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TT' PAGE SIX THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Foremost Newspaper of the Two Carolines TUESDAY MARCH 28 1933 I THE OPEN FORUM STRANGE IS IT SEEMS Reg rat Off BY JOHN HIX (tth Year of PobUcatloa Eltabllzbfd la ISfll Cortle ilnhnioB Uadi Harris Editor ii linn Hi Ullltr Aaoooloto Editor loo PirliRni MiiMiiMHitiiiii MmhIiii Editor lowt 11 unt or Nam Editor MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tho Asaociatad Proa la aielualtralj antltlad to tha oa lor rapubllcatloa ol ail iiawa dlapatehaa cradltad to It or not otharwlao cradltad la tbla paper and alao tha local Bawa publlahad therein SbBSCRirTlONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ite public RAllKOA 0 -lae romney HYTrtt And DyMCrtu eert linc ftJNS on 15 -INCH mCK 8P MtU I AuToSlOGRAPHY OF CALVIN rtAif of a postage STAIAP A IOO PNOE VOLUME AT Hobart Colley Geneva uv ARE NEW TAXES IMPERATIVE? HE North Carolina Legislature has given itself over apparently to the complex that new taxs are imperative Consid- ering such as being inevitable it looks to the general sales tax If new taxes can not be avoided then the general sales tax is the most expedient new tax that can be levied in the judgment of The Observer North Carolina has definite commitments that it must meet The Legislature faces the duty: First of preserving the public credit of the State protecting its integrity Second maintaining a craditable educational system Third taking adequate care of its unfortunates Fourth providing sufficient correctional institutions for its wayward and delinquent Fifth preserving from deterioration the present expensive system of highways To fulfil all of these duties the paramount task of the Legislature is to adjust public spending to the ability of the people to pay the foremost consideration If that is ignored then all of these obligations will go by default No commonwealth can operate on a basis of trying to extract from the people more than their earning capacities can sustain No government can survive that disregards the inability of the governed to pay the freight That is all truistic and elemental but it needs to be iterated and reiterated just now when frantic cries of the are heard Are new taxes inescapable In order to preserve the credit of the State the first and most pressing duty of the General Assembly and then to maintain its functional activities on a surviving basis? If the school system is to be maintained on an adequate basis the people are told additional revenues must be found The present yields are not enough That is correct To operate an eight months school the lowest figure has been proposed at 15 and a half million dollars if all the agencies of the government are to be maintained on a decent basis Calculations show that under the present dual system of operating schools the State six months and local units the extended term around $22500000 is expended Therefore for the State to take control would save the tax-payers $7000000 as against the cost of the present system This $7000000 to be saved is now being collected from the ad valorem levy 15 cents for the six months term plus an average levy of 20 cents ad valorem upon charter districts for the support of the extended term Former Senator Gravely member of the budget commission and former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee declares that the Legislature can keep its covenant with the people to take the State-wide 15-ccnt ad valorem tax off and in lieu of the present average of 20 cents levied for the extended term put a 14-cent tax back on prop-perty thus saving net 21 cents in ad valorem taxes and produce all the money needed for an eight months term His proposed 14-cent ad valorem would not represent new taxes It would represent on the contrary a reduction of 21 cents in old taxes and in the meantime would produce all the revenue needed meet the demands of the budget giving the State funds with which to operate an eight instead of a six months term and bring about a conciliation of the two forces and the two minds that have hostilely met in the present General Assembly Former Senator Gravely is an expert in this field Taking his word for it is is not necessary to raise new taxes in order to protect the credit of the State or to keep public spending at a relatively high level IlUT THE COST REMAINS The program to nationalize public education as outlined by some of the leading educators of the Country Is in keeping with the tendency of the times In emergencies when private initiative breaks down the first thought is to turn the Job over to the government It is a circling spiraling proposition once started In North Carolina public education first passed from private to public support of the lesser units of government Emerging from the former it lodged at first in the district or the county or the city Then it went a notch higher Local units of government finding the burden too heavy they tossed it on up to the back of the State government Now that State government is breaking under the load it is natural and inevitable that the cry should be raised to turn the Job over to the federal government People lose sight of the fact that the burden of public spending In the last analysis falls upon the personal pocket Simply because a public