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.
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Entered as second-class matter at the post office
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Friday, March 31, 1933
Danger in a Big Crop of Tobacco
N'oah preached righteousness to the people during
the hundred years he was building the ark. The
world did not heed and were drowned.
The farmers of the country are being told that we
have a good supply of tobacco on hand and that gen
eral conditions are bad all over the tobacco world,
which means that a moderate crop will fully supply
the demand and at a price but little above cost. If
we have a small crop, prices will be good. But, on
the other hand, if we have the big crop that is now
indicated, there is no hope for prices at a profit. Every
farmer should remember that crops that bring no
profit will ultimately prove a severe loss.
Good authorities on tobacco conditions advise cut
ting the cost of production and striving to make good
quality tobacco.
Come Down to Earth
Charles Edison, the scion of the late famous Thom
as A. Edison, ha posted a notice in all of the Edison
plants which commands his employees to ‘‘Get goin."
He urges them all to buy something. There is some
fine stuff in the article, yet, on the other hand, a few
of the things he suggests can never be enjoyed by
those of moderate means. The average income wrill
not permit the indulgence of a number of the pleas
ures suggested.
It would probably be the best thing for us to get
down to our level and stay there, rather than forever
be trying to climb too high and falling down.
Reforming Our Educational System
There is a lot of talk about reforming our educa
tional system. It really ought to be done. We are
training entirely too many folks for the fields they
will never enter.
Our schools of engineering are bringing out too
many folks. The jobs are all gone and there are no
more in sight. We seem to have plenty of merchants,
plenty of lawyers, plenty of newspaper folks, and
plenty of automobile mechanics. These are only a
few of the professions and trades that are over
crowded, and with no prospect for any increased de
mand r >r many years to come.
Then what should we train for, in the public
schools? Our greatest need is training in political
and social science, two subjects that we know least
about and need most. We do not know enough about
government to even make good citizens. About all
we do know along this line is to be lined up and shot
through the voting booth on election days and criti
cize and condemn the balance of the time.
We really do not know what democracy is in its
turest sense, nor do we know how to preserve it up
to a respectable standard, which its principle implies.
As to social science, we do not seem to be able to
preserve and improve our conditions as rapidly as we
might. While we have made some progress worthy
of our times in the improvement of health conditions,
it is generally conceded that we are making very lit
tle advancement in our moral conditions, and many
authorities think we are making no forward movement
religiously.
It would be well for us to let the schools switch to
training in the fundamentals of government, the kind
that helps people and causes governments to stand.
And the social field is unlimited. Every boy and
girl should be taught the proper value of a home, the
kind of home to have, and how to build a home (not
a house), where peace, love, health, and service a
bound. and how to avoid disease, hardships, hates,
suspicions, jealousies, and discords.
And one of the most important things that needs
to be stressed in the schools is the art of making a
living for one's self, rather than to prepare to be
hirelings and servants for some one else.
We need to find our examples from peoples of the
old world, who have preserved themselves for cen
turies, and are still leading us by adhering to sounder
methods of government and more scientific methods
of living.
Our schools should be operated on the premise that
we are all citizens, and train for citizenship.
Little Hope Here
With China conquered by people without mercy,
Germany governed by a tyrant. Italy having its Mus
solini. and America under the government of beer,
what is the outlook for peace, love, and Christianity?
Every one of these governing powers was outlawed
by God.
Cheaper Hospital Service
Just a few years ago, the cry was for more hos- j
pitals. Everybody said we needed more hospitals.
Now the American Medical Society says we have too
many, pointing to 200,000 vacant hospital beds.
The reason for these empty beds is hardly the fact
that they are not needed—it is because people are
unabl to pay the cost of hospital service, so they are
forced to languish and suffer at home in cheaper beds
and take the chance of getting better by the healing
power of nature. Only the wealthy or fairly well-to-do
can afford hospital service now, except in extreme
cases.
Some plan should be worked out wherebymore hos
pital service may be secured at smaller cost.
One Thing Done Well
That was certainly a fine thing Mr. Roosevelt did
in sticking his first in the mouts of the big New \ork
banks and choking them off of the little banks of the
country.
If he never does another thing during his admin
istration except keep the New \ork bankers trust
from stifling and choking other businesses, he will go
down in history as a statesman.
Under the Beacon Light
_By WALTER H. PARAMORE
This issue of the Roanoke Beacon is dedicated
to Ernest R. Leuhs, who has served this coun
ty well as a member of the board of commission
ers, and who is well respected, honored, and held
in esteem by the people who know him and the
vote that he polls at each election, when he does
little or no campaigning proves without a doubt
the foregoing statements.
His business as a farmer occupies much of his time
and so interested is he in his work that he finds little
time to waste away. And he is a farmer that diver
sifies to such an extent that only this year he paid
his taxes with money secured from the sale of hogs,
despite the low prices that pork is bringing on the
market at the present.
Possibly nowhere in this county is there a man
who has reached the happy medium of business so that
he does not stampede himself into some unwise move
as commissioner, but who remains unperturbed amid
the hysteria that is causing many to advocate drastic
changes despite the fact that an equilibrum must be
maintained that will assure efficiency.
