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PAGE TWO wr SB Some of Official Family Just Don’t Fit; Others Nonentities Byi CHARLES P. STKWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, May 4. Secretary Harold L. Ices unquestionably is “par axcellence” the outstanding personal ity in President Roosevelt’s cabinet. Secretary of State Cordell Hull is the ablest public man in it, but he is miscast ir. the part he has to play. Ices has just the qualifications (tem permental rather than mental) for his role. He is toull-terrish. Not only is he the best fighter in the cabinet; he is one of the best fighters who ever held down a political Job. He has defied the White House a time or two, let alone all sorts of other in fluences. Even conservatives, though they may wish him in Halifax, respect his courage and honesty. MOBGENTHAU SUCCESSFUL Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., frequently is spoken of in Washington as having been sur prisingly successful—in away. Morgenthau is a poor press agent for himself, too. He doesn’t “regis ter’’’ noticeably. But mayne the treas ury is a department which profits by being kept out of the limelight rath er than by getting into it. SOMETHING WRONG HERE Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace has the reputation of a won derful theorist, whose theories uni formly won’t wor in actual pkrac. tice. Secretaries of War and the Navy George H. Dern and Claude A. Swan son don’t count in Washington. They are scarcely known personally, not to metion being official monentities. NOT OUTSTANDING Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper has a trifle more personality than either Dern or Swanson —but not appreciably so. He is recalled as a Hoovercrat, and as having been com pelled formally to deny that he was a K. K. K.—because he was so gen erally accused of having been a clans man. Attorney General Homer S. Cum mings rests his case on his anti-crime crusade, for whatever it may be con sidered worth in the national estima tion. Secretary of Labor Frances Perk ins’ persanality rates as crabbed a mong Washington correspondents, whether or not it is so assessed the country over. In the capital, at least, she isn’t a popular cabinet officer. Postmaster General James A. Far ley remains. Under his management the mail service has so degenrated that actual, ly it has been necessary, recently to improve it a trifle. Textile Industry Is In Terrible Condition Now (Continued from Pago One.) American and British world markets. Her weapons are a seventy-five per cent depreciation of the yen (which means cutting prices seventy-five per cent), a wage scale of eleven cents per CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? See Pane Four 1. When was Theodore Roosevelt Gov ernor of New York? 2. What term is used in anatomy and physiology to designate the course of the blood through the hlood ves sels? 3. In what city was the 44th Annual Continental Congress of the Daught ers of the American Revolution , held* ji4, fought in the ** War of 1812’' 7 ‘ ' ft. 6. Name the middle western state that lies between Ohio and Illinois, and Michigan and Kentucky. 6. What famous Boston, Mass., build ing is called “Cradle of American Liberty?” 7 What does the Latin phrase "caveat emptor” mean? & Where are the Tigris and Euph rates rivers 9. What was a cithara? 10. Name the President of the Ameri can Federation of Labor. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE^ Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Virgil Gales, late of Vance County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Henderson, N. C., on or before the 4th, day; of May, 1936, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their r«i ccvery. All persons indebted to said estate wifi please make immediate payment. This 4th, day of May, 1035. CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST CO Administrator of the Estate of Virgil Gales. I All Forms of ■ INSURANCE RENTALS REAL % ESTATE Al. B. Wester Phone 139-J B. H. Mixon Contractor and Builder “Builds Better Buildings” All kinds of Building Wall Papering Painting— Roofing and Interior Decorating. PHONES* of/lce 7 rnuilLJ. Residence 4T6-J £.«%* ' Ob|Su£ *,*l** X.. ;■,•"% ,<-.,■ ..jlli^lSifiiOy4to <■- G ~ dHam K q I^ fJ^flL/Xdh jk<•’<•*«•••■ A .' J*Q- ■• ”• v» - .