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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3, 1932
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TWINKLES
The depression, one observer says, has taught the
American people several new ways to make money.
Also, it might he added, a number of other ways to get
Blong without it when you haven’t got it.
Coolidge is going to campaign for Hoover, and it's
likely that, the Coolidge successor in the White House is
hoping that his predecessor does not show too much
New England thrift in hoarding words and boosts.
It is a pathetic situationWhen it becomes necessary
to use soldiers to drive war veterans out of Washing
ton, hut think what a pickle the nation would be in if
that was the only way to get the congressmen home for
a short stay once or twice a year.
Some of the Tar Heel Democrats appear to be overly
steamed up about the next party chairman, overlook
ing, meantime, the main idea—that of not permitting
North Carolina to help take t he solidness out of the Solid
South in November.
In a news story out of Detroit Henry Ford, cele
brating his 69th birthday, gave his formula for "youth
ful old age." Among the things he did not include which
he might have included was a tip about taking too many
chances in a flivver on traffic-jammed highways on Sun
day afternoons.
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I* The numerous appeals, etc., holding the Luke Lea
bank case open so long caused the Asheville Citizen to
wonder when a court case can be considered closed. And
the Greensboro News made a rather pertinent answer in
saying ‘Ttdarge depends, brother, upon the amount you
have to invest in legal services."
.wnn BEFORE BEER
-r The Democratic presidential nominee may displease
some of the more ardent wets bv declaring that he will
emphasize economic conditions instead of prohibition in
hjs campaign, but that declaration will win him the sup
port of thousands and thousands of American citizens
who know that something must be done to better exist
ing conditions.
In his radio speech last week, Roosevelt said: ‘‘The
main issue of this campaign is our present economic
conditions."
There are those, admittedly, who want and intend
to have1-their beer, but there are many, many more who
are demanding bread, and among them some who also
desire beer, but know, because of gnawing hunger in
their stomachs, that just now bread is more important
than beer.
THE ELLENBORO PROGRAM
The recent report of vocational agriculture in the
neighboring Ellenboro section shows what a community
can do when it goes at its farming in a systematic, or
ganized manner. The vocational agricultural work there
is directed by A. B. Bushong and its value is demonstrat
ed by the present encouraging outlook of the section,
there being few farming communities in the State that
can excel the Ellenboro area today. The cooperation in
buying and selling has been the more important item of
the program, we believe because a thousand dollars or
more were saved by buying and selling together. This
cooperation provided for the sale of potatoes, vegetables
and poultry, secured cans for the cannery, seed for
planting, eggs for the hatchery, and fertilizer for all
Heeds. But other items include the building up of the
Soil, better acreage production on cotton and other crops,
|h> better balanced farm program, and better commun
ity spirit as fostered by father-and-son and mother-and
daughter banquets. Those who make a habit of point
ing out outstanding farming sections should keep their
eyes on Ellenboro.
GARDNER RIDING THE CREST
’ Governor Gardner’s personal action in bringing the
High'Point strike to an end seems to be bringing him
more praise than any act of his administration. As Tom
Bost writes in the Greensboro News, Governor Gardner
has only five more months to serve as chief executive,
•ad his "settlement of the High Point strike fixes five
months' hence a glorious out-going of an executive w-ho
has had more of the razzle dazzle dished up by the devil
for Job than any man who has held the governorship
•hnce earliest colonial times.”
pi It is not denied by anyone, least of all bv the Gov
ffnor’s admirers, that he has had a difficult adminis
tration, one in which he has been confronted with more
feeing problems than any executive. In meeting those
poblems squarely and openly with no inclination of at
tempting to sidestep, the Governor naturally made ene
mies and dww the denunciation of critics and personal
ly appointed advisors. But the manner in which he has
taken his criticism without talking hack or whining and
his demonstration of courage, has been winning to him
many friends. His trip to High Point where he con
ferred personally with strike leaders and then brought
ahout peace between strikers and employers comes as a
climax that has added hundreds of other friends. Every
where he is being praised for his work there. One of his
leading critics, the Raleigh News and Observer, joins in
the commendatory remarks. "A Governor,” says the
Raleigh paper, “with the welfare of the State in his
heart is worth fnore than all the troops of North Caro
lina with bayonets in their hands.”
DIVORCE NO LONGER SENSATION
There is no moral to the following remarks, no
thought or point to sell. It is merely a commentary or
observation on the changing times.
