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RAEPOED, N. yC.' WIDAY, NOV. 27, 1931
THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL
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IN VARIOUS WAfS TO lEitCHERS’GnP
J^gures Dcm’t Li^ But • Tl^y
n";|; Do Some Very Strange
"ilbings in the Hands of
' Smart Politicians.
Washington, Nov. 24.—Figures may
not lie, but they are likely to fool
you, just the seme. Give a politi-
ciap a few digits to play with' and he
makes them lie down, turn over, sit
UP and 1^0 flipflops like a team of
trained fleas.
You might think they/would have
a special government bureau to do
all the statistical tricks which are
used to entertain the nation, but it
' isn’.t necessary' because nearly all
men' in public life have become ex-
pe^ at it. Cabinet officers who pull
mt^B figures from a hat to end de-
pr^sicns have nothing on the Demo-,
cr^ic leaders who can prove to the
satisfaction of any complete moron
. that a couple of billion dollars’ de
cline in our foreign trade is entirely
due to the Hawley-Smoot tariff.
Shooting holes in the other fellow’s
round numbers is a very large part
of the present propaganda of the
Republican and Democratic parties.
Southeastern District of State
Association Addressed by
Dr. John Cook and Dr. Lois
Coffey Mossman.
Fayetteville, Nov. 20.—^“We are fac
ing the greatest educational crisis in
North Carolina history,” Dr. John
H. -Cook, of Greensboro,. president
of the North Carolina Educational
Association, declared this afternoon
in addressing tlie southeastern di.s-
trict convention of that association
here.
“What the legislature does nexc
year is going to concern the future
of the schools for the next 25 years.
This is the critical year. The peo
ple of North Carolina should un
derstand the situation. They have
the ri.ght to look to the teachers for
leadership and guidance in this
great battle for the childhood of the
state. Are the teachers of North Car
olina going to be found wanting?”
He
y
urged
the teachers to take
Concerted Program of Good Buys to be Staged
by Practically Every Merchant in Town on
Friday and Saturday, December 4th
Sth—Every Effort Being
^Made to Make These Days
Profitable and Pleasant
to All of the People
in This Section,
TRAWICK
m LOCAL
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Secretary of War Hurley has just
fannounced proudly that his. depart
ment’s budget f'r 1933 is “approxi
mately $44,000,000 below the appro
priations for 1932.” And so it is.
That figure sounds $30,060,000 bet
ter than the cut of $14,000,000 from
last year’s budget. Congress last
year appropriated $30,000,000 more,
than the army budget, thereby enabl
ing Hurley to compare budget with
appropriation instead of budget with
budget. This is an especially good
trick and almost defies criticism./
Secretary of the Navy Adams, after
White House pressure, announced a
cut of $60,000,000 in his budget, which
sounded all right until it was pointed
out that the total budget this year
had been $40,000,000 over last year’s,
•and that the real cut was only $20,
'itl[00,000. Hundreds of millions might
have been “saved” if this year’s
budget had been high enough.
Congressman Luther A. Johnson of
’T.exae, *Jttas been razzing President
;Hooyct'himself, who, in an optimisitc
' formal statement, said the effect of
'bnpruvement in the credit situation
had increased cotton prices by $5 to
$20 ra bale. Later Hoover" corrected
hfanself and said he should have said
-$6 to $10 a bale, but Johnson still
inshsts tbiittthere was no $10 increase
hi the period to which Hoover refer
red and that the market reports
proT® it. Then Johnson says even
with Increased prices prevailing the
first of this month cotton was $7 a
hil© lesB than fon August 1 and lower
at .any similar period in-32
yearn Thus the same figures in
spire loud cheers froii one man and
dimnal groans from another.
more interest' in citizenship and
see that none but friends of the
schools are sent to the next legis
lature.
Insisting that the typical North
Carolinian be’ieves in education,
Df. Cook said it is well to study the
history of North Carolina in depres
sion periods.
“Right after the Revolution when
the state had no currency, North
Carolina established the first state
university,” he said. “During the
■'812 panic the public -school sys
tem was started: in the 1837 depres
sion the office of superintendent of
schools was created; during the Civil
war North Carolin^ns inuistg^LJ^t.
the school Yund must be kept up;
in 1870 they established the four
months schbol term; in the midst
of the hard times of the early nine
ties Mclver, Alderman and oth9r.s
led the campaign which established
North Carolina College for Women;
and in the panic of 1920 was begun
the movement which placed North
Carolina first in road building and
/advanced educational standing.”
“Every depression in North Caro
lina has been marked by elucation
advances,” he concluded.
Dr. Lois Coffey Mossmhn of
Teachers College, Columbia Univer
sity, also addressed the afternoon
session speaking on child teaching
methods. Mrs. Mossman urged that
everything educational must have
these four factors; promise of a
product which the child looks upon
as valuable to him, a process
through which he must go to get
the product, a resulting new insight
of understanding, and a relationship
to something in the child’s own life.
