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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1933
BIBLE THOUGHT
T: SAFER THAN A GOOD RECORD
*'| ♦»»«• Lord thy God will hoid[ thy right hand."
(l%k;AT:79r.
(Hw ^iay I met an old negro and asked him how
loTifr WttuFbecn serving the Lord. "Fifty years,"
he' r'eprlfed^' "Well, Uncle," I said, "after keeping
the "faith for so long, you must feel pretty con
fident of holding out to the end!" "Ah, masa," he
only a question of whether de Lord
can holiLQB, and I reckon I can trust Him."—Sun
day .Scfeftol Times. ,V* V
..FOUR CENTURIES OF ROMANCE
- * • (By BRUCE CATTON)
ejfrlrthday anniversary of a city sel
dom means very much. But there are a
few cities which occupy special places in
hlsto^^T-cities which came into existence
1&# born of bloodshed and wonder
and desire—and when one of these passes
a new TgHjstone the event is worth looking
a*.; , ,
VH^rfffgrht be interested to know, there
foreKt^t the city of Cartagena, in Colom
bia, receaily celebrated its 400th birthday.
It!w*is bom in 1533, when there were
still men w^o sailed with Co
lumbus, when Cortez's daring raid on the
empHfr-of^he Aztecs was still being talked
abct5? Pifcarro's raid on the Inca empire
was still in progress. A new world was be
i»g opened, an age of gold was dawning,
El TTorado was a reality which might lie
just beyond the town.
So Cartagena was bound to be a city
whose air would be hazy with romance, a
city around which legends and dreams
would cluster.
It became the chief port for the Spanish
conquistadors. Twice a year it sent a great
fleet of blunt-nosed, top-heavy galleons off
to Spain, with breath-taking quantities of
gold stowed below decks, painted sails bel
lying out from the creaking yards, per
fumed and hard-mouthed grandees at ease
in the draped cabins on the high poops.
Pirates knew Cartagena, and soldiers,
and gold-hunters, and explorers—all the
lustiest spirits of one of earth's lustiest pe
riods. Francis Drake sacked the place,
held it for a time against long odds, sailed
away with vast riches. The French fol
lowed him, lacer on, and did likewise; les
ser sea-rovers thundered against the sea
walls efKthe port, some of them were
caught and hanged in chains, some of them
landed in the prison cells of the great for
tress and died slowly, in the dark.
The fortress had walls 40 feet high and
50 feetthick. Six hundred thousand slavey
are said-to have been used to build it; thou
sandsi.ttf them died before the job was
done, and something like $80,000,000 was
spent *6V> it.
And jt is that Cartagena which has jus!
reached its 400th anniversary. Can any
man a feeling of romance be indiffer
ent to the occasion?
■fkrti
W^° severa* hundred thou
sand cMars for their seats on the Ne\^
York 1*f£k Exchange can hardly be
blamed if they don't get up to buy Kreugei
& ToH°#hen it sells at two dozen share*
for a rffcl&r.
Oil i
Joe* Ei* Brown, the movie star, backet
out of that deal to acquire a third interea
in the Kansas City baseball club. On sobe
• * ■
reflect***, Joe probably was afraid 1
woulcK#*terfere with his work—which
you'UdttCfcU,. is laughing.
After all this bewilderment about tech
nocracy, the Glass bank bill and current;
inflation it would be a relief to the ordi
nary fellow if congress would get down fc
something like the 2-cent stamp.
A cable reports that a Solomon Islam
native "has just paid $1800 for a wife oi
the installment plan, and will be the res
of his life paying for her." Well, well
Things are pretty much the same this worl
over, aren't they?
| NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
0 O
THE BEER BILL
The beer bill that passed the house is in many
respects illogical. It attempts by legislation to
make a non-intoxl^atiHg beverage out of a beer
that heretofore in anti-alcohol legislation and in
liquor laws of the past has beer, generally treated
as intoxicating. And ihe fundamental reason for
declaring this beer non-intoxicating is not so much
the result of physiological research ... as it is the
fact that the federal government needs revenue.
