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qtoal and county m «im Volume Vll—Number 46. Edenton’s 1940 Armistice! Day Celebration Monday i Will Long Be Remembered Large Crowd Sees Wake Forest Freshmen Win Football Game SIX BANDSPARADE V J. Henry Leßoy Deliv ers Stirring Address At School 'j>*> Edenton’s commemorative Armis tice Day celebration, with all of its several accompanying features on Monday, was a great success and, left a void in the Chowan County sea; which it wil be hard to fill until another year rolls around. Going back to the earlier days when the veterans of Chowan returned after the trying period terminating in the so-called Peace of 1918, and when commemorations were in larger order and more closely akin to what had gone before, Monday’s' anniversary celebration was an event not soon to be forgotten, and, will live unsur- passed in many ways—at least until the bugle calls another war sound across the flatlands of this common wealth, probably making the 1914- j 1918 world holocaust a forgotten jf event. * If Monday’s celebration did noth ing else it should have quickened in the minds and souls of the present generation what a barren cry was that sounded in the other period about making the world safe for Democracy. With its arms America made victory possible in 1918—with its lenient heart it opened the doors —l to a peace that carried no burdens w or hardships to the conquered loser; yet today, in an era of home stress and much perturbation over national unity, the futility kindness and friendship instead of iron-gloved “appeasement” has never been more forcibly shown than right now. Germany was licked and forgiven in 1918, and no.words can convey the certainty that Germany and its Axis conferees will be licked again AND NOT FORGIVEN. It is hard to write placidly of a 1940 Armistice Day. The world is in xhaos. A fiery little Chaplinesque subitem and an aging cockerel in , »v x ßome have striven to turn the earth (« upside down, snorting their nostrils in anger at those who have been their friends, but who will never a gain be ruled by a kind heart and a t facile pen. Gone are the demons of despair and strife, come are the Gods of Heaven and Righteousness, and. with the going and the coming there will be an Armistice Day that will' speW an eternal peace among all the -nations of the earth. After such editorial relief it may be said that Edenton’s all day party Monday, including patriotic, exer cises in the High School which em bodied a fervent address by a young and vigorous Elizabeth City veteran of 1914-1918, a roll call of the heads of local civic organizations, a pa geant by the younger scholars which not only did them credit but thrilled their more elder auditors, a barbe i. cue dinner for a half thousand or so ' Legionnaires and Auxiliary members and visiting guests at the Armory, a colorfuQ parade of young band sters, six full completed bands from here and from other adjacent neigh • borhoods —leading up to a football game at the ball park which drew around 2,000 persons and made it possible for the Edenton band to (Continued On Page Six) Billy Shepard Gets . High Mark In Test William Shepard, a student at | Marion Institute, was one of the 11 |. students to make the highest grades on Thurstone Psychological tests Eby the State Department of ition to afll college freshmen in ma colleges. mg Shepard’s grade was 91.2, ling to Major L. p. Baer. Well Red Cross • Committee Named i. E. S. Woodley, Creswell han of the American Red , is appealing to citizens of community to join'm this service and to persuade rela THE CHOWAN HERALD it HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY | On Its Way | Bitter cold weather’s coming, to the dailies, and so is Christmas 1 Town electricians presaged that fact Tuesday when they commenced stringing wires on Broad Street for the annual illuminative Yuletide event. Only six weeks more. Do your shopping early and join the Red Cross! Fall Federation Os County Clubs Next Wednesday i Several Prizes Will Be Awarded By County Council i ALL INVITED i —— New Council Officers I 'lnstalled at After noon Session i I Home demonstration clubs of Cho ' wan County will hold the fall feder i ation meeting next Wednesday at i Chowan High School, beginning at i 10:30 a. m. Because of this meeting i members of the various clubs are l urged by Miss Rebecca Colwell, home ) demonstration agent, to give thdii I individual! score sheets and reports I to their secretary so that she can I make her club report at the meeting 1 Adding to the interest -of the • meeting will be prizes offered by the 1 County Council. There will be $1.50 1 and SI.OO for first and second prize 1 to the club having the most attrac -1 tively presented report. The Council will also award prizes of Hike amount 1 for the highest and next highest club 1 score. 