THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1933.
THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN, SELMA, N. C.
THE JOHNSTONIAN—SUN
M. L. STANCIL, Editor and Mgr.
SUBSCRIPTION
One Year $1.00; 6 Months 50c
Entered as second-class matter
July 4, 1929, at the post office at
Selma, N. C. under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
ALL hail: veterans, HAIL!
BY M. L. STANCIL
Selma is getting ready to throw away her key.
When the World War Vets stage their annual jubilee.
Committees are busy making ready each day,
To give them a warm welcome in no small way.
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Meets
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
William K. Hearst -Writing to the
editor of th Atlanta Georgian sum
marize:-. a.- follows:
“Mis;.- France- Perkins, Secretary
of Labor, rebukes one of the labor
department’s conciliators, sent to
settle a mine strike in Alabama,
for threatening the editor of a local
paper with prosecution on the theory
that his paper was printing articles
that were in violation of the NBA.
Miss Perkins .said;
“ ‘Please keej) in mind always in
your work of adju ting indu.stral dis
putes that you have no right to tell
any eltor what he may or may not
print in his news or editorial
columns. There is nothing in the
NR.4, or any other federal statute,
which gives you such a right.”
‘‘There is no question about the
sounlness of Miss Perkins’ message
and the correctne-s of her attitude
The danger in the situation Hies in
the conditions which made her
me.ssage necessary.
“We are at a very critical period
when comlitions have been created
which make it possible for govern
ment officials to interfere with the
liberty of the press.
“’fruly enough. Miss Perkins’
message wa- sound, but suppose it
■lad not been sound, or suppose she
had not taken any attitude in the
matter, or suppose she had been or
should be overruled by superiors.
“Is it not obvious that there lies
in e.xisting conditions a very dang
erous menace to free in t tutions'?
Is it not evident that interference
with anybody’s business and every
body's business may eventually re
sult in interference with the rights
and liberties of the public as a
whole ?
“Ls it not clear that the first step
towards thi- larger .scheme of gov
ernmental interference with popular
rights would be the invasion of the
i-ights of free speech and free pub
lication
A canvass has been made to get some cash in hand
In order to procure some leading bras band.
We don’t want to be mum for lack of speakers,
So speaking will be one of the day’s main features.
And whether you were in camp at home or in France,
If your legs feel limber you may also dance.
But if you prefer not to dance and want to box.
You. will be permitted to exchange a few friendly knocks.
Another good feature for the day this fall
Will be an opportunity to see some good foot ball.
But if you don’t like sports and want to recline.
There will be a social committee to treat you fine.
With all the above acts the day would be incomplete
Without some provision for the Veterans to eat;
So all Veterans will be given a sumptuous dinner.
That no one may go away feeling that he’s thinner.
All Vets of Johnston County, from Wayne to Wake,
Are welcome to come to Sima and merry make.
From the borders of Wilson, old Sampson and Harnett,
A great parade will be staged and each Vet will join it.
Whether you’re a membei' of the American Legion or not.
If you are a World War Veteran, you will not be forgot.
So come on to Selma November 11th—Armistice Day,
And we’ll try to make you glad that you passed this way.
can individualism.
“How long is the free press of a
free country going to follow along
so perilou.s a path ?
“if the newspaper- of the United
States have no regard for theii
own liberties ,are they not at least
concerned for the liberties of the
nation
‘if this general interference by
government in the affairs of any
body and everybody continues is it
not perfectly plain that interfei'ence
will become a fashion and that it
must soon reach the point of in
terference with constitutional rights
and guaranteed liberties?
“It is in this way that despotism
always grows. It is in this way that
the pernicious hab’t of subserviance
to despotism is ac(iuired little by
little Tyranny insidiou-ly snper-
seles liberty anl a free people
w-ake up some morn’ng to find them
selves in the hands of a Hitler or
in the grip of a Stalin.
“Truly, eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty. There are always,
egotistical individuals eager to
gratify their vanity and their vain
ambitions by becomng dictators.
There are always time-serving
Mistaken for Squirrel
Man Gets Shot
THE EMBARGO AND STRIKE
Rockingham, Oct. 19.—Bishop
Long, aged 35, is in the Hamlet
hospital in a serious condition as a
result of mistaken identity—the mis
take being that his friend and com
panion, T. K Mos-, Jr., aged 23,
mistook him for a stiuirrel Wednes
day morning around daybreak and
put a load of No. (i shot into him.
