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THE SANFORD EXPRESS ’IS-' 4«th Year of PuMicatfo*. ESTABLISHED IK ISM. m ■■ r. m. st. cuir : f RH8L Clair, Managing Edita* PUBLISHERS: * - . . AL.8UU a? t nuttuciu^iujf ha.1 tm Om year, $16fc—— Six Mentha, 7& AdnrtUnf Rates m Application. , Entered at tbs Post Office in Sanford N. C., as Mail Matter of the Secant Class. Sanford, N. C., August 10,1933 THE EXPRESS ENTERS UPON A NEWlYEAR. • Today, 47 years ago, the first issue of The Sanford Express— then The Central Express—was mailed out to the people of San ford and this section. It was a five column, four page paper, j and for size it was in keeping with the town. When one who ' has lived here almost the half century, harks back to those days he recalls the many great changes that have' taken place in the town and this section in what was perhaps the greatest history making 50 years in the history of the world. If one who lived here 50 years ago, and had not returned in that time, could drop down in a parachute from an air drip in the middle of the town, he would hardly find a single landmark by which he could identify or recognize the , place. He would find himself among strangers at every turn. The few people who are living here now that were here then have so changed that he' would not recognize than. He. would find himself a stranger in a^ strange town. The changes I are about as marked in the surrounding country.! The method of fanning has' changed to about as great a de gree as the town, fifty years j ago there was hardly a farm in; - a radius of ten miles of Sanford that was worthy of the name. Good-farms and good roads are j the products at the new day in; this section. ] We started out to say seme; - thing about the paper and its1 Checkered career. It has under 1 gone a number of changes since it was first started. It was es tablished by D. F. St. Clair, who after editing and publishing it for some four or five years, went . fto Charlotte, where for a year or1 more he was connected with the ► editorial department of the Morn . ing Chronicle, now the Observer. After retiring from that paper ’• he went to .New York where he engaged in newspaper and maga “ xine work for a number of years. 1 He finally returned to the South, and after engaging in newspaper ''work in several cities, he went to Washington City, where he has ibeen running a news bureau in1 the Capital City for a number of] papera. : ; \ V When he retired from The Ex press, he left it in the hands of P. H. and D. L. St Clair, who were with the paper from the first. They have remained with it through good and bad report j nil through the rears. We think i ■re are cot-net in stating that this is the only paper published | In North Carolina that has been in the hands of one family for 47 -pears. There are probably some <other publishers and editors an tibia state who- have engaged ■ in the newspaper business that length of time, but not on one pa < i per. The St. Clair family moved from their farm on Deep River above Carbonton 47 rears ago, and in that time there has not been a death in the family of six. '£ There is not another family still living in Sanford that made ■ their home here at the time the wSfc C^dr family moved to this peace that are all living. About Sll the older heads that were were here then have passed S i away and the town is now in the hands of a generation that has ; grown lip since. The Express has always advo ■ : dated those measures calculated to advance and build up the best Interests of the town and commu nity. We have seen the town' srow from a small straggling., viT lage to a live and prosperous i town of more than 4,000 people. iWe leave it to those who work fed along with us as to whether r or not we had any part in the work of building the structural ’foundation > of greater Sanford.' 