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at K,i^?" ??. *? ??' ELIZABETH CITY. N. C., FRIDAY F^PTT arV~^1 Tnr>
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Elizabeth City Police Patrol
System Must Be Changed toj
Combat Epidemic of Burglary !
77/?' the present police (rntrol system in use in j
fi:.alwtii City may be discontinued or altered in the
n,- Tuimr i* currently talked as the result of a wavei
'HihJil thievery in the city during the past week, j
fmler t>c present system, it is entirely ioo easy for,
nvru a't" keep a check on the patrolmen and to soj
afLe li< cr>we as to practically assure himself of no
i'L. interference.
La"*' TM"???day night, scmeoaei
... ... .. j N Weed's store on West!
-i:-i ?":olc a quantity
o ? * ** *.? ^
. ;! ..v.;.. Cigars, cigarettes.,
?> sime iiialit. thieves pull-!
(.j "bar- e:T a rear window of j
Prrders North Read Street store, i
cr a not? in the wall, loaded the j
' [Ij;; .-afe cn one of the little j
iron* givrit away by D. P. stores
-ij ceu'icn offer and carted the
.jfe to a pom"- back of the gas plant,
sicre:: war opened. Ca*h amount
i'to $"*??*? ciga ettes. stamps and
."iier .mall items were taken.
9em?ne cai a hole in the side
<ior c-f J T. Wynn's store on the
i'Hie: ei Cypress and Second streets
iij or. Thursday night. i
Or. Friday night, a thief or thieves
entered tlv Albemarle Laundry.'
aten: two b aric from police heau
rj.trrs. out the safe into the laun
..'r truck. opened the doors and
?rive aw.:" The t.uck was found
r. We t Main street, ex
I ;;ricn. The safe door had been
| i-crd open ar.d $135.00 in cash and
eh? g.< was missing. Likewise on
Friday night, three tires and about
55 \r;rth cf candy was stolen from
\r W-t End Service station on
Wet M.<in street.
Or Saturday night, a would-be-'
thief ..T.a.'h?d the glass in the front j
dcx of J.i'ir James* place but was
Intiiterei away by a Negro who was1
deeping inside.
Tli* rcc>; daring crime of the
irt. however, occurred cn Tues
iiv nighi. when a thief o~ thieves
iA-h'd -wo plate glass windows of:
S.ivver <fc H.rris" store on South
hinoextcr street and stole three
| pairs of shoes and some neckwear.
Tlr;> occurred around 10 o'clock at
nirht. :n the business section just'
mort block; off Main street.;
Only a few vards away was a white!
sr.' l.nu and iwxt door several per
:ur? were talking in Sedberry's!
Dr:. :cre warn the windows were
btktn. P rsons in the drug store
ix .-d 'he glass shatter but paid no I
It is believed that
c:m". '.va. perpetrated by a
.>::?} .- Negroes whose eyes had
>yr. at: a--. 1 -o a pair cf almost
tilci shoes in the window. On:j
? v." v wa. smashed las;
?' r an.i , . irniiar robbery oc
L the present time. the police
'rnnrr. walk a certain beat every (
Cc.;.:-.: headquarters regular
?'.rat c?:: boxes in different parts
the c.ty. This system enables;
Mcquarters to keep a check on
ohr:*:.- and to determine their
nttx-nute whereabouts at all
'I0- 'ox :? also enables the crim
;"il :?> m ike a like check. This
?*- ... :n Elizabeth City a
hirly ;;mole tiling.
Thr th? .-r.-em must be changed
more patrolmen added to the j
e the demands made byi
Elizabeth Citizens. And it is)
l-fc&ole that the former may be'
--Indicaticns that construction of
n? propped Wilmington postoflice
*111 b:- started this spring,
't r. - v. >ek in the annunee
t that .-'M>d bids to furnish
;-?p:rary quarters for offices now
: "he postoffice will be
Mat :. 3. The annex will
c-' $130.')00.
~C--tu a >v -l presented by Dr.