1 Featuring the afternoon meeting 1 will be group singing, led by Mrs. 1 Joe Byrum, presentation of prizes 1 and installation of new County 1 Council officers. The officers to be installed are: President, Mrs. M. L. | Hoffler; vice president, Mrs. J. R. ■ Bunch, Jr.; secretary and treasurer, ! Mrs. W. S. Morris; song leader, Mrs. ’ Rodney Harrell; pianists, Mrs. Wal ■ lace Goodwin and Mrs. Maybelle ‘ Winslow. Special music has been arranged for the. meeting, which will be pro ' vided by Mrs. Gordon Blow, Misses ’ Maybele Edwards and Louise Wil* ■ son. 1 After the meeting visits will be > made to the homes of Mrs. Lindsay 1 Evans and Mrs. A. S. Bush to in > spect remodeled kitchens, bath rooms ■ and refinished, furniture. 1 Miss Colwell is very anxious to I have a well-attended meeting, to ■ which everybody is invited, whether • club members or not. ( ; Chamber Os Commerce l Holds Brief Meeting I Just prior to Town Council meet r ing on Tuesday night, a meeting of ; the. Chamber of Commerce was held ,in the Municipal Building. The meeting was well attended and was presided over by President J. W, Davis. Secretary C. L. MoCullers report- I ed upon the outcome of the football game staged on Armistice Day : which showed a net profit of $226, which will be applied to a fund for purchasing new uniforms for the 1 Edenton Band. 1 Various other iqatters were dis • cussed which reflected considerable i activity by the organization. , Red Men Plan Visit To Norfolk November 25 Chowan Tribe of Red Men at their meeting Monday nighit decided tc pay a visit to Massasoit Tribe, No 77, in Norfolk, Va., qn Monday night, November 26. Final arrange l ments wil be made at nfext Monday ' night's meeting and every membe i of the Tribe is urged to be present A delegation from Massasoit Tribe several monthp ago visited the local Tribe, and it ifevthe desire to have a large delegation go to ' Norfolk on ..... J Edenton, Chowan County, North November 14, 1940. Annual Red Cross Drive Now Under Way In Chowan Canvassing Committees Named By Mrs. J. N. Pruden GOALSSOO Chairman Appeals For Immediate Member ship Response With the Red Cross roll call actu ally beginning on Monday, Armistice Day, machinery has been set up by Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Chowan County chairman, in an effort to raise the county’s quota, which is placed at SSOO. Mrs. Pruden realizes that many callls for help have been made recently, but due to the great need for Red Cross funds, she is hopeful that the county will, as usual, rally to the support of this worthy cause and, if need be, sacrifice to the end •that Clio wan will be able to maintain its reputation in support of the Red Cross. The drive will continue until Thanksgiving Day, November 28, but various committees will complete the canvass as early as possible and citizens are urged to respond, as liberally as they possibly can. As in previous years, The Herala will publish the names of those who join the Red Cross. Committees as named by Mrs Pruden are as follows: East side Broad Street from Water to Queen Street —Miss Mary Eliza beth Cates and Miss Jennie Ruth McAlily. East side Broad Street from Queen Street to North Edenton—Mrs. Guy Hobhs and Mrs. Wood Privott. West side Broad Street from Water to Queen Street (excluding Citizens Bank Building)—Mrs. J. A. Mitchener, Jr., and Mrs. Roland H Vaughan. Citizens Bank Building—Mrs. Sid ney Campen. Joseph Hewes Hotel —Mrs. John Beatty. West side Broad Street from Queen to Albemarle Street —Mrs. W. Du Holmes, Jr. West side Broad Street from Al bemarle to North Edenton —Mrs. Al bert Byrum. East side Oakum Street—Mrs. W. S. Vincent and Mrs. W. Jim Daniels. West side Oakum Street —Mrs. Rodney Byrum and Miss Katherine Shump. South side Church Street—Mrs. J. F. White. North side Church Street —Mrs. R. Elton Forehand. Mosely St.—Mrs. Ray Hollowell. Colonial Square—Mrs. W. M. Bond (Continued on Page Five) Farm Security Chieftains Meet In 3-Day Session Meetings Held In Rose Room at Hotel Jo seph Hewes Federal 1 Farm Security Adminis tration chieftains from about eastern North Carolina, began a three-day session' at Hotel 1 Joseph Hewes this week. The gathering, somewhat in the nature of an annual conference called and presided over by State Director George C. Wood, started Tuesday night and will run through Friday. About 80 representatives were in meeting, many of them women. Mr. Wood had been hopeful that Federal department representatives from Washington, D. C., would be present, but apparently this week’s gathering followed too closely upon the heels of last week’s election and victory and had left Washington in an unrecovered state. Anyhow, the North Carolinians were the only ones on hand. The State director outlined what the administration was doing in the Albemarle and said frankly that with the re-election of President Roose velt a greater renewal of activity could fee expected. Supervisor