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LEGISLATIVE CHATTER
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In Ibr Sir Waller Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. 26.—Echoes of Major
L. P. McLendon’s advice to the Dem
ocratic party that it. do a bit of clean
up work with regard to the absentee
ballot and election abuses generally
are still being heard not only here in
Raleigh but apparently throughout
the State. Down east the election
board chairman is being acclaimed as
a keen physician who has correctly
diagnosed a disease which is slowly
eating away at the party’s vitals. Old
liners, however, who privately admit
they don’t think it’s wrong to steal
votes from Republicans, -are sharpen
ing stilletos for the good major whose
political life may be endangered by
his frankness.
A. D. (Lon) Foler, national exe
cutive committeeman from North Car
olina, will arrive here Wednesday to
remain the rest of the legislative ses
sion.
He hasn’t any particular aim an<l
objective in view, he says, but natural
ly wants to keep a finger on the poli
tical pulse of the party and there's
no better vantage point light down
than here in the capital.
The address of Frar’ Ba.no, Social
Security Foard secretary, to be heard
by the solons Tuesday afternoon,
should do much to clear up many
questions now agitating the minds of
many legislators. An extremely large
per centage of the House and Senate
members are frankly widely uninform
ed about the whole S. S. program of
the Federal government. This fact, no
doubt, has something to do with Mr.
Bane’s visit to North Carolina at this
particular time.
School officials—and school lob
byists—are ibeginning to ring the
charges on the old standby—shortage
of teachers. Every time the legisla
ture convenes the appropriations com
mittees are told they positively must
increase teachers’ salaries because if
they don’t the State’s schools will not
be able to secure a sufficient number
of properly trained instructors.
Yet the cold figures show that even
in the best times there were mors
than two applicants for every teacher
post open in North Carolina. And
throughout the worst of the depres
sion this State was able to outbid
practically every other Southern
State for the services of competent
teachers, as North Carolina salaries,
even with big cuts, were higher than
in other parts of Dixie.
EVen in advance of the liquor hear
ing set for Thursday, “drys” have
opened up with the same old battery
of clergymen they have employed for
years. First gun fired was by the Rev.
Arthur Barton, of Wilfnington, with
a fulmination about the increase in
bootlegging he claims has occurred in
New Hanover since opening of county
liquor stores. He cited no figures to
sustain his assertions.
Opponents of reapportionment—by
which New Hanover, Nash and Rock
ingham would lose a member each to
Guilford, Buncombe and Mecklenburg
—are apparently much more optimis
tic than ten days ago. They feel the
"unconstitutional” argument advanced
by Representative J. C. Hobbs, of
Wilmington, is bearing fruit and they
are counting strongly on the fact that
most of the legislators have no keen
or close personal interest in the mat
ter. Representative Rupert Pickens,
Guilford, is buttonholing all and sun
dry, however, in his efforts to put his
bill across.
Sunshine and wind are the two
things most desired by the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion r’ght now, since nothing else
can dry out the thousands of miles of
muddy county roads and thus make
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it possible for the road forces to get
to work on them. For road machines
and scrapers are no good on muddy
roads.
“Ten days of sunshine and wind
would literally be worth millions of
dollars to us at this time,’’ Chairman
Capus M. Waynick of the highway de
partment said today. “For if we had
millions of dollars to spend on these
|i<oadis> now —fwth|icih we haver,)’t—we
could not spend it until after we had
enough sunshine and rain to dry them
out first.”
Watoh the joint appropriations com
mittee wield its axe and chop mil
lions of the requests for appropria
tions made by the various State de
partments and institutions recently.
For while the various State agencies
asked for some $11,000,000 more than
the Advisory Budget Commission re
commended during the public hear
ings by the committee, expectations
are that the committee is going to cut
these requests back to about the same
amounts recommended by the budget,
committee. This will means a general
fund budget of between $37,000,000
and $38,000,000 instead of one of about
$18,000,000.
You're Telling Ale!
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By WILLIAM RITT
Central Press Writer
The groundhog dropped into the of
fice today to see whether his forth
coming shadow-seeing tour was get
ting enough publicity. He was visibly
upset on learning the presidential in
augural, the floods and the doings a
round Madrid have kept groundhog
news down to a couple of lines on
the want ad page.
