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The Madison Messenger T. J. ROBERTSON, Editor aad Owmt Subscription: $1.50 Per Year MADISON, N. C., MAY 5, 1932 It is generally understood that all of Rock ingham county office-holders are standing for re-election, but only has come out in the open. , A broker declares that religion is needed in Wall Street. Just so—but put religion in Wall' Street and there -Will no longer be a Wall | Street, as we know it. One month from Saturday until the State Primary. The various candidates will now be gin to use their big guns in the battle for bal lots. The skirmishing is about over. Howev er, locally, the aspirants are rather slow in de claring themselves. Well* it begins to look like Garner is assum ing the proportions of a real contender in the fight for the nomination for President, though he has not as yet expressed himself as being a candidate. He secured more delegates in Cali fornia Tuesday than did either Roosevelt or Smith. Some door-to-door salesmen seem to have an idea housewives must buy from them, refusal is an insult. It is always safer to buy from local stores where exchanges of unsatisfactory goods may be made. The man who sells you something at the door today, by tomorrow is in some other town far away—the farther the bet ter for him, often. Those fellows who want to begin work earl ier and quit earlier could simplify matters con siderably by doing so without changing the watches and clocks. Let the standard time con tinue in vogue and instead of adopting the day light time, begin work one hour earlier and quit one hour earlier. Why create all the confus ion, Take Raleigh, for instance—they have at present two standard times in that city. AH this could be eliminated. It becomes more and more apparent, as the days go by and as the time approaches for hold ing the National Democratic convention, that A1 Smith and John J. Raskob are determined to wreck the Democratic party unless they can have their way and dictate the policy of the party. And it is high time for the great Dem ocratic party to demonstrate to the world that it is larger and mightier than any one man or any two men. The sooner the party demon strates this the better off it will be. The railroads are the biggest assets to our country. We must get together and patronize them if we are to save them—and ourselves, j Call us old-fashioned if you wish but we main tain that the country needs a transportation system that is on the job every day in the .year —not nice weather systems. The country needs the railroads which maintain their own road beds, employ the best paid army of men in the country and pay huge taxes into the treasury of every county and State they pass through. Just how that Honolula jury could render a verdict of guilt against Lieut. Massie and the others is rather strange to us on this side of the hemisphere. The man killed by Massie admitted that he had assisted in assaulting the wife of Massie. In this country Massie would have been acquitted on the first ballot, as he should have been. It was a dastardly crime. It is said that the members of the jury are not altogether safe, even in Honolula. Just how seven red-blooded Americans, who were mem bers of the jury, could have “come over” to the. five mix-blooded members is beyond our con ception. It was thought that the special term of civil court would have a tendency to clear up the docket, but—virtually nothing was done along that line and the docket remains about two years behind time. A two weeks term and from what we can understand, all the work accom plished could have been done in two or three days. But, it must be remembered that the presiding judge was sick a greater part of the time, and finally had to adjourn court. Howev er, that is not helping the taxpayers of Rock ingham, though we all regret the illness of the jurist. What gets our goat is that when it is not one thing it is another when civil courts are held in Rockingham. SAVE THE CHILDREN A cablegram just received from Geneva, Switzerland, to the recently organized Save The Child Fund of America, whose headquart ers are 166 Fifth Avenue, New York City, con veys the news that the organization has been unanimously accepted as the American member of the Save The Child International Union, j whose headquarters are at Geneva, and which j is closely affiliated with the League of Nations. The object of the American organization is similar to that of the International one—name ly, the welfare of the underprivileged children of all countries. It has taken as its first cause the plight of unemployed miners’ children in West Virginia, Kentucky and Southern Illin ois, where the depression of the soft coal in dustry has brought about a pitiable condition of famine. The Save The Children International Union was organized just after the close of the world war by Red Cross officials, .combining with a Swiss and an English welfare organization, the first objective being the relief of children in the war-devasted countries of central Europe. The Union’s declaration of the rights of the child, popularly knows as the Declaration of Geneva, has been officially approved by the League of Nations, and signed by a representa- j tive of forty-nine nations, including King Boris of Bulgaria. In Hungary, it was formally sign ed in the Parliament House by the Cardinal Archbishop, by Archduke Albrecht, the Prime Minister, and other statesmen. It is the only non-official single document bearing the signa tures of the Premiers