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ROADS FARE WELL
FROM LEGISLATURE
Emerges Without Damage
Despite Constant Bitter
Bombardment
llwlly Dispatch Rurcaa
In the Sir Walter Hotel
lit J. C. BASKGHVILL.
Raleigh, May 18 —The State High
way Commission not only emerged
from the protracted session of the
1933 General Assembly undamaged
but with most of the new legislation
advocated by it 'enacted despite the
fact that it was subjected to on e of
T he most merciless bombardments and
sniping campaigns ever seen during
tlie first six weeks the General As
sembly was in session. But this
sharpshooting .directed for the most
part at Chairman E. B. Jeffres s by
the Fountain Supporters in the
House because he had supported Gov.
ernor Ehringhaus, gradually subsided
as the assembly got busy with other
mere important matters and it fin
ally died < ut entirely.
About the only thing that was not
proposed concerning the roads was
to turn tne mbaek to the counties,”
Chairman Jeffress said today. “For
no one wanted 1 to 1 saddle the expense
ot maintaining the highways back on
the taxpayers in the counties. But
they tried to do almost everything
eise to us. About the only thing the
General Assembly did that will cause
us additional expense without being
of any material benefit to us, was to
give us the 30-day prisoners, as well
as the 60 day prisoners, a s at prfcs
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without regard to the State Highway
Most of the legislation enacted
with regard to the State Highway
Commission has been of distinct ben
efit to it and will strengthen It in
the opinion of Jeffress .with the pos
sible exception of the provision in
the appropriations bill that provides
for the transfer of $1,000,000 from
the highway fund to the general fund,
provided there is that nVUch remain
ing in the highway fund at the end
of the year. But most people doubt
if this provision will mean anything,
since a surplus of $1,000,000 a year
is not likely to be left in the high
way fund.
The most important act affecting
the State Highway Commission was
that which merged the highway de
partment and the State Prison into
the new State Highway and Public
Works Commission -thus coordinat
ing both the highways and the pri
sons under the direction of a single
board and a single directional head.
Under the former set-up the highway
commission already had charge of
more than 4,000 prisoners, so the Gen
eral Assembly thought it might as
well put all of them into it. An
other reason for the consolidation, of
course, was to transfer the expense
of maintainin gthe State Prison sy
stem from the general fund to the
highway fund. Some think this was
tne principal reason.
While the General Assembly tans
feired the the highway patrol from
the immediate direction of the high
way commission to the Motor Vehicle
Bureau of the Department of Reve
nue it will continue to carry out the
same functions and the cost of its
maintenance will continue to be paid
for from the highway fund, as in the
past. This bill was not opposed by
the Highway Commission but was, in
fact, written in It slegald depart^-
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“BEER OR SECESSION” IS THREAT
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“Beer or we secede” is the slogan
of business men in the western
Nebraska panhandle, as Gov.
Charles W. Bryan, above, warns
against the sale of beer of 3.2’
alcoholic content before Aug. 9.
The Nebraska legislature passed
a beei* legalization bill without
an emergency clause which means
a three-month delay before the )
ment. j •
Some of the more important mea
sures advocated by the State High
way Cmmission and enacted into law.
are: . •
The bill to tighten up on the col
lection of gasoline taxes and to make
evasion of the gasoline tax more dif
ficult.
The bill to put restriction about the
testing and sale of gasoline, designed
to make gasoline bootlegging and
dilution more difficult.
The bill authorizing a Board of
Motorvehicle Standards to have the
power to fix the standards for gaso
line and motor fuels in the state and
to make far-reaching rules and regu
lations affecting motorvehicles.
The bill changing the basis soy li
censing buses and trucks from a
chassis weight to a gross weight bas
is and providing that all proceeds
from truck and bus licenses, fran
chise as wel las contact carriers, shall
go into the highway fund. Hereto
fore. the proceeds from franchise
lines went into the general fund.
The bil lempowering the Highway
Commission to designate oil treated
•and unpavevd roads as light traffic
roads and to lim.it the weight of ve
hicles that can use these roads, thus
reducing maintenance costs and pre
serving these roads.
