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Beacon and News Offers Splendid Opportuni ties for Advertisers. The Washington County News -mm A Family Newspaper Published for Benefit of En tire Family. Correspondents Cover County. NO. 38 VOL. 40 PLYMOUTH, N.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST30, 1929 ROPER STREETS ' SAVES NURSES 1 SAYS RESIDENT I BUSCH STREET Much has been said recently and nothing done about the streets R<oper. The town authorities have i been severly c-fiticised for the in- 1 action of the City Fathers with J reference to Busch Street, the worst > in town, on which I live. A good many residents of Busch 1 'Street, including myself, are engag- i ed in a patriotic enterprise,- that of rearing children. Having the in- 1 terest oi these youngsters upper- , most in my mind, I asked permis sion of our August Mayor to attend the next meeting of the town coun cilmen and plead a cause which was very near my heart. The permission was granted. At this meeting I plead with all oritorical eqipment for a continua tion of present policies towards improvement. I stated to them that the men on the street did most of the nursing, under compul sion, of course, during the Summer months, calling their attention to the fact also that the men had to work the gardens. It so happens on this street that the street where the children play, is in front of the house and the'gardens on the back. If the menflwere performing both duties at once and the street was good and smooth, the lives of the children would be endangered by fast and reckless traffic because the men would not be able to leave the garden and clear the street of child reu after hearing the approach of an automobile. But, ’with the street ; in its present condition, one has ample time to make the proper ad justments, provided, he hears the car twenty feet from the place where the tots are parked —one may figure on a two-mile per hour -rate. TThe men were much moved by my eloquence, and this, combined wiith their interest in the welfare of the youth of the town, caused them to'iall in line with the plan very readily and promise a continuation < of present street conditions on Busch -Street. They reasoned that the price of a few atomobile springs was: nothing compared to the lives < Of the children who use the street fon their playground. A Resident of Busch Street. (Editors note: The honorable ( City bo.ard:of Roper does not seem do have been in favor with the writ fCrs view as hr. ey had Mr. Basnight ap{l his foroe^.t work'on this street Wednesday. <Qne thing the Roper City Fathers th.es seem to be in tfavpr vith and fchat is the enforce ment of the old “tale blue laws. JBarton Swain was .fined Wednesday Sor ihftV.ipg sold .a cocoa colas on Sunday. “These same blue laws were instrumental in causing cer tain business to build -op the edge of the town,” said ope .of Roper’s prominent citizens recently.) | SERVICES AT BAPTI-ST CHURCH fSJ^DAY Editor Beacon & News: We will appreciate it if you will announce in your paper this week that Dr. A. 6. Boda of the Ftfst Baptist Church at New Bern will preach at the local Baptist Churcfc morning and night, Sunday, Sep tember 1st. J. B. EDMONDSON LADIES’ AID MET WITH MRS. J. E. SWAIN MONDAY The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Plymouth Baptist Church met at the home of Mrs. J, E. Swain Mon day night with 15 present, After the business was disposed of, re freshments were served by the hos tess, TAR HEELS AT HOME AFTER HAVING GOOD VACATION By Leslie B. Spruill On Monday morning, August 12, at 8c 15, fifteen young farmers in cluding Professor B. G. O’Brian, left Roper to enjoy a weeks outing at the State camp, White Lake. We arrived at the camp by 3 o’clock in the afternoon, much ear lier than we expected. After helping Mr, O’Brian check the food carried each boy went to the beach to en joy a oool swim. On Monday night Mr, O’Brian collected the camp fee from each boy. The cost per boy was $4, After supper “Bob” Evans, the athletic director gave the schedule for the week. At 6:45 A. M., “Bob” blew the whistle for each boy to put on his bath suit and go down to the atlet ir* field for setting up exercises. From 7 to 7:20 we took a swim in the lake. From 7:30 to 845 is, breakfast, From 8.4-5 to 9 we clean- j ed up our cottage. The hour be-1 tween 9 and 10 was spent doing work around the -cottage. From 10 until 11 we played volley ball or playground baseball, then until 12:30 we were allowed to pitch horse shoes, .go swimming, boat riding or take .part in any kind of recreation we wished. 12 :30 to 1:30, was dinner hour and from 1:30 to . 