McLEANS history of the scotch section r_lUannscnrii Vnlnmpe PnanowaJ . ^ _ Two Manuscript Volartres Prepared By Fonner Governor McLean At Considerable Expose By Arnold A. McKay, Route 2, Maxton. N.- C. "Much can be made of a Scotchman,” says Sanuiel Johnson, ‘if he be caught young.” The brilliant old conversationalist' and eighteenth century literary dictator was merely growling his personal approval of the psychological dictun* that you can take a child and make him what you want him to be. fortunately nobody caught Former Governor j\ncrus Wilton McLean and made him something besides a Highland Scotsman. Hid contribution to the history of the state wilt probably be of greater value in time than His- governorship—de spite the very' satisfactory and enduring services he rendered North Carolina from 1925 to11929. To any Scot who' happens to be in Raleigh- or Chapel Hill with a little idle time, a visit to the Historical Commission or University Library will be well worth the while. Ask for McLean’s his tory of the Scotch section. You wjll be- given two large volumes of about a thousand pages each, of typewritten material, bound substantially with numbered pages, table of contents, and gen eral book arrangement. You can not take the volumes home, of course, for there are only two copies in print; but find you an easy chair and look over the volumes casually-—that is, if you have any insatiable interest in state history or belong through no fault of your owrt to the most cantankerous and finger-in-every-pie face'that has added its full share of eternal passion,- eternal pain to this old world’s record. If you have any interest at all in such matters you will spend a very pleasant Hour or so. Governor McLean really spent hundreds of dollars collecting material for this history. 'As early as 1910 he had local historians and a crew of young college men and women tramping all over the counties of Bladen, Cumberland, Moore,. Scotland,.- Robeson, Hoke, Rockingham,, the bor dering South Carolina counties, and- other High* land Scotch sections. They talked with old folk, strolled through abandoned cemeteries;, visited battle sites, investigated church, school,- court house and newspaper records. Wherever there was even a cold trail" of local history these kindly sleuths ran it down and committed, their finding® to paper. Sometimes they found little of actual value, but in 1926 with the assistance . of an ex perienced historical assistant from Ohio the au thor had the data typewritten and bound, deposit-^ ing one copy at Raleigh and the other at ChapS Hill. Originally he planned to have all thtf' ma terial published in book form and sold. It is a pity that high printing costs made such a ven ture impossible; but even if the book Had been issued it is doubtful if sufficient number of copies would have been sold to pay a third of the cos . The book is historical and biographical. His tory begins with the settlement of Longstreet (socalled because it was a long, street of Eng - land settlers above Fayetteville when this whole section was covered with long leaf pine and- a succulent species of wild pea which the liked so well that if was in time exterminated) and ends with the opening of the World War. There are biographical sketches about earliest known pioneers and some of the" later pre-war tycoons. Briefly and at random; here are" some of the subject data: Why so many of the Highland Scots w^Hi Loyalists (thereby keeping estimable" female de scendants from becoming D: A-. it- 3 tnougn' is not in the book); Fayetteville and environs* (really should have remained Campbelt'on instead of being rechristened- for a gay" adventurer o "as any country’s patriot whifch could show hi a good time); the Scotch preacher who died 15 years after his mother’s' death; another diVine who, unfrocked by the clerics, gathered’ his hock and continued to ‘'preach the Gpspel despite. v'ils and Presbytery”; Johrt Gilchrist, a lavvver n«w/t' in. uic first? trial1 because^1® 1 unu rresoytery ; jonn « <> ° yer, peeved in his first trial1 because thought a colleague took unjjjur advantage o him, transferred his enthusiasm' to the building °f a women’s college, founding; Floral' College, a "on-sectarian institution,, among the- first this country; Flora MacDonald; more of ?' Helen than a Penelope; but withal a'mother with two children buried' ih Moore' county; * Mill, the T'ory stronghold;- and '‘Tory hand internment camp;. SpringdHtib Temperance & ciety with" interesting, records' of- .how memD^s backslid,, debated cuFnenb ■ qdestiohs;; op How Yankees' "that gang of «df*SisP tuntedi over and? kicked' out- everVthitf^, cs' mat gang or numaHs 6 * JLi j. «»i-'Kea out- ever£thitfg.,.the. dlihbfecttte body °f value; Jbhft'. E^iius yet born wfthin the state's bonders; now practically forgotten; tie ^rti!d;fen0wned' Painter, James Abbot- McNeill WniStler who added the McNeill part to his name m deference to his mother ; how zealots cut the throat of the new melodeon in Center church be cause they believed God should be praised nat urally; not artificially (Heavens, think of our “cash register” chpirs today !)',- the' Civil War and the men recruited from this section including the “Scotch' Boys” and tHcf “Scotch Greys,55 every mail a six-footer;, whose tragic war record reads uncannily like-that of “The First Hundred Thousand”; arid* there are scores: of Other article's quite as interesting and’ informative. All1 tlie book1 is not' appreciative , criticism. There is much: that is critical and controversial, much that came directly from the lips of another generation now gone and heiiCe not entirely