'Let us call the roll of some of those who did have a conspicu ’ ous part in the structural work Jof the foundation of the town, [and are taking their last long ’ sleep in Buffalo cemetery or .some other cemetery in this sec tion: D E Mclver, Dr W A Monroe, W J Edwards, John and j Henry Makepeace, L P Wilkins, >S. P. Hatch Maj JohnW Scott, *the founder of Sanford, Moffitt. Brothers, C H Smith, T L Chis holm and others whose names j are not called to mind at this] Sanford is now in the hands of a public spirited, progressive set of business and professional men, but the names are too numerous to give here. They haVfe seen the town suffer from the great depression that has held it in its {rasp for the past few years. With their back to the wall they made a boud stroke last iveek that is going to count for nuch in the future ^growth of he town. A bank was needed md they realized that unless one vas organized mid put in opera tion in the next few weeks that the town would dry up with dry rot. They got busy, and as the vord failure is not in their vocab ilary, they are going to have a bank in operation by the time the cotton and tobacco markets open unless we fail to read the signs of the times. Sanford is comipg out of this depression in great shape. In three years The Express will have reached the half century : mark and we expect to see it Con tinue to make weekly and maybe1 Seam weekly visits to its readers.1 We hape to be able to celebrate; the fiftieth anniversary in a way! that will be in keeping with the paper and the town and section. “A H^f Century of Progress,"j will probably be used as a stream er on the first page. *,, WILL SEA WELL BE IN RACE FOR SUPREME COURT? There is an interesting story in the Greensboro News of Monday from Tom Boot who suggests that A. A. F. Seawell, Assistant Attorney General, will be a can didate in the next Democratic primary for the nomination as a a candidate to succeed Justice Heriot Clarkson on the Supreme Court bench of this state. There are three'’. Supreme Court vacan ties by term expiration in 1935 Chief Justice Stacey and Associ ate Justice Adams, as well as Clarkson, come up for renomina tion, but Clarkson seems to be the one that Mr. Seawell is slated by some of his friends and admir ers to succeed him. Down in this neck of the woods where Mr. Sea well has practiced law with mark ed ability since he finished his! course at the Unversity and the' law school, his friends have re, peatedly expressed a desire- toi see him elected to a seat on the Supreme Court bench. Theyj have long since' realized that he1 has the ability to fill the office | with credit to himself and to his! State- Mr. Bost says the work, of Mr. Seawell in the attorney■ general’s offee as successor to j the late Frank Nash has impress ; ed the legal fraternity every; where. It has been discovered among the lawyers that here is a barrister <of whose class there can be no doubt. It took the rating to succeed Mr. Nash, but Mr- Seawell had it and then some. Legislators who have served with him know him. He was a member of the 1931 Assembly, he sat in the House with H. G- Connor, A. D. Mac Lean, U..L. Spence and John A. MacRae old timers in legislation It was universal comment that a finer brain hasn’t been in either ! house in decades. 1 Justice Clarkson has for years jbeen a consistent dry and has made enemies in the state by the stand he has taken in the matter. Should the state go wet at the i election in the fall he would prob ably find it harder to carry the state next year. Mr. Boat fur ther says of Mr- Seawell. " | “The Assistant Attorney Gen I eral is personally dry He prob !ably never has been very dog matic about prohibition., He % a noted liberalist in his beliefs. He will justify anybody’s calling him a great lawyer, for he has a great scientific mind. He writes law with great clarity and attract iveness- * ft “He has one of those legal brains pitched into certain prac tice and certain fields even ix North Carolina, would yield him $25,000 to $50,000, the kind ol I remuneration that goes to th< Canslers, Tillets, Brookses, Lav | rences and Poos. But the stat< of North Carolina gets the hin of this man for $6,000 a year That makes a lot of his partisan: isore. They would like to se< him among a group of big lav yers on the Supreme Court bench. | "He lives at Chapel Hill, whidt ' isn’t a thousand miles from Cai jthage, the home of Justice Ac ams- Geographically the diffei ences do not so much count now. The state is about to wipe out county lines. And a lot of young bucks and old are about to at tempt the nominations of a mod ern lawyer who am behold the repeal of the 18th amendment without fear that thj world has cone to an end. “A much less important law yer will run in the 1934 race if Mr. Seawell doesn’t. A more distinguished one could not be found” .kl C VT* liAM liA Here is s law that will not be popu lar with many school children and their parents: “The Legislature of 1933 passed a law requiring all school children liv ing w|thin two miles of the school house to walk to school. This law ap plies to empty high school bassos pass