Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-11-15
AROUND
CAPITOL SQUARE
BY BOB THOMPSON
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In The Sir Walter Hotcl-Kaleigh

NO ROOM-All over North Caro-
lima there are insane people-some
locked in jails, some even tied to bed
posts-Who can't be sent to the
States three hospitals for the insane
because there is no room.
There is nothing new about the
condition. 1t has been 50 for years.
That it is 10 generally known may
be due to the fact that il is not the
sort OF thing to which Grating poll
tlcians point with pride.
A bill to provide for additional
facilities at the three hospitals prob
ably would have been introduced IN
the last legislature except for one
fact. All state building programs
We're discouraged because all avail
able materials were needed for I'd
tional defense construction.
Il * i
ON \ LIMB-ThN afternoon viii
prove whether the Hon. Walter
Pete Murphy, veteran legislator
knows more about the game than all
the experts. Passing through Ral~igl
Friday IN his way to the Duke-Caro-
lima atfray, Pete" craWled out On a
limb as follows:
Its going to e a darn close
game C'Darn' is not exactly What
he said but its close enough, These
fellows who are giving Carolina q
lot of points are going to get the
hades %(another maccuracy) licked
out OF them ... Sure | think Caro-
lima has a chance, q Cloud explosion
good one
LEARNER-When Commissioner
of Agriculture Kerr Scott came 10
Raleigh he knew as much about
public relations as one Of his Berk-
shire hogs knew about holy water.
Even before ne took office he was
under fire because of his lett5r TO
certain employees Of the department
saying he was going to fire them
although all Scott was trying to do
was give them as much notice as pos
sible. Then SOC after he arrived he
got in a row with the board of pub
lie buildings and grounds ove a
Negro elevator operator named
Omega. On several other occasions
there was considerable friction be-
tween him and other state officials,
No, Kerr Scott was not popular.
Today, relationship between the
commissioner and other State Off
cials is entirely changed. The same
is true in his department. The man
is popular. Many people around Ra-
leigh give much of the credit to Louis
Wilson, the departments editor, press
agent and expert on public relations:
a smooth gsnt who knows his way
around. Louis, however, says his boss
did It himself. He might make mis-
takes" said SCOTS loyal helper, but
he doesn't keep on making the same
ones
PIT. A.--The North Carolina Par
ent-Teacher Congress is potentially
a real political power although il
has never been developed. During
the last few years, however, there
has h5en an internal Strengthening
Of the organization which causes
some school men to believe that II
soon will be heard from in a large
way.
What a strong, statewide PIT. \.
could mean in politics is easy to
imagine. 1t would be far more pow
erful than the teachers association
for the reason that it would be larger
and lot open to the charge OF selfish,
professional motives.
So far the great weakness in the
PIT. A. movement in this state has
been that the average fathers did not
take any interest in the thing. In
many towns the organization was
nothing more nor less than a "circle'
of women whose major "prOject' was
to put pictures to hang on classroom
walls. Instead Of being Virlle, fight
ing organizations, many Of the locals
were definitely on the "tWeet-tWeet'
SIDE. But now comtS the report that
IN many places, especially IN INDUS
tlial centerS where labor organlza-
ton has made progress, the men are
attending PIT. A. meetings as wei
as the Wom5n and that the organlza-
ton is growing in size and strength
TURKEYS-What happened t(
the old law of supply and demand?
The Horticultural Review publlca
ton of the State department OF agrl
culture. carries a story to the el1Sc'
hat the fla mers Of the state WI
have more turkeys for sale lnl!
Thanksgiving than at any during tne