Washington— President Roose
velt’s second term began last Wed
n*sday, Jan. 20. He came through
the strain of his first term in bet
_ter shape titan even his friends be
lieved possible, yet the heavy duties
have worn him perceptibly and, as
he stated himself in his appeal cc
Congress to authorize the enlarge
ment of the Executive staff, "the
President cannot adequately handle
his responsibilities; he is overwork
ed, it is humanly impossible for
him to carry out his duty as Chiet
Executive because he is over
whelm with minor details and
needless contacts arising directly
from the bad organization and
equipment of the Government.
The plan of reorganization
which the President’s committee
drew up and which he has urged
upon Congress would give the
Chief Executive a lot of additional
help. There would be six assistants
directly attached to the White
House staff in addition to the sec
retaries now provided. As the com
mittee suggested, these should be
men whose job would be to neep
in touch with every administrative
department and make recommen
dations to the President on admin
istrative methods and personnel.
THE PRESIDENT’S PLAN
The plan calls for the addition!
of two Cabinet departments, So
cial Welfare and Public Works, -
and changing the name of the De
partment of the Interior to De
partment of Conservation. The
hundred or more independent agent
boards and commisvins would be .
distributed among the twelve ma
jor departments.
An important part of the Presi- i
cent’s plan is t,> abolish the present j
Ct”j* Service Commission and in- ]
stand provide a single personnel of
ficer or Civil Service Administra- '
ror with an unoi'J advisory board
of six public-.piriteI citizens, toi
arrise in placing every Government
pos-tion not cc icerned with the t
shar ing of polices in the irremove
■ ah le classified service. a
The President’s reorganization e
l plan ran head-on into Congress’ e
' own Ideas about reorganization, as t
soon as it was submitted. Senator t
raarry oyra or Virginia is cnair- (
man of a committee which has had ,
its own experts at work for nearly
a year, and which has different
ideas as to what needs to be done. ,
The boys on Capitol Hill, much
as they would like to go along with
the President, don’t like a number '
of things about his plan. In the .
first place, they say, it would tend
to concentrate too much power in
the Executive, which is not the
idea of Congress at all.
Moreover, the President’s plan
would abolish the position of
Comptroller-General, which was
created by Congress as a check
uoon Executive soendine. And
one thing the boys on the Hill de
cidedly disapprove is the idea of
sewing up all the government jobs
so tight that a Congressman or a
Senator can’t even get a postmast
er appointed.
The President was entirely frank
in pointing out that his plan of re
organization considered efficiency
first and economy only second
arily. Senator Byrld and a few
others are equally frank in saying
that it is time to think abot. eco
nomy. They will bring forward
reorganization plans of their own.
THE BUDGET OUTLOOK
In the subject of economy, the
President’s budget message held
little hope of a reduction in Feder
al expenditures for another year. It
is not likely that Government in
come will balance outgo before the
fiscal year 1939.
The big items of expense for
which the President asks Congress
are: Relief, $1,887,000,000; Army
and Navy, $981,000,000; Interest
on the >3 5,000,000,000 National
Debt, $860,000,000; Public Works
$8 5 8,000,0000; Regular Govern
ment Expenses, $750,000,000;
Veterans Administration, $577,
000,000; Farm Aid, $463,000,
000.
The $836,000,000 asked for So
cial Security will be largely offset
by the new payroll taxes.
It is not expected that any new
taxes will be needed, unless the
strike situation so disorganizes
business and checks recovery as to
shut off expected tax revenue from
business sources. There is little
likelihood of reduction in ">ther
The largest source of I >, ’
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Plans Complete for Birthday Rail
For Bitter Pen j Turns To College
LOS ANGELES . . . P Milton
Smith (above), editor Moun
tain View. Calif., this week faced
a court on criminal libel charges
based on an editorial he wrote at
tacking President Roosevelt A
local Democratic County official in
stigated the court action.
SEATTLE . . . Mrs. Rubye L.
Zionehock, 21 (above), widow of
the late Congressman Zioncheck.
is now a freshman in the Univer
sity of Washington. She enrolled
In psychology, economics and po
litical science classes. Prior to her
marriage she was a WPA steno
grapher in Washington.
