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THE BEAUFORT NEVS THU RSDAY JUNE 30, 1927 The Beaufort News Published every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County North Carolina Beaufort Newt Inc., Publisher WILLIAM GILES ME BANE Pres. and Editor J. P. EETTS Secretary and Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year $2.00 Six Mor.ths 4....- LOO Thre-i Months .50 Entered as second-class matter February 5, 1912 at the postoffice in Beaufort, North Carolina, under thai Act of Mrch 3, 1879. MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY JUNE 23, 1927 They say that Senator Heflin is coming to North Carolina to make speeches against Gov ernor Al Smith. The Senator is a tine speak er but even at that he may do his cause more harm than good. Sometimes the more a man is attacked the better it is for him. know though is that North Carolina's business is of such importance that capitalists in all parts of the country are anxious to share in THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. The bridge celebration will give Carteret and Craven counties, in fact a large part of eastern Carolina, an opportunity to get some fine publicity. If handled on as big a scale as it ought to be it will, draw thousands of peo ple and will get on the front pages of every big newspaper in the State. Not long ago the Sautrday Evening Post made a good suggestion to those folks who are so anxious to see the United States cancel all of the debts foreign countries owe us. The Post says that those who want the debts wiped off the slate should take all the Liberty bonds they have, and if they have none then go and buy some, and turn them into the treasury to be applied to the debts of anyv country they think ought to be relieved. If each cancella tionist would do this the debts might be re duced to the point where the countries that owe them m'ght be willing to pay the rest. So far though we have not heard of any one's ad opting the Post plan. J Next Monday will be the 151st anniversary of the United States of America. The "Glori v,us Fourth" in fact. There was a time a good many years ago, when it was observed enthu siastically in all parts of the country. It is still observed of course and always will be but the fire cracker, flag waving, oratorical era seems to have about passed. The times have changed and fourth of July celebrations have changed with them. Nowadays the fourth is a holiday which all take who can and they ob serve it by jumping in a runabout or sedan as 'he case may be, and go tearing over thecoun try at the rate of some fifty miles an hour, pos sibly taking in a picnic or a baseball game, and then come home some time in the evening and call it a day. There are so many "days" of one sort or an other now that it is impossible to do them all justice, in fact it is a hard job to remember them all. That may be one reason that the fourth is not rated as such a big occasion as it used to be. The time should never come though when the people of this country should cease to revere the day on which our ances tors declared themselves an independent na tion. In this day of internationalists, pacifists and sentimentalists of one sort and another there is danger that some of the thoughtless may follow strange gods. The first allegiance of every person who calls himself an Ameri can belongs to the United States of America and no other. There should be no divided al legiance. There has been lot of loose talk since the Great War about what America owes to the rest of the world and how we should do this, that and the other. Some of them refer io LTncle Sam as a rapacious Shylock prowling about the world, imposing upon and robbing everybody he can. Such talk is not only fool ish but harmful. It might be a good way to observe the na tion's birthday to sit down and reflect on what it means to be an American citizen; to think of the history of the country, of the great men who brought it into being, of the privileges of being a citizen of such a republic and of our duties to respect its flag, to obey its laws and to venerate its institutions. line worth. To me the election of his boy was the most hopeful a:id vholesome election in North Caro ina this year. "This ssyrian boy had character, and eh i acter is the primary stuff out of which leadership s made." O. Max Gardner, conclud ng an address to the graduating class of the Lexington High School. r Letters From Our - Readers - J Dov't you Caret AGAINST BONDS. Editor of the News. It seems our. county gguardians are not satisfied with the heavy burden they have ulready placed upon every tavpayer in the county, but now want to burden them with the building of a county hospital. It looks to me that all such institutions should be built by a stock company and not by county bonds. If they do any thing they had better enlarge the county home so they can take care of the old and decrepit when their modest homes are sold for taxes and they turned out in a dry pasture with no where to lay their heads, no protec tion from the buring sun and the win try blast. ' Seeing that the sentiment of the people is so much against this move 1 think it advisable that the honorable county board of county commission ers rescind their order calling for an election at their next meeting and save the county that expense. Should i I . e . t . uiey reiuse tnen let me urge every