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The Roanoke Beacon AND WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS Published Every Thursday in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina The Roanoke Beacon is Washington County's only newspaper. It was estab lished in 1889, consolidated with the Washington County News in 1929 and with The Sun in 1937. Winner of North Carolina Press Association Awards for General Excellence in 1910, 1941, 1946 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Strictly Cash in Advance) In Washington, Tyrrell, Hyde, Beaufort, Bertie and Martin Counties: One Year--—- $2.00 Six Months - $1.25 Single Copies. 5 cents Outside Washington, Tyrrell, Hyde, Beau fort, Bertie and Martin Counties: One Year___.$2.50 Six Months-—-$1.50 Special To Men in the Armed Services of the United States: One Year_$1.50 No Subscriptions Less Than Six Months Advertising ILites Furnished on Request Entered at the post office in Plymouth, N. C., as second-class matter, under pro visions of the act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Thursday, September 13, 1956 The People Have Spoken By a vote of nearly 5 to 1, North Carolin ians last Saturday adopted the Pearsall plan designed to maintain the present segregatec school system in the state. This section voted even more overwhelmingly in favor of the proposition, which was advocated by Gover nor ITodges and the entire state administra tion. As one who opposed changing the state’s constitutional provision for a “general and uniform" school system, we nevertheless recog nize and accept the right of the people tc make that change. The most encouraging factor about the election wras the size of the vote, which was considerably larger than ex pected. This is indicative of interest in the public school system, an interest which we share, although disagreeing with the big ma jority about the method of preserving and protecting the system. The result of the election places a tremen dous responsibility upon Governor Hodge; and others of the state administration whe asked for the Pearsall plan’s approval and who received it in such great measure Iasi Saturday. However, that responsibility is not so much greater upon the governor and his administration than it is upon all of us—re gardless of how we voted last Saturday. The public schools of North Carolina must be preserved and maintained. Autumn Sneaks Up In a few weeks autumn will arrive, official ly, by the calendar. In some parts of th( coun'ry it has already moved in—after hardlj any summer at all. This year, it seems, is or the side of the prophets who hay our winters will get cold and hot weather will be less frequent. Whether this turns out to be true or not autumn always means a change, in livinj habits, in the outdoors, in sports, in eating etc. To take full advantage of the fall, om should plan at least one trip to the mountains or the country, where nature’s spectacula show can be enjoyed for a day or two. It southern climes, outdoors activities in autunu are better than in summer. As Bryant remarked, the shades of sun light changed in fall: “On woodlands ruddy with autumn The amber sunshine lies ...” The fall months are pleasant because tli earth contains much more stored up heat am does not get as cold as later in the year making the nights more pleasant than in earl; spring. The earth's heat also is responsibli for much ground fog, which is a characteristii of this time of year—especially in some for eign countries like Germany, but also ii the United States. To some there is something ominous abou fall, because it brings the first hint of bittei weather, because it is the season when tin growing dies, and because it means shortei days and longer nights. But to others the weather of fall is the year’s finest; more clear days, crisp weather energy-producing weather, is the normal menu for most of the early fall, in most parts of the country. It is a season which should be enjoyed. We suggest this year you take full advantage of it. Fish, golf, hunt or hike as much as you can. The nation is at peace and most of us jj-g free to live our own life. Next year it could be different. Or you may not be able to enjoy it. If you can, now, get out of your chair and do so. September Song The recent cool snap was a reminder. The leaves beginning to collect on the ground, a few cool nights and other things—all add up to approaching autumn, the most nostalgic of the'seasons. September just slipped up unob trusively. There are those who do not think much about nature; perhaps they think the change of seasons, the miracle of the countryside in fall ,and other wonders of the landscape are for the poet? or the dreamers. But they are wrong. The seasons should be enjoyed by every one. The memories each change in season brings back are often surprising. For example the first smell, in fall, or burning leaves, or the first cool day, of the first beef stew, or first days of school, or many other firsts bring back vividly the years gone by, to many. September—who can remember September 1st, 1939? Hitler was marching into Poland that day, and the world was falling down. Millions of boys and men—and even women and children -passed that day without realiz ing it spelled death for them. And the years just before World War II! Those Septembers were always days of crisis, remember? Hitler stirred the pot every spring and every fall. Munich came in the fall of 1938, after a Septembr crisis. Remember how peace hung on a threat that fall? And September, 1929, the month before the stock market crash. Those days never re turned exactly the same. And there was ano ther memorable September, in the stock mar