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MAKE YOUR CHOICE: Lay not up
for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break through and
steal; But iay up tor yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not break through
nor steal: For where your treasure is
there will your heart be also.—Mat
thew 6:19-21.
Vote for Control
We do nut consider ourselves
qualified or worthy to give advice
to the fanners—or to any one else,
for that matter—about what they
should do in running their business.
But we have an opinion, and there
is no law—as yet—against giving
expression to it.
If we were a farmer we would
vote for three-year tobacco control
in next Saturday's referendum. It
would not be because the principle
is wise and good, for we do not
think it is; but it would be because
it is the only alternative, as we see
it. to ruinous and starvation prices
lor the chief money crop farmers
in our section have to sell.
Others besides the farmers are
affected and have a stake in the
choice that is made at the polls Sat
urday. That is why business men
have been so active in inducing
growers to accept the Feaeral yoke
for the time being. It is the only
thing they can do. for their sake
and the sake of all of us who live
with them in the great tobacco belts
in North Carolina.
Suggestions or appeals to the
farmers to vote for control are in a
sense useless. Virtually all of them
have made up their minds befue this
as to what they intend to do. A fair
guess as to what they will do may
be that ninety percent of those who
vote will favor control.
Conditions responsible for the ne
cessity of control are not of the mak
ing of growers. They have complied
with quota requirements on the 1940
crop and have reduced by around a
third or more. Yet they are pressed
and harassed by new circumstances
and new emergencies. Even the
quota system for three years will not
be the desired and yearned for
panacea. But it will cushion the
blow. ; na will furnish a basis from
whiia start can be made later to
wan better prosperity.
To growers, then, we would
say vote affirmatively Saturday.
Vote that way because there is noth
ing else to do: vote it because it of
fers the be.-t hope in a bad situation;
vote it, even against your wishes, it
that is how you feel, so that you may
get help which otherwise will be
denied.
Not A Chance
Rumors from Chicago that the
Democratic convention might be
called on to accept or reject a plank
committing the party to a third
term would have been absurd had
they been accepted with any degree
of seriousness, which they were not.
Of ceurse, the only possibility of
any such move lay in the selection
of some other candidate than Pres
ident Roosevelt. Even in that event,
following the wild demonstrations
Tuesday and Wednesday nights for
a third term, such a proposal would
have been grotesque in the extreme.
The mention is too late to be of
consequence now. but most of the
Democratic members of the Senate
back in 1928 were among those who
voted firmly for a resolution disap
proving a third term when there was
a possibility that Calvin Coolidge
might attempt to break the age-old
tradition. B\t that related to a Re
publican president; this time to a
Democrat. That is the difference.
Likewise, the converse is in part
true now. Some Republicans who
then refused to take a stand against
possible Coolidge ambitions are now
bitter opponents of the third term
idea. So it depends a lot on whose
ox is gored.
History is Made
American history, yes even world
history, was made at Chicago early
today. Precedent was thrown to the
winds, tradition was trampled under
loot and tears of damage to free
democratic institutions went out the
window. Under the party lash
henceforth the captains and lieuten
ants and the rank and file will march
up and down the country shouting
and proclaiming that it matters not
at all how many times a man is
president of the United States, so
long as he is their man.
We do not now and have never
thought that the United States is in
the midst of a crisis or emergency
that justifies abandonment of a policy
that has more than once proved its
real worth as a safeguard for the
liberties of a free people. There l
more than one man in this country
who is qualified to hold the highest
office in the gift of citizens. The
Democratic party has more than
one: it has several.
The reason, pure and simple, why
the President was given a third term
nomination is that convention dele
gates believed him to be the best
vote-getter they had. and that con
tinuance of the jobs ot many ami
hopes for jobs by many others coulu
j best be assured by the course thai
j was taken. They also must have
I felt that a third term was what the
President wanted, and that those
who supported it would have the
best chances in the palaces of the
mighty when supplications were re
j newed or begun for the first time in
the ardent grasping for a place at
the pie counter.
