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FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1927
The Need for Many Laws
There is some complaint about so
many laws, and wt» admit that there
axe so many that nobody seems to
know about them all, and most folks
do not seem to care aboyt many of
them. J>ome respect them all and
there are 1 yet a few that respect
reither laW nor gospel.
And yet how are we going to get
along without theft)"-?
In our early civilization, we hail no
law whatever. Adam did not even
have to tell anybody to keep off of
his corns. But just as soon as Eve
came along, law was necessary. So
God made a law and a penalty.
The world moved on and the na
tions multiplied until it became neces
sary to make more laws. And then
there got to be so many people that
it became necessary to make a traffic
law, which required that when you
met a man you had to walk to the
right side. Walking was then the
only means of travel, yet law was
necessary to keep men from butting
noses. i
New inventions were added, and
folks began to move about in little
boats. This made it necessary to pass
a red-light law, requiring boats to
display them as danger signals. Lat
er on, ih the course of time, the boat*
grew bigger, and we had to have
laws governing the high seas traffic
and erftablishipg the "three-mile
limit."
Of course, murder had been com
mitted before this, when one brother
had killed another, causing the need
fer the "Thou shalt not kill" law.
Some years later some imp invent
ed an unruly cuss that
it has become necessary to pass laws
everywhere and of every kind to sup
press it in its effort to dethrone or
derly government.
Prior to this time, the larger num
ber of the laws were not written in
books as statutory regulations, but
came direct from the mouth of the
king. If he was good, the people had
ACHED AIL OVER
WM Sdforiaf DveadfuDj, Jut
"Wastkg Aw»j." Ink
CirM, ul Says It
UdH Her.
Attington, Tcxu,—A resident of
this town for many year*, Mrs. J. EL
Jackson, sayr
1 had suffered dreadfully with an
aching all over my body. At timaa
toy head would give ma ao much
troubla I could hardly stand it I
had bsen in bed for weaks and it
looked lika I was just wasting away.
1 took 9 bottles of Cardui and my
atreagth bagan to alowly return.
"Staoa that time I have uaed this
madicina a good many times and it
has afarays helped ma.
"At «oa time I took Caidni for
aswsai —ths regularly. I would
ha aflietad with sadden "f* 11 * of
itiwimis when I could not stand on
my fast. Everything would tarn
black bafors my ayaa aad I would
foslasif I were going to feint At
toss I would ha quite nauaaatad I
turned a* ooca to Cardui and took
it tiß I waa safely through."
Carded la a mild, maHUmi tonic,
made from purely vspstabla ingrsdi
snta. It has been in use for over 50
wttn, nd hi that M— thousands
of WMBSB haws written that Cardui
back to good htira*
Sold tgr all druggista. NC-tU
|r oo d government; but if bud, then
they had bad government.
Education, civilization, und inven
ticil began to raise the standard of
the human mind until man was quite
unwilling to allow his destiny to rest
upon the will and character of on?
man. Then cama our constitutions
rnd general laws, which protect the
food and res-train the evil.
Thi new inventions called for more
h.ws. The railroad has called for the
need of thousands of new laws to
regulate the relationship between the
load and the individual. Then the
ti lergaph and .the telephone each re
quired a big law book to hold the stat
utes that make, them serve and that
make the people respect them.
In this new tiay, we have the auto
mobile, which heeds to be restrained
by a whole shelf of law books. And
then the .schools, the highways, the
radio, the Hying machines, all have
duties to perform and rights to pro
ject.
Of course, Daniel Boone had no hu
inane society to bow to nor no game
things are different We need to pro
tect the very animals and birds that
law to respect, and he had a right to
shoot anything he pleased, Now,
he shot at will; and now we protect
everything that has hair, feathers, or
.scales by some kind of game law.
When we remember that the very
first law that wa.s ever parsed is as
important today as it was then and
that most of those since passed are
very necessary for our. government,
we doubt if we could get along very
well without practically all the laws
\vc now have; and we seem to need
even more than we now have, or some
strong amendments to some of the
present laws. ,
There is only one thing that will
remove the need for law; that is to
build the government on the basis of
religion and keep it there.
When men do right, they offend no
law. They are protected by the law.
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22 | Play Safety First
Wading in too deep seemed to be j than from the during adventure of
the cause of about a dozen people be- j going farther than the otht r fellow,
ing drowned in our State July 4th. , ,
* Whatever may be the cause of the
The sadness of such scenes would
, numerous destructions of thp day, in
seem to i>e sufficient warning to keep i ,
~ , . . „- . - the business world, the social, or po
others from venturing so far across
. .. v , , ~ litical, as weH a.s the swimming pool,
the danger line. Yet such is not the "" v "
case. We Americans all want to go that old rule of safety, If you can t
eveiything one better, even if it is don't go in water over your
dangerous. Ik is .possible that more head ' is a very safe rule to follow,
foilfs drown because of carelessness it matters not what you do.
