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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, March 6, 1950
THE NEW BERN MIRROR
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EVENTFUL OCCASION
Exactly 26 years ago, on March 6, 1933, President Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt declared his national banking holiday,
forbade the hoarding or export of gold, and called a special
session of the new Congress.
This drastic action came just one day after his inaugura
tion, at which time he proclaimed that “the only thing we have
to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified ter
ror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into ad
vance.”
Continuing, he said, “We now realize as we have never
realised before our interdependence on each other, that we
cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are
to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army
willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline.”
These were strong words, and though they were spoken
by a man \yho couldn’t stand alone, much less walk alone, they
wern convincing and reassuring to New Bernians and other
depression-plagued Americans.
Before Congress adjourned, after 100 days of hectic
activity under the leadership of the President, it enacted dar
ing and significant legislation that touched importantly on
every^hase of life in these United States.
The so-called “New Deal” had its faults, but it succeed
ed in the achievement of three main objectives. It provided
direct relief, made individual property secure, and established
a planned and controlled economic system.
As might be expected, historians agree that FDR was not
completely perfect in all he did and attempted to do before
death ended his momentous stay in the White House. Yet,
much of the legislation he inspired is still with us, and is apt
to remain with us for all time to come.
Even as Roosevelt is now recognized as a man of frailties
other than his physical handicap, so is the President he fol-
lowed,‘*Herbert Hoover, recognized as more or less a victim of
circumstances.
It seems fair to assume that no Chief Executive in Hoov
er’s shoes could have prevented a depression. In fact, we’ve al
ways had a sneaking suspicion that canny Calvin Coolidge saw
the thing coming, and headed for the nearest exit.
Where Hoover appears to have failed was in trying to
Historical
Gleanings
—By—
FRANCES B. CLAYPOOLE
and
ELIZABETH MOORE
__ m that a little time prior to this
ride out the storm without bailing water and altering his trespass the defendant told him
course. New Bernians old enough to have gray locks and a intended making an im-
paunch need no prodding to ruefully recall his repeated pre-
dictions of “prosperity just around the corner.” ® Aorn^L^i^T^^^i^ui’^^^yif^^^-
Extreme circumstances call for extreme measures, and
FDR demonstrated to friends and enemies alike that cautious
ness was not one of his characteristics. He plunged into the
crisis like a duck taking to water after an enforced sojourn
on a desert.
Only those New Bernians who were victims of the de
pression can fully appreciate the dark days and years that it
encompassed. Today’s youngsters are far more blessed than
they can possibly imagine, and in their good fortune they are
woefully ungrateful.
For that matter, many oldsters who once had little of this
world s goods, and slim prospects of bettering their lot, are
likewise ungrateful for the good things they now enjoy.
What all of us should have learned, and some of us did, is
that we can get by with less if pressed by necessity. It is a
matter of record that Americans, in the midst of the depres
sion were for the most part healthy if not compMely happy.
even as Roosevelt reminded us in his inaugural ad-
aresj^e realized, if only temporarily, that each of us is inter-
depndent. No one can live and prosper alone, and aside from
this unalterable truth it is difficult to understahd why anyone
wants to be separate and apart and aloof from his fellow man.
Yes, this is the day the banks were closed by Presidential
proclamation—a day that won’t soon be forgotten.
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CRAVEN COUNTY COURT, 1812-
1815. JAMES G. STANLY brought
a suit against NATHAN SMITH be
cause of a dispute over a boundar/
line between their plantations, sit
uate in Craven county, on the East
side of BRICE’S CREEK, beginning
at a poplar on HOLSTON’S
BRANCH, North along ALEXAN
DER GASTON’S line, including all
the land, low ground and marsh
between the lines of "WILLIAM
WILSON, deceased, RICHARD
SPAIGHT, deceased, and FRANCIS
BRICE, JR., bounded on the North
by WILLIAM WILSON’S line, North,
east by the line of RICHARD
SPAIGHT, on the East by the line
of FRANCIS BRICE, JR., on the
South by HOLSTON’S BRANgH,
West by the CREEK, 400 acres, be
ing part of two patents, one to
COLONEL WILLIAM BRICE, May
12, 1713, for 1280 acres, the other
to FRANCIS AND WILLIAM
BRICE, May 5, 1742, for 187 acres,
part of which JOHN BECKWITH
and MARGARET BECKWITH farm
let.
