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PACE FOUR THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. JUNE 5, 1930 The Beaufort News ,hblished every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County f North Carolina ( Beaufort Nwt Inc., Publisher SFILLIAM GILES MEBANE Pres. and Editor f SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year $2.00 fix Months 1.00 Sire? Months ....... .... .50 JEntered as second-class matter February 5, 1912 at the fostoffice in Beaufort, North Carolina, under the Act pf March 3, 1879. 1CEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930. The handsome yacht recently built by the Bell-Wallace Company would be a credit to any shipyard. It should be a cause of pride to any citizen of our county to know that we have a shipyard that is capable of turning out fcuch a fine job. If it does a few more jobs like this the Bell-Wallace Campany will be ge.tting a national reputation. FIRE PROTECTION NEEDED The destructive possibilities of a forest fire Jvere brought home to the people of Carteret county by the tremendous conflagration that has been raging in the open grounds section for some days. While we do not know the a piount of damage done in terms of dollars and cents we do know that the harm suffered by the forests, the lands and the destruction pf wild life has been very great. The values destroyed if they could be restored would be more than sufficient to provide some measure pf fire protection for years to come. A fire of this sort is likely enough to break out in any long spell of dry weather. People are careless about fire and sometimes fires are Started intentioially. One or two vigilant fire jvardens could do a great deal of good in the jvay of fire loss. It is a matter that is well jvorthy of consideration .upon the part of our pitizens as well as officials. INCONSISTENT INDIGNATION The indignation of the News and Observer has been greatly aroused by reason of the fact that seVeral hundred Negro men and women have registered as Democrats in Wake coun ty. The News and Observer says that Ne groes should be encouraged to register as Re publicans but should not be permitted to join the Democratic party. The fact that they may prefer the policies and principles of the Democratic party to those of any other par ty does not seem to concern the Raleigh editor. If the persons who registered are qualified to comply with the law it deos seem that they ought to be allowed to vote for such candi dates as they prefer. It is well known that in New York city thousands of Negroes are affiliated with the Democratic party and that they voted for Al Smith. We do not recall that the News and Observer entered any pro test against their supporting the same candi date that it supported in 1928. Maybe it .would be well to consult Raskob about the matter. charge to meet annually of more than two millions. This naturally makes things very unpleasant for the taxpayers of Buncombe. Mr. Woodley says that Craven county "will be able to continue on the map only by the most careful management. He remarked as to Carteret, "The great county of Carteret stands alone in her glory. Its combined indebted ness is 38 per cent of the assessed valuation." Mr. v oodley offered several suggestions which he thinks would tend to relieve the tax payers, or some of them at any rate. He op poses any more bond issues except by vote of the people. He thinks that stocks in out of the State corporations owned by North Caro linians, should be taxed. He believes the State should maintain the public schools and keep up the county roads. He says the Equal ization Board should be abolished and the du ties of that board be turned over to the State Board of Education. He offers other sugges tions that are worthy of thought. There can be no successful disputation of the fact that the revenue producing machinery of the State, that is to say its system of taxa tion, sadly needs overhauling. Condiions have changed and a system of taxation should be devised in keeping with the times. It would be well to study the tax systems of those states that are making the most progress and glean some information for our own use. There was a time, many years ago, when North Car olina was almost exclusively an agricultural state. Now the value of our manufactured products far exceed the products of the soil. We have many railroads and great power companies operating in the State. There are various other forms of wealth producing in dustry. Then there are incomes to be tax ed. It used to be that land had to carry most of the load. That is not necessary