Sept
A Colyui
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Of Thoughts
From Here
There, Yonder
(By W. BRODIE JONES)
Lijner Post of the American Legion
which held an election of officers here
this week should hold the solid mem
bership of the two hundred and more
soldiers who went from Warren and
0f those who live within the jurisdic
tion of the Post.
The Legion is a force of law and or
der within an organization democratic
and American. Every service man
owes it his membership and the public
jt3 Co-operation.
The soldiers of the county who have
not affiliated could perform no better
service than to let their membership
go forward today.
That the town needs better streets
js a fact clear to our citizens. The
stretch in front of the Dameron build
ing is a disgrace; the street leading to
Eoyd-Gillam Motor Co., a shame.
The town is able to go ahead with
street work, we believe. If it is in
destitute condition then lets have a
bond issue that will place some of its
wealth toward removing the sloughs
of mud and abundance of bumps.
Good streets are a trade asset and
a community necessity.
May we not grow idle and self-satisfied
with the one good street of which
we boast.
Let's go when the spring opens. The
principle side streets and south main
street need bithulithic.
The business men of the town as
well as its younger citizens are urgea
to be present Friday night to organize
a business and social club for Warren
ton. The town needs an organized body
to fight for improvements; to make it
more pleasant for the visitors who
trade here to render more enjoyable
che social atmosphere of the city.
Thru organized effort and co-operation
these things are plausible; to de
velopment as a trade center essen
tial. The destiny of the town is absolute
ly within the hands of its citizenship
there is no handicap to expansion if
optimistically viewed.
The opportunity to evolve an organ
ization truly worth -while-Ms -izr rthe
province of Warrentonians.
Will you manifest interest by your
presence tonight?
By Luck the Wheel of Fortune's turn
ed, Eut Reputation must be earned. Ex.
"Why did you turn ut for that
truck? According to the traffic rules
3ou had the right of way."
"Yes," answered Mr. Chuggins,
patiently. "But the truck had the
right of weight." Washington Star.
Let the howlers howl, and the growl
ers growl, and the prowlers prowl,
and the gee-gaw3 go it;
Behind the night there is plenty of
light, and things are all right and
I know it.
Selected.
He Forgot Something
"You seemed embarrassed when that
Pretty girl met you at the station."
"I had a reason for feeling embar
rassed," answered the doughboy.
"What was it?"
"I promised to bring her the Kaiser's
ears." Buffalo Commercial.
Baby smiled in its mother's face;
The mother caught it, and gave it
then
To the baby's father serious case
Who carried it out to the other men;
nd every one of them went straight
away
Scattering- sunshine thrmitrh the dav.
"-"' w 3 W
Select .id
Why They Do It.
"Water," say a medical writer in the
Evening News, according to some
authorities, is a deadly poison." This
toay explain why some dairymen still
stick to the old custom of mixing a lit
tIe elective milk with it."
London Punch.
More Labor Trouble
do?,fs"Can't you find something' to
0mce Boy "Gee whiz: Am I ex
w to do the work and find it,
Boston Transcript.
Useless Words.
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tha. liuw proposeu 10 iivc
2 JTd obey' stricken from the
age ceremony."
mways held that
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VOLUME" XXV
10)11
Ye Shall Know The Truth and
The Truth Shall Make
You Free"
KNOWING TRUE VALUES
REMOVES INEQUALITIES
Citizens of State Will Know Val
ue of Property and 90 Per Cent
Are Listing It At Its True
Value; Instances.
"Taking him a text from the scrip
ture "ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free,". Govern
or Bickett has written a sermon on
revaluation of property in the State
which he released yesterday ov. the
theory that there can be no readjust
ment of tax rates unless there 's a
working knowledge of what property
is worth, he writes as follows in News
and Observer of Monday
"For many years the State of North
Carolina struggled along under the
yoke of an unwise and unjust system
of taxation. The yoke was not easy
nor was the burden light. It produced
a sense of irritation that has been
constant and universal. The whole
State was sore on the subject, Govern
or Glenn, in his inaugural address, and
two years later in his biennial mes
sage to the General Assembly, vigor
ously denounced the folly of maintain
ing in this State property values n
diculously low and tax rates terrhj
ingly high instoad of maintaining true
values and low rates.
