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THE HERALD Of The Twin Cities ROANOKE RAPIDS—ROSEMARY “The Home-Printed Paper” Formerly The Roanoke Rapids Herald CARROLL WILSON, Publisher and Editor Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the P.*toffiee at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879. PRINTERS. LITHOGRAPHERS, ENGRAVERS THE DOCTOR PRESCRIBES It is usually possible to place the investigat ing finger of knowledge on the seat of pain or -ore spots of infection whenever a calamity of wide spread importance is visited on our people and it is just as easy to prescribe curative measures for economic ills, whether the patient likes the medicine or no. The trouble with most doctors is that they are so dared frank. That i- true when we hap pen to he the patient. In this case we are going to change places and assume the weighty robes of a Man of Medicine. As those who read the News and Observer, sometimes known as the Stews and Disturb■•r. well know, the rest of the State is being told in a series of articles the plight of the farmer anil of business in our section of the State. What the ulterior purpose of this series is we do not know. It may be a scheme to gam more circulati >n in this neck of the woods, because even starving souls will buy a paper to see their names in print. It may be the forerunnner of a mass of legislation to ‘‘relieve the farmer,” antics so familiar in the 1 recent days of the "Special Session.” Or perhaps. I a great fund will be started by our Raleigh friends ' to buy shoes for the baby and side meat for the beans, if any. This last would make a great hit in some parts, even though those interviewed as sured the reporter that we of the Fast face the bleak day with determination, fortitude, renewed enthusiasm, and other Horatio Algeric phrases. If they want the truth of the matter, it can ; e pi' en them in short order. Times are hard No use denying it. But they are here. The real point is, who and what is to blame and how can it be prevented or alleviated in the future. We even admit the truth of the charges that the industrial section of Halifax County, meaning , us. is better off than those communities farther ; South. Yet we too suffer to a degree when they ] feel the blighting hand of adversity. We agree that the plight of the farmer ha brought all this about. We have heard and read so much in the past few years about the plight of the farmer that we approach this dog-eared sub ject with some trepidation. Also with the admis sion that our agricultural experience consists < 1 town gardening, fearfuly placing eggs under a setting hen. riding a bruise on our leg during a two weeks visit W' h the butter and egg n r. a' registering a b ta! failure at producing tb '■ ’ ' stream from the ground side of a patient We add to Will Roger-.' famous c “All I know is what I see in the newspape -A tl: words: “and what my friends tell me." V.' 1 tal :< 1 v ith mi n wh > do kn< w al t th who do know farming and farmer- as p r our -action. We take their facts ,.nil t". in our own feeble way will endeavor to o . - the case, prescribe and .f necessary he p t ; . tient’s nest; while he takes it like a e-i It is our under- funding that hi tb - th.n the tenant system is used ttnivert: is. the owner of the farm lets out various : "iticr of it to tenants, furnishes them a hoti . finances them, and when the crop is sold take • •.11 th ad vanced money and a share of the net proc- .1 any. (To avoid repeating, it will hereafter be un derstood that the term, if any. is always implie1). In many cases the landed proprietor lives in town, making irregular vi its of inspection to the seat of operation. It is also our understanding that the raising by the ten'ants of “money crops," that is. cotton, peanuts, tobacco, is usually stressed by the own er and willingly done by the tenant. We assume by money crop is meant a crop which can be raised .at a minimum effort and expense, nurtured by nature, and sold in wholesale quantity to one or a few buyers, thu- also minimizing selling time and cost. Now, for the second lesson, we take up tins matter of what happens when the money crops fail to produce money, which is apparently what happened this year. Evidently, they love caste in that season and drop to the lower level of other crops, which we do not know the name cl', but be ing, the antithesis of money crops from the way they are not raised, we will call them “Pauper Crops.” Not being a very good farmer, we can in clude in the Pauper Crop list such things as chickens, hogs, milk cows, beef, sheep, turkeys, corn, sweet and Irish ’taters, strawberries, a? well as all kinds of vegetables and garden truck. Of course, it would be unfair