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^iiiiiiiiiiiiNi!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi£ = A home newspaper dedicated = 1 to the service of Washington § | County and its 12,000 people. = fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiumiiiii ,,::iiMiiiimiiiiiiiiimiimiiii The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* NlllllllllllllltUIIHIIIIIIIIIimillllllllllllllllllllMHIHIIMHHfyj 1 Advertisers will find Beacon § 5 and News columns a latch-key to 1 i 1,100 Washington County homes. = TUIIIIIIIIIlllllllMlillllllllllllllllllllflSIlllllllllllllllllflllltllllT? VOLUME XLII—NUMBER 43 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, October 23, 1931 ESTABLISHED 1889 LOCAL MAN RUNS DOWN DEER WITH CAR NEAR HERE Dr. R. L. Whitehurst Has Unusual Experience Early Sunday Dr. R. L. Whitehurst, local dentist, not only knows his stuff when it comes to extracting teeth hut he knows how to bag deer without having to walk himself to death. Sunday morning, the doctor was riding along in his car on the Wenona turnpike, enjoying tli crisp morning air, headed for Belhav cn. Suddenly a big buck deer trotted out on the highway, and as there wer big canals on each side of the road, the only way of escape left for the deer was to outrun the car down the highway. But the doctor stepped on the gas and ran over the deer, breaking his two hind legs. Still the deer kept go ing, dragging himself along with his front feet. Finally, the deer jumped into one of the canals. And, accord ingly, the doctor tried to kill him by socking him on the head with a ham mer. But on failing to make any headway with the hammer, he finally tied the deer fast to a tree with a rope. Then he drove to a friend's home where he borrowed a shotgun. W ith the gun he returned to the deer and finally succeeded in shooting his brains out. Following, the doctor and his friends enjoyed venison Monday. So far as could be learned here this week, this is the first time in the history of Washington County that a deer has been killed in any such unique fashion. _'i COLUMBIA HAS BIG FIRE LOSS 65 Negroes Homeless After Burning of 11 Houses Late Saturday Approximately 65 negroes were made homeless by destruction by fire of 11 houses at Columbia late Satur day night. Mrs. W. S. Carawan, d3Tr iell County Superintendent of Public Welfare, has asked if the State could render aid in helping to feed, clothe and house the homeless. The Governor’s Council on Unem ployment and Relief has started ar rangements with I'ort Bragg authori ties for tents and clothing to be sent to Columbia. Several Plymouth people visited Co lumbia Sunday and saw the smolder ing ruins of the 11 houses that had served as homes to the 65 colored peo ple. SAYS FARMERS MAKE PROGRESS By GUY A. CARDWELL Agricultural and Industrial Agent, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. The world is in an awful muddle; but we are confident that this nation and especially the great agricultural southeast will soon throw off its be wilderment and straighten out for its onward, upward journey of progress. We have iraveicu iaimi . throughout \’irginia and the Carolina? during the summer season, and have noted material progress being made by farmers in the way of diversified and specialized agriculture. • Farmers, many of them, are in dis tress, because of indebtedness incurred in the past and further because of de pressed prices at which they are now obliged to sell their produce; but suc cessful farmers—successful farm op erations—are to be found in every neighborhood. These successes are ar example and an inspiration and they are being used as such by wise county farm agents and home demonstratioi: agents in their personally conducted farm tours. We have often heard the expression "seeing is bt.ieving,” and this is work ing out according to schedule on the farm tours that are becoming an es tablished feature of agricultural edu cational work. It is all right to take farmer-group; to experiment stations—much valuabh information ist o be gained in this way _but to make a real impression taki them to see and study Tom Jones’ sue cess with tobacco and Bill Smith’; ton litter of hogs at six months o age. These successes are easily ex plained and understood and a pernta i nent impression is recorded upon tin 1 minds of the beholders. -- Mr. Edmond Harding To Play at Musical Recita Mr. Edmond Harding, of Washing ton, N. C., will art as organist at tin music recital to be held at the Plyr mouth Methodist church Sunday, Oc tober 25, it was learned here yester dav. Mr. Harding is planning to brinj a soloist with him, it is