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Elfe ^ Springs Cittern VOLUME 32. NUMBER 1. RED SPRINGS, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE LOCKING POST OFFICE LOBBY CAUSES KICK Recent Practice Of Postmaster Of Locking Lobby At 9 P. M. Brings Many Protests; Department Passes Buck To Local Office; Matter Un der Consideration. A great deal of inconvenience and annoyance is being caused by the re cent practice of the postmaster here of locking the lobby to the building at nine o’clock in the evening and keeping it locked until eight o’clock the next morning. The patrons of the office who are lock box renters are coliplaining because they are not allowed access to their boxes on which they pay rent during these hours. The locking of the postoffice lobby is really working hardships in many cases. Where a person is un able to get to the office before nine p. m. in the evening and has to leave town the next morning before eight o'clock it is impossible for him to get his mail, often for several days. Before moving the office into its new position the fist of June lobby service was continuous, but when the transfer was made to the new build ing the locking of the lobby began and so did the gicks against the practice. An interview with the post- master brought forth the information that he had been instructed by the postoffice department in Washington to lock the lobby. The light police man was asked to lock the lob^ which he refused to do unless the postoffice department would pay him for doing so. Since then the lobby has been locked most of the time by the special delivery boy. Upon the refusal of the night policeman to lock the lobby without any pay the post- master applied to the town board to require him to do so. This the town board has not done, some of the members feeling thaf the town has nothing to do with the postoffice and that if the government wanted the office locked it would provide for it as it does for its other employees. On June 22, the editor of The Red Springs Citizen wrote the postoffice department in Washington protesting against the locking of the lobby and thus preventing patrons of the office getting their mail out of lock boxes for which they are paying rent and in reply was advised that the policy of the department was to lock the lobby during the evening hours dur ing. tbs Gauffer from.ono locaf/on t« another but since the local post- " master had written the department requesting authority to. keep the lob by locked. We are publishing below the letter of protest as well as the department’s reply: Red Springs, N. C. June 22, 1929. "The Third Assistant Postmaster General, Wishington, D. C. Sir: •As editor of The Red Springs Cit- zen I get a number of inquiries con cerning the recent habit of the post- master here of locking the postoffice at 9 P. M. and not opening it again until 8 o’clock the next morning. This practice works a great incon venience to the public as many of the patrons of the office find it impossi ble to get their mail from the even ing trains until after nine o’clock, and when they are going out of town early the next morning, before 8 o’clock, makes it still longer for the mail to lie in the postoffice. The records of this office will show that the mail has never been stolen from the office although before moving into the new' postoffice build ing a large percent of the boxes re mained open, it being impossible to lock many of them, and still no mail was lost. If this system of locking the lobby of the office at 9 o’clock is persisted in by the department it will just mean the giving up of lock boxes by the patrons of the office, for as it is now there is no need of renting a box if it is not accessible only about two hours after the win dow closes. There is a great deal of dissatis faction here over the locking of the lobby during the hours mentioned above . I will appreciate it if you will ad vise me so I may,through the columns of my paper, advise the public of the ■department’s, attitude on the matter and on behalf of the patrons of the office I respectfully request that you take steps to remedy the condition of which we complain. Thanking you for a prompt reply, lam, Very truly yours, (Signed) R. L. Eastham. Washington Has List , Celebrated Visitors Washington, July 31.