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Wi 0 THE SANFORD EXPRESS win. Year of Publication—Established in I8S6. PUBLISHERS P. H. ST. CLAIR D. L. ST. CLAIR D. M. St. Clair , Manage ng Editor The Express is fearless and impartial in pol icy, accuratein statement, fair in its views. It Is dedicated to the welfare of the social, com mercial and agricultural interests of Sanford and Lee Comity. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $1.50 Six Months. Advertising Rates on Application One Year .75 Entered at the Post Office in Sanford, N. C., s Mail Matter of the Second Class. Sanford; N. C., Thursday, February 23,1933. LEE COUNTY FARMERS TRYING • • TO HELP THEMSELVES. A meeting! of the Lee County fanners and their wives was held in the City Hall at this place.- on Wednesday of last week which we believe will * bear fruit if followed up by organizing their for ces throughout the county and sticking together. The Lee Obunty Board of Agriculture and the County (Council of Home Demonstration Clubs have,,by coming together and mapping out a pro gram, laid the foundation for a greater organiza tion among the farmers and farm women. The farmers of some of the other counties in the State have organized -whatl is known as; a barter exchange. It was for this purpose the meeting was held- here' last week. In order to make the thing a success ibis important that the fnarket ing committee in each community under the aus : , pices of the Home Demonstration clubs and the ? Granges, be composed of intelligent men and wp SJ men who have the interest of the organization and its success at heart. As we understand it this movement has been started not only 'to encourage _ - the farmers to raise those things that will make them independent so far as living at home is con cerned, but will enable them to barter among themselves and with other people. Another thing they will have an opportunity to handle system atically is the proper method oft marketing then crops to advantage after they have made them / The farmers have been seriously handicapped bj •t. putting their crops on the market in a hap-hazarc way and not getting the price for than that thej should have. The government can help the farmei by wise legislation, but after all id said and don* he must solve his own problems. In a speech recently delivered before tile Uni tec , States Senate Senator Josiah W. Bailey, of this State, says the more acute difficulty with agri . culture is the disparity between prices receivet by the farmers and the prices paid by the farm era. This disparity js indicated by reference t< the latest pre-war year, 1913, as the standard Farmers now buy 9 cents in the dollar above thal standard and sell at 53 cents in the dollar belov that standard. This is one of the most an^azinj economic facts ,in all the history of the America! i; Is S'. Pi The farmers bny 9 points above the line anc they sell 53 points below the* line. This not only destroys their baying* power and thus destroys industry and commerce, but it accounts for fuuj five millions of the unemployed. At the same time it ruins our agricultural population of 33,0OO,OO< human beings and prevents the hope of absorbing on the land three millions *rf workers made idle by technological invention and organization. This disparity between the prices'received bj the farmers and the prices paid by the farmers is largely caused >y one fact, to-wit, the Ameri can farmer sells in the world market his cotton, his pork—and that means his corn— his tobacco, in huge measure, and other products in smaller measure. The farmer’s prices are world prices. The pound, the franc, and the yen affect his prices more than does the dollar. But he buys in the domestic market. Our fabricated goods enjoy .the. benefit of a tariff. The farmer sells at world prices and buys at domestic prices. He sells in free trade and he buys against protective tariffs. Ho; he buys against protective tariffs and se”; ■gainst depreciated foreign currencies and aga'nst restrictions upon dollar exchange and quotas and tariffs. Thus, he has been caught literally between the upper and the neither millstones and has been ground to powder, His ruin spells the ruin of all the rest of us—not only political parties, but in dustry, commerce,' corporations, merchants, utili ties, railroads, the schools, the workers, the Go vernment itself, and all who -enjoy the emolu ments of its offices. We can neither balance the budget nor maintain order under such circum . stances, nor may we hope to extricate ourselves by emergency measures and a policy of procras tination, which has been the policy of the last three years. We and they have had enough ol ■ that We have faith in this organization, even if