THE HERALD
Of The Twin Cities
ROANOKE RAPIDS- ROSEMARY
_
CARROLL WILSON, Publiaher and Editor
■aland aa Second CUaa matter April 3rd, 1914, at the
Paatoflica at Roanoke Rapida, North Carolina, under Act
if March 3rd, 1878._
PRINTERS. LITHOGRAPHERS, ENGRAVERS
AN OPPORTUNIST LEADER
As this is written, the MacLean Act sup
porters, headed by Josephus Daniels, are march
ing to victory with a luxury tax as the main
source of revenue to “relieve” land of taxes.
And thus will end the long battle of the em
battled farmers, according to Mr. Daniel’s prom
ises. With the MacLean Act in force (no ad val
orem tax on property for support of schools) and
with sources OTHER than real estate supply ing
the money, we can now enter into those Eh sian
fields of hapniness which Mr. Daniels has paint
ed so vividly for the past 110 days.
No more shall we hear tne cr> oi me »uu,n
en farmer and property owner; no more are we a
downtrodden race under the heel of privilege, no
more need we worry about where the tax money
is coming from. Leader Daniels has solved the
riddle; he has shown the lighted path for the un
willing feet of our misguided statesmen; he is
the Saviour of our State. The MacLean Act is
a reality.
We speak not disparagingly when we call Mr.
Daniels leader. He is today the unofficial and
self appointed leader of Eastern Nortn Carolina.
We say that m all sincerity of belief. At this par
ticular moment, he has achieved that status
which all public men aspire to; unquestioned lead,
ership.
Having assumed this leadership, he must car
ry on. If the MacLean Act has solved the tax
problems of the State, then Mr. Daniels should
receive the credit; even more so than the writer
of the Act, Representative MacLean, who in the
latter days had seen the folly of his ways and
was willing to compromise with the ten million
dollar equalizing fund.
The next two years 'will tell a whole lot of
the story. If the MacLean Act fails to do what
Mr. Daniels has told the State it will do; effect
economy, lower taxes, relieve the burden on the
overtaxed, then Mr. Daniels will stand in a very
unsavory spot.
He has grasped the opportunity presented D>
the general depression to seat himself in the sad
dle. It is difficult to state just why. There are
those who say he is peeved at the leaders of h's
party because he was not honored with a seat in
the U. S. Senate (a fitting place for an ex-Secre
tary of the Navy). Others claim he has his eye
on the next Governorship.
Whatever may be his aims and ambitions,
he must ride or fall with the MacLean Act. It is
his child by adoption. When an harassed General
Assembly having passed the Act under pressure,
would have let it die a natural death for lack of
funds, it was Mr. Daniels who resurrected it
and breathed new life into the emaciated form.
His friends claim that he had other means
than nuisance taxes to raise the money for the
MacLean Act. We do not believe it. If he had,
Mr. Daniels, admitted leader, would have had in
corporated in the Revenue Bill, those sources.
As a matter of fact, he and all others know that
a nuisance tax of some kind is essential to the
MacLean Act.
We predict it will be the luxury tax, simply
because that will have less opposition, having less
numbers directly involved. A poor turn of affairs,
whena so-called relief measure, is foisted on those
unable to defend themselves.
And when the two years is over, the "re
lieved”, including the farmers, will find they have
paid out more in taxes than under the present
system. It will be given them in easier and
more painless doses.
The only job that Mr. Daniels has done well
to completion, to perfection, in all this tax squab
ble, is to further alienate and antagonize invested
capital and possible future investors. The sad
part is that while Mr. Daniels has always been
an enemyT to the interests, it was not until the
present depression that he was able to gather
about his flag thousands of citizens who, discour
aged with business, were in a ready frame of
mind to believe anything about anybody.
Opportunist Daniels has seized his opportuni
ty and done well thereby.
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CLEANING UP
It is not too late to clean up yet. Clean-Up
Week is this week but that does not mean that
when this week is over, all efforts toward making
the individual residence or store a little more liv
able should cease.
The purpose of Clean-Up Week is to bring
the matter forcibly' to the attention of the citi
zens. While a little more concerted work will
be done during that particular period, we believe
it is the hope of the Womans Club and other or
ganizations that; seeing the benefits and realiz
ing the advantages of general cleanliness, the av
erage citizen will continue the good work at all
seasons of the year.
There may be those who think such move
ments are worthless or accomplish little. But
just imagine the general effect if nobody took ,
an interest in such things and if we were all al
lowed to follow the lines of least resistance and
leave things just as we finished with them.
There is no compliment greater to any town
than to have it known as a clean town; nor is
there any greater satisfaction to the average citi
zen than to know' he lives in a clean towm and
has done his share to make it so.
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BIRTH CONTROL
The age in which we are living has one out
standing feature in that the forces of habit and
custom, the traditions of the past, the hangovers
of generations gone by, have lost the halo of
pseudo-reverence accorded them in the past.
To us of today, history is a recording of
past events; it is no longer theAlph a and Omega
of our present conduct. Perhaps a lot of the good
we might derive from following the conduct of
our ancestors is being lost; but we can safely say
we are also discarding a lot of rubbish which has
been handed down from generation to generation
with no other redeeming feature than that of
hnarv usac'e.
