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1, ^ ■ • ■ Twa THE NEWS-JOURNAL, BAEFOgP. N. C. TOUBSBAY, OCTOBER 11,1940 News-Jomnil •l-fc- t- Sr- iCaroiitM j : ASSOCL Td^jilioiie 3521 evcfy Thaniaf ky btate of Panl Didnoo mAEFOIO. N. c. Bs^: f 1.M per year (iB Airaoee) la Meliidriailn PAUL DICKON 1889 • 1935 PAUL DlCESpN. Jr. Editor AdTertUdni: BepresentettT* WpODT^ra ASSOCIATES New tork, Wty Ekitercd as second-class mail matter af the post office at Raeford, N. C., under act of Mardh 3, 1879. * INTERESTING ' The following interesting facts were contained in a letter mailed recently by Richard J. Reynolds, seeking ’con tributions for the Democratic cam paign: “While the national debt was being increased to 45 billion dollars from 20 million dollars, the individual debts of this country were being re duced by 35 billion dollars; so that the net reduction in our debts is about 10 billion. “This much I know: In North Car olina, the state, county and munici pal debts have been reduced during thee seven and half years of Roose velt,' more than 100 million dollars, and nothing has been added to them. “I understand that this proportion is continuing at the present time.” COTTON Favorable weather during the past tew weeks has enabled Franklin Co unty farmers to harvest approximate ly 5,000 bales of cotton undamaged l3y rain, says Farm Agent W. C. Boyce. HARVEST DAY Harvest Day will be observed at San^ Grove Methodist chiu"ch Thursday, October 24th. Barbecue and chicken dinner will be served. Safety Congress Seeks Way To Stop fo W^lke^s Chicago.—In the face of destruc tion going on in the world, workers for street, factory, and home safety in the United States, some 10,000 strong, met here in a National Safety Congress to renew tl^eir efforts to protect people from so-called acci dents due to their own carlessness. They’re more enthusiasitc than ever about the possibilities of their work. The safety army adopted a reso lution at toe opening of its meeting that puj/ everybody straight 'as to their position with regard to war. “We join with all Americans in abhorring the tragedies of war” the resolution declared. “Yet we do not for a moment'Istibscribe to toe doc trine that no ^rihcip^, no id^l, is worth fighting' for. There may be times in the affairs of man or nation when human life is ^ not supremt when it must sacrificed if that nation and toe common welfare are to en dure “But this only strengthens |Our con viction that under np circumstances can nradless destruction of human life tlmough accidents be tolerated. It is easy, when death and destruc tion are so commonplace, to confuse human values anfl to cheapen human life. “We therefore pledge redoubled ef fort to reduce accidents of every kind, and we ask the help of every Ameri can citizen.” Preventing Auto Accidents Freeing the roads and city streets from automobile mishaps is one con tribution to the defense program, these safety people point out. For these mishaps cause delays, if noth ing more, and should be prevented. And they can be to a much greater extent than now appears, the safety experts believe. They are giving more attention than ever before to educat ing people to use the streets properly. For a long time the motorist has borne much of the blame for traffic mishaps. The speeder, the hitrun driv er, the drinking driver have all been the center of community censure, as they well rpay be. But now the safety people are calling attention to need for a new emphasis. What about this supposedly downtrodden person, the pedestrian? Shouldn’t he be called into the classroom to learn someth ing about how to walk across a mo dern thoroughfare? Last year pedestrians were toe vic tims of 61 per cent of the fatal acci dents in the cities, and two out of every three such victims were found either to have violated a traffic or dinance regulating jaywalking or to have acted in an obviously unsafe manner. These facts were brought out in a repi^ of a Committee on Pedestrian Cctotrol and Protection pres)^if^ to {|(e convention here. %nl4*^lh WtAm. The f8^ 6if foot, the^Committye concludif^, he^ to be trained to walk properly. Many ^ them just don’t know how. A gr^t many of these unfortunate pedestrians were found to be people who hold no automobUe driver’s liibense, although