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m a FOLTHCB ilMidaya *ik1 Tlmre^yt «l North W&mAoto.*^. C. CAStis %mi JUUU8 C HUBBAID, |LM BUBSCRIPnOjI ttATBSi Teu ia Um Stott; Oat of Om Btoto. SQ-' ^iWerod ot the post otfieo at Norto WUkooboio, ^ N. CL, u McH>d claw matter vader Aot of Mmh [4. 187». MONDAY, SSPTEMBER 11,1933 > You Pay For Insurance Frauds ■ Honest casualty insurance policyholders annually defrauded of millions of dollars .through faked claims. This isn’t suspicion, Int fact. Today one out of every four personal damage claims is 'likely to be fraudulent. Hard times have .:anade the problem most aoute. Dishonest doctors and lawyers seize on unemployed persons in need of money, and enter claims. ior accidents that have never occurred. The doctor testifies to imaginary injuries, the lowest tax the government ever placed on aloev«d community progr«i»—tiicM BNi the inevitable eorolkriea of wasteful and expen* slve fovemment. It ii time our law-tnakere read the handwriting on die walU^ Dryt Opun Fight •*Aa I see it, we can’t prevent, the repeal of the Biiditeenth Amendment, but we can let the world know how we stand on state prohibition... Repeal of the amendment ap* pears inevitable and our vote'will be relative ly unimportant in deciding the national movement for repeal, but it is tremendous ly important to state prohibition." It is Judge Johnson J. Hayes, judge of the middle federal district, firing the open ing gun of the fight against repeal in Wilkes county. With these.words, Judge Hayes launched the campaign which will terminate in the “wet and dry” election November 7. 'The federal jurist offered effective argu ments against ijepeal of the prohibition amendment. In his opinion, the arguments of the re- pealists to the effect that repeal will get rid of the bootlegger, that it will reduce crime, that it will reduce taxes are fallacious. The ByJOHNUElBAR CopyrlidJtod Applston 4 Co. D ^ '•■ti lawyer sues and in thousands of cases the insurance company is powerless and must pay, even when it is confident of fraud. Last year the casualty companies of the country liquor so far as he could remember was $1.10 per gallon. If the bootlegger can sup ply a five-gallon can of liquor for $5.00 ^nd stay in business now, he can certainly find paid out 96,000,000 to injured policyholders, ■ a market for his product in competition with an increased of more than 7,000,000 in 12 months. Company officials conservatively estimate that $14,000,000 of this—15 per cent—was crookedly obtained. Here is a real public problem. The casualty insurance companies are making an intense fight against the “accident racketeer,’’ and tliey helped send a number of offenders to prison. But they will never get far without yubllq interest and support, and a general Yealizatlon of a situation that penalizes every policyholder, congests the courts, is a con tinual source of trouble to the authorities, and has become an appreciable item in the cost of essential insurance protection. We Forget So Easily - At a time like this when hearts are griev ed at the electrocution of a Wilkes county man, the first Wilkes man to be killed legal ly since 1888, we would be the last to say anything "that would be likely to offend those who are moved so deeply by this unfortun ate event. But while the horror of a legal killing is fresh on our minds, we should not forget the other side of the picture. When we see punishment meted out, whether the punish ment be death or a long prison sentence, we are inclined to be sympathetic. We see the harshness of the present condition or oc casion as the case may be. The thing we forget is the sadness that it brought when the defendant with whom we sympathize snapped out the life of another man who wanted to live also, another man ■who cherished his wife and Toved the beau ties of nature, too. We forget so easily. We forget a God-given life was taken by the hand of The one whose life we would save. We forget that the slain man w'as a human being who breathed God’s air and en joyed what pleasures life held in store for him. We forget the sorrow his passing brought. We forget that he was ushered in to eternity without a moment’s notice and without a chance to prepare to meet his God. If we seem to be preaching, it is not so intended. We merely cite these facts because in a majority of cases we lose sight of the picture which the defendant drew by his thoughtless hand. government-taxed liquor^ if revenue is to be derived from legalized whiskey. Judge Hayes declared that of the court cases which came under his observation dur ing his service as