—The actors did not propose to let the hot weath er cheat sweltering Washingtonians out of their regular seventh day sen sation last week, so they staged a couple of them—or, possibly it might be said, a two-act thriller with such absorbing climaxes that a number of interact features, which ordinarily would have inspired serious attention were completely over-shadowed. Within the week, the accredited re presentation of forty nations assem bled in the east room of the White House to proclaim the renunciation of war, while twenty-two other coun tries were represented in spirit if not in the flesh. Even without an inspiring background such an assem blage would have been of immeasur able human interest. If the circum stances, the motive back of the con clave made of it an occurrence of unparalleled dramatic import. Of course, not even the most visionary advocate of universal peace has at tempted to delude himself with the idea that the pact will absolutely preclude war for all time. Concert ed effort to prevent forever physical encounters between pugnacious indi viduals would be little less of a dream. But we now have a league of good-will among nations, united to make resort to arms far less pro bable than before. At the head of the momentous gathering stood President loover. At one side of Mr. Hoover stood ex- President Coolidge, who had per ceived the feasibility, the magnificent purport and the ultimate success of Premier Briand’s historic plea, and at the other side Frank B. Kellogg, whose name the treaty will bear for all time. To fortunate onlookers, it was a scene never to be forgotten; to all it marked an epoch in human progress. The spirit of the Kellogg peace pact found even anticipatory re sponse in moves by two outstanding powers, Great Britain and the Unit ed Stales, toward reduction of naval armament. Before the representatives of the many governments had arrived at the White House, word came that Pre mier MacDonald had announced a reduction in this years British naval program. Immediately after the for mal ceremonies of the peace-pact conclave. President Hoover retired to his executive offices for deliberation on this significant .news. As a result met the MacDona!3 gesture wt the announcement that work on the three cruisers authorized in tins year’s program would be held up. They are three of the five cruisers for which congress appropriated at the last regular session. Navy yards were to do the work. The blue prints already are in the course of preparation and as the President said in his announcement, “the actual keels would, in the ordinary course, be laid some time this fall.’’ It is undoubtedly probable that Mr, Hoover already had in mind the hold ing un of work on his three cruisers as a gracious move when the nroner time name but there had. been no in timation. that it was to come coin- nidentalJy wth the signing of the i”eatr An answer or comment on the British empire’s announcement had been expected, but the nature of it came generally as a surprise. Did ever tree bear fruit more ex peditiously ? As was intimated in this column last week, hopes for early reduction of Federal taxes are waning. Fig ures made available by the treasury last week show that expenses of ev ery department of the government, except the White House, increased for the fiscal year ended June 30. Pres ident Hoover has now found that the government faces increased expendi tures amounting to approximately $300,000,000 in the next four years, the cost of government continues to rise in spite of every effort to hold the budget to a minimum of actual requirements. In this connection President Hoov er declared that something would be done about this country’s spending’ more for military activities than any other nation on earth. Another com mission is to be set up, this one com posed of army general staff officers, to survey and revamp the entire army program with a view to elim inating obsolete outlays, to rearrang ing development projects, and in gen eral to effect all economies possible without danger to adequate prepar edness. The move toward material reductions in the naval branch of the military up-keep is already under way and tax reduction doubtless de pends upon the success of these two Mr. I. T. Brown's Condition Improving The last reports from Highsmith ETospital, Fayetteville, where he was carried last Thursday night, were to the effect that the condition of Mr, I. T. Brown was as satisfactory as could be expected and his recovery is now looked for. Mr, Brown was kicked in the side last Thursday afternoon by a mule when he went into the stable to at tend to the feeding of the animal. So severe was the kick that a break in Mr. Brown’s liver of about nine, inches resulted. He was rushed im mediately to Highsmith hospital by his physician, Dr. R. D. McMillan, where an operation wa,. resorted to in order to save his life. The ope ration was performed Friday, it be ing necessary to wait until the in jured man had recovered sufficiently from the shock of the accident. Mr. Brown lost considerable blood from internal bleeding asd his con dition has been serious in the extreme during the past week. However, the hospital ancT attending doctors now- see a change in his condition, and. while he is still not entirely out of danger it is expected by all who are watching the case that he will re cover. GOVERNMENT TOBACCO GRAD ING SERVICE BEGINS IN S. C. The Government tobacco grading service at Lake City, S. C., which began July 30, is to be followed by establishment of the service at one market in North Carolina, three markets in Virginia, two in Kentucky and one in Tennessee. It is expected that the grading work thi a season will lay the foundation for expansion of the service to many more mark ets next year. Robeson Co. Cotton Growers To Picnic Will Southern Con gressman and Sena Misses Buie And Jones Entertain [School Board Meets ^^rfintt Misses Helen Buie and Martha tors stay uwn section.