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SCHOOL BASIC PAY
Harnett Senator Would Use
Pupil Load To Deter
mine Salaries
Onily ltis|i;ilfh Mnrraii,
lu ll»i“ Sjr Waiter Hold,
Jan. 31.—School supcrinten
,lorts and principals would be paid
on n basis of number of pupils in
-iend of. as at present, the number of
o-achers under their supervision by a
hill introduced by Senator Lee, of
Harnett. The pay schedule would be
formulated by the Sta> Superinten
dent of Public Instruction. It has
eng been known that superintendents
: ,nd principals want their pay to he
i gain based, as formerly, on pupil en
rollment rather than the number of
teachers employed. It is an easy mat
ter to check with accuracy the num
ber of teachers employed in a county
or in a school. Not so easy is it ac
curately to check pupil enrollment.
Significant also, as several legislators
end observers pointed out, is that
i-upervisinn of salary schedules would
he placed in the hands of a single in
dividual. the State superintendent, in
,-rend of control of a group, the State
School Commission.
Under the terms of the Lee hill,
no teacher couldd raw the maximum
teacher salary who has taught for
less than 15 years. The hill would set
up. under the supervision of the
•school commission and the State su
perintendent, a program of teacher
training, the rate of pay to he deter
mined by the individual teacher's
progress through the training and
length of service. The effect of such a
set-up would be, of course, to extend
to teachers now employed pay ad
vantages hv seniority. In short, it
would, in some phases, have the as
pects of trade unionism in basing pay
upon tenure of service.
The bill is similar to some intro
duced in previous legislative sessions
in that it attempts to extend the pe
riod of pay increment to 15 years. The
Lee bill is exceedingly ambitious in
that respect because previous mea
ures have attempted to set up such
a period for only four years. Opposi
tion to the bill will doubtless develop
because of that.
Sales Tax Substi
tute In Reserve
■'Continued from »*age One.)
by David Ovens, of Charlotte, presi-!
deni of the National Retail Dry ;
1 }ood> and Charlotte Merchants’ As - i
‘ociatinns. Other speakers who fol
fowed Ovens also hinted at such a j
measure.
Owns, who was introduced by Wil- ,
bird Dowell, president of the state j
merchants’ group as “the recognized ,
leader of the merchandising world in
the United States.” was easily the
outstanding speaker of the day. He
cot off to an excellent start and the
i-ommiit.ee as well as the gallery list.—
-Red to him with careful attention.
Those who followed, from various sec
tions o) the state, slowed very percep
tively the pace set by Ovens and it
wac quite evident that, they made very
little, if any, impression on the com
mittee.
Th hearing, scheduled for 2:30, got
underway at. 3:35fi finance chairman
-xplairing that the committee was 1
quite unavoidably detained’’ by oth- •
-r hearings. I
Thinks for the hearing, even I
though you were an hour late,” said
Ovens. "1 want to say that we are I
merchants, nt politicians, and that
we claim that we understand distid- j
bution of merchandise. We deliber- |
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“Kingfuh” Huey Long Personally Directs Troops Against Opponents
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This Cent raj Press photo shows ISenator Huey Long (with bodyguard) giving attention personally to putting down with national
guardsmen insurrection’ of “Square Dealers.” At right, an officer of the “Square Dealers.” James E. McHaffey, stands on
aton Kouge postoffice step (federal building) to resist arrest —-but he is arrested anyway.
ately charge that thousands and thou
sands of dollars which would normally
have been spent in this state have
been diverted to South Carolina, Vir
ginia. and elsewhere by reason of the j
Three per cent sales tax. That the j
tax is imposed on those least able to
Pay is a sophistry you are perhaps
weary of hearing, but it ought to be
engraved in marble where everyone
can see it.”
Mr. Ovens denied emphatically that
the merchants favor an unbalanced
budget, inadequate support of schools,
or the imposition of a whisky tax to
supplant the sales tax.
“I say this, when perhaps I ought
not to say it,” he continued “that we
challenge any man to run for a state
office while declaring that he favors
retention of the sales tax. When you
work against the cause of the com
mon. man you work against the cause
of merchants and of civilization it
self”.
Dowell, who introduced the speak
ers, termed the sales fax the “great
est social and economic blunder ever
perpetrated in North Carolina” and
added that it is “unfair, unsound and
vicious.”
It was obvious that the committee
was disappointed in the failure of the
association to produce its substitute
measur at the hea-ing. Still more ob
vious was the fact, that Ovens was the
only speaker, except for Dowell, who
is a familiar figure at sales rax hear
ings, to creatv any great impression
By his position in merchandising he
had the advantage over less-publi
cized speakers. He spoke calmly,
clearly, much in tin manner expect
ed of an executive of his type.
At least one member of the commit
tee was heard to say that the hearing
would have iv en much more success
ful, from the merchants’ standpoint,
if they had introduced only Ovens.
