THE SANFORD EXPRESS 46th Tear of Publication. ESTABLISHED IN 1866. ■: ■ '• : PUBLISHERS: ». H. St. Clair D. L. St. Ciaii d£ D. M. St. Clair, Managing Editor 't£fi...... . ... - ‘k vSX £$k i' : | _ - SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, $160;_Six Months, 75< Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at the Post Office in Sanford, V; N. C., as Mail Matter of the Second .Class. Thursday, March 1, 1934. WHAT ABOUT THE MORALS OF THE TEACHER? Candidates will soon be in the field for the Legislature and the voters who have the best inter ests of the schools at heart will want to know how they feel in regard to making changes in the present law regulating the schools of the State. While they cannot be committed to any fix ed policy they can let the voters know how they feel about im proving the schools by furnish ing tffem ample financial sup port. Everyone knows the schools and colleges of the state are not getting the financial support they should have to do their: best work. They have been ter ribly crippled financially and it is going to take sever^ years for them • to recover from the damage that has already been done./Many well qualified teach . era quit teaching and are now engaged in other work because of the poor pay offered them. This is the teacher’s side of the problem that will face the solans in the next General Assembly. There is another side of the question which concerns both the parents and the children. We refer to the moral side. Are all the teachers in the schools and colleges of North Carolina mor ally qualified to train the chil dren and young men and women of the State? Not if reports are true. Some of them are seriously delinquent in this matter which jjia yitjfi to the lives of the chil *cren of the Estate. R. L. Moore, president of Mars Hill College, „ has an article in the current is sue of The North Carolina Tea r, char, from which we quote the following excerpt bearing on this > subject: “Let me suggest a few ways of enlarging the common ground boundary jand of bringing about an agreement of our people on a sane and progressive education platform. “From the State Superintend » ent down to city and county, lead / era there must come a uerw note -of conviction and pleading in this hour of confusion, person . sive pleading for the tight of orar children io an education that reaches body, mind and soul We need a voice, a hundred voices, with something of the . passion of John C. Scarborough in his love for children and know ledge, something of the earnest ness and sympathy with the com mon man of J. Y. Joyner, some thing of the consuming zeal and ■convincing- eloquence of Charles D. Mclver as he pled for better trained teachers and equal edu „ cation al opportunities for our women. Today from the top down * -our officials are swallowed up in i a nu«w of details—records, sta , tmtics, files, reports, rules, in terpretations, laws, machinery veritable slaves, most of them, to routine and mechanics. Much is of course necessary; much is not. Is there no release? “New emphasis needs - to be laid on the character of the men '■ ainl women who are placed over our children, and the beginning most be made in the ccrtifica “ tion of teachers. Today the ver iest moral leper ever graduated in a North Carolina College can * ' get & certificate to teach if he has the proper number of hours of ElducatiOn (and I sometimes wonder if there is a six-hour course of Education given in the State that is equal to a week’s Institute under Mclver or Alders man). Even a physician can not get. a license to practice medi . cine without letters testifying to hi&moral character; not so with a teacher, though personality, moral influence, and deep mbra principle are a thousand time more important than the kind of degrees he holds. If the process of finding the'right kind of tear chers begins in Dr. Hillman’s office, the emphasis on the vital things will become more nearly What it should be down to the remotest district.” LIFE SEEMS TO BE CHEAPER THAN EVER. 1 Perhaps there never’* was a time in the history of America when life was as cheap as it is today. Not even during war times. To become convinced of this fact one has only to read the daily papers. Stories of the most horrible and revolting nature are put before the readers of the papers under heavy headlines. This news is served out to the people as the most important news of the day. News matter that should be of interest to the people finds its way into the col umns of the papers under small i insignificant headlines. This catalogue of crime includes mur der, rape, robbery, kidnapping and other things of a criminal nature. It is confined to no sec tion of the country. There are people in North Carolina who would shoot a man down for $5 if they thought that they-could get the money and make a get away without being detected. We used to think that per 