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LET’S WAGE WAR UPON SYPHILIS one oi tne nations leading magazines, ihe i-ailies noine journal, is conducting a campaign among Uie women ot tne country, uesigneu to enlarge tne national tignt on sypnius. in a page newspapers advetisement i tne eunors asaed women everywhere to wme a letter to tneir congressman, urging passage oi me mil introduced in the Senate uy senator Kooert M. Oaf onette and in the nouse Dy representative A L. Buiwinkie, wlucn pians an attack to stamp out syphilis m mis country. We have not read the bill but the ma gazine cans attention to the facts that PO.OOU oabies are born with syphilis every year, mat 40,000 people a year die of cardiac con ditions caused by syphilis, that $10,000,000 a year is spent for the syphihtis blind, that $tfi,40o,0o0 a year is spent for the syphilitic insane, that OSd.OOO syphilitic cases are now under treatment and that in one city 44 out oi every 1,000 expectant mothers were in fected. “The only possible enemies that this measure will have,” say the editors of the magazine, “are inertia and indifference. If this bill is passed, all it will cost is twenty cents a year per person. That is much less than the present cost of caring for the syp hilitic bind and insane alone.” As the New York Times has so well said, “Experience has shown that the words ‘sy philis’ and ‘gonorrhea’ must be used in print if venereal diseases are to be controlled." Certainly the time has come for plain speak ing eveywhere and for wide education a mong all people in regard to matters of sex. The literature of today discusses this sub ject with a frankness which would have seem ed incredible not many years ago and The Roanoke News offers no apology for calling the subject to the attention of its readers. CHEERS FOR HUBERT WILKINS! Sir Hubet Wilkins, his Canadian pilot, Herbert Holiick-Kenyon, their radio-men and ground crew, are still continuing their long search over the frozen terrain of the Artie for the Russian flier, Sigismund Levanevsky and his companions, who were lost last Aug ust on a projected flight from Moscow to Fair banks, Alaska. News of Sir Hubert’s brave mission has almost been obscured by the more pressing political and military events now startling the world. He has braved the storms and fogs of Polar skies and. the perils of the ice and its dangers. Flights of more than a thou sand miles, with the magnetic compass dancing around have been commonplace and occasional trips through the air have been more than two thousand miles. The longest flight to date was one of 2,650 miles, lasting nineteen and a half hours. On this trip, both the radio direction finder and radio compass were ineffective but the explorer kept in touch with the group by using a short-wave radio. Sir Hubert and his party have not en joyed what one would call a “good press.” In less stirring times the newspapers of the world would have been filled with the daily chronicle of their enterprise. In spirit of grave matters in other parts of the world, people everywhere can afford to take time out to salute a group of brave men for their heroic mission of mercy. It is just possible that their example is worth more than mili tary expedition against a defenseless neigh bor state. HULL OUTLINES FOREIGN AFFAIRS The statement by Secretary Hull, in his recent radio address outlining the present foreign policies of the United States, should be read by every American citizen who is anxious for the future welfare of the United States. The Secretary of State, whose faith in the development of commerce to improve the living conditions of all peoples is seen in the reciprocal treaties that he has negotiated, clearly expressed the general principles that guide those in charge of our foreign affairs. The nation is not engaged in an affort to achieve an impossible isolation. It is not seeking to direct the affairs of the world. The United States adheres to fundamental principles of law and order in international affairs, constantly restating its faith in their efficacy and urging nations to respect the rights of others. While losing no opportunity to express our disapproval of lawlessness and indecency in international developments Mr. Hull makes plain the intent of the United States to a void resort to force, either as a matter of national policy or as a means to compel other nations to behave. At the same time, the Secretary of State has no patience with isolation that involves the surrender of our rights anywhere, any time. He thinks that such a course, in the face of threatening attitudes, will invite oth er encroachments. He stands for strength and courage in asserting our rights as the surest way to preserve the respect of other nations