• \ ‘itHsw*-- day, and the world’s most modern and efficient looms. Much American equipment, particularly that used in New England, is obsolete and ineffi cient. If American and British manu facturers do not continue to take the lead in purchasing the most modern machinery, then they are destined to lose their supremacy in the industry. Tax Has Boosted Operating Costs Now added to these fundamental troubles is the current aggravation of the processing tax. No one can deny that it has imposed a severe fi nancial handicap on the majority of mills and has increased operating costs considerably. Raw materials ac count for about fifty per cent of the value of cotton goods. With a mini mum price ofcot ton at the mill of twelve cents a pound, the tax of 4.2 cents a pound has increased raw ma terial costs over thirty per cent. The fact that the tax must be paid us ually long before the cloth can be sold means that more funds must be tied up in inventories until the tax is liquidated. This means increased borrowing and reduced profits thro ugh interest payments. Another serious burden which the processing tax has imposed on the cotton textile industry is the increas. ing use of silk and rayon. These com peting fibres have a decided advan tage for they are not taxed and have had only a very slight price rise so far during the recovery. Cotton has jumped approximately one hundred per cent in price. There is today a de finite consumer resistance to higher retaM prices. Hence, in many cases the processing tax has been partially absorbed by the manufacturer be cause he could not fully pass it along to the purchaser. Where ft has been passed along in the form of higher retai l prices, it has reduced consump tion. Tax Is Straw That Breaks Camel’s Back When all is said and done, the pro cesing tax boils down to a very heavy sales tax on a, necessity. It has cost the American public about $200,000,000 A recent survey made by the New England Council shows that the pro cessing tax has increased selling price by an average of 16.3 per cent. A number of returns from this study show that the tax is pyramided by the practice of middlemen adding a. percentage to the total price paid, in cluding the tax. Bookkeeping costs have also risen sharply. The process ing tax. superimposed on the above combination of difficulties, is the last ■traw. Many mills have closed down entirely, while others are taking busi ness at a loss simply to avoid the calamity of adding to unemployment. Now what has been the effect of the cotton program down South? The goveenmrnt has been loaning twelve cents per pound on cotton and the commodity has been more or leiss peg ged at this price. So with the big gain in cash income over 1933. plus the government benefit checks, the small growers are still well pleased with the AAA program. Not so with the tenant farmer or “share.cropper”— the “forgotten-man” of the cotton in dustry. He is no better off this year than ever, despite the increase in prices and benefit payments. He is so poor, in many sections, he cannot buy the of -his own labor. He typifies The basic trouble with cotton —underconsumption not overproduc tion. Can Scarcity Create Plenty? It is a different story also with the big growers and exporters of the South. Warehouses are bulging with government controlled cotton which should long sincy have been shipped abroad. The artificial loan rate has kept the American price of cotton far above the world price. Foreign buyers are not interested in paying a prmium for our cotton exept on quality grads. Furthermore, while we have been plowing under our cotton crop, other nations have been stim ulating theirs. Last year Russia and Brazil had the largest production on record. If the present policy is con tinued, the United States will have lost forever the major part of her foreign cotton markets and will have ruined her cotton industry. The resent control program is not. an experiment. It has been tried be fore. England tried it with rubber; Cuba with sugar; and Brazil with cof fee. In each instance it failed miser ably, its chief result being rerepar able loss of foreign markets. Now we are falling for this samo catchy de lusion that with an “economy of se curity” we can bring about an “eco. nomy of abundance.” Despite; new con tortions of arithmetic, there cannot be more goods to divide If less goods are produced. The