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Mebane Leader |!.0 rOY.!!- editor and Owner. Entered aa second class matter Feb- uary 8, 1906, at the Post Office at Mebane, N. C.* ander the act of March 1897. Issued Every Thursday Morning. SUBSCRIPTION: One.Year, - - - $1.00 (fix^Months, • - - .50 ThreelMonths, - - .25 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ^ and Currency, Postal Money Order or. Stamps. CORRESPON J ENCfa We wish .correspondents in all the nearby post offices. Write,at oiw#». Thursday. September 18 1933 ROAD IMPROVEMENT. The necessity for good roads ceased to be a debateable question. It is a recognized problem by every thoup^htful and considerate person. There may arise a question as to where it is best to build some roads since it is not possible to build all of the roads we need, but to build all we can is a necessity, if we wish to meet lifes practical condition on as smooth a plane as posible. That country that is furtherest advanced in civilization is that country that has the finest high ways and the best wheeled yehickles to travel upon them. More attention should be given to some roads North and North East of Mebane. There is a well to do set of splendid people who live North and North East of here that will be glad to get in to a closer commercial relation with our people, if we but help them with a better road. Let us ever keep the matter of road improvement in view. It is a vital one. Thaws money has not succeeded in defeating the ends of j ustice, but in ramble of legal tangles, it has very materialy aided in delaying it. One of the charges against the Wake County road force for mistreatment of convicts was that Radfrey Jeffrey was whip ped and compelled to eat swine. Jeffreys was a Jew and it was contrary to his religion to eat hog meat, but in violation of this a forbiden Jewish right he was compelled to eat it. The State Department have been urging American citizens to get out of Mexico as fast as they could for over three weeks. There is an indication that some thing will happen this week, nor is it known what that some thing will be. While the signs do not point unmistakeable to a brush with Mexico, there is an impression that it will cake a little blood letting to clarify the atmosphere. A number seem to think that Thaw has been punished enough. That his seven years confinement in an assylum meets the ends of justice. The fact ought not to be lost sight of that Thaws money has kept him a conspicious figure in the public eye ever since his conviction, while other convicts far less guilty have been known simply by a convict number, with nothmg to make them conspicious There is nothing redeeming about Thaw unless its his money. We might have more patience with the impeachment proceed ings against Governor Sulzer of New York, if we did not believe that they were inspired by Tam- manys leaders, inspired because Sulzer refusedlto do their bidding. Sulzers wife slipped up in some of her speculations, but that would not have mattered if Sulzer had of been willing to act the truculent tool for Tammany. All of Sulzers sinning was in refusing to obey Tammany, and this is why we sympatize with him. White Farm Communities Should Have Right Of Self-Protection. New Law Proposed by the Progressive Farmer Ex citing Widespread Interest Throughout the South— What It Is, SITUATION DEMANDS REMEDY. The hundreds of earnest messages from farmers, and even more earnek messages fiom farmers' wives and daughters, have opened my eyes. A white farmer may have bought land in what he expected to remain forever a white community, may have built a good home with this expectation, order ing his whole lifs accordingly. And yet some non-resident owning land adjoining* him may put any kind of negroes on it, terrorizing the farmer’s wife and daughters, destroying the social life of the community, depreciating the value of the farmer’s land, and finally forcing him to move for social reasons—leaving the negroes to gobble up the farm for half its real worth. This is not a fancy picture but a literal report of what is actually happening all over the Cotton Belt. Almost every section of the South feels the blighting cffect of such conditions. Worthy settlers refuse to come, and farmers already in a community hesitate to build worthy country homes, because they have no assurance that they or their children will not be forced to leave the place in order to find plenty of white neighbors. A SIMPLE LAW ADVOCATED. We must have a statute which will enable any white community that wishes to do so to take steps to insure its remaining white—a statute framed not in a spirit of injustice and per secution to the negro, but in a spirit ot justice and protection to the white man. Briefly, I propose a simple law which will say that wherever the greater part ot the land acreage in any giver district that may be laid off is owned by one race, a majority of the voters in such a district may say (if they wish) that in future no land shall be sold to a person of a different race. Provided such action is approved or allowed (as being justified by consideration of the peace, protection, and social life of the community,) by a reviewing judge or board of county commissioners. It may be argued, I know, that such a law is unjust because with the govern ment of the South as it is, it could be utilized by white people to keep their communities white, but the negroes would rarely or never be able to use it to make a community wholly negro. All of which I admit, and yet I believe it is just. V NOT UNJUST TO THE NEGRO. I believe it is just because the white man needs the social protection of such a law and the