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m'' TOOK IT OUT IN TALK. “I regret to say that a feeling seems to have grown up in some sections that elections can be stolen. This case should be made an ex ample.” Thu.s Solicitor Little, in Wake Superior court. For 13 months indictments had been pending against two election officials, alleged to have counted a dozen persons as voting in a bond election in Ra leigh who did not vote. The officials, after more than a year’s delay in bringing the case to trial, were per mitted to plead guilty to a misde meanor to avoid trial on allegations constituting a felony. Three person.s who had been listed as voting in the election testified that they didn’t vote. The solicitor said he had evi dence that names of voters were written on the books as voting when the voters did not appear at the polls. His remarks indicated that Jae' was distressed to have it borne in on him that the idea prevails in some 'sections that elections can be stolen. But since the cheating in the Raleigh ease did not affect the re sult of the election the solicitor was disposed to be lenient, accept ing the submission for misdemeanor. Judge Cowper, pre.-iding, appears to have been quite indignant to learn that dishonesty has entered into flections. The Raleigh News and Observer says he “scored the acts of the defendants in no uncer tain terms.” “I want to deal with this case,” "kaid his honor, “in such manner that there will be no doubt as to the court’s attitude on such matters. I am opposed to such con duct, not only as a court official but also personally.” Judge Cowper exhorted the solicitor to keep “a cl’ose eye” on elections. He.promised to charge all future grand juries to look into elections in their counties and requested the solicitor to ask judges holding courts in Wake to do likewise. Well, in view of the distress and indignation following the revelation that the sanctity of the ballot box had been invaded, were the guilty misdemeanants fined and impris oned ? They were not. 'They were allowed to pay the costs and give bonds to appear two years hence for judgment. Judge Cowper ex pressed a desire that he might be -on hand at that time to pass the deferred judgment. Why the delay? No explanation. Usually such disposition of a case means that if a defendant does not further offend he will be allowed to go without a day if he reappears for sentence. One might think the judge -w'ould do .something awful to the offending election officials two year.s hence. Probably he wished that much time to think up all the punishment he could inflict, or to allow himself time to cool to avoid the infliction of cruel and ususual punishments. But the public will be unable to see the effects of the judge’s indignation or the solicitor’s distress on learning that there is a disposition to steal elections, in the ending of the ca-e; and it may be seriously questioned if the guilty misdemeanants will be in great sus pense during the two years about what is coming to them They know how such things are. So do other folks.—R. R. Clark, in Greensboro Daily News. Cam Morrison regarded Bob Reynolds as purely a joke, Because he didn’t think Reynolds could hit a telling stroke. Most that Morrison did was to tell what things he’d done. While Reynolds had done so little, and now he has won. Fountain and Ehringhaus were both busy on the job. So Ehringhaus had a harder race than did “Our Bob”. Fountain was behind nearly 50,000 votes- at the start. But got so close on Ehringhaus that his Ehrs did smart. Dr. Booker was not alarmed when on a little card he read That it didn’t take a Doctor to tell when ^a man is dead. Selma people told Doc that they were practically all for him, But other townships decided that they’d hold on to Jirn. dim says that he is out of politics now that it’s all over; Doc probably got a bait without a taste of the clover. Jim’s majority is so small that he has no cause to boast. And if he should need a doc, Booker should be his host. The Democrats have fears that the Republicans will beat. So they howl about the farm board buying cotton and wheat. It was bought in goqd faith in order to help the grower. And it’s a blessing we’ve got it to feed and clothe the poor. In 1928 they turned down A1 because he was too wet. In 1932 they take his platform, but A1 is told to “get”. A1 was a master man, they said, in nineteen twenty-eight; But he is now an outcast by men who called him great. The Democrats will win,D# we are to believe their talk— Sure they will win—and that in a moderate walk; Blut they need not be too sure about their great success. For the Millions of Republicans are not growing, any less. g THE COURT HOUSE I The greatest. surprise of the 1932 campaign so far, in North Carolina, was the