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Page Pour /=-== IHE DARE COUNTY TIMES FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938 THE DARE COUNTY TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT MANTEO, N. C. BY TIAIES PRINTING COMPANY, INC. •»XTOB MEEKINS, EDITOR -'X CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer . 's'enr. Co ■'! rs The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coast land. Devoted to the Southern Albemarle Section— Tyrrell, Hyde, Dare and Currituck CfeuiRw— W Premier Kegion of Recreation and Health some quarters that there is talk of bringing j NOtv AND THEN an action in the courts against the Highway Commission to force them to do their duty and carry out the law in this section. Such action might eventually have the desired results. \Ve favor more peaceable means, however, largely because such action would ,, , , , be bad ad%ertising for a state that right i ‘’f now is lusiily blowing its own horn. We do i study, mught you by young girls I not 'vish to broadcast to the world that any ' ”“ ^ ’ ■ (Continued from page one) aboard a truck, operated most likely by an irresponsible boy, and at an> rate, an immature one, ana Subscription Rates in First Congressional District: One Year SI.50; Eight Mouths Sl.OC, Three Months 50c. Elsewhere S2.00 the year, Six Months $1.00. Three Months *5c. state body had to be forced by the court to an act of simple justic. The present body is not the guilty one. The former bodies did the deed. We connived by neglecting to Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at iVanteo, N. C. urge them VOL. JUNE 17. 1938 NO. 155 HIGHWAY COMMISSION MAY NOW DO JUSTICE Elsewhere we are printing some intormaiion about the Hignway laws ox Nortn Carolina wmch will show that former Commissions have failed to do justice to tne counties comprising the Southern Albemane Section. The present Highway Commission is now informed or the situation, and it is hoped this body during its term of office wul as urgently as possible correct the in justice uuaer wnich tnis region has suffered, whether from its own neglect or from the neglect of the then powers. Kecently in the News & Observer, Chair- Frank Dunlap of the State Highway & Pub lic Works Commission was quoted as saying there could be no help for these counties un less they could get tne Legislature to pass some special legislation to take care of tneir needs. But sucti legislation has repeatedly been passed, promises has been made and hopes raised by previous Commissions. The only view to take of it is that those groups considered the needs of a mere hand ful of people in these counties as something to ignore, to ride over rough shod. When election time has come however, this same section has been looked to, to save the day for administration forces, and it has gone loyally down the line, hoping it would be re warded. Relatively wean in number it ha.«3 at times sold its convictions in hope of get ting the things to which it wa^ entitled. Now in 1921 the Legislature enacted a law destined to connect all county seats by the most direct route. In 17 years. Dare, Hyde and Tyrrell have no complete all- weather connections between their county seats. The former commissions have failed us. Talk about special legislation! In 1933 the Legislature, cognizant of the effort to hold a nationwide celebration at Fort Ral eigh in 1934, passed a special act making it mandatory for the Highway Commission to construct a road from Port Landing to Roa noke Island in Lime for the proposed cele bration out of the first Federal highway funds coming into tneir hands. But tae law was completely ignored by the Highway Commission. Hence no large celebration was held, for lack of adeauaxe highway fa cilities. In 1931 the Highway Commission pledged its word to the U. S. Government to build a road connecting Swan Quarter and Fair- field, if the Government would bridge the Inland Waterway. The bridge has been built three years. The road has not and 40 odd miles remain unpaved. The present Highway Commission, however is under taking the paving of five miles of this road out from Columbia. We hope this present Highway Commis sion will find time from other many pressing problems to do us justice. Until proven to the contrary, we will continue our faith in it. Thinking about a way to improve one’s fortune is very good but doing something in the way of work is much better. There are people in the woi’ld who posi tively enjoy their misfortunes because they serve as excuses for all occasions. If somebody will develop a permanent, never-fail excuse for busy men to use when , . they want to go fishing Wo is a fortune j "f XR X-* The real American tragedy; An honest man, anxious to work, unable to find employ ment. It won’t be long now before the averagd American family will be trying to decide where to go and how. -THC^D SEA CATTAIN just out of school, who would at- tenijit to tell you how to live even tho tliey had not vet learned them selves No doubt if you could j go to school today, the things you would be taught, today will be i utterly discarded and referred to! as an e.Nperinieiu, when }.