DUNN, N; C„ NOVEMBER 1, 1933
NUMBER 20
VOL. I
. Stupendous policies are being wrought day by day
in the National realm. Yet the people of North Car
: . olina can be only spectators of tlnCswMing tides of
■ - revolution upon the National arena-. * For months,
. the people have been, so far as state and Nation are
(concerned, mere on-lookers. But »n event of far
reaching importance* is at-hand which is to be de
. termined by the voters of North Carolina. The- citt-.
Ben’s (boasted share in' the country’s sovereignty has
. been at a low ebb for a season. But the- time ie-at
hand when North Carolinians are to Meld their
(sovereign authority. _ ■" /
A Stamina Telting ^Event v ’
' . The stamina of a state is the combined stamina
fof its citizens. A -test is at hand* 1/ the majority
bf the citizens of North Carolina are willing to fol
low the wish-washy example of those 33 other states
and measure their responsibility and their inde
pendence in terms of the popular, then North Caro
lina, too. like a sheep, will jump the hurdle in the
same fashion as that set by its predecessors. But
if North ^Carolina is the old North Carolina, act
ing in its sovereign capacity utterly regardless of
the action or 'attitude of Any other of its sister
states, then next- Tuesday’s election will he really
a sovereign action. - „ .■
Independent sovereignty may .have been wielded in
the event of either possible'result of the election.
But in case the state votes .to ratify the repeal reso
lution" it can be a truly sovereign act only if every
, voter forgets, or ignores^ the unanimous action of
the 33 other states which have acted .upon the re
: peal resolution. Any citizen whose vote is deter
mtaed by the seemingly overwhelming vote of other
States for repeal is not voting as a citizen of?da^
sovereign-state but as a person, moved by mass phy
phology or the mob spirit.
“Let The Voter Examine His Motives • ’ •
- In view of the foregoing observations.’^; behooves
every North Carolina voter to consider whether he
Ifj planning to act upon considerations that are
suggested by the, state’s own better interest and in
accord with principles that are basic to the state’s
sovereignty or whether big is drifting upon what
Seems to be a wave of-National (foment created by
Interested parties’abroad and at home and long and
(constantly deepened by propaganda (proceeding from
thq same selfish sources.' • ’ . ' •
An Individual Responsibility
One's Tote next Tuesday' will determine the meas
tore Of his'* own responsibility for whatever x>f evil
inay result in either state or Nation from the legal
• i^^on-na^the sale of alcoholic beverages Granted
'tjiattj$. prohibition W is abused to an inordinate
extent, yet any citizen who has not aided and abetted
in the niilliificatibh^of the law to any extent Is ut
terly unresponsible for any ruin that may have 'been
wrought, by blockade liquor. Yet that aid may have
been rendered by omission of a good citizen's duty
f to co-operate in the enforcement of law as well as
by a positive participation In those practices that
have resulted in whatever degree* of , nullification
that exists. No man broken by drink, no family im
; poverished and disgraced by a drinking husband or
father can attribute'to jbifii who has had no part,
active or passive, in the nullification of the prohi
bition law one iota of responsibility for the disaster
jtvrought by drink. The drinker has drunk despite
the state’s protest, despite the National government’s
]t>ar of disapproval. He hag wrought his own un
doing though you and the government have sought
to save Wm<
*But not thus will fit be if you vote to legalize H
^cjuor sales and to respectabllize it in a measure..By
~ that act you become'* partner in (the ills that liquor
works—and all the more heinously responsible if you
base your action upon the selfish desire to relieve
> yourself of a bit of tax. ^ •
• Hypocritical Mouthlngs '•
. You should desire not only to avoid sharing the
" responsibility for the' future ills due to liquor, but
you should avoid as you would poison, if you have
through overt adt or sheer indifference aided in'fos
' Wing the ills that now exist, the hypocritical mouth
: tngs of “caiinot be enforced”*. If you have bought
^and dTtmk liquor,; if you bate indifferently allowed
the violation, of the law» jtate* and Nation to
occur-under your very nose, then you have no moral
. -right. to point the finger of sconf at the law Itself,
No law enforces itself. President -Roosevelt’s ad
^ ministration is right now preparing to provide
iblanks -upon which the NRA violations may be re
ported. _Even the NBA regulations will not enforce J
' themselves. It requires the co-operation of all con- :
etmed. 'What a fool any employee would prove him- -
self to suffer chiseling when the remedy is at hand. ;
And what a fool or coward you have been, if you
bewail the evils you attribute to failure of the pro- *
hibition law if you have. cowardly or indifferently 1:
allowed it to be nullified under your nose by they
hellish minions who have furnished supplies for the*
youth, who have nourished! fche thirst of the drunk
ard, and who have'robbed the very wives and chil
dren of their patrons of food, clothing, and decent j
shelter.' Scorn your own [cowardice instead of the i
law which would, with your cooperation, prevent j
the evils which you bewail. For your very man- -
hood’s sake, don’t be a hypocrite!
