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A Political Revolution
EVKX a lot of his own supporters were surprised
at \Y. Kerr Scott's thumping victory over
Charles M. Johnson in the run-off primary for the
Democratic domination for1 governor. How can this
political upset l>e accounted for?
As, i^ true inmost elections, there were many
issues and cross-currents, each undoubtedly con
tributing to the result Hut analysis of the returns
in the two primary elections points unmistakably
to what almost certainly was the dominant factor
in Scott's victory, arid Johnson's defeat.
In the first primary, Johnson, advertised as the
candidate of the Democratic organization in North
Carolina ? as the man the faithful were expected to
work for and vote for ? received approximately 40
per cent of the vote cast. Scott, who bitterly at
tacked what he called the party "machine", won
about 38 per cent. The remaining 22 per cent was
scattered among four other candidates. The $64
question then became: What does that other 22
per cent of the voters want? ? and where will it go
in the second primary r
Counting on what is generally conceded to be
widespread opposition to the calling of a second
primary by the-, second high man ? no gubernatorial
candidate ever before has won the nomination in
North. Carolina by calling a second primary ? the
Johnson forces believed they could capture most of
that 22 per cent scattered vote, plus many votes
that went to Scott in the first primary.
Rut when last Saturday's votes were counted,
the total, surprisingly, was almost as large as that
cast in the first primary, and Johnson had only 43
per cent, roughly, of the total vote cast. Scott had
held his own, and had captured 17 out of every 22
votes that had gone to the other four candidates
in the first primary.
It is obvious from these figures that a consider
able majority of the more than 400, (XX) Democrats
who voted Saturday were voting anti-organization.
What happened was in the nature of a political
revolution. And, since most of the old line party
leaders, state, county, and precinct, were lined up
with Johnson, the revolt was largely a revolt of the
rank and file of the party.
Exactly why they tossed aside the long dominant
organization ? which certainly has given the state
reasonably good government over a long period of
years? nobody can say with complete certainty.
Rut the factors listed below probably were among
the reasons. >
A lot of voters were tired of a few leaders,
whether in the state, county, or precinct, determin
ing policies and selecting candidates; tired of hav
ing their governors picked for them four, and even
eight, years in advance; tired of having the patern
alistic word passed down from above, "this is the
man". It was a battle for recapture of the Demo
cratic party by the ordinary voter. (Scott is a for
mer member of what he attacked as the "machine",
and whether the end result will be simply changing
leadership remains to be seen.)
Many powerful Democratic leaders in North Car
olina honestly believe that the best interests of the
state demand a policy of bowing and scraping to
wealth, especially industrial wealth, and not in
frequently that attitude has determined this state's
legislative and fiscal policies. It is a philosophy
that crops out in the idea that an industry does
North Carolina a great favor to come to this state,
and that an employer does his employe a great fa
vor by giving him a job.
Out of that philosophy has grown a tendency to
build the best highways between industrial cities,
meanwhile dumping a little stone in the mudholes
on farm-to-market roads : with other phases of the
state's services handled similarly.
But most of all, perhaps, it was a revolt against
a leadership suffering from mental and spiritual
hardening of the arteries. For the Democratic partv
in North Carolina, in recent years, has more and
more tended to become a negative, rather than a
positive, force; a conservative, timid, hush-hush
organization, marked by little courage, and show
ing less and less faith in the things that are the
very essence of democracy ? the good sense and ,
moral integrity of the average man and woman. J
LtWrtocr RfttaMy
In the passing of Lawrence Ramsey this CtKirity
lost a man who represented much of the best that
characterizes the stock of the Southern mountain
region.
No trait is more pronounced, perhaps, among
those native to the Southern Appalachians than
neighborliness, especially when a neighbor is in
trouble; and Lawrence fcamsey was a superlatively
good neighbor. He possessed, too, those other char
acteristics that we in this region set store by: In
tense loyalty, hospitality, public-spiritedness, and
that native courtesy so common in the mountains, j
a courtesy that is entirely spontaneous because it
grows out. of genuine consideration for others.
"Democracy and Communism are incompat- !
ible", quotes John Temple Graves.
Wrong. It is dictatorship and democracy that
cannot live side by side. We are having troubles
with Russia not because of the difference in our
economic systems, but for the same reason we had
trouble with' Germany: The world is too small to
hold a powerful dictatorship and a powerful de
mocracy.
