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M:., i# THE SANFORD EXPRESS 48th. Year of Publication—Established in 1886. PUBLISHERS * P. H. ST. CLAIR D. L. SX CLAIR D. ML St. Clair Managing The Express is fearless and Impartial in pol ley, accurate in statement, fair in its views. It is dedicated to the welfare of the social, com mercial and agricultural interests of Sanford and Lee County. ■JL :yt SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year-$1.50 Six Months. •7a Advertising Rates on Application, Entered at the Post Office in Sanford, N. C. as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Sanford, N. C., Thursday, June 8 1933. HAS THE LEGALIZATION OF ) BEER REDUCED THE CRIME WAV E? : \ Articles have been published in the papers in some sections of the state which would lead one to •*' believe that in one short month the legalizing of sale of beer has reduced drunkenness among the people. It is claimed that fewer arrests were made in some towns and counties in the State for drunk enness than were made during the month of April. It is argued that the people who drink in toxicants are satisfied with beer and, are leaving j off liquor. According to tile report of Sheriff! White this will not hold good in Lee County. He j informs The Express that he finds no improve J ment along this line. He destroyed three stills in April and four in May. This is convincing-evidence -that the bloekaders are increasing facilities for taking care of the thirst of the people. If drunk enness and other crime is on the decrease why was it necessary for Judge McPherson to hoid two days of the recorder's court last week? Beer is pretty much of a flop in Sanford. 13 concerns were licensed to sell beer. We doubt if , enough beef was seCbd by some of these concerns ' during the month of May to pay for the license. One or two concerns add quite a little beer duringi ■ ' the past month, but was their other business as j good as it was during the previous mouth? Peo- j '/"■ pie who have tried beer say itj has no kick to it, It was predicted by some people that when beer was pub oil the market it would almost destroy the sale of Coca-Cola. Mr. P. G. York, manager of W^**lhe Sanford Coca-Cola Bottjing Works, informs . The Express that he sold 15 per cent more Coca Cola in May than he did in April and that the sales Were greater than during any May since 1930. If people are satisfied with beer why are they clamoring for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend . ment? The truth of the matter is they are not satisfied with it and want something stronger. WHY KNOCK THE SCHOOLS? There are people in Sanford who seem to take .'great delight in knocking the city schools. They magnify every rumor that is put in circulation 1 in criticism of the schools. If they were to put as I . much energy ip their efforts to help the schools as they are to find fault with them, they would be in a position to appreciate the work of the . schools. . y: ! People who .attended the commencement enrr . rises of the schools during this and last week had a -an opportunity to see the result of the work that - .has been carried on there from month to month Iby the teachers in the training of the children for advancement in their studies. The programs that ■were put on from night to night ^reflected credit On both the pupils and their teachers. The pupils j in their several parts acquitted themselves well; and there were many things on the program of v real merit. No finishing class ever put on a finer program than was put on here Monday night, the last night of school commencement. The papers were good, in fact, everything connected with the program was of a high order. * We have been attending commencements here all through the yean but we are pleased to state that we have never seen better order kept at a commencement in Sanford. We had been told that v some of the boys were rude and unruly, but if so they kept themselves under restraint during com • . raencement. The marshals were to be congratulat ed upon the manner in which they handled the large crowds. We have heard more than one say thus order was perfect. Just what is in store for the schools next fall . .. remains to be seen. They are going to be hard hit, and It will be the duty of every patron and Mend - of the schools to do everything in their power for the advancement of the work,. Don’t knock the schools. Those who have charge of the schools can not make them what they ought to be unless they have the cooperation of the patrons and others of the district .i * . - t . .. PROHIBITION FORCES LINING \ UP FOR EXTENDED WAR ON REPEAL. ^ The readers of The Express are no doubt coo- j vinced from an article which they found publish-, ed in this paper last week that the people in this county who believe that the Eighteenth Amend ment should remain; At part of the Constitution, are going to organize and make a fight to keep it in force. The names of a number of the leading business and professional men, farmers and others 'of Sanford and Lee county are found on this docu ment which makes a strong appeal to the voters to go to the polls on the 7th of November and vote to keep the Eighteenth Amendment intact. This is a fight for and against prohibition