F^o'r the first time in many years, a co-operative
program of buying and selling will be carried out in
Kaeford on Friday and Saturday, December fourth
and fifth. The pl^ns call I for two DOLLAR DAYS,
appointed on the d$ites mentioned above, at which
time air the business houses in Raeford will com
bine in an effort to give the people of the county
two days of real and unusual values.
Merchandise houses, of every kind, garages, filling
stations, in fact, all the business houses of Raeford
will make special prices on these’’ two days which
will not fail to convince the people of the county
that it Will pay them to trade. The various busi
ness houses are doing everything in their power to
make these two days the trading event of this decade.
All that the business houses ask of the people
of the county is that they show themselves open to
conviction and that they come to Raeford^ on the
two DOLLAR DAYS to examine the values which
will be offered to people who appreciate the value
of a dollar. ^
Many Changes Made in N.
C. Conference Pasloratesi—
Raeford Now in Fayette
ville District.
nCKED TEAMS TR
PLAT FOR CHARmi
Game to be Played at Dnke
Stadium December 5 For
Benefit of Unemployment
Relief Fund.
Members of the Raeford Metho
dist Episcopal Church and friends of
its pastor for the past three years.
Rev. W. F. Trawick, are expressins
pleasure in having him returned to
the local church for another year.
The a'ppointment was read Sundav
night by Bishop E. D. Mouzon at tlie
North Carolina Conference in ses
sion at Greenville.
Rev. Mr. Trawick serves Parker’s
Chapel in addition to the Raeford
church and also'preaches once eaes
month at the Sanatorium. He is
liked immensely at eaclr place for his
able and earnest work as a minis lev
of the Gospel and also for his pleas
hig personality and ready sense of
humor. Mr.' ’Trawick is a native o'
Hoke and is universally known an.,
loved throughout the county.
At the conference in Greenviiie
the Rockingham District, of whicli
Raeford has been a part, was merged
"iWONSpNCES
Sinclairs Get 10-12 Years;
Miller 2-3 Years—^Judge
Midyette Goes to Fayette
ville For Term There.
t Lately there have been certain en
couraging signs in finance and busi
ness, hut the general tendency has
■been to bnnch them With all annual
seakonad) improvements' and holler
' that the whole trend is encouraging.
The Commerce Department, however,
reperts .that manufacturing dfd not
experience any of the usual fall gain
and that gains in car loadings, re
tail trade, hank debits, foreign trade
and factory employment were less
than the normal seasonal rise. That
meant that solne of the gains were
actually losses.
There is also a dandy chance to
brag about October’s figure as com
pared with September’s, too, because
October had 27 working, producing
days and September, only 25.
%\/ ‘And observe how .the American
Federation of Labor, can prove that
Wigallzed beer would employ more
thin 1,000,000 persons, whereas dry
' organizations 1 use available statistics
to show that it couldn’t possibly em-
■' ploy more thap 230,00fi and would
i • throw many more than that out of
work, in other industries.
SERVICES AT SANDY
GROVE NEXT SUNDAY
Rev. A. D. Carswell will preach at
I Sandy Grove Preibyterlan Church
1;^ the ReBervation, Sunday morning,
•Novembw 2lB. -at eleven o'clock. Ser
vices are’ held at IMody Grove on
Rutherford County has 18 storage
houses for sweet potatoes with a
capacity of 50,000 bushels.
aNFERENCE FAVORS
lEAAS amON PUN
Eleven States Represented at
Jackson Meeting — North
Carolina Delegation Re
frains From Voting.
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 23.—The
South-wide Uniform Cotton Control
Conference late today adopted, the
Texas curtailment plan calling for a
60% reduction in planting in 1932
and 1923, as its recommendation for
relief legislation in all the Southern
states.
Ten of the eleven cotton produc
ing states represented here cast their
votes for the Texas plan to boost
prices in the face of this yeai^s
bumper crop. North Carolina’s dele
gation, Instructed not to vote, ab
stained from the ballot.
The resolution adopted by the con
ferees, seeking uniform legislation
throughout the South, was recom
mended by a special committee com
posed of two representatives from
estch ..state, which wrestled for hpprs
hehjnd closed dpors on the best plan
for alif legislatures to .adopt.
The lead of the Texas legislature
in enacting an aerp^e eurtaRmeht
law has' alr^djr.^ beein vtollowed by
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The regular mixed term of Hoke
Superior Court came to an end last
Friday morning at the eonclusion of
the civil docket. The criminal dock
et was finished up on Thursday af
ternoon. •
The fine of George Monroe for a
violation of the prohibition law was
reduced from $100 to $50.
Officer Murphy Howell, charge!
with profanity, pleaded not guilty
and the case was dismissed.
