To the delight of many political lead
ers and to the consternation of others,
prohibition is now regarded as des
tined to be the chief political issue
In 1982. Chairman Fess of the Re
publican national committee has de
clared that his party must take the
dry tide if it hopes to win in 1932.
Hhi statement is sharply challenged
by other Republican leaders, who
point to recent wet victories in New
York, New Jersey, Ohio and Illinois.
The Republicans must nominate a wet
Jr they hope to carry these states in
932, they hold. Senator Morrow, re
garded by some as a possible con
tender for the Presidential nomina
tion from his party, was elected Sena
tor in New Jersey on a platform de
manding the repeal of the 18th
The Democrats sue in a dilemma
equally as embarrassing. The party
machinery is in the hands of such
outstanding wets as John J. Raskob
mid Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Its re
cant victories in Illinois, New ^York
nad Massachusetts are regarded aa
hating come about largely because
the candidates were more or less wet,
though in New York both Republican
ami Democratic candidates for gover
nor ware wet. But the party has not
forgotten tiie 1928 debacle. Especial
ly are Southern and Western Demo
crats mindful of the Hoover land
slide la that year. These Democrats
from the South and West hold the
veto power in the Democratic nation
al conventions. Rules of the eonven
tiae required a two-thirds vote te
ammate. Therefore, if the Southern
and Western Democrats hold out
against the nomination of a wet can
didate they can prevent it. The ques
tion now troubling both wets and drys
ea the Democratic side of the house
hold is will they do it.
SENATOR BAILEY
(Winston-Salem Journal.)
Tirisli William Bailey will take
jris seat in the United States Senate
'next March. Thereafter he will be
known as the Senator from North
Carolina. Mr. Bailey is 57 yean
aid. He was born in Warrenton, N.
CL, to 1873, the son of Rev. C. T.
Bailey, Baptist minister * and for
assay yean Editor of the Biblical
Beearder. After his graduation from
Wake Forrest College, Mr. Bailey en
tered the Recorder office in Raleigh
with Us father and upon the latter’s
death succeeded him as Editor.
When he was 36 yean old Mr.
Bailer went back to Wake Forest
College, took tha law course, under
Sr. Gulley, and was admitted to the
Isor in 1908. iH» had previously also
law under Dr. Mordec&i of
Trinity College.
As an editor, Mr. Bailey won wide
recognition as one of the most froce
ftf writers in tha South. As a law
yer, he was successful in unusual de
gree from the day he opened his
office in Raleigh.
For years Mr. Bailey has been con
ceded foremost position among North
Carotma speakers. On the platform
he rank with the greatest
orators the State has produced. But
he never speaks without first thor
oughly informing himself on the sub
jects he wishes to discuss. That ex
cellent habit of his is one of the
seal secrets of his success in law and
Versatile, widely and thoroughly
read, master of any subject in which
ha becomes interested, highly edu
cated, largely through selftraining,
Mr Bailey probably has no intellect
tend superior in North Carolina. No
one^ so tor as we know, has ever
to him as “the scholar in
polities.’* But it would be an ac
curate description of him. By train
mg, experience and natural ability
he is equipped to take an exalted
ymriHir of leadership on the floor of
Mr. Bailey shines nowhere quite
> brilliantly as in debate. Claude
want to the top in Washing
s’* legislative halls because he was
astar of the debate. Bailey is a
Mar debater than Kitchin was. If
i haa an «"■!>!»«■ to win that dis
totte* it is safe to predict tint in
te who will be known
over as that body’s abl
fcspeeially ok questions of
ation and tariff policy,
ey of North Carolina.
(By Brace Craven in the News and
Observer.)
“A personable man, a very, very
personable man,” said a barber, in
London about John W. Davis, former
ambassador ,to Great Britain, and the
same words come about as near de
scribing Walter Lambeth in a sen
tence as is possible.
A “human interest” story!
In my humble opinion the first
test of all things printed should be
whether they are going to be read or
not. Hence if this little sketch about
a neighbor violates all the prescribed
formulas for such things and shows
no trace of smart writing, excuse
it please! The purpose is to make
you acquainted with a very person
able man, and it that is done, it
makes no difference what you think
of the way it is done.