Harry Greenleaf, of Elizabeth City, spoke along the same lines Tuesday night, and yesterday talks were made by each representative present. AM re ported progress as his or her name was called by Mr. Wood. Tbe gathering was held in lira Rose Room at the hoW. - — ■*»' -! ... = Mothers Should Aid Teachers Says P. T. A. President Home Training Stress ed By Mrs. Doyle D. Alley 186 PRESENT State President Well Pleased With Dis trict’s Progress One hundred and eighty-six mem bers out of an expected attendance of 200, made Tuesday’s annual con ference of the Parent-Teac'hers Asso ciation of District No. 9, a memor able event in the lives of mothers and a few daddies from Bertie, Chowan, Camden, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Martin, Pasquotank, Per quimans and Washington counties. An enlivening business session run ning all day at the local high school at which a warm and patriotic ad dress was made by Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, of Waynesville, the State president of the organization, and in terspersed at the noon hour by a de licious barbecue luncheon at Hotel Joseph Hewes, together with other talks by various delegaites and much music by the local glee club and the 'high school band, comprised the pro gram of the event. After registration of the visiting delegates, Mrs. I. A. Ward’, district director, of Hertford, called the school session to order and Rev. E. L. Wells conducted the devotional. Superintendent John A. Holmes and Mrs. W. D. Pruden, the local vice president, extended greetings for the local P. T. A., to which Mrs. W. P Adams, of Ahoskie, made response. A regular short business session including the reading of the minutes, appointment of committee, reports And objectives followed, after which Mrs. Alley, who has been holding of late throughout the State, was introduced warmly by Mrs. Pruden, who presided for the Edenton P. T. A. in the absence of its president, Mrs. Richard Elliott. Mrs. Alley spoke on “The Respon sibility of Paretns-Teachers in a Democracy,” reciting the 47-yeai history of the organization, and urg ing that the keynote then, as now, was that mothers should give teach ■ ers some basis of aid by training the ■ child for school training at home ■ Os late, the speaker said, there has i been much criticism of the young a. to the way they conduct themselves • and especially as to their thinking. Mrs. Alley refuted this and urged . that parents should examine their home life carefully to see if there cannot be developed a corrective ten dency that will obviate such fault (Continued On Page Eight) Parent Teachers Hold Meeting At Oak Grove School Much Interest Prevails! in Rocky Hock School Districts I The Parent-Teachers Association of the Rocky Hock school districts met in the Oak Grove school build i ing on Friday night, November Bth, for the second monthly meeting. Much interest has been taken in 1 the activities of this Association as was evinced by the large number present. The Oak Grove P. T. A. to date has enrolled sixty-five members and a membership drive is still un der way. Mrs.' Stillman Leary is president of the Association and Mrs. Paul Ober is vice president. Mrs. Thomas Emminizer is secretary and Mrs Mattie P. Nixon is treasurer. Act ing on the membership committee are Z. T. Evans, Paul Ober and Mrs. Raleigh Parrish. The program com mittee consists of Mrs. Mary Davis Nixon, Mrs. Jimmie Bunch and Mrs. Paul Ober. The various enterprises Os the Association will center around shrubbery plantings and a library project for the betterment of the new school, soon to be erected in* the district. Rev. Frank Cale conducted the dessotional exercises at this meet ing and an Armistice Day program was presented by the bpachers and pupils. Tbe treasurer reported ' a balance on band of $47.94. v I 75 Men In Chowan County Receive Questionnaires In National Peace-Time Draft - <£> - 9 t t Returned | # |i| REV. W. C. BENSON At the Annual Methodist Con ference held in Wilmington last week, Mr. Benson was returned to the Edenton Methodist Church for the third year. First Open Forum On November 22nd At School Library Dr. E. J. Woodhouse to Discuss Interactional Relations NEXT ON~DEC. 13 Second Forum Speaker Will Be Col. J. W. Ilairelson Sponsored by the Edenton Rotary Club, the first of a series of six open forums will be held in the high school library on Friday night, No vember 22, The speaker for this forum will be Dr. E. J. Woodhouse of the University of North Carolina, who will use as his subject “Inter national Relations.” This forum was originally planned ! for Armistice Day, but due to so] many otner activities, it was post poned until Friday of next week. I The top.c is timely and Dr. Wood house will speak authoritatively, wnich should be reason for a large attendance. During the meeting a round-table discussion will be held when questions will be