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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1932
The Beaufort News
iubliahed every Thursday at Beaufort, Carteret County
Nerth Carolina
Beaufort Newt Inc Publisher
WILLIAM GILES MEBANE Pres. and Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(In Advance)
One Year .... . $2.00
Six Uontha 1.00
fkr Months . ....... .50
Tforeign goods. Tiie thing which the low tar-
market is the best one in the world. When we
swap with them they get the best of the deal.
By reason of their cheap labor we cannot pos
sibly undersell them on many things that they
make and they can undersell us on many that
we make. It is just a question of building up
our own industries or those of foreign lands.
Entered as second-class matter February 5, 1912 at the
aostofflce in Beaufort, North Carolina, under the Act
oi March 3, 1879.
MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932
To all of our readers and friends and ev
erybody else we wish a Happy New Year.
GERMANY WANTS TO ARM
Von Schleicher, chanceiior of Germany,
says the status of his country is practically
that of a slave. A slave is not permitted to
have arms in his possession. Germany,, un
der the provisions of the Versailles treaty,
was greatly restricted as to the size of her ar
my. She is not allowed to have any large
warships, her artillery and munition factor
ies were dismantled and her forts destroyed.
No restrictions were placed upon the other
nations. Russia, France, Italy, Great Britain
and even the small nations can have as many
ships, aircraft and soldiers as they can pay
for and more than they can afford. Germany
wants to have the privilege of arming too and
the truth is we suppose she has as much right
to do it as any of them. .
"SCHOOLS OF CRIME"
From time to time we hear it said that pris
ons are "schools of crime" and that young
people ought not to be sent there because
when they come out they are worse than they
were when they went in. This may be so. It
is certainly true that evil communications
corrupt good manners. The trouble though is
that most of these youngsters kept bad com
pany before they got in jail. If they hadn't
done it they might not have gotten into trouble.
Most of the states have
where they send youthful offenders and it
seems better to send them to such places than
to the regular penal institutions. But we
hear tal.es about some of these reformatories
occasionally that indicate even there some in
struction in methods of crime may be had.
And it is certainly true that some of those
who have been sent to the reformatories have
behaved very badly after being released. We
hav in mind a Chicago youth, a reformatory
graduate, who only a few days ago was sen
tenced to be electrocuted for murder and who
had committed several other atrocious crimes.
The truth is that crime is one of the most ser
ious problems that human society has to deal
with and there is no easy way to solve it.
PROSPECTS ARE FAIRLY GOOD
Roger W. Babson, well known writer on
economic and financial matters, is able to see
some bright spots scattered hereand there on
the somewhat clouded sky. Mr. Babson was
one of the first to predict trouble back in the
boom period and his words are tntitled to
more consideration than those of the never
give up optimist. Moreover he backs up
what he says with rather convincing figures.
Mr. Babson first speaks of the advance in
commodities which occurred last summer,
then the upturn in stocks and bonds. Some
of this advance has been lost but a good deal
of it still holds. One of the best signs of bet
ter times is that of increased freight car load
ings. The railroad business has been badly
hurt by the depression but it is getting better.
In the past three months there has been a
steady increase in car loadings and they are
now running only 11.8 per cent lower than
they were this time last year. Cotton and
woolen textiles, rayon and shoe manufactur
ing have made excellent gains. The automo
bile business while still below normal has
shown a decided improvement.
There is still a great deal of unemployment
in the United States,, and in other countries
too, but in this country the situation is much
better than it was a year ago. Manufactur
ings concerns, railroads and other industries
have put a great many people back to work.
These workers become cash customers for all
sorts of products and thus the improvement
spreads. It seems therefore that if nothing
happens to retard this progress towards pros
perity that we will see very much better
times in the country before 1933 comes to a
close. At any rate this is what we hope for
not only for the United States but for the
peoples of the whole world.
hellers From
Our Readers
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CARTERET COUNTY AS I SEE IT
(By Jimmie Guthrie)
Is a tater patch with several sharp
nose Piney woodsers in it a rooting
to beat the band, standing on the out
side is myself with others f.runting
for some rotten ends that one who
may not be too gluttenous have
rooted through the fence.