^^ Joneg entertained comp i imen . Itary to their house guests, Miss July 31.—Washing-! Harriette Edwards of Due West, S. C., Misses Louise and Frances Reaves Washington ton is now going' Trough the usual’ political Same that is witnessed whenever a tarig measure is being considered by Congress. The pres ent scene differs from previous ones only to the extent that southern ag ricultural and industrial interests object to being used as the football in this periodical battle. The south stands in greater need of a protective tariff far its varied interests of agriculture, of minerals, and of manufactures, than any other part of the United States. Its peo ple have not been able to accumulate the vast wealth of other sections and, therefore, need the benefit of a protective duty to a greater extent than the industries or the agriculture of other sections. This fact was recognized at the tariff conference of the southern commissioners of agriculture of 12 states and the committees appointed by them, o total of 64 delegates, which was held in this city June 17- 19, when a tariff program for south ern agriculture was outlined. The South, in thus authoritatively em bracing a protective tariff policy, took a long step forward. It also took on new and tremendous re sponsibilities. The greatest obstacle to southern progress in tariff legislation is that many southern congressmen and sen sors vote agajss- jt. Witness t’uir action on the meaure when a vote via; taken in the l ouse. The Florida delegation of four voted solidly for it. six of the seven Louisiana con gressmen voted affirmatively; two of South Boston, Va., Miss Grace McCloninger of Newton, with a love ly bridge luncheon at the home of Miss Helen Buie on Thursday morn ing at 10:30 o’clock. The house was lovely, a profusion of garden flowers being used. At the conclusion of the game covers were laid and a two-course luncheon was served. Those present were Misses Martha Miller Jones, Helen Buie, Harriette Edwards, Lena Phillips, Louise and Francis Reaves, Grace McCloninger, Genevieve McMillan, Sadie Coving ton, Katie Blue McLeod, Alice Hall, Mary Roberts, Isabelle Buie and Mrs.. W. B. Townsend and Mrs. A. M. Stack. Popular Couple In Film Success out of eignteen Texas r pc lives supported the bill; all southern representatives against the bill. The cotton farmer of the other voted •uth presents the greatest tragedy. His Tuesday Evening At a meeting of the school board held Tuesday night in the school building the purychase of two new school trucks from D. M. McMillan local Ford Dealer, was finally con firmed with instructions passed for their delivery immediately in order that bodies might ,^e built on the chasis. _Mr. Cameron, manager of Upchurch Milling aim - Storage Co., of Raeford, appeared before the board soliciting the building .of the truck bodies. No action was taken by the board on the truck bodies as it bodies The Leigh, board wanted to investigate other before coming to a decision. resignation of Mr. C. E, sent to the chairman of the under date of June 11, was Her latest picture, in which she is co-featured with Gary Cooper, “The Shopworn Angel,” at its opening to- night at the Red Springs Theatre, where it will play for two days, is a new triumph for Nancy Carroll, Paramount and the Red Spring's Theatre management. Nancy Carroll has everything. She is a delight to watch. The life and action in her portrayal, the absorb ing personality and the charm of her presence provides all the enter tainment one needs for one evening. But then there's Gary Cooper. Coop er has “that” which for men actors is the same thing as “it” for women Post Office Department First Assistant Postmaster General. Washington, D. C. July 16, 1929. Mr. R. L. Eastham, Editor, The Red Springs Citizen. Red Springs North Carolina. My dear Mr. Eastham: The Third Assistant Postmaster General has referred to me for at tention your letter if June 22 in which you state that you have re ceived a number of inquiries con cerning the practice of the postmas- 0 ^ R e d Springs in closing the lobby at 9 p