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BOOSTERS FOR A GREATER CITY AND COUNTY
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THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN O*
Oldest Paper Published m Rowan County_ROWAN COUNTY HERALD Consolidated February 5th, 1937
FOUNDED Iij32-105TH YEAR_ SALISBURY, N. C. FRIDAY. MARCH 12, 1937 ~~ VOL. 104 NO 33 PR^CeTcENTS
Rowan May
Vote On Bill
In 6 Months
Bill to Permit Pari-Mutuel
Wagers at Horse Races
Sent to Senate
ROWAN SOLONS
SPONSORED BILL
Representatives Murphy and
I'zzell of Rowan secured House
passage Wednesday of a bill to
call an election in Rowan county
within six months on the ques
tion permitting pari-mutuel bet
ting on horse racing.
Four years ago the Legisla
ture authorized six counties to
hold similar elections—Rowan,
Folk, Pasquotank, New Hanover,
McDowell, and Haywood—but
only in Polk was the vote in fa
vor of legalizing the betting and
racing.
Polk county failed to carry
out the authorization to issue
franchises after opponents thre
atened suit. Parties interested in
financing the Polk race track
would not invest funds wdthout
a court ruling holding the law
valid, sponsors said.
If the voters of Rowan ap
prove the proposition, a commis-*
sion consisting of W. C. Cough-1,
enour, E. S. Thompson and Ed
gar Montgomery would be crea
ted to govern races. Franchises
could be issued organized and fi
nanced racing associations up to;
an amount not to exceed $5,000
any one day.
The bill bore a title saying it,
would create an “agricultural
and breeding commission” for
Rowran, it w'ent to the Senate.
Krause Chosen AsMay
QueenWithTroutman
As Maid Of Honor
(From the Pioneer)
Each Class Has Three
Girls Represented As
Queen’s Attendants
Plans for May day advanced
one more step with the selection
of the twelve attendants to Miss
Sally Krause, the recently elect
ed Queen of May. Her court was
selected by threes from the four
classes by elections following the
student assembly on March 2.
Miss Krause has selected Miss
Mary Margaret Troutman her
Maid of Honor.
From the senior class Miss
Sheet Fowler, Miss Frances
Foil, and Miss Jane Spong were
chosen by a close vote. The abun
dance of outstanding and popu
lar girls in this class made the
vote very close. Miss Fowler has
been active in the Glee Club and
Pioneer work; Miss Foil, also
of Salisbury, is a Phi F,psilon
member and a participant in
girl's athletic events; and Miss
Spong is one of the leaders of
her class as well as president of
Phi Epsilon.
Miss Marv Brown Fesperman,
Miss I.orene Graham, and Miss
Dorothy Hedrick were elected
by the junior class. The sopho
mores gave the honors to Miss
Tula Peck. Miss Margaret
Rowe, and Miss Eleanor New
man. All three freshmen repres
entatives came from boarding
student ranks. They are Miss
Emma Jean Shore, Miss Jane
I)< Cong, Miss Betty Mowery.
The Craven County saving;
and naan association composed oi
farmeVs recently declared a three
Hoey?s Forces Are Pushing Seven Bills
jLARGE A CAPELLA GROUP TO MAKE NORTH CAROLINA TOUR
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1937 edition of Catawba s Glee Club js larger than any previous club. Singing A Capelin thev will visit most of the larger cities
of this state during their eight day tour this season. Mr. Peeler accompanying Dr. Omwake. recently left to arrange the itinerary
tor this years’ trip. The club has already' visited two churches near Lexington. N. C. and one church in Asheboro, N. C. Next Sun
day’s trip will include appearances in Winston-Salem and High Point, N. C. (Pioneer Staff Photo)
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j Under The Dome
Washington — The situaiton
in Congress might be compared
to a log-jam in the timber coun
try. Nothing can move down
stream until the key-log starts.
There are a dozen or so legisla
tive proposals of major inport
ance, and scores of minor bills,
which cannot make headway in
Congress until the most import
ant of all of them is out of the
way.
The key-log in this legislative
jam is the President’s bill for
the re-organization of the Su
preme Court. It is generally ac
cepted on Capitol Hill that the
rest of the Administration’s pro
gram must wait until that issue
is resolved, for on the liberaliza
tion of the Court rests the suc
cess or failure of the Govern
ment’s reform plans. It might be
possible to put a large part of
the program into laws which
would stand the Constitutional
test, but in the light of the fate
of N.R.A., A.A.A., the Guffey
Coal Act and other New Deal
measures, there is a strong disin
clination to take any chances
with the Supreme Court as now
constituted. Therefore, the reor
ganization of the Court, by the
addition of justices who will see
eye to eye with the President on
the constitutionality of his pro
gram, is essential if he is to get
his projects accepted by Con
gress.
