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
in Plymouth, N. C., under the act ot Congress ot
March 3, 1879.
Friday, September 15, 1933
Work For Leisure
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Hertford County Herald.
What to do with leisure time to employ it to the
best advantage, whether this leisure be the few prec- i
ious hours to come to the laborer with long hours, or
the enforced loafing of a man out of a job, has always
been a question that challenges the thought and in
genuity of individuals and communities. The use
that is made of leisure, too, is often a safe index to
the character and personality of man. No less may
the type and character of a community be judged by ■
the outward manifestations of the manner and use j
that is made of leisure, its playtime and recreational
hours.
With the adoption of codes of shorter work hours
by practically all lines of business and industry as a |
part of the new economic era, the question of the
proper use of the new leisure, a leisure that it is fer
vntly hoped will be accompanied by ample oppor
tunity to work and thus banish the fear that has
stalked beside millions during their idleness in the
past four years, becomes more acute and challenging.
To what use will the new leisure be put? Will it be
put to improvement of social and cultural standards
for the making of a better citizenship; or will it be
wasted in the sort of idleness that the proverb de
clares is the devil’s workshop? Leisure becomes an
important question now to individuals and communi
ties.
In this section towns are small. They are without
the facilities that larger centers provide for directed
use of leisure for self-improvement or recreation.
There are no public libraries. Playgrounds for chil
dren are lacking. Sports for the adult who does not
participate in hunting and fishing are few—excepting,
of course, those indoor diversions of gossip and poker.
There are no V. M. C. A.'s for the young men or their
counterpart for young women. There are few organi
zations other than fraternal, religious, and political
where social and cultural impulses may be cultivated
during leisure hours.
There is much that can be done in this section in the
way of improving facilities for the best use of leisure.
For, in truth, leisure time is our most wasted time.
It should not be wasted or misusd. Work we must
in order that we may have leisure to do the things we
want to do. But when the leisure is ours, we should
make the best use of it. Communities may come to
gether in cooperation to provide the physical means
tor obtaining the best use of it. Here is a neglected
field that needs cultivation in every community in
this section.
Farmers Do Need Help
Do farmers need help? We will say they do, if
one South Carolina Township can be taken as a
true example.
Steer Fen Township, in Chesterlield County, S. C.,
had a population of 2,261 in 1910. In 1930 the pop
ulation had dropped to 1,237. A recent survey of
that township shows that there are only 11 mules in
the entire district. Remember, now, Chesterfield
County is one of the best farming counties in the
United States. Vet the people there farmed until
they came so near starving that they had to leave,
and those who remained lost their work stock and
their implements. They may not havt been good bus
iness folks. They may have speculated and gambled.
Yet they produced good crops, but lost their land,
team, implements, and homes.
Those farmers need help. The Government has
had to feed them and clothe them to prevent starva
tion, since they are unable to farm for lack of stock
and tools.
Yes; we say the farmer needs help and protection,
to the extent that other business cannot completely
crush him.
Hold Your Cotton
Consumption of American cotton increased during
the past year over the preceding year by 1,900,00U
bales, and over 1930 and 1931 by 3,300,000 bales.
This would seem to indicate that the price of cotton
should not be slumping. Of this increased consump
tion, foreign countries used more in proportion than
the United States.
Farmers should pool and warehouse their cotton
rather than sell it at the present price, which is only
$3 per bale higher than last year.
Any farmer in North Carolina can pool his cotton,
borrow on it at a very low rate of interest, and with
nine chances out of ten of getting a much better price
later on.
The Cuban Situation
Looks now like we may have a little war with Cuba. ;
Of course, it will not be caleld a war and probably
will not amount to much. We certainly hope nobody
will lose their lives trying to protect the National City j
Hank’s sugar plantations, which they gobbled up, to
some extent, by fraud and deception among the Cu
bans and then flim-flamming innocent, but foolish and
unsuspecting, American investors out of money to put
in the project.
