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SUBBCKIPTION SATW:
_tfc« State — ^fl.flOpwTaar
the State ILMpttrTear
'r ' Satered at the poet ofliee at Nor^ wnkes-
m, N. as aee»d class natter eader Act
I March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, JUNE 10,1936
• Patriots osed to riioot: “Glre me liberty!”
' Steiw they lesT» off the last word.—Detroit
inne Press.
OoTentor La Follette said the ProKreesive
shonld be expanded slowly. By that time,
er, it will be rec^arded as conservative.—
li Herald.
Those two life termers who escaped from the
seCormatory wore Just volunteer helpers in re-
'#Meing prison congestion.—Louisville (Ky.)
lOoar ier-J pu rnal.
Painless Extraction
Various methods of taxation by painless
cactraction are being used by state and
federal governments. It is very conveni
ent to pay a large sum of taxes in small
lifts so that “you do not miss it,” as the
politicians would have you believe, but
nevertheless you pay it.
The average individual barely gives a
passing' thought to handing out a few
.«ents here and there for tax but the
thrifty individual i^ho has learned to cut
comers in order to economize knows full
■well that he is paying plenty of taxes in
many different forms.
The danger lies not so much in the
Jtmount of tax paid as the failure of the
individual to realize that he is paying
taxes. When a person pays out money
for something and knows full well that he
ia doing so he is going to have a greater
interest in learning what he is getting for
Ms money. This knowledge and realiza
tion is apt to pass him up if he does not
atop to think about how much he is pay-
iag.
V The Winston-Salem Journal estimates
that the general sales tax next year will
met the average family around $40 for
JiBcessities. This is only one of the forms
■rf the celebrated “painless extraction” in
taxation. To say $40 for a year goes
hirnie more effectively than saying three
eaits on each one dollai- purchase or one
cent on a thirty-cent purchase. The
aales tax is only an example. There are
the gasoline tax and others that the con
sumer pays without realizing the amount
in a year’s time. A fuller realization of
llie amount of taxes you pay in many
forms will give you a keener interest in
jgovernmental and economic affairs of the
state and nation.
^
Dogs and Hydrophobia
The edict coming from the city police
department to the effect that dogs run-
aing loose are to be killed to prevent an
epidemic of rabies among the canine and
Jinman families is wholly commendable.
The legislature passed a law making it
mandatory that all dogs in North Caro-
lina be vaccinated against rabies. Al-
■though the law has its good points we
never have been enthusiastic about it and
qnestion its efficiency and enforcement.
For several years we have had a law
requiring people to keep their dogs con-
_5ned and we are not able to understand
how the vaccination law can be enforced
any better than the former law, which has
been disregarded more generally than even
Ae laws against liquor possession and
teiffic.
The one sure way to prevent rabies
among dogs is to kill the dogs. We are not
p^judiced against dogs ai>d a really good
4og is a prized possession which the owner
will take precaution to keep up and out of
the way of stray dogs that are common
carriers for the disease that is fatal to
man as well as dogs.
Anyone would be safe in saying that 40
per cent of the dogs in North Carolina are
-of the worthless tjT>e and their owners
lutt dly ever know where they are. If they
tere not going to keep up with them, how
mre they going to manifest enough interest
i» have them vaccinated ?
If the people who have good dogs will
l»ep them confined and have them vacci-
juited and if officers will kill stray dogs
ttere will be no rabies and innocent chii-
.iftrai will not have to suffer the Pasteur
or death by hydrophobia.
Playing lilf Came
Five years ago a youngs athlete was sen
tenced to Sing Sing pri^n fo^eight to 16
years in a robbery case-. Ssv««l days ago
he 'W released becauiM of .liis excellent
neisMi record. He made an effort to join
baaeball club, baitbball beihg his profes
sion. ^
The mogul of minor league basdtjall
ruled that he could not play because'if his
prison recorl The case attracted tiie at
tention of the nation and it seems diat
tiie preponderance of opinion was for giv-
^^ing the young man a chance in the game.
At the time tills is >^tten the affair had
not been complel^y settied, Pitta,
is the name of the player and Judge Bram*
ham is the baseball boss '^rtio 'said he
couldn’t play.
In this case we are inclined to side with
the young cot-convict. He paid his debt to
society for the offense he admits he com
mitted. He served his teim in a manner
that won the admiration of prison offi
cials. He says he learned his lesson and
only wants a chance to go straight. . On
the surface it looks like Judge Bramham
did not play the game according to the
golden rule. ‘
Baseball is the young man’s profession
—^his age being 25 now—and if the fact
that he served time is to bar him from the -
game he will consider that nobody cares
what he does and perhaps he; will drift
back into crime, On the other hand if he
goes into the game and makes'good he
will have every inducement to go straight.