The 'grand jury found a true bill
against the three Sinclair negroes,
Walter, James L.,^ and Edgertoh,
charged with the murder on October,
23 of John Miller,, colored.; Fifty
veniremen were called from whom
a jury was to be chosen, but they,
were exhausted and 25 more had to
be drawn before a suitable jury was
selected. The state accepted' the
pleas of Walter and James L., of
murder in the second degree. The
court ordered a verdict of noY.guilty
as to Edgerton Sinclair and sentenced
James L. and Walter to not less than
10 or more than 12 years in tl^e state
prison. I
“Doug” Miller, colored, charged
with the murder of his brother,
“Sing’' Miller, on November 8,
bound over from Recorder’s Court
without bond, pleaded guilty of mur
der in the second degree and was
sentenced to not less than two • or
more thaivtliree years in the state
prison.
The civil docket was taken up, hut
only one of the nine cases went to
the jury/ Others were: either re
ferred to referees or, continued.
His Honor, Judge Garland E.
Midyette, of Jackson, whd presided,
went to Fayetteville Where he will
preside at a term of Cumberland
Superior Court. Solicitor McNeill,
of Lnmherton, also went to Fayette
ville for the Cumberland session.
M BEUEVEIN
aCM THREE
Superstititm of Events in
National Affairs Persists
Among Politicians of Both
Parties.
Raleigh, Nov. 24.—A charty foot
ball game pitting a combined team
of Duke and North Carolina players
against a combined team from th9
other thlee schools of the Big^Five
will be played in the Duke stadium
at 2 p. m. Saturday, December 5.
The athletic division of the Gover
nor’s counsel on unemployment and
relief after discussing Various plans
-^ncl proposals behind closed doors
for more than an hour and a halt,
oni.sht auiKHinced that it had been
lecided to make the game a' form o?
■'all-star” contest instead of the
'^ail-state” p'an originally agreed
upon.
The .American Legion will sponsor
the ticket sale throughout the state,
Henry C. Bourne, of Tarboro. com
mander, assured the comrnitte-a.
Full Support.
Governor 0. Max Gardner, w’' >
attended the meeting, said that th. •
Washington. Nov. 24.—Everybody’.s
old home town has a superstition
that bad things always happen three
in a row. Almost any community
has three noteworthy fires each win
ter, and they always come along at
about the same time.
It’s an old , tradition, and people
here, vtho nearly all come from small
towns, have lately been recalling it
arid muttering about it in the wake
of more than one series of tragedies
which have come triplicate.
None'has beeii more startling thau
three' fatal airplane crashes in three
days which killed nine men. The
military services and the air lines
out of the capital had gone withoui
fatalities for months when this hap
pened.
-cA' 1,'^ ..■/ r.'
Theshifig maphihes are httinintiig
out dollars in lespedexa' for
Rowan County farmers this' fidl. J.
T. Graham harvested 225 bushels
of .Korean - seed from sevUn acreu
of land and Utheirs are turning, oof
certified seed which finds a ready
■
Important personages are likely to
die by trios, according to a half-ac
cepted theory, of veteran newspaper
men, and it was such a succession
which at least temporarily threw
control of the House to the Demo
crats. There had been several other
deaths since the next Congress was
elected last ■ November, but the pass
ing of Representative Hale of New
Hampshire, Ackerman of New Jersey
and Wurzbach of Texas—all Repub
licans—within three weeks made it
appear certain that the Democrats
would have a House ihajority at the
opening of Congress.
New Jersey recently lost three of
her most prominent citizens within
a very- brief space—^Senator Dwight
Morrow, Thomas A.-, Edison and Con
gressman Ackerman.
And the deaths of Morrow and
Senator* Caraway of Arkansas recall
the persistent stprieif that a certain
other senator’s seat in the chamber
will never, again be occupied because
of his present illness, .
with the Fayetteville District. The | final unanimous agreement of th ^e
presiding elder of the Fayettevilb’
District is Rev. J. C. Wooten. Rev.
H. C. Smith, former presiding elder
of the Rockingham District, is now
presiding elder of the Durham Dis
trict.
The complete list of appointments
for the Fayetteville District is as
follows:
Presiding Elder, J. C. Wooten.
Aberdeen-Vass, W. C. Bell.
Biscoe, J. H. Miller.
Caledonia, W. L. Dawson.
Carthage, J. H. Buffaloe.
Ellerbe, J. C. Whedbee.
■Fayetteville, Hay Street,i Walter
Patten; Person Street-Calvary, J.
W. Autry; Fayetteville Circuit,
A. Clarke.
Glendon, F. B. Noblitt.
Goldston, M. D. McLamb.
Hamlet, J. H. Shore.
Hemp, L. M. Chaffin.
Jonesboro, J. E. Blalock.
