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Kmbera of the farm.
Tuesday. June IS. 1937
Control or No Control
An advocate of the old individualistic theory of
government iras pointing out the unfairness of a con
trol program for crop production in a free country
He mentioned the surrender of the individual s right*
and freedom Just any old haphazard system of do
ing things is to be desired rathrr than the surrender
of personal liberty.
The price the irish potato growers in this section are
receiving for their crop right now is deriving them
of more freedom than any control program could ever
take away frum them They are not only losing their
freedom, but they are headed, in the end. for starva
tion and early death It is a costly freedom when
one has to surrender his life to give such freedom sup
port. Surely cuolrui is better than no control when
all the facts are considered.
Prices being paid for irish polators moving to the
markets today are leaving the farmer broke Proti
ably the farmer > lass will be the gain of the ultimate
consumer this year if the middle man docs not lake
undue advantage of the situation and dictate high
prices to the buying public. Next season, just as tin
clock pendulum -wings back, the farmers will reduce
their potato acreage to an abnormal extent. High
prices ordinarily follow, and the consumer pays the
bill. It does seem possible for the government or
some one to step in and end such haphazard prac
tices. And with all the bad features of the haphazard
practices before thrm. it dues seem the individualists
would hush harping about what they call freedom.
Surely, it is pussiblr to advance a sensible program
thai will prove advantageous to both the producer
and consumer No sky-high price is due the farmer,
to be sure, but he is certainly due a price that guar
antees him a fair return on his investment and sup
ports his claim to the right of existence.
Security Act Creates New Dangers
Granting that its intents and purposes are justified
and greatly needed, the social security act creates new
dangers that must be reckuoed with if there is to be
a last pillar Irft to vufmurt a crumbling society,
The act proposes to lend a helping hand to the
weak, to make thrii lot in life bearable; to create lor
them a new hope. Surely, a better understanding will
follow as society recognizes its responsibilities and
makes an earnest effort to meet those responsibilities.
But if the act tears down the kindred ties of the
family, which unauthentic reports state is about to be
dune in some cases, then a new danger will face so
ciety. Ret>oft- state that the aged are being literally
driven from the hums of their kin that they may
quahfy for assistance The act should be operated
for the benefit of those who cannot help themselves
or who have no oar to turn to in their old age. but
the act was nut designed, nor should it have been de
signed. to care for those who forego family tirs in or
der that a lew extra dollars might be gained.
There is no justification for such claims, and those
(Krsuos who brlirve they are entitled to a guaranteed
sum each month just became they are OS years ?*
older are facing bitter disappointment.
The Honor Shown Lindsay Warren
ChadaUt Otsen**
North Carolinians swell 141 no little over the tidings
that Hon. Lindsay Warren. First District Congress
man from the State, was unanimously elected Speaker
pro lempure of the House incident to the enforced
absence of Speaker Bank brad
It's a sincere and distinct pleasure not only on the
part of his constituents but of the people of the Stale
as a wbolr that Congressman W arren stands so loftily
in the estimation of his colleagues, as such an honor as
this eloquently testifies
He has earned the distinction on the basis of his
personal popularity.
1 Warren is coming to be a whui k
a rejatiwetrr
this preferment means all
1 newer endure the heat of sustained
having the inside qualities to
of distinction, po
Not only is luting likely to make you bar your
it, but it's
Nothing To Boast About
Thr Slate points out as an accomplishment thr
n lagan hiiiiii of 271,494 dkildrrn to and from school
during thr 1935-36 irrm at a prr pupil cost of
Thr cost apparently is wery reasonable, but, in thr
minds of I hour patents whoar little children ride in
thr trucks, thr State has nothing to boast of in thr
least when it comes down to hauling children.
Thr system of transporting school children in North
Carolina is little short of a disgrace, as it affects crowd
ed conditions in busses, thr condition of thr busses
thrtnsrivrs. and thr value placed on a human life lost
Whrn in thr hands of thr Stale. The cost figure is
about thr only thug thr state can brag about, and
thr very fact that thr authorities are apparently more
interrstrd in costs than thry are in human bein^ is
rnoueh to bring down condemnation upon the entire
system.
Thr consolidatian system originally advanced by
thr state -choul authorities did not propose thr herd
ing o: little children and young boys and girls into
fKisses as so many sheep, cattle, or hogs. Thr system,
in its beginning, did not mention thr gamble thr child
takes twice each day in riding in a dilapidated bus to
and frum srhnol The long nails in the open for a de
layed bus were not given much thought as thr State
started tearing down community centers and consoli
dating children from miles around in a single school
plant These problems presented themselves soon aft
er thr consolidation program got underway, and they
tie or nothing has been done to correct their bad fea
tures Nut a single year has passed but that the au
thorities have harprd on the importance of holding
down and even reducing transportation costs.
