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NEW TAX SOURCE
Finance Committee Wrestles
With Problem of. Finding
School Funds
A BATTLE OF LOBBYISTS
By M. L. SHIPMAN
RALEIGH, Feb. 8.?The Legisla-I
ture is now marking time while a
sub-committee of the joint finance
committee is wrestling with the
problem of finding some twelve or
thirteen million dollars with which
to maintain a school term of six
mcnths in every county in the
State. The joint appropriation committee
has finished its hearings
ana is now redrafting the budget
appropriation bill, but it must wait
until the final action of the legislature
before it can fix definitely
the items in its bill. While conducting
hearings with a view to securing
needed data for its deliberations,
the joint finance committee
can fix no definite tax policies until
its sub-committee reports.
Headed by Senators John H. Folger,
of Surry, and Representative
A. D. MacLean, of Beaufort, chair
men respectively of the Senate and
House education committees and
leaders in the fight for a State supported
school term of six months,
the sub-committee starts out on the
assumption that the sources cf the
needed revenue can be found, or
rather that they must be found. Ini
view of the general depression and!
the vigorous fights against taxation
by every interest in the State,
the subcommittee faces the most
troublesome problem before the Legislature
it will be no easy job to
frame even a tentative bill, and
then after revision it must be piloted
through committee and through
both houses with still further revisions
being then inevitable.
While the Legislature comparatively
speaking may be said to be
marking time, it has plenty of contvovercial
subjects to consider and
act upon, the one now to the
fiont being Governor Gardner's bill
to have the State take over county
roads under a reorganized highway!
commission of five members. County
officials met in Raleigh last
week to voice their protest, Commissioner
John Sprunt Hill, of
Durham, and Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick
of Charlotte have on their war:
paint, and the Legislature is about!
equally split on the proposition. It!
will be debated at length this week,
two bills embodying the two views
having been reported out.
The opposition of some of the
counties to the Governor's reorganization
road bill is a revival of
the fear that they may be swallowed
up, so far as their road management
is concerned, by a State bureau.
While desiring to share in the
revenue from the gasoline tax,
these counties prefer to spend it
under local supervision. The argument
then is on the method of operation,
not as to the desirability
of having the State share in the
upkeep of a larger proportion of
the highways with a view to lightening
the property tax burden.
The Legislature is certain to pass
more stringent laws for the regulation
of banking in this State. Governor
Gardner's bUl providing for
a State banking commissioner at
a salary of $8,000 a year and an attorney
at $7,500 was dropped into
the legislative hopper the past
week by Representative Seawell of
Lee. The banking commissioner
would take over the duties now administered
by the State Corporation
Commission, the idea behind
the change being to fix responsibility
more definitely for regulation.
The Legislature now has before
it five sales tax bills, all of them
having been referred to the joint
finance committee. Representative
McSwain of Cleveland, dropped in
the latest bill, which is aimed at
chain stores. It provides for a
graduated license tax from $15 to
$500, but on stores doing a business
cf $800,000 or more the bill
would levy a tax of one per cent'
on gross sales. Representatives Day
and Hinsdale already had bills in
the hopper, both of which were
modeled closely after the South
Carolina sales tax bill, and Senator
Baggett put in cne patterned
after the West Virginia act. Representative
Day also put in one levying
a gross sales tax. Senator Lovill
joined Representative Day in
introducing in the Senate the South
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called luxuries to which Representative
Hinsdale added automobiles,
the luxuries being shotguns, shells,
candy, manufactured tobacco, soft
drinks and theatre admissions. Senator
Baggett's bill provides for a
gioss sales tax, but allows an exemption
cf $10,000.
The strenuous hunt for revenue,
which is engaging so much of the
time of the Legislature continues
to draw lobbyists to the Capital as
has the proposed changes in the
administration cf the State highway
funds. Hotel lobbies are
thronged with legislators and those
interested in legislation. Although
thirty days has gone by, there has
been little more than jockeying or
skirmishing. Not since 1921 when
y .
Warren ton, North Carolina
the cctton manufacturing interests
and the late James B. Duke and associates
staged a notable battle over
the question of incresed rates has
there been such a battle of lobbyists
as is now in Raleigh. The end
is nowhere in sight. It will be a
battle royal from now on, according
to veteran political observers.