negro doesn’t If a majority of his neighbors are white, the negro doesn’t care. His land is made more valuable by the predomi nance of neighbors of a different race; the chances of selling it for its worth are better; his family are not uneasy or unsafe; they don’t mind running off day or night to see neighbors or kins- lO’k miles ctway; and hie money-making facilities are better. But with the white man surrounded by neero neigh bors exactly the contrary conditions exist. So I am confident such a law as I propose would be just, and eminent lawyers have assured me it would be constitutional. As for its practicability, that is apparent on its face. It is not a radical measure. It w^mld not be forced on any community that doesn’t want it. But wherever any white community does wish to keep itself white and does want the protection of such a law as 1 propose, I believe it should have that privilege. UI shall be glad to send further infor mation to any interested readers who agree with me. Sincerely yours, CLARENCE POE. Raleigh, N. C. It Will Be Worth While To Visit Us We are now showing a splen(3id assortment of New Coat Suits, Coats Dresses etc. That are right in style and price. NEWTALl DRY GOODS Ne w shoes of every kind, New Clothing for Men and Boys. Come to Greensboro ?jnd make our store headquarters. Brown-Belk Co. Mail orders carefully filled GREENSBORO, N. C. I II Typewriters of all makes at reasonable prices Name the machine yu want and let us make you prices. GREEN & POTEAT, Book-Sellers & Stationers Durham, N. C. Farms for Sale 150 acres of improved land, j?ood G room house, large barn and good out houses, six miles East of Hillsboro, $3,500. 340 acres on State Highway one mile East of Hillsboro, practically level and easily cultivated $22.50 per acre. 226 acres an Southern Railway, and State Highway one mile East of Hillsboro, practically enough wood on place to pay for it, $5,000. acres 3-4 mile West of Hillsboro, beautifully situated, 30 acres open, balance in wood lan(l, within 75 yards of State Highway, 7 room house in a large oak grove overlooking Hillsboro and the old Horner school property, $2,500. 110 acres of wood land in Bingham Township, $5.00 per acre Write for Further Particulars to ORANGE TRUST CO. Hillsboro,- North Carolina HOWE’S GREAT LONDON CIRCUS 500 HORSES 2 HERDS ELEPHANTS 1000 PEOPLE. 40 FUNNY CLOWNS Don’t let Baby Suffer With Eczema and Skin Eruptions Babies need a perfect skin-covering. Skin eruptions cause them not only in tense suffering, but hinder their growth. DR. HOBSON'S ECZEMA OINTMENT can be relied on tor relief and perma nent cure of suffering babies whose skin eruptions have made their life miserable. “Our baby was aflicted with breaking out of the skin all over the face and scalp. Doctors and skin spesialists failed to help. We tried Dr. Hobson’s Eczema Ointment and were overjoyed to see baby completely cured before one box was used’^ writes Mrs, Strubler. Dubuqe, Iowa. All drug gists, or by mail, 50c. PFEIFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Meb ane Drug Co. 1 THE LARGEST MENAGERIE EVER SEEN HERE. The Finest Horses In The vVorld GRAHAM MONDAY sept: 29th. For Sale A Bargain. One neat nice Cottage on Ruffin St. immediately in rear of J. C. Hunt and Company’s store, opposite Mike Miles residence, rents foi $5.00 per month. Price $700.00. S. Arthur White, Mebane, N. C. Against our peace we arm our wUl; Amidst our plenty something still For horses, houses, pictures, planting;^ To thee, to me, to him is wanting; ^ That cruel something unpossest Corrodes and leavens all the rest. That something if we could obtain. Would soon create a future pain. —Prior. May Be So The Madison Herald bravely de clares the Rcidsville Review has or dained itself the ‘’orgin” of the DemoS cratic party in Rockingham, and set itself up to deliver the County to Sted- man and Overman The Herald thinks The Review has bit off more than it can “chaw.”—Yanceyville Sentinel. Both Food and Medicfne. Asparagus is considered one of the healthiest of quick-growing plants used for food, and is really a medi cine as well as a food. 'Mebane Real Estate ■ & Trust Co. Will sell you a farm near town. Will build you ajhouse^in town. Will insure y )ur life, house, and horse. Will sell you first mortgapjo, 6 per cent, bonds, on good real estate. Will help in every legitimate way to build up Mebane and surrounding country. Will cut you rough lumber, both oak and pine for any building purposes. Lend us your encouragom^^iif, and give us your busi ness. Walter S. Crawford, Pres. % Offic" over Pest Office % f- HONORED Of the latest style models the very prettest it IS possible to create, for the adlniration of everyone who loves to dress well. BROCADE VELVET SKIRTS Something rich and pretty. Everything to inspire, and stimulate taste. Come to head quarters, and get the best. MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION EUis-Stone & Co. Durham, IN. C. GREAT FURNITURE EMPORIUM When you can all ways find suits, that will suit you. We furnish a house from parlor to kitchen. Everything, and at moderate price, on any terms you may wish. Don't forget that we can supply you. Green & McClure GRAHAM, NORTH AROLINA. INSURANCE I carry a full line of the strongest companies for fire, life, and health, insurance. Anything in the insurance line. Rates reasonable. When needing anything in the insurance line see s. G. MORGAN Refresh Yourself During the summer days at our Soda Fountain The most delicious drinks with pure fruit flavors JUST TRY OUR FOUNTAIN ONCE MEBANE DRUG CO BRING YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS TO US
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