North Carolina's expensive school consolidation pro
gram is certain to disintegrate unless the officials stress
sumrthing besides reduced costs in the future. There
ha- bren too much theoretical operation of school
busses and a marked absence of the application of
l>Uin lunumm sense in arranging for the transporta
tion of human cargoes.
No Sit-Down Strikes in Churches
Thr sit down strike has hern extended to nearly all
sextiuos of the country and into nearly every type of
industry. The sit-down practice is bad, certainly, but
it is hardly worse than the go-away strike thr churches
of thr nation are having to cope with just now
Rej?irts on recr... church attendance figures clearly
imjii ,ite that this country is still up and a-going
Stopping Tax-Dodgers
Hertford County Herald
In this quarter there is complete approval and sym
|>alh> with the latest move of President Roosevelt
and Congress to balance the Federal budget without
increasing taxes. Heavy as are Federal expenditures
.end fast as the deficit is growing, notwithstanding our
support of the New Ileal, there are times when it has
occurred to us that a line should be drawn somewhere
and some attention paid to bringing the outgo from
thr Federal treasury in line with the income. The
way to bring this about the President showed bet
merk in a special message to Congress is to plug up
holes in thr Federal income tax laws that will prevent
the wealthy from evading just taxation.
W ith the aid of clrver. highly paid lawyers, who
have dec eloped method- of cheating the government
out of taxes into a specialised branch of their profes
siuo. it was revealed that many artful schemes have
been drvisrd whereby thr wealthy esca|ied taxation
criticism and technically bordering unto fraud, thru
these schemes, millions of dollars in just taxes have
been evaded by a large number of thr wealthy, while
thr average man has felt thr increasing weight of new
taxes to support the expenditures of the New Ileal,
through which great incomes are made possible.
Already Congress has begun thr task of plugging
up thr loopholes in the tax laws through which these
wealthy tax-dodgers have been evading their share of |
the cost of recovery. Let thrm make these new lawrs
" burse high and hug tight," so that the greasiest of
thr nrw class of lawyers, known as tax experts, whose
profession in reality is finding means of defeating the
law. cannot find a bolr for their wealthy clients to
slip through. ,
The Shame oi a State
K mston-Solem /
? bright Beard, killer, mraacr to human life and
pruprrty. is dead. Soorty has been compensated to
some extra! for thr wrongs he inflicted upon it, but
fur this avragemrat it must look not to North Caro
lina but the state of True
To her shame. North Carolina failed to deal with
this killer as it should have dealt with him. In con
sequence of that failure. I bright Beard lived on after
having taken one hie, and found liberty and oppor
tunity to kill again.
It is depiorablr. of course, that young men like
1 bright Beard, whose earlier youth revealed great
premise, should take up a career of crime and find the
end of their trail in thr dralh bouse oi a state prison.
.And it is highly regrettable that innocent members of
a respectable family must be heart-crushed and humil
of a Musi. But this is only one of the
I?an lyui niaknl tu a caitet of-crane
of that career, many others
as the state aright wish to spare the criminal s
f, the welfare of society as a whole must remain
iU prime consideration
What a pity that thr slate of North Carolina failed
aad reqwnsibclity in this case'
thr debt to Texas, which it
wonce or resale
ibereby given thai under
"? ?y virtue and pursuant to an
tEn <rf_,thc superK>r <* Mar
? County entered in that certain
Sm>P??- Cwmnq!
Simpson Hollu and husband rw
?? HoU?. Wheeler S?n^d
mn r i'T Snnpaon. Lyda Simp
S?!**1 Rawls and hus
Ja* Boi Rawls and David
Simpson and Ola Marie Simpson, in
fants. by_thCTr next friend. John L. I
Haaiell. Ei Parte, the undersigned
wiu. on the 26th day
J_u"e 'W7. at twelve (12) o'clock
noon, at the courthouse door of'
*?"? County. at Williamston.
v? Carolina, offer for sale, at
Public auction to the hgihest bid-''
ed 'rJml PP? th<" toUowin* describ-1<
ed real estate, to wit: ,
<*>**1 in James- ,
2?*?*tup' Martin County, i
North Carolina. bounded and dc-1
scribed as follows, to wit
Btwmnin* at a bLack gum ,n W ]
A- Griffins, m Wetfoot Branch I
thence running N 73 degrees W 44 i
perch? fo the MarnS? old roa?
thence S 8 1-2 I
M^ee R 39 12 perches up sa.d old !
^ "kmg said J W Roberson's
Une to hrs comer- thence S 10 1-4
degrees E up said road 24 perches
tea.chopped pine H. B Barber's
N 79 3-4 ***** E
^ a maple in Wetfoot
Branch, ther.ee down the various
course of the run of said branch to
and containing fourteen
and one-half acres, more or less.
This the 10th dav of June 1937
i ? . HUGH G. HORTON.
J 7"*' Comn.lssl-.jner
.he^pe?^10 C?UDty; to
"tfu Cheusou n. LT.
