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O. j/pETERSON, Editor and Publisher ' Published Twice • jiflo'nth at Dunn. >1. C. FOR STATE-WIDE CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: |1 a Year} S Years V25 Itotered at the Post office at Dimn, N, C., as iOeeoad-Class Matter. »; ■ • ■ ■ ■ lf "" T Don’t Be Afraid Don’t hesitate to start the long Moore county , article.*' It fs really quite a number of short articles, and I believe you will" find nearly-every one contain .ing matter of interest. • ; Ho.Df»senr^.:.Coiigratulaiions Carl Goerch has completed the first year of his "State.” He has mader. a; remarkably..handsome magazine, always readable, «pd what ..is as important* Seems to haTe made'^.•'financial success of his ven ture. He deserves congratulations. High-Water Marks Set The Wake- Forest centennial1 occasion-was a. most, enjoyable one. It is difficult to see Just how it could -have been improved.' That and Bladen’s bicentennial celebration baVer set' two high-water marks. -The writer has never enjoyed twb occasions more. , Tomorrow-Tells the Tale The strong interest-excited-in the campaign in tho Third" and Fdurih Congressional districts, the Fourth Judicial, and other contests will reach its climax to morrow evening as, the votes are counted. The real struggle will'come 4n the-second primaries for con gressmen and solicitors. A Better Risk _; The nomination of Judge Schenck by the State Democratic Executive committee as successor to him self as appointee of the. governor to the supreme court justiceship vacated bjj the death of Justice Adams assures a man of the first rank for that im ‘ £brtant position. For one, I prefer Judge Schenck to the possible outcome of a nomination by a state wide primary. Ooreriftr Chooses . Wisely. . Those of us'Svho remember the strength and worth of the senioriJudge Schenck and all who are con vinced of the possession of the game qualities by the younger can but feel that Governor Ehringhaus has made a signally happy selection for the succession to Justice Adams. Since the division of the State into two judicial divisions, we of the eastern half of the State do not become acquainted personally with the judges of the western district except in a second hand way, but Judge Schenck's reputation for knowl edge of the law, for strength of character, and for judicial righteousness, has managed, by one means or another, largely to permeate the State as a whole. ■It is to be taken for granted that the same good judgment has prevailed in the appointment of Solici tor Pless as Judge Schenck’s successor on the supe r-or court bench. Necrology One of the penalties of-having a broad acquaint ance and many friends is that scarcely a day passes without news of the death of acquaintance or friend. The past week or two has been exceptionally fatal to friends of the editor .of The Voice. We give' here a partial necrology: Justice Adams, gentleman, scholar, and just and upright judge; James Hubbard, of Clinton, a gentleman since very childhood; E. B. Freeman, of Lumberton, clean, upright, dili gent in business and an honor to the printers’ craft smanship—an artist in the realm of type. Mrs. H. C. Freeman of Lumberton, sister-in-law df E. B. (Freeman—a good and industrious woman; David M. Prince, of Goldsboro, a school-mate at ■iWake Forest, where he graduated in 1893, a teacher .for a number, of years, a good business man; clean and upright.; R. D. V^nn,{of Sampson county, farmer and mer chant—an honorable and useful citizen; Judge C. J. Smith, of Dunn, taken without a mo ment’s warning;, able attorney, just judge for years of the Dunn recorders court, long chairman of the county board pf education, an elder in the Presby terian church, an all-round good citizen and neighbor, and a representative of one of the oldest and most influential of Darnett county families. All of these, except Mr. Vann and Mrs. Freeman, andi perhaps others who have passed without my knowledge, were appreciated subscribers to thile paper. AN ADEQUATE MINIMUM- IN COME t FO^ ^ AELli,-EI,'FICIENTi WORKERS THE WAY OUT - ' , - Wealth b . Creation of Society; Therefore Society Ha. the Right to Conhol IU DUtribution. Every Efficient Ementi.I Worker De»rve,_» Adequate Mm. mum Income. None Should Receive More Than pmtJTlll the Mmmmn Income, Measured Not in Mtmey But in Comfort., Ha. Been Assured A1 Es aential Workem. If Necessary Confiscate d Fortunes Accumulated at the Expense of the Workers. >, jjfce (State's Voice was started, among other rea sons, to afford a medium for the discussion of mat ters fundamental to the economic system. It is a far cry back to January-^!, 1933. Any week since March 4, 1933, the people^ Jhis country have given ten times the thought to^fundamental matters that they did in any week fop-years prior thereto. Yet the editor of The Voice had been calling, for years, for a, re-examination of the fundamentals. He had urged that nothing be taken for granted simply be cause it had thus long been taken. A favorite illus tration was that • of the effect of the discovery of the seemingly obvious circulation of the blood upon the building of a true medical science. The science of medicine had a rebirth in that discovery. Any of the marvelous discoveries of later days would have . been practically impossible! without the fundamental discovery* Similarly, if there is something wrong with the fundamental conceptions of an equitable economic system that error must be disclosed before any true economic science can be evolved.' America might be still undiscovered, if Columbus had not conceived con trary to the traditional belief and had the courage to act upon that novel conception. Contrary to the age-old conceptions of a flat earth, it was actually round all, the time. And whatever is wrong with the economic conception is not a new ailment, bur one .Dunn Students Win Honors..» Dunn may well be proud of the distinction won the past, session by its boys at several schools. The outstanding record of George <Noel, Jr., at Wake Forest College, where he graduated magna cum.laude, the winning of the debaters’ medal at Oak Ridge by C. L.'Guy, Jr., and the clean sweep of awards by.the stenograghyjindjtyge-wiriting , teamv of the Dunn school in the state-wide contest^ <and possibly other distinctions, serve to emphasize the Jtigh character, oL Dunn’s school, for eight years under the supervision of Principal Shepard Bryan, as well as to signalize the