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THE NEWS - JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C. THURSDAY. DEC. 2nd, 1913 PAGE FOUR The News-Journal Hoke Countv News Hoke County Journal Est. January, 1. 1929 Est. May 15, 1911 By Paul Dickson By D. Scott Poole Consolidated November 1, 1929 Published Thursdays At Raeford, North Carolina Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year In Advance For Servicemen $1-50 Per Year . . 1 Ntnh Carol. na v-A XPJISSaSSOIIAIiON j DOl'GALD COXE. Editor-Manager Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Raeford, N. C, under Act of March 3, 1870. Better Protect Your Plumbing For the "benefit of charity" and to save you hunting Star McMillan all over the place the News-Journal is requested by the same Mr. Mc Millan to warn folks that "they had better pro tect their plumbing this winter. Repair parts are very hard to get," according to Mr. McMil lan, and the repairman is almost impossible to get so it will be the wise householders who take extra good care that their water works do not freeze up this winter. Can The Senate Do It? Asserting that the high prices of foods and other necessities had made life quite unlivable for his coal miners, John L- Lewis won an extra dollar and a half a day for many of the members of the union he carries around in his pocket. The increase was given him by Mr. Secretary Ickes who was given executive power to settle the argument after the operators, the War Labor board and the miners had failed to agree. The non-operating unions of the railroads were handed a raise in pay after threatening a spe cially appointed board with a strike if they did not get a S200.flOO.000 a year hike in pay. While the first ol these settlements was a quasi-judicial matter not reviewable by the Senate Judiciary Committee, the latter one will have to be approved by that group before the contracts can become effective. To approve this increase would be to set aside the "Little Steel" formula by which the War Labor Board has put so much store and to which it has held tenaciously as the curb on rising wages. The miners, at least a part of them, have got their increase- If the railroad brethren get theirs, then there will be more and more demands from labor groups everywhere for more and more wa ges. Processed goods will have to be increased in price to care for the increase in wages. Prices for raw materials will have to go up to balance the cost of production with the increased cost of living. More money will be made and as the in come increases the Federal treasury will want more taxes to keep people from having so much money as to bid unreasonably against one anoth er for the few goods that can be bought. Wages, prices, taxes; more wages, higher pri ces, greater taxes, and so on ad infinatum. That's the path of inflation, and on which the United States appears to be traveling, and fast. The administration failed to stop Lewis- The railroad workers are a large and well-knit group of workers. With an election coming we doubt .that the Administration will try to stop them. This failure of the Administration has apparent ly angered the members of the House of Repre sentatives, and the House had given it a kick by sending a commodity credit bill through to the Senate without the Administration's food sub sidy allowances. Too, the House passed a reve nue bill which to Mr. Morgenthau's mind was .but a piddling little thing of a couple of billion dollars when he had asked for five times that amount. This, too, has been placed at the Sen ate's doorstep. No one of these measures can break down the price control system in itself, but collectively, with the possibilities of what may follow, they are sure to lead to inflation- The House was playing politics. The Adminis tration was playing politics. It now remains to be seen whether the Senate is a body of men who can raise themselves above partisan mat'ers arid give level, just and sincere thought to the future of (ur domestic economy by solving this dilcm na which h;,s been muddling the waters of the home-front here for manv weeks. Cigarettes and Taxes After the last war the tobacco companies started locking for a wider market for their pro ducts. Old "cutting weed" and snufi were sup posed to be passing as parlous entertainments. Through research and the broadening attit.we developing to.vard the women folk, the cigar ette manufacturers discovered the feminine gen der as the f, it row nnike for their prouue's. High pros: i re i ! . r:i.:iig did the trick, nd soon wonio- w or hC ully smoking the thirgs in public. Nia.. ' i' s you're considered an old fogy if you CiS,.,pi ii, e of the fairer sex sucking on a butt. The men r-irl the women, thats rll of the gen ders. Whi , e the next ne w market f n the to bacco c im lies is coming from is a problem for the adve .is.v.jj agencies- Too, aft r the la: t war the Treasury Depart ment solicit i ut new sources of revenue to help pay the tron cn-rmoLs SM.OOO.OM.OOO war debt. The income '.ax, gingorly used previously to that time, was th? answer, with the corporations bearing a vast majority of the load. In this v r the corporations were found un able to rr. 