“You know,” he naid, from the
depths of the editor’s wastebasket,
where the only shadows visible werei
those cast by cigaret butts, poems
sent in by an elderly female sub
scriber and a couple of Christmas
cards the editor’s wife gave him to
mail a month ago, "I'm getting sick
of my job.
“Unless President Roosevelt or
he continued, “changes
the date of Ground Hog -Day from
Feb. 2 to some time, say, in June, I’m
liable to stage a stay-in strike.
“It’s no fun to come out of a nice
warm burrow into an early February
blizzard just to see or not to see my
shadow. For no pay, too. You’d think
the weatherman, for one, would be
sport enouh to slip a guy a couple of
carrots or somethi; j.
“It wasn’t so bad w’ion people paid
some attention to my shadow-seeing.
A fellow in those days could feel that
his work was appreciated.
most folk don’t even know that we’ll
have six more weeks of winter if I
see my shadow.
“I blame it all on these new-fangled
household devices like central heat
ing and air-conditioning. People no
longer care about weather predictions
when all they have to do is to turn a
knob or a switch to get June in Jan
uary.
“However, I guess I’ve been doing
my stunt so long now that I might
a.s well continue. Will you be sure
and send a reporter over Feb, 2? And
a good cameraman. That fellow last
year had me way out of focus.”
With that remark he waddled out
of the office, humming a tune to him
self. Tt was rather faint, but sounded
something like the recent song hit,
“Me and My Shadow.”
r HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH;' 'TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937
& DAY THAT I FORGET
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READ THUS nasr:
Janet MacLeod has just married Joel
Paynter, second-rate actor, whom she
met a few weeks previously at a cock
tail party. Because Joel asked Janet
to stop work, she has had to econo
mize. Martha Colby, her best friend,
visits Janet in their one-room apart
ment. Joel tells Janet his show is
closing.
KOW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
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CHAPTER 4
THE LIGHT was red but Janet
didn’t notice that. She stepped
from the curb and a hand jerked
her back roughly. She hadn’t even
Been the taxi turning the corner.
She murmured her thanks and saw
that her rescuer was gone. The
slight adventure was enough to
unnerve her; she felt her eyelids
string with the tears that sprang
* to her eyes.
The hot pavement burned
through the thin soles of her san
dals. The July sun beat merciless
ly down upon her. It was a long
hot walk across the park to West
Seventy-third,, street, but a bus
would have cost 10 cents. It was
an extravagance she could ill af
ford and she resisted it, striking
out bravely on her path homeward.
There was no need to hurry for
Joel seldom returned to her before
6 and more than ever today she
dreaded going back to the airless
room where the bright colors were
less attractive Jfi the hot light.
She was filled with unhappiness
but not with envy, thinking of the
lovely, cool apartment she had left
but a few minutes before.
She had been leaving the bank
where she deposited the check for
the rental of her old apartment, a
check that allowed no profit, when
she heard herself hailed by Mar
garet Peyton. Margaret, like her
self, was a bride and like Janet,
had been a minor executive at the
Faber-Johnston store. \
Margaret, sitting at the wheel
of a smart little roadster, said,
"Come along with me, Janet, I’m
dying to hear about what has been
happening to you. I’ve got to get
home early and I want you to see
nay place.”
So Janet, having nothing to do
but worry, had gotten in.
Margaret was a bride who might
have been created by a woman’s
magazine. She had radiance; she
had, also, an air of assurance, of
security. She had a trousseau with
everything a bride could want.
Janet exclaimed over the lovely
hostess gowns, the smart little
evening frocks, the jaunty sports
things. She murmured "lovely”
and "how fortunate” and all the
other things that were expected of
her over the linens and glass and
china. And she missed none of the
beauty and completeness of the
big, comfortable, cool living room,
the spacious kitchen, the well
stocked pantry. .
She sipped her iced tea and nib
bled imported English biscuits and
told Margaret that Joel was "tem
porarily at liberty” but they
couldn’t get away this summer—
Margaret and her husband were
going to Maine for the month of
August—because "Joel is consider
ing a part in a new production.”
