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Largest Circulation In I Carteret County j The People's Newspaper The Lest advertising medium published it g trteret Co. READING TO THE MIND IS WHAT EXERCISE IS T()"THE BODY 1 WATCH Your label and pay your subscription B 12 PAGES 13 WEEK THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 PRICE 5c SINGLE COPY NUMBER 12 VOLUME XVI I 0'7 STATE OFFICIALS EXAMINING ACTS OF LEGISLATURE Six Thousand Copies of New Laws Will be Printed Very Soon NO MORE ROAD LOANS (By M. L. SHIPMAN) Raleigh. March 21. Two weeks a way from the General Assembly finds State officials delving inot the record written into the Statutes with a view to ascertaining "where they are at." This does not apply to all depart ment heads for some of them were not even given "the once over." Ad ditional service is asked of others, the extent of which has not been "fitrured out." The Senate and House journals were completed last week by principal clerks Martin and Lassiter respectively who filed with the Secretary of State two copies of each, one for the permanent files of the office and another copy for the use of the public printer. "Old Man Economy decreed this year that the captions of the acts of the General Assembly need not be printed and the public will have to be content with the information carried in the newspapers touching the work of that body until the public, local pub lic and private laws apear in book form sometime during the early summer. 6,000 copies of the public laws and 1250 each of the local pub lic and private laws are being print ed. In the meantime, the secretary of State will supply hundreds of cer tified copies of new laws needed for various dry purposes by interested parties. A big force of copyists is now engaged in this special service. After a brief rest from the strain of official duties during the General Assembly Governor McLean return ed from Pinehurst and plunged into a mass of data which had accumu lated on hiB desk. The presidential boom recently started elicited only a smile, comments being deferred un til some future day. Besides the se lection of four emergency judges the Governor has named many members of boards for various agencies and institutions and delegates to a num ber of conventions soon to be held for the consideration of matters of interest to this and other states. The County Government Advisory Com mission which held its first meeting in the Governor's office during the week, is composed of Dr. E. C. ;Brooks, president of State College, chairman; J. E. Woodland, oi More City, president of the State Associa tion of County Commissioners; D, W. Newsome, of Durham; E. M. Ly da, of Asheville, and Professor A. C, Mcintosh, of the Univerity of North Carolina. The temporary secretary is A. S. Brower, business manager of State College. This commission has at its disposal an annual appropri ation of $15,000 and the authority to accept donations. It may employ trained workers to assist the count ies in making out their budgets and render other services nuder the di rection of the commission. Governor McLean resumed his daily conferences with members of the press the day afte1 rejournment of the General AAssembly and ex pressed pleasure on the return of this pleasent contact with with those who are assisting in making North Carolina a greater State. While the Governor secured practically every thing seriously contemplated in his legislative program, which included many constructive measures, he ex pressed the convection that the act providing for the maintenance of the State's highway system is one of the most important. The. addition of $30,000,000 in road bonds by the recent General Assiembly advances the aggregate for this purpose to $115,000,000 and brings the ques tion of maintenance ot the point of urgent necessity. The new bond bill provides that no more loans from counties are to be used by the State for road construction and that the gasoline tax shall remain inviolate for the road fund. The recent bond issue is expected t o complete the road building program and the High way Commission will then spend its energy in maintaining the entire system it has builded so wisely and so well. County loans are to be ad justed from the proceeds of the new bonds and many miles of county roads are to be taken over by the State commission and treated as a part of the general highway system. Taxes Coming In Following adjournment of the General Assembly the scene of ac tivities was transferred from the Cepitol to the Revenue Building pre en! ?d over by Revenue Commissioner (Continued on page eipbt) ROAD- NTENCES Several Got Terms on Roads. Only Two Civil Cases Tried Last Week The trial of the criminal docket of Superior Court was not finished last week until Thursday afternoon