'et the tax revenue demands. The Treasury Department has now turned t ) the Common people, tne voters, as an added -i:rce of moni'v for the 10-times-greater war f'vnce burden. As a war measure, the pc.ple r.ie re Spord:ng quite jooci humourly to the d'""."idi; of the Internal Revenue Department for or ;0 or 50 percent of their earnings. It helps with the war, and as an added condition thought up by the tax gathers, it helps keep down inflation ary prices. ' , But, when the war is over and earnings begin to get back normal levels, where's the Treasury to find another gender to help share the great tax burden Like the tobacco companies, with the corpor ations and the voters paying all the pressure will stand, where will the Treasury turn for new re venue sources. No advertising agency can solve this problem It's small wonder that Mr. Morgen thau is trying to get that extra 10 billions now, instead of after the war. O From A Farmer From Granville, New York, Ernest C. Stro beck. Secretary of the Dairymen's League Co operative Association, says that the League pre dicted a butter shortage two years ago but that official Washington ignored the warning. "The small butter making farmers are penal ized by a roll back of prices which the house wives are told is to save them money, although the rollback of five cents a pound means an av erage saving of only sixty cents per year per person- Despite Washington talk of subsidy pay ments to make up to the farmer what he loses on the rollback, the small farmer making less than 1,000 pounds of butter monthly gets no subsidy. The result is less butter for consumers." Mr. Strobeck says all the farmers want is pro duction cost prices, and that subsidies merely squander public money and "perpetuate the policy of scarcity." OPINIONS and SENTIMENTS From Other Editors Churches and Peace (Charlotte Observer) Out of the very nature of the case, American religious groups would be interested in a pat tern of future peace that is based upon moral laws. For that matter.how tenable or permanent can be any agreements among nations of the world to live together in a spirit of social, politi cal and economic companionship and co-operation unless such determinations are morally founded and governed? It is a primal business of the Church to con cern itself with peace on this basis- As an organization it exists to promote the principles of religion among men and among all of the affairs of the human race, individually and internationally. For that reason, it is significant that Protes tant, Catholic and Jewish leaders, 149 of them altogether, have agreed upon and formulated a Declaration on World Peace, presenting seven key principles which they rightfully consider basic to the building of a just and stable inter national life. This is the first time these great American re ligious groups have undertaken to speak in con cert and with such representative and authorita tive voice on any current question confronting human society. It is significant, therefore, as marking an epoch in religious co-operation for the achievement of common goals. As to the seven steps which these eminent churchmen propose, they may be considered to be only abstract and general in their terminolo gy, but they are only intended, and wisely so, to pose the larger moral principles upon which all contracts for peaceful relationships between the nations may be established. The churches of America have thus spoken in timely and emphatic fashion in this matter They should be joined by religious groups the world over in demanding of those who fashion the new terms of peace that they belay the groundwork of the structure upon the bedrock ot morality. Recognition At Last Industrial News Review War has one virtue. It rewakens a people's sense of values. For example, in peacetime even one takes the local newspaper much for granted- Its value to the communitv, is almost wholly lost sight. In ordinary times the editor is painfully re minded of the arbitrary value placed on his ser vices. Advertising is hard to obtain. When it is obtained it is strictly on a basis of getting so manv su.