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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-03

There is d Freat ae
sense in the talk .tae sH
that the genera sales taz IS 4n-
fair To the poor man Of arse
il is a burden Auy tax But
il is not an unfair burden
Taxation based upon The aal-
Ity to pay is an IDEA plan The
income tax -ccords with that
plan. and 1t is the fairest Of all
levies. But il is impossible for
he state to raise all the revenue
il needs by income and franchise
and privilege taxes All citi-
zens haye got to contribute to
the expense # government al
such time as TINS. Of course
the citizens who are weIl-to-do
should contribute more liberal
ly. az they do, but those who are
not well-to-do cannot escape en-
tirely.
From the wailing Of the op-
ponents Of the sales tax if might
he supposed that poor people
were in danger Of being cruelty
oppressed Such is not the case
With foodstuffs exempted, the
tax would not be d great hard
ship upon anybody If North
Carolina raised S10,000,000 a
year from a general sales tax,
that would be less than So per
capita. And the greater part Of
the $4,000, 900 would be paid by
the larger purchasers; that is,
by the people who have money
to spend.
Consider, for example, a farm
er with a wife and four children.
He produces a good deal of the
food consumed by the family
chickens, eggs, butter, milk,
vegetables, and pork, If food
stuffs are exempted, he will pay
no tax upon the coffee and fruits
and canned goods he buys from
the grocer Assume that he
spends during the year, for other
things than food, $3.50. Then
the tax that he paid upon his
purchases, at the 2 per cent
rate, would be SIS a year. This
is not an excessive burden upon
even poor man, in view of the
schooling and other services that
his family receives from govern
ment.
The most valid objection to the
sales tax is the one urged by the
merchants; namely, that they
will have to absorb" the tax
into their expenses. They are
right when they say that they
cannot afford to absorb it. Mer-
chants are finding it terribly
hard to keep going at all these
days. Many of them have fail
ed, and many others are on the
edge of bankruptcy. They should
not have to bear any more tax
es. The sales tax should be
passed on to the ultimate pur-
chaser --it should be a consum-
er's tax. It's merit lies in its
spread" over the entire popula-
ton. When a merchant sells
silk stockings, or candy, or a
suit of clothes, or a hat, or books,
or an umbrella, or table, or a
lawn-mower, or anything else,
he should simply add on the tax
at the 2 per cent rate or what
ever the statutory rate is.
Will anybody have just COM
plant if he is asked to pass
across the counter an extra two |
cents on a suit of underclothes,
an extra 10 cents on a SIS |
pair of shoes, an extra 6 cents |
on a SO book, an extra 20 cents |
on a $40 chair? The answer is |
no. There will be some COM
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-03-03
"DictatOrial Powers

