THE NEWS-JOURNAL, RAEFORD. N. C.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20th, 1944
PAGE FOUR
The News-Journal
Hoke County News Hoke County Journal
Est. January, 1, 19:19 Est. May 13. 1911
By Paul Dickson By D. Scott Poole
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Rule By Relic
Perennial and continuing dissension within
the governing body of the city of Fayetteville
suggests that there'may be, that in all likelihood
there is something wrong with the aldermanic
scheme, and the imminence of a primary in
which two members of the House of Repre
sentatives and one member of the State Senate
will be nominated, suggests that now might be
an appropriate time for some serious thinking.
Alone among the larger towns of North Caro
lina, Fayetteville clings to the ancient aider
manic svstem of government. Basically the
system is thoroughly democratic. Indeed, it is
patterned after the government of the State and
of the nation. Members of the government are
chosen to represent defined districts. Fayette
ville is divided into wards, and each ward is re
presented bv its member on the Board of Alder
men. In theory, the system is pretty nearly
flawless.
Whether it is so flawless in practice is some
thing that needs thinking about. It will not
be difficult for anybody to recall that a good
deal of time and energy has been taken up with
impotent bickerings within the Board. Not many
weeks ago there was virtually a riot within the
faceting about whether it would be proper for
the city to perforin so manifest a duty as the
collection and segregation of stray dogs.
The functions of a modern city government
have grown too complex for an out-moded form
of government. Within the past 25 years the
aldermanic system has virtually disappeared in
North Carolina, and has been replaced by the
commission form of government, with, usually
a city manager. Fayetteville's present gov
ernment dates back to the lB70's when the city
surrendered its charter in Federal bankruptcy
proceedings. It needs modernization
If Mac Arthur Runs
Under the Articles of War, which is the gov
erning law of all military personnel, if General
Douglass Mac-Arthur is nominated by any party
for any office and he accepts the nomination,
he would, automatically, relinquish his com
mand and his active status in the military ser
vice. Whether he likes it or not, he would be
come a candidate. He could maintain no pas
sive status.
Insofar as he has indicated. General Mac-
Arthur has no platform and none has been pro
vided for him by his projectors except a vague
plan to get on with the war. His chief spokes
man, Senator Arthur Vanderberg, was once in
the forefront of isolationism and was altogeth
er opposed to the war. He continues at the fore
front among critics of those who are charged
with the prosecution of the war. Generally
MacArthur has confined himself, in statements
to "we do what we can with what we have."
It is concievablo that MacArthur the candi
date would not be the glamorous figure that
he is in uniform. He would campaign in civil
ian clothes, naturally, since he woulci be on in
active status. He retired from the army when
he was succeeded by General George IVhirshall
in 1939. What sort of campaigner he would
make would remain to be demonstrated. It
might very well be that he would be a whale of
a candidate. He has a gift for florid speech.
Probably he would undi take a vigorously
offensive campaign. He could make effective
use of matter that has not, in the interest of
military security, been made public. He might
maintain that the Pacific theatre of war has
been neglected in the matter of military sup
plies. At the moment that would not be parti
cularly effective. Admiral Nimitz seems to be
doing very well with what he has been able
to assemble in the way of a fleet
And, inevitably, MacArthur would have to
defend himself. Not so much has been said
indeed, nothing officially has ever been said
of the results of the Japanese attack on Manila.
At Pearl Harbor Kimmel and Short were pil
lioried for allowing their forces to be caught off
balance. Nothing has ever been said of the fact
that at Manila 300 heavy bombers were caught
on the ground and 299 of them destroyed there.
And with all his complaint against the appor
tionment of supplies, MacArthur has had no
occasion to complain that there was not a sub
marine handy at Corregidor to remove him,
his wife and son, from the doomed Rock. As
a campaigning candidate MacArthur woulci
have to account for that.
Perhaps it is not surprising that his projec
tors do not wish him to enter into actual cam
paigning. Fighting 4-F
Two youths have been sentenced to the Guil
ford county work house because they badly
battered three sailors who, allegedly, had deri
sively called them "4-F-ers". The encounter
began in the lobby of the YMCA and continued
serially in other places whither the service men
fled, and were pursued during the better part
of an entire night. The sentencing magistrate
was shocked.
Just what shocked the judge does not ap
pear. Surely he could not have been unfamilar
with battered witnesses appearing before him.
Perhaps it was because they were in the uniform
of the Navy. And it mav be that the battered
youths were younger than their attackers. But
anyhow he sent the pair who didn't like to be
called "4-F-ers" to the workhouse to meditate
upon their sins and to do some spring plowing
for the county of Guilford.
