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Restore Flexible Provision And The Tariff Bill Fails lUs Is The Warning Issued By Senator Simmons To Propon ents Of The Measure. Violates Constitution Was Never Intended President Should Have So Much Power —Leads To Abuses. Washington, D. C., Oct. 14.—The American public has for the moment at least manifested far more interest in the strangulation of two young wo ws at this Capital than in the prog ress of the tariff discussions in the senate. Far more press matter was sent out about the mysterious death at Virginia McPherson, a native of Month Carolina, and the death of Mar gory O’Donnell than was published concerning the battle going on be tween the senate and the White House •nr the flexible provision in the tariff bill. Yet this feature of the tariff bill is regarded by the Demo crats as of so fundamental character that Senator Simmons, the ranking Democrat on the finance committee, announced a week ago that there would be no tariff legislation at this session of congress if the proponents at the flexible provision insisted on restoring it in the bill. A coalition of Democrats and insur gent Republican senators eliminated u» provision from the Hawley-Smoot bill by a vote of 47 to 42 ten days ago in the face of an urgent appeal from President Hoover .to retain it. The Simmons statement was a notice to tiie country that the Democrats were ready to assume responsibility for no tariff legislation rather than congress should surrender the constitutional function of tariff legislation to the White House. The congress did do that very thing in the enactment of the present tariff law in 1922 by pro viding that the tariff commission should make its recommendations for changes in rates to the President who was empowered to raise or lower these rates 50 percent. That is now the law and of the 37 changes made in the rates by the Pres ident 31 have been increases and only 6 downward. By this provision in the law the President practically becomes master of tariff legislation. He ap points the commission and Presidept Coolidge packed the commission with high protection Republicans and Dem ocrats who recommended increase in rates in nine cases out of ten. The Democrats are asking what is the use of congress spending months in pass ing tariff legislation if the President with the aid of a commission he has appointed is permitted to change the rates upward or downward 50 per cent to suit himself. Why should con gress delegate a function of legisla tion the constitution has plainly im posed upon it to the executive depart ment of the government, the Demo crats are asking. Senator Simmons Introduced an amendment to the bill repealing the provision but he after wards accepted an amendment to his amendment by Senator Norris of Ne braska requiring the tariff commis sion to make its recommendations to congress instead of the President. After Simmons’ announcement that there would be no tariff legislation if the White House and the house in sisted on restoring the flexible provis ion in the bill giving the power to the President to make rate changes the ad ministration Republicans in the sen ate broadcast the country with the statement that the Democrats would be responsible if there was no tariff legislation at this extra session of congress. The Democrats through their floor leader, Senator Robinson of Arkansas have countered with the statement that they will not seek to block the passage of the tariff bill. That is to say they will not hinder its passage through the senate with the flexible provision eliminated and such other changes as they are able to make in the bill but of course when the bill has passed the senate they will not assume the responsibility for a pos sible deadlock with the house or a veto of the bill by the President. The Democrats intend to hold out against the restoration of the flexible provision by the conference committee of both houses and there will be no tariff legislation if the house does not yield. That is what Senator Simmons’ statement meant To make sure that the coalition in the senate will not surrender on this issue to the house Senator McKellar of Tennessee has proposed that the senate members of the conference committee be elected by the senate and not appointed by the Vice President as Is customary. The oublicani 1 ahd the two nankin hers of let on mfereoce of the two h i# Italy Make* Good Use , , of Vast Water Power One after another the great water falls of the Alps and Apennines have been placed In subjugation by Italy, their water guided Into huge, high pressure conduits and forced to turn giant turbines, writes Henry Kit tredge Horton in World’s Work. Before the World war these turbines were already producing two billion kilowatt hours per year; during the war. because of the shortage of coal and the need for power, this capacity was increased by another billion kilo watts. After the post-war turbulence hnd settled down into the Fascist regime, a new impetus was given to elect*-'?al development, and b.v the end of 1926 the actual consumption had reached 7,500.000,000 kilowatt hours per annum. Since , then It has continued to mount. More than 7,000 of Italy’s 9, 000 communes are now supplied with electrical energy. The per capitn con sumption runs close to 200 kilowatt hours. As was to be expected under the circumstances, by far the greater por tion of Italy’s electrical energy Is used In turning the wheels of her factories. Lighting Is a secondary consideration. Sixty per cent of Italy’s electrical energy is used for motor power; 15 per cent for light and heat; 14 per cent In the metallurgical and chemical In dustries, and the remaining 11 per cent for the electrified railways. Old Inscription Shows ' “Horse Age” Beginning To the learned, century-old Academy of Inscriptions of Paris, Professor Hrozny, of Prague, has communicated his long-expected translation of what is perhaps the most ancieut Hittite inscription. It is the flrst In any