Local Merchants Are Making Preparations For Big Holiday Business
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Big Christmas Concert In
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SELMA. N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 193;].
NUMBER 49
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.4 Number of Choirs and Quar.etteL
From Different Parts of_Johnston
County Have Already Indicated
Their Initention to Be Here—Will
Begin At 2:00 O’clock In After
noon In High School Auditorium.
A large crowd is expected in
Selma Sunday afternoon, December
JOth. for the singing meet which is
being sponsored by the local Ki-
wanis Club. Rev. D. F. Waddell,
H. H. Lowry and John Jeffreys will
have the meefng in charge and
are working hard to make the
-s'ng’ing ■ a big success.
The singing will be held in the
hig’h school auditorium and will be
gin promptly at 2:00 o’clock.
Those who have .-ign=fied their in
tention of taking part in this pro
gram are: Selma, Smithfield, Ken-
ly, Glendale, Corbett-Hatcher, Car
ters Chapel, Wilson Mills, Clayton,
and other places.
'Ihose attending this meet will
not be charged anything whatsoev
er, and everybody is cordially in
vited to be present.
It is hoped that this Irst singing
will be made a success and that it
can be made an annual affair.
Choirs, quartettes and glee clubs
iinywhere in John.ston County are
invited to take part in this singing.
Those wishing to do'so are asked
to . get in touch with either Rev.
3). P. Waddell H. H. Lowry or John
Jeffreys immediately.
BASKETBALL
Prof. 0. A. Tuttle^ Superintendent
at the Selma schools, attended a
meeting’ of representatives of the
member schools of the third dis
trict conference held at the Sir
Walter hotel in Raleigh Wednesday
evening to arrange the schedule
covering the basketball conte.st for
J9.34 for the third eastern district
conference.
Selma school has entered the
State high school ba ketball con
test for the season of 1934. The
schedule follows:-
Jan. 12—Garner at Selma
Jan. 16—Spring Hope at Spring
Hope
Jan. 26—Wakelon at Wakelon,
Jan. 30—Spring Hope at Selma.
Feb. 2 Garner at Garner.
Feb. 6—Wakelon at Selma.
Tobacco Campaign
Gets Under Way
With the arrival at State Col-
.ege of the fir.st batch of tobacco
jontracts, plan^ for gett'ng the
acreage adjustment campaign under
way at once are now going for
ward rapidly.
During the past week, the pub
lications office at State College has
mailed to county farm agents in the
■37 counties growing’ flue-cured to
bacco over one million blanks forms
and other printed supplies to be
used in connection with the cam
paign. Dean I. 0. Schaub, director
of the Extension Sbrvice at State
College,, had the agents come to
the College on Monday, December 4
for further study of the contract
and to secure add tional - supplie.-
and in tructions heeded for the con
duct of the campaign.
The agents are expected to have
n their hands all necessary copies
of the _ contract by the close of this
week and growers are asked to be
gin immediately to change their old
agreements, signed in September,
nto legal contracts -w'ith the Secre
tary of Agriculture.
At the same time, growers are
also urged to secure the neces.sary
data showing the amount and price
of tobacco sold before the market'ng
holiday and after the holiday and
before the agreement made with
the big buying companies on October
7. Those who secure this informa
tion, with proof of its correctnes.s,
■will get a compensation payment
for such tobacco sold. Th’s compen
sation payment will be 20 percent
of the value of the tobacco sold
■before the holiday and 10 percent
of the value of that .sold between
the holiday and the signing of the
marketing ag’reement. Only those
who sign adjustment contracts, how
ever, will get this compensation
payment.
Mr Schaub urges all tobacco
growers to cooperate with the coun-
,ty agents in gett’ng the new con
tracts signed. The quicker this is
done, the quicker will the rental
payments be made and the whole
program put into effect.
Officers At Sea In
Regard To Whisky
With Federal Sitatutes Wiped Off
the Books Pol.ee Are Puzzled
About Application of State Laws
—Can a Man Have His Personal
Liquor
Republican Not To |
Blame For Criticism
National Republican Executive Com
mittee Cites ihe lininole.sted
Powers Given Democratic Admin
istration and Says Criticism Was
Started In Democratic Household.
