ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878
No Farm Relief
Likely This Time
Invisible Government in the
Saddle McNary - Haugen
Bill May Pass, But Insuffi
cient and Corresponding
Tariff Reduction Necessary
Out of Question.
By WILLIAM P. HELM, Jr.,
( Washington Cor. of The Record)
WASHINGTON, April 12. —Con-
gress is now fixing- to slip the far
mer another gold brick. The ma
jority of the 531 members, it would
appear, have never had any other
idea. As the time approaches to fish
or cut bait, this becomes more and
more apparent. Invisible Govern
ment, with smudgy thumb turned
downward, is on the job.
There will be no real farm relief
at this session of congress unless the
man behind the plow starts in now
and raises so much hell that congress
can’t get away from it. His friends
in congress know it; so do his foes.
The cards are stacked against farm
relief of a real relieving nature, and
the best the farmer can hope for,
apparently, is a sorry and shodding
thing—a one-way imitation of a two
way mechanism.
It isn’t a pretty tale to spin this
week, but your correspondent would
be begging- off from his duty if he j
didn’t tell it. Nor is this story of j
what is going- to happen to the Me- j
Nary-Haugen bill. That bill may be
th p answer to the farmer’s woes and !
then, again, it may not. Opinions j
differ. It so happens, however, that j
it is the only remedy prominently be
fore congress. And congress soon
will consider it with one ear turned ;
toward the Whit P House and one j
eye cocked toward the firm-mouth- j
ed Vermont gentleman who lives'
therein. j
The bill has been stripped of most.
of the things to which Mr. Coolidge
objected in the past. It still re- j
tains the equalization fee which Mr.!
Sargent, the amiable Attorney Gen-!
oral, has declared unconstitutional, |
and Mr. -Jardine has said wouldn’t j
work. Obviously, it is a bill writ
ten as a bid for the President’s ap- 1
proval. It probably won’t get it, j
although it may b e that Mr. Hoover,
and Mr. Dawes and some other j
White house advisers will be able to 1
coax the president into signing it. i
Even so, it still remains a one-:
way expedient, in t|ae opinion of:
many of th P farmers sincere friends j
on Capitol Hill. The real way to i
get farm relief, as these men see it, j
is fairly simple. It lies in making j
the farmers bushel of wheat, or bale!
of cotton, or hundred-weight of hogs j
or prime steers fetch as much, rela
tively as they used to fetch in the j
open market in the good old days
before agreiulture went up to its
Gethsemane.
And that can be done only by
some such expedient a» the McNar\>!
Haugen bill, plus a great deal more.!
as the farmers’s real friends see it.!
The McNary-Haugen bill is designed |
to raise the level of prices of what j
the farmer has to sell. Maybe it!
will and it won’t; in any event!
that is what it is designated to do. j
The other part of the business is to J
lower the prices of what the farmer!
has to buy. That part is just as i
important as the first. j
Now the farmer’s friends claim I
that everything he buys, or nearly J
everything, is kept at artifically high j
prices by the present protective tar-1
iff. Farm machinery, clothing, house- j
hold goods, all the modem conveni-!
ences, are thus protected. To lower
prices, they contend, it would
be necessary to lower the tariff.
No better illustration of this con-!
dition could be afforded than the j
record of Wall Street for the past ;
month. A roaring market has tossed i
its 4,000,000-share days between the j
bulls and bears. What were the j
stocks that climbed or fell? United j
States Steel, General Motors, Radio, j
the railroads and industrials —all
children of the tariff, fattened by
the schedules.
In all the 1,000 and more active
stocks in that bubbling cauldron of
speculation, there was not one sin
gle issue of farm stock. The farm
er was not represented. And while
billions piled upon their billions of
dollars were lent to the speculators
at 3, 4 or 4 1-2 per cent for pur
poses of gambling, the farmer was
mulcted from 6 to 8 per cent, some
time more on the most stable prop
erty in the world, his real estate,
and often couldn’t borrow, even at
those rates.
