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I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
Friday, Sept. 15, 1922.
GOVERNMENT OWNER
SHIP OF POSTOFFICES
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Uncle Sam is getting tired of pay
ing high rents. Postmaster-General
Hubert Work is one of the President's
cabinet members who has had his pa
tience already worked up to the
breaking point. He says the United
States Government can save money
by providing its own public buildings.
He has recommended to President
Harding that Congress authorize ap
propriations to build postoffices in
every town in the country. His plan
has been approved by Harding, and as
aoon as the details of the proposition
can be perfected, Congress will be
asked to produce the revenue. It is
suggested that the Government bor
row the money, which, Work says, can
be secured at a 4 per cent interest
rats. Once built they would be tax
free, of course.
Out of the 5,836 postoffices in the
United States only 1,200 are owned
by the Government. More than
4,000 belong to individuals or cor
porations. A study made by Post
master-General Work brings out some
startling examples of extortionate
rentals charged for many of the offi
ces and fixtures. On account of the
terms of lease whereby the lessor fur
nishes not only the quarters, but fix
tures, light and heat there are so
many chances for the Government to
get the raw end of the deal that in a
large number of cases public money
is wasted through excessive rentals.
Each year twelve million dollars is
paid for rentals of postoffices in the
United States. Computing this for a
long time period shows how much
more advantageous it would be for
the Government to spend one large
sum of money for construction, elimi
nating the wastage due to excessive
rents, and thus house its own force of
employees without, further expense.
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WE CANNOT STOP NOW
Persons who have gone from Hert
ford County to view the Williamston
bridge have been almost awed by the
stupendousness of the project. They
are amazed at the great undertaking;
such an accomplishment right' here
"under their noses" has opened new
avenues of thought.
Too long have our people been
complacently satisfied with the relics
of bygone days. Cut off by rivers on
every side, and having been richly
blessed by the native fertility of the
Boil which has been almost the sole
means of livelihood, we have assumed
an attitude of let well enough alone.
It has required the minimum of hus
tle to make a "living." Further than
that few have cared to add anything
new under the son.
Occasionally a spirit of unrest
obesses us and we take on new ideas
and drift away back behind the cur
rent of progress. But after each for
ward step a reaction always sets in;
many warm advocates of the new idea
turn against the very thing for which
tbey fought a little while before.
Anything like consistent progress has
been lacking. There are signs of it
everywhere now.
There was a majority in the
eounty who wantedfgood roads. They
said so at the ballot box. But it was
only a short while after road construc
tion began when about the only thing
beard in connection with roads was a
howling and grumbling against the
way it was done, and among some sad
regrets that the county had ever taken
the step it did. It continues until this
efcy day.
However, it is going to require only
a mimimum of education to allay the
kicks that are going the rounds. Once
the people realise what good roads
are, and the beneits derived from
their ase a hush will be placed upon
the fellows who pretend to see noth
iag good in roads. To get away from
oar own soil, see what the neighbor*
are doing, tide over their roads, and
talk to them abov* what advantages
are derived there from means that an
assimilation process is going to soon
eet in, and it will be but a short time
when Hertford County people will
fall in line. ' j
The Williamaton bridge is destined
to awake in our people the appetency
for permanent roads. Even if the
inclination is lacking, the realisation
of our utter inability to successfully
cope with our neighbors who have
good roads is certain to force us into
notion. It's bound to some.
SEEN AND HEARD
THIS WEEK
BY THE OFFICE CAT
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"I paid $55 town taxes in Ahoekie
this year, but until now I have failed
to discover where so much as fifty
cents has been spent," says one Ahos
kie citiien. "Of course, I have
enough common sense to know every
cent of tax money canot be spent
right at my door, but what I would
like to know is, at whose door has any
been spent. The only way I know by
which the figures can be given is
through a statement from the town's
treasury, and I, like others, think it is
already past time when a financial ac
counting should be given." If there's
nothing to hide, why withold the in
formation?
All you have to do in Ahoakie to
escape the law against assault and
battery is to inveigle your intended
victim into a building of some sort
and assail him with au that's in you.
The rule seems to abide that personal
encounters shoultf remain absolutely
personal; that the law has nothing to
do with it. "Let it quiet down" is
the advce given and readily taken by
the officers who are sworn to uphold
law and order. Not even in that sup
posedly lawless state of West Viiv
ginia do lawbreakers get by so easily
and with so little molestation as in
Ahoskie. Visit any of the neighbor
ing villages in Hertford County and
see how quickly you are asked about
this and that "scrap" in Ahoskie.
