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■.‘0- PUBUSHED every FRIDAY AT RAEFORD, N. C Sabscription Rates $1.50 Per Y^ In Adyan^ PAUL DICKSON Editor Entered m second class matter at the post office ‘rf Raeford, N. C., under act of March S, 1879. CURBING THE GRAFTERS , President Hoover has signed the bill which ^ Federal system of licensing dealers in penshable products. -^e eLt of this law will be to give the Government the '^wer to regulate the business practices of commission houses ZAMINATIP^ ^ lands and others doing an interstate business. of This may prove to be of as great Ijoriefit to the farmers o the United'States as any other measure intended for farm relief Every grower of commodities shipped to disuint mar kets has had, at one time or another, experience with dishon^t . ct mSon Loses, at the teimlna! markets. P" are notoriously corrupt have been f shipper is at a great disadvantage when, instead of a check for his produce he gets a bill for freight an penses wath the calm explanation that the produce has been sSr transit, or sold on a glutted market or that some oSher cause had prevented its sale at a price sufficient to cover the costs. u 11 , There are honest commission houses, of course. Proba y the -^reat majority of dealers in produce, iwe-stock, poultry and dairy products do business as honorably as ^ done anjovhere. Their risks are large, and to profits proportioni^d to the nsk. But the part enouKh instances uncovered of deception and fraud v" the f » of commission houses to make such legislation as this neces sary for the protection not only of shippers but of the honest men in the production business. The Federal Government seems to he liie only author y which has a chance of cleaning up this situation Jtate m local authorities are not inclined to ‘.he farmer and shippers who pay taxes several hundred or tlm^”d ^ away against their own citizens and taspa;.ers. Fhc Federal GoSremeni alone can epercise authority over interstate co.m- ni©rcG# » 11 is to be hoped that the machinery for the enfrcemenf of this new law will be set up speedily and that it will operate efficiently enough to give the grower and shipper the assur- ance that, whatever other causes may operate to keep him from getting the best price for his products, he will at least not b? cheated by the agent to whom he has consigned them. I SkANWON MWS / TON WHO ARE THE “RUBES” It is about time the city people and the city newspapers quit referring to the American farmer as a “Rube” and carica turing him as a low-brow European peasant, only slightly Americanized by a set of chin-whiskers a la Uncle Sam. The trouble with’ city tolk, especially in N'ew York and else where in the East, is that they get their impressions of the fanner, as of everything else, from European sources. Because the mass of people tilling the soil in .Einope are uneducated, unintelligent peasants, tenants for the most part and tied to the soil as no American has ever been tied, the city-bred, Europe-conscious people who have never ptnetrated any faither into America than the shores of the Atlantic Octan think Amer ican farmers’must be the iame type Nothing could be farthei- from the truth. No individual or class of our people has been more prompt to apply neAV methods of science, new inventions, new ways of doing old things, than the American farmer. The implication when he is refeired to as a “Rube” is that he is a stupid, unprograssive person, con tent to do everything as his father and grandfather did it before him.' As a matter of fact, practically nothing is done on American farms today the way it was done a generation ago. One of the things that has brought about the change has •been the development of the numerous Colleges of Agriculture. Nothing like them is known in any part of the world. Old- time farmers used to neer at the idea that coUege could do a farmer any good; but the progressive farmers of today ^re practically all college graduates, arid the leadership in every movement for the bettennent of farm conditions comes from these schools. Our national and State .departments of Agriculture have enlisted in their service—^the service of the American farmer —more men of high scientific attainment, engaged in vital research into the manifold problems which the farmer m.ust solve if he is to succeed, than are engaged in any other field of scientific inquiry. Our agricultural experiment stations have taught the “man with the hoe” not only new and better ways of doing things but the reason why they are better ways. Instead of the inefficient dull peasant, the type which stands for '“farmer” in the city folk’s minds, the Aijierican fanner has been too progressive, too efficient, if such a thing - w'ere possible. By improved and scientific methods he has in creased production more rapidly than the demand has grown for his products. There was one year in my life when it seemed as if every thing went exactly wrong. The resulting accumulation of worries and problems loomed up like a range of mountains. It hardly seemed worth while to try to get on top of one of them because there were so many others- beyond. Wise old Talleyrand, when he could not see his way clearly through a difficult situation, used to take to his bed and give out word that he ,w^s ill. It was his experience that many difficulties solved themselves if one