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Dentists of State Perform Valuable Service for (Children. Nearly a thousand dentists of the State have contributed two days to ' . the chfldlrjen of (the without reward Or hope of reward. At the f.: instance of Dr. Ernest Branch, both president of the Dental Association and head of the oral department of the State Board of Health, the den tists of the whole State consented to give two days to examining the teeth of the school children of North Caro lina. It was a great task, especially when it is considered: that notes had to he made of the conditions needing remedying and th?' data left to be forwarded to the parents. . t $he-T)unb dentists were busy Tues day and as we write are expecting to lie on the job again Thursday, or yesterday. Dr. "Branch, by the way, an old pupil of the writer’s, has done a won derful work as. an agent of the State Health Department, and now that he is president of the Dental Association I he is in position to secure the co operation of the members of that or ganization in a most marked degree. XJL. 1110 uiuu is, \\t* xeoi mat George M. Cooper, wlio is essentially the originator of, school clinics arid Dr. Branch have clone more for the recent generations of young people than any other two men in the State. Opr own experience as a child, when I 'should have had1 an operation for adenoids and got my eye-teeth pulled as tusks instead, makes me appre ciative of the saving of so many hun dreds of -children from the handicaps 1 suffered. Of course, iu those days the serious effects of adenoid troubles were not recognized by even the most advanced physicians. The dental ex aminations give 'the finest kind of chance for parents to get informa tion about many troubles besides that of bad teeth, since the condition of the teeth point to basic troubles. Why Are Woman Bucli Fools_ The writer wishes to reprint with approval the following editorial on the above subject from the William ston Enterprise. In this connection, it is to be noted that the notorious Dick Itoycroft, Raleigh and Durham bootlegger, had a woman along with him when he got killed in an automo bile accident. Here is the Enterprise Editorial: “In a recent raid 'on a den of thieves, hi-jaekets, and vandals, by of ficers, three women were found with three men of that type whose only bu siness was to break in and steal, and to murder and destroy. Two of these women were said to be married—one with a young son—who had left hus bands and homes,to lead a life of dan ger, sin, anil destruction. The other was an attractive young girl who had left a home loved ones to lead a life that has but one ending—destruc tion. “We can understand why men, with their spirit of adventure and daredevil principles, will form gangs for the purpose of getting a living by such unlawful acts, .but when it comes to a woman throwing her virtue to the four winds and burying herself body and soul in oblivion—it is too hard to Understand. ... “When we properly evaluate earthly things, the most valuable jewel is a wo man's virtue. Yet there are tens of thousands taking the fatal plunge every year, never to see home nor meet friends-again. “Why are women such fools? Can not the home give a.little mope warn ing along these lines inaurn tu yaeuraic Its Bi-Cenlenitial. •A mouth ago, the writer' remafked’ the fact that Bladen Is to celebrate its bicentennial this year.- The Bate has now been set, for April 27, and a. great occasion is planned* * As part of Har nett was once a portion of Bladen, the celebration will be of local interest. I predict that ah Immense crowd wiB attend, though a . Jtily /ceiebtatipii would draw ft larfeer dhei AgSfti We weuld remind ©ur Sainpon folk that • this is the 150th year of SaJaiSooV founding and thatafis not too early to begin planning a suitable celebra tion of the event. C Too Early to Determine About Sales tax. . . < Mr. Leonard,president of the Fair Tax Association is ranting for repeal of the sales tax. As the writer said three ^ears J ago, when Ehringhaus and Maxwell came out against such a tax), it is too early to determine con ditions to exist in 1935. To send a delegation to Raleigh pledged against a sales tax would be fool-hardy. ■ In. the first Plaee> the sales tax is' as fair as any tax that can be imposed. True, it relieves big property holders of a- considerable sum of property tax. But that cannot be helped except by burdening small property owners with taxes which, it has been proved, can not be readily paid under conditions prevailing during the ,past several years. If any person or concern re ceives relief in this respect because of excessive holdings and compara tively small purchases, it is. probable that the income tax gets him or It. Besides, it has been shown that only two counties paid less sales tax last year than was the relief on property tax, and those two counties embraced cities. And it has been notable that the cities have had to bear the brunt of the burden or taxation during re cent years. The property tax is heavy, as a rule, because of city expenses and their prorata part in county expenses. In addition, the various license, In come, and other really productive tax es fall