Of course, those Spanish folks are hot-blooded and
do not like to see their resources plundered in the
manner in which we have had to stand and see ours
plundered here in the l\ S. A. Note the l nion Pa
cific Railroad land steal, the Teapot Dome oil steal,
the gobbling up of our coal, copper, iron, and other
valuable natural resources of our eminent domain.
We American just stood and bore it. Those mixed
blooded Spaniards had rather tight.
What the people of the world need is honest fair
play. We do not want an American gun tired to pro
tect property dishonestly acquired—either at home or
abroad.
The Welfare Workers' Problem
The welfare department still finds plenty of work
to do. Most of its activities now are concerned with
the efforts to store food for the coming winter. Thous
ands of cans of fruits and vegetables are being canned
every week. The welfare department workers lead
in these projects by furnishing cans, cookers, and sup
ervisors.
They still find a few folks too lazy to peel the
fruit after it is given to them, together with the cans,
cooker, and a supervisor o help do the work. While
there are many serious problems bobbing up in the
line of welfare work, there is none which is so knotty
as that presented by the lazy fellow. How to feed
his children and let him starve is what the depart
ment is trying to find out.
It is suggested that if they had enough workers,
the proper thing to do would be to take prepared food
to those homes, feed the children, and let the father
and mother go hungry. At any rate, the welfare de
partment workers say when they find cases of people
who have had hard lilck but are doing their best to
provide for themselves and families, the problems
are being rapidly solved. On the other hand, some
are apparently deliberately planning to lie down on
charity, and they constitute the troublesome problem.
A Lesson in Cooperation
—
Wll do we remember the days of the old coopera
tives; days when about half the farmers had the vision
to see the opportunities the movement offered and 1
who knew that the farmer was being oppressed.
The cooperative then had great forces to combat.
First was their lack of knowledge to handle the whole
sale end of the business. Second, half of their neigh
bors were induced to fight against them. This pres
sure came from commission merchants, warehouse
men, merchants who wanted to call in their neighbors’
cotton, peanuts, and other crops, ship them, draw on
them, and make the profit if any was to be made.
The cooperative farmer was sniped by every sel
fish interest in the land.
Now what do we see? Almost a complete reversal
of sentiment. Everybody wants to be rescued from
the very same conditions that the various farm co
operatives predicted would come about. Everybody
is trying to nestle under the Government’s wing if it
means more for them. It may be a spirit of selfish
ness, after all, that is drawing us so tightly to the
nation’s cooperative movement.
Whatever may be our motive, however, we ought
to be able to see that without cooperation, in the pro
duction and handling of crops, the producers can
never hope to succeed.
The present condition ought to be sufficient to
teach the wise, the foolish, the selfish, and the unsel
fish that cooperation of men always gives strength
and that no business can prosper without due con
sideration for other business.
I
Farmers, cooperate!
Health Education
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i Health education is doubtless nearest 100 per cent
all value than any other education we attempt to
! give.
Our educational campaigns against tuberculosis pay
; us many time over every year in lives and labor
saved, to say nothing about the suffering in the vari
ous cases.
When all the people learn that a tuberculosis germ
cannot live where plenty of good pure air penetrates
the lugs, nor in blood enriched by sufficient food of
the right kind, good air, good light, and good food
will banish tuberculosis—and most of these curative
i
properties are free to us all.
Open the windows and let the air blow through and
the sunshine in and be healthy.
Pleasing the Cuban Children
The United States is sending her warboats over to
Cuba to please the Cuban children. It has always
been the custom of the people of every nation to go
down to the docks to see the big ships sail into port
and go out around the bend, so those Cuban children
are going down to the wharves and watching our big
ships with Uncle Sam's shirt-tail fluttering over them.
One thing we do like about this expedition—and
Cuba will like it, too—is the statement from Presi
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Hull that their purpose
is to protect life but not to protect dollars.