-.tomers for so-and-so's gadget. Any ad vertising manager who bought space in news papers with the partial objective of encouraging a iVee press and free enterprise would, a few years ago. have been looked upon as light-heat: ed by his colleagues. But today circumstances have changed- The n.r.ion is at war. It is war to restorereedom to other tuitions and to perpetuate it in this coun try. Our people hae had abundant opportunity to contemplate the horror of nations where free dom is ''lh). Our business men. all of us. have observed that in those natiors disappearance of personal hbcrtv v as accompanied by the disappearance of the virulent free thinking and free speaking editor. After the dis sppearance of. the editor camn the lr.n hand of dictatorship. It is not surpri . ing that we begin to look upon the editor and the free press he riprce-its as something to be preserved at all costs i:i this country- . Industry realizes at last that without our free press there could be no free enterprise. In dustry realizes now that if it w; nts to do busi ness at the same old stand af'.cr tl.t wa.- it will have to first help preserve a sysM of ;io em inent that will let private enterprise live. War has reawakened industry to the value ' ''- editor. Its representatives have discove-. the American press renders a service far '. selling a few yards of Blank Compar v'f c -cloth. They are finding out that lv.tr. 1; . vii . -the keeping alive of freedom- -c.. . measured in dollars and cents, or Loui;..L , inch. News Behind-!. By Paul Mallon Jp- Rtleaicd by Writern Newipaptr Union. PEOPLE 'CHANGING OVER" FROM ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON I asked a Ken tucky friend of mine who is the best possible authority on the people if not the politics of the state, for an explanation of the astonishing suc cess of a Republican gubernatorial candidate in that utmost stronghold of the administration since the be ginning of the New Deal, the state which has two Democratic senators, one the administration leader in the senate. He replied: "The people are changing over. Jim Farley had it about right in his comment on the defeat of his Demo cratic candidate in New York when he said the people were tired and dissatisfied with what they have been getting." The country, too, Is changing over. The local results everywhere cannot be satisfactorily explained Id any other way. The successful Kentucky Republi can, Simeon S. Willis, is what is known in politics as "a good man." He is the elderly Kentucky gentle man type, a former judge, honest, friendly. In the past, the far distant past, when the Republicans wanted to win that border state, they had to put in plenty of money. Willis had no money, at least not of that size. The big money people did not shell out for him, probably were not asked to. ADMINISTRATION WORRIED The administration rushed every one of its national powers from Kentucky into the threatened final breach. Senate Leader Barkley and the recently cantankerous Happy Chandler, spent the last three weeks before election on the formerly dark and bloody ground. Some Kentuck ians think this was a mistake, too. Mr. Roosevelt once spoke in Ken tucky against Chandler in the early New Dealing days when Happy was trying to crash the gate of big league politics and establish the gu bernatorial machine he has enjoyed up until last Tuesday. The Demo cratic candidate was a Chandler man, J. Lyter Donaldson. Chandler is one of the senators who returned from a world tour re cently, with advice for changes in administration world policy which were sharply and publicly rejected by the White House. When he and Barkley rushed back to Kentucky to get into bed together with Donaldson and call for uphold ing the President, apparently they did nut appear to a majority of the voters to be very harmonious bed fellows, but rather just tentatively congenial. Donaldson has been de scribed ns an ordinary gubernatorial candidate. In view of this background, the explanation of Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker, that the scattered elections' results did not involve national issues and had no national significance, was somewhat tacking, if not sad. The Republicans have won before, recently in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, but not by these lat est majorities. The results indis putably signify thnt the Republican trend, started in the losing Wiliicie race and two years later turned into nearly a Republican capture of the house, has now expanded even wid er, continuing in the same direction. What was discernible elsewhere can now be said to he true even of Kentucky. The farm vote seems gene, labor split, and radicals (New York city, Detroit) hive lost their vote-pullinw power. That leaves lit tle to work on. Whether the President's personal ity and unrivaled insenuity con changf this, I do net know. I al ways thought war victory would re store whatever prestige Mr. Roose velt lost, but this now h;is gone pret ty far. NO FOIR7H TERM I