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Friday, January 6, 1933
A Good Citizen Passes
In the passing of A. R Dunning here, his home loses
a good husband and father and the section loses the
many-fold services of a valuable man.
While he pushed forwerd into the public eyes as a
practioner in the law profession, his greatest work
ever remained a'secret to the masses. For it was with
a sympathetic heart that he listened at any hour of
the day or night to the pleas- of the* poor and the
needy. And in that he reconciled himself to the Al
mighty and found it his greatest pleasure. The per
son of humble surroundings was accorded as grekt a
welcome into his home as was accorded the man of
high station. They were all welcome. Never did he
refuse his aid to those experiencing trouble or sorrow
or actual want. He went further and divided, the
balance always going to the one needing succor most.
And his counsel, his*friendship and his earthly be
longings were shared quietly and observed by
hurrying masses.
He will be missed most in his home, surely, but the
memory of his goodness will long prevail in many an
humble abode made bright during the years of his life
through his understanding and his sympathetic heart.
False Cooperation
The wrong kind of Cooperation is being practiced
by one farmers in this county, according to reports
coming from his neighbors. The man is said to be
spending much time pleading with his neighbors for
a reduction in tobacco acreage, arguing that prices
this coming fall will lie nothing if there is not a sub
stantial reductoin in acreage and production. The
neighbors claim, however, they see a false move on
his part, that they find him working on a new barn
on his farm when he is not going about preaching re
duction to his neighbors.
We agree with his preaching for reduction, but
bitterly condemn his plans of ypansion. His plans
are goinn to IK- followed, it is feared, by a majority
of farmers this season, and there is nothing much more
certain than low prices if a full crop is grown this
year. The wise thing to do is to plant a small crop,
and handle it in such a way that good quality may be
fiad. Then the grower will get a profit. On the other
.hand the farmer who plans a big makes a
big outlay for fertilizer, labor and other expenses, has
more than two chances to one to lose money.
I he farmer who drills a small quantity of compost
of the right kind under his tobacco stands the best
chance to make money this-year.
But don't plant too much tobacco.
A Bootstrap Lifting Process
We have heard a lot about subsidies and bonuses
and socialism and communism and many other allied
things. While we are not so much opposed to some
of these ideas, yea we are constrained to believe that
the proposed farm relief bill embraces some of the
elements of all of these principles. The bill distinct
ly says that the government will pay a Southern art
ton farmer five cents a pound on his crop and charge
up the Northern and Western laborer with the dif
ference for his cotton goods. Of course, we like that
because we are in the South and like Southern people
best of all. But one thing we don't like so much about
the bill and that is the government pays the Western
wheat farmer 42 cents a bushel and charges it up to
us Southern biscuit eaters. * So it is just a question
of whether we eat more flour or sell more cotton.
After all, it is going to be a kind of bootstrap lift
ing process in which we will get a penny in one hand
and lose one from the other. Of course the measure
will do good in that it will force the uneven processes
of overproduction of one commodity and underpro
duction of some other one. This will be of great
benefit to the farmer who is generally a plunger, go
ing too heavily for the production one year on the
crop that brought the most money the previous year.
The farmer does not need special favors. He needs
a chance equal with other things. And when the pres
sure of gold is taken off his neck, and adequate money
» put into the channels of trade he will need no sub
sidies.
Gold is the base of our financial troubles, and is
Musing more suffering and sin than any other thing we
have. That is to say the love and worship of gold is
the root of the tin.
PUBLISHED BVBRV
TUWPAY ANP KHIPAV
Pleasures Before Honest Debts
And Babe Ruth squirmed when faced with a $25,000
salary decrease. But why should he since he has a
non-productive occupation? Why should he be paid
more than a good banker, surveyor, or fanner? So
far as we can see the only reason is that the American
mind is so unbalanced that it will permit us»to spend
all we have for frivolties and pleasures even if we
never , pay a debt and our families starve.
It is not half as sad to see Ruth get a salary
slash as it is to see a factory fiand get a cut in his
wages.
The Man Who Fixes the Prices
The Western people want our Eastern peanuts, and
we want their wheat. The Northern people want the
Southern cotton, and the Southern folks want their
iron, automobiles, and manufactured goods. Yet no
body can supply theirj needs—all because we have
forgotten how to trade.
We have followed the plan of carrying everything
we have to the man with money, who fixes the price
for us, takes our goods to the fellows who need them,
where he makes the price to the buyer. He then buys
the other fellow's products—where he makes the price
again—takes these products back to us and once
more sets the price for us.
After all, the man with money has made the price
on every commodity we produce twice—which is one
reason why there are so many hungry folks.
Depression Not Yet Over
The Industrial News Review says that three years
of depression have ended. Of course, it is perfectly
true that three years have ended, but how about the
depression—has that ended?
The Industrial News Review holds out much hope
for the future and praises our institutions, all of which
is perfectly satisfactory and very true. However,
they place our troubles on taxes, which is only a half
truth, because we have more trouble paying interest
than we do paying taxes, and it is the combination of
taxes and interest that is crushing the country. It
is easy to figure how we got Info this "trouble, but
much harder to figure how we are to get out of it.
