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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
NO EXTRA HELP ON
INCOME TAX RUSH
Revenue Department Being
Commended For Its Eff
ficiency Squirt
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
TX e IRA & n n: ~ MIL

Raleigh, April 16.-For the first
time in the history of the Department
of Revenue, the income tax rush in
March was handled without the addi-
ton of any extra help and with no
delay, while the sales tax and other
tax collections were handled by the
same force at the same time, it was
revealed here today by Robert Ward,
chief of the accounting division of the
department. Nor was it necessary for
any of the accounting office force to
work any at night during the income
tax rush, although in the past the
employees in this and the other di-
visions usually had to work every
night until midnight in order to clear
the work.
Il talked the situation over with
the employees in the accounting di-
vision, and we agreed that we could
handle the work better with the orr
ginal force than if we tried to bring
in a number of new employees who
were not familiar with the work.
Ward said. 1.-THE result was that we
were able to check and post all OF
the collections every day and strike
OuI UdIdI1C0 WITHOUT having TO WORK
overtime and without any additional
help-and we are quite proud of this
record"
During the month of March, the
accounting division handled $685.
ITO in general fund tax collections
and $1,856,516 in highway fund col
lections. More than $4,000 income tax
checks were received, checked, re-
corded. posted and deposited, while
some $1,000 sales tax checks were al
so received and posted within this
same period, also at least 10000 other
checks in payment of other taxes.
A detailed record of every trans
action in the department is kept by
the accounting division, including
both cash and checks, Ward said Not
only is the number of every check,
the amount and the purposes for
which it is issued recorded, but the
date and the name of the person is
suing the check is also recorded All
collections and checks are also record
ed by towns and counties.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
SANDH|LL NURSERY
GROWS SEEDLINGS
Nearly 100000 Cuttings
from Resettlement Pro-
ject at Hoffman

Hoffman April 49, The 126-acre
nursery on the Sandhills land project
of the Resettlement Administration,
U. S. Department of Agriculture, pro-
duced 100000 seedlings and root cut
tings for planting on the project and
in addition shipped approximately =
100000 seedlings and root cuttings to
all parts of the United States during
the 1936-37 season. Total production
for the year was over 100000 seed
lings and cuttings.
A report compiled by Frank w. Eat
man, project manager, indicates that
stock grown in the Hoffman nursery
was planted on the 60,O00-acre Sand
hills project as follows:
Longleaf pine, 1,165,000; lohlolly
pine, 1850; shipmmast locust one-year
root cuttings, $4,000; dogwood, s.
900; mimosa, 5000.
In addition to the above, about 1 :
100000 three-inch shipmast locust root
cuttings will be planted in the nursery
during the coming sason. The total
production of the nursery is expect
ed to reach 25,OOOOOO seedlings and
cuttings for the year 1898. The nur-
sery is gro|ing $4,000 ornamental
shrubs of fifty varieties for the beau
tification of Resettlement projects in
various parts of the country. These
will be distributed during the next
planting season.
During the past few months the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
BULLDOGS TACKLE
EPSON HERE TODAY
Bv SEYMOUR DWORSKY

Today the Bulldogs were to play
EPSON at League Park at o'clock.
Coach Miller has been training the
boys this week on hitting and sliding
and there seems to be some good pro-
spects for this season, but on Thurs
day the pitter patter of the rain drops
put a stop to their final practice but
never the less the boys seemed to be
in fairly decent condition on Wednes-
day.
The Bulldogs have only played two
games this year winning one and los
ing the other in an incredible manner.
But they have a number of games
left to play and we hope they will
make up for Tuesdays game.
Epson has played more teams this
year and have been out on the dia-
mond for much longer than the local
high school. However both teams
seemed to be in a good condition for
q pugnacious fight today. 1t was
doubtful until the clock struck four
which pitcher Bing Miller would use,
since all of them have been hurting
them across during what little prac-
tice they have had.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

