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WILLIAMSTON. NORTH CAROLINA
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Tuesday. April 20, 1937
A Problem
The annually increasing number of illegitimate chil
dren in this county is fast presenting society with a
baffling problem. Vital statistics recently bled in the
register of deeds office for the past year show that
every eighth child born in the county during that
period was of doubtful parentage, Not so many years
ago, the unfortunate waif was spurned by suciety, but
the number is increasing so rapidly they can now al
most have a society of their own, dragging down mor
al standards in general and increasing the burden of
a thoughtful society. -tar
Starting life with his income reduced more than
half by the general absence of a recognized father, the
unwanted child, in most cases, sooner or later becomes
society's charge. Past records indicate that at least
seven out of eight of .the illegitimate children born
last year will crowd the courts in later years, make
brazen demands upon society and never suffer the
slightest humility.
How long society can stand the tax is uncertain, but
the increasing^ number of public charges is already
making itself felt in the tax levies, in the moral struc
ture of home and community, and in the legal activi
ties of the criminal courts. The citizen valuing de
mty is called upon to. support the flesh and blood
i of the irresponsible. The task of fitting this type of
offspring into society is becoming more perplexing
year by year, and unless the number is checked it
simply cannot be handled The welfare worker will
not be able to cope with the situation. Society must
be awakened to the danger resulting from loose mor
als. and it must be awakened now if it will esca|>e the
penalty in the future.
Parents, unwise to ultra-modern trends, are allow
ing their childen to fall victims of a reckless social
group and honestly believe they are doing the best
by them. It is time for the parents to awaken to the
facts facing their children, and it is time for society
to interest itself in stemming a tide that may, unles
it is checked, devour it.
Divorce, legalized after a modern-day pattern; in
difference on the part of modern parents, in too many
cases; and the illegitimate children are certain to ex
act a costly toll sooner or later, a toll that is already
showing an alarming increase in the records of the.
common jail, the school for delinquents, and in the
common streets.
Consumers Benefit
Greenville, S Piedmont
Factual refutation of the widely believed fallacy
that chain stores control the retail merchandising bus
iness and arc driving independents to the wall is
found in a news item printed by Business Week.
in 19.55, the last year for which figures are avail
able. chain stores handled 22.8 per cent of the total
retail trade volume.
This marked a decline from their best, 1933, when
they did 24.5 |ier cent of the business.
Thus, chain stores do little more than one-fifth of
the nation s retailing, while independent stores do al
most four-fifths.
It is of exceptional interest that the ratio of busi
ness done by the two groups varies but little from
year to year, and is but slightly different now than
it was in 1929
Thl- substantiates the contention of those experts
who have studied the merchandising situation and
reached the conclusion that chain growth has about
reached its apex, and that chains will hold their share
of the business in the future but will not materially
increase it.
The fact that the chains have not gained a monop
oly on the merchandising field speaks well tor the
independent stores of this country. When the chains
first became a significant competitive influence, a
small percentage of independents "gave up the ghost,"
and adopted the easy alibi that they were doomed.
The better independents, however, acoeptd the
chains as a spur to their own advancement. They
appeared with additional innovations of their own,
which were adopted by the chains. They gave more
attention to cutting their operating coats, in order to
ieduce prices to the consumer. They studied better
and advertising methods. They held and in
As a result, under a free competitive system, be
I of merchandisers have tempered, and the
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Facing Death Unattended
Record* show that nearly half the people who died
in this county last year faced death unattended by
phyaicians. Some of those who passed away during
the year 1936 died suddenly, but numbers of them,
occupying a low economic position, simply could not
afford the services of a doctor.
Pellagra, tuberculosis, diphtheria, malnutrition, ty
phoid fever, malaria, and childbirth, causes for many
of the 1936 deaths that were net necessary under
modem medicine, took their toll among our people.
Suicides, murders and highway accidents aggravated
the situation, the two groups of causes making it quite
apparent that we value human life cheaply, that there
is a maladjustment in our economic world.
The individual, with very few exceptions, is respon
sible for his own undoing, but modern economic con
ditions contribute their part. The man who makes a
surplus over and above his expenses, too often squan
~dprs"'thir "surplus, asd when adversity strlckes It finds
him penniless, and he is a subject of society or he suf
fers. The man who barely makes enough to live on
is really the unfortunate one, and he ordinarily has
to suffer, sooner or later, and face death alone.
Socialization of medicine is not yet available, and,
until some change is effected in the curative field, the
masses are entitled to the benefits of preventive medi
cine. They should be taught and aided to ward off
such diseases as pellagra, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and
others that are preventable. The cost would be neg
ligible compared with the saving of human life. Last
year in Martin County there were 14 deaths directly
traceable to tuberculosis. Two died from typhoid
fever. Undernourishment was given as the cause for
two more deaths in this county, a place of plenty
but where something or other is lacking. Childbirth
claimed several lives Colitis claimed the lives of nine
children, mostly babies. Fifty babies died before at
taining the age of one year. The black and white
records show the presence of pellagra, that disease
claiming several lives during 1936.
Seventy-one of the 261 people who died in this
county last year were unattended by doctors, the rec
ords show. Causes of at last 30 deaths were listed as
"unknown." '
All in all, the vital statistics for Martin County in
the year 1936 present a gloomy picture, but in the
proposal to establish a full-time health service there is
reason for renewed hope for the masses in this county
Why Is Everybody in Such a Hurry!