That is Invisible Government in its
finest flower. That is the Invisible
Government that rules today where
farm relief is concerned. It is un
willing to yield an inch on its basic
protection, the tariff. Why should
it? For its own purposes, things j
are good enough as they are. j
Now, strange as it may seem to J
those away from Washington, this \
torm of Government, so firmly in the
-saddle, is not a party government.
It has its hold upon Democrats as
well as Republicans. The old-time
P ar ty lines have faded; the Demo
crat from the rich, nidustrial com
munity is twin brother, often-times,
m all his views of the Republican
-rom the rich, industrial community,
it s likp the old riddle, “Why do
biack pigs drink more mlik than the !
whjte pigs?’ The answer is that
there are more black pigs to drink
the milk.
Instead of the old party lines there
have formed recently party lines in
congress based upno the environ
ment of the member, the city men
The Chatham Record
MRS. JERUSHA JOHNSON
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Jerusha Johnson, an aged and
respected lady of Siler City R 4, cel
ebrated her birthday Sunday with a
big dinner brought in by various
friends and relatives. She has eight
children and 43 grandchildren, and
these with other friends and rela
tives made it a fine day for the
fine old lady. Mr. and Mrs. Joe j
Moore of Pittsboro were among those
present.
SpeecL M
HON. EDWARD W. POU
of North Carolina
In The House Os Representatives
Friday, March 30, 1928.
The McNary-Haugen Bill and the
Fitzgerald-Tyson Bill
(Political Adv.)
Mr. Pou. Mr. Speaker, there are
in America two schools of thought
respect to the agricultural
problem. One school of thought
Congress should do in order to stim
ulate agriculture throughout the
nation. Those who belong to this
school of thought, maintain that the
farmer should be left to work out
his destiny as best he can. The other
school of thought maintains that in
view of our economic system, and
because of handicaps which that sys
tem has placed in the way of the
prosperity of the farmer, it is the
duty of Congress to act. I belong
to the latter school of thought. I
am profoundly convinced that there
is a great agricultural problem with
which it is our duty to deal, and to
deal with now. I believe that cer
tain legislation which has been pro
posed will bring measurable prosper
ity to the farmers of America.
I know there are those who put
aside this question with a sneer.
They characterize it as merely a
calamity howl. The figures of the
Census Bureau do not sustain L his
view. There were in 1910 more far
mers in America who owned their
own homes than there were in 1925.
Let me give you the exact figures.
In 1910 the full owners of farms
throughout the nation was 3,948,-
722. In 1925, 15 years later, there
wei> 3,868,332 persons who were
full owners of their homes and farms
—that is to say, in 1925 there were
in this nation 80,390 less persons
who were full owners of their homes
and farms than there were in 1910.
Mr. Speaker, these figures reveal
a tragedy. There has been great
prosperity and development in many
lines „of industry and manufacture
since 1910. The wealth of the na
tion has enormously increased. It
is even said that the wealth of the
nation has almost doubled since 19-
10. Great fortunes have been made
in many lines of endeavor. Th P de
posits AT our banks have increased
amazingly. I was told recently by
a gentlemen well informed in finan
cial matters that the banks of New
York the past winter had so much
money on deposit that they were
sending- out persons soliciting loans
at a very low rate of interest. He
said these banks had more money
than they could loan at the usual
rate of interest and in order to keep
their deposits working they were
sending out agents urging people co
borrow these deposits at a low rate
of niterest. Transactions on the
stock market have risen to fabulous
figures. On one day this week 4,-
700,000 shares of stock changed
hands on the New York Stock Ex
change. On several days during- the
current week more than 3,000,000
shares changed hands. Stocks in
many corporations have advanced to
a point no one ever supposed the
pricp of these stocks would reach.
