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TEE SANFORD EXPRESS '.:jp ;; 4% 4Uk Ymx «T tMkmtm. a ESTABLISHED IN lfM. I f FUBLISHEKSt. > ] E..H. St. Clair Dl U S*. Clair a M. St. Clair, Hm|b| * SUBSCKIPTUUN BaTES One year, *160;- Six Month*. 75c AdTertiaias Rate* «k Application. j Entered at the Poat Office in Sanford, JI. C, as Mail Matter at the Second ' °ta8>- ■ _' , Sanford, N. C.» July 13, 1933 f ALL RIGHT, BROTHER* I WHY NOT WORK A LITTLE? The Express is informed that some of the people in this tounty who are being helped by the Fed-, and Government and are work ing only two or three days in the week, have refused to take re- ( gular work offered them by peo-, pie who operate shops, mills and factories, and other enterprises in the town and county. They are not wiling to support their fami- j lies by working five or six days, in the week. They should not be hetjped by the burdened tax pay ers if by their own labor they are able to support their own families. . | A citizen of the county informs The Express that he recently of fered some of these people re gular work at living wages, but, they refused to work because they were "taking life easy” by working, in many instances, less fl»m haif time. A stop should be jput to this kind of business. It is ‘ mot the business of the govern ment to support people who by; their own labor can support themselves. The tax payers are the ones who have to hear the burden. Labor is now in demand . in maqy enterprises and people who are offered work and refuse to take it, have no claim on the government unless they were in £ , some way incapacitated while ' bearing arms. Some people have been helped by the government ’ unta they - think that it ia its * duty to keep it up indefinitely, thousands of people all over the country'have been without employment to support their families for months. The govern ment has had to support thorn till conditions improved. Now • that the sotton m?H« and other manufasturing enterprises in the various states of the Union are prepared to increase their work ing force at higher wages it is up to these people to get em ployment and stop calling on She government for support. WHAT THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT HAS DONE. j - %■ f , Mr. Thomas H. Steele, of ■ Statesville, has issued a publica tion entitled “What Has the 18th Amendment Dime?” By quoting statistics he makes out a strong case against the repeal of the 18th amendment. He shows by facts and figures that a lot of this argument in favor of the repeal of the Amendment is , Bottling but. bosh and will not hold water.- After making t thorough- investigation of the matter the figures that he quot as show that the 18th Amend ment has not been a failure and has done much good to reduce the liquor'traffic. The following figures quoted by Kim come from the United. States census reports and court records: j "Deaths, from, alcoholism de f creased. 42 per cent; alcoholic insanity decreased 66 per cent; general crimes from drink de creased 54 per cent; drunkenness decreased 70 per. cent; auto wrecks (deaths) decreased 50 £/:• percent.. On the other side, under le galized liquor sales in Canada, quotations from the Canadian bureau of statistics, -^fr. Steele iv finds the following: “ • “Deaths from alcoholism m - creased 100 percent; general £crimes increased 89 per cent; drunkenness increased 830 per _v£ cent; auto wrecks (deaths) in ; • creased 55 per cent; drunken drivers increased 830 per cent; auto wrecks (deaths) per IQ, 000 ca12% increased 42 per cent.” ItJp. stated that uad^r legaliz ed liquor traffic there via in this country 275 institutions of var ious kinds for the treatment of alcdholic di seaies Figures show that the number has decreased to 68, the decrease being credited to lack of material. We alt know that one of the chief counts against tfae prohibition amend ment is that it is ineffective and the cost of its enforcement is a heavy burden to the tax payers of the country- On this point Mr. Steele gives the following facts and figures: “Of, the total prisoners m all State and federal prisons in the United States only 5 1-2 per cent are fear the violation of prohibi tion laws. Of all prisoners receiv ed m five rears from all State and federal courts only 9 per cent were for violation of prohi bition laws, 27 per cent were for larceny and 25 per cent for bur glary and robbery. According to authorities on crime the average :riminad law is enforced 55 per lent. The prohibition law is en forced 70 per cent. In the administration of the inhibition laws for ten years there was received in fines, seiz ures and revenues, $264)432,260 < more than was paid out to en force the law. It cost 26 cents per person to enforce the law and 19 cents par person was receiv 3d. New York city spends three lames as much on its police force as is spent in the United States to enforce the 18th Amendment by the federal government-" According to the statements made by oj^xments of the 18th Amendment, the bootleggers, speakeasies and similar forms of illegal liquor traffic originated with the 18th Amendment. Peo ple who were familiar with con ditions before the 18th Amend ment became a part of the Con stitution, know that this is not in keeping with the facts. We quote again from Mr. Steele: “In Chicago under legalized Kq»or and before the 18th amend ment, the barkeepers’ association reported that there were 10,000 speakeasies in that city which the^poBee ^d ftbt or could not handle. '<■*.