THURSDAY, JAN. 13th,
PAGE FOUR
THE NEWS-JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C.
The News-Journal
Hoke County News Hoke County Journal
Est. January, 1, lvzv "
By Paul Dickson By D. Scott Poole
Consolidated November 1, 1929
XiiVX Published Thursdays At
a&Hgp Raeford, North Carolina
Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year In Advance
For Servicemen $1-50 Per Year
DOl'CALD C'OXE, Editor-Manager
Entered as second-class mail mattvr at the post
i.Cice at Raeford. N. C, under Act or March 3, 1370.
Saturday School Attendance
Countv school authorities are right much per
turbed about the poor attendance at the white
schools last Saturday, the first of eight Satur
days on which white children are being required
to "attend school this year. Only at Ashemont
school was attendance considered good.
In the colored schools Saturday classes were
begun early last fall and now their attendance
on Saturdays compares very favorably with the
other days of the week. The white schools will
have only eight weeks during which school will
be held for six days, to make out their full nine
months terms and complete the school year on
May 31, and the school officials and county Board
of Education do not feel they are asking too much
of the parents and children when they insist on
more cooperation in this matter of attendance.
The Saturday classes were instituted this year,
along with the nine-months term, in order to be
able to close the schools as early in the spring as
possible that the children might be available for
work on the farms at a time when crop demands
are greatest. The Board knows that these are
extraordinary times, and this extraordinary
matter of handling the schedules is an effort to
meet the demands of a county so predominately
agricultural as Hoke. Never-the-less, the nine
month term is a matter of law and the Board
must conform to the requirements thereof in the
number o' class days of each school term. Too,
the basis of teacher allotment is made upon the
. best six months of the year for attendance, and
these have usually been largely in the winter
months. If the average attendance drops much
lower the county stands to lose a number of
teachers next year. The loss of teachers in some
of the grammar schools will bring about a seri
ous situation which will result in some tethers
having inordinately heavy pupil loads next year
for several months of the term. The Board re
cognizes the fact that such a situation will not be
at all to the liking of many patrons. Consolida
tion of classes will necessarily result and there
will be a resulting disadvantage to the pupils.
Too, with schools running six days per week
now, and many pupils attending but five days,
the pupils are losing one-sixth of the training
value from a week's school. This, and the ac
companying loss of interest due to inequities in
training between students of equal abilities is
likely to lead to truancy on the part of some stu
dents and to an apathy on the part of others
which will result in failure to make passing
grades, and loss of the year's work.
County Superintendent K. A. MacDonald
states that the patrons have been demanding the
nine-months term for many years and, now, it
being instituted, many parents here are failing
to cooperate sufficiently to assure success in the
rural areas. Yet, he points out, the six-day week
has been in use in a number of other counties
and in most it has met with usually fine success.
Children-like, most youngsters will stay away
from school if they have an opportunity. Atten
dance on Saturdays is a matter, largeiy, of par
ental cooperation with the schools. If the nine
months term is to operate successfully here,
opening late in summer and early closing in the
spring is necessary. To close early in the spring
it will be necessary to have classes for a few
weeks for six-day weeks, unless the parents see
that their children attend these extra days, at
tendance records will be so poor that the county
will suffer additional loss of teachers and, in
stead of helping, the nine-months term will
eventually result in a lowering of the present
high educational standards of the Hoke County
Schools.
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Comstockian Mr. Walker Bans
Esquire
In revoking the second class mailing permit
of Esquire. Postni - tor General Frank Walker
appears to have set himself up as a dictator and
has made a first step toward ruling out the
"cheesecake" from the "slick" publications.
Just why he scle-ted Esquire i not explained.
Thrre are many of the Tore popular magazines
which cater to th ? .ye with greater expanses of
unclothed feminine bodies of the deluxe de
signs, and whoso subject mat'er, too, deals with
sex-stimulant matter. The few copies of Esquire
which we have rad v.. re as fre from such sto
res as the verier: e At'nr.tic Monthly. Mr.
Walker placed no ch.rge of ob ;cenUv just
stating that he believed the publication was
making no wortl y contribution to the readin"
public.
