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GHEENSBORO DAILY NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 1 1934 I PUT 'EM UNDERGROUND It haa been about a dearie Safety irst be a ear 10c THURSDAY MARCH 1 1031 as Internal reve hohkowkd Btuar" the to went in do was an em ncy Is to end The claim the Gover 1 a We'd We'd which Is ab As for these stock market opera tors they can take It all right much rather they rather they put energy and every Into sawing wood the bill New York as Presklent became somewhat deal announced to him in He bowed to visitors olks will just fight over any thing these days Coupla of groups are scrapping for Instance over control of the Republican party to take tip the termination of is back exactly Three million senator from The text of Daily Washington Merry Go Round It certainly would be appreciated If some of these colleges and uni versities that are always bestowing degrees could open up now and ditto a few degrees of temperature And even it March does have a meteorological heart It brings In come tax day Senator Norris again declares that he is not in favor of a new political party Right He who be longs to both Democratic and Re publican can't very well take on another It really might help to give busi ness indices a few lessons in moun tain climbing "Capricious Nature" esteemed As sociated Press writer termed that which hit this section Sunday night And just about any Greensburgher tan give him an endless array of 'ar more expressive as well as ex o'osive adjectives that'll fill the bill to much more acceptably wires while disposed to be the work to the extent and justice the Dally Mrs Thomas O'Berry director of the CWA In North Carolina regrets laying off 32000 North Carolinians Not so bad Miss Annie we are headed back to the good dole days dr sump'n Norris Dendy negro was lodged In Jul! after ha was alleged to have struck a white man at Clinton That night the town lock up was entered and the negro spirited away The next morning lie was found beaten to death beside a highway only a short distance from the Jail What wim apparently a determined in vestigation followed with definite progress claimed by authorities and tlie Palmetto State accorded no lit tle outside praise for the newly found vim with which it was going after lynchers But it has been revealed once more there Is many a slip particu larly where the race question figures in the administration of southern justice Several days ago a Laurens county grand Jury refused to return indictments against five wlilte men against whom the solici tor had brought charges of abduc tion and murder a refusal which occurred despite the testimony as reported by the Associated Press of eye witnesses that they saw two of the accused group take the ne gro from jail and place him in an automobile and identification of a third as the driver of the car in question Commenting upon the crime and the failure of the inquisitorial body to act the Columbia State reflect ing a distinctly wholesome attitude asserts that "it was all premeditat ed planned a peculiarly brutal and cold blooded murder Doubt less ourth of July whisky played Its part Solicitor Blackwell who drew the Indictments says he will present them to the grand Jury In June No explanation of why this grand jury refused to Indict the accused is offered in press dis patches So far as practical results are concerned the failure to Indict probably makes no difference Con vlctlon would have been improb The contention of the right of the state to have sole Jurisdiction of lynchings however nobly it may have been conceived or fervently advanced blanches perceptibly un der this South Carolina tidbit which truly chose a most unfortunate mo ment to present Itself Steam Locomotive and Cars To Be of Streamline Type Sinclair Lewis has gone conserva tive professor says and is for Amer ica even as Steve Decatur "right or wrong" Generally when Sinclair is with America it will be decidedly wrong dally life hta and household with great care the Lear papers be Indispensable If Japan would Just let them alone what keen delight the Chinese would take in crowning Henry Pu Yl Aw well the meter won't read as much this month It that helps any be i tween heavy sleety tn Greensboro The community will live to suffer many another one A day of vary i Ing weather threats put into all minds the thought of snow on top of the morning's temperature of 10 above There might also be rain another coating of fee on things not yet free of the first and upon the crippled wires and poles There is no assurance that the next bad one will be any considerable part of 10 years distant Nobody under takes to say It will not come to day or next week or next winter It is not impossible even It it is highly Improbable that this weather will not be substantially duplicated many times in the next ten years It is the sort of thing that can not be endured if at all avoidable the effects ns they have been visited upon Greensboro this time and it can in part be avoided It makes our mechanized civilization too high in cost Elderly and ill people can not be thrown in such severe weath er back upon less resource than