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I GOLDSBORO HERALD Professional Building PKom ISO Fl/GEME l~ ROBERTS. Editor A pubh.iH ->n ciavctcd to the uplifting of Goldsboro and Wayne County. Issued Every Thuraday Subscription Rates: * One Yesr.$1-00 Six Month*.50c Entered ot the postcffiee at Goldaboro. N. C, as Mall, matter of the second clast under Act of Congrett of March 3. 1679. THE PENDULUM SWINGS BACK (Williamstor. Enterprise) Subjected to severe criticism for an apparent police/ of inactivity, England's Chamberlain is regaining world prestige rapidly. We, in our hasty moments, attacked the old man possibly •without due consideration for the facts he faced and the many problems known only to him ana his immediate associates. Too often we condemn before we know all the facts ju3t to realize that we acted in too1 much hasto. As the pendulum swings back to a greater regard for Chamborlain we recognize a few of the facts that apparently escaped our attention at first. It :s perfectly possible that j hundreds of thousands of livos would have been lost ahead/ had England pursued the policies we, at this safe distance, wanted her to pursue a3 Germany advanced to rape Cze choslovakia, Poland and Finland. In our haste we called tine old gentleman yellow. But with the trend of events the world was advised that Britain was not asleep. The inva sion of Norway possibly did not find Britain fully prepared, but once given cm opening to strike she did strike and beyond all doubt prov ed that there was no yellow streak down the back of her leader. Possibly our own backs were yellow-streak ed all the while, for it was us who refused to allow the shipment of armaments to a country that was not only battling against mad men but was also battling for pretty much the same things we stand ior and cherish in this coun try. THE PLIGHT OF THE POOR FARMER (Wiliiamstcn Enterprise) What this country really needs is another homespun philosopher and humorist cf the type of Will Rogers, Mr. Dooley, Bill Arp. Aj Southern writer ci this sort is Bill Casper, who bewails the mounting troubles of agriculture in the April Progressive Farmer: "I can recollect the time when cl! it took to; grew cotton was a weak mind and a strong! back. But now look at it. If you don't put stud on trio 3eod you are just as likely as not to get a baa stand. The seed may sprout and ccrr.e up all right but if they ain't been treated the little cotton 13 mightly liable to have the props, die r.gkt cut from 'under It with what she calls! sore shir—especially so :f you have some damp cold weather after it corr.es up. "Even if you put thus stuff on the seed before you plant and the cotton lives to be big enough to chop jut your fight has just got started be cause then you got tc put sody around it to make it grow, and then start poisonin' to keep tne boll weevil and the Lea hopper and *he red sp.der tram satin’ it up. And then if you ain't careful you'll leave about half of it without enough potash to keep the mist out at it. And by the time you get it made you are so whipped down with all the tightir.' you let the follow lr. town have it at whatever he wants to give you. "But cotton ain't ell. Marthy's complainin' about it bein' so hard to raise chickens nowa days. Hawks and black snakes ain't near so: bad as they 'use to be but automobiles is get tin' powerful bad. You could put out steel traps on pcst3 for hawks but I ain't found nothin' you can do for automobiles. Then for them as. lives there's lice and mite3 and croup and all kinds of things I wouldn't know anything about, thet you got to be rightin' all the time. I reckon! the chickens must be powerful discouraged. ! "Then I seo by the pieces in this paper that; tf you don’t g vs veur sheep something ter ai-.'j going to ha-’o ?hecp very Ion- seen a p ace by a meat packer ( asyir. ' a- irmst ct tr.e pigs in iots of places was full ol worms the chitlins had to be throw-! ed away and mat meant tney couldn't get as much money for hogs Now they got a scheme! for us to change pastures whore we grow hogs sc wo won't have so ir.ar.y wants but that ta.<os more fence and more for.ee takes more money d how are you gain' to got more money u-t ol wormy hags? ' Anyhow it looks to rr.o I.ke if we ain't gain', to quit farmin’ and go to work for somebody' else wo sure are goln' to have to buy a lot ol medicine for anything we try *o grow.” TRANSPORTATION NEED [Sanford hferald) Pressing its application for cm east-west air-| line in North Carolina, Pennsylvania Central: Airlines has filed with the Civil Aeronautics Authority a brief holding Its proposed line would remedy ar. inadequacy of rapid east west transportation in this- state. Without presuming to pass on the desirabil ity of this particular application, one may nev ertheless make the observation that the airline :s on firm ground as to