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Suggested By Death Of J. W. Nash I note that J. W. Nash died a few days ago jn Goldsboro, the last of . the triumvirate of bro tjicrs who made the Nash printery in that city ^ most serviceable institution for perhaps forty rs_ Early equipped with a linotype and with the high-class service of the youngest brother as operator, the printery did a large business, in cluding the printing of the Sampson Democrat for almost a third of a century. Eailure to raise prices in the flush period of the ar t0 the level conditions demanded, wrought disadvantage to them and to the Sampson Demo crat as well. The low rate charged for the Demo crat printing led the publisher to maintain low advertising rates during the time when they inio'ht readily have been raised. Later when they did raise printing prices, it was a hard go for them and came at a time when the Democrat's advertising rates were already registered in the agencies, while hard times had swooped down ^pon the Clinton business men. Probably, the Sampson Democrat would be going now if it had not been for that mistake. The writer, then publisher of the Democrat, was charging only fifteen cents ap inch for legal advertising when the change occurred. With the rates that have since prevailed in county news paper shops, the paper would have raked in the cash during the next seven or eight years. As it was, with business at such low ebb and the av alanche of mortgage and tax sales not i .foreseen; the publisher and the owners of the Republican paper agreed to sell to a man wno was pieugcu to make an independent paper and thus give the people of Sampson one strong paper. The bamp soa Independent is the result. But a young Demo crat soon broke up the arrangement by starting another Democratic paper, broke himself ip short order and opened the way for the publication of a Republican paper. The consequence is Samp an has no strictly Democratic paper, but one independent and a Republican paper. • The Nash brothers, and the water, have done possibly as much work for, as httle cash returns as any four men in the state and the bg blunder was in being satisfied with the favorable returns at low prices when business was flush snd being unable to adapt themselves to the changed conditions when the slump of the early twenties ■ arrived* f-- - . •’ ■ '.tmt' Former publishers of the Sampson Dem?c5r’ including R. W.bHaywood of the. JJeweand Ob ser/er editorial force; paid as low as $15,00 for a completed job a week, and it was a good job, comparing more than .favorably w the average county paper printed in ttsi own, nib equipped shop. The contract pace was $25 when I bought the Democrat in 1917, and dunnS. war period only extra-size papers cost more than $33, including white stock and almost- p proof-reading, while the paper carried ashig as SI50 worth of advertising in some of its larg r issues at an average of 12 1-2 cents an inch With a $3,000 income, as compared with former 1 salaries as a teacher, I felt that I was doing well enough, never desiring to be hoggis . now apparent that the $3,000 income did not amount to any more living value than former $1,000 and $1,200 teacher salaries had. ^ . The Nash printery, I believe broke, but _ is this much to say for J. W. Nash an is brother—few men in North Carolina ever gave greater value for their receipts than e^‘ „es operator brother got the regular lino ype ^ and probably got more clear cash tban J. •» Tatter yedrs the sole owner of the plant Golds boro lias lost a citizen who paid his way. Chatham Friends Pass The Voice cannot carry extensive reports or deaths. Nevertheless, we cannot refrain paying a word of tribute occasiona y o ^ who have passed whose worth we new Mr , I have just read a notice of the ,taftofMj. A. V. Ferguson, at the age of 82, at ms . ham county home. There wasnt a rr^0^, ent citizen in Chatham county. He was a farmer, true in all his relations. ofthe Only a few days earlier came A 11^^ ^ death of Mrs. Annie Chapin, of T uave ever of the finest and sweetest characers Chapn( known. She was the widow of j'T’ ' nnapin hH dead, and .Ke mother of Dr. W- ^Chap and Mrs.