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1 pi- TWO THE NEWS-JOUBNAU BAEF(mD,N.C THUE^PAY, J1JI.T &(i!l^ iML EV.-' '■ Hw News-Journal iCaiDliiiB 1 Tclvheoe 3521 PabiUMd every HiTsiau ^ The Brtate of Paul Diefcaon eaepobo. n. c. lates: $1^ »» year (IB Aavaaeie) In Memofiam PAUL DICKSON 1889 - 1935 Natfonal Advertisiiic Ketaesentettve WOODTARD ASSOCIATES New York. City Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Raeford, N. C., \mder act of Mardi 3, 1870. A TRIBUTE. Letters to the Editor farm control in HOEE COUNTY In the death of John Duncan McLeod, his family, his neighbor hood, his church, his county, his state, and his nation suffered a dis tinct loss. He was "a loving ,devoted husband and an affectionate father, a helpful and accommodating neigh bor, a sincere and devout Christian, an honest church member, a diligent •and faithful church officer, a' dis creet citizen, a successful farmer and business man, and withal, a friend to humanity and a man who was always kind, because he had no de sire to be otherwise. The McLeod clan is, I suppose, one of the most tracable numerous of any Scotch family now along the Cape Fear Valley, and one that con tains a large per cent of good citizens. They live in Moore, Richmond, Hoke, Cumberland, and Robeson counties, and for the greater part are wise and helpful citizens. “A gentleman is a man who com bines a woman’s gentleness with a man’s courage.” “A gentleman is a gentleman, no more, no less.” “Every man owes the world a debt of one gentleman, and he should pay it.” I think when a man has attaint the position or state of gentle manliness, there are no higher altitudes of civil attainment. John Duncan McLeod was a gentleman. He was always considerate, deferential, yielding to others, because he had deep respect for his fellpwman, and his high re fined sensitive nature revolted at rudeness. He was at peace with God and man, and his greatest desire was the full enjoying the fruit of the Spirit; love, joy, peace, long suffer- ing,gentleness, goodness, faith, meek ness, temperance. Sadly will he be missed. We sym pathize with his loved ones in their darkest hour of bereavement, still we know with him it is far better, for his departed spirit has gone where “true pleasures forever abound,” where nothing ever grows old.,, —D. Scott Poole. PARASITES Seventy per cent of all chickens examined by the State Ccdlege pou ltry disease laboratory are infested with one or more fowl diseases, says H. C. Gauger, Extension poultry disease specialist. SUPPLEMENT Hot weather drinks need not in terfere with the family’s meal—time appetite if they are planned to sup plement the mealtime fare, says Miss Sallie Brooks, assistant Exten sion nutritionist at State College. LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF STATE PRELIMINARY CERTIFICATE OP DISSOLUTION To all whom these pr4sents may come—greeting: Whereas, It appears to my satis faction, by duly authenticated re cord of the proceedings for the vol untary dissolution thereof by the unanimous consent of all the stock holders, deposited in my office, that the Home Food Market, Inc., a cor poration of this State, whose princi pal office is situated at Main Street, in the Town of Raeford, County of Hoke, State of North Carolina (J. K. McNeill being the agent therein and in charge Iherecf, upon v;hom process may be served), has complied w'ith the requirements of Chapter 22, Con solidated Statutes, entitled “Corpora tions,” preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate of Dissolution; Now Therefore, I, Thad Eure, Sec retary 6t State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the said cor poration did, on the 13th day of June 1941, file in my office a duly Executed and attested consent in writing to the dissolution of said corporation, exe cuted by all the stockholders/thereof, which said consent and the record of the proceedings aforesaid are now on file in my said office at provided by law. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixi^ my official seal at Raleigh,-this ISQi day A, O. 1941.. On the 24th of April, 1941, I ap peared before what is called “A farm control Review Committee” in the court house in Raeford. I desired to get some relief in the matter of tobacco allotment for our farm. The other Hoke County local committee had deprived me of what should have been ours bn our farm, and bestowed same on certain predatory and favor ed group of farmers—^that was the net result at least. Now when I ap peared before this foreign committee that came from somewhere out side of Hoke County. (I will not expose the name of the county that I heard they came from), I felt as if I were in a German Concentration camp, either in Berlin or Rome from the way the words “control and Review” rang out. I did not need review; I needed relief. But I