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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1936.
THIS WEEK’S BIBLE THOUGHT
FOR THE FEARFUL: Fear thou
not; for I am with thee: be not dis
mayed; for I am thy God: I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help
thee; yea I will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness.-
Isaiah 41:10.
WHAT IS THE VALUE
OF HUMAN LIFE?
Undoubtedly when God determines
that life should end and that His
children should return to Him in
Heaven, all the man-made efforts to
effect contradiction and keep life in
tact will prove futile. But that, of
course, is no reason why these ef
forts should not be engaged in. We
have no way of knowing God’s will,
which is why we ,have doctors and
surgeons' and various types of resuS
citative devices which we employ
where death seems imminent or
doubtful*
Here in this delightful little town
along the water this condition has
been twice pitiful and sad this sum
mer. Tiro of our young folks, imma
ture and seeking careless pleasure
in the bay, have succumbed to
drowning. All that could be done to
bring them back to their loved ones
was done, and no doubt nothing dif
ferent could be done.
But something else was worth the
try. Even a child’s life far exceeds
in value the trivial cost of any sort
of an inhalating apparatus that
might reopen the respiratory organs
and give breath a new chance. Every
community that reckons itself mod
em and up-to-date, has such pulmot
ing apparatuses. Probably in these
two cases its use might not have
been effective but that is no excuse
for the town to assume one such de
vice is not worth having on hand.
It is not alone drowning, but suffo
cation by smoke from fires or any
other cause, that makes the use of
such a device desirable.
This is not the first time that The
Herald has urged an inhalator for
the town, but to date the town fath
ers have failed to act.
A new automobile was purchased
just this week and The Herald would
not say it was not necessary. How
ever, if ways can be found to pay for
a new automobile, surely an appara
tus that may save a life, and costing
much less than a new car, may be
paid for.
Members of Town Council may
well ponder over their feeling in the
matter if perchance a child of theirs
should be so unfortunate as to lose
his or her life by drowning when
there might be a possibility or even
remote chance of saving the life by
a machine that costs a paltry sum of
a few- hundred dollars.
For a town so situated as is Eden
ton lack of an inhalator is short of
criminal negligence. An inhalator is
needed and should be purchased de
spite the cry of no money and fear
of a raise in the tax rate.
WHY NOT BE
TRUTHFUL?
It will soon be six months since
the high school at Small’s Cross
Roads was destroyed by fire, and
the County is no nearer a decision
as to how a new school can be built
than it was the morning after the
conflagration. This is not right. A
new school is required by the laws
of the State, and a new school should
be built. The law makes the re
quirement obligatory upon the
county.
Os course it is natural Chowan
should seek what help it can get
from outside sources, these sources
being the Federal government
through its much publicized PWA
and WPA programs, programs which
at the outset were going to be ex
tensively liberal to this section—we
all remember that meeting in Feb
ruary, 1935, when Chowan worked
out a plan of getting $2,000,000 for
a score of projects here.
The reason now advanced for fail
ure to secure Federal aid for the
Cross Roads school .is because
Chowan cannot provide the requisite
amount of skilled labor. This is far
fetched. It is a fairer assumption
that North Carolina is not reckoned
a doubtful state this election year.
Money is spent, as a gratuity or
otherwise, where it will do the most
good just before election, and it iB
downright cruel that North Carolina,
Chowan County and Small’s Cross
Roads should be one of the victims
of this commonly understood pro-
cedure. .
A committee was scheduled to go
again to Chapel Hill today on a
hunt for this money, but a telegram
was received Tuesday to the effect
that to secure a grant the County
must have available on its relief roll
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the skilled labor necessary. Chowan
is in a sad plight so far as the
school situation is concerned, but
cannot produce the skilled labor for
building a school, which in plain Eng
lish means that the county might
just as well get busy and build a
school and the taxpayers get ready
to pay for it.
A PROBLEM WHICH
MUST BE SOLVED
The necessity for increasing wel
fare aid under the New Deal can be
traceable to many odd ends, one, of
which has to do with the disappear
ance of migratory fish from the wa
ters of North Carolina. Which
means, of course, if there are no fish
to catch, commercial fishermen are
out of luck, have no income and
must go on the relief rolls. Some
thing must be done to relieve the
situation.
At the last meeting of the Board
of Conservation and Development the
seriousness of this situation was
made apparent. It was explained
that in 1897 the shad fishing in this
State was up to nearly 9,000,000
pounds and that in 1932 it had drop
ped to 927,000 pounds, which is a
real drop as can be readily seen.
With rock and otser types of fish the
toll is believed to be the same, with
a consequent drop in necessary man
labor.
