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’»' '’. --> Z’=-^ ■ -••'-■ •' ■•■• ' .—'j>'ij‘-- V.’ ' ;'■; LOOSING TO HOKE COIJNTTi .FUTCBE WITH CONFIDENCE II dmt ■ ' 4 1 THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL S1.50 YEAR IN ADVANCE -I ~rs» PBSIWNE ACTION FRAISES SEAL IS* EFFIGIENT WHIffl STATE? SENATORS MNTY AOENT OF SANATORIOM SON STia IS GAPTlIRi OET ASSIONMEim Mass Meeting Of Citizens Not Well Attended; Board Post pones Action Until Its Jan uary Meeting. I* ■ Following the' mass meeting of farmers and citizens held in the court-house here last Saturday after noon, the Board of County Commis sioners met in special session, and decided to postpone any definite ac tion in regard to the county farm demonstration work until their regu lar meeting to 'be held on the first Monday in January. At the mass meeting presided over by Commissioner J. A. McDiarmld, Mr. E. W. Gaither, of the Extension Department of State College in Ral eigh, and chairman of the county faj-m denoionstration work in t^iis district, spoke at length, saying that if the farmers were going to switch to new I farming methods, which course is obviously necessary to some extent, then a farm uemonstra- tor would be needed. Messrs. T. B. Upchurch, I. H., Shankle, J. W. Scull, Lewis Parker, and others,, all Hoke citizens, talked giving their views on the continua- ,tion of the depaonstration work. Some who spoke were directly opposed to the continuation. Others admitted that the work would be needed un- .iess local farmers continue to grow' , cotton and tobacco, as they ha vs in the past. The real reason, as ex pressed by aU who spoke, ' for dis continuing the work is the lack of funds to pay the county’s part be cause of its being so far behind in tax collections. At the meeting a petition was pre sented signed by 55 citizens and tax payers, asking that the farin demon stration work in the county he dis continued, as A measure'',pf needed,, economy. » The meeting”'' waff' not very well attended due 'probably to the notice of it not having time for wide cir culation. When a vote whs taken a- mong those present, only 28 voted; 18 w'ere in favor of continuing the work, and 10 opposed to continuation. The chairman stated that the meeting W'as purely an advisory one, and thai the final decision would, of course, rest with the county commlssioner.s. At the board meeting that followed, .all members were present except Commissioner Tapp. Hoke County has. been without a demonstrator since Mr. W. D. Bur ton resigned in November, to accept similar work in Pamlico Countyi. N. C. Tuberculosis Ass’n Con gratulates Sanatorium Publi cation For Splendid Feat uring of Christmas Seal. The Sanatorium Sun, monthly pub lication of the North Carolina Sana torium, has. been congratulated 'oy the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association and others on its issu' for December, in which several news inticles and an editorial dealing with the Christmas Sea! and the work carried on with the money derived from the annual seal sales, appeared. Dr. L. B. McBrayer, Managing Dir ector of the North Carolina Tubercu losis Association, says that the is suee referred to is the finest Christ- Tuas Seal publication he has seen. The December Sun ran three news items, an editorial and an announce ment concerning the seal sale, am? in addition carried two large Christ mas Seal advertisements, and scat tered 12 cuts of the 25th nniversary Seal throughout its pages. The Sun is.alply edited, by Mr. John M. Gibson, who has done con siderable writing for various maga zines, and worked on newspapers in this country and abroad. His editor- al with reference to the Seal Sale, in the December issue of the Sun, !s in part as follows: "‘Those who have had tuberculosis, and those acquainted with the dis ease by virtue of having watched by the bedside of those stricken down with it, are particularly well situat ed to tell the general ptiblic, the in different men and women, those who regard this sale aff ‘just another money-raising drive,’ about the great progress made in conquering this arch enemy of the human race and the unwisdom of letting up in this health-building and disease-prevent- ng effort. "■ "Tffere"'are many calls for funds for w'orthy causes. It is not our purpose to minimize the others. But those who know of the accomplish ments in anti-tuberculosis work should not refuse to do everything in their power to bring the present campaign to a §hccessfui conclusion.’’ Officers Say Plant One Of Most Complete Outfits They Ever Saw; ' Operator Gets Eight Months. Sheriff Hodgin and his deputies captured a small but well equipped w'hiskey making outfit at the home of Henry McNeill, colored, on the Newton place below .Antioch, about daylight Saturday morning. The officers said that the still and other equipment composed one -jf the most complete outfits they had ever seen. The still had been in operation a few hour^ before the eiziire, and two or three gallons of 'vhiskey were taken. The outfit was [oeated in the loft of the home, and all evidence of it was, completely hidden from view; the smoke from the still was piped into a chimney ot .he house.. The equipment included a windlass for hoisting to the loft .ingredients for w'hiskey, and bottles to put it in. The still’s operator, Henry Me Neill, and another colored man Salph Campbell, who was found at the place later by Deputy Barring ton, were arrested and charged witl prohibition law violations. In record er’s court Tuesday, McNeill pleaded guilty to possession and manufac turlng, and was sentenced to four menths on the roads for each of fense, the sentences to run consecu tively. Campbell pleaded not guilty of either chage, and was found not guilty. COTTON MARKET Cotton was selling on the Raeford market Thursday morning a,t from six to ^ix and a half cents, according to the grade. CHRISTMAS PAGEANT TO BE GIVEN FRIDAY '>1 A Christmas pageant will be given on Friday evening, December' 18, at 7:30 o’clock, in the Raeford School i auditorium. Taking gpart in the pro gram will be members of the first seven grades of the Raeford School, ■R'ho have 'been working hard on their parts of. the entertainment. There will Jie no cash admission charged, but everyone 'who come-s must bring some article of food, canned or otherwise, as the price of admission. Food gathered in this way wUl be used by the Raeford Com mittee in aiding the poor and unem ployed at Christmas. TAX DISCOUNT IS ALLOWED BY CITY y t Board Orders 1 Per Cent Discount On Taxes Paid This Month. NEW AUT0 TAGS Tags Can Be Bought In Aber deen, Laurinburg And Fay etteville; New Colors Black On Yellow. At a special meeting of the Board of Alderiflen of the To'wn of Raeford held oh Monday evening, it was order ed that a discount of one per-cent be allowed on all taxes paid during the month of December, This discount is allowed 'because the tax books of the town were late In being opened for the payment of taxes, and the cusomary discount ef one per cent allowed for early pay» ment could not be taken advantage of as In former years. The town officials in making the announcement publl^ jstated. that as provided by law, the penalty will (begin to run of February Jpt, 1932. Raleigh, Deo. 15—North Carolina’s 1932 automobile license tags will go on sale throughout the State today, the firsit to be sold under the rate schedule based on the vehicular weight. The new plates, carrying black fig ures on a yellow background, may be displayed immediately after pur chase today. All auto owners arc re quired to have them attached to their cars ndt later than January 1. Nearly 7,500 of 'the oew tags -were mailed out yesterday to early ap plicants for the plates. Early, in the month 550,000 application blanks for the new licenses were sent to auto owners by the Motor Vehicle Bureau of the Department of Revenue. Fifty-five branch stations, located at strategic points throughout the State, will aid in the distribution of the plates. Leland. S. Harris, director of the Motor Vehicle' Bureau, said yester day tfiat prospects for quick and effi cient dispatch of the tags were very encouraging, judging by the number of applications already received by his office.. Must Carry Registration Cards. “The law provides that each car- driver must carry his registration card with him, and the Patrol is going-to insist that it is carried out to the letter,” yesterday declared Captain Charles Fanner, head of the North Carolina Highway Patrol. The registration car^ must al ways be with the car ^hat carries license plates corresponding to it; even .one who borrows aini automobile must secure It from the owner, pointed out Captain Parmer., “Automolle drivers are warned to keep the card wi^ them and not throw it in