We are having to pay inflated debts and taxes with de
flated money. Economy will help us, but it alone can
not save us from financial ru : n, even if we starve our
selves to death. '
There is no use of fiddling around with the same
old theories and the old plans that we have used in
the past, lhe same splints that brought us through
the Cleveland panic in 189.6 and the Roosevelt (The
odore) crash in 1907 will not hold the break together
now—the break is too large and the cut is too deep to
be cured by such obsolete methods of surgery.
We may be forced to repudiate a large part of both
our debts and taxes, to the point of placing them on a
level with present-day values of all products. If this
is not done, or if our money in circulation is not ma
terially increased, we are not even in sight of the bot
tom of our depression. •
Armaments Must Be Reduced
That man Norman H. Davis, who is one of Mr.
Roosevelt's advisors, is talking gospel truth when he
says the first step toward world peace and world re
covery is to reduce the world's armaments. Of course,
everybody knows the best way to break up a fight is to
take the sticks away from combatants. And, too,
everybody knows that when everybody has a stick
we have twice as many fights as we have when no
body has one.
Mr. Roosevelt will do well if he cuts our war ex
penditures and uses his office to force other nations
to do-likewise. We do not need War. It Tias pretty
nearly ruined us already, and it has never failed to
ruin any people who have stuck to it long.
We need to pray that Mr, Roosevelt may rise above
the horizon and poisonous realm of politics and be
come a statesman.
Prospects Are Fairly Good
Beaufort X civs
Roger W. Babson, well known writer on economic
and financial matters, is able to see some bright spots
scattered here and there on the somewhat clouded sky.
Mr. Babson was one of the first to predict trouble
back in the boom period and his words are entitled to
more consideration than those of the never give up
optimist. Moreover he backs up what he says with
rather convincing figures.
Mr. Bapson first speaks of the advance in com
modities which occurred last summer, then the up
turn in stocks aild bonds. Some of this advance has
been lost but a good deal of it still holds. One of the
best signs of better times is that of increased freight
car loadings. The railroad business has been badly
hurt by the depression but it is getting better. In
the past three months there has been a steady in
crease in car loadings and they are now running only
11.8 percent lower than they were this, time last year.
Cotton and woolen textiles, rayon and shoe manufac
turing have made gains. The automobile business
while still below normal has shown a decided improve
ment.
There is still a great deal of unemployment in the
United States, and in other countries too, but in this
country the situation is much better than it was a year
ago. Manufacturing concerns, railroads and other in
dustries have put a great many people back to work.
These workers become cash customers for all sorts of
products and thus the movement spreads. It seems
therefore that if nothing happens to retard this prog
ress towards prosperity that we will see very much
better times in the country before 1933 comes to a
close. At any rate this is'what we hope for not only
for the United States, but for the peoples of the whole
world. ' ~— —
THE ENTERPRISE
A Strange Voice
The "State's Voice," a new paper will be launched
next wee by O. J. Peterson, publisher of the Chatham
Record, Pittsboro. He promises that it will be un
like anything else in the newspaper line in the State.
Frankly, we do not know just what the voice of the
State will sound like, for it has so long been smother
ed up by the political forces of the land. If the
State, which is the people, does really speak out it
will doubtless be a sound of hope and cheer so seldom
heard in years past. If Mr. Peterson rings out clear
and strong it will be of value to the State, and be is
generally found on the right side of things.
We wish him success in his venture. Iyet the State
speak and let the people hear its voice and heed its
demands.
Unable To Help
We have an unsigned request to publish an article
saying that a certain man in the county is back on
the job after a week of drunkenness. The request
comes from a friend of the drunken man who thinks
if the wayward brother could see his narrfe published
to the world, it would make him ashamed and stop ,
him of his practice. The man has not been carried
into the courts, and of course we cannot give his name.
We can only sympathize with him and any other man
who, through weakness, cannot help drinking or who _
is so common that he does not care if people do know
he drinks.
If a man has no regard for the body which God
gave him and so destroys it that it loses its usefulness
then what good will it do to publish him to the world.
"Schools of Crime"
Beaufort News
From time to time we hear it said that prisons are
"schools of crime" and that young people ought not
to be sent there because when they come out they are
worse than they were when they went in. This may
b so. It is certainly true that evil communications
corrupt good manners. The trouble though is that
most of these youngsters kept bad company before
they got in jail. If they hadn't done it they might
not have gotten into trouble.
Most of the states have reformatories where they
send youthful offenders and it seems better to send
them to such place than to the regular penal institu
tions. But we hear tales about soqje of these reform
atories accosionally that indicate even there some in
struction in methods of crime may be had. And it
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I Newspaper
Advertising
"No business man in town should allow a newspa
per published in his town to go without his name and
business mentioned somewhere in its columns. This
applies to all kinds of business—general stores, dry
goods, groceries, furniture dealers, mechanics, profes
sional men, druggists; in fact, all classes of business
men. This does not mean that they should have a whole
or half, or even a quarter page advertisement in each
issue of the paper, but your name and business should
be mentioned, if you do not use more than a two-line
space.
