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Tuesday. May 5, 1936
Old Man You
The bad way in which many of us find ourselves
just now we make believe is due to the failures of
others in running our schools, our churches, our lo
cal, county and state government. Probably there
is some justification in such a belief, but not near
so much as we try and do believe. Bid Howe, the
Kansas man, presents another side of the picture,
one that, in all fairness to everyone, should be given
thought before vigorously protesting the good along
with the bad. If one has measured up to his own
possibilities and then failed, some reason for com
plaint is certainly justified. Mr. Howe says:
"There is no Sure Thing, but the surest is a good
job well attended to, for steady promotion is almost
certain; and no one can help you in holding a good
job except Old Man You. Some say an active com
mercial club, an up-and-coming community, a good
pastor, a reform administration at Washington, are
necessary , others say a man is made by his wife or
mother, but Old Man Vou really does it, or doesn't
do it; many teach what is called good sense, but only
you can acquire it."
Politics Warming Up
Politics is getting to be real breezy these days,'
and the politicians are showing unusual kindness to
all classes, mostly to those who can cast a vote
Not only are the candidates greatly interested, but
they are spreading their appeals among the people
in all directions, and some have actually been calling
names. ?
We have never seen politicians so scared in any
campaign before. Some of them are so frightened
that they are actually white in the gills.
The voters don't seem to be greatly disturbed, for
they expect about the same amount of trouble and
pleasure regardless of who is elected.
It is really a joy to an old horny-handed son of
toil who doesn't get many chances to speak to the
big boys, to have these fellows come around and pat
them. It gets the candidate thousands of votes, too,
because the laboring man likes sympathy and will
openly vote for the politician who deals out taffy and
sweet promises even if he doesn't believe what they
say or promise.
Too Much Machinery
Mr. Raymond Moley, who seems generally to he
a very sound and truthful thinker has, for once, ap
-parently fallen in error. He claims that "the new steel
mills, which are to he opened this fall with a capacity
to turn out a million tons of sheet steel annually will
not lessen a general demand for labor. His line of
argument to prove his statement seems to he based on
a very shaky foundation of fact.
First off, Mr. Moley knows that a machine which
does not save labor will never succeed, and that no
body will have a machine that will not save labor.
He should also know that when the machine does all
the work, that the only labor needed will be just
enough to make machiMS do away with labor.
He further knows that when all the available labor
and all the available machines in the United States
are put to work at normal capacity that in six months
every warehouse in the United States will be bulg
ing with a surplus of goods that can find no market,
and a general closedown will follow, necessarily bring
ing about a great upheaval.
Mr. Moley knows, too, or should know, that the
owner of the type of steel mill that can turn out 100,
000,000 tons of shtet steel annually will shut the door
of the present mills. Yet he says the machine is not
guilty.
Those countries without the great machines, such
as Palestine and Assyria, are in better financial shape
today than the mechanized nations. It will be found
that the countries which have their work done in the
old-fashioned way have labor (or their people to per
form, while their more up-to-date neighbors have
half of their factories idle and much of their labor
hungry.
Ethiopia's Future
The great question, What kind of history will
Ethiopia record in the future? reaches out a long,
long way. First of all, what does Italy intend to do
with thoee people? It la scarcely to be hoped that
Italy's purpose is to enlighten, educate aad christian
izr those pitiable, backward Ethiopian*. On the
contrary it u note to be expected that Italy's sole
purpose is to enslave them, make their loads heavier
to bear and without Riving them more liberty. About
the only knowledge the Ethiopians will gain will be
twisted and turned to as to benefit the Italian peo
ple.
It may be that Italy's principal desire is to use
them as murderers of other nations, and they may
teach them to shoot and then use them in capturing
surrounding colonies. While it is a splendid oppor
tunity to improve the backward Ethiopians, no body
believes for a moment that Italy went tljrre and took
upon herself that job in the spirit of love and Chris
tian duty, but that she went for selfish purposes and
greed.
