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WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
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It is late but not too late for Wilhamston of
ficials and the several hundred motor vehicle
operators to awaken and take drastic action to
eliminate in the future tragedies similar to the
one that snuffed out the life of a little child on
a local street early last Sunday evening
We. including officials, officers, motor ve
hicle operators and pedestrians, have remain
ed indifferent to the dangers that have- con
stantly lurked on our streets every day and
night year in and year out It is high time to
throw kside that indifference, awaken out of
iur lethargy and formulate rules and regula
tions in a serious effort to eliminate such trag
edies that cost a little child his life, a life that
vas filled to overflowing with love and one
vhose potential possibilities were snuffed out
as the soft glow of a candle is snuffed out by a
driving wind before it had an opportunity to
>hed its full light
It is with no intention of censoring the offi
cials or criticising the motor vehicle driver or
with the attitude that "we told you so," but the
following suggestions are offered here in the
sincere hope that we, as a united people, will
attack the serious problem facing the every
one of us and do something constructive and
lasting about it, to prove beyond all doubt that
the little child who died on one of our streets
did not die in vain, but died that you and I, your
child and my child, might live
We would eliminate the boastful idea so
widely entertained by most of us that the rules
of safety are only for the other fellow to fol
low.
We would rally behind the courts charged
with the task of upholding the laws, and elim
inate forever favoritism and the damnable
business of "ticket fixing" so universally com
mon among those who are superior to the
courts of the people.
We would stop1" this business of telling the
other fellow'how to drive and how to walk un
til first we had corrected our own faults?m?
that connection.
We would apply a ringing stimulus to out
public officials and demand that they give their
best judgment and their every possible consid
eration to a prohl, in that needs constant ntten.
tion.
We would lerk our law enforcement officers
from their seats of hourly rest and direct their
attention to the drivers who not only ignore
the stop signs but who also actually run over
the warning signals at local street intersections.
We would have them caution first with a firm
warning and later with court action those who
falsely believe their time is so important that
they must speed regardless of life, limb, "or
property. We would call them into a conference
and give serious thought and study to the
traffic problem as it relates to parking, speed
and enforcement, and cast aside the indiffer
ence that has for so long marked our activities
as drivers, walkers and representatives of the
law.
We have marched steadily and fairly rapid
ly in creating new dangers, but we have lagged
and lagged miserably in our efforts to advance
adequate safety measures to offset, partially at
least, those newly created dangers.
The eyes of the people of Williamston are
focused on the officials who are charged with
formulating plans and seeing that those plans
are executed in the successful operation of
their government. They expect them to take
action first, hoping they will not be disappoint
ed.
Npedi a IIummimtic Touch
As the relief problem rapidly becomes more
complex, it is apparent that a humanistic touch
should be applied in the handling of that prob
lem. The whole business, based on a far-re
moved theory, is wrapped up and bogged down
in reports, the preparation of which is costing
too ever-lastingly much. We bank too much on
the ?tnti?tieal rnlnmn, thinking the task is well
executed when the figures balance. The truth
of the matter is we are trying to bend human
needs to the figures instead of bending figures
po human needs.
Sorial ('.limbing
Our old friend, the editor of Linotype's
"Shining Lines", recently went dff the deep
end with a philosophical soliquy after relating
a clever little anecdote, as witness the follow
ing:
"We have all heard monthly about the girl
who carried an 'Atlantic' around with her as
,i sort of chaperon Another carried the 'New
Yorker' to give the impression that she was
modern. Both of them remind us of another
member of the fair sex, a colored maid by the
name of Annie Mae, whose mistress, overcome
bv curiosity, said to her: i notice you have been
taking our empty grapefruit skins home with
you. What do you do with them?'
"The socially ambitious negress looked at
her mistress with a knowing smirk and answer
ed, Yes'm. 1'se been carrin' 'em home. I think
they makes my garbage look so stylish.'
"Well, they are not the only folks in the
world who pretend to be what they are not.
Perhaps, after all, it matters little how we get
our satisfactions Some find their reward in
acquiring millions or positions of power. Some
are social climbers. In the end many of them
find that all they have been doing is decorating
a garbage pail "
Hritiiin (turn the Kc/ii/(m:
There is a corner of the City of London that
five years ago~vyay a wastc?of-storerooms and
warehouses.
Today it has become the center of the fur
trade of the whole world; a trade that brings
2.WW,000 pounds into this country every year,
thai employs hundreds of British travelers,
salesmen, clerks, and storekeepers, that pro
vides work for dozens of British ships.
Britain owes this to two waves of refugees;
tlie White Russians, fur buyers, who twenty
years ago were offering their wares in their
stores along the quays of St. Petersburg; and
the German Jewish distributors who five years
ago handled the whole trade for Europe and
America from their offices in Leipzig.
It is one instance of the way in which refu
gee victims of Europe's post-war upheavals
can repay the intelligent generosity of a coun
try that admits them.
According to the home secretary, there are
11,(1111) refugees from Germany and Austria
working in this country today. No refugee may
accept a job over here so long as there is any
British subject capable of filling it.
They have, in fact, created their own jobs.
But they have created jobs for 15,000 British
workers as well.
Yet the industries and crafts which they have
introduced are still necessarily in their infan
cy . .
One of Frankfurt's leading shoe manufactur
ers has his works at Bolton; in Nottingham 40
men and women are being employed in the
soft leather works of a White Russian who fled
penniless from St. Petersburg in 1917.
An Austrian Royalist who came here when
Hitler marched into Vienna last March has
opened showrooms in London where British
manufacturers can display their goods for the
continental buyer.
