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MS THE SANFORD EXPRESS ■"si-.:'... «Wk Tsar of Pobiicaltaa. % ..; .. established in im*. PUBLISHERS: ' ** D. L. St. Clair ; ’.M. «. CLdr _ Bt M. St. CWir, Maasfiac Edtop SUBSOKlfTiON KATES One year, $150;_ Six Months, 76c Adrertisimg Rates an Application Entered at the Post Office in Sanford, M. G. as Mail Matter of the Second THURSDAY, JULY M, 1933, DO YOU KNOW OP : ANY RICH BOOTLEGGERS? '' y v Some of the wets contend that the blockaders and bootleggers are opposed to the elimination of the 18th Amendment from ■ the Constitution as it would de stroy their business. Do you know of any rich blockaders and bootleggers in this part of the country? Back in the days when bar rooms were run in Sanford the men who sold liquor over the counter made more money than the bumness men of the ? town. Some of the bar keepers set themselves up in business with money they accumulated by selling liquor. The blockaders and bootleggers no doubt want to See the 18th Amendment stricken from the Constitution. -They know that if this is done the government will put a heavy tax on the sale of liquor. This witi enable them to go to the woods, make liquor and sell it at about half the price the bar beeper will have to charge to make any money at the business. Some people are going to have a , * rude awakening when the time , comes for liquor to be sold ac- , cording to law in this common- < ity. They may have heartburn- < ings when it is too late. \ MORE REFORMS NEEDED * IN OUR COURT SYSTEM. ’ Reform ia taking 1 plaice iaj ggglkeariy every other Hneof activity : in this day of the “New Deal.” ; Why not have it in the system 3 of holding our courts? They have 1 become too costly and are not * functioning as they should. The method of handling the courts has become obsolete and is out of date. The failure to properly 1 ■ function cannot be laid at the j door of any one official or group j of officials. The system fails to fit in with the times. The people sue not backing up the courts as j they should. They have to a de- , gree lost respect for law and or- j der and this is reflected in the , courts. We recall being in the ] court room years ago and im- \ pressed with the fact that when , people were called to serve as , witnesses in cases they seldom \ failed to answer to their namea. , this made » easy to go ahead , With the trial of the cases on the s •docket. Now you can sit in the , court room any day while court j -is in session and hear the court , crier call the names of witness , .after witness and no response, j 'We have heard the names of j -seven or eight called in sueces- j aim and it was found that they \ were not in the court room. Why , ' ~ did they stay away after sub- j poenas had been served on , them? Evidently they were not , afraid of being fined or in sane ; other way punished. Others who, have been given a hearing and 1 are oat on bond under suspended sentence often fail to answer to their names when called in court j to Show by witnesses whether or ( - ■ not they have been of good be havior since they last appeared before the court. This spirit of ; indifference, contempt or what ever one may term it, seems to : ~ grow worse. It looks like it will :: take Bomie Severe punishment to, break up this kind of business. • r Our courts are too costly. This Is made so by the loss of too ’t-'f much time in disposing of the X. dockets which are earied over from court to'Court and become, congested. Last Monday morning i.at 10 o’clock the July term of &S- Lee County Superior Court con-, vened and as the county has a < 18-months jury system, Judge Frink Daniels, of Goldsboro, who i •, ...” ’ - -_' _ • •_• is holding the present term of court, felt that it was unneces sary to charge the jury, which, upon being qualified by taking the oath, went at once to the jury room to pass on all bills that had been filed. It looked as if the court would make a better start than usual on the opening day. The first case that came up for a hearing was a case inwhict one negro charged another with stealing three chickens frorr him. The plaintiff stated that the chickens were worth aboul 60 cents each. A number of wit nesses were examined and the trial was not finished until late in the afternoon. It consumed practically the whole day. A court official informed The Ex press that the trial of this case would cost the tax payers ot Lee county about $200. Strikes qs that chicken stealing in Lee County must be on an unusually high plane. BROADWAY HITS A HOMER. The Express last week carried the quarterly statement of the Bank of Broadway. This is in some respects the best financial showing the Bank of Broadway has made since it was establish ed. When you take into consi ieration the fact that the coun try is in the grip of the worst iepression America has experi enced in all its history this is a remarkable showing for this sank to make. It is a better re port than this same institution made even back in the days foll owing the World War when the :ountry was flooded with money and every bank bulging with it. fhere is not a bank in North CaroBna that enjoys the confi lence of the people of its .town and section more than the Rank >f Broadway. It is often spoken if as an ideal bank, run strictly according to hanking principles, t is one of the few banks in the Hate that is now in better shape han when the holiday was call-, d. One secret of the success of his bank is that is it in a good orrnn unity and is patronized by