> ‘‘Before the 18th amendment in Pennsylvania the president of the Pennsylvania liquor league said there were 15,000 speakeas ies operating in Pennsylvania.” It is not worth while for any one to attempt to deny the fact that the 18th amendment fc«« accomplished great good in this country in suppressing the liquor, traffic. In 12 months after the 18th amendment is repealed thousands of people in this coun try are going to realize, when it i3 too late, that they made a sad Tristake in taking a stand against the 18th Amendment. NEW COAL COMPANY CHARTERED IN MOORE. ■A few months ago the Com-' nock and Coal Glen coal property was put np and sold at public' auction to satisfy the creditors and to adjust the business so that the mines could be put in operation. So far nothing of a tangible nature towards reopen ing the mines has been done it is not known when new deve lopments will take place that will insure their permanent opera tion. The machinery at these mining plants is rusting out mid the longer the delay the man difficult and costly it will be to reorganize and resume operation. We started out to dinoi## another coal project that seems to have great possibilities if the plans that are in the making are carried out. We refer to the North Carolina Cool Mining Cor poration which was recently or ganized and chartered to develop a coal mine at Haw Branch, above Carbonton, near the line of the Norfolk and Southern Kailway. A story was published in The Express last week giving the facts about the organization and plans of this company. Three experienced miners are connect ed with this company and by in terviewing them we were im pressed with the fact that they mean business and have gnat faith in the project that they .Ipvfc undertaken to put over. ' • ■ -V, - - 1 These gentlemen who hail from coalmining states and are among th« incorporators of this new eomjstny, are W. A. Keys, of Long Beach, CaL; T. J. Williams, of Pennsylvania; and B. H. Heartman, born and reared in this state, but who went West years ago where he has been en gaged in the mining business. They tell The Express that the coal taken from this mine is equal to the best grades ot, free burning coal taken from the mines of the famous mining dis tricts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania. They fed sure that this mining venture will be a success if they can only get the coal introduced to the public. They realize that they are facing a difficult job to overcome tee prejudice that obtains against the coat that has been taken from the Cumnock and Coal Ulan manes, This prejudice should not exist as very good coal has beat mined at Cumnock and Coal Glen. This coal has given satisfaction to many in Sanford who have made a-test of it in their furnaces and stoves. However, the coal mined at Haw Branch is of a different grade and those who may use it will find no trouble in burning it in furnaces, stoves and grates. They will probably be able to put in on the local market cheaper than the coal shipped in from other sections of the country. Should this mining project be a success it will mean much tq, Sanford. For this reason the busi ness people of the town should encourage the movement in every way possible. A good pay roll would bring business to the merchants and ail business con cerns in the town. One way to encourage this company in push ing its business is to boy a buck load of this coal and give it a teat. ’ AMORAL CLEAN-UP NEEDED. . The Smithfield Herald of re cent date comments on the re port made by the grand jury of Jdhnson county at the last term of court and emphasises that part of the report that has to do with the immoral conduct of some of the people in that coun ty. We quote: "The grand jury states that reports have come to that body of serious conditions prevailing in the county which are a menace' to public morals and good government in the county. We refer to certain way side places of entertainment which are becoming numerous in the county. Some of these places provide dance pavilions and drinks and other refreshments. These are not under restrictions and oftentimes flagrant' viola tions of the law are had.” So it seems that Lee county is not the worst place in the wor&d after all. We were led to believe that little Lee, named for the great leader of the Confederacy, Was almost as bad as Sodom «nd Gomorrow, but we find by com parison that there are other coun ties just as bad if we are to ac cept the reports that come to us from various sections of the State through the newspapers. We make the suggestion the grand jury at the torn at Superior Court that wiB be held the latter part of this month make a thorough investigation and see if something can be dome to improve things