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FOUNDED 1832—103RD YEAR_SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING DECEMBER 21, 1934 ~ VOL. 103 NO. 21 PRICE 2 CENTS
Use Resources
Of The Nation
For Good Of All
Board Headed By I ekes
Outlines Plan To
President
SPEND BILLIONS
The National Recources board
this week outlined an encyclopaedic
[long-range plan for the use of the
'nation’s land, water and mineral
resources which is destined to stir
wide discussion.
The group-headed by Secretary
Ickes—which drew the program as
serted that it would lead to "the
broad distribution of human wel
fare at which our national policy
aims.”
The plan goes to President
Rocsevelt, who may, or may not,
include some of its recommenda
tions in the proposals he will make
to congress. The chief executive
ordered the study last summer.
High up among the recommen
dations of the board, described by
Secretary Perkins as capable of
vivinp- everv ahle-hodiprl man n inh
were:
A six-year public works cons
truction budget with a ten billion
dollar reserve fund.
The retirement of 75,000,000
acres of hardscrabble lands.
A broadening of subsistence
homestead work with a further de
centralization of industry.
Studies pointed to the develop
nent of-ijlood control, power hr ir
rigation projects on seventeen
watersheds.
Federal assistance and control of
the mineral industries to "minimize!
waste of natural resources, main
tain reasonable wage standards and;
protect investments.”
In addition, the report brought
a wide range of recommendations
on land purchases; forests, parks
and wild life refuges; homestead
ing; land uses; irrigation; grazing;
Indian policies; soil erosion; v/ater
uses; public works; state and re
gional planning; mapping and a
general, co-ordinated national plan
ning for the future.
The board suggested creation of
a permanent five-man planning
agency to co-ordinate the scheme
of national living through changing
conditions.
North Carolina
Doubles Income
Tax Payments
Although the net income of
North Carolinians in 1932 was ap
proximately $12,000,000 less than
it was in 1931, they paid nearly
twice as much federal income tax
the latter year.
This was shown this week in 1932
statistics prepared by the bureau
of internal revenue and made public
by Commissioner Guy T. Helver
ing.
The income of 25,972 persons
who filed tax returns for 1932
totalled $76,989,708 on which they
paid $4,017,702 in federal income
tax. In 1931, 22,625 persons filed
return, reporting total net incomes
of $88,042,580 and tax payments
of only $2,030,396.
Higher rates and lower deduc
tions were in effect in 1932.
The report showed three North
Carolinians earned more than
$750,000 in 1932, two of whom
earned in excess of $1,000,000. The
income of these three whose identi
ty was not revealed totalled $4,
05 8,965, and they paid $1,723,5 37
of the state’s individual federal in
come tax that year.
The report «also showed that 5,
802 North Carolina corporations
filed federal returns, but only 1,
080 showed any net income.
These corporations had a net in
come of $62,687,000 on which they
paid $8,565,000 in income taxes.
Of the other corporations, 4,241
reported deficits totalling $51,134,
000 and 481 were listed as inactive
corporations.
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Pertinent Items
Champion Walkers
Interesting Women
Some Forecasts
Politics and Policies
Lest the reader of this column
get the impression that nothing
but serious matters of weighty mo
ment are talked about in Washing
ton, here are a few paragraphs of
casual gossip heard in the corridors
of pjublic buildings and on the
street-corners.
Item: When the President got
back to Washington and found his
new and enlarged offices ready for
him, it was noticed by the news
paper men at the first press con
ference that the array of Democra
tic donkeys that used to decorate
his desk had been reduced to three.
Also, that insufficient provision
has been made by the architect of
the new White House, wing for
taking care of reporters’ hats and
overcoats.
Item: There is a secret circular
staircase leading into the Presi
dent’s new office, so that Cabinet
officers and others who may not
want to be observed by watchful
reporters can slip in and out unob
served.
Item: Mrs. Paul Wilson, who
prefers to be known as Miss Fran
ces Perkins, and who is addressed as
"Madam Secretary” has a private
elevator to her private office in the
new Department of Labor build
ing; also a private bath finished in
green tile.
> Item: Secretary Wallace of Agri
\ culture and Secretary Morgenthau|
of the Treasury are the champion
pedestrians of the Administration. |
Both walk to their offices, Mr.
Wallace a good three miles every
* morning.
Item:It has leaked out that the
entire Cabinet has "chipped in” to
buy a collective Christmas present
for the President. This, as one of
them remarked, is symbolic of the
spirit of cooperation which the
Administration is trying to instil.