Mr. A. V. Driver Dies
At His Home Here
Selma-Smithfield Play Scoreless
Game.
The All-Star football teams of
Smithfield and Selma played to a
KC-Dreless deadlock in Sm.thfield last
JTriday. The two independent teams
ccmpo.sed of former high school ami
college player.- offered a good game.
The Selma team threatened to score
several times and the game ended
-■with Selma on Smithfield’s one-yard
line, third down and goal to go.
It W'as a well played game with
both teams playing a very clean
brand of football. These two teams
may play another game in Selma at
s later date. The .starting line-up
■was as follows:
-Selma Po. Smithfield
S. Hood, le., R. Davis
Barden, It., Fuller
Tart, Ig., B. Creech
H. Hood, e., D. Creech
C. Hood, rg, Uzzle
F. Hood, rt., Rose
Blackman, re., Honeycutt
■G. Gields, Ih., Kirkman
Lee, rh., J. Davis
Itay, fb., Ragsdale
Auto Sales Almost
Double Last Year
Raleigh, Dec. 4.—North Caro-
linian.s, during the first 11 months
of this year bought nearly twice as
many automobiles as during the
•iame period of 1932 and sales in
November were nearly three times
as great as in November last year.
L. S. Hands, director of the state
motor vehicle bureau, today repoited
2,320 new pas enger cars and 455
iruck.s or 2,775 vehicles, were sold
in the state in November, compared
with 912 new cars and 188 trucks,
or 1,100 vehicles, in the month last
year.
Thus far this year 26,963 new cars
and 5,960 new trucks, or 32,923
vehicles, have been sold as com
pared with 14,116 new cars and
3,396 new trucks ,or 17,512 vehicle^
for 11 months of 1932.
Many city and county officers in
the state ,are far at sea as to ■what
authority will remain to them with
lespect to whisky after national re
peal.
They know, of course, that North
Carolina wjl remain dry, by statute
if not in fact. And it is thi.s condi
tion that puzzles and will continue
to puzzle until the laws are clari
fied.
For example, the Greensboro po
liceman want to know what he is
to do if he finds a truckload of
whisky being transported across
North Carolina. He knows that it
will no longer be a federal offense,
but at the same time the posses
sion of the whesky is contrary to
the provisions of the state law. So
he wants to know if he j.- to make
a seizure under the state law.
Then, there is the act passed in
1923 to make the “state law con
form to the nat’onal law in relation
to intoxicating liquors.’’ Some of its
provisions are puzzl'ng to the police.
Section 10 provides that “from
and after the ratification of thi.s
act, the possession of liquor by any
person not legally permitted under
tlii- act to possess liquor shall be
prima fac>e evidence that such
liqrfor is kept for the purpose of
being sold, bartered, exchanged,
given away furnished or otherwise
disposed of in violation of the pro
visions of thi.s act. But it sliall not
be unlawful to possess liquor in
one's private dwelling while the
same is occupied and''used by him
as his dwelling’ only; provided such
liquor is for use only for the pe"-
sonal consumption of the owner
thereof and .his family residing in
such dwelling and of his bona fide
.guests when entertained by him
therein.’’
The officers are not sure as to
just how the la t sentence of above-
quoted section will be construeil by
the courts, which, until now, have
been able to fall back on the fed
eral statutes.
There is pretty general agree
ment among’ the officers that there
will be a general tightening of the
search and seizure provisions prac
tices, The Turlington act, which re
mains in force in thi.s state, roads
in one .section as follows:
“That nothing in th’s section
shall be construed to authorize any
officer to search any automobile or
other veh’cle or baggage of any per
son without a search warrant duly
isssued ,except where the officer
sees or has ab.solute personal
knowledge that there is intoxicat
ing liquor in such vehicle or bag
gage.”—Greensboro Daily News.
The Republican National Commit
tee, according to the Washington
correspendence to the Greensboro
Daily News, Ls quoted as having
the following to say concerning the
activities of and the powers given
to President Roosevelt and his ad
ministration:
“No administration since that of
George Washington has been more
protected from partisan criticism
than has the administration of
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“No administration in the hi-tory
of the United States ,having a task
to perform, has been given as unan
imous support by the American peo
ple as the Roosevelt administration.
