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ifpttiterattt Baiiii iispatrh .Established August 12. 1914 Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by HENDERSON D1S4 A1CH CO., INC at 1U9 l'ouug Street HENRY A. DENNIS, Pres. and Editor M. L. FINCH, Sec.-Treas., Bus. Mgr. TELEPHONES Editorial Ottic** 500 Society Editor 610 business Ottice 610 The Henderson Daily Dispatch is a member oi "llie Associated Press, Southern Newspaper Publishers As sociation and the North Carolina Press Association. 1'he Assoc...uc-u Pi ess is exclusively entitled to jh lor republication all news dispauht.-^ credited to it or not otherwise cuui'.eu in this paper, and also the local neu> published herein. All rights oi puohcation ol special d^patcties hc.t.n .ue also reserved. Sl'BM Kli ilON* PRICES Payable Mi 'i u> m Advance One Year 35 0G Six Montns 2.50 Three Months 1.50 Weekly (By Carrier Only) 15 Per Copy .05 Entered a: the posi >,>...ce in Hender >ca, N. C. as r.a .i iss mail matter «I —*» mi f—my A ULaI!L>ICTIOX: Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself,, and God. own t.r Kk::^r. which hath loved us ami hai.t given us ever lasting co:..- ...*. n . 'd good hope through g.\ u\ <.■ .01: your hearts, and stable:' j. n -*.!'y good word and woik _ . mans J: 16. 1*. No Surprise Fonuai ;.:;no..nu.ine:it of can didacy by C\ :r.. .s-.>>:v . of Agricul lure Kerr Scvtt that he will be a candidate to succeed ... -eit occus-' ions no surprise anywhere. It was taken for granted. All that was J necessary was a mere statement of purposes. Mr. Scott will be hard to beat. He has been in office only one term, but has a substantial record to point to and to rely upon to fur nish argument in his lavox. He cer tainly ha- p..t new lift into the de partment over which he has pre sided. Scott went into office on a host of pron i.es as to what he would d<> it ?n trusted with the of fice. and he has either made good or made at least a beginning on most of them. Perhaps the outstanding point in his program is that of the drive for better marketing facilitiei for the farmers. There may be excess bag gage in the department, but. from our limited knowledge of his pur poses. it would appear to be maybe the most outstanding. This is not to say that tiie com missioner has operated for four years without a flaw in his record. If there is none, lie is a curiosity and a rarity, being human as he is. But he has a great deal to com mend him. He may have a tight on his hands, but his record and his friends will be strong bulwarks in his bid for re-election. "iNo IMew 1 axes" Gubernatorial Candidate Horton is on record as being opposed to imposition ot any new taxes by the 11)41 General As.-etnbly. And that's that. Xo.v ;t we can get a similar pledge trom the other eight L)emo-| crutic seekers ai'tei the office, and alio irom all candidates who are asking seals m tne Senate or the! House, tiie outioou v. ould be hope lul. True ei.ougii. campaign pledges on tlie one hand and actions while m office <>11 tne other are two entirely different tilings. The public all too well l.nov.s that. And old John Q., who ha. to loot the bills lor the error- and mistakes <>1 the law-linkers, is a bit leary ol cam paign promises oi tins kind. Whatever the people at large may think or wish about taxes, minority pressure groups don't know the language of cease and de list, and too olien prevail with leg islators after they u,< el together to write statute.- and t-> provide reve nue with which to operate the many and varied activities of u great State. Perhaps the surest way for avoiding added tax burdens would be for a solemn pledge to be cxaetcd of every candidate that he will resist this kind o! demands, un less by chance some tiehuine emer gency should arise that would re quire extra financing. That doesn't happen often. In the past couple of decades lew legislatures have met in North Carolina without creating some new commission or bureau and making i "way for a horde of additional job holders, until today the State cap ital is honeycombed with myriads of public employees carrying «>n numerous endeavors in the name and by the authority of the State All of them cost money, and there is only one place to get that money —the pockets of the people. We are glad Mr. Horton has dared to take a stand on the taxing ques tion. It is perhaps too much to ex pect that all the others will