solution to the cotton and cotton textile crisis is to swell consumtion by lower prices— not to slash outut by higher prices. Neither Congress nor the New Deal can repeal natural economic laws. JAMES C.COOPER He WISi S ?rSL INSURANCE S PB PHONE EO4-J i HENDERSON i N.C ' HENDERSON, '(N. CJ DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1935 TO PLAY AT THE EXPOSITION FILM OF MYSTIC INDIA The Lives of a Bengal Lancer The scene above shows members of the cast in a tense scene from Paramount’s “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” featuring Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell and Sir Guy Standing, and coming Monday and Tuesday to the Stevenson Theatre. Henry Hathaway directed the film, adapted from the book by Francis Yeats-Brown. $19,959,083.79 Paid Farmers In State (Continued from Page One.) Corn-hog producers received $510,979,- 01 and wheat growers $82,482.85. The total payments to growers in each county are as follows: Alamance $110,707.39, Alexander $31,837.08. Alleghany $9,699.59, Anson $311,212J23, Ashe $9,537.84, Avery $683.55. Beaufort $333,158.38, Bertie $227,- 461.46, Bladen $231,369.57, Brunswick $75,436.09 Buncombe $15,756.63, Burke $3,693.90. ' Cabarrus $90,451.30, Caldwell $14,- 479.14. Camden $21,507.64, Carteret $30,299.95, Caswell $179,612,26, Cataw ba $91,846.70, Chatham $98,059.38, Cherokee $223.66, Chowan $63,584.51, Clay $341.99, Cleveland $599.370 49, Columbus $644,019.60. Craven $245,234.- 33, Cumberland $284,923.94, Currituck $18,470.38. Davidson $103,227.60, Davie $51,- 257.97, Duplin $487,136.93, Durham $69,936.89. Edgecombe $589,855.06. Forsyth $46,377.18, Franklin $367,- 076.41. * Gaston $189,848.18. Gates $61,660.27, Graham $61.49,' Granville $259,343.63, Greene $437,157.24, Guilford $167,054.. \n. ; . Halifax $495,024.83, Harnett $485- 471.67, Haywfcod Hender son $2,376,13, Hertford $122,017.92, Hoke $251,970.34, Hyde $45,219.06. Iredell $215,574.20. Jackson $201.49, Johnston $880,861.81 Jones $199,482.82. Lee $140,757.34, Lenior $536,838.18, Lincoln $189,334.34. McDowell $681.47, Macon $1,108.22, Madison $65,449.55, Martin $311,888.16, Mecklenburg $234,942.92, Mitchell $7.- 831.87, Montgomery $48,952.34, Moore $93,746.22. Nash $779,450.84. New Hanover sl,- 478.85, Northampton $291,339 88. Onslow $216,050.98. Orange $71,853.71. Pamlico $52,168.28, Pasquotank $44,- 240.33, Pender $94,743.52, Perquicans $44,912.39, Person $173,730.93, Pitt sl,- 013,768.12, Polk $38,663.69. Randolph $31,473.36, Richmond $135, 942.41, Robeson $1,203,839.96 Rocking ham $117,530.89, Rowan $160,026.93, Rutherford $261,261.81. Sampson $564,992.78, Scotland $229,- 236.44, Stanly $48,169.55, Stokes $99.- 723.17, Surry $203,762.44, Swain $61.50. Transylvania $2,605,65, Tyrrell $26,- 774.04. Union $372,226.74. Vance $242,021.18. Wake $609,584.12, Warren $283,126.- 14, Washington $43,221. 1 27, Watauga $5,890.72, Wayne $637,095.86, Wilkes $19,570.25, Wilson $736,407,28. Yadkin $160148.28, Yancey $17,845.22 Legislators Plan Final Ad journment End Next Week (Continued from Page One.) vision and will also probably be en acted into law the early part of next week by the senators. Brought into the picture quickly, following the defeat in the upper chamber of the Day liquor-control bill which had passed the House, the Page of Bladen bill to provide the State with a. corps of 200 or more prohibition agents was passed, 52 to 21, Friday and sent to the Senate. The author declared it not to be a “spite” measure but many wet representa tives unquestionably supported it to put the senators “on the spot” after their action in dealing death to the whisky bill. Wind-up of the fight on the rev enue bill came Thursday when the Senate, by a 27 to 15 vote, passed the conference-amended taxing measure. Final action on the $64,000,000 ap propriations bill for the biennium fol. lowed the adoption by both houses of the conference report. Should it contain taxing features, the school book rental bill will re quire roll calls on three separate days in each chamber and may keep the assembly in session a day or two lon ger than otherwise. There is a pos sibility administration bills for Fed eral-State cooperation will provide for financing the proposal, if school book money ca nbe borrowed from the gov ernment and the plan considered a “self-liquidating” one. The new