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THE BOBESONIAN, LUMBERTQJT, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, MAY 2, 192L
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School Funds Must
Be Provided
Counties Must Raise About Same
Amount for Schools Whether Pro
perty Valuation is High or Low.
Warning aeainst endaneerine the
constitutional six-months' term of
public schools in North Carolina
through reduction of county school
incomes beyond a point where the
loss can be taken care of by the
State equalizing fund is given in a
letter issued Friday to county and
city superintendents by Dr. E. C.
Brooks, State Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction. Counties will be re
quired to raise about the same amount
of money for schools whether the
valuation of property is high or low.
Dr. Brocks' letter is as follows:
"I wish to urge you to call the at
tention of your board of education
and the county commissioners to the
necessity of providing enough revenue
for six months' school term. From
ipformation received through the
press and otherwise the county com
missioners are reducing the valuation
of property. This of course is sub
ject to the review of the State Tax
Commission.
"The Constitution makes it the duty
of the counties to run the schools six
months. The last General Assembly
provided that, after the commission
ers have levied a 30x-ent tax for six
hionths' term, if this should not pro
duce a sufficient amount to maintain
the schools in the several counties
fur six months the remainder may
be secured from the State equalizing
fund.
Deficit In Equalization.
"However, since that act was passed
the commissioners have been reducing
the valuation of property. Therefore,
it is practically certain that the
equalizing fund will not De sufficient
to provide the necessary remainder
if no county exceeds a rate of 30
cents. It will require nine million
dollars o rurt"therscho'ols six months."
If the valuation is cut one-third a
30-eent rate will produce only six
million dollars, leaving a deficit of
about three million with only an
eoualizing fund of about $(500,000 with
which to meet this deficit. There
fore, if the valuation of property is
cut one-third, a tax rate of 45 cents
will be necessary to provide what a
30-cent rate would produce under the
present valuation.
"We are unable to say this early
how much reduction will be made in
the valuation of the property. But
the Attorney General advises me that
whatever the reduction may be, it is
the duty of the several counties, to
determine how much may be available
from the equalizing fund and then the
commissioners' are required to levy
a tax rate sufficient to supply the
necessary amount. A reduction in
the valuation of the p-oprty, there
fore, will not increase the burden on
the State, but the several counties
will be required to raise about the
same amount of mney for schools
whether the valuation of the proper
ty is high or low.
"Each superintendent knows about
how much is derived this year from
the equalizing fund. The funds
available 'for the equalizing fund will
be increased approximately 15 per
cent for next year. You can detjer
mine approximately, therefore, Wow
much your county will be entitled to
next year from the equalizing fund.
As soon a-s the valuation of the pro
perty in your county is finally deter
mined you should be sure that the
rate for schools will be large enough
to supply the necessary funds for a
r;x months' school term. We shall
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be able perhapa to fix a fair maxi
mum rate after the revaluation is
completed and finally approved by
the Tax Commission."
WINSTON-SALEM IS STIRRED.
Candidacv of Methodist Parson
"Butterfly" Has Turned Things
I'Dside Down.
Winston-Salem, April 29 Twin
town "sot" and satisfied is taking the
Rev. Tom P. Jimison, candidate ex
traordinary, very seriously.
This Methodist gentleman, who is
called "butterfly", not because he is
cither so beautiful or necessarily the
pmblem of immortality, but undoubt
edly because he covers much earth,
has disturbed this paradise. He nas
shak.vn un 50.000 citizens and Wins
ton-Salem isn't a shaker. It dearly
loves a quiet time. Its motto is busi
ness and its eleventh commandment,
"Don't rock the boat." Brother Jimi
son isn't playing the game according
to the city's rules. He is turning
things upside down.
But they haven't opened on him
for his Sunday views. He has de
clared for sanity in Sunday observ.
ance. He thinks that if tobacco is
dispensed for men at the drug stores,
lemonade and ice cream should be
sold to the women and their families.
He would close in truth or open
absolutely. There is a world of em
barrassment in this issue. Tobacco is
something of a Winston-Salem pro
duct. To hammer the preacher for
nrK-nrfltinir the Sunday sizzle would
be to except the Sunday smoke. And"
how he would romp on a city govern
ment which she ws such indefensible
favoritism; As matter of fact he is
attacking the government for that
very thing. He condemns it for giv
ing to tobacco a privilege which is
denied very much less harmful mer
chandise. Indeed, since the campaign has
reached the interrogatory stage he is
about to ask question,, of his own.
He is going to inquire if there is not
a special way by which the Hameg
dairy ice cream finds " its way into
the city on-Sunday. He- hears there
is. The significance of this inquiry
is patent. The insurgency is making
everywhere the charge that the city
government shows the most indefensi
ble favoritism for the Hanes interests,
and that there is nothing by way of
special concession at which it will
balk. W. T. Bost in Greensboro
News.
THE DEBATE OF THE NAVAL
APPROPRIATION BILL.