POETRY CORNER
Conducted by
EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE
Weavervllle, N. C.
Sponsored by Asherillc Branch, National League of American Fen H'omtm
THE SEED RACE
Red slaughter stalked In the twilight of the earth.
We lived in the rhythm of the leaden beat
Of heavy hearts, In the measured tread of war.
Before our eyes the reeling world has crashed,
Yet now we see a steady beam of light,
That guides the sons of men of the seed race.
Enlightened ones, in a century of change,
Emerge from war, through black and turbulent days,
The heralds of peace and life to a dying world.
?FRANCES STRAWN LIVINGSTON
Asheville, N. C.
(Published by Different, Rogers, Ark.)
GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN
His locks are silvery waterfalls
And fern edged caverns form his eyes,
With conquering age his brow is lined,
The furrows that have marked the wise.
The mountain through the ages' time,
Benign or through his enger stands
With sunlit smiles upon his face
Or thunder bearing his commands.
?EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE
Weaverville, N. C.
(From Cass County (Mo.) Democrat)
? Others' Opinions ?
LIGHT IN DARKNESS
A story is told of a young man who called one evening on
a rich old farmer to learn the farmer's story of how he be
came rich.
"It's a long story," said the old man; "and while I'm telling
it, we might as well save the candle " And he blew it out.
"You need not go on," interrupted the youth; "I under
stand."? Geo. W. Olinger in Sunshine Magazine.
KIDS TAKE TO THE AIR
Did you read the other day about the two boys, one eleven
and the other twelve, who wheeled an airplane from its
hangar, boarded it and flew 120 miles?coming down safely?
They did it on the sly, but they did it! Incredible? Well, not
any more? for they did it.
This prodigious feat has a number of Implications. There's
the war angle. In the event of a big war, the draft age for
pilots could -be dropped to ten or eleven. Imagine fifth graders
piloting great planes over "the hump"! But, why not? Our
kids are born in these days with an instinct for mechanics.
Machines are their toys.
Out here in the country it is nothing unusual to see a lad
breezing up or down the road on a tractor, speeding it up to
its limit. And one stripling drives a home-made contrivance
around wih the nonchalance of a veteran racer. A boy at the
controls of a tractor wields a power a score of ttmes greater
than did his grandfather wih a team of horses.
These two lads, who surreptitiously piloted a plane down
Texas way, raised a nice question that totters between legality
and sentimentality. They took the plane without the owner's
consent. They flew It without a pilot's license. But what good
would it do to invoke the penalties of the law upon them?
The great men and women of history won their laurels because
they defied precedent. And, besides, admiration overshadows
any blame that might issue from the bland disregard with
which the lads treated the law as It applies to airplanes. No
officer ot the law could put two children In Jail whose offense
was the startling stunt these two lads staged.
The obvious thing to do with and for these prodigious boys
is to take them in hand and give them all there Is now known
about aviation. They'll go along on their own from there on.
?New Bethlehem ((Penna.) Leader-Vindicator.
NORTH CAROLINA GAINS
Reports of President E. A. Resch and Miss Beatrice Cobb,
secretary-treasurer, to the North Carolina Press Association at
Fontana Village last week indicated that the state received the
benelit of a nation-wide wave of the most favorable publicity
as a consequence of the recent visit of hundreds of members
of the National Editorial Association, which held its annual
convention at Plnehurst.
The officials of the North Carolina Press Association reported
that they had received such volumes of clippings and news
papers containing editorial and other articles about the expe
riences and observations of the editors and publishers on their
tottr of the state that they had not been able in several weeks
to complete the task of reading all of the material.
In addition, they and others had received hundreds of let
ters expressing the visitors' appreciation of the hospitality
shown them in North Carolina and commenting upon the fav
orable impressions they received.
In the non-daily newspapers throughout the country ap
peared articles-many of them written by editors who had
just completed their first visit to North Carolina? telling of
the state's attractions for vacationists, Its progress, Its assets
and resources, its mountain scenery, the cordial hospitality
of its people, etc., etc.
