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^The Greatest Idea in the World’ Mr. Editor: In yOur paper The State’s Voice, “A Paper For • Thinking People" issue'January i, 1934,; under the ■ 'title head of ‘'Beasley Has the Idea,” you wrote. - ' "We actuaHy believe that we have stumbled t^on -Just about the biggest Idea in the world—-that at tempting to draft upon the fnure is the stumbling block of he figes.” Further along you qnote Mk. - Beasley as saying: “We can’t use in h war this year "that which is going to be produced ten years hence." - Just what you mean by “Thinking People” I don’t know, seeing that it takes this writer a long to get an. idea. Now If you have “about the biggest idea in the World/’ I as one of the dumb-heads would ‘ like to get more fulij the idea and' its implications. . ‘ Do you mean to eay that if our part In the World War cost billions of dollars it was all paid fot a? the moment the war stopped, except the -future (are ;• of the disabled soldiers? Do you mean that just as no unborn babe could be drafted, to fight in the World •War, no dollar oould likewise be employed except the one then actnally in existence? If so the idea “begins to take form in my befogged nigbt-mare so*t " of understanding/ j /It seems. a« thouh, when men were needed to fight the war authorities went out ond got them, the .liv ing material and ,did: not wait for-babies to be bom and grow up. Likewise they used cotton, wool and Iron that was rather than that that was to be at ... ,son?® future time, and that even dollars; the miost i&ecions commodity of .all, were actually present, and ._ actually used by the billions. Now, it has been my blunder all the time to think that somehow those dollars were future dollars. But as a small gleam of light breaks In, I begin' to see that, from the stand point of the whole, the. dollars then used w'ere as trial dollars or they couldn’t hare been used, while from the standpoint, of the''particular and the indl vidual, citiaens these were future, dollars and would be till particular individuals paid them back and paid them to other, particular individuals with in terest. \ „ -r. . ,,, V©n apd. Mr. Beasley seem to have the Idea fs a deduction from- the foregoing .that- astbewhote .pays as.-it goes-.the whole ought to get a dear -receipt not Jbe fortevey mortgaged to. the future which * ta”iTV»r^which le t© say, there win beiiaoie waif and more future' dollars to be paid by the many to-the few, •"* ’" . As I geejt in my blppder-headed fashion, yon and Ifr.- BiMeley. are talkfeg the foolishness of something like a real democracy, which state of,things would put humanity, and human • justice and middling com forti, security, and culture ftr. all ahead of the future dollars for the .few ehylocks. ■ VTha|; these old. fellows will have to say about rowf “Biggest Idee,” I don’t know. Some of them, I imagine, are. just as pig-headed asl’ve been au to . the actuality of the future dollars. When they see fwhat a power they hold' over the present and future H#s of the. nation, mostly for evil -consequence* efeti ■|o themre|yes,-thfy no doubt will-get busy In the fast ^ removing this *• Stumbling Moekef the ages.** . ’ Hope yon. can fully dear this matter up for us fellow** who .really wishtobeoomenumbered among the THINK! NK. PEOPLE. Go right ahead with your ’great work,of enlightenment.• ;v-.j -A. VOICE READER. .X ooldstna,^ i ’/■: r Treatment For GaoiMen The objection la. frequently raised that capital pun ishment doesn’t prevent crime. The answer is we don’t know, because we never.-hare tried it Most , v states provide for. capital punishment for murder, hot ,they don’t execute the. murderers Impartially and implacably. Now and then some poor fool is tramped ' fv off.for bashing in. the head of his wife in a jealous passion, but we., ding to-the idea that gangland can be reformed by pious prison workers.^ > •Whether or not capital punishment would deter the peophyte of gangland front-graduating into fullfledg crimipaHtj?. one thii«r is certain ; every gangster dangling at a rope’s end or! with a.-Jolt of electric juice through his bodyig one who has been perma nently discouraged -from committing further crime. Every,one undergoing a course in prison reform is a -'candidate for pardon, parole or a jail break, and a further career of criminal preying on society. J; At liberty or in jail every one ig- a menacing nui sance to society -which society doesn’t (have to tol erate and wouldn't tolerate if it were able to get rid1 of the "sentimental notion-that "A rattlesnake ought to be treated .with'deference when it happens to wear . pants.