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The Sanford Express. P. H. St. Clair, ft I* St. Clair, Publisher*. o Sanford, N.C, June 2ft 193ft WHAT IS HAPPENING TO COTTON ? v ' It begins to look like the people of this section had as well quit try ing .. to raise . c otton. In fact, some ' of the farmers have already quit the fleecy staple ana turned to tobacco and other things for a money crop. There is a reason for this. In ad dition to the boll weevil there are other far-reaching causes for the de . dine of cotton here. They1 can .raise cotton so much cheaper!* .Texas and other parts of the world that North Carolina’s great cash crop and textile industry are seriously threatened. It looks like the day of expansion is at an end. New uses have been found for cotton but the world demand for it now is little more than it was 20 years ago. A apodal writer in the New York Herald Tribune sizes up the situation this way: " Texas is now the greatest cotton producer of all the Southern Stated. The rise of cheap cotton fields there is one- of the reasons why the day of expension in the Southeastern cotton mills is nearly over. Another rea son is the fact that similar great areas are beginning to grow cotton in other parts of the world, and they, too, can produce the Southeast’s “one great ,cash crop” more cheaply. *he proportion of the world's cotton supply produced in Dine has been de creasing steadily for several years. I The proportion of short staple cotton —the poorer grades—has been in creasing steadily in Dixie for several years. The American shprt staple, less than an, inch in length, has come into competition with the . -.swelling output of short staple production in India, China and Africa.- The com petion of these foreign fields has re duced the price t>f the American pro duct on the world market until the re ward for raising poor cotton in Dixie is poverty. I Yet Dixie raises mere and more' poor cotton. I The fanners of the Southeast, producing a low quality crop, have a rival producer of sttfrt,staple cotton nearer at home than t& distant Orient: In the annual growing con test conducted by the Dallas News Texas cotton growers have - demon strated that they can raise a crop at a cost of three to five cents a pound. No grower in Dixie can meet a the Production!, oi poof cotton Texas must win. POLITICAL WORKERS. Many people in Lee county wil dodbtless endorse every word of Ok following article which we find in th< last issue of the Lumberton Robeso aian: “Wq wish our representatives to the Legislature would cause to be passed a law and devise some means of enforcing it that would prohibit candidates for the various political offices of hiring men and women to solicit and oftentimes to buy votes for them. There seem to be people who look forward to the election not as a time when they will have an op portunity to cast their vote for the WUBAM-tkwit »Mnb tho m«gf .competent;to fill the office for which they are a candidate for but as a time when they can enrich themselves more or less financially. "There ought to be passed an en forced a law prohibiting any one from fixing or marking anybody’s , bzallot other than their own. If a man or woman is not intelligent .-enough to Vote without .the assistance of some paid'hireling of some politi cian, or any one else, for that matter, they are not intelligent enough to de cide who has the best qualifications for intelligently filling the public of fices of the greatest country in the world. , ... ^ uuu &■ maun, muse wno are i ^ holding jpublic offices ami are being! pud their salaries from the tax pay-1 er’s money should be allowed toi spend their time canvassing and so-| hciting votes for the candidates of s their choice. If they can find time' away from their duties for the; greater part of several weeks then] they are not evidently earning their salaries, and some of the offices should be abolished and the work di vided among the remainder so as to give them employment for a reas onable number of hours per day.” The farmers in this section are new kept so busy fighting the boll weevil and the grass, that they hard ly have time to come to town even on Saturday to do their trading and look after other-business matters. Most of, thoae wfio were here last Saturday came in late in the afternoon or at night. They realize the importance • of putting the boll weevil and grass out of-business before they lose con trol of the situation. One planter in formed The Express that he had even found boll weevils on his tobacco, they will hardly find as much pleas ure in puncturing tobacco leaves as , cotton bolls. Tobacco is much earlier this season than last and during the past week or two many of the plant ers have been kept busy topping it. While making a trip through the lew er section of the county Monday we noticed tobacco along the highway al-' meet six feet tall. The leaves were very large and the weed has a splen : did color. One farmer informed us a- that he expected to be curing tobacco •aity ta July. The crop promises to be the best ever raised in this aec «Mh THE PRESIDENT SEEMS MORE WET THAN DRY Mr. Hoover Hastens to Sup port Dwight Morrow, Nomin ated for the Senate on a Wet Platform, While He Has No Word of Encouragement for Candidates Running on a Dry Platform—Republicans Not Botnered Witn Convictions of It—Is A Question of Staying on Top. (Editorial Correspondence.) Washington, June 24.