Newspapers / The State’s Voice (Dunn, … / July 15, 1935, edition 1 / Page 7
Part of The State’s Voice (Dunn, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Is Anti-Prohibition Sentiruent Confined Chiefly to the East 7 ()ne straw may indicate the di rection of the wind. Several in the ea-t have indicated that the anti prohibition sentiment is rather ram pant in that section of the state. Vet this, in view of the confus ion. the constant agitation, the lack ,,t effective enforcement, the federal license of blockaders, and other conditions, is not so strangle—at least, an increase in that sentiment isn't. On the other hand, the dry vic tory in Rockingham county, the first county in the western half of the state to vote up the matter of establishing liquor stores, is only ,me straw, but is a very significant ,,ne. The great majority of voters in Xorth Carolina lie to the west ward of the median line between east and west. Over there, too, live a large Republican population. It is to be borne in mind, too, that all, or the majority, of the influ ences tending to effect a change of sentiment on the prohibition ques tion have been at work in Rocking ham as well as in the eastern coun ties It is even a border county and therefore subject to whatever in fluence adjacency to the Virginia liquor stores could have, as only three of the wet-voti ig eastern counties are. Yet the dry majority was given despite those influences and the further one that arises from the effect of a dozen wet victories in the east, for many people are dis pos'd to swing along into the sup posedly most popular channel. Fur thermore, the wets won in Carteret and Greene by much smaller ma jorities than in the other eastern counties, indicating that the anti prohibition sentiment has not en tirely swept the east. The Rockingham victory and the fact that most of the counties which voted for liquor stores gave major ities in 1933 for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and the probable expectation of a different kind of result if elections were held in almost any other of the eastern counties, should give pause to the politicians who have been so quick to launch their crafts upon the ‘liquor control” current. The result in Rockingham should lie or value to eiyae jauey, m ticular, in laying the planks of his platform. If the Rockingham straw is a definite index of the prevailing sentiment in the great population area of the piedmont and of the industrial towns (for Rockingham is one of the leading textile coun ties), and if such a vote resulted when the crazy laws of the closing days of the legislature seem to have destroyed the Turlington Act with respect to transportation from other states and to give promise, if those laws stand the test of constitution ality, of the demoralization of all efforts at enforcement of the pro hibition laws, it is evident that a campaign for real enforcement of the prohibition laws, together with the repeal of the county laws, would assure a considerable majority m the state as a whole. It will mean nothing at all for Clyde Hoey to favor a referendum on the liquor question and let it go at that. Prohibitionists foresee that t> referendum must he held and a new dry mandate be issued if the Turlington Act is not to be destroy ed root and branch, and few oppose a referendum. But if such a victory h to be won by the drys, it is essary that a program that means something be laid out and vigor ously championed from one end of die state to the other. Hoey can make a campaign, aid ed by hundreds of other prohibi bonists, which will arouse the peo pi° from one end of the state to the other. That campaign would ^ave to include a preachment of the ills of liquor from any or every so iree, and champion the passage of laws that would make a fairly effective enforcement possible. Such a measure as the ^age bill or the ewe 1 bill, defeated in the recent legislature, strengthened by laws that require all dealers to make re ports of large sales of sugar and other ingredients of liquor mash, and of materials suggestive of still construction to designated officials under penalty of law, would do the work. If Hoey should lay such a course, he may be sure of an enthusiastic following. On the other hand, if he falters in the support of an outright prohibition campaign, he has little chance, since prohibitionists and liquor control” supporters would both be lukewarm toward his can didacy. Clyde Hoey has his work laid out for him, and the Rocking ham straw indicates that he may go 11 it with fine promise of suc cess. His decision will denote the quality of the man. If he is willing to pa) any price to be governor, even to that of hedging on the pro hibition question, no price will get the honor for him. But if he is wip ing to pay any price to maintain tLe principles which he has so long professed under favorable omens, then there will be no price for the governorship-^it will likely be hand ed to him upon a silver platter. Do Illicit Liquor Dealers Want Prohibition Retained? It has been argued by many op posed to prohibition that the block> aders and bootleggers vote for pro hibition and oppose the return of legal liquor. Read the following paragraph from the Williamston Enterprise, published in Martin county, which recently voted over whelmingly in favor of county stores, and judge whether the facts uphold the contention that illicit li quor people are almost entirely in favor of prohibition and vote with the prohibitionists. In citing the vote on the liquor question at the various precincts in Martin county, the Enterprise says: “Goose Nest,” where officers say they have the most trouble with li quor and allied disturbances, as a rule, voted wet 9 to 1.” “Goose Nest” seems to be the “Harricane” of Martin. Yet it voted overwhelm ingly for legal liquor. If liquor is legalized, in a state wide way in North Carolina it will .-- ' -•- I I'WI* be done by they voters of makers, sellers, and drinkers' of the stiff.„ Candidates for governor would do well I opine, to wait till the su preme court has derided the ques tion of the constitutionality of the county liquor laws before making pronouncements as’to their -attitude toward the liquor business.. If those laws stand,' prohibition is dead, and all would well agree upon arrange ments for the furneral. On the other liand, if those county stores should be closed, there would be an oppor- • tuftity for a glorious fight between a real enforcement program and a state system of liquor stores. Voters,. might do well to wait and see what is what before'aligning themselves with this or that candidate. State’s Credit Fine And Budget Balanced. Governor Ehringhaus has good reason to feel gratified at the finan cial condition-of the state. The year’s bills have been paid and the governments credit is the best ever. The governor-states that North Carolina bonds are selling at a low er interest rate than United States bonds. FIRST - CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY HOME OFFICE—SMITHFIELD, N. C. R. P. HOLDING,----President J. E. THARRINGTON,____^_Cashier D. E. STEED,---_-Assistant Cashier F. K. BROAD HURST,_;— ____Comptroller W. L. WILLIAMS, W. J.CAROON,______ _Auditors DIRECTORS R. P. HOLDING,___Chairman T. R. HOOD,— ---Honorary Chairman W. M. Grantham, J. J. Broadhurst, W. F. Grimes, C. T. Hill, J. M. Wil son, R. R. Holt, W. M. Sanders, C. M. Wilson, J. Rufus Creech, V. A. Davidian, M. B. Hall, W. P. Little, Troy I. Herring Condensed Statement At the Close of Business June 29, 1935 RESOURCES Cash on hand and Due from Banks--$1,617,747.76 United States Government Bonds- 1,024,676.91 State Bonds -- 3,420,999.67 Municipal Bonds -- 1,898,596.76 Federal Land Bank Bonds and other marketable Securities 1,017,675.66 Accrued Interest Due on Bonds..----—- 81,622.51 Loans Secured by Marketable Collateral- 375,624.49 Loans and Discounts---'--- 1,772,775.42 Banking Houses, Furniture and Fixtures--- 159,864.39 Other Real Estate_ 33,274.13 Other Assets _ --:- 20,249.19 $11,423,106.89 LIABILITIES Capital Stock, Preferred-—$500,000.00 Common__ 267,650.00 767,650.00 Surplus --.-*- 100,00.0.00 Undivided Profits--—--- 112,671.12 Reserves - _- 367,539.85 Reserves — Unearned, Accrued Interest, etc- 63,784.66 DEPOSITS_10,011,461.26 $11,423,106.89
The State’s Voice (Dunn, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 15, 1935, edition 1
7
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75