service is taken off the private shoulders and hitched to the public does not relieve the individual of the load The total cost is spread out to be sure but it is still there A FORCED DENIAL "Irresponsible distortions" are the charges of persecution of the Jews In Germany according to a statement issued by the Central Union of German citizens of Jewish origin "Pure inventions" they are called in another phrase The denials themselves are probably more characteristic of such terms It is inconceivable that the reports which have become spread all over the world by reputable news agencies by diplomats and by responsible officials should have been fabrications Secretary Hull of the State Department in Washington officially declares that while persecutions have been perpetrated there is reason to believe now that they are subsiding and he gives assurances in the name of the American government that it is keeping its eye on the situation The truth of the matter is that the Hitler regime discovered such violent reaction throughout the civilized world to its wanton outrages against the Jewish people that in the interest of expediency it was compelled to tak some steps to counteract the impressions being generally formed If that be a fair appraisement it is easy to understand why a statement of denial should be issued by the Jewish society the method of Hitlerism It would not hesitate to demand under threat on the part of that organization that it make such a statement The terrorism in which the Hitler government revels would not bat an eye to use this method In the Interest of prudence to create a more popular feeling toward it Tho circumstance that Einstein from his temporary abode in London makes bold announcement that he will not return to his native land of Germany so long as the present methods of the new ruler are In vogue Is evidence that conditions under his administration are inimical to the Jews and that a reign of persecution prevails The Nationalists ransacked the Einstein home along with those ot other eminent leaders of the Jewish race and subjected them to base and cruel Indignities along with those of lesser prestige creating such an organized antagonism to these people and measuring out to them such outrageous physical punishment that In answer to thetr cries of protest a civilized world has arisen In the righteousness of its anger to demand an end of such brutality and ghoulish injustice Overhearing that the Legislature was wrangling over the Cherry bill a young man about town remarked that the boys up in Raleigh had better stay off that orchard and farm stuff and tend to tax matters One Charlotte man has found a way to curb his talkative wife who happena to have three or four gold teeth He told her three weeks ago that Uncle Sam had agents out looking for "gold-teeth" hoarders They may as well keep that old bridge over the Catawba Out-of-town shoppers can come to Charlotte on the narrow bridge and go back on the wide one With beer on tap In 23 States in a few days millions of Americans will Join In the chorus no taste like foam" Greta Garbo is on her way to America again What la It this time? Empty pocketbook Swedish bank holiday or return? The new farmer relief bill won't be letter perfect for most of us until it contains a surefire corn cure There Is no surer method for girls to keep their lipstick on than for them to eat onions Pointed Paragraphs BY ROBERT QUILLEN "America's Most Quoted Paragrapher" What one Nation does is felt everywhere For Instance a military parade in Germany makes France like America a lot more The wide disagreement of great minds indicates that we got some of them classified wrong In other words a Nation off the gold standard if it can go back on at any time The hard part is to let the government boss everything without approving the mpthods of Stalin or Karl Marx Too much alcohol in the mixture makes the motor get hot And it has that effect on a party too I Science knows everything except why you always ask information of a guy who says: "I'm a stranger here myself" What we need Is some way to tax those who now escape without again soaking those who can't escape Rut strong leadership please everybody if it leads away from the trough It all- depends If he gives the boys four years of prosperity the loss of a $13 pension can be forgiven Tou can tell the difference between Chinese regulars and bandits The regulars are three jumps ahead Fortunately there are enough conservatives in Congress to pul over Mr Roosevelt's liberal Ideas A President is a dangerous dictator when he pulls your fingers out of the public till Tcrhaps the best way to study the American language Is to pass a truck driver and ask him If he can't hear How sweet It will sound once more to hear men lying about their gains instead of their losses Sentence Sermons DY THE REV ROY SMITH I Would a reputation than inherit one my honor than win honors Save my conscience than my business Face the facts than face defeat Know an unpleasant truth than a pleasant falsehood my country build friendships than worships Die as a martyr than prosper as a renegade EXPRESSIONS OF VIEWS BY THE PEOPLE Accepted lattara of cot more than 600 word! art aaaured of atpadltloua publication Lattara axcaad Inc SOO worda tnuat await opportunity No anony-moua lattera will ba conalderad No letter