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PAGE FOUR HENDERSON DAILY DISPATCH Established August 12, 1014. Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By HENDERSON DISPATCH CO., INC. at 109 Young Street. |UgNRY A. DENNIS, Pres, and Editor If. L. FINCH, Sec-Treas and Bus. Mgr. " TKI.K PHONES Editorial Office 600 Society Editor 010 Business Office 010 The Henderson Daily Dispatch is a member of the Associated Press, Southern Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation and th« North Carolina Press association. a*. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republication ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the looal news publisned herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. *" SUBSCRIPTION PRICES. Payable Strictly In Advance. One Year >6.00 Six Months >SO Three Months 1-60 Week (By Carrier Only) 16 Par Copy ** NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Look at the printed label on youi paper. Tbe date thereon shows when thf subscription expires. Forward your money in ample time for re newal. Notice date on label carefully and if not correct, please notify us at onoe. Subscribers desiring the address On their paper changed, please state in their communication both the OLD and NEW address. Natioual Advertising Representative* BRYANT, GRIFFITH AND BRUNSON. INC., 9 East 41st Street, New York. SNh> N. Michigan Ave., Chicago. 201 i/c.uueliiic Bi.ttt. General Motors Bldg., Detroit. Walton Buildmg, Atlanta. Entered at the post office in Hender •on. N. C., as second class mail matter ft It T I** JESUS SAID: Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.—Mat thew 5: 8. _ WHY STARVE OURSELVES? (Christian Science Monitor) Daily it oecomes clearer that we cannot starve ourselves into prosper ity. Industrialists, Socialists, econo mists agree that enforcing scarcity is not the way to'end want. Speaking in Boston last week, Al fred P. Sloan, president of General Motors Corporation, inveighed against a mandatory thirty-hour week and rejected the theory that there is only a limited amount of work which can be spread by reducing hours. He be lieves that the “total amount of pos sible productive work’’ can be defi nitely expanded. He dneies that we have reached a chronic state of over production and says: If we could only instill in the minds of all that we are not at the end but at the beginning of our development, there would result a tremendous broad • ening ot our vision and an apprecia tion of the vast opportunities that are before us. „ Here is a reminder we all need. Un doubtedly we shall have new business and new ways of doing old business. Air conditioning and streamlining, are only minor indicators o new industrial possibilities. We shall see develop ments of which we have hardly dream ed. And better things will come more quickly if we get ready to accept them. „/« mmiai But of course. it is easier for Mr. Sloan to believe htere is no need of permanent unemployment than for the fellow who has no job—the Amer ican Federation of Labor reported on Friday that there are still 10,905,000 Americans without jobs—and who did not have one even in boom times. And it is easier for him than for Norman Thomas, who says, in Current History for May, that it has been proved that there would still be 4,000,000 unem ployed were America back at the 1929 level of production. The Socialist leader sounds very like Mr. Sloan when he says: “There is no near limit which can be set to the wants of men which industry can sup ply." Mr. Thomas is as much against restriction of production as is Mr. Sloan. But he includes more than the restrictions imposed by government; he sees difficulties if industry intro duces machines so rapidly that the opportunity to work is restricted. As a Socialist he does not believe that the interplay of competitors seeking profits for themselves will produce the highest economic welfare for the whole community. Neither, apparently, do the mem bers of the Columbia University Com mission on Economic Reconstruction if one is to judge by the report they made public a few days ago. These economists, some of them in closest touch with banks and industrial enter prise, declare emphatically for na tional economic planning “to enable the citizens of the modern state to buy from one another what modern indus trial methods enable them to pro duce.” Mr. Sloan called for the “grad ual reduction of hours of labor through evolution”— according to the decline in production costs. The eco nomists ask for the same thing as re gards wages, but th6y would make grfluiial increases ’hrough a nation al Plan.” I They are also vigorous in urging regulation of corporations, “directed not only to the price-fixing policies of such organizations, but also to their methods of financing, accumulating and investing reserves, and to the various