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FRIDAY, DEC. IS, 1922
HOME DEMONSTRATION
Home demonstration knock
ers are invited to read the arti
cle published below, not for
any consolation they might get
but to throw some light on the
reacftiorv that usually follows
the withdrawal of support to
the departments of government
which cost less and bring the
largest returns. What is said
here was written by W. O.
Saunders, editor of the Eliza
beth City Independent.
What he has to say about the
action of the Pasquotank com
missioners has also been ably
seconded by Editor Peele, of
the Daily Advance, at the same
city. These men have been on
the job in Pasquotank for many
years and they are in a position
to know the sentiment of the
county citizens. Their utter
ances must be given weight,
and what Saunders says about
that board is a plenty. This is
the way he says it:
"The Board of Commissioner* of
Pasquotank County did a narrow,
short-sighted and regretable piece of
business yesterday when they cut off i
the. appropriation of fifty dollars a ,
month for the office of Home Demon- j
stration Agent, thereby . abolishing ,
home demonstration work in the ,
county. The Commissioners abolish- ,
ed the office for no other reason than {
to save a small item of expense and \
to gratify Chairman Noah Burfoot's ,
grudge against Miss Marcie Albert
son, who has held the office of Home ,
Demonstration Agent for six years. ,
"It was Chairman Burfoot's vote
that broke the tie and abolished the
office. Chairman Burfoot dislikes 1
Miss Marcie Albertson. She is pro
gressive and he is reactionary; she is
for the people and he is for Noah
Burfoot; she is making farm life at
tractive and helping to keep boys and
firis on the farms, and Mr. Burfoot
Is'the proprietor of a small knitting
mill who would much prefer seeing
the boys and girls leave the farms
ignorant and unskilled and work in
the mills at low wages.
urm ?- ?* ?
Aiiree new memDers 01 the Board
of Commissioners sought election for
the avowed purpose of cutting down
the expense of the county govern
ment; and here is a sample ?f how
they propose to do it. By cutting
off the demonstration work in the
county they have saved the tax pay
en of the county fifty dollars a month
?that is all. Fifty dollars a month
is all the demonstration work has cost
the county, the rest of the cost being
defrayed by the State and Federal
governments.
'To save a miserable item of fifty
dollars a month and to satisfy Chair
man Burfoot's dislike for Miss Al
bertson, your Commissioners have
abolished an office that was at the
time helping nearly three hundred
S'rls in thi? county to make so many
rm homc-s more comfortable and
more profitable. The Home Demon
stration Agent in this county held
more than four hundred meetings in
the county last year and had thirty
two active clubs going. Miss Albert
son has not only taught the girls of
Pasquotank County how to better pre
serve and market the surplus prod
ucts of the farms, gardens and or
chards, but she has taught them the
things they should know about diet,
how to make their homes attractive,
how to make their own clothes and
millinery, how to beautify their yards
|; and recently she had put them to
Work making rugs and baskets. The
energising and refining influence of
this woman worked ceaselessly in the
homes throughout the county and has
been of incalculable value. But the
work Is abolished because a few sim
ple men cant see it or, seeing, com
prehend.
"This newspaper believes that the
pommissioner will reconsider their
action at an early date, when they
have beard from the thousands thru
out the cltv and count" yrho apprec
iate the great value of the work that
Mies Albertson has done. Once be
fore a Board of Commissioners re
pentad and reversed itself on this
very question.
"W# are to be congratulated that
H didnt occur to the County Com
missioners to save the taxpayers'
money by closing all the eehoolt In
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EXPENSIVE JUDICIARY
Editor Connor of the Roan?
oke-Chowan Times asserts him
self forcibly on the question of
increasing judges' salaries ancf
adding ten new judges and so
licitors, two proposals being ad
vanced by the State Bar Asso
ciation. His position is that the
people are in no pnood to in
crease salaries, nor to create
new offices; and there is plenty
of justification in what he says.
Discussion along this partic
lar line is highly in order
among Hertford County people
just now. There is plenty of
talk about a Recorder's Court
for the county, and the lawyers
are, so far as therHerald is able
to learn, unitedly in favor of
its creation. Legislation creat
ing this court will probably be
sought in the next legislature in
January.
Like our Northampton con- '
temporary, this paper does not
believe any additional burden
should be placed upon the tax- <
payers for more judicial offl- '
cers, unless there is a greater *
demand than is current in the ]
County now. This paper does ,
not profess to know whether i
the court will actually be creat- '
ed, but it is well to use precau- 1
tion when any additional ex
pense is to be added to the ?
county through its establish- <
ment, in addition to this \
county's share of whatever ex- 1
tra appropriation is made for j
more judges and solicitors for
the State.
Here is what Editor Connor *
has to say about increased Bal- *
aries, and a more expensive *
judiciary:
The question of increasing the pay j
of members of the General Assembly
from four to ten dollars a day, sub
mitted to the voters at the November
election, was overwhelmingly defeat
ed by the people. So would the prop
osition to increase the pay of Super
ior Court Judges from four to six
thousand dollars a year, as was done
by the last Legislature had it been
submitted to a vote. The judges in
the rural districts of North Carolina
have to work less than one-fourth of
the time, if Northampton is an aver
age county, yet it is proposed by the
State Bar Association, composed en
tirely of lawyers, to burden the people
of the State with ten more judges and
an equal number of solicitors, repre
senting an additional annual pay roll
of more than one hundred thousand
dollars. This, if adopted by the Leg
islature, would be a useless expense
simply to give twenty men easy jobe
at public expense.
