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JOHNSON SA^S NEED OF A STATE PAPER -a ..■>i . Dear Mr. Peterson: I have read the first-two issues of The State’s Voice with great inter est, agreeing with about as much as Oscar Coffin. » - There is no doubt of the need of such a -paper. The geographical 'di visions that hampered and handi capped the State for centuries have notv altogether disappeared, even with good roads and automobiles to com bat them. If your paper helps to knit >the State together, it will contribute in no small measure-to the well-being of North Carolina. Pessimists doubtlesS have told^you you have chosen the very worst moment in- forty years to launch your venture. They may be right, but I am not altogether; sure they are. After all North Oarhliria, along with the rest of the Country, Is probably more disposed^to think things over this year than it has been at any time Since the war—i -don't mean The War, but the war against Germany. Whether' in Maryland, Oregon or New York, we all know now that for at least fif teen years we have been doing too much and thinking too little. Per haps we are. nrtre willing now'to stop and consider. If that Is the case, a paper dealing' wot fn s#*«? news' but in the meaning of the news ought to chime‘with "the spirit of the ti$»es At any rate, I want to see how it comes out, so I enclose a dollar and ask you to put me on the list for a year. With all good wishes. Sincerely yours, Gerald W. Johnson. Bautimore, Md. ONE COPY WORTH A YEARNS SUBSCRIPTION My Dear Mr. Peterson: - Have just read your second numbej' of the Voice with much pleasure as Well as satisfaction with your Success. That issue is worth the price of a year’s subscription. It is a great pity that the world will have to undergo so -'much bitter experience before it is compelled to. accept the inevitable adoption of ■ a social plan based Upon your hypothesis. I heartily agree With you that measures will have to be taken looking toward the elimination of debt before w^ can enjoy a uni . vefsal programme Of individual ful fillment. I doubt that we are as far C!away from that as some people like to suppose and I feel that your ef - forts should bring the approach mea surably nearer. Wade H. Paschal Siler City. A YOUTH’S IDEAS OF A PAPER ET CETERA. Enjoy the naivete and bumptious ness of a youngster of twenty-five. Don’# you know, you older folk, that the writer of the following letter can t>ut enjoy life? We hope his plan of Operating a paper will one day ma terialize. Here goes: y ‘'Dear "Mr. PetCrsOn: - In Nell Battle tewis’ N. arid O. eolrnnn, Incidentally, I see that the bewildered Deep in a maze, All in a daze. What to do?. All “knowing DOVE Looks from above," Sees the* path through. Soul, lift your eyes— QUIOk^-Sfe light dies! . HEipoMts the way. Love for a guide-*— Confident, .stride. - On towards the day! —Henrietta. R. Smede& Above a'ddress is presumptively ap-^ prtrp'rtate. Is there a new paper at :D(unnI and are you the editor? Will it. As she states, a paper that does not stoieil 6f conservatism 'and sytodtea Hs!h.; dne that does wot -cut - so > closely to ttre Hne or mode of Victorian thought, when table legs were called -‘limbs” and draped to the carpet? In slang, will it draw a straight line regardless of ''W'ho it -hits—In so far as calling a spade a spade does not threaten its life? No I am not dic tatorial or impertinent, but overln’dul gent inenthusi&sm for the growth of your paper; I think-in this age of in dustrialism! machines, mass -produc tion and1 the mob System of education there is sUch a yawning chasm of op portunity for individualism—-the ex pression of free thought to prevent us from being submerged tindertheStala manner of idiocy and the banalities tirelessly written into the dailies. They are such bloody horror Afreets, one shivers to read them: Murder! Rape!. Robberies! Failures! and Shi- , cides In endless procession. I am twenty five years of age, and in spite of the school system and fra ternal and collegiate , environment managed somehow (pardon the vanity or pedantry) to get a little bit of knowledge — mostly through the li brary. I write a little verse myself, and most likely if you^jrtublish poems 1 will present for your examination a portion of the Beauty and Truth that I have tried to disrobe. Surely, you have a poets’ corner, for a weekly would be incomplete with out one. Once I was closely in contact with Sherwood Anderson, author, who gave me some ideas of running a weekly— he lives In Marion, Virginia, and ope rates two weeklies out of there—one a Republican arid one a Democratic paper. He advises me by all means to buy or create a weekly somewhere. As yet it is otoTy a dream, which would probably be followed by a nightmare.' This letter, Mr. Peterson, a little per sonal, I know, -but I care little for the staleness 'of form letters; and ; more. I have never seen-a successful business man whose intellectual as sets ! I respected—they do not have tifrie