Mrs. M. E. Watson and Miss Dalia
Stanton of Red Springs were among
the shoppers in town Thursday after,
noon.
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"Nothing But
The Trath"
Under ordinary circumstances the
debates which have developed in the
House of Representatives during the
last few days ;n connection with the
consideration of the Naval Appropria
tion bill would have attracted wide
attention. But though they have
been naturally overshadowed in im
mediate news interest by the German
reparations emergency, 'they deserve
to hold a place of the first impor
tance in thoughtful public considera
tion. In point of fact, they concern
a subject which involves even more
to ourselves and the world in gen
eral than the amount of the German
indemnity. Disarmament, or the re
duction of naval expenditures is it
self, in a sense, a question of repara
tions. It looks to. repairing the
financial and moral wrong done to the
producers of the world by that great
est of world-destroyers war, and to
freeing them for the future from the
ruinous burdens which it has imposed.
Germany's indemnity would be a mat
ter of comparatively small moment to
France. Great Britain and Italy if
they did not have to pay a huge year
ly indemnity to the practice and
theory of colossaj. armaments. And
if this load were lifted off our own
shoulders most of our economic and
industrial troubles would grow
smaller and simpler.
There are nearly always two sides
to every question, but the curious
point about this discussion is that
there is virtually no disagreement as
to the general principle among the
public men and political spokesmen
of the day. The crushing cost of
war is conceded on every hand, and
few persons now scoff at the practi
cability of finding some sound basis
for international co-operation in its
reduction. But when it comes to put.
ting this common-sense idea into
operation we are at once met with
motions for postponement, for delay,
until a more convenient season. The
reduction of war machinery always
lies in the indefinite future. This is
not the day of salvation. It is
dangerous, we are told, to act now
We must wait until the situation is
more favorable.
Unfortunately, this debate in the
House has, as is the case with most
public questions, assumed rather a
partisan color. The proposition has
not been considered on its merits as
a business matter susceptible of
definite calculation and regulation,
but has labored under the intellectual
hoodoo of old ideas and influences.
The average Congressional mind
seems impervious even to suggestions
as to the advisability of considering
a change in the type of naval con
struction. Many officers of the Navy
believe there should be such a change,
and Representative Knight, of Ohio,
proposed an amendment embodying
an official inquiry in this line, but
the purpose of the majority to push
blindly on in the execution of the
present program seems unaffected by
the fact thai the money they propose
to spend may be almost thrown away.
That is one of the side issues in the
debate over the Naval Appropriation
bill. The main point is, Why should
an international conference on dis
armament be delayed for three or
four years; why shouTd we and all
other countries go on spending mil
lions and millions of mony for an in
definite period when it might be pos
sible to reach som agreement within
thp nxt twelve months?
Mr. Harding, in our judgment, is
making a mistake in postponing this
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Train No. 2, from Marion, S.
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NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND WARRANT
OF ATTACHMENT
North Carolina,
Robejon County.
In the Superior Court.
Jerome J. Schlesinfrer and H. Schlesinger,
trailing at SchleinRer Brothers, va. G. J.
Greenben?, trading as Red Springs Cash
Store.
To the defendant, G. J. Greenberg :
You will take notice that summons in the
nhove entitled action was issued against you
on the 27th day of April, 1921 by C. B. Skip
per, Clerk Superior Court of Robeson County,
North Carolina, in an action in which the
plaintiff seks to recover judgment agn.T t
you in the sum of $320.23. subject to a credit
of SSS.00, due the plaintiff by account, whic'i
summons is returnable before the under
signed Clerk of the Superior Court of Robejon
County, at his office in Lumberton, North
Carolina, on they 28th day of May, 1921.
You will take notice that a warrant of
attachment was issued by the undersignel
Clerk of the Superior Court of Robeson Coun
ty against your property, which warrant is
returnable before the undersigned! Clerk of
the Superior Court of Robeson County at the
time and place above named for the return
of the summons, when and where you are re
quired to appear and answer or demur to
the complaint of the plaintiff, or the relief
demanded will be granted.
This 27th day of April, 1921.
C. B. SKIPPER.
Clerk Superior Court
McLean, Varser, McLean & Stacy,
Attorneys for plaintiff. 4-28-4 Thurs,
conference. There is never likely to
be a time when the idea of disarma
ment would meet with such strong in
ternational response as it would now.
Baltimore Sun.
Rev. W. D. Combs, pastor of the
Gospel Tabernacle, Mrs. Combs and
Miss Janie Carlyie are attending at
Durham a Missionary Alliance conference.
ADMINI9TKATKIX-S NOTICE
Having qualified u administratrix of the
estate of the late John R. Boahn, deceased,
of Robeson County. North Carolina, this is
to notify ell persons holding claims astainat
said estate to present same, duly authenticated,
on or before April 24 1922, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will please snake
immediate payment.
This April 18. 1921.
MRS. LIBBIE J. BOAHN.
Administratrix of the late Jno. R. Boahn.
4-28-6 Thurs. Red Springs. N. C.
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