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PAGE FOUR THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY JAN. 13 1927. Vhe Beaut ort hews Published every Thursday t Beaufort, Carteret County North Carolina. Beaufort New Inc., Publuher WILLIAM GILES ME BANE President and Editor J. P. BETTS Secretary and Treasurer c.iy real consideration. This condition is badly in need of a remedy Another thing tnat ought to be done is to keep the people informed at frequent intervals as to the county indebtedness Carteret county has a very large bonded indebtedness, most of which has accumulated in the past two years, and we will venture the assertion that not ten people in the county I knew until recently how much it owed. And while they are j working on the matter the leg- SUBSCR1PTION RATES (In Advance) One Year -12.00 ! jsiators might very well put a Bix Months 1.00; few restrictions on boards of Three Month 60 town commissioners aiso Entered aa second-class matter j February 5, 1912 at the postoffice in j Beaulort, North Carolina, under the ct of March 3, 1879. j -oOo- POWER. Ten years ago the motive power of the Beaufort News consisted of a little wheezy, THURSDAY JAN. 13, 1927 i old gas engine. It was some- . -i what like a balky horse m that it ran when it felt like it, which ship and get such light on it as thev may be able to find. oOo PRESS GLEANINGS ON CONDITION. The approaching Legislature will be urged to pass a law providing lor an eight-months school term in the State. For some time the question has been agitated and its advocates are pressing the matter to the utmost. The value of schools and educa tion is one that we would not for a moment underestimate, and we hope to see the time when every rural dis trict in the State has the same length term and the same high type of schools as the cities now have. How ever, until the system of taxation for schools is revised we cannot get en thusiastic on the proposed eight months term. The State is amply able, we feel sure, to support a uni form eight months if a uniform sys tem of school taxation, with the State as a unit, is devised. As con ditions now exist the longer term in Federal chemists are now: was not very 0ften a year or trvinc to find something to put; ori i)(ir npw pritrine was rur- in alcohol that will keep Peo; Phased and then a few years some counties would add very little pie trom dnnKing u ana tam al-er that two electric motors extra ouraen, in omers tne extra will not kill them. Even tnat were installed. A few days a- levy required would be burdensome, might not work but we would a jarge electric motor was , The eight months proposition should sugest that they try a little fish t into commission and now j be pushed only on condition that the scrap and see what it would the Xews machinery is entire-: taxation problem is worked out wise do. 1 ly electrically operated and ! ly and uniformly. (Morganton New I oOo with some Dower left for fu- Herald.) The corporations are saying ture growth. that North Carolina's tax laws Electricity is the best sort of are unjust to them and that power for most shops and lac many are being driven one of tories. It pulls more evenly the State on account ol tne tnan steam or gas engines uu said laws oOo FOUR MILLION ACRES SHOULD BE FOESTED There are in North Carolina close The farmers savand the fire risk is consider-: to four million acres of idle land that they' are being taxed too : ably less than where gasoline : which should be reclaimed for for v,;,rv, anri mnsf- pvervbodv is ' is used for the motive power, kicking more or less. What Twenty five years ago electric we would like to know is,' who : power was used but spar wants to pav taxes any way? ! ingly in North Carolina Now in me great, iuauui.ai:i.uiiiif Piedmont section it is used al most exclusively by the cotton mills and many other factories -oOo- The Weekly Times, publish ed in New Bern by Leslie B. Homan, has been a regular vis- ests, according to an estimate of the Division of Forestry. This territory has been denuded of growth by forest fires following or dinary methods of logging and is either unsuited or not yet needed for agriculture. Since otherwise the land will not be used, it is point .ivn-1 oVira Qr, nnnillflr VlQQ it! nA mif fllof ifa rcvacfotinn will Mrtf ltor at our ornce lor seveiai , 0onmti hai. tVlp hio- nnwer! ' - n r j O ....... . - " " fits, but will also be an asset to the State in many other ways. Idle land is a liability while productive land is an asset. The two ways suggested for re- weeks ana we nave iounu n a rt h , ieadablfeuhe,eto iply all that is demanded of Craven county has not had a them and are constantly in. weekly newspaper