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THURSDAY. DEC. 10. 1936
PITTMAN’S PROPOSAL.
Attorney J. C. Pittman, senator-elect
from Sanford, proposes a re-organization of
the state highway commission—that is the
administrative branch of the department.
He would have the council of state composed
of the Attorney General, Superintendent of
Schools, State Auditor. State Treasurer and
Secretary of State and three outside busi
; ness men appointed by the Governor, to
make up the highway commission.
Mr. Pittman is conscientious in his sug
gestion and thinks that since the council of
state is elected by the people, the commis
sion would be more directly answerable to
the people for their acts.
In the first place the council of state
members are already burdened with state
duties which require all of their time with
out heaping other responsibilities upon them.
In the second place, the council of state is
elected by the people and if they had the
road system in their charge, it is possible for
the highway department to become steeped
in politics.
We think the highw'ay commission, con
stituted by men appointed by the Governor,
would be freer to exercise their best judg
-ment in road matters than they would be if
• their jobs depended upon the whims of the
voters. There are scores upon scores of road
matters constantly coming up in North Car
olina and a majority of them are controvers
ial. j If thfijjtKVii’d members were seeking re
election by popular vote, it is but natural
that some decisions would be governed by the
number of votes at stake.
THE SPECIAL SESSION
I he special session of the General As
sembly is called and on Thursday of this
week the lawmakers will gather in Raleigh.
Was it necessary to hold a special ses
sion ? Governor Ehringhaus did not think so
before he issued the call and he does not
thirjk so now, but out of an abundance of
precaution, fearing that North Carolina
might not participate in the wage tax for
unemployed, he deemed it best to enact legis
lation that will without a doubt qualify our
state for social security.
Nearly a dozen states of the union will
not qualify by January 1st, 1937, the time
limit set, and it has been our position and we
think that of the Governor, that the mem
bers of Congress from these states would at
the next session, amend the present act. to
include their states. In other words, it is
not the disposition of the Federal govern
ment to collect from North Carolina two and
a half million dollars on employer’s payrolls
and turn nothing back to our state. Neither
will the Federal government collect the tax
from any other non-cooperating state and
refuse to extend unemployment insurance to
the employees in those commonwealths.
While Governor Ehringhaus has called
the special session, he feels confident that it
is an unnecessary step. The cost of the ses
sion. howeVer, won’t be great since the work
the lawmakers are called upon to do will re
quire only ten days. The danger, however,
remote it might be, of losing our share in the
two and a half million is too great a stake
with which to take a chance.
Time will reveal whether the special
session is necessary or not. We shall await
with interest to see what fate the non-quali
fying states meet next year.
ONE JOB SESSION
In Raleigh today the special session of
the General Assembly is convening for the
one and sole purpose of passing a social se
curity compliance act which will enable our
state to share in the Special Security bene
fits offered by the Federal government.
This job should be done within ten days
or two weeks. Of course other contemplated
legislation could be brought up, but that is
not likely since the holiday season is upon
us and the regular session is less than thirty
days of£ _
When the Governor convenes a special
session, he points out its need, but ne does
not have the power to limit the law makers
as to what they shall consider. When we
w ere voting on constitutional amendments in
November we should have added two more:
one which would restrict a special session
from passing legislation on other subjects
than that or those matters for which it was
called and the veto pow'er should have been
granted the Governor. Practically every
state constitution in the union grants its
governor the power to veto.
The Social Security compliance act which
the assembly takes up, has already been
carefully drawn by North Carolina’s best tal
ent and approved in Washington. It’a in
tentions and purposes are too well known to
call for debate. Since it is not necessary at
this time to raise revenue, the law-makers
should get home for Christmas, perfectly
willing to leave the knotty problems of liquor
legislation, sales tax, revenue and appropria
tions to the regular session.
What Other Papers Say \
OUR AGRICULTURAL WEALTH
(Spartanburg Herald)
In spite of droughts and other adverse weather
conditions in parts of the United States we are told
by the federal department of agriculture that the in
come of American farmers in the month of October
amounted to 886 million dollars, against a total of
752 millions in September. The two months' farm
income was considerably more than one and one-half
billions.
The biggest industry in the United States has
made a good showing’ this fall, better than in the
fall of J935. The general average of prices for pro
ducts on Nov. 15 was 120 per cent of pre-war levels
and 12 per cent above those of a year ago.
This enormous income comes from the soil \ and
that explains why the government is taking extra
ordinary interest in conservation—conservation of
soil, forests and other natural resources. The nation
cannot afford to permit winds to sweep the plant food
from vast acreages of the west. It cannot permit rain
fall to wash the soil from the fields of the South into
streams. It cannot permit forests ruthlessly to be cut
by saw mills, to be burned by forest fires and other-.
wise vandalized. Farms are the nation’s meal ticket.
They must be protected.
A TEACHER’S INFLUENCE
(Gaffney Ledger)
What is more significant in the life of the child
than the influence of his teacher? How many citi
zens of today can name their teachers of yesterday?
Do you cherish with equal delight the memory of
each of them? What were their qualities and char
acteristics that made the deepest impressions on you?
If you were to live your life over and be permitted
to choose your own teachers, which of them would
you prefer to eliminate?
The school as an institution exists for the pur
pose of making conditions favorable for children to
receive instruction from teachers. All its resources
and energy should be directed toward that end. Any
situation or condition that does not tend to make the
work of. the class room teachers more effective is
subversive and should be corrected immediately. This
fact makes the selection of teachers the most sig
nificant duty of school officials.
Do you know personally the teacher of your child?
Does that teacher have the character and capacity to
give your child desirable educational direction? He or
she should have and should be the kind of teacher
that your child will remember and the remembrance
cherished.
Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE
NEWS BRIEFS FROM FLAT ROCK
-- licker-drinking seems to be spreading In our
midst, wimmen have slowed down some, but young
men have took over their -shortcomings, the licker
stour at flat rock sold 19 straight drunks, 8 fist
fights. 3 cutting-scrapes, 3 pistol brawls and 7 otter
mobeel wrecks last friday and satturday. that's a
slight gain over the previous satturday.
- miss Jennie veeve smith, our efficient scholl prin
ciple, has invited in a new fordor and she now takes
her friends to ride nearly every p. m. she takes only
her boy-friends however, and it is always either shorty
long, the sody-Jerker at the drug stoar, or the fruit
tree agent they always got back home shortly after
dark.
-• no changes have took place in the relief set-up
since the dimmercrats swept the world, holsum moore
is still the “big boy,’’ but he has benn reported to the
seeker-terry of war 8 or 4 times for holding out on
some of the poor families and passing their stuff to
personal friends and his wife's kinfolks, no suffering
is going on at this riting.
the poleesman happened to a verry sad axcident
a few nights ago. he was warming his feets on top
of the stove in the citty hall while on duty about 9
p. m„ when he woke up, his shoes and britches up to
his knees had burn off, and he was took to the hoss
pittle for repairs, he had newer befo&r slept that
sound except when someboddy was robbing stoars
and filling stations in the night-time ansoforth
. .it won t be long now till our county delligation j
will repost to the state cappitol to make new laws J
and create new jobs, the old-age pension bill will be ,
passed, and from now on, the children of the country i
won’t have to be so mean to their old mammas and 1
papas, and the wirm will tum. vizziy: everboddy will 1
W’ant to live with ma and pa instead of not wanting *
ma and pa to live them them, we will get 860 at
our house. i
enduring the hot presidential campane, we read I
a right smart in the papers about our dollar not be- 1
ing worth but c59. art square says he can pay as 1
much intrust and can buy as manny postage stamps
and ride as far on the train and settle off as much
detts with the so-called c59 dollar as he could with 1
the clOO dollar, the only difference he sees, so he i
says, he rarely ever got holt to one of them clOO dol- •
lars.
yores trulie,
mike Clark rfd
corry .spondent.
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PLAYING AROUND
p-A-1
Washington
HI Day book
By PRESTON GROVER
(Associated Press Staff Writer:
WASHINGTON.—If the supreme
:ourt only hold off long enough it
perhaps won’t matter so much
whether its throws out the unem
ployment insurance
iocial security act.
Enough federal
pressure is being
applied so that
within a reason
able time it might
pe expected all
states will have
unemployment in
surance acts in
force of a nature
satisfactory to the
federal social se
cur i t y board.
When that time
comes there will ft 1ST ON C GftOVET
pe no real need of the federal act
except to hold the states in line.
The supreme court hasn't been
asked yet to pass on the federal act,
put that undoubtedly will come in
the course of months.
At the outset it was announced
,hat one of the major goals of the
security act was to get states to pro
vide unemployment insurance. The
let was designed to squeeze them
Into it.
• • * •
How It Works
To date, 16 states nave enacted
unemployment insurance laws under
which a man, thrust out of a job,
urn go (after 1938) to a state board
»nd there receive half pay or some
thing near it. Moreover, the board
uelps him find a job.
Unless he gets a job meantime,
;he half pay comes to him for three
to six months, under terms of most
state acts. Of course in that time
he has to take whatever job is of
fered except that he need not work
it wages below normal, nor take a
lob opened by a walkout or lockout
The method employed in the
neasurc to squeeze the states iffft
snacting unemployment insuamce
aws Is this:
A federal tax is imposed on all
imployers of eight or more, effec
tive this past year. It goes iftto the
teneral fund for building roads or
'or any other governmental pur
pose. But it is provided that the
imployer can deduct from his fed
iral tax whatever he pa vs to the
itat* for unemployment insurance,
(xcept that he may not deduct more
ban 90 per cent of the federal tax
Thus the employer as well as the
unployes will be under pressure
o have the state enact an unem
ployment law so the employes can
:et the benefit. With a stare act.
he employes get the revenue With
iut, they lost all.