trosperous farmers and business reople.' They have confidence in !X E. Shaw, who handles its af airs and at all times protects heir interests as he would his awn business. They know the >ig Scotchman will say “no” rhen to use this word m«Mi« he protection of the savings ommitted to his care. •' POSTMASTERS MAY BE *UT UNDER CIVIL SERVICE. Congress and the Democratic •arty have loyally stood by Pre ident Roosevelt in the program hat he has put on since he took aver the reins of government, »ut members of Congress he office seekers are going to >ut on a ^bucking demonstration hculd he cany out the sugges ion that he has made of putting ill postmasters under the civil ervice. He suggests that this should be done for the promotion f economy and the good of the •ostal service. Ail fourth •ffices have been under eivil service for years. Putting all irst, second and third of ices under civil service would be regarded as an unpardonable sin •y the members of Congress, vho wish to continue to control his patronage and by the office seekers. No doubt there are De nocrats here in Sanford who are ready to enter a vigorous protest igainst the proposed action on P*j?«f President Roosevelt. WHAT HAS CONVERTED SOME O? THE WETS IN LEB? It aeons that daring the past Few weeks some of the wets In Lee county have been converted so the dry side according to the reports that have been pot in arculation. We hear of others who contemplate crossing the di riding Ine soon. Did they see a light when they read that long 1st of names'of citizens of the rounty who had taken a stand 'or the 18th Amendment by sign ng on the dotted line? This stand many of these citizens lave boldly taken in this matter was a surprise to them. It is pre dicted by even some of the wets hat the November election will Snd a good majority of the vot ing population of the county on the dry side. Are these citiiens, some of whom live in Sanford, playing politics, and hope to ride into office by getting on the winning side, although at heart they may still be as wet as the Atlantic ocean? 'We hope they are sincere in the stand that they have taken or about to take. It seems that they have about faced so suddenly that they have left the seat of their pants in front. Some test should be made to see whether or not they have experienced a change of heart. Although this prohibition question will be set tled before the next State elec tion, the voters should know whether or not these would-be . politicians are sincere in their professions. Should they prove gay deceivers in one thing, they wifi probably be guilty of it in another. Politics should be left entirely out of this campaign and election on the question of pro hibition, but it seems that there is no way to avoid it. Just about as well undertake to dam the Mississippi river. The wets are responsible for it being dragged .into politics and are going to keep it there for the purpose of dominating the 18th Amendment from the Constitution. ORGANIZATION STARTED FOR COLLECTION OF TAX. The machinery for collecting the general sates tax .has been set up and is now about ready to function. It was announced the first of the week that the tax collection districts had been in creased from 18 to 54 and the number of field men from 18 to 62. About all appointments to these places have been made. Pre viously the State had only 18 tax districts with 18 fieCd men employed. Twelve of the old 18 were reappointed while 38 new senior collectors and right junior deputies were added. In addition to this number, nine men will be added to the sales tax division of the revenue headquarters in Ra leigh. It is expected that the as signments to districts will be made this or next week. I : Among the junior deputies; »*t have been 'appointed is Lynn Melver, Jr., oldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Lynn Melver, of this place. He has not as yet been assigned to a district. Mr. Melver was educated at the Uni versity and since leaving that in stitution he has made his home here with his parents. He has a young wife. Should he be assign ed to a district in this section of the State he will probably be able to continue to make his home in Sanford. He is the only one ap pointed in this section. His many friends congratulate the young man upon his appointment. No one can justly complain that collectors are highly paid. Twelve of the 18 now in service were reappointed. They are call ed senior deputies and get $1, 500 a year., Thirty-eight new senior deputies will get $1,300 per annum. Eight junior deputies get $1,080 a year. It remains to be seen how this experiment, so far as North Carolina is concerned, is going to work out. Wei feel safe in say ing aftnost loo per cent of the people who will be called on to pay the tax, are opposed to the new system. The merchants are doubtful as to how it shall be worked out. It srems that most peojfe pay without protest. The collectors will probably begin, their work about the first of August. I While North Carolina's young Democracy was itatU unreservedly for the repeal of the 18th Amendment.and show-, ing no willingness whatsoever toward tolerance of expression of personal opinion in its conven tion at WrightsviBe last week, the young Baptists, in their an nual convention at Ridgecrest, 750 strong, were taking their stand solidly behind the reten tion of the Amendment. What a contrast. The young people in their Ridgecrest meeting are to be congratulated for the stand they have taken in this mater, ' S Friends of Mrs. Homer