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THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN
THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1934
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Profit From War Must End
IT WAS Benjamin Franklin, we think, who said that
there never was a good war or a bad peace. Who
soever said it, we are reminded of it by the disclosures
made by the Senate committee which is investigating
the "munitions racket." ,
Startling and shocking facts have already been
disclosed, and sinister figures such as most of us re
gard as creatures of fiction appear in their true colors,
as profiteers who make money by arming the nations
against each other. Sir Basil Zaharoff, the "mystery
man" of Europe, has been disclosed as the agent for
the great munitions manufacturers of the world, with
out regard to nationality. American builders of sub
marines have been shown up as unwilling on paper
to sell their submersible torpedo-boats to both sides
in a war, but through their foreign agents doing pre
cisely that for a commission.
An international ring has jcontrolled the arma
ments of the great nations for years, apparently. The
competition between nations, each striving to be bet
ter armed than its rivals, has been stirred up by high
pressure salesmanship and the circulation of rumors
that this, that or the other country was contemplat
ing war.
It is time an end was put to this sort of thing. It
is a real service to the cause of humanity and world
peace that Senator Nye's committee is performing in
bringing the facts to light. If they shock the other
civilized peoples of the world as they have shocked
America, we may hope for action by the League of
Nations or by other mutual agreement to limit the
manufacture of munitions of war to governments
themselves. War should no longer be profitable to
any individual or private company.
The Latest Sea Tragedy
THHERE is something especially horrifying about
diaster at sea. Shipwreck is a terrible thing to
contemplate under any conditions; the sea is so vast
and the chances of rescue, even in these days, appar
ently so small. But when the sea disaster takes the
form of fire, it is too ghastly to contemplate.
The recent disaster to the Morro Castle, home
ward bound from Havana with a gay party of tour
ists, 132 of whom lost their lives when the ship caught
fire almost within sight of port, is . in some ways far
more shocking than the sinking of the Titanic.
If, as seems to be indicated from the early reports
of the Government investigation into the circum
stances of this tragedy of the sea, the fire was de
liberately set, the governments of the United States
and of Cuba should spare no expense, utilize all their
available resources, to hunt down the culprits and
bring them to swift justice.
THE FAMILY
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES. M D.
INTERNAL HEMORRHAGE
Dear reader, pray that you may
never encounter a case of this
kind, where it is up to you to ren
der any sort of "fist aid." I can
not think of a much more serious
thing than an internal hemorrhage !
Here, even the doctor is extremely
apprehensive.
Most internal hemorrhages are
ffom some point in the intestine or,
possibly indeed, from rupture of
sutures following a deep surgical
operation. Typhoid fever, once so
prevalent with its horrible ulcera
tions of the bowel, I have seen a
patient's life go out in a few ter
rible minutes!
Then, fearful bleedings sometimes
take place with a woman at her
"change of life," when she is
around forty-five or fifty years of
age. These often come suddenly,
jnrf witVinut wnrninof ac tinvp
cn many a time, frightening the
tient and her family almost into
fits! In this form of emergency,
get the patient to bed loosen all
garments at once and stop all mus
cular exertion on part of the pa
tient. These cases are not very
often causes of death, I am glad
to say. Have a low pillow for the
patient and the foot of the bed
raised a foot or more. Give cool
or cold drinks never hot and no
alcohol.
Symptoms of internal hemorrhage
are: Sudden pallor of the surface;
weakening of the pulse at the
wrist; sudden, intensive weakness
with short, "sighing" breathing; in
difference to surroundings the
"sinking feeling." Then, blurring of
the vision, pallor and cold, clammy
sweat.
In presence of these symptoms,
give no medicine or hot, stimulating
drinks, without specific orders from
the doctor. Maintain the most per
fect quiet and smile if you can,
ti!i doctor comes.
THROUGH
CAPITAL
KEYHOLES
BY BESS HINTON SILVER
situation prevailing in workmen's
compensation fields is going to
bring a bill from Senator S. P.
Dunagan, of Rutherford who will
be in the House next session, for
the State to write this type of insurance.
WET THEIR WHISTLES
Antt Prohibition leaders in North
Carolina took it on the chin last
November and haven't been saying
much since. But the South Caro
lina referendum in favor of legal
liauor and the Maine vote last
week to repeal that State's fifty-
year-old prohibition law have re
vived the Wets. They think they
see a silver lining on their cloud
,i Aatatt inA are m air in or nlanc tci
marshal forces for a drive for mod
ification when the 1935 Legislature
convenes.
TELEPHONES
Few people around the State j
Captitol believe that the Southern,
Bell Telephone Company has con-j
vinced the State Utilities Commis-j
sion that phone rates in North j
Carolina cities should not be re-,
doced. The Company offered a
mass of data at the hearings in
Raleigh but people supposed to be
in the know predict that talk will
be cheaper when the Commission
announces its decision.
