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The Chowan Herald
Published every Thursday by The Chowan
Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin
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THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
WE NEED GUIDANCE IN LIFE’S CONFUSION:
Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path.
—Psalms 27:11.
Wake Up, America lt’s Late!
One of the most discussed newspaper editorials of the
year appeared in the New York World-Telegram on
March 5, which has been read by millions of people and
carries a message for every American. The editorial is
copyrighted, but permission was granted to publish it in
The Herald by Lee B. Wood, executive editor of the
World-Telegram. The editorial follows:
“The nation needs to awaken to the full gravity of
the peril that confronts it.
“It needs to appreciate how badly we have been de
feated in three months of war.
“It needs to understand that it is possible for the
United Nations and the United States to lose this war
and suffer the fate of France —and that this possibility
may become a probability if the present tide does not
change.
“It needs to realize that there is grave chance of the
Japanese pushing through India and the Germans driv
ing through the Near East, to join their armies and re
sources in an almost unbeatable combination.
“It needs to get away, once and for all, from the
comforting feeling that while we may lose at the start
we are bound to win in the end.
“Only when fully aware of existing perils will tne
United States do its utmost. Pray God that awareness
will not come too late, as it did in France!
“Production Director Donald Nelson appeals for vast
ly increased industrial output on a 24-hour, seven-cray
basis —168 hours a week. Maximum production, in
short.
“Can we get it?
“Not on the present basis—not under the psychology
of recent years.
“Not until we quit thinking in terms of less work
for more money.
“Not while the"' is greater concern about overtime
pay than overtime production.
“Not while farmer politicians are more interested in
higher prices than raising more essentials.
“Not while government bureaus—created to meet a j
depression emergency that is ended—continue to grab
for themselves money needed for armaments.
“Not while an army of federal press agents clamors
to promote and perpetuate activities that have no pres
ent need or value.
“Not while Congressmen try to put over useless
canals and river schemes and take up the time of de
fense officials clamoring for factories and contracts as
if war were a great gravy train.
“Not while WPA, despite a shortage of labor, seeks
to carry on projects which it doesn’t have the men to
perform or the need for performing.
“Not while CCC and NYA stretch greedy hands for
funds to pamper young men who ought to be in the
armed forces or the war plants.
“Not while strikes hamper war production, despite
a solemn promise that they would stop.
“Not while the life-and-death need for uninterrupted
production is used as a weapon to put over the closed
shop.
“Not while double time is demanded for Sunday worn,
which is only part of a 40-hour week.
“Not while a man can’t be employed on an army pro
ject or in a war plant until he pays S2O to SSO or more
to a labor racketeer.
“Not while criminal gangs control employment and
allocation of men to work on the Normandie and the
other ships along New York’s vast waterfront.
“Not while fifth columnists are pampered and enemy
aliens move freely in defense areas.
“Not while the grim job of preparing our home com
munities against air raids and sabotage is gummed up
with a lot of highfalutin’, boon-doggling, social service
activity.
“Not while pressure blocs clamor for higher Benefits,
bounties and pensions.
“We will not get a maximum production, in short, un
less, first, we fully realize our awful peril and, secona,
get over the gimmes of recent years.
“Gimme shorter hours, gimme higher wages, gimme
bigger profits, gimme more overtime, gimme less work,
gimme more pensions, gimme greater crop Benefits,
gimme more appropriations and patronage, gimme
plants for a Congressional district, gimme fees and
dues to work for Uncle Sam, gimme ham ’n’ egg®,
gimme share-the-wealth, gimme S3O every Thursday.
“France had the gimmes, too—had them till the Ger
mans were close to Paris. Then everybody went fran
tically to work—too late.
“France has no gimmes today—except gimme food
for my baby, gimme a place to lay my head, gimme
death.”
As We See It
In this issue of The Herald is printed a letter
written by Dr. J. W. Warren, county physician, which
appears not for the purpose of starting or prolonging
an argument, but rather because Dr. Warren feels that
a news story in this newspaper last week was an in
justice to him. It is not the purpose of The Herald to
cast any reflections on anyone in presenting news, and
in justice to Dr. Warren, space was allowed to defend
himself.
The Herald editor agrees with some of Dr. Warren’s
statements and, on the other hand, disagrees with
others.
In the first place the editor, who wrote last week’s
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Scarcity of material is reflected in almost every
thing these days and ladies’ hats are not an exception.
In fact, some of ’em are so bloomin’ little that I declare
’fore de lawd, I believe some of the hats have been
»wiped from the little girls’ doll babies.
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Selby Harney, former Edentonian but now living m
Norfolk, who is remembered by many, was the lucky
recipient of a box of Golden Hickory Smoked Herring
sent to him by J. M. Jones, down at the Edenton Bay
Packing Company. Os course, Selby wrote a nice letter
back saying how good the things were and how much he
appreciated them and even said that he would recom
mend them to any and all comers. He said the things
tasted much better than anything else he had ever
eaten which caused him to reminisce as to what that
was, and included fricasseed fragments of the frag* €
French glowworm; the ossified orifice of the wild Ok
lahoma owl; the boiled pelvis of the bastard ollspnng
of the billious bilbus of Bolivia; the vivisected vancose
veins of a Vienna virgin vampire; the fascinatingly
fried, fibula of the Fillipino finback; the poached paw
of the putrid Persian parrot; the boiled bucolic brim
string from the bulbous-eyed bullfinch, end so on.
