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THE SANFORD EXPRESS
4«tli Year of PubUeatoa.
ESTABLISHED IN 1886.
til.
PUBLISHERS:
P. H. 8t. Clair D. L. St. Clair
ftKSt Clair, Edttsr
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'W: One year, 81SO;-Six Mantha, 75c
AArartistas Hates aa Agplicatioa.
Entered at the Post Office in Sanford,
~7 N. fe, as tail Matter of the Second
Glass. __
Sanford, N. C., August 10, 1933.
WHY SO MUCH
EXPLAINING? •
There seems to be a lot of ex
plaining by some people in San
«on1 as to why the board of ai
rmen fixed the city tax rate
this year at $1.60. Hie Express
takes it for granted that the
Board of Aldermen saw the ne
cessity of fixing a higher rate
than that of a year ago or they
would not have raised the rate.
This being true why should they
be subject to criticism ? It is
an easy matter to critize the
other fellow, but put yourself m
his position and you will see
things from a different angle.
The Board of Aldermen are in a
position to know why the tax
■ nite should be raised. It takes
. a nice little sum of money to run
the Town of Sanford for a year,
keep up the interest on the bond
ed indebtedness, take care of the
L ginking fund and incidentals.
This is all we have to say anent
the new tax rate.
A ROAD MEETING THAT
SHOULD ACCOMPLISH
MUCH GOOD. *£
Hie road meeting which was
held here yesterday should ac
complish much good by making
Federal Highway No.l more of a
tourist road and more largely
traveled fti» fall and winter
Qmn ever before. Many
good suggestions were offered
~ . by the speakers as to how this
Should be done.
methodis
S'J along the°highwi.
much to popularize the road and
in many ways make it attractive
to tourists. Prartially all this
great highway from the Canadi
an bonier to the Florida resorts
is in good shape and there is very
little of it that has not been
hard surfaced.
Another very effective way to
bring tourists over this high
way is to advertise the advant
ages the road has to offer tour
ist travel in the great centers of
population in the northern states
and at the Florida resorts. The
■ people living on other great
highways are doing this and
they are getting results. Let
— tourists know the kind of road
they are invited to travel over
and give the attractive features
of the country through which it
extends. Things of an histori
cal nature should be emphasized.
They should know something
about tiie class of people that
they are to mingle with in the
'stops’ they make along the way.
' Well kept hotels and rooming
houses in the towns where tour
ists stop will do much to increase
tourist travel pver this highway.
? Courteous attention and treat
ment will have mrihh to do with
. increasing the tourist business.
The most
-me isxpress. nas onen empua
f sized the fact that the tourist
1 business has been a great help to
^Sanford m a material way. This
jpaper stated last spring that the
money spent here diicing the
- tourist season about equaled
the amount of money handled
here from the combined cotton
and tobacco crops of this County.
This money got circulation here
through the hotels, rooming
houses, cafes, drug stores, bar
ber shops, grocery stores, shoe
shops, millinery shops, and in
many other ways.
