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Page. Four THE DARE COUNTY TIMES Friday, June 24, 1938 / THE DARE COUNTY TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT MANTEO. N. C. BY TIMES PKINTLNG t OMl*AX\', INC. VICTOR MEEKINS, EDITOR CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer ^ 'nonhCftrolino ^PfiESS ASSOCIATIONV The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coast- land. Devoted to the Southern Albemarle Section— Tyrrell, Hyde, Dare and Currituck Counties— I’rcmier Region of Recreation and Health Subscription Rates in First Congressional District: One Tear $1.50; Eight Alonths Sl.OO; Three Months 50c. Elsewhere $2.00 the year, Six Months $1.00... Three Months 75c. Entered as Second Class .Matter at the Post Office at Manteo, N. C. VOL, 111 JUNE 24, 19.38 NO.T^e CONSIDER THE BEACHES This Dare County Beach Development League is what they’ve been needing, parti cularly at Nags Head for a long wnile, and it’s our prediction that it’ll prove the most successful venture in current beach history. Since the settlements of Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, and Kill Devil Hills are not incorpor ated, there has been no organized attempt in the past to brhig about general improve ments in this section. But with an active league such as has been proposed the beaches should be made not only a better place in which to live, but a more hiviting place for strangers to visit. It’s only too true that no organization can prove successful without the support and genuine interest of the outstanding indivi duals in that locality, but we feel confident that the group of men and women who have advocated the league are of the sort to push the venture. At this point it’s success or failure depends entirely on them, and we are expecting to see them make it into some- thing of value to the entire section. One of the first actions of the Dare Coun ty Beach Development League, its sponsors Bay, would be to begin a complete general cleanup drive, and judging from the amount of trash that has recently been dumped at intervals along the back side of the Vir ginia Dare Trail, the organization could pick no more timely project. As a matter of fact a state law is in existence concern ing this situation, and all that the league leaders will have to do will be to see at the outset that it is enforced. It certainly comes under the heads of both nuisance and tres- jpass. STRANGE THINGS kjnaeKtAL A member of Congress the other day made a speech on the floor in which he said, “out home they are hiring old maids to teach mothers how to pin diapers on babies.” That’s just one of a few strange things in a topsy turw world. The taxpayers are being taxed to hire boys out of college to go about teaching folks how t get more pro duction, to grow more and better crops. And from some of the same tax-mdhey they come around and pay farmers to plow stuff under, to keep acres from producing. The more we think about it, the more readily plain it is, that when it comes to Government and business, the two should not mLx. We know oT no business if oper ated along the lines laid down by statesmen and politicans, that could even pay interest on its investment. And yet they would have us believe the Government should operate everything, and that, supported by the few who are remaining in gainful labor. THEY’RE OUT TO GET CHARLIE We note with some interest that Charlie Powell, who holds a long time job in Raleigh at S5,500 a year is catening the devil in tne E ress because it is discobered his old mother ack in Granville County was on the WPA pay roll,’getting some $16 a month on a sewing project, it has always seemed terri ble to us that any man supported at the tax payers e.xpense should allow his mother to be a public charge. It’s a mighty bad recom mendation against any man who is able to do better. Mr. Powell says he didn’t know it, and he probably didn’t wish it to happen. He was Governor Ehringhaus’ secretary. The Governor took him from his post as Granville County Register of Deeds, and when his term expired, gave him a fat long time job as head of the Unemployment Com mission. It seems that some people got the idea the job had gone to Charlie’s head, and they nave been trying to put the screws to him to get him out of office. How happy that must have been to made the .discovery. Maybe it was engineered. At any rate, when they want you bad they can do plenty."^Ve suspect that tne little circumstance of a worthy old lady who wanted to do some thing for herself, even tho son was doing well, is only a drop in the bucket. If the boys would dig a little deeper they would find folks in Raleigh guilty of worse of fenses than Charlie’s. THE PETTIGREW MARKER ~ grew, the citizens of Columbia ha\e request ed the marker be placed at the Tyrrell County courthouse, which seems most logi cal and feasible, and such local sentiment as we have h, rd expressed in Dare, agi’Cv-S with the people of Tyrrell, AN ASSET—LETS IMPROVE IT Still another project, but one that shouldn’t be made to wait for the forming of a Beach Development League, is the im provement of the sand road that runs through the Nags Head woods. The four mile drive is one of the most beautiful in this part of the state, but be cause it takes a veteran sand driver to na vigate the stretch, and since few visitors know that it exists, outsiders seldom at tempt a passage. For about a hundred yards at the south enterence to the woods there is a stretch of soft sand through which it is virtually im possible to drive without