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Tuesday, July 18, 1933
Wet Against Dry
Carl Goerch's new papier, ' The Statt," in its is
sue of July 15th, carried an article by John Hinsdale,
Raleigh lawyer, giving his reasons for favoring the
repeal of the eighteenth amendment. On the oppo
site page, Charles H. Dickey, \\ illiamston preacher,
gives his reasons for being against repeal. These ar
ticles were written by the two men without knowing
the reasons advanced by each other.
Considering ourselves the jury, we assume the lib
erty of reviewing the testimony, segregating the truth
trom each statement and rendering a fair verdict in
the light of truht and jusice.
First, we would like to express our surprise at Mr.
Hinsdale, good lawyer and good man as he is, pre
senting to an intelligent jury an argument so weak
and so full of fervor, which shows want of study and
a willingness to accept statements being put out by
people who are seeking to make money out of one
o! man's weaknesses.
He says, for his first argument, that the real thing
we are after is temperance. His second big shot is
state's rights. He then come out with a heavy swing
and charges the eighteenth amendment with practi
cally every act from the kidnapping of the Lindbergh
child to the most trivial violation of the entire crim
inal code.
Coming along again, he charges that the eighteenth
amendment was passed when we were filled with high
ideals and inspired by a zeal to help mankind, but,
he says, we have degenerated into bootleggers and
patrons of speakeasies and blind tigers.
His next big knockout is his charge that before
prohibition only male adults drank to any extent.
Now, he says, liquor is consumed by all classes, young
and old, men and women. He says the eighteenth
amendment has converted the people of the United
States into a nation of lawbreakers.
He then says that the consumption of alcohol is as
great, or greater, than it was before prohibition and
thai prisons have been filled on account of the law,
and he makes many other charges.
Answering his first statement, we agree that what
he says about the desire of the prohibitionists being
temperance, but what -the "antis"' want is intemper
ance, and the reason they are working so hard for re
peal is that they may make and sell more liquor and
teach intemperance to all whom they can. We are
surprised that Mr. Hinsdale, good lawyer and fine
gentleman that he is, should fall so easily.
Then that old state's right gag. Mr. Hinsdale
ought to know that the courts of every state, as well
as the United States Supreme Court, have ruled many
times that no section has the right to do anything
injurious to another section, whether it be in a small
communiy, a state, or the entire nation. He also
ought to know that any traffic as vicious and corrupt,
whether legal or illegal, cannot be held within the
bounds of imaginary state lines, that no state can
govern itself in this particular case. Certainly, state's
rights does not mean that one state has the right to
hurt another state.
Mr. Hinsdale was right about why the eighteenth
amendment was passed. It was for the good of man.
But he is entirely wrong as to how to better it. The
truth is that just as soon as the amendment was rati
field, liquor folks began a tirade of false propaganda.
They used the press; they bought up officers; they
promoted the violation of crime; they have raised
great sums of money in the United States and Europe
to destroy the law that Mr. Hinsdale says was good.
They wanted to destroy a good law in order that they
might sell men something that would destroy them.
Mr. Hinsdale makes a sweeping charge about so
much drinking by old and young, men and women,
which we do not think is true. First, we want to refer
Mr. Hinsdale to the college records of the country,
and he will find that in 90 per cent of the colleges
there has been a very large falling off in drinking that
should be a fair index as to what young people are
doing. We know of a small town in this State where
there are about a dozen drunkards who load up as
often as they can get liquor. More than half of this
number got the liquor sting as boys in barrooms and
around the lots adjacent thereto 25 years ago. There
is no business that pushes its activities harder than
alcohol to extend its sales, and it is always looking
for new customers, boys, girls, young men, and young
women. Of course the filling station speakeasy and
the hootleggrr has been patronised, yet when consid
ered in comparison with other moral bankruptcy,
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liquor-drinking will not look so bad. Of course, Mr.
Hinsdale can not prove whether drinking causes im
morality or immorality causes drinking, yet they are
twin sisters, and go hand in hand, and Mr. Hinsdale
would legalize liquor in order to do away with law
lessness and lewdness.
Mr. Hinsdale puts too much of the crime burden
on the liquor laws. If Mr. Hinsdale will take the
trouble to inquire, he will find that arrests for crime
in Great Britain, Germany, and Canada, all with leg
alized liquor, have*increased since the close of the
war far more than in the United States, which has
legal prohibition.
In the United States, alcoholic deaths per 100,000
of population has decreased 40 per cent, while in Can
ada. according to their statisfics, alcoholic deaths have
increased 100 per cent. Census and court reports
show a decrease in the United States in alcoholic in
sanity, general crime from drink, drunkenness, and
drinking. In Canada, according to Canadian sta
tistics, drinking crime has increased 89 per cent,
drunkenness 55 per cent, and immoral crimes in On
tario 76 per cent.
Of course, nobody denies that some people are in
prison on account of violating liquor laws —and some
are in for stealing automobiles. When it becomes
necessary to pass a law against any particular nuisance
or danger to protect the public, then some violator
gets in prison. Vet the law has made life and prop
erty safer. In our savagery we bad no law, no pris
ons. We demanded the life of our adversary. But as
civilization has advanced, we have found it necessary
to pass laws to protect society and make life and prop
erty more secure. None of these laws have been per
fect, of course, and all of them have been disobeyed.
Mr. Hinsdale cites the prohibition law as the foun
dation for contempt for all laws. That is a broad
charge, but the best part of it is that it is largely
false. Mr. Hinsdale, a good lawyer, ought to know
that the war unleashed a spirit of bigotry in the minds
of the |>eople of the world that has been too wild
and rampant for man to cope with—a spirit of run
wild and kick up the devil in general.
So the shrewdness of the devil came in through
the money of liquor manufacturers in the United
States, Great Britain, France, and Spain and wrote,
"The liquor laws are the cause of all the trouble."
Despairing fathers and mothers, who have been so
disturbed over the new conditions prevailing, were
simple enough to believe it, and some lawyers seem
to have gulped it down just as it was served them.
Then again, Mr. Hinsdale says liquor laws were
the cause of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.
Well, that is a noble guess, and a great charge—a
charge the gentleman can not prove. If Mr. Hins
dale finds that racketeering is caused by the liquor
laws, he will find the racketeers are liquor men and
are, like him, for re|>eal.
Mr. Hinsdale makes one point that he can prove
beyond question, and that is that many of the re
sectable [)eople are aiding the liquor folks by buying
their products. Of course, they can not keep theif
respectability if they drink bootleg whisky, and boot
leg liquor will carry them into the gutter just as
quickly. We admit that many people who call them
selves good church folks drink and patronize the
bootlegger, but more of them will patronize the legal
dispenaries.
Mr. Hinsdale attempts to comfort the people of this
slate because we have the Turlington act which pro
tects us, as he says, and makes us perfectly safe. This
controverts every argument that Mr. Hinsdale has
made. If a constitutional amendment makes law
breakers and hypocrites of people, makes them steal
babies, and causes racketeering in the United States,
then the Turlington Act will do the same thing for
North Carolina. And then his state's rights argu
ment falls rotting to the ground because if we are to
respect state's rights, then we must also respect coun
ty's rights. If North Carolina has no right to "speak
for New York, then why should Cherokee County
speak for Dare County, which are further apart than
North Carolina and New York.
Mr. Hinsdale seems to have been victim of propa
gandists, since he has used their arguments almost
verbatim, and no matter how much he pleads for re
peal he is doing just why a few whisky and beer
barons in the United States and Europe want him to
do, and they are far more dangerous and deadly than
the gallberry moonshiners and the back-alley boot
leggers. They will destroy more character, property
and life.
Go Slow in Speculating
Don't go too far in speculation. Remember that
there is not enough money in the United States to pay
the interest on our public debts for one year, and
don't forget that we have already overinflated our
credit and it will be a long time before it will be safe
to go in debt extensively.
Wisdom dictates conservatism in business as never
before. We must not forget that we have not paid
those old debts yet, and that they are sure to meet us
face to face.
Unusual Weather
July has furnished us some unusual weather so far
this year. There have been a few hot days and nights
and two spells of unusually cool weather. Nights
when we shiver under blankets in July are certainly
out of the ordinary in this section.
