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iefmx<m . — Early Atten^op, - Fop several years a miluon dollars has bpen appropriated aimpatly for Confederate pen nons. The number of Confed erate pensioner^ actual sol diers in the Lost Caus,e, has shrunk to a few hundred. Few of the survivors served more than a few months and it is quite certain that n,p.t ope of the suryivprs suffered the least physical injury during his serv ice. If one had, he would not be here $9 years afterward to boast of his wound. On the other hand, the most Of those who actually bore the brunt of the war are 1 ong dead and more than half of them who survived the' war never re ceived during their lives pen sions equivalent to the dollar a day the boys of 1865 are now receiving. . 4sain, therg, are more sur vivors of an age one to five years younger than the seven teen-year old boys of 1865 than of the latter and ipany of those actually suffered more hard ships than the boys who sur vived u n i ri j ured the few months of service. Conceive two homes side^by side. The one has a fifteen-year old boy ' ©r girl; the others 17-year old son. The latterl&iather comes through the war safe and sound; the former’s is killed. The latter youth goes to the army for a few months and •conies home unhurt. The 15 , year '’ old ? youth, or perhaps girl of 15 to 20, must assume a ‘great measure of the support of the mother and younger children. The youth back from the war may lay his plans just as if there had Seen no war. Today’ they* are both living, ► say. The youth whose father was killed ox came home maim ed or ill and who assumed the responsibility for the support of his father’s family, must eke .put his living today tjhe best he can. The boy who served his three-months without injury pnd who had no responsibility for the care of his uninjured father’s family is drawing his dollar a day. Down in Sampson William Pugh was killed in battle, leav ing a widow and four small girls on a little sandhill faVm. The widow never drew enough pension to' count, if any at all. The surviving girls are now' old women. They get nothing. The army youth who suffered very little, if at all, gets his dollar a aay. A Double Reason !gr Old-Age Pensions in tlje South. Twenty-four States, I believe it is, have made appropriations for old-age pensions. Not one of them, I believe, is in the South. Yet there are two rea sons here for old-age pensions to one in the north and west. That which motivated the States granting old-age pen sions is the reeling that the aged who bore the brunt of life and have reached an age when Ithey can no longer support themselves should have, at least, the consideration of the pld horse, which is turned out to pasture and given a pittance Of groin. In North Carolina, Fe lijave the same reasons as the 24 States for granting pen sions and stilt-a more momen-1 tous one in the fact that every native of North Carolina over the age of seventy was a child 4uring the waL-Ond during the ftrennous 'period fallowing, in which life was hard and ed?ca tioiiai facilities almost utterly lacking? Yet it m that gca tion and ti^ose closely inW w$k> largely bore the brpt of the State’s burden the educational rexia$$ance» themselves without eAttoation yet educating the £en^fJ^£n that now dpniihates the Stat® The generosity which so lib erally provides for the soldier boys of 1865 sfeP»J4pt fpigg the old won^en a.n4 %e younger men wh0 tieehy fered most from the conse quences of the wa** bt the six-, ties. ■ ;. A National PM A nation-wide pension of the old is the logical step to he ta ken. And the old-age pension must be a national burden if the old are to receive an ade quate support. And that is sure to come, sooner or later. In the meantime, the children of the war days and of the reeop-% struction days, who were, really the greatest sufferers from the folly of the Southern States, are passing out year by year Successor to George Ross Pou (See First Article In Paper) ... -""-'.r - -.j- • -■ •• and day fey day- M they are not helped early, they will re ceive no help at all. A little is better than nothing. Fifty dol lars a year would be a boon to many a 1§4 Pr las§ of tfee fix ties. Noyth Carolina, who is so generous to the soldier boys and their widows unto the third and fourth mayr|agp, should have regard tp the greater group of sufferers f pom the war of the sixties. The State Liberal tp Office-Holders. North Carolina is liberal to its judges, its college presi dents, and possibly other offi cials who retire in old age. Each retired judge gets each year what would mean many of the comforts of life to thirty to fifty men and women who h^ve suffered and toiled as no Judge in North Carolina, no college president, has ever suffered or toiled. A Good Campaign Plai^. In Harnett county a "repre sentative is still to be chose#. Here is a plank for a pfe^ffirm that either of the contestants might well adopt — modexalte pensions immediately -for^. all North Carolinians over the age of seventy—not a self-respect destroying dple fe_pt a WPrthily bestowed recompense for sufc ferings and deprivations un - dergone ±ferougfe no fault of * theijf own, and far Services that; have been largely instrumental in providing the superb facili ties and opportunities that the younger generations have eii Some J^e-Ahgnmeote ReaMy Amusing. _ It is really amusing to note some of the ^ignmente _nn •the question of a sales tax tne past three years. In the spnng of 1931, when heme and farm . owners