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THE JOHNSTONIAN AND JOHNSTON COUNTY SUN CONSOLIDATED
VOLUME Ij.
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 1932.
NUMBER 18
News And Comment
From Washington
Washington, D. C., May 3,—If
there ever was a time and place
when politics ought to' be forgotten
and the effort to gain partisan ad
vantage ought to be laid aside, the
time is now and the place is the
Capitol of the United States. There
are just two big job.s before this
Congress. One is to frame a new
tax law that will distribute as
equitable as po.'^sible the burden of
the additional, dollars of revenue
which must be raised in order to
balance the national budget, and
the other is to reduce federal ex
penses to as great an extent as
can be done without adding un
necessarily to unemployment or re
stricting any useful and necessary
governmental activity. To reach
xlie-e two vital objectives is so obvi
ously essential to the public wel
fare that it would seem as if even
the rankest of politicians would rise
to the plane of statesmanship until
the task i.s finished.
But what is the present situation ?
The Democratic House of Repre
sentatives first took up the prob-
em of taxation. The Treasury De
partment had submitted to the
House a tax bill which was thor
oughly well balanced, consistent and
logical. But just about that time
Democratic leaders apparently be
gan to fear that President Hoover
and his Administration were like
ly to gain too much credit for po
litical leadership, seeing that the
only constructive measure looking
xn business recovery had come from
the White House, and so they de
termined to strike out upon an in
dependent course. The Ways and
Jleans Committee substituted a
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manufacturers’ sales tax for many I
the para,graphs in the Trea.-ury
Department measure and presented
the bill to the Hou.se in thaUfoTOJi,.
T.he Administration did not alto-
.-■t ther like the new bill but in the
'i ipe of getting prompt action it
'T.'fered no objections to it and Re-
niblican leaders in the House join
ed with the Democratic leadership
in giving it their support. But the
Democratic leaders made the tacti
cal blunder of. submitting this hi.gh-
ly controversial bill to the House
without any restrictions upon de
bate or amendment, and the result
was that they lost all control over
their membership. Party discipline
broke down utterly and the sales
feature of the tax bill was stricken
out. This left a big hole in the
measure and the House filled it
up with a shovel, tossing in one
;ax itesn after another without re
gard to ryrae or reason. This hedge
podge measure has been in the
hands of the Senate Committee for
the past three or four weeks and
it certainly is to be hoped that it
will be reduced to some sort of
orderliness by the time it reaches
the Senate.
But while the House was making
■lucks and drakes of the new tax
bill, the Senate, struggling with
the economy problem, was playing
an equally sorry role. The Presi-
■dent, weeks ago, submitted to the
Congress, through the Economy
Committee of the House, a propos
al to stagger employment in the
government service as is so gener
ally being done in industry, and re
quire annual employees to take a
thirty days’ leave without pay. This
plan would effect an annual saving
■of about $80,000,000 and rvould
involve no dismissals from the pub
lic service. Indeed it probably
would make room for some 20,000
additional part time workers by
way of substitutes. Instead of act
ing on this plan the House Com
mittee insisted on a flat 11 percent
reductions in wages, and the Senate
under Democratic urge, as fast as
appropriation bills reached it, made
a horizontal 10 percent cut in all
appropriation.s— about as slovenly
and unscientific a procedure as
could well be imagined. The Post
master General declares that in Ms
Department alone if the Senate
measure prevails, from 30,000 to
40,000 postal employes will have to
be dishcharged and the postal ser-
-ice must be drastically curtailed.
It seems increditable that man ex-
lerienced in legislation should blund
er so egregiously, and one must
cope that a better balanced mea-
mre ultimately - will prevail.
The country demands and expects
rigid economy in federal appropria-.
ilons this year. But it expects this
economy to be practical in such
a way as to produce the least un
employment and the slightest possi
ble interruption in esseiitial govern
ment services. The greate.st saving
could be made through reorganiza
tion of the government on lines of
greater efficiency. This was what
President Hoover recommended long-
ago, and he offered to be the “goat”
to take the entire responsibility of
such reorganization upon himself,
subject to veto by Congress. The
House leaders at first rejected this
suggestion with an emphatic intima
tion that they did not propose to
nake a dictator of the President.