follow las good example, but the people can exact the pledge from them if they are sufficiently in earnest ; bout it. That is where the trouble lies. We say little about it during the campaign, but fume and fuss when tresh burdens are laid by the General Assembly. I The Way Through Rumors tor some time has had it that President Koosevelt is willing to confer his blessing on Cordell tiull as crown prince and heir to j the throne in Washington, and.1 ) though tiiis has not been flatly con tinned. neither has it been definite-j iv denied from the White House. I Sow comes along "Cotton Ed" Smith. South laiolma solon. with, the announcement that lie would support Hull, and urging his nomi- ! I nation. If any one cares to see the lion and the iamb—or maybe it is two' lion?—lie down together, there is no r.oed to look further. Here is the : perfect example. \\ ith these arch ' enemies ;u agreement on a can-1 ; uiaate tor ine presidency, tne party | could t-caieely do better than to ! iccept that man. | .Moreover. Cordell Hull has abili j ;'es of his own to commend him. He j has steadfastly refused to allow his i name to be used in convention' speculation, so tiiiit the office would appear to be seeking the num. Which is as it should be. and anoth er reason commending lite white haired .-ecretary of state from Tcnn Air. Hun is aooiu us wen ^ufim on problems of the government as | any man next to the President, ccr- j tainly more so than a lot of the J political upstarts who have been I mentioned tor the place. He has J the poise, the stability, the level- : :eadedness. and practically every, ether qualification, save only that I i:is age is a bit against him. Vet; other countries do not hesitate to! put old men into high position,! albeit the foreign countries have not' had the concei ted effort to discredit j drferlv officials as has been tried' i here. Quite conceivably Mr. Hull's ac-; eeptance all around might be the ! way out of the dilemma the Demo- j cratic party linds itsell in. It would i eliminate the dissension that in- | evitably would be caused by Mr. i Roosevelt seeking a third term. It! would provide the man on which both sides could agree. The Presi- j dent would have to approve or else! repudiate his own selection and1 support of Hull as his cabinet pre mier tor eight years. Hull is a sort j of middle-of-the-roader. He hasn't t v.ixed in the New Deal controver- ' sies on either side and has made no [ enemies in that regard. If the party can accept him and | also a running mate ol the same j type, its troubles ought to be little i ones and victory in November the' more certain. TOO MANY NEPHEWS (Merle Thorpe, in Nation's Business.) An investigator for the Smith Com mittee found in the files of the Na tional Labor Relations Board an ap plication by Bernard W. Freund, aged 27, tor a job as assistant at torney of the board. Attached to the application was a icgional director's report which read: "His legal training limited almost entirely to minor office matters. In my opinion lie would not be worth more than what he has been earning during the last year, whieh is ap proximately $50 a month." At the bottom of the application , General Counsel Fahy had written four words: "Nephew of Ben Cohen." Mr. Cohen is high in administration councils as a member of the team ol Corcoran and Cohen. Mr. Freund got the job, ;it $2,600 a year, now $2,800. Whiie this nephew had his econo mic problem happily solved, 3,000 other young men and women, rep senting, so they said, some 8,000, 000, gathered in Washington to make similar demands upon their Lucie. They, too, wanted someone to help them skip the lower rungs of tile ladder. All roads, it seems, lead to the District of Columbia. Relatives ol those already on the federal [jay roll demand, a. never before, ass.slanc. from uncles and aunts. Sensitivity to the question of nepotism is at an all time low, as the press report., daily new appointees as nephews or cousins oi highest officials or subordinates, i rau>:iers lrom private to ollicia. life naturally carry compensation in crease.., some, as in the case of Mr. Freund, as high as 400 per cent. Which gives point to the Department of Commerce report that the per capita income of Washington is three times as high as that of the rest of the nation. Nor is nepotism the only obstacle in the path of youth today. As "gov erning jobs increase, production jobs must carry the additional bur den of government overhead. The change is gradual so that, while the burden i.