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m THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN, SELMA, N. C. THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1932, THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN M. L. STANCIL, Editor and Mgr. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —By— 11i£ Sun Publishing Co., Inc. Selma, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION One Year $1.00; 6 Months oOc Entered as second-class matter July 4, 1929, at the post office at Selma, N. C. under the Act of March 3, 1879. THAT THANKLESS TASK. BY J. C. STANCTL. On last Thursday afternoon H. V. Bose, clerk of the court, went to my office and had quite a lot to ■pay about the contents of my arti cle which appeal'd in The Johnston- ian-Sun last week. During the last few months I have written several articles which have appeared in the John.-tonian- Sun under the heading, “Heard Around The Courthouse.” These ar ticles have sometimes dealt with current reports, rumors, opinions, etc, which were given to the p^^r as such, and were so printed. La.st week 1 contributed an arti cle' dealing with the widespread rriticism and alleged abuses in the distribution of the free government flour, of which 580 barrels or 4,- 640 bag's of 24 pounds each, is re ported to have been sent to the Johnston County Welfare Office by the American Red Cross for the re lief of deserving people who were in need of help. My article, which appeared in the Johnstonian-Sun last week reads as follows: “QViite a number of people have been heard to express the opinion that something ought to be done to correct the alleged abuses in the handling of the flour that is now Jiefng- distributed by the United States Government through the wel fare offices, and other charitable in stitutions, to help those who are in reed of something to eat. “From various sections have come reports that people—both white and •eofored'—who were able to work, irere living on this free flour, and iir many cases such people have been reported to have refused work wheir it was offered to them at rea- suitabh wages. Last Monday a well- ihiown Johnston County farmer was driving' around in the suburb.s of Smithfield trying- to hire hands to ;/ulf fodder. He said he had found soirfe who admitted that they were jmt of work, but they said they had i(t go somewhere else on business jt the particular time that he want- 'cd them to help him work. On that same (fay (last Monday) reports were .going the rounds that several lutn(fred bags of free flour had been .riven out here last Saturday. Much ,rnvernmenL flour is reported to ■ia've been hauled in bulk from Snnthfield to other towns in John- stoir county, and distributed by peo- yie not understood to be membei's sjf the county welfare department. i in .sr.ne instances people who own ccm.siderable property have been re- portett to luive been using th's gov- erranent flour. “It seems that it ought to be the rfuty of somebody to make an in- Te-UgFEion of this matter, and then give tfre facts to the public. If the name.s of all who have been getfng thi.s flour were published, that n'oultf at feast make a directory for the ase of those who might want to hire labor. When work is refused by any able bodied man, after be ing offered work at reasonable wa- .fcs, this should be sufficient cause ■k> stop them from getting the free iloui'. “.A few weeks ago a great scandal *as uncovered, according to the BEWspapei's, in Memphis, Tenn. In lEhat case it seems that a large is^siantity of the government flour Jjad gotten into the hands of a Democratic Congressman by the ^ne of Crump, and his friends wei'e reported to be handing it out «nly to those who would agree to Kote the Crump ticket. Many peo- believe that this flour is being used, as a political tool in many places in North Carolina, and even .'in Johnston County.” When H. V. Rose went to my (office last Thursday afternoon, I ■mvited him in, and asked what 1 ■tjuld do for him. He grabbed up «ij' subscription copy of The John- si£«jian-Sun which was on my desk, asked me if I had written the irtiets referred to. I told him 1 Sad, siKi I asked if there was any- Sl'iag' “. rung with it. He said it was all vTcug; I told him that if he would show me any incorrect state- 5nent.s in the article 1 would have corrected. He said it had done an injustice to both Mr.