lan guage that became European and was cut in the rock of Asia Minor not far from what is now Angora, the new capital of Turkey. The value of the Inscription—what we might call its curiosity—is that It gives the date very nearly when tame horses flrst appeared so far to the west. It was the beginning of the Horse age in civilization and is of melancholy interest to us who, 4.000 years later, are careering with our au tomobiles into the Horseless age. It was supposed that horses were flrst biwught to Egypt, mother of Civ ilization, about 1,500 years before Christ by the Cassites from Babylon. That was some 500 years after Abra ham passed through the Hittite peo ples on his way from Ur of the Baby lonian Chaldees to the Promised land. —Boston Globe. Zinc in Industry v Starting with the Nineteenth cen tury the increase in the use of zinc was decideSy accelerated. During the first decade the production was esti mated at 6,000 tons. In the fifth dec ade the output had jumped to 367,000 tons, and for the half century the total was 635,000 tons. The output of the second half century reached the amazing total of 12,100,000 tons, or an increase of 1,800 per cent. The acceleration has continued, and in the year 1927 the output was 1,444, 000 tons, a total equal to the produc tion of the first 60 years of the Nine teenth century. Nearly one-third of the entire world’s output of zinc has been pro duced in the United States. » - • / Starting Early Wee Kathryn Lois, age five, has a “calory-counting mother” who quite often “slips,” and has not yet at tained her goal of a “perfect 38.” Kathryn Lois has heard much talk about foods that make one fat One night mashed potatoes were served at dinner. Kathryn Lola pushed her plate back and said, “I don’t believe I want any potatoes.” “Why, what’s the matter, Kathryn?" asked her father, “Better eat your po tatoes like a good girl; they will help you grow up big and strong.” “That’s just it,” retorted this mod sen miss, “I don't ever want to get to be as fat as mother.” Mother is counting calories in earnest!—Indianapolis News. The Homestead Brown—I shall do Just as I like. If I want to smoke In the drawing room. I shall smoke in the drawing room. And that’s that I M Silence. Brown (warming up)—What’s more, the carpet is good enough ash-tray for me. Quite good enough. So please understand in future 1 Silence. Brown (continuing)—And if you think I’m going to spend the who)# afternoon standing about loaded up with parcels, you’re made a mighty m ** thejotwgogs tt/d write to them an* ted them they claim ot of repie It is well ministration s no fight to sets or liabilities in politics. The President craves the political power the flexible provision will give him to feather his own nest for succession to ,a second term. With a tariff commis sion under his rubber stamp he can meddle in and manipulate rates so as to make great capital for his party and for himself personally. He has admitted in his statement that all tar iff legislation is so defective that pro vision should be made for promptly patching it up and he believes no one is so capable of doing the patching as he. In other words he entertains grave fears for the effects on the public of the Hawley-Smoot bill that is ultimately passed and wants to ma nipulate the party safety valve. There are senators and they are not all Democrats who ire unwilling to give the President all political credits in tariff legislation. Slave Days In Montgomery County In a recent issue of the Montgom-' ery Herald, Herbert C. Greene had an article on “Looking Back Into Slavery Days,” giving some interesting rem-, iniscences on the days before the Civil I War. The article follows: The largest slave community in Montgomery county before the civil war was located about three miles east of Troy. Locke Simmons who lived near where Smitherman’s bridge stands owned about forty slaves. William Butler lived on the next farm and owned about one hundred ne groes. About two miles below But ler’s plantation was located David Bruton’s farm. There were thirty or forty slaves on this farm. The writer's grandfather, who was born and reared in the community, remembers some interesting happen ings that occurred there during slave days. Not long ago he told about some of the things which happened Report ot the Condition of THE BANK OF RAMSEUR at Ramseur, North Carolina to The Corporation Commission, at the close of business on the 4th day of October, 1929. Resources Loans and discounts.$357,156.55 United States bonds. 16,000.00 North Carolina Bonds_ 10,000.00 Banking house. 25,998.67 Furniture and fixtures .. 4,883.85 Cash in vault and amounts due from approved de pository banks. 64,622.21 Cash items (items held over 24 hours). 28.41 Other Real Estate. 9,772.31 Total.$488,462.00 Liabilities Capital stock paid in .... $25,000.00 Surplus fund. 25,000.00 Undivided profits (Net amount). 6,225.66 Unearned interest. 900.00 Other deposits subject to check . 101,848.63 Demand certificates of de posit (due in less than 30 days). 38,100.45 Cashier’s checks outstand ing . 1,668.10 Savings deposits (due on or after 30 days). 289,719.16 Total. 488,462.00 State of North Carolina, County of Randolph, E. B. Leonard, Cashier, I. F. Cra ven, Director, and C. B. Smith, Director of the Bank of Ramseur, each personally appeared before me this day, and being duly sworn, each for himself, says that the foregoing re port is true to the best of his knowl edge and belief. E. B. LEONARD, Cashier. I. F. CRAVEN, Director. . C. B. SMITH, Director. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 10th day of October, 1929. W. I. JONES, Notary Public. My commission expires Sept. 15, 1930. when he was a youngster. William Butler, probably the lar gest slave holder in the county, had a slave by the name of Sam. It seems that Sam was Mr. Butler’s waiting boy. One day he disobeyed Mr. Butler in some way and this is ,the way he was punished. His mas ter told him to come into breakfast, take the seat at the head of the ta ble and ask the blessing. Then But ler preceded to wait on him as though he were a guest of honor, calling Sam Mr. Butler in the meantime. The slave owners did not need wag ons on their plantations in those days, for the slaves could almost move mountains. Butler once had a wheat field a mile away from the -thresh ing machine but this did not matter because he had enough slaves to car ry the wheat in a short while. The men and women each carried a shock of wheat at a time. They looked very much like a line of black sheep in the distance as they wended their way toward the threshing machine with a shock of wheat in their arms. If a negro had a sweetheart or wife on another farm he was allow ed to go to see her one night a week and spend the week end with her. 1 Even then he must have a pass or he would be whipped and sent back home by the patroles. The patroles were white men who checked up on negroes to see that they did not get away from their masters. Courting was difficult business. Then they had to get their dates on certain nights and carry a pass. Now all a person needs is a car to carry him. Times certainly change. Grandfather told another story of how David Bruton caught one of his slaves stealing corn. Bruton had the reputation of not feeding his negroes as well as they should have been, con sequently they would often steal something to eat There was a corn mill on this farm and someone had been stealing com from it for some time. Bruton de icided that he would catch the thief. I So he-made a trap door and placed | it in such a position that a person who took the com would fall down into the water under the mill. The peer head under the mill was board \ ed up in such a way that no one | could climb out without help. How lever, the water was not deep enough j to drown anyone. The morning after the trap was I set Mr. Bruton went down to the I mill and as if he was going to start ! the mill. All of a sudden someone 'said! “Mossers Bruton don’t start dat mill case I’se down here.” “What are you doing down there Jack?” “I come to get some com and fell through de flo.” A night in waist deep water was probably all the punishment that Jack received at the hands of his master for stealing com. This seemed suf ficient for no more com was stolen. This community which was once teeming with slave life has now only a few white families scattered about in it The only marks of slaves left are a few of the slave owner’s homes and a negro cemetery or two. The valleys which once rang with negro folk songs are silent except for an occasional saw mill that sings as it gnaws its way through eighteen inch logs that have grown on the fields once cultivated by the slaves. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Jason Hamil ton, October 3rd, a daughter, Alta Jane. 'V / O v \ | ROOF ! INFORMATION The Modern Way is t> apply Bird’s Twin Shingles right over the old roof. Thus you save the expense and clutter caused by rip ping off the old wood shingles. You also avoid the danger of damage to the interior of your home that might be caused by a sudden shower when the old roof is being removed. By leaving the old shingles on you also in crease the insulating value of your roof making your home cooler in summer and more economical to heat in winter. This method of application has been success fully used for the past fifteen years. I There’s a color and kind just suited to your home. Let us show you sample now. FOR SALE BT The Home Building, Inc. Job Printing Let Us Handle Your We K&ve facilities tor printing anything from your letterhead to the largest kind of a circular. ship makes in any kind of a printing joh. OUR PRICES ARE REASONABLE Defeat Of Flexible Provision Tariff Bill Victory For People Was A Distinct Triumph Of Sound Governmental Principle, Says Senator Robinson. Washington, October 14.—Both Senator Robinson, Democrat of Ar kansas, minority leader of the Sen ate, and Senator Simmons, Democrat of North Carolina, ranking minority member of the Finance Committee, are agreed that the defeat of the flexible provision in the pending tar iff bill was a victory for the people, for the Congress and for sound gov ernmental principle. In a statement Senator Robinson said: “The vote in the Senate repealing the flexible provision of the proposed tariff law was a distinct triumph of sound governmental principle. “The Democratic Party has never favored executive control of taxation. It has always stood for the exclusive exercise of the taxing power by the Congress and its agencies. “The constitutional provision em v powering Congress to lay and collect taxes is of great value and should not be evaded nor delegated.” Senator Simmons said: “The defeat of the so-called flexible tariff provision was a victory for the people and for the Congress. “It calls a halt upon the tendency to Thin Children NEED Scott's Emulsion concentrate to • dangerous extint fower in the hands of the Chief E«! cutive and in commissions subject u his appointment and removal. * "The Power to tax is the power to kill or keep alive. It is tradition*! with the Democratic party that tU* power can only be safely invested fa the legislative branch of the govern! ment elected by the people, each indi! vidual so elected being responsible to the people. “The amendment adopted preserves the tariff commission with all fnnj. tions to investigate and report thsfc j it had before the Tariff Act of 1922 “It only takes from the President and the tariff commission the dan. gerous power conferred upon them fa the 1922 Act, vix: to levy taxes to the extent of 60 percentum upon the peo. pie, and restore that power to the peoples’ representatives in Congress.* Three million dollars were spent by the American Red Cross last year fa work with disabled veterans of the world war, enlisted men and members of their families, according to nn^iil report made by the organization. When you think of printing thfafc of The Courier. 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