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IHibUdied Monday* and Thursday* at
North WQkesboroi N. G,
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
n.OO Tear in the State; |1.60 Oat of the State.
Sntoed at the post office at North Wilkesboro,
N. C., as second class matter under Act of March
4, 1879.
MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933
A Shocking Tragedy
The tragic death of Policeman James
Grayson was a severe shock to North Wil
kesboro. Lacking in sufficient provoca
tion—if there ever is sufficient provoca
tion to warrant the killing of a man—and
lacking any reasonable excuse from the
standpoint of fear of what the consequen
ces would be if he submitted quietly to ar
rest, the slayer’s act was all the more un-
understandable.
It is difficult to comprehend the strange
trait -in a person’s character that will lead
him to become more deeply involved in
violation of the law when an officer is do
ing no more than the law demands and
the individual himself ought to expect.
Yet such things happen and obviously
there was no excuse for the dastardly
crime.
Officer Grayson, although a young man.
had proved himself a capable and effici
ent policeman during the time he had
been on the force. He had consistently
maintained the dignity of the position he
held..
What greater tribute can be paid than
that he died unafraid in the line of duty,
rendering the service expected of him by
the people who employed him and looked
to him for protection?
Protection For Officers
The untimely death of Officer Grayson
at the hands of a drinking man who was
carrying a pistol is another illustration of
the need for stricter regulation of the sale
of firearms.
Speaking as a newspaper editor rather
than as a manufacturer of firearms, we
can see no reason for the wide distribu
tion of pistols which more often prove
more useful to criminals and the criminal
ly-minded than to those who obey the
law.
We are not familiar with all the pres
ent regulations, but it is apparent that al
most anybody who so desires can come
into possession of a pistol. All the offi
cers in the world couldn’t prevent a man
from concealing a pistol on his person
when he is so minded. In the hands of
some people, the pistol becomes a men
ace to society and the most innocent are
often the victims.
Control of the sale of pistols will meet
the need for protection from such fiends,
not locking up an occasional fellow who
happens to be found carrying one. How’-
ever, the latter course is the only one that
can be purchased until some nation-wide
provision is made to regulate the sale.
“The World and Ouwelves”
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B. Conway Taylor, manager of the Bal
timore branch office of the United . States
Fidelity and Guaranty company, writes m
inspiring message to his agents in a leaf
let, the title of which is “The World and
Ourselves.”
It contains more than an optimistic
feeling; it has a deep conviction that bet
ter days are not just around the corner,
that instead they have arrived. The edi
torial—it is really that—-is worth quoting:
When President Roosevelt ' issued his
recent appeal to the rulers,of the world,
urging that the nations join as neighbors
to work for a restoration of normal trade,
of prosperity and economiic safety, he
caused diplomats to gasp. Just such a
message, delivered in just such a forth
right, common-sense way, had never been
issued before. But it worked.
Around the world there was a joining
of hands and a quickening of realization,
now growing apace, that no. longer can
nations stand alone in aloof isolation. New
emphasis is given the fact that the depres
sion from which we are recovering is a
world depression, and that it is the busi
ness of all the nations not only to hasten
the retui-n of safe and sane social, econo
mic and industrial conditions, but to make
as sure as can be made that no such
malady be visited upon us again.
Within the last few days have come
abundant evidences of this momentous
movement of world harmony. War clouds
which hung ominou.sly on the European
This‘ Week In
''Washhq[ton&
Washington.—The trend ot the
Roosevelt ipollcies, if not their
ultimate outcoone, Is beginning to
become clear. Everybody has
been asking what the "New
Deal" Is going to be like. Well,
the preliminary shuffling of the
pack has been finished and
enough cards have been dealt to
give a pretty gocjd Idea of what
the rest will be. |
Summarizing the opinions of
several of the men closest to the
President, It can be said quite
definitely that tlfe program on
which the Administration has
embarked Is one of complete so
cial reorganization. It Is based
upon what Is, so far as practical
applications are concerned, a
new idea In American hlatory. It
Involves new conceptions of • the
relation of worker to employer,
of debtor to creditor, of the Gov
ernment to the people.