2:30 was rest hour. Two baseball games were played .every afternoon I beginning at 2:30. Everyone was | required to attend. From 7 to 7 :45 j was supper, after which we were | under the -care of our respective f teacher and could go any place we j wished providing everything was| quiet by 11 o’clock. Each school was in competition with every other school during the week in sports and Gonduct. The finals .were played .Friday to deter mine the winning school for the week. The schedule closed .Friday night. We -were .governed by a student counsilmade up of a member of each school. We .left camp Saturday morn ing id 8 o^clock and .arrived iin fi/©pter at .2:30. REVIVAL SERVTC E»S AT iGUM NEGK (CLOSED fiy J. J.-Armstrong Garni LNeck —The revival meeting here .closed iEriday inight. JRev. W. EL Norris, pastor of the .Plymouth Christian (Church .conducted the services,, which will he long .mmein bered by the people of Gum Jieek. We all f»iqyed having the Jtev. Mr. Norris in our .Louies as well as enjoying the good, strong .gos^pd sermons delivered by him. 'DHttre were five added to the ichureh. \ BOWEN FAMILY HAS 1 REUNION WEDNESDAY With 60 relatives present, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bowen acted as hosts to the large family at a picnic at Rea’s Beach Wednesday. There were only five guests pres ent, making a total of 65 who en joyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen. After the dinner was served on the ground in picnic style, those present enjoyed swimming and boating. LADIES AID SOCIETY MET WEDNESDAY Pleasant Grove.—The Ladies Aid Society of Pleasant Grove Church was entertained at the home of Mrs. N. T. Everett Wednesday. Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton presided and an interesting program was rendered. The September meeting will be held at the home of Mrs, M, E. Tarkington. Prof. E. N. Riddle And Consolidation _ *---—— By E. N. RIDDLE If we notice a recent issue of “State School Facts,” we are im pressed with the rapid disappear ance of the one and two teacher schools in North Carolina. If there were not many advantages in con solidating schools, such sweeping and permanent changes would cease | and the small school would stand her ground, but opposition to con solidation can be removed by pre sentation of facts that no progres sive and fair minded person will deny. Let us note some of the ad vantages and so-called disadvan tage of consolidation. L Increased, inrollment in consoli dated area. The larger and bettei equiped type of school offers cur ricular advantages that the smallei •school does not afford, hence, oldei boys and girls remain in school Ion I 2. Attendance is better. 1 he lar 1 ger and better equipped school 1 arouses the pride and interest of the pupil which results in a greater ef fort on the part of the pupil to at tend regularly. So far as I know, ■there are no figures on the two types of school available for Wash inpton ‘County, but any quantity of figures from other counties and ' other states uphold the abovestate ment. | 3. Helps to eliminate tardiness. Pupils who are transported can’t be .late unless the truck is late. Truck ' tardiness is practically unknown, since every truck has a schedule 1 which is usually rigidly followed. 4. Pupils arrive at school dry and warm. This is not always the case I if the-y walk to school. Therefore, there are fewer colds and other .troubles due to exposure. 5. Better grading and classfica tion of pupils is possible. Pupils can ’be placed where they can work to the best advantage. The greater the nnmber of groups, the greater .the homogeneity of each group. 6. The number of grades each teacher must handle is reduced. In :a two teacher elementary school, one teacher must teach fifth, sixth and seventh.grades; or, each grade igets one third of the teacher’s time, .let us say, two hours a day. In a seven teacher elementary school, each grade gets a teacher’s fulltime, or, six hours a day - three times as mu<ih as in the two teacher school. ,7. The pupils have the advan tage of better school sites; better school house equipment in heating, lighting ventilation and sanitation better .teaching apparatus, books .maps,-etc. The cost of good and adequate, eqipment makes it prohi bitive to-«mall schools. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Liverman a»id family* turned Friday night Wm a trip to Washington City and •Baltimore -w'pere Mr. Liberman .purchased his tall merchandise. ALMO THEATRE TONIGHT Buddy Regers IN “Someone To .Love” COMEDY Saturday Night Eddie Quillan IN “Show Folks” .Nineth Episode Tigers Shadow COMEDY DON’T MISS IT 8. It leads to the employment and retention of better teachers and makees possible more and better supervision. The best teachers are not going to the small rural schools. We could go on mentioning ad vantages, but, these seem sufficient to convience any one that the hope of the rural schools lies in consoli dation. The principal objections to consoli dation have little basis in facts. Following are the most commonly given objections. 