' In order to make the advertis
ing program effective it will be
y necessary to have funds to have
tiie literature printed and distri
, buted. People who expect to
draw patronage from tourst trav
, el should contribute liberally to
this cause. It is believed that
this is going to be one of the
best seasons in the history of
; ■ tourist travel. The spapn was
not so good last winter, but bus
iness is improving and it is
- thought that this will bring more
V people from the New England
, * and other northern states to the
resorts in Florida, Georgia South
Carolina and this state. The tottf
fists v iiU begin to come South in
September and continue to in
crease till the height of the sea
■■ sou along in November and De
camber. i
WHY NOT POSTPONE
OPENING OF PUBLIC
SCHOOLS? : *
The Express has for son*
time felt that it would probabl;
be best to postpone the openin)
of the public schools of Lee Com
ty till the middle or last of Sep
tember as crops in this sectioi
are much earlier this season thai
they have been in a number o
years. One of the leading farm
era of the county remarked b
Hie Express Mem day that h<
would be able to gather a bale o:
cotton by the last of August. H<
stated that he had not been able
to gather a sufficient amount o:
cotton in August in years t<
make a bale. Much of the fod
der is now ready to pull and t
it is not gathered in the nex'
two or three weeks it will be mil
ed. While there appears to b<
plenty of labor to be had mud
of it is worthless if it can be em
ployed at alL
The planters have been bus:
during the past three or foui
weeks gathering and curmj
their tobacco crop, but it wil
have to be graded before it is pul
on the market. The Sanfort
tobacco market will open. on the
19th of September. If much ol
it is to be graded by that timt
it will have to be done by mem
bers of the families of the plant
era. Should the schools opei
before that date the boys and
girls will'not be able to do th«
grading. Mr. J. Robert Harvard,
of Jonesboro Route No. 2 writes
a communication to The Express
an this subject, which, in ordei
to emphasize, we incorporate it
into this editorial •
‘‘It has been said that we have
an overprodution of shcools ant
if our Board of Education de
cides to start schools early as use
al.we will certainly have an ovei
production as our crops are sc
far advanced. The cotton field*
are getting white and a big to
hacco crop to get ready for the
market. The old folks back a
home cannot take care of the sit
nation and send the children t<
school before the latter part o:
September, and there is no gooe
of running school trucks to ant
fro to make a half day was tins
time and our Mr. • Tax Payers
money. . We your care
ful consideration.
“It is a great pity that on
fanning people are tied up witi
our town and city folks who d<
not have farm problems to con
tend with. This writer has con
suited a great many ef.the pal
runs and has not found even on
who wants the schools to star
before the latter part of Septan
ber. We can do without oui
children much better next spring
than we are now.
“Written in behalf our patron*
rf this section.”
NRA RELEASES
200,000 CHILD LABORERS.
Almost from the time the
cotton textile industry was
in its infancy in this country,
there has been a hard fighi
made by people of the humanita
rian spirit to prevent child Iaboi
in the cotton mills. It seemec
that at every turn they were de
feated in this tight by the grasp
ing capitalists who were deter
mined to fill their coffers at tin
expense of thousands of unfor
t unate children in the country
After many years the fight has
been won through NRA.
200,000 boys id girls hav«
been taken off the pay rolls ol
the mills and win be. required t<
attend school thi3 fall, many ol
than for the first time in then
lives, provided there is room ii
te schools for than. It is j
?reat victory for those who madi
the tight to give the children at
opportunity to make of than
‘elves worthy citizens.
LEE NOT THE WORST
COUNTY IN THE COUNTRY.
The Express has for the pas
few years been laboring unde:
the impression that Lee hai
about the worst criminal recon
of any county in the state, if no
in the nation. After making!;
study of statistics recently sen
out by the University News Let
ter giving the information in .
tabulated statement showing-th
percentage of crime committe
in each county in the state w
found that a number of countie
had a much higher per cent o
cdme'per 1000 population tha
Lee. ■■■*
We see from a communicatio
in the News and Observer e
Tuesday under a Lumberto
headline of the 2lst that th
third homicide of the week an
7th of the month had been con
mjtted in Robeson county. 1
seems that most of this crime) i
committed by Croatans, shootin
or cutting each other to deati
We frequently see from the Rob
sonian where Indians are kille
or Wounded while engaged wit!
members of their own race in a!
tereations with knives or pistob
It seems that they seldom attad
other people with deadly wea
pons.. ,
It seems that the crime wav
, has abated to some extent in the
State, except where peope are
killed in automobile wrecks.
They are more frequent this
• year than in , any past year.
’ Many people have little regard
'.for life while driving an automo
i bile. If punishment was more
• severe they would be more care
1 ful in driving cars on the high
[ ways. The man who is respon
• sible for causing some innocent
• person to be killed in n wreck
> which he caused while under the
■ influence of liquor, should have
■ tiie limit of the law.
! ORGANIZE.
> Perhaps more dearly than at an>
; time in oar history ere are being
; taught today that the only safe ah<3
■ sure toad for oar people to travel is
1 that of cooperation. Everywhere, ir
' every business and industry the call oJ
' cooperation rings oat.
