THE ROANOKE RAPIDS
ROANOKE RAPIDS. NORTH CAROLINA
THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN HALIFAX COUNTY
Member North Carolina Press Association
CARROLL WILSON, Owner and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post oft.,
at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879.
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NOT HOW MANY BUT WHAT KIND
• • Towns like to boast of their growing popula
tion figures and rightly so and most of them are
exuberant when some new industry comes to the
town to swell the population. Certainly no towns
wants to stand still or go backwards either in pop
ulation or anything else.
But there is coming a realization that mush
room growths are not the best thing that could
happen to any town and wise citizens are becoming
more interested in the quality of new citizens rath
er than in quantity.
A sudden influx of new population brings add
ed problems and a sudden let-down in such a boom
brings a deeper reaction.
A steady growth over the years, with the ad
dition of citizens who add to the stature of a com
munity and lend their aid to the civic, religious and
educational uplift of that community is much pre
ferred.
A survey of the growth of Roanoke Rapids
during the past five years shows that we have been
blessed with that sort of advance.
We have every reason to believe that Roanoke
Rapids will continue that growth and progress and
that its policy in regard to newcomers will not be
how many but rather what kind.
WISE GIVING AND SPENDING
• • Saturday night will see the close of the drive
for funds for Associated Charities of Roanoke
Rapids. This weekend will be the last opportunity
to contribute to one of the most worthwhile causes
for which money is asked.
That which is given will be used for the year’s
work among the unfortunates of Roanoke Rapids;
not those on regular charity or government relief,
but those who are unfortunate enough to have un
forseen periods of destitution when a little help is
needed to tide over the rough spots until things
improve. There is no other agency but Associated
Charities to help these kinds of cases.
So many times we give money to beggars, pro
fessional panhandlers and tambourine shakers and
have no idea where the money goes or as to wheth
er the case justifies help. Only recently, a girl was
arrested after collecting a goodly sum with a well
known organization hat and tambourine. It de
veloped that she had found the hat and was using
it as a well-paying business proposition for herself.
When you give to Associated Charities, you
can rest assured that every case is thoroughly in
vestigated, treated on its merits and that every
penny you give will be wisely spent.
THEY ARE CITIZENS TOO
• • Not only have many new home been built in
Roanoke Rapids in the past few years, but the last
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two years have also seen the suburbs of Roanoke
Rapids steadily increase.
In South Rosemary, there has been a continual
growth while Belmont would not be recognized by
one who remembers it three or four years ago.
The two spots where there has been the most
phenomenal growth are at Camp’s Store to the
North and the colored section to the Southeast.
Nearly one hundred new homes have been built in
the Camp’s Store section in the past twelve
months, while in a beautiful woods near the Color
ed School there are more than one hundred new
homes for colored people.
We estimate that there are 2,500 persons liv
ing in the immediate vicinity of Roanoke Rapids
today. They work here, trade at our stores, attend
our shows, go to church here, send their children
to our High School, get well in our hospital. We
consider them full-fledged citizens of Roanoke
Rapids.
A POSTAL CENTER
• • Roanoke Rapids and its steady growth is best
typified by the increase in the postal service which
is growing better all the time. *
Yesterday’s announcement by Postmaster
Shell that the facilities of the local post office have
been extended to reach the communities of South
Rosemary and Belmont is but another step in the
improved service which is best known to those who
recall that not so many years ago everybody had
to go to the post office for the mail.
Now, to a new post office, city delivery, rural
and star routes and other conveniences are added
a rural station at South Rosemary and rural free
delivery to Belmont.
Increase in population and increase in busi
ness are making Roanoke Rapids a post office
center.
OUR FRANTIC APPEAL
• • Again we make an appeal to all those sending
news to The Herald to get the news in earlier. This
Thursday morning we find ourselves swamped
with news, most of the paper already printed and
not enough space for the news. Some may ask why
we took up a page with a long story. The answer
is that long story was set up in type on Monday
when we needed your copy and did not have it. We
were not, exactly kidding one of our reporters a
bout the story which happened last Friday and
which reached our office this Wednesday night.
Please let us have the news as soon as it happens.
IN WASHINGTON
■M WHAT
TAKING
PLACE
BY
UNITED STATES SENATOR
EDITOR’S NOTE—Senator Rey
nolds’ column for this week is writ
ten as he is en route to Washington
from a visit to Western states, and
deals with some of the impressions
he has gained.
0 Any swing through the country
will quickly convince an individual
that North Carolina selected the
psychological time to spread its
program for recreational develop
ment and attracting new industries.
The state is much in the eyes of
people throughout the country. The
progressive way in which it came
through the depression has attract
ed national attention. It explains
why the state is already reaping
benefits from its new development
program.
0 Perhaps tAe thing that impress
ed me most, when numerous invi
tations were pressed upon me to
make addresses, was that those in
terested wanted to hear about
North Carolina. What are labor
conditions? How are the roads?
Do the Great Smokies compare
with the Western National Parks?
These and many other questions
were asked on every hand.
0 There are, of course, many rea
sons for this interest. Great num
bers of Tar Heels have migrated
westward over a long period of
years and retain an interest in their
home state and tell others about it.
Equally as important, as one of the
first states to adequately develop a
highway system, North Carolina
won attention that has not been
overlooked with the passing years.
• Moreover, the word has spread
that through diversified agricul
ture .commerce and industry, North
Carolina has not felt the effects of
the depression as keenly as some
other states. This view has been
enhanced by the fact that Tar
Heels, as a rule, spread confidence
wherever they go and implant a
desire on the part of others to see
the state..
• The result will be 4that the pro
gram to attract visitors and new
residents to the state is destined to
prove the greatest step forward
North Carolina has taken in recent
years. I believed this when I left
Washington for a survey of condi
tions. and a combined vacation. I
am more than ever convinced of it
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