understood There will be selections by the churcl i choir and a silver offering will be tak en for the church. Large Crop Peanuts In County This Year f SKIP COURT I v■> Washington County has skip ped another session of Recorder’s court, there having been no court this week, due to the fact that there was not anything on the docket for trial. For the past sev eral months, the recorder’s docket has been pretty slim, indicating that the people of this county are improving in conduct. NUMBER OF FARM OWNERS IN STATE SHOWS_DECREASE But 12 Counties Show More Owner-Operators Than Ten Years Ago The University News Letter for Oc tober contains some mighty interest ing facts on the decrease of farm own ers in the State during the past dec ade. A table is given, based on the 19,10 census of agriculture, ranking the counties of the state according to per cent of increase and decrease in farms operated by full owners in North Car olina during the last decade. hull owners are farm operators who own all the land they operate. They may also own land operated by tenants. In only 12 counties are there more farms operated by full owners than 10 years ago, according to the News Let ter. In 88 counties farms operated by full owners declined in number. 1 his is a new experience in Nortn Carolina. ; State total of farms operated by full owners is 115,705. against 131.847 in 1920. Net decrease in farms operat ed by full owners, 16,082, or 12.2 per cent. Farms operated by tenants in creased 20,156, or 17.2 per cent. ! Washington County ranks 94th out of the 100 counties in the state in de crease of farm owners, and has a total of only 414 full farm owners and has a 31.0 per cent decrease in full own ers. The county is almost at the bot tom of the list. RED CROSS WILL MAKE BID FOR MORE MEMBERS Increased Burdens in Relief ! Work Spurs Society to Intensive Drive By virtue of the increased burdens in relieving suffering during the last fiscal year, ended June 30, the American Red Cross this fall will make an effort to t membership it has enrolled in many years. The past year will he recorded by the Red Cross as one of its most sig nificant periods for several reasons. The year found the society bringing to successful completion its greatest peace-time assignment which was the disastrous drought-relief program. It found more voluteer workers giving their full time for relief of drought victims through the Red Cross than during any similar period in the last decade. Then, this year marks the organization’s fiftieth anniver ary. Since its beginning in thi: country fifty years ago, the Red Cross has han dled more than 1,100 disasters. I his work is conducted in addition to the other Red Cross services. First aid and life-saving, nutrition, public health nursing, home hygiene, and care of the sick, serivee to veterans and service j men, foreign and insular operations and j Junior Red Cross work, all showed | forward strides during the last year, i Besides the drought, 61 other disas ters visited this country during the 12 j month period, spreading destruction lover 31 states. All of them added to | the increased demands upon the so I ciety. ! The American Red Cross came in to being on the night of May 21, 1881. | It was on that date that Miss h lara Barton, famous for her volunteer re lief work on the battlefields of the : Civil War, called together a group of j distinguished men and women in her Washington, D. C„ home to organize the society. During that gathering, ' the organization’s first constitution 1 and an application for the District of Columbia charter were signed. Miss • Barton was selected as the first pres ' ident and served in that capacity for ■ i 23 years. --® ■ Nine-year-old Woodrow Horns, an Okomak (Okla.l Negro boy, who was i born armless, is an expert marble • player, although he plays the game I with his toes. LOW PRICES ARE ANTICIPATED BY MOST GROWERS Market Expected To Open Within Next Few Days One of the biggest peanut crops is being harvested in \\ ashington Coun ty for the past five years, according to various farmers and peanut buyers who have been scouting the county. At this time the peanut growers are picking their peas and getting them ready for the market, which is expect ed to open within a few days. And while peas are not expected to bring much of a price this year, still ; it is believed that farmers will receive more money for their peanuts than 1 for any other crop this year. Local buyers are of the opinion that the market will open from one and a half to three cents per pound. Farmers this year, however, ha\c produced their peanuts for consider ably less than that