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PAGE TWO Newspapers Are Best News Medium , Churchill Asserts Only Real and Trustworthy Method of Disseminating News and Moulding Pub lie Opinion, and Consti tute Bulwi\rk of L tutes Bulwark of L New York, Dec,, 28.—Primacy of thft newspaper press a.s ttio "only real and trustworthy medium for dissom- Inatihn of m-ws and the moulding of public opinion' wns upheld today by Winston Churchill. noted English rtobftpnian. After a thorough analysis of the, subject, Mr. Churchill is eoncinved j can be no really serious chnl-j lenge to the press from either radio I or moving pictures.” and. looking fur-! ther ahead, from promised velevision.; "I believe that both England and America can he proud of their press.” he rays, writing in Collier’s. *1 believe 1 they cab trust their press. “In other count ilea whose peoples! we less intelligent, or where educa tion La Jess careful of the individual I mind, the future or publicity may lie I with radio and moving pictures, Un-! der dictatorships the press t.- hound t a languish, and the loud-speaker and! thb'flJm to become ever more impor tant. Blit‘where free institutions are Indigenous to the soil, and men have the habit of liberty, the pn-ss will nontlnuo to be the. Fourth Estate, the: vigilant, guardian of the rights of the, ordinary citizen.” Mr. Churchill sees art "menace in . advertisements” noi does he believe j there could ever tu any successful , corner of news and opinion in the United States or England. "It .would be affection to ignore two burning questions,” the Collier’s articlft by Mr. Churchill continues, j "The concentration of newspaper] ownership in relatively few hands and | the power of advertisers to dictate po-' licy are both held to trespass upon I tit* -freedom of the press. “PYankly, I think that both these i fears are exaggerated. There is safety j In. numbers. A press combine must.; us a matter of business, delegate a ! large measure of responsibility for) policy to its editors and a great editor ntamps hLs own personality upon 7he paper which he controls; and no newspgper can afford to suppress im- | portunt news which its rival will 1 print. "There is certainly no menace in | advertisements. It was the develop ment of commercial advertising that! first enabled the press to stand on its own feet., without relying on subsidies frbrn, governments or politicians, and i revenue from this source is still the bulwark of its independence today. JBL CHAPTER .{X SUDDENLY it came to me. 1 dotj l know win it hadn’t oectirred t 4 me be to re herause I iiad been iCOi.'inr* ar. rhe oi<! r •»'. •■oa.per picture lor fully 10 nvnutes ana nmllin.r ovei the resemblance between Mr?. Reeve »nu Mrs, ..Stormont. i lie fact that Mr*. Reeve might have been par doped before her r onten<.v. tva- com puted- That Mrs Reeve was Mrs, fctatmonf i moon rny head. There were rtJc tifferent noses. ( couldn’t get over that. Thero was Jirs. Reeve’s blond hair ana the red hair which graced Mr--. Starmont's bead. Hair wa c easy to dye. r,,; iioscb—noser? could be changed, toe.: 1 heard the first knock bin t didn't answer it. I was roc. busy thinking. When the second came. 1 raik-ct out, ■‘i.W In,*' then wished l r ■tn'r. ir wasn't r.afe In this hou.n v itc- people.. to enter n room .lone wth yo\».. Thar rm ’he w ,>• i been killed. Grace *carric m *.lrc*sset.j Ur,' im.'* form* I wasn't c xactly ea ! her. I wouldn’t have been com pletely at ease even ii it hoc] oee-n Lucy who had come in. The room was kojiely, but there was in ufJWr in the bah. j wondered if i could help you. ! I’fti feeling better, i thought I'.’i -r, ! JownatrUr-a" Tve finished now. Grace,” ■My voice wa« shaky. '1 he clipping ’*** lying on the table in front of rne. I uidn t want firnoo to sec it hdt at that moment J didn’t have the I strength to cover it. F.e?ide »he | cttppinr was Mrs. P.lppe's letter of reference. She wan standing back if roe now. 1 "What’s that?” There was something strange in ier voloe. It. was husky, trembling. I picked up the clipping, folded it pot it on top of the letter. Mrs. Heeve’e eyes were staring at me, for the paper was folded so that her tui) face waa In view. Before I knew it, Grace had ! grabbed the yellow folded clipping, torn it in a dozen pieces and put the bit# l» her pocket. Our eyes met, a-tul hers were blazing angry. "Y6u shouldn't have done that. Grace " 1 murmured, weakly. 