That was admitted when the maximum alcoholic
limit was raised from the proposed 2.75 per cer.t
j by weight to 3.2 per cent by weight for the simple
| reason that beer of the former content would not
sell in large enough quantities to produce revenue.
Furthermore, the beer bill has been passed in the
face of party pledges against the return of the
saloon. As passed, the beer bill permits, even in
vites, the return of the saloon. For, if and when
the states attempt to regulate the sale of beer be
cause of its intoxicating qualities, they will be at.
tempting to regulate the sale of a beverage that
has been declared non-intoxicating in fact. . .
Until a few weeks ago the statement that "every
body is opposed to the saloon" would go unchal
lenged. The most ardent of wets themselves sought
designation as the truest friends of temperance
and sobriety, anxious at all costs to prevent the
| return of the saloon. Yet the house leadership has
not permitted a single vote to test the sentiment
in f»vor of beer but against the saloon as opposed
to sentiment in favor of beer and in favor of the
saloon.
The original proposal by the Democrats to
amend the Volstead Act was never expressed in the
concrete terms of the beer bill. Light beer was, up
to a short time ago, spoken of as 2.75 per cent
beer. Now light beer in the beer bill, is the beer
of pre-prohibition days. The bill would become ef
fective thirty days after its signature by the presi
dent. That would obviously permit the states little,
if any, time to set up the machinery necessary to
control this new flood of beverage declared non
intoxicating by the federal congress. Where is the
fulfillment of the party pledge of the Democrats to
"urge the enactment of such measures by the sev
eral states as will actually promote temperance,
effectively prevent the return of the saloon and
bring the liquor traffic into the open under com
plete supervision and control of the states? Is that
pledge to be repudiated?
A flood of 4 per cent legalized beer will not ruin
the country, it will not fill the gutters with drunk
en men. But it will denote a deplorable failure, by
responsible legislators, to conceive the liquor prob- :
lem as one that stil' requires careful artd mature?
consideration. . . .—Washington Star.
SAVE THE RAILROADS
Few statements that have been made at Raleigh
since the legislature convened have attracted more
attention or have been more calculated to give ,
pause to our legislators and others than the sug- 1
gestion during the recent hearing on proposed ad- •
ditional taxes on railroads that if conditions don't 1
improve for these public carriers, the government
will be compelled to take them over. This hearing 1
had followed immediately upon the announcement 1
by the Southern railroad that it would not be able
to meet its tax payments this year when they came ,
due on February 1 and that it would have to pay <
later and accept the penalty. '
It developed in the hearing that the Norfolk
Southern had not been able to meet payments on <
its lease from the state on its lines in eastern Caro- :
Una, that it did not pay its franchise tax last Oc
tober and that it is not in position to pay its prop
erty taxes due at the present time. The Seaboard
is in receivership and the Atlantic Coast Line is in
a distressed situation, too. It was also stated at
the hearing that the railroads, even under such
conditions as obtained during 1932, paid in taxes
in North Carolina, not including federal taxes, more
than $13,000 per day, or more than $5,345,000 for
the year.
Here is the startling thought. If government
ownership of railroads comes through force of cir
cumstances, who is going to pay the sizeable pro
portion of taxes that are now being paid to state
and local government by the railroads? No one
wants government ownership of railroads. Our ex
perience daring the war, when government opera
tion cost American taxpayers approximately $1,
000,000 per day, was all-sufficient. There are those
who speak of government ownership of the power
utilities and coal mines. The utilities particularly
rank with the railroads as taxpayers. Who will pay
i that proportion of taxes that they pay when wo
have Kovernment ownership of utilities?
No! The American people don't want government
ownership of any business. And the more they
realize what it would mean the more determined
they are going to be to fight shy of it.—Charlotte
Observer. a . .. . ,
I BIG WATER
Big water jfoes down the Tennessee river.
Bifr money has already been spent at Muscle
Shoals.
Returns for the government, taxpayer, or any
I body else to date have been very small.
Mr. Roosevelt has promised to put the present
investment to productive use.
