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Friday, April 20, 1934
Work Is Basis lor the School
Are our schools and colleges doing the right things?
While there is no denial of the fact that they are
doing well in many ways, we have the fear, on the
other hand, that they are not measuring up to the
great tasks and purposes for which they are intended.
Since the primary and fundamental part of the
school is the pupil, it is, and always will be, the most
important thing of the school to have the full fel
lowship and partnership of the pupil in all its activi
ties. And since work is the basis for the school, it is
very essential.that we carry into every school and
college pupil the responsibility of making himself an
upbuilder and promoter of the standards of his school
by his or her own efforts, rather than to become a
liability to such standards. Too many boys and girls
get the idea that school is a place to waste time and
do as they please, while hard-working parents are try
ing to put them a step further along than they them
selves had the opportunity to attain. Many college
pupils seem to think their duty is mainly to step high
in society, even if it takes all" the "old man" has got.
Soroe-others of the pupils think it -is all play and no
WWk. In fact, some of the "idealists" seem In want
to make the school a place of play rather than a place
of work?a habit and practice which has cut out many
of the harder studies, such as Latin, higher mathe
matics, and the like.
This habit of taking the easier studies is proving
embarrassing to our students who attempt to rise in
life. And then we find it easy to forget our debates
and the things which would really increase our knowl
edge and qualify us for the kind of lives that we
would like to live.
But when did you ever hear of a student body, or
a teacher, forgetting games of any kind.
The Trend to Centralization
? V f
Another professor wants to enlarge the counties ot
the state by reducing the number, putting five coun
ties as present constituted in each group for one new
county. His theory is that it will cost less and in
sure more efficiency.
Certainly, almost any one can argue about if^but
proving it is quite another matter. We would, of
course, pay fewer sheriffs and registers of deeds, but
we would pay more deputies and clerks. We would
have no more efficiency, and very likely much less.
We would have centralized power, with government
much further from home. It would cost the people
ten times as much in the disadvantage of going to
save.
All in all, it seems that there is a deisgning hand
that wants to guide the world, and it means to cen
tralize wealth and political power in a few hands.
It sounds like Brookings.
Now it may be that some of these advocates are
the agents of automobile and oil companies, because
such a change would necessarily require much more
traveling. But by far the best guess is that it is an
effort to thrust a political oligarchy on the people that
will take from them more than it gives.
Voters, watch consolidations.
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No New Deal Wanted By Some
Readers should not forget that the Saturday Eve
ning Port is of the old conservative type of publica
tion. Its owners want a few people to get the profits;
they want the gold standard so gold can crush hu
manity at its will.
The Saturday Evening Post, the Country Gentle
man, and the Ladies' Home Journal have been get
ting about $3,000,000 in government favors out of the
postal service each year, according to statements in
the Congressional Record.
Certainly, they don't want a new deal, because they
don't want a (air deal.
The Presidents English
?
Greenville Reflector
Men who are learned and smart enough to be Pres
ident of these United States sometimes get their
"wfcoms" and "whoa" mixed, even as you and I. It
is recalled that Ex-President Herbert Hoover said at
the dedication of the Harding Memorial: "He trust
ed awn whom he believed were his friends." Then
latently there was quite a stir in "correct English
drdes" when Ptmidenl Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote:
"What I meant was that I would veto the bill, and I
don't care who you tell it to."
Reviewing the CWA
Since the CWA has pasaed away, it a at least of
me interest to see tome of the results achieved, out
side of the employment of the needy, which has, of
coune, been a big boost to those who have been on
the payroll and of some good, perhaps, on certain
There has been considerable rivalry and jealousy
between trades and professions. The carpenters nat
urally leaned toward the building projects, because
they helped them; the painters wanted much of the
money spent on paint jobs; the engineers wantd it
spent on drainage jobs and pushed their profession in
order to get jobs. Now, let's see what has it profited.
Some schoolhouses have been repaired, and a num
ber of them have been painted, both of which are due
100 per cent approval.
Some roads and streets have been built and re
paired, both of which were for the public good of the
people everywhere..