Laurel Hill, B. F. Boone.
Laurinburg, Marvin Y. Self.
Maxton, W. L. Clegg.
Mt. Gilead, F. M. Shamburger.
Parkton, R. C. L. Edwards.
Piedmont, W. D. Yarborough.
Raeford, W. F. Trawick.
Red Springs, B. D. Critchel.
Rockingham, W. R. Royal.
Roberdel,. M. C. Ellerbe.
Rowland, D. A. Petty.
Sanford; L. D. Hayman.
St. John-Gibson, E. B. Fisher.
Troy, J. A. Marvin.
West End, W. E. Elliott.
Wadesboro, E. C. Crawford.
•Superannuates, T. H. Sutton,
Joyner, G. T. Adams, A.
H.
Groves, J. A. Lee, W. H. Townsend,
J. B. Hurley, J. G. Johnson, C. M.
Hawkins.
RfAN MWDE TO
HEADJIWANIANS
Officers Elected at Meeting
Last Week for Coming
Year—Report Made on Last
Year’s Work.
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A story, might be written about the
seeminsUr potent properties of the
number three In Washington. The
magic number of earlier times', which
does not appeatr to be very Important
in this mpitpil. was seven—‘rememh^jr
toe City of Setiiil Hills, toe Seven
Sleepers of Ephesus, the Island ot
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At their annual election night last
Thursday, the Kiwanis Club elected,
officers for the year 1932 as follows;
For president, Ryan McBryde; for
vice-president, D. H. Hodgin; for
District Trustee, Edgar Hall; for
treasurer, W. P. Covington. Seven
directors were elected as follows:
Dr. H. R. Cromartle, Dr. W. M.
Fairley, Neil A. McDonald, Jim
Butler, Paul Dickson, H. L. Gatlin
and Clyde Upchurch.
While the year that is closing has
been a hard one in which to accom
plish many noteworthy things, the
Kiwanis Club has steadily carried on
and has two distinct services to its
credit. One is the sponsoring and
financing of the Boy Scouts, 'who
have put'in toe most successfulFear’s
work in. toMi* history, and toe other
is toe spo^isorlng and financing of
a tuberculosis clinic to the children
in the first three grades in schooL
Of some five hpndxed examin^
seventy-seven showed positive reae-
(Conttaraed on page six)
present has liis “full endorsement
and support a.s the best feasible pla-i
which could be worked out.”
The governor appealed to fae-
sporting public and others of t'.is
state to “whole-heartedly back this
contest in the interest of providing
needed relief for our poor and un
employed citizens who may not ha
provided for unless the contest is a
financial success.”
L'nder the plan a squad of NOT
more than 33 players will be select
ed by Coaches Chuck Collins and
Wallace Wade from their respective
teams to plav on one team. The
other coaches. Pat Miller of Wake
Forest. Clipper Smith, of North Car
olina State, and Monk Younger of
Davidson, will likewise mutually
agree on not mere than 33 men to-
compose their squad. The coaches
will co-operate in dire ting tlv)
teams.
Two Camps,
A camp for the Davidson, Wake
Forest and State players will be es
tablished at State College, Carolina
and Duke players will remain at
their institutTons but will join for
daily practice, alternating between
Chapel Hill and Durham.
Proceeds will be split with 60 per
cent going to the state relief organ
izations and 40 per cent to local
communities in which tickets are
sold. The expense of the contes#
will be borne by the state body.
Under the plan the American Le
gion will have general charge of the
ticket sale but any local organization
undertaking sale of ticketsywill re
ceive for its own charity work the
40 per cent allotted local communi
ties.
Tickets for the game will be sold
at two prices, $2 for reserved seats
and $1 for general admission. No
differentiation will be made in the
price of adult and children’s tickets.
In counties where no local organ
ization other than the . American Le
gion undertakes to sell tickets to the
game the 40 per cent of the receipts
which the communities receive wilt
be administered by the local units
of the governor’s council for relief
in that immediate community and
may not be. transferred. If there Is
no council organization the state
body will advise with the/local wel
fare authorities in its distribution.
Any Rotary, Kiwanis or other civic
club desiring to sell tickets may se
cure them through the American
Legion and the 40 .per cent may be
applied directly to' their charity or
relief fund ot the organization.
M. S. Rudisll of Crouse, Lincoln
County, produced 4S bales of cotton
on 35 acres of land this seasoiu
HOKE TEACHERS GO
TO DISTRICT MEETING
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The schools In Raeford and toe
county closed at noon last Friday to
allow toe teachers to attend the
Sotttoeastem IMstflct. ileet^ of the
Teachers' Associatitm lieldl in Qi®
Fa^etteviUe Htish ,
FrlS;^ afteiBooh.'and efieinjhic. Prn^•'^ i
titNjRliy ail Hoke connty' teaehm