^ • Friends of government ownership and operation
' hail his promise as the big «bj«et lesson to-be that
t private industry in the form of power companies
p has profited unduly greatly at the expense of users
t of electricity..
A few mere skeptical souls have questioned
whether the government can compete with the ef
ficiency of private business except as its business
is free from taxation, has depreciation and replace
- ment paid out of taxes instead of charged against
f the business, and in other ways camouflages the
fact thai figures of its competition are not honest
ones.
5 Whatever may be the outcome, Mr. Roosevelt
has taken on in the Muscle Shoals project alone a
big job and one which may be a big factor toward
J development or stoppage of future policies of gov
^ ernment ownership and operation of any kind of
^ businesses.—Goldsboro News-Argus.
The New Yorker says Louis Gruenberg is "the
1 oldest of four sons and four daughters." Doubt
less also the youngest of his parents.
A Sensp fnr the Fitness of Things
Ml?. MOGVER COMFGPRBp WO"H
MR. ROOSEVELT IN THE RED ROOM
— NEWS ITEM.
SCHOOL TERM
FIGHT BEGUN
M'Lean's Campaign Open
ed With Introduction
Of Bill
RALEIGH, Feb. 3.—The fight]
for a state supported eight months
school term without ad valorem
:axation, has been on since Sena
;or A. D. MacLean of Beaufort
county and Senator C. L. Bailey,
>f Washington county introduced
;heir bill for an eight months
school in the senate Wednesday.
I'he bill is virtually a replica of
he MacLean bill introduced ia
1931 for state support of the six
nonths term, the only difference
hat this bill would re-enact the
MacLean law and make it apply
;o an eight months term.
The bill carries no appropriation,
nakes no provision for pvovidfikfc
.he necessary $3,000,000 of addi
ional revenue needed and sets upj
io machinery. In these respects
t is virtually identical with the
>riginal MacLean bill directing the
jstablishment of the state-support
;d six months term "without ad j
valorem taxation." It merely de
clares that the state shall maintain
ind operate an eight months j
jchool term without any ad valo
rem taxation and passes the buck
;o the finance and education com
mittees to find the money and set
up the machinery.
Tn 1931 MacLean secured the
enactment of his six months state
mpported school term law at the
opening of the legislative session,
then used it as a club with which
to hold it in session for five
months while it tried to find the
money with which to finance it.
Indications are that if he can se
cure the enactment of this new
eight months bill, he may follow
the same tactics, point out that
"it's a law" and virtually compel
the general assembly to stay in
session until it finds the necessary
revenue.
Although the MacLean law in
1931 was represented as a mea
sure designed to reduce taxes on
property—which it did to the tun
of about $12,000,000 enactment
that did privately owned property,
or that it would have, had not the
general assembly greatly increas
ed all the tax schedules on the
various corporations to make up
for the reduction in ad valorem
taxes resulting from the MacLean
law and state support of the six
months school term. So as a tax
reduction measure for the cor
porations, the original MacLean
bill was more or less of a flop,'
although it was undoubtedly in
tended to be that.
There is no doubt that the pres
ent move for an eight months
school term is also more of a move
to relieve the corporations of ad
ditional property taxes than any
thing else, although it is also re
garded as an indirect move to
compel the enactment of a general
sales tax. It is agrcojd that if the
state should take oVer the cost
the eight months term it would re
move fully $5,000,000 in property
taxes, of which at lea^t $2,000,000
is paid by corporate property. The
removal of the 15 cents ad valo
rem tax will also remove another
$4,000,000 in property taxes, of
which at least $2,500,000 is paid
by corporations. So both of these
together will take off fully $4,
500,000 in property taxes from
corporate property.
The hope and intent of those
backing this movement is un
doubtedly the substitution of a
general sales tax to provide the
revenue lost from the remov&l of
these property taxes. Some also
are hojping that the sales tart will
be made large enough so that the
present income, franchise and" cor
poration franchise tax schedules
imposed upon the corporations and
business generally can also be re
duced. There is already a well de
fined movement in that direction
discernable.