"Governor Kitchin, in his message
to the General Assembly in 1911, and
1913, points out the evils of under
valuing the property of the State.
"During the first month of the
Craig administration a banquet was
given in the Auditorium in Raleigh in
honor of Governor Craig and Senator
Simmons. At this banquet Governor
Craig made .ja speech inwjuch-he, in
sisted that the General Assembly of
1913 should not levy any taxes, but
should provide for a general reassess
ment of th2 property of the State at
its true value, and after this was done
that the General Assembly should be
called into special session and levy a
tax based upon the true value of the
property of the State disclosed by a
general reassessment.
"The Legislature did not adopt this
course, but appointed a Constitutional
Commission to consider, among other
things, the subject of taxation.' This
commission made its report, and at a
special session of 1914, a taxation
amendment was submitted to the peo
ple and wa3 voted down at the polls
that year. When the people voted
down the taxation and amendment
they reaffirmed the present constitu
tional provision which emphatically
requires that all property shall be
listed by a uniform rule according to
its true value in money.
Bottomed In Scripture.
"When the General Assembly of
1919 came to deal with this vexed sub
ject it at once realized that it was im
possible to proceed with intelligence j
or with justice until the actual facts
were ascertained. It was known of all
men that the old system had failed
miserably to ascertain values thai,
even remotely approached the facts.
Hence the machinery of the Re-Valuation
Act was devised for the sole pur
pose of finding out the truth, and the
Re-Valuation Act is bottomed on the
declaration of Jesus Christ, "Ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free.'.'
"No matter how fundamentally hon
est nor how scientifically accurate any
plan may be, there will, of course, be
some errors of administration so long
as it is human to err, but the true
remedy in such a case is to reduce the
errors of administration to a minimum
and not to hark back to a system that
does not even pretend to look for the
truth.
Finding The Facts.
"The Re-Valuation Act is finding
the facts with remarkable success for
a new measure. It is finding and plac
ing on the tax books millions of
property never there before. It is as
sessing the property of the State with
wonderful accuracy. The returns that
have come in to the State Tax Com
mission indicates that about 80 per
cent of the people are assessing their
own property at what it is worth, that
about 5 per cent are assessing it too
,;Vi rri authorities are having
a.
to reduce these assessments, w
about 15 per cent are assessing their
' these assessments,
At A.
ran. m mi
WARRENTON,
A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO
property too low and the authoritie
are having to increase it.
"And just in proportion as th(
truth appears on the tax books in
equalities and injustices will disar
pear. This is the untimate objecth
of the Re-Valuation Act. The Gen
eral Assembly passionately desires t
equalize the burden of taxation. I
was realized that this could be don
only by first finding the facts. Trut
values are always equal values, bu
the wisdom of Solomon and the geniu.
of Edison combined cannot equalize ;
kettle of lies.
"Just how the act is wiping out in
equalities will be shown by a few il
lustrations taken from the boo.ks.
"1. In one of our county-seats ther
ives upon the same street a lawye.
and a widow. The lawyer owns a val
uable piece of property in a desirabu
portion of the town, and this, unae
the old system, was assessed at $3.
850.00 The widow had $10,000 th.
she received from life insurance pol
cies on her husband. This money wa
loaned on real estate mortgages whic
were listed for taxation at their pa
value of $10,000. Under the Re-Va
uation Act the property of the lawye:
was valued at $15,000, and he can gt
this amount of money for it any mori.
ing before breakfast. Under the oi
law the widow, in proportion to he
real worth, was paying four times a
much taxes as the lawyer. Under th
new law this wickedness is wiped ou.
and both the lawyer and the widc
are paying according to what they a.
really worth. The result is that th
lawyer is cursing the Re-Valuatk.
Act, and swearing that he is going t
repeal it, while the widow is praisin
God and the General Assembly of 191
for its enactment.
"2. In one of our Piedmont countie.
the experts of the Tax Commission re
cently examined two cotton mills
They found that one mill was on the
tax books at 17 per cent of its real
value, while the other mill was on h
books at 65 per cent of its real valUC
Under the Re-Valuation Act this vie
ious inequality disappears. Both milk
will be placed on the books at theii
true value and . this year - the 17 pei
cent mill will pay a. great deal more
taxes than it has heretofore paid,
while the 65 per cent mill will pay a
great deal less. .