for'art; besides they do not need it and have never lighted the spark that would Tceep them burning and anxious for more fuel. It should like to meet you sometime —and I wonder about your Age, what It is? Very truly yours, Belvin Nathan Blalock (I as a youth of 63—EDITOR) boWb saVs it for us There must be a great deal to say for Mr. Jtoosevelt’s - plan to transform the valley of, the Tennessee river in to a sort of experimental station, else he wouldn’t have played with the vis iOn/'We don’t pretend for a minute to comprehend with any exactness just what he has in mind, nor do we care to go off half-cocked and say that it is either a grand idea or a foolish one . Yet our imagination, willing as it may- be, goes only so far before it balks. It sefes the swirling Tennes see, its lowlands dotted with comfor table farm houses from which the happy farmer and his help issue for an easy day in obliging fields. It sees power houses, with lines carrying a service to mills and ' factories and people afar; it sees dams Impound ing great walls of water from which ^ V ' electric current will be generated. It sees the scrub and hilly land raising the forest majestic, each mightly oak grown from the acorn' planted by •someone at the present out of a Job. ’Tis a sight for eyes sore from a uni formly dismal outlook, which makes it all the more inexplicable why our imagination should prove so perverse. For, in that inexplicable way of ima ginations it goes on to perceive that the power houses are built\>f the irie* vitable granite, each manned by a corps of federal pie-eaters, reporting to a bureau of supreme pie-eaters in "Washington. It sees the cropper on governmental-built land, and wonders by what process of purchase or influ ence he got there. It sees hordes of Western farmers storming the White House for experiments in their'be half arid hang the cost. It sees mile after mile of Hoover dams and Muscle (By W**le ;H. ^aachal.) ; V,’* Tbto; recent fight over the. Glaafi. . banking bill'is' only the;first, in a lob® series which we may expect in the coming session of Congress. Itsttows the lines of cteayage existing between the old and new orders that break through party lines down to the bed rock &f economic advantage and dis- * ' turb ' the snug complaisance of the ’powers that have this country'Inieco-^ n«nic bondage. rA >WeW fbrtfe haS •arisen that questions - the reld ‘relation of master and servant, capita] and la bor, debtor and creditor, competition arid m®n*pdiy; 4all r»feani«g the'Sfttoe thing Ultimately whSn "boUria to tlfe ’ shackles of finance imposed by the privately organized maniputetton ef a gold standard. "The same ’ptfblfc'ig norance that "served to defeat Mr • Bryan cannot toe relied upon longer to retard the evolution of democracy in America. At this! stage 6? ‘ftthss Intelligence ' the compelling; three of Iflglc In the ^iiffnds <5f Huey P. ^»g, feorah, And ‘Wheeler bids fair to lift the veil;from the mystories-of'money that have heftn so carefully guarded toy that small group Who knew that their dominating position depended' upon the ssecredness Of this subject. tPo question the, methods 6f issUe or • the basis for it was as unortfiodox'As the feasibility of professing protest ant ism at St. Peter’s. Money'Was money and that was all that Miiy •■Ohe .who did not have the authority to manipulate it should know. .Honest men should strive t*> accumulate some of it «md YiOver question wheth er they Would be depMhred of the use of it by ‘ the sacred manipulators. Perhaps the expectation that liberal opinion will have something to do with money in the future is justi fied. The following extracts from Senate debate will serve to illustrate'the two main schools of thought that Are clos ed in ai life and death Struggle,' and it is hoped by the liberals; for the. last time. "Senator Wheeler... /‘I dori’tw&Ut' to see the country accept fiat money that would wipe out -the creditor Class * * * *1 want1 to’establish-a new primary money basis and stop the-ex ploitation of the debtor class by the creditor class.’’ Senator Borah.... .“Insurance com - panics loaned’ farmers up^ to 1929 some twelve billion dollars. Measured by the wealth of the'emintry~n’6w the farmers are indebted to the insurance companies more than thirty billion dollars * * * * A dollar which takes threq times as much wheat, four - times as much cotton, four times as many hogs in 1933 as it did in 1929 is not an honest dollar. It Is at dis honest dollar, •"*'* * I am -nOt seeking uncontrolled: inflatioii* ? * r* I beHOvC it is possible to devise a monetary system that will deal equitably ;atrd fairly with both debtor and creditor. * * * All other nations'of tlte world, except France, are off- gold * * * The lesultg are that they- are not only tak ing our foreign markets but, j over a high tariff wtall, they are taking our domestic markets.” These statements , are all trUe beyond the question of even" the strongest opponents of mon etary reform. And still all that