were* sweating blOoa under the burden of taxation and when hundreds of thou sands of. men and women who have since been idle were drawing good waps and spending their money freely with no thought of a tax bur den, the battle waged for weeks for relief of the home and farm owners thro^h the levy of a sates tax of one kind or another" *At that time and for two years more Governor Ehrmghaus was enner to the issue or expressing dis approval of a levy of any kind of sales tax/ Editor Way,nick of High Point, a member qf the General Assembly, was aligned with the opponents of the sales tax. The Chapel Hill Weekly ■yyas a strong antagonist of the sales tax idea- Today we find these three more ox less strenu ous opponents of the sales tax in 1931 championing the con tinued levy of the present tax. Up in Chatham county, Vic tor Johnson, representative at that time and mightily pleasing the voters of the county by his relentless support of the sales tax levy, any kind, Was turned down flat the other day by his supporters of the earlier day in favor of former Senator W. P. Horton, Who greatly angered his Chatham constituency in 1931 by thwarting the effort of the sales-tax brigade in the senate to pass the Hinsdale bill. It is doubtful if Horton could have immediately car ried even his little- Williams township. Last Saturday he was re-elected to the senate by a majority over his two oppo nents, with Johnson, the herp of 1531, filing the ticket.. - j The land tax has been elim inated—that is, for State pur poses and for county and dis trict school taxes.. The relief has been great. Now the land own ers ^re assured fbat the Cjei^ eral Assembly will not have the hardihood to re]evy a prop erty tax fpr fitate or "school purposes and are ready, many of thepi, to see t&e gales/ t abolished. * The same levy as now in force would have brought in much mgre money in 193,1 and 1932 than in 1933 end 1934. Yet men voted for it in 193^ who opposed it in f931, and! men are now v championing it who detested the very idea in the earlier year when it might have served a double purpose. On t^e other hand, men who faypred each a tax in 193f, when every other source of tax funds now available existed,’ are opposing the tax this year, This is a funny ojd world, anyhow. Buf here is guessing that a continuance of the sales tax will he found necessary, especially if the legislators gp. with the idea that State em ployees, including teachers, are starving §rid that othey fc^Jc are prospering.—And sopieare prospering, but only a com paratively few. The repef list the coming'' w i p | e r s h 0 i * 4 greatly aid legislators in de termining the comparative wel Subscribe to The STATE'S fare of .State employees and the masses of the people. But the average legislator will judge that the State is now able to pay higher salaries if he sees a few of his neighbors buying new automobiles, though hundreds m his com munity may be eking out the barest living. r Our one word of advice to the prospective legislator is to go to Raleigh with a true per spective of conditions in the State, and to base his votes with respect to tax levies and salary advances "upon the real condition he finds existing at that time, or likely to exist dur ing the bi-ennium. ffe* ?art of Small-Calibre Cross-Examiner. . . The fear .expressed in writ ing the Tugweil article early l^onfe morning that Senator Bailey lyould jnjl&e an ass of himsdf ferns to Have been well1 founded. He assumed the roll of examiner of Prof. Tug well before the committee yesterday and spent two hours in nagging him in the manner of a feall-calibre lawyer . cross-exs.n4nhig a witness. One of the afetions asked by the North Carolina Solon is wheth er Tugweji had net argued agaife the laifezrfaire prin ciple in business."And what a fpol1 anyone is who has not! For the "information of those who do not understand the I’r^nch phrase “iaissez-faire,” let me say that it means for everybody to do just as he 4flg-gpne pleases in husuness-H tjie old principle of dog-eat doyr* Wo are s^ll in the mid dle of the had |6x into which the practice of ihat principle .* has ted Jus^.-,- ■ No Second Solicitorial Race in Fourth District. ¥ he (lecjsfop $€ Daniel B. Bell, of Fitt^>^npv pot to con test the nomination of Claude Cannaday, of Benson, for the nomination for Solicitor in this district saves considerable ex pense ±p the pppplies that have no • qjtfyer cqpfesjjt| and much strain and expense to both gen tlemen. It is apparent from the remarkable run that Mr. Cannaday* made that the odds Nvould have been greatly in his favor. Tip big lead of Mr. Can nfi^ay would have meant that Judge Bell would have had to secure a considerable majority ip bpth Uprnett and Wayne, or a majority of the combined ggipte of the two. The indications ^||gU;hat -Mr. Bell has acted jmmr discretion, for that man Claude Cannaday is a cam paigner from ’way /way back. He wept down to Mount Olive, one of the remotest points in his district and beat everybody, ip fact, the whole bunch to gether, I believe, doubling the vote of the Wayne candidate. Well, both men are fine fel ppd good lawyers. It is a pify that both cannot have good jobs, but there-is no ques fiop that fhe district will have an able Solicitor in Mr. Can naday. .i -h': r,-. V*f ..*•_ -* wpi Aftt Jiav^ another total eclipse until October 1959. : One Chinese. newspaper, at Peiping, has been published1 continuously for 1400 years. ~ Send in Your Subscription tpj
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