—Omaha World-Herald. vs.... Varser for Senate. - ‘ ^ •'& His neighbors in Lumherton were much gratified , to find Judge ’▼arser suggested as a' eandidat^ tot the -Ui S. senate hr-l®36. Senator Baileeseetns iihe i' ly to hare a deal of oppositis j. ... FARMER WHO WON’T FALL E£ JUNE NEEDS 'V A GUARDIAN ' ~ ‘j_j It will pay the powers of tobacco lnjutuaUdjol* Jars and cents to sign Che tobacco acreage redaction •contracts, for the reason they will harp $13,300,000 divided between them If they’ do slgnl v “ ' The plan-of the agricultnral department. |a Jto re . dnce the- acreage thirty per cent which means a de crease of 166,000 acres and 115,000,000 pounds of to bacco, in order to cnt he surplus to^ this -extent.in line with the promise of the department to the man ofactnreers i* thejr^ would pay the parity price of. aeT • teen cents for the last years crop, it-wonld cause the farmers to decrease their crop to ~thfe extent, „and thus reduce the surplus, and the hjannfacturei* conld take the money they have been paying for the large crop and divide it up among the farmers for the. smaller crop. - “~j.; - For this reduction * the-AAA hag pledged* itself to pay the farmers approximately $11,300,000 which will be divided as follows! Rental payments $2,800,000; benefit payments $6,500,060, eqtmiizdtiwi 'payments, $2,000,000. • \ -Pgi. ■ • ': ' ;• .... Thus it will be seen that the farmers who. partld pate in the acreage reduction win make money by so doing. ■ - ■ , .• _ 3 Contracts signed since, the drive, 'which started early in December, involve 850,000 acres With an St orage production of 392,400,000 pounds per'year/This ■ Would make an average production off 716 pounds to the acre. A $17.63 per hundred pounds paid last year that would be $126.12 per acre; llie flame to bacco would have brought in l®32r an " average of $11-64, or $9322 per acre, a difference of $32,90 per .acre. In addition to: that-the -$11,300,000"bf 'Mnefffe to be divided among the farmers Who sign, Would mean an additional $20.60 per acre xflr a'total $146, 62 per acre. - , Thla beats $9322 per acre* and wWen'centfc'per pound. Now if the government had not taken a band in the matter the price of tobacco in this s& tion would not have been as-much fts eleven cents, that is if the demand had continued at even the present “pate, for there has been a 'falling off'tri"the /consumption of cigarettes for- the past: year. ■ Only a reduction of the acreage and a consequent reduction in the yield could have-saved the farmers end the sections dependent «n /thcsn. “Note the. letv "price of burley tobacco which has been overproduced -httffl the price his fatten ’where it Is/’ It strUcejrua that the farmer fails to cooperate in this acreage reduction is light in the ppper story and needs'a ■‘guardian.—1Wilson Timei. ; ;;^:T j. " ' WHEN THE EDITOR WROTE A BOOK ?; : (Continued from page .six.) , .the quality of their service to the eoudnunity has been determined at - the dose of their term, when- a 'committee composed «of leading workers in l;1he" various in dnstriee and somfe of the oldest and most honored Scholars, discuss the record of the' councilors andv reward them with tarying-^ addftlohal" awards"jaf .hour-units, np to 'the fidl individual tfodta of uniii. - Moreover, the same committee acts as an auditing .committee, guarding against he misuse of the states stores by the council. (The coudciUof'it seems;'was -limited to. twice the Income of an ordinary worker and had to prove his worth to get that.—Editor.)“ * ^ Thus It Is made possible for any citizen to am§gs. a considerable credit or amoont of property,' aui}, as his assigned homfe is his for kte lifediqe, hnd his-son's after him, if he has one, the citizen may safely Improve thfejw-emiaes.beautify fete residence, add add as many comforts as he'pleaSee,‘‘and as wilt be found later has other ways of individualising his life. -. ^ ^ - * ■' r" v Then men assigned to the very Thumbleet jobs, as well as othlers, may use their time above the, required five hours in any kind of (service they pleMe, urtth the restrction already mentioned, and these men fre qoently engage themlselves as servants to the more , prosperous for apportion of their'timd. ,7? ■i.:.h ■ -_- — ’>■ ■- >. h nmCTON tpsN AM) NOW; (Continued From Page-TShree) — ' -a Sheriff George McLeod, Clerk -of Court W.- H. Hvfia? phrey, who still surviyes, though hets inactive.' ttild' Joe Buie as register of deeds.--Joe has been record er over at Bed Springs for many years. y< Charlie Skipper succeeded -Mr. Humphrey as clerk, and is still ion the Job, looking as if he might be good for another score years. <a»ariie doesn't dahn all the credit, by far, for the successful administration of ifhe office for-’mbre than-twenty-years.^ With-him all those yeajrs'has been Miss Patterson, * who he. /■irfilmfl is Just the miost efficient assistant-clerkj-dn the state.-As I didn't talce -notes*of -hiy laudation. It 1s difficult to transmit the high^degree of praise he dWgive*thiS fine lady. *» —' * ' ~ .- Across in the reBisteris office^-ls Mrs.—Eva-Floyd. As Bra Williams she was one <xf my school girls of f-; . - ■■ ’■ r f - -. '»' -- . -n' ~ r-. t '• > - -r : . . - ’ : -• T4,•" . v-:;.1: M Si -.