its contention that Tar Heelia needs better east-West transportation. North and south. North Carolina Is not bo far across It has an excellent system of north sou‘h highways, three trunk I.ne railways ar.d a transcontinental airline giving service to tho north and south. East to west the stale is much farther across, several hundred miles in all from seaccast to westernmost mountains. East and west across North Carolina trunk line railroads have not been built, and with the advent of the automo bile and truck means most probably never will 1 < Secondary linos are nol equipped to give rapid passenger service ar.d convenient connections There is no cast-west atrlino. Highways run ning east and west are ior the -nest par; excel lent, and have gone far toward solving this particular transportation problem. 3ut even by automobiles east-west transit across the state is more difficult than a trip north and south because ot the greater distance ar.d the terrain. Tho proposed airline would serve the north ern section of tho 3tate, with stops at Elwabetn City. Rocky Mount, Raleigh, Greensboro, Win s‘on-Salem, Hickory and Ashevile. If such a line is needed, and there is every Indication that it is, then a similar east-west line across the southern part of the state, serving the gen eral section lying between Wilmington, Lurn berton, Fayetteville, Sanford, Charlotte and Asheville is also needed. r .. .. ■ ■■ ' i i Ramblin’ r ‘Round Gene Roberts The joice was on me last Saturday—ii it can be called a ickol I left here at noon arid drove up to Wake Forest fer the purpose of seeing the Wake Forest-CaroUna baseball game., but I didn't see it. The game had been called off because of rain on Friday night. Trie weath er was rather threatening here, but art Raleigh and beyond there had been a small flood, it seems. Streams were flooded, the ground was too wet on high spots for playing baseball, and even on Saturday afternoon there was throat of rain and occasional showers. Ever, though I was disappointed at net see ing a baseball game, I was not disappointed in my visit to the college. It has not been so many years since I was in school up there, but during the years since I was there tremen dous strides have been made in the develop ment of the college's physical plant. Tho col lege lost two buildings by fire; but among tho building added since I was a student there are: the administration building, an addition to the library, the Johnson Medical Building, Bcst wick Dormitory, Fraternity Dormitory, the new gymnasium, new athletic field. And besides all these improvements, work is progressing rapidly on the r.ew stadium; and I can tell you that when this stadium is completed it w.ll be one of ine finest in the state. The setting will oe as pretty as that of Kenan Stadium at Chapel Hill. This new stadium will seat 20, 000 people. 1 visited the site os the stadium Saturday, and work has now progressed to the extent that one can get a good idea as to what the finished plant will lock hks. Professor J. L. Memory was so enthusiastic about the new stadium that ho insisted that we go see it even though the ground was muddy and the ra.n threatening; and I'm glad we went. It is worth seeing. It is located some distance north of tho present athletic field, and a short distance west of what we Wake Forest men know as "Sky Hill." Not only is there v/ork going on on the new stadium, but plans have been completed and work begun on the new medical school to be located at Winsion-Salein; and not only that, but plans have been completed for the new $250,000 chapel building, funds tor which are to be raised by the State Baptist Convention. Work on this will begin just as soon as the Convention officials get in the field, get the money, and give the "go" sign, or word. May I suggest that you Wake Forest grads and friends, who do not often visit the college, take a trip up there. It will do your hearts good. You will be pleased with the develop ment of the town as well as the collage. Scores of new homes have gone up, and almost all of them are prettier than any ol the homes In the town when I was in school there. Professor Memory, Professor H. B. [ones, Professor Clontz all have new and beautiful homes; and there doubtless others I did not see. I wa3 glad to see and talk with Dr. G. W. Paschal. Ho tried to teach me Greek and Latir. when I was there, and it is no fault of his if I know little Latin and less Greek. I visited the administration building hoping to see some of the other members of the faculty; but they wore taking the Saturday afternoon off and I did not see others whom I knew while there, but I did meet the College's new music teach er, Professor Donald Phfol—if that’s the way to spell it. He is very young, but they tell’me he knows his music. I had quite a nice talk with Mr. Snyder who operates the book shop on