of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Newfoundland. Still more remarkable is the fact that this declaration has been written into the Constitution of the new Spanish Republic as Article XLI. The. American organization has its director, Dr. Jo*n R. Voris. long associated with the Near East Relief. Among members of the Committee sponsoring the appeal for the min ers’ children are Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House, Chicago, Dr. Albert Shaw, Editor of the Review of Reviews, ex-president John Grier Hibben of Princeton. Honorable Josephus Dan iels, Episcopal Bishops Freeman of Washing ton and Sherill of Boston, Methodist Bishop 5ftDowel! of Washington, President William J. Hutchins of Berea College, and other well known men and women. THE HIGH COST OF TAXATION From all over the country we read and hear reports of a rising tide of protest against the high cost of government. National, state, coun ty, school and local taxes have grown in the past ten years until the combined burden is more than most taxpayers can bear even in normal times and in these times of reduced in comes and poor business the tax has become in tolerable. Congress is trying to “balance the budget’’ by imposing more and higher taxes. Doubtless there will be some show of reducing govern ment expenditures, but so far we have heard very little about those. It seems to us that should be the first point at attack, not the last. This country got along very well for a hundred years and more without trying to regulate ev erybody’s business and teach everybody how to live. We think there are. hundreds of millions of dollars literally wasted every year on feder al bureaus which never would be missed if they were abolished entirely. What the country needs right now is to cut all government squarely in half—federal, state County and local. That might cause some temp orary embarrassment, but it would be only temporary. Relieved from half of the tax burden, property of all kinds would earn more for its owners, capital would be freer to go into productive enterprises, men and women would, get their jobs back, prosperity would return speedily. We would like to see some real leader arise who would adopt for his political slogan: “Cut taxes in half!” He could be elected to any office to which he might aspire, in the present temper of the American people. “SPRUCING UP” MADISON There is a commendable spirit of beautify ing Madison that is being manifested on all sides, by inhabitants this' spring. Premises are i being cleaned up and a lot of labor is already j being expended in improving the appearance of hundreds of properties. There is a glaring need on all sides for new paint to freshen up hundreds of homes. Prob- j ably it is out of the question to expect a large proportion of the homes to be painted this spiing, but there should at least be a noticeable proportion, and .that will help a great deal. Keep on cleaning up your premises, planting trees, shrubbery, dowers, etc. We can’t make Madison too attractive. We can’t make it too clean and appealing. Those of you who haven’t done anything yet towards cleaning up your premises, get in that line. Let’s make this a hundred per cent job. And we’ll all be the better for it. It will even improve the morale of the town. Keep the good work up. CREDIT EXPANSION Millions of Americans seriously need money now more than at any time since 1921. Strange ly, this need exists in a country which actual ly has more money than it had before depres sion came. Strangely, also, the demand for cur rency is steadily decreasing while the public need of it is steadily increasing. More currency is theoretically in circulation now than in 1929 because the fall in commodity prices has in creased the dollar’s value. In other words, a dollar buys much more now than in 1929. Ac cordingly, those who have dollars need fewer of them to purchase necessities. The money theoretically in circulation, however, is not all actually in public circulation. It is practically hoarded beyond public reach because credit is restricted. The banks, fearing run, cut down on credit. . Inevitably, of course, some of the money this kept from the public graviated back to the federal reserve. The federal reserve sys tem established to stabalize national finances, became a gigantic hoarder. Now the federal reserve board is trying to break the vicious circle. It is trying to con tribute to the thawing of credit by releasing some of its supply of currency. LETTERS TO GEORGE (Being Excerpts From The Private Correspondence of Henry Hardcastle). D§ar George: Last Sunday morning"’! was awakened as usual by the pair of robins nesting in the scar red pine abcA’e the well. After the refreshing rain of the night before they were pouring forth a golden throated paen of joy to the rising sun. The cardinals, the thrushes, and the cat birds, were gatherin gin thebushes above the garden for a few min utes of song* before tackling the more serious problems of life, and helping me control the worms and bugs that are pres ent in the greatest quantities 1 have ever seen for the time of year. Suddenly papa robin’s worn ing shrieks began to sound from tbe grass plot next to the chick en" lot. He was immediately joined by the scolding cat birds, and the thrushes with their sub dued warning cries. Soon ev ery robin in the country seem ed to be shrieking and scolding, and even before I drew on my trousers and slippers and sall ied forth I knew from the bird’s manner that they had discover e da snake in the grass. Af ter seeing the execution prop erly performed they scattered] their various ways. / Shortly thereafter came a hnan to my well, and as he fill ed his bucket he asked me if I had heard about the murder the night before? And he told me how two men had driven up to Mr. Carter’s store, just north of the forks of the hard surface and old Leaksville- Reidsville Wentworth roads, called Mr. i alter to tne aoor ana nrea seven bullet through his body. Others came by, and we fell to talking. Murder is committed for one or two reasons. For greed or personal benefit, or for hate set on revenge. 