CAPITAL REPORTER
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Raleigh. N. C.. Nov—It gives|
me great pleasure to announce
that at last' -some 90 years late—
tile South is beginning to win the
war, suh.
I have heard our governors,
senators, and plain citizens cite
how higher freight rates in the
South ; re discriminatory. But now
comes a howl from the Yankees.
Seems .their beef is we ain't
j.avirg enough-- at least in the
textile salary field.
One Seabur; Slanton, a New j
Bedford, Mass., woarcr-of-the
blue, wants Congress to lift^mini
rnuin wages injhr textile indus
try “to wipe out a competitive
advanta: e the South has over the
North."
Ole Wet-Eye Stanton says he
lias to pay an average of $1.06 1-3
per hour, against a lower figure of
7.r>e an hour in the South. This,
he says, gives us an unfair advan
tage.
Not only that, but he complains
because he says the Southern
worker 'is more flexible in his
thinking”, blames Southerners'
willingness to handle more ma
chines to the fact that most of
them are 'first generation textile
workers” trained on automatic
machines. Says further that a
modern mill of 450 looms Would
require 158 workers in the North
as against 113 in the South -
where the folks apparently still
believe in trying to do tin honest
day’s work.
Seen Ole Dsmy nitre Stanton
is wen yin’ about the textile in
dustry movin' South, suh. Don’
worry," podnuh— we’uns is so lazy,
so far behind times to t it .takes
us a little tim • to unde -tand all
about that ole feather-beddin’
Jus' give us a littk turn suh. an'
we'll be just an urney as then1
damyank.ee W.-rkeis an’ you ran
pay us twice us much for half th<
1 job We'd a 1:. an d it by new
suh, ’eeptin’ you named that there
labor organization a ‘union”.
There’s an intcresiing little ru
mor floating around Raleigh It’?
to the eft eel that a eei t on' Stall
* senator >.111 p> i. a lull or re
oluium in tine coming lego.dntun
calling for an invertil-ation of th(
Scott udmiuisti alion.
The probe would start with the
paroles commission, go to tin
prison division, and from then or
wherever tie fancy might strike.
This young senator so the story
gei s has the idea he will be nam
ed head of the investigating com
mittee, which he plans to start
with anti-Scott senators.
Not that he really experts ti
find anything, it's just another]
harassing move in the Scott-anti
Scott fight.
Around Capitol Hill the parn is
causing nothing but chuckles,
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A new, likely candidate for gov
: eronor of North Carolina in 1952
] bobbed up in all of the pre-elec
tion, love-and-kisses campaigning
by warring factions of Tar Heel
iaVs Democratic party.
He's Hubert Olive of Lexington.
He's served in both houses of the
legislature, and he's a prominent
Baptist. The Superior Court judge
right now is heading a fundrais
ing campaign for Wake Forest
College.
Bill Umstead of Durham either
got off to a running start in the
52 for governor sweepstakes, or
else was pushed out as a blind by
conservative forces of the party.
Charlie Johnson proved tin early
sprinter didn't always last until
the finish. Umstead has lots of
!1 lend and supporters, but would
have to overcome the dual hand
cap of being once-beaten for sen
ator plus the old east-west tradi
tion. Some folks say he can do it,
others say he'd be the easiest man
to beat the conservatives could
dter. And you can talk about a
deal foi Kerr Scott’s support for
Umstead, far as 1 can find out
'tain’t so.
H Hidcn Ramsey, the Asheville
editor mentioned as an entrant,
s' 'no". Says he has private
plan that preclude such. That's
smart Doesn't pay to show your
1 cards too early in the game,
whet In r you plan to call Ihe bet
or not. But few men can refuse
! the siren song of a ‘public draft”
.to run for office.
C. pus Waynick of High Point,
i ui iiit ambassador to Nicaragua
■ now temporarily heading the
Point Four program, suffered a
blow to hi potential candidacy
c dll the death of T. V. Rochelle of
High Point. Wynick has made no
i i the fact that he'd like to
■‘ride in Number 1 for four years.
H clielte was slated to handle
linaneies for the Waynick cam
paign, hi \yever, ; nd a suitable
■ kii erneht will be hard to find.
Alone about the middle of the
; 1951 General Assembly you can
■ expect a statement from Waynick
..- lo what lie plans to do. He’s up
for a bigger ambassadorship —
j either Mexico or Spain- d hi1
stajs with 4 he State Department.
Speaking of the paroles cum
. mis. ion brings up the differences
between Commissioner T C. John
1, son and Anting Assistant Hilda
Carpenter.