previous know ledge of the condition. A party from Massachusets was stuck there for four hours the other afternoon, and innumerable other reports of groups getting stuck there have reached us recent ly. In a county that is spending thousands, of dollars this summer advertising itself as the ideal vacation spot, it seems mightj^ strange that an unusual scenic drive like the one through the Nags Head woods could not be made accesable to visitors. In a coun ty, also, that has over a thousand W. P. A. workers within its boundries, there seems no reaSv-n why a dozen of them couldn’t be spared for a couble of days or so, to main tain or better still, improve that drive. It would be a simple and inexpensive task to spread a little turf over the soft road, and there should be immediate action taken in this regard. CIVILIANS TO BE BOMBED A recent survey shows that ninety-one per cent of the i^erican people favor an international agreement to prevent bombing of civilians in cities during wartime. More than sixty per cent of the people believe that the United States shouldd call a confer ence for the purpose of making effective such an agreement. A bUl has been introduced in Congress by Representative E. C. Eicher, of Iowa, pro posing an international conference to out law the bombing of defenseless women and children during war. The world powers would be asked to re-state international law and to stigmatize the practice of bombing civilians “as being beyond the pale of even the most rudimentary civilization.” While the vast majority of tne people of the world are in favor of prohibiting the bombing of civilians during the war, there seems to be no effective method to enforce their will. An international conference might “stigmatize” the wanton killing of women and children, just as a similar con ference secured an agreement from many powers to renounce war as an instrument of national policy, but the trouble arises when one wonders how such an agreement will be enforced. There is, unfortunately, at present, no reason to believe that certain powers would observe such an agreement, if, in their opinion, the necissity of a military situation required them to bomb civilians. The air raids in Span and in China, inflicting acute suffering to women and children, are ex amples that one can ea.sily recall. —THt^^OtP SEA CATTAIN uni — . - , ^ THE OW/MMEIt^^^^./"' live with any strange man whtr would give 100 pounds of tobacco for her. At that they were pikers indeed, some of the modem gals will sell out for a canon of Camels. ~ "Now these fii'St settlers, by murder, and robbery, all of which are now called crimes, committed the further crime of stealing this country from the Indians. They stripped it clean as they went, and kept going west all the time until they met the Chinks and the Japs. By that time they had grown so week and effeminate from fighting ferocious red skins, they were afraid of the yellow-men and have been crying war about them ever since.” "But our people have been improved by enlight- ment, religion, education and modem science and in vention. , We are like another race,” said the Drummer. “I don’t see why,’ said the Old Sailor. “Year after year our national blood has continued to receive huge transfusions from immigrant stock from the east, the worst countries in particular. Most of tho thousands of aliens earning into this country, come not from English speaking nations but from the lecherous, polyandrous, polyglot offscourings of the world. These are the people who can’t make a go among their own kind and kin, many of them are unwanted, and e.xpatriated. They come to .America, pour new life in our growing circles of gangsters, and add an immense burden to the tax payers of our country.” “You don’t think tliat alone has brought us to our present economic level do you?” asked the Drum mer. “It’s been a great factor,” said the Old Sea Cap tain. “It got America into the World War. These people have gotten into our political life; they have caused us to desert our time honored and sound precepts against foreign entanglements. America financed the war until it ended. Then it continued to lend money to all the nations of Europe steadily until everything collapsed in 1929. “In the meantime, just like the country merchant who puts a lot of things on his books, imagines he is doing a whale of a business, and buys himself a new' car on the strength of what he expects to col lect, so did America go broItei-»lMiad lent out-aU- its money, trying to keep foreigji countries bjaylng from our farms and factories. Our folks' were working like the blazes and spenling like the devil, and imagining they were doing great things. They ex- tpanded their business on borrowed money, ran their Households in debt, got accustomed to indivi dual mistresses, night clubs, yachts and midnight whoopee; too soft and dull to work six days a week, and they developed a habit of appropriating any thing that belonged to the other fellow,” “We are going to get over that,” said the Drum mer. “People are waking up.” “The hangover is pretty bad,” said the Old Sea Captain. "The foreigner.s we lent our money to have spent it all. They can’t or won’t pay it back They have gotten .tccustomed to living beyond then means, and hate us for teaching them that. They can’t do so any more, but are moving over here, where they may engage in banditry, in safety, and not get shot as they are done at home. And the worst of it, our folks are having to pay back this money owed by foreign nations out of our own rapidly dwindling national