morally. ' JUNIPER SPRINGS NEW8 ; Hr. and Ma. Dock Wicker ar* the proud parents of s fine new son. Fourteen neighbors gathered at the Jodson C. Thomas place Saturday, acene of a recent destructive fire, and very nearly finished a barn under the direction of Hr. B. C. Kelly. Mr. BiH Nowell, of Wendell, spent the week end with relatives here. Misses Rosalie Thomas and Gene vieve Patton have returned from a two weeks viMt in Wendell. Hr. P. W. McCracken has one 'oi the most attractive and restful places for picnics anywhere near Sanford. On h“ property on Highway No. 1 he has a beautiful little Lake and a spring wh ch never run* dry. Dr. McCracken has tables built for picnics, also nice restful rustic seats aad bridges. It is an attract Ve place. ile Presbyterians are having the •*wn hack of the church leveled and arranged for games A number ol lights have been installed over the lawn and they expect to wpmt many Mars there this summer in recreation. ' ■ V . . •■ . I No father and mother who have ;livad in Saaford mated a better or more lovable family of children than jthe late John D. Gunter and wife, Jennie Gunter. ‘There were seven children, four boys and three girls. I Urn names of the toys were Eugene, June, Herbert and Charles, and the names of the girb, Ruth, May and Jennie. After there children grew up and finished the it? education all of them except, June? left Sanford and located elsewhere and they have given |an excellent account of themselves. Of |the sisters May and Jennie are mar ried and live outside of North Caro lina, Ruth makes her home in Greens-1 boro and teaches school. Before going j to that city to live she was supervisor of the public schools of Lee County and as such she liras efficient and popular. The oldest of the brothers, Eugene, located ht Richmond where he is a successful and popular business man. Herbert, after graduating from the University located in Greensboro, and became a key man in the great insurance business which has been built up in that city in recent years. When he died there about three years ago at the age of 44 he was one of the most useful and beloved men of that city. June, who died at h's home in Sanford a few months before Herbert, was for several years Chairman of the board of County Commissioners. He1 was also a member of the hospital board and helped to secure the hospi tal for tile county. His rare sense of humor made him a favorite wherever he went Charlie, the youngest of this brothers, located in Gastonia and is today a leading citizen of that city, as a news item sent to the News and Ob server a few days ago, shows. Thustery-m reproduced in Charlie. Gunter’s home town paper because it throws light on the character of a fine, unselfwh and useful man. diaries W. Gunter, chairman, of the Gastonia c ty school board, chair man of the board of stewards of the Main Street Methodist church, trea surer of the Piedmont Council Boy Scoots, member of the Salvation Army advisory board, assistant director of the children’* tuberculosis camp, dine tor of the Chamber of Commerce, all round good citizen, who serves when ever and wherever he is called upon, was awarded the £lvitan cup Wsdaea day which ia presented "to that citizen of Greater Gastonia who performs the greatest Servian' fin hi* community beyond his regular’turn ef daty,with outpK' i The presentation was made by Or. T. H. McDiil, president of the Gas tonia Civitan "Club, to Mr. Gunter. Dr. MoDUl, in presenting the award to Mr. Gunter, spoke in highest terms at Ids faithfulness on all committees, of Bs prompt and smiling service in all kinds at Work, and of his genuine; interest in the good of the community. Mr. Gunter is a native of Jonesboro but spent most of his early life in San ford. He came to, Gastonia Id years ago from Hartsvifid» S. C., and was for many yean with the cotton firm of McGee, Dean and Company. He is now treasurer pf the Gastonia Bonded Warehouse Company. He was graduat ed from the University of North Caro lina in the class of 1911. In addition to his activities listed abdve Mr. Gun ter is a trustee of the Methodist Children’s Home at Winsfam-SaleflL He is a past president ef the Gastonia Kiwanis club and has been very ac tive in the various Masonic bodies. He married Miss Maude Clybum, - ef Hartaville, and they have two children,' Miss Martha Gunter and Wallace Gunter. His family is spending the rammer at Hartsvitle. The Express has reason to feel proud of the reooid that Mr. Gunter has made since he went to Gastonia where he has made his heme s som ber of yesrs and has become one of the town’s leading and most influen tial citizens. This paper feels like it has had some little part in the success which has crowned the efforts of Charies Gunter. When a small boy ha, was given employment in the office of title paper and by sticking to his jobr he learned the ait of printing. Ho had an-ambition to imake a man of bimaeif and accomplish something in the world. He entered the University. and by working in a printing office during all spare time he succeeded in | paying hi* wsy through college. As Mated above ha went to Harts- ’ ville where he engaged in the cotton, kuriness. He continued in this busi ness after going to Gastonia and from thus to time added them other activi-1 ties that kept him busy all through ’ the years. He has succeeded because hr had aa ambition to succeed. [ -Today the world i« a to* whisper ing gallery aa every one knows who listens to a radio. One. morning last week I hqard jPloyd Gibbons, famous newspaper correspondent and globe trotter, describe in his wonderful way the great fair now under way in Chi jeago. and in the afternoon J heard a hnll game played between American and National League teams in Chicago Toe feature of the game was a home run hit by Babe Ruth, who smarted one of Wild Bill Hatfahan’a balls and pot it over the left fence, bring-1 * v=v|■*'** ■ i ■' ■flifc inf in two runner* and winning A* game for the American Lsague team. Thisgamawas'playedby teems of the bast ball players m tho world and woo witnessed by fifty thousand fans. It must haw boon an excOUeatgame of ball for it was intereottag even at this distant*. In tho evening of tha same day I hoard William Hard in a speech In London analyse tha world Monetary and Economic Conference and later on ab night I heard * pro gram of music sent eat from.’ tho Metropolitan Open House in New York City. Day and night tha air ia charged with speech mad song, good and otherwise. There is jaas on tho air and much would-be wit and humor and there is the stanch of vulgarity and the gross appeal to the see urge, but why listen to these things when you can hear great speakers and mu sicians on the air? Hare poo a radio? If not you can purchase one for n few dollars. There ought to be n radio in every home in Lae County.' A day or two ifo I read an article in a newspaper about a man who taught school in this section at the state some years ago. This aunt name was John E. Kelly. Kelly taught his first school in the Cool Springs community near Sanford and he also taught a high school in Sanford ter two or three years. Ha afterwards taught school in Raleigh, Wilson and Charlotte, but his real work as a teacher was done at the Union Home School near Carthage. This school was on par with the far-famed Bingham School in Orange County and the Hugh Morson Shcool in Raleigh. Kelly’s school was at fact one at the finest school f its kind in existence.' The writer of the article referred to above evidently knew nothing about Kelly but he said one tiling that is true, namely: that Kelly knew how to drill and teach boys and make leaders out at them. Kelly appeared as a teacher in this section about ten years after the Civil War at a time when good teachers were scarce and in great demand. That war had left the South prostrate and it remained in that condition for fifteen or twenty years. The masses who were unedu cated suffered with what the psycho logists would call an inferiority cun plex, and even the men who had led the Southern armies through the War had lost to a great extent their old time self confidence and self asser tion and initiative. It mattered not that a Southern man was the father of the Constitution of the United States and A mattered not that Sou thern men had played the leading role in establishing the government of the United States, it mattered not that a Southern scientist had chartered the sees, it mattered not that Southern men had invented the reaper and the cotton gin and-had revolutionized the growing of the world’s two - major crops, cotton''and wheat; aid it mat tered not that a 'Southern doctor had discoveried a remedy to abolish pain while patients were undergoing opera tiona in hospitals for the treatment of disease. These leaders had been whipped to a frazzle in war and de feated in politics. Their feudal system of slavery had been put to the edge of the sword and destroyed and their feudal system of farming swept away. Many of these men were helpless and spent their last days' indulging in that imperious mental exercise, self pity. As for’ this section at the state where there were no schools worth mentioning and where the people had little means of support except what they found in the culti vation of the soil the outlook was any thing but encouraging. As fast as the boys grew up the more ambitious of them went to Florida, Texas, the west and other sections of the country to live and make their way in life. This man Kelly was the exception to the rule. He had graduated with honors at Davidson College and a friend, ob serving his ability and energy, advised him to study law and locate in Char lotte for the practice of the profes sion, but Kelly had something else in his mind and in his heart. Returning to his native county, Moore, he estab lished in the late seventies about four miles from Carthage and a short dis tance from the home where he was born, a school, Union Home School, for the education of boys and girls. People soon found that a real teacher was at work among them and in two or three yean this school was drawing, patronage from a half a dozen coun ties or more. As- boys entered- the school hobs of the first things Kelly did was to make them stand-up, draw in their china, and throw out their shoulders back. He then told them that they, had aa much sens* and- were capable of doing.