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Tuesday. 4/>ril 15, 1911.
Mr. Maxwell Siopn Short
Mr. A. J. Maxwell, commissioner of revenue
and one of the group who for .so many years
has "kidded" North Carolinians into believing
that white is black and black is white, stops
short in his attack on the Newsome-Lefler his
tory. "The Growth of North Carolina "
Mr Maxwell, offering to sustain his criticism
of the books, says in an open letter. "1 present
one paragraph of particular importance because
it is the final conclusion ?an index, if you
please?of the coloring which this book gives
to the whole history of the State."
But Mr. Maxwell did not present a complete
paragraph He merely quoted a part of the
paragraph in question, the remainder of it
apparently being so hot he could not handle it.
What Mr. Maxwell dared not quote, and it is
a part of the same paragraph which he so
strongly takes exception to, reads as follows: "It
(North Carolina) ranked among the highest
fourth of the states in illiteracy, farm tenancy,
and crime The terttint farmer, the mill hand,
poor schools, the Negro, low wages, small sal
ai ics. ignorance, disease, undeveloped resources,
inadequate libraries, the one-crop system, and
crime were some of the problems that had not
been solved. As they are solved. North Carolina
will become a better state in which to live."
That's the part of the paragraph Mr. Maxwell
picked out but apparently did not care to quote.
Mr. Maxwell and past groups in Raleigh need
-defending. fui. in the minds of the common peo
pie. it is just as mean to take money frogi a
highway worker to support a candidate's cam
paign as it is to practice graft around the treas
ury
Mr. Maxwell, pointing out the progress made
by North Carolina, hardly mentions a single
advancement that was not supporter! to some
extent by the New Deal, an agency frowned
upon and degraded by the recent State adminis
tration- ,
Just as the big planters in the east fought the
schools and roads in years gone by, North Car
olina's policy, in too many instances, has been
to reserve its advancement to the favored few.
yielding to the masses only when the masses as
serted their power at the ballot box and de
manded recognition. Too many of the politi
cal heads, Democrats and Republicans, in North
Carolina's past history did not-lead the way for
the masses: they merely blocked the way un
til the masses became weary of the crumbs fall
ing from their masters' table. It has been no
long time since the Great State of North Caro
lina aDDl'OVed the emnliivrrwnt of littlo
dren in stuffy, tubercular-breeding nulls, and
until this day a national child labor amendment
has not been given the support of North Caro
lina by its political leaders. The attitude of the
1941 State Legislature toward labor is still fresh
m the minds of hundreds of thousands of work
ers North Carolina itself has done little to rem
edy the tenant farmer problem. It merely closes
its eyes when compulsory school attendance
laws are violated by tenants and others who
keep their little tots at home to work in the
fields or handle other tasks.
One will have to agree with Mr. Maxwell
when he points out the fact that North Carolina
has progressed. It has progressed in spite of
conservative politicians, but with its ideal
climate, its natural resources and other favor
able factors it has not progressed as it should
have. A few more administrations like unto
those in the recent past, and the people of North
Carolina would consider recalling the Republi
cans, or at least thinnig out the Democratic
ranks.
Startling Netct
Startling news for the month of March did
not come from the war front in Albania or in
far-away Africa or in the air over England or
in the Atlantic sea lanes. It originated in our
own country. Holding a place on the second
page in the daily press .the bleak announcement
merely stated that more lives are being lost on
our highways than in the war.
The potential effect of war in the world to
day is shocking to humanity, but if cold statis
tics moan anything the happenings on our high
ways hold a meaning effect on our lives even
before war comes.
Mr. Ford Spmti Contrary To Hi$ Act?
Henry Ford, in a die-hard fight against the
rights of thousands of his workers and all labor
ing classes be they from good American stock
or direct from the heart of Russia, Germany or
Italy, is accusing labor of jeopardizing'a $150,
000,000 defense program It is to be admitted
that labor racketeering is delaying defense, but
not as much as the dominated press and the con
trolled radio of the land would have us to be
lieve. Foreign elements in labor movements
should be ousted, but as long as democracy calls
for its defense democracy should acknowledge,
at least, the right of laboring men to better their
positions m equal proportion along with the cap
italists.
Mr. Ford, in a vast system for the distribu
tion of propoganda for his company, speaks con
trary to his own acts. He talks at length about
the disturbances in Dearborn during early April.
