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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. APRIL 24. 1930
The Beaufort News
published every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina
Beaufort Newt Inc., Publisher
WILLIAM GILES MEBANE Pres. and Editor
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of March 3, 1879.
MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930
A new exchange added to our list this week
is The Waynesville Mountaineer. Thomas
M. Seawell formerly associate editor of the
Fayetteville Observer is the editor of the
Mountaineer. If the copy of the paper re
ceived by us is a fair sample then we say un
hesitantly that Mr. Seawell and his associates
are going to give the people of Haywood
county a mighty good newspaper.
DECLINE IN VOTE PREDICTED
Charles A. Hines, campaign manager for
Senator Simmons, predicts that the total vote
in the primary for the two candidates will run
from 250,000 to 300,000. He thinks Senator
Simmons will get a safe majority of the votes
polled. If Mr. Hines' figures prove to be cor
rect this will be a considerable decline from the
Democratic vote of 1928. Mr. Hines explains
this by saying that the interest will not be so
great because this is an off year in politics
that is no President is being elected.
It is true that the vote in "off" years is usu
ally smaller than it is at Presidential elections.
We had thought though that the interest in the
Senatorial contest would bring out a full sized
vote. The politicians certainly seem to be as
much interested as they ever are but we do
not know whether the masses of the voters
feel that way or not. They are not saying
much now but as the campaign progresses in
terest will naturally increase and it may be
that a big vote will be polled. The Democratic
vote in 1928 was the largest ever polled. Gov
ernor Gardner received 362,000 votes.
DISEASE KILLS OYSTERS IN
VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND
An article in a recent issue of the Gloucester,
Va., Gazzette told of the loss of more than a
half million bushels of oysters from some dis
ease or other. The beds so affected are in
Mobjack Bay and other areas north of the
James River. It is thought the disease which
is killing off the oysters is due to some pollu
tion of the water. U. S. Bureau of Fisheries
men are investigating the matter.
The Gazette says that State Commissioner
of Fisheries Harry R. Houston says that the
loss in oysters might go to a million dollars in
value. He described it as "the greatest blow
the seafood industry has ever received." Col
onel Houston stated that he had been inform
ed that practically all of the oysters in Ches
apeake Bay above Willoughby Spit, Mobjack
Bay, and York, Rappahannock and Piankitank
rivers are dead. If these reports be true the
oyster industry of Virginia and Maryland has
suffered a great disaster. It is undoubtedly
true that oysters are very scarce in that sec
tion and this accounts for the large demand
for North Carolina oysters this season. This
demand will not be any less next season and
in fact may be even greater. In this fact there
lies the danger of having our own oyster bot
toms stripped and this injuring the industry
in this State. Some precautions should be tak
en to guard against such a danger as this. We
regret the misfortune which has come upon our
neighbors to the north of us. We must be
careful to protect our own interests because
the oyster industry in North Carolina is ca
pable of being developed to one of large and
valuable proportions.
MACAULY'S PREDICTION
NOT YET FULFILLED
In the year 1857 the famous English essay
ist and historian Thomas B. Macaulay, wrote
a letter to an American friend in which he
made the prediction that the United States
government would meet with serious troubles,
if not absolute disasters, in the twentieth cen
tury. ' He based his prophecy on the fact that
in the United States the government came from
below and not from the top. That instead of
a small, highly competent class being in con
trol that the people themselves were running
the country. He said "I have long since been
convinced that institutions purely democratic
must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civi
lization, or both." He said that our constitu
tion was "all sail and no anchor." Mr. Macauly
predicted that when a large increase in the
population had occurred and when millions of
people were making no more than a simple liv
ing, and some not doing that well, that trouble
would occur. The poor would envy the rich
and encouraged by demagogues, would des
troy the government.