7 was,-afraid of her. ■"You know then? That's why you caao# up to hunt, out that clipping. Tow, remembered you had it. fve been in my room wondering what you could l>e doing in here such a tons- time. You so seldom come in the-trunk room.” She spit nut the words fiercely. ; "What are you talking about?" I managed to say, more calmly. I’d ’ o*t some of my fear. • "You can’t deny you don’t know, when you had tho clipping right in * front of yon! You were going to ' take it' down to Lieutenant Larra bee!" A* far as I was concerned she was \ talking .Greek to me. I had no idea . what was the.matter. ; "Sit down and get yourself calmed i down, Grace.” I took her by the ■boulders and pushed her into the t chair In which I had been sitting j I was surprised when she obeyed ; iflfce a child. ‘‘Now, then, what’s the ; matter?” "*TUe clipping—Mrs. Reeve!" In the startled moment of her ar rival I had forgotten the little drama 7 I had'‘manufactured about Mrs. Star : mont being Doris Reeve. ’’Gfanat I didn’t come up her# to. T a * . “Advertisers are business men— | they pay to have their announce ; monts placed before the largest pos sible public, and they ought to know that permanent circulations can only be secured by honest news and hon est opinion.” i In a more specific considerulion ot I the subject <>f news as offered to (he j public by means of radio as compared |to newspapers. Mr. Churchill de- I dares: "People who listen to radio do not, i as a rule, concentrate on it. They -witch on the set and carry on with ' whatever they are doing. Ideas can not be apprehended so casually. But we sit down to rind a newspaper. Wo concentrate upon it. So the Ideas 1 which we find on the printed page 1 reach out to us. We think them over. They help us to form considered op inions, which we may be glad to have reinforced upon the radio.” Mr. Churchill aiso discusses news conditions in other countries than England an: 1 , the United States, point ing i ’ ’• •>» i:' the i css is to live up to its Lo.atLio.ii. it, must be free. “The fate of the press in Get many is an object lesson.” he says. “Jour nals whose names were household words, which were read and noted all over Europe, have ceased publication. Proscribed or shackled, deprived of independence, or the right to express) freely opinions, honestly held, they ] have died one by one. Those news papers which remain, the servile, mouthpieces of the regime, pap-fed by the Ministry of Propaganda, see j their circulations dwindle daily. “Dictatorship has allowed a wider! measure of freedom to the Italian, newspapers, but there, too. prestige of the press has suffered from the! knowledge that it enjoys only a : shadowy independence, and that no editor dares to offend the Dues. "] believe that only in Russia has j the circulation of newspapers increas-; ed under a dictatorship. But that in crease is due almost entirely to the ! fact that a much larger proportion j of the population than formerly is I now able to read. And Russia, it may be remembered, never possessed a free press. "As a general principle we may say that dictatorship and the liberty of the press are incompatible. "A free press is the unsleeping j guardian of every other right that j 1 had been looking at the picture for fully ten minutes. ;;f>t that clipping - . I came to find something el.-e, but while I was I here 1 stumbled on the old news j paper item. Now. if you’ll please ■ tell me what you know about Mrs. i Ueeve and Mrs. Starmont. T*ll be I thankful." j Herhaps it was because she saw I j didn't know as much as she at first : I had imagined that rhe blazing anger left her eyes, and dogged stubborn ness took its place. “I don’t know anything," she au • swe red, sullenly. .She was lying, else why should she have accused me of coming up here to find that clipping? She must know something about Mrs. Reeve atid Mrs. Starmont.. 