the farmers have never been able to stick together and reach the objectives of the various organiza tions which they formed to better their deplorable condition. They have the women to cooperate Ti* » with them; They see the necessity of doing some thing to save themselves and the country from going on the rocks. Agriculture must be saved «r everything js lost. HAKE MORE STRINGENT THE IMMIGRATION LAWS. Since an attempt was made by an Italian, whc has for some time made his home ih this coun try, to assassinate President-elect Roosevelt ai Miami, Fla., on Wednesday night of last week, there is a growing sentiment m this country against our lax immigration laws. It is generally felt by the people that something should be done to prevent this country from being made the ipelt tog not of EurojKi. Jt seems that many, of the ©lei people who come to our shores from Europe never ■take desirable citizens. In fact many of them ■ever become naturalized and if we are to judge by the way they conduct themselves never be come amenable to our laws. They often show a rebellious spirit and are never in sympathy with our customs and institutions. In many of the gnat commercial centers of the North they an often leaders in. strikes and in many instances cause bloodshed. , t North Carolina is to be congratulated upon hav ing the smallest per cent of foreign born, popular tion of any State in the Union, yet this is the" most progressive commonwealth in the South and one of the most progressive in the nation. There is no room in this country for anarshists who have no regard for our laws. : ;* I vVe believe that every President in this coun 1 try, who fell at the hands of an assassin or an at tempt made on their lives by a would-be-assassin, except President Lincoln* was the victim of some bloodthirsty foreigner who was making his home in this country at- the time. Thisl is not intended j as a wholesale condemnation of all foreigners i who come to America to make their home. There | are many good law-abiding citizens in this coUn I try who were bora in other countries. Guiseppe Zangara, who attempted; to assassinate President elect Poosevelt, is classed among the criminal ele ment-who come to this country. The immigration laws should be so changed that it would be impos sible for criminals like Zangara to settle in our country. Zangara has been tried and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 80iyearc. This is equivalent to a life sentence. It seems that Zangara had no associates in his attempt to commit this dastardly crime. In mak ing confession he saidi: “I do not hate Mr. Roose velt personally, but I hate,all presidents, no mat Iter from what country. I hate all officials and • anybody who is rich. I hoped tonight that I 'would have better luck than I did ten years ago, (when in Italy I purchased the pistol with which jto ml Kmy EmanueL-_ WHAT WILL THE STATES DO WITH THE PROHIBITION QUESTION? . The United States Senate on last Thursday passed the Blaine Resolution providing for a vote of the people of the country Tor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 63 to 23. The resolution .came up in the House the first of this week and on Monday it carried by a vote of 289 to 121—15 more than the necessary two-thirds—to approve the Senate repeal resolution which, "if ratified by three fourths of the states, will become the 21st amend ment to the Constitution. The “drys” will have to carry only 13 states to keep the Amendment from being repealed. Should they be able to hold [13—the unlucky number—in line, their position j will be as solid as, the rock of Gibraltar. Notwith I standing the drifts to the “wet” side it is believed tby thti “dry” leaders, that this can be done, j Should this Constitutional amendment be re-, [pealed it will be the first time in the history of this great State paper that an amendment was ever repealed. As we understand it each State of thd Union will vote on the question separately. It will not be necessary for all States to vote on the question ■ on the same date. Some states may hold an elec tion on the question this year while others may wait until next year or the year following. The 'dry forces are becoming aroused and the wets 'may rest assured that the liquor forces are not ! | going to have a walk-over. It is unfortunate that 'this election should come up for settlement of I this question at the present time. The country now has enough on its hands m trying to solve [the financial problem and remove this depression ■. which’ has no parauei in tne history, of the coun ' try. Why bring on this fight at sf time like this? | Eilch state will hold a Constitutional Convehi i tionfto pass on this matter. These conventions will-be made up of