of last year. It has been estimated that the cost of production has been cut about half for this season. A number of farmers have been heard to state that they intended to hold their peas until the market ad vanced in price. But it is expected that the majority of the farmers will sell as quickly as possible. FIREMEN’S SHOW PLEASES CROWD Is Considered Among Best Home Talent Plays Ever Staged in Plymouth The firemen’s entertainment, given ; here last Friday night, under the di- ( rcction of Mrs. W. '1'. Nurncy, com-1 prising the trial of two local citizens, | black-face comedy in two acts, mono-! logues. recitations, and so forth, proved i one of the most mirth-provoking en-1 tertainments ever staged in Plymouth ! by local talent. Those who attended this entertain-1 merit will remember for a long time the two local citizens who were placed Oil trial, the dog that did the biting, the person bit, the attorneys, judge, and various other local citizens. Every body came away from the school au ditorium feeling that they had received more than their money's worth. I ruly the local volunteer fire department did itself proud, and the citizenry takes a just pride in this company of young men. THOS. A. EDISON DIED SUNDAY Complication of Diseases Causes Death of World Famous Inventor Thomas Alva Edison is dead. 1 he great inventor, known the world over for his far-reaching experiments, pass ed away at his West Orange, N. J., home shortly after 3 o clock Sunday morning. Me had suffered a compli cation of diseases for some time, hut his stamina and vitality supported him until a short while before his death. “I have done my work, and 1 am ready to go,” Mr. Edison said a few days before he died, adding that he would rather leave the world than keep the burden and disabilities of age and illness on his devoted wife and chil dren. He knew that his body was at last showing infirmities of old age and that if one organ should recover, another would soon show signs of weakness and inefficiency. If he could not work effectively, life had no further object. : so, he grasped the situation clearly, : as he had always done, and fearlessly 1 prepared to die. 1 The immediate cause of death was uremic poisoning. This was the re | suit of nephritis, which first became ! actively manifest at the time of his iil i ness with pneumonia two years ago. He also had a diabetic condition which i had been present to a greater or less I extent for 35 or 40 years. New LegumeBeing Tried Out in Harnett County -£> The new legume, crotalaria, is over ! three feet high on some poor sand ! hill land in Harnett County and ' seems to he adapted for soil improve ment purposes in that section. | J. S. Bertasso, an Albany (N. \.) artist, who wrote a 16,033-word history j of the United States on a post card. I claims he has inscribed, after much practice, a total of 17 Lord’s Prayers I on a space the size of a dime. NO DECISION YET MADE ON CHERRY SCHOOL MATTER Insurance on Old Building Burned Has Not Yet Been Collected The outcome of the destruction of the Cherry School building is being awaited with much interest not only by the patrons of the Cherry school but also by various local people. A number of local people are of the opinion that under the present law, the State will be compelled to erect a new school building for Cherry, since the State has taken over the schools of the state for six months. Others hold adverse opinion., and meanwhile the people of Cherry are anxious to learn ju>t what the state or the county is going to do. Superintendent James \V. Norman stated yesterday that the insurance carried on the Cherry school building and equipment had not yet been col lected. $5,500 was the amount of in surance carried. -- | HOMER McKEE’S PRAYER s/ Teach me that 60 minutes make an hour, 16 ounces one pound, and 100 cents one dollar. Help me live so that I can lie down at night with a clear conscience, with out a gun under my pillow, and un haunted by the faces of those to whom I have brought pain. Grant, I beseech Thee, that 1 may earn my meal ticket on the square, and in doing thereof that 1 may not stick the gaff where it does not be long. Deafen me to the jingle of tainted money and the rustle of unholy skirts. Blind me to the faults of the other fellow, but reveal to me my own. Guide me so that each night when I look across the dinner table at my wife, who has been a blessing to me, I will have nothing to conceal. Keep me young enough to laugli with my children and to lose myself in their play. And then, when comes the smell of (lowers, and the tread of soft steps, and the crushing of the hearse’s wheels in the gravel out in front of my place, make the ceremony short and the epi taph simple: Here Lies a Man. 76 Killed By Autos Of State in September Raleigh, Oct. 22.