Itut when men do wrong, they are
aimosrt certain to violate some law. |
They are, therefore, generally against
all law. ,
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What wc need is to respect all the j
good laws and repeal any that may j
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be bad. i '""' (
When all the people help to enforce
the good laws, we will have good
'government.
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Of course, there is not a lav.-' in
the books that pleases the violator.
HOME RAISED MEAT, LARD,
corn and hay for sale. Joshua L.
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NOTICE
North Carolina, iMartin County.
In superior court.
W. S. Rhode* and I). G. Matthew*
Trading a* Slade. Rhodes & Co.,
vs. J. N. I'uifh.
By virtue of an execution directed
to 'he undersigned from the superior
court of Martin County, in the above
er titled action, I will, on the Ist day
of August, 1927, at 12 o'clock noon,
at the courthouse door of Martin
County, sell to the highest bidder for
tash, to satisfy said execution all the
right, title, and interest which the
said J. H. Pugh( the defendant, .has i
in the following described real estate, |
to wit:
"t hat tract of lend known as the
Cox fr.rm, situated on the left-hand j
side of the public road leading from
Hamilton to Willianislon, opposite the
Purvis farm, adjoin ni*; the land of
J. H. Sherrod and others and the Ro
anoke River, containing three hun- j
died acres, more or less, which tract j
is sold and is hereby conveyed sub
ject the-dower of Mrs. Margaret
Boyle, widow of John P. Boyle, de- •
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THE ENTERPKIBE WILLI AMSTON, N.*C.
ceased, which has already been as
signed out of said land under definite
metes and bounds. _ ,
This the Ist day of July, 1927.
A. L. ROEBUCK,
iyij 4tw Sherilt of Martin County.
NOTICE
Under and by virtue of a judgment
in this cause, D. G. Matthews vs. Jack
Everett, the undersigned comissioner
will, on the Ist day of August, 1927,
at 12 o'clock noon, at the courthglis;
door ofm Martin County offer at pub
lic sale to the highest bidder, for cash,
the following described tract of land:
Same being a house and lot located
in the town of Williamston, N. C.,
new occupied b., Jack Everett, and
bounded by the lands of Joe Williard,
Ben Jows, Jani Bryant, arid the An
drews land.
This the Ist Juy of July, 1927.
B. A. CRITCHER,
jyß 4tw Commissioner.
NOTICE
Under and by virtue of -he power
of sale contained in that certain deed
of trust execute 1 to the undersigned
trustee, on the 19th day of June, 1925,
and of record in Marin County regis
try, in book Q-2, page 407, securing
certain bonds of even date therewith,
«nd the stipulations not having been
complied with,' and at the request of
the holder of said bonds, the under
signed will, on the Ist day of August,
1927, at the courthouse door of Mar
tin Couhty, at 12 o'clocTTnoon, sell
to the highest bidder, for cash, the
following described land:
666
Is a Prescription for
MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER,
DENGUE OR BILIOUS FEVER
It Kills the Germs
Situate in Popiar Point Township,
Martin County, N. C., adjoining the
lands of J. I. Taylor, John A. Pierce,
and others, and bounded on the north
by the Red Roobuck Estate; oni the
cast by Win. James Coburn; on the
south by the lands of John A. Pierce,
and on the west by the lands of J.
I. Taylor, known as "The John Hurst
lands." It being the lands devised
to Mary Edmondson by her father,
John Hurst; and containing: seventy
five (75) acres, more or less, and de
scribed more definitely as follows:
Beginning at a ligntwood stump on
the south side of Wild Cat road; then
up said road to Jesse I. Taylor's line,
a corner, a gum; thence down Bates
Branch to a gum on the oppoate side
of the canal; thence south across the
marsh to the hill to a pine; thence
east to John A. Pierce's line, a corner,
a stump; thence a straight line to the
bogihning stump on the Wild Cat
road, and being the dentical prem
ises described in the deed from Jas.
It. Edmondson and w°ife, Mary Ed
mondson, to W. R. Silvcrthorne, of
record in the public registry of Mar
tin County in book SSS, at page 511,
rt'fprence to which is hereby made.
This the tut day of July, 1927.
H. G. HORTON,
jyR 4tw Trustee.
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