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liitroducing Some Salons (Continued from page fi/e ) he should see fit.’Verily, the present house cannot claim ■any great de gree of consistency. The Abernethy bill proposed that all convicted drunken drivers should have to serve a prison sentence, Bhort or long. The judge v/ould still have discretionary authority, since he could penalize with a short or a long term. Mr. Abemefhy’s bill, as I see it, simply sought to place a penalty that the big ikes Hvould feel. When a man with plenty of money or with influential friends cati escape a prison sen tence 'hp is apt to continue to mix his alcohol and gasoline to the men ace of the public. But when such a fellow knows that he must go to prison despite his money or the in fittence of his friends, it is another matter. - 'Besides, judges have no chornc at ^present, i believe, to decree smaller firfe; for drunken 'driving, and cer tainty 'for ‘carrying concealed weap ons, than $50. Thus it seems the dignity Of the judges has long suf fered the very thing that the too tender friends of the drunken driv ers made a pretext for preventing the passage of !a measure that would have been greatly effective in re ducing the 'dangerous practice of ‘driving after drinking liquor. T Wish another trial could be given that Abernethy bill Or another of similar import. - Just watch out and see if drunken driving and rotten absentee balloting are not practically ignored in the final ac count, despite the much talk about ‘efedh at the 'beginning of the ses sion. - •; Ah Edfribtrt-'gh diversity ‘Gr&dtrhtfe. i wrote of Martin McCall, one of tlie ’Robeson ’representatives, a month ago, but did not know at that thfte that Ife has the’distinction of being a graduate of Edinburgh ’University, fhdtfgh 1 told ‘of his torfifng front old "Scotland a score 0*f Vekrs ‘ago. & W. Scdft, 'brother of ‘Kerr, WUs Manager of the feocky Mount farm ‘egpditmifrft station when sev eral young mdn Tcame from Scot land. They w^re educated ‘in the crotch schools, btft thoise institu tions had failed to ’establish chairs of mulology. fhe consequence was those bdhfrfe Bcofts came unpre pared to f 'fhfidtiOn' Very well as 'fntile 'drivers. "?Tlfey were some what of a Wonder to the negroes, what with their ‘ Scotch hrOgnfe and their ignorahce o’f rthilology and other essdntiafe "of southern farm liie. bhe ‘blacks, hoWeVer, refrain ed frorh laughing, f dr those Scotch men ldoVed sorftewhfit 'dangerous to offend. One -day, 'however, one colored fellow‘stood by hs a Scotch man mounted a stalk clifter for his performance ''Cvfth "that mtile pro pelled mkchine. Se got the wheels Of the CuttOr astfide the row all right. jThe rnulb stood ready for the word. Fhe'Sco'tchman reached over and slapped'his miileship tipon the rump and skid "Commence!”— Ihat was too much ‘for the darky, who fell down khd fallowed with laughter. Mr. ;Sco:tt hjas transferred the story‘to Martin-McCall, ‘who came over about the same ‘time and land ed from the train at lied Springs, thence to the home of some great grandson of fhle Scotch immigrants. In Martin's case, he told the mule to “Begin.” By the way, Mr. Scott is now in the apiary business down on the lower Cape Fear, vieing (or is it vying?) with our former news paper friend Mr. \V. J. Martin in the honey business. Sorry, though, to learn from Mr. Scott that Mr. Martin is in poor health. If Mr. -Scott’s six or seven hundred hives. produce the high quality of honey" that Mr. Martin's Whiskey Creek bees do, he has a fine business, I am here to tell you. Mr. Martin’s headquarters is Iceland; Mr. Scott’s Bohon. Bui there is plenty of room for other beemen in southeastern North Carolina. fare’s Representative. Whether we shall be able to show you Representative Roy L. Davis’s picture or not, you will know him, if you mingle among the solons, by his liberal supply of freckles. He is tall and lithe. Mr. Davis comes from Mariteo, which the whole world should know is in Dare. Mr. Davis has had oppor unity himself to carry those two historic names td a big part of the world, for he is a retired naval officer. While in the naval service, Oft the U. S. S. S. Arkansas, he visited many for eign ports. That experience plus that of a youth on Roanoke Island, two years in the University at Chapel Hill, and two years as a public school teacher in his native county, has made him One of the most genera1 ly informed men in the house. It was after his experience as a teacher that Mr. Davis entered the naVal service at the bottom and worked his way ftp to the rank of lieutenant. He saw continuous Service diiring our participation in tlie World War on the Arkansas, which operated with the British grand fleet. That fact enables Mr. Davis to claim the distinction of "having helped escort the German grand fleet to the Firth of Forth mfter the armistice. In 1930 Lieutenant Davis was re tired upon a pension, and he is in just the finest shape of any of the legislators to stay in session till the Fourth of July if necessary:—The other fellows’ pay, and his as a 'leg islator, will soon stop, but that re liable pension will keep coming. Mr. Davis, like the most of the members, is probably finding few opportunities to catch the attention of the iptiblic. in 'fad;, scarcely a hklf-dozen of the members so far have bad anything to do thht singles them Out for applause Or even criti •diSfn. (But possibly the occasion will arise to demonstrate Whether toaVe’s representative has the same metal as a legislator that be demon strated %ts a sailor. X Hardware As 1 legislator. ibe proportion of lawyers in the ^present legislature is considerably 'smaller than usual. The places . <*ually filled by an excess „f thl profession are taken this time E1 men from a variety 0f W - spheres. Con Johnston mg Iredell, is a hardware 7* chant fie didn’t volunteer 7) candidate for the house if . 1 and now that he is down «^ IfMp-Jl 154 SPPminn-lir .. [ leigh is seemingly hnding H4 , will more and more want toT 1 at Mooresvflle fitting out the l dell farmers for, their spring'p£ mg. He is a Duke UniversL'T and capable of playing a good J part in the deliberations of the sion, which deliberations are 1 beginning It is little surprising; meny of the fellows have bee bored with the inactivity and lac! » far prw* Youthful Representativ “Ty” Crabtree when a student - the University was no strata dotvh in Pittsboro. He was a l 'boy >ahd has proved himself young man of initiative and ente: prise. At the age of 25 he wa serving as one of Lee county’s Cotr ’ missiondrs, and as such was instri 'mental in not Only saving the San ford library, built up through tJ CContlnud On Page Seven) £• _ " is a silent servant ahvays ready to serve you in your financial affairs. —to Write a check anywfeeie--at home, store, or office. --to vmte a check any time—during or outside business hours. -—to Send money anywhere—safely and tbiWeWiently. to have a legal receipt for your files in the form of a cancelled check. . --to get an accurate statement of your adctfilht every *W6nth. —^to obtain cash when you Want it. to keep your balance safely deposited until you need it. We invite you to make use of our checking account facilities at eSther of out* 14 units. It enables you smithfield, n. c. BRANCHESifcenson — Beaufort — Burgaw — tlMtdai — Dunn—Fa^e Kinston — Louisburg — Morehead City — New Bern Raleigh — Rosefeoro —Sprmg Hope.
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