* E. B; Hatch, wife °f clerk of court,*and sister of Mrs._ A. and Mrs. Mattie Thompson,-all ,oi V • ~_’• A little thought convinces me tha . j, -n of the old- and * sturdy»citizens who ^ jt Pittsboro whtnrrF went4b thatytown^«l' ■; * V a f ha^4>|en.le*iithfcmeteyeriTyeai'*; London, Captain Alston, Mr. Hamlet, Attorney Ray, Alex Riddle, William Eubanks, Mrs. Ed. Hinton and Mrs. Walter Siler, two most lovely ladies, Mrs. Hill, Mr. Frank May, Mr. James L. Griffin, Mrs. W. F. Beard, Mr. White', Mr. Womble, Mr. Robert Glenn, Mr. J. W. Hunt, long-time railroad conductor, Mr. Walker Hanks, the last of the name of a former prominent fam ily, and his sister, Mrs. Horne, Mrs. Jones, .and Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Bland, Mr. Cordon, and Mr. Duncan, and Henry Bynum, the last man of his immediate branch of the Bynum 'family and others not now in mind. In addi tion to the decimation of old Pittsboro by death, Mr. B. Nooe, long the biggest business man of the village, is spending his latter days with his daughter, Mrs. Aiken, at Fuquay Springs. Verily, few of the old-timers remain, and the old town will have to hustle to produce another group of the calibre^ of most of tnose mentioned above. Here we may say that Pittsboro has the largest number of widows to its population in the state. Of the above number only two, Mesdames Siler and Hinton, were, married women, while , nearly every man mentioned left a widow. Where Was Young Sam Ashe? We didn’t even see Young Democrat Sam Ashe’s name mentioned in connection with the Y. D. meeting. I believe Tom Council is a Re publican—-hence that youngster couldn’t be ex pected to participate. But Sam; should""'have been there. ; - . Congressmen Should Have A Voice in Appointments After all, it was the members of congress that took the responsibility of appropriating the four billion-dollar relief work funds* If their judgment had to. be relied Upon by the admnistration to se cure the funds, it is hardly'too much, that they be permitted to have a word about the men who are to direct the spending of the funds for which they in the long-run will be held largely respon sible. . A state administrator has been appointed, a Mr. Goan—evidently no politician, and as unknown to the people of the- state as is the Mr. Fulk chosen by Dr. Noble to. head the highway safety patrol. As suggested izi the McRae article • in these col umns formerr publicity ' is a' p^or! driteyidn worth. Publicity often depends .more Upon* mere accident and th<e art of' the publicized than upon extraordinary merit.. therefore, the unfamUiarity. of the names of Messrs. Coan and Ifulk is,.by no means, any criterion 'of their ability to fill the po sitions to which they have been appointed with credit, to themselves and to the advantage of. the But somebody must know*. the unpublicized man if he is to receive fair consideration and. if the public is to have the benefit, of the service of such capables who have never been publicity houiffds. In the case of Mr. Coan, it seems that the endorsement of Clay Williams of the Reynolds tobacco company played a part in^his appointment. Well, Clay Williams’ judgment of business capa city is okey, I should judge. But even Mr. Williams doss not know all the capable business men in the state, and it is as sumable that -io one knows those of his own district better than each congressman. According ly, when it comes to the appointment of the dis trict superintendents for the relief-work expen ditures, it seems only reasonable that the North Carolina congressmen ar? to be held fully within their rights when they claim the privilege of naming the men of their districts to be considered for appointment as district managers. They voted the money and will he held responsible for that act; let them have a word about the folk.who are to see that the people get their money’s worth. Judge Devin Augments the Confusion Since the narrow-column editorial the county liquor law situation was written, Judge Devin has added a bit to the confusion by holing constitu tional the law permitting Vance, Halifax and Warren to'hold elections. We still hold that any ^constitution-which will permit..the voters ot^ny or all of seventeen counties, to., milflty .a state wide law against importation of, hqum frpm-.wet states while it:is still against jhe, law tpvc3rryTit from Wilson, say; to Watpeis ill^l,4S. top crazy a constitution to deserve niucl}. wpccj-,:: hapi.'the supreme court will, redeem tfe p}d .4gcu «rrKnarv horsersense.