Honestly to my God I thought that
our crowd way the other day when
we got in power was going to just
keep insisting and insisting on the
people until every single last one of
us paid our taxes. I may be wrong,
but if I'm right, I think the under
standing was thtt the Board of Coun
ty Commissioner appoint Tax Collec
tors who, must go in the highways
and hedges, there as they meet a man
inquire of him concerning his taxes,
allow him time and time again in
which to pay to this Frost Bitten
County their taxes.
If I'm right, whistle, if I'm wrong
showme. Help my God almighty, to
this minute I have not seen a County
Tax Collector only as I behold in my
regular visits to the Court House,
and too he will never see my face if
I see him first.
Then if in this life the Righteous
be scarcely saved, wlere will the
sinner and ungodly appear. Thus
must keep it going, remember that- Physicians said his condition was
when our new Governor John Chris-serious. Members of his family said
topher Ehringhaus comes into his! he became very ill en route horn,
own, then he will inspect and ex- j When discovered in Wilmington last
amine the different bureaus, and Tuesday, physicians said he was suf-
where there is one wnat is not ot tneifenng from some mental trouble.
most importance he will, with C!3
big 1st knock it asunder.
Above all let us remember the f.st
and all important promise made by
our grand and noble Party.
TUG BURNS, CREW OF
TWO ESCAPE TO SHORE
Elizabeth City, Dec. 27 The tug
Madeline of Norfolk, was burped in
Pasquotank River about three miles
from here late todtj. ine loss was
estimated from $5000 to $8000.
Captain Messick of Norfolk, pull
ed the engineer out of the smoking
engine room and the two navigated
the burning craft to a bank on the
Pasquotank county side of the river.
PURVIS CHAPEL A. M. E. ZION
CHURCH
Broad and Craven St.
Robert Farley Fisher, Minister
Watch .Night Services, Saturday
Night, beginning at 10 o'clock.
Sunday, Quarterly Meeting.
11 A. M., Sermon Dr. T. W.
Thurston.
3 P. M., Sermon Rev. E. S. Has
sell. Communion
Morehead City choir, singing.
7:30 P. M., Sermon Dr. Thurston.
Previously he
two weeks.
had been missing for
UNKNOWN THIEVES BREAK IN
DICKINSON STORE RECENTLY
Thieves broke into Richard Dick
inson's store on Live Oak Street re
cently and stole considerable quanti
ties of flour, lard, tobacco, cheese
and other things. These pilferers en
tered the building by breaking in one
of the plate glass windows at the
front of the store. The guilty ones
were not causrht.
Mr; Dickinson now has large wood
en shutters that he barricades the
front windows with from the inside
during the night time. It - will now
take considerable work for the thieves
to enter this store.
Monday January 2nd. Emancipa
tion if the rich and Wealty counties tion program. Rev Calhoun of the
1 1 I ...I.. j. ... 11 1 I .
scarcely baveu, wnai wm uecuim; Conerreerational church, makine the
Press Gleanings
TOO MUCH TIME
"Go after business," sounds like good advice, until
you remember where business has fjon. Nor'-West
reformatories i .Farm & Home.
THE BIENNIAL STRUGGLE BEGINS
All of the various departments and State in
stitutions have made up their budget requests
and it will not be long before the committees
of the General Assembly will have them un
der consideration. No doubt these requests
will present a most vexing problem. Two
years ago cuts were made in the appropria
tions for the State's many institutions and de
partments in the face of great protests on the
part of those affected. Now the biennial
struggle is about to begin again.
The departmental and institutional heads
say they have had a pretty hard time making
bothe ends meet and they are opposed to any
further reductions; in fact some of them are
asking for increases. This is natural enough.