The usual bills to cut down the
time for separation for divorce have
been introduced into the Legislature.
Representative Brooks, of
Durham, would cut the time from
five to three years in the case
of couples without children while
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8 nder, would cut down the time
without reference to children. The
Buoks bill got a favorable committee
report, but with prospects
of a vigorous fight both bills were
referred back again for a public
hearing this week.
Bills are sponsored by the Notfh
Carolina Bar Association for reguiating
the courts of the justice of
ohe peace and cutting down the
number in each township from
three to two and allowing only one
for each 20,000 population in cities
instead of one for each thousand
oe at present. Favorable committee
report was given the regulation
bill, and a sub-committee i> redraft,
ing the other one.
While not much has been heard
recently about the Governor's pro,i
osal for cutting all State, county
and municipal salaries ten per
cent, it is understood that it will
oe pushed vigorously and promises
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Lculty is being experienced in geeting
by the constitutional provisions
prohibiting the reduction or judges'
salaries during their term of ofiice
and also fixing salaries of certain
State officials.
Other controversial matters engaging
the attention of the Legislature
include the taxing of foreign
stocks, the Brummitt proposal to
tax foreign corporation holdings in
this State upon the basis of the
market value of their stocks, plans
for reapportionment of the Congressional
destricts, and proposed
increase, in income taxes.
The Legislature now has before it
the Adminstration bill providing for
submitting to the voters the calling
of a constitutional convention in
1933. The House gets first crack at
the bill. There is plenty of sentiment
in its favor, and it now seems
probable that it may go through.
The voters would elect delegates at
the same time that they vote on the
question of calling a convention.
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meddle with the absentee voter act.
It allowed Buncombe to abolish the
act, but would allow no amendments.
A visit by Lieut. Gov. J. O.
Shepard, of South Carolina, was
one of the interesting features of
the sessions of the Legislature the
past week. He had no advice to offer
except to suggest that it would
be a good idea for legislatures of
the different states to get aquainted
with each other.
Many members of the legislature
are looking forward to hearing
Chairman Alexander Legge, of the
Federal Farm Board, at the annual
meeting of the Raleigh chamber of
commerce on Thursday evening.
Chairman Legge has the reputation
of being plain and outspoken, and
his remarks are expected to arouse
interest, especially in view of the
recent caustic criticisms of its
policies by members of Congress.
N. L. Stedman of Halifax has
purchased 600 feeder pigs in Georgia
to fatten on his surplus corn under
the Shay plan of feeding.
"System Seemed
Full Of Poisons"
"For five years I could hardly
digest anything and I'd have such
awful smothering attacks at night
I couldn't sleep a wink. My torpid
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liver kept my system poisoned and
I'd have such a swimming in the
head at times that I'd just have
to sit down to keep from falling. I
!lost weight until I was so weak I
could hardly stay up at all. Six bottles
of Sargon and Sargon Pills
helped me in every way. I eat and
degest things now that I believed
would have killed me. I've gained
back twenty pounds of lost weight
and have the strength and energy
jl had years ago". Mrs. Hernle Massey,
3 Carter St., Balfour, N. C.
Sold by Boyce Drug Co., adv
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KNEES SUGGES
LONDON, Feb. 10.?Bare knees
and Lord Byron collars will be the
fashion adopted by progressive men
this spring, the Men's Dress Reform
Party decreed today Inaugurating
its annual campaign against Britain's
dictators of male fashions.
Sombre black evening clQthes will
be replaced by bright washable ma-1
terials the party announced. Business
wear will consist of a soft-collar
shirt open at the neck trunks
open at the knees and light Roman
sandals.
The party's campaign this year
is directed chiefly against mens evening
clothes. To prove that it is
possible to dance in comfort, the
oiganization is arranging a number
cf "Dress Reform Dances" at which
types of the evening dress which it
favors will be exhibited.
Dr. Alfred C. Jordan, founder
and secretary of the party, believes
that men's clothes are not only uncomfortable
and unclean, but also
unsightly.
"At present color in men's clothes
is confined to pyjamas and dressing
gowns, garments which are
worn only in the privacy of the
Woman Senator Puts
School Bill Across
RALEIGH, Feb. 10.?By the use
of humor, sarcasm and an accurate
knowledge of what the bill was
about?something her opponents
did not have, she said?Mrs. E. L.
