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THEBEAUFOR1 NEWS THURSDAY,AUG. 15, 1929
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Democratic victory as that the sun would rise I
the npn-t Hav TVi
Times have changed in "Ole Virginny" as
they have in some of the other southern states
Many people were astonished at what happen
ed in the South last November. From now on
they will not be astonished at any thing in the
political line. The outcome in Virginia will
be awaited with uncertainty and a great in
terest.
THURSDAY AUGUST 15, 1929
With two college professors running against
each other for Governor in Virginia we may
expect no mud slinging, but what will happen
to the adjectives and adverbs of the better
sort will be a plenty.
HOME COMING WEEK
An effort is to be made this year to restore
the prestige enjoyed for many years by the
State Fair at Raleigh. The Legislature' gave
its endorsement to the project by setting aside
October 13-19 as "Home Coming and State
Fair Week." It is further planned that each
county that is willing to participate shall have
a home-coming on October 12-13. The plan
is to invite all former residents to come back
and for a time renew the old ties and
incidentally see what progress has been made
by their former neighbors. Affairs of this sort
may be made very interesting and they have a
certain amount of advertising value that is not
to be despised. It might be well for our people
to consider the matter and see whether they
want to participate in the undertaking or not.
BIG CONTEST BREWING
IN THIRD DISTRICT
The Third Congressional district has had
some hard fought battles during its history
and it seems that next year it will have an
other experience of the kind. Congressman Ab
ernethy it appears will be opposed by the Hon
. orable John S. Hargett of Jones county for the
nomination of the Democratic party for Con
gress. Mr. Abernethy has been through three
strenuous primary fights, was defeated in two
of them and was successful in the last. He has
had plenty of experience in politics and is pre
pared to give any opponent all the fighting he
wants. However he is opposed by a man who
is also no amateur in politics. Mr. Hargett
has been an active politician most of his life.
He was sheriff of Jones county several terms
and served as State senator for three terms.
At present he holds a position with the State
Department of Conservation and Development.
The fact that these two experienced and force
ful politicians are going to oppose each other
means that the Democratic primary next year
will have plenty of fireworks.
SOUTH SHOULD SHARE
IN BENEFITS OF TARIFF
As it does from time to time Congress has
gotten around to another battle over the tar
iff. A tariff committee has been in session
in Washington, despite the hot weather, and
of course considerable wrangling has been go
ing on. Some of the Western Republicans and
most of the Democrats in Congress are oppos
ing the proposed tariff bill, claiming that it
discriminates against the farmers and favors
the manufacturers. Thos who favor the bill
contend that if the manufacturing industry
prospers that it helps the farmers by creating
a market for their products and that in the
long run everybody gets the benefit in one way
or another.
The platform adopted at Houston last year
was rather favorable to the protectionist plan.
Some Democrats repudiated it but Governor
Smith made his campaign on it very largely.
There are several Democratic senators and
members of the House from the South who us
ually vote for protection on the product of
their ownections even if they are opposed to
protection for other localities. In North Car
olina some of pur Congressment favor protec
tion for the peanut growers and some are will
ing to help out the cotton mill industry a bit.
But when it comes to levying duties that are
helpful to the great industries of Pennsylvania
or New England they are against protection.
This is rather inconsistent and the result may
be that southern products that need protec
tion may not get it. It has been proposed to
put a tariff duty on tomatoes, onions, beans,
cabbage, an additional duty on sheep and
goats, on wool and mohair and other farm
products. If Southern Congressment want
these and other products of Southern farms
and factories protected they might do well to
favor the bill as a whole. A tariff bill is cer
tainly going to be enacted. Southern Con
gressmen should try to get as much benefit
for their constituents from the bill as rjossible.
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T Our Readers 1
NOT ALTOGETHER BAD
TO HAVE HIGH TAXES
We note from our exchanges that taxes are
being reduced in a good many counties in
North Carolina this year. Carteret, unfortu
nately, is not among the number; on the con
trary there will be a slight increase in an al
ready high rate. This is the direct outcome
of large expenditures for roads, bridges and
other purposes. Some counties have very lit
tle paved roads except what the State has
built for them. Some of the large, wealthy
counties have done considerable paving on
their own account but the small ones as a
rule have not very much in the way of build
ing hard surfaced roads. Carteret'county has
considerable mileage of paving, some of which
was not absolutely necessary and might very
well have been postponed for a few years. But
we have the roads and there is no disputing
the fact that they are very useful. They are
especially beneficial to the farmers. A farm
that is cut off from the rest of the world by
mud for half the year has very little value. In
the trucking business especially, good roads
are necessary in order to move perishable
crops quickly. So while we may groan some
under our tax burden it is well to remember
that the situation is not hopeless. The county
is developing rapidly and it will not be so very
long before the taxes will begin to come down.