The Board feels this constitutes a
challenge to every right thinking
citizen, and that drastic measures
are going to be required if the situa
tion is to be saved. Hardships will
have to be undergone and some folks
restrained from doing some of the
things heretofore permitted. Men
making their living with nets ■will
have to practice self-restraint and let
the fishing industry return to the
basis of prosperity upon which it was
once fashioned.
North Carolina has ever been reck
oned one of the greatest of fishing
states. Certainly its fishermen have
profited by this reputation, but if
there is no fish to catch, due to greed
or some other cause, some new meth
ods will have to be put into force.
Just what they will be need not be
worried about as the matter is in the
hands of a Board that has the inter
ests of everyone at heart.
COLORED FOLKS
DO A GOOD JOB
Hats off to the Colored Parents-
Teachers Association which helps out
in the guidance of the colored high
school! They are the sort of which
their race can well be proud. For a
year or more now the colored schools
have endeavored to secure adequate
busses for the transport of outlying
pupils. Each time they have asked
for such aid they have met with re
buffs.
So the colored folks, aided by
some white friends, took up a propo
sition to raise enough money for a
new bus which would be matched
with a bus by the County School
Board. The colored folks raised
$136 in Edenton and S7OO in the
County,, practically covering the cost
of a bus. Their efforts were crown
ed with success and by the time
school starts they will feel gratified
in realizing that colored high school
students will have the opportunity
to travel to and from school in up
to-date busses which take the place
of two pieces of junk on wheels or
at their own expense.
! WHAT OTHER
EDITORS SAY
BEAUTY IN ALBEMARLE
All true lovers of North Carolina
will hope for the success of the pro
posal of. Rev. Charles Aylett Ashby
of Edenton that a Federal park be
created in that section of the Albe
marle. The Great Smoky Mountains
National Park in the West will pre
serve for the delectation of all time
a portion of the beautiful North Car
olina mountain country. But there
is a beauty in the East wholly dif
ferent but in no sense inferior which
ought to be preserved. Indeed, the
Federal government has acquired
considerable lands along our coast
both as park and as gone sanctuary.
And every extension of park area
there will serve to enrich the life of
the people and to preserve a coastal
beauty nowhere excelled.—The News
and Observer.
THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C,. THURSDAY,JULY 30. 1936
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Several parents of Boy Scouts
went to Atlantic Beach Sunday to
see the boys who are in camp there.
The boys are having a big time and
enjoying their outing. And by the
way, some parents of the boys have
received cards with' the following
message: “Having a good time —
please send some money.” Just like
a boy, isn’t it?
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Willie Crummey isn’t exactly an
inventor, but he nas rigged up a
scheme to keep the pop stand coun
ter at the ball park from being used
as a grand stand seat. This counter
heretofore has been a favorite seat
for fans thereby keeping waiters
from seeing the game as well as
hurting the business of selling pop.
However, this season nobody cares
to sit on the thing for Willie every
minute or so douses a bucket. of
water on the board, keeping it wet
all the time.
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Women nowadays can do just
about everything a man does, but
Mrs. Shelton Moore struck a snag
last week. She has often observed
her husband hold a piece of wood
with one hand, and with a hatchet
split the wood with the other hand.
Mr. Moore was obliged to leave home
too early for breakfast one day, and
as Mrs. Moore proceeded to cut wood
ala Mr. Moore, she walloped the
hand that was holding the .Wood.
The cut was painful, but not serious,
however. And I reckon from now on
Shelton will have the job regular.
Folks who get mail at the post
office during the past few days pro
bably saw their letters check-marked
with a colored pencil. I’ve asked
Cal Kramer what the idea was, but
he wouldn’t let me in on the
So far my mail has been checked in
red. blue and yellow colors. How
about yours? However, those marks
don’t worry me as bad as the black
printed card saying: “Box Rent
Due.”
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What’s in a name anyway? All I
know is that some are too confound
ed long. Take for instance a name
like Emminizer. It’s too long and
too hard to spell. So someone tells
me that a certain person now callß
Roy Emminizer just plain Roymiser,
which isn’t so bad. *
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The only hitch to the Rotary meet
ing at Cross Roads last Thursday
night was Major Rowell’s refusal to
sing. However, Parson Ashby spied
him laying down on the job, fined
him two-bits and turned the quarter
over to the ladies. Major sang the
next song. _
The meeting with the country
folks also brought to light a big
eater. Bob Hollowell got rid of
just about everything in his section
of the dining hall and never refused
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a helping as it came along. Minton
Warren commented on the amount of
food put away by Mr. Hollowell and
almost swooned when Bob said he
wasn’t taking any chances on the
meal and had eaten a supper con
sisting of red ham and black-eye
peas before coming to the meeting.