ing small elementary schools tn the remote parts of high aohool districts. It is also a law that all children liv ing within a mile and a half of the main fine bos route most walk to meet the bus. In other words, drivers will not-be allowed to drive up side roads off the mart roads, unless this is ne cessary to get within a mile and a half of the homes of school children. “Furthermore,.keep in mind the re cent law prohibiting the use of school buses for any purpose except “to transport children to and from school fo the purpose of attending classes.” This eliminates all -extra-passengers, on regular scheduled tripe,, as-wq}las trips to bail games,, field excursions and trips to schools from practise, en tertainments and commencement ex ercises.” There are patrons of schools axt the county who, doubtless, will not under stand why the r children can not be given a lift when an empty or partly filled bus is going by their school cm its way to its destination, and the first thought of these people will be to complain to the county superintendent or the board of education. They will do well to remember that the county school authorities did not enact the law and are powerleas to change it; also, that these men are sworn to up hold the laws. Hie date for opening the public schools of Lee county has not been fixed. This will probably he done by the county board of education in a few days. REVOLUTIONARY LORE. Interesting bits of revolutionary lore, particularly around Deep River, are related by Lucy London Anderson, of Pittsboro. She slays: “Major London tells us that the most consptc uoos Revolutionary character of Chat ham was Col. David Farming, noted Tbrr leader, -who captured Colonel Burke in this county and whose bloody exploits are st'Jl spoken of with horror Whale no important battle was fought in Qiatham, the armies of General1 Greene and Cornwallis marched through the county* from the north-1 western to the southern bonders, just1 after the battle of Guilford Court-1 house, Mrch, 1781. | “After two days a Dixon's Mills in’ the edge Of the county, the BiLtish1 almy spoilt the night of the 17th in Pitts borough at the residence of Maj.1 Scurbock. This was,later the home' of Dr. Nathaniel Hill, and until a^ few yean ago was standing, j “I remember seeing names and dates of British soldiers art in the hand hewn boards of this old house and then are many interesting traditions from the visit of tire British army. It was sad that a Tory spy was hanged on the immense oc tree which stood at the gateway. This historic place, tree and all, has beta preserved in a large moss picture, the work of Mrs. Lucy Worth Jackson, talented daugh ter of Prttsbo rough. Not even oblit erated by the year*, war* spots at i Wood on the floor which came from the wounds of lieutenant Colonel I Webster, victim of the Guilford Court house battle and who died at Eli*.hfth .town after leaving PitUborough. “Cornwallis’ army remained two days at Ramsey’s Mills, now Lockville, on Deep River, build ing bridge on which to cross, as rapidly as possible, for General Greene was in hot pursuit This place is crossed now by Federal Highway No. 1, and should be marked ; as a place of historic interest I “Early on the morning of March 23 General Greene hastened after the British, crossing by a ford near what ia now Cumnock, hoping to. overtake the enemy on the way to Fayetteville, but was just too late.’ Mr. David Cote, \4 the Pocket section, left last week for New port News, Vg., to visit his two sons, Messrs. Vester E. Cole and Kaeford Cole, ' ' * Ok? Job? Barie^onf wil? enjy the 1 campaign whtirih is to b« waged in I North Carolina this fall in Ida behalf. II According to published reports Mat ' (oat from Raleigh by Tore Bost. any number of mat and women who do not : drink whiskey wUfi work for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and vote for repeal at the November election. At least that iawhat their votes will amount to. On the other hand there jare hi the State people who drink I whiskey and who encourage others to ! drink whiskey who will oppose repeal. One can understand hwy a bootlegger would oppose repeal but it is not so easy to understand why a good man or a good woman who never touches whiskey and whit does not wish his or her son or daughter to acquire the whiskey habit Would" favor repeal. There are people who claim that in temperance has been' on the inereas since the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted and that people drink more whiskey today than they drank flf ten or twenty years ago. Such peo pie either do not know what they are | talking about or they lie for the fun i of it. The Eighteenth Amendment has I not accomplished aS that its friends : had ho{«ed for hut it was a move in the right direction. It seems to he a foregone conclusion that the Eigh teenth Amendment is to he amended or left dead in the Constitution. So for all the statef which have voed on the quesEon of repeal! have favored re I peal. Three of the states are in the | South. Will ranpal of the filgh 1 teenth Amendment settle the liquor | question?