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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931
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The Beaufort News
abiishd every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina
Beaufort Newi Inc., Publither
WILLIAM GILES MEBAXE Pres. and Editor
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y and inefficient. The bitter wrangling that
went on for months left bad feeling that will
not be eradicated in a long time. The issue
of sectionalism was raised, the East against
the Fiedmont, which ought not to have been
done. The farmers and others connected
with the agricultural industry were arrayed a
gainst the manufacturers, each side believing
that the other was selfish and unfair. Lead
ing Democratic politicians criticise one and
another very harshly. Governor Gardner
and Senator Morrison were not spared. Charg-
bribery were made with con-
lellers Fn.m
Our Readers
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
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Entered as second class matter February 5, 1912 at the
l,cstjffice in Beaufort, North Carolina, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1931
Believe it or not. If the Honorable Jose
phus Daniels enters the contest for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Governor he will get a
lot of votes.
The resentments aroused by the frequent
and bitter clashes in the Assembly will not die
out for a long time. Political animosities are
not always quickly dropped. Democratic
leaders know this and they do not expect to
have as big a majority in the next session of
the Assembly as they had this time. Maybe
they do not want it. A nearly evenly Legis
lature would be much better for North Carolina.
Young La Follette and some of the other
"progressive" Senators are still hanging a
round Washington. Maybe they will leave
when the weather gets real hot. They abuse
President Hoover mightily for not calling a
special session of Congress which is about I and exposed the corruption that existed.
A WEB OF DECEIT
IS FINALLY EXPOSED
The trial ofa number of public officials and
bankers in Asheville exposed a very unfortu
nate condition that had existed there. An al
liance had been formed between these men
that resulted in unlawful actions as a result
of which large sums of public money were
lost. The failure of the banks lifted the lid
the last thing the country needs. What they
really want though is to see their names in
the newspapers every day or so and they fav
or any thing that will do that.
SOME RELIEF NEEDED
The Williamston Enterprise says that the
railroads used to be opposed to government
ownership but thinks maybe some of them
would like to be taken over now. No doubt
many stockholders would be pleased to have
the government or anybody else buy them out.
There has been a tremendous decline in the
value of railroad stocks in the past year or
so. Some of the best ones will probably rise
again but there does not seem to be much fu
ture for some of the small lines. Probably
the best thing to do would be to consolidate
the small, poorly paying roads with the big,
successful ones. Government ownership is
not the solution unless we are going into So
cialism as a remedy for all our troubles.
STATESUPPORTED SCHOOLS
The Constitution of North Carolina adopted
ia 1868 -provided that there should be "a uni
form system of public schools" in the State.
This mandate of the constitution has never
been obeyed but it seems now that it it on the
way to realization. The State has had super
vision of the public schools for a long time; it
seems that it is now going to pay the expense
of operating them.
The system under which the public schools
have been conducted for some time, part
State and part county control, is not satisfac
tory. It ought to be one thing or the other.
Divided responsibility rarely ever works well.
If each county managed and paid for its own
schools public education would be an unsatis
factory hodge podge. Some counties would
have good schools, some fairly goond and oth
ers poor ones. In the long run such a method
would prove harmful to the State in that many
of her citizens would be very poorly educated.
It is a better yay to let the State do the whole
job and give all the children equal opportuni
ty. If this plan is followed for a generation
or so North Carolina will have a well educated
citizenship that can compete on equal terms
with that of any other state or country,.
"MADE IN NORTH CAROLINA"
Most people in North Carolina know that
the manufacturing industry of the State is a
large one but few realize how large it really
is. This week is what is known as "Made in
North Carolina Week" and "National Cotton
Week" and many stores will display North
Carolina made goods. We will have an op
portunity of seeing what is made in the State
to some extent at least.
It is said that factories in North Carolina
now manufacture goods in 68 of the 340 clas
sifications into which the Bureau of the Census
groups all manufactured products. They em
brace a great many articles, the chief ones of
which are tobacco products, cotton goods,
furniture and other things made of wood. If
samples of all kinds of goods made in North
Carolina could be assembled in one building
it would make a great show. They are be
ing shown this week in stores scattered all ov
er the State. In 1900 the value of all manu
factured products of the State was only a lit
tle more than eighty five million dollars. In
1929 the value of the State's manufactured
products had grown to $1,301,000,000, which
was an increase of 350 percent. Without a
doubt the manufacturing industry in North
Carolina will continue to grow.
