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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1940
A Du-United
Liberties
Harry B. Caldwell, speaking here last
week as Master of the North Carolina
State Grange, said that political and reli
gious liberties for which our ancestors
struggled to obtain are endangered be
cause we do not have economic freedom.
His statement of lack of economic free
dom was based on the present economic
status of ten million unemployed and
about hali the farmers being tenants.
His reasoning is food for serious
thought.
In Europe Hitler took political freedom
from the German people and in return
gave them jobs or at least a semblance of
economic security. In Italy about the same
thing has happened and in Russia the peo
ple lost all freedom for the promise of
economic security.
It all reminds us of the logic of not be
ing able to talk freedom and liberty to a
man with an empty stomach. He is too
liable not to listen unless his necessary
physical wants are filled.
It is true that great .sacrifices in econo
mic welfare were made in the struggle by
early Americans for freedom. But this
democracy worked so well that it provid
ed great opportunities for private initia
tive until recent years of depression.
Political and religious freedom have a
value beyond material valuation but to get
the “forgotten man” to believe that when
he is down and out is indeed difficult.
Patersalism by the government has
• '■^ftwnpered many until they care nothing
about getting ahead of the game and are
content to live in the belief that the gov
ernment will insure their exi.stence.
Hitler’s war machine in Germany has
provided jobs at subsistence wages and the
people ,at least a majority, seem to be well
pleased with the system because they do
not know of anything better. We in
America were born and reared in freedom
and surely we would not let it go for mere
subsistence wages.
‘ We hear a lot thfflel days about “state
trade barriers..” Most of us don’t bother
mucli about Hiem, because we have the
feeling that state tariffs and use taxes and
the res(t don’t bear down upon us very di
rectly or very heavily.
Take the following case as an example
of what might happen if this new type of
state tax were carried to a logical—or
rather, illogical—extreme:
A resident of New York State buys two
cartons of cigarettes in! New Jersey. He
starts to drive through New York City on
his way to his home, which is well oiitside
the city limits. He is stopped by an inspec
tor and brought into court charged with
possessing cigarettes on which the cit.y tax
has not been paid.
But, he explains, he isn’t planning to
smoke the cigarettes in the city. He only
comes there once a week, anyway, and be
sides that, one carton out of the two was
for his wife.
Doesn’t matter, the inspector maintain.s:
the defendant might end up by smoking
some of the cigarettes in New York City.
Even if he doesn’t, there should be state
tax stamps on them.
On tha!t basis, the man is held for trial.
Fanciful, you say: these taxes will never
be carried to that extreme. Well, as a
matter of fact, the above story is a descrip
tion of an actual case recently brought to
court in New York City. And it points a
warning finger to what may happen to the
average citizen if the tendency of states to
erect tax barriers against each other con
tinues unabated.
Incidents like the above seem trival in
themselves. They shouldn’t be dismis.sed
from the mind as lightly as that, however.
For they are storm signals, warning us of
the coming of a time in the not-so-distant
future when the states of this country,
through foolishly erecting high tax barriers
against the free flow of commerce, may
change the proper name of this country
from “the U. S. A.” to the “Dis-united
States of America.”
R A LE I
RUMBLINtil
by
A. LAwrence Aydiett
Charlotte merchants have been
reported as well-pleased with the
selection of the “Queen City” as
the first In this section of the
country for the trial of the food
stamp plan of distributing sur
plus commodities.
The plan involves the issuance
of tfwo kinds of certificates. Or
ange stamps may be bought and
tor every dollar spent in their
purchase blue stamps valued at
fifty cents will be given the pur
chaser.
No stamps may be used in buy
ing tobacco, soft drinks or other
goods that may consumed on
the premises, but may be used
only for the purchase of food.
Blue stamps will buy only certain
designated products in which
there exist conditions of overpro
duction and which are distributed
through the Ii’ederal Surplus Com
modities Corporation to county
welfare departments to be' g’ven
to relief clients.
