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THE FRANKLIN PRESS md THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN
THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 1934
"Step Off the Hose, Buddy"
by A. B. Chapin
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How Best to Teach Manners
fIJCE more a leading educator deplores the lack
of politeness among young people. Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia University,
speaking at the opening services of his own institu
tion, wonders "why it is that youth can come to full
adolescent years with no apparent appreciation of the
difference between good manners and their opposite."
Some blame parents, who, strangely enough, may
be persons of known courtesy, liked and admired for
their urbanity. In another part of Dr. Butler's ad
dress may be found a parallel which may throw some
light on the subject, in which he distinguishes between
attending college and getting an education. It is one
thing to be forced to memorize rules of courtesy and
quite another to have those rules so firmly imhedded
that politeness becomes an instinctive act.
Certain edtfcators favor college courses in man
ners aiujL decry the "school of discourtesy" taught by
"heavy" ' characters in films. They may be on the
right track, but a woman whose children are models
of thoughtful consideration has perhaps found a bet
ter way. "I taught my boy and two girls to be un
selfish," she explains. "Courtesy is only a by-product
of that teaching." A wholly unselfish person could
not be discourteous even if ignorant of rules. CHRIS
TIAN SCIENCE MONITOR.
Shall Work Be Criminal?
117ERE the thirty-hour week in cloth factories fixed
by the law, and thirty workers should install
machines in their cottages and then engage in mak
ing garments another thirtv hours a week, what
would be the effect on the
What it ZU,UUU cloth-makers in south Carolina
went into the garment-making business on the side?
Would the garment-makers elsewhere have a griev
ance ?
If five or sixty thirty-hour a week cloth-makers
combined to erect and operate a filling station, the
men working in different shifts in the mill and stag
gering the employment at the station, would not the
competition be rough on other operators of filling
stations?
Or if cloth-makers purchase small farms, pro
ducing upon them most of the food for themselves
and their families, is it not competition with otTier
farmers and with grocers? Some of the cloth-makers
are now operating farms. They will rapidly multi
ply, The News and Courier hopes.
Is it the "plan" of the planners that men and
Women ambitious to work more than thirty hours a
week shall be forbidden by law to indulge the am
bition? Should a thirty-hour a week man be sent to jail
if he wrote a book in competition with authors?
In a week are 168 hours, and when thirty are sub
tracted, 138 remain. CHARLESTON NEWS AND
COURIER.
Simplicity of Speech
The Wall Street Journal reports that the vocab
ulary used by President Roosevelt in making his pub
lic addresses is almost as simple as that of Abraham
Lincoln. Dr. Richard S. Schultz, noted psychologist,
found that in a recent radio address by the President,
70 per cent of the words used by President Lincoln
in his Gettysburg address are among these 500 most
common words. MORGANTON NEWS-HERALD.
garment-making industry?!
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THROUGH
CAPITAL
KEYHOLES
BY BESS HINTON SILVER
RINGS THE BELL AGAIN
The reorganized State Revenue
Department hit another one over
the fence for a home-run in report
of 'Collections for the first quarter
of this fiscal year. Collections for
July, August and September to
talled $7,112,562.96, representing a
gain of $2,678,40021 more iron men
than were gathered together during
the same quarter last year. The
percentage increase for the quarter
was 62.34 while a gain of 217 per
cent was registered in the month
of September. That's good news to
Revenue Commissioner A. J. Max
well, who has heard that the Legis
lature will seek to make his post
elective instead of appointive, and
his assistant Dr. M. C. S. Noble,
who has heard rumbling of coming
attacks on his position next Jan
uary. Both men will be well forti
fied with figures if attempts are
made to get them down on the
carpet.
BOYS, GET THE VOTES
Now that the battle on the tex
tile front is over, the State Demo
cratic organization has opened State
headquarters in Raleigh and is all
set to scrap the Republicans for a
couple of moons. Cutler Moore',
Lumberton and Raleigh insurance
man, is the new secretary to suc
ceed John Bright Hill, port col
lector at Wilmington. J. Wallace
Winborne, Committee Chairman of
Marion, and Mrs. Charles W. Til
lett, Jr., of Charlotte, are in town
scratching their hands on how to
get out a big vote next month in
the absence of State-wide contests
of major interest. The old bunk
mills of both parties will be grind
ing merrily for some weeks.
HOW'S YOUR ROAD?
