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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-06-07
HI A P P -
 --B I R T H D A Y

The Empire ertends congratula- tionS and best l0isheS today, thei' birthday anniuerSary, to tue folloi0- ing:
 JUNE 2.
 Tom Hellan
 Helen Westall
 Robert Larsen
 Theo McKanna Alex Zibio George w. Hillman
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President Roosevelt never seems to thing Of treat ng Congress to a fish fry.-Chicago News
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Weather: Highest, 50; lowest, AZ cloudy.
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ATTENTION MASONS

There will be a Called Communi- cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 14T Monday evening at 7:30. Work ir the F. c. Degree. By order of the w. M.
 J. w. LEVERS, adv. Secretary
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Today's News Tooay-Empire.
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Charles A. Lindbergh has made four emergency parachute jumps.
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U. s. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Public Roads June 1 1897. Sealed bids will be received at
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Try The Empire classifieds for quicl, results.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-12-10

each year for % continuous years.
Not even with uninterrupted prosper
ity for whole generation could the
people and the business of the country
sustain the terrific burden necessary
to run the Government on this basis
and make this debt retirement. To do
so would require nearly a 3O-percent
increase in our 1888 annual tax col
lections, and remember that this year
our tax collections are estimated to
be the largest in our history and only
approached by one single year-in
1920 when war profits were subject
ed to high tax rates.
1 want to introduce to you the mys-
teries of the two budget systems. I
declare that our expenses are now be-
ing leveled off on the seven billion bias
is because of the gradual transfer of
emergency expenditures to the regular
Budget. In 1884 the Federal Govern
ment adopted the two-budget system;
one for emergency and the other for
regular expenses. We have two bud
gets, but we have only one Treas
ury. In 1884 the regular Budget
presented to the Congress by the Presi
dent was two billions seven hundred
millions. In 1888 the regular Budget
is five billions four hundred millions
AN increase of 100 per cent in A
years.
A reduction is shown in the state
ment of recovery and relief expendi-
lures because many of the items of
emergency expenditures have been
made permanent by transfer TO the
regular Budget. An example is the
appropriation for the C. c. c. camps,
which was first in the emergency bud
get and is now included in the reg
ular expenses. But there has been no
reduction in our total expenditures,
and, excluding the homecoming sol
diers' bonus, we will spend as much
or more in 1888 than we spent in 1887
or in any previous depression year.
At best it is most, difficult to COM
prehend the expenditure of billions,
but the confusion has been greatly
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-12-10
a reduction of the public debt.

In the Budget of 1888, two hundred
and thirty million of social-security
taxes is used for regular expenses.
The effect of this will be to reduce
the deficit by the use of tax, collect
ed and paid, for the specific purpose
of providing old-age security.
One may imagine the denunciation
corporation would receive from the
Government if it INDUCED in such
improper financing and used for cur
rent expenses an income dedicated to
a trust fund for the security of the
aged.
Nothing Congress has done has con-
tributed to extravaganza and done
more to destroy the Budget system
than the practice of making lump-sum
appropriations. About fifteen billions
of such appropriations has been made
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-12-10

=
millions. --.-->-..--------.-.-------.-
1888, five billions four hundred mil
lions.
To the regular expenses in 1888 of
five billions four hundred millions, if
we add expenditures for recovery and
relief, for public works, for the huge
slum-clearance program begun at the
last session, for additional T. v. AS
for the cost of the new farm program,
and other costly projects either al
ready recommended or under consider
ton, I am conservative in saying
that we have reached a seven-billion
annual expenditure fact, consider
able restraint must be exerted to hold
it to this huge figure.
Only major surgical operation to
reduce expenditures will enable us to
carry the burden Of sustaining this
annual cost and commence to retire
our emergency debt.
The difficulties of ascertaining the
true expenditures are made greater
by the policy of the Government In de-
Quoting from expenditures an excess
of loans collected over loans made. In
this manner the combined expend-
lures in 1897 were reduced in total
by two hundred and forty-three mil
lions. OF course, the excess collected
of capital loans should be applied to
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-12-10
it has spent in 1895, ,S6, and ,37
twenty-five billions against twenty
four billions.

