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B u..-, •; .1 i ,e— Pertinent Thoughts From Other Editors ONE NEEDED ABOLITION WILL NOT MATERIALIZE Peterson’s "State’s Voice,” the non-advertising publication of the former editor of The Chatham Re cord, persists in voicing its idealism. The world may go all wrong, but not without Peterson putting it on notice as to what is the true, if narrow, path of righteousness. In the latest issue, he attacks the continuing running sore of our magisterial system. To quote: "The Voice agrees with Sheriff Tur ner of Wake County that every fee based or contingent upon the convic abolished. Justice, purs and out right, is hard enough to obtain when there is no premium offered for con viction. Two or three magistrates to the county, strategically located, and sal aries sufficient to recompense them / for the services they render, would be better for all concerned than a flock of justices with the privilege, of col lecting fees upon eonviction of the ac cused brought before them. What ever fees collected could be turned over to the county and could, go to ward paying the salaries. Add dignity to the position of jus v tice of the peace and it will he easy to get worthy men to accept the lim ited number of positions provided under the scheme suggested.” True in every line and word, so far as it goes, but while the going against an intrenched evil is good, why not go the whole way? There is no longer rightful place in the judicial or semi judicial system of the Slate for old fashioned magistrates, limited in number or not, and removed from the temptation of holding court and im posing sentences for fee or not. This scandal of long duration will not be cured by any makeshift or compro mise. It will be relieved when it i» definitely abated, and net before. We have taken our own shots at the magisterial abuse, but have never ■been deluded that the Are amounted to anything except wasted ammuni tion. Unless the Legislature has acquired an aecess of grace and a freedom from petty politics it has given no sign ei enjoying or desiring, it will h* only a few weeks before it will be turning loose upon the people the us ual wholesale appointments of magis trates. nmst of whom are ignorant and acme erf whom it may be counted upon, will be venal.—Raleigh Times. tion of an accused person TAX EXEMPT" teCURfTI E* Just as long as «»© fear'awd desire to eeeape taxation Pauses those who have money to invest to put them in tax exempt securities, the tax ipewse wilt steadily decrease, and values are decreased as welt and this win accet■ erate the situation, for the reason as the money of the eoontry Is with drawn and sent to Washington in ex Change for bonds wttt business, agri culture and industry dwindle for lack "of capital, Alt property should be taxed, ant should be made to pay Its share of the expense of government. It is protected by laws and the cost of government, and there ts no just rea son for its exemption. Why govern ment or state bonds should bo O— empt any more than veal estate, or personal property, has no founda tion in justice or equity. We are simply ruining our country and its business interests by allowing it.— Wilson Times. CITRUS SOOA Californians who beg tor beer have something t©, think about- There b*s been a decided rise in the softdrihk trade since the advent of prohibition '/.Grape juice and citrus drinks haV© shot np miraculously. Citrus drinks have increased #*•* per cent idle past Eve years. The wine industry would gain by repeal; but whai about the orange and lemon grower*? Uncle Sana drank the juice e* V 231,6=K4«0 oranges, at -soda, fountains last year. It took ISJHO cars to K£M* them to him and E, 153,499 boxes .tp contain them. The soda fountains •* the aawrtry used U.T per «««* of the ccwwfcry’s total seep, Th*» ought •* be drink, if not food, for thought to those crying for beer to produce two or three hundred millions in taxes. The lemonade drinkers aecounted for 283,431,000 lemons being squeezed at soda fountains. Lenonxde absorbed 15.5 per cent of the total crop. r So far as this State Is concerned beer as a prosperity ' restorer has much less value than orange juice and lemonade.