>u ac-) tually start to school, more than a year hence. If you are a dull little boy, you will find the going tough, because you will have to tag along alter i tile standard that is set, and should you be a bright little boy, you will be made lazy and reckless by hav ing to tag along with the average. And if you think you ought to be a lawyer, you will probably be eii- I couraged in it, when possibly you might do better as a second rate i carpenter, and get a lot mor.- joy I out of living. ! I feel soiry for you somewhat, school, as you rctuni. 1 am sorry for you for what you will miss, but maybe if you don’t know about iT, it won’t matter. When I started to scliool at the age' of ten. it was a fine October morn-1 ing. I recall how I learned to’ study the opposum tracks crossing the leafy road, and to marvel at the skill with which squirrels built homes high in the trees, and thrill ed at the birds who flew up be fore me. Cattle browsed by the! roadsides, and shoats would frisk' away on my approach. I sonie-j times wonder if all these things ■ didn’t do me more good than what I got out of books. At least 11 feel that you will not broaden your 1 education, but will run more risk ' than 1 Uid in getting to and from school. I KIDNAPPERS DISCUSSED Desprate because the Highway Commis sion had sorely failed this section, its leaders in 1935 got together and with the full ap proval of the Legislature wrote into the highway law a bill which specifically set aside two million dollars during each bi ennium for Highway Betterments. The idea was to bring up to parity, those coun ties which did not nave equal highway ad vantages. Did we get the benefits intended. We did not. A small and selfish group in Elizabeth City got together and %yasted what may run over $300,000 in building an unwanted road across a swamp in Camden County, which thev falsely termed a Dare County short cut. This was least of all. Under the leadership of Hon. Julian Wood of Edenton, who it was thought would bo interested in helpfng all sections, a raid was made on the highway funds, which will wipe out an amount equal to the first two million dollars of highway betterments, and a bridge was built across Albemarle Sound. Few people desired it; no one denies it ex ploits rather than develops the Southern iilbemarle Section. The bridge is a reality, there is iio good kicking about it, but it is to be hoped that North Carolina wiU iiever witness aiiuiiKi’ ,-idministration that will so '-‘X'-- people, and the laws desiemed to strengthen the Com mission created to serve them. xHc Soutiiern Albemarle people now look forward with great hope to the present Hi^-hway Commission. It has detected a few t'i.-'ains f . mpathy instead of the former coid giauLCo'it used to find heretofore when nresenting its problems, pleadinglyand i-n.'.mes humiliatingly before the Commis si-.r. U texts us greatly, havir ■ . one down *h. ,1’.-- f ,r': - .or Hoev v. ■ t(-. ’ • ”1) ■ : 1. • ,!ic ' 1 ■ me f’n “The life penalty far kidnapers seems to result largely in more kidnaped children being killed,” said the Drummer to the Old Sea Captain. “Scripture says that those who live by the sword shall perish by it," said the Old Sea Captain, cryp tically. “How is it?” asked the Drummer. “Sev-erity of punishment as laid down on the law books doesn’t always accomplish the desired effect. Americans have said so many times ‘there ought to be a law,’ until it just comes up of itself. We pay too much attention to the severity of the punish- men, and not enough to the certainty of it. “Now our people know that the latitude allowed lawyers in the courts, is a travesty on justice. For in legal procedure, a trifling technicality may be invoked, that to thecomplete knowledge of all utterly defeats the ends of justice.” “What do vou think .should be done with that guy who kidnaped and killed tho