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ns DONH DISPATCH FUHJIUfi IVUY TUESDAY AMD FRIDAY. SftO 1A 1*14. A the peat aC«a S Duma. N. C-, under tka act al Mwdl ». 1ST®. L. BUSSES POFE. rakliakaa Them months— _...... a® IU MBlko-.... dl.Ofc Oaa rear--Itti WHY WE. NEED A CKANDS IN ONE BEAlsCM OF OCR TOWN covzcocivr A Brief CewpU-J and Pabli.had ta •ha lataraat af Tkaea Wka Lara Daaa and Help ia a Large Way ta Delray Tka Cee* al GeeecaasaaS Aal »Hat tka Continuance ia OSee af U. A Paya. In the Dana Dfrpatch of April IS there appeared a rtory quoting fy oraa complied hy the rhinf c( jtoiice tending ta show that the police de partaser.t was a profitable aytn.-y cf tka town government. This story, in part, is a criticism of that statement. The strticle in question rtat** blunt ly that “The Chief of Police «ubn*H*.*' Pint the public mid li’<e to know why the chief of police ‘tibrnil*. Why did not the major and his eommi— rionetn r.-brn t for print •>.’> srticc? Or why d'd n»t the chief cf police state his authority and his reason fo> submitting the figures? Who, as tan payers of this -.out.. know this U he a correct statement The statement is not verified hy the hoard of conuniaMor.ery nor by the mayor, nor does It hear the xal of a notary puMie. ■ « MKft« are uiw, arc we as ritisene .of this town running a profitable police agency and running hnatnea away from our entsrpriw* and industries? Don it nay at to col lect from oar farmer friends aqd our neighbors the sum of approeimrUfl* W.300 a year? Is thl* just to those who are our best friends, our sole support, our fellow -workers? Does H pay u» as bus nest men to bare our trade territory dUruptcd by the high-handed method} that are attributed to opr policemen? It it Profitable to have in office a mir whoaa presence here ii said to be re sponsible for the absence from our streets of many of the buyers who were our staunchest friends in other dare? • It is ccntendsd by many that tom: farmers are afraid to come to Bonn because they do not understand Uaf «e regulations and do not cum w submit to arrant for fneonscqnentlal fractures of minor oid’usi m. K:rat fainter*, believe that if they fracture any of the miner ordinances they will ha arretted, carried before the chief of police and Sued without ever melug u Judge or Judicial o»;cr Bach cries have been cited and ths t *• evidence that they have happened. Uda stated that Mr Bruit on Bass. • fsnmr, drove through Wilson tv* nwa on* <to>. Policeman Langley is _him ter speed raaMrae to tho esmstTusad him with • bOl of coots, which In no rase las boon lorn than about ten dollars tine* Flags ram* to Dunn. Ur. Bam thought hr* of contesting the deefeion, bu* after figuring that the eoU of an sp peal to a higher court prould be mor. than the costs !n this instance, dcci ded to submit. There are a number of fanners in the (arroandir>3 section who ujj Dun to do their aartrtst, m cer taia seasons of tha year they ere «■> htasy that they cannot leave the:. homos to toas to town for retry lit tle nceeaoity. Quit* a namber her.: roas that they used to scad to Dunn, Id boy a faw dollars worth, but in stead of eomiap to Dunn now they (, to Beasoe, Clinton, Duke, some area *o to Foot Oaks, and even to Smith Jkld. A large namber of farmer « hatre not sold a bale of cotton In Dun , this past cotton Mason bepinninc Aocuat 1st, 1920 and yet th.y hav/ Jf" every pound of their crop:. These aro men who used to ba cuatc mer* of every lepiUmatc bulne** ia tha town. These men carried and set ; their farm prodece to ether market/, •Imply becaoce they did not waat t> he bothered themselves or have th«> sons bothered with the Chief of Po lice. In other towns and pood citlasta ■ay they, see farmer* with their fan-J Uies, men who were rrpulnr etstotr-l era ia Dana. They have been asked why did they pn there to do the •! tr*dinp. Their answer was that the eoaM carry their families there and ad oao would he raisiap up the eusr -I ieas ef their curs for things an I plunder!/* around their vehicle*. It ha.