The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
The Raleigh
Side Show
By J. C. Baskerville
The Times News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

NALElGH, May ZI.-StaLe VI
ficials and state employees alike
are sitting on the uneasy seat in
the department that have APP
pointive heads. The manner IN
which Governor J. C. B. Ehring-
haus is taking his own time to
make and announce his new APP
pCintments has them all worrying
from top to bottom. The depart
ment and division heads are wor-
rying for fear they will not keep
their jobs, while many of the en-
ployes are worrying for fear they
will not keep their jobs if their
present bosses are not reappoint-
ed. The result is that many of
the offices are clouded with wor-
ny these days.
There is undoubtedly some
basis for this worrying on the
part of a good many employees,
especially in the department of
revenue, according to the reports
going the rounds here. For while
there is much to indicate that
Commissioner Of Revenue A. }.
Maxwell may be reappointed, it
is conceded in many quarters
that there is likely to be gen
eral shake-up in the revenue de-
partment and motor vehicle bu-
reau. There are a good many
who think Governor Ehringhaus
is convinced that there are to
many employees in this depart
ment, and others as well, who are
holding their jobs through out
side pub and political influence
rather than because Of their ca
liabilities and efficiency. Many
new faces are expected to be
seen in many of the offices in
this department after the gov
ernor does announce his appoint
ment.
Nothing very startling is ex-
pected to be revealed in the re-
port which Commissioners of
Banks Quincy. p. Hood is in
process of getting up showing
the cost of liquidating closed
banks, and especially showing the
fees paid to attorneys and &C
countants. But it is agreed here
that Commissioner Hood made a
tremendous political blunder when
he at first rather CURLY declined
to give this information to the
general assembly when it asked
for it. The general assembly felt
as if Hood had told it that it was
none of its business what the
fees being paid attorneys and
accountants amounted to and II
it had been told to go to hades.
As a result, the assembly then
enacted bill, instead of passing
a resolution, requiring the COM
missioner of banks to furnish the
information which it at first had
only politely asked in the form
Of q resolution. Incidentally,
Hood seems to have found the
money to do this work, although
his reason for not doing it before
was that there were no funds
available for it.
The decision to pass the bill to
require Commissioner Hood to
get up this information on the
cost Of bank liquidation was not
entirely spontaneous, however.
There is little doubt that it was
inspired by and received encour-
agement from certain element
within the ranks of both the law
yefs and the accountants over
the state. The fact that the
North Carolina Association of
Accountants volunteered to get
up the audit without charge
showed that there was some par
ticular interest in it from the
standpoint of the accountants.
The underlying facts in the case
are that the lawyers were peeved
because they believed that l. M.
Bailey of Raleigh, Kenneth Roy
all of Goldsboro, and Tom L..
Johnson of Asheville, were get
ting the cream of the banking
departments work and wanted to
know how much these three law
yers were being paid. The ac-
countants were sore because they
thought too much of the account
ing work was going to A. Lee
Rawlings and company with home
offices in Norfolk, Va.
Old timers here are still mar