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Brunswick Between Boukends
By Eugene Fallon
THE DIARY OF EDWARD
SMALL. Compiled by Robt.
Small. Charlotte Printing Co.,
1M6. 57 pp. Sold on Snbserip
tion Order.
Robert Small, a grandson of
the diariest, claimed that he
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We all need more of the rare quality
to develop understanding, sympathetic
understanding. We would do well to
make a constant effort to' see things
from the viewpoint of others. To honor
and respect people who have their
own personal opinions in our way of
conceding to them their rights. This is
sympathetic understanding, and it
shows the bigness which enables us
to let other people be happy in their
own way—instead of our way. By so
doing we broaden our viewpoints.
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found a hand-written journal,
kept by Edward during the lat
ter’s despairing trek towards the
El Dorado of the California gold
fields in 1852. How much of these
few notes were Edward’s and how
much came from the brain of his
grandson is anybody's guess. It is
written in the old style, with
much moralizing; many and fer
vent calls upon the Diety, and
an ultra-dramatic fashion which
jar upon the reader.
Edward Small, says Robert,
was born and Raised in Bruns
wick County—but he doesn't tell
in what section. Edward was in
his early thirties when he "joined
a large party of men at New
Berne w’ho had resolved to strike
West and strike it rich.” The
party took trains to Memphis
“there purchasing a bevy of mules
and wagons and various supplies
before setting forth across the
Missisisippi on flatboats and be
ginning their overland journey
into Arkansas.”
Edward Small seems to have
been of somewhat delicate con
stitution. for he first fell sick at
Fort Smith in Arkansas. His im
patient companions left him at a
boarding house operated by a
Christian widow, and pushed on
without their sick member.
Grandson Robert quotes his kin
as writing: “It made me much
sicker to see them go ... it
seemed to me that my very last
chance to dig my fortune from
the earth vanished with them.”
Small’s description of his sudden
illness is a pathetic one:
“I was in the best of health
when we left Memphis,” he
writes, “and I am pretty sure
that I drank some bad water a
day or two before reaching Fort
Smith ... in this place I ar
rived with a raging fever; black
spots before my eyes; inability
to hold any food on my stomach.
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11 was unable to sit up, much less
drive my wagon, and they car
ried me here to this house where
I am slowly improving, thanks
to the tender ministrations of this
.excellent lady . .
Poor Edward was in for a
harder time than he expected.
He was forced to winter at Fort
Smith, much against his will,
since no party of gold-lusting ad
venturers would agree to the ad
dition of a semi-invalid. The real
drama of this little tale is con
tained in the next few pages of
the diary, in which all the frus
trations, anxieties, rages, of a
sick young man who sees golden
opportunity steadily marching
away from him are unveiled.
Even his faith seems to have
been shaken, as witness:
“What have I done to cause
God to single me out with this
burden ? I have lived as good a
life as most men ... if our
Maker would but send me
strength to last a year I should
be content; I should return to
North Carolina, and spend the
balance of my days in serving
family and God in every fashion
open to an honest man . .
But God seems to have had
other plans for his servant, Ed
ward. Somewhat recovered, Small
joins a party of immigrants in
May of 1853. They are headed
for Sacramento and the locality
of John Sutter’s gold-inlaid mill.
But whatever they found there
was not to be shared by Edward
Small. In western Oklahoma, then
Indian territory, Small was seiz
ed anew by his undiagnosed ill
ness, and is again left behind—
this time at a small Cavalry post.
The kindhearted soldiers build the
sick Tar Heel a shack, within
the protecting walls of the fort,
sufficient for his needs.
The diary ends rather abruptly
soon after. One of the very last
jottings reads: “I am too weak
and shaky to hold a pen . . . ii
I do not improve soon I am con
vinced that I shall die in this
desolate place where no forests
grow and water must be brought
in from distant points in bar
rels . . .”
His biographer and grandsor
says Edward died there in his
poor shack, without ever getting
close to the fabulous gold in the
California hills. His few belong
ings—including the diary, a rifle
and 150 silver dollars—were sent
to Charlotte by the government.
Apparently his wife and family
were then living in that city,
maybe with his wife’s relatives.
Perhaps the saddest part ot
this touching little tale is a con
cluding remark by his grandson
who writes: “I mean some day
to go out to Oklahoma and see
if there is some sort of rude
stone erected over the remains oi
my grandfather”.
This reader hopes that he did
Common Market
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So. far, so good. i <
But . . .
This is how agricultural econo- | 1
mists at North Carolina State 1
College describe an international l
development that could have a 1
big impact on North Carolina’s
economy. r
They are referring to develop- i
ments in the European Common j <
Market, especially as they relate | 1
to U. S. farm exports. I t
The economists, Dr. C. E. Bish- t
op, head of the college’s Depart- t
merit of Agricultural Economics; J
and C. R. Pugh, extension agri- 'l
cultural policy specialist, have T
been keeping an eye on Common -
Market developments for some c
time.
"Tobacco is the major product t
we’re concerned about at pres- 3
j ent," says Pugh. “And so far, we f
haven’t done badly.” \
Common Market countries say '
[ their tariff on tobacco will be
j 28 per cent of its value, with a >
minimum tariff of 13.2 cents and 11
a maximum tariff of 17.2 cents ] i
per pound.
“In many cases,” Pugh said, J j
“the new, common tariff will be I
less than the tariff that individual I
Common Market countries have I
put on U. S. tobacco in the past.” .
But Pugh says that the big
trial for American tobacco is yet
to come. “We will have to see if
our competitors get the preferen
tial treament that some people
say they will,” Pugh said.
The European Common Market
—its official name is European
Economic Community—consists of
six countries: France, West Ger
many, Italy, Belgium, the Nether
lands and Luxembourg.
In essence, these countries are
taking down the trade walls that
have separated them for cen
turies. But, eventually, the Com
mon Market as a unit will have
a single policy on imports from
“outside” countries.
In 1960, U. S. farm products
exported to the Common Market
had a value of $1.1 billion. Over
the past five years, the U. S. has
averaged selling these countries
120 million pounds of tobacco an
nually.
And while the Common Market
is a going concern, Pugh says,
“It unquestionably will expand.”
Britain, Ireland and Denmark
already have said they intend to
seek membership. Eventually, the
Common Market could include
countries that buy over $2 billion
worth of U. S. farm products an
nually.
“It’s Britain that we are real
ly concerned about,” Pugh says.
“Not only is she the biggest im
porter of our tobacco, but she is
expected to seek preferential
treatment in the market for her
Commonweatlh countries.
This would mean a favored
position for such things as Rho
desian and Canadian tobacco, the
major competition faced by Tar
Heel tobacco farmers.
Here is how the new tariff
rates (13.2 cents minimum and
17.2 cents per pound maximum)
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In 1960, unstemmed tobacco
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Selgium, Netherlands and Luxem
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In France, with its tobacco
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Pugh says the important thing
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Rhodesian tobacco has been given
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Members of the Lions club and
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Winston Salem.
A father and son were killed in
l two-car wreck near Lumberton
Sunday morning while they were
m their way to church. Imme
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the victims donated the eyes of
the two to the eyebank.
The eyes were rushed to Win
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patients today.
Dr. W. C. Bums of Whiteville
commented that the timely think
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a “fine deed” in that what he
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PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 26, 1962, IS
Friday, April 13,1962
AT 12 O’Clock Noon
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BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS