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THF RFAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. JANUARY 31, 1929
The Beaufort News
,ublished every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina
Beaufort Newt Inc., Publisher
WILLIAM GILES MEBANE-- Pres. and Editor
the unsuccessful. It may seem unfair that
some people are rich and some poor but it
would also be unfair to deprive the industrious
of the fruits of their labor and hand it over
to idlers and wastrels. Anyway Russia is try
ing out socialistic schemes and we might as
well wait and see how it turns out there.
THE EOX SUGGESTION
SEEMS IMPRACTICABLE
MR.
- hellers From
Our Readers
McCAIN DISCUSSES
SEVERAL MATTERS
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(In Advance) " ' ' '
One Year , $2-00
Six Months 1-00
Thre- Months - - -50
Entered as second :lass matter February 5, 1912 at the
postofiice in Beaufort, North Carolina, under the Act
of Mrch 3, 1879.
MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929
President Coolidge has granted an increase
in the tariff on peanuts and this should be help
ful to the farmers of eastern Carolina and Vir
ginia where a great many peanuts are grown.
Governor Gardner deserves commendation
for his hearty support of the proposed secret
ballot law. His attitude is consistent with
statements he made before he was elected.
Sometimes politicians do not stand by their pre
election promises.
The Ahoskie Herald does not believe in a
protective tariff even though it lives in a pea
nut country. It is not favorably impressed
with the increased duty on peanuts and says
so without hesitancy. The Hertford farmers
no doubt admire the Herald's consistency but
we suspect that they are glad to have the pro
tection for their peanuts.
HIGHWAY CHAIRMAN NEEDED AT
LOWER SALARY MAYBE
Governor Gardner's decision to appoint a
chairman for the State Highway Commission
in place of Mr. Page who has resigned, need
not surprise any one. This is one of the most
important offices that Governor Gardner will
have a chance to fill and it is not surprising
that he desires to have that privilege. Mr.
Page seems to think that most of the highway
work has been done and that a whole time
chairman at $15,000 a year is not needed now.
This may be true but still the organization will
always need a head because there is consider
able work that ought to be done yet. It ought
to be possible to get a competent man for the
place for less than $15,000 a year though. At
any rate there are plenty who think they are
competent who are willing to take the place.
SHOULD PROVE ITS CASE
The Raleigh News and Observer never loses
an opportunity to throw a brick at Secretary
of the Treasury Andrew Mellon. Recently it
has repeated several tr.iss a statement which
it made during the r..vc;it campaign that Mr.
Mellon has made mili'ons of dollars out of
some whiskey distillery. The News and Ob
server has never given its authoritv for this
statement. During the campaign Mr. Mellon
stated that he had once owned some stock in
a distillery, that he never had anything to do
with the management of it and that he sold
his stock before he took office as Secretary of
the Treasury and in fact the company had gone
out of business three years before the prohi
bition law went into effect. It does not seem
at all likely that he ever made "millions" out
Of a block" of distillery stock, and the News
and Observer ought to either offer some proof
of its charges or stop making them.
THEY WANT THE OFFICES
It seems probable that a majority of the men
and women of North Carolina. Democrats and
Republicans, want a secret ballot law enacted.
Women's organizations, the newspaper pub
lishers, ministers of the gopel and many indi
viduals have so declared themselves. Still
there is strong opposition to a real honest to
goodness secret ballot law and the attempt to
get it r.'ay be defeated again. This opposition
does not come from the preachers, the women,
the editors, the farmers, the business folks and
th rank and file. It comes from the hard boil
ed politicians. The men to whom officehold
ing is the main object of life. They are the
miss who want offices for themselves and their
trends ar.d who think they are more apt to
win with the sort of primary and election laws
that we now have. They try to lug in the
"nigger" issue or some such foolish excuse,
but be not deceived dearly beloved it is the
offices that these fellows are interested in and
absolutely nothing else.1
SOCIALISM NOT GROWING FAST
Some years ago Socialism seemed to be mak
ing considerable headway in the United States
but now it seems to be on the decline. In No
vember Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate
for President received only 300,000 votes. In
1920 Debs was given nearly a million votes.
The United States is not a very good field
for the spread of socialistic doctrines. Our
people are willing to do a good many things
en masse but when it comes to owning property
they are individualists. There are too many
examples of men who have started with noth
ing and amassed comfortable fortunes, even
vast wealth, to make us favorable to common
ownership of property. The ones who are will
ing to work and save do not feel that it is
their duty to support the lazy and incompe
tent. Those who succeed in accumulating some
property want to do what they please with it.