Four or five terms as a commissioner has given Mr.
Lewis some vital information and experience in the
operation of county government. He has served when
a split vote was the usual occurrence. He held his
head. He has served when harmony reigned. He
still holds his head. And for a man to do the right
thing in such emergencies shows that he is conscien
tious.
So this toast to Mr. Lewis—“Lon may you
continue your public service so that Washington
County can continue to draw from your source of
experience much of the wisdom that attends the
acts of the board oj commissioners and may you
continue your unproved method of farming so
that the young agriculturists may observe your
successful methods.”
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From “down home” trickled a letter into the office
of the Beacon giving a correct answer to the egg prob
lem that was submitted some time ago by J. C. Tar
kenton. “Down home” to the columnist, is Scotland
Neck, where a niece, Miss Evelyn Paramore, sends
along another brain tickler. The Beacon is passing
it along:
“Last year I asked her to be my wife, and she gave
me a decidedly negative reply. So, to get even, I mar
ried her mother. Then my father married the girl..
When I married the girl’s mother, the girl became my
daughter: and my father married my daughter, so he
became my son. When my father married my daugh
ter, she became my mother. If my father is my son,
and my daughter is my mother, who am I?”
“My mother's mother is my wife and must be my
grandmother, and, being my grandmother’s husband,
I must be my own grandfather. And there you are.”
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This week also brings another puzzle, even better
than the jag-saw or crossword variety. A. F. Ar
nold submits this one. Who can answer it? Try
your hand. If you are successful, then pat yourself
on the back. If not, you will have company. Here
it is, as given to the columnist:
"From 9 take 10; from 1 take 9; from 6 take 9;
to leave half a dozen. Now how do you work it?”
This example was a favorite of Prof. Ben Hassell,
who used to teach at the old academy in Plymouth
that was located, about 38 years ago, where the Meth
odist church now stands.
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Seen white sauntering along Water Street: Louis
Phillip Hornthal reads Y’anity Fair and the New
Yorker and the Roanoke Beacon . . . M. YV. Spruill
worked on a jig-saw puzzle until midnight YY’ednes
day . . . John Sikes petitioning for a nickel . . . John
Darden’s office is known as the YY'ater Street court
house . . . Little Mr. Ed Overton leaving for home
with a peck sack full of groceries under each arm
. . . Priscilla Lyon followed by a Maltese Cat . . .
Dr. L. A. Smith speaking politely to white people . . .
Lue Read and negro boys slurring each other . . .
Teddy Blount and Edison Davenport in their new
hardware store . . . Teachers leaving Bosie’s place . . .
Lloyd Gilbert smiling.
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Home and
ciub News
By Miss Eugenia Patterson
The following clubs will meet next
week:
Tuesday afternoon, Hoke.
Wednesday afternoon, Roper.
Thursday afternoon. Chapel Hill.
Friday afternoon. April 7th, county
federation at Plymouth courthouse.
Saturday morning, curb market.
The emerald, not the diamond, is
the most costly precious stone today.
Those which are large and darkest
colored are the most highly prized—
but a flawless one has not yet been
found.
NOTICE
North Carolina .Washington Coun
ty; Superior Court.
D. V. Satterfield vs. L. A. Satterfield.
The defendant, L. A. Satterfield will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
superior court of Washington Coun
ty for absolute divorce from the bonds
of matrimnv, that a verified complaint
in said action has been filed in my
office this day and that he is required
to answer or demur to said complaint
on or before the 15th day ot April,
1933, or the relief demanded will be
granted.
This 13th day of March, 1933.
C. V. W. AUSBON,
mrl7 4t Clerk Superior Court.
NC.rrCE OF SALE
North Carolina,
Washington County.
Under and by virtue of a power of
sale embraced in a deed of trust exe
cuted by R. T. Hopkins and Mag
nolia R. Hopkins, his wife, to H. D.
Bateman, trustee, on the 30th day of
September, 1931, and recorded in the
public registry of Washington Coun
ty, in book 74, page 555, and default
having been made in the payment of
the note thereby secured and the hold
er of said note having applied to the
undersigned trustee to exercise his
power of sale contained in said deed
of trust, the said If. D. Bateman, trus
tee, will expose at public sale at the
courthouse door of Washington
County on the 22nd day of April,
1932, at 12, o’clock noon, to the high
est bidder for cash the following tract
of land:
One lot in the Town of Creswell
on the corner of Main and Sixth
Streets, adjoining Mrs. J. L. Hassell
and the Baptist parsonage and de
scribed in deed from Aydlett Bros.
Company to Mrs. M. Y. Hopkins Oc
tober 11, 1909, and registered in book
S3, page 235, Washington County
Records.
Except, however, a small lot of said
land embraced in the above descrip
tion, conveyed to - Gatling, by
deed duly recorded in the public reg
istry of Washington County.