However, there are indications
that this movement may not suc
ceed any better than it did in 1931
and that the new MacLean eight
months school bill may in reality
prove nothing more than a school
measure rather than a bill to reli
eve corporate property. For there
is already a feeling among the
members of the general assembly
from the non-industrial counties
and sections that if a sales tax is
imposed it must be for the support
of the schools and nothing else.
The sentiment among these is also
growing that the present tax sche
dules on corporate property
must not be reduced, but if any
thing increased in order to recap
tui-e a part of the tax reduction
resulting from the removal of so
much property taxes. So an in
teresting contest is in prospect.
KYLES CREEK
KYLES CREEK, Feb. 3 1). .7.
Rhodes and son, Eltee, were visi
tors in this section on business last
Tuesday.
f EJiza Edmonds, of Buckner,
nas recently moved into this sec-l
tion.
Mr. and Mrs, Charlie Hoggs|
were visitors in the Fruitland
section last Tuesday.
P. A. Barnwell was in this sec
tion on business recently.
Dave Lyda, of Fruitland, wasl
a business visitor in this section
last Tuesday.
, John II. Rogers was in the
Fruitland section on business re
cently.
Napoleon Barnwell, of Mount
Zion, was a visitor in this sec
tion on Saturday.
Elgin Hyder, of Fruitland, was
a recent visitor in this section.
Mr. and Mrs. .John Pittillo, of
Fruitland, visited their son, Plato
Pittillo, of this section last Sun-|
day. 1
Work is now being done by
the State highway crew on the J
Kyles Creek road. This work has
long been needed.
Richard Lvda, of Fruitland,
visited his mint, Mrs. Nellie]
Hoggs, recently.
BIG WILLOW
o o
BIG WILLOW, Feb. 3.—The B.
Y. P. U. met at the home of Mrs.
Leona Huggins in a monthly busi
ness niceting. All officers were
present, the monthly programs
were made up and a song service
held.
Mrs. H. D. Drake is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. .Tudson Corn, of
Brevard, for a few months.
An Old Christian Harmony sing
ing was held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Col Cantrell on Tuesday
night. The singing was conducted
by Carl Anders, of Hendersonvillc.
A large crowd was present.
Amonp: those from Valley Hill
attending the singing were: Mrs.
Joe Cantrell, Miss Nettie Jackson
and Bill Orr.
Strick Dalton lost a fine cow
last week.
S. A. Mace is improving slowly
from an illness.,
Sherald Mace, of Reidsville, and
Richard Mace, of Belmont, have
returned to their homes after a
week's visit with their parents,
Mr." and Mrs, S. A. Mace.
Velma Huggins of Henderson
villc, spent a few days last week
with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Huggins.
Bqmi, to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
McCall, a son, on January 25. He
has been named James Charles.
Rev. C. B. Hollingsworth, of
Pleasant Grove, preached a fine
sermon last Sunday to a large
congregation at Beulah, and selec
tions were heard by a quartet
composed of Messrs D. C. Orr,
Phidel Orr, Naney, and Paul An
ders.
Misses Evelyn and Gervia Hug
Kins had as their Kuest on Sun
day evening, Miss Oleta Huggins.
Mr. Edwin Staton and Mr. Kevis
of Saluda, were callers at the
home of S. C. Huggins, recently.
Among those attending the or
dination service at Pleasant Grove
on Sunday evening were James
Cantrell and Junius Hugging, of
this place.
USE THE WANT ADS.
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WASUINGTON
WITH RODNEY DUTCHEIt
[ BY RODNEY DUTCHER
NKA Service Writer
WASHINGTON—President Hoo
** ver is likely to do a more ini
pbrtant job of vetoing before he
quits than has been achieved by
the combined effort of all previ
ous "lame duck" presidents in
those fast few miserable months
between election defeat and the
other fellow's inauguration.
Measures for legalization and
taxation of beer, a farm relief bill
promised and now being formu
lated fey the Democrats and per
haps n Philippine independence
bill will die under the executive
I ax if passed by Congress, accord
I iilg to most current predictions.