The Macauly prophecy made more than
seventy years ago, has not been fulfilled but
enough has happened to show that there was
considerable truth in what he said. Instead
of a population engaged mainly in agriculture
the United States has a vast number of peo
people working in factories, mines and at
trades of all sort3. From time to time groups of
these workers become dissatisfied for some
reason or other and strikes and troubles oc
cur. Injury to life and property has follow
ed sometimes. The factory owner and fac
tory workers have each blamed the other and
neither has shown much disposition to accept
any compromise. Finally after bitter strug
gles, in which both sides to the dispute have
lost, some kind of an agreement is patched up.
These labor troubles have given the people
called communists a chance to spread their
doctrines. They have met with some suc
cessful not enough to fulfill Macaulay's prop
hecy. If they could get a majority of the peo
ple to adopt their views the government would
soon be overthrown, private property would
be confiscated and anarchy would reign, as it
it did in France until Napoleon stepped for
ward and brought order out of chaos. Mus
solini, adopting Napoleonic tactics, soon put
an end to a threat of communism in Italy.
Communism was successful in getting control
of Hungary for a while but has since been ov
erthrown. It has lifted its ugly head in Ger
many but the people there have too much
practical sense to be entangled 'in such a net.
Socialism has made considerable progress
in England and in France and in fact in many
other countries. In the United States the so
cialists and their more radical bretheren the
communist's have considerable strength but
only rarely have they been ableto elect any
one to public office. They have succeeded in
fomenting a good many labor troubles and
they are still engaged in this plan of campaign
for the purpose of drawing recruits to their
rarks. Fortunately there is a bitter feeling
between the labor unions and the communists.
The labor leaders have too much sense to ally
themselves with an aggregation whose pur
pose is to destroy and not to build. Labor
thrives best when capital is profitably employ
ed. It seems therefore that Ma. Macaulay if
he were living today, would be surprised to
note that radicalism has made more progress
in some of the monarchical countries of Eu
rope than in the great American republic.
Press Gleanings
OUTGROWN IT
A certain mother caught shedding furtive tears con
fessed it was just that she knew she didn't have a
little boy any more. Her youngest son brushes his
teeth without her telling him to do so Columbia
State.
NO MIRACLE
That German plumber who made gold out of a piece
of lead pipe is really performing nothing new Savan
nah Press.
STOLE DEAD MAN'S BACON
"Monday night, while the body of George Gardner
was lying at his home west of town awaiting burial,
some thief entered thes mokehouse nearby and carried
off all the bacon belonging to the family. From there
the thief proceeded to the home of Mrs. Fuller Sams
and stole all her chickens. And yet some people say
there ought rot to be a hell." (Burnsville Eagle.)
GOOD NEWS
The president of the Federal Land Bank of Colum
bia says the price of farm lands in the South Atlantic
State will rapidly vise within the next few months.
Of course, nothing but community prosperity can in
crease the price of farm land, but if the prediction is
right, then we are to have better times. And doubt
less the prediction is ti-ue because our people are be
ginning to sie that most investments made during the
past decade have been practically wasted. If only a
portion of the money spent from 1920 to 1930 had
been put in land, the investors would now have some
thing and the price of land would nev-r have reached
the low level.
In 1919 when everybody wanted land, the price
soared and in 1929 when everybody wanted stocks,
the prices there went too high.
If we are to have good business conditions, our trad
ing must be diversified not all in land one year and
all in stocks the next year, for it is like diversified
farming. If farmers plant all wheat one year and all
corn the next, their action would break them all.
Land prices will come back, for isn't land still the
base of our wealth? (Williamston Enterprise).
DEMOCRACY HAS A VIRILE FOE
The personnel and the proceedings of the Repub
lican State Convnetion held in Charlotte yesterday,
a!on: with evidences of compactness and power of
party organization, made a deep impression upon at
least some loyal and life-long Democrats who were
interested spectators on the side lines.
One old-line Democrat, and he happens to be an ar
dent supporter of Mr. Bailey as he was of Governor
Smith, told Tha Observer that ha believed it was the
finest Republican State Convention ever held ii North
Carolina. He had taken the trruble to mix incognito
among the delegates in the hotel lobbies on th eve of
the convention and to go to the convention 1 all and
observe at least a part of the proceedings, and he was
very much impressed by what he described as the high
tone of the personnel and demeanor of the delega
tions, the apparent seriousness that was written upon
their faces and the evidences of a virile and efficient
party organization.
