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O. J. PETERSON, Editor and Pubilahar Published Twice a Month at Dunn. N. C. FOR STATE-WIDE CIRCULATION t SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1 a Year; f. Year* V3&* Sheared at tha Poet office at Dunn, N. C., an Beeond-Ckuw Matter . ' ' __ Beef Cattle Production Needed If North Carolina has pasturage for the 75,000 beef cattle to be .shipped from the drought area of the west, it is evident that-it has pasturage for the raising of that number of cattle. Beef is one of the things that North Carolina does not produce in sufficient quantities, to supply its own people. There is little reason why, it shouldn't. kill the Absentee Ballot Business The State's Voice joins with Attomey-<General Brummitt in opposition to the continuance of absen tee voting. The next legislature can do nothing bet ter than to repeal the’ absentee ballot law. Mr. Brummitt thinks there is more need of prosecution \mder existing election laws than Of new laws. Re moval of election officials for law violations is a mighty slim punishment for an offense against the whole people o fthe State. ! It Will 3e a 'jWonder / attorney Claude Bell of Dunn, has a unique job. Fifty years ago, funds from a Blackman estate were deposited with the Cumberland county clerk of court. Those funds hare not been withdrawn. It is his job to find them and to disburse them. I do not know the amount of the original fund, but if it were a sum of any considerable consequence, and if invest ments have been regularly made and interest col lected and invested, there should be a pile of money due. But it will be remarkable if the fund is found Intact. I should hate to risk fifty cents on the dol lar for the estimated sum at 4 per cent compound Interest. This Looks Good. Mr. R. P. Holding! executive official of the Citi zens Bank and Trust" Company, of Smithfield, Dunn, Clinton, Roseboro, Louisburg, Kinston, Beaufort, New Bern, Morehead City, and 'Benson, says that the deposits of the system have increased more than fifty percent, since January 1. That looks mighty good, from both the viewpoint of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company and that of eastern North Caro lina as a whole. There must be a considerable de • gree of prosperity among a portion of the people at least. The, writer noticed a statement in the Beau fort News the other day to the effect that the Beau fort unit of the bank ,opened in Febrnary, has al ready deposits totaling more than $300,000. The Citizens Bank is not hesitating to meet any legitimate banking demand. A True Yard Stick Must Be Used President Roosevelt makes out a good case for the recovery program, yet it is necessary in measuring the improvement to use a true yardstick. One must take into account not merely the improvements but the ground of every improvement. Any advance that has been utterly due to the distribution of govern ment funds, and borrowed funds at that, and would cease to be if the government funds should cease to flow, is nothing of permanent value. The Voice still thinks that the activities of the past ' 15 months amount to little more than making conditions as com fortable as possible while an attempt is made to find a real means of escape from the economic bog into which the country has fallen. The inauguration of planning, faulty as the plans thus far have been, is the one real step toward a final solution of the eco nomic problems. Anything that suggests a departure from the old haphazard procedure and dog-eat-dog policy is a step forward, though many others must be taken before safe ground is attained. It was a big convention and a good time was had by all present, presumably, but one wonders what was the use of it. - The thing called a platform is a mighty small mouse for so large a mountain to bring forth. The cost of securing renewals of State’s Voice subscriptions is the big hindrance to its progress. Practically all subscribers renew when visited, but such visits cost too great a part of the dollars col lected. The paper, upon, the dollar basis, could be greatly improved in the course of a year or two if renewals were automatic. But the most of us don’t think of such' matters till somebody calls. — 1/ You are probably aware that The State’s Voice is a one-man paper. In addition to the work you have discovered that that one, man has been doing, he is also writing six to eight columns of editorials for The Dunn Dispatch each week. Percent Re**ow When Vfeit*A ‘ This hot weather the. circulation work is taxing him severely. Probably 90 percent or more of the last year subscribers renew when visited. But the dollar subscription is so small that few conceive of their dollars being of vital importance, and therefore neglect to renew till The Voice man calls, when it is only occasionally that the subscriber does not puli out his dollar and renew his subscription. It la Pleasant Put »jfireat Tax. The editor, enjoys going about and greeting the subscribers* but the renewal work is so slow that it is seriously retarding the addition of new subscribers and is putting an additional . burden upon the one man force of The Voice* 'It is expensive and pre vents entering new territory. V Absences Make ©ur’ Work Harder. He must have those dollars or quit eating. This Hummer weather, too, makes it very hard to see the people. Holidays, vacation trips, and forty other things result* in visits for renewals* without profit In one building -the other day three men whom we ""hoped to see were found to be out of town. That means harder work for The Voice man while manv others are taking their summer’s vacation. All I am asking is for subscribers.to send in their ‘ dollars for renewals without waiting for a visit. Tfijhen it takes two or three trips to find one of you ' at your place of business, the cJoHar you. do pay has already been more than earned., ^ The difficulty of securing remits is the only bar ' to The State’s Voice growing in .both number of sub scribers and in quality. I am going to send some of |ou notices by mail. ' iPiease do not let me lose the cost, thereof and still have to go'out and collect a Jiving; for these hot weeks. _ f - _ -j. • Twenty-Jive Dunn subscribers might heed the above ! and'save us useless calls* You might not be in if f Called, but somebody will take your money if you call at The Dispatch office. You know when it fc convenient for you to renew; I do hot. Repealists Raising Their Heads Just so soon as the political schemers and the friends of liquor get in 'position to talk and act with out danger oBrebuke from the hundreds-of thousands of enemies of the legalized liquor trade 4h North Carolina they become bold and begin to talk and to resolve. Any kind of excuse will set them off. 