1 hadn't been to mistaken iu ray dramatic conclu sion after all. IM try the full ex plosion on her. and see wh.it hap pen ecL “ft's perfectly obvious that Mrs. Reeve and Mrs. Starmont are the same person, isn’t it? And that Mrs. Iteeve, when she took the name of Starmont. also changed the color of her hair and the shape of her nose.” I was plunging in the dark but I saw the effect it bad on Grace. She looked at me stunned, her mouth open to speak. No words came, al though there was a choking sound in her throat. It was true, then. Grace’s eyes told me that Mrs. Starmont was Mrs. Reove. No wonder she was mysteri ous, no wonder she was frightened when Andrew Darien had been mur dered. A knife . . . perhaps Mrs. Starmont herself had murdered him! ‘M know what you’re thinking!” Words were racing, from Grace’s kps. ”1 know what you’re thinking! That -she killed Mr. Darien and that ?he killed poor Delia. She didn’t I tell you! She didn’t! But she's , been afraid of what people would be j lieve if they knew who she was! j We’ve been trying so hard to keep j everyone from knowing. She’s had t to. u» and He but I told her it. {Qatntrtah* HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1985. Huge Christmas Tree Cheers Capital Visitors Christmas tree in Cast room Throngs crowd the White House through the holi- I day season and It ii this huge Christmas tree in free men prize; it is the most dan- > gerous foe of tyranny,” he writes, j "No wonder then that the great dem ocracies have always been quick to resent any attempt to limit its inde pendence or* o bring it under regula- t tion.” Wife Prexe net's D>> not u-o a if luiish when washing linoleum, h uili de-troy wouldn't make any difference. She never murdered them. I toll you! She killed John Reeve, bin she-dal it when she was crazy-—mad. She didn't know what she was doing She’s been so unhappy, so miser able ” She paused for breath. I sat down on the edge of rb« table, and gripped her shoulder. "Grace Bowers, you sit there and tell me the story from the beginning. Every bit of it. How you knew Airs Reeve —the whole thing. Now!” Grace’s attitude abemt .Mrs. atar mont. or Mrs: Reeve- —I didn’t know which to call her —was clear ro me If she knew her as Doris Reeve, llei defense of Mrs. Starmont last night in the kitchen, when Delia had per sisted that Mrs. Starmont was In th« kitchen, and Grace had defiantly de nied that she had been there at all. "It. goes hack prettj # far. Air#. Penny, but since you know’ all about it ” The frightened look cam*. hack to her eyes. ‘‘Does Lieutenant Larraboe know?” ”So far as I know he doesn’t. 1 came across.the clipping by accident and drew my own conclusions.” She needed some comfort and I thought I might as well give it to her. A flicker of relief passed over het face. The fear name hack with het next question, however. “Are you going to tell him what t say?” “I don’t know, Grace. I don’t know what you’re going to tell n# When I hear it, I’ll see whether Lieutenant Larrabee should know.” “You’re a good woman, Mrs. Penny. I’ve worked for you long enough (a know that. You’re a fai; woman. I’ll leave it up to you In the be ginning I told Mrs. Etarraont—l*tJ call her that because you know her by that name—we ought to tell you: She was afraid. So we didn’t——” Tear:? were forming tn her eyes, and I handed her my handkerchief which she accepted meehar Icaliy,.- (TO BE CQKH&VEBJ INew- Social Security Act J Explanation of Act Effective January 1 This is the third of six articles explaining the new federal social security act, which will go into • ffeefr January 1. Written for Central I'ress and Daily Dispatch By DALE ( OX Financial Writer of Cleveland l'lain Dealer , No staggering sum of money is as • yet being paid out in old age pensions by the state.- In 1937 only $31,000 000 was paid out to the aged. Should the states have matched the entire $19,- 000,000 appropriated by the federal government this year, payments would not have been mote than SIOO.- 000,000. As yet, these pensions are being , paid out of various types of taxes - levied by the states. The federal government this year made its ap propriation of $19,000,000 out of its general fund.. .So, except for the 1 states’ share, the taxpayers are not yet contributing heavily for old age pensions. The much more important section of the Social Security act is that which deals with the plan for per manent. old age pensions or annuities which is to replace the present state federal plan. No Benefits Before 1942 Beginning January 1, 1937, all em ployers and employes under 65, begin contributing taxes toward this plan, : No benefit payments are to he made until 1912, the intervening years he- j lug used for the accumulation of an ; old age pension reserve fund. Several classes of employes are ex- , erupted from the old age pension plan ■ I starting next