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PAGE TWO The Rocky Mount Herald Pabhsbed Every Friday at Rocky Mount, North Caro daa. by The Rocky Mount Herald Pnblishing Company THD J. GRBEN Newt Editor and Manager M. PACKARD Assistant Editor ■atered u second-class matter January 19, 1934, at the post office at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879 *wblieation Office: Second Floor Datfiels Building, Bocky Mount. Edgecombe County, North Carolina •abaeription Rates: One Tear. tl.OO: 6 Months, 60a Advertising rates reaponnMe, und farailhed to pros pective advertisers on rtqueat GOOD TIMES TO CONTINUE MUST BE SHARED BY ALL The Union Herald Inspecting the financial section of a single issue of the New York Times, one comes across these items: Gimbel Brothers report their business during February and March of this year 22.- 5 per cent above that of last year at the sarrie time. The International Paper Com pany's gross sales in 1936 were 18 per cent higher than those of the previous year; and it cleared more than five mil lion in profits instead of suffering a merely three-million-dollar loss. P ;)ps-Dodge reports profits thus far this year from 30 to 40 per cent above those of first quarter of this year were 60 per cent than those of the same quarter last year. For the same period, Alleghany Steel profits are up 63 per cent and Sharon Steel profits 122 per cent, while Youngs town Steel has cleared nearly $500,000 more than in its banner year of 1929. Is it any wonder that President Roosevelt expressed the fear that American business is entering on a boom which can only be fol lowed by a "bust"? Wages, and therefore buying power, have made no such gains. How long will it take to teach industry the lesson that good times last only when shared with all? RANK GAMBLING The Enterprise Farmers planting a big tobacco crop this season, thinking that the other fellows will be forced to reduce theirs on account of plant shortages, will be doing some rank gambling. The old scare about paint short ages sometimes is hardly more than mere propaganda spread by someone who stands to gain from a big tobacco crop. A crop shortage in Georgia and even in South Car olina does not mean that North Carolina can plant a world of tobacco and get a good price for the crop. The Georgia crop, eli minated in its entirety, can effect no in crease in price, here for the crop there is not of sufficient size to have and direct weight on the price schedule in this belt. Apparently the sanest thing to do is for each farmer to survey his individual capac ity for producing a good crrjj of to!»av.. remembering that a small crop of superior quality will net him more money than a large crop of inferior quality. This is only one of the reasons for limited plantings. There are the soil conservation benefits, and last but not least are the long hours of toil associated with the cultivation and market-! ing of the crop. There may be a tobacco shortage this ; year, but, judging from the number of new curing barns under construction, many farmers are not expecting any acreage i_ duction v> •;•+•}•+•:•*:'•!+++++++++++•{.++^-+++ j ' if x I through changing years I + + is a human relationship between local % J J, business men and the officers of this Bank. + + They are neighbors—with a mutual interchange of * X confidence and understanding—and with a common * i X interest in community enterprises. J % They work together toward the advancement of + business and the community as a whole. This neigh- J % borly relationship fosters better business and better J * banking... a helpful factor in the extension of sound * • credit. J t I j The planters National Bank! * X f And Trust Company j X MEMBERS: Federal Reserve System, X t s Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation t ONLY A DIME Montgomery Advertiser You feel meanest when you refuse a man I a dime to buy food. He says he is hungry, i He says he will spend the money for a hot j dog and a glass of milk. Your clothes are fresh, you are healthy and employed. He is unkempt, although, strange to relate, in nine cases out of ten, he looks healthy and vigorous. That is what raises a doubt in your mind as to hunger. You know from experience that although he may eat food if you buy it, just to make the right impression, fre quently he is not hungry and does not ex-' pect food—he really guesses that you will give him money and not put him on the spot. You know this to be a moral certainty, be cause of your experience with the law of averages. But you are yet a little doubtful. You are tired of being imposed upon by un worthy mendicants, and so from time to time you have said that you would be firm, even hardboiled. And so you say no, you have no change, and walk on, wondering if you are a wor thy human being. Your sense tells you that you are all right, but your human sympath ies leave you a little in doubt. After all, a dime isn't much. MONEY FROM JUNK Greenville News-Leader Persons selling scrap iron now being ship ped from the Morehead City port terminal to the Orient are highly elated over the fact that mony can be derived from sales of met al they have considered worthless. Residents of Morehead, as well as other citizens of Eastern North Carolina, are proud that the town might someday become a prominent shipping port. The Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, chartered De cember 26, 1852, is flourishing with activ ity and is hauling all junk bound for ex port trade. The "mullet road" is now mak ing money, a link in their chain of finance that has been missing