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The Rocky Mount Herald
Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Caro-
Ku, by The Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company
TKD J. GREEN Newt Editor and Manager
1L PACKARD Assistant Editor
■ktered as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at
the poßt office at Rocky Meunt, North Carolina,
nnder the Act of March 3, 1879
?vblioation Office: Second Floor Daaiels Building,
Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Mxeription Rates: One Year, $1.00; 6 Months, 3ofl
Advertising rates reasonable, and furnished to pros
pective advertisers on reQuest
BOOTLEGGING AND ABC STORES—
The Smithfield Herald
Edgecombe County, with ABC stores now
for two years, has finally got around to
cracking down on the bootleggers, or else
other attempts have failed to exterminate
them. Fifty-six warrants were served Sun
day on persons accused of violation of the
State liquor laws in and around Tarboro.
How many more in other parts of Edge
combe left undistributed is not known. Offi
cers making the 56 arrests included special
"ABC officers working under cover.
Either the Edgecombe officers have not
tried to get the bootleggers, or they have
failed miserably in their attempts. One of
the stock arguments in the recent liquor
election held in Johnston and which went in
favor of liquor stores, was that ABC
stores would put the bootleggers out
of business. Obviously the ABC stores in
Edgecombe have not hurt bootlegging or
blind tigering, if after two years 56 per
sons are found engaged in illicit traffic.
The Johnston County ABC board is cer
tainly not waiting two years to crack down
on offenders of the law, but it remains to
be seen how effective the recent raids will
be in actually dooming illegal liquor. The
fight will not be won with a single clearing
out of violators; it will take eternal vigi
lance. It will also take all officers of tlje
law—city, county, state and even federal
—working together to enforce successfully
the laws having to do with liquor.
MAKING TENANT FARMERS
The Enterprise
Congress is giving much consideration to
the farm tenancy problem these days, but
its efforts to make farm owners out of
tenants will prove fruitless unless stronger
efforts are made to stop making tenants
out of farm owners.
It is estimated that 200,000 farmers will
iose their farms and homes this year by
foreclosure, and that number will be mater
ially increased if tobacco and cotton prices
follow the route of the recently marketed
Irish potato crop. Congress will have to ad
vance a stupendous transformation program
if this loss is offset and if any added gain
is to follow in solving a problem that is
threatening the economic life of the agri
cultural sections of the country.
The radical variation in farm prices with
in the short span of a few months has re
duced more farm owners to near serfdom
than any other one thing. The savings of
& lifetime have been wiped out and count
less farms have been placed on the block,
the owners finding it impossible, after years
of toil, to continue making annual payments.
The government within the past three
or four years materially reduced the num
ber of foreclusures by ordering moratoriums
ROCKY MOUNT
THE TRADING AND SHOPPING 1
CENTER OF EASTERN !
j CAROLINA !
Rocky Mount is centrally located in Eastern Carolina £
with hard surfaced roads leading to it from every di- f
rection > jj
A representative group of Merchants offer a variety t
of merchandise to meet the needs of every customer I
and at prices for which you are assured value received *
j; You are cordially invited to trade and shop in Rocky +
Mount, where you will always find a Hearty Welcome J
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And Trust Company I
MEMBERS: Federal Reserve System, f
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation I
and providing lower interest rates. Result
ing relief is only temporary. Solution of the
problem rests with stability of production,
as far as weather and other conditions per
mit and with stability of prices to a cer
tain extent.
For a number of years, land banks have
started the farmers on their way as land
owners. Interest rates and pricipal pay
ments proved no serious problem as long
as the farmer received a fair return on his
investment and a living wage. Saddled by
a debt with a life of 20 years, the farmer
accepted the obligations, his determination
and'willingness effecting something with* a
degree of certainty for future security. The
first year passes and the installments are
paid, leaving the farmer probably enough
to feed himself and cover his hide. Plant
ing season comes again, and the task of
satisfying the mortgage is started, the far
mer still entertaining hope that bye and
bye the little farm will be his and there will
be no heavy interest payments to sap his
life's blood. The third year, the fourth, and
possible the fifth year pass into history, the
farmer never faltering in his efforts to
handle the man-sized job.
There are sixth and seventh years, when
production exceeds demand, and prices drop.
