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THE STATE PORT PILOT
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Wednesday, August 7, 1935
When the cat's away the mice won't
play?if the cat did what he ought to before
he left.
This is the season when chronic com
?nrintar Wrtllld hUlTV UP !
piamers wion men.
and get here.
The kind of English a man uses is a
pretty sure index to his background and
training.
There are plenty of men who are not
making a decent living for their family
who can tell you right off the bat how
to run the government.
If the people of Louisiana had kept
Huey Long home, chances are that Congress
would already have been adjourned.
The wise person is one who trains himself
to do more than one thing well, thus
providing additional outlets for his abilities.
During the past week-end we traveled
through several of the leading agricultural
counties of North Carolina but nowhere
did we see any prettier crops than
may be found in some sections of Brunswick
county.
Charles VII.
Charles VII, the prince whom Jeanne
d'Arc had made king of France 32 years
before, died in 1416, at 56, having starved
himself to death!
He so feared being poisoned by his son
and heir that abstinence from food became
an obsession. When he would have
eaten he could not, for his passages had
shrunk up.
Changed, Attitude.
In recent years a great change has taken
place in the attitude of citizens of
the United States toward their government.
When it was first established by our
forefathers, our government was set uj \
by the people to serve a common neei
and to be supported by them. More re
cently, citizens of our nation seem to hav? ;
adopted the attitude that the government
owes them a living and that one of iti
primary functions is to act as an equal- ,
izing agency through which the financial ,
accumulations of the wealthy may be disbursed
to the mass of the people.
There are in this country 175,000 different
governments ? city, township,
county, state and Federal. There are 3,250,000
people employed in some branch
of governmental work. Their total sal- \
aries are $4,500,000,000 each year.
Every dollar that is paid out by the
.rv-P 4-Urv TTv?,'4? A
gwciIiixiciiv \jx cue uixitcu otaics iitt? uccn
paid into the treasury in taxes. As the
number of bureaus and employees increases,
so does our tax rate. It is time 1
to remember that the government is ours
to support and that it is to our own interest
to see that its operating expenses
are within the bounds of reason.
Congratulations In Order.
Members of the Port City Civic Club '
in their regular meeting Friday night ex- i
tended their congratulations to Captain
Fred B. Leitzsey upon his recent promotion
from rank of first lieutenant. We
join with them in wishing Captain Leitzsey
continued success in his career as
army officer.
Captain Leitzsey and his assistants are
doing great work at the local Citizens
Conservation Corps camp. Visitors at the i
camp are immediately impressed with the j
cleanliness and good order that is everywhere
apparent. Improvements are con- i
stantly being made.
These things are true of the physical 1
equipment. Even greater changes are i
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THE STATE POR1
made in the men who report for dut
during' their periods of enlistment,
varied program of vocational training
being conducted during the recreation pi
riods by Educational Director Zach 5
Williams, and some of the men in th
camp who have had the advantage of
college education are conducting sped;
classes for their fellow-workers who ha^
never advanced beyond the primal
grades.
The men are willing workers and ai
carrying out the program of forest pr
tection and reforestation that was ma;
ped out for them when the camp w;
established in Southport. This work, t
gether with the vocational training whi(
the men are receiving, makes the woi
of the local camp well worth while.
After It's Sold.
The border belt tobacco markets op<
Thursday and during the next few wee!
farmers of this county will be paid f<
their crop they have spent months of hai
work to produce. During the next fe
weeks of agricultural independence thei
are a few sobering thoughts they shoul
bear in mind.
Debts come first. The business futui
of no man is any better than his credi
Necessities are next?a new supply <
clothes for the entire family, some fu
niture, perhaps, and other things thi
have been needed for some months, bi
the purchase of which has been deferre
until fall.
Then there are certain luxuries thi
will add greatly to life on the farm. T1
extent of these, of course, will be goven
ed by the money available for the.things
after debts are paid and necesj
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ties provided, m some instances, wicj
may be money enough for the install,
tion of a private power plant, with wat
for the home. These things will be a j<
to any farm family. And a radio. There
something that will bring more actu;
pleasure to the average family than an
other thing. Nothing can do more to ke<
rural inhabitants closely in touch with tl
outside world.
Usually it is the man of the family wh
goes to market with the load of tobacc
It is to him that the money is paid. Don
forget, men, that you didn't make tl
crop by yourself?that had it not bee
for other members of the family thei
were times when your tobacco might ha\
been a total loss. So include them whe
you celebrate your seasonal prosperit:
Let the luxuries that result from your t<
bacco crop be things that every membe
of your family can enjoy.
