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RECORDING HOKE COCNTY'S PRESENT WITH JUSTICE Journal LOOKING TO ♦ HOKE COUNTTS FUTURE WITH CONFIDENTS THE HOKE COUNTY NEWS ^UME XXyn—Number 22 THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL BAEFOED, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMB’R, 4, 1981 $1.50 YEAR IN ADVANCE Opening Of Hoke County Schools Postponed Until September 28th Board Responds to Demand For Two Weeks Postpone ment; Children Needed At , Home Now; Economy In Truck Operation Cited. 94 PASS STATE BAR EXAMINATIi RAEFORD NOR HAS Farm Board Will Boy No More 9 Foil EAlilE SCOUTS^ Cott«.; Stabilization Effort FotUe U*' Tlie County Board of Education, at a meeting held on Monday decid ed to postpone the opening of thb schools until Monday, September 28th. two weeks later than the open ing date first decided upon. According to Mr. W. P. Haw- field, Superintendent of Schools, the two main reasons for the postpone ment are: First, the financial • condition with the low price of cotton makes it Imperative for many farmers to have their children hplp gather the crop. The average daily attendance would have been low for the first month and it would have been, difficult to bring the attendance up during the other months. . * ^ Second, the trucks would not have been put in as good shape as they should have been by the 14th, the ante first set. There has been a de lay in getting parts as the Division of Purchase and Contract was late in getting the contracts ready. Since several trucks serve two schools the Board considers that the operation o* trucks will be more economical if all schools open and close at the same time. Mr. Hawfield also stated that the Board regretted that this action was deemed necessary. There seemed to to a general demand for postpone ment and the Board thought it their duty to yield to the demands. It is hoped, he said, that the change will not cause any inconvenience, and that it will be accepted in a truly co operative spirit. #*#*♦#»*#♦•*•*♦* * HOKE’S FIRST BALE OF * * COTTON SELLS FOR 7c * * The. first bale of cotton ginned * * and sold in Hoke County, from * * this year’^ crop, brought seven * * cents a pound, a price 9 points * * above the New York market on * * the date of sale. Mr. H. L. Gat- * * lin, of the Farmers Furnishing * * Company, was the buyer. The * * cotton was grown by Will Gil- * * Christ, colored, a tenant on the * * farm of John McKav Blue. The * * bale was ginned by Hoke Oil and • * Fertilizer Company, and was + * middling cotton. The sale was made Tuesday afternoon. * * Mr. W. D. Burton, County * * Agent, estimates this year’s cot- * * ton crop to be 60 per cent of a * normal crop. Wet weather and * the weevils have set the crop * back very materially. * ««**«iii««***«**«* William T. Covington, Jr., I* Among Number; Test Pre pared by Chief Justice Stacy Unusually -Hard. the and MASONIC MEETING IN LAU*R1NBURG TUESDAY MRS. SEAWELL,TALKS AT CIVIC CLUB MEETING / rf The Civic Department of the Wo man’s Club held its first meeting of the season Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p. m., at the school auditorium, with an unusually large number of members in attendance. The meet ing was called to order by the chairman, \Mrs. C. W. Seate, after which routine matters were discussed and reports made. Of especial interest was the re port of Mrs. H. A. Cameron, who is in charge of the club’s welfare work. She told of how much canning had been done during the summer, and how this canned fdod will be used at the various school lunch rooms throughout the county, In furnishing a more nearly proper diet for children who are undernourish ed or improperly nourished. In tell ing of the work of the Baby Clinic held by the clnh In June, Mrs. Cam eron pointed out that she had reason to believe that four babies wotCW have died had .tt not been lor (Hhe work of the clinic. She Is supported in this belief by physicians. This, and improvements In health of less import, shows .the importance the club’s work along thie Ita®* The speaker of the occasion wae Mrs. H. F. Seawell, of Carthage, who chose as her subject, "Citizen ship.” Mrs, Seawell Is always a very interesting speaker, and on this oc casion handled her subject most ably. She began with citizenship In North Carolina when it was a col ony, then continued with a discus sion of citizenship In the state thru all its history up until the present time, and lien stressed the possibil ities .of citizenship from now on, especially from the woman’s view point. „ « Those who heard Mrs. Seawell, declared her address