THE ROANOKE RAPIDS
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN HALIFAX COUNTY
Member North Carolina Press Association
CARROLL WILSON, Owner and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post office
mt Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879.
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OUR GRADUATING CLASS
Ten years ago, 22 graduated from the Roa
noke Rapids High School. Five years ago the
number had increased to 36. Last Friday night
there were 77 to graduate in the largest class on
record. There is no reason now to think the limit
has been reached.
Our local school system has been enlarged to
care for those who, in increasing numbers each
year, seek to better themselves. Schoolwork has
been made so varied, so interesting and so com
pelling that it is no longer work and drudgery.
We congratulate our latest graduates and
hope for them useful and happy lives. They are
not only products of our schools, but also of our
churches and homes.
Just as the size of the graduating classes have
grown, so have the problems confronting each new
class grown. Just as they have been instilled with
loyalty for their school, so must they now learn
loyalty to their job and loyalty to the town which
is theirs.
We welcome them into the army of those who
would work for the best interests of this communi
ty in order that folks might live here happily and
usefully. We trust that the defeats they meet in
life will not discourage them but will serve to
strengthen them to carry on in the face of the
most trying circumstances.
May they learn the eternal truth that eventu
ally right prevails.
THE SALES TAX STAYS
According to the primary returns, North
Carolina will continue to have the sales tax, de
spite the overwhelming protest vote registered by
Halifax County against it.
The State, in placing Hoey in first place, put
its stamp of approval on the Ehringhaus admini
stration and the sales tax.
The same forces which put Hoey in the lead
also saw to it that those legislators who had
fought the Ehringhaus sales tax the hardest were
defeated so that the new Senate and House elected
will support a “regular” administration and insure
the same style of State government which the
State has had for the past four years.
THE SOLID SOUTH
Whatever hopes the Republican Party might
have had to break into the solid South went up in
smoke yesterday with the action of the Republican
National Convention in unseating the regular dele
gation from South Carolina and restoring to pow
er “Tieless Joe” Tolbert.
This action paves the way for Negro suprem
acy of the Republican Party in Southern States
and insures the Democratic solidity of the South.
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will note the easier-read type and the new heads
while advertisers will see their ads “dressed up”
with the new, clear, modern type used for that
purpose.
The new machine, which cost over $5,000, is
equipped to do double the work of the old ma
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sortment of type to work with. It will also add to
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ested in watching the new machine operate visit
our plant the first part of any week.
It is our aim to keep abreast of the times and
continue to give our readers and advertisers the
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can be furnished in service.
OUR GREATEST POLITICAL BATTLE
Winston-Salem (N. C.) Journal
During the last days of the campaign many
ugly rumors and charges were spread reflecting
upon the personal reputation and character of
Dr. McDonald.
Since Dr. McDonald did not answer any of
these attacks while he was on his campaign, it
will not be necessary for him or any spokesman of
his to answer them now, for the very good reason
that all rumors and charges against his personal
reputation and character were answered—irrefut
ably answered—once and for all, last Saturday.
That answer was given by the Democrats of
Winston-Salem and Forsyth county, when they
piled up the largest vote for Ralph McDonald that
any candidate for state office ever received in a
primary in any county in the history of this State.
ine only people who are qualified to testify
in court concerning a man’s Character and reputa
tion are the neighbors and friends of that man.
Dr. McDonald received a larger vote of confidence
in his own home county Saturday than any other
candidate received in any other county in North
Carolina on that day. More Democrats voted for
him among his own neighbors and friends who
know him best in Forsyth than voted for him in
any other county, even in the great county of
Wake, which was his banner county in the East.
His vote in Forsyth was 11,218, and in Wake it was
11,171.
In these two counties Dr. McDonald has spent
most of his private and official life as a teacher
and a member of the General Assembly. In Dur
ham, where Dr. McDonald attended the university
and served as an instructor, it is significant that
he received more votes that either
of his opponents.
The votes of the people of these
three great counties ought to be
the final answer to all rumors and
charges against the personal in
tegrity of this candidate.
If a second primary is held, the
campaign from now on should be
conducted purely on the issues, so
that Democrats may be as free as
possible to say by their ballot3
whether they approve the philos
ophy of government and taxation
proposed by the Democratic school
of thought headed by Mr. Hoey or
whether they prefer the philosophy
of government and taxation pre
sented by the school of thought in
the Democratic party headed by
Dr. McDonald.
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