ac curate. But’ the collecting and fheserviiig of local data is always a worthy public service: The state is indebted to Governor McLean. One cart spend some time most profitably by looking through these volumes; Please read the article at the top of Columns 2 and 3, page 4. “Impdssibifities,rlW Always Such Even Legislatures May Be Made t of intoxicants ratified by popular vote to 1908* • Don’t you think it time for us to submit to the-.: ’ electorate a constitutional amendment putting aV stop to things like that ? Here’s a form I sug* - gest, taken from Constitution of Nevada Art* XIX, Sec. 2; “When the majority of electors voting at a state election" shaft' by their votes signify ap* " proVal of a" law or resolutiOtt, sUch law or reSO^ .... lutioh shall' stand *as the lkw of the state. andS shall' not be overruled^ amended; set aside, or' suspended' or in any Way made inoperative dx-* cepl? by the direct vote* of the people. A$hetr. such majority shall so signify disapproval;! the?' ~ law or resoltftioft" st> disapproved shalT be void and of no effect-.” ■ With every good wish,. I am, SiflteTely yOurS, Raleigh, Nv C. W. F. MARSHAL!^ A M. SNIDER, Hofifaifen, N. C. When the present administration embarked upon its cotton policy, it was plain to me that the policy, if pursued, would lead to the destruction of the cotton industry of the- South. Let' us ex amine sbme of the Results' obtained so far. Senator J. W. Bailey had' an article in the Sat urday Evening Post some time ago. In this article' he showed that twelve and one-half cent? cotton was worth’ only about eight'cents in terms of the old money—mortey before the devaluation. rAt the time of his' writing there was an apparent advance' of nearly SB percent oyertWO yeSrs be fore. At this time" Soule of that ha's been' lost. The actual gain whs less-than half of the" appar ent g'ain. The farmer gained' on one point only. When* he went to pay an old debt', one* hundred of hia rfey?' 59c dollars would pay a' debt of a huiK dred dollars of the 100 per cent kind ; but when he #enf t‘b' buy he found that the' SBc^bflar did not buy anything. 'fhat fadt was dtie to several factors. Several of those.factor's were the results' of the operation of the NR A. Those factors' we'shaHieaVe oUtof this" article. The processing' takes should* bo in cluded in this discussion. These processing' takes; were added to the farmer’s product-' aS SOoh as it left his hands and1 became a" paff of the price thereafter. These ..processing takes' necessarily keep down the price to the faritler, for' the simple reason that an article can be sbld for only about so much in the lUarhet. It is a miStkkeri notion that all taxes ultimately come out of the con sumer. The consumer can Often* Buy somewhere else. And1 that is what' he is doing rtbW in more cases" than' formerly. American mills' have had to1 pay a pre mium' of more- than- three’ cent's a pound* for American cotton. This tax plus so matty other* added1 cost's' resulting from Roosevelt policies- has raised1 the cost; of American:' textiles to- a' point where they will not go in the world market. Out textile mills are perhaps the worst handicapped they have ever been in their history. I understand that' they are going oh three days a week soon: I’he Taparftee are especially strong competitors of American mills jtist noW. That is mot thfe worst of it, we sa't by and s£w Japan take'Man churii away froth Clilaa. tt**# grow Her own cotton. The Roos«welt adnumstja tioii-has added three'burdens to the cotton*nulls, higher priced4 cotton, the' processing ta*, aim gr&t^r labor costs and many other cost]* that have tome in through the pneral higte^lwdk mm Americans have' long kbrn-ed under me fafse liotiorf' thaf the South' alone could ffise cotSn to'any extent. When the f^th was'-thdy are perhaps ten acm of suitable side thb United SfeteT to every one'here WM* forkcountrier possessing" lands; fritahfef ioh learned- of the admimsfratiUi s PJ1^ the^heg^to ext^aif theif coftbii aefeage id <**' th^haYVeSt'-frommur our&^fc American md^borS, gmzij ig ty^ riv Jtit tmHwj&tfmm m cottdff,e^m« ^export textiles for more than the world market price. We cannot follow the present cot* ton policy and export either raw or maihufef&’ tuted cotton. In my opihibh 'Mil Roosevdt’at ■' politics are the wbrst possible for the Sbtrfh^ ^ * follow them one of two things must comd,— either we must quickly work otlt a hew' am# dff-*v ferent- economic system1 or he driven omthe1 rockST . of economic disaster.' If we work- out a new economic system, it must be alcfrig the tittfts4 of sdlf-slifhcielK§k W#„ must produce agricultural crops .to m^ our o^ needs'. S'ufcUf'a system-for the Souths would* re* . suit in greater economic confusion and distress! for. tlie West; lief us look at other aspects of the cotton _re^ , duction policy.- Two results’ stand out ously.- The reduction fiell with crtishin^effdEffil,.. upon the smalt farmers and Farihem' who we'rO' raisMg 50 to 1,00$ Mies of cotton could well affdrd' to take a cut.. fk facf, nof tfieV land hut the" tenairtf was cut. The tenants. wetif, the goats. The landlords- dismissed part, of thw tenants. i*he'y jdmed the army of uqt^ployeat and trathpedme' roads hunting,* softi& place? ^ - foiitid' wbrlt if perchance tfie^f they co’tihii got brekd and clbthes in. the diarit^ line'. . $faHy of the tenants who-WerejobC agb- of etflfr' cotSVeyances. . - • 'Pfie queatibrn i^ Ga“" iiM Imfil I Ofre of . . the past; ye&f is” Mt rifoftr ** ’ $ fceefr speftf fir atniotmoeeaettfe o# ' »ih2fi4a'of^ bfL&rm&pe&fii1 method, and.,cole atif^ Science Monitor. c- - 1 .'"^'..v^ t-u "1; *