1. Depreciation of property; de creased valuation of property in districts where schools have been closed. There is nothing to this ar gument for, a poor elementary school on a farm does not enhance its value as much as a good school five or six miles away. 2. Have to send children too tar from home. The child who walks one mile to school is farther from home than the one wTho rides five or six miles on a truck. 3. Bad conduct, obscene language and general misbehavior on trucks going to and from school. This ob 1 jection is the only one that deserves ' much consideration. Such condi tions are the fault of the truck dri ver directly and the school authori ties indirectly. No such conditions will exist in Washington County the coming year if a report of them is made to the proper person. No truck driver will be retained who encourages or condones any mi sbe havior on his truck. 4. It removes the only semblance of a community center in the con solidated district. It only transfers the center making the people a part of a bigger and better center a mile or two farther from home. 5. It cost more to transport pupils . than to teach them at home. This • is sometimes true and sometime . false. The cost of transportation depends on distance, condition of ! roads, the truck load, etc. The cost ( of maintaining the school at home depends on the quality of teachers [ employed, teacher load, etc. Tak > ing the educational opportunity of the child as a basis for figuring [ costs, the consolidated school costs about one third as much. 6. Finally, the spirit of consolida 5 tion is so prevalent every where . that not only the state department - of education -strives to encourage it • in every possible way, but, the last , General Assembly of North Caro i lina made it compulsory throughout ; [ the entire state by increasing the [! teacher load to -such an extent that 1 the small school could not maintain the average required by law. i MISS EVA WHITE’S VISIT TO THE BEACON AND NEWS OFFICE While my neice and I, Little Miss Margie White were in Plymouth sometime ago. I made a call at the Beacon and News Office. It is quite interesting to visit this office and its different parts of machinery. Also the work and time that is :spent finishing up the paper after (Coming off the press, of course I ib*ve seen a printing press before viWting this one. While attehding the Jamestown Exposition with my father and brot her Walter at James tow'n Va. in 1907, I had the oppor tunity of seeing quite a large press. Mr. Harris has quite a number of subscriber* for the Beacon and News, which is truly a nice county paper, giving all interesting news throughout our county. 1 do not know of any county paper that gjyes as interesting county news as the paper printed by Lee Roy Hams, Editor and Publisher of this progressive county paper fff Ply mouth, PLYMOUTH HI OPENS MONDAY; 600 STUDENTS; 18 TEACHERS The 1929-’30 school session at Plymouth High School will open Monday morning at nine o’clock with 18 teachers, including Super intendent Hubble. The annual teachers meeting will be held at this time. No students will be reg istered until one o’clock and Super intendent Hubble asks that the students do not report at the build ing until then. All first, second and third grade pupils are to report at Hampton’s Academy, where Mrs. H. A. Liv er man will be in charge as principal. | Between 550 and 600 students ! are expected to enroll this school i year and it is thought that another ! teacher will have to be added. I There will be only one strange^ face on the faculty in the grades, Miss Eunice Parker, who will be in charge of the seventh grade work. There will be three new faces a mong the high school faculty. These are Miss Ethel Spruill, a native Plymouth girl, who will be in charge of mathematics; Miss Pauiine Lucas, also a native of Plymouth, and a former teacher in the school, will have english and history ; H. C. Farrell of Elizabeth City will have history. Mr. Harrell will also be assistant director in athletics. “I feel that I have one of the best faculties in North Carolina and am expecting very good results during the coming year,’ said Su perintendent Hubble yesterday. “Our first chapel exercises will be held Tuesday morning at 8:45 and a very interesting program is being planned for the young folk and their