There never was any doubt in
many minds that the convention
would do what it has done. There
never was. either, any doubt in the
same minds that the Pres'^Tnt want
ed and would accept the third term
when it was tendered, as the dele
Sates dared not do otherwise. Had
they taken Mr. Roosevelt at his
word Tuesday night and dropped
him to nominate some one else he
would have been the most surprised
and disappointed man in the United
States. It would be our guess that
the convention knew that.
The Roosevelt strategy worked
perfectly, as it usually does. The
setting developed completely, as it
was intended to do. The President
can now go to the country and say
that he told the convention he had
not sought, did not seek, has never
desired and does not now desire and
does not want a third term; that
it was thrust upon him: that he was
drafted and that he consented as
a patriotic act. He won't remind
the country, however, what it al
ready knows, that in his message to
the convention he was careful not to
say he would not accept if n«»mi
tuueci unci woma 1101 serve 11 eiecieu.
At least it cannot be said the
country was taken by surprise. The
build-up has been in process lung
enough that sufficient warning had
been had far in advance of the
gathering of the clans at Chicago.
Every one who took the trouble to
know, did know what was in
prospect, even was almost a dead
certainty. And that prospect and
certainty is now real.
For the first time in its 1G4 years
of proud and glorious history, the
country has seen a great political
party nominate a man for a third
term as President and has seen him
accept. If this abandonment of that
sacred tradition leads ultimately to
destruction, or even abridgement, of
individual rights and liberties; if it
turns the office of president into that
of a dictator; if it establishes a suc
cession to rulership in this nation;
if it increases defiance from the
White House toward opponents of
its policies; if it does nil these and
more, the Democratic party must
shoulder the blame and the voters
who shall be responsible in the final
analysis will be able only to look
back and rue the day they took a
step so radical, so cataclysmic, and
of such far-reaching consequence.
For our part, we have had no
other idea for a year or two than
that the President was at least
willing to accept a third term, if in
deed he did not want and was not
doing in a quiet way all he could to
get it: and that he would be nomi
i nated and would accept. We have
thought, too, and think now, on the
basis of the situation as it shapes
up as <>f today, that Franklin D.
Roosevelt will be re-elected in No
vember. irrespective of precedent,
tradition, custom, wisdom or what
not.
There are a half million astrol
ogers in the United States, accord
1 ing to an estimate. The stars in the
•»ky are getting almost as much at
tention as those in 11 >lly\vood.
What Do You
Know About
Norrh Carolina?
By FKED H. MAf
1. Who was the North Carolina
congressman who clied in 1903, dur
ing his first term?
12. When were North Carolinians
lined for failure to vote?
3. What penally did Speaker Calvin
Graves pay for voting to establish
the North Carolina Railroad?
4. Who was North Carolina's lar
gest slaveholder?
5. What percentage of North Caro
lina's population is listed as gainfully
occupied?
ti. Who was the North Carolina na
tive elected Republican congressman
from Alabama in 1872?
ANSWIKS.
1. James Montraville Moody, born
near Robbinsville. Graham county,
then Cherokee, in 1858. He moved to
Wavnesville and began the practice
of law in 1881. As a Republican he
took an active part in county politics
and was sent to the legislature sev
eral terms. In 1900 he was elected
congressman and served from March
1901 to February 5. 1903, when he
died at Wavnesville.
2. In 17(34 vestry acts were passed
which provided a penalty on any
qualified electors who failed to ap
pear and cast their ballot.
3. He never was re-elected again.
Senator Graves cast his vote in the
legislature of 1849 in favor of the
bill alter the body had voted a tie. I
The house had already passed the J
bill by a small majority.
4. John D. Bellamy, of Wilming- j
ton. who owned large plantations in i
Nin th Carolina and in South Caro- I
iina. In the two states Mr. Bellamy |
is said to have owned about 11001
slaves in all.
5. The latest reports published i
show that 48.5 percent of North Car- •
olina's population is gainfully oc
cupied. This represents some over 1.
500.000 persons.
6. Charles Pclham. born in Person;
county in 1835. His parents moved to I
ONE "PLANK" WE'RE ALL UNITED ON!
Alabama when he was quite young.