And the key?log, the Court
Reorganization proposal, is still
jammed with some doubt as to
whether it will ever be released,
and a reasonable certainity that
the process will take a long time,
in any event. Senators and Re
presentaties are resigning them
selves to- a long, long session ;
but with the air-cooling system
now in operation throughout the
Capitol and the offices of mem
bers, the prospect of sitting
jthrough another Washington
|summer is not so appalling as it
once was.
' PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM
| What is this Administration
jprogram which hangs upon eith
jer an amendment to the Con
stitution or a change in the poinl
of view of the Supreme Court'
Nobody can read the President’;
mind, but enough of his plan has
been disclosed to make the gen
eral purpose clear. Broadly, the
program includes ten major
items.
(1.) The plan, already sub
mitted. for reorganizing the exe
cutive branch of the government.
(2.) A plan for establishment
of minimum wages and maxi
mum hours in industry and abo
lition of child labor.
(3.) A supplementary plan for
voluntary trade agreements by
industries, allowing some relaxa
tion of anti-trust laws in an ef
fort to abolish unfair trade prac
tices.
{-t. /v new piugicuii iui agn
culture, carrying out Secretary
Wallace’s idea for an “ever nor
mal granary,” and with some
form of Federal crop control as
a method to help bring it about.
(5.) A Federal plan of slum
clearance and low-cost housing.
(6.) A plan for broadening the
Federal power policy, coupled,
perhaps, with a more integrated
plan for flood control and wa
ter use.
(7.) Revision of the tax laws
so as to place a larger impost on
income from foreign investments
in the United States, to serve
the double purpose of producing
revenue and giving the Federal
Government greater control over
the foreign capital flowing into
our security markets.
(8) A Federal program for aid
j to farm tenants.
(9.) New appropriations for
relief and recovery.
(10.) Amendments to broad
en and refine the Social Security
.Act.
■ There is little difference of
/.pinion on the desirability of
most, of the objectives of that
iprogram. There is violent dif
ference of opinion on the ques
tion whether the proposed meas
/ires would accomplish their pur
;pose and whether the Federal
'government has authority under
i the Constitution to undertake
'them. The Supreme Court has
held that some of the ends soughi
are unconstitutional.
| CONGRESS DIVIDED
j The real issue, however, whirl
i has caused what many fairly b<
To Study WeathercfNorth Pole
N regor (above with
wife)v of the Newark Airport Weather Bureau, sails next Spring for
2 years at the North Pole, there to accumulate data essential to long
range weather forecasting. He is shown at the wheel of the General
Grcely II, the three-mast schooner be will sail into the North.
called a constitutional crisis,
perhaps the most serious in the
nation’s history, is whether the
trend of recent years toward
centralization of all Govern
ment power in Washington shall
be checked, or whether power
shall further l>e concentrated in
the Executive. And on that is
sue the President’s own suppor
ters in Congress are sharply
divided. Senators and Repre
sentatives are hearing from the
^voters back home in greater vo
lume than ever before. Hund
reds of thousands, perhaps a
million letters have poured in on
the members of both Houses in
the past month, the great major
ity opposing the President’s plan
of enlarging the Supreme Court
instead of recommending the
Constitution in such a way as to
remove all doubt of the constitu
tionality of his proposals. That
he will accept a compromise plan
if his Court plan fails of ac
ceptance, goes without saying.
But so far his attitude is that
he is prepared to stake every
thing upon the success of his re
l
organization proposal.
With the President himself go
ing “on the air“ for public sup
port, and the opponents of his
Court plan also resorting to radic
and every other available means
to make their views known, a
situation has developed alrnosi
of the proportions of a Presi
dential campaign, with the issue
tar more closely in doubt, foi
the division is not at all upor
sectional or traditional part}
lines.
flow far he can overcome the
opposition in Congress by exert
ing the sort of political pressure
which any President can always
put upon his own party mem
bers. and how far his persona
appeals to the nation for sup
port will put the pressure of pub
lie opinion from back home upoi
recalcitrant members, are ques
tions which only the event car
decide.
Six additional carloads of fa
hogs were shipped to Richmom
by farmers and club members o
Johnston County as a coopera
five project.
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Governor Now
Has 4-2 Score
On His Proposals i
| Free Textbooks, Highway
Reform, Cheap Car
Tags, Social Security on
Docket.
Raleigh —- Administration
leaders have rallied for
ces for passage of at least seven
gubernatorial “must” measures j
to clear -dockets for scheduled
fine die adjournment March 18.