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And then Jim Holmes made him
self uncomfortable by eating too
much and said he couldn’t eat ai I th
er mouthful. However, when the
ladies passed around half a canta
loupe filled with ice cream and Earl
Goodwin started to pull it over to his
side of the table, Friend Jim imme
diately pulled it back in double
quick time and ate every bit of it.
Fact of the matter is that the ladies
served such a good meal that the
majority of the Rotarians are in
favor of meeting at Cross Roads
every week. Now what Major Row
ell would like to know is what grouj)
of ladies in the County will under
take to feed the Rotarians one night
during August. What say Rocky
Hock, Yeopim or any other section
of the County?
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Parson Briggs again is raving
about inoculating dogs. But for the
life of me I don’t see what all his
raving amounts to. The law was
passed by the Legislature and if he
doesn’t like it why in the name ofj
common sense doesn’t he hop on the
guys who made the law? Without a
doubt none of us are in full accord
with every man-made law, but it fs
no reason why we should not obey
the law. The parson makes me
laugh when he riles about the “de
plorable” state of folks under the
present administration. He makes a
laughing stock of himself when he
says folks cannot pay to have dogs
inoculated. If he will wise up a bit
he will discover that of all those
who have been tried for not inoculat
ing dogs and “who coudn’t pay to
have the work done” were able to
in some way fork up enough to pay
the court costs to keep from going
to jail. Fact of the matter is it.
doesn’t take much to make the par
son object to anything done while
the Democrats are in power for he
is a Republican and according to his
own statement is “sick and tired of
this Southern democracy.” I have
no crow to pick with him for being
a Republican, but if he is sick and
tired of this Southern democracy it
might be well to remind him of what
he told Harvey Thomas about living
in the swamps of Chowan—good
roads in all directions lead from
Edenton and this section. Besides
the weather must have had some ef
fect on him when he wrote his ar
ticle in this issue for if the last sen
tence of his story sounds preacher
like, my idea of a preacher’s mission
is all out of, gear.
That neon signs add to the ap-
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pea ranee of places of businessman
be seen when one gives lioyd Bob
ton’s filling station the once over.
Sometime ago The Herald comment
ed on more neon signs in town and
what are now here improve consid
erably the business section. Let ’em
roll!
I’ve always thought that about
the last thing a lady would tell was
her age. But one of ’em this week
told me she would a heap rather
tell her age than her weight. But,
maybe, that depends on whether she
is fat or skinny. Anyway, I’m play
ing safe and will not ask either
question if I can help it.
The “Casey at the Bat" poems
which have appeared in this column
recent!? has reminded Maj. John C.
Bond of a game in which Graham
Bond, whom many will remember, re
sembled Casey in his come-back. Mr.
Bond, claiming to be a poor hand at
poetry, has very generously given
me an account of the game in rhyme
as well as he can remember. Here
goes:
EDENTON’S BASEBALL CLASSIC
Years ago when baseball was young
And old men now—were then in
prime
Edenton was practicing to form a
team
To play E. City’s and Hertford’s
nine.
A field was cleared and diamond
layed out
Everything ready for the great
day,
When Edenton would cross bats with,
and clout
E. City’s selected and best at the
play.
Graham Bond, a stout husky boy,
came,
Saying he would like to join in the
p!ay
And asked that he might try for the
game—
“ That he could hit the ball any
day.”
So we gave him a bat, he took his
place at plate
Several balls were pitched—he’d
swing and miss.
The boys were much amused at his
unlucky fate—
Continued pitching balls —Graham
continued to miss.
“Dod-blast it!” Throw me one that I
can hit,
And the next ball came about
waist high!
Graham swung—whack!—and such a
hit!
The ball flew on, on and on, was
lost to sight.
Now “Dod-blast you—go get it”—
across the ground
Across a street—into the next
square, it lit
We searched for hours—but no one
ever found
The ball that Graham on that day
hit.
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By WILL ROGERS
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a lot of skeletons of animals. A
Frenchman was showing some Am
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museum, and he was trying to im
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Every once in a while he would
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Edenton Experiencing
• Part Os Heat Wave
Laying no claims to equatorial
originality, Edenton joined with the;
rest of the nation this week by en
joying the hottest spell, so old
timers say, it has had for the past
eleven years. Like telescopes, ther
mometers are more or less of a
rarity hereabouts but a quiet tip
went the rounds on Monday that the
mercury was up beyond the 100'
mark, and on Tuesday there was no
let up.
The County Commissioners and
their compatriots on the County
Board of Education wilted Monday
afternoon while they wrestled with
the forthcoming tax budget Some
one asked what the temperature reg
istered and, with good Baptist sim
plicity, two chimed in to say, “What
difference does it make —it’s hot as
Hades,” which was so, and which iw
enough to say.
Dr J. W. Sells
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