FRENCH BROAD HUSTLER, HENBERSONYJLLE, N. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1919,
French Broad Hustler
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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1919.
The Legislaiure did not forget the!
Confederate soldiers. It founi a way
to increase their pensions and this
year's Christmas gift will represent
more evidence of appreciation for the
service rendered from sixty-one to
sixty-five than has ever been present
ed before. Surviving sons of the six
ties received from the State treasury
last year, all told, the sum of $525,
JOOO. The recent General Assembly de
cided to bring it up to $700,000. They
:hey ,
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ought to have a million. 1 4 ' :
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Candidates for Governor are bobb
ing up thick and fast lately, while the
office of Lieutenant Governor is not
likely to go begging. For the office of
Governor, Mr. Cameron Morrison, ct
Charlotte, was the first to break the
news to the folks in a public announce
ment. Next came Hon. R. N. Page
and now comes the news that the Hon
orable Rufus A . Doughton, the vete
ran representative from Allegheny, la
almost pursuaded to toss his hat into
the ring. He is a former Lieutenant
Governor and a former Speaker of the
House. Lieutenant Governor Gar fi
ner will also try his hand in the skir
mish. May the best man carry jff the
prize,
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The Victory Liberty loan will be of
fered to the 'people of the Country
thirty days hence. The campaign is
scheduled to start April 21, and close
on Saturday, May 10. Five billion
dollars will be asked for and the
bonds are to draw four and a quarter
percent payable semi-annually. The
new loan will take the form of notes
maturing in five years and the people
are urged to give the proposition
their heartiest support. The expens
es incident to the great victory ac
hieved were very great and must be
adjusted. It is costing a vast sua or
money to bring the boys home and
those who did not fight are expected
to pay the bill. Of course they are
going to do it.
THE GOVERNOR SCORED
S03IE POINTS.
The General Assembly incorporated
a number of Governor Bickett's re
commemdations into law and ignoreC
others His proposition to erect a new
building for the Department of Agri
culture on the campus of tho Xorta
Carolina College of Agriculture ana
Engineering was turned do"vn fiat.
Likewise his idea of a highway meas
ure. ' The Agricultural Department
baiilding is to l builied'n fia pres
ent site in the city of Ralegh, ami .
compromise roil bill as agr-.ed' np.-ti
Which pryrld4 .for a 'State' 17m
with optional ro y aid. Tnt cv
ernor was in &f aM-ia iLe
counties to par u.i-f curia of the cost
in the State-wid ytm of foau .
posed and th H )i- of RpreaffHta
. tives voted with h.ii Th? . at
balked, however, anA th m&vlt 'w&c
a compronti whinh rprR.. the
best though, of th roi eatijiiat
represent mg lh two iciai.
The rec dnnniai;n of ik Stver
aor to removo tJit itafV r!K ni
itjatoiniatratijs to tjf Statt farm j
"Vas ic'c'sptd md lh rion building (
trill be convert el iat j a hop-.tal His
Ideas touching a revaluation of prop
erty .were embodied in the new XTa
chinery. Act and a ix months school
has been proTicel fotin the Idea
tional bill. A toMr,('i"' school, Jaw
was also, enacted and provisions re
quiring Jhe .elimination of phjsieay
defective school children v as Tjrovid-
ed for' in the enactment of approniiat
ite
legislation.
Other recommendations 'vhich. me
- - " -
. the approval, of the General Assembly-
vvere: Fixing a minimum salary for
public school teachers; to make san:-
tory closets compulsory for the owner
of property on which a. closet is lo
cated within 300 fent of a dwelling;
ratification of the Fdera 1 prohib.
tion amendment; provide for a buc
ket system; to prevent perpetuation
of. species of idota and iuiboeiloa, and-
other .matters of signicanca.
While the Chief. Fxecutiva did not
set everything he wiuted his recoin-
mendations blazed the way for iho
I enactment of many wholesome laws
fof a distinctly progressive character.
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YFOULD HAVE BEEN
EMBARRASSING
Ten thousand dollars may h need
ed to properly enforce the so-called
child labor law enacted by the recent
General Assembly, bui tne House of
Representatives probab-ly did tho ntt
thing by refusing, in thu closing hours
of the session, to pass the- Senate bill
increasing the appropriation from
$3,000 to ?10,000 per anujm The pro
position did not look good on ii.s face
and there is small wonder that the
members shied at the idea of paying
j $4,000 more a year to the commission
named in the act finally enacted than"
j was asked for in the Connor Saunlers
bill offered by the Department of lab
or and Printing, for a similar purpose.
The proposed increase in the appro-
priationn was an admission by the I
i
proponents of the measure ratified
that they had secured the passage oZ
a bill without providing means cf en
forcement. But, perhaps that W is tho
intention at the outset.