1,000 population there was more crime committed in Lee than almost any other county in the State, hut we have found that this is a mistake. The record made by some other counties is just as I bad, if not worse. Almost every ■ other kind of crime —has been committed in Lee except kid napping. The man who will rape an 8 i year-old child is not too good to i kidnap a person and after secur ing the ransom, commit murder .if necessary in order to conceal the crime. For the past week or two Lee county has been adver tised in a way that will not help her good name. A young man •and.young woman from this .county, have been caught work ing with a gang of criminals, iwho could show the Chicago i boys a thing or two in plying | their trade. Why so many peo ple in the country have become possessed of the spirit to shoot and murder those around them is hard to fathom. Some times oeople are murdered when ap parently there is no reason for ’ ' ■ '. ! When the laws against murder in this country are enforced as they are in England, then we will hear of less of it Murder is very seldom committed in Eng land, and when it is proven ra - the defendant he seldom fails to1 get what is crating to him. Some people contend that all the laws that could be passed win not prevent crime. It certainly will reduce it to the minimum when they are strictly enforced. No criminal in England gets by bo cause he happens to be a mem ber of a prominent family. If proven he must take his medi cine. I BREAK UP THE -V'-' ' / ‘ BAWDY HOUSES. A member of the police force oi jSamorci appeals to i ne r,x-. press to do everything possible to create public sentiment against bawdy houses in the1 town. He wants the good people1 of the town to cooperate with and back up Mayor Wilkins and; the local officers m enforcing1 the law that prohibits these j joints from operating in the' town. The thing necessary is to1 get the evidence against lliem and put them out. of business and put the people who are oper ating them behind the bars and on the roads. We are informed that they have become ^pretty bold in carrying on their work. These joints are calculated to ruin young men of the town and community. They are not only demoralizing to young men, but more than one young women has been ruined by them. It is said that almost invariably liquor da sold in these joints. If the people A the town will make it sq hot for them that they can't stay iere, they will close up and quit business and not before. , •- . ; — _ 'i BUSINESS TREND. There is no question about it general improvement in busi ness. One who is familiar with local conditions can easily see it here in Sanford. Merchants in Sanford who are progressi veand push their business will’ tell you that their volume of business for January and February was much greater than for those two months last year. They attribute this to the great advaaco in the price of cotton and tobacco dur ing the fall and: winter months. Many of the farmers in this sec tion made more than twice the amount of money off of their cotton and tobacco last year- than they did the year before. Many of the fanners still have money and will be able to pay for the fertilizer that they will put un der their crops this spring. Many bought horses and mules during the past few months and paid the cash for them. Another thing that proved a great help in Sanford was the money that has been spent by laborers employed under the CWA. Thousands of dollars gain ed circulation here during the past few weeks as a result of the checks paid out by the Govern ment for labor that was put on the many projects.^ With the curtailment of .the labor that is now going on' from week to week the question is how are some of these projects to be completed. It seems those who were instrumental ip putting on these projects did not think of tins when the projects were sjtarted. One of these projects which is far from being finish ed is the golf course near San ord. The Express is told that it will take a large force of labor ers some two or three months to finish the job. It is thought that by the first of May most of | charged. There are other projects these laborers will ave been dis- < which it also will take some time to finish. Just how this problem is to be worked out remains toj be seen. This promises to be the best year the people of this part of the State have had in years. TheT fanners art in better shape for making a crop and the mer chants and other business peo ple are not so hard pressed finan cially having had a good trade during the fall and winter sea sons. ANOTHER BOOST FOR MR. WILLIAMS. The Raleigh Evening Times publishes a column of political i news under the head, “Political Pinwheel.” Under this head it recently carried the following paragraph: .. “Todd Caldwell, . co-editor of Oie Harnett Review published at Erwin, is telling the world he’s going to cast his vote for Solici tor Clawson L Williams for judge in the Fourth Judicial District, but the esteemed Todd rington is writing that he some how or other doubts the wisdom of elevating solicitors to the bench because of the role they | have played as prosecutors. But then he says Solicitor Williams would not be affected with any such viewpoint as result of 12 years as a prosecutor and he’s going to vote for him ”._ Why Doctors Favor a Lipid Laxative A doctor will tell too that tho em> laa* choice of laxatives is a common cause of chronic constipation. Amy hospital offers evidence of the harm done by harsh hnarttveo that drain the system, weaken the bowel muscles, and even affect the liver and kidneys. Fortunately, the public is fast returning to laxatives in Ufuid form. The dose of a liquid laxative can be ■ measured. The action ean thus be controlled. It, forms no habit; you needn’t take a “double dose” a day or two later. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin has the average person s bowels regular as clockwork in a few weeks’ time. Why not try it? Some pin or tablet ' may be more convenient to carry. "But there is little “convenience" in any cathartic which is taken so ~ frequently, you must carry it with you. wherever you gol Its very taste tells you Dr. Cald well’s Syrup Pepsin is wholesome. A I delightful taste, and delightful action. j Safe for expectant mothers, and children. All druggists, ready for use. in big bottles-Marnier N.R. A. This and HAT New York—Is She Going Broke? Have you ever been to New York! City? If not the first opportunity you have you ought to go there, and spend a week or tea days seeing the sights. New1 York is a vast city. It is n<^t only the largest city in America but it is with one exception the! larg est city in the world and it is the most important financial and commer cial center in the world It may be of interest to give here a few facts concerning their great modem city. In 1926 Manhattan Island on which the great skyscrapers of New York are now located and on which most of the city’s business is transacted was bought from the Indians for $24 in trinkets by Petra MSnuit. Today the taxable property of Manhattan is assessed at $6,000,000,000 and $158, 000,000 for personal property, and the assessed valuation of property for the entire city is $11,148,811,493 and $231, 174,150 for personal property. The population idf Greater New York at the present time in more than 6,000,000 or more .than twice the population of North Carolina. The city is divided into jive boroughs cov ering eight islands “with a territory of 826.9 square miles. New Yolk's principal street, Broad way, is known as the great white way of the world ’Wall Street, which is synonymous with the almighty dol lar, is a narrow street in lower Man hattan near the Battery. The city has 7,872 acres in parka New York has the tallest buildings of any dity in.the 'world. Among the taller ones are the.Woolwoiih Build ing, Metropolitan Life Insurance Build ing, Singer Bulling, and Empire State Building. Tji| Empire State is 1200 feet high aged contains 103 stories. ■ NeW York has ever one hundred theatres, including '; the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan Opera House Carnegie Music Ball and Madison Square Garden. Badio City, which was built with Rockefeller money, cost several million dollars. New York City has 1,500 churches and 200 hospitals. There are 550 pub? He school buildings and many-private schools. The city is the home of Columbia University, which has the largest number >Jj| students of any university in Aintkiea. New York has one library, the New York! Public whidl has 2, Almost one half of the export trade of the United States . is carried on through the port Of New York. New York has steamship communications with Hie entire civiKsed world with over one hundred steamship lines. Practically all immigrants of the foreign countries to the United States enter New York I Henry Ford and Edsel B. Ford show to Rufus C. Dawes '(center), presl- '» dent of the World’s Fair, the .scale model of the giant Ford Exposition building te be built at the 1934 Fa|r. (Lower) The Ford building as It will be seen from Leif Eriksen drive. Opposite the building will be « > huge park bordering Lake Michigan. . i nspiay an imposing array of -'ex-' ilblts, most ot them In action, show low steel, aluminum and other netals.isoy bsans, corn, wooh cot :on and other (arm products and he products ot myriad industries ire converted Into car parts. The lUlldlng also will houBe displays of Cars and a big movie theaterrstlong the east side will be an open-air bal cony equipped with' chairs and lounges where hundreds may reiaz. Across the drive fronting the lake wlll^ he a big Ford Park, beautifully landscape-' and also fitted with seats and other comforts tor fair orowds. TT ills? 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