to be one of the best and one of the most in spiratldnal speeches ever made before the iQcal club. / . At the close of the meeting de licious refreshments were served by the hostesses. DOVE SEASON INCREASED The District Meeting of the 11th Masonic District will be held with the Laurinhurg Lodge Tuesday, Septem ber, 8th. The first meeting at 4 p. m., and the second at 8 p. m. The after noon meeting will be a school of in struction, to which all (Masons are in vited, but the officers of thd various lodges of the district are urged to at tend. The night meeting will be for the address of the Grand Master Grand Master J. Wallace Winbome, of Marion, N. C. and Grand Secre tary -^'John H. Anderson, of Raleigl\, will be present and address these meetings. It is urged that just as many members of-: the lodge of the district attend these meetings as possible. The 11th Masonic district is composed of 14 lodges in Hdke, Robeson, Scotland and Bladen Coun ties with an approximate member ship of !9tt0. For any other information you desire about this meeting please cal) either Mr. G. W. Cox, Master,- or Mr. Edgar fiall. Secretary Raeford Lodge No. 306. Nathan Epstein and Paul REGULAR TERM COURT Purchases of Cotton and Wheat Dickson, Jr., Made Eagles; | N. J. Blue And Billy Craw ! Tey Omitted In First List. ADJOURNED FRIDAY JUDGE MIDVETIE ADnESCEUR Says Basic Training Needled For Officers; Dangers Tha They Face In Line of Duty Pictured. Ninety-four persons passed mid-summer bar examinations were granted licenses to practice lav, in North Carolina, the state supreme court announced Monday. Of these “4, one is from Raeford, Mr. Wil liam T. Covington, Jr. There were many failures. One third of those who qualified for the examination did not pass it. There were 148 who qualified and six of these did not take the examination, The test was written by Chief Justice Stacey, and was pronounced to he one of the hardest' given in recent years. Among those who passed were two women, Mary Virginia Hill, of Snjith field, and Annie Perry Nea?,' of Louisburg. A son of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Edward Lee Cannon, of Durham, was also among the sue cessful candidates. There were four comity appllca tions, one each from New York, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. The new' lawyer from Raeford, Mr. Covington, is one of the Hoke County’s most promising young men. He is a graduate of Davidson Col lege, class of 1927, and was a mem ber of the Laurinhurg School faculty for two years. He attended the University of North Carolina Law Schoojj, and plans to return to Caro lina for further study before be ginning regular practice , In commenting on the examina-^ tion, Mr. Covington told of its pro- ceedure. T'ue applicants met in the Supreme Court Room on the morn ing of th.« Llth, with the court in session to examine the candidates, and listened to. speeches by mem bers of the court. Af er this the candidates went to a room in the capital, where they were given the examination. Time allowed was from 10:30 a. m., to 6 p. m., and a light lunch was served Ih the room at noon. A member of the court was on hand to supervise and give any need ed information. In the News-Journal’s Boy Scout article two week's ago, the names'bf Neill James Blue and Billy Crawley Purcell Sentence Lightened. Divi dend Ordered To Raeford Cotton Mill Creditors. The regular term of Hoke Superior Court ’was . adjourned last Friday, w-ere omitted, through error, from! conclusion of the civil docket, the list of those who were a^ya^ded j ^ Purcell, colored, sentenc- merit badges, toy work done at Camp penitentiary from 15 to 20 Against Continued Overpro duction Proves to be Decid ed Failure; Cudahy To Buy Cotton. AT THE CHURCHES H. R. McLean, County Game War den, announces that under a recept ♦uling of the Biological Survej^, as requested by the North Carolina De partment of Conservation and,, De- ;y;6lopment, the sesuson to shoot doves hi North Carolina is as follows: The season opens September 1st and closes September 30th, and then a,^ln opens on November 20th and closes January 31st. • Warieu McLean, desiring to make the law plain, also states that every member of a fox “chase” must have a hunting license, and not merely the owner, of the dogs, as is common- > ly' BuppoBCld. Speaking to the local Klwanis club last week, Judge Mldyette, presid ing over Superior Court here, made one of the best talks heard by the club In a long time. His remarks were made without aniyi show or ef fort at being sensational and yet they showed deep study on his part and a