Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-16
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh. Aug 16.-Onc of the chief
difficulties connected with securing
legislation in North Carolina bene-
fetal to World War veterans and
their dependents is the fact that Fed
eral and State agencies either can
not or will not cooperate in efforts
to secure authentic and accurate data
about them, State Senator Pat Tay-
or, chairman of the American Lee
gion's state legislative committee,
told Raleigh's Legion Luncheon Club.
The most helpful legislation for
veterans, he said, is that making lib
eral provisions for aiding orphans Of
World War veterans to get an edu-
cation.
Yet we cannot get from the State
School Commission any accurate in
formation as to the number of such
orphans in school, Of the state, nor
the extent to which they need as
Sistance," said Senator Taylor.
The Wadesboro lawyer, who was
chairman of the 1889 Senate COM
mittee on finance, was in Raleigh for
d meeting of the Commission to study
the needs of a North Carolina Wage
Hour law.
Discomfort and disappointment
over the congressional situation in
thc First, resulting from Lindsay
Warren's resignation TO become
comptroller general, is still wide
spread in at least two counties-Pltt
and Martin-and probably in all
others except Beaufort.
Prominent Democrats from Pitt
and Martin told your reporter that
there is bitter resentment al the
sewing up" of the Warren scat for
his secretary, Herbert Bonner.
Beaufort has had the First District
seat for more than 46 years.
Maybe it's not exactly accurate to
use 1886 election figures and the 1910
census as basis for finding out the
proportion of North CarolnanS who
vote-but it's probably more nearly
accurate than would be 1886 returns
and 1880 census ITALICS. Certainly il
wouldn't do to take 1888 voting fig
ureS in the general election because
they were tnuch smaller than in
1886
Anyhow, whether it's fair or I'M
fair, here's how the various Con-
greSSional Districts did in the matter
Of voting for Congressman in 1886,
compared with the 1910 populations:
The Eleventh was the "votingest"
of them all, casting 1881 ballots
against 341, 345 inhabitants. In other
words 343 persons out Of every
thousand went to the polls and voted.
At the very bottom was the Second
District Wh1sa only l0l out Of every
thousand voted, the counts being &c.
68l votes, 292,6l5 population.
For the other districts the figures
were thus: (In order: the population
votes cast for Congress and votes per
thousand inhabitants):
Ninth, 3l8,O99- 92, 882-292; Tenth,
478, 723-123, 7O9-258; Eighth, 34O,948-
IS, 6O3-251: Sixth, 312 ,226-66, AL
213; Fourths, 358,495-73 ,882-2O6;
Fifth, 323-183-65, 972-204; Third,
251 ,615-46, 291-17f; First, 236,755-39,-
1865; and Seventh, 313, ,945-159.
The Navy enlisted four for Class
VT candidates for commissions as
reserve ensigns) Thursday; and three
of the States Big Five" colleges
were represented. The would be
naval officers are: Eugene V. May
nard, %, Kinston, years at u N.
c.; William T. Middleton, Jr., %, |
Warsaw, years at State; Joseph T. I
Gardner, Miami, Fla. %, 4 years at
Duke: and Harold L. Tysinger, q,
Salisbury, four years at CataWba.