sentative in some instances than
charge accounts which are habitually
"slow." So long as our national income
is swelling, the volume of installment
to total sales can rise along with it.
However, if these sales continue to
expand as rapidly as they have in the
past year, installment credit may be
one of the banes of our next boom.
The broadening both of volume and
type of time sales is just another
mile-post on the highway to initiation.
Our Federal budget is making little
progress toward balancing. Bank Gre
dit expansion is now under way; COM
mercial loans are more than one bill
lion dollars above a year ago. F1nanc-
ing for new capital last month was
$1O0O0O,O00 above March of last year.
Commodity prices have leaped to the
highest level since 1929. Wage boosts
throughout all industry are adding
fuel to the flames. Prices this autumn
should be substantially higher than a
year ago. Protect yourself. Anticipate
your autumn needs. Shop today; but
increase your buying power by paying
cash.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
Nothing Down-Twenty Years
To Paw"


Not only the time but the type of
snstal1ment kales expansion is i'm
portant For example, the article
which is bought on credit may be a
machine. While the buyer cannot pay
fer it at the moment, the saving Of
labor in the use Of the machine will
he more than sufficient to pay for it
over a period of time. An automatic
stoker is an illustration. However,
when the article purchased is for i'm
mediate consumption, that is a "horse
of another color" If credit is so easy
that it is extended to cover consumer
goods, then time sales are no longer
sound merchandising practice. Buy
ing shirts, dreSSeS-and even furniture
on budget plans is dangerous, par
ticularly if the percentage of such pur
chases to the total is too high. Such
credit is simply adding to present buy
ing power at the expense of future
income and employment.
Such an unfortunate trend is TAX
ing 'place today. Easy-payment plans
are being steadily broadened Ori-
ginally, MISUNDERSTANDING was con-
fined to articles which be repossessed
and resold if payments were not met.
Today, however, personal services
such as permanent waves and ocean
cruises not only can be paid for in
installments, but can be paid for after
the service is, performed Moreover,
length of payment periods has just
about been doubled. Low interest
rates, which mean cheap operating
costs for the financing agency, are
major impetus behind this trend.
Another is the governments promo
ton of home-renovation work and
electric-appliance sales on it's own
guaranteed-installment loans. A third
factor is the entrance of commercial
banks into the consumer-credit field.
Shop Now.
In fairness I should point out that
"easy-payment" plans are in many in
stances vast improvement over GER
tain previous methods. For instance,
the 19-year installment mortgage on
new homes is sounder real estate fin
ancing than the old three-year mort
gage whose renewal was uncertain.
Also "easy payments are more con-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
TAR HEEL, v. M. l.
MINES MEET TODAY

Chapel Hill, April 16-Carolina and
V. M. I. baseball teams were to meet
here this afternoon in a return con-
test.
The two teams met last Saturday
at Lexington and the Keydets won a
nip and-tuck scrap to 3. With the
count tied at 3-all in the ninth, Pinch
hitter Andy Trzecak, football star,
drove out a clean single to center scor-
ing Ray Birmingham with the win
ming marker.
The Tar Heels were cunning for
their third Southern Conference vic
tory today. Previously Washington
and Lee and v. P. I. were defeated. In
other Conference starts Carolina lost
to Richmond, Davidson and Wake
Forest.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

per cent above last year; while mail
order and chain store results are
somewhat better. These figures are
in accordance with my previous es-
tina+es: hut it should he remember,
ed that they represent dollar volume-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
CUMMINGS WILL NOT
MAKE LEAGUE PROBE

Washington, April 16.-(AP)-At-
torney General Cummings said today
the justice department would not in
vestigate charges of possible violation
of antitrust laws by major league
baseball clubs.
Cummings cited as the reason for
his decision a 15-year-old Supreme
Court case in which Justice Holmes
asserted in unanimous opinion that
major league baseball clubs were not
engaged in interstate commerce.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
STATE TO TAKE ON
v. M. |. TOMORROW

College Station, Raleigh, April 16-
The baseball Cadets of V. M. I. meet
North Carolina States Techs here
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock on
Freshman Field in a Southern Con-
ference game.
Chick Doak, State coach, will seek
to improve the fielding of his team
with an intrasquad game today The
Techs miscued six times at critical
moments in Wednesdays game with
Duke and the errors played a big
part in Dukes victory.
The State Techs also hope to have
their big bats working again Satur-
day George Barley, ace of the Duke
mound staff let them down with six
hits. Previous to the Duke game the
Techs. had averaged II hits a game.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
DEACONS TACKLE
DUKE ON SATURDAY