the campus, or, rather, the shep; it is more than a book shop. We were able to get in a little rambling with the family on Sunday, and we enjoyed riding about and looking at the dogwood trees which are now in full-bloom arid which trim the fringe of moBt woods In this section like dainty lace on a pretty garment. lust out of Pfkeville we turned off the main Goldsboro-Pikevlhe highway and drove through by Mt. Carmel church, then to the left and on out by Stor.ey Cro©'< church. Trom this place we came on by the hom«s of Richard, Hare, Major Smith, Cal Wtlkorson, Rov. Jerry Howell, Chester Rose, and others, and then turned to the left and drove out by Thompson's Chapel and on tnrough the Thompson and Best community to the Sr.ow Hill-Goldsboro road,] whero wo turned to the right again and wenti through Adamsvillo and on to Daniel's Chcrpo! j church. Ai this point we turned to the right1 again and drove by the Stephen Howeli home, by Postmaster Bob Edwards' homo and on to my brother Milford’s; but we did not find any one home here. However, we did not expect to find them as we had aeon "Jay Eird", the youngest son,; at the home of his Uncle Roger Peeie, near Mt. Carmel, ai d had assumed that the family was over there. Wo came on back to Gc’dsboro and from here heeded home, arriving there before right and u: time to enjoy the comforts of the firesido on a cold day like Sunday was, and Lke today (Monday) is. Jus* about the time we think the weather Is -.w ,.<j warm for keeps we have another cold I.us cold weather is not conducive to fast growing crops, but the wind was high enough last night that it probably kept iho trust iroin dcJ.™J afjy damage to the crops in these par o. i .o co.a of some days ago was severe ermug ; to ceruse some of the farmers to plant their beans over,- and unless the weather warms cotton and corn, as well as truck crops, are not going to grow as they should. tODAV /Zfi d ITOMORROWI FRANK PARKER . . STOCK B R 1 D O E |j-r ~ "n - -. TODAY AND TOMORROW FEAR ------- unfounded Probably halt the paojple who listen to war news over the radio or read it in the dailies are afraid that something is going to happen to the United States because of Europe's quarrel. The air and the headlines are full of voices trying to snare .Americans. The latest scare is the fear that the United States is bound ur.dor the Monroe Doctrine to fight Ger many. because Germany has taken over Denmark and Denmark owns Greenland and Iceland. Those two regions are in the Western Hemi spere. and it is a fixed American policy to keep foreign powers out of this half of the globe That might be serious if It were not funny. Our only obligation under the Monroe Doctrine is to keep any European natJon from getting control of any independent nation on the American continent We are under no pledge to fight if Germany should take the Dutch East Indies, the Guianas, Trinidad or Jamaica Those are not inde pendent nations but colonies. HEMISI’HERE - - - misconceived A lot of radio broadcasters to whom I have listened lately, as well as newspaper editorial writers, need to study geography. They talk about the Western Hemisphere as if it were our exclusive possession. Tl*-y o'o not stop to thir.k that the dividing line between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemi sphere is the zero meridian, which runs north and south through Greenwich, a suburb of London. Everything west of the meridian of Greenwich and between it and the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where the lflOth meridian runs, is in the Western Hemisphere. That includes half of England, all of Wale*, part of Scotland, all of Ire land and parts of France, Spain and Africa. Thi* country has no ex clusive guardianship over the West ern Hemisphere The doctrine laid down by Presi dent Monroe, which has become an accepted ba*ie policy of the Unltad States, was Intended to keep Spain from recapturing the Spanish col onies which had declared their in dependence and established them selves as new nations. It has work ed very v eil to that end INTERVENTION . sniwctSHirj 1 meet a surprising number of people who believe that this country will be forced in some way to take part in the present war Some of them are eager to have ua get In. They are afraid that Germany is going to win and attack us next, unicss we lend our strength to the Allies. I also meet many who be lieve that we were drawn into the last World War by some sort of trickery of political maneuvering, and tear that something will be put over on us now. I do not see any ground either 1 r-'r American intervention or for the fear that we will be forced to intervene. We went into the last war because the Germans were sinking our sh.p?. blowing up our factories and preparing to conquer Mexico and Invade the United States from the South | Until something i;ke that happens again