Item: President Roosevelt sold
some cattle and bought a couple of
mules on his Georgia farm while
vacationing. He thought the cattle
didn’t bring enough and the mules
cost too much. He named the
mules "Hop” and "Tug,” after Re
lief Administrator Harry Hopkins
and Undersecretary of Agriculture
Rexford Tugwell. "Because,” he
remarked, "the mules are so fri
sky.”
Interesting women in Federal
' ~ jobs: Miss Lenroot, who succeeds
Grace Abbot as head ot the Chil
dren’s Bureau, is the daughter of a
former Wisconsin Senator and one
of the few Republicans appointed
to an important post. Miss Isabel
Du Bois of the Bureau of Naviga
tion of the Navy, whose job is to
keep every ship supplied with good
books for the officers and "gobs”
to read. She’s been doing this since
1924. Miss Bertha Neinburg, As
sistant Director of the Women’s
Bureau in the Department of Labor
She comes from California, has been
in Government service for ten
years, and her slogan is More jobs
for women.” Mrs. Clara M. Beyer,
also from California, labor econo
mist, holding a newly-created of
fice, that of assistant director of
the Division of Labor Standards.
Her job is to try to get uniform
labor laws in the different states.
Accomplished: Government con
trol of the Federal Reserve system,
quietly and without any publicity.
This practically removes the limit
_.t. n/virommpnf’c nftwer to bor
row, foreshadows more complete
Federal control over all banking
and all creidt. It puts the Admin
istration in a position to block in
flation moves in Congress.
Forecasts: No "balancing” of the
budget for the fiscal year begin
ning next July 1. General reduc
tion in bank interest, including
savings banks. Further refunding
of Government debt at lower in
terest rates. Outlook now is for a
permanent Federal Aviation Com
mission, to handle all matters relat
ing to flying. No more "alphabeti
cal” bureaus; the President thinks
the public has had enough "alpha
bet soup” and wants to get down
to the solid course. No foreclosures
of railroads that can’t pay back
money borrowed from Uncle Sam;
Government doesn’t want to be
come a railroad magnate.
Navy Department will ask for
big appropriation for new warships,
for which plans have already been
drawn, as soon as Japan formally
(Continued on page eight)
Branch Ends Grid Career
I_ " v "
Power Challenge
Is Rejected By
The Government
Edison Institute Man
Suggested to President
Early Test In Court
ISSUES CRITICISM
The administration tonight re
jected, through its power commis
sion, the suggestion of Thomas N.
McCarter, president of the Edison
Electric institute, that the gov
ernment cooperate with the power
industry in seeking an early su
preme court test of the constitu
tionality of the Tennessee Valley
authority.
Frank R. McNnch, chairman of
the federal power commission, said
in a statement that the R.cosevelt
power program had the support of
the people, congress and the excu
tive departments.
Of McCarter’s suggestion, Mc
Ninch asserted: "In all the history
f . 1 A
ux me ruiitncan guvciiuiitm 11U |
paraded for such a proposal can be j
found.
"The cad is not for the govern
ment to halt, but for the industry
to catch step and move forward;
along progressive lines,” he said.
The memorandum McCarter left|
on the President’s desk declarded
morc-«>uld be obtained by cd-'djtet--,
ation between the government and!
the power interests to preserve the
"soundness of existing investment”
than by "governmental competi
tion or strangulation.”
McNinch said the McCarter "me
morial” was "immediately referred
to the federal power commisison”,
by Mr. Roosevelt.
The power commission chairman
termed McCarter’s statement, "a
confession of the abuses of the elec
tric power industry and an appeal
against the efforts of the govern
ment to correct those abuses.”
McCarter defended rate making
by the industry McNinch’s answer
to this was to refer to Canadian
power public and private, with the
assertion:
"The Canadian paid two and one
fifth cents for his electricity and
the consumer in the United States
five and one-half cents.”
McNinch said of the Tennessee
valley act that "the policy em-l
Doaiea in tms act was prociaimeu
by the President in plain language
in his address at Portland, Oregon,
in the campaign of 1932.”
"This policy was overwhelmingly
approved by the American people
in the election of that year”- he
asserted.
"The policies of the administra
tion were again strongly endorsed
by the American people in 1934.
"We are therefore confronted
with this situation: "on the one side
we have the opinion of two emi
nent lawyers retained by Mr. Mc
Carter.
"On the other we have the opin
ion of the majority of the Ameri
can people, the decision of learned
constitutional lawyers in both
houses of congress, the views of the
President and the many able coun
sel in the executive departments.
"And yet Mr. McCarter now
suggests that the government cast
doubt upon the validity of its own
legislation by joining with him in
litigation to test the government’s
own powers.”
Just before catching a train for
Newark, McCarter made public,
the 5,000 word statement he left'
with Mr. Roosevelt. He emphasiz
ed that his talk with the President j
had been "pleasant and agreeable”
and said the brief was distributed
publicly with his permission.