-, felt, the cause is not identi fied. If, for example, 90 per cent of the able-bodied were suddenly shiit ed to bureaucratic work, the ten per : cent left would be hard driven to • produce food, shelter and clothing, autos, radios and rayon for them- ; selves and the 90 per cent. But the 1 effect is no less certain because • gradual. That is why, when this in- 1 exorable law begins to operate, the State finds it necessary to pass wage and hour laws, and fix prices. At the present rate of adding to . federal pay rolls, in five'months the number of employees will reach 1.000,000. more than twice the num ber of seven years ago. This number does not include the legislative, .judi cial. Army and Navy, or the mil lions on WPA and CCC, or war vet erans, or state and local officials. , When these are included the situa- j tion reveals itself as a factor of un- I employment. Whereas, ten years ago . 11 citizens in gainful employment supported one government agent or : ward, today these same eleven sup- | port three on the government pay roll. This, then, is the situation in Washington to which a sober and in- , teliigent Youth Congress m'ght well address itself. For. as Government grows, youth will find it necessary to fight for a government j-»b which too often means pull, or light harder . lor place in a private economy where the burden upon each individual is increased because of the iicrea-od unrden of government overhead. This .idditional burden can be met only by greater production, longer hours, less return. With hours and wages lixed by law, youth, unable to com pete on equal terms with training ind experience, is indeed in a quan dary. It does not improve its con dition by demanding more from Gov ernment. Government should de mand less and less, which would leave more and more for youth. Such a "march on Washington" would be not only in the interest of ambitious young men and women, but also in the national interest. i What Do You Know About North Carolina? • j Bv FRED II. MAY 1. What is the appropriation for this term of publir schools? 2. Who was the former mayor of Wadesboro who last hi;* scat in Con gress in a contested election in 1896? 3. What is said to have been the . first civil war in America? 4. How Ion** was North Carolina . governed without constitution? 5. H( ;v does North Carolina rank in Negro population? j * 6. Wh"t were the property re-;,, quirements of officeholders prior to the constitution of 1835? ■ j AXSWFKS. I ■ 1. The appropriation allowed by J i the last legislature was $27,580,000. ; I 2. Former mayor James A. Lock-j hart who was seated March 4. 1894.' i Rev. Charles H. Martin, populist can-. I didate from Wake county, contested J i the election and was seated June 5.'( 1896. Congressman Martin completed, that term and was elected to suc-,'| ceed himself the next term, at the I end of which he returned to preach-jt ing. . 3. The war of the Regulators which j culminated in the Battle of Alamance i on May 16, 1771. This was the fir-t! i notable movement in America a-jc gainst constituted authority. 11 4. From April 1773 when Cover-' nor Josiah Martin, bst Briti h go - c ernor, fled from New Bern. t<> D> cembcr 18. 1776. when the Provin- 5 cial Congress at Halifax adopted the i first State constitution. During that! year and one halt North Carolina* was governed by the Provincial r Council which consisted of thirteen \ men. two from each of the six dis-jv tricts and one selected at large. jc 5. According to the 1930 census j t North Carolina is fourth in Negro j population with 918.647. Georgia is'i first with 1.071.12a: Mississippi sec-1 c <>nd with 1.009,718 and 'Alabama1 third with 944.834. U 6. To run for governor a citizen | C was required t<> possess n freehold of I real estate of at least toon pounds--1? about $5,000. To run for the senate'r a man had to own 310 acres of land; i for the house 100 acre™. To be al-i lowed to vote for a senator the voter- c must have owned 50 acres, however,' ;i to vote for a member of the house itj'o was ncce.sary to have paid taxes. • SALLY'S SALLIES Competition is the life of trade-but not when it's in your own heme. ! I ] i t t 1 ( 1 C THE HUMAN LEECH ieciay jr j? TODAYS AXMVKKSAKIES | 171-1—Ephraim William -. colonial j uiuscr, wncse will c:taMished a ; fee .'choi i. v. hieh became Williams i oilege in 1793. born Newton, Mass. /led Sept. M, 1755. 