Breaking Faith mth the
Schools to Pay Bankers
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their salaries. The raid upon them
Mast be extra-legal. The state can
temporarily withhold what they have
4?d get legislative sanction for the
proposed cut. The citizens have not
become greatly interested in this is
sue until right now. But it isn't any
tiling like so vital as it appeared to
be several days ago. The teachers are
to be held up, not because the state
cannot raise the revenue to pay what
K has covnanted, but because New
York bankers are demanding "cur
tailment" on notes and bonds held at
* rate ot' 6 per cent.
"Repudiation" h:!--' bsen dropped
into the discussions. North Carolina
people are a little sensitive of that
-subject. When New York makes de
soand for money that North Carolina
owes for which New York hesitates
?accept renewals at 6 per cent, the
state is warned of the desperate sit
uations. It may turn out that the
state can't get any more money. New
Yo'k talks about us and says we
A)"'; pay our debts. Then the cutting
beiT'is. Vox Pop stands by and says
tei'M'Hg. But until now he has not
h:> ' a chance to know that these
?sla-hes are not in his own interest,
AS USUAL 1
\VV are trying each day to im
prove our service so that we
may better serve you.
V.V believe that we now have
the best cooks in Western
North Carolina. Come in, give
tis a trial and decide for your
self. You will always get
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Cooked Right
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but in the interest of the New York
ihylocka.
i The Pound Of Flesh
And Shylocka is going to be the
form. What is going on now in the
New York banking houses, is exaction
sf the pound of flesh. Everybody
knows that North Carolina can't pay
its debt service now, that the United
states cannot, that the world cannot.
Everybody knows that if the coun
cil of state and the advisory commis
sion decided tomorrow to cut 20 per
cent of the salaries and appropria
tions, that if the $7,000,000 is saved
'his will simply carry North Carolina
:o the first of the year, perhaps get
a renewal of the notes at a horribly
high figure and leave the state ex
actly where it is now.
Kv-erybouy knows that if salaries
?re cui in half, the appropriations in
he same ratio, the schools suspend
i(l a year or orphaned by withdrawal
?f support, the problem has not been
?c'ved. North Carolina, which owes
S 180,000,000 of its own and $380,
000,000 of subdivisional debts, cannot
?>ay these obligations on present com
v.cdity prices.
The Golden Days
The Greensboro Daily News of Oc
tober 5, 1924, has a sermon on "The
ministry of pain." The preacher was
Tying to tell the cockeyed world that
i hell had not broken loose simply be
"inise there were hard times. The
^tate debt was perhaps $35,000,000
1 ss. But the preacher was telling
fhem to be of good cheer, that the
whole creation was groaning and
'raveling, that the Lord was still in
'he world and all was right in Heav
On the same page which carried the
rcclesiastic's noble words was an ad
1 vc rtisement that the cotton growers'
?: -operative association would pay as
first advance $70 on a 500-pound
Hale of cotton. That is to say, the co
ps would lend that amount of money
in a bale of cotton. It meant further
?iat the bale was worth $125 or
hereabouts, certainly $100. Now
hree bales of cotton can be bought
the first advance. And the state,
ind units of state, debt was $100,000,
100 less than it is now.
Tobacco was four times as high
hen, potatoes five times, peanuts
-.early 10 times. It is percolating
?trough the public mind that North
Carolina is trying to pay service
?harges and reduce the principal on
k-bts which were made 10 years ago
'or roads and schools particularly,
tnd to reduce them with a wage
-tincture less than one-third of what
i was 10 years ago. and on comniod
ty prices four times as high then Sj
now. It simply cannot be done and!
somebody is suggesting that to the
state.
DcfauLt Not Repudiation.
There is going to be argued a dif
ference between default and repudi
ation. North Carolina goes to New
York and New York hints at repudia
tion. But New York let North . Caro
lina have this money when the nat
tional money lender was busting open
| to lend it at rates a3 low as $2.50.
j Now New York demands that it be |
' paid $25 on a bale cotton and $50 j
' an acre tobacco. It cannot be done. I
] There is rising up a sentiment
I against allowing New York to put
'the brand of "repudiation" on North
! Carolina. It does not follow that be
cause the state cannot curtail its debt
now it never can reduce these obli
gations. All banks recognize the dif
ference between renewal of notes and
forgiving the debtor.
Two Kinds of Morality
Even so, there are two kinds of
state morality involved. The state
| has made contracts with teachers and
| salary earners. It has guaranteed
j thrm so much quid pro quo. The state
has pledged the teachers to maintain
a standard. It has written into the
law that it will not fail them. It has
covenanted with them against any
cutting.
People cannot put down the ques
tion, therefore, "does the state think
it any more decent to break faith
with the teachers than with the
money lenders?" There are two sides
to it. The New York end isn't the
only sacroscant. Those debts were
made with New York when money
was dirt cheap. Plenty of millions
wore borrowed at less than 4 per cent
But the state is paying interest on
that at 6 per cent. There are lots of
people in Raleigh these days who
do not like this one-sided, single-stan
dard of morality ? the standard that
protects the lender at all hazards and
gives him every break.
Indeed, the state officials will be
urged to take New York leaders at
their own words. If they won't renew
notes then let them proceed to get the
money as best they can. South Caro
lina got action when the kingdom of
Blcase could not pay.
Audible Lapping
First Little Girl: "What's eti
quette, Lily?"
Sccond Ditto: "0, that's the noise
you must swallow your tea with
when there-s company."
Choosi/
"I thought sure Jim would marry
one of the twins."