The visit of the National Editorial Association offered North
Carolina a rare opportunity and, according to the state press
association officials, many people inside and outside of the
organization contributed substantially in various ways to mak
ing the most of the opportunity. Many corporations and busi
nessmen, as well as chambers of commerce and members of
the press, had a part In the entertainment program and in
making It a delightful occasion for the newspaper folk who
represented about three-fourth* of the atatea of tbe Union.
A result has been a vast amount of good will and of ftvorabU
publicity of ineitlmable valut.? Charlotte Obwrvtr.
LKQAL ADVERTISING
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
OF SUMMONS
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
JOSEPH W KAHN
vs
INEZ MEASE KAHN
The defendant, Inez Mease
Kahn, will take notice that an
action entitled as above has
been commenced In the Super
ior Court of Macon County for
the purpose of securing an ab
solute divorce for the plaintlif,
Joseph W. Kahn.
Said delendant will further
take notice that she Is requir
ed to appear at the office of
the Clerk of Superior Court of
Macon County, North Carolina,
at the Courthouse in Franklin,
North Carolina, on the 16th day
of July, 1948, and answer or
demur to the complaint In said
action, or the plaintiff will ap
ply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
This 15 day of June, 1948.
J CLINTON BROOKSHIRE,
Clerk Superior Court
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ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as adminis
tratrix of Samuel Jasper Com,
deceased, late of Macon Coun
ty N. C., this Is to notify all
persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to
I exhibit them to the undersigned
on or before the 24 day of May,
1949 or this notice will be plead
In bar of their recovery. All
persons Indebted to said estate
will please make immediate set
tlement.
This 24 day of May, 1948.
LENA CORN,
Administratrix
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
JOHN H C. PERRY, Plaintiff
v#- ,/
WILLIAM R. DEAR and wife,
GRETA T. DEAR, Defendants
William R. Dear, one of the
defendants above ? named, will
take notice that ah action en
titled as above has been com
menced in the Superior Court
of Macon County in which the
plaintiff claims the sum of $2,
300.00 based on contract, which
contract has been breached by
the defendants;
Said defendant, William R.
Dear, will also take notice that
he is required to appear in the
office of the undersigned Clerk
of the Superior Court of Ma
^on County on or before the
4th day of August, 1948, and I
Answer or demur to the com
plaint or plaintiff will apply to
the Court lor the reliel tnere
in demanded.
Said defendant will further
take notice that in said action
a warrant of attachment against
the property of said defendants
has been issued and the follow
ing property attached:
All the land described in
the deed from George W.
Marett and wife, Jessie O.
Marett, to William R. Dear
and wife, Greta T. Dear,
dated 24 October, 1938, and
recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of
Macon County, North Car
olina, In Deed Book B-5,
page 475. Reference Is
hereby made to said deed
and record for a more cer
tain description.
And that said warrant of at
tachment Is returnable before
the undersigned Clerk of the
Superior Court at his office In
said County.
This the 14th day of June,
1948.
J. CLINTON BROOKSHII?,
Clerk Superior Court,
Macon County,
North Carolina
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EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as executoi
of OLLIE JACOBS BENNETT,
deceased, late of Macon Coun
ty, N. C., this is to notify all
persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to
exhibit them to the undersign
ed on or before the 27 day of
May, 1949, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please maka Imme
diate settlement.
This 27 day of Mav, 1848.
D. M. BENNETT,
? Bxecutor
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as adminis
trator of Allle Garland, de
ceased, late of Macon County,
N. C., this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to ex
hibit them to the undersigned
on or before the 26 day of June,
1949 or this notice will be plead
in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate
will please make Immediate set
tlement.
This 26 day of June, 1948.
JOHN BROWN,
Adminlstator
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
EDDIS CRAWFORD
vs.
ORADY CRAWFORD
The defendant, Grady Craw
ford will take notice that an
action entitled as above has
been commenced in the Super
:or Court bf Macon County,
North Carolina, to obtain an
absolute divorce from the de
fendant on the grounds of two
years separation; and the said
defendant will further take
notice that he is required to
appear at the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of
said County in the courthouse
in Franklin, N. C., on the 30th
day of July, 1948, and answer
or demur to the complaint in
said action, or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the re
lief demanded in said com
plaint.
This the 23 day of June, 1948.
J. CLINTON BROOKSIIIRE,
Clerk of the Superior Court,
Macon County, North Carolina
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