fAGE FOUR
The Beaufort News
published every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina
Beaufort New inc., Publisher
.WILLIAM GILES ME B AXE Pres. and Editor
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nies. This is the reason Great Britain has a
riopted the protective tariff system. When
she had no competition to speak of she didn't
need any protection. Now it is different.
Thci-;- is much competition ;;ow and it is go-
i mg to be keener. A tremendous and hnan-
ciai firuggie is going on between tne leading
nations of the earth. What its outcome will
be no man can tell at this time but it looks
like tome mighty interesting things are going
to happen in the next ten or fifteen years.
I o
i MR. Mc
hellers From
Our Readers
Burglar Insurance
JEntired as second class matter February 5, 1912 at the
tostffice in Beaufort, North Carolina, under the Act
of March 3. 1879.
MEMBER NO XT II CAROLINA TRIiXS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931
Federal census report figures show that a
little more than a third of the farms in North
.Carolina are mortgaged. To be exact 37.13
per cent. This was the figure for 1930, which
was an increase over the year 1920 by6.23
per cent. The report shows that 279,708
farms were operated in the State during the
year 1930 which was an increase of 945 over
the year 1920. These figures show that agri
culture is still a very large industry in North
Carolina and probably always will be so.
PUBLICITY FOR BEAUFORT
A recent Sunday edition of the Philadelphia
Inquirer gave Beaufort some nice publicity
which no doubt our citizens will appreciate.
The Inquirer is a newspaper with large circu
lation and prestige and of course an article
like the one referred to necessarily attracts at
tention. The article in the Inquirer was occasioned
by an automobile tour recently mapped out by
the "Keystone Automobile Club," a Philadel
phia institution. This tour comes south via
Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Petersburg
Elizabeth City, Edenton, Windsor, New Bern
and ends at Beaufort. From here the return
trip to Philadelphia goes by way of Raleigh,
Greensboro, Roanoke, the Shenandoah Valley,
Hagerstown, Lancaster. As the Inquirer says
this route goes through a section "rich in his
torical interest" and besides there is much in
.the way of fine scenery to be viewed. We
hope that a good many Philadelphians will be
moved to take this trip and that they will not ' think they know is legion
travel so last that they will miss many of the
worthwhile sights as motorists often do.
CONSERVATIVE LEGISLATION
DOES NOT CREATE DEFICITS
Extravagant expenditures by Congress, by
state legislative bodies, by counties and mu
nicipalitieo have loaded upon the individual
taxpayers and corporate bodies of the United
States a load that is very hard to bear. Vast
quantities of bonds were issued, so vast that
it seems utterly astonishing thnt they were ev
er sold. But they were sold and now the
chicken? are coming home to roost in the shape
of treasury deficits that are painful to behold.
There are only two courses to follow in
meeting the debt situation that seems to be
practical. The first is to pay every debt pos
sible to pay and the second is to avoid making
new ones- Congress is going to meet now in
a few days and immediately there will be at
tmepts by such Senators as Brookhardt, La
Follette, Wheeler, Norris and others to appro
priate vast sums for this or that and to still
further increase the nation's debt load. Spec
ial interests like the Navy League will be on
hand and all the bureaucrats around Washing
ton will be holding out their hats for dona
tions. President Hoover has been doing all
he could to hold down the Government's ex
penses. Conservative men of both political
parties will support him but there are many
members of Congress who will vote for almost
any sort of appropriation if they think it will
gain them a few votes. The welfare of the
nation is a secondary consideration with this
sort of Congressman. The people back home
ought to express their opinions in no uncertain
way on this sort of statesmanship. If they
would do this a check would soon be put on
extravagance in legislation. Deficits are not
caused by conservatism.
CAIN MAKES
SOME OBSERVATIONS
Editor of The News:
There are a fe wthings I have to
mention this week, my general health
is better but my strength is just a
bout gone. Iam bothered with indi-ce-tiori
and other comnlair.ts that go
with it. Dr. E. S. Weaver from
Ecaufort paid nie a visit last week
and told me what kind of food was
best for me to eat and what not to
eat and I am going as nigh to what
he said as I well can and I have
found help in it. I urn feeling lots
better.