Senator William Z. Borah and
Walter lnpman and, as might
ra n confidently predicted
elllQent citizen famil-
etA the past utterances Of
taa men Mr. Llppmann's
mnt vas by far the more
b.e
NJ .Mgal a New England
-as manufacturer wrote to Bo-
rah s4gge ing that he arise in
the Senate and propose to
gite our incoming President
ilc-l.ora' powers within the
Con tituti0u - for certain
period " The use Of the word
dictatorial gave Borah the OPP
port0nity, which he eagerly
seized. for q 5omJastic denuncia-
tion Of the rr0p0eal that Con
gross abd.cate its functions
Which is . uraro.al fhat nobody
had rnade .You speak of die
tatorja] powers within the Con
stjtntion wrote the Senator.
There is no SUCH thing In this
he is correct Of course the prop
or word for Nigel 10 have used
was "extraordinary,' and the
Constitution gives Congress am
pie authority TO confer extra
ordinary powers upon the exec
utive IN d time Of crisis.
WHAT Borah dld was TO set up
a straw man and then proceed to
demolish 1t with hIgh-soundlng
phrases, such as j nose VINO
framed the Constitution dId not
contemplate that there would
ever come time when the
American people would brook the
presence Of a dictator or connlVe
at the bestoWal upon any one OF
dlctatOrlal powers.
With his customary clarity,
Lippman, in his article entitled
Democracy and Dictatorship"
made clear the meaning Of the
word dictator.
"The basic fact Of a dictator
shin is that the regime holds it's
power not by the votes Of the
neople but by the force Of a BODY
Of armed men A democracy
which freely grants extraordi-
nary powers to the executive,
but retains the power to recall
them at will, is still in every
sense of the word a democracy:
Under dictatorship the extra
ordinary powers cannot be recall
ed by vote of the people or their
genuine representatives. For
these powers rest not upon
votes, but upon bayonets. I'm
der dictatorship civil liberties
are either SUSPENDED or granted
at the pleasure of the dictator.
There is thus no analogy
whatever between a dictatorship
and these American proposals
for a concentration of authority
during the emergency.
"Tbe nronosals for concen-
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Evening star., 1933-12-25
M0TOR|ST IS HELD
+. IN BR0D|X KILLING
Arrest Made Soon After Van-
derbiIt's Companion Is
Killed by Car.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PETERSBURG, w. Va, December
25.-Less than "a hours after an auto
mobile struck and killed John w. Bro
dix, So brother-in-law of the national
milk administrator. while he was talk
ing with Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., police
made an aI'o~t last night
Fritz Ant ~as taken into Gus
tody at his home In Bayard, w. Va,
and Prosecuting Attorney B. F. Mitchell
served warrant on him charging
murder. He was lodged in jail
Brodix' body was dragged 200 feet
Saturday night on a lonely mountain
road one-half mile from the Maryland
State line. A coroner's jury found he
met death at the hands of an unidenti-
fed driver who fed.
Fender Of Car Dented.
Mitchell asserted the left fender of
Anthony's car was badly dented and
apparently blood-stained, and that the
glass in the left door was broken, as if
it had struck some heavy object.
The prosecutor said Anthony denied
he had hit anyone. but did not deny
he had been driving on the road about
the time Brodix was killed.
The prisoner will be given a hearing
wednesday.
Vanderbilt Describes Crash.
Driving separate cars, Vanderbilt and
Brodix were nearing the end of a 12,-
O00-mile automobile tour. The writer
was scheduled to be a guest last night
at the White House and Brodix planned
to visit a cousin in Sparks, Md.
Vanderbilt said he had gotten about
half a mile ahead of his companion
, and halted on the desolate Backbone
Mountain. Brodix drove up behind
and shouted:
Lee, I want to tell you something. "
Brodix had just reached the side Of
his machine when speeding car struck
him, carrying the body 200 feet, Van
derbilt said.
Grief-stricken, the writer went to
Oakland, Md, then returned for the
inquest ana spent the night in Cor
mania.
Brodix was brother-in-law of Louis
Merryman, the national milk admins
traitor. He lived in Georgetown, N. j.
Evening star., 1933-12-25

Of the people of Georgia to the institu-
ton.
The program got under way Friday
In the dining room at Georgia Hall,
when the Columbus Dramatic Club pre-
sented play for the patients.
Yesterday afternoon the children Of
the foundation enacted the story of the
nativity in pantomime and song in the
music room of the hall.
Last night a long row of Christmas
stockings hung from the great mantel-
piece and this morning the little, pa
tients gathered there to receive their
gifts of fruit and candy and nuts.
The foundation mail man. dressed as
Santa Claus, distributed gifts today
from friends and relatives of the pa
tients and from persons interested in
the foundation.
DR.. Louise D. Newton Of Atlanta was
to conduct Christmas morning services
Evening star., 1933-12-25
HAZEN STUDIES PLAN
OF SUBSISTENCE SCHOOL
Prince william County Official
Told to Go Back and Return
With Concrete Project.

Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen, ma
tive and part-time resident of Prince
William County, Va, sat in at a con-
ference Saturday with a group of peo-
pie interested in starting subsistence
school for that section. The group elected
Thomas H. Lion, the county's common
wealth attorney. as chairman, and H.
K. Bush-Brown, nationally known
artist, secretary.
After long discussion of the needs for
educational facilities for those over 16
years of age in that section, it was
decided that Mr.. Lion should return
to the county and come forward with
a concrete project, backed up by local
sentiment, which would be put before
the Civil Works Administration or other
appropriate Federal agency.
Those present at the conference.
held in Mr. Hazen's Office, included
Lewis r. Alderman of the Office OF
education, major and superintendent
of police; George S. Wilson, director Of
public welfare, and Herman E. Gasch.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
LOGAN SCHOOL BUILDING
WILL Be ORDERED SOON
Construction to Follow Approval
Of Commissioners OF Decision
of Condemnation Jury.