Measamer will refer* to learn that die. under wants very serious operation at the Lee County Hospital. , i' -1 At their, meeting recently held hi Wrightsvitte that Young Democrats el North Carolina passed » reeotatiwt calling for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. - E. C. York, it Sanford, the only delegate wht> imposed the resolution an the floor of the convention, was howled down. The Greensboro Daily News, commenting on this incident of the meeting, nan; "While the Daily News hopes and trusts that tolerance will obtain in the state’s prohibition campaign, that Senator Reynolds’ admonition to that effect in his address before the Young Demicrata will be adhered to and that the young as well as the old partisans WU not, as believed by its Raleigh bureau, luma whip anybody for his or her views, it must be realised that the millennium has got as yet arrived and that! Ha arrival is less likely to occur as repealists and. retentitnists come to closer gripe in their impending battle. “In fact, there; were certain demon strations of a kind at the very gather ing where Senator Reynolds made bis appeal and where the resolution in dorsing repeal accorded formal recog nition to “the right of every citisen to vote for or against repeal without regard to party affiliations.” Boob, hurrahs, shouts greeted tins or that speaker or this or that contention in accordance with the degree of appro val or disapproval which prevailed amongst the delegates assembled. “When the committal which pledg ed tolerance reached the floor for con sideration, it is recorded in the Char lotte News’ report of the proceedings that: “The contention shouted down the only delegate to advocate defeat of the resolutions Discussions were limited to two minutes and when E. C. York, of -Lee county, termed repeal a question of personal liberty’ the Con vention roared: fFime up, tme up.’ ” “Hence it mayibe seen that those of the brethren wjsp stall consider “ac tuals speak loader than words” of aromatic force are not) so sure, as they hope against hope, of this toler ance stuff. Campaigns that have any rip, zest or feeling—and surely the prohibition cause has not fallen so low that it has loet fee power to produce these qualities pimply are not usual ly, regardless of how, hard cooler beads may try to prevail, conducted that way.” Urn individual who, during the post *—r mnnttn lfpYoinYealsilieHinH. the columns of this paper smne'ex cellently written and interesting stor ies and paragraphs under the caption, “A Tier Heel Scrap Book/’ says Louis Graves, editor of the Chapel Hitt Weakly, is a descendant of WTJ liam Hooper, one of Hie signers of the Declaration of Independence. To have for cue’s ancestral background one of the immortal fifty-two is not bad but here is betting that Lee County’s Rotating Tar Heel has never heard Lou:s Graves bragging about it. Graves is one at three brothers who graduated from the University of North Carolina some thirty years ago. These brothers wore Ralph, Ernest and Louis. Urey left Chapel Hill about the seme tiile and went North. Ernest entered West Point Military Academy and after graduating from the War College, became .an engineer in the United States Army and as s road builder rendered he country) distin guished service during the World War. Ralph and Lous mitered the field of newspaper reporting in New. York City. Ralph became a star reporter on the staff of the New York Times and when that paper; had big news . to gather, like the reporting of a Nation al Democratic or Republican Conven tion, the assignment of such work was often given to him. For these thirty years be has been one of the high class newspaper men of country. As for Louis Graves, he co not forget Chapel B31, and alter matiring in New York for a while returned home to become a publis and the editor of a weekly newspa] He Graves boys were bora in Cha Hitt and they represent the ..fir traditions of the'-University. T1 father, Ralph Graves,' wad proff* of mathematics in the University j vices to the coming of Bitty Osin i Ms briltent nephew, Archibald H derson, who became internatioiu known as an author when he publi «d his biography at George Ben SBumr some years, ago. ' Lee County people h**e been going over to Dolce University this summer to hear the Carillon Recitals by Anton Brees, which -take place each Sunday at 4:30 p. m. and each Thursday at 9.-00 p. m. The Carillon is a gift of Messrs. George <}. Allen and William R. Perldns, of New York, chairman end vice-chairman - at the Board of Trustees of the Duke Endowment. The Carillon comprise* fifty per fectly tuned belle placed high in the University ChapeJ. Jte range covers id*t four chromatic octaves^ the beira we gh from ten to 11,200 pounds, and having diameters from eight inches to six .feet, nine inches. While there are a few larger carillon* in the world, the Duke instrument has tone quahtlee raid to be excelled by none. It ia a product of John Taylor ttfid Company, of Loughborough, England, boll founders since 1360. If you have never heard these belle you should Ifistt Duke University on Sunday or | Thursday and hear Anton'Bras* give ' ana of his wonderful recitals. , Last year the Luge sum of f1,000, j 000,000 was spent for the relief of ' the unemptoyd In this country. The [national government raised38 per esnt of this amount while seven per cent came, from private sources. A Wash lington dispatch states that at least one billion dollars will bo needed for the relief of the unemployed- this 'year. In Lee