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PAGE TWO The Chowan Herald Published every Thursday by The Chowan Herald, a partnership consisting of J, Edwin Buftlap and Hector Lupton, at 423-125 South Broad Street, Edenton, N. C. Carolina /_PIIESS ASSOC 1 ATIOnVj J. EDWIN RUFFLAP -Editor HECTOR LUPTON Advertis ng Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: . One Year - fJ’JL Six Months --^I,OO Entered as second-class matter August •-9 • 1934, at the post office at C aro lina, under the Act of March 3, 18 <O. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943 BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: WE MUST REINFORCE SPIRITUAL GON\IG TIONS: I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind 1 myself serve the God: but with the flesh the law of sin.—Romans ■ This Is War In this enlightened age and in a nation whose repu tation is to be Christian, a newspaper account ot the sort of training- received by certain branches of the Army almost makes one’s blood run cold. The account referred to is the completion of a Ranger School in Tennessee, where the men, according to a newspaper story, are taught to gouge out eyes, tear noses from the face, crush facial bones so that the splinters will pierce the brain, snap the neck, smash bones in the leet —and the dirtier the better. Os course, instructors say it's not rough, inhuman treatment of our soldiers but simply teaching them to kill or be killed, which is what it takes to win battles, War. at its best is inhuman enough, when men are obliged to shoot, bomb, drown and kill fellow human beings, but the above mentioned method ot barbarous torture seems like a mighty long way from a civilized and Christian nation. Os course, the spirit of brotherhood cannot be exem plified on the battlefield with such ruthless enemies as the United Nations now face, hilt to inflict such bar barous torture is far worse and much less human than to end the life of any who are so unfortunate as to be the victims. Dan Cupid At Work An all-time high for marriages was set in 1941 when l,S<io.ui>o couples decided that life would be sweeter if they became husbands and wives. We would like to think that every one of the happy grooms and the equally happy brides will never regret the day in their lives that united them in wedlock. I nfortunate.lv, sta tistics are stubborn facts and do hot permit such a hope to become accepted as a fact. While many of the couples will live: happily ever after, or approximately so, some of them will be hating each other in a few years. Such is the frailty of human na ture and there is little to be done about it. Frenchmen Are Cheap According to information from Switzerland, a num ber of trains leave France daily for Germany carrying an estimated 10,090 workers each Week to demonstrate "European solidarity.” . The interesting thing is that the police round up the Workers. The theory back of the enforced servitude for the fenemy power is that Germany will release prisoners, of war. Seldom has a great nation fallen to a lower estate than the so-called French 'government. It barters its man-power like cattle and. lindei the leadership of Laval, placates the Germans by the sacrifice of French men. Just Suppose— T --ugh those who complain about the incoineniences and sacrifice as the result of rationing are in the minor ity. just let us suppose— That the t nited Nations are planning an all-out of fensive /against. Hitler in April and—- That vast quantities of gasoline, fuel oil and food must he transported before the attempted knock-out blow, and— That early next summer, as a result of the present restrictions upon the rise of gasoline and food rationing, the Allied armies will have what they need and launch a stupendous and overwhelming attack, and— That it will shorten the war and save the lives of, thousands of young Americans, maybe a number from Chowan County. Now. aren't you. willing to do without, your gasoline, fuel oil and such and as much and varied kinds of food as you would like? Frank Advice Following the alarming outbreak of cholera and..others diseases among hogs in Chowan County and the subse quent request to enlist the aid of State experts to analyze the cause of so many hogs being lost, competent I veterinarians have, frankly laid the bulk of the blame j to carelessness and negligence on the part of hog grow- ; ers themselves. This frank advice was not voluntarily thrust down j the throats of hog growers, but came, following toe bi- j forts of Representative. John F. White, wbo appealed 1 to Governor Broughton to send experienced veterinar- I ians into the area, not only to determine what was kill ing the hogs, but to analyze the situation and recom mend a remedy. These experts blame decayed peanuts and soybeans in tfife fields as part of the trouble, lyut more emphasis is placed upon the failure to vaccinate hogs m time. Chowan County has for several years been practically free of cholera among hogs, and as a result mar;;, growers no doubt thought it was unnecessary to con tinue the vaccination process. As a result, say the ex perts. hogs have been weakened and are far more susceptible to the cholera germ than had they beer, systematically vaccinated. Instead, when hogs showed signs of being sick, growers resorted to the promiscuous use of virus, which only added to the trouble. Advice sought by hog growers has been secured, and pleasant or not, continued Toss of hogs will no doubt de pend upon whether or not the growers are willing to abide by the suggestions of State verterinarians or as they themselves think best. THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. 