It may be, and very probably, that the sen
tence is a just one. But t-here is something
to be said for the prisoners, and for any man in
civilian clothing who resents, the implication of
pacifism. But seeing that these were such hefty
scrappers, it would seem that the judge might
the better have served his country if he had
turned recruiting officer.
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ITHE AMERICAN WAY
ALADDIN'S
LAMP
By George Peck
Anyone ,vho has read my column
over a pvr.od of time, must be con
vinced that I a n bitterly opposed to
governmer.' g o.ng into business any
business; that further, I have repeat
edly protested against government
lending money to privately-owned
corporations to uarry on or expand
their enterprises if such credit can
be obtained from private money
lenders.
The objections to government
sticking its bureaucratic nose into the
realm of buancss aie numerous. If
one can be selected above all others,
it is the paralytic inefficiency which
always sets in whenever government,
tries to supplant private enterprise.
The objections to government lend
ing money to private enterprise are
two in number and taken together
are a severe inJictment of such pro
cedure. The rir.-t is that borrowers
wilt not be scrutinized as curefuily
by government officials as by private
lender.--: and the second is that the
same borrowers are able to apply
pressure upon government officials
Allied victory in World War II. The
I same men who with each passing year
have been responsible for evec-better
petroleum products at ever-reduced
prices to the American people. They
should know whereof they speak.
The same wisdom, the same "know
how," which has characterized their
development of the oil industry to
date, is now available is on tap.
Ihey are not blissfully unaware that
some day in the distant future, the
oil reserves in the United States may
be exhausted. They have looked
ahead; they have taken steps to pro
vide against that possible contingency.
American oil corporations have
bought oil-producing lands in many
foreign countries.
Right in Arabia where Mr. Ickes
proposes to squander Uncle Sam's
money in an unnecessary pipeline,
far-seeing officials of the Standard
Oil of California and the Texas Cor
poration have already invested ap
proximately 20 million dollars in
Arabian oil properties, and plan to
spend 112 million dollars more or
exploration and the building of a
refinery in that country. If Arabia
is to be a part of the solution of our
oil problem, privately-owned and fi
nanced American companies have the
situation well in hand they need no
help from Mr. Ickes.
Perhaps Mr. Ickes has been read
ing "Arabian Nights." You will re
call the youth in that engrossing bonk
of fairy tales, who possessed the
magic lamp and ring, which upon rub-
With The
Army People
Major and Mrs. Hrom. who stay
ed at Mrs. Poovey s have left Raeford
and moved to Charleston, S. C. where
Major Hrom has been transferred.
This past week-end Capt. and Mrs.
Clark moved from Raeford where
they have been living in Mrs. Sarah i
McNeill's apartment.
Lt. and Mrs. S. A. Smith, and
Nancy, have taken one of the Lentz
apartments.
Major and Mrs. R. C. Helfter of
Rockford, 111., arrived in Raeford
Monday night and are living in the
apartment of Donald Davis. He is
with the 100th Division.
which they cannot apply to hard-,hintf ,.., f,..Mf.,i ,inn a ,h
boiled private lenders. To state this ; wh(J wtTe the t.Vts ,)f ,h(, ,amp
another wiy. governments are not , an(J (he nn(, anii who CXPril,ed the
so concerned about losing what they I bi;dins of anyone having possession
lend, and are noire anxious n-jt , (Jf Uiein
give offen.-ebv refusing to ier.d, than j
. , , ; ' vVho knows hut that Mr. I :kes
private lenders. l . .
y even has come into possession ot
There is at present an attempt on Ala,dm. a:Tlp and ring. .,nd hzs rub.
the part of Harold L. Ickes, head of bed thprn? A( .,ny rat ie
a government ypency. the Petroleum . stitlou? beIlef , ,e !inciBnt A abia ,s
Reserve Corporation, to have govern- . -m (hc masic pmver of Aladcin's lan p
ment loan privately owned American fantastic than the nreser.t
day pipe-dream of Mr. Ickes ef build
ing a pipeline in modern Arabia
oil corpotatior.s upwards of 110'
million dollars to build a pi peine in j
Arabia. Harod uses as the pretext
for this splurge with the taxpayers'
money, his concern regarding what
he claims is imminent exhaustion of
oil reserves in America.
Now, those v.tio have spent life
times in the petroleum business are
authorities for the statement that
there is no immedinte cause for con
cern. These are tne same men wno
NHF.DS HELP RIGHT NOW
BATAVIA. N. Y., April 18. The
Genesee county committee for econo
mic development, which has been
conducting a survey to determine how
many persons are planning to return
to their old jobs after the war, re
made the American oil industry tin ceived an unsigned reply mailed from
all-important factor it was in winning one of the battlefronts. It said: "I
World War I, and currently the j don't need help after the war. I reed
greatest single contributor toward it right now."