was available 50 years ago without danger Business and employment suffer too much damage from dis location Those who are vigorous run some 'hazards of illness on ac count of the transition but on tlie whole for them it is mainly a mat ter of discomfort Tlie utilities interests have re sources They have great surpluses of money and It is well they should Whether they are greater than necessary is a point not now to be argued They need resources with which to meet extraordinary events whether storms destructive for a few days or conditions which de moralize business for years They could not serve the public accep tably without a good margin But there is much reason to believe that tlie utilities as a whole have rather an embarrassment of funds and are looking for ways to dispose of them The public service properly comes first We have one community of utilities interests in this section that supports a great university aids in numerable hospitals and sustains other charitable works on a grand scale These things are highly com mendable but first of all the public Is entitled to that for which it pays the functions for which these con corns are chartered It is submitted as a plausible proposition that electrical wiring for all purpose in Greensboro ought at once to be put underground in an area covering at least the business district the commerce all Greensboro life revolves We cannot build a tower of Babel structure that will make us Inde pendent of the elements but any structure can be made stronger than It Is and thus may the risks of disruption be decreased By Drew rearson and Robert Allen Authors of Merry Go and Merry Go Another job Ye Paragrapher doesn't crave is collector for these new International credit banks which the President proposes to establish Mary Pickford has spoken and she doesn't think that she will ever marry Interviewer writes Well If she doesn't It will be first time (Sprrla! to Dally News) Brtehtwood eb The Bright wood Parent Teacher association will postpone the play Little Clod until a later date because rtf the weather and consequent lack oi lights Miss annie Lea was called to Dan ville Saturday on account of th death of her brother in law Mr armer 1 HOW ABOUT IT MR ICKES? In the midst of criticism which has been leveled at Secretary Ickes because of tardiness In expenditure of PWA funds the exhibit which Danville has to offer aside from whatever significance it may have in the private municipal power con troversy merits in all fairness to the administration inclusion in the records Months ago after an indefinite period had been spent in prelimi nary negotiations Danville was allocated $3000000 with which to construct a power plant in Patrick county After the grant came an Intensive campaign in which 'argu ments pro and con were placed be fore the electorate in order that they might vote the more intel ligently as jurors in the final court on acceptance or rejection of the loan Monday the project with the total vote kept down by adverse weather was rejected by a meager 184 majority Thus after months with PWA ex penditures expected slack occasioned by the CWA Danville where it started dollars in PWA funds has been tied up held In reserve for the Pinnacles project only in tlie end to be re jected Here is a lapse which can in no wise be charged to Washing ton and how many times similar procedure has been multiplied the country over Is as open to one man's guess as it is to i After all the delay surveys campaigns elections and what not the public works administration' is told that Danville does not wish the money What can Washington do with a situation like that? Obviously it cannot cut through such conditions as Danville and other petitioning cities have had to meet nor can it come down for all the centraliza tion of power these latter days have brought forth and tell this or that municipality you shall spend so many thousands or so many mil lions on a PWA project when local citizenry votes no There may be ample grounds for criticising Secre tary Ickes' and his associates' delay but from this particular angle they are in the clear And now Mr Secretary Admin istrator with that over how about diverting the $3000000 which our Virginia neighbors have turned back to a late coming North Caro Una? also buy else ultimate settlement particularly with qonstricted gold supplies in the countries with we hope to resume business solutnly Impossible Extension of credit may necessary step towards trade re storation but until buying as well as selling provisions are worked out it is but casting money to the futile purpose for which millions have al ready gone a gllmmcrlng with no other result than that abyss from which we are even now struggling to climb nor's support on the basis of pre vious statements to have done with the sales tax it it is ever possible to agree on the end of the emer gency that called It into existence Personally we have never sym pathized with tlie violent opposition to the sales tax Something can be said for it as well as against It The notion Is that the tax is likely to stay Indefinitely in North Caro lina not only but that It will be ex tended throughout the country