Construction of the Logan School will
be ordered at once when the Commits
sioners have given their expected ap-
proval to the decision Of a condemna-
ton jury in District Supreme Court
Thursday awarding to owners Of par
GELS in the site sum of 57,375, Engi-
neer Commissioner John G. Gotwals
said Saturday.
Walter L. Fowler, assistant corpora
ton counsel. has accepted the verdict
on tract bounded G, Second and
Third street northeast
The Logan Building is to be used as
an elementary school for colored chill
dren.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
DOGS STEAL YULE FEAST
Kill Turkeys Raised for Aims
House Charges.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. j.,
December 25 (F).-The Christmas turkey
dinner that IS residents Of the Cape
May County Aims House have been
looking forward to will not be served
today.
Mrs. Sallie Douglass, superintendent,
reported to police yesterday that two
dogs killed the II turkeys that had been
raised on the property for the holiday
meal. Chicken pot pie will now be the
main course.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
POPE SAYS MASSES
|NPR|VATE CHAPEL
Pontiff Will Rest and Grant
No Audiences on Christ
mas Day.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, December 25.-
Three masses, recited in the intimacy
marked the climax Of Pope Plus Christ
mas eve celebration. The intimacy and
quiet of his devotions followed a custom
of nearly quarter Of century.
The 76-year-o;d pontiff availed him.
self of the privilege accorded only on
Christmas to every parish priest in thus
saying three masses in honor of the
birth of the Christ child.
Christmas will be one of the few days
of the current year set aside by the
Pope for a day of rest. He will grant
no audiences. The remainder of the
holiday period will find him at his
busiest. his calendar filled with special
visits from prelates. the governor of the
Vatican City, commanders of the Papal
Armed Corps, the Order of Malta and
Ambassadors and Ministers of the Holy
See.
Thousands Crowd Basilica.
This period Of special visits lasts until
Epiphany, January 6.
Outside the Vatican, in the city of
Rome. thousands Of persons crowded
into the baslica Of st. Mary Major at
midnight to say Christmas prayers be-
fore the five pieces of wood. venerated
relics of the original crib in which the
infant Jesus lay.
Other tens of thousands celebrated
their midnight devotions in Rome's
other 400 churches, while throngs milled
about the famour fair in the Piazza
Navona, blowing horns and otherwise
indulging> in the seasons good cheer
until the early morning hours.
In st. Mary's major mass was re-
cited at midnight under ceiling en-
riched with the first gold brought from
the New World to Europe. In the old
Church of Ara Coeli worshippers
gathered around a crib in which lay
the many centuries-old wooden figure
Of the Infant Jesus. The statuette
crown worth an inestimable fortune
adorned Its brow.
Children Hang Up Stockings.
Colorful traditions and many fetch
ing local peculiarities marked celebra-
tions in other Italian cities. In Florence
children hung up their stockings for
"Ceppo," diminutive hunchback
whose beard reaches to his feet. De-
spite his size and abnormality Ceppo
circled the city with huge sack Of
toys for the good children.
Shepherds IN sheepskins and high
boots poured into the town OF Alassio,
near Genoa, carrying the eve lambs
Of their flocks under their cloaks.
These were laid on the altar of the
town church for the priests blessing,
while the tall shepherds knelt reverent-
" and crooned in wailing minor keys to
quiet the lambs.
Three gift days coming in rapid
order are the rewards Of Italian chill
dren during the Christmas season.
They receive presents on New Year as
well Christmas, and may look for
ward to another batch OF gifts on
Epiphany, January 6.
Evening star., 1933-12-25

