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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1930
The Beaufort News
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North Carolina
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The outcome of the struggle over the liquor
question in the United States will be awaited
with a great deal of interest. It may split the
country up as badly as the slavery question
did. If the Democrats take the wet side and
the Republicans the dry side there will be con
siderable shifting of votes from one side to the
other. North Carolina is likely to remain in
the dry column because a majority of the peo
ple m this btate favor prohibition. Any way
the campaign will shake the country like an
earthquake.
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1930
ENGINEERS WANT THE FACTS
Nature has furnished the people of Carter
et county with a great deal of water the advan
tages of which have not been utilized to the
fullest extent. For many generations past
food products of great value have been taken
from the sounds and rivers and they have
served to bear a commerce of no small propor
tions. The rapid increase in the population
of the State and the quickening of business in
tercourse clue to paved roads and automobile
transportation increase the demands for bet
ter waterway facilities. Bigger vessels car
rying heavier loads are needed and deeper
and wider channels are needed to float them.
The waterways of the country are under the
control of the Federal Government and when
improvements are needed we must, generally
speaking, look to the national authorities to
furnish the necessary assistance. Our own
people can help secure these advantages by
furnishing information showing the necessity
for the proposed improvements. They should
therefore make every effort to get up the
needful information for the Engineering De
partment. Facts are needed a well as enthusiasm.
NEED A COOPERATIVE NOW
The low prices which this year's crop of to
bacco has been bringing in North Carolina and
South Carolina and Georgia have aroused the
indignation of the growers of tobacco and
much sympathy for them by the general pub
lic. In fact the interest of the public in the
tobacco section of the country is not altogether
altruistic, for the simple reason that when to
bacco sells well merchants, bankers, profes
sional people, laborers skilled and unskilled
are all benefitted to a greater or less degree.
Prosperity for the tobacco farmers helps a
great many folks besides the farmer.
Many suggestions are being offered as to
what is best to be done to relieve the tobacco
situation. Some think it would be well to hold
the crop off the market as long as possible,
others want the farmers to agre to cut their
acreage for next year and there have been
suggestions that prosecutions be started a
gainst the tobacco manufacturers on the
grounds that they are violating the Sherman
anti-trust law. There is considerable confus
ion about what should be done and in the
meantime tobacco is selling at starvation prices
for the farmer. Of course prices may go up
some and possibly will do it but there is no in
dication that this year's cr-egr of tobacco will
sell at satisfactory prices to the growers.
No matter what plan is suggested to help the
tobacco growers it could be done more success
fully if there was a good tobacco cooperative
association to handle it. It is a pity that the
effort to launch a cooperative association was
undertaken several years ago. This is a far
more favorable time for such an enterprise.
The Federal government would help now and
with this sort of backing such an association
would be a success very likely. The failure
of the other attempt disheartened many farm
ers but successes are often built upon the fail
ures of other attempts. A cooperative asso
ciation would be a great help now and efforts
should be made to establish one.
PROHIBITION THE ISSUE IN 1932
The prohibition question is not an issue in
the campaign in North Carolina this year but
it is a rather burning question in some districts
of some states. It seems to be coming to the
front more and more all the time. The Char
lotte Observer says that, referring to the na
tional Democratic convention in 1932, "The
chieftians will go there with a definite policy
mapped out and will force upon a helpless
South a wet nomination on a wet platform."
The Observer is one of the largest and most in
fluential Democratic newspapers in the South
and its opinions are entitled to respect.
The New York World News Service says
that the wets will have no less than 22 or 23
votes in the United States Senate after the No
vember election and that in case of a Democrat
ic landslide there may be a bloc of 28 wet
votes in the Senate. A number of wet Demo--cruts
have been nominated, or will be nomi
aiated for the Senate this year in addition to
those already in that body. James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois, former Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska and former Senator Gore of Okla
homa are already nominated and are against
prohibition. Former Senators Gerry of Rhode
Island, and Bayard of Delaware are practical
ly sure of nomination and both are wets. Sen
ator Blease of South Carolina is opposed to
the eighteenth amendment as is also Broussard
of Louisiana and Tydings of Maryland. Blease
is running for renomination and came out a
head in the first primary. There are a few
Republican wets in the Senate and house also
but most of the Republicans are on the dry
side-
Press Gleanings
A parkinjr space is a place where you can leave the
car to have someone bend the rear fenders nicely down
upon the tires. Florida Times-Pnion.