The two men were hunting squir
rels about a mile west of Rocking
ham ami were a bit separated. Long
was leaning against a small tree
and every now and then would
raise his elbow in the act of slap
ping flies or mosquitoes away. Mos-,
some di.stance off, in the d'm light
and underbrush saw the motions,
and mistook the elbow for a mov
ing s(iuirrel ,and fired. Much of the
.shot entered Long’s right arm, one
shot entered the neck and some the
abdomen. He was brought to Dr. T
Boyce Henry, wdio after fir.st aid
sent him to the Hamlet hospital foi-
an .X-Ray. Thi- showed that a shot
had i)unctured both the lung and
stomach ,and so Dr. James had to
operate. Long is resting comfortably,
and barring complications should
recover.
Friends of Editor M. L. Stancil
will regret to learn that he is con
fined to home limits by illness.
Direct action is being pictured as
having an increased appeal to farm
ers. Reports received in the Depart
ment of Agriculture suggest that
the farm folk have been impressed
by the way organized labor has been
gaining advantages by striking.
The embargo on wheat e.xports
ordered by the Governor of North
Dakota, is designed, Governor Dan
ger explained, to call attention of
the country to the fact that farm
price- have not gone up as they
were expected to go up. He placed
the embargo under authority given
by the Legislature—an authority
that other State Legislatures may
be called upon to assert.
The idea for this action came
from the performance of , Governor
William Murray, of Oklahoma, when,
some months ago, he called out the
militia and shut off the production
of crude oil because, in his opinion,
prices were too low. This method of
procedure later wa.s followed by
Texas, also to control oil production.
Now the mil tia is to be called
out to stop the shipment of grain
to milling center- where it normally
would be made into bread. Without
a concerted action on the part of all
wheat States this type of operation
admittedly could not be effective. It
's taken as a ge.sture indicating the
mood of the farm districts.
Strikers are called upon not to
buy, not to sell, not to pay taxes,
not to pay interest on mortgages,
not to do anything that would
create business. The objective is to
paralyze trade, and in that ..way
force the Government to grant the
demands of the farmers.
The initial meeting of the Selma
P. T. A. was held Monday evening,
October 23 in the school auditorium
with a large attendance.
Opening song, “American,” fol
lowed by prayer by Rev. W. J.
Crain.
New teachers were welcomed into
the organization by the pre-ident,
Mrs. C. W. Scales.
Reports were heard from the
various committees. Programs for
each month of the ensuing school
year were read by Mrs. E. V.
Woodard, chairman of the program
committee for the P T.A.
School telephone to be paid for
by public donations, Messrs. C. A.
Jacobs,G. F. Brietz and W. H.
Adams being responsible for the
first three months.
Mrs. G. H. Younger and Mrs. W.
H. Adams were appointed to inspect
school rooms for neatness next
month.
Attendance prizes went to Miss
Lee’s 4th grade and Miss Sloan’s
10th grade.
Supt Tuttle made a plea for unit
ed effort to make this the best
school year on record. He stated
' that everyone would be called upon
to help in various ways and sacri
fices of time and money would be
necessary. Mrs. R A. Jones, re
appointed chairman of the member
ship committee, reported 41 mem
bers and $10.25 dues paid in.
Miss Virginia Baines put on a
short musical program, Trio (vocal
“Let Rest of the World Go By,”
Frances F. Henry, Hilda Earp and
Jimmie Woodard.
Violin solo, Evelyn Rose.
Vocal solo, “Where the River
Shannon Flows,” Jimmie Woodard.
The Selma P. T A. is led by the I
following splendid group of officers;
President, Mrs. C. W. Scales; vice- I
president, Mrs. C A. Jacobs; sec’y i
PLOW UP STALKS AND
CONTROL BOLL WEEVIL
MTth the feeding and breeding-
places destroyed multitudes of cot
ton boll weevils will either strave
before cold weather or die during
the hibernation period.
‘ Cotton should be picked as
rapidly as possible and the stalks
destroyed at once for best result ,”
says C. H. Brannon, extension en
tomologist at State College. ‘‘This
not only starves out the adult
weevil but it -also destroys many of
the young ,immature insects.”
Brannon suggests that the work
be carried on a- a community pro
ject as this will keep all fields
clear but, if this is impossible, he
urg-es every individual farmer to
plow up the stalks as soon as pick
ing is completed. The destruction on
individual farms will greatly bene
fit the farmer due to the migratory
hab'ts of the weevil, he sayv-.
Where weather conditions or oth
er contingencies make it impossible
to plow up the stalks the grower
should turn in cattle or sheep to
graze. While not as far reaching in
results as plowing under the graz'ng
will destroy some of the feeding
ground and many of the young-
weevils.
The earlier the destruction of the
cotton stalks the fewer weevils the
following spring, says Brannon. The
immature insects are thus destroyed
which will mean fewer weevils to
emerge " from hibernation. The
squares and bolls left on the stalk
are also destroyed and many of the
adult weevils will star\m before the
hibernation period.
NRA Must Speed Up
Merchants Are Told
Douell, In Address -4t Concord
Fears For Success of Recoverv
Program.
Miss Elo’se Gallup; treasurer, Mr.
