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p 'J f>‘ ili' . ■■ 1 , i- a ■ ,: IJ- ■■I- ii i 1 r-: "I- f THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN, SELMA, N. C. THURSDAY. FEB. 2.i, 1932. THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN M. L. STANCIL, Editor and Mgr. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —By— The Sun Publishing Co., Inc. Selma, N. C. Another Month i of Odd Winter Ahead! That Is Acedrding To Almanac; ! I What Is Coming An Uncertainty. I SUBSCRIPTION One Year $1.00; 6 Months 50c Entered as second-class matter July 4, 1929, at the post office at Selma, N. C. under the Act of March 3, 1879. ENGLAND ABANDONS FREE TRADE After steadfastly resisting a general tariff for more than ■one hundred years, Great Bri tain has finally yielded to the inevitable and definitely turned her back on free trade. The chancellor of the exchequer an nounced a few days ago that Parliament will levy a duty of ten per cent on all imports into Britain except a few foodstuffs and a few raw materials. In turning to protection Great Britain has merely fallen in line with all the other great commercial nations of the world. It was logical that she should be the last, for if any nation could prosper under free trade Great Britain must be that nation. With a limited area, limited raw material and other natural resources, the on ly possibility of British pros perity seemed to be in her ov erseas ti’ade, and that trade must rest upon ability to man ufacture goods at a price that would command world markets. But the time has come when British manufacturers have found themselves not only una ble to compete in many foreign markets which they have form erly dominated, but unable even to hold their home market against the tremendous pres sure of foreign competitors. The world is fairly crowded with vast supplies of every soi't, seeking a market at near ly any price, and British indus try had found itself simply ov erwhelmed and obliged in self defense to set up a tariff wall. The lesson to the United States is so plain that it may be read on the I'un. If Great Britain, better equipped than ' , any other nation in the world to hold her owm w'ith all com petitors in the field of interna tional trade, finds it necessary to discard the traditions of a century and resort to a pro tective tariff, how' much more essential it is to our prosperity that the system upon w’hich our industries have rested from the foundation of the Republic should not be 'disturbed. It is vastly to the credit of the Democi'atic leaders in Congress that, after all their violent as saults upon it, they have aban doned the fight against the Hawley-Smoot law' and now frankly admit that to reduce the rates it carries would be to expose our markets to a dis- -astrous flood of cheap foreign -goods and thus increase unem ployment and further demoral ize business. The American protective pol icy has never been so vital an economic necessity as it is to day. Bey Melbourne Christerson, Asso ciated Pre.ss Staff Writer, writing from Wa.shington, D. C., under date of February 20th, said: “The 1932 American travesty en titled ‘Winter’ has 30 days more to run-on its calendar conti’act before folding up on an astonished audience which has been left alternately warrp and cold—mostly warm. “Then comes spring, facing a bad spot on the bill because most of its scenic effects already have been stolen and used by the long-whisk ered old man who lost most of his usual bluster in staging his three- months show. “The weather bureau commenta tors who keep tab o.n the cycle of the seasons won’t wait for March 21 to write off the winter perform ance as one breaking records of a hundred years standing. Their spring begins March 1 and they are just as well satisfied. “Never have they u.sed up so much paper and ink jotting down the idio syncrasies of a winter gone mad. Heat records, cold records, wet rec ords, snow records—all kinds of rec ords have been put down in the books. “February marks the sixth month of abnormally warm weather, and it probably will continue abnormally warm until after March 21. ‘ “The weather,’ says Joseps B. Kincer, weather bureau meteorologist ‘forms habits just like we human beings. It gets used to being warm or cold and it’s hard to change. This is not a forecast, but it looks like it will continue to be well above normal ^ average temperature for awhile.’ “Fortunately, no serious damage has been done by the warm, spring like spells which have swept the country east of the Rocky Moun tains. Fruit buds have been held in check and winter wheat—almost two months ahead of schedule—has suffered little. “Copious rainfalls and heavy snows in the northwestern half of the country have broken the long drought except in Florida. The Dako tas and Northern Montana, with the moistifre reserves under the most favorable conditions since 1929. “Temperatures which frequently soared past the eighties robbed the east almost 'completely of its annu al snow, disappointin.g the children with new sleds and skates and all but driving the sponsors of the winter Olynpics at Lake Placid, New York, into a frenzy. Through out December and January- temper atures averag'ed six to 16 degrees above normal. “While the east got warmer, the —from the Rockies to the Pa cific coast—got colder. Since No vember that section has been having- weather two to eight degrees be low normal. Some -cities in South ern California had their first snow' falls in half a century. Precipitation has been generally heavy, ranging anywhere from 100 to 600 per cent above normal, breaking, for one thing. Southern California’s severe drought. The ab sence of frost let the rain soak through the ground.’’ Friday Feb. 26 and 27 and Will be Banner Days at The Sanitary Grocery Co. W e have secured the services of Mr. C. H. Brown and to let his Friends know of his location we are putting on a STORE WIDE Sale of Groceries, Flour and Feeds. 4 1-Ib. Cans Baked Beans for . 2.>c 4 Large Tall Cans Milk for 2.5c 3 Cans Fancy Corn for 25c Viena Sausage 5c 8 9-oz. packages Washing Powder 25c 6 lb. Rice, fancy 25c Fat Back Meat, nice and thick, 4 lbs. for 25c Fancy Rib Meat, per lb. 8 l-3c Pure Lard, per lb. 8 l-3c Pure Ground Coffee, per lb. 15c Dandy Brand Coffee, 2 lbs. for 25c 3 lbs. Luzzianne Coffee 90c Octagon Soap, per cake 3c 4 Cakes Maxine Elliott Soap 25c 2 lb. Can Cocoa 25c Blue Ribbon Malt 49c Seed Oats, Burt 90 Day, per bag $2.45 Cobbler Seed Irish Potatoes, peck 35c Red Bliss Potatoes, peck 40c 24 lb. Bag Flour 55c 12 lb. Flour ... 30c W'e are Headquarters for Red Band and Grandeur Flour 50 lb. All Cotton Mattress $3.19 100 lb. Bag Ship Stuff $1.18 Sensation Chicken Feed, 100 lb. Bag $1.89 Sugar, 100 lb. Bag - $4.60 Plow Lines - 23c 1 50-Ib. Bag Water Ground Meal for 60c Oh, Boy—Just Look at These Mar ket Prices for This Week Native Beef and Meats—We select and kill it Ourselves—Dressed Clean and Nice Stew Beef 7 l-2c Round Steak - 19c Sirloin Steak 23c Veal Cutlets—No bone 22c Neck Bone 6c Pork Chops 12 l-2c Country Sausage with country sage and pepper 19c Pork Sausage 12 l-2c Wieners, lb. 12 l-2c and 15c Fresh Pork Sides and Shoulders 12 l-2c Fi-esh Pork Hams 15c Fancy Full Cream Cheese 17c 3 lbs. Spare Ribs 25c Country Eggs .. I3c Fruits and Vegetables Fresh Every Day—We NUCOR 16 l-2c WE ARE GOING TO DO OUR BEST TO GET SOME NICE FISH FOR THIS W'EEK. NECK BONES 4 lbs. For 24 c Sanitary Grocery Co. Deliver Anywhere. Telephone 146 T. 0. Wiggs, Mgr. SELMA, NORTH CAROLINA SELMA W'OMAN’S CLUB HOLDS FEBRUARY .MEETING THE DAVIDSON TRAGEDY SELMA WOMAN WINS PRIZE ON 666 SALVE (Union Republican) The state was shocked Friday ■when it became known that the sheriff of Davidson county had , been killed, that the solicitor of the -rlistrict was involved in the shoot ing and that the chairman of the Davidson county Democratic com- Tnittee was also a member of the drinking jjarty that ended so tragi cally in the death of a man sup- ■posed to uphold and enforce the law and the indictment of another officer who likewise was supposed to be law abiding. The most serious part of the affair is the fact that two of the participants in the “party” at tempted to shift the blame of the killing of the unfortunate sheriff on the shoulders of an innocent man It will probably be of interest to the people of Selma and community to know that Mrs. E. V. Woodard of Selma, has recently received a check for .