0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943 Heard and SEEjy ! By “BUFF" j Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock is the deadline to list property for taxation—that is unless you have an extra buck which you”d like to pay via the tax route. The listing books will be closed at that time and they will not be reopened until Wednesday, so that any "ho have not listed on time cannot file Monday and have something like this to say: "1 was too busy or forgot, and I'm only one day late, so how about waiving the dollar penalty?” That will not go this year, so all who have n«t yet listed are urged to go to the tax listers in their respective townships and stand in line for not at tending to this matter before now. o ——— 1 owe an apology to Mayor Jack McMullan. He is posst-ssed with a relu'ctancy to issue proclamations, anu , only when lie deems it necessary does he write one. j Last week, in view of the disturbance in Edenton, he is- j sued a proclamation to the effect that law and ordei j would be maintained by duly constituted authorities ami i I that individuals or groups of individuals taking the law in their own hands would not be tolerated. He was very careful about his spelling and phraseology and even wanted to see a proof after it was put into type. He , okeyed the proof and there were no errors in it, but by: ges,.. when it appeared in the paper, the bloo.nin thing - ..as all mixed up, so that it was kind of hard to reaa j just what the Mayer had to say. The mix-up, as well j a.- a gang of others of late, was made in making up the , paper, and if many more of these kind of errors occupy. Sheriff Bunch will, before long, accompany a weekly newspaper editor to Dix Hill. And speaking about errors, the other week stories on the. front page appeared under the wrong heads and the ops called me tk> task because in the same issue the amount of gas and oil used by the Police Department appeared as $331.19. Nope, they didn’t do a lot of extra driving, for the proper figure should have been $31.19. , —_— o- • If 1 get it right, Mrs. Bert White is getting along fine with her new job in Washington, D. G. However. , site finds that it is a fight for one's life to get to and from work in the crowds. I understand, though, that.) Mrs. White can take it and that she is fast learning how to wiggle and push in order ,to make any headway. | Well, that’s part of the life in the big towns, so give j me good old Edenton, o- And speaking iif .crowds, Saturday night in Edenton j reminded one of a very rainy Saturday long before any- 1 thing was, ever heard of a Marine Corps Air Station here. Very few people were on the streets and as .e result merchants did very little business after dark. Yn.i in this connrtion some explanation of the white line ■ uii t e sidewalk should be made to clear up wrong im- ; pi ess,ions. The Only purpose of the, line is to help :,pre vent a crowded sidewalk caused by groups of individuals stopping to talk with friends which heretofore occurred ; exactly where the friends happened to meet, if in the' middle of the sidewalk, at a store entrance or anywhere : else. For those people who want to stop and talk, the space netween the curb and the line is for that very purpose., while pedestrians on, the other portion of the j . sidewalk are to. keep moving so that there will be no : congestion at store entrances or any interference on the part of those who are on their, way for business or other reasons. The line was painted by employees of the j Street Department late Friday night and was reason i for many inquiries as to the purpose of it. There | might, however, be another use for the white line. - for if the cops happen to see a fellow who has imbibbed ‘ 100 freely .they might request him to walk on the line to determii.