As the High Point Enterprise so pointedlv
states: "We realize that Esquire is offensive i,
some people. So are the communistic Daily
Worker, Bob Reynolds' Vindicator and the Chi
cago Tribune. So are other magazines to you.
But Mr. Walker is not the national dictator of
tastes and opinions. And if he was, he could not
get away with it. That sort of thin, has been
tried a thousand times and every time it has been
tried it has done more harm than good."
The publisher of the magazine will have a
chance to argue his case before the magazine is
finally excluded from the mails, and we will
venture to predict that the publisher will win
his case. Then, when his magazine next appears,
the sale will have been greatly boosted by this
pernickety and misguided attempt at high
handed punishment by Mr. Walker. The Corn
stock crowd of Boston made a success of the
struggling American Mercury for Mencken and
Nathan because of a story named "Hatrack." . . .
Remember?
OPINIONS and SENTIMENTS
From Other Editors
Inside Germany
(Rocky Mount Evening Telegram)
Americans probably get more sheer delight in
reading speculative reports of what is going to
happe n inside of Germany than they do of actu
al accounts of what has already taken place.
For the past two years the dearth of any clear
reports has made us grasp at any rumors or
statements from the two neutral nations, Swit
zerland and Sweden, despite the fact that it is
readily understood that both are filled with Axis
spies and topnotch Axis propaganda agents.
Yet because we want desperately to know
how much longer this war is going to last we are
prone to digest even the briefest of reports. For
that reason, the comments of a Swedish aviation
expert are to be taken with the proverbial grain
of salt but nevertheless must be added to that
already overflowing bag of speculations.
Stig Wennerstroen, Swedish aviation com
mentator, believes that Germany is shaken to
her very foundations by bombing"and that an
invasion might cause the Nazi home front to col
lapse. Yet he does not believe that bombing
raids can completely conquer the Germans,
"since this could only wound and not kill the
Reich's decentralized industry." Yet he goes on
to say that "there is no question that the bomb
war is very effective because it is a fact that
Germany is shaken to her very foundations.
How much more the home front can stand is a
complicated question. What happened to Italy
could happen to Germany at the moment of in
vasion. Germany may be so weakened materi
ally and her morale may be sapped to such an
extent that only the mere fact of invasion might
cause a collapse."
It must be noted here that his opinion about
the possible collapse of Germany is not shared
by some Swedish correspondents stationed in
Berlin. While in Sweden for Christmas some of
these men are reported to have said that the
bombings drew the German people closer to
gether, a fact which may well be true since it
happened in England in 1940.
O
Magnificently Done
(The Charlotte Observer)
Governor Broughton made a courageous ap
proach to the question, "How Can the Democrats
Win in 1944?", in his Town Hall discussion last
night in Now York.
The North Carolina chief executive laid down
a clear-cut pattern as to what the party must do
in order to win and much of that which he out
lined as being imperative to this end is correc
tive and reformative of present administration
policies relating to domestic situations.
Here it was that the Governor exhibited not
merely his faith, but the only basis upon which
he maintains his faith in another Democratic
victory that, and the certainty that a "liberal"
candidate will be offered for the Presidency.
Some of the danger-signs which strew the way
to victory for the party in 1944 were enumerated
as being these:
Growing apprehension among the people that
the party's program involves the extinction of
free enterprise:
Too much bureaucratic regulation:
Loss of substantial farmer-vote:
Grave concern of the public over non-essential
spending:
The danger of extermination in which small
business finds itself:
Federal encroachment upon the rights of
states:
The "political turmoil" in the South over the
national party's repudiation of principles of Jef
fersonian democracy:
Threat of post-war unemployment.
In citing these factors as imperilling the chan
ces of Democratic success in 1944, Governor
Broughton put his fingers on the central arteries
of the party's vulnerable body.
That he had the courage fearlessly to stand up
and point out these weaknesses and to challenge
the present leadership of the party to correct its
position on these issues and to give the American
public abundant reassurance as to its intentions
speaks memorably of the political intrepidity of
the Governor.