and every voter is expected to show his or her colors. Their vote and inljuence will be in favor of a wet or dry State. ‘ There is no middle ground. No politics in this fight. Cannot make the plea that you must support the candidate because he stands on your party platform although he may be dripping wet. A plan in opposition to repeal is being inaugurated in many sections of the State by the dry forces and it is now believed that the dry advocates stand a good chance of holding the State in line for prohibition. We note that some of the maga zines upon taking a straw vote put North Caro lina in the dry column. A paper is now being circulated in the town and county giving the ladies an opportunity to sign up for the dry cause. It is taken for granted the ladies are in favor of prohibition although it is found that in some instances they are not and will vote for the wet cause. Both sides are lining up and before the heat* of summer is forgotten, the fight will be on in dead, earnest. It is not yet known whether the wets will make an active systematic canvass of the State. No doubt the drys will. NO NEW DEVELOPMENT IN LOCAL BANKING SITUATION. There are not new developments in the local banking- stination since this paper went to press last week. The matter of making plans for ilie establishment of a local bank is still hanging fink: and Raleigh is expected to put the movement in motion for a bank. The business people of Sanford have little time to lose if . they expect, to have a bank open and in operation here by the time the cotton and tobacco markets open in the fall. They just as well make up their mind3 that they must have a bank if Sanford is to have a cotton and to bacco market. Without a bank Sanford would be hit harder than, it has ever been hit in its history except in the failure of five banks. Let us get busy and put Sanford back on the business map by the establishment of a bank by the first of Septem ber. Young crops are in fine shape and should there be good seasons we may expect a big yield of cotton and tobacco in this section tins fall. If prices are good we may expect a big run of busi ness here during the fall and winter seasons. Some of the local enterprises are showing more activity than they have in a year or two and with^good pay rolls business generally will pick up. Should a bill, be put through Congress guaran teeing the safety of bank deposits it is expected that there wiH be a loosening up of .the wallets of people in Sanford and this section. Perhaps it would be discovered that there is more money in this community than was dreamed of. Thousands of dollars have been deposited in the Sanford post cf'ice for safe keeping since the Page Trust Com pany closed for the bank holiday about the first of March. Much of this money wou’d probably be transferred to the bank as it would be more con venient to handle it in a bank. People would not hesitate to put their money in a bank were it guaranteed by the government. MISS/SIMPSON AND MB. McMAHAN MAKE GOOD KEPORXS. The reports of Miss Cornelia Simpson, Honie Demonstration Agent, and Mr, E. O. McMahan, County Demonstratum Agent, to the County Com missioners in their meeting last Monday for May, shows that this was one of Die most active months they have had in their work. Miss Simpson is look ed to by the women for instruction in domestic science and the things that concern the home and | Mr. McMahan has about1' half dozen different things to look after as county demonstrator and welfare officer. He has also been busy for the past three or four months looking after government loans to the farmers of the county, and also handl ed the work of Bending^ Lee County's quota, in the Civilian Conservation Corps, to Fort B'ragg, ..for training for their work in the forests,) Miss Simp son was reelected to the office shq holds last De cember for a year and Mr. McMahan was elected | to succeed himself at the meeting of the Commis sioners Monday. • Just look "where the man is who invested in 5 1-2 cent cotton a few months back. You just can’t I keep the price of that Southern commodity down. This AND, HAT BY 0. T. This week fpdr hundred young wot . and young women are receiving their >diplomas at , Chapel Hill as graduates of the University cf North Carolina, Hundreds of other young men and - • young women have already received or will receive in the course of a few days diplomas from Duke University and from other state colleges and denominational colleges in the state. Thousands of boys and girls in thedr F teens have gradusv.ed from the h’gh j shoots of the stats. In a few weeks rr.nr.y of these hoys and gills) will en ■ ter oar twof UntveraiSies and ether ! colleges while the college graduates [ will be out looking for jobs. Jobs will nfit be easy tor find but eventually all ; who desire to work will find work to go. The measure of success which these young men and women, shall at tain will depend upon the amount of energy they put forth and the atti tude they take toward life. * Thirty-five years ago when the late Ur. Edwin Anderson Alderman was president of our University he thought he had done a clever piece of work when he went before the General As sembly and persuaded its members to appropriate $75,000 for the support