Ethiopia has never troubled the civilised world.
She has always kept her own little brood in a sad
and weary land, bearing their own pain and misery
without molesting others.
The new history may show them to be quite a new
troublesome citizen and their last state may be worse
than their first.
Italy will have to prove her sincerity for fighting
a war for the good of those she kills before she is
entitled to be trusted and believed.
The Most Sensible Plan
Tobacco farmers seem to be so certain that prices
will lie low this fall that it now looks as if they do
not intend to be caught with big crops and low prices.
It is generally rumored that there will not be much
increase among Martin County farmers, which is per
haps the sensible course for them to follow, because
farmers cannot make big outlays to produce a tobacco
crop that sells at less than the cost of producing it.
The idea of making a living is the most important
thing, and the farmer is the only man who can choose
his living to suit his taste. He can raise tobacco and
buy side meat enough to sustain him; or he can pro
duce his own milk, butter, chickens, ham and eggs,
and other good things to eat.
The farmer who feeds himself will not have to give
a crop away and perhaps mortgage his land next
year; but if he raises tobacco at a loss, the chances
are that he will have to mortgage his property.
The Winners
FJkin Tribune.
The tobacco farmers of Surry County should be
interested in Governor Ehringhaus' declaration that
"If the farmers are going to be saved, they must save
themselves. They can do it as well without compacts
as they could with them, and they would need to save
themselves just as badly if we already had a legisla
ture and had [lassed a compact act.. Such a step
would have done them no good."
The governor thus sets himself up as the sole judge
and arbiter of what is good and what is bad. North
Carolina's representatives in congress and their col
leagues from other states had formulated tobacco
com|jact legislation, which the governor says "ain't
worth a damn." In effect he told the six thousand
farmers assembled in West Raleigh that what they
wanted was not good for them, and like a firm but
long-suffering father he wasn't going to let them have
it
Maybe the governor is right, yet 6,000 farmers
who left their work to go to Raleigh can't be wholly
wrong. Mr. Ehringhaus objects of the federal com
pact plan because, among other things, it puts too
much power and authority in the hands of the Sec
retary of Agriculture, yet he takes the power unto
himself to nullify the wishes of a large slice of the
citizenry of his own state.
If the farmers are to be saved from a low price to
bacco crop that will not pay them for their summer's
toil, they must do it themselves, and it is time they
were about the job. The history of agricultural co
operation that has not had some semblance of com
pulsion as a part of the program records many fail
ures, and there is little on which to base the hope that
the farmers now will be more cohesive, unless they
have had their eyes opened by th benefits that came
under the AAA.
As it looks now, the governor is right?the tobacco
farmers will have to save themselves. They have
lost their fight to bring their cause before the general
assembly. The governor, with little to gain, has also
lost much of his popularity, and the candidate for
governor who is regarded as the yes-yes man for the
administration will lose some votes.
It looks like everybody has lost- in this tobacco
tight?except the tobacco companies who expect to
buy the surplus. They will win.
For Sale: One Life?$575
Goidsboro News-Argus.
It seems that for $575 one can get drunk, drive a
car recklessly, kill a man, and go free in Pitt County,
At least it has happened.
J. C. Taylor in Pitt Superior court entered a plea
of guilty to a charge of:
Reckless driving.
Careless driving.
Drunken driving.
Hit-and-run driving which killed Jesse Jones.
Taylor was given his freedom and prayer for judg
ment continued when he paid the mother of Jones
$575.
Both Solicitor Clark and the private prosecution
recommended acceptance of the plea.
Judge J. Paul Frixaelle ordered Taylor's driver's
license revoked for one year.
You read it right, one year, as reported in the press.
The body of Jonea was found a few feet from the
road on the Greenville-Washington highway on the
morning of February 9. Taylor, who was arrested
several days later, admitted being the driver of the
automobile which struck the man.
