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V It is lately a. neiy bunch o£ leg islators now assembled in Kaleigh, and it will be & man with better eyes than I and one whose mind has not been taxed- with trying to remember thousands of f-olh as has mine the past two years who will be ■ able to recognize all. of them at the end of the session, even if it extends the fiye months of the last two. But here I am going to introduce some of the leaders to our readers, though some of those readers know the ag gregation better than I. Lieutenant-Governor Graham, who presides oyer the senate, is, of course, one of the best known men among the 17-1 with seats in the two houses. But if he rums for gover nor, as is very probably he will be much, better known within eighteen months, whether he wins or not. Let it suffibe here to say that Mr. Gra ham makes a fine presiding officer. By the way, I had the privilege the other day of meeting the charming Speaker R. Grady Johnson Bwgaw, N. C. i Mrs. Graham, along with Mrs. Frank Dunlap, a wife barely be yond the bridal stage, and Miss Elizabeth Murphy, cultured daugh ter of “Pete” Murphy, which “Pete” the daughter among her friends has also acquired. Somehow or other my paind had. formerly failed to register the fact that Mrs. Graham is a sister of former Lieutenant Governor Elmer Long. The young matron would make a charming “first lady” of the state, while the people might go further and not pick a better man for governor than “Sandy” Graham. And then they might. 3, am certainly glad that I SENATOR W. G. CLARK ! : • ' of Edgecombe County. hare not the responsibility cr feel ing. that my vote determine who is to be the next governor. I shall probably vote, blit J doubt if I would if I knew that my vote would be the decisive one, if “Sandy” Graham, JDlyvift -Hoey/rE. L. Doughton, Judge Joln-.Soii, etc., are to be in the race. Meet the Speaker. ' . Having known three gelations of the Johnsons, the Speaker's grandfather, Robert CM*- Jphn «>n, his father J,oah Johnson and Speaker Robert Grady Johnson himself, I feel competent, to, intro duce Speaker Johnson to my read ers. That Grady comes from his mother, who was of that prolific Duplin family. The long-A pro nunciation of the name, despite the fact that it was pronounced as it spelled Graddy from time vnuaer SEN. HARRiSS NEWMAN Wilmington, N.. C. morial, is on the point of prevailing throughout the state. I know as well as if I had been there and heard it pronounced that the pro nunciation wu3 -‘Graddv” when the family furnished, the lone martyr to the Patriotic cause at Moore’s Greek Bridge 159 years ago next month. I have seen it written with the two d’s. iij_ old Sampson coupty records, where the pensman spelled the name as it sounded to him. It should he remembered, in this con nection, that the double-consonant device invented by an early English poet in order to designate, the length of the preceding vowel did not extend to the. Irish language. But we have about heard the last of the “Graduy” pronunciation. VICTOR S. BRYANT Durham County Representative Anyway, Speaker - Johnson is ; making a good- presiding officer. He ; was very generous to his defeated c opponents in- the race for the speak- - ; ership, -and has.-been happy in the choice ^ of other chairmen of impor tant committees. The President Protera • of the Senate. Over inr the senate chamber, Paul : Grady, Johnston county senator, - but of the same old Duplinr Wayne Grady stock, is the president pro tempore. Senator Grady has served : Johnston county several times as representative and senator. His se lection for his present place of dis tinction may furnish the urge for au announcement, one of these days, o£ hjk Candidaey for lieutenaRt governor. -. Chairmen of the four Big Committees. In modern legislatures the chair manships of the committees on Fi nance *pd Appropriations ; are among the most important positions in the law-making bodies. Senator Harriss Hewman of Wil mington was picked for the chair manship of the senate finance com mittee. Mr. Newman, an able law yer and legislator, comes from just about tie oldest Jewish family in North Carolina, the Newmans and their kinsmen the Bears having REP. R. GREGG CHERRY of Gaston County. come from Bavaria to the City by the Sea several generations ago. He is a genial gentleman. If he and his committee find, any easy way to finance the business and benevolence of the state, he should become Horth Carolina’s first Jewish governor. He is a graduate-' of. Iriflity. College (now Duke University!, hut took his law course at U. K. C. Over in the House, Representative Gregg Cherry holds the chair manship of the finance committee. He has long been prominent in American Legion circles, once state commander. If it should be he and his committee that find that easy and satisfactory-to-everybody way of financing the state’s program, he SENATOR U. L. SPENCE Carthage, N. C. World-War to occupy the guberna should be the first soldier of the torial chair—and,; by the way, it is thought the; gubernatorial bee is buzzing about Tiis: bonnet., Chair man . Cherry comes from ‘ Gaston county. Senator Lee Gro.vely is chairman of the senate Appropriations com mittee;. Victor Bryant, of the House committee. If the finance commit tees will only discover easy sources of money and plenty of it, these gentlemen and their committees can have a picnic of a time. All. they will have to do in that case is to suggest to their respective house the amounts asked for by the differ ent departments and institutions. Git the other innJ. vdthT's^T fimncing, th lr-> become a man-size job. It is easy fa divide funds when there is enough for ad, hut a tick liflh undertaking to appropriate funds satisfaeioii'y -rher all must fhH short of their desires. But fortunately for them, the budget commission, hea<M by our sensible governor, has jus' aha.it marked out * the hoped-for doth into patterns that may when stymied into trous ers for the solicitous and needy de partments aua 'U:. -.ltiiiions seem more like kneeparus ^uan full length. trousers m will be just about as long as tub cloth +o be pro vided will afford. All four of tfic ■ gentlemen were opposed, to the sales tax in 1931, if I remember com.dly, as was Speaker Joluuor ( believe. They will, be smart if dm; cm find the money and foot the hills fhe next biennium wither! r?h o tax. But there is an iudiranou tbf-t the stub born champions of "he two warring factions in Id 1 lim largely changed side^. Mr. Gravely cc.ucs from the Xash v- £AUSfE' t*^ACHERN Hoke County Representative, side of Rocky Mount, and Mr. Bryant from D- -bain. Senator Gravely has formerly proven him self one of tbe sti ng men of earlier senates, while M.. iSry ant’s ability has, been prove,r 'ti ihe in u e. It may surprise ma~v of cur readers in, the eastern s«-r'oc to 'earn that the father of Mr. Pry aur, the senior Victor Bryant, .m' deceased, began his career right o-wn hero at Salem* burg as a teacher ,n the Salem high school of that cay, of which school Marion ButW -ms pnr ipal. My own brother ■ a stuJcrt under Victor Bryant, Sr., ai l admired • SEN. DALTON . Spartfj .. (•> him very mueK ti'i -was a teacher, and beroe « *' • lawyer. He- eh’. ' -V0[m of the well know- R h. it Bryant. Washington newspaper 1;' ”er/' n dent. You will rote ilia- R ' Bryant («Re.l flack”J mver ^ ;; ties the. ability 0/ ex-Seuatri- | ler—the Bryar.ts .e&ll,v K'J (Continud On P^o -«'vr,)
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