J"he defendant above named will I
take notice that a summons in thel
above entitled action was issued I
against said defendant on the 7th I
day of June. 1937. by the Clerk of
v for ^*?r C?Urt of Martui Coun
ty. for the purpose of recovering ali
from'tiufiS?0'1 and maintenance I
V* earnings ot the
which summons is re
'"rnable before *aid Clerk uf slid
County within thirty (30) days after
Jhereof; f* defendant will
attaeh^!^.n?ll<* U>at a warrant of
on -/"J5?"* by ^ court
on the 7th day of June. 1937. against
?f the M,d defendant.
*^CbJyarPint " returnable before
^fr.,Je* 01 th* ?uperior court of
Martin County at the tune and place!
above named for the return of the
sumunons, when and where the de
fendant is required to appear and
?nswer or demur to the *
granted. landed will be)
This the 7th' day of June 1937 I
? L B WYNNE.
ie8 41 w Cifrk Superior
)e? 4tw Court. Martin County.
t TO CREDITORS I
In the United States District Court
Carolina ^W**?h SS2
Carolina. Washington Division.
In Bankruptcy No. 621
U ^ Matter Of Ollie Eraneis Clark,i
Bankrupt
of Sf OUle Francis Clark
foil T*SVllJe. North Carolina, for a
tiln<fihifoge Bankruptcy. having
neen filed in said court, it is ordered
by die court that a hearing be had
M lltkLT^0" "Arable I
Washm^?* wd*f of court, at
ashjngton. North Carolina, at 121
ftoJ^aS *:^,,hat aU known cred
itors and other interested persons'
may appear ?t said time and place i
This
el 2tw
U. S.
Under and by virtue at and |
>f gale contained in tin
f trust dated A(nl 3rd. IW. and at
ecord in the public reentry at Mar
in County in book No P-3. at page
?o. 70. to secure a certain note at
?ven date therewith. and tbe supu
utions in said deed at trust not bar
ns been complied with, and at tbe
equest of tbe bolder at said note,
he undersisned trustee will, an
uly 10th. 1>97. at 12 o'clock noon
i front of the courthouse door n
lie town at Wilbamston. K. G. otter
pr sale to hiShest bidder. Cor cash,
he following described real prop
rty < a ten per cent cash deport
'ill be required at tbe close at sale
>m me nignest cxtarwy
That certain tract at land in Goose
lest Township. Martin County, and
eing lot No. 8, which wu allotted
) Maggie Close; hounrtrd as follows:
eg inning at a gum with several
?ee^jojjed^rom^^
itar?
E. ZS1>
to a stake oa the edge of
*. 4
jm a the
of lot No. T.
down the
the run at said branch to the 1
more or leas, and being a part at the
lands conveyed to Orange Fields hi
deed recorded in book WW. at
SI. at the Martin County
Registry, and being a part nt
lands willed by Orange Fields,
ceased, to his children in a will re
corded in book 6. at page S3B.
being the same lands allotted
M?fT- Fields Close m a parte
proceedings recorded in Orders and
Decree Book ?. at pace ?_
This the 7th day of June. 1SS7
W. H COBURN.
jet 41 w Trustee.
NOTICE OF EESA IE
Notice is hereby ^vea that under
and by virtue and pursuant to an
order of re sale made by the Super
ior Court of Martin County and m
u-itxj in that certain special proceed
incs entitled. "E S. Cohrain. Jasper
v*. Mrs. Himlla Coltrain. i
V. H Column. and W T.
will, an the list day at .
IBST. at twelve (12) o'clock
at "
County. WilhwnsUm. N C, i
to the hifh
for
at :
at W. H.1
Fun Tract: ]
by the lamb at J.
the cast by the lamb of J. H. Col
tram and the J. G. Coltrain bads;
oa the sooth by Smith wick Creek:
" oa the west by the lamb at lat
Corey. containing thirty (M)
Tiact: Dnumlnl on the
north by the lands at Sylvester Id
ley: oa the east by the WUhaaoston
and Washington public road and the
!atwW of James Asa Roberson; on
the south by the J. G. Coltrain lands:
and an the west by the lands of J. K.
Coltrain. containing sixty (60) acres.
This the Sth day of June. 1691.
HUGH G. HOKTON.
jeg 2tw
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O tVIRT DAY BCTWI
ALL ATLANTIC COAST UNCI
STATIONS WITHIN IM NlLfsl
F S1LLIN# STATION AM
N O TIC E!
The Board of County Commissioners WiH Meet
in the Courthouse at 9:50 a in. an
Monday, June 21,1937
As a Board of Equalization and Review for the
Purpose of Hearing Complaints and
APPEALS FROM
TAX REVALUATION
Fixed by the List Takers in 1937 Assessments
Any property owner having just reason for
eomplaint may go before the lioard of equaliza
tion that day. The tax books are now open for
inspection in the offiee of the Register of Deeds.
J, SAM GETSINGER
CLERK TO THE BOARD
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