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I* inL oAiuuftu LArivL.jj «Sth Tear of Publication. ESTABLISHED IN 1886. V; *■" ' PUBLISHERS: *, H. St. Clair D. L. St. Clair D. M. St. Clair, Managing Editor ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES ■ Otae year; $150;._ S-X Months, 76c Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at the Post Office in Sanford, M. C, as Mail Matter of the Second Class._ . Thursday, July 5, 1934. ; ARE THE TRAFFIC LAWS PROPERLY ENFORCED? Not if the complaints we hear on the streets of Sanford are true. We are informed that the stop signal at the intersection of Carthage and Steele streets is constantly ignored by people driving automobiles. In fact we have noticed during the past few weeks people pass under the red light without •^Stopping. Miss Zone Kelly came near being kill ed on Saturday before last by a negro ignoring the red light. In stead'pf.being a protection to pedestrians crossing1 the street the stop signal is a menace unless observed by people driving cars. Had there been ho step signal at the crossing on Carthage and Steele streets Miss Kelly would not have attempted to cross in front of a moving car. She took for granted that the driver would step before passing under ~ the red light. Drivers see other people ignore the red light and think they can get by with it too. People get in too big a hurry to wait tor tramc signals ana x some times hurry on to the next world as a result and maybe carry other people with them. People have a way of double parking cars on the streets in the business district of the town which is liable to cause trouble. This kind of business may cause , a congestion of traffic and result in cars being wrecked and maybe people killed or injured. When some people are moving at high ' speed through the streets and over the highways they seem to lose sight of the fact that the lives of other people are in dan ger. A selfish spirit seems to take possession of them and they s are thinking only of ,themselves. Their sole idea seems to be to go somewhere just as soon as gas &rflL carry them. Why is it that the spirit of many a man seems to be changed while he is press ing at high speed an the gas in .a high powered car?. Men travel ing at 75, 80 or 90 miles an. hour often realize their mistake when it is too late. We are informed by a citizen •f this place, that he counted ' five ears inside the yard at the railway passenger -station, last Sunday. This is a violation of the rules and regulations of the town and should (be stopped. It is calculated ' to interfere with people getting off and. on trains. Sanford needs a larger police force. It is impossible for the town to. be properly patrolled, especially at night* with only one police officer on duty ah a time,. One police officer can not patrol a town of mom than 4,000 peo ple. The lawless element of the town regard this as a joke. The police officers are doing, their ' duty as best they* can. SOLICITOR WILLIAMS . GIVEN THE GLAD HAND. i The Benson Review of June 28th., contains, the following paragraph which will* be read - with peculiar interest by people throughout this section: 1- Clawson L. Williams, present 'solicitor and judge-nominate of - the Fourth Judicial District, came very near , being mobbed :: when he entered the court house . } -Monday morning, to take up his • duties as prosecutor at the. pre "f sent terta of court. Judge Wil i liams, immaculately dressed in white linen, a straw hat,. white sport shoes, was surrounded by : friends and well-wishers' as he entered the lobby, many of whom tory at the polls on June 2nd. They crowded about, grabbing his'hands, gushing congratula i ly happy, thanked them profuse ly. Some one remarked: “There's a future governor1 or United States Senator.” ARE WE TO SURRENDER TO COMMUNISM? I This is the head of a well pre pared article on this subject by H. Ralph Burton, published in the current issue of the Carclinas Magazine. If one will only study the drift of things he will be in clined to believe that this is a pertinent question to ask at this time. By reading between the lines one can see under the sur face that' there is an influence at work that will lead to com munism unless something is done to counteract it. Commun ists are quietly at work in many parts of' the country and their prop'^Hnda is rapidly spreading. They are gaining recruits at a greater rate than uninformed peo pie ma.) think. According to sta tistics that have been published recruits .are being added to