WITH YOUR MONEY A.VD MINE. I
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Last week 'Mrs. Kyle Nye and her
small son also arrived in town and'
moved into the Baucom apartment.
Mrs. Nye's husband, Capt. Nye, .vho
is with a field hosprtal, has left for
parts unknown, but it is the hope of
all that he will soon be back with
his family. Mrs. Nye is a native of
North Carolina.
Lt. and Mrs. Christian of Chicago,
who fomerly lived at Mrs. H. W. B.
Whitley's left Raeford last week.
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SUGARLESS CAKE
(Very Popular Tested Recipe)
Ingredients:
1 cup corn syrup
1-3 cup shortening, nucoa or butter
1 3-4 cups plain flour
1 3-4 tablespoons baking powder
1-3 tab'espoon salt
2 tablespoons grated or.mgcr.'nd
and 2 eggs.
Methods:
Cream shortening and syrup. Add
part of flour sitted.with baking pow
der and salt. Then one egg at the
time, bea'ing the mixture well after
each egg. Add milk and remain ng
Hour an doiangerind. Bil es 2 layers
or 24 cups cokes. Moderate oven or
350 degrees.
The Georgia, Louisiana Sveet, a ad
Cabbage Collard are the chitff var
ieties of col lards grown In this sec
tion. It takes about 65 days from
.eed o maturity.
DON'T MISS IT: The HI One-Cent
Sale, at Reaves Drue Stir In Rae
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BICKERING OVER
SOLDIER VOTES
WASHINGTON.-Mr. Roosevelt's
quaint quest for soldier-vote adivice
among the state governors (mostly
Republican outside the South) may
have sounded off-hand like a big
hearted attempt to be more than
fair about this thing. But it did not
so appear to the governors.
Frankly, in the true political at
mosphere of the congressional cloak
rooms, the move also was recog
nized as an effort to put the Re
publican governors on the soldier
vote spot, to make them shoulder
responsibility for whatever vote the
soldiers get, making Mr. Roosevelt
appear to be the champion of the
soldier against state and congres
sional resistance.
It did not work out that way The
governors apparently sensed what
was afoot and gave him replies
which left the only spots of the prob
lem before his eyes, not under their
feet.
In effect, a majority told him they
were going ahead with plans for
state-voting of soldiers if the army
and navy would co-operate in distrib
uting the ballots, implying that both
he and the congressional bill were
of considerable importance to them.
The depths of his resulting diffi
culty is evident in the action of his
congressional leaders. They held
back the bill five days after its final
enactment. This extended to 15 days
his opportunity of musing over the
governors' replies and making up
his mind whether to sign or veto.
HOW WILL THElt VOTE?
Now the solitary truth of all this
backing and pulling is that re one
actually knows much about how
many soldiers are going to vote, or
for whom.
From Mr. Roosevelt's actions to
date, you would judge he expects
them to vote for him. and that more
will vote for him if he collects the
ballots than if the governors do.
There is some evidence to sustain
this belief, but nothing conclusive.
I recently saw a letter from an
officer in the South Seas who said 75
per cent cf the officers were against
Roosevelt, 65 per rent of .the pri
vates for him. It may stand some
thing like that, although the army
seems extremely critical of labor
and left-wingers, who are the back
bone of the fourth term movement
so far.
I do not know, and 1 cannot find
any political authority here who
even pretends to.
Personally, I suspect more de
pends on the army and navy gener
als than on what kind of a law ap
plies. If they actively go out and
furnish ballots of any kind to sol
diers and collect these, large num
bers will vote; otherwise, no law
will get in that vote in bulk. '
Perhaps the most important fea
ture of the bill was an unobserved
provision. It would restrict any serv
ice officer or executive official from
issuing campaign speeches to sol
diers, and forbid broadcasts spon
sored or paid for by the govern
ment concerning political argument
or material.
In fact, all news reports of politi
cal speeches and activity would have
to be divided even between all presi
dential candidates entered in six
states or more. The penalty for vio
lations would be $1,0(10 tine and a
year in jail. This would certainly
hamper materially the freedom of
fourth term campaigners in charge
of soldier news distribution.
INDIVIDUAL SPENDING'
VS. GOVERNMENT SPENDING
Some economic authorities and
readers have asked how it would be
possible to work out in detail the
theory of "individual spending" as
a replacement for government spend
ing in a postwar program.
