EDITORIAL WILL THE COUNT* * COMMISSIONERS ESTBALISH A COUNTY COURT? We hear the question asked, “Will Lee qounty have a county court after the^ present Recorder’s court is abol ished ? It will be recalled that the board df* commissioners passed a res olution some months ago abolishing the recorder’s court about the first ofr December. We believe that a resolution also passed giving the "board authority1 to create a county court to take the place of the record era court if they] saw fit. In other words they will create a county '* court if the amount of crime commit ted in the county will justify it. There is xery little difference in a county court and a recorder's court. The judge has about the same juris diction i'.-.x-r. >• ■» > ■ We fail tb-see how the eounty can very well gist along without a coun ty court of seme kind. There seems to be enough business to justify it. The jail is often pretty well crowded with prisoners awaiting trial at the Recorders cotirt. Should a county court hot be establshed it will prob ably be necessary to call for one or two more terms of superior court. It would be a pretty costly business to hold prisoners in jail for several weeks or months pending court trial. The figures are not at our command showing the annual cost of holding a recorders court We know the cost of holding a term of superior court is pretty heavy. It would not be so costly to the tax payers if the machinery of the court would func tion as it should. Judge McPherson is holding last term of recorder’s court week. This court was called to clean up all itigations that had not been disposed of before making re port to the county commissoners at their meeting next Monday. In the event that a county court is created the commissioners will appoint some member of the Lee county bar to serve in the capacity of judge. We have heard no one mentioned for the place and it is not known who will get the. appointment. Uni.i - PUNISH THE DRUNKEN AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS. If every judge in the country would take the vigorous stand taken by Judge Rosseau, of this state there would be less wounding and killing of people in automobile wrecks on highways by people while under the influence of whiskey. He made a very positive statement in court at Albemarle a few days ago to the ef fect that no man convicted on a j charge of driving an automobile while drunk can pay a fine and walk out pf his court a free man. This 1 probably means that the man so con 1 yicted in his court would go to jail or the roads The man Who will get! drunk and menace the lives of other people by driving on the highways deserves to wear the stripes of a con vict. He is more dangerous than a mad dpg, and should have the limit of the law This may be putting it strong, but it looks like it is only way to break up ths business whch is more dangerous than war itself if we are to judge by the statistics that are published annually giving1 the number of people killed or j wounded in wrecks by people while' under the influence of liquor. There is no excuse for a n?an to be guilty of such conduct. His own life is in danger as well as the lives of others who are not guilty of violating the traffic laws. During the past year or two a number of people have lost, their lives within a few miles of Sanford by drunken automobile driv ers. Some of these were killed dur ing the past few months. Discuss ing this subject, the L&urinburg Ex. change makes the following timely comment: aiic uiuii&cii unver la just a very i . troublesome phase of the liquor prob lem, which is as much of a problem today as it has ever been In the opin I ion of some, the law may not pre.. j eunie to tell a man what he may or j may not put into his stomach, what he may eat or drink. But the law j can and must tell him that if he drinks he cannot drive a automobile on the highways. And the law hav_ ing told him that must deal sternly with him who violates its injunctions “The utterly appalling death rate on the public highways is a national disgrace. To what extent the drunk en driver is responsible for the most delorable conditions, we do not ( know. But as Judge RoBseau right ly contends, he is a potential killer. He may be more deadly than a mach ine gun battery and a half dozen per eons ma die or suffer serious physi cal and mental injury because he takes a drink and essays to drive en automobile. Stop him, imprison Wm, employ the moat severe disci pline known td the law %nd the fourts to curb such evil,” *•- l. * aUlVigh school text books PROPOSED FOR RENTAL LIST. It will be of interest to the school people of Sanford and Lee county to know that the State high school text book Commission met in Raleigh last week, where a listing of texts in all high school subjects not previously listed was completed with a view to having all texts available for rental next fall. The new listing includes , .mathematics, Latin, industrial arts and music. I “The listing of texts for the new course of study in business repre sents perhaps the greatest single . step North Carolina has yet made toward realizing a fuller adaptation o!f the course of study to meet the business needs of our state youth. Such subjects as salesmanship prin ciples, retailing, store management, business organization, our financial systm, advertising, business, law, secretarial training, business corres pondence, and In addition to the usu al course of typing and shorthand, bookkeeping and business arithmetic will hereafter be offered in our high scliooVsJw^iere Ja 'sufficient number of teachers,* canT bp made available. Moreoyer the ^exo^llfcnt course tak ing t&e plaice of Algebra for many students is called ‘General Business’ which is an Introductory course of business information needed by ev eryone .whether he enters business as a vocation or not. This elementary course is followed by an advanced course