ; Importance of Sire It Is an old adage that the Blre Is half the herd.. In poultry breeding It may be assumed that the sire hi. half tlie breeding flock, since the po tent male stamps certain characteris tics of his line upon each cockerel or pullet reared from the matings of which he has been one parent, where as each Individual breeding hen has the opportunity" of stamping the char acteristics of her line upon only the progeny hatched from her own eggs. High capacity egg production is trans mitted by both sire and dam. Poultry Notes Every hen that drops Into a molt Is out of the production race until late In the season. • • • One of the greatest troubles most poultry men have to maintain winter egg production is to maintain body weight. * * * Infertile eggs may be left In a tem perature of 103 degrees Fahrenheit for 72 hours and still be good for food, poultry tests have shown. • * * It Is best for the beginner not to cull too heavily, and not discard a I hen on one point but rather on a combination of points. • * * It Is surprising what she changing of growing chicks to fresh, new, un tainted ground will do for them. It seems to act as a wonderful tonic. * * * Since four-fifths of the poultry In this country Is raised by farmers and only one-fifth by commercial poultry men, grass is an Important feed item. TRY A HERALD WANT AD. Ajps BAYVIEWI JJVW BARBER shop i IBB! ERNEST L. WHITE, Prop. 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