and so this newspaper could not give a full account last week of what was done. On Fridav two civil cases were tried and then court adjourned The next term here will be in June The judgment of the court as to the various cases tried were as fol lows : Matthew Owens, charged with ab- andoment. Mr. and Mrs. Owens straightened out their differences and Judge Cranmer dismissed the defend ant upon payment of costs. He re quired that the couple shall live in a house to themselves for the next two years. Manly B. Fulcher who was convict ed of beating his wife had his sen tence changed from a term on the roads to 9 months at the county home, where he will have to work. Reuben Guthrie, violating the pro hibition law, got four months on the roads of Pitt, Greene or Craven counties in one cose. In the other case he got 9 months on roads, the sentence to be stricken out on his paying $500 to Miss Mary E. Hurst, for bodily injuries done her with car. Wiley Wilson and Dan Bell, vio lating prohibition law, got six months on roads. William Bell violating prohibition law, sentenced to four months on roads. Howard Willis, violating prohibit tion law, prayer for judgment contin ued. Must give bond for $300 to show good behavior for two years, The two civil cases tried were that of R. S. Brett versus Seashore Trans portation Co. and Kathleen Sheppard versus Seachore Transportation Co. Brett got a verdict of $800 and.. Miss Sheppard got one for $1500. The company gave notice of appeal. The grand jury made tis report a3 to the county offices, home, jail and found all in good shape. :o: REAL ESTATE SELLING ALL OVER COUNTY Real estate transactions recorded for the past week were pretty well scattered throughout the county. All the way, in fact, from Portsmouth to White Oak township. One of the principal transactions recorded was that of a farm in Beaufort township to R. E. Musgrave, a West Virginia man. The list of deeds filed is as follows : D. M. DeNoyer and wife to Trus tees Graded School, 1 lot Beaufort, for $10. M. A. Hill Tax Collector to R. E. Chaplain, 1 lot, Beaufort for Taxes Paid. Helen J. Russell et als to R. E. Musgrave et als, 2 tracts, Beaufort Township, for $4,000. H. L. Joslyn and wife to B. C. VanWye and wife, 14 acres H. I. for $100. Samuel E. Murphy to M. F. Mur phy, 2 acres Hunting Quarter Town ship, for $10, Morehead Bluffs to P. T. Fergu son, 2 lots Morehead Bluffs, for $1391. Mile! Becton and wife to Annie Fisher Becton, 1 lot Morehead City for $200. Mrs. S. T. Holland and husband to Dora Bell, 3 lots, Newport for $200. L. F. McCabe and wife to' James H. Jones, 1 lot Newport for $120. G. R. Lawrence and wife to G. W. Gillikin, 6 acres, Straits, for $600. C. J. Willis to Ida M. Willis, 1 acre, Smyrna for $1. " E. W. Meadows and wife to Ben 0. Jones, interest in tract White Oak for $10. Jeremiah Abbott to W. O. Williams 4 1-4 acres Portsmouth, for $200. :o: TWO CASES WERE TRIED IN POLICE COURT MONDAY Mayor Thomas had only two cases up for trial Monday afternoon but they sufficed to draw out a lar?e crowd of spectators most of whom were colored people. One case that of Frank Henry charged with assaulting Lina Wigfall was dismissed as there was no evi dence to justify the charge. George Copes charged with stealing chickens was bound over to Superior Court under a bond of $100. Copes, who is a negro, was tried a few weeks ago on the charge of entering a resi dence in town and stealing some iewelry. He was acquitted of this indictment. LAW SAYS ALL HUNTERS MUST SECURE LICENSE Many Changes Made In State Game Laws By Recent General Assembly DEER SEASON SHORTER Everybody who does any hunting in North. Carolina now must have a license to do it. It used to be that license was required of non-resident j hunters only but the game law ad-; opted by the General Assembly has I made a change in this as m a great j many other particulars of the hunt-1 ing regulations. There is an excep- tion to this rule though, in that a person may hunt on his own land with out a license, also a person who has , leased land for cultivation may hunt; on it without a license. ine new game law creates u game commission of four persons. They are to serve four years and get no pay except their per diem expenses. They are appointed by the Governor. The Director of the Department of Conservation and Development is a member ex officio of the body. The purpose of the commission is "to protect, propagate and preserve the game, fur bearing animals and pro tected birds of the State and to en force the provisions of the act. The commission also must get up, classi fy and preserve statistics, keep rec ords and other information pertain ing to game. It shall make an an nual report January the first to the Governor. The commission has a great deal of authority under the new