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fHE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931
The Beaufort News
nbluhed every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
North Carolina
Beaufort New Inc., Publisher
WILLIAM GILES MEBANE Pres. and Editor
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MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931
To most folks the Lindberghs seem to have
a strange idea of what constitutes a vacation.
Flying around over barren wastes, frozen
oceans, over mountain tops and through fogs
and rains may be a great adventure but it is a
queer sort of vacation. Any way flying is
their regular business.
Hard times or no hard times there is enough
wealth in Beaufort right now to build the sort
of hotel the town really needs. At present
building costs a very nice hotel could be erect
ed here for about fifty thousand dollars. Such
a hostelry would meet the requirements here
for several years to come and when another is
neded that can be built too.
VERY GOOD RECORD
The U. S. census for 1930 showed that Car
teret county had only 159 farm tenants. Two
counties Pitt and Robeson, had over 5000 ten
ant farmers. Only two counties had fewer
tenants than Carteret and they were Tyrell
with 145 and New Hanover with 51 tenants.
One of the greatest obstacles to agricultural
progress in North Carolina is that thousands
of farms are tended by croppers who have
nothing but a transient interest in the farms
they are cultivating.
and many politicians and newspaper publish
ers have been insisting that the Federal gov
ernment should do something to make wheat
and cotton bring high prices. They seemed to
think it quite a simple problem and have
never failed to berate former President Cool
idge, Secretary Mellon, President Hoover or
anybody who opposed it. And so they finally
succeeded in putting through a scheme, which
while not exactly what they wanted, did put
the government into the wheat and cotton
markets. And now the bubble has burst.
The hundreds of millions of dollars which
the Federal government has dumped into the
wheat and cotton markets may do some good
even if prices did fall to the lowest level that
they have been in many years. It may con
vince the public and possibly a majority of the
members of Congress that such fantastic
schemes are unsound and wasteful. They do
not help the farmer nor anybody else except
possibly a few salaried job holders. The law
of supply and demand is more powerful than
even the United States treasury. Wheat and
cotton are low mainly because of overproduc
tion. The same i3 true of some other crops
and commodities. The Federal government
cannot buy up all the surplus corn, cotton, to
bacco, wheat, coal, oil and lumber. To at
tempt such a thing would bring utter ruin
upon all business and bankrupt the govern
ment. Still when Congress meets some of the
demagogues that belong to that body backed
up by paid propagandists and cranks will be
gin to bellow that "something must be done
for the farmer" and bring out their discredit
ed schemes again.
Press Gleanings
Scotland Yard is now considering a plan for train
ing women as detectives. Many a small boy thought
his maternal parent a pretty good detective without
need for training. (The Detroit Free Press).
PROTECTING THE CANDY
Old Gentleman Why are you putting that muzzle
on your little brother?
hellers From
Our Readers
MR. McCAIN COMMENTS
Editor The Beaufort News:
I have a few pickups to mention
to my friend this week. My readers
in reading the .News last week I see
where some one said that farm pro
ducts have not sold very high for
several years, as compared with war
time prices. Ho said if we will
look back, say for fifty years or
more we will find that farm products,
sold lower at times than they do now.
Yes, remember that, but if you will
look back, say fifty years or more
and see what it took to run Carteret
county then and compare it with
what it takes now, you will see a
much bigger difference in the cost
of the county than there is in the
products. The products are selling
very near as low now as fifty years
ago, but on the other hand fifty yvars
ago we could pay taxes on a two
horse farm with about ten dollars,
and now it costs over one hundred
dollars a year, and fifty years ago
we could run Carteret county with
$75,000 or less; now see what it
costs. It cost more now to run our
schools than it used to cost to run
the whole county. Now you see what
a difference there is between what we
get and what we have to pay out, you
put it all on equal basis you will find
that we will eet alonir better, but if
you will notice everything is going
wrong. I saw in the News last week
where "Lawyers Rebukes Lawyers."
C. G. Rose, president of the State
Bar Association gave the lawyers
something to think about in his ad
dress at Chapel Hill. The existing
stiuations in couits of law he told
th.-.t the
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How to Grow the
Broccoli Plant
BY IF. D. JETER
RALEIGH, Aug. 17. Three dif
ferent vegetables known as "brocol-
tr.-:;n tnr.t tr.ere were too many cases 1:.. ,.. ftW k;, rnwn in North
in which miscarriage of justice was ;Carolina but oniy two of these are
done anu ne tnir.KS mai me lawyers i nlj10rtant. These
ought to buckle down to cleaning out brocolli salad and
their household, it truy cion t tne
are known as
green sprouting
public is going to find some way of I
doing it. Now my friends I have !
brocolli.