Of course a greater sum will 1?c
needed for the use of the commission
created by the passage of the suVstl-
tute measure, for the reason th.it no
executive officer is named in the bill
and no provision was made tor rent
ing and equipping an office. Had ma
chinery for the enforcement of the lanr
been placed in the Department of La
bor, the Commissioner would have
been the executive officer, with ade
quate quarters already equipped for
handling the work without difficulty.
One additional clerk to take care of
the reports of inspectors would have" llltlL' tt uu,tli-u' mjo'
w nprt wi,ana w tp a nnm. i
priation asked for in the Department,
bill was considered sufficient to make
a mighty good start.
Anyway, $6,000 is all that the De
partment of Labor as'cea for in the
bill proposed and the people of the
State would have bt ea justified in pro
testing a seemingly -unnecessary ap
propriation, in that the suggestion for
it had been created by the untenable
position of a few prejudiced iegis7a- '
tors who failed to give a valid reason
for their actions in the child lain;?
ght. Spending, without apparent ex
cuse, $4,000 annually of the people's
money would have be'jn hard to ex
plain in the next campaign and mem
bers of'th
ate the ir.:
House decided not to ere-
3. As a mattar of fact, no
. . '
justification for Much a
have bre:i made and the democratic
party may congratulate itself on hav
ing been spared the embarrassment
of fleecing the treasury of the State
of $4,000 annually for two years by
the refusal of the House to become a
party to an attempted correction of an
inexcusable blunder in the enactment
of a child labor law.
It is better to be safe than sorry.
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NEW JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
The following were appointed jus
tices of the peace for Henderson coun
ty by the recent General Assembly, on
whose recommendation this paper is
not advised.
Hooper's Creek Press Fletcher, "R.
. Lance.
Crab Creek G. N. Sentell.
Edneyville G. B. Kill, Leande?
Laughter Ernest Jackson, G. W. Led
better. Clear Creek L. P. Pittillo.
Mills River Frank Cathey, John
Whitaker, T. B. Allen, J. W. Morgan.
can leave your Widow a home to
liwe ia. or
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YOU
can leave her a mortsracre to-nav
u j x
Yourlobligations to your widow
are as rfreat as your obligations to
your VJife.
louVe furnished
home
BUT
where will yotir
Seiltk
Mpaii
AGENTS
Green River J.- T. Staton. N
Blue Ridge Harley Justice, W. S.
Young. '
Hendersonvilie FA. Ewbank, CP.
Rogers, R. P. Freeze.
Perhaps Representative Jackson
may be able to explain the need for
these additional magistrates and how
they happened to be named by the
Legislature instead of the people at
home.
THE LEGISLATURE ITS RECORD.
The General Assembly of 1919,
which is due to complete its work to
day, will be known in history as the
Great Tax Reform Legislature. In
some respects it failed to measure up
to all that was expected of it, but iiz
record on taxation is without flaw.
No one can deny that its legislation
! dealing with this subject is founded on.
justice and progress, and marks the
highest order of achievement. Tiie
General Assembly of 191) has don
for our tax system what no othe;
Legislature in all the State's history
has ever dared to attempt. But its
achievements by no means stop with
that. A careful review of its work re
veals a record of progress that will be
hailed with delight by all forward
looking citizens. The important mea
sures passed may be summarized a&
follows:
-. Taxation. A bill submitting e,u
income tax amendment to a vote of the
people; and an act providing for re
valuation of property, incorporating
the questionnaire method ' of deter
mining values. The machinery for en
forcing this act is almost identical
with that of the Selective Draft Sys
tem. It will be so effective m opera-
linn fVinf - r V iTh f--- ff O - i ".TO m
person who .endeavors to conceal tus
pro i erty or the real value of the same
will be in very grave danger of going
tr jail in this world and to hell in the
v.orid to come."
i-. Education. A bill insuring a six
i-:cnths' term in every school dis.riet
in North Carolina and incrj?.siri. : lit
salaries of all teachers, making a
minimum increase of twenty-five per
cent for a vast majority of teachers;
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requiring cniiurcn to aueiiu sca;oi un
til they are fourteen years old; also
an act pro, ling to" a bft'c i system oZ
vr national edu.:x'.: ji .i co-operation )
with the Federal Government. All
this educational legislation was in
,,euia'ira ,11C
Me who spoke at the last election by
. ;.inrlinrl ihTio-infl moinritv in favor
of better schools. This Legislature,
tbeif-fore. deserves little credit for its
ieco! cr education, but l e ther shouii
the glory be piven o the General As
simblv of 1917 which, in response to
the Go'-ernor s apr eai, submitted tne
Six Alonths" School Amendment.
lUiMh. (1: A Mil' which, ac
cording to the Secretary of the State
Board of Health, gles us the best
State law for medical inspection or
schools in. the United States. It wilt
result irectly in the dental treatment
cf ftf.y. tho;?ri;d school children and
the treatment of twelve thousand for
diseased tonsils nnd adenoids during
the next two ears. (2V A sanitary
p.vry bill which Dr. Dankin estimates
will prevent nore than twelve thou
sand cases of snkness and upwards of
a thousand deaths between now-and
the next session of the General Assem
bly. (3;. A bill increasing the appro
jria:iou for county la);h ork from
$15,000 to SUTTCO. (4). A bill thxt it
is believed will effectively control
venereal diseases and eventually wipe
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your Wife a
Widow live?
