HIGH LIVING COSTS
WORRY WASHINGTON
Congressmen Who Face
Klectorate Next Year
Very Apprehensive
sty CHARLES P. STEWART
(Vntral Press Staff Writer
Washington. March 9. —Increasing
living costs are beginning to worry
Democratic senators and representa
tives. Executive officialdom shows
few. if any, signs of anxiety, but the
legislative folk do.
Perhaps this difference, between the
lawmakers, evidently uneasy frame of
mind and the appointed element’s ap
parently confident attitude, is ex
plainable on the ground that elected
office holders, generally speaking, are
in decidedly closer touch with the
country than appointed office holders.
( ONSI MJ'K ANGRY
The consumer is the individual who
the best-informed Democratic politi
.ians are fearful (and maybe Repub
lican politicians are hopefull, wall he
found to he in an exceedingly ugly
temper when next election day rolls
around.
And, believe me, 1936’s election day
doesn't look so far ahead to the far
eeing politician.
Moreover, every one, of course, is a
consumer. The consumer vote is ter
r'fic.
If the consumer’s income increases
ir proportion to his increasing living
costs, ho is, it. is true, no worse off.
Nevertheless, crafty public men recog
r.ize the fact that he is likely to re
sent the fact, when he realizes it,
that more pay buys no more for him
than his lower pay did.
The situation is not even as satis
factory as that, however; scarcely any
incomes are increasing, despite rising
prices.
In short' in purchasing power in
dustrial pav is dwindling.
WORK F.RS’ IN COME
The administration claims various
gains, indeed.
Labor department figures imply ap
proximately a 10 pet cent decrease
in unemployment. A formerly jobless
worker, who now has a job. is better
off than he was, indisputably. But the
wntkei who has had a job all the time
has not been awarded a wage increase
•hough his living costs are advanc
ing. Nor is the reemployed worker as
well paid today (in purchasing pow
er i as before he lost his last job.
Foodstuffs are selling for more than
hey did, and farmers produce food
stuffs. but Senator Lynn J, Frazier,
pre-eminently agriculture’s congres
sional spokesman, charges that pro
cessors and distributors are getting
Jl the benefit of the advance—at the
consumers’ expense; not to the ad
vantage of the yeomanry.
Reducing industrial hours, without
reducing (but also without increas
ing) pay. is defined by the National
Manufacturers’ association as a cam
ouflaged •‘share-the-work” program—
!r.i \ itaibly increasing production costs,
cut therefore boosting prices, with
out increasing the consumer’s (that
1* to say. the wage earner’s) capacity
to meet the increase.
Week-End Meetings
Expected To Bring
Budget To Balance
(Continued from Page One.)
dividends from corporation stocks and
diversion or $650,000 of highway funds
the revenue bill will bring in a.pprox
rnntelv 530.860.000. This is far short
of the currently reported appropria
tion- bill of $32,215,000.
Adjustments, however, are. said to
be in the making that will iron out
'ln- differences. Week-end conferen
ces are expected to result in a bal
anced budget to climax the 60 days
of work by the major joint legislative
committees.
Usurping the spotlight the latter
part of this week was the investiga
tion by the joint committee on penal
institutions into alleged "inhuman”
treatment of two Negro prisoners’ in
h Mecklenburg prison camp. Feet of
’he blacks were amputated in Raleigh
when it was found that gangrene had
se tin and the legislative furore was
climaxed Friday with the appointment
of a sub-committee to study conditions
at the Mecklenburg and other prison
Patman Pushes Bonus
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Representative Patman
Representative Wright Patman of
’lexas, author of the bonus legis
lation now before congress, is
shown at the bonus hearing of the
house ways and means committee
m Washington. He predicted that
iongress would override » preai*
dential veto oa the measure.
Peter Preaches to Gentiles ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON M 1 ".. 1 !"/. 1 ™ e. b.h
‘ , i Scripture Acts 10:1-1115:6-11 *— «
311
Poi more than ten years after Jesus’ ascension
the early church was practically closed to Gen-
Au angel appeared to Cornelius, a devout
Roman soldier at Caesarea, telling him to send to
Joppa for Peter to come ami preach to him and,
his household.
camps.
For insubordination the prisoners j
had been forced to stand shackled to '
a wall from eight to to hours a 'day. j
Dr. Kemp P. Neal, Raleigh surgeon, j
testified their feet were hopelessty !
gangrenous and that amputation was j
necessary almost immediately upon
their arrival here. They are reported
getting along "as well as can be ex
pected.”