fact as shown by the pub lished returns that Robert R. Rey nolds, running on a wet platform in the second primary last Satur day, beat Cam Morrison more than 100,000 votes. In the June primary Reynolds led Morrison by 15,000, but many poli ticians then gredicted that owing to the fact that Morrison had access to the Watts millions and that he was putting up the fight of his life in the .second _ primary, he would* easily win. But those who figured j that way, had not counted on any help that might come to Reynolds from the well financed and organ ized foi'ces that for years have fought against prohibition. News Items From The County Seat THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932. Timely Farm Questions Answered At State College 80 per cent to 58 per cent, it is still 18 per cent above legal re quirements. The fact that this large amount has been withdrawn and that the banking system of our govern ment is still in such a good posi tion augurs well for the future. What is needed by this country is confidence on the part of those who are able to spend. Hoarding is the one thing against which we would not be able to protect our re.=eves. Money constructively spent at this time, not wasted, will , do a vast amount toward hastening the return of prosperity. France has undoubt edly done us a kindness.—The Christian Sun. SURRY’S DISGRACE. FRANCE TAKES HER 'gOLD HOME \ Within the past two and a half month, France has withdrawn from ■liiis country more than a half-bil lion dollars’ worth of .gold, bringing the total amount of all withdrawals of gold by foreign countries dur ing the past eight months to a bil lion and a half. New York balances of European nations, once amount ing to as much as ,$2,000,000,000, are today less than a half billion- ■which is considerably less than that required by them to carry on routine business in normal times, or for that matter, under present conditions. It was a withdrawal of a j similar ' amount from En.gland that caused the abandonment of the gold stand ard hy that country, but the bank ing system of the United States seems to have stood the strain suc cessfully. I.^ack of confidence was, of cour.se, the*reason for the with drawals, but theoretically the effect should have been helpful. The actual need of keeping reserves on hand to wiflistand such a drain has pass ed, and while the Federal Reseiv^e’s reserve has been reducd from around It has been charged for several years that the election laws were flagrantly violated in Surry county but the Republicans being in the minority could do nothing, but when the Democrats undertook to pull some of their sharp practices on each other there was a rather rude awakening and Surry county Dem ocratic elections officials have re ceived some very unsavory notori ety throughout the state. At first when a prominent Dem ocratic lawyer of Lee county went to Dobson and demanded to see the registration books, the poll books and the list of absentee ballots cast in the county in the June primary the Democratic clerk of the court attempted to laugh him out of court. The books, so it is reported, were shifted back and forth from one of fice to another, and getting no sat- Lsfaction the Lee county lawyer ap pealed to Attorney General Dennis Brummitt and this brought results. At the hearing at Dobson, , the past week, the evidence presented was shocking and we, cannot believe that the honest Democrats of Surry endorse and condone such methods as it was shown have been in vogue in Surry county. The whole affair is a disgrace to the county and some one should be punished se verely for the .slipshod manner in which elections have been conducted in Surry. Even the chairman of the board of elections acknowledged that he did not furnish the registrars of the several townships with a copy of the election laws and some of these men admitted that they were ignorant of the law. One of the Democratic registrars whom it seems always manages to be registrar when election.s are held in his township and against whom complaint has been made before, in addition to his duties as registrar acted as a magistrate in attesting quite a number of absentee ballots for other townships than his own and it is charged by a defeated Democratic candidate ■ that the said registrar was paid a sum of money to manage his campaign in Surry. In another instance a local judge is charged, and he did not deny it, of acting as marker in a precinct in which he did not reside. It would appear that only the surface has been scratched in this inve.stigation but already a good coat of whitewash appears ip the offing. Solicitor Higgins has let out a wail that he can do nothing un less' a presentment is made to the grand jury. Then it is up to you, Mr. Brummitt, to see that a pre sentment