OBSERVATION
AND COMMENT
By F. O. Carver, Jr.
It Ls said that if you stay in the
same place long enough along the coast
of North Carolina that the shifting
sands will finally cover you up and bury
you completely. There is living evi
dence of this shifting in the ship
wrecks that are strewn up and down
the coast, either lying partially or com
pletely buried by the sands, ships that
at one time lay wholly out of the,
SaThis calls to mind something that
Jesus said on this subject: "Therefore
whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will Uken him
unto a wise man, which built his house
upon a rock; and the rain descended,
and the floods came, and the winds
blew and beat upon that house; and
it fell not; lor it was founded upon
a rock. And everyone that heareth
these sayings of mine, arid doeth them
not shall be likened unto a foolish
man, which built his house upon the
sand; and the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew and
beat upon that house: and it fell,
and great was the fall of it "
We talk much about our tobacco
market. Meet a man in the street and
ask him what the trouble with it is.
and you will more than likely get one
or more of these reasons as his idea
of the trouble or a remedy thereof,
too much tobacco going out of Person
County to be sold, not enough interest
taken in the market here, the farm
er does not think that he can get an
even break on this market, etc, etc.,
or why not give a big stew and in
vite all the farmers to it, establish good
will among the town and county peo
ple, go out and invite the grower to
sell on this market, send them a mes
sage through the papers, etc, etc., far,
far into the night. Effective measures,
all of them.
But there is no denying the fact
that year after year more and more
influence is being carried away lrom
FJoxboro and made useful to some
other market. Farmers who iaise large
amounts of tobacco go away to sell it,
puliing some others with them t>3
their personal friendship and standing.
No truer words were ever uttered
than "It is harder to get a lost cus
tomer's business back cn your books
than it is to get new business."
Through various means Roxboro has
l~st many tobacco customers in the
past years, at th<* same time kef.pirg
many satisfied ones.
There are two rocks that it seems
would be well to use as foundations
for our market. One is the practices
that have already been followed to
some degree of success. That, of
course., is personal contact between
the grower and the business houses
and men of the town. The other is in
fluence.
You can't ring a bell or raise an a
larm sixty days before the market is
going to open and make a successful
effort to bring tobacco here in the
quantities which this market should
sell. Nor can a few people carry on a
successful campaign and hope to reap
great benefits, but influence would take
up where these leave off.
The small market is doomed. That
is a recognized fact. So. the thing to
do is to build a big market here, some
way, some how. stop that influence
that is yearly draining this county of
its life's blood
Too many times markets have grown
to enormous proportions only to fall
and die under just such practices as
these. W? cannot let the same thing
happen to our market.
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$42,274,000 In
Building Work
Contracted For
Manufacturers Record Reports In
creases In Industrial And Private
Operations In July.
Baltimore, Aug. 6. ? Construction
and engineering projects costing $40,
274.000 were contracted for in the south
during July, the Manufacturers Rec
ord says, with substantial increases in
industrial and private building oper
ations.
The July total was approximately $5,
000,000 below that of June but the
publication attributed this to a sharp
decline in public building and high
way construction, due partially to "de
lay in starting federal government
projects^?.
Indufmai awards for the first seven
months of 1935 amounted to $55,863,000
as compared with $41,332,000 for the
corresponding period of 1934 while
private building contracted for to Aug
ust 1 this year totaled $41,748,000 com
pared to $19,267,000 for the seven
months last year.
Modesty
Old Maid? Has the canary had its
bath yet?
Servant ? Yes, ma'am.' You can come
in now. ? Boston Evening Transcript.
Sa/ety First
"I see youTe letting your little boy
drive your car."
"Yes, he's still too young to be
trusted as a pedestrian." ? Boston Ev
ening Transcript.
Now And Then
An American film actress was ap
plying for a passport.
"Unmarried?" she was asked.
^Occasionally," she answered. ?
London Opinion.
Below Par
"I need a holiday," said the pretty
cashier. "I'm not looking my best."
"Nonsense," said the manager.
"It isn't nonsense, the men are be
ginning to count their change."? Ev
ening News (London)
Process Of Elimination
"Herbert," said the mother to her 6
year-old son," is it possible that you
are teaching the parrot to use slang?"