delegates elected by the peo 'ple at the polls. They will have the opportunity (to vote for wet or dry delegates. Our countymhn, K. R. Hoyle, has expressed a desire to go from Lea County as a dry delegate to the Comstitution ,'tal Convention that will be held in this State. ,! The convention method is an unchartered course, opening many legal questions, and there by affording a breathing spell to the drys. In 'many wet states preliminary steps already have been taken to provide the machinery. THE SALES TAX—WILL THE FINANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMEND JT? Last week The Express in an editorial express ed the opinion that a general sales/ tax would be a bad thing for the people of North Carolina and gave reasons why. it should not become a law. It is now stated that the finanue committee in the General Assembly will probably recommend a 'sales tax on certain articles, if pot on a general sales tax. Many members in both houses are op ' posed to a general sales tax if) it can be avoided and will vote for it as a last resort. One of the , ejections offered to a general sales, tax is that j the burden will fall hardest upon the poorest and I lightest upon the richest class of citizens. It fas tens a new burden upon, consumption and' as the | head of the department of Economics of the Whar ton School in Philadelphia has stated, “it is de structive of business, a defect particularly serious at this time when we are trying to encourage business activity.” It is destructive of local in vestment, local capital .and local retail trade and businesses in North, Carolina, since it will lower the revenue and profit of retad establishments and thereby affect the rental and the value of business real estate. A sales tax will promote the merchandise bootlegger who solicits and delivers from house to house under the protection of in terstate trade. It creates an entirely new tax re venue and would thus lead ultimately to waste and extravagance and destroy all incentive for establishing the highest grade of efficiency and the) lowest possible cost of State government. The wealthy class of the country favor a sales tax because it would relieve their property of I much of the burden it now has to bear in the I shape of an income tax. FIRST WE HIRE THEM, ” ' -' ?■ THEN WE CRITICIZE THEM. ) | Since voting at their last meeting tel carry out necessary improvements -in regard to the lot on Steele Street now being considered by the govern ment as a site for the proposed postoffice build ing, at the expense of the town, the City Fathers have come in for jio little amount of criticism. This present financial situation has offered the long sought for chance that the hard-shelled, “please don’t spend public funds” pessimist has waited for to get in his critical word. If thafcsame piece of property, belonged to this perpetual critic do you suppose for one minute his critical words would be focused on any improvements that might increased the value of his property? We don’t. You elected the board, why not let them Steer the ship. This and B f 0. T. DO YOU THINK? T ? That the board of Aldermen of a town should be allowed to issue bonds and borrow money without a direct vote of the people allowing them such privilege? That the members of the general assembly should be paid sixty dollars per week while they loaf two days out of S.X? . That if Uncle Sam had to dig up the mouey himself, he would spend any of it to sow grass seed along side walks or to clean off old ceme teries which have been forgotten for one hundred years or more ? That solicitors 4tettid be paid $5, 152 salary for working twenty-six weeks in the year while, they have the other twenty-six weeks to devote to their private business? That twenty-fiwiwytnarried couples should be allowed to work in. the various departments of government in Raleigh, each of them receiving a good salary wh’le ‘there are many thousands of pvarried couples in the State who pay taxes and who are without work ef any kind?* That a .majority of the people of North Carolina favor the repeal of the Eighteenth Aa*endment? Ever try to go tolileep but couldn’t ? Ton lie there in the bed • tired out and you know that about eight hours of sound sleep wd^id be the best re medy in the world for your over strained nerves and to pep you up for tomorrow’s task but sleep doesn’t come. You try the old remedy of let ting a flock of sheep jump over the bars of an okt out of tne way pas ture ft twilight. But this plan won’t work. Next you tan over in your mind the names at the one hundred counties in North Carolina beginning with Anson and running down, the alphabet to Yancey. You remember that of the half dosen counties nam ed for the Indiana .two are Cherokee