eli^le for one. They don’t realize how difficult it is to stop^ car when a pedestrian, bounds out from behind a parked vehicle or impulsivety dash across a busy street'witoouf waitihg lor sig nals. HEEL riS Awards PRICES ARE STILL RISING ON THE STRONG MARKET lobacM Selling Up To $45.00 Now, $37.00 to $41,001 Now is The Time to Sell Your Good Tobacco —Bring it to Sanford, Where Good To bacco is Bringing Very Top Pri|CM Common grades are selling very satisfactor ily, to o—many individual averages ranging from $33.00 to $36.00. Sell Your Tobs|cco low, On the Strong t } w Following is an interesting article from toe Sunday Charlotte Observer on life at Fort Bragg seen through toe ayes' of an officer’s wife: For Bragg, Oct. 12.—^Here we are right in the 'midst of the first of the month blues. It has always been a time to avoid your friends and neigh bors. You never were fit company lor anyone until toe lOto of toe month, which is the traditional time for all army folks to have their bills paid. Once they are paid you can assume a mofe philosophical attitude on toe remaining few dollars and make the best of it. I’ve often wondered if our living couldn’t be compared to the minis try, sort of gentile poverty. A posi tion in the world as it were, accepted and respected, but needing like toe ministers a Ladies Aide to hold cake sales to give us a new carpet or repair the roof of the parsonage. Such a little while ago it was the “Blues.” Magnificient things they were. Not a woman in toe mmy that didn’t feel a glowing pride as her husband wore-them. Just the same, that was the winter the women wore last year’s clothes, experimented with inexpensive cuts of meat, cut and pared here and there to make the budget come out even. Broad cloth and gold braid makes an im pressive tailor bill. It was the winter too that we glared at uniformed civ ilians who innocently remarked, “My, the government certainly furnished good looking uniforms for officers.” The next winter was going to be easier. But it wasn’t, because that was the winter of maneuvers. And maneuvers always means keeping two households, living expenses for the of ficer and his family separately. There was all toe extra field equipment they had to buy. The south turned on its coldest, weather and. tliat nveant sleep ing bags, stoves, woolen underwear and the thousand and one things that meant merely deceit comfort in a tent with the weather below zero. We had to see them at Christmas, even if it was for only three days, and again for another three days in Feb ruary. So they came home and part of our Christmas present was toe homecoming. Eight months is such a long time. We had to hear their voice a few times that long winter. Long distance charges. Maneuvers were over the end of May. But not the various details that spread out for the usual sum mer training jobs and the National Guard maneuvers.. Then orders started to come in, lists upon lists of officers were given change of sta tion to handle the new defense plans and organize the new divisions being formed in the various parts of the country. Such problems orders bring to army families. Paying one month’s bills, part of another, that is, closing out accounts, and starting in a new place all in' one month. Groceries were given away, other household items, that had to be, replaced when they arrived at the new station. Moreover, this was a different kind of a move for the army. There would be no quarters available upon arrival. The younger officeis and their wives had to face a new kind of living. Heretofore it has only been the senior officers who were sent on civilian details with the National Guard, Reserve Officers and R. O. T. C. duty. Their rank and pay^ould' cover expenses of living off an army post. With the renting of homes off the reservation comes light, gas and tele phone bills. Added to' that is toe expense of driving back and forth to see their families several times a week, plus their living expenses in camp the. rest of the time. Opinions to the contrary, life op an army post is simple. The post restaurant offers a 35 cent dinner when one wants to splurge. Nothing grand, mind you, pot roast, canned peas and a slice of tomato, still it oflEers a getting-away-from-it-all feel ing without dents. We have Second run movies at a nominal cost. Those who like to ride are allowed to ex ercise the horses by paying soldiers a small sum for the grooming and additional care after a canter through the reservation: Those who enjoy golf have that available too. Some clever and talented officer’s wife gives our children dancing les sons and teaches them social graces. Other mothers instruct the Girl Scouts. Young Lieutenants take over the Boy Scouts. Our good time^ are at the Officer’s club dancing to the music of a soldier bapd. It is a good life and scaled to the things we can afford. Now that living is changed for us, perhaps that worn out story will be revived again. The one about toe young 2nd lieutenant’s wif^ They were invited to dinner at the Colonel’s quarter^. When ' toe chicken was brought in toe young wife gasped) her efforts to suppress tears was noticed By BOB COVINGTON Like many another ordinary, every day activity,' toe process of voting in New York City takes on peculiar character because of the imniensity of toe city. In this great ma» of citizens, mostly unknown to ea^ other, the" who sells his vdto a dozen times, and one who Wan'S to vote only once may go ttyoujg^ an incredible amount o| ried tejre. Impossible in smaller communties where people know each other would be toe tricks which polical ma chines are reputed to bolster their vote in great cities such as New York. The current movies, “The Grfeat Mc- Ginty” shows how a paid voter may vote many times in onfe day in dif ferent districts—and make a good day’s wage. At voting places all over file city, he impersonates registered citizens who are out of town or de- ceas^. Voting officials know so few of the voters personally that they are unable t? detect the fraud—or they are to cahoots with the fraud and make no effort to prevent it. Such fraud is now changed in Jersey City where election books were recently- destroyed, presumably to prevent de tection. Registration of voters took place in New York last week. In order to facilitate voting, the city is divided into election districts which in thickly populated areas may be no more than a few blocks. A map of New York city showing electoral districts look exactly like a big jig-saw puzzle. Dividing lines necessarily run down the middle of streets. The result is, for example, that the people across the street from us, register apd vote at a schoolhouse blocks away from the one where we go. Registering headquarters are listed in the papers and consist of one of more pages of tiny print. Finding your own par ticular registration place is such a job that it makes finding a needle in a haystack seem like child’s play. I registered last week at Central High School, a whelping big com mercial school in the heart of the city near where I live. Registration tables were set up for four electoral dis tricts and long wating lines of people, led up to each. Most of the people had brought papers or magazines to i;ead and rightly so. New York is toe city standing in line and New Yorkers are used to it. Tall policemen stood idly near the school bulletin board and discussed the world series. It was the first of registration and things were slow. New hands at the regi stration made mistakes, erased, asked the questions wrong, were corrected by supervisors and went on to toe next question. To be eligible to vote in New York City, a citizen must have lived in his county four months. Since New York City contains several counties or boroughs, you may move within the city and yet change county. Oc tober 1 is “moving day” and many people are now finding that they haven’t been in their new county long enough to vote. I know several people who never wanted to vote so badly before but having moved to a new county they are powerless. Liv ing in New York City, it is even quiet easy to move to another state and become' voteless for an even longer period. Some of New York City’s favored suburbs are in Con necticut and New Jersy. Newspapers are freely prophesy ing that this year’s registration and vote will be the largest ever seen in the city and it certainly seems re asonable if you take into considera tion the political discussion you hear everywhere. The campaign of fgjG didn’t stir up one-third the intrest this one has. iQ f*.. e. ,ti. That North Carolina had. more cases of Dipheria for toe week end ing September 28 than any state in the Union. North Carolina with a population of 3,563,174 reported 46 cases, while toe state of New York with 13,379,662 had 14 cases? That Earl Browder, American Comihunist Leader, received 3080 votes for U. S. Congressman in the 14to District of New York, even though he was under a four years prison sentence at the time of the election. That a wise man is bol4 in what he stands Tdf but cSrefbt' iri what* he falls'fo|p. ^ ' Thai (^^proximately 9.5 per cent of the drivers licenses revoked in North Carolina to date have been revoked fo dhmkeri driving; that a town in Caliternia recently em ployed a camera to detect drunken drivers. The first 100 tested revealed 86' (hunken drivers. That toe United States borders toe British Empire (Canada) oh the North for 3500 miles, but in toe vote on Conscription the States forming 8b per cent of this border voted against Conscription. Only New York, Maine, Vt., and N. H. of toe border States, forming only about 700 miles of the boarder, voted for Conscrip tion; that perhaps this is due to what these States expected to get from toe defense program. To date the four States on the border voting for Conscription have received contracts for over $121,000,000 worth of defens©( equipment, the States forming the other 80 per cent have received about $48,000,000 worth of contracts. That Eastern North Carolina has all the Liquor Stores of the State and over 80 per cent qf the Sunday Movies. There are approximately 300 theatres in North Carolina, and of the near 100 showing Sunday shows, 80 are in the 50 counties making up Eastern Carolina. That in toe recent Democratic Primary in North Carolina J. M. Broughton led W. L. Horton in 25 of the 32 counties carried by Ralph Mc Donald in' the second primary of 1936. ■Was that accidental? That a lawj was passed recently preventing the sale of rubbing alco- hal except by wholesale and retail druggist. This is to restrict the use of rubbing alcohol as a beverage. A polieman in Raleigh recently found over 200 empty bottles on one vacant lot that had been used in that way. That North Carolina spends more North Carolina Sanatorium Aynhi- received 23 awardk and about 206 ^'caslr prizes at toe cattle judging at toe State: Fair last wde|^ The Sana- toritop'«|toibited 16 head. Dbtye^ Sylvia, an S-yrear-old bred at the SanHorium, was Senior and Grand Chfuhpion female. Other me bers dE the hbard took l^bctes as : lows: 4 fiikts,^se«ft»d$f," 5'thilld$i, 3 fourths, and one fifto. / In addition to tote R^toriumi i^e exhibitors were toe Pinehui^ Farms, Pihehtoat; Central Experiiheht Stat ion, Ralei^; Samarcand Manor, Ea gle Spnngs; Long Cre^ votion; Cbiirad Adtunsy FItemitt, bo unty, "and toe Fiitiffe Fsh^ei^it^of A- merica. for fertilizers toan j^inn^ta, Indiana, Illinois, Micfanhidhii'WiAbbn- sin, Iowa, and Missouri ^ranjlined. lOB PRINTING at BRASOnABLB PRICES-l^^ST CAIX"T£B and WEUL CALL— NEWS-TOCSNAL of trouble may rise at the result of one automobile accident. Protect your self at once with sood Automobile Liability insurance—Call The iohiuioii Co. GENERAL INSURANCE Phone 2191 RAEFORD, N. C. T»9 TftAVELEIS/HMtfonl WAKE UP BUSINESS/ By Advertising In | / This Newspaper YOU "V TRAoe 1 Mo. BWW^ YOUR OWN HORN In The Advertising Column* OF THIS NEWSPAPER by the kind Colonel’s wife. “My dear, is anything wrong?” “No—” she faltered. “Only we’ve eaten so much hamburger — your chicken. I’d forgotten there was food like that.” Wives will wrack their brains, some will even consider those foolish things all women think of when they need money. Making neckties, sell ing Christmas cards. But we will carry on and learn to laugh at bur plight because we'rfre the Regulars, in name and fact. We shall’ wonder, too, if others being brought into this defense plan fopincy cimiln** PENDER Qua/ctij DOUBLE FRESH GOLDEN BLEND COFFEE 2 lbs. . „ 25e TRIPLE FRESH COLONIAL NREAD 16-OZ. loaf 8c NEW STOCK—DRIED , ILBS. NEW STOCK—EVAPORATED PSUNES.LB. Med. Size FRESH PACK PfAS,2N0.2CAIIS-15t COLONIAL TOMATO ,2IWZ.BOB.--17c VIM PEP DOG FOOD, 4 16-OZ. cans .15c COLONIAL ~ Tomato Juice, 3 24-oz. cans 20c PILLSBURY’S BEST —— ^ , 12-LB. 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