McKee, Senator from Jackson, yesterday
won a distinct victory over
several more experienced male legislators
and secured the passage by
the Senate of a bill that seemed
doomed to postponement, if not
defeat?the women's bill to tighten
the laws of compulsory school attendance.
The bill, which was introduced by
Senator Baggett of Harnett, provides
that children between the
ages of 14 and 16 must continue
school through the sixth grade unless
they or their families are in'
.need of their possible earnings, or
.unless they are physically or menj
tally incapable of profiting by
: further education. It is particularly
. aimed at street loafing by boys
under 16 and provides that regard'less
of how many grades they have
finished, if they don't find a job
they must return to school. The
I present law allows children of 14
who have finished the fourth grade
to stop school.
Senator Baggett spoke first for
the school attendance bill yesterday.
The night before he had concurred
in the request that it go over in
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questions asked him, it seemed that
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bedroom," he told the United Press.
"Why shouldn't man emancipate
himself from his dismal evening
clothes and appear in bright, washable
garments?"
Dr. Jordan has designed a "re
form" evening dress resembling the
holiday costume of a mountaineer.
It consists of a biege-colored shirt
of soft silk with open "collar, a
light blue sleeveless coat with blue
knee breeches to match.
The dress reform party strongly
recommends blouses for everyday
wear.
"The blouse was originally a
man's garment," Dr. Jordan said,
"but it has been considered effeminate
since women lifted it from us.
I wonder that we do not also give
up pyjamas since women adopted
them."
The men's dress reform party has
over 3,000 members in 10 countries.
Its slogan as stated by Dr. Jordan
is:
"Fewer clothes,
Lighter clothes,
Cleaner clothes,
Brighter clothes."
few had used the opportunity. A.
number of the Senators confused
the law with the child labor law
and asked about provisions already
ma Ho in tho ovisHner law and not
changed by the bill.
Senator McSwain of Cleveland
sent forwarl an amendment to
make the bill not apply to the
children of farmers. Senator Baggett
told him that the needs of the
farmers in certain seasons was already
cared for in the regulations
now operative.
Senator Grier of Iredell was the
chief antagonist of the bill on the
ground that it deprived children of
their right to work in order that
they might live, or that their familiss
might live. He sent forward an
amendment to provde that nothing
in the bill would prevent children
from working at "wholesome labor"
where the money was needed for
their sustainance. After much talk
it seemed that the bill was in
grave danger. Senator Lawrence
moved that the bill and its amendments
be re-referred to the committee.
At this moment Mrs. McKee's
patience gave out.
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"I said at the beginning of the
session that I would not talk about
anything I didn't know about," she
declared. "And I want to say that
I know more about boys and girls
than ay of you put together."
Carefully, as if she was explaining
the matter to the same boys
and girls, Mrs. McKee explained
it to the Senate just what the bill
provided. "I am surprised at all this
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controversy over this bill," she said.
"It is so flexible that I don't think
it can do much good but certainly
it can do no harm. It applies to
those children who are now not at
work and not in the schools. I am
! not in favor of re-referring it.
Why all this delay? We are acting
like children. Mr. President, I move
the previous question."
And not only did the previous
question carry but every amendment,
except the committee amendment
to clarify, was voted down
and the bill itself passed by a substantial
majority.
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"The most profitable method of
marketing corn this year, and
probably for the next two years, is
by feeding it to hogs and then
marketing the hogs," W. W. Shay,
swine extension specialist of State
College, says, in speaking of the'
low price of corn and the profit to
be made in hogs at the present
time. "Feeding corn to hogs is the
safest farm investment and the
surest way to make a profit in
farming this year."
If the corn is produced at a low
cost per bushel, Mr. Shay says that
it is always profitable to feed such
corn to hogs. Even, if the corn is
high in price per bushel or the
yield per acre is low, the feeding of
corn to hogs will increase its
bushel value. "When the farmer
has a big loss in the cost of corn,
due to low production per acre, this
loss can he cut down by feeding to
hcgs, but not always eliminated.
The person who cannot produce
at least 30 bushels of corn or more
to the acre had best stay out of
the hoe raising business.
Self-feeder demonstrations in the '
eastern part of the State this past!
year showed that corn will Increase
enormously in value if fed to hogs.
