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THE ROANOKE BEACON And Washington County News Published Every Friday in Plymouth, Washington The Roaiu-ke Beacon \va> established in 1889 and consolidated with the Washington County News in 1929. Subscription Rates In Washington, Martin, and Tyrrell Counties One year SI.50 Six months -75 (Strictly Cash in Advance) Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request Filtered as second-class matter at the post office in Plymouth. X. ( tinder the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Friday, September 26. 1930 Credit Where Credit Is Due In looking over statements of financial affairs of Washington County, we feel a deep sympathy for those men whose duty it is to provide means to main tain the public institutions that safeguard our people and assure them their rights of property and [terson in the future. We too often fail to appreciate the burdens our county commissioners and members of the board of education have to carry. When we consider the fact that Washington County has a county-wide 8-months school term, and is able, in the face of additional costs, to reduce our taxes each year, we must at least give somebody credit for their good business judgment. We appreciate the fact that taxes aer high and hard to pay, but must confess that we are getting service for every tax dollar we spend. County. North Carolina Outside of Above Counties One year Six month Building Business The best way for a man to build his business is to boost and push it himself. Everyone likes to follow a good leader and everyone desires success. We all like Ford and Edison and Firestone because they have succeeded, and we like them so well for their success that we use their products every day. The merchant that sells you the same article at the same prices charged by another will not get your trade long when he is grouchy. When all business people learn that their customers want and need friendship they will find their business better and easier. No man likes to trade with the merchant that is always crying over "hard times." N'o farmer likes to sell tobacco with a warehouseman who is always curs ing out tobacco companies, no matter how bad they need to be cursed out. The business man should main tain the same gentle spirit and good cheer whether business is good or bad. There is no use bellyaching as it only makes the situation worse. The Liquor and Game Laws Many people have cursed the liquor laws, but many more are cursing the hunting and fishing laws. The two laws are wide apart in their purpose. The laws regulating hunting and fishing are for the pur pose of protecting game and fish, while the liquor laws are intended to help human beings, and great would be the benefits if all the people had a sufficient depth of conscience to obey them. Both laws are almost identical in that they deny people the right to do as they please. The laws are passed, of course, with the view7 of helping all the people. Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right The Beaufort County judge was off the track when he refused to prosecute a negro who stole a few piles of tobacco from a buyer on the Washington tobacco market. The judge stated as his reason for not prosecuting was that the negro only stole a few piles, while the buyer stole the whole crop. Such an attitude coming from a court of justice is calculated to do much harm, and will have the effect of licensing thievery. The buyer who lost the tobacco will, of course, have to make good the loss to his com pany, and naturally he is not responsible for the low price he paid for the tobacco. When a man goes out demanding righteousness, he himself must of necessity practice honesty. The to- | bacco company, of course, was only practicing the j science of good trading, while the man who stole the tobacco was violating one of our fundamental laws. The judge was wrong. The Unemployment Situation Of all the economic problems facing America to day. the unemployment situation stands out as the most serious one. It is far worse than low prices. Prices will swing back, but employment will not; the doors are closed and the jobs are gone forever. The figures recentv given out by the census bureau show that 234,854 people in New York are seeking work and can't find it. In Detroit there are 78,153 ! without work. Chicago has 154,852 jobless people, and Philadelphia has 73,275. With 541.134 people in just four cities without work, offers a serious problem i for the coming winter. The figures not only mean that ' there are a half million people without work in these I cities, but they also indicated that the unemployed 1 have families who are dependent upon them for their j daily bread. If these families are of an average size. it means that mure than two and one half million peo ple without any income to face