Tommy 'Cause I'm sending him to the store for I been knowing a long time
TAX REDUCTION A FINE THING
No doubt readers of the News were pleased
to read last week that the Board of Commis
sioners had decided to make a reduction in the
county tax rate. Such news would be good at
any time but during such times as the country
has been experiencing for some two years or
more it is especially gratifying.
It is true that the reduction in the tax rate
is not very large, fifty cents on the hundred
dollar valuation, but is enough to be felt by
anybody who pays any considerable amount of
taxes. And moreover it is a step in the right
direction. Most changes in the tax rate in re
cent years have been upward. It is refreshing
to see it go the other way again. If the towns
of Beaufort and Morehead City, where a large
percentage of the wealth of the county is lo
cated, will reduce their rates then for a cer
tainty many people will take a more hopeful
view of life.
One of the causes of real estate depression
is probably due to high taxes. This is true not
only of this immediate section but of many oth
ers where public debts and tax rates have be
come unbearable burdens. When most of the
income from a piece of real estate is eaten up
by taxes it is undesirable property. When real
estate investments pay fair returns capital will
be put in land and buildings. Lower taxes there
fore will do as much to help the real estate
business as any thing can do, perhaps more.
Other kinds of business will be helped too in
one way or another.
"LET THE PEOPLE RULE"
In his quest for the Democratic nomination
for Governor Mr. Fountain is reputed to be
making speeches in which he lays down the
principal of local self government as the mud
sill of his platform. He appears to think that
some things done by the General Assembly,
and some others that Governor Gardner want
ed it to do, are subversive of what he considers
as the sacred right of the people to rule them
selves. Mr. Fountain niay be perfectly sincere in
his opposition to any tendency towards centra
lized government. He may be satisfied with
things as they are but some politicians whose
slogan is "Let the people rule" mean by that
expression that they want to do the ruling.
They want to keep their friends in office and
stay in themselves.
For a good many years past the rule of the
people has been very uncertain at times. As
Revenue Commissioner Maxwell said recently,
millions of indebtedness have been put upon
the taxpayers of North Carolina without ask
ing their consent, or approval. Bills have
been jammed through the General Assembly
giving boards of commissioners the privilege
of making bond issues which the people would
have defeated if they had been allowed to vote
on the proposed issues. Under a recently en
acted law all county and town bond issues
have to be approved by the Local Government
Commission before they can be made. This
may not be local self government but if it had
been m force ten years ago there would not be
as much complaint about taxes as thereis.
GOVERNMENT CANNOT FIX PRICES
some candy. (Leeds England, Mercury-.
SHOWING UP THE WETS
Anyhow, when the senatorial campaign closes and
Cam Morrison has been nominated, Bob Reynolds will
deserve a vote of thanks for running as a wet and show
ing up the exact strength of the wets in the Democratic
party in North Carolina. (Hendersonville News-Times)
SHARP OBSERVATION
The barbers of Guayaquil, which is in Ecuador,
have asked their government to forbid the importation
of American safety razors, which they say are ruining
the barber business. Another bad feature of safety
razors, from the South American point of view, is that
they are virtually useless in a revolution. (Spokane,
Spokesman-Review.
CAM AND TAM
Tarn (Bowie) is out for the senatorship held by
Cameron Morrison, and the fight is now on between Cam
and Tarn. It is a euphonious hook-up but we are of
the notion that there won't be so much of harmony
when the two impetuous Democratic war horses get
into the heat of political campaign. North Carolina
voters are in for an interesting battle for the senator
ship toga. Frank Grist and Bob Reynolds are not
without color themselves, and though rated as third and
fourth place contenders they are not counted out of the
picture. (Hertford County Herald).
ATTENTION TO THE NEW TRAFFIC LAWS
Officers of the law in this and other counties of
the state," will do well to acquaint themselves with and
rigidly enforce the law passed during the last session
of the legislature which states that "No motor vehicle
designed, equipped for, or engaged in "transporting
property shall be operated over the highways of the
state at a greater rate of speed than 35 miles an hour,
and no such motor vehicle to which a trailer is attach
ed shall be operated over the highways of the state at
a greater rate of speed than 30 miles an hour." Most
of us on both long and short trips have come in con
tact with such vehicles and oftinies have almost been
forced into the ditch rather than be sideswiped by the
rapidly moving trucks that are veritable road hogs.
If a reasonable number of these violators of the
law are arrested and sufficiently reprimanded, possib
ly, highway traffic shall be made safer. (Clinton Independent).
lawyers have not been giving justice
in many cases, and that is the way of
every profession, just about it. I
saw in the News last week that Mr.
G. D. Canfield of Morehead City was
indicted for being under the influ
ence of whiskey while driving his car
and run into a party's car doing
some damage, and he also was charg
ed with transporting whiskey. Now
I saw in this case where Mr. Hamil
ton offered a plea of guilty to reck-
"Both of these crops require fer-
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that the , , , . J ';. ...
ieruuzer ior Desi result.-, says
B. Morrow, extension horticulturist
at Stattf Colloge. "Where the fer
tilizer is applied in the drill from 750
to 1,000 pounds of a 7-5-5 or other
high grade fertilizer should be used
to the acre. This should be thorough
ly mixed with the soil to avoid in
jury to the plants. When broadcast,
as much as 2,000 pounds of the mix
ture may be used."
