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The Courier Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer, Publisher and Business Manager. Harriette Hammer Walker, Editor Wm. C. Hammer Estate, Owner. Thursday, March 23, 1933 Entered as second class mail matter in the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C. WHERE ARE WE GOING? The state legislative bodies have now been in session for 3 months. In looking over their achievements, it is difficult to really summarize just what they have done. A dif ficult problem has been before these men, and one woman, many prob lems. These problems have been so staggering that the solans have somewhat shifted from one foot to the other, marking time, wondering just what to do while important, committees worked and worked hard. But what have these committees ac complished? Nothing, as yet cer tainly, nor they have arrived at real conclusions. A week ago the Governor, who for many weeks before he assumed the highest office that the people of North Carolina could give him, studied government — government from many angles, addressed the joint assemblies. He discussed taxa tions—education and matters of real importance, stating that he saw no way out of levying a sales tax of some sort. Before and since that time, legislators have proposed, expounded, orated at length, and now a bill is about to become a law that will in no wise be adequate. Suppose this Bowie-Cherry bill passes—it will yet be necessary to enact some form of sales tax. Few people actually favor a sales tax, but if a sales tax is going to be the only solution to the problem, why let these men stay on in Raleigh away from their own business and getting nowhere with the state’s business? Would it not be better to enact some sort of legislation that called for a few ob vious matters and grant such au thority to the Governor as would enable him to decide upon some thing for the good of the state as a whole? Objection to this .there will be, and it is far from ideal, but if these legislators have been there this long and cannot agree upon anything de finite concerning the matters of real importance, then will they ever for get their personal differences that have sprung up and the personal grudges of their “backers” and real ly pass any valuable legislation ? It will doubtless be said that the Governor will, if granted this power, pick his advisors. It is to be hoped that he would and that he would have sufficient wisdom to ^pick in ' formed men—not lobbyists who are fighting to keep the butter and . brown sugar too on their bread—and keep the slice of bread thick as well. If the Governor should have this poyer, likewise this stupendous responsibility resting upon his shoulders, would he do what the Legislature has not done? Would he, when considering the educational problem, not send for the head of the educational .system, hear him through and weigh his points? The head of the educational department knows better the inside workings of his office than any legislator who has spent six weeks in Raleigh this winter—or any other winter, for that matter. He would have his pet schemes and plans, but Governor Ehringhaus realizes the frailties of human beings and is perfectly cap able of allowing for pet plans. This is no time for pets. Then, when the highway system came up to be settled, why not hear Mr. Jeffress on the suject? Not hear hipi out to cast stones at him as a high priced, man doing a high priced job—hear his working plans and let them stand or fall upon their own inerits, considering all the time that we have builded a mighty system of roads in North Carolina, and now that we have them, it is false economy to allow them to de teriorate. Perhaps it would be folly to build new roads at the present Mr. Jeffress with his discerning mind, does not advocate this plan. But let him tell the Governor what he favors after several years of careful study and knowledge envolv ed therefrom. The Conservation and Develop ment Department, also under fire has spent more money in the past than will be spent in the future. Colonel Harrelson does not hold out for en larging: the department under the present financial conditions. But, does it make sense to move to abolish such a department when the head knows that there are latent possibi lities in North Carolina’s forests that, . with a proper program of -re forestation, would be entirely ade quate to set the' state’s debt out of the red? This is, a workable .pro gram and should he considered—-es pecially since it would not entail ex tra cost to the taxpayers.. Another question that Cel. Harrelson is thoroughly informed upon is the proposed plan to develop the Ten nessee Basin. TTp*, as has already been pointpd put in ^ previous issue of The Coulter, would