"3. In a certain mountain countv,
and in the same neighborhood there
lived two farmers, one on a twelve
acre, and the other on a fifty-acre
farm. Under the old law the twelve
acre farm was assessed at $600 anc
the fifty-acre farm likewise at $600
Now when these farmers receive..
their questionnaires the twelve-acit j
farmer swore that his land was worth
$650. The fifty-acre farmer swore
that this land was worth $4,000. Un
der the re-valuation act the two hon
est citizens, when they had an oppoi
tunity to do so, corrected a rank in
justice.
"4. Down in Wilson cov ity a man
had a son and a daughter. In his wii
he stated that he desired to give then
an qual amount of property. He hau
a farm which, in his will, he said was
$10,000 in money. When the sheriff
came around he collocted from the
daughter five times as much taxes as
he did from the son. The daughtei
naturally complained about it and ask-
jed the sheriff why she should pay five
times as much taxes as her brother,
when their father had given them, as
stated in hi3 will, exactly the same
amount of property. The sheriff ex
plained to her that the land was as
sessed at only $2,000, though he ad
mitted that it wa? worth $10,000, and
that he (the sheriff) had no power to
change it. The re-valuation act does
change it. It carries out the will oi
the dead father and makes the son and
the daughter equal before the law.
"The correction of inequalities like
those cited above, and there are hun
dreds of thousands of them in North
Carolina, justify the statement that
the re-valuation act is bottomed on the
celestial declaration, "Ye shall know
the truth and the truth shall maice
you free."
WEATHER FORECAST
Pleasant conditions will
. prevail thru Sunday; un
settled weather Monday and
Tuesday.
..
Autocratic Inference.
"I guess well cut out that line of
my speech," said Senator Sorghum,
"about my being a public servant."
"Yes, but it has had its day. As
household relationships go just now,
claiming to be a servant sounds just a
trifle bossy." Washington Star. . J
N. C, FK1DAY. FEBRUARY
THE INTEB ESTSARRENTON
Frank H. Gibbs Chosen As Com
mander Limer Post For
Coming Year
OUNTY MEMBER URGES
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Be Formed of Town Men In Or
der That Meetings Might Be
More Easily Held; Asks Mem
bers To Increase Enrollment.
In answer to a call Limer Po3t,
Vmerican Legion held a meeting hre
Wednesday for the election of officers.
On cCount of bad oads and othex
auses the number meeting was small.
Commander Williams explained that
he constitution called for officers from
anuary 1 to December 31, and since
present officers were elected in 19H
heir term of office expired December
61.
Commander Williams also called the
e had experienced in call ing the
xecutive committee together becaust
cf the distance of their homes from
he meeting point. Since they are re
quired to meet once a month and it
eemed to be the only possible way o.
etting committee together, a count:
man suggested that the executive com
inittee be composed of local men. This
as at first demurred as it was felt
hat some members might feel that it j
was to0 much of a local affair, but ai
er discussion of necessity of gettinp
.ommittee together it was unanimous
y voted and the following executive
jmmittee was elected:
Walter Egerton, T. I. Gilliam, R. A.
Cheek, and W. A. Burwell.
Officers were unaimously elected as
follows: Frank II. Gibbs, Post Com
mander; William H. Boyd, Vice-Commander;
Walter Gardner, Adj. and
FinancO.fficer. J .
After urging that each member try
to increase the enrollment as much
s possible the Post was dismissed.
STONES
AS MONEY
SAYS THIS
MARINE
San Francisco, Feb. Stones, flat
mooth ones, with holes drilled in the
center, constitute the form of monc
the Yaps use, accrding to Marine
Corps Sergeant Albertos Bresanhan
w ho just returned from the Orient anr
! who was a visitor recently at the
island of Yap, a tropical isle in the
Pacific used as a trans-Pacific cable
"A Yap dollar weighs two pounds,
jj - ut : 4.1.,, n-i,-rr
UC1S me AYiai inc. VYiitsu me iwmvcc j
. - . . j -i-.v
get on top of a mountain and pitch,
jennies it reminds one of a landslide.