Everybody knows all about it except
the mayor's court or the justice's
court. If you've got blood in your
eye and are out for meat, the law in
Ahoskie says fight it out?we'll not
harm you. That is what it amounts
to.
Being a member of the County
Road Board is becoming more and
more like being a garage man. No
^person ever has business with it ex
cept that a complaint is lodged. It is
is always something wrong.
Brother Archibald Johnson pleads
for the elimination of the flapper
from the school faculties. Ahoskie
trustees have had the same Vision.
But the news is going around that the
days of the flapper are numbered,
anyway. Advices coming from those
who have nothing to do but study
these rivialities say that the short
skirted, bob-haired Miss who- has been
the companion of the cake-eater and
candy-ankle species of the male tribe
is fast becoming extinct.
If there are any doubta about the
religion of Hertford County negroes
they are quickly assuaged by a trip
through the rural sections. Drive any
direction yon may choose, and at
every country church on these hot
September days there's an outpouring
of the colored brethern religiously at
tending to their Christianity. The old
time protracted- meeting period is still
the biggest event of the year with
Hertford County negroes.
Even the white folks of Hertford
still believe in the religion of old days.
The itinerant fellow/has to search for
and wide to find a people more devot
ed to the church and its affairs than
the folks of this particular section.
We are great church-goers. If real
goodness is an infallible corrallary of
church attendance, there is little ques
tion about Hertford County people
being'relatively among the most re
ligious in the country.
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Legal tangles are growing to
such an extent in administering
the affairs of the County High
way Commission that some mem
bers have suggested an all-law
yer board. When the new board
takes charge of the affairs, in
December, Ahoskie is going to
help solve the problem. Mr. J.
R. Garrett, the nominee, has long
ago cinched the title of attorney
general of' the dominion over
which he reigns.
"Jake" Hamilton is here with his
vaudeville and moving picture show
this week. Ahoskie affords Hamilton
some of the season's best audiences,
and his show has become a fixture
here. Many are attending the show
from other Hertford County towns.
The tent ia pitched on Copeland's
vacant lot.
HERTFORD COUNTY ROADS
(By J. A. PARKER)
There seem* to be a great deal of
discussion ovr the County over road
building; and the way they are being
built. I feel constrained to write an
article in defense of road building
that is going on within the county.
First, I will say that I believe we
have an efficient superintendent and
that, if Mr. Hines is given the proper
consideration, encouragement and
support, he will build our roads. And,
I will say I believe him to bp the only
real road builder we have ever had
in the county.
Some want a cheap man at less
salary. " It would bw like employing
a man raised in a city whcr never
plowed a mule, to run a 10-horse
farm. Failure would be the result.
A man has to have the training and
preparation to make a success of any
thing. . I am almost sick hearing men
in the county complaining Taxes!
Taxes! And the taxes on the county
road bonds will be on our children
after we have passed away.
..What does that matter if they have
to help pay for them? I want to see
some good roads, and travel over
them; and when I am dead, that my
children and grandchildren won't
have to pull through the mud as I
have for more than fifty yean.
Mr. Editor, I tell you there are lots
of folks in the county who object to
roads being staaightened any, or sharp
bends being taken out. If it takes
ten feet of his land to do this, he
wants damages. Yes, if his farm is
enhanced in value a thousand dollars
by a good road going by his home, oh
yes, he wants damages. Well, I tell
you, the kickers are a great menace
to progress. They talk road bonds
will bankrupt our county.
These complainers talk like they
have never paid apy road taxes be
fore. Heretofore we have been pay
ing fifty thousand" dollars under the
old township system, and still pulling
ourselves out*of the mud. I have
worked under every road system in
our county from eighteen years old to
forty-five, and since then been taxed
for roads for forty-three years; and
the whole thing or every system has
been a failure.
I have a progressive spirit. I
want to see better roads, better
schools, better churches, and a better
citisenship; better, religiously, moral
ly and financially, and every other
way that will be an uplift to human
ty; and I am not kicking over taxes.
If it takes taxes to bring about better
conditions, let's hav? the taxes. So,
my friends, stop abusing, complaining
and criticizing, and let's get behind
the road building program and make
it go.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as exe
cutrix of the estate of Samuel
Weaver, late of Hertford county.
This is to notify all persons having
claims against said estate to present
them to the undersigned on or before
the 15th day of August, 1923, or this
notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make immediate
payment.
This 15th day of August, 1922.
MATTIE WEAVER COLLINS,
Executrix of Samuel Weaver, de
ceased. 8-18-5t.
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