year. If you are er»- j j gaged in any of these groups of work- ! ers, you will haver to depend upon i your own efforts to provide security j , for your old age. The exempt groups are farm laborers, domestic servants, j casual worko*., seamen, employes of the federal, state, county, city or any other unit ol government, includ ing the school, libraries, etc., and employes of religious, charitable, scientific o- literary institutions. Wo at Employes Bay Beginning January 1, all employes i qualifying under the act will pay 1 i per cent of their annual v/age as a j tax for old age pensions. They will j ] pay the same percentage of their an- 1935 Sports Review By Jack Sords No. .1 —Mil rch - MAg. T V.AUgiM WOM TAC qcScS IAU 57 CAAMPIOdSfhP I'h / i Jack MepicA *■**££*&-*•■:& eea me taikd k ;5 4, L esfAeushep a xtw ’c’ECORPOP 4:*tL.9 FoK The Bt : ckei.cy B£U- HWttS / \ ‘♦‘♦o-Yagp -sms swim r»\t; ngAt. E | vrrke aasnard umvefc-suN «xwc» im mcw MAX SCAM&UM 6 oar Steve « awAg in tk e N»fn4 -*&&&£& . , b%—\ J / f<f¥ 1\ f VSSSSSSX^J&-^s\ at ~ 08APW9CIC VW/4 H i*> f?Pi/MPS AB ( WCd TAS AWkUAU W&rt t-ASXt MfWNOOK, MAft .VI- „ COAST©PWP*fITfcfe # mao 3 C&prrithtr ■ 4955- by Centr#i Pres# A*seci*MwL Ine the East room of tho executive mansion that drawl the admiration of visitors. A worker now in middle df life is not able to make wOw contributions for enough A MOHTH years to bring him a high LTNcduN monthly pension when he lsH| reaches .'the age of 65. His pension would average MMI only $lO a month. ■■■.. • i l .^ nual v/ngo up till 1910. For the years 19-10 to 1942 they will pay 1 1-2 per cent of their annual wage; for the years 19-13 to 19-15, they will pay 2 per cent; from 19441 to 1948, payment will he 2 1-2 per cent, and from 1948 on payments will be 3 per cent. Assume it hat a worker’s annual wage is SI,OO. For the first three years he will pay sls a year tax; for the next three years, $22.50; for the next three, S3O; for the next three, $-42.50, ami after 1919 he will pay an annual tax of $45. Same for Employer Isis employer, in every ease, will pay the same tax that the employe pays on his payroll. The tax for both the employer ami employe will be paid by the employe l ", to the internal revenue collectors. The employe's tax is to he deducted from his pay enve lope I f an employe makes more than $3,- 000 a year, the amount in excess of that figure shall not he considered for purposes of taxation. A man with a $5,000 annual salary, therefore WHAT WILL YOU PAY TOWARD PENSION? If you are an employe, or an cm- I ployer, you will have to pay a tax to build up a fund for old age pen sions, beginning January I—unless1 —unless you come under a certain few j exemptions. Read in this article just how the j system works, and how much you ; are affected ‘ i can have .an old age pension only on the basis of a $3,000 annual salary. The ael sets up many restrictions and qualifications for the receipt of j benefit payments. Tn order to he elig ible for an old age pension after 1912. for example, a worker must have re ceived at least. $2,000 in wages he- , tween Dec. 31, 1930 and Jan: 1, 1942 j and the wage must have been paid in , each five calendar years. Range of Pensions Under the plan set up in the So- j cial Security act, old age pensions for -workers over 65, beginning in 1942, j will range from sls a month up to a i maximum of SBS per month. The j monthly pension to which a worker j will be entitled will he based, of j course, upon the amount of his | monthly salary and the number of j years in which he has paid taxes for contributions. Thus, a worker who has earned only $25 a month, and has paid contributions for ten years, will he paid sls a month upon reaching 65. A person who has earned $250 a month and has 'paid contributions for 45 years, will receive an old age pen sion of SBS per month. This system of payments shows j that any worker now in middle life j will not be able to pay : contributions : for enough years to bring him a very I high monthly pension when he reach- I es the 'age of 65. A good average ! pension for all workers now from 35 to 10 years of age, under this plan, j will be around $lO a month. Quite a ; far cry from the S2OO a month ad- . voeated by the Townsend plan! No Extra Session* Os Legislature* I* Likely For State i (Continued from Page One.) the Ccneral Assembly at this time, especially with so many of its