Amendment
HereToJStayl
"
The eighteenth amendment of the
Constitution has been ratified by for-
ty of the forty-eight states. Whether
ior not it is true that a majority oi
the people of the country aro reallj
opposed to prohibition, it is now as
sure as anything human can be that
the amendment will live as long at
the Constitution itself remains the
supremo law of tha land.
That prediction is based on a
j knowledge of human nature. It maj
jbe frr.nkly admitted that there are
millions of men in the country whe
have been accustomed to drink mod
erately or immoderately. They do not
believe in prohibition, and if thej
could they would modify or repeal or
modify the new law. But, many as
they are, in numbers perhaps even
majority, for practical purposes
they are a minority, since they are
massed :"n a few communities. More
over, their numbers are sure to grow
less: for, as the old craving dies down
for the lack of anything to feed upon,
most of them will cease their efforts
to obtain liquor and accept the situa
tion. Those who never drank are of
course satisfied with things as they
are. It follows, then, that objectors
to the new law will never be any more
numerous than they are now; and,
since they are now a hopeless minor
ity, no movement to repeal the amend
ment is likely ever to win the support
of two thirds of Congress and three
fourths of the states.
The attempts to nullify the law by
ingenious legislation or through the
rulings of the courts are equally vain.
27, 1920
AND WAR KEN COUNTY
Anything more than one half of one
per cent of alcohol in a liquid make
it an illegal beverage. It is pointe
out and of course is true that Con
gress and the state legislatures coul.
pass laws declaring that liquor coi
taining as much as thirty per cent c
alcohol is non-intoxicating; but the:
will not do it. The most that they ai
ever likely to do is to raise the alco
holic content to a point where there
may be a reasonable doubt whether o
not a beverage is intoxicating. Th
Supreme Court of the United State
has already given an indication that i
will not frustrate the intentions of tut
prohibitionists. If some of the stat
courts, give decisions favorable to th
sale of mild liquors, those decision
will in time be overruled. Formerl.
a "dry".- state surrounded by 'Vet
states could not protect itself; nov
the saloon men and the drinkers ar
dealing with the government of th
United States, which has a long arr
and a strong and all-embracing net.
Moreover, and this draws th
strings of net and ties them in a knot
spirits, wine or beer cannot no
legally be made, imported or tran:
ported. In a few years the stocl?
now on hand will be exhausted. Th
new generation will not know tfc
taste of liquor. How can it be mu
tered to the support of something tlu
it neither wants nor knows?
Youth's Companion.
Tin-Whistle
Philosophy
To say that Barbara Channing we:
indignant is to put it mildly. " I shal
never speak to Elsie Anderson again!
she spluttered.
"What's the matter now, child?
asked her mother gently.
"She cut me when she passed mi
on the street this morning," the gir
replied. .
"Perhaps she didn't mean to, and
if she did, I shouldn't let that clout
my happiness, , dear 1 1 JiearcL a stor:
about Abraham Lincoln once that ha:
always been a great help to me. Ont
day he was walking with a friend ii
a park in Washington when a mai
coming toward them refused to tun
ut, and Lincoln quietly stepped asid
and let the man pass.
" 'Why did you do that?" asked Lin
coin's friend. 'He should have turne;
out for you.'
" 'Why, replied Lincoln, "if I hadn'.
turned out of the way there migh
have been a collison!' He had enougl
height of manhood and enough girtl
of soul to afford to give way. Chris
never worried about deference. With
out loss of conscious dignity He coulc
wash his disciples' feet. Great soul:
, . , . .
are always simple souls. It is
Af.. , A.
th
. people whose dignity needs t def ens
;who are quick to take offense."
!' "Yes, but you can't help feelinf
hurt when people snub you, can you ?
I "Oh, yes, you can. It's all a ques
tion of your point of view. The troub't
jwith most of us is that ;our souk
swing in such a small circle. I wa:
jgcing dbwnstreet the other day, arir
; when I passed Mr. North's house then
was little Robert crying so that yov
I could hear him a block away. I ask
jed him what was the; trouble, and lu
j told me he had lost his tin whistle
iThat penny whistle filled his horizon
He had loving parents, and health tc
j run about in the sunshine. But al
that counted for nothing comparec
jwith his penny whistle. What he need-
j ed was a. little more horizon. And I
came away thinking how often God
must smile at us when we get excitec
over trifles and allow some pett:
things to blot out the sky. It's ou:
spiritual immaturity that so ofter
makes us unhappy."
