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Friday, February 24, 1939.
What Broke the Country
It's not relief spending that's broke this
country. The several billions spent in the name
of humanity has produced an unbalanced bud
get, they say. And probably it has helped throw
the banker's budget out of tune. But there are
other things that have warped the budget and
1 educed millions to poverty in this nation.
One of the largest insurance companies is be
ing investigated for alleged illegal practices fol
lowed in controlling its vast empire.
In a recent year, the Industrial insurance
business claimed three billion dollars ? more
than enough to finance a program for human
relief?that a helpless people lost in defaulted
policies.
And the same budget that human relief up
set is theone that bears the cost of past wars
and the one that finances the pork barrel
spending that has been just as rotten as any
thing ever devised and charged against the
WPA or any other agency in the alphabet.
Throw in the hundreds of monopolistic dic
tators, and then one will have the group that
.unbalanced the budget.
When the insurance business, the war busi
ness, the monopolies are cleaned up, then start
working on the human relief agencies. The
common people waited through one long de
pression for the government to choke off the
leeches, and they are watching and pulling for
President Roosevelt as he goes about the bus
iness of investigating the trusts, the unethical
if not illegal practices of certain big compan
ies in holding stockholders' meetings, and the
way the courts are run. If he fails in his task,
those who have been sucking the life blood
from the millions will have to account for their
actions direct to the people.
Rackets
The activities of so many agencies and the
dubious practices employed by so many types
of businesses border so close to the realm of
a racket or plain old hi-jacking that the free
flow of trade is being choked to death: It Is not
the local, state or federal taxing powers that
constitute the real threat to business in this
day and age. Nearly every transaction in many
business systems today is shackled with a con
ditional agreement that robs the producer of a
living price and creates a profit to a removed
speculator, lawyer, inspector, and offers no
saving to the public, the final consumer.
The cleaning and pressing association in the
State appears to be close kin to a racket, recent
reports maintaining that the creators of the or
ganisation are reaping thousands of dollars in
salaries and fees. The operator of a small es
tablishment is saddled with a burden, and in
passing that burden on to the public he exper
iences a declining business.
The farmer, in offering his produce for sale,
has to travel through a maze of rackets. His
produce is often rejected at a contract price and
then rebought at a lower figure because the
broker simply lied about the condition of the
product offered.
There is little wonder that business can op
erate under the yoke bearing down upon its
neck, and the surprising fact is that if taxes ?
the thing we talk and complain so much about
?were lifted business would still be handicap
ped.
And All For Revenue
Several years ago, North Carolina had a law
requiring a health certificate of those knock
ing at the door of matrimony. The law was at
tacked not so much because it did not measure
up to expectations but because it caused the
matrimonial business to flee across the state
boundaries. The loss of revenue caused a great
howl and the law was altered.
And now another attempt is being made to
revive the law and put teeth in it, and It re
mains to be seen whether the legislature is real
ly more interested in revenue or in the gener
al health of generations to come.
Commenting on three bills introduced re
cently in the State Senate by T. W. Long, of
Halifax, in connection with certain health re
quirements, the Scotland Neck Comrponwealth
says:
The first bill would require applicants for
marriage licenses to undergo physical exami
nations, and if they have venereal diseases, tu
berculosis, epilepsy or are mental defectives.
the licenses shall not be issued. In the case of
venereal disease, treatment must be assented to
for one year. In the cases where mental de
fctives seek licenses they must submit to ster
ilization.
This bill has for its purpose the general
health of the people. It would, if approved, un
doubtedly reduce the number of mental defec
tives in the state. It likewise would reduce the
number df those suffering from incurable trou
bles as a result of being the children of syphi
litic parents. The argument against such a
measure, that the border counties would lose
marriage license revenue which would go to
adjoining states is hardly worth considering.
While a federal marriage license law would be
the best means of handling the situation, this
does not mean that North Carolina should not
tackle the proposition. Other states will un
doubtedly follow. As a matter of fact, we have
been reliably informed that health authorities
of Virginia are contemplating just such legis
lation at the next session of the legislature of
that state.
The second" bill, which we heartily favor, is
that all children shall be immunized against
diphtheria. It is hard to understand why par
ents refuse to protect their children from this
dre,ad disease for which there is little that doc
tors can do once a child has it. We certainly
hope the bill will become law.
The third bill would require that the Was
serman test for syphilis be given to women
during pregnancy.
We have not had an opportunity to read this
bill and do not know the extent to which Dr.
Long would have such control spread, and
therefore we do not care to venture an opin
ion on same. However, we believe it should be
carefully studied at Raleigh, for while it may
not be the exact legislation which should be
passed, it may serve as a starting point for a
bill along the same lines.
SB 121
Charlotte News.
The State Senate received last week from
Senator Long a bill to require applicants for a
marriage license to present a doctor's certifi
cate that they are free from venereal disease.
A good short title for this bill, SB 121, would
be the Common Decency Bill, which would
make it easy to reproach any solon who mus
tered the nerve to vote against it. No solon
cares to be caught on the side against common
decency.