Just a few years ago—anyway, not so many years
ago—a divorce of any type, in almost any class, w-as
; more or less a sensation, even if the general public did
not know' the people involved. Every divorce that came
up, speaking from the local viewpoint, started a flurry
of talk. A divorce trial drew large crowds. Today it is
no longer that way. In Superior court in Shelby one
morning this week three divorce suits were flipped over
the calendar in “a little of no time.” There was no more
interest showm in the cases than in any other minor
cases on the docket. Divorces have come to be com
monplace. This change, no doubt, is only one outgrowth
of the general transformation in public attitude and
thought, just another aftermath of a period in which
conventions and customs were rapidly altered. Ten
years ago the announcement that, there would be a di
vorce case in the local court wmuld have filled the court
| room with curious spectators, but now, except for those
directly involved, no one appears to give a divorce suit,
although it may involve the ordinary sensational adult
ery complaint, more than passing attention. Reno was
once whispered about as a modern Sodom and Gomorrah,
hut Reno must show some speed to excel any North
Carolina Superior court in speedy divorce once the suit
gets on the calendar, for an uncontested divorce tan now
be secured in the same length of time that it takes to
get married with a magistrate officiating.
. TEXTILE TROUBLES
What is wrong with the textile industry? That
question is an important one, particularly with this sec
tion of the. country which is so dependent upon that in
dustry for its prosperity. From a prominent textile ex
pert, M. D. C. Crawford, writing in the Daily News Rec
ord, comes the statement that the lull cannot be blamed
entirely upon the Sherman anti-trust act, or upon tariff.
The industry, he says, has made mistakes of its own
which cannot be remedied by law, but must be changed
by the industry itself. Says Mr. Crawford:
“At least it is a relief to hear the textile industry
cease to blame the tariff or make outcries against the
rapacity of labor, and direct its disapproval to other
breeds of scapegoat. But it is time to come to the full
realization that no hew law or change in any existing
law can answer every question now' demanding solution
before this ancient industry. The textile industry has
made a few mistakes of its owm.
“It is the oldest mass production adventure in civi
lization. It has gathered to itself more obsolete meth
ods of doing business than its fair share. Its general
attitude towards labor in all sections of the country runs
mining, an almost equally ancient factor, a close and
tragic second. It is practically, without modern labora
tory facilities for experiment—those essential adjuncts
of all modern industries. Its systems of indirect distri
bution in many cases are charming replicas of methods
of doing business existing when the first ox-carts left
Cumberland, Md., for Wheeling, W. V a., on our first
venture in national highways. It has had for years a
disrespect for its own productions, clearly illustrated in
many names that still carry the implication of ‘import
er.’ It has been largely indifferent to the value of es
tablishing and maintaining brands and trade marks to
hold its position in the nation’s or the world's markets.
"I do not question that the retailers have tried to
buy their merchandise in the cheapest market. So ex
cellent a rule of commerce can never safely be broken.
Rut when some of the mills who now complain, were
building up those still handsome reserves in Liberty
bonds, I do not recall that any of them sold to the re
tailer merchandise below the artificial market due to
war inflation. The rule may be a poor one but evidently
it works both ways.
“But it is beyond doubt that chaos exists in the
textile industry and perhaps the Sherman law is as good
a place as any to" start reformation. Like the Volstead
act, it can stand modification, But of itself alone, it did
not bring about our present situation and no change in
j it. lacking other changes, will restore prosperity to the
textile industry.
"Even as the law now stands with all its limitations
i and strictures, I, for one, doubt if any court in this land
would be unduly severe on any groups of mills who act
ed in concert to restore employment, to raise wages to
control production within reasonable limits, even if such
a daring group ceased for the moment to lose money or
i even made a small profit.
"But if a change in the law is only desired as a sub
stitute for another and infinitely more necessary reform,
if it is intended only to regulate the speed of the swift
to the pace of the slow, to tie the strong and sturdy to
the creaking wagon of the weak and ineffective, then it
seems to me I should rather await the ultimate outcome
of the fierce jungle law of survival of the fittest. There
j can be no substitute for brain, vision and courage in in
dustry and we never should make or change any law
1 limiting these qualities to some mythical average.”
I
Henry Ford On
Prohibition In
America Today
! From The Hickory Record.
Henry Ford is one of the bigges
industrialists in the world, and hi
has lived long enough to know per
sonally what our present problem;
are as compared with those of tlv
days before, the national prohi
bition amendment was enacted.
