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FOUNDED 1832—103RD YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1933 " VOL. 103 NO. 43 PRICE 2 CENTS
r our State Parks Now Being Developed
Bonus Payment Blocked By Senate
WAIHBN<SR)N
Publishers Oppose
Codes
The Clark Resolution
Predict Early Adjourn
ment
Work Relief Takes
Shape
The President of the United
States, whoever he may be, seldom
hears the truth. Some president'
resent having the truth told tc
them if the facts do not fit in with
rheir ideas or the policies which
they are trying to put into effect.
Other presidents have striven earn
estly to learn the truth but have
been so surrounded with "yes men’
and advisers who have their own
axes to grind that they have failec
to get a true picture of the state oi
the public mind.
In some such language as ha!
just been set down, Presidem
Roosevelt’s sincere well-wishers ar<
seeking to explain his recent ex
pressions of distrust of the patriot
ism and sincerity of business or
ganizations which have disapprovec
some of the measures which he -i
urging upon Congress, and some o:
the experiments which have beer
made by Government in the pas
two years.
"Everybody except the Presiden
knows that NRA is as dead as Pro
hibition,” is an expression com
monly heard here. It is commoi
knowledge that the Codes hav
proved unworkable, except perhap
in the case of a very few basic in
dustries concerned with natural re
sources.
The latest group to denounce th
Codes are the newspaper publisher
of the nation. First the dailies
operating under their own Code
then the country papers and print
ing shops, under another Code, de
dared in their annual convention
that they could not go along un
less drastic changes were made
changes which, in effect, woul
nullify the Codes.
One Federal Court after anothe
has declared one Code after an
other unconstitutional. The Su
preme Court has decided in thi
"hot oil” case that Congress ha:
no power to delegate legislative au
thority, and that decision knockec
one of the main props out fron
undfer the whole Code system
Enough intimations have beei
given from the Supreme bench t(
lead to the belief when its decisioi
comes down, in two or three weeks
in the Schechter chicken-butche
case, it will be to deny the right o
Congress to exercise any contro
whatever over any business con
ducted entirely within a state.
The Senate had taken notice o
all such things, and its leaders hai
twice served notice on the Presiden
that they would not go along wit]
him on the two year extension o
NRA, which he had asked foi
They helped him "save face” b
adopting the Clark resolution, ex
tending the NRA for nine month
after it expires by law on June 16
with all price-fixing provisions an
control of intna-state commerc
eliminated.
Senator Dennett t_,iarK oi mis
souri, son of the late Speake
Champ Clark, is as shrewd a poli
tician as was his distinguishe
father. He told the President o
public sentiment in regard to NRA
The adoption will amount to th
disintegration of NRA, for ther
will not be time, in the ten montl
allowed under the Clark resolutior
to revise any material number c
Codes, and therefore most of ther
will just "peter out,” as Prohibitio
enforcement did.
All the political prophets look fc
similiar compromises on the rest c
the Administration’s program, an
for adjournment of Congress b
early July. There will be plent
more agitation for immediate pa)
ment of the veterans’ bonus, backe
by the strongest "pressure bloc” i
the nation. The best bet is th:
nothing will come of it this sessioi
The House probably will pass tl
bill for revision of the Agricultur;
Adjustment Administration i
much the form in which it is hanc
ed to them, but it is likely to stril
some pretty difficult snags in tl
Senate.
That is the case, also, with tl
Administration’s banking bil
which the House has passed abot
as it was drafted by Mr. Eccle
Governor of the Federal Resen
(Continued on page four)
Vote, 54-40 Fails
To Override Veto
Of The President
New Plans For Payment
Of The Bonus Are Now
Under Way; Borah
Makes Strong Plea
Washington. — The senate
Thursday blocked enactment of
the Patman inflationary bonus bill
l by refusing to pass the legislation
over President Roosevelt veto.
The vote to override was 54 to
i 40. The senate originally passed
: the Patman bill 55 to 3 3. The
house voted to override the veto by
: 322 to 98.