** good work s* any gFoop or boys to bo found anywhere, and what was more, ha made many of them believo intbemselres. It waa a military; school, .and Kelly was the drill .master. English, Latin, Greek, Mathemal ca, history and Science were taught and there were music and ait departments for the girls. The boys and girls who attended this school were required to >study and obey the rules, If they loafed and disobeyed the rules they were punished, and' if they persisted in loafing and disobey ing the rulea they; were sent away from ■ the • schools.’ Kelly's boys at tended the Universlfy and other col leges where they Studied law, medi cine, theology; teaching and business and nearly all of them gare a good account ot themselves when they took up their life;* work. Hie people of thissecttoo regarded this school sis perhaps their greatest asset and they baft O* hfebsat regard far its founder JSUfi |iMy«L M* S. Kelly, notwithstanding Us Mtottetlena ni a greet teacher and • twr «M an. Ons day the main building af hi* school caught flrt and tea fine aid taachar with tears in his epast aaw it ban into aahaa. Be triad te rebuild tha school on a larger basis bad MM tor lack of money. It id perhaps as weU that this school want not rebuilt for it weald not hava auo tesdad alia tee State. Inapirad by tha example of such men's*" Kelly, Bing base, Morton, Arnold, Quacksnbate and others, was now fast taking ap the work of educating the children. After retiring from hia work aa a tta with his son, Frank, who is, I teacher Kelly went to Baltimore te , think, a professor in Johns Hopkins University. The father is buried in tea cemetery at Union church a short j distance from the ground where his famous school was located. His form »r pupils, now scattered far and wide, have forgotten to erect at hia grove tee aoanament which their teacher so richly deserves. His work is hia monu aoent. '' Through Sanford runs a road which ia sailed the Jefferson Baris High way. '.Aia highway runs through the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Sooth Carolina, Georgia and on down. to Besuboir, the old Daria home, on | the Gulf coast Mississippi. Along this highway are markers containing the [ initials of the president of the Con federacy^ These markers were placed , there by the Daughters of the Con federacy who's secretary is Mrs. Lucy London Anderson, of Chapel HiU. Two gentlemen who have no special admiration for each other—Joeiah j William Bailey and Robert Rice Rey nolds. Have you met the young minister who ia makiig his home in the manse on 'Hawkins Avenue and who is sup-1 plying the pulpit of the Presbyterian church during the summer months? He baa » Winning personality and hi* aarmona an messages watt worth Wring. HU name U M. A. Fraw. Bom in Scotland twonty-ieven years ago, ha cama to thla country at tha ago of fiw with hla fathar and mother a aUtar and brother, and tha family act tied in Indiana where they lived for a number of yoara. Hla fathar la trad and hla mother Uvea In Greens boro. Mr. Frew ia a graduate of David ' eon College. Ha apart laat year at Princeton University and. will return there th a fall for- another , year's work, lie expect* to complete Ua edu cation in Scotland and Ct many and than return to America to taka up hie work as a minister. Since coming to Sanford Mr. Frew haa bean quite ac tive in church work and tha Frasbyv tenons are hghly pleased with tint service in rendering tha church. Repealing the 18th Amendment will not make your liquor any cheaper. HOSTESS TO CLASS. Victoria Hanner, at her home on Jonesboro highway, was delightful - hoetena to her Sunday School class' at Steel Stredt Sunday Scholl, with Mrs. U. D. Folster, teacher, Wednes day afternoon. > The program was Inspiring and was to follows: A story, “Little Mozart’s Prayer,” by Ruby Bellet; song, “I Would Be' rrue,” the class song; story, “The New Boy at the Boarding School,” by Margaret Covert; solo, “Take Up Thy Cross,” by Victoria Hanner; closng with sentence prayers, and song, "Beautiful Garden of Prayer,” During the social hour a contest and a number of games were much enjoy ed, after which the hostess, assisted by her mother, served delightful re freshments consisting of lemonade, sandwiches and wafers. We were glad to have the hostess’ grandmother, Mrs. Kennedy, as a rhetor, and also Miss Ruby Bellet. , IF YODR TOBACCO ESCAPES DAMAGE BY HAILSTORM you win perhaps have a profit able harvest. BUT. * why gamble on the IF? Better get your hail insurance— NOW.... if ywjiwait, your regrets may be in vain. Scott Insurance Agency, Sanford, - - N. C. The Bank of Broadway I / / K)B « TEARS THE BANK OF BROADWAY HAS SERVED THE MEEDS OF THE {‘J20PLE OF LEE cotnmr. V. , established in no rr has WEATHERED EVERY FINANCIAL CRISIS WHICH THE NATION HAS experienced since then and HAS EMERGED UNSHAKEN. |W® INTITB TOUR BUSINESS. , _ W. Leon Wnteou, G. T. Chandler. BROADWAY, H,v J NOBTHT CAROLIKA. V 7~
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