They have no inclination to divide it up with
Editor Beaufort News:
T hnvp something1 more to say. I
,, ,. , , ihave heard it rumored around that
The suggestion made by Congresman Box iour county had to be sold out on
of Texas that the Al Smith faction of the Dem- 'account of default of paying some in
ocratic party should be relegated to the rear terest on bonds to the amount of over
does not seem to have aroused much enthusi- $32,000.00. Now gentlemen, Mr. Ed
asm. Very little approval of the plan has been wards told me and others that this
expressed at least pilbliclv. No doubt in ! has been paid. Now my friends, these
private many Democrats have said something ibonds were sold vvhen 0Ul' .Iast K?,s"
of the sort but they do not care to make too !ature' "2'' was "TZ.ntv at
i i.- i - ill m, . know who represented this county at
much stir about the matter. The reason is that time andpnow he is ready t0 fay
that the Smith forces are in control of the isomething about the present board of
party machinery and it would be rather dan- county commissioners for this. My
gerous to antagonize them. Leaders like Sen- dear readers it is because he can't
ator Glass, Senator George, Josephus Daniels rule this board like he did that other
and a good many others wish that they could j board. I thank God that he can't for
get rid of the Tammanv influence in the party iif he could he vvouId ke!P his mouth
but do not see anv wav to do it at this time. jshut- Now Mr- Edwanls us our
In the November election Governor Smith re- ;c,ounty wil1 cTe ,alonf a11 "BTht'. h!
inmss now. iwy utar aicnus i muiil
ito tell vou our roads are in a better
ipnnHitinn thnn thev have been in I
that '-ov in six months, some say twelve
ceived some fifteen million votes. This was bv
far the largest vote any Democratic candidate
for the Presidency had received up to that
time. It was more than riouhlp the nnnn nr .tv, v. i-nn ,,mn nfnMi
vote of either Cox or Davis, the candidates in have been cut and they will be cut
1920 and 1024. It was really a remarkable ,'more in the near future and I don't
gain and showed that the Democratic Dartv believe that our taxes will be raised
had a candidate and a platform that appealed much and if the' aie we kno',v that
to a great manv people in some parts of the there has g0J be 1,,01UT ,raise?. l?
country. This big increase was not in .the
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An auto hurtles in the ditch
And on the fatal spot ,
The reckless driver, dying, sighs:
If I had only thought
Somebody makes a bad mistake,
A business goes to pot
Again, you hear the culprit cry:
If I had only thought.
A life is wrecked because the knave
In some misdeed is caught,
And from the prison cell he whines:
If I had only thought
the last extravagant board of county :
commissioners put on us. As for
what these young college students say
that ain't nothing they wern not
raised like I was. I was raised under j
a three months school one; a year j
South. It came from the New England states.
the North, the Middle West and West. It was
mostly a city vote, although there were gains
in some rural sections also.
Governor Smith's offer to allow his sneeches
to be sold to pay off the Democratic debt will !and Part of the time and some time ,
dr two things. It will help pav the deficit was. two yf,ars "P"?-. NeT"'ent,
i . ;ii i - . c i.L i c i-i. to a six monins scnooi in my me ex-i v
and it v ill keep Governor Smith before the : ong when the yle came
people. Those who buy his book and read his together and got a teachev t0 teach
speeches will sing his praises as well. Mr. !ten months one year and I went to I?
Smith may not care to be the nominee in 1932 i that school and I learned less than
but he and his friends will be in a position to 'I did in a school of three months and :
say who the nominee shall be. It may be Gov- Iif I was in these young girls' place 1 1
ernor Roosevelt, or some one else but it will;! would be ashamed to tell that I had !
not be a man selected by those who fought ito take a course of cooking and sew-
Smith. The election showed plainly enough i!n& cJle5? for thir own 8Pe?1j$
the great strength of the Smith wing of the fenefit' 18 80m,ethl"S f
rr,,. , f. . ... , , , . . v llearned at home under their mother. T
party. This faction is likely to have a majority They weEe not allowed t0 lie on thejv
in the next national convention just as it did bed jike tkey are now until their
in the last. The suggestion of Mr. Box does mother trot breakfast done and eaten
not seem practical. The control of the Demo- jby the rest of the family and then
cratic party is not lodged in the hands of the 'got up and hardly have time to catch
Southern element any longer. The party has jthe truck going to school and I am
passed through a process of evolution which !of the same opinion still that they
cannot be denied. New issues have evolved ,usht to have been made to learn
and new leaders are in control. !the th.ngs at home and then they
j could have learned their book bet
ter at school. Now my children did j
not have the chance of more than a
four months school in the time I rais
ed them.. Now I note that they say
that the majority of citizens don't
want to go back to a. six months school
term in this age of progression. Gen
tlemen common sense teaches me that
we ain't in. a progressive time with
the indebtedness that we have on us
in this county when eight months
.schools and good roads put it on us.
