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THE STATE’S VOICE o. J. PETERSON, Editor and Publisher Published Twice • Month at Punn, N. C. FOR STATE-WIDE CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION PRICE; |1 a Year; 3 Years 12^9 Entered at the Post office at Dunn, N. C., aa Second ■'Class Mattel. Carl Goerch is doing a fine job as radio reporter *' of the doings of the legislature. Cam Morrison’s friends and enemies together got him into a rather embarrassing position, but lie seems to have issued from.it with credit. Messrs. McDonald and Lumpkin are making a gallant fight for their substitute for the'sales tax, (but the odds seem greatly against them. - _ the illness of 94-year old Oliver Wendell Holmes probably means the end of a most useful _ and honorable career. As a justice of the supreme court his record was most admirable. Eight years ago to-night the biggest snow cen tral North Carolina probably saw within a half century fell. The writer had never seen a snow of half the depth of that March 2 one of 1927/ March seems to have come in rather lamblike. f.But if the-March lamb is no better prophet than the February groundhog, perhaps we shall not see the March lion at all. Mr. Groundhog was reversed both last year and this. Dunn’s former police chief is making-quite a - useful legislator. The Bladen Journal missed its mark when it labeled him as a joke. Mr. Page seems to hold the respect of the legislators to a large extent. Two great groups of North Carolina people de serve consideration before any salaries of $1,500 or more are increased—the poor tax-payers and the thousands of state employees who are getting too little to supply the necessities of life. Give the Morgan ton asylum more money and conditions will doubtless quickly improve. It is ha,rd to make brick without straw, but not so hard as to keep a.'building warm and tables sup* plied without money to buy coal and food. Id will be the legislators’ own fault if they, have to work a month or two for nothing. That is their concern, but all those thousands of dol lars going to clerks, pages, etc., is a matter of state concern. • Every day lost through lagging costs the state hundreds of dollars. ... The increased acreage of tobacco seems to have been determined upon by the AAA with a view to doing justice to those former tobacco growers wh<5 did not receive a square deal last year. Editor ,W. C. Manning of the Williamston Enterprise. deserves credit for his manly and outspoken championship of the underdog tobacco grower. The President hardly realizes that relief jobs at $50 a month would be considered a bonanza. by tens of thousands of laborers. Areas in North Carolina as large as a New England state have scarcely a union employee in them. In such areas farm labor1 at a dollar a day is considered high wages. Senator Reynolds seems to have realized that his vote against the Roosevelt plan to make relief work wages $50 a month instead of on a par with prevailing union wages in each community has more ill consequences than he formerly dreamed of. The increased cost would be sufficient to.al-. most pay the bonus, for instance, that the senator, is anxious to have paid. It should take only a few minutes to dispose of the Hill bill if the Senator wants a quiet consid-. eration of it. Doubtless every senator is ready to vote on it at the first opportunity. But a motion to table would be the easiest route. It seems to be doomed, and the sooner it is killed and buried, the sooner the general assembly can proceed with its real business. rAn increase in the prison population of the state qi over three hundred within the last few weeks is a woeful commentary upon moral conditions in. North -Carolina. 8,363 was reported February <28 as the total number in the prison department’s care.. Yet there are probably a thousand others in the state under restraint of city and town gov ernments* Almost any price can be -afforded to change conditions which result in such an expense fif human and monetary values. •' -;'i * .. v - * v v v • XtxOfc * .V£- •*** -V. The School Series Etid*~y ; A Challenge, y I had no idea that I was in for such a long series of articles when I wrote the first one on the Problems of the Schools. For three issues 1 sought an end for them, but when I would sit down to the typewriter a rush of new ideas would come and force a stop before the completion of the discussion. ^ r ‘ Thus they have been written. Not a note ; no planning, but all of largely spontaneous composi tion. Under such circumstances, it would not be surprising if the continuity and coherency are somewhat faulty. On the other hand, it will be surprising to the reader to find the degree of those two qualities that does exist. The determination to end the discussion this issue had two unfortunate results. It caused, the article to b,e too long, and caused a failure to dis cuss the matter of vocational and health educa- • tion in a worthy manner. T'he article is long, but the most important of; the series. In fact, I doubt if I have ever writ ten an article dealing with more important sub ject matter. You are challenged to read at leasts the matter on the first page of the paper. You - will agree heartily or disagree with equal ardor. The strength of this discussion is greatly, in creased by the supplementary article furnished by Attorney Chas. G. Rose, former president of the North Carolina Bar Association. The two articles supplement each other as perfectly as if the ' two writers had collaborated upon them. It is the loss of the subscriber who fails to read*, the dual discussion of moral education. y , The reception of the series has been gratifying. Though, the articles -have been long, some have read them in full, and it is they who are most ap preciative. As .1 stated in the first article, I am no school administrator but a teacher, and from the teacher’s standpoint, the articles have been written. . , “Educational Articles Should Be Published ' In Book Form.” The following letter from Col. Terry Lyon of Fayetteville, among numerous other written and oral' commendations," is much appreciated and is printed here as aft, indication- of. the appreciation with which the school articles have been received , by many intelligent readers. Col. Lyon writes aft follows: “Dear Mr. Peterson: “I wish a way could be found whereby your articles on “Education" could be published