is made and some one is punished for this disgraceful affair. —Union Republican. SUICIDE AND SERVICE During the year of our Lord 1931, 20,000 persons in the United States committed suicide. This is the highe.st number in fifteen years, and takes in all classes, rich and poor, employed and unemployed, the strong and the weak, the youth and the aged, some of them even college graduates of the year. Society is in chaos. The future, to many, seems dark and doubtful, the present uncertain, to many, un promising. All sorts of remedies are proposed for bringing light into this darkened time, love into these cruel hours, and hope into the.se despair ing moments. For ourselves, we do not know what the details of the problem are, or in what, or by what process, the same will be solved. But of one thing we are cer tain, and to that, by one proces.s or another, we shall come before the darkness is lifted and the full light dawns again. The remedy, the safe and sane remedy that has never failed, was given a long time ago and has been tried through the centuries and has never been found wanting; “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they that run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” And this remedy, to give it em phasis and make it permanent and prominent for all time to come, was repeated and enjoined by our Lord Christ: “Come unto me, all ye toil ing and burdened ones, and I -will give you rest.” —J. 0. Atkinson, in Christian Sun. Some of the literature that was ^sent out over the State from Mor rison headquarters, did not help Morrison in Johnston County, espe cially with the older and more con servative men and women of the Democratic party. This refers' tq that portion of the literature in which credit was claimed for Mor rison on account of the fact that he was reported to have played as leader of the “red .‘hirters” in the campaigns of 1898 and 1900. Hundreds of Democrats, as well as Republicans, have not forgotten 'the disgraceful scenes enacted/ in Smithfield by the red shirters in 1900, when good white Republican citizens of Johnston County were de- j night the right to speak, and were beaten and driven off the streets. That caused many of the best Dem ocrats to quit ‘the party. The Democratic leader.s of the Nation put in a full week at their National Convention in Chicago. The convention opened at noon on Monday of last week and closed Saturday. As usual they talked a whole lot about the depression ■Work has been started on the new Perkins and' Spillman tobacco ware- | house which is expected. to be com- jjjg for this pleted within the next 30 days. The large garage formerly owned by the Seotton Motor Co., has been leas ed for a term of years and is Joeing •rebuilt and enlarged. The building when completed will have 20,000 feet of floor space. It will have con crete floors, which will greatly re duce the fire hazard. It will be up-to-date .in every particular, and will no doubt be a drawing card for the Smithfield to bacco market. Q. How can I condition my calves for showing at the fairs this fall. Is it too early to start prepar- The County Pension Board -will hold a meeting in the office of the clerk of the court next Saturday, July 9th at 10 o’clock a. m. Those having business with the board .should attend. There has been much talk, and some criticism concerning the hands ling of the welfare and charity work in some sections of Johnston county within the last few months. In some .-ections the free flour which is being supplied by the United States Government for the relief of the poor and needy is said to have been used by people who were not deserving of charity and in some cases by those who were able to work but would not work when they had the opportunity. These reports have became so fre quent that the preachers'^are becom ing aroused. Last Friday a meeting was held during which a motion wa.s caried, advocating thorough in ve.stigation of all cases where charity is applied for. A new shipment of government flour has lately arrived, and all citizens should interest themselves and try to see that it does not get into the wrong hands. Friends of Mrs. A. J. Fitzgerald regret that after being taken from Johnston County hospital to her Ans. Active preparation for sho-w- ing'should begin about two months, before the fair as it will take all of this time to properly fit and train the animals. During the tit- ting period feed the calves a gram ration consiting of 30 pounds of corn meal, 30 pounds of crushed oat.s, 30 pounds of wheat bran, ““ “ pounds of linseed or soybean oil. The amount to be fed depends upon the condition of the animal at the begin ning. All animals should carry just enough flesh to give them a gowt thrifty appearance. Calves should be led, rubbed, and brushed each day during the filing period and the quality of the skin will be greatly improved if each animal is blanket ed with burlap sacks for five or six weeeks before the show. Q. My Cotton is infested with red spider. How can I destroy this pe-t? Ans. To control red spider, dust with a lime sulphur solution used at summer strength. These materials are carried in stock by practically all local druggists or seedmen. and the manufacturer’s directions for use are printed on all packages. 