A stranger picking up a newspaper should be able
to tell what business is represented in the local town by
looking at the business mentioned in the paper. The
man who does not advertise his business does an injus
tice to himself and the town. The man who insists on
—— sharing the business that comes to town but refuses to
* advertise his ojjm is not a valuable addition to any town.
The life and snap of a town depend upon the wide
awake, liberal advertising men."
, —The American Banker.
The advertising pages of a newspaper are indeed
an index to the progress and prosperity of a communi- .
• ty. A bankers' magazine would not speak without the x I
authority of definite proof behind its assertions.
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WIU-IAMSTON
NOWTH CAWOt-IMA
is certainly true that some of those who have been
sent to the reformatories have behaved very badly aft
er being released. We have in mind a Chicago yowh,
a reformatory graduate, who only a few days ago was
sentenced to be electrocuted for murder and who had
committed several other atroclbus crimes. The truth
is that crime is one of the most serious problems that
human society has to deal with and there is no easy
way to solve it.
The Sales Tax Question
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That question concerning a general sales tax in the
State was apparently turned down by the Tax Com
mission. Yet, there is great suspicion that at the
crucial moment somebody who is afraid of some other
kind of tax is going to jump up the sales tax and the
legislature is going to swallow it like a fish. So far
we have not heard a word about tax on coco cola,
cigarettes, shows and so on. It might be noted just
at this poiDt that the nuisances are all heavily pro
tected by highly-paid lobbyists who jire capable of
putting argument so strong that they can make black
look white in the eyes of some people, even legisla
tors. «
More Poultry Needed
Progressive Farmer ' f
The poultry yard is now the brightest spot in the
whole farm picture, according to 1933 outlook state
ments. The latest United States Department of Agri
culture figures report cotton prices as only 48 per cent
of pre-war, while chickens are 89 per cent, and eggs
121 per cent of pre-war. The egg is the only farm
product as high now as in 1909-14.
There ought to be a persistent and continuous drive
to 1 increase poultry production in North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Virginia. We have the mild
climate, the long growing and the cheap land;
while nearly every farm has plenty of labor available
for handling three to four times the present number
of fowls. Furthermore, it takes little capital to en
gage in the poultry business, and if prices become un
profitable, more eggs and chicks can be consumed right
at home.
Why should we let California, 3,000 miles away
from New York, supply that great market when we
could supply it at about 500 miles distance. Why
should Virginia have only 10,000,000 hens, North
Carolina 8,000,000, and South Carolina 4,000,000,
when Kansas has 23,000,000, hens Missouri 30,000,-
000, and lowa 34,000,000?
Friday, January 6,1933
' IN MEMORIAM
♦
In loving remembrance of our dear
husband and father, A. F, Stalling*,
who died five years ago today, Janu
ary 5, 1928:
January brings back sad memories
Of pur drar one laid to rest;
And the ones who think of htm tolay
Are the ones who loved him best.
His devoted wife and children.
NOTICE
The undersigned, Pattie Sherrod,
having this day qualified as adminis
tratrix of the estate of B. B. Sherrod,
late of Hamilton, in Martin County,
hereby gives notice to all persons,
firms or corporations holding claims
against said estate to present them for
payment to the said administratrix on
or before the 3rd day of January r
1934, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of the recovery of same. All per
sons indebted to the said estate are
hereby requested to make immediate
payment of same.
This 3rd day of Januar& 1933.
PATTIE SHERROD.
Administratrix of B. B. Sherrod.
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NOTICE OP SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY
, Under and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed on the 28th day of No
vember, 1931, by J. L. Taylor and wife,
Emma L. Taylor, to the undersigned
trustee and of record in the public
registry of Martin County in book C-3
at page 567, said deed of trust hav
ing been given for the purpose of se
curing a note of even date and tenor
therewith, default having been made
in the payment of same, and at the
request of the holder of same, the un
dersigned trustee' will, on Thursday,
the 2nd day of February, 1933, at 12
o'clock m., in front of the courthouse
doQr in Williamston, North Carolina,
offer for sale to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described real
estate, to wit:
Bounded on the north by the lands
of J. L. Taylor; on the east by the
Eli Rawls land*; on the south by the
Mc. G. Taylor lands, and on the west
by the J. D. Bowen lands, and being
the same land conveyed to Samuel R.
Taylor by deed from A. B. Ayers,
bearing of January Ist, 1915, and
of record in the public registry of Mar
tin County in book —, at page —, and
commonly known as "the W. P. Lilley
i land," containing sevetity-ieven (77)
acres ,more or less, and being the
same lands referred to in deed to J.
L. Taylor of record in the public reg
istry of Martin County in book N-l,
at page 193, which is hereby referred
to for a more perfect description.
This the 2nd day of January, 1933.
H. G. HORTON,
j6 4tw Trustee.
Elbert S. Peel, Attorney.