in book form and this book placed in the hands of every teacher in North Carolina., “I have read those articles with interest and with an abiding conviction that you know where of you speak. Your friend, ' „' TERRY A. LYON. Fayetteville, February 18, 1935. - - Where Bigger Pay Is Needed. Those Morganton nurses seem to have picked an envoy extraordinary to plead their case before the general assembly. Miss Davis has done a service to the whole state in turning the minds _ of the people and of the legislators to the need of greater support for the state’s humbler em ployees. Miss Davis’s irruption came just when an agitation had started to increase the salaries of solicitors, for instance. It is passing strange now sympatnetic legislatures can Decome over me cutting of pay for men who get thousands of dol lars for comparatively light and pleasant tasks while they can be .so unmindful of the state’s servants who work long hours for a minimum of : pay. It will be an outright shame for the legis lature to raise the salary of any man or woman . now getting as much as $2,000 a year before‘a decent living wjage is provided for the thousands of men and women who would feel happy to re ceive compensations to match some Of the in creases in salaries proposed for department heads; solicitors, professors, etc. An Unusual War Record. The editor would here express a word of sym pathy for Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Williams in the death of the second of their gallant sons. Four years ago Commander Louis Hicks Wij*_ liams, who served gallantly in the World War, passed. A few days ago Major Marshall Wil-/' liams, Jr., also closed his career*. It was remark able that three of the Williams sons should rise to rank in the war and all without having pre viously studied at military schools. The third is Captain Rowland Williams of Dunn. A fourth son, Virginius, was a gunman in the navy but did not see service abroad. I doUbt if the fain-, fly’s war record can be surpassed m the state. . - A Gratifying Showing. Commissioner A. L, Fletcher of the Depart ment of Labor should feel gratified at the results achieved by his department within two years. The first inspection of factories, under his jurisdiction resulted in the;discovery of 2,154 violations of safety and sanitary and other laws and regula tions. The second inspection discovered only 1,110 such violations,-and the corrections had been secured with- scarcely any litigation. Another inspection is now in progress and the indications are that the total number of violations of safety and sanitary, regulations, from such a thing as a wet or slippery floor up, will reach no greater, number than 600. Commissioner Fletcher reports that there is virtually no attempt or dis position to violate, the child labor regulations of the codes. . ‘Must Another Law.” The drivers'” licenser k£w, if duly administered, is likely to cut deeply irito the gasoline tax fund. A family car that is usually driven by any of sev eral members of the family will probably be driven less when each member has to pay a li cense fee. But with 10,000 regular drivers of .cars how is any enforcement to be secured ? Prob ably the number of people who occasionally drive cars reaches 25,000, instead of just 10,000. It looks like just “another law”—an aggravation and an expense to the people who try to. abide by the laws and a further opportunity to educate more law-violators.. The license law will actually be harder to enforce completely than the prohibi tion law. Certainly every liquor car can get by as easily with an unlicensed driver as with its load of liquor. And so with all other cars. It does seem that as much wood as there is in 'Burke county and as many people as have been supported at public expense, enough wood could have been cpt and hauled-ta the asylum in Mor ganton to keep the building, warm if cash could not be secured to buy Sufficient coal. How to Get Rid of die Gold Problem. JThe value of gold is largely a fictional value due to its use-as money. If the bondholders of the nations insist upon- payftnfent1 in goldj the na tions might solve two problems by demonetizing gold and letting the-bondholders have it. It wouldn't be very long before they would be will ing to take a dollar based upon commodity values for the weight of an old "dollar in gold. The world does not have to-use gold as money. The arts and crafts do not demand at.par value anything like the amount of gold in existence. Accord ingly, gold might be expected to follow the suit of silver when it was so. generally ^demonetized. New York’s Mayor Gets Results Faced with Mayor LaGuardia’s determination to give the city cheaper power, even if it meant the construction of- cityowned plants, the Con solidated Gas system of New York now offers to the federal and city governments a schedule of electric rates so radically cut that municipal plants coull hardly hope to compete. With slashes in some cases of 40 per cent, an average of 25, the cleaver rate reductions would chop something like $150,000 a year off federal light and power bills, $2,500,000 off city bills. The action of Consolidated Gas presents the possibility of a new kindp of “yardstick.” Whereas the original fed eral government concept was to show how cheaply power could be produced and distributed and thus, force private companies into line, it now seems possible to impress private system* with the advantage of making their own yard sticks in their own yards, before the government arrives on the scene.—Christian Science Monitor. BLIND TOM (Continual from Page Three) After a long career, Blind-Tom-died in Hobo ken, June 13, 1908. Scientists have been alto gether unsuccessful in providing explanation for Blind Tom. He was a freak of nature, like Sia mese twins and two-headed calves. Henry Watterson, one-time noted editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, ended a tribute ^to-Blind Tom in these words: "What was he? Whence came he? Was he tbe'rrince of the fairy tale held by the wicked Enchantress; nor any beauty—not even the Heaven-born Maid of,Mdody—rto release him? Blind, deformed, and black—as black even as Erebus—idiocy, the idiocy- of perpetual frenzy, the-sole companion of his waking visions and hi* dreams—whence came he wha| was he> an<* wherefore ?,,-^-Thfc„ Ambassador, . .A • \ t ii . OP--'
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