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THE ROANOKE BEACON And Washington County News Published Every Friday in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina WALTER H. PARAMORE Managing Editor The Roanoke Beacon was established in 1889 and consolidated with the Washington County News in 1929. Subscription Rates In Washington, Martin, and Tyrrell Counties One year $1.50 5ix months . - -75 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 in Plymouth, N. C., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Friday, March 25, 1932 Selfishness and Greed Senator Morrison says America was the most-loved nation in the world in 1920; and in 1932 she is the most-despised nation in the world. Xo greater indictment could be charged against any nation, and no greater disgrace can be imagined than for a nation to so act and deal with her sister nations than to incur their hatred in so short a time. We have been selfish. We have tried to out-trade them on unfair basis, trying to stifle them with our tariff and our unfair exchange. Our international bankers have robbed everybody, at home and abroad. We may boast of our power and strength, but they can never overbalance the wrong that we do to others. We need to get on a basis of fair exchange with all people. Selfishness and greed has overthrown more people and more nations than all other things put to gether. More and Larger Profits Cigarette taxes declined $25,000,000 last year, but the drop did not hurt the manufacturers, for they made more than ever before. The American Tobacco Company, with its two million dollar-a-year president cleared more than $46,000,000 in 1931. The sum was so large that the big bosses in the high circles are quarreling over the spoils. The combined net earnings of the American and R. J. Reynolds companies just about equal the losses experienced by the tobacco farmers of the United States last year. Vet, there are politicians who think it little less than a sin to tax them. Time To Halt The sooner the big nations of the earth refuse to protect the plunderers of the resources of other na tions, the better off we will be. The Standard Oil Company demands a big army and navy to protect the rich oil fields in other nations which they gulled them out of by dishonest combina tions with the rulers of those nations. The General Electric Company has acquired most of the South American natural power resources for a song by show ing small favors to the leaders of those nations. Now we find Japan gradually swallowing China, and our own acts have been such that we are ashamed to open our mouths. Wars will not cease as long as governments back greed and dishonesty. We ought to refuse to protect property in other nations that was dishonestly acquired by our great magnates. Clean Campaign Needed Politics seem to be warming up some along sena torial lines. The Hon. Cameron Morrison, who is now holding the seat, recently came back to the state to defend himself against the harsh accusations of the other three aspirants for the office, T. C. Bowie, R. R. Reynolds, and Frank D. Grist. Senator Morrison has always been able to defend himself in every fight he has had. While in the Sen ate, Mr. Morrison has stood squarely with the people in all matters coming before that body. Mr. Grist, who is now commissioner of labor, has made a very vigorous campaign. We need a type of political campaigning that gives the public the true facts and which does not seek to arouse the prejudices and passions of the people. Fair play and truth are not only what the people need, but it is what they want. Blaming It On Somebody Else Lots of talk is going the rounds about how to make the banks safe. The talk is coming rather late for this generation, because the money is gone, and the outlook now is that it will be many years before we have much money. Of course, many banks have gone under—some from stealing, some on the account of shrinkage in values. Yet the thing that is more out of joint than anything else in the whole universe is the folks themselves. While the people are generally anxious to charge all their ills to somebody else, the fact remains that nearly every man's financial downfall can be traced to his own door. Through greed, inexperience, or per haps bigotry, men have imagined themselves capable of handling big business and have jumped in, never to rise again. We will have money in a few years, if we will work and save. Growing Similarities It has never been so difficult to distinguish be tween Democrats and Republicans in the National Congress as at the present time. Some members of both these parties apparently