answered by the speaker. While the forums are sponsored by the Rotary Club, all other organi zations are cooperating, which should result in many taking advantage of the opportunity to hear the timely i topic discussed. The next forum will be held on Friday night, December 13, when Col. J. W. Harrelson will speak upon the subject “National Defense.” Special Feature Today At Rotary Meeting At today’s Rotary meeting C. L. McCullers will present a feature which should be of especial interest to every member of the club. Aftei quite a bit of red tape, Mr. McCull ers has succeeded in securing a re cord upon which is recorded the ad dress of Mr. Pereria, president oi Rotary International, which was de livered at the international conven tion held in Havana in June. The speech will be introduced for the benefit of members of the local: club and every one is urged to be present. Dr. Tedder Attending Veterinary Meeting ■ Dr. P. W. Tedder will be out oi town until next Monday, November 18, due to attending a session of the Southeastern Veterinary Medical As sociation in Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Tedder will visit her mother, Mrs. R. N. Griffin, at Clanton, Ala., who is still convalescing following an This newspaper it circu lated hi the territory where Advertisers will reaUae toed rtsults. $1.25 Per Year. i Chowan’s Quota Until July 1 Placed at Only 25 list”glven Advisory Committee to Sit Daily In J. N. Pruden’s Office Chowan’s peace-time selective ser vice draft got under way for a cer tainty this week when the local draft board started ‘ sending out questionnaires, 150 per week, to the various registrants, and will keep on doing so •at the rate of 25 per day, except Saturday, until the full registration has been completed. The questionnaires were started out on Monday and up to the time of go ing to press, 75 such had been for warded to the boys who were the first 75 with order numbers to be drawn in Washington in the na tional lottery. Chowan’s quota for first service, the smallest quota of any county in the State, was 25 men to be called by July Ist. Volunteer enlistments and those enlisted in the local Am bulance Company unit held down ma terially the county’s quota. The questionnaires, calling for elaborate data as to the antecedents of the registrant and his reason for any disability or other exemption prerogatives, may prove difficult to many and for that reasog the local draft board has selected an advis ory committee to be of assistance to the registrants. This committee is made up of J. N. Pruden, chairman, John W. Graham and Marvin Wilson, who received their commissions last Saturday from Raleigh, and who will be in session in Mr. pruden’s office on East King IStreet Wei / day be tween the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., for the purpose of aiding those who may call and wish such aid. The questionnaires must be return ed to the draft board within five days after being received. The local draft board, of which Captain J. L. Wiggins is chairman, will be the final Chowan deciders on the questionnaires, and from them I will place the registrants in four classes as follows: Fourth Class—Those who are men tally or physically disabled. Third Glass—Registrants with de j pendants. Second Class—Those seeking de i ferment on account of business posi tions, whose draft might disrupt business. First Class—Those physically able and who can be accepted without af fecting business, and who have no dependents. Naturally, the registrants put in the first class will be those accepted first for service, and the first 25 of these will be marked as eligible to the State authorities. Those dissatisfied with the local board rulings have the right to ap peal to the District Draft Appeal Board with headquarters in Wilson. Those to whom questionnaires have been sent and with their order numbers as decided upon by the Washington, D. C., authorities will (Continued on Page Five) t ____________________________ Bonner Names His Office Personnel Representative Herbert C. Bonner has announced his office personnel. All of whom are now in Washington, D. C. Mayor Jack Spain of Green ville, will serve as his secretary, and Misses Edith Wlnbome, of Ahoskie, and Millie Catrer of Washington, N. C., will be his stenographers. Mayor Spain has tendered his re signation as Mayor of Greenville, which position he has held for the past two years. He is a lawyer and ' a prominent business man and farm er. Representative Bonner was sworn in as a Representative of the House on Monday, November 11. Methodist Ladies Will Meet Monday At the home of Mrs. John G. Small on Monday afternoon a meet ing will be held of the Woman’s So ciety of Christian Service of the Methodist Church. The meeting is scheduled to begin ait 3:80 o’clock and every member is urged to be life.
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