Society is endangered in this age by ex
convicts who consider themselves outcasts
when they get out of prison and hey usu
ally take up their career where they left
off when they were sent up. One of the
great problems of today is looking after
those who have served time in the pen.
Organized baseball in America is a
model organization for discipline and or
derliness. It may be that Judge Bramham
was over-zealous in his efforts to keep the
game on a high plane when he handled the
case of the young ex-convict. The exe
cutive committee of minor league baseball
has been given the case and the nation
watches for its decision with much in
terest.
THE BOOK
the first line of ■which reeds, “The Holy Bible,”
and which contains four g^^eat treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
MARY OF MAGDALA
The name of Mary was immensely popular in
the time of Jesus because of the love of the
Jewish people for Mariamno, the Jewish wife of
Herod, who was murdered by him. Hence there
are so many women in the New Testament
named Mary that we sometimes find it difficult
to keep track of them. Foremost, of course, is
Mary, the mother of Jesus. Next in order of
her importance is Mary of Magdala. Of her
early history we know nothing except that she
suffered with some nervous or mental complaint.
And it came to pass afterward, that he
went throughout every city and village,
preaching and shewing the glad tidings of
the kingfdom of God; and the twelve were
with him.
.\nd certain women, which had been
healed of evil spirits and infirmities. Mary
called Magdalene, out of whom went seven
devils.
We know the names of a few of the women
who followed Jesus on that last journey from
Gallilee to Jerusalem and “ministered to Him of
their substance.” Three of them were Marys.
Some apprehension of expectation of crisis,
some woman’s instinct caused them to leave
their homes and be His companions in this last
stage of His public work.
“Crucified, dead and buried!” Terrible words.
The apostolic group was stunned and paralyzed.
How the eleven disciples spent the hours from
nightfall of Friday till dawn of Saturday, we do
not know. But on Easter morning, “while it
was yet dark” (John 20:1) these women who
had seen Jesus crucified came with spices to
anoint His body. They did not know that Joseph
of Armathaea and Nicodeums had already per
formed that melancholy service.
They reached the tomb, wondering who would
roll away the stone for them, and behold, it was
already rolled away. And the angel said, “He
is risen.” The others hurried back to tell the
disciples, but Mary “stood without weeping.”
She it was who first saw the Lord.
No wonder Renan, skeptic as he was, marveled
at the faith which caused her to see that vision
•f a living Christ and to proclaim it. He had
skeptic’s easy explanation, but he said that no
sane person ever saw anything that gave to the
world such comfort as the vision of love that
the Magdalene beheld. Peter and John ran to
the sepulchre and found the empty tomb; the
^ whole city knew of it before night.
But Mary’s eyes first beheld Him and her glad
voice first told the incredulous disciples. In the
power of her faith and the blessing of her g;ood
tidings only Mary the mother of Jesus deserves
to stand before this other beautiful and devoted
follower of Jesus, Mary of Magdala,
Lawrence Tlbbett wants a national theater.
Congresa already putl‘on a pretty good show.
—Dallas Morning News.
France ApresU Oerman Aviator—Headline.
He may bave been trying to aUrt a chain tet
ter.—Indlaoapolia Mewa,
coi^ vacmion
V^iishlni^n? June’^ |Aato-
eaater)—TiK^fapnll^a dedik
ion fit the thtprame Cottrt of the
United Stllbte that'irwo tft the «*>
aential asauaiptions^poa whkh
the New Deal-program based,
%et« iaratid and uneoiSatatton-
aU has thrown, the A^olstra-
tion and Concrea.tntJfa stats
fit confatlon whleh*^makss the
fate much of ths rsst of tbs
Adhdntetntlaii^. program donbt-
y«l. When the third arm of the
the Jadletary' de
cided that the Legislative ^ara
had no power to enact, and
Iteeontlre arm had no antlumty
to* administer, laws dsprtirlnc
persons of their properir ■: wlth-
oait Just " compensation, ■ or to
regnlats working hours, wages
and trade practises in business
which doss not cross state lines,
it brought to a halt further ef
forts in the same direction.
The Frasier - Lemke Farm
Mortgage Moratorium Act was
declared unconstitutional in that
it deprived^ creditors holding
farm mortgages of their proper
ty without due process of law.
The agricultural bloc in the low
er House is groping in the dark
for some satisfactory anbstltute
to bold their constituents In line.
Belief that the same reason
ing which the Supreme Court
used in denouncing NRA, ap
plies with equal force to parts,
if not all, of AAA, has checked
the progress through Congress
of the amendments designed to
strengthen AAA.