fcjlpy knitting home to finish knitting and purling—think about it. The Gover nor was the choice of a majority of the people of North Carolina under obligations to the little man wlio voted for him as much as he is to “big interests.” If he fails the com mon people who elected him to his high office, he is done for political ly. Those who know Governor Ehringhaus well, know he is true to his convictions—beyond reproach Many legislators are in the assembly this year to get across a definitf piece of legislation and they are ut terly at the mercy of lobbyists— whether they themselves are under control of lobbyists or not, they are forced to work shoulder to shoulder with men who are controlled—for they are there. It looks like a losing fight from the standpoint of what if best for the little man. If we be lieve in our Governor, and we must if we stand as a state, let’s give him some rein and see what he car. do for us while the legislators go home and tend their craps. NECESSITY KNOWS NO LAW With the advent of spring comes to mind the trite saying “Necessity knows no law.” During the past four years, when money has been scarce, and prices for farm products and wages low, many needed repairs and improvements have gone undone. But there comes a repairing, building and buying time. Gardening time is here and those who have not, for many years, had a home garden are now preparing for one, and tools are need ed. People have been wearing out old clothing instead of buying new; hous es have not had their usual coats of paint every two or three years. The day of replacements, buying, building and necessities of life and livelihood is “just around the comer,” which is not a mythical comer, like the one pointed out by the outgoing President, but one in reality. While it is not probable that there will be an era of extravagant trading, buying and spending, it is likely that practises of by gone days will begin in the near future. The Open Forum ENGLISH DISCUSSES WORK OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE Editor of Courier: I regret very much that I was un able to attend the Citizen’s and Tax payer’s mass meeting held at Ashe boro Saturday afternoon as I was in hearty accord with such a movement. Be assured that I will be at Farmer Friday night, if possible, but it seems now that it will be impossible. Cer tainly a common benefit is going to be derived from these meetings that are being held in various sections of the State, not only will your Representa tives in the various lawmaking bod ids realize more profoundly the needs of the Taxpayers, but will be more responsive to their desires and der mand for relief and reduced cost ot Government. Much has been said about some Legislation that would benefit the poor Man, but if something has not been done for the poor Man and Farmers this year in the General As sembly, I do not think such is pos sible; in fact, a great number of peo ple say that so much relief has been given to Taxpayers that the State In stitutions are seriously endangered by a shortage of funds for the next biennium, howrever, I feel that the present deplorable conditions in this Country demand that we keep our heads on our shoulders and feet on the ground and feed the Government Em ployees out of the same spoon that we Taxpayers have to eat from in this day of depleted savings and re duced earnings. Much criticism has already been hurled at we Members in the House that voted for that much reduced ap oropriation Bill that cut the Appro priation for the biennium of 1933-34 from eighty three million to the Cher ry substitute of seventy three million, :n an effort to avoid the odious and >bnoxious sales tax. Personally, I \ave no apology to make to anyone for voting for these drastic cuts. I feel as kindly towards Schools, chari Lable and correctional Institutions and -mod roads as anyone. We are proud ->f these Institutions and they must be preserved, but in this crisis, emer gency measures have to fee adopted tnd they, like we individuals—will have to make their spendings fit a smaller pocket book. I would not, in the least, impugn the motives of any one of those who voted for the higher Appropriation Bill—they at the same time knowing without a doubt, it meant a Sales Tax; but if I know the mandate and sentiments of the people, it is certainly less spending and no additional taxes. ..With this in mind, the majority of the Assembly have re sponded to the challenge. Firsts the 15c Advalorem tax was removed, thus eliminating all State Taxes on land. Second,—The Revaluation Act was passed by the House and will undoubtedly be passed by the Senate which makes unlimited revaluation mandatory. Third, .a Bill was passed to allow Counties and Towns to re fund tax. saleB certificates and pro vides