law. It may acquire lands and waters for the purpose of propagating and pre serving game, it can make rules as to hunting ,id can change them when it sees fit. It can breed and raise birds and animals if it choooses. The commission must appoint a State Game Warden, whose salary shall not exceed $5000 a year and who may be allowed $1500 a year for expenses. With the consent of the commission the Warden shall have the power to employ deputy ws.ds.Tjs, refuge keep ers and other er.ipioyees. Persons collecting license fees must uemit them to the State Game Warden on the first Tuesday of each month. Lic ences shall be issued by the Clerk of the Superior Court, deputy wardens or any one authorized to do so by the State Game Warden. Considerable changes have been made in the open season for hunting in North Carolina. With very few exceptions all of the counties now have the same restrictions as to hunt ing and the open season is the same for all on certain kinds of game. The open season for deer and bear is Oc tober the first to January the 15th. A hunter may kill only two deer in one day and only four in an entire season. The bag limit for squirrels is 10 a day. The open season for quail and wild turkey is December first to March the first. The bag limit for quail is 10 a day. It is un lawful to kill or capture game from power boats, aeroplanes or automo biles. It is unlawful also to offer for sale game, except squirrels and rabbits. Violation of the game law subjects the offender to a fine of $50 or to be imprisoned 30 days in jail for the first offense. For the sec ond offense the fine may be $200 or imprisonment six months or both. The new law becomes effective June the first, 1927. :o: Seed for planting 95 acres to pas- ture have been ordered by county a - gent C. A. Rose of Bertie County, Not Many Bids Were Received Public improvement bonds, as they are called, of the town of Beaufort to the amount of $125,000 were sold at a meeting of the board of com missioners at the city hall Monday. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Thomas at noon and all mem bers of the board were present. The most noticeable thing about the meeting was the scarcity of bid ders for the bonds. Usually when bonds are sold a number of, bidders are present and also letters and tel egrams are received. Only two bid ders were present Monday, C. H. God win representing a Toledo, Ohio firm and C. H. Godwin Jr. representing a Cinncinnati house and no other bids were received. They made no Writ ten offer for the bonds but acted to gether and submitted oral bids. The board and the buyers dickered for a bout an hour and half and finally the bonds were sold to the Cincinn- EYE TROUBLE CAUSES ALARM Considerable Number of More head City Children Found to Have Slight Eye affection Some excitement and also alarm was caused in Morehead City last week by the fear that a number of school , children had contracted the dread eye disease known as trachoma. ! Snmp pvp trfinhlo which Vinrl Hpvplnn- ..h nf MArn IpH to thp beMef that it might be trachoma. However t0 the relief of all concern ed it has turned QUt that the aiIment wag not trachoma and not serious at aj ' . The matter having been reported State Board of Health Dr. F. tt T h i Fftefthe U S Marine Hospital Norfolk and Dr. T C. Britt of the untJ !lalth,D:P"t?,ent 'ent to lvlnrphpflH f:itv Inst KriHsiv nnn pvam- ined a large number of the white school children. It was found that about 80 of them had some trouble with the eyes. The doctors' name for it is follicular conjunctivitis, which sounds pretty bad but the phy scians say it is not and that the chil dren would get over it even if noth ing were done for them. This af fection is a sort of expression of the general physical condition of the child and may be due to enlarged tonsils, mal-nutrition or something else. There is no danger of blind ness from the affection and ordinar ily a child will out grow it. How ever the physicians say it is proper to take whatever steps are needed to im prove the health of a child, who has the trouble so that he may get rid of it as quickly as possible. It is considered likely that an ex- ! animation would show there are a good mauy children in the county, besides those at Morehead City, who have some slight eye troubles. Phys icians say that parents should see to that. their children are well nour ished and in as good physical condi tion as it is possible for them to be. - v.. ... . :o: . , . SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS MEET AT ATLANTIC On Sunday afternoon March 20, some interested Sunday School work ers met at the Methodist church in Atlantic for the purpose of organ izing a Sunday School unit in Hunt ing Quarter township. Mr. J. A. Hornaday of Beaufort gave a short but interesting talk on