solicitor, fully 75 per cent of them were directly or indirectly the re sult of liquor. Would providing liquor for everybody reduce crime if this is a true picture of the situation, he asked. It is a non-partisan, non-political matter, Judge Hayes declared, and every citizen ought to vote as he sees fit. Discussing the revenue side of the ques tion, Judge Hayes asked if there was a man or woman in the audience who wished to of fer their sons and daughters as potential taxpayers as consumers of liquor. With the address of Judge Hayes as a starter, the campaign of the wets and the drys promise to be replete with interest from now until election day. EIGHTH INBTALLMENT Rutk hkl baolMd to tb« door. At Ittttely oouod iptukioK; ■lowly tbt ftnftn of hit right htnd hogtn to rub hit (orthead. "ni tak« tho monty," breath- td Ruth', and ran out ot the room. She entered the adobe and •tood tor lereral minutes juat in side the door', her hand on the crib againit the wall, 8be trem bled so that she could hardly stand. After a time, she stepped beyond to the bed beneath the- wlndow and seated herself, chin on palm, her eyes 6n the strip of far horlson seen through the doorway. Her face was white and the four fingers ot the hand be neath her chin were pressed in a row against her lips. The sun had set; long shadows raced into the Talley. Near the grindstone by the kitchen door David’s small voice determinedly explained something to Sugarfoot. 'With her eyes still on the skyline, she went to the doorway. Part of that great expanse of land be longed to her. fhe rolling pas ture lands to the east might ex tend forever, for any sign of boundary. Behind her, she knew, the ranch extended to the moun- know tkW .value you set on it Suavely took three slow stepi to the girt's side. “I told you" yesterday," he said tensely, "that I didn’t want no money.’’ Again the girl forced herself to imile. "All right; the rsMli wlU need yon badly, : Of- course. It we do obtain Cartel, it .win- bare to be spent by soma one who understands what improve ments should he made." The man nodded, then said eaelly, "Ton goin’ down to the box? I’ll he rldin’ that way—I can take your letter for you. To day's the day the mall goes bi." “Thank you—but 1 haven’t had a ride for weeks. I think David and I will go." Ton won’t get there In time— with the boy. Thane'll be goin’ past inside of an hour. Better let me have it." Ruth hesitated. “Thank you," she smiled, "perhaps it would be beat for you to take It—If It Isn’t out of your way. I’ll get the let ter. But please catch my horse for me; I think I’ll take a ride anyway.” She hurried to the adobe, Suavely following. Her letter lay upon the table. For a moment she picked It up and going to the Let us put your car iii shape to give you dependable serv ice this fan. You can’t afford to have trouble and delay., out on the highway. Are your tires in good condition? If not, don't fail to figure with us before purchasing. We em save you money on tires, batteries and accessories tain tops—acres and acres, grass, trees, canons, hills. . . . Old Char ley had spoken as though the Dead Lantern was a wonderful ranch—feed enough for two thousand head—forty thousand dollars a year. But suppose he was wrong, suppose even, that the ranch could be made to earn only a quarter of that—the very amount she had just agreed to take for her entire interest. What would she and David do when that money was gone? Then I door gave it to Suavely with an other word of thunks. Ten minutes after he had rid den along the southern bank of the gulch, Ruth mounted her horse and followed. Tucked In her blouse was another letter to the Dempster Greys. JThls letter. David would have to go to work, WQey Brooke and Jeter Oryeel The Motor Senice Co. North WUkeiiboro, N. O. the Dempster Greys. *rhls letter, courage; she which she had Just written, 'was | something of what I too artistic with a branding Iron, one look Inside, David carried Old Charley praised the "fine' the box reverently to a rock some feed along the foothills there’’, distance away. There he seated with a gesture which included himself, wrapped in a rosy nlm- the whole Dead Lantern ranch, bus of bliss, the hat covering hfs These talks with the old man j small knees. It even had a horse hair band I a duplicate of the one she had I given Suavely ot what 'she had to do; she saw her ^ problem clearly. Old Charley had (Continued next week) [problem clearly. Old cnariey naa i PR^S CODE HEARING She left David with Ann. She | given her weapons with which to I WashiTipon. The hoped she wouldn’t meet Snave-] j-ight her battle; she was no long-^ ) h^anngs on the pr^ ly but, if so, she could say that L, quite so helpless. code for the newspaper pu^ W.