of the institution. He had, too, for the state had never been in the habit of spendvig money for public education. With the exception of the small amount it had given the University the state made practically no provision for public schools and it had no ade quate public school system. This is a strange fact when you think of it. North Carolina yras settled by Eng lish, Scotch, French. Swiss, Germans and other good European stock. Why was it that for generation after gen eration this state had failed to give' its. people even a rudimentary educa tion while the Puritans of New Eng land had seen to It that their children were educated? At this very time there were hundreds of thousands of people tin North Carolina who cojuld neither read or write their names, and' today there are still a large numbdr of people in this state in the same condition. Some of them are amqqg our best people.'The state can never make adequate atonement- for the crime it committed when it failed to make provision for the education of these people, ' tjgjr Jn 1900 the Mople of. North Caro lina, fotlowing^Hk inspiring leader ship of Charlei^Hfcntley Aycock, who was elected GcTORor that yds*, defi nitely comm-fted themselves to a pol icy of taxing themselves for the edu cation of all the children of the State. That year the people-began to vote bond issues for. the erection at public school buildings and in a few years the state was dotted with thou sands of well appointed brick build ings for public school purposes. To day North Carolina and its hundred' counties are spending millions of dol lars every year f^r the cause of edu cation where they spent only thou sands thirty years ago. At the pre sent time the schools; like every thing else, are haying hard sledding but the people have not forgotten them and when conditions improve they will rally to the support at their schools in a more^ substantial way than ever. Visit the Capitol at Washington to day and you will find there in Stpn tuary, HaH the statue of Aycock along with that of Zebulon B'. Vance, North Carolina’s great Civil War Governor, and her great Senator of Reconstruc tion days. Why i» Aycock’s statue there? It is there because he as Go vernor of North Carolina preached the doctrine of universal education. As you emerge irom we Soutn entrance of the beautiful old Capitol at Raleigh and face Fayetteville street yon .will aee to the right of Washington’s sta tue another statue ofAycock, a life size statue whole to the left of Wash ington’s statue you will see a life size statue of Charles Duncan Mclver. Aycock’s statue is on Capital square, | in Raleigh for the same reason that Ms statue is in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington. Mclver’s sta tue is on Capttol square for the same reason that Aycock's statue is there bpt Mclver’s statue is also then for another and for a greater reason Mc Iver as a crusader for the cause of universal education In North Carolina, was quite ae. effective as Aycock was but Mclver did something for the cause of education that Aycock did not do and which it appears that no other man had ever thought of doing previous to MclverVday. Mclver, while stall a boy at his father’s old home a few miles from Sanford made note of the fact that North Carolina whkh wa* the first Mate in the union to establish a University for the edu cation of its sons had never spent a cent of money for the higher educa tion of its daughter*. Here was a great state—a supposedly Democratic /state giving its sons an opportunity i to study higher matftbmatics tBe An Ic'ent and Romance languages, the Sciences, as well as law and medicine, but making no provision whatsoever for the mothers and outers of men to l study these things. Hera was a state giving man an opportunity to study the secrets of nature and to come in to an appreciation of good literature and the higher, finer spiritual things of life. But making no provision what soever for the women to do likewise. The Injustice of the thing aroused Mclver and when a young man in his twenties he went before the people of the State and talked the matter over with them. Finding them sym pathetic- he-werrt before' the General Assembly in 1891 and secured a small appropriation for a woman’s college. This college, State Normal and Indus trial School, was opened at Greens boro in 1893. in two or three build ings with a few students. From time to time the appropriations by the state have been increased and the number of buildings increased with a yearly increase of students. This in stitution, now called the State College for Women, is a part of the Greater University of North Carolina, which is one of the greatest educational in stitutions in all this Southeastern end of the Republic. Aycock ar.d Mclver graduate! -rom. the University of North Carolina in the Eighties along with Alderman whose name is mentioned elsewhere in these paragraphs. Alderman, too, was a crusader for better public schools. He taught in the puoii: schools before he 'was called to th; Presidency of the University in Ills thirties. In a year or two after he took charge of the University he had doubled the number of its students and had made it a training ground for teachers to send out into the state. North Carolina