When Governor Hoey took of
fice January 7, he outlined 16
specific recommendations to the(
1937 General Assembly. To
date, four of the recommenda
tions have been enacted into
law, and the Governor has suf
fered two defeats.
Passage of the seven “must”
i measures now hanging fire
would boost the giibfernatoral
score to 11 to 2, in Hoey’s favor.
Compromises may be reached on
the three other proposals.
, The seven recommendations
slated to be considered this week,
which are contained in the nine
bills follow:
1. Free basal textbooks for
elementary school children.
! 2. Reorganization of the Sta
te Highway and Public Works |
commission. i
3. Cheaper automobile license
tags. |
4. Social security.
5. “Reasonable” working con-1
ditions, with State rather than
Federal control of labor.
6. Increased facilities at State '
charitable institutions. i
7. Co-ordination of the school
administration.
Court Poll Reveals
Lack Of Interest
Majority Favor Change;
Sixty Fail to Vote
In accordance with its pro
gram of polls on topics of inter
est a survey on the attitude of,
the students in regard to the
proposal of President Roosevelt
to change the personnal of the
Supreme Court. This poll was
held during the student assem
bly of March 6.
Obviously, the well-versed Ca
tawban was at a loss as to what,
decision to make on the matter,
jfor the ballot results were ex-,
jtremely close between the advo
cates of the president’s proposal |
'and the champions of the Su-i
preme Court. The question, “Do!
jvou favor the proposed changes
;in the organization and functions
of the Supreme Court as suggest
ed by President Roosevelt?”,
was greeted with 120 yes’s and
108 no’s; five ballots showed in
decision and 60 brain trusts were
'so little interested in the ques
tion (or knew so little about the
issue) that they simply neglec
ted to voice an opinion through
'the medium of the chapel slip.
1 In recent polls sponsored by
i the Pioneer, the primary object
i was to learn thq student opinion
Ion specific matters. But in this
t poll it is found that students of
1 Catawba are very little interest
: ed in national affairs, judging
from the number of chapel slips
! that were left blank on the back,
I
Not Surprised
At Lewis’ Plan
Difficulties Seen Facing
General Strike; Report
Recent Efforts in This
Section.
Textile manufacturers of this
section were not surprised by re
ports emanating from Washing
ton that a drive on the textile
mills is the next objective of
John L. Lewis and his Commit
tee for Industrial Organization.
It is natural, some of them
said, to expect that after his pro
gram with automobile workers
and the steel industry, Mr. Le
wis would turn to the several
hundred thousand workers in the
nation’s textile industry. Mill
executives have been informed
for some time of activities in
New Jersey of the Hosiery Wor
ds’ union, which is allied with
he United Textile Workers,
which, in turn, is affiliated with
:he Committee for Industrial
Organization.
Recent effects have been made
:o effect an organization of all
hosiery workers, and some of
:be hosiery manufacturers have
been informed that the southern
hosiery industry is the next goal
of the union.
just how successful the Hos
iery Workers’ union and the Uni
ted Textile Workers have been
in recent weeks in securing mem
bership in southern hosiery and
cotton mills is not known, but
it is the opinion of several mill
executives that the recognition
of the C. I. O. by the United
States Steel corporation and the
General Electric company will
improve the chances of the Le
wis organization for a following
imong the textile workers.
It was explained that one of
he difficulties Lewis would en
ounter in trying to shut down
he textile industry is that the
ndustry is widely scattered and
hat even if the union should be
able to suspend (production in
he larger plants, the smaller
ines could step up operations
md keep the consumers pretty
A-ell supplied with goods.
How the textile industry will
■eact to the demands Lewis says
le is going to make is not known.
It is a fact that some of the mill
owners will fight to the finish
before they will recognize his
organization. There are others
who probably will capitulate.
And it is believed that quite a
few will grr nt concessions in
the way of higher wages and
shorter hours before the Lewis
organizers descend upon them.
The State organization of the
United Textile Workers is to
hold an annual convention in Co
ncord the first Sunday in April.
Plans for a definite drive to or
ganize the workers of this State
are expected to be made at that
time.
Catawba Enters Play
Production Tourney
On March 25, 26, and 27
there will be held in Chapel Hill
the annual tournament for play
production. Catawba will enter
several stage models and pro
bably a one-act or full length
drama.
There are several departments
in the tournament. Stage mo
dels, original one-act plays and
original full length plays, may
be entered. For many years Ca
tawba has carried away honors
in every department. Four con
tests have been won by plays
produced by Catawbans and last
‘year the Blue Masque was
awarded second place with the
play The Cat Comes Back. This
year also expectations are that
Catawba will bring home more
rewards from Chapel Hill.