McCarter, in suggesting co-op
eration by the government to bring
its power program to a final court
test, declared the industry on its
"improper practices” utilized by
members of the business.
_A tlllrilfi 3b ®nrtt At iifetlflFijm
Above is pictured a striking scene, reenacting the birth of the Christ
Child in the village of Bethlehem nineteen centuries ago. ‘ * Christus ’ ’ the
passion play, from which the picture was photographed, was featured at
Chicago this month, a Christmas benefit for undernrivsi children
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JOY TO THE WORLD.
I
Joy to the world! The Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heav’n and nature sing,
And heav’n and nature sing,
And heav’n nature sing.
II
Joy to the world! the Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ.
While fields and floods, rooks, hills
and plains,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy.
III
No more let sin and sorrow grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings
flow,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found.
IIII
He rules the world with truth and
grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of his love,
And wonders of his love,
And wonders of his love.
HONOR ORVILLE WRIGHT
Monday was the 31st anniver
sary of the Wright brothers’ flight
at Kitty Hawk, N. C. The grave
af Orville Wright, who made the
Srst successful flight in a heavier
than air plane, was visited, and ap
propriate observation of this anniv
ersary was staged in several of the
larger cities, while many gathered
at Kitty Hawk in observance of
the anniversary.
AWAY IN A MANGER.
Away in a manger,
No crib for His bed,
The little Lord Jesus
Lay down his sweet head.
The stars in the sky
Looked down where He lay.
The little Lord Jesus
Asleep on the hay. •
The cattle are lowing;
The baby awakes;
But little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes.
I love Thee, Lord Jesus.
Look down from the sky,
And stay by my cradle,
Till morning is nigh.
Written by Martin Luther, this
cld favorite is entitled "Luther’s
Cradle Hymn,” but is more gen
erally known by the title given
above.
SILENT NIGHT.
I
Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright,
Round yon virgin mother and
Child,
Holy Infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
II
Silent night! Holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight.
Clories stream from Heaven a-far,
Heavenly hosts sing Al-le-lu-ia,
Christ the Savior is born!
Christ the Savior is born!
III
Silent night! Holy night!
Son of God, love’s pure light.
Radiant beams from^Thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,'
fesus, Lord, at Thy birth,
fesus, Lord, at Thy birth.|
North Carolina Telephone
Rate Cut 12 Per Cent
Raleigh.—Telephone rate reduc
tions which it is estimated will re
sult in aggregate annual saving of
about $321,897.72 to some 78,000
subscribers at 58 North Carolina
exchanges of the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph company
were ordered to become effective
January 1.
At the utilities commission it was
learned that a telephone company
official had said that in his opinion
the new rates for North Carolina
exchanges will be as low, if n<5t
lower, than those for any compar
able exchanges in the country.
The order of the commission, re
leased by Commissioner Stanley
Winborne, set forth in detail the
findings of the group based on
"over one thousand typewritten
pages of testimony” with "numer
ous, bulky, and complicated ex
hibits” which the company intro
duced at a series of hearings be
tween June 27 and September 14.
The cut was not applied in uni
form manner to each exchange,
varying greatly between some, but
amounts to about 12 per cent of
the annual exchange service reven
ues for 1933, which totalled $2,
669,466. The commission set forth
it thought it could legally support
all per cent reduction but wished j
to safeguard the financial health of j
the utility.
$1,000,000 - Incomes
Rose By 26 In 1933;
Individual Net Is Off
1 of 46 in Higher Brack
ets Reported $5,000,000
Or More, Against
None In 1932
Net income of corporations in
creased by $654,502,697 or 3 5.35
per cent in 193 3 over the previous
year, but net incbme of individuals
decreased $3 39,845,777, according
to a preliminary statistical survey
made public by the Bureal of In
ternal Revenue.
A striking feature of the sum
mary was that the number of
individuals who received incomes
of under $25,000 and the total of
net income they reported dropped
below the 1932 level, while the
number and total net income in
the classes from $25,000 upward
increased.
Those receiving incomes of $1,
000,000 or more increased from
twenty to torty-six, and the net
income they reported rose to $81,
558,532, compared with $35,239,
5 56 for 1932. One net income of
$5,000,000 or more was shown for
1933 and there was one net income
in each of the classes from $3,000,
000 to $4,000,000 and from $4,
000,000 to $5,000,000. No income
of $5,000,000 or more was reported
for 1932, but there were two in
the classification of from $4,000,
000 to $5,000,000.
The Internal Revenue Bureau
does not give the names of those
reporting and in the case of those
reporting $1,000,000 or more
lumps the total of net income to
disguise the identity of the tax
payer.
