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THE STATE’S VOICE -0. J. PETERSON, Editor and Publisher Published Twiee-a-Month at Dunn, N. C. FOR STATE WIDE CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: *1 a Tear; 3 Tears *2'25 Entered at the Postoffice at Dunn/ North Carolina, ■as Second-Class Matter. The Barringer And Front-Page Articles I was expecting to write an article upon the effects of the accumulation of great fortunes when Mr. Barringer’s article arrived. That ar ticle somewhat determined the form and extent of mine. But the latter is intended as an argu ment justifying President Roosevelt’s most re cent proposal — to redistribute wealth through the means of income, inheritance, and gift taxes. It only incidentally complements or antagonizes the contentions of Mr. Barringer’s article. I discovered at Pittsboro that Mr. Barringer is a thinker of considerable calibre and that his mind and mine run partly in the same channel. Yet it will be evident from the reading of the two articles that they part their ways much of the time. , I may say that the man or woman who reads those two articles will have read some philoso phies that have never been brought together in one paper before. If the front-page article hasntJ sense in it, it is simply because I have no sense. Please read it and, if you have more sense than I, write an article which will correct my reasoning. If you find no fallacies in it, a, word to that effect would be appreciated. The article is rather long. Yet it and Mr. Bar ringer’s together are not as long as tne /Garrett antimewdeal articles that appear in the Saturday Evening Post. And some of us read them. They are not as long as Mr. Hoover s ar ticles in the same journal were, and I know they have as much sense in them as either the Garrett or the Hoover .articles. I hoped to make my article fit the first page. When it had passed that limit, I decided to round out the argument if it took twd pages to do it. It is long, but I confess it seems pretty good. But a cook is not always the best judge of her own cooking. Bite into it. Keep Barriers to Progress Down No business nor profession should expect the world to stand still for its sake. Adaptation is the modern watchword. When progress cripples or kills a business or a profession, those concerned must adapt their enterprises or professions to Changed conditions. Practically every buggy fac tory in the country was killed by the arrival of the automobile. Should buggy and wagon manu facturers have been allowed to constrain progress to save their business? Certain power companies have developed cheap refrigerators for use on rural electric lines to enable 'the companies to get business enough to justify construction and operation of such lines. Merchants who have been making big profits on costly refrigerators are reported as objecting. Shall country people, or poor city people, be fore ed to do without refrigeration in order that mer chants may continue the established regime? Over in Asheville, lawyers are attempting to secure restraining orders upon the giving of legal advice by an automobile association, on the ground that such practices infringes upon their sphere of activity. Shall the people be forced to support an ever increasing swarm of lawyers at the cost of larger fees? If it come to pass that the power companies can more cheaply equip users of electric appli ances than the merchants can, let the merchants quit selling electric equipment. The country is concerned with the protection of no private enter prise at the cost of public good. If the lawyers cannot get enough business of a kind that requires peculiar or extensive knowledge of law, let them go into some other field of activity. The same principle extends all the way down to textile workers. If half the former number of textile workers can do the work now needed, let the other half quit. The country cannot be ex pected to support unneeded men in any trade, profession or business. Th£ coming era will see the unneeded in pri vate employments put to work for the common weal and paid from the common purse. It has already begun, but too many of them are engag ed in tasks that mean nothing for the common weal and at salaries that are too l^ge. Taking It Easy OriThi* Paire The -editor’s front-page, article and -.Mr. Paul Barringer’s article on the second page* together, with the narrow-colutnn articles on the dast pages* furnish enough, argumentative matter for any at our ‘readers to digest one of these July days,. Therefore, -we are going light on this page. It Is Now the Young Democrats. Turn to Smile For several-years, the editor of the Voice has been thrusting occasionally at the "Young Demo crats.” But now I note that I. J. Jr., has been chosen president of the Clinton club of Young Democrats. — Okey; maybe it means that he .is thus imbibing at the equivalent of the fountain youth, since Young Democrats seem not to grow old. There Can Be No Mistake Here There can be no mistake in putting idle men to work at tasks looking to the commonweal. If part of the people can produce what all need, there is no gainsaying the wisdom of putting the others to work at tasks that conserve national re sources or develop potential ones. The tnly error possible is in the choice of tasks and in paying the workers out of proportion to the earnings of men and women in private employment or busi ness. The two hundred men who are to he located at Lillington on a conservation program affords a sane example of sensible employment of the idle. The soil is any country’s chief source of live lihood—saving it is a matter of good sense. But the men should work, and and their work should be directed to a real purpose. The mistake was in ever allowing individuals to exploit wnai is ui vital consequence tcf every irldividual in the na tion—the soil. I heard, over in Louisiana, an old man boast of how many places he had cleared wearing out the soil of each in succession and moving on to virgin lands. Yet it takes time for a nation to grow up, and during its childhood and youth many foolish and destructive practices are permitted. Fortunately, the machine age and scientific agriculture have released a large body of men from productive service who may be employed in salvaging the land from the hitherto unhinder ed forces. There