THE CHEROKEE SCOUT
Official Organ of Murphy and Cherokee County, N. C.
Published Every Friday
C. W. BAILEY Editor-Owner
Entered in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolina,
as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1897.
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JUDGE SINK'S VIEWS ON THE
GRAND JURY SYSTEM
Elsewhere is carried the charge of Judge H. Hoyle
Sink, to the Grand Jury at the opening of the court here
on August 8th. This charge contains the assertion that
the grand jury system in North Carolina has outlived its
usefulness. And the judge continues and shows that the
work they do has already been done either by the mag
istrates or the .solicitor before it reaches the grand jury,
anil this body merely perform- the work in repetition.
And Judge Sink says thi- grand jury system ? which
can be dispensed with except in a few special instances
with no particular inconvenience or lowering of the
standards of the judiciary ? costs the taxpayers ot North
Card:- .i, f nscrv:;t;vely estimated, $600,000 annually.
This i- a lot o'* m n v. "a whole of a lot right now," to
use the Judge's own word.s, and it- -aving to the tax
payer- would he an excellent >aving and a welcome one.
And there are other suggestions in Judge Sink's charge,
that aie well worth reading and digesting. His discourse,
presented at this time, when all our citizens and pros
pective law makers are casting about for some manner or
mea'i- of reducing expenditures with a view to reducing
ta\es\ i ; something worth thinking about. And the Judge
l.a a! ? ady suggested to the Legislature that serious con
.>? ; oration be accorded this suggestion, and whether it i>
? Miisi.Ii rvd is a matter for the people to determine by
thefr attitude and actions. If the people demand a thing,
the law makers usually sit up and take notice. If they
do not demand anything, the law makers never give it a
thought, especially if it is any 'radical change in the reg
ular older of the established custom.
Judge Sink's charge to the grand jury was the object
of much favorable comment by those who heard it. The
Judge conducted the court in a most degnified and able .
manner, and those who had anything to do with it at this 1
term were high in their commendation of him as being one 1
of th.- most practical and sensibel judges ever to hold
court in Murphy. The Judge occupied the bench in his
shirt sleeves during the hot sultry days of the court, and
a number of lawyers followed suit and shed their coats.
And when the Judge wanted to smoke," he did not recess
court and retire to the ante-room, as most of the judges
do, but got down off the judge's bench, took his seat, lit
his pipe, and court continued.
This action and attitude of the Judge was accorded
popular approval and created more favourable comment and
commendation than the personal or judicial conduct of
any judge holding court in Murphy during the past de
cade.
BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE, BUT NOT ONE
LM.
CENT FOR DEBTS
Much is being said in the press of the country about
the cancellation of obligations of foreign countries to
the United States, sometimes called "War Debts". And
aome of the American papers and public officials are
preaching the doctrine of cancellation favorably.
For instance, Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, has come out openly for
cancellation, and the Asheville Citizen in a recent editoT
al on the subject gave a number of suggestions as to why
tha South should follow Borah's lead. And after reading
all pro and con, we still don't see why we should follow
Senator Borah or any other advocate for cancellation.
As we understand the situation, the principal sums of
this debt, totalling $12,090,067,000, have atready been
cancelled, the debtor nations merely agreeing to help pay
? ? mind you not pay, but HELP ? ipay the interest on
{this debt, which debt is represented by bonds sold by the
American Government to the American People in order
to raise money to make the3e loans to European coun
tries.
The principal sums have already been cancelled and
the interest during the moratorium year amounted to some
$483,000,000, while the payments of the various coun
tries for the same year amounted to $243,712,000 leav
ing an interest figiure of $139,288,000 to be made up in
addition by the United States government. However,
? this government had to pay the full ?4S3,000,000 interest ?
on this debt during the moratorium year.
Below are figures representing the amount? spent by
the various c unities dtfring the moratorium year, to-;
; erether with the amounts they should have paid, but .
, didn't, as debt interest to the United States during the
eame year;
;
For Arm*- For Debt
Country menti to U. S. .
I Belgium 2:5,247,347 7.950,000 '
[Czechoslovakia . 41,056,000 2,000,000,
France 547,133,935 50,000,000
Great Brittain 608,024,880 159,520.000
! I tally 322,337,000 14,706,000
! Poland 122,995,000 7.486,000
Rumania 67,061,000 800,000
Yugoslavia . 47,491.000 250,000
i
Totals 1,799,346,162 243,712,000
It's a darn poor friend ? more of an enemy ? who will
borrow your money, you cancel the principal, and ask
him to merely help you pay the interest; and while, by
various means and methods, he is llying to get you to
cancel the interest, he buys fine cars and fine clothes
and fine ornaments, and then tells you he can't help
you pay that interest!
In other words. Billions for defense, but not one cent
for debts!
GRIM PROOF OF PIRACY
(Atlanta Constitution)
Bodies being washed ashore along the Atlantic coast j
line with increasing frequency are, according to Boy-!