? 'I of the University
? nt President Frank
J4^'rn Mor.ciav broke the ground
j planted two native
?i Cav.i.r t hogwood trees, in
m men for the pre
: od trees in North
fcMsna.
At Death's Door
!
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THOMAS J. NIXON*. J.i.. promi
nent Hertford business man. lies
a: the point of death at his homo
in Hertford. He suffered a paralytic
ttrcko early Wednesday morning,
following a long period of ill health.
His two eider sons. Herbert, who is
a student at Duke University, end
Tc.m. who is a student at Marion
Military Institute. Marion, Ala., have
been summonsed hcpie.^ . < <r
" M \ Nixon, frr many* years one'of
the most outstanding of the younger
bucine?s men of this section, is 46
years of age. He is a native of Per
quimans. being a son of the late T.
J. and Mrs. Alice Cox Nixon, and
a member of one of the oldest fami
lies cf thp county.
For several years prior to his fail
ing health three years ago Mr.
Ntxon was general manager of the
Major A: Loom:, Lumber company
of Hertford, ar.d has been promi
nently identified with several other
business enterprises. He is a mem
ber cf the board of directors of the
Hertford Banking company, and also
cf the Hertford Building & Loan
association.
loir si.oo
U;:?ir u,
er t. N" n |,,st w^ich corn
p, '? ,!">'iad for elusive
^ fi?>- independent will
' "a cribers in the
f* f ? ... ,, .
4*. . ? ? ^rif% territory onlv
' * i)h pi ,
or V) r 1 ' 00 a >'ear
BmbuiV-'; ';mr>n|;hs- Counties
'?a'ir . n" K(lizabeth City
r" ?{'r Camden. Cur
sor.' P, dtl :?are- ?at?.
i-,i , . . ! 10 anlc '.Perquimans
'CriPtionT.r; the sub
sl rv, ..." "L ' will b J $1.30 a year,
no-;'"' fO cts. for 3
bes; d-oro: lnd?P?MMi?nt * the
When A White!
Woman Is Belowj
A Black Man!
Deploring Ihe prose nee in
Klizabeth City of such "moral
putridity" and "rottenness.
Trial Justice W. C. Morse, Jr.,
in Recorder's Court Tuesday
morning found Nettie Pnt
chard, white, and Starkeyi
Uolloinan, colored, guilty of
prostitution and sentenced the
woman to serve IS months in
the county jail, the man to
serve 12 months.
It was Judge Morse's opinion
that, in a prostitution case involv-1
ing a white woman and a colored,
man the woman b the most guilty
of the two. Foitunately for Hollo
man, tho, the reeputation of the (
woman in the case was very much:
against her and. besides, this section.
lis0not inclined toward moo violence.j
Had a colored man been caught con-1
sorting with a white woman in some j
sections of the country .the result j
might have been horribie. ;
In response to a telephone call.
Chief Kolmcs went to a vacant house j
on Harney Street on Monday after- j
noon to investigate a reported black-1
and-white prostitution case. After,
trying the door and finding them
locked. Chief Holmes called and i
no one answered. He then sent |
Claude Bailey, who was With him at,
the time, down the street to get a
key to the house. While Bailey was
gene. Starkcy Holloman came out!
of the back door. I
Stepping to the door. Chief Holmes
saw Nellie Pritchard on the inside.'
with her coat and shoes ofT and,
her dress torn around the breast. He;
placed the white woman and the;
colored man under arrest, charging;
them with prostitution. The woman..
he recalled, was the some woman)
who was found stark naked roam
ing around in a colored residential
section of the city about two years
ago and who had been banished
from the county for a year as a re
rstflt. On that first occasion, the of
ficers had quite a time getting the,
! woman into the patrol car because j
! of her weight and her fighting dis-,
! position. She proved almost equally |
retractable this week. Several j
Negro men of the neighborhood had,
to be deputized to assist in getting,
her to police headquarters, and even
' then she managed to implant a few
! ha d kicks on cifferent parts of the
Chief's anatomy.