now, but it seems as if it is still too heavily loaded. The tax burden needs to be more evenly distribut ed and the expenditures of the State and the counties need to be watched more carefully. Letters From Our Readers Press Gleanings LARGE VOTE SATURDAY EXPECTED Indications point to a large vote in the Dem ocratic primary Saturday. Reports from all over the State are to the effect that a large registration of voters has been made. In some counties new books have been opened jp and in all of them many new names have been ad ded. The increased registration is probably due to the interest in the Simmons-Bailey contest. At first it was thought by some of the leaders that the vote this year would not be so large but now it seems that it may equal the big vote of 1928 when Gardner received 362,009 votes. It is not expected that the Re publican vote will be as large as it was in 1928 because there is not so much interest as there Was at that time. According to instructions sent out by J. Crawford Biggs, Chairman of the State Board of Elections, Republicans will not be allowed to vote in the Democratic primaries nor Dem ocrats in the Republican contests. Voters must stick to their own sides or not vote. Vot ing split tickets, that is, part Democratic and part Republican, will not be allowed. A vot er must declare that he belongs to one party or the other and he can vote for one side only. Of course at the November election a voter may split his ticket if he wants to do it. But in the primary independent voters are not wanted or allowed. THE DESCENDENT A man who uused to rein in his horse so suddenly that it reared on its haunches now has a son who dash es up to a street intersection at thirty-five miles an hour, depending on four-wheel brakes and the kindly Providence that protects idiots to stop him in six feet. Ohio State Journal. WEBB ENDORSES ARTICLE OF JAMES R. BELL The News has been asked to print the letter below from Mr. W. M. Webb to -Mr. Jas. R. Bell. The letter explains itself. Mr. Jas. R. Bell, Morehead City, N. C. My dear Mr. Bell:- I have just read with considerable interest, and great pleasure, your ar ticle in the Beaufort News, addressed to Mr. Latta. It sets forth in the clearest manner my own convictions, and does you great credit. I con gratulate you, and am delighted to know that you were willing to public ly set forth your position, and the position of thousands of other Demo crats in North Carolina, who feel that they were betrayed by the one man who did the Democratic party more injury than any other one hundred men in N. L., could have possibly done. I feel that if Senator Simmons was the Democrat we have always believed him to be, and felt the in terest in the Democratic party that he has always expressed, that he would have voluntarily refused to be a candidate in this campaign. It simply shows that he is willing to wreck the party in the interest of his own ambitions. With assurances of high regard, and with all good wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, W. M. WEBB. Mayport, Florida. June 2, 1930. The Modern Way 10? . m r wm Jim DR. GEORGE DAVIS DISCUSSES THE PRIMARY OLD BOYS NEED HELP If we ever accumulate as much money as Henry Ford has we're not going to spend it educating the youth of the land. The youth of the land know too much now. What we're going to do with our surplus is to provide education for those past forty-five. Chicago News. WIDESPREAD ECHO HEARD "What is wanted," demands an exchange, "is a cen sus that is correct." And a correct census is one that shows a larger growth in your town than in the neigh bor town. Topeka Daily Capital. WOMEN AREN'T HELPING You can't relieve the farmers without changing the popular notion that a peanut butter sandwick and a milkshake constitute a square meal. Buffalo Evening News. COMMUNIST IN JAIL William Z. Foster and two or three other Communist k-aders, including the editor of The Daily Worker, have been held in jail in New York for more thai two months on account of disturbances arising out of the big uprising on March 6. They have not been allowed to make bail. Quite different from the procedure in North Carolina, when six or seven, charged with mur der were allowed their freedom on bond. Somehow or other, we do not hear Nell Battle Lewis or Josephus Daniels crying aloud for the release of Foster or his mates. Foster, incidentally, was nominated for gover nor of- New York by the Communist party in conven tion at Schenectady Sunday evening. The Gastonia Gazzette. "THE WOMAN VOTE." Editor of The News: This is written with the hope that my friends who