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THURSDAY. MARCH 29, 1934 It Write# lU Own Piece . Whatever one’s views upon the wisdom of writing .prohibition into the funda- flamtal law of the land; whatever one’s views about the repeal of that“ “experi ment noble in motive,” and whatever one’s views as to the best method of handling the liquor question, there is hardly any argument that the teaching of temper ance is much to be desired. The argument that the prohibition amendment infringed upon personal liber ty was foremost when the repeal move ment was in full swing. There was con siderable argument, and not entirely with out foundation, that prohibition had fail ed to prohibit and that racketeering, kid naping and other form of crime had in- . creased and, in fact, were an outgrowth of prohibition. The question before the in telligent voter was which method of at tempted liquor control was the better. Arthur G. Staples, veteran editor of the Le'viston (Maine) Evening Journal, print ed a somewhat humorous letter, which antedates repeal, from a correspondent who seemed to have taken some offense at the editor’s “opinion on the duty of good people to obey the law.” 'The letter, which presents the personal liberty theme, follows: To the Editor: You seem to take a good deal of delight in telling other people how to live and perhaps that is your business, but it seems to me that you exceed your duty when you arrogate to yourself the right to inform all of thosf who may hap pen to enjoy an occasional drink of “Scotch” on occasions- I have been presented a fine bottle of Scotch whiskey for Christmas and it is before me as I sit at my typewriter and indite this letter to you. It bears the label of Sandy MacDonald—a good, fair, well-bodied liquor which I am assured was bought before th’ war and has been in my friend’s cellar ever since- What right has any form of Law to make me a criminal if I partake of this gift as it was intended that I do by the giver? I claim that any such law is an invasion of my personal liberty- I notice that you have re ferred often in your excellent column to the so- called Bill of Rights which secures to all men an4 women certain inalienable rights to their personal liberty, which, as you say, are not in consistent with the right of others. How do you reconcile your statements? I have just tasted of this bottle of liquor, I will confid-* to you, and I cannot see where I am inr .ding the rights of any other person on earth. I find it excellent. It warms my stomach; it inspires my thought. I cannot feel, Mr. Edi tor, that I have wronged the community or add ed to the lawlessness of the general society in BO (^oing- It makes me tired to be classed as a criminal for any such occasion, and I notify you that before long there will be a revolt against the sort of stuff you are writing. Just to show my independence of such truck as you are writing I have taken another drink of the aforesaid most jubilant Sandy MacDon ald. and I will say to you that it is about as smoote a drink as a Criminal ever put into his system. The second drink, which I shall soon follow by a third, makes me more certain that those who feel their systems require stimulant, should band together; organize and start a cam- - paign to floor this VolsWd business if it can be done. Now, Mr. Editor, I am no bum and you can’t make me a bum. I like a little drink now and tiicn and I have taken a third >r maybe it is a fourth an-d I am more than ever convincew that any man thqt doen’t is a dig idot. You say that this evabion of the law is producign a st6te of stairs in our Grear nand Grorious Country. You are wronh- This ciuntry is jess as good as it ever ms and I will leabo it to you f iit wasnSt, when we had free rum I want to say to you that this S'citch is all rig^t- A lot of it would’t do us harm. 'When we ened stimulany we need it. My grandafyer was hrougr up on rum. They had it the housd all the time- They dranj it freely and even the min- atew drank it when he came to our bousa. It8s a pretty kinf of a cointry when a garndson is better than hsi gunfaher. I can drink this sort of Scutcg all day and not be no wrose a citoxen than I was befors- I could drinq this whole qoaat audd neger quiber an etela.sh. Bne whay I wneat o f yiu is to remund ym oner agaiaian abd agnain thqt you arw dead wrenh ib comsfenging evert bony whu drinls as a boohm. We ain;t crialals. I will sat inexloailig, thyt i wig you a2meRrT CUkywax” an %haooy Ner Yrare” x xx Sexcevtfillu Yioytdx 08Bd%t Swrv-%T Hy ; ficb oyur frden Wilile Bi FuiLe ri a —o i—B18cotchtakpv88A-MB bSy Justified Ciuirges The eerviee chsTges whidi »re now in effect in the banking institutions of North i' Wilkesboro are not unreasonable and are justiHed. The banks are members of the Federal Deposit Insurance ‘‘CJorporation, guaran teeing to all depositors a full paymCiit of their deposits up to ^2,500. This is an item of expense not incurred by the banks prior to January 1. ? 