we haven t the slightest rx | cuse for sacrificing a single Ameri can life m this war. If Germany should win and attempt to occupy Canada the s.tuation would be dif ferent. It is not nice for any na tion to have Germany for a next door neighbor. DEFENSE. approved It is the fashion these days to sneer at people who think we ought not to meddle with Eureopean af fairs. You will hear many politic ians calling other candidates for office "isolationists" during this presidental campaign. Don't let that worry you unless you are on# who ■ thinks we ought to sacrifice Ameri can lives and dollars to fight other peoples’ battles. ' It is true that no nation can suc : cessfully isolate itself from the rest j of the work! unless it is prepared to ' protect its people and its wealth i against foreign invaders, I don't > hear anyibody objecting seriously to spending money to strengthen our navy, sir foice, coast fortifica tions ar.d the army. A few old fo gies seem to ttunk that preparations for defense are preparations for at tacking some other nation. I don't think any considerable proportion of Americans have any such Idea. | After all, nobody can drive or lead the United States into war ex cept the people themselves. No President has the power to declare war Only Congress can do that. Congress has a new factor to reckon with since our last declaration of war. That is the women's vote. Do y u know any women who want us to go to war? COST _______ enormous Not one Amerioan in thousand* ! has any idea what modern war ] means. Leas than a quarter of our j World War Veterans saw any fight I in*. There was almost no fighting j by aircraft. Tanks and gas warfare i were very late developments. Weap ons were far less efficient than they are now. Armies depended on horses instead of thractors. Even thought it i* still young, the present war In Eurupc is far more terrible than the last one was. We got off cheaply ir. the last war. We landed about 2.000,000 workers and lighting men in France and lost fewer than one hundred thous and. The other rations sacrificed more than 5,000,000 lives. We spent about twelve billion dollar* tor our own fightir.r forces. Wc lent other nations about the same amount. If they had paid uj back we would have come out of the war almost with u profit. 1 We could never again fight a | great war so cheaply Wc can better j afford to spend ten or twelve bil i lion dollars to encircle the whole | United States with such an invul nerab'.e ring of defenses, on land and sea, that no notion will ever dare to attack us. In this war-mak injl era that is the only way the United States can win the respect of the belligerent nations. Washington Washington. April 24.—The pur pose of the census is, primarily, to decide how nary members each state is entitled to in the House of Representatives. That depends, it course, upon how many members there are in tire House and how marry inhabitants there are in each state. While the Constitution provides for the reapportionment of Repre sentatives after each ten years' cen sus, it does not lay down any rules for doing it. It is entirely up Congress itself to decide how many members shall sit in the lower House. The number of Senators is fixed i by the Constitution. There are two' for each state, or 96 in all; and un-j til some new states are admitted' there wdl be no need to rearrange the seats in the Senate Chamber. That has had to be done a number of times in the House of Repre-1 sentatives. Tho number of members of the i lower House, however, has stood' fixed at 435 since 1910. Censuses' since then have shifted the appor tionment of the 435, but have not changed the number. Delaware, for example, had two members of Con gress at one tune and Vermont had three, but each of those states has only one now. Their populations have not de creased but the populations orf oth er states have increased to the point where a fair distribution of'Con gressmen entitles them to greater proportionate representation. Florida Doubled Thus, In recent years, Florida's growth in population has doubled it* representation in Congress, and California has nearly three times as many members as it did forty years ago. No matter how small, the population of a state it is en-' titled to at least one Representative., Nevada has never had as many as one hundred thousand inhabitants but they have the right to repre sentation, although in most other states there are 300,000 or more represented by a single Congre-*-; man. This Congress has already dcr.ricd that there will be no change in the number of members of the lower House. The Senate passed a bill to that effect last year. Th«1 House has just passed a similar bill, with the exception of one point which the Senate included. Tiie Senate bill provides for the apportionment of Representatives according to the number of "citi zens" living in each state, That is not what the Constitution call* {or> fhc Constitution specifically Pr0" x|Hcs for the apportionment ot !