'The other day at Raleigh, it was the suggestion that northeastern North Carolina is being overflowed with Virginia liquor that formed the excuse for a resolu tion by the delegates from the First Congressionar district favoring the repeal of the Turlington 'Act. North Carolina blockaders were formerly used as" a bogeyman. But it seems now that- the blockaders have left the Albemarle section in the lurch. Boor fellows! Booze-fighters of that area are dependent upon liquor bought at the present largely prohibitive prices in Virginian ABC stores and brought down to the Albemarle section and sold, of course, at a fur ther profit! - .. If liquor is selling from two to five dollars a quart in the State-operated stores of Virginia it would seem quite certain to us that the flow southward through bootlegger channels will not long flood the Albemarle section. Many may try a* few quarts for “the big” of the thing, but the average Albemarlian is much bet ter off than prices of potatoes, beans, etc., would sug gest, if the payment of such prices on a large scale continues long. ^ i In the beginning 0f the new repeal regime, itWas supposed that North Carolina bootleggers would 1t>e a menace to Virginia with its liquor “controlled,” and ’ its bootleggers and Iblockaders put out of the running. (But, lo, it is now North Carolina, already presumed to be drowned in blockader liquor, which must pro tect itself against Virginia’s legal booze, sold at al most prohibitive prices and in limited quantities to" any one buyer, yet brought to North Carolina after such purchase and sold at sufficient profit to pay for the risk taken and the time and work given the traf fic. , , .'■ ^ The excuse sounds exceedingly thin. It suggests the ingenuity, however, that will be employed'by re pealists in the forthcoming legislature. The 300, 000 who registered their opposition to. the legalized sale of liquor in North "Carolina' will be scattered' from Manteo to Murphy while the friends of booze, congregate in Raleigh. .The latter will be as bold as you please next January to May. It becomes even thus early evident that an attempt wlll be made to repeal the Turlington Act. Such an attempt is" of a character .to make anti-repealists' wish they had made a united battle for only dry legislative candi dates. But they did not desire to relegate all other' Issues to the limbo nor to bring any disturbing bones of contention into the recent primaries. ’ But it' is easy to make the anti-repealists repent of their gen erosity. It was generally conceded that''the 'liquor issue in this State had been settled by the "“general election” held last November 7. “Wet” speakers and newspapers have conceded as much. It would’ bet ter be so. Better it were for members of the legisla ture next winter who disregard the exprssed Will of the people in that November election that they had never consented to become candidates. The people will not always be trifled with.' Lib-' erties were taken during the last session of the Gen eral Assembly on the assumption that the prevailing sentiment in the whiskey besogged atmosphere in legislative circles represented the sentiment of the people. One lesson should be enough. But is it?. -:• -■ ■ Pfec^>le You Should Know • (Continued from Page Three) B. from the . State University. „ It will be interesting to note the Sfctitfede and the ability of Mr. Alls brook when he-succeeds to the senate seat formerly held in succession' by the Long brothers. ■: JEL L. Travis. - v The name is familiar, isn’t it? It was only a few years since he was chairman of the Corporation Commission. But many things have passed under the . ''bridge since, and here are a million young folk who have become cognizant of-things since Mr. Travis was in the public eye as chairman of one of the State’s chief departments. He still has his home at old Halifax- Court week, I should think, would be a picnic for him, for Hali ' fax is just about the smallest eounty-seat town in the State, and: I believe Mr. Travis is the only sur viving lawyer 4n"*the town. The Halifax > bar is scat teredr about*at Enfield,--Scotland’ ^feck^ISFeldon, and Boanoke Kapids.- ■ But do you "oidef^feaders know that Mr. Travis is a native of Virginia? He came from that State when he war n-boy of fifteen to make his hotiie with his grandfather Clark ft Halifax. There he" attended the Halifax school and studied law under the former notable barrister, R. O. Burton. '• *’ Governor Kitchen’s administration gave him a friend at court and when a vacancy occurred on the ■ Corporation Commission, his Governor friend ap pointed him to it. Twice he was re-elected, but re sighed during his second full term, - Mr. Travis is a 'gentleman of the old school. He -married a Miss Grady. Their son, who was clerk of the Halifax court, and'was most highly esteemed in Halifax county,” died last fall in the prime’ of life. K '~\A Popular Clerk of Court. I have on former occasionsf~menfioned the fine quality or many or the JNorth Carolina cierks w. court. Clerk M. D. Owens of Wilson i's one of that kind. Bora’on a Wflsdtr county farm, the youngest of- eleven children,—he was not'reared * with the proverbial silver ’spoon in his mo'uth. There were hardly “silver spobns**; eiiough to* go around. Educa tional opportunities were at a premium? The baby Owens boy did get a' Chance, nevertheless, to attend Trinity Park school and to take a year in Atlantic Christian Colleger' ” ~~r“” : " “He spent several year's In the employment of the American Express Company; ne"ft "he was in the clothing store business till he took it into his head to Ibecpme Wilson’s clerk of court/ He went after the jo;b and got it four ye&rs ago. ’ For renomination this year he was opposed by one of Wilson’s popular young lawyers; but Mr. Owens ran off with the hominatidST by a four-to-one vote. An Older of tile Eleven. " Tn the Clerk’s office I am introduced to Alfred C. Owens, one of the older of the eleven. Alfred Owens was a farmer, had a'family when he moved to town and found employment as a salesman'll!' a store. Be coming a .justice of the peace, he decided to study law, despite the fact he'was over forty. "He did so and won his license in February 1933/ Hfe is a mem ber of the city’s board of aldermen/ I advise visitors to Wilson, if the? desire to meet a friendly man, to visit the clerk’s office. Henry E. Faison of. Clinton and ye editor were presented. with an identical grandson a week or so ' ago, the first for each, but the youngster bears the Faison tag—Ferdinand Johnson Faison, Jr.
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