Other North Carolina communi
ties are -a-atchlng with interest
the operation of the plan in the
Mecklenburg area, some perhaps
with the idea of angling with the
Federal agencies to be included
in the experiment.
Borrowed Comment
In The Spring
Days of brilliant .sunshine, moderate
temperatures and sprigs of green grass
cropping out here and there all serve as
gentle rem nder.s that the glorious season
of spring is near.
Mother nature looks out and provides
for almo.st ever.vthing. Spring is the sea
son when new growth begins, sprouting
from the reserves seasoned and laid away
during the dark winter months. Summer
is the season when new growth begins.
Summer is the sea.son of niVlure’s growth
and production and fall is the time of har
vest.
In spite of attacks of spring fever and
general laziness on the f.rst warm days,
spring is the season otf added energy and
initiative when human lives feel that if
they ever did accomplish anything ;'t is
time to begin.
A great part of the world today faces
spring with gloom because it means the
beginning of gigantic hostilities in killing
men in the most terrible of all unnecessarj'
catastrophes—war.
But in America today the thoughts of
its best citizenship are of peace, prosperi-
and progress. Americans today as never
before represent the backbone of civiliza
tion and their responsibility is greater be
cause they will have to shoulder the bur
den of finding ways and means to help
peoples of nations committing suicide in
w^r.
During the past two decades men have
studied and worked to find ways and
means of making life easier and happier.
In wEirrin^ nfttions this tslsrit which has
been in constructive channels to find meth
ods of increasing and making easier the
spaa of life has been conscnpted to find
ways of ending life. v. -
Unless America keeps the torchlight of
progress burning, civilization is due for a
terrible upset as a result of war.
Men and women of rich attainments
and ability are usually modest and unas-
-suming while the empty-headed people
In too (tften feverishly lift themselves
c above tuf crowd as if afraid they may not
* r^e ve the attention they think they de-
One of the surest evidences of true
. U . humble .pirlt-"The Uplift”
SUNSPOTS?
(Statesville Daily)
Maybe all the heilishness that is going
on in the world today is chargeable to
sunspots. Certainly Hitler, Stalin & Com
pany are not on the warpath by any ana
lysis based on reason. And now comes
word that dogs are hunting in packs down
in South Carolina with about as much rea
son as is in evidence in Europe.
Says an item in the news columns: “A
band of canine outlaws, led by two Ger
man police dogs, and a cur, are playing
havoc with calves, pigs, turkeys and chick-
en.s ill the country between York and Del-
phos. The maruading dogs are said to he
honii'le-'s. ownerless and to sub.sist entire
ly on animals they kill.”
If one has more than passing acquain
tance with the German police dog, which
for some reason or andther, has found high
favor here in late year.s, he can under-
■stancl that a couple of these big fellows,
bol.stered by the loyalty of a pack of mon
grels, could play the dicken.s in the barn-
lot when they .set out with a lufit for blood.
That such maruading has been revived
simultaneously with similar human de
pravity must be attributed to .some out-of-
the-ordinary cause like—sunspots.
The older among us remember when
“sheepkilJing dogs” were the scourage of
the neighborhood and how smart and
wary they were in their operation. Their
destruction was enormous at times, and
irate farmers had to take up arms against
the canines. Always it was the other fel
low’s dog, and if a treasured hound hap
pened to be at the receiving end of a shot
gun, he was there in all innocence, out of
curiosity or just coming home from a
frolick and his untimely death brought re
sentment from his owner and neighbor
hood feuds arose *that were a long time
healing. But in late years this practice
has gone out of style in dogdom, or at least
it was so curtailed as not to attract much
notice. And so when South Carolina dogs
make front page with their antics, one
mu.st conclude that something unusual is
in the air. Maybe’ it really is—sunspots.
Nearly all of North C.' olina’s
county jails are on the blacklist
as far as taking care of Federal
prisoners is concerned, but Mc
Dowell county won’t he as soon as
its new jail is completed.