Holloman's attorney tried to show i
that his client had been guilty of j
no wrong, had merely gone into the |
house to find out who was there and
had been unfortunate enough to be;
caught leaving. He moved for a
dismissal of the charge, but Judge;
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a/h<-J3ANJK CLERK ?~0 THE S^OOA JCRKE.R
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! OH, YEAH!
I
, "Well, it looks as if the General |
Assembly is going to adopt some sort i
of sales tax in spite of the N. C. M. j
A.. W. O. S.. and the devil," remark
ed :he Soda Jerker.
"Yer-." replied the Bank Clerk.
"Our la a- makers persist in running
| counter to the philosophy of that J
famous political document upon
which democratic government inj
Ame ica was modeled."
"What's that?" asked the Soda
j Jei ker.
"I am speaking of the Virginia
, Bill of Rights, adopted in the Vir ?
! ginia Convention at Williamsburg.
< Va.. on June 15. 1776. 20 days before
the proclamation of the Declaration
of Independence at Philadelphia."
"Well, what about this Virginia i
Bill of Rights?" |
"Just this." replied the Bank
Clerk; "The Virginia B:ll of Rights
held that men are 'by nature equally
free and independent and have,
certain inherent rights of which. |
when they enter in'o a State of i
Society, they can not by any com
pact deprive or divest their poster- 1
' ity.'
' ' Democratic government in Amer- '
ica is supposed to have been pattern- J
ed after the Virginia Bill of Rights!
t which held that government could j
'not deprive or divest posterity of!
j certain rights. And for the past I
forty years government has been
steadily divesting not only posterity,
but its present subjects, of every de
si; ab'e right by pyramiding the
burden of taxation. Here in North
Carolina wc have already piled up
an indebtedness of 525 million dol
. lars for posterity to pay with inter
est compounded."
"Well, all I can say is. the govern
ment is the people and the people
ihave been piling it on themselves,"
I
said the Soda Jerker. "We live in
a land where everybody has been |
taught that everybody was created j
free and equal and nothing is tooi
good for us."
"All too true." said the Bank Clerk.'
"Thomas Jefferson turned loose a
false and dangerous idea when he
declared that "ALL MEN AREj
CREATED EQUAL.' George Mason,1
author cf the Virginia Bill of Rights, i
used less incendiary language when
he said that men are 'BY NATURE
EQUALLY FREE AND INDEPEN
DENT.' And the French Revolu
tionists who wrote the Declaration
of the Rights of Man in 1789. stated
the preposition in better language
still when they declared: 'MEN ARE
ECRN AND REMAIN EQUALLY
FREE IN RIGHTS'."
"Language is a dangerous thing,"
reflected the Scda Jerker: "Three
men can start out with the same
idea in mind and try to say the
same thing, and every one of them
will say it differently., And in a
simple rearrangement of 'the same
little words one man will convey an
idea to the public that may be
entirely foreign to what-he actually
had in mind. Maybe that's what
happened in Jefferson's case when
he said ALL MEN ARE CREATED
EQUAL.' They may have been
created equally free or born equally
free in rights, but they don't stay
' that way. And as for all men being
equal, that's a piece of poppycock
: that can be as easily demonstrated
j as the difference between black and
' white."
85 per cent of ah> people have de
fective vision. Are you one of these?
Have your eyes examined today.
DR. J .D. HATHAWAY. Carolina
Building.
Culpepper Asks
For Moratorium
On All Debts
A bill ti> declaiv a iwo-yoar
moratorium on open accounts
receivable and payable in
North Carolina was introduc
ed in the House of Represent
atives today by W. T. ("ulpep-j
per, of Pasquotank. The billj
provides for a suspension for;
a two-year period of the
statute of limitations against;
open accounts receivable and pav-1
able either owing to or owed by j
merchants in the State.
Notes, mortgages and any claim j
or account that is acknowledged or [
preferred claims are not effected by
provisions of the bill. Coming under j
its changes are any debts that arc
unsecured or having no other evi- J
dence cf their existence except
ledger accounts.
