The Carolina Watchman ESS A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY ■ .. ^ J FOUNDED 18-32-103RD YEAR - SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1935 " ^ --VOL. 103 NO. 25 PRT - 2 CENTS • • ' r ' i ' " " 1 ■■ 1 .. 4 _ ■ All Wheels Turning Getting Acclimated Bonus And Pension Labor, Population and Banking Power Companies’ Aim With the complete machinery of j Government in full swing—-Con-: gress in session, the Supreme Courtf on the bench and the Executive de partments,'which never take a va cation, -functioning full speed-— Washington today presents a scene of unparallelled activity. The city is so crowded that many of the new Senators and Represen tatives, who had no previous Wash ington experience, have found it impossible to get houses, apart ments or even hotel accommoda tions within the reach of their pocketbooks. Washington’s attitude toward the denizens of Capitol Hill is that they are only transients, anyway, and let them take a hall! bedroom if they can’t find any- j thing else. Niew members who | came expecting to be welcomed at1 the station by a brass band and flooded with invitations to social affairs, are discovering that, no matter how big they may be in] their home towns, they are only so! many votes for—or against Ad-! ministration measures when they] get to Washington. Only after years of service does a Senator or a Representative establish himself as a personality in the Washington hurlvburlv. One of the firsts things a new - member learns, however, is that the J "allowances” above his salary are worth conserving. There is noth- ( ing in law or custom to prevent ai Senator or Representative from putting his wife, his son, his | r daughter or other relatives on the If Federal payroll. Each member is;e entitled to a secretary and to other js clerical help, and if he is a com-ip mittee chairman he has the naming1 b of important paid employees of the Ip committee. A recent count show-!a: ed 4-Tper»ns bearing the same If, secretaries. A frugal member canjst save pretty nearly all of his $10, 000 a year salary, and many do al just that. S( Very few members ever get their h names in the big newspapers, but p the corps of Washington corres- 0 pondents now includes scores of v young men who make a specialty of n getting these unknoown members b a "break” in their homedistrict s newspapers. s All that is necessary for the e average member to do to get favor able mention in home paper dis- j patches is to introduce plenty of a bills which are calculated to im- a press the home voters. Seldom do any of these bills get beyond the < committee to which they are re- J ferred, and it is one of the rarest of events for a new member of either house to get a chance to make a speech. All he is expected to do or has much of a chance to ^ do is to be “regular” and vote the way party leaders tell him to. I j The new Congress will play ball 5 with the President—on everything ^ but the bonus. Nobody can tell what may happen when it comes to c the question of old-age pensions. . The President opened the door for ! that in his annual message. The 1 Townsend Plan advocates say they 1 have 25,000,000 votes behind the 1 scheme to give everybody over 60 1 a pension of $200 a month. That’s a lot of votes, and if any such ' demonstration can be made, it will 1 have a powerful effect on Congress. c The Administration plan of pro- f viding jobs for everybody who is J able to work, but at wages lower 1 than those current in private in dustry, while throwing the burden of caring for the unemployables ‘ back on the states, as outlined in. the President’s message, is well liked , on Capitol Hill, and the first bil lion dollars necessary to carry this out has already been authorized by Congress. jBut this work relief * plan, which is to be submitted for 1 direct cash doles, will take many 1 months to get into operation, two 1 or three years, perhaps, to get into 1 full swing. Meantime, Uncle Sam • will continue to dish out money for 5 direct payments to the unemploy- i ed. < Signs are multiplying that the power of organized labor in the 1 Administration is declining. The ] split-off of the building trades 1 from the A. F. of L. will, it is pre dicted here, result in four major 1 (Continued on page four) 1 . For Increase Of 15 PerCent Pay Boosts For State Em ployes Also Urged— Sales Tax ‘ Inevitable* Seek More For Schools Members of the legislature have turned to studies of administration fiscal recommendations, including 15 per cent salary boosts for public school teachers and other state em ployes and generally increased state services "all along the line.” Senate and house received the budget revenue and appropriations bills and the biennial report of the advisory budget commission. The senate also heard its clerk read fis cal recommendations of Governor Ehringhaus but the house adjourned before the chief executive sent his message upstairs. Committees of b.th houses have been announced and all organiza tion completed. Lieutenant Gov ernment A. H. Graham advised the senators of their assignments and Speaker Robert Grady Johnson announced house