keen Insight of somo of the unhealthy conditions confronting the cttlzenshlp of this state. He spoke of the duties of offleers and the duly of the public to their officers, hav ing in mind particularly those offic ers who are charged wi^h making sTTests. Judge Mldyette pictured the dang ers thof officers are called on to face in the course of their duty and asked for a s^pathetlc attitude on the ^rt of the irabllc for them. He made the statement that for every civilian killed by an officer there were ten officers killed by civilians. He pictured the difficulties placed In the way of enforcement by the auto mobile and the easy means of escape afforded thereby. He stated that the officer has a much harder time in apprehending and arresting crinil- nals' than before the days of cars, and pictured his task as anything but easy. Speaking of the duties of officers, he said that an officer was not to be excused for violating the law in -naking arrests and should be held accountable for his misdeeds just as much as anyone ^se. He' stated that officers, without any experience, are given a billy and a pistol and put on the job, many times, without a proper knowledge of their duties and the proper conduct of their offices and that very often an otherwise good man will shoot when the law allows him no right to use his gun. He felt that some basic training as to their duties and rights should be given to officers -before they are al lowed to serve and that this would stop, most of the actions by soma officers that have caused them to be, criticized. V At the Presbyterian church, the pastor. Dr. W. M. Fairley, will preach at 11 a. m., and 8 p. m. His subject at the morning hour will be “Spiritual Growth.” Sunday School is at 9:45 a. m. Rev. W. F. Trawick, the pastor, will preach at the morning service at 11 o’clock, of the Methodist Church; his subject will be “Hope.” The evening service at eight will be in charge of the young people, and shonld prove very interesting. Sun day School is at 9; 45. At Shiloh Presbyterian Church, Rev. D. L. Jones is assisting the pastor. Rev. A. D. Carswell, In a series of revival services. There will be services Sunday,' which is the last day of the meeting, at 11a. m. and 8 p. m. There will be no preachlrig ser vices at the Baptist Church Sunday; Rev. J. R. Miller, the pastor, will Chickagami, the Boy Scout camp at Lake Waccamaw. Neill James Blue a First Class Scout, gained merit badges in Firemanship and Reading. Billy Crawley was awarded merit badges in Life Saving and Swim ming. : Two more local scouts have com pleted work and study necessary to become Eagle Scouts; they are Paul Dickson, Jr., and Nathan Epstein. Paul was awarder badges in Camp 'ng. Reptile Study, Poultry Keep ing, and the Farm Home and its Planning, bringing his total number of badges up to the required 21 for the Eagle rating. Epstein, in bring ing his badges up to the necessary 21. completed work in the following subjects: Life Saving and Red Cross Life Saving, Camping, Cooking, Wood carving, Woodword, Bird Study, Reading, Farm Home and its Plan ning. Animal Industry, and Leather- craft. The Raeford troop now has four Eagle Scouts, the other two being J. H. Austin, Jr., and Thomas Cameron. Eagle Scouts are the highest ranking scouts, and the rat ing requires much hard work and study. The Raeford scouts made an un usually good showing at camp this summer. The Cape Fear Council of apifr'oxlmately 1000 boys had an at tendance of from four to five hun dred at the camp. Out of this camp attendance, only 13 boys completed work, necessary for the Eagle rat ing, and of these 13, four were from the Raeford troop, which had an at tendance at camp of 17 scouts. The camp ran for 10 weeks, and closed on August 22. The local troop now numbers 23 members with; the joining of Alyls Dickson, last week. Mr. F. B. Sex ton, the Scoutmaster, is desirous of bringing the troop membership up to the full size of 32, as soon as possible. The local scouts and their leaders are certainly deserving of congratula tions for the splendid record made this summer. years for the killing of Walter iM(; Xair last May, had his sentence re duced to from 10 to 12 years. Purcell was taken to Raleigh to begin his sentence, by Deputy Barrington, Iasi Saturday. The grand jury returned a true hi! against James Monroe, charged with false pretense, and the case was con tinued to the November term. Willie Thomas and Johnnie Thom as, who, in one case, submitted to a charge of larceny of goods worth less than $20, were found guilty of fraud and sentenced to four months on the roads. In