and Currituck, thdwne in the extreme western part of the state and the other in the extreme eastern part of the State and that it is five hundred miles from county to seat to county seat or from Murphy to Currituck court house. You recall that we have a Cleveland county in this state but it was not darned for Grover. That we have a Wilsont county put it was not named for Woodrow, that we have a Johnson county but it waa not named for Andrew. And that we have a Lincoln comity hut it was -not named for old A be. . You recall, too, that WashfouffcoTTjr'polk, Jackson and Madison couStiSE-Were all named tor presidents of the United States. But you find fhat this sort of rumin ating will not bring you the coveted sleep. So in your imagination you cross the equator agd visit South America where there are twenty re publics cme of ^vhich is larger than the -United States and which is a sharp competitor of this country in the ra sing of wheat} and other fiarm products. You find much of this coun try a veritable dreamland where most people sleep most of the time. But sleep, gentle sleep, as Shakespeare describes it, which) seals up the ships boys eyes and rocks his brain in qradle of the rude, imperious surge still does not come tt you. Finally you think »f a mean trick you would like to play o# somebody. You now drop off jp sleep and in your dream yota find that you have ‘wings and you are flying away from your mother who is. after you with * switch because you.have stolen her last cup of brown su| jar. Funny, isnt’ it, how your conscion I and sub-eon soious mind works? . . --■ .. baiuara has had zofix1 hank failures in the past six years, First of .this series of crashes came when the Bank Injf Eoan and Trust Company closed its doors. This bonk -with a capital of only 126,000 tried to branch out into * chain /and this proved its downfall. To date the receiver of the Banking Loan /and Trust Company has paid to its depositors forty cents on the dol lar. Next came, the rFl oplea Bank. This bank failed because dishonesty was practiced on the hiside. One man was given a term In the penitentiary but a few weeks pgo he along with a number of other bankers who were •herring time, was given a Christmas present in the shape of a pardon by Governor Gardner. If at that *■»"» any chicken thieves were pardoned by the Governor the fxctd were not pub lished in the papers. JThe affairs, of the Ffeoples Bank are hi the hands of the State’s liquidating agent So far the depositors in this bank have re ceived fifty cents on the dollar. The United Bank failed .twice. When it re opened after the first failure the de paitors were paid approximately 65 cents on the dollar. Hie second fail ure of this hank'occurred two weeks ago when an order was issued from Greensboro dosing the door of the bank here as well as the other banka in the chain. The affaire of /this bank an now undergoing liquidation. What the de positors may recdve no one of course knows, but it is thought that the sec ond failure is worse then, the first After the first failure of this bent occurred It was found, that its vault hen had beset gutted jf; its cash I About $100,000. It is supposed that tils money was carried to Greens boro to relieve the situation there. The vault in the bank here ls said to con tain about 413,000. The failure of these banks has meant a heavy loss to the people pf this section. There (were many depositors and some indi viduals lost all of their cash. It is hoped that Sanford has had its last bank failure. We now have only one ■bank, the Page Trust Company, which has been doing business here for a period of more than ten years and has never lost s pent of money Tor any Individual in this section. San- j ford will, no doubt, be -a one bonk town, for some time to come. K. E. Seymore, County Commis sioner and farmer, is a great believer in milk as a food. Some time ago the cows at his place went dry and for a few days the family was without milk. Everybody got sick and Mr. Seymour had to get a good cow. He has cows on his places for his ten ants and thinks that every farmer in Lee1 County pught to have two or three cowb. He thinks a good cow on every farm is.' worth a thousand dol lars to the owner. The following paragraphs ate quot ed from a speech made recently jn the United States Senate by Senator J. W. Bailey: Our fanners are in no better plight than are our unemployed workers. They have labored three years with out reward. There is no sale for large portions of their crops. They are accused pt having produced too much, in a land in which starvation stalks. They do not receive enough to pay their taxes and clothe their .wives and children. They owe about $11,000,000,000, secured by mortgages an theug lands, and