Today And Tomorrow
HAPPINESS . . . laws
Sir Arthur Eddington, famous
Iritish scientist, told ship news re'
>orters that the only happy land he
inew anythink about is the one in
he familiar old hymn:
"There is a happy land
Far, far away.”
There never has been such a
hing on earth as a happy land—
land in which all the people or
ven half the people were happy,
scept it may have been in one of
he South Sea Islands before white
nen discovered them and introdu
:ed new ideas about right and
vrong and began to impose laws
lpon the people.
I’ve observed innumerable at
empts to make * land—this land
>f ours—a happy land by passing
aws. It looks to me that the more
aws we adopt, the farther away
we get from the goal of happiness.
Ihe happy land is still "far, far
iway.”
* * *
DELUSIONS ... vary
The trouble with most of us is
:hat we suffer from delusions—del
usions as to what would make us
sappy if we had it; delusions about
low to make others happy. I know
:arnest souls who are convinced
chat all the poor need to make
:hem happy is electric dishwashers
md modern plumbing. Most of us
relieve that all we need to make
jurselves happy is more money
chan we have.
So we pass laws, or demand their
passage, to give everybody more
money and more plumbing, fool
shly believing that happiness can
ie measured in dollars.
I lean more and more strongly
:o the belief, as time marches on,
chat a nation would be a much
lappier place if all the laws
pvhich were designed to make folk
lappy were repealed over night. Aft
_ _L -_1_..1J_
t easier for Washington to balance
:he budget and reduce taxes.
* * *
RESPONSIBILITY ... no cop
One of my objections to trying
:o regulate all human affairs by
aw is that it takes responsibility
tway from the individual citizen
ind lays it on the shoulder of the
policeman. I believe most of the
:vils which laws are supposed to
:orrect would be righted to the
iatisfaction of everybody, if every
x>dy realized that they had to do
IrvVi vpc ortA rnnlnn’t.
jet out of it by saying it was gov
:rnment’s business to attend to it.
There was a higher proportion
>f happiness, I believe, in the pio
neer era when laws were few and
iheriffs a long way off, and sett
ershad to work out their destinies
md those of their communities by
caking responsibility on their own
choulders.
At least they enjoyed a higher
measuren of independence when
there were no government agnts
round to tell them what to do,
jand they never missed the plumb
ing which they’d never heard of.
* * *
DIAMONDS . . .joy
If you think it is diamonds that
will make you happy, here’s :
chance to pick up the world’s sec
ond or third largest and finesi
stone at a bargain. Three years age
this month I told in this columr
about a diamond almost as big a?
an egg which a South Africar
Dutchman named Jacobus Jonke;
found on his farm and sold foi
$300,000.
Well, the world’s master di<
mond cutter, Lazare Kaplan, fin
■ Tevnlra* a
mond in New York just after New
Year’s. He got twelve gems out o!
it, the largest a magnificent jewe
of 143 carats. Their owner, wh<
bought the original rough diamcm
from Jonker, thinks the twelvi
would make a nice necklaie and h<
asks only $2,000,000 for the lot!
I haven’t heard whether Jacobu
Jonker’s $300,000 has brough
him happiness or not. It seems like
ly that the one who has got thi
moct happiness out of the big dia
mond so far is the skilled srafts
man who had the joy of using hi
skill on such a piece of work.
*• * *
WEATHER . . . crops
Thus far the winter of 193 6-3/
has been as much of a freak as it
predecessor. A year ago the Eas
|was having the heaviest snows am
the lowest temperatures sine.
Washingtons army nearly froze t<
death at Valley Forge. This yeai
there have not been a dozen really
cold days along the whole Atlantii
seaboard and no snow to speak of
California has been suffering from
the coldest winter in years anc
Florida baking in the highest tern
peratures on record.
One good thing about this opei
winter has been the abundance oi
rain that has soaked in all over th
drought-affected regions of th.
East. In very few sections has th
ground been frozen before the rair
fell. Springs, wells and reservoir
have been replenished and the out
look is good for a big crop season
Whatever may happen betweer
now and summer, we can't hav.
many weeks of cold wetather now
East Spencer P. T. A.
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news i
The Grade Mothers of Spence
High School held a call meeting oi
Tuesday afternoon relative to din
ner which the P. T. A. will serv
Wednesday, February 3rd, in behal:
of the school.