that back taxes from' 1927 to 1931 exclusive of interest end penal ties be paid by installments cover ing a period not to exceed five years. Fourth, also soother Lew that will be of greet relief to Farmers end prevent tbs extortionate Tax, Bales cost, is the state wide Bill providing for in «f taxes. Fifth, sd of interest to Is the one abolishing de _ to secure unpaid of purchase price of land. Oyer 1100 Bills have been intro in the House alone; some fool ish which never get cut of Commit and others with merit which have enacted into law. The first one i'y : vi' .. Wife jfo • - < passed was an anti-lobbying Bill to offer protection from the high pow ered Lobbyist, but which has availed little. Quite a goodly number of farm bills have been passed regard iny certifying of seeds, stricter fertiliser standards and closer inspection and ; bill has been introduced to coordinat :he agricultural activities of th< Itate, with those of State College. Several consolidations and econo nies have been affected in movinr the personal department to the bud get bureau, consolidating the pr.'soi lepartment with highway department transferring highway patrol to de partment of Revenue, abolishing cor poration commission and creating : utility comnr'ssion, limiting new high way construction for two years anc abolished executive Council. Als< some real constructive emerge nc Banking Laws were rushed througl which will strengthen our presen State Banking Laws. Other Laws passed of special inter , est to Randolph, of course is the Pr! mary Law, repeal of Absentee hallo and State taking over 30 day prisor ers. Many other laws have been ir troduced and passed wnich vitall; concern the people of Randolph bu‘ time and space will not permit. How ever in this connection wish to say but with regret, that it is very inter esting and disgusting to note hov certain Daily newspapers are trynv to whip hack into line with undue pub licity and editorials, those Member that voted for the economy bills, think the readers of our daily paper are entitled to the facts and not bl ased and prejudiced opinions. In conclusion will state that if an of the three proposed forms of Rev enue producing bills have to be adop ted as a last resort on account of ; Senate block or to save our Inst'tu tions and credit of State, then I wi! support that form which will fall th> least heavy on the poor and on th> necessities of life. N. C. ENGLISH, Member House of Representatives ENDORSES FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COVERAGE In regard to the Fanner’s Mutua' Fire Insurance Association, I wish t< put a strong second to what D. J Kemp has said. It’s about all th> insurance that is in reach of the farm er. I dropped out three years age on account of several old building.' being insured entirely to high and a few other reasons, but I have not felt good about the matter during that time. I want some protection in the case of fire and also feel it’s our duty to help each other in the case of fire or other losses. I don’t think we can go about it in any better way than this association offers. I think we have all learned enough about this business that the way to keep it go ing is to stay with and not leave it I think our officers are trying to do their best in the matter. If we will all; pull together it will only be a short while till it will be going good , and people will want to join rather | than leave. I feel it’s a real asset to , Randolph county and I am willing to do my part to keep it going. N. H. PREVOST. Jackson Creek, N. C., March 18, 1933. With Other Editors MR. DANIELS—AMBASSADOR People are asking, what sort of an ambassador will Josephus Daniels make? While that remains to be seen, our own opinion, based.upon a pretty good knowledge of the man, s that he will make a very good diplomatic representative, prove a most creditable ambassador and help to maintain good will and helpful relations between Mexico and the United States. We would be sur prised if he were to do anything to the contrary while at the Mexican capital.—Salisbury Post. AN IMPORTANT SIGN One of the most encouraging of the noted signs of improvement in the times is the increase of adver tising in daily newspapers. The As sociated Press did well to mention this in its dispatches as to the re action of the country to the moves President Roosevelt and Congress are making to solve the economic prob lems of this country. The increased use of advertising space reflects the confidence of merchants that buying power is now definitely on the up grade because of the rise already noted in commodity prices, because of the prospect of more jobs and, above all, because people no longer are in the grip of a panic fear which makes them hoard instead of buying what they want and even need. “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at its flood, leads on to for tune.” The tide has ceased ebbing, it has started on the flood movement and the merchants who take it at the start by advertising are going to profit most from the change of con ditions.