“No other administration in the
history of the United States asking
legislation with which to accomplish
the task at hand, has had it.s re
quests granted 100 per cent. In
this respect the Roosevelt adminis
tration is unique in the annals of
our government. Horeover, in the
granting of that legislation there
was Utile or no partisan opposition.
“Having given the administration
the laws it wanted—in fact, the
laws it itself wrote and .-ent to
Congress to be passed without even
24 hours’ consideration—the Con
gress appropriated, in addition to
the routine appropriations to run
the government, $3,300,000,000 to be
applied especially to the administra
tion’s program of recovery. That
was e.xclusive of provisions made
for i.-’isuance of bonds to aid the re
covery program.
“In addition ,it gave the Presi
dent more power than was given
Lincoln to save the union or Wilson
to wage the world war.
“Having done all this, without
any exhibition of partisanship, the
Congress adjourned to leave the
President and his administration of- I
ficials free and untrammeled to
carry out a prog-ram which the
public hail been assured would prove
successful.
“During the months- following the
adjournment of Congress there was
no partisan effort to hamper the
President and his advisors in their
work.
Mrs. Hunter Price 111.
Mrs. Hunter Price, who has been
ill at the Brick Hotel for several
lays, was taken to the Johnston
County Hospital Wednesday after
noon. Mr. Price and son, Walter,
arrived last night from North, Va.
DINNERS’ REPORT.
There were 37,726 bales of cotton
counting round as half bales, ginn
ed in Johnston County from the
crop of 1933 prior to Noveniber 14,
1933, as compared with 33,781 bales
ginned to November 14, 1932.
ROBT. L. POWELL, Special Agt,
Farmers Meeting
The farmers of the Glendale sec
tion met Monday night, Noveniber
20, in the Glendale High school
auditorium and organized a farm
ers club, Mr. W. T. Cockrell was
elected president; vice-president, Mr.
R. D. Woodard; Secretary and trea-
.surer, Mr. D. L. Boyette.
Mr. J. B. Slack, our county agent
was present at this meeting and
thoroughly explained the new to
bacco acreage contract, which will
be ready for farmers to sign within
a very few days. Most everyone is
I’eady and anxious to sign and get
busy to >ee that no tobacco grower
v/ithin our borders is allowed to be
called a slacker. Mr. Slack said he
would be with us as near every time
as possible and explain any sub
ject we desire explained.
December 18, which will be the
date of the next farmers meeting,
Mr. Slack will explain tobacco
plant beds, tobacco plans bed fgerti-
lizer and terracing.
Gaston County sweet potato grow
ers now have 62 storage houses,
with a capacity of 80,000 bushels.
Selma’s Civil Works
Program In Full Blast
During the past few days the
Civil Works program has been re
sponsible for a large force of men
to get employment in Selma; and
the way Mr. Henry Earp, the lo
cal super\’isor, and his aides are
going about the task of draining-
the town, it would seem that in
the future Selma will be a “dry-
town”. They have already had a
large drain ditch cut leading out
towards Catch-Me-Eye in order that
the surface waters accumulating in
the southern part of town may find
escape through this large ditch and
onward toward Neuse river.
One commendable feature about
the way they are going at thi.-
work is the fact that they are cut
ting a ditch fully three feet wide,
which in some places reaches a
depth of five or six feet in order
to give the water plenty of fall a.s
it recedes from our streets and
alleys.
There can be no doubt that the
money' now available under the
provisions of the Civil Works Ad
ministration could be spent in a
more profitable way than to drain
our town, thereby eliminating many-
unwholesome pools where mosqui-
toe.s breed in countless thousands
each summer.
“There was nothing during all
that period to bring the President’s
[irogram face to face with failure,
except its own inherent defects.
“A month or six weeks ago there
began to be criticism of the policie.s
of the administration. It wa.--. point
ed out in the columns of the public
press that the President’s recovery
program was not working, because
it was not workable; that many of
the policies ran contrary to funda
mental economic laws, sound busi
ness practices, plain common .sense
and particularly to the .spirit of
.American institutions and convic
tions and traditions of the Ameri
can people.
