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CARROLL WILSON, Owner 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.
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HUX OF HALIFAX
• • When the Young Democrats of North Caro
lina meet in State convention at Winston-Salem
next month, the name of a Young Democrat of
Halifax County will be presented to the convention
for the highest office: the State Presidency. A. L.
Hux, young Clerk of the Superior Court of Hali
fax, will be nominated. As this is written, he al
ready has the backing of the Young Democratic
Clubs of the entire 2nd Congressional District, his
home district.
Hux has been extremely alive in the county
and State organization of Young Democrats for
the past half dozen years. He has attended all the
conventions, served on important committees, has
made hundreds of friends all over the State by his
interest in party affairs and by his engaging per
sonality. It will be a great honor to Hux if he is
elected to this office as head of the Young Democ
racy of the State, a recognition of his unselfish
service to the party.
It will be even more an honor for Halifax
County to be so recognized. Halifax County has
never sought any State office in the Young Demo
cratic organization. Hux is not seeking that office
now but is being drafted by his friends in the 2nd
District and should he be elected it will be because
the Young Democrats of North Carolina look to
Halifax County as the “banner county” of the
State.
In Hux, they see the scrapping, loyal, unselfish
Young Democrat, the type they desire to lead the
State organization during the coming eventful
year. All over the State, the slogan is: “We want
Hux of Halifax”. A stalwart Young Democrat
from the Banner Democratic County. Every loyal
Democrat, Old and Young, in this county will wish
him well in this opportunity to serve the party.
THEY WANT ACTION
• • We sat in with a group of citizens the other
night. All but one had been for Roosevelt in the
past. A few were still for him and his policies.
The majority were now against his policies. We
were in the minority still for him, but it worried
us to see the change.
Those who had been for him until recently
worried us most. They were against his domes
tic policy of letting organized labor and agriculture
have anything they wanted at the expense of the
rest of the public and the drafted army. They
were also against his foreign policy of waiting.
With this talk and the talk we have heard from
the boys in uniform it is evident that there is much
discontent abroad in our land. That worries us.
These strikes in defense industries worry us.
.We offer this solution: the people of America
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want action. The boys in uniform want action.
The time has come to put America on a war-time
basis. No more appeasing labor groups or farm
groups or other powerful lobbying groups. No
more appeasing Germany and Japan.
The best way the President can get all
Americans with him is to lead them into action.
The pacifists and appeasers will howl to high
heavens. The rest of America is ready for action.
It is this inaction that is getting their goats.
NO CONCERTED ACTION
• • Inaction and lack of concerted action on the
part of the government irks plenty of people. For
lack of concerted action we point to the idea of
curtailing gasoline consumption in the Eastern
seaboard States. Talk is of from 25 to 30 per cent
curtailment.
It just happens that the bulk of funds for
highways in most of those States comes from the
gasoline tax. A curtailment of from 25 to 30 per
cent would mean the end of any improvement or
new construction in those States. In North Caro
lina it would mean only enough funds left to pay
the debt charges and to maintain the present
roads.
If gasoline curtailment is needed, make it
nation-wide so as not to work a hardship on any
one section. Either that or make up to the cur
tailed section the amount of taxes lost to it by
such action.
THERE CANNOT BE TOO MANY
• • There is the chance that a park-playground
between the Vance Street School and Fifth Street
will be offered to the city free of charge provided
the city keeps the area clean and equipped with
playground equipment.
So far as we know, Roanoke Rapids has only
one city park, an area deeded to the city for park
purpose only. That is at the corner of Roanoke
Avenue and 3rd Street.
A city the size of Roanoke Rapids, with as
many children, cannot have too many parks and
playgrounds. The area, which might also be deed
ed to the city, lies just back of Roanoke Mills Co.
village and will serve the children of that section
as well as an extended playground for Vance Street
School. It is well wooded on the East side with
cleared area for games to the West. It covers two
city blocks.
At small expense it could be cleaned up and
equipped with swings and other apparatus. If the
owners of the property are willing to give the
property to the city, we should gladly arid thank
fully accept it and keep it up.
Rules of the Road
OVERTAKING
A VEHICLE -
Sec. Ill, Motor Vehicle
Law of North Carolina:—
‘‘(a) The driver of any
vehicle overtaking an
other vehicle proceeding
in the same direction
shall pass at least two
feet to the left thereof,
and shall not again drive
to the right side of the
highway until safely
clear of such overtaken
vehicle.
“(b) The driver of an
overtaking motor vehicle
not within a business or
residence district as
herein defined shall give
audible warning with his
horn or other warning
device before passing or
attempting to pass a ve
hicle proceeding in the
same direction.”
In other words, give
the car you are passing
at least two feet of
clearance, and sound
your horn before passing
a car on the open high
way.
The law also imposes
certain limitations on
this privilege of over
taking and passing, one
of these being to forbid
passing unless the “left
side is clearly visible and
is free of oncoming traf
fic for a sufficient dis
tance ahead to permit
such overtaking and
passing to be made in
safety.” Other limita
tions forbid passing an
other vehicle upon the
crest of a grade or upon
a curve in the highway
where the driver’s view
along the highway is ob
structed within a dis
tance of five hundred
feet, and forbid passing
at any highway inter
section or railway grade
crossing unless permit
ted by a traffic or police
officer.
I town'
TALK!
(Crowded out last week)
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Higgins of
Henderson were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Reese Welch. Mrs.
Welch returned with them to visit
there this week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Cooksie and
Mrs. C. B. Sledge spent the week
end in Leesburg, Va., with friends
and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Morris, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Hasty and Russell
Birdsong are vacationing in New
York and Canada.
Miss Deanne Perry spent the
week-end in Richmond, Va.
Jack Grant of Emporia, Va., vi
sited Lloyd Stevenson Wednesday.
Friends of Mrs. Hubert Parrott
will be sorry to know that she is
ill at her home on Hamilton Street
and will be in for six weeks.
I Roy Johnson spent last week
end with his mother in Richmondt
Va.
Charies Dickens was a visitor
in Wilson Monday.