Effect of the measuce would be to
make it impossible for any creditor
to reduce an account to judgment
before expiration of the moratorium
period.
"In my opinion this action is
necessary to prevent the continued.
drain on North Carolina rcsources."j
Mr. Culpepper said in speaking of j
his reasons for introduction of the j
measure.
"There are many merchants in!
this State who will have to close
their doors if the accounts on their I
books are allowed to run out of date, i
and there are many of them who I
would hesitate to try to collect these j
obligations in this depression period |
when it is all their customers can I
do to get enough to eat. let alone acr
cumulate enough money to pay then
taxes.
"I believe nearly every person in
the state who owes a bill to hie
merohant will be glad of the op- j
portunity of an extension of hb I
time of payment, knowing that i:;
he cannot pay he will not be fo ced ;
into bankruptcy or sued to reduce |
the account to a judgment.
"Voluntary bankruptcy is
cowardly trick, and" I don't Wltcvc1
there are but mighty few people who
wish to get out of the payment of
their just and honest debts.
"This bill will not have the effect
of making it unnecessary for a man i
to pay his bills within the two-year j
moratorium period, because when he |
has enough extra money he will j
want to get his obligations paid off j
as soon as possible.
' If customers cannot meet their;
debts promptly, the merchants can-1
not pay their own bills, and this j
measure will give the merchants an!
extension of time equal to that of |
their customers.
"Unless steps are taken to stop j
the drain of cash, the people of!
North Carolina will soon be in a I
position where they will have to
stand in breadlines every day be
cause all their property will have j
been taken away from them to sat
isfy their debts in a period when
they are temporarily unable to pay.!
"Unless steps are taken to relieve
the merchants of the immediate [
necessity of meeting their cbliga- ]
tions until they can collect from |
their customers. ,the whole business j
life of the state will be at a stand- j
still and the morale and credit of j
the state suffer thereby.
"While the farmer must be taken
care of. the best way to aid him is!
to stop the running of the statute of i
limitations against his debts. The |
merchants get their business from |
farme rs and other urban customers. |
i Merchandising in North Carolina i
employs more employees than in- i
dustry and is the backbone of news
papers which carry daily events into j
j the homes of the state. And so, if
J merchandising goes under, the press (
would do likewise, and our people i
i would be deprived of the newspaper.;
; our greatest educational institution.'
' and would not be able to keep up
1 with the happenings of the world (
every day. In my opinion my bill is i
I proposed in substance and if passed, |
! will be as good a piece of legislation ?
| for the come back of the State of j
; No. th Carolina to its normal condi
j tion as can be enacted in the 1933 I
Session of General Assembly. As j
I it does seem to me that the mer-1
chants of our state are always left j
out as it should be admitted that i
they are one of the states greatest
assets.
"This legislature is proposing to
declare a moratorium on real estate :
mortgages and tax sales certificates,
and the only way the merchant is
mentioned is insofar as he might be
aided by the relief given to the
farmer. Now the merchants find j
themselves in the position where
;they &.e in dire need of relief and
I yet this General Assembly now in
[session proposes to place the un
supportable burden of a General
Sales Tax in the shoulders of an al
j ready over burdened business which
I am very much opposed to. In
I substance it all seems up to this. The
merchant may have his thousands
of dollars of open accounts due him
(Continued on Page Eight)
ONE POLITICAL
POT THAT AINT
KOH.IXO FAST
Willi tlu' local municipal
election only about ten weeks
oil", political ''insiders" and
"dopesters" are strangely
silent and uncommunicative
as to the prospects, and
rumors concerning candida
cies are mysteriously non
existent or hidden. There
simply hasn't been any talk,
to dale, regarding the city
election to be held on May 2.
The current situation in this re
spec: is unusual. Not in many years,
according to old-timers, have poli
tical talk, gossip and announce
ment of candidacies been stifled or
witheld until a date so late. That
there is some reason for the strange
cilence on the part cf the politicians
and the political-minded seems cer
tain. But what?