-.J nyvvmfti-hlln.* I Vt I ^ lliSbini? ' T1/t»1 OT fVT WAlll/1 /\A«nn she had forgotten something in jiismng industry would 'oegin iiaviu nuu.u o- — 'l.fc'* 1 So wnnid t avoided Suavely ^“d 22, in the department of His inheritance could have been>the first letter. Perhaps he would, cptvAn hith o hint nf P fine cattle ranch, a wholesome take her letter td the mail box; life out of doors, a good educa-1 but he had seemed too eager tlon, and a reasonable number She knew that he would rather of opportunities afterward. not secure capital for the ranch. I Suppose she fought down her] Ruth saw no sign of Snavely. pride. Ruth could Imagine how Nor, when she reached the box, her stepmother would smile over had Snavely been before her such a letter. Pride. had not yet given him a hint of what she was learning. Later, she told herself, she would have suggestions to make; now she I waited for t’ae capital which did not come. commerce auditorium. NmCE Notice Is hereby given to all : parties Interested that John it come. Bumgarner, who was sentenced '— 'J f, 1 K >, ha,. I fifth Saturday since she months on the road on nlle over had Snavely been Deiore “er had placed her letter in the box, I June 12, 1933 by the Judge of . . Ruth there was nothing In the box but ^ puth and David were again wait-; the Mayor’s Court In the town had always been proud; how high she had held her head that day she had left home to go to Ken- Borrowed Comment A Tax-Destroyed Building Up to a short time ago a 20-story sky scraper stood in the famous Loop district of Chicago. The building returned a rent of $50,000 a year. A Chicago business man was offered the opportunity to buy it for $5.00. And he turned it down! Since then the building has been wreck- (pdj and the lot it stood on is being used for a parking space. This amazing little story appeared recent ly in the editorial colum ns of the San Fran cisco Call-Bulletin. As the knowing will have Bfuessed, the trouble with the building was taxes. 'They came to $40,000 a year. And the owners were in arrears an entire year. To continue to operate they would have had to pay out $80,000. The rent return didn’t jus- tifir it. And the result? Well, everyone lost: The ''owners of the building, who had invested money in it apd were finally forced to de-1 n^yer had to contend with an isth ftroy it in self-defense; the city, which 'was aihendinent.—Salisbury Post, t thousands in taxes;*and, lastly, the gen- jputJic, which must make up the taxes THE DANGER OF TURNING LOOSE HABITUAL CRIMINALS (Chapel Hill Weekly) Every newspaper reader must have noticed how frequently a person arrested for a crime Is found to be an ex-convict. The latest instance Is that of Harvey J. Bailey, captured, along with his ma chine gun. automatic rifle, and automatic pistol, in a Texas farmhouse. He is accused of the kid napping of Charles P. Urschel, the Oklahoma oil millionaire, and also of the murder of a Govern ment agent and three police officers In the Kansas City railroad station June 17. Bailey led the break in which 11 convicts es caped from the prison at Lansing, Kansas, In May. He was serving a lO-to-50 year sentence for a bank robbery. We recall that three or four years ago a man who killed a citizen ot North Carolina, and who was himself killed In Raleigh, had in his pocket papers which showed that he had been recently paroled from prison. The au thorities who signed his parole were signing the death warrant ot the law-abiding citizen whom he subsequently murdered. Students of crime and punishment, even those who are most sympathetic with efforts at regen eration, agree that there are habitual criminals for whom there ia practically no hope of reform. Their trade, and the!.’ only trade. Is to prey upon society. To whatever cause we may ascribe a professional criminal’s depravity—whether It is same disease of the 'brain for which he is not re sponsible, or bad upbringing, or early poverty and debasement chargeable to the defects of our social system—it is certain that, after bis charac ter and habits are thoroughly recognized, he should not be turned loose to resume his robberies and his killings. It he is not executed he ought to be locked up and kept locked up. A committee of the United States Senate has begun an investigation of racketeering, and at Its first open meeting, on Monday of this week. It listened to suggestions from well-known police and prison officials. One of the suggestions, of fered by Police Commissioner Bolan