would say the scattered local election results have an unexpect ed and the deepest possible signif icance. They suggest to my mind for the first time that Mr. Roosevelt may not run for a fourth term. There is no better politician than Mr. Roosevelt. The reason he ran for the third term was because he thought ho could win without as muc1! ooposition as he pot. I doubt that he would choose to blotch his record or make a useless martyr of himself in a lo'ing chance, but might prefer, perhips. to hesd "an international organizr.'ion" dc scribed i:i the Moscow agreements as a hope and expectation cf the Big Four notions. That seems to be the real possi bility now. 3- . WHAT STAIIN .MEANT Stalin's victory speech gave peo ple here a better understanding of tee Hull - Stalin - Eden declarations than thi generalized text of those documents. He implemented them, clearly. Cilrrly, confidently. T mpnd ng victory, he sai l , lee' f' -ed Russia, and he forecast f b l for conquered and cccupie.l i i : cf Europe under gjvern r . , .o be chosen by their own ; v.iich would be his concep u.n of democracy. "COULD THAT MEAN US?' ''rlrOf THE POPiB stl&fe0" " mat. POOLE'S MEDLEY By D. SCOTT POOLE The President insists upon payment of farm subsidies. When this js ad ded to the price, (parity payments) it does not elfect the prices, and instead of paying higher prices f. r what they buy they pay taxes. pass some ' class" legislation, and then they wanted the South back in the Union. The then National Bunking Law, the excepti n clause on the back of pa npr niii-mm-v. an.1 making the Nation al Banks banks or issue, was plenty to enrich all the North, and that before the actual fighting started. Alexander Hamilton gets credit for collecting taxes from people who swore they would not pay it. But they did for the big bounties promised paid by the Provencial Congress for aid to defeat the British. The coal miners are said to be ig norant fellows, and foreigners, many of them. It appears they rather strike than work. It matters li'tle how much they get, they strike. The rail road employees are intellisenf Ameri cans, and they seem inclined to strike also. It seems to be a fad to strike. Alexander Stephens, vice President of the Southern Confederacy, was cne of the ablest men, and greatest ora tors this country has produced. And, he was a great historian. The South has produced thecountry's greatest Charles G. Rose, one of our state's greatest lawyers, stated in an article in The Fayetteville Observer, recent ly that Benjamin, a Jew member of Jefferson Davis' cabinet when Lee surrendered, escaped, and managed to get to England, where he became the nation's most distinguished and able lawyer: I read a book entitled; Statesmen of The Lost Cause, not long ago I read only a small part of it. The wri ter tried to make the impression that no Southern man was a statesman. Southern Senators and Representa tives controlled Congress. I remember hearing men discussing the mistake the South made before I was old enough to know what they meant, but I know they were regrett ing they djd not fight under "The Stars and Stripes." The North want ed the South out until they could The Germans may "call for the calf rope" any time now, and they may go on in this useless fight fur months, but many of their civilians will freeze for most of them arc out coors. Their houses have been blown up and down All signs indicate a cold winter, and in Russia and in other parts . f Europe the weather is already cold, and the folks poorly clad, and fed. They are most pitiful. Women and children especially are going to die in thou sands this winter. During the Civil War there was a great deal of cold wee.lher. I remem ber something about it, and I heard ol der people speak of it. There was plenty of both wo-d and lightwood for the hauling, but there is no lightwood at all, and not much wood not good wood like we used to have. I think often of the little town, a collection of small framed structures, and one one-story brick building which housed the Bank of Raeford, and of the people who were here then, who are not here now. Changes, many. J. C. McLean and Neill McGill were (Continued en page eight) OUR DEMOCRACY- by Hat Hi HI3 BROW IS WET WITH HONEST SWEAT, H BARNS WHATe'ER HE CAN, AND HE LOOKS THE WHOLE WORLD IN THE FACE U,lml FOR HE OWES NOT ANY MAN. mdmi M fells1'' llfeslSI mm Honesty; industry and thrift are rugged american virtues - essential in the building of the country that americans are proud to be upholding today... determined to work, toe.arn what we can to spend onlv for what we need, to buy more and more war bonds, to build up our life insurance and savings accounts av0 to 'LOOK THE WHOLC WORLD IN THE FACE.'
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