There are a thousand and, one
ways. All the government would
have to do would be to adopt this
policy and then pursue it in all pos
sible democratic ways.
The development of methods to
encourage private spending in slack
business times, and discourage it in
times of plenty, could rest primarily
on taxation.
Special allowances could be grant
ed for constructive expenditures"
such as home bailding, home im
provement and business plant ex
pansion when the national income
has dropped below a certain figure.
Special extra taxes could go into
effect, tending to retard boomlike
businesses, when national income
rises above a certain figure.
In fact, the whole structure of in
come taxation could be geared to
promoting a balanced economic flow.
The great spenders of the country
are the great business firms. Their
natural tendency is to expand with
good business beyond their long
range necessities and then wail at
unused plants when business falls
off. A wise government would get
them into planning directly, in addi- j
tion to tax lures. ,
Government loan policies also 1
could be adjusted to this purpose.
If Jesse Jones and his RFC shut
down on loans in good peacetimes :
and entered upon them as slacken- i
lng becomes noticeable, it would
have a powerful effect I
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POOLE'S MEDLEY
By D. SCOTT POOLE
cause they are kind to strangers they
find wandering through their country.
The Germans say they are, giving
comfort and assistance te their ene
mies. Conditions could hardly be
worse in those European countries.
For many years prize fights were
not allowed in the United States.
John L. Sullivan and Jake Killraine
fought 75 or more rounds in New Or
leans about sixty years ago, and
these fights were stopped by law, and
tne ngmers had to go to Cuba or
elsewhere to fight.
Not so long ago folk thought "hug
ging set to music" was horrible, but
they have grown more tolerant; in
fact, the girls have undertaken to
dance the whole United States army
now.
I fear constantly I will hear of the
use of poison gas by those wicked
destroyers of human rights. Hitler
often threatens some destructive new
o! tensive. When such starts, the de
struction of human life will be in
creased, but we are assured Germany
w ll not suffer less.
Canada does not -want to come into i
the United States we read, and why, j
we do not know. If the United States i
extended from the Gulf of Saint Law- !
rence to the Panama Canal it would
be just the right size. Since air-1
planes have developed into a reality, I
this world is just about family s zed.
Changes are constantly going on.
There used to be four passenger
trains a day over the Aberdeen and
Rocklish ra lroad--two trains each
way. When the mail train came to
town any day in the week, nearly
everybody ran to the depot to meet
the train. This was a daily hubit.
We ail used to stare at airplanes,
but they are too thick now to cause
a person to look up when one flies
over. Confederate veterans said a
ran aUays followed a battle during
the Civil War, but firing in the Fort
Bragg reservation fails to bring rain.
"If ail were sun and never rain
No bow would span the hill,
If all were rain and never sun.
There would be not rainbow still.'
In July, 1905, a very heavy thunder
storm came over Raeford. A colored
man and his wife were killed when
lightning struck the clothes line at
tached to the rear of their house.
McLauchl n Company owned a tele
phone line from Raeford to Red
Sprngs, via Antioch, and every tele
phone pole between the two towns
was struck, and most of them torn to
pieces.
Corn is higher than it has been in
many years. It sells for $1 40 to SI. 50
and a meal still higher. But meats
are ceded at a little) lower price than
the average last year. Garden seed
is too high. Raise your own garden
seed this year.
One thing Hoke county is behind
in, and that is telephone and tele
graph connection with the outside
world. Every dweller in Hoke should
have telephone connect 'on. That
would save gas. Folks could get a
hurry call to the doctor. It would be
a great improvement over present
conditions.
It is being said 40 per cen of the
peach crop remains. I doubt that.
Many of the peaches the frost did
not kill outright, will fall off before
j they mature. Apples will make a
' good crop, unless something happens
after this. Ha lstorms and other
j mishaps may kill some of them.
Grapes are the. surest fruit crop.
Fruit is a great luxury that nature
I provides. But for some years there
have been but few huckleberries of
fered on the local market. There Is
; no better pie than huckieoerry pie.
. Some spell this fruit Whortlebery,
I but I know what you mean when you
j say huckleberry.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the
press, freedom of worship. Men are
being shot by the hundreds daily be-
i I would be delighted if our people
I (Continued cn page eight
OUR DEMOCRACY-
by Mat j
Thomas Alva Edison
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INVENTOR.- SCIENTIST.
During so ycaas op work he helpeo to give
ELECTRIC LIGHT, ELECTRIC POWER.,
THE PHONOGRAPH , THE MOTION PICTURE
S CCHTD WTH MORe. THAU OOO PATENTS.
Edison's advice to his fellow Americans was t
courageous.
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