Hie present national administratior
in ita mighty efforts to lift the blanket
of depression that has covered this
country, steadily and insitently gives
the warning that it cannot deal with
individuals. Its spectacular program
of recovery can only be put on
through organisation. Every day the
cat to organise and go forward on all
fronts challenges.
Industry and commerce is organised
more strongly today than probably at
any time before. *n>ese organised
groups are presenting their codes oi
cooperation to the President every
day. Labor organisations are given
striking governmental recognitior
with the result that they are growing
in numbers and in strength. A1
along the line or in most of the lines
organisation and cooperation are grots
ing.
More impressively than at any
Une before the government is savins
to formers, “Organise and cooperate.’
It has said repeatedly that it canno
deal with individuals. More effective
ly and in a larger way than ever or
1 ganiied formers art coperating. Whei
the Peresident called for a prog ran
> for the improvement of . agriculture
’ conditions only the organised form
ers answered. They met in Washing
[ ton at the request of the government
: and there with government official!
■ worked out definite plans for foe re
, of foep reducers at foe different
; major crops. As a result of thes<
conferences of farm organization lead
ers seed and fertilizers loans wen
, again made this year; plans were
. made for the reduction in -acreage oi
cotton and some other crops; plans
for payment to be made to those form
era who cooperated in destroying a
* part of fodr crop: plans for a process
^ in»'“ mr'for* drtps ak tS^r past
, through the mills to raise foe money
t f°r foe expenses of eliminating
, acrage in certain crops etc.
The result of the work of organized
formers with the government to aid
agriculture has been remarkably goo
ftie almost entirely to their woi
the prim of cotton anl wheat have at
^anoed almost fifty per cent. For tl
first time in sevral years the eottc
, farmer is looking to foe marketing at
■ with a hope well founded. F<
his cotton he is at least expecting coi
ptas some profit. The cotton soul
because of foe work of its organize
-formers is on foe upgrade and fool
mg to the future with a new hope.
hi direct contrast to foe organize
and planning coton, wheat, dairy ar
, live stock and fruit fanners foe plig]
«f the planless and unorganized tobai
• eo former is conspicuous. Over tl
tobacco belt, we hear the cry of lo
prices being paid by the wealthy ar
powerful tobacco interests. Here ar
yonder little group meetings of am
! er\sen<3 out their call for help, 1
make foe tobacco companies pay thei
, more money. The little watering cry
■ for.he,P g» up in many places, malar
• an impressive volume ofhefplessne,
asfoey join ni a whole chorus N
i organized demand for help f,
. foem is heard, with plans to back tl
1 :rP\ There are "o leaders to mal
' r*? PlTf ortoaend out the calls, wh
powerful organizations at their bad
.to put foe plans into effect with go
^~rthelp The government tel
it has foe means for effeefo
“XTJ‘hem bot 5t wo,
' with individuals, that it is only as a
j °Tni2!!,?Jthat “ C*n «“*> them.
. *** of organizations. Tl
i» vandngk* orK*n*I*<l formers are a.
lespedeza.
_ °* Wodne*<i»y, Augurt 80th, ,t 1:1£
V- Tout are Invited to assemble ai
«n>nad* of Zion Chroh, two rnOei
north of Osgood for the porpoee ol
getting together and looking over tlu
crops of Lespedexa in that section.
The note wiU be as follows:
Mr. Find Sloan' house, one quartei
mile from church.
Mr. D. A. Mann’s field beside road
Ihe Jones form about three milea
from this field:
Mr. W. Seagrove’s farm, abort
miles from Jones farm.
s On this trip you will see first anc
1 second year sericia (the new g-ianl
1 perennial lespedeza); first and seconc
- year Korean and Kobe "the giant an
. nuai lespedexa.
C Fanners, merchants, editors, in fad
■ everybody interested in the upbuilding
of Lee county, should come to this a*>
! aembty.
* . % *
This
and
HAT
Will Judge Daniels retire from the
bench at ha end of hit present term?
