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Huey P. Dong was born at Winn-<
field. La.. Aug. 30. 1893. As a boy
of seven he began working on his
father’s farm and then neighbor
ing plantations, at 35 cents a day.
At 13 he sold schoolbooks and at
16 he became a traveling sales
man, selling various articles from
door to door.
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Distributed
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In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. EASKRRVIU.
•Raleigh, Sept. 10 —The contract for
the distribution- of the 1936 automo
bile license plates by the Carolina
Motor Club and the Winston-Salem
Motor Club has just been renewed
bn the basis of nine cents per set of
plates sold, it was announced today by
Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max-
Well. A conference with the heads
of these two motor clubs was held
here Monday at which the contracts
were renewed on the same basis as
last year.
“The cost of distributing’ the licenses
plates through the offices of these
motor clubs at nine cents per set is
considerably less than it would cost
to mail them out from the central
office here,” Commissioner Maxwell
said v “The contract price for hand
ling these plates was reduced last year
from 10 cents per set to nine cents
per set and the two motor clubs
agreed to distribute them at this same
price again this year.”
Several years ago the Department
bf Revenue paid the motor clubs as
much as 12 cents per set, which was
still les sthan the cost of mailing
them direct from here, by the time the
cost of labor and handling was in
cluded.
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Want To Preserve
Andrew Johnson’s
Old Raleigh Home
Raleigh, Sept. 11 —A project for the
permanent preservation of the home
of Andrew Johnson, seventeenth pres
ident pf the United States, born in
Raleigh December 39, 1808, will be
submitted to the State Works Pro
gress Administration some time to
day by the State Historical Commis
sion and the Andrew Johnson Memo
rial Commission, created by the 1927
general The Johnson
house, -formerly located on Fayette
ville street about half a block from
the Capitol, is now rotting to pieces
in Pullen ark here.
The project which will be proposed
will be to move it to Nash Square
here and enclose it inside of a brick
stone building which will also
serve- as a historical museum. The
Slate of Tennessee several years ago
built .%ljbftak building within which
to ptegjtrwa Andrew Johnsons for
mer tailor shop in Johnson City,
Tenn., and it has become a shrine
and museum. The State WLPA i 3
giving every cooperation in this pro
ject.
< Mr. Rollins in Hospital
B. M. Rollins, superintendent of
the city and county schools, was tak
en to Maria Parham hospital last
night for treatment and today was
etHi confined to his bed there.
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Meanwhile young Iluey acquired
a high school education and stud
ied law at Oklahoma and Tulane
universities. He was admitted to
the state bar at 20.
Huey met Miss Rose McConnell
through a baking contest he or
ganized and married her three
years later at the age of 20.
CONGRESSMAN WEDS SINGER
Representative Reilly Mrs. Reilly
Representative Michael K. Reilly, Democrat of Fond du Lac, Wis.,
is pictured in Washington with his bride, the former Miss Mary
Isobel Hall, concert singer of New York City and Washington. The
marriage came as a surprise to Reilly’s friends. The couple are
honeymooning in Massachusetts, native state of the bride.
POTEAT TO ADDRESS
OPENING AT U. N. C.
Chapel Hill, Sept. 11.—Dr. William
Louis Poteao, president-emeritus of
Wake Forest College, will be guest
speaker at the formal opening of the
University at Chapel Hill at exercises
to be held in Memorial Hall Friday
morning, September 20 at 10:30
o’clock, itw as announced here today
by Administrative Dean R. B. House
A. McNair lecturer and a frequent
visitor and speaker at the University
where he is greatly beloved, DDr.
Poteat is distinguished as a scholar
and educational philosopher.
“For many years his addresses on
a liberal education to the student
body at Wake Forest have been fea
tured, and there is no doubt that his
address herew ill be one of distinction
of general interest,” said Dean House.
Classes will be suspended to give
students, an opportunity of attending
the first general convocation of the
University year.