One life?$575 and driver's license revoked for a
year.' ,;V
What's your reaction to such an item?
CARD or IUNU
We wish to thank the many
friend* a* well aa the Williamebm
Fire Department, who <o valiantly
and kindly helped in saving our
heme from complete destruction a
few weeks ago, also in savins a part
of our furniture from the flamea.
We aasure you we will ever be grate
ful for this faithful service.?Mr.
and Mrs. C R Mobley and family.'
NOTICE OF SALE >
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
deed of trust bearing date Febru
ary 5, 1930. from D. L. James and
wife, Nancy J. James, to the under
signed trustee, which is of record in
the public registry of Martin Coun
ty in book P-2, page 583, default
having been made in the payment
of the indebtedness for which said
deed of trust was given as security,
the terms and stipulations of same
not having been complied with, and
at the request of the holder of one
of said notes, the undersigned trus
tee will, on Saturday, the 30th day
of May, 1936, at twelve (12) o'clock
noon, at the courthouse door of Mar
tin County, Williamston, N. C., of
fer for sale, at public auction, to
the highest bidder, for cash, the fol
lowing described real estate, to wit:
A certain tract of land lying and
being in Martin County aforesaid,
and more particularly described as
follows:
Situate in Cross Roads Township,
said county and state, and on the
public road leading from Cross
Roads church to Robersonville, N.
C., adjoining the lands of the late
Henry Wynn, J. F. Wynn, and oth
ers, and being share No. one as
shown on map or survey of the W.
F. Wynn lands made by Sylvester
Peel, C. E., on August 29, 1929, and
which said map is of record in the
Martin County Public Registry, and
is hereby referred to for a more
perfect description, and being the
share allotted to Nancy J. Wynn
Jones as her dower in the lands of
W. F. Wynn, deceased.
This the 27th day of April; 1936.
J. C. SMITH,
a28 4tw Trustee.
SALE OF VALUABLE FARM
PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon us in a deed
of trust executed by W. M. High
smith and wife, Pennie Highsmith,
and C. C. Williams and wife, Lucy
Williams, on the 27th day of De
cember, 1924, and recorded in book
T-2, page 385, we utill, on Saturday,
th^9tl^ia^>^4a^^936^2^ojclocj^
noon. at tbc courthouse door in Mar
tin County. Williamston, N. C , aall
at pubbc auction for cash to the
highest bidder the foiiowing land,
to wit:
All that certain tract or par eel of
land lying, being and situate in
Goose Nest Township, Martin Coun
ty, and state of N. C? containing
ISO acres, more or leas, bounded on
the N. and E. by the lands of S. P.
Green and J. B Anthony, on the
S. by the lands of Scott Pittman and
C. C. Williams and on the W. by the
lands of C. C. Williams, and more
particularly described as follows, to
wit: Beginning at what is known as
Hyman's corner, the corner of this
land and the land of C. C. Williams
and S P Green, thence S 27 W. M
poles, S. *1 W. 37 poles, S 8 E. 15
poles, S. 24 W. 4# polos. S. 14 W 24
polos, & 74 1-2 E. 123 poles. N. 74 1-t
E. 159 polos. N. 28 E. II poles, N 71
V. 138 polos. N . 28 E 82 poles. N
11 W 12 poles. N. 83 1-2 W. 112
poles to the begming, ss shown by a
map of same made by T. Jonas Tsy -
lor, surveyor, on the 28th day ol
November. 1824.
This land is told subject to all
unpaid taxes.
This sale is made by reason of the
Failure of W. M Highamith and wife,
Pannie Highamith, and C. C. Wil
liams and wife, Lucy Williams, to
?y off and discharge the indebted
ness secured by aaid deed of trust
A deposit of 10 per cent will be
?equired from the purchaser at the
the Ord day at Maicfe. 1*9?
INTERSTATE TRUS
TEE CORPORATION,
?14 4tw Substituted Trustee.
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