later on in high school pro gram and covers considerable edu cation so greatly needed. MRS. FRANCES COX. Mrs. Frances Cox, 75, died at her home, Route 4 Jonesbor,o Wednes day, November 25 th, after a long illness. Mrs.. Cox, member of a well known Lee county family was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hunt. She was long a member of the Christian church. Surviving are four children, Mrs. Ben Johnson, Mrs C O Spack, Miss Mary Cox, and T E. Cox, Route 4 Jonesboro; twp sisters, Mrs W. I. B nooks, and Mrs.. J J Edwards, R 4, Jonesboro, and 10 grandchildren, Funeral services were held at the home at 10:0 A M. Thursday, Inter ment was in the Hunt family ceme tery, near Jonesboro. NOTHING CAN STOP AMERICA. All indications point to 1937 as a year of still further progress in the rise of the nation out of the depres sion. Employment in manufactur ing industries has risen steadily in the past year and is likely to reach or surpass the 1929 levels in the near future—possibly in the coming month General unemployment has fallen sharply and many economists believe that pie census of the unemployed pow being planned by the Depart ment of Commerce will show two things: First, that those who are Without work and are seeldng work number less than 5J)00/)00; Second, that there is already an actual short age df skilled Labor in many trades, industries and communities. On this latter point no less an authority than Dr. Harold G. Moulton, head of the Brookings Institute, has already predicted that we shall have an actu al shortage of labor within the next five years if industrial production recovers to the 1929 limit. In othter words, the emergency phases of recovery $re past. The myth that we need such panaceas as the 30 hour week, federal fixing of manufacturing wages and hours and other arbitrary proposals emanating largely from professional labox lead ens, has been exploded. The above will hold good as far as Sanford is concerned. .In fact, there is now no such thing a^ p de pression in Sanford. All manufactur ing enterprises in the town are run., ning at full speed and all kinds of business give the town a prosperous outlook. It has been years since the future looked as bright along all lines as it does tdaoy. There is now not an empty business house of any kind on Steele, Wicker, Carthage, Moore, or Chatham streets. Less than 2 years ago almost half of the business housess on some of these streets were empty, and there was little prospect of their being occu.. = pied any time soon, but the reovery I has been marvelous. j The same thing can he said about dwellings in the residential sections of the town. We recall that just a few years ago dwellings in Sanford were torn down by the owners so as to keep from paying taxes on them. Thoy coud not be rented at any price. The owners found them a lia bility aa they had to pay taxes on the property. Now these dwellings would rent at a good price. This is one thing that shows what has been accomplished by the present admin istration in restoring the country to normal conditions A great change has not only boon wrought in San. ford, but it will hokl good in the our founding country. * I U. S. 1 Highway I Starts Campaign I For Safety I Organization Wants Four Uae ■ Roadway Entire Distance From ! Maine to Florida. Alarmed at the national increase in automobile fatalities and injuries and determined to make U. S. 1 a leader in a great safety movement, officials of the U. S No. 1 Highway Assocation met recently and resolved to make their highway the safest in America. This highway, America’s first all paved, North-South route and today the-only continuous Mainet-to-Fior ida road, has already taken steps in making its lanes safe It possess sea more three to four lane roads today than any other North.. South ’froute. With this wonderful background the association will open a campaign to make te entire route of extra lanes. The aim is four four..lane highways with a center spread of grass divid ing the lines olf traffic. It is the hope of the officials of the wide., awake U. S. No 1 Highway association to lesson the fact in creasing number of accidents along American highways. The associ ation has assumed the role as lead er in this humanitarian movement. The officials representing every state from Maine to Florida along U S. No 1, have already begun their job of getting public leaders inter ested in this safety movement. Sci entific studes have shown that extra lane, high speed highways are a leadin gimmediate solution to the problem. U. S. Highway Association con sists of members of civic and busi ness organizations in the point along the highway which runs through Bos ton, New York, Wasington,. Rich mond,Raleigh, Augusta, Jacksonville and Miami. The executive meeting was attended b^ association direct ors and state vie presidents. ^ SOIL ONSERVATION CROPS GROWN IN LEE COUNT\ .rs County Demnostration Agent, E , O McMahan states that a check uf on reports of our compliance sur veyors shows that the cotton produc ers of Lee Co grew 5123 acres of cotton in 1936 as compared with 5,350 in 1935. This was a decrease of 4.2 per cent of the county’s cot ton base The tobacco producers grew 4,727 acres of tobacco in 1936 as compared to 4,665 acres in 1935. This was an increase of 1.3 per cent and was 81.3 per cent of the county’s tobacco base Eight thousand, three hundred and .sixty nine acres of soil conserving crops ^ene grown in 1936 as compared %o 8,110 acres in 1935. This was an increase of 1.69 pep c*nt One thousand one hundred and twenty two farms were signed up to co-operate in the program last spring Of this number 948 or 84.r> per cent have complied and will re ceive payments They will receive approximately $63,000 for diverting cotton and tobacco acreage to soil conserving crops and about $5,000 for carrying out soil building prac tices. SEABOARD MILLS, INC. It was