State Control Os
Liquor Is Desired
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gle of the liquor business and be
come so interested in making money
or revenue from it, that it will fall
back into the same limbo if disrepute
it was in 26 years ago, and which
eventually resulted in State and na-
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Huey induced the state supreme
court to speed the processes by
which he could practice before it
and opened an office in Winnfield.
In 1918 Long ran for his first
political office, state railroad com
missioner, defeating four eppo
nents after a gruelling campaign.
tional prohibition.
State Stores Favored.
To prevent any unholy alliance be
tween county officeholders, or can*
didates for county offices and the li
quor business, and to make sure that
the control angle will not he lost sight
of, many people are becoming more
and more convinced that if liquor is
to be legally sold in North Carolina,
it should be sold in State-operated
stores, under and control of a single
liquor control commission. It is also
being more and more widely agreed
that Attorney General A. A. F. Sea
well is eternally correct in asking for
a State Department of Justice, under
the attorney general, to supervise the
enforcement of all Statewide laws.
Under a set.up of this kind, it is
maintained that the liquor traffic In
North Carolina should be controlled
the laws against bootlegging rigidly
«nforced and politics in the adminis
tration of the control law reduced to
a minium.
Another argument for State con
trol, of course, is that the State needs
the revenue more than the counties
do. But leaving the revenue angle en*
tirely out of the icture, State control
is needed in order to bring about
more stringent regulation, to prevent
cuts-throat competition between fihe
counties, to suppress bootlegging and
especially to remove to as great an
extent as possible any hook-up be
tween the county liquor stores and
boards with county political rings. As
far as the revenue is concerned, most
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While a member of the Louisiana
public service commission in 1924,
he decided to run for governor. 9
He was defeated, but ran again
four years later and received 140,-
000 votes, a huge majority in his
state. An effort to impeach him
in 1929 failed and was later
abandoned.
observers here now admit that it will
be virtually impossible to get through
any kind of Statewide liquor from
the liquor stores, even in a special
session. Many frankly think the coun
ties are entitled to half the revenue
from the liquor stores located in them
A good many think the counties that
now have liquor stores would be will
ing to agree to a 50.50 split in rev
ence with the State in order to be
freed of the responsibility of operat
ing the stores and enforcing the con
trol. Jaws, although a majority are
convinced that the counties, now hav
ing stores will fight to kefep them as
well as all the revenue. . ,
An exception to this latter belief,
howevpr, is Senator Harrlss Newman,
of New Hanover county, who fought
throughout the 1935 legislative ses
sion for State control law, but who
finally succeeded in gettinsg the New
Hanover and Paquotank laws thro
ugh the Senate after it had refused
to pass a Statewide law. Although
the five liquor stores in New Han
over county are doing a thriving bus
iness, enough to give promise of a 20
per cent reduction in the tax rate, and
have also virtually wiped out boot
legging, Senator Newman still favors
a Statewide law and would vote for
it today.
World. Is Warned Britain
Will Back League Covenant
(Continued from Page One.)
warning to Premier i of
Italy that Great Britain , would be op
posed. to an unprovoke war against
Ethiopia. , ,
Meanwhile, Italian preparations for.
war went steadily ahead as 50.000
more men were called to the colors
in a draft believed to be the last nec
essary to complete mobilization this
month of 1,000,000 men.
Ethiopian women, too, took up the
colors and began mobilizing /bat
talions of death” for service at the
front should hostilities break out.
THREAT TO LEAGUE AND TO
FRANCE, ROME PAPER SAYS
Rome, Sept... 11. —(AP) —The news
paper La Tribuna today designated
the speech of Sir Samuel Hoare, Bri.
tish foreign cecrctary before the Lea
gue of Nations Assembly at Geneva,
as a veiled threat both to the League
and to France.
'“The orator evidently wished 'to
indicate that when the League of Na
tions becomes incapable of solving the
Italian-Ethiopian problem according
to the British viewpoint, the govern
ment in London might vote to leave
the League,” said the newspaper.
From Long’s Bier Politici
ans Turn To Battlefields
(Continued from Page One.)
one solid group, they might give a
serious challenge to the Long organ
ization.
