PAGE TWO 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 I j n* Planters National Bank j 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 Biggest Value In Town! PULLMAN 10c (fjJUH PAN LOAF »-«• 5s ROLLS dozen 5c SUNNYFIELD CRISPY Cornflakes 3»» 19c IONA PORK AND BEANS 4J* 17c FINEST GRANULATED BULK SUGAR 4"» 19c 10-Pound BAG 48c lOO-Pound BAG $4.75 ANN PAGE SALAD DRESSING Qt. J.r 29c IONA FLOUR 24-lb. Bag 85c POPULAR BRANDS CIGARETTES 2 25 WHOLE MILK CHEESE p«> 21c NTBCTAR ORANGE PEKOE TEA %■*. Package 15c PALMOLIVE SOAP 4 Bars 25c OCTAGON SOAP OR POWDER 2 Packages 5C IONA BARTLETT PEARS Large Can 19c N. B. C. RITZ 1-Pound Package 22c PRODUCE BANANAS, Golden Yellow, pound 5c CANTALOUPES, Nice Size, each 5c LETTUCE, Large Head, each 8 l-3r TOMATOES, Fancy Ripe, pound 5f BEANS, Fresh Tender, pound V'/jf 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 ■t. »- -«- J- ■«■ A- ■». -t. 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