is" proposed is a Federal Reserve reform that seeks to possibly prevent the concentration, of wealth, as If that were not already a fact. It lsi like taking ou^insurance after a fire. In reply to the foregoing ’ remarks Senator "Carter Glass Said: •‘If these views ghovrld prevail We should face buin. If It be: adniittea for a^mbment that private'contracts may be abro gated by law Pf Congress * * * that Would simply abrogate contractual re lations in this country and there would be no more of them.” Mr. Glass do you know that during the inflation of the war period many contracts with . •••'•— Shoals. It sees government timber ready to cut, and wonders who Will" claim it once it is ready for the lum ber mills! ■ j; Verily, visions are visions and not to be put to the tests suitable only for more practical expositions Let’s go back to fflbep.—Chdrlotre “tfews. tp€ttiti«fand g«s companies were abro gated on the ground -that they were cWrffisetftory, and highfer rates allow ed and that those rates still apply and JMVe'hSt eoftie ddWn^aiain ^Ith 'rira - tion of prices, but are now; cbnflsna- # ting earnihga -of -their, ►patrons?. When we have properly regulated our currency such uncertainties^.and lega 1 confusion should Pe largely' eliminu ed, arid no such unintentional obliga ■. iidhs codld be contracted ap now ob tftin, requiring four bales of cotton for one, three bushels of wheat for one 'and three, days’ labor for one. '-TKPfe^dnt4 ft> -infptWre *f«»"sy^Wb. Sen - tStefmXkB, t. that? fjSeffmte* *»#*Shyieck to wring four fpr .one out of the povei - ty-and-misery of the honest-and in telligent people of this country - who peek a rise tn thd standard Qf living -jurd- an- increase'--lerthoi educational op - portunities of their families. We don't peed any more such contracts to be enforced -at such unreasonable rates; nor do We nfedd the pfeOen*'Ones en forced If we- ate to escape WtimBng the-rniwds Of nWlidW^*®^^ th^re^ ent government. ‘ -Referring . to ■ the 1 necessity* of re - funding -$n-,o«*o«OiOefi shortly, *tr. Glass further said: “I would like to be told where we would find a banker or investor who* would buy. a . bond under such circumstances of unce rtainty of abrogated contracts.” Whether one could be found dr not Xvblild make tittle difference, provid ing the mares df the pedpte would ac cept wftdt1 the government safd was Jgdod irioney. Doii't ybh’think they WouM, Senator Glass, erven if it were printed paper? But'don’t you think that the capitalists of -this eountrv know enough about the science of money to know that if the-administra - tion of affairs of this country were in the hands of those fayorable to easy niopey that they would be anx ious to invest their j> 6s6At funds in securities? ;i>ori't vju 'think th^y ■-Would prefer to ; loan thfeir money "to the government’ wvtt-h *tat«*est than witness tffe government-so in •crease the supply that their ffinds would be constantly Cheapened and the interest rate reduced? Mr. Glass further said: “Arbitrar ily reduce the content of the gold dol lar? Very well. What is the moral difference between 30 per cent repudi ation and 5-0 per cent repudiation? 1 \Vhy not go the whdle Pfength andau - thorize the complete repudiation Of the debtor Olftss?” (Mr. <31hsS, What is the. difference hetween the 300 per cent and 400 per cent which the cred itor Exacts at the present time and the 6 or 8 p£r cent which; he| agreed to • pay at the tbne he secdred : tile loari? Why not go all the lway and aMow and aUthorike the- creditor * the privilege of' complete- confiscation and ' then aHOw him a-deficiency Judgment so that -all future /‘eaaAings of7-the debtor should-go to J^e creditor? 'that is the very thing your system tolerates and yet you wall loudly against anV reduction at all in the Vdlue' of- iMTtiiy which alone can correct, thV’Brsse%lt Inequalities. Is it justice. 'Or ;the fotifid of flesh nearest ’the debtor's heart? Was man’ made f&r *the ‘‘sob bath and was'haan WM£de> to' serve the present prostituted gold standard ? Or should arty standard of values TSfcrve man? You KnOw' that under our pre sent standard - of values mftrtdy is the absolute "master of more 'm&n 'than d^er' before;* yet you"Would have-it so. ,;The troubffe'-with yduca*»d>yeur -con freres. Mr. Glass- is that yon are too closely girted to the system in which you have been trained. Your honesty and integrity are unquestioned, put your knowledge of what is In th'd’ rftirtd ' of liberated youth' in AmerhflSFIs mea ger. Just as our forefathers ate aSh ■cakes and preferred their Bread' cook ed by the6penfireUntil»Ia-mi6re ex~ preditious Way was 'devhsed, yso will the progressive element.- ’ under spro gfessive leadership ■ convince yon- that if the masses are- to^have evenash cakes; your reactionary monetary pol icies will have to^Se relinquished to make way for the^irogramme of In creasing Individual Fulfillment for which our sotial order is now' in fra
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