'Where there is any doubt to the kind of insect on the cotton or other plants ,a sample should be sent to the Department of Entomology at State College, Raleigh, N. C., for observation. Q. Are young pullets affected with worms ? If so, ho'w can I treat them for the trouble ? Ans. Growing pullets should be dewormed. A chicken that is kept practically free from worms for the first twelve to fourteen weeks will make better use of its food, will have more vigor and resistnace and will begin to lay much sooner than a bird infested with worm-'. Grow ing pullel;,s should be dewormed at least twice before they come into HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK AMONG COLORED PEOPLE Miss Rachel Everett, the home demonstration agent, has appointed Willie Smith and Mrs. M. E. Byrd as county local canning leaders. In conference with them two women in each community have been select ed as local leaders for their own communities. A special canning dem onstration in canning for the.se will be held at the court house in the Farmers’ room on Monday, July 11, for the purpose of training them as leaders in thi^ work. These women are asked to go back to their own communities, hold a local meeting for their neighboring women and to give them the instructions in can ning. Any person having extra jars who are not going to use ‘them would be doing a service to the Ex tension Service if they would notify Miss Everett or deliver them at the court house for her. The following is a list of local leaders for John ston County: Mrs. Hattie Mitchiner, Mrs. Nancy Mitchiner, Smithfield, N. C.; Mrs., Margaret Thornton and Mrs. Leha Smith, Four Oaks, N. C ; Mrs. Alonia, Eason and Mrs. Nina Shaw, Benson', N. C.; Mrs. Guy Lee and Mrs. Davis, Pine Level, N. C.; Mrs. Nancy Holt, and Mrs. 'Viola Atkinson, Princeton, N. C.; Mrs. Sudie Woodard, East Market St., Smithfield, N. C.; Mrs. Laura Brown Caswell street, Smithzeld, N. C:; Mrs. G. W. Bryant and Mrs. Laura A. King, Selma, N.. C.; Mrs. Lotta Holt and Mrs. Percy Richard.son, Wilson Mills. N. C.; Mrs. Hubert Goodson-and Mrs. L. A. Mial, Clay ton, N. C. When we analyze the work of the Democratic national convention held at Chicago la-t week, we find that after all the talking, writing and planning; what the Democrats real ly did wa.s to rebuild A1 Smith’s 1928 platform; then under the lead ership of .lames A. Farley, proved, she suffered a backset, and was returned to the hospital for further treatment. .size they should be given a full- •size dewoming tablet. After this or when the birds are over fourteen weeks old they can be given Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Standi and adult size tablet. Deworming tablets sons Joseph, Charles, and Moses were accompanied by Mrs. W. H, can be secured from any poultry supply house, feed or drug store Rev. D. H. Tuttle is visiting re latives and friends in the piedmont section of North Carolina. He wTl remain in that section for several days. - , , , , . ! lay. When the birds are from eight, which they charged up to President . home _ .sewiral jJ^ays ^ ago, much Hoover and the Republican party; but they failed to outline any defi nite plan for improving the econom ic conditions, either in this or any other country. In their national convention at Chicago the Demo crats had their wi-e men, and their prophets. They worked and talked and figured, both day and night; and when the results of their week’s work are boiled (j^wn, what tangi ble evidence do we find to show that they are in any better position to give relief to the country than the Republican.s Whiit do we find to .show that they would, or could, do even as well a the Republicans ? What good reason have they offer ed that would convince any weft- informed, - non-parti.san observer, that he or she .should favor the Democratic plan to turn out all of Uncle Sam’s force of well trained and efficient executives, from the President all the way down the line; and fill all those places with inex perienced Democratic politicians, who in nearly all cases would con sume months in learning how to handle the Govemment’.s bu.siness ? Mrs. H. P. Howell and Mrs. S. P. Jones went on a shopping trip to Raleigh today. Rev. 