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1 isiSiiuhaaiittd Is? f' .w sc •k--, ll- f »r> 1' r* I»A«B TWO .I.II ——igg’ggi. .1-— I- Harnett County News EsUblished Jan. 1, 1919 I89i;fil> EVERT THURSDAY HENDBiRSON STEELE, Publisher SUBSCRIPnON RATES One Year 91.50 Six months .76 Three months •■*0 CORRESPONDENCE This paper desires correspondence from all reliable sourcee interesting to the people of this section. We ash that the name of the correspond ent be signed for the purpose of at testing reliability. AdTertlalBg rates upon application Entered as second-class matter al the postoflace at Lilllngton, N, C., nnder the Act of March 3, 1879. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS If yon see a X mark opposite yonr name on your paper, it sicaiS^ that yonr snbscrlption has expired. If yon wish the paper contlaned, please renew promptly. THURSDAY. APRIL 26. 1928 TH)0««>AY. APRIL 26, 1928 THE ONLY GOD; — Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.—Deuteronomy 6:4. "O God, we praise Thee, and con- fC'&S That Thou the only Lord And everlasting Father, art By all the earth adored," TO OBSERVE A DAY FOR CHILD HEALTH or all the days set apart for spec ial observance of one thing of an other—to most of which little or no attention Is given—there is one that comes to us just at this time that is worthy of more consideration, we think, than any other. If there is any way lO bring the public mind to a focus upon these matters for “‘spec ial observance" on the days set apart. It will be a grand and glorious idea; but this one day we have in mind now will, we feel sure, com mand such attention as it deserves. It is Child Health Day, set apart for observance on next Tuesday, May Isi. The News need not go to great length in stating the Importance of Child Health Day, nor in explaining what it means. Any person of even less than ordinary intelligence may know from the statement of pur pose that it is a day set apart in order to attempt to so "gather” the pufblic mind that it may be singled on the great problem. It is a prob lem—Child Health, How to keep a normal child in the pink of health, and how best to bring to health and strength those who may not be in the oondltion they should be—this is the greatest problem, perhaps, that faces the world today. Children, you understand, are to be grownups of the future day—mear future at that. Everyone knows that it is Just aa necessary to have healthy people In the next generation as it is to have them now. And. of course, we cannot have them if we do not take heed of the Child Health problem to day. The News is inclined to believe that the problem of Child Health today Is more serious than It was a generation ago. Many things have taken place In the pa8t twenty-live years. Those who do much serious thinking will wonder bow it is that, in this day of ebamges in the planes of 'living, children are getting along as well as they do. It does not seem to us that much attention is given to Child Health In this fast age. A child is given Just so many years ,to “grow up." Pretty much of the "free rein'’ Is given. And at a cer- . tain age they are expected to be grownups with all the faculties, tal ents and advantages that grownups must have to get along In the world. To use a common expression, chil dren in this day "Just grow up.” Organized effort on the ipart of the State Board of Health has given us more Child Health than could possibly have been brought about in any other way. The physicians have rendered patriotic service in sponsor ing health 'laws. Centralized auth ority in enforcing these laws has been highly 'beneficial. And it is safe to say that had it not been for the activities of the Health Board— the physicians’ department of the State government—there would be far less of Child Health today than we bave, so much lese, in fact, that we shudder to thknik of conditions that might exist. And so, parents; if you have not paid any attention to the call for observance of -May 1st as Chdld Health Day, tie onto it now. It is to your interest—your vital inter est—to do so. Let your mind be turned toward those things that fos ter the health of children—youi children and everybody's else. NO «PEP" IN