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A JfelNstofatpd Man And Lawyer. For many years there have been few lawyers in North Carolina of greater recognized ability than Jas. H. Pou, of Raleigh. -Yet the man had no college education. He edu cated himself, his only other teacher being his-father. The trouble with professional nien of all professions is that too many of them live on the hand-to mouth mode with respect to the knowledge of their respective pro fessions. In brief, too,few of them are students. They wait till a princi ple of law or the letter of the law, for instance, is needed in a case and then set to work. But undigest ed and uncorrelated knowledge is of little use. It may be said that all knowledge is useful to all men, whatever their profession or occu pation. Knowledge that may never be used directly may serve a won derful purpose in orienting its pos sessor and enabling, him to use wise ly the knowledge directly requir ed. Janies H. Pou studied not only the law but dug. deeply for the hid den waters in other streams .of knowledge. He found much. Yet it is possible that his achievements would have been greater if he had had an early basis laid for later ac quisitions. He is being buried today, but he will long be remembered for his achievements before the jury. The last few weeks have been fatal to a number of the state’s strong men. The old war horses are falling by the wayside. Few are left who had attained any marked de gree of prominence ; for their achievements thirty years ago, while those who were men of mark forty years ago are becoming rare in deed. From north, south and west have come reports for the last two months of scorching weather, while here at Dunn the mercury has gone to the middle nineties only a few times and the heat on those occas ions has been tempered by breezes. The first days of this week have been like late September or early Oc rober. People Without Self-Restraint Are Not Men But Brutes. That was a horrible affair up in Franklin county. It was bad enough for a negro to go crazy-wild and dash and kill. But any fool could adjudge him crazy. But here come along a group of white men who go as crazy as the negro and, pre sumably, without any brain disease. They take the crazy negro and treat him as brutally as he had treated his victims, and do it under the guise of righteous indignation. It is hard to believe that the human race will ever become really civiliz ed. The negro was in the hands of officers and if he deserved punish ment would have received it at the hands of the law. But a bunch of savages override the law and mark themselves with blood, and simply because they have too little sense to judge of causes and effects and no more self-control than the crazy ne gro had. They are on a par, and 'f the negro deserved the death they wreaked upon him, each of them deserves a similar death. Men without self-restraint are not men but mere bruites. Dr. McDonald Says With Vigor “I Told You So.” If you recall the latter days of the legislative session, you possibly remember how Dr. R. W. McDon ^(1, representative from Forsyth county, was almost ostracised was even faced with a volunteer to throw him out th,e window of -the. house of representatives if the body would give Hr.. Cherry the job. i he doctor, whose degree is that of a teacher and. not of a physician, had seen what he deemed important leg islation prevented by pleas that funds would be lacking. He had stated that there would be nearly a million dollars surplus at the end of that Uennuim which ended July • ™^e budgeteers had said that the surplus would not reach more than the $200,000 mark. The For Sj th representative arose and em phatically stated that the budge teers ,and all others who thus fig ured were something or other of the uncomplimentary ofder. Then rose the commotion and the/proffer of Representative Cherry to pitch the Winston-Salem man out the window. But Doctor McDonald is telling them again. Any way it is counted, the surplus runs near to three quarters of a million dollars and is so admitted by those who declar ed in May that itWvould not reach above the $200,000 mark. On the nou-accrual basis Doctor McDon ald declares that the surplus would be away up toward two millions. It is evident that the matter of the size of the budget largely in fluenced the course of legislation the latter weeks of the legislature. More than a half-million dollars would have provided the additional funds needed to give the teachers a full 20 percent, increase of sal aries and to do several other things. It would possibly have caused a different levy of taxes in one or more cases, and maybe the omission of some levies. Put it should not ba overlooked that the half million larger surplus meant a whole lot more than that half-million. The very same tax sources that yielded the increased sum the last biennium may be ex pected to yield even more than a half-million additional in this mil lenium. Thus, at the very least fig ures, the legislature might have either reduced levies a full million dollars or increased appropriations to that extent if Doctor McDonald’s figures had been accepted. There fore, it is evident he has reason to crow and to re-emphasize his for mer words, which are to the effect that the budgeteers are inefficient or used the figures they did with a view to direct the course of legisla tion. There was Doctor McDonald s charge, here is the surplus. There are the levies as they might have been if the surplus had been con ceived in its full size; here are. the laws and levies and appropriations ns shaped under the figures pre sented the legislative body by the budgeteers, backed by the commis sioner of revenue. Clearly the whole state of Koitn Carolina was concerned in the cor rectness of the figures furnished to guide her law-makers. Correct fig ures were lacking and we have a different outcome from the legisla tive machine than we might and should reasonably have expected if correct figures had been furnished. Dr McDonald evidently has no n ing to apologize for now and no one can blame him, if he saw the situa tion as it has developed,, for using hot language in that hnarl c as^. How would you have felt f y had seen the whole states aifair toS into a direction iyhouW not go through figures that were missing the mark Iron, one rmlhon to three million dollars ?