Wake Forest, April leone of the
outstanding sport events of the sea-
son will take place Saturday afternoon
at 3:45 in Dukes baseball stadium
when Coach Jack Coombs smuggling
Blue Devil nine opposes Coach John
Caddell's defending Big Five cham
pions. Neither of these willow-sling-
ing clubs has been defeated this spring
and tomorrow's game bids fair to
show an extra helping in the scrap
for top honors in Southern Confer
ence and Big Five standings this
wear
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

I emphasize dollar sales because
unit volume figures are not so good.
Retail price-tags have been marked
up sharply in the past few months.
Certain lines have been advanced Is
to 20 per cent since the Fourth Of
July; while fair average of all items
mark-up has slowed the progress OF
retail buying to a considerable extent
Sharp jacking-up of prices means a
corresponding slash in buying power
of workers pay envelopes. twenty
dollars per week can buy only as
many goods today as 1880 could buy
six months ago. Hence, retail price
increases, due to wage or hour chan
ges, are offsetting labor's gains thro-
ugh increased wages or shorter hours.
"Time" Sales At New High.
This slowingdown of retail trade,
however, is probably only temporary,
because most of the factors which
caused it are only momentary. There
is one trend in the current retail pic
ture, however, which 1 fear is not tenn
porary. l am speaking of the rapid in
crease in inStalment selling. There
are no figures available which give a
grand dollar total of installment Gre
dit outstanding; but there are several
reliable barOmeters. For instance, the
percentage Of new cars bought ION
time in 1886 reached an all-time
peak-65 per cent of the total. An
other yard-stick is the percentage to
total of "easy payment" sales in New
England department stores;-the 1886
figures being 10 per cent and new
record.
I am making no sweeping accusa-
ton against misunderstanding. If Gre
dit in one form or another did not
exist, to-, 1853 E-us savings
could, of course, be no larger than
money income. You could then spend
no more than you received either for
living items or investments. Through
means of credit, however, you can
spend more than you earn. You can
buy a house, an automobile, or suit
CT clothes without being Immediately
able to pay for them. At certain pc
RODS in the business cycle, an expan-
sion in "time" sales gives business a
healthy boost At other times, how
ever. such an expansion only helps to
knock over the top-heavy credit
nra mid
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16
UNC TRACK TEAMS
MEET NAVY THERE.

Chapel Hill. April 16.-Carolina's
varsity track team will encounter
the strong Navy contingent at Anna
polls tomorrow afternoon in it's sec
ond meet Of the week.
After being drubbed on successive
Wednesdays by Dartmouth and
Princeton, the Tar Heels showed a
reversal of form Wednesday against
Virginia by routing the Cavaliers 81
1-3 to % 2-3. It was the worst defeat
the Old Dominion club has ever suf-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

PHI OF o p L A Y S
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

Chuckling with glee at how he had
put it over on his rum shop rivals, Joe
took the next boat home. 1t was four
hours before he could find his place,
it was so we'll hidden behind '"The
Sign of the Disappointed Eel" ''The
Sign of the Bankrupt Buffalo, ''The
Sign of the Convalescent Herring y
'The Sign of the Ambitious Butter
f1V"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

fered.
Carolina took II Of the, IA first
places and made clean sweeps IN the
mile, two-mile and discuss. Bill Cor
pening, Tar Heel sophomore, LED the
scoring for the afternoon with II
points. He won first place in the lzo
yard high hurdles, tied for first IN
the broad jump and tied for second
in the high jump.
Following the Navy meet, the Tar
Heels will return here Sunday and
begin pointing for the William and
Mary contest here Saturday. April "A.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-16

Hoffman nursery has shipped seed
lings and cuttings to Tennessee, Ken
lucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Kan
sas, New Jersey, Ohio, Louisiana, Mis-
souri, California and Washington, as
well as to various points in North
Carolina.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04

cent increase in cost to employers for compensation insurance.
 John J. Egan. secretary of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04