"No, mamma," replied Herbert, "I
was just telling him what not to say."
? Montreal Star.
Lady of the House ? "No we dont
want no books!"
Agent ? "How about a cheap gram
mar?"
Oh, O"! ? ?
Voice on Phone ? John Smith is sick
and can't attend class today. He re
quested me to notify you.
(Professor? All right. Who is this
speaking?
Voice ? This is my roommate ? M. I.
T. Voo Doo.
Gob Humor
Downes ? What would your wife say
if you bought a new car?
Shaw ? Look out for that traffic
light; Don't hit that truck; Why don't
you watch where you are going? Will
you never iearn? And a lot more like
that. ? Pennsylvania Keystone.
Innocence Aboard
Drill Instructor ? Now take this rifle
and find out how to use it.
Recruit? Tell me one thing. Is it
true that the harder I pull the trigger
the farther the bullet will go? ? U. S.
S. New York. Knickerbocker.
'NUFF SED.
Old Lady to Old Tar? Excuse me.
Do those tatto marks wash off?
Old Tar ? I can't say, lady ? Brook
lyn Daily Eagle.
Beyond His Control
Girl to kennel-man ? When you sold
me this dog you said it would grow in
to a magnificant Russian wolfhound
Kennel-Man ? Can I help it if the
five-year plan failed? ? Denver Post.
"Can you imagine anything worse
than being a corn-stalk and having
ycur ears pulled by farmers?"
"How about being a potato, with
your eyes full of dirt?"
Wonders of Invention
"Cail that a Caruso record? The man
is singing in German."
"Yes, sir. The record has been trans
lated." ? Nurich Nebelspatter.
Democratic
Artist ? Shall I paint you in a frock
coat?
Mr. Nurich ? Oh, don't make any
fuss ? Just wear your smock. ? Lud
low (England) Advertiser.
Marvelous
Two friends, one married and the
ether a. bachelor, were at the latest
play, admiring the performance of a
famous actor."
"By jove," the married man mur
mured, "he's wonderful! The way he
displays affection toward the leading
lady, eh?"
"Yes ? pretty good," the bachelor a
greed. "But you know, he's been mar
ried to her for eighteen years."
fWhat! Really married? Cosh ?
what an actor," ?London Tit-Bits.
He ? Girlie, I can read you like a book
She ? O. K.. boy. but don't use the
Braille method.
Just Pals
Mr. Swear and Mr. Swanke were
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SOLD"
fonstitutio
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CONGRESS THE SUPREME POWER
The form of Government set up by
the Constitutional Convention was a
compromise between the loose alliance
under the Articles of Confederation,
and the plan of a single nation with
completely centralized powers. The
small States insisted upon an equal
voice with every other State. The
large States felt that their wealth,
size and importance entitled them to
a larger voice in the affairs of the new
country. These conflicting views re
sulted in what historians call the
'"Connecticut Compromise."
The colony of Connecticut from Its
earliest history had a dual system of
representation in its legislature. One
house represented the towns as equal
units. The other house represented all
the people as individuals. Hi is plan
became the basis upon which the Con
gress of the United States was set
up.
The Constitution provides for equal
representation of all the States, large
and small in the Senate, and for rep
resentation of the people in the House
of Representatives, in proportion to
the inhabitants.
The Convention was a unit in agree
ing that all power to direct and regu
ate affairs of the country should re
side in this representative organiza
tion, the Congress. Section 1 of Arti
cle 1 of the Constitution reads: "All
legislative powers herein granted shall
be vested in a Congress of the United
States, which shall consist of a Senate
and House of Representatives.
That provision of the Constitution
has never been altered. It has recent
ly been brought to the front of public
discussion through the decision of the
Supreme Court that certain acts of
the 73rd Congress were unfconstitu
tional because they run contrary to
this first and fundamental provision
ef the Constitution as drafted in 1787.
Congress cannot delegate to the Ex
ecutive, or to anybody else, the pow
er to enact laws or to issue regulations
having the force of law unless it puts
clear and definite limitations upon the
regulative/ auHhortty.