"His show closed in March,
didn’t it?” Margaret asked. "I
was interested in it when I heard
you had married him and I wanted
to see it but when we got back
from our honeymoon, it had
closed.”
Janet smiled very brightly.
"Yes, I was glad it did. I had
hardly had him to myself. We
didn’t have a real honeymoon, you
know. It was nice to have him
more of the time.”
It HAD been at first when they
were both filled with optimism.
There were new shows in produc
tion then, shows that would go on
the road for the summer. ~ There
had been no need to worry then.
They’d had over S2OO in the bank,
including Martha’s wedding pres
ent.
There was less than $25 now.
The English biscuits that cost a
dollar a pound felt dry in Janet’s
throat as she thought of the din
ner she had planned. Lamb stew
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"Come along with me, Janet.”
again. It wasn’t a summer dish
but it had its virtues; it was cheap
and the leftovers could be served
as a meat pie the next day. With
a crisp salad, it would make a
nutritious meal for Joel, who
looked these days as though he
needed nutrition.
Sometimes Janet was stricken
as she thought of the responsibility
she was to Joel, yet she knew that
if he didn’t have her to eke out
his pennies—and to do it so that
he would not realize that he was
practically penniless—his lot would
have been worse.
"Do you ever miss working?”
she said rather unexpectedly to
herself, addressing Margaret.
"Heavens, no! I don’t have
time. My dear, when you keep
house, the day just flies. I have
marketing and little things to do
around here and suddenly it is time
for Jim to get home and the day
is gone. I don’t suppose you have
either. It must be rather a story
book life and full of glamor to be
married to an actor, isn’t it?”
“Yes,” Janet said, "it’s very dif
ferent. One so completely an
individual . . i iiiat is . . . every
one seems to be doing something.”
She realized h6r words made little
Sense.
"I was surprised to hear that
you gave up your job.” Margaret
picked up ice cubes from a silver
bucket with a silver spoon and
dropped them in Janet’s glass. "I
was in Faber’s the other day and
Mr. Hoadley”—he had been Janet’s
superior—"was bemoaning your
departure.”
Janet felt as though her ears
were distended toward Margaret
but she gave no sign.
"He said he couldn’t take a vaca
tion because he had no capable
person to take charge. You know
he hasn’t been able to find an as
sistant since you left? I guess
your job is there if you want to go
back.”
Walking home through the park
an hour later, Janet thought of
that. And she made a decision.
Once she had done so, she hastened
her steps. No matter what Joel
said, she had made up her mind.
She couldn’t stand that strained
look in Joel’s eyes. She was sick
to death of lamb stew and pork
chops and hamburgers. She
wanted broiled chicken and sweet
breads. She wanted them for him.
It would only be for a little while
Qf
and in the autumn Joel would
surely find a part.
* * *
"You knew what your chances
were when you married me. . So
you’re sick of it? Well, go back,!
forget me, have your little satis-j
faction that you married a no-'
good!” Joel flung down the dish'
towel with which he had been wip
ing a plate. j
Janet’s voice was patient and
had the quality of a mother speak
ing to her child, “Darling, you
don’t mean a word of it. You’re
a bright, intelligent man and a 1
reasonable one, too, only you:
haven’t seen the point yet. I can!
go back to my job and earn S4O a]
week. I’ll give it up when you get
a part and in the meantime we’ll!
have money for carfare and clothes!
and decent food.”
“For better or for worse,” Joelj
muttered and paced the small'
floor. I
"Let’s consider this for the bet-!
ter,” she said as she wiped the last
plate and put it on the shelf. j
But Joel went on, angrily; ,
“You know it’s a matter of prin
ciple with me. Why will you be
stubborn? You know I cannot al
low you to go back to work! Janet,
if you go, this is the end between
us. It tells me only one thing—•
that it means you aren’t willing to
share my luck.. Do you want a
husband who ha*< no pride?”
Janet thought: Twenty dollars
and the rent is sl2 a week. What
next?
She saw herself back at her job,
back in the sweet little rooms on
Twelfth street. She saw the long,
empty nights without Joel. ;
She walked across the room and
put her arms around him.
"No, darling, I don’t want any
thing but what I’ve got. You’ll
get something. You’ve got to!
