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Governmental Relief and Private Giving
D ED CROSS roll call workers report considerable
"difficulty this year in - obtaining memberships
and donations for the great national relief organiza
tion. Less than half of Macon county's goal of
300 memberships has been attained.
Some of tfyose engaged in the Red Cross can
vass have reported the development of a widespread
feeling that, since the federal government has un
dertaken such a vast relief program, it is no longer
necessary for the individual to do his or her bit to
ward assisting the unfortunate.
Anyone taking the trouble to investigate the
facts, of course, would find that such an excuse for
not joining the Red Cross is untenable. Uncle Sam
is mot bearing and cannpt bear the whole relief
burden. There are mariy cases in which outside
assistance is needed and the government is unable
to give it. Not even the vast federal relief organ
ization can cope with the situation facing the coun
try today; the government must have the volun
tary cooperation of the entire people if destitution,
want and misfortune are to be brought to the ir
reducible minimum for which we all hope.
The Red Cross frequently works hand in hand
with governmental agencies, but it performs a func
tion and serves a purpose the government somei
times is unable to do.
But aside from a purely materialistic angle,
important as that may be, the Red Cross fulfills a
need even- greater;1 than that of the destitute for
food and clothing, of the sick for skilled attention,
of the victims Of flood and pestilence for a helping
hand. As well as a guardian angel for the unfor
tunate, it is a guiding angel for the fortunate. It
is a symbol to make one realize that he has a duty
to his neighbor, that he should be thankful for his
own good fortune.
"The poor ye have always with you." It is wise
ly ordained, for we need them as greatly as they
need us. They are a blessing as well as an obliga
tion. As pointed out in a recent letter sent out by
the North Carolina Orphan Association:
"Without human need and human suffering to
appeal constantly to the heart o a materialistic
world and keep open therein its fountains of love
and sympathy, it would harden into stone in a gen
eration, or be eaten out by sordid selfishness and
greed."
Putting Christmas Spirit in Business
CHRISTMAS, 1934, is a reminder that the heyday of the "go
getter" is past, believes Vash Young, author of "A Fortune
to Share" and the man who has sold more than a million dollars
worth of insurance every year during the depression.
"The Christmas season," says Mr. Young in the December Ro
tarian Magazine, "finds business and professional men of the world
faced with great changes in prospect. Perhaps the greatest of these
is the growing realization that instead of making getting our first
-consideration, with public welfare taking care of itself, we shall have
to put public welfare first and to find a way to do business in spite
of change. For my own part, I beKve"4hat such a change will
make for greater all around prosperity than we have ever known
before, and 1 am certain that every one of us will be happier.
"This," he continfues, "will make it hard for the out and out
go-getter who can think only from his own selfish viewpoint. But
the go-getter is already 'in a jam' and he should welcome anything
that promises to better his outlook. Go-getting has never made for
real happiness, for the man who practices it nearly always becomes
cynical, insincere, shifty, and cast down by failure, or puffed up by
passing successes. He may make a big showing for a time, but
rarely does he show the stamina and consistent resiult over the years
that go with go-giving.
"I offer this conclusion, not as an opinion, but as a fact based
on observation of business and professional men under all sorts
of conditions.
"In trying to apply the lesson of Christmas to my daily work,
and from watching others who have made the same effort, I know
that it is really more blessed and far more practical to give than
to receive. The go-giver, the man to whom service is a way of
doing, starts by being kind to himself in the way I have indicated.
In seeking to give his best to his fellows he works without the ten
sion that goes with go-getting. He does not suffer from either the
violent ups or downs tnat go with go-getting. The giving habit keeps
him calm and poised. He is never trapped in his -own falsehoods,
because he speaks the truth. Having only the right motives, he has
nothing to conceal or fear. Arid the practical side to it all is that
usually he finds that in return the world gives to him more than
he ever expected in prosperity of 7m kinds instead of money pros
perity only."
THROUGH
CAPITAL
KEYHOLES
BY BESS HINTON SILVER
BIG STICK
Raleigh back-room political cir
cles hear rumblings of a coming
war between eastern and western
Democrats that are highly intrigu
ing, to say the least. The story,
goes that the westerners are form-;
ing a combine to force redistrict- i
ing of the State after the mandate
of the constitution. The east has
blocked redistricting, which would
give the west greater representa-j
tion at the expense of the boys
down east. The plan of the west- !
erners is said to be scrapping of
the traditional method of alternat-j
ing between east and west on can
didates for Governor, Senator and
other important State offices in the
'vent the easterners refuse to
agree to redistricting. That would
mean that the west would offer
Democratic candidates for all of
fices' every term. The thought will
probably cause the eastern boys to
pause and think.
made the "goat" in taxes in Tar
Heelia. Motorists are already pay
ing 52 per cent of total taxes col
lected in North Carolina and the
new organization asserts that if
more money is being collected from
motorists than necessary to main
tain roads there should be a re
duction in motor taxes, rather than
diversion. The potency of the new
group is indicated by some of its
sponsors: Julian Price, president
of the Jefferson Standard Life In
surance Co., of Greensboro; J. A.