Havef Regard to Your Own Economic Safety |
•f If you would consider the- possibility of a mini
mum of tax relief through the legalizing of the sale
of liquor, common sense dictates that you have re
gard to the greater economic ills that threaten
through the increased sale, at higher prices, of
quoR A fool must see that every additional dollar
spent in the promotion of the manufacture and sale
of liquor to that very extent lessens the amount of
money that can go into the purchase of essential
- commodities or' in providing wholesome liying con
ditions;. The merchant, for, instance, must be half
witted if he fais to see that every dollar spent at
grog shops jdeprives his guild of a dollar apd perhaps _
many. Not only do the' dollars' that buy , the drug"
'that destroys fail to reach: the honorable merchant s
till but perhaps lose a good workman his job and a
" family its income wont to be spent for home and
pergonal comforts/ The: inerchant < who rotes for
more booze votes for the cutting of his own economic
• throat. ’
A Million-Dollar Testimonial
In the above connection, it is pertinent to cite the
million-dollar loss of business by the^Ayer adver
' tising agency ip support of the principle just sug
gested. For half a hundred years the Ayer Agency
has been one of the most prominent in America. ;
That concern'is an authority on trada Hundreds
of men and women are constantly studying trade
conditions, and Jbuilding trade arguments. The firm,
through President Frye, positively refuses to renew
' a contract thalt has paid them mints of money.-Every
man, and merchant particularly, who has any regard
for hs own economic interest should read
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", • -H**! -Ayer. Statement .> :-f; v
k Follows the full and authoritative statement of >
that great company. That statement alone'should
be sufficient to carry North Carolina against, repeal.
Here it!is: ?..£■*? 'V^’ ;>
“We have cancelled our ten-year old agreement
with the Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., a highly val
ued client, following that Client's decision to engage
in the manufacture and' distribution of beer and
whiskey after repeal. We regret, of course, the con
ditions which necessitated this step but on a strictly
. business basis we are certain we are right .
“The return of liquor will, divert an important
share of America’s mass purchasing power from es
sential commodities! This diversion may run ?s
hizh as twenty per cent, based on preprohibifion ex
perience and the trend of economic and sociologies j
«!nc, «.<> iwwtowt WM :
adopted. . _ mTuin pan be
- “The moral question -
left out entirely, bot from a purely bom"** Btand
point, »e .till ennnot see a eery happy result ln,th.
return of liquor. - * ' ‘ w!11 „nn
“It is true that revenue from- alcohol will con
tribute many millions of dollars t» ^
and local treasuries, but this-contribution in.
main, will be mufte by that class of the PuhHc which
can least afford to mate 4t. This was true before
prohibition, and «t will unquestionably be true when -
prohibition is repealed. : - ;
“The liquor business has not-changed. When tne
thirty-sixth state has been lined up, it will be run hy
the same old crowd in the same old way. . > f.;
decades--ago- my firar-adopted a Bhliey1
not advertising alcohol. The reason for thisis sim
ply that, as an, advertising agency, we must identify
ourselves so closely with th« affairs of our c ten
that we are. a part of their business. V •
“In the case of a client who manufactures or dis
tributes alcoholic beverages, this would create for us
an impossible situation, since we would then be in
the position of making alcohol. attractive to. the f
youth of this county. Furthermore, we do not wish
to classify our other clients with the liquor busi
ness’*
The foregoing opinion cost N.- W. Ayer & Son bfe
money. The au'toors of the repeal propaganda hope
to make or save ibig money.' It is not a mere differ
ence of opinion but a difference in the motives back
of the opinions. Choose whether you .prefer to follqw
what is absolutely an honest opinion or one that
comes accompanied by a big suestion mark? lyi]
Now You See!
. ■ By Arthur I>. Gore ■ 7}
It comes with poor grace from the multimillion
' aire promoted Rokeifeller Institute this new recom
mendation in behalf of the poor man that he may
git drunk on cheap liquor and tote the burdens of;
ec-stly government, and if this recommendation had
' come from some^other source it would have bad more’
appeal as actually a wise and beneficient move to
wards cheaper necessities of life for the poorer class.
■ es Another thing in that Institute’s recommendation
doesn’t eeti well and that IT that while preaching
jrepeal so as to. restore States’ rights, it urges ex
clusive supervision of certain Initial tax-methods, of
liquor without states' takin® fheir pro rata share. It
.is, though. Ulwgyg easy to puncture anything that
i8 as faulty as this repeal propaganda.* One ,only
needs -to squint one„ eyq and stay half awake to
see their undercurrents Qf more to .the man who has
and lesd to the'feilpw-who hasn't... . .* . ,
v What prestige Is ex-Governor Gardner’* prpnounce
. ment having Ain. his--native, heath now .that he has
gone to Washtogton and Resigned from a seat among
the officialdom of in this repeal campaign?
-Especially: since another former governor and ex
aenhitor, and life-long zdry has .thrown bis bat in
' the anti-repeal ifght? Senator Reynolds Is about to
annex ns to Russia now and plans a whirlwind cam
paign among the most rural counties of North Caas
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olina in behalf of the doping plank he walked In
to prominence upon. Why rural, counties more than
urban? Would he Want- a Jury of city hoys Instead
of 13 good farmers Jto sit in Judgment on a
tion of right in a court? Why rural, Counties? Hate- -
.. n’t country people «anse enough to vote ; wthoht
J special attentien just now! .
- Raeford, N. O., October 20, 1933.
HOW TO TELL IT.
It is probable that no more definite and sufficient
reason for not voting for repeal has been 'given 1n
the state .than that of Judge Pell, of the Corporation
Comjnissionl . Judge Pell thus states his reason tor
opposing repeal.. It is in answer to an inquiry on
the part of the North: CaroUna Progress of which ,
Mrs. Charlotte. Story PerkiAson is editorial writer.
Judge Pell will not vote for repeal for two reasonfc:
First,^even though repeal seems sure, he fears tlmt
North‘ .Carolina’s ratification of the repeal amend
ment would affect legislation in this state on prohi
! bition; second, he does not “propose to line up with
the liquor crowd on aMy proposition.”
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"Mr. EL E Faison at Clinton is interested in the^
ISneedsborough article. He wishes- to know if . there^
’is any connection, between he Sneyd family for wbier
that was named and Sir Robert Sneed* (or Sneyd)
. for whom Sneed’s Ferry was namedt But you may
depend upon that historic mind to find the answer
to bis own .question. ■ r' .