The
ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
L 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 cf March 3rd, 1879.
PRINTERS - LITHOGRAPHERS - ENGRAVERS
! BEER COMES SOUTH
North Carolina will be selling beer on May
first. How long this will continue depends en
tirely on the general public, particularly that
part of the public which will buy and sell beer.
If beer is bought and sold in the proper way,
well regulated, in reasonable quantities and un
der proper circumstances and surroundings, and
by the right kind of people, then we can look
forward to permanent continuance of the plan
and still more changes in the laws of State and
Nation.
There are many citizens, who have been
and still are dubious of the outcome, and who
because of their doubts have been opposed to
any change in Prohibition. This large group of
citizens must be won over to the idea that real
temperance can be obtained by the proper regu
lation of the liquor business.
Then there are those large groups of Drys
who will never give up and many of these are
going to be busy trying to find and point out the
faults and failures of the new system. As quick
ly as they are discovered, they must be correct
ed.
Will Rogers says this means the end of the
bootlegger and the turning over of the liquor
business to the politicians. We hope he is
wrong. While the politicians will have lots to do
and say about liquor, the control should never
be placed in their hands, directly or indirectly.
When that time comes, the pendulum will
swing back the other way and the next time,
if ever, we get Prohibition, it will be here to
stay.
Everybody seems to have the idea there is
going to be plenty of money to be made in sell
ing beer. That is not true and has never been
the idea of the writer. If selling beer was going
to make men rich, then everybody would quit
what they are doing and go into the beer busi
ness.
This is going to be like any other business.
A lot will start in it and fizzle out- with the
business man who operates the right kind of
place staying in and making a living.
For a time it may be like the Jig Saw Puzzle
business. One or two small places have made a
decent living for several years making these
puzzles. Suddenly it becomes a craze and every
paper box and wood manufacturer in the coun
try started making them. Now, nobody is mak
ing any money out of it.
There’s another angle to it. Many persons,
now grown, have never tasted real beer. They
will not like it. As with olives, one must culti
vate the taste. It will take a long time to make
a beer-drinking Nation out of America, especi
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ally in the South. They have been raised on
corn liquor.
One of our main reasons for advocating
beer was to try and do a little weaning of South
ern hard-liquor drinkers. The experiment is
worth trying and will be interesting to watch.
GREED FOR GOLD
The wholesale massacre of the Cannon family in Meck
lenburg County, Va., will go down in Virginia and North Caro
olina history as one of the bloodiest of record.
They had many relatives and friends in Roanoke
Rapids and other parts of Halifax County wfoo were shock
ed at the terrible news and who have our sympathy.
Every available effort must be made to bring the butch
ers to justice. The only motive was greed for gold. While
we all like to earn our share of material things, there are
those to whom money is God and there are those who will
do anything to get money.
This latter breed must be exterminated.
TECHNOCRACY vs. CHRISTOCRACY
One great Divine preached last Sunday on “Christocr
acy”. It brought back from the limbo of forgotten fads the
thought of Technocracy, which attained a short but glaring
place in the spotlight of fame a few months ago.
Technocracy was supposed to diagnose the world’s ills,
prescribe the cure. It went the way of a thousand other pre
scriptions. The name is scarcely heard any more.
And living on, true, sure and final, emerging triumph
ant against all foes, outliving all other creeds, beliefs,
theories, fads, cure-alls, is what this man preached Sunday:
Christocracy, the religion of One who died and rose again,
Whose Resurrection the world will soon celebrate with the’
full knowledge that by these acts a new hope was established
for a lost people.
“This year has started as all will—
with farm relief first on the bill.”
“Each year with surplus elocution
H our statesmen make a resolution to
D help the man behind the plow. But
r nothing’s happened up till now. The
good part though is that the farmer
> has gradually grown a good bit calm
er, and now in placid resignation ac
cepts the hopeless situation.”
Whether you are a farmer or a business man, you can help
yourself greatly by buying shares in our present series. They
accumulate interest rapidly.
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