9:30 of a Saturday night, on a much trav eled highway, would hardly have been an opportune time to hold up a plan little country grocery store. Just ordinary robbers would hardly have tar ried long enough to fire seven bullets from tvvo different pis tols through the side, back, and1 chest of their victim—-would hardly have waited to shoot in to hi maS he lay on the floor— would hardly have been well dress and driving a high-power ed, well kept car. So we dis card the theory of robbery. Mr. Carter, was an honest, God fearing, well meaning, and popular citizen. He was not known to have any enemies, tho it is said he was much op posed to bootleg traffic and i^ kindred nuisance, and itds pdfl sible he may have iucurMafl enmity of some of this frat^P nity. Two lines of thought are left to account for this murder. It may have been a case of mis taken identity, or it was delib erately planned and executed to get him out of the way. A sift ing of the apparent evidence would trend to convince that there could not have been a mistake in identity., The route of the murder car shows-that the murderers were famility with by-roads of this section, they therefore must have been somewhat familiar with the habitations and the people of this section. It won’t be long now, said one substantial citizen, until we have to organize our own protection for law and order. The people have become so in timated by the lawless doings, and the parties who back such things, that thev are afraid to speak above a whisper, afraid to notify the sheriff of any case of violation, afraid that if their names become connected with any law enforcement they may be made to suffer for it by that rutheless element who are climb ing above and bey.ond the law and the courts and thumbing their fingers at justice. Into what are we raising our chil dren, said another, as he paced the grass in worried reflection. What can we expect when our very ministers of the gospel have lawyers leading in prayer and ' teaching Sunday school classes on Sunday, while on Monday morning they go into court and plead for incorribi ble bootleggers, thieves, and murderers. But, said another, the law yers take an oath to defend all cases that equal justice may be done to all! Yes, said the first, but why does the bootlegger sell his poison, the thief steal, and the murderer kill? They do these things for personal gain, to make money. Why does the lawyer defend them? Would he do it without pay? Until no self respecting lawyer of good standing in his community will take a known bootlegger’s case, until these lawyers cease to try to cast every atom of slurr and intimation of corruption and rottenness and tying within their power on the officers who are the prosecuting witness in cases of violation of the law by their clients—until the popular opinion of substantial citizen* bring this to pass, and not until the, will we have respect for law and order. Opinions vary. Such has come to pass in this home of the free and land of thb brave that are afraid to even voice an opinion. The more mature in judgment hesitate to hold opinions which seem to them insistent, yet they would not willingly take the chance lo cast suspicion on any innocent JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER -BY CARL GOERCH I used to wonder why they called them “buffet luncheons”', but I’m not wondering any longer. * I discovered the an swer over in Edenton last week. You should have been there. They celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independ ence by Joseph Hewes, who was a citizen of Edenton. There were all sorts of speeches, pageants and politicians in evi dence. After the speaking, they serv ed a buffet luncheon to the hon or guests. I’ve just looked up the word in the dictionary. “Buffet—An adverse action; to jar, strike or affect with a blow;an affliction; an adversity.” As I _ypas saying they served a buffet* luncheon. Charming young ladies, attir ed in Colonial costumes, squirm ed through the crowd, carrying well-filled plates. Squirming through a crowd with a well filled plate in either hand is an art. Those ladies had it down to perfection. The plates contained a liber al quantity of chicken salad, country ham, pickles, rolls, cake and a cup of coffee. One of them handed me a plate, fof which I was deeply grateful, as I had had an early breakfast. Somebody collided with me from behind and a.lib eral portion of the coffee slosh ed out of the cup and mingled with the chicken salad and the pickles. I turned around some what hastily and, in so doing, struck the elbow of a neighbor ing gentleman who was engag ed in carting a large spoonful of the chicken salad to his mouth. He missed it, and it plopped to the floor. In bend ing over, his head struck the plate carried by a very stout lady, and there was more sloshing of coffee. She, in turn, backed up rather suddenly, and something happened to the tall gentleman behind her. I could not see what it was, but I heard him exclaiming