to interpolate here ■ , that a man has made a fortune raising cabbages i;i less than 100 miles from here on the Norfolk road I1 while his neighbor clears thousands of dollars an | dually on one item: the lowly celery. For some H' reason which does not pierce our un-agrarian mind, such as these are not money crops. We don’t intend to go into the fact of over production or underselling or lack of rain or too much rain -Lout which we can do nothing but pray. We re;, ze that the sun either shines or it is a cloudy day. Now, look out this might hurt. It looks like that tooth is infected—who i. to blame for the farmer’s plight in Kastern Carlina? That is. who besides the Lord. And of course, the buyer. Bringing the matter closer home, to the roots, so to -peak, to the farmer himself, land owner or tenant, or both—who is to blame? Not for the poor money crops, not for the low prices, not for the fact that merchants face bankruptcy, and landowners the Sheriff, not for heavy debts and strained credit—-all these condition- do exist —but in the name of all that's fair and just— who is to blame because farmers and their fami lies face cold, privation, lack of clothing and ne cessities of life, and above all else—food, itself? Don't make us laugh. A coal miner freezing, an automobile maker walking, a riveter without his riveting machine. a c rpenter with no tools, a wrenchless plumber, a photographer plying his trade without a camera, a hungry restaurant owner, a wood-man with an empty wood box. a textile mill with no looms—tell us any of these and we might believe you—but a farmer with all the land he needs, if it be only a quarter of an acre, with the tools necessary, with the time when nature is tending his money crops, with an automobile in hi- front yard, with Congressmen anxious to furnish his seeds, with the gentle rain and soft winds to as-ist him while he sleeps— don’t tell me there is any such animal as a starv ing farmer. An hour a day or le-s. with the women folks to help, and enough potatoes and other vegetables can be raised on a little plot of ground near the house to feed the biggest family in the county and have enough stored away for the coldest winter. A little extra effort and enough vegetables sold to dres- the entire family. Milk and butter and eggs, best eating in the whole wide world, right at your back door. Hun dreds of acres of pasture land and wood lots go ing to waste that could be tenanted with pigs and i hogs and :-hoop and turkeys, to please the most fastidious epicurean, and good prices paid for the surplus, and not a bit of time or trouble, except 1 to feed once in a while or spend a little time with when sick. Plenty of fruit trees and a little spraying in •eason for a better crop, but think of the row on row of preserves for the cold Winter nights: while a few miles to the North, whole eommuni-| ties thrive oil this particular gift of Nature. In' need ot retinaneing. 10 No money to buy I shone for the ehiliin :i. Vis. But starving—are, you trying to kid us'.’ .Vow, the farm tar may blame the tenant ' i tin tenant 1 m< the farm, r. While j thi art wasting tin r breath, we sa\ they had j m : togi-t1 ■ r 1 ot the Money Crop pro-! ( ■ tiol ami i. . to r'o to work fora change and .■ ; ' 1 onu of thes': Pail] r <’r<tps. ! Wi mu v ■ - go to work, that'- what we: • Ti •• v of r o gentleman fa> r is about 1 ■■a r. Tin- Id' fare r, the successful farmer, j - s i-,-i ..• to ■■. a tra- ;,ir 1 r wi. 'd a hoe or 1 cotton or 1 hogs but hi ;o lik< . y uihi-r b" : - • ;an : rat I e on tin job to no" 1 that tenant* and hired, help are doing their j . rial b.-lsg 11.. ;n right. And he 1 a use h:s i ; r : ; a: ! p t r." ; :- crop- so that there will | never 1 1 - in the farm. He c uld s( e to :t that some of the wasted time is spent on raising poultry and hog- and cattle, even if only t n uiyh for til: 1. -If and tenants. With his ground and the help of Cod. he can surely keep his family and Hie families of those dependent on him from knowing what it is to want for food. And the tenant can to work abo and get the idea out of his head that he can plant in one season and reap in another and all the months be tween hang around the filling station or attend court or travel the highways. And the result will be regardless of the flood [or the drouth, the price or the quality or the I quantity of the .Money Crops, a full larder at home, egg money for shoes, hog money for lothes, a little extra money for the better things of life, money in the bank drawing interest. The Doctor prescribes more “Pauper Crops” and less “Pauper Farmers.” -□ Mr. Shearer, it -corns. managed to get along guite well before the Senate committee. -□ It begins to look like the u-boats might