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Rowan County Herald Successors to The Carolina Watchman Published every Friday morning by The Independent Press Publishing Company, Salisbury, N. C. E. W. G. Huffman, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year_$1.06 6 Months- .10 Three years_2.00 One Year Outside Rowan County - $1.50 Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice at Sal ' isbury, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. POPULATION DATA (1930 Census) Salisbury -1(5,951 Spencer _3,128 E. Spencer-2,698 China Grove_1*258 Landis -1,388 Rockwell_ 696 Granite Quarry_ 507 Cleveland_ 43 S Faith __ 431 Gold Hill _ 15 6 (Population Rowan Co. 56.ff>5' The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. Rowan Co. Herald’s 1937 Platform For Salisbury 1. A Library Building. 2. Municipal Auditor ium. 3. A Y. W. C. A. Build ing. 4. A Large City Play ground. THE GRADE CROSSING PROBLEM More persons were killed last year at railway grade crossings than in any year since 1931, according to reports by the safety section of the Association of American Railroads. Nearly five thousand persons were in jured, and 1,786 were killed while trying to cross railroad tracks ahead of a train. Most of these were careless, impatient motorists, who either disregard ed warning signals or took reck less chances in the effort to beat the oncoming train to the crossing. Many of them even crashed through the crossing gates, a form of recklessness which can only be accounted^ for! by insanity or intoxication. Of all the different kinds of accidents whiih befall people, it would seem that there is less excuse for those which follow the attempt to dispute the right of way with a railroad train, ,han for any other. Yet many of the reported deaths occurred because the motor driver ran bis car square into the side of a moving train! l nq^Bproads are doing a greatffipBF of guaroing crossings witl^Paells flickering lights and other unmistakable warnings, and with gates and crossing watchmen wherever there is even moderate motor traffic. Motoring recklessness seems to rach its peak when crossing watchmen holding up their "stop” signals are run down and killed. That has happened a number of times. The ultimate solution, of course, of the grade-crossing problem will be the elimination of all crossings of highway and railroad on the same level. But in some states where a program of grade-crossing abolition has been under way for years, the number has actually increased. One crossing is eliminated by a highway viaduct or underpass, and somewhere else a new coun ty road is opened which crosses the railroad at grade. CjMt en ters into the question, of coffc-se. It would take billions to abolish all the grade crossings in Amer ica, and where is the money com ing from ? The railroad can’t do it all, and states and counties are reluctant to spend highway funds for that purpose. More over, the question always arises as to whether th|e highway should cross above or below the railroad tracks. In thickly set tled districts such questions give I rise to endless and obstructive local disputes. Meantime, the old rule of “stop, look and listen,” is the only safe one for motorists to follow. ORGANIZING THE FARMERS Secretary of Agriculture Wal lace recently urged the farmers cal action, if thy want to get their share of the national in j come. “I’m convinced,” said ' Mr. Wallace, “that the method I of settling problems in this cou I ntry is going to be more and j more on a functional basis— ! labor problems thru labor unions and farm problems thru farm organizations. This means that they are going to take some Federal power. That’s all right because the corporations have bad it for a long time.” Almost at the same time, Prof. 1 ugwell, former assistant Secre tary of Agriculture, was urging the formation of a strong politi cal alliance between organized Agriculture and organized Labor. There is nothing new in either of these proposals. In the dpths of th depression which followed the war between the states, sev enty yars of so ago, th National Grange was organized for the niimnsp nf or J vitro* fVi** i i o o farmers greater political power. Ever since then the '“farm bloc” has been increasing in political power in Congress. Indeed, one does not have to have such aj very long political memory to | recall ’the new political party which grew out of the Fenners’ Alliance. The old. People’s Party and th 22 electoral votes which it won in 1892 has had a profound effect upon Amer ican politics for 45 years. Most of the progressive economic re forms since sponsored by one or anothr of the two old parties were first advcated in that Po pulist platform of 1892. One difficulty of getting all farmers to unite on any politi cal program is that there are so many different kinds of farm ers. The problems of eastern farmers differ from those of the West, and the southern far mer has troubles all his own. 