parents,” he continued. ODD FELLOWS SINGING CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 1 1 The singing class from the Odd Fellows Orphanage at Goldsboro will give a progrom in Plymouth High School auditorium Wednesday night, September 11, according to information received by W. L. Whitley. This is an annual occasion in Plymouth and has been for a num ber of years. Every year the atten dance is better than the preceeding year. These tours are not only profitable to the orghanage, but they are also educational to those children who have the opportunity to take them. No one child goes out two successive years. The offi cials try to arrange it so that each child who attends the orphanage take one of these trips while they are under their care. There will be 15 numbers on the grogram. A number of these selec tions will be by the 10 piece orches tra, composed entirely of these young people. There will be musical readings, duets, solos, quartettes, dances, a comedy, in fact every thing that goes to make an enjoy able evening. There will be 13 of these young people, with their instructors, in Plymouth as the guests of the town and local lodge. UNION DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL HAS PICNIC Skinnersville.—The Union Dis trict Sunday School picnic was held at the Hartwell Jethro landing last Thursday. Dinner was served on the grassy lawn in front of the home. Only a small crowd was present. A lovely time was enjoyed by those attending from the various churches in the district. POET AND PEASANT i “Did you see that artical in the • Beacon and News last week stating County Commissionner W. T. . Phelps views on the county govern j ment?” asked the Peasant. “Yes,” replied the Poet, “but I f can’t help but feel that Mr. Phelps r was merely trying to build political . capitol.” “You’re foolish,” said the Pea sant. “W. T. Phelps is one of the , most conscientious men we have in Washington county.” “Granting that all of that is true,” replied the Poet. “I am forced to hold Mr. Phelp’s action at the meet ing of the commissioners as being , an expression of his real feelings. He said in that article that he was in sympathy with the attitude taken by the press in reference to the pro posed site for the Negro school, but the odds were against him and he had to go over. Now Mr. Phelps seconded the motion to purchase the property, therefore it would seem that he was not forced to do this. If lie is such a weak man that he can be forced to do something against his will lie certainly is not |capable of holding position that he has.” “Granting that what you say in reference to the absurdity of the j I excuse given by Mr. Phelps, don’t you think that he has a much bet ter spirit than any other member of the commissioners?” asked the Pea sant. ] “Probably he has,” said the Poet, “but in a way he is just like the 1 other members of the board. He is 1 afraid that he will do something i wrong so he won’t do anything. Why did the commissioners cancel s their signature to the first bond J £ issue for this Negro school site if t there wasn’t anything wrong about it? Why haven’t they given the people in Wenona .some action in reference to their roads? Why hasn’t some record of these people calling on the board ever been made? And a thousand and one other why’s could be asked. There is but one answer - -? “Do you know what went oil prior to the purchase of the Owens property as a Negro school site?” asked the Peasant. “I know what was recorded in the books at the courthouse,” said the Poet. “For some time this question was discussed by the members of the school board, who for some un known reason decided on the Owens property. It was then presented to the County Commissioners. At the meeting July 8, a motion was made by E. R. Lewis and seconded by W. T. Phelps, to issue bonds of $20,000 to build a Negro school. This bond issue was sent to the State depart ment to be passed on. Learning the attitude or for some justifiable rea son, Chairman J. C. Spruill wired Raleigh and cancelled this bondissue At the meeting on July 22nd, the school budget for the year was set presented to the commissioners for ratification. In this budget was aside moneys for a Negro school. It was ratified on a motion made ay Mr. Lewis and seconded by Vlr. Phelps. Then at this same neeting, a motion was made by Mr., Lewis to purchase the Owens site or the Negro school. This motion vas also seconded by Mr. Phelps and manimously carried by the board.”1 “If all of that is true it certainly eems that Mr. Phelps was building political fortune to fight with in he next election,” said the Peasant.
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