With aid from the WPA about
$48,000 will be spent In provid
ing modern quarters for 56 pris
oners in the form of an annex to
the court house. Sheriff Grady
1 Nichols will have offic€» and liv
ing quarters in the new building
and otie section will be left un
finished inside to provide space
for future care of 16 more pri.s-
oners. V. W. Breese, Shelby, was
architect for the new jail.
• « *
Public assistance payments in
February amounted to $491,682
which went to 57,0,30 needy North
Carolinians. An average of $10.04
was paid 35,227 old people of
whom 670 were widows of Con
federate veterans. To 21,803 de
pendent children went $137,987
at an average grant of $6.33 for
the month.
‘CONFUCIUS SAY”
(Morganton News-Herald)
If you are feeling rather disgusted with
these “Confucius Say” absurdities that
seem to have taker hold of the country,
perhaps you may be interested in some of
the things the sixth century Confucius, a
great leader and teacher, really did say.
Here are a few:
“The cautious seldom err.”
“It is better to be mean than insubor
dinate.”
“In style all that is required is that it
convey the meaning.”
“A poor man does not flatter.”
“What the superior man seeks is in him
self.”
“What the small man thinks is in oth
ers.”
“Learning, undigested by thought, is la
bor lost.”
“Thought, unassisted by learning, is
dangerous.”
“The superior man is dignified, but does
not wrangle.”
“While you do not know life what can
you know about death?”
“The w'se men must wither away like
the plant.”
im
The worst problem in the ad
ministration of juklce'is the fee
system of paying arresting offi
cers and jailers, according to W.
Curtis Ezell, director of the divis
ion of institutions and corrections
of the State Board of Charities
and Public Welfare. Ezell made
the statement at an Institute on
Crime and Delinquency sponsored
recently by two Wake county or
ganizations.
“Most Of the persons connected
with the fee system are sincere,
honest and capable, but the sys
tem is BO subject to abuse that it
can easily discredit some honest
and well-intentioned employee or
official,” Ezell said. He added
that he believed the “baneful
practice” had a tendency to swell
the number of arrests.
The director pointed out that
three persons are brought into
some county jail in North Caro
lina every twenty minutes of the
day and night, making a total of
some 80,000 a year.
The average length of stay is
about eight days for the 1700
average dally county jail popu
lation cared for at a cost of 65
cents a day or about $900,000 a
year spent from county treasur
ies.
Ezell scored the current disre
gard by county health authori
ties of the law requiring p'hysical
exaimination of each prisoner
within 48 hours after commit
ment to jail as a danger of
-spreadln.g tuberculosis and syph
ilitic infection.
The director said too many
that
.; .The people of North Carolina
hihve ma4e two mtetakes, Ezell
uU, flraf in terming as delin-
^enoy aeta resutUng from a lack
of adjostment to Moiety Ibecause
of Inadequate intellectual compre-
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irabii^edacathm CaeiBUea w r
the ni^s of the mentally
ed child.
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profit comes from the vegetable
garden and pasture kept free of
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Congressman Kerr
Files As Candidate
For Renomination
Washington. - Kepresentative
John H. Kerr .Monday announced
he had filed his notice of candi
dacy for reuoniination as repre-
seiitativo of the second North
farolinu di.strict.
Ill entering the congressional
rtice for the tenth time in hi'
political career, Kerr deeiii.ed to
make an offici.al statemeni re-
arding his candidacy. Pointing
to his long record of service in
Ihe house, which liegaii or No-
veml'er (I, 1923. Kerr indicated
that he preferred to let that rec
ord constitute hi.s statement.
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ADMINISTR.VfOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as Administra
tor of the estate of Mrs. Laura
Hester, deceased, late of Wilkes
Countyi, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersign
ed at Moravian Falls, North Caro
lina on or before the 14th day of
February, 1941, or this Notice
will be plead in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make imme
diate payment.
This the 14th day of February,
1940.
MRS. OCTIE B. GRIER,
Administrator of Mrs. Laura
Hester, Deceased.
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