little boy in Florida?” asked the Drummer. “It will take a better judge than 1,” said the Old Sea Captain. “Strange and brutal forces drive men to do things these days. He had a wife. The fel low was in despair of ever getting enough money to provide w.hat he thought she wanted. You know a man’s family makes him do many things. If the man desires to be strong, and he has a family tJiat glories in his strength, what a blessing, and how it will build him up. But let him have a family with unreasonable resires, who cannot content themselves, and how easily they can drive him to de.struction.” too many lawyers?” >, e alwaj's "orces, • n..v from juoted as -tiling Irg- xtr S.1 - ther iPi'i.o- “gi.-id- y.-as “Do you think we have asked the Drummer. “We never have too much of anything, but often an e.xcess of the imitations,” said the Old Sea Cap tain. “A lawyer worthy of the name is a useful man. But our customs today permit people to prac tice the law, whether they be gentlemen or pirates, bright men or idiots. .And an uniformed public doesn't know until too late, ^which is which, "If justice could be done, we would have no guilty escape the penalty of the law. If justice were done, mercy would be mi.ved with it and the guilty would be aided toward a reformation. If justice were done, no innooent man would be punished. “If we were a Christian nation, or even a civiliz ed nation as we claim to be, 'vo would need no courts, and of course there would be no lawyers. In fact, lawyers are something created by man to fill a requirement of something else man has created. They are something that should never have e.xisted in the first plaoe. The same cannot be said of doc tors who alleviate suffering that may come from entirely natural causes.” ‘"Do yoi: suppose that kidnapping can be stopp ed?” asked the Dnimnier. "Not so long as the profit element remains,” said the Old Sea Captain. “No matter what it is, or what the penalty, thsre will always be creatures who’ll take the risk.” “No rich man's son mil ever be safe,” said the Drummer. ‘ Just one of the prices he must pay for riches,” said the Old Sea Captain. “There i.-c some who believe you can have most anything you want, if you want it bad enough,” “f guess after all, the poor are the happiest peo ple, if they only knew it.” “Few people know when they are happy,” said the Old Sea Captain. “I think a man who knows he is happy is really the rich man. Regardless of the amount of his cash. Do j-ou recall what the bible say.s about the poor,” he asked. “When I used to teach Sunday school class, it said in the Beatitudes, “blessed are the poor, for I they shall ses God.” “Your memory is bad,” said the Old Sea Captain. Christ taught, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart,’ for j they shall see God.” He didn’t promise anything 1-. tie poor. He taught that virtue is its own re- I ward and we find a lot of the virtuous are still' p-xir.” Y’ou will start your life in a top- sy tur\'y world compared with the' world 1 knew. (■ -icr folks had told me that to g- ahead, -one ^ must work and sa\i‘ to be respect ed, one must deal '-juarely and keep his word. After people who lived thus, 1 was t-.ld to pattern my own life. I I'.as also taught that indolence j-n-i wastefulness was to be shunne-l and that dire distress would folk ' in their foot-, steps. 1 I must confess t you I was not an apt student. Ii -ad to be pro-1 ven to me. But once I really found it out, altho a little late lor i-iyl own success, I carried the lesson in the b.ack of luy head as some-' thing I would make my own little boys understand -ili the better. But now I fear that when I tell ! you all these things you will doubt, me. On every baud are many who I have thought niui felt as 1. And. we have agreed that you will never) understand or see the things we have see", but will observe a newer I order tudny. You will find men who do not keep their word in I high place.s. You will see those who have never tried to provide for their families faring about as well as those who have worked hard all their lives. Y'ou will see the good old men who were indus trious, sober, resourceful and self- reliant, despoiled for political bait and a meagre dole to the improvi dent and the reckless. You will see an army of people with a warp-1 ed outlook on life that leads them to sacrifice conscience to profit, to smother honest conviction under policy. You will see initiative stifl ed, Iionesty unrewarded, virtue rid- ’ iculed, and thrift laughed to death by instalment creditors. ^ I .And as individuals have ignored their honest debts, and forgtitten the good merchants who liave fed them through good times and bad [ —who now ' squander their in- i creased earnings in riotous living without remembering their needy' benefactors—so will you see whole nations, repudiating the loan.s' which we made ti-em, loans that ‘ you will have to help pay off, now taxing their_poor for funds with ' which to wage war on helpless na-1 tions, sacrificing their people’s blood in the mad slaughter of in nocent brothers, for territoria’ gains or economic advantage. And then you may laugh at the religion of your forefather.