There probably never has been a church or a
school or a public institution of any sort that
has had as much money as it needed, or
thought it needed. There is always a need
for expansion or improvement of some sort.
In a state like North Carolina where the pop
ulation is increasing rapidly and where at
temps are being made to keep up with all the
demands for social and cultural improvement
more and more money is needed. Those who
are in charge of such undertakings therefore
are going to get all they can.
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
What's the use? When wheat is too low, the farm
er needs relief. When the farmer, is saved, it's a
shame to charge so much for flour. Schenectady
Gazette.
SURE WAY TO SUSPICION
Love thy neighbor and you'll be suspected of enter
taining an ulterior motive. Milwaukee Sentinel.
THE NEW WONDER
The old adage runs, "One-half of the world does
not know how the other half lives." Today one-half
the world wonders hw in the dickens the other half
lives. Pasedena Star-News.
TOO MUCH TIME
A man arrested in Indiana had 20 watches in his
possession. Shows how a person can get into trouble
when he ha too much time on his hands or in his
pockets. Dayton Daily News.
BARGAINS
Kidnappers are, not above cutting prices whtn, af
ter demanding $100,000 ransom for a Chicago bank
er, they settle for $5,000. Montgomery Advestiser.
THE HOLDING COMPANY
Investors in public utilities who are unable to get
any of their money back now know what a "holding
company is." Memphis Commercial Appeal.
be
of Carteret.
When an office h ilder in this
country shall think hi is any higher
than just an humble servant of the
petple by the people and for the
people, then his horns should bf loos
ened in the socket so when such an
one shall hook an ol ject what may
be beneficial to the pjople, then and
there his horns will c-umble and fall
to the earth.
We've got nobody, and seems to
me we can't get nobedy to boss our
county for the. benefit of the partic
ular county in which we live. Dollars
and cents at the present time seem
to be our whole study and ctre, just
for an instant I desi e to call our
undivided attention to the utterance
of the Democratic Par'y in Conven
tion Hall at Chicago or somewhere,
"If the people of the Nation will
pledge tt them our honor that the"
burdened people of the Nation shall
be lightened of their burden twenty
five per cent, should an.r office in
I address.
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
Goldsboro, Dec. 27 An epidemic
of a mild form of influenza is preva
lent in Goldsboro. Several hundred
cases have been reported.
One physician stated that most of
the patients seem practically well af
ter three days.
Though the epidemic started in the
county, one school having to close a
few days before the holidays on ac
count of it, it seems now largely con
fined to the city.
MISSING BANK RECEIVER
NOW IN HOSPITAL
Statesville, Dec. 25 Earl W, Jones,
recently receiver of the Commercial
National bank of Statesville, who was
released under bond last night at
Wilmington on charges of misappll
cation and
DOWN TO REAL PRESSURE
William Beebe, who went a half mile down into the
sea, discovered that we on the surface cannot appre--ciate
a real depression. Oakland Tribune.
ON THE WATER WAGON
Clyde DeLeon Morton of Onslow county, who switch
ed from being a Republican to vote for Roosevelt last
November ( is so set up over the result of the election
that he has taken an oath not to drink any liquor so
long as there is a Democrat in the White House. Dr.
Barton will please, credit this on account. (Greens
boro News).
embezzlement nf fun Ha
any county or state be found to be 'was placed in a hospital here upon his
nwtui'TOi, ui uut necessarily in ex- nrrivs enrlv fnHov
. i i i . , . , i J J
indite, ukii sui'H men i. Jiaing sucn
job be he high or low, f om janitor
up, it shall be immediately crushed
and abolished."
See if you had been in Chicago
you too, would have known this, it
always pays to travel, just got to be
on your P's and Q's don't we're gon
ni loose out, don't blame me for
nothing, cause I'm gonna keep tell
ing you about it.
You see it goes like this fellers,
seems like we'd do wrong or die try
ing, the other day I was to the
Court House and in the main en
trance I became almost entangled in
narrow strips of paper, on which
were thousands and thtusands of fig
ures, the upper end of which were
being released from some sort of
figuring typewriter. With this I as
sisted just a little bit, this however,
was only the figures of taxes, not
the money, nothing on earth can do
us any good but money.