Forget that I said anything about
going to work. Let’s go out and
sit in the park. It will be cool
there and nothing terrible is going
to happen to us tonight. When
tomorrow comes, who knows what
will turn up?”
That was their first quarrel if
it could be called that, and Janet
had met it as she was often to do,
by recognizing the importance of
Joel’s pride. It was part of him
and she loved all of him.
The next day something did turn
up.
(To Be Continued)
SAFETY MOVEMENT
GETS BIGSUPPORT
Over 1,200 Carolinians Back
Plan of Press and
Motor Club
Charlotte, Jan. 26—More than 1,200
Carolinians last week were enrolled in
the mobilization for highway safety
movement, sponsored by the Carolina
Motor Club and the press, it was an
nounced today at Carolina Motor Club
headquarters here.
There are no costs or obligations in
connection with becoming a part of
the movement to curtail the loss of
life and damage to property as a re
sult of traffic accidents, other than a
promise to drive carefully and en
deavor to go through the year 1937
without accident. Those who enter
are mailed cards recognizing their
safe driving records and their names
are recorded at Carolina Motor club
headquarters. Those who maintain
‘ No accident” records throughout the
year will be presented with certifi
cates of award.
The first of a series of local com
mittees was organized at Charlotte
during the week. J. Caldwell Mc-
Donald was named chairman for the
Charlotte area. He will appoint chair
men of sub-committees on location
and causes of accidents; laws, ordin
ances and enforcement; engineering
and traffic signals; public education;
enrollment and awards.
Similar committees will be organiz
ed in outstanding communities
throughout the Carolinas. The move
ment is receiving wholehearted sup
jport from i?ndustr : J(D| commercial,
civic, fraternal, religious and educa
tional organizations and from officials
and individuals interested in safety
throughout both North and South
Carolina.
“Any individual or any organization,
regardless of race or creed, is invited
to enroll in the mobilization for high
way safety,” Coleman W. Roberts,
president of the Carolina Motor club,
said. “We are tremendously pleased
with the response and endorsement
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COURTESY
ONE of the greatest improvements in
modern banking has been the recogni
tion by banks of the absolute necessity
that every employee be courteous to ail
customers under all conditions. The day
of the curt clerk and the pompous offi
cial has passed into the ash-can of dis
carded banking methods.
A new customer we trust will appreciate
what our old customers have long been
familiar with—the courtesy accorded to
every one who does business with us.
First National
Bank
Henderson, N. C.
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
with which Carolinians are a ffi ,
with this permanent movement . Uln *
duce accidents on the highv
try blanks may be secured '
Carolina Motor Club office.”
Money Need Big Ally
__Of Liquor Folk
(Continued from Page One.)
Profit Motive Paramount
And so, despite the fact that p 0
trollers have tried to keep the , .
motive” in the background of !
quor fight, there is no question t,:|,
that this feature is becoming
mount in the minds of many.
Everybody knows that liquor f ] ( „.
yield a big revenue and the more
tain legislators think of that iact 0,,
more inclined they are to vote
some plan whereby the State can .
this fruitful source. Too, the couni'ii*!
are almost as sorely pressed as ti v ,
State, and the law-makers are 0Vfl „
mindful of the folks “back hone '' nn j
anxious to give them a lift whenever
possible.
As a result, advocates of county and
of State control are growing more mid
more easy to reconcile, and if nov .
seems likely that there will be ]j|q'
difficulty in their getting together , )n !
some plan whereby the State will re
ceive a large slice of the “heavy
sugar” produced by liquor stores.
Even the controversy over taxation,
of intangibles may be settled amioahly
through the liquor question, with he
counties being allowed to retain the
levies they now collect on solvent
credits and the like in return for sup
port of a heavier State share in li
quor revenues.
On the dry side, there has appear
ed a clear-cut difference of opinion
over the question of providing a ma
chinery act for the sale of liquor in
the event a referendum should result
in a “wet” majority in the State. Un
compromising friends of prohi'ition
are not. prepared J -o yield one iota and
insist ' they will vote for nothing ex
cept submission to the people of the
State of the simple question—which
they artfully word—of liquor or no
liquor.
Others whq are dry mostly because
they think their counties would vote
that way. insist that any referendum
bill should include a system of liquor
control in the event of a wet victory.