Members of the Mouse of Represen
tatives, elected directly by a vote of
the people, must be at least 25 years
eld, and be Inhabitants of the stats
in which they are elected. There is no
constitutional requirement for divid
ing states into districts, or for mem
bers to live in the districts they rep
resent. That is something for each
state to determine. In New York, sev
eral members live outside of their dis
tricts. In Missouri there are no Con
gressional districts. The 13 representa
tives are elected at large by the vot
ers of tlie whole state. Senators must
be 30 years old and residents of their
States. '
As the body originally closest to the
people, the House of Representatives
was given in the Constitution the ex
clusive right to originate bills for
raising revenue.
The insistence of the smaller States
brought about another restriction up
on Congress; it forbade the levying of
any direct tax except in proportion to
population. This was later changed by
the income tax amendment, which be
came effective March 1, 1913. That is
the only exception to the rule estab
lished in' the original Constitution in
tended to provide that direct taxes
levied by the Federal Government
shall bear equally upon all citizens.
The Senators, as the direct repre
sentatives of State governments, were
to be chosen by the legislatures of the
States. That prevailed until 1913, when
an amendment was ratified providing
for the popular elections of Senators
as well as Representatives. A still later
amendment, the twentieth, ratified in
1933, changed the date upon which the
terms of office of Senators and Repre
sentatives begin, from the 4th of
March to the 3rd of January, and fix
ed that date for the annual meeting of
Congress, instead of the first Monday
in December, as originally provided in
the Constitution.
Next Week: What Congress May and May Not Do.
business enemies, but chance had so
placed them on the same board of di
rectors.
One day, after a meeting, Mr. Swear
was holding forth.
"There are hundreds of ways of
making money," he said, provoca
tively.
"Yes," put in Mr. Swanke, "but only
one honest way."
"What way's that?" asked Mr. Swear
sharply.
"Ah," retorted Mr. Swanke, "I
thought you wouldn't know it." ? Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
COUNTY HAS 2 WHITES
Pierre, S. D. ? Armstrong county, Ac
cording to the 1935 state census, con
tams two white men. Both are mar
ried Indians.
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Sermons!
MORE FAITH
When Jesus came down from the
mountain whpre He had been trans
figured, and where Moses and Elizah,
who had been gone from this world
for hundreds of years, came and talked
with Him, and where He heard the
voice of His Father say "This is my
beloved Son in whom I am well
pleased," He found a man in the valley
who haul brought his son to the dis
ciples that they might heal him.
But as they could not heal him the
father said to Jesus, "If Thou cannot
do anything have compassion on us,
and help us." To this Jesus replied
and threw the IF back on the father.
He said, "If thou canst, all things are ,
possible to him that believeth."
The father then said, "I believe,
help thou 'mine unbelief." What a
familiar experience is this regulation of
belief and unbelief. How many others
like that man have desired and. asked
for more faith.
What can one do for himself to
wards the fulfilment of that desire?
We know that God often works thru
people. He feeds, clothes, and houses
us partly through the efforts of men.
It is also partly through ourselves that
He gives us more faith.
Think for a moment of one of those!
experiences when a salesman visited
your home. He was selling some arti
cle in which you had little or no con
fidence. However he was determined
that you should see the value of it.
Therefore he just put it in operation
while you sat and looked on. And he
soon convinced you that it was an ar
ticle of real value.
In like manner the work of God is
ever before our eyes. When we behold
this vast universe it should not be dif
ficult for us to believe that He who
made it can do anything He desires
with any part of it. When we know of
His answers to the requests of others
we should be encouraged to express
our own desires. Knowing He has ans
wered others of our petitions we sure
ly should take courage before His
throne.
Since He has saved and remade our
lives and the lives of others we should
take to Him our friends and relatives
for their salvation.
After He has brought us safely thru
the years of the past why should we
fear to trust Him for the present and
the future?
Meditation cn these and similar lines
should do nothing less than create
faith.
Mark: 9:24.
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Furniture Dealer Is
Wounded B y Shot
Raleigh, Aug. 6. ? A Elton Wood,
28, a local furniture dealer, was re
ported in a serious condition here to
day from a pistol wound just above
his heart. He was found shot in
a hotel room here yesterday and de
clined to explain the shooting to the
police.
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