not accepted will ba returned unleaa accompanied by self-addreeted stamped envelope Claims Discrimination To the Editor of The Observer! There appeared in The Open Forum section of the March 26 1D33 issue of your paper a letter signed by "Ilettle Reinhardt President State Nurses Association" dealing with House Bill No 906 the so-called nursing bill which Is due to come up for consideration by the General Assembly within the next two or three days Now I am afraid that Miss letter especially since It was indicated that she Is president of the State Nurses Association will give to many people not familiar with the general hospital situation a mistaken impression of the merits of the question The conclusion might easily be drawn from her letter that the private hospitals of this State are very unprogressive educationally that certain Influences are attempting to retard the cause of nurses education and that the hospitals are slave drivers selfishly disregarding the welfare of their nurses none of which possible conclusion have any basis In fact House Bill No 906 If made law will In substance transfer the control of nurses educational requirements from nurses to physicians Since 1925 when the Standardization Board was set up nurses have controied through their majority on the Board the educational requirements and licensing of nurses In this State with little regard for the wishes and situation of those physicians and surgeons who own and operate the hospitals with wrhich the nurses training schools are connected It Is pertinent that not one nurse who has ever been connected with the Standardization Board has ever had the financial responsibility of operating a private hospital and not one has any of her money Invested in any of them It might seem that anyone objecting to raising educational requirements Is a slave driver and promoter ot Ignorance but if we examine carefully these "educational requirements" an entirely different slant is put upon the matter It It were really educational requirements alone that the Standardization Board were trying to enforce I should not have a word to say because no one In this State or any other State is more anxious or strives more zealously to produce highly trained and efficient nurses than docs the hospital with which I am -connected Representatives of the Standardization Eoard will certify that our educational requirements in many instances are even more stringent than those they lay down The objection we small hospitals have is to certain unreasonable demands they make which have nothing to do with the making of efficient well trained nurses They epecify for example that no nurse graduated from a hospital having a dally patient average of less than 30 can take the examination for becoming a registered nurse It Is not usual for a hospital in a community of less than 4000 unless It is a publicly supported charity institution to maintain throughout the year such an average and It is not necessary that such an average be maintained in order for the hospital to turn out "properly trained nurses Their policies indicate that it is not excellence of instruction that they put the biggest premium on but they are using their power as a means of curbing the production of nurses in order to make jobs for graduate nurses now out of work The nurses through the Standardization Board have certainly picked the most opportune time for making this attack upon the private hospitals because the additional financial burden which discontinuing the training schools at this time would entail would work a great hardship on the private hospitals Many of them are even now struggling for their very existence and comparatively few of them are out of the red I respectfully disagree with Miss Reinhardt when she says that "the small hospitals could run more economically with a btaff of graduate nurses than by a properly conducted training I know of several Instances in which this has been tried and it is unsatisfactory for two reasons: first because of the increased money outlay necessary to pay their salaries and second because each graduate considers herself capable of bossing the others and that results in constant bickering and makes hc maintenance of efficiency much more difficult I do not say that it is absolutely impossible for all hospitals to stand the additional financial drain of staffing with graduate nurses but I do know that tt would close many and work a hardship on all Of course if the hospital is publicly financed and the officials operating it do not have to worry about where the money is coming from this is not a consideration But one who has not had upon his own shoulders the responsibility of naking ends meet In a private hospital is unable to understand what this means The greatest hardship from the present Standardization Board policy falls upon the nurses themselves and the great majority of nurses with whom I am acquainted see it in this light If the private hospitals are forced to abandon their training schools they will be compelled to adopt the next most economiral plan that of establishing one or two year schools in the place of the'r present three year schools This would flood the State with white uniformed "sub-standard" nurses vho would underbid and take business from the registered nurses This State is filled with fine intelligent