It indeed it is not adopted by the fed era? government as an emergency tax of course In practice it Is not so abhorrent as the principle ew people worry over the small amount collected at a time on purchases It is the big tax bill coming In once a year that worries Like the tariff taxes that the Democrats used to feature if the tax is paid in bits so that it doesn't bear heavily it isn't so likely to incite revolt Senator long who isn't recog nized in tlie distribution of louls lana patronage has secured recon sideration of the confirmation of Daniel Moore nue collector for Louisiana on the ground that the appointee Is per sonally offensive to him Usually when a senator asks that an ap jiolntee in his state be rejected be cause he Is personally offensive to him that Is the last word Senators are disposed to recognize personal offensiveness to one of their num ber as unforgivable Wondering senators who are personally offen sive could be cast out what chance Long would have Representative Lambeth North Carolina chairman of the house committee on printing is discussing with some of his colleagues the elimination of extraneous matter from the Congressional Record and the consequent reduction of the printing bill That is something that Is talked about now and again but nothing is done about it All of them know the printing of all sorts of stuff in the Record that has no connection with the proceed ings of Congress is an imposition If not a fraud but too many of them wish the privilege Notwithstanding the lure of hitch hiking on the highways they haven't quit walking on railroad tracks and trying to catch rides on trains Southern railway reports that 213 persons were killed and 236 injured while trespassing on its trains and tracks last year an increase over the previous year That's quite a harvest of rail trespassers but not so many when It is remembered that the tracks are far flung and the number of casualties is in significant compared with the record on North Carolina highways CLARK Ye Paragrapher (s willing compromise and blame the army air mall fliers' deaths upon the weather man Ydu'd never know North Carolina was an up and coming state from the tardiness with which It after PWA allotments Telescope Mirror headlines Macon Telegraph And tlie builders have no doubt paused for reflection? Gasoline is off 10 per cent and bread has gone up 10 or moreWhich proves that if we meet the higher cost of living we Just must consume more gasoline Sam Lloyd originator of "How Old Is Ann?" died riday leaving US to guess that Ann Is about 35 years older than when the idiotic Inquiry was propounded THE ADMINISTRATION BE COMES OLD ASHIONED As ultra modern as the Roosevelt administration is in most respects its approach to restoration of for eign trade Is so downright old fashioned that one unfamiliar with the times might attribute it to the Coolldgean or Hooverian era in stead of to the realistic regime of himself As a result of Monday's confer ence at the White House held for the announced purpose of evolv ing a tariff policy In harmony with the monetary and recovery programs establishment of three banks under the direction of George Peek former farm ad ministrator and at present foreign trade adviser to the President was decided upon these institutions to provide credit for Russia Cuba and other foreign countries which may wish to buy or be inveigled into buy ing American products If anything was said about tariffs at tlie con ference the newspaper boys over looked it in the day's rush Here to all practical purposes Is the same policy which contributed so substantially to the very situa tion for which relief is now sought oreign bought from the United States which kindly advanced them the money all through the so called prosperity period with which to make these purchases When Ameri can credit was ultimately denied well the story Is too recently and painfully inscribed to need recital Sufficient it is to remind that the war debts are still unsettled that international trade is at a stand still and that tariff walls crisscross the entire world and nationalism generally peers over their parapets Now to relieve the situation we would resume extension of credit How Russia which to all reports will come nearer than other nations Cuba or any country to whom credit may be made available is going to meet this additional obligation is a question to which the White House conference apparently tailed to give attention The selling complex still obtains Yet if the present stagna tion and the complications to which it led have shown anything they must have offered positive proof that a nation which sells goods must Dr Einstein propounded his theory which only 12 men Including Archibald Hender son understood Mr Einstein then proposed a plan for abolishing war which even he did not understand Washington eb 28 When the 1 story of the new deal finally Is writ 1 ten that or Henry Morgenthau's treasury department Is going to be a gripping one Three months ago Young Henry took over the worst I bogged outfit in the administration Since March 4 Secretary Woodln had been either absent or amiably inef fectlve Dean Acheson the under