The said land will be offered for
sale subject to all unpaid taxes levied
against said land. The highest bid
der at said sale will be required to de
! posit 5 per cent of his bid with the
trustee to guarantee compliance with
his bid, and upon his failure to com
ply with said bid bis deposit will be
forfeited to the said trustee for the
benefit of the holder of said note.
This the 21st day of March, 1933.
II. D. BATEMAN,
ntr24 4t Trustee.
By Zeb Vance Norman, Attorney.
NOTICE OF SALE OF VALU
ABLE LANDS
North Carolina,
Washington County.
Whereas, under and by virtue of the
power and authority contained in that
certain deed of trust executed by Alex
ander Davenport and L. E. Davenport
and wife, Lucy Davenport, dated
March 23, 1929, and recorded in book
74, page 504, of the public registry of
Washington County, default having
been made in the payment of the in
debtedness thereby secured and at the
request of the holder.of the bonds evi
dencing said indebtedness, the under
signed trustee did, after due adver
tisement offer for sale at public out
cry to the highest bidder, for cash, at
■ the courthouse door in Washington
: County on February 7, 1933, the here
inafter described lands, where and
when VV. T. Phelps appeared and be
came the last and highest bidder for
said lands at the price of $600.00,
which sale was duly reported to the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Wash
ington County; and
Whereas, more than ten days elap
sed after said sale, and no higher bid
was made for said lands, and the un
dersigned trustee did make a motion
before the clerk of the superior court
for the confirmation of said sale and
did tender to the said W. T. Phelps
a deed for said lands upon payment
of the purchase price, and
Whereas, the said W. T. Phelps re
fused to accept the said deed and pay
the purchase price and the clerk of the
superior court, on the 27th day of
February, 1933, found as a fact that
there are prior encumbrances on the
said property and did thereupon or
der that the said trustee proceed forth
with to readvertise the property and
again offer the same at public sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, at the
courthouse door in Washington Coun
ty, and that the said land be sold free
and clear of encumbrances and that
Now, therefore, under and by vir
tue of the power and authority con
tained in the aforesaid deed of trust
and pursuant to the aforesaid order
of the clerk of the superior court of
Washington County, the undersigned,
E. C. Woodley, trustee, will on the
3rd day of April, 1933, at 11 o’clock
a. m. at the courthouse door in Wash
ington County offer for sale at public
outcry to the highest bidder, for cash,
Frances in the order of their priority,
the trustee pay off the prior encum
the lands and premises described in
the aforesaid deed of trust as follows,
to wit:
“A certain tract or parcel of land
lying and being in Washington Coun
ty and more particularly described as
follows:
"Beginning at an oak at corner of
T. F. Davenport, Carney S. Phelps
and M. J. Furlough; thence running
southwardly along T. F. Davenport’s
line and others to the deep river
swamp; thence eastwardly along the
said river swamp to H. M. Hair’s
line; thence northwardly along M. H.
Hair’s line to a black gum, M. J. Fur
lough’s corner; thence westwardly a
long M. J. Furlough's line to the be
ginning, 'ontaining 50 acres, more or
less.
Said lands will be offered for sale
and the same conveyed to the pur
chaser free of all prior liens which will
be paid in order of priority out of the
proceeds of said sale.
A deposit of 10 per cent will be re
quired of the successful bidder as evi
dence of good faith.
This the 2nd dav of March, 1933.
E. S. WOODLEY,
mrlO 4t Truste.e
NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to a decree of the Su
perior Court of Washington County,
signed and entered in an action en
titled “Town of .Plymouth ,vs. W.
Mack Pettiford and wife, Ida Petti
ford, and J. C. Spruill, holder of
Mortgage,” appointing and directing
the undersigned commissioner to sell
the land hereinafter described for the
purposes set forth in said decree, the
lame bearing date of March 18th,
1933, and duly docketed in said super
ior court, the undersigned commis
sioner will expose at public sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, on the
21st day of April, 1933, at the court
house door of Washington County,
at twelve o’clock noon, the follow
ing described lot or parcel of land:
Beginning at the north corner of
the former Dr. C. C. Jackson’s line
in Roberta Pettit'ord’s south line and
running thence with said Dr. C. C.
.(acksonls past line southwardly 'SO
feet: thence eastwardly SO feet to a
lane shown on Sanborn’s map of Ply
mouth, North Carolina, thence north
wardly with the said land 50 feet to
Ruberta Pettiford's south line; thence
westwardly along Ruberta Pettiford’s
line 50 feet to the beginning, the same
being lot No. 130 as shown on the
map of the Town of Plymouth, North
Carolina.
This the 18th day of March, 1933.
E. L. OWENS,
tnr24 4t Commissioner.
DR. VIRGIL H. MEWBORN
Optometrist
Next Visits:
Bethel, N. C., at Blount Hotel, Mon
day, April 17, 1933.
Robersonville, N. C., at Fulmer’s
Drug Store, Tuesday, April 18, 1933.
Williamston, N. C., at Peele’s Jew
elry store, Wednesday, April 19, 1933.
Plymouth, N. C, at O’Henry Drug
Store, Thursday, April 20, 1933.
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