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The ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina HALIFAX COUNTY’S LARGEST NEWSPAPER 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 SENATORIAL COURTESY (Written From Raleigh By The Editor) Folks, we don’t know any more about this thing called “Senatorial Courtesy” than you do. After a week in Raleigh we are going to try to pass on to you what we h ve seen and heard. You might call this the “Legislative Primmer.” Apparently, when the people elect a man, es pecially a State Senator, that ends the responsi bility of the people. They can go back to work and the Senator attends to their legislative prob lems in the State Capitol. This electing a man gives him priority on all matters of State and local importance. The people have nothing more to do with it. 1 hese senators believe, it appears, that on election they have the inborn, innate and abso lute power to use their own judgment and pass laws which they approve. The will of the people, a beautiful and excit ing phrase during the election, is a joke, appar ently, after the election. Lets take the Roanoke Rapids experience in Senate Bill 242 as an ex ample. There are those who might say this is an exception and how we agree with them, altho’ perhaps not in the same way. We see a clear cut, wide path of duty before us and we are determined to follow it. While others may have decided to follow the road which leads to political fame or hopeless obli vion, we seek the highway of honest and sensi ble development. We view this mishap as but another of the many obstacles thrown in the path of those who would build a city by those who would destroy for the sake of a spirit of vengence or despair. Citizens of Roanoke Rapids, do not despair. There are those who pray for us in this fight to protect our homes and jobs. There is One who will eventually answer those prayers. “The Mills of the Gods Grind Slowly, but they Grind Exceedingly Fine.” There are those who with courage, honesty and sincerity, will lead us out of the Slough of Despond into the levels of Hope and on to the Peaks of Happiness. This “Senatorial Courtesy” is but a time worn and shallow precedent, handed down from stage-coach days. Its abiding principle is based on the ancient shibboleth that “The King Can Do No Wrong.” In short, a senator, duly elected, in that small and compact body of fifty, where a virtual veto power is sustained over the large and cumber some machine called the House, has powers of which a Napolean might be envious. Used right ly, one can be a great power for good. Used wrongly, that same person can threaten, weak en, destroy and annihilate-a person, a group, an entire community. For the rule is-on local matters such as ours • we take no part, we listen to no reason, we do Now For Some Wood Sawing-B7 Albert T. Reid fEOOSft'grEp (&UDG&} ' wMPiwmm not decide. Whatever the local Senator desires— j that is well with us. His word is the law. There is no alternative. What an opportunity for a good man. What a tragedy when one has evil in his heart? And the people, we see them now, thousands of men, women and little children, with their lives, their futures, yes, even their daily bread and butter, dependent on the action of men who would trade, barter, close their eyes and ears to logic and vote for or against, regardless of merit, because “Senatorial Courtesy” so de mands. The day is not far off when the business man and woman, the laborer and the employer, the professional and the ditch digger, will shear these so-called “representatives” of such anti quated and un-Democratic powers. farm and factory There is a rapidly growing belief among farmers that the ' ultimate solution of our agricultural problems is going to come from a much more direct relationship between agriculture and industry than exists at present. For many years industrialists and scientists have been pointng out the necessity for a closer tie-up between farm and factory. Mr. Henry Ford has for years been preaching and putting into practice his idea that, instead of concentrating production in great industrial cen ters, big industries should have numerous small factories, each producing some part of the finished product, so located that industrial workers could also be agriculturists, having their own land to fall back on for subsistence whenever in dustry was slack. This has always seemed to us like a sound solution of the problem of the industrial worker, but it does not go far toward solving the major problems of the farmer. “The folks who have the most gray matter don’t always perch on top the ladder.” “Just brains alone are not so hot. It’s how you use the ones you’ve got. I’ve seen some fellows walking poodles who had more real sense in tkeir noodles than some big bozos short on brains who reached the top by constant strains. Small heads with wheels well lubricated will soon reach points quite elevated.” An example of using brains to advantage is joining the Roa noke Rapids Building and Loan Ass’n. Nobody ever lost a and no dol,ar ever faUed to earn good interest upon ma i A0^eRapid. Building & Loan Assoc. 12 W. Second StreetDIAL R-4A4-1 DR. W. M. WARD Dentist Roanoke Rapids, N. C. \V. Lunsford Long i J Winfield Crew, Jr. LONG & CREW Attorney-At-Law ROANOKE RAPIDS, North Carolina ZOLLICOFFER —And— ALLSBROOK Attorneys at Law IMPERIAL THEATRE BLDG. Dial R-324 Roanoke Rapids, N. C. WWAWWAWWWVW W. C. WILLIAMS Funeral Director FUNERAL PARLOR UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT AMBULANCE SERVICE TACTFUL ATTENTION DAY—Dial R-340 NIGHT—Dial R-389 Roanoke Rapids. N. C. Eyes Examined and Glasses) Fitted. Office near Roses 10c I store. Up stairs. Hoars 9 to U and 1 to 5. In every day except Mondays. Dr. E. D. Harbour Optometrist Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
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