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IT IS A JOKE. Hero and there I note tlfat a political convention is lauding the past history of the party and predict ing a glorious -future for it, just as if unaware that .,11 parties and the people have departed from their former moorings and that the past party programs aiv as much out of date as a last year’s bird’s nest. Thomas Jeffersos, Cleveland, Wilson would not recog nize the Roosevelt administration as a Democratic administration. It is not the administration that must conform itself to the former party pattern, but' the party that is conforming itself to the pattern of the administration. As a boy we used to argue the question as to whether one would have the same knife if he first broke the blade and had it replaced ami then broke the handle and got another. Well, that proposition represents the condition of the Dem ocratic party—and much of the aggregation that fol lows in the Roosevelt wake is of Republican extrac HOW THEY GROW AND HOW THEY BLOOM “TThas been less than ten years since the writer was a resident of Clinton. Next door lived a bunch of children, the largest a mere' lad.' And now. I see the picture of tiny Josephine Turner in t!|e Biblical Recorder as the pianist for the Baptist State Sunday School convention to be held At .Meredith next week. One summer a dozeh years ago I gave a group of children a start in Latin at the.request of their par-. enK Emerson Dameron Was'a* gawky lad of twelve or thirteen. This morning I nbte that, after gradua tion at the State University with honors and the acquisition of law license before he graduated in law ‘ at that k'jstitution, has gone to Greensboro as a mem ber of the great legal firm headed by Julius Smith. Only last spring that firm acquired' another young friend of ours, Henry Anderson. The world rapidly being taken la charge by the children of a few years ago. Some of the chaps use character and talents to accomplish their ends; others use machine guns. More-head City is practically ^assured of its two mlllion-dollar appropriation for harbor Improvement, • and already a stir has started "among those who'hope ' To-get rich ’by speculation-^ a 'Mofehead City prop erty or by development of truck lines or some other • * It would-be^'fine thing if some scheme could •; vised to hold ^eirt estate values gt thejlr former ? CONGRESS ADJOURNING. s this is written it appears that the adjournment of Congress is near. The problems of the eoiintry duripg,.i|s^term have been unprecedented. Without a Rqgsjeveltj at the helm, directing the course, and without*an extraordinary co-operation ,vvitli the teftdgcj' ih*is conceivable that the two sessions might have been one interminable wrangle. Errors, many and great, perhaps have been made under the admin* istration’s leadership, but it is no injustice to assume that two bodies Mke the senate and the house without a,*eac^r c°nfident in his purpose and [Without an un foftital loyalty to that leader, would have resulted in a jjCoofusion that would have proved'disastrous. If tbe. |>rain trust did no more than to furnish a definite program, it earned its wages; Imagine the fatuous course of the average-congressman confronted by such problems as America has faced the past year and a half! Anything could have happened before orderly procedure upon a definite program could have been secured. The loyalty and harmony , of this congress, have never been exceeded,, but that loyalty and $mt har mony have saved the Congress itself as well as saved the country from immdiate disaster. • " ADVICE SEEMINGLY TAKEN ; . The press has been rather unanimous in advising candidates for the legislature not to make pledges as to opposing or favoring the continuation of the sales tax. In Harnett county, thafc- advice was apparently taken. No pronouncement upduMt by either the suc cessful candidate for the senate or the one for the •house was publicly made. Both are druggists, and •the presumption is .rather definite that they are per sonally inclined to the repeal of the sates tax, against its relevy. But those menr under the sugges tions of the coupty press or of their own accord, have been silent upon the matter and the conclusion is natural that they purpose .to.act in accord, with the necessities of the. case as the sources of income - and demands for funds are revealed before .them nett -winter. - They cannot take it for granted, If they are personally opposed to the sales tax,, that'they have received* mandate from the people- of. Harnett county to oppose such a- tax under any circumstances. They are being sent to the General Assembly to use their best judgment in the light of development. .Anti-sales tax. leaders 'are Claiming a victory fovilKfir cause.- But it is evident that the question 'received no attention .in scores dfqountiess, and that Senators ■ and representatives hare chosen. ,'jSS$!u$e of a general confidence in their good sense. Pledged at titudes nearly a year, before the developments refer red to would indicate ah error on the part of those who did thus -favor their nomination* >-and. personal pledges in the face of'sfleri^d ill ‘public ‘\tould further justify a conclusion as to their ubfithefeg 'tbwrbpfesdht the people during this critical period. . ■ No counting of noses at this dftte.(»n dP^rfl»lQg^Mf self to fight to the last ditch against its relevy may' regret such a pledge*bofOre.i next*--yea* :*this time. Every member of the General Assembly should go free to consider impartially the sftuatlbii " as if'de velops. Men* of -ability and Of chafa’cter' catt*frt»ly represent their people by adopting gnch a eOurSe. Premature judgment upon the issue should be care fully avoided. ‘ .. ■* rigs and Unhappy •w,. < . (Williamson Enterprise) •Tames B. Duke, the father of Hiss Doris - Duke, made a vast fortune Out of tobacco and' electric power. MlsV Dorls inherited the property and with it the troublgthat'feir brih^s.-' ' " u‘: She has;to -have a guard Wheft ahe trkVOls' for fqgr of kidnapers, and while she sleeps she' has fears "of extortion'ers. Altogether,' a life of Unpleasantness. ‘ ; There are millions of poor working fW» In Amei>, ica who see twice as' iUbcfc' rpledsufe 'iV 48es* if fat Duke. - ■...r-V Certainly, richOs ate not all of life; infact, tfc/ are not the best tfiinga in life. T?e; strive" tdo hard for riches and impoverish the very spirit cg.fUf gottt seeking money," when* we ‘ might enrich qujf lives t by doing good deeds as we go along, day by day. ' MAYBE’ V » fWilliamstop Enterprise)... Our own? Josiah William Baii^ : 'Senator, has,spoken again. This time, ad usual, he was against the President. .. “ Mr. Bailey is smart; so' smart, -i«fact,ibftt W IP able tiffimf a way to bpi»'s^;ev«ry#iag thbrad*iai»' tratimt suggests. : .•-f... - , . , r„ . ;*> ■'/. Hr. BaMey, of course, musbafignre *fcft£Ttyfjth <3®?®*' llna Voters are. blind «nd -defdp-^jpet HfeKftsfty find ftht ' that they are not so dumb, at sopjt ,fuJfljje eleetipn.^; THE- PEOPLE OFi THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT I GRAHAM BARDEN is fitted by Character, Ability, and Knowledge of all Sections of the Third District to represent ably and effectually every quarter of it. Born in Sampson, reared in Pender, and longt a resident of New Bern, circumstances have conspired to acquaint him1 thoroughly with the interests of every section of the dis trict. The same general andJntimate ac quaintance with the people of all quarters of the district, will make his services in their behalf a pleasure as well as a duty. A Vote for BARDEN is a Vote for the Watch-Care of Every interest of Every Citizen of the Old • By A FRIEND, ' , PRIMARY, JUNE 30,1934.
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