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A (Colyiisii Of Thoughts IS From There, Here VOLUMEXXT Yonder WARRENTONN. C, TUEDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1920 Number 16 A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTEB ESTS OFWAlUJENTON AND WAR KEN COUNTY Z! ( By W. BRODIE JONES) ' ! I This is the spring before they nomi nate candidates in the summer to run in the Fall. It is early and before Time brings us into another political campaign, we would urge that this year be a year fx-ee from mud slinging, political backbiting, and envy given voice thru odious charges. Personal denunciation will not cure the evils it only breeds distrust arid dissatisfaction. It only parades be fore the State a narrowness of which we should feel ashamed and creates an element of anger which makes true co-operation and progress impossible. Indeed there should be candidates and there will. The duty of the citi zenship is to measure the things fcr which these candidates stand and. vote as their best judgement dictates the mind, not envy - or jealousy or hate should be in evidence at the ballot. Would that the same spirit which ?s in evidence upon the football field and in athletic good sportsmanship might pfciui Is Ei V MrateM Is To ffi git- Land Which is Set oh Hill and Can t be Hid Will be Forced to Bear Under Peak Val uation Larger Proportion of Taxes Than Its Share. The Governor of North Carolina has taken for his text the following: "Ye view and leave the lands and the per sonal property the only haven of taxa- shall know the Truth and the Truth jtion for the State, until another shall make ye free" and applied it to '"fiurry" to cret out th invisihlo arrive tnn 1 AI x . . ic-vaiuuuon -vet to prove fllS contention that justice is being done ; the people as a whole and the North. govern a race for office in Warren j Carolina farmer in particular. county. Would that our candidates j The North Carolina farmer has might bo good sports and play the! never asked favoritism, he has been game accordingly. jand is now ready to bear all just bur- Would that we might have a cam- dens of taxation, but in doing so, he paign iree ot mudslmging and an at- j desires that they be just burdens. He ((which all knew) and then placed the mosphere free of the poisonous gasobjdoes not desire to place any unjust i same rate on farm lands,' but increased of the Other Fellow's Sins. ' burden on the other citizens of the i the value, - and another Legislature comes along (and let us hope it will be a long time) that will deliberately say "we don't need any more money, the State hi;? all it needs, but we want to lower the rate and increase the value. Arid they lowered the rate on all intangible wealth without increasing the value There is no trouble with the re-val- I v i State whose pecuniary interests are "This government the offspring of not directly invested in farms. In i uation Act, properly administered our own choice, uninfiunced and un- j fact, if we read the signs aright, the say properly administered. Therein awed, has a just claim on your confi- j farmer leans to that system of taxa- jlies the "body of death," or the "spirit dence and your support. Respect Jtion which will take care of the inter- 'of Life," depending upon its applicl f for its authority, compliance with its jests of all home owners, rural and ur- jtion to the conditions now confronting laws, asquience in its masures, are -ban. "Ye shall know the truth and cur citizens. The Governor's "pound duties enjoined by the fundamental j the truth shall make ye free" is a j of remedy" should have been the maxims of liberty." Washington's j glorious text, and the Truth is what '"ounce of preventive." If two neigh Farewell Address. 1 every citizen should seek after, bors who are Free-holders can pre- .Therefore we are going to give the scribe the remedy to cure the high A statement of the Armenian drive is given in the editorial columns of this issue. The county's quota was oversubscribed. Look's Suspicious. "Frozen River Cuts City's Milk Supply." Headline in the Portland Oregonian. Horses that Bark truth from the standpoint of tne valuation complaint, then those two neighbors could have prevented the complaint. If the oath of these two neighbors will govern value and inci dentally rate, why not have let them quietly gone about it and made this valuation in the first place. Why was it necessary to raise valuation from farmer and home owner as we see it. and the reasons for the "Faith that is in us." "In the first place we believe that farm lands are valued on an inflated basis not a true value. That this value may be based, upon what the