young ladies whom economic stress prevents from going to -college or furthering the'r education The hospital training school offers them a means of fostering that divine spark in every normal human breast which makes him want tc Improve his conditions nnu develop his talents to the highest These girls Would be the first to rise up In anger against anyone who would selfishly close their doors of opportunity Who else besides a nurse can learn a trade or profession and have all their living expenses paid during the process? When Miss Reinhardt "rises to heights of righteous because of the alleged "exploiting of nurses" by hospitals does she consider the rich return the nurse gets for her hospital service? Does she think it costs nothing in money and effort to feed clothe house and Instruct group of student nurses? Dues she think it more desirable that the girl should spend those three years In a cotton mill at 75c a day and tn the end have nothing to show for tt but gnarled hands and a humped back? As the passage of House Bill No 906 seems more and more likely the nurses who control the policies of the State Nurses Association begin to get panicky In Raleigh and in other places they have begun trying to compromise with the proponents of the bill How can they compromise if it ts the production of better trained and more efficient nurses at stake? The Sunday Only Above ratal applicable to aubacrlptlon Is tho two Carolina! only Ratea lor aubeoriptlona to more dlatant son quoted on requeit Addreaa label on mailed eoplea ahowa aiplratloa date Renewal ahould ba aent in time to prevent Interruption In service Alwaya slv old aa wall aa raw addreaa when ordering chango made MONDAY MORNING MARCH 27 1833 C11K1SI YOB ALL PUB CHRIST TRAISbl TUB GOOD god: Make a Joylul nolao unto the Lord Enter Into hie gate with thankailv-In For tha Lord la Paalm 100:1 4 I THE PROFIT MOTTVE Industrial civilization such as that in which the world now moves Is merely a high technology in the interest ot the profit motive according to a modern philosopher Society would change its color overnight If this dominant driving power behind all business all Industry all personal enterprise could be changed but It has always been In there and so long as human nature holds 1j Its contents it always will be In there It may not be the best for humanity that the selfish Impulses abound and overshadow all other purpose hi individual initiative In the major material pursuits but it is a condition we discuss and not a theory To what extent an economic civilization which has wealth personal profit as its supreme end and aim and uses men as Its means can be or ever will be ethical and Ideal is a question more and more concerning scholastic thought Under present conditions it Is too much to expect human nature to undergo a change efficiently to substitute a high ethical and unselfish standard to take the place of that of private profit The very system under which modern society lives precludes such a possibility In a competitive arrangement like eurs every Individual Is obliged first of all to look out for himself Falling he becomes a business suicide therefore an economic cipher and in all probability a eocial outcast Current business and social philosophy accord no place for the man who does not exercise the law of self-preservation The loafer the shirker the drone the ne-er-do-well are kicked aside because they fall at the sensitive point of succeeding In taking care of themselves end thus throwing themselves upon the care of society Hence we are schooled In early life to face every Isue to determine personal problems to analyze our engagements In terms of self-interests What will there be In It for me? the insistent and unavoidable question Will this undertaking or this position or this policy profit me personally? What will I get out of tt? These summarize the philosophy that Is Planted In the Individual conscious-ness from infancy And It pervades almost everywhere There are few altruists few men and women definitely and for life-time engaged in those pursuits nnd professions that they understand from the beginning will bring more of profit to society than to themselves Tho fact is and it is a grimly realistic fact that we are so thoroughly the bond-servants of an industrial civilization that the profit motive is unchallenged as a dominant force in life A modern author and playwright John Chapman boldly charges that America is "a mill which turns everything Into love art leisure recreation science religion politics and patriotism We bind them all up Into packages and then put labels upon them to determine their value according to the price And almost everybody has thrown up their hands and said nothing to be done about it It may be a pity but it can not be helped while our classical economists contend that to think of any other Bystem in an industrial democracy is little less than laughable llEEU AND BETTER TIMES While there may be reason for believing and expecting that legalization of beer will Improve business it is manifest that exaggerated notions are going the rounds about that phase of the change Claims that appear on their face to be absurd are being made about the number of unemployed who will be put to work about the enortpous amounts of farm products that will be required for the new Industry the