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THE ROANOKE BEACON And Washington County News Published Every Friday in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina The Roanoke Beacon was established in 1889 and consolidated with the \\ ashington County News in 1929. ":=: Subscription Rates In Washington, Martin, and Tyrrell Counties One year $1.50 six months . “® ; I Outside of Above Counties One year $2.00 Six months 1-00 (Strictly Cash in Advance) Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request Entered as second-class matter at the post office jo ss3j8uo3 jo )ae aqj aapun ‘-3 'N ‘ipnouiAU ui March 3, 1879. _ Friday, October 9’ 1931 The Idea Is Not New i Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Tele- J phone and Telegraph Company, and the head of President Hoover’s new committee on unemployment relief, speaking over a nation-wide radio hook-up Sunday night, advised a spending era as the means to an end of the depression, thereby contributing noth ing new in the way of solutions. Spending was sug gested months ago, when the “buy now" idea was whooped up by all and sundry in position to do the whooping. The weakness of the whole idea lies in the fact that people can't spend, at least they can't down in this part of the w:oods. They have already spent, and there’ll be no margin between cost of production and the price that will be realized from cotton and tobacco, so the prospect for future spending is prac tically nil. The opinion here is that the solution to the problem of the depression lies deeper than the puerile sug gestion of further spending. Much of the present troube is because of excessive spending, and too little thrift. Excessive spending on the part of the masses has resulted in too much concntration of wealth in the hands of the few, and not until some way is found to get that wealth back into the hands of the masses will there be prosperity in the sense that the nation was prosperous in times past. That may sound a bit socialistic, but it doesn’t sound one half as bad as things may sound if affairs keep their present course. After al, the problem of the depression is not merely a problem of spending. It is a problem international in its scope, even world wide. It will be solved -.when nations forget their jealousies and their desire to be self-contained when the leaders of nations realize the inter-dependence of nations, and take necessary diplo- j matic steps to restore world commerce. The world is amply supplied with every item of human needs. People are suffering for a lack of commodities that lie rotting and molding in the fields, in the storage houses, and on merchants’ shelves. There must be a deeper reason for such situations than the fact that people who have nothing to buy with have quit buying. How to Lose Your Money Some easy ways to lose your fortune is cashing checks for strangers, buying land without seeing it or investigating its title, buying stocks without first pro curing the advice of an honest man who knows, try ing to beat gamblers at their own games, and ex tending credit to persons of doubtful honesty. Hundreds of thousands of persons are today stand ing in the bankrupt row because they have done one or more of the above things. Extending credit to those who are not worthy of credit is no doubt responsible for more losses than any of the other causes. Farmers Compete With Each Other Just one-eighth of a cent more keeps the farmers separated. The old idea that makes one farmer think he is get ting a good price for his cotton, peanuts, or tobacco if he can just get an eighth of a cent per pound more than his neighbor, goes a long way toward satisfying him. Until farmers pull together better, they need not expect things to improve very much—or at least they need not expect a satisfactory market. In India, a tobacco farmer knows just what he is going to get for his tobacco before he plants it. In the United States prices lluctuate as much as 25 per cent from the first to the last of one week. One of our greatest troubles as farmers is that we each sell in competition with the other. It will take honest cooperation to properly handle our fcrops. We see the price of the farmers’ products slaughter ed by their helter-skelter methods of selling. But when the manufactured product returns to the farmer, the price stands as steady as the rock of Gibralter. There Is Also a Shorter Name ior It Correspondent Baskerville, of Raleigh, has written reams of newspaper copy in the last nine months about how Northeastern Carolina felt about matters per taining to legislation and who it would support for Governor of the State: and in much of it he has either allowed himself to be duped by the opinions of a few self-appointed spokesmen for this territory, or he has allowed his desire (or that of his cause or political candidate) to become father to a lot of thoughts that won’t hold water .