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'1.S . • * t ■ I. A5L . f.i k a ,y ff r. i^; S/ ii';. t 'K‘ ■ S‘, I ^ i3*f / «• '/ FAOB TWO HARNETT COUNTY NBWS-'PuWlshed at UHlneton, N. C. thuubday, isbptbmbbr «, 1946 weaBaammmssaaKaoBaesaBmmBmaMaa Harnett County New* Established Jan. 1, 1919 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY HENDERSON STEELE PRANK STEELE Publishers SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year 92.00 of Juvenile delinquency would stand the ghost of a chance of enactment by our lawmakers. PRICES; NOW AND HEREAFTER Roger Babson, noted economist, seems to bo wary of predicting Just when the present spiraling of prices Six 91.00 will end and the readjustment will No subscription taken for less than six months Advertising ratc.s upon application Entered as second class matter at the postofRce at Llllington, N. C. CORRESPONDENCE This paper desires correspondence from all reliable sources Interesting to the people of this section. We ask that the name of the correspondent be signed for the purpose of attest ing reliability. Watch the dntc on the label on your paper. If your subscription has expired please send In your renewal at once. THURSDAY, iSEPTEMBER 6, 1946 GENERAL MILLER MAKES FINE POINT MaJ. Gen. Luther D. Miller, chief of army chaplains, has appealed to churchmen to use the power of the pulpit In overcoming adverse pub licity regarding the moral lives of army personnel, particularly over seas. He says; "What the public needs to know Is the general rule, which Is that most army per.sonnel at home and a;;.oad go to church more while in the service than they did in civilian life. The wholesome life of the army piovides every possible care of the spiritual needs of Us men and wo men. The chaplains took excellent care of the men during the war and will continue to do the same during peace. The tremendous prestige gain ed by army chaplains during the war will continue for the same type of chaplains will be there during peace. Mothers of young men en listing in 'the new army need have no fear for their spiritual welfare will be taken care of." What Gen. Miller complains of is: "the occasional exception appears to make news." By which he means that when a man in the service committe,d an act unbecoming a sol dier of the United States, the details of it were spread far and wide. We think the General makes a fine point, and one well taken. There Is nothing in these modern times to prevent news from spreading, and surely it can be said that when twelve million servicemen were quar tered In almost all parts of the world, with only a very few instances of wrongdoing found among them, it was exceptional indeed and there fore the rarest sort of news. What our people should consider most, we think, is the great fact that our servicemen all through the war conducted themselves In manful and heroic manner, and none of us should allow the few exceptions to this ir,ule to obscure our vision of our forces as the very finest In the whole world. It may be beside the point to bring In any comparisons, but we think if the conduct of our service men were compared with any group from other countries, a remarkable contrast would be seen. begin. Not so long ago he warned that the peak will be reached within “a few years," but the trend of his current comment points toward an earlier date. Not once, however, has he joined the group of prophets who say that "the reaction will come sud denly and sooner than most people anticipate." During the war and immediately after Its end, we heard quite a lot about the "dangers of inflation" and the people were warned against it. Not so much is heard along that line now. Can It be taken to moan that everyone Is convinced that we now have inflation? This newspaper has for some months been of the opinion that "this Is it,” but as prices con tinue to soar we aren’t satisfied about our stating positively that we have reached what we might call the real thing in inflation. Perhaps we are to have still higher prices and have a taste of Inflation at Us worst. If so, that will simply moan that the receding process will be even more palntul. Now, how is the best way for the Individual to prepare for the "worst"? It Is said that "any fool can carry an umbrella when it Is raining, but a wise man carries one before it be gins raining.” This would seem to be very fine doctrine for anyone to "take home” and apply. While the flow of money Is so ample, and everyone Is “flush" with the coin of the realm, It is a mighty good tin)e to lay by for a rainy day. It is said