Letters to Editor From W.O. Williams, W.W. Pusser, 'E. :Pluribus Unum' Dec. 2, 1919

From The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, December 2, 1919

W.O. Williams Believes His Results Will Speak for Themselves

To the Editor of The Journal:

I notice Esq. Braswell of Goose Creek township is claiming the record for having done the most work this year. That may be true, but here’s what I accomplished this year. On 26 acres we gathered 23 bales of cotton and are still picking. We made 59 gallons of good sorghum; 40 bushels of wheat on four acres of land; and about400 bushels of corn. And during part of the working season I was sick. I paid out something like $10 for labor, and had no other assistance except my two younger brothers, CC. and Herman Williams, both under 21. I am still thanking the Lord for what he has done for me.

--W.O. Williams, Monroe, Rt. 7

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Wants Big Yields Kept Quiet

To the Editor of The Journal:

We do not doubt the big yields made by Esq. C.J. Braswell, but for the sake of other farmers we must ask him to keep quiet about the extent of his farming operations until the marketing season is over. Since you published so much about him making so much cotton and potatoes the price of cotton has dropped several cents a pound, and potatoes have slumped to 90 cents a bushel.

--W.W. Pusser, Marshville, Rt. 2

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About Hazing, Vandalism, Polygamy

To the Editor of The Journal:

In the Virginia-Carolina football game Thursday two former Monroe boys starred. Robins Lowe, son of C.F. Lowe formerly of Monroe, now of Winston-Salem, was the star of the game. He made the only score and won the game for North Carolina. Oscar Abernethy broke through Virginia’s center for a gain of four yards.

Monroe is probably the only city within the State having active polygamous Mormons living within the boarders. There is a darky living in the same house with three wives. The grand jury has not yet taken the time to inquire into the legal status and the social conditions of these good citizens of strict moral practice.

The other day four neighborhood young ones visited a vacant house in the city and knocked out several lights and sashes. This is a very unfortunate state of affairs.

Recently two Union county boys have been hazed at Trinity college. Hazing is in a class with burglary, secret assault, highway robbery and all round hoodlumism. If the authorities of our Colleges and ministers have not the moral restraints and the backbone to stop these criminal practices, then it is nighttime for the courts to take an active hand in the matter. At a Virginia College about 25 years ago a dozen hazers broke into a young Texan’s room one night to haze him. He shot one through the heart, one through the abdomen and others as they ran over each other going down the stairway. The young Texan was exonerated and after a few weeks returned to his home in Texas. The faculty and the trustees of this school had been trying for years to break up this gang of ruffians. It remained for the young Texan, a quiet, unoffensive, unassuming lad, to break up the hazing in this institution for years to come. Hazing out to be a penitentiary climb in every state.

--E. Pluribus Unum