—Hertford County Herald. On the Right Track The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad announces for the coming winter the most complete passenger serv ice on its main lines that it has ever given. The trains, going through from New York to Flor ida resorts, and returning, will be the Florida Special, the Miamian, the Tamiamian, the Gulf Coast Limited, the Havana Special, the Everglades Limited, the I’al metto Limited, Coast Line Florida Mail and the Tar Heel, the latter being a New York City-Wilmington train. / The time of the service from New York to Miami will be reduced to 30 hours, the fastest train service ever offered between New York and Florida resorts. This is what it will take to hold business from the busses. Service is all the people demand, and the rail roads can beat the busses if they will. When the railroads serve often enough, quick enough, and cheap enough, they will get the business and the busses will gradually pull off. The busses can go to other places. They have no trackage investment, while the trains must run where they are if the track investment is to be of value. How To Hold Your Cotton The North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association is advancing within 1 cent per pound of the current market price of cotton this year, and let ting the farmer sell at his option. They also offer very cheap storage and insurance rates and only make a charge of 4 per cent interest on the money advanced. This gives the farmer the opportunity to use within $5 of the present worth of cotton per bale, and also the opportunity of taking advantage of any rise in price that make occur. T'he farmer who has mortgaged his crop can well afford to ask his mortgagee to permit him to handle his cotton in this way, because if the cotton is sold outright at the present time, it will not amount to very much, with no hope of anything further. So, with the mortgagee getting the cash advance and hold ing the certificate for the balance, his rights are not lost. If every farmer in the State will store his cotton on this plan, it will tend to steady the market, and it will certainly pay better to keep the cotton that we now have than it will to raise it next year. Unsound Advice Ti e slogan ‘‘Spend more and make business good,” which is now advocated by some of our national lead ers, can not be sound. No doctor would advise a man who had become overheated from running to go out and run some more. And if a child is crying with stomach ache from eat ing green apples, no mother would think of giving it more green apples. Just so with buying. We have already bought too much. If we had not bought so extravagantly already, times would not be bad. What we need to do when we find ourselves going in the wrong direction is to reverse our course. We have certainly gone too far in buying—and have broke ourselves and our friends. Now. let us buy what we actually need and stop. This program may “bust” a few factories, but it will be better to do that than to bankrupt ourselves. The biggest trouble with business is the centraliza tion of the money of the country through reckless buy ing of non-essentials, which has reduced the price of essential commodities. The factory man’s advice to buy things you don’t need is unsound. Mellon Considering a Sales Tax More remote from the influence of organized, but vociferous, minorities that always make their pres ence known when new tax sources are under discus sion, the Federal Government usually succeeds in a dopting the most productive sources of revenue first. The latest possibility as a source of Federal reve nue is a sales tax. The Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, is, according to a news story from Washington, leaning toward a sales tax as a means of supplementing the country’s insufficient tax sources, and the question will probably be discussed when Congress convenes and considers revenues for the com ing year. North Carolinians will remember the sales tax fight in the General Assembly, successful to the opponents of the sales tax measure. There are still many who regard the sales tax as a possible productive source of revenue, although there are many sound arguments against its use. However, sound arguments were used against the income tax when the State was consider ing such a measure, and sound arguments may be found against almost any tax measure. The soundest argument, for instance, against the present ad valorem tax is that it is now almost, if not entirely, confisca tory. It has never been entirely sound in that it can not, as time and use has demonstrated, be adminis tered fairly and equitably. Perhaps the sales tax would be no better, but many believe that it is worth trying. It will at least be interesting to see how the sales tax will be regarded by the Federal Govern mnt, but that may be too late, from the standpoint of its usefulness to the States.—Greenville Rejlecor. An Appeal To Parents There is one thing we would like to remind the parents of children in school this year. The teacher will have more pupils to look after and teach, which means she will have less time to devote to the indi vidual child, hence the necessity for the parent to help the child at home. If the parents will do their duty the schools can be a success and satisfactory work done, but the parents must help.