Tbit is a question that is of internet
to a number of lawyers in this judicial
district including one or two mem*
ben of the Lee County bar. Judge
Daniels is now in his seventies. He
has been on thabench for many yean.
A Sanford min who had been out of
| work for something like two years and
who was informed that he could have
bis old job back again says that this
god news made bis heart beat so fast
that he got uneasy about himself.
A Sonford hog, now 17 yean old,
who graduated Horn our city schools
June and who aspects to miter Uni
. versity of North Carolina in Septem
ber. saved six hundred dollars while
attending school. This money will
carry him thongjh the freshman year
at Chapel Hill yd he will probably
have some money left for the sopho
more year. He> has a younger broth
er who is saving money to help edu
cate himself, and he is doing this by
getting np early in the'morning and
delivering newspapers at the homes of
the people in Sanford. The mother of
these twb boys who taught school be
fore her marriage, and who is a bril
liant woman, has kept right behind
her sons all the time .helping them in
their studies andyelping them to save
pennies, dimes f und dollars. When
these boys finish their education they
will know what jan education means.
Don’t you think the phrase, “getting
..a kick ont of it,” has ben about worn
-out? Can’t somebody coin a better
phrase?
.fe-'
A leading tawyer of Lee county
sayes that he Cannot malcA a living
now in praeting his profession. An
other member of the local bar says
that he eould take two good stenogra
pher and do practically all of tba le
gal work that comes np in Lee coun
ty in the coarse of a year. Yet there
are eight or. ten men trying to prac
tice law in Tee-bounty.
Everywhere you go you find the le
gal profession crowded and the law
achools crowded with would-be law
y®*»- No wonder lawyers miter poli
ties and othegilpes of workto makes
living. 'P'm
~ - - - - -
of Lee county, un
der die direction «f our home demon
stration agent, Hiss Cornelia-Simpsou,
and her assistance, have canned many
quarts of> vegetables and fruits for
home use daring the coming whiter.
On a recent Sunday evening a woman
called at a home on Hawkins Avenue,
where die spent perhaps three quar
trs of an hoar talking and listening
when others talked. After she had
gone one of tht three persons who re
mained at the home said of her:
“Isn’t she fine? '
"Yes, and she is so gracious and
j tactful,” said another. "I Eked her
1 the first time I met her and I have
jbeen more favorably impressed with
j her every time I have been in her eonr
t^any since then,’!- remarked the- third
person. <
Diese three spoke from the heart.
The woman referred to lives on Gulf
street and if you know the people on
that street yon have her spotted.
If you hre without mental and spir
itual resources you are unfit to. be
blind.
The fact that one lives next door to
a church and within' 60 feet of one of
America’s great modem highways
may have its advantages but it also
has Its disadvantages, for within the
course of a year sodles of profession
al tramps call, thinking the parson
lives there and hoping to get money
or something to eat while others who
are not tramps call for various pur
poses while traveling up and down the
highway. A few days ago I met a
man at the door and he asked me for
money enough to carry him to Wash
ington. I asked him why he didn't
use his thumbs, and he said that he
had worn his thumbs out coining up
from Miami I gave him a qarter
mid I suppose he bought liquor with
it Oae would like to help all who
ask for something to oat, but this is
impossible.
| Boy* In their [ate teen* and early
i twenties coming eat prison quarters
with stripes on and "under guard pre
sent a picture that you may not care
to took at but «u«h * picture may be
seen every morning at the prison
down at the old fair grounds when
the prisoners file out and enter the
! day's work on the public roads of Lee
county. The punishment which the
state is meeting out to these youthful
stealing, bootlegging and other crimes
offenders who are under sentence for;
may not be too sever*- In fact the
• punishment may not be sever enough
hi some instance*, but why put
•tripes on these uMll The wearing
of stripes never has caused a man to
face about, reform and become consci
ous of his social - obligations. The
eight of stripes embitters men who
wear them, u , picture of these
young men waa, thrown on the screen
the sight of it would bring tears to
| the seres of fathers and mothers who
jhav* children coming on and who are
subject to the same temptations to
which these boys have yielded and for
which they have been sentenced to the
chain gang. This prison here in our
midst has many duplicates in North
Carolina and elsewhere in America,
and if you will visualise these prisons
as a whole with their many thousands
of young Americana you will have
some idea of how young men am los
ing their moral balance and how far
afield they have gum fat the ways of
crime.