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President To Loose
Christmas Spirit
With Tree-Lighting
Christmas spirit will invade the
Nation with traditional good will j,
when President Roosevelt presses a j,
button, lighting the Community1
Christmas Tree in Lafayette Square ,
December 24 at 5 p. m. j
As the delicately trimmed great i
Frazier fir tree glows with its my- 1
riad electric lights at the Presi- !
dent’s touch, it will symbolize com- <
munity Christmas trees in every l
State, city and small town in the i
United States. ,
This week the two fir trees which :
will decorate the square a drived 1
from Frazer, N. C. One will be t
placed to the west and the other to
the east of the Jaskson statue in <
the square, and the tree to the j
westward will serve as the Nation’s 1
tommunity tree. i
Each tree is 23 feet tall and 16 i
feet wide at its base, and the offi- 1
tially designated Community Tree j
ivill be visible from every window i
>f the White House. Selection and 1
planting of the trees are duties of
:he office of the National Capitol
Parks. ]
Music will be furnished by a 5
mixed chorus of hundreds of voices
iccompanied by the United States t
Marine Band. i
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FTGHT RATE REDUCTION ]
DRDER t
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The Southern Bell Telephone and t
Telegraph company notified the 1
state utilities commission that ex
ception would be filed against its j
rate-reduction order for North
Carolina, with the ultimate inten- ]
tion of fighting the case in court. \
The commission’s order for rate ]
reductions is set to take effect Jan
uary 1st in the 58 North Carolina <
exchanges of the company, which !
will have until December 24 to file
its exceptions. The order is esti- '
mated to save about $321,000 an- :
nually to some 78,000 subscribers 1
in the state. 1
Local Youth,
Mighty r igmj
Quits Game
Old Man River Hangs
Pigskin Up In Hall
Of Fame
WILL BE MISSED
Johnny Branch, Old Man River
himself, has played his last game of
football. Sunday, following the
Charlotte-Louisville game, he hung
up the pigskin forever; hung it up
in the niche prepared for him in
North Carolina’s football hall of
fame.
The mighty pigmy is a local pro
duct. Salisbury is proud to claim
him as a native son. No football
player in North Carolina has ever
had a more glamorous or more hec
tic career. And now, the final
whistle has blown. His playing
days are over. But the memory
of those days will linger on and
the battles he fought will be fought
over and over again by those who
love the game. But Old Man River
will "roll on” in memory alone.
From the time he stepped from
Belmont Abbey to the University
of North Carolina campus in 1928
until he ended his college foot
balling in a bolt of glory against, r
Virginia in 1934, his-life, syaa a sec
ries of ups and downs, brilliant
achievements and serious blunders
that made one headline after an
other.
In three years of semi-pro and
professional ball since then, he has
has his good days along with the
bad. But regardless of how the
battle turned, or in- what company
he disported, as long as Johnny was
on the field he dominated the spec
tators’ interest, much as Babe Ruth
lias done on a bigger scale in base
aall.
Catching punts on his own goal
ine as the ends and tackles bore
lown on him, skirting end for 30
fards and the touchdown that
:urned the tide in Carolina’s con
juest of Georgia Tech’s national
:hampions in ’29, being booted off
:he squad by Chuck Collins for
hat Florida business in ’31, com
ng back for the final game of his
:ollege career and re-establishing
limself in the hearts of all Tar
deels with two dazzling touch
lowrt runs in a 13-7 triumph, bat
ling along with the old Bantams
or two seasons and with the
American leaguers this year, he has
lways been the chance-taking,
ireath-taking gambler, the idol of
l_r_
JL U11J •
Old Man River may have slowed
lown a bit, become a little slug
;ish. Ten years is a lot of foot
iall for a tiny man, taking a beat
ng in every game. But his five
oot, five-inch frame, 160 pounds
ieavy, still reeks with color, and
/hen he’s gone they’re going to
niss him. They’re going to miss
lim more than they know.
Yes, they’ll miss Old Man River.
LOYAL ELEPHANT FOR
ALE
King Boris of Bulgaria announc
d that he wants to sell one of his
oyal gray elephants. The small
>udget available to Boris will not
lermit the luxury occasioned by
he enormous appetite of the five
on animal. He states that one
lephant eats more than the entire
oyai staff at the royal palace.
^RMY FLIERS KILLED
Two army fliers were killed at
lurlingame, Cal.; Sunday when
heir plane smashed into a telephone
>ole.
:hild dies from
N JURIES
Paul, the eight-year old son of
Vfr. and Mrs. R. D. Fields of Guil
ford county, died in a Greensboro
lospital from injuries received on
Sunday in an automobile wreck.