My fritnds we have had a very
nice lain and 1 hope that most of the
forest fiie have been put out for I
almost thought that the time had
come that is spok-;-1. cf in the 3rd
I chapter of Peter.
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Press Gleanings
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One of our contemporaries observes that no one
knows how to cure a depression. But the number who
Boston Transcript.
BEAUFORT GOES FORWARD
The town of Beaufort seems to be about to
do something that will be very helpful and
which might well be followed by some other
towns and counties if they can. That is to
say Beaufort is paying her debts and making
a good start towards restoring her credit which
has been somewhat impaired. Beaufort is
very fortunate in that it has not been neces
sary to borrow money to pay debts. That
sort of paying is just a temporary expedient
and while it helps sometimes, it does not real
ly meet the demands of the situation. The
debts here are not being paid out of borrow
ed money. Beaufort converted a non-productive
asset into actual cash and is paying debts
with it. And now if no new debts are cre
ated for the next five years Beaufort citizens
will not have to go to bed at night wondering
how they are going to pay their taxes.
THESE DAYS qF TRIAL
An Ontario paper says that in a time of depression
people learn to do without things their parents never
had. Minneapolis Journal.
NO POLITICS REQUIRED
The place to rettle the farm problem is on the farm.
Forbes Magazine.
The Woodstock Sentinel-Review says this paper
"warns its readers" of the increased penalty now im
posed for chicken stealing. Whatd oes it mean by
''warns its readers?" Readers of this newspaper do
not steal chickens. Toronto (Ont.) Star.
COTTON ACREAGE REDUCTION
North Carolina farmers very wisely reduc
ed their acreage in cotton this year. They did
this without being forced to do it by law. Some
of the other states, Texas in particular, in
creased their cotton acreage. The second larg
est crop in history was raised and this fact
combined with the general depression in bus
iness have forced prices for cotton down to
below cost .of production. If another such
crop should be raised next year cotton might
go to two or three cents a pound. Of course
the cotton acreage ought to be cut and cut
heavily at that. If a man gets as much mon
ey for ten bales of cotton as he can for twen
ty he is a fool to raise twenty. But folks are
prone to do the things they ought not todo.
ENGLISH SUPREMACY IS
A THING OF THE PAST
There was a time when England, and to
some extent bcotland and Ireland, was the
work shop of the world. France has never
been a very great manufacturing country and
it was only in comparatively recent times that
the United States and Germany have built up
their manufacturing business to the point
where it could compete with the English man
ufacturers. Russia and Italy hardly compet
ed at all. Now it is all quite different.
The United States leads the world in the val
ue of its manufactured products. Germany
has a large manufacturing industry and. one
of the most efficient in the world. Mussolini
is trying to develop a manufacturing industry
in Italy and is reputed to be meeting with
considerable success. Japan, has factories
that make many commodities for export as
well as home consumption. While far behind
England, the United States and Germany,
France specializes in certain fine products and
has considerable export trade in them. Bel
gium, Holland, Denmark all do more or less
manufacturing and now Russia, with her much
advertised five year plan, is trying to get in
the contest for world trade.
It is now apparent that England never a-
gain will dominate the markets of the world
Uncle Hiram remarked to Aunt Sade at breakfast the
other morning that about the only thing that you can
get in the public eye these days, without the help of the
newspapers or the radio, is grapefruit. The Farmer's
Wife.
A budget as large as ours with only two-fifths as
many people to collect it from; a public debt four
times that of the United States, an income tax rate
exceeding 25 per cent. That is the situation to which
Great Britain has been brought by war, the dole and
free trade. No wonder the late election was in effect
a revolution. (National Republic).