Railroad stocks, which sold less than
seven years ago for S2O per share
are selling today for more than SIOO
per share. America has become the
dominating nation in th P financing
of the world, yet amidst all this
prosperity little, if any, prosperity
has touched the farmer, except pos
sibly during two or three years. His
condition is even worse today than
it was in 1910.
I have not th P figures before me,
but I am told that the number of
home owners in the cities is very
much larger than the number of
cit yhome owners in 1910. The
cities have gone forward whilp the
farmers upon whom the nation must
depend for all permanent prosperity
have gone backward. He is gradu
ally but steadily losing his home.
Much of the prosberity which the
nation has enjoyed is attributable
to discriminatory legislation by Con
gress. The manufacturer enjoys a
practical subsidy. The tariff laws
protect him to a larg eextent from
foreign competition. When by law
you cut off competition you are
against the country men. The city
members, as a rule, care little about
the farmer. They call him a jay, a
hayseed. This applies to Democrats
as well as Republicans. They are
the product of the industrial world
and mostly they have scant sympathy
for the woes of the rural commu
nities.
Invisible Government has placed
its ties upon these men, in many in
stances. Invisible Government has
spread its subtle propaganda against
farm relief, knowing that real farm
relief would upset its own nicely
adjusted and profitable affairs. It
appears even to have swayed the
White House to its views, so power
ful have been the influences brought
to bear against real aid to the far
mer. The friends of the farmers
here do not doubt, for a moment,
the honesty or sincerity of the Pres
ident’s views, but they lament the
fact that those views match, as one,
the view's of those who today oppose
farm aid.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928
Case of State-Wide
Interest on Docket
practically conferring a subsidy.
The railroads by law are permitted
to charge a lair return upon their
investment. We have spent millions
in improving the ports of our cities
in order that commerce might freely
come and go. Yet when it is sug
gested that Congress should legislate
in the interest of the farmer, the
reply is made that the farmer must
take care of himself, that the cry
for agricultural relief is merely a
calamity howl, that the farmer can
w T ork out his own salvation without
any help, that if he does not pros
per it is because he is lazy or incom
petent, that he needs no help from
Congress or from any other source.
I would to God, Mr. Speaker, that
it were true that the American far
mer needs no help, but when the re
ports of the Census Bureau tell me
that the home owner of the farm
is on the decrease, when the num
ber is less now than 18 years ago,
when more than 1,000 banks in the
agricultural sections failed in less
than four years, when thousands of
farmers have given up in despair
and see their homes and farms put
up under the hammer of the auc
tioneer, when auction sales are on
the increase, when hard-working
farmers are unable to pay even their
taxes, I cannot rid myself of the
profound conviction that it is the
duty of Congress to act in some
way and to act now.
Mr. Speaker, if those who believe
there is a great farm problem with
which it is the duty of Congress to
deal are divided, we cannot hope to
accomplish very much. In the last
Congress l voted against the Mc-
Nary-Haugen bill. The President
vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, and
even if the friends of farm relief
had been at that time united, the
measure could not have been pass
ed over the President’s veto. I pre
ferred another measure. I thought
it was more practicable to begin che
great effort to stimuluate agricul
ture by passing the so-called As
well bill, but the majority of those
who favor action in respect to the
agricultural problem were of a con
trary opinion. The McNary-Haugen
bill,, amended in many respects, now
has a favorable- report -from fcXe
Committee on Agriculture. Inas
much as I cannot get exactly what 1
want, I am goinp- to accept the mea
sure upon which a large majority
of the friends of agricultural relief
in this House have agreed, and I do
this without apology to any man.