it has spent in 1886, I'36, and ,37
twenty-five billions against twenty
four billions.
Now let us see what the tax burden
means in terms of each American
family. Let us bring to roost these
prolific tax chickens. In 1918 the pei
capita income was $3.50. In 1886 il
was $469-an increase of "a per cent
Total Government expenditures equal
ell $50 per capita in 1918 and $134
per capita in 1936--an increase of 347
percent. On a per-capita basis, Gov
eminent expenditures in 1913 repres-
ented per cent of the national in
come. In 1886 these expenditures
represented % per cent of the ma
tional income. Public debt equaled
$50 per capita in 1918 and $3.50 per
capita in 1886. Now about one-third
of every persons income would be re-
quired to meet Government expendi-
lures if we paid as we spend. These
figures, of course, refer to total Gov
eminent cost. Many of the States,
cities, and counties have yielded to the
contagion of extravaganza. The chill
dren of Uncle Sam have followed his
bad example. In 1886 the deficits of
all governments in America were sew
en- billions, nearly five billions of
which was created by the Federal
Government.
Should we not hearken even to the
new voices crying in the wilderness?
When we cite these terrifying figures
someone always crys, ''What-would
you deny relief to human suffering?"
No; we would not let anyone starve in
this country, but the disturbing thing
is that the increase in the regular ex-
penses of our Federal Government is
enormous in addition to the expendi-
lures for recovery and relief.
During the prosperous years of the
twenties our Government spent 3d.
O0O, 600, 900 each year and paid a bill
lion a year to retire the World War
debt.
To get the debt back to what it was
z years ago we must pay one billion
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-12-10

increased by this strange device for
keeping two budgets. When the adj
ministration announces a reduction in
spending for recovery and relief at
once we begin to feel better and to
think that finally we can look forward
to real reduction, but later we find
the regular Budget has been increased
and the total is as much or more.
We have juggled expenditures back
and forth from one budget to the 9TH
er, but the taxpayers pay the bill for
both budgets. The two-budget system
has merely aggravated the general
confusion.
1t is disturbing to see the astound-
ing and progressive increases in the
regular expenses after eliminating all
items in the emergency budget. The
following table of regular Budget ex-
penditures comes from official Gov
eminent auditors and does not include
recovery and relief expenditures:
Regular Expenditures
1884, two billions seven hundred
millions.
1896, three billions two hundred mil
lions.
1886, three billions three hundred
millions.
1887, four billions, four hundred
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-12-10

in the past years as compared to
one and one-half billion of lump-sum
appropriations in all the previous his
Continued on Page 20
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
THE WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY

20 Years Ago Today-Compilation of
figures showed the toll in the first
month of unrestricted submarine war
fare to be 1874 ships.
Before the end of the month, the
governments in London and Paris
had told general staffs of the armies
that effects of the U-boat campaign
were so serious that Germanys armies
must be crushed before summer And
now, at Calais, the general staffs were
could be struck.
1t was agreed that all forces on the
western front, British, French and
Belgian, be placed under unified COM
mand-of Nivelle, French Cine. The
arrangement violated a fundamental
military principle. A general of divi-
sion is not, while still in command of
his division, placed in command of an
army corps which includes other divi-
sions, for the simple reason that if
his attention is absorbed by the details
of one, he cannot give proper atten-
ton to the other. The right course
would have been to give Nivelle Su-
preme command on the western front
and to have appointed a new French
c.-in-c.
The results of this mistake were
soon apparent. On the last day of
the Calais conference, news arrived
that there were signs of a German
withdrawal in the valley of the Ancre.
Sometime before British intelligence
had detected, the British aviators had
confirmed, construction of a great
new system of enemy defensive works
covering Douai, Cambria and st.
quentin Git was to become known to
the allies as the Hindenburg line) and
this indicated Germans were prepar-
ing to retire. Obviously, this was the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
IT'S TRUE