—Automobiles took a loll of 76 lives in North Carolina in September, L. S. Harris, head of the Motor Vehicle Bureau, announced to day. There were 28 pedestrians, including 13 children under 14 years of age, among those killed by motor cars or trucks. Thus far 1931 is very slightly behind 1930 in the total number of persons killed in or by motor vehicles. Dur ing the first nine months this year 515 persons were killed and during the same period last year the total was 518. . Funeral For Dalton Lee Swain Is Held Tuesday -9 Scuppernong, Oct. 20.—Funeral services for Dalton Lee Swain, two year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 . \V. Swain, who died yesterday, were con ducted at the home this morning by Rev. Mr. Hollowed, of Creswell. This is the second time death has claimed one of Mr. and Mrs. Swain’s children inside of a month. The sym pathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved family. Besides his parents, the little boy is survived by three sisters and three brothers, also grandparents. Governor Again Urged to Call Special Session of Legislature COUNTY NATIVE IS FOUND DEAD IN PORTSMOUTH Louis E. Herrington Found Dead at Foot of Flight Of Stairs According to news dispatches from Norfolk yesterday, police have failed to dissipate the atmosphere of mystery surrounding the death of Louis E. Herrington, 49 years of age, of Ports mouth, whose lifeless body was found crumpled at the foot of a flight of stairs in a house in the 300 block Brewer Street shortly before 12 o’ clock Saturday night. Herrington’s skull was split by a five-inch fracture, extending from the left ear to the left eye. Mr. Herrington was a native of Washington county, being a son of Mrs. Annie Lewis Herrington, of Roper, where he formerly lived be fore going to Virginia. He was well known not only in Roper but through out this section. News dispatches state that a coroner Monday night questioned a woman occupant of the house in which Her rington’s body was found. She failed to throw any light on Herrington's death, stating that she left the house Saturday night about 9 o’clock and did not return until several hours later. She said that when she return ed home, she discovered her front door had been broken open. She view ed Herrington’s body at the James V. Derry funeral home, but said she had never seen the man before. Efforts are being made by Norfolk police authorities to find a sailor who came to police headquarters shortly after midnight Sunday morning and reported that he had seen a dead man slumped in a doorway on Brewer Street. The sailor left headquarters before his name was obtained. Herrmgt. n s body was forwarded Tuesday from the James V. Derry funeral home to Roper, via Norfolk Southern railroad. Funeral services were conducted in the Hebron Meth odist Church at Roper Tuesday after noon by Rev. J. Bascom Hurley. In-' ferment was in the Herrington family plot. Besides his mother, Mrs. Annie L. Herrington, the deceased is survived by a sister, Miss F.lla Herrington, of Portsmouth, and a brother, Marvin E. Herrington, also of Portsmouth. -$ Home Agent Announces Schedule for Next Week The home demonstration agent, Miss Pratt Coving, announces that her schedule will be as follows for next week: Monday, Tarboro Fair; Tuesday. Cross Roads; Wednesday, Beech Grove; Thursday. Piney Grove; Fri day, Tarboro Fair. Saturday, curb market. Harnett Produces High Yield of Hay Per Acre -§ Harnett county produces more hay to the acre than can be produced in Missouri, says W. M. Tally, newcom er to Harnett, who produced three tons an acre of soybean hay this sea son. ---- The National Spiritualists Union, which recently met at Falmouth, Eng land, voted congratulations to 100 members who have died during the last year. Home Demonstration Clubs To Practice Living At Home At county-wide meetings of home demonstration club women in Jones, Onslow, and Duplin Counties last week, the women ex pressed a determination to re double their efforts for living at home next year. “We will sit on the porch and rock before we will help to grow cotton and tobacco for giving a way next year,” some of these wo men said. “We have put part of our own lives and those of our children into these crops, and must now sit by and see them given a way. We will not do it again.” At each of the county meetings the club women said they would try to persuade their husbands and friends to cut the acreage of cot ton and tobacco by SO per cent in 1932. For