questions of public interest that arise out of the growth of the modern corporation and the conse quest separation of ownership and control.” Two of thfe commission’s twelve recommendations demand mea sures to prevent industry from lim iting output and fixing prices. Here, then, we fin atne industrial ist, the Socialist and the economist agreeing that we cannot starve our selves into prosperityy. Actually, of course, we will agrse. No one seri ously advocates the absurdity of en riching the world by stopping the pro duction of wealth. The trouble is that wealth isn’t wealth until it can be used. We may be shocked by the spectacle of the cotton cropper plowing under the stuff of wwhich sheets are made while lacking sheets for his own bed. But the unhappy fact is that under our modern industrial system it is quite possible for him to .get more money— and more sheets for himself—by rais ing less cotton. Manufacturers of automobiles do not continue to turn out more cars than they can sell at their price; they restrict production, as does every producer who can con trol supply. Even labor unions limit the supply of labor. And ever since the first tariff law and the first labor law, government has been assisting this “starving” pro cess. We are all the poorer simply because we refuse to share the abund ance now available. Recently, spurred by the emergency government has placed its power more, fully on the side of restriction—an other word for starving. Every indus trial country has seen it —under Fas cism, Communism and democracy alike. In the United States NRA ha helped industrialists and labor raise prices and wages, while AAA has sought to help the farmer hold down output for the same purpose. Tem porarily there has been an effort to use restriction for social ends, for the benefit of all rather than those alone who ordinarily have the power to re strict supply. We shall see some recession from the extremes to which restriction has gone. But we shall also see an in creasing purpose to use restriction for social ends. We shall attempt ot do less starving, but we shall make more effort to equalize whatever starving is done. And eventually we shall learn that we can neither starve our selves into prosperity nor starve oth ers to give ourselves propesity. When we discover that the Golden Rule is ood economics and learn to use abund ance by sharing it. we shall have'it. today TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES 1776 —Johann F. Herbart, German philosopher-educator, born. Died Aug. 14, 1841. 1796 —Horace Mann, Massachusetts’ noted reformer of the school system, born at Franklin, Mass. Died at Yel low Springs, Ohio, Aug. 2, 1859. 1796—William Hickling Prescott, among the country’s great historians despite fact he was practically blind from college days on, born at Salem, Mass. Died in Boston, Jan. 28, 1859. 1799 —Amasa Walker, noted political economist of his day, born at Wood stock, Conn. Died at Brookfield, Mass., Oct. 29, 1875. 1825—Thomas H. Huxley, famed English biologist, wwriter, and ardent supporter of the Darwinian theory, born. Died June 29, 1895. 1827 —John H. Speke, British explor er of Africa, Born. Died Sept. 15, 1964. 1860—Abraham L. Erlanger, theatri cal manager and producer, born at Buffalo, N. Y. Died in New York City, March 7, 1930. TODAY IN HISTORY 1493 —.Historic Bull of Pope Alex ander VI., dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal. 1734 —C2OO years apo> Died —Sir James Thornhill, English historical painter. 1855—First women’s hospital In world founded by women and exclus ively for women opened in New York City. 1886—(Haymarket Riot in Chicago— anarchy in a terrible, bloody riot. A bomb hurled into the midst of 180 policemen, by battle be tween police and anarchits. 1888—'First practical electric rail way started in Richmond. Va. 1904—United States took possession of Panama Canal site and started Canal. ’ I f TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Harold Bell Wright of California, novelist, born at Rome, N. Y., 62 years ago. Walt Mason, famed poet and hum orist, born in Ontario, Cana., 72 years ago. A. Mitchell Palmer of Penna., and Washington, D. C., onetime U. S. At torney-General, born at Moosehead, Pa., 62 years ago. Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck of Color ado, the Dept, of State’s Chief of Far Eastern Affairs, born at Franklin, Mass., 51 years ago. /Schuyler O. Bland, representing the Ist Virginia district in Congress, born in Gloucester Co., Va., 62 years ago. William E. Corey of New York, for mer steel head, born at Braddock, Pa. 68 years ago. Nelson A. Crawford, editor of the Household Magazine, Topeka, Kans., born at Miller, S. D., 46 years ago. Charles S. Deneen, onetime Illinois governor and U. S. Senator, born at Edwardsville, 111., 71 years ago. TODAY’S HOROSCOPE Today’s native should be a capable business man or woman. It will be necessary to keep out a watchful eye, perhaps on yourself as well as your associates, to be sure that nothing underhanded is ever done that may stir up strife or envy, for there is great danger indicated of loss of eith er wealth or reputation from these causes. There is herd instinct in Russia as elsewhere, and since blatant atheism is the cult of today, youth flocks to its standard. . * HENDERSON, (Nrej i)AILY DISPATCH, FRIDAY, MAY 4,4934 Growing (Highway JSurplus Brewing Assembly Battle (Uontlnued from rage One.) be the latest estimates prepared by that bureau. In tabular form, they are as follows: * ighway fund ibalance on April 1 .$ 9,936,238 Estimated 'highway balance on June 30 7,500,000 Estimated balance on Dec. 31, 1934 8,500,000 Estimated balance on June 30, 1935 10,000,000 Since present indications are that the highway fund surplus is and will continue to be larger than any one has yet predicted, it is regarded as likely that one of the biggest and bit terest fights in the 1935 General As sembly will be over the disposition of this large highway surplus. It is taxen for garnted that the highway advo cates will want it left to be used in future construction and for additional maintenance and replacement work. Butm any other factions will also want to use its or other purposes, it is gen erally conceded. Hard To Find Where Stale Can Cut Its Expenditures (Continued trom Page One.) of governor and all the functions of the governor’s office, including the budget bureau, commissioner of paroles the division of purchase and contract, which alone has been.sav ing the State several hundred thous and dollars a year, he could lop off $42,050 a year from the State’s ex penses. The trouble with Garibaldi’s plan for reducing government expenses, however, according to an editorial in the Charlotte Observer of a few days ago, is that he “fails to bring up witn him a bill of particulars and telel us exactly what public services can be dispenesed with. The people of orth have manifested no disposition to eli minate costly services of their govern ments. In fact, while they may talk glibly of the necessity of cutting out some of these functions, when they get down to looking at the matter straight in the face, it becomes quite a different proposition. “What shall bee ut out? Schools or roads or insitutional support, educa tional and charitable? Where can the elimination begin and at what point would it be stopped? “These questions begin to pound in upon uo when we try to follow the logic of Mr. Garibaldi. Public spend ing is always easy to institute but al ways exceeding difficult to stop.’* The total general fund budget for the current year is $25,475,760, as set up in the appropriations bill by tne 1933 General Assembly, of which Gari baldi was a member. Os this amount, $4,243,275 is for debt service, leaving only $21,323,495 for all State purposes, including schools, with the exception of highway costs, which arep aid from iJ* torn A TALE Or SCOTLAND YARD 6y ff. rfELD/NGAm%stfgM READ THIS FtRST: John Tail, stepson ot wealthy Lady Tait, is engaged to marry Lucy Burnham, a where the three were sojourning, Lady Tait takes a dislike to Gillian Dundas, a beautiful girl, who, it is disclosed, is blackmailing Tait for a past indiscretion. BaQk in London Tait becomes alarmed when his busi ness associate, Lord Mills, is found shot to death. Mrs. Burnham takes Mtss Dundas "under her wing” much to Lady Tait’s annoyance. A luncheon given by Lady Tait in honor of TaU and his fiancee, and attended by John’s cousins, Alysia, Etta and Claud "Naylor, is a poor success owing to Tait’s apparent uneasiness. Ted is interrupted by the discovery of John Tait’s body on the sidewalk *« front of Lady Tait’s home. Sus pecting he has been poisoned, Chief Inspector Pointer of Scotland Yard investigates what appears to be mur der and first questions the victim’s cousin, Claud Naylor. Talking with Lucy Burnham, Pointer learns that Tait received a death threat by letter the same day Lord Mills had killed himself. (NOW. GO ON WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER *7 POINTER ASKED Mrs. Burnham . ether questions. He learned nothing more. He thanked her, seemed about to open the doer for her, and, stooping, picked up—or seemed to pick up—the gold pen top from the carpet. She evidently had never seen it before, or at least did not recognize it. Certainly she did not associate it with Tait, and therefore it did not interest her. But he had one more question. “Your companion. Miss Dundas, has she been with you long?” Mrs. Burnham said that, strictly speaking, Miss Dundas was not her companion. Very briefly and clearly she gave in outline what she had already told Lady Tait in full. “And you don’t think there’s any thing odd about this young lady hav ing arrived—in just