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The Rocky Mount Herald
Published Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Caro
lina, by the Rocky Mount Herald Publishing Company
I® J.'GREEN News Editor and Manager
M. BULLUC'K Assistant Editor
Batered as second-class matter January 19, 1934, at
the post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina
under the Act of March 3, 1879
fcbscription Rates: One Year, $1.00; 6 Months, 60j
Publication Office: Second Floor Daniels Building,
Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
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ROBESON COUNTY CITIZEN UNION
Smithfield Herald
_ Interesting in the light of what has trans
pired in political circles in Johnston county
in the past two weeks, is a movement in
Robeson County, the sole purpose of
which is to fight all forms of political cor
ruption.
The author of the movement, W. K. Be
thune, who set it up at his own expense
explains the aim of the organization in the
current issue of the "Robesonian," publish
ed at Lumberton, Styled "Robeson County
Citizen Union," the organization has more
than a thousand members which have been
drawn into it by special invitation. An ex
cerpt from the by-laws expresses the es
sence of its purpose as follows:
"Each member of the organization pledg
es his or her influence and energies to be
used against any citizen of the community
who works for money at the polls on pri
mary day or in general election . . . Any
member that accepts money for the sup
port of any candidate shall be expelled
from the Union. . . . No county office-hol
der or candidate for any office in the gift
of the county shall be eligible for member
shp in the organization. . . . Any member
that offers a voter money for his vote shall
be expelled from the Union."
The organization, according to Mr. Be
thune, has accomplished more in the five
months since it was formed than it hoped
to do in two years.
The very existence of such an organiza
tion is proof that in other counties in the
state besides Johnston there is a political
condition that is deplored by citizens of
character. Robeson citizens have chosen a
political union as a medium of improving
elections and government. Johnston citizens
have merely chosen a more direct method
to attain the same end.
THE ENEMY NEVER SLEEPS
Recently we saw an account of the death
of a two year old child with typhoid fever.
This is one disease that man has well nigh
conquered. For many years now the deaths
from typhoid have dwindled, but like any
other scourge of the human race this enemy
never sleeps, and if the people allow them
selves to be lulled by a sense of security nto
forgetting the precaution of regular vacci
natons we may expect to see the death rate
mount. Here again eternal vigilance is the
price of safety. The enemy never sleeps.
"JUST THROW UP YOUR HAND"
The Gold Leaf Farmer, Wendell.
Have just read what was to us a most
interesting news-letter. The writer invites
all of us to come down on what he calls
their street. He says," If you don't care to
stop, just throw up your hand—"
Somehow that idea took possession of us.
I wonder how many of us do that as we
dash across the country from place to place.
What a real gesture of friendliness and com
radeship is this simple matter of throwing
up your hand as you pass. We think we
will throw up our hands more from now on,
and we recommend this to all our readers.
At heai*t we are all friendly, so let's let our
friends know it.
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DEVICE FOR DISTORTION
The News and Observer
A news report of prmary election irre
gularities stated: "The most flagrant irre
gularities disclosed by the probe were ille
gally certified absentee ballots." The need
for the abolition or reform of the absentee
ballot in North Carolina is well known. It
has been well known for a long time. But
nothing effective has been done about it.
And as it continues as a device for the dis
tortion of the will of the people it some
times appears that not only are there in~
Nisrth Carolina some who are willing to use
the absentee balot to corrupt elections but
that there are also men, more prominent
and more powerful and presumably more in
telligently interested in the welfare of the
State, who are unwilling to remove a device
which too often has been the tool of crooks.
There is little basis for hope that petty pol
iticians will not use the opportunity for cor
ruption which has been disclosed in the use
of absentee ballots in recent years in North
Carolina if big politicians will not act to re
move the danger which they know very
well exists and from which it sometimes
appears they are wiling to profit.
Crookedness in elections takes place gen
erally at the hands of little crooks in back
rooms, but it generally takes place as a part
of a system presided over by supposedly
big men in legislative halls and government
buildings.
ELECTION LAW CHANGES NEEDED
Scotland Neck Commonwealth
Looking back on the primary, and after!
reading reports from all sections of the
state, we are. of the belief that an honest
expression of the will of the people is mpos
sible under the present election laws.