It is very likely that the county and town
j officials and the bankers did not intend to ac
j tually steal the public's money. They thought
) they could use it a while and then repay it.
j But the further they went on the road of de
ceit the deeper in the mire they got. Dur
ing the boom times large real estate develop
I ments had been undertaken in and around
! Asheville. When the boom collapsed the
banks found themselves with a great deal of
worthless paper on their hands and they tried
to keep afloat by using money that belonged
to the city of Asheville and Buncombe county.
The scheme did not work and presently the
schemers found themselves in a very bad sit-
i uation. Exposure and disgrace followed.
I Various officials resigned oiiice, the mayor of
I the city committed suicide, others were indict
I ed and some convicted.
! It appeared from evidence brought out at
j these Asheville trials that- these deals had
! been conducted with considerable secj-ecy. It
j was kept out of the newspapers of course.
When officials put through crooked schemes
i they keep as far away from the newspapers
I US nns.aihlp PnhlipiH' wmiM ruin Viqi't nlono
It also seemed that the State Corporation
did not know much about what was going on
in Asheville. If they did then the members
of the Commission ought to be indicted too.
In one way or another the reputation of a
good many people have suffered by the expos
ures at Asheville. Unfortunately there are
other places besides Asheville where such un
lawful transactions have occurred.
Editor of The News:
I don't know just what to say, but
anyhow as long as others are saying
some things I will too..
It etms to be a promising Sum
mer but that's about all. Promises
do very little good. Our blue fish
are on'lv bringing 1 1-2 cents per
pound and big mackerel 5 cents.
A day or two ago I was talking to
some business men who said that big
business was just around the corner,
Km- T talked to some of the boys who
lived around the corner and they
hadn't seen it, said if any big bus
iness was or had been around there
it had fell in a hole, probably where
an old telephone pole used to De.
I always call a spade a spade, and
too, I say its bad times when it is,
that's all I know what to say about it.
They say wolf, wolf, but until the
wolf comes I will not believe. When
some one digs the good business out
of the holes round the coiner it will
spread out and do us all good.
David L.ewis.
Harkers Island.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By John Hix
IN A 6MTLE WiTrt
Rffsr KLINE
WAS KNOCKED
Dowrt 33 Times
IN g ffOONOS
Press Gleanings
VARIETY
We used to hear much about the old fashioned dyed-in-the-wool
Democrats back there before Mr. Raskob
brought out the aged-in-the-wood kind. Boston Herald.
ALTERNATIVES
European kings have to keep their governments or
themselves in gojod running order. Dayton (Ohio)
Journal.
OR JOHN PAUL JONES
"Americans do thing? very well after the British
s-how thorn how." George Bernard Shaw. The Revo
lution, for instance! Or the late war! Or perchance Sir
Thomas Lipton! Or Bobby Jones! Or Helen Wills
Moody! Los Angeles Times.
CHARTER MEMBERS
The establishment of an .American Academy of Hum
or has been suggested. What's the matter with Cong
r:sf ? Milwaukee Journal.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
W. C. Gorham, Com. to town of
Morehead City, 1 lot Morehead City,
for $100.
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morpbead Citv. 10 lots Morehead
City, for $200.
V. C. Gorham, Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 3 lots Morehead City,
for $140.
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of i
Morehead City, 2 lots Morehead City, ,
for $45. i
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 1 lot Morehead City,
for $45. I
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 1 lot Moreehad City, 1
for $200.
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 1 lot Morehead City,
for $237.17. i
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 1 lot Morehead City, j
for $55. i
V. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 1 lot Morehead City,
for $500. I
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town ofj
Morehead City, 4 lots Morehead City,
for $200.
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of;
Morehead City, 1 lot Moreehad City, j
for $200.
W. C. Gorhani Com. to Town of!
Morehead City, 2 lots Moreehad City,
for $71.22.
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 2 lots Moreehad City, j
for $53.75.
Com. to Town of
lot Moreehad City,!
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An outbreak of blight on pear and
apple trees in Caswell County has cut
the prospective yield of those fruits
on a number of farms, reports the
county agent.
The 150 acres planted to lespedeza
in Currituck County this spring show
a good stand of the legume and indi
cations are that the crop will become
increasingly popular in the county.
Com. to Town of
lot Morehead City,
SARTORIAL
Maintaining his position 83 the best dressed man in
New York, Mayor Walker now has a new coat of white
wash. Ohio State Journal.
W. C. Gorham
Morehead City, 1
for $100.
W. C. Gorham Com. to Town of
Morehead City, 1 lot Morehead City,
for $73.
W. C. Gorham
Morehead City, 1
for $500.