secretary had concentrated on gold policy to the exclusion of treasury organization The department had become the dumping ground for every political hack arley foist upon other cabinet colleagues It consisted of six or seven little principalities jealous of each others' prerogatives It functioned under one head only In name: as a unified department It did not exist The climax came last December Roose velt knew that something was wrong but he did not know how wring What he chiefly needed was a secre tary of the treasury whom he could trust Henry Morgenthau had not set the world on fire when it came to brilliancy but Roosevelt knew he was an excellent organizer cov'd carry out orders and would cut his right arm before he would fall down on his friend in the White House Young Henry particu larly fancy the job When he took it lie said: "Give me three months It I don't make good in that time I'll go home" The Budget The first trouble Young Henry bumped into was the budget No one knew how much money was being spent The NRA the AAA the PWA the CWA all the other recovery agencies were functioning without any relation to the treasury Budget Director Lew Douglas didn't know how much they were spending The recovery agencies didn't know the only man who did was Thomas Hewes assistant secretary who for three weeks had figures on his desk show ing the budget was $4000000000 out of balance "Why you call this to the attention of the Presi asked Morgenthau "I thought If he was Interested he would ask replied Hewes After which Hewes "resigned" Morgenthau then proceeded to bring the budget into balance on paper at any rate He forced the recovery agencies to co operate With the treasury He re stored bankers' confidence In govern ment bonds Just then off by 4l2 points He brought bonds back to the point where the government could borrow for more than a few months Sackett and Edge After that Young Henry began to clean house He found first of all a scandal In the New York customs I house also one In the Seattle cus toms house During previous admin istrations orders bad been Issued that I the names of all Republicans caught trvlnt to evade customs duties I should be kept secret There was i also graft and neglect The most amazing thing was that this had been investigated and disclosed dur Ing the Hoover administration but nothing done about It Two men whom Young Henry Immediately bucked were rederic Hackett Jr ambassador to Germany ana Walter Edge ambassador to rance They had ahlpped back from Europe a supply of wines and liquors on which they proposed to pay no duty on the ground of diplo matic Immunity alling to con vince the customs officials they ap pealed to Morgenthau "1 don't know much about diplomatic Immunity" said Young Henry "and I don't want to be unfair to you You say these are remnants of your household stock at the embassy? Just how many bottles do you Ambassador Edge had 900 bottles Ambassador Sackett 400 afraid I do anything for you" said Young Henry The two ex ambassadors both ex senators both millionaires then ap pealed to an old colleague of theirs in the senate a Democrat He ap proached Morgenthau with the plea that certain customs regulations ef fective right after repeal be post poned 30 days in order to accom modate his two friends "I'll be damned If I said Young Henry And that ended that Buildings and Taxes Young Henry next turned his guns on public buildings ope of the real danger spots of the new deal Al though Secretary public works administration allots the money for new postoffices customs houses and countries bought and THE TROUBLE IGHTERS Tlie utilities electrical and tele phone have not made satisfactory progress in setting the town to rights and restoring the facilities of living and business upon which an artificial organization of civilization Is dependent vitally dependent Reasonable criticism though has limitations set by the circumstance that nobody knows whether the commands and their forces are ing the best they can And the commands If they are at all ade quate to this emergency have not time to stop and argue about wheth er or not they are putting out to the limit wouldn't every ounce of moment of time hacking away debris restoring poles poles for rotten and rcstrlnglng However critical of of reason News is minded to go on record in recognition of and sympathy for tlie members of this little army of trouble fighters To the high perils inherent in such work under the best circumstances is added the fierce cold in which they have had to make their attack They are men Inured to hardship could not live at the Job otherwise The risks are inherent in the serv ice they sign on for hazards of life and limb Civilization dedicates them to such a course with full knowledge that there will be casual ties fatalities that there will be emergencies of a nature to take the heart out of the stoutest But their wives and children think quite as much of them as do those of men In the soft sheltered occupations Some little appreciation at least from and on behalf of the public seems eminently in order GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS AM HIEGHAM Piihlbhrd Every Day in ihs year By (rernhnrn New Company IL jeii klssi rroitknt KAKI GODHI Efllhir A STOCKTON Managing Editor Memhrr nt AiBoclaleJ The AMflflutMt In ntitlH te the tor republication of II new ditpulrhri credited tn It nr not credited Io Ihlo fcnd Ion the torsi now puhllobed herein All rlfhlo nf ropiihllrttlnji of porlol dlonalrliro herein ar also referred Reader Private Affairs of George On a hot day In August 1789 In the City of New York ington got whooping mad at the sen ate of the United States It seems fitting that we should re call this glorious event To iqox at the thousands of steel engraving in which Washington stares benignly down upon the heads of school children you'd think that he never moved the muscles of his face But he did He had sent the senate the name of a man for coilec tor of the Port of Savannah Ga and the senate had rejected It When Washington heard that he put or his hat and walked over to the sen ate thereby causing tremendous ex citement in that body The vice president offered him his chair Washington took it and then said he had come to ask the senate why they rejected his nomination or a short time there was an em barrassing Biieuue Then General Gunn Gnnrrrta rntfl tfl Senator speech has not come down to us only the substance But if I may be allowed a little historical license this Is about what he think that ah yield to no one Suh the admiration and respect that I have suh for the great services which you have rendered to the peo ple of these United States Having fought shouldah to shouldah with you Suh to rout the tyrannical rule of the oppressah from across the seas so that our people might enjoy these magnificent forests these boundless fields of corn and wheat these moun tains rising from the plain to salute the heavens these great rlvahs flow ing down the valleys Suh to mingle their waters in the sea Well when the Senator got down to cases he declared that it was the sense of the senate that no explana tion of their motives or proceedings was ever due or would ever be given to any President of the United States and thereupon the President withdrew In a very bad temper thereby establishing a precedent for Presidents hare become whooping mad at the senate ever since and with about the same results The Private Affair nf Washington i You can and you should read about this In one of the most Inter I csting Washington books we have: other federal buildings the treasury has charge of their construction And while Roosevelt end Ickes were clamoring to get the PWA money spent "Chip" Robert in charge of the treasury's new buildings seemed more interested In social duties than letting contracts So Robert was switched to public health and the mint But Morgenthau's biggest fight he is in the thick of it Is over income taxes He found his department organized so that it seemed to function chiefly tor the benefit of the rich Elmer Irey chief investigator of the internal revenue bureau had instructions to investi gate no tax returns without the ex press OK of Andy Mellon and Ogden Mills He did little Investigating urthermore Morgenthau found that every wealthy man'a tax return was filed with the same examiner every year so that It was relatively easy for the horde of Washington in come tax lawyers to cultivate that examiner That horde of lawyers is now giving Morgenthau the hardest fight he has had There are several thousand of them all supposed to be registered and Investigated but no check has been made on them since 1921 At times their Influence in the internal revenue bureau has been unbelievably potent As the spearhead In thia drive Morgenthau removed Barrett Brettyman gen eral counsel of the bureau A howl of protest from Washington lawyers was the answer A senate move to block confirmation of his successor followed The fight is still on Errors and Hits Younn Henry has not been without mistakes His appointment of Earl Bailie formerly of and SeU man was one His censorship of the press when he was first appointed was another In both of these his intentions were good his execution was bungling He has been Inclined toward modification of the proposed securities act and has leaned to ward part of the monetary program Wall street wants chiefly because his first concern was floating govern ment bonds Henry has been an ex cellent organizer He insists on hav ing men around him he can trust and without exception they swear by him He IS kindly unselfish ill at ease slow sometimes but he can be depended upon to follow his chief in the White House through thick and thin Under him people can look for an efficient straight forward treasury department MOST UNTIMELY As hearings proceed on Costigan Wagner anti lynching South Carolina offers an exhibit which patently clamors for congres sional recognition Last ourth of July as if an addi tional touch of irony were needed SUHbl hirilON KATES llv Mall Daily and Sunday S3 Mr Year Dally Except Sunday S7 Per Year hunduy nnly 1350 Perl rar Uy Carrier 20C Per Week 11010 Daily and Sunday Single i opy ihiilv bunday PARAGRAPHICS March comes In like the Dickens New York eb Ths American Locomotive company has designed a steam locomotive and standard railway cars conforming