that iright now there is four times as much money in circulation In this country than ever before. That should afford everyone an excellent opportunity to get prepared Another thought about high prices: What does It profit anyone to have a high income and stfll be com pelled to pay all of It out for living expenses? adequately equipped and In the re cent bond Issue drive to barely, scratch the surface in bettering this con^^ion many of our leading citi zens worked feverishly to keep the Issue from passing. One wonders if the selfishness we all possess causes such things to hap pen. .Upon the oncoming generations rests the destiny of our country. Nothing In the way of educational and health facilities Is too good for our young.stera and the sooner we can all take that tnought to heart the sooner the South will begin pro ducing leaders In proportion to our sister states to the north of us. Erwin Cameron. THIS FINE SOIL IN HARNETT MORE ABOUT JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Superior Court Judge Felix Alley says that Juvenile delinquents arc largely Immune to the discipline of tho law. The Judge declares: "The Juvenile courts can’t do any thing because they do not have the authority to administer sufficient punishment." To Illustrate the scope of the prob lem, he cited figures showing that 66 per cent of the nation’s crime Is com mitted by persons under 15 years of age. Shocking, Isn’t It? But It doesn’t seem to do much shocking, because crime goes on and the problem still remains. In fact, we are Informed, It Is Increasing, the Juvenile delinquents increasing in proportion. What Is to be done about it? Judge Alley recommends legisla tion that would fix legal responsi bility for Juvenile delinquency upon adults. He would have tho courts empowered to fine parents for their children’s misdemeanors and to fix Judgment against them for any prop erty damage Incurred. He thinks this would soon "prompt many lax fathers and mothers to abandon tho bridge table and assume their proper responsibility for disciplining and training their errant offspring." Judge Alloy, warming up to his subject, even suggested a return 4,o the .public whipping post in extreme cases. Not many people will follow him that far. But the sound counsel handed down by the Jurists on our Superior Court bench as they go from county to country viewing the progress, or rather the lack of progress, in law observance seems to be altogether Ignored—simply taken as an address by the Judge to the Jury. At least it doesn’t seem to make enough impression to reach the halls of the State's lawmaking' body. We sincerely doubt if anything approach- Throughout Harnett county there are exemplifications of what ‘ our soil can be made to produce under proper care and treatment. Anyone who Is Interested may be convinced of the wonderful results that can be achieved with good cultivation of our soil. Simply by taking a tour similar to that taken by the farmer group recently, one can be "cited as the saying goes, that Harnett soil will respond handsomely and enor- ously to proper treatment. There's the case of W. D. Garrett of Buckhorn, who says his crop of tobacco has yielded this year 1'890 pounds per acre. That Is not top- notch production in Harnett, to bo sure, but when It Is considered that Mr. Garrett gets 1800 pounds .per acre from over 21 acres, It can be called a very fine crop. But the production of tobacco is not all that Harnett soil can and will do. Not by a whale of a loti Right now, tobacco Is the uppermost topic because It is T>rlnglng such a good price. But equally fine returns can be had with other crops, many of which can bo produced at much less expense than tobacco. The News has many times men tioned tho possibilities In cultivating intensively tho soli In this county. What we want to suggest right now Is the year-round use of our soil for some of the crops that we find our selves "short" of. For instance, the Messrs. Kelly of tho Llllington Roll er Mills will tell you that Harnett doesn’t produce as much wheat as It should. Then there are many other crops, some of which do not require exclusive .use of the soil for a whole year. The grasses, too—with cattle to consume It—afford one of the grand est opportunities for development In this county. Many of our farmers are well started oft programs that bid fair to make them independent of the market prices for staples. It would bo well for County Agent Ammons to arrange for more fre quent tours such as that recently made, and to Induce more farmers to Join In. It would produce results that would be amazing. OBSERVATIONS BY A COUNTRY SCRIBE HOME BREW BY MRS; LOU RUSTY.—Hundreds, maybe thou sands, of peor’o are just now taking their first vacation since the begin ning of the war. For the past four or five they have been bound tight to their tasks, refusing to leave for oven a week-end for fear they would seem to be, shirking thlr responsibili ties. These stlck-tlghters have, natur ally, become a bit “rusty" on the proper way to enjoy vacation. Par-' don the. personal mention, please, but that’s the way this Scribe found it last week. Going oufa-flshing for a day or so, what would you guess he caught? Of all thlngs~a very bad cold! * « * RECALLING THE TIME. Mrs. Blanche Johnson, The Nows’ very ef ficient and faithful representative in the western portion of Harnett, re calls the time when she asked the editor If she might represent the paper, and how her services were gladly welcomed—she didn’t know how welcome she was! She remi nisces over the score of years she has been talking and selling The News, and withal she seems to have ex perienced a pleasant time of it. The compliments she so graciously gives 'Pho News are highly appreciated. And she should know that The News could pass some compliments her way, and every word would be the truth, 4 * « SUBSCRIPTION iSEASON. This is tho season ,of the year when sub scriptions to Tho News begin to roll in Inci'Casing numbers. This is be cause tho greater number of our sub scribers started with us in the fall, althov :hore are many who guage their rly "sub" with the calendar, beginning January 1. But money be ing more plentifbl with practically everybody during the fall, many Jan uary 1 renewals are (fomlng la now’. There can be no doubt about the popularity of The News, because people do not generally put out their money In advance for something they don’t want. (Advertisers w’lll please read this paragraph again.) Well, my .cannin’s, erbout done an’ I’ll have er little mo’ readln’ time; but I gits dlsencouraged erbout readln’, seems like as much as I’Ve read In my life I ought to be well edlcated by now an' have some er them degrees, doctors, phllosephys or somethin’, for erpendlxes to my name—but I wont never be nothin’ nor nobody but Jest plain "Miss Lou." I gits rael sorrowful sometimes when I reads erbout how much other folks has done an’ I alnt done nothin' but make er livin’. Then there’s the top an’ bottom crusts—the top crust does the gVate things an’ makes big money, an’ the bottom crusts Is them thet cant*even make er livin’, I belongs to thet grate multitude In betwlx the others where we all gits lost In the shamble. Sometimes I thinks I’d rather be er weedin’ hoe, er vacuum cleaner, or er telephonf pole than be er hu man nonentity. But shucks, howcome me to be clrcumlocutin' like this? I guess I’m Jest over tired, an’ or rest will do me good. Pa "used to tell us when we got tired an’ cross to go stretch out un der the trees an’ look at the sky— jest to look at hit, not to think or talk—^but Jest to look. Meny things has I seed In cottony clouds; some times er lion, sometimes er,vangel, sometimes er little chile—an’ I alius felt rested after er little' while an ready to go back to work. I wus so tired today thet I got my canniu’ done at the cannery, an’ hit sho Is easy there. These community canneries Is sho convenient. I dunno how meny thou- san’ cans been done this summer in the one nigh by this community. They wus cannin’ beef, soup mixture, snaps, tomatoes, brunswlck stew, an peas, bulterbeans an’ other things thet I cant recollect. I guess these high prices has been or blessin’ after all, fer • they've taugfit folks thrift ergln, come. I knows one young woman ! JUDGE BURGWYN thet canned er half er cow—even to the bones fer soup, all by herself In her steam pressure cooker some time ergo. She raised the heifer, grazin’ her where she would find good grass an reeds; I dunno who klU her, but she sold half an’ did, the rest herself, even to sawin’ the, bones. Hits remarkable, how smart folks ken be when they tries. Yo’ wouldn’t even recognize Uncle Jason er helpen Aunt Judle like he does, an’ he really Is er good worker—now he's got the noshon to work. Jlnnle asted him effen he want erfeared er hurtln’ hisself, goln’ to work now when he hadn’t never been used' to hit. He declared he’d been hard- at work ‘ all his life, but folks didn’t erprechate his work because he wds so quiet erbout hit, an’ didn't never complain. Jlnnle smiled as he put er big cram er tobaccy In hTS mouth, but she didn’t argue with him. « * « Jlnnle tole erbout one er her