EARLY BIRD LOSES WORM
Senator Thomas LeRoy Kirk
patrick, of the old State of Meck
lenburg, became an announced can
didate for Governor last vear and
it.. u i i. ui .f .,..Ki;;.r
through speculation by political
prognosticators. Had Senator Kirk
patrick kept the boys in suspense
he might be seeing his name in
print as much as Clyde R. Hooey,
Congressman R. L. Doughton, Lieu
tenant Governor A. H. Graham
and other potentials.
ETHICS AND COLLECTIONS
The State Revenue Department
has a powerful instrument for col
lection of professional licenses in a
statute passed by the 1933 General
Assembly under which disbarment
proceedings may be started for
non-payment of State fees. The
Department struck its first blow in
Raleigh with court action against
several widely-known attorneys
who had failed to decorate the
mahogany. According to present
plans of the Revenue Department
the public is soon to know the
names of non-paying professional
men all over the- State and some
of them may lose their right to
practice. It's bad advertising for
the defendants but the public prob
ably will enjoy it.
BIG SCRAP
Lines are being drawn for the
forthcoming battle over diversion
of highway funds in the next Leg
islature. Leaders in favor of spend
ing the gasoline tax on the roads
feel that they have a natural ma
jority but see dangers of trades
being made with individual mem
bers having pet bills they wish to
put through. It's going to be live
ly with the schools, antNsales tax
ers, county commissioners and oth
ers all wanting to get a finger in
the gasoline money. If they all get
what they want there won't be
much left for building and main
taining roads.
runs for Governor in 1936 (and
close friends say he will) many of
his supporters wonder how he will
handle the sales tax question. Mr.
Doughton led the national House
in a stampede against the sales tax
in the latter days of President
Hoover. Now the State has a sales,
tax that is bringing in close to
$7,000,000 annually and one of( Mr.
Doughton's strongest supporters is"
worried about it. He doesn't see
how it can be repealed by 1936
and can't figure how a candidate
can get away with denouncing it
without offering something to take
its place. Mr. Doughton can't
countenance the sales tax without
reversing his former position.
HUMAN-TINDER-BOX
You don't hear much about it,
but work of fireproofing the ancient
State Prison in Raleigh is moving,
along. When completed prisoners
will no longer be exposed to great
danger of being - roasted alive in
their cells. Warden H. Honeycutt
is anxious to finish the job before
real winter brings necessity for
heating. Agitation for making the
State's bastile a safe place for in
carceration was started by former
Superintendent of the Prison and
his Board of Directors. North Caro
lina is lucky that a "horror" story
hasn't come out of smoke and
flames at State's Prison.
SETTING STARS-
Lest you forget, here are a few
names that figured prominently in
speculation on candidates for Gov
ernor that are seldom mentioned
nowadays: Capus M. Waynick,
Greensboro; Judge Tom Johnson,
Asheville; Judge Wilson Warlick,
Newton; Dennis G. Brummitt, Ox-i
ford; Reginald Harris, Roxboro,!
and Willis Smith, Raleigh. Not a
single one of the brethren has for
mally removed himself but it is
noticeable that political writers no
longer attach significance to the
probability of any one of them
becoming a candidate for Governor.
INSURANCE-
Ef forts are almost sure to be
made in the next General Assem-1
bly to put the State in the insur-,
ance business. A commission, head
ed by Senator W. O. Burgwin, of
Davidson, is now studying plans for
unemployment insurance and a bill,
is likely to be introduced embrac
ing a plan in which employers and
workers would participate in estab
lishing an unemployment fund ad
ministered by but without expense
to the State. The unsatisfactory
BUMPY ROAD-
Mrs. Thomas W. O'Berry, State
Emergency Relief Director, is find
ing that even providing work and
food for unemployed with Uncle
Sam's money is no easy task. Out
side, disgruntled applicants who do
not meet work requirements, the
director is beset with hundreds of
people wanting to get a finger in
some part of the pie. Life between
these two forces is anything but
a velvet carpet.
RIGHT -ABOUT-FACE
If Congressman R. L. Doughton
CHANGED TUNES
Many banks have been slow in
getting started on President Roose
velt's home modernization pjan.
They figured they would be swamp
ed with applications but that re
strictions of the Federal Housing
Administration would permit such
a small number of loans that the
whole thing would be somewhat a
nuisance. Raleigh banks elected one
agent to receive applications for ail
banks and announced that each
applicant would pay the agent a
one dollar application fee. An
FHA official cairn; to the capital
and the banks announced that it
was all a mistake about the appli
cant forking over the one buck and
said the banks would pay the
agent's fee.
ON THE SPOT
Violence in the textile strike, as
in all others, puts local law en
forcement officers in a bind. Their
jobs are political and it's hard to
hang on against the opposition of
either the management or the
workers. The officer who could
do his plain duty without incur
ring the enmity of one side or the
other would be a marvel. On the
other hand one man, the Governor,
usually gets it in the neck for
whatever troops do.