<• whether or not he is drunk enough to be locked up. Anyway, the line divides a talkin’ and walkin’ • n< so use the one for what you happen to be doing while down town. From what 1 understand, the new wrinkle was pretty generally observed Saturday night. ■ specially after Mayor McMullan himself. Hob 1 ’ratt , I arid a couple of the Town Couneilmen ha 1 to In- remind ed I" mmc toward the curb if they wanted to chew the lag. o Noah Goodwin, last week, returned from a trip to Africa, Missouri, with Charlie Griffin, and though he had; a dickens of a time keeping or, his feet, he says j he really .enjoyed the trip. Noah says the mercury was : front lu to lli degrees below zero while he was there and. that cum and ice covered everything, lit; fact,? about the way i get it, while in the Missouri town. Friend Goodwin was sliding around on his mid-section about as much as he was on his. feet. He visited his son, . Miles, and met for the first time two grandchildren of? the Goodwin family. He’s about over the trip now, at. I except shoving his hands behind him when telling about his experiences but west. Gettin’ closer to fatin' chitterlings all the time. The ' other night 1 was invited to a fresh pigs’ feet spper—, my first experience with those things. Though I ate i four or five of the pigs’ pedal extremities, 1 lack a lot of experience, for there apparently is an art in gnawing j what meat there is from the bones. Where I encounter- ] ed the greatest difficulty was in wiping my hands and: i mouth, for I was instructed not to try to use a knife j arid fork, but to take the things in my fingers and go J ; to town. This was done, but when through 1 was given! ! paper napkins and the bloomin’ paper clung to my ■ i mouth, cheeks, hands and anywhere else I had made ! j contact with the feet. I’ll soon be getting up enough: 1 nerve to try chitterlings, unless somebody has already! I fed me the consarn. things camouflaged as something | else. o —- Charlie Russell was all smiles the other night at the power plant, and it was not only because he had taseri two orders for new suits—a sideline of his. What really brought the smiles to Charlie’s face was the fact that he had become a grandpappy, and the young ster is named after him, C. F. Russell 111. Fletcher Russell, Charlie’s son, who has been away from Edenton for a number of years, is the proud daddy of the young est Russell to help keep the Russell family tree flour-' ishing. Congratulations, Charlie, and how about a cigar? ' o Some of the sport fishermen got sort of excited the other day when an erroneous rumor went the rounds that Representative John F. White proposed to intro-! duce a local bill in the House allowing the setting of j nets in the mill ponds and streams hereabouts. Os | course, I chased down our Representative to get the 1 “Have Ya Seen a Cop?” “No.” “Then Hands Up!” low down. Says John, “Why I’d be crazy to introduce such a bill, for I’ni u hook and line fisherman my self and would not want to ruin our sport fishing.” Arid he is a fisher man, too. for every time I’ve met him down any creek he always seems to have a bigger string than I. At any rate, if 1' get it right, the law: already makes it permissible only during the three winter months, December 22 to March 22, to set nets in the run of a mill pond, and then only by special permission from the game warden. This does riot apply to any of the creeks. The supposition is that during the three months about the only fish likely to be caught in the mill pond runs are grinnel, cat fish and other species detrimental to other more edible fish. But if you ask me. it looks as though all the fish around here have been caught or else they have changed “boarding houses” for a bite these days is about as rare as seeing a pound of coffee on a store shelf. o—— Have, you heard of the fellow who was arrested for being drunk and singing? When asked why he was arrested he replied, "For reckless Walking and playing the radio.” There were many on hand at the school house Thursday night, when the Beta Club staged a game party. All sorts of card games were in pro ’ gross iii the library, but taking a look over the crowd 1 didn’t see any of Edenton’s poker players taking part. Again the clock on the Court House is the basis for complaint. A : number of folks have asked me why the clock does not strike the hour all during the night, and have presente : ; their reason why it should strike, lu • e first place. I’m told, alarm clocks cannot be bought and at that, the: • arc some who work at the air state who are completely lost as to the time of day or night due to not hat ing a time-piece. Another reaso ! advanced was on the part of a fellow who has frequent visitors. This guy ! says that if the clock struck 12, ' someone would hear it and the remark about the time would not he so em barrassing and there would be more of a chance that his guests would ' leave and allow him to get some : sleep. Anyway, the clock was stop | ped on certain hours some time back due to complaint on the part of hotel gdests that the striking kept them awake. Here’s one who has been in some hotels Where there was more racket going on than the striking of i a clock to keep a fellow awake. o 1 Another complaint registered this j week has to do with the purchasing | and displaying of the town automo ! bile licenses. One complainant said jhe walked eight blocks and in that distance he saw only three city li censes displayed. The town ordi- I nance says these licenses must be bought and displayed by January 1. ! How are the officers to know who i has or has not bought the licenses if j they are not displayed anyhow, unless i they waste a lot of time checking i with Miss Louise Coke? Here’s one who join in this complaint. The li censes should be displayed, and if all who drive