The Courier
Mn. Wm. C. Hammer, Publisher and
Business Manager.
Harrietts Hammer Walker, Editor
Wm. C. Hammer Estate, Owner.
Thursday, April 26, 1934.
Entered as second class matter at
the poetoffice at Asheboro, N. C., un
der the act of March 3, 1879.
MUGWUMP
AND
ANTI-MUGWUMP
For several weeks—ever since the
Jackson Day Dinner, in fact when
Governor Ehringhaus spoke to as
sembled Democracy, the state has
been agog. In the course of the
speech the Governor used the term
"Mugwump” a good-old-fashioned
term that has been in use as long
as there have been two sides of any
question. Whether the Governor is
right or wrong is not the question
whether he used good taste or bad
in his choice of terms—but the dis
cussion editorially all over North
Carolina has been one of the most
interesting to follow since the close
of the recent late-lamented (with
credit to our friend, The Greensboro
Record) Legislature disbanded.
The editorial running in the Win
eton-Salem Journal-Sentinel sort of
started the ball rolling and other
editors leaped upon the subject with
zest and avidity. The editorial from
Sir Santford Martin’s paper follows
and after that an interesting discus
sion of the origin of the term in
question by Major Bruce Craven, of
Trinity.
A New Doctrine
Governor Ehringhaus has not de
livered a speech that has caused
more discussion than his address at
the Jackson Day Dinner of Young
Democrats in Raleigh last week. In
that speech the Governor for the
third time assailed his critics.
The first occasion was at the
meeting of the Young Democrats’ or
ganization at Wrightsville Beach last
summer. The second was at the
meeting of the Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee at Raleigh in
March.
In his last speech, however, the
Governor is more severe on his op
ponents than in any previous ut
terance. He calls them ®®ug
wumps,” “perverters of the truth,
and such like pleasant names. What
he must really think of Democrats
who cannot see eye to eye with him
in all things is indicated by this
language. .
There are many good Democrats in
North Carolina who are sincere ad
mirers of the Governor’s ability and
personality, and have been ready to
accord praise and commendation to
him in all cases where they could
agree with him.
But at the same time these Demo
crats deny the right of any man,
governor though he may be, to con
strain their support for all his
actions or to "crib, cabin and con
fine” the policies they shall or shall
not approve.
In his impatience with his critics
in the Democratic party, the Gover
nor seems to have taken a position
that is at variance with all princi
ples of democracy, the strength and
virility of which depend upon dif
ferences of opinion, full and frank
discussion.
It is said that Senator Simmons
once had a machine in this State.
Maybe he did. But at no time did
he seek to suppress discussion of his
official actions or party policies.
When head of the party he fought
his battles out in the open.
There is grave danger, we fear,
that the position of Governor Ehring
haus in his latest political utterance
means the creation of a machine
which would not only operate to
choose the candidates of the party
but also to smother and suppress
those contests within the ranks upon
which the safety of our institutions
and the perpetuity of the Democra
tic party depend. ,
In a discussion of the Governor s
speech, in The News and Observer,
Frank Smethurst, managing editor
of that paper, makes a point that all
leaders of the Democratic party in
North Carolina might consider with
profit to themselves and their party..
He says: „
“The Governor is quite right when
he says there is a danger confront
ing the Democratic party and that
it comes from within rather than
without the party.
“It isn’t, as the Governor sug
gests, the menace of snipers. It
doesn’t come from the disloyal who
spend their time ‘manufacturing am
munition for the enemy,’ perverting
truth garbling facts, traducing other
TWn/v’rats. subverting Democratic
of othar shibboleths has been greatly
abused, and now that an “anti
mugwump” party is being started in
side the Democratic ranks in North
Carolina, we ought to get the mean
ing clear.
The word comes from the Algon
quin Indian dialect, and is spelled
something like “mougguomp.” The
correct pronunciation can be had by
walking up to a man who is not ex
pecting you, and punching him sud
renly in the stomach and then quick
ly in the back, and he will pro
nounce the term for you.
The very unabridged dictionaries
say it means “Chief, or leader” but
this is not right I was told some
years ago by a genuine full blood
ed 100 per cent American Algon
quin, that it means “Heap Much
Man” and was originally used with
reference to the warrior in the tribe
who by ability and character and
fighting propensities ought to have
been chief, but wasn’t
It is easy to understand how such
a person might be a nuisance to the
chief, but in time of stress he might
also be salvation for the tribe.