tients, staff and guests will assemble
for the traditional Christmas dinner.
at pm. today to distribute the hun
dreds Of gifts from the great Christmas
tree in the lobby of Georgia Hall. Later
there will be buffet supper.
Staff and patients were waiting for
the customary personal Christmas mes
sage from President Franklin D. Roose-
welt. founder of the institution. Each
year the Presidents message Is posted
prominently at the foundation, SO that
all may read and learn of his personal
interest in them and the work.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
PLAY AT 0BERAMMERGAU
SCORED BY RABBI WISE
Terms It Spectacle of Excitement
to Hatred and Exploitation
of Calvary
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 25-Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise yesterday described
the Passion Play at Oberammergau as
"a spectacle Of excitement TO hatred
and the exploitation of Calvary
He devoted most of his sermon at
Carnegie Hall to "the Christian-Jew-
ish tragedy" and said the Passion Play
is "a Christless performance by those
who do not know what Christianity
is and on whose lips the name Of Jesus
should not be permitted, whose very
mention of His name is a blasphemy" :"
The tragedy, he said, can be ended
only by Christians, who misunderstood,
and not by the Jews, who are mis-
understood"
Evening star., 1933-12-25
Silver Dollar Gains
In Popularity With
Yule Money Civers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Silver dollars have gained a
new popularity this holiday sea-
son which Is not due entirely to
President Roosevelt's coinage
proclamation.
A great many of the shiny
discs are replacing the gold pieces
used SO widely in the past for
Christmas presents.
The Treasury has no exact
figures on the Christmas demand
for silver dollars, but 1t was re-
ported to be heavy. Officials at
tribute it to the prohibition
against gold money circulation.
Evening star., 1933-12-25
WARM SPRINGS PLANS
ELABORATE SERVICES
Patients at Foundation Await
Christmas Message From
President.

BY the Associated Press.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga, December 25.
-Infantile paralysis sufferers at the
Warm Springs Foundation are celebrat-
ing Christmas in elaborate ceremonies
centering around Georgia Hall, the gift
Evening star., 1933-12-25

Japan Regains Trade. .
Slackening Of the anti-Japanese boy.
colt in China has caused an increase OF
from Japan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22

? welfare agency had refused them.
One said. Il ain willing to go down
there with 'niggcr5' if we can get
them to go with us. because they will
pay more attention to our demands
then" Sir months ago this young
woman would have been very angry
if anyone had suggested such thing
to her. She has not learned yet to
say Negro"
Another instance: At an A. r. of
L. meeting Saturday night, white
worker refused to join unless the
Negro workers joined also. The or
ganizer was forced to call vote on
it, and nearly every man voted for
the Negroes to join. The organizer
said they could have separate union
and meet some place else-but the
white worker said, "If we can work
side by side, we can meet side by
side" SO they are to meet in the same
hall with Negro workers Sitting on
one side and white on the other. for
there is strongly enforced Jim Grow
law against sitting together. This, too,
must be overcome, for in, every strug-
gle the workers must stand together
or the battle is lost befc-e it begins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
How A. T. of |.
Gives Rewards to
Negro Organizers
By a Negro Carpenter

NEW YORK-A carpenters strike
developed in New York City around
November, 1918, which affected the
entire city A few large jobs con-
tinued to work. One of these was
the Pennsylvania Hotel and couple
of buildings around Grand Central.
Many Negro carpenters working at
the Pennsylvania Hotel were not
members of the A. F. of L. A few
had belonged to the old chaulkers
union down on Duane st. They had
good protection on the jobs
The officials of the A. F. of L.
could not get them out mostly be-
cause they were hard to reach. Final
~ it was decided that they would
try to reach them through a Negro
carpenter, Red Eversley, to whom
they made certain promises.
The work Eversley did called for
pluck, nerve and endangering his life.
But the A. F. of L. officials did not
keep their promise to him Where
upon, instead of holding these Of
ficials to their promises, Eversley at
tackled and criticized the Negro car
penters for not standing by him.
But these carpenters had not
promised Eversley anything. It was
Charley Judge, Hutcheson and the
boss class Of the A. F. of L. who
broke their promise.
This strike lasted IL weeks. My as
sessment was $22 A friend had to
pay his assessment Of S24 twice be-
cause of living in Philadelphia. The
money was sent through the United
States post office, and Ted Young,
of old 500, was supposed to run away
with some money and the local
claimed it had not received the
money, despite the U. S. post office
stub. This friend, though a good car
penter, is for the past six years
working as porter FOR the BM.T.
subway Such is the deal given Negro
mechanics in the A. F. of L.
NJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Facts About the
StretCh-0ut in
Marion Mills
BY = Textile Worker Correspondent