In the deposition of THOMAS P.
IVES, deponent, saith: That he
frequently passed during the year
1809 through the back part of the
lands of JAMES G. STANLY, ad
joining the road leading from the
BEAUFORT ROAD to GASTON’S
MILL on BRICE’S CREEK, that in
passing he discovered a log house
to the Southward of the line, which
divided the lands of said STANLY
and GASTON, and that sundrie of
the defendant’s laborers were em
ployed about the land, he recollects
seeing at the same time a parcel
of green wood recently cut upon
the land of said JAMES G. STAN
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WHEN WE LOSE
It’s great to be a champion, gaining plaudits from the fans,
But to really test your greatness, you must join the also rans;
When you’re out in front and winning, smiles bloom natural on
your face.
But it takes a lot of courage to lose, with poise and grace.
To bear your lumps and take your bumps with never a complaint,
To keep your temper, in the clutch, to exercise restraint.
The victor treads a pleasant path, for victory is sweet,
But heartbreak lines the rocky road for those who taste defeat;
So the surest sign of greatness, known to mortal man,
Is the graceful smiling courage of a vanquished also ran.
When the last loud cheer has faded, when the last goal has been
tossed.
We’ll perhaps forget the victor, and recall the team that lost;
For a special kind of glory that’s mighty hard to beat.
Belong to those with heads held high, who smile in their defeat
-JGMcD.
STANLY and SPAIGHT land from
BRICE’S CREEK to the Eastward.
Deposition of WILLIAM IVES,
SR., taken at his dwelling house be
fore ROGER JONES, J.P., April 19,
1815, deponent saith: That in the
year 1776 or 1777 he was OVER
SEER for MR. JOHN HAWKS,
ESQ., on the PLANTATION now
belonging to MR. JAMES G. STAN
LY. Some time in the month of
January he went ahunting with
WILLIAM DAVIS. They sat down
and he saw a marked tree, and
said to MR. DAVIS it looked like
a corner tree. MR. DAVIS answer
ed and said it was the dividing
corner between TIMOTHY CLEAR
and SPAIGHT. In November he
passed the same comer with MR.
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GASTON HAD EDGED HIM INTO
THE POND. Deposition taken at
the home of MRS. SARAH WHIT
FIELD, in New Bern, between the
hours of 5 and 6 p.m., 26 October,
1813, before LUCAS JACOB BEN
NERS, J. P.
In the deposition of JOHN T.
WEST, taken before JAMES MEB-
ANE and WILLIAM DICKEY, in
Orange County, 19 November, 1812,
deponent said: That some time in
the summer of 1785, he was cross
ing with NATHAN SMITH, the de
fendant, on hts plantation on the
East side of BRICE’S CREEK, call,
ed the HERMITAGE, that some
member of the family of WEST, in
preparing a dye, had stripped the
bark from a tree standing in the
line between the HERMITAGE and
the farm of WILLIAM GASTON,
ESQ., called the RICHARD PLAN
TATION, that said red oak died
and shortly after, said WEST re
ceived a letter from said GASTON
in which he threatened a suit, that
the tree having been cut recently
and because of deponent’s ignor
ance of his line, he went to visit
NATHAN SMITH at his plantation
called MOUNT PLEASANT and
complained that the lines had not
been shown him, that in the year
1796, WEST rented of NATHAN
SMITH the said HERMITAGE
PLANTATION. Deponent further
saith that some time after NA
THAN SMITH showed said corner,
this deponent, accompanied by
JOHN KNOX and MR. ERWIN,
Who was the overseer of GENERAL
SPAIGHT and one LEWIS BEX
LEY, cut the line between the
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