Your conscience can give you lum-
bago! Or other ailments. Anxiety
has been determined to be as potent a
cause of illness as direct exposure to
microbes.
The World War was the first in his
tory in which disease did not kill
more soldiers than fighting.
In one year, measles killed 10000 out
of 100000 inhabitants of the Fiji Is
lands
You've heard of coal referred to as
black diamonds. But there actually
are black diamonds. They aren't de-
sired as jewelry, SO they're employed
industrially in cutting.
And you've heard so-called Society
referred to as the 400" But there
are $4,000 names in the Social Regist-
er.
Whatever the explanation, the
near-sighted student seems to succeed
better in university than the student
with so-called normal vision" This
is from Ruth E. Boynton, reporting
tests on 1000 students in University
of Minnesota.
Henry Adams was considered the
most brilliant of the Adamses-the No.
l aristocratic family of America. But
he firmly believed that a portrait in
his home had long conversations with
hinA
CHARLES E. Richmond, Butler, Pa,
repukes the writer for saying Britains
foreign policy for centuries has been
one for all and all for Britain" Can
Mr.. Richmond site single important
instance of british ctotoorof+ 1o,,;.
oeen actuated by any other policy?
Can he point to one example of Bri-
tain having taken the lead in, or even
sincerely cooperated in, any such
ldeallstic or unselfish enterprise as
the Washington arms limitation con-
ference?
Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcomed
by Clark Kinnaird.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
SANITATION IN COLORED
SECTION
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
AS a colored citizen, I wish to ex-
press the sentiment of my people re-
garding the sewage disposal, rubbish
disposal and streets of the West-End
section, namely, Pettigrew, Ransom,
Orange, Spring and Horner Streets.
This section has no sewage disposal
system, thus exposing the inhabitants
to unhealthy surroundings. The land
space is limited; we have people llv-
ing too close together, too close to
unsanitary outdoor toilets. Sometimes
these toilets have to be cleaned out,
then the neighbors are forced to go
inside, close the doors and windows
and breathe the nausiating odor
There is no wonder that drastic
widespreading disease does not break
out and endanger the health of not
only the people of this locality but
also all of the people of our town.
Any germ may be scattered by an I'M
sanitary sewage disposal system. Sure
ly town has not made much prog
ress when it fails to give the use of
sewage disposal to it's colored citizens,
who also pay tax for some well being.
We, the citizens of this section, can
not very well observe the orders of
the health department under section
three (3) which appeared in the Dis
patch few days ago. We need the
cooperation of the city rubbish dis
posal. Tin cans, old pans bottles and
jars that make nice breeding places
for the mosquito are left unnoticed
0y the trash collectors, if they pass at
all, not even mentioning the numer-
Gus garbage containers filled with pa
per and rags left to blow across the
streets and into yards making this
section all the more undesirable. The
trash collectors should visit a crowd
ed section at least once a week, but
have known months to pass. Looks
as though we are forgotten, doesn't it?
In rainy weather, like we have had
all this winter, the trash trucks do
well to work the principal streets of
the town because the streets of this
section are extremely muddy and rug
geo. There are places that the road
machine will not go over The color
ed graded school is located in this sec
ton thereby forcing all of the little
colored citizens, to be, to walk down
a muddy narrow street to gain little
knowledge, the foundation. These are
growing citizens of tomorrow. What
will they think? Will they migrate
to other places looking for better sur
roundings? Are these disagreeable sit
uatlons fair to the locality, fair to the
tax payer and last but not least, fair
to the little citizen that is to be?
A CITIZEN.
Henderson, Feb. Is, 19...
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
NOTICE OF SALE OF NOTES
$22, 100000
CITY OF HENDERSON, NORTH
CAROLINA


Sealed Lids for above notes will be
received until II a. M, March 9th,
1887, by the Local Government Com
mission of North Carolina, at it's Of
flee in Raleigh, for the above notes,
dated March 1, 1887 and in the de-
nominations and maturing as follows:
100000 June 10, 1897, $5OOO.0O June 10,
1887, $500O00 June 10, 1897 $4,000. 90
July 10, 1887 and 100000 July 10, 1887,
without option of prior payment.
There will be no auction. The notes
will be awarded at the lowest interest
rate not exceeding percent for
which a bid of par and accrued in
teresi is made. Principal and interest
payable at place Of purchasers choice.
Interest payable at maturity. Bidders
must present with their bids a GER
tilted check upon an incorporated
bank or trust company, payable I'M
conditionally to the order of the State
Treasurer for $4,000. The right TO re-
Ject all bids is reserved.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
COMMISSION,
By: w. e. Easterling, Secretary.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
NOTICE OF RESALE OF REAL
ESTATE FOR DIVISION.