And Mr, Ford, writing in the cur
rent issue of Collier's magazine as
serts that "prohibition is a success
and that, "there is not one percent
of the drinking done in the Unitec
States that was done formerly.”
Another assertion of Mr. Ford
which we agree with thoroughly, n
his refutation of the charges that
prohibition is responsible for con
tempt of law, "Anyone will he
nearer the truth if he charges it to
liquor. And the cure is not more
! liquor but less.” the automobile
manufacturer very cleverly puts it.
j We can recall the days when there
1 was an attitude on the part of pro
| hibitionists to believe that, if they
j could get an effective dry law pas
sed about ninety-nine percent of
| the crime would be eliminated. Of
course such extreme views were
i bound to meet with disappointment,
j Now. boause we have been experi
jencing a great crime wave as the
j aftermath of the World war. as
iwas to be expected, anti-prohlbi
j tionists have finally brought a great
inumber of people to believe that the
Eighteenth amendment is respon
sible for all our present Ills, eco
Inomic and moral
We do not. believe that the devil
has his habitat in a bottle of booze,
for in fact, we hold that there is
no evil, per se in liquor. But be
cause of the fact, that, society is so
prone to abuse the use of intoxi
cants. we take the position that the
state or nation makes a mistake
deliberately to license a traffic when
we know' what baneful consequences
are bound to follow.
In the so-called ‘'good old days”
there was no danger of mixing gaso
line with boose, and for that reason!
the free flow of booze was not so!
dangerous as In this machine age
Old Dobbin had so much more sense
than a drunken driver that he was
usually able to precent undue traffic
hazards But today, as Mr. Ford
points out: "No one wants any
drinking man to be at t,he mercy
of machinery, and no one wants to1
be at the mercy of any machine In
the hands of a drinking man "
The meet significant thing which
Mr. Ford has said in this connec
tion is this
"I have never heard anyone sug
gesting that we repeal the law that
drinkers shall not drive cars.”
The automobile manufacturer is
not greatly worried because the
national conventions of the two
great political parties showed them
selves opposed to prohibition. As he
states, the politicians for the most
part, have never been favorable to
the amendment.
In concluding. Ford makes it plain
that the American people cannot be
stamped into repeal. He says'
"Foreign visitors to the United
States have often appealed to me
to solve for them the inconsistency
they have observed of a nation com
mitted to the prohibition of liqffor.
and an official class no only lax in
the enforcement of the law but per
sonally. in many cases violating it
I have simply had to explain to
these foreign visitors that our of
ficials for the moet part never fav
ored prohibition and do not now.
but were forced to it by the de
mands and the votes of the people.
It was not a change that came
down to an unwilling people from
officials above them; it came up to
the unwilling officials from the
mass of the people. That is the
|only way it could have come. And
| if now It Is to go. it can only be
by the people of this country de
liberately asking for it to go. The
method of amending the CoTRti
tution is in their own control. I
am of the opinion, further, that no
one can stampede them. The argu
ment which lasted a hundred years
jin this country is settled."
Funeral Cars To
Have Headlights
Augusta. Ga—There has arisen
some confusion here over the ques
tion, "When is a funeral proces
sion?"
It is against a city ordinance for
an automobile driver to "cut into”
a funeral procession. But practically
all of thoee who have been docketed
for the offense have pleaded that
they did not know it was a funeral
cortege they were passing through.
So the traffic force of the Police
Department has worked out a
scheme that wty distinguish a fun
eral party from an ordinary string
of automobiles
An order has been issued to all
undertakers that in the future au
tomobiles used for funeral purpose*
shall burn their headlights as long
as they are a part of a funeral pro
cession. A traffic officer will be
attached to each procession until
the public has become accustomed
I to the innovation.
—
| Things aren't so bad as they
might be, after all. Just imagine
that instead of a wheat surplus, we
[had too much spinach ,
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Are In The Land!
THERE is a dignity and importance in the work of a farmer.. He fol
lows the oldest and most basic of all industries.
He stands as a symbol of security, for though investments may fail,
the regular rotation of seedtime and harvest continues. His is the
most tangible of all returns—food—and the most powerful.
It is our function to aid him in directing this power so that it may be
diverted into the most fruitful channels, not only to himself, but to
the country.
As an aftermath of the turmoil in the business world the past years
it will be proven that good well located land, bought at reasonable
prices, will stand a better test over other investments, for if properly
cared for it can’t run away. For the young man, willing to work, an
investment in a farm, will always give him and his family a living and
in many instances a good return on his investment.
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