He studied law and began the prac
tice of that profession in Talladega
in 1858. He served in the Confederate
Army as a first lieutenant. For three
years prior to 1872 he was a circuit
court judge and then was elected re
presentative tu congress on the Re
publican ticket. He declined to be a
candidate to succeed himself. Moved
to Poulan. Georgia, and died there
in 19U7.
ANSWERS TO
FEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page
1. Queen of Sheba.
2. Sirius. the dog star.
3. Georgia.
4. To prevent filing or chipping
away the metal.
5. No.
6. Democratic party, in 1879.
7. Yes.
8. Bismarck.
lJ. St. John the Divine in New
York City.
10. Tempi, or tempos.
Capital Gossip
BY IIEN'KY AVERILL
Raleigh, July 18.—Commissioner
of Labor Forrest Shuford is hot un
der the collar about the way his de
partment has been ignored by Fed
eral wage-hour publicists in releases
regaarding the current checkup on
North Carolina's lumber industry.
Reading the releases, which are
prepared in Washington, one gathers
the impression that wage-hour in
spectors ol this regional unit are
waging a single-handed drive; when
as a matter of fact most of the work
is being done by employees of the
North Carolina Department of Labor.
Some time ago it was announced
with great fanfare of publicity trum
pets that the State and the Federal
wage-hour folks were launching into
the first great cooperative enforce
ment program in the nation.
It seems, however, that the Federal
notion of cooperation is for the State
Department of Labor to do the work,
I
while the Federal folks sit back and
'claim all the credit.
Mr. Shu lord himself isn't saying
anything, but your reporter learns
that iie has sent a flat ultimatum to
the Washington office demanding
that it give the State people due
credit. Otherwise. Mr. Shuford pro
poses to follow one of two courses:
either start issuing publicity himself,
or quit the cooperative agreement
cold.
Attorney General Harry Mcilullan
plan to have his office represented,
probably by Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Wade Bruton, at a conference
with the United States Attorney Gen
eral in Washington early in August.
The meeting has been called, under
auspices of the National Association
of Attorney-Generals to work out
a program of full coopertaion in pro
blems arising from the national de
fense plans and from the current
war emergency.
It's the School Commission which
is now suffering from the Negro
teachers' salary "headache", but the
ailment is sure to extend into every
administrative school unit in the
state before it's over with—and pro
bably in aggravated form.
The State pays all teacher salaries
and so the Commission is bearing the
burden now that salaries alone are
unaer examination; but once the
Federal courts have decreed, as they
are practically certain to do, that
Negro teachers must be paid equal
slaaries for equal work, many other
questions are sure to bob up.
There will be demands for equally
good buildings, equal transportation
facilities, equal janitor service—in
short, equality in every respect. 1
Their demands will be uniformly
backed by more Federal court de
cisions if they are brought to a show- I
down.
It is the counties which will have
to worry about building the equally ,
good school houses, and furnishing i
the equal transportation facilities.
There has been for some time a lot ;
of publicity about the Commission '
and its study of the present salary i
schedule and speculation about what I
it will do with the extra money it j
has to dole out this year. It hardly !
seems worthwhile geting very cxcit- :
SALLY'S SALLIES
Reentered U. S. Patent Ofticc
We CM'f GeT )
WQZClO on I
our. WorttyMoofi
WAK-flu. /
Iwe qtr Home/,
Marriage nowadays is not a handicap—with some people it's
more like an obstacle race. !1
•i
ed about; for alter all there is only
some $250,000 to be distributed
among nearly 25,000 teachers, which
makes it certain there cannot be an
average raise of more than one dol
lar per month for each teacher.
Utility companies (telephone, pow
er, etc.) are already beginning to lay
the groundwork for argument that
the national defense program will
greatly increase their operating
costs. At least one big company has
informed Utility Commissioner Stan
ley Winborne that it will have to
station guards at vital points on its
system in order to be insured against
sabotage efforts.
None has yet indicated directly
that it will seek to increase its rates,
but that is the next logical step in
view of what they are presently tell
ing the Utility Commissioner.