'r. N. Massey, Baptist pastor h'ere is Conducting a revival meet ing at Pisgah Church all this week. , ^ife,755 lbs. and clo.sed it with a weight member of Tammany Hall, they I of 1,720 Ihu- "" ^ nominated Franklin D, Roosevelt for President and John.N,' Garner, for Vice President, and placed these two ? gentlemen upon the re-vamped Smith platform. Parley, who had been Roosevelt’s campaign manager, wa.s made national chairman, and they then hurried to New York to try to patch up differences with Smith’s Tammany friends. DANIELS DESERTS PRO HIBITION. Stall ngs cf Selma on a Motor trip , (-},a manufacturer's directions to Wh.te Lake la-t Sunday. [should be carefully followed. ' NOTICE OF CITY ORDINANCE. Because of the failure of the cit izens of the Town to use the city water to flush the toilets and for other purposes for which the sewer system is u-.e(l, and undertaking to * flush same with an inadequate amount of water, thereby causing the sewer system to become chok ed and necessitating condderable ex- pen.se upon the tax payers as well as creating nuisances over town •wherever the system is run, the- Town Board has become convinced that some action must be taken to pre.serve the splendid system we have heretofore enjoyed, and to protect the health and hapfiiness of our citizens, THEREFORE, the Town Board has pas-ed the follow ing ordinance to be known as: An Ordinance Requiring the Use of City M'ater. Be it ordained by the Board of Town Commissioners of the Town, of Selma: That it shall be unlawful for any person to occupy any building for residential or busine s purposes in the Town of Selma in which prem- 163RD THOUSAND POUND HOLSTEIN. Lyons Ormsby Ava, a pure-bred Holstein cow otvned by Fremco Farms, Minnesota, is the 163rd black and white cow to produce in excess of 1,000 lbs. butterfat in a year. In 365 days she produced 26,942 lbs. milk containing 1,001.9 lbs. butterfat or enough to supply all of the dairy needs of 270 persons for one year. She began her year weighino- i _ The Holstein-Friesian As.sociation of America. 'TO VOTE ON DRY LAW. Baton Rouge, La., July 5.—The Louisiana legislature voted today to -submit the state prohibition law to a referendum of the people next November 8th. Rowan farnier.s will mow about, 30,000 acres of hay ero’ps this spring to say nothing of the les- pedeza acreage and the summer le gume acreage. Josephus Daniel.s, Editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson Cabinet, has deserted the prohibit- ti'on banner buf nothing more could have beeiv expected of him, for didn’t he in 1928 pose as the driest of the drys eVen .going so far as to Write a letter to Mrs. Nelly Hall Root, of Long Beach, Cal., in which he stated “I think it would, be a fatal mi.stake fog the Democratic party to nominate a man with the wet record of Governor Smith, and I could not stand for any wet” and just a.s soon as Smith was nomin ated climbed aboard the Smith band wagon and Went up and down not only North Carolina but qther states be,gging the people to vote for the wst Catholic candidate for the Pres idency? What can be said of a man .of the Daniels caliber who acted in this manner?—Union Re publican. In following their pas-a.-you-o-o plan, 154 Craven farmers are now' shipping graded cucumbers grown under contract. Seventeen growers recently .shipped seven potatoes cooperatively. cars of irish SALAMMONiAC cures WARTS. Hoard’s DairymanSome fme ago published a re-nedy ' for warts on cows’ teats. The writer called It gum of .salammor.iac. As we had several cows with warts and on' had two teats ju.st covered with them we were ready to try anyi ng. I got some salammoniac— found as you state in your Jan 25 i^^^e that it is not a gum biff t block form. We find it does’all hat was claimed for it. u takes off ev ery wart without leaving a sore Place,o^ust dries them up and they This remedy has been worth the price of your paper to us. Th nk wr."‘;r t ■" «-• O. C. KEEBILL. uses there is located a sanitary wa iter closet with city water connec- ons unless such city water is: uined on for sanitary water closet purposes for and during the period ot such occupancy. Any person, firm or corporation violating this ordinance ,-haU, upon conviction before the Mayor of the city be fineil $io,00 for each of-. nee, and each day of non-compli- ^titL"'a' “'■'’■"Mce shall con stitute^ a separate offence. Town Pn the Board of of the Town of PeJot for any 0-.S or control ( XTl"” or otherwise) dweffin n p.,p„„>■»“> ”, *P Phich premise, there is Selma, located a .sanffar “'■s rte'Ss =" * s £■,“ "r": such water is ffn-unless tary water closet doring the period oTsner . Aoy person, fir,„ occupancy, violating this n>vr ^ oorporation conviction before tT"*fr “t>on IPPPP, ami each’ela'v I anee with thi- tion-compli- . ae»;,r"r« ""•'I PPP- . bare, M.,„;
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