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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1926.
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"The Polk County News
Published Weekly by The News Publishini Company
LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor
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Kntered at the postoffice at Tryon, N. C, as second class mail matter under
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THE TASK TO > THE STRONG.
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1 ~ * ion: the strong can re
1 TIC Wt3ciK fail nut \uliioiu?m w...,
sist. . .T^ij
There is a fragment of society--a minority, but powerful?j
that enlists or i urloiim the suj j ort of the stcong to prey upon j
and exploit the weak.
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Except for tern; orary remedial measures, in the span of
generations the weak will remain so. It is therefore incumbent
upon the strong of the world?men and women of courage and
character, of intellect and ability?to act, in a sense, as their
? brothers' keeper. For if we are to maintain civilization, the
work must be shielded against subtle artifices from without ann
from temptations from within. For these reasons we have schools
and colleges, churches and parents, prisons and policemen.
But the methods adopted and the measures applied count;
most for or against universal benefits. Rid human temperament.
from fancied impositions and the world's problems are half solved. ,
Charity and sympathy are not resented-by the unsupplied, nor
are education and law unwanted by the less fortunate; but the
theory of providing necessities to the body, to the intellect and
to the sentiment does not always work in practice.
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Tell a man you are teaching him lessons in patriotism, and
he will be for running you out of town. But teach him the national
anthem by singing it with him by allowing your fellowship
to correspond with his, and he will rejoice in his new-found companion.
The difference is one of ATTITUDE. The attitude of the
strong is their test of strength; and its wholesome reaction upon
the weak is proof of its merit. The task for the strong is to maintain
the proper attitude and, to supply the needs of humanity by
good works.
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THOSE HOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN.
The Government has proposed to appoint 10.000 men from
the ranks of local communities to assist in Prohibition enforcement
at a nominal salary of $1 per year. The one dollar hasn't
anything to do with the matter except to make it legal. For
that matter, it might be one cent. The point is to secure enforcement
by local interest and influence. But every citizen should
be in principle a "dollar-a-year" |nan to see that all laws are enforced.
He shouldn't wait for an appointment. Not to take the
law into his own hands and thereby break it himself, but to so
conduct himself that the reputation and honor of his government
shall not be injured. The only reason for the enforcement of any
law is that some fellow has sidej-stepped his obligation as a citizen.
If no one sidt -steps, cortainfly none will have to be punished.
The proposition a. first view appears to be too simple to need
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comment. Yet because trie tneony 01 universal sen-iecwluuc uvea
not always work, this country has to spend several million dollars
annually in payment of its crime bill.
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LOST BUSINESS.
When one 1' ses his watch, pocketbook or other valuable one
of his first thoughts is to ad\ertise. He wants the community
to know that he wants something, and that something is his lost
possession.
Is it any less needful to advertise for lost business?business
that is lost because the other fellow has been alert enough to advertise
and find it? Business aljways is potentially lost from the
business man or firm that does not continually put into active
use the tested methods of establishing patronage. One of these
methods is advertising';- another is courtesy, another service, another
honest values and quality goods. Successful business houses
let the world know of their products through advertising. \
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RADIO AND MUSIC REVIVAL.
Tin? ontur l+h? homes, it was Dredicted that
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musical education would suffer and that the sales of sheet music
would decrease; that even the musically inclined would lag In
further effort because the performing was all done for them at
the mere tuning in of the mystic box called radio. The situation,
however, does not appear comparable to that which came
about when the motion pictures crowded out the actors from
the vaudeville and legitimate stage. The more good music one
hears, the more demand there lis for good music. Not all people
want to be radio performers, but the radio as an institution
has merited an appreciation of music on the part of thousands
of people who were deprived of daily audible contact before the
advent of aerial transmission. |
Listening to music is itself a justifiable end. But to stimulate
the learning to play or sing?either professionally or as
an art or accomplishment?is of added value in the lives of the
people.
PHILADELPHIA AliAlIN.
Now comes big posters announcing the Sesqui-centennial ai
Philadelphia from June 1 to the end of the year. First we
looked up "sesqui"?and verified our guess that it meant "a half
more." Then to prove it, we subtracted 150 from 1926, and
there we have it?1776!
It is a fine tribute to our nation for Philadelphia to hold
this mammoth celebration and exhibition. It is still finer for
Pennsylvania to get behind it$ great metropolis and boost for the
Sesqui-centennial. Practically1 [every state in the Union will send
exhibits. Probably millions of people will pass in and out of the
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.*-ist as in i veiv t:\vn or sttiall <
dea lie nn.st jjo e st where to make ;
'tiy decree. Distant fields always loo
"man who has hut to dis heniath his f
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real estate hnom. nine tenths are (i nn
vice tliat can be piv<n to the avi rape
lust and apply himself at home. M >!
yards, figuratively speaking, and it t i
:nce to locate them.
If any Tryon readers arc fishinu I
of them are. they might find a sugg :
where they are.
great concourses of pleasure, <>r
all it typifies Twentieth Center
means that the spirit of 7l> is st
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{ Those who want to take tin
'.he life out of those who kick ah
life out of those who don't war
kick out of life to kick.
