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Tuesday, August 4,1936
Groping in the Darkness
It does not- seem to make any difference what the
preacher s teat is, nor what he says, any more, since
people will not attend church regardless of bow elo
quently he preaches It would seem that the preached
Word has no more attraction for men.
It seems that there are so many new things to al
lure our minds and change our thinking that we are
unable to hold our thinking to the more important
things before us.
The human mind seems to have become overloaded
with these new things of life, things that not only tax
our thoughts but our time and money, too, until man
has no more time to be a Christian, and we are grop
ing our way along through the darkness.
The Approaching Campaign
What gives promise of becoming the hottest cam
paign in many years is now approaching.
The power that seems to be behind the Republi
can campaign is the hold they have on the newspapers
to put out the material furnished by the Liberty Lea
guers. who are, in fact, the foe of true liberty, but
who stand out flat-footed and gobble up all the liberr
ties of the common herd. They are using the pown
of the press to poison and trick the untrained mind
into thinking that because the government is spend
ing some money for the common good that the whole
nation is going to be ruined.
President Roosevelt, on the nth?r h?nd, gg his
credit the saving of the banking system and giving us
?in the place of a chain of broken and dilapidated
h**^? 'hf -?' and best system of hanking that
America has ever had. This is a fact that cannot be
disputed. He has taken the banking power out of
the hands of a few greedy bankers and placed it in
the hands of the government, where it rightfully be
longs. And if that power ever gets back into the
hands of those greedy individuals, they will call for
another squeeze, such as ire had in 1920 and in 1930.
Then our wheat, corn, cotton and tobacco prices will
go down and the value of all our land will follow
Then we will all be suffering from Hoover prosperity
again, and we will indeed be sorry that we followed
the Republicans off to destruction.
One of the Reasons
President Roosevelt has discovered and headed off
many of the tax-dodging tricks of the wealth in this
nation, and this displeases the members of that class
But it pleases us very much, and is one of the prin
cipal reasons we are anxious to sea Mr. Rooerveit
reelected.
Death Walks the Highway
Nashville Graphic
The gods of recglessness are devouring thousands
at lives each month on American highways?and there
is no limit to their appetite
During the recent Fourth of July week-end, close
to 500 people met accidental deaths?the largest num
ber for that period since 1931. Fireworks were re
sponsible for a smaller number of fatalities than usu
al?but that greatest destroyer of all, the carelessly
operated motor car, chalked up a grisly record. And
every week-end witnesses similar occurrences. If, in
a angle disaster MKh as as ?"tlw]"*l. or a fire, ax
many were to be killed as have been killed in
arridrats in the last month, the world would be aghast
But we seem to regard accidents as being inevitable,
and look upon them with equanimity.
But the great tragedy is that accidents are not in
evitable. Nine out of ten are preventable, and easily
preventable. Craeleauesa, recklessness, ignorance and
stapidity are the principal causes ol accidntal injury
and death, and surely they can be cured?through
He strides through
He it an mm vfcfcor at every place of am
He ie apt te pat in Ma appearance in the hqr
The (hatha that follow accidents em he
lmoat 100 per cent 11 we will
. a fooli act that i
i a brief, futile thrill
No graver probie
he accident problmn?and its
la eatMy ap to the i
- u Bureau of Investigation
Does North Carolina need a bureau oi investiga
tion to handle puzzling cases of crime' That
to be rather a live question at this time, with
o( the stale officials inclined to favor it. Only Stan
ley Winborne, utilities commissioner, is being quoted
as against it.
With the big bungle an the Cleverer case staring
us m the face, it would seen that we really need some
more efficient method of K"di;-g such things. At
least we need somebody that will not talk quite so
much. Perhaps the Buncombe Comity sheriff did his
best. He at least kept the people thinking that some
thing was going to "break" daily. Yet nothing hap
pened. It is undoubtedly true that he needed more
cooperation and help from the hotel people than he
got.
What we seem to need it a well-trained department
with the proper equipment and authority to make in
quiry in puzzling cases.