No president has ever had such
a splendi| opportunity to slash at
such an aftnbttious set of proposals
advanced "by a victorious opposi
tion party as now may come to
Mr. Hoover fn the beer bill and
tho farm bill.
But the tendency of some politi
cal reporters fo ascribe the prob
ability of those vetoes to a devi
ous political strategy on the presi
dent's part which is connected
with a supposed desire to return
to the presidency for ye&rs Trom
now seeing" rather far-fetched.
* * *
iT<HE records fail to show any
president who didn't keep on
being a Republican or a Demo
cratic president, as the case might
be, right up to the time he had to
turn over the government to the
other party. Or one who changed
his convictions on major legisla
tion simply because he had been
licked.
The only aifference between
Hoover's position and that of Taft
And "Wilson after the 1912 and
1920 elections would be that Con
gress wants to put up to him its
first big blow at prohibition and a
much more fav-reach.ing and dras
tic. farm relief plan than has yet
been enacted.
Hoover's message to Congress
indicated that he was having no im
portant changes of heart. Wheth
er or not he hopes to be a' candi
date in 1936, neither precedent
nor inclination would lead him
into any extensive backtracking at
this time.
He had a long-standing reputa
tion as a dry and during the cam
paign at no time indicated any
sympathy for beer. He has chosen
the sales tax as a better revenue
raising method. IIo ha's sworn a
holy war against the saloon,
which would not be avoided by
the Democratic beer bill. And ho
is believed to question the consti
tutionality of beer of the alcoholic
content proposed.
So you don't have to accuse
Hoover of obstruction and of seek
ing to force an extra session on
Roosevelt in order to explain his
anticipated beer veto. No one now
thinks a special session can b»
avoided anyway.
» * *
OIMILAR reasoning applies to
^ the domestic allotment plan
for surplus crop control which the
Democrats presumably will em
body in the bill as their^farm re
lief program. Hoover was ve
hement against its forerunners,
the equalization fee and export
debenture plans.
Domestic allotment is believed
to eliminate some of their worst
features, but it is being attacked
so vigorously for Its price-fixing,
tax-on-the-consumfr, expense, dif
ficulty of administration and oth
er features that Hoover will bo
100,per cent in line with his past
performances if he vetoes it on
the grounds that it is unconstitu
tional, unworkable and "danger
ous."
It is quite possible, however,
that this measure will not get to
the 'White House this session
Urge Greeter As [
Aid to President
Would Have Suave Individ
ual as Handshaker
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. (UP)
—Agitation for appointment of a
strong-muscled individual, whose
sole duty would be to shake the
hand that wants to shake the
hand of the president, increases
as Franklin D. Roosevelt nears the
presidency.
The business of shaking the
hands of- a million or so persons
every year is enough to tax tho
strength of a Turkish wrestler or
a profesional weightlifter. It has
left many a president exhausted j
and once forced President Hoover i
to bandage his right hand.
COOLIDGE LIKED IT
Coolidge did not mind the hand
shaking. Harding actually enjoy
ed it.
Coolidge made the custom into
a precise and sometimes amusing
science. He could move a line of
people along faster than any man
in the history of the White
House.
His system was to grasp a hand,
and give it a strong yank in the
direction of the exit. This proce
dure repeated exery 10 seconds
kept the line moving.
Mr. Hoover, who has had fewer
visitors than Coolidge, made more
of a ceremony of it. Duirng a re
ception last fall it got the better
<>f him, ¥ Hi$ hMul Ro1 forer an^
sorer until finally he had to H.pl'
the ministrations of Capt. j0e! f
Boone, the White IIou.se phvsjci,.'
REFORMERS' PLAN an
Mr. Roosevelt always had etl
joyed greeting people. His haul'
clasp is strong his smile is \vat' '
The hand-shake reformers, howl
ever, believe that now is as 'fjood a
time as any to quit an old u,
painful custom.
The reformers would have
handsome gentleman a. \Yhlt*
House preeter.
The White House greetor would
be picked for his good trrootrtir
his suave tongue and his
strength. He would show the vk
itors the White House, t"ll them
how glod he was to see them ami
shake their hands. The president
thus could stay in hi; office and
tend to business, which the re
formers believe is much more imi
portant than handshaking.
PEPPER MARTIN GRID STAR
ST. LOUIS. — (UP). — I'eppof
Martin, St. Louis Cardinal hero of
the 1931 world series, ha< been
the backfield ace of an Oklahoma
City professiona. foctbail teain
during the past season. He led
the team in yardage gained and m
points scored.
VICTIM SAVED BANKROLL
PORTLAND, Ore.—(UP).—k
assailant slugged Lin Vieck, Fi'i.
pino, on the head with a pop bot.
tie, but Vieck saved his $22.1
bankroll by yelling at the'top* of
his lungs ustil the attacker fled
(READ THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE HCTl'iU
nPHE little cub bears wrestled on j
until most of »lioi•• strength :
was, gone. Then J.iuney jumped
and shouted, "Gee. this is monot-i
onous.
'•Look! They have done the,
best they could, but neither onei
is very good."' Kind Scouty an
swered. "Oli, sit down. Don't try
to start a fuss. '
"Vou seem to think you know;
ft sill. Remember, hid, those bears j
are small, but, even so, I'll bet
that they could flop you to the
ground.
"I'll dare you. lad. to try your
luck. J.«st prove to us tlint you
have pl»H-k. They'll likely grab
you by the waist and bounre you
all around."
• > # *
U'yOU bet they will." cried Cop
py. 'T.ee. the thought of
that appeals to me. {friend Duncy
always boasts about the thing}
that he can do.
< "Now is his chance to show u$
how to wrestle. There's no timi
like now! If Dnnry is defeated,
with aii boast in;; he'll be
through."
Just then th* friendly Imnicr
came ripht up and .said. "It i? i
shame to ridicule poor Duncy.
Maybe he will fool you all."
And then he s.<i<i In June?,
"You should show the so la<l« vhi: "
you oan do. Go on. viatic *l.«
a bear and try hard not to tali."
« * »
64TS7ITH only one?" rrir.1 Danr"
** "Say, I'll wrestle with then
both today. And. both at nnr?. 1
niejm. I'm really not une bit
afraid.
*'Brtng on the bears. Come on,
let's start! If they'll join in. I'll
do my part. I'll piovc tliat whel
they wrestled with each other
they just played."
Aud then the wrestling match
began. Around the lad the
bears ran. Thouchf D'incy. vith
a emUe, two very easy mark! l'rs
found.
Just then, though, both tM
Uearn jumped out. Ere Duncf I
knew vhpt 'twas about, the cub? |
were on'his shoulders and the;
pinned him to the ground.
(OH)yrfght-. 1933, MIA S rvico. Infl
{ (l)uncjr gives th'* cnli
itfond for bad. in llie nc\t story.)
Pr'THIS CURIOUS WORLD
SEA
LIONS
THAT/ARE
TO &E
TRAINED
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DIR. tN CAPTfVIT X IF CAUSHT AFTI
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ARC DIFFICULT TO TRAIN.
USED THE TACTICS OP
MODERN REAL ESTATE
SALESMEN WHTM
HE NAMED /
GREENLAND!
HE WROTE, •■VAANy
PEOPLE WILL GO THITHEP.
IF THE LAND HAS A
pleasant name.
Aaour
OUT OP
Jv^Ry. 5£vEN
&KIMO MeN
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f <3 1933 BY NCA SCRVICt. INC.
THE \/ORLD DEMAND for sea lions ij about 600 a,iln>*»s
rear, most of which go into trained Ee?.i troupes for circuses, a'*
though the sea lion is not a seal at uh • •
p?» Stewart, physical anthropologist of the Smithsonian I«-etl]c'
tion, has discovered a great ter«ency among Eskimo men to d{*
relop an extra rib. Out of 20u skeletons examined, about 16 Pe,
ccnt of thy males had 25 instead of etiatomnry 24 pr^f'"
rertebrae.