'ITere are good farrmrs and poor farmers contented farmers and dissatisfied farmers. The dissatisfied farmers are usual ly able to get a hearing for their grievances but it does not fol low that they represent the ma jority of farmers at any one time. As to the union of farmers and industrial workers, that has been tried, too, politically. The Farmer-Labor Party today con trols more than one state and has several Senators and Rep resentatives in Congress. But the wage workers of the big industrial centers feel little in common with the farmer, who is essentially a capitalist and an employer of labor. Most sub stantial farm owners would look with suspicion upon an alliance which would bring farm work ers into affiliation with Labor as at present organized. Cooleemee News On Tuesday evening, May 4-th at 8 o’clock the senior play, sntitled “Skidding” by Aurania Louveiol was given. The first act was in the living room of Judge Hardy’s Charles Isley house. The judge was in the midst of an election whejn lie was informed otf a love affair between his daugh ter, Marian Hardy, Helen Ho well, and Wayne; Trenton, (John A. Parker) a well-to-do New Yorker. In the middle of all this confusion, Judge Har dy is tipped off by Stubbins (Walter Green) that a certain speaker will not show up at the town hall to speak for him Marion Hardy volunteers to make the speech in his behalf. Wayne Trenton objects be, cause Marion had promised him to stay out of politics. The curtain falls on a scene of bewilderment. The second scene is in the same filace the morning after. The i«Rge is reading the paper and ^Ffind that tire speech by Mari® was a great success, but due to the influence of some duty politicians the newspaper is turned against the Judge. To top off this trouble Estelle Hardy Campbell (Ethel Dan iels)) and Myra Hardy Wil cox (Katherine Jarvis) the Judge’s two daughters, leave their husbands and ce>me home and reasoning and pleading can not send them back. When Mrs Hardy (Dorothy Shepherd' finds out that thel judge wil not send his daughters bad The third act is the same; she leaves the judge, the afternoon of the convention three weejcs later. The tw< daughters find out how foolisl they' are and rleturn to theii husbands. Mrs. Hardy come; back home, Marion and Waym are happily engaged, and al the play needs is a happy end ing, but the jurge is inform^ that he has been defeated ir the nomination, the whole fam ily is downcast. Suddenl) Stubbins bursts in with the good new. that the judge is nominated for the Supreme court. The family spirits are restored and all are happy. The play was presented b) the following cast: Aunt Milly in ary vv. ivicin eeiy; /vnciy Cotton Moody; Mrs. Hardy Dorothy Shepherd; Judge Har dy; Charles Isley, Grandpa Hardy, Andrew Carter; Estelk Campbell, Ethel Daniels; Ma sion Hardy, Helen Howell; Wayne Trenton, John A. ar ker; Myra H. Wilcox, Kath erine Jarvis; Mr. Stubbins, Walter Green, rompta, Edna Brinegar; Stage manager, Henry Ridenhour; Directors, Miss Lena Sink and Miss Virginia Ivey. Last Monday the Cooleemee baseball team was defeated by Landis there. Holt led the bat ting attack for Cooleemee, scor ing 3 hits. Mysel and Whitaker led the attack for Landis, scor ing 3 and 2 hits respectively. The score was 4-2 favor of Landis. The class of ’37 at the Cooleemee High School gradu ated last Thursday night with the following program: Mixed chorus, Gleen Club; Invocation, Rev. Stoudenmire; Introduction of speaker, Rev. Barber; Ad dress, Capt. Ben Smith; A warding of medals, E. M. Holt; Awarding of Certificates to High School, T. C. Pegram; Music. Presentation of diplomas, E. W. Junker. wiciaa u i sj/ Maxine Alexander Dorothy Shepherd Dorothy James Ethel Daniels Ethel Wilson Minnie Daniels Mary Frances Martin Mary Williams Ethel L. Foster Mildred L. Lowder Hazel 'M. Sheek Elsie Veach Helen Howell Edna Brinegar Wilma Motley Lucille Garwood Dorothy Booe Almeda Spry June Baker Katherine Jarvis Andrew Carter Franklin Ridenhour John A. Parker Walter Green Charles Isley Harold Hartley Charles Miller Bruce Josey The Cooleemee chapter of the Rational Honorary Beta Club held its last meeting on the last day of school which was last Thursday and elected the fol lowing officers. President, Cot-ton Moody; vice president, John A. Lowder; se sretary-treasurer Mary W. Mc Neely. Last Saturday the Cooleemee troop of boy scouts set out for Salisbury to attend the district camporee to be held there. The boys wre inspected and made a ^rade of 40 which was one of the highest-grades given. They pitched tents and cooked sup per and at 7:30 that night they all attended a Court of Honor in which Cotton Moody re ceived the merit badges for fire manship, cooking, scholarship, and path finding, Henry Rid enhour received cooking, and Charles Milhollen received gar dening. The boys then spent the night and returned to Cooleemee the next morning. This camporeg was held in preparation for the council camporee to be held tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday at Camp Uhwarrie near High Point, where 500 scouts are expected to be present. Under The Dome As things look now iu expe rienced and impartial observers [ there does not seem to be : a chance, for the enact , ment of the President’s plan of adding sixjusticejs to the , Supreme Court. There is a i bare chance that Congress might i agree to a compromise pro ■ posal, to increase the Court by ; two, to a total of eleven, but ever that is not to the taste of the opponents of the whole pro gram inside the President’s own party. The inclination is now to delay action on the whole Court proposal until after the Supreme Court has ruled on the consti tutionality of the Social Security Act. That law has been brought i to the Supreme Court by an ap peal by the Government from the ruling of the Federal Cir cuit Court of Boston which de clared the Act unconstitutional. The expectation is that the, Court will hear arguments this month and hand down its decision late in June. If it upholds the Social Security Act, political wise acres jsay that will definitely kill Congressional suj>port of the Court-enlargement scheme. If the decision is against the Social Security Act, then the compromise plan for two addi tional judges has a chance, al though that will be fought bit terly, on principle, by powerful leaders on the democratic side. ROOSEVELT STILL POPULAR \ Much of the silence of many members of Congress, particu larly in the House, is due to the belief that the President is personally much more popular with the public than he is even with the majority of his own party on Capitol Hill. Some thing like a wave of antagonism to the Administration is grow ing rapidly in both wings of the Capitol, and there is a strong inclination becoming manifest to give the President no more grants of personal power and perhaps to withdraw some of the powers which the last t\\fc> Congresses^jave. hiav.