R. .4. .Tones. -4t the close of the |
meeting refreshments were served
in the basement honoring the teacdi- ,
ers. Punch and waffers was served !
ANOTHER GOVERNMENT
AGENCY FOR RECOVERY
Further restriction- imposed upon
it by the law are compelling the
Government to set up .st'll another ,
agency to help it to carry out its I
recovery program. It will be recalled
that the President announcetl re- :
cently that the Government would
lend farmers of the South 10 cents ,
a pound on their cotton in order to
permit them to market their crop:; ,
profitably. This money was to be
advanced by the Reconstruction ,
Finance Corporation from the funds
at its disposal.
The Government experts have dis
covered that in order to comply with
the law the R. F. C. cannot make
such loan; direct to the farmers,
but that it can do so through the
medium of a stock corporation.
Therefore the President announced
on October (1 that a commodity
credit corporation is to be set up
at once with an initial capital of
three million dollars, with authority
to borrow money from the R F. C.
on the security of commodities.
Concord, Oct. 19.—Fear that the
NRA program will not be the suc
cess hoped for “unless the national
government can inject more speed
into the entire recovei-y program,”
was expressed Wednesday by W. L,
Dow’ell, executive secretary of the
North Carolina Merchants associa
tion, in an addre;;s before the Con
cord merchants at their annual fall
baniuet meeting.
“Merchant- of the state are co
operating wholeheartedly,” he said,
“and have ncreased wages and em
ployed additional help, but the in
creased volume of sales has riot
ju.stified the increase in expense
they have entailed, and we are very i
much afraid that unless more speed
is injected into the entire program
by the nat'onal government it wdl
not be the success w'e all hoped for ”
Mr. Dowell said the variou taxes
and increased pay under the NR.4
are responsible, for increased co.sts
merchants are forced to pass on to
the public.”
Describing enactment of the gen
eral sales tax as “one of the mo.-t
back-ft'ard steps the state has ever
taken ” Mr. Dowell ^aid the .small
tax yield from the plan is attribu
table to out-of-state buying and not
to evasion of the tax by the , mer
chants.
public officials eager to flatter the
vanity and support the ambitions of
the e egoti.stical leaders.
“There is al-ways a bureaucracy of
government ready and eager to dis
place the people from control of
' -putniv; affairs and substitute thefll’
,asse'rting and perhaps tie-
l.evin^- that they htivtj inlgjli- j
' fefehci* lllliii tiie public and better
ability to govern.
“The people mu.st be ever alert
against such invasions of their
rights. The people must exerci-e
the eternal vigilance which is the
_j-ice of their cherished liberties anil
tlif'y niltsl halt any dangers to those
liberties at ttie very out.set and in
the very beginning, before those,
dangers can assume the form of a |
serious menace. 1
W arehouse
Smithfieid, N. C.
“We are drifting from democracy
We are drifting steadily and stupid- j
ly toward .-ome one of the various
forms of despotism which prevail in
the Old World. We are attempting
to assume forms of government in
our free land which our fathers
came to this country definitely to
avoid and eventually to repudiate.
‘There is danger to our whole
civic structure in this tendency,
danger to the rights anil liberties
our fathers won for us and which
for a century and a half we liaVe
proudly and successfully maintained
and which we haii hopeil to hand
down a- a precious heritage to our
children.
“There is danger to freedom of i
thought, freedom of speech, free- |
dom of publicaUon, freedom of |
action. There is danger to republi- '
can institutions and to the funda- t
mental privileges of a free people ^
in the persistent effort of govern- :
ment to invade every socialistic
theories for the proven practice of,
inuepiemlent and intelligent .4meri- |
WE ARE NOT LEADING THE STATE IN NUMBER OF
POUNDS SOLD BEGAUSE OUR WAREHOUSE IS SMALL IN
SIZE. BUT, WE ARE GIVING THE WIDE WORLD A FIT ON
i:)AILY AVERAGES.
WE SOLD ONE LOAD OF TOBACCO ON OUR FLOOR WED
NESDAY, OCT. 25TH OF LESS THAN 6000 POUNDS FOR THE
SUM OF $1,807.86.
FACTS AND FIGURES DO NOT LIE.
MANY OF OUR CUSTOMERS ARE MAKING DAILY AVER
AGES OF $30 AND BEUFER FOR THEIR ENTIRE LOADS
BRING US YOUR NEXT, AND WE WILL PROVE TO YOU
THAT THERE IS NO BETTER PLAGE THAN THE DIXIE
WAREHOUSE IN SMITHFIELD, N. G. TO MARKET YOUR
TOBACCO.
YOUR FRIENDS,
Spilman & Perkins
WE HAVE FIRST SALE MONDAY OCT. 30. PLEASE GOME EARLY.
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Green Eel Grey
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