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Introducing More Of The States Solons {Continued from page fife.) served in the senate from his dis trict in 1925. ~ , Mr. Bryson’s schooling consisted » of ft high school eOUfSe. He is another solid citizen largely brought up in the school of experience. It would be a real treat to drop iii on Jackson’s representative over on that mountain farm. Here is a farmer that knows the real mean ing of diversification. He grows not only the grain crops but raises cattle, sheep, and hogs oft a con siderable scale. Forty o? fifty acres of bllie grass pasture ia one of the aids to making stock raising a suc cess. ~ . . But an apple orchard consisting of 1,000 Winesap and Delicious trees brings in an income that would make most farmers happy. Asked as to the production of the average tree, he stated it at ten to fifteen bushels, amTthe selling price as about a dollar a bushel. That means from ten to fifteen thousand dollars a year for apples—an in come that would gratify many a big tobacco farmer even in a fine sea son. ; Mr. Fry son is 65 years old—just the writer’s age, and we-shall see if he lives up to the opportunities for gaining gumption in that consider able period. We’ll bet on him, any how. One of The Voice's Near Neighbors. It was our pleasure to know Mal com McQueen as a neighbor down here in Fayetteville. He relin quished the recordership of the county court of Cumberland when he became a candidate for the house of representatives. He had pre viously served as solicitor of the same court. And still he is a mere youth. Mr. McQueen is a native of the old Cross Creek town and as a scion of one of the original Scotch fam ilies certainly should be a true rep resentative of Cumberland's staunch citizenry. The young man received h s 11* "B* degree from Wake Forest Col lege in 1927, though he had pre viously attended Davidson College two years. It would be hard to find a more genial fellow in the whole legisla tive body than our friend Malcolm McQueen. The house ae well as the senate has its Horton. The representative is Hugh, a first-termer from Martin county. Representative Horton is a native of Hertford county. He got his LH B. degree from Wake Forest in 1922 and began imme diatefy the practice bf law. He re sides at WUliamston. Mr. Norton is a member of the committees on Roads, Education, Corporations, Judiciary II, and others. He beats the doughty and veteran Senator Horton in looks if not in law-mak ing experience. Representative J. Y. Bowers of 'Avery should be one of the best equipped men from the educational standpoint in the house. He is a SB. A. graduate of Berea College, Ky,, studied lawat Chicago Uni versity a year and a half and then studied law at Wake Forest. He began practicing at Hendersonville but returned to h» msthre county in 1931 and settled at Newland. It took him only three years to attain election to the legislature after his return to his native health. Mr. Bowers introduced imme diately after the opening of the ses sion a bill to reduce the price of automobile license to $5.00, and is introducing this week a bill raising the fees for die trucks which he deems the real wearers of the high ways. He was glad to have his attention called to the statement that Georgia’s gasoline tax in creased sufficiently under a $3.00 license cost to make up for the loss with the exception of ?t)y*uuu* which Governor Talmadge con siders much more than equalizeduy the increase in business and employ trrent through the cheapening of the license tag. Two Other RepttWic*n Msmbsrs^ Here is James H. Spmkle> Re publican representative from Math son county, with residence at Mar shall. He is a wholesale g«>cer This is his second term. He has €. H. CRABTREE Lee County Representative introduced no bills and is taking it comparatively, easy. He and his Republican colleagues are against higher percentage beer and the Hill bill. Mr. Sprinkle served during the session of 1931. Representative B. C. Brock comes from Davie. This is his third term, he having served in 1917 and 1953. He is a lawyer, having obtained his LL. B. degree at the University in 1917. For some years he prac ticed at. both Winston-Salem and Mocksvilte, but is now confining himself to the Moeksville office. He was minority leader in 1931 and chairman of joint house and senate minority group this year. Mr. Brock boasts of having more children than any other member of the general assembly, though ho has only seven at that. The mother of those seven chaps was Mies Laura Tabor, daughter of Rev. J. B. Ta bor of Statesville, who has beet], a member of the Western North Carolina M. E. Conference for 50 years. T _ C. Wade, a kinsman of the genial secretary of state, Stacy Wade, represents Carter county. He is a business man when at home— a dealer in real estate and engaged in the insurance business. Mr. Wade's residence is at Morehead City, lake other Moreheaders, he is much concerned over the More head port status' and wants to see the railroad situation straightened out so that worfe\nay begin on the port developments* but he doesn’t see anything the legislature can do about it. He it a member ol the 'Appropriations, Counties, Cities and Towns committees and others. Wake’s Senior Representative. Eh*. S. E. Douglas is serving his second term as representative for Wake. Ttwo years ago there was considerable friction in the Wake delegation, but this year the four Wake members, one senator and three representatives, seem to be working in great harmony. Dr. Douglas practiced dentistry for 23 years. He is now dealing in real estate, and has large farm interests, including an interest in three peach orchards. His most important bill this ses sion Is that to amend the constitu tion by raising the limit of income tax levies from six to* twelve per cent. But perhaps he considers his btH to tax the tobacco manufac turers $10,000,000, which was ii promptly killed* his major measure. Dr. Douglas thinks there is reason itl his proposition. On January . 