amount of new capital that will be unearthed at once and released to channels of circulation There will be picking up In all of these lines to be sure but it is Just as well to keep our feet on the ground when we begin to build expectations as to what legalization ot beer will accomplish The peak of beer consumption under the old dispensation was 66000000 barrels but there Is no reason to anticipate that anything like this consumption will immediately develop Too many States will likely for awhile at least remain in the dry column to begin figuring on a per capita consumption for the entire population Those making their calculations on a consumption of 60000000 barrels at once with a tax of per barrel arrive at the estimated revenue of $300000000 Government officials however are not Inclined to risk a guess at a figure of revenue running In excess of half of that amount And the same writing-down process should apply to the amount of new capital to be Invested and the amount of farm products to be Utilized These factors may be developed to an appreciable extent but certainly not all at once to a point commensurate with the claims that are being made and the hopes that may be entertained Beer will be a stimulant to business but business must have applied to tt far more than this form of stimulation to get back to a level where the whole people of the United States will be materially lifted up Far more basic reforms than this must be found and more fundamental policies and principles Invoked in our economic and Industrial life to make America again ring with the music of that prosperity for which It is in such sore travail it HENRY 60ULP-Albany Played fo game? of TENNIS To WIN ONt 5S7 Jfcndail mthitixcK -July flif- a 7 BLsqW irt SjnSicate attempted sacrifice Lazzerlof the Tanka tried advance Gehrig by bunting but the bunt resulted -a short pop fly which Bengough was able to catrh beat Gehrig to first England's little railroad the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch which runs on a 15-lnch track could lav double track between tha rails of a standard track still have room for a footpath The standard track la four feet a'ght and a half Inches from raa or nearly four times tha dlatancs between the rails on tho Romney line Tomorrow: Tho Volcano That Summoned An Army the only ones that would be affected by inflating or deflating tho currency That is not calc When currency Is deflated It necessarily inci eases the exchange value of the dollar thereby benefittlng the owner of currency that proportion But if It increases the exchange value of the dollar it stands to reason that it must necessarily decrease the ex change value of the property or labor for whigfc is exchanged to the same extent This a theory but a rigid law of cause and effect stubborn fact This being true according to the just self preservation the owners of money will always continue to strive to increase the valv their dollar for that Is profitable to them While those whose wealth great or consists of labor commodities and other form property will also attempt to increase their exchange value We admit that this principle works both wajw When money Increases tn value labor com- and' "necessarily de'creasVIs same proportion But It is an impossibili'y both to Increase at the same time or d- creas thefr exchang0 vaue at the sanie tltr fhat we ossible would not be h0 jectionaHle This Is the fundamental principle of the money question as It appears to affect the tv great classes It seems to me that a high privt commodities and properties would have a tendency to cause stagnation in the industrial financial and commercial conditions of the country Between the twu extremes would be the safes: policy to pursue Just as I am confident the enhanced dolls: lias greatly increased the depressed condit'om here recently its extreme Inequalities on the foreign exchanges render It impossible to -cure foreign trade If I am wrong let someone suggest soingfflLj more feasible Many of us seek a more equri-ble solution to this question Marion LEMMOND Sam Dill on Boer deer mr edditur: them ft Hers in new york whut bought th cnglish Inn an had hit shipped two em must kinder nutty they say theys ben so mrr beer sold in hit that hit smells lack a ole bee: keg i cant imagine eny buddy enjoyin smelhc ole beer keg onless drunk so mutch 1 he's acquired the taste ov a hog I remember they ole saloon days seein fellers whut looked luck they had a beer keg under their vest an beleave ef you'd a stuck a pin in sum ov beer wood a squirted cleen acrost the street the trouble weth us amerlcans we hulnt temperate in nuthln when we drink beer we gorge ourselves tell we look lack a balloon then git mad at burselvs an pass laws bannin hrs use entirely we take spells ov livln high spend moore than we earn buyln cars raddyolu realestate an everything cits then we git too thinkin we air goin two fast an we quit buym enythlng a tall tell you'd think they wuzent dime left in the country an times git so hard we can hardly btand hit theys no moore harm in drlnkin a glass ov beer er wine than they is tn drinkln a teac-ful ov pot likker the trubble cums frum dri-f two mutch sum folks haint satisfied onion they so full they can here hit sloshin em er runnin outen their yeers an eyes th air the kind that holler about personal lib cry an cuss