lost Alderman when he went to Louisiana to become the President of TuLane University. Af ter remaining In New Orleans a year or two he went to Charlottesville, where for twenty-five years he was Pres’dent of the University of Vir ginia, founded in the early days by Thomas Jefferson. As educator, wri ter and speaker, Alderman had a na tional reputation. These three men,. Aycock, Aider man and Mclver, died away from home and in harness. Mclver was first to answer the call. .A men oi striking appearance and dynamic energy. The press boys named him "the steam engine in breeches" as he went about the state doing hie work On September the sixth, 1906, he went over to Raleigh to accompany William Jennings Bryan to Greensboro where the Commoner was booked for a poli tical speech that night. On the train Mclver was seized with an* attack ol 1 acute indigedtlon and when reaching Durhtm he was taken in hand by a physician while Bryan went out into the town to make a speech. Oh Bry an’s retaim to the train he found Mc lver dead, and instead of making a political talk that night in Greensboro he delivered a, eulogy of an hour’s length on the character of his dead friend. Ayco^Jc’s detth was even more sudden than that' of Mclver. On a night in May, 1912, Ajrrock, while de livering a speech on the subject of education to a large audience in Bir mingham, he reeled and fell to the floor dead. Education was the last word he spoke. Aycock was buried in Raleigh and the people of the State wept over him as they, had wept over Vanqe years before. AM.rman, though of the Same age of Aycock ant Mchc, Tv a quarter nof a century longer than the latt-r nea'-.y twenty years longer then the former. He died over tv.-o yea s ago while on his why from Charlottesviiufi to Illinois where he was hooked for an address at the inauguration of Harry Winbume Chase as President of the University of that state. He is buried at Char lottesville. So passed the three mus keteers of Education, and as they pass ed others caught the torches which they held and the torches will bum in thousands of school buildings throughout North Carolina as the years pass. These men were practical idealists who worked with the same end in view, the enlightenment of the people of a great state. North Caro lina and the South are better off in tellectually, spiritually, and materially because they liveid and worked and served. ._.... _i_. _ A few days ago a citizen of Jones *__ boro told us of an amusing Incident that la said to have happened in Ms town some years ago. An aged Wo. • man lived there who decided that life-' was not worth living and that as far as she was concerned she would pat an end to It. She told her people that she expected to hang herself. At that time there was a man In Jonesboro by the name of Alfred Kelly who pos sessed a keen sense of the ridiculous, , Securing a piece of rojw, Kelly went to an out of the way place where he fixed .up a spring board and attached one jand of,the rope to an old hang ing joist with a nbose in the other end Of the rope. He then persuaded the Old lady to accompany him to the place where he ahowe her the spring board and rope and told her if she would'hop upon thq spring board lie would adjust the noose nrothnd her neck and help her shuffle off to Buf falo. Exercising a woman’s right to change her mind! ahe grabbed a stick and Kelly had to flee for his life, while the grim ferryman of the Styx had to paddle on and throw out his boat chain at some other landing place. Later the old lady died a nat ural death. The human mind is a fun ny thing and if the example of Kelly was followed by others we would prob ably have fewer cases of suicide today. A Greensboro woman who, a few years ago, was a belle at the balls of the Chapel Hill commencements said she has become so tired of playing bridge, and seeing bridge played and hearing bridge talked that she cut thei ward bridge out of her dictionary and stamped it under her feet. Glory to you, sister. This paragrapher has no scruples' as to card playing—bridge, whist, setback, poker or what not. Card playing is a delightful recrea tion and a fine mental erercise, pro vided the playing is not indulged in too long. But there Is where the rub comes in. Men often remain at the card table too' long and some of them come away broke, but the men are not a' circumstance compared to the wo men. It is a little hard to understand how a woman—a real honest to good ness woman—can be content to leave (iContiinued Oqj Page Six.) Ml ADVERTISE o •II THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU COULDN’T STOP PEOPLE FROM BUYING EVERYTHING IN THE STORE IF YOU PLANTED A CANNON BEHIND THE DOORS, AND THAT’S THE TIME THE ADVERTISE MENT IS SENT OUT ON ITS MISSION. IT MAKES LIGHT WORK FOR THE ADVERTISING, FOR A CHALK ON THE SIDEWALK COULD DO ALL THAT WAS NEEDED, AND HAVE A HALF HOLIDAY SIX DAYS IN THE WEEK; BUT WHO WANTS TO FAVOR AN ADVERTISEMENT. THEY ARE BUILT TO DO HARD WORK, AND SHOULD BE SENT OUT IN THF DULL DAYS „WHEN A CUSTOMER HAS TO BE KNOCKED DOWN WITH HARD FACTS AND KICK ED AND DRAGGED IN WITH IRRESISTIBLE SLAU GHTER OF PRICES BEFORE HE WILL SPEND A WRITE THIS DOWN WHERE YOU’LL FALI OVFR sffsr* than ™uTc«
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