Failure lo produce at this time a
substitute and the promise to intro
duce it later are conclusive and ab
solute proof that the anti-sales taxers
have abandoned their fight against the
tax in committee and will wait until
the revenue bill reaches the floor of
the legislature before staging their
real fight against it. It is the unani
mous opinion of competent observers
that that is the best policy for the
antis to follows Announcement of
their substitute at this time would dis
close their probable line of action and
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31.1935
enable those whom they propose to
tax, in lieu of a sales tax, to organize
thoroughly. Many, of course, believe
that the antis will revive some mea
sure offered in previous sessions, such
as the processing (manufacturer’s)
tax, upward revision of the franchise
taxes, and the proposal by the late
Attorney-General Brummit to levy a
per share tax on foreign stocks.
Meanwhile, the administration forces
and the antis are working hand-in
hand to get the revenue bill out of
committee, so that the battle may be
finished.
Says Navy Awards of Cruis
ers Made After Conference
i .
(Continued from Page One.)
vnree” companies had asked about
$12,000,000 each for building cruisers,
although one of the companies had
undertaken construction of one of the
craft at $8,300,000.
Wilder declared heh ad heard the
I navy protest the award.
A conference w r as held June 29, he
said he was informed, at. which re
presentatives of the “big three” and I
the secretary of the navy discussed
the bids on the 27-shipp rogram.
Subsequently, he said, two admirals
went to Hyde Park.
On August 3. 1933. after the visit
to Hyde Park, Wilder continued, the
! awards were made.
“The awards were made exactly as
bid. no reduction,” Wilder declared,
rising to his feet to emphasize his
statement.
Troops On Guard
For Ky. Village
(Continued from Page One.)
more of people poured out of nearby
houses, some afoot and some on horse
back, who preceded the soldiers and (
police into town. _
Citizens rushed to the main public
I square as the trucks rolled in. Heads
popped out of windows as the troops
stopped in the square. The guardsmen
I and polic \ about 150 in number, were
i issued full rounds of ammunition in
! an adjoining county. They met a quiet
reception.
Machine guns and hand grenades,
as well as rifles, were in evidence.
The 110 soldiers and some 40 police
stood in shivering groups in the
square waiting orders to detail. Oc-
J casionallv there was some one with
j an emphatic “glad they came.”
Defendant Placed In Bronx
Case On Kidnaping Night
(Continued from Page One.)
who offered to testiry ior the State
against Hauptmann in connection
with his spending of Lindbergh ran
j som bills, Fannette Rivkin, was found
unconscious, bound and gagged on
the floor of her beauty parlor, in
which a fire had started. A building
superintendent rescued her and she
‘ was taken to a hospital unable im
mediately to say what had happened
to her or who her assailants were,
j Both witnesses were closely cross
questioned on dates and places as the
State sought to show they had poor
memories.
Kiss completed his testimony as
luncheon recess was declared.
Kiss said he read of Hauptmann’s
story of taking Fredericksen’s police
dog out on the night of the kidnaping
and then he remembered he had drop
ped into the bakery on that night,
i
| Ask Patrol Given
Over To Highway
(Continued from page One.)
| concerning the patrol or indicating
his views to the effect that it should
be under thed irection of the highway
r department rather than the revenue
i department. But it has been known
! for several weeks that the highway
j patrol was becoming more and more
Ibone of contention between the high
way and revenue departments and
that a bitter under-the-surface fight
Huey 1,000 Miles from Fight
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miles affray in Washington, having returned to Washington after fol
lowers made claim that Square Deal Association was plotting against his
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underground passage. (Cent ■ n > es 9)
for the control of the patrol would
eventually develop. Now that Chair
man Wavnick has hrougnt the ques
tion out into the open, still more
bitter fight is in prospect. For it is
conceded that. Commissioner of Re
venue A. J. Maxwell is not going to
relinquish the patrol and control of
itw ithout as ight, despite the fact
that so far he has not made any
statement with regard to it. For most
observers here agree that the Ziign
way patrol has been the most effec
tive revenue collecting force the De
partment of Revenue has had dur
ing the past two years.
But Chairman Waynick did not
stop with merely mentioning the
highway patrol. He also indicated very
clearly that he thought the entire au
tomobile licence bureau as well as the
highwayp patrol should be under the
direction of theh ighway department.
While he did not indicate whether
or not he would seek legislation to
transfer the license bureau from the
Department of Revenue to the ' high
way department, a good many would
not, be surprised if such legislation is
Such a move would un
doubtedly meet more opposition from
the Department of Revenue than any
move to merely transfer the highway
natrol, since the license bureau is the
largest single division of the revenue
department and has more employes
than any other.