This may happen next year.
Press Gleanings
You can take Itssons by mail to increase you will
power or you can practice getting up at night for an
other blanket. Akron Beacon-Journal.
Josephus Daniels says that within ten years Uncle
Sam will be in the League of Nations or something
just like it which indicates that Josephus is about as
good a prophet as Boston is a baseball team. National
Republic.)
Yet a jealous wife would be just as mad if she knew
what her husband's stenographer really thinks of him.
San Francisco Chronicle.)
FLAG AT ITS BEST
We like the flag best when it is flying from the
homes of a community. Rippling from the flagpole of
a stately building, it is seen from afar, but the story it
tells when flying from a home seems more intimate,
more personal. Furthermore, the American home, un
der the protection of the flag made the tall building
possible. Toledo Blade.
A LETTER FROM MR. McCAIN
Editor Beaufort News:
I want to write a short letter. I
see that Mr. F. B. Klein has sent in
his resignation as a member of the
board of commissioners. I suppose
that Mr. Klein was not 'satisfied with
what was going on in some ways.
N'ow there are some ways I didn't
like, one was not letting the State
take over the roads and maintain
them under state supervision but I
am not willing to trust another set of
Democrats to take charge of the bus
iness yet. I want you all to under
stand that. A few weeks ago the
present board had the previous board
up so they might find out something
and they didn't find out very much
else I haven't seen it and I heard
they give Mr. Hamilton until Aug
ust to make out his report and I
haven't seen it yet.
N'ow some tell me that Mr. Kl in
was opposed to the present board go
ing into any investigation with them.
Now my friends I think if there was
any wrongs done umler the previous
board I think the xiublic ought to
know at so we can look out in future
elections and get better nun for our
officers.
My dear readers I see in the Beau
fort X. ws where log school houses
have disappeared only 28 left in the
state. My friends look around and
see how many poor families have
been dispossed of their homes by
the building of costly school houses
and good roads and monev beinir
spent extravagantly all over the
state and counties and see how many
are getting curs and are speeding and
killing themselves. You can't' pick
up a paper but what you can see of
several that have killed themselves
or some one else. I think it is time
lor the car builders to stop making'
cars to run so fast. I think best to
fix the speed gears so they can't run
over 2"i miles an hour for I think peo
ple are running too fast and also liv
ing too fast.
Last Friday night I was told that
Mr. Webb's son was running about
eighty miles an hour when he lost
control of his car and had a wreck
and a young lady with him was kill
ed and came near killing himself.
Xow you know the old must die and
' the young may die but we are com
' manded not to kill and I just as soon
hear of some one shooting his friend
as of a wreck murder.. Now we had
better make ready to die. You know
the good book says "be ye also ready
for ye know not the day nor the
hour when the son of man cometh."
Now there are lots of things going
on I don't like but I have made up
my mind and am going to stick to it
that we ne;d not expect to see thing?
get any better until there is more
economy used.
From your friend for justice.
E. L. McCAIX,
Newport Aug. 12
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There's a hollyhock down by the gate
All aflame in the warm summer air,
.And the fair hand is withered with age
That so carefully planted it there.
When she's gone from the old family circle,
To the quiet repose of the tomb
There'll be beautiful memories of mother
When the hollyhocks burst into bloom.
There are wonderful flowers of the spirit;
Lovely blossoms with petals of gold
That will bloom in our memories forever,
When the baubles of life are grown old.
V.V11 remember her singing at twilight,
Rock of Ages and Never Alone;
Of the temple not builded with hands
And angels around the white throne.
And she planted the fed rose of courage
In our hearts with an infinite care,
With the daisies of kindness and mercy,
And the blue bells of penitent prayer.
Though our lives may be tumbled and twisted
I am sure that in gladness or gloom,
There'll be wonderful memories of mother
Whm the hollyhocks burst into bloom.
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money in fighting for equable freight
irtLt-s uiai !ue ri money were netter
sunk in ports and harbors thnn in
lawyers' fees and briefs to the al
ways inimical Interstatp Commerce
Com mission. ( Ralegih Times. )
tried out at the Winchester Country
Club near Boston.
Sago trees flower but once.
The best willow
conies from France.
for furniture
The dirtiest street in the world is
that of Tchangsti, Nankin. China.
According to Tillo. the mean depth
of the ocean is 12,550 feet.
Golf by electric light
LOST U. S. GAME WARDEN'S
i Badgf, rinder please leave at I. N.
is being Moore's stort Reward. It
A GOOD NEWSPAPER A GOOD TOWN
No one can deny it. A city is also judged by its Mississippi River prejudicial to Xorth
INVESTMENTS IN PORTS AS WAY
TO COMPEL FAIR FREIGHT
RATES
Recommendation by the board of
i directors of the .Atlantic and Xorth
; Carolina Railroad that $300,000 be
spent immediately in creating a port
! at Morehead City is not as preposter
ous as it sounds when it is remem
j bered that there was a request before
the last General Assembly for $300,
000 to start a general complaint a.