- Pos ‘ siblv those who, . oj- - Sotttif «®8SSrW;.^WW* No Special Session, Please The sentiment of the “Young Democrats” in session at Raleigh as the Voice material is being finished, seems to favor a special session of the. legislature to pass a liquor control bill. The last thing the state needs, it seems to us, is another meeting of the legislature that got things in such a mess. Let’s grin.'and bear the consequences of the body’s asininity~rather than risk further pos sible confusion at considerable cost. The Question of “Courage.” “Sandy” Graham is a man of courage of his conviction all right, but let’s not magnify his coming out for liquor control on a local option basis as a signal act of courage. The only' other possible stand is for a real" enforcement, for no body wants the mess we haVe had these past two or three years, and it will take more courage for Clyde Hoiey to proclaim a championship oi real enforcement of the Turlington Act than for Mr. Graham to make-his stand for a state controlled sale of liquor. The yab-yab-yab about liquor and the messy acts .of the legislature, together with the beer and wine bills, and government licensing of blockaders^ and swarms of men* women, boys and girlsi drinking as they are alleged to do, toV/ come out for a real drying-up of the state is a bold man’s job. As said, there are. two feasible attitudes on the liquor question, and Sandy Graham has taken the one that will receive most public acclaim. ^It takes no courage, to take such a stand, particularly at a Young Democrats’meeting. ■ Let Land Be Bought At Real Value Senator Bailey, fooled us. It appeared-..once ’that he would vote against the Bankhead hill, es tablishing a hillidn-dollar fund to loan tenants and farm hand? for. the purchase of farm lands • He. voted for it. .If .the fund shall be established, it' is to be hoped that somebody will see that • the prices paid for land hear some reasonable, rela tion to what the net income from the land would be if all work on it should be paid for at even the approved .minimum, wage rate, for industrial employees. Anyway,.it is gratifying to. find. Sena tor Bailey voting .for the bill. ;. c • - -1' Dry weather’ has-made the ‘HaTiibtt blackber ries little and’ weasl.ey -The crop is Hardly doing its part to unburden the relief roll®. - ^ ■ - - ;.»■ -= :• -■---’* Governor A;rW. McLean is one deceased gov ernor who wiH-be remembered for his deeds ra ther than because of his gab. —:. • ■■ :— ---• . Saturday morning’s papers report another out break of Clay Williams’ against the AAA plans, lit is to be hoped that congress will not permit Mr. Williams to introduce hi? Grecian horse into the AAA program. A man representing one’ of the great companies that deliberately pauperized _ the tobacco growers is a poor adviser for con gress at this or any stage of the New Deal legis lation. THE MAN ECCLES AND HIS VIEWS ON MONEY (Continued from Page Three) a very practical realization that what hurts the debtor is not going to be very good for the credit Mr. Creel has asked you to compare the outline of required reforms given the Senate Finance Committee with the series of New Deal Laws, The comparison suggests that Mr. Eccles’1 views have either largely directed the course of events or that his views were those also of Mr. Roose velt or other of his advisors. Aind her€ the editor of the Voice would ask those-of his headers} who have followed his discussions of economic ques tions the past seven or eight years to compare his contentions, even those preceding the Sfcofck market debacle of 1929, with the Eccles program and therein find a sufficient reason for that de gree of'enthusiasm which causes Him to give this large space to Eccles the man and his views.'*ln short, Eccles had. the opportunity to preach the • doctrine effectively lyhlfch the writer has preach ed sb persistently 'but $(> ineffectively because 6f the limitations- of his^dience and the unwilling ness of even his motie -thoughtful readers in tne p*>riq4 jFrpm. 192& tq,the present to b*step. «Lfir?t, .to what ak«t.of f-Suolh’-there •nr?? iw^jftorth#vf4rt''th4t 'mtrr* forr* fjil .nrorljumeFS doersj»vK< \thi*• «*** * r-jif. hF'tIim •. in .himitljfr nprtecjs 4fa* "/ff* " vlac^Hfeik 5vh<|re they Kaye1 ah \t>ppot-; tunfty'to invite adequate response.
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