owner may think it worth as his home three to seven times (in Warren coun is not a true value in money, unless tana until its actual value is determiu-. Country- Notice-'It'isi'lforbidden to ed by "a bona fide sale; " How is the tie horses to trees, as they bark and .State hurt if Bill Smith owns a home destroy the script. trees." Boston Tran- II is Line "What do you work at, ray man?" "At intervals, lady." St. Paul Non Partizen Leader. and is paying a reasonable tax upon a reasonable value and dont want to sell, if Bill Jones is willing to pay in spot cash three times the value Smith poor; puts upon it? Isn't Jones's money paying the same rate of tax that No Fair Telling. Customer "How can one tell the imitation pearl from the real ones?" Salesmon "Ah, madam, you do not tell you just keep it to yourself." New York World. Or Maybe Died of Shock Altho the man found dead in a bath tub has not been positively identified, it has definitely been determined that he was not a member of the Bolshev iki. New York Telegraph. Aunt Nellie. "Well, Bobby, dear, did you see Santa Claus this time?" Bobby "No, auntie; it was too dark to see him, but I heard what he said when he knocked his toe against the bedpost." London Tit-Bits. ty) in order to pursuade the intangible wealtiuof- other, counties and cities ttf come into view for taxation ? Why not (under the re-valuation Act) bring out this "millions of hidden wealth," raised the valuations of lands to a sane and just value, then lowered the rate Y It seems to me that the State should have brought out the "millions" which they point to with pride as hav- Smith's land is paying , (provided al- ing been brought to light (never hav ways that-Jones's money is listed for ing paid any tax) and raised homes taxation? Is the State hurt if Smith keeps his land and Jones his money one lending the money and the other working the land? The answer is No, provided Smith's land is paying the same rate of tax that Jones's and lands in keeping with the idea thnt Agriculture and Home owning should be fostered, then lowered the rate to meet the needs of the State. .Here's the trouble (or at least some of the trouble) that causes the State First Office Boy "I told the boss to look at the dark circles under my eyes end see if I didn't need a half day off." Second Office Boy "What did he say?" First Office Boy "He said I needed e. bar of soap." The American Legion Weekly. money is paying, and provided further to place such high valuation on the vis that Smith's land has a just valuation ible (because the rate can be fixed any upon it. time): We quote from the "Country It is admitted that the lands and f Gentleman" of February 21, 1920: homes of North Carolina have in most cases been valued too low if the pres ent high-price level is to be maintain ed, but be it remembered that it has only been two years since the farmer has emerged from the "Valley of De spondency" and placed his feet upon the-monutain 'top. of just remunera tion for his toil, and worse still, for the toil of his wife and children. It has not been just "seven lean years," it has been a life-time of struggle and deorivation. of sacrifice, of debt. Be- "Congressman Nelson, of Wiscon sin, at a recent hearing before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House stated that there will be outstanding at the end of this year $9,000,000,000 (Nine Billions) of municipal, county and state bonds ex empt from taxation; that there are outstanding $3,000,000,000 of mutual savings bank securities exempt from taxation; that there are in the hands of investors $1,700,000,000 of mutual building and loan association securi- $4,000,000,000 His Debts. (Italics ours) Nay, he is ipada to pay taxes on things that put him in the hole that are worse than nothing." V Mr. Quick was comparing the old method of bonuses, commissions, land, - Til a V ' ji ' . ! '. wixn xne new metnoa ot non-taxable farm mortgages held by the Fed eral Lnnd Banks, under which the f armer pays a low rate of interest and retires his mortgage by means of small yearly payments. But the point which struck me forcibly was the fact that the farmer (in the opinion of Mr. Quick) should not pay taxes on n n debts. If his lands must be valuer! at a high valuation, then in the name of justice let the next General Assembly relieve him of the burden of payi taxes on his debts. - And this principle should apply to every class. If the Merchant or Bank er borrows money, or the farmer then he should pay interest on this money, but not taxes. It may be that the fable of the Boy and the Farmer will apply to taxation: the new method of harshness; but I rather incline to the view