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Month volume in. .ww>,-y This page waswaged wttji Heavy matter the - last two issues. J^f-make it light this hof ust weather. But, first, tet me call .your attention; to an article by ©ne-of the StateVleading citizens,.’ based on a paragraj^i from ttie Beasley article on this page in the August 1 is^ /ihd; then hem is what Clyde* Hoey'has;^, ^; $out/the two articlest ■:•'£;'> CU ItVIVW • c..« Vv.* ->tV!«VV' •*<? r •."?*?» - 1 > .. - - v “Just a line to tell you that ^reid^ith kgr&t deal of interest 7ptir leading' article! of July 15, and have also" enjoyed Rowland; Beasley's com ments on this article in the .issue of August, 1. Both articles are well worth reading ah,d digest ing. I use the word ‘‘digesting’jidyisedly, because articles of this character rieedfang. deseree more than a casual. reading.’ ing of mighty'.few men of the calib^^f. Mr* Hoey and the other gentleman reTer^fojto the writing'of TStt article worthWhi^^But itvis not easy to ^t^that^^arti^le^C^ly^^otfi . by w ith quite a aumber - pf typographical errbre. t And here fellow feel, good ' giter■ working ; hardt6’:^mkkei; the paper., Mr.; ^eftrsctft^frnplybsayi tthak Jfe Jepri joys the Vdce,inO)re ^aS^|h^ other: mper hep. , reads, and thaUs sayjafc eridugh. But.tymk there; is one like him, wo kijoyy’|iiere are scores t|?at~ . have no tasteior t&e Voice material. _lT^; that dsl no more than" I escjpected j&dieti I began the pub licatioh, hut I more "of the who ‘ . linah& jguperh pfatQj?r ‘ahd Utate&rngif ,-say £';'&h< ’ -.' /• aV^WiitSi.- i Ji *£*-a&-ka-**:JimLt£. irkT-SSi. be done by ^enttSjdsdy^. ’^^^S: -plenty of straighv thinking' by‘ t ho se‘,.*vW h5&&^rik,'*f&e plbple ^te'i likely to fly the coop at any moment. The defi- : nite principles of the new deal must be stated in one-syliable words and a check-up made upon - the various activities and tHe people shown plain- ■ ly wherein and why these activities conform to principles that the average man cannot afford to oppose. Old fetishes will be brought out for dis play and they can be successfully combatted«only bv ."bowing that new deal principles are in ac cord with true democracy and that the hew deal activities are in accord with those principles. It stems that President Roosevelt should lose no time in making clear-cut enunciations of princi ples. However, radical they are, the sooner told the better, for the re-actionaires do not have to await their enunciation; while the real new-deal ers are at a loss to reconcile all the activities with eath other, they should be able to reconcile each with the accepted principles upon which they are J)ased. If the new deal is.to prevail against the rapicny arraying interests, the millions whose interests are involved in its fate must adopt the sentiment of Miss Henrietta R. Smedes in her recent poem, a6 follows: STANDBY (Exodus, Chapter 17, v.10-13) A nation’s leaders—wise and earnest men Looked down from heights that showed them all the land; Observed and studied, sought to understand The scene evolved and brought within their ken, Saw, scattered round through all the wooded glen. Men gripped in mortal strife, the chosen band Prevailing only when their chieftain s an Was raised, but wavering,, breaking, falling when Tlis weary arm dropped back. Thus it was onS Ago, and thus today it is. Our guide, Wayworn and weary, sinks upon a stone. The Amaleks are pressing hard; but strong . His buoyant faith, and, stalwart at “1S 81 ’ Upholding friends can keep this land r own! ^es, sirs; the task is no less than ‘ keeping this Lnd our own.” There has never been a P61"10 .... American history when the average man m°re at stake than he has in the issue tha w stir America from Coast to coast within i°u „ months. And that issue, in its nakedness, is, o t; ^ t gOvie^aienf cpiitro] alPbJdustxy m the interest;.* $j$£ aft'the-people or shall exploiters control it iu»'■• ; the interest of - themselves? 2|^ft ;is answered 3 ’ right, the people must think as capably as they can and.then *stand by” the * man who dares ’ disregard every age-old. fetish that is thrust for ward to embarrass him and to distract theatten- . , tibn, of the people from their real Interests. - Q % t Publishes -Hhw • ^ Captai?i A she, though y o| Jna*eentury jrharkv -is still: detfe^me|[ flat'the y Yankees shall have an opportunity to see the events - of .the sixties through a Southron’s eyes; He has * jhst published a new book,,, ‘ ;“A Southerner’s - View of the, Invasion ‘ The Captain 'carnet neareri riMR^hcing the ;y^fer, Ifl O' ’ rA/'IVn+ OrtiplA ' iVl 1. i ill a • A A yl i C tthgir secession program than l h£d ever b.eeh..c9a Vv&ced. At ninety-five, or-whatever it .is, he writes _J_i.J__ ; vasion of t^ iSpiifh in. htireri sentiments^ ?^pre^d4)y the pahdarch; is the fialloy ing, which, y the real purpose /of pur-esastence jA tb bfe of y^be^;. I fit! to others -of otir race-4 Except that, what yarC ; 1-Wa here for?.: Werkhow. that.jcd^s. ar^,here; to r us;:$tf|§||$h#^^ ‘St«l**.