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ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
HALIFAX COUNTY’S LARGEST NEWSPAPER
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CARROLL L. WILSON, Publisher and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post office
at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879.
PRINTERS - LITHOGRAPHERS - ENGRAVERS
SUPPORTING HOOVER
When the National Republican Convention adopted its
“Prohibition” plank last month, the leaders of that party
were anxious to convince the populous East and North that
the Republican Party had gone wet.
And they might have put it across to a majority of the
voters in that section, (and at the same time convinced the
Dry states the party was still Dry) if the Democratic Party
had no t refused to straddle the issue and if certain develop
ments of the last week had not been forthcoming.
The organized and professional Dry lobbyists, typified
by Dr. F. Scott McBride and Bishop James Cannon have
come out for President Hoover. The allied Dry forces have
gone Republican with a vengenance. Why?
The answer is simple. The Republican Party has not
gone Wet or even moist. Nor is it Dry. Its stand on this is
sue is, as it has been for ten years a peculiar and inexplain
able piece of political mugwumpery.
And this sort of tactics is pleasing to Dry leaders like
McBride and Cannon, who can thus wield the whip hand at
crucial moments like these attending the Presidential elec
tion. |
They will claim they can carry Southern States as they
did in 1928 and they will control Southern Republicans thru
the patronage system. They will claim they hold in the hol
low of their hands millions of “church votes” which they can
vote as they choose all over nation. They will claim they
can organize the “pulpit” ( as they did in 1928) and throw’
the weight of the “moral” forces of the country against the
Democratic nominee. In short, they tell the Republican
leaders, with carefully chosen w’ords, they can wage another
bigoted, vicious, poisonous, lying campaign among the ignor
ant, the biased or the fanatical. Upon such basis rests the
coalition of the Drys and the Republicans.
What else could it? The Drys can do the Republican
Party no good in the East and North. Only in the South
and Middle West is their work effective.
But it is a far cry from 1928 to 1932. The South has
time and again repudiated the false leadership o f the Drys
since 1928. Look at Simmons and Morrison in our State;
Heflin in Alabama; Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen in Florida.
The Democratic stand in frank, honest, clearcut, cour
ageous ; that of the Republican is dishonest, cowardly, hypo
critical, misleading.
The McBrides and Cannons cannot repeat in 1932. The
Solid South wil 1 be voting for Roosevelt and Gamer.
WORRY FOR NEXT LEGISLATURE
The State’s Advisory Budget Commission is wrestling
this week with the State’s financial problem for the next
year, which is expected to be much more troublesome than
the fiscal year just ended, due to a drying up of the known
and heretofore dependable sources of revenue. Another
cut in salaries of 10 to 20 per cent is one apparent necessity.
Another method suggested is to either cut or h'old back
salaries of the school teachers next year to the extent o'f 10
to 15 per cent, in face of legislative acts forbidding cuts to
teachers, and leave it up to the next General Assembly to
either ratify the cut or levy additional taxes to pay the
amount held back.
David L. Strain, field manager for Robt. R. Reynolds ir
his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the U. S.
Senate, is trying to work out some plan to realize on the fam
ous Reynolds Ford to help pay a campaign deficit. He mav
call upon the public to buy the Ford, at $1 per person, and
place it in the State Museum as a historic relic.
James Roosevelt, 20-year-old son of the Democratic
Presidential nominee, has been appointed by President Tyre
C. Taylor as national treasurer of the Young Democratic
Club of America, succeeding John P. Stedman, State Treas
urer who has been serving as temporary treasurer.
Beckoning —==■ • ®y Albert T. Retd
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“GET MOVING”
Jimmie Shell and Carl Thompson, after hitch-hiking to
California, Land of Promise id Fulfillment of Dreams, have
returned to Roanoke Rapids.
These two youngsters, just graduated from High School,
showed rare judgment in coming back after a few weeks of
fruitless effort to obtain any kind of jobs at any kind of
wage on the l^est Coast. There are none at any price and
they report a thousand idle persons for every possible job.
Nor is this confined to California, in our own State,
in Gastonia and other maufacturing centers, mills are shut
down by the score and thousands are wilhout work.
Those who go outside well know that Roanoke Rapids
has been blessed by less unemployment than any other town
or city in the country.
Which makes us want to say to all “bellyachers” and
those dissatisfied with our industries and town: “If you
know of any better town, get moving. If you don’t, learn a
little loyalty and have a good word to say for the best little
city in the country.”
There is only one kind of real home town loyalty, the
practical kind, which operates all the time, be the times good
or not so good. “Fair-weather” loyalty, like friends, is not
worth much.
AN AUSPICIOUS START
Governor Roosevelt From a Business Point of View
(From the (N. Y.) Journal of Commerce)
Thus far, Governor Roosevelt has advanced nothing
specifically which should give the least occasion for alarm to
those who have the business and financial stability of the
country near at heart. . . .
Mr. Roosevelt has made an auspicious start with his ad
dress and has shown that in principle he stands strongly op
posed to economc radicalism as an antidote for the depress
ion.
r “If ever I’m a wealthy man, I’m going
*1 to be an outdoor fan.”
■ “I thought I’d like to be one too. But
L since .the 4th, 1 know I’m through, l
« sped out in my trusty flivver to spend
W a gay day near the river—and now I’m
L in » right bad fix from countless
™ chiggers and wood ticks. A chigger
makes an indoor man of every would
be outdoor fan.”
mere are exciting adventures other than outdoor activities. For
instance, when your principal matures with interest at The
Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Association. Join today.
Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Assoc
12 W. Second Street Dial R-444-1
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DR. W. M. WARD!
Dentist
Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
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W. Lunsford Long |
J. Winfield Crew, Jr.
LONG & CREW
Attorney-At-Law
ROANOKE RAPIDS,
North Carolina
W. C. WILLIAMS
Funeral Director
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