I gainst all freight rates east of the
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daily newspaper. If its newspaper has a standard in
its treatment and display of news in its features and
in its editorial columns these facts soon make their
impression. If the newspaper
win suner. Ao institution has a more serious rela
tion to a city's reputation than a city's newspaper.
Brookfield (Mo.)
Carolina.
Perhaps such an appropriation
would have had "the effect of fore-
is insufficient, the city j f""""? ,l"e recen Preliminary vie.
vx t "guild iiucs over iNurm
THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN
One would need to be a very wise man to
be able to forecast accurately the result of the
election in Virginia next November. The
Democratic primary of last week which select
ed Dr. John Garland Pollard, who is a college
proiessor, as tne candidate tor Governor in do
ing that guaranteed a hot fight during the
Ny'mpygn. Dr. Pollard is the candidate of
what is sometimes called the Democratic "ma-
"cine" of Virginia. In the primary he had the
support of most of the leading Democratic pol
iticians ?nd he is assured of that support for
the Novemer election. That support means
a sure enough fight.
The independent Democrats or anti Smith
Democrat3 as they prefer to call themselves
and the Republicans are supporting another
college mn Dr. William Moseley Brown. Be
hind him he has an army headed by the re
doubtable Bishop Cannon that, encouraged by
its succeps last year, goes into battle believing
in its ovm power to win a victory. It isassur-
ed ther that the Virginia campaign this year
is not going to be a sham battle, as political
contests sometimes are. Ordinarily in a Vir
ginia flection one would be as certain of a
SCHOOLS BRINGING UP
GENERATION OF READERS
A few years ago much was said about the small num
ber of books read by the school children of North Car
olina and of what poor readers North Carolinians were
en general. Figures recently made public show that
children are no longer lagging with their reading.
More than 1,200,000 library books were read by chil
dren in the standard elementary schools alone during
the past school year. In these schools there are over
279,000 volumes with more than 113,000 of these in
the rural schools. These carefully selected books
have been widely read. The record show that over
70 000 rural childrn read library bocks and that 600,
000 volumes were loansd during the voar. Tn ib
standard elementary schools in the towns of North
Carolina there are more than 165,000 library books be
ing read by 60,000 children. In other elementary
schools, libraries are being built up and the children
are taking advantage of the good reading thus offered
them by the schools.
A report made by the state superintendent of pub
lic instruction states: "Five years ago, except in some
of the cities, very few elementary schools had even
small libraries and only here and there in the rural
schools were books found suitable for the children be
low the high school. At that time, in the larger ru
ral schools, there was a total of less than 8,000 books
for more than 100,000 children enrolled."
These figures show that the public schools of North
arolina are bringing up a generation of readers.
They are to be commended for deepening the interest
rt children in the reading of good books and helDinc
them to become acquainted with good literature. There
s no more profitable form of recreation than that of
reading the right sort of books, and if children are
trained to enjoy $ood books early in life there is little
danger that the questionable literature will ever have
n appeal for them (Smithfield Herald.)
Carolina cities in the matter of
freight rates, a victory which threat
ens to overturn all the advantages
won by North Carolina in the matter
of freight rate adjustments in the
last twenty years.
Perhaps such an appropriation
would have had no such effect, for'it
must be remembered that the Virgin
ia cities are not taking any freight-
rate drubbing at the hands of North
Carolina lying down.
And in the matter of what advan
tages Virginia has or may obtain in
the matter of freight rates it must
I be remembered that the factor of
Virginia's ample ports plays no lit
tle part in, the freight rate favoritism
shown our northern neighbor.
Cameron Morrison's machinations
as Governor of North Carolina have
ibeen cussed and discussed. He had
his victories and his defeats. His
conduct of the financial machinery of
the State was not to the liking of
the administration which followed
him, but he put into operation a
highway-building organization that
has not had its equal in America for
efficiency or economy and, although
a politician himself, placed at the
head of the Toad-building organiza.
tion a man whom he knew could not
be touched by politics.
Another hobby of Morrison's was
ports. He fought for a State-sup .
ported port at the mouth of the Cape
Fear. He stressed the advantage!
that such a port would give North j
Carolina in the matter of freight j
rates. The port proposition went to '
a vote of the people and was beaten.
Now North Carolina faces what ex
perts tell us is freight. rate disaster.
Maybt Morrison was right.
In any" event, it strikes us that if
the State must sink large sums of1
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