>,-3 m 19Q1. - Laifer she married Marcus Floyd and wa« a near neighbor, succeeding him' as'register of deeds ? ' after his untimely death. Assisting her are Miss Irma Whitfield and her own grown eon. I know four lady registers of deeds in the,,state. The number id likely to increase. It fa a job well fltted for capable women, and there are ijwo such in the Bobeeon reg istry. ; *” * , , '■ :v|'i Robeson has a^county manager, whose duties an mainy and great. A K. Butler, sou of that fine citi zen John S. Butler of St. Paul, is the county mans* .''>4 ger end a most capable young man. Just across the hall Is H. B. Ashley, son of another old friend, as tax collector aind (performer of a rariety of other duties, j;-. ‘ : V -- ; A Yeteran County Superintendent. . I first met J. & Pool when he became principal of - Barker’s school, hen miles northeast of Lumberton. He was chosen county superintendent some thirty ^ _ .years ago and is still on the job. The school system 3._. ; of Bobeson county has had a wonderful development during his term nf sendee aind J. B. Peol has been. ■ In no small measure the director and inapirer of that progress. » There is a. new-comer in the Shtriffs office—Sher iff Kornegay, who is, as those who know eastern North Carolina names can readily guess, a native of Duplin county* He ihas been.arj’esldent of Robeson for quite a period, but seem*=a-new-comer to me.j Now up the stairs and let’s meet the Sampson folk. _ . Dr. Harden, former health, officer of Sampson, is the efficient county health- officer. Mrs. Sloan, widow_ of Dr. Sloan of Ingold, by-the way, an uncle of Presi dent Frank Graham, is„ the, county nurse—land onSj could find none better. Dr. Harden’s wife is that former most gracious Miss Ruby Goode, once one of Clinton’s most popular teachers. , ~ There are some dthers in: the-court house whos# . names I cannot recall at this writing. ^ " The present court house was erected a year after my depaifflure in 1906, at a dost of only about $79, 000, I believe. Itjls good enough for even the great %. ..; county of Robeson. Compare that outlay with that . of Johnston or Wilson.,,. ~v - • - My allotment of space for thig isspe is about, con sumed. ®ut I want to introduce yon to one ©f Lam-, beiton’s best citizens and most religious men—14 M. '■Whaley. Mi*. Whaley is a Virginian by With and for a geneSratidn vre^fesMited the Whaley Timber Company in Robeson...He is a inosfc consecrated Christian, as can 4>e. indicated by the fact thafcj hS . has scarcely missed, one of. the early morning court f house prayer meetings year*. His oldest son is this well knokn Greensboro. engraver, J7. W. Whe- j ley, who married a sister of Bdltor GodJbey of the Greensboro News, pwoodt is the strapping second son. Both were pupils of mine. , j Is ^tt* Matter _ Wttli ’ NstH' CswJInfa'* ' / (Continued from page one) hogs andthe, selling pried of the hogs, aaall proUt—; -T“ not. counting thelabor,. I- have Seensuch estimates time and asaiit. ' /■*./ f» ’*•' * There to. the chief trouble with North Cawttna and with, all agricultural sections — farm product pdees are not sul&Iehf'* to par incomes on a* par ;| with those of the people from whom the former tan to; boy. ;That ewidition in the farm Industry deter- k mines the income leivel in other oocopetlons and tbn professions in the arem ’ :\; ,'' Trouble Number Two.—The second trouble to that, despite all North .Carolina'* advantages, the agrf-* cultural lands that may be profitably cnlttoated am ", J5 spotted- The long seacoastmUy lodk" tlne, but along its border axe sand landsand “marshes that servia Uttle purpose in making a etate pfosperoua. The' - line, farm lands about Dunn, for example, look line; but a large part of the coastal belt can never be mads . agriculturally profitable. The hill country fertility, whatever tt is, is too much at the mercy of the rains. , ' The mountain scenery is grand, bnt that area for- - nishes only patches,7 not large areas, of arable soil. Besides, these are whole oouhties over there vrtttout , railroad facilities. v ■ *■ The nature of the crops'of the stafeeand the small ness «tf level lying areas of good soil, together make it unfeasible to farin 'upon a-moderff scale/ Accord-^ ingly, the farm income most be based almost entire* ly upon the wage basis and not upon a capital basis. That means that the cotton farmer/even if the ma chine farming was adopted to that crap, must, *e main in connection ' with ‘ the cheap labor of Asia and the producer of com and wheat must, with a one or two-horse team, compete with fhe tractor far* mers of the* 'west . *-'■ }*- ' '_ And until these several handicaps are overcome/ the farmers’ income must remain so low that it lim its the income'of SlFotfcer groups In the state, except - 'iyl those who are profited by this very condition, and North Carolina’s average family-income must remain near the bottom of the list. _ - 3d ~ ' > .i/’; ;; wMl iMsi, f '
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