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jnirocVh., &ks*s a&am {Vc jti.-iHRi. from Pare Six) an( his 'ibil‘T v ■ rh-innon of Ctbrr Coiprtifttee*. Senator iaevu C r:.; •, f O^owan . .. j i?/Mv»*sc’!.tanve R. -L. )f / Vrr.Oii, drew the chair county, ■ of tin pt • >':nittees on Station. V-c>h are ckphble, “well founded ^t’em-n. Mr. Harris, as Everybody dioulo. la.ow but doesn't speaker J:e liouac, and oved a moJ. capable and popular prove. ,v. presidmg ,-‘i* , .. Senator IT- L. Spence is chairman f the Senate Committee on High .„yS and iteprcsmitative C. W. Tatem, of Yyrrel county, chairman 0f the House committee. Mr. Spence is ore of the twcr senators from the uie'.lo. enihitrcmg £ar nett, Moore, Randolph, and Hoke. jPe is one oi ore ablest and most .ex tipricnced men ru tne General As r senihly ouaii 1 am no+ well enough ac inted with Mr. Tatem to size him up. Senator Rivers Johnson, of JJup lin and Representative R. B. Mor phtnv, of GrJ am county, head Ju diciary No. 1. two other highly im portant committees. Rivers John sou is the orator of the senate, though it is quite unlikely tbatany occasion will arise this year topaH forth the oratory displayed .dtirtag the sales tax contest of Avas a treat during tho^e to hear Rivers lohnson. j shall huYe to size up Mr. Morj&ew &tdr; lie comes from too far weSlj fot me to have full knowledge of diis ^person ality or ability. ^ ,.t Chairman of the dSettafe Judicial Xo. 2 is Senator Horton of Chat ham. who is one of the most expe rienced mer in the legislature M will doubtless play >n important role in this session. I^^dsen^tive \Y. A. Sullivan heads the House A Country- Minded Maybe John Sprunt ffill M hot a millionaire, but conrpared_vvuth most of the inembers of the Legis lature he is a very wealthy man. Yet there is scarcely a'man in the Legislature that more definitely clings to the traditions imbred upon the farm. He sees things from the countrvmaii’s standpoint. Yet Ben ator Hill was one of the favored country bovs of a half-century ago. To be a" Hill or a Raison along the Duplin-Sampson border meant that one shared in the traditions of a prosperous past and a somewhat aristocratic tradition, and _ his mother was a Faison. Plantations Avert* large, even if they were not avhat they were before the war. Be sides, John Sprunt’s father was a physician and therefore had an in come apart from thatof the'planta tion. Yet the hoy worked and was picking cotton along with grown men when he was seven or eight years old. And the consequence of that boyhood spent on a farm is that Senator and Capitalist John Sprunt Hill looks askance at a constitu tional amendment which would give Congress the right to endpw Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of La bor, with the authority to forbid country hoys from working on the farms before they are eighteen years old. In fact, Mr. Hill feels-that he owes much of his rugged vigor and Health to those boyhood days spent largely in farm labor. But to those of us who grew up in cruder envir onments, it is hard to conceive that young John Sprunt knew much about the real hardships and priva tions of the farm life of fifty .to sixty years ago. When I fell in with bim on the train from Raleigh to Goldsboro, he returning from the l Diversity and I frotn Wake For ost, forty-five years ago, fie seemed a very sophisticated and fortunate joiith. Yet he tells me that he sold suits at Chapel Hill to help pay his "ay> and that good suit he had on when I first met him ypas probably purchased from the profits pf others for other University boys. That Mr. Hill eotild see' »nd im prove such a,n opportunity to make pohey. at collie, indicates that hiis initiative early flowered-—an initia tive and enterprise that, has neyer failed him. Even when he iqet the •millionaire Sage, by mere chance, when on poverty row in Few York, he knew how to win the friendship of the old gentleman. It has been several years since I heard him tell about that acquaintance, but it oc curs to me that that friendship was instrumental in enabling Mr. Hill to return to Forth Carolina with quite a nest-egg. Well, Mr. Hill is chairman of the SENATOR lift Dnnn. N. C. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, and those are two matters 'that he knows as much about as anybody in the General Assembly, 1 grieSfe. 'But that. “currency” |rart intist have been attached to the name of the committee away back when 'the State and its banks ac tually issued currency. I hardly see what the North Carolina Legis lature can do about currency in these latter days—except to provide for its collection arid spending. W. L. Lumpkin, recent candidate for the speakership, and one of the finest young fellows in the house, is chairman of the HouSe committee on Banking arid Currency. ColumbUs has grit into the way of sending Walter H, Powel to the senate when its turn in the district comes. He is there this year and is head of the Committee on Insur ance, a matter that grows more and more important as the years pass. The matter of automdbile insurance alone is of more moment than all the phases of insurance were 25 years ago. Young E. N. Gardner, hailing from the former governor’s couuty of Cleveland, and a promis iri£ young man, is the chairman of the House Insurance committee. Another committee wnose out ness has become magnified is that Of Public Welfare. Senator E. F. Griffin, of -Franklin, whom I con sider one of the finest personalities in either body, is chairman of that comiinttee in the senate; "while t c one lady member of the, house is chairman of the corresponding com mittee in that body. . If Senator W. L. Ferrell, chair man of the Senate Committee on Propositions and Grievances and Laurie McEachern (Ma-ke-hern, with the accent oh the ke and the hern pronounced nasally) as chair man of the house committee actually satisfactorily solve all ^proposi tions and smooth out all the griev ances, they, will have a busy session. Mr. McEachern, like Mr. Lump kin, was an unsuccessful candidate for the speakership, hut drew this important chairmanship from the good graces of the