Makers of Viennese bead bags, most of them
Jewish craftsmen expelled from their own
country, have opened workrooms in Belfast
where they are employing British labor . . .
Down in the West Country twenty Czech
craftsmen are showing us how to carve the
painted wooden toys that are given to children
all over the world at Christmas and Easter.
The Berline manufacture of silk underwear,
being largely Jewish, was at first -crippled- by
the Hitler revolution, but last year one or two
Trf?rtrr pi int'lpul manufacturers started their
works in London. They have already spent 1,
111)11,1)0(1 pounds here?
The timber trade, which creates work for
many British ships and sailors, owes a great
deal to the experience and business connec
tions of refugee-timber merchants from Rus
sia X
They bring their material in British ships
from Latvia and Finland.
But perhaps the most welcome newcomers
are those refugee industrialists chemists and
technicians, most of them German and Jewish,
who have taken their secrets with them to South
Wales.
Their new dye works and manufacture of
optical glass are being financed from Lord
Nuffield's fund for the distressed areas, in
the hope that Britain will soon capture Ger
many's chemical trade through some of the
very men who helped to build it . . .
In fact, it would be hard to find one British
industry that is not enormously indebted to
refugees Refugee Flemings introduced weav
ing and worsted manufacture in the fifteenth
century; refugees from Ghent and Antwerp
started the Lancashire cotton industry in the
sixteen; refugee Dutch Protestants in Queen
Elizabeth's time taught us baize work, linen
draping and engraving on steel and copper.
Refugee Italian patriots started our musi
cal instrument industry in the eighteenth cen
tury, and our system of asphalt paving in the
nineteenth ...
History knows no instance of a persecution
that did not impoverish the persecutors and
enrich the people that took their victims in.?
Gemt For Your Srropbttoh
j ELOQUENCE.?He is'an eloquent man who
I can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty
| things impressively, and moderate things tem
perately.?Cicero.
Free Soils Testing
Will Be Offered
A free soils testing program for
farmers, to provide information to
be used in more intelligent selection
of fertilizer grades, will be provid
ed by the North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture within the next
00 day i ^ ___
The program will be financed with
increased revenue provided by the
1939 general assembly.
A chemical process is used in soils
testing work to determine the con
tent of soils and the information
found by chemists may be used as
a basis to determine the most suit
able fertilizer, and remove the guess
work in fertilizer grade buying.
D. S. Coltrane, assistant to the
commissioner of agriculture, empha
sized however, that "at best, soil
testing work is but an effort to give
farmers additional information on
the chemical analyses of his land
and to help him to more scientifical
ly determine the amounts of plant
food necessary for maximum yields
at mnimum costs."
Meanwhile, the department is
seeking a competent agronomist and
soils chemists to head the new pro
gram.
Additional equipment will be or
dered for the chemical laboratories
and officials anticipate that farmers
wiit inr offered the soils analyses
service this year in time to use the
information before they buy their
next fertilizer.
"Other states" have found soils
tests to be economically sound and
of great benefit to the growers,"
Coltrane said. "However, as one
reputable authority views rapid
chemical soils tests, 'it must be ad
mitted that there has always been
considerable guess work in making
re commendations due to soil varia
bility and a lack of a method to de
termine the amount of available nu
trients in the particular soil on
which the fertilizer is to be applied"
Dairy Products
Are Emphasized
June ls "Dairy Month" through
out the nation.
C. W. Pegram, chief of the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture
dairy division, said that North Car
olina dairymen and dairy manufac
turers are joining hands to further
promote the consumption of dairy
products "as healthful, economical
food."
"A primary objective of the ob
servance is to encourage the remov
al of the present nation surplus of '
dairy products," he added.
Pegram said that milk furnishes
the nation its greatest farm income
-$1,530,000,000 in 1937.
"North Carolina is not getting its ;
proportionate share of the national
inconle from milk, receiving only
$11,983,000 in 1937," he emphasized.
"Obviously, ice cream, cheese, but- j
ter and milk are among our most j
beneficial foods and their increased '
Lenoir Grower* Incretue
Tobacco Acreage In 1939
Lenoir County growers have in*
? creased their tobacco acreage thii
year by approximately 20 per cent,
reports O. R. Freeman, assistant farm
agent of the State College Extension
i Service.
j use and consumption not only pro
motes health, but provides a great
I er cash income for North Carolina
! agriculture
"Dairy product production and
I consumption can stand greater em
phasis in this state."
EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having tins day qualified as exec
utrix of the estate of M D. Ayers,
I deceased, late of Martin County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against said
? state to exhibit same for payment
| on or before the 2nd day of June,
1940, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
i come forward and make immediate
I payment.
This the 2nd day of June, 1939.
MRS. ANNIE AYERS,
Executrix of the estate of
|june6-6t M. D. Ayers, Deceased
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NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of record in the Register of Deed*
Office of Martin County in book P-3
page 162 to secure certain note of
even date therewith, and the stipu
lations in said Deed of Trust not
having been complied with, and at
the request of holder of said bonds,
the undersigned Trustee will on the
29th day of June, 1939. offer for sale
to the highest bidder fur cash at the
courthouse door of Martin County
at IS o'clock noon the follow me de
scribed tract of land:
One tenth (1-10) undivided inter
est in and to a certain tract of land
in Martin County adjoining the
lands of Jim Ange. Levi Ange and
Brownie Bros, and known as Brown
ie land, containing forty acres more
or less. '
This the 24th day of May. 1939.
L. R. EVERETT
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