Young men in their teens and twen
ties compose forty per eent of the
criminals in America today.
Of the one hundred and eighty men
now on the Federal bench in the Unit
ed States who receive salaries of *10,
000 ®“h only eleven have accepted aa<
ary rets, It is stated. As for the oth
J* j Jj * t**t some way cannot
be devised to prise them off the bench
and replace them with men willing to
w»rk for less along with millions of
other public servants who have
a vey substantial saUy cut It will
be recalled that here in North Carolina
our Superior Court judges who re
ceived salatfea of *8,000 each with an
£P®ae allowance accepted a cat of
*1,000 last spring. Compare the aal
*?“ of these judges with the salaries
* less than *1,000 which the princi
pals of our public schools receive for
say whether or not
you think justice and fair play is be
Wng meted out in this salary busi
, ?’.ese J»«lges have the constd
kut they need not
be surprised if some of them fail of
nomination when the people have an
2r£r:tLto hand,e “
the ballot boxes next summer.
“6 «*** ot Andrew Jackson one
S a?O BOmebody said that
the best tone m America was For
hme and that the best book in Alber
ta was the pocket book. It is even so
Thl H "* tha days of Andy.
nt° “ Sanford has been in
££* ,1J0 to W » on the $100.
^tion. There are two reasons for
Uusraisfr-rhe town has borrow with
* ™ P“‘ » $45,000 and the rein
abont S Property has been reduded
aoont 25 per rent
^ ¥“m3m» J3hh period in
where he is continually talking
about how young Be Is, he is getZg
Whydrdnt the town
leave the tax r«t» -4,_. . “"ulomise
let „ ,rhere it was and
let the bondholders sweat?
SoS.a“rtd“d-«»?.the'«h11d
K yon are welTyou are rich.
kesoutions of bespkct.
<$«*■ T. McKernan.)
Whereas, God in His infinite wisdom
has taken from us our1 beloved broth
er, John T. McKernan, and.
Whereas, He was a member of San
ford Fire Department, North Carolina
Firemen's Association, loved by each
member in his departmen, all who
knew him in the State Association,
and1,
_Whereas, He was a leader at all
times during his life. He lived a Chris
tian gentleman, ' when at home or
greatly missed by his associates.
Therefore belt Resolved:
Since it has pleased God in His on
site wisdom to take from us our broth
er. that we, as members of the San
ford Fire Department, extend to his
wifet children and relatives, our ef
feetionate sympathy in their great
loss.
That a copy of these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes, a copy furn
ished The Sanford Express also the
Sanford Herald, and a copy mailed to
the family expressing to them otrr
feeling m this sad hour.
W. N. TULLUCK,
C.U GUNTER,
J. F. GREGSON,
> Committee.
Relieved By Takinf Canfari
“I nil weak and run-down and
•attend quite a Mt with pains in
mr side,” writes Mrs. Nick Bap
. ranee, of Beaumont, Tsana. “I was
nerrous. I did not rast wan at
night, and mr appetite waa poor.
"*T mother had nsad Gardal
with beneficial result, ao I decided
to take it I aurelr am glad I did,
tor it stopped the pala in mjr side
-and built np mr general health.
I took aeren bottles In all.”
Cardul la sold at all drug sterna
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10 A.M.. v
,2:3Q to 6:00 P. M. rjvv
2 old books 1 new Jbook to
• •.*•->** ...
each person issued for 8' weeks,
fW
with one renewal. Penalty, 1
cent per day for overdue,
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ROOFING AND NAILS, LOCKS, HINGES, ,;
DO THAT PAINTING BEFORE COLD WEATHER.
. WE HAVE THE GOODS TO DO IT WITH RIGHT.
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