with new theories of streamlining and light weight which are being studied by the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads it was learned today The manufacturers say the design would provide speed equal to the mo tor driven types ordered by two other roads The and is reported consider ing such a train for use between Phil adelphia and Washington Brichtwood A Play Postponed Due to Storm WHAT THIS DEMOC RATS GAVE US Editor of The Dally News: 1 Mr William Harvey writing in 1 the Dally News of ebruary 17 seems I to be a forgetful historian also a 1 modern Democrat while summing up 1 credit for the last two Democrat 1 Presidents I am of the opinion that 1 the letters are still worrying Mr Harvey's political' brain almost 1 equal to the worry being experienced i at Washington over the letters CWA 1 Many American citizens whose minds have not become contaminated with European principles and are not willing to sell their birthright of freedom for a mess of pottage still i behold as the only solution i for Government ot Principle Thr federal reserve bank was authored and sponsored by the Hon Carter Glass (Democrat) who has been fighting President Roosevelt's dictatorship Due to American banks holding se curities valued under former Presi dent fluctuated war time prices also stale foreign bonds and uncollectable loans made to Europe by Mr Wilson without authority a recent Democrat President closed all the banks to keep them from closing automatically under bls administra tion I also wish to state here that Mr Hoover recommended legislation that would guarantee the depositor of banks and such a bill was written and Introduced by a Republican sen ator during Mr Hoover's last Con gress but the Democratic tlves desired to save such history for the Zeevelt administration so the bill was rejected at that session but arrpntid aifd enacted into law the next scboav Mr Harvey also states a President won the world war I rej mpmber this was the war Mr wiison hl electors promised to keep us out of Mr Wilson plunged us Into wir and the loyal Americans won the war to save the nation's honor All thinking people have realized ere this we accomplished nothing by rea son of this war neither quarreling President took us off the gold standard cae the gold revalued the metal and kept toe difference I have heard ol 31Ar DaXra? President had Morgan un for discipline Will some one please advise us as to Mr tine or imprisonment or both? Don 'mrveTofotes a Democrat OTMluc: ot these prices ffeneral I think the statement lhalleX farmers' Intelligence and toe Statement Is not worthy of com roYes a Democrat President raised wages' and I notice Mr I ttai a identical statement tvice and Kt wages were raised with shorter hour" for instance a weaver was nouia more lOWL re work BSBbT Idon't know jurt how or In what wav the government stabilized fac torc nrlees but when I buy a fac tory product that has doubled In priced" within 12 months I am satis fled something has been done A KEiOcrat President put an end to child labor In the southern Demo states 'while the northern states had already put an end to child labor under Republican state 16 rmeTthe fact that many senators and congressmen are to be elected this year also many state of fleers a Democrat President broad casted a smoke screen of air mall con tracts to hldp the CWA scandal civil service manipulation arleys free trip to Ttfcas that unbalanced bud eet and the world war contract scan dals: also Wilson's three billion dol lar rench babv the same baby that Messrs Harding Coolidge and Hoover had to nurse tor a numurr ui but alas in the arms of Mr Roose velt and In the care and keep ing that gave birth to the little brat ALLRED UnJon Ridge Affairs of George Washing ton from the Records and Accounts of Tobias Lear His edited by Stephen Decatur Jr A wonder ful book Let me continue Washington gave a formal dinner every Thursday It was an ordeal William Maclay said it was the most formal dinner he ever attended But then he was a senator from Pennsyl vania and rfaturally sour Hardly anybody spoke until the meal was over Maclay describes the conversa tion thus: President told of a New Eng land clergyman who lost a hat and wig in crossing a river called the Brunks (Bronx) He smiled and everybody else laughed Mr Jay tried to make a laugh by mentioning the circumstance of the Duchess of Devonshire leaving no stone un turned to carry ox's election There was a Mr Smith who mentioned how Homer described Aeneas leaving his wife and carrying his father out of flaming Troy The President kept a fork In his hand when the cloth was taken away I thought for the purpose of picking nuts He ate no nuts however but played with the fork striking on the edge of the table with It We did not sit long after the ladies retired The Presl dent rose went upstairs to drink coffee the company followed I took my hat and came home" Dally Events In Life Up to the time that George Wash ington became President his wife Martha called him After that she decided to call him He called her Washington rose at 6 a Dinner was at 3 except on Thursdays After dinner he exercised Supper was at 8 After that he would read