-. D. J. Thurston (county welfare officer) and himself. 1 said “Where do you come in on this matter?. I thought the flour had all been distributed through the Welfare Office.” He" said he had been cooperating with Mrs. Thurston as chairman of the Red Cross. He took the paper and read my article in a very nervous and fidgety manner, but he failed to point out any inaccurate state ment. He appeared to be very an gry and indulged himself with a lot of loose, undignified and impolite talk about the article in the paper. I had not intended to refer to him in the article as I had not sup posed that he was having anything to do with the distribution of this flour. The fact that he got mad about it seemed to indicate that his was a case where “a guilty con science needed no accuser.” A fa vorite expression of Sam P. Jones, the great evangelist, was “when you throw a stone into a bunch of dogs and hear one hollow you iffay know he has been hit.” While in my office last Thursday H. V. Rose mentioned my suggestion that the names of all those who had received free government flour ought to be published, and said that the Johnstonian-Sun was going to have an opportunity to publi.sh them. He said he was going to see to it that a list was furnished to this paper for publication. Cater he said this would be done provided that tliere was nothing in the rules and regulations of the American Red Cross that would prohibit such publication. I said “let the list come.” I say now “let it come.” There is no good reason why the American Red Cross or anybody else should object to these names being printed in a newspaper. I have seen the editor and manag'er of The Johnstonian-Sun and he has agreed to print the name.-i free of charge if furnished within 30 days from the date of this paper. -The list for publication should show the number and bags of flour or pounds delivered to each person, the date delivered and the township in which he or she lives. Either the town ship or post office or both should be given in order that the party could be easily located and the white and colored should be on sep arate li'ts. When deliveries were made to minors the name of the head of the family should be given The Smithfield Herald last Tues day contained an article purporting to have been written by H. V. Rose and purporting to be an answer to my article in The Johnstonian-Sun of last week. In The Herald he pro ceeds to laud Mrs. Thurston’s work to the skies, saying- of her service, “It has been performed cheerfully without reward or the hope of re ward.” This is a surprising state ment in view of the fact that Mrs. Thurston draws a good salary and the distribution of the government flour is in line with her daily du ties. I have the greatest respect for any woman who properly performs her duties. Mrs. Thurston is holding a man’s iob. She is drawing a man-size .-alary which comes from the pockets of the taxpayers, and there is no good reason why she should not be expected to do her work as well as it could be done by any man. H. V. Rose admits that mistakes h.ave been made. There should be no attempt to hide mistakes and bad. management behind a woman’s skirt . There is no mistaking the fa-t that there has been just a nlonty of criticism about the hand- iing of the government flour in Johnston county. A white man named Monroe T.ee, a citizen of 'iie’ma, said to have been in des titute circumstances, was said to have received 12 pounds of the Red Cross flour on August 23, 1932, from Roberta Bunn, a Negro wo man who is reported to have been dealing out this flour in Selma. There may have been other such ca=es. Some of the Selma people are wondering ^hy H. V. Rose left off Roberta Bunn’s name when he prepared his list of distributors in Johnston couVity for publication in The Herald If Mrs. Thurston and Mr. Rose think that her iob is too hard or 'that she is working without proper reward, let her step out. If she will do this, I don’t think the authori ties will have any trouble in find ing competent men and women both Democrats and Republicans, who would be glad to have the job at half the salary that she is getting, and who would perform the duties at least as well as she does. MAN’S HIGHEST ASCENT The Highland Peach Farm, locat ed on the highest rid.ge in Harnett County, reports one of the best crops of peaches since the orchard was established. It is returning a profit on its operation. After he had cut the bushes and | low timber growth from 15 acres of land, E, F. Rightsell, of Lenoir County, seeded the land to lespede- za, carpet grass and dallas grass to produce an excellent pasture this season. Last week Prof. Auguste Piccard took olf from Dudendorf, Switzer land in an aluminum ball hanging underneath a .