The senate action killed the bill
■ but opened the way for a new
l drive for similar legislation. Cash
: bonus forces were ready to offer an
> alternate proposal as a "rider” tc
■ the pending naval appropriation
- bill.
President Roosevelt was having a
meeting of the allotment boa)rd
: when the veto came. He v/as no
s tified immediately but made nc
, comment.
, The vote came after the senate
- had listened to widely conflicting
- claims ranging from an assertion
s the legislation may "lead to ruin1
- to another that it would be "good
, business” to pay off the obligation
1 now.
j\s jrarman Donus dui supporters
’ conceded their campaign to over
• ride President Roosevelt’s veto was
lost, barring last minute changes,
; Senattor Borah (R-Ida.) urged the
; senate to pass the $2,200,000,000
inflationary measure.
I "I make no concealment, I offer
1 no apology,” he said, "for the be
• lief that the country needs a larger
1 volume of money, a larger volume
1 of currency. For that reason I b;
1 lieve this bill is in harmony with
> the interests of the entire country.”
As the momentous vote, expect
ed late in the afternoon, neared,
l Senator Long (D-La.), who had
' been optimistic of over-riding the
veto, predicted the administration
would win by five votes.
- Democratic leaders said so fat
1 as they knew they had not lost a
c single one of the 3 5 votes cast
1 against the bill two weeks ago and
^ predicted the final roll call would
■ show almost 40 votes to uphold the
1 president.
Packed galleries listened lif'essh
s to a rather cut and dried debate
’ until Borah took the floor. Vet
^ erans, some in Khaki, were sprink
e led thru the throng.
r House Adopts HOLC
i Conference Report
f _
Washington.—The house adopt
ed the conference report on th
HOLC bill, which makes availabl
s $1,750,000,000 for home financ
£ ing purposes, an amount that cor
responds to an amendment intro
duced by Representative Hancocl
some tige ago. The bill also con
tains a provision under whicl
home owners, desiring to refinanc<
£ their mortgages with the assistant
of the government, have 30 mori
days in which to file their applica
^ tions. It is taken for granted thai
^ President Roosevelt will sign thi
d bilL
Mr. Hancock said that betweei
™ 7,000 and 8,000 people in Nortl
Carolina had made application fo:
this kind of government financ
d ing;_
a_ RUSSIAN PLANE CRASHES
6 The Maxim Gorky, largest lam
airplane in the world, crashei
Saturday in collision with a smal
I airplane, says a Moscow dispatch
^ Forty-nine persons were killed, in
eluding eight women and six chil
’ dren. The pilot of the smal
plane was doing stunts agains
orders and perished in the disaster
100 Million Dollars
To Be Spent On Farm
Electrification Plan
Only 13 Per Cent of The
Nation’s Farms Now
Have Electric Power
Due to High Cost
The Administration this week
made extension of power lines to
1,000,000 American farm homes
now lighted with lamps and candles
a major part of its $4,000,000,000
work-relief program.
Officials hoped, by spending at
least $100,000,000 for rural elec
trification, to employ thousands of
needy and start a drive for reduced
rates the nation over.
President Roosevelt assigned
Morris L. Cooke, Philadelphia pow
er expert, to the unprecedented
task of supervising the work, set
ting up or acquiring power plants,
stringing wires over prairies and
mountains.
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6,200,000 farms have power—and
64 per cent have automobiles.
Cooke said "relatively high
charges for electricity that prevail
in many sections” has kept power
consumption from increasing.
“It seems fairly certain that if
average costs to consumers were
substantially reduced, a great in
crease in consumption would fol
low. Doubling the use all but
cuts power costs in half,” he said.
Cooke’s program, by creating
rural electricity units in various
sections of the country, will tie in
with the National Resources
Board’s recommendations for a
nation-wide network of high trans
mission lines.
