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What Would Be Your Estimate? One man who is not unacquaint ed with the extent of bootlegging in this section estimates that a le gal liquor store would hardly de crease the illegal sales more than 20 or 30 percent. He is confident that the higher-price legal stuff could not successfully compete with the cheaper moonshine product. Isn’t he about right? Do we need , two supplies of liquor—that we al ready have to our sorrow and a more respectabilized variety? Prohibition Multiplied By the Hill Bill. If prohibition per se is an evil, Senator Hill’s bill multiplies that evil. It contains 31 "thou shall nots.” If the 18th amendment was creating a nation of law-breakers, what is the 21st doing—that which superseded the 18th and pledged the government’9 strength in pro tecting dry states from the liquors of wet states? Speaker ‘ Johnson predicts ad journme*t of the legislature by March 20. We shall believe they are through by that date when we tee it. If a real fight arises .over the sales tax and over liquor meas ures, there is no guessing when ad journment will take place. New Deal Fail si to ?. a. Give Square Deal/ '• It has been one o.f my constant criticisms of the'“new deal that it isl a respector of persons. An ef fective new deal must begin at the bottom with enough for the most menial workers before anybody, however magnificent his former life under the old deal, is assured more. Too often it'has turned out the other way. A supertimty or pre vious good-livers now. on poverty row must he provided with jobs that will enable them to live/ more or less, in the former style- From the smallest community pp to the highest administrative circles in. Washington, the notion of rank; in service' has' been over-emphasized. Every relief employment fob has had its well paid supervisors and directors. 'And those "favored ones are the last usually to feel' the pinch of decreased funds! A'letter from an employee of the-govern ment cannery at Greensboro; pub lished in Monday’s Greensboro News, states a situation that illus trates a tendency or practice too general to be pleasant to contem plate. After enumerating dozens of bet ter paid worker^ . supervising -.the work of 850 employees divided into several shifts, the writer describes what occurred when the supply of funds or cattle ran low, as follows*: “The ordinary operatives who were receiving barely enough to live upon were cut in sorri^ instances to four days per week, six hours per day, at 30 cents per hour. - Seemingly, . no economies were found necessary as regards hours or salary of executives. “The facts are as follows: “This local government cannery is not an industry operated for. profit. When funds or meat riffiS low and curtailment is found nec essary, retrenchment should apply all along the line from humblest employe to highest executive, as all of us are working on government relief funds and executives are no more entitled to straight time at fixed salary than are the humblest employes. Anyone, be he govern ment official or interested private citizen who has any deubts as to the truth of the facts I have stated, let him investigate for himself, or herself, and be convinced of the unjust and wholly unfair method of always cutting down the com mon employe when curtailment seems necessary, while those higher up continue to enjoy full compensa tions. That is one of the reasons why relief funds do not last as long as they were intended to go. "Too many officers, too many executives, too many sponger, many of whom do not need th ’ work at all. e “It seems that nearly every m ernment project launched in North Carolina ds immediately swamped with. 57 varieties of officials and semi-officials whose services ar« merely an etravagant waste of funds intended to benefit the nnnr and needy.” About Registering The Babies. It was only a comparatively few* years ago that any effort at all was made to keep a record of vital statisticsr in North Carolina. Even till this day perfection of the re« ords of births has not been attained. At present an effort is being made to impress upon all parents the im portance of having the births of children properly registered. Do you know whether all your chil dren’s names are registered? If not find out and see that they are. North Carolina needs no other liquor election. That of 1933 cost the State about $50,000 and indi viduals * interested in the result another large sum. 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