1933, the tobacco companies raised their prices 60 cents on the thou sand for cigarettes* and a levy of ten million upon them would re coup only one-fourth of that in crease in price to consumers. Dr. Douglas also sought to secure free fishing and hunting license for alt people over 65 years old, but saw that bill killed, but is inclined to attempt to revive it. From Haywood county comes* as from Madison* a wholesale grocer. This is Mr. A. T. Hailey of Canton, the location of possibly the world s largest pulp Mill. He b * native of McDowelk hut >haa hssa fat eld Haywood for 30 years. He b *p patently a strong man. might expect of me representative of Haywood county, Mr. Bailey is against all wakening of the liquor laws, and took an active part tn killing the 5 per cent beer bill mis week. The Sage and Prophet Of the Sandhill* P&t&e*. On the writer’s return to North Carolina in 1917 af ter more than a decade’s sojourn in other states, he found Bion H. Butler anchored as sage and prophet of the Sand hills. I came to know and to ad mire greatly this native of Pennsyl vania who, after world-wide travels and a great variety of experiences, had chosen North Carolina for his home and was yielding his ver satile pen in the glorification of the state of his adoption and in behalf of every cause for the uplift of his fellows. My last sight of him Was at his own Sandhill home, where he had retired to take his last years in restful and peaceful contemplation. Personal harasements in recent years, largely growing out of the the tragic occurrences in the Deep (River coal field, and the distress ful state of the country, seemed to have partially deprived him of his life-time optimism and to have induced somewhat the spirit of the writer of Edesiastes when be de clared that ‘‘all is vanity and vexa tion of spirit'*. It was immediately following that interview that I read Mf. Butler’s “Old Bethesda”, and mar velled at the man’s knowledge and •ingenuity which enabled him to take the history of a little eountrv church and link its fortunes with eras of Old World history and American annals of religion, edu cation, enterprise, and war and diplomacy. Bion Butler has passed. He was buried Saturday afternoon in the churchyard which he has immorta lized in “Qld Bethesda”. That book and writings that would make many other volumes remain as his monument. Great of body, mind, and spirit, the State may well re joice at his casting his lot in her borders and lament his passing. No Cost Too Great For Banishment of Liquor. From Jailor Charles H. Ran dall. of Cumberland county, comes a statement to the effect that ft© has concluded, after nine year© service, that 75 per cent of crime' is caused by liquor. If that statement is true, or approximately true, it is evident that, from the view of money alone, that any cost of removing the curse can scarcely be too great. It has recently been estimated that crime levies an annual tax upon the country of $12,000,000,000. If al coholic liquor is accountable for even half of that cost or waste that moans that it is costing six billion dollars a year, or just about as much as the entire budget of the XJnited States government, indfad lg relief funds, payments on debts, arid appropriations for public works. But the monetary or wealth cost of crime due to liquor is only a small part of the real damage of the stuff. The misery and woe, the pain and the sorrow, the shame and disgrace, the pain and death, all fol lowing in the wake of liquor drink ing outweighs by far the monetary cost of- the crime due to the ac cursed stuff. Take, for instance, that most deplorable and heart-rending collapse ©f a formerly decent Dunn home and you will find several of the above consequences in imme diate juxtaposition. The tragedy is really too painful to recall in all its sorrowful phases. Liquor can be banished. Mo ef fort m proportion to the immensity o£ tHe curse has been made to end its work of destruction. Instead of selling more liquor under the state’s auspices to secure tax funds for re lief of the poverty created by liquor, the sensible thing to do is to apply sufficient of the funds that might be saved by its banishment to enforc ing the prohibition laws to the let ter. Thus the state would actually save money or wealth and at the same time prevent the Woes that follow in the wake of the traffic. It is not the source of the liquor that produces the crime and the at tending woe, but liquor itself. No compromise should be made with the demon. Let him be cast out at any cost. Sis going will be cheap at any price. Two Arguments Against Prohibition Side-Swiped. One of the staple arguments in favor of the Hill bill is that North Carolinians are enriching Virginia r by thear patronage of the Virginia liquor stores and at the same time, flooding this state with liqfcor which pays no revenue to North Carolina. Hut along comes' on© of the liquor commissioners of Virginia with fig ues to show that the. North Carolina purchasers from Virginia stores are negligible. It stands to reason that if North Carolinians are buying great quantities of liquor in Vir ginia they would buy it chiefly from the border towns, such as South Boston. But this liquor commis sioner shows that South Boston did not sell a9 much liquor during a definite period as did other towns of its size in the interior and not likely to. he visited by North Carolina buy ers. The date for other border towns showed the same feck of a flood of purchasers from North Carolina. In thia connection, note also that a correspondent from one of the eastern towns in this state writes that Virginia liquor bottles are be ing bought at ten cents each and filled with blockade booze and stamped with the Virginia label and counter teit revenue stamps, fore, every sale of liquor in a Vir ginia store bottle is not Virginia li quor nor paying tribute to Virginia. Some of them are only a part of the native supply of booze, but do not increase the amount of the traf fic but merely change the method of traffic for profit’s sake. Again, exponents of the Hill bill have been setting North Carolina w the lead in the matter of highway deaths due to drunken drivers. But the figures released by state authori ties for January show that of ninety deaths on the highways in January only nine of them were due to drunken drivers, and of the 506 in jured by automobiles in only 38 were injured in accidents in which drunken drivers were in volved. That is, only ten PercC** of highway deaths were due to drunken drivers and 7 1-2 percen of the injured. So it is very app«£ eat that blockade'liquor fe wot tne cause of the multitude of and injuries on the highway thmigb th« percentage named is i excusable: ! -■** * ;• V Vi '
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