One demonstration showed a profit
of 485 per cent on corn by such
feeding, despite the death of one
hog during the demonstration. The
hogs, in this case, ate 209 bushels
of corn, which would have brought
$188.10 if sold as corn. After paying
all other charges, and deduction
the value of the hog which died,
$19.75, the hogs still paid a profit
of $285.94 for the corn and left'
plant food worth $49.35 on the
farm, whereas $31.35 worth of plant
food would have gone out with the
corn, had it been sold. The other
two demonstrations proved the
same thing. In the demonstrations,
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turned in on standing corn, supplemented
with fish meal.
The raising of plenty of corn and
hogs will be a great boost for the
"Live-at-Home" movement, Mr.
Shay believes. He wants many hog
feeding demonstrations this year,
with accurate records kept.
Finds New Data On
An Old Practice
Tests made by G. M. Garren,
cereal agronomist of the North
Carolina Experiment Station, at
the mountain and coastal plain
branch station farms last season
indicate that intercropping corn
with soybeans depresses the yield
of corn and cuts the yield of soybeans
as compared with yields secured
when either of the two crops
is grown alone.
Mr. Garren reports that this is
a rather startling statement to
make since most good farmers have
practiced the inter-cropping of cowpeas
or soybeans with corn but he
presents facts to back up his
statement.
In making the tests on the two
farms last year, Mr. Garren measured
his land into one-tenth acre
plots. In the first, he planted corn
alone; in the second, he planted
soybeans between the hills of corn;
in the third, he planted a row of
soybeans alternately with the rows
of corn, and in the fourth, he
planted soybeans alone.
Results secured on the mountain
farm will give a fair example of
what yields were secured. Taking
round figures, he secured a yield of
56 bushels of corn per acre when
the corn was planted alone. Where
soybeans were planted between the
hills, he harvested 50 bushels of
corn an acre and where the soybeans
were planted In alternate
rows, he harvested 37 bushels of
corn an acre.
Where the soybeans were grown
alone, he harvested 30 bushels of
the beans an acre; where the beans
were planted between the hills of
corn, he harvested only 7.5 bushels
an acre and where the soybeans
were planted in alternate rows, he
harvested 26.6 bushels of the beans
an acre.
In this test, of course, no account
was taken of the soil improving
qualities of the soybeans nor of the
value of the beans as compared
with the corn yield that was cut
down.
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To Hold Farmers
Meeting At Ral^
The North Carolina State ps,
ers' Ccnventon and the ^
meeting of the State Federal?
Home Demonstration Clubs m
neia during rarm and Home?
at State College, July 28 to ji '
mediately following the
session of the College.
Announcement of the th
meeting was made last
lowing a conference between cot
and convention officials. A
parture in convention affairs;
year will be the meeting of a]j
ganized farm groups. H. g. 4
craft, of Charlotte, president of
Convention, has expressed a
sire for all farmers' organ^
to have a meeting during the t>
Especially does he extend m
vitation to such groups as
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men's Association, Hatchery
Association, Crop Improvement i
sociatlon, Farmers' Alliance
others. Mr. Ashcraft also caHj,
a larger attendance by mensummer.
Of the 1,500 persons"
gistering at the Convention \
summer more than two-thirds?
women. It is recognized, sayj)
Ashcraft, that the men are busy
their farms during late July,,
pecially those who grow tobu
Therefore, one of the questions
be decided at this meeting wu
a possible change of dates a
late in the summer so that cut
farmers might attend.
For the western farmers, the m
end dates will be maintained os
ternate years but the program 1
be made to more nearly meet
needs of the western landwng
The present president of
State Farmers' Convention is i
to be one of the most succej
dairymen and farmers in pieda
North Carolina. The presides:
Home Demonstration Clubs is |
N. L. Stedman of Halifax, who:
been prominent in organaa
work for farm women for mm a
15 years.
C. R. Pope of Cedar Creei
Cumberland County is cutting?
the acreage to cotton and too:
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Uix xuo iai(yc V/i \j?j laiui ouu u )ii
nlng to grow feed crops and ptfi
for sheep, hogs and cattle. Hi
are 75 ewes now on the farm.
T. D. Temple of Scotland fi
has started another 25 head
Angus beef cattle on feed follow
! his success with two cars of feu
cattle last year.
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