£ZLrs of the House In propor^ lion to "the whole number of free persons,'" not "citizens." Indians not taxed «re "till led in apportioned Represen.utive* among the states. The House passed tins census reapport.onm - _ bill, changing the Senate s ®tt*m to require only citizens to be in cluded in each member's consUtu ency. The purpose of that effort v,a> * keep New York State's represent! tion from becoming too Iarg£, sine New York has a larger number oi non-citl2ens than any other Sta The basic law, however, contem plates that even aliens living In th * country Hre entitled to be represen ted at Washington, even though they cannot vote for their repre sentatives. Stale Derides How the Congressional District* are divided is a matter for eac slate to decide Some of them never decide it but elect all their mem bers by the entire vote of the state There is nothing in the ConstitU tion that requires the division 3 states into Congressional districts, and there is no law requiring • nierriber of Congress to be a resl dent of the district which he repre sents. For in theory he does no represent any particular section ^ the population of his state bat th* whole citizenry of the Common wealth. Maore frequent is the custom providing for additional member* by electing them at large. Any sf*t* moy do as it pleases in the way selecting its representation tr. Con gress, 50 long as U sends to Wash ington no more and no fewer than the number to which it will be °n' titled when the ftgure-s of the 19*® 1 ensus have been tabulated and each state's proportionate share the total population has been com puted I It would b« entirely within r-tihts of the legislature of any st»'® f to enact a law providing that th® Slate's Representatives in Congress shall be chosen by the Legislature, instead ot directly by the people I*hat was the way the Senators m were selected for the first 12.5 years uf our existence as a nation. Changed in 1913 It wa changed in 1913 to pro vide tor direct election of Senators by the people of the whole state It look a Constitutional amendment to do that. Washington is still of two minds whether the change has brought about an improvement in the quality ot the Senate. There is a general feeling that a great deal /, of. senatorial prestige and dignity has been lost, since Senators now have to play to the galleries and look forward to their own rcelec tion by the people. They no lor.g.-r rcp.-csa.iH soveri^n stales, but merely the people of those states. While the Census Act passed this year merely fixes the total number of Representatives, there may be a fight n the next Sc.-sion over the number to which each state is en titled. The Census figures will show nround l33.0P0.noi) population. Idi vidod by 435 that would give about one Congressman to each three hun dred thousand inhabitants. It l* going to be a hard job to arrange it so that each state gets the exact number of Representatives it thinks it should have. Some will if?* too many, some too few. Six Inch Sermon Bitit SL Binir Isaiah Comforts an Afflicted Peo ple- f Lesson for April 28: Isiah 40:1-11. Golden Text: Psalm 44:1. Victor Hugo included Isaiah among the few intellectual giants of all time. First among the prophets, greatest preacher of antiquity, cf noble birth, counselor of kings and statesman who read world events, he was for forty years the buLwark of Judah. _ ^ In the day’s lesson we study him as the comforter of his people. Thetr warfare, he told them, had been accomplished. Doubtless a season of peace had followed a con flict with Assyria Better sliU thair" national deliverance was the assur ance of sins furgiven. This Is a time of highway build ing, from farmers’ roads to super highways. But Isaiah wrote of pra paring the way of the Lord. John the Baptist (John 1:23 > quoted Isolah In describing his own mission j as the forerunner of Jesus. A small boy began to repair the road through his village. In time others helped him bring stones. He had grown to manhood when the work was done. , One day the king came that way f called the builder forth to do him honor. It is a greater honor to ! prepare the way of ‘he Great King, 1 i to join with John in preparing the way of Jesus into men's hearts. Isaiah contrasted frail men and God, whose word shall stand for-^ ever. Through faith in the Almighty^' frail men may be strong. The proph- ( et bade his people behold their God Our people now need the vision of IIjn. lie is "our refuge and strength.” "He will feed his flock like ft shepherd, he will gather the lambs into his arms.” Those words should f lead us to think of the Good Shep herd. Nations and individuals may safety trust lus almightiy love. >
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