Then we have spent large sums of money on play
houses, gymnasiums, swimming pools, and the like;
all of which are prohahly of doubtful value-?yet we
have to have them, because of a crazy line of thought
that hasand is sweeping us off ofxmr feeti
The drainage projects have pmhahly heen the nh
jects of more selfish abuses than any other. It has
been far overworked, and most of the money spent
and work done has gone to the benefit of a few pri
vate landowners. Engineers have found enough sel
fish interests in many sections of the county to boost
the drainage projects through in order to improve
their own premises. Private ditches have been cleaned
and dug deeper, which benefit only those through
whose land they passed, as the visible evidence will
now plainly show. While a few cuts have been made
that will perhaps drain a few mosquito ponds, those
places are exceedingly rare.
This government will never be able to stand the
extravagance of drainage engineers to satisfy the
greedy whims of every man or small group which
wants their lands drained. And the taxpaying public
needs to take notice and demand that each man clean
out his own ditches.?While- we might alt be glad to
have our premises drained, it is by no means the
duty of the country at large to lavish unnecessary
funds to build up the prmises of one, or of a few men,
and provide fat jobs for an engineering trust of job
holders.
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Louisville Courier-Journal.
-fr'ifrtpuited that the individuaTcost of makings
loans to Home'Owne? In "North Carolina is $130 each,
as against a national average of $28. The North
Carolina division of the H6LC is regarded as a colos
sal failure by comparison with the record in other
states. The more than 10,000 disappointed appli
cants for loans have been subjected to a cruel and,
unreasonable inquisition by the inspection bureau and
after their property had been subjected to a micro
scopic examination for any possible fly-speck they
were declined until political pressure was brought to
bear by certain influential officials, after which the
applications were reinstated and the loans subsequent
ly approved. Inso far as North Carolina is concerned,
the HOLC has been a monumental failure up to the
present time. A shake-up has been promised by Sen
ator Reynolds and he is said to have in his possession
plenty of data to bring about a complete reorganiza
tion in the state department.
Old Men Seeing Red
Utzabeth Cily Independent 4
George Horace Lorimer, the ancient editor The Sat
urday Evening Post, devoted a double-column editor
ial spread to a blasting of the New Deal last week.
William Randolph Hearst picked it up and spread it
all over a page of his New York American last Satur
day. Both Mr. Lorimer and Mr. Hearst are old men.
And. both are very comfortably fixed in their old age.
They are perfectly satisfied with things as they are.
fn the New Deal they both, in their old age, see Red
and frantically warn the country against what they
sense as an ominous trend toward nationalism or col
lectivism. Like that other old man, Professor Wirt,
they are panicky. They believe that the destinies of
125,000,000 American citizens should continue in the
hands of private corporations forever and ever. Mr.
Hearst and Mr. Lorimer are terribly afraid that a few
social-minded "Brain Trusters" down in Washington
will maneuver the government into Socialism or Com
munism and divide up their wealth.
Mr. Lorimer, Mr. Hearst, Professor Wirt, and oth
ers of their prominence and ability would better be
using their wits to work out a plan for the nationaliza
tion of industry that will save their hides. They can.
get in on the ground floor now. Too late when they
have staved off the inevitable and invited another na
tional crisis.
The records of corporate returns of the U. S. Bu
reau of Internal Revenue during the five-year period
from 1925 to 1929, in which conditions were certainly
favorable to private enterprise, a little better than
one-half of all reporting corporations?55.5 per cent,
to be precise?were able to sbow net returns in black.
Nearly half operated at a loss or without profit.
Did the executive minds at the head of thew los
ing corporations write themselves into the red in those
years? Hardly. Their losses came from the pockets,
tills, and safety deposit boxes of millions of American
citizens who had invested in the stocks and bonds of
their corporations. In flush times less than half of
the "best business minds" in the country can show a
profit for their stockholders. And they try to scare
us with dark pictures of what would happen to us if
a lot of collsfs pro lessen ran the country. Well, I
don't believe a bunch of college professors could make
a worse showing than capitalists themselves have
made!
NOTICE OP SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of ulc contained i nth at certain deed
of trust, dated 17th day of January,
1921. by W. T. Thomas and wife, Sus
an V. Thomas, of record in the Mar
tin County Public Registry in book
Y-2, atp age 417, to secure bonds of
even date therewith, and the stipula
tions not having- been complied with,
and at the request of the holder of
will, on the lftth day of May, 1934, at
12 o'clock, noon, in front of the court
house door of Martin County, offer
for sale, to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described lands:
A tract of land inherited from Laura
S. Martin, deceased, and being the
same land deeded to said Laura S.