A Republican Theory
Kern York Times
It is Republican doctrine, restated by Governor
Iindon is his acceptance speech, that the policies ol
the Roosevelt Administration "have taken the "Amer
ican farmer out of foreign markets," with disastrous
i umequences for American agriculture. The logic
behind this accusation runs as follows: The Adminis
tration has curtailed the production of some of our
most important export crops; it has thereby encourag
ed foreigners to increase their own production; the re
sult has been a calamitous loss of business for Ameri
can producers who might otherwise be selling their
goods abroad.
But when did American agriculture actually begin
to suffer its heavy losses in the foreign held? Listen
to a Republican Secretary of Agriculture (Mr. Hyde I
reporting to a Republican President (Mr. Hoover) in
the autumn of 1932:
"Eports of the principal agricultural products from
the United Slates in the fiscal year 1931-32 declined
in value 28 per cent from those of the preceding year,
50 per cent from those of 1929-30, and 59 per cent
from those of 1928-29. ? * ? The decline during
1931-32 carried the value of the principal agricultural
exports down to about the level at the beginning of
the century. * * ? Great surpluses remained unsold
But for price cuts, the surpluses would have been
mountain high. Reduced buying power abroad was
not the only cause of the drop in our agricultural ex
ports. Increased farm production in Europe and else
where had a great deal to do with it.
All this, be it noted, was before Mr. Roosevelt was
elected, before the letters AAA had been put' together
and before the first crap-curtailment plan was tried.
Why were American farm exports already declining
drastically, and why was European farm production
already increasing rapidly? For one highly import
ant reason: Because American invesloat were no long
er lending abroad the vast sums of money which en
abled foreigners to buy our goods. Once that pro
cess ceased, the prohibitive American tariff system
which the Republican party prides itself on having
established in this country effectively prevented for
eigners from obtaining (through the tale of their own
products in our markets) sufficient dollar exchange
with which to maintain purchases of our farm prod
ucts at their former pace. Inevitably their purchases
declined. Inevitably their own production of farm
products increased, frequently under the stimulation
of Government subsidies. By the time AAA arrived
upon the scene the whole process was so far advanced
that a large number of American farmers were pro
during for a foreign market which was no longer in
existence. At this point began the experiment with
artificial scarcity.
That is the essence of the story of our lost foreign
markets?except for the fact that if we with to re
cover them we must lower our own tariffs in order to
stimulate trade in both directions?a policy which
the Republican party strenuously opposes.
Punishment for Gamblers
rkmf^ mn WttMy -??? ?
Let ?some policeman, who had muck better be oc
cupied in the pursuit of thieves and reckless drivers,
arrest a group ol poor Negroes engaged in a crap
game, and the Negroes are brought into court and
either fined or sentenced to the roads. And all the
while well-to-do white people are gambling to their
hearts' content, in absolute safety, in their homes
-?nd dubs and on their golf courses.
Commenting oa the court proceedings in Durham
us Monday of this week, the Greensboro News says:
"Sixteen Negro defendants were convicted of week
end gambling, skin, craps, and th like, we suppose.
Two were given road sentences; 14 were fined $5 ends
and costs No white man was tried far playing <
or two-bit syndicate goH at Hope Valley or 1
and no warrant was issued for any member of the
Thursday Afternoon Bridge Club charging her frith
indulging in two to ten cant contract . . .
"None, we thiak, would advise a complete i
of the North Carotwn gsmMing atat
bring bat there is mane inequality of enforcement in
this connection than in any other of our i
'Numbers' fiourish, slot machines rattle
Reputable folks bet oa anythk? ae
IW mass out uf eiup IJRO "*ti M I** 1**^"" '
The moni uplift b
The amy in which the poor and
ished far private gi^Bsg h a shs
Far the public authorities to act
is
lor sale at
$1.1* par cord, near highway P. L.