- Not at all. Repeal will i only make the liquor suest'on a more aggravating, question. It will con tinue to be a Pandora’s box of evils in j the body politic.-' The liquor question 15s as difficult absolution as was the slavery question' previous to the Civil I lx you happen to hear a jackass braying anywhere within the confines of Lee county do not become unduly .* alarmed. The County Commissioners’ have decided to purha.se one of these ' animals for ornamental purposes. r ' ”— - ' , James Mclver was quite clever in his presentation of pretty Miss Council- . man at a recent luncheon of the Ki- . warns chib. Mclver should be sent to ■ Atlantic City to present Miss Council man at the National Beauty contest. _*j Jolts, but the people of this commu- i nTty are responding wholeheartedly to i the governments demands and almost j every business firm and individual are < in line and doing their, part to Up ] 'consummate the new deal. When you are in the Lee County 1 Library look for Paul Green’s book. ] Green is a nati ve of Harnett county 1 who graduated at the University of t North Carolina some years agp. He i is making a name for himself in the i literary world. * J> ....... * If the business men of Hie coromu- s nity succeeded In establishing nation* i hank here, the new bank will not be t Sanford’s first national bank. Sever- i al years ago a man by the name, of ii Nelson (initial's not recalled) came h here from Birmingham and opened B the First National Bank of Sanford, d The government lamed money in Ota h name of the bank, and bills bore the s name of “The First Natnonai Bank a of Sanford, N. C.” Hris bank was lo 'tl cated in the Weatherspoon building. It a waa succeeded by the Bfeidang j'I*" & Trust Company; and General Nelson si went from here to Iillington where he o established the First National Bank of a Islington, which went out of business Ii after a run of two or three years. a If you were away from home his af I ternoonnnJ going through this golden t summer m the dark, and if you were n allowed to come out of the dark for f a brief half hour where would you like e to be 1 As for me, I would like to be t at WrjghtsviUe where I could get a a glimpse of the dark blue sea with its r saving bosom and boundles waves com ing out on a if sing tide and breaking into a milion white cape up and down. c the beach. I have never been more ( than ten miles out at sea, but for me , there is nothing more alluring than ( the ocean uness its the sky on a frosty night in Number with tha stars spread out like a rosy ocean hung on high. Most of us have eyes for many .things, ig them one among us who * {has no eyes for tipi ses and stars? . j j The Commissioners and County At- J i torney Hoyle are having no easy task financing the affairs of Lee county. ' These men are having to make brick * without straw. With few exceptions .valuations oh ail items of real estate lhaoo been reduced twenty five per ct,: ‘ , for taxes. These few except! one are on' Steele street. Valuations were redue td more than twenty five per cent on a few tots .on Moorcand Chatham Sts.t .Many of the building on these streets [are empty and those which are occu ip'ed do not rent for enough in some; i Instances to pay taxes. What to ■ do with this property is a problem for the owners, as them is Util* prospect I d»st the property will come back into I use in the near future. A large num 1 "> - . i iiSv? V,--’ * bar of citUena of tho county owe back taaoo extending* over a period of years. How to pa# these taxes is a problem which these citizens have no way of solving at the present time. This is especially the case with a number of people in Sanford who own property that has no rental value and upon which taxes must be collected or the property be sold. There waa a chap once who made his living pan handling the musical fra ternity from town to town. 