Apprentice
Program Lags
Daily Dispatch bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, Juiy 18.—A meeting of
the State Apprentice Council has
been called l'or next Monday in an
effort tu speed up the entire appren
ticeship program, Commissioner of
Labor Forrest Shul'ord said today
He pointed out that training of
skilled workmen is one of the pri
mary activities of the current Na
tional Defense program and indicat
ed that the Department will try to
cooperate in this program in every
possible way.
The apprentice program was au
thorized by the 1939 General Assem
bly, but so far the Department and
the Apprentice Council has not been
able to "sell" it to North Carolina
employers in any great numbers and
all acquainted with the subject de
clare that "selling" is the big pro
blem.
To date only about a dozen ap
prentices have actually been inden
tured in the state, practically all ul
them in the metal industries.
It is on these industries that the
greatest "selling" pressure will be
brought. Mr. Shuford said, as it is in
the metal trades that the greatest
speeding up of instruction ol' trained
workers is desired by the defense
heads.
The Commissioner ol Labor assert
ed that the apprentice plan, on its
own merits and irrespective of na- j
lional defense, should be pushed vig- '
srously as it will tend to give North I
Carolint a much larger supply of I
skilled workmen.
"One of the principal drawbacks
;o the wage scales of North Caro- j
linn general is the lack of trained
-non in industry", he said, "industries '
jo where they can get skilled work
men and the more industries the
jigger will be North Carolina's pay- |
VI11 c »
LARGER FUND FOR
TENANT PURCHASES
Raleigh, July 18—(AP)—Vance I
Z. Swift, state director of farm se
curity administration, announced to
lay toat North Carolina's alloca
ion of funds to aid tenants in pur
chasing farms this fiscal year would
»e S2.766.491.
This is a 25 per cent increase over
he S2.146,797 available last fiscal
ear.
Under ;he B^nkhead-Jones farm
enant act, loans are made for a I
ieriod of 40 years, at 3 per cent in
erest. for the purchase of faniily
ize farms by tenants. Since the act
nok effect in 1937 a total of 721
arms have been purchased.
SUCCESSOR
Wilmington. Del.. July 18.—(AP)
'•'■•lin R. Whiting succccdcd Wen
dell L. Willkie yesterday as president
and member oj the board ol' Com
| hi on wealth and Southern eorpora
.tion.
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New York City
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Abraham Sliced, de
c-cased, la to of Vance County. North
Carolina, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the estate
of said deceased to exhibit them to
the undersigned at Henderson, N. C.
on or before the 10th day of July
1941, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. %
This loth d;iy of July, 1940.
T. S. KITTKELL,
Administrator of Estate ol
Abraham Sliced, Deceased.
11-1H-25-1-H-15
NOTICE SERVICE SIMMONS
BY PUBLICATION.
In Superior Court.
North Carolina:
County of Vance:
Margaret I). Harris. Plaintiff.
vs.
Charlie Harris, Defendant.
The defendant Charlie Harris will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Vance County,
North Carolina for absolute divorce
on statutory grounds; and said de
fendant will further take notice that
he is required to appear at the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county in the Court house in
Henderson. N. C.. within thirty days
after the olh day of August 1940,
and answer or dnnur to the com
plaint in said action, or the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complaint.
E. C). FALKNER,
Clerk of the Superior Court
of Vance Countv, N. C.
This 18th ot July. 1940.
18-25-1-tf
INSURANCE — RENTALS
Real Estate- Home Financing
Personal and courteous attention
to all details.
AL. B. WESTER
Phone 139 McCoin Bldg
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HENDERSON BUSINESS < - ^ ,L;, .
September 2. Tin- n:<|.
young person of today
more satisfaction with
training than in any oi!,c,
tion.
COME TO FARMERS W.\l;i
to C. T. Neatilery's Fru:i
cantaloupes, watermer
Sandhill peaches.
CLEARANCE SALE: AU
mer shoes, men's.
children's. Teiser's 1 h..
Store.
RADIO AND REFRIGERA
plies and repairs by cxik .:
men. Knowledge and ,
pairs save you money.
Goodwyn Jewells, phone
FOR RENT: FIVE ROOM rl
ed apartment, first llooi
veniences. Miss G. C. Blae,.