While the fertilization is the
same for both crops, the cultural
ruary and March.
The green sprouting
broccoli
The absurdity of
by the government
farm products has
what has happened
a number of years
bers of the House
any scheme at price fixing
of the United States for
certainly been proved by
to wheat and cotton. For
certain Senators and mem
from the West and South
community
om commer-
, does both
MODEST DAY-DREAMING
The Biaufort News suggests that it
needs and could operate at a profit a 50-r
cial hotel.
And that observation, wa would insit
the intelligence and patrioti. :n of the Bet.-.'ort weekly
no little credit.
A few years since the papers along thj North Car
olina coast would for the most part havj turned up
their noses at anything less than 300 roo ns with bath
and golf course attachments. The big idea then was
to catch and pluck the tourist, and Beaufort doubtless
would have demanded and more than half expected
something built to the scale of Atlantic City or at
least Virginia Beach.
Not that Beaufort did not and does not yet have a
right to aspire to a place in the sun-bathing. It's a
fine, restful community, full of neighborly people and
good cooks and in close proximity to the nicest sort of
an ocean. There are at all times enough people out
side of Beaufort who wish they were there to fill a half
dozen of 50-room hotels, and the News is modest, in
deed, in its demands.
For this and a variety of other reasons we are
hoping that somebody will catch step with the News'
vision and materialize its dream. It has been pretty
conclusively proven to even the satisfaction of resort
promoters that the rainbow's foot is set neither on the
shore of Bogue sound nor Mount Mitchell; but there
is at Beaufort every month in the year justification of
stopovers by thousands of wayfarers, native and alien.
(Greensboro Daily News). .
locc j-lviinnfF Kilt- fViia roo n rravYii-.
ted by the court. A verdict of guilty :ethds are entirely diffrent, states
to the charge of driving while un-i ' M0lT0W-
der the influence of whiskey was 1 The brocolli salad is a hardy plant
rendered the charge of transporting jand for this reason is grown for late
liquor was dropped. Now you can!winter and ear'v spring greens in
see where the lawyers don't want to the. eastern Part of he State. Ex
give justice in most all whiskey Peiiments conducted at the Branch
cases. ! Station at Willard gave best results
It has got mighty hard to tell the 'he" e sed were sown between
goats from the sheep-the goats lumber 15 and 25 About two
which side is the largest. That the!po"n''s of Beed used to ae
way I feel about our church at New-'f.nd th5 are dnlled !n rows aout
port. I would like to see our church ,fee afart; Thls time and
record clean like Mr. C. G. Rose et.h?d f PIantln? Produces a crop
wanted the lawyers to cloan out their . ? " xo "testing m i-eb
own household. Now if we have a
membership of a hundred and one
half are goats. I say get rid of the
goats and give us a membership of
fifty sheep and our church will pros-i
per better. There is lost more I i
could say but I will close.
From your friend, !
E. L. McCAIN.
Newport, Aug. 15, 1931.
A POEM !
Editor of The News: !
I hear so much grumbling every j
day about the times, I sat down the '
other day and rhymed up a few !
verses in regards to it, naming it
"The Grumblers of North Carolina." 1
Some folk will surely grumble. It
makes no difference what you say I
they will sit around and grumble
j every hour in the day. '
(They'll grumble if we pension them,
They'll grumble if we bonus them, j
They'll grumble if we won't. j
If Uncle Sammy feeds them
They will grumble all the while, i
And prophesy for bad things
When they ought to tote a smile.
If they ever get a dollar
They will buy some drink allright,
And lay the blame on "Hoover"
For their being in a tight.
Makes no difference 'bout the good
time,
They will grumble just the same;
And lay the blame on "Hoover",
But it don't disgrace his name.
Rhymed and written by
ROBERT E. RICE,
Lowlands, N. C.
Pamlico County.
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the last freeze. The plants should
be set 15 to 18 inches apart in
three or three and one-half foot
rows. When grown as a fall crop,
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harvested before the first killing
frost.
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- JESSE J. GUTHRIE
The friends and relatives of Mr.
and Mrs. James R. Guthrie sympa-l
thize with them in the loss of their
son Jesse James Guthrie, age 23 j
years, which occurred on August the I
6th in the Morehead City hospital. '
He leaves behind to mourn his loss i
a father and mother and two sisters, !
Annie C. Guthrie and Gertha Mae
Guthrie. j
His funeral services were conduct--
ed by the Rev. Mr. Wall at the
Methodist Epsicopal church. I
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