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CLINTON’S COMMUNITY CENTER Built and Maintained Under tire Auspices of the Leon Daughtry Post of the American Legion Herewith is pictured the Ameri can Legion Community Center of Clinton. This model community building is located on an acre nnd a half of -land within three or four hundred- yarcfe of the Sampson County court house. By it flows the historic Cattail branch. Only a few hundred yards above the-com munity building was a camping place for the Indians' two or three centuries ago, as indicated by the number of arrowheads and other relics of the Red Mem found in the have been realized. . . . • The grounds are equipped as play grounds and are furnished with swings, slides, etc. The build ing houses the county circulating library and is equipped for meetings of all kinds. Building Deeded to Town of Clinton. The handsome building and play ground is deeded to the town of Clinton by the Legion Post to be used for all kinds of government and civic meetings. It is controlled THE CLINTON COMMUNH V BUILDING. curve of the little'stream. The- community building was er-ected and equipped at a cost of $14,236.70, of which $10,078.00 was contributed from the government funds and $4,158.70 by the Legion naires of the Leon Daughtry Post. The building was erected under the direction of Col. George L. Peterson, who gave nine months of his time without compensation to the task. It was dedicated on Nov. 11 last, Congressman Graham Barden de livering the principal address. Other and operated By a Board of Trus tees chosen by the Legion Post. The present board of trustees is com posed of Commander J. S. Royal, Adjutant G,eo. L. Peterson, Finance Officer, R. B. Wilson, J. C. Ken nedy, and D. V. Carter, all Le gionnaires. An all-time hostess and librarian has been employed. She is Miss Margaret Faison. The grounds and building are under the management of Mr. Perry Carr as- caretaker. In connection with the story of this fine enterprise read also the. View of Play Grounds of Community Building speeches were delivered by former . National Commander Henry L. • Stevens, of Warsaw, a^sd J-. Gen nor Kennedy -of CUaton. .. Mr. Stevens, who should know, in speaking of the building, stated, that it would do credit to Raleigh, Greensboro, • Charlotte, WinstenrSalean, or any -other city in the State. Mr. Kennedy'expuessed the ap preciation of the Leon Daughtry 'Poet ;and -others for the devoted service of Col. Peterson, speaking thus" -“But for the tireless and un selfish work of Cdl. -Peterson m the interest of this project the dream ;of this tfihe huildmg would never story of the Cwusaly Social Service 'Center located in the very heart -of the old town of Clinton. The erection of this ‘bailding was not the beginning of the Leoft Daughtry Posts social service work. It has propably taken the lead in that kind of work in the State. In fact, it received the cup last year for superiority in that kind of achievement. Before the U. S. government took over the relief work, this Post practically cared for the unfortunate of the county through its own contributions and those secured by it. Dr. Noble* long a professor at the State University, will celebrate his eightieth birthday to-day, the Ides of March. Marous Cicero No ble has been am institution in North Carolina and is still going strong, though retired as -an active teacher. Ploughing -started out briskly Monday but was checked^ Tues day’s heavy tains. ~ However, one observes a good-deal of land in 'Harnett and Samson ukoady- in fine condition, -preliminary to plant ing. The splritsof the people are evidently finer than in years. ■ It is gratifying, to see the amount of building and repair work in Dunn and throughout tins section. One tvonders how much of it is due to HOLC funds and how much is being- effected from funds in hand. - • v " ' —• : - ' s The new saies -tax leyjfc will fee fully twice as burdensome on the poorest folk as was the old. The most of the incomes -of that group goes for the very necessities »f = hfe. The poor fellow who buys a pound of stew beef wtll pay about 6 per cent, sales tax. That should not be. * The Measure of A Man*# Worth. It has been cited against pr. Mc : Donald, author, of the substitute for the sales tax, that he pays®” no taxes. The Charlotte Observer 'and the Robesonian have carried biting .editorials against any, such means of belittling Professor Mc Donald’s efforts. And the wrtfer would add a word to the effect that the state could much better spare some of its big tax-payers than the same number of men of the Mc Donald type. Says the Robesonian: A man’s worth to his comteaantty or state and the soundness of his views public questions are not to be meas ured by the size of the pile of ma terial things he may have accumulated. ,Some men. and women who are rich in, wisdom regarding public welfare are poor in this world’s goods, Some ef the greatest statesmen have bees poor men, have been too busy in useful work for the public to accumulate a fortune. It is a rather silly idea that because a man has been successful in accumulating a fortune he must have the sort of wisdom that would make him valuable in legislative halls. He may or may not have that sort of sense. And it is a curious thing that while we wrestle with the problem of rais ing funds for education some folks sneer at ideas of taxation and govern ment advanced by educated people, after exhaustive study, as necessarily impractical. » The Robesoniau had it in mind to submit some- remark*' along this line about a reeent incident in Raleigh when the Charlotte Observer beat us to it and said it better. Here is what > The Observer says under the above caption: * Discussions of taxation policies for the state, now being indulged in the legislature, could very properly stop short of such digs as were resorted to a few days ago when Representative McDonald, foe of the sales tax, \.as re minded by a. member of the finance committee that except for such a tax, the ^Representative would fork up nothing from his pockets for support of the state government. That is probably a fact, inasmuch as Mr. McDonald is a teacher by pro fession and it is not accepted as a truism that (much support of public treasuries emanates from the financial resources of those who teach either in the schools or colleges. Dr. McDonald, former member-of the REPRESENTATIVE WALTER D. KELLY1 Of Sampson County. Mr. Kelly, about the largest man in the General Assembly, evidently thought he should have a large picture. He is ms king -a good representative; has passed several local bills atm introduced a hill to restore Hie old-time whipping post to lessen the prison population and as a possible preven tive of crime. .."X *V-'/Ai-v'i / Hhe Gmafetr Offense. Ml the papers are discussing the drastic treatment of two Negro prisoners which resulted in the loss ' of their feet and a menace to their lives. Hardly anybody’s sense of justice -or of humanity is so low as t© need it prodded to recognize the cruelty and downright inhumanity ©f such treatment. We, therefore, prefer here to dis cuss another feature of the situa tion, which if the report is true is of far more vital concern to the public than the inhuman treatment accorded the two youths after their imprisonment. We quote here from the Monroe Jqarh&i,"since we did not see the Charlotte ; News story. Says the journal : “The Charlotte News says that one of these boys worked arotttta tae-j^ews ornce dciure ne yfia arrested and was not a bad boy. Tlie News cmtldn’t think ef bis be ing very' insubordinate to white mon. He was found in possession of a -camera which he said he had ho^rghf for forty cents. He couldn’t prove it, nor could, they'.-prove that he- stole •?>. But they sent tnm to the ' I; have emphasized the last sen tence ;of the quotation—“They sent fen to the chaingang—also “they couldn’t prove it,’’ : , It is not likely that such an inci dent as that of the Toss of the feet of the two youths would occur again in the course of events in ten -.(Continjid On Page Seven) faculty of Salem college, is an up standing, high-minded citizen whose value to society and to liis generation is not to be measured by the findings of business and Industrial and finan cial yard-sticks. His sendees are, nevertheless equal in importance with the sreviees of that othfr class of our citizens, whose vocation and pursuit put them in touch with the purely monetary and material values. And it has not come to pass in’ North Carolina that a man’s worthi ness as a leader is to be determined solely upon the basis" of his tax re ceipts. Those who are going out to get Dr. McDonald’s taxation plan from such ugly angles gain very little in the favor of the fair-minded people of this state.
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