This Democrat was prompt to express himself as
convinced that the Democratic party in North Caro
lina needs to do all in its power to bring about a
condition of harmony and peace within the party to
the end that it will be able to continue to cope suc
cessfully with its ancient foe. The Democratic party,
he was convinced, has a foe to reckon with that it did
not faee in former years.
The convention, true to forecasts, turned out to be
one of the largest ever held in the State, and made a
fine impression by the business-like character of its
proceedings and tfe lack of evidences of strife and
bitternes?. Even in the election of the new State
chairman, Mr. J. S. Duncan, who received a very de
cisive majority ,of the votes on the first ballot, there
was little evidence of bitterness, even though that was
the issue that was expected to bring about the great
est division in the ranks, if there was to be division.
(Charlotte Observer.)
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Sights We Hope to See
MR. McCAIN WRITES AGAIN
Editor of the Beaufort News:
I haven't asked any space in your
paper lately but I want some today.
I hear that politics in Newport is
getting right hot. I see there are
three candidates out for sheriff in
the Democratic party now, Mr. W.
H. Bell, Mr. Raymond Ball and Mr.
Chadwick. I suppose they are all
pretty nice men. Mr. Bell is a per
sonal friend of mine but not political
ly. He is a Democrat and I am a
Republican as you all know but i be
lieve that if I were running for-an
office in Carteret County I had rath
er have the three men that are work
ing for him in Newport against me
than for me, that Mr. W. D. Allen,
Mr. Cyrus Lilly and Mr. Jeff Garner.
Now it' seems to me that Mr. Bell
has made a big mistake. Such men
out for him you know that Mr. Bell
represented this county a few years
ago and there were two sides for
him to work for one was for bonds
and the other against bonds. He
would get with one side and he would
say yes I am going my best to get
them through and he would get with
the other side and say am goi ig to
do my best not to let them through,
but you saw that the worked the
hardest for the side in favor of the
bonds and passed them. Just to
Now I am not in favor of any
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PRESIDENT
PUTTING THE
BABY
TO BZD
waiting tor' attention ior uny or
weeks.
When I was a boy on the farm a
rainy day was a period to be looked
forward to. Before the hard work of
farm life had fastened itself upon
destroyed a section of negro residenc
es several years ago.
The official count within the city
limits includes Ghent, de Graffenried
Park, Sunnyside, Bridgeton and
James City are not within the city
nio n rnlnv rinv wns n nmv (lav. a .i I,. k;- nn..,,int;,,
please some of his pets in both pai-, cut all sorts of capers ,n the nay
loft ns the rain pattered down upon 915 persons recorded for New Bern,
the roof above ns; or we went fish- Thpre Us too been considerable
Ins. It was thought that the fish growth in those sections to which this
would bite more ravenously upon a d has contributed. They lie ad
rainy maj 'have .eon, at any- ; joini thg cj am th(?h. puations
tie
more.
Now I want to say something a
bout my party that is now in. We
have got one of the best sheriffs that
we have ever had in this county. He
is a perfectly sober man. He says
he never knew the taste of liquor but
some ot the rest that are running
can't say that and I hope that the
pood women of this county will go
to the poll in June and consider
what they are doing and then ballot
in favor of Mr. J. H. Davis and look
out for our present board of commis
sioners. You know what will happen
if they are defeated.
Now my dear friends I have 'writ
ten the truth and nothing but the
tiuth if you will come up around
Newport and you will find things
just like I say. Now I want to
mention something about the state
taking over the roads. I don't hear
anything more said than what Mr.
Wheatly wrote Mr. M. S. Lee have
dropped and nothing said about it.
Now Mr. Wheatly wouldn't go be
fore the board like he ought to. He
wrote to Mr. Lee just because he
was a Democrat so I believe it has
turned to nothing but a bluff.