! den Spa'rks. in P pular Mechanics magazine, grim proof]
I that modern-day liquor piracy is n less revolting than
thai practiced by Captain Kidd and his bli i>d thirsty ilk.
For these bodies are, in nine cases out of ten. vic
| tims of high-sea clases between smugglers and hi-jack
j ers ? the latter pirates at hea'rt and pirates legally, des
perate men who prey on the ships of rum row.
j Death is generally the price of failure in a hi-jack
I ing offense, but the stakes are huge, writes MY. Sparks, I
in describing the raiding of ?
A fishing schooner that had cleared from
Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland. Under
her hatches weie 60,000 cases of "Pol Roget," an
investment of $2,100,000. Taken ashore into the
United States, that cargo, at the retail price of $90
a case, had a value of $5,400,000. The captain was
in the cabin dickering with two men who had come
out in a speed boat when there were yells on deck.
According to one of his two visitors, the vessel was
seized within the space of minutes. Three days later
the load had been safely landed at one spot, the
captain and his crew at another and the schooner
abandoned at sea.
The writer cites another case of hi-jaeking in which |
a three-cornered fight between a liquor boat crew, a i
hi jacking ptfrty and a group of "honest customers," re- 1
suited in the death of three men and the wounding of
a half-dozen more.
Not since the days, two centuries ago, when men
were forced to walk the plank have such scenes been
enacted off the shores of the United States. We have
supposedly gotten beyond the time when men will risk
their own lives, and take those of others, in purloining
on the high seas that which does not belong to them.
But the million-dollar stakes, the increase fn our
criminal class and the growth of disrespect for law, has,
as a result of the "nolble experiment," brought about
conditions similar, at least on water, to those that ex
isted when piracy ruled the waves.
"SAY IT WITH STAMPS'*
Many there be who can sympathize with a correspon
dent of The N'ew Republic, who writes:
Sir: The passage of the heaviest taxation ever
adopted in this country in time of peace should be
accompanied by appropriate artistic devices on the l
sta'mps involved. The following designs would be
fittiag:
Three-cent stamp for letters: Portrait of Herbert
Hoover.
Revenue stamp for checks: Portrait of Andrew
W. Mellon, with the legend, "The greatest deficit
since Alexander Hamilton."
Revenue stamp for electric light bills: Portrait
of Samuel Insull.
Revenue stamp for stock certificates: Portrait
of Breuger.
Revenue stamp for mortgages on dwelling houses:
Picture of that garage for two cbts (empty).
The present rainy season is worth thousands of dol
lars to the farmers of Cherokee County. It would have
been worth mare thousands if it had come abuot two
weeks earlier. However, this year this section so far
has been fortunate in not having suffered any unusual
ly long drouth, nor from strtms'as othsr sections have.
Ole
Man
Murphy
Says ?
Contribution* ?r* *-l. omed. Sl*n your n^me.
?t will net ho *rir>t?d. Help to keep this
column sum'.
BV OIK MAN MIKPHY IIIS-SEJ.F
We have a system of assessing
property for taxation ? please don't
jump on me for mentioning taxes,
for indfrectly, I have something to
-ay about tljem ? it may be ready t o
vanish away and it may not. The
system is an expensive one, an abus
ed one and of one of its abuses, at
lea^t. I wish to enter a protest.
Yes, the men out in the field who
have a personal knowledge of their
nojghobr's real and personal prop
erty, are not super-men, but just
men like many others in their com
munity-men subject to make mis
takes, but just as ready to right them.
They are men chosen by a group of
men chosen by the people of the
County to direct the affairs of the
County ? just men, subject to make
mistakes, like all other men.
The group, referred to above,
stand at the head of the affairs of
government of the county and are
loaded down with responsibility.
As a rule this responsibility is borne
with ft rtitude, which anyone may
discover by being in their office for
a time, but they are human-intensely
so ? and they make, yes they make
mistakes, and when they do. we. the
tax payers, being mostly human,
ciiticise them in a way that we would
not want them to criticise us if we
were in their place. Others in of
ficial positions stand in the same re
lation to criticism.
A little light on a subject only
-hows it up as it is, il we use a mag
nifier we may have the real object
distorted, so that when we do get a
glimpse of the real thing we are not
able to recognize it. So neighbor
Tax ? payer if I call your attention
to an evil that exists ? and none
should without magnifying it, no
doubt you will forgive me, if the
guilty party does not.