The latest proof of our statements is in the
actions taken by various church bodies in regard
to birth control. Here is a school of thought that
ranked with the blackest of heresies a few short
years ago. Its proponents were looked upon with
fear and horror, as diabolical tools of Satan. It
just wasn’t discussed or argued; not even thought
of subconsciously. It was tabooed. Custom made
it a subject not to be touched by either the intel
lectuals or the gutter rats; while that great mass
in between, more sanctimonious than either,
viewed it with ghastly distaste.
We are breaking these shackles of supersti
tion, bigotry and narrowness. Why shouldn’t the
all important question of sex be discussed as
frankly as the less important questions of civics
or art. Pity the countless thousands who have
suffered because of ignorance of the simple laws
regarding sex.
Parents who are hesitant about discussing
such problems should remember that there are al
ways those who are ready to give children the
wrong ideas about such things, when a few in
structions from a parent would thwart any such
ideas.
The fundamental principles of birth control
are sound. It is a known fact those least fitted to
have and able to raise children have the great
bulk of offspring. That class does not know con
tinence, cannot be taught it. Therefore they and
society should be protected by education and
free discussion of the problem.
The writer was condemned by many for fa
voring a law in another State which would make
it legal to sterilize habitual criminals and insane
persons. It was called inhuman, heathenish, etc
etc. We still consider it economically sane ane
sound. It will come eventually, just as birth con
trol for the great masses has already been offi
cially recognized; for some time by leading socio
ligists, economists and other thinkers, more re
cently by several national chcurch organizations
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SHOOTING
By OLD TIMER
I see by the papers that our High
School Musical Clubs won their share
of deserved honors at Greensboro.
These are no empty honors, because
cur school competed with all the larg
ei High School is the State—and
Xorth Carolina is a big State, with
many fine High Schools located there
in. I still hope that some arrange
ment can be made for a big musical
Sunday night seivice at the High
School—free to all who love mu«ic.
They tell me that seventy-five
cents will buy as much now as one
dollar would by a few years ago.
I’d like to pay all my over-due and
past-due accounts on this basis. Ev
eryone knows it costs more to live
today than it did yesterday, and that
seventy-five cents is a mere drop in
the bucket. We live better today than
we did yesterday. We now have two
neckties where we used to have one,
and we change our B.V.D’s. every
day instead of or.ce a w?^. Its not
the high cost of living that costs
more, it’s the better kind of living
which our civilization demands and
we have no complaint.
A few more days will pas9 and
the trees will be out in full, and
summer in all its green glory will
sweep down upon us. Do you watch
the trees as they prepare for the
summer? It’s a wonderful trans
formation from death to life. Keep
your eye on the great all-out-of-doors
and most of your big and little wor
ries will fade away. “Only God Can
Make A Tree.”
Automobiles are not allowed to ope
rate with their exhaust pipes open.
Please advise under what law motor
cycles are permitted to blast forth
up and down our streets at any time
day or night, regardless of the noise
they make. If there is a law to pro
hibit this nuisance—enforce the law.
As far as I can determine, one
man has deadlocked the General As
sembly hopelessly. What a pity that
President Wilson ever made his one
big mistake in making this man Sec
retary of the Navy. This honor ruin
ed him. Let him continue to use the
word “Ex” after his name, the na
tion is clear of him, but it’s our
hard luck that he will continue to
fool us in the Eastern part of North
Carolina as long as he lives. West of
Raleigh his influence is nil, thank
God for that fact.
Over one million dollars in cash
has been offered for the News and
Observer. The News and Observer is
listed for taxation at fifty thousand.
Who is this man who does not at
tempt to escape taxes, but actually
escapes? If North Carolina was the
United States Navy, would we ap
point this man as its secretary. We
would not. When Joe Daniels be
comes Governor, George Washington
will return to bo an office boy.
We would like to see the Democrats
nominate a strong man for Presi
dent, who in addition to other neces
sary qualifications, would be 1. Wet,
2. Protestant. And we would like to
see the Democratic Party with a Wet
platform (Anything less than the us
ual Republican pledge would be term
ed wet.) Our only reason of course
for this desire would be to solve the
argument now in sway between the
two parties as to the reason for the
South going Republican. The Repub
licans declare it was because A1
Smith was Wet. The Democrats claim
it was because the Republicans play
ed on the religious antagonisms of
the South. It would be an interest
ing political experiment — not so
r.oble, perhaps but interesting. If a
Wet Protestant Democrat carried
the South, the Democrats would be
right; if the lost the South as Smith
did, the Republicans would be right,
and could stand absolved of the
charge that they waged a religious
war in the South and also in other
sections of the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bunch attend
ed the funeral Sunday in Oak City
for Earl Bennett and Robert House,
who were drowned last week in the
Roanoke River at Weldon.
Mrs. L. C. Crewe of Miami, Fla.,
has accepted a position with Vogue
Beauty Shoppe.
Mesdames J. L. Williams, E. R.
Kidd, Jim Ingram and Miss Lena
Wright spent Tuesday in Richmond.
1 LOUIS B. MEYER
Attorney-At-Law
—Offiee—
Rosemary Theatre Bldg.
Rosemary, N. C.
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J. Winfield Crew, Jr.
LONG & CREW
Attorneys-at-Law
ROANOKE RAPIDS.
N nr til Carolina
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Trading at City Ice 4k Fad Ce.
Roanoke Rapida, N. C.
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