The theory of the “New Deal”
Is that the day of individualism
has passed; that - under the old
American syateip some people got
such too much and some too little out
of life: that it is the Govern-j
ment’s business, as Secretary
Ickes of the Interior Department
put it, to set up a social control
over the sources from which men
horizon have cleared away. And An»riea|«
again has proven her influence and her'
treedonn and freedom of con-,
tract, ^ ^
Bvldience that the JTealdent’s™
program and policlea, as thus
disclosed, are C receiving _ over
whelming support from the mass
Of the people bf the Un^gd States
leads majiy observers here to. the
bdlief that, it ths'plans laid down
work out in practice as well fas
they do in theory^ the "New
Deal" will he recognized general
ly, a few years fromTnow, as a
genuine revolution, " American
style. , , f
President’s Going SWlnuning
Very much depends upon Pres
ident Roosevelt’s continued good
health. Senator Copeland of New
York, who is a physician, looked
him over the other day and re
ported Mr. Roosevelt “One Hum
dred percent.” Because of his
physical affliction, the loss of the
use of his legs from infantile
paralysis in 1921, when he was
39 years old, the only form of
exercise which the President can
indulge in is swimming. The new
swimming pool in the Whife
House basement, paid for by
subscriptions /aised by several
newspapers, is about completed
and soon the President will be
able to take the daily exercise
which all of his predecessors
have found necessary to keep
them fit for their arduous du
ties.
Mr. Roosevelt has the happy
faculty ot being able to shake off
all worries when he goes to bed.
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fitness for leadership.
This international accord already has
accelerated the pace of Araerica”s own
economic recovery, and in anticipation of
the fulfillment of our national program
toward tariff and other readjustments
designed to restore our export trade, the
wheels of American industry are turning
with new speed.
The chairman of the Reconstruction Fi
nance corporation asserted on May 21st
that the experience of the corporation in
the la.st two months had revealed decided
evidences of national business recovery.
Throughout April, he said, banks had
been re-open'ng at the rate of one hun-
di'ed and twenty-five a week, and that the
rate of reopening had increased through
out May.
Resumption of industrial activities has
already given employment to hundreds of
thousands of those who were but recently
in the army of the unemployed; many
hundreds of thousands more will be called
back to work, not only into private indus
try, but in carrying out the national con
struction projects contemplated in the
administration program. Many millions
of dollars will be spent in
these projects.
An inspiring challenge and a great op
portunity are presented us. Better days
are not “just around the comer”—they
have already arrived. Let us make the
mo.st of them.
Wa.shington Short,s
A Nation of Eqnal.s I The apponitment of Dr. Ar-
The "New Deal," according to | thur E. .Morgan, President of
Professor Raymond Moley, As- Antioch College, to head up the
WUey Brooks and Jeter Crysel
The Motor Service Co.
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
sistant Secretary of State avid
the President’s closest confidant,
conceives the relationship of
worker and employer, debtor and
Muscle Shoals administration, is
not merely another case of
“profe.ssor” being put into an
executive Job. Dr. Morgan is one
creditor. Government and peo- of the most experienced and prac-
pie, as a common effort to unify | tical engineers in America, hav-
the people of the nation into a! i"g made a great reputation in
ge«uine nation of equals. Mr.! hydraulic engineering and flood
Moley refers to America’s ear- control before he was called up-
Where and How Loans Are Made
Under New Farm Mortgage Act
Her economic development as
having been actuated by what he
calls a wrong concept of the
right of one man to profit at the
on to succeed Senator Fess as
President of Antioch.
Whether Bernard M. Baruch
BRUCE BARTON WRITES
expense ot another.
Mr. Moley is the leader of the
so-called "brain trust" of the
Administration. He spend*? near
ly every forenoon with the Pres
ident, and so may be regarded as
voicing, in large part, the Presi
dent’s own ideas.
Another member of the “brain
trust,” Professor Tugwell. As
sistant Secretary of Agriculture,
said the other day that what
happened last Pall was not so
much an election as a revolution.
And the first purpose in the mea-
performing I sures which the President has
I put through, Mr. Tugweli holds,
is to make the Government a
more flexible instrument for
translating the wishes of the peo
ple into action.
Other Cabinet Interpretations
Secretary Wallace of the ,De
partment of Agriculture talks of
the “New Deal” as “social jus-
I actually heads up the industrial
control organization of the Gov
ernment or not, evidence of his
influence increases daily. His
close associate. General Hugh S.