u-boat disarmament. It takes, a long time for a man to save enough money to buy a block of stock but when the Wall Street boys shake the bushes it doesn’t take him long to tumble to the ground. In the course of human events the nations of the world may make a treaty covering war ships only to find that airships are the things with which to fight wars. The people in the Twin Cities are the only ones that will ever take enough interest in it to make it really beautiful. Citizens who don’t care how their own premises look don’t care how the town looks. KNOW YOUR STATE Water Transportation Waterways play their role in the matter of communication in the State Eight local boat lines opi t. t igu'ar schedules on the sounds and rivers Eastern North Carolina. I-idopcnd ent ga.s boats also offer service. There < limited regular steam-hip —r\ i.» between points in this State ami N >r t'«’lk. Baltimore and New < i k. Wil mington. North Carolina'.- >h-e:' -i p ping port, with its spl 11 • ii• i harb >r facilities and ‘JO ft*«*t of wat-has a regular steamship line . m.limin', at. »v with other States. Cor.-ulertMc . \ port and import busin. - also allied on special and entm • ocean . raft. Undeveloped ports .iu a.de Southport, with one of the fin*hai - hors on the coast, and Cane Lookout harbor. The inland waterway which ha* been laid ou*. to extend from New England to Florida, is now being bunt by the United States government, at a cost of many millions of dollars. More than half the distance through North Carolina is already completed Telephone. Telegraph and Radio Service A network of wire gives every coun ty in the State telegraph and tele phone service. In the matter of tele graphy the State is served by the Western Union and Postal while something like 17.1 telephone compa nies cover the State so completely that even remote rural districts may have communication with the outside world. The Southern Bell operates more than halt* of the 110.00 tele phones in the State. In addition t ' its local service its trunk line toll system gives quick interstate and in ternational connection. North Carolina like other sections of the country, has caught the spirit of radio and its citizens are making good use of this marvelous means of communication. Thousands of sets are in the homes of the people, even in the remotest districts, many of which are capable of international reach. Four broadcasting stations located at Asheville. Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, are operated in North Caro lina. Airfield and Airways Besides the government mail air am there are many airports, landing f:.dds and aeroplanes operating in the State and their use is growing very luridly. Herewith is a list of air ports and landing fields now listed by the 1'nitcd States Department of j ! "ivnuTi e.: Asheville, Charlotte. 1’ayet teville. Gastonia, Goldsboro. Gri--nsi> Henderson, Lexington, M It on. Monroe, Mooresville. New Be B'.nehurst, Raleigh, Reidsv.lle, !'••• kingl.am. Rocky Mount, She!! y. Stanley. Tarboro, W’adesboro, Wil taington, Wins’on Salem. Street Railways Fleet ric street railway lines n’* . • e»;.-. «i in A -hevillt*. Charlotte. Dar rein. *': ns*' ;■!>. New B.-tn. Raleigh. Salisbu? y. Winston-Salem. Wilrnin. » 11; ;i■ d Wriirhtsville Beach, and are ■ u:•; ieirented by many local opertl ir.g 1 u lines. HIGHWAYS OF THE STATE A few years ago a prominent magn vine stilted editorially, that. “Wher ever good highways are construct*- i. prosperity and progress follows as sure as day follows the night." Tr.e truth of this statement has been con : clusively proved in the case of North Carolina. Since the inauguration of a I definite program of State highway (building in 1921 the State has shown marked progress in every line and I today is often referred to as the | “Leader of the New South," and the “Good Roads State." Financing .Methods There has never been and never needs to be any burden on the prop erty owners of the State for its road construction or maintenance. The ex pense of constructing and maintain ing the present State highway sys tem is placed, and properly so. upon the user of the road, the motorist. At the present time the receipts from the 4 cent per gallon tax on gasoline and from motor vehicle licenses are suf ficient to pay: (a) the cost of admin istration of the State Highway sys tem; (b) the interest on all outstand ing highway bonds issued and author ized; (c) sinking fund and serial pay ments for retiring the principal of all bond issues, within a period of 25 years from theprest ntime: (d) full i maintenance of the entire highway | system according to the most im- | proved n-ethods, and (e) to produc - «: | surplus fj»* nov' construction of a1* >ut ? 