Connecticut Federation of Labor, urged the Judiciary committee to pass a bill which would bring about many reforms in tho compensation act as 1t now stands. His bill would increase the minimum to be paid weekly to an injured person from Sb to $i0 and would plump the amount of money to be paid to injured workmen from 50 to 66 and two- thirds per cent of their weekly earn ings. Furthermore, he would have the law changed 50 that instead of allowing payments up to 10 years for permanent disability they could be made up to i2 years.
 Raise Maximum
 Furthermore. Secretary Ega'1 urged the judiciary committee to raise the maximum that can be paid an injured person from the present $2i limit to 425 weekly. Another proposal called for including a clause providing payment up to l04 weeks for persons suffering facial disiifurement while at work. At the pIcScIb LUlG LttcIG 10 I1O ESOFAoiOu for thls sort of injury. The burial cxepnses in third party" cases should be increased. he said, from $i00 to $20O.
 In addition, Secretary Egan told the committee that persons employ ing three or more persons should state compensation law. At the pres come under the provisions of the ent time only persons employing five or more Ire under the act.
 Likes Minimum Increase
 MT. Granger stated that he was in favor of the latter suggestion and said he would agree to jumping the minimum to be paid an injured per- son from $5 to $7. He also approved the increase in funeral benefits from $l00 to $200 in third party" cases. As for the facial disfigurement clause, he said the compensation commissioner would find 1t hard to determine between a scratch sorne-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04

times, ana what might be called Q real disfigurement. At this point House Chairman Noah Swayne Of Darien drew laugh when he sug- gested that such cases be heard by 8 woman compensation commissioner.
 Unjust Feature
 While addressing the board Sec retary Egan pointed out that under the present law if person receives 8 permanent disability award for 8 long term of years and dies within two years after being granted the judgment his dependents may col- lect the remainder of the money. Should tho person die Q week after the two-year period his family could not collect a cent. Mir. Granger pointed to this as an example Of some of the manifestly unjust, feat- ures of the present act and declared that he would sit down with Secre-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04
ARMY TO VISIT
 REFORM SCHOOL
Local SaIvatiOnists to Conduct RefOrmatOry
 Services Sunday

Sunday, the Salvation Army tlnrcughout the United States will once more conduct its annual Prison Sunday Effort iSl order to try to induce some of the thousands of juvenile and adult felons of Amer ica to try the religion that the Sal. vation Army has taught the world is 90 practical.
 Through the cooperation of war; dens and chaplains, thousands Of officers and musicians will hold services in every state penal iHlstttuo ton on that day. Led by Com. missioner Alexander M. Damon, Col. William F. Palmer. the Eastern Territorial Prison secretary, has planned to reach nearly 300 penal institutions in tho eleven states of the east. A printed message of hope and cheer from the commits sioner will be placed iTl every pris- OneT's cell and the churches of the individual localities where the Army will be operating have been asked to offer prayers at the morning and evening services for the success of the day.
 The Army will reach nearly IO0,- 600 penal inmates during the day throughout the nation and based on past experience expect to be able to record hundreds of converts to Christianity.
 Local salvatIonists. including Ad- jutant Hugo Wiberg, Frank Durcn and Charles Rietdyke, will visit the Cheshire RefoImatory where they will be joined by the New Haven Salvation Army band and Major Ralph Miller of Hartford. Services will be conducted at that institution from S:30 to e:30 in the morning. The local Salvationists will be ac. conpanied on this visit by 6 deie- gation from the Eyeryman's Bible class of St. Paul's M. Y. church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04
Full Weather Report

Boston, March l--(UP)-weather forecast:
 Rhode Island -- Cloudy, probably light rain tonight and Friday. Cold CT Friday.
 Massachusetts - Cloudy tonight east and light raii, changing to snow fin west portion. Colder Fri. day. and in west portion late to. night.
 Connecticut - Cloudy. probably light rain tonight and Friday. Colder Friday.
 You cannot Inuzzle your wife," ruled Justice Bennett of London,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04

tary Egan and draft 6 bill covering the situation as good as possible. At his suggestion the matter was put over for a week by the judiciary com mittee and a bill will be drafted in the meantime.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04

the people of the liberties and rights that have been 50 dearly gained" he said. Lamneck sought to refute arguments that MT. Roosevelt re- ceived a popular mandate for his plan in the November election.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04
State Compensation
 Laws Called Unjust
Vice President Granger of Waterbury Clock Makes
 Claim Before Judiciary Committee of Legislature
BY WILLIAM J. MORIARTY Democrat Legislative Reporter)