-He can well say now “I told you so. A pasture demonstration °n « Stressing with 100 potm* of m trate of soda to the acre. Other Breaks in. ,the Prohii»tio» Laws, If the framers of the hastily en acted liquor laws had had all the . year to study up bills that would do as much harm as possible to the prohibition program without clearly repealing the Turlington law out right, they could hardly have suc ceeded better to that end than they did. Almost each week brings, to light a’ new abomination. Two courts in the liquor-store counties have re cently discovered that there is no effective prohibition of transporta tion and possession of blockade liquor for sale. Before conviction it must be proved that the liquor is for sale—a hard job in many cases. The Turlington law places the burden of proof upon the pos sessor—he has to prove that liquor in his possession is not for sale—a pretty hard job too. The Turling ton law, too, makes no discrimina tion in the matter of transportation, I believe. It is illegal to transport liquof for any purpose. But the county laws were not the chief of the evils of those crazy days in the legislature. The bars were let down for the sale of wine anywhere in the state and no pro tection provided against the forti fication of such wines. True the law says that the wines must be of the strength developed Under natural fermentation. But the new breed of temperance advocates in the state—• . those who think that the more liquor offered for sale the. less drinking find it easy to raise the alcoholic content of wines to as high as forty percent, and anything passing for home-produced wine has free sale in; the whole state—no tax upon it. A dealer can secure a barrel of wine and a few gallons of blockade liquor, mix them, and sell them un der the nose of the Federal revenue officer, paying only a light tax on the mixture as wine. Ten gallons of whiskey thus used would be a saving of $20 in Federal tax. But another shameful consequ ence results from those crazy bills. Any paper in North Carolina may advertise those wines. Furthermore, any paper may advertise brands of liquors and wines produced any where in the world, according to a rendering of the law by Attorney General Seawell. Thus, if the Dunn Dispatch cares to do so, it is permit ted to picture to your boys and gilds the alleged delights of this or that liquor in the most seductive terms. The state has provided' for the teaching of the evil effects of hlcoholic drinks. Now comes along this law and permits the two hun dred papers in North Carolina to picture the displays of wine and to chant upon the delights of the aged whiskeys. Any paper may carry matter that utterly _ nullifies the teaching required Dy iaw ui me schools, and do it in a more attrac tive way than the text books can set forth the evils of drink. But the darkest hours are .those before dawn. Even now there are evidences of breaking day. The people of Lucama, for instance, are stoutly opposing the establishment of a Wilson county liquor store in that town. They declare that drunk enness has increased since the open ing of the Wilson store. It is probable that the prohibi tion cause could not have been helped more by any other means than by the crazy proceedings of those last days of the legislature. A condition is likely to arise that will disgust all people of any sense of- , decency and thus enable the state to establish prohibition upon a really effective scale. The developments jp the -various phases ofwork in North Carolina are emphasizing the importance of ottr Harnett citizen Charles Ross's job. One week, we find him in Georgia informing the Crackers about the progress pf ai- , fairs in North 'Carolina; anothef week we le&rft of his going to Washington to share, in a consul tation about the scenic highway in western North Carolina. His is no small job, and it should be gratify ing.to Harnett county folk that he seems to be creditably performing its duties. -* At The Ebb ot Life •, (Elizabeth City Independent) Youth and middle-age laugh at a lit tle group of old men who gather in Old Man Garrett’s wheel-wright shop oh Colonial Avenue every week-day morn ing and- afternoon. . Youth and. middle age wonder at pathetically,small group of elderly men who meet every , morn ing for. a brief prayer service, in an up per room of the Y. M. C.-A. building. Presently youth and middle-age will grow old; and- then, suddenly, gome day a realization will, dawn upon the one grown old that death has “slowly hut surely reduced his once large com pany of friends to a pathetically -mail circle that is narrowing year by year. Youth and middle-age . can make new acquaintances, fqrm new contacts, find new human Interests from day to day. But one grows qld and it is too late to find new friends, make new contacts, develop new interests. And the new generation is in a hurry and has little , time to pause and converse with an old codger who speaks the language of * another era and is weddpd to a home spun philosophy that is archaic to our. modern times-' And so, when late life a man slows-down and begins to reflect upon the few human ties left to bind him to;:this uncertain life, liis ' heart hungers-for companionship and he dyaws closer and closer t« the ye- v - maining few who, understand him ami can sympathize- with bis. point, of .viehr The few oid men who gather in Old Man Garrett’s wheelwright shop in the morning and afternoons are not sub jects for youthful and middle-age mirth ; nor the few old.men who halt ingly climb the Y. M. C. A. steps every morning for a brief half hour of song and prayer. They are hungry ,§duls who see life and all its former mean ings slipping away from them, as the shore slips away from a castaway on a raft drifting-toward an inscrutibie horizon where the sun is. going down. Books In Greene More North Carolina county com missioners would be intelligently serv ing their counties if they followed the example of the: Greene county board of commissioners in providing for. a regular monthly appropriation for the aid of the Greene county library. The $30 a month which, the commissioners of Greene have put in their new budget for the library will not add apprecia bly to county expenses, but it will add appreciably to the opportunity for en lightment in the county. In ten months of operation the little but effec tive library in Snow Hill has circulat ed 9,000 books among people in every - section of the county. Nearly , three.; thousand books have gone into the hands of children. What the results"'" of this opportunity, to read good books will be in Greene nobody can foretell, but it is safe to. say that the results will be a magnificent return in human enlightenment and human pleasure on the small appropriation which the com missioners are making. Other conn- - ties and other county commissioners would serve the people and the State if they followed the example of Greene. —Exchange. ‘ . including lesp£<feza in the crop ro tation has doubled the average yields of other crops on„Jhe farm of J. ■ .B. Huggins of Lanes Creek township .in Union County. Remember yon have not- .sinew whose law of strength is not action'; not a faculty of body, mind", or soul, whose law of improvement is'not ener- .£*■} gy-—E. B. HalL-rv.- J -j - • ••• , - • * — '• ■>* * -•» At /"
The State’s Voice (Dunn, N.C.)
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