upon which peage depends. There is no hesitancy on his part in de claring that when peace-loving nations face situations, involving the same interest, they should consult each other and pursue paral lel lines of action. This, .he insists, involves no entangling alliances inasmuch as this na tion always retains complete freedom of act ion To do otherwise, he says, would be to strengthen the hands of aggressors every where. There is much to be said for the policies that Mr. hull explains but, just the same, one wonders where they will lead. Common sense alone causes us to recognize the group of aggressor nations, using the might of of their war machines to accomplish their purposes, without regard to either the rights of others or the effect of their campaigns upon the world as a whole Indeed, because of this realization, the nation is now engaged in a tremendous rear mament eftort, designed to assure national safety in the face of possible dangers in the future. Standing aloof from other nations, the United States must rely upon its strength for protection against nations that may com bine against her. Great Britain, be it noted, is apparently doing the same. The present policy of the United States in world affairs, is to set the good example. Not by force, it is felt, will the lawless na tions be won to cooperative efforts in the common good of all nations but, possibly, if this country, in its contacts, demonstrates its purpose of peaceful development, the lesson may not be lost upon nations that seem in clined to try the sword. Naturally, in adopting such a course, one recognizes that there must be no weakness in defense to permit unscrupulous adventur ers to take advantage of our good will. We must be just to others, patient to the last degree and seek friendship everywhere but, j if these efforts are misunderstood, we must! be abundantly able to enforce proper respect for rights that belong to this nation. “SIGNS” AND A BIG WAR. Human beings are prone to seek signs and protents of coming events. We like to prophesy. Our efforts are seldom restricted by the “signs” that mean something. Recently, an Associated Press dispatch from Rochester, Indiana, advised that “war cannot be far a way.” The conclusion was based on bumper lamb yields which “oldtimers” asserted had been followed in the past by long and costly and destrustive wars. Those who believe in this sign say that providence is providing the extra meat for the battling armies. This year the lamb yield is “believed to be the largest in the country’s history.” Apparently, a big war is just around the corner. HONOR A BOY HERO Life everyday presents its heroes who de serve the acclamation of the world no less than those who die on the battlefields. Of course, we do not hear of all acts of bravery, but one day this month a Maryland home caught on fire. All of the family escaped except two small boys, six and four years old. An older brother,James Haddick, 17, died in a vain attempt to rescue them. Hearing the younger boys’ screams, he broke away from those restraining him and dashed into the burning house. Later, he was seen to reach the door with one of them in his arms but staggered and fell back into the flames. James probably did not stop to think of the danger to himself when he answered the cries of distress that came from his small brothers. Some may content themselves with the observation that he should have been more cautious in view of the improb ability of effecting a rescue. However, millions of people everywhere, who hear of his deed, will laud his brave and self- effacing act in the face of danger, knowing quite well that the future of the human race depends upon the impulse that moves men and women to sacrifice them selves for others. WHY NOT FIGHT “RED” RUSSIA? Strange things are happening in this mod ern world. In the Far East, Japanese planes drop ands of women and children and the explana tion is that Japan seeks to protect them from Communists. In Spain, the Italian and German planes of General Franco have been very actively engaged in bombing cities in Government held territory and the explanation is that he seeks to prevent the Communists from tak ing control of Spain. In Austria, following the recent Nazi an nexation, mobs attacked helpless Jew’s, steal ing their property and subjecting them to indignities that appal other civilized peo ples and the explanation is that Nazi policies are to preserve the liberties of the German people and to prevent the spread of Com munism in Central Europe. In Italy, Germany and Japan the rights of the people are subject to the military aims of ruling cliques, which promise glibly a great future in return for present sacrifices and it is done in the name of self-defense