-, which boasting of two thousand years of teaching tho precepts that it is best to “Do unto others as you would have them do unto-you,” to “turn the other cheek,” etc, a religion tliat carried your grand-' father to the last through an empty toilsome life and a painful finish, su.staining him with the trust and hope of a child. You may laugh at it because it pays most attention to the cost and style of its temples, while proffessing to preach the Gospel of one who had not where to lay his head, instead of to the down trodden, the weary and heavy laden. You wi'l road in books about the rugged pioneers who faced empty handed, a free wilderness. Free to those with grit and guts to take it from the savage, to conquer the forest and the storm, and break the soil. Thev died with fertile acres and cash on .hand, and square-shooting, two-fisted records tHat became the most ^ glorious heritage of young America. And what have we done tvith the legacy given in trust that should have handed on to you? We had it iree, but you will re-j ceive it with a mortgage on it.! Maybe you will consider it not I worth the toil and sweat to re-' deem it, you will find a nation with its forests gone, its fish and game I depleted, its minerals vs'asted, and' its soil eroded. ' Your world will be hopelessly in debt because your immediate forefather tailed to, or couldn't manage the legacy that was left them. They issued bonds for the joy of spending more than they could earn; created more taxes ostensibly to aid the unfortun ate and oppressed but in many cases for the indigent and graftei-s. You will find yourself born into slavery to pay off this debt your cowardly forefathers have passed on to you. They kidded them selves by saying they spent it to make a better world for those who followed them. But you be the judge. And so if you believe tho tbing.t I .should like to tell you to practice in your own life, you will be a slave. If you don’t choose to believe them, you will believe the world owes you a living, and there by add to the burdens of your fel lows. And you will marvel doubt fully at the rugged pioners you will read about, but your lot will be harder than theirs, because you must battle, not against th.' savage, who was stilled for ever with a well-placed bul let, nor against the beasts of the forest whose slaughter enriched their own pantry but against an ever-present sense of insecurity and fear, that tears down the heart and brain, and leaves you weaker and mor“ miserable. The battle of the old days made only strong sinew and big bones, and developed dauntle-ss courage and self-reliance and re sonrcefulr Of course this long letter is not to be understood by a little fellow whose eyes are yet bigger than his stomach. Who ivith simple trust imagines nickles should rain down each day as manna from he.aven, not knowing they must be furnished by one who in his entire boyhood had not a score of them. This letter is addressed not to you, but to the fathers of thousands of little folks just like you, who with me have laid down on their job; who have been unfaithful to their trust; who have given away to the trends of today. For all of us wilt be weighed and found waiting. Instead of adding to the store that is left us, we are wasting it. We are mortg aging the old homestead to live as high as our neighbors. We are wasting that which was given us, we are spending money borrowed not only against our own future, but against yours arfd your child ren’s .We say we are proviiling something to leave you, but you will find it mortgaged for more than it is worth. And we arc so busy chasing doubtful pleasures when we do find time to get away from our labors, that we give you none of the training you need; not even the companionship for which your little heart hungers. The ch.allenge is to us and not to you, who has no choice in the.