a waste-paper basket or blue it in an out-of-the-way place,” he declared. (Continued on back page) . ANIELS SCORES TARIFF CHARGES Says They Have Caused Mil lion And Half Workers To Lose Jobs, In Killing Ameri can Foreign Trade. Morrison And Bailey Pleased With Appointments; More Posts For Representatives On Committees. Average County Tax Redoctioa For State 33 Cents; Average Rate $1.06 RELIEF GRUITIEE SEEKS DONATIONS And Clothing, But Much More Needed; Promptness In Further Gifts Urged. The members of the Raeford Fire Department made rounds with the fire trucks, in the Raeford school this week gathering Washington, Dec. 15 The North p||.g Department Gathers Food Carolina Senators now have their emmittee assignments. Senator Morrison gets the ttvo important committees, appropriations and bank ing and currency he had last Con gress. Senator Bailey was assigneJ to commerce, postdffice and post roads and claims. Mr. Bailey su!;- ceeds former Senator Simmons on commerce. In addition Mr. Simmons had finance and irrigation. iSIr. Mor rison followed Senator Overman, his predecessor, on appropriations. In addition, Mr. Overman was on the judiciary and rules. Both Mr. Morrison and Mr. Bailey are well pleased with their commit tees. The House committees are ready for work now. Some additional as signments were given to North Caro lina members on committees today. Rep. Warren, chairman of accounts, is also ranking member of library and a member of roads, elections of President and Vice-President; Rep. Kerr, chairman of elections No. 3, iS a member of public buildings groimds, immigration, war claims and census; Rep. Clark, chairman elections No. 1, is ranking on claims and a mem'ber of enrolled bills, the District of Columbia and patents. Hoke County-Wide Rate Re duced 24 Cents; This In cludes Increases Made For Debt Service, and l^rposes Other Than Schools. The county-Wide rate in Hoke wa.^ reduced from ?l.tt4 in 19-30 to 80 cents this year, a reduction of 21 cents. The rate for the six months school term, which of course is in cluded in the total county-wide SO i cents rate, was reduced to a county- I wide rate of 31 1-2 ceht.s, as com- ! pared with 58 cents for last year, a district early tins wees SULiiei u.s i ^6 1-2 cents. .-Vlao in- articles of food and clothing to j f^e tt tal countv-wide 80 distribute-1 by t’.te district Rebel; increased rates Committee to the needy /‘nem-, nurposes other than sc’aools. rloyed, at Christmas. T.t Firenie said that some people gave gener ously, while others gave nothing; many were unable to give anything. The Relief Committee urges all ■who did not give and can do so. c i- uecially those who were not prepa"- :-d to g’ve anything at the time of the canvass, or - who were missed then, to bring anything in the iooA clothes or bed clothes Pne, that they feel they can give, to the Bank of Raeford. as soon as possible. The Committee will appreciate promptness in the ma’icing of t'drther gifts, as 'the time is drawing near for the*^ baskets to be made up for ““ Christmas, and there is quite a bit (flP . EIGHT INJURED IN AUTO-l Six In Hospital At Erwin In Seri&lis Gondiliori'Follow ing Collision; Vehicles Are Demolished. New York, Dec. 15—The loss of .?1,400.000,000 in American foreign trade, and loss of jobs by 1,500,000 workers in .this country is ascribe to the Smoot-Hawley (Hog) tariff by Josephus Daniels, publisher ot the Raleigh News and Observer, an former Secretary of the Navy^ in an article in Jammry Plain Talk en titled “The Age of Special PriV lege.” “Special pidvilege has been in th saddle for ten years,” Mr. Daniels says, “and has ridden the people of the United States ragged. It has paid billions of dollars in so-called tax refunds to large corpofations and muliti-millionaires, while soldiers who risked their lives in France have a tough time securing an insignificant amount of adjusted compensation. “For ten years this country has 'been busy diverting the profits of skill and labor into the pockets of thfe privileged few. There is too much gold in this country and too much of everything that has hereto fore spelled prosperity—yet millions of good men are mendicants for bread. “In 1920 the deluded people of the United States voted into office the Party of Special Privilege, which had at its command over $7,000,000 for selfish millionaires who believe that the country should be governed