and the rights that belong to the respective nations. Each military dictatorship speaks of lib erty and praises justice to stir its people to attacks upon other people. None praise peace more fulsomely than the nations now engaged in military attacks upon helpless neighbors. All of them denounce the Com munists but they do not attack Russia, where Communism, so-called, has its alleged den. Instead they pick out a weaker nation, which can be easily overwhelmed by force, and then strike a blow for liberty and the death of Communism! If the Communists of Soviet Russia are the evil ons of the prsent generation, as Messrs^ Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and as sorted Japanese assert, why not make a frontal attack upon the Red nest? Why at tack China, Ethiopia, Spain, Austria or Czechoslovakia? Certainly, if Red Russia is “purged” and “purified” the satellites will fall and even the Jews will have no one with whom to conspire. The three-power past against Communism seems not to operate against Red Russia but to mean military action only where there are eaey spoilsto be plucked, Japan is anx iousto harry the Chinese to prevent the Communists from misleading them. Italy is ready to send soldiers to Spain to protect the Spaniards frm Communism and Ger many stands ready, at any time and any where, to safeguard Germanic citizens of other lands from dangers that mysterious ly percolate from Moscow. In fact, so ardent are the Japanese that they are willing to annex parts of China. The Italians, not to be outdone, are ready to ob tain favors from a Spain conquered by Fas cist materials and men. The Gemanspn the bitterness of their fight upon the Reds, annex Austria, covet Czechoslovakia and openly envy the wheat fields of the Ukraine. Certainly, there are strange things happening in the world today._ CAUGHT AT RAMBLER RANDOM Since I have been on the subject of “beautifying the country side” I have had my attention called to many attractive spots in our vici nity. 1 hope that our taste for gar dens and flowers and balding brooks is not a seasonable th.ng that will vanish like the jonquil blooms themselves. How much more life contains for us while we are looking for the beauty spots in stead of the ugly ones. This week there came into my hands a pamphlet containg the de tails of the "Noith Carolina Gar den Club Fortnight and Tour, April 9 to 23, 1938”. It says: “During this period, more than 150 gardens, homes, and places of historical in terest in 17 cities and towns will be open to the public for the first time, so that those in other states as well as those in North Carolina, may visit and enjoy these beauty spots.” Some of the places near Weldon that are listed in the pamphlet are: Weldon anti Roanoke Rapids com bined, Warrenton and Enfield. The local gioup, containing the gard ens of Mrs. Fred Bounds in Wel don, Mrs. T. R. Manning in Roa noke Rapids and Mrs. C. A. W'yche on the Roanoke Rapids road, will be open from April 13 to April 23. Registrations should be made at Mrs. C. A. Wyche’s Choekoyotte Garden. A small fee which helps defray expenses of the Garden Club, will be charged. Warrenton has several places of interest, including the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in which Hor ace Greely was married. Enfield has as its outstanding point of interest the famous old Shell Cas tle. It was built in 17'JO and has a formal garden with some very old boxwoods. For those who love the natural beauty more the woods offer a plea sant sight now. The dogwoods are in full bloom, polka-dotting the dark green woodlands. The red woods, too, add their hues to the fringes of the forests here and there. However, if one will see the world of wild beauty that touches some of us as nothing else, he must choose the right roads. Find the meanest byway possible, cut your speed down by about 40 miles per hour, and see beauty come right up to your car. Don't drive along the pav d roads. It’s too dangerous too look, the woods are too few and there are those which have been ahead of you, plucked armfuls and carted them away. And in your travels, wherever you are, don’t yield to the tempation to pull the flowers or break the blossoms to bring them home. Let them stay in their natural places. To take them from their places is to throw the whole picture out of balanc.d on the back-drop of hills and woods and skies. - 0 -- I iiWg fflffi ^ I The ever-normal granary should help reduce big swings in market supply. Everybody is better off when the supply is ad quate and stable than they are in alternating high and low years. - 0 - Jackson County farmers have purchased 544 tons of ground lime stone cooperatively since last Sep tember. BADLY HURT BY BEETLES College Station, Raleigh, April 