Johnson, Is now talked about for
the po.st and certainly will have
some sort of administrative post,
most people think.
Former Governor Frank O.
Lowden of Illinois, who was a
strong contender for the Repub
lican nomination for President in
1928, is the most prominent Re
publican to date to cooperate
with this Democratic administra
tion. Gov. Lowden has been
brought in as an adviser in Farm
Relief matters, and is thorough
ly in sympathy with the pro
gram.
Silver advocates are rejoicing
at the outcome of recent confer-
tice,” and an effort to bring j ences between Secretary Hull and
Good News
W. R. Graeber, extension forester of
State College, furnishes the county agents
some good news indeed regarding the
position of North Carolina as a farm for
est state.
The facts which should be of special in
terest to our people of North Carolina are:
“North Carolina stands:
(a) Among Southern states:
) First in value of farm timber harvest.
Fir.st in per cent of farm area in
woods.
Fifth in area of all farm land.
(b) In the nation:
Third in value of farm timber har-
vr.st.
1 ■ Third in per cent of farm area in
' woods.
Third in area of farm woodland.
Twenty-first *in area of all farm land.
“Income per acre from North Carolina
farm woodlands, in 1929, averaged SI.28,
while in Tennessee it reached S2.40, in
Maine S3.53, and in New York .state
$4.47.
“Income per farm family from the
farm woods amounted to S54.10. In this
we rank above South Carolina with $36.88,
and Tennessee with $53.00, but below
Virginia whose average was $70.50. In
New York M’here forestry has been taking
first rank among farm problems the aver
age forest income per farm family jump-
eed to $101.74, in Massachusets to
$116.46, and in Maine to $202.88.”
These figures surely'suggest the possi-
bUities for/jiforth CaroliM fanners. Cer
tainly they show the position foreetly
holds in the matter of farm income.' ,
WKAK.XESS OF GENER-^LITIES j
"When you are going about your business, be |
as kind as you can. Be thoughtful of the other
travelers on the highways of life. Take time to
look for those who have fared less fortunately:
lend them a helping hand whenever you can.”
I say .lesiis might have uttered such generali
ties. But if He had, do you suppose that they
would ever have been remembered? Would the
disciples have recorded them? Would our age
ever have heard His name? He was far wiser
in the laws and habits of the human mind. In
stead of the common-place phrases written above,
He painted this striking picture:
A certain man went down from Jerusalem to
Jericho and fell among thieves.
There’s your illustration and your head-line. If
you had lived near Jerusalem or Jericho; if you
often had occasion to use that very road, wouldn’t
you want to know what happened to that unfor
tunate traveler?
“They stripped off his raiment,” the parable
continues, "and wounded him, and departed, leav
ing him half dead.” Pretty soon a priest came by
and seeing the victim said to himself: “That’s a
shameful thing, the police ought to do something
about these otitrages.” But he crossed over care
fully and passed by on the other side. A certain
respectable Levite also appeared. “His own fault,”
he .sniffed, “ought to be more careful.” .\nd he
too passed by. Then a third traveler drew near,
and stopped - and the whole world knows what
happened . . . Generalities would have been soon
forgotten. But the story*that had its roots in
every-day human experience and need, lives a«d !
will live forever. It condenses the philosophy of
Christianity into a half dozen unforgettable para
graphs. The parable ot the Good Samaritan is
the greatest advertisement of all time.
Take any one of the parables, no matter which
—you will find that it exemplifies all the princi
ples on which advertising text books are written.
Always a picture In the very first sentence; crisp,
graphic language and a message so clear that even
the dullest can not escape if.
Here is another one:
What Happened To the One Lost Sheep
W’hat man of you, having a hundred sheep. If
he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and |
nine In the wilderness, and go after that which is
lost, until he find it?
And when he hath found it, he layeth It on his
shoulders rejoicing. And when he cometh' home,
he calletb his friends and neighbors, saying unto
them, “Rejoice with me; for I have lound my
sheep whkh -was lost ” . , ,
I say UBto you, that likewise joy shall be in
heaven overdone sinner that repanteth, more than
about cooperation between
Government and the people to
make the new social order work
in a precise and well-balanced
way. Secretary Roper of Com
merce used similar language re
cently when he spoke of Govern
ment collaborating with business
in essential planning, and in na
tional controls of private en
deavor, to the end of greater
justice and broader happiness for
all.
