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PAGE EIGHT I CAROLINIANS—Know four State! g§ V 1030 BY BOYCE & RANKIN ;J„ ■■■,.. ML: 1 3r a ~p BBBBwSc3Spgc»L*soaßSg^ TWO IMPORTANT NORTH CAROLINA DATES THE Hag ol the State of North Carolina bears two dates. May 20, 1775 and April 12, 1776. The first date commemorates the signing of the Mecklenburg Declara tion of Independence when a group of patriots of Mecklenburg County assembled in Charlotte and declared themselves independent of British rule. The St one! date marks the day on which the Halifax Convention directed the North Carolina mem bers of the Continental Congress to vote for a separation from England. When the convention met at Halifax on April 14, I 776, a committe was appointed to report on England's conduct toward the colonies. On April 12th the committee reported that there was no hope of righting America's wrongs by the means already tried and suggested that the North Carolina members of the Continental Congress should join with the members from the other colonies in declaring independence. Although a British fleet was then lying in North Carolina waters all the members of the convention voted for final separation. MecklenSvrg County set th« r ~~~V e for North Carolina and North Carolina to the other colonies, being the first to break l o England WEEKLY NEWS LETTER FROM WASHINGTON Washington—When you get ready to build that little home and want to know just how many wash-tubs to stick down in the basement, you would not ask advice from the proprietor of a public laundry. He’d tell you that you wouldn’t need any tubs. If you thought that possibly a little additional life in surance was within your means there is no possible question about what the life insurance solicitor would recommend. If you wonder whether or not you need a hair cut, you know in advance what the barber's advice would be. If you want advice as to how many battle ships the United States of America ought to build you wouldn’t go over to Annapolis and have the midshipman vote on it. In other words, the folly of solicit ing advice from so-called naval experts to the casual mind is em phasized by the thought that none of them is going to advise against appointments, promotion and ulti-; mate retirement pensions, or deny to the prospective subaltern the sat- ( isfaction of getting into a uniform , and parading himself at the govern-; ment’s expense in all of the sea- j port capitals of the world. Here in Washington it is. thought j that it is high time somebody in i authority told a bunch of admirals ! just where they get off. Naturally, j and'with far from unselfish motives, a high officer in our navy wants : to have just as many ships of war j built and put in commission as the | people of the United States can be scared into paying for. I In view of the fact that the 1 veriest layman knows well enough just where they stand, it is in- ; comprehensible that for weeks ’ adrifaals of our navy have been per- j mitted to do unheard of things, ! making public Statements which i challenge the judgement' of their political superiors and undoubtedly tending to cause the gravest em barassment to the foreign relations of the United States. ! For example/ there is Admiral Nulton,, who wants to warm our patriotic hearts, so to speak, with the statement that he sees no rea son why Great Britan should have the privilege to say what kind of cruisers the United States may or may not build. As a matter of fact, Admiral Nulton is the Boston naval district and it is none of his business to express opinions as Call Agari^^^ _ _ ByMB. to the wisdom of making an in- J ternational treaty to limit navies. Then comes Admiral Hough, of the General Board, who announces that he “does not feel that we have got as much as we might have.” j Similarly, it is none of his business j to express his personal feelings on this subject. I Then comes Admiral Day, talking about “the American plan” to em ploy submarines in defense of “the Philippines and for activity against the enemy in his own waters.” The spectacle of this collection of naval officers appearing in public to at tack an international treaty is shock ing beyond measure. It is a serious question as to whether they ought to be permitted to testify at all in public. It is certainly true that if they do testify they ought o be vigorously excluded from the field of policy and held to statements of purely technical opinions. To per mit them to be used as they have been used to manufacture and prom ulgate propaganda for the purpose of obvious anti-Japanese and anti- British jingo is an encouragement of a vicious form of militarism. Under our system of govern ment the military is supposed to be subordinate to the civil power, f Militarism in the exact sense of the word exists when the civilian ( power in a nation is or attempts ito be predominant. History proves jto us that in their sphere our j sea fighters are and always have I been without peers, but the vice -1 admirals and rear admirals who i now attempt to project themselves !as export advisors into a political j controversy seem to have forgotten that the General Board acts as if : it thought it was a body of time l tried statesmen, whereas it is in I fact a body of elderly warriors! which is in existance to offer advice Ito the civilian Secretary of the 1 Navy and the civilian