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i r . 5 '-Jf^ ^ P-i^V " f^4, - n^l;? F^;; ^_«j5,'. |:ss ip-i- ffSi’’ Mt" mm !»/;■ Published Every Thursday at Raeford, N. C. Subscription Rates..._.._ $2.06 per year in advance PAUL DICKSON Editor and Publisher Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Raeford, N: C., under the Act of March 3, 1870. A Step Backward For North Carolina An undeniabl\" great step forward in highway safety was taken by the State of North Carolina when the legislature be gan the motor vehicle inspection program, the financial re sponsibility program for drivers and the compulsory periodic renewal of driving licenses. Now, having taken those three steps forward to save our lives and our children’s lives, we are apparently about to do like the frog in the well and fall back one. It looks like the legislature intends to do away with the mechanical inspection program. This program is admittedly a lot of trouble to all of us. It takes $2.00 and perhaps four of five hours a year for each vehicle owner. If it takes more time or money it’s because the car isn’t safe. There’s not one of us in North Carolina who can say that the mechanical inspection program hasn’t saved our own life. But, we’ll take the chance—$2.00 and four or five hours a year is just too much trouble for life insiurance, and we’ve got plenty of kids anywiay. ' 0 The Minimum Wage Problem The great increase in living costs has created an under standable demand for an increase in the minimum wage. However, we should realize the dangers that would result if the minimum wage were raised to too high a level. li The minimum wage is precisely what the name implies. It is the bare minimum on which a worker can maintain him- selt It is not supposed to provide for even the simplest lux uries. It is, in other words, the wage paid to a very small mi nority of workers who are completely inexperienced, are learners, or are congenitally incompetent and unambitious, cannot develop even minor skills. It is designed to protect tl^ class^^l workers from JBmployer exploitation, and ttiat isalL ' Raleigh Roundup , ■ . " t - By Eula Nixon Greenwood ALL IN VAIN — The dry forces swept into Raleigh last week from throughout the State, virtually filled cavernous Memorial Audi torium here, and made one of their best presentations in years. County .after county i.s going bone- dry, legally, and other counties are planning beer and wine elec tions. The people seem to be get ting pretty warm about their in- afbility to obtain a Statewide re ferendum on alcohol. Well, they might as well forget Raleigh and go ahead with coun- ty-to-county plan. Unless all signs fail, the Legislature is going to do exactly nothing to dry up the ABC counties and cities dur ing this session. If the Allied Church League folks knew as much about the present voting machinery of the House as they do about the evils of alcohol, they would not be wasting their gasoline, their breath, and their time in Raleigh cavort’ihgs. But the vote is coming one of these days, and the Legislature was impressed with the biggest hearing held this session. platform of new taxes, they want to stick with the budget recom mendations and go home as soon as possible. PRECEDENT — The Legislature, which has looked on while Gov ernor Kerr Scott has been doing new things, pulled an eyebrow- raiser of its own last Friday. Scott had said he would talk to a joint session of the General As sembly on the liquor referendum “if invited”. The invitation was presented to the House, Prior to Friday, these “invitations” had been merely a matter of form and always received a unanimously favorable vote. But there was a chorus of negative voices in the Scott liquor referendum invita tion. Oldtimers here cannot re call when this has happened be fore. So, Governor Scott breaks yet another record. NO SURPLUS — People through out the State are still talking a- bout that “surplus in Raleigh.” Put this down as a fact; There is no surplus in Raleigh. There was a surplus last summer. The Ad visory Budget Commission had on one hand this surplus and it dipped into j the future and tried to guess what the State’s in come is going to be from July 1, 194'9 through June 30, 1951. So, taking the surplus and the ex pected income, it sat for several weeks and then laid dow nrecom- mendations as to where the sur plus and the expected income will be used. Thus, all the surplus and the expected income have been allocated. If you. dear reader, want new services, you will have to pay for them with new taxes or with bond issues. There is no surplus in Raleigh. And, when you go a- round talking about a surplus, you are merely blowing pretty bubbles in the air. LECTURER DR. LUTHER GABLE An R« Ei* Any worker, with a bare minimum of aptitude, and a de- s^e to get ahead, soon passes out of the minimum wage brac ket. He is given higher pay for the sound reason that he is worth more, can do more things, can produce more. ' It has been argued that a relatively high minimum wage would make little difference because it would affect compar atively few people. But past experience indicates that this theory just doesn’t work out in practice. For example, when minimum pay is raised, the unskilled worker may receive nearly as much as a skilled worker. The latter naturally be comes dissatisfied, and demands m^re for himself. So it goes, all the way up the line of job classifications and pay scales Inflation gets another big boost forwiard. # A high minimum wage could lessen opportunity for begin ners, for the reason that industry would have to hold costs down by employing as few of them as possible. This is clearly a case where we should move carefully, and only after ex haustive analysis of all the potentialities. ***** * ****** nn inioui Buu PBKNiHniPEMt ******** * * * * * * COOPERATIVES — A subcom mittee of the two Finance Com mittees has been appointed to look into the matter of putting a tax on cooperatives similar to that collected from corporations. The Department of Tax Research has made a thorough study of co operatives — as instructed to do — during the past two years. Its opinion is that a tax on coopera tives would not yield over $50,- 000 per year in revenue to the State. However, it is apparent that cooperatives do not want any new form' of taxation what ever. Willard L. Dowell, execu tive vice president