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Friday May 29. 1931
Verily, The Old Order Changeth
Will the people hold their ground against the poli
ticians? In the recent fight, the rank and file of peo
ple have won a great victory in the way of tax redui
tion. It is significant that, nearly all those fellows
who have been called the leading politicians stood
against tax reduction for the little felloWpAnd the
fight has been won over their protests and in the fae
of their efforts to block it.
% The public is gaining in |K»litical wisdom. I hey
have heretofore, in a large way, acted somewhat like
rattle —when the bell cow lows, the calves all bleat.
Things have now taken a change and the people
find that they have been bulled too long. Hereafter
they are going to ask their candidates who their friends
are and how they have been making their living. Ob,
they are going to ask lots of questions.
Now is a good time to look over the field, while
our memory is fresh, and see how they are lined u|>.
See where the candidates for governor stood in the
fight. See whether they were for you or against you,
or whether or not they lacked manhood enough to
stand on either side.
The proper thing to do is to take up people who
are outside of the political trust, and then we will
have somebody worthy of trust.
Whatever may ha|>pen, don't follow the lash-crack
ing, ringmaster type of politicians.
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Day of Miracles Not Past
The day of miracles' is| not past , because why some
body was not killed when-six people were in a little
one-seated car Sunday afternoon near town, when
it left the road, side-swi|)ed, nose-dived, somersaulted,
and rolled over a few times, really looked like a mir
acle. And the same might also be said of a touring
car occupied by two men, at about the same time,
when it left the highway and took a flight- through
Skewarkey Church yard.
The apparent cause of each of these accidents was
slippery roads and fast driving. A gentle rain was
falling, and these cars apparently skidded, the driv
ers losing control.
This is a striking reminder of how near danger
and death we are when we drive cars at high s|»eed>
on slippery roads, A safety school should be opened
in every community, and everybody taught the irn
portance of life and how easily it may be lost through
thoughtlessness and carelessness.
Shifting the Responsibility
Judge Winston did not give the world proper pro
tection in banishing "Blue Heaven" to some other
place and on other i*ople. •
The purpose of the law is to destroy crime and not
to shift criminals off on other people and communi
ties. If "Blue Heaven," was a nuisance in Bertie
County, then it will be a nuisance in Dare or Bun
combe County.
"Blue Heaven" was a vice den for several years,
where bad women and liquor lured the husbands of
many good women, and their sons, too. It has been
a mystery and a wonder how the establishment car
ried on openly and apparently aboveboard; almost!
FARM BOARD TO
AID IN SELLING j
PEANUT CROP
Steps Being Taken to Form
National Marketing
Organization
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Definite steps have been by farmer*
to . establish, with the assistance of
the Federal Farm Board, a national
marketing organization for the princi
pal peanut-growing region* of the
' southeattern states.
For more than 4 year growers have
been holding local meetings prelimi
nary to regional conferences. Three
regional meetings were held in April,
bringing together peanut growers of j
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and North!
Carolina. A .fourth regional meeting'
will b« held in Virginia. During the!
lait five years these state* have pro- 1
disced more than 80 per cent of the 1
PMMtt grown in the United Stale*. ~]
Organic*tioa plan* for the Alabama- j
Florida regional were agreed upon at
ml an -:.*k
' under the shadow of Windsor, until Pastor Lee of the
Methodist church of that town kindled a fire of in
dignation and protest against it.
The proceedings of the court only means that "we
have had you in our midst for a long time. But now
you must go hence, with your immorality, your dis
ease, and your lawbreaking, and take your chances."
If other communities are as dull to such disorder and
as cooperative in fostering and maintaining it as Ber
tie and a part of Martin have been, it will be easy
sailing for a long time. Perhaps most sections of
the country will not look at such a^vice den as a fine
thing, and joke about it, and smother evidence as has
been done in the "Blue Heaven" case.
Regaining Worth-While Happiness
There is no need to look for prosperity for every
bwly if we all take our own advice. In fact, if we
do the things we are being taught, it will cut the gro
cers' trade 60 per cent. The Minnesota wheat farmer
will lose a part of his trade, the Kansas haymaker
will lose all his trade; the tin-can manufacturers an/1
the Chicago meat packers will have to "shut up shop,''
so far as trading with North Carolina farmers and
little home towns, such as we have in our State ,goes.
One of our great troubles has been too much trad
ing. We have [>aid too much freight charges and too
We have bought potatoes from
Maine to plant and from Florida and Minnesota Jo
eat. We buy cabbage and rutabagas from New York,
milk and butter from lowa.
When we look clear across the page and see that
we have sold nearly everything we have produced,
losing the freight and commission charges, and then
look on the other page and see that we have bought
nearly all the things we need, we will not wonder at
our poverty. When every farmer in the country does
the proper thing for his own good, it is going to put
lots of other things out of business. ■
The task for the country is a complete reorganiza
tion of business. It will require a submission of one
pride and banish lots of our laziness.