« been said by niw cit/scns of the town that if those prop's or an; >«i*on d>d net eul to eoac to thaa. tows to trod* oa account of fearing! be wooU be bothered by aa officer, i that ho was unfit person and that no cue wasted his trad*. This may nil j be true, opinion* differ. There are a1 great number of farmer citiuns, who., If they meet up with aome friend and •he opportunity present* itself, will snort lately take a dink. And right; then he is afraid to corns to Dunn, wen though h* is not drunk, nor a I man that make* a habit of drinking. He will drive right through the edge of Durn and go to Benaon and there | -.spend at* goad money. Why doe* he •lo it? Simply because he is afraid to cot out of hi* car in this town for fear Mr. Page erill arrert him if be even imt'h a drop of whiskey on hi* breath. Mr. Pgfee nor any ulhar one men eon keep people from drinking nor can any one keep people from making it to drink. But the point i* why should he at an officer try to make it a point to trail out every fertner that has taken a drink and make an ar rest? It It well enough to arrest a man under the influence of it. or a man who 'a dist-.vblnir the peace of the town nml let him have a pro per hearing. It is also wt’l enough for him a* on officer to run down blockade™ and capture them if he l'.S3 suth r.othor.ty from '.he govern ment. But do cot go out and humi liate a' perfectly good citisen who hat only taken a drink. A fear months uco these was an arrest of one of Dunn's eitisen* who had taken j■!>t s bit too much nnd he ■ wa* tried for being disorderly and j acknowledged that he got the fire water from one Henry T-uras, upon this information paper* were issued iu; Mg. uavg.1. uuk i»ir icbi ui n«i belrg able to convict Luca*, the Gov emu- of the state v.-as notified. It be ing that Mr. Locos eras pardoned from the penitentiary years ago on 'condition. Within a few weeks Mr. 'Lucas was taken from his family and ' farm end carried back to the pr-nlten jtiary to serve out hi* old term. A ,v-eek or »o afl*c he had been rarred lN»ck to the penitentiary hit family .were nil down sick, nothing hardly to ' eat. at that t'is*. Mr. Lucas owed a conridernble amount to a man !n Dunn. It exceeded $800.00. The <vife had about 25 bush- It of corn a;.> xevs-o host, one horse and one mulr. With tears in her ey»f ami a rmali raby ia her arms *be begged to keep her hey* end corn, for fear they would be taken fnra her under mo.t g»ge. The hor*e and mnlc she had »o use for and they were brought back to Dunn, and th* man that held the mortgage lost over $600.00, but gave her the com and hops. She i* the mother of sotnu six or eight rh:t drvn and some of those tots were then barefooted and it was fn the early days of Februnry. The husband had •old hi* cotton and used the money to defend himself, thinking possible ho could'got out of hie trouble and i hen make tome a wane entente toward tkocing and clothing ihoac little chil dren who ore just as dear to him os yours are to you. Bat Page, so his wife said,' bent him to it by writing to tho Governor and asking him to Om da* aftt#warS~"ttl.-*attei wmi called to. the attention of tho town coramiasioners and tho mayor, who ware all there together. They of course, were struck with th! con dition. Ona of them said:,I “wonder If there isn't some way in which we could get him pardoned so that he could get back to his family; but nothing was ever done. People, a poo-. |rawer is better thun no father. We hare had another e-use very similar to thi* one. It waa in the caw *' * Mr. Tart, he waa pardoned from the penitentiary, pn condition. Mr. PaSTC found some whiskey in Mr. Tart a little stork, but could not prove* <iat he waa jelling St, he again takas ,t upon himself to ask the Governor to hare this man lent back to the penitentiary, but Mr. Tart having some means and hi* family somo m* ;fiucncr, secured counsel and this counsel, Mr. Baggett of LHIIngtoo. •*ent to Raleigh and took the matter up lo parson with the Governor and Mr. Tart wa* not .not bock to :h* penitentiary. Soon after Mr. Page came to Dunn, i he publicly humiliated a Mr. WiUon j In the railroad nation, he was indict-1 ed by Mr. Wilson and tried at l.ii-' ling ton by Judge Connor. Tha judge* told him tha: if he ever came before* Mm again for. such an offense he I would put him on the roads and that! he should use some plain sense in > ’V.k','k arrests, Mr. Pago waa fined* 925.00 and the cost. Another bit of common police cour-1 uay: When he mado an arrest of a r it is. on of Payettcvitlo. and would not fpermit the mao to make a bond,, when there were doseaa uf people—j tin vary btvl cititciu of lie icwii uf terra* bond. Bui no, Mr. Pup* would not titteo to It, he had to tack ihL man up. Then, bncau~o ho hud be come vexed, celled up Mr. D.von „ Benton, who al that t'me am* a i(. venue offlr*-- am) had him coma hers at once, and Just bi-eausc there woe ubuut a half pint or le.ca whiskey in the iRjtna cur, had it re;ted by the government, and traen thv cate came up for hue o