voter in the county to be sure to reg ister. Do not wait until the last day but attend to this the first day the registration books are open in your precinct. When the day comes to vote be the first at the polls and cast ! your ballot against any measure call ing for a bond issue for any purpose, first last and all the time. TAX PAYER, Newport, N. C. Somebody always may excel you, But don t you carei Others outplay you or outspell you, But don't you care! Prizes may not fall to you. But in everything you do ; You can have a' purpose true, So don't you care! Somebody else may have more money, But don't you care! Somebody may be shrewder, Sonny, But don't you care! Others may wear finer things Silks and furs and diamond rings, But you can have the joys love brings, Sn rlnn'r vnn rnrp! Somebody may get more attention, But don't you care! Or win the ' honorable mention", But don't you care! If your work is nobly done, Surely you can have the fun Honest worth has always won, So don't you care' 7 M t3 DR. BONNER DISCUSSES THE COUNTY HOSPITAL RATS The destruction done in any community by rats must be far larger than most of us realize. The damage they do is divided up among many people and while it may not be so great in any individual case in the aggregate it becomes a very sizable sum. With the price of chick ens as high as they sell now though it is no ;mall matter to lore fifteen or twenty chickens in a night or so. .The damage to meats, flour, ?rain and other foodstuffs is large wherever rats are numerous. The rat is said to be the only wild animal that has been able to hold his own in the contest with the human race. Increased human population does not decrease the rat population, on the contrary it increas tM, because they live largely on what they steal from mankind. Undoubtedly rats are a dangerous and expensive nuisance. They ought to be exterminated. Press Gleanings SHRIMP INDUSTRY AT NEW SMYRNA. Joe Di Grande of St. Augustine, arrived in the city and has put on a fleet of four shrimpfishing boats, which will fish in th? ocean along the coast opposite New Smyrna. Mr. Di Grande says that this is the best shrimp fishing section on the coast of Florida, and that they can he caught here all the year round. Mr. Di Crande wil pack r.nd ship from the Karrer dock, and owing to the limited space will not use more than six bo:'ts at present. (New Smyrna Breeze.) Editor of The News: In an editorial two issues ago com menting upon the coming election on missioners and request it to proceed to call the ejection in accordance with the provisions of the special act of the General Assembly. Tl'.e soundness ,-f the principle of providing adequate facilities for the care of the sick is too well establish ed to admit of argument in this en lightened age. That thin responsi bility rests with the public is recog nized by the State in our general laws whereby each county may estab lish such an institution. Experience has proven that about 40 per cent of ill Hospital cases fall in the charily V' "'"' nosPitai, .vou invited expres- j group; the duty for the care of which sions of opinion from your, readers. clearly cannot be repudiated by the On that account, this opportunity is i public. Private hospitals in the" past being taken to make public the atti- have been carying this burden and tude of the Carteret County Meuical this burden and this expense has fal-fcoi-ety on this question. i len on the shoulders of :he mall It will be of interest for the public ! group of individuals whose capital ro learn that the county medical so-j was invested in the institutions. iety unanimously voted a resolu-l The private hospital, by its very tion endorsing tho establishment of a 1 nature, is not open to the entire pro i ou.ty hospital and appoint'.' a coin- i fession while the public hospital is uttee to bring the action to the at-1 open to every rhvHcian in good staid tention of the Board of County Com-' ir.g in a given county. The Duke Endowment, established in. the past few years, renders material assist ance in the maintenance of public hospitals but withholds support from the privately controlled institution. Serious illness and the emergencies of accidents and illnes make imperative the local hospital. Many conditions are of such a nature that the trans portation of such patients for long Distances for hospitalization is not only impossible but would be positire ly inhumane if done. It is not a question as to whether the county can afford a public hospital, but whether the county can afford to do without this prime necessity. It was interesting to read the let ter of Doctor Otis H. Johnson in the last issue of your paper in which he expressed opposition to the establish ment of a public hospital, and par ticularly at this time. Doctor John son originally introduced the resolu tion in a meeting of the Carteret County Medical Society and urged the importance of immediate, action (Continual! on page eiht) MM I WHEN THE RAT PROVES DANGEROUS WE MAY EXTERMINATE HIM Filling The Bedroom With THE PUBLISHERS ARE COMING 'v i' The North Carolina Press Association is to hold its annual nueting at the Morehead Villa July 20-22nd inclusive. The reports indicate that it will be attended very largely. The fact that many of the publishers own cars now adays and that North Carolina is pretty well covered with good roads tends to increase the attendance. We regret that the bridge could not be finished in time for the convention. Many of the newspaper folks, mxst of them in fact, would have driven -across the bridge and given Beaufort an inspection and probably Lave gone out and looked over the surrounding country. If Beaufort had suitable hotel ac comodations it could bring the Press Associa tion here, as well as many other conventions. Such gatherings would be worth a great deal to this town and section. We are glad to ha ;e the publishers come to the county though, ev en if they do not come to Beaufort. Carteret county has improved a great deal in recent years and we want the outside world to know about it. p.c.,.