of New York, was that island prisons be established for harden ed criminals, In view of tho frequency of escapes, this seems rather a good Idea. A great deal bftt been written about the barbarous treatment of prisoners in the French penal colony on Devil’s Island, but there is no reason why an island pri son cannot be conducted jUBt as humanely as any other. The American public, we feellevei Would look with favor upon the Incarceration, In some remote place whence they could hot escape, of men who are determined to employ freedom, If they get It, in robbery and murder. the tin can. She determined to wait for Old Buc uau — o- -- Charley. She waited nervously, neth"^o,The could not beg to be' for she was worrying about Dav- taken back, but perhaps she Id. She had never left him before, could write a business letter to ^ . . She believed Ann would her father. |watch him carefully: but suppose For a long time Ruth stood in'she didn’t? David could slip out the doorway, her eyes following of sight so easily. He might step David as he played with Sugar- on a snake; he might wonder foot. Yes, she would write the what the fence around the old letter; what was pride compared j well concealed and find a way to with that pudgy-cheeked little crawl over, being? But, oh, that terrible man!, Ruth tortured herself on liau aava v —w ^ ^ uuc XAf XiTOO UJ tfUUfeC Of 1 Ruth and David were again wait-; the Mayor's Court In the town ing for Old Charley. North Wilkesboro, will make It was a great day for David— application to the Governor of had he not ridden the entire ■ Nortli Carolina for a parole ,7" , J u. - All parties Interested and do- distance on a spirited horse of protest the granting of his own, old Sanchez? And hej^ parole to the undersigned will had a new pair of chaps which ■ please file their protest with his mother had made from the Governor or Pardon Commission- brown canvas of an old army er of North Carolina, cot. And last week mother had! 'This 27th day of Aug. 1933. ordered some things which Uncle JOHN BU. GARNER. Charley was to get in tSwn. The j roost Important of these things was a small cowbov hat I execution to with; anH'™® directed from the Superior UC1U6 ^ i-iwi., v.«» V—- — — , ,, , The eyes of both mother and winrAa Ponntv in>> In the ranch house! 'Where was such thoughts for half an hour 1 ^ action entitled Ykdkln*^'’ the strength to fight her fear? more. 'Finally, ' the northeast, where a strip of'valley Motor Co., against R. L. brown road stood out on a small Hendren, commanding me to Ann left the ranch house on around, she put the letter in the the path which led to the barn, box, carefully placed the can on The giantess eyed Ruth curious- top as a signal to Old Charley to jy pick up the mall, and started j “Hello, Ann.’’ Ruth smiled un- hack. ! decidedly. i minutes after she had dis- i The huge woman paused. "Mr. appeared Snavely rode out of a I Snavely says to git out the buck- ravine three hundred yards north I board I’m goin’ to take you-all of the ranch road and galloped lover to Thane’s place so’s you j toward the mall box. .He had I kin go In with him tomorrow.” just reached a brush-bordered i Ruth put out her hand as gully, still some distance from dun-colored hill. For Ruth, this! levy upon the property of R. L. was the last day of grace: a let-,Hendren to satisfy said execu tor could have traveled twice to J J u 1 . me on the following property Philadelphia and back since that 1 prescribed by law, I will, on moaning at the mall box. ' - . . . _ . , Ten minutes after the ca- j though begging for time. The hand trembled. Slowly she stood up. “N-no, Ann.” The girl walk ed swiftly past her and entered jthe living room ! she called. the bo:. when Old Charley’s car swooped over a hill on the main road and disappeared at the bot tom. The car would be at the “Mr. Snavely,” j box very soon. Snavely brought his horse to I The door of Snavely’s bed- ^ a sliding stop, forced It into the I room opened at once and he look-' gully and dismounted. Igj j A forty-five barked from the j "I’m sorry, but I’ve changed' gully and a splinter flew from I my mind"—Ruth chilled as she 1 the top of the mail box. At the spoke—“I don’t want to go back next shot the can fell to the I on my word—I can’t help it. The ground. ' money you offered me wouldn’t | Shortly after, Old Charley I be enough. I must have a steady drove past, glancing at the bare income—something I can depend top of the mall box. -When he Ion for years. Don’t you see? I’ve was quite gone Snavely rode just got to stay here and make leisurely out of the gully, this ranch pay. I’m writing East 1 * * for capital. I—if you'd help, I’m j For three consecutive Satur- gufe ’’ She paused, then days Ruth and her son were straightened and said clearly. | waiting at the mail box when Old "Mr. Snavely, this Is all I have; j Charley arrived. She was by this It’s all my son can ever have time expecting an answer to her from me or his father. I’ve got to ^ letter. And though no letter make it a big ranch. I’m going to , came. Old Charley always man- 'stay!’’ I aged to have a magazine or two, Snavely did not move, nor did which, together with the news- Monday, 2nd day of October, — - 1933, at 2 o’clock p. m. at the ,came over the hill, it appeared ■ Court House door In Wllkesboro, galloped ^ hundred yards down the'N. C. offer for sale for cash to road and the horn gave Its cus- the highest bidder all the right, tomary wheeze of salutation. . “tie. interest, and estate of the T. *1. * rvij defendant R. L. Hendren. In and Ruth saw that Old Charley had ^ following tract ot land a passenger—It must be his son, gjtuated in Wllkesboro. Will; she remembered that he j Beginning on the Southeast was expected this week. A single corner of Salem and Winston glance told her that Will Thane isireet and runs north 75 degrees was the first civilized person she 139’ east along the south side of had seen since leaving he East. .Winston , . , thence south 14 degrees 21 east It seemed years since she had.^gp ^ seen a man in a tailored 1 margin of the alley; thence south ness suit, white shirt, an actual {75 degrees 39’ west along the collar and tie. As they were In- north margin of the alley 60 ft. trodiiced, she saw that he smil-, to a stake of the east margin of ed exactly like his father. The' Salem street; thence north 14 young man seemed a si'ent, ob servant sort—not so very younP j beginning. And being lot No. either—she put him down as be-1^4 m block No. 3 as shown on Ing on the other side of thirty. "Any mall for—the Dead Lan tern?’’ she asked Old Charley in a casual tone. "Nothing but the papers. But I got all the stuff you wanted." He smiled, beginning to take packa^s from the machine. One of these, a roundish box of card- g.25-4t. board, he gave to David. After By Old Wiles, D. S. degrees 21’ west along the east side of Salem street 150 ft. to the beginning. And being lot No. 14 in 'block No. 3 as shown on the Winston Lands and Improve ment Company's map of the eMt end of Wllkesboro. Said map recorded In book 18, page 131, to which reference Is made for more definite description, to satisfy said execution. This 2nd day of Sept., 1933. W. B. SOMERS, Sheriff. J the buiMingr would nonnally pay. Reptile’s Bite Cancels Expert’s Talk on Snakes.’^ —Headline. It will do it nearly every time.—^ICacon old story of acc^ive'taxation, -- . he make a sound; with pale eyes paper for which Ruth had sub- 'cantracted to silts, he looked at' scribed, made a welcome little ‘ the girl for a moment, then his bundle. The old man also saw I head withdrew and the door that she received a small weekly closed softly. jdeyoted to Arizona cattle rais- 1 ♦ • • era. I Breakfast the n®*t morning 1 2'jl the most Important part ’iria i silent titiii?: Snavely seem-J of these weekly meetings was toe ed Wholly th&orbed with his food, hour or so of convemtloa With 'bht there was a tenseness about | the old man. lixty years he his every movement. , , had raised eiluft In this part 1 As she was leaving the room, the Saa JOTge 'Valley and he J Snavely looked up. “Any time lOTed, to “talk ranchln’.’’ ■ you get enough of this here place | Ruth progressed rapidly In her an’ want to take me up on that education from the aimless ask- ' deal, jest say so." Ing. of questions to toe brisk for- I She paused and tried to smile, matlon of plans. The talk often I “Thank you, 1 shall remember, turned upon the building up of But first I’m going to see what herds and ranch improvement, can be done with capital—I’m Old Charley seemed to know hf writing BMt thlii morning." instinct Just what Ruth wanted j "VJ'hat if you don’t git It?" to learn most. She Ibarned that ''Weft-^petoaps then we can It Is often possible to do mnch 'make hotne 'other arrangement, wlthont capital; Htet cne may Snavely—If 1 am auccessf nl even Increase the quality and- woiidwN=^would you sell me snmher of one% cattlo without^ '.yp* quarter Interest? I’d like to spending huge bums ot becoming d 'O- .--v.-' -- MY OWN TASTE HAS CONFIRMED THE FAQ* THAT CAMELS ARE BEST FOR STEADY SMdKEftS ItHEY are MILOER..TMIV Never] WEAR OUT THEIR WELCOME ! Ccuneii ceil ■ *0 " ,/lUtferlSn
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