State Capitol Hartford Conn, March - Especial to the Democra -Manifesty unjust provisions are included the states present workens compensation law Charles Granger cepresident of the Waterbury Clock Company declared yesterday before the judiciary committee of the general assembly, Appearing chairman of the compe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04

sation law committee of the Manu.
 lecturers Association of Connecticut,
 Mir. Granger stated that he would be willing to cooperate with the leaders of labor hl the state !n bringing about certain reforms,
 although they might mean a 20 per
Montana labor news., 1937-11-25
Capital Responsible
For Work CuYiaiIment
Continued from Page y

CONTINUED from Page y
fifth of the entire working force-is
the first result.
'The Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, in the first six months of
this year, made a net profit of $780,
100000 in round figures. This was
a 229 per cent increase over the net
profit in the same period of last year.
"The A. c. NJ, with other big cop
per companies, has agreed to cut
production 20 to rs per cent-and to
lay off enough men to effect this
reduction. Not the A. c. M. and its
monopoly capital associates are to
bear the burden of this reduction
but miners and smelterworkers.
''That there are political motives
behind the sudden increase in TN
employment throughout the country
is proven by the statement of a local
A. c. M. official who informed a
committee of the Butte Miners I'm
ion that the layoffs are due in part
to the uncertainty about what Roose-
welt and the special session of Con-
gress r going to do.
"In the last session of Congress the
henchmen Of reaction knitted vital
labor and farm legislation. These
same r~eactionaries have been en-
couraged by their success in the last
session, especially by their defeat of
the Presidents Supreme Court re-
form plan. Big Business is prepar-
ing to go further. They are now
conspiring to bring on economically
ll~nwarranted depression in order to
defeat necessary labor and farm leg
islation. Capitalism is plotting a sit
down strike against American re-
covery.
big capital is deliberately plotting
Montana labor news., 1937-11-25
Montana Gets In0ease
OF 1000 in WpA 0uoia
Continued from Page y

there are no details connected with
the telegram, it is evident that Mon
tana's Senior Senator went to see
the Works Progress Administration
at Washington and helped obtain adj
ditional funds. It will be noted that
the telegram states that one thou
sand additional men will be taken
care of by the government. These
thousand men, it is estimated will
need to be re-employed by the WPA
in order to take care of the situation
incurred in the layoffs by the Ana
eonda Company.
Senator Wheeler's telegram is as
follows:
GLAD to say that WPA has author
lied additional funds for Montana to
employ about a thousand additional
men to alleviate situation caused by
ACM layoffs. B. K. Wheeler"
Congressman Jerry J. O'Connell is
not satisfied with the situation here
as indicated by his telegram which
follows:
Am not satisfied with one thou
sand man quota increase thus far
secured on Butte WPA situation. Am
demanding further increases and in
sisting that such increases at least
be consistent with constant Anaconda
Company layoffs. I am continuing
my efforts with WPA officials and
will do everything possible to secure
additional quota increase. AS long
as Anaconda Company refuses to do
its share toward maintaining recov-
cry I feel it incumbent on the adj
ministration to do everything pos
sible for all of these men thrown out
of work in Butte. Jerry j. O'Con-
nell"
Montana labor news., 1937-11-25

to curtail production, in order to
provoke a panic to brighten the
middle classes. These Tories are
cold-bloodedly gambling with the
prospects of American recovery and
are endangering the welfare of the
American people.
''Their immediate aim is to put a
stop to all necessary social, labor
and farm legislation. They want to
d~rastically cut the appropriations for
work relief for the unemployed.
They want to repeal the taxes on
their undistributed profits. They
want the government to increase
loans to big industry through the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Big Business itself is on the dole
and is clamoring for a bigger budget.
eff they succeed in carrying out
their nefarious plans they will
further cut the purchasing power
of the workers, farmers ard middle
class people of the c~ountry--the real
people of America"