Members of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission esti
mate "conservatively" that it will
require upwards of $2,000,000 to
"restore" the old courfty roads or
secondary State system to the con
dition they were in when the Legis
lature ham-strung expenditures two
years ago. If the next Legislature
diverts highway funds the State
will suffer a $1,000,000 "penalty" in
federal funds each year of the
coming biennium. With all the va
ried and sundry demands for di
version, demands for purchase of
toll bridges and lowering of the
license tax it is not impossible that
M-tu rv. u i I
for its "bad" roads.
PULLED A BONER?
Many politicians coming into Ral
eigh from over the State express
the opinion that Congressman- R.
L. Doughton, considered a 1936 can
didate for Governor, pulled a boner
when he telegraphed Francis J.
Gorman, textile strike leader, that
he had no "influence" with the
State administration in the matter
of using troops in troubled areas.
Gorman termed the Doughton tele
gram "favorable" and in Raleigh it
was interpreted as a bid for the
organized labor vote but some hair
splitting politicans are of the opin
ion that the Congressman didn't
expect the message to be published.
MORE TROUBLE
Federal relief officials threaten to
withdraw all assistance from States
not sharing in the costs. The State
of North Carolina is not spending
one penny on relief and the local
units very little. This State may
get a stay of execution until the
Legislature convenes but what will
happen after that is an unknown
quantity. The General Assembly is
going to have its headaches over
running the schools and other func
tions of the State and now it will
have the added task of raising
money for relief.
VINDICATED
Governor Ehringhaus, State Pa
role Commissioner Edwin M. Gill
and the courts were vindicated of
charges of prejudice when Emanual
(Spice) Bittings, Person county
Negro went to his death in the
electric chair. It had been charged
that Spice did not get a fair trial
and that his family was intimidated.
As he took his .seat in the chair
Bittings said, "It's not the court's
fault it's nobody's fault but my
own that I am here." He should
have known.
IN THE COLD
State departmental employes are
wondering why it is that nobody
seems to realize their reduced fi
nancial status. On every hand
speakers and writers are urging in
creased pay for school teachers but
few voices are raised in behalf of
the remainder of the hired help.
Just to give you an idea of how
things stand the CWA furnished a
part time stenographer to one State
official and paid her more than
his full time secretary was getting.
UP THE LADDER-
By reason of deaths and primary
defeats Frank Nancoc the up-and-coming
young Congressman from
the Fifth North Carolina District,
will be number three man on the
highly important House Banking
and Currency Comm.ttee or the
next Congress. Hancock, one of
the young and most aggressive
members of the North Carolina
delegation is known in Washington
as more Kooseveltian in his ideas
than even the President. Every
now and then his name bobs up in
speculation as a potential candidate
for Governor or the Senate.
A LOT OF GRUB
The Prison Division of the State
Highway and Public Works Com
mission, under the direction of Jack
Roach, among other little joos has
to prepare 25,000 meals each day
for prisoners and employes. That's
an average of slightly more than
1,000 meals every hour and the
way those huskies can eat. It's a
neat little job of housekeeping that
faces Mr. Roach every morning at
breakfast.
TAR HEELS ON SCENE
North Carolinians are forging to
the front in the Roosevelt Admin
istrationthere's Josephus Daniels,
Ambassador to Mexico: Wm. E.
Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; J.
Crawford Biggs, Solicitor General;
Turner Battle, practically second in
command of the Department of
Labor; Justice Walter P. Stacey,
Chairman of the President's Labor
Mediation Board; S. Clay Wil
liams, newly-named Chairman of
the reorganized NRA Board. In
many of these appointments many
seers profess to see the fine Italian
hand of former Governor O. Max
Gardner, regarded as one of the
President's most confidential advis
ors. Governor Gardner is reported
to be enjoying one of the most
lucrative practices in Washington.
NOT BRAGGING
This infant column of news be
hind the news in North Carolina,
not yet three months old, is now
appearing in 52 newspapers in 38
counties of the State. You must
admit that it's a good-sized youngs
ter for it's age. Almost every
week some new paper starts pub
lishing "Capital Keyholes."
GOOD MONEY
If you don't live in the "tobacco
belt" it would do your heart good
to ride through the -country and
hear the expressions of happiness
that come from the lips of farm
ers and see the smiles on their
lips. Millions of dollars are flow
ing daily into their pockets and
automobile salesmen are in their
hey-day. But the happiest of all
probably is Governor Ehringhaus
who went to bat for the tobacco
growers with such decided success
last year and has watched prices
continually on the rise since.