m., and not opening it again until 8 o’clock the following morning, and I note your statement that a great inconvenience has been worked on the public. The postoffice, as you know, has (Continued on page four) recently been moved into new quar ters and in the progress of an in vestigation conducted by post office inspectors in connection with this transfer the postmaster was advised [ as to the department's practice in re quiring postoffices closed during the evening hours. The postmaster has since addressed this bureau request ing authority to keep the lobby closed as above and the matter is now un der consideration. I assure you that before taking any definite action in the matter your representations will be given due weight. Sincerely yours. (Signed) Arch Coleman. First Assistant Postmaster General. presented and accepted. Mr. Leigh gave as his reason for resigning from the board the fact that he was out of town most of the time and consequently could not attend the meetings of the board or perform the duties expected of a boa-d. mem ber. Upon motion of Dr. McMillan, Mr. D. M. McMillan was elected to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Leigh. The school board at previous meet ing decided to open the school this year the 9th of September. It ap pearing to the board that the new school law would not interfere as much as had been anticipated with the finances of the board it was de cided to employ the same number o^ teachers this year as were employed last year. When the new school law was first passed the board was with out authority to employ extra teach ers but a recent ruling by the, attor ney general gives the board this au thority when in their opinion a cur tailment of’ the teaching force will seriously affect Ire efficiency o’ the school. The same 1c true concernin'’ the length of term for the gaming year. The board had previously cut the school term to eight month; but since the ruling of the attom-w general on the new law the term has been put back to nine months as heretofore. actors. He has proved it in many strong parts but. in no one of his pictures, has he excelled so com pletely as in “The Shopworn Angel.’ “The Shopworn Angel” is a ten der love story of a boy, shy, bashful, honest, and a girl, gay, giddy, charm ing and true. It is a pathetic story played against the bright background of Broadway. It is a glittering piece of romanticism, a thrilling tangle of circumstances in which a clean-mind ed young man and a re-awakened girl are swirled helplessly. “The Shopworn Angel” has many things to recommend it. It has Nancy, Carroll, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, that captivating and mysteri ous person, and an unusual, moving love story in a brilliant Setting. It is good entertainment throughout and it is good for thinking people. “The Shopworn Angel” is a picture to see status in the tariff measure now in the making, hurls a challenge to the statesmanship of the south and of the nation. During the 1928 tariff legislation, the Southern Tariff As sociation, in conjunction with com modity and national producing or ganizations, led the fight in the sen ate for a duty on cotton— fibre and [seed. The late \ Senator Gooding cordially invited to succeeded in putting a duty of seven cents per pound on long staple cot- toA over the opposition of southern democrats. This merely added an annual value of $28,000,000 to the The Robeson County Unit of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Co- operative Association is sponsoring a basket picnic to be held at Ten Mile church Thursday, August Sth. Mr. Blalock, the general manager of the association, will be on hand that day as will Dr. Carl Taylor, who is booked to make the princi- McMillan Has Fine Agency In Fairmont Robeson Sales Co., Inc., which firm is composed of D. M. McMillan of Red Springs, president; Mrs.'D. M. pal address. Everybody is attend this picnic and it is hoped a large number of the farmers of this section will avail themselves of this opportunity of hearing the New Farm Relief bill explained, as this will be the subject of Dr. Taylor’s address. Dellinger Takes Over Popular Maxton Elotel Mr. L. J. Dellinger, operator of the Red Springs Hotel, has just tak en over the management of the Maple Shade Hotel in Maxton. Mr. Dellinger came to Red Springs and leased the Red Springs Hotel about a year ago, and has made many friends since coming here. He is an experienced hotel man and well known to the traveling publii. Gardner Declines To Pardon Cameron Raleigh, July 27.