this cult in some parts of the country by the thousands* One signifi cant thing about it is that as a rule foreigners are leading in the organization of communism in the States where they are found in large numbers. Not so many of them are found in the South especially in North Carolina The smallest per cent of foreign pop ulation of any State in the Union is found here in North Carolina North Carolina has not been the loser, but the gainer, by this. The State has had very little trouble by strikes within her borders, and she would be better off if another Russian or objectionable rope should never enter her con fines. The communists are taking ad vantage of conditions in the country today to spread their dangerous doctrine and push the work of organizing their forces. It is to be regretted that they are gaining recruits among Antericans as well as the foreign bora population. They are some times called “Reds.” In com menting upon the name, . Mr. Burton says, among other things: “Call them by any other name you choose, but nothing conveys the picture to the average per son quite so well. Although the appelations of ‘Bolshevik,’ ‘Com munist,' and others have - Come to be quite synonymous, so far as the various principles are con cerned. Ever since Russia, in 1917, fell under control of the forces of communism, the Unit ed States has been marked for slaughter by the same leaders, their satellites or their desciples, now in our midst, and, strange as if may seem, their intention to snbject“this country to their revolutionary doctrine has been no secret. It is, indeed, a sad commentary that our people have consistently overlooked the peril which has been slowly advanc ing through deceptive measures disguised. as emergency' needs until they have become firmly fixed on our throats that only a Herculean! effort will prevent ns from being destroyed or, what is Worse, enslaved as have been Russians under the autocracy of despots, “It is very difficult, almost impossible, for* people generally to believe in. the existence of a definite plan by one element of society against another, parti cularly where motives are, for 'the time, somewhat obscure, and execution of "me plan a matter Of years, even generations; and periods of depression, such as that through which we are pass ing, and “passing” is used with reservations, are anticipated and selected as condusive toward, and opportune for, the furtherance Of such purposes. LEE COUNTY LIBRARY IS WELL PATRONIZED. The people of Lee county have Teason to be proud of their pub lic library. It was made a county wide library 11 months ago. Since that time 22,531 books have been circulated and read by the people of the town and county. This shows that the peo pie, not only of the town, but the county as well, are becoming more and more interested in ■will read good bodes when they have an opportunity. Many of the people from the rural sec tions of the coufity, who are able to pay for papers and magazines, take advantage of the opportun ity to call at tiie library and get good books and read them. It is a noticeable fact that many of the children of* Sanford coll at the library and spend much time reading books. The Express is informed that some, of the chil dren are reading the best books in the library—books that will improve their minds and help* them to become better informed about things of a worth while nature. Five book stations have been created in the county where peo ple can -get books. Two more stations will be opened. The County Commissioners increas ed the appropriation from $1,000 to $1,500 this week. The State library Commission is quoted as having stated that the Lee County library is one of the best of the small libraries in the State. . This and HAT BY 0. T.v A Terrific Arraignment of War In 1917 when! conscription was go ing on in this country young lnen were told that they were being sent to Europe to end war and; make the world safe for democracy. That was seventeen years ago. Today more men are under arms than ever before in time of peace and the nations of the world, including America are spend ing billions of dolars to build strong er navies and prepare for war, offen sive and defensive. If you think the world has been made, safe for demo cracy you evidently have not made note of what has gone cm in Russia, Italy and Austria during the past five or six years and of what is go ing on in Germany at the present mo ment. Even here in the United States which has been considered the world’s stronghold of democracy for the past one hundred and fifty years, we have a government that ig more antocratie thanCt has ever been in time of peace. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in the Christian Century of June 6 has a marvelous presentation of the tin known Soldier in “My Account with thq Unknown Soldier.” Any one who has not would do well to read this terrific indictment of war from one who knew *%e Unknown Sddiervrg - j Fosdick Living wi.h the Unknown Soldier. ~ Ton may think that I, being a Christian minister, did not know him. I knew him well! Frinn the north of Scotland, where they planted the sea with mines, to the trenches of France, I lived with him and his felows, Bri tish, Australian, New Zealand, French American. All the places where hS fought from, Ypres through the Som me battlefield to the southern trench es, 1 saw while he stilly was there. I ived with him' in dugouts, in the trenches, and on destroyers searching for submarines of f the shores of France. Short of actual battle, from brining camp to hospital, from the fleet to no-man’s land, I, a Christian minister, saw the war. Moreover, I, a Christian minister, participated in it. I too was persuaded .that it was a war to end war. I too was a gullible fool and thought that modem war could somehow make the world safe for democracy. They sent men like me to explain to the army the' high meanings of war and, by jnery argu ment we could command, to strength en their morale. I wonder if I ever spoke to the Unknown Soldier. . One night, in a ruined bam behind the lines, I spoke at sor/jt to a com pany of hand-grenaders who were go ing out that night to raid the Ger man trenches. They told me that on the average no more than half a company came back from such a raid, and I, a minister of Christ, tried to nerve them for* the suicidal and mur derous endevor. } wonder if the Un known Soldier was in that bam that night. • Once in a dugout which in other days had been a French wine cellar I bade godspeed at; two in the morn ing to a detail of men going out on patrol in no-man’s land. They were a 1 fine company of American boys fresh I from home. I recall that, huddled in the dark, under-ground chamber, they sang . ^ ^ ^ ^ | “Lead, kindly light, amid the en circling gloom—” Then, with my admonitions in their ears, they went down from the -second to the firstk line trenches and so out to no-man’s land. I wonder if the Un known Soldier was in that dugout. - T have an account to settle between my soul and the Unknown Soldier,. I deceived him. I deceived myself first, assuring him that good consequence could come out of that. As a matter of hard-headed,"biological fact, what good can come out of that? Mad civi 4~ bloody altars the best of your breed and expert anything to compensate for that. jgj ; , ’ » Of this one thing we may be fairly sure concerning'the Unknown Soldier —that he was * conscript. He may have been a volunteer but on an ac tual average h# probably was a con seMipt. The long arm of the nation reached into his home, touched him on the shoulder, say mg, You must go to France and fight. If soitiS- one asks why in this Tand of the free” con scription was used> the answer is, of course, that it was necessary if we were to win1*the war. Certainly it was. And that reveals something ter rific about m,o4ern war. We cannot get soldiers—hot' enough of them, hot the right kind of. them—without forc ing them. When a nation goes to war now, the entire nation must go. That means thst ther youth of the nation must be compelled, coerced, conscript ed to fight. - .The Conscripted Boy When you stand in Arlington be fore the tomb ofthe Unknown Soldier or some occasion, let us say, when the panoply of military glory decks it with music and color, are’ , you thrill ed? I am not-^not any more. I see there the manorial of one of the sad dest things in American history, Irons the continued repetition of which may God deliver us ^c—the conscripted boy. He was a son,- the hope of the fam- j ily, and the trillion coerced him. He was a lover and the deepest ambition j in his life waastot desire for military j glory or hatred of another country or any other idiotic thing like that, but love of a girl Tfnd hope of a home. | He was, may bp, a husband., and a father and already, by that slow and beautiful graduation which all fathers know, he; had fiftt the deep ambitions of his heart bring transferred from himself to his child ren. And the na tion coerced .him-'' I am not blaming him; he was Mnscripted. I am not blaming