Salsbury, Hamilton. N. C. jy28 4t
NOTICE or BALE
Under and by virtue of an order
made by L Bruce Wynne, clerk of
the auperior court, and under the
authority rontainrd in that certain
deed of tnaat executed by laaac
Hapkins and wife. Susan Hopkins,
on the Itth day of January. IMS.
to John Hill Baylor, trustee, and re
corded in book M-2, page MO, in the
office of the register of deeds for
Martin County, default having been
made in the payment of notes se
cured in said deed of trust, the un
der signed trustee will, an Friday,
August 28th. at 12 o'clock noon, at
the courthouse door of Martin Coun
ty, in Williamtton. North Carolina,
offer at public sale to the highest
bidder, for cash, the fallowing de
scribed real estate:
Lying and being in the town of
Robersonville, County of Martin,
State of North Carolina, being sit
uated on Academy Street (formerly
Gutter bridge Street, adjoining the
lands of Spencer Williams, Lela
White James. Gutter bridge Street,
now Academy Street, and ditch, and
being the same house and lot in the
said town of Robersonville formerly
owned by Lucy Thompeon Briiey at
the time of her death. Being the
identical property conveyed Decem
ber 23. 1829, by Lucy Thompeon
Briiey to Susan Hopkins, deed duly
recorded in book A-3, page 298, of
Martin County registry. Said tract
of t*~< ??m?iii| one-ha If acre,
more or less.
This the 27th day of July. 1926.
JOHN HILL PAYLOR,
jy28 4tw Trustee.
NOTICE OP SALE
Under and by virtue of a deed
trust executed to the undersigned
Trustee by W. Eli Roberson, dated
20th January, 1931, and of record
in the Register of Deeds Office in
Book G-3, page 10, to secure certain
notes of even date therewith,
the stipulations not having been
complied with, and at the request
of the holder of said notes, the un
dersigned Trustee, will, on the 24th
day of August, 1938, at 12 tr'clock,
noon, in front of the courthouse
door Martin County, offer for
to the highest bidder, for cash, the
following described land:
1st. Beginning at gum. corner W.
N. Roberson's corner, thence
southerly course along W N. Rob
W. N. ~
erson's line to W. N. Roberaon's
corner, a gum, thence a southerly
course down the run of a branch
to a gum, a corner in Bee Tree
Branch, thence a northerly course
up said branch to a gum, a corner,
thence a northeast course along a
ditch to the corner of the ditch, a
corner, thence a westwardly course
along said ditch, and thence a north
erly course to the beginning. Con
taining Ninety acres, more or less,
same being part of the Wiley Gur
ganus land.
2nd. Beginning at W. N. Rober
aon's .corner on the Bowen Road,
thence an easterly course down said
road to a stob, Courtney Bowen
corner, thence a southerly course a
long Courtney Bowen's line to
stob, a corner in R. H. Rogerson's
line, thence a south westwardly
course along said Rogerson's line to
a corner, a gum, in Bee Tree Branch
in W. N. Roberaon's line, thence up
said Branch a northerly course a
long W. N. Roberaon's line to the
beginning. Containing Forty acres.
This 23rd day of July, 1936.
CALVIN AYERS,
jy-28 4t-w Trustee.
B. A. Critcher, Atorney.
NOTICE or SALE
Under and by virtue of authority
contained in that certain deed at
trust executed to the undersigned
trustee on the 4th day of May, IBS4,
by W. K Parker and wife, Prances
Parker, said deed of trust being of
record in the public registry of Mar
tin County in book H-3, page 294,
same being given to secure a car.
tain note s< even date
therewith. and the stipulations
in contained no* having been
plied with, and at the request of the
holder of add note, the undersigned
trustee will, on the 10th day at Au
gust, 1936, at II o'clock noon, in
front of
of the courthouse door Martin
County, offer far sale to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following de
scribed real estate:
That tract of land, begtning at
Uton road; thence S. 1 degree
131 1-1 poles to the
?neb; Ihtwr up
Branch & It 1-1 degrees W. 46
polss; & 60 degrees W. 70 poles
the corner of James Rhodes land
to
Branch; thence N. 1S6 poles to
Hamilton Road; tiMMI ylong Him.
Uton Road N 7? 1-2 degree* E. 121
poles to the beginning. Containing
This land lies in Wil
46 1-3 acres,
liamston Township. Martin County,
North Carolina, and is bounded on
the north by the land of W. J Whit
aker; on the east by
Jamas Rhodes; on tha
Branch and Si
the waat by
Rhodes. This land .
the applicant by J
and wife by
r. IMS. an
at the R?l
Martin County, in book T-l.
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