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: 1 Hertford County Herald Published Every Friday by VINSON * PARKER OwiMIS J. ROY PARKER Editor JAMES S. VINSON M?upr Subscription Price Om Yoar - $1.10 81* Months .75 Three Months .40 Advertising Rate* Very reasonable and made known on request Entered as second-class mail matter February 25, 1910, at the posofllge at Ahoakie, North Carolina, under the Act of March 8, 1878. ? ' f -T-ihi 11 .if s-iii 'mi i ** 1 I THE AMERICAN PRESS AMLOATION 1 i ? FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1923 A STRONGER JUDICIARY? A group of lawyers in North CaroUna are sponsoring a bill that would give broader powers to a trial judge.' A bill has been introduced in the leg islature looking to the restora tion of the common law right and duty of the judge in a jury trial to express his opinion on the facts, contending that this is an essential of the "ancient mode" of jury trial guaranteed by the constitution and that our statute depriving the judge of this function is one of the causes for the depreciation in public opinion of the value of the jury system. F. W. Thomas, writing in the Asheville Citizen, calls upon ] the sober-thinking business : men of the State to get behind ' the movement that will give 1 the trial judge more latitude in ! expressing his opinion on the j weight of the testimony, and < giving him the right to suggest ? to the trial jury what it shall find. He refers to the judges { today as "dignified dummies on , the benches," so far as the as- t certqinment of the facts is con- 1 cerned. Those who have followed up , to any appreciable extent trials ' in courts of justice have at times been shocked at the ver dicts brought in by juries. Many times a plain miscarriage of justice seems apparent. Mr. 1 Thomas believes this is partly 1 due to the statute which pro- ' hibits the judge giving his ] views as to the weight of the , testimony, and the lack of a 1 proper understanding by the i jury. j Often, no doubt, that is en tirely true. However, so many times the conscience of the in dividual junor and his inward attitude towards the law an aceased is being tried for to a large extent guide his verdict, Wl no amount of faets or per suasion can change the man in his views. There are instances hot so infrequent when persons charged with criminal offenses ere allowed to get off with a nominal verdict simply because the men on the jury are not in clined to back up the law which the defendant had brok JfM- '"'T.--' ? la civil cases it is often nec essary for the judge to go more into detail and give the jury specific instructions, on account of the jurors' lack of under standing of the law and facts. The. broadening of the judge's powers in this particular would certainly help to lessen the chances of miscarrying justice. After all, one of tthe surest and best ways ^to make our courts stronger and to guard diligently against errors and verdicts directly opposite to good government is to pay stricter attention to the select ion of juries. Jurors may not necessarily be highly Educated persons, but they should be good citisens; and they ou>;ht to be generally regarded as persons of intergity, common sense, and favorable to law en OFFICE CAT) TMMMAIW epryiftHT ?t?u pr mow <?uw MBH. | Publication of Ahoakie's ordi nances in the last issue of this sheet has caused many citizens to sit up and wonder why all the law. "Whew", one fellow ejaculated when he had looked over the imposing list, which he said were more numerous than any set of laws he had ever seen. But, he didn't know what he was talking about, for along came a councilman and explained that the list published i hardly equalled the former town code, and was about 80 per cent of the usual length of small city codes. "Why don't you enforce some thgm", another inquired. "Yes, why not enforce soma," an swered the commissioner. "It's | as much your business to see | that they are enforced as it is | mine. The town's police head is the fellow to whom you must look for enforcement, and he must have the sentiment of the I folks behind him before he can 1 make any headway at carrying t out the law." I In fact, everybody in Ahoskie ! knows law enforcement here is lax t at the very best, and there has not been any-tendency on the part of the police officer to rigidly enforce laws. 1 But, it is also true that many citisens 1 ?f this very town discountenance any ' attempt to enforce laws, that is a 1 great many of them. There is des- < respect for the law by some, and it ( Is these fellows for which a special 1 ordinance should be framed and exe- 1 :uted. < . __ ? The "smoothing over" process has been much in vogue in this town when snforcing the law would have done i the thing up right. The CAT believes i the majority sentiment in Ahoskie i favors law enforcement, and thinks there is plenty of room for improve ment in the police regulation of the ] town. ] Since Mr. Vann of Como has dh rected his Are at the CAT and Mr. Eley, the former member of that duo ? would advise him that the motion to i which he refers would necessarily be i lost, if the Speaker had previously voted as a member, and there was a tie vote. Even that does not paral lell the example in Hertford County where only six commissioners were, on ( the board. The House has a member- i ship of approximately 126, and could i Invoke the double voting power with better grace. However, the CAT does not believe it would do it It 1 would be a lost motion, Mr. Vann. < At least that's my answer to your 1 question. "I would like to see your people be gin producing a larger amount of ' track and vegetables for market" Said Mr. E. B. Conger of Edentou in ' a recent interview with the CAT. J "The section around Elisabeth City 1 made wonderful success at it within three years, especially in the produc- 1 tion of peas which have been a great revenue producer. Your lands I be lieve, can be adapted to peas, pota toes and other truck, and the pro duction of these articles would add greatly to the revenue of your farm ers". the Edenton man continued. Junius, who. bought an expensive automobile last week, waa bragging ; to torn of hia friends about the won derful purr in the motor. He lifted up the heed and found the Oflce Cat underneath It Speaking of rare coins?they're the only kind' we have after Christ ID&8. HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED (By AmoaTaah) . 