“lhat criticism did not orginate
with partisan opponents of the
President. It came from out.stand-
ing members of the Democratic
party. It found virile expression in
the editorial columns of staunch
Democratic newspaper.s It was voic
ed particularly by the rank and file
of the American people who neither
hold political office nor aspire to
do .so
“The bitterest of the criticism
has come from those to whom the
President made an especial appeal
in his campaign for election—the
farmer, the small business man,
the man with the small factory and
the city consumer
“It is the ‘forgotten man’ of 1932
I Rooseveltian oratory who complain.s
that he still is in that category,
“The admini.-tration resents that
criticism. Denying that it seeks dic
tatorship, nevertheless, it would es
tablish one by trying to muzzle the
expression of adver.se public opinion.
‘‘The cry has been raised that we
are in war ami being in war, there
must be no criticism of the Pre.si-
dent or hi.s policies. He and hi- sub
ordinates must be implicitly obeyed.
Their reque.sts must be given the
force of a mandate.
“We are not in war. We are in
a state of profound peace. The is
sues before the American people are
not martial. They are economic. The
President is not acting in his capac
ity as commander in chief of the
army and navy, but as a civilian
“The American people thoroughly
understand this. That i.s why they
object to the attempt upon the part
of the daministration to gonduct it
self along the line sof a dictator-
ship,stifling- as far as possible all
criticism, ’cracking down’ on any
business or industry which assert-s
its rights to question the wisdom
of certain economic policies, surely
political in their origin ,without be
ing threatened with ‘economic death.’
“The American people object to
the regimentation of agriculture and
industry after the manner either
of sovietism or fascism.
“They object to having- some bu
reaucratic top sergeant ‘squad right
and squad left’ all private enter
prise from nationwide motor corp
orations to side street barber shops.
They object to putting- private ini-
t’ative in the guard house. They ob
ject to the use of that un-Ameri
can weapon of coercion and reprisal
—the boycott—against those who I
refuse to accept without question a '
program which even its author and '
sponsors frankly admit to be ex
perimental.
“They object to muzzling the
radio. The radio has supplanted the
public platform of former years as
the medium of public discussion. 'To
censor or muzzle it is to suppress
free speech Notwithstanding Gen.
Hug'h S. Johnson’s repeated public
denials to the contrary, documen
tary evidence is in hand that broad
casting stations have been official
ly threatened with loss of their
licenses unless they censor the use
of their facilities in behalf of the
NRA.
“They object to the muzzling of
the press—the bulwark of popular
government. That this has been at
tempted is evidenced by the stub
born resi-tance for over two months
of the NRA to writing into the
newspaper code a reaffirmation of
the constitutional guaranties of free
dom of the press.
“The wage earner objects to a
monetary policy that threatens his
dollar with the loss of one-half of
its value when he lays it on the
merchant’s counter, and fails at the
same time to equalize his los.~ by
doubling the number he gets in his
pay envelope.
‘‘The ex-service man objects to a
monetary policy that threatens to
reduce by one-half the purchasing-
power of his pension or compensa
tion, which is fixed by law.
“Those with savings in a bank or
invested in insurance policie.-i ob
ject to a monetary policy which
leads automatically to the filching
of one-half of what they have laid
aside against the day of old age or
misfortune.
“As these objections became vocal
as they found expression in the news
and editorial columns of the free
press, the ‘new deal’ replied with
abuse and ephithets in an effort to
make it appear that tho.-e who so
object are either mental incompe
tents ,enemie.s ,traitors or down
right venal.
‘'That the public may judge for
itself the enormity of the libel be
ing uttered by h!gh officials of the
Rooseevlt adraini.stration ag-ainst
prominent, upright, loyal Americans
and against the free and self-re
specting press of the country ,there
is reproduced some of the criticisms
which ha- enraged the ‘new deal.’
“These have been purposely limit
ed, in the main, to excerpts from
sources which cannot be charged
with parti.san prejudice against the
Democratic party. The individuals
quoted are either forthright Demo
crats or official spokesmen of great
national non-partisan organizations.
The metropilitan papers quoted are
largely Democratic or independent.