President of the United States. It is an unseem !ly and gross usurpation of power for the General Board to undertake j to., defeat -an international treaty which its superiors have negotiated, i President Hoover would not over step his executive rights if he sum moned these admirals to order and remind e‘d them in unmistakalble terms as to just where they fit into I the American scheme of govern ment. If this thing goes on it would be hard to tell where it would stop. Even now the admirals have done enough mischief to embarass not only the present administration but the government. If they keep it up for a few weeks longer, incited by radical recklessness like that sponsored by Senator Hiram John son, of California, irreparable dam age may be done. Someone in THE , CHATHAM RECORD, PITTgBORO, N. C. authority should call a halt on | their activities and so unmistakably that our neighbors will appreciate that they do not reflect the views of those who control American policy. | It is thought that Mr. Hoover should not tolerate this business j any further. No’ head of govern ' merit, no American President should stand for what President Hoover has already stood. A Cleveland, a Roosevelt or a Wilson would have come down like a ton of brick upon this outrageous insubordination. And when the dust clears away America and the world will know that is is the civilian power and neither vice-admirals or major generals who make America’s for eign policy. Last August your correspondent predicted that no tariff bill would or could be passed by Congress during the special session then con-1 vening. Furthermore, he express his 1 opinion that it was exceedingly! unlikely that any tariff bill would j be passed during the regular sess ion to follow, which is now booked for adjournment in June. The old guard in the House suc ceeded in putting over a bill which was generally looked upon as an abomination and the Senate, under the leadership of super-lobbyist Grundy, went the House one better in passing the bill acceptable to no one other than its supporters— with a very serious question as to the sincerity of the support. Following the usual mode of procedure, the bills were referred to a joint conference and the con ferees reached an agreement and made their returns to the Senate and House. However, the tariff ship struck a rock in the Senate in the ! form of a point, .of order raised by Senator Alven W. Barkley, Democrat, .of 1 .Kentucky, to the effect that 'the' Senate and House conferees had exceeded their powers in making a compromise arrange ment on the flexible tariff pro vision. ' The point of order was sustained by Vice-President. Curtis and the whole situation is again in a state of confusion worse con founded. Vice-President Curtis’ ruling was to the effect that the conferees had put into their compromise new matter not found in either the House or the Senate flexible provis ion. In making this ruling the Vice- President is said to have been in full accord with President Hoover who, it is declared on good outhor ity, did not approve of certain provisions. The effect of the Vice-President’s ruling was to throw the contro versial section back to the con- ferees. This means that the bill is again out. of the hands of the, Senate and 'House and back/-;* 11 conference. The controversial sec tion covers the flexible tariff, de benture, provisions relating to the personnel of the tariff commission and several rate items, such as lum ber, cement and silver. ■- In addition to the delay the Vice-President’s ruling will be im portant in other particulars in view of the Chair’s decision against h the insertion of new matter by the conferees which was declared by Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader, that it would be almost impossible to ad just the differences between the two houses on the flexible question ‘otherwise than by taking practically the identical language of the Houes’s flexible clause. This would give the President ! broader power than provided in the ' present law for the compromise • provision and would enable him on finding the fact by the tariff com mission to raise or lower rates on the basis of differences in competi tive conditions. ; Just what would be the result *of reconsideration of the section ■ by the conferees is a question, but i it is thought to be more than possi -1 ble that irreconcilable disagree ments will prevent the passage of any tariff bill whatsoever during the present session. What President Hoover would do about the bill if passed in anything like its present form is still problematical. Unless practically everybody in Washington is wrong Mr. Hoover will sign the bill. If and when it gets to him the country would like him a lot better, the politicians in his oun as well as the other party w'ould respect him more, and he would spoil the picture painted of him by his critics as a very soft and much perturbed President if he votoes it—particularly if he vetoes it with vigorous evidence of his anger and disgust. *.************** * * Gulf News * * * * * * * #*;#******** Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beal of Huntingdon. Pa., spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Beal of this place. Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Phil lips April 25th a girl named Billie Faye. Miss Elsie Tyner left Sunday for Buies - Creek to attend summer school. Mrs. C. C. Yates of- Carthage but a former resident of Gulf and greatly beloved woman, spent Thurs day with Mrs. J. W. Mclntyre. Sev eral friends visited her during the day. Miss Christian Phillips, student at Lees-Mcßae Institute, arrived last Tuesday to spend her vacation at home. She was accompanied by j Miss Mary Young, another student, who will visit with Misses Phillips, l Annie Tyner and Blanche Wilkie, j before returning to her home at j Buladean. . j Mr. W. A. Jones has been con- I fined to his home for more than a week with heart trouble. His friends hope that he may soon be out again. Glad to report Mrs. M. J. Jor dan able to be out again, after be ing confined to her bed several days last week. Miss Mary Ayscue, B. Y. P. U. worker, taught a study course here last week. A number of splendid 1 young people of Goldston attended also. Friday night new officers were elected for the union this summer as follows: William A. Beal, presi dent; Mrs. C. R. Freeman, vice pres ident; Miss Viola Johnson, Bible Readers’ Leader; Richard Moore and Readers’ Leader; Richard Moore and Annie Tyner, gi'oup captains; Blanche Wilkie, secretary; Mrs. J. R. Moore, treasurer; Mrs. Mary Devereaux, pianist. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Little spent the week-end with relatives at Lin wood. • • Master Billie Mclver, who was serio’usly hurt two weeks ago, by passing a motorist is steadily im-> . proving and is expected to come [home this week from Sanford hos pital, but will be confined to his bed a few weeks longer. <j> Excerpts from a fourth grade geography test: “Snow is little pieces of white cloth that falls from the sky.” "Hail is Just like snow only when it hits you hard it hurts you.” “Waves is bumps on the water.” “Wind is something that blows like the devil.” (The pupils were told to express their answers in I their own words.) —The Pathfinder j -.POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ■ ; ■' '■ ' —<B> ■ FOR COMMISSIONER I hereby announce ‘myself as a candidate for County Commissioner subject to the wishes of the., Dem ocratic primarv to be held in June. E. E. WALDDEN. FOR THE SENATE I hereby announce myself a can didate for the State Senate, subject to the action of the Democratic primary to be held in June. . W. P. HORTON. FOR THE HOUSE I hereby announce myself a can didate for * Representative froih Chatham County in the next Gen-/ 1 eral Assembly, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. ; V. F. JOHNSON. ' i FOR THE HOUSE J I announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to' the action of the Demo . cratic primary to be held in June. [ S. WILL HARRINGTON. ; FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS I hereby announce myself a can ! didate for the office of Register of j Deeds of Chatham County, subject to the action of . the Democratic primary to be held in June. ■j J. WADE SILER FOR THE SENATE At the solicitation of a number of my friends, I hereby announce myself a candidate for the State Senate, subject to the Democratic primary to be held in June. W. H. GARNER. t : —— 4 —; ’ —: \ FOR CORPORATION COMMISSIONER vote for ! HOLLAWAY ■ - ■ i His opponent has held this office j ‘ for 18 yeasr. - Time for a change. Thi* space is contributed and paid for by Democratic Voters of Chatham County PILOT THEATRE PITTSBQRO, N. C. { * 4 Wednesday and Thursday, June 4, 5 808 STEELE in __ “THE MAN FROM NOWHERE” Second chapter of* “The House of Terror” • Also a Comedy FRIDAY and SATURDAY, June 6,7 WILLIAM FOX presents “BIG TIME” with LEE TRACY, MAE CLARKE and JOSEPHINE DUNN. An all talking Fox Movietone drama of back stage life, and in Hollywood studios. A sound comedy. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, June 9-11 Warner Brothers Presents DELORES COSTELLO in “NOAH’S ARK” with GEORGE O’BRIEN, NOAH BERRY and LOUISE Fazenda. Warner Bros, and Vitaphone talking picture. A Pathe Sound Comedy ’■ • i , Shows Daily 7:00; 8:30 Saturdays 3:30 to 10:00 Admission: White 15c 40c Colored 10c 30c iv, I THURSDAY. JUNE 1930 FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER' I hereby announce mv< e candidate tor County Commissioner* subject to the action of the Dem ocratic primary to-be held in JuZ' L. B, HESTER * FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER^ I announce my candidacy a - a candidate for county commissioner to succeed myself. This announce ment is subject to the action of the Democratic primary to be held : n June. R. J. JOHNSON. FOR CLERK OF * I hereby announce myself a can didate to succeed myself as Clerk of the Superior Court. This an nouncement is subject to the action of the Democratic primary of June 7th. e._b_hatch. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS | I announce myself a candidate for Register of Deeds, subject to the action of the Democratic pri mary to be held in June. A. J. BOONE, Pittsboro. N. C. i FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER' I hereby announce myself a can- I didate for county commissioner I subject to the action of the Dem- I ocratic primary to be held in June | R. W. DARK, Siler City. * FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Sheriff of Chatham County subject to the action of the Democratic primary to be held in June, 1930. Q. W. BLAIR. J — — A diamond cuts a diamond.-r- Hindoo proverb.