The Senate today approved a House
resolution to appropriate SSOO for the
investigation.
In the role of star performer since
its introduction, the Hill bill to pro
vide State control of liquor under
stringent restrictions played to pack- I
ed gallaries the early part of the week
in the Senate. Action on the measure
will be taken Thursday of next week
when it is called as a special order in
the upper chamber.
Alleged “antHfuated” and “bad”
conditions existing at the State hos
pital for the insane at Morganton will
be subject to legislative inquiry as
a result of the adoption Friday by
the House of the Bailey-Folger Sen
ate bill ot appropriate SSOO for ex- I
penses of the probe. Vote on the re- i
solution came after a hot oratorical I
battle against adoption by Represen- j
tative Sontelle. Klutz. Hatcher and j
Ton as.
Slot machines will have legal status j
in the State until May 1. if they are :
not used, the General Assembly de- j
ekled Friday in adopting a substitute >
to the recent measure outlawing op
eration of |the Coin-taking devices. |
Time was extended to allow disposal !
of the machines.
The Senate next w r eek will vote on I
the House measure requiring vaccina- !
tion against rabies of all dogs, adopt- j
ed recently by the lower chamber, a |
lively tiff between proponents and op- 1
ponents is anticipated.
Senate adoption will also he requir- j
ed to assure construction in Western 1
North Carolina of a tubercular sena- j
tarium at a cost of $250,000. The meas
ure passed the House several days-1
ago.
Also on the upper house calendar
for next week is the measure to ic
gulate the practice of photography
within the State, amended by the
House so as not to affect towns of
lers than 2.500 population.
Efforts to reform the State’s ab
sentee bay**,! laww cut for naught
Friday' as the House committee on
elections gave unfavorable report to
three measures sponsored by the State
Board of Elections and a hill by' Re
presentative Scholl of Mecklenburg to
repeal the absentee ballot law in its ,
entirety.
The five per cent beet bill will come !
before a House judiciary* committee
for a 15-mimits public hearing Tues- j
day and the lower house committee j
on constitutional amendments will ;
consider the proposed resolution to
ratify' the child labor amendment i
Thursday night.
Only' local legislation was consider- j
ed today as the two chambers met in j
perfunctory Saturday sessions with
legislative seats sparsely' filled.
Today is, the last official pay-day
for solons, it being the 60th of the j
General Assembly. Members who had
drawn nothing to date received a re
ward of S6OO for their legislative ser
vices, but will get no more even if
the session continues until December.
New Pleas Written
By Roosevelt
(Continued from Page One.)
relief debate for new attacks on j
Roosevelt policies.
While the Senate was not in session
the House met to continue considera
tion of legislation to expand the Home
Owners Loan Corporation by $1,750,-
000,000.
Otherd evelopments:
Samuel Frazier, representing the In
ternational Apple Association, told
the Senate Commerce sub-committee,
studying the Copeland food and drug
bill, that further regulation of apples
is unnecessary', adding:
“We have practically leaned over
backwards in safeguarding the pub
lic.”
The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee decided to hold hearing's
I on the resolution ,bv Senator Wheeler,
' Democrat, Montana, for an investiga-
I tion of railroad financing.
Elimination of the pig destruction
features of the agricultural adjust
ment act and concentration on de
velopment of a foreign market was
urged by Earle C. Smith, of Chicago,
j president of the Illinois Agricultural
l Association, in a Senate hearing on
I proposed amendments to the AAA.
! Communion Service
At Holy Innocents
Rev. T. W. Hughes, rector of Holy
Innocents Episcopal church, urged
every communicant of that church
posible to be present at the morning
service Sunday at 11 o’clock as that
day has ben appointed as coporate
communion not only in this parish but
throughout the United States. Many'
members of the church were expectea
to attend the service.
HENDERSON, (N. CJ DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1935, ” *«
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.—Psalm 119:105.
©hr Mot hs of 3lraua:
upon the love, loyalty and devotion of the people ? must be in harmony with
the teachings of Jesus the Christ whose words fit into every fold and crevice
of the human heart, and of whom it was said in John 7:46, “NEVER, MAN
SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN.”