—The country has now been made a witness to an other remarkable spectacle of the in sincerity and hypocrisy of politics as it is practiced by the Republican party. The morning after Dwight Morrow was nominated by the Re publicans of New Jersey for United States Senator on a wet platform by a majority of 300,000, Herbert Hoov er hastened to assure Mr. Morrow that he would support his candidacy with all his mind and soul at the polls in November. Drys in both parties here stood aghast at the statement, and the wets threw up their hats with a shout: “We told you so. The President is now wet, having seen the light since he was inaugurat ed. He never was dry and the Mor row victory has given him the cour age now to say so.” now comes me news mac mr. mor row will in a few days be given a no table reception at the White House. But in Illinois, Pennsylvania Maine and one or two other states the Re publicans have nominated drys for the Senate, and not one of these candidates have been congratulated publicly by Mr, Hoover, or been re ceived at the White House. Why has an exception been made in the case of Mr. Morrow? “Oh, weiii we are told by the sup porters of the President, it is be cause Mr. Morrow is an exceptional man, a great leader, an economic statesman of the first rank. With Mr. Hoover, Mr. Morrow's opposition to prohibition is of no consequence whatever, and the-fanatieal wets who are now shouting for Mr. Morrow as the Republican candidate on a wet platform, for President in 1932, might as well understand he is no Don Quixote fighting wind mills. \ The fact is, no event in many moons has so greatly disturbed Re publican leaders as the candidacy of Dwight Morrow on a wet platform for tile Republican nomination for United States Senator from the wet State of New Jersey, and his unpre cedented majority produced » near* panic among these , leaders. His r treat wet majority has set up the standard of revolt in all the G. O. P. Morth Eastern States against prohi bition. The Morrow victory showg. that the Republicans are as badly split as are their antagonists, "• Bu( there is a 'wide difference be tween the two parties in a division in their ranks over a moral issue like prohibition. No Republican President since prohibition was adopted - has been a -genuine-believer in the inform. Calvin Coolidge has admitted in some of . his magazine writings since he left the Presidency that he has no heart for prohibition, and some of Mr. Hov- ’ er’s closest friends report him as looking upon prohibition as “an im practical experiment.” Two years age he wrote to Senator Borah that it was ‘‘a noble experiment.” But whether Mr. Hoover has any real convictions onthe subject or not, be has given the public the impres sion by more than one of his acts, that for the sake of party success he is not going to be found either wet or dry so long as there is doubt as to how the country is. To begin with, he invited the country to continue the' controversy Over prohibition by say-, ing in his inaugural address that every one who did not likt it had a right to agitate for its repeal. fhat, of course, is true, and so obvi »us that it was unnecessary to state it unless he wanted the controversy to continue. ~'-re- ; un the other hand, h£ appointed a commission on law enforcensenf and that commission, or rather its chair man, has thrown cold water on every drastic effort of the drys to improve the enforcement of prohibition. The wets are claiming that prohibition is the cause of ail the lawlessness in the country, and some of the dry Ieadeds like Senators Glass, of Vir ginia, conceived the idea of creating such a commission, to Investigate and recommend ways and means to pro mote the enforcement of prohibition. But the commission, if it ever does, is yet to get to the heart of the prob lem of prohibition enforcement. Mr. Hoover was Quick to espouse Mr- Morro» and his wetness, so as fske the wmd out of his as a possible competitor two years hence for the' job Mr. Hoover now holds. But there are now a great many wets in the Republican party who may not be satisfied two years hence to vote for a man for President who carries hootch on one shoulder and water on the other. That. remains to be seen. What has angered some Democratic leaders is the fact that they could never teach the rank and file of their party that prohibition was not a po-" litical issue and a party question. The Democrats fought and carried themselves to defeat over the issue, while the Republicans went- to the polls, straddled the question and won. Tile attitude of the Republicans has insured party success but has been had for prohibition. That party, holding poser almost from the day the reform was adopted, has maneu Ivered *0 the responsibility for the enforcement of the law, and hal got away with it because of the fa tal division among the Democrats. Soma of the critics of Govemoi Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, as a Democratic candidate for Presi dent in 1932, are charging him with pursuing the policy of the