—Anderson (S. C.) Times . JACKSON CREEK NEWS ' J- R. Mitchell, who owns the Tip Top lodge in western Randolph, has gone in the poultry business exten sively this year. He has a large peach orchard which is old enough to pro duce fruit, also a rare collection of shrubbery and flowers, which is a place of beauty at all times. But in a few weeks when the flowers get in bloom it will be a place of rare beau ty. Everything on this place is kept in apple pie order by his efficient manager, R. J. Wood, and a «««» force of workers. Lee Ward and Miss Nora Carroll were married recently. Mr. Ward is d prosperous farmer, a member of the well known Ward and Harris fam ilies of Davidson and Randolph coun ties, his mother before marriage be ing Mias Harris. Mrs. Ward is a public school teacher and n lady of rare attainment, a daughter of John Carroll, a well to do citixen of the Denton section. They win make their home at Mr! Ward’s farm, the old Ward homestead a few miles north of Denton. to ^Marquette This Marquette memorial, by Henry Hering, sculptor, was recently erected In Marquette park, Gary, Ind., In honor of Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit priest and friend of the American Indians and a companion of the French ex plorer, Loui/i Joliet. fAXING MUNICIPAL UTILITIES The decline in income from taxation nd the search for new sources of rovemrhental revenue, has caused a lumber of states to turn their eyes •oward mun'cipally owned utilities as K)tent:ai contributors to the public .reasury. In Arkansas, it is estimated that f the municipal light and water plants were taxed on the same basis is private concerns, about $220,000 a year would be obtained. In Washing ton, taxation of the city-owned light and power system in Tacoma, Seattle and other Puget Sound cities, at the same per cent of gross revenue as is now paid toy the private corporations, would produce more than $1,000,000 a year. ■poiyprecisely il gavate busi ■§£ To per fc!tir^dxampU, UpK over-taxing e in the state, 'discrimination, f to watch the For a great many years there have been sporadic efforts to levy taxes against governmental businesses, and it may be that the tenseness of the tax problem ft present will be the de ciding i of the pi be little perties when ing erally. this field business^ thesam ness of mit a to go tax-! all tax] It is a It will be So far as the justice is concerned, there can Government pro are taxfree | a non-profit-mak > the public gen 1 outside ng progress' of the movement. Those who are against it have hard arguments to overcome—if municipal utilities are unable to compete with private utilities on an equitable basis and hold their own, it’s time the public found out about it. To tax them is simply to do the fair and reasonable thing. WORLD AFFAIRS The person who never devours av idly a local country newspaper miss es a lot. Publishers rave over atmos phere, readers of magazine stone: and of fresh-printed novels blissful ly lose themselves in regions remot< from their own reading lamp, but t< get the real flavor of a community take their local paper. Ads, crops personals, locals and wisely seJectei national and international news mak< up the columns. Editorials reflec alike the editor’s reactions to com munity and world affairs. Here an some paragraphs from, a paper pub lished in one of the well-known towm of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia: Mr. President-elect, when you haw taken your oath on the Capitol steps when the blare and crash of Inaugura are hushed, when quiet fills the Whiti House and sit facing such opportund ty as kings nor emperors have known these will stand before you pleading A world shuddering at the horroi of impending war when time has no yet dulled its agony from anothei war; A world in which suspicion, fear hatred one nation of another are fore ing mankind to basest levels; A world bowed down because it! people rind no happiness in sucl things; A United States where millions an in want surrounded by plenty; Mr. President-elect, there are be fore you duty and opportunity .. tc serve a discouraged humanity, to re store these United States to the plane of self-enlightened leadership _ May God uphold your arms! , The tasks before President Roosi velt are such as few presidents < the United States have had to fac In an endeavor to list them the might be named as headlines: Currra cyl. budget; national debt; bank! farm relief; railways; tariff; ws debts; armaments; security. Tb great' difficulty is that these