- Press-Radioßibl* Service Int., Cincinnati. Ohio ™
Section 9.—Mat thevv 5.43-48
THE WAY TO DEAL WITH ENEMIES
43. Ye have heard that it hath been said. Thou shall love thy neighbor,
and hate thine enemy. 44. But I say' unto you. Love y'our. enemies, bless
them that curse y’ou, do good to them that hate y'ou, and pray' for them
which despitefully' use you, and persecute you; 45. That y*e may' be the
children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise
on the evel and on the good, and s endeth rain on the just and on the
unjust. 46. For if ye love them which love you. what reward have ye?
do not even the publicans the same? 47. And if ye salute y'our brethren
only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48. Be
ye therefore perfect, even as y'our Father which is in heaven is perfect.
phatsJ)offl9 CWcWslll
FIRST BAPTIST.
Rev. Albert S. Hale, minister.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m., J. C. I
Gardner, superintendent.
Attendance last Sunday 432.
Worship service at 11 o’clock. The
topic of the minister’s message: “Have
you done your good turn Today'.” The
Girl Srouts will be guests at this ser
vice.
B. T. U. meets at 6:30 o’clock. Miss
Loyce Blayiock, director. Attendance
last Sunday 80.
Worship service 7:30 p. m. Sermon j
subject "Do You Talk to Yourself.”
At the morning service, the choir
will sing “Sweet The Moment”, by i
Donizetti. At the opening service,
the y'oung people’s choir will sing “O,
How Kindly Thou Hast Led Me” by
Nevin.
HOLY INNOCENTS EPISCOPAL.
Rev. I. W. Hughes, rector.
First Sunday' in Lent.
The early' service wifl be omitted.
9:45 a. m. Church school.
10 a. m. Men’s and women’s Bible
classes.
11 a. m. Holy communion. This is
corporate communion for the entire !
parish.
7:30 p. m. Evening prayer and ser
mon.
St. John's Mission, North Henderson !
2 o'clock, church school.
OUR YESTERDAYS
When Two Countries Averted Wa t*
And Erected Christ of the Andes
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/ ill
Left, the bronze statue, Christ of the Andes; right, soldiers
at the base of statue.
BAPK IN 1901. Chile and the j
Argentine republic were on the j
verge of war over a boundary dis
pute. Just as violence was being j
contemplated, however, the dispute j
was put to arbitration and settled i
amiably for both sides. To com- ;
mernorate this event averting war, j
Senora de Costa, president of the l
Christian Mothers’ association of
Buenos Aires, proposed the erec
tion of a statue on the boundary
4in# between the two nation*. .The l
God prepared Peter for this new relation to Gen
tiles by a vision like a sheet let down from heaven
containing various clean and unclean animals
which Peter was told to kill and eat When he
refused the voice said, “What God hath cleansed,
make not thou common.”
THE SALVATION ARMY.
Adjutant and Mrs. Joseph Willett In
charge.
Sunday 10 a. m. Sunday school.
11 a. m. Morning w'orship.
6:30 p. m. Young People’s Legion.
7:30 p. m. Evening - worship.
Everybody welcome.
FIRST METHODIST PROTESTANT.
Rev. L. R. Medlin, pastor.
Sunday school 9:45. E. O. Falkner,
superintendent.
Morning worship 11 o’clock, subject,
“Duty In Spit Os.”
Evening- worship, 7:30 o’clock, sub
ject, “The Sabbath.’’
At this service the xoung People's
Choir, under the direction of Miss
Alice Falkner, will provide the music.
The choir will sing two special num
bers, “Sweet Sabbath Eve,*’ and “Bless
the Lord.”
The public is invited to worship with
us.
ST. PAUL’S CATHOLIC.
Rev. Eugene P. Carroll, pastor.
Mass and sermon on Sunday 10:30
a. m.
Mass daily at 8:15 a. m.
•Sunday evening services at 7:30.
Public is cordially invited to all ser
vices.
proposal met with popular approval!
and the women of Ruiees Airea
took it upon themselves to raiso
the necessary funds. The statue-,,
known as Christ of the Andes, was>
erected and unveiled in 1904. Con
structed partly of cannon acquired)
for war purposes by both armiesj.
the statue is a figure of the Savior;
26 feet high, standing on a gigantic
column of stone and cement, it ifc
situated at Cambre Pass on tilt*
lonely mountain frontier.
Peter’s sermon to them was a summary of the
life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and
an appeal to believe in Kim as Saviour. \s they
accepted it the Holy Spirit came uf>on them ex
actly as on the Jews on Pentecost and Peter
baptised them into church fellowship.
FIRST MTHODIST.
Dr. J. Marvin Culbreth, pastor.