committees to day. in ms money message governor Ehringhaus gave the General As sembly free reign in its opinion that re-enactment of the three per cent sales tax is "inevitable.” Elim ination a present exemptions was recommended in his message and in the budget revenue bill. He in sisted upon a "balanced budget.” I The suggested tax machinery act eMitaiM no mow tuKs and oti {schedules of rates remain the same. By stoppage of "leakage” and tight ening of administrative provisions, the budgeteers estimate the revenue bill will yield some $3,500,000 more during each year of the biennium iwhich starts July 1, this year, than it is doing at present. The governor endorses that estimate. Public schools would get $2,500, 000 of the anticipated additional revenue and the remaining $1,000, 000 would be spread out among other state functions. Most of the entire amount would be consumed by the suggested 15 per cent up ping of state payrolls. Governor Ehringhaus, in his mes sage, again declared against diver sion of highway taxes but signed his name to the budget report which recommended continuance of a $1,000,000 annual transfer from the highway to the general fund. The budget report met federal demands for relief appropriations by recommending that $1,500,000 be spent during each of the next two fiscal years repairing "deterior ated” highways and providing new employment. When the highway budget was completed it was found that some $2,000,000 probably would be on hand and a "revolving fund” to amortize highway debts was re commended by the budgeteers. JUST LIKE FATHER! Minister (to youngster carrying infant): "What a fine baby, and so like his father.” Youngsters: "Yes, sir, and he’s fond of his bottle, too.” Girl Flying Mails WASHINGTON . . . Miss Helen Bichey, 25, (above), is flying the mail on the Washington to Detroit run. She is the first woman to win the right to wear TJncle Sam’a Air mail Wings over her left coat pocket Helen has 1000 flying hoars to her credit. D. G. Brummitt Is Claimed By Death Death of Attorney General Den nis G. Brummitt, 54, last Saturday from pneumonia, following influ enza, was a shock to the entire state, in which he had been a pro minent figure a long time. The body lay in state in the State Capi tol Sunday from 12 to 2 o’clock rnd the was then taken to Oxford 'or burial tate employees in his honor. A graduate as mayor of Oxford ind representative in the general as- ' embly from Granville, in which le was speaker of the house in 1929. : Hie was chairman of the State Dem- : acratic executive committee, and was elected attorney general, begin ning his service 10 years ago. He has been a fearless and outspoken state official, honorable and con scientious, and was held in high esteem all over the state. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Kate Flemming Brummitt, and two sisters and three brothers, all of Granville, county. Many Cars Caught In Statejn 1934 North Carolina ran out 57,394 new and modern motor vehicles from the sales places in the state during 1934, all of which does not reduce the problem of highway safety. Of the number, 46,196 were new passenger cars and 11, 191 were trucks. This is an in crease of no mean proportion over the 29,191 new passenger cars sold in 1933, and the 6,597 trucks sold last year. The 21,606 more sales of new passenger cars and trucks in 1934 than were sold in 1933, the motor vehicle bureau reports. In December the sales reached 3,064 passenger cars, as against 3, 029 in November and 2,220 in De cember, 1933. Truck sales in De cember reached 754, as against 686 in November and 642 in Decem ber, 1933. GOOD MORNING JOB LEFT HIM "Why did you leave your last job?” asked the boss. "I didn’t leave it; it left me,” said the applicant. "How could that be?” "I worked in an ammunition fac tory and it went up in the night.” CAUGHT "Now, listen here!” said the quiet little man. "One of these rays I’m going to start in and tell you' a few things.” "You may as well begin right now,” answered his wife, "and tell me why you called me 'baby’ in your sleep last night.” e> 1 KAJNCjt MAN Daughter: "Tonight, I shall be delightfully entertained in the arms of Morpheus.” Country Aunt: "You’ll do no thing of the kind. I’ll have no scan dalous love affairs around here. An other thing, Morpheus or whatever you call him had better not put his foot in this house.” Aunty—"You should be more correct in your speech, dear. You say you had a bad cold; did you ever hear of a good cold?” Johnny—"I had one once that kept me home from school.” Drunk—"Say, call me a cab, vilya?” Bystander—"My good man. I’m tot a doorman, I am a naval of ficer.” Drunk—"Awright, then call me i boat, gota get home.” Valet (to master)—"Sir, your ear is at the door.” Master—"Yes, I hear it knock ing. Professor—"What; "was Gejo^ge Washington noted for?” Student—"His memory.” Professor—"What makes you think his memory was so great?” Student—"They erected a monu ment to it.” FOUND OUT Maud: "It’s no good denying it, Dora. It was too dark for me to see who it was, but I listinctly saw some man kiss you in the garden. You ought to be ashamed of your