J. F. Duncan Trustee to J. A. Ilor-
naday, 4 tracts Beaufort Township,'
for $5000. !
J. F. Duncan, Trustee to J. A. Hor-
naday, 2 tracts Beaufort Township,'
for $1000.
Beaufort Realty Corp. to J. II. Wil
liams, 2 lots West Beaufort, for
$300.
E. H. Gorham Trustee to F. L. B.
of Columbia, 100 acres Merrimon
Township, for $2,2 lfi.50.
E. A. Paul and wife to Leroy Da
vis, 1-3 acre H. Q. Township, for
$400.
Isiah Davis and wife to Leroy Da
vis,' 2 3-8 acres H. Q. Township, for
$50.
Earl Wade and wife to Joseph Da
vis, 6 acres II. Q. Township, for $75.
A Dollar Saved
Is A Dollar Earned
And every week we save our customers
many dollars by giving them efficient shoe
repair service that assures months of ad
ded wear.
We use the highest grade of leather and
give you a finished job that rivals compari
son. If you are in a hurry we will repair while
you wait
Service Shoe Shop
W. R. STEWART, PROP.
PHONE 109-L CRAVEN STREET
THEN AND NOW
Those architectural historians who insist that
years ago America had som very peculiar designed
buildngs ought to browse a:ound a bit n w and see
some of our latest filling stations. Lexir.ton (Ky.)
Herald.
DR. J. M. PARROTT APPOINTED
STATE HEALTH OFFICER i
F"r"
ONE PARTY GOVERNMENT
IS NOT BEST
r As this newspaper has said before one of
the great troubles about the recent session of
the General Assembly was that it was too one
Bided politically. It was an awkward situa
tion for the members, it was not good for the
people and it was hurtful to the Democratic
party.
If the Democratic majority had been a nor
mal one the split would not have amounted to j it wants to put something over o nthe people but onlv
THE GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS
The banking commissioner of Texas told a conven
tion of bankers the other day "the sooner our govern
ment gets out of commercial business, and we get back
to our long-established system of letting private capi
tal handle commercial affairs, the better off we will be."
The commissioner thinks the government ia in its
right sphere in business as a referee.
A chief difficulty, however, in keeping government
"in its right ephere," is that there are so many men
and organizations which want the government to mix
in and help them out or do some regulating when there
is trouble of any sort.
Which opensi up the way for government to take a
hand in direct business operations.
And then, of course, there are the increasing num
ber of radicals with socialistic inclinations and ten
dencies in congress.
But government is not getting into business because
Raleigh, June 3 Dr. James M. ;
Parrott, of Kinston, was elected I
State health officpr.
40. jlate Dr. Charles O'H. Laughinghouse. !
ai a meeting last week of the new
State Board of Health, of which Dr.
J. T. Burrus of High Point, senator
from Guilford county, was elected
president. Governor Gardner has
given his hearty approval to the elec
tion of both men. The health of
ficer, under the new law, must be ap
proved by the Governor.
LONGEST ELECTED CAPTAIN
OF UNIVERSITY TEAM
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mucn, trie legislature would have gotten because there is continual pressure from insistent sec-
mrougn witn its Dusmess sooner, would nave j tions of the people.
Bayed the State considerable expense and An in spite of everything, the people are ultimate
jiujfiii nave uune it ueiier joo. ine long autnonty nere m America. The Rock Hill
drawn out session was unnecessary, was cost- Herald.
Chapel Hill, May 21 Edward Ce
cil Longest of Beaufort, will captain
the University of North Carolina
baseball team for 1932, succeeding
William H. Potter, also of Beauofrt.
Captain-elect Longest is a pitcher,
and won five games while losing one,
as Carolina won the tri-state flag and
rolled up the best record of any team
in the northern half of the Confer
ence this year. Captain Potter is a
catcher.
(S. C.)
The acreage to winter hay crops
such as the barley, oats and vetch
mixture has been increased by 100
per cent in Orange County this year.
uairy xarmers use the mixture to
supplement pasture and for early
grazing.
fyTcOPDIAL J
We Are Prepared,
As usual, to take care of your po
tato checks and checks for other
produce. Through our corres
pondent banks in New York and
other centers we can clear your
checks within the minimum time
and always take pleasure in hand
ling your business for you.
Too, through the potato seas
on we will have daily market re
ports for your convenience and
profit.
Our purpose is to serve you
Avail yourself of the service we
offer.
4 per cent paid on Saving Accts.
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The Bank of Beauforl
Beaufort, N. C.
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