the ntltion; it never could have won therijKar without conscrip tion. 1 am simply saying that that is1 modern war, ndt by accident but by necessity; and that will be tribute of war.4? Last time Next time, of ith every repiuuon jand' more the at-j coerced our sons. [ they will coerce oar daughters, and in any future war they will absolutely conscript all pi perty. Old-fashioned Americans out of the long: tradition of liberty' some of us haw trouble with **■“— new coercions Used as .short get things done, but nothii compares with this inevitabi versa!, national' conscription of war. Repeated once or twice It will end everything in this nai that remotely approaches I am not trying to r sentimental about this. I w; to be hard-headed. We the! one side thfe monstro we can have Christ, have both. Omy countj withl on or cannot put of re nations in, any hojg-'Jjf support ; war! Cooperate^ every movement that1 peace; enter the } the TiMigiftrirfihi • discourageal# fort disarmament, j set your fhce steadfastly and forever ' against being drawn into another war. | O- church of Christ, stay out of twarl Withdraw from every alliance that maintains or encourages it It | was mot a pt:iQst,74t -was Retd Mar shal Earl Haig, the British command I er, cho said, “It i’ the business of ! the chuichcgi to make my business im possible.” And O my soul, stay out of I war! At any rate, f gill myself do £he best I can to setBe my account with the Unknown Soldier. I renounce war. 1 renounce war because of what it does to our own fnpn ,1 have watched them coming gassed from the fnmt line trenches. 1 have seen the long, long hospital trains filled with their mutilated bodied. I have heard the, cries of tbfc erased and the prayers of those Who wasted to die and could not, and I remember the maimed and ruined men for whom the war'Us not yet over. I renounce wax because of what it compels us to do to our ene mies, bombing their mothers in vil lages,.starving their children by Moek ades, laughing oarer, ear coffee cups about every damnable thing we have been able to do to therm 1 renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the un dying hatreds it arouses, for the dic tatorships it puts in the place of de mocracy. I renounce war and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another! 0 Un known Soldier, in penitent reparation I make you that pledge. * r i. R. SLOAN RETIRES J. R. Sloan, who has for the past 28 years served the government as rural letter carrier over Route One, Bifoadway, recently retired from the service on an annuity, he having reach ed the age limit. { Mr. Sloan has been one of the gov ernment’s most faithful servants dur j ing the long period of years and he will be missed by the people who lrnve been his patron%' * and .who • are nis ' friends. The two rural routes extend I ing out from BifO&dway have been merged into Route One and the peo ple on this route are served by H. A. Rives, who has served Rpute Two for ’ *nore than twelve years. Mr. Rives like Mr. Slnan ia r** °eermindating and popular mail carrier and is well liked .by his patrons. L i PATRONIZE Ol ■advertisers. J. O.U.A.M. INSTALLS OFFICERS Sanford Council, No. Ill, J. 0. U. A. M.„ installed the following named | officers, who will. serve the Council for,the six months term, July 1,1934 December 31,1934, inclusive: ' Junior Past Councillor—S. B.'Rid ; <««> ' : ".'■ Councilor—J. E. Way. Vice-Counsilor—Mi T. Gaster. : ' Asst. Rec. Sec.—C. H. Dickens. . Conductor—O. B. Porter, . , ; ^ Warden—M, H. Medlin. ’ Chaplain—S. J. Husketh. * Inside Sentinel—Herman Cole. Outside Sentinel—W. H. Dowdy. Along with the officers named above, the following named representatives and alternates to the state council meeting, which is to he held in Win ston-Salem, August 21st and 22nd, will be installed. Representatives A. B. Bridges, N. J. Dickens^ and S. B. Ridde. Alternates, H. C. Booker, H. M. Holt and E. P.