Those fellows know about those New York grafters
who have swindled those poor Cubans practically out
of their boots and their sugar plantations.
O. T. Rockett. ■; Hickory, Catawba
County, is conducting a trial with ca
nons tliis season, having 25 excellent
>irds now weighing over 7 pounds
NOTICE OF RESALE
By virtue of the authority contained
in a certain deed of tru>t executed on
the 1st day of April, 1 "50. by R. G.
Hardison and Ei>ie W Hardison, to
Southern Trust t 1 mi .my. trustee,
and recorded in book 107, page 52,
of the office of the register of deeds
for Washington County. N. C., de
fault having been made in the condi
tions of said deed ot trust, and by
virtue of an order of resale, the un
dersigned trustee will, on tin 15th day
>f September, P’55, at 12 o’clock noon,
it the courthou-e do- r ot W ashing
ton County, N. C.. offer for sale at
public auction t the highest bidder
tor cash, the following described
noperty:
All those certain lands .-ituated in
Washington County, in the town of
Plymouth and being all that certain
)iece, parcel, or lot of land fronting 45
Vet on the west -ide ot Washington
St rev l and extending Lack 236 feet
from said street adjoining the lands
of George W. Hardison, on the south,
Airs. J. 1). McConnico and the Hollis
property on the west, \V. C. Harrison
on the north and Washington Street
on the east: Beginning at the south
east corner of W. C. Harrison’s lot,
formerly the old Baptist parsonage
lot and running westwardly along the
>aid Harrison’s line 236 feet to the
line of Mrs. j. I). McConnico; thence
along the said McConnico’s line and
Hollis’ line southwardly 45 feet; thence
eastwardly along G. W. Hardison’s
236 feet to Washington Street; thence
northwardly along Washington Street
45 feet to the beginning.
A deposit of 5 per cent of the a
niount bid will he required of the suc
cessful bidder at the hour of sale.
This notice dated and posted this
28th day of August, 1633.
SOUTHERN LOAN and
INSURANCE CO.,
si 2t Trustee.
(Formerly Southern Trust Com
pany). By Worth and Horner, At
torneys.
The bidding will begin at $682.50.
MY OWN TASTE HAS
CONFIRMED THE FACT
THAT CAMELS ARE \
BEST FOR STEADY
SMOKERS .THEY ARE
MILDER..THEY NEVER
WEAR OUT THEIR
WELCOME !
CdtMcls c&sdierTcrbuces
ueA)&r Get~c\\ ij cru/r 'lict'veS.. fldcvcir tire ijcrur faite
Unless two p.nl • of bile jime
flow daily from your liver into
your bowels, your food decays in
your bowels. This poisons your
whole body. Movements get hard
and constipated. You get yellow
tongue, yellow skin, pimples dull
eyes, bad breath, bad taste, gas,
dizziness, headache. You have- be
come an ugly-looking, foul-smell
ing, sour-thinking person. You
have lost your personal charm.
Everybody wants to run from you.
But don’t take salts, mineral
waters, oils, laxative pills, laxa
tive candies or clievii ;: gums ai 1
v\: ■ t them to get rid of this poison that
d. t.-oys your personal charm. They can't
do it, lor they only move out the tail end
of your bowels and that doesn’t take
av. ay enough of the decayed poison. Cos
Dttetirs won't heip at all.
Only a free flow of your bile juice will
top this decay poison in your bowels. The
one mild vegetable medicine which starts
a five flow of your bile juice is Carter’s
Little Liver Pills. No calomel (mercury)
in Carter's. Only fine, mild vegetable
extracts. If you would bring back you
personal charm to win men, start takinv
Carter’s Little Liver Pills according to
directions today. 25c1 at drug stores.
Refuse “something just ns good". f< • i
may gripe, loosen te. th or scald rert’un. \s!:
I',,-’ Carter’s Little T.iver Pills 1 name
and at what you ask for. ©1933.C.M.Cr
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