Production costs are not met with the in
come from the crops. Personal property is
seized, and the first blow that is certain to
prove fatal is struck. Taxes accumulate, and
the farmer turns to time buying, creating
a certain gamble for himself as well as the
credit man. Ordinarily heavy plantings
following in due course, production sur
pluses pile and prices go lower. And in an
other year the wheels of the foreclosure
machine start turning. The farmer is sold
out with no credit to his account for the
payments he has made, for the foreclo
sure sale is centered around an amount
that will satisfy the mortgage holder.
Sometimes there is a little left over, and
then a smart public criticizes the farmer for
not starting the same grind all over again.
No one is assured a market stability,
but industry can alter its plans, cut produc
tion overnight. The farmer finds no ad
vantage in closing an acre of land or in un
hitching and stabling a mule, for the taxes
continue and the animal must be fed. It
has been customary for the farmer to in
crease his production on the theory that if
one bale of 6-cent cotton will not pay the
taxes, two bales of 6-cent cotton will. Hen-1
ry Ford and General Motors never added to
their profits by making two cars when on
ly one was needed. But it is a violation of
the farmer's freedom for the government to
come to his aid with a program that will
stabilize production and prices and eliminate
pitfalls that few now escape.
The little man continues to be lieve that
President Roosevelt and the late Senator
Robinson knew these conditions and were
bent on having them corrected, even if the
reform required reorganization of the Su
preme Court. It is a certain fact that the
rapid trend to serfdom for thousands of
farmers will never be checked until a pro
duction schedule is formulated, and that
production schedule need not be so entirely
different in principle from that employed by
industry . But, with a peculiar sense of free
dom, some leaders apparently block any and
all efforts to bring hope and opportunity to
the down-trodden.
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA
PUBLIC OPINION
LIQUOR AND LOVE
To the Edi.or:
Many arguments have been given
against liquor stores in the counties
which have called for a vote of
the people. I strongly endorse all
of these arguments; bnt I oppose
the establishment of liquor stores
in Granville county on the basis of
iove.
I am opposed to liquor stores be
cause of my love for God. The
statement has been made frequent
ly that many church members have
cast their ballots for the liquor
store. I profess to be a Christian
and I am a member of a Christian
church. Because of my love for
Christ I could not vote for the es
tablishment of a liquor store. Chris;
died on the cross because of his
love for men. It was for sinful man
that be died. Liquor is the cause of
many kinds of sin. Since Christ,
through his love for mankind, died
to save the sinner for his sin, it is
inconsistent for me to say that I
love Christ and then cast my ballot
for liquor that is the cause of so
much sin. I sincerely believe thai
if any person will bow upon his
knees and tell God that he loves
Him, he will not arise and go to
the ballot box and cast his vote for
the establishment of a liquor store.
We are commanded'to love God with
all our heart, all our soul, all
our mind, and all our strength. If
we make the love of God supreme
in our hears, I can not be convinc
ed that one can vote for a liquor
store.
I am opposed to liquor stores in
Granville county because of my love
for my fellowman, who is my neigh
bor. We are commanded to love our
neighbor as ourself. It would be hy
pocrisy for me to say that I love
my neighbor, and then cast my bal
lot for a liquor store, which would
make it easier for my neighbor to
sin. Liquor stores appeal to the
eye. It is more tempting for one
who has a taste for liquor to want
it when one passes a store and
sees the bottles displayed in the
show window than it is when one
does not see it. As a Christian it
is my duty to make it! harder for
my neighbor to sin; but if I vote
for liquor stores, it will make it
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easier to love my neighbor. Because
I love him, I do not want to see
him commit sin. The proof of
Christianity is our love for one an
other. Jesus says: 'By this shall
all men- know that ye are my dis
ciples if ye have love one for an
other.' I want the world to know
that I am a disciple of Jesus by my
love for my neighbor, and I can
not prove that I love him, if I do
anything that will make it easier for |
him to sin.
I love little children and the youth
of our county too well to cast my
ballot for a liquor store. Wher
ever liquor stores are established,
there will be some of the young
people who will enter those stores
to buy intoxicating drinks. &>me- '
body has said that each generation
|is God's fresh attempt to make a
better world out of a generation
that has formed the habit of strong
drink. Liquor stores will make it
easier for young people to form this
habit. It is unthinkable for me to
take a little child into my arms and
say to it on August the third: 'I
am going to vote for liquor stores
in Granville county today. You will
be tenfpted to drink it when you
grow older. So I want to make it
easier for you to get it.'
If the voters of Granville county
will make the love of God supreme
in their lives and love their neigh
bors as themselves, the vote on Aug
ust the 3rd will be overwhelmingly
against the establishment of liquor
stores.
—M. L. Banister
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