Go to your, yes YOUR court house
and ask your Register of Deeds ? he
is your servant ? to allow you to ex
amine the tax-books o!' the various
Town-ships-your's especially-as made
up by the various Tax-assers-and see
what haopend *ince they left the
Assessors hands or at least the
changes that have been made with a
pencil or pencils, while the original
is in ink. If you will make an inves
tigation. a.- I have suggested, you
will find that some tax-payers pay
only 60 percent or zero, yes zero, of
the value of their property, as given
by the Assessors. Yes, some one has
made a mistake. I do not know who,
but will you neighbour ? after writing
down those values either in ink or in
pencil-ask for a chance to shift the
burden of taxation from some of in
fluence to the poor "Guy" that has
none? I do not fix the responsibil
ity on any one, but the evil exists,
oerhaps is almo3t universial, but
should not exist in Cherokee County.
NO I have no "ax to grinti," juat
helping my neighbour bear his burden,
under which, if it gets much heavier,
he will cease to exist as a free man.
Will you lend a helping hand?
The Minutes show the County al
lowed E. L. Townson $1,096.82 for
supplies and $230.00 for services
from January 1, 1931 to August 1,
1932.
Lots of people being buried by the
county. Wonder what Chairman
Townson is allowing his brother for
each casket. Wonder why these
caskets are not let to the lowest bid
der.
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LET US PRAY
The Alabama Baptist prints the
following ancedote, and it must be
true:
A preacher at the close of one of
his sermons said: "Let all in the
nause who are paying their debts
stand up." Instantly every man,
woman and child with one exceptioa,
rose to their feet.
The preacher seated them and said:
"Now every man not paying his
debts stand up." The exoeptiom
noted, a care-worn, hungry looking
individual, clothed in last suHnmer*B
suit, slowly assumed a perpendicular
positon.
"How is it, my friend," asked the
minister, "that you are the only man
not to meet his obligations?^'
" I ran a newspaper," he meekly
answered, "and the brethetD who
stood up are my subscribers, and ? "
"Let us pray," exclaimed thei
minister. ? Catawaba News ? Enter4
prise.
TIMELY FARM
QUESTIONS |
Question: Can I use soybean neat
? n place of anunal protein in mv u?
ing mash?
Answer: This substitution ha<
been made but is not advisable utT
der mc-st conditions. When soybean
meal is used in place of animal pro
tein the ration must be carefully
supplemented with a mineral mix
ture. Economy in poultry feedine
cannot always be measured by price
of feeds and it will be just as econ
omical to feed the animal proteins
such as fish meal, meat meal, and a
milk product as it would to use the
soybean meal. Them feeds also
furnish a wide range af acids which
are readily utilized by poultry.
Question: Please let me know if
a tomato sucker can be rooted and
transplanted and produce tomatoes
suitable for market?
Answer Tomato sucke'rs and
branches are often used for pro
duming ? late crop but the practice
is not as satisfactory as growing
plants from seed. Branches that have
been in contact with the soil and
have deloped a few 'roots may be set
directly in the garden if the soil is
moist. Usually, however, it is neces
sary to root th^b ranches in a moist,
partially shaded bed and then trans
plant tot he fjeld. With good soil
and weather conditions, the well
rooted branches should produce just
as good tomatoes an plants from seed
butj due to the extra labor involved
in rooting and handling the branches,
the use of them is not advised for
commerical purposes.
Question: Is the fall crop of
native Irish potatoe? equal to
northern grown potatoes as seed for
a spring crop?
Answer: Yes- as far as the yield
is concerned as the native seed pro
duce as large and sometimes a larger
crip than do the northern grown
seed. The crop grown from north
ern seed, however, matures from twe
to three week earlier than that grown
from native s eed planted at the
same time. The difference in time in
getting to market and the resulting
P'rice difference is favorable to the
northern krown seed.
W. N. C. Baptist
Association To Meet
At Hangingdog, 23
The annual meeting of the Western
North Carolina Raptist Association
will be held with the Hangingdog
Baptist church at Grandview on next
Tuesday and Wednesday, August
2:lrd, and 24th. This will be the
forty-eig'ht annual meeting of the
Association. The introductory ser
mon will be preached by Rev. C. F.
Conley, of Blairsville, Ga , with Rev.
C. F. Martin, of Murphy as alternate.
It is hoped that this meeting will
be one of the largest in attendance
that the association has ever known.
Every Baptist church is urged to
send a large number of delegates and
every pastor in the Association is
especially urged to attend.
Reports will be made by the fol
lowing: "Cooperative Program",
R. W. Prevost; "State Missions,"
H. C. Whitaker; "Poreign Missions,"
Miss Zelma Price; "Ministeral Re
lief, W. A. Adams; "Christain Educa
tion", David Mashburn; Baptist
Hospitals*', J. M. Stoner. The Asso
ciational Reports will be madi as fol
lows: Grouping Churches ', W. E.
Lowe; "Temperance and PubK
Morals", W. J. Martin; "Religious
Literature", E. D. Penland; "Christ
ian Stewardships", Oscar Adams;
"Sunday Schools", H. B. Elliott;
Y. P. U. Work", Leonard Ballew;
"Woman's Work", Mrs. F. L. Mc
Gufre.
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