wm N RATES: One Year $2.0? (In Wfkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $S.t? (totaide Wflkes and And Adjoining Counties) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.0? ? i ? at the 5oro, North inder Aft of Monday, Sept. 1, < Deplorable Incidents In Highway Patrol ~ Recently there have been some deplor able incidents in the highway .patrol in North Carolnia, but as a whole the patrol is a highly efficient organization. The patrol is in process of expanding, but it is necessary to add many men to the patrol to get the required strength. It is inevitable that of the number being added some will not be of the calibre necessary to make the patrol what it should be and what the public expects of it. In one instance an escaped convict who was captured was flogged by patrplmen, which at this distance seems to be a very unnecessary procedure on the part of the highway officers. A patrolman who elects to take the law into his own hands and deal out punish ment has no business being an officer. Of course, the patrolmen are often dis gusted because violators they captured are turned loose by the courts. But in. this land of government by law and not by men it is necessary that the officers -4e?ve the matter of punishment to the courts. No one man under our system of government has the. right to judge with out trial and to punish, and that is as it should be. Patrolmen often are assaulted by per sons they are trying to arrest. Sometimes a driver will try to run over a patrolman, and of course an officer whose life has been endangered will have the very natur al impulse to give the prisoner a "going over." There is the test of a good officer.' If he gives in to his desires he is beneath the dignity of a law enforcement officer, because punishment belongs to the courts. Here is some interesting editorial com ment oh this subject from The Charlotte Observer: The State Highway Patrol of North Carolina should not be condemned on the basis of recent deplorable incidents in volving some of its personnel. If there be any who are disposed to criticize severely this valuable and efficient agency of law enforcment, they should remembek the excellent record the patrol has maintain ed during the many years since it was created. Patrolmen are and have been selected with great care. "The killing of the Cherryville chief of police by a patrolman in Cleveland county a few days ago and the alleged flogging of an escaped convict by three patrolmen in Halifax county about the samel time were incidents of a character virtually or quite unknown to the highway patrol dur ing all the years of its history. "In view of its long past record of good conduct and efficient service on the part of its personnel, the highway patrol is not likely to be condemned by fair minded people for the regrettable and sensation al affairs of recent days. Tne killing of the Cherryville police chief, it should be remembered, occurred under circum prompted a coroner's jury H. J. Hatcher, head of the Patrolmain Dayton as a "justifiable bore-;a;%hife that he was being at he was attempting gross violation of if Vehicles department, Colonel and Solicitor Tyler resulted in their im mediate resignations and official steps to prosecute them for assault. "In 'manhandling' the prisoner, as ad mitted in their signed confession, they committed acts which the State Highway Patrol has never tolerated." Borrowed - ? SOFTENING SERGEANTS W ;k" (Reidsville Review) Leadership instead of bullying is the aim of new army regulations just an nounced by General Devers, army groum forces commanded