the coming winter in our four largest cities, most of the number living in houses not their own. Many of them have neither kindred or friend to help them. Nearly all these peo ple have never done anything in their lives except walk by a time keeper at the factory gate each morn ing and did such work as directed by a superintendent through the day. returning to their families at night with iust enough to eat and wear and pay house rent Saturday night. That is all they know and there is no other place fo them to go. The Southern farmer may think his path is gloomy, but if he will think of the Northern laborer, he will change his viewpoint and consider himself blessed. The farmer and those depending upon the farming industry, as is the case in most places in the South, have one good chance and that is to live. Economy will be necessary, no doubt, and our wants will not be met in many cases, but then our lot is much better than the future staring the city unemployed in the face. The unemployed city factory hand has no such opportunity. About the only thing the immediate fu ture holds in store for him is death either by freezing or starvation. Political bombast, what has it done? This country needs more serious thinking and honest work and less political bunk. Carteret County's Dilemma Will Carteret county ever come out or will she final ly be dissolved? From an audit of the county books, it would seem to be an even bet either way. The debts of that county have mounted to the enormous sum of $5,002,500 with only SI4.000.000 of property to pay. It means that for every thousand dollars worth of property in that county, the public debt on it is $250. and calls for a tax load of SI.50 per hundred dollars. The worst part of it is that from all appearances at least half a million dollars, if not a whole million, were stolen by men in the road construction some where be tween the engineering department and the auditing department. No more glaring evidence of fraud has been seen in any place, judging from the published figures. While our county debt seems large, it is only about one fourth as much as that of Cartaret s. But the best part of it is that there is no evidence of a single wrong in operating this county. Too Much About Flying Are newspapers saying too much about flying? Honestly, we think they are. Why should so much be said about a thing that is doing the country so little good? It only tends to j make the public mind crave something that is imprac tical and very unprofitable. It seems strange that news to be readable must be sensational. It gives a fair picture of the unbalanced mind, which is only thrown further off by contact with sensationalism. We seem to be crazed over the things that are out of our reach., Why should a newspaper headline in black an air plane race when millions over whose heads the planes j fly are suffering for food, and yet the same paper car ries only a few words about.the unfortunates. Newspapers are partially responsible for calling our , thoughts from real issues to sensational things. Individual Responsibility There may have been sadder things to happen in our State this week than that which took place in Salisbury, in which four prominent young white peo ple were sent to the State penitentiary for the maxi mum term, aggregating 44 years, for bank robbery. Two young men and two young women, one the daughter of a Charlotte merchants, the other a young girl school teacher. We suspect that it would be un fair to say that this young quartet of bank robbers were mean at heart. It would doubtless be more char itable, as well as true, to say that they are the vic tims of the world war disturbance and were caught in that great whirlpool of false prosperity, the flood of immoarlity and irresponsibility. If would be a safe surmise to say that these young sters were never properly restrained and advised at home and that they had overthrown home govern ment years before they had the gall to enter in a con clave for the purpose of planning a bank robbery. It is also safe to surmise that this quartet had en gaged in many night rides before entering into the little novelty of holding up and robbing a bank. Every child needs to he taught his individual re sponsibility. Care Should Be the Watchword i One of the most important jobs in North Carolina | is school truck driving. The driver is generally a young school boy charged with the loading and unloading of 30 or 40 children every day that range from his own age down to the youngest school child. These children are taken on all along the roadside in the morning and put out in the evening at the gate, or the fork of a path, where automobiles are flying by. The children are pushing and crowding each other, and it is easy for one to fall in front of a passing car, or under the bus wheels, or perhaps fall from the bus before it stops or after it 1 starts. Our educational system should add a course in traf- ; fic safety, and the school bus is the best place to teach it. Martin County has had two children killed in re cent years by school busses. One was killed on the opening day of the Perquimans County school this year. It is a case where both the driver and the rider need to observe the greatest of care. j DELINQUENT TAX LIST TOWN OF PLYMOUTH The following property will be >..!<1 at the e urthou-e du-r tor L>2d taxi town of Plymouth. Monday. September 29th. 1 ‘>30. P. \\ . BROW X. lax t ollector, Town of Plvmoutli. White A. L. Alexander, house and lot. M.hn Street Mrs. Nellie Beasley. two h «u* r- at : 1 ■: md lot Wa-hh: .1 •' St r«-et Addie L. Brinkley, house and lot, Main Street Mrs. Kitty Brown Estate. h uw ami tw 1 • . i < r- •: Street Y. E. Everett, house and lot Main S’rcet Mrs. Sallie Gardner. i use - St * \Y. R. Hampton, two lots Main Street; otic lot Water Street (i. K. Harris, house and two jot- \< -t- m Sto • Louise S. Landing, two houses and lots Jefferson Street, lions- and lot Water Street Mrs. Margaret Leg get* Heir-. ' t W ■■■ Str<a-t A. E. McGee Estate, house and t K uirth Street. 192s and l(i2" Mrs. Nona Newman Mrs. Thelma Spruill. 11■ • tiai d i \\ ,Street L. T. Weede. house and lot Jeffers, n Street J. S. Sugar, house and lot. Third Street $127.94 60.06 67.20 20.88 44.52 41.29 125.07 10.80 : 21. 1 42.26 50.21 Colored John BMell Heirs. hou>e and lot M adn n Stria t. 192S and PC" 72.t <4 P. H. Bell, house and lot a . 1- Street. 192S and 11)2‘» 45.o2 Shelton Bowser, house and lot Water Street Id.OS 1). C. Cobb, house and lot Fourth Street 6.72 Rosa Clark, one lot Water Street 22.52 K. S. Cooper, house and lot Monroe Street. L'2S and PC" 2d.41 Annie Downing, house and lot Fourth 11.Sd Lucrice Gardner, one lot Madi-on Street 2.Id Mamie Garrett, lot Wilson Street Augusta Hall, house and lot Main Street 2.2 Louis Hart, house and lot Wilson Street 14.2s Ervin Harrell, hott.se and lot Whiter Street r. 7 Mamie Hassell, two house* and 1 ts I :irt Street 1 - Id Henry Hines, house and lot Main Street 10.tP Wheleer Holly, house and lot Mein Street P-.iC Mary jane heirs, house and lot Water Street 8. '4 Josephene Janies, two lots 5.(4 Edieth and Eliza Janies, house and 1..; W ■ ■ Street 12.1 ■ John Johnson, house and lot Fort Wi'bam- Stm t 4.2d Willie Janies Johnson, house and ' t M.du Street 15.21 William Johnson, liou-e and lot Main Street ".24 Lawrence L. McNair, lot Adam Stru t Ed McRae, house and lot. 1928 and P'2" 20.4 ' Will Arthur McRae, one i t J Columbtis Owe.is. two houses and lots Third Street 31.08 Annie Pettiford. house and lot 4.29 W. H. Pettit- rd. In Use and lot Wilson S reel. 1''2s and 1" 22.64 W. Mack Petti:'- id. house and lot Main Street 10.ns Frank Ra s ni. lot Madison Street Lucy Ross heirs, house and lot Whiter S’reel Nancy Simon heirs. home and Jot Lrenia - C-mr;. 1"28 "d 1929 12. Washington Simon heir.-, two lots, 1928 . P‘29 14.d Lloyd Small, house and lot Wi'm Street 12.44 George W . Smith, house and lot M..dison Street 12.44 1 ( e r g c Sniii; . hmi"C and ]>•! \Vi 1 -«• n Street 13.53 \\ dil( Sm •' ' 11»< 1 ! i \\ - i Slice ,i; d li use and lot Main Streci. 1 >JS and 1929 22.00 J. II. I ndie, i: and lot Water Street 11.76 ('ar<dii;r \V; nil, two lots Mad.,- n Street 6.30 Align-: 1 • lien-, 1 i■ him and 1 t Third Street 5.04 M rt ' ' ■! 1 • -nrth Strec 34.00 Art! ur I ■ •: • William - Street. l‘»2S and 1929 6.17 i mn \\* 11 ' \\ .iter Strci 8.40 90c will be added to nodi person axes to pay advertising V-r 1 \ ":o!vt Will the Problem If you need a job or want help, have ’cst an article or found one, want to . -change an article for another, want to find the whereabouts of a lost rela te c or friend—whatever perplexing rc .?• m may face you, the surest way to solve it is to place a want ad in this newspaper. Past experience proves that they bring results. And the cost is as low as 2hc. Beacon There’s a harmony between the natural loveliness of this modern age and the natural, mild goodness of Camels. And if you find them keep ing company, don’t be surprised. Camel has given the world the luxury of a naturally mild cigarette —a cigarette that preserves all the refreshing fragrance of the choice, mild tobaccos from which it is made—a cigarette that is delightfully smooth, but never flat, never parched, never tasteless. Modern smokers are awake to the fact that mere flatness doesn’t mean mildness. That’s one reason there’s such a swing to Camels. Watch it right in your own crowd. Join them in Camels — a smoko that’s enjoyable all the way — all the time. Wednesday evenings on N. B. G. network, WJZ and associated stations. Consult your local radio time table. © 1930, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salen, N. C. .1
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