'He had the look of a man who had been some body and ha always approached his victim with the plea: “I used to be an organist,” He would add that he was out of hick and needed a stake. This simple story brought him a not in considerable income^ But once a musi cian more hard hearted than the rest said to him: “Why arent you an or ganist today T Your’e able bodied. Come with me, and 111 try you out." 1 No," arterrupted the beggar I’m no longer an organiatThe monkey died." Your Rotating Tar Heel in mention ing odd or picturesque names failed to mtf ude S. Q Kimrey, X Zemophen GUmore, Jack Quiwttffle Swann, and Roosevelt Radio Spivey. She men tioned the four-cornered name of our Governor J C. B. Ehringhaus, but failed to include our erstwhile Aaron Ashley Flowers SeaweU, who is now one of the pil>ars in the Dpartment of Justice in Raleigh. Then there is other distinguished citizen, over at Chapel, Hill who flourishes under the cognomen, Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble. There are other citizens in other sections of the state who have lany and lofty names, but we hasten l»ck home to include in this fert one of oanford's most beautfful and lovable young ladies, Miss Vlriginia Moss Formv-Duv«1 Back ia the dim beginnings of big lory, so the story goes, a group of neo gathered to build a tower which would amaze the wor’d The name of :he place was Babel. Towers had but one worthy object h those days. They were a m(«m >f protection. From their highest pinnacles men could scan the horizon ind watch for marauders. To their rawness the people of the surrounding :<?unfay could flock in days ef danger. But this was even more of a tower Shan that. It should “reach to heav It was intended to challenge jod. The men of Babel determined* so exhibit their self sufficiency by an ict of sacrilege. They would prove Shat they could stand against the 5 vhole world and—heaven itself. Z We know the tale. Out of the bril ***** Presumption of the builders came something vastly different from their ■opes. Different languages, differ ent hafadts^nd different a'ms destroy *d the elaboate plan and the tower oz trength thereupon Became a “tower 'f Babel," a common by-word for a souse divided against itself. Countless generat:ons passed. Out 'I * New World came a new tower uilding ambition. The new towers ave been named skyscrapers; for rith their tops th-.y seem to brush the pper air. But they are not erected a haven for folk fleeing from hostile rmies in time of danger. They are smples of trade. How utterly different are the sky crapers of today from the Babel of -mote yesterday. Babel was built > bar out-the world; the skyscraper i built to draw It in. Out of it reach ivlsible hands, seeking to clasp other ands in all the nations of the earth.' lethods of communication have been 3vised -so that captain^ of commerce i the skyscraper are in daily conver sion with men across mountain, sea id continent, bringing them ail, ■rough the medium of business, into ' 1 associat.on of human brotherhood. Perhaps the Tower of Babel and the tyscraper may represent the process r Progress- Instead of self-sufficiency L e have developed! inter-independence. I istead of isolation we hav comrade- I *" lip. Instead of suspicion and enmity H e are building faith and conffdence. R ' ,B * lon* way from Babel to twen- H eth century business. We still have I any languages but we have no con- I n*>n of tongues. We stand should- B r to shoulder. No longer are our I >wer:ng strutures a challenge. They I re strongholds of service rather than I u*U>arfce of defence. | ♦w.oau.19 is the value of damage laims corseted for members of the fcrolia* Motor dub hut ynr, the iajor;ty of which were collected out l court. DwotHy D'jr soya that the young •oj»l« are selfish and callous in their reatment of their parents when they ob them of their saving, mu! make heir ti red old hands work for them. 111 4* i* the parents’ fault list if they make a door mat of. them elves, surely the children will walk n it Reliered By Taking Cardni “l was weak and run-down and suffered quits a bit with pains »a my side," writes Mrs. Nick Bar- | raooo, of Beaumont, Tests. “I was | nervous. I did not rest well at night and my appetite waa poor. "My mother had used Cardui With beneficial result, so I decided to take it 1 surely am glad I did, tor tt stopped the pain In my side and built up my general health, f took seven bottles In alL” _ . 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