Assistant Secretary Dickinson
of Commerce, who has had a
great deal to do with the rail-
'road bill, amplifies this. Denying
that the purpose of the “New
Deal” is to make labor and the
farmer wards of the Nation, he
says they should be given the
same protection granted to
“those at the top.” And Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., head of the
Farm Board, declares that the
“New Deal” Involves a readjust
ment of old ideas of commercial
the i delegates from silver nations to
* the economic conference at Lon
don. There is said to be full
agreement on remonetizing silv
er.
gi'E.STIOX AND ANSWER
Question; What is the best
crop to plant now for temporary
grazing this summer?
Answer: Sudan grass will
probably give more grazing dur
ing July and August than any
other crop sown at this time. If
this grass is sown on fairly fer
tile soil it will produce an abund
ance of excellent grazing within
six weeks of seeding date. Sow
about 35 pounds of seed to the
acre and apply 400 pounds of a
high grade fertilizer to the land
at seeding time.
Hicks: “What are you
in my swimming pool?”
Thick: “The sign said,
off the grass.’ ”
doing
‘Stay
-In the first two days after the
passage ot the federal emergency
farm mortgage act, applications
for relief were received from 1.-
269 farmers. Most of these ap
plications were sent to Washing
ton, indicating that few farmers
know where the federal land
banks of their districts are lo
cated.
There are twelve of these
banks, and in connection with
each of them a loan commissioner
to operate under the new law
has been appointed. These new
loans are made to refinance farm
indebtedness, provide- working
capital for farm operations and
to aid in the redemption of fore
closed farms. They are not, pri
marily, made for the purpose of
refinancing farm first mortgages.
That is to be done through the
federal land banks working in
connection with the present hold
ers of first mortgages.
Loans under the new law are
limited to $5,000 to any one
farmer. The amount that may be
loaned, added to existing mort
gages or other debts secured by
the farm property, cannot be
more than sufficient to bring the |
total debt up to three-quarters of |
the appraised value of the prop
erty. These are second mortgage
loans, repayable over a series of
years, and an agreement has to
be obtained from the holder of
the first mortgage that l.j will
not proceed against the farmer
for failure to pay the principal
of the first mortgage.
Applications for loans under
the new law should go to the fed
eral land banks for the district in
which the farm is located. The
third district land' bank, located
at Columbia, S. C., serves the
states of North and South Caro
lina, Georgia and Florida. Henry
S. Johnson, Columbia, is agent.
Farmers desiring to borrow
under the new law should write
for information to the agent for
their district. Address “Loan
Commissioner's Agent, Federal
Land Bank,” and the name of
the city in which district head
quarters are located.
It takes a little time to get
action. Local appraisers have to
be called in to look over the
property and examine title and
records of existing mortgages,
but the farm board promises to
move as fast as possible In each
case, and some loans were actu
ally made within a few days aft
er the law was passed.
The first loan was to Elijah
Purvines, of Sangamon county,
111., on a farm which he has
owned and operated for 31 years.
This was for $3,500 and was
made through the federal land
bank of St. Louis. The second
loan under the act was to W. H.
Chapman, of Whitney, S. C., who
borrowed $2,000 undter the act-"
on a first mortgage on his prop
erty.
Health Officer To Lecture
Midwive* of the County
Dr. A. J. Eller, county health
officer, is' giving a course of in
struction to midwives at the
Wilkesboro school building to
day. He will continue his lec
tures at four other points during
the next four days, midwlves be
ing required by law- to attend
these lectures. They begin at
9 a. m and continue until 4 p. m.
The remaining schedule follows:
|Traphill, Tuesday; Summit, Wed-
jnesday; Roaring River, Thurs
day; Honda, Friday.
SCHOOL BURNS
■Wake Forest, June 2.—Wake
Forest’s handsome 2-story pub- ’
lie high school was destroyed by
a fire which broke out shortly
before midnight last night.
Fire department officials said
they had no idea what caused
the blaze as the building was sup
posed to have been closed for
about two weeks, since the school
term ended.
The loss was estimated at
about $50,000, partially covered
by insurance.
"A: “I owe all I have to one wom
an.
B: “Your mother?”
A: “No, my landlady.”
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