of the fable of the Wind and the Sun in their wager over who would first take oif the travellers coat. The Wind tried with all its might, it raged and tore, but the traveller held his coat close ly about him and went on his journey. Then the Sun tried, and with warm rays and sunny smile soon had him puffing and sweating, and off came tne coat. Mild methods are often and generally better than harshness. If the money, stocks, bonds, Trust funis and all evidences of wealth could be assured of fair dealing, along with farm lands, then all this flurry and scare would be unnecessary. But "f the patient is to be taken in hand ay the "two neighbors" and value chang ed at any time before tax listing who can tell what the value will be, and as the; rate is based upon value, then the appeal to solvent credits to come out and stand up to be measured is a de lusion, for it has nothing to be meas ured by of fixed value any two neigh bors can change it, upon oath. And if that is so (and that is offered as a "iemedy") Jthen solvent, credits like the Ground Hog vili disappear, hav ing seen the shadow. "Coming events cast their shadows before," and the coming event in North Carolina is that the Legislature of July must find a mild and just remedy for the uncer tainties that now confront us. It should assure Capital that it must bear its burden of taxation, but only its just burden. It should assure La:o another form of capital) that because it is "set upon a hill and that its light cannot be hidden," that it will be dealt with as justly as Capital. It should assure the Citizen that his effort to better his material condition will not be handicapped by a tax upon this ef fort and it should assure Labor that the State will place within its reach all the tools necessary to carve out its own position as a self-respecting, law abiding, educated part of our Citizen ry. Do this sanely, justly, yet firmly. and the State will progress as never fore and will find itself with ample funds to carry forward any work for the uplift of our citizens that any oth er progressive Commonwealth ha done. But Reason must hold sway and the glitter of "untold millions" com ing to our State must not hide the fact, that ours is an Agricultural State; one that hath come out of great tribula- LETTER FROM' m. mmm mm imm OF fJilSHS Head of County Law Enforce j. ., ment Campaign Asks Co-;- operation of Citizens LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT PROHIBITION IS THE ISSUE Calls Upon All Citizens And Es- cially Soldiers and Other Young Men To Aid In Fight Against Moonshine. Editor Record, My dear Sir: Again I call to the attention of our citizens the absolute necessity, if wj wish to preserve our standard of mo rality, of ending illicit distilling and selling of whiskey. Federal and State officials are will ing and anxious to help. Prohibition is not the question, Law Enforcement is. Mrs. J. E. Rooker Appointed Vice-Chairman of Organiza tion For Coming Year HOME SERVICE TO HELP SOLDIERS ON INSURANCE And Straighten Other Matters Reference Vocational Training and Allotments; Campaign For Magazine Subscribers. Mrs. Katharine P. Arrington, chair man of the Warren county Red Cross Chapter, announced today the ap pointments upon committees repre senting the spheres of the Chapters work. The elected officers are J. Ed ward Allen, Treasurer, Mrs. E. A. Thame, secretary and the vice-chairmanship to which Mrs. W. R. Strck land was elected but which she has resigned to become a member of the It is the duty of all, citizens to see ; cursing committee. that our laws are enforced. Let Law Enforcement clubs be organized in The appointments include Mrs. . E. Rooker, throughout the war in each of our Townships. Let the chair-j charge of the division of production men of these clubs meet at least on.'.e 1 and whose work won praise every a month in Warrenton and make re- I where, as vice-chairman. port to the Revenue Department of any information they may have. Let every man or woman in the county who knows or hears of a still or sale s -place report the same to the local coiu mittee, giving location, and if possible the names of the owners and opera tors. These communications need not necessarily be signed if the writer is apprehensive of personal injury. The County chairman can communicate di rectly with the Revenue Officials and results will be obtained. Our colored fellow citizens are as much interested in Law enforcement as are all white citizens and can render valuable as sistance in ridding the county of viola tors of the Law. I appeal especially to our. young sol diers wh6 followed Perishing and Haig over the blood stained fields of France