quest ions have aU been drifting or rushin to rn focal point; Take any of the* ahd the cry is for quick action. On factor bringing hope is that the no president has hack of him a unite fared. Mr. Hoover, with splendid e> ecutive ability arid with vision, faile in gaining this backing. The fable of the fanner, and his b of sticks still stands—united, together, the bundle was firm, u breakable; unbound, loose, one 1 one, contents were worthless. T1 great difficulty is that nations ha not learned this lesson of unity, U leek is among peoples as well j ’’v .! amongst a citizenry. One state of the 48 units of the United States de clared a holiday. Day by day the oth er states had to follow. The Presi dent had to declare a national bank holiday. Reactions were immediate all over the world. Suffering to gether does not yet seem to have shown its remedy; that of working to gether . . for good. WILLIAM HARLEE BRANCH APPOINTED SECRETARY William Harllee Branch, native of Polkton, has been appointed execu tive secretary of James A. Parley, Postmaster General in the Roosevelt cabinet, and the secretaryship is a very important position. Mr. Branch has been political writer on the Atl anta Journal for years, acting as Washington correspondent, of ' the Journal during congressional ses sions. He was educated at Oak Ridge. Mr. Branch one time ran a newspaper in Wadesboro. DULL HEADACHES GONE SIMPLE REMEDY DOES IT Headaches caused by oonstr'pation are gone after one dose of Adlerika. This cleans all poisons out of BOTH upper and lower bowels. Gives bet ter 9leep, ends nervousness.—Ashe boro Drug Company—In Liberty by Liberty Drug Store. _i • WILL ROGERS IS WORLD’S MOST NATURAL HUMORIST There is one thing impossible, even to the modern miracle workers of the picture studios who recreate lost worlds, phrt seas, rase mountains and destroy cities. It is impossible to re main sombre on a film that has Will Rogers in the cast. He is just that kind of a fellow. Far from be'ng a wise-cracker, Rogers keeps everyone laughing be cause he instinctively gets a humor ous slant on everything from the news of the day to the humdrum routine of work. It isn’t so much what he says, although that is plenty, but the way he says it. Paper and print can’t re produce the Rogers drawl or the sly subtle humor of the Roger’s grin. He was in particularly good form on the sets where he worked with Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Sally Ell en, Norman Foster, Louise Dresser, Frank Graven and Victor Jory on Foie Film’s all-star production “State Fair.” It is all because he was un usually satisfied with the picture and the role he plays in it- _ " He wore overalls and rough blue shirts. He puttered around/a farm yard, and he had the time of his life doing scenes with Blue Boy, 900-pdund prise hog of the picture. Humor Is Nature ' 1 On his first meeting with the giant pig, Rogers was properly impressed. “So you’re Blue Boy,” he unused. “You’re certainly some hog. When it comes to pork, there’s nothing like you even back at Washington. Well,” he added reflectively. “You and me, just a couple more hams for Holly wood.” A day or two later, Blue Boy held KILLS EVERY ITCHGERM In a few minutes after, applying Reaves Sanitary Lotion, severe itch ing stops and your tortured nerves are normal 1 Reaves Sanitary Lotion is a penetrating liquid that destroys the microscopic germs which burrow into your skin and cause so much an guish and danger of blood poisoit The next time your sldn is “burning alive" with itch, apply Reaves Sani tary Lotion. For sale by Asheboro Drug Co. and Standard Drug Store. Inc., or sent postpaid for 60c. Reaves Laboratories, Asheboro, N. CL Overcome Paine this better way WOMEN who get into a weak, run down condition can hardly expect to be free from troublesome “small symptoms." Where the trouble Is due to weak ness, Cmrdul helps women to get stronger and thus makes It easier for nature to take Its orderly course. Painful, nagging symptoms disap pear as nourishment of the body Is 'op ft ftCftM with ft bit of iwpm. |ment “Too know whore yo*M look I good," Rogers said to him sternly “right on the breakfast table, be-’ tween e couple of eggs.” Still another time, the hog refus ed to grunt for the microphone. "Hm,” murmured Will, “just as talka tive as a stock speculator before a senate investigating committee, aren’t you?” Utterly devoid of temperament, I Rogers is the screen’s perfect example 'of democracy. He never usee the j canvas chair with his name painted I on the back. He prefers perching on , boxes, stools, automobile running beards, or. If possible, corral fences. He will swap yarns by the hour with the boys on the set, but can’t be induced to talk for publication. 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