But the House Economy Committee,
after studying over other plans, ha.s
come back to the President’s idea
and ha.s written into its omnibus
retrenchment bill a proviso that the
President shall be authorized to pro
ceed with reorganization, with pow
er to consolidate, transfer and elimi
nate overlappings within executive
departments, his action to become
law after lying before the House
for sixty days, in case it is not .soon
er acted upon by that body. If this
measure prevails in the House and
Senate, the first step ever taken
by Congress to relieve costly and
useless duplication and to strike a
blow at the bureaucracy which has
grown to such appaling proportions
will have been taken.
Fire Destroys
Residence C.
A. Jacobs
j Proceedings County
I Recorder’s Court
Sharing on about a 50-50 basi-
with the interek excited by the
struggles of Congress with taxation
and economy has been the investi
gation of the Xew York Stock Ex-
chan.ge by a Senate committee. The
inquiry was undertaken, it is well
understood upon the suggestion of
President Hoover who has long felt
that .short selling on the Exchange
inevitably depresses prices and in
that way has a deleterious effect
im the business of the countv
-■The disclosures^ that have already
been brought to life seem fully to
justify this conclusion. The way in
which the Exchan,ge can be used
to depress prices, as shown by the
testimony, is not by any ineans,
however, the most interesting fact
that has been brought out. It was
shown that at a time when German
bonds were being floated in large
quanaties in this country brokers
were employed to “peg” the price at
or near par until the flotation was
completed. Then the support, which
had been financed by the banks
floating the bonds, was withdrawn
and they immediately dropped to a
figure whicr represented in the ag
gregate huge losses on the part of
those to whom they had been sold.
It is difficult to find woi’ds strong
■nough to characterize fitly such
procedure as that. It certainly comes
close to obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Ten N. G. Boys
Are Selected
About 2:30 o’clock this af-
teiTioon, the nice 7-room cot
tage home of Mr. Chas. A.
Jacobs was almost complete
ly demolished by flames, and
only a part of the furnish
ings wei'e saved.
Mr. .Jacobs was in Smith-
field at the time, and Mrs.
Jacobs had started a fire in
the bath-room heater prepar
atory to bathing the chil
dren. She said she had not
been out of the bath room
but a very few minutes
when she discovered that fire
was burning in the roof
where the bath-room stove
flue went thiough the top
of the house.
This home is next to the
Eposcopal church, but the
hard work of the firemen
kept the flames from spread
ing to adjoining property. At
the time of going to press
we had not learned whether
or not the loss was covered
by insurance.
Rev. H. N. Massey
Guest of Kiwanis Glub
Names of the ten North Caro
lina boys selected as finalists in the
competition for the North Carolina
scholarship in Culcer Military Acad
emy have just been announced by
Dr. W. A. Brownell of Duke Uni
versity. Tlrey are: Killin R. Hayes
of Waynesville; Ralph Baum of
Kitty Hawk; Ben Herring of Green
ville; William A. Page of Hunters
ville; James P. Denver Jr. of Bre
vard; Billy Dawson of New Bern;
Harry B Horne Jr. of Rocky Mount;
Guy H. Elder Jr. of Charlotte;
Philip Rosen of Asheville; are sur
vivors in a competition in which
133 outstanding students from all
parts of the state were entered.
They have stood highest in exact
ing scintific tests and general all
round qualifications. They will meet
the committee at Duke Univer.-dty
for final examination next Saturday,
May 7th. The winner and two alter
nates will be determined by the re
cords made in that quiz, which will
include a personal interview with
the committee, a stiff physical ex
amination and some further tests
of mental capacity. ' The winner
will receive a three-year course in
the Indiana Academy with all ex
penses paid. The scholarship is valu
ed at $6,000.
Earl Hitch, secretary of the
Committee on Scholarship,
Culver, Ind.
Fifty-six Durham County farmers
sold $271.88 worth of surplus pro
duce on the curb market last Sat
urday.
Rev. Herbert Massey, pastor of
the Smithfield Baptist church, gave
a very interesting and instructive
addres.s before the local Kiwanis
club at its weekly meeting Thur.-day
night. Mr. Massey called attention
to that fact that April 28th was the
anniversary of one of the greatest
treaties in American history. This
treaty he pointed out dealt with the
boundr.v line between the United
States and Canada and defined the
nature of its defen.ses. The speaker
further pointed out that on this
great expanse of boundry not a
■single fortification exists and yet
for over a hundred years the two
countries have existed side by side
without a suggestion of conflict.
