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The Madison Messenger T. J. ROBERTSON, Editor «ad Owner Subscription: $1.60 Per Year MADISON, N. C., MAY 12, 1982 Wheat is cheaper than corn now, but a lot of people still think that it’s too good for their chickens. As the weather gets hotter, even so the cam paign. It has about reached the boiling point in some quarters. The president of the Raleigh baseball club suicided the other day by jumping from a window of a Baltimore sanitarium. This should be a warning to the president of the Bi-State league. There is one thing in Bob Reynolds* favor in seeking the nomination for U. S. Senator—he is not throwing mud at anybody or rather any of the other cadidates. This argues well for him, even if he is ‘“agin” the 18th amendment. George Ross Pou, head of the State prison board, gives it out that the prison farms will produce no cotton this year. This is encourag ing, and will help, to some extent, to reduce the cotton acreage. Now, if some way could Be devised to cut the tobacco crop even more than it is to be cut it would help considerably. Our Northern Methodist friends, it would ap pear from a news article on front page, have “ariz agin” and said what they will and will not do about the colored brother. Let's see— we believe that they did this very thing prior to the Civil War. However, every man, ors wo man, to their taste. If they believe this kind of doctrine, it suits us. The American Tobacco company declared a dividend of $45,000,000 the last fiscal year and its president pulled down in salary and bonus over $1,000,000. Gosh! Such figures in these depressed times are staggering. But where does the poor tobacco grower fit in the picture? Well, it would not take a very vivid imagina tion to picture it. Some are now predicting that the assassina tion of Paul Doumer, the French President, will have a tendency to bring on another war, * as was the ca^e in 1914. It was a Russian fan atic who shot him and it is said that he is a itifeTho-' r of the “Reds.” Let us hope that this assassination will not have the direful results that the other one did. It is very gratifying to the patrons and friends of the Madison school that the pupils of this institution captured more prizes in the recent “Milk-for-Health” campaign than any other school in the county. If you don’t be lieve this just check up on the report of the judges, to be found on the front page. This is an honor that Madison and community is proud of, and we most heartily congratulate the prize winners—all over the county. We see that the constitutional commission, appointed to study and recommend the re-writ ing of the basic law of the State, is to meet in Raleigh tomorrow. Now, if this body will rec ommend the abolishment of about half the laws that we already have and enforcing the balance of them, and making it a high crime and mis demeanor for the next Legislature to pass any more laws, then we will feel that the constitu tional commission has not been appointed in vain. Some of the “favorite sons” seem to be loom ing pretty large in the political horizon, speak ing from a Democratic point of view. At pres ent there are seven before the public command ing attention,&and some of them seem to be pretty strong. Of course Roosevelt is leading by a large majority, but this does not mean that he has the nomination “sewed up". by any means, as things are likely to happen when the clan gathers at Chicago and almost anything can happen in short order—a dark horse may win the race, after all. A one week’s term of criminal court is sched uled to begin in Wentworth Monday, and the docket will be found on the last page. It will readily be seen that barely a dent will be made in this docket. There are enough cases on the docket to keep a court busy for at least four weeks, judging from the time that is killed, wasted of what not, in the usual run of courts; in Rockingham. It is barely possible that the cases scheduled from Madison township will \be reached next week. Of course the jail cases usually receive first attention, and Jailer Mar tin has a large number of “boarders” at this time. TREATMENT OF THE NEWS “Why wasn’t the news I gave you put on the Rage?” “Why didn’t you give it a big-! ger headline?” These and other similar questions are from! time to time put to newspaper editors by peo ple who do not know the considerations that ! guide newspapermen in the treatment of news.j Tiu»#eiwho complain sometimes charge that 8 is “respect Mini feelings 10 complain tnat news which they they desire, or is not as lengthy as they believe it deserves to be, have never studied the week’s news from the editor’s standpoint. As he sees the news, the various stories or items are of relative importance; that is, they are relative to one another as news proper, or in their news significance, and they are relative as to the readers as subjects of interest. The makeup editor does not often err in the placement of news or in the handling of news. Both by experience and intuition he has a true sense of proportionate values in regard to hu man interest. He sometimes acts contrary to his judgment, though deliberately, in playing up some local news or propaganda id?