Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-11
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL AND
LYNN NISBET

Raleigh, March 11-During debate
on the advertising division approp-
ration Gregg Cherry and Odus Null
became involved in such heated ex-
change of views on the alleged bank
ruptcy Of some score mills in Gas
ton county that Victor Bryant, act
ing as chairman of the whole House
banged his gavel and asked:
what is this, anyway, a receiver
ship hearing?"
The imperturbable gentleman from
Durham didn't raise his voice in
making the inquiry, but it was OBJ
vious that he meant business and the
down quite perceptibly.
There isn't another representative
who can touch Gregg Cherry in the
use of singing, biting adjectives.
Said the CASTOR Iron Major Thurs
day night of the appropriation com
mittee's recommendations for the
State Board of Health:
E'It is a short-sighted policy, pi-
cayunish penuriousness = in fact
downright damned stinginess."
And on Friday during his futile
effort to restore funds cut from the
adjutant generals budget by the
committee:
"This is a measly, meagre, miser-
able proposition to take $11 900 away
from enlisted men and supply ser
geants."
Nothing has been more noticeable
during this session than the untiring
vigOr with which Speaker Libby
Ward lobbied the House members
during Fridays appropriations de-
bate. He was here, there and every
where on the floor and back Of the
speakers stand, lining up his sup
porters and pleading with members
who might have been listed as
doubtful.
Senator Gordon GRAY, president of
the North Carolina Young Demo-
cratic Clubs, had hard time find
ing out when Thomas Jefferson was
born. Since the regular Democratic
organization usurped the Jackson
Day dinners originated by the young
SterS, they have taken over the next
greatest patron saint of Democracy
and stage their annual rallies around
Jefferson's birthday. The president
of the Senate, the secretary of the
historical commission, half a dozen
representatives of the press were all
contacted and none of them could
answer. Finally, President Gray
thought of a we'll known almanac.
The information was obtained. JEFF
fO,cOY,,c birfIoIoxr i- 1Nri1 10 Thnrn-
fore the spring roundup of young
democracy is scheduled for the first
two weeks in April.
r Speaking of almanacs recalls
Gregg Cherry's wise-crack Thurs
day night Chairman John Caffey,
plotting through the appropriations
bill, referred to the green book,
which eve called the Bible in the
appropriations committee" cts no
testament to me-" fired back the
Gastonian "To me it's just an or
! binary almanac.
Major Cherry got off a good ton
que tWiSter in that same argument.
He referred to the proposal to cut
appropriations for the State Depart
ment of Health as a policy of "pi-
cayunish penuriousness.' The vet
eran Pete Murphy sitting nearby,
nodded his head vigorously and NUT
tered under his breath, "That's ex-
actly right-whatever it means"
The Senate took time out from its
consideration of State affairs yester-
day to give due regard to the
amenities and the bereavement of a
fellow member. A resolution Of sym
pathy for Senator Clyde Council of
Columbus on the death Of his broth
er was adopted by rising vote, and
the clerk was ordered to send tele-
gram in the name of the Senate eX-
pressing sympathy of the composite
membership.