-.f-rt r ports a piapue of rats. A traditional condition in a seaport town has become exaggerated. Ti-jre are numerous instances cited of the remark able in the ravages of tho rodents. Beaufort is talk ing of gerting the services of a Pied Piper. The truth about rat infestation probably is that ne will ne ver deal with it adequately until we have a examp:e of a bubonic plague scare. That is apt time, at any seaport. Rats are the are the greatest over-seas travelers. fin. pvamn'n of to happen, any carriers. Rats Quality Pieces j When tht ir ships dock, they rush for land. Some time I in the future an American seaport is going to awake j to the fa-.-t that the rats have brought in Bubonic, j The doctors are well enough organized to maks it aimot certain that when the plague strikes, it will lot spread. It will merely close up some city as tight as sealing wax for a term of months. The damage will be immense, but localized. But once the rat dramatizes himself as a peril, he wi:i de dealt with. Not before! (Raleigh Times). CHIVALRY IN CEORGIA. . Y f 1 ' ' J ' " ' 1 1 ".'"'f "f;i"" n STIRRING TIMES IN GAROLINA There seems to be a good deal going on in 'ndustrial circles in North Carolina these days. The public gets an inkling of it occasionally but the people at large will not know what it all means until it is finished. At Charlotte we have seen for the past ten days a terrific strug gle in progress between large interests in the railroad world. Shortly before that the pub lic was apprised of deals that resulted in the purchase of the power systems of various cit :es by the Duke interests. The Duke millions in North Carolina are invested in power plants, both steam and water plants, cotton mills and a railroad known as the Piedmont and North ern. This road is now trying to get to Winston-Salem and later to Durham. What other purposes it has in view it is not telling. Some think that plans are afoot for another big railway system for the South. It is thought by others that the Norfolk Southern is involv ed in some way or other. It is generally un derstood that the tobacco interests now own the Norfolk Southern. For some reason or other the stock of this road has been going up mightily of late. The whole thing is some what of a puzzle at present to the ordinary mm. Of crrrse the insiders know what is goIr on and when they get ready to do it they will tell the public. One thing we do Hooded puurdians of morality carried Mrs. Ansley Bowers, of Toccoa, Ga., from her home Sunday night and flagged her. The woman's fifteen year old boy, who protested, also was beaten. Two other women of th. community admit that they have been similarly .leated. The woman, Mrs. Bowers, says her assailants wore the uniform of the Ku Klux Klan and "these men are ill members of the Ku Klux Klan; there is no' doubt about it." The Grand Dragon of Georgia doesn't think so but he is investigating. Members of the Klan or not, they presumably are men of the Toccoa community, the present denizens of a land once proud f it3 courage and chivalry. Gossip about the woman's character led to the flog ging. Toccoa folk say. What that gossip is the re ports do not say, but the most degraded progtitute in Georgia is worthier of respect than any member of the band of hooded curs who elected to punish Mrs. Bowers. (High Point Enterprise.) Grace of design, perfectly matched veneers and expert cabinet work combine to make these suites dominating values. Superbly carved, beveled and headed; dustproof construction wonder bargains at the prices we ask. THE PRIMARY STUFF. In my town recently the senior clas of sixty-four bright boys and girls in the Shelby High School, my boy being a memberof this class, held an election and l amed with one voice an Assyrian boy as the most nopular student in the class. He won this distinctive honor without pull or influence, social, financial or otherwise. He was elected because he never shirked a job, never refused responsibility and never welched be fore work. I stand uncovered in the presence of such a boy, and am proud beyond words fos such a class of native born North Carolina boys an girls who hon ored themselves and honored their school in the rec ognition of trua character and in the exaltion of gen- PORCH SWINGS Time for Porch Swings-they add to the good looks of the oth er porch furniture, besides the comfort they afford REFRIGERATORS Save Food with one of these Refrigerators You save both food and ice .and the prices are made reasonable: ' A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF BREAKFAST SETS BRIDGE LAMPS CARD TABLES, ETC Gaskill Mace Company TWO STORES Hardwa re, Furniture FRONT ST. BEAUFORT, N. C.
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