He presents a one-sided picture from the begin
ning to the end. He accused the Communists for
having a part in the disturbances, but in the
Findings of Fact released over the signature
of Arthur J Tuttle, United States District
Judge, it was stated by the jurist that the proof
before him was not sufficient to justify any ac
tion calling for a restraining order against the
Communist Party. He concluded his findings
report by saying, "I wish it understood that the
findings of fact do not apply to the Communist
Party." No defense of the Communist Party is
offered here, but it is fairly apparent in the par
ticular case that Mr. Ford is trying to warp the
public mind against all laboring men by drag
ging them in and associating them with the
Communists.
/lamming trial organized laDor ,Iree ol Com
munists, has erred, one will do well to examine
Mr. Kurd's record if he would get a true picture
ol the trouble. And what is Mr. Ford's record?
No so many months ago he declared to the
world and certainly to the complete satisfac
tion of Hitler that he would not make a single
piece of war equipment for the defense of Eng
land. More recently he is quoted as saying that
he did not care which side won the war. To
round out that part of his record open to the
public. Mr. Ford has challenged the law of the
land, defying the United States Supreme Court,
and holding to the belief that it is right in a civ
ilized world to work men to death under the
guise of publicised high wages.
Mr. Ford, veeripg from Jiis task of advertis
ing his products, recently appealed to the nation
with a. series of advertisements telling about
wages. It is admitted that his wage facts sound
convincing, but it takes more than high wages
?one of the factors mentioned in the advertise
ments?to bring about understanding between
labor and capital. It is possible that many Ford
workers have signed more or less secretly with
the United Automobile Workers, a branch of
the Congress of Industrial Organization, but it
is well undo! stood that they' signed because of
dissatisfaction over working conditions and be
cause of the conduct of their supervisors who
are as notoriously hard a lot as to be found in
American industry.
As for Mr Ford's wage scale, men who have
worked for him say that he actually gets more
for his labor dollar than any other manufac
turer m the world. And as to his preferential
treatment of the aged, it is more the rule than
the policy of the company to release their work
ers in or around the 35-year-old point, keeping
a few old servants around as subjects for mis
leading publicity. An observer visited Mr. Ford's
plant at Norfolk some time ago, and out of the
hundreds of workers the old-timers?men over
35 and 40 years of age?were counted on the two
ha nds
Energy From Prayer
Mecklenburg Time*.
Too many people regard prayer as a formal
ized routine of words, but to Dr. Alexis Carrel,
who concluded 33 years of brilliant biological
research at the Rockefeller Institute in 1939,
and has been honored with the Nordhoff-Jung
medal for cancer research and the Nobel Prize
for success in suturing blood vessels, writing
about the power of prayer, says, it is a force as
real as terrestrial gravity.
As a physician. Dr. Carrel says in his article
entitled, "Prayer Is Power." "I have seen men,
after all other therapy failed, lifted out of dis
ease and melancholy by the serene effort of
prayer. It is the only power in the world that
seems to overcome the so-called 'laws of na
ture'." Dr. Carrel believes that this power comes
to those who pray, because they seek to augment
their finite energy by addressing themselves
to the infinite source of all energy.
And that is why this scientist, who has long
ben impressed by the fact that many of life's
phenomena cannot be scientifically explained
feels that prayer is the most powerful form of
energy that one can generate. The influence of
prayer on the human mind and body is as de
monstrable as that of secreting glands, he says,
and its results can be measured in terms of
increased physical buoyancy, greater intellect
ual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper under
standing of the realities underlying human re
lationships.
"True prayer is a way of life; the truest life
is literally a way of prayer."
There are worst things than war, of course.
I should prefer to wear any soldier's uniform
of protest rather than live in a world dominated
by Nazi war lords proclaiming that might is
the only right and suppressing free thought,
free speech, a free press, free elections, and a
free church.?Dr. Clarence Poe.
Here Is the Big News!
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Effective Today, Tuesday, April 15th
ENTIRE! STOCK
Spring Coats
Suits - Dresses
SALE! Ladies' SUITS
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morrow. Many new spring allude* and size* to select from.
$9.95 Now $6.88
$7.95 Now $4.88
$5.95 Now $3.88
$4.98 Now $2.88
SALE! Ladies' COATS
CU T TIIF.\ (>() . . . Kvcry Spring Coal in ?tock and at ynn would he Jilad
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F ormer ally $16-50 N ow $10-88
Former ally $9.95 Now $6-88
Former ally $7.95 Now $4-88
Former ally $5-95 Now $3-88
Store - Wide Sale
Ladies' Dresses
200 lovely early spring dresses in all the newest "peiwy
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$9.95 Now $6.88
$7.95 Now $4.88
$5.95 Now $3.88
$4.98 Now $2.88
$2.98 Now $1.99
$1.98 Now $1.29
Belk - Tyler Company
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.