generous victor. Mr. McEachern was born in Geor gia, in which state his father wasi ’for years engaged in the turpentine business. But the, family got back to the <Mhome'commtnrity in what is now Hoke county. He is one of the imestAfind 'df fellows and it will not%e%11‘prigiuu to see him ttfriLUD quarter of the l&th century, Dennis Paschkl Warren of Mocksville, Da yie county, picked up bag and bag gage and moved to thetstate of Mis sissippi. His son William Martin was an eleven-year old lad. He grew up and reared his own family at Olive Branch, Miss. Dalton, a sop of the Mocksville lad, was educated at the ’University of Mississippi, Grandson of Che State *N6w a State Senator. About the beginning of the last W. I. FARRELL dft Montgomery Cbunty. taught schbol in his native state, represented ‘his ''county in the Mis sissippi legislature two terms, and then came back to his grandfather’s ‘state as principal of the Sparta school. But it wasn’t long before he turned his attention to the mer cantile business. Mrs. Warren’, however, continued to teach and is at present 4 member of the Sparta school faculty. dust ten years after the return of the "grandson to his ancestral state he was elected senator from bis dis trict, and is possibly the only man in the present legislature who has served as a law-maker in two states. Mr. Warren is still youthful in appearance, a man of fine person ality, and, located in Sparta where he may have the tuition of both the Doughtons in the political game, it will not be surprising if Mr. War ren becomes quite a well known per sonage in political circles in North Carolina* That Paschal in his grandfather s name suggests that the grandson of the exile might find a host of distant relatives of - the Paschal strain in Chatham, Randolph, and Guilford. A Chatham Youngster Repre sents Montgomery. It was only eight or ten years ago that Ihrie Farrell was attending a dental college in Atlanta. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kobt. Farrell of Pittsboro. On graduating, he began practice over in Montgomery and had soon annexed one of the fine Montgomery girls as a bride. As a representative of the State Depart ment of Health in school dental Work, he had an opportunity to ex tend his acquaintance throughout Montgomery county. Knowing Ihrie Farrell for ten years, I feel that Montgomery did no had day a work in choosing him to represent the county in the legislature. He is a member of the following commit tees: Counties, Cities, arid-Towns; Banking; Constitutional Amend ments; Health; Public Welfare; and Libraries. As a stopping point for this issue, I will introduce you to my next door neighbor, Senator P. A. Lee, of Harnett. Lees are numerous in tpper Sampson, and lower Harnett Too. Early To J^ecuie Question of Liquor Control (Continued fron ptfg%rfiv^XS Don’t *Be in a HuSJey. Let’s not be in too big a Lurry,., Let’s -give all tbe experimenting States an opportunity to discover, a • panacea if such is discoverable. It will be time enough then to. swap a poorly enforced prohibition law- for the successful scheme, and lots of us who still hold prohibition to be the Only, feasible scheme of. minimiz ing the liquor evil will join in the crusade for the change. But, f dr oiie, I shall not favor the State’s jump ing out of the frying pan into the firq. . Wait two years, gentlemen, and in the meantime let’s see how well 1STdrth. Carolina can enforce her sov- * ereign decree that 'liquor shall not be tdld in her borders. If'we'can not have enforcement of one decree, tbei*e is little reason to believe we cah have the effective enforcement of another. . Sut iftie revenue! Let the-devil keep the revenue. It is his business and to him belongs the profit. A& & citizen of Jsprlh Carolina I do pot waht her to 'dirty her 'hands-’with any such source of income. Cameron Declaries Capitalism and Industry are Finally face to F$de Defroit, %n- a speeclj 011 “liulhe’y Wl Wfiagdhieiit” tonight, William J. Cameron, of the Ford Mo tor Company,asserted that capitalism and industry “have reached the part ing of the ways.” - “At last two opposed system -of bu siness'“confront each other this country,” Cameron ..said. .. ifii.tm ge ment economy • is taking the place, of the did'capitalistic economy: Money ihanagememt is Wing challenged by engineering juauagenitbt. It is one of the niost significant movements of the ■centhry because of its unlimited .social import.” Cgmeron said1 that “exposing and denouncing the abuses, of capitalism is .the only way many persons can make , tbeir contribution toward a better world,” and he added that “by ‘capi talism’ In its common current use Is meant the control of any human inter est by money for the sake'of money. “Such control, everyone is agreed, is socially unintelligent and is mater ially disastrous because it is morally wrong,” . Eemarking that interest “as a rec-. ognized and- respectable means. of gain was bootlegged into decent busi ness practice only 400 years ago, Cameron said--industry suffers great disadvantage under “financial- .^over lordship.” “Even business cannot serve - two masters,” he continued- “it willserve either-the production of . dividends or the ".production, of goods, but hardlj both. The thought that dividends" )nay be only a by-product of business-is ut terly fantastic to the professionals fin ancial mind.” Clyde Hoey Adjudged In Gubernatorial Race. The writer saw Clyde Hoey last week arid was convinced by a short interview that Mr. Hoey is in the race for the governorship. It has been assumed thatjf either Hoey or Doughton, or both, should enter the field the supposedly smaller .fry would shy off*-Yet the indications are that the field will be full of candidates. “Sapdy” Graham is al most sure, I believe, to be a candi date. __ and Johnston. Senator Lee was born in the Johnston area but has lived practically all his mature life in Ihinn, where he is a popular druggist. With him and the veteran U. L. Spence representing this dis trict in the senate, its interests should not suffer. . , - ..
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