most heavily upon tlie cities. Again, at this stage, one cannot pre dict the plight of the country a year hence. If employment revives and wages ar£ based upon NRA rates, the sales tax will yield an immense sum with .comparatively little burden upon any one. On the other hand, if the New Deal does not pan out and farm ers and wage earners are on the rag ged edges, it will be a matter of shar ing the burdens as equitably as possi ble. ' fThe thing to do is to send men of brains and character to the Legisla ture and let them determine the best means of raising funds under condi tions then existing or foreseen. If profits are to be cut, as they should be. and if the little folk are to work short hours and receive big pay, it will be nothing but fair for them to help pay part of the expenses of the schools, from which they benefit more than the great property holders. Personally, the writer has not found the sales tax particularly burdensome, and what he has paid' is paid and the agony is over. In fact, any tax that is paid by driblets is an easy tax. We have noticed that the Sunday school funds in some churches amount almost to as much as the reg ular church collections, and simply be cause many, big and little, are regu-. larly contributing those mickles which so. readily make a muckle. We suggest that candidates for the legislature state that they will hold tlieir opinion's as to the sales tax in abeyance and act to the best of their wisdom when the conditions^ both as to sources of funds and the condition of the various classes of people, are better known than can be now prediet ted. But such a candidate might give assurance that he mill not favor the sales tax if means of tapping the rich treasuries of men and concerns that have reaped too greedily where they have not sown and have escaped their fair share of taxation, can be found and such levies can be made to yield a sufficient sum to make the elimina tion of the sales tax practical. But the property is sufficiently taxed. by the towns and counties. No State tax should be levied, under any condi tions, upon property. On the other, hand, further relief of small prop erty owners would be gratifying. Train tin Run Iff Cement trough. From Russia comes information that an engineer has planned a railway - train, with stream lines, to run on balls rolling along a cement through. The engineer estimates that a 200 inlle speed can thus he attained safely. SUch a road would need neither tails iior ties. Howetei1, It ifl probable ' that-the troughs would be Strengthen ed with enmeshed; steel. -There should' jbe .-little danger ofdetracking. Com^ -on ont, Charlie Ross. The I Society Must" Protect Itself. • '* « Sentimentalists are pleading ioT-a wholesale commutation of the death sentences of more than a score of murderers now held on death row in. the state penitentiary.^ ,i> Never, seemingly, has crime, been ‘ more rampant pr life held cheabefc by ClfitMhals. Murder has . become a vogue. No One Can be assured that he WUl not be murdered as he diligently Attends to his own business. Life is taheh for what, the killer must know can be but a few dollars. Mercy .has forsaken the breasts of troops of'kill ers. On the other hand, law enforcement officers have been unusually efficient and have laid hold of many of the ilk and brought them to court. Juries bave been strong and rendered proper verdicts. The judges have done their duty "and sentenced the killers to death. And now the penitentiary teems with the beasts, while scores and scores of homes mourn the loss of bread-winners at their hands. Now come the sentimentalists, for getting the woe in the wake of the wretched crew, and demand that the deadly vipers be spared to become bur dens upon the state tor years auu years. Already they have left or phans and widows to the tender mer cies of a harsh world. Already they have 'cost the state many thousands of dollars in chasing them down and in court costs. Even now others like unto them may be counting the chanc es of escaping capture or if caught of paying the ultimate penalty. The vi pers multiply. They can but have been impressed with the fact that the chan ces of escaping capture are growing fewer and fewer. Let them inow see that capture means death. Let them begin to figure the value of. life to new terms—in that of their own. It might be a good thing if the newspapers could announce in big let ters the execution on the same day of the 23 brutes now on death row, with a detailed list of the crimes for which they have been convicted. Such an array might impress the potential kill er with the fact that the state can hold the life of brutes as cheap as the brutes hold the lives of harmless men going about their business of making a living for themselves and families. If there ever was a time when men should be killed for killing, now js the time. Something Better to Supersede C. W. A Work. tVlhiie ithe country was lament ing the announced purpose of the ad ministration to close up CWA pro grams by May 1 and thousands of em ployees Were being dismissed," the fact that Congress had recently voted near ly a billion dollars for relief purposes seems to have been overlooked. Presi dent Roosevelt now