self.” Dora: "I don’t see why. I’ve often seen George kiss you.” Maud (engaged to George): "Yes, but I allow nobody but George to kiss me.” Dora: "Well, it was nobody but George who kissed me!” Prof. Boreleigh—"If I have talk ed too long it’s because I have no watch with me, and there’s no clock in this hall.” Raspberry—"There’s a calendar behind you.” A. A. F. Sea well Is Advanced To Attorney Generalship Of The State Raleigh. — Assistant Attorney General A. A. Flowers Seawell was promoted Wednesday to the attor ney generalship vacancy caused by the death Saturday of Dennis G. Brummitt and yesterday morning in the Supreme court room Mr. Seawell was given the oath of of fice which was administered by his colleague in the 1913 general as sembly, Justice G. W. Connor. The appointment was announced by Governor Ehringhaus, who was pleased to see the universally popu lar reaction to his designation. There was double satisfaction to the governor that the Seawell selec tion would have been Mr. Brum mitt’s had the attorney general been able to speak. There was no man in public life for whom Mr. Brummitt had greater admiration. There is none for whom the gov ernor could possibly esteem more highly. Mr. Seawell is the sort of citizen who doesn’t have a violent biogra phy. Always he has been a studi ous lawyer without impulse to pro mote his own interests. He was a member of the 1901 general assem bly and in that body he betrayed his age. He was 37 then and took his place in a legislature that had such men in it as Gov. Locke Craig, (Continued on page four) | Mail Romance Sours | t umana . . . minerva waiters, 25, (above), is through with “mail order romance.” After correspond ing with Arble Harrison of Cleve land, Minerva went there to become his bride. But it was no go, love soured and now she’s home again. I Liquor Law Is Drafted For N. G Raleigh.—A liquor bill to libera lize the Turlington act and provide jfor the legal sale of whiskey ir North Carolina has been draftee iby a member of the General As sembly who has been a lifelong dry and will be introduced in the next few weeks, it was learned. The proponent of the measure re quested that his name not be used until the bill is actually introduced. The proposed bill iscMj^rt^S every detailjCga^Wflf^Tsections, it was learnech No estimate of the will administer the act. A certain percentage of the quali fied voters of any municipality would be allowed to outlaw loca tion of a liquor store there. If the liquor store is| established, those citizens objecting may call a spe cal election on "store or no store,” the proponent of the measme stated. Liquor would be sold only in packages, one quart at a time, for consumption off the premises. The measure would not remove the Tur lington act from the books, it was explained, but would put legal whiskey in the reach of all North Carolinians who have the price. The system of stores would be similar to the system in Virginia. NEWS BRIEFS train Wrecks at CHARLOTTE Two persons were killed and at least three injured here Sunday in a wreck of Southern Railway train No. 31, the "Augusta Special” from Washington to Augusta, Ga., which left the rails a mile north of the passenger station in Charlotte and piled up across the double trunk line. The dead are: C. E. Yarbor ough, 38, of Salisbury, Southeastern Express company employe; an un identified man about 30 years old who apparently had been riding the rods of the baggage car. HIT-RUN DRIVERS KILL . THREE N Paul Jackson of Autryville and a negro bell boy, Robert Jones, of jFayettesville were victims Sunday of hit and run drivers who failed |to stop, and who left no clues. Al bert Brickhouse, 5 8, of Jarvisburg, met death instantly when struck by an automobile. MAKES FIRST SOLO HOP j The first solo flight between Hawaii and California was made Saturday when Amelia Earhardt, Putnam completed the d 2,048 miles in^^^hfftfrs and 16 minut«^|M^W?serves that flight j^Wonovcr the Pacific is much worse than that over the Atlantic. Mrs. Putnam is 36 years old, and has won many honors in aviation records. DEATH OF MR. BRUMMITT Dennis G. Brummitt, for 10 years attorney general of North Carolina, died Saturday shortly birthday. Pneumonia developed following an illness of influenza. All state offices were closed yes terday in Raleigh, as proper rev erence was shown in services at the capitol and the removal of his body to Oxford for burial and final rites. _ SARR ELECTION FAVORS GERMANY The plebiscite of Sunday to de termine whether the Saar would return to Germany, became a part of France, or remain under the jurisdiction of league of nations resulted favorably to Germany, by unoffical announcement of re turns. The forecast was plain days ago, and terms of settlement among the countries affected are apparent ly satisfactory to all, except Hitlers’ opposing factions in the Saar itself. Unemployment Insurance By State Is Proposed In Report Enactment of a state system of present legislature is proposed in the presentlegislature is proposed in the report of North Carolina commis sion on unemployment insurance made public. The report was addressed to Gov