The same decision, as it ap
plies to regulation of hours and
wages in intra-state commerce,
has put the brakes upon the
progress of the Wagner Indus
trial Relations bill.
These Supreme Court decis
ions, including the unanimous
opinion that the President has
no right to dismiss a member of
the Federal Trade Commission
except for malfeasance in office
came just at the moment when
Mr. Roosevelt’s personal pres
tige had been greatly enhanced
by his action on the Veteran’s
bonus.
The Bonus Veto
The President’s veto message
on the bonus bill is regarded by
everybody but the Veterans’
lobby as the most statesmanlike
utterance he has made since his
inauguration. It is also regarded
as an extremely smart political
move. It gave ail of the boys on
Capitol Hill a chance to go on
record as friends of the veter
ans, a chance of which they
promptly took advantage, and It
unquestionably gained for the
President a great deal of con
servative support. Every Presi
dent since the war has vetoed a
bonus bill. The soldier vote is
too widely scattered over the
country to affect a President’s
reelection, though there are
many districts in which it might
easily be strong enough to re
elect or defeat a Congressman.
There is more dynamite than
appears on the surface in the re
port of the Comptroller-General,
John W. McCarl, on the actions
of the Tennessee Valley Author
ity. The TVA is asking for an
extension of its powers, and more
money. Mr. McCarl is the only
official who can tell truths with
out risking his job. He cited
many instances of expenditures
not authorized by law, improp
er bookkeeping, assumptions of
authority which the law did not
contemplate and other kind! of
irregularities. The most blasting
charge he made is that the TVA
deliberately “wrote down” the
capital investment in its power
rlauts, in order to make it ap
pear that it could produce elec
tricity cheaper than it actual!^
can produce it.
Mr. McCarl’s job is to audit all
government expenditures. H e
holds office for a term of fifteen
years and cannot be removed un
less he commits a crime. He was
appointed in 1921 by President
Harding so his term runs until
the middle of next year. Some
of his enthusiastic friends in
Nebraska, where he used to prac
tice law, are talking about him
as a possible Republican candi
date for the presidency. Wash
ington is most interested in him
just now as a mathematician.
C4i8e of Mr. Holt
Another Question that has got
to be settled on Capitol Hill be-
tSt tto
iirhet£%r yoi^'MK'HpiS^^t
Virginia wiU. K^Wuy a
or not wltea reaches hla
thirtteth birthdaF" 01^ Jana
Thw ConAitation says that Soa-
aUora Binst he thirty years old.-
Rnsb D. Holt was less, than
rWeaty-aiae-aad-a-bslf whsa be
was elsetsd last November. There
are some eoaservatire Seaatofl^
of both parties who srs strict
eonstrnettenista of the ConsUtur
tioa, and tadteatioas are that
there may be aeme diffleutty fae-
fag yooag Mr. Holt oe his birth
day whan bs attempts to take'
the oath of'office and hlihUtjr at
a^nll fledge4 Senator. If tha
iRuIta wants to throw him out
on the techntesi groaad that be
wasn’t thirty yean old whan he
was elected, tlmy can do so,' for
another protlsion of the .iCon-
stitotion is that each Hotisc of
Oongress irihall be the sole Jo4go
of the .qaallfieatioB8 .aad elec
tion of its own members, ■
The debate on Mr. Holt’s qnal-
ifications might afford an op
portunity for some of the antl-
Administretion Senston to , con
duct a fiiibnster againsf' some ot ^
the Administration Mils. That ,
sort of debate is priviieged. It
cannot be. controlled by any rules j
of the Senate. So if three or
four long-winded senators under
took to stage a speech-making
marathon nobody could stop
them. There have been hints clr^
culating on Capitol Hill that
something of that sort is con
templated.
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WILEY BROOKS
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PAUL BILLINGS
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Snake Hsmdling Preacher
Flooded With Fan Letters
St. Charles, Va., June 7—Pan
mail from New York, New Jer
sey, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Georgia and other states has been
re9elved by the Rev. George Hea
ley since news of his immunity
to poisonous snakes through “holy
faith” has spread, the holiness
evangelist announced in a sermon
tonight.
The preacher, who survived
the bite of a copperhead that
struck his band last week in a
“test of faith” and handled
three rattlers Sunday without
barm, said most of the letters
were fellcltious as to his condi
tion and wanted more informa
tion about him, but others bitter
ly criticised him.
“If you want wild flowers in
the woods,” keep the fires out.'
-R. W. Graeber.
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Mlta AND THEr TASTE JUST RIGHT.
HAkOlD ("DUTCH") SMITH
Olympic high diver
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