only let them alone for awhile. Adopting his example, I went away for a couple of weeks id played golf. When I got back the troubles and problems lad not disappeared, but I was a different man. I went down to the office, made a lisj; of all of them, and dediced to tackle the toughest one first, I cleaned it up in one day and started after the others. An amazing thing develop^. Some of the worst situa tions proved to be the easiest, and not one of the w'hole lot turned out to be worth half the worry I had given it. The lesson was valuable. I ought to have learned it much earlier in life, for I had been given plenty of opportuiity to observe the ways of successful men in such matters. One of my first bosses made it a rule every morning to ask for the bad news first. He said: “I wrint to get the tough things off the calendar while I am fresh. I never deal with the same thing twice. When I pick up a paper from my desk I don’t lay it dowm until it’s settled. - Procrastination is poison.” I An acquaintance of niine is a prominent operator in Wall Street. I asked once if it were tme that at diffei’ent times he has taken tremendous losses. “Losses,” he exclaimed, “I’ve taken millions in losses. Any man 'vVho tries to get through life without* taking- losses will never make any money. The ,trick is to take *em quick and forget ’em. Amateurs worry about them in advance and brood about them afterward. The v^orry and -the brooding break their nerve. ' The Book of Proverbs, which said pretty nearly everything that can be said — and much better — has this verse: “The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.” Worrying about the lion, the slothful man i.s eaten by fear, which is a more terrible death. I'he wise'man steps out boldly. And more often than not the lion proves,to be just a motion picture lion, with his claw’S cut short and his poor old tetth all gone. StJaite’s fisqai authorities for the past year, Gilliam Grissonn, .United States (^Hector of Internal Revenue, conr tinues to collect increasing; amounts from North -Carolina. During the fiscal year whd-clh just closed he took in '^274,267,097.6, leaving only Ne'w York, of all the 48 .states, ahead of North Carolina in the matter of federal' revenue. The ydar’s collec tion was $19,768,409.51 ahead of the pre'vious record collection of 1929. The $29,442,721.88 which Mr. Gris som collected last month was the largest hmount ever tiken in during a single m/onth in the history of the State. Shannon,-'July 2.=—^Mrs. H. C.- Cul- ^ brelh, 'Mesaaib John Walters^and He^-- belt iWaltere were called'to bed,.;,, side of tlrar mother, Mrs., J. F» VVsdters, Thuradw in Florence, S. C» Mrs. C. Leonh^d and son, J^bert, of Rahway. N. J.# Mrs. A. S. Wy- . Hie heonliMd-^ and Leila Morgan of New York City, spent Thursday'iiuM#* the home of Mr. B. B. Currie. ' Miss Juanita Gasque of Marion, •S. C., is staying .a few days at Mrs. A D. S. Klarpp’s ^ Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Currie of Great Falls, S. T!., and IMiss Kate Currie of Charlotte returned home Sunday after spending a while with their parents. , Misses Flady Belle Deaton, Wanda Shdok, mid Ruth Shook, and Mr. Rowell OTook were among those who attended the B. Y. P. U. convention in Parkton. - ' Mr. Carl Walters, Mr. and Mrs. S. ,B. \yalters and children of Ashe ville, Miss Ma el Walters, Mrs. R. L; ^ed, Mr. a,nd Mrs. W. H. Garren of M6ri^ce, S C., bnd iMr. B. P Wal- ^ - ters of CbarlestMi, S C., returned home Sunday ^ter attending the funeral ,af their mother, Mrs. J. F. W-alters. ' Messrs B. B. Currie iand A B. Currie ^pent Thursday in Laurel Hill with Mrs. Rose Currie, who is ser- iously ill. i w I Mr. and,Mrs. K R Gasque and Mr. and Mrs. E. A'. Cto'vis spent Sunday in the home of Mrs D. S. Klarpp. ’ Mr. -and Mrs. J. L. iMacLaren and ^ children,. Dorothy, Peggy, Isabel, fi James and Donald, and Miss Sar^ Lena Clvavis sport Sunday at White Lake Mr. T. Currie and children spent a while here Sunday with relatives. Mrs. Lena Chavis and two daugh ters, Agnes and Elotn and Miss Les- lie MacLaren spent Sundav momug In TioWsville; Miss Juanita Gasque returned with them. Miss Frances Walters of Buie is stasdng a few ,,days with her cousin. Miss Margaret Smith. ■'jr From England to Capetown, South , Africa. In Ten Days Johannesburg—Cutting down the previously estimated time by three,V whole days a trio from England to Capetown, South Africia, was recently/'^ made in ten days by the air service , operating between these points, ac cording to a renort receiyed in the ^ Department of Commerce from. .“Vs- t sistant Trade Commissioner Du Wasme G. Clark at Johaniestturg. About 100 hours of the trip were ac- , tual flying time, the remainder being made by other means. Worried Oyer Prospects As the financial depression of the past ■ year ■will hit the State harder in the fiscal year just beginning than in that just piast, the fiscal auchori- ties are worried more by the pros pects for the immediate future than the past, on its face, might seem to justify. During the present bienni-im Governor Gardner hopes to run the State on $3,000,000 less than the Legislature intended and he hopes no further curtailment will be neces sary. Governor Gardner, Commissioner Maxwell, Henry Burke, assistant di rector of the budget. Dr. Fred Mor rison, secretary of the State Tax Commission, and others were in con ference yesterday and the Governor and Mr. Maxwell lagiJdn last n'ght discussing fiscal affairs, especially taxation. “We must live within our income,” is tre Governor’s repeated message to those who work under him. Though a 10 per cent penalty will be added to all “Schedule B” license taxes received or mailed to the Reve nue Department after Tuesday only around 40,000 had paid these taxes up to Monday night. The totil number of business and profession' 1 licenses issued last year was in ej- cess of 85,000. The 10 per cent pen.alty for July becomes 20 per cent in August. 