and Belgium and to those equally worthy who were deprived of that privilege, to take the lead in this cam paign and restore Warren, the birth place of Nat. Macon, the Braggs, Tur ner, Hawkins, Edwards, Hall and other distinguished patriots to its former proud preeminence in our be loved commonwealth. JOHN GRAHAM. Letter From County Agent The time has come when we cannot count on a supply of luscious fruits from' our home orchards without de voting considerable time and labor xu the proper care of our orchards.. In sections of the country where fruit is grown on a commercial scale the fruit growers tend their orchards with same care that we tend our tobacco and cot ton crops in this county. Pruning of the orchards should be done during the dormant seasons, that is in the late fall, or winter months. Pruning should be completed before fVo can Koffino - mcfl in tlio anvirio tions, and one fast reaching the fi?lor-There &re geveral reasons why Miss Edith Burwell as head of the committee on membership. V. F. Ward, R. B. Boyd, T. D. Peck, W. B. Boyd and W. G. Rogers as a committee of finance. Frank H. Gibbs, Mrs. E. A. Thorne and Welfare officer R. R. Rodwell as a committee on home service. John B. Palmer, Dr. G. H. Macon, J. Edward Allen, C. C. Hunter members of the county Board of Health and B. B. Williams, Dr. N. D. Morton, Mrs. W. R. Strickland, Miss Julia Dameron, Mrs. Limeberger, of Norlina, Mrs. Charlotte Story Per kinson, of Wise, and chairman W. N. Boyd as the Public Health Nursing committee to direct the work of the nurse employed by the Red Cross Chapter and who is expected to re port within six weeks. W. Brodie Jones was named as chairman of publicity. The chapter urges all men who wish information in reference to insurance, vocational training or allottments to consult any member of the Home Ser vice committee by whom an earnest effort will be made in each instance to provide the necessary information ana assistance. Another chapter activity which will engage attention under the head of Membership will be a canvass for sub scribers to the Red Cross Magazuic. This is a publication of appealing in terest and it is the desire of the Chapter Executive ' committee that many members of the Red Cross sub scribe in order that the general public may be kept conversant and interest ed in the peace time program of the organization. ious sunlight bursting upon the misty cause the "seven fat years" have ap- ties, not to mention parently arrived, shall not the farmer - first and last Liberty Bonds and $100,- L .no - PrAfrrpS5 be allowed to gather in his barn and 000,000 Federal Reserve Bank stock- - ; m ! store house for the years ahead? "Will All Exempt from Taxation." I u 11 '""7 Ui ... i Will n ttu- nnr -r, ire-vaiuauon xet us ue jubt, a.m no run up three, four, five, six, yea seven the advantage of the Federal Land complain t will reach those who are times the value of their property (the Banks to the farmer (a Democratic But unless those in authority take Possibly the apex of sarcasm or something was reached the other day when Jones took his fiiver to a repair shop and asked the man there what was the best thing to do with it. The repair-man looked the car over in silence for several minutes, after vvhich he grasped the horn and tooted it. "You've a good horn there," he remarked, quietly." Suppose you jack lt: up and run a new car under it?" Boston Transcript. should be pruned. Some of the im portant reasons for pruning are (1) To j Death Claims Mr. C. frercy Thornton Cecil Percy Thornton, son of the late R. B. Thornton and Rebecca Thornton, died at his home in Macon Sunday night, after a short illness. Mr. Thornton was thirty years old, a member of the Methodist church and of the Masonic fraternity. His deatn was due to pneumonia and a weak heart which exempted him from ser- fvice in the recent war. lie was a stuff that cannot be hid under a bush- measure by-the-way) speaking of the el) and promise a low rate, that must freedom from taxation of these farm under any and all conditions place the mortgages and their desirability as steps to "reason the.th.ing out," rathv; than force it upon us by the strong The Human Dud. While he was making his way about his platoon one dark night a sergeant heard the roar of a "G. I. Can" over head and dived into a shell-hole. It as already occupied by a private, was hit full in the wind by the non-com's head. A moment's silence a long, deep breath, and then Good Lord, is that you, Sarge?" 