Cne possible reason has been ad
vanced. It is thought in some
quarters that W. T. Culpepper, Pas
a.uctank county's rep:esentative in
the General Assembly, may seek the
office cf Mayer again this year. Mr.
Culpepper no doubt would like to be
Mayor. The fact that he has twice
sought the office would indicate
thl.r. It is also pretty generally
known that the clement that is cp
po:ed to Mayor Jerome B. Flora is
planning to make another deter
mined fight against the administra
tion and is on the alert for a lead
er. That this leader may be Mr.
Culpepper is the one and only rumor
to* come to the writer's ears con
cerning the approaching election.
If this be the case, the reason for
the unusual silence is made obvious.
If Mr. Culpepper is to seek the
mayoralty, it would not be discreet
for him to let his aspirations along
thLs lino to known too far in advance
of -the AkflUcn. The 1931 General
Assembly, it will be remembered,
almost en til Juno. If the
1933 session should lag along, Mr.
Culpepper might have to remain in
Raleigh almost until the date cf the
election, and certainly no man could
represent his county in the General
Assembly in Raleigh and campaign
for the mayoralty in his home town,
170 miles distant, at the same time.
Also, there would remain the possi
bility of Mr. Culpepper committing
some indiscretion, such as .support
ing an unpopular bill, before the
Legislature should adjourn. So, if
he is the man who is to lead the
anti-administration ticket in the
municipal election in May, he and
h:.s supporters naturally would say
nothing about it as yet.
As for Mayor Flora and the other
incumbent municipal officeholders,
1 they, of course, are not prone to let
' their plans and intentions be known
until the opposition has been heard
j from. It is just possible thaX this
may explain the mystery of com
1 plete and utter silence on the part j
I of all the politicians ,with the elec
I tion so near at haKd.
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|P. U. C. Refuses
jTo Reduce Light
Current Ratesj
Insisting thai it could not)
i make a reduction in the localj
|electric light current rate "ati
the present time and under
present conditions" and still
meet its periodic bond pay
j incuts, the Public Utilities
iCommission on Tuesday night
flatly spurned the reeom
i mendation of the Young
I Men's Civic Club that the light
.current late be cut from 12 to eight
(cents a kilowatt hour. The attitude
I of the Commission suggested that
Ino relief,in the form of lower rates
j could be expected by Elizabeth Citi
i zens at any time in the near future,
i "We would like very much to grant
I this reduction," said Dr. A. L. Pen
i dleton. chairman of the P. U. C..
"but we see no possible way in
which we can do this and still retire
^our bends as they come due. No
:cne is more anxious than the mem
bers of the Commission to reduce
the electric light rate, but it simply
cannot be done at present."
j The Civic Club committee argue
i and expostulated with the Commis
sion for about an hour and a half,
? but to no avail. No amount of
i arguing could have influenced the
Commission to grant a reduction
I frcm the 12 cent rate. The commit-1
itee tried to show that the Public
| Utilities Commission, during the few!
years it has operated the public
i utilities of the city, has met all in
| terest and principal payments on
j utilities bonds, has given cash to
, the city's general fund annually, has
I donated lights and water to the city
I in the amount of $165,547.88 and, in
I addition to all this, has been able to
j carry into its operating surplus ac
count a total of $163,385.32, or in ex
cess of $22,000 each year.
\ The committee argued that, with
j operating expenses held down to the
, level or possibly cut a little more,
as Superintendent J. C. Parker has
' intimated they might, with no ap
parent need of any fixed improve
i ments such as water meters, a white
I way, et cetera, for some time to
j come, and in view of the virtual
(Continued on Page Four)
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Balance The Budget and Go Home |
Without Levying More Taxes
By W. O. SAUNDERS
The members of the General Assembly of North Carolina
now in session were elected with one supreme mandate from the
people: to reduce taxes. And they seem to have been chiefly con
cerned with ways and means to find more taxes since they gather
ed in Raleigh early in January.