their part, the women said they would practice more stringent living at home, would practice thrift and would endeavor to find some means of earning ad ditional income largely through the sale of material at curb markets and in other ways. Because of the success attend ing the operation of the 29 curb markets in North Carolina last year, the number has been increas ed by 10 this season. Some of the new markets have had excellent success and though the price of produce has been low, the women have sold enough to provide a steady source of cash income. An average of between 40 and 50 pro ducers have sold on the Durham and Goldsboro markets through out the summer with the average sales amounting to about $400 a j week. The Rocky Mount market ; has continued to enjoy good sales. New markets at Morehead City and at White Lake have opened income sources to farm women living about these popular vaca tion resorts, and the market at Asheville has also been success ful, report State College home demonstration workers. \ SUPERIOR COURT I iv-j Washington County Superior court term will convene here Mon day, October 26th, with Judge Henry A. Grady presiding, C. V, W. Ausbon, clerk of the superior court, announced this week. This is a civil term, and it is expected that it requires the greater part of hte week to clear the docket, there being 29 cases calendared for trial. No outstanding case of espec ial interest to the people of this section has been docketed. How ever, a number of the cases in volve several hundreds of dollars. ADVERTISING IS URGED AS CURE FOR DEPRESSION Roger Babson, Noted Statis tician, Says Trouble Is U nder-Consumption “Advertising i:. now offered an op portunity to render this country and tile world at large a great economic service,” says Roger W. Babson, world-famous financial statistician, in a recent article. "The present trouble witli business is under-consumption, not over-production. Human nature always goes to extremes.” ‘‘It was popular and fashionable to spend money lavishly hack in 1928 and 1929, and people overdid it,” he con tinued. Now it has become fashion able to scrimp and hoard, and again people are overdoing it. "Advertising must sway the public fashion back to a sane middle course. It i- up to the advertisers to make the desire to buy goods more appeal ing that tin security of safe deposit boxes. The extreme lack of purchas ing among the well-to-do classes is now the result of fear and fashion rather than it i- of inability to buy. There is still i I nty of money in this country. The trouble is that it is be- ( ing hoarded.” Inferring to the hoarding of cash, the economist says: "This hoarding goes on in two ways: First, by the actual withdrawal of currency and placing it in safe deposit boxes, hid-' ing it in homes, and otherwise stor ing it away; and, second, by piling up savings deposits t” a p >int where many hanks are refusing to take more money Moreover, the banks are virtually hoarding it, because in an effort to keep as liquid as possible, they are not making their accustomed volume of loans and have shut down on their purchase of securities. "I am not pleading for extrava gance," Mr. Babson insisted. “I do, however, believe that those who can afford to buy should do so. If even one-half of the billion dollars now | hoarded away were brought back into circulation, business would start up im tn^Piatptv Mere nreachinv about it. however, will not loosen up those pock- j etbooks. The best way to break up the ‘buyers* strike’ is by liberal and intelligent advertising, showing mer chandise values the greatest they have I been in this generation, and greatest j in relation to wage levels they have j been in the history of the country.” In concluding the article Mr. Bab- j son says that “manufacturers and mer- , chants must not make the mistake of cheapening their quality. By so doing they will breed ill-will. Rather they must strive to keep up the quality and pas- along the savings in produc tion costs and low raw material prices to the mass of the people who most urgently need goods of long service in return for their hard-won dollars. For both classes of consumers, well to-do and those of limited incomes, advertisers should talk values instead of comparative prices. Concerns mere ly talking price reduction miss the point. Business today is like an engine that is caught on dead center. It takes some unusual push to start it going. Advertising can supply that push, pro viding business men will make the proper use of it. Once recovery starts, hoarded capital will be rushed out of safe deposit boxes just as fast as it was frightened into them by the de pression. 