individual worth, of the honor students them selves1 Particularly gratifying is the extraordinary record by the Business department under the. man agement of Prof. Finney the very first year of. its operation, which sent three first-year students in stenography to the state-wide contest who won over students of two years’ training in the city schools of the State, one of them, Miss Melva Rowland, making a perfect record, and even the third in rank out strpping all contestants from any other school in the State. . .. Some Ar0 Hound to Lose. It is evident that many candidates must lose in the’ contest tomorrow. Let it be understood that losiiig is no dishonor. There are many things besides com parative worth that go to determine the winner. Moreover, it is no mean distinction to have proved that one has won the esteem and confidence of a goodly number of his fellow citizens to the extent that they vote for him against all other comers. Therefore, The Voice advices all, defeated candidates to bear their defeat with the best of. grace and in prfectly good humor. Renewals of subscriptions by mail save us a goodly part of the dollar. North Carolina to Have Two/New Ports? It is gratifying to feel that the "State is likely to have two new ports—a great seaport at Morehead City and an inland port at Fayetteville. Fortunately, North Carolina did not decide to issue a large vol ume of bonds to finance the building of ports and terminals. That was one* of the issues looming large during the Morrison administration. The State de clined to adopt such a scheme, but seems likely to get ,in a large measure, what Governor Morrison was seeking, and without the expenditure of her , own money—or that received for'a bond isgue. Gen erous Uncle Sam is providing the funds—a million and a half dollars in' the case of the Morehoad City project The work on the lock , on the Cape Year “needed to produce an estimated 8-foot channel "to Fayetteville is in. progress- Underlain: is footlne « that bill. " ' as old as the race. That is how old the conception of a flat earth was. And that? false idea shut half the world ont of the ken of the Other half. Simi larly, the failure to recognize the barriers that keep half the people of this.jcountry, or of any other coun try, out of economic security must be recognized and reckoned with. Knowledge and courage to act upon that knowledge are the two essentials to true prog ress, .... Resources Sufficient for All There is not a sane man in America today who is not convinced that this country, indeed the whole world, ha# sufficient resources to provide, with a moderate ?flegree of diligence and efficiency of effort, if not ah abundance, a sufficiency for every man, woman, and child in it. Every sane man as clearly sees that not all are getting that sufficiency and that tens of'thousands are enabled to survive at all only by the'grace of the government’s exercising so-called emergency powers. Air as clearly see that some have not merely a sufficiency but a superfluity—so rifuch that the government* forced to assume a paternalist tic attitude to avert t£e starvation of millions in a land overflowing with, riches, may borrow from them the billions needed tpusuppiy the minimum needs of the' millions. Yet the government, seeing clearly what has caused th^ distress and what will indefi nitely continue to perpetuate or renew it, cannot budge an inch toward, the true measures; for relief till it is bold enough to declare the causes of the evil and to demand of the people the authority to eradi cate them. The obvious trouble is that thousands have ..reaped where they have not'sowed. jWealth a Creation of Society . c The* conception of the right of private rpropgrty is . a proper one. But the conception of the equitable .r basis of -attainment of private .property has not been :clearly-stated and positively accepted.-With the, exception of the rudimentary or elementary needs which a man under pioneer conditions -can supply for himself, as did Robinson Crusoe, wealth is a. creation of the social body and not of isolated indi viduals. JPierpont Morgan, with all his acumen, given a whole continent without a population, could but resort to the life of the pioneer, in which the individual can accumulate only what he himself creates or fashions out of the resources at hand. Society Has Right to. Direct Distribution of Wealth Wealth, then, being a production of the social body, it does not require a .denial of the right to individual property to establish the social body’s right to a su ; pervision of. the distribution of the wealth produced by the combined efforts of the members of that body. Nor does such supervision "predicate an equal di vision of that common wealth; The' principle of an equitable distribution should be easily arrived at. And it will b6 found to be anything but the grab game policy now" existing. *' The Principle of Equitable Distribution ’ Today, as during all history, there is^frequently no relation at all between, whatpne has and the degree of service he has rendered the society from which he has received it. Indeed, many who have done little or nothing in exchange for what they have, have more than thousands who have worked long and ef ficiently in essential employments. 1 say, “effi cientljf’ and “essential’ 'advisedly, for not mere time or energy expended in toil counts. In the first place, before one can equitably demand., of,society a reward for his toil, he must„demonstrate that his toil is ex pended in a way that means something to society. A man might kill himself uselessly digging holes and filling them u^ again. ’But that means nothing. That is no essential employment. But worse than doing that which is utterly useless'is doing something which is harmful to society. And there are plenty of jobs by which men “make” good livings that are utterly useless or 'worse than useless. Not only is this true because of the nature of- the employment tHit often because of the fact that his job is a dupli cate of that of another who is sufficiently able to do what both are doing.: in guch case two men are col lecting livings for the work that one could do. Efficiency also is a consideration as well as the essentialness of the employment. And there are all degrees of eJHcienejr in the same employment. That (Continued On Page 5). ■ v - . ... ■ ✓ • • • ;-»v •, ,r.. rf-i' .• U \ 1 ■ > V. • SL: r, ■ ‘ ; *
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