The smaller papers quoted are lo
cated mostly in the middle west
Their editorial sentiment reflects
the opinion of their neighbors—the
farmers and the small merchants—
regardless of party affiliations.
One of Johnston Uounty’s Leading
Business Men Closes a liseful
Career — Had Been In Declining
Health For .About 'I'wo Years—
\V as Reasonably Active Until
About Si.x Months Ago—Funeral
Friday Afternoon.
Mr. A. V. Driver died at hi.s
home here about 11:30 o’clock Wed
nesday night in hi.s 71st year, fol
lowing several months of illness.
He had been in declining health for
about two years, but not until about
six months ago did he become in
capacitated. His illnesr- had been
described as Bright’s disease and
heart trouble combined.
When quite a young man, the de
ceased was .engaged in the turpen
tine business in Georgia and Flor
ida. He located in Selma about 30
years ag-o and became one of the
town’.s leading merchants, serving a
large number of cu.stomer.- year in
and year o’ut for many years. He
was reasonably active in politics,
but w’as always regarded as very
conservative in his political views.
He was married three times, the
first time to Miss Mary E. Fore
hands, of King.stree, S. C. To thi'f
union were born six children, five
of whom survive, as follows: C. C.
and A. R. Driver, of Selma; W. E.
Driver, of Cold Springs, Ky.; Mr.s.
C. E. Pusser, of Richmond, Va, and
Mrs. Bessie Gregory, of Atlanta.
Ga.
His second wife was Miss Donia
Hood, of Selma, and to this union'
two children were bom, but only
one survives and this one is Mr.
Douglas Driver, of Smithfield.
His third wife was Miss Zelma
Duke.s, of Nashville, N. C,, and to
this union were born seven children,
five of whom survive as follows:
A. R. Driver, Jr., Hazel, James,
Raymond and Edward Driver, all of
Selma. Mrs. Driver al-o .sur\'ives.
Funeral service.s will be held at
the home Friday afternoon at three
o’clock, conducted by Rev. L. T.
Singleton, following wliich inter
ment will take place in the city
cemetery.
Gapt. J. E. Godwin
Sustains Broken Leg
On Thursday night of last week,
Capt. J. E. Godwin, section fore
man for the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway, was returning home from'
a trip to Pine Level on his auto
mobile, when apparently something
got the matter with his car. He
stepped out of his car in an effort
to see where the trouble was, and
while examining his machine some
one passed in another automobile,
striking Capt. Godwin and running
over him thereby breaking one of
his legs and causing other injuries.
It was apparently a hit-and-run
driver as there was no let up in
the speed of the car which ran
over Mr. Godwin.
Capt. Godwin was taken to a
hospital in Rocky Mount where it
was found that he was wounded to
■such an extent that it will proba
bly be several months before he'
will be able to work again.
Death Takes Redin
Creech of O’Neals
Mr. Redin Creech, a prominent
citizen of O’Neals Township, died
on Monday, November 27th, follow
ing several months of declining
health. He leaves a wife and ten
children and five grandchildren and
a host of relatives and friends to
mourn their Io:-s.
Burial services were held Tues
day aft ernoon, November 28th, at
3:30 o’clock, conducted by Elder J.
T. Collier, of Micro. Interment took
place in the family burying plot
near his home.
Hephzibah News
Miss Lucile Beaty, of Wilson
MHl, is spending this week with
•Misses Esther Braswell and Loi.si
Pittman.
Miss I,etha Stallings spent the
week-end with Miss Gladys Bra.s-
well.
Miss Irene Smith, of near Ro.se-
wood, spent a while Sunday with
Miss Ruth Creech.
Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Barbour
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Adam Woodard.
Misses Esther Bi-aswell and Lois
Pittman spent part of last week
with Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Beaty
near Wilson Mills.
Mi.s.s Pauline Smith spent a while
Sunday with Mi s Mettle Bra.swell.
Miss Ella Earp spent last week
with her sister, Mrs. Willie Twiggs.
Mr. and Mrs. William Braswell,
of near Brogden, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Braswell.
Miss Thelma Pittman spent the
week-end with Mi.ss Ruby Bra-welL
Miss Rosa Holloman spent the
week-end with Miss Annie Holloman
near Parrish Memorial.
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