Seems the Acting Assistant did
n't approve of a lot of things that
were going on in the commission:
such as the borrowing of office
electric fans during the summer;
the elevating of, (what to her
seemed unqualified) certain em
ployees and assignment of a State
auto to him; and the way paroles
were being given. She even ob
jected to some of the things in
Comm. Johnson s personal file in
which she had made herself at
home.
Well, when you’re top man in
an office there's always a way to
end sut’h confusion.
Last week, Dr. Johnson an
nounced that Foil F.ssick, one of
the commission's oldest and most
capable officers, had been named
Assistant Commissioner. No more
need for an Acting Assistant.
A deputy sheriff from Alamance
County tells an interesting story
Says some top industrial boys
from his neighborhood—who do
nated heavily in the May and
June Democratic primaries
pit- hod quite a wad into the Re
pulican pot in the November gen
eral election. Says those Novem
ber donations were not made on
a 'local level", either.
Theis week’s orchid goes to Joe
Crawford, warden at Central Pri
son here.
Not too many weeks back, Joe
was just about everybody’s tar
get. The MacCormick prison re
port had labeled him as a man
iwho didn't know his job. That
same report said in effect he
should be given the heaveho.
i But Joe'took the bull by the
horns. lie set out to learn what
he could, do what he could. He
cornered his chief critic, MacCor
mick, and asked advice. He built
up Central Prison’s recreation pro
igram. He fixed a prison library.
I ? r i .1 , . .
He ana tne hoys put together u
nice reception room for visitors
waiting to sec prisoners. He okay
ed and helped develop a radio
show from the prison, using pri
son talent.
And now, there's an altogether
different attitude at Central Pri
son. Used to ho you felt like you
were walking into a city of the
damned when you went through
| the gates. Now you get the im
| pression that the boys serving
i time are beginning to have hope—
I hope that they will get back into I
tsociety; hope that they will be!
able to lead a decent, law-abiding j
life, many of them for the first
time.
] Many folks say it prison should
i hive some aim beside punishment.
They say it should aim for re
habilitation, Joe Crawford seems
I to be trying to do that, and seems
to be suceeding.
Nice job, Joe.
i Here are some notes front tbe
I Governor’s press conferences:
j He thinks a psychiatric wing
should be added to the UNC hos
pital at Chapel Hill. "It will help
us train, and give refresher cours
es, to our personned at State Hos
pitals,” he sijys. The Governor
pointed out the need for more
trained personnel at slate mental
institutions. "Why, there are some
patients who have been there a
year or more without treatment,”
he said. “They’ve been given cus
j todial care, and that’s all—because
we don’t have the trained man
power to do the job.
He thinks the Legislative should
give the budget commission au
thority to add funds to building
programs already authorized.
Some are being held up because
bids are higher than funds pro
vided.
He thinks new money must be
forthcoming from somewhere—
either an added penny gas tax or
an upped license tag fee—if the
State is to take over building and
maintenance of city streets.
He thinks elimination of sales’
tax exemptions would be fair and
just—and raise needed money.
He thinks folks who holler for
more State services should ' be
willing to pay the bill.
Ralph Fisher, Transylvania
count Repubfican who tells some
of the tallest tales you ever heard,
will be buck in the Legislature
come January 1951. He’s gunning
for leadership of the minority par
ty, too. If he wins, that could
mean that he’ll hold the balance
of power in strictly pro- and anti
administration legislative snarls
There’s a rumor going around
that Frank Taylor of Wayne has
the House , speakership ”in the
bag." Opponent Fred Royster,
Vance county tobacconist, report
ed ry plans u> hi t—Rivr-roadthe
west to see what gives. One so
called political expert ^observed
the other day that ‘‘if Fred finds
out what they think of him in the
west, he won’t even let, his name
be mentioned at the (Democratic)
caucus." 1 dunno. Out of some
708 Democrats each side is claim
ing more than enough to win
Could bo this is a nioo spot for a ;
dark horse.
From Washington, via pony ox- I
press:
Britian probably will request
UiK'le Sam to waive first pay
ments on the 1945 loan from the
U. S. due at the end of 1951 Seems
to us we’ve heard that sonjj be
fore—say back in the ’20’s, Won
der what would happen if “Unc"
pot tough, for a change
Report that Capua Waynick is
fighting with Willard Thorp, as
sistant secretary of state for eco
nomic affairs, over who’ll have the |
say on Point Four. Add to that
President Truman's ‘appoint
ment” -later changed to a “high
post in" of Nelson Rockefeller as j
Point Four director, and you have
quite a mess.
Out of the fuss, Washington
grapevine says, is likely to come
a snatch of Point Four from the
State Department, lateral-passing
it tn a merger with a reorganized j
ECA after the current Marshall
Plan expires in 1952.