State organization the purpose be ing to promote efficiency in the Sun day School. Professor Rose also of Beaufort, who is very much interested in boys and girls gave a helpful talk on the Junior work of the Sunday School. Mr. C. R. Wheatly was interested in adult work. He said that our Sun day Schools could not be successful until the fathers and mothers realiz ed that it was their duty to be pres ent every Sunday morning. The child is happy when following his father. Mr. Duncan's talk was on Sunday Schol administration. ' He believes that the Sunday School is the nucleus of the community and when this is realized the administration problem is solved. We regret that only a few were present, but with the work begun we hope to do our n:rt in making: our county better morally and spiritually. ;o: A top-dressing of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda or 75 pounds per acre of sulphate of ammonia will make 1 the small grains grow belter this spring. For Public Improvement Bonds ati fifirm, Walter, Woody and Her- mindinger. The price agreed upon was par less the accrued interest from March 1st to the date of deliv ery which goes to the buyer The bond buyers wanted to get the bonds at a discount and made sever al offers to that effect which the board discussed and refused. Final ly the board had about decided to raise the rate of interest to 5 3-4 percent and re-advertise the bonds. Then the younger Godwin made his offer which was accepted and he put up a $2500 check to bind the trade. The bonds bear interest at the rate of 5 1-2 per cent. They mature as follows: $4000 each year 1928 to 1952 inclusive, $5000 each year 1953 1957 inclusive. Before adjourning the board adopt ed a resolution establishing the west line of Queen street. It recessed then to meet again at 8 o'clock Fri day the 25th. CARTERET COUNTY STUDENT EXPLAINS COUNTY RELATIONSHIP TO STATE Hard To Tell What The Law Is Fcr Any Particular County So Many Special Acts Have Been Passed. Many Abuses Have Grown Up Haphaza rd Financial Methods Cause Poor System of Bookkeeping (Univertity News Letter) Soft Crab Season Opened Last Monday The open season for soft crabs be gan in Carteret County Monday and the fishermen around Marshallberg and other places where crabs are to be found got busy. They did right well Monday but they got only one day's fishing. A cold northeaster blew up Monday night and that end ed it for the time being. When the weather is stormy and cold crabs bury themselves in the mud to keep warm, but as soon as the sun begins to shine and the warm south wind commences to blow they come out of their hiding places and set about hunting for food. This is when the fishermen catch them. In the first of the season soft crabs are small, most too small a fellow who is hungry for them thinks. As the weather warms up they grow very rapidly though and in a few weeks four or five of them will make a pret ty good meal for most folks. The lit tie ones are very sweet and tender and are highly esteemed by epicures. One the menus of the fine hotels and restaurants soft crabs rank high and are very popular. The outlook for a successful crab eeason in this section seems to be rather favorable. Fishermen say the sings are good and that if they can have a few days of fine weather they expect to bring a considerable quan tity of soft crabs to the market. :o: COMMUNITY CLUB FAVORS ASSOCIATED CHARITIES For a long: time Beaufort has need ed an -organization to look after the charitable work now beinjj done by the public welfare committees of different societies and by individu als. The Community Club has realized the need of a Board of Associated Charities or some similar organiza tion for some time, and feels that this branch of local work can be perfected with the cooperation of the churches, P. T. A., Chamber of Com merce, and other societies, organiza tions and frternities. The club is asking that serious thought be given the idea of such a board, and that all organizations feel free to express themselves on the subject. Pub. Chairman. ISLE OF PINES STEAMER IN BEAUFORT SATURDAY A large passenger steamer, the Pinero from Philadelphia bound to Batabano, Cuba arrived in Beaufort harbor last Friday night and spent Saturday. The vessel stopped to take on some oil and other supplies. She was carrying a cargo of cement and oil. The Pinero belongs to the Isle of Pines Steamship Company and the president of that company Mr. J. A. Hill was aboard. Captain Fred Rouse was in command of the vessel. The Tinero will engage in the passen ger and freight service plyin? be tween Batabano and Nueva Geron, Isle of Pines. She is 1C2 feet long, 34 foot beam and is well equipped for service. Captain Rouse expect ed to make the trip from Beaufort to Cuba in about four days. :o: MRS. BAKER