There may be a few counties like
Wake, Guilford, New Hanover, For-*
sythe, which contain large towiu, that
need more courts but there are a
large number of counties, Northamp
ton for one, that is provided for
more courts than is needed, and by
rearranging the courts those counties
that need more courts could be sup
plied vrijhout increasing the tax bur
den one cent. Some two or three
years ago we had occasion to ascer
tain 4Ve number of days court is held
in Northampton and ^found that on
an average court was not held half
the time provided for.
The number of cases on a court
docket does not indicate the necessity
for additional courts. It is never in
tended to try many cases on the
docket. They are placed there for
other purposes. Many are on the
docket because the lawyer's fee has
not been paid, and no one blames the
lawyers for keeping cases on the
docket until they are paid, otherwise
in many cases *bey would never col
lect.
This paper is opposed to creating
any office just to give somebody a
job.
?A LITTLE NONSENSE?
? i
Absent-Minded Professor?"Mar
garet, please take that cat out of the
room. I cannot have it making such
a noise while I am at work. Where
is it?"
Servant?"Why sir, you are sitting
on it."
An old dairkey visited a doctor
i and was given definite instructions as
to what he should do. Shaking his
head he was about to leave the office
when the doctor said, "Here, Rastus,
you forgot to pay me."
"Pay you for what, boss?"
"For my advice," replied the doc
tor.
"Naw suh! I ain't gwine ter take
it," and Rastus shuffled out.
Millionaire (speaking to body of
students) "All my success, all my
tremendous financial prestige, I owe
to one thing alone?pluck, pluck,
pluck."
Studeht?"But how are we to find
the right people to pluck?"
n A man has no business in taking
unto himself a wife unless he has the
disposition to submit to being bossed
at least part of the time.
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OFFICE CAT]
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conwioht mr kooaw auaw mom, j
"I don't think much of this secret
meeting business, if that i? what they
are doing," remarked one of Hert
ford County's citizens at Winton last
Monday, as he waited with several
others to hear the deliberations of the
board at its first regular meeting.
Other expressions similar to this one,
some a little stiffer in the language
used, were heard.
Whether the members had a private
caucus, or a closed meeting the CAT
foes not know, and made no attempt
to pry up the lid and find out what
was going on. But, whatever trans
aired during the morning hours was
certainly not included in the minutes,
ind cannot be considered as official
sets of the board. For, the board's
lecretary was not on the job.
However, it goes to show how
'leary" people are about public offi
cials withholding anw of their acts
'rom the public who pays them. And,
t is a good, healthy sign, and de
rates an interest in good, orderly
tovernment.
"Just what I have bean wanting
hem to do", remarked Superintend
ent Hines when the motion was car
ied to inspect the roads built by his
nen. "I will be right here Thursday
rith a Ford car, to carry fopr of
rou."
An inspection of the work, and an
nventory of the equipment on hand,
ogether with a financial statement
rdered prepared will give the board
, working knowledge of the road
inilding business. It was a good
aove, and should uncover all defici
iences, if any, and probably assuage
ome of the loose talk about wasting
aoney. Whether the report and find
ngs are favorable or not, it is still a ""
imely proposal.
"Since they have found out just
iow much power the chairman has
reference is hereby made to an ac
ount of last week's meeting of the
oard of commissioners) it looks like
he office is a coveted one," said one
axpayer at Winton Monday. The
oad commissioners had been ballot
ng for some time without breaking a
ie?a deadlock that is still unsettled.
"No chairman can vote as a mem
>er to tje the count, and then vote as
:hairman to untie what he has st
eady tied"-Robert's Revised Rules
if Order. The CAT poked his head
nto that little red book Monday
norning and that is what he read.
I the board of commissioners abide
>y the ruling of its chairman, we'll be
iguring on compiling us a new book
>n "Rules of Order." Lookout, Mr.
Roberts.
Register of Deeds John A. Northcott
wants to know when the CAT expects
to express himself on the salary
proposition for his office and other
county offices." When he gets enough
information about what fees do
amount to, what work is attached to
the job, and how many men it takes
to carry on the work", was the way
the Editor answered it for the CAT.
"The average man knows but little
abouthe work attached to the office;
and what the job is entitled to pay,"
chimed in another taxpayer. And,
that is true.
"If there's going to be a Record
er's Court for this County, Ahoskie
expects to be chosen as its place of
sitting", is what people here are say
ing. And, they are already awake to
the job of proving to the rest of the
folks that Ahoskie is entitled to it.
"Less you wear the longer you
live,' claims a doctor. We know a
girl in Ahoskie who is racing with
Methuselah.
Insanity is said to be akin to love;
but a man in love doesn't care if he is
crazy.
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Our heart goes out to the kids of
the country. It has been pointed
out that December has Ave bath
nights.
The peek-a-boo waist has been sup
planted by the burlesque skirt. Give
gloom the absent treatment.
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Ahoskie Clothing & Dry Goods Store
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Friday December 15th
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boys' Suits Wnd Overcoats at a reduced
price.
This Sale Will Last Until Dec. 25th
One Lot of all wool sweaters dj/l Cft
Values $6.50, Sale Price - ?pH?OU
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All Shoes Will be Reduced During Sale
We still have a big assort- QQ_ Each
ment of Aluminum left for fvL
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