-Wicker. O. M. Sneed and H. M. Holt will be installed as trustees for six and eigh teen months, rsepectively. Party For Younger Set. The younger set of East Sanford were entertained at a lovely party Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Watson, ofi Midland Avenue, the hostesses being Misses Elva Mae Bryan and Nannie Mae Woodell. * Dancing and games were, enjoyed, after which the hostesses served de licious lemonade and cake. Those present were Harold Fields, . D. A. Shields, Jr., and Mary Maude HanCngton, of Carthage'; and Cor nelia Smith, Pauline Love, Virginia Moore, MozeUe Wicker, Bernice O’ Neal, Elsie May Cotten, Hazel Boyd, Eunice Cotten, Mabel Brannon, Annie Lee Parrish, Pauline Burgess, Jess , Williams, Byron Wicker, Russell Ted der, Jim Boyd, Jimmie Tedder, Char lie Smith, Curtis Kelly, Shelton Boyd, Carl Woodell, Fletcher Powers, Mar vin Tedder, Levy Kelly, and CdcTL. Stout, all of Sanford, J THE BANKHEAD ACT. . ' The Bankhead cotton control bill a has become a Federal law. Under the :t each, state has an allotted quota of (tton. in each Bt&te; each grower his share of the allocated market ta*3- _ The gins are under control. A prohibitive tax of 50 per cent of the market value of the cotton.is to be* I levied on cotton in excess of authoriz- j ed allotments. It is aimed to hold | the marketed crop down to 10,000,0001 1 bales. It is hoped to drive the price up to 15 cents " r^lUlA—I The bill administration measure^b|1|%^ enacted in compli-j aI^c®53fln the wishes of on “overwhel, "JJSgmajority” of the cotton growers the very growers who have failed to! pat across a'voluntary acreeage re striction .whenever attempted. Ap-| 1 parently the administration, inclined, ; thus to lend the use of Federal powers to meet the wishes of cotton growers who could see no other way to control a disrupted minority." | | Reasoning on experience, not all 'growers will act alike. Some will hold their acreage down to the level corresponding, at average yield, to the , allotment. If they have a low yield, that will be too bad; if they get a Ugh yield, that win also be too bad. | I Some growers will plant 1 their usual I acreage, undeterred by the allotment. . Some will increase thetr panting of cotton. Those who have excess cotton | can leave it on the stalks, store it away for future sale, or dispose of it' in bootleg channels. Baled cotton!! Saturday Evening Post. - , ■niijnt be successfully bootlegged, but unbaled cotton will be hard to move illicitly. 'Much will depeend on wheth er growers will police one another. It seems likely that excess cotton, if it accumulates will provoke political at tempts to have the government take it off the hands of the growers^ on the! ground that climatic influences were responsible for' the excess. The probable effect abroad will be to in crease cotton acreage. The danger is that restriction in coffee in Brazil has dent, encourage the growing of a great deal more cotton in other coun tries. ., The importance of the act as prece dent to be emphasized. If may be the flrat compulsory farm control. If an “overwhelming majority,’ of growers Of tobacco and wheat desire limitation | of the crop and allocation between t states, this precedent will make ‘It dif ficult for the "democratic government” ■ to refuse to enact laws and administer I control. Control is, indeed not impos , sibld in the case of hogs and cattle; it is about what a number of the state governors seemed to want a few months ago. It is to be inferred that the claims of a large majority Cn any producer group for setting up compul sory conduct of their affairs by the use of Federal powers will be met with-compliance on the ground that "a Democratic government has consent ed T’ This is hardly to be refused, un less’one"assumes that cotton has po etical or agricultural claims not pos sessed by other farm products. In deed, there seems to be no reason why Ihe formula should be restricted to farm groups. The statement attri buted to farm leaders, that the plan was “abhorrent” to them will find an i consumers. It is the beginning of a ■ forte-of monopoly, the extension oi limitation of which is not to be fore un. • V. SUGAR IN SERVICEABLE COfT^N BAGS... PURITY ASSURED . . 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LOWEST IN HISTORY TO ALL POINTS IN U. S. —FROM SANFORD— . ^ RALEIGH I APEX CARTHAGE , B1SC0E | TROY I ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTE I ASHEVILLE one round way trip .70 . 1.80 , -40 ,15 -40 .76 •85 ' 1.65 1.00 1.80 V.. 1.60 2.90 2.20. 4.00 4.45 „ 8.05 & - '-'one " round way trip ATLANTA 5.70 10.80 NORFOLK 8.70 6.70 WILMINGTON 3.46 6.26 WASHINGTON, D. C. 4.70 8.60 NEW YORK 8.85 15.96 JACKSONVILLE 7.46. 13.46 NEW ORLEANS 11.90 '* 21.45 MEMPHIS 10.80 v 18.65 I BUSES LEAVE SANFORD : RaVt a2il5 4:15 PM—9:55PM. WEST BOUND—9:30 AM-r-S :45 PM—7:55PM. YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO DRIVE YOUR CAR - WHILE BUS FARES ARE SO LOW." CLEAN, COMFORTABLE BUSES ■ COURTEOUS DRIVERS • v FOR INFORMATION—PHONE 56. t; CAROLINA COACH COMPANY. - “THE STANDARD OF THE SOUTH.” '
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