ket, September 24th, 1869—“Black Friday” —Which you don’t remember. There was a day in 1916, the 15th of Sep tember, when Winston Churchill’s new inven tion—the tank—was first used. The British gains were so good, and unexpected, they were not properly followed up, and the great victory was mostly missed. There was a day in 1862, when General Robert E. Lee’s army marched toward Penn sylvania, inside Maryland, headed for the major cities of the Union. Union forces, with captured plans of Lee’s marching directives, met the Confederates at Antietam, Maryland, and a very bloody battle resulted. Lee’s ad vance was stopped, and it was the next year, 1863, that he made his second and last bid to invade the North, which was checked at Get tysburg, Pennsylvania. Back in 1935 a fellow waited in a hallway for the Kingfish, on September 8th, and when Huey Long approached, he shot him dead, ending a sensational and dangerous political career. Ten years later, on September 2nd, General Douglas MacArthur, on board the mighty Missouri, sat silently and watched the Japa nese sign surrender papers in the waters of Tokyo Bay. September is, then, a month of memories and famous dates. Tt is a moody month, because it ushers in a new season and signifies the end of summer —this year the automnal equinox occurs on the night of September 22nd, at 8:36. Fall lasts until December 21st. The Harvest Moon will occur on September 1 oth, because this is the nearest full moon to the autumn equinox. This full moon will seem to last three days, and will rise very near the same hour for several nights—that is why it is called the Harvest Moon. In old days, har vesting was carried on by its light. A Lesson In Citizenship The Boy Scouts of America, now numbering 4,175,000 boy members and adult leaders, will have a realistic experience in citizenship , this year. Together with the Freedoms Foundation, Inc., of Valley Forge, they will conduct a Get-Out-the-Vote campaign, strictly nonparti san in its concept and execution. ■ First they will promote the registration of , all persons eligible to vote. A principal rea , son for not voting is failure to register. It has been aptly said that bad candidates are . elected by good people who do not vote. Throughout the nation before registration days, Scouts will put in public places one and a quarter million posters bearing the slogan, ‘‘Vote as you think—but vote November 6.” The Scouts will encourage registered per sons to vote on Election Day. On Saturday, November 3, Scouts will call at 35,000,000 homes across the nation. They will hang on doorknobs a Liberty Bell placard bearing the message, “Heed youth’s call. Vote as you think, but vote November 6, 1956. Use your freedom to vote.” Scouting has long had participating citizen ship based on good character as one of its principal goals. We are certain that this or ganized and patriotic group, qualified to ren der effective service, will roll up another mighty Good Turn to the nation. The job needs to be done. Should the time I ever come when Americans lose their interest i in the right to vote, and neglect to make the' small effort voting requires, the right to vote would gradually disappear. Self-government endures only when the people support it vigor ously. The act of voting is in itself an ex pression of good citizenship and appreciation of democratic privilege. Who can remain sensi bly indifferent to an election that is choosing the men and women whose acts and decisions effect the lives of all of us? 1. What was the approximate strength of the U. S. Army in December, 1941? 2. What are the three largest cities in Con tinental Europe? 3. What is the meaning of the Coast Guard motto: “Semper Paratus?” 4. What is the distance from the American Continent to the Philippines? 5. Can a President be elected without re ceiving a majority of the popular vote? 6. When was the U. S. Marine Corps cre ated? 7. What is a minaret? 8. Where is the Cotentin Peninsula? 9. Which is the nearest stellar object? 10. In what book would you find the char acters: Athos, Porthos and Aramis? (See “Answers” at Bottom of Column) | A Few SMILES; Was Realistic Mother: “Well, did you and Joe go to the Ritz and have pheasant under glass as you planned?” Daughter: “No, we went to Louie’s Beanery and had hamburger under suspicion.” Perhaps A woman had recently returned from a tour of Europe with her hsuband. Eager to hear all about her experiences a freind asked: “Did you include Rome in your itinerary?” “I really don’t know,” she explained. “You sec my husband always bought the tickets.” Progress Report The shy mountain youth had finally worked up enough courage to propose. “Ellie Mae,” he began, as they sat in the moonlight outside her cabin, “I got a clearin' over thar, an’ a team an’ wagon an’ some hawgs an’ cows, an’ I'm gonna build me a house this fall an’ . . .” Just then Ellie Mae’s Maw called out in a loud voice: “Ellie Mae, is that young man thar yit?” “No, Maw,” replied Ellie Mae, “but he’s gittin’ thar!” Knew From Experience A minister’s son, applying for a job as a policeman, passed the written tests and start ed his oral quiz. To the question, “How would you disperse a mob?” he promptly replied, “I’d take off my hat and start taking a col lection.” Legalized Revenge Two screen writers who were a team rented a house in the Hollywood Hills and got a promise from the land lord to redecorate the place for them. When it had become evicient that the land lord would not keep his promise, the writers had their attorney draw up a paper giving them permission to do their own re decorating at their own expense and, of course, the landlord was only too happy to sign it. Two days before they