'The national administration found a serious banking problem on its hands in March of last year. Banks were being closed in the faces of depositors who sought to withdraw their life’s savings. That such a condition might not arise again. President Roosevelt asked for and got legislation designed to prevent deposi tors from such losses. That this protection should be paid for is not unreasonable. When one takes out life insurance or in sures his property against fire, theft, tornado, etc. he expects to pay for it Therefore, when he puts money in the banks and desires absolute protection, he should not kick at a reasonable Service charge. The new program of banking is design ed to allow the banks a fair profit for their services, to protect the depositor and to guarantee the community continued banking service. It is the most foi'ward- looking step in recent banking history. Friendship What constitutes friendship and what it means have furnished Subjects for many beautiful essays and poems. To this line of thought, Don Marquis, more often thought of as a leading humorist, gives his ideas in the April issue of the American Magazine. One paragraph of his article gives a side of friendship that is often overleeked. Says he: “Many of my friends are far more friendly when all is fair weather with me. This is natural, and carries no reproach with it. When one is successful and happy he radiates an atmosphere which is attractive. When he has permit ted a defeat, or a success, to make him glum, people get fed up on him, and rightly. In friendship, as in other rela tionships, you take out what you put in.” Did you ever think of friendship in that light ? Did you ever realize that you alone are responsible for the attitude of others toward you? Think it over. Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN confessing and following CHRIST I.«sson for April 1st. Matt. 16:13-26. Golden Text: Matthew 16:16. Our first lesson in the Secon,! Quart'T, as signed for Blaster Sunday, deals with an episode of very critical importance, the confession of Peter at Caesarea Philippi. For w’ have reason to believe that here Jesus revealed His Messiah- ship to His discipis for the first time, and that here they first acknowledged it. Now there is one verse, the famous 18th, around which the fires of controversy have raged fiercely. What d*d Jesus mean by “this rock”? Did He msan Himself? Did He mean Peter, as the Church of Rome insists, or Peter’s confe.ssion, as many Protestants contend? We shall never know. But whatever the Master had in mind at the moment He spoke these thrilling words, we can safely identify the rock upon which the church is founded with all three of the supports just mentioned. Christ is a rock, the chief corner-stone of the Beloved) Community: Peter, the intrepid leader of the twelve, is a rock. And Peter’s noble confession is also a rock, a Gibraltar standing foursquare against all the winds that blow. And because the church is built upon so im pressive a rock, .“the might of Hades shall not triumph over it.” Many deny this. Pessimists are abroad in the land inspiring a defeatist attitudie. Magazine articles have recently appeared de claring that the churches are bankrupt, that they are failing to take care of their poor, and that 20,000 preachers ar? looking for a job. An elab orate report, just off the press, asserts that there are, in this country, at least 86,000 feeble churches unable to command the full-time serv ices of a minister. All this makes people suspect that the church of Christ is doomed. Both the working classes and the intelligentsia have little use for or ganized reUgion. -But there is certainly a size able “remnant,” to use a favorite of Isaiah^ who are de-ply devoted to the household of .faith, and will enable it to weather the present crisis. Now we know what th difference between Manchukuo and the United States is. When an American postmaster’s hat wouldn’t fit in his car. he got a new car. When the emperor of Manchukuo’s hat wouldn’t fit in his car, he lowered the seat—Boston Evening Transcript. Those dull thuds you hear these days are the bootleggers kicking themselves for not having the sense to call it “blending” instead of cutting. —Judge. The liquor-consuming public has strong ob jections to paying unreasonable prices for poor liquor except vdtea it’s illegal.