THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
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Elkin, N. C.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935
Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as
seoond-class matter.
a S. FOSTER- .. President
EL F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer
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Loss of words, physicians say is caused by
an insufficient blood supply in the brain. When
an after-dinner speaker gets out of anything to
say, we presume it would be a good idea to stand
on his head.
In Other States
In the recent Democratic primary in Ken
tucky, the candidate for the governorship who
opposed the sales tax in a campaign that stressed
this measure as an issue, a levy that had been
clamped down by a governor-controlled legisla
ture, won over his opponent by a twenty-five
thousand majority.
In New Jersey, where the sales tax had been
employed as a source of revenue for meeting re
lief costs, the result of the primaries in the nom
ination of the legislative candidates, brings a
majority of legislators to the next general as
sembly who are opposed to this method of rais
ing money to provide for relief.
In both states the governors were strong
for the tax on the ground that the state needs
the revenue, and the sales tax offers a conven
ient way of getting it. In both states, too, it was
held that every other source of revenue was ster
ile, that the money could not be obtained in any
other way except through a sales levy. But the
citizens of both states evidently thought other
wise.
The results in New Jersey and Kentucky will
be interesting to North Carolina politicians, and
encouraging to sales-tax opponents in this state,
in view of the fact that this same issue will be
involved in the gubernatorial race. Dr. Ralph Mc-
Donald is an avowed opponent to the sales tax,
and as a member of the legislature fought its re
adoption, and pointed to sources of revenue to
take its place. More accurately than the Raleigh
tax-gathering experts he foretold the volume of
the state's income, and declared that the budget
could be met without the sales levy. But the
cards were stacked against him, and he didn't
have a chance from the beginning. His opponents
in the race are elusive in their pronouncements,
blowing both hot and cold on this issue, and not
until after the primary ballots have been counted
will it be known how the voters stand.
Juvenile Responsibility
Sheriff Weathersby, of Wilson county, sug
gests that the counties of the state combine and
organize district homes for delinquent children,
where they may be sent instead of paroling them
in the custody of just any one.
"The juvenile courts of the state," says
Sheriff Weathersby, "parole out to farmers and
others the children which come before them, for
correction, because of the fact that the state
homes are already overcrowded. Many times
the people who are asked to take the children by
the court, or who ask for them, are not suitable
persons. There ought to be a place where the
children can be educated and taken care of so
that in later life they will make good citizens."
It is not a common practice in this county to
parole out delinquent children to individual fam
ilies, nor is it a commendable act for any county.
Doubtless in some instances the youngster would
be hedged about with good influences that would
tend to wean him away from badness and that
would build character in him, but these would
be the exception rather than the rule. Nor is
this a reflection on the part of those who willing
ly would help in this way. It is because in these
homes the boy or girl is not impressed with the
authority of the law, and their criminal impulses
are not subject to comprehensive methods of re
straint and correction.
The state owes it to the . delinquent youth
within its borders to segregate them away from
the hardened criminals, and give them another
chance; to train them not only to respect the law,
but to respect themselves, and thus aid them to
become good and useful citizens. The state rec
ognizes the principle of this responsibility, but is
meeting it in a most niggardly fashion.
We have our "training schools" for these
youths who offend against the law and these in
stitutions are doing highly efficient work with
the youngsters put in their care. But they are
over-crowded* and undermanned and the proper
equipment is not provided for handling the in
creased and increasing number of young peoole
who stray away from the narrow path. And you
hear little from political candidates promising a
correction of this abuse.
We have been active in securing appropria
tions for swimming pools and recreation parks
and cemetery walls and athletic fields, and in the
name of the unemployed the federal government
has been lavish in these things, but North Car
olina, needing badly these improvements at the
training schools for youth, has taken no step for
their relief.
While the state is making ups its ponderous
mind to do something to correct tVs fault, it
would be fine if the counties, individually or
jointly, would establish their own institutions.
There is enough at stake in the future to justify
such action.
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Purposes of the Patrol j
Human nature being what it is, North Car
olina's newly enlarged highway patrol can best
servg its purpose courting the co-operation of the
motorist, rather than by purposely leaving the
bars down to invite antagonism and spitefulness
into the pasture. Which is not to say that the
I patrolmen should bow to traffic violators in any
I sense of the word, but they and their hetman can
be firm and hard-boiled and determined enforce
ment officials without going out of their way to
invite unpopularity.
Hie patrol has been enlarged, at consider
able increased expense to the state, for the pur
post of making the highways safer for all motor
ists. In this objective the patrolmen will want
and need the sympathetic support of the driving
public. The recent instructions from Raleigh to
arrest all drivers of cars with faulty lights, and
those without their registration cards, regardless
of the circumstances, had so much of the possi
bility of injustice in them, that there was criti
cism instead of condemnation, even from those
who have been clamoring for strict enforcement
of the traffic laws.
