plenty of * Stumps fo* Them All.
\ recent cartoon entitled, “The Forgotten
Jlan ’ represents Rodin’s “Thinker” sitting upon
something like; a stump and meditating upon
sUCh things as the “treasury raid,’" “unsound eco
nomics’’ etc- One consolation: While the
"thinker” may be the “forgotten man,” fortu
nately there is a P^ent^ of stumps to give each of
l,;s small tribe a seat. I tried one day last week
t0 show a man the difference between money and
wealth- Though he had been a county commis
sioner, I didn’t get in a mile of my objective.
Turning to another man who'was listening in, I
said: “You1 see it, don’t you?”~He-didn’t. And
scarcely one in a hundred mature men can see
the truth of the statement that this country has
less wealth than two years'ago. “O, there’s
more money by far,” they will say, and that is
that- ____ ; ’
A Suggestion to the Highway
Commission
•Recently three of us went down to Clinton in
the same car. On returning that evening all
agreed that the road seemed rougher t than in the
morning. I got to thinking. It occurred to me
that the line of heavy gasoline and oil trucks
from Wilmington to the interior of the state
travel on the return side of the road—the eastern
side. They return to Wilmington on the western
side of the road, but without their loads. I di
rected “George” to jump from side to side of the
road, which happened to be rather free of traffic
at the time. Whether it was due to imagination
or to actual conditions, the eastern side of the
road, the one upon which the loaded trucks
travel, seemed roughest.
This is a broken stone and tar road and passes
through a section much of which has a rather
unsatisfactory subsoil for building' a road upon.
Reason, as well' as seeming, supports the theory
that the eastern side of the highway would be
rougher than the western side. '
I suggest to Chairman Waynick that he test
the two sides of this highway. If the heavily
loaded trucks are actually doing no damage, it
will b,e worth while to discover the fact If they
are doing considerable damage, the fact can be
discovered and a measure of the damage esti
mated. I would- not vouch for the truth of my
impressions, but the impression gained; that day
is very definite. , 1 - ■ '
Discouraging Outlook for People
to Think Their Way Out.
The content of another paragraph suggests the
thought that there is little hope of the majority of
the people ever thinking their way to a solution
of governmental and economic problems. ,For sey
eral years I have harped upon a few economic
axioms, obvioud as a sore finger it would seem.
Yet I doubt if forty people have grasped the
ideas so long and so variously presented. I am
hoping to bring the number up to fifty within
a year or two.
Reform can come only through -a man who
knows what is needed and has the power to get.
a personal following great enough to effect his
desires. It will not be his presentation of the
truth that will win, but his ability to get the ear
of the people and to hypnotize them.
tniortunately, the tellqw witn tnai gm m+y
swing the people one way as well as the otlien
Huey Long could be' a blessing to the United
States if one could be assured that, he has
thought through his economics and arrived at a
solution of the problems of the ages. It will
take a man of his audacity and ability to create
a personal following, for the people will never
be led, I fear, to any conclusive action by their
own thinking or through the leadership of tame
thinkers. Reform can cbme only by an as
sumed dictatorship, as almost exemplified in the
case of Roosevelt, or through a mob-like move
ment generated by a real reformer gifted With
the personal pull of Limey Long-or .a; leather
Coughlin. Those two .geniuses can arouse the
People, but who is to rfsSure the rest of us that
they themselves know the truth? . . __
there is no-use in kicking Huey Long. -He
or some one else with his power to sway multi
tudes will ’lead this pfebple someWh^re pne, of
these days. Such a man can do it—but ^s dur
mg the past two' years, we shall be on ibe w®y
but without knowledge of the end 'thereof.. , ?
Congressman Lindsay . Warren ^ should ,haye,
a bouquet for leading in the slaughter pf the Wf.
to provide members of the ^lonal house an ad
ditional clerk each. r v ' ,/
Kill the sales thx outright untess 90Uie
for the poor" under the bropPsed bill can be_sg:
RICHARD CLINTON
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(By CLAUDE H. MOORE, Turkey, N.--C.)