school machinery act pro vides closer coordination between the department of public instruction and the State School Commission in that the superintendent of the former is advanced to the vice chairmanship of the commission. Another change allows appointment of school com mittee for each school outside the main central school district. Salaries of solicitors and a number of State officials were increased by legislation enacted during the week. Solicitors, the adjutant general and : commissioners of labor, agriculture and insurance were raised to $4,500 an nually, with $6,000 being voted the secretary of state, State auditor and State superintendent of public in struction. Senate adoption of eight administra. tion-favored House bills would open the way for North Carolina to par ticipate fully in the benefits of the $4,000,000,000 public works program of President Roosevelt. All of the meas ures are intended to allow the State and local governments to make full use of funds to be provided by the public works program. Another important measure enact ed into law was the Peterson bill to substitute lethal gas for executions at Central prison, applicable only to those prisoners sentenced to die after July 1. The Page prohibition enforcement measure provides for an additional t>so fine against convicted liquor law violators for the support of the “dry army” of 200 agents, with the State and counties equally supplying any deficit. j f *4%, The Senate vote, 27-22, against the* iquor control measure constituted he major legislative surprise of the week. Regarded since early in the session as the “hope” of the wets, the rpper branch crossed up the prognos icators by not only decisively defeat ing the bill that would have given, the people of the State a chance to express their sentiments at a referen dum on June 8 but also applied the clincher” to prevent further consid eration of the matter, unless spon sors of the measure are able to get a two-thirds majority for reconsidera tion. Threat for such a move was heard Friday in the Senate. While not exactly in balance, the revenue and appropriations bills final y adopted are, according to Commis sioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell, with m one per cent of each other for the first year. Increased receipts are ex pected to balance the second year budget, he states. Roll call bills remaining on the House calendar were speeded along at a Post-midnight session early this morning. The Senate met for the same purpose at the customary Sat urday morning hour of 10 o’clock. Only- unexpected and prolonged clashes on the few remaining contro- JOE BASILE AND HIS ORCHESTRA Dave Loughlin, manager of the Henderson Auto Show, Merchants Exposition and Circus considers himself lucky indeed to secure the services of JOE BASILE and his famous NBC orchestra, coming here direct from New York for a week’s engage ment at the Exposition. versial pieces of impending legislation will keep the General Assembly in session later than Friday. House Puts Senate Otn Spot With Enforcement Measure (Continued from Fago One.) bill which the House had passed, and which would have given the people of the State an opportunity to vote on whether they wanted to retain the present State prohibition law or have many voted for it because they sin liquor stores. On the other hand, cerely believed that since the legis lature is determined to retain the Tur lington Act and prohibition, that it should then do something towards the better enforcement of the State prohi bition law., Representative Spruill, of Bertie county, in discussing the Page bill, said that every member of the General Assembly knew that li quor had been bought and sold al most daily in the routunda between the Senate and House chambers, in open defiance of the State law, and that nothing had been done about it. That the Senate is now in a decided ly uncomfortable position and “on the spot” is generally agreed today. If it passes the Page bill and sets up this special enforcement brigade of more than 200 State prohibition officers with power to make arrests on su spicion and without warrants, it will make its members exceedingly un popular with a very large portion of the State’s population, esp/cially the sheriffs in the various counties and the police departments in the cities and towns. For, believe it or