is no use in quibbling about the cost. All must eat and be clothed, and it is folly not to have all employed. The cost must come out of the creations of those fortunate enough to have mo nopolized the private means of winning a living. If the big fellows have been monopolizing too great a part of the benefits, they must simply be shaken down. So long as there is enough pro duced for all,'there can be no sense in all’s not having a share, and less in every sharer’s not do ing something to pay for his part. / A Delightful Treat Did you ever receive a crate of Scotland coun ty cantaloupes delivered, express prepaid, at your door? If so, you know' what a treat we owe to our good friend Dr. Peter John, of Laurinburg. The melons are nearly gone but the pleasure of being thus remembered will abide. Two of the Lads in the Public Prints Two of the writer’s school lads of more than forty years ago were played up in the public prints last week. Editor Herbert Peele of Eliza beth City was reported as chosen again by Gov ernor Ehringhaus to serve as secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Railroad, at a salary of $1,500. It is a sinecure, but if anybody deserves that sum for mighty little work, Herbert is the man. If he and Mrs. Peele could manage as suc cessfully as did Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Peele with a dozen children to feed, clothe, and educate, he could take a holiday from the Advance. The other lad is Percy Rasberry, whose career as a hotel man was published in Carl Goerch’s State, along with his picture. Percy has been night manager of the Sir Walter for nearly a score of years passing through several ownerships of ^hat popular Raleigh hostelry, and is pictured by Editor Goerch as a most competent md popular personage. It happens also that Mrs. Rasberry is one of the lasses of the little Burra w school of 40 to 43 years ago, formerly Miss Ereddie Groom. Percy had come down from his home in the northesatern part of the state to spend the winter with his uncle and aunt, Herbert Peek’s parents, and attend the Burgaw school. Well, it would;i?ay« been a long &ot to conceive.-then - each or either in his present sphere four decades . later. • > ' ' * «; A Big Advertisement For Southeast : z < Carolina •• " Some one said that what North Carolina needs is a.press agent. Well, S. H. Hobbs, Sr., through the medium of Doyden Sparks, in the Saturday ’Evening Post, has servM the purpose for this section—particularly for Sampson county. That article: should .oe worth much to the whole of southeastern North Carolina. Read it in the Post of July 13 and see what a hundred-acre farm in this section can do for an intelligent farmer. And Sam Hobbs is that and more—really an econo mist who led the way as a representative of the •Farmers’ Union in awakening Congress to the need of an available cheap money supply on long time for the farmers. Pointed Facts Bluntly Proclaimed It is seldom we alloys ourself to republish arti cles from the State papers, since many of our readers have already had access to them. We are doing this, though, now in case of utterances of John A. Livingstone ten days ago before the Ra leigh Kiwanis Club, in order to furnish them to such of our readers as do not see the News and Observer, in which the report of Mr. Living ston’s address appeared, and to emphacise their importance in case of such readers as have read the remarks. Here is the report as it appeared in the News and Observer: Responsibilities of such a Democracy as North Carolina has encouraged since its earliest history were outlined yesterday by John A. Livingstone, Raleigh attorney and newspaperman, in an ad dress delivered to the Raleigh Kiwanis Club on “Challenges of Today.” Motorists, he said, must be given a sense of re sponsibility and taught through fear or education to look out for others as well as themselves. “Otherwise,” remarked Mr. Liivingstone, “our 'system of highways will become engines of death.” “Automobiles must be geared down, and this can be done and will be done., whenever public opinion becomes roused to the'necessity of doing so.” Prohibition was attributed by the speaker to Democracy’s desire to take government out of the hands of the liquor interests, but, he added: “Pro hibition as it has been enforced in North Carolina is a reflection upon the honesty and integrity which has always characterized the State. Because of the fact that the leaders in our State failed to deal realistically with this problem, we are in s e r i o u s danger of having the pendulum swing as far to the right as it previously swung to the left, with the consequence that the State would be deluged with liquor. W ith all its evils, prohibition would be a hundred times better than such a catastrophe, but it is looming as certain as anything can be unless men like yourself, leaders in your community, take the situation in hand and deal with it realistically. “Here is a challenge for every man here, a challenge to make North Carolina a law-abiding State. Unless this is done, them our tradition of freedom and independence of liberty and equal ity, of democracy and fraternity, will become only a memory. “Unless the problem of law and order in a machine civilization,is solved, then this civiliza tion is doomed.” Through the sales tax, Mr. Livingstone said, people of North Carolina are becoming more tax conscious than ever. He saw that as meaning the growth of a lively interest in how the govern ment is functioning. Including more public discussions and more people voting. Coming to demagogues,, the speaker said sucn a person is essentially, a ‘‘man without any con" victions who undertakes to be a leader of the people. And he is a dangerous man.” “The challenge today,” declared Mr. Lh mg' stone, “is not to secure freedom and independ ence, but to maintain the freedcfm and independ ence we have won. The challenge to the busing and professional man is to throw .himself in 0 the fight to maintain freedom and independence with the same spirit as did our forefathers in their fight to secure it.” Isn’t It Worth A Dollar? This paper costs only $1.00 a year, about f°ur cents a copy. If you will read it through }oU should see that no intelligent North Carolinian should fail to subscribe for it.
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