desire to help the folks, while other members belonging to the same two ma jor parties apparently wish to bow humbly together to the big business interests. We certainly admire a Congress that prefers a high tax on big incomes rather than a heavy tax on the food hungry children eat. Wait Until The Call Comes Suicide is a strange thing. Two of the world's most successful men ended their mortal existence during the past week. This would seem to prove that the accumulation of wealth is not success. No one seems to know just why men destroy their own lives. If it is because they are in need, then the poor and hungry would be the ones to kill them selves. But most people who die by their own hands are those who have plenty. It would indeed be in teresting to have a picture of the workings of a man’s mind when he contemplates suicide. It must be that ihe man becomes so engrossed in the things that he undertakes that he forgets his re sponsibility to Gt ! and considers himself—both soul and body—free and independent to come and go at will. Or it may be that v. hen men of great ability who have succeeded in their own efforts lose their power to face the forces of nature that carry men to their long home when the curtains of night begin to darken. It would seem best if we all could realize that our greatest duty is the preservation of our lives in the way that our Maker would have us do until our call comes. The Literary Digest Poll So far the Literary Digest vote is not doing much. Only about 10 per cent of the ballots have been re turned. And, so far, the votes returned have shown a large wet majority, which is, of course, perfectly natural. The folks who want a change are working and voting for a change, while those who desire no change are throwing the ballots away. The folks who are keeping the country going, generally, seemed not to vote. There is much said against the liquor law, but not very much is done. The reason is that nobody can offer a better thing to take its place. Certainly, the opening up of floods of liquor by legal processes would be of no help. Such a step would only lower our standard of civilizatoin—by subscribing to a law that looses satan on the highways of society. An Honest Man for Each Office The people who read and keep posted on North Carolina politics do not like the idea that some office holders have of trying to tell them who to vote for in the primaries. It is rather offensive to have a man who is draw ing a regular salary of a hundred or two dollars per month to lay down their jobs and go through the land telling the folks who to support for governor. All the folks want is a good honest man for each office. In fact they are more interested in that than they are in supporting some other fellow's special friend. Now is a good time for the folks to think for them selves and stop following the pleading of politicians. Save Democracy Frank D. Grist, United States Senate aspirant, may never get in sight of the Washington monument in the capital city, but he utters a truth when he says we ought to save Democracy. We are giving so much attention to seeking office for ourselves and special favors for our friends that we forget the words of Jefferson and Jackson, and act as if we never heard of Vance. Politics has be come to be more of a ring-side party than of a so ciety of citizens standing out for principles of govern ment that benefit and protect us all. It is young Democrat here and old Democrat there, and Democracy, in its pure analysis, no where. De mocracy must stand for those things that are honest and helpful to all of us, and not to a selected few’. Reduction Efforts Appear Fruitless Sampson Independent. Be it remembered that last fall, 'long about cotton picking time, there was much talk about reducing the cotton acreage for 1932. In fact, some of the cotton growing states went so far as to call special sessions of their respective legislatures to pass laws which would prohibit the farmers from planting more than a stated number of acres to the horse. Pressure was brought upon Governor Gardner to call a special ses sion of the North Carolina lawmakers for that pur pose. Texas was among the first of the states to pass dras tic acreage reduction laws. And now’ comes the news, by way of word brought from New Orleans, where a meeting of cotton men was recently held, by Mr. U. Benton Blalock, president of the American Cotton Cooperative Association, that there is no indication of a reduction in the cotton acreage this year from that of 1931, not even in Texas. Mr. Blalock thinks a reduction in the amount of fertilizers which the farmers will be able to