nirgwtl .OOJdypycpyA up for bvHr'ny it was ril.mlecrd and the man got hU Cadillac ear back, all just brcaasa tor. Page got mad and knew Ihut he could do ca be pleased and no law would touch him. Another case that gave Dunn wide publicity wau the Enoch Wilson case, which every cii.tcr. of the town of Dana it very familiar with. It rant near incing a riot. Such thing# a« th » are bitttil? against tic intorcst of the town. Mr. WiUon it the ron of a very nupcctublc substantia! Sampson county ritixen who ever since hij boyhood haa come to Dunn o do his trading and aincc manhood has spent every do'iaT of hi# good money here, has sold all his crops here, bought awry thing here that »a> needed. Hut -ow Mr. WiUon i* not seen here often and this Wilson family his a large following and furndy connection end it i, nothing hid perfectly natural for them to uae •h.ir ir./lue ■we t'J carty trade away f;om oiir htwn Again: :he n-cond paragraph- of your paper in the iscu* of April t6th 1M1. it rod.: ACCORDING lo the fKV'v 1 thi* <ub aril: mure th.tn pay the cost of tho Reorder"* court, the city attorney and tho police va'ai-iee, and all meal* for prisoners. Does thi» mean that w>: are going right along driving away hundred, of thousand* of dollars worth of trade from our very doors In order to run a p~oflt able police agency in order to pay a city attorney flOOO.OO; a recorder. *780.00; ertra police salaries, $288. 00; meal* for prisenent, S222 2S and regular police 14.088.88 with m man at thu head of this regular police force driving people who can give good bonds right into a prlsun, who have never been into one before, hu miliating a good cirt*«3. who might make a tittle mVi.tko and diaubey the law, when If tederd to in the right mannor he wjnlrt make his bond and return !h* proper dal.' and have his hearing. h this fair to the citlicoa and tax payer* or this town and '.0-Uu.:r who come liiirc to spend their money? Why it D just like the Kaiser drove hi:, fold en against the unbreakable line ef the Allies in thi great war and it i. not !>I- to keep a man in office who device* to rule ard force in this man nor. * In yoor thi d paragraph you print: "ACCORDING" to tho city clerics’ re cord Mr. Pag* draws a salary of $2, 700 % year". Mr. l*ncv probably did not ACCORDINGLY have this print ad. A mistake, sure: Why this a more salary than the tjavr v.or of Oklahs ma reecivca; it is more salary than the president of our ro-jft substantial financial institution gvte, Tho Frint National Dank, who handles millions and millions of dollars of other peo ple# money annually it it mow sal ary than the Chief of Polie* of Char lotte rneelrm a city tea or fifteen that till* -tiisr ruesuvea elcctr.c' light current for lighting end gpoking pur pose*. which will amount to an aver age of $10.00 per month or $120.00 a year, also feed for hig horse which will amount to $15.00 per month or fIRO.OD n year, also uniforms which would amount to no-, lias than three suit* a year totting probably arnur.d S7.--.trt) a suit matin* H lota, of $223 s year and certslaly at least two caps, coding stun "1 $10-00 each making $20.00 and rurct? a do't-n or two of thoae li'tlc cut-.- white cove)* that could be bought fo, $5.00 a dozen. This wilt total $550.00 and thia added to hu salary of $2,700.00 would make ■* total of II 255.55. One other thing about thia paragraph, he collects all witness fc.’fi where he U n proi.ccut ir.g witness. , Kr.nr i» it fail to have a profitable polls'- agency, one that work* to a flranc'al interest and not a justice In to- P-> l- ? Courts are toe place to re ceive justice and fair play, but thia doesn't look like It. If the taxes of th'k town will not pay the raeorder and police why humiliate our citizen* »nd farmer <Veads to impose finer upon them for {.rival offence* to de fray the heavy expenses and at the tame limg d.ive our trade away from u» a* properly owneir, tux payer*, ond good citizens. W* people who live In Dunn and thoue uspccially woo deal direct with the farmer and who have absolutely nothing in tha world U» sell to a man. woman or child in the town haw felt thia forceful un reasoning min': powjr of driving our trade away from us. ubrn we depend entirely upon th. product* of ti.e far B*r. We let h'a hnve every available . v. li.v.'v, we im bor.ow to ’• ti to ra.kc Li crapy exp.ct ' • ■ ■ «- 9*S 4J by b-'.aglr.g hl» to us in tfca fall of the yeju. - rj v. <f*ro . A.lcd .j cjI -.-.it i.i.4;/ b. It: . V; r. -so >• jri> 4 good nui. .. a.v/ . e Ho ■■ itU n'iu tihrr tn rise’s a-il .