Under and by virtue of All order of
the Superior Court of Vance County,
made in the case of Marena Townes
Johnson and husband against Hunter
Townes; Willie TONNES, Matte
TONNES, Christine Townes, Marjorie
TONNES, and Mechanics g. Farmers
Bank of Durham, Guardian. we will
resell, by public auction, to the
highest bidder, for cash, at the court
house door in Henderson, Vance
County, N. c., on the 10th of March,
1887, at IL o'clock, noon, the following
described real estate:
LOT NUMBER ONE.
Begin at a stake, corner of Cleve-
land ST. and Palmer St., run thence
along Cleveland st. S S degrees 45' w
80 TT. to stake, Jesse Williams cor
ner, thence S 86 1-2 E $50 #. to stake
N degrees AS E IS fit. to Palmer ST
thence along Palmer ST., N IS 1-2 w
$50 it. to beginning, same being lot
No. 80 CT Written property, and con-
veyed to Melissa TONNES by deed of
record in book 43 at page 1856, Vance
County Bidding begins at $761.25.
This is sale of land under court or
der, and deposit of 10 percent of
amount of bid is required hy success
tul bidder before bid can be reported.
This 23rd. of February, 1887.
A. w. GHOI.SON, JR..
T. S. KITTRELL,
Commissioners.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02

ton by counties. There are many in
dications that their proposed often
sive is born of desperation. Two years
ago they opposed any election by any
unit-county or State. In this assem-
bly, they battled vigorously for State
wide vote, violently assailing any
county-by-cou balloting.
Now they believe that by plunging
headlong into a campaign to vote GER
tain strategic counties dry under the
county option law they can keep a
large portion of the State under pro-
hibition for at least three years.
Gale K Burgess, generalissimo of
the United Dry Forces, has disclaimed
any plan by the central prohibition
unit to "precipitate" elections under
the new law, but he declared that if
local dry forces in any county call for
an election and ge, it they will "have
the complete and sympathetic support
of the United Drys"
"The drys didn't pass this LIQUOR
bill, and. I know nothing of any plan
; to call for immediate election" he
said Monday
When it was suggested that it
might be good strategy to seek cleo
tons while the drys are still stirred
up" he said:
Yes, and they are going to stay
stirred up"
MIR. Burgess, reliable reports have
1t, has compiled an honor oll" of
| those legislators who voted for a
Statewide referendum and he is hav-
ing the list read at all gatherings of
drys, the same reports add.
In calling for immediate votes. the
| drys are using a strategy which may
prove highly successful in many in
! stances, observers believe. There are
many who feel that the local move
ments for elections at once are spon-
sored by the central dry headquart-
ers, despite Mr.. Burgess disclaimer
of knowledge.
Those who think this strategy good
point out that the drys are right now
at fever heat of indignation at their
defeat in their efforts to secure a.
Statewide referendum. They doubt
that Mr.. Burgess would ever again
De able to 'stir them up" as thew
are now stirred up" no matter how
much effort he exerted. These OBJ
servers believe more dry votes could
be brought out now than at anv FIJI
turc date
Over in Guilford, according t, news
paper reports, the drys feel, too, that
liquor vote at present would result
In dry victory, but fear is ex ress
ed about the result should the com
ties surrounding Guilford vote wet
before an electiO is held there
1t has been noticeable fact that
advocates of county stores have been
proceeding very cautiously in the
matter of calling for elections. This
IS believed good strategy, because it
Is felt by many observers that pass
age of the State social security law is
gong to make number of dry"
FARMERS quite moist when they con-
slder the fact that liquor receipts
would go a long way toward meeting
the county tax levy which will be
mace necessary to carry out the Sc
curity program.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
II ODAY -
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