NRB suggested the Government
develop hydro-electric power plants
on streams and rivers. The energy,
created on a large scale and there
fore cheap in price, could be car
ried to almost every potential con
sumer.
The Administration, with part
of its $900,000,000 re-employment
construction fund, will finance
the new hydro-electric develop
ments and complete others started
with the original $3,300,000,000
public works appropriaion.
P¥A attorneys have drafted
model laws setting up rural electri
fication co-operatives for submis
sion to state legislatures. The pro
jects are to be financed by revenue
bonds payable in from 20 to 30
years.
Fiddlers To Fiddle!
At Cooleemee
While the fiddlers’ are fiddling
the dancers will be dancing in the
Old Time Fidders’s Convention to
be held at Cooleemee on Saturday
night, June 1st, at 8 p. m.
The convention will be held in
the consolidated school building
promptly at 8 and a large number
of cash prizes are being offered.
The square dance, the Old Vir
ginia reel and also the shuffle dance
will be put on in connection with
the convention.
Some of the State’s most noted
musicians and dancers will attend
! this convention and everyone who
attends are insured some real
music and entertainment.
' Our old friend, J. C. Sell says:
"It will be bigger and better than
1 ever.”
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' EX-GOV. McLEAN ILL
Reports from the bedside of
former Governor Angus W. Mc
Lean, of North Carolina, who is
suffering in Washington City from
: a clot in his right lung, indicate
f that he is much improved and at
tending physicians are encouraged
• over his condition. He was strick
en April 19 and remained in an
’ Atlantic City hotel until last Fri
1 day when a sudden change devel
c oped and he was carried to Emer
• gency hospital in Washington.
A Prince, A Count and an Ameri Heiress
■ -1-■—
EENO, Nev. .. . Above is Barbara
Hutton, heiress to Woolworth Dime
Store Millions, photographed outside
her quarters just before she was
granted divorce from Prince Mdivani
(below left.) Above, left, is Count
Kurt von Haugwitz-Beventhlow of
Denmark, who arrived in New York
the week previous to granting of the
divorce here, rumor having it that he
was soon to wed Barbara.
GOOD
MORNING
UP AND AT ’EM
"Shall we have a : riendly game
of cards?”
"No, let’s play bridge.”
Wife—"Why don’t you put the
cat out as I told you?”
Absent-Minded Professor—"I
put something out. Ye gods! It
must have been the baby.”
A London doctor touring in the
provinces had difficulty in obtain
ing suitable lodgings in a small
town.
One landlady, showing him a
dingy bedroom, remarked persua
sively, "As a whole, this is quite a
nice room, isn’t it?”
"Yes, madam,” he agreed, "but
as a bedroom it’s no good.”
In the dimly lit conservatory
Herbert had asked Elsie to marry
him. She had consented with fit
ting modesty.
"Bertie, dear,” she murmured,
"am I the Only girl—”
"Now, look here, dearest,” he
interrupted, "don’t ask me if you
are the only girl I ever loved. You
know as well as I do that—”
"Oh, that wasn’t the question
at all, Bertie,” she- answered. “I
was just going to ask you if I' was
the only girl that would have you.”
Dora had returned from Sunday
school where she had been for the
first time.
"What did my little daughter
learn this morning?” asked her
father.
"That I am a child of Satan,”
was the beaming reply.
TRAGEDY
Several Legs of Mother Found
on Lonely Road.—Headline in Sav
annah paper.
Cooke—Why don’t you use soap
and water on your neck?
Greer—What, me wash that
dirty thing?
Neave—Don’t you ever speak
of love?
Howan—Yes, lovely weather,
isn’t it?
Have you heard about the tree
surgeon with two wooden legs?
No.
Well, it seems that a chip off
the old block married him one
night just to whittle away the
time, and the next morning when
she woke up, her love was kindling.
Whitt—Have you heard about
the lipestick Miss -uses?
Carter—Sure, it’s on everyone’s
lips.