mem bers seeking political office, would he likely to do a great deal more harm than good, and that the State will be much better off to jock along with : its present, laws until 1937, even if It does not get till the Federal money it. might otherwise get. personal Motives The only ones who are clamoring ! for a special session now are those who think they would profit from it personally, a good many observers here point out. Those opposed to the sales tax want, a special session be cause they believe they could at least restore the exemptions, if not actu i ally .repeal or reduce the sales tax, it I is pointed out. The ‘Vets” and liquor | control advocates believe the legisla ture would now enact, a Statewide liquor control lav/ which would per mit any county that wants liquor stores to hold elections and have the stores it the people so voted. Those I favoring old age benefits and iinem pJoyrrg-.nl insurance, want the Gene ral Assembly to pass legislation which will permit to the Stab- to share in funds for these purposes already set, »side by the Federal government. This group is composed almost en tirely of those who think they would get some of this money. More Axes To Grind Within the last few days there have ! also been indications that the gaso line and oil industry is tremendously interested in having a special ses sion called by the governor and that the various gasoline companies doing business in the State are giving ail the encouragement possible to the movement for a special session. Those connected with this industry outwardly maintain that the session should he called to pass needed so cial security legislation. Blit the real reason for their desire for such a ses sion is believed to be their hope that they could get the new tax on chain filling stations, imposed by the 193 f session, repealed. This tax was fought tooth and nail by the powerful and affluent gasoline and oil lobby throughout the 1935 session, but -was finally enacted in spite of it. There are indications now, however, that the gasoline and oil interests think they would have no difficulty in get ting this tax removed in a special.ses sion, indicating to some that the mem ber:; of both houses have already been well canvassed on this question. Why McDonald Want* It The principal reason Dr. Ralph W, McDonald, one of the three leading candidates for governor, wants a spe cial session is believed to be that it would afford him an excellent sound ing board for numerous campaign speeches on the floor of the House and thus give him still greater publi cly. Few hero believe McDonald would get any more of his program through a special session than be managed to get through the 1935 ses sion. But it is agreed that it would undoubtedly afford him a means of getting a great deal of publicity and give him a beautiful opportunity for further attacks on the present admin istration. Might Hurt Graham Opinion here is considerably divid ed as to whether a special session would help or hurt Lieutenant Gov ernor A. H. (Sandy) Graham in his campaign to secure the gubernatorial nomination. A good many doubt it b would help his campaign, especial ly if it should enact a liquor control lavr and put the exemptions back in •he sales tax law, since these two things comprise most of the platform on which he is seeking the nomina tion for governor. It is agreed that a special session might tighten his ’ines among members of .the General Assembly, some of whom may have vtrayed away some. But most ob 3er% era hare feel that Graham would Hava more to lose than to gain from i special session After surveying the . entire situa tion and taking .all the various angles i a to, consideration., the feeling, is stii: strong here .that there w4U be no, spa- - cial session, at ieaat not until Con gress has met and it becomes, .more clear that North Carolina, cannot share in the, social..security benefits Without additional, etata legielatlch. LONG-PULL RELIEF HAPHAZARD AFFAIR a*— - , WPA Doing Some Good, But Lacks Much of Solv ing Real Problem. I*> LESLIE EK IIEL Cleveland, Dec. 28. In devoir,n,i i one newspaper is playing iq, u 11; ! romplishments of the WPA, Th. h t j is a formidable one. But, when all is sain and doru j hasn’t relief been a haphazard pro | gram under both the Hoover m u j t!i( j Roosevelt administration.’ (Oth, ( ; presidents did not. face i: Jit was coming on them ail the tirin' i Os course, Washington has not . sired to consider relief as a perntan j eht problem. That would 1.0 ! ered pessimistic. Such an admi i(l(1 j would "lose votes " I Yet, the question has arisen p,.,,. I in Cleveland whether it would r,,,. have been wise for President R 005,.. volt to have obtained si permanent i lief commission from Congres.-. 'p,, commission could have hen com posed of members of both nia.jor pan ie.s, as well as leading authoritj,,.' ~,, social welfare. , That would have removed i| u . j., j s ; ue from politics. Ain! it. would ) 1;iVl . 1 permitted accomplishment toward | stated goal. Even with the most careful u s j planning, such a problem i. difficult Jto solve. Even with the gt . ate.st , I si hie efficiency, there is stiff,Tin, 1 . Thus what can one expect when I the ablest of social workers und,-: j takes to relieve distress within a few i weeks, on the largest scale evet evi |denced? I HOOVER’S PLAN? Former President Herbert Hoover’., plan to localize relief once mote i meets opposition in each local unit J The problem has become too great i The nation is forced to think up an all-embracing plan, to cover t tn smallest unit as well ns the largest HOW RELIEF WORKS ■ Under our present belter-, keite. plan, many persons actually iieeditn; . relief (especially the timid) obtain no relief. The requirements for relic! are so inhumane, in many iustane.t that some persons prefer to starve, Marc J. Grossman, chairman of tv. ! lief in Cleveland, pictures the ■ tion in the.se words: "The overwhelming majority of re | lief clients hate relief-—and why not? 1 “Fifty per cent of the applications j for relief are turned down, not he | cause the applicants are imposter. ; but because they are not yet quii> ! paupers. “And so they come to us, men like ! ourselves, who after steeling thein j selves for days against the ordeal of ! asking for holy, turn hack at the ! door of the relief office, overcome J with shame. Or, having entered, ean i tint, bring themselves to ask for bread. ! but beg for work instead 1 Himself Foe of Administra tion, Nye Rather Likes Nettling Roosevelt. By CHARLES I*. STEWART ; Washington, Doc. 28-Chairman Gerald P. Nye’s Senate coin pi it tee on investigation of the war munitions industry, now getting into action again, is a. considerable embarrass ment to the Roosevelt administration, It is beginning to he recognized by Democratic politicians that they made t serious mistake in permitting a 15- oublican (Nye of North Dakota) to ’pc placed at the head of this inquisi torial body. By good rights, partis tnly speaking, the chairmanship ihould have gon to a Democrat. Jui '.iully,- however. Nye suggested the luiz. The Democrats failed to realize low effectively it might be developed, md allowed him to be put in charge >f it. They confess today that this was a nisjudgmont. The North Dakotan aas made a first-class piece o! spec jacularlty out of the inquiry, and, "W --• ‘ ;ng. nothing to the majority, ho b •mmanagoable. bIrSPLTE ON NEUTRALITY j The administration would not oh 'ect to neutrality legislation within vhat. it considers moderation. But it holds that Nye. is immode rate . ;j Its notion is that the White lh>u should be congressionally authorized jo define neutrality and enforce it. • > • t>or its own definition, very much lit" President Wilson in World War day • j Nye’s argument is that Wilsonian neutrality didn’t work very well. He insists that Congress ought t» ;’;Jo the defining in advance, with im option left to the president but to ?tick to congressional orders. \T ONE’S OWN RISK. The present neutrality law, which ixpir.es March 1, isn’t very binding. It requires a ban upon American Shipments of actual implements ot war to foreign belligerents. But coi iion, copper, steel, oil ami various oth !)r commodities are as essential to inil tary operations as guns and profs bn rated ammunition. ii Nyc seeks an air-tight embargo ind is trying to have the neutrality aw amended accordingly. The Lakotan is willing that other, non-military stuff and passengers jhould go to belligerent countries at. :he shippers’ and the passengers' own risk, but he asks that their acccfd ttnee of their own risks; be mor jjtrongly emphasized than hitherto. I .JAMES C COOPER INSURANCE StEtyj - pH *1 phafit' £O4-J | * r-f HENDERSON , N.C
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