(Applause.) I accept this measure
because as I have said it is the best
I can get. I accept it because it
amendments which have greatly im
proved the McNary-Haugen bill
passed by the last Congress. There
fore, I shall vote for the McNary-
Haugen bill when it comes up for
consideration in this House because
I am profoundly convinced it is my
duty to do so. (Applause.) I shall
vote for it because I believe che
sentiment of the district I have the
honor to represent is overwhelming
ly in favor of some action by Con
gress with respect to the agricultur
al problem. 1 shall vote for it be
cause every ifarm Organization in
America with a single exception has
indorsed the measure. I shall vote
for it because, to my sorrow, I see
the tenant class increasing, while
thp homeowner class is decreasing
in number. And this is particularly
true of the, section from which i
come. I shall vote for it because it
is the only measure which will be
helpful to the farmer upon which I
will have the opportunity to vote
before this session of Congress ends.
I believe there is much in our eco
nomic system, built up by legisla
tion, which is inherently wTong.
God knows I would change the sys
tem if I could, but I am confronted
by a condition and not a theory,
and becausp of this condition I say
to you gentlemen of the House of
Representatives, inasmuch as the
system is here, the time is at hand
for the Congress to do something
to inject life and health into the
agriculture of the nation.
Mr. Doughton. Will the gentle
man yield?
Mr. Pou. I yield.
Mr. Doughton. I will ask my cel
league if it is not also a fact that
not only home owners hav e greatly
decreased, but farm mortgages and
farm indbetedness have greatly in
creased?
Mr. Pou. I understand that to be
true.
Now, Mr. Speaker, this is about
all I intended to say at this time. I
hope the McNary-Haugen bill will
be speedily brought inot this House
for discussion and for action. I am
quite sure the Committee on Rules
wlil report favorably a special rule
providing for early consideration of
the measure.
Mr. Speaker, the McNary-Haugen
bill is, after all, but an experiment.
After it becomes a law, it is quite
probably that certain amendments
may be found desirable. Those who
oppose legislation of this character
may as well understand that che
fight for farm relief has just begun.
I submit that those who have oppos
ed legislation for farm relief may
well pause and consider now. There
are, gentlemen, Members on both
sides of the center aisle who repre
sent agricultural districts and who
know that there is no prosperity
amongst millions of farmers in this
nation. If the efforts of thes p men
f Special Term of Court Next
Week to Try Alleged Gang
of Automobile Thieves—a
Conspiracy is Charge.
| CHATHAMITES INVOLVED
Defendants Come From Sever
al of This State
and Others.
Next week will see a host of peo
ple concerned in the great trial of
several men from this and other
states on the charge of conspiracy
to steal automobiles come to tfte old
town of Pittsboro. It is in a very
small measure a Chatham case, but
for one reason or another, is to be
tried here. However, there are
three Chatham men involved, but
their friends, who are a host, feel
that they are innocent, and only un
fortunately involved thru the pur
chase of stolen cars.
An able array of attorneys will
be present both to prosecute and de
fend. Solicitor Williams will be as
sisted by representatives of the At
torney-General’s office: while-- each
of the defendants will have his own
attorney, or attorneys. The Record
ha» not sought to line up the array
of defending attorneys, but is aware
that Mr. P. W. Glidevvell, of Reids
ville, is one of them.
The case will doubtless attract a
large number of casual visitors, tho
the busy season will somewhat les
sen the crowd that would otherwise
be expected.
It is stated that the State will
help bear the expense of the trial,
since the burden would be unduly
bard upon Chatham county, and
since the case involves men from
several other counties and at least
Tennessee and Virginia.
A number of the defendants are
out on bond, but some are still in
the jail here, and one in the Wake
county jail.
Parent - Teacher
Meeting Friday
New President to be Elected—
Last Meeting of Year—Full
Attendance Desired.
The final meeting of the Pitts
boro Parent Teacher association for
this session will be held at the school
auditorium Friday evening, begin
ning- at 8 o’clock. At this, session a
new president and a new treasurer
will be -elected. Mrs. Hayes has
served the two year limit fixed by
the constitution of the association
and cannot succeed herself.
