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VOL. LI
Number 23
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Need of ‘Short Ballot’ Emphasized
|\^(.)S'r of the voters goinf^ to the polls Saturday
* to cast their tjallots in the state’s biennial
Democratic primary will have a pretty fair idea ol
the issues involved in the contest for governor.
This year’s heated cani])aigns have aroused intense
interest in the candidates for governor and their
])latforms.
Unfortunately, however, the gubernatorial race
has overshadowed other contests to be decided in
the ])rimary to such an extent that we fear chance,
instead of enlightened public ojjinion, may })rove
the deciding factor in the sefection of lesser state
officials.
"I'he state ballot, besides carrying the names of
the four ccmtestants for governor and the four
candidates for United States senator, confronts the
voter with the names of 17 candidates for various
state offices.
Jlow many Democratic voters could list the of
fices involved, to sa_\- nothing of naming the candi
dates seeking them? Jlow many will know the
flualifications of the various candidates for lieu
tenant governor, for secretary of state, for state
auditor, for state tr([;asurer, for sui)erintendent of
public instruction, for commissioner of agriculture?
All of which brings to mind the not new j)roposal
for a “short ballot,” by which is meant fewer elec
tive state officers and more appointive ones. The
“short ballot,” of course, would give the governor
more authority—too much, .say critics of the pro
posals. But we still have a legislature to act as a
balance wheel.
I'olitically, the “short ballot” has always been
unpo])ular in North Carolina. Politicians like to
make the people think that they, the people, run the
state’s government from top to bottom. But it
doesn’t work out that way.
'Phe present arrangement—the “long ballot”—
would be si)lendid if John i'ublic took enough in
terest in it to iiKjuire as to the (j[ualifications of the
numerous candidates in order to arrive at some in
telligent decision. But John Public has too many
other things to think about.
Charles M. Johnson Indispensable
il/Wi': long felt that a good, sensible
woman would be a valuable asset to North
Carolina’s council of State, which is composed of
the state’s constitutional officers. Mrs. Helen Rob
ertson W'ohl, who springs from fine old (iuilford
county Quaker stock, seems to be that kind of a
wcynan and we would like to vote for her in the
Democratic primary June 6; but we can’t see why
anyone would want to supplant our present state
treasurer, Charles AI. Johnson, one oi the ablest,
if not the ablest, man now in the state’s service.
Air. Johnson not only has proved his duties as
state treasurer efficiently and honestly, but he has
])roved a financier extraordinary by succeeding
where there was but small hope of success in re
financing operations during the dark days of the
depression. 1 hanks to his abdit\' afld good man
agement, North Carolina bonds are among the best
on the market.
But Mr. Johnson’s services to the state do not
end in the treasurer’s office. He also is the guiding
spirit of the Local (jovernment Commission, with
out whose cooperation and helpful oversight many
more counties would now be listed in the default
column. Ciive Mr. Johnson and the Local Ciovern-
ment C'ommission a little more time and, too, a
little more authority, and they will pull most of the
counties out of the red. We venture thev would
have had a refinancing plan well under Way in
Macon County had it not been for short-sighted
local legislation enacted by the last General As
sembly at the instance of our own re|)resentative.
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FOUNDATIONS
IMPORTANT
Now we are told that hard drink
ing does not cause sclerosis of the
liver and is not, in fact, a direct
cause of any of the other physical
ailments for which it has so long
been blamed. “Some peisons” says
a Johns Hopkins authoiity, “can
drink enormous quantities of liquor
without doing themselves any
harm. Others can’t go a quarte.'' of
a small bottle without upsetting
their livers.
That is because of liver condi
tions which existed
drinking began. If a
good liver it doesn’t make much
difference how hard .a drinker he
is,” In other words, if the young
ster has grown to be sound and
tough, nothing much hurts him; if
lie has a functional defect, every
thing hurts him.
The same thing is true with the
consumption of Communism and
other subversive theories. People
who have sound reasoning powers
are not^ likely to be much hurt by
t em. Ihey can imbibe large quan
tities of cock-eyed economics and
continue to walk upright. But give
th, weak or the very young even
a mild dose of Utopianism, and
they get giddy.
Says Schopenhauer: “There is nn
absurdity that cannot be fixed per
manently in peoples' minds if it is
.mplanted there when they are
young.
All thoughtful men are in favor
of the freest sort of free speech
for adults, just as they favor allow
m,g each adult to decide tor hZ-
whiskey into nursing boUlel°
It no good trying out all sorts of
half-baked theories on minds th t
... Mill ,of, a„d I„" "htH"
child ought to be taueht
t^hmgs which human experience has
prov^ed to be true. Two of
established truths are that whiLev
can be very dangerous, and that
Communism is the
ures and fools.
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country. We can stop in before
dinner. It’s just around the corner,
right on Fihy-seventh Street,”
But on: the morrow there was
some reason why I had to be late
at the office. And the next day I
had to go to Chicago, and one
things after another came up. Final
ly, after a couple of weeks, I said:
Let s go tonight to see those mur
als,” And she said: “It’s too late
now; they’re gone,”
lhats human nature. For more
than five years we lived almost op
posite the Metropolitan .Museum,
which is certainly one of the great
show places of the ivoil
visited it in other yeafi
during the time we lookd
it from our w'indows 1 nt
ed its threshold. In that
were in the British ilii
the National Gallery and
Aluseum and the Cairo
and goodness knows li
others. In fact, we hav
looked much of anythii
way of museums anyvvh'
world—except right at
When I was a kid
Bosto,n. After we had
Chicago we returned to
land one summer, and
made a pilgrimage to B
We had meant to go
residence, but it was so
there that we never we
I was looking yesten
big ships in the harbor 2
1 could go to Pekin. I tl
go one of these days, I
if I ever get around 1
leries o.n Fifty-seventh
(Copyright, K.F.
recourse of fail-
1 MUST CONFESS
-My wife said to mp- “t
''7 o«ght to go to Such an7S
Museum to see the murals tLf
on exhibition. They are f->
to be showman
•'-’"n all over the
Men
One big lot of men’s
Suits, $L5.00 value,
on sale at
$8.88
Just 18 Suits left at
this price. Single-
breasted, also dou
ble-breasted, plain
or fancy back.
Schulman’s Dept. Stoi
Franklin s Newest and Most Moden
^^epartment Store