The Clintons alo'ng with others5 came over
from Ireland with Colonel John Sampson-about
1736, and were among the first to settle in-the
wilderness on the head-waters of the northeast
branch of the Cape Fear Rivef. It has been
said that the Clintons of Sampson were closely
related to Governor Charles- Clinton^' and" Gen
eral James Clinton, of New -York. - -
“On November-29, 1768, Governor Try on
commissioned Richard Clinton one of the justices
for the County of Duplin; so at that early age
he had attained a position of influence and was
a man of consequence in his community; and by
successive appointments he held this position un
til the Revolution.” "
Richard Clinton was elected to represent
Duplin County in the Provisional Congress which
“How to Pay the National Debt.”
Every reader of The State’s Voice should
read the aritcle of Robt. L. Owen, former
senator from Oklahoma, in the Liberty Maga
zine for March 16. When hq has read that if
he will get hold of the issue of The State's
Voice of 1933 which carries an article by Mr. E.
W. Price on “The Reservoir of Credit,” he will
see that Mr, Price had anticipated Senator
Owen by* a year and a half. ~
Probably not a half-dozen subscribers' to The
State’s Voice understood what Mr. Price was
talking about. But the Owen article, treating
of the same subject from another angle, would
enlighten you as to the purport, of the Price
article.
There have been1 few articles of more impor
tance published within a year than that of the
former senator. It explains the'flood of cur
rency in the twenties and explains how prices
could be so much higher “when there was no
more money than during the depression.” By
inference, one can see more clearly that the
notion that our currency was redeemable in gofd
and a dollar of currency worth; a gold dollar
was sheerest fiction. ’During some years of the
inflation it is-doubtful if three dollars in cur
rency would have paid for the mining' of ’ one
dollar in gold. Yet before "the revaluation of
the dollar in terms of gold thousands of men
were reworking old gold mine properties. That
means that we had dollars m the twenties that
were cheaper than our present 59-cent dollars,
but even the average financier has never real
ized the> apparently obvious truth, >s- ; * - ^
Be sure to read the Qwen article in Liberty
Magazine, March 16, 1935. ,,
Let the Finance Committee Kill It.
That Was an almost unaccountable mdve of'
the senate—the‘reference of the Hill bill to the
Finance committee after the body had agreed a
week ago that the bill should be carried to a vote
on last Thursday. Carl Goerch, in his interest
ing radio report of the proceedings, had caught
the idea that the proponents of the Hill bill had
counted noses and foreseen defeat by two votes.
But that would not account for anti-Hill-Bilhes
allowing their opponents to make such reference.
Can it not be that the reference was one way of
giving the bill a chance to die without senators
who hesitated to vote contrary to the “mandate
of their constituents as given m me
tion being forced to have an aye vote registered.
If the bill is to die (and if it should pass the
senate by the skin of the teeth, its death in the
house is almost a certainty) why embarrass some
promised supporters of the bill * by forcing the
registration of their, narpes as. for it, ft) .their °w.n
chagrin and the provocation of thousands of their
constituents? ... .
Even if the bill- was not sent to the committee
purposely to be’chloroformed, we hope that on.
second thought the members of the committee
will ptit it gently to sleep anyway. ^ Will not
be fair to push off the bill in its' amended form
upon the people of thi sta^, who would see the^
State made a partner in 'the damnable wmsk«y
business without a means of protesting. Qn the
other hand, if the bifl as ffm; Writteirgoes-to ;
the people, it is a dead gokling. In die first eg*.
justkedemands that it '
omv 'df the State’s funds, of the people» tjtae, e
and aft avoidanee of the bitflr cll^hds’ £nd i&t .
ings -that must accompany a’ Campaign auch
the bill dontemplates deniiiftd ^ ^
Let it' die, Gentlemen of the FmaflOe Gom
mittee. EitherJdll it outright or_ fflmplyJet
YOU mu. ‘T- ■ jc* V'
have time td heecwie a <tfyh»U.
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sat at HflfeboVo h* August jintf Septetntej,‘1775,
and' was" elected ‘'lieutenant-coloiiel of Duplin
County1 by that body.' The ‘North' Carolina Co
lonial Records* shoyr that Clftton reprinted
Duplin County in the House of Cbrnmons contin
uously from 1777 to 1^84.' He represented
Sampson County in the Senate during the year*
from 1785 to 1795. ■ *<
The North Carolina Colonial Records give th*
following facts about Richard ‘ Clinton :v ’... ^
umn.12 shows that Clinton was a member of the
November session-oT the House of Commons Ant
met in New $ern, N&vember 15,*1777. Volume
22—The North Carolina Convention began at
Hillsboro on July 25, 1789. . The delegates from
Sampson were David Dodd, Lewis Holmes, Cur
tis Ivey, Richard Clinton, and Hardy Holmes.