stated in this paper last week that D. C Lawrence and sun, D. C Lawrence, JrJ, had buugnt out the plant of the Seaboard Milling Company, which suspended opera., tions a few yeare ago, and \^ouid put the plant in operation at an early date. They have had the busi ness incorporated under the head, Seaboard Mills. The concern will do a general milling business with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, of which amount $300 has been sub scribed by D. C. Lawrence, Sr, and L C Lawrence, Sanford, and L C. Lawrence, Jr, Jacksonville, Fla. These gentlemen propose to begin ai once making repairs to - the plant and will put it in operation early in the new year. SANFORD TEAM WHIPS WHITEVILLE HIGH, l« 0 Sanford high school football team defeated Whitevilte’s eleven, 16_0, at Whiteville in a game that was an af ter math to the scoreless tie the two outfits played here two weeks ago. The first encounter was a semi-final contest in the Eastern Clafcs B title playoof,and following the deadlock Whiteville won a toss for the right to play Roanoke Rapids in the finals Suggs scored Sanford's first touch down in the First quarter, and Sey~ mour went over in the second quart, er for the second aix pointer. The final two points came near the close oif the game when a Whiteville man was tackled behind his own goal ilne for * safety. w Violators County Court Three State patrolmen Guarding the I Highway* 'ground Sanford— Driv Licenae Meat Violgt >rt to Lwt All the eAdiotiiti Si\urt;,y Judge McPherson Hu CUeu Slate J9M. Court moved up a peg | held forth Monday in. psual Tuesday session, ■son stated that this the reason that some l as to whether or not Jed to function on the | December. However, Iwaa finally settled in Jpourt until midnight, |ber 6th,that being the £r interpretations of ihe rosolution abolish. Recorder’® this week i stead of i Judge McP •was done question « his Court ] first day this, qu favor «tf Sunday,! zero hour t the :lawj ing the t More than$a dozen cases were heard Monday, and practically all defendants i^re charged with driv_ lng without % driver's license In two cases, bojs under 16 and with., out a licence* of course, accompan ied by their' fathers, answered to charges, '.^fafeach case the boy was turned over-to the juvenile court and their fatheR^nvicted of allowing a person to ^>«ate his car without a license. Ali traffic violators were left off with-'fthe costs, which, in each case, amounted to about $16 For the several days three patrolmen hfttrc ben guarding the roads around'Sanford on the lookout for petty traffic offenders. It is understood that this campaign h state wide, fend is intended to make more safe the state highways for the traveling public. This operating cars with defective brakes, no rear light, no reflector, one headlight, and Without drivers' license ,are all picked up and cited into court tc answer to whatever charge these patrolmen fin4 necessary to make Recorder's court willl be in session all this weekend on Saturday af. clearing up the l ’et, it will ad... journ eine jdie J-clge McPhersor has presided ivcr it since December , 1928, and has tried during that time over 1,300 .caiegs, with a low perceni age of low demand for Jury trials. Thu is a good record and shows thai Judge McPherson has ‘“been on the job” all through uiese years. His record as a judge speaks for itself. His host of friends wish him con tinued success in his profession. LEE COUNTY U. N C. ALUMNI INVITED TO CHAPEL HILL I Invitations have been extended a number of University of North Caro line . alumni in Lee County to attend ! the annual genera! alumni assembly which will be held in Chapel Hill, Dc cember 9th. The gathering marks the time of the annual business meeting of the University Alumni Associated, and representatives from various local alumni clubs and permanently org.. anized classes will attend In ad., dition to the regular items of busi ness the program will also include ons include D L St Clair, president; 1937.. 1939 appropriation request by President Frank P. Graham. Dr. Howard E Rondthaler, of Winston . Salem, is president of the University Alumni. University Alumni officers of Lee county who have been sent invitati ons include D L LSt Clair, president H M Jackson, vice president, and W E Horner, secretary. D B Teague, Sanford attorney, is chairman of the committee to make nominations for general alumni officers for 1937. Others from Lee county who have received invitations include J C Pitt man, J H Mclver, E L Gavin, A A F Seawell, Jr., Carl Thompson, and Dr. Lynn Mclver, all of Sanford. NEGRO EXONERATED BY CORONERS JURY A coroner’s jury summoned by Dr J F poster, Lee county coroner, to investigate the killing on Sunday night of Isiah Miller, 35, negro, who was shot by his brother in law, Shel ly Fuller, 25, Tuesday ordered Fuller released on a verdict of justifiable homicide. The killing occurred at the home of Fuller on Ihe fenr of M rs D F Harris, Jonesboro, located on Route 3 Sanford, where both negroes lived and according to the evidence offer ed Fuller shot Miller in self defense. The load from a shot gun entered his chest near the heart killing him instantly after Miller attacked him with a knife. Fuller voluntarily surrendered £o the offeers after the slaying. CHANGE IN SERVICE. The Sunday evening service ol the PresbytArin djurch which hat been held at 7:80, will now ha held at 8 P. II., beginning Sunday evening and will conttgja at that'hoar until •priM..•• C. C. COOPER DIES AS RESULT OF CAR WRECK Calvin Cooper, of this place, who was critically injured in an automo bile collision on Monday of last week at the intersecton of highways Cl and 62, near W F Cole, Greensboro orthopedic specialist No charge Will be made and necessary materi tUH for treatments will be furnished \ hjf the Rotary Club These elinica ; w*U be held the second Wednesday 1 flkck month if attendance wav