frens who's got ©r little house dog. The dog got outeii her lot one day au’ stayed erway er day an’ er night befo’ she could be found an shut up ergln. Little Pitter-Pat paid dear fer her lark; when the .time come, fer her puppies they didn’t come an’ little Pitter-Pat looked like she wus goln' to die; the only thing thet saved her wus er (Jaesaiian opera- shon, an’ the dog doctor had to-work hard to save her life, an’ then hit took er lot er nurein’.' The ticuble wus she had admired er big dog when effen she had been content with one of her own klue, she would er been all right, Pltter-Pat reminds me of some folks I knows: them thot can’t' be content with their own,.sort, but Is alius lacln' after what they thinks is the big shots. 'When they gits to know the big shots • they dlskivers ihet they’re Jest grape shot In- er cannon. When folks tries to git ersoclates thet is high up the social ladder an’ climbs after ’em—they’re mighty apt to git dizzy an’ fall. The rungs of Oie' ladder breaks mighty easy, an’ them Ihet’s high up alnt got time to lend er han’ to them thel’s climbin’. Hit’s best to stop chasin' an climbin’ an stay in yo’ own social shper’e. No man has a right to do as he hit was pleases, except when he pleases to mighty nigh er lost art ontll the war' do right;—Simmons. LECTURES JURY ON TOLERANCE (Continued from page one) lips,' aSi-year-old tenant farmer of Angler, charged with the murder of hie wife on Sunday, August 18, while the family were at dinner, a special venire of 100 men were summoned from which to select a Jury. Solicitor Hooks says he will ask for a verdict of murder In the first degree. The defendant contends that his wife tried to commit suicide and that as ;he tried to get the gun from heir she was shot. Later, It was said, he changed this version to self-defense, contending that his wife was trying to shoot him. As The News goes to press, the following-cases have been tried: Rex Jackson, for operating auto while intoxicated, was given a tw*- year road sentence suspended for 5 years on condition that be never op erates a car again. J. C. McDonald, charged with as sault with a deadly weapon with In tent to kill, was found guilty of sim ple assault and was fined 990 and costs. Bowman Carter, charged- with hit and run driving and operating auto without license, got a directed ver dict of not guilty on the first count; on- the second count he was found guilty and given 30 days on the roads suspended upon payment of costs and not drive within i6' months. John P. Norris, J. L. 'VYeaver and Worth Lee, charged with housebreak ing and larceny, .were found guilty of forcible trespass and given six months each on the roads suspended two years and placed on probation. Marvin Wade, charged on two counts of embezzlement, pleaded guilty of forcible trespass; prayer for 'Judgment was continued upon pay- ‘ment of costs. . Lewis Atkins bad his citizenship restored. He was convicted in Samp son county in August 1937 of assault with intent to kill and given 6 to 8 years In State Prison'. He served to Nov. 3', 193'9, when Gov. Hoey pa roled film. In the case of Willi© McLeod, charged: with housebreaking and lar ceny, stealing three shotguns and a rifle from Sam Bryant, Defense At torney Neill McK. Salmon exhibited the warrant of Indictment which charged that McLeod committed the crime In October, l-94((, instead of October,'1946, but the case went on and McLeod was convicted. Jud^o Burgwyn sentenced the defendant to two to five years in State Prison. Notice of appeal was given. As The News goes to press, the case of J. L. Phelps, charged with stealing two sewing machines, is be ing heard. Solicitor Hooks stated be would call the Cox-Sellers' case for trial Immediately after finishing, the Phelps case. The Solicitor.has-amend ed the Indictment against Elton Cox from rape to assault with Intent to commit rape., Hoyte Sellers Is now charged, the Solicitor said, with- as sault on a female: Cox, 23, from Mullins,. S. . C., student at Campbell College.; Is. charged with attacking Louise Waddell, IT, also a Campbell student. Sellers, local youth, is charged with- being with' Cox at the time. If the Cox case consumes- less time that was at first anticipated, the Solicitor will probably call for trial the case of Charlie Phillips, 26, of Angler, charged with killing his ; wife. The Solicitor has signified he will .ask for a first degree verdict, according to the bill returned by the Grand Jury. The court will more than likely continue into next week, uUhough the term Is for one week only. Split Season for Doves TIio