5,000,OOP and upyard annually. fc\rviu of wignwvy?> The highway act of .^21 provi 1 J for a systiM < f 5,5JO m:les worn hiiS irrown u.itil in 1929 if. totals ap i.-oximat My 7,f00 miles . f which com uderably mat- than ha” is paved mo ! :j.i rest n.cy well be cie.^ed as \ 11 w, at her ro- f's.” -n About 96 hats for women were found in the home of Joseph Herman, a bachelor of Tottenuham, Eng., when he was arrested for theft. CLASSIFIED ADS--BUSINESS CARDS , read by thousands—short interesting;—rates ON REQUEST WANTED—Thj public to know that , I have good rVy wood for sale. — GEO. C. STEELE. Phone 105. oTd Fashioned home made CANDY—For sale by George Hayes. III. f.Oc pound, phone ld*5, Rosemary, N. C. tf. IOOMS—With p. or rooms for' light li"US'K. < • Mr. J. K. Car ter. ‘.'Ill Jackson S. tf. WILL FURNISH LOT- And build y«»ur home on reasonable terms, or will sell lots ami you I ui'.d your own home. Come to see me it y >u want to own a h 'me. S. M. Thompson. Rosemary. N. C. I H WE MORE THAN 100 INQUI RIES— For Rial Estate and farms. If you want to sell and will put a price on your property with full description, I will find you a buy er. S. M. THOMPSON. Real Es tate—Rosemary, N. C.-it. FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Phone 2SM-J. Mrs. T. H. Kennemur.—2tnp. FOR RENT—Two large bed rooms in my house. Phone 10th Wells D. Til- • lery.—Gtpd. j FOR RENT—Four room house five j miles out on Littletou Koad. Good farm land, also suited for dairy— I Apply to H. Shearin.—dtpd. FOR RENT—Electric Waxer and Va cuum Cleaner. 20c per hour. 50c minimum charge. Roanoke Hard ware Co. 11 l(i 11 BLOOD PKESSIRE—May be onsilv inexpensively overcome, with out drugs. Just send your address. Dr. S. W. Stokes, Mohawk. Fla. Notice This is to n*'tify the public that I have taken "M r the City I< <• & Fuel C<>.. :ind will not be responsible for ! ills against them prior • Jan. f»th. i9.:o. CFO. C. STM ' 'I F. Phone IGo. dt-jan 2d. NOTICE OF SUE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the authori ty and power conferred on the un dersigned and contained in that chat tel m rtgage from Moses Browr.ing j the Citizen; P*nk it Ti list Compa- j ny. dat -d the 22nd., day of FYbruary. j A !>.. lb2'd, and duly recorded in the office of thp Iiegi;.*cr of Deed, for Halifax County. State of North Caro lina. in Book No. .'Ib."./ at Page No. 227. on the* 20th day of February, A. D.. !‘.'2b. default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured, and at the reyuest of I the ladder of the note evidencing the said ir.d “htodnesr. the undersigned will, on Saturday. February Nth. lbJO. at tin* h'-ur of 12:00 o'clock. Neon, on the p- i. i • - wile the said Mo Brow nM: live! and • >r.ducted a d •iiy. in Rc'anol: • Rapid- Township, Hali fax County. North Carolina, offer for sale at puh'ic aU'tion to the highest bidder or < ASH. ’.bowing des cribed personal property. to-\vit: One ill Guernsey cow, about .-ov en (7) years old, one (1) light red •Jersey cow. about seven years old, one [ (1 > light red Jersey c-ow, about seven (7) years old. one (M Guernsey cow. about six C>1 years old. There being four (1) cows in all. This the 14th day of January, A. D.. 1930. CITrZKNS BANK & TRUST CO., By F. L. NASH, Cashier. Place of Sale: On the premises of Moses Browning’s Dairy. Date of Sale: Saturday. February Nth. 1930. Time of Sale: 12:00 O'clock, Noon. Terms of Sale: Cash. 4t-2-G-30. -n—— Notice of Publication NORTH CAROLINA, HALIFAX COUNTY. IN SUPERIOR COURT. JULIA T. BROWN, Plaintiff, vs. L. E. BROWN. Defendant. The defendant, above named, will take notice that an action as above entitled has been commenced in the Superior Court of Halifax County. North Carolina, against said defend ant to procure an absolute divorce from the defendant on the ground? of five years separation; and said defendant will further take notice that he is required to app*-a” at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court ol Halifax, State aforesaid, at the Court House in Halifax, on the 8th day of February. 1930, and answer or demur to the complaint of the plaint.ff, which has been deposited in the of fice of said clerk, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief de manded. This 13th day of January, 1930. S. M. GARY, Clerk of Superior Court of Halifax County. 4t-2-6-30, On Fifth Avenue/ iMaw/ of the fairest owe the;r beauty to _ . -M lemon C\, ‘Awy Ci.OVNISIMO CREAAi '//!ir Jiatuts' w»v to b*aunj —SOLD RY— CROWDER’S DEl’T STORE—Where thousands save money. Phone 252-W, Rosemary, N 0. 