through the extravagance of the Dem- ;
, ocratic party.. When w.e owe for our
When people think before they act,
They'll be a happy lot,
Anji less and less the.alibi:. ;
W.E.SKARRENANDC0.
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Estimates Cheerfully Submitted
'Phone 142-J Beaufort, N. C.
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Oscar Underwood, says the Durham Herald, "was the
only man of his time, or since, representing the south
in the national legislative halls who was of real pr?si
dential calibre." Wait a minute, friend; aren't vou
fc-rsc-ttin? North Carolina's candidate, Cordell Hull 'progress I don't call that progressive.
NV-xt Bft. Bank & Trust Co.
BEAUFORT
((Greensboro News.)
A FAIR ELECTION LAW
Now dear friends I want you to know
i that I am in favor of good schools, 'L
.but six months term is long enough
for a child to make a grade if they ;
:will teach them their books and noth- !
ing else. Now I think it is time that J
jboth young and old study more about f
their spiritual life than their worldly
j life. Now I want to tell in this fast !
For some years there has been a growing sentiment
in North Carolina for the adoption of the Australian
ballot system one that insures fair elections and pro
tects the individual voter in his rie-ht to votp as he
pleases. It has been before the legislature more than !ae o livin Jhe,y t!7 to run totfast
i u i -ii j u i -i.- ,, . , ito stop and think when thev are go-
once only to be killed by large majorities. It is be- , ' &
I many who will drink too muth whis
key and will start his car and when
Will the
fore the general assembly again this year.
peanut politicians again succeed in killing it? We hope
not. The people from Manteo to Murphy should get
in touch with their representatives and urge them to
vote for this measure. (Gastonia Gazette.)
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
A State-wide Australian ballot law is a long-felt need
in North Carolina, and there is a strong public senti
ment in favor of such a law, but the leading politicians
of the Democratic party have strenuously opposed the :right and nothing wrong,
he lands many a time he is in eternity ; D
unprepared to meet his God. Now I
want everyone that reads this letter ; s
to think and study over it and see if ; c
I ain't right about it. Now I will I
close by saying that Christ died to
save his people and I am writing to j
try to save this county out of a lot
of expense.
From your best friend for what is I
Newport, N.
L. McCAIN.
CARD OF THANKS
passage of this law, and succeeded in strangling every
effort made to put the law on the statute books. These
politicians fear the law will work ill to party success
and give the opposition a better chance with a fair
election law than is the cac at the present time. The
women of the State have luen favorable to this law We wish to extend our sincere
ar.d have begged for its enactment. But their requests j thanks and appreciation to our many
h .ve been ignored and the politicians have had their friends who so thoughtfully and sym-
way. Times have changed, however, and there is a pathetically assisted us during our re- i
fine chance that a better and fairer ballot law will pass cent bere?,ven'' ., .
. .l- e u i i . ,r. , j MRS- MAR A. NOE
at this session of the Legislat jre. (Charity and Chil- THOMAS L NOE
Q'-en. i rot Avn u wnv
BLYTHE H. NOE.
Problems !
THE PEANUT TARIFF
With an increase in tariff which will practically pro
hibit the importation of foreign peanuts, this should
be a good $'ear for farmers to make a small increase
in their acreage.
The imported peanuts have had two ways of depress
ing our prices. First, they, of course, increased our
volume of stock and gave the peanut dealer a cue with
which to put down the price of peanuts. When the
peanut tariff was materially increased a few years ago,
the price of peanuts immediately went down, which
showed that reason did not always prevail in the mar
ket price on some commodities.
With the new schedule of rates, we may not have
much change, or we may have a great speculation and
a big rise. Yet for the coming years the new tariff
will n.ean hijrher prices for peanuts.
Our farmeis should seek to grow such peanuts as the
:rade demands and take more care in housing and
cleaning them, things which have, for a number of
yer.:s, bten badly neglected. (Wiliiamston Enterprise.)
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