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If we don't look after one i
to look at one another after we I
after awhile.
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The only trouble with thesi
that along about 11 o'clock the p
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Before a candidate is elected
he is elected he does clean up.
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Wp like that woman who s;
being a mother.
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There's a speaker of the Hoi
in every home.
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The older a fellow gets, the
to kid the girls.
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Instead of the bacon many i
goose.
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When you're in Rome do tl
People s Column j
Roads at Holbert Cove.
Copy of a h-ttetf written to the
['oik County Commimoners:
Mr. Morris, Chairpfii or Itoads, Polk :
County, N. C.,
Tryon, N. C.
Dear Sir:
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I have just returned from Holbert ,
Cove where I went to take the third
weekly pay roll of $200 each, von
roads I am building in that eommu- J
nity.
As I stated in my former letter to !
you, the public is now on my private
road, on account of the had conditionp
of the public road and the dangerous I
bridge over Cove Creek.
The people in that community tell
me that their roads have not been
worked in two years. I did not ask
for this information. They asked me
if the County was going to do anything
on account of what we are doing,
to which I told them I did not
know.
On account of tourists visiting our
property when the improvements are
completed, the road leading into Holbert
Cove should be worked, made
broader, and some passing places
made; otherwise, accidents will follow.
To that end we have extended
an invitation to the residents living
in that community to meet us at the
bridge over Cove Creek Monday morning,
June 14th, with axes, mattocks,
shovels and other tools necessary Tor
road work, preparing the right or way
so that ploughs and road machines
may follow.
We would be glad for you to come
over and join us in this much needed
project. It will give you an opportunity
to show your fellow citizens
and taxpayers living in that eommunity
that you have not deserted them,
a8 they say, but willing to serve them
as readily as any other community,
which, I am sure, you are.
Yours very truly,
Q. W. JUSTICE.
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THE POLk :OUNTY NEWS
:nds chahw
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it v. many a man in Trvon pets the I
i. fortune or to become successful in
k richer, deceivingly so, even to the 1
eet to nue.ulth untold treasures.
very new |go'd or oil discovery or j
ml to disappuinlinenl. The best adAmeric'ii
is to cut out the wandersi
of us have oil wells in our bacK
us but a little energy and persever- j
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for opporti nitics, and no doubt must 1
stioii in our cartoon and begin right j
t, mechanics, museums, and in
y progress and prosperity. Ity
ill alive.
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1 kiek out of life want to take
out those who want to kick the
it those who want to take the
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mother now. we may not want
laven't looked after one another
2 sociable penny-ante games is
enny inflates to two-bits.
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he promises to clean up. After
lid her only, claim to fame was
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jse at Washington, and also one
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more license he thinks he has
fellow brings home his cooked
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le Romans before they do you.
North Carolina and Insurance
Rates
(Spartanburg Herald.)
.Fust what is happening in SoutU
Carolina as a result of the recent
announced advance in fire insurance
rates by the Southeastern Underwriters'
Association, is not clear, but we
may g;\th< r from a statement of North
Carolina's experience, appearing Jn
the Ash: ville Times, that the lusuranrp
npim'p sppni In linvp Insflftert
their position with the authorities of
that state.
An investigation was held, we are
told, and the underwriters submitted
figures to prove that for every $100
received by fire insurance companies
in North Carolina in the past five
years, there has be"n paid out $104.31
in losses, salaries, commissions, overhead
and taxes. It was contended
that th expenses of doing business in
North Carolina . re 4 per cent higher
than the average for the whole country,
because of ihe many small cities
in this state and tlvp scattered population.
it was also stated by the insurance
men that, while North. Carolina
premiums increased last year $1,171,656,
the losses rose to the amount
of $1,403,074, and that the fire insurance
business was therefore a quarter
of a million dollars less profitable
last year In North Carolina.
The Times says: "It is probatfle,
then, that the state will not undertake
to set aside the new rates as unjustly
discriminatory. The rates are a 10
per cent raise for mercantile property
which is neither fi re-resi^tlve nor
equipped with sprinkler systems.
There is also a 211 per cent Increase
for special hazards. The underwriters
assert that North Carolina still
will pay a lower rate on mercantile
risks than any other state In trm
Southeast."
For High Grade
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AND PRES
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Special Shirts made to order,
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The New Fiscal Policy "
(Greensboro Daily News.)
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Subject to those denials which not ,r
infrequently1 have marked the publlcation
of Utterances of the official 31
spokesman jat the White House, the e<
statement or a change in fiscal policy P
announced [Tuesday has considerable
importance. But it is not a surprise. '
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As long ag^> as his message to Congress
last y4ar, Mr. Coolidge said that
the end of the "economy" policy was 1
in sight. What he meant was that a
L t!11 hanging over from 'r
tne cxpensoo w _
the variou8[war enterprises has heen
decreased almost as much as was pos- r'
sible. In definite words he said that ^
the normal) expenses of government ^
were increasing because of the normal
enlargement of government Jtseir, ''
through the natural growth of the e
country, ij was as broad a hint as a
could be lifade that decreases in tax r
rates could! not be continued forever. f
The announcement of Tuesday follows
the same line of thought. Mr. _
Coolidge foj-esees no reduction in fed- ,
eral taxes for several years. He expects
surpluses. But instead of using
those surpluses as a margin for tne
nutting of | ix rates he favors applying
them tjo the national debt itserr
to the endj that the debt may be reduced
and I therefore the annual interest
charges may be so mucn less.