for some crea?ing their capacity. This j it oflowc! That rhoi'o rt'iunt, . . . j " , "r ; electrical development in tne i i n - 1 i i-1 10 ue a goou at.u te : iui middle part of the State has claiming this land are by the plant- one. ve w ii tuc ximco muv.ii, contributed in wonderful fash-i ing of forest tree seedlings or by I facturing industry there, and of planting, F. H. Claridge, assistant -oOo- There was not a single the end is not yet. If all goes lynching in North Carolina well within the next fifty years last year, which was a good the manutactunng industry in forester, shows, has been demonstrat ed in many European countries and in some parts of the United States, record. There were scma acts North Carolina will rival that! where it has been resorted to in or- of mob violence but no mob of the great manufacturing dis murder was committed, i.. tricts of England Germany or South . Carolina turee people i the New England states, were murdered by mobs and Some of the big power ccm Florida with eight m)b mur- ranie are thinking of extend ders led the wffole Union. The ing their lines throughout change in North Carolina is er.rtern Carolina too and when due largely to a change in pub- they do then industrial centers lie sentiment which has been like Winston-Salem, High forming for some years and al- Point, Greensboro and Durham so to the fact that officials have ; will spring up in the east. They been more active in perform- will need a great port then to ing their duties in the way of send their products to the four protecting prisoners. ; corners of the earth and we oOo know the place where this ABSENTEE VOTING. I port should be located. .-. oOo MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. The best way to reform the ; absentee ballot law is to re-, peal it. WTe doubt if it is pos- Here is a question that has sible to put safeguards around i been the cause of many an an- this netarious law tnai woum acrimonious debate. ly.Keiy make it decent Not many enough some day Beaufort will people will be hurt by its re- be in the throes of such a dis peal and the whole common-; pute. A few weeks ago repre wealth is hurt by its being in ! sentatives of a large power com force. There are many thous-j panv were here looking over ands of people in North Caro-j the 'local power situation and lina who do not vote because i evidently had in mind the they do not want to. Most of j thought of buying or making the'absentee fellows are in that j an offer for the city plant. It class. If they were really in-; js probable that they have vis tereKted in voting they could : ited various other eastern, manage to get to the polls, j towns for the same purpose In Some people travel hundreds the nr.ddleand western sections rf miles to vota and yet thous-; and some of the east practically r"ds m absentee votes areall electric power is lurnished polled in the primaries and the j by such companies as the regular elections simply be-Southern Power Company and cruise the absentees are too in-1 the Carolina Light and Power f'TTerent to attend to the bus-: Company. The street railways 5-ess of doing their own vot-iand the electric lighting and ing. And then too some of the ; gas plants are owned by cor ; isentees may be dead. A dorations In some of the letter law thatn the absentee l j smaller towns the electric light mv would be to make every1 lines are owned by the towns manned voter go to the pons; and they buy their power trom rnd vote or pay a fine. Absen- the big power companies. Beau ) -"e voting thwarts fair elec- .fort and many other towns in t;ons and is a source of corrup- i the eastern part of the State lion. It ought to be stopped. ! own their power 'plants and oOo i sell the current to their citi- A GOOD SUGGESTION. S zens. There are two sides to the der to supplement natural reproduc tion ,cr to reclaim areas denuded by fire or shifting sand. Some of the best reasons given fcf reclaiming the land are: the increas ing price of timber, the enhanced val ue of a farm on which timber is growing, the desirability of shelter belts and windbreaks, the advantag es of making idle lands productive and the fact that idle land deterior ates. (Natural Resources-. oOo hellers Frcm Our J - Readers - PRAISES THE HEWS. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE The Bank of Beaufort at Beaufort, N. C, in the State of North Carolina, at the close of bus iness, December 31. 1926. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts Demand Loans Overdrafts, secured, $ ; unsecured, $335.28 United States Bonds and Liberty Bonds All other Stocks, Bonds, and Mortgages - Banking Houses, $19,443.60 ; Furniture and Fix. $ 5,000.00 All other Real Estate owned Cash in vault and net amounts due from Banks, Bankers and Trust Companies 1 Cash Items held over 24 hours Checks for clearing $332,318.96 8,135.00 335.28 11,000.00 5,000.00 24,443,60 4,117.09 40,393 96 18278 2,295.51 Total $428,222.18 LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in 20,000.00 Surplus Fund 7,500.00 Undivided Profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 437.48 Dividends Unpaid 800.00 Notes and Bills rediscounted 19,398 89 Deposits subject to check. Individual 163,656.46 Demand Certificates of Deposit 3,166.76 Cashier's Checks outstanding 572.98 Certified Checks 10.00 Savings Deposits 212,429.61 Accrued Interest due depositors 250.00 Total .$428,222.18 State of North Carolina County of Carteret, January 11, 1927. I, J A. Hornaday, Cashier of ,the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statem2nt is true to the best of my knowledge and i i T A TT 1 - 1 I belief. Subscriber and sworn to before me, this 11 day of January, 1927. Jno. Forlay, Notary Public. My Comm. expires 12-2-28. J. A. Hornaday, Cashier. Correct Attest : JOSEPH HOIVE JNO. FORLAV V. A. MACE Directors. . Editor of the News: I herewith inclose ons ($1) dollar for subscription to the News which I consider the best paper in your State because of the excellent editorials editorials given in various issues and the good sound principFes back of them. I am alluding particularly to one in which you, exonerated Lin coln for the illiteracy in the South and another in which you' gave the truth about North Carolina being pushed out of the Union at the be ginning of the Civil War Instead of going out voluntary as has been so often erroneously stated. Very Truly, (Miss) IRENE A. SMITH, E. F. Bldg. Government Hotels, Washington, D. C. Jan. 7, 1927. oOo MRS. LAY ENTERTAINS. V WtO.U-8.PAT.On'. j Mrs. G. W. Lay delightfully enter tained a few friends at bridge Fri day afternoon. The party was giv en complimentary to Mrs. Edmund Jones of Petersburg, Va. who is here on a' visit to her daughter Mrs. C. P. Dey. Top score was made up Mrs. A. J. Cooke, Mrs. Lay's guests were Mrs. Edmund Jones, Mrs. C. P. Dey, For Modern Modes of Living Reed and Fibre Furniture Mrs. John Abernethy, Mrs. W. A. Mace, Mrs. W. G. Mebane. Delicious refreshments were served. Mrs Jones was presented with a lovely sachet of lavender blossoms. o Oo In his messaee to the Gener-' munipinal nwnershin ouestion. ?1 Assembly Governor McLean We have no intention of debat- Mrs- A- J- Cooke, Mrs Joseph House made a number of recommen- ing it at this time. It will be dations which seem to be very : time enough to do that when good. One that particularly ; ever a serious offer is made for impressed us is that relating to j the town plant. If agood price county government. In the could be secured for it and a year 1925 the Governor ap-: favorable contract made as to pointed a commission to study, future service it might not be a the question of county govern- bad idea to sell and apply the ment. It did so and made sev-i money to some of the town's real criticisms of present meth- debts. WTe should not favor a ods. The Governor referred j sale though unless a good trade to these in his mesage and ; could be effected. We under suggested that the Legisla-, stand that although the plant ture pass some law looking to was enlarged a short time ago the improvement of county gov- that already about all the cur erjimant. He called attention I rent is being used. It will be to the,;ractice, which prevails only a short time before an ad 5n many counties, of issuing dition will have to be made bonds without giving the peo- which will require a considsjr ple any choice in the matter, cble outlay. It might be .well Also that of calling special enough therefore for our "pee- elections on short notice era nle to think something p..oour;.; rushing a bond issue over be- the municipal ownership r.sl;! fore the people have given k compared. with private owner-'.; IN these days of cozy apartments and sunny little houses in the country and suburbsr-can you imagine any more delightful or practical furniture than Reed and Fibre Furniture? Now on display is a very Inter esting collection of Reed and Fibre Furniture. Heywood-Walcefield Furniture is the result of a century of investi gation and study. There are suites foralmost every room,and also there is a wide selection of odd pieces, THE WILLISTON EPWORTH LEAQUE Will Give a PIE PARTY FRIDAY NIGHT JAN. 22nd. Everybody Come Dr. J. O. Baxter 5: SPECIALIST i The Eye Only NEW BERN, N. C. tj thi'iilcnu'v.y ! Gaskill-Mace Company Two Stores Hardware FRONT ST. Furniture BEAUFORT, N. 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