Republi cans, in his effort to shelve prohibi tion as an issue. His answer is that the Democrats have as much right to ignore this issue as their opponents have. And so they have, but the Democrats are what they publicly ap pear to be while the Republicans are not. The Democrats never had any luck in trying to fool the public, while the Republicans are adept at the game. Republican leaders in Washington are as confident of winning In 1932 as they were in 1928, on the score that they know the game and the Democrats do not. As they see it they may possibly lose control .of the Beventy-second Congress on the ef fect of the new tarifff, that is to say, through a coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans in the House, as well as in the Senate, but if they can keep their party from going to pieces on prohibition, they will win. They hold that the Democrats' cannot possibly consolidate their forces on that quesction. And furthermore, they profess to feel not the slightest anxiety over the declining popularity of Herbert Hoover. They are ready to repeal prohibition if the country wants it. They are not bothered with convictions if it is a question of staying on top. HAS KEEN A POWER ON CAPITAL HILL Two pages in the last issue of the Literary Digest devoted to the politi cal situation in North Carolina and the defeat of Senator Simmons by Jo siah William Bailey, make interesting reading. The Digest publishes Sen ator Simmons’ picture on one side with, the sub title, “The Little Giant” and Mr. Bailey’s on the other wit)r the title “The Giant Killer.” Com ment on Senator Simmons is ' as fol fows: - I >v Hie Tar Heel “Little Giant” Will tie missed in Washington. Not because he is physically con spicuous, far from it! Senator Sim mons is a short, gray, frail sort of man; seventy-sir years old, with a soft voice, who walks down those senate aisles he knows so well, with * short, shuffling step. Yet this inconspicuous Furnifold McLendon Simmons has been a power m Capital Hill. Now senior United States Senator in point of service, die is ranking democratic member of the tariff-making and tax-framing Fi nance Committee, and was its chair man when in the days of Democratic supremacy he helped frame the Un-' derwood-SipnhOns tariff. i And he' has beep a power in North Carolina, where his five ’successive terms of Senator hate ‘ made him North Carolina’s most potent cham pion in Washington since the Civil! War, and where for more than thirty^ years he has been the most undisput ed boss of North Carolina Demo cratic politics. COT Ol’T IN GOOD TIME. After thirty-seven years of contin uous service in Congress, while serv ing as a Senator, Nathaniel Macon wrote to the Legislature of North Carolina: ‘‘Age and infirmity rend er it proper for me to retire from public service. I therefore resign the appointment of Senator to tile Senate ot the United States, that oi trustee of the University of the State, and that ot justice oi the peace for tht county of Warren.” He had long, held with Washington and Jef ferson and other great men of his time, that a map should retire be fore the end of his life and spend the remaining years in quiet contem plation and preparation for death. He resigned an the 70th birthday and lived ten years in peace thereafter with his glory undimmed. JUDGE SINCLAIR WON. You remember, probably, the inci dent of the prohibition' agent Stop ping-Superior Court Judge Sinclair on the highway and examining his baggage, finding therein a bottle of ardent spirits, much to the judge's astonishment—or so he said. The in eident was passed legally when—the grand jury of the federal court failed to find a bill against Judge Sinclair for transporting. There is comity between courts—-between the officials of the same— and it is possible that the Federal jury understood that it was not expected to make diligent search and find a bill against a judge of the Superior Court; that it would be just as well if the bill was undis covered. We don't say it was that way because we don’t know that it was. Just mentioning that such jt thing is not impossible. So the incident passed. Judge Sin clair's term expiring this year he was a candidate in the Democratic pri mary in his district—the ninth—for renomination. Whether the - bottle finding incident that so astonished Judge Sinclair promoted opposition or whether opposition was under way, judge Sinclair was opposed. Her bert Lutterloh sought to succeed him as judge. But Sinclair won hand somely; and so we take it that the majority of the Democrats of the 9th iudicial district either believe-that the iquor was slipped into Judge Sin clair’s baggage unbeknownst to him or they don’t mind a judge having a little spirits for the stomach’s sake. Certainly the majority voting in the primary1 did not hold it against Judge Sinclair. Fro om the point of judicial and ad ministrative ability one may forgive Judge Sinclair a lot As an admin istrator of the law, he stands in the very first rank for courage do to his duty against fear or favor, a quality that isn’t conspicuous in judges gen erally. But that, desirable as it is does pot, some of us believe, give him license to cultivate acquaintances who slip bottles of liquor into hit baggage when his back is turned anti subject him to„embarrassment if anc when the baggage is searched, as il was unexpectedly on the occasion met turned.