are Republicans will vote on June 7th, for Major George Butler. I understand that Major Butler endorses the 18th Amendment. As a member of the State Senate representing the 14th Senatorial Dis trict in 1897, he was the author of legislation which revised the Public School Law. In the press and on the stump, he has advocated a State System of Tublic Schools under the Constitution, uniform tax rate in all the counties for public education. This means, not $1.05 on the $100 valuation as in Carteret, and 45c in another county. Equal opportunities for all the children of the, State. He served in the Spanish American war in the Cuban campaign, and was com missioned Major in the 1st. N. C. Vol. Inf. He has been a member of the Bar Association of the State for 20 years, and is an experienced and trained lawyer. The statements circulated that Senator Simmons will be defeated June 7th, if accomplished will only push forward the hands of the polit ical clock six years; because unless some mishap occurs in N. C. the Re- publican party will celebrate its vic jtory in 1936. With less than 600, i000 votes to be polled in November i of these. 275,000 to be cast for the Republican candidates, the remainder jor 325,000 cannot deplete the ranks 150,000 or even 75,000 and win; but the old warrior will not bedefeated so easily on June 7th. If and when the hand of one of the greatest po litical strategist is removed from the, machine or he has passed into the silence and pathetic dust, the desire for office will make political exped iency for self interest, and the house divided will fall. Age has weakened him, and with the shadows beginning to fall in the evening of his eventful career they feel as young "bulls" upon the political field that his last stand may be broken, the fight over. ; they have driven him in remorse from the field; so that in their youth they I may enjoy the political festivities: but perhaps in the eatlg of the cake V out to the judges of the world for justice. The Biblical Recorder, Raleigh, is sue Aug. 1, 1928 reported Dr. Mul lins as saying as a reason why as a Democrat he would not support Al Smith, that the Democratic conven tion at Houston adopted a prohibi tion plank with a, promise of an "honest effort to enforce" the Vol stead law. It nominated as standard bearer a wet who repudiated the dry program promptly, after he had the nomination in his pocket. Al Smith "bolted" the . platform, then later he appointed a wet Repub lican for National Chairman, then Senator Simmons, National Commit teeman from N. C. resigned. Read J Al Smith's acceptance speech Albany' in. l. Aug. TZ, 1928, listen: Of the 23 arrests made (5) were sent to the Recorders Court (1) was dismissed, (1) appealed to the upper court, and (1) was assigned to work the streets for 10 days. x Respectfully submitted, W. R. LONGEST, Chief of Police. June 1, 1930. PIANO TUNING $3.00 NONE Better. Eleven years with Chas. M. Steiff piano dealers. Harold Lenox, care Beaufort News. t f CARD OF THANKS Among the beautiful flowers sent for the funeral of our wife and "I dc r-i mother there were two designs which sonally believe in an amendment in'nad no cards attached to them. As the 18th Amendment which would iwe d0 no know the names of the give to each individual state itself on ly after approval by a referendum, popular vote of the people, the right wholly within its border to import, manufacture or cause to be manu factured, and sell alcoholic beverag es, the sale to be made only by the state itself, and not for consumption in any public place." An attempt to revive the old State right issue, dead for over 60 years, and put the state in the whiskey business. This was tried in a form, and in 1907 N. C. under the leadership of Simmons was carried by a large majority as the first Southern State to vote for (Continued on page nine) POLICE REPORT MADE FOR MONTH OF MAY To the Hon. Mayor and Board of Commissioners, Gentlemen: I beg leave to submit the following police report for the month of May 1930. We have made 23 arrests and col lected fines and cost, to" the amount of $74.2 and paid same to the May or and Clerk as follows: Arrett Fine Longest 11 $ 9.50 Holland 11 19.30 Styron 1 None givers we take this method of express ing our sincere appreciation for this remembrance. FRANK KING, SR. FRANK KING, JR. nWrt Summer EnsemtU v Cost $22.75 22.65 None S FOR- I Ambulance Service Dy or Night 'Pbone 216 or I16-W X GEO. W. DILL $ Funeral Director Since 1900 X MOREHEAD CITY, N. C. I f 'i This smart new summer ensemble Is composed of a bright tan dress printed In orange, yellow nd black. The Jacket