4—Heavy infestations of flea beetles in old belt tobacco plant beds were reported today by J. 0. Rowell, extension entomologist at State College. Fairly heavy infestations have been found in all flue-cured tobac co growing counties, he said, hut the worst damage so far is in Stokes. Surry, Yadkin, Forsyth and Guilford counties. But even in the areas where beet les are thickest, growers who con structed “beetletight” beds are not troubled with these insects, Row ell continued. To construct such a bed, tight fitting board walls are built a iound it and provision is made for fastening the canvas cover onto this frame in such a manner that beetles cannot get inside the bed. But for growers whose beds ha ve been infested this year, he re commends ‘dusting with one per cent rotenone. This dust can be blown down through the canvas when the. cloth is dry. In communities where rotenone is not available, growers can dust with a mixture of one part of Pa l's green to five parts of lead ar senate. Ousting is better than spraying, and half a pound of either rotenone or the Paris green and lead ar senate dust is sufficient for 100 square yards of plant bed. by GEE McGEE BUSINESS PARLEY VOO ANGLACE I went to a movie the other night and thereby hangs a tale, viz: I lost 30c, the cost of admis sion. The picture waR an English affair, with English players, with English scenery, even unto Lon don't fogs. Those actors and actresses, Eng lish all, mind you, spoke every thing but English. I never knew that English wrords could be so twisted and warped that they would sound entirely foreign. But if those, folks were using the King's English, we Americans are evidently using the Queen’s yiddish. It is impossible that we have so American-ized the English language that we no longer speak it as it is. I caught a word every now and then that sounded English and out of place, such as: “Ime coming yap, sir” . . and “ bag yoour paar don” .... and “ I ballywell should saay.' When I woke up, it was nearly all over ,thank goodness. Not being interested in strain ing by ears and imination during the presentation of this so-called master-piece, I had time to watch the guy on my right hug his gal, and the gal on my left pat her sweetie on the jaw; the 2 fellers behind me were certainly enjoying Howard Watson of Wil ty is using his 210-yarc plant bed for demonstrate use of sprays and chemicals , control of the blue mold dv Check plots have been left it center and at each end. More lespedeza was seeded" Granville County this season thai in any previous year, reports *'■ county agent. -0 j Uncte Jim Sags j I * Farmona and (factory workars have much in common, in 1933, two *-i out of every five workers added to _J factory payrolls owed their jobs to better farm income and the in creased purchasing power of farm ers. their goobers. But what got my nerves shot was the soda jerker who sat near me and who found it his duty to either whistle or hum every tune the orchestra played, and patted his footrail at the back of my seat. The flapper who sat in front of me had evidently just bought herself a hair-wash. Her head look ed like an O-cedar mop. I couldn’t have seen much if I had wanted to. But going back to those actors and actresses: if they send any more of their pictures over here, I hope they will have an American or two in it that will talk English and thus assist me in getting par tially re-imbursed for my admis sion ticket. I am sure I can under stand a hoot owl better than the average native Britisher. STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE BANK Of HALIFAX HALIFAX WELDON SCOTLAND NECK LITTLETON At The Close of Business on March 31, 1938 RESOURCES Cash and due from Banks.$ 537,613.65 Credit Commodity Corporation Notes, secured by cotton in Bonded Warehouse and guaranteed by the United States Gov. 239,045.10 Federal Housing Administration Loans, secured by Real Estate and Guaranteed fully by the United States Government . 79,273.18 United States Government Bonds, State of North Carolina and other Stocks and Bonds Present Market value - $462,794.33 . 411,207.61 >1,267,139.54 $1,267,139.54 Banking houses at Halifax, Littleton and Scotland Neck . Furniture and Fixtures and Vault Equipment at Halifax, Littleton, Weldon and Scotland Neck . Other Real Estate . Prepaid Bond and Insurance Premium. Loans and Discounts . 18,906.93 13,937.45 8,834-07 1 99.05 758,202.88 $2,071,262.42 LIABILITIES DEPOSITS . $1,790,613.28 Capital Stock. 100,000,00 iSurplus . 100,000.00 Undivided Profits. 41,084-49 Unearned Interest . 14,911.67 Reserves. 9,025.00 Reserve for accrued interest due Depositors. 2,416*36 Other Liabilities (Inter Branch Accounts) .. 13,211.62 $2,071,262-42
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