1 be most foolish thing a concern can do today is to cut flow 11 its advertising appropriations and freeze the money in a bank. Highway Supervisor Is Badly Hurt Tuesday J. W. Yanlandingham, highway sup ervisor, was badly hurt Tuesday morn ing while attempting to start a small | gas engine at Ward’s Creek. The en Iginc kicked, hurling the crank against I Mr. Yanlandingham’s head, painfully cutting his ear. head, and bruising one | eye. GARDNER GIVES PROPOSAL SOME CONSIDERATION -3, Large Delegations of Mer chants and Farmers Are Heard Going before Governor O. Max Gardner in Raleigh Wednesday, a del egation of farmers, business men, and legislators urged the chief executive to cail a special session of the General Assembly, the group making the most impressive showing that has been yet made for special legislation limiting cotton and tobacco acreage in North Carolina. And it now looks as if the governor might call the legislators to gether, provided they pledge them selves to lay off the tobacco com panies. Apparently realizing that the governor would not call a session un less he was assured no attack would be made on the tobacco companies, those speaking at the delegation meet ing also advocated a pledge by the legislators to consider only crop re duction legislation, expressing confi dence that such pledges would be forth coming. Governor Gardner, who was obvious ly impressed by the earnestness of the delegations, most but not all of whose members came from eastern North Carolina, and by the apparent strength of sentiment in their coun ties, did not commit himself on the proposals, but told each delegation that he would give the matter most seri ous and careful consideration. The time merchants asked that a special session be preceded by a con ference between the Governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, and Virginia, with such other rep resentatives from the States as might be selected, with a view to uniform legislation. Many Have Changed The delegation of merchants was headed by State Senator W. G. Clark, of Edgecombe, and Senators Baggett, of Harnett, and Lynch, of Robeson, and Representatives Robert Young, of Harnett, and Ruffin, of Bertie, all of whom advocated a special session. However, much of the talking was done by the merchants in the morning and by the farmers in the afternoon, many of whom said they had form erly opposed a special session of the legislature, but were now in favor of adopting the Texas law, which does not permit more than 30 per cent of the cultivated land of any farmer to be permitted in any one soil-exhaust ing crop. Considerable stress was laid upon the action of other states and the pos sible effect upon them of action by North Carolina. Governor Gardner stressed the point that the laws en tirely prohibitiing planting of cotton which were passed by Louisiana and South Carolina are null and void since the refusal of Texas to pass such a law has made it impossible for the 75 per cent acreage, upon which those laws made contingent. Arkansas and Miss issippi have followed the Texas law while other states have not yet acted. Arguments Advanced The chief arguments advanced at both the meetings were that the recent rise in the price of cotton in the face of government reports of a larger yield can only be attributed to legislation and the prospect of further legislation, that North Carolina would have to •make less actual reduction than any other state in order to conform to the Texas law, that voluntary reduction has been tried and proved wholly un successful, and that a large majority of the farmers desire the legislation. N. G. Bartlett, of Kinston, secretary of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, who headed the delegation of farmers yesterday afternoon, said that boards of commissioners in 15 counties had gone on record in favor of the legislation, and his delegation included several county commissioners. Derris Powder Destroys Fleas on Cats and Dogs Derris powder, an insecticide consist ing of the fine ground roots of the trop ical plant known as derris, is effective in killing fleas on cats and dogs, says the United States Department of Ag riculture, Scattering a tespoonful of the power along the back of the animal is the method suggested. The depart ment also suggests fresh pyrethrum powder for the same purpose. Neith er is poisonous to humans or animals. -<$, Carteret Farmers Plant 200 Acres To Broccoli Cartaret County farmers are plant ing 200 acres of broccoli as a test of this new green crop for the early mar ! ket.
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