"No, he said if he couldn't have
an exclusive model he wouldn't have
any."
With Must/ml Leaves
Jane, six years old, was out for a
ride in the country. She saw a swamp
where cattails were growing.
"Oh daddy!" she exclaimed. "Look
at the hot dog garden."
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CABBAGE GIVEN TO
WELFARE BOARD
More than three hundred pounds of
cabbage (was-were) given the Bre
vard Welfare Distribution depart
ment by Judson MicCrary last week
and all of the cabbage was given out
before the expiration of the week.
Several men were given work and
they worked earnestly while in two
cases where work was found the un
employed applicants failed to show
up. The two cases were refused any
additional aid by the welfare board.
Supplies of Red Cross flour and
other items are being given out oily
to families ir. dire distress, a complete
investigation being made and the food
! given at the discretion of Chairman
I C. M. Douglas or an investigating
! committee.
BANKER PASSES EXAM
AS INSURANCE AGENT
Raleigh, Ju'.y 14.-? E. B. Crow, for
many years active vice-president of
the Commercial National Bank,
Raleigh, now in the bankrupt court,
was on of the 62 applicants who pass
ed the tests and were granted licenses
to sell insurance in North Carolina
by the State Insurance Department,
Insurance Commissioner Dan C.
Boney reports. Ten of the 72 taking
the tests during the last two weeks
| of June failed to pass.
The Penrose baseball club will meet
the Toxaway nine on the latter's
diamond Saturday afternoon at 2:30
j o'clock and the Rosman team will
I play the Pisgah Forest aggregation
j on the Pisgah diamond the same hour,
?>ro"rding to C, M. Douglas, president
of the Sylvan Valley baseball league.
A Dangerous Vocation
Judge: "What do you do?"
Subject: "I'm sort of a taxider
mist."
Judge: "Sort of a taxidermist?"
Suspect: "Yeah, I stuff ballot
j boxes!"
Top of the World
The skipper of a Polar expedition
on his return was bocoming bored of
being lionized. The last straw came
when a gushing visitor asked him:
"0, do tell me, captain, how did
you find the North Pole?"
"Very well, madame," he replied.
The Color Scheme
John ? Why didn't you take a taxi
on your date?
Bill ? My giri doesn't look well in
yellow.
"What's all the crowd so excited
about?"
"A horse dropped dead. He saw
another horse and was scared to
death."
Smith Reynolds' Death
Mystery Still Unsolved
A Forsyth county coroner's jury
Tuesday night attributed the tragic
death of young Smith Reynolds,
twenty year old heir to the huge for
tune of the late R. J. Reynolds, the
tobacco king to persons unknown.
Young Reynolds died Wednesday
July 7 at his home in Winston-Salem
from a bullet would through his head
and the injury was at first said to
be self inflicted however further de
velopments brought to the light the
decision that the shooting was done
by other than the victims hands.
Principal characters in the case
are Mrs. Libby Holman, widow of the
deceased youth and Albert Walker
his lifelong chum and secretary. The
two have been under guard a3 materi
al witnesses since Saturday and they
were re-examined Wednesday aft:r
noon.
Highlaghts of the facts revealed by
investigations thus far in the ca>e
are:
That young Reynolds had often
threatened to end his life.
That "six or seven times" he had
held a pistol to his tempie in the pres
ence of his wife.
That Sunday night before the
shooting, which occurred Wedn-sday,
he had told Libby in an intimate
moment that he was unable to recip
rocate her love as he should and she
should "have an affair with another
man."
That Smith on that night had told
both Libby and Walker that he was
insane.
That against Libby's feTvid pro
testations, he had spent Sunday night
away from her with Walker in a Win
stoniSalem hotel.
That after Reynolds was taken to
a hospital fatally wounded a strange
incident occurred in the hospital room
whers Libby and Walker were alone.
One or both had fallen from a
bed and were found on the floor by
nurses.
That young Reynolds had a fear
of kidnapping so deep that he always
kept firearms handy. Once he kept a
dummy in his bed for two weeks and
himself slep under the bed as a meas
ure of protection.
Finally it was testified that on th<.
night Reynolds died his wife had
jried out in the hospital, "Oh, my
baby, my baby," and said she was to
become a mother.
Investigations are being continued
by Sheriff Transou Scott of Forsyth
county.
It is improbable that the Amc-rican
veterans of the World War are over
whelmingly wet Figures indicate the
opposite. In Ohio, in 1918, when the
! veterans were overseas, the voters
'adopted a prohibition amendment by
25,769. In 1922, a measure was sub
mitted to permit the manufacture of
beer. The wets insisted that the vet
erans were anxious for beer, but with
the veterans back home and voting,
the beer bill was snowed under by
l 189,472 majority, a gain of 163,613
when the veterans had a vote,
i In Ohio it would seem that the
veterans are dry.
In California a similar history was
I written. While , the boys wer1 over
; seas the voters defeated prohibition
I by 85,119 votes. But in 1922, with the
I veterans voting, they carried the
: measure by 33,943. The California
? veterans can hardly be wet.
< The sole and only justification for
I the hostility of the church to the
I drink traffic is based upon the belief
that this traffic preys upon men,
I that it prips individuals with the
Ic'aws of a habit which tyrannizes
over bodv and noul, that it strikes
tho crust of bread from the mouths
rf children, that the maintenance of
this trade organization limits the
power of legitimate trades to serve
the race. It is the province of a gov
ernment established and administer
ed in the spirit of these traffics which
. serve man and to repress those traf
fics which prey upon man.
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