failed to get it, either this year or last year as I appeared before this same com mittee; both times turned down on my appeal for relief. Now the words “Control and Re view” are favorite German words; and are ,prized by the Tyrant and despotism Hitlter of Germany, who right now has his tyrannical iron heel on practically every nation of free people in Europe and Asia. Bri tain at present is in a death graffie with them. The words “control and review” are expressive of Autocracy terms in at ^ast one important sense of their meaning. The democratic words that should be substituted for “control and review” should be “cooperation and relief”. To control yourself is democratic in an in^portant sense of its application of meaning. An auto crat is one that would impose his will upon a subjected people, re gardless of right or wrong. A Democrat is a member or re presentative of a democracy, which means the common people of a Re public; which has a government of the people by the people, and for the people. Could there be a better form of political government—a De mocratic form of Government? I say, “No.” A friend of mine remarked to me that I should have gotten upon my knees and begged that hard-hearted committee for some relief. I asked this committee if they could help me or give me some relief. They said they had never been turned down on their recommendation for an increase of allotment. Now to have gotten up on my knees and to have begged this committee for some relief, would have been a violation of the oath I had taken or subscribed to—to im part, defend, protect and maintain the constitution of these United States and all laws not in consistent therewith. The Constitution, with the Decla ration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, is the Supreme law of this land; for it is so stated in the instrument itself and is full of true democratic principles. We cannot violate, we can not junk it; and still have a Democratic form of govern ment, with true Democratic prin ciples of governmental rule. In the Declaration of Indepen dence it reads: “It is self evident that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their creator, with cer tain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Of course that means, they are equal in the 'administration and dispensation of law. And you read ‘in the Constitution, that you cannot deny to any man equal pro tection of law. The Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Bill of rights, com prise the foundation stone upon which the superstructure of the Constitution itself rests. All of it is the constitution. Now is it right to deny to me, my wife, and children, the fundamental and unalienable rights that are eixpressed there and guaranteed to me? Is it right to take the bread out of my children’s mouths, and bestow same on certain predatory and favored groups of people who those committee’s would designate? I do not believe these committees mean to be criminal or oppressive. I believe they are ign orant of the law, although this is no excuse foe violation of law. I suggest that some of the Civic Soci- ties of Raeford purchase some copies of the Constitution with the Decla ration of Independence and the Vir ginia Bill of rights and mail to them and ask them to read it. I would not serve on any committee where I had to do things that would violate the oath I had taken to support the sup reme law of this land; as all we voters have had to do. We have many good democrat's in this country that are not only demo crats in name, but in principle also. There are some as good democrats in Raeford and Hoke County as you will find anywhere. But I believe they are in the minority, or ellse we would not have such evil prac tices of so called law imposed upon the good people of Hoke Cobnty, under the guise of law. I“would like to laud the name of United States Senator Hon. Josiah Bailey of Raleigh, the good people of North Carolina and this nation should hold him in highest esteem and veneration and owe to him an ev^erlastingi e|ebt of gratitude for standing for us when we could, not stand for ourselves. Viz: When our great Constitution and the great judgips who interupt it for us as, of the Supreme law of this land were atta^ed and under fire; suod also for bis efforts'^in helping to block the passage of the “Court packing BilL” I will mention a few others pur country shoiild honor: to wit: United States Senator Elison D. Smith of S. C., Senator Walter F. George, of Georgia, Gov. Talmadge of Georgia, Senator Glass and Byrd of Virginia. The Hon. Vaises Farley of New York and the great and noble patrotic soul, Hon. Jack Gamer of Texas; who declined to run for a third terra for vice-president; and of whom it Was said, “Shed tears over the “Court JPacking Bill.” These great democrats can and will, consis tently