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June 9, 1934 THE STATE Page Nineteen LEGISLATIVE PERSONALITIES No. 35 Hubert Olive By Wade II. Lucas ★ TO tliis clay Hubert Olive, who is being groomed for the next State Commander of the North Caro¬ lina Department of the American Le¬ gion, admits that Carl Goereh once embarrassed him no end while he stood on the principal thoroughfare of his home town of Lexington one day lust year talking with several of his con¬ stituents about sundry legislation then being discussed by the 1933 General Assembly. “There I was talking to several of the voters in my county when along came Carl Goeroli and yelled so nil could hear: ‘Hubert, — Tom Bland told me to tell you that unless you paid your over¬ due room rent at the Sir Walter down in Haleigh he was going to have to throw you out on the street’.” Not knowing Mr. Goereh is never so happy ns when he is having a joke at the expense of a friend, Mr. Olive said his friends looked at him in amazement. Hurriedly, he explained that his tor¬ mentor was Carl Goereh, and the ex¬ planation served to bring a hearty laugh from the constituents, who had also heard that Goereh loved his jokes. Mr. Olive, one of the outstanding members of the 1933 House of Repre¬ sentatives, was not in arrears on his lodgings in Raleigh and Mr. Goereh took pains to explain he just wanted a laugh at the Davidson County member’s expense. They say that it is still good for a laugh in Lexington and that Hu¬ bert Olivo can laugh as heartily as the next man over the indieidenl. Friends of the brilliant young Mr. Olive, who has the gift of oratory about him, have started their campaigning to make him the next State Legion Com¬ mander and from what T have been able glean from Legionnaire friends lie will succeed the volatile Captain Tom O. Daniels, of New Bern, when that griz¬ zled old st.rnfer of Germans completes his year's service as commander late this Miminer. Hubert Olive was not a participant in the primary battling of last Satur¬ day. His record during that hectic 1933 session of the General Assembly. I am sure, clearly entitled him to participate in the legislative jouslings that will take place here next winter, but he did not THE GENTLEMAN FROM DAVIDSON ★ oiler for reiiominalion. 1 like to think that II ubert Olive will be missed in the 1935 session, which, from all indi¬ cations, will lie another headline maker a- tin lawmakers seek to cure the ills of the State of North Carolina. Legionnaires tell me without hesita¬ tion that Hubert Olive is a devoted member of the American Legion, that lie has fought day in and day out for bgioii principles ever since the organi¬ zation was formed hack in 1919. and that if they name him as their next State I 'oinmander they will not be sorry later on for what they did. I like to agree with them on that, although I uni no Legionnaire. 1 1 is seldom that a freshman member of the House can make such an impres¬ sion upon thut body his first term as lluliert Olive made on the 1933 session. Gifted, as I have previously said, with oratorical powers and with a voice that one does not have to cup his ears to hear, the Davidson member never hesi¬ tated to turn loose an oratorieal bar¬ rage upon his fellow members if he thought one was necessary. And there were numerous instances in that 135- ★ day session lu-t year when he thought such oratorical barrages were not only necessary but timely as well. Once he turned loose the power of his voice. Hubert Olive could be heard across the rotunda in the Senate cham¬ ber and even the Senators, many of whom seem to think the House of Rep¬ resentatives is a necessary evil, used to come over and marvel over his ora¬ tory. No wonder the Germans turned tail and fled in France in 1917-18 when • hoy heard Davidson's Hubert Olive raise his voice and probably say, "Let's go get them, fellows.” 1 can well im¬ agine the terror that infested those Germans when they heard Mr. Olive raise his voice. In saying all these things Г do not for a moment seek to create the iinpro-- sion that Mr. Olive seeks to use his God-given powers just to hear himself or to seek to terrify others. He could not he termed a demagogue as have others who have raved and ranted on the floors of the House and Senate during the past eight years. About him there isa feeling he is since»* fur what he thinks is right and F seri¬ ously doubt that he thinks tile state would he hotter off if it residents en¬ dowed with more money than the most of us wore hanged and quartered for the so-called “common people” to sec. lie is not that type of man. Hubert Olive joined hands with that П"Ые old Roman. Senator W. O. Bur- gin. of Davidson, last session in seeking to take steps to prevent jobless from walking the streets of North Carolina and being a burden upon those fortu¬ nate enough to have jobs. Both fought valiantly and courageously for the llurgin-sponsoml bill to create an un¬ employment commission to study plan» for a system of unemployment insur¬ ance for North Carolina to guard against repetitions of tlmsc unemploy¬ ment nightmares of the past few years. And by the time you read this Gov¬ ernor Khringhaus will probably have named that commission. Tt is no ччт«*1 he is getting ready to name such a commission and whatever constructive things it does will serve to erect a joint monument to W. O. Burgin and Hubert Olive, neighbors in Lexington.