—Governor 0. Max Gardner today refused to grant a parole or pardon to John A. Cam-I the south. crip. Only six democratic senators supported the amendment in 1922— Heflin of Alabama; Ransdell of Lou isiana; Sheppard of Texas; Ashhurst of Arizona; Harris of Georgia; and Hendricks of Wyoming; all others voted against it or remained silent. Those same Senators who voted against the proposed amendment in 1922 are today attempting to lull their constituents into a sense of false security as they did in 1922 by' assuring them that they will “take care” of their interests at the proper time. The greatest peril confronting the entire southern schedules in the measure now pending is that of a group of southern senators voting for protection on the products of their state, against protection on pro ducts of other states, and against the bill as a while. There is an unmis takable feeling of resentment on the part of protection senators against such tactics, and impatience may re sult to the very great detriment of eron, now confined at state’s prison! The same condition exists in the to serve a 20-year ^sentence imposed. 1 -, vegetable oil industry. It is esti- ’ mated by those most capable ’ of judging that the placing of vegetable oils upon the dutiable list will add $8.00 per ton to the value of Cotton seed, making a crop value of $46,- 000,000 additional per annum. What on him in 1913. Cameron escaped from state’s prison in 1914 and was returned here from Alabama last No vember. The governor wired Judge N. A. Townsend, executive counsellor, who investigated the pardon petition and held a hearing in regard to the same, t’/.t he concurred in the re commendation of Judge Townsend, which was that he did not feel jus- tiled in recommending a this time. Cameron, charged with der of P. C. Oakes, chief parole at the mur- of police of Raeford, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in May, 1913, and , wa- sentenced to serve twenty years. He escaped prison in December, 1914. Under an assumed name, J. B. Davis he became a wealthy turpentine and lumber dealer at Sylacauga, Ala., and. his pardon petition was accom panied by numerous petitions from that state requesting clemency for him. The report of Judge Townsend to Governor Gardner recounts that an attempt was made to have Governor Bickett pardon Cameron some years ago, but that he refused because the man was a fugitive from justice. Several later efforts were also at tempted before Cameron was appre hended back to prison. A close in vestigation of the record of Camer on, who was said by his counsel to have killed the policeman while ab normal mentally due to excessive drinking, showed. Judge Townsend said, that in Alabama he had not entirely reformed’ 'from his former habit or drinking and that his stay in Alabama had not been entirely free from criminal court record. A newspaper account of the killing of Oaks is recounted in the report to the governor, which said that Cam eron shot Oaks when the officer pro bably didn’t even see his assailant. These facts, together with the fact are southern representatives going to do about this condition? The tariff is not a political ques tion. It is purely an economic one. Southern agriculture is languishing for lack of protective duties. South ern products in wide variety are be ing seriously injured by heavy im portations of tomatoes, of citrus fruits, celery, onions, and many oth er farm products from Italy, Mexico, and other countries where the rate of wages is absurbly low. Apparently many southern senators' and members of the house are de termined to betray their own section by fighting in every way possible against a protective tariff. The fight is not so much one of principle, but is based largely on opposition to a protective tariff because that has long been one of the cardinal prin ciples of the Republican party. If these representatives were wise in their day and generation they would take the lead for a protective tariff away from the republican party and demand and carry out with the aid of republicans a tariff which would absolutely protect every interest in the south, and in doing so would pro tect other sections as well. Congressman Hudspeth, one of the two Texas representatives who sup- r 'crted the bill, in a speech before the house on May 27th, made these per tinent remarks: ‘You say the repub lican party is the founder of the (Continued on page four) that Cameron violated the rules of the prison by escaping, led Judge Townsend to not recommend clem ency. McMillan, vice-president, and J. L. Meehan, secretary and treasurer, is Fairmont’s newest automobile estab lishment, having the agency for Ford automobile an! parts. , - This company bought out a few weeks ago the Webster Motor Co..' which had been operating in Fair mont for years. In the spacious Jones building repairs and renova- IVEWS ^° ns ^ ave ^ e€n under way, making the place one of the best equip- Messrs N H Biddell, G. M. Chand Ped show rooms and shops in all ler and Roy Lewis went to Bladen- this section. A new plate glass boro last Sunday evening to attend front 1S being put in. concrete floor the quarterly meeting of the Lum-: laid for a large show room, 2 offices berton circuit Methodist church. 