They no v propose to raise more taxes by either a sales or I
luxury tax; so long as the people have a dollar to spend the State
will continue to grab a greater and greater share of that dollar.
They must have six or eight million dollars that a sales tax will
provide, taxing the bread and butter or the pleasures of the poor?
take your choice. They would bankrupt hundreds of border line
merchants by driving much of their trade to States having no
sales tax. They would bankrupt every merchant whose margin '
of net profit is already less than the sales tax it is proposed to
levy
Why resort to a sales or luxury tax? Why add to the crush
ing tax burden of the people and why drive thousands of strug
gling merchants to the wall?
Why not do the simple, sensible expedient thing and cut the
State budget another six or eight million dollars. Why persist in
spending money we haven't got, pursuing the folly and madness
of digging ourselves into a hole so deep that we can never climb
out.
By the simple process of lopping two, three or even four
months off the public school term in North Carolina for the next
two years, the tax payers can save six millions, eight millions or
twelve millions a year for the next two years. The General
Assembly can balance the State budget overnight and go home.
Away with all the talk about the sanctity of education and
the future of our children! Nothing is more sacred than the
preservation of the home and the conservation of public health.
The children of the masses in North Carolina?and their parents
?are in want for clothes for their backs and food for their bellies.
And we would jeopardize all private property and impoverish our
people in the interest of mass education.
It is all so obviously simple. Reduce the school term in
North Carolina that is costing 24 million dollars a year for main
tenance alone; reduce it to the number of months we can afford
to pav for: Balance the budget without resort to additional taxes
) and go home, Mr. Legislator, go home!
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ELIZABETH CITY
T 0 CELEBRATE
ROOSEVELT DAY
SAT., MARCH 4th
That the inauguration o f
Roosevelt and Garner on Satur
day, March 4 will mark the be
ginning of the turn in the worst
financial depression in American
history and will be in fact the in
aguration of better times, Eliz
abeth City merchants?most of
them?will celebrate Roosevelt
Day with a city wide exhibit of
new spring merchandise and bar
gains, bargains, bargains.
It is confidently believed that
Saturday, March 4 will be the
biggest trade day ever organized
in Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City
stores, restaurants and theatres
will put their best foot forward.
| Watch the big issue of this nsws
| paper next week.
The following business estab
lishments are co-operating:
i McCabe & Grice
Louis Selig
D. Walter Harris
E. S. Chesson & Son
Sunshine Grocery
Virginia Dare Coffee Shoppe
Buxton White Seed Co.
I Carolina and Alkrama Theatres
Garrett Hardware Co.
D. M. Jones Co.
Leslie Belanga
The Apothecary Shop
Service News Co.
Culpepper Hardware Co.
Sawyer & Harris
Elizabeth City Floral Co.
Elizabeth & Suburban Gas Co.
M. G. Morrisette & Co.
Sawyer Co.
Rucker & Sheely Co.
Puritan Cafe
Stevens Tire Store
Gerald's Confectionery
Jim Barkley
Continues To
Get Acquittals
As the result of a case tried in
Pasquotank Superior court this week,
Calvin Blackwell ("Baby") Brakley,
notorious ycung bootlegger of this
] city, will face another charge of pos
session of liquor for the purpose of
sale as soon as he completes a term
he is now serving at a Federal pri
son camp in Virginia on a liquor
charge, it is- now believed.
Young Barkley's father, James A.
Barkley, was acquitted by a Jury
Tuesday of a charge of possession
of eight pints of liquor which police
found concealed in false drawers In
a desk in his blacksmith shop last
Fall. Defense witnesses testified
! that the liquor was hidden in the
'desk by "Baby" Barkley just before
he left here early in October to ge
to Washington to receive his sent
ence in U. S. District Court there
Mr. Barkley, it was claimed, knew
| nothing of the whereabouts of the
liquor. The Jury accepted this story
voted for acquittal.
