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THE ROANOKE BEACON Published Every Friday in Plymouth, North Carolina C V W. AUSBON.Owner SADIE .4 US BOS’..Busi nets .'fur. SI.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Address all communications to The Roanoke Beacon, Plymouth, N. C. Entered as second-class mail matter at the PostofTice at Plymouth, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1SS7. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 1927 A Man’s True Wealth Christian folk often dispair af a man who quotes Mohammed but this prophet is followed by more people than is Jesus Christ himself and many of the things he said con tain concentrated essenses of truth, ‘‘A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world." We all know those who have great wealth when thought of in light of worldly goods and whose dollars have done no good on this earth. They may have a wealth that is worthless except in so far as self is concerned and often then this man is too mean and little to even get persona! enjoyment from his money. | On the other hand we all know of others who have only a limited amount of coin of the realm and who use what they have to do good and make others happy. Of course, the real place to begin making those happy is in the home and the man who has some wealth and fools some woman to marry him and holds her nose to the grindstone and makes her endure unnecessary hardships is certainly more sinful in our eyes than he who c is considerate of his good wife. Families of money are often worse off than those with perhaps less money and in our eyes there are very few things more sinful than selfishness. We believe Mohammed was right , when he said; “A man,s true wealth h is the good he does in the world. \ JnOTEjTand comments” > »• rt1. i Some men are too intellectual to be intelligent Sparks of genius have nothing in >' common with lovemaking. Love may be blind, but it usually manages to find an eye opener. Few things are as expensive as r those we try to get lor nothing If a husband foots his wife's bills she should at least foot his hosiery. •», ' v> Coal may be high, but after it is once in the bin it soon gets lower. It is better to follow’one good ex. ’’ ample than it is to set a dozen bad ^ ones. ■ —---* 4 How a girl hates to have all her girl friends admire the man she t admires. V --■—— A woman wouldn't care to be an invalid if she couldn't talk of her \ ailments. i - An old bachelor says that women i, are given to small talk in large ^ quantities. There is more true philosophy in an inch of laughter than there is in a yard of sarcasm. v « % A man may have a pocket book and yet mention of traveling. grip have on his no in i’ The Kalamazoo gent who shot V his son-in-law for a rabbit may have known the boy pretty well. V at that. S It is well to make a good begin ^ ning—and it is also well to remem ber that the end is what determines everything. V __ k Girls at William and Mary Col lege can not have dates unless they , are over 80, In their studies, of . course. Girls over 80 get few’ * dates. The ‘Fiddler Crab’ is so called ’ because the male has one brightly 1 colored claw of immense size, which ■ when he runs, he waves as if he were playing a tune on a violin. r LAD ES OF TALENT TAKING UP AVIATION French Novelist and Mu sician Win Licenses. Paris.—Novelists and musicians are seeking Inspiration In the skies. Among the latest women to be awarded pilots’ licenses in France are two women wiiose reputations were first achieved in literature and music. Frenchmen believe that if a wom an can fly the Atlantic ocean, that woman Is Mine. Louise Faure-Favier, who is as well known for her books as she is for her flying. She holds the world’s altitude record for women flyers with a G.oOO-meler distance. Many of her novels have plots of air nud aviation. Iler latest novel is con cerned with tlie conflict between the black aud white races. Mine. Faure-Favier flow the llng llsii channel In 1019, the first woman to accomplish this feat. She was also first of her sex to fly the Mediter ranean from Marseilles to Algiers, which she did in 1923. France conferred the Legion of Honor upon her for her literary ac complishments as well as her daring air feats. She lias a gold medal ©f tlie French Aviation club. Bolivian Woman Sonsation. A South American musician, writer and lecturer, Senorita Amalia de La Tapia, lias astonished veteran French air men by her skill in passing pi lots’ tests in Paris. Senorita Amalia, who comes from Bolivia, Is still In her early twenties, but she handles a plane with daring and skill, although she believes that flying is not a woman's game, as a rule. “Flying takes too much sacrifice and cool-headedness to be a suitable profession for women," she explained. “There are many oilier metiers more suited to them and in which they can he more useful than men.’’ The Bolivian girl first took to tlie air in Peru, and since then, she says, her one Idea has been to become a pilot. When her family opposed her she went to tlie United States, where she secretly began to learn to tly. She finished her work In France and last spring was breveted pilot. Can’t Get Jcbs. But women are out of luck as avi ators in France. They have tlie legal and moral right to fly, but none et tlie airplane companies will employ them. Tlie decision of tlie international commission of aerial navigation, re cently authorizing women to pilot commercial and passenger airplanes, opened the gates to airfields. But tlie men who own tlie air services in France say they have no intention of employing them as air pilots. Alt tlie principal French companies have said: “No women." Some of them admit that the rigid physical ex amination required of pilots would protect the public, but air work 1* a men’s job, they say. Future perfection of airplane me chanics and science, some suggest, may change their attitude. Although Senorita de la Tapia therefore has no hope of practicing her profession as a commercial pilot in France, she may, however, take «p piloting In liolvia where the govern ment, she says, is interested in de veloping air communications despite tiie difficulties imposed by high ultl tudes. British Slave Owners Are Cleared by Court London.—A judgment by which the Supreme court of Sierra Leone, Brit ish protectorate in Africa, quashed the conviction of slave ownership on charges of assault and conspiracy in connection with slave owning, has brought to the attention of the Brit ish public the fact that slavery still exists within the empire. In quashing the conviction the court declared that the law had always In tended that slave holding in the pro tectorate should die out. The Sierra Leone protectorate, adjoining Liberia, was proclaimed in 180G, at which time slavery was an established custom there. Official action since then has inclined toward the elimination of slavery. Last year it was decreed that children of slaves should he free and that slaves would become free upon their masters' death. The Manchester Guardian, eomment .ng editorially on the matter, says that the court’s decision will give new prestige and power to slavery m m Institution. “The League of Nations is engaged in suppressing slavery," the editorial says. “With what face could we take our share In that task If we have en eur eonselenee such a crime against freedom as this?” British Birth Rate Now Europe’s Lowest London.—The birth rate in England and Wales has now fallen below that of France. With the exception of Sweden, It Is lowest of the principal European countries, according to the registrar general. The birth rate for 1926 was 17.8 per 1,000 population. Excepting the rate sf 17.7 In 1018, the last year of the war, which at that time was regarded as phenomenally low, that for 102G is tW» lowest recorded since the estab lishment of civil registration in this country. In view of the continued decline dur ing the fiscal half of the current year, It Is probable that the rate for 1927 will bo Lower than that for JOlfc, \ I HOME OF ADAMS TO BE MADE SHRINE Historic Structure Is to Be Opened to Public. | Quincy, Mass.—America Is soon to have another national shrine, the his toric old Adams home with its wide grounds, old trees and old fashioned garden, beloved of two Presidents of the United States and their dlstiu ; guished descendants, i Although tiie old home Is to remain In the ownership of the Adams fami I ly, as it lias since the very early * days of the republic, the grandclill . dren of Charles Francis Adams have j decided to give up the house to the public and it will be opened soon as a national shrine. ■ Tradition has it that Abigail Adams sat down on tlie horse block before the house and cried when she saw that tiie house was not large enough for tiie new furniture she had bought in France. That was why John Adams, the second President of the United States, added some rooms to the original structure, built in 1732 by Leonard Vassall, a San Domingo planter. Vassall was a Loyalist and he fled tlie country at the time of the Ilevo lution. The new American govern ment bought the house and John Adams In turn bought It from the government. Five generations of the Adams family were rocked in tiie cradle that is still in tiie house. In the wing chair that stands In the study up stairs the President died a year after ids son, John Quincy Adams, laid been Inaugurated President. In the stone library which Charles Francis Adams built in the garden in 1S72, is the desk at which John Quincy Adams died in the house of representatives in Washington. In addition to the furniture brought from France by Abigail Adams, are two chairs of Dolly Madison’s that came from tiie White House. There is tiie old sofa on which President John Adams sat at 00 to be painted by Stuart. There is a bed thut was obtained from Daniel Webster for a bad debt. This is in tiie middle room in which Lafayette once slept. Tiie house always has been lived in and the passing years have seen each generation of the noted Ameri can family add to its heritage. Goes Bankrupt Trying to Make French Bathe Paris.—Tiie scarcity of bathtubs in most of France Is often the subject of jokes, but sarcastic critics have a new fact to give substance to their humor. In tiie town of Bedarleus, near the aouthern coast, there are 7,000 people with very few bathtubs. A forward looking gentleman transformed a villa into a public bathhouse, in a spirit of civic pride, relying upon promises of a good subscription list. He set out Ill £1*1 till. UlfUlllIl IU UU.