30 per cent in September and so on un til! the penalty next June will te 100 per cent. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS This is to announce -that I am a candidate .for tbs Democratic numin- ation for the office of Register of Ik Deeds for Hoke County, subject to the action of the second prim'airy to be held on July 5th. 19.30. W. W. ROBERTS, FOR COTTON WEIGHER This is to (announce that I am aV^ candidate for the Democratic nomin- ation for the office of Cbtton Wegh- er of Hoke County, subjert to. the action of the second pidmiary to bei-jlt held July 5th, 1930. J appreciate the support given me in the first primary and will greatly auprec'ato your support in thf> ??cond. * .. E. L. PEELE;%' FOR CO'^ON WEIGHER THi.a ’s to onnounce that I ,am a candidi->tp for. the Democratic nomina- tiion fo-r the nosition of Cotton Weigher for Hoke County, suM.iect to the ection of the voters as expressed in the second primary to he beld-ur on July 5th, 1930. ' ~ ^ Martin McKe.than. REGISTER OF DEEDS This is to announce that T -aim a candidate for the Dem'oer('»tic nominal' tion for the office of Register of. Deeds of H-oke County, subject to' the action of the voters as expressed in the second primary to be held ( L July 5th, 1930. D. K. Blue. Forget The Past And Think of the Future Senate Votes To irritable mood in the closing hours of debate. It refused to enter an Boost Veteran’s Pav ai^eement to vote tomorrow on fte • bill a,nd then proceeded to vote to night. Vice-President Curtis was taken to task for ordering the bill passed after a shout of ayes and the Senate then proceeded to have a recor'd vote. It was a day of sharp word.s. The record vote on passage of the legislation was 66 to 11. Washington, July l.-^The new Woild Wax' veterans relief measure Wss passed today by the Senate after the Democrats had succeeded • in raising the disability pension rates , above the level provided by the House bill bearing the administra tion’s approval. This change in the House measure, '. whidi was vob^ 37 to 26, forces • the bill into conference for adjust- ment of differences. 'Phere were hints of another Presidential veto if the fndieased rates were allowed and •djnil^ratiion .supporters were seek ing s 'way tonight to reach a com- tnomise. Over-tiding the Hoover forces oj* the increase, the Senate sho^Yed its German Housewives Aid In Moire Rye’ Campaign ‘Eat Fr,ankfort—A pulicity c3m7>aign t(* encourage a greattr domestic use cf rye bread in Germany was recentlv opened in Frankfort at a public meeting organized by the Germ-in -Housewives Assoo ation, according hi 8 report from ConSul Edward A. Dow jit Fmnkfort, made puTilic ^by the Department of Comimerce. age'nxaes began to operate on .iust 80 per cent of the amount the Geji- eral Assembly .appropriated for thf;ir use. Governor Gardner having taken In Tax Accounts advantages of his powers of a hcri- ^ zonbal cut. L^t year the Governor Fairmont Chief Checks Short For 18 years we have served you and have been a servant to you, and w^e hoo^e to serve you for 18 more years. We always have fresh groceries and it is always a pleasure to have you call and see our stock of “Good Things to Eat.” Fairmont, June 30.—Charged with being shqrt $1,731 in his accounts as tax collector for the town of Fairmont, Chief of Police Sandy Tliy- lor has been discharged by the town board while auditors are checki^Jg his- records. Discrepancies, it is al leged, occur in hJs. collection of 192.) taxes. The officer was bonded in the sum of $2,000, and his bonding com pany has indicated it will make the shortage good. Effort is being rasule by friends of Taylor to re-imburee the bonding company. North Carolina Tuesday began a new fisQfal year, intent upon keeping its expenditures within the linjits of. its "hard times” income. did not cut appropriations but urged the department and institution heads to the strictest economy. This move saved around $1,000,000. Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell has hot aimounced the total genepal fund collections for the fiscal year v^ich ended Monday but it i.s •certair that they will fall short, prC^ably by more than a half mil lion dollars, of the $16,339,00/) which the Legislature estimated would be derived from the present tax sched ules. General fund collections for the first 11 months of the year were $14,606,669. Federal ^Ilections Up. While the expected shortage in State revenue has been the majot FRESH COUNTRY EGGS AND PRO- DIJCE AT AIX TIMES FRESH COUNTRY BUTl ER SLICED BREAKFAST BACON wi. Cheese and many things that will suit your taste at Campbell & Co. PHONE 200 RAEFORD, N. G. State departments, institutions and 1 problem f^hg the Governor and the P' \ ■ i.:' it- 1 m IK
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