LAID TO REST. A host of friends which filled St. Paul's Episcopal Church attender the funeral services of Mrs. L, C. Baker, nee Miss Thelma Garner, Saturday, at three o'clock. Services were con ducted by Dr. G. W. Lay. Inter ment was in the Episcopal cemetery. A short service was held in the church and concluded at the grave. Hymns, "The Strife is O'er" and Light's Abode Celestial Salem" were sung at the church by the choir and "Jesus My Savior Look on Me" and "There is a Blessed Home" were sung at the grave. The many beautiful floral tributes attested to the popularity of the young woman. Mrs. Baker was the daughter of the late Nathan Garner. She is survived by her hus band, mother and several aunts, un cles and cousins. Eggs are too cheap to feed low producing hens, says many poultry producers and they have begun cull ing out the poor stock. At the regular meeting of the North Carolina Club, February 21, Ralph W. Noe, of Carteret county, presented.a paper on County Govern ment Laws. In this paper he describ ed the relationship of the county to the state under the Constitution of 1868, showing how it had certain real powers and duties under Section 2 of Article VII. But under Section 15 of this Article, amended to the Constitution in 1875, the Legislature was given power to pass any special act it saw fit for the governing of counties and municipal corporations, except those providing that there shall be advalorem taxes and that debts in aid of the rebellion shall not be paid. The special acts passed under this amendment have had a detrimental effect on the counties for two reas ons. First, because of the large num ber of the public-local laws (8,274 were passed, repealed, reenacted, or amended in the period from 1911 to 1925) and the fact that they are scattered through the many volumes of the session laws; this makes it im possible to know exactly what the law is for any one county, and therefore impossible for the commissioners elected therein to govern the county as well as they might. Second, the present practice of passing public local laws at the suggestion of the representatives and without debate leaves room for evil possibilities and has the effect of confusing the fiscal; management of the counties when new officers, boards, or other agents., handling funds are established or abolished at almost every biennial, session. ' The speaker showed how this has. resulted in taking the control of pure ly local affairs away from the people in many cases and has made it im possible for the county commission ers to exercise their acknowledged duty of supervising the other officers of the county and regulating the fi nances. , , , The haphazard financial methods resulting thereby have caused the counties to resort almost entirely to the use of the dilapidated cash-book system of book-keeping, which at tempts to show nothing more than a statement of receipts and expendi tures. This is very different from a statement of revenues and expen ses which will show the known in come and expense for a certain fiscal period, regardless of when or how colected and paid. Uniform Accounting Certain obvious advantages in un iformity of accounts, which could on ly be obtained by a general law ap plying to all or most of the counties, were brought out as follows: 1. Uniformity would enable a State Board of Accountancy to render valuable aid to the county commissioners concern ing their forms of book-keeping and the forms of financial statements that they give the public. 2. Uniformity would permit a manual of the duties of all county officers and a coda of county government law to be prepared. 3. Uniform accounts would en able the stats Auditor to keep more accurate tab on the bond ed indebtedness of the counties and to see that debts are con tracted only according to law, 4. An uniform net would give the Legislature opportunity to re store to the commissioners final authority in the fiscal manage ment of the county, as they had under Section 2, Article VII, of the Constitution of 1868, and which has been found by practice to be the most scientific form of management. Content! of the Bills The county government bills which are now before the legislature were, then examined to see how they pro posed to correct the present evils in county government. They cannot prevent public-local legislation but, if adopted, there will be less need for so much of it. They are designed primarily to secure sound financing. One bill provides for either of two forms of government the existing commissioner form, or the county manager form. It is also provided that a continuing board of commis sioners may be elected by counties, if the electors so decide by an election. The county finance act an dthe county fiscal act are the titles of the (Continued on page eight) i: