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plan ^40,000 Building For W ebster's Schools - 1 JViiARS AGO (.r,iSX;- Jo:uacrat, Jan. 10, 1895 t ' i l?' ( ?\ '..hi.' :iikI Dir. \V. ]< (i '..outlay lor Kaleigh, ,n>! I Ik- annual lueet >i i,(i l^e of Masons, .. tlu1 Lojfi-laturt' j :?v?' i .\ll' now ?k j utn.1 i ui I he revo i iii.a' in. >? i ??nay for t. .. . . ? . ? ;i i;i I 'oik and ? ??? i ... --an* time. \ U \ tvtjji' % I ??V? ' *' i .? !'? lis' . ;????! ^ j-k. 4. t: I ? llr - - I,, Ml. ?*r -ays : "J. !?. nut <le**iiU'<; ?lie Printer, oi : author s]H'?\eii ! lift 4*. llv Iia> m liit- middle :.ii demand ol ,? i-i t li-in^ a iliuli'. .ill, now". .ii :iinl ^ra-ti W. 1). Wiki .llul-'ll iiCM't' 0!l ! lit of several ys the catth oiv prosper :..;s t'V.'l' been. . home to stay. 1'iii* 1 1 v . f. . . : .i three tlays ol cU-, ? . la:-r sWellilltf tile ,-ast of til'' Hal -:i!u-'n ' ?' the top- t?l till itltKif '?? - .i t a vi- fovt-rt'tl wit i. .. j t'M'ii* iiijj a lu'autitiT\ ; jh.. .? . . .nut i lit- nu-rt-ury in tltv ! . , ' ? is has llut golitv. down to ii:i fri'/iiijr point wiih us. ,S:.,W. jj.uKtoi' Moos?y : - ? 1 1 : i ThniUrv ami was inter \i; v.'i i i '? f 1 !' ' . ? : Kilter as 1 1? t h< in North I'arA^ ; !;? i :-'t ? i.it'k then , ?> , > ? >? !i ' -'? . : \ I ? ' :|y? ' i -h the' ,???'!.. ? : ; ? t toil ' ' ? , ?in> !' _ ? ?? - . - ? ?; l?y tbina .. ? 'V .<? ?.?> win. . - ? ? !? ?T!'_r t ? 'i*ni. ? . nunle to ; : ? !. lite lonjjt ? ;::uliilate, tlu : 1. . ? i|ii.-stion be "I think so, ' ? ' ' ? lime v ill brill*] iivj by which th" ? . to tin- Kepubli ! ;:iai-.:int part of | x itnpje, though O ' : to!ii.*i *\ is around out '?:in-e of tile at" i t he assotrthliiu? I.i ijct* limit hers; ol tubers nrc ther-. te rests. Re])arati* s?ntatives of all '? w - and a joint eau ' i have been held. '?I ' lie. is hehind elos 1 'tulersliMHl, agroid :ik- of Hon: .1. Frank * she democratic ean i' f >?l the 1 To' iso. Th?' ?o siipjH>rt Zeb Davidson, as their i <>tt of the separate - ; 'ill ist s and repnb 1 . ' the iintc-eleetion ii ? election of U? i ;; cried <>nt, Butler iei in and Pritehard . Hveii "should the fii ' :th th.-ir parties with i 1 1> they will be imaldv ? ' :? -r one or two iren erpial tatesiiian-hip and devo 1 1, rests of the poople to i i S.-iiutius. No inatt.ir who ( : Xorth Carolinians will be " ri'pi es- th.- feeling that th*> ' '? * l| State has low o rod itself fio i: Vance and Kaie-om and I In- proceedings'- of the Lepfis ! " M.'im* to be very interesting. 1 it. predict that the princi ' will he limited to such as ' -'hited- to hold control of the ? '? bilioye it will be in^pos - i ??''>< a law pmvplinff for the "I eoinily commissioners and nites I , v popular vote, and ' 1 "li'ctiou law may be passed ' no iii'pioveiueiit on the pres ll?t OUc, ? ') ? "l.-l ' ? 1 1 ' " I-V 1 '! Ii .1 I; The county board of education or dered the erection of a new school btifilding at Webster to house the Webster High School, at its meeting, Monday. The board passed an order, which calls upon the county commis .ioners to borrow the money for th? cost of erection, or to provide- it in ome other manner, upon motion of N. .Price, of Tuckaseigee, sscondet! by G. C. Turpin, of Savannah, and adopted .unanihiously by the board, ?oni posed of Mrs. E. lT McKec' chairman, T. B. Cowan . of Welter, I. E. Rogers, of Qulnlla, and the two : members who ma<lr and seconded the motion. A delegation from Webster, nuni ioring a couple of hundred or yj ol .nen and women, appeared before tlr hoaj*d and requested the action i'oi I he new school. Xot a dissenting voice was raised regarding the proposal Among I hose who entered into the discussion be fore the boar 1 were Plot. It. L Mad ison, who reviewed the history ol the vchool and |H>intcd out its present ie?ds, Mr. S. B. Hutchinson, prinei >al of th.1 school, Dan Allison, Clerk Superior Court*, Mrs. J. J. Wild, Mrs. N. Don Davis, president of the Web itrr Pan-iit -Teacher Association, Dan Tompkins, M. 1). Cowan, and othvrs. It was |>oiiit?Ml out by members ol the board that its action is not bind ing uj>on anybody, but that it is mor" in the nature of an advisory resolu tion, nccominending, to the county camjmissioners and to the school au thorities in Kaleigh that a n?w build ing ade<|uate to the needs of the com muuity be erecte<l. The plan that will In- followed, it 'is understood, is to borrow money from the State Build ing Fund, from, the P. W. A., or other governmental agancies, efect the? build ing, aiul spread the cost oat over a Wcbst. r High SctaxfrifltBe MWflfr oldest high school in the county, and has been established and maintaiiifd, until two years ago, when the State took over the maintenance of the pub lie schools, bv nothing short of he roic sacrili.ce 011 the part of the cit izens and tax-payers of Webster school district. It has made an un usually hi<rh record, it was point 'd . out before the board, as attested by | the records that its graduates have I made in colleges and universities, af ter leaving t.ho school. The condition of the building, which is said to be most deplorable, and constitutes a dangerous fire haz ard to children who are taught in the rooms on the second floor of tlie wood en structure. It was brought to the attention of . the board that every high school in the county has a building that has been erected within the p<ist few wars, except Webster, and that the; building there must he replaced by a modern one within a short time, j Spurred on by the success of the efforts of the citizens of Wliittier in securing their handsome, new ; building, under the most discourag ing circumstances, the people of Web ster initiated the movement for a new building there, a few weeks ago, and have entered enthusiastically into the campaign to secure the money with which to provide it. Webster furnishes school facilities lor all the children of Webster town ship, part of Sylva township, and for the high school students of Sa vannah and Green's Civek. While the large and enthusiastic letegatipn form Webster expressed it jclf a -1 being most anxious to secure the new building, it was stated that the people are willing to leave the location to the board of education. However, it is believed that it will l>> located near the present site of th< school, which overlooks the valley of the Tuckan'igec, at. the lower ?nd of the street of the town. The opinion was expressed that the hoard will probably have to acquire some ad ditional ground, and that the build ing should be croflted Xi.tarer, the Methodist chuirli than the present one. After the meeting of the Webster citizens with the board of education the county commissioners were in vited in and informed of the aetior of the board of education. J. D Cowan, chairman speaking for th hoard stated that Supt. Madison ha<' been so successful in securing nionc) for other ]>ui*]>ofies, that the board of commissioners would like for hinii to proceed to see what can ^ done to ward raising finances for ta? Webster GO TO CONGRESS [ ' - ? * < 4r ? ? . ->*" Washington, Jau. 8 ? The which the Administration hat which may be modified in respects bef ore Congress gets <ipon|li with it, is beginning to take fann. Sbs are the plans of the powerfol bloe& in Congress, sionUe cf which have idott| which do not tally with those of Roosevelt. There will be compromises ?on both! sides, and much less of the appear-* ance, at least, ef a supine Congress^ taking orders from the White Housatf But the smart observers here who] know what the President wants ant what the temper of Congress is injiuiy important topics, look forwaxrijj to ultimate legislation which will, uh the n.ain, tally with the President^ wishes, although there may be soukI loud and bitter debates before it ul all accomplished. They also anticipatis that none of the projects which dof not h.?ve the W'hite House 0. K. will< be enacted, with the exception of th?; immediate payment of the soldiers* bonus. x ' i Congress is prepared to go over the President's head on the bonu*; matter; but Mr. R?>oseveIt has prov?<t' himself more than once in the past^ as Hinart a politician as any on Cap itol Hill, nd it* is (Hot to be assume* that he has given up the effort I stoj) the bonus issue. If? may find way to do that, in spite of t.hc powefj ful influence of the veterans' gr-c v ~ , The labor group will face a tria of strength in the session, jt is pected, in the effort to'forcifjhe com pulsorv .'10-hour we*>fe~ Thl is one of the it .mis on which a coh4 promiso is expected. The lalw>r situa tion under the National Recover^ Act is also scheduled to come up ?p$j Congressional review. Nei^fater labor ' nor employers is satisfisd^Mt'1 way in which the faiijotis^NSectio^ 7,1 ' K-ncf fl IW Tfaubt. Whether organized lalwr will gel more or less out of the process re mains to be seen. The rift in the ranks of the Ameri can Federation of I.abor caused by the withdrawal < f the great building units, leaves the forces of! labor rath er more disorganized than they were before. The building trades may or | may not set up 4 heir own separn'e national unit. If they do, there will be four strong labor groups to be reekone <1 with, the Federation, the Railway Brotherhoods, the Amalga mated Clothing Workers and tin Building Trades. The old age pension advocates am prepared to put powerful pressure 01 Congess to adopt t Iw Townsend Plan ol' $20() a month for every body over 60 years old. Ba.-fc cf this is a voting .strength far greater than that of the veterans or of organized lal.or. Th?ie are six million widows over 6!), besides about four million othrr i>ersons.Some forii? of old aj>e insurance, though not in the form of a direct Federal grant, is likely to be a<lopted. It probably will be administered by the Federal "Government, but the fund will be made 'iip ^ of j>ercentagcs deducted from wage.-', contributions by employ ers and grants by states. If it runs to more than $.'10 ? mouth for persons over (55 some of the smartest observ ers here will Ik' sui prised. Congress will fall in lino with the President on the plan of extensive "work relief" as opposed to a direct dole. It will also enact any legisla tion necessary to enable the FERA to shift the burden of "unemploy able'/' to the states. These include some four million aged persons, wo men, ehronic invalids and plain bums. The Hom,e Owners Loan Corpora tion probably will get another billion dollars for home loans. It is not lik?i lj' that Congress will pass or the President approve any project for paying all depositors in all closed banks in full out of Federal funds, but there will be a lot of agitation for that in both houses of Congress. A lot of words will be spilled i? Congress in th{> effort to put through various greenback inflationary cur rency plans. There's little chance of any of them getting to first base. Neither is it likely that the 16-to-l building. It is anticipated that the new building, which it is believed will be erected as soon as money can be ob tained from either the State, the P. W. A. or both, will cost approximate ly $40,d00 ajid trill be one of tie best school buildings in this port of th$ State. appropriation of by the State : arid Public Werks Commis i W?am$uAAit to he used during months iu a program of ?W>ad restoration to brine " a- ft and oduniy systems up to a ly liable condition in the projj^ram submitted for legisla ! actiop bjr Chairman Capos M. f ??? i Chairman Wayniek presents figures a recent isurvey by engineers $3,608,220 is needed re treatment shoulders and ditches, topsoil gravel or stone surfacing on |'^tjBtev,roads ; $3,543,837 is needed for a sanije purposes on copmty roads and ail additional $3,433,000 is re to njake the old bridges, in -cluding 5,000 wooden bridges iu th* fooonty- systems, as safe and servic ahle as they would have been with! proper maintenance. *t~ f ^ ' Commenting on the request of the Chairman of the Commission, George Ross Poo, speaking for the Highway ProtfitiyejLeafue, sa d among other thingi:" We are interested in see ing that car owners on rural roads have' passable surfaces over which to :traw? They 'too are paying the gaso line tax and have a light to expect some consideration. Mr. Wayniek 'p proposal fci immediate work is right, Just and equitable and should he al- 1 Joyed."' ; J. . I MBSu PENL AND PASSES v lfroll(jj?p&?r an illness of about two iw^'k*, W. Pen land died at ;tttp hopie <tf her daughter, Mrs. Roy ^^Al$*&, <on last Friday morning, ttnl Penland, whose borne was in RjMfcjfeiniwaii' been speeding tb?. ' j'v lison, and until her last illness, wa? unusually active for one of her years, Had she lived until next Mav, she / # * would have been eighty-three. (Jentl* and kind in her manner, Mrs. Pen land made many friends her?, during her frequent vi.-ots, and wa.s much be loved in her home community where she Sftent iruch of her life in minis try to the sick and unfortunate. Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Al lison, Miss Sue Allison, Mrs. A. V. Washburn, Jr., Mr. A. 0 Allison Mrs. Walter Jones and Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Hall,, the body was taken to Hayesville Friday afternoon, and ser vices were held at the Mount Pleas ant Baptist church, in CImv county, of which Mrs. Penland had long be.'n a member, on Saturday afternoon, and interment was in the Presbyter ian cemetery there. Surviving, besides Mrs. Allison, are three sons, Messrs Logan, Edwin and Ernest Penland, of Clay county, and a number of grandchildren and other relatives. silver program will be adopted, but there will probably be some new sil ver legislation representing a com promise. Electric power and j>ower compan ies will get a lot of- consideration. Look for new laws to regulate hold ing companies, probable progress to ward ratification of the St. Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada, per haps a few new Federal projects for water-power development. Plans of loaders in both houses of Congress contemplate more different investigations of business and indus try than ever, with great acconijpany - ing publicity and political value for individual investigators. It looks now as if the War Department was going to be under fire, with an effort to make juicy front-page scandals out of Army cooperation with private busi ness enterprises in public works. Members from the cotton states are telling the President that the only hope for the future of cotton is George Peck's international barter scheme. Other farm region members are urging the AAA to put a tax on every potato patch above a given size, to raise the price of spuds. Senator Glass is expected to head a vigorous fight against tfie confirma tion of Marriner Eecles as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and he is expected to have the backing of other Senators who don't think well of the Administration 's apparent pur pose to subordinate toe Comptroller of the Currency to the Federal Re MCTfc ,- / , ./V. .1 M ' The General Assembly Got Started Yesterday TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) IEALTH .... and age Worrying about one's health is, us ually, a sign of advancing age. I used o do a lot of it, unti 1 I got old ,'oough to realize that the human ma Jiine, like any other machine, needs o^ly 'regular, normal care to keep it 4 good, running order until it wears oat. The best way to keep well, after one reaches middle age, is to lx> lazy. I make it a rule uow, in the sixties, ujver t6 indulge in any physical er ertion I can avoid. Of course, when you 're, not running the engine at full speed it doesn't take as much fuel. It's surprising how fit a man can keep on hfllf the food he used to con vurae, if. he doesn't throw his weighi about and burn up his muscular ?n V Chauncey Depew, who lived to be 93, remarked once that all the exer cise he ever took was walking to th: funerals of his golf splaying friends 1 gave up golf ten years ago. Five men that I used to play with ,all yourigej than I, have sine? dropped dead on the golf course. PICTURES .... they improve I am not the world's most enthusi astic motion picture fan, but I find myself going to the pictures ofteuer than I used to, and getting more sat isfaction out of them, v It seems perfectly clear to me that there has been a great impiovo'i e.ii in the films in the past year or so Better stories, better acting, bottc: stage effects, better sound reproduc t?a, J. ftjd much leas that is offen sive to my sense of good taste and de eency tllan I used to, less of the soi * of thing that is apparently aimed a', the lowest mental and moral types. No great er mistake can be made I \ auybody who seeks to entertain an. in strict-people than to undereHimat. their capacity for discrimination be tween good and bad. No newspap.'i I ever succeed ad whose editor though, it nec<?ssary to play down to the sup I>osed low level of his readers' intel ligence. It looks to me as if tne motion pic ture people had discovered that the best they can offer is not too good for its audiencies. They have also di covered that it is not necessary to l?? dull to be decent. HISTORY good teachei A friend who is iu charge of the historical collection in a great library tells nie that more young people ai\. coming In for information about tilings thait happened in the past than ever before. That is a #ood li^n. Oace cue umlei s'.ands that nothing that occui-s to day is without its parallel in the past, the better he is able to judge of tin value of experiments to change the social order. The realization thai, human nature is unohangable is the chief lesson of history. < I have been reading lately the ac counts of the great speculative era in England and France in 1720 and thereabout. A precise parallel to the speculative era in the United States firorn 1026 to 1020 is found in the history of the South Sea Bufbblc in England and the Mississippi Bubble in France. Everybody was speculat ing, everybody 1 st, tens of thousands were ruined and the bottom seemed to have dropped out of everything. COTTON .... and Calico Two hundred years ago the flax growers and sheep breeders of Eng land were greatly concerned for the future of the wool and linen indus tries. Gaily printed cloth was betas imported from India ? from "Calli cut", whence we got the word "cali