not, many members of the General As sembly are dependent upon the sup port they receive from county and city officials for their election, and es pecially upon the political influence of sheriffs, their deputies and their sup porters. But if this hill is enacted, it will be a direct slap at all the sheriffs and police departments in the State, many point out. It will also alienate the support of the hundreds of thou sands of people who drink wet, buy liquor from bootleggers, transport it in their cars, serve it to their friends but who vote dry at the polls. Nor can those who vote for the bill expect to get any support from the ‘‘big shot” bootleggers, most of whom are con ceded to be politically powerful in their sections it is freely conceded here. But if the Senate is going to be con sistent, having refused to pass the Day liquor control bill, most observers here do not see how it can now refuse to pass this strict dry enforcement bill which the House has passed. They think that Senators Rivers Johnson of Duplin, Erskine Smith of Stanley, Fred Folger of Surry, W. L. Ferrell of Forsyth, Horton of Chatham, Grady of Johnston and Johnston of Bun combe, all regarded as personal “wets” but who voted against the Day liquor control bill, should now be willing to vote for the Page enforcement bill. If these wet-dry senators do not vote for the Page enforcement bill they will then be on record as favoring the non-enforcement of the State prohi bition law, and opposed to any liquor We Wish to Welcome You to the AUTOMOBILE SHOW May 6 to May 11 and Want You to MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME AT OUR BOOTH \ 1 We will thow you the best car Ford has ever built, 1935 V-8 Ford. Bring the kids as we have something for them. CLEMENTS MOTOR CO. llWlwtsficinq Churches FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. A. S. Hale, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m., J. G. Gardner, superitnendent. Worship service at 11 a. m. The Lord’s Supper will toe observed. B. T. U. meets at 7 p. m. Miss Loyce Blaylock, director. Evening worship service at 8 p. m. Dr. J. B. Hipps one of our mission aries to China who is associated with Shanghai University will preach. The public is cordially invited to hear Dr. Hipps, who is one of our outstanding missionaries. Mid-week Prayer, Praise and Fel lowship service Wednesday at 8. Recognition will be given to mem bers of the church who are to be graduated this year at Henderson high school at the morning service. FIRST METHODIST PROTESTANT. Rev. L. R. Medlin, pastor. Sunday school 9: 45 a. m. E. O. Falkner, superintendent. Morning worship 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor on the subject: “Spiri control or dry enforcement laws of any sort. It is not expected, of c6urse, that the Senate will pass the Page bill, since it is not expected, that enough of the dry-voting, wet-drinking senators will join forces with the personally dry and really sincere drys in the senate to pass the bill. For most of them are regarded as realizing that the political consequences of the enact ment of the Page bill would be much more serious than the poltical rever berations from their voting for a li quor control act. Their chief consid eration so far has been to balance themselves on top of the political fence so as not to make either the wets or the drys peeved with them, for they want the votes of both groups. As a result, it is expected that the Page bill will be defeated in the Sen ate and that the state will operate for two more years under “The North Carolina Plan” of wide-open bootleg ging and non-enforcement of the state dry laws. Many Voted Both Ways While most of those who voted for the Day liquor control bill in the House also voted for the Page prohi bition enforcement bill, which would provide a special force of more than 200 State prohibition agents to en force the prohibition laws, many of the “drys” in the House who voted against the liquor control bill, also voted against the Page bill to provide better enforcement of the present pro hibition laws. While the galleries and lobbies had been crowded the day before by “drys” opposing the enactment of the liquor control law, with Cale K. Burgess pre sent throughout the long Senate dis cusion of the bill, neither Burgess nor any oth the “drys” were present Fri day advocating the enactment of the enforcement bill, as was pointed out to the House by Representative Con Johnson, of Iredell. 