of, by and for themselves—and the devil take the balance of the people. “The hogs that hogged Hog Island —which the Republican whiners cried so much aibout during the war^—were peanut venders' compared with the Hogs ’Who Hogged the Hog Tariff." and for debt service. The rate for purposes other than schools was in creased 2 1-2 cents, and the debt service rate increase was 14 1-2 rent?. The 1931 tax rates for S3 counties, released Sunday by the Tax Com mission. shew' a straight average county-w'ide rate for these counties in 1930 of $1.39 reduced in 1931 fo $1.06.. The tax reduction on prope';ty for this year averages 33 cen's on the $100 of assessed as coui- nared with the 1930 rate. Dimn, Dec. 15—Six people were seriously injured and two suffered lesser hurts at 7:30 o’clock last ni.sht •It the intersection of Routes 55 and 60, five miles north of Dunn, when a heavy truck and trailer collided head-on with a Chevrolet touring car. In the touring car were William L. Long and Craven Cates,, of Erwin The truck and trailer were owned by . Nathan Johnson, prominent fer tilizer manufacturer of Dunn, and driven by Walter McLaurin, 36-year- old Negro. Riding on the truck with, McLaurin were D. H, Fox, white, of Mamers; William Barefoot, white, of‘ Dunn: George Deniiing, white, ot Dunn; Barney Bradley, white, of Dunn, and an unidentified Negro. All except Denning and Bradley are in Good' Hope Hospital at Elrwiu and all in a serious condition. All four of the seriously injured were unconscious at 9 o’clock and at least three of the six are, it is believed, unlikely to recover. ^ The car and truck were demolished. Those who saw the remains of the crash said' it tyas remarkable that anybody came out of it alive. of food siHl needed. Every person in the Raeford Dis trict -who can help and who has not .lone so, is urged by the local com mittee to dp his or her bit. Messrs. R. B. Lewis and T. B. Lester are receiving cash donations, and tliey - repra-t the following a mounts of cash received to date; Raeford Fire Depaiiment $25.00; R. B. Lewis, $i0.C0; Mrs. R. B. LewLs, $10.00; Raeford Gin Co., $2.U0: Graham Service Station. $1.C0: a Priend 50 cents; Rev. W. M. Fair- ley, $10.00; T. B. Upchurch, .Jr, $10.00; Mrs. Kate King, 50 cent.i: | .-Mvis Dickson. $1.00. Further ti - nafions will be announced in next week's issue of the paper. CHRISTMAS CANTATA A Christmas Cantata, “The Light of the World,” will be given on Sun day night, December 27, in the Presbyterian Church, by ‘members of .the three Raeford church choirs, who are cooperating in getting it up. The cantata is a story of Christroas in 'beautiful music. POLITICS AND PERSONAUTIES Of course none of the 1500 ragged citizens who dragged themselves in to "Washington on the opening day of the Seventy-second Congress saw the President, or ithe Vice-President, or the Speaker of the House Sena tor King of Utah, It is said, spoke to one of the leaders. And the march ers were urged by Senator Borah to be quiet. They came empty-handed. They left empty-handed. And that apparently ends the famous Hunger March of 1931. “But is It ended?” asks ^he Wash ington News. “What of the remain ing 8,000,000 Jol)Iess who would not march with this little remnant un der Communist leaders? “The answer does not rest with the Uommualst leaders'—who prov ed their ability to organize a peace ful demonstration. tThe answer rests with the political and business lead ers of this rich country whose job it is to create conditions in which every citizen may have the right to work and to live as a free and self- respestlng American.” Dr. Albert Einstein, pausing in his contemplation of the blue riddle of the . fourth dimension, declares in the JanuaiV Cosmopolitan, that un employment can be erased and sug gests tho necessary adjustments First, he says, a minimum wage must be fixed so that the buying pow er of the workers corresponds to production, and secondly, the working week in all individual branch es must be shortened by law. Expects To Get And Therefore Refuses To Reduce Acreage. Dr. C. R. Young, of Angler, who '■lanted 600 acres in tobacco dnrin.g the past season and was one of th" State’s largest growers, is convinced that there will be no great reduction in tobacco acreage next year and consequently is planning to reduce his own acreage by two-thirds, with only 200 acres planted in tobacco. “Without