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ana read it. it jusi iookcu i;e v ju
word was being fulfilled.
iXow my readers we are having a
plenty of whiskey and the govern
ment is getting no revenue cu of it
but still paying out lots of money to
brea1.: it up but when an officer gets
news where ther is a still he sends
out a signal ahead, ''be on the watch
revenuers are coming, have every
thing cleaned up." Now my friends
that shows that they don't want to
break it up. If they break it up it
cuts them out of a job and the law
yers and judges wouldn't have so
much to do. We would need less
courts than we have. We still have
plenty of men around Newport who
will drink the damnable stuff and will
sell some on the shy but if no one
would buy they could not sell it and
if we could stop our church members
from buying it that would cut the sale
short for there are several of them
that will drink and that is setting a
bad example before the outsiders,
because they will say just look at him
he is a church member and he drinks.
How nice it would be if the church
members would set a better example
before the world and cut it all out
and live more by the rules of the
church.
Now my friends the way I look at
that I don't care what church he be
longs to when he gets the true love
of God in his heart he will see then
where he is wrong. You know that
God says that wine is a mocker and
strong drink is raging and whosoever
is deceived thereby is not wise. My
readers I fully believe that if we all
would live close to God we would
have better times all the disasters that
we have I believe are sent on Us for
our disobedience to God. Well I will
close.
Yours very truly,
E. L. McCAIN.
Newport, Dec. 1.
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ST. PAUL'S IS VICTOR
IN BASKET BALL GAME
The boys of St. Paul's School won
their grst basket ball game of the
season, Wednesday by a score of 20
to 15. This being the first game of
jthe year drew a large crowd. St.
( Paul's Boys are all beginners with the
exception of their center. They
proved themselves hard fighters and
expect to show real shill.
I The two teams will meet again
, Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. St.
Paul expect to meet Smyrna here,
Friday afternoon.
The lineup of Wednesday's game
.tollows:
,St. Paul'. Beaufort All Star.
I
Vance Lewis
R F
Raymond Paul
Roland Longest Will Congleton
L F
Frank Thomas Ray Hassell
R G
Gordon Willis Troy Johnson
LG.
Charles Thomas Lance Smith
Subs for St. Paul's: John Austin
and Clyde Owens.
Sub: for Beauofrt all stars: David
Beveridge.
Referees: Owens and Lewis.
Another pureb red Shorthorn bull
was placed in Alleghany County last
week by farm agent W. B. Collins.
I'Ambition and Talent I
By THOMAS A&KLE CULRX.
Dean oi Men, Unlvenky oi
Ulmoit.
Prices deduced
ON ALL USED CARS
Model "T" Tourng ............$ 25.00
Model "T" Tudor Sedan $ 30.00
Model "A" Touring $125.00
Model "A" Roadster $150.00
Model "A" Std. Coupe $200.00
Model "A" Spt. Coupi ...... . . .$125.00
Model "A" Tudor Sedan $200.00
BUY NOW WHILE PRICES ARE LOW
AND TERMS RIGHT
Loftin Motor Co.
BEAUFORT, N. C.
GARDNER.
In our opinion Governor Gardner has displayed a
very fine quality of leadership in his rfusal to so far
call an extra session of the legislature with the ex
press purpose of enacting law to govern the acreage of
cotton, tobacco, peanuts and potatoes. The farmer
reaction to such legislation might be revolutionary. We
believe there are farmers just as big in mind, body
and soul as the members of the legislature are and
they have a right to resent legislation restricting their
manner of farming.
The live-at-home slogan is capable of doing more for
the farmer thp.n another six months session of the leg
islature and is his surest road to independence.
(Montgomery Herald).
AX?
AS A FOREIGNER SEES IT.
The editor of a London newspaper has been spend
ing six months in the United States visiting all sections
of the country and in a parting statement he declares
he sees on the surface of life "few signs in any Amer
ican city of the severe distress which I was assured
by nearly everyone would create in the coming winter
one of the greatest social problems in American his
tory." The standard of living is still very much high,
er in America than anywhere else inthe world, this
widely traveled observer declares, and Americans of
all classes "live with an air of opulence that cannot be
matched in any European country." And then he
adds: , , . .