In other words, he thinks that the
time has cjome to change the policy
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of reducing taxes to a pum; .~
ducing the debt; and he will so urge
the next Congress.
That is not to say, however, that ,
Congress will act as he wishes !t to
act. For Entirely aside from the economic
aspects of the situation, the
political question is bound to attract
serious attention from politicians. N'o
one policy has been so helpful to the
Republican party as the cutting of tax
rates. It has had, as always, an im- 1
mensely popular appeal; to sucn an
exter.t, indeed, that the Democratic
party co ild do nothing but fall in line
with the iolicy and at times seek to
carry it further even than the Itepuoj
li rans wahted to carry it. Senator
I Simmons thought at one time that
the Reput Means did not wish to reI
duce taxen too much because If tney
jdid so they would remove the possibility
of I being able to reduce them
i at a later season. He used that argument
with effect during the last
fight over the revenue bill, knowing
that tax reduction is always as useful
a political weapon as any party can
have. Thfe Coolidge policy, therefore,
I whatever appeal it may have in pud|
lie financing, loses the enormous apI
peal whicli the old policy had in poll
i tics.
j So far is observable now, the conj
trolling factor in the advocated fiscal
I policy is caution in regard to the
I condition of the country. There is
1110 reason to question the administration's
con fidence in the continuation
of a fair measure of the amazing
prosperity which the country as a j
whole has enjoyed. But on the as- !
sumption fhat it is a careful business j
administration the change can be un- j
derstood. The greater part of the fed- |
eral income is from tax collections; |
and the income tax collections are ,
dependent upon the condition of the I
country. Mr. Coolidge believes "that
if businesi were to fall off and tax
collections drop or foreign trade
slump and customs receipts decline,
the treasury might face hard sledding."
He would hate a deficit as
some persons hate snakes. He has
always opposed liberal cuts in the
tax ratesl But he would have a
difficult time now convincing the
country tjhat the present prosperity
will not cjontinue indefinitely. In the
minds of those who revel in It, It always
continues?until it stops.
Slim Hope For Modifica
tion
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The fijreworks are over in this Congress
with reference to Prohibition.
Ther Senate Committee on ProhlMtion,
which lately heard impassioned
appeals (from Wets and Drys, has quietly
retjurned unfavorable reports on
the bills for a national Prohibition
referendum, for modification of the
Eighteejnth Amendment and for modification
of the Volstead Act. The
Judiciafy Committee is yet to pass
upon these recommendations, but
there sleems to be no doubt that Senator
Walsh is right In saying that the
sentiment of Congress with regard to
on t r\ roititr thn A rvn/1 -v. ? ?* ?> *
I CUlVlVlilg tuu XSk J AUlCUUlllCUl at It
I stands has undergone no serious
change
The majority report holds as to
the relreendum that the Constitution
makes no provision for such a polling
of the people's opinions on an amendment
already adopted. And Senator
Walsh has remarked as to this phase
of the controversy that, if such a
referendum were held and if It should
be adverse to the Wets, New York
and Maryland would still agitate for
modification of the amendment or the
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lforcement act- , swingim; , K
As to the proposal of Senator ration ,,f -,
ruce of Maryland mat the amend- this mil,., 1
icnt he modified f j as to restore con- per ( in '
ol of liquor legislation to the states, dis.sahsi'j, ,j
le report says: "We believe this t:on ;.n,| ,,
mendment to be moral'y right ana modifi, ;il, " Bb
jonomically wise." So also was the Win.
roposed modification of the Voisteaa biti ni p ,. H
ct dismissed with the statement that i >;( ,i;
te plain purpose in this; movemem ?j rl()l(|. 'I
i directly or indirectly to authorize i r tip. j;. A 'fl
le manufacture and sale of intojprcai- | v.'ci ,t
lg beverages, "contrary to the spirit ! of fl
nd intent of the Eighteenth Ameno1 . ,rm
What hope is left to the Wets? The (fn
3rlorn one of electing a House ana I ;
enate preponderantly opposed to J ,-v . H
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ruuiuiuwu - 'his
the Wets and some Prohibition H
its believe will come, sooner or rat-1
r. The Wets point to such evidence "icon
s a recent, poll of sentiment in 31 | H
epresentative' American colleges to j ?
>rove that American public opinion is
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Adam T. Drekolias of .New i'ork deniom-iiui...,
naval affairs committee his invention which !. . .:..i:.> v...; _ 9
ifrom sinking, no matter bow badly damaged. '1 lie invei.: .n ; * . tjfl
'chamber designed to imprison air in the hull :' u ;: .?-. ,....
if a ship were completely filled with water, he r-laiuiA the .;ev;ce? ..tfl
,its upper deck above the surface, giving the new a ;uce f. r
Mscuers arrlva Mr. Drekolias is shown on the let'; it,
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