<■-> t ‘r. a g=ud nut y ?a»*« mad. '•'* <lobi.» In other towns and pn «! ■ i: thei:'cotton money, tlx eforr Hiking only a small payment on hi. drill in Dunn, and why did he do it! Because those people wore nice to him, did not order him about and ht »« making that hi* trading ground sr.d naturally spent his money there and neglected his account or mort gage ia Dunn. If his creditor in Dunn wai ted to aao him ha had to go to the expense of going to his home. NY letter that you could write him would bring him to Dunn. After getting oat to bis home you can aik him why doit you rame and look after your business in Dunn aad he will plainly tell you that it la oa account of the pnllr*. You might say to this man: “Well if you don't bother the police he certainly will not bother you.” But, this old farmer says this: “Well It might not botheg me, but my boyi urc like all boys aad you know I don't want any trouble with that man. H. has already done too much dam age. IJe might shoot ons of my boy* or 1 might take a drink while there »:td I just dont want to be bothered With any snch man, boaidoi I can sell my cotton in Benson or Clinton and get Jntt ae mock for it and nobody thero try* to run oeor me aad you know I ju»t don't want to have any trouble anyway. I ain't never had any and I think the hast way to stay out of it it not to go where it is. 80 that is the way It Is, of course, I want* to pay you and emaect to. but I sold all my eoUon in Benson and last year when I commenced going there I saw a mule I liked and I bought it and of course paid all 1 could on him this year.*' Weil, why dont’ you pay mare Ah TlrttlW annnn rata lu Ttn.. »* MfU.ll you know whan I carried my eotton there, there wa* the mole man and I traded tone with the merchant and they got to bidding against rarh oth er cause I owed both and the one that paid the moat for my cotton is the one I paid the most.** So you see people this ia the way things are go ing today. Do you think thpt it ia time to wake up to the real truth of this situation, cut the expense of thla police force 'hat ha* been to handsomely pn'd to drive our trade aiw*y a* well a* have a profitable police agency, either mo d.fy it or get rid of this man who s more damage to the future trade com •up to Dunn? We have all got to make a living and we all cannot live here by au metre*, we must have the trade of the farmer or oise we will ham to split and the more farmer* 'hat bring Ihoir produce here and tell, :.h? more money it will bring to our town and why let just one man drive :t away? Commissioner*, please take up to this fact. There are a number of men livinjf right here in our town eho own property and would he glad to have this portion at half of what rou are paying pow and we will have ** good IWp hnd/ order as we the, that he collect* Ifee taxes and keeps order. Grant thirt he collects the taaea, but who pan** with a mayor and commissioner! behind him. If yoa will yiva your tax books to any perron in the town and tell them to collect the taxe* regardless, then they V'ill be collected. There it a tnw re ■luirinc people to pay their taxer or their property will pay them ami any tax collector hat nothing more :o do than levy on one* property and then che taxei are paid. In fact, there arc not any people livinx here who do not want to pay their taxee. It has been raid that someone raid chat mA)»dy in Hunt objected to Port but the low down common clast of people. If this Si true there are a lot of common folk- n D • , NUtsrtl Adrivtislp^ I II ■ ■ mhhmmmmammimmmMMAMWMMMMMMWm He Won Fame in the War : He Won Honors in the Ring See How He Won the girl in a Million Dollar Attraction ! = Georges Carpentier '•l World War Hero and Champion of Europe in “ THE WONDER MAN ” . A ROBEftTSON-COLE SPBCTOR SPECIAL PRODUCTION J 9SSS9BKBW' COME AND SEE OUR DISPLAY OF * f t Lace and Embroidery This Week GOLDSTEIN’S Dunn’s Best Cash Store ^^^______ > • ■ fleer's lain FLORIDA FRUIT IIIIIIS GMEMNUeilK |alfl| A fruit flavor that lingers and linVers! (tylaa for by HOOD A GRANTHAM 1 . • -1 Have You Seen m . • ' «• i THE REAL BARGAINS OFFERED IN THE BIG SALE I 0 AT JOHNSON BROTHERS - * - Voiles and Organdies Value* up to $1.50 39c » •'ll * Apron Ginghams 40c Values 12 l-2c _ _ _ • " -I. I II I. ■ w Sea Island Sheeting 30c Values lie I $10 Stetson Hats t5eLw $3.98 ■ * ... Thousands of other Bargains in all Departments of the Big Store Johnson Brothers Dunn, N. C ‘V . ' ' • ! 1 fcwHIl -r|-|-riTnnj-_rj . _ __
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