income.” “What do you think is going to happen,” asked the Drummer. “You won’t know the difference in a hundred years,” said the Old Sea Captain. “The situation will continually alternate from one extreme to f'o other. Tlie pendulum always swings both ways so ilon’t be discouraged. Our little episode is but a clock tick amidst the centuries. We are nothing more than a little mouse strayed off from home and bewildered by the noise. If we stand by long enough, we will disregard it.” “You sound convincing, but it’s hell if the pen dulum hits a fellow coming or going,” said the Drummer. “It’s hitting us both ways right now, but like the mouse, 'we can’t seem to learn out; lesson and stop straying out of place.” As if quite pleased with himself, the Old Sea Captain lapsed into silence, filled his pipe, and trudged away. the employee is-suffering from a hang-oy^er or hamstrung with do- mesticlproblems, he Jnay not meet his public graciously. But the employee who always has a smile, an obliging manner, a complete friendliness is the one who will gain the day and has a future ahead of him. From those ranks come the men who some day, Write their own pay checks. I find it interestng to observe Sam. I covet a part of his gra ciousness. I also have found more comfort and security in riding the bus than in driving a car. It is nice to sit back and to rest; to look about oils wherever he wishes, toward the rolling ocean, green fields, the new homes, the various types of people getting on and off the bus. After all, there is a feeling of confidence in riding the bus, be cause buses have so few acedents. One marvels at the circumstances, or the record, but not after ono has ridden wth a driver like Sam. V/ANTS CHRISTAINS TO PRAY FOB THEIR WORK WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY Pertinent Items Reprinted From Other Newspapers NOW AND THEN FORT RALEIGH RECOGNIZED AS A NATIONAL MONUMENT CHEAP LIQUOR Due to splendid efforts of C. Earl Cohoon of Columbia, .nd other interested citizens of Tyrrell County, the State Historical Com mission plans to erect a marker commemor- j ating Gen. John J. Pettigrew. General Petti- { grew’s grave however, is not on the main highway, it is on the west edge of Tyrrell County, some 25 miles from Plymouth, but about ten miles from Columbia. Inasmuch as Tyrrell is the county seat, and the people of that county have an intense pride and reverence for the memory of General Petti- “Who do you think is mo.stly to blame among the nations for the troubles of the world today?” as’sed the Drummer of the Old Sea Captain. In his tra vels up and down the beach, he had come to enjoy, if not to rely upon the quaint expressions of this grizzled old veteran of the storms. “Departing from the usual custom of putting it off on one’s neighbors, lets be fair for once and put it on ourselves,” said the Old Sea Captaih. “I don’t agree with you,” said the Drummer. “I didn’t think you would,” said the Old Sea Captain. “But I have lived longer, and I under stand you u non you don’t understand yourself.” “But it seems to me any man of your age should know we have a better class of people in America Uian all that restless, fighting revolutionary crowd in all those foreign nations. America is made up from better people,” Argued tile Drummer. “Well, as Johnson might say.'they are alright, except in such respects as they differ from us;' you just can’t get over the superiority comple.x my boy, that has been built into us by easy living,” snorted the Old Sea Captain. “I just wanted your ideas along that line,” said the Drummer. “Since you have asked for it, you can get my opinion in full,” said the Old Sea Captain. “I might say to you that America has thrived for no good reason. It’s first discoverers were off hunting wealth; not to make the world a better place to live in. It’s early settlers were mostly the offscourings, despite the fact that we now call hem Pilgrims, Puritans, and Cavaliers. They were folks who came to escape the debtor’s imprisonment, or who couldn’t agree with the religion -if their fathers, or who had been banished for insurrection—say the most of them, they were none of them the type of folks who would be considered as candidates for even the lowliest political offices of the day. “Why even in the first »ettlement of 'Virginia they got their •wives frpnyla^,class'of .■wom,en~C'who were willing to come over here from England, and (The Raleigh Times) Action of the National Park Service in declaring that it is ready to receive a deed from the State of North Carolina and its Historical Comnussion for the tract of land on Roanoke Island on which Fort Raleigh is located nieens that t will be administered under the Historic Sites Act. In other words, ;t will become, to all intents and purposes, a National Park, to be developed and recon structed in a manner and with a permanence it might not get under State management. More important is the national acceptance of the site as marking the first colony founded in .Am erica. It means the final adjudi cation of what was once a long controversy between Virginia and North Carolina on this vital point in the beginning of English coloni zation and the evolution of the Unted States is worth remember ing that what is not officially conceded Was lately so much in controversy as to have produced the Jamestown Exposition held in 1907. There may be a sentiment to re gret that the site cannot continue in North Carolina ownership as a part of the growing system of State Parks. But the Raleigh Col ony was an .American, rather