—BRUCE CRAVEN.
Trinity.
LIVE AT HOME GARDENS
The fresh smell of earth in the
spring gives a sort of out door feel
ing that drives the farmer to the
field, the gardener to the garden and
the lovers of flowers to the flower
gardens. So much was said for
the two past winters about planting
food sufficient for each family and
to spare that we should not for
; get at this time. The comments
about family gardening were brought j
forth on account of the necessity of I
so much welfare work. It was said
far and wide that too many people
conserved too little food when food
was plentiful. And this was true.
Many, many people who received
federal aid, Red Gross flour an 1
such relief would not have needed
aid as early if they had “made hay
in the sunshine.”
In such a rural state as North
Carolina with plenty of idle land
lying within easy reach, there is lit
tle excuse for such a food shortage
as has existed the past two winters.
Many people have gardens—yes, but
too late many people wished for the
vegetables that rotted in the gard
ens while they danced grasshopper
like through the summer. Others
who copied the busy ants and stored
food for winter only found it neces
sary to ask for clothing.
This is not the canning season,
certainly, but it is the gardening
season. And now is the time to
sow and plant many things that will
be in sufficiently abundant amounts
for both table use and for cans
against another hard winter. North
Carolina is fertile—abundant and in
most sections vegetables and fruits
grow easily. Especially true is this
of the Piedmont section where there
is a long season. If we are w*se as
the ant, we will sow now, reap in
summer, and can for winter.
JAMES ADOLPfKUS YORK
In the passing of James Adolphus
York, last week, Randolph county
lost one of her most valued and
beloved citizens. Not for his “much
speaking” was Dolph York, esteem
ed and beloved, but for his honor
and honest, his quiet, unassuming
manner, his loyalty, to his church
his friends and his country. Those
who knew him best, loved him most.
Truly his children have lost a pa
tient kind and considerate parent,
his neighbors, associates and ac
quaintances, a friend. In business,
and every activity, Dolph York was
fair. His acts and kind deeds, were
not paraded but were, as seed, sown
in good ground, were multiplied, in
the minds and hearts of those who
were recipients of his kindness and
consideration. In his daily "walk
through life as in the case with all
human beings, there were dark days,
but he was able to push aside the
curtains, and see the sunshine, which
permeated the lives of those, with
whom he came in contact. As a
soldier, who served in the Spanish
America war, he was courageous,
and he won the reputation of being a
good comrade and soldier. He serv
ed his country faithfully and well in
war as well as in peace. The mem
ory’of Dolph York, is imprinted in
the lives of his fellowmen, who join
in mourning his death.
More than 2,000 newspapers will
carry Goodrich tire and battery ad
vertising this year, according to
present plans, it is announced by S.
B. Robertson, vice president and gen
eral manager, tire division, The B.
F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio.
“Newspapers will again in 193**
as for many years pad, form the
backbone of the Goodrich tire and
battery advertising and merchandis
ing program,” Robertson declared.
Advertising on this year’s Good
rich schedule will be built around
company product innovations, includ
ing a continuation of the campaign
on the Safety Silvertown tire with
the Life-Saver Golden Ply.
Among other new products, recent
ly announced which are to be stress*
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Promotion Of Sales
From The
Back Seat
I had considered discussing Liter
ature and things today: but instead,
let’s talk about something serious. I
mean serious things are always the
most amusing. And this is supposed
to be a funny column .... Well,
sometimes.
Anyhow, one often hears it said
that, we Americans are a lawless
people. Now that is a base slander.
Because we really do have more laws
and more fool laws—than all the rest
of the Family of Nations put to
gether.
Further, it is charged that Amer
icans have no respect for law. But
this, too, is a base canard. Now
“canard” is a French word, meaning
(if I remember my French; which I
do not. Because I never did have
any)—meaning a duck. Though why
lies should be called ducks I can t
imagine; unless it is because quacks
are untruthful.
But to resume: We Americans
have a tremendous respect for law.
A respect so intense that we pamper
our laws, make company out of
them, and persistently refuse to put
them to work.