His address was not only among the most
statesmanly of the many illustratious utterances
he has made here at home and across the nation
since becoming the State's chief magistrate, but
of tremendous significance as bearing upon the
noxt Presidential campaign.
Governor Broughton ought to go to the ros
trum nf the next Democratic convention and
make this speech all over again before the as
sembled delegates there.
And then he should be placed at the head r f
the party's next platform committee to write in
to that document the policies and principles ho
so magnificently discussed in this immediate a '.-
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I.'ke the hermit who thought he was voting
for "Teddy" in 1932. a veteran has been discover
ed in the wilds of Montana who thinks Dewey
ourht to be elected if for no other reason th. n
that he whipped the Spaniards in Manila Bay -Christian
Science Monitor.
News fk
Dy Paul Mallon
There is no Forgotten Man today, recently
marked the Man on the Eighty Twenty. If he
didn't get a Christmas card from somebody, he
certainly will get an income-tax blank in a
very few days Christian Science Monitor.
SOME
Re lea ied by Western Newspaper Umun.
INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER
GETS HIT AGAIN
WASHINGTON. Congressional
taxmuUcrs entered nn apparent gen
tleman's agreement earlier in the
year that they would soak the indi
vidual income taxpayer no more un
til he had a chance to slrair.'-itcn
himself out on the so-called "pay-as-you-ju"
tiic dovve by waicii they
hair-covertly hi'.ed his war ta:;is nt
least 23 per cent, ur.c'or the bi r.ivo-
i lent cuise of letting him pay cur
rently after lPi.V
Members of the house cmnm'ttee,
anil olro senate lirianre, agreed the
individual Just could r.ot stand more
during this transition period of dou
ble taxation. Nothing was written
down, but public statements were
issued by many members to this ef
fect. Now, after nine months of search
ing for new methods of taxation
and failing to consider seriously a
single new method, not even voting
on a sales tax or a spending tax,
or trying to reach the special re
stricted class of inflated war in
comes senate finance has submit
ted bill:
To hit the same old individual in
come taxpayer and no one else,
again by the stealthy method of al
lowing rates to remain the same
while removing two important ex
emptions. Elimination of the 10 per cent
earned income credit will hike the
individuals tax costs about 540 mil
lion dollars next year; disallowance
of deductions for excise taxes will
cost ISO million dollars more. In
all, this bill raises income taxes
again by about 700 million dollars.
How did they dare do it? Chiefly
because a thoughtlessly false, if not
intentionally deceptive, propaganda
has been built up before the public.
Taxmakers in their giddiness or
frustration have come to believe
their own words "The country can
stand more taxes," "People have
money to burn," "Danger of infla
tion." The truth is, certain war working
people have greatly increased in
comes, but most people have much
less after taxes and high prices.
No one advertises the truth that
this government increased its toll
on the income taxpayer 152 per cent
the first five months of this fiscal
government year (July to Decem
ber) over last year. Little do you
hear of taxation rising 700 per cent
in three major bills since Pearl Har
bor, the brunt falling on old tax
payers, not the inconsiderable new
war workers (nine million new Vic
tory taxpayers pay only 162 mil
lion dollars).
A struggling married wags earn
er getting $5,000 today must pay 20
per cent or $1,000 to Ills federal
government, in addition to state and
county taxes a-d other federal lev
ies on cigarettes, liquor, etc.
IT'S A REAL STRTGGLE
All you hear are expert arguments
about inflation with generalized over
all national figures about swollen in
comes, nothing about this $5,000 man
trying to buy bonds, pay with
holding, terrific prices, and raise a
family on about half or less of what
he earns.
No one, absolutely no one, takes
the part of the individual taxpayer.
The way the propaganda has been
set up, it is considered unpopular,
even remotely unpatriotic to do so.
But generalized average taxation
already is $357 per person here com
pared with S1SI in Britain and $261 in
Canada, and our people already pay
eight times more than in World
War I.
MIRACLE NEEDED
TO WIN ELECTION IN '44
Mr. Roosevelt, the miracle man
of politics, is now supposed to be
whipping up another one for 1944.