defend Democracy; and demo cratic principles in this great country of ours, against any aggressive and tyrannical foe, from within our coun try or from aboard.' Here is the complaint I laid be fore the above referred to committee. I sold all my produce, cotton, com. peas, wheat, rye, hay, horses, farm implements, and my automobile in October 1918, to go into the World War, to fight Germany, to make the World safe for Democracy. This war ended on the following November 11th, 1918. My father built the first tobacco barn in this immediate neighborhood, in the fall and winter of 1922 and grew the first crop of tobacco in 1923 and made a good yield of tobacco and it sold well This barn was burned by a tenant in 1925, I believe it was. So after an absence of just twenty years, I was getting back to our farm in, or at the first of the year 1938. My bro ther and I desired to rebuild this tobacco barn that was burned. To bacco control was put over us for the year 1938. I was informed by a member of the committee that I had better not rebuild this tobacco barn that had been burned, and was ad vised by our County farm agent, that I would receive no tobacco al lotment for the year 1938. Sometime later I was informed by our farm agent that I would receive an al lotment of eight-tenths of an acre, and was advised by him that I had better plant this eight-tenths of an acre; so that I would be in line to get an increase for 1939. Just before the election to vote on control for 1939, I received notice that I would get no increase for the year 1929. Lo ahd behold control was voted out for 1939. So we proceeded to rebuild our tobacco barn knd plant enough to run this barn. Since we were given our freedom for 1939, and we and our tenant decided to plant 4%acres tobacco, so that we would have en ough tobacco to run our anall barn. I had rebuilt this barn at a cost of $329.00 with oil heating curer installed. I then was informed by our farm agent that I would be penalized out of all conservation payment benefits for 1939. Since under freedom we had in creased in planting from eight-tenths of aq, acre to four and half acres, he said we would be penalized at the rate of $72.00 per acre against whatever we planted over the eight- tenths of an acre we were alloted. I saw from the paper that there were thousands of dollars coming to Hoke County for conservation payments for 1939. We received none. Control, they claimed was voted back in for the year, 1940. The committee met and increased my allotment from eight-tenths to one and three-tenths acres. Although I was in line to receive, an average reasonable allot ment on equal terms with all other tobacco farmers. )Ve were as much entitled to rece ive equal consideration in the matter of allotment when control came back in 1940 as those that were prepared to grow tobacco when control came in 1938. We all built in Freedom. Why then, discriminate so ruthlessly against me? In the fall of 1940 they said control was voted in for a period of three years, 1941-42-43, and I am informed that control can be stretched to in clude 44-45, without aiiy more voting before the above inclusive dates. Our farm agent informed me that I could almost be assured of not receiving decrease of allotment for the above period ie: of our 1 Sere and three- tenths, how can we cure the little tobacco we have, .or run five bam curings, with so little tobacco? We would, I suppose, have enough to bacco to about pne-fourth fill the bam. We have 310 acres of land heavily taxed. 52 acres of tenable land. I know one man that has 40 acres of land all told and a small amount of cleared land and has an allotment of 1% acres tobacco without even a curing barn to cure it in. I asked him how he even managed to get such a large allotment and not being prepared to cure it. Well, he said, that he piade a poor mouth to the committee, he said you would have to do that to get something from them. He said he asked them for a much larger allotment than he got, telling them that he had nine child ren to be fed. He said they told him that’Ihey would not give him 1% acres and to go to the welfare and maybe they would feed his child ren. Does it look like any autocracy in that? I am reliably informed of one prominent committee man and chu rch man who sold a farm to a man. lie got this man’s money for the farm but refused to sell him the rights on the farm. He told this man that he was not selling the to bacco 'allotment on the place that he would remove the allotment to his home farm. When one buys a farm, it is the rights that he is buying. This farm purchaser could not back out ok the deal when he found he was losing the tobacco allotment on the farm because the government was advancing the money to buy with and arrangements had already, been made to consumate the deal. We have 310 acres of land heavily taxed. 52 acres tenable land. My neighbors with much less land than we have with about the same amount cleared land and less have allotments ranging from/3 to to 5 acres, more than some of them can cure in one barn. We have only 12 acres of cotton allotment. While the favo rites, as above mentioned, have in addition to their large tobacco allot ment, cotton allotments ranging from 12 to 16 and even more acreage al lotment. Now does that look like I have received equal protection of and administration of law? The cons titution of this nation guarantees to me, equal administration of law; and equal protection of law, as a citizen, as to my rights, liberty, and privi leges to have and to own a home. You will ask them how can these evils be remedied. I will say through the Church of- Jesus Christ upon Earth, by converting its members to become genuine Christians and to love each other that instead of being greedy and desiring to take fiipm your neighbor that which is lawfully his, you would be willing, at least, to give him a little more th^in you would retain or ask for yourself. This is the spirit and let ter of the Golden rule, which is written iri Holy Writ: “As ye would that me -skould do unto you, do even so to them.”-When this law is instill led into the hearts, and conscience of men and become a part of them you will not see a neighbor arrayed against a neighbor to wruig the bread out of his neighbors’ child ren’s mouths and appropriate to this his own selfish desires I Would like to say rihis for the church as it exists today and has ever existed—^that if it were not for the church vfe would hardly have any civilization at all; and to our great and noble ministers of the Gospel, I want to pay them he high est tribute of praise; for they preach the pure and simple gospel of Jpsus Christ and of His Redeeming love and grace fiirough faith in him. This ought to be sufficient. They might be a little more specific, in exposing such local evils as have been per petrated against me. as I have above inumerated and upon other citizens I have heard about. Now some of these fine ministers might lose their pastorates. For you remember what happened to the great Prophet, John the Baptist, when he reproved King Herod and Herodius for their wickedness. He lost his head. On the other hand, you read of another great prophet, Elijah who reproved wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel. You read later of him that he was translated to Heaven in a chariot. Amos, the great preacher and prophet, that so badly and forcably exposed the wickedness and oppres sion of his day and time, (4th Chap, of Amos) particularly. Well, I have never seen where he became a martyr as well as Daniel and others you can read of, who exposed the wickedness of their day and time, right to the faces of those who committed those evils. Let me ask this question: Shall we go on at the pace and rate of speed that we are traveling toward the col lapse and utter destruction of the ci vilization, that has been our priceless hertiage through more than a century and a half of the past, abandon those great principles of Liberty, Justice, ank Righteousness upon which our Republic was founded? C. B. Johnson new 8H1PBIENT of CAEDBIBIDGB crystals. Odd pieces suitable for gifts and orders taken for any pattern in tfa% Jine. — Orahaai’r Gift Shop. CHEAP Farmers now can get complete garden irrigation equipment for about $ld, national farm leaders reports. ■ An un- equalled CO Value! it NiW AC4)C DOUBU I.F. aRWIT. Gives you four times the sensitiv ity, amaziqg selectivity and power. it BUimN SWER AERIAl SYSTEM. it IMPKOVED DYNAMIC SFEAKER. it BEAM POWER PENTODE AUDIO SYSTEM. it lUUMINATED HORIZONTAL DIAL. it AUTOMATIC VOLUME CONTROL it HANDSOME .WALNUT CABINET Big TrcMb-ffi Allowance EASY TERMS! Raeford Furaitare ComiiaRy Raeford, N. C. Closed All Day Friday, July 4tfc E '4 i LET’S GO THROUGH THE ADS, DEAR Save Car Dollars With Gasoline Cents Cars Washed 50c Cars Greased 75c Kerosene, gal 10c Yo^r Brands of Motor Oil Sieberling Tires and Tubes ACCESSORIES THE CABIN C. J. CONNELL, Prop. Thus the Committee of Two for Buying, swings into action in many a Raeford and Hoke County home. After dinner—the dishes are cleared away .... it’s time for relaxation, for rest—for talking and planning. So out t^mes the News-Journal and the huddle begins—scan the ads, one by one, look for that new rug or dinette or crib for baby. Tobacco Sticks For Sale Phone 5246 Rolaod Covington Yes, when you need new things for your home .... furniture, kitchen equipment, draperies .... the News- Journal is,the first shopping center you should go to. The town’s best and most reliable stores bring you news of their merchandise frequently in THE NEWS-JOURNAL! News-Journal
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