Our biggest task is to stop going down hill, change
our business methods and march back up hill again. If
we will diligently pursue such a coures, we will regain
our homes and our real worth-while happiness.
Cotton seems to l>e going down to the 1896 figure,
at least it will be there if it kee|>s moving in the same
direction it has for the past year, during which time
it has tumbled from 15.85 to 8.45, which is a sizable
drop, with little ho|»e of much recovery.
Our customers in foreign countries have found they
can raise cotton cheaper than they can buy from us,
and our own |»eople are not able to buy very exten
sively. This lowers the demand for cotton and forces
the price down.
There is just one way for a Southern farmer to
whip the low price of cotton, and that is by planting
less and producing commodities for his own living.
Then he will not be dependent on the balance of the
world for a living.
A chicken, an egg, a glass of milk, a bushel of po
tatoes, a cabbage head, and a ham is worth just as
much to eat as it has ever been, and we can produce
them—but we can't buy them with 8-cent cotton. .
Why The Income-Tax Law Falls Down
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Our federal income tax laws are not raising enough
money to meet our obligations, and for the first time
since the war period we are selling a billion dollar
long-term bond issue.
After we succeeded in reducing our public debt front
twenty-four billion to fifteen billion dollars ,we find
the law passed by Congress a few years ago is not
producing enough revenue to pay current bills. The
only trouble with the law is that it was passed to
protect the rich man, and when the rich do not have
to pay taxes and the poor can not |>ay taxes, the
country finds itself without money to meet its ob
ligations. S
The United States is the only one of'the civilized
nations that the tax on incomes is not on a graduated
scale above SIOO,OOO. England's income tax schedule
applied in the United States would have jxjid all of
our bills.
Our trouble is that too many Mellons have been
dickering with Congress, and it takes too much off of
the man who was able to bear it and not hurt his
business.
I he principle of income tax is certainly one of the
l>est methods of taxation, but it certaiflly should be
on a graduated scale, starting with a low rate on small
incomes and going higher as the amount of income
goes up.
ja meeting held at Dothan, Ala., ou
April 17. A marketing agreement ami
| by-laws were dratted and accepted by
the growers, who have made applica
■ tion for a charter of an organization
jto be known as the Alabama-Florida
l'eanut Growers Cooperative Associa
tion.
j Similar meetings were held at Al
bany, Ga., on April 22, and at Wind
sor, N. C. t on April 28. Committee*
were selected and instructed to pro
ceed immediately to organize the
growers of these states into regionals.
The Windsor meeting was attended
by county agents, vocational teacher*,
state marketing specialists, a repre
sentative of the Federal Farm Board,
and peanut growers from North Car
olina. Their regional will lie known
as the North Carolina Peanut Growers
| Mutual Exchange.
| Virginia farmer* will hold a meet
(ing on June 2at Suffolk, Va., for the
j purpose of deciding whether or no)
, growers in that state are ready to
proceed in setting up a regional or
ganization a* is being done in the othei
j peanut-producing state*. Grower* al
: ready have started their organicatior
Back To 8-Cent Cotton
11 work in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
I and North Carolina. It is planned to
'.make the county the local ulut and
- [ use the federated plan of organization
> in North Carolina and possibly in
' Georgia, while the central plan will be
- used in Alabama and Florida.
| Leaders are planning to perfect the
- regional organisations in time to op
- erate them in handling this year's pea
s nut crop in North Carolina, Alabama,
and Florida.
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*j 12 Acres ot Grass Cares
•J For IS Head of Cattle
|,l 1 wrlve acres of grass on the farm
-j of B. L. Dunlap in Anson County is
u carrying 15 head of cows this season,
s That part of the pasture which re
ceived an application of ground lime-,
j stone has a sod about twice as thick
e 'and vigorous as where no limestone
t t|wa* used,
o- ■ *
r- The Cleveland County Poultry A«-
•r sociation plans to store their surplus
I- egg* in cold storage for later mar
in keting.
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Synthetic daylight, said be # an exact
reproduction of old Sol's best effort,
has been perfected by lighting experts
so that (the porcelain Isides of the
American home maker's electric re
frigerator will be as perfectly matched
as her of dishes.
