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Thf Roanoke Beacon Published Every Friday in Plymouth, North Carolina e. V W A VS BUN,. Owner SADIE A US HOW . . Business Vtr. ~$L50 a year in advance Address all communications to The Roauoke Beacon, Plymouth, N. C. Entered as second-class mail matter at the Postortice at Plymouth, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3. 1887. ___ FRIDAY, JULY, 2.) 1927 PHILOSOPHICAL PHIL Prepare Children For Life Adult citizens of Plymouth are inclined to laugh at the love making of the youth of the land are not wise. There is no more important function in life than the attraction of the right persons into what has been called "love.” The churches that have for their task the betterment of the morals of the people, and the saving of their souls from the evils of sin, could do nothing better than to educate the young people as to the nrnner tnnrrinn nf lrwi*nnH nftorfinn and so to guard them against the dangers that confront impetuous youth. Young girls, as, well young men should be taught to regard the estate of matrimony with serious eyes, and to realize that the justi fication of wedlock is the production and raising of children. For any young couple to associate them selves blindly without considering the possible effect of their union upon expected children is to be foolish, indeed. Eugenics will never be able to displace the marriage of love, and should not, but, at the same time, there is much to be learned from an application of some of the prin ciples of eugenics. The high schools of the country could teach young people some of the duties and liabilities that confront modern people in modern life without hurt ing the well-known curriculum to any extent. We hope to see the day in Ply mouth when every graduate of a high school will receive certain knowledge as to the functions and duties of father and mother, and be taught the essentials that every sensible parent should understand. When the day comes, as it will come, there will be a drop in the number of homes that are broken by shieks and vamps. f NOTES AND COMMENTS 1 Some people will buy anything on credit. Not every book that is printed is fit to be written. It is usually the ladies who put the "men" in argument. Plymouth > keep up with the Doctors, who agree that sunshine is good for their patients, do not agree that moonshine is. Correct this sentence: "John, you just must invite your sister's family here for a whole month." Auditorium, it is said, was derived from two foreign words: audio, to .hear; and taurus, bull. There are some men afraid ol bats — buto^iey go on them all the same. There number of people ir phases of t. Soil Robbers Convi HIRAM DOOMTTLR, cotton plant er from l>oe county, Gn., was tried and found guilty of cheating his posterity and sentenced to one year of hard labor by an Atlanta (Ga.) court. This unique case, probably the only one of Its kind ever to be placed on the docket, was tried by radio, with more than 1,500 of the neighbors of the defendant listening in. The trial of Hiram Doolittle, Soil Robber, was the closing feature of the Agricultural Short Course, broadcast from station WSB of the Atlanta Jour nal, under the joint direction of the Sears-Itoebuck Agricultural Founda tion and the Soil Improvement Com mittee. Farmer Doolittle was brought to the bar for robbing the soil of his little farm of its fertility, by not replenish ing its humus or organic matter, by al 1 lowing it to become gullied and lm ! properly drained, so the water col i lected in some spots, and in others washed the surface soil away com pletely. His accusers insisted that by so doing he was not only cheating him self, and reducing his yield of cotton from one bale to less than one-third bale per acre, and ills corn from -10 bushels to scarcely 10 or 15 to the acre, but he was likewise cheating his posterity by making tills tract of farm land impoverished and valueless. The principal witnesses for the pros ecution were Andrew Sharp, soil ex pert for tiie State Agricultural col lege, who testified he iiad examined the soil on the Doolittle farm and found it to he impoverished and run down. He stated that Doolittle could have built up the organic matter in his soil by growing winter covering crops, such as vetch, rye or crimson We can't tell you what the wild waves are saying but most anybody can tell you what they are seeing What has become of the old fashioned rivalry that used to lead neighboring towns into bloody feuds? The end of the month of July will find many people just a little deeper in debt than the first of the rmnth. The sweet young things under stand the young men just a little bit better than the young men understand the s. y. t. The smaller the dresses that women wear the higher the prices paid. Yet. mankind as a rule, pays willingly for the shorter dresses. As the governor of North Caro lina did not say to the governor of South Carolina, "it is a long time between credits and collections. Our extra slice of pie for this week is given to the head of the family who stays at home, working, while the family takes in a resort. When the average boss goes on a vacation he leaves a lot of type written memoranda for the average office help to read and forget. Auto speeders in Plymouth should be severely punished. The fatalities from automobile accidents area disgrace to the United States. Most single men have their eyes on a single female. Most married men, from experience, have learned to keep their eyes on a single female. -- Well, dear reader, it will be one whole week before you see another collection of simi'ar items from the hand of the horny son of toil who typed these lines. Most any politician knows just what to do when placed in the posi tion of deciding against spending the public money and losing a few votes at the next election. We have little excuse for the average merchant