BY Textile Worker Correspondent
MARION, N. c., Sept 2l.--Accord-
ing to the stretch-out system at our
mill the mitters are supposed to turn
out from IA to Is dozens in eight
hours at three machines; hands run
ming we are supposed to get from 10
to 20 dozens cotton stockings. and
you can't get them. The loopers are
supposed to loop over 40 dozens in
eight hours or they don't have a lob !:
they were only supposed to get As
dozens in / hours.
Knitting room inspectors have to
inspect, tie up the work and carry
it out; before the eight-hour law
came in they had hand for each.
Finishing room inspectors C"final")
have to inspect 100 dozens in eight
hours, and before the eight-hour law
they were only supposed to inspect
1875 dozen.
At the Marion Manufacturing Co.
his is what I found:
First floor and basement: Weavers
before the eight-hcurs, ran "a looms,
and now they run 80 and 36 looms
Card room, second floor Carders
before the eight-hour law came in
ran 20 cards and now they run %
cards. Speeders used to run six
and now eight to a person.
Spinning room: Before they ran
six sides and now they run 10; all
that couldn't run 10 sides we're dis
charged-and now, believe me, they
work. Not only work, but run most
Of the time.
Wrappers IN the spinning room ran
80 to "a ends, and they are stretched
out to so ends each now; let me tell
you they have to work like fighting
fire.
At the Marion Knitting Mill. ]
was told, the night boss discharged
eight kni5ters last night (September
I'D and four yesterday-and is hir-
ing new hands in their place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22

establishing functioning unit Bu-
reaus-who are politically and or
ganizationally responsible for the
functioning of the Units. We have
not sufficiently developed struggles in
the neighborhoods. We have not &C
TWEED our fractions in the mass or
CARNATIONS to carry on an organized
recruiting campaign. Also the cues
ton Of quality and quantity has been
misunderstood and in"tead of i'm
proving the quality by recruiting
workers from the basic shops, there
was no recruiting done at all as a
means of stopping fuctuation.
The failure to carry out our Plan
of work can be put in the words of
the Open Letter-when it says that
There is deep going lack of political
understanding of the necessity for
Strengthening our base among the de-
cisive section of the American work
ers." Also as the Open Letter cor
rectly states-inSuficien check-up of
our resolutions and Plans of work
This is true of our Section Committee
as we'll as our Unit Bureaus.
The same negligible results can be
registered in our Negro work, AT7L,
Anti-Fascist work etc. We must be
deeply aroused by the results Of activ-
ity in the past two months and we
must make complete turn about to
improve our work and draw in every
member of the Party into some form
of activity.
Section Committee-Section No. 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22

Party, and believed it was his duty
/ as good Party member, to get NOR
m m b ers into the Party frol
amongst the strikers by personal con
tact. He had read the Open Letter
and was carrying it out in practice.
He approached Harry and said:
Harry, you're a helluva good fighter.
You did damn good work organizing
in the plant for the N.T.WU. and
in the strike. Let's become real
brothers"
What the he'll do you mean?"
claimed Harry, a"aren't we in the
union now?" ea-
But that's not enough" John re-
piled. I'VE are fighting only the dye
house bosses What about all the rest
of the bosses, and the whole working
class struggled We've got to fight
against the NFSA, and some day win
a victory against all the bosses and
the whole system. You've heard
about these Communists? They are
good fighters and they are with us
in the strike"
"Stop!" Harry said. He thought
John was putting fast one over
for the boss. This union has Moth
ing to do with Communists. We are
fighting for our immediate demands"
John persisted in trying to win
over this fellow worker, when sud-
denly Harry asked John, "Are you a
Communist" ..4e
John readily admitted that he was.
But the Communists are organ
ized," John explained. 'They have a
Party and you should join that
Party
Are you a member of the Party
then Harry asked. -.
John readily admitted that he was.
They embraced, Harry saying II am
your real brother joined the Party
two weeks ago!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-22
Needle Workers [ etters
Forced to Pay ACW
SIS for Job Paying
50 to $40 a Week

BY Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-When I rejoined the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America on Sept. after having left
in 1925, had to pay $45 back dues,
plus $40 initiation fee. The salary
] make now averages SO to $40 a
week, in coat shop. We work piece
work. Even though it is a union shop,
conditions are not union.
The boss is in with the union, and
whatever he says goes. joined the
union because otherwise the boss
would have fired me. My dues are
deducted directly from my. wages.
Many workers don't like this, but
they are afraid to object.
1t would be very easy for the work
ers to organize for better conditions
in this shop as there is a great de-
mand for that kind Of labor.