—Statesville Landmark.. HASH WAX royal "T- m. y. quill . We Make oar tow eagerly; our title, we believe, may cover ell our sins. It will jnrwrartvpical and appro priate, for here you will find what nots, scraps, gome‘solid meats,-shreds of everything, all sprinkled o’er with a tasty and slightly tart sauce. Our intentions, Mr.' Ripley, are good; everything is to be construed con structively, ‘f 2 • * a ■♦ * * To get down t*=business, the just ex-president of a well known North Carolina University, who has recently become a hired map for the U. of Illi nois, stopped„for a hokum-water tip ple at Joe Lazarus’s milch shake ■hopf>e Tuesday, With him was the distinguished author of “Rainbow ’Round My ShohMer.” Joe, amid a flurry of bows, smiles and polishes, beckoned, to Clerk No. 1, Fred Ray, Jr. The beaming Fred swaggered over to the table, brushing aside the ordi nary customers in his path, and took an order for a brace of vanilla wig gles. With spectators ogling from the corners, Jim Holland devilishly chant, lag “There’s • Railroad ’Round My Shoulder,” Joe shining his few re maining vest buttons, the noted vis itors took their final gulp and strode a, wiui becoming dignity. Jon’s appreciative grin, Fred’s proudful smile, faded; the spectators eyed each other, erestfalien; the cash register groaned, for—the distinguish ed visitors had not paid. * • • * * * Did you ever hear the one about ! the absent-minded professor? « * * Ah! Those were, surgeons in those days! Back in the stone age when, a headache was eased by drilling a hole in your dome with a stone drill to let out the evil spirits . * . * >V-..Z» * * The miniature golf racket is be coming so» compete Live that we are going td bide out time until they offer us 15c to play a round. We are also anxiously awaiting the day when filling station hustlers will be giving Gve gallons of, gas to_each free-air and-water-customer. Said a lamp-post philosopher friend of ours t’other-day? “They’s people playing on. these ,vest pocket golf courses what ain’t* got the cash to buy an honest pint-of licker.” vCj-" -r, * S' “Arnos and Andy Great Benefit to Nation-Relaxation Period.”—Head Yeah, during a sun-shiny afternoon they draw only tarn million listeners, who spend about twenty minutes at the radio. This, children, means a loss to’our nation of 27,777 business days,; or ©vef' 76 business years per after- j noon of Amos and Andy. At this rate j i the end of the world will be here by I Christmas. During the time we spend listening to them each afternoon, Byrd could lead 38 Polar expeditions; 19 students could obtain college de frees; the Senate could pass 162 tariff ills; 15 World Wars could be fotight; and Bishop Cannon could investigate the Senate a certain amount,. Q. E. D. * * * ■,-* * * “Ralph Capone jailed for Three •Years.”—Headline. . At last some master genius has evolved a method of ridding Chicago of its gangsters. 1 , * • » * , • • TOPICS OF THE TOWN The City Fathers announce with pardonable pride that Sanford’s loaf ing industry has shown a sizable in crease during the first quarter of the month. This is fine—and the outlook is just as bright for the next three months, most of out colleges opening^ in September.' v * * ♦ THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK ‘‘There was a faction against met” was the startling election analysis of one of the less successful candidates after the recent primary. ( THE GRAHAM KIND IS THE I GENUINE ARTICLE. Those who think higher salaries ”uuiu avviavv uuuiv vv ww | teaching profession should consider ] the attitude of Frank Graham Though his salary as President of the Univer sity will be double that as professor, he seemed not to think of that for a minute, but was perfectly satisfied to remain as teacher at the smallest sal ary. - And we guarantee that a high er^salary in onother State would Sot have attracted him from his beloved , alma mater. The born teacfeer .. is-1 scarcely a money-seeker. Frank’s' father taught many a year for a tenth ] of what Frank will get, and it would be hard to find a better . teacherat ; any salary than Alex Graham was in his prihle, and only old age' (he is now 85 we believe), drove h)m from 1 the school work. On the other hand, we know a principal of a school in a North Carolina village who has*' been dfawing a finp salary as teach-' er, his wife also drawing a salary, yet the man is not satisfied, though his ( livings expenses are necessarily at the minimum, and is running a' garage and filling station and has A a contract to furnish pulp wood for a paper mill. What you bet "he doesn’t long survive as a teacher? Busings, will get him. And, for one, we can not cry when any University profes sor, getting a comfortable salary, is drawn away by the offer of a higher salary. The Graham kind is. the" genuine article'—Chatham Record. j ‘Among the leader* In our line for Oror • Quarter of a Century* Special Prices on Asphalt Strip Shingles KING MANUFACTURING COMPANY, ROOFING AND SHEET METAL CONTRACTORS, SANFORD, N. C. 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