the civil docket, a payment to the perferred creditors and a divi dend of 8 per cent, to the general creditors, of tht Raeford Cotton Mills Company, were recommended by the receiver, Warren S. Johnson, and ordered by the court. Money left on hand after the payment and divi dend is to be held pending a decision as to several disputed claims against the company. Judge Garland E. Mldyette, of Jack- son, who presided at this term of court, has gone to Fayetteville to hold a session of court there. Recently the Wilmington Star carried an edi torial in which Judge Midyette’s name was put forward as one the Wilmington people would like to see among the names of those offering for the nomination for governor. . LOW PRICES IN NEW BRIGHl LEAF BELT Better Quality; Many Tags Are Turned. NOTICE TO SCOUTS Every Boy Scout of the local troop is asked to be present at the hut, Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock, to help in cleaning the grounds. Each Scout is to bring food for supper, after which there wjll be a camp meeting. F. B. Sexton, Scoutmaster. preach in IWagram. Sunday School will meet at 9:45 a. m., and the B. T. P. U. at 7 p. m. At Phllllpi Presbyterian Church, the pastor. Rev. A. D. Carswell, will preach Sunday, at 3:30 p. m. His subject will be “The Opbn Door.” POLITICS AND PERSONAUTIES There is more sense than sensa^ tionalism in “The Mirrors of 1932,” an anonymous book unmasking ten presidential prospects recently pub lished by Brewer, Wertren and Piftnam. True, tjie autjior pays some attention to the personal foib les of his subjects, but almost in variably for the pursose of showing up their quality of statesmanship. Thus he relates that Gifford Plnchot Ip said to crumple his expensive at tire before donning it in order to appear more democratic; that "Joe” Robinson’s weakness for high so ciety leads him to play into the enemy’s hands; that Hoover’s "stark, selfish individualism” is largely at tributable to the fact that be was never a "swlmmln’ hole kid”; and that Albert C. Ritchie’s political sentimentalism is In tune with his favorite ballad, “When You and I Were Young, iMaggie.” A swift, sure style of brief sen tences and. paragraphs and an a- hundance of pointed adjectives char acterise the volume. (When the author has completed his X-roylng and dissecting, only one specimen of presidential tlipber remains sound and whole. It is Newton D. Baker, of whom the writer says: “He is, by far, the ablest candidate for the presidency in the two major parties. The most brilliant member of the official family Woodrow Wil son assembled, he is in many res pects better equipped for the White House than the Princeton professor was in 1912. “He might be the product of the schooling which Plato prescribes for the rules of the Republic. He is steep ed in the classics, economics, his tory; h® enjoys a historical per spective rare in our Presidents; he has a social conscience so keen that it led him to enrol in the ranks of that prince of politicians, Tom John son of Cleveland; he translated his social creed into reality as Mayor of Cleveland; though a professing pacifist, he ranks among our great est Secretaries of War. “He is humble dhd honest.” The ten political leaders discuss ed are Hoover, Owen D. Young, Dwight Morrow, Albert C. Ritchie Joseph Robinson, Calvin Coolldge, Gifford Plnchot. Franklin Roose velt, Newton D. Baker, and A1 Smith. The author also devotes a chapter to “John Barleycorn” who will play as Important a part In the cam paign as the presidential nominees. Prices ranging from an average of $6.10 to slightly under $8 a hundred weight were paid for tobacco‘on the 17 North Carolina markets In the New Bright leaf belt which opened Tuesday. Farmers generally, expressed dis satisfaction at the bids, holding that the offerings were superior in qual ity to those on last year’s opening break while the price ranged from $1 to $2 a hundred pounds less. A number of growers turned the tags on their piles in warehouses where the price range was low. Wilson, the world’s largest tobac co market was one of the few points reporting a higher average than pre vailed on last year’s opening. Sales there totalled 503,526 pounds at an average of $7.82 compared with an average of $7.65 paid last season for 490,496 pounds. Despite this improvement growers expressed dissatisfaction at prices paid and indicated they Intended to wait on the market to improve be fore offering any great amount of the remainder of their crop. ^ Unofficial figures on the Green ville market, second largest in the belt, placed the average price at $7.25 with offerings totaling slightly less than 900,000 pounds. Beginning low with the morning sales, the price trend was upward in the after noon and some of the houses selling late averaged more than $8.50 per hundred pounds. Wendell reported official sales of 61,646 pounds at an average of $9.29. Unofficial figures of approximately 25,000 pounds at $7.78. A number of markets, including Goldsboro where an average of $7.95 was paid for 157,000 pounds, report ed a few sales as high as 25 to 28 cents a pound for the better grades but the poorer grades reduced the average. Robersonville sold 250,000 pounds at $6.10 and has a block sale of 100.