One of the biggest obstacles in the
way of transferring th e license bureau
from the Department of Revenue to
the highway department is the lack
of space in the highway buildinsr to
take care of the hundreds of files
with their million or mor e cards and
the hundred or more employes. There
is also likely to be considerable op
position in the General Assembly to
any further concentration of power in
the highway department. For it is al
ready the largest single State depart
ment with more than 4,ctH) employes
on its payroll. Consequentlym any ob
servers believe that while the high
way patrol may b e transferred back
to theh ighway department, it is.not
likely to get the license bureau also.
In fact, the reason the highway
patrol was transferred to the Depart
ment of Revenue in 1933 was largely
because that General Assembly felt
the highway department was already
getting to be too big and two power
ful and that its wings needed clip
ping. The 1933 General Assembly was
largely controlled, at least during the
first half of the session, by the for
mer supporters of Richard T. Foun
tain who had been defeated for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination
by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus. The
Fountain followers were then con
vinced that Chairman E. B. Jeffress
of the State Highway Commission
and the entire highwayd epartment,
including theh ighway patrol, had sup
ported Ehringhaus. Many of these
openly charged that the Highway
Commision had been transformed in
to a gigantic political machine and
that it more than any thing else had
resulted in thed efeat of Fountain and
the nomination of Ehringhaus. So In
retaliation for this and in an effort
to clip the wings of the highway de
partment and reduce its alleged po
litical power, the 1933 assembly trans
ferred theh patrol to the De
partment of Revenue. It also decreed
that the patrolmen should collect re
venue and act as gasoline inspectors
as well.
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Politicians Split Hairs While
Rome Burns and Dema
gogues Rule
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New- York, Jan. 31.—A man who is
a lieutenant in relief work gives an
insight.
He has bepn busy day and night
for two weeks classifying relief cards
in his own county. In that county of
1,250,000 persons, There arc 70.000 re- !
lief cards—7o,ooo families on relief, i
At five persons to the family that j
would he 350,000 persons.
Says this lieutenant in relief work: j
“We all were making- dtsigns for
sonic really badly needed projects, we
of the engineering group. Here at last
was an opportunity to bring about
civic improvement without the con
taminating influence of politics.
“Then uncertainty entered. Our of
fice—a district office—heard from the
state office that our appropriations
would stop. The state office had
heard something from Washington,
but. was not sure of anything.
“We were turned out —with simply
a little slip notifying us that again,
we wore cast upon the world."
For him, however, it was not the
end.
WORK ALL FOR NAUGHT
The man continued:
“But the chief of our county unit
was a man of integrity. He desired
to save something from the wreck.
He kept two of us designers—in the
hope that the future would permit
our plans to be translated into actual
projects.
“We were retained as clerks.
“Then we who had become clerks
turned to the classification of 70.000
cards of persons whod qslred work
relief.
“On each card there was an un
written tragedy.
“But the greatest tragedy lay in
the largest stack of cards.—the youths
from 19 to 25.
“The majority never had. worked.
They never had been given the op
portunity.” ,
UNSOCIAL YOUTH”
The man went on:
“There in those cards —the cards of
the youths—resided our future man
hood.
“My own middle-aged misfortunes
i seemed to disappear. I at least had
tasted of orderly comfort.
“But here was a mass of millions
--youth surging and reesntful—assert
ing, “It’s up to you—do something
about it, in a hurry!’
, “They do not know, for they have
been left to shift for themselves, that
it is they we must count on to join
I in with us to make a world suitable
| for them.
“Youth today is an unsocial group
—a. shifting mass—a mass seething
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PAGE THREE
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face.
! “In New York and in Washington
there are debates on constitutional
technicalities, on the degree of social
reforms or the amount of work re
lief.
“But while the ancients bicker over
such technicalities, the pot is .boiling.
“If then, it does boil over, shall we
have chaos and darkness and famine
even graver sTill because we refuse
to face realities, because we dwell in
the cobwebby logic of an era whose
structures are rotted from top to bot
tom?
“Is it any wonder that demagogues
can sway the masses? Is it any won
der that youth losses all faith in In
stitutions, even the most democratic
of institutions?”
Driver’s License
Up Monday Night
(Continued from Pag* One.)
the people of the State were demand
ing that something be done at once
to reduce the steadily growing num
ber of automobile accidents and
deaths. Senator John Sprunt Hill, of
Durham, expressed the »ame senti
ment and said that since the bill had
been reported favorably that he saw
no reason why the Senate should not
proceed with its immediate considera
tion.
Senator Spence also pointed out
that there are several other bills
either in the roads committee or
ready for introduction by members,
that ared ependentu pon the action
the assembly will take on the driver’s
license law andth at it ish ence nec
essary to dispose of this bill before
the other's can even be acted upon
by the committee. Tt. is agreed that at
least, one of these hills is the bill to
increase the size of the State high
way patrol and transfer ft back to
the Highway and Public. Works Com
mission.
Hans F. A. Schoenfeld, U. S. Min
ister to the Demonican Republic, born
at Frovidence. R. 1., 46 years ago.
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