174(1—(2K1 years vii>n Thaddeus )odd. pioneer Presbyterian clcrgy i iii-tc-iictiio!. wi.ose log caoin chool was i!ie nr. i ch-sical one .'e.-t of the AHegiianics, virtual jund. r oS Washington College, Pa., orn al Newark, I\T. J. Died May 20. 793. 1791— Goold B r o w n. eminent rammarian of his day. horn in Yovidence. H. I. Died tit Lynn, lass.. March 31. 1357. 1836—James M. Thobutn. M. E. lissionarv and bishop in India for U years outstanding foreign relig jus figure there hi-: day. born in; )hio. Died Nov. 23. 1922. 1833—Edward Puyson Roe, cler- j yman. war chaplain, author of 17 iest-s&lling novels, born in Orange ounty, N. Y. Died at Cornwall, N. r., July 19. 1888. 1819—Luther Burbank, world amcd California originator of new ilants and Howes, born p.t Lan aster. Mass. Died Santa Hosa, Cak. ipril 11. 1926. 1850—Champ Clark. Missouri ongressmnn and Speaker. born in Anderson county, Kv. Died March , 1921. TODAY IN HISTORY 1638—Historic e oinpact of Aquid icck, R. I., by Anne Hutchinson, V'illiam Coddington and others. ;ho, unable to secure religious free om in Boston, set up an Old Tcs ument form of government of id^cs and elders on the Rhode Is md island purchased from the In ians. 1790—(150 years ago) First em us show; a population of 3,929, 00 in country. 1851'— Daniel Webster's famous Irnate rpeoeh. "to heat down the rorthcrn and Southern follies, now a»ir»rf n '"-iii"! extremes." 1369—North Carolina governor eclarcs Alamance county to be in j slat:; «»r in •"•recti'*11' • :i result i f Ku Klux Klan activities. 1876—Fii*;:t telephone patent is— I . ued Alexander Graham Bell. 191 It—-120,000 American solldiers ordered to Mexican border. 1919—First American Legion Post organized by E. Lester Jones, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey head. 1934—Henry Ford restores $5.09 day minimum wage lor most oi his men. TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS August Voilmer ol California, criminologist, born in New Orleans, 64 years ago. Seawell Ford, novelisl. born at South Levant, Maine. 72 years ago. Archbishop Rudolph G e r k e n. Catholic prelate nl" Santa Fe. N. M.. born at Dyersville, Iowa, 53 years ago. Mary T. Norton of Jer-ey City, N. J., congresswoman, born there, 65 years ago. LT. S. Senator Charles O. Andrews ol Florida, born at Ponce ae Leon. Fia.. 63 years ago. Dr. Pnilip Fox. astronomer, di rector ol the Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago, bom at Manhattan, Kans.. 62 years ago. Ben Ames Williams of Boston, novelist, born at Macon. Mi.;s„ 51 years ago. Dr. J. Ed?ar Park, president of Wheaton College, Mass., born in Ireland, G1 yerrs ago. TODAYS HOROSCOPE Today is an ambitious one. There is great attachment to friends, and a protective c a r e exercised in guarding them. Failure in under takings is seldom found, for what is not done by energv i- accomplish ed by patient and intelligent wait ing. ANSWERS TO j TEN QUESTIONS See Hack Pay* 1. Spenenr Tracy. 2. Sam Rayburn. 3. Havana. 4. Yes. 5. In Gernrmy they arc frequently called badger hounds. 6. Public utilities official. 7. French. o. Eight. 9. At the mints in Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco. 10. Baltimore. Capital Gossip By HENRY AVERILL. Diiilv liisuat' ii BiirK:;".. In iiu> Sit Watr^r n>k:"h, March 7.—Your Raleigh ■oportcr received Wednesday a peu ,wcu note lrom Willis Smith, almost •indiuaie for governor who changed is mind at the eleventh hour and ifty-ninth minute. It read: -We don't know \nuthing' about andidates, do we? Look at Florida!" Kudosed was a clipping from a Florida newspaper which listed the .•andidates already filed for their democratic primaiy—and the end is tot yet. There are an even dozen trying for he governorship; seven in the lield or U. S. Senator; five for Attorney leneral: and threj for Comptroller; nd two for several other offices. Compared with this showing, North j :arolina's nine-man gubernatorial l irimary doesn't look to big alter all. i One of the Florida candidates lor ' ;«>ve; nor is ol Tar Heel ancestry. Jurton Schoepf of Tampa is son of lormar purchasing agent lrom vshe\ il!e: and he has a sister living n Charlotte now. There probably was no loud cheer in the SUite Department ol Con ) sTv;>tion ;md Development when Gideon Boswood of Currituck county I announced