'That's me." , Thank Heaven! I was just wai.t lng for you to explode." The Ameri can Legion Weeklv. State's burden of tax upon land and guiltedge security and of the great farm of Law, we fear that good men visible personal property, and also good this measure had achieved, loan continue to ask him to pay taxes upon ing within three years to farmers his debts? i $320,000,000 with many millions more I, don't want to be misundrstood in added each week, says of intangible advocating the pre-War valuations wealth : for -lands, for I believe a new era has 4,When farm mortgages or bonds is come upon us and that with the Farm- sued on farm mortgages in order to ers Land Banks and the Farmers' obtain the money for loaning purposes Co-operative Banks, with good roads, are taxed, one of two things take Rural mail, Rural telephones, Parcel place: Either people with money to Prj anrl thft Automobile rural condi-.loan refuse to make the loans and tions have taken from country life much of its issolation and that tne day grows brighter for the farmer. Therefore, as these conditions are gen eral, I believe that farm lands in gen- money becomes unobtainable on any terms or they wait until the interest rate plus bonuses, commissions and the like go up to the point where the bor rower pays the tax and the interest eral should be re-valued. But it seems ( rate too. Taxation of these evidences to me that the State Tax Commissio i, of indebtedness means just this, and under authority of the Legislature, has gone wild over the matter. Look ing to tho future and profiting by the observations of the Past, I believe it will be but a short time before the in tangible property will recede from nothing more the farmer, after pay ing tastes on his land and houses and livestock and his income and on every thing that is his, is called upon in the and I believe they will. form of higher interest rates to pay HOWARD F. JONES, Taxes on That Which He Hath Not . Associate Editor. will find that they have lost their use fulness to the State and that instead of steady and sane progress,' the pen dulum will swing toward retrograda tion. Equal values where needed, rais ed values where they should be raised, but in all common sense take them down from the post-war, cheap-money value endorsed by the State Tax Com mission. It is not just, it is not for the .best interest of the tax payers; it is not ofr the best interest of the pres ent Administration. It is ah unnec essary departure from the old Land marks and it places the home owner where he cannot protect himself ex cept with the ballot. The things that I have said are but the echoing sentiments of the average citizen and they are said in his behalf. They must, they should be heeded maintain a proper shape or symmetry of the tree; (2) To control the charac ter of growth; (3) To allow the en trance of sun light and air; (4) i o j gentleman of many friends as attest control the proper fruiting of the tree, led by the concourse which gathered to In order to prune fruit trees success fully one must understand the fruit ing habit of the particular kind of tree to be pruned. For example peaches are formed usually in pairs on wood of the previous seasons growth Apples are formed on fruit spurs found on older wood. Peach trees should be pruned to an open center and the main branches should be kept short and fairly close to the ground. Apple trees should be pruned regular lv and a modified center is usuall: preferred as the apple is often damag ed by sun scald when pruned to an open center. Any one desiring de tailed information on the subject cf pruning can secure same by writing to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C, and ask lay his earthly remains in the silent tomb. Every store in his home tow;t was closed in honor of his' memory and friends from a distance were present to pay the last tribute of respect. Mr. Thornton is survived by the fol lowing brothers and sisters: Mrs. J. S. Nowell, Miss Lucy Thornton, Frank and Raymond Thornton, of Macon; N. Macon Thornton, of Littleton; Mrs. Dan Lawrence, of Sanford; Mrs. Char lotte Sharpe, of Fayetteville. He was connected with many of the families of Macon and these and many friends mourn their loss. The funeral was conducted from the home with Dr. J. T. Gibbs, his pastor, and W. R. Vaughan, Master of the jvaughan Lodge, officiating. Masons ing for bulletins on the subject of from Vaughan, Littleton and Warren- pruning. Orchards should be sprayed at this season of the year with some form of line-sulphur solution for the control of the .San Jse scale. Commercial lime (Continued On Fourth Page) ton assembled to participate in the burial exercise, and his body was com mitted to the grave"Heaven's Golden gate" to await the Resurrection Morn. Dare to do right.
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