-flO from the Montecello Drug Company, of Jacksonville, l‘Ia., as a prize for a letter she wrote in a contest put on by that company just prior to the Christ mas holidays telling about the mer The Selma Woman’s Club held the February meeting- in the new and attractive bungalow of Mrs. C. L. Richardson as hostess, assisted by Mrs. Ormond Bailey and Mrs. Howard Uaskill. After the opening, Mrs. Joe M. O’Neal, the president, led in the club collect, followed by a short business session. Mrs. O’Neal announced the initial program of the George Washington Bicentennial celebration , which would be o.pened in our town by a union service to be held on the fol lowing Sunday evening- in the Bap tist Chui-ch. Mr. W. B. Aycock was presented to the club and spoke most inter estingly of “Citizenship of Wash ington’s and Hoover’s Days.” After paying tribute to our First President as a great man, who would have been great in any age, he proceeded to re-trace much of our early history in which Wash ington played so heroic a part, lay ing- special stress upon the great faith of our early .settlers and the part religion played in the formu lating of our great country. The women, he thought, had made a greater stride in citizenship, emancipating as it were, into Win Merchandise Ar riving Daily PAY FOR UP ANY BUY NEW MERCHANDISE AT THE PRICE YOU OUT-OF-DATE MERCHANDISE. WE WILL FIT DRESS OR COAT WITH SMALL DEPOSIT FOR “EASTER” IF YOU PAY YOUR BILL PROMPTLY, WE WILL OPEN UP A CHARGE ACCOUNT. ^ its of 666 Salve for Colds. Mrs. I citizen free and Independent of Woodard wrote a letter for herself and one for her daughter, Miss Lil lian Louise Woodard. The letter she wrote for herself won ,$10 and the one she wrote for her daughter won .‘?.5.00. Both check.s have just recent ly been received. tussel, and after sobering up, the and surely this can only be explain- j conscience of the solicitor began to -cd by the fact that the two sur- | hurt him and he decided to make a -'iving. companions of the sheriff I clean breast, of the affair and ad- ■were loaded to the hilt with mean I mitted that he had told an untruth li|uor. In fact the Lexington chief i at the fir.st hearing, of police described the solicitor, i We are sorry for the chief actor.s ■whom he found in his hotel after the I in this tragedy. Sorry for the family death of the sheriff as being “beast- j of the dead sheriff who went forth ly drunk.” Had the Virginia youth | to meet his Maker in an intoxicated ■died there are many people who be- J condition, sorry for the solicitor who jieve that the entire matter would have been smoothed over and the statement would have been handed down in history that the Davidson for^’ot that he was, a law enforce ment officer and fell, thus disj^-rac- in.tJ' himself, causing*’ him to give up his office and lose the prestige and husband’s responsibility. In former days the husband was even respon sible for his wife’s every act of be havior. He greatly stressed a return to the full ideals which dominated our early citizenry. After adjournment the hostesse.s according to the club’s ruling, serv ed sandwiches and a delicious punch. —Mrs. J. L. Doggett, Reporter. OLD MAIDS’ CONVENTION' AT SELMA MILL CHAPEL sheriff wa.: killed by the young Vir- ’ honor that was fast becoming his .ginian. But Providence has a way j sori-y for the Democratic chairman of ;!.)ing thin.gs and the young Vir- j who has put a blight on his party gjriian lived, another man was I in Davidson county that it will take -Joiind wlio saw part '.f the fatal I year.s to overcome. The “Old Maids’ Convention” which was given at the Selma High School auditorium a few nig'ht.s ago, will be repeated at the Selma Cotton Mill Chapel Saturday night of this week, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Following the play a Yo-Yo contest will be had' on the .same order as at the school auditorium and suit able prizes will be awarded to all winners. Admission will be 10 cents.' It will be at the old Selma Mill Chapel. CHILDREN’S SHOES, ALL SIZER, ,IUST ARRIVED 98c NEW SHIPMENT MEN’S SHOES, ALL STYLES $1.98 50 SAMPLE LADIES’ HATS, $5 00 HATS NOW $2.48 12,000 YARDS LL SHEETING, SATURDAY ONLY 5c yard NEW PIECE GOOD, BEST QUALITY, POPULAR PRirpo SEE OUR NEW SPR INC SU ITS, ALL STYLES $12.50 MEN’S FELT HATS, ALL SHADES, NEW COLOR STvi LADIES’ MEN’S, CHILDREN’S TENNIS SHOES 59c MEN’S OVERALL, GOOD QUALITY, 59c WE ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING NEW-COME AND SEP ' .iW;-. .UN
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