"I think you're right again, mother,'
said the girl soberly.
Youth's Companion.
The best tenant is one who stays be
cause he prospers, not because he fails
and cannot get away. The best agri
culture is found where tenants decline
and owners increase.
BUILDING TOMORROW
John Ruskin
When we build, let us think that we
build forever. Let it r be for the
present delight, not for present use
alone. Let it be such work as ou de
scendants will thank us for, and let
us think, as we. lay stone on stone,
that a time is to come when those
stones will be held sacred because our
hands have touched them, and that
men will say a3 they look upon the
labor and wrought substance of theia,
'See! This our Fathers did for us.'
Number 17
Ml
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l auds Manhood of President For
Standing Strong For
His Opinion
)ENOUNCES DELAY OF
CONGRESS ON TREATY
states That History Will Rever
erence Name of Wilson and
That His Course Is For Best
Interest of Humanity.
(From N. Y. World)
o the Editor of The World:
The news from Washington and
sewhere, the editorials in the papers,
ear testimony to the fact of a well
.igh universal sympathy for ex-Secre-ary
Lansing and of condemnation for
resident Wilson's surDrisincr action
a getting rid of him. I am not writ
lg to jump into publication so much
s I am to ease my mind. I am not a
lind follower of our President, think
ng he can do no wrong, but in all si.n
arity I am sure there are thousands
ke me, who remain inarticulate most
the time, who do not join in the hue
-id cry. Speaking for myself, I re
oice in seeing the President give such
stirring manifestation of his power.
His dismissal of Mr, Lansing was
either delicate nor pleasing, but 1
m profoundly impressed with the
artainty that history will write it
own as the righteous stroke of a
reat leader who has been singularly
Landoned in his magnificent attempt
o bring about sane and constructive
elatjons between nations.
ft
The President is not, thank God, a
harming figure such as we delight in
aving at tea parties; but who thinks
t is necessary for the President to be
11 personal attraction and whimsical
ompromise? Mr. Wilson would be a
orry creature indeed if he yielded
rom the position he took at; Paris."
We can be sure he reached such a po
rtion after much deep thinking anu
ecret prayers for guidance.
I have tried my best to see the ne
essity for the revisions and changes
.nd reservations and what not being
reated amid hot air at Washington,
ut the harder I try the more paltry
t all seems. So they don't want Can
da and Australia and the other Eng-ish-speaking
colonies to have a vote
in the League. How delightful the
Canadians must find us just now!
ATiat are we afraid of? What on
earth are all the 'fits down in Wasn
ngton about? To call a halt to this
etter, I end in saying the more I hear
bout these reservations the more un
elievable they seem, so utterly
coward and piggish they are, and so
bsolutely unworthy of the most pow
erful country on earth, of which I,
for one unimportant, hard-working
citizen, long to be proud.
Three lusty cheers for our Presi
dent! May his will continue to re
main as staunch and unmovable aa
the everlasting hills. When men are
sure before God that they are right,
that is the only way to be. And thfc
President's stand as regards the vital
(question of principle at stake will be
, the test ot his greatness to tne ages.
FRANCIS HERBERT STEVENS.
New York, Feb. 16.
BOY WINS PRIZE AFTER
FAILING IN THREE ATTEMPTS
To have castastrophe overtake your
enterprise twice and then, undismay
ed by failure, to try a third time, re
quires pluck of a rather unusual qual
ity It is the kind that Theodore
Tholke, a club boy living in Douglas
County, Nev., possesses.
Last spring this boy joined one of
the United States Department of Ari
culture and the State colleges and pur
chased 300 baby chicks. Soon after
ward an electric storm passed over his
home and all but 19 of the chicks
were killed. Theodore viewed the dev
astation the storm had wrought,
straightened his shoulders and went
out and bought 150 setting egg9. But
luck was against him again. Scarcely
had he got the eggs under the hens be
fore a waterspout caused the irriga
tion ditch to overflow. The resulting
flood washed his eggs and nests away.
Many would have given up in des
pair at this point, but not Theodore.
Still dtermined to raise chickens, he
obtained more egs and finally succeed
ed in raising 150 chicks. On these he
made a net return of $142 and was
awarded the State championship of
Nevada.
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