-c matters. Y'ou, who were brought here to gratify mortal ego, and' sold into slavery before you were I born, shoula not remain the vie-' tim. It is us who should lan the spark of manhood we ought to have, to redeem the treasures we have pledged for foolish pleasures, to tear down the false gods we have set up be.ore us, and cease our reckle.ss sacrifices to false standards of living. - We liave devoted our time to building temples instead of teach ing precepts and setting examples. We have endowed colleges in an attempt to cram morons and crooks tvith dangerous learning. We are fitting square pegs into round holes. I We have grown weak with easy, living, eifeminate from luxurious comforts, cowardly in the chase for business. I At this stage we sit shivering while nations whose commerce would make the world flourish,' waste tlieir substance in pitting' brother against brother. W , watch innocent suffer, babies bru tally slain, and blood flow across the world without the guts to dis agree. It looks as if this genera tion may never respect itself; at least not until a world-wide cata strophe ultimately brings the sur- vial of the fittest, does it seem will sanity assert itself. The challenge is to us, my little man, and if 1 didn’t think we miglit finally regain -our sanity and come to earth, I might not have the heart to ca’^ry on. There is something however that overcomes the trials of the day, the momen I of discouragement when temporary defeats and hard ships bruise one. There are yet true friends, the birds sing as al ways, there are soothing breezes in summer, and there are your smiles, your eager questioning, your utter dependence upon me, a challenge bo be strong that will, must always drive me, sustain me, j and comfort me. I hope this thought will grow with me, and with the world. I do not want to leave with j’ou my burdens. I want you to knew .how to avoid needless ones of your own. EFFORT TO RESTORE ENLISTED FAY FAILS RESIGNS AS CHIEF OF COLUMBIA POLICE MM C. V. LIVERMAN who went off the force as Chief of Columbia Po lice this week. He resigned some time ago. Julian Poston has been made Chief of Police and Julius Reynolds made night policeman. Jfr. Liverinan who formerly lived at Buffalo City in Dare County has served several years and made a good .officer. BUFFALO CITY NEWS Rev. Leo L. Twiford preached the most noble sermon of his ca reer ever preached in Buffalo Sunday, taking his text from fourth to l2th verses oPthe second chapter of Second John. Kis sub ject was, “What Would a Man Give to Gain His Soul.” There was an attendance of 75 in the little church and many people on the outside who could not gain en- liance. There were two convertr, and he has led forty of the group to attend Sunday school. Representatve Lindsay Warren stated yesterday that the appro- pration to restore re-enlstment allowance to the -Army, Navy, M.a- rine Corps and Coast Guard bad failed. Although it was recom mended by the heads of all de partments involved and had the approval of the Bureau of the Budget and the President Con gress refused to pass it. A fight in bahali of the measure was made by Representative Scott of California and Mr. Warren, but it was defeated in both the House and Senate. Jlr. Warren stated that it was doubtful if this allow ance would eiter be restored. Could Throw No Curvet If he lived on the moon, a base ball pitcher could throw no curves. There would be no air resistance to give a break to the ball. Where Rajahs Rule A line of English rajahs has ruled the independent nation of Sarawak, on the coast of Borneo. SUM.MER VACATION TRIPS AND CRUISES PLAN TO GO WITH TAR HEEL ■ TOURS ‘SERVICE THAT’S DIFFERENT 1. Every Monday—June, July, Au gust, 7 Day Trip New York—^All Ex- ‘penae -51.00—Victoria Hotel 3. Bermuda-Haliiax, 9 Day All .Ex pense Conducted Tour— Aug ust Tour—August 11th $113.00 Victoria Hotel 3. 6 Day Bermuda Cruise Every Saturday — Eastern Steamship Lines 4. All Expense Bermuda Cruise From New York via Furness Bermuda Lines Twice Each Week 5. Sew ITngiand and Canada— Montreal. Quebec—Toronto— Twice Weekly Write TAR HEEL TOURS 12 N. McDaw.ell Street Raleigh, N. C, Or any SEABOARD AIR LINE RAIL WAY AGENT A17 HEAR HONEY LANE SING SHE WILL SINa, AND DIRECT CLARKE GODFREYS* 11-PIECE ORCHESTRA OF SWING SCRIPT $1.00 THE DRCHESTRil^ SWING WITH THE "HONEY" WHO SINGS IS UNEXCELLED FOR Entertainment DANCING From TEN TILL? SATURDAY NIOHT - JUNE I8tb MAKE YOUR DATE NOW Nags Head Casino
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