for many years. With this picture in mind, you have a thorough idea of progressiveness; however, a question arises in our minds—we wonder what will be done with the metal termed "junk" after it reaches Japan. Perhaps it will be used for purposes such as making automobiles, etc. A possibility exists of its being changed into cannon, machine guns, war tractors, shells and other means of de fense in time of war. The United States has never fully recov ered from the effects of the World War, and will possibly continue to pay for the war through many years to come. Those who saw service very seldom talk of their expe riences—they want to forget them, but will likely remember them for the rest of their lives. Over in Flanders Field rest the bodies of many American soldiers who went to France to see service and never returned. Their blood was shed in order that the gen eration to come could live in peace and not have to encounter the horror of war. Iron being sent to Japan today, might re turn to us in the form of bullets tomorrow. War might come soon, or possibly never. A person selling this junk steel might have a boy growing into manhood. If the United States enters war, this boy will have to fight. The iron that he say daily in the form oi an old automobile engine, a discarded water pump, or an old cartwheel, can next be seen in the form of bullets. We feel that junk should remain at home and not be sent to some foreign country | that might prepare for what we trv so hard to resist WAR. THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC OPINION PITT, OUR COUNTY "Self preservation is the first law >f nature." Prom a wholly selfish 'iewpoint, Greenville, our county leat, must provide sanitation for our lolored citizens. It is a matter of personal knowledge that our Colored 'itizens, responding to the calls of lature, have no facilities to meet heir needs. This lack of toilets for Iheir use means that they must do he best they can which is to use the inrface of open back lots in the ab- ! ienee of toilets. This must be chang 'd. Such use of surface back lots is langerous. As source of disease. Particularly, flies carry filth from open back lotte in our business listrict to our offices and homes, disease is in this way spread. This ondition must be changed. Recently our Board of Aldermen sxpressed interest and deßire to cor ect this deplorable condition. Toi e Is should be provided in conveni 'nt places and kept in safe condition or th e use of our colored citizens. Vs a rule our colored citizens can lot have the privilege of toilets that Progress Cleaners DRY CLEANERS PRESSERS DYERS CALL US PHONE 909 213 N. East Main St. Douglas Bldg ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. I FOR BEST PRICES AND QUALITIES, CALL ON | jCARBISCO | FEED MILLS + Manufacture All Kinds i HOC, COW, POULTRY, AND f MULE FEEDS I BUY AND SELL GRAIN, HAY, AND ALL FEED : | PRODUCTS GRIND AND MIX YOUR HOME | GROWN FEEDS ♦ So. Grace St. Rocky Mount, N. C. A • - - « r £? "Cotton an' cawn is natchel, so natchelly dey wants nat chel sody." Uncle Natchel Here's plenty of quick-acting nitrogen, plus at least thirty other elements in Nature's own wise blend and balance. I NATURAL AS THE GROUND IT COMES FROM arc now insistence. It is t*ue that there is one on the Court House lot, but this is insufficient. The citizen ship of Greenville is vitally inter ested in overcoming the hazardous condition here pointed out, and it must support our county officials in their, efforts to bring into exis tence better sanitary conditions forj our citizenship. P. M. WOOTEN GOING MODERN In line with the determined effort being made to break up illicit dis tilling a report comes from Burko County of the use of airplanes there to spot stills. A crew is reported to be working with the airplane, making the raids after the illicit plants have been spotted from the air. WARD IS COMMISSIONER T. Boddic War, of Wilson, has been formally installed as Highway Commissioner fiom this disttrict on appointment of Governor Hoey. The state will be divided for adminis tration purposes into ten highway districts. PAINT TIME ALL PAINTS HAVE ADVANCED IN PRICE. WE BOUGHT HEAVILY PRIOR TO THE ADVANCE AND CAN OFFER YOU SAVINGS IN PAINT. YOU WILL FIND LOWE BROTHERS QUALITY PAINT UNSURPASSED FOR QUALITY AND DURABILITY SEE US FOR PAINTS FOR ALL PURPOSES SEXTON & SONS Carolina Week A&P! Mlh M this week made in . UAAW CAROLINA PRODUCTS ARE FEATURED AT A&P Ili.MUmul IN A GREAT SALE THAT ■BBBfiBBBBB WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. IONA PLAIN OR SELF RISING FLOUR 24-lb. Bag 85c Milled In Carolina GUARANTEED FRESH EGGS Dozen 23c Produced In Carolina SWIFTS JEWEL 8 lb. Carton *1 = Refined In Carolina PICK O- CAROLINA PICKLES 9-oz. Jar 10c Packed In Carolina A*r 12 OUNCE PAN LOAF - 5c Baked In Carolina SPECIAL FOR CAROLINA WEEK! RED CIRC? COFFEE 2 Pounds 39C Rich and Full Bodied WHITEHOUSE EVAPORATED MILK 3 19C IONA BAKTLETT PEARS 3 CMS 50C CREAMERY FRESH. BUTTER « 35c ri'NNYFIELD BUTTER, lb. 39c SUNNYFIFI D BACON Pound Pkg. 37c Packed In Carolina FKKSH DAISY CHEESE Pound 21c ANN PAGE PI'RE ORANGE MARMALADE 1111 15 FRANKS Poind 17c FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES LARGE JUICY FLORIDA ORANGES Dozen 29c BANANAS KO]ie " ripc 4 pou " ds 19 PEAS fresh Karden ' p 0 ""* 1 BEANS frcsh grwn ' pound 10c LETTUCE - rirm head ' each 7| c CELERY largc s,alki rach 7| c POTATOES new whi " 8 poun ' ,s 25 c Advertising Builds Up Business FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937
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