"They are more finely clothed. They eat better and
more varied food. They live in more material com
fort. The working classes have a wider margin of
personal pleasures. They enjoy luxuries which no oth
er proletariat could possibly afford.
"Hundreds of thousands of working men travel to
the factories and mills every morning in their own mo
tor cars. The motor is to an American man what a
bycycle of a 2-penny tram car ride is to an English
artisan.
"Until he has crossed the Atlantic ocean the averas-a
American citizen
rflnnnt nlanrlv n n tVa l
j.r . , . , . , . . . .. " " w-..j r-'f'G wit tda&ui
j v ' 1 ngnt 10 h0ld the that seParates hi3 own conception of social comfort
trade of her people at home and in her colo- from that of the average European." Lenoli Record.
Ambition and persistence wffl carry
us a long way In the ordinary affairs
of ate, and tn
moet of the pro
feestone for that
matte, bat not
In matters artls
Gc onlees there
bs oamWoed wtth
these other qual
ities some trace
ot talent It la
said that Mat
thew Arnold
tearoed to be a
poet Qtrongb bard
wort, and that
Stevenson so
learned the art of Bteratttra, but there
wae talent combined with the other
very necessary quallttea which these
men had.
It was Saxton'a ambition to be a
writer from the time, when he was
boy, be had been thrilled by the tales
of Scott and Cooper. Advenrore, the
romantic, appealed to bin) tn the
strongest way. Be labored at bis
compositions In school and college
with the greatest persistence and the
most swelling ambttfcm. Try m he
would be could never get higher than
a "B" and that only rarely.
That wat twenty years ago or more.
Be Is dubbing along' today on a small
Salary as a newspaper reporter, still
trying to write, but never getting any
where. Possibly be might have made
a business man ; maybe he coold have
been a lawyer or a physician, or he
mteht even have ta4jgbt other people
how to write tt often does not seem
esseoGal that one should know bow
to do a thing Wmseft tn order to
teach others but be COoKl net write
&!ra&3. Be had np tofts for it,
Btta$b tie had immeftsopattd ambiUoc
I sb to a great bOl SKtSt some
Oo flip scores ot mj$ and. women
wzttfe tercrteh amfctfxm w1 to be.
gWSl pstntera. Somfe ojf item were
fmm Pd healthy tx&& bat the
QAg tfrat seemed to njB rae saddest
fcfxxa 8 Bfl wo th fact tttf many ot
fyeta Wire old, gray, pBtoAced, who
watt pweessed ot t&$ hgb ambition
to 6V jtmething oBtgtmt&jt. and yet
VtO Q4 grown oifl doing only the
ctanintaipJaoe.
Jftcobe has Just agkd tn? afltJce as
to htt taking dp rrinsic ss a profes
sion. "Learn all yoo cftu for your
own Dlefteure and the pleasure of your
frtends. TouTl need to mne a living,
so rd sgg f aspljne or aBipmlJes.'
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PAY YOUR TAXES AND STREET
. ASSESSMENTS ON OR BEFORE DE
' CEMBER 8th OR YOUR PROPERTY
I WILL BE ADVERTISED.
i THIS APPLIES TO ALL CITY
PROPERTY
! T.M- THOMAS JR-
i CITY CLERK f f
WE MAKE ALL
ARRANGEMENTS
When death occurs at a hospital in a distant city, it
menta through a local funeral director. This U al
way, appreciated, a. it obviate, the necessity of deal
ing ca so delicate a matter with unknown partiet.
We are able to handle such assignments with the
ame thorough attention to details as when death oc
cur. at home...If it is impossible for a memberof tht.
organization to reach the scene in time, we hire con
rag'ent..00'0 wh wi
When this procedure is followed, it assures the fam
Me?LumP ftnd the Protecon of Er
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