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A preacher was finea twenty-five dollars by a judge in
Richmond, Va., a few days ago for calling the high court
official a “wet" Jurist. We wonder if the minister's sal
ary was raised by his congregation to make up deficit?
*A short time ago the government was employing offi
cials to prosecute labor agents. This former appropriation
is now being used for the employment of unemployed com
mittees.
The Need of A Guiding Hand
P< rhaps there was never a time when the people oi
Baldwin county needed a guiding hand so much as at thi3
time. Unquestionably, few of us realize the seriousness of
such a suggestion.
Surely, there is no way for us to get around the fact
lhat Baldwin county tis year is falling short around nine
ty per cent, of its principal money crop, cotton. Say
what we may, there is no denying the truthfulness that
heretofore the fleecy staple has broi ght to us more dollars
and cents than all other products combined. There might
be room for contention that the product has never brought
its cos t of production, though we can go no further with
the argument.
At the price of ten cents per pound, tee average of some
ten years ago, Baldwin county produced in the neighbor
hood of $500,000. At n price of twenty cents per pound
vo cannot hope to produce more than $50,000 worth in the
year of 1921. Prorating the sum to the entire popula
tion of the county, there would Stave been ten years ago
$25,00 lor every man, woman and child. The prorata
amount thin year will amount to about $2.50.
Now the question comes up to us, have we a means
that v.i:l substitute cotton laising for bringing to us cist
money? To say the least of it, this question is yet
unanst.eied, Aro we going to drift on and on until we
find ou"bClv.a away out at sea with no oSi.er protection
than that of calling upon one in the distance to S. O. S.i
If sue!i a point would appear pleasant we inuct say that
we are almost face to face with pleasure perfect.
We need to moat a new spirit. Heretofore many of
us have been pronc-U to kick out of harness, and make the
open declaration that it is better for us to do things in
our own way and single handed. In the very name of
reason it Is time for us to unite and openly declare our
selves ready to cooperate lu the full Waning of the word.
Unquestionably, all of us must admit that we are not
accomplishing any big things. This is evidence of the
tact that we have stood apart iong enough. We need
to form ths ifabit of going to the other follow and making
s preposition to Join him in any movement that will serve
to better the order of the day.
We should have no difficulty in coming to an nderstand
ing just how we have fared as well as, we have on the
production of cotton. Accidently we brought about «n
enottnous production of toe product and this production
simply demanded a system of marketing. For the bring
ing about of this system the cotton grower is not entitled
to one particle of credit. It just happened eo, that's
all How many years was required to bring about the
system of mark< ting eottou. it is hard for us to tell.
AH of us have quite well reached the point of admitting
that we aro compelled to bring about some radical changes
in our nianlpt lutions. It as become so difficult for us
to raise cotten until there is no chance for us to reap a
profit from such industry The story of what was com
ing to us came far in advance of the actual problems that
were in store, for us. but of course all were mere "rumors"
ami • nonsense", according to our way of believing. Now
we have just about reached the conclusion that we are
somewhat in f e fix of fish on dry land,
inclined to udventure without employing
methods. «■
The situation is b> coming pathetic If there w as ever
a time when cooperation would serve us materially it is
now is there a man in this section accomplishing big
things, for himself or anyone else? We all have an
answer for this <p estion and none of us are afraid to
wage anything that we have left that our answer will be
correct.
We have been
common sense
Where is the man who is unwilling to cooperate in any
movement that might be intended to bring about relief
of the predicament we are face to face with? Certainly
we ought to be ready for a suggestion after such a long
adventurous career.
Let’s look out for a guiding hand that will lead us out
of a hole of hardship that bids fair to lead us on to poverty
and ruin if contended with much longer. Do not din-
courage procedure in nivythiug that might deliver us from
further bach-sot,
Uy all me ns we must get on to the system of raising
jump niforn crop to take the place of cotton production.
We should r ach a conclusion as to what this' crop will bo
without delay and make preparations to go about our
business in business like way with the beginning of the
u< xt planting season,
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The investigation in Washington has developed the
fact that Ku Klux is a synonym for Him flam. Sarcastic,
ly speaking, we would say that this revelation Is a sur
Prise to us. , j
THE NEWBERRY WHITEWASH
From The Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
i Perhaps it should not have been, but It wns, nevertheless*,
a little surpriselng that the senate elections committee
investigating the Newberry case, should have given the
senate a coat of whitewash; that is to say, the republican
majority of the committee.
In the United States we have become so accustomod to
partisan politics in nearly every phase of our public life
we are scarcely surprised at anything that is done, but we
confess to a feeling of some surprise that the majority o
this committee should have gone so far a3 to whtlewas,
this m-n, who lias been tried in fcis home state (Michigan
and found guilty of violating a law that was enacted by
congress, but who escaped punishment upon the gioumi
that the law was unconstitutional.
That Newberry was guilty as charged in the indictmcn
in t.iee federal court of his home state there Is no question
if the verdict of the jury hearing the testimony 1b to bi
accepted.