co". Women were discarding wool and linen to wear the new fabric. Laws were passed forbidding the importation of calicoes. They resulted only in. extensive smuggling. Finally, Parliament passed a law prohibiting the wearing of cotton garments. That didn't work, for it was im|x>ssiblc to send to prison all the women-folk who persisted in flaunting their calicoes in pbblic. The outcome was that England be gan to import raw cotton and spin and weave it in its own factories, and enootrage the growing of orft? in (By Dan Tompkins) With the election of Robert Grady Johnson of Pender as Speaker of the House, and Senator Grady of Johu aton as President pro torn of the Sen ate, the North Carolina General As sembly got under way at noon y est or day. Johnson defeated Laurie MeEach ern of Hoke and W. L. Lumpkin of Franklin in the Democratic caucus. He received 67 votes, McEachern 19 and Lumpkin 17. The nomination was made unanimous. Thad Eure of Hert ford was elected principal clerk of the House, and LeKoy Martin was ac corded tue same position in the Sen ate. John McKimmou of Robeson w;is chosen reading clefk, Miss Rosa Mund of 'Cabarrus, engrossing clerk, Bon Brewer of Wake, seigeant-at arms. Larry Eagles of Pitt wsa elected reading clerk in tlio Senate, Herman Scott of Chatain sergeant-at-arms, R. T. Wilson, enrolling clerk and S. Kay Bycrley of I^cc, journal clerk. Representative Brjaon and Senator Ramsey, representing this county and district, were both in their seats for the Democratic caucuses, which nom inated the wfliccrs for House and Senate, and for the oj>ening session of the Assembly when tiie gavels Ml at noon yesterday. Charles A. Jonas, of Lincoln and former Congressman from the 10th district, was nominated by the 13 House Republicans for Speaker. By virtue of that nomination lie will he minority leader in the House. While Mr. Jonas has no more ability than Charles Cowh*s of Wilkes, the leader of the minority two years ago, he is more aggressive; but has less legis lative experience. With Jonas as the leader of the uimiL minority, the Democrat i ?; in th< House can expvet to see the fire- winks break out on almost any occasion, and to see him stand lip and make an aggressive fight, instead of following Ul? tactics of the minority <>i! two years ago, when n.<;-t of t!*< Republicans were not pre-ont ! a:: *'T !<> the roll call, when any matter that might develop into a campaign i^iv was being con sidered in the llot:M-. I C'owles knew \v ls? n In- was hopeless ly outnumbered ; .J on ;i s hasn't learned that lesson. CowKv> had his convic tions about things and took the mat ter of hi'infjr a representative serious ly and was sincerely interested in the welfare of the State, above every other consideration. Jonas may feel the same way about tiling; hut ho also has a fondues.-. for trying1 to maneuver Democrats into euibarass ing positions. Co v. !es had no person al political ambitions. It is known of all men that ?Jo:ias.ha>. Already tl.e Minority has shown siyns of starting .-omething that they hope will b :devil and embanuss the majority Tln?y a;i?-:d m caucus to introduei at lis - ??.y beginning a bill, sjton ored by tin- Republicans to reduce the priee ?ii" automobile licens.; tags in tin Stale t.? a lint per ear, regardless of make, vintage or previous condition of servitude. That uight prove popular witii the folks, though both its justice and advisabil ity are seriously (jue.-tioir.'d in many informed fji;:irt '!s. At any rate it could ily i-iove :l,e opening wefl^r which it is ap|::ir< nt .Jonas desires to insert in the majority to divide it, and to lessen its popularity with th.t people. If tlie Democrats .-Jioull take it up and pass it, the Republicans would claim the credit for its intro duction. If it should fail of j*a.->sage, tho Democrats could bo made to bear the blame. Although the sales tax was attack ed in the Stai< . Republican platform, the caucus .of the minority took no stand upon iu or other legislative matters. It probably deemed that the $5.00 license tag would cause enough sparks to fly to start a considerable amount of explosion, for the present. its American colonies. Now we grow more cotton than the world will consume. A lot of other people have found out that they ''an grow and weave cotton. Women ar? wearing mere ravon, made from wood pulp, and 'ess cotton. The English col ton mills are i.. distress an! so are ;our eotton growers. No man-mad? laws will cure the situation. Yet. somehow the world will wa? on. It always has.
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