Now my readers I would like to'
see you all but I am not able to get
out. I am sitting up in my bed with
a broken leg and arm to do this
writing. A letter for my friends to
read and I want -you all to heed to
watch the corks on our fishing lines ! Bern stores and "mess houses and
bobbing up and down. ..-i.u.s.
I have always liked to rend, and ns I
T look back upon the years that have j India plans to devote its revenue
rassed It soems to me that much of jfrom gasoline duty to road develop
the rending that I have done since the ; ment.
time I was ten years old has been !
done while the rain was coming down I
.outside and other tasks for the time n 4 Denmark's bicycle craze is grow
being sot aside. ' 'nK-
No! I like sunshine and I take
pleasure in clear weather, but I don't j
want to live where it doesn't rain, j
Absence of rain would take away half j
the pleasure of life.
(), 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
i not yet recordedfi are served by New
Inherits $50,000,000
NEW BERN'S POPULATION
SHOWS SLIGHT DECREASE
(Sun Journal)
New Bern's population in 1930, as
recorded by the enumerators in the
fifteenth United States census is 11,
915. This total is of April 1, 1930,
and compares with 12,198 recorded
on January 1, 1920, when the last
Federal census was taken.
Announcement of the 1930 figures
was made this morning by Capt. D.
r. Henry, supervisor ot the census
what I say this is from your best i for this district. The 1930 figures
friend for what is right.
E. L. McCAIN.
Newport, N. C.
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RAIN
RAIN
5 By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK 6
X Dean of Men, University of X
6 Illinois. O
It is raining as I write this a gen
tle rain that sinks into the ground
and disappears as
it falls. Nothing
else Is so restful
ns a rain; noth
ing so quieting
to the nerves. I
should not like
to live In a place
where It does not
rain regularly. I
have Just been
rending an arti
cle In praiae of
the climate of
California.
TIcture to yourselsV It says, "what
a difference is made in your bnbtts,
your moods, your whole adjustment
to life, when you know that for at
least four months of the year Jane
to October no rain will falL"
I have the picture. Dust in tbe air,
hillsides brown and sear; vegetation
everywhere ' drying np excepting as
some one stands with a hose In his
hands and sprinkles the lawn and
the flower beds. A hot sun beating
'down upon one and no hope of rain
ior fonr months to cool off the at
mosphere; grass, and shrnbs, and
flowers burned brown and dead ex
cepting where some faithful band
lvest them regular attention! A
dry wind blowing the jellow dust Into
one's eyes I It makes no appeal to
me. I like variety; I like the soft
mist against my face; I nfce to hear
the drops beating upon the roof or
against the window panes; I thor
oughly enjoy rain, and some way, in
spite of the absence of robbers and
rain coats and umbrellas, I seldom
seem to get wet ft
Nothing artificial can ever refresh
the vegetable world as a good rain
does. The air smells better, tastes
better, and seems to penetrate more
deeply Into the lungs after a rain. I
can work with more enthusiasm, with
more concentration and with more
energy during a rain. When the rnrn
is falling outside it gives opportunity
to finish the uncompleted task ; to set-
Captain Henry says, are preliminary
and are subject to correction. It is
thought, however, thatthe count is
accurate and that no change will be i
made by a more careful study of the j
census reports. i
As recorded, this city has lost 283 j
persons in the past ten years. Those
familiar with the history of the city,
it is said, were expectnig and a
greater federation than that and are
agreebly surprised. The loss is
thought to be largely that of colored
population, and is accounted for by
large numbers of colored people leav
ing this city following the fire which
r ;-
Mrs. Isadora Rlradlgua, young Cu
ban widow mid mother of five chil
dren, who has inherited $30,000,000
from the estate of her late maternal
grandaunt, the Countess Santa Cruz
Montos of Santa Valencia. She has
been earning a salary of eighteen dol
lars a week making cigars In New
York. Nov all will he changed to
overwhelming luxury. The senora and
her family sailed for Havana, where
she was summoned to collect the huge
fortune.
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