Church (School, 9:45 a. m., H. A.
Dennis, superintendent.
Morning worship, 11 o’clock. Ser
mon. “The Simple Rule of Christian
Giving.”
Epworth League. 6:30 o'clock. Lead
er, Miss Ruth Allen.
Evening worship, 7:30 o’clock. Ser
mon, “Purge the Church.”
Wednesday, March 13.
Church Night School, 7:30-9-10 p. m.
Worship, J7:SO-7:50; Theme. What
I Purpose in My' Heart.
Classes, 7:55-8:45,
“How the Gospels Were Written,”
J. Marvin Culbreth.
“The Home and the Movies,” L. R.
Medlin.
“The Church and the Destitute,”
Miss Maxine Taylor.
"Mothers of Japan” -Mrs. J. M. Cul
breth.
, “Stories of the Methodist Church,”
Mrs. C. S. Dodd.
Pre-Easter Services.
Beginning- on Palm Sunday, April
14. Dr. Culbreth expects to conduct
special services in the church each
day during the week, in the morning
and in the evening at hours to be
determined. On Good Friday*, April 19,
especially impressive features will be
added to the hours of worship,
Merchants Up In
Arms Over Levies
(Continued from Tag© One.)
Belk chain of stores in North Carolina
It is understood that Bolk has writ
ten a member of the senate finance
committee indorsing the retention of
the sales tax. It is allso understood
that the Tarboro Merchants Associa
tion, has written to Senator W. G.
Clark to the effect that the Board of
directors and the Chamber of Com
merce have gone on record indorsing
I the sales tax as it now stands and as
! opposed to the McDonald-Lutnpkin
substitute proposals for the sales tax.
j It is understood that many other let
; ters are being received by finance
! committee members and by members
I of both houses from merchants in all
I sections of the state approving the
retention of the sales tax.
Because some merchants and mer
! chants associations seem to have got
| ten the impression that the anti-sales
taxers or the North Carolina Fair Tax
. Association were responsible for the
1 chain store tax section being written
;on a floor space basis, John Paul
Leonard, secretary of the Fair Tax
| Association today issued a statement
in which he denied his organization
| had anything to do with the new
chain store tax proposals.
| “We have neither proposed nor sup
ported any such change in the chain
store tax,” Leonard said. “Any* one
conversant with the facts knows this
proposal came from the administra
t tion forces on the finance committee
and some of us have very definite
: ideas as to why* such a ridiculous me
thod of. measuring volume of busi
ness, profits or ability to pay -taxes
! was suggested. There are those who
; are willing to resort to almost any
means of diverting attention from our
attack on the sales tax or to create
weapons to use against those who are
-determined to free the merchants
and their customers from this cursed
tax.”
There is no indication here that
either the Fair Tax Association or
any of the opponents of the sales tax
suggested the new chain store tax
section and that the floor space plan
be included. Neither is there any
thing to indicate that the administra
i tion suggested the floor space tax plan
as Leonard charges. The facts are
that the attorney for one of the chain
store systems under the present chain
store tax law, suggested that a sub
| committee be appointed to redraft the
section, apparently in the hope of
getting the tax reduced. This sub
committee was appointed, with Sena
tor Carl L. Bailey of Washington coun
ty as chairman. This subcommittee
I brought in the new section with the
floor space feature included in it and
i expanded the section to apply to chain
: filling stations as well as to chain
stores.
I The first plan brought in by’ the
subcommittee was much more drastic
j than the one finally adopted, although
i the finance committees at first adopt
: ed it then later took it out of the reve
■ nue bill after hearing representatives
of the chain stores and gasoline com
- panies. It then reconsidered this ac
tion and instructed Senator Bailey
and his subcommittee to continue
their labors further and bring in a
more moderate section. This they
! did, and brought in two separate sec
tions, one applying to chain stores
and one to chain filling stations. The
chain store section is identical with
the present chain store section in the
present revenue law with the one ex
ception that chain stores of sls for
each 1,000 square feet or fraction
thereof.
According to the estimates prepared
by Senator Bailey, this floor space
feature will bring in only about $44,-
ting from the present chain store tax
518 more than the state is now get
section and increase the yield .fro a
this tax only from $116,328 a year to
$160,846 a year.
When Peter’s act was questioned he defended it
claiming that God repeated on the Gentiles what
he had done for Jews on Pentecost and the church
approved and caught step with God in the for.
ward march toward the brotherhood of niaa.