* a par ticular public reason. But lie lets the relative values govern his decision in most instances. These observations on placements and head ings are based on articles in a newspaper which is classed by newspaper men as one of the greatest in the world. There is a relativity as to values which every editor follows as close ly a* he can, and he is-generally-correct. Ol R BOYS AND (1IRLS There is no more beautiful sight under heav en than these commencement pictures,with moys and girls and flowers and all, in the high light of hope and confidence for coming years. Like the rest of the country. Rockingham County is in the very heart of the graduation season. We are seeing our fine young men and women march forward, somewhat embarrassed perhaps, to receive the little roll of parchment which means all of four years of toil and work and study and worry. It's a great time of year for the youngsters, and should be a great time for the older citizen as well. It should ever remind every earnest American of the- importance of the school sys tem, and of the importance of giving every boy and; girl a fair chance at a fair education. With the changing of the times, there has come a great change in the educational system. The splendid school system of the big cities are finding keen rivals in those of smaller towns and even the county schools. We are going on the theory that the best educated citizenship means the best in government, and the duty of every parent and of every citizen, wheth er parent or not, should include a very personal interest in good schools. FIGHT THE 3c POSTAGE RATE Haven't we got enough to beat'? There is still time to keep Washington from putting this anchor around our necks. Those of us who are in business have suffered enough from the depression. Two-eent letter postage is all right. We don't Want or need an increase. You can do your part. Write in your senators now! Join in this fight to force the senate to annul or modify this revenue bill just passed by the House. There is still tithe—do not delay ! A CHALLENGE (Greensboro Record; The lives of the Confederate soldiers—-their valor and bravery on the field of battle—their energy and fortitude in the dark days of recon struction. in rebuilding the war-ravaged south —should serve as inspiring examples in the face of today’s economic and financial upheav als and disasters. This thought was forcefully and eloquently emphasized by City Attorney Andrew Joyner,! Jr., in a Memorial day address here yesterday. After he ha 1 paid glowing tribute to the Con-! federate heir,es, at war, arid in “The Tragic Era,the reconstriction period—Mr. Joyner said: “Today, in the midst of abundant material wealth; in spite of.the innumerable blessings' that vve enjoy, he hear strong men whimpering, we hear .wire men offering the counsel of de spair, and vve- witness courageous sob Is‘prefer ring to end the struggle rather than carry on to a successful finish. “May vve not from the lives of those surviv ing heroes of the Confederacy derive a new inspiration and a revival of courage to face the present day problems?” The thought is timely. The bravery and the courage of the heroic men and women of the fiO’s is an inspiration, and a challenge as well to every North Carolinian in these trying times. IT ALWAYS PAYS (Charlotte News) Courtesy and politeness, in whomsoever it abounds, have a way of always turning out profitably, either at once or remotely. We illustrate: A small boy came to the door of the office of a very busy man peddling a well known mag azine and sought a sale. The business man, barely looking up from his work, told the lad that he didn’t want to buy and was about to return to his engrossing en gagement. “Thank you very much’’ replied the boy in a manner of levity with which he probably was covering up his youthful disappointment. The spirit of understanding which the lad displayed, especially in his attitude of courtesy, was more than the business irian could let slide and he called him back, produced a nickle and bought the magazine which he probably never intends to read. Salesmanship in this instance was consum mated not by high-pressured pull nor yet by the slightest effort of even boyish tricks, but by the simple, old-fashioned, undiluted quality of sheer gentlemanliness in this hardly more than a child. V. JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER -BY CARL GOERCH A few facts concerning prom inent North Carolinians:— It is hard to understand Jo sephus Daniels when he is talk ing to you in his office. His voice is often lost completely in the rattle of traffic outside and you’ve got to watch mighty closely or you’ll miss half of what lie says. A. D. McLean puts a handle on everybody’s name. When he refers to the champion golfer he calls him Mr. Bobbie Jones. He also says Mr. Jack Demp sey, Mr. Babe Ruth, etc. The same thing is true in connec tion with his manner of refer ring to his neighbors and friends in Washington, N. C. I know of only one man whom Mr. MacLean calls by his first name, and this is Lindsay War ren, our congressman. I have seen luots of photo graphs of Max Gardner. I have at least a dozdn in my posses sion; pictures which I have tak en in the past four years, but I have yet to see a photograph of His Excellency with his pants pressed. As a general rule they look rather baggy. Ed Flanagan of Greenville, calls his intimate friends “Hon ey." Frank Page told me a long time ago .that he never gets scared or nei;voiis about anoth er man’s method of driving an automobile so long as he keeps both hands on the sterring wheel, but he gets the fidgets if a driver lolls back in his seat and handles the wheel with one hand. Senator Morrison’s wife a couple of years ago gave him a pair of mules and a farm wag on for a Christmas present. Somehow or other, that