ernor Ehringhaus, who named the commission headed by former Sen ator W. O. Burgin, of Davidson, in accordance with a resolution adopt ed by the 1933 general assembly, and is intended for transition to members of the legislature. Embodied is the draft bill which provides machinery for insurance against idleness in the immediate future. Excluded from benefits of the measure are: agricultural work ers, domestic servants, casual em ployes, state and federal govern ment workers, employes of educa tional, medical, religious or charit able institutions not operated for profit. To eligible workers unable to find employment the bill would pay JO per cent of the average wage, not to exceed $20 per week for not more than 17 weeks in any 12-month period, with cumulative benefits of one additional week for each 26 weeks during the preced ing five years, after adoption of the plan, during which no benefits have been received. Funds for payment of unemploy nent benefits would be derived from payments of 3 per cent of pay rolls by employers and 1 per cent of I wages of insured employes. After three years it is planned to arrange contributions of employe* from 11-2 per cent to 3 1-2 per cent of total pay rolls. If adopted the insurance plan would be administered by the state department of labor. The bill pro vides for investigation of individual cases and sets out that its machinery shall automatically be changed to conform to any federal legislation on unemployment enacted by Con igress. The report contains results of ex haustive studies of unemployment conditions in North Carolina and estimates the number of competent unemployed in this state at between 90,000 and 100,000 persons at the present time. The survey runs from 1920 to 1934 and sets forth a number of causes of unemplomenr and the opinion of the commission that the problems of idleness re main even when "prosperity re turns.” Industrial unemployment reached a peak of about 27 per cent in 1932 and had receded to about 9 per cent in 1934, the commission found. It states that the burden of un employment has been borne in the past by the "doctor, dentist, the corner grocer,” and "social-mind ed employers” who have done much to "mitigate the severity of the sit uation.” "Champion Liar” SEATTLE . . . This state is mighty proud of Vern Osborn (above), recently declared the “champion liar of the U. S. for 1934.” Osborn is from Centralia. He has a jack-rabbit hunting muie. In the heat of a chase one day the. rabbit jumped over a 1000-foot cliff the mule and Osborn following. 10 feet from the ground, Osborn hol lered “whoa” and the mule stopped, Osborn got off and picked up the rabbit Rowan County Farm Census Enumerators Following is a list of Farm Cen us Enumerators for Rowan Coun y= Wm. R. Current, District No. I, Cleveland arid Scotch Irish townships. District No. Henry. E. Miller, District No. 3 Mt. Ulla township and part of Atwell township. Clarence H. Hall, District No. 4, part of Atwell township. Carl S. McKnigha, District No. 5, China Grove township. Luther M. Safriet, District No. 6, Locke township. Marvin Lentz, District No. 7, Franklin township. John H. Barringer, District No. 8, Providence and Salisbury town ships. Loren L. Goodman, District No. 9, Litaker township. Clinton R. Fisher, District No. 10, part of Gold Hill and Morgan townships. __ James R. Russell, District No. II, Part of Gold Hill and Provi dence townships. James C. Morgan, District No. 12, part of Morgan township. State ERA Has Total Of 191 Mishaps; One Fatal Winston-Salem, E. G. Padgett, state safety director for the emerg ency relief administration, reported that for the period from April 1 to December 27 last year the North Carolina ERA had a total of 191 accidents. There was only one fatality. The accidents occured with an xposure of 12,570,665 man hours. The safety department, he re ported, inspected 624 work pro jects, 268 buildings used by the ERA and made monthly inspections jf transient centers, camps and shelters. Rowan Has Lost Value Of 82,082 Acres Land Rowan county has lost the value of 82,082 acres, or 24.85 per cent of its total area because af aggra vated erosion, according to the Soil Erosion Service of the United States Department of the Interior. Of the 330,240 acres which comprise the county there are 32, 550 acres already abandoned due primarily to severe erosion, the re port shows. Also, there are 73,684 acres having 25 to 75 per cent of the topsoil gone. The government has found that the county contains 15 6,169 acres of forest, and that there are 106,-: 447 acres under cultivation, 19, 524 acres of idle tillable land and 15,550 acres of open pastureland in addition to the thirty-two thou sand odd acres of abandoned land. The section of the county most seriously damaged by erosion is the northern third. The report is the result of an erosion survey made of the entire state under the direction of W. D. Lee and W. W. Stevens, soil specialists of the North Carolina area of the Soil Erosion Service, to determine the general land condi tion in North Carolina. Regional headquarters of the Soil Erosion Service is in High Point.