it is safe to say that their fixed charges, for taxes and interest resuire nearly half their gross income. Millions of them are in default, from their homes and depriving them from their homes nd depriving them of their farms. The picture of Ameri can agriculture today is not the pic-, ture of a plowman between the ban dies, or of the Reaper on the plains gathering the harvests, but it is the picture of mothers and fathers and Uttle children moving from the land of their inheritance and out into help lessness, becoming tenants and bank rupts. To say the least, this state of af fairs can not i>ei spoken of as civili sation. It is not civilization. The im plications of the word "civilization" We order, peace, security, add we can yurt call that a civilization in which 8,000,000 farmers are' threat ened with the ’ loss of their farms .and 10,000,000 human beings'have no security whatever. There is no civili zation where there is no security. Senator Bailey concludes by saying that no government can tolerate this kind'of thing and expect to last. . It is said that the statues in Statu ary Hall in the Capitol at -Washing ton have become too heavy for the floor on which) they are located and need replacing. There are now only 66 ptatues in the ball. Ultimately there will be 96 when each of the 48 states places the two statues to which it is entitled. North Carolina has alretdy placed her two statues in the hail, .one to Vance and the other to Aycock. Norman Thomas, who was the soc ialist. candidate for- president of the 5 United States last year and who visit ed North Carolina on his Speaking tour over the counfry, predicts not .only that the United States is to have a dictator but that he “will be of the demagogue type and he will speak with the voice of Huey Long.” Lett us hope that it won’t be with his Mas ter’s voice. R is expected that President Roose velt, soon after his inauguration, will call a special session of Congress ; to meet in April and he thinks it ought to be limited -to about 30 days. Less than two months ago it was reported that Mr. Roosevelt looked' to Congress to do so much legisla ting at the present short session that it would be unnecessary for him to qail a special session this spring. Now it is reported that, having be come reconciled to the necessity of a special session, he thin Ira it ought to be limited to about 30 days. II Mr. Roosevelt , really believes that he can induce Ipongress to deal in so short a period as that with ail the deferred problems which it will face, largely as a result of its almost complete inaction this win ter, he is the champion political-opti mist of sll time. If he does not so believe, it probably does no harm, however^ for him to let it be known that he thinks that the session “ought" to bs so limited., None of the special sessions which these five Presidents called, imihe diately upon being inaugurated, had before it problems which approach ed, in number or gravity, those which will confront Roosevelt's special ses sion. Pew political Observers would be surprised if, like the special ses sion) of ,1918, it should be so protract ed «« to merge Into the rfgalar as*?, sion next December. j * FOR RENT—Small farm near town, , for taxes, to' reliable person, No — supplies. ' Mrs. T. E. White, (09 . Charlotte Avenue. -. . ■' --rr.- ■■ ^•r;7p--r -7,, ANNOUNCING— -i&i:. It ia a pleasure for .me to announce to my many Farmer Friends of Lee County that I am still do ing business at Holt,& Mann’s old stand, and am prepared to give as good or better service than ever before. Whatever you need in the farming or building line, you ,wiil find .here a list of supplies that will fulfill your every requirement. Our stock of HARDWARE, FARM IMPLEMENTS PAINTS IS MOST,COMPLETE. AND Your business will be ’greatly appreciated. Visit our store andselect your needed imple ments for spring work on the farm. You will find our prices Very Reasonable. . j Mann’s Hardware House, JONESBORO, N; C. R. H. MIANN, Proprietor. Phone No. 80D *"■ Supplies For He Farmer.™ . We are carrying in stock, at lowest cash prices, many items that farmers are needing at this time of the'year. .» • . A Good Line of Plows Plow Casting for most of the well known makes. * Poultry Wire, Barb Wire and Fencing Pipes and Fittings; „ V. ' Belting — Carbide. *. We also sell and recommend BEETLE-MORT in 1 and 4 pound packages (and larger quantities when desired) for prevention of blue mold. Ask 4 us about it. i Lee Hardware Co. The Winchester Store.” PLANT BED FERTILIZER— $2.00 Per Bag; $17.00 Per Ton. T. A. RIDDLE CO., Sanford. COTTON MILL STORE, Sanford. R P. McPHERSON, Cameron. J. C. JONES, Broadway. J.J. HACKING, Moncure. !
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