M or canton News-Herald
Do you ever stop to ask yourself "Why am I and
everybody else in such a hurry ?" The truth of the
business i.- that we ace all rushing through life With
out knowing why we are rushing and really not tak
ing time to live. What does the average motoriBt do
with the time he saves (?) by driving at a reckless
sliced, risking his life and the lives of others in his
hurry to get where he is going? This is a day of
s|ieed -hurry?nerve?high tension. And every year
more and more |>eople die of the strain they put on
their minds and hearts because of the hurry mania
that obsesses the nation.
However, this madness of speed is not so new, -not
altogether characteristic of this generation. Thoreau,
a philosopher of the last century, observed it and
wrote about it.
"It (the nation) lives too fast," he wrote in 1854.
"Men think it is essential that the nation have com
merce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph,
and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whetli
er they do or not; hut whether we shall live like bab
oons or like men is a little uncertain.
"If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and
devote days and nights to the work, but go on tinker
ing upon our lives to improve them, who will build
railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall
we get into heaven in season? But if we stay at home
and mind our own business, who will want railroads?
We do not ride on the railroads; it rides upon us . . .
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of
life? We are determined to be starved before we are
hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and
so they take a thousand stitches today and save nine
tomorrow . . . Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap
after dinner but when he wakes he holds up his head
and asks 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind
had stood hit sentinels. Some give direction* to be
waked every hour, doubtless for no other irurpose. Aft
er a night's sleep the news is as indispensable as the
breakfast. 'Pray tell me anything new that has hap
pened to a man anywhere on this globe . . .' I am
sure I have never read any memorable news in a news
|<aper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered,
or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one ves
sel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow
run over on the western railroad, or one lot of grass
hoppers in the winter, we need never read of another.
One is enough. . . "
What would Thoreau have written, if be could have
looked into 1937, and seen men riding not 30 miles
an hour but 70; seen them waking up and reaching
not only for newspapers but for the dials of radios,
to unloose the outpouring of the world's news; riding
not only in railroad trains but in silver ships, through
the air I
The Value of Laud
Stanley Hews and Prets
Raal estate trading seems to be on increase, with
31 deeds being put on record here in Stanly county
during last week. Investments made in real estate
when conditions are normal, or almost to, usually turn
out to be good ones. Sometimes the value o( a stock
or bond will decline to nothing, and you have only a
sheet of paper to show for your investment. However,
and dees not disappear, and you can always go look at
it mi call It your own.
NOTICE OP SALE UNDER DEED
OP TRUST
By virtu* of the power and au
thority conferred by a certain deed
of trust executed by H. E. Ellison,
which is duly recorded in book M-l.
?t pa*e 1M, register of deeds' office
for Martin County, North Carolina,
I will, on the 26th day of April,
1937, at 1:00 o'clock p. m., at the
courthouse door in Wllllamston, Nr
C., offer for sale and sell to the high
est bider at public, for cash, the fol
lowing described real estate, to wit:
A certain tract of land in Martin
County, the same being bounded on
the north by the lands of T. A. Da
vis, on the east by the lands of A. F,
Stalling*, on the south by the lands
of Jerry Winston, on the west by
the lands of J. E Johnson. Con
taining eleven acres, more or less.
This the 24th day of March, 1937.
JOHN D. U1AEY,
mr30 4tw Trustee.
_By^_W^one>i-AUorna2r;__<
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by, virtue of a judg
ment at the aupenor court of Mar
tin County at the March term, 1M7.
in the case "Smithw ick vs. Walter*,'"
the undersigned commissioners will,
on Monday, May 3rd, 1837, at 12
o'clock noon, at the courthouse door
Martin County, offer for sale to the
highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described tracts of land:
First tract: Beginning on St. An
drews Street on the east side of the
A. C. L. R. R ; thence S. 26 degrees
west along St. Andrews Street 140
yards: thence S. 63 1-2 degrees west
217 yards to Maple Branch; and a
long the northern boundary on
Charles Street; thence up Mable
Branch to the A. C. L. R. R.; thence
westerly aloiw and with the A. C. L.
R R. right or way to the beginning
at St. Andrews Street. Containing
6 1-10 (6.1) acres, more or less.
Second Tract: One lot situated on
the north side of the A. C. L. R. R.
and bounded on the north by Mar
tin Brothers, on the east by O. G. I
Carson, and the A. C. L. R. R. lot.
and on the west by Sunset Avenue
Containing 1-2 acre, more or less.
Third Trait: A tract of land locat
ed in Jamesville Township. Martin
County, North Carolina, bound en on
the east by Maple Branch, on the
south by Coopg _
west by Gurkin land, and on the
north by the Marriner place.
The bidder at said sale will be re
quired to make a deposit of 10 per
cent of the purchase price.
This 10th day of March. 100t.
B. A. CRITCHER,
E. S. PEEL.
ap6 4tw Commissioners.
HAVOLINE MOTOR OIL
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New TEXACO MOTOR OIL
Central Service Station
Annual Meeting of
The Stoekholders
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of the
Martin County Building and Loan As
sociation will be held in the county court
house in the town of Williamston at 11
o'clock a. m? Tuesday, May 4, 1937.
This April 16, 1937.
Wheeler Martin
SECRETARY, MARTIN COUNTY
BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION
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