about some thing. Perhaps the coffee had spilled on his vest. From then on the buffeting started in earnest. I buffet you; you buffet me. Charlie would see Sammv across the room and would yoo-hoo excitedly as he started over to shake hands. Some expert buffeting would be done on the way. A group would in the middle of the d, almMt before you “Vladipar flickowales be buffeting like; 'gainst tne rocky coast tne. I don’t know who started the buffet-lunch idea, but it’s a bear cat. The ordinary meal is more or less uninteresting, but there never is anything unin teresting about a buffet lunch eon. After half of my cup of coffee had been buffeted on the floor, on my clothes ond on the clothes of other folks, another of the charming young ladies in Colonial costume asked me if I wanted some mdre coffee. I told her that I didn’t want any more coffee, but she insisted that I had to take some more coffee, so I got some more coffee. And inside of two shakes of a lamb’s tale — well, anyway, three shakes—-it had been buffeted out again. It was 156 years ago that Thomas Hewes signed the Dec laration of Independence. May be, 156 years from now, they‘11 be having a celebration in my honor as one of the greatest buffetees that ever has been buffeted at a buffet-luncheon. Personally, I think it’s much more of a task to undergo the trials Of a buffet-luncheon than it is to sign a piece of paper. Will Open Tomorrow As will he seen elsewhere in this issue, Jones lc to $5 Store will open in the morning at 9 o’clock. The force is now busk 1 y engaged in making up goods and getting ready for this event. N. A. Mitchell will have charge of the business at this place and we extend him a most hearty welcome. The best way to dispose of surplus seed soybeans is to make up a cooperative carlojt? shipment,find growers of Tyrell county who recently made such a shipment at a profit above lo cal price. Read The Messenger ads and buy it at home. party or cause. In the mean time the finger of criticism is slowly oscillating, stained red with life blood from the brutal murder of a valuable and inno cent citizen, and many claim that within its orbit stands many who’s duty is inforcement of the law. Until the murder ers of Mr. Carter are appre hended and punished, until this crime ^against the community life, this gory splotch upon the fair name of Rockingham coun ty, is erased—that finger will continue to point 1 May God grant that no innocent citizen fall within its way. Regards to Evelyn. Sincerely, fUSNRY HARDCASTLE. MOTHER'S DAY SUNDAY, MAY 8TH SUGGESLIONS FOR USEFUL GIFTS: * Pretty fast colored cotton Spreads, scalloped edges. 84x1 08, double bed size, and 72x108, single bed size. 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Niswonger, extension horticulturist at State College, predicts a 25 per cent crop. He has recently been working with the apple growers in the Brushy Mountain section and in the Henderson county area. One of the most productive orchards in Wilkes county, which has not missed a crop in 17 years, has only a few scattering fruit buds. The Limbertwig variety is one of the most popular ap ples in the section and always blooms heavily. Yet many lim bertwigs are showing not a sin gle blossom this season. Mr. Niswonger attributes the heavy yields for two years coupled with the unfavorable growing conditions as the reason for this condition. The trees are weakened, he says. In Henderson county, howev er, the extremely cold weather of late spring following the warm February weather seems to have caused the damage. There is also a shortage of blossom buds due to same con ditions as exist in the Brushy Mountain area. However, the cold weather caused heavy dam age to the trees. Some of the young trees have been frozen in the trunk area about two feet above the ground. On some of these trees the bark may be peeled off by hand and others show a blackened sap wood as well as bark. The Rome Beau tys appear to be principally af fected. Old trees show some symp toms of winter killing. They are slow in leafing out and the new leaves have a reddish green appearance. Some Grimes Golden trees 15 years old have been killed. The shot hole borer is ap pearing in some orchards where the tree trunks were apparent ly frozen, Mr. Niswonger says. Read The Messenger ads and buy it at home. Lemon Pie Different from any you ever tasted. 3 eggs I 1 cup of sugar 1 lemon (juice) Method: Separate eggs. Beat egg yolks. Add sugar. Then put juice of 1 lemon in saucepan. Boil well. Slowly add whites— beaten stiff. Then pour into baked pastry shell. You can hold out enough white of egg just to dot top of pie artistical ly. . Baked Calves Hearts 4 hearts Stuffing 1-2 loaf bread, broken into pieces 1 onion cut up Seasoning Pour a little foiling water ov er mixture. Mix well. Method: Wash hearts well. Remove fibrous tissues. Fill with dressing. Salt. Roll in flour and sear. Add salt, pepper and butter, and bake 2 or 3 hours. Baste frequently. The first chain store was founded by a tea company, 1858. SPECIAL! Pickwick Theatre If 5 MAYODAN Monday-Tues. Nights JAMES CAGNEY and JOAN BLONDELL in “THE CROWD ROARS.” See it at any cost! Feel yourself hurled across the earth at 164 miles an hour. Shudder at the sound of crashing cars, of screaming brakes, of roaring engines! Sit with the crowd that roars'—for blood! Be fascinated by men who have known every thrill, but death! Be there when the screen resounds to the mighty echoes of “THE CROWD ROARS.” Price 10c and 25c
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