Why should men and women of education
need or desire for others to enter the vot
ing booths with them to mark their ballots ?
There is no excuse whatsoever for this. If
a man or woman cannot read or write suf
ficiently to mark a ballot then the presump
tion certainly should be that that man or
woman has no right voting—for in order to
vote it is necessary to have a fair degree of
familiarity wth reading and writing, and al
so with interpretation of the Constitution.
The whole procedure smacks of bought
votes or votes cast under pressure for this
or that candidate—and in either case no
honest expression of the will of the people
is possible.
In Guilford county for several years, the
former county chairman of elections, George
C. Hampton, had in effect a ruling which
required a man or woman desiring a mark
er in the booth to state to the judge of elec
tions whether or not he or she were able
to read and write. If the voter could read
and write, he was not allowed to have a
marker, it being absolutely clear that the
voter was able to mark the ticket without
assistance. This rule would, if adopted as a
statewide measure purify our elections to a
certain extent. But, to the everlasting
shame of the General Assembly, when an
attempt was made to incorporate this and
other reforms into the law, the measure
was allowed to die in committee—although
every honest-minded man and woman must
admit that under our present system there
is no such thing as free and untrammeled
choice of public officials by the people.
We once heard an old farmer say that if
a man uses his head and works every day
he can work he can make a fairly good crop
every year. It seems now that this is going
to be a poor crop year but those who work
hardest and use the most intelligence will
make the best crops—as usual.
Of course there is such a thing as pure
blind luck, but a very large percentage of
the good things that are attributed to good
luck are the result of some sound thinking
and much intensive effort.
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PUBLIC OPINION
ELECTION FRAUDS
To the Editor: In the light of
what has been disclosed in connec
tion with alleged election frauds in
Guilford and Johnston Counties, it
is perfectly clear to everybody that
some teeth with a genuine bite in
them should be put into our elect
tiou InNvs. If a few of the election
thieves were to be sent to the State
Penitentiary for terms of from 10
to 20 years at hard labor, I am sure
the boys would think twice before
they would attempt to steal an elec
tion.
iThe affair in Johnston County was
particularly reprehensible, because,
had an investigation not been insti
tuted immediately and the swindle
discovered, the candidate elected by
the citizens of that county would
have been defrauded of his seat in
the State Senate. The investigation
should go right on, and every per
son, who had a hand in this very ap
parent election steal should be indic
ted, and, on conviction, to pri
son, and not given any kind of sus
pended sentence.
There has been too much smoke in
regard to election frauds in North
i Carolina during the past decade for
there not to have been some fire.
There are thousands of good Demo
crats in the State today who still
doubt that the last gubernatorial
race was on the up and up. Just
because we are Democrats is no rea
son why wo can't discuss these
things right out in the open.
The wicked absentee ballot vot
ing law, a very fine tool for thiev
ing politicians, should be repealed
as soon as the Legislature convenes.
Absentee votes figure in every inves
tigation of election frauds. The law
was enacted when thousands of
North Carolina citizens were in
training camps, or overseas during,
the World War, and there is no
longer need for such a law. Nobody
our politicians perhaps do not know
now wants the law except the mani
pulators of elections. While some of
that the war is over, that should be
no reason why we should have a
law that can bo used to advantage
by election thieves.
ROBIN O. KINO
Raleigh.
BETTER GRADING FOR COTTON'
A modern, $20,000 cotton-classing
building will be erected by the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture
immediately "to give the state bet
ter grading services which will in
evitably result in better prices for
cotton," Commissioner of Agricul
ture W. Kerr Scott announces.
| The cotton-classing building, to be
located in Raleigh, will be a part of
the State Warehouse System of the
Department of Agriculture.
During the past year, the ware
house division has classed approx
imately 75,000 bales of cotton with
out cost to the farmer and plans
are now under way to increase the
marketing services rendered the cot
ton farmer.
Effect of war on Japan's exports
marked but not serious yet; imports
dangerously low.
George Wallis, farm superintend
ent of the Biltmore Dairy Farms in
Buncombe county, has planted 70
acres of Sudan grass at the rate of
30 pounds of seed an acre to pro
vide summer grazing.
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