—Southern Lum berman. ..... - Washington, March 27. (Auto- caster)—The labor question is at the top In Washington's official problems as this Is written. A great deal binges on the outcome of the union situation In the automobile Industry. It fs not yet Clear whether the Administration intends to back up the American Federation of Labor, which has shrewdly taken the best possible advanUge of the provhdon for collective bargaining in the Na tional Recovery Act. or whether it will content itself merely with seeing to It that organizations of employees are not dominated by their employers. The Federation is engaged in a vigorous attempt to establish the principle that no union is a good union unless it is an A.F.L. union. Employees In many Indus tries have organized their own unions. In every case the Feder ation has set up the claim that these “company” unions do not give the employees the right to choose their own spokesmen for bargaining purposes with their employers. In some Instances they are doubtless right. In oth er instances they have been able to get a few hotheads, discontent ed and dismissed employees to set up the claim that they have been discriminated against. General Johnson, administra tor of N.R.A., has accepted the company union In one of the most important cases, in which he is satisfied the eniployers kepi their hands off and still the workers voted to organize inside the company. That doesn't pleare the Federation, which wants its own men to act as employees’ spokesmen. Usual I.j»bor Reaction One result of this situation is a larger number of strikes, and larger strikes, than have been known for many years. Some of the cooler heads In ^Washington regard this strike situation calm ly. They point out that every period of recovery from past de pressions has been marked by labor strikes and disturbances. Any revival in business looks like a good time for workers to demand a bigger slice of the pre sumptive profits. So, these ex perienced oldsters say. the re covery must be under way, else these labor leaders would not be making such a disturbance. It seems pretty clear from the point of view of Washington that recovery i s progressing, not steadily but by fits and starts. March has been a better month than February was, so far. The outlook for April is even better. But there is nothing clear yet as to how things will be going in May and June, and some new doses of inflationary stimulant, in one form or another, may be necessary before Summer is well under way. The Administration has still a good many medicines \ in its saddle-bags that haven’t been tried on the patient yet. ('apit.'il for Industry is 08 OB fiirity. And W sttm^is ztUt s msjor toptt oi*"' timt here. ** Nobody knows. Just who Cap tain Eddls// Rlckenbackar.^famoos war-time f'see" ■ avlator,TBid In mind whito he denounced . the “traitoroBB advisers'* of tho President in hid statement be fore the Senate committee in vestigating the air mail, but it le certain that the unanimity of his attitude and those- of CoL Lindbergh and Clones Cham berlain have ^d a great effect upon public and official senti ment. ^ Beyond question, those on the Urtldw say. 4hs-#ir amUs-^will ^peedljy -be^turned bach to the knoi^ fiotr kre equipped to fly them, and tBere will be a sweeping organiza tion of the mlHUry flying forces. The weakness of the Army avi- ation system, under which avla- tSrs get only about four hours flying a month, aolnst 90 hours for commercial aviatora. He# In the economy urge which impels the department heads to inquire why so much gasoline was used. “Flash” Campa^ On It looks from hero as if politi cal opposition were beginning to take organized shape. A group calling itself the “Republican Builders,” financed by nobody knows, who, but directed by a very able newspaper man, Julian Mason, formerly editor 'of the New York Evening Post, is con ducting an active propaganda campaign to cryatalllze opposi tion sentiment. How far it will get nobody can guess as yet, but it la evidence that the political ] Gitr A nsKj ' VltAM MASK MS.tMI.aAT. Off. BA’TTERIES SEAT COVERS ... UKRAL > TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE $2.00 UP $1.50 UP WILEY BROOKS and JETER CRYSEL The Motor Serrice Co; NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. campaign of 1936 has begun. BURKE COUNTY GIRL SUCCUMBS TO BURNS President Roosevelt has en dorsed the stock exchange bill to control stock manipulations and asked that Congress pass it with out change. Morganton, March 26.—Har- I ret Jean Absher, six, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pink Absher of Enola, Burke county, died about noon today in Grace hospital from burns received Saturday. When her mother went out of the house, Jean, was standing near a fireplace. Her dress be came ignited and she rushed screaming from the bouse. Her mother tore off her dress and rushed her to the hospital. She is survived by her parents, three half brothers and one half sister. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at Pleas ant Hill Baptist church. It is predicted that dental fil lings of the future will be non- metallc, chemically inert, and na tural-looking. A TONIC Laxative CONSTIPATION, with the annoy ing symptoms ttot usually corns with it, cuts down organic force and ^tnrbs normal health and well-being. A thorough cleanaing of the digestive tract Is of great assistance in the removal of sick ening constipation symptoms. When excessive accumulated waste matter disturbs and straina the muscles of the large intestines, rendering them temporarily un able to perform their wave-like evacuating movements, Thedford’s Black-Dranght is useful in stimu lating them to activity, which, again started, should continue regularly until some future dis turbance interferes. In this way, Thedford’s Black-Draught is one of the TONIC laxatives, tending, aa it dose, to estabilsh a regular Bablt of evacuation. Williams Auto & Radiator Shop Phone 131—North Wilkesboro. Radiator Repairing, Bo^ Re- building. Motor Blocks Rebored, Extensions Welded in Track Frames, General Repair Work a SpecialiY. T. H. WILLIAMS, Owner. Imperial Casket Company Wholesale and retail distributors Coffins, Caskets, Metal Vaults. Direct factory representatives. SALES AND SHOW ROOMS Second Floor F. D. Forester Bldg. North Wilkesboro. N. C. eiG EASTER MIDNIGHT SHOW Sunday Night, April 1st LIBERTY THEATRE There seems little doubt that some form of legislation per mitting “capital loans” to indus try, from R.F.C. funds in part and in part by authority to Fed eral Reserve Banks to rediscount long-time paper, running three to five years, will be enacted be fore Congress adjourns. What is holding back industry is shortage of capital funds. Tho.se are usually raised, in normal times, by new stock and bond issues. Under the Securities Act private capital Is afraid to invest and corporations are afraid to offer new' securities. Commercial banks cannot and should not make long-term loans. So the Government must come to the rescue in a new direction, and in addition to providing for these long-term loans the expec tation is that there will be some changes in the Securities Act to enable the obtaining of capital funds from the huge reserves of private capital which is anxious to find investment in industry but has been hampered in doing so. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. HEAR YE! HEAR YE! NO PICTURE, ALL VAUDEVILLE! ONE AND ONE HALF HOURS OF FUN FOR ALL. “Tlie Franklin and Montrose Vaudeville Revue” that has been touring all the Northern and Eastern States playing the R.E.O. and Loews Circuit wiill give the people here the opportunity of witnessing one of the Vaudeville units classed by the Press and Public as an uptown show. A FEW OF THE ACTS YOU WILL SEE— Joe Franklin presents the Six Franklins, known as the Franklin Tronpe Arab ian TumUine and Ladder Woriters, who will defy you counting revolutions. Classy Acrobatics, defying gravitation. George Monti'ose, Master of Cere- mcmy, who puts over a stepping diuidy of the late minntes of per- feetion, which makes Harry Rich mond wonder. Cabinet (Tianges Rumored Washington gossip has it that j at least .three,members of thej Cabinet may be replaced before! long. The feeling that Secretary Dern of the War Department Isj letting the generals run things is j said to-be worrying the Presl-j dent. There is a growing belief! that the attorney-general, Homer j Cummings, is too easy-going and j too easily influenced into hasty j action. And even in the Presi dent's own Intimate circle a great deal of dissatisfaction is being expressed about the Postmaster General, Mr. Fariey. This la to some extent based upon the feel ing that he put the President in hole on the air-mail matter and Kasey and Kasey, the Duke and Duch ess of Rhythm, clever and good to look at Pearl Osborn, Torch Singer. Little Dolly Thon in “Doll Moments,” one good twist and torn deserves maotiier. Cute, Pretty, Clev» and How! Thelma Rankin will sing and dance as you like it Montrose and Pearl. femiBine ftfOs, bmties and bows, in “Grandma’s Albonu” Duke and his-six beautiful girls will give you many moments in the most intricate Tap Dancing. They know their taps and save them selves in no way to bring you the b^. 9rt m- The Meljean Sisters wiU entertain you with their Art Dancing. “Joe and His Pals,” in “Puttin’ on the Dog.” A dog act feataring three nimUe little animals that stand on one leg on the extended finger of their master, as wdl as perform ing other difficult aerobatics. You must see this to appreciate what can be done with man’s most be- ^lovedpaL This is the most novd of all dog acts, having played in all the countries of the world. This is ail blended into a Revne that is fun of color. This harmony is assisted by^^Yanklin and Montrose Stege Orchestra”. ' let it develop so that the blame BRAME’S RHBUMA-LAK FOR RHEUMATISM ^ Quick fteUef R. M. BRAME A SON Nertli N. G
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