The real national game of these
United States is law-making. And
the great national delusion is that
somehow passing nice, shiny new
laws and having them printed in big
yellowish-brown covered books will
have its effect..—What could pos
sibly indicate a greater respect for
law than our simple trust that every
statute is self-enforcing ?
Why, Congress has passed a law
directing the Secretary of Agricul
ture, or somebody, to bring back the
“price level” of 1926.—Nobody knows
exactly why 1926: at least, nobody
has known until now. But I will
explain. It is because this act was
written by a numerologist. If you
add the digits of 1926 they make
18, which is six times three. And it
is well known, of course, that three
is the luckiest of all lucky numbers.
Obviously, six threes, or twice three
times three, must give us all the
luck there is.
Setting aside as irrelevant trifles
the facts that the “price level” of
1926 wasn’t much good anyhow, and
that by doubling half the prices ad
ded to make up the average, and
halving the rest, we might restore
the “price level” without bringing
back any single individual price to
what it used to be: and finally—and
of still less importance—that neither
the Secretary of Agriculture nor
anybody else could possible bnng
back any price level at all, no mat
ter how he tried . . . Well, setting
all that aside, what is there left.
Not very much, I’m afraid.
Of all sillv persons, the silliest is
the so-called' Idealist. That is, one
who deliberately shuts his eyes to
obvious facts, and ignores impossi
bilities, and stubbornly declares that
this or that “ought to be so. And
makes that declaration a feason for
passing a law to make it so.
When you pause to analyse it
ought to be,” you’ll have to admit
that it really means, “I think it
ought to be”—Though it’s possible
I may be wrong. And, right or
wrong, what possible use is it to
say it ought to be, if stubborn facts
reply “It can’t be done.” So what.
Why, pass a law, of course: and
then go home satisfied.
None of our thorough-going re
formers ever stops to ask whether a
new law can be enforced—or what
has happened to last year’s laws.
Most of the laws originally enacted
to satisfy somebody’s urge for mor
ality^ lie dead in the books—or are
used only, like the unsavory Mann
Act, as means of blackmail. Too, we
are hearing today, even more than
ever before, that absolute and ir
responsible power ought to be given
to executive officials, because (a)
they won’t use that power and (b)
if they did, they can be trusted to do
it fairly. Granting that the present
officials would ( though I wonder if
any man lives who can be trusted
with irresponsible power) — who
knows how long it will be before
somebody else has the job? Office
holders change, but laws stay on the
books. A law that might be abused
by anybody, in any circumstances, is
a bad law.
If we would all take a more prac
tical attitude, and think just a lit
tle bit about the possible effects of
proposed laws before urging their
enactment, we’d have fewer statutes.
Before approving any bill, no matter
how noble its purpose, we ought to
an it be enforced at all? Who
enforce it—and can he be trust
Can all the men who come after
? (And there are bound to be
e poor sticks.) If it were enfore
against you and me, would we
it?
00 many laws are directed again
the man around the comer—like
late and unlamented Volstead
Any law about which folks
, "I don’t need it myself, dt
rse: but Bill Jones does”—any
ii law is very, very bad. Because
it folks mean when they say that
; of thing is really: “I don’t in
1 to pay any .attention: but I’ll
ce Bill be good.” What right have
to as Bill Jones to respect a law
ch we don’t obey? If all of us
welcomed Prohibition for oar
i selves: if everybody had stop
drinking, or buying liquor: if the
i who drank had been treated by
friends like the man who stole—
r, than Prohibition might have
ioubt if any law intended to reg
i people’s private morals can
be enforced: but I know per
y well—and so do you, every
me of you—that no law intend
o correct other people’s faults
not our own) can ever be worth
It is the
moot dismally amusing
world, tUs habit of
-fr.iw
such laws is always the notion i
know what’s best for you all, darn
you. Give me the power and III
make you happy if it kills you.
Because every reformer who wants
absolute power given to any exe
cutive is thinking in his heart: Im
the guy to use this power. You can
trust Me to use it right.”—It’s fun
ny. Why don’t you laugh?
—POATE.
The Open Forum
GREAT INTEREST IN PILGRIM
HOLINESS CHURCH
Editor Courier:
Great interest is being taken in
the Pilgrim Holiness church.