—Los Angeles Times. Raising College Tyition Fees More Logical Than Practical If it were possible to be logical about higher education, or education in general, the report of the sub-com mittee tf the Joint Appropriations Committee suggesting the elimination of free tuition at the University and < other eollegiate institutions which are State-supported and an increase of the fees themselves would be some thing to be adopted in the interest of serving the emergency. The committee shows that tuition fees at such institutions already are extremely low. The University max imum! is $75 per session, that at the . North Carolina College for Women, $100, at State College, $125, ranging down to nothing in„'the case of stu dents at the various Teachers’ Col leges. It would materially increase existing rates and charge tuition in those Institutions in’which it now is free. An educational institution is some thing like a telephone exchange in that the cost per unit increases, in* stead of decreases, with the number of units served. No cfass of citizens gets so much for sa little as college students. As to free tuition, it must be remembered that many so-called free students are beneficiaries of schol arships from which the State receives a return, but at every institution there are devices by which numerous students are carried at the expense of their fellows and of the State. Bu: this matter is not, unfortunate ly or otherwise, apt to be handled ac cording to logic. There is involved the matter of a carefully nurtured sen timent It is the boast of the Uni versity and other institution* that they find a way for every earnest stu dent to carry on, however destftute he may be. r Still, if these institutions are to have thejr budgets cut to the bTt>6d, they most look to doing something to make- the student , bodies mors nearly sel f-supporting—-no matter if attendance be thereby r&tteaOjr de creased . -—Raleigh Times; BANK C&NCBNfRATrGN “Americans fondly believe that; be cause we have 20,000 banka in con trast to some IT banks in England, 12 Federal Reserve Banks to one cen tral bank in England, there ie no con centration of bank funds here. And once again,” Business Week tells us, “the year-end banking figures have belled this belief,” Time figures show that ten banks, constituting one-twentieth of one pee cent of the hanks of the IThfted Sftates, have over one-fifth of the deposits *4 the com mercial banks of the country, while one-half of- one per cent «f bunks have over half of the total deposits. Concentration of bank deposit* baa occurred in he larger cities of the Upfted States, and during the past ten years more than 10,000 small town banks have been wiped out ©f exis tence. The small bank, composed of local business men a ft# directed by these same men, one* filled, and filled well, the need fav which It was crea ted, but it is now be censing a. tiling of the past. Our authority contin ues: “Whether we like it «* pot. this situation has changed. Jn place of the unit store, we now have chain stores; in place of the tnfealf indepen dent manufacturing plant, we ngvr have the local link in a vast indus trial enterpriser in place af the small utility, .we have the l®Wfi served by what Is likely to be n jjtillty. The hotel, the newspaper, the garage, , and scores of local enter prises are now managed By employees of larger corporations, (fie corpora tions themselves doing1 their financial business in the- tedusttiad » * 5’his changing tendeewf In American Hfa in itself is largely responsible toe (By Guy A Cardwell) In last week's letter I discussed - briefly tfte KurfeJ Hume-Ownership situation in the United States. In this article I mentioned that the Southeastern Council would rebuild a satisfying- rural civilization (in the South) through a substitution- of farm ownership for tenancy. Even though the suggested change* Is needed and vital to our future wel fare, I expressed doubt that the plan could be advanced until farm produce values substantially increase and tax demands of government are reduced. In considering our tenancy prob lem, I recalled that conditions in the little Kingdom of Denmark are very different from those in this coiuntry and yet, like jt is with us in the South, agriculture is also the ehiief occupation of the Danish peo ple. From this thought it was only a step to the library shelf to see what that, excellent book “Farm Life Abroad” by Dr. E. C. Branson, Ke nan Professor of Rural Social Eco nomics, The University of North Carolina, had to offer about home ownership. Dr. Branson devoted twelve months about ten years ago to the study of rural life and farm conditions in Germany, Denmark, and France. I had the impression that I * would find in his book some sugges tions for the solution of our prob lems. Here is what I was looking for: Commercial Agriculture Now .domestic agriculture is one thing and commercial agriculture is another. To a Dane, farming on a commercial basis means (1) crops to basis means (1) crops to feed the farm, family and farm animals (2) Livestock to convert crop surpluses into milk and meat ^'pro-'x, ducts. (3) Farm Industries to con- ■ vert these products into fit forms for final consumers—creameries, cheefae factories, egg-packing plants aind the like, owned and operated Sy the farm ers themselves, or their experts and business agents, <4) sales agencies', and financial institutions of their own, on a cooperative basis, and (6) a.state whose, service ageneiee are all busy; in behalf of agriculture. Possible. Only to fvnm Owners . ” Commercial farming *s the last worn in faming. It is a kind of farming that is possible to fawn owners alone*1 and to intelligent farm owners—nev er to tenants and never t<f farm rts-e gions cursed With widespread iBKef-* acy. 'There are no farm tenants tit \ Denmark, or too few to count, less than ten. percent in fact—le#» them two and a half percent in. the Ameri can. sense of the word. And there are no Illiterates except the feeble-mind ed. Danish illiterates are only two1 in the thousand of population against 1.80 per thousand in the country re gions of North Carolina in 1920. Any Dane of character can own Sb home or a farm. The state is ex pending in the present three-year period twenty-two million kroner, or nearly four million dollars in Ameri can money, to help tenants and farm' laborers Into the full ownership dt homes and farms. Danish tenant* are few, but Denmark means to havo none at all in it if humanly passible to put every man into a homo of W* own,” , (Editorial Note: There seems to b# an error in the percentage cf rural il* literacy fn North Carolina in lffd, but data are not in hand te supply * cor rection.) NOT TO BR A BEGGAR Behrirt Nathan Blalock r knock at yoor factory doors Amer ica, And ask tar a chance to tarn; My body is bent from hunger And my soul does yearn. . . Not to be a beggar. I will work for just food, America, From rising to- setting -sun, I Will shiver in old rags To help my little one ... Not to be a beggar. My wife was strong and m happy. America, \ Her head fitted high with pride;: Now her -spirit earthward droop* •She fejl on my breast and cried. . . Not te be a beggar. Thowgh I am hungry and ragged. V _ America, I was born of tha fi*ee and brave;' fdy spirit too noble for a beggar. Kind death a way does P»T*. . « Not to be a beggar. f leave a child at your door, America, A bread-line beggar for life; Maks him pridetewr in training,, So hem sot seek death in strife. . . Not to he a beggar. YESTERDAY This is the path we knew. This is the hill— Where violets their perfume blew At evening still. This is the some road bend, The same old fence, We swore okf love ceuM iwwet end. And each day since ) have keen thinking much 0(|llw» said, The book of loya we did qnt touch, will Jove wae dead! And new you are gone awaj, As far as HYets gt* And still we «y tat yertwrSay Of very Jt**gNag®, -r-granH E, A|a»nag-*, the eoWeentratlon ef banking asset* law or iko law, and ft cannot be eback ed by making bnaneh banking Hl«prt,,r —Christian sun. RASCALLY BANKERS COUNTRY’S GREATEST EVft. The evidence continues to pile up* * •oh Mr. Mitehell Chairman of the Board of the National City Bank of New York before the • investigating committee &t the- Senate. He not only made a fictitious sale of h!s stock to a relative tot order to evade the inoaxna ©5 *aw hat Ho haa been sellng out hie austomera, and ^Rowing his officials and favorites to borrow money without interest front «, fund set aside for this purpose, cleariy a violation of ttu> national bankin* laws. . -f If this committee will continue if* investigation it wW ateo find ethav things it (has »ot yet discovered, but •which the Time* has been consistent* ly calling attention to. , ■ We hope sufffcient-wOt he disclosed to break their inference away free* Washington, so that every time on* of them lobbyist* come down fa the eapitol city t» endeavor t* InttowflOt members of copgrpsa the cdhua will be sa great they will be told, a* Woodrow Wilson told them, to SO (back home and stay there. v That Is the onlj* novation for thi# country, for they have done more to roin it and get use to this condition than aB the rest of the evils combi** cd.^Wilson TiiriW* THE STRANGER WITHIN THE GATE A Httfe Jewish gfri cam* so irregu larly to the reading-room maintain#* by the Chureh's mtatfSR to Je'wa «t Z&ng Island that eh# was ashed what was tfre-matte*. exglatae# tayt shfr and her sister had only M$, dress between them. A woman whf heard the story took the; little girl ff the nearest store and bought her jjt. rfmple dress. The eMd barely Mtf time to get heme beiere her mother, a Snckntah Jewesat anfred as the m*a» ■km, overwhelmed, aad said that W family bad suffered ha iWt aebntrg from. vatfUtofiKmim ah* ^erseentlefw and this gift wm the got pf Wtwiaoss any af them &*£.***■ , reeelved from any Christian.—CbrO«- > , h4 Churchman. , •' « - ***»> ' Art Rttte? Be we«; Aad for thy w*a*fl»rt haw • •. Gnat urns wa d* thair gwpetw* wertt. - He bettpr dm l»al a».-«^#etiia«. 1
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