1 can remember when a plunk quite a lot of kick to it; when you could take an old, thin dime and go and have a fancy time. } can remem ber when two-bits would Shock a bell hop into lite, and when -you could produce a half and even make a bar ber laughs I can remember when a plunk and would purchase for you quite a hunk of porterhouse or let you go and have a seat at some good show. I can re member when two bucks would buy for you a brace of ducks, and when if you could show a "V," you were hi good society. And I can e'en remember when I proudly flashed a new-laid ten, and on a modest twenty-five for one whole month I'd stay alive. And yrhen a bird had fifty beans he had a fortune in his jeans. A hundred berries was a price beyond.the dream of avarice. I've seen the tides of commerce flow. I've aeen those moneys come and go. They used to be a husky bunch and e'en a niekle packed a punch. Yes, I remember when a jit had quite, a lot of kick to it. There's just one answer to be told? I must be getting pretty old. Judge: "Why do you want your name changed, madam T" Applicant (Pathetically): "Please your Honor, It's Lizzie Tinford." The Episcopal bishops say the be havior of the young comes from their desire to be natural. Ain't Nature grand! ___ They claim the bobbed hair craze j is creating a demand for switches. Hair, or hickory? When a woman hater marries it's apt to make him the same?only more so. Little Bo-Peep, she lost her sheep, How careless not to mind 'em For Bo-Peep had no HERALD ad That would help her to And them. But just think how long Methualah might have lived, says Ras Wooten, if there had been somebody to remove his tonsils, and his appendix. PERFECT EXAMPLES Teacher: "We borrowed our num erals from the Arabs, our calendar From the Romans, and our bariking system from the Italians. Can anyone :hink of any other exfftnples?" Willie: "Our lawn mower from the Smiths and our vacuum cleaner from .he Thompsons." There is always something. If rou are riding on the train just about vhen you get to a place where you hink you are going, you see soihe hfng interesting, you pass a string >f box cars a mile long. If it is an >pen air meeting, about the time you hink the speaker is going to say lomething a fool passes with the cut >ut open. We insist, there is always lomething. rne Dungatow type ol arcnitecture j ? now quite prominent among states- * nen. A bungalow is a house without - ui attic. There was one test to which the " patience of Job was never subjected. Be didnt have to teach his wife to ?un an automobile. "Can I be of any assistance?" ask :d the sympathetic motorist of a man vho was looking unutterable thoughts it a disabled car. "How is your vocabulary?" "I'm a minister, .sor." "Drive on." The optimist hopes to inherit a million; the pessimist starts a savings iccount. If the crusade to prevent the tip ping of hats during cold weather suc ceeds it will be the first anti-tipping campaign that ever did. jf CARFARE ' For hours they had been together in her Parlor. The moon cast its tender gleam through the window on the young and handsome couple who ?at strangely far apart He sighed, ?he sighed, finally: "I wish I had money, dear," he ?aid, "I'd traveL" Impulsively, she slipped her hand into his; then, rising swiftly, she sped out of the room. Aghast, he looked at his hand. In his palm lay a nicker. The paragrapher with one wife who criticises doubtless wonders how Solomon managed his writing. No wonder the bride's mother Weeps. She, better than any other, knows what is going to happen to the groom. MR. VANN WANTS SOME INFORMATION ' i ? - ;'. - , MR. EDITOR?I see in the News and Observer of January 24th that there wm a roll call rote in tha legis lature on the McKimmon bill and that the Speaker of the House was the drat man to rote. Am writing to aok that yon, or some of your subscribers who claim to know parlimentary law, would tell through your columns, what would hare been the way out, if there had been a tie and tha speaker confined to one vote and have ruled that there was a motion before the house and be could not entertain any other, and have ruled further, that the member could not withdraw the motion after it had been voted on? It looks to us, (we are from Missouri) that the legislative proceedings under such conditions would need soma thing like our old-fashioned law, which Judge Manning, whose judg ment (on a point of law) is worth all of the county combined (except the lawyers) says will hold and which has been practiced in our county (and has never brought any serious trouble) to let their speaker vote twice and get them out of the mud. It seems that our legislature has not learned much about parlimentary rules which Mr. Eley says are prac ticed in Congress, or it may be that they like some other way better and find it more convenient and equally efficient At any rate, I am asking that you, or someone, make it clear to us as to what legal course the Legislature could have taken to clear up the sit uation. An early reply is the wish of, T. E. VANN. - Como, N. C. J??iMIWIB Weak I Back I Mi*. Mildred Pipkto. el I R. F. D. 8, Columbia, Toon., I says: "My experience with I Ceidujhee covered a euuiher of SS 1 got down with weak beck. 1 ? was run-down and a? weak aad I nervous I had to stay to bed. I I reed of GARDUll He Woman's Tools II and sent for it. I took ooly oae I bottle at that time, and H helped |3 me; seemed to strengthen aad I build me right up. So that is I how I first knew of Cardui. I After that,... when I began to I get weak and 'no account*, I I sent right for Cardui, and it I never failed to help me." 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