The next regular meeting of tb
P. T. A. will be held on the 3r<
Monday in February.
261 Dead And
Near Million
Made Homeless
The flood situation in Ohio, Ken
tucky and adjoining states, was re
ported Thursday to be as follows:
'Homeless—Estimated at almost
1,000,000 by the Red Cross.
Dead—Known dead numbered
261—including 133 known dead in
Louisville. However, it was reliably
estimated more than 300 had died
from exposure and disease in Louis
ville hospitals. This would boost the
general flood total to more than
428.
Known dead by states included:
Kentucky 170, Arkansas 23, Miss
ouri 14, Ohio 14, West Virginia 14,
Indiana 9, Tennessee 9, Illinois 6,
Pennsylvania 3, South Carolina 1,
-rr.
Damage—Conservatively estima
ted at more than $400,000,000.
Relief—Red Cross raising $10,
000,000 relief fund. Senate arrang
ed for quick consideration of $790,
. 000,000 deficiency appropriation.
President Roosevelt has promised it
will be made available for flood re
lief. Red Cross, medical, relief wor
kers and Federal, and state agencies
rush supplies and aid to flood vic
tims.
Well Known
Woman Passes
(From the Spencer Journal)
Mrs. Spencer S. Pierce, aged 50
died at her home on Iredell Ave.
Sunday night about midnight, fol
lowing a long illness. For the past
ten days her condition had been
very, serious. She. is survived by her
| husband, two sons, Lloyd* Pierce,
of Winston-Salem and Roland of
Asheville; three daughters, Mrs.
Walter Sebastian Miss Virginia and
Julia Pierce of Spencer. One grand
son, Richard Pierce Sebastian; four
brothers, H. P. Newman of Spen
cer, H. R. Newman of Greensboro,
: Charles and L. R. Newman of
; Washington; and one sister, Mrs.
i P. B. Winston of Richmond, Va.
Funeral services were held from the
Methodist Church Tuesday at 4 P.
; M„ being conducted by Rev. W.
r B. Davis of Winston-Salem, assisted
by Rev. G. A. Stamper, pastor of
( the Methodist Church.
Active Pallbearers were Dr. G.
. B. Albright, J. H. Benton, E. L.
, Rankin, W. H. Womack, Earl
Kluttd and Lester H Slate.
Honorary pallbearers were H. C.
. Trexler, E. M. Swanson, W. D.'
Hutchinson, M. R. Brockman,!
Dike Webber, Roy Stuart, M. E.j
Scrivener, R. L. Julian, E. R.:
| Blackman, G. D. Brandt, S. S.!
■ Moore and J. u. carter.
i Flower bearers were members of
; the Susiana Wesley Sunday school
l class and friends and neighbors of
the family. These offerings were
numerous and beautiful showing
1 the high esteem in which the de
ceased was held.
1,000,000 Homeless
i
l These people are suffering
from hunger, cold and dis
ease. Do your part by con
' tributing to the Red Cross
"Bitty" Tops Stan »
MIa.*U, Fla. . . . Bryan M. "Bitsy”
Grant (above), mighty miniature
Atlanta Atom of tennis. Is spilling
s champion net stars all over the
I South is winter play here, twice
defeating Donald Budge rankini
No. 1 U. S. star.
Statement
Effective the first week in Februtary the Rowan
County Herald will succeed The Carolina Watchman *
and the new publication will be published twice a1
week, beginning the first week in April, by the Inde
pendent Press Publishing Company which will re-.
place The Carolina Watchman Publishing Company.
These changes are being made in accord with the
expansion program recently inaugurated by the pub
lisher and owner and with the additional objective
of furnishing Salisbury and Rowan County with a
live, up-to-date semiweekly, portraying in detail, the
social, economic and religious life of this community.
As in the past, this publication will continue to eater
especially to rural Rowan.
In addition to the Herald-Watchman, the publish
er also owns and publishes The Spencer Journal,
Spencer, N. C., The Davie County Independent,
Mocksville, N. C., where a complete newspaper pltuit
has been installed, and the China Grove Record,
founded in 1909, discontinued by this publisher in
July, 1931, but publication of which will be resumed
in the near future.