Forest fire was started out in Oklahoma by a fellow
spitting out a mouth-ful of moonshine. Florida Times-Union.
STILL COMING IN
The drought has so dwarfed and dried the grain in
some sections that they are picking ready-made corn
cob pipes out of the ears. Detroit News.
AND SETTLE DOWN
Operations are to be resumed by an Ohio knitting
company. That's what the country needs getting
back to its knitting. Dayton (Ohio) Journal.
We don't know why the census takers are asking
about radio sets. There's certainly no unemployment
among them. Arkansas Gazette.
OTHER NATIONS' TARIFFS
Before too much attention is paid to foreign pro
tests against our protective wall, we think some atten
tion might be given the protective policies of foreign
countries. We should like to see an analysis of re
strictions in Europe on the sale of such typical Ameri
can products as wheat, automobiles and movie films
before confessing that the American tariff is peculiar
ly offensive to the spirit of international brotherhood.
The truth of the matter is that Europe has never out
grown the notion that the United States is Europe's
colony and owes Europe a living. Any American pol
icy which assumes that America is for Americans is
going to annoy Europeans and arouse their protests.
Their present protests against our tariff seem to be re
inforced by a decline in foreign trade, but as a matter
of fact the decline has little relation to the tariff, past
or present, and is explained almost entirely upon the
ground that business is slow in the United States and
the world over. (Chicago Tribune.)
OWN YOUR HOME
More families should own their own homes, in the
opinion of President Hoover.
This he suggested today in announcing he had call
ed a conference to consider how home-building and
home-ownership might best be stimulated. The meet
ing will be held at the White House at a date to be de
termined upon by the conferees who have been invited
to attend.
Mr. Hoover believes a free discussion of the ques
tion and adoption of a rational program of financing
and home construction planning will not only result in
more and better homes throughout the country, but
will help materially to reduce unemployment in the
building trades.
However, the President does not believe in govern
mental or legislative aid for prospective home build
ers, but hopes rather the conference will bring about
"a co-ordination, stimulation and larger orgonization
of the private agencies" engaged directly or indirectly
in tbu-iness News and Observer.
SUPPORT OR CONTROL
State supported public schools has a mighty good
sound to many taxpayers who feel that they are car
rying too heavy a load of local taxation for the aid of
public education. But state controlled public schools
might not appeal so favorably to those who feel that
they would like the several communities to retain some
voice in the matter of who controls their schools.
In a measure we now have state controlled public
schools., but this control has its limits and there are
not a few people who feel that thsse limits should be
still more restricted. The present system of control
does in a measure prescribe the amount of school tax
that each county or community shall levy. But in the
final analysis each community or county has the right
to say what provisions it shall order for schools, the
kind of buildings and equipment it shall have and to
a large extent the sort of teachers it will employ. The
state has not yet ordered any community to erect a
better school building or levy a special district tax.
It does say that each child must have a constitutional
six months term. The people themselves voted that
into the constitution. We daresay the majority of
them would n t care to take it out. And w'len this
compulsion wa- written into our fundamental law the
people took upon themselves tha obligation to main
tain it. But a large measure of freedom of c oration
is still left to the localities. Tlure have b :n en
croachments by the state from time to time. But if
the entire duty of support were turned over to the
state it is difficult to see how any local self-c ntrol of
schools could be retained. In no other instance where
the state provides for the full support of a public in
stitution is the matter of control left to local agen
cies. It is entirely possible that some arrangements might
be made for even more financial aid from state sourc
es for the public schools. But there is room for grave
doubt as to the advisability of surrendering the last
vestige of local authority in school matters. The
present measure of state control is probably mainly
designed to secure uniformity of opportunity for all
children of the state. But uniformity and centraliza
tion of control are entirely different propositions.
Under the present system we do retain the right to
kick, under a state supported and controlled system
we would probably have to surrender even that priv
ilege. We'd merely be dependencies and not stock
holders. Directly or indirectly, we would still be pay
ing. No system is possible that would relieve the
three million North Carolinians from paying the bills.