Throughout every service the man
ifestation of God’s spirit is so won
drously felt. Souls are seeking God
and many happy finders.
Our good pastor, Rev. Mrs. J. B.
Fulp, and her faithful husband are
leading us on to victory. We thank
God for these good people.
Four interesting prayer meetings
were held last week. The attend
ance ran as high as forty in one
prayer meeting. It is great to hear
the young converts witness for their
new-found Saviour in these meetings.
Special singing in almost every ser
vice.
You are welcome to the little
white church on the hill.
—MRS. L. F. STUTTS.
Asheboro, April 23.
OPPOSES SALES TAX
Editor Courier:
It is common talk among the peo
ple that the last legislature was the
craziest, rottenest bunch ever assem
bled in Raleigh, that any ordinary
bunch of drunks could have done bet
ter. This is being said in regard to
the passing of the sales tax, sign
board, tourist camp, egg law and
others. There are rumors that the
president of R. J. Reynolds Tob. Co.
as well as other corporation heads
were in Raleigh all the time, foot
ing the bills, trips to Florida, wild
parties and what all else. I do not
know the truth of these remarks. I
wish I did. However, knowing
some of these representatives per
sonally, I have more confidence in
them than to believe they were con
nected in all this, but I am forced
to admit that some of these laws are
wild indeed. For instance, the sales
tax law completely missed the board
in taxing the people who own the
property of the State, or the people
who make the money in this State.
They freed our money-making cor
porations from paying school tax
and put the burden on our bread
earners, a big portion of them boys
and girls owning no property, just
stepping into the bread line to help
make a living for the family. A
boy or girl making two dollars a
day or six hundred a year in spend
ing same would pay a sales tax of
(32.00 yearly. Counting one-third
the sales tax of^Jpn fpr cent a#ul
two-thirds at three per cent. This
is too much tax for a boy or girl
possibly under age, with no pro
perty in the world and with no
privileges except to help support
the family and to help pay the tax
for some rich corporation that make
millions yearly. Our boys and girls
must be treated better than that,
else they be slaves, tax slave* for
life, paying taxes on properties own
ed by some one else, properties that
make millions for the few rich who
refuse to be taxed. Many a fanner
has saved four or five dollars on his
property tax, only to have three or
four boys and girls in the family
start paying a sales tax of $26.00
to $60.00 yearly.
The last legislature, who was go
ing to reduce taxes, instead they
heaped them higher, and on every
member of the family young and old.
They then cut the school teachers
and highway employees all to take
the school tax off the rich and the
corporations.
The people will not vote for a
man who favors a law so unfair as
the sales tax, also they have their
opinions of the few billy goats, tools
of the rich, who go around arguing
for sales tax and bleating phases
such as show us something better.
We all know that anything would
be better for the average people.
—CARL A. TEAGUE.
Staley, April 11.
SOPHIA, RT. 1, NEWS
Sophia, Rt. 1, April 23.-We have
been having heavy frosts in this
section recently and ice was seen
at several places on Sunday morn
ing.
Mrs. Eliza Edwards and Miss Cora
Edwards spent Monday afternoon in
Greensboro shopping and visiting
friends.
George Stewart, of Asheboro, spent
the week end with his family here.
Among those of this community
who have been ill but are recovering
are Walter Farlow and Mrs. Colbert
Beeson.
Visitors at Mrs. Eliza Edwards
Sunday included Miss Sue Williams,
Miss Alice Oruraker, Mr. and Mrs.
Buford Petty, of High Point, Mrs.
George Stewart and three children,
Johnny Stout and Sherbert Miles.
The many friends in this com
munity of Shubal G. Farlow were
grieved to learn of his sudden death.
Mr. Farlow is a former resident of
this community but some time prior
to his death, he made his home near
Asheboro.
Mrs. Eliza Williams spent one day
recently in High Point.
B. F. Ridge is recovering from a
recent illness.
Miss Cora Edwards visited Mrs.
Harvey Farlow one day last week.
The members of the Glenola Bap
tist church have built several new
Sunday school rooms to the church
recently.
Chosen A Sponsor
Miss Lucy Clyde Ross, student at
High Point College and daughter of
L. F. Ross, of Asheboro, has been
chosen as one of the 12 sponsors
of the big Tri-City ball, set for
May 1 in the Greensboro auditorium.