buy, to gether with what the boll weevil may be expected to do, are the only hopes for a reduction in the cotton production. He states there is nothing on the hori zon at present to indicate prices for this year’s crop will be materially higher than for that of last. After all is said and done, it would appear that an act of providence is the only hope for a reduction in the amount of cotton and tobacco, regardless of the price. ODD--BUT TRUE KV. Hf\s mot &EEN /\fcODHD WE \MORXO * <bUT \F HE TRMEV.S WEST ESON\ VMS HONvE VN WUSTON. UA., TO SfcNEWvHCVSCO.CAU PvNO BKCK TO EVMiSTON. HI W\U. HCWE «UN ftRQONO TWVCE — — — -- —-- TVM4S''ON »-r* SfcN fR*KCt\SCO ii^&Sifc-rws'^; ■"'• *iwl£, J / / ¥>K&E ROTH HfcS R.ON MMWf TVWO NiUJES \N HOtAt «-UH% > & HtttA&Fa. OF FAftDS . ESOECltULY Si tv rfcCiVCS. WHEH CONFRONTED &Y WWv.f\HEa. RfcMJUX M>M>T THEttfstOJE'S TO THE SPEED OF THE fAfXCW.MES f C V\OH' G'T <9 6<wMtt C,o«* ; PU&LIC m w,i*\c.o c\tt the Poutt HE\\J~ OR&EWS tO PlCH 0? PEV.SOH* PROW\ TH? STREETS " WHO WPcOR. TO NEXO VT'fcNfc TfW*c THEM TO Tue PuSUC, 6MW HOO^^S Within 4 hours, Dorothy Schwarze,! I of Milwaukee. Wis., picked 259 clover 1 stalks which included 203 with 4 leaves, 54 with 5 leaves, and 2 with' j 6 leaves. NOTICE OF SUMMONS North Carolina, Washington County. W. E. Bateman vs. R. E. Bateman and wife, Mrs. R. E. Bateman, J. L. Bateman and wife, Mrs. J. L. Bateman, R. C. Bateman and wife, Mrs. R. C. Bateman, J. W. Skiles and wife, Cottie Skiles, Marg ret Bateman, Guardian Ad Litem for Margaret Bateman and Robert Bateman, minor heirs at law of A. L. Bateman, deceased, heirs at law I of D. F. Bateman. | The defendants above named and all parties who it may concern, or j who may be interested in the subject ! matter will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced i in the Superior Court of Wahsington | County for the purpose of foreclos ing 1928 and 1929 tax certificates of j sale and tax liens for other years on | the property herein described and re ! t'erred to, the said property having , been purchased for 1928 and 1929 ! taxes and certificates issued to him ac j cordingly, covering the following de j scribed land. j That certain property described in |a deed from W. II. Griffin and wife, to D. F. Bateman dated May 5, 1904 . I and duly recorded in the Register oi ' Deeds office, Washington County, in book 142, page 597, to which reference i is hereby made. I Said defendants are hereby notified that the amount necessary to redeem said property is $193.95, together with penalties, interest, and cost, and that said defendants are to take notice that I they are required to appear before : the clerk superior court at his office in Plymouth, Nor h Carolina, and an swer or demur to the complaint, or the relief asked for will be demanded. I It is further ordered that all per ; sons claiming an interest in the sub ! ject matter will be required to appear and defend their respective claim ! within six months after this special notice or they will be forever barred and foreclosed from any and all claims in and to said property or the pro ceeds received from the sale thereof. This the 23rd day of February, 1932. C. V. W. AUSBON, mr4 4t Clerk Superior Court. AUCTION SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in a certain deed of trust dated Jaanuary 21, 1926, from W. H. Clark to Hugh C. Davis, Trustee, same being registered in the office of the Register of Deeds of Washington County, North Carolina in Book 85, page 405, default having been made in the payment of the in debtedness thereby secured, and the holder thereof having made demand on said trustee for a foreclosure and sale of the lands therein described as is therein provided, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale at public autcion for cash, at the courhouse door of Washington County, on Sat urday, April 9, 1932, at 12 o’clock, noon, the following described lands: All that tract, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and im provements thereon and appurten ances thereto belonging, situated in Washington County, North Carolina, adjoining the lands of L. I-. New berry and others, and particularly hounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning in the center of a road thirty-two (32) feet wide, where the same intersects the south side of the road known as the Roper Road leading from Plymouth to Roper, and which point is marked by a bridge, and extending thence along the south side of the said Roper Road north 84 deg. 43 min. east forty and 62-100 (40.62) chains, more or less, to an iron marker on the south bank of the ditch along main road, which is op posite the true corner in the center of the said Roper Road ditch and is about six (6) feet on the east side of a small old field ditch, and bears north 14 deg. 15 min. east 0.19 chains from a sweet gum marked as a point er; thence south 2 deg. 3 min. west thirty-two and 93-100 (32.93) chains, more or less, to the center of the back The First of the Month Usual bills on hand . . . necessitating the laying out of a lot of cash, including small change. Oft, a hurried trip to the bank is necessary. How inconvenient. Far easier to pay those bills by writing— CHECKS Safer, too. For each check is a record and receipt for a paid bill. We invite your Account. Branch Banking & Trust Company Sound Banking and Trust Service for Eastern Carolina PLYMOUTH, N. C. ditch; thence along the center of said ditch north 85 deg. 36 min. west thir ty-eight and 37-100 (38.37) chains, more or less, to the center of the road first mentioned, and thence north 3 deg. 17 min. west along the center or said road twenty-six and 24-100 (26.24) chains, more or less, to the bridge at the point of beginning on the Roper Road. Subject to the right to preserve the graveyard thereon a bout 20 feet square with right of in gress and egress thereto. The successful bidder at said sale will be required to deposit not less than ten per cent of the amount of his bid as a guaranty of good faith, and to idemnify the trustee against loss on account of failure to comply there with, pending confirmation of the sale. This the 9th. dav of March 1932. HUGH G. DAVIS, m-18 4t Trustee. Carl L, Bailey, Attorney. NOTICE OF SALE Bv virtue of the authority contained in a certain deed of trust executed on the 1st day of April, 1924, to Southern Trust Company, trustee, by Mrs. Grade Mae Robertson, and recorded in book 89, page 19, of the register of deeds' office of Washington County, X. C., default having been made in the conditions of said deed of trust, the said Southern Trust Company, trustee, will, on the 11th day of April, 19,12, at 12 o’clock noon, at the court house door of Washington County, X. C., offer for sale at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described lands: All those certain lands containing 45.84 acres, more or less, situated on | the Plymouth and Mackeys road a I bout 2 1-2 miles from the town of Ply mouth, X'. C., and adjoining the lands i of fl. C. Spruill, P. H. Darden, and Mrs. Inez Williford, and others, and I beginning First Tract: At a point on l the south side of the Plymouth and Mackeys public road, at a corner in the line of Mrs. Inez Williford; thence running north 63 degrees 30' E. 107 . feet along the said public road; thence X'. 40 degrees 15’ E. 320 feet along the said road to the line of H. C. ! Spruill and others, thence south 28 de j grees 30’ E. 2056 feet along the said ' Spruill and others line, to a corner in the line of P. H. Darden; thence S. 67 degrees 10’ W. 797 feet along the said : Darden’s line, to a corner in the line of Mrs. Inez Williford; thence N. 41 degrees 12' W. 1718 feet; along the : said Williord's line, to the point of be ; ginning, containing 35.84 acres, more or less. Second Tract: Beginning at a gum { on the north side of the Plymouth and Mackeys public road, at a corner in the line of Jake Garrett and run ning thence N. 38 degrees 15’ W. 2475 feet along the said Garrett’s line to Gonaby Creek: thence N. 63 de grees 30’ E. 176 feet along the said creek: thence S. 38 degrees 15’ E. 24.75 feet along the line of J. H. Ange to a pine; on the public road; thence S. 63 degrees 30' W. 176 feet along the said road to the point of begin I ning, containing 10 acres, more or less. The above lands are the same which were conveyed to Gracie Mae Rob ! ertson by P. H. Darden and wife, by deed dated December 29th, 1919, and recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Washington County, N. ! t'„ in book 78, page 94. A deposit ot ten per cent of the amount bid will be required of the successful bidder at the hour of sale. This notice dated and posted this 7th dav of March, 1932. SOUTHERN TRUST CO., mrll 4tw Trustee. By Worth and Horner, attorneys. DR. V. H. MEWBORN OPTOMETRIST Robersonville at Fulmer’s Drug Store, Tuesday After Third Sunday Each Month. Williamston at Atlantic Hotel, Wed nesday After Third Sunday Bach Month. Plymouth at O’Henry Drug Store, Thursday After Third Sunday Each Month. Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted Home Office-Kinston, N. C. meals cost less when you have AN ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR I^IOW that economy ii a fashion, it it * ^ smart to be thrifty. 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