This was forcefully contrasted with
conditions that exist today through
out Europe, where small countries
are sapping their total pliysical and
material strength in the mad race
for military competition. It was his
expressed hope that they migiit
some day take a lesson fr-om the
United States and Canada as to the
proper way for nations to dwell to
gether.
During the remainder of his dis
course he very forcefully pre.s'ented
the fact that one of our great
troubles today was the desire for in
dividual advancement at the ex
pense of group betterment. He fur
ther stated that no individual be
longed to himself, but that rather
he was a part of his own family,
the trade or profession in which he
existed and the nation in which he
lived. Mr. Massey also stated that
people get what they deseiwe and
that the communities and nations of
which they are a part will improve
only in so far as the people deserve
conditions. This was one of the
most interesting and instructive ad
dresses that has been delivered be
fore the Kiwanis club in some time.
This closed the monthly program
presented by Rev. L. T. Singleton.
State v.s Welton Stevens, white
laborer, aged 21. Larceny of wire
value less than $20.00 and setting
fire to woodland. Not guilty.
State vs Mrs. J. M. Seago, white.
Violation prohibition law (posses
sion and tran-portation of 1 pint
of whiskey) and operation car while
intoxicated. Plea of guilty to both
counts. $50.00 fine and cost. De-
fendent ordered not to operate mot
or vehicle in North Carolina during
next 90 days.
State vs Bernie Griffis, colored
laborer, a.g-ed 35. Assault. Not guil
ty-
State vs Frank 'Williams, colored
laborer, aged 28. Assault. Guilty.
Continue prayer for judgment upon
payment of cost.
State vs James Cotton, colored
laborer, aged 16. Violation prohibi
tion law. Guilty possession and
transportation of 2 pints of whiskey.
Defendent sentenced to work for 60
days at County home.
State vs Arthur Bunn, colored
farmer. Assault with deadly weapon
with intent to kill. Probable cause
found and defendent bound to Sup
erior Court. Bond $1,000.00
State vs Josh Bunn, Arthur Bunn,
Cleveland Bunn, Wilber Bunn. As
sault with deadly weapon with in
tent to kill. Probable cause as to
all defendents and each bound to
Superior Court. Bond for Arthur
Bunn fixed at $1,000.00, Bonds for
■Josh Bunn and Cleveland Bunn fix
ed at $500.00 each. Wilber Bunn
permitted to go under own recog
nition
State vs George I,ewis, colored
laborer, aged 45. Larceny of cloth
ing, flour, etc. Value less than $20.
Defendent given 2 years in jail and
assigned to work on roads.
State vs Donnie Banner, colored
laborer, .aged 18. Careless and reck
less driving and assault with auto.
Guilty. Defendent given 60 days in
jail and assigned to work on roads.
State v.s Elma Holder, colored
laborer, aged-SO. Cruelty to- animats
Guilty. Defendent given 30 days in
jail and assigned to work at Coun
ty home and pay cost.
State vs Marion Wilkins, white
laborer, aged 22. Violation of pro
hibition law. Guilty possession 1-2
pint whiskey. Continue prayer for
judgra'ent upon payment of cost.
State vs Edgar Poole, white lab
orer, aged 30. As.-ault on wife, and
publicl.v drunk and disorderly. Guil
ty. Defendent given 60 days in jail
and assigned to work on public
roads. Sentence suspended upon pay
ment of cost and upon further con
dition that defendent does not drink
any intoxicatin.g drink during 12
months.
State vs Joe Eason, colored lab
orer aged 37- Violation of prohibi
tion law. Guilty of possession and
transportation of 1 quart whiskey.
Defendent given 60 days on roads.
State vs Jesse Price, white lab
orer, aged 21. Storebreaking and
larceny. Probable cause found and
defendent bound to Superior court.
Bond $200.00.
State vs Wilbur Barfield. As
sault with deadl.v weapon. Guilty.
Continue prayer for judgment up
on payment of cost.
State vs Lonnie Blaylock, colored
farmer, aged 50. Trespassing. Guil
ty-
State vs Jack Capps- Defendent
in court on capias for failure to
comply with judgment and sentence
as set out in former trial. It is
therefore ordered that defendent be
confind in jail, for 3 months and
assigned to work on roads.
State vs Pete Pollard, white lab
orer, aged 20. Operating car while
intoxicated and voilation of pro
hibition law. (Possession and trans
portation). Defendent given 2 month
on roads.
Club To Stage Minstrel
Benefit Crippled Children
HEARD AROUND
THE COURT HOUSE
John Files, a Greek from Darling
ton, S. C., was arrested here about
one o’clock this morning by police
men C. R. Cable and E. A. Johnson,
on the charge of criminally a.-^sault-
. ing two small wMte girls whose
ages were given as 10 and 12
year, in his home town.
The South Carolina officers had
trailed the man to Raleigh, and as
the Raleigh officers were about to
arrest him the electric light all
went out, and he gave them the
slip, and then got on Ms car and
drove to Smithfield. The police were
on the lookout for him, as they
had received a phone message about
11 o’clock last night giving a des
cription of him and griving the
number of his car. After his arrest
it was found that the license plate
had been removed from his car. Im
mediately after arresting him the
Smithfield officers notified the Ra
leigh police departnient, and four
policemen came down and took him
back to Raleigh last night.
It was said that feeling against
the prisoner was running high in
Darlington where the alledged erinre
was committed.
Barbecue and Fish Supper
-M. E. ORPHANAGE SINGING
CLASS TO BE HERE SUNDAY
The ladies of Circle A of the
Methodist Church will give a barbe
cue and fish supper in the building
opposite the Selma Drug Co. on
Friday evening, beginning at six
o’clock. Plates will be 25 and 35
cents.
CLAYTON DEPOSITORS
ARE PAID DIVIDENDS
Payment of a 20 per cent divi
dend, amounting to $28,119, to de
positors of the Clayton Banking &
Trust Co., was announced yester
day by C. I. Taylor, head of the
liquidating division of the State
Banking Department. The Clayton
Bank clo.sed last November after
an attempt to revive, it failed.
The Singing class from the Meth
odist Orphanage at Raleigh will
give one of their Sacred concerts
in the Selma Methodist church Sun
day, May 8th, at 11 o’clock. The
public is cordially invited to hear
these children, and I am sure that
you will be highly entertained and
inspired by the concert that you
will hear. They will be at the Selma
Mill Sunday school in the afternoon
at 2 o’clock.
This institution is now caring for
about 340 children. They look to the
Methodist of the. North Carolina
Conference for their support. I sin
cerely hope that each one will make
as libral contribution for this cause
as he can.
Allen J. Maxwell, one of the three
candidates for the Democratic nomi
nation for Governor of North Caro
lina, delivered a speech in the court
house here, tonight to an audience
of something over 100 people,, and
he seems to have made a favorable:
iraprgssion upon many of his, h^r-
.ers. His mannej_ of. speaking -.
cool, calm and bu-iness like”. There
vva.s no mud slinging and not a
great amount of partisan .criticism.
According to the trend of his
arguments he is convinced that we
are face to face with a condition
which demands curtailment in the
spending of public money, in the
various branches of our government
including the towns, the counties,
the state and the federal govern
ments.
He gives as one of the chief
causes of the world wide depression
the spending of many billions of
borrowed money by the nations of
the world during the great war. He
said the nations of the world had
gone on a spree of spending bor
rowed money and that the people
had bought almost everything, in
cluding silk stockings on the in
stalment plan. ' I-"* -■ 1
The speaker took his stand in
apposition to the short ballot, which
would give the g'overnor the power
to appoint a majority of the state
officials now elected by the voters.
He said he was apposed to the
issuing of bonds without a vote of
the people, and was apposed to ap
pointing of members of the legis
lature to positions created by a
legislature of which the apponitee
was a member.
He says he favors the breaking
of the monopoly on school books,
and the present profiteering schemes
which he estimated would cut the
cost of the books 40 percent. He
favors the renting of the books to
the students, which he estimated
would save about four fifths of the
money now spent for books by the
people of the state. He thinks the
state Road Commission should op
erate the school trucks in the in
terest of safety for the school
children of the rural districts. He
says that the transportation of the
school children by trucks in recent
years has cost the tax payers more
than two millions of dollars a year.