What’s got me puzzled is whether or not some of the
above items are just another highfalutin’ name for
chitterlings.
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Maybe, after all, Town Councilmen get enough pay, if
more of their meetings were as brief as the one he Ur
Tuesday night. An adequate report of the meeting
would be to say: “They met, paid bills and adjourned.”
o—
Cal Kramer was sort of shocked the other day, all
because of a wrong telephone number. As he answered
the phone, he heard a shrill voice say, “Look here,
you’ve ruined my silk bloomers.” But knowing ne was
not guilty, he began: “Ah-er-why-gulp—this is the
postoffice, No. 276.” Bang went up the receiver, the
lady at the other end saying she thought she was talk
ing to the laundry—No. 278. Just a slight error, but
it made quite a difference in this case.
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With the arrival of warm weather, the pesky flies
are already at their job of tormenting people, and 'ere
long the consam mosquitoes will be around to test out
their bills. However, if a conversation heard the otner
day is any indication, the men have less reason to
dread mosquitoes than the women. “I just hate to
think of being bothered by mosquitoes,” said a fellow
to a lady acquaintance. Hi® face turned red when the
lady came back with: “Why men ought not to be both
ered so terribly much, for they wear pants.”
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Well, next Wednesday is May 20, a date anxiously
awaited by more than one fellow in these parts, for that
is the day when we can get out our fishing parapher
nalia and fish anywhere we want to. Os course, some
of the boys have been trying their luck in the rivers,
but from what I can learn the luck hasn’t been as good
as in the favorite creek fishing holes.
Politics in Chowan appear sort of quiet, but that’s
about the way the politicians are working. Contacts are
being made by local candidates and workers for Mar
vin Blount and Herbert Bonner are leaving no stone
unturned when it comes to soliciting votes. May 30
isn’t far away, when the folks who really decide the
matter—the voters—will say their piece.
o
Charlie Overman (or was it Mrs. Overman) fed Ro
tary directors Tuesday morning at breakfast, the prin
cipal item being country ham. It was a break for some
of the Rotarians for Izzy Campen is on a diet. With
rationing and dieting the order of the day, Izzy is hav
ing a dickens of a time.
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Democrats will meet in County Convention in the
Court House at 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon, when
delegates will be elected to the State Convention, she
keynote, no doubt, will be “get out the vote.”
Methodists will have a picnic Friday afternoon at
Edenhouse. But picnics are among the things which
are not what they used to be.
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Have you registered, in order to secure a gasolinf
rationing card? Today is the last day, so if you
haven’t attended to this matter, better do it right now.
Lot of trouble? Yes, but ding bust it all, we’re in a war
and it’s less trouble than if we have to put up with
those bloomin’ dictators on this side of the pond.
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that reason was a little more careful than usual in
writing it. So that the writer disagrees with Dr. War
ren that “some things said in the paper were true ana
some were not true.” The facts were presented as
they developed at the County Commissioners’ meeting,
except that. every detail was not included in the story
in the interest of conserving space and in no way to
cast any reflections upon Dr. Warren.
The editor also most emphatically disagrees with Dr.
Warren’s statement that “the editor should not have
written this story up in his paper . . . .”
If there is any irregularity or lack of cooperation on
the part of any official, the taxpayers of the county
are entitled to know about it, and The Herald intends
to present such matters if and when they occur, despite
the unpleasantness of presenting such type of news.
The editor agrees with Dr. Warren that the matter
of sending emergency cases to a hospital is rather com
plicated as now provided. The editor also agrees that
D. M. Warren is a good chairman of the County Com
missioners and is aware that he carries the bulk of the
burden of the board’s work, and for that reason, If
nothing more, it should not be necessary to burden him
still further by being called in to settle an argument
between doctors.
The editor agrees with Dr, Warren that it is possible
for doctors, if they are so inclined, to try to rid them
selves of cases where payment for services is question
able by having the county physician send such patients
to a hospital as emergency eases.
It seems to the writer that if the County Commis
sioners, who appoint a county physician, have hot
enough confidence in the one placed in office to serve
in this capacity, then the logical sedation would be to
appoint one in whom they have confidence to decide as
to the merits of an emergency case, rather than to be
obliged to settle an argument 'beford a decision it
rendered.
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Garden Club Flower
Show Successful
From Every Angle
More and Better Qual
ity of Flowers Com
polse Exhibits
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PRIZES AWARDED
Mrs. George Byrum Ap
preciative For Splen
did Cooperation
What was termed the most success
ful flower show ever held by the
Edenton Garden Club took place last
Thursday in the Rose Room at Hotel
Joseph Hewes, when a large number
visited the show including visitors
from Tennessee, New York, Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey. Mrs. George
P. Byrum, who had charge of the
show, was very well pleased with the
affair, in that there were more ex
hibits than ever before and that there
was a noticeable improvement in the
quality of flowers, as well as dis
plays coming from many non-Garden
Club members.