Then why rttt the County Commis
sioners upset the tables and drive the
money changers out in the open,
make them earn their money, be
cause from this day hence, ve shall
I eat bread by the sweat of your brow,
ana aunng a whole year collect some
taxes, and let's get to paying of
some, ot these here debts what they
say the county is so heavily labor
ing under.
Make a show, while makine is good
Mr. Tom StJter, keeper of the- oJntx
home leave his job today, for a inw.
i er paid man, so if we start it we
You Can't Get
Heat Out of
SLAG
You wouldn't shovel
a pile of slate into
your furnace and ex
pect it to burn. By
the same token you
can't expect to get
teady neat from
slag-filled fuel. Or
der our tested quality
coal.
Beaufort Lumber
& Mfg. Co.
Phone 66
MANY FOREIGN GOODS COMING IN
According to reports coming out of New
York imports of Christmas goods this year
were larger than any year since 1927. This
seems rather remarkable when one remembers
' that the country has been in the throes of a
very severe depression for three or four years.
Goods have been coming freely from Ger
many, Franee, England, Japan and other
countries. Not only Christmas goods but ar
ticles of staple use have been pouring into this
country from abroad. Of course a great deal
of the imports that come t othis country, fif
ty one per cent, pay no duty at all. But one
of the main reasons that imports are in
creasing is that in many of the foreign
countries' wage earners are paid in depreciat
ed currency. This enables the foreign manu
facturer to undersell his American competitor.
According to the theory of the free traders,
that the more we import the more we will be
able to sell abroad, business ought to be pick
ing up rapidly now. In some lines there has
been some improvement but in many others
none is visible to the naked eye. As a matter
of fact the business of some manufacturers
has been hurt and their workingmen are out
of employment today because of the influx of
NEEDED SWEETENING
Will and Dewey Hoilman, who are brothers, were
arretsed Tuesday night by Yancey coun'.y officers and
turned over to" Sheriff W. G. Honeycutt who lodged
them in pail. The men are charged wit'i tealing two
bee gums and about 200 pounds of honey from Jim
Young, a farmer who lives near Toecane last Friday
nightr The Hoilman brothers live across the river in
Yancey County near Kona. The warrant was sworn
out in Bakersville by Mr. Young and sent to Yancey
officers for service. The men will be given a prelim
inary hearing before a Bakersville magistrate early
next week. (Bakersville Banner).
RELIEF FOR FARMERS
Every day somebody hops up with a new plan to
"relieve" the cotton farmers. Plans to "relieve" the
wheat growers, corn producers, cattle growers and
other farmers are equally numerous; but, of course,
the subject of "relieving" the cotton farmers is one
of special interest in this section of the country. As
a matter of fact the only "relief" needed by the cot
ton farmers can be provided by the farmers themselv
es. Ths, "relief! would consist of the exercise of
common sense in the management of th:ir farming
operations. If all the cotton farmers "lived at home"
there would be little chance to over-produce the, crop
in such quantities that it would sell at five or six cents
a pound. (Hendersonville Times- Dispatch).
TO OUR FRIENDS
It is to you that we
owe much for the
good things that
have come our way
during the year now
concluding. May we
have the pleasure of
your association dur
ing 1933!
IDEAL
DRY CLEANERS
We Wmk
that you and yours may have Happiness
and Prosperity during the twelve monhts
of 1933!
Joe House Drug Store
FRONT ST.
BEAUFORT,
KEG O' NAILS
WE WISH TO TAKE THIS OPPORTU
NITY TO THANK EACH AND EVERY
ONE FOR THEIR EVERY COOPERA
TION THE PAST YEAR.
WE WISH FOR YOU AND YOURS THE
HAPPIEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS
YEAR IN 1933.
arc! ware Co.
BEAUFORT, N. C.