1^°^ r °4° n 2 and large t r . epai f sh0p 021 Mr E. M. Paul, his two little sons,’ the first floor asd a big show room Horace and George^Neill Brown and ■ for second-hand cars upstairs. Abso- George Holt spent Sunday afternoon lately up-to-date in every respect is at Lake Waccamaw. I the shop, modem equipment recom- Messirs E. H. Cook, Sr., and Jen- mended by the Ford Motor Co. being ■ | installed. Any kind of job can be nd talk about. PEMBROKE nings Smith left by automobile last. Monday for an extended trip to New fork, Boston and other Northern points of interest. taken care of. Expert mechanics otner lyortnern . have been employed. In addition to They will proba- ? enera l repair jobs, the shop does --- - -- thigh pressure alemiting, washing and bly be gone for two weeks or more.i"'^’ r^ Mr. J. L. Thaggard and family, Painting. Mrs. E. M. Paul and family and Mrs. 1 M. .., „„„ Ilcauo LIle Betty Brown spent last Thursday at Robeson Sales Co., is an automobile Lake Waccamaw. (dealer of experience, having been in Rural Policeman A. M. Maddry, the business at Red Springs since and family spent last Thursday at Joe Meehan, who resigned a Lake Waccamaw, .position with the Norment Motor Mr. W. K. Todd, formerly of Lum-!\°” in Lumberton to go to the new berton has accepted a position at’ PI? 06 ’^ nag been dealing in autorno^ Tvner’s garage as mechanic. I biles for years and knows thenj^^B- Mr. M. N. Folger and the follow- Sociated with Mr. Meehan as assist ing boys and young men, Messrs “ n t manager is L. I, Campbell, who Earl Paul, Isadore Cook, ^ o^^^^a o„t„—mm . McMillan, who heads the Masters is also an experienced automobile James Maddry, James Paul, Theo dore Tyner, Jasper Tolar and Mil- ton Folger from Pembroke and Mr. Arnold Pate^ from 'Whiteville spent last week at Lake Waccamaw. Mr. Folger and , the Pembroke boys came home Sunday afternoon and Mr. Pate went to his home at Whiteville. Rev. Lee Pridgen preached at the Pembroke Baptist church Sunday evening filling the regular appoint ment of his father. Rev. W. D. Pria gen, of Bladenboro. Rev. Roy Tyner llled his regular appointment at Bethel Baptist church Sunday evening. We are indeed very sorry to re port the death of Mr. Alexander Jones, of Hasty, Scotland County. Mr. Jones was the father of Mrs. N. H. Biddell of Pembroke, and the many friends of Mrs. Biddell will greatly sympathile with her in the loss of her father. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Monroe and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Biddell were among those from Pembroke who attended the funeral. We had the pleasure or knowing Mr. Jones, having seen him many times here visiting his daughter, Mrs. Biddell. We know that Mr. Jones man, having been one of the found ers of the B. &. C. Chevrolet Co. at Red Springs. was a man of very high class and standing. He was one of Scotland County’s most prominent men. Jones had a very lovable disposi tion and we know that his communi ty will greatly miss him. Mr.. Jones was buried last Friday afternoon, in the Methodist church cemetery near Hasty, where he had been a devoted member for a great number of years. Mr. Jones leaves his wife, two sons and two daughters. Town to Sell Property to Collect Back Taxes The Town Board is advertising all property for sale in this issue of the Citizen on which the taxes, both general and street paving taxes, have not been paid up to date. The non-payment of taxes by property i holders has considerably embarrassed the board during the past year in meeting it, financial obligation in cident to running the town and has now reached a point where the board feels that it is imperative that these past due taxes be paid. Mr. A. P. Spell, clerk of the board state yesterday that this properaty would be sold on the first Monday of September and immediately there after suits would be started to re- close the tax lien thus acqui ' order to force the payment taxes. Any person whose p rty is advertised for sale may em the property by paying the tax be fore the d°v of sale, along with the in the expense of advertising same. Upon Mr. | payment of the tax Mr. Spell states that the advertisement for that par- He calls his garage the “Half Wav Inn” because that’s the way his wife parks the car.—The Pathfinder. ticular piece of property will be discontinued. According to the records there is something like $20,000.00 due the town in back taxes. Of this amount practically $16,000.00 is^ fot^street paving assessment a»WJ®||® general taxes. Tli this propertyfm^K||||||||i||M to result in ^x 4