The association has constantly
; grown in importance since its organ
-1 ization the three and a half years
since its inception. The organiza
tion now has 144 paid memberships,
making it the largest organization
in thp county except churches. Mrs.
Hayes has given energy and tact to
the work and it will be difficult
to find a successor who can relly
fill her place.
A full attendance is very much
■ desired. Especially ar£ th P parents
of children who will enter the first
grade next fall urged to he present,
since Dr. R. M. Farrell will make
a talk oil thp importance of having
the children in prime physical con
dition when they enter school. Pro
vision is to he made for an exami
nation by a competent physician.
Other talks will be made, includ
ing Supt. Thompson, Messrs, A. H.
London, *J. L. Griffin, but the pro
gram will bp rather impromptu.
are not successful in this session of
Congress, the fight will be resumed
in the December session. If they
ar P not successful in the December
session, the fight will be resumed in
the next Congress. The fight will
never end until there is legislation
prosperity into the (agriculture of ;
which will inject sonip measure of
this nation, or until our present vi
cious, unjust, and un-American eco
nomic system is changed by law.
This system has stood so long than
no one can reasonably hope for a
change in the very near future.
Therefore, those who know that ag
riculture is to a large degree stag
nant throughout the nation must
unite for some legislation which will
hrino- measurablp relief.
After all, Mr. Speaker, we are
only asking for justice. Some years
there was a great man in the
i White House who had away of
j coining phrases which people could
: not forget. That man was Theodore
(Roosevelt. (Applause.) I am proud
to number myself as one of his
friends. He frequently made use of
a phrasp of two words which people
cannot help remembering whenever
the name of Theodore Roosevelt is
mentioned. Thesp two words were
“square deal.” Here today, in my
humble way, I am asking for a
square deal for the farmers of
America. These men ar* r.ot ask
ing for a subsidy. • They are only
asking- that, inasmuch as the manu
facturer is protected, inasmuch as
the railroad is permitted to exact a
profitable return, that they, too,
shall be considered by the Congress
in the legislation which the Con
gress enacts. Inasmuch as Con
! TAX ADVERTISEMENTS
WILL BEGIN ON MAY IST
i
Delinquent tax-payers must get
busy. The commissioners in com
j pliance with the law', have ordered
j the Sheriff to begin th P advertise
| nient of the lands of all those who
have not paid their 1927 taxes by
I May 1. Ihe sale of the lands will
,! take piace the first Monday in June.
The commissioners and the sheriff
are sorry that pressure must be
j brought so early, under the circum
| stances, but it is a matter of law,
; and they cannot help themselves.
HUSKETH MAKES RECORD
! .
His friends in Chatham will be de
! lighted to know that Mr. S. J. Hus
i keth, who retired from the Siler
| City school a year or tw r o ago, has
j won exceptional success as an insur
i ance salesman. Within eleven months
! as agent for the New York Mutual
j Life he has qualified as a member
i of 1927-28 Field Club, being the Bth
North Carolinian to meet the re
quirement in the field club year of
his company.
gress by legislation has given to the
manufacturer a profitable market,
the farmers of America have a right
to ask that Congress legislatp in or
der to enable them to dispose of
their surplus crop at a fair profit.
You have given the manufacturer
a market in which there is no de
structive competition in the protect
ive laws you have passed. The farm
er, has a right to ask, indeed, has
the right to demand, that Congress
should also help him find a profit
able market for the surplus product
of his toil. In making this request.
I say in th p name of Theodore Roo
sevelt, the farmer is only askin p - a
square deal. He demands nothing
more, he has a right to expect noth
ing- else.
I can not resume my seat, Mr.