—Roxboro Courier. r From the WORLD’S BACK WINDOW By CHARLES H. McSWAIN If you chance to be numbered among those myriads of folks who like to hunt wild thigs with gu and dog, you owe it to yourself to try your luck on Guards Island, which is situated about five miles from Plymouth, North t ar olina. This body of land lies just a short way above the point where the historical Roanoke River empties its murk waters into the Albemarle Sound Mr. Teach, the notorious pirate, hut better known as Blackbcard, is said to have gone hunting on this island. But whether he did or didn’t, it is a regular hunter's paradise. It is the natural habitat of the deer, bear, squirrel and rabbit as well as the mosquito, yellow fly and various and sundry species of snakes. I'or those who arc not acquaintedw ith the yel low fly, I will say that this is the kind of fly that makes you think a horse has bitten you when he sticks his teeth into your person. Well, I did my first hunting on Guards Island in company with one Sewell Bowen, Friday morning, Sep tember 25th. I’ll not forget that hunt ing expedition soon. Access to Guards Island is reached by boat from Newberry's Landing on Conaby Creek. You take a boat at this landing and row up the creek for about two miles until you come to an old wharf made years ago by a lum ber company. The interior of the island is rather high land and free of swamp and dismal. This is where you do the hunting. Mr. Bowen and I arrived at New berry's landing about 5 o’clock in the morning, and after locking the car, got in a boat which we had borrow ed and rowed up the creek, armed with a couple of shotguns and a box of shells. We reached the island just at daybreak, and hurried forth in quest of squirrels. But with the coming of dawn, the wind rose, and our luck was rotten. Bowen shot four squirrels and I managed to shoot one hut for some reason he kept going. About 8 o’clock, we decided to re turn to town and have breakfast, as the high wind had spoiled our chances for doing any more squirreling. But on arriving at the place where we had left the boat, much to our dismay and discomfort, the buat was gone. We looked every where for it, but it was not to be found. Hence, we found ourselves in a somewhat similiar plight to Rominson Crusoe. We were strand ed on an island with no way to get away ecept to swim two long miles. Neither of us being able to swim more that a few hundred feet, we decided to remain on the island. The sad part about it was that we had eaten no breakfast and had no water to drink. \\ c tried hunting more squirrels to pass the time away, and finally ended up by stretching ourselves prone upon the ground under the shade of the trees. But the red bugs but 11s so hard and so fast that we had to get up and walk around. When we had exhaust ed ourselves in heaping evil expletives upon the head of the person or persons who had borrowed our boat, we start ed searching about the island in an ef fort to find a way to get off. We fin ally found an old tramway that the lumber company had used for haul ing logs. This followed a course near the shore of the creek and we started down it, though it was mighty rough going. It was overgrown with vegeta tion, mostly briars and brambles. Ev ery time you missed a log, you mired up knee deep in mud and slinte. We had not gone very far before I had the good fortune to set my foot upon the back of a snake that looked as big as a cow. I let out an agonized whoop of terror, loud enough to wake the dead. Bowen espied the snake and shot him a couple of times. Then we went on. After about two hours of this torture we came out at the Newberry landing. We were soaked with sweat and caked with mud and torn and cut by the briars and brambles. The red bugs were getting in more of their 6 6 6 LIQUID OR TABLETS Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 666 SALVE FOR BABY’S COLD PAMLICO CREAMERY WASHINGTON, N. 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And strange to say, I have nothing but charity in my heart for the fellow who borrowed our boat while were were not looking. But I hope he had as hard a time as I did in getting free of those red bugs. FOR SALE: PEANUT BAGS, IN good condition and guaranteed, at cents each. Unpatched bags, 5 cents each. Our terms will be strictly cash. Buy now. Plymouth Peanut Com pany, Inc., Plymouth, N. C. s4 tf FOR SALE: ONE HOLSTEIN milk cow and calf. Calf is eight weeks old. Bargain to quick buyer. Terms reasonable. A. R. Spruill, three miles from Roper, N. C. It NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a power of sale contained in a deed of trust exe cuted by R. W. Johnston and others to H. D. Bateman, trustee, on the 31st day of July. 1930, and registered in Washington County, Register of Deeds office in book 107, page 47, and de fault having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured, and ap plication having been made to said trustee for a sale of land hereinafter described, the said undersigned trus tee will expose at public sale to the highest bidder, for cash, at