< GOLDEN TEXT—Actft 1«:34b. 35 1
Rate of Tax On
Sales Is Main Fight
(Continued from Pag© One.)
budget commission’s estimate. Chief
among the free-spenders are, of cour
se, the proponents of increased school
appropriations. A large amount of re
venue will he required to meet ap
propriations. The answer to that re
quirement is, among other things, the
sales tax revenue.
(2) Many members of the free-
also members of the anti
sales tax bloc. Among these is Dr.
Ralph McDonald, co-introducer of the
sales tax substitute, who is an ex
college professor and loud in his de
mands for increased appropriations
for the schools. It. is thus clear that
the anti-sales bloc will experience
trouble within its own ranks when
it is shown that if the sales tax should
be dropped thath hrevenue would de
cline by $9,000,000 or so. Where then,
the spenders will demand, are we to
get enough money for appropriations?
The answer to tlffkt query is an in
volved matter. The McDonald-Lump
kin bloc, will, of course, offer on the
floor of the House its substitute plans
But,,
3) The administration has set its
seal of approval on the sales tax. That
will g-o a Tong way* toward securing
final re-enactment of it. Again—the
antis have already* abandoned their
I Rules and Regulations I
I Adopted for Control of 1
Whereas, The rabies has assumed such an /
alarming proportion in Vance county it is / % H
hereby declared a menace to the public health. H
Therefore, Be it resolved by the County /
Board of Health: / j I
Ist: That all dogs in Vance County shall be /
confined and no dog or dogs shall he permit- y
ted to run at large, unless leashed to the own- ,
er or some responsible pterson as agent or / ■
representative of the owner, or unless wear- /
ing a muzzle, which shall comply with speci- H
fications of and be approved by the Health /
Officer of Vance County. Provided that the
wearing a muzzle as above set forth does not / H
apply to dogs while hunting with owner or re- /
sponsible person as previously described. ,
2nd: Any dog found off the premises of the
owner or person having the custody of such
dog, unaccompanied and not leashed to the
owner or some responsible person who shall
have charge of the dog with the owner’s con- / H
sent and direction, or unmuzzled, as above
provided, is hereby declared a nuisance and
menace to public health and shall be imme„ '
diately killed by any officer of Vance county H
or Township of said county or of the city of ✓
Henderson, including any officer or persons ■
designated by the County Commissioners of
Vance county as special officers for the en- ■
forcement of this act.
Provided that if any dog be found running at
large unaccompanied and unmuzzled, but
wearing a collar or tag to be provided by the
County, showing that such dog has been duly
licensed, then it shall be the duty of all offi
cers of the law to seize and impound such dog,
and any individual may seize and impound
such dog, and the owner shall have the right ■
to redeem from the pound within three days
by paying all costs and an impounding fee of
SI.OO. But the "wearing of the license collar
or tag herein before mentioned shall not ex
empt the owner of the dog from liability for
violating these rules and regulations by allow
ing his dog to run at large unaccompanied or
unmuzzled.
3rd: These rules and regulations shall be in
force and in effect from and after publica-
H tion.
I S. M. WATKINS I
Chairman, County Board
of Commissioners.
H * BBi
PAGE THREE
occupational tax plan at the violent
protest of the railroad brotherhoods
and others. Dr. McDonald had esti
mated the yield of that tax to be sl.-
700.000, although he later said that
hte estimate was too high. Also there
is little likelihood of enactment of the
chain theatre tax of 10 per cent on
gross recepits. The theatres presented
figures to the finance group which
showed that their taxes have risen
from SII,OOO in 1926 to $170,000 in
1934.
It is the opinion of many observers
here that some of the leaders of the
anti-sales tax bloc are much more in
terested in increased school appropria
tions than in abolition of the sales
tax. Thus, when the showdown comes,
as it ultimately must come, the school
will get at least $20.-#OO,OOO for the
first year of the next biennium, and
nearer $21,000,000 for the second.
Rathier than slice school appropria
tions the antis will endorse the sales
tax, although they will vigorously de
nourace it in the same breath.
Thje antis, because of increased ap
propriations, will thuls fight for a re
duced levy rather than total abolition
of the sales tax. If they junk the en
tire tax they must find more than
$9,000,000 (the estimated sales tax an
nual reyenue) in new revenue over
and above the more than $3,000,000
already added by Ihe finance commit
tee. rplus the difference now existing
between the revenue and appropria
tions hills. /