- 000 pounds scheduled for tomor row. Williamston reported sales of 192,- 000 pounds at an average of $6.54 with indications that sales for the (Continued on page five) remainder of the week will 'be light. The Ahoskle market sold 111.3S6 pounda at an average of 16.79, with TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CHURCH DEBT A committee of 25 men was ap pointed recently by the session of the Raeford Presbyterian Church, to raise money toward the liquidation of the debt against the church. Mr. P. B. Sexton is chairman of the com mittee, and Mr. J. S. Johnson, secre tary and treasurer. The plan of the committee is that everj- member of the congregation pay a certain amount every Sunday into this fund. Mr. Sexton pointed out last Sunday, that if every mem ber would pay one cent each day to ward the fund, the debt could he liquidated. A great deal--of interest has been manifested in the ?ork of the com mittee, and it is believed that its ef forts will be ruccessful., BAPTIST MEETING CLOSES a The revival services which were held last week at the Baptist church resulted in the addition of ten mem bers to the church. Baptismal ser vices were held Wednesday evening, at which time there were six bap tisms. Rev. C. C. Wheeler, of Merry Oaks, assisted the pastor. Rev. J. R. Milt er, and preached strong and inter esting sermons, and it wilt be a ImSg time before the full effects of the revival will have ^en spent. Much interest was manifested throaghoafe the week. Rev. iMr. 'Wheeler left Monday tor Bailey, where he to holding another meeting. Washington. Sept. ’ .st.—The federal farm board yesrerday abandoned the principle of government purcha.ses as a means of meeting th‘=' problems created by mounting surpluses of wheat and cotton. The board's determination to en gage in no further stabilization pur chases was made known by Carl Williams, vice chairman and mem ber of the board for cotton. .At the same time in Chicago the Cudahy Packing company announc ed that it would invest i'O per cent of its southern sales in cotton un til December 1 1931. E. A. Cudahy, Jr., president, said ■ his firm thus would purchase about $1,000,000 worth of cotton before the end of the year and would hold , it until the market price of cotton reaches 10 cents. “Stabilization operations have certain virtues that are valuable under conditions of temporary or seasonal surpluses,” Williams said. “But I think we have demonstrated! they are more or less futile in the’ face of continued overproduction by the farmers and ever increasing sur pluses.” ;■ The board has made no cotton purchases since it bought up the surplus of 1,300,000 bales from the 1929 crop, and it ceased stabiliza tion efforts in wheat when the 1931 crop became a factor in the market this spring. Recently, however, pro posals for renewed purchases have been made in various plans submit ten as possible solutions of the - cotton and wheat problems. Williams’ statement was regarded as an automatic veto of any cot- /in p’an which included stabiliza tion and shifted attention from them- to others which did not have this particular angle. Among plans still under consideration by the board was the one proposed by domocratic 01 ^ I senators Smith of South Carolina Fanhers Show Dissatisfaction gi^ck of Alabama. I Because Offerings Are Of| jinder this plan, farmers who sign contracts not Jo plant any cotton next year or tp plant on’y half of this year’s acreage would be allo cated from the farm board surplus' a quantity equal to their crop this-, year. Resigned to the failure of its plan' I’or destroying a third of the growing; cotton crop, the board advanced a; new plan yesterday for the wheat situation. Williams said the indicat ed reduction of 12 per cent in the winter wheat plantings would not be enough to help materially in cut ting down the wheat surplus, and suggested that half the winter wheat , acreage, be left out of prodsetion this winter. 'r^l La