everbuddy whut wants too keep kinder decent cf we air gona have beer agin I beleave orter have guverment measurin agent too take the measure ov the waistline ov all the beer drinkers ever thirty days when the mca ure shows an increase ov two er three inch- the beer sellers should be notified not to him eny moore ontlll back too normalcy this way weed soon have a nation ov trim ne: an a feller cud git along the stre wethout bunipin Into sum barrelled stumick-'g beer bog ever steps yourn trooly aam dill figgers vh fctNOOUGrt- Gtlcub CATCHER -CAUGHT AN iNFtUO FLY ANO TOPED A OFF FsT MAKING AN UNLISTED POU5LE Piw Yankees Medm ttewapae aet of tennis A crack tennia player can often win in aix gamea unleu ha la playing another crack player and then ha might play forever without winning Tli la almost happened In Albany when Henry Could played Randall Whltbeck In July 1929 40 games In one aet Gould who waa formerly captain of his school team finally woip over Whltbeck a classmate 21 to 10 a Benny Bengough catcher for the St Louis Browns mada a strange unassisted double for A man playing at the plate when he caught a pop Infield fly and then ran to first to catch another player off base On conclusion is inescapable that the nurses who control the Standardization Board have made rules primarily aimed at choking out the small privately owned training school with ruthless disregard of the fact that such a policy will also tend to choke out the small hospitals They want to cut down on production of nurses and they are willing to kill those centers for relief of human suffering In order to improve their own unemployment situation It Is not right that under the guise of crusaders for higher education these people should be allowed to damage and perhaps destroy the private hospitals I appeal to the fair minded people of this State to come to the aid of its hospitals Those struggling Institutions to whom many of you owe your very lives now need your aid Lincolnton A CROWELL JR Olijects to Nursing Law To the Editor of The Observer: Replying to- President Ilettle Reinhardt of Th! I shell We have neglected to join and attend the North Carolina Hospital Association When we held membership we were too busy to at tend and sent our superintendent and nurses as our representatives First thing we knew they had control We were awakened by the following laws and rulings of the Standardization Board: "Section 3 A joint committee on Standardization consisting of three members appointed from the North Carolina State Association and three members from the North Carolina State Ilospital Association whose members shaff serve for a term of three years or until their successors are elected is hereby created Tho joint committee on standardization shall advise with the Board of Nurses Examineis herein created in the adoption of regulations governing the education of nurses and shull have power to establish standards and provide minimum requirements for the conduct of schools of nursing of which applicants for examination for license under this chapter must be graduates before taking such examination" Graduates of Class A schools only can take the Eoard Class A schools must employ: A superintendent of nurses 2 An instructor 3 A night supervisor 4 An operating room supervisor Separate class rooms for each class A daily average of 30 or more patients The number of hours on duty not to exceed 56 These are only a part of the requirements llow in the name of heaven is the smaller hospital going to provide this? It ts suicide to even try and one will have to admit that the small hospitals built of private funds have been a boon to humanity saving untold thousands of lives They ave trained good nurses without all this high price equipment and extra salaries It Is true at this time that they ran operate cheaper without a training school under present conditions but what will happen when the depression has passed and salaries are back to normal? It will mean the closing of 90 per cent of the hospitals of the State Fully 90 per cent of the hospitals are dissatisfied and not 11 as stated by Miss Reinhardt We do not want to see the bars down on graduate nurses but we do want a reasonable standardization one that we can meet without a hardship The present amendment now before the Legislature has been endoised by the President the North Carolina Hospital Association the President and Secretary of the North Carolina Medical Society Men of this type certainly know conditions better than the Association and vliut is bst for our State A MAHONEY Monroe Ellen Fitzgerald Hospital The Money Question To the Editor of The Observer: The money question is the least discussed ac- cording to its relative importance of all questions by the masses of our property owners and wage earners Too many of them seem to think that the main owners of currency gold and bonds! an a Ha a and to are the in it not a of of the for 6t i ole be a in i a in I The only rivals for the perseverance of that robin out in Kansas City that fights Its Image In a window pane 24 hours a day are the women who stay In front of a mirror and try to take off 30 years with lipstick and rouge While aome of the more fortunate are marveling at the Magnolia Gardens others are wondering at the status ot the onion lettuce and bean gardens now in the adolescent period 7.