'Among the House members who voted against the liquor control bill and who also voted against the Page dry enforcement bill were Speaker Johnson of Pender, Representatives Blount of Pitt, Hatcher of Burke, Henry of Transylvania, Jones of Swain, Ray of Macon, Thomson of Robeson, Wade of Carteret and Klutz of Catawba Republican. Klutz main tained that the sheriff of Catawba county was abel to enforce the prohi bition laws without any help from the State. Among House members who voted against the Day bill, but who were not present and hence did not vote on the Page enforcement bill were Representatives Barbee of Northamp ton, Brock of Davie, Dees of Pamlico, Ervin of Mecklenburg, Gardner of Cleveland. Kelly of Sampson, Meekms? of Caldwell and Sentelle of Brunswick. The 21 House members who voted against the Page dry enforcement bill were: :Representatives Alspaugh of Forsyth, Blount of Pitt, Bowie of Ashe, Bryant of Durham, Cherry of Gaston, Cook of Alamance, Hatcher of Burke, Henry of Transylvania, Hobbs, of New Hanover, Horton of Martin, Howard of Orange, Jones of Swain, Klutz of Catawba. Peterson of Mitch ell, Ray of Macon, Thomas of Anson, Thompson of Robeson and Vann of Hertford, and Speaker Johnson of Pender All of the other 52 members present voted for the bill. Dual Power and How It i s l om The Henderson high school r Glee Club and Mixed Chorus sing at this service, the Qi e( . c * !t ‘ singing “Now Let Every Tor Ub Adore Thee”, Bach; the Mixed singing “Send Out Thy Light ” (r' JS od. W. B. Harrison and ! WlSs M ,^ n Taylor are directors of this organ.J* lion. ‘ c Christian Endeavor ar 7 p rn Evening worship 8 p. ni. You are welcome here. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7 30 - m. by Rev. J. L. Mauze, of Richmond Va ’ You are welcome here. FIRST METHODIST. Dr. J. Marvin Culbreth pastor 9:45 a. m., Church school, H Dennis, general superintendent 11 a. m., Morning Worship. Holy Communion; Theme, The Christian's Joy. 7 p. m. Epworth League. Leader Bessie May Johnson. 8 p. m., Evening Wtorship. The Be ginning of the Methodist Church i u by the pastor. Monday. May 6. 3:30 p. m. Woman’s Missionary So ciety, Mrs. P. H. Rose, president meets with Mrs. J. H. Cheatham Garnett street. 8 p. m., Board of Stewards, T. B Rose, Jr., Chairman, Baracca Room Tuesday, May 7. 8 p. m., Whitmore Wesley Bible Class, Mrs. J. H. Green. President meets with Mrs. M. J. Snell Zene street. Wednesday, May 8. 3:30 p. m., Woman’s Missiionary So ciety Study Class, Church Pat lor. Sub ject Orientals m America. Leader Mrs. J. Marvin Culbreth. 8 p. m., Bible School, Assembly Room. (Subject, The Revelation, Chap ters 8.11. Leader, J. Marvin Culbreth Notice:—An alert and diligent mem ber of the church suggested to the pastor that a sermon or two on the Methodist Church would be of inter est to a number of faithful workers in our organization. The pastor has decided therefore to give at least two addreses on this theme, on the first and second Sunday evenings in May respectively. The first, to be given next Sunday evening, will deal with the Wesleys and those who most im portantly influenced them The sec ond will take account of the hardy pioneers who brought Methodism to the United States. ST. PAUL’S CATHOLIC Rev. Eugene 13 . Carroll, pastor. • Mass and sermon on Sunday at 10:30 a. m. 1 Sunday evening—'May devotions in honor of the Blessed Mother of God Mass daily at 8:15 a. m. Public is cordially invited to ail services. THE SALVATION ARMY Adjutant and Mrs. Joseph Willett in charge. Sunday school 10 a. m. Morning worship 11 a. m. Young People’s Legion 6:30 p. m Evening worship 7:30 p m. Everybody cordially invited. HOLY INNOCENTS EPIECOPAL Rev. I. W. Hughes, rector. Second Sunday after Easter. 9:45 a. m. Church school. 10 a. m. Men’s ’and Women’s Bible classes. 11 a. m. Holy communion 4 p. m. Presentation service There will be no service at night WEST END BAPTIST. Rev. E. R. Nelson, pastor. Sunday school at 10 o’clock, W. H Perry, superintendent. Wprship at 8 o’clock, preaching by the pastor, topic: “Our Church Cove nant.” Everybody invited to attend. Fatronize The Leader © S 3? Wrecker, Tires anti Batteries. Phone 470-J. We Never Sleep
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