Mr. Maxwell says if he is made
governor he will ’’niake the state
prison pay its own way.
He thinks the state legislature
should set an example of economy
instead of putting on a small army
of employees during the sesions of
the legislature at Raleigh,
He says they have had so Many
employees there that their chief
trouble was staying out of each
others way.
The local Kiwanis club at its last
I regular meeting voted unanimously
' to put on a minstrel in order that
I our Underprivileged Child Commit
tee might have funds with which
to operate. This committee is head
ed by Rev. L. T. Singleton and has
been doing a remarkable work with
crippled children. At the present
time the committee has five or six
cases which need very badly to be
taken care of. The entire procee.ds
will go to this committee for the^
purpose of enabling them to ad
minister rehibilitation to these cri^
pled children of our community. It
is the hope of the chairman that
every one will give consciencious
support, for the more funds raised'
the greater amount of work can bef
done. The minstrel will be given
in the high school auditorium on
Friday evening. May 13th, at 8
o’clock. Those taking part will be
as follows; End men. Star Harper,
W. J. Crain, G. F. Brietz and D. P
Waddell; soloist, George D. Vick;
interlocutor, George Norwood;
fat man, Charles Scales; lean man,
W. H. Adams; others added to the
above attractions will be Marvin
Blackman, (Jporge Willetts, Charles
Jacobs, Fred Waters, Linwood Rich-
arilson, Dick Massey, Matt Wall,
Thad Woodard, John Wiggs, L. T.
Singleton, John Jeffreys, assisted
by many other local celebrities.
Charles Scales has been appointed
general chairman. If you want your
money’s worth buy a ticket and see
the above black faced comedians-
and song birds.
Kenlv News
On May 2, Mr. Barney W. Lane
near Deans Mill called Mr. H. A.
Stancil of Kenly route 2 to treat
one x)£..his :fox .d,og;s.,.When he arriv
ed at Mr, Lanes the dog had been
dead almost one hour. Mr. Lane
asked him to cut the dog open
and see if he could locate the
trouble. When he cut into the dog,
he saw something move and dis
covered a 31) inch snake was wrap-
pe around the dog’s liver. The.
snake coiled on the ground after
he was removed from the dog, but
soon died. He had eaten three places
in the dogs liver, the largest place
being as large as half a dollar
bill.
Mr. Stancil states that this is
the third snake he has taken from
dogs who were bitten by snakes
and the dogs never treated for
poison. •
Mr. Lane purchased this dog
about four months ago from near
Seven Springs,
Those present, and saw Mr.Stan-
cil remove the snake from the dog
were, Mr. Barney Lane his mother
and his wife, Mr. Fletcher Deans,
Mr. Auto and Vick Lane.
Revival Closed Sunday Evening
Garner Deads In California.
In the recent Democratic prima-
,ry John N. Garner, candidate for
President, ' is leading Franklin D.
Roosevelt by about 45,000 and is
leading Ai Smith by about 70,000.
The series of revival meetings-
which were in progress for a week
at the Selma Baptist church closed
Sunday evening. There W'ere addi
tions to the church. Rev. C. H. Cash-
well of Wendell did the preaching
until Sunday, when he became so fl
with influenza that he had 'Ix) go
home. The pastor Rev. Crain preach
ed a masterly sermon Sunday even
ing useing as his text. Matt. 7:13-
14. “Enter ye in at the strait gate;
for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruc
tion, and many there be tha.t go
in thereat. Because straight is the
gate and narrow is the way which
leadeth unto life, and few there be
that find it.”
His subject was, “The two Roads”
“Only those who are willing to live
a straight pure, upright life will
find the narrow road, for self sacri
fice, toil and misunderstandings are
at every turn. It is not an.! easy
road, the reward is eternal life.
The wide way attracts with us
its -worldly temptations, its lure of
questionable amusements and its
transient joy, but the end is des
truction.”
Mr, Bowie To Speak
In Smithfield Friday
Hon. Tom C. Bowie candidate for
the U. S. Senate, will speak in the
court house, in Smithfield, Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock. The public
is invited to hear him.
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