Mrs. Byrum, on behalf of the
Club, feels greatly indebted to the
judges for their services, as well as
to all who in any way contributed to
the success of the affair. The
judges were: Mrs. George Folk, Mrs.
E. T. Rawlinson and Mrs. S. W. Tay
lor, who were fair and impartial in
their awards. The judges this year
awarded prizes without knowing the
names of the exhibitors.
Those awarded prizes were:
First Prize
Mrs. W. I. Hart, iris; Mrs. W. I.
Cozzens, table display; Mrs. W. I.
Cozzens, snap dragons; Mrs. Jimmy
Earnhardt, white roses; Mrs. George
Folk, roses; Mrs. J. A. Moore, peon
ies; Mrs. T. B. Williford, stocks and
foxgloves; Mrs. Albert Byrum, iris.
Second Place
Miss Inez Felton, roses; Mrs. Isa
Barrow, mixed flowers; Mss. George
Byrum, roses; Mrs. L. P. Williams,
white roses; Mrs. T. C. Byrum, iris;,
Mrs. Grace Dobson, sweet peas.
4-H Clubs Choose
Queens And Kings
In Health Contest
Boy and Girl In Each
dub Awarded Top
Honor
At health contests held by 4-H
Clubs last week Kings and Queens
were named, the honor going to the
boy and girl scoring highest, while
recognition was given to those scor
ing second and third place.
Those awarded high honors were':
Edenton High School Virginia
Overton, queen; Wesley Chesson,
king.
Edenton Grammar Grades —Marian
Harrell, queen; Herman Radford,
king.
Advance —Frances Ann Goodwin,
queen; Keith Emminizer, king.
Rocky Hock Christine Harrell,
queen; Isaac Harrell, king.
Chowan High School Charlotte
Elliott, queen; Lindsay Evans, king.
Chowan Seventh Grade—lda Mar
garet Copeland, queen; Robert Tur
ner, king.
Chowan Fourth and Fifth Grades —
Mary Ellen Parks, queen; Horace
Rountree, king.
Chowan Sixth Grade—Sara Jane
Boyce, queen; Marvin Williams, kmg.
Runners-up among the girls were
Ellen Faye Parker, Frances Overton,
Gecola Ward, Dorothy Privott, Louise
Bass, Lois Bunch, Pearle Boyce, Au
drey Pearce, Mildred Harrell, Erma
Mae Blanchard, Annie Belle Byrum,
Marie Byrum, Gladys Ruth Ashley,
Edna Nixon and Jean Hollowell.
Among the boys, the following
were runners-up: Hurley Ward,
Herman White, Rodney Harrell, Jr.,
Wallace Goodwin, Willard Goodwin,
Earl Goodwin, David Ober, .Ralph
Harrell, George Byrum, Jr., John
Winbome Privott, Eugene Jordan,
James Copeland, Carroll Perry, Ed
ward Copeland, Ernest E. Boyce, Ed
ward. Casper and Wilbur Twine.
Quinn’s Again Gives
Cedar Chests To Girls
In Graduating Classes
Carrying out a custom of previous
years, the Quinn Furniture Company
is again this year presenting the
young ladies in the graduating class
es at Edenton and Chowan High
Schools a miniature Lane cedar chest
as a graduation present. The chests
are very attractive and are greatly
appreciated by the young ladies.
GUILTY RECKLESS DRIVING
Only one case was tried in Re
corder 1 * Court Tuesday morning
when Frank Miller was found guilty
of reckless driving. Miller damaged
the car of Janie Edyth Bonner, a
colored school teacher, the judgment
of the court being that he pay court
costs and damages to the car which
is not to exceed $66.
Brief Session Held
By Town Council
No Action Taken on
Hours of Beer and
Wine Sale
In one of the briefest meetings in
recent months, Town Council on
Tuesday night remained in session
just about 30 minutes, during which
time very little business was brought
before the board.
Joe Habit presented a petition
signed by a number of citizens ob
jecting to the proposed ban on sell
ing beer and wine from 11 o’clock
Saturday night until 7 o’clock Mon
day morning, but after it was read,
no comment was made and no action
was taken, so that there will be no
change in the sale of beer and wine.
Albert Byrum, chairman of the
Chowan County Rationing Board,
asked for permission to build a cabi
net in the Council chamber for the
purpose of storing an ever-increas
ing amount of material in connection
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with rationing duties. This request
was granted, after which bills were
paid and the meeting adjourned. $1
Chamber Os Commerce
Holds Brief Meeting
Prior to Town Council meeting
Tuesday night, a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce was held in
the Municipal Building, at which time
a proposition was presented for the
locating in Edenton of a new indus
try. President J. W. Davis presided
at the meeting, which was also at
tended by Cecil Bell of the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment.
A goodly number of the members
were on hand for the meeting, which
was cut short due to the regular
meeting of Town Council.
NOW IN AUSTRALIA
Cablegrams were received from
Fred Raskins and E. L. Hollowell, Jr.,
during the week-end by their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hoskins and Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Hollowell. The boys,
together with Johnny Harrell, are
now in Australia and are well.