We could merely change collectors and paymasters
as well as taskmaskers. (Lexington Dispatch).
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Our Readers
SPECIAL SESSION NEEDED
Nine o'CIock! All in Bed!
Editor of The News:
It has been suggested that a special
session of the General Assembly be
called for the purpose of equalizing
or lowering the tax rate on real es
tate. This is fine and sorely needed,
bat a far more humane reason for
calling a special session would be for
the purpose of repealing any act
which gives any one the right to con
fiscate the property of the poor un
fortunate in the various counties of
this good State.
The very idea of the great Demo
cratic party allowing a law to remain
(even for a day) on our legal books,
which says to the high sheriff of the
counties: Go place your mighty legal
foot upon the necks of the unfortu
nate farmers, laborers, widows and
orphans, (even the ones in dire need,
the sick and the well alike). Say to
them, the home and lands you have
worked and economized a life time to
save will at a certain date be sold to
any individual who offers the high
dollar, which is in nearly every in
stance a fraction of one year taxes.
Law is supposed to be comon sense,
a law that allows any one to take ad
vantage of any unfortunate person
by confiscating his or her castle (be
it ever so humble) for a measly tax
debt of a few dollars is without a
doubt a most dangerous law, and the
political organization that has the
power and fails to hasten to the res
cue of those stooped from years of
toil, sickness and other causes should
be voted out of office by the fair
minded electorates of North Carolina.
It would be more fitting to stop
boasting about our great and prosper
ous "Live at Home" State until we
can put a stop to the legal stealing
of the lands and homes of the nged,
the widows and fatherless. Hundreds
of poor widows, many with little chil
dren dependent upon them, are hav
ing their only shelter taken from
them because they are unable to pay
the county a few dollars. It is just
as hard for the down and out, to
raise a lew dollars as it is for the
more fortunate to raise thousands of
dollars. It is no disgrace to be poor
and it is one of the best evidences of
honesty. Why cannot the ones in
power make life's pathway less rug
ged for the financial unfortunates in
stead of increasing their burdens by
taking the roof from their heads with
the strong arm of the law.
The Administration in power in
North Carolina should put a prompt
stop to this diabolical scheme put in
motion by some one whose experi
ence was very limited or who did not
have any special feeling for the poor,
whom the Prince of Peace said shall
always be among you.
Yours very truly,
DR. S. E. DOUGLASS,
Raleigh, Sept. 4th, 1930.
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LOCAL BOYS TOUR CENTRAL
PART OF OLD NORTH STATE
Curious Monument
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This monumert In the form of a
huge arrow head was unveiled the
other day at Old Fort, N. 0. It marks
the site of a blockhouse erected In
1T5C on the frontier of North Carolina
provinee. The monument was unveiled
by nine-year-old Margaret Nesbltt,
great-great-granddaughter of the first
white person born In the old fort
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I POTPOURRI J
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The future of the beet sugar
Industry may depend on the de
velopment of the recent "chem-
lcuny uiscovereu" sugar made
from cotton seed. However, at T
present the United States pr- ?
duces some seven million tons J
of beets annually which is vol-
ued at close to $75,(Xiu,0O0. Al- $
most the entire crop goes Into
sugar.
((E). 1930. Weatern Newsoaoer Union.
Frank King, Guy Lewis and Wil
liam and Fred Lewis have recently
returned from touring the central
part of the state in a house built
upon a Ford roadster. They spent
several enjoyable days vistiing the
various towns in that section; they
camped at Burlington two days and
at Sniithfield one. The Lewis boys
themselves converted the roadster in
to their touring home. The "house"
took care of two, while the others
slept in a tent. With the exception
of several flat tires, the boys report
ed a fine outing.
CHANGES DATE
It was stated in the News last week
that there would be an Inter-City Ro
tary Meeting here on the twenty-
' third of September. This date has
been changed since last week to the
thirtieth of the month.
FOR SALE 10 PlECh lminiinu
iroom suit, good as new, also several
J ferns. Going cheap. See Mrs. W. E.
ISkarren, Ann Street.
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iness men who have quit advertising"
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