North Carolina game laws provide for a split season this yeat* for shooting doves. The sea son opens Sept. 16-and closes on Sept. SO. It opens again on Sept. 2 and closes for the season,on Jan. 19. Tile law calls uttcntiuii to llie fact that it is ilk^gal to liunt doves over a 1>altel area or to sliiM>t tlicau prior to one-half hour b«>- fore sunrise or after sunset- It. is also llU'gul to. hunt with a shot gun ,larger than 10 guage or wiUi .an automatic or puin|> giiii capui^ hie of lioltlln more than three shells tliat has not been pro]>erl>' pluigi;ed. Harnett hiintsnien w'lU hardly be intenwted In the season that openetl Sept. 1 on Horn, rail, marsh hen and gallliiule. Tlie same r«^ alrlctions apply to these wildfowl ; tliat apply to doves. God reigns, and will "turn and overturn" until right is .found su preme.—Mary Baker Eddy. To Our Friends, Custmuers and the People of Harnett County: ♦ • ♦ WHEN NEW CARS.—A pretty good indication as to when new auto mobiles may be expected in more ample supply may be found in not ing the Ford ads and listening to what Ford dealers say. Ford as a ^ DO YOU KNOW The TRUTH about the MOTH ing a wise statute for the curbing r Letters To The Editor Kipling, N. C., Sept. 1, 1946. Dear Mr. Steele: It was hard to let go unnoticed your invitation In last week’s idsue of The News to correspond with tho Editor, especially with that gratify ing article on the front page stating that none of our schools would be held up In their magnificent work' by any foreseeable disease epidem ics. That is something every citizen of the county should Justly be -proud of. Nothing Is more vitally Impor tant than the -health of our younger generation both mentally and physi cally. It seems from the report that the physical part of the picture is pretty well taken care of, but how about the mental part? Practically all of the school plants in the county are crowded and in- ion’4 get caught. rule through the years has been the leader in supplying the demand for now cars, and It Is reasonable to suppose he will be in the lead now. But there have been so many set backs, so many handicaps, that what would-be buyers can only do Is to re main anxious. That’s what John Northam, local dealer, says he Is do- Ing. He has high hopes, however, of being able to meet at least some of his customers with,a glad smile "be fore too long.” * * » HOUSING STILL TIGHT.—Almost every day The News Is called upon by soldiers and civilians inquiring for living quarters. The answer Is always the same: "filled up." It would be a great pleasure to direct these would-be newcomers to apart ments or houses for rent. It seems tho town Is as full of people as it can possibly "stick-In.” Not by any meai^s, either, are all of the appli cants from Fort Bragg. The rush to Llllington would seem to indicate that many people have Just now. learned that this is a desirable place to live. Construction of new dwell ings will no doubt be a big business as soon as materials and labor are more easily obtained. and the DIFFERENCE between moth-killing and YA-DE Mothproofing DO —What our specific, written, regfistered 5 year guar antee means.. YOU KNOW HOUSES FOR VETS. — Govern ment order to dealers to hold 80 per cent of their lumber supplies for •veterans’ houses, co.upled with the trimming down of Army jnd Navy requirements, should atop up the chances for veterans wanting homes to realize their long-cherished desire. There are many' veterans, however, who are not so anxious to start con struction of h-omes with the costs what they are. The thought of pay ing double price for a home doesn’t sot so well with a-veteran or with others ^who are remaining content to .bide tfielr time "sweating-it out" a while longer. « * « UPPING GOES ALONG,—In case you are lntei;ested in knowing how far-ireachlng the upping of prices is: One city -has hiked th© price oX traf fic tickets from 93 to 96. Which, to I be sure, will' not affect you if you —Why spraying insecticides all over the woodwork, in boxes, trunks and closets every two weeks or oftener (as directed) is NOT mothproofing . • • —Why glorified camphor balls in hang-up gadgets do not mothproof .. • —^Why you can LAUNDER or DRY clean all YA-DEed articles as often as necessary, WITHOUT STORING, PACKING or MOTH DAMAGE .. • —^Why moths work 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, and there is no moth season . • • —For answer for the above questions, PHONE 317 I Sanitary Dry Cleaners C. A. BROWN, Manager Lillington, N. C. K, G. MACE, Proprietor war
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