Reduce It Further.
During the past few years there ha
been a slow, but steady, decrease in th
nation's fire loss.
The decrease is extending into 1931
according to figures issued by the Nj
tional Board of Fire Underwriters. Du]
ing the first six months of this year, los
totaled $136,460,000, as compared wit
$158,064,000 during the same period i
1934.
The trend is encouraging?about a d?
cade ago the annual fire loss ran in es
less of $500,000,000 a year. However, i
is still much too high. At least eight
per cent of fires are unnecessary?i
least eighty per cent of them could b
prevented by thought, care, perhaps th
expenditure of a little money.
Every citizen should voluntarily enlis
in the fire-fighting army in an effort t
further reduce this useless waste. H
should periodically inspect his propert;
and correct any hazards that exist froi
basement to attic. Piles of papers, in
properly stored inflammables, old or ami
teur electric wiring, defective furnacei
pipes and flues?these are among th
great causes of fire in dwellings. And
prolific outside source of fire that is e:
pecially dangerous during summer month
is dry, uncut grass.
Any local fire marshal or fire depar
ment is glad to give a citizen assistanc
in the matter of discovering and elimir
ating fire hazards. Insurance companh
are equally cooperative. Ignorance <
hazards, like ignorance of the law, is n
excuse?the knowledge that will prevei
fire can be easily obtained.
In the long run, fire loss determines th
post of inanrnTipp. and if we lower lossc
it will be reflected in our premium rat
as soon as it is proved that the waste j
going to stay down. Fire loss increase
taxes and is a burden to every membe
of the community. Fire prevention shoul
be regarded as both a privilege and a di
ty?that saves lives and money and pre
serves irreplaceable resources.
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^ Washington, August 7.?With
3.1
hopes for adjournment growing
e brighter, ambitious legislators are
T | following the inference of the old
:hymn "rescue the perishing."
re I Legislative measures, vital to the
j political future of their sponsors,
are being dragged from commitP"
tee pigeon-holes in an effort to
as breathe enough oxygen to secure
their passage by the Senate and
House. History shows that in the
-h mad rush of the last days many
rk important measures are lost in
the shuffle. Committees, which
for one reason or another, have
bottled up many of these proposals,
are now subjected to pressure
from the particular lawmakers or
groups interested in their enactKS
ment. As the time grows shorter,
ar compromises which were rejected
.j are now gladly accepted in an
effort to expedite the consideraW
tion of controversial measures,
re One of the favorite sports of the
U day is guessing as to the exact
date of the Congressional adInnmmonf
Thp hPJ?t ODlnlOIl IlftS
re doped out the adjournment bei.
tween August 15 and 24. The extent
of the current warfare
of against the Administration tax
r- program is the real uncertain
feature.
A brief survey of the political
it an(j legislative fronts reveals a
id jittery condition. Promised a
short and probably uneventful
session beginning next January,
it Congress is inclined to get the
le big chorea done before adjournment
The idea is to give assurances
to the lawmakers that they
3e will have plenty of time to comii
paign for re-election next year.
re Veteran solons are not deceived
by the rosy promises, for these
war-horses know full well that a
er five-months vacation among the
)V home folks may upset the best
, laid plans of political leaders. Un1
s able to read a portion of letters
al from their districts, the legisla|V
tors will be obliged to listen
while building their fences for
JP the coming campaign. A wise
ie Senator or Representative follows
the winds in his own bailiwick
more than the orders of his party
10 chieftains.
0. The public reaction to a prol>?
posal restricting the power of the
Supreme Court as retaliation for
declaring the NRA unconstituti>n
onal has effectively sidetracked a
e national referendum on the issue.
The New Deal is, however, trye
ing out the machinery for anil
other amendment to the Constitu
j tion, which would wipe out exemptions
now given to Federal,
State and municipal securities
;r and make these items subject to
taxation. An amendment of this
sort has a popular aspect as the
average citizen is not interested
as an investor. The question of
financing local projects requiring
cities and counties to issue bonds
e j figures prominently. The tax exempt
feature is always an in
ducement to buy and without this
' marked advantage, these securi1
ties may find real competition
p_ from bond issues.
Searching around for ideas
' which will give employment to
h millions of men and women is
n not as easy as it appears to the
layman. The President has nearly
five billion dollars to spend on
i- work relief projects. In order to
[. insure the utmost care in the
allotments, an application, submitted
by a municipality or state,
y must go through many critical
it hands before it is approved, Already
rumblings against the requirement
of taking employees
? for these projects off relief rolls
rather than on a selective basis
are heard in official circles. These
5 complaints are particularly loud
0 among the Federal agencies re
e ; quiring a high type of technical
| skill when the same is not usu'
ally available from the relief rolls,
f For instance, several projects
1- which require skilled engineers
are being held up because the i
administrators believe it a waste
3> of time and money to employ une
| skilled laborers now on relief.
a ; The untrained worker fits into
certain activities, but prelimi5"
nary surveys are out of his line.
LS Business men who ordinarily
would not object to visits of com,
petent tax officials are protesting
invasion of unskilled investie
gators into their private affairs.
The Treasury Department has instituted
a delinquent tax survey
'S in the twenty largest metropoli)f
tan areas.
l0 The possibility that the Federal
. old age pension bill, an unemployment
insurance measure, will
soon become a law creates some
e concern as to its ultimate effect
upon relief rolls. All governments
' since the days of Queen Elizabeth
e have been puzzled as to ways and
IS means to stop voluntary pauperism.
The fdhr is felt that many
individuals, driven from state and
!r Federal relief rolls under the edd
ict of "work or starve," will attempt
to "chisel" on their elderly
relatives who are beneficiaries
of old age pensions. For centuries,
it has been proven that the
H CAROLINA
drone was usually better lodged
and fed than the worker, a condition
which is causing Federal
relief administrators no end of
trouble. Some local officials seeking
to put a stop to lucrative
loafing at the taxpayers expense
are adopting drastic methods
while others are utilizing psychoI
logical means of persuading the
unemployed as to the dignity of
labor and self-support as against
pauperism.
A survey of the Federal Em-1
ergency Relief Administration of
rural workers showed that of the
employed heads of rural housej
holds on relief, 29 percent had
! shifted from the occupations they
had usually followed before the
depression, and most of these
men had gone one or more steps
downward on the occupational
ladder. Men who usually had
owned farms now were renting
them or working on their men's
farms as laborers. Some were performing:
unskilled work in non
agricultural industries. Farmhands
and skilled artisans had
left their usual occupations more
often than had unskilled laborers,
who naturally tended to stay
at the bottom of the ladder. Farmers
were least inclined of all
workers to change to other occupations.
Relief administrative officers
called upon to assign men
and women to new Federal projects
would like authority to
make tests in order to weed out
the unfitted. However, politics
enter the picture and this practical
policy will probably never
be adopted.
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Forty-One Applications Are a?'
Made In North Carolina; ooi
Baity Urges Haste 001
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Chapel Hill, August 7.?Forty- ga
one applications for loans and j fuj
grants amounting to $6,248,577.02 thi
under the new $4,000,000,000 thi
work-relief program have been 1,5
received today by H. G. Baity, thi
acting state director of the state i tin
PWA.
In North Carolina there are 39 _
non-Federal projects estimated to i H
cost $5,467,417 now under con- I
struction, Mr. Baity stated. Thir- I
ty-seven non - Federal projects L
built at an estimated cost of $3,- J
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630,925 have been completed and
are now in use. Twelve additional Ge
[projects amounting to $1,665,250
I have received allotments and soon
will be under construction. W:
Applications for projects should
be got in the State office with tu:
all possible speed, Mr. Baity
urged. Nt
More than 4,500 Federal and
non-Federal PWA projects cost- th<
ing nearly $1,800,000,000 are Til
now under construction in the
nation, it was announced. Mr.
Baity said that the July report
shows that 13,238 projects cost- fir
ing $685,421,693 have been completed
and are in use, that 4,- to:
514 projects costing $1,787,187,135
are under construction and U'
that 1,426 projects costing $321,026,225
have received allotments
Final
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IDS UPON WHICH 1
BEEN PAID WILL E
SAl.F. AUGUST 14th
ESP AY, AUGUST 7 H
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3 are in various
>gress preliminary to
istruction.
Expenditures for maw^B
a reported, amount to (jS
1,000, for wages UmIJ
d other expenditures (tyS
5, making a total of tjJH
How the PWA has filled
p until the new program
lly under way was revejjjJH
j announcement by Mi. J
at PWA has under consti^^H
155 non - Federal
roughout the country,
nated cost being S729.am?
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