^k^ee^s certain that many of th?Adm!n istration’s proposals will suffer defeat, and that Congress will do its own bill-drafting on ma jor matters from now on, in stead of accepting whatever the White House proposes. That seems likely to be par ticularly true of the whole plan of tax revision. Everybody re cognizes that the present tax system is a jumble in which un workable and oppressive ele ments are mingled. Roswell Magill, the new Undersecretary of the Treasury, has come out with a proposal to rewrite and recast the whole system of cor poration taxes on a more equi table basis. To do that will take time and plenty of study. Congress is not inclined to rush Among the vv afford College personalities published in the Old Gold and Black, college news paper, by the new staff lor 1937-’38 is found the, fol lowing : “Peter Moody, popular sen ior from Cooleemee, is one of the utstanding personalities of the student body. This smil ing, happy hundred and fifty pounds is president of his class. As president of his class As president of the Preston Literary Society during the first term, he gave evidence of his executive ability through his competent leadership. In the senior statistics Moody was voted the most outstanding and most likely to succeed. A mem ber of the Blue Key, Interna tional Relations Club, Sigma Upsilon, and chairman of the Senior Order of Gnomes, all honorary. Moody is included in the 1936-37 edition of Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. He was recently chosen as one of the two senior commencement speakers. Beneath an exterior gaiety is a seriousness of purpose which will carry him far. Moody ex poses his opinion frankly, knows when to speak and what to say and is an able speaker, as was evidenced by his win ning the freshman and soph more speaking contests. In the ever-popular bull-session, he is often found reclining on the bed, smoking his trusty pipe, and taking an active part in the conversation. | any more tax bills through in ! a hurry. Therefore the tenta tive program now is to enact no new tax laws this session, but to extend for another year the excise taxes which expire by limitation this Summer, and in the meantime set committees to work employing experts and holding hearings as the basis for a broad and comprehensive new tax program to be put through at the next session. * * * ECONOMY MEASURES FAVORED Congress is serious about economy. There is growing strength behind the proposal of a horizontal cut of 10 percent in all departmental estimates. The alternative plan proposed by the administration’s sup porters and said to have ori ginated at the White House, to give the President authority to “impound” 15 percent of all ap propriations and apportion sav ings and reductions among Federal departments and bu reaus as he sees fit, has met such cool reception that it is not regarded as having a chance. Opposition to it is u/pon the same ground that most of the rest of the Congressional appo sition to the administration is based. That is the feeling that while personal authority and discrimination granted to the Executive by previous Con gresses was all right at the time in view of the economic emer gncy, it would ci^eate a dan gerous precedent to continue that practice of delegating au thority now that the emergency lias passed. That feelinsr does not arise from any personal dis trust of Mr. Roosevelt. No one thinks that he has any inclina tion to abuse the tremendous powers which he has been giv en. But there is much distrust of the motives of some of the President’s advisers. Partly because of that grow ing sentiment and party because of a real urge for economy, it! seems likely that several mea sures favored by the Adminis tration will fall by the wayside. These include the Wagner Hous ing Bill, the plan to set up re-1 gional “TVA” projects around seven or eight of the Federal power developments, Federal aid for schools, and all of the De partment of Agriculture’s pro posals, such as a new form of AAA, the farm tenancy relief proposal and crop insurance. There is an evident though largely under cover revulsion in Congress against farm relief; projects as a class. The feel-! ing seems to be that more has! already been done for farmers! than for any other class and that it is about time, now that the economic situation is back on an even keel, to slow down on legislation in the interest of particular classes. For the same reason, it begins to look doubt-1 *'ul whether any new Labor le-J gislation will be enacted this j season, though much study will be given to the Wagner Act with the idea of developing from it a broader and better-balanced Labor policy. At the same time, the Re publicans are beginning to come out of their tent and show signs of political activity. The expectation here is that there will be more talking for politi cal effect from the Republican side than there has been so far this year. All sorts of talk a bout Republican and “Right Wing” Democrats forming com binations to defeat the New Deal is going around, but most of it can be dismissed as “wishful thinking.” However, the deci sion of the Missouri Republican organization to get behind Sen ator Bennet Champ Clark fori renomination at the Democratic primaries for 1938 is a straw which possibly indicates a wind blowing in the direction of a Conservative coalition. 3on’t waste a moment if you 'our child scratching. 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