Speaker, without referring- to anoth
er measure, which, I submit, ought
to have consideration before this
session of Congress adjourns. I
shall only take a moment of time. I
refer to the disabled emergency Ar
my officers’ retirement bill. Let me
give you the paliainentary history
of this measure. In the Sixty-sev
enth Congress the so-called Tyson-
Fitzgerald bill passed the Senate by
a vote of 50 to 14; in the Sixty
eighth Congress it passed th P Sen
ate by a vote of 63 to 14; in the
Seventieth Congress it passed the
Senate February 15, 1928, without
a record vote. ,
Mr. Speaker, since the armistice
was signed 500 of these wounded
officers have passed into the great
beyond. If w p are going to do any
thing, Mr. Speaker, in this regard,
it ought to be done now'. I under
stand the committee has made a
favorable report. Now I submit, in
view' of the legislativ p history of
thi s measure, it should be included
in the legislativ p program of this
j House. Let us meet the issue square
| ly. Let us vote this measure up or
I down. The measure should not be
i defeated by strangulation. Parlia
| mentary tactics certainly should not
i prevent consideration,
i Mr. Hammer. Will the gentleman
; yield?
I Mr. Pou. I yield,
i Mr, Hammer. As a member of the
Rules Committee, may we not have
: a special rule to consider the bill?
Mr. Pou. You will have at least
i one vote, and I believe you will have
a rule from the Committee on Rules
whenever the request is made. I will
say to my colleague from North
Carolina that in the last Congress
the Committee on Rules granted a
special rule providing- for the con
sideration of this eminently just
measure, but the rule was agreed to
during the closing days of the last
Congress, and for some reason ac
tion was not taken.
Remember, gentlemen, these are
the officers who led the charges in
the great W'orld War. Their wounds
bear testimony to the part they took
j in the struggle to save civilization to
the world. They are the me n who
led the charge at Chateau Thierry
on that hot July day, a charge that
was followed up with other charges
which never ended until the Ger
mans were brought to their knees.
Mr. Hudspeth. Will the gentle
man yield?
( Mr. Pou. Yes.
Mr. Hudspeth. Is the gentleman
j referring to the Fitzgerald-Tyson
j bill?
Mr. Pou. I am.
i Mr. Hudspeth. I think there is
[ hardly anyone in my district who
i has not petitioned me in favor of
that bill.
: Mr. Pou. lam glad to hear it.
I Mr. Speaker, I amjconvinced there
i has not been a minute since the Ty
j son-Fitzgerald bill passed the Sen-
I ate the first time when it would
not have received a majority vote
| in this House if a vote could have
been had. There are only a little
more than 3,000 of these officers
living; originally there were thirty
j five hundred. Let u s not sidetrack
! this measure, but let us pass it if
! w p are going to pass it at all be
| fore more of these men die. Be
i cause of their w r ounded condition
! the mortality among these officers
| is larger than it would otherwise be.
Officers in the Navy from civil life
enjoy the privilege of (retirement
similar to those embodied in the
Fitzgerald-Tyson bill. Let there be
no discrimination against similar
officers of the Army. The neces
sary appropriation will not be large.
As I have said, already 500 of these
officers have died. Let us, before
this session ends, pass this act of
justice to the remaining 3,000. (Ap
plause.)
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 30.
Water-Haul In Drag
For Terry Murderer
Sheriff Blair Makes Many
Journeyings, But Fruitless
—Man of Green Automo
bile Makes Self Known but
Proves Alibi.
After running- down clue after
| clue, Sheriff Blair is practically
! where he started when the first dis
| closure of the Avent bridge murder
j mystery occurred. His search led
him into South Carolina and Geor
gia, but with no practical results.
The description of a Green car car
i rying a South Carolina license at-
I tracted the attention of L. L. Has
j kins of Greenville, S. C., while he
j was in Atlanta, and h P telegraphed
jto the officials that he could be
i consulted. Sheriff Blair visited Mr.
j Haskins in Atlanta, and was convin
j eea by a perfect alibi that Haskins
i was in an Atlanta hotel the night of
| the murder. However, Mr. Haskins
| came up with Sheriff Blair and they
I went up to Durham to clear up pos
| sible complications of the Haskins
| car with the affair,
j The newspaper, due to a n Atlanta
report that Haskins had been arrest
ed, had a story to the effect that
the Sheriff had arrested not only
him but possibly another man or two.