lie will bp a candidate for re-election to the 1941 House. Last year Mr. Boswood kicked up ! quite a row over the game situation I in his county with a bill aimed at divorcing Currituck from the state I wide g,mie setup. He was also a loud- | mouth critic of several other activi- | i tics of the Conservation Department. I Chances are that Boswood will' have some trouble getting back, as / he is known to have lost the support I I of several influential backers who| ; had much to do with his successful , rr.ee in 1939. . — I Weeks ago this Bureau indicated ; the probability that Stanly county's ! Representative Crayon C. Efird j ; would be named State manager for i the Lee Gravely campaign. Announcement of the Efird ap pointment in this afternoon's papers1 1 of the State confirms another ex clusive forecast made by your Ra leigh reporter. ! Even officials in the Highway | Commission had to laugh at the i i statement by Wilmington city au-r I thorities that the Commission was) expected to "jump" at a chance to i I construct a truck lane around the! j city's business district because its j cost would be so much less than con ! ruction of such a route along Third i Street, one of the New Hanover cap ! ital's busiest streets. Every body knows that the High i way Commission, as presently con i -tituted never yet "jumped at" any j I chance to spend money.^At long last,' I I'd after prayerful and patient con-' sicleration the Commission soinci.i.ios| Sorrowfully admits that certain ex-1 j penditures will have to be made; but ! that's as far as it goes along spend ing lines. It certainly cannot be charged with profligate spending, I whatever its other shortcomings. 1 It can also be said with consider able emphasis, despite Tom Cooper's I optimistic statement to his fellow I citizens, that the Commission is not going to spend a quarter-million do|- j jars, or any considerable part thereof on construction of a truck lane tor • Wilmington. It isn't true, says Zadck Dumb \ kopf, that there's always room al the i top. Otherwise, Dummy points out, I we'd all live in penthouses. I | Two Russians bears escaped from | a show in an eastern city. They must have spotted a Finn among the I spectators. Wife Preservers ii you nreaK a glass and it flies into many pieces, dampen a paper napkin or towel arid crush it in your hand. Then you can pick up the tiniest bits and splin» ters of glass without cutting youiself. executrix Notice. Having qualified as Executrix of i he estate of Robert T. Robertson, ueceased, late of Vance County, j North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit j them to the undersigned at the office j of H. E. White, Attorney, Henderson, • si. C., on or before the 7th. day of | February, 1941, or this notice will be j plead in bar of their recovery. This the 7th. day of February, 1940. ANNIE BELL ROBERTSON, Executrix of the Estate of Robert T. Robertson. u-15-22-29-7-14 WANT ADS Get Resists IJABY CARRIAGE Foil S'■ good condition. ( j i , 978-J. T.;' EXTRA SPECIAL KAMA Wakefield cabbago ; 1,000. J. A. Mun lord Louisburg, N. FOR RENT: FIVE KO< on Andrews avc nuc t • modern con von i< i \ • ( . ■. E. Wester. Insur; nc . U<- • WE DO GENER/ L AUTO i ing, body and iVmscUt painting. Got our • - Johnson. North ll«ud Highway No. 1. Telcpb i.. WE SPECIalIau IN ALL kinds of body and !\ nd> r re I pair work. Motor S;».i"s Co. ! FOR SALE: TURKEY EG fs Lil;?) | Bi OS. flock. 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Brid get's Beauty Shop. 5-tl SOLID MAHOGANY BED ROOM suite, center drawer guides, boxed in drawers, dust proof construc tion through out. Bed p'>st m>!k! mahogany 60 inches high. $97..Vi. $5.00 1st payment. $2.00 pei Adams-Richards Furniture Co. .)!•'' S. Garnett street. licndehsoii. N < 7-lti KINDLE FIRES WITH OLD NEWS papers—they are (>0 per cent wood quick burning. 10c per bundle; 3 bundles for 25c. Get them at Daily Dispatch Office. 27-tf 5EIBERLING TIRES AND TUBES. Douglas Batteries. Small down payment, balance in 11! week-. Terms as low as 49c weekly. Come to see us. Carolina Tire and Mat tery Store, next to A. & P. eori-ll VIAN WANTED Foil FAMILY Rawleigh route. Permanent ' you're a hustler. Write Haul' gh' . Dept. NCC-93-123P. Ridu mud. V;-. or see F. E. Pinnell. 12* Yoimsj Ave., Henderson. N. C. 22-29-7-!I \11 keyed ads are strictly con fidential. 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