**£&■&. JU".W A.'Z-^’V. SSI naturally nothing in those ^eh3er }artieSis %®mr^ terest you. Take theAri jlage of Point Caswell, of which Mr. Utley writes in this issue. Let your • mind run back long before the days when there was a railroad into Wilmington and Point Cas well was right there on the bank of the Black. And those two brief sketches of Capt. Paddison and Mr. Vollers will long memoralize two unique and versatile characters. At least Captain Ashe and I enjoy them; but he was born and bred on Pender soil and I have been familiar with it ever since I was a babe. In one of the early numbers of the Voice, 1 told you of Capt’ Paddison’s scheme to build a railroad from Point Caswell to Clinton, and how while Mr. O’Hanlon, the engi neer, was. boarding at our house we marveled that he should be getting $4 a day. And there was Dock Holland, the boss of the grading force, a devilish kind of) fellow. I was afterward to. teach his nieces at Enfield. And see how the per sonalities in my experience and'in Mr. Utley’s “Reminiscences” interweave. The buxom Pat Holland of those Enfield school days is now the wife of Mr; Utley’s Evangelist Crumpler. There is hardly a name in Mr. Utley’s articles that does not call up some kind of recollection on my part. Only last year I ran up with Mr. George Moore at the Battle Ground and found him still a good talker, as Mr. Utley suggests. Thus far Mr. Utley has dealt chiefly with dead people, but there are some real live ones down that way whom he used to know and will doubtless reach sooner or later. But Robert Grady Johnson, and others of a later issue, he does not know as he did their parents. Turn and read the article. An Awakened Interest in family History. ' Just too late to be able to recover definite facts about pioneer ancestors, many people have be come much interested in their family histones, if people of the writer’s age had had the interest when boys they could have learned from the an cients living fifty to sixty years ago many facts that are esteemed valuable now. But we let the middle links between the pioneers and the new generations pass without {lumping them for facts of their own day and of their fathers ^re for instance, is-a letter;from Mr. T. R. Orrell, a first-cousin of Congressman Graham Barden, and a man who has had a .successful career abroad, in which I discover that no one of possi-.. tly a thousand descendants of James Vann, m • . V ■— >. . _ ... : ■ ^ ■ C • SSj his day one of .Ifie- leading 'Citizens qLS^®Pso® i| /county, knows, whom James Vannttirarried. J*®1®8 ; — Vann, the great-grandfather of koth x;Grakam Barden and Mr. Orrell, died three years before. ! was born/ Yet without effort J know the progeny ^ almost by h^rt to the third generation and even ^ to Mills Bj&r./Barber of Sanford, greatrgreair great-greatrgrandson ‘ of James' Vann. But I ana stamped when it comes to the question of’ whom -James Vann married. Mr. Oitell is prepared, to pay money" to the man who will help him secure definite information about the - earliei* Vanns, Bardeiis, and ^their Wives. JVnd tp think I knew Janies Vahti^ brother “Uncle. Jacky” well when “I was a boy, and he was born, .say-, about I790r~* / James was bom in 1786. From JackJ1 Vann a nia» - * QOttld have learned,every lineage in a fourth of f^tmp^on'County/ But we missed our chance. - '' Mr. Utley touches on the ignorance of the peo-%, pie as to the burial placets of 'the /Revolutionary /soldiers.- Family reunions are becoming very pop ular and "are' serving 'to acquaint many people -v ancestral baekgj&unds; Unfortunately,/ J: this year ,many of;:th€m are not being held, be CaVsq^ of the; infantile paralysis epidemic. Mr. 'Utley informs me that the Utley reunion Be,held at Holly Springs, Sunday, August 26, U: -^tiiatifhe speaker-wilf be Judge J. S. Utley Oi Little Rpck,* Ark^Ji fear f cannot accept the - And here m.: mngs how) the kindred of largely helped people Alabama, have the copy iel L. Kenan; Spalding Kenan somewhere in Georgia, it is as sumable, though the address of Dr. Kenan is ’ not given on the letter, the copy of which is kind ly furnished me by Mrs. Lane of Statesboro, Ga. In that letter one is shown haw the Kenan family virtually deserted Duplin county for Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Only the fact that Owen R. was married before his father moved'to Ala bama left prolific seed in North Carolina,.' and now even his descendants are scattered far and wide. I he writer ot this letter came close to oia » Duplin on one sad occasion. He fought over hero r?. iat Bentonville, where he lost a. leg and received other wounds. He tells his cousin, the Doctor, whom he had never met, that his two brothers and three sisters had died of consumption “inheri ed” from their mother, and that when he saw them die one after the other he decided to' follow a manual trade and became a carriage maker. Yet when the war came on he owned a big plan tation and about fifty slaves. He says that the loss of the slaves was virtually the! loss of his lands, as agriculture had not paid him, which statement is in perfect accord with a premise h* my arsicle of July 15 to the effect that southern land owners found themselves poor men, though they owned fertile plantations and simply because . the production of wealth is a year-by-year busi ness, and is produced by labor. As another indication or the value attacnea to genealogical data these days, note that Mrs. Lane, the Bullock county, Georgia, historian, after sub scribing for the? State’s Voice, wrote that she would like to secure all the numbers printed. Fortunately^ we had a spare file and sent it to her and got a check for the price. It was unbound, but Mrs. Lane writes that she has already had it bound. Mr. Orrell also subscribes that he may catch any items that may occur in future num bers. I have told you that a volume of the Voice a hundred years hence .would be worth a; hundred dollars, but I didn’t expect that one would be sold so early and away down into Georgia. How ever, the price .hadn’t yet reached the $100 mark. Later.—Mr, Orrell alscl has bought a file as as nearly complete as we had. » *, :r - "His — 4-' 'J&, L f ~r* • - -.»t r :. & f:A *- * f - :■ '. t , » ■ :jj
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