The fact that a light can be jolted out with
out the driver knowing it would seem to justify a
"first offense" consideration rather than the
summary punishment by fine, for after all the
"intent" to! violate should have weight in deter
mining the punishment for violating. And if the
driver actually has his registration card at home
in his vest pocket, he should not arbitrarily I be
made to ante up a heavy fine, because he forgets
to change the card with his clothing.,
Captain Farmer can well afford to keep his
men to their purpose—to keep them on the high
ways to which they are assigned. The Raleigh
News and Observer points to a deviation from
this objective in this way: "once more the state
highway patrol, now much enlarged, is upon the
dangerous detour of intervention in an industrial
dispute. Technically in forming a cordon around
the Mooresville Cotton Mills where a strike is in
progress, is on safe enough grounds as the patrol
is said to be engaged in the business of keeping
the road before the mill open to traffic. Ac
tually, as everyone knows, the duty it has as
sumed about the mill has more to do with strik
ers than automobiles.
In the paramount task of creating safety on
the highways, those in authority over the patrol
men should realize that they need the good will
of all North Carolinians; a consideration that will
not be forthcoming if they are ordered to do po
lice duty along industrial avenues that are not a
part of the highway system.
There is much criticism for the patrol be
, cause it is frequently used as an "escort'" for fu
nerals or individuals. This criticism is unjusti
■ fied, in the main. If danger is greatest where
traffic is heaviest, then the presence of patrol
. men along the course of the funeral procession is
not only desirable but necessary, and we cannot
join the chant- of censure because Captain Farm
er elects to place them there.
North Carolina will be expecting much of its
highway patrol. Maybe the people of the state
will be expecting too much, but those in author
ity will be judged, as to their generalship, by the
manner in which the patrolmen are kept to their
job, not forgetting that a co-operating "public can
best be maintained through consideration and
courtesy that in nowise nullifies the intents and
purposes of the law.
Two Ways To the Same End
Farmer Jones, by frugality and hard work
has accumulated a good many acres of land, his
rights to which have been properly established.
In the course of the years he has also accumulated
a large family, most of his offspring being boys.
These young men have come to know much about
the ways of the soil, probably to the extent that
they would be a misfit in r.ny activity other than
agriculture.
Farmer Jones, eager that his boys have a
place of their own, yet with insufficient acreage
to portion off adequate plats for each as he mar
ries off, seeks to add to his boundaries. He is
willing to go in debt, if needs be to become the
owner of the two-hundred acre tract across the
creek, so he approaches his neighbor for a trade,
and if he finds it is not for sale he looks around
for other desirable property. If he can't buy, he
simply advises the boys to seek other channels for
their future activities.
The point is that Farmer Jones doesn't
shoulder a gun, doesn't stake off as his own a
boundary of his neighbor's property and dare the
owner to interfere. If he did the whole Jones
family would forfeit the fellowship and good will
of the neighborhood.
Benito Mussolini could well follow the Jones
plan. v In the past decade he has discouraged
birth control by offering bonuses for babies, and
as a consequence his national family is increased
and increasing. He wants a place in the sun for
his nationals, and employs cave-man metffods to
get it.
Theoretically nations are supposed to abide
by rules and regulations arrived at jointly with
other nations, just as individuals surrender some
liberties in exchange for others as provided by
society and economic laws. But nations, some
of them, insist on being a law unto themselves.
They grab what they think they are strong
enough to hold.
How less costly in the end it would be for
Italy to get by barter and purchase what she pro
poses to obtain by force; less costly in dollars and
cents to say nothing of the misery and death that
will come with conflict. If Italy needs room for
expansion, the League of Nations is more or less
familiar with real estate conditions, and could
save her dictator some money by shopping around
among the big colonial hplders for a desirable
slice to add to his empire.
Wouldn't it be fine if nations could subject
themselves to the same principle of law under
which the individual must operate, whether he
likes it or not.
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production of about $20,000,000 an
nually is more than 60 per cent of
the world's naval stores output.
Duck hunters shot so much lead
into several Minnesota lakes that
ducks frequenting these waters got
lead poisoning.
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RICH MEN PLANNED
TO USE HUEY LONG
Offered Financial Back
ing To Oppose Presi
dent Roosevelt
Washington.—lnterests seeking to
block President Roosevelt's re-elec
tion offered to finance Huey P.
Long with at least $5,000,000 In a
third-party movement next year, it
was revealed today.
Prom sources here and In Louisi
ana a story of midnight conferences
in New York, secretive conclaves
over campaign strategy and promises
of adequate financial support was
pieced together.
The plan, nurtured in the months
preceding Long's assassination, died
with the senator.
The extent to which it would have
changed the American political silu-
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ation in 1836 will, of course, never
be known.
Last spring and during the sum
mer Long spent frequeqyent inter
•vale in New York. The ostensible
reason for the visits was to work in
seclusion on writings based on his
imagined occupancy of the White
House. On the occasion he delighted
New York by showing how to make
gin fizzes in the New Orleans man
ner.
But there was a serious phase to
the trips which has not hitherto
been revealed.
Long was approached early in the
spring by a man claiming to repre
sent "business interests." The visi
tor asserted that he could guarantee
adequate financial backing for the
presidential race.
Long refused to talk to the inter
mediary. The lack of apparent in
terest seemed to excite greater ac
tivity among those who wanted
Long's co-operation.
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