Horner street.
WE SPECIALIZE"! N ALL
kinds of body and l'enu. r re.
pair work. Motor Sal. r0
FOR RENT: SMALL AIWI f
or room, close in, photte : •
A SMART NEW 11A1R-D'.' ,
ol our other beauty sei .• wi;!
do wonders for your aprice
Phone 200 for appointment
gers Beauty Sho.p. ;,.tj
SWEET POTATOES FOR S.\; v;
digging up my plant bed
tell potatoes cheap. They v.
good hog feed. See me il 111' ; i • pq
A. J. Cheek.
HAVE YOU SEEN ol i; iy.jQ
All Fibre Tailor Fit S<«:
Covers?—Come in. let u>
show you. Henderson Vul.
canizing Co. Tliur.v tf.
FOR RENT—ONE LARC.K or
three small store rooms on Rr< >,.
ridge St. Next to Embassy '! i >
for further information rail. S S
Stevenson. l
FOR RENT: TWO ROOM I'M i -
nished downstairs ainnimii;,
Hamilton street: three i,.
I furnished apartment. Sii.'.u ..
Vance street., Service statiot . r! .><>
! in. Mew modern eight rum!: Imu-e.
, Phone 311-W. li. L. Musti;m. in-it
J OFFICES FOR REN1 — McCOIN
Building—center ol business— no
j stairs to climb—fireproof building
Heat, light, and janitor service in;.
• nished. Apply Eric G. Flannagan,
| McCoin Building. thurs-tf
FOR PROMPT AND EFFICIENT
service on radios, refrigerators,
watches, and clocks, call or .-ee
Petty & Mixon. Phone 532. 5-tf
FOR BETTER BARN FUHNACES
use brixment! Also have a fresh
stock of lime, cement, hard bint
—Wood shingles, rough IiihiIjpi.
building paper and roll routing
Alex S. Watkins. "The Plate «,f
Values." 18-lti
SAVE MONEY—ALL WHITE SL'.OO
shoes, SI.79; all $3.50 shoes. $2.:»;
wash pants, 75c and $1.25: rrq*
sole men's shoes, $1.89. Baker's.
11-tf
MODERN BRICK APARTMENT,
air conditioned, with hot ami -Id
water, for rent. On Cooper a; em*.
If interested see J. B. Gee. or rail
| 830-W or 866.
All keyed ads are strictly con
fidential. Please do not call
the office lor their identity.
EXECTTORS NOTICE.
Having qualified as E.\ecut<>i ■
| the estate of George W. Hunt. d*. -
.ceased, this is notify all person ii -
I iny claims against the estate "l '
I deceased to exhibit them to tin -
dersigned at Henderson. N. ■:l
! or before the 2<)th day of June. .
j or this notice will be plead ns ij
I of their recovery.
This the 2(ith day of June. 194"
! CITIZENS BANK & THUST CD..
Executor of the Estate of
George W. Hunt.
20-27-4-11-18-25
NOTICE.
Pursuant to order of re-sale ' J
Superior Court of Vance County. !•
C., in special proceeding 'i*1
Carrie Pearson, et al. vs. Moll ■ !!■
derson, et als, therein pendi! „
undersigned commissioner:- will
for sale at the courthouse d'»"i T
Vance County. N. C.. to 1 h«• i - "
bidder for cash at mid-day mi
urday the 27th. day of July i!"1' ' '*
bidding to begin at SI 13.(in. tlr ' "
lowing described real j>r« >p«
All those two certain tract •• 1 '
eels of land containing !).ll a«n
29.35 acrcs, in aggregate of 3<!.V';
more or less, subject to the d". ' >'
metes and bounds of 5.9 acn . •
situate near Greystone "t
Book 5 Page 10 and Book
19u Vance Registry.
This 11th. July. 194(i
T. P. GllOLSON
and
D. P. McDUFFEE,
Commissioners.
li-ia
B. H. M1X0N
(Incorporated)
Contractor and
Builder
"Builds Batter Buihliii'i
Also Wall Papering, Pa.nt -
Roofing and Termite
Extermination.
Phone 7.