For that matter, the chief argument in op
position to such a health measure approaches
the indecent. It is that the counties of the
state, especially the border counties, lose li
cense revenue by requiring the pre-marital ex
amination. This is equivalent to saying that the
State and its subdivisions cannot afford not to
license the marriage of syphilitics?at so much
a throw. And that, messires, is equivalent to
saying what no man in his senses would care
to be caught saying?that for a few dollars the
State will stand up as best man for a syphilitic
and act as godfather to any syphilitic children
that he may beget
Not in Vain
Aiheboro Courier.
Records of the county health department
show the death last week, of a boy who died in
the county of diphtheria. He had not been vac
cinated because his mother feared that it
might "make him sick" and the health nurse
was unable to overcome the objection.
Innoculation would have saved the life of
this boy, as it has saved countless lives since
the public health officers throughout the na
tion have carried on the campaign against this
Him, a no Rut nw nf tha graataat prnhlnmii which
public health officials and the medical profes
sion have had to overcome has been the prej
udice of parents and others. This prejudice has
come in the main from lack of information and
from fear of the unknown, but it is being brok
en down rapidly by education and by such trag
edies as happened in Randolph county last
week.
The life of a child is a terrific price to pay.
but this death may not have been altogether
in vain, in that it may center interest again on
the failure to protect against disease, arid on
the certain protection which is given by vac
cination.
In connection with this work of the public
health department, there is too little general
realization of the danger that the legislature
may at this time force curtailment of much of
their work. Reductions in appropriations for
public health work will, if passed by the gen
eral assembly, so handicap the public health
departments that much of its work must be
abandoned in full or in part.
If such an appropriation is passed, it will be
a financial sacrifice which may mean a decid
ed rise in the death rates in the state? from
diphtheria, and from typhoid, from smallpox,
from venereal disease and from other diseases
now held in check by eternal vigilence. The
saving of a few dollars can hardly be justified
in view of such results.
Church Takes Stand j
On Jewish Question
In a recent meeting of the execu
tive board of the Woman's Auxiliary ,
of the Episcopal church at Green- j
ville, a resolution was passed urg
ing the women of the church to j
show sympathy for their Jewish
neighbors and promote internation
al government action for the relief
of refugees.\
Mrs. W. A. Darden, the board';
field chairman, said this week llia-i
some of the Jewish leaders and or
ganizations had already written let
ters 01 appreciation ana that they
were "very touching".
The resolution passed by the aux
lliary executive board follows:
"We, the executive board of the
Woman's Auxiliary, representing
the women of the Episcopal church
all over the world, desire to express
our grief and dismay at the perse
cution of the Jewish people in cen
tral Europe
We call upon the women through
out the church to prove their love
for the Master by showing in sim
ple, friendly ways their sympathy
with their Jewish neighbors and by
making welcumc into the
ities, schools and homes, refugees
who nave come to this country. We
also urge them to promote interna
tional government action for the J
relief of refugees and to work for -
a larger measure of justice and con-1
sideration for all Jews and other
minority groups in our National
life."
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that un
der and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in that certain deed
of trust executed by Frank D. Tay
lor and wife, Bertha Taylor, to Har
rison Brothers and Company, dated
May 26. 1938. and of record in Book
T-3, at page 389 of the Martin Coun
ty Public Registry, and at tht N
quest of the holder of the notes of
indebtedness thereby secured, de
fault having been made in the pay
ment thereof, I will, on the 10th day
i>f March, 1939, at 12 o'clock Noon,
at the courthouse door in Martin
County, offer for sale at public auc
tion for cash the property described
jti sniH fWH nf trnvt n- frill.iwi?trr
wit:
Beginning at the fork of the road
in which, stands the Biggs School
to Nancy Rogerson's line to the head
of the smell branch, thence down
tha said hrineh to a li,nlm? nod pout
the fork of Lamb's Branch,
thence up said branch to the fork
of the same, thence up the East
prong of said branch to the mouth
jf the small branch, a poplar, thence
up said branch to a pine tree, thence
a straight course to the back line,
a pine tree, thence a straight line, a
pine tree near a path known as the
Matchie Chapel Path, thence along
the back line two pines in Askew's
line to a black gum on Uw North
prong of Lamb's Branch to the road
across which is a canal, thence up
said road to the school house to the
beginning. containing 190 acres,
more or less
This the 18th dav of February.
1939
W H HAHRKOM.
Trustee
L'oburn & Coburn. Attys f24 4t
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of the late
J II Moore, deceased, this is to 'no
tify all persons having claims against
said estate to exhibit them to the
undersigned for payment on or be
fore the 23rd day of January. 1940,
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All person! in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate settlement.
This the 23rd day of Jan., 1939.
D R MOORE.
Administrator of The Estate of
j27-6t J. H. Mogre, deceased.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad-1
ministratrix of the estate of John H !
Heath, deceased, this is to notify all
>aid estate to exhibit them to the
undersigned on or before the 13th
recovery All persons indebted- to
day of January, 1940, or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar of their
the said estate will please make im
mediate payment.
This the 12th day of January, 1939.
MhS IRENE HEATH,
Administratrix of the estate
of John H Heath.
E S. Peel, Atty. jl3-6t
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