But acquittal of the father by n<
means ended the case. The police
: have sworn testimony^ that the eigh
| pints of liquor found in the desk ii
; Barkley's blacksmith shop were tl*
I property of "Baby" pairJer an'
were placed there by him. Sfc aid hi
return here after completing hi
present sentence, the police in al
probability will arrest him on thi
! charge.
Congress Denies Consideration
Of Bill for Roanoke Island
Settlement Celebration In 1934
Congress has turned thumbs down on any con
sideration of an appropriation for the proposed cele
bration of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the birth of English-speaking civilization in Amer
ica on Roanoke Island in 1934.
congressmen warrens win yiuvm
lng for an appropriation of $50,000
had received the unanimous appro
val of the Congressional Committee
: to which it had been referred. The
'bill with unanimous committee ap
1 proval came to the floor of the House
Tuesday. The Clerk called the bill.
Two members of the House objected,
i And that was the end of It. The
day before the House hag killed a
bill providing for participation in
j the centennial of the State of Texas:
' last week it killed a bill providing
| for a celebration of the bi-centen
nial of the State of Georgia.
| Neither of these last named bills
'carried an appropriation.
| It will be utterly impossible to get
i any action from this Congress, say
] Ccngre&sman Warren, who suggests
; that funds might be solicited from
I private sources.
| There is also a suggestion that the
celebration be postponed until the
1 year 1935, in hopes that a revival of
' confidence and improved business
: and financial conditions might war
rant another effort to get a Federal
appropriation. It has been propos
! ed to celebrate the birth of English
! speaking civilization in America, the
350th anniversary of which would
I fall in 1934, the year of the landing
i of the first expedition of Sir Walter
i Raleigh on Roanoke Island. The
first actual settlement in America
was not made on Roanoke Island
until 1585 and the year 1935 would
mark the 350th anniversary of the
First English Settlement in America.
W. O. Saunders, president of Roa
noke Island Historical Association
and originator of the idea of a cele
bration of national importance on
Roanoke Island, frankly professes
discouragement. "I am not a man
to take a licking lying down." he
said, "but I feel no encouragement
to go ahead In the face of adverse
circumstances and in a State that Is
characterized by apathy, inertia and
the spirit of 'let George do it." I
am having a pretty tough uphill
fight keeping my cwn little business
going. I can not risk a sacrifice of
| my own business and the bread and
butter of my family by undertaking
the task of going out into the high
ways and by-ways and sandbagging
wealthy patriots to get the funds
necessary to stage an Important
celebration. I might somehow suc
ceed in putting the thing over and
erecting a monument for myself, but
my family can't live on a tomb
' stone."
j A meeting of the directors of the
. Roanoke Island Historical Associ
j ation will be called at an early date
; to determine the next move.
The idea of celebrating the 350th
I anniversary of the birth of English
i speaking civilization on Roanoke
IIsland in 1934 will not be abandon
jed. Something will be done about
j It.
I
New Telephone
Directory In Our
iPrinters Hands
i
Copy for the spring, stim
I mer and fall issue of The Nor
j folk Si Carolina Telephone Si
! Telegraph Company's direc
tory was completed this week
and is now in the hands of
The Independent for ;?r ting.
The new directory will to ready
'for distribution to subscribers on or
jbefore April 1st. Typing and print
ing a telephone directory Ls not a
(rush job; proofs must be read and
' re-read to Insure the accurate liat
! ing of the telephone numbers of
' thousands of subscribers in Elizabeth
'> I City. Hertford. Edenton. Manteo
I'and on rural lines. The Indepen
? ? dent has printed this telephone di
rectory for many years. Your tele
1 phone company keeps this big print
- ign job at home.
Automatic presses, folding ma
1 chinery, stitching machinery, power
* driven paper cutters and the "know
? how" enables The Independent tb
handle jobs like a telephone di
> rectory with sped and satisfaction.
6
t ?A petition damanding that cvlc
l tions of ^he unemployed be stopped,
? and that water and lights be fur
i nJshed the jobless families of the
e city, was drar-.d by the executive
s committee of the Durham unem
J ployment council this week and will
c be presented before the city coun
cil at their next meeting.