Martin by Marion Burroughs and
wife. Emma Burroughs, deed dated
November 13th, 1895, which is of rec
ord in the Register of Deeds office
of Martin County in book No. WW,
page 224.
This 17th day of April. 1934.
B A. CRITCHER,
a20 4tw ,j Trustee.
NOTICE OP SALE
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of the power and au
thority contained m that certain deed
of trust dated February 23, 1923, re
corded in the public registry of Mar-,
t1n County in bookN-2, at page 374,
same having been .given to secure The^
payment of a certain note of even
tlntp and tenor therewith, default hay-'
iitK been made in the payment of said
nrtr and thp frrmt and ttipnlitiftnTj
of said deed of trust not having been
complied with, and at the request of
the holder of said note, the under-1
signed trustee will, on the 5th day of J
May, 1934, at twelve (12) o'clock noonl
at the courthouse door of Martin.
County, Williamston, North Carolina,'
offer for sale, at public auction, to the
highest bidder, for cash, the* follow
' ing described real estate, to wit:
"All-that certain piece or parcel of
' land situated, lying, and being in
I Cross Roads Township, Martin Coun
I ty, State of North Carolina, bounded
| on the north by the lands of Nathan
' Purvis, on the east by the lands of.
John Purvis, and Barnhill and Wynn;j
on the south by the Robersonville andi
Everetts road and the lands of Barn-I
hill and Wynn, and on the west by
the lands of Mc. G. White and a1
i branch, and more particularly bound-!
ed and described as follows:
Beginning at Barnhill and Wynn
corner on the road from Robersonville '
to Everetts; thence N 2 degrees 15'
~ET1003 feet; thence -Sr-70-degrees
E. 304 feet; thence N. 9 degrees 30',
W. 207 1-2 feet; thence N. 8 degrees
25' E. 368 feet; thence N. 65 degrees
30' E. 264 feet; thence N. 71 degrees
5' E. 242 feet; thence N. 12 degrees
55' E. 635 feet; thence N. 15 degrees
E. 563 feet; thence N. 69 degrees 5'.
W. 854 feet to a black gum ih a branch
thence along t(ie branch 2950 feet tOj
a cypress; thence S. 22 degrees 30'I
E. 1427 feet to the Robersonville and
Everetts road; thence along the road|
N. 70 degrees E. 800 ffcet to the be
ginning, containing--8-lJi acc??r morei
or less, as shown by map of .same made
by S. Peel, surveyor, from a survey;
made by John J. Well, C. E., said
map being made January 24, 1923, and'
said survey having been made Decern-j
ber 21, 1915, and being the same landf
deeded to J. I. Britton by the Mar-1
tin County Realty Company by deed
dated October 31, 1917, and of record
in book Q-l, at page 374."
This the 2nd day of April, 1934.
J. S. AYERS
a6 4tw Trustee.
NOTICE OP SAL8
Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue of the power of sale
and authority contained in that cer
tain deed of trust executed on the
31st day of October, 1928, by D. D.!
Stalls and wife, Sudie Stalls, to the
undersigned trustee, and which is of'
record in the public registry of Mar
tin County, in book P-2, page 368, de
fault having been made in the pay-,
ment of the note and indebtedness for
which the same was given as security,'
and the stipulations therein contained
not having been complied with, and
at the request of the holder of said
note and indebtedness, the undersigned
trustee will, on Saturday, May 5th,
1934, at twelve (12) p'clock in., in
front of the courthouse door of Mar
tin County, at Williamston, N. C., of
fer for sale, at public auction, to the
highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described real property, to wit:
1st Tract: Lots number 1 and 2 of
the property formerly owned by J. S.
Peel and known as the Rose Lawn
oroperty in the town of Williamston,
N. C, as surveyed and plotted by J.
R. Mublcy. surveyor, said plat or map
being of record in the public registry
of Martin County in land division book
No. 3, at page 59.
2nd tract: Beginning at the south
east corner of hte Miley Taylor land,
running southwest to an oak on the
Hamilton road; thence running north
east to another oak; thence along a
line of oak trees in a northward id
rection to the Rhodes property; thence
northward to W. R. Cherry and Sarah
O. Cherry land, containing one acre,
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Williamston
Supply Co.
more or leu, and being the ume land
conveyed to W. R. Cherry and wife
by deed from the town of Williams ton,
dated September 13th, 1919, and of
record in the pabli: registry of Mar
tin County in book B-2, at page 283.