aloud to the family and by 1C everybody would be in bed ormal dinners were at 4 Washington would wait five mlnutea for a late guest but no longer The Washingtons attended the theater In John street just east ol Broadway where they saw School for Scandal" They also went to see the wax works and the large doll which was supposed to answer questions When Washington went to Boston the governor and the mayor jot intc an argument over who should enter tain him and they squabbled for ar hour while Washington's carriage waited at Boston Neck for them tc aeiue it Whi Washington were loud voice but did not shake hands for that was considered against the dignity oi a President At his weekly levees Washington wore a black velvet suit with knee breeches He had yellow gloves and carried a cocked hat with a cockade of black feathers an Inch wide Hit hair was powdered and the queue wai In a black bag tied with a solitaire He wore a sword with knot sllvei knee and shoe buckles and highly varnished shoes This book is packed with details aoout Wfi receptions travels amenities developed by Dr Decatur from The book ought to to anyone interested in the Presi dent and his period Affairs of George Wash ington" edited by Stephen Decatur Jr Houghton Mifflin 15 HARRY HANSEN is the Winter of our diacon said one ot char acters And there have been a lot ot that kind of winters since his time Springfield (Ohio) Sun If Europe starts another rough and tumble war the United States be too proud to fight but the hope Is be too Ohio State Jour nal Timid money a financial note re veals Is now rushing into the United States Our personal money we be lieve ought to sympathize heartilywith It That's pretty darned shy Boston Herald How quiet and peaceful everything Is in the good old A Toledo Ohio (JarKs Comment SOLELY AS AN EMERGENCY In the contrast of the attitude of Candidate hringhaus and Gov ernor Ehrlnghaus on the sales tax criticism was based on tlie assump tion that Candidate Ehrlnghaus had not qualified his declaration oppos ing that form of tax The one cam paign speech heard from Candidate Ehrlnghaus contained the simple declaration of opposition without reservation or qualification Since his position was generally accepted as one of decided opposition it was assumed there was no provision for emergency An examination of the record however discloses that Can didate Ehfinghaus on several occa sions mentioned the sales tax as the last resort or Instance in the announcement of his candidacy in August 1931 Mr Ehrlnghaus de clared that sales taxes "are a last expedient of desperation and should be resorted to only to save the credit of the state or keep going its es sential humanitarian activities" This was immediately followed by the declaration: time (the time for the sales tax) has not yet come in North Carolina and I hope it never will" On another occasion Mr Ehring haus the candidate declared that he had always opposed and the Democratic party had always op posed "the principles of sales taxa tion except as an emergency meas iirp onH thnn nnlv whpn other rea was accepiea anu sonable sources of revenue have been ftt the next session a 1 Arvxin H'A nn nA 1 altm ct UA1 1 Cl HO a C4 LA VA Iv 'AA A 4 vAAvAm said: 1 "I am now and have always been opposed to any sales tax In any form and I would not want North Carolina to use this source of reve i nue except to save the credit of the state or keep going Its humanitarian Interpreting the es scntlal needs of the state for which a sales tax might be levied If all other resources failed Mr Ehring haus included the maintenance of law and order the charitable and correctional Institutions and the public schools making pledge to preserve the school system The evidence shows then that while Mr Ehrlnghaus at the time of these declarations did not anticipate the sales tax he stated repeatedly that it could be justified only as an emergency measure to save the state's credit and its es sential activities On that point this column stands corrected and the charge of lack of candor based on one hearing is withdrawn The Governor believed the emergency which he did not anticipate in his primary campaign was reached soon after he became Governor There will be argument about that but that is not of concern here The complaint was lack of candor a common weakness of candidates but the record shows that Candi date Ehimghm's left a way open even if he didn't expect to use It Also In his message to the legisla ture March 13 when the Governor stated that his study of the situa tion indicated that only through the sales tax could the budget be balanced after all possible economies had been set up he suggested tnat if the legislature could find another way it should "Go to it" All of which is submitted in justice to the Governor It will be noticed that all through the commitments quoted Candidate Ehrlnghaus mentioned the sales tax as an emergency measure only and a Inst and desperate resort This would imply that the tax should be removed as soon as the emergency ralllnir it into existence Is passed The argument can now proceed on when the emergency is to end The onnnsition can ij'D better cwn LI I Kassil ORDER a.