the court house door of Washington County, on Monday, the 5th day of November, at 12 o'clock noon, or as soon there after as practicable, the following de scribed land: Lying and being in the town of Ply- ! mouth and bounded on the north by j R. P. Walker, on the east by Minnie ! P. Johnson, on the south by Main j Street, and on the west by S. A. Ward i or Isolind Ward, and being the west- I ern part of lot Number 110 of the plan | of the Town of Plymouth and being: 42 by 150 feet. The highest bidder at said sale wi l be required to deposit ten per cent of his hid pending confirmation thereof and subject to an increase of bid. H. D. BATEMAN, 06 4tw Trustee. NOTICE—SALE OF VALUABLE! REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of a deed of trust executed to the undersigned trus tee by S. B. Davenport and wife, Ma tilda J. Davenport, on the 24th day of: March, 192", which deed of trust is | duly recorded in Washington Countyl in book 91, page 317, I will sell, for | cash, to the highest bidder before the1 courthouse door in Plymouth, Wash ington County, North Carolina, on Monday, October 19, 1931, at 12 o’ clock m., the following described real estate, lying and being in Skinnersville Township, Washington County, N. C.,! and further described as follows: i 1. That tract of land known as the M. L. Davenport homestead, contain-j ing 210 acres, more or less, and ad joining the lands of L. B. Marriner! and others. 2. That tract containing 10 acres, I more or less, sold to the said S. B. Davenport by W. F. Ausbon and wife, j 3. That tract known as a part of the' Silas Snell tract, beginning at a canal, Snell and Halton’s line (a gate); DR. V. H. MEWBORN OPTOMETRIST (Dates Later) Plymouth — Williamston and Robersonville Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted Home Office-— Kinston. N. C.1 thence running southwardly with that line to a point opposite lead ditch; thence with that ditch westwardly to the Holly Neck road; thence with that road to E. H. Leary (now Basnight) line; thence westwardly with the Bas night-Leary line to the Frederick Phelps line; thence with Phelps’ line and J. H. Marriner's line northwardly to J. B. Phelps’ line; thence eastward ly with last-named line to the point of beginning, containing SO acres, more or less. Dated and posted this 12th day of September, 1931. W. S. PRIVOTT, s 18 4tw Trustee. NOTICE OF SUMMONS North Carolina, Washington Coun ty; Superior Court. J. T. Cooper vs. Corinthia Corprew, Widow, Henry Gregory and wife, Hattie, Manning Downing and hus band, Garfield, Mary Arnold and husband, Fleet, George Gregory and wife, and Jimmie Gregory and wife, and any and all other parties claim ing any interest in the property here inafter referred to. To all whom it may concern, and es peciall the parties above named, take notice: That an action, entitled as above, has this day been instituted in the Su perior Court of Washington County, North Carolina, for the purpose of foreclosing the lien for 1929 taxes on the property herein described and re ferred to, said property having been purchased by the plaintiff at the sher iff's sale for 1929 taxes and certificate issued to him accordingly: (a) That certain property described in a deed from Jennie A. Simmons to Norman Corprew, dated February 8, 1917, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Washington County, in book 68, page 310, same being referred to for purpose of fur ther description: (b) That certain property described in a deed from J. J. Williams and wife to Norman Corprew, dated the 5th day of August, 1913, and record in said register’s office in book 56, page 251, which is also referred to. (c) That certain property described in a deed from John L. Roper Lumber Company to Norman Corprew, dated the 1st day of April, 1908, and recorded in said register’s office, in book 56, page 251, which is also referred to; (d) That certain property described in a deed from W. T. Spruill to N. H. Corprew, dated May 12th, 1929, and recorded in said register’s office afore said in book -, page -, which is also referred to.' You are notified that the amount necessary to redeem said land is $22.25 together with interest and penalties al lowed by law and costs of this action. You are further notified that you arc required to be and appear before the clerk of the Superior Court of Wash ington County, at his office in Ply mouth, N. C., within thirty days from the date of this notice and answer or demur to the complaint, or else the relief demanded in the complaint will be granted. Any parties claiming any interest whatever in the above men tioned property, or any other property owned by said Norman Corprew, in Washington County at the time of his death, are notified that unless they present such claims to the clerk of the Superior Court aforesaid within six months from the final publication of this notice that they will be forever barred of any rights, title or interest whatever in and to said property. This Pie 10th day of September, 1931. C. Y. W. AUSBON, sl8 4tw Clerk Superior Court. 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