announces that other schemes are in view, looking to a more permanent relief of unemploy ment troubles, which are to be finan ced with that huge sum recently ap propriated. That man continues to break out in new places. I am sure that he is convinced, as I am, that a planned economy, from head to loot, can permanently relieve the bad situ ation into which the haphazard scheme led us. x Manchukuo Becomes An Empire. That is a wonderful come-back of the former boy emperor of China. Emperor of Manchukuo, the new Jap anese-fostered state, ten times as large as North Caro, and possessing billions and billions of cubic feet of virgin timber, iron in limitable amounts, and and $2,000,000,000' worth of gold ore, and with a population of 35 millions the young man has before him a real career—and in the very country in which the great Manchu dynasty firose, of which he was the heir till disposed by the rise of the Chinese re public. Despite its origin under Mtsi 8jBd unfair Japanese auspices and de-r < aptte Japanese ascendancy to be con tinued, Manchukuo; is giving; promise of becoming a wonderfully prosperous codntrjr. . • . ■ . There is evidently no lack of work for the OWA. in the piedmont section of the state. It may be “made-work” ^tthe weathernade it No Maii Schedule Demanded Die Sacrifice. A hue and cry has arisen about the death of ja few aiany mail pilots. That clamor has been, or should be, stifled '^y the ,death; Of a .greater number on one commercial airplane, fiut there is ho reason that Cither m/iii pilot or commercial filers and their passenger* should have died. With iliail trains rushing across the country at fifty miles an hour, with telephone* telegraph, and Tadio exist ing in case of any real emergency 0f ..instantaneous communication, there was no reason why army pilots should have ventured their lives in weather such as that which brought death to them and loss of Valuable planes to "The government. In the busiest era, in the best of weather, it is certain that there are very few communica tions Whifth justify their quota of the millions of dollars expended to main ' tain the airmail service. And with weather prevailing such as that of the February weeks, with business largely at a stand-Still and with the telegraph ,or telephone ready to carry messages of life and death, there was certainly no vital excuse for risking life and property to carry a few hours earlier communications winch, if not worth less, did not justify the risk of a little finger to hasten their delivery. The government is paying millions and millions thus to hasten the deliv ery ofl air mail >w*h i 1 e allowing train mail to lid in the post offices for two days without delivery after their arrival. If an airplane letter, trans ferred at Fayetteville or Raleigh to train, and addressed to an ordinary citizen of Dunn, should arrive at the Dunn post office after noon on Satur day, it would be on toward noon Mon day before it would be delivered at his house or before he could get it from the post office unless he had a box. Yet lives have been sacrificed to hasten a fe w letters of unknown value north or south, ehst or west, across the continent. Will Rogers, I ween, was not far (from thfi mark when he said if one should open a sack of the air mail he would find it filled with— well with nothing of break-neck im portance. Uncle Sam can get along all right without any air mail service at all. The Dtmn Production-,Credit Association Functioning Well. The Dunn Production Credit Asso ciation seems to be functioning ac tively. This association embraces the territory of Harnett and Sampson, The officials come from Sampson, but the office is itt Dunn. R. P. Spell, for quite a period auditor of Samp son Countv. is secretary-treasurer and is in active charge of the Dunn office. Two of the executive commit tee, whose duty it js to pass upon all applications for loans, are from Sjahiipson—Mfessrs. >Ji. |M. Page and J. M. Weeks. The third member of the committee is Mr. R. B. Ennis of Harnett. Another of the Sampson Ians en gaged in an important capacity by the Association is Mr. Willie A. Jack son. He is yhe inspector for the Dunn office, and it is his business to visit every farmter desiring a loan and to make an inventory* of all his personal property aiid to secure in formation about his cropst past and prospective. From the writer’s personal knowl edge of ' these gentlemen, he would judge that it would be .difficult to find a j more competent bunch of mea for ^ this work in, either coun'-y. cr both. By the way, Mr. Page, "ho served a term as clerk of the <mut lit Sampsttn, hks • announced himself as a Democratic candidate agam. Approving Mr. Mann’s Advice to Cotton Growers The writer wishes to commend and emphasize the iihportahee Of the ad yice of Mr. M, Mann, of the CW> ton Cooperative Association, at th® farimOrs’ kneeling infBiHington recent* namely, tpat Harnett farmers fchdtiia gfoW cotton . Of at least one teCh staple.: The' factories need that •kind of cotton-and-pay ,a premim>>ior It. Bity seed tihit will produce it. even tf tag egart thyes^seem excess! ve. W^l, at least . we .shall have n® * Feshraarjr days.
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