who complains about the money he loses on open j accounts. Half of the time they are to be blamed themselves. ____ 'KfWj'.f We are not naturally vindictive, but whenever we hear about a drunk man running an automobile we begin to feel that, after all. Judge Lynch may have had some excuse for usurping the throne of justice. :tion Aids vanning clover, plowing them under In Ahe spring. Thomas Work, a neighbor of farmer Doolittle's, called to the witness stand, testified that his farm adjoined that of the defendant, that it had ex actly the same kind of soil; that he had terraced his land as suggested by the county agricultural agent, that he grew winter cover crops, anti that his cotton yield averaged close to a bale per acre, while his corn crop was 30 to 40 bushels per acre. Bill Cottonseed, the star witness of the defense, testified he was a “noth ing else but" farmer, that he didn’t be lieve in book farming because he was an Independent Thinker, and that the only way to learn farming was by pulling a bell cord over a herd tail Just as his daddy did before him. He further stated that he did not believe in high yields per acre, because they were too hard to gather, and, anyway, they took the fertility out of the soli too fast. A man ought to think of his children and grandchildren, and leave something in the soil so tb^y could make a living off It. Mr. Cottonseed was the originator of the Idea of cut ting his farm into gullies so he could grow crops on the sides of them and thus increase the acreage of his farm. The Jury was out for one-half min ute, and returned a verdict of guilty, recommending that the defendant be given another chance, provided he would show a willingness to adopt soli Improvement practices. Judge Kene saw Mountain sentenced Mr. Doo little to one year of hard labor re building the terraces on ltis farm, and put him on parole under the guidance of lbe county agent, to plan a better cropping and soil improvement cam paign. FRONTIER TOWN TO BE RESTORED Schoenbrun, Ohio, to Rise From the Ashes. New Philadelphia, Ohio.—Schoen brun, the first town to be established In the Northwest territory and the most successful Indian mission set up In America in the Eighteenth century, is to rise from its ashes. On April 10, 1777, the inhabitants of the little frontier town gathered be hind its stockade for their last church service, razed the little church to pre vent the destruction by barbarious bauds and bed before advances of an Indian uprising. Schoenbrun — meaning “Beautiful Springs”—is to be painstukingly re produced. Log for let! its stockade will be replaced. The first church and the lirst public school in the Northwest territory will be rebuilt in replica. Schoenbrun, the town to have the first peace and first temperance societies of the Northwest, will stand as a monument to the mission spirit so responsible for the penetration of the Ohio country. A bill before the Eighty-seventh Ohio legislature will provide a $115,000 appropriation for the restoration of the little village of the frontier. Legislature Votes Money. The Eighty-fifth general assembly appropriated $10,000, which enabled the Tuscarawas County Historical so ciety to purchase the bulk of the prop erty on which the town once stood. The Eighty-sixth general assembly added $7,500 for three adjoining tracts of land, and the new fund will provide sufficient money to complete the his torical work. The efforts of Rev. J. E. Weinland of the Moravian church at Dover have made possible the replacement of the town in which the first civil code with in the present boundaries of Ohio wus adopted. He made numerous trips to Bethlehem, Pa., where he pored over the archives of the Moravian church und obtained the data for the research that disclosed the original location of the wilderness village. Strangely enough, it was the en croachment of the frontiersmen that inspired David Zeisberger to lead a band of 2d Christian Indians from the mission towns of western Pennsyl vania Into the virgin country to the west. There was none of the "rifle and Bible” crusade for the disciples of Zeisberger. The golden rule of the white man’s religion was the creed of Uie converted luuiaus pilgrimage. Their peaceful invasion carried them into central Ohio, where they halted at a beautiful spring. Singu larly impressed by the natural ad vantages of the site, they laid out a village. Church Built In 1772. In 1772 the first church In Ohio nestled behind a protecting stockade. The following year the schoolhouse was constructed. The church bell that first called the inhabitants to worship is now in the possession of Doctor Weinland. Zeisberger was a near prophet to h's flock and an unusual personage in the Northwest territory. History re lates that the zealous settler’s oral I courage quelled an armed uprising of | the savage tribes of the region and prevented an armed descent of the aborigines upon the border states. He established friendly relations w ill the neighboring tribes and for the years the little mission lived and grew. But in 1777 the war cries sounded again in the forests and this time with an ominous note. The mis sion populace fled and the village was destroyed. __ aa .. .V.-..V.T.VV..V.-.... .v.-OTJT.-.. nvr.nmp.v. ny... •.•.••.•.•AT ybf £co«ej»>jsa/ Transportation So Roomy • • So Comfortable So Easy to Drive wherever you go Come to our salesroom and see for yourself how completely the Most Beautiful Chev rolet meets every touring need. Note the ample room in each model for a capacity load of passengers. Test the deep, restful seats —pitched at the proper angle to encourage relaxation. Note the large, easy-regulating plate glass windows and the patented Fisher VV windshield. Then take the wheel cf your favorite model and go for a drive! We have a car waiting for you. Come in today—and drive it. 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