that way—the day before Mr. Tait died?” She looked at him in pitying horror. “I think I should go mad if such a thought occurred to me,” she re plied simply. “Miss Dundas and. Mr. Tait had never met, chief inspector, except at Vichy; Where I doubt if either was more than just aware of the other’s existence. What could have put such a ghastly idea into your head?” she asked with a sort of horrified curiosity. “The man charged with investi gating a crime. Mrs. Burnham, has to have all sorts of ideas,” Pointer replied yifle dryly. “Frankly I think sorhv one ought to point out to you two facts. Miss Duttdas ar rived the same day as that on which Lord Mills shot himself. And the day after, Mr. Tait dies. However horrible the thought, if I were you, I should bear those two facts in mind—for your own sake.” He spoke very gravely. Lucy turned White; “I shan’t be able to get it out of the highway fund. Subtracting the $16,000,000 appropriation for schools from this $21,232,495, a balance of omy -5,232,495 is left to pay the operating costs of all State departments and bureaus here in Raleigh, all State edu cational institutions, including the three units of the University of North Carolina, a(nd the various teacneis colleges. This amount also includes the appropriations for the varrous State hospitals for the insane ana other charitable institutions. The ap propriations made to the various gov ernmental divisions, and included in this $5,232,495, which composes only 20 per cent of tfieentire approbation, are as follows: Judicial $ 318,000 Executive and administrative 1,092,480 Educational institutions 1,371,000 Charitable institutions ...... 1,225,580 State-aid obligations .. 151,000 Pensions 722,415 Contingency and emergency fund 350,000 Total: $5,232,495 It is conceded that Garibaldi would not advocate any reduction in the $4- 243,275 needed for debt service, since that would force the State into 'de fault and destroy its credit. Nor is it believed he would favor reducing the $16,000,000 appropriation for schools or putting any material amount of this sum back on the property owners in ad valorem taxes. For in G-abribaldi’s home county of Mecklenburg, despite the removal of all school taxes from property by the 1933 General Assem bly, th ecounty tax rate was 55-cents in 1932 and increased to 60 cents in 1933. This was because the valuation in the county was reduced from SIBB - between 1932 and 1933 a dif ferenece of approximately $56,000,000. The tax rate in the city of Charlotte has also been increased from $1 to $1.38 between 1932 and 1933, in spite of the removal of all property taxes for school operations, due to a de crease of $42,000,000 in the valuations in Charlotte. So it is not believed Garibaldi would reduce the State ap propriation for schools and put tne cost of maintaing th eschools back on the local units again. It might be that Garibaldi would close the University of North Caro line, including the State College unit in Raleigh, the College for Women in Greensboro and Ihe unit at Chapel Hill. T his would save the State a total of $832,240 a year. Another $84,- 280 a year could be saved by closing the East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville, while another $28,630 could be saved by closing the West ern! CSarolina Teaechers College at Cullowhee. The additional sum of 0160,280 could be saved by closing the State School for the Deaf in Morgan ton and the School for the Blind and Deaf here in Raleigh. But neither Caribaldi nor any other memebeßs of the 1933 General Assembly suggested closing any of these institutions. It might be possible to close the three State hospitals for the insane in Raleigh, Morganton and Goldsboro and turn out thousands of helpless and homeless insane and mentally sicK my mind. But suuply because it’s so utterly horribly impossible.” There was impatience now in tone and look. “Lady Tait has been talk ing to you!” she said accusingly, and yet as though this partly excused him. “She dislikes Miss Dundas. finding., that to be so. I shouldn’t have allowed the girl to stop on here at all. But it’s not easy, when one’s l>usy with one’s own affair*, to make time for other people’s. I thought a few days one way or another wouldn't matter. But if she talks j liiM this about that poor girl, it wmM have been much better for \f!m Dundas to have turned to some other acquaintance rather than to BM.