than a Colonial or State adventure, and its recognition as such is in ail respects desirable. ’ITie pageant which was acted out at Fort Raleigh last year will be repeated this Summer and it is understood that it may continue if, desired as an annual North Carolina celebration. In fact, news advices from Manteo are to the effect that Paul Green already is on the spot preparing for some wild bull shooting. (Statesville Landmark) ■Walter Feimster, newly appoint ed dry member of the State A.B.C. board has his own notions about the relationship between the bootle,-' ®' and the machinery set up by tne Slate to control liquor. If the thirsty really want to buy cheap liquor legally, they will have Walter Feimster to thank that may seem. At a meeting of the State con trol board this week the Catawba county member made the point that “the higher you make the price of liquor, the more trouble you will have with the boot leggers.” And that makes good sense. Even if the State were in the game solely for profit it is ob vious that the higher prices the board is about to put into effect would drive many to the bootleggers, if there is not left open a lowei price level that will appeal to tlie frugal minded—if there be such. The .A.B.C. stores want to retain at least one fiU-cent-a-pint brand to keep them ahead in their com petition with the bootleggers, and Commissioner Feimster agrees with them. And so here we have evidence to bolster our faith in a neighbor’s ability to face facts and deal with them in a practical way Walter Feimster’s hatred of liquor it the equal of any man’s, but his good sense tells him that you can’t settle problems with prejudice, and while some of his friends and neighbors may think it terrible that he of all persons should be advocating ^heap liquor, he won’t mind because be knows that he is right. (Continued from page one) peddled on and on to those who may oe willing to listen. In all the years I have watched Sam Midgett go in and out of town, I have never seen a varia tion of his friendliness and good nature. His cheerful smile per sists, an] if he ever felt like he could bite spike nails in two, no one ever knew it. I marvel at the equanimity of a man who can through all the ups and downs of tiresome routine, serve his customers and his em- , , . , , ployers so faithtully. It requires for the pnviege as strange aa pj,]y genius but a willingness In early times the Beduin idea of a cup of coffee was just four sips. to bear punishment to enable one to go on with it day after day. Serving the public it at its best a thankless task, but when it comes to day by day routine, endless in its lack of variety, with the same old excuses, the same complaints and the same old grouches to en dure, it takes more that a mere spark of genius. 1 suppose there are many bus drivers like him, but he is the only one I know. It is hard today to find men who fully realize they are the gardians of the business of their employers, who understand that their own application and at titude more than any other fac tors affect'the profits of those who pay them. ’The most vital element between labor and capital is the human element, but sad to say, too few workers look beyond the pay’envelope. Labor to often stops its worries with the clock, and then goes about its personal pleasures. It returns next day with the clock to take up a full task made ready for it. But on the employers’ side are the problems of meeting the pa)’- roll, of finding enough work to do, of settling items of expense and fretting away untold problems about which labor knows nothing. All employers cannot and do not meet the public. It is the emplo yee who holds the key to the com pany good will and profits. If Editor The Times: Just a few lines letting you hear what great work we retired bootleggers are doing. We had a good gathering to our littb Sun day school. We had on roll 4C and visitors from Stumpy Point with us, and others from East Lake. And after Sunday School we had a very nice seimon delivered by Rev. Leo Twiford. He rca.'l the third Chapter o* Genesis. The text is in the third t.liaptcr of Maluchi 8-10 verse. “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But je say wherever have we roobeJ Thee in tithes and offerings, ye are cursed with a curse. For ye have robbed me, even this whole na tion. Bring ye all the tithes to gether but ye have robbed me of many blessings but I will bless you, will increase your soul, amen.” I hope you can get something interesting to put in the paper, we want the prayers from all the Christian people to pray that our little work over here in Buffalo ■will grow, for we all have been asleep in sin and we are wakeing up and hoping and praying that we ■will grow stronger. Sincerely, Henry D. Cain Buffalo City, N. C. “What would I have to give you for just one little kiss?” “Chlorofotfn.” SUMMER VACATION TRIPS AND CRUISES PLAN TO GO WITH TAB HEEL ■ TOURS ‘SERVICE THAT’S DlFFERENr 1. Every Monday—June, July, Au gust, 7 Day Trip New York—All Ex- 'pense -51.00—^A'icloria Hotel 3. Bermuda-Halifax, 9 Day .All .Ex pense Conducted Tour— Aug ust Tour—August 11th $113.00 Victoria Hotel 3. 6 Day Bermuda Cruise Every Saturday — Eastern Sfcamahip Lines 4. AH Expense Bermuda Cruise From New York via Furness Bermuda Lines Twice Each Week 5. New England and Canada— Montreal. Quebec—^Toro'nto— Twice Weekly Write TAR HEEL TOURS 12 N. McDowell Street Raleigh, N. C. Or any SEABOARD AIR LINE RAIL WAY AGENT A17 Ci’^ef^Chevrolet Co. Ji'ihi Manteo, N. C.
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