moved out, the two writers had the whole place painted black. A Family Affair A big-hearted distiller in the South who be lieved in spreading sunshine wherever he went sent a barrel of his best whiskey up to a poor acquaintance who lived in the nearby hills. A couple of weeks later he dropped in on the man and the woman, in the course of the conversation, dropped the hint that he could use a little more liquor. “Look here,” said the distiller, “aren’t you overdoing it a little? If my memory serves me right, it’s only been two week since I gave you a barrel of whiskey.” “I know,” was the reply, “but you got to remember that a barrel of whiskey doesn’t last very long in a family that can’t afford to keep a cow ” Pat was in the British army in France dur ing World War I, but his anti-British senti ments were well known, so the censor and headquarters kept a wary eye on him. Pat received a letter from his wife, Bridget, stating that it was nearly time to plant pota toes, but there was not an able-bodied man available for hire and she did not feel able to spade the potato patch herself. Shortly she received a letter from Pat that said: “Don’t dig in the potato patch. That’s where the guns are buried.” 1 Soon he received this news from his wife: “A lot of soldier came and dug up teh patch from end to end. What am I to do?” Pat answered: “Plant the potatoes.” Earned A Reward The prison chaplain found that a hardened convict had made a pet of a rat and noticed how the convict’s scrowling face softened into a smile when he fed it. Going up to them the chaplain put his hand on the shoulder and said," How did you come to take such a fancy to this rat?” The convict hesitated; then said, “He bit the jailer, sir.” * Not Worth It A salesman whose car broke down in a re mote mountain section, had to spend the night in a rather primitive cabin. The next morning as he tried to freshen up with a bucket, he had as an interested audience the many chil dren of the family which had given him shel ter. He shaved, patted lotion on his face, dust ed on a little powder. He brushed his teeth, cleaned his nails, shined his shoes as best he could, and whisked the dust off his clothes. The children watehed wide-eyed. Finally one boy, letting out a tremendous sigh, exclaimed: "Gosh, Mister, ain’t you an awful lot of trouble to yourself?” -o jiheANlwElsf 1. 1,600,000. 2. Paris, Berlin and Moscow. 3. “Always ready.” 4. 7,000 miles. 5. Yes. 6. By the Continental Congress, 181 years ago. 7. A tower of a mosque. 8. In Frances—the peninsula on which the Allied invasion took place. • 9. The Star Centauri. 10. “The Three Muskateers.” OPENING THOUGHT—It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explian why you did it wrong.—Henry Wadsworth Long. fellow. TODAY’S CHUCKLE — It was the first day of school and the little boy was telling his teacher about his new dog. “What kind of dog is he?” the teacher asked. To which the boy replied, “Well, he’s a mixed-up kind, sort of a cocker scandal.” CHILD PSYCHOLOGY—Tommy just returned from a neighborhood party, was telling his mother all about it. “When refreshments were served,” his mother cut in, “I hope you didn't ask for a second piece oi cake.” To which her young son re plied, “Oh, that wasn’t necessary mom. I just asked Mrs. Jones foi the recipe so you could make some like it, and, you know, she gave me two more pieces.” AT LEISURE — It is really a busy world but people who stand and criticize those who are try ing to do something have very little to do themselves. ART LOVERS SCARCE? — The art show at the Winslow gallery last Saturday was rather sparsely attended, it is reported. Perhaps there was not sufficient advance publicity, or the day of the week might have had something to do with the fact that the public stayed away in droves. At any rate, it would be safe to say that some of the best paintings ever shown in 1 this county or immediate area were i here to be seen during the two 1 hours the show was open to the I public. I was at the gallery from noon Saturday until almost one o’clock and had the pleasure of ' meeting Francis Speight, a fellow j native of Bertie County who has made a name for himself through out the art world as painter and teacher. His boyhood days were spent in the Republican section of Bertie where his father was a Bap tist preacher. When my brother and I were quite young, my mother qgd dad used to take us to Republican Baptist Church to hear T. T. Speight preach. That I remember only in hearing my mother tell it. Francis Speight, of course, has made many visits to his home coun ty since he has been teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and on one occasion a few years ago had—together with his wife, Sarah Blakeslee Speight—an exhibition in Windsor. I was in Windsor briefly to see the paint ings then, but missed seeing the artist. So, although I was brought up less than 10 miles from the old Speight home, I never had the pleasure of making Francis Speight's acquaintance until last Saturday. When I first heard that Speight would be at Plymouth for the annual meeting of the Roan oke-Chowan Group and would be among the artists to exhibit at the local gallery I honestly thought that quite a number of persons would come to see his work and that of some of the others. Such did not prove to be the case. De spite the current fad for dabbling in oils, apparently few people are genuinely interested in art. What other conclusion could one possibly draw? REMEDY—Then there was the doctor who advised his patient who suffered from insomnia to lie on the edge of the bed— possibly in the hope that the lat ter would drop off. 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