disclosing my purpose, I polled 30 farmers, ten each in three sections 30 miles apart and /I found that the- whole 30 do not plan fo reduce their tobacco more than 2.') acres,” said Dr. Young Monday. “I have never raised small grains before, hut. I am planning to put 250 acres in them next year and I do not expect to buy my tenants any food except salt and coffee after another year. During the past year I experimented with sugar cane and found it could be grown successfully on my land and all of my tenants will make all of their meat and other food.” Dr. Young is strongly in favor of legislation to curtail acreage, “if it could be done.” “There are several things that will keep the farmers from reducing un less there is a law to make them do it,” he declared. “The big thing is that each farmer thinks that he will get the ‘breaks’ some way and that the other man will be the on© to lose. They think thej’ will grow a better type of tobacco and get more for it. the little fellow hears that the big will reduce and so he won’t have to, and the big farmer hears th© lit tle one ran’t buy fertilizer and won’t raise tobacco. “I find that the farmers are mak ing every sacrifice to get fertilizer and they say that there is no money in awthing else they could grow and nothing to do except grow to bacco. I never knew plant needs to be prepared so early but they are already preparing and in Scotland and other counties west of the Sea board Air .Lin© Railway, territory (Continued on back pag^ NEGRO BOY’S LEG BROKEN BY AUTO Lawrence Marshall Runs Into Path Of Car Wednesday; Taken to Hospital Lawrence Marshall, colored, 9- year-old son of Jim Marshall, of the Timberland section, had his leg broken early Wednesday morning, as a car driven by J. R. Cain, of Fayetteville, a representative of Swift Packing Company, ran into him. The little negro boy who was on his way to school, became frightened at a dog, began running and started across the highway, apparently not seeing Mr. Cain’s cor 'which was practically upon him. The boy was brought to a doctor here immedi ately, who found a compound frac ture of the left leg abo^ 4 inches below the knee. After receiving treatment, he w^ taken by THr. Cain, to a Fayetteville hospital. The assessed, valuation for 40 coun ties, for which figures are available, ^hews an average reduction of four per cent. Therefore, if the 1931 rat-s had^eeh levied on 1930 values, which would show the correct actual com parison of the 1930 and 1931 rates, the present average rate •.voiikl be $1.02 instead of $1.06. The average reduction in rar^ from ’93'J to 1931 based on the same valuation each year is, therefore, 37 cents fir t'ae 8-3 counties. The average reduction for tlie si.x months school is 33 cer t.s. 'fhe re duction for current ope'-atioii of the- six months term is 31 cent;'.. 'Ihe dnetiou for capital out’ay is two c( uts, and, tlie 'ncrease for school c.i bt service 's three cents. The gross average reduction in r;ile for nndi.teiiance ot county 51 roads is 21 cetil.^ Teat is'to say. tne straight avcra.ao l?vv lor enunty 'oa,,s last vetir was 21 ceur.s. 'ihLs there to prope'T/ tax for . oad maintena ice The' levy for the conn'v general [fund was decreased or.e-ha'i of one Big Grower Says Each Farmer cent. The levy ^ior the poor v as “Break” increased two cents, go'lnty debt service for general county purposes and roads shows an ine .''ttse of 1C cents. There were small increases in other countv levies f'jr special purposes. Since the 21 cent reduction in the levy for roads was offset by the 13 cent increase in the 'levy -for debt service, amJ the small increase in the levies for the poor and 'for misc-el- laneous purposes, there has been no net reduction in the total county levies for purposes other than for schools, except the reduction result ing from the levy this year bei'ig made on a smaller assessed valuation. In appraising the tax reduction ef fectuated by the 1931 General Assem bly we find a straight average re duction of 35 cents for the current operation of the six months school term, and 21 cents for county road maintenance, an increase of three cents for school debt - service. 16 cents for county debt service—mak ing a total of a 19 cent increase in the total levy by counties tof^Mebt service, that is, for bond repayment (Continued on back page)
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