has al ways stuck in my memory as one of the most unusual Christ mas gifts I ever have heard of. I don’t know why; it just does. Whenever Hallet S. Ward gets real interested in a ser mon, he takes a key-ring out! of his pocket and rattles the keys vigorously. Whereupon; everybody around him loses in terest in the sermon. i don t know—at this moment ; —of a single politician in North Carolina who wears spats. Clayton Moore has the deep est voice of any judge on the Superior Court bench. It al-j ways puts me in mind of an approaching thunder storm. Of all the men in public life,; I ‘would consider Walter Small and Tobe Connor least likely to ever win first prize in a beauty contest. Ben Dixon McNeil likes to sit down at a piano and invent new ! chords. Whenever he hits up- i on a chord which has a special appeal to him, he’ll strum it un til everybody within hearing dis tahee becomes violently nerv ous. Incidentally, he doesn’t know one note from another. Dennis Brummitt can’t keep his hair parted—what there is of it. In the “spare room” upstairs j I've got a roster of guests who have spent the night there. The i list includes U. S. Senator Tom Connelly of Texas, Rear Admir al and Mrs. R. E. Coontz, St rick land Gillilan, poet and lector-1 er; W. O. Saunders, Aviators, Gus Lezear, Warren Penning ton and Elmer Mvers, Dr. Chase, former president of the University of North Carolina, and my brother Bob. It takes Chief justice Stacey longer to eat a meal than any- j body I’ve ever seen. He stays ‘it; his Hotel Sir Walter and usual-' ly manages to linger at least an: hour over lunch or dinner. He always occupies the same table.; Tom Bust of the Greensboro' Daily News, is the most nervous j newspaperman in the state.; Frank Smethurst oftheRaleigh News and.Observer, is the most placid and Serene. Senator Bailey can’t spell: liquefy—and the next fellow: you meet can’t do it either. M.-M. Lost Two To Reidsville Last week was rather disas trous to Madison-Mayodan team, in that two games were j lost to Reidsville—Friday and j Saturday. The first game was played at Reidsville and the j score was 12 to 10. Saturday’s game, played at Mayodan, and the locals again went down in defeat, 9 to 2. Ferguson was on the firing i line in Friday’s game for M.-M. j and was pretty wild in the first few innings, and miscues add- j ed to his undoing. M.-M. could not connect with Mauney’s of ferings until the 7th. A strong rally ensued and all the runs scored by this team followed in i the next two innings. Home! runs were clouted by Gillespie,! Gatewood and Turner, but the lead could not be overcome. In Saturday’s game Curtis, was on the firing line for the | locals, but ragged support in the first inning gave Reidsville 4 runs. The M.-M. boys just I could not bunch their hits and! the visitors romped away withj the game 9 to 2. Home runs! were hit by Briggs, Shaw, and j Beaver, the latter securing 2. All games were rained out yesterday, but Fieldale will be at Mayodan tomorrow, while Madison-Mayodan will be at Stuart Saturday. Read The Mesaenger ada sad buy it at bom*. LETTERS TO GEORGE (Being Excerpts From The Private Correspondence of Henry Hardcastle). HOW TO PUT A CRIMP IN CRIME May 10, 1932. Deal- George: Well, Rockingham county has the blush on Chicago now. Our murders and killings are aver aging a little better than one a week, and the percentage is growing. Good old loyal Jim Robertson stepped on the spot Sunday night at the Spray school, and was riddled with bullets by two murderers who Stepped from the shadows and without warning opened on him with tw'o or more guns at the same time. . . And one of the best and most loyal officers this community has ever had died in his tracks. . . And of course these social lions of the new or der made a clean and complete get-away. It is reported that their automobile, arsenal, am munition, and disguise equip ment was found, and that would indicate sense on their part. After a series of murders it is good policy for the murderers to change guns and cars, be cause somebody might have their description and the nerve to recognize them. Think of it! The Government can throw a quarentine around a state, or the U. S., and not a single orange with a fruit fly sign can get by, not the meek est of lowly vegetables suspect ed of having ryst can run the gauntlet, but a set of murderers can terrorize a county, ft. be gins to look use we had better turn our law over to the depart ment of Agriculture if we want to get results. And that brings up the farmers, the class of people Who can always be de pended upon. Get them hot and they will burn something up be fore they quit. They are get ting pretty sick of the way pro hibition has unloaded on them by sending its bootleggers, pros titutes, and gangsters, out into the uiiwatched and defenseless country to run free with an or gy of murder, rape,-arson, and thievery. . . If the friends of prohibition do not soon set up a sane system of apprehension' and conviction for violators, and take this menace from our country people’s door step, this country is going wetter than rain in the next four years— and I’m going with them! Now that our reformers have scattered (not abolished it) and the segregated places where it was nested and controlled, they go‘forth singing praises to Je ho^feh amct crying aloud “I.o, look what wonderful good we have accomplished, how holy we are!” Well, here is a shot for these professional holy men and reformers, this class who are beginning lo loom as the greatest