By blending clear and colored in
candescent lamps the experts have
created ji daylight department in the
mile long Frigidaire factory here,
which is illuminated with the best
quality of daylight regardless of the
weather. Constant daylight was ne
cessitated when Frigidaire announced
that in the future these electric refrig
erators would be finished in snow
white porcelain-on-steel. This gleam
ing finish, it is said, will blend wifli
any kitchen color scheme. ;
Three coats of porcelain are bake'l
onto the steel sides of the new Frig
idaires at "a hea tof Ifoo degrees Fah
renheit. ' When the last coat is fused
into the steel panels, the panels pas»
along a production line beneath the
artificial daylight. There trained eyes
match the panels. Any departure
from the snowy color is quickly de
tected and the panel is rent ived from
production. *
Flint hard and—having the appear
ance of glass, this porcelain-on-steel
finish is extremely durable, i lie scrap
tog ot jtans rttxl aeros-s the -fFtt
service shelf top will not mar it, dirt
and even ink and crayon marks can be
erased with a "few. strokes of a damp
cloth. Likj the mechanical unit of
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anteed for three years. The interior
is .just as white and sanitary, and in
addition is acid resisting, immune t«»
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as a china dish.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
By virtue of'the power of sajc con
tained in that certain deed of trust ex
jecuted by  liurcli Ilardison to 1,.
> >. Burroughs, trustee, bearing 'date
jof December ,i()tb, l'> 27, ami recorde I
in book X-2. at page 535. in the oftk'e
fp s-20-31—i— ♦ PO 1922 Ad 66
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IN PRIZES
"Believe it or Not" Contest
J (Daylight Saving Tims)
ft m ~ / JU* WEDNESDAYS
Everybody's talking about the new BSSO
WL program.—But they're not talking during
*■' '" l ' lc program. No sir. It's too exciting for
1 / ./T; that. When Robert L. Ripley's on the air,
i every Wednesday and Friday, at 7:45 P. NL,
Mm « ~ * B. D. S. time, people listen.
- For one thing, they want to get one of
the 54 prizes that are going to be awarded
by the manufacturers of ESSO. Six big ones
in cash. 48 others, consisting of brand-new
Atlas Tires. The contest closes at midnight,
June 30, 1931. Another reason they listen
\© e * * S >ecause " te " s y° u things you never
\ 1 heard before and never expected to hear.
\ to \*ruC^ vol '*l Listen in yourself every Wednesday and
Friday, 7:45 P. M., E. D. S. time, over the
\ // following hook-up: -' • . ~ J .'
■fl fV% Off \Y \ WJZ New York *KDKA Pittaburgb
j| M* 11 | WBZA Boston WHAM Rochester
\\\ 1 I / WBZ Springfield *WLW Cincinnati ,
JJJ WBAL Baltimore WRVA Richmond
STANDARD OIL CONMKY OF NEW J E * IE Y
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of the Register of Deed* of Martin
County, and default having been made
in the payment of the indebtedness
thereby secured, the undersigned trus
tee will, on June 25th, 1931, at 12 o -
| clock noon, at the courthouse door in
Martin County expose to public sale to
the highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described real estate, to wit:
1 All that certain tract or parcel ol
land lying and being in Williams
Township, Martin County, North Car
olina, containing 142 acres, more or
le>s, bounded on the north by Dennis
I Simmons Lumber Co. lands, on the
| east by the lands of J. D. Hardison,
on the south by the lands of W. C.
i Stevenson and Joe Styron, and on the
| west by the lanjs of M. T. Gardner,
and being the same Mand conveyed to
; First National Trust Co., trustee, by
A. E. Lilley and wife, Carrie V. Lilley,
.is is described in that certain deed of
| trust dated May 22nd, 1925, and re
corded in book X-2, page 77 and 78
] in the office of the register of deeds- of
Martin County.
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thousand* of people who take it
Mr. E. W. Cecil, a construction super
intendent in Pulaski, Va., says:
■ i "When I get con
stipated, my head aches, and I
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feel hungty and I kiiow that I
neud something to cleanse my
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Sold in 23-cent packages.
THEDFORDS JK
I f«r  wryrvort'i, «hou. ! tnko Car- I
r 'f .1 '• r over 60 .v wnrs. _mu_|
This tract of land is being sold free
of incumbrance for cash or on terms
| satisfactory to the trustee.
I This 25th day of May, 1931.
E. O. BURROUGHS,
my 29 4tw Trustee.
; ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
' Having qualified as administrator
■of the estate of Mrs. Mollie A. .Ayers,
I deceased, late of Martin County,
[North Carolina, this is to notify all
'persons having claims against the es-
When you know that the resources of this
bank are invested in such a manner as to be
I easily mobile at all times, diversified safe,
then you know that your savings here are also
safe beyond comparison. Our officers and
■ directors are men of seasoned and varied bus
iness experience. Their judgment and integ
rity is your assurance of safety for savings.
Open an account today with confidence!
| Branch Banking I
I & Trust Company I
Williamston, N. C.
liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Tuesday, J tine 2,1931
: tate of said deceased to exhibit them
i to the undersigned at his office i* the
Branch Banking and Trust Company
building, Williamston, N. C., on or be
. fore the 6th day of May, 1932, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make inimediatc
. payment to the undersigned.
This the 6th day of May, 1931.
; , v C. L). CARSTARPHEN,
i Administrator of Mrs. Mollie A.
■ Ayers. deceased. m-13-6t