Of course, somebody will rise up to try to explain
it. \et.lt is just like it has been all through the
years—sometimes it is cold and sometimes it is hot.
But after all, there is nothing quite so normal and
sure as the weather, which is governed by principles
and causes set in motion when the earth was formed,
and nothing we can do will change one dot or tittle of
the forces that God fixed by which the world should
move. We call our coldest, or hottest, or wettest, or
driest seasons extremes. ' -■
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PROGRAM FOR
FARM MEETING
IS COMPLETED
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Ten Farm Organizations To
Cooperate in Gathering
At State College
•
Ten different farm organizations
will meet at State College during the
Farm and Home Week, July 24 to 29,
when the 31st annual State Farmers'
and Farm Women's Convention will
be held.
The convention will share its gen
eral sessions with the American ln-
Ntitute of Cooperation, but will hold
"the usual sectional meetings at which
various problems affecting the rural
life of the state will be discussed. Gen
eral sessions will be held each eve
ning on Kiddick Field, followed by
an hour of games and recrational
events.
The organizations meeting with the
convention and the American Insti
tute of Cooperation are: North Caro
lina Dairymen's Association, North
Carolina Crop Improvement Associa
tion, North Carolina Grange Lectur
ers, North Carolina Beekeepers Asso
ciation, North Carolina Federation of
Home Demonstration Clubs, North
Carolina Cotton Association, Annual
Extension Conference, Annual Voca
tional Teachers' Conference, and an
nual short course for farm women.
Officers of the convention this year
ure: L. Jf. McKay, Hendersonville,
president; J.. O. Moseley, Kinston,
hrst vice president; George R. Sock-|
well, iilon (,'olclge, second vice pres-j
ident, and C, A. SheHicld, secretary.
Officers oi the State Federation of
Home Demonstration Clubs are: Mrs.
Dewey Benndtt, Hants, president;
Mrs. Gordon Keid, Union Mills, first
vice president; Mrs. lirooks i ucker,
Griinesland, second vice-president;
Mrs. Hubert Boney, Teacheys, third!
\ icc president; Mrs. T. J. F'letcher, j
Rockingham, recording secretary; Mrsj
J. H. Phillips, Mebatie, Corresponding;
secretary; and Mrs. T. M. Woodburn,
ol Parmele, treasurer.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed on the 13th day of
April, 1928, by John Ed Pitts to the
undersigned trustee, and of record in
the public registry of Martin County
in book $-2, at page 212, said deed of
trust having been given for the pur
pose of securing note of even date
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and tenor therewith, default having
been made in the payment of *aid
note and at the request of the holder
of said note the undersigned trustee
will, on Monday, the 24th day of July,
1933, at 12 o'clock m., in front of the
courthouse door in the town of Wil
liamston, North Carolina, offer for
sale to the highest bidder, for cash,
the following described real estate, to
wit:
All my (l-Bth) one-eighth undivided
interest in my father's estate, the late
Hugh Pitts, deceased, and being all
i my undyided interest in farm owned
: by him, containing 13J 5-8 acres, more
or less, and bounded as follows by the
! lands of Calvin Jones, J. W. Eubanks,
F. M. Johnson, and others, and locat
! Ed in Hamilton Township, Martin
County.
This the 23rd day of June, 1933.
W. F. HAISLIP,
je27 4tw ' Trustee.
[ Elbert S. Peel, Attorney.
NOTICE
1 North Caroina,
Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the power
, of sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed to the undersigned
trustee on the 29th day of August,
1931, and of record in the public reg
istry of Martin County in book H-3,
: at page 30, said deed of trust having
• been given for the purpose of securing
. a certain note of even date and tenor
, therewith, and the stipulations con
tained in the said deed of trust not
j having been complied with, and at the
' . request of the owner of the said note,
• the undersigned trustee will, on Sat
[ I urday, the 22nd day of July, 1933, at
L ! 12 o'clock m., in front of the court
house door in the town of William
ston, North. Carolina, offer for sale
' to the highest bidder, for cash, the
• following described real property, to
wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being in Cross Roads
I Township, Martin County and State 1
of North Carolina, bounded on the
north by the lands of Goldfe Hyman s
I and S. P. Moore, on the east by the [
! lands of S. S. Bailey, D. J. Meeks, 1
! Barnhill Brothers, V. G. Taylor, Mrs.
