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o J. PETERSON, Editor'arid* Publisher t Published Twice a Month at Dunn. N. C. ■ :. POR STATE-WIDE CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION PRICE; $1 a Year; 3 Years- l&za Entered at the post office at Dunn, N. C., aa Second-Class Mattel - . . D. C. Brummitt. Attorney-General Brummitt’s death occurred after*the forms were made, up for .the preceding issue of -The State's - Voice. We are therefore tardy, in' this brief expression of regret and-tn butfe. Yet in case 'of so- rare a specimen- of the scholar,' gentleman, profound lawyer, and ca pable and conscientious official, I cannot afford to fail to express a word of appreciation and admira 11 Dennis G. Brummitt was a man in a thousand —yes, ten thousand. - Brainy, brilliant, brave, he wasnevertheless folksy and loved people for their own worth. As attorney-general,' he' is generally conceded to have been one of the greatest the State'has. ever had. His going m the prime of life Was a sore grief-to hie friends and an almost irreparable less to the State—not to speak of the. loss > to his companion and other near aUd dear ^^resteemed him for his personal and his official worth and was glad to account him one of my staunchest friends. Brummitt’s Successor. If* I had been called upon to.pick a successor to tennis G. Brummitt as attorney-general, it would have taken only a minute to decide in favor of the gentleman whom Governor. Ehringhaus-in. his usual happy way chose for the position. In A. A. E. Seawell the Governor has chosen a man..to fill Brummitt’s shoes • m wear them with comfort; Mr. Seawell v an Of strong native intellect. He has be; ;, a - > cnt for more than half-a-century. He know, the law as few. know it. He is no blusterer, but a: .aches his .task with suavity and geniality, let he can unsheathe at his will or when the c,. ■•e-ion re quires a swift and effective poniard , We are-glad to. see Mr. Seawel] ^ . .a ted to this important position for which his : scholarship and .maturity of judgment'so well !U him. . Goodbye World T«: de. Oh another page we are publish.' • i article from the Pathfinder which will ser'-.> n o the reader an idea how little hope ther.- • ^Amer ica’s getting back its former world tv . _ For many years we took advaA of our abundant natural resources and the. dvv. 1opment of capital which those resources per-ted to sell jout goods abroad at two or three prices as measured by the actual time, brawn, skill, and capital used in their production as, compared with the same used in the production of the goods we bought abroad. . . ...... Science revolutionized Agriculture, machines, and ,power .sources, and produced , many substi tutes for materials of which Ahxerica largely had a monopoly. And all that time we were, doing our level best to develop sources of supply of the goods, bought abroad or to find substitutes for them. We .were not satisfied, with letting the sugar countries produce the sugar we .needed, the rubber countries the rubber we needed, etc , but foolishly dreamed that we could continue _*■- •'“ll ' on a large, scale to other countries and buy as little, as possible. . There are no longer, industrial secrets to bar - the progress of any country. Accordingly, in - stead of working three days to pay for the pro ceeds . of one day of an American’s work, the. other nations cohcluded that they themselves - would better make what they had been buying from America at so high a cost in terms of la-. - bor. ■. They are doing it. We cannot blame them. Nor can we convince the world that we are a . chosen people predestined to have the privilege • of exchanging goods produced on a boasted high living scale and a higher profit scale for a three fold amount of goods as measured by the actual, time, energy, and skill required to produce them.. Not only has America played that game with ; other nations, but the upper half of. the nation, has played it against the southern portion, and the cities, against .'the country a^eas. But a leveling prQcess is abroad in the world. Nations must exchange goods on a par basis, groups must do likewise or both suffer. No longer does it seem ethical for one man to exchange the product of a. day’s work for a week’s of another, whether the latter live in a near-by country district or in a-Japanese city. The leveling .process must necessarily proceed. No two men, no two com-. i* ■ BREAKING th e 1‘HARDPAN”. : The States Voice frankly claims, if not bra zenly, to present in its columps siohs of man-si^ Objects for ma^sx^e. mmds We want; not simply ?ubscriWs^rfeaders who will actually discover that the, is pre senting neW and original thoughts upon ilia prob lems of the age, and of all ages. . The Voice is helping to break the hardpan of age-long misconceptions. Every other philosophy and science has been revolutionized in the modern era. Economics clings to the practices begunin the forests. For many years, the, editor of TAe Voice has held that the fundamental bases; of toe economic system are unsound. No chinking the cracks, bolstering the sides, or patching, the roof of the economic structure can suffice. The founda tion must be replaced. As an exajuple of the fundamental misconcep tions prevailing, is that which The Voice empha sized in its issue of January 1, and which the edi tor for years has sought to get recognized Dy nia fellows—namely, that the nations and their peo ple as groups and individuals are “saving? what doesn’t exist, while absolutely declining to “lay up” actual wealth. Surpluses, which is the only form which real savings can assume, are deemed a curse. Factories close down, fields lie barren, even growing crops and brood sows and pigs have been ruthlessly destroyed in order to get rid of real savings/, while men and women, communities and corporations, and even nations strive to lay up “wealth” in the form of securities and cash— “savings” that represent no existing wealth at all, but which, in their gathering,> have utterly dis rupt the .course of production and consumption and impoverished millions, and which hang as a millstone about the neck of the future. Hundreds of billions of this fake wealth have ' been “saved”; men lie, cheat, steal, and commit almost every crime under the' sun in order to lay up that which has no counterpart under the sun in actual wealth. ___ munities, no two nations c^i maintain produc tion at high tide, and therefore consumption, if they do not trade products upon an equitable time-hrawn-skill Basis. An attempt to