Volume 13 shows that the '.General Assembly
met in Halifax on January 19, 1779 and that
Richard Clinton was a delegate. _ Volumne 22»
page—....... North Carolina Convention met ia.
Fayetteville 1789. ' The delgates from Sampson,
were Richard Clinton,' James Spiller, Jaittes
Thomas, Hardy Holmes, and William King/
“When Sampson County, was established,
Richard Clinton, owned the land that is now the
site of the Town of Clinton, and when it was
laid off, he donated five acres for a' public square
and a court house; and also a lot for a public;
school.” " .. ...
Richard Clinton married Penelope, a sister of
Colonel James Kenan, about 1763. They had
two sons and four daughters—namely:
1. William Clinton, the eldest son, married
Miss Sea well, a daughter of Judge Seawell, and
had two sons, William and James.
2. Mary Clinton married a Mr. Rowland, of .
Robeson County.
'3. Richard Clinton, Jr., married Ferebee Hicks
and moved to Georgia.'
4. Elizabeth Clintori married David Bunting,
who came from Pennsylvania and settled ' in
Sampson County! They left'eight children, one
of whom, became the wife of Colonel Thomas
K. Morrisey, who was the son-^f George Mdr
risey, ©f Cork. Ireland-, and Jane Keriari.
5. Rachel Clintori married Owen Holtnes,' a
brother of Governor Holmes, and had eight chil
dren. One of her sons, Owen, married Betsy
Ashe, oP Rocjty Point; and had the following
children: Owen, who died urirriarried‘; Battien
tvho married !Qr. John Mea.res arid moved to.
California; and Sam Ashe Holmes^ who iriartied
and moved to California.' Hone pf Colonel
Richard Clinton’s.descendamts bearing his name
noW live in North Carolina.
Richard Clinton died in 1796 and wai buried
near his plantation - home. _... , ..
. (EpiTQRIAE ADDENDA;-X ■ r ■
The above ,is the second of the studies oi his
toric men of the southeastern corner of the state
to come from the pen of Mr. Moore, a studentj
at.the University at Chapel JTill. We may ex=_
pect more. The data furnished above suggests
the following brief statements: .....
I am sure that the; deed recorded in the regis- .
ter’s Office at Clinton shows the acreage given by.
Clinton for county, seat -purposes was ten rather
than five. The area,covers just about the whole
business area of the town named for Richard
Clinton. —
The Clinton granddaughter who married a,
Robeson county Rowland was the mother or
grandmother of Colonel Rowland who repre
sented the old “shoestring" district, in Congress,;
for several terms. Two of her granddaughter? by
the name of Rowland still live in- Lumberton, and
the Norraents and others of that town trace their
descent to Mary Clinton.
Elizabeth Clinton Bunting is the ancestress of
the New Hanover Buntings. There are many of,
the descent of other ..names in Pender and Samp
son. ,
The Meares family of' Wilmington was origi
nally located' at Clinton. : : ,,v
Only the other, day I happened t© see a gen
ealogy, tracing back, to Colonel James Kenan, and-;
it is evident that- a host of Kenan descendants ©f ~
other names live in Sampson, DupKn, Pender,
and New Hanover,' though, there scarcely survives
one of the name, of Kenan in ,the state.. v ,.
According to .the word of Ambassador Dodd
given us, The State’s. Voice, through Mr. Unrnias
Murphy of Greensboro,,the Ambassador lq,Oe.r- .
many^s ‘descendant of the'DaVld Dodd mention
ed above. The tradition; though, does not carry I ■
through, the:.father. pf the-ambassador, as I--dis
covered by- a. chat with-him,- who • had. only one
indefinite tradition of his revolutionary ancestor, .
though ,etfie that, could point to David Dodd.'-^l :1
suggest. PavidiPodd as one of Mr. Moores
studies.. .J. ;•?:'*;» ,i*u ..J'-.,:- .
-By the the yoathftdliistopan is o£.the old*.>
Sampson-Moore stoclcwhich furnished Louisiana
with its war governor (1861-65).] -
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