The evening after Walter Lam
beth (his name is J. Walter to dis
tinguish him from his father of the
same full name, Jiohn W.) was nom
inated by the Seventh District Demo
cratic Executive Committee, several
satisfied Democrats who have sup
ported him were seated in my office,
in front of an open fire, comfortably
ruminating and smoking and satis
fied with what we are going to do
to the Republicans, and the others
asked me about Walter and I told
them what I knew about my next
door neighbor whose home is six
miles from my own, tad whose
church and college were also mine.
Ho one had any idea that the con
versation would ever appear in print,
but it just so happened that the next
morning in my mail came a note
from Josephus Daniels asking me to
write the News and Observer a “hu
man interest story about Walter
Lambeth.” Knowing that spontaneity
alone can never get in touch with
human interest I took my typewrit
er in hand and wrote as hereinafter
set forth that unbridled and un
studied conversation—crude perhaps,
and unspoiled, but nevertheless such
as you get face to face.
Modest Warrior.
“What about Walter’s war record?
Ho never mentioned the American
Legion nor his army service either,
and a lot of people want to know
about it?" • *
He doesn't see in it anything to
brag about, and if he did he still
wouldn’t brag about it, because he
is not that kind of a soldier. As
for the American Legion, the morn
ing after he was nominated, one of
his first acts was to resign as com
mander of the local post which he
was holding for the second time and
giving as his reason his entrance into
politics which he seemed to take for
granted seperated him from the Le
gion command without the necessity
of argument.
When America declared war in
1918, Walter was 22 years old, al
ready graduated from Trinity Col
lege, and was taking post graduate
work at Harvard. The Harvard stud
ents had organized and were being
drilled daily in the Harvard regi
ment The day war was declared,
April 6, 1917, he wired his father as
follows: “My room mate leaving for
France tomorrow night Please wire
me permission to go with him.” Sort
of a large order to John W. about
his only son, and while he was not
standing in the way of whipping the
Germans he didn’t see why his family
should want to get ahead of Uncle
Sam, and he and Mrs. Lambeth coun
seled conserving his resources until
they would be needed by the little
army we were getting up in this
country. Walter applied for admis
sion to the officers’ training camp
and thought he was ordered to Fort
Oglethrope and went there and stay
ed a week, only to find that his ord
ers had been sent to Platts burg, and
when he got there he found Platts
burg full and he couldn’t get in. Then
he got mad, something which is con
trary to his disposition entirely, and
without asking any consent or wait
ing for the aid of any other nations
he looked around for the biggest gun
he could find and voluntarily, enlisted
as a private soldier in the heavy ar
tillery For nearly a year he was
in the midst of the biggest things
that happened in France, including
the American Meuse Argognne of
fensive which wrote the final chapt
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or of the war, and In which 1^200,
members dourly the whistles of the
big shells ss they would “shoosh”
over the batteries, and he knew what
it was talking cheerfully one minute
to a “buddy” and the next minute to
witness a life snapped .out by an ex
ploding shell. He came bock a ser
geant, won on merit, and everybody
knows the sargeant won the war in
spite of the second lieutenants. He
could have found an easy job some
where in the service but apparently
the idea didn’t occur to him.
A Personable Man.
“He is a good looking sort of a
person, over six feet high, 35 years
old but looks more like 30 or less, but
is reserved and not self assertive and
people who don’t know him will take
this for timidity or exclusiveness,
none of which it is. The day of the
Hammer funeral in As he boro (God
bless the good old scout), I was seat
ed on a porch with two Asheboro
girls, looking at the notables pass
ing and I saw Walter coming down
the street and told the girts who did
not know him, to take a good look
and tell me what they thought of
him. As soon as he passed one of
them said: “He might be a Con
gressman,” and the other promptly
chimed in: “Huh, he looks to me
like he would make a darn good
husband.”
And that brings up the only thing
against his war record, to wit, that
he has never married. This is the
only personal thing I ever asked him
about and he said that he can prove
_»3iRi'SarsSfii:
to dismiss this charge against hiss.
He lives in Thomasville with his
father and mother, and he has one
sister, who is Mrs. Austin Finch. His
mother is in feeble health and when
she was asked about how she felt
about having a son in Congress she
said: “Walter has always been a good
boy.” It looks like a pity to spoil
a record like that even to get a reel
business man in Congress!