Conferees Nearing
Agreement on Home
Mortgage Extension
Ready To Act On Bill
Adding $1,750,000 To
Lending Resources
To HOLC
Congressional conferees were
virtually agreed on an extension
of home mortgage relief to 83,000
new applicants in addition to
about 5 00,000 urban home owners
who have already applied for
Government aid.
After a month’s delay, the con
ferees were ready to act on the
Steagall-Fletcher bill adding $1,
75 0,000,000 to the lending re
sources of the Home Owners Loan
Corporation. Leaders expect the
two houses to take final action
this week.
Several controversial points re
mained to be settled, altho House
conferees indicated a willingness
to yield on the most disputed pro
vision—that relating to new ap
plications.
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x lib vjv.natv um xv/x av~
ceptance of new applications for a
60-day period with no restric
tions. The House bill required
that home owners must have in
dicated an intention Of seeking
aid before passage of the new
measure. Some of the conferees
were said to favor cutting the
period to 30 days and eliminating
the House restriction, which they
called a subterfuge to disqualify
uninformed applicants.
The additional $1,750,000,000
on which both houses are agreed,
will increase HOLC resources to
$4,750,000,000. When it is all
disbursed, the Government will
hold more than one-fourth of the
nation’s entire urban home mort
gage debt.
Officials do not anticipate a
great flood of new applications
under the new act, since private
mortgage money has become more
plentiful and the effect of new
Federal savings and loan associa
tions is being felt.
PATRONS RANSACK
$1 CHAIN OFFICE
Los Angeles.—Approximately 60
persons, led by a gray-haired wo
man who screamed she had “lost
$5,” today overturned furniture
and ransacked files in a "dollar
chain” establishment. A riot call
summoned police.
The three proprietors escaped
leaving Miss Gloria Hughes, a
stenographer.
The angry crowd found only
$4.35 in stamp money.
The rioting marked thie first
violence in the Los Angeles area
to result from the chains.
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Poverty Not Cause
Of Large Families
Scientists Contend
f ^rth Rate Declined In
Relief Groups During
Depression Altho It
Is Still Highest
Poverty is not a cause of large
families, but has the opposite effect
>f reducing the birth rate. The
popular misconception that pover
ty is the reason why relief families
have a higher birth rate than those
not on relief was thus blown up by
i report of Drs. Frank W. Notes
tein and Clyde V. Kiser, of the
Milbank Memorial Fund, speaking
before the Population Association
of America.
Surveys made by the U. S. Pub
lic Health Service and the Milbank
Memorial Fund reveal the birth
rate is much higher among those on
relief but that does not mean the
birth rate of this group rose during
the depression. On the contrary,
it fell as did the birth rate of all
other groups.
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jwu ui t-umiui aituuAja \jixiy
one factor tending to reduce the
live birth rates, especially among
the better classes. Another factor
is abortion, including unavoidable
miscarriages. One abortion to every
two and a half confinements in
cities, and one to five confinements
in country districts is the startling
estimate cited by Drs. Notestem
and Kiser.— ---
A survey of 10,000 clinic pat
ients in New York showed 15 pej
cent of the pregnancies were term
inated by criminal abortion during
the first five years of marriage
After 10 years of married life, th<
abortion rate had increased to mori
than 40 per cent.
Differences in birth contro
practices are held responsible, by
these scientists, as more important
than any other factor in making
the fertility greater for the lower
social groups.
Removal of legal and other bar
riers to the dissemination of birth
control knowledge would result in a
lessening of these differences, they
said. It would, however, be in the
direction of a further reduction of
the birth rate. Most effective in
tending to raise the birth rate of
the better classes would be a great
er degree of economic and social
security, they concluded.
President Howard R.
Omwake Receives
Alumni Plaque
President Howard R. Omwake
3f Catawba College has been desi
gnated as the winner of the Class
af 1932 Alumni Plaque at Mer
cersburg Academy for this year
according to announcement made
by Head Master Boyd Edwards at
Mercersburg, Pa.