His tactics abroad confirm the ex
pectation within Democratic rar.ki
that he will again completely re
organize' his lines for the coming
election. Certainly a miracle is de
manded by the current condition of
the Democratic party and the
frayed, worn strategems of the
New Deal.
His actions surgest he is working
toward two mam developments, an
agreement with Russia (not as a
unified permanent American foreign
policy, but as a personal Roosevelt
venture, engineered by him alone
and tn be led hy him alone) and
secondly, a direct campaign for the
soldier vote to brn j the bulk of these
decisive 1J million absentee ballots,
or a gr at majority of them, into
the administration camp, regardless
of what congress is now doing to
prevent it.
It s a'c -vorking ardently
hie St.OO soldier de-
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'i Eo'dicr heraldry in
'. ionseve!t has con
icn' as much, or more
wing iroops in Egypt, Sic
'.h Africa than with the
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Meanwhile his radio and other
commentators are singing in signifi
cant unison against the dastardliness
of congressional action in leaving
the soldier vote collection to the
states. - Obviously the last hat not
.been heard of this subject.
PLEDGES ARE KEPT
?VV!v JW I o solemn V twir that 1 will Ufij , U ..
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tht IvviTI serve honestly and n
WLJ faithful ejainst all of their B-4Sgfet'
jrfm toy
By the solemn oath they take, our men and women in service
pledge "true faith and allegiance to the United States of America."
and to "serve them honestly and faithfully again::t all the:;- ene
mies." They keep that pledge.
Even if it means giving up their precious young lives they keep
that pledge.
What, then, is there to be said about the "no-strike-in-wartime"
pledge?
POOLE'S MEDLEY
B D. SCOTT POOLE
was the poorest farming section I
knew. It took nn average of ten acres
of cotton to make a bale, and w hy all
1 the folks in that sect in did rut move
j I never knew.
All grain in this part of the state
was ground by water mills in the ear
lier years of my life. Jesse Thomas
who had a grist mill on Drowning
creek a half mile above my father's
farm had the best head of water and
did more g-incMng dry summers than
any miller in that section.
However, there had been a good
growth of long leaf pine on that land
and after the turpentine had been
worked out, and the timber cut, some
cleared the land and stayed there
even until now.
President Roosevelt's administra
tion claims tj have done something in
the way of both drought and flood
control. Since he came to the presi
dency of the United States a number
of great power c"r.ms have been con
structed, and electric power is the
power for all uses. Electric power
has done much toward taking drud
gery out .f all labo-, except farm
work. How tn ride and nlnw hplns.
but you cannot ride' and chop cotton,
nor thin nny plants to a stand.
In the latter 1870's matches ca:re in
round wooden boxs, and Make Blue
made a telephone by punching a hole
in the bottom f two match-boxes,
knot'ng a string forty feet long, and
let you hold one to your ear while he
held the other to his ear and you
whispered to each other. The string
was poked through a hole in the bot
tom f the match box and a knst tied
on the end of it. You could hear the
whisper as if the whispering mouth
was at your ear.
Over in upper Richmond county
The wooden cane mills, and the syr
up cooked in washpots was better syr
up that it looked to be, but the mills
did n, t get all the juice nut of the
-stalks. That syrup was better than
some I have seen made on modern
equipment.
They have done more in learning
how to destroy human life than in any
other way it seems, but the surgeons
l ave made and are making a wonder
ful record in their treatment of the
wounded in this war. They cure the
wound and the scar.
The better class of citizens of other
nations were captured and enslaved
by the Roman g.vernment about the
time Christ was on earth. It would
be an impossibility for citizens of any
country to be kept in servitude now
as was done 1940 years ago.
Government is growing more ex
pensive as time flies. The tax rate in
this country will be something worth
considering after the present war is
over. I believe one thing will be a
necessity after this war is jver, and -Continued
on Page Five
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We can't buv evceyrMAG in sight-spend
EVERYTHING WE EARN-AND STILl'exPECT
TO HAVE SECURITY FOR OUfc FAMILY.
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Wfc CAN BUV NCSSAZV THINGS AND SET ASIDE
A PORTION OP OOfc EARNINGS IN WAR BONDS
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AND LIFE INSURANCE. '
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