Several men have been added to our staff, three in
the mechanical department and two in the news and
advertising departments. In order to handle the in
creased volume of business, additional machinery
has been purchased including two Model 14 linotype
machines, another newspaper press, job printing
press, saw and motor, fully equipped, and a large
quantity of type and other equipment.
Our plants are now equipped to handle any type
of printing or publishing work.
The publisher desires to express his gratitude
for the support of the subscribers, advertisers and
other patronage en joyed in the past and bespeaks a
continuation of the same for the above mentioned
publications in the future.
E. IV. G. Huffman PnA/i«lu>
Spencer Adopts
Refunding Plan
Will Reduce
Interest On
Town’sBonds
Financial Condition Im
proving—No New Bonds
Issued or Money Borrow
ed
(From th© Spencer Journal)
Operation of the refunding plan
adopted by the Mayor and Board
of Aldermen has resulted in a de
cided improved financial condition
for the Town of Spencer and will
save the tax payers a substantial
amount of interest, over a period
of years, according to T. Kern
Carlton, Town Attorney, when ap
proached by a representative of The
Spencer Journal Wednesday.
During the past five years, the
Town of Spencer has been through
one of the most trying times in its
corporate existence, due mainly to
the depression and consequent in
ability of part of its citizenry to
pay their taxes, street and other as
sessments. Approxmately one hund
red seventy five thousand dollars of
street, water, sewer and school
bonds came due during that period.
At the present time the financial
condition of the Town has improv
ed. The Mayor and Board of Ald
ermen have not borrowed any mon
ey nor issued any new bonds, the
tax collections are better, the street
assessments are being paid and to
take care of the liree number of
bonds (which were issued in the
past years, some as early as 1906)
that have come due in the past five
years, namely one hundred and sev
enty five thousand dollars, the
town authorities have put into op
eration a refunding plan. This plan
has the effect of continuing the old
indebtedness over a long period of
years, some bonds coming due even
as late as 1954, and when the final
refunding plan .has been completed
the Town of Spencer will save a
large sum in,, interest and all past
due bonds will be current as to
principal and interest.
I
Railroaders Defeat Mills
Home Quint
The Spencer high Railroaders,
after taking it on the chin from
Hickory Friday night, returned to
their winning ways Tuesday night
and defeated the Mills Home out
fit at Thomasville 24 to 15 there
by keeping a clean slate in the State
Championship race.
The game Tuesday night was a
typical Spencer victory with Smith,
Swicegood and Watlington setting
the pace for the Railroaders and C.
Watson being the outstanding per
former for the Mills Home quint.
WILVjTAGE
GllLA EVENT
AT HI SCHOOL
lack Wardlaw And His
Famous Orchestra Will
Furnish Music And En
tertainment.
riCKET SALES
VERY RAPID
Plans are about complete for
what is expected to be one of the
ttgest social and beneficient events
:ver held in Salisbury.
The event:—President’s Birth
Jay Ball.
Time—Monday night, Feb. 1.
Place—Boyden High School.
Li.'lr l:. r_
" —-— ■ • a auivuj
>rchestra, will furnish music. A
lumber of other entertaining fea
tures have been arranged, for the
went.
"Help fight infantile paralysis”
s the call that is being heard thru
st the nation this week, with a
Birthday Ball for the President
scheduled to be held in virtually
wery city, village and hamlet in
the United States.
The President’s birthday falls on
Saturday, January 30, and on this
date he has been honored thruout
the nation every year since 1932
fith an event of this sort to be
held here Wednesday night.
70 per cent of the proceeds is
used In the localities where th«
dances are held the remainder being
turned over to the Warm Sprngs
Foundation to be used for the pur
pose of aiding victims of the dread
paralysis disease and for the pro
motion of scientific research along
lines of prevention and cure.
Mr. B. D. McCubbins, General
Chairman of the event, states that
plans are progressing nicely. It is
believed that tne Ball will probably
be the largest of the year.
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LONDON . . . Ann Harding, ash
blond beauty of the American
screen (above), is the bride of
Werner Janssen, famed American
conductor and composer. They
were quietly married in a surprise
wedding, it is the second mar
riage for both.
WASHINGTON . . . Among the
women in Washington official life
is a Treasury Department official,
Mrs. Marion Blair Banister, who
Is Assistant Treasurer of the
United States.