3rd Tract: Beginning at I poplar
tree on the Williamston and Hamil
ton road, Harry Cobnrn's western
corner; thence along Harry Cobnrn's
line to J. S. Rhodes line; the ran of
Mitey bi ancfa; thence a?southern
course along the various courses of
the run of Milev Branch to the Wil
liamston and Hamilton road; thence
up the Williamston and Hamilton
road to the beginning, containing 3 j
acres, more or less, and being the |
same land deeded to W. R. cherry
and Sarah O. Cherry by deed from
B. B. Glisson, dated April 21st, 1919,
recorded in the public registry of
Martin County in book Y-l, at page
236, saving and excepting from the
operation of this deed the part of the
above land heretofore deeded to Jul
ius S. Peel, described as follows: Be
ginning at a poplar on the William
ston and Hamilton road, Coburn's
western corner; thence along said Co
burn's line to the run of Miley
Branch; thence along the various
courses of Miley Branch in a south
ern direction to a stake in the branch
100 feet from the front line back:
thence a line with the line of said
-poplar^ tree to the beginning, contain
ing 3 acres, more or less.
4th Tract: A tract of land in the
town of Williamston, Martin Coun
ty, and being on " the northeast side
road; adjoining the old Williamston
and Hamilton road on the southwest,
PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES
All Color for Silk, Wool
And Cotton
P. P. PEEL
Biliousness
Gat and I
4mm is
Constipation
D. D. Stalk, Public Ctactcry, and J
S. Rhodes on the northeast and Dick
Wynne on the northwest, beginning
at a stub oa the old Williamston and,
Hamilton road, D. D. Stalls comer;
. D. Stalls' line in a'
thence along D. ? I
northeastern direction IIS feet to
stob, D. D. Stalls comer; the rue a-!
long D. D. Stalls' line at right angles
with the last mentioned line 79 9-10
to a stob in a branch; thence along
the ?annus courses ?i said branch a
northeasterly ?recuon w ? ??
line, in the WilhamsUm end Harn
ilton road; thence along the old Wil
liamston and Hamilton road to a atoo,
thence to the beginning, except that
Krt conveyed to Dick Wynn, R. S.
el, D. P. Stalls, Sandy Robersoa
and Lot No. Sol Rose Lawn Snbdi
rtskrn which was heretofore onld
This the 26th day of March, 1934.
_ _ HUGH G. HORTON,
Ttr1**
Condensed Statement oi Condition oi
Branch Banking
& Trust Company
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
At the Close oi Business March 5, 1934
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts I 1,064,53636
Other Stocks and Bonds 49,7tXL00
Banking Houses and Seal Estate 442,637.40
Cash and Due from Banks - 62,985,123.37
U. 8. Bonds (due -itfrin 5 T?Hf) 5303,421.02
United States Bonds (long term) 139,956.70
m?,1. ci?? m gar atitta
Municipal and Other Marketable Bonds l,1333*o'"
Loans Secured by Marketable Collateral \
With Cash Values in Excess of loans . 886312.06
11316.196.32
113375,07836
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock?Common 400,000-00
Capital Stock?Preferred 400000-00
Surplue - ? 200,000.00
Undivided Profita 122,541.39
Reeerve. 106.049.J4
Depoaita 12,146,463.25
$13,375,076.36
Trust Department Assets Not Included
F. D. I. C.
The Branch Banking & Trust Co. is a mem
ber of the Temporary Federal Deposit Insur
are insured up to $2?00.00 by the Federal De
posit Insurance Corporation.
SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE
FOR EASTERN CAROLINA
PROGRAM FOR WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY, AP(UL 23
Turnage Theatre ? Washington, Nl C?
Monday and Tuesday April 23-24
"DESIGN FOR LIVING" with
MIRIAM HOPKINS and FREDERIC MARCH
Wednesday April 25
"DARK HAZARD" with ED. S. ROBINSON
Thursday April 26
"FUGITIVE LOVER," with
ROBT. MONTGOMERY and MADGE EVANS
Friday April 27
'THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN" with
Llontl BARRYMORE and Fay EAIMTER
Saturday April 28
"SILENT MEN" with TIM McCOY
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