and secretary of the N. C. Merchants Associa- hon and a constant thorn in the flesh of the co-ops. pointed out in a private hearing before the sub-committee last week that his organization has no fight what ever with marketing cooperatives or with any cooperative which is not 'selling merchandise in com petition with regular merchants. The merchants merely want those cooperatives which sell the type of merchandise the mer chants sell to pay the same taxes they are paying. They want that and nothing more. , ,If the cooperative leaders were smart,' they would submit to in fact, request that a tax be plac ed on them. It would not cost them over $50,000. This would be an excellent public relations move. It would to a great extent remove the shroud ot suspicion which now lies over the cooperatives. If this is not done, the controversy will continue through this Legislature and into succeeding Legislatures. NOTES *— Nell Battle Lewis, who became an associate editor of the “Raleigh Times” here last spring, is ailing, has spent some time in the hospital, and is planning to return to the hospital. Her name is no longer listed as associate editor of Raleigh’s afternoon newspaper. Frank Daniels, manager of the News and Obesrver, was back in the hospital last week with sto mach trouble. Physicians report edly do not know exactly what is wrong with Daniels, who looks as strong as a bull, but they are giving his intestines a genuine going-over. Wilkins P. Horton of Pittsboib, big wheel in North Carolina poli tics for the past 15 years, still wants to be Governor. He is tell ing friends in the Legislature that he is a candidate for 1052. Orve of Governor Kerr Scott’s main advisors is. University of North Carolina President Frank P. Graham. Another is Harry Caldwell, Ohio native and mas ter of the State Grange. They are saying Caldwell has his eye on the Governor’s office next time around. , Congressman Monroe Redden of Hendersonville, close friend of Senator J. M. Broiighton, is re ceiving a terrific buildup in his plans to run against Senator Clyde R. Hoey. 0 North Carolina’s 1949 allotment for Irish potatoes is 20,500 acres. ■Beaufort, with 3,332.5 acres; has the largest county allotment. Dr. Luther Gable, noted uran ium-radium physicist will be spotnsored by the student mathe matics club of Flora Macdonald college on Wednesday evening, March 2, at 8:15, when he wiU give a lecture-demonstration mi “Atomic Energy - Radar and Tel evision in Peace”, in the college auditorium. This versatile scientist offers an entertaining and prophetic lecture-demonstration on TAK ING ATOM BOMBS FOR PEACE. This will be done In darkness bx aid of the mysterious Black-Light and whirling symbols in vivid fluorescent color. UOKi ABOUT Red Cross Aridiia: Mrs. Ruth Bristow, librs. W. S. Crawley, Mrs. Clifford Bos tic, Mrs. J. A. Jones. t Rockfisih: Mrs. T. C. Jones, Mrs. Allen Wood, Clarence Koonce Wayside: John Parker, Richard Nealey, L. H. Koonce, IV&s. Mar shall Newton, Mrs. Alton Potter, Mrs. D. K. Parker, Mrs. W. M. Monroe. Raedeen: T. D. Potter, Jack Hol land, Cliff Conoly, Miss -Lucille McLeod, Mrs. Irene Thrower. .'.Sirv Town of Ra^ord, f Northeast, Section^ ISrs. Harry Green; North- ^ west Section: M):s. Younger Snead, Mrs. J. L. McNdill, Nhrs. LeWis Updiurch, Mrs. MSreus Smith; Southeast Section: Mrs.* Marion Gatlin; Southwest Section: Mrs., Robert Gatlin; White-Tex Section: Paul Long, Chm. . Mill CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends for their kindness during the sickness and death of our baby. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Davis. Farm Notes Farm milk. production in J1948 was 1*16.2 billion pounds, com pared with 119.4 billion the year before and an average of 104 bil lion during the period 1985-39. The continued decline in the number of dairy cows on farms was only partly offset by the hih- er milk yield per cow. The average American last year ate 21'5 pounds of fruit, both fresh and processed. This was a decline of 10 pounds from 1947. The calendar year 1948 was the first full year since 1942 in which sugar was neither under price control nor distributed in the United States imder the point rationing system. Total civilian consumption was about seven mil lion tons - a new record. , Sodium flouride is i.yaluable for the control of large round- worms in swine. Shell color has no relation whatever to the interior quality of eggs. Young chickens top the list of foods expected to be plentiful throughout North Carolina during March. ' The North Caolina Crop Im provement Association has ap proved 7,463. bushels of sweet potatoes for seed certification. Several Warren County Negro farmers have decided to enter the beef cattle business, says Negro County Agent C. S. Wynn. All of these men have laid the foun dation for this enterprise by build ing up permanent pastures. Dollar Days SERVICE SPECIALS Take advantage of this offer, and get your car ready for better driving! Lnliricate Chassis Wash Car Only $1.00 A complete motor tune-up for your Chevrolet Only $1.00 (Parts extra if required) HOKE AUTO COMPANY Service Phone 230-1 — Sales Raeford, N. C. USED WANTED Poultry and Eggs At The Depot * In Raeford 12 Noon to 2 P. M. Tuesday, March 1 HIGHEST MARKET PRICES PAID BRING ALL YOU HAVE TO SELL t. Southern Penitry Exchange Sanford, N. C. MORE TAXES — Larry Moore of Wilson and Grady Rankin of Gastonia, chairmen of the House and Senate Finance Committees, said last week their groups are waiting for Governor Scott to send forth bills to increase taxes with which to carry out his “go forward” program. On Friday af ternoon, Governor Scott said it is up to the legislators to draw up the tax bills However, they feel this way about it: The Advisory Budget filed a balanced budget with the Cen tral Assembly calling for a 20 per cent increase in salaries for all personnel, including school teachers. This is all the increase which can be had from funds on hand and revenue expected to come into the State Treasury within the next two years. Any further increases will have to come from new taxes. Since not one member of the, Legislature was elected on a With An OK that Counts We Buy - Sell - Trade - Easy Terms - 12 - 15 - 18 Months To Pay ‘ ' a Dave^s Used Cars ] In Front of Courthouse *r Raeford, N. C. Open Evenings Until 8 O'clock ■M- y:’
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