The senate elections committee then took up the case
and the republican majority of this committee has found
him not guilty. The whole matter now goos before the
senate as a whole for disposition. What that body will do
remains to be seen. The majority of the senate is com
posed of republicans, and if this majority should follow the
lead of the republican majority of the elections committee,
another coat of whitewash will bo applied, and, so far as
outside appearances are concerned, he will have a clean
bill to his title to a seat in the United States senate, in
which event it will be something like unto a whited sepul.
hre which appc;»s bcauufui iiuecd uitnout, but is filler,
with rottenness and dead men' bonc9
But will the republican majority of the senate take sued,
a course as this? As we hav.t stated, Newberry has been
tiled in the federal court in his home state and he was
found guilty of violating the federal law; but along come..
t.ie supreme court holding that the law was unconstit 1
tionally par sed. The^ question, thorrfore, arises as to
whether Newberry is any less guilty of wrong doing be
cause of the peculiar legal phase of the matter than he
would be if there w.rre no legal phase of the matter be
would be if there were no legal tangle.
Newberry is charged with corruption In the use of mo
ney In his campaign for re-election to the senate when he
wns opposed by Henry Ford. it was charged that he
spent nearly two hundred thousand dollars during that
campaign. And the court in which he was tried found
that ho was guilty of the charge.
In view of th-e recent action of the senate elections com
mittee it is said that Newberry will "sit tight"—that he
will neither affirm nor deny the charge' that he was aware
of this huge sum of money having been spent in liis behalf
during the campaign, and that he will hang on the seat he
now occupies in the senate.
What he expects to be able to accomplish even If he
should lie given an additional coat of whitewash is not
quite clear. It would seem that a man occupying so
uncviable a position in the political spotlight would scarce
ly he ablo to hold up his head in the presence of honest
men much less undertaking to enact laws for the benefit
of the people.
WAGES AND RATES
From The Atlanta Constitution,
It is possible, if not probable, that ancarly reduction of
trasportatlon rates, both freight and passenger, may be
the means of adjusting the controversy between the car
riers and their employees and of averting the theatened
general strike, scheduled for October 30
A suggestion to that effect has been made by the public
group of the railroad labor board, in a formal statement to
country by its spokesman, Ben W. Hooper, a member of the
group; and that suggestion, in turn, is approved by W. W.
Atterberry, vice present of the Pennsylvania railroad, in
an address before a convention of vehicle and implement
manufacturer, in Chicago,.
“‘It ma fact," said Mr. Atterbury in liis address-
"tliat the carriers though they are not earning what they
sho, Id earn to entitle them to hr called prosperous, nor
wlmt the law intends they shall earn, cannot rest under
such protection, while other business struggles for its life.
It would be a wise policy for the carriers publicy to avow
that view, and voluntarily reduce rates where they now
work hardship, even though to reduce them means a loss
of revenus to the carriers. The carrier can do this of their
own volition, where it would he improper for tile Interstate
commerce commission to do so. The result would he a
temporary check in the rising fork tics of the carriers, and
that they can till afford, but It would be a step In the re
storation of sound b sjness conditions, and the public
should give to the carrirer a real appreciation of their
art "
Prince Albert's a new
note in the joys of rolling’em!
Talking about rolling
your own cigarettes, we’ll
tell you right here that
Prince Albert tobacco has
’em all lashed to the mast!
You’ve got a handful-of-
happiness coming your di
rection when you pal it with
P. A. and the makin’s
papers! For Prince Albert
is not only delightful to
your taste and pleasing in
its refreshing aroma, but our
exclusive patented process
frees it from bite and parch!
And, for a fact, rolling
up Prince Albert is mighty
easy! P. A. is crimp cut and
stays put and you whisk it
into shape before you can
count three! And, the next
instant you’re puffing away
to beat the band!
Prince Albert is so good
that it has led four men to
smoke jimmy pipes where
one was smoked before! It’s
the greatest old buddy-
smoke that ever found its
way into a pipe or cigarette!
Albert it
?, ta PPy red
tidy red tint,
nonmaome pound
Wf pound tin
humidors and in the
pound crystal glass
humidor with
i pong a moisten er
top.
mince Albert
the national joy smoke
Copyright 1921
by R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co.
Winston-Salem,
N.C.
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I PRINTED STATIONERY
Did you ever feel like you would give a
dollar bill for just one nicely printed letter
head to write an important letter on ? Did you
ever miss collecting a nice account because
you allowed yourself to run out of bill heads?
Look up youi Stationery stock and let us
print a new supply for you before it runs out.
We. have various grades of paper and env -l-
oJ>es to match.
A uniform ol transportation rates would affect labor as
well as business, and the suggestion that such a basis of
solution of the whole railroad-wage problem is worth
serious consideration by all inkerests and the public.
Thnnsportution rates, both freight and passenger, are
unboubtedly too high.
Undolbtedly, too, if the rates are lowered both the gross
nnd net returns to the railroads would be greuter than they
are now
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