County almost hair the ' population have received relief from I the government during the past six | months and.it ia probable that equally as many people will need relief during the coming winter. Many of the people of Sanford now do their banking with the Bank of Broadway. That bank down there in the low end of the county made an excellent showing in its last report published in The Express last week. It is the only bank in this section of the state that has never gone broke. A story from Nashville relates that * sheriff in a Tennessee county rafted * whiskey stfll and ponied the mash [ into a river, The fish get drunk and came to the surface to breathe. Peo pie in boats caught the drank fish and had a great feast. Maybe if some of the boys in Lee County who Ido a little moonshihing on the ride were to poor some of their mash into the Cape Fear river they would get a good haul of cat fish. Some of our North Carolina citizens have professed doubt whether God would approve''the destruction of s portion of the growing cotton, the Gas ton county farmer having doubt about interfering with the work of '.God and nature” unless the government would pay him nils price for the 'cot ton to be destroyed. By contrast is the action of the congregation of Midway Presbyterian church, in Anderson county, S, C. This church had a cot ton crofo- which .might well have beat claimed for the Lord. It is the custom of the farmer members of the congre Ration to plant an acre of cotton each year for the church. The acre is called "God’s acre,” rta yield bring specif! cally designated for the use of the' chcrch. Incidentally, it is- said, the operating expanses of the church are met that way. Came along the government cotton reduction plaa. The Midway members might have well claimed that their church cotton should be omitted, aa it probably would have been. Instead they said the “government is engaged ** ». *«*■* «Wemt»h "enterpriseHe.; help u» help ourselves.” So they de elded the church should join in. The church treasurer was instructed to sign up for 60 per cent reduction of j the church crop. If the plan goes | through the church will get its share of benefits. There was no disposition | to lay on the Lord responsibility for | the amount of cotton planted. Also it | would appear that the Midway congre gation’s understanding of the Lord did not include the belief that He in | tended His people to take leave of common sense in the carrying on of their ordinary avocation and their 'support of His cause. It is. noticeable that it is the people who have little or no concern about the Lord in or dmary times, who rarely seek His counsel about the size of the cotton, crop or any other business, who on occasion become much concerned about the Lord’s wishes and they proceed on the idea that the Lord in as foolish as they kifte . - -— -;—. Make interesting Trig Through Shenandoah Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Harvard, Paul Harvard, of Sanford Route Two, and Misaes Henrietta Harvard and Chris tine Bagwell, of Raleigh, have return ed from a sight seeurg^trip through Ni^lh Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, 'and Washington, D. C. They drove from Raleigh to Lynchburg and serose the mountains to Natural Bridge,1 I spent the night in Stanton, Va.. and ‘ up to the EhuHesa Caverns. Thqr vent through the caverns, a depth of two (hundred and ninety feet and a distance^ ’ef ana and one quarter miles Seeing the caverns alone Is worth the trip. | Drive cm ap the Shenandoah Valley [near Winchester to call on friends. On this part of the route they aaw some famous racing, stables and rid historic Virginia plantations, among than. "Greenway,” the rid horns of Lord Fairfax. On the way baric to Wash* ington they stopped to see Deward Thomas, formerly of Lee county, but who is now in business in Fairfax, Va. While in Washington they visited Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Guessford, Mias Nell Patrick and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Gassett. They report s lovely trip, beautiful scenery, hit Miss Harvard, who was driving, says she had a rather thrill1' teg. experience. Driving a Chevrolet | coach with free wheeling, the control 'cable brace came off said she drove almost from the Lynchburg city limits ; to Natural Bridge in free wheeling, being unable to change it. Mias Her* (ward asserts if any. one wants a thrill the best aha can suggest la to coast from Lynchburg to Natural Bridge aereas the mountains. Frirtu nately for mil, (he mad* id without troubl* and la atill sold on tto Oer rol*t and nineoloui to rotate tho brain* on h*r car ar* *tiU in f**d condition. | INCB-COX Joneaboro, N. G, July IT, 1983. “Br.'ind Mr*. R. F. Boggs announc* the marriage of their Mater, Mies Beulah Cox, to Y. 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READ IT. ■ For months my place was alive with Tats and I was loosingi e&ft, feed and chickens, whan friend told me to try BEST-YET. 1 did and was some what disappointed at first by not seeing many dead rats, but in a few day* didn’t she a live one. What were not killed are not around ray place. B&ST YET kills rats and mice only and leaves no smell! from the dead rat. Gomes in two sizes, 4 os. size for the home 60c, 6 oz. size for the farm! 75c, Will not hurt your cat, dog or chickens. Sold and guaranteed by SMITH FEED STOKE (Successor to C. H. Smith) Chatham Street, Phone No. 443, (Retailing At Wholesale Prices.) h
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