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them cut. and another making pros
titution a dangerous practice in North
Carolina. (F): A bill that will pre
vent incurable lunatics and imbeciles
from propagating their species. In
fact the Legislature of 1919 passed
every measure recommended by the
State Board of Health and by so doing
did more for the protection of human
health and life and for increasing the
vital e-ticxoijcy of the average citizeii
thanvany previous General Assembly.
4. lloads. Here was the knottiest
problem of all, but out of all the
.wrangling and conflicting vievs there
has come a law that will mean a State
system of highways toucuing evjry
community in North Carolina. These"
splendid roads. wi.'l he constructed by
thy State, the Feder:.l Government and
the counties, each sharing in the cost,
tho Federal Government putting up
one-kali, the State one-fourth and the
county cne'-fourth. Uunder this Road
Act upwards of twelve million dol
lars will Tie spent in building roads in
the State dring the next two . years.
At three thousand dollars a mils liiis
will construct four thousand miles or
road, or more than enough to link up
every county seat in the State with a
splendid highway. Another bill was
passed making it mandatory for coun
ty authorities to levy a tax sufficient
to maintain roads, the amount of the
tax so levied to be in proportion to the
i
amount of bonds issued for road
building.
5. Child Labor. We come now to
one of the failures of the Legislature,
A careful study of tha child labor law
enacted by this General Assembly con
vinces us that it is not adequate and
Is but little better than the law we al
ready had bn the subject. The new
law creates a Child Labor Commission
and appropriates six thousand dollars
for enforcement. The State Commis
sioner of Labor is not on this Com
mission, and the law names no execu
tive officer. It virtually establishes a
new State Department. We do not be
lieve it will be possible for the Co?n
mission to employ an Executive offi
cer, equip him for business, maintain
his office, give him inspectors and
ether assistants with th3 meager a;.
propriations of six thousand dollars.
Another very serious objection to the
new law is that it does not conform
to the present Federal Lav, m the s?iij-
ject. and as a result the .aoor Depart
men in Washing: l will ta-ce over
work in thu' State that should be
.en by our cw i l.ai.) Depi'men:
The General Assembly blundered ter
City Taxe9..
1st and
ter
tJ
to the amount
which taxes
advertised in
3rd, 1918.
Don't wai until the last minute.' You
may forget itand incur a penalty) and the
City must m4ke. reasonably prompt collec
tion to take dare of its business. The Citv s
Dusmess ss yotr business. Please
taxes NOW.
RESERVE I WS&&3kSGfa
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YOU R. MONEY IN
OUR, WA-TIOMAL BANK
4 Ov
toix can. , set: tc
The federal reserve bank act iis passed to give depositors
better protection and to improve or banking system.
It joined al! member b anks
positors. It provided a district
where member banks may take
thus making it easy for member
Do jour, banking where yon
ribly when it accepted in toto a Chil 3
Tiahcr Bill drafted by and ardently ad
vocated by certain manufacturers and
as vigorously opposed by leaders oZ
labor. At least a compromise mea
sure snould have been passed. It was
certainly a great injustice to the Com
missioner of Labor elected by the peo
ple to leave him off of a Commission
charged with the duty of enforcing a
labor lavv. Tabor resents it, nor do
we believe the people in general sym
pathize with this apparetitly uncallec?
fcr action on the part of the Legisla
ture. And when Federal inspectors
begin to swarm as thick as flies in
North Carolina searching every mill
and factory for children under four
teen years of age we have no doubt
have been due
the books c
m ji a
Citizens
date a penalty must be added
of the tax. and
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have not been
this paper Thursday, April
CITY TAX COLLE
vsmen .you. wan? ix.
togei
or the protection of de-
reserve
nk for ' each section
jtheir s
rities an dget money,
banks
alvfays have money.
have "National Safety."
auoiia
the little cot'e? ie of manufacturers who
nre resi-'ii'.j-ibio to- Neal C'lild La,
bor Law will regret xh.x it Wi'oT6?
enacted
rrohii-Ition. The Federal Pro-
fiihition Amendment was ratified by an
overwhelming voto. tit no legis.a.h.i
wns passed st.-enSthcmng t,-.e preoit
otate lav : u ue stTbjtct. The bill tn
creato a I r.jnirMi Commissioner
was defe 1 ii"1 t:ie oposed ousu-r
law unf jrt " a mo: 1 same fa-.
7. Uudrl System. One of the im
portant measures of the session was
the bill establishing a modern budget"
system for the State. This will save"
tho State l ouLiinds of dollars annual-
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