is of orange silk pongee; the hut is yellow. WOODLEY POINTS THE WAY The only candidate for political honors that we have heard of who has made a speech of any consequence on the tax question is Mr. W. T. Woodley of New Bern. Mr. Woodley has servei in the General Assembly several times in the. capacity of representative or senator and is now seeking the Democratic nomina tion for representative. Mr. Woodley has a good head for figures and the speech which he made in New Bern last week, and which svas published in the Sun-Journal, bristled .with them. v Mr. Woodley gave the figures as to the in debtedness of North Carolina and its counties and told how these debts were incurred. He called especial attention to the financial con dition of three counties, Buncombe, Carteret and his own county of Craven. The per capita indebtedness of these three is quite large but Carteret leads all the rest we regrt to say. Buncombe it seems has an indebtedness of .some forty million dollars and an interest The Lsxington Dispatch, in the Monday issue of this today they may drink the gall of bit- Tftrneca novt VnnIii week, discusses a subject in which The News-Herald professes more than passing interest "The Feminine Vote.." We have always been at a loss to know why women would be expected to vote one way or another simply because they are women why we should hear so much talk of the "woman vote" and nothing of the "man vote." We agree with The Dispatch that it is hard to analyze any such as a political factor. Taking up the matter from the angle of the approach ing primary our Lexington contemporary begins the analysis by saying that if we are to consider that there is such a political element as "the feminine vot':'' it must be assumed that a considerable portion of mar ried women will vote differently from their husba:ids. "What reason is there to believe, for instance, that a large majority of women will not vote far the same candidates in the primary as favored by their hus bands?" is asked. The editor (he's a married man) was careful to inject the remark that "W are not saying that the husbands will do all the political think ing for the several households," but adds the conclu sion that "if the twain vote as one there is no "woman's vote' in this large voting group." It is uor observation, here recorded, that in nine cas es out of ten the husband and wife vote together. The exceptions are Tare. This probably indicates that so far in their political lives the average woman hasn't bothered much about parties or candidates and is will ing to accept the political opinions and preferences of the men of her household. If there is any such thing as the woman's vote it is apparently that of the unattached women, but there's no way of accounting for the political likes and dis likes ofwomen than there is of men. If the subject were up for debate we'd take the side tru.t there is in 1 reality 'ho such classification as "The woman vote." (MoTganton News-Herald.) lerness next bunday. Thev assert ithat he was considered a Re publican at heart in 1912 by one who is now dead, and cannot answer their anonymous statement, and with a sense of derision, not by his votes except on the Tariff in the U. S. Sen ate, certainly not, because he is con sidered one of the greatest men in the Senate; but because he refused to dance to the tune of the Side walks of New York to satisfy the few who for, political expediency re fused to follow the popular senti ment of N. C. against Al Smith. It was not Al Smith that caused the South to go Republican, and N. C to vote for Hoover, it was not Al Smith that caused Hoover to get over 20 millions of votes, it was not Al Smith that caused popular sentiment in America ta be against the Democratic party; but it was an attempt of Al Smith, Raskob, and associates to change the 18th, Amendment con trary to the provision made and de fined in Article 5 of the U. S. Con stitution of 1789. It was an attempt against the lundamental law of this land adopted by delegates from the States in conventoin assembled to form a new government endorsed by Washington, Adams, ' Jefferson, and other immortals while you and me were in the unknown.' It was an at tempt to change the law by a minor ity just as bonds have been-placed upon your homes, and these mortae- ages on the homes of the poor have and will cause widows and orphans f OK THE J u N E V I t to Mmkml lln B R I D E $250 $15 to $250 Wm. H. BAILEY JEWELER ? FRONT ST. to be homeless and wanderers crying l,, BEAUFORT, N. C. -M-i H' W"H"H-'H' I I 1 ! H I i i
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