In spite of repeated attempts to
“horn in” on some of the highwa
revenue, both the counties and cities
failed in repeated attempts t 0 get
some of this money.
Sales, Income or Gasoline
Tax for New Work Talked
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tax to 1 1-4 cents a gallon, $92,000,-
000 for a total of $221,000,000.”
The second plan provided for the
increase in normal incom taxes, as
In the first, and to corporate di
vidend provisions as in the first, plus
three excise taxes, which Douglas
said' brought up “the serious ques
tion of violating the tariff truce” in
connection with the London arms con
ference.”
These levies would be ten cents a
pound on tea, to net sß;ofK>;poj ; five
cents a pound on coffee, $76,000,000;
five cents a pound on, cocoa, $17,000,-
000. Addd to the- income and divi
dend tax, *hey would'’ produce $224,-
000.000.. .>■ , v
The next plan would increase nor
‘ mail income tax rat-es from four to
eigiht percent and from eight to 12
percent for a total of $87,000,000; make
corporate dividends subject to the in
creased income tax to net $103,000,000;
tax long distance telephone calls
’ HENDERSON, '(N.CJ DAILY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, MAY 18, '1933"’
beverage can be sold legally.
Scottsbluff, Neb., business men,
who fear loss of business to Colo
rado, are proposing secession
from Nebraska and annexing the
panhandle to Wyoming. * Beer
trucks, such as those above, carry
ing kegs to nearby Wyoming
towns, after May 18, mak«
Scottsbluff business men sad.
ranging between 25 and 50 cents, five
Cents each, to net $6,000,000; and ex
pand admissions taxes to take in 20-
c,ent. tickets, to bring in $25000,000.
Total, $221,000,000.
Secretary Woodin appealed for
rapid disposition of the legislation.
His plea was met by a prediction
on th part of Byrns, of Tennessee,
Democratic House leader, that the
House would paprove the bill by the
middle of next week, and that the
committee would reach agreement on
new taxes to fund (the $3,300,000,000
of bonds it provides without resort
ing to a sales tax.
BtIDGETEERBURKE
SAYS HE WILL QUIT
But Many Think He Will
Stay; Made Hit With
the Legislature
Daily llinpntcli Bureau,
In (he Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKKIIVILI..
Ralegh, May IS.—Just back from
a. vacation spent in Florida, Henry
Burke, unofficial assistant director
of the budget, maintains that he
means what he says when he says he
is going to resign, even if a good
many here do not believe that he
w.ll actually leave the Budget Bu
reau, over which he has presided with
an iron rule for more than seven
years.
“All good things must come to an
end some time, and this is one time
when I really mean to resign,” Burke
said today. “I may get into some
thing worse, but I doubt it.”
Burke was probably referring t©
the fire and brimstone that has been
heaped upon his head during the past
seven years by State department
heads and employes, because of the
tight hold h§ : ' h&s maintained upon
the strings of the State’s money bags.
For .several years the expression has
beeri. current that not even a pro
fessional yegg with a blow torch and
a can of nitroglycerine pould get a,
penny out of the Budget Bureau if
Burke did not twant him to get it.
Department heads could cry : quarts of
tears in pleading for larger allot
ments and Burke would remain un
moved. If allotments for <-postage
stamps ran opt, the department heads
would often have to stop' writing let
ters or let them remain unmailed un
til the first of the next month un
less Burke thought it was necessary
for them to ,have a few additional
stamps. The feeling among not a few
of the State department heads and
employes has been that Burke has
been the real governor of North Car
olina for the past several years, and
the elected governors merely the
titular heads of the State government.
Germany Rallies
To Hitler Stand
{Continued from rage One.)
support of all classes and parties.
Newspapers took th stand that suc
cess of the world disarmament con
ference now was dependented upon
the rest of the world extending a
friendly hand to Grmany.
Baron Konstantin von Neurath, for
eign minister, has left for Geneva to
participate as Germany’s representa
tive, upon the reconvening of the
disarmament session.