their cars do not buy their city licenses, then those who have forked out a buck should have it re funded. o , Jig-saw puzzles used to be a popu lar pastime and some of ’em were pretty tough to get together. But a harder nut to crack is why a guy’s 1 automobile which Is a year older, is valued at SSO more on the tax books, jAn automobile is a very expensive decoration in a garage these d*ys, for in the first place owners had to buy a stamp costing 5 bucks, then a State license, a city license, pay to : have tires inspected, increased in j value—and then has to let it stand. I A fellow can’t even go fishing. The 1 other day I called up the ration board 1 . tn see if 1 could Use up the gasoline in my outboard motor, and an em phatic “No” came back. They did, however, say 1 could fish from the County dock if 1 Wanted to. Gosh, about the nearest I've gotten to hand ling a fish lately was at a recent birthday party when I was in a con test putting paper fish on a string. MERRY HILL ♦ — —♦ Goi p. George Smith wick left Friday! for Georgia, after spending a few days with Iris wife in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. \V. M. Smith wick. Mr. and Mis. Jimmie Love, of Newport News, Ya., spent Sunday as guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. White. Mrs. Lillie Daniels and baby, of Newport News, Yu., spent Thursday with her sister, Mrs. Ghesley White. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Winborne visited Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Winborne. at Harrellsville, Sunday. Miss Lucille Gobi', of Norfolk, Va., was the week-end guest of her moth er, Mrs, C. Cobb. Arthur Davis and son, George, of Elizabeth City, spent the week-end at home with his wife and family. Mrs. Steve White, and children, of Newport Nows, Va., were the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Smithwick, during the week-end. Mrs. Spurgeon Evans spent the week-end at Eastern Sanatorium, Scott Feed & Seed Store CHEKS- CHIX i There’s something NEW in town ... a new kind of baby' chick with “built-in” vigor, livability, and egg-laying capac ity! We’re now taking orders for our sensational new CHEK-R-CHIX, produced from carefully selected, high producing, bloodtested flocks, fed a special breeder ration to insure a quick start even during the 21 days the chick 's inside the shell! We suggest you order early! Chick demand will be heavy •his year, and there may not be enough to go arouncL -ome in and see CHEK-R-CHIX for yourself. "MEET MY PAIS"... Buy “ALL THREE” at... - Scott Feed & Seed Store Edenton, N. C. Phone 273 «ywuywvssr Local Episcopalians At Auxiliary Meeting The annual meeting of the Wom an’s Auxiliary in the Diocese of East Carolina was held Wednesday in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Washing ton, N. C. Among those attending this meeting from St. Paul s Church, Edenton, were: Mrs. Rupert Goodwin, Mrs. J. A. Moore, Mrs. R. P. Radham, Miss Margaret l'ruden, Mrs. -Sydney McMullan. Miss Jessie McMullan, Mrs. C. T. Rawlinson, Mrs. Emmett Elliott and the Rev. and Mrs. Lewis F. Schenck. Both Mr. and Mrs. Schenck had places on the program. Mrs. Schenck is one of the Diocesan officers, the chairman of the Church Periodical Club, while Mr. Schenck led the lim itation at the close of the meeti^* PLEASANT GROVE CLUB MEETS Mrs. W. B. Davenport was hostess to the Pleasant Grove Home Demon stration; Club at the regular monthly meeting on the afternoon of January 19th, Miss Elizabeth Chesson pre sided. During tlie business session officers for the coming year were elected as follows: Mrs. W. A. Swain, president; Mrs. W. H. long, vice president; Mrs. William Swain, secre tary, and Mrs, W. It. Davenport, treasurer. The following project leaders were appointed: Nutrition and Health, Mrs. R. H. Chesson; Fowl, 1 'reduction, Mrs. Hope Spruill; Food Conservation, Mrs. R. I. Collins; Clothing. Mrs. Ella Waters; Home Furnishing, Mrs. W. B. Davenport; Home Beautification. Mrs. Clara Snell, and Home Dairy, Mrs. W. A, Swain. Mrs. Darden, Home Agent, gave a talk on Family Planning for the Farm. Soloist Will Sing At Meth'odist Church As a feature of the morning ser vice Sunday at the Methodist Church, a solo will be sung by Miss Lois Jer nigam Miss Jernigan’s home is in Aulander, but she is at present em ployed at the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station. DR. HART IMPROVING Dr. \Y. I. Hart, who has been very sick at his home, is gradually improv ing. He expects to be able to be in his office by Friday. Wilson, with her husband, who is a patient there. She reports his condi tion greatly improved. Mr. and Mrs. Hobson Taylor and daughter, of Wiliiamston. spent Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Smith wick. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown amU daughter. Ann, of Colerain, Mrs. C. Cobh on Sunday. L. I. Bowen, of Windsor, was the dinner guest of his mother, Mrs. T. E. Bowen, Monday. J, L. Williford spent last week in Duke Hospital, Durham, where lie underwent an operation.
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