> lie iv ets, good for a batli a week. He final ly got 80 to agree to take a bath a month for a year. After the first few weeks, according to reports of the en terprise, the subscribers reverted to primitive Ideas of hygiene and de manded part of their tickets to be taken up. “A bath n month Is too often; once every three months Is enough," they are quoted as saying. The bathhouse linally closed It* doors, unable to make a go of the bathing business, although there was no competition. French Politeness Includes Officials Paris.—Just how polite one ought to he Is debated, even in France. A new discussion has been aroused by the ubiquitous tone of a form that hunters must sign if they wish a li cense in the cher department in cen tral France. "M. le prefect: l have the honor to solicit, through your kindness,” etc., runs the preamble of the form. It concludes: "And I ask you to ac cept the expression of my great re spect." A Frenchman doesn’t have to de- . pend on an official's “kindness” for a hunting license, comment some crlt- | ics, and be doesn’t have to show any "great respect,’’ but merely conven tional, decent politeness. Some suggest that the prospective hunter ought merely to write: “I, the undersigned, ask for a hunting li cense,” etc. Campers Have Choice of 550 Natural Parks Washington. — Motor tourists and enthusiasts for the out-of doors now have at their dis posal, in 43 states, about 550 state parks or similar areas, with a total area exceeding 2,500,000 acres. The number Is growing stead ily, but the tourist who cannot find what he wants in the way of wild life or life in the wild among the parks can find Burner on* other reservation* where he may take himself and his longing to "rough it.” More than 150 state forests are open lo public recreation. 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The IMPERIAL ; LANDAU i * Reduced to *745 The Touring or Roadster The Coach - The Coupe - The 4'Door The Sport Cabriolet *525 *595 *625 *695 *715 V^-Ton Truck $395 (Chassis Only) 1-Ton Truck $495 (Chassis Only) All prices f. o. b. Flint* Michigan Check Chevrolet Delivered Prices They include the low est nandling and fi nancing charges available. i-a&fflsResi Woodley Chevrolet Company PLYMOUTH-COLUMBIA 'QUALITY AT LOW COST NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Washington County. Under and by virtue of the power and authority conferred by a certain deed of trust executed by Toney Downing and wife, Sarah E. Downing, to Zeb Vance Norman, trustee, dated February 28th, 1921, recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Washington County in book 83, page 148, default having been made in the paymen tot' the indebtedness thereby secured, the undersigned will, on Fri day, the 14th day of October, 1927, at 12 o’clock noon, at the courthouse door in Washington County, offer for public sale, to the highest bidder for cash, that certain property described in the said instruments as follows: No. 1: Lot No. 73, block 16 in sec tion three in the Town of Roper, N. C., on plat of property formerly owned by L. G. Roper and wife, known as Cooper land, as surveyed and plotted, said plot is recorded in book 56, page 41. in the office of the register of deeds of Washington County, and conveyed to said Toney Downing by deed re corded in said office in book 61, page 404, which is hereby referred to: No. 2 tract of land: Containing 12 acres more or less adjoining the lands of Arthur Tharpe, et al., and being the same land conveyed to said Downing by W. H. Howcatt, et al, by deed re corded in book 53. page 304, office of register of deeds of Washington Coun ty, which is hereby referred to. No. 3 tract of land: Adjoining laud of William Sutton and William A. Downing, containing 25 acres, more or less, and being same land conveyed to said Downing by W. H. Howcott and others, by deed recorded in book 53, page 205, office of the register of deeds of Washington County, which is here I % I n & l * u \ 1UVUV.U iv/. This the 13th dav of September, 1927. ZEB VANCE NORMAN, Trustee. By Edward L. Owens, attorney. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having this day qualified as admin istralorix of the estate of W. H. Ches son, deceased, this is to notify all per sons having claims against said estate to exhibit same to me on or before the 23rd day of September 1928 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make prompt pay ment. This 19th day of September, 1927. LENNIE L. AINSLEY, Admx. * of the estate of W. It. Chesson, Gt deceased. & WANTED —Correspondents in f every section of the county to send ub the news. Beacon. Subscribe To The Beacon v • v.*a ••< . \4Mmmtou. Vx';vv;-:-'.v-. >• v. v v; *<>&, FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES WITH ALL THEIR GARDEN FRESHNESS AT UNUSUALLY LOW PRICES Cabbage Fgr!en& - lb. 3/j Bananas Se - doz. {Potatoes sweet - peck 25/ ONIONS - - - 3 LBS. 10^ CELERY. 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