666 is a Prescription for Colds. Grippe. Flu. Don put*. | Bilious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy known. lTt-3-1-30. On Fifth Avenue/ Jttanu of the faresf owe their beauty to J*41*1** ’ »*N *• t444** Sold By MRS. K. JENKINS ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE J. A. House, Thelma, N. C., has been appointed administrator of the Thomas Zollicoffer estate as of Janu ary 9th, 1930, and all creditors of the estate are hereby notified to present their claims to said administrator within 12 months from the date of this notbe. AM debtors of the estate are hereby notified to pay all monies owed said estate to the administrator. J. A. HOUSE. Thelma, X. C. Administrator Thomas Zolli coffer Estate. 4t-jan-30 Notice of Sale By virtue of the authority contain ed in a certain deed of trust executed ' on tlu* 2nd day of September, 1926, J by Rosemary Real Estate Company, a North Carolina Corporation, to Julian 1 R. Allsbrook, Trustee, recorded in the j office of the Register of Deeds for ; Halifax County, North Carolina, in' Book 37-1 at page 108, default having been made in the payment of the in debtedness thereby secured, the un dersigned trustee will on the loth day of February, 1930, at 12:30 o’clock P M., m front of the postoffice door in the Town of Roanoke Rapids. Hali fax County, North Carolina, offer f sale at public auction t>» the highest bidder for cash, the foil -wing describ ed tracts or parcels of land, to-wit: j First; Those eight (S) certain lots • ■ land known and designated as I.--ts Nos. Nine Hiimlnd Six (99b. Nine] Hundred Fight ('.'<>>». Nine Hundred! Ten (910), Nine Hundred Twelve) (9!2), Nine Hundr- --i Fourteen (911). Nine Hundred Sixteen r.'l'-i. Nine Hundred Eighteen (PlM ur/l Nine i Hundred Twenty (920) lying and be ing situated < n the Fast side of Roa noke Avenue, in the Village of-Rose mary, Hal 1'. < -ery. North Caro lina, ea-h of said Hots fronting twenty-f (2a) feet on said Avenue .trid runnn. b:n k between parallel lines and at right angles to said i \venue 1-10 feet t«* an alley; said lots) being' shown on th- • certain maps or ph (s of the propi'fty of the Roa noke Rapids Power Company, Roa noke Rapid:-. N. C.. of record in the office of tlie Register of Deeds of Halifax County. North Carolina, in Plat Book No. 1 at pages 11. 12, 13 and 1 I; and being part of those ccr j tain lots conveyed to Rosemary Real Estate Company by deed of Roanoke j Avenue Development Company, dated | April 20th. 1920, and recorded in the I aforesaid office of the Register of I Deeds in Book 319. page 394; refer j once to which said maps and deed is . hereby made for greater certainty of ! description. Second: Those three (3) certain lots known and designated as Lots Nos. Nine Hundred Eleven (911), Nine Hundred Thirteen (‘.'13) and Nine Hundred Fifteen, lying and be ing situate on the West side of Roa Inoke Avenue, in the Village of Rose mary, Halifax County, Noith Caro lina; each of said lots fronting twen ty-five (25) feet on said Avenue and running back between parallel lin**s and at right angles to said Avenue 1.0 feet to an alley; said lots being I shown on the maps or plats as above described, of the property of the Roa noke Rapids Power Company, of re cord in th_* aforesaid office of the Re gister of I ee.ls of Halifax County :i I Mat Book No. 1 at pages 11, 12, 13 and 14: and being a part of the io\ • conveyed as above set out by the Roa noke Rapids Power Company by deed to Rosemary Real Estate Company dated April 20th, 1920, and recorded in Book 3X9, page 394- Register of Deeds office of Halifax County; re ference to which said deed and maps being made for greater certainty of description. This notice dated and posted the 15th day of January, 1930. JULIAN R. ALLSBROOK, Trustee. 4t-feb 13 Dr. W. M. Ward DENTIST Rosemary, N. C. Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted I am in my home office near Rosemary I*. O. every day ex cept Mondays, hours 9 to 12— 1 to 5. Also every night from 7 to 8. All Work guaranteed— Charges reasonable. Dr. E. D. Harbour Reg. Optometrist ROSEMARY. N. C. DONT forget: We carry a complete line of Dairy and Poultry Feeds Sunshine Hog Fattener— Red Dog Fish Meal and Tankage. Come To See Us! Stedman Stores Co. Roanoke Rapids, N. C. The New AMERICAN CAFE NEXT TO ROSEMARY BANK Bl'ILDlMS SPECIAL DINNERS REAL BARBECUE Hours 5:00 a. m. to 1:00 a. m. B. F. HEDGEPETH Manager Rosemary, North Carolina BARGAIN SALE ! NINE LOTS ON HAMIL TON STREET . 12th RLOCK. CASH PRICE-— $200.00 J . C . SMITH Rosemary, N. C. VV. C. WILLIAMS Funeral Director FUNERAL PARLOR % UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT AMEUI.ANCE SERVICE TACTFUL ATTENTION Day Phone 110 Night Phone S9 Rosemary, N. C. We Wash Every thing But the Baby Tour laundry is insured while in eur care— JOHNSON’S LAUNDRY SOUTH ROSEMARY Phone 365-J PROMPT DEUYHRY
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