• • • •
Counting On Public Opinion
Another wave of acts is expected j
o pour out of the state legislatures
neeting this winter and spring. The1
supreme court decision upholding
lew York’s law might add encour
agement. John G. Winant, federal
ocial security board chairman, urg
>d the states to get under the wire
o the) ran share rebates of taxes}
Graham Will Ask
For $200,000 Less
CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 10.—“With a
thousand more students the con
solidated university asks $200,000
less than actually was received from
the state in 1928-29," President
Prank P. Graham told university
alumni gathered here at the an
nual general alumni assembly.
President Graham drove home
this point with telling effect as he
discussed the university’s approp
riation request for 1937-38, soon to
be presented to the legislature. The
total amount requested for al) three
campuses of the consolidated uni
versity for each year of the next
biennium is $1,612,550, which if
granted would be exactly $137,856
less than all three actually receiv
ed from the state in 1928-29.
“For the university at Chapel
Hill,” President Graham stated, “we
are asking for an increase of $163 -
843 in appropriations for 1937-38
With that $163,843 we propose: 1.
To restore salaries from 85 percent
to 100 percent; 2. to make needed
increments and promotions; and 3.
i to make replacements and add new
t position.”
A total of $148,257 would be need
ed to restore salaries from the pres
ent 85 percent to the full 100 per
i cent. ,
I New Diphtheria
Cases Increase
RALEIGH, Dec. 10.— t/Pi —The
state board of health reported 102
i new cases of diphtheria listed in
North Carolina last week and of
ficials warned again of the need of
immunization, especially among
j children. #
During the week ending Novem
; ber 28 there were 100 new cases and
in the week ending December 7
last year there were 73.
Whooping cough cases took a
jump last week. 91 cases being list
ed as compared with 21 the week
before and 44 in the corresponding
week of 1935.
Measles cases dropped from 41
two weeks ago to 21 last week, while
chickenpox cases Jumped to 75 last
week from 63 the preceding period.
There were 12 cases of typhoid fev
er last week compared with 13 the
week before, and 68 of scarlet fever
compared with 82
already collected from employers.
It's a neat bit of pressure on the
states, and is being applied stiffly
■ o all states will provide the em
ploye protection before anything
happens to the federal act.
The board is looking to public
opinion and labor organizations to
prevent the states repealing the
state acts should the federal law
be held unconstitutional
EVERYDAY
LIVING
The Let-Down
To every man and woman, sooi
or late, either before or during thi
middle years, there comes a tim
when life seems to lose Its zip, zes
and sparkle. The romance Is rabbet
off.
It is a trying
time, if not the
one really serious
danger that awaits
us. We seem to
have run into a
blind alley, a
j dead end; there
j is nothing left
I which stirs u s
j deeply enough to
j ward off dullness.
Our days are apt to be rathe
; drab and tasteless; we have outliv
j ed the things that once made ou
hearts beat fast. Life has ceased ti
J interest us in any intense and vivi<
, way.
We may still get a mild joy ou
of business, games, functions coun
try life, the arts, books, hobbies. Bu
it is so tame, so tepid, that we woul
give up all such devices, if we hat
anything to turn to.
To our friends we may seem ga;
enough, but whether we are alon
and face facts, the plain truth i
that we are tired, of the whole bai
of tricks; and, truth to tell, a bi
tired of ourselves, too.
In desperation some try violen
adventure—an illicit love affaire
1 drink, dope, cynicism, even mysti
1 cism in some quaint cult; anythini
to escape the tedium—but ihese an
i not ways out.
What, then, shall we do whei
j life goes stale and flat? First, w
I must pull ourselves up, take stocl
of facts, and face reality. Life r/a
not meant to be just a series o
kicks and thrills.
The only cure for such a let-dowi
is a mixture of faith, courage, an<
i hard common sense, self-adminis
! tered, a teaspoonful twice a da;
! in a glass of hope, with plenty o;
I spiritual exercise.
Our religion, if we have any, ough
to help us, but not many of u.
kijgw how to use it. Anyway, if lifi
has lost its thrill, we must put thril
into it. Nobody else can do it for us
Up to forty life comes to us; aft
er forty we have to go to it, taki
hold of it, and shape it to level;
ends. It is one thing to make a liv
ing; it is another thing to mak<
life livable and lively.
Excavating an Indian burial
mound on his grandmother's farm
Howard Kohr of Salina. Kas., un
tarthed 70 skeletons. With thi
hones were clay pots, grinding ston
Co and shell knives for use by the
spirits in th# next world.
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