Although Long’s death was a se
rious blow to his machine, it will
continue to run for a time on its own
momentum. Even without leader
ship. it is undeniably the strongest
political organization at present in
the state, and it will put up a stiff
|fight in the approaching January
election, when senators, congress
men, a governor and other State of
ficers will be nominated.
New School Chief
Hard-Boiled Guy
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Senate from the first senatorial dis
trict, Griffin became very much in
terested in the movement to secure a
state supported tight months school
term and is known to have had a
great deal to do with the writing of
the 1933 Scnool Machinery Act which
set up the operation of the eight
months school term, now regarded
as one of the most progressive and
outstanding pieces of school legisla
tion ever adopted in the United
States, This abolished something
like 3,000 school districts and reduc
ed the number to only 852, greatly sim
plifying the problem of school admin
istration. It also wiped out district
end county lines, as far as the sup
ervision of the schools was concern
ed, and linked them all together into
one compact, st&te-supported and
state system. Griffin,
is; also conceded to have had a large
part in the writing of the 1985 school
machinery act, since he was chair
man of the 1935 senate committee on
education. Accordingly, he is re
garded as one of tne best informed
men on .school administration in the
state.
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MARTIN TALKS plainly ON {
1 LEAVING OLD STATE JOB
Raleigh, Sept. 10—Outgoing “Com
missar” Leßoy Martin, secretary to.
. the State School Commission" did not
compass his leave-taking without a
shot at- the “politics” in the schools,
a condition to which your bureau oft
en has adverted without augmenta-
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Criticized by virtually every news
paper In Louisiana shortly after
' he became governor, Long estab
-9 lished his own weekly and used
handbills freely.
By the time Huey was elected to
the United States senate in 1931
he called himself ••Klngflsh” and
was virtual dictator of Louisiana.
tion of friendships among the educa
tional fraternity.
Mr. Martin’s declaration that the
schools are completely in politics
lacks everything of originality since
the Republicans have been saying it
25 years and some Democratic protes
tants have been at it almost as long.
The late Henry Page once declared
the State superintendent, Dr. J. Y.
Joyner,, “ a glutton for power.” Mr.
Martin doesn’t get quite so personal
but he is a lot more direct.
In the Republican assaults the at
tacks are, of course, political. The
Republicans have been denied any
local control and many of them
charge that county and city superin
tendents must be Democrats to have
assurance of any positions. Facts
have disproved the accusation in
part, but the Republican representa
tives have been pitifully few. Mr.
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A supporter of President Roose
velt shortly before his nomination'
for the presidency. Long soon
broke with the administration.
Deprived of all federal patronage. 4
Huey bitterly attacked the New
Deal and President Roosevelt with
an eye on the Wh>it» H*use for
himseH
Martin is probably too good a Demo
crat to champion Republican super
intendents and principals, but he is
quite concrete in his other animad
versions.
For instance, he says “half the
high school business is a farce.” He
would do away w’ith about 50 per
cent of them. He observes that
thousands of teachers get their places
not for ability to teach, character or
experience, hut by political favor.
Republicans have said the same thing
many times. They have been help
less in protesting. The out-goer many
times has expressed to newspaper
men his feelings, but he was talking
as man to man. One of the scribes
caught him in going-avway gown. Re
spoke then as a former State em
ployee.
Still, as has been observed today,
Mr. Martin, who proved himself a j
While leaving a special-session
of the Louisiana legislature, called
to enact measures increasing
Long’s power, the senator whs
shot in the abdomen in the state
capitol. His assailant, Dr. Carl
Weiss. Jr., son-in-law of a politi
cal enemy, was slain by Lons'’!!
bodyguard.
very capable commissar, was picked
politically. He was the petted child
of politics’ old age. He delivered the
goods. He justified the extremity to
which politics goes. And he lived,
eight years, to see the simplicity of
the fiction that “the schools must be
kept out of politics.” Politics never
could he kept out of the schools.
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