-tatosphere balloon. He began the flight at 5:06 Wed nesday morning, which in Eastern Standard Time in America was 11:06 p. m. In two hours after he started the ascent he had reached the height of 16,500 meters, which is equiva lent to more than ten miles high. He was far above all the mist and rain clouds, and as he looked down he declares that the earth beneath was so obscured by the distance through the mi-ts that his maps were of little service to him and his lone companion. He could only des ignate a distant lake below as any definite place of identification. He said that the temperature at that great height was a few de grees below zero on the inside of his aluminum ball in which he and his companion were encased, but that on the outside of this ball the temperature registered 67 degrees below zero. Prof. Piccard sent a radio mes sage to earth from his position ten miles high stating that all was well with them. They remained in the air about 12 hours and then made a landing amidst some 40 000 spec tators. When Prof. Piccard first stepped from his heavenly convey ance he seemed in a dazed condi tion, but otherwise he was normal. He explained that the' extremes in temperature were responsible for his being dizzy. He explained that he had come from where it was below zero and' had just landed where the temperature was 100 degrees above zero. He began taking off his heavy clothing piece by piefe until he only had on a shirt and pants. Prof. Piccard thinks that h's as cent is going to be a valuable ex periment to science in its study of the h’gher statosphere. When he has had time to comnile his discover ies on this trip we mav be g'iven some new ideas concerning the' up per spaces. HOOVER’S SPEECH IS IN REPLY TO HIS CRITICS President Hoover started his speech of acceptance by saying that he desired “to speak so simply and so plainly that every man and wo man in the United State.- who may hear or read my words cannot mis understand.” It is not such an easy matter for a public speaker to make himself thoroug'hly understood but we think Mr. Hoover came pret ty near accomplishing that result. Of course some will try to put con structions on his remarks which he did not intend but any open minded per.son of even average intelligence ought to be able to read and under- -tand the address. The speech cover ed a large number of points and did it remarkably well. The President was particularly forceful in stating the causes of the world wide depres.sion. “Over ex pansion and reckless speculation, waste exploitation and abuse of fi nancial power.” Th’s was followed ' by a “worldwide slump in the con sumption of .good , in prices and em ployment.” The nation had begun to adjust itself to these conditions and the outlook had improved greatly when trouble broke out afresh in va- ' rious European countries and their financial systems crashed one by one. Foreigners who had invest ments in the United States drew out over $2,400,000,000 which in cluded a billion dollais in gold Our own people became alarmed and be gan to make raids on the bank- causing many of them to fail. Mil lions of dollars were withdrawn from circulation and put into hoard ing. . j The President's address was not ! only a statement of his views on | public matters but it was also an ; answer to his critics who have been charging that he has done nothing j to improve business conditions. He | said “We have not ?eared boldly to adopt unprecedented measures to , meet the unprecedented violence of the storm.” He mentioned all of these measures such as^ the Recon struction Corporation act, the econ omy act, strengthening the Federal land banks, the home loan act, the German moratorium and others. In stead of having done nothing to promote better time.s President Hoover shows that the administra tion