North Cnrolians like to see their |
sons stay home and succeed. But \
sometimes, 1 think, they like to j
see their sons go out anti make
good in other corners of the land
just to prove that it can be lone,
if for no other reason.
Well, a Louisburg native is do
ing all right out Kansas way. He's :
John Staley Holden, son of the |
late Ben T. and Willie S Holden i
I of Louisburg llis lather was a
!state senator, an able lawyer loved
j by many throughout the state, and
j a man listened to in Democratic
'circles. His mother took ovei rais
ling the family when her husband j
I died', was active in civic and polit
ical affairs—representing Frank
1 in County on the State Democrat
ie Executive Committee
John started out studying law
at Wake Forest. Uncle Sam beck
oned, and he spent several years
in khaki, came back after the war
and finished his law at Duke.
He decided he didn’t want to
set up practice in Ins home town,
because he felt he would be trad
ing on the reputation of his pa
rents He looked around the conn j
tiv picked Ciirrmaron, Kansas, as!
a likely spot for a fledgling itroi
ney to try his wings He passed
the bar and pinched his pennies,
living in a storm cellar—actually -
while he made friends and begun
to get clients
The county he had settled in (
was Republican, but when 1948
rolled around that didn’t bother I
him. He ran for county attorney .
on the Democratic ticket. He
stumped the county, calling for |
votes for “Honest John He wag
ed such a good campaign that the |
Republican governor came down
to personally give his opponent I
a hand Hut John won the election,
anyhow.
As county attorney (similar to
our county solicitor here) he fin
ed arid jailed friend and foe when
they ran afoul of the law He made
friends, and—of course—he made
enemeies, Not too long ago he
married a Kansas girl
Then came campaign time
again. John wrote back to North
Carolina saying he didn’t much
expect to win. Off-year, and so
forth. Strong Republican county.
Concerted drive to get rid of him.
But when they counted the
votes, old “Honest John Holden
had won again!
He carried every precinct but
one.
Tar Heels, naturally, would like
to see such boys stay home They
can be proud of them, though.
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On the House speakership race
front, supporters of Rep. Frank
Taylor of Goldsboro claim from
49 to 51 votes “in the bag' Co
ni«rt‘s of RerTVieci 'Knyrtu",-'4•*■.-’i«
relieve either man has anything i
like those claims pledged, but
they believe Taylor has a slight j
edge. There’s talk »that Wa..e
County’s Brantley Womble-Who,
served in the much-maligned 1933
session—may be rung in as a
“dark horse”. Womble, a middle--'
of-the-roader who calls ’em as ho
sees ’em and lots the chips fall
where they may, could wind up
wielding the gavel in the 1951
House, some folks think.
Cousin C. Wayland Spruill, vet
eran representative from Bertie
county, bought a Texas style hat
recently for Secretary of State
Thad Eure.
Cousin Wayland said he was tir
ed of seeing Thad in his heatup
summer straw Now ‘Cuz" is sor
ry he did it Seems as though
every fi lend he has is peeved be
cause he didn’t get m on the bon
net-buying spree.
"It's cost me five more hats to
jkeep my best friends, " Spruill
|moaned. "But I've given notice
that I'm through the rest of ’em
| will have to buy their own hats
I ar go bareheaded."
i _
M. G. Mann, general managei
nf the Farmers Cooperative F.x- -
ihan.ee and the N. C. Cotton Co- h
operative, is quite a prophet.
In 1946 he predicted 35 cents,
cotton. It hit that. In 1947 he pre
dicted 40 cent cotton, and was
laughed at but that, too, has
come about.
Now lie’s predicting 50 cent cot
ton in 1951, hut there are no
snickers. I
Red' Headed, 70-year-old Miss
Nora Edmundson is teaching again
this year because of Wautauga
School Superintendent Walker’s:
help.
You probably remember Miss
Nora She’s the schoolmarm who
talked herself ortt of a job by get
ting the "Road of the 99 Fords"
built in Watauga county. She was
teaching a score or more (if kid’s
in a one-room shack, because they
were isolated in the Watauga hills
When they built the road, the
kids were transferred to a eon
I solidated school riding buses in
I stead of walking five to ten miles
jnnd Miss Nora's job was gone.
Walker looked around. Down at
Ocracoke, Teacher Roi.dthalcr
son of Moravian Bishop Rondthal
er of Winston-Salem -read about
Miss Nora. He and Walker got
together.
Now Miss Nora, spry as a crick
et and refusing to retire is teach
ing the Outer Ranks kids. She’s
pioneering again, now completing
the tour from mountains to sea
shore. Folks like Miss Nora make
"retirement at 65" sound silly.
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