Dr. Omwake was graduated
from Mercersburg in 1897 and
later returned to the Academy as
Head of the Latin Department.
Before going to Catawba he was
dean of Franklin and Marshall
College.
The first recipient of the award
which goes to an alumnus of the
school, outstanding in service, was
Dr. George Omwake, President of
Ursinus and brother of Dr. How
ard Omwake. Other alumni hon
ored are Dr. Joel T. Boone, formei
White House physician, and Mr
Junius Fishburn, publisher oi
Roanoke, Va.
GEORGIA VOTES DRY
The unofficial count gives th
state of Georgia a dry majority a
a result of the vote last week 01
the repeal referendum, by a ver
small margin. Beer and win
were voted on separately and, un
der the legislative act for referen
dum, will be legalized immediate
ly on the issuance of the gover
nor’s proclamation.
CCC Units Are
Pushing Work
Fort Macon, Mt. Mitch
ell, Morrow Mountain,
And Cape Hatteras
Being Opened
North Carolina soon will have
four State parks that will compare
most favorably with those of any
other state, L. A. Sharpe, regional
inspector of the State Park divi
sion of the National Park service
announced this week.
Work has been under way at
Fort Macon State park, near More
head City, since April, 1934. It
is expected that it will be complet
ed this summer. A force of 216
Civilian Conservation corps men
is at work under the direction of
the National Park service and the
department of Conservation and
Development.
tremendous amount or wont
has been done at Fort Macon in
efforts to control the shifting sand
dunes and protect the ocean front.
Old Fort Macon is being preserved
and restored and is being made
accessible from Atlantic Beach. A
road is being built along the sound.
Previously, in order to reach Fort
Macon it was necessary to drive
along the beach at low tide or
cross by boat. It is hoped that
this new road will eventually be
paved. !
Facilities have been arranged for
the comfort and conveniences of
visitors. Several rooms of the old
fort have been restored to con
form to various periods of their
history.
At Mount Mitchell State park
the CCC detachment is engaged in
preparing a camp site for a 200
unit CCC company, which is ex
pected to arrive within the next
two or three weeks. Work at
Mount Mitchell State park during
the present season will be largely
of fire prevention character. The
underbrush and growth will be
cleared, and trails will be provided
for the convenience of visitors.
Mount Mitchell rises 6,711 feet
above sea level and is the highest
peak east of the Rockies.
Morrow Mountain state parK, in
the Uwharries near Albemarle, has
been tentatively approved, but for
mal approval is expected soon.
When formal approval is received,
work will be started immediately.
The park already embraces 2,500
acres, donated to the State in a
large part by J. M. Morrow and
other public spirited citizens. It
includes Morrow mountain and
several surrounding peaks, and in
dications are that the size of the
park will be considerably increased.
W. B. Beaver is head of the com
mittee in charge of acquisition of
land for the park. Morrow Moun
tain State park may be reached by
following the Badin highway out
of Albemarle for about two miles
and turning to the right as indi
cated by a sign. The road leads
to the top of the mountain about
10 miles distant. Bathing, boat
ing and fishing facilities will be
available, as well as overnight
camping accommodations.
Formal approval is aiso
for Cape Hatteras State park in
order that work may be started.
The work will be of the same gen
eral type as at the other State
parks. Special privileges and con
veniences for fishermen will be
provided. The park now includes
1,500 acres and is accessible by
boat to Buxton or by motor to
Manteo and along the beach at low
tide. It embraces the tip of, Cape
Hatteras "graveyard of ships” and
the old lighthouse is in the park
area. Unusual scenery and plant
life are found in this park, and it is
a haven for many varieties of wild
: fowl and game. Liberal donations
> of land were made to the State by
t Frank Stick of Elizabeth City and
r the Phipps family of New York
: and Palm Beach.
- The State park program is one
- of the major park developments of
- the decade. In all instances the
- work is being done by CCC work
ers and Federal funds.