1737-(20O years ago. William Heath
Boston soldier, only general officer at
Lexington and Concord in April 1775,
major-general in the Revolution, born
in Boston. Died there, Jan. "a, 1914.
1779NJoel r. Poinsett, American en-
voy to South America, congressman,
secretary of war, South Carolina
statesman, born at Charleston. Died
Dec. II, 1851.
1793-Samuel Souston, Tennessee
lawyer, soldier and congressman, Tex,
soldier-leader and first President of
the Republic Of Texas, governor and
senator after annexation, born near
Lexington, Va. Died July 26, 1868.
1829-Carl Schurz, German revolu-
tionary liberal, Wisconsin lawyer,
Union general, st. Louis newspaper
editor, senator, secretary of the in
terror, born in Germany. Died May
II, 1906.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
TO-DAY IN HISTORY

1S67-The Office of Education Gre
ated by Act of Congress as Depart
ment-ceased to exist as such the
next year when made a Bureau of the
Dept. of the Interior.
1882-Great floods along the Mis-
sissippi River.
1919-Congress passed $7,OO0,O00,OO0
Victory Loan bond bill.
1927-United States House of Rep
resentatives refused to reapportion
its membership in accordance with
census returns.
CONGRATULATIONS of the Kellogg
anti-war treaty renouhcing war, de-
posted by II nations in Washington.
1935-King of Siam resigns his
throne.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
ANSWERS To
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page

The House of Representatives.
2. James Monroe.
8. 1t is prohibited by law in every
state and territory.
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
5 Humboldt.
b. Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Society of Friends (Quakers).
8. Welterweight and Middleweight.
9. Wild rose.
10. The science of drugless healing, in
contradistinction to the treatment
OF disease by surgery or medicine
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Alice Footc MacDougall of New
York, business executive, born 70
years ago.
John Hamilton chairman of the
Republican National Committee, born
at Fort Madison, Iowa, As years ago.
Prof. Thomas P. Cooper, dean of
the University of Kentuckys' Col
lege of Agriculture, born at Pekin
ILL.,, Sc years ago
Inez Haynes Irwin of New York,
author, born in Brazil, "a years ago.
Samuel Yellin of Philadelphia, not
ed metal craftsman, born in Poland,
81 years ago.
DR.. Alfred H. Upham, president of
Miami University, Ohio, born at Eaton
o., 60 years ago.
Ethel Bolton of Shirley Mass, anti
Quarlan, born in Boston, "a years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02

counties to take care of most of their
relief cases at very small cost,
since large number of the relief,
cases will come under the pensions
plan. In fact, one of the main reas-
ons the Federal government is plan
ming to stop relief is because by that
time the states are expected to have
their social security programs set up
to supercede relief
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-02
ANSWERS

l. The prohibition amendment of
1881, which was defeated 166,325 to
4S.37O; the Watts local option bill
which was adopted i:y the legislature
in 1903; and the prohibition amend
ment adopted in 1908 by vote of 49,
612 to 69,416.
2. On May 10, 1851 Governor John
w. Ellis was authorized and empow-
cred to establish and build such tele-
graph lines in the State as in his judg-
ment were necessary for the safety
and defense of the State. He was au-
thorized to take possession of any ex-
listing line or lines he found were
needed
8. Upon records Secretary of War
Stanton found in Vance's letter books
which had been seized by Union au-
thorities, showing his ms stance for
kind treatment of Federal prisoners
of war.
4. In 1864 an offer was made to
every subscriber to the expedition
fund who had paid, or who should
pay within two months after date. 80.
five hundred acres of land for every
thousand pounds of sugar subscribed.
% AHS aus " Aiio IcquIIcu RUdh-
ers, Dunkers, Moravians and Neon
lists" to furnish men to serve in their
steads. In even of their failure to do
this the commanding officer of the
district was empowered to hire sub
stitutes for DIRECTORS who failed to
report, and then levy through the
sheriff on any property the objector
might have for funds to pay the
wages of the substitutes hired.
.. The last time President Jeffer-
son Davis, of the Confederate States
of America, met with his cabinet was
on the morning of April 20, 1865, at
the home of William Phifer in Char
lotte. Immediately after this meeting
PRESIDENT Davis and his party with a
cavalry escort left for the South and
separated.