do so saw industry conx^.to. a halt. ■W e would as well recognize - the fact that we must henceforth count our hours and our. energy pounds on a par with those of other national ties. Science and invention and. our waste of the boundless; virgin resources have put, or will put, all peoples upon an industrial level. But we have no reason to cry because we can no longer levy on the goods produced by the “cheap labor’’ of other nations. Foreign trade may in time return but it will return upon a real cost basis— a cost that is measured by energy, skill ,and capi . tal hours devoted to the production of the ex changeable. units. For my part, I want only r what js ,a fair equivalent for my efforts, and not a price that is based upon any such insupportable basis as “the higher cost of living/’ or a “higher living scale.” The other fellow cannot raise his scale of living so long as any such principle of, exchange holds. For instance, no man can do the work necessary to produce and harvest a dozen bales of cotton in a year. Yet for many years he.’was foreed to exchange his cotton pro duced on an, income basis of fifty cents a day for goods produced or services rendered on a basis of $3 to $10 a day. The process went so far. and stopped. The same thing happened in the case of nations. ...... When, products produced with equal skill, time, and energy are exchanged at par in this country and between this and other countries, then com merce’ will boom and no nation and no com munity or individual will sap the life-blood of its or his neighbor. And any new deal that does not take account ot and eliminate sued injustices of man to man will find that it may: have set the wheels a-going but cannot keep them going; It was said that this nation could not live half free. and half slave. Nor can it prosper with one half , exchanging a day’s labor for an hour’s labor of another. Yet men work eight hours a day get $3 to $10; others working ten or twelve are glad to net a dollar or two a day-—and 75 cents right now would probably,measure the average day’s wage of the Southern farm hand, and two years ago that of the owner and cultivator uf a fair acreage of soil. . .. Ground hog day is, at hand. . Whatever his prognostication it is to be hoped that the weather, of this February will not be modeled after that of last February., , . Always remember that it takes just as much effort to enforce the “regulation” of liquor sales as it does the prohibition of them. , - - '-r* Tt issifch fundamental matters as the above th&t j'he Statens Voice is pioneering in. Editor ially it knows no clique nor clan, is influenced by no vogue or conventional pattern of thought The editor does .bis own thinking. For him the “hardpan” created by.agesof erroneous thought and practice does not exist. He is simply thrust ing the subsoiler beneath it. While the editor insists upon-doing his own thinking, be insists that you do yours in your own , way and along such lines.as appeal to you, and the pages .of the paper are open for any and eyery well considered discussion of any important problem, regardless of whether it conforms to the . • editor’s views or not. Thinking is what this coun try needs, and if you have a real thought The Voice would welcome it to its columns. Many of the representative citizens of fifty counties are subscribers to The Voice. From the brainiest men of the State come such expressions as “it is the strongest publication we have”; “it leads in the use of gray matter”; “one number is worth the subscription price.” On the other hand, some subscribers have never ta&en the time to discover its real character. From two recent letters we quote the following sentences: , . “I have this to say in plain language in behalf of your publication: If it fails it will be for lack of sound thinkers. It is calcu lated to give all others mental dyspepsia.” One of the most distinguished men in the State, in sending in renewals for himself and sister, writes: “I congratulate you on the fine paper you are getting out. It gives me pleasure to read it. It is high-class and instructive.” . Mr. Reader, you are here invited to subscribe for The State's Voice, an<J urged to really read it, and if you have something of concern to the people of the State to say, remember that these columns are open to you* High-Percentage Beers Would Nullify The Turlington Act. •Hie only excuse the General Assembly of 1933 had for legalizing 3.2 beer was the contention that it is non-intoxicating. The Burlington Act forbids the! sale of all intoxicants. Yet there is : serious talk of legalizing a higher alcoholic per centage in beers. ^ It is still questionable whether “three-point two” is not intoxicating. There is no question about high percentage beers. Accordingly, to le galize the sale of beers of five to ten percent alco holic content would be to nullify the Turlington Act, and before that is done the people should have their say—if what they have already said is not sufficiently plain. The Legislative committees on finance and ap propriations are making fine headway. Yet there is a probability of floor fights on the sals tax proposition, liquor, etc., that will prolong the legislative session many weeks. We hope to present the pictures and brief items of interest of most of the legislators dur ing the present session. We were disappointed in failing to get several cuts we desired for this issue. - Dunn has lost its sprightly Daily Bulletin. It has been discontinued. But on its demise appears the Merchants and Farmers News, with Mr. 0. Green as editor. It will be well for legislators to recall how their immediate predecessors fooled themselves about prohibition sentiment. There are bigger -fools jn Louisiana than Huey Long, and notable among them are those men and women who are talking of armed revolt against the Long despotism. Any legalized liquor scheme . inevitably leads to the formation of debased political cliques. Among , the passings of the last two weeks we note and regret that of our old friend, Dr. B. T. McMillian of Red Springs, j Two years from now North Carolina can gauge the effectiveness of liquor control in other states and if it finds that any state has found a panacea for the evils of liquor, it can be adopte with, full assurance that, the people will approve What we want is the destruction of the menace - of liquor, but the people of North Carolina are not ready to jump from the ffjfing pan the fire of legalized liquor in any shape or form.
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