Had Two Speeches Ready
At the meeting of the Congression
al meeting in Asheboro, the court
House was well filled with specta
tors while the committee iti the jury
room took three hours to nominate
the candidate. When they did reach
a decision Jacob Stewart, of Moclrs
viUe, the chairman, came into the
court room with a slip of paper in
his hand, and the audience was held
in suspense for five minutes while
the chairman went through the pain
ful formality of taking his seat, get
ting the secretary in place and then
having the secretary read the little
slip of paper. It was one of the
most painful five minutes I ever
spent, John W. Lambeth, the elder
stood it well, blit looked like Ws only
son was waiting judgment J.
Walter, on the other hand, seemed to
be the most unconcerned man in the
room, and when they called on him
for his acceptance speech, he calmly
faced the crowd and drew his manu
scrip from his pocket Someone
started laughing and then all
laughed and Walter said: “I believe
the crowd did not
___bo had two speeches
ready, and the other would have been
just as good, in congratulation of his
suecessful opponent if It had turned
out that way. He is that kind of
a Democrat %
Since coming home from France
after a part of a year in the Univer
sity of London, he has been in busi
ness with his father, mainly with the
Lambeth Furniture Company, and
there has been no labor troubles in
that business. It will no* be neces
sary for any one to ask those em
ployees to vote for him. They
would do it anyhow. One of the
things he has worked on has been
suburban homes for the employees
and quite a number of them live on
little farms just outside of Thomas
ville.
His Political Record
He was in the State Senate in
1921, and a few years later was
elected mayor of Thomasville. In
college he studied political economy
and he has been studying it ever
since. As mayor he discovered the
radical inequalities of the way prop
erty was listed for taxation, and he
radically reformed it in Thomasville.
Besides getting all the property on
the books he raised the value of
about 10 per cent and decreased th*
value of shout 90 per cent, but kept
the seme tax revenues and put all on
an equal fair basis. He had no per
sonal motive in it other than the
fact that he was interested in it
and coqld not sit still in hie job and
allow such conditions to prevail. He
is keenly iutw—H. and now at thg
rsjwawg
enough of it and baa no da** Jut
to spend Ms Ufa tryinfr to sm if he
eon got rich, and ha wants to go to
Congress as his one sole business be
cause he will like it and be interest
ed in it and work at it.
The Lambeth family and their col
lateral relations have grown up with
the Thomasville community and have
been in the same vicinity for more
than a century, plain, good, average
developing with the commu
nity and helping to develop it. His
mother was a Sumper and his grand
mother a Simmons. * Rev. W. A.
Lambeth, distinguished minister, ia
his first cousin, and Dr. W. A. Lam
beth of the University of Virginia,
is a second cousin. He is a Mason,
steward in the Methodist church,
etc., but the' most marked character
istic about him is that he is not a
pusher of himself, and wants no
credit far anything except what he
can do. He Sis no hobbies and
does not play. He doesn’t play gff
or even miniature golf, and while
that would not be popular in aome
quarters, it doesn’t hurt him in the
Seventh District. He likes good
music and he likes to work. In
Congress he will have all his inter
est centered in his job and nothing to
detract his attention from it.
(Herbert Hoover, Jr., son of tha
President of the United States, is
weiring his home near Abbeville in
an effort to recuperate from a ling
ering illnaaa
Grade 8: Evelyn Bow, Mary Louise
McKenzie, Edward Lewallen, Tal
madge Hilliard, Eugene Capipe.
Grade 4: Virginia Gilmore, Vir
ginia McKenzie, Lfda Moser, Darrell
James Payne, Carlton Elliott, Ben
Canipe.
Grade 5: Marjorie Mitchell, Esther
Brilea, Jane McKenzie, Sarah Bald,
win.
Grade 6: Edna Wilson, Addis
Smith.
Grade-7. Ralph Payne, fcuby Bald*
win, Myra Barker, Rachel Ann Me
Campbell.
Mr. Payne’s room won the treat for
the neatest room; sixth and seventh
grades.'
Miss Butler’s room; fourth and fif.
th grades, won the banner for the
highest per cent in attendance, mak.
big 96 per cent
George B. Craven, of Trinity, for
merly with ithe Chairtown News at
Thomasville, and for more than M
years a printer and newspaper bb,
has become associated with the Crea
tive Print Stop, High Feint Mr.
Craven will combine his bond print*
ing plant at Trinity with the Chan*
tive shop.
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