CARD OF~TMANKS
We wish ; to express our sincere
thanks to our kind friends and neigh
bors for the many kindness shown us
during the illness and death of our
beloved sister and mother, Mrs. Sallie
Sarah Short. Also for the beautiful
floral designs.
THE FAMILY.
Good Gardening
Feeding Trees
By DEAN HALLIDAY
Central Press Garden Expert
I AM OI'TEN asked if trees can be
fed by applications of manure, and I
am forced each time to explain that
such a method Is really a waste of
time. The reason for this is, that
while the use of manure and other
organic fertilizers about lawn trees
is theoretically correct, it is generally
wasteful because the tree roots are
likely to be deep In the soil, and the
valuable part of the manure leaches
away.
The quickest and best way to feed
lawn trees Is to use a well balanced
fertilizer, or some of the specially
prepared tree foods. If holes are
made with a crowbar about 16 or 18
niches deep and two feet apart each
way over an area which Is the same
ga the spread of he tree too. and a
School Group Is Seeking
Control New Commission
(Continued from Page One.)
new commission, even to the extent
of trying to make it appear that
Martin did not support Ehringhaus
for governor, when he really did.
But since the scretary of the com
mission is elected by the board itself
—although the wishes of the gover
nor will undoubtedly be considered —
the school forces are concentrating
light now on trying to land at least
five members of the new commission
who well be either professional school
men or in sympathy with the school
forces. That this effort would be
made was indicated fully two months
ago in dispatches from this bureau,
predicting that the school forces were
'trying to get legislation enacted
abolish ng the board of equalization
and setting up a new commission si
milar to this, to be appointed by the
governor and which they would seek
to control.
After Woltz’s Scalp.
The member of the present board
of equalization which the school for
ces would probably rather see re
moved more than any other. A. E.
Woltz, of Gastonia, it Is generally
agreed. There is no doubt that Woltz
has been a thorn in their flesh and
in * the flesh of the North Carolina
Education Association. As a result,
the school forces in the tenth congres
sional district are already boosting
Julian Miller of Charlotte, editor of
the Charlotte Observer and long in
sympathy with the school forces, as
the members of the new school com
mission from this district. His ap
pointment would automatically ex-
Woltz from the commission, which
is undoubtedly what they want. Some
think the school people are using ex
cellent politics in boosting Miller for
this post on the new commission,
since he gave Ehringhaus very strong
support through his editorial columns
during the Democratic primaries
when he was seeking the nomination
for governor. Others point out, how-
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May 15, 1933
flfl Time and again Xam told by my own organization and by others
that I penalize myself by quality. v-s what they
difference anyway.
But I know the difference.
I, TTnow - that the car a man sees is not the oar he dnves
: drives the c f oolor and attractive accessories. all
m ~ !f "rest 9 I?t\e t t^’-S r en£e and .the structure
H fallorsf thfsteady development of comfort, conven
lllM I#nce and eC ° n be y built e that a will h last r two or three years. But we
■ have never built as the day it is bought. Ford
dependable the d y the road . it costs more to
H b ar id b rdurlble e clr--Sut r two items we do not skimp are cost and^
consc AiffArence.i But we would know.
I Sin It"! !« a t our whole thirty years' reputation
} H know the oar will
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large or double handful of fertilizer
is dropped into each hole, this will
be enough for one application. The
holes should be- refilled solidly with
good topsoil on top of the fertilizer.
Ihe first application may be mada
in May, and if another is required,
in the case of much weakened trees,
it may be made about July 1. but no
fertilizing should be done much later
than this, or It may encourage a
growth too late in the year.
One way of estimating the quantity
of fertilizer required is to allow one
pound to each inch of circumference
of the tree trunk, measured one foot
above the ground. Most of the tree
experts are now equipped with me
chanical means of getting fertilizer
into the ground about tree roots, but
this presents no advantage except a
saving in the time required to jret the
iob done.
evr, that no paper was more hostile
to Governor Ehringhaus and his pro
gram while the General Assembly was
in session, especially with regard to
his eight months school program and
the necessity for a sales tax than The
Charlotte Observer, of which Miller
is editor. It is also being pointed out
that most of the school people in
Cfiarlotte Mtec.kle:nburg county
and in the counties in the tenth dis-
A White House Meal
Mrs. Pattie Willis South
A lifelong desire to eat at the
White House, “if only bread and
milk”, will be realized when Mrs.
Pattie Willis South, 80, of
Nicholasville, Ky., visits Washing
ton. She wrote her wish to Mrs.
Roosevelt and was told chat she
would be welcome to eat at the
White House at any time.
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A rogues’ gallery photo <rf James
V anderslice, unemployed truck
driver, of Philadelphia, who, police
i say, has confessed to attempted ex
itortion from the Pennsylvania
■ Railroad. Vanderslice was arrest
ed after he had walked into a trap
i»et by police. He is charged with
i threatening to cause a “mishap” to
the railroad, many times in excess
of the money he asked, if he was
not paid $75,000.
rrictvjsupported former Hieujteniaut
Governor R. T. Fountain for gover
nor rather than Ehringhaus. eYt they
are now asking favors of Ehringhaus.
As the members of the new com
mission from the eleventh congres
sional district, the school forces are
advocating County Superintendent.
Clyde A. Erwin, of Rutherford coun
ty, it was learned today. Erwin is
also the immediate past president of
the North Carolina Education Asso
ciat.orv and in full sympathy with its
aims. The present member of ihe
board of equalization from this dis
trict is J. C. Coburn, lumberman and
banker of Bryson City, Erwin, while
president of the North Carolina Edu
cation Association, spent most of his
time advocating a Statewide eight
months State-supported minimum
school term which could be supple
mented with unlimited local taxes on
property—the program advocated by
the North Carolina Education Asso
ciation and which will be advocated
again in the 1935 general assembly.
Phillips Rather Radical.
In the sixth congressional district
the school forces are advocating the
appointment of another school man to
the new school commission, ome are
sacd to be favoring Superintendent
Guy Phillips, of the Greensboro city
schools. But Phillips is regarded as
almost too partisan and too repre
sentative of the extreme element in
the North Carolina Education Asso
ciation, of which he is now vice-pres
ident and runner-up for president
; next year. As a result, more seem to
be backing Superintendent T. Win
gate Andrews of High Point as the
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raember from the sixth district, be
cause he is more moderate in his
viw and more conciliatory. The pre-.
sent member of the equalizaton board
from this district is Henry R. Dwire,
of Duke University, Durham, former
newspaper publisher and editor and
a deep student of education.
In *the fourth congressional 'dis
trict. now represented on tbe board
of equalization by F. p. Spruill,
Rocky Mount banker. the school
forces are understood to bp backing*
County Superintendent E. L. Bess,
of Franklin county. It is understood
that this is being done to give the
county superintendents additional re
presentation on the commission. The
names of several other county super
intendents are also being mentioned.
Strategy of School Forces.
The strategy of the school people
seems to be, according to what can be
learned here that if they can get as
many as five members of the new
commission who are either school men
or aligned with the school forces,
that wi/th Dr. A. T. Allen, State su
perintendent of public instruction and
an ex officio member of the board,
they will stand a. good chance to get
control of it. If they can do this they
can determine the salary schedule for
teachers the pupil load per teacher
and allot the $16,000,000 appropriation
for the schools as they see fft.
Events Maneuver The Two
Leaders Into Top Places
(Cont/nued from Page One.)
ticularly they desired to know wheth
er the Washington government was
disposed to accept in principal such
things as:
1. Rigid international control of
armaments.
2. Participation in a world pact of
non-resort to force.
3. Helping the League in determin
ing - an agressor.
4. Refraning from helping an ag
gressor, once this determination has
been made.
5. Participation in any arms em
bargo.
6. Abandonment of the rights of
neutrality in. the even of an'outbreak
of war.
Geneva recognized that the United
Sta's, like England, under its politi
cal system cannot give blanket pro
mises in advance, but must adopt an
■attitude Vhen a particular world dis
turbance arises.
Dr. Frankwood E. Williams of
New York; noted medical scientist,
bor n at Cardington, Ohio, 50 years
ago.
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