THE CAMPAIGN A liune three-cornered race for the Job of Commissioner of Labor and Printing is furnishing practical ly all of the entertainment the vot- era will get out of the State primary campaign this year. If anybody de sires “pep," there is onjy one source left. Tbat le to listen either to the intolerants who denounce AI Smith or to those who will not tolerate denunciation of Smith. Any Demo crat who happens to be a candidate tfala year, even for a minor county oflee, la expected to declare whether he U ‘«mUta" or "anti-SmHh." And that’e about all there le to.it. If you don’t get a kick ^pnt of that, you’re out of luck in looking for po litical stimulus. Max Gardner made his campaign for the Governorship eight years ago, and so that’s settled. It seems that nobody except incum bents want any of the other State Jobs; or, if they do, they haven't the nerve or the cash to put up a fight for them. The "pep" Is aP gone, we say, and the whole shebang excites us not at all. Shucks! What’s a political cam paign without "pep"? Nothing. The News is "anti" on this business of deciding the biggest question out of court. Let’s change it after thl.® campaign anG have a bunch of fel- low.s who want to be Governor, so that the big headliners can range from one end of the Stale to the other, put the "rousements” to the boys and get things going. We crave excitement! Down here in our own county of Harnett there arose a little smoke from the camp and chances were good for a war-whoop. John Rob Baggett stirred up something by advocating the taking over of the six months school term by tbe State. From one end of the State to the other there came messages of "Go to it!" Then here came the whole State Board of Bqu'ilization and tried to squelch It. Whether they succeeded or not remains to be seen. T.be News hopes that Baggett will take hi.s case to court—the General Assembly. But wouldn’t it be fine if there were two or three candidates for the Governorship to take up and discuss this important measure be fore the primary’? Brother Peterson Is trying his level best to put some life into the race for Commissioner of Labor and Printing. Readers of his paper. The Chatham Record, are finding plenty of platform upon w,hich he stands for nomination. He doesn’t seem to be running for oftioe; .simply stand ing. He says he hasn’t the cash to run on. Mr. Grist Informed 'fhe News that it cost him 99,000 to get the Job. That figure probably sounds (big to Brother Peterson—a mere newspaper man. The job pays for the four years 918,000, and so If half of it is to go for campaign expenses, a fellow- must want a Job mighty bad to become enthused over It. Brother Peterson says “drat If I know” what it lakes to be Com missioner, but declares he is wlHing to learn. If he learns, he will have become far more accomplished than anyone who has yet held the Job. It wouKi be fine Indeed if the depart ment could be made to function in the manner that was intended when It was created. Much good would re sult to the State from the incoming of dndustry. citizens of worth, and consequent w-ealth. But the Com- missionershlp seems to be just a Job for somebody. Isn’t It so? The primary is Just a month off. Business is quiet and folks have a mighty good chance to enjoy a ho' contest for office by candidates with spunk and sporting blood. But it Just isn't so. As we say, there’s no "pep." The only hope we have left Is for the Republican brethren to wake us up this fadl with “Hell- and-iMarla” Dawes. He i.s their likeliest choice if the Democratic bill is “moist." Personally speaking, Frlend'"08- car Coffin, professor of Journalism over at the University, says that the editor of The News would have made a good candidate in this campaign —decQaring that this writer knows more about the Oonwnisstloner’s Job in the Department of Labor and Printing than the w-hole bunch of candidates put together. Thanks, Oscar. But there’s more real en tertainment in our newspaper Job in a single w'eek than there is in any State job in a whole term. Besides. Harnett Just can’t spare us. AUNT «HET»’ KNOWS A THING OR TWO Robert Quillen, writer of the “Aunt Het" features appearing in the daMy papers, Tuesday morning said: "One of Amy’s gtlrls married a newspaper man. and the teller that'3 courtin’ the other one ain’t got no money either," Mr. Quillen published a little pa per at Fountain Inn, SoutluXlaro- llna, a town that compares favorably with the paper Quillen publdshed. Both were quite small. The edltoi offered to give his paper to anyone who would agree to take it and treat ii Just as kindly as he had done. Finally hi.s offer was taken up. The reason for Qudllen’s offei was what "Aunt Het" say.s. It ir 1o be hoped that his features and magazine writings are changing the statti.s quo, so that "Aunt Het” will not have cau.se to regret her choice. LET THPJW WRITE—IF THEY CAN. (From the Winston-Salem Journal.) The California Prison Board has called a halt on all writing by pris oners for publication on the g;rounds that the board is “running prisons and not literary bureaus." The board’s action has caused some com ment among the literati of Los An geles. The discussion strikes a respon- ■sive chord in North Carolina which claims as its great'et romancer a man who once w'rote from a prison cel). Our own Sidney Porter or O. Henry is a shindng example of the potentialities of prison literature. Eugene Biscailus, under-sheriff of Los Angeles county, is emphatic in his opinion that the board is right in curbing the literary activities of the men in cells. "After all," he said, "our peni tentiaries are penitentiaries. Crimi nals are sent there to pay their debits to society. They are no long er citizens." But against his stand is that of Jim Tully, hobo-noveUst of note, who /aid: "The prison board’s ruling as I Interpret It, U one of the most dras tic imposed on a semi-cirllized com munity. One would have to return to the dark ages to find anything to compare with it. "I can see Justice of imprisoning a man for his transgressions for the protection of eoedety, hut no one has the right to'imprison his soul." With the modern tendency in prion reform which would fit men to take their place in society after they have “done time," It would .teem that the California attitude is some what retrogressive. Within certain bounds literary endeavors seem a safe and sane enough outlet for man’s mental processes. Defoe and Bunyan wrote their masterpieces while languishing in English Jails. Oscar Wilde wrote "Ballad of Reading Gaol," a poem of prtson experience, and "De Pro- fundls” while a prisoner. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a com plete history of the world In prison and Francois Vfllon, the mlmorta’ "vagabond poet," wrote most of hb great poems in prison. Another illu-trions example of prison litera ture is “Star Spangled Banner” by Francis .Scott Key. So far. North Carolina prison; have not. been overrun with Mterary genius. Otta W'ood is the lotest penitentiary inmate to make bi.=) bid for fame by his biography. We hardly think that the volume of writing of this kind will be great enough to keep the Jailers wake Dresses CREPES AND GEORGETTES IN PLAIN COLORS AND FIGURED MATERIALS. Hose FULL FASHION, POINTEX HEEL, ALL COLORS—$1.00 TO $1.75. Hats A SHIPMENT OF REAL SUMMER HATS HAS ARRIVED. ..CROCHETED VISCAS, HAIR BRAIDS. FLOWER TRIMMED AND SPORT HATS, ALL HEAD SIZES. nights planning ways and means to curb it. Let them write—it they can. POWER DF.VBIX>P1WBNT North Carolina ranks fourth in de veloped water power in the United States. State Department of Concer- vatlon and Development figures re veal. Water iwwer in actual operation December '31, amounted to 609,8'22 horsepower. This does not Include the Senteetah plant of the Tallassee Power Company, to open soon with acapaclty of CKS.OfiO horse power. Plants under construction, and which should be in operation by late spring, will add another 296.000 horsepower to the total, and will bring the entire water power capac ity of the state to 970.822 horse power. APPLICATION FOR PADON OF EARLY GILBERT Application will he made to the Commissioner of Pardons and the Governor of North Carolina for the pardon of Early Gilbert, convicted at the January Term of the Superloi Court of Harnett County for" the crime of assault and sentenced to 0)unt2 roads for a term of 12 months. All person.^ w'ho oppose the grant ing of said pardon are Invited to forward their protests to the Com- missioner of Pandons without delay. This the 24th day of April. 19'2'8. MRS. FLORA GILBERT. j 26-2p ! Professional Cards! J. L. HATCHER FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER DUNN, N. C. Prompt Service Anywhere DR. J. R. EDWARDS! DENTIST PUQUAY SPRINGS, N. C. Office over Bank of Fuqnay DUPREE & STRICKLAND ATTORNEYS'AT-LAW ANGIER, N. C. L. BRUCE GUNTER ATTORNEY AT LAW Fuqnay Springs, N. C. Office over Elliott Pharmacy Money to Lend on Real Estate. Long term and low interest rate.! B. A. PARKER FUNERAL DIRECTOR mUngton, N. O- Day Phone 228 Night Plioue.SS. Pntl line of Caskets, Robes, Etc, NEILL McK. SALMON Coats ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICES IN LAYTON BUILDING ULLINGTON, N. C. John D. Johnson TWENTY PER CENT REDUCTION ON EVERY COAT IN STOCK. ATTORNEY AT LAW LOiLlNGTON, N. C. SANFORD'S ENTERPRISING MERCHANTS Enterprising merchants of the hrl^ little city of Sanford are this week publishing a Spring Survey in The News. It is Just another il lustration of the big bid for patron age persistently made by Sanford’s business people. The News has of ten called attention to spflendld bus iness spirit of the Lee county capi tal, and as often as we take notice of it we are impreased by the fact that Sanford has the right kind of people to make a town grow into a City. Sanford is fast growing into a city—In fact it is a little city now. One big reason why Sanford hat grown and is growing is that the biLSiness people there are enterpris ing, hustling lot of fellows who have long since learned that advertising pays. Advertising has built San ford into one of the best small cities in the State. The News doesn’t hes itate to state its belief that before many years Sanford will be one of the State's chief cities. New indus tries and new husineee that has come and is coming almost continually to Sanford has been made poselble by men who have the good hard sense required to stake their chances for bigger, better business on the print ed page. They want patronage, they realize they must have It, and they go after it in a buslnes^Uke way. What else can be exipected than that the town will grow? JOHNSON J. C. THOMSON REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Afency for Best Old Une ComiMUtlea UFE AND FIRE Office in McKay BnlMlny Over ToKwell Fhannacy ULLINGTON, N. C. BRYAN CO. i. LEWIS ATTORNEY AT LAW FUQUAY SPRINGS. N. C. LILLINGTON, N. C. Money to Loan on Improved Real If leaves are supposed to be full grown by May 10, the vegetable kingdom hae a Mg job ahead. But keep your eye on old Mother Na ture! She doesn’t fall down on the J/b. Feed your crops a BALANCED RATION of both NITRATE and AMMONIA by tide^drening wSh lennasalpeter (Ammonium— Sulphate—Nitratn) QOX Nitrogen 3L5% Ammonia UBUNA8A1PBTER hM bmn vsmI ■aanufarturcra as a majot eowce of ben. Is equally effidept ae n Mda or LEUNA8ALPBTER b n Apply 75-125 mNsads per tows at time of enkivuion. For mle by Synthetic Nitrogen ProduetB AtbatStOd. Corporation NMvTMb.iur. "IPs Nitrefcn from the Air** •INL K1 A>r i'. 1 Kf 'i ;' DR. J. C. MANN EYESIGHT SPECIALIST WILL BE AT OFFICE OF DR. 8. R. IfeKAY LILLINGTON, N. O., Every first Friday in each month. Glasses fitted that are easy and rest ful to the eyes. Headaches relieved when caused by eyestrain. Cross eyes straightened without the knife. Weak eyes of children and young people a specialty. Oonsultation free ahd invited. 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One Full Quart of Acme Quality Granite Floor Enamel and a 3-inch Brush for only $1*25 Harnett Hardware House LILLINGTON, N. C. The Turning Point IN each life there coines a turning point where money is absolutely necessary. Nothing takes its place It has no substitute. When that turning point comes in your life—as it does to every one in the world—will you have money in Bank here to meet it? BANK OF LILLINGTON BSTABUSHUD 1008 D. H. Senter, President. J. W. Halford. Vice-President, H- T. SpMtra, Cashier. O. H. Senter, J. W. Senter, J. P. McKay. DIRHOTOR8: Cbas; Ross, J. W. Halford, J. C. Senter, *• D. Pearson, J- H. Withers, •H. T. 8pet|rs,
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