has done a great heal, far more in fact than anv other ad ministration has ever done in times of distress. Mr. Hoover also set forth bis views on the much mooted question of prohibition. His position is about the same as that of the Republican national platform which virtually leaves the matter to each State to decide for itself. It restores the principle of states rights which was abandoned by the Southern states and some others when the prohibi tion wave swept over the country some vears back. Mr. Hoover thinks that each state should be permitted to decide for it-elf what it wishes to do about prohibition, with the understanding that saloons shall not be permitted to return and that liquors cannot be shipped from a wet state to a dry -one. The tioover speech means the formal opening of the campaign for the Presidency.—^The Beaufort (N. C.) News. ♦ t I ♦ Seashore Excursion THE WORLD’S POPULATION For the first time, there has been an attempt to make a complete cen sus of the population of the world. The figures for this census were supplied by 103 countries, and the Department of Commerce, Washing ton, D. C., from a study of these statistics, finds that there are now living on the earth approximately 2 billion people. This gives an average population of thirty-nine and two- tenths persons for each square mile of land a'rea of the world and a much denser population for the land area that i.- now inhabited. There are vast stretches of territory that are practically unoccupied, but the human race continues to spread and continues to multiply. Theoretically, at least, there is at the present time sixteen acres of land for each man, woman and child in the world, or around fifty acres for each family There are those who fear for the o\’ercrowding of the earth, but that event must of necessity, be far dis- t ant.—Chi'i tian Sun. A LITTLE MONEY WILL GO a long way at our store. Selma Drug Co. NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND Under and by virture of the pow er of sale contained in a certain Mortga,ge executed by D. W. Uzzle, dated March 12, 1925, and recorded in Book 176, Page'204, in the office of the Register of Deeds for John ston county, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and demand having been made for sale, the undersigned Mcrtgagee will sell at public auction to the highest bid der for ca-h at the Courthouse door in Smithfield, N. C.,- at twelve o’clock noon, on the 10th day of September, 1932, the following des cribed property, located in Johnston county, North Carolina,' in Wilson Mills Township: Begining at an iron stake in the Smithfield and Wilson’s Mills road, W. W. Richardson’s corner, and runs South 48 1-2 East 2883 feet to a stake, another of W. W. Richardson’s corners; thence South §2 1-2 East 107 feet to a stake ;thence South 18 1-^ East 360 feet to a stake; thence South 50 East 872 feet to a stake on the bank of Neuse River; thence down Neuse River as it meanders about Southwest 2215 feet to an ash; thence North 50 1-2 W. 1044 feet to a stake; thence North 35 East 1386 feet to a stake; thence North 36 We t 759 feet to an Oak; thence South 87 West 528 feet to a stake; thence South 22 West 924 feet to a stake in a path; thence North 53 cleg. 50 min. West 671 feet to a .stake; thence North 39 3-4 West 349 feet to a maple; thence North 54 1-4 West 88 feet to a gum; thence North 81 1-4 West 127 feet to a gum; thence North 88 1-4 West 200 feet to a stake; thence North -85 West 485 feet to a gum in Popular Errnch; thmee North 59 1-2 West 110 feet to a stake; thence North 77 1-2 West 365 feet to a stake; thence North 9 We t, 201 feet to a stake; thence North abo-at 50 West 350 feet to a stake ;thence North 32 3-4 Ea.st 231 feet to a stake ;thence North 20 deg. 10 min. East 191 feet to a stake; thence North 32 1-2 West 172 feet to a stake; thence North 50 (leg. 20 min. East 63 feet to a stake; thence - North 17 West 184 feet to a stake near the Smithfield and Wilson’s Mills road; thence North 40 Ea.st 133 feet to a stake; thence North 10 3-4 West 337 feet to a stake; thence North 11 1-2 East 200 feet to a stake; thence North 38 deg. 10 min. West 181 feet to a stake; thence North 19 West 216 feet to a stake; thence North about 45 West about 400 feet crossing Gum Branch to a, stake; thence North 7 1-4 West 