But the Sheriff denied that any one
had been arrested. But ther p was
nothing to it, as any one might know
when he considers that a North Car
olina sheriff could not go into an
other state and arrest and brin e - back
any man without requisition papers,
and no one dangerously afected
would hardly come of his own ac
cord.
GOLDSTON NEWS
Mrs. A. W. Goldston charmingly
entertained a number of her friends
Thursday aftrenoon from 3 to 5:30
J o’clock.
The homp was attractively deco
rated with quantities of jonquils,
bridal wreath and ferns.
The hostess received the guests
at the front door. Mrs. P. O. Barber
directed them to th e cloak room
and Mrs. -J. J. Harris greeted them
in the living room. Here they were
given appropriate Easter score cards
by wheih they found their respective
places at the four tables placed for
progressive rook. The high score
prize a basket of Easter lilies was
i won by Mrs. Wilbur Moses, and low
score prize, a large fiaster egg of
candy was presented to Mrs. H. A.
Burke.
The hostess, assisted by Mesdames
J. J. Harris and P. O. Barber served
delicious refreshments consisting- of
ham, potato salad, tomato sandwich
es, pickles, rolls and coffee to the
following guests: Mesdames T. W.
Goldston, James Goldston, Joe Gold
ston, J. H. Moore, F. M. Barber, Wil
bur Moses, L. W. Fields, T. P. Mur
chison, A. B. Womble, E. M. Har
ris, H. A. Burke,JJa e Dixon and
Dewitt Moses and Mrs. White of
Sanford.
The favors were dainty Easter
baskets filled with candy.
Misses Jessie Maxwell and Bessie
Reynolds of Carthag e and Messrs.
Rufus Reynolds and Ernest Alexan
der of Duke University spent Easter
holidays with Mr. and Mrs. J. J.
Harris.
Misses Laura Baker and Hazel
Frye of Carthage, spent the week
end with Miss Mary Womble Elkins.
The commencement sermon will be
‘ preached next Sunday evening- at
the Baptist church by Rev. Fraak
Hawkins, of Sanford.
The Baptist people have kindly
consented to let the school use the
Baptist church for the class exercises
Monday evening at 8 o’clock. We
hope to have a sneaker, Prof. Moore
is trying to get one at this late
hour.
Misses Linda Womblp and Krie
bel Tyson gave the remainder of
the eleventh grade an enjoyable trip
to the movies at Sanford Tuesday
evening of last week.* They alao
“set the class up at the drug store.
They report an enjoyable outing to
gether.
Miss Vida Barber, of Rock Hill,
S. C. spent the week-end at home
with her father, Mr. W. M. Barber.
POU OPPOSES BILL TO
CREATE RUBBER TRUST
By Helm News Service, Inc.
WASHINGTON, April 12.—Rep
resentative Edward W. Pou of North
Carolina voted last week with a
coalition of Republicans and Demo
crats to kill the Newton bill author
izing rubber manufacturers to com
bine for the purchase abroad of their
crude rubber supply. The same pro
visions would have applied to pur
chasers of potash and sisal. The
measure had the endorsement of sec
retary Hoover.
The House, with the aid of Con
gressman Pou’s vote, killed the pro
posal by striking out the enacting
clause of the bill, 181 to 120. Dem
-1 ocrats and two Republican represen
tatives, Dickinson of lowa and King
of Illinois, assailed Mr. Hoover for
his endorsmeent of the measure, de
claring that it would create art
American Rubber Trust and that the
’ farmers would not benefit from the
■ provisions relating to sisal and pot
ash.
Proponents of th P measure advo
; cated it as a means of protecting
American importers against foreign
■ government monopolies, but were
outvoted.