and most colossal mass of hypocrits that history has ev er known. If they could com mand the strength to abolish vice and drink why do they not use that strength to have these laws inforced? ... Do not tell me that the prohibition and prostitution and kindred laws cannot be inforced! If that is true then put them hack where we know their places of shame -—back where they can be watch ed and controlled! No! Oh, holy horror, no! Well then get busy and accomplish something, quick! Else confess yourself a set of hyprocrits. The Ministers, the Deacons, men and women of the church, the W. C. T. U., and other pro fessional holy and reform or ganizations say: “The church (et al) has no business in poli tics or monkeying with the law, bring us the people to our churches that they may hear the word of the Lord (et al) and-we will accomplish some thing”. . . Well, I do not know, but it seems to me that if the people do not go to church and to these reform meetings some body in charge has fallen down in . creating and maintaining their interest. . . I do know that the Chui'ch (et al) was the leading factor in passing the laws for prohibition and aboli tion of segregated vice. If they could go so far step out of their routine role to accomplish these things, why should they not continue in the role ,of in forcement? After several years of mature thought (if you will pardon me?), I have about come to the conclusion that the higher au thorities do not partieularily interest themselves with law inforcement or the apprehen sion of violators. Their chief interest is vote getting. . . Our. county sheriffs, their deputies, our lesser police officers, are helpless without the coopera tion of the substantial people in their communities. When things come to such a pass that the United States has become the jest of the rest of the civ lized world for hyprocricy, graft, money lust, and the seat of unpunished rampant crime, it is high time our citizens should rouse themselves and not wait for the life blood of murdered citizens to douse their apathy. If those institutions which are our symbols of law and or der should start with their own organizations, work through every village and hamlet, every town and city, every county and state, we could within a few months time restore our Nation to her rightful place in the ranks of civilization. I firmly believe that 75 pter cent of crime .can be stopped practical Special Saturday Only With every pair of Ladies Oxfords at $3.95 and up, we will give absolutely Free one {5air of pure thread, full fashioned hose—-first quality. With every Ladies’ Dress at $5.00 and up we will give absolutely Free, choice of a big range of hats. This offer is for Saturday only. D. W. BUSICK’S SON Odd—but TRUE OHNNlU HAWTHORNE W*S SO SHT THKT WHEN MVSaORS Cmi TO VU$ HOWE HE OUT Of THE HOUSE TO (VftVD C0HTRO >HWH THEM ✓*-/* IN BORNEO THE CROCOWEE CONS\DEREO , S&CRED MO « NOT R\LEEO - \F THE r CROCODllE K\LES & (ARN \\ \% CROGHT MO RE^ER OElNG TREKED TO \N R ERlENDEY N\MNER \S T\E0 OP RND VREEO*JEO TO 0\E R ®NRToRRE OEMH" V iHE COST OF T COUMA&US’ UTflE WPEOVTlO* VU 5sr WSCOMERmfc ’ MAERVC* \WKS - Wool * 1000 Sow «>s\EfcY CMMPMittS Ctftt NOVO M VO VO \ NO ^mot-in" - ON V>S?D sxocm&s HOW MUCH ON l.v overnight if our citizens will rouse .themselves. If I were in charge of law inforcement in this State and county, in the U. S., (pardon just this once more) there would be an organization of Rural Civilian Constabulary about every telephone exchange as a nucleus. There are plenty of rural dwellers of mature judgment and courage who would volunteer to have their telephones grouped under a “Crime Flash Plug.” Immedi ately a crime was committed the details of criminal appear ance, his car, and everything pertaining to his recognition, would be called to this Rural Civilian Constabulary. In an hours time everv highway, wa terway, and means of escape in tiie U. S., if necessary, would be guarded. Such an organization could be perfected without one penny of cost to the taxpayers. Ser vice in it would be honorary, and bv selection only. They would furnish their own arms. A system of reward would be paid to the party or parties catching the criminal, and such a system would not be of any additional cost to the taxpayers. Public sei’vice companies, radio stations, etc., would gladly con tribute their services. . . Do you believe that the courage and virility of American man hood has become so cowered that such an organization could not be perfected? Regards to Evelyn. Sincerely, HENRY HARDCASTLE. j Catawba county poultrymeh | report a profit from early broil-1 ers this season with the price j ranging from 20 tb 25 cents a pound. About 3,000 broilers will be sold this week. Colored Woman Dies Hallie Hayes, wife of Hay wood Hayes, a highly respected colored man, died Saturday and was buried Monday afternoon. Besides the husband, she leaves three little children. Recent soundings have dis covered a depth of 24,000 feet, or nearly five miles, in the Ca ribbean Sea. SAVE MONEY! You are cordially invited to see our new lines of merchandise. Our prices are the lowest in the history of the drug busi ness. We will save you money—try us first. Piedmont Drug Co. CASH—CUT RATE Street Taxes! Property owners who have not paid their street assessment taxes for 1931 will notice that unless same is paid on or before June 8, 1932, the property will be adver tised June 9 and sold July 5, 1932 GEO. T. MARTIN, Tax Collector
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