165 feet to a stake; thence North 38 West •345 feet to a stake ;thence North 48 1-2 East 163 feet to a stake; thence North 55 1-2 East 287 feet to a stake ;thence South 87 3-4 East 825 feet to a stake near Gum Branch; thence South 2 1-4 We,st 573 feet to a stake ;thence South 77 1-2 East 1627 feet to the Begin ning, containing 264.36 acres, more or less, according to a plat of sur vey made May, 1921, by E. P. Lore, C. E.. and being the same lands con veyed to Mattie Uzell by deed re corded in Book E No. 8, Page 803 and a part of the tract of land con veyed to D. 0. Uzzell by deed re corder in Book A No. 9, Page 352, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Johnston County. This August 5, 1932. GREENSBORO JOINT STOCK LAND BANK, Mortgagee, J. S. DUNCAN, Attorney. BARGAIN FARES TO WILMINGTON MOREHEAD CITY BEAUFORT $1.50_FROM SELxMA—$1.50 Clayton Wilson Mills FOR Pine Level $1.50 Princeton 1.50 WEEK ENDS INCLUDING LABOR DAY) AUGUST 26—27—28. SEPTEMBER 2—3—4. RETURN LIMIT MIDNIGHT TUESDAY FOLLOWING DATE OF SALE. LOWEST FARES EVER PUBLISHED TO THESE RESORTS SOUTHERN RAILWAY LABOR BARGAIN FARES From Selma To DAY IT IS NOW ON—THE WON- derful bargain sale by the Selma Drug Company. To Fare Asheville, N. C. .. $11.81 Atlanta. Ga., ... 16.77 Birmingham, Ala ... 22.77 Charlotte, N. C ... 7.15 Charlottesville, Va. ... 10,10 Chattanooga, Tenn. ... ... 20.46 Cincinnati, 0. .. 24.17 Colum.bus, Ga. .. 19.77 Danville, Va. .. 6.68 Greensboro, N. C,... .. 4.94 Greenville, S. C. .. 11.68 Hendersonville, N. C. . .. 12.26 Hickory, N. C.... .. /8.81 Knoxville, Tenn .. 16.49 Lexington, Ky. .. 23.38 Louisville, Kv. .. 25.70 Lynchburg, Va. .. 7.19 Marion, N. C. .. 10.13 Macon, Ga ... 18.31 Memphis, Tenn.' .. 31.01 Mui-phv, N. C. .. 16.25 New Orleans, La. ... 34.55 Nashville, Tenn. ... 24.81 Spartanburg. Tenn, .. 11.51 St. Louis, Mo. .. 35.18 Winston Salem, N. C. .. 5.98 NOTE: Proportionately low round trip fare to all in the Southeast. Stations DATES OF SALE; September 2. 3. 4 and 5th, RETURN LIM- TT, Ten (10) days in to date of sale. addition SEPTEMBER 3RD, only Atlanta, Ga .. $11.50 Birmingham .. 13.50 Chattanooga ... 13.50 New Orleans ... 26.50 RETURN LIMIT: Atlanta Mid- night Sept. 8th. Birmingham- Chattanooga, Sept. 9th, New Orleans, Sept. 13th. REDUCED PULLMAN FARE. Bring Us Your Chick ens and Egg'S. Highest mar ket prices paid in trade. The Lee Store, Selma, N. 'C. SAVE WITH SAFETY AT ,vour Rexall Drug Store—The Selma Drug Co. We Pay 20c For Eggs in trade. Lee Store, Selma, N. C. Entertain Chatterbox Club. Southern Railway Visit The Catch-Me- Eye For Your Barcecue and Chicken Supper And Enjoy Our Dances Tuesday and Friday Nights The Best of Order Assured L. GURKIN, Prop. Mrs. E. E. Suber and Mrs. M. R. Wall veere joint hostesses at the home of Mrs. Suber on Railroad Street, Wednesday afternoon, enter taining the members of the Chatter box Club and several other guests. In the hall, tasteful arrangement of late surlimer flowers made an at tractive setting for this delightful occasion, a color motif of pink and yellow being observed throughout. The business session was pre.-ided over by Mrs. C. .W. Scales, during which time plans were discussed for entertaining the husbands early in the fall at a party, in lieu of the usual summer picnic which had been postponed on account of the extreme heat. Two new members were wel comed into the club, Mrs. W. H. Call and Mrs. Geo D. Vick. Books were exchanged and the meeting turned over to thq hostesses, who had six tables arranged for Hearts- Dice, unkiue fan tally cards du'e'l- ed the guests to their places. After ten progressions, Mrs. C. E. Kor- negay held high score; Mesdames J. N. Wiggs, W. P. Aycock,. J. C. Diehl and J. B. Person drew for low, Mrs. Aycock being the lucky one. Each winner recei'ved a pretty piece of pottery in addition to Mrs. I. W. Mayerberg who received a lovely vase as gue.sts prize. The hostesses served a delectable salad course and a sweet course followed by mints, the color motif being re peated in the refreshments. Guests besides club members, were: Mes- clames J. N. Wiggs, J. B. Person, W. H. Poole, I. W. Mayerberg and W. R. Smith. GOOD EATS GOOD COFFEE ICE TEA GOLD DRINKS QUICK SERVICE Prices Reasonable WHITE HOUSE Cafe Selma, N. C.
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