The dance is being sponsored by the
Inter-Club council, composed of six
cotillon clubs, two from each dub.
Miss Ross is one from the Coterion
dub, High Point.
Dressmaking Alternations
for
MEN and WOMEN
Mrs. W. C. Norman
Over First Natl Bank
Asheboro, N. C.
Heavy Deliveries
Of Buick Cars Is
Noted This Month
Flint, Mich., April 23.—Retail de
liveries of Buick automobiles during
the first 10 days of April were
greater than during any similar
period in the last two years, W. F.
Hufstader, general sales manager of
the Buick Motor company announced
today.
Moreover, sales figures reveal that
Buick dealers in 167 cities through
out the United States sold more care
l in the first quarter of this year
than they did in all of 1933.
“Buick’s steadily growing sales
volume is most gratifying to the
management not only from the
standpoint of the company’s current
business, which is at the best level
it has been in more than two year,
but also as an indication that a
definite upward trend is being ex
perienced in all lines of business,
Mr. Hufstader said. "Increased new
car buying, particularly in the Buick
price range, is strong evideiw* that
business recovery is sweeping the
nation.”
During the first 10 days of April,
2853 new Buicks were delivered to
customers, the sales statistics show,
the largest 10-day total since the
third period in March, 1932. The
figure compares with 1397 new car
deliveries in the first 10 days of
April last year, a gain of more than
100 per cent.
Deliveries in the first April period
this year also exceeded the best 10
day .period of last year—the last
third of June, 1933, when 2274 were
delivered. “Total Buick deliveries
since the first of the year,” Mr.
Hufstader said, “are 14,840 as
against 11,069 from January 1 to
April 10 last year.”
“The fact that Buick dealers in
157 cities throughout the country
already have exceeded their total
1933 sales volume is indicative of the
extent to which the country has
come back,” Mr. Hufstader said.
“The same sales figures show that
dealers in nearly 200 other towns
have sold from 50 to 100 per cent
as many cars in the first quarter
of this year as they did in all of
last year with the probability that
many of these dealers soon will pass
their total 1933 volume.”
One thousand short leaf pine seed
lings were planted on a section of
poor, washed mountain land in Cher
okee county recently as a field dem
onstration in reforestation work, re
ports the fa«m agent.
ALL DAT UNTTf
MEETING APBIL 2*
The Church of God, colored 0f
Asheboro, is making: arrangement,
for an all day unity meeting to h.
held Sunday, April 29th. One of the
moat interesting things on the pro
gram will be the missionary mard.
which will begin at the tabernacle «t
12:30 o’clock, this march will cover
the main streets in Asheboro. There
will be a band, singing and waving
of banners.
Bam per Tourist Crop
Tourists turned depression’s tide
in Florida during the past winter. It
is estimated that during the Mason
there ware 1,500,000 visitors in the
state and that they spent $300,000,
000 during the season. Retd estate
dealers reported the greatest move
ment in real estate the past winter
than in eight yean.
The Federal farm loan banks made
loans totaling1 >9,206,556 in North
Carolina for refinancing farmers’ in
debtedness between June 1 and
March'31 of this year. Loans in
the four states served by the Colum
bia bank reached >43,605,770, with
Tar Heel farmers asking for the
smallest amount.
Wilson county fanners have pur
chased 15,000 pounds of lespedeza
seed cooperatively this season.
Mystery of the Haunted Span
ish Tower. Exciting story of a
crime supposed to have been com
mitted by a ghost. One of many
fascinating features in the Ameri
can Weekly, the magazine which
comes with the BALTIMORE SUN
DAY AMERICAN, issue of April
29.
KILLS EVERY
ITCH GERM
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The next time your skin is “burning
alive” with itch, apply Reaves Sani
tary Lotion. For sale by Aaheboro
Drug Go. and Standard Drug Store,
Inc., or sent postpaid for 60c. Reaves
Laboratories, Aaheboro, N. C.
LEARN TO DANCE NOW—
Summer will be here and you’ll want
to know how then.
Group and private lessons in social dancing:.
Tap Dancing.
Children’s classes.
For information phone 2 or call by 107 Salistary St
Directors—
MRS. DAN BURNS,
MISS LOUISE SWAIM.
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