* “And just why did she turn to you?” Pointer asked meaningly. He wanted Mrs. Burnham to appreciate a little of the dark possibilities which she seemed so to ignore. “Because I was happy, I think.” Mrs. Burnham’s lip quivered for a moment, but she went on steadily. "Like all girls who have to earn their living, I think Miss Dundas is a good judge of- character as far as .it con cerns A herself. I mean, I think she feels who would be kind to her and who wouldn’t; She’s so lovely that a good many women aren’t kind to her. Not that that is Lady Tait’s reason. I can’t think why she dis likes her so! Or rather, she has explained it all to me, but I don’t agree with her. But to go back to the reason for Miss Dundas turning to me. I should like to think that she knew I would want to help her anyway, in such an impossible posi tion as she was in, but I’m afraid it’s partly because she doesn’t know many people in town just now, ex cept Mrs. de Souza’s own circle. I was out of that circle, and, as I say, I think she banked on the fact that any one as lucky as I was—then— would be kind to those less lucky.” “Did Mr. Tait object?” “Why should he? But. in point of fact, I had not yet had time to tell him of her being with me.” Then why is Miss Dundas so shaken by his death? was what Pointer thought. “And was Mr. Tait attached to his family? I understand that his only relatives are here in the house, stay ing for the moment with Lady Tait?” Lucy said that this was so, and added that there existed a very genuine and warm attachment be tween John Tait and his stepmother, and that, as far as she knew, he was as fond of his cousins as people usually are, and they of him. She looked very pale and done. Pointer did not keep her longer an swering harrowing questions. He let her go with his sincere sympathy. He stood a moment, thinking things over. Apart from Tait’s death, the only odd thing in the house seemed to be the sudden appearance in it of Miss Dundas Naylor had given this quite a light and airy touch in passing, as it were, but it struck the chief inspector as very singular, which was why he had given those straight words of warning to Mrs. Burnham just now. He decided to see Miss. Dundas last, and learn meanwhile as much as possible about XEopyright, 19SJJ His Chance To Get In To The Ball Game men and women to either die of neg lect or terrorize the State. This would save a total of $632,890 a yeaer But Garibaldi did not suggest this course while a member of either the 1931 ox -1933 General Assemblies. The sum of $151,000 could be eliminated for ali the Slate laid obligations, such as State Board of Welfare which Tam Bowied Id try to abolish; orthopedic clinics, vocational education, industrial rehabilitation, mothers’ aid and 8 (S forth. Or the 1933 legislatuffS Inlglfl have omitted the $722,415 it &PP£9££lbX» ed for pensions for old Confederate soldiers and thei” widows. But it u»u not. The belief here is that Garibaldi should ibe specific. her from the other members of the household. He asked for Lady Tait. She hs i him brought up at once to her si ting room. He found her not as much shaken by the tragedy as a more imaginative, softer character would have been. If really as at tached to her stepson as Mrs. Burn, ham thought, and as she herself im mediately represented herself to he. then he thought that things hod moved too swiftly for her to grasp them yet. She answered all his questions very helpfully, and yet he had a sudden conviction of reserva tions somewhere, of something with held that might well be important, but which the woman before him, masterful, dominant, did not wish to tell. Obviously it must concern John Tait, but it did not seem to concern any one else in the house. About them all, Lady Tait answered with what he thought was genuine can dor. “And where did Mr. Tait lunch to day, do you know?” he asked to wards the end. "You mean—oh, of course!” Hor ror made her close her eyes for a moment. ¥ “We know nothing as to how the poison got into the body—as yet,” Pointer reminded her. “But, of course, we want to get our facts as quickly as possible.” “I don’t know where he lunched.” she said, speaking as though lost in thought. But her eyes wavered. There was a silence after the short sentence, which was full of trouble, so Pointer felt. Finally Lady Tail ! ) looked up. “I don’t know where my son”—she generally called John that —“lunched this morning, except that —l—well—l wonder if it could have been with ” Again she broke off and seemed very unwillfhg to proceed. Pointer did not help her out with a question. This was not the kind of nature that needed supporting or sustaining. “It’s a terrible predicament.” she began again “I hope I’m not un just—led away by personal dislike but I shouldn’t be very much sur prised, chief inspector, if you learned that my son had lunched with Miss Dundas. Have you been told who she is?” < . Apparently Pointer had not. Lady Tait gave him a brief but far more detailed account of that young lady than had Naylor. She made the young woman’s presence in this house of death a very inexplicable business. She began with the note dropped into her cabin at Vichy, and finished with her maid's account of the meeting between the grfrl and the dead man the night before. 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