Sudie Lanier, the Power land, and
others, on the south by the lands of
J. S. Peel, J. G. Barnhill, Joe Wynn,
C. B. Roebuck, and Delia Clark, and
on v the west by the White Farm and j
the J. I. Britton farm, containing 300;
acres, more or less, commonly known
and designated as the J. T. Barnhill j
Everett farm, and being the same and
I identical lands deeded to J. T. Barn
| hill and J. Lass Wynn by S. F. Ever-;
i ett and wife by deed of record in the
! public registry of Martin County in
Book Q-l, at page 529.
This the 20th day of June, 1933.
H. D. BATEMAN,
je27 4tw Trustee.
Albert S. Peel, Attorney. i
NOTICE OP SALE OF REAL {
ESTATE
North Carolina,
Martin County.
Whereas on Ist day of December,
1930, John T. Daniel and wife, Vic-;
toria Danirl executed to Edward E. !
Khodes, Trustee, a deed of trust which
is recorded in book G-3, page 29, of
fice of Register of Deeds of Martini
County; and whereas, default has,
been made in the payment of the in-1
debtedness secured by (aid trust deed,'
and the holder thereof has requested
exercise of the power of sale therein,
contained: j
Public notice is hereby given that'
on Saturday, the 22nd day of July,!
1933, at 12 o'clock m., at«ihe front
door of the courthouse of Martin j
County in the town of Williamiton,'
| Jf. C., the undersigned will offer for 1
sale at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following describ-;
ed real estate lying in Goose Nest
Township, Martin County, North Car-,
olina, to wit: ,
Bounded on the north by the lands'
of Spencer Burnette, on the east by
the lands of W. K- Harrell and Joe
Staton; on the south by Conoho
Creek, and on the west by the lands j
of Spencer Burnette, and more
ticularly described as follows, to wit:':
Beginning at a stake on the Sherrod
Mill Road, the same being the corner i
of the lands of Spencer Burnette;
thence south 13 1-2 degrees west
thence south thirteen and one-half de-!
' grees west twenty-four hundred and
! seventy-five feet to the run of Con-|
olio Creek; thence along the run of;
said creek in a southeasterly direction'
thirty-one hundred and sixty-five feet i
to a point opposite three gums and a'
hornbeam marked as pointers; thence'
a straight line to said three gums and:
hornbeam; thence north nineteen de-j
grees and fifty minutes east sixteen
hundred and thirty-one feet to a fork-,
ed poplar just east of the run of Long
DR. VIRGIL H. MEWBORN
Optometrist
Next Visits:
Bethel, N. C., at Blount Hotel, Mon
-1 day, July 17, 1933.
Robersonville, N. C., at Fulmer's
Drug Store, Tuesday, July 18, 1933.
Williamston, N. C., at Peeie's Jew
elry Store, Wednesday, July 19, 1933.
Plymouth, N. C., at O'Henry Drug
Store, Thursday, July 20, 1933.
Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted - At
Tarboro Every Friday and Saturday
GsZ&vi* A/daceoo NEVER on
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Tuesday, July 18,1933
Branch; thence along the run of said
branch twenty-seven hundred and
sixty-four feet in a northerly direc
tion across the Sherrod Mill Road to
a large black gum in the run of Long
Branch; thence north seventy-five de
grees and ten minutes west fifteen
hundred and sixty-seven feet to a
small branch; thence along the said
small branch two hundred and eigh
teen feet in a southerly direction to
the Sherrod Mill Road; thence along
the said road north seventy-five de
grees and thirty-five minutes west
nine hundred and thirty-four feet to
the beginning; containing 200.33 acres
more or less; being the same la ad
deeded to John T. Daniel by Hattie
V. Daniel (same person as Victoria
Daniel) by deed of record' in the
public registry of Martin County, in
I>ook W-2, at page 464.
This the 19th day of June, 1933.
EDWARD E. RHODES,
je27 4tw Trustee,
Elbert S. Peel, Attorney.
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