Hartness, former Secretary of
State; Claude Wheatly, former Re
publican member of the. t State
Highway Commission; Dr. John N.
Hill, prominent surgeon of Chero
kee county; Norman Chambliss,
banker and manager,, of the State
Fair; -Superior Court Judge Hoyle
Sink; R. P. (Bob) Holding, presi
dent First Citizens Bank & Trust
Co., J. G. Stykeleather, W. A. Mc
Firt and J. L. McNair, former
members of the State Highway
Commission, J. B. Ward, Wilson
business man, and a host of oth
ers. You'll admit there's power in
that line if the boys can develop
the team work. It appears they
will
NUMBER FOUR
You have been reading a lot
about the three leading candidates
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination in the spring of '36,
namely Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby;
Congressman R. L. Doughton, of
Sparta; and Lieutenant Governor
A. H. Graham, of Hillsboro. Now
you can also hear around the State
Capitol that Attorney General Den
nis G. Brummitt, of Oxford, has
about decided to pitch his hat in
to the ring and if he does you can
look for a real battle-royal. Any
man of the quartette can well be
rated a serious threat to any oth
er man's gubernatorial ambitions.
lative circles here. In the event
of a deadlock between the first
mentioned trio either of the two
latter veterans might upset some
body's applecart.
CHILD LABOR
One question that is sure to bob
up in the coming session of the
Legislature that has received but
a mite of attention is the child
labor amendment to the federal
constitution. So far 20 States have
ratified this proposed 22nd amend
ment but North Carolina is not
among them. Don't be surprised
if Governor Ehringhaus recom
mends ratification in his address
to the General Assembly. North
Carolina has not been so hot for
changes in the federal basic law
but those who visit behind the
scenes do not anticipate any se
rious troubles for the child labor
proposal which has the extra
special blessing of the Roosevelt
administration.
HONOR
Keyholes is just about willing to
stake its reputation on the predic
tion that Dan C. Boney, North
Carolina's affable Commissioner of ,
Insurance, will be honored by his
fellows at the annual meeting of
the National Association of In-1
surance Commissioners in Florida
early in December. It would not
be surprising if Mr. Boney should
emerge as president of the Nation
al organization.
Keyholes won the mythical con
crete bicycle for the prize boner
last week. An item told of the
expected resignation of one of the
State assistant Attorneys General
because of poor health. Dennis
G. Brummitt, Attorney General,
writes that both A. A. F. Seawell
and T. Wade Bruton, the two as
sistant Attorneys General are in
good health and have assured himi
that they have no intention of re- j
signing. That is widely known.,
What Keyholes intended to say
was that one of the three assistant
United States District Attorneys is
expected to resign because of poor
health. Our apologies to Messrs.
Brummitt, Seawell and Bruton and
to our ten-thousand-and-one readers.
POTENT
Announcement this week of the
formation of the Highway Protec
tive League of North Carolina
main objective an amendment to
the State constitution prohibiting
diversion of motor taxes is anoth
er indication of motorists banding
together to prevent their being
MAKING HAY-
While you're reading so much
about the activities of Representa
tives Robert Grady Johnson, of
Pender; Laurie McEachern, of
Hoke, and Willie Lee Lumpkin,
of Franklin, in the race for Speak
er of the 1935 House of Repre
sentatives, word trickles into Ral
eigh that two rther legislative war
horses are turning the soil along
speakership row. They are R.
Gregg Cherry, of Gaston, and Wil
liam A. Sullivan, of Buncombe.
Mr. Cherry ran off with Repre
sentative Tarn C. Bowie, of Ashe,
on the "economy" cruise that would
have allowed the schools but $10,
000,000 a year during the present
biennium but both he and Mr. Sul
livan are highly regarded in legis-
SALES TAX-
It's hard to find anybody around
the State Capitol who will tell you
that the general sales tax will be
eliminated from the next revenue
bill. Plenty of the boys would
like to see it wiped off the books
but they can't figure how it can
be done in the face of increasing
demands for increases in teacher
pay, greater appropriations for the
University and other State-supported
colleges and Federal Relief Di
rector Hopkins' deiriand for the
State to ante-up on relief needs.
Most of the speculation regarding
the sales tax on Capitol Hill these
days centers on changes in its ap
plication. There is more than a
little opinion that the present ex
emptions (or at least some of
them) will be stricken out and the
tax expanded to include more than
retail sales. Thus, the gravy would
go farther just by adding water
rather than meat and flour